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[tender stag]

and maxForce is 50

ideally i want him to maybe bounce like 2 or 3 times

before hes just still

[rocky canyon]

now swimming?

jeez 😄

[tender stag]

yeah its coming along pretty good

almost finished

[rich adder]

🤿

[tender stag]

also i need to seperate my movement script into smaller scripts for each function like leaning crawling etc

cause its at 2032 lines

and im like 2/3 done

[tulip hill]

help, i'm doing a movement script and i tried making jumping possible, but when i press space the boolean for "isJumping" doesn't mark as true, help: ```csharp
using JetBrains.Annotations;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using TreeEditor;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEditor.UI;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public CharacterController control;
public Transform groundCheck;

public float speed = 12;
public float gravity = -9.81f;
public float checkDistance = 0.4f;
public float jumpForce;
public LayerMask groundMask;

Vector3 velocity;
public bool isGrounded;
public bool isJumping;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, checkDistance, groundMask);
    
    if (isGrounded)
    {
        isJumping = false;
        Debug.Log("Grounded.");
    }

    if (isJumping)
    {
        isGrounded = false;
        velocity.y = jumpForce;
        isJumping = false;
    }

    

    if (isGrounded && velocity.y < 0)
    {
        velocity.y = -2f;
    }

    if (isGrounded && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
    {
        isJumping = true;
    }

  

    float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

    Vector3 move = transform.right * x + transform.forward * z;

    control.Move(move*speed*Time.deltaTime);

    velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
    control.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);

}

}

[cosmic dagger]

damn, that be long . . .

[tender stag]

its really advanced

at least for my current ability

[tulip hill]

nvm i think i see what happens

[austere monolith]

https://hastebin.com/share/nozufuwizo.csharp can i make the entire string/text thing but with tmp?

how can i*

[rich adder]

the same exact way but use TMP_Text
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-textmesh-pro

[tulip hill]

how can i achieve goldensrc's movement mistakes in such a way to get bhopping?

like on hl1

[rich adder]

sure

[tulip hill]

nvm

[cosmic dagger]

might help to say or reference whom goldensrc is . . .

[low robin]

Okay. i have a problem my code is stuck at waiting for the OnJoinedLobby() callback when hosting a lobby. i dont know what is going on! HERE IS CODE: https://paste.ofcode.org/GBjeh9FPhAcb5tQ7ZRi4Ru i know im sopossed to be in #archived-networking but its dead soooo dead!

[austere monolith]

thanks

[tulip hill]

goldensrc is the game engine used in half life 1, which leads to very bizarre movement

thats where bunnyhopping comes from too

[rich adder]

bunnyhopping is well explained phenomenon

if you understand it you can replicate it

[tulip hill]

i dont understand it

[rich adder]

there are videos on this subject

also a few premade ones that floating around github

[tulip hill]

yeah i didnt think about that

also how do i check if a key is held?

not pressed

[rich adder]

Input.GetKey

[tulip hill]

damn

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/v3zT3Z5apaM

[silk night]

hmm i cant really find a good solution out of the top of my head other than hard-setting the y velocity once you reach the top + hold the up key 😄

[thorn tapir]

heldItem = Instantiate(slots[currentSlot].GetComponent<InventorySlot>().slotItem.GetComponent<Item>().heldItemPrefab, heldItemLocation);

why is this line throwing this error? It looks fine to me, but it seemingly has an issue with how I'm using GetComponent

[silk night]

what is slotItem?

[thorn tapir]

a gameobject

[silk night]

make sure its not null or destroyed

oh wait, it looks like your usings at the top import the wrong stuff

is there anything in there about visual scripting?

[thorn tapir]

yeah, which I'm not using

[silk night]

then throw it out

[thorn tapir]

idk why that's in there

[silk night]

its overriding your GetComponent

[thorn tapir]

I was wondering why it wouldn't let me directly reference my prefab

ty

[violet topaz]

How would i be able to assign more then one gameobject to this script ```cs
public class PlayerInteractUI : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private GameObject containerGameObject;
[SerializeField] private PlayerInteract playerInteract;
[SerializeField] private TextMeshProUGUI interactTextProUGUI;

[SerializeField] private Transform playerCameraTransform;
[SerializeField] private LayerMask pickUpLayerMask;
public ObjectGrabbable objectGrabbable;


private void Update()
{
    float pickUpDistance = 2f;
    if (playerInteract.GetInteractableObject() != null && (Physics.Raycast(playerCameraTransform.position, playerCameraTransform.forward, out RaycastHit raycastHit, pickUpDistance, pickUpLayerMask)) && objectGrabbable.Grabbed == false)
    {
        Show(playerInteract.GetInteractableObject());
    }
    else
    {
        hide(); 
    }
}
private void Show(IInteractable interactable)
{

    containerGameObject.SetActive(true);
    interactTextProUGUI.text = interactable.GetInteractText();
}
private void hide()
{
    containerGameObject.SetActive(false);
}

}

[timber tide]

make another game object variable

[violet topaz]

I want to to be all object that are able to be picked up

[timber tide]

well that's a bit more work

[violet topaz]

😦

[timber tide]

you seem to have the layers and raycast going so I assume you've the idea, no?

[violet topaz]

yea i tried using a tag on the objects that can be picked up but i couldn't seem to figure it out

not layers tho

[timber tide]

your video shows you using two cubes

[violet topaz]

nvm i have a layer called pickup/down

[polar wasp]

damn that first person view is SEXY

what do you do for it? just rotate the camera according to the horizontal input?

[tender stag]

u mean the side rotation?

[polar wasp]

yeah

[tender stag]

yeah i just smoothdamp the rotation

according to the horizontal input

[polar wasp]

i've been meaning to learn smoothdamp operations but i haven't gotten around to it yet :/

trying to get all the math in my brain

[tender stag]

im thinking to not just add force up

but the closer he gets to the surface

to add more force down

and less up

and vice versa

[silk night]

well you already have the 9.81 gravity downforce constant that you are basically diminishing by adding an up force

if you add 9.81 up every frame you end up with 0 acceleration

[tender stag]

i apply extra gravity as well

[polar wasp]

have thought of adding a buoyancy value?

[tulip hill]

how do i change the height of my character inside the scripts?

[silk night]

inside which scripts

[polar wasp]

like the height of what they will collide with?

[tulip hill]

like on code

[polar wasp]

or the actual physical height

[tulip hill]

accesing the scale of the transform thing

the physical height

i thought transform.scale existed

[polar wasp]

take my advice with a grain of salt

[tender stag]

i’ve seen it

and people use drag for it

which is cant modify

cause it messes with other things

[polar wasp]

but i would make a variable that saves my character's height in the void Start() section

[tender stag]

at least from the videos i’ve seen

[polar wasp]

then a transform.Scale() function with the parameters of your height variable

[tulip hill]

man idk i dont really like using the void start() section

all i need is to modify the height for crouching

[polar wasp]

its not that hard lol

[gaunt ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-localScale.html
By google

[polar wasp]

its where you store all of your variables

the values of all your variables mb

[tulip hill]

i store them after the public class thing

oh values

[polar wasp]

are you trying to adjust the height of your collision box?

[tulip hill]

no, like the player body height

[polar wasp]

or if someone smarter than me could help me out, would you have to adjust the collision box or the size of the Rigidbody

[tender stag]

i’ve decided im going to implement my own drag logic

[polar wasp]

do it

[tender stag]

just for y velocity

which is really easy to do

from what im seeing

its literally just this

[polar wasp]

yeah what are you thinking for the math?

[tender stag]

the drag will do the job

because it worked before

[dim bridge]

        Vector3 target = Vector3.Scale(transform.forward,new Vector3(0,0,-1));
        Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, target, speed * Time.deltaTime);

Is someone able to explain why this doesn't work and point me to an appropriate method of handling this. This is in an empty gameObject script and just needs to move the gameObject backwards on the z axis

[tender stag]

but it also messed with horizontal movement

thats why i’ll just make my own just for vertical

anyway im about to hit the sack

so i’ll do it tmr

[dim bridge]

oh wait I need to do transform.postion = dont I

[polar wasp]

what are you trying to accomplish

[gaunt ice]

Vec3 Move towards return a vec3

[dim bridge]

yeah ok its moving (in the wrong direction)

[gaunt ice]

It doesn’t change your transform

[dim bridge]

but its moving now

[dim bridge]

move a gameObject on the world space z axis it is aligned with it so moving towards the world or local will work

lemme try smth

[tulip hill]

apparently charactercontroller can adjust the height, i just had to assign a cc

[dim bridge]

ok well its moving in a diagonal in the oppsite dir than I want

[swift crag]

this scales your forward vector so that its Z component is backwards and its X and Y components are zero

then it tries to move your position towards this vector

which will be a very short vector between [0, 0, -1] and [0, 0, 1]

then you throw the result out

if you assign that to your position, you'll move towards that vector

[dim bridge]

h so Im moving towards the world

0,0,-1

[swift crag]

but that still doesn't make much sense

[polar wasp]

i havent used charcontroller in a minute lol i never would have guessed

[dim bridge]

wait

[gaunt ice]

You are moving to a direction not position

[swift crag]

do you want to move it in the +Z and -Z directions?

[dim bridge]

yes

[swift crag]

add that direction vector to your position to get a target

[dim bridge]

i want the position behind the gameObject

[dim bridge]

ah ok

[swift crag]

well, just do transform.position -= someVector * Time.deltaTime * speed;

[swift crag]

that's just -transform.forward

scaling it by [0, 0, -1] is throwing out the X and Y components

so it only moves in the world Z direction

transform.forward is a world-space vector that indicates what "forwards" is for you

you can't get rid of the X and Y components from that and expect it to still be "forwards"

Scaling it by [1, 1, -1] would also be wrong

[patent garden]

can u guys help me

[dim bridge]

I can when it's world aligned with z...

[swift crag]

why not just do it correctly?

instead of writing code that only happens to work in a very specific scenario

[summer stump]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[swift crag]

it's harder to write the wrong thing here

-transform.forward; that's it.

[dim bridge]

i find it weird it lets me use a negative on a vector 3 like that

[swift crag]

- is the unary minus operator

it's used to negate a value

there's no transform.back, hence the need for this

[near wadi]

he means, just ask your question. don't ask if you can ask, to ask and ask

[patent garden]

i was getting ss

[dim bridge]

yeah but I mean like in a practical situation using a negative in front of what is essentialy an array is just sorta not smth I'd think of naturally

is what I mean

[swift crag]

Vector3 is not an array.

[patent garden]

idk whats up witht he code

[near wadi]

just making sure 🙂

[summer stump]

What is the issue?

[swift crag]

and this kind of thing is extremely common

[patent garden]

it was working fine about a while ago, now the camear is ahead of the character

[dim bridge]

its formatted like an array yes ik its a seperate type

[swift crag]

you do lots of vector math in games

target.position - transform.position

surely that isn't weird

[dim bridge]

ok

im aware

[patent garden]

what i want to happen is the camera follows the player as it moves, the issue is that the camera is ahead of the character and moves in the direction where the player is going

i dedeuced that its obv just coordinates off but idk whats up in the code

[summer stump]

Seems like the pertinent code is not showing . Post the whole thing
!code

[eternal falcon]

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[summer stump]

And also, obligatory "use cinemachine"

[patent garden]

https://gdl.space/dolenariza.cs

is this right?

the way i used the link

good

[dim bridge]

I'm gonna be brutually honest ik I'm doing stuff wrong but I feel I'm getting some simple concepts explained to me like I have 2 iq and it doesn't feel nice

[summer stump]

Try moving the camera movement into late update.

[patent garden]

ok

[swift crag]

You expressed confusion, so I provided some more information.

[patent garden]

wdym

there is no late update

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.LateUpdate.html

[summer stump]

Yes there is, you just have to write the word 🤷‍♂️
Just like you did Update and FixedUpdate

[dim bridge]

just like .. I know a negative makes things negate lol. God I hope I do at least otherwise I might wanna get out of college calc ASAP..

Sorry

I wasn't trying to come off agressive

I just felt a bit attacked for a second

[patent garden]

like this?

[swift crag]

I figured you might not have been familiar with how the - operator works. It's usable with quite a few things, not just floats and ints

amusingly, there's also a unary + operator

[gaunt ice]

It calls operator overloading and you can find the operators of vec3 in docu

[summer stump]

Stick around this server a bit and you'll understand that we don't know what you know, and can never assume

[dim bridge]

I mean I didn't know that - and + were used as operators on Vector2s and 3s and that is helpful yes

[dim bridge]

I mean

fair

[patent garden]

we stiull have the bug

[swift crag]

anyway, yeah, -transform.forward will give you the direction that's "backwards" for transform

[dim bridge]

Just one of my pet peeves I need to work on a little

[swift crag]

(you could also do transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.back) if you wanted)

[dim bridge]

yep I fixed it

[swift crag]

In this case, we're interpreting Vector3.back as a local-space direction

and using TransformDirection to turn that into world-space

[dim bridge]

        Vector3 target = -transform.forward + transform.position;
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, target, speed * Time.deltaTime);

I did this

[swift crag]

(that's what transform.forward is doing, just with Vector3.forward!)

Also, rather than creating a target, it'd be better to just do

transform.position -= transform.forward * speed * Time.deltaTime;

[summer stump]

Why not just make the camera a child of the player?
Or look into cinemachine

[swift crag]

If your speed is high enough to move at more than 1 meter per frame, this code will move too slowly.

since target will only be 1 meter away from transform.position

[dim bridge]

I see what you mean

[rocky canyon]

1 m/ frame is hauling ass

lol

[swift crag]

vroom

or it means your computer is doing the opposite of hauling ass

[patent garden]

i just did

cinemachine?

[rocky canyon]

camera on easy-mode

has tons of built in functionallity

and comes built-in to unity

[dim bridge]

@swift crag Thanks

[patent garden]

how do i access cinemachine

i looked through package manager

ill do this tmrw ig

[north kiln]

It's in the package manager. The docs are pinned to #🎥┃cinemachine

[pulsar creek]

Can I set up an OnTriggerEnter2D to only work with for example CircleCollider2Ds and no other type of colliders?

[timber tide]

when you get a callback check if the collider is of type circle

[pulsar creek]

Nevermind, there's actually an option to exclude certain things on layers in the collider option

[rocky canyon]

yup, but remember there's only so many layers

i've never ran out.. but ive gotten close lol

[cobalt creek]

public void fireRay()
{
    Ray ray = new Ray(transform.position, transform.forward);
    RaycastHit rh;
    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out rh))
    {      
      Debug.Log($"hit:{Time.time},{rh.transform.gameObject.name}");
    }
}

So the code above works when I use apply it to the 2D non-UI pink diagonal square that is in front of the white square. However, when it is applied to the UI version of the two squares, it does not work. How can I make that work for the UI objects?

[timber tide]

you need to use a raycast specifically for the UI

Physics raycasts are for the scene

or well, the non-ui part of the scene ;)

[cobalt creek]

thank.. i think i will find something that it for nonui

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.GraphicRaycaster.Raycast.html

there's a few ways you can grab what's over the mouse on the UI, usually through the event system interfaces or calls

[grizzled zealot]

Is Unity ECS and Unity DOTS the same thing? Can you use one without the other?

[cobalt creek]

a lot of examples i found deal with the mouse position, but i see your point. my application is for games that move an object, for ex a square so it does not necessarily a point and click

I can substitue the mouse position with the position of the square in that case i guess

[timber tide]

well, you must be doing input somehow

[teal viper]

DOTS referes to several systems/packages: jobs, burst compiler and ECS.

[cobalt creek]

keyboard keys.. u,l,r,d

[teal viper]

Data Oriented Tech Stack iirc

[timber tide]

Ah, probably can use screen position to ray method, but I'm not too sure beyond that

[cobalt creek]

actually, that is another possible option. i like to consider many, thank.

maybe something like getting the canvas, and since it cover every gameobject in view, maybe i can launch rays all within canvas bounds

[acoustic sun]

When I try to play my game, it would load to 90%. Is it an issue with the WebGL? It has ever done that with me before when I publish games

[rocky canyon]

try a different browser..

a lot of webGL games i try to play stall at 90%

and then they'll work in some other browser.. not sure why tbh maybe someone knows

i see alot of people mention trying to change the compression

[acoustic sun]

I have tried a different brower and its still happening. I have shared my Web link with my professor and my classmates and they are saying that the load is still suck on 90%

[rocky canyon]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/fix-for-unity-2020-webgl-build-stuck-at-90.949254/

[acoustic sun]

Thank you so much for the link

[rocky canyon]

np, changing the compression usually works for me

[brisk escarp]

Hi all, I am wondering why i have this pink line when i am creating my drawing mechanic for my game.

is it to do with the code or should i ask the ui page

(Forget about it fixed it..)

[teal viper]

Pink usually means that the used shader is incompatible or broken.

[brisk escarp]

I relised that the line was too big when it is saved and that i need to have the line renderer keep the same size as well as having the material copy to the new object.

(I am not the best writer sorry)

[cobalt creek]

Mao, I solved the graphics raycast problem by converting the GO position to canvas coordinates, eg RectTransformUtility.WorldToScreenPoint(), so thank again. it replaced the mouse position

[covert sinew]

Are there any situations where Screen.width and Screen.height will not match the current resolution of the window/screen?

I'm currently using Screen.width/height to get the resolution, using it as a variable in UI adjustment calculations, and it seems to be working perfectly in editor, but I understand some things behave... Incorrectly, in runtime, as compared to editor.

[sonic dome]

Can anyone give me a brief answer to when should I use mono behaviour and when not and when I don't use mono behaviour how does it work please
Ping me on reply

[teal viper]

When you want it to be a component, you use a MonoBehaviour. When you don't, you make it a plane class.

[sonic dome]

Will I find any documentation bout this with examples and details of working with normal classes and mono behaviour

[teal viper]

You can lookup MonoBehaviour in the documentation, but there isn't really anything on plane classes. You'd use them the same as in any other C# app.

[sonic dome]

Oh okk thanks so much ❤️

[agile hornet]

Hello,
So I have these rockets and I want them to chase and hit the enemy(which is an array of multiple gameobjects), the rockets chase the enemy but not directly it like hovers the enemy instead of hitting it directly.
Any help is appreciated

``public class Rockets : MonoBehaviour
{
private Rigidbody RocketRb;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
RocketRb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    GameObject[] enemy = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemy");
           
    foreach(GameObject adui in enemy)
    {
        Vector3 enemyDirection = adui.transform.position - transform.position;
        RocketRb.AddForce(enemyDirection.normalized*10);
    }   

    if(transform.position.y <-1.5f || transform.position.y > 1.5f || transform.position.z > 15 || transform.position.z <-15) 
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }

}    

}

``

[teal viper]

What exactly do you mean by "hitting"? Are you referring to the rocket being destroyed?

[agile hornet]

Colliding, because I have Rigidbody setup it endsup pushing the enemy.

[teal viper]

If it's pushing it, then it's colliding.

[agile hornet]

Yes.

[teal viper]

Anything else beyond that you'd need to code

[agile hornet]

I would like for the rockets to chase and hit the enemy, but the rockets chase the enemy and not actually hit but hover over the enemy.

[teal viper]

You said that they push the enemy..?

[agile hornet]

Yes, they push the enemy but after hovering over the enemy first. But I would like for the rocket to hit directly.

[radiant frigate]

hi! how can i make a gameobject go to a certain side depending on its rotation? i´ve tried with transform.up but idk if im making a strange approach to the problem

the switchs makes it so that depending on which bullet it is, it either goes left or right

[queen adder]

omg.. today i learn playerprefs dont have getbool..

how's this for an autosaving setting system?

good enough?

oh i can edit the getter to have default value

[teal viper]

Can you record a video of the issue?

[agile hornet]

Yes, here it is.

[dawn kestrel]

how reliable is using transform.lossyScale? At what point will it usually start to skew?

[sour ruin]

Hi, is it possible to expose the constructor of a class to the inspector like you would for a standard field? See the constructor where I would like to have the option of specifying an f, z, and r from the inspector of a PlayerController class which are private fields inside SecondOrderDynamics.

[north kiln]

No

[summer stump]

One of the many reasons to avoid PlayerPrefs

[north kiln]

You can make a Property Drawer that converts whatever fields you draw in the inspector to whatever values you want to serialize. But you cannot call a constructor from the serialization system.
Also, this is a question for #↕️┃editor-extensions

[sour ruin]

Mmm, ok thanks and sorry about the chat.

[teal viper]

Can you debug the number of enemies you get with the find?

[agile hornet]

I think the debug shows the enemy number correctly, it shows that there is one enemy and after enemies increase in increase on debug.log as well. So basically it works fine.

[teal viper]

Does it work correctly with only 1 enemy?

[agile hornet]

Nop, here is a video.

[modest quarry]

first time encoutnering this

which one am i supposd to use

[keen dew]

Remove the using System.Numerics line

[modest quarry]

oh okay thanks

[agile hornet]

Using
RocketRb.velocity = enemyDirection.normalized*20;
instead of
RocketRb.AddForce(enemyDirection.normalized*20);

Fixes the issue of hovering and the rocket chases the enemy and hits it directly without hovering.
Thanks.

[modest quarry]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[buoyant horizon]

I have no clue what I am missing

This error is tied to a script / series of scripts from what I can tell( Inventory System, Item PickUp System and the Item itself ). This error appears everytime I intereact with my interactable object. The scripts are meant to pickup the object, delete it from the scene and make the itemcount go up ( +1 for each item picked up )

[teal viper]

The errors are simple: null reference. Do you understand what it means?

[buoyant horizon]

Not quite, did I not drag something onto a asset in the inspector tab?

[teal viper]

Perhaps.
Do you understand what a reference and null are?

[buoyant horizon]

Isn't a "reference" refering to a method that calls a certain script within it?

I'm guessing null has it's general meaning of a nonexistent value / object ?

[teal viper]

No.
A reference is referencing an object.
I strongly recommend going through the C# basics before continuing your project.

[teal viper]

Yeah, that's closer to being correct. Still, recommend going through the C# basics first. As well as learn a bit on object oriented programming.

[spiral folio]

im making a game thats pretty much just a dropper map, but the players speed increases as they fall, is there a way to 1.control the rate at which said speed increases and 2.make “power” that lets them break momentum

[buoyant horizon]

Can I find one on the Unity Forum?

[teal viper]

Yes. There's almost nothing impossible with coding.

1. Change the gravity value.
2. Not sure what you mean.

[teal viper]

There's a beginner programmer pathway on unity !learn. Then there's the Microsoft C# manual.

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[buoyant horizon]

I'll look into them right now. Thank you!

[spiral folio]

how does one go about changing the gravity rule and i think ive figured out the second part now (tho i realise the way i explained it was silly lmao)

[narrow girder]

Hello, uhmm are there any video guides to properly learn how to use unity and proceed to asprite -> unity interface etc.

[teal viper]

If it's coming from physics, then you can change it in the physics settings manually. Or via code. There's a property in the Physics class.

[languid spire]

start here
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.aseprite@1.0/manual/index.html

[narrow girder]

Ohhh thank youuuu

[languid spire]

there is also
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/rigging-a-sprite-with-the-2d-animation-package

[narrow girder]

thankkk youuu

[spiral narwhal]

What would be the proper class to use so I can simply pick an action from my input master?

Ah found it: InputActionReference

[hidden sleet]

I'm about to start working on ai for a stealth game, so they'll do the classic patrol, investigate, search etc. I've been looking into finite state machines and have just heard about behaviour trees. They both seem to have ups and downs but I'm not too sure when you'd use either one. What are the pros and cons of each and how would I go about deciding which to use?

[foggy crypt]

My character can phase through walls if you walk into them for long enough
I use transform.Translate for movement
How can I prevent him from doing that?

[languid spire]

Don't use transform.Translate, it does not respect physics

[dawn wharf]

{

    // Create fireball at the character's position
    Vector3 bulletSpawnPosition = transform.position + new Vector3(0f, 1.5f, 0f);
    GameObject bullet = Instantiate(bulletPrefab, bulletSpawnPosition, Quaternion.identity);

    // Calculate the direction towards the mouse pointer
    Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit, Mathf.Infinity))
    {
        Debug.Log("Hit point: " + hit.point);
        Vector3 bulletDirection = hit.point - transform.position;
        bulletDirection.y = 0;

        // Apply the direction to the fireball
        bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = bulletDirection.normalized * bulletSpeed;
    }
}```
the bullet is not moving, any fixes?

[burnt vapor]

Log bulletDirection.normalized * bulletSpeed and see what it returns
https://unity.huh.how/debugging/logging/how-to

Then log bulletSpeed and notice it's probably 0 because you did not set it

[languid spire]

Vector3 bulletDirection = hit.point - transform.position;
should be
Vector3 bulletDirection = hit.point - bulletSpawnPosition;
?

[dawn wharf]

    {
        Debug.Log("Hit point: " + hit.point);
        Vector3 bulletDirection = hit.point - transform.position;
        bulletDirection.y = 0;

        // Apply the direction to the fireball
        bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = bulletDirection.normalized * bulletSpeed;
    }```

this is not getting called apparently

[burnt vapor]

The if-statement is not called? Or is the Fire() method not being called in general? You can place a log message at the start of the method to test this

[languid spire]

Don't tell me, AI fucking code, again

[dawn wharf]

fire() is working, the physics raycast aint working

[burnt vapor]

Did you write this code or did you let ChatGPT write it?

[dawn wharf]

no clue, aint mine to begin with

this is a doubt from junior and even i am unable to fix it

T_T

[burnt vapor]

Perhaps try drawing where it casts a ray?
https://unity.huh.how/debugging/visual-debugging

https://unity.huh.how/debugging/draw-functions This specifically

Whatever it casts to is clearly not what you'd expect

[languid spire]

there is absolutely no logic to that code, so obviously AI generated

[dawn wharf]

then i wont help him then, ez XD

[languid spire]

tell him to learn to actually read code and understand what it does

[dawn wharf]

gotcha

[fringe plover]

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[fringe plover]

Sup! im trying to make random generator (cubes only, but it doesnt work properly (see image), can someone help?

    void Generate()
    {
        float spaceBetweenSections = 3f;
        Vector3 spawnPosition = Vector3.zero;

        Vector3 prevSize = Vector3.zero;
        for (int i = 0; i < numberOfSections; i++)
        {
            System.Random random = new System.Random(seed.GetHashCode() + i);

            GameObject selectedPrefab = sectionPrefabs[random.Next(0, sectionPrefabs.Length)];

            Instantiate(selectedPrefab, spawnPosition, Quaternion.identity);

            spawnPosition = Vector3.right * (prevSize.x / 2 + spaceBetweenSections + prevSize.x / 2);

            prevSize = selectedPrefab.transform.localScale;
        }
    }

Fixed rn by destroying first instantiated object

No i didnt fix..

alr, i fixed by asking chan gpt..

[languid spire]

why don't you try fixing things yourself? You might actually learn something

[fringe plover]

well, i tried, and stuck for 30 mins, with chat gpt i can fix things faster, but i also read all code to make sure that i wont get same mistakes in feature

actually learn something
I would not even learn code if i didnt used tutorials and gpt

[languid spire]

I don't know where you got that code from but 90% of it makes no sense

[fringe plover]

I don't care, it works, all what i need, i may change it soon

[rare basin]

Don't

[noble coral]

hi guys! I`m doing a coop game, I put animations on characters, but when moving them shakes. I added a virtual camera and its gone, but in the second player it just goes off. Can someone help pls?)

[rare basin]

cant understand anything from the sentence

[quiet scaffold]

So i want the cyan circle to rotate around my player, but it does some weird stuff instead?

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

public class TEMP_WEP : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject weaponPrefab;
    public GameObject player;

    void Update()
    {
        weaponPrefab.transform.RotateAround(player.transform.position, Vector3.up, 150 * Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

[noble coral]

virtual camera just off when in session spawning second player

[quiet scaffold]

ok wait vector3.forward works kinda, it circles properly, but the spacing between me and the cricle increases if i move?

[swift crag]

Right. You're telling it to rotate around a moving point

That's different from following a moving point and then rotating around that

Imagine a circle centered on the player and that touches the item

If you move further away from the item, the circle gets larger.

If you want the circle to spin around the player, I'd suggest first moving it so that it's the correct distance away from the player, then using RotateAround

also, if you want it to spin around the player in a circle, use Vector3.forward

Vector3.up means it's rotating into and out of your screen

[quiet scaffold]

yeah i got the vector3.forward

[quiet scaffold]

will try this

[swift crag]

To get the correct position, consider doing this

Vector3.MoveTowards(player.transform.position, transform.position, desiredRadius);

MoveTowards is useful for more than steady movement!

Although, actually, I guess it's not the best choice here...

since it won't move the item further away from the player, right.

(transform.position - player.transform.position).normalized * desiredRadius + player.transform.position;

that would be more appropriate

[visual hedge]

could not hold myself from ranting: Could scrollbar be more bugged?

[swift crag]

the Unity UI scrollbar?

ScrollRect is decently complicated; it's easy to set it up wrongly if you don't just use the template from the GameObject menu

[timid hinge]

i guys can someone help me to find a good programmer to make me a 2d game roguelike?

[swift crag]

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[timid hinge]

thanks

[visual hedge]

yeah, this shame here

[swift crag]

The GameObject > UI > Scroll View template works well. I did have to add a couple of things to Content:

• A ContentSizeFitter set to "preferred size" on both axes
• A VerticalLayoutGroup set to control child size on both axes (and to not force-expand children)

If you're having problems with Unity UI, you should ask about it in #📲┃ui-ux

[noble coral]

when the second player appears in the session, the virtual camera is destroy in all clients, help plsssssss

[narrow girder]

How do i save an asprite file then transfer to unity?

[rare basin]

ask your question with more details, noone is going to help you if you dont even try to provide what is wrong exactly

[rare basin]

this is a code related channel

[cosmic dagger]

google/search how to import a sprite into unity. anything else, i'd ask in #🖼️┃2d-tools or #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[narrow girder]

oohh okay thanks

[sour yew]

hey guys. im working on the NPC dialogues, and i have this piece of code:

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

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update(){
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)) 
        {
            float interactRange = 2f;
            Collider[] colliderArray = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, interactRange);
            foreach (Collider collider in colliderArray)
            {
                if (collider.TryGetComponent(out NPCInteractable npcInteractable))
                {
                    npcInteractable.Interact();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

and i was wondering, how to implement a functionality, where a dialogue window disappears after the player walks away from the NPC. can smb help me out? thx

[noble coral]

I have a camera in the character that’s attached to the character’s head. The animation causes character to start shaking. I decided to use the Virtual Camera (it follows the empty "zxc" object in the character’s head model) from Cinemachine.When I run the game alone, everything works fine.But when I enter the game with 2 clients,then the script CinemachineVirtualCamera disappears in VirtualCamera and creates a child element cm.

[frosty hound]

Cache which NPC the player is currently interacting with. Then in Update, if it's not null, check the distance between the two and if it's greater than the interactRange. If so, kill the dialogue.

[sour yew]

but im not caching the NPC when im starting the dialogue. so it means that i dont need to do it for ending the dialogue

[frosty hound]

Okay, if you say so

[quiet scaffold]

thanks for your help, had to scrap this idea though lol

[ivory bobcat]

Cache the NPCInteractables and release/deactivate them if you exceed a certain distance outside of the input if-statement.

[quiet scaffold]

how can I make the enemy have randomized moveemnt and etc.? i currently just have

transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, playerPrefab.transform.position, moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

and I was wondering how to add something like it randomly dashing towards you and etc?

[sour yew]

again, i dont understand why i need to cache smth. i asked one person, and all he/she was able to do is to just reacto to my question. so idk if i need to use cache

[ivory bobcat]

How would you know which dialogue windows were opened?

You'd cache them... and release them when necessary.

[ivory bobcat]

Random targets or variable speed?

[rare basin]

how would you know which dialogue is currently playing

without caching it?

do you know what cache means?

[sour yew]

yes

[rare basin]

doesn't look like it

[sour yew]

tf is ur problem?

[polar acorn]

Caching can mean many things. Which caching do you think people are talking about?

[sour yew]

cache memory

[polar acorn]

Elaborate. What do you think all these people are asking you to do

[sour yew]

for some reason they want me to store the dialogue in the cache memory. idk whats the point of it

[burnt vapor]

Please ask in #💻┃unity-talk and not here

[errant canopy]

Ok perfect 👍 Thanks

[polar acorn]

Incorrect. They want you to store it in a variable outside of the function so that you can keep the reference across multiple frames

[queen adder]

hey i got a problem with saving data https://hastebin.com/share/quyojehihu.csharp
i posted each of my 3 scripts there and error at the end

[polar acorn]

Caching is the programming term for "storing something for easier access later" and applies to a lot more than just the memory cache

[noble coral]

I have a camera in the character that’s attached to the character’s head. The animation causes character to start shaking. I decided to use the Virtual Camera (it follows the empty "zxc" object in the character’s head model) from Cinemachine.When I run the game alone, everything works fine.But when I enter the game with 2 clients,then the script CinemachineVirtualCamera disappears in VirtualCamera and creates a child element cm. what can i do?

[final kestrel]

Is the best way to restrict character movement completely enabling and disabling the script?

[sour yew]

still doesnt answer my question. its like everyones saying trust me bro idk why but trust me ok ha ha ha. why cant i do smth like this?

[noble coral]

sorry, didnt understand

[polar acorn]

You absolutely can. You just need to reference the NPC. Which you can do by caching the reference when you start interacting with it. Which is what everyone is telling you to do

Nobody is saying "idk why" they were very clear about the why

[final kestrel]

I want to take the controls from player at specific points lets say. Do i completely disable the script that is responsible for movement or is there any other way?

[swift crag]

Ideally, you'll separate input from the actual movement logic.

I do that with a "brain" system. I have a PlayerBrain that uses player input to send commands, and I have an AIBrain that makes up its own commands.

[frosty hound]

Don't be such a baby. I'm sure everyone here would be willing to dive deeper into explaining the concept had your immediate reaction to the multiple answers not been so resistant.

[swift crag]

So I could take control from the player by turning off the player brain and turning on another brain

I'd still be using the same movement logic.

[final kestrel]

Ah okay

[frosty hound]

If you're talking to an NPC, you need to keep track (cache) what NPC you're talking to. There's nothing more to it than that. When you're out of that NPC's range, tell it to stop talking. When your want it to be your ConversationManager that does so, or the player's Interact script is entirely up to you. Both will work.

[swift crag]

This also makes it easy to re-use logic for both players and NPCs

I originally had completely distinct movement logic for players and non-players (a CharacterController vs. a NavMeshAgent) and it was a mess

I still have a NavMeshAgent, but it's used to figure out where to go; it does not actually move the character

[final kestrel]

Ah okay I see. Thanks

and uh I believe its not recommended for beginners to use the ready assets right? For movement lets say. I dont understand most of the stuff. Which actually made me realize I dont know how the input script and the actual movement script links.

[sour yew]

okay. fair enough. but why i dont need to have a ref to the npc, when im starting the convo? but suddenly i need to have a ref when i want to end it?

[polar acorn]

You have a reference when you start the conversation. You just don't store it anywhere since that triggering event is done you no longer have a reference to it

Basically, right now you are asking "Why would I need your phone number, you're right in front of me?"

The reference is so you can contact it later, when it's no longer directly involved in the collision or whatever starts your dialogue

[glad sundial]

How to remove camera shake due to character animation? The camera is located in the character's head model

[exotic hazel]

need help

how i add a layer to a terrain

[polar wasp]

animation channel bro 😢

[exotic hazel]

i checked online but the options they have and i have are different

[swift crag]

#💻┃unity-talk message

read my messages starting from here

[buoyant knot]

make camera follow a smarter target

game logic should never be tied to graphics

if your camera targets the head, and head is moved by animation, then animation now changes your camera, which is wrong

camera should target a different object, probably the actual physics shape.

blue capsule collider, for red character animation. Camera should target a position based on the blue capsule collider

[sour yew]

okay. i was thinking about doing smth like this. and later just using the var npc. am i on the right track?

[tender stag]

@polar wasp i used the buoyancy u suggested

i think it looks alright

just gotta increase the force a tiny bit so that the camera doesnt go below the water surface

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[lapis lance]

@swift crag @polar acorn thanks for yalls help yesterday, learned more about canvas and event system. problem ended up being a player cam locked the cursor

[timber tide]

Doing a secondary overlapsphere with a smaller radius vs calculating the previous overlap operation and comparing distances with each collider?

[buoyant knot]

i don’t understand

are you asking which is better?

[timber tide]

yeah

assuming I'm grabbing like 1000+ colliders per overlap operation

[buoyant knot]

that kind of depends on how much crap is near/on the sphere

[buoyant knot]

and they are all relevant?

[timber tide]

yes, basically I've difference ranges for what I need to compare against

[buoyant knot]

Note; My knowledge is primarily for 2D.
Collider2D.Distance is generally faster. Imagine how fast you can cache and do all sorts of gymnastics to calculate the distance. Collider2D.Distance is slightly faster than that, but less headache.

and .Distance is substantially faster than any Physics query

in my own depenetration for my physics engine, I call OverlapCollider, get a giant list, create structs with results of .Distance, then I sort and work with that.

[timber tide]

Ah, ok sounds reasonable enough, but getting to the point where my targeting script is becoming the bulk of my operations

[buoyant knot]

second query will get expensive

you can always benchmark doing it 10000 times

[timber tide]

ive so much to benchmark already x_x

[swift crag]

i do some crude benchmarking by turning off my camera and cranking up the timescale

[buoyant knot]

just call OverlapSphere 10k times, and .Distance 10k times. That’s all you need

[swift crag]

it simulates running the game at 10 FPS in real-time (so if it can do 100 FPS, i run it at 10x speed)

pretty handy for quickly spotting problems

as well as for looking for weird edge cases

[buoyant knot]

you are asking a question that can only be answered by benchmarking.

and you should have your own benchmarking helper functions to help you do this faster

if you can wait, I have something like this, and I can send you my benchmark (for 2D) to you over lunch

[timber tide]

Ah, appreciate it, but mostly dealing with 3D and 3D physic queries atm

[buoyant knot]

i mean i send code, and you change it to the corresponding 3D queries to test

[timber tide]

oh, sure ill take a look at it. Throw it up on a repo and ill take a look

[buoyant knot]

ok. i’ll be able to do that in like 1-2 hr

if not, tonightj

[timber tide]

no rush, I'm debugging a lot of other things ;p

[buoyant knot]

if you have a massive number of enemies (like a bullet hell), you might need a non-physics solution

it might need a data-based solution

where you store shit in a data structure, do your own updates, do your own rendering, etc

eg vampire survivors

[timber tide]

there's probably a lot I can cut down on using jobs, but I am offloading a lot to the GPU

as rendering right now is pretty cheap (mostly primitives or sprites)

[buoyant knot]

you can also go the game design route, to restrict what you can spam

mario maker can only handle 200 goombas at once.

well, it can handle a lot more, but you are limitted to 100, then with an extra limit to actually allow 200

point being, you can restrict the number of goombas

[timber tide]

honestly, rendering and stuff like pathfinding ive gotten pretty cheap

it's just the collisional and targeting stuff that eats away at my frames

hitting 1000+ enemies with a fireball in a single frame usually a big oof

[buoyant knot]

you can also make the targetting dumber

[timber tide]

I've done that with the pathfinding haha

was too smart for its own good

[quiet scaffold]

I'm trying to give my player XP upon killing an enemy, but it doesn't work, is it something to do with prefabs?
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/tuxeniciku.csharp

[timber tide]

that's not the same component as the script

[tawny cave]

does OnTriggerEnter function necessarily needs to be in the script attached to the trigger GameObject ?
I'd like to have the script attached to an other game object (not the trigger), but call OnTriggerEnter in that script for an other GameObject set as trigger.

[queen adder]

yeah you asigned player script instead of player xp manager i think?

[quiet scaffold]

but I can't drag the PlayerXPManager script on? all I can do is drag the player prefab

[timber tide]

OnTriggerEnter is called on that specific gameobject when that specific gameobject enters into an area of another's compatible collider

both need a colliders, one needs IsTrigger, and one needs a rigidbody (can be kinematic)

[queen adder]

we not talking about it

[tawny cave]

Ok so it needs to be attached to the Trigger GameObject itself, even if the said trigger is a child object of the one with the script ?

[quiet scaffold]

so what am I supposed to put there? I can't drag anything except the player

[summer stump]

Correct. And that is expected

You want the object WITH the script, not the script itself of course

[timber tide]

not sure of the exact context, but if you want to send the callback of the trigger to another gameobject, like say if the child should notify the parent gameobject when it recieves a trigger callback, then you'd simply send the parent reference to the child (or event) to notify the parent object scripts

[quiet scaffold]

yeah so shouldn't everything be good in the inspector? am I supposed to use GetComponent instead?

[tawny cave]

ok that's precisely what I will do then. Just thought it would be better for organization to have all script on parent but this will work thanks 👍 🙂

[timber tide]

usually I keep my parents as the managers, but for the more active in scene stuff would be child to that container

[summer stump]

I dunno the context to this conversation, so I dunno

Is that a prefab image you are showing. And is player a scene object?

[quiet scaffold]

I have a SimpleEnemy prefab with a SimpleEnemy.cs script, it derives from Enemy.cs (https://hastebin.skyra.pw/tuxeniciku.csharp), I want to add the "worthXP" to "currentXP", but killing an enemy doesn't add any xp (currently set to 21.5"

im extremely bad at explaining sorry

i feel like this has something to do with prefabs though, idk if im correct tho

[wintry quarry]

your enemy should simply not have a direct reference to the PlayerXPManager

[summer stump]

That code is not a simpleenemy script

It is enemy

So that component is something different

I see mao said that a while ago

#💻┃code-beginner message

[queen adder]

you can also try to get this xp manager by

PlayerXPManager playerXPManager = FindObjectOfType<PlayerXPManager>();

[quiet scaffold]

oh yeah that works

[quiet scaffold]

I didn't know how to properly get the currentXP value, so i did that

[queen adder]

cool

[quiet scaffold]

@summer stump i see you reacted to evevemue's msg, is that not the corrcet way to do it? it works, but is there a more simple way or?

[summer stump]

You never want to use find

[queen adder]

sure its not the best way

[summer stump]

A singleton would be better for manager types, but in this case what praetor said is inportant

[hexed terrace]

FindObjectOfType<T> is fine to use, sparingly

[polar acorn]

Find is the one you should never use. FindObjectOfType is one you should try not to use

[summer stump]

Agreed, but specifically here I think it is a really bad choice

[polar acorn]

The only times you should use it are when there is exactly one instance in the scene so you know what you're getting, which is also the conditions under which that object is a good candidate for a Singleton

[quiet scaffold]

okay, thank you all

[timber tide]

Id more likely to abuse statics and singletons before I ever touch Find. No reason not to know where the things I instantiate are at.

the scene itself is just a large container

[polar wasp]

dude that looks great

[tender stag]

it feels great too man

thanks for helping

[polar wasp]

any time

[tender stag]

now im moving onto adding parachutes

which is gonna be quite easy

[polar wasp]

are you thinking of making a deceleration variable for it?

[tender stag]

yeah

hardest bit is gonna be the animation of the parachute deploying

and the model

[rocky canyon]

bro.. u doing a battle-royale?

[tender stag]

lmao

nah the walking dead themed game

[polar wasp]

why did no one tell me linear algebra was so hard

[swift crag]

I just let Unity do it (:

[austere hedge]

I don't understand the use-case of having an Audiomanager play clips versus just playing audioclips at a source. It doesn't seem like AudioManagers have any managing methods that make them worth it to use. Can someone please explain to me when it would be best to use an Audiomanager?

[swift crag]

well, you'd have to write some "managing methods" to get any use out of it (:

Notably, an "audio manager" could rate-limit sound effects

by only allowing three of a certain kind of sound to be played at once, for example

[rocky canyon]

so u dont need dozens of audiosources?

[swift crag]

It could also be responsible for controlling the volume of the one-shot sounds

so that individual sound makers don't have to go look up the current volume setting

[rocky canyon]

^ that too.. audiomanager's are OP

all of ur stuff right there in 1 place

[summer stump]

It doesn't seem like AudioManagers have any managing methods that make them worth it to use.

I don't underatand this

You would of course MAKE those methods yourself

[austere hedge]

I can use this method to use only a single audio source.

    public void Play2DClipAtPoint(AudioClip clip, float pitch)
    {
        //  Create a temporary audio source object
        GameObject tempAudioSource = new GameObject("TempAudio");
        tempAudioSource.transform.position = Camera.main.transform.position;

        //  Add an audio source
        AudioSource audioSource = tempAudioSource.AddComponent<AudioSource>();

        //  Add the clip to the audio source
        audioSource.clip = clip;

        audioSource.pitch = pitch;
        //  Set the volume
        //audioSource.volume = this.sfxVolume;

        //  Set properties so it's 2D sound
        audioSource.spatialBlend = 0.0f;

        //  Play the audio
        audioSource.Play();

        //  Set it to self destroy
        Destroy(tempAudioSource, clip.length);

    }

[rocky canyon]

thats basically an audiomanager..

i misunderstood what u meant..

i thought u meant having ur clips already loaded up in ur sources.. and just calling sources for w/e thing u want

but see here ur already managing an audiosource.. (setting a clip, modifying params, then playing it)

[austere hedge]

I didn't know this method was comparable to an AudioManager, so just trying to see if there's any reason for me to use that class if I have this method.

[rocky canyon]

an audiomanager would just be a robust version of something like this.. (i personally keep around a few audiosources (as children of the manager) 1 for gfx, 1 for music, 1 for player sounds..

[summer stump]

AudioManager is something YOU make.

[rocky canyon]

i pass in the clip thru the function and it just plays it..

[rocky canyon]

ya, @austere hedge , its not a built in component or anything..

its just a script u wrote that manages audio/audiosources

[austere hedge]

I understand now. Thanks guys.

[rocky canyon]

Single principle part of SOLID

its sole purpose is to handle audio

nothing more nothing less

heres mine.. pretty newbie version.. but thats all it does

although.. seems like somethign that could very well be a built-in component some-day

i'd use it lol

[tawny cave]

How do I change a bool variable upon finishing an animation of a GameObject ? (variable would be in script attached to object)

[rocky canyon]

could use an animation event to call a function that flips it off for ya

would just put it on the last keyframe

[sour yew]

hey guys. i have this piece of code and i want to check the distance between the player and the NPC. can smb help me out with this? thx

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

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update(){
        float interactRange = 2f;
        Collider[] colliderArray = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, interactRange);
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)) 
        {
            
            NPCInteractable npc = new NPCInteractable();
                        foreach (Collider collider in colliderArray)
                        {
                            if (collider.TryGetComponent(out npc))
                            {
                                npc.Interact();
                            }
                        }
        }
        if(distance between the NPC and player > interactRange)
        {
            npc.EndConversation();
        }
    }
}

[tall delta]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Distance.html

this is your friend here

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Distance.html

[sour yew]

theres no explanation there haha

[modest dust]

I feel like people forgot how to read

[swift crag]

it's not Vector3.GetDistanceBetweenNPCAndPlayer

[swift crag]

it's Vector3.Distance

[modest dust]

It's even formulated nearly the same

[swift crag]

the page won't explain how to use this for your dialogue system

of course it won't

[swift crag]

the page explains what the Vector3.Distance method does

I'm not sure what kind of explanation beyond that you were expecting.

[sour yew]

well, since the method accepts arguments/params, it'd be nice if the 'documentation' would explain what args/params the method is expecting. bc rn i cant read people's minds and know what the f is other

[modest dust]

Read for God's sake

[swift crag]

The example code is showing how to measure the distance to another Transform.

...which is the other transform

[swift crag]

But that's totally irrelevant, because you don't need to see the example code to know what Vector3.Distance does

You don't need to write an entire class that has a public field called other to use Vector3.Distance

That code is an example of how to use Vector3.Distance

other is not a an argument to Vector3.Distance. It is part of the example code.

You seem incredibly confused about the concept of an example...

[modest dust]

Sometimes I feel like there should be a level below beginner

Basic logic and reading skills are kind of necessary

[tall delta]

yeah, should make a #code-for-me

[summer stump]

This is a joke, right?

[swift crag]

Stop ?-reacting everything and start giving this an ounce of critical thought.

This is ridiculous.

[queen adder]

is playerprefs the easiest method to store data?

[swift crag]

It requires the least effort to start using, yes.

[modest dust]

Easiest and least practical (for larger amounts of data)

[swift crag]

It's fine for small amounts of data.

[summer stump]

Sorry if my message was confusing. The page clearly describes the parameters you need to use, you don't need to read minds. So I assumed you were making a joke with your comment

I truly hope it was a joke...

[swift crag]

But it's not appropriate for large amounts of structured data.

[queen adder]

okay, i dont need a lot of data and also dont need to secure them for now

[swift crag]

Use it if all you need to do is write "player level is 10 and player money is 3000"

[tall delta]

it's easiest, but it stores the data in the OS registry. and that tilts me to no end, they should really consider removing the whole class

[swift crag]

it should really just go to a file in the persistent data path or something

KSP2 had a great bug where it'd write huge amounts of data to PlayerPrefs (it was a malfunctioning editor tool that also wound up in the build, iirc)

[swift crag]

If you want to store a list of items the player has, and every single skill they've unlocked, you'll be much better served by using Json.NET to serialize and deserialize a whole "save data" class

[sour yew]

so far i have this, but i dont understand what to write as a first argument for the Distance method? whose Vector to use? what to use instead of the question mark?

        float distance = Vector3.distance(???,transform.position);

[polar acorn]

What else needs to be explained? You give it two vectors. It tells you the distance between them

[polar acorn]

What do you want to get the distance between? This object and what?

[sour yew]

i dont know. i just got told to use this method. but i would like to measure the distance between the npc and the player

[polar acorn]

If you want to get the distance between the NPC and the player, and the function gets the distance between two points, it would stand to reason you should pass in the positions of the NPC and the Player

[summer stump]

Just to repeat what I said on the other server

Assuming transform.position is the player, then you plug in the npc.transform.position, right?

And hariedos apt response

"What's the distance between point A and point B? Distance(???,B)"

[sour yew]

but the NPC doesnt have a vector

[summer stump]

How?

How is that possible

That makes no sense

Is the NPC not a gameobject?

All gameobjects have a position

[polar acorn]

Does it exist

[summer stump]

As I said before:
npc.transform.position
I dunno your code, so of course replace npc with your reference

Right?

You have the npc, so get its transform, and from there get its position

[sour yew]

idk how and why. its some strange $hiet. look, my NPC class looks like this:

public class NPCInteractable : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private NPCConversation npcConversation;

    public void Interact()
    {
        ConversationManager.Instance.StartConversation(npcConversation);
    }
    public void EndConversation()
    {
        ConversationManager.Instance.EndConversation();
    }
}

it obv inherits MonoBehavior. Idk what methods and fields it has. But if i serach the 'documentation' for vector, it doesnt have any results:

[polar acorn]

So it does, in fact, exist. That means it has a position

So get the position of it

[sour yew]

but transform.position gives you the player's position, or no?

[summer stump]

Why would you search for vector?

Just write what I told you...

[polar acorn]

Yes. Because you're calling it on this object.

[queen adder]

Whats wrong here? im confused

[summer stump]

Which is why I said NPC.transform.position

[polar acorn]

If you want the NPCs position, call it on the NPCs transform

[sour yew]

ummm? bc i need to give it for the Distance method? 😄

[queen adder]

nvm i see now

[summer stump]

Yes, but searching vector on that page makes no sense.
It is in the transform.

[queen adder]

nvm i dont

[summer stump]

!learn

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[polar acorn]

Christ on a cracker man vector is a type. Many things return vectors. Like position which you are already using

[summer stump]

You need to go back to the extreme basics @sour yew
This is crazy
Understanding dot notation is a requirement to code

[swift crag]

What is the error message?

Always start with the error.

[queen adder]

Assets\Scripts\DataGroup.cs(11,35): error CS0236: A field initializer cannot reference the non-static field, method, or property 'DataGroup.valueablePieces'

[polar acorn]

Just please do a little bit of logical processing. Apply knowledge from scenario A to scenario B

[polar acorn]

You cannot use the value of a non static field outside of a function. Set the value in start or so e other function

[queen adder]

okay thanks

[swift crag]

This one is a bit jargon-y, yeah

[lunar fern]

so im having a problem (and please tell me if this is an of-topic question) with vscode. when im coding i dont get any "suggestions" or "Intellisense". ive tried a bunch of things like re-choosing the external editor and instaling a bunch of extentions to vscode and even chat gpt isnt any help to fixing the problem. please tell me if there is a solution please (thanks in advance)

[swift crag]

You can't initialize a field with another (non-static) field, basically

[summer stump]

!ide

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[swift crag]

public class Whatever {
  public static int staticVariable = 123;
  public int foo = staticVariable;
  public int bar = baz;
  public int baz = bar;
}

foo is fine because it uses a static variable. bar and baz are not

[summer stump]

Show external tools menu

[lunar fern]

thank you

[swift crag]

And it should be kinda clear why this isn't allowed -- how would you even resolve that?

[lunar fern]

ok wait a min

[swift crag]

The compiler doesn't want to have to figure out an order that it makes sense to initialize the fields in, so it just says no

[queen adder]

can you also let me know if this is a good way to store data? first i gather all data i want to save in data script

public BuyButtonManager buyButtonManager;
public MoneyManager moneyManager;

public int piecesValueMulti;
public float priceVal;
public float spawnSpeed;
public float priceChessboard;
public int money;

private void Start()
{
    piecesValueMulti = valueablePieces.piecesValueMulti;
    priceVal = valueablePieces.priceVal;
    spawnSpeed = buyButtonManager.spawnSpeed;
    priceChessboard = buyButtonManager.priceChessboard;
    money = moneyManager.money;
}

and then just gonna use PlayerPrefs in another script to save and set them all

[swift crag]

I wouldn't copy the variables into this class.

I would just directly get the values when I'm saving

(and directly set the values when loading)

[sour yew]

how is dot notation related to this? 😄

[queen adder]

but is it gonna work?

[swift crag]

well, it's going to copy the values out of those three components when Start runs

so if valueablePieces.piecesValueMulti changes between when Start() is called and when you save your own piecesValueMulti field, you'll have a stale value

[lunar fern]

im sorry i cant show you for some reason the print screen or win + shift + s are bowth not working for some reason

[polar acorn]

Because you don't seem to know that you can access the transform of another variable

[queen adder]

and what if i change script execution order?

[polar acorn]

Which is what the dot operator does

[swift crag]

That wouldn't change the fact that you write these value down when the game starts and then never change them again

[summer stump]

Oof. It's how you access the npc's position. It is the crux of your misunderstanding.

[summer stump]

Huh ok. Um. If you open snip and sketch manually, does that work?

[lunar fern]

i can use my phone acualy

[polar acorn]

Pretty sure the crux of their misunderstanding is an inability to synthesize information and apply the same concepts in novel situations. A fundamental lack of critical thinking

[summer stump]

Fair

[swift crag]

i remember having this happen before. i also forget how i fixed it.

i'd just restart the machine and see if it clears up

[swift crag]

indeed.

you have to be able to join the dots here...

• every monobehaviour has a transform
• every transform has a position
• i have a monobehaviour that represents the NPC
• i can calculate the distance between two positions

If you refuse to do this, you will fail miserably.

[summer stump]

And it literally is just joining the dots 😭

[sour yew]

ffs. ive been told that transform.position give you players position. and now suddenly, if i apply the same thing for an npc, now i magically can get npc's position :DDDD. so if i have this:

Dog dog=new Dog();
dog.name;//gives me dog's name

but then if i follow ur logic, i can do this:

Dog dog=new Dog();
dog.name;//gives me dog's name

Cat cat=new Cat();
cat.dog.name;

this doesnt make any sense, and you keep telling me that it does 😄 😄 😄

[swift crag]

perhaps you are unclear on the meaning of transform

[lunar fern]

Here it comes(if you are wondering why 3 pics it is because I have a bunch of other extensions for other languages)

[polar acorn]

What

[swift crag]

in C#, if you don't qualify a name, it's implicitly accessing something on this

this is a reference to your own object

[summer stump]

transform.position gives you the position of the object you call it in.
npc.transform.position gives you the position of the object you call npc

Just because you are refusing to think doesn't make that not true

Please, try to think

[sour yew]

it is an object, and position is a field

[swift crag]

transform.position

in reality, this is

this.transform.position

this.transform.position is the player's position because this is an object attached to the player's game object

[polar acorn]

Literally what. Why do you think this. No one is saying anything remotely the similar to this why is this your takeaway

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[swift crag]

someoneElse.transform.position is someone else's position because someoneElse is a reference to a component atached to their game object

[summer stump]

I wanted the external tools menu

[sour yew]

ffs. finally someone knows some stuff. thanks!

[swift crag]

I must point out that I've managed to help you despite your best efforts here.

[summer stump]

This is not what anyone is saying btw. This is a failure to think on your part

[swift crag]

Correct your attitude or you won't be getting any help here.

[polar acorn]

This is fundamentally how c# works. This is something you should absolutely 1000% already know before doing anything further and you've been told this

[summer stump]

They said the same thing I was saying

You have absolutely no clue what is going on and it is embarrassing

And this happens every time you ask for help

Next time please understand that you know NOTHING, and we are trying to help, so just work with us instead of against us like some 12 year old kid that thinks they know everything

[lunar fern]

oooooh i understant wait a litle

[polar acorn]

Literally everyone was saying this. You were just too thick to actually put two and two together

[lunar fern]

Is this what you meant?

[summer stump]

Yes.
Check the first two checkboxes there and click regenerate project files

[lunar fern]

ok ill try that

[frosty hound]

Putting on record now, but if this is the kind of attitude you're going to give here, you're not going to be allowed post. Consider this a warning.

[lunar fern]

um i relised i hadnt downloaded .net v6 so i did and now i have this error: 2024-03-19 18:17:11.727 [info] The .NET SDK installed on the machine is targeting a different platform (win10-x86) with the C# Dev Kit (visualstudio-projectsystem-buildhost.win32-x64), and are incompatible. 2024-03-19 18:17:11.730 [info] Project system initialization finished. 0 project(s) are loaded, and 1 failed to load.

[lunar fern]

plus i did what you said and it didnt work😕

[rich adder]

regeen project files

[summer stump]

Yeah, won't work with the sdk issue

[summer stump]

That's what they just did

Should they do it again?

[rich adder]

oh dang

ater install SDK yeah usually

[summer stump]

Ok yeah, that's what I was thinking

@queen adder
What is confusing you about what osteel said?

[rich adder]

usually "The .NET SDK installed " says too me its installed but project .csproj files might be associated with another thing

[queen adder]

when?

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message
What do you mean when?
You ?-reacted here

[tawny cave]

I created a StateMachine behavior script in the animator of my GameObject.
How can I change a bool parameter when the animation ends ? The animation keeps looping and the function is never called.....

[wintry quarry]

if the state doesn't exit, OnStateExit won't run

[queen adder]

cause i dont get it

[rich adder]

thought they were talking to bradyaga

[tawny cave]

how do I know if the state exists ? The script is attached to an animation state btw

[wintry quarry]

wdym if it exists? It exists if it's in your animator state machine.

[summer stump]

Bradyaga has a long history of being aggressive and not listening to people, so they got warned
Why do you even need to get it, it wasn't directed to you

[wintry quarry]

What's the question?

Did you mean to say exits? You said "exists"

the state exits when the animator moves to a different state

it does that through transitions

[tawny cave]

ah ok

but how do I stop "Victory" from looping with a bool parameter then ?

[queen adder]

i just reacted a question mark dude and u be asking me stuff now?

[rich adder]

uncheck loop on victory animation clip
if you mean the state, put like a animation event

[summer stump]

Because it was weird. Questioning the mods about stuff you have nothing to do with is a super weird thing to do

But yeah, I'm out. Bye

[tawny cave]

ok I did that I'll see if that works

[wintry quarry]

Under what condition should it stop looping?

[rich adder]

You are prob still stuck in state if bool stays true,
then I'd use animation event to set it back or switch to trigger

[tawny cave]

I got it to work, had to uncheck loop + having no condition for exit transition + having an exit time
thanks for helping ^-^

[queen adder]

ok dude

[broken nest]

Hey, I'm adding a value to an object's position to set it, but that doesn't work well when changing resolutions. I suppose I should multiply by some value but I don't know what it is. Any idea?

Don't know if that's clear

[rich adder]

probably Screen.Width/Height ?

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe show what you've tried so far

[wary dagger]

why is the spread so buggy??

[broken nest]

I doubt that would work since the ratio is always 16/9

[wintry quarry]

because euler angles == sad

[wary dagger]

how should i do that then

[broken nest]

My guess would have been 1920/Screen.height but it's not that I checked already

[wintry quarry]

share your code in a way I can copy paste

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[broken nest]

cos I set it at 1920*1080

[wintry quarry]

also why base it off highlight.rotation instead of just using the mouse position/direction?

[ivory bobcat]

Are you referring to the implicit dead zones or the combination of vertical and horizontal projectiles during a single shot (in some instances)?

[wary dagger]

if (Input.GetButtonUp("Fire1"))
        {
            if (highlight != null)
            {
                int shellCount = 14;
                float spread = 1;
                Quaternion offSet = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 90);
                Quaternion newRot = highlight.transform.rotation ;

                for (int i = 0; i < shellCount; i++)
                {
                    float addOffset = (i - (shellCount / 2)) * spread;

                    newRot = Quaternion.Euler(0,0, highlight.transform.eulerAngles.z + addOffset + 90);

                    Shell = Instantiate(Bullet, highlight.transform.position, newRot);
                }
            }

            Destroy(highlight);
        }

[wary dagger]

the vertical/horizontal thingy

[wary dagger]

found it easier and faster to do

[wintry quarry]

Something like this:

if (Input.GetButtonUp("Fire1"))
{
    if (highlight != null)
    {
        int shellCount = 14;
        float angleOfSpread = 20; // 20 degrees for the whole cone. Set to whatever oyu want
        float degreesPerShell = shellCount / angleOfSpread;

        Quaternion offset = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 90); // correcting for up vs right I guess?
        Quaternion startRot = highlight.transform.rotation * Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -angleOfSpread / 2f);

        for (int i = 0; i < shellCount; i++)
        {
            Quaternion shellRotation = startRot * offset * Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, degreesPerShell * i);
            Shell = Instantiate(Bullet, highlight.transform.position, shellRotation);
        }
    }

    Destroy(highlight);
}```

[ivory bobcat]

Not entirely sure but we may need to know how you're moving the projectiles as well.

[wary dagger]

it's just some rigid body velocity

[wary dagger]

still happening

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming their placements isn't the issue but that the orientation has something to do with the direction they travel

[wintry quarry]

you'd need to show your other code then

[wary dagger]

the bullet one?

[wintry quarry]

probably a bug in how you're setting the highlight up or how you're firing.moving the projectiles

[wintry quarry]

that but more like the rest of the code in this class too

[wary dagger]

or all of the code?

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

public class CombatSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private GameObject AOE;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject Bullet;
    private GameObject highlight;
    private GameObject Shell;
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetButton("Fire1"))
        {
            if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
            {
                highlight = Instantiate(AOE);
            }

            if (highlight != null)
            {
                Vector2 mousePos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
                Vector2 Dir = (mousePos - (Vector2)transform.position).normalized;

                highlight.transform.up = Dir;
                highlight.transform.position = transform.position;

            }
        }

        if (Input.GetButtonUp("Fire1"))
        {
            if (highlight != null)
            {
                int shellCount = 14;
                float angleOfSpread = 20; // 20 degrees for the whole cone. Set to whatever oyu want
                float degreesPerShell = shellCount / angleOfSpread;

                Quaternion offset = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 90);
                Quaternion startRot = highlight.transform.rotation * Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -angleOfSpread / 2f);

                for (int i = 0; i < shellCount; i++)
                {
                    Quaternion shellRotation = startRot * offset * Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, degreesPerShell * i);
                    Shell = Instantiate(Bullet, highlight.transform.position, shellRotation);
                }
            }

            Destroy(highlight);
        }
    }
}

this is the whole class

[wintry quarry]

yeah show the bullet code too

[wary dagger]

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

public class BulletScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 20f;
    public Rigidbody2D rb;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb.velocity = transform.right * speed;
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D hitInfo)
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

show the inspector for the bullets?

and the player

[wintry quarry]

you cut the inspector off here

this is everything except the inspector

[wary dagger]

oh yea mb

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming multiple access of the z component of euler angles has returned different results. Perhaps cache it prior to the for loop and use the fixed value.

[wintry quarry]

your bullets are problaby just colliding with the player square TBH

[wary dagger]

i'll try to disable the player collision

[wary dagger]

lmao u were right

[obtuse axle]

Hello, I have a question, I have a timer that starts at the beginning of the game and i want it to stop when my character hits that cubic hitbox

I'd like to know what I have to put inside the OnTriggerEnter

[languid spire]

!code

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[obtuse axle]

https://gdl.space/icuqureruc.cpp

[languid spire]

the opposite of Start.
Although if you are doing multiplayer and do not even know how to format a OnTriggerEnter method correctly you are in for a world of pain

[obtuse axle]

Im really not familiar with all those methods

[rocky canyon]

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

• when something collides with trigger check if its the player..
• can do this by checking for certain components (or even a tag) such as if(other.ComareTag("PlayersTag"))
• do the logic.. { timeIsRunning = false; }

[languid spire]

you need to be before even thinking about multi player

[fading rapids]

do you need code for text not to be affected by post processing

[eternal needle]

Have you googled any methods to remove objects from post processing?

[fading rapids]

i have and could only find 3d tuts and a 2d one using code

maybe im just bad at googling

[stone nimbus]

Hey I'm making a racing game for unity in school and I am not able to do a scoreboard at all

[pallid verge]

i have this instance of a script and i wanna call a method whenever the player respawns. problem is that whenever the player respawns it tells me that the instance is null. what might the problem be?

[stone nimbus]

I tried to make a timer but it isn't starting after I load the main Game screen

[eternal needle]

Havent done 2d myself but I imagined the methods would be the same, since you're still just using unity

[pallid verge]

look up a tutoria in youtube s

[slender nymph]

what is switchGravityInstance and where do you assign to it

[fading rapids]

if you need an online scoreboard i used a tut on yt that was like 3 min and it worked

[last shore]

is there someone just starting out trying to create something, as i am just starting out and have no idea on what to create so ill just help in your project

[fading rapids]

yh i have just watched it i think it could work on 2d

[pallid verge]

this is in the same script as the inital screenshot

[slender nymph]

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[stone nimbus]

no only scoreboard

just local

[slender nymph]

show the full code

[last shore]

thanks

[stone nimbus]

I looked alot of tutorials and still the timer isn't starting

[pallid verge]

https://paste.mod.gg/enalrhihilau/0

dont mind the comments

[slender nymph]

that one method is the only place you seem to use that object. are you certain that the GameObject with the PlayerLife component also has a SwitchGravity component attached?

[pallid verge]

the PlayerLife script is on the player but the player does not have the SwitchGravity script attached

[slender nymph]

well that's why

[pallid verge]

but the script wouldnt make sense if it was on the player

[slender nymph]

then why are you checking the player's GameObject for that component?

[pallid verge]

oops

[slender nymph]

get a reference to the existing SwitchGravity object

[pallid verge]

thank you

[stone nimbus]

I tried it by making the button to start the race switching the bool to true

but still no feedback, not even in the console

the script is assigned to a gameobject

[rich bluff]

right click isRacing > find all references

look at everything that modifies it and if there are any errors

[stone nimbus]

ok nvm

got it

the gameobject was not in the scene somehow

[ionic zephyr]

what if I want to reuse a component in an enemy but methods require this "context"?

[rich bluff]

pass it down?

[ionic zephyr]

but enemies dont have inputs

[rich bluff]

pass null, handle it, or

[slender nymph]

separate the input from the behavior

[rich bluff]

wrap methods like that into an input receiver and the method that actually does something

[static bay]

Correct answer.

[ionic zephyr]

oh so I should make another method that calls this method?

[dense monolith]

struggling to make my camera not inverted :/ can someone help?

[ionic zephyr]

which doesnt need the context

[rich bluff]

void OnShootInput(context) => Shoot();

[static bay]

You should make a class that handles Input, which then calls stuff on your Player component.

[slender nymph]

1. get your !IDE configured
2. don't multiply mouse input by deltaTime, mouse input is already frame rate independent
3. obligatory "use cinemachine"
4. - instead of + if you want to reverse the current controls

[eternal falcon]

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[static bay]

Now what your player can do is separated from input.

[short hazel]

Or yeah just make an overload, a method which has the same name, but no parameters. This is allowed in C#

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, I do have an InputManager

[short hazel]

And one calls the other

[ionic zephyr]

but events need context right?

ooooooh I see

I should create methods in the InputScript that call the Shoot Method in other script, right?

[static bay]

yes

[ionic zephyr]

thanks a lot

[static bay]

Think of the player like a puppet. Your Input is just the one pulling the strings.

Theoretically, you can have anything "pulling the strings".

Whether that be input from the player, or some AI.

I notice that you have a Coroutine there. Keep in mind that the player should still handle the management of its state. Your Input script can keep hammering the Shoot method every time the user presses a button. The player should just know that it's already shooting, and shouldn't do so again until ready.

[dense monolith]

Thank you! but iim a big time newb and im not sure how thatd look in code. I was able to fix the up and down but now my horizontal is inverted lmao

[slender nymph]

have you gotten your IDE configured yet?

[dense monolith]

idk what that means 🫤

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[proven junco]

yo

how do I have an UI pop up when I am close to an object

like an interaction ui

[rich adder]

have you tried typing that exact question into google ?

[proven junco]

no

haha

[rich adder]

oh.. always best to check there first, you'd be surpised how many people wanting to do this for years

[wintry quarry]

Use a trigger collider

[proven junco]

yeah found an reddit post with description on kinda what to do

so imma take that to ai

[rare basin]

jezus dont please

[proven junco]

--

[rare basin]

do you want to learn anything

or blidnly copy&paste bad chat gpt code

[proven junco]

yeah I really do want to learn

[polar acorn]

You could instead try reading it, look up things you don't know, and understand what it says

[rare basin]

then why are you using ai

instead of trying it yourself

[proven junco]

but rn I have around 9 days to complete an game alone with slim very slim experience with coding

[rich adder]

lets face it calling it AI is a bit of an overstatement..

its a fancy search engine..nothing "intelligent" about it

[eternal needle]

Next we'll see "why doesnt this work"

//use this function to detect when close to an object
void OnTriggerEnter(...) 
{ 
// make the object you want visible
}

[proven junco]

so I am really tight with time

but I will deff learn coding after these days when I have time

[uncut wolf]

Sorry if i'm interrupting. I've got i simple question why don't i get proper typehints?

[proven junco]

cuz rn I just need to complete it

[rich adder]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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[short hazel]

9 days for a game from scratch? No, you had a few months and panicked when you realized the assignment is due very soon

[proven junco]

I had maybe 2 months

[rocky canyon]

and u waited until a week and a half?

[proven junco]

bro it is complicated

[short hazel]

Yup, it may be way too late now

[rocky canyon]

2 months is enough time to make a smal game

[proven junco]

no it aint too late

i'

[eternal needle]

It is

[proven junco]

ive done a whole map and a lot of models in just some days

[slender nymph]

no prior experience or knowledge of how to make a game? 9 days is way too low

[uncut wolf]

It says nothing about wrong/missing typehinting

[eternal needle]

I (someone who has been coding for 10 years) couldnt even be paid to make a game in 9 days.

[rocky canyon]

games take time

[rich adder]

doing assets compared to the code is a cake walk

[polar acorn]

Well, with nine days you'd better hit the books and start a deep dive of the documentation

[short hazel]

Learn the basics, do a simple game, get an average grade and let this be a lesson for the next one

[proven junco]

yeah I know

[slender nymph]

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
it's right there

[proven junco]

I'm making a horror game alr

with task thingy

and I have an interaction and walk system

but I need more comlicated

[dense monolith]

Okay i finally got it, thanks you 🙂

[proven junco]

and ofc make it a little better for the end prod

[rocky canyon]

watch a youtube tutorial..

[proven junco]

yeah I have found some that has been helpful

[eternal needle]

😉 meaning you just need to do the other 99% of the actual game

[slender nymph]

great! if your IDE is finally configured, then you can now actually get help here.

[rocky canyon]

copying and pasting EXACTLY and using pre-made assets from the unity store is probably ur only solution considering the circumnstances

[polar acorn]

Literally the first line

[proven junco]

can you find scripts n stuff in asset store?

like actual game making scripts

and not just mov

[eternal needle]

Yes but you'll have to pay and often these are not cheap or worth it.

There was an AI system that went on sale, got it as part of a bundle and it was absolutely unusable

[proven junco]

yeah rn I'm using perplexity

[rocky canyon]

yap, AI is whats gonna screw you over

[proven junco]

good coding ai

[austere hedge]

I have a method called PlaySound.

public static void PlaySound(Sound sound, float volume, float pitch)

"Sound" is an enum. From a different class, I'm trying to call that method.

SfxController.PlaySound(Sound.AttackFlesh1, 1f, 1f);

Sound.AttackFlesh1-4 works. But I have 4 different AttackFlesh sound effects, so what I want to do is this:

int i = Random.Range(1, 5);
SfxController.PlaySound(Sound.AttackFlesh[i], 1f, 1f);

However, I get an error. Does anyone know what I'm missing?

[proven junco]

or ai in gen