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[queen adder]

IT WORKS

[abstract pelican]

Both work, but what's the best way to write?

[wintry quarry]

there's not really a "better" here. Do you want to enable all of them or just the Player map

[abstract pelican]

Both work, but what's the best way to write?

[polar acorn]

Use Random.Range along with Terrain.SampleHeight to get a random point on the terrain and then check how high you should spawn stuff.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Terrain.SampleHeight.html

[wintry quarry]

If you want to enable them all, use the second one.
If you want to only enable the Player map, use the first

[abstract pelican]

player only

[wintry quarry]

Then the second one is wrong

it will enable all maps

[rich adder]

amazing 🥹

[abstract pelican]

What's the best video to recommend for FPS on the new control system?

[rich adder]

your move / shoot script shouldn't care how you get the inputs, it should only care that it has values

[polar acorn]

A poop emoji for the correct answer. Tragic.

The Input System and an FPS Controller are not nested subjects. You should learn each separately and then put them together

[languid spire]

only a child would respond with an emoji, wtf would you expect otherwise?

[abstract pelican]

Oh, it's complicated.

[rich adder]

but I like emojis 😦

[languid spire]

I f..ing hate them. to me it's a sign of an inability to articulate

[polar acorn]

You're challening lightning through flat rocks to make them thing. Everything's gonna be complicated.

[queen adder]

i get emoji spammed everytime i enter one server.
I hate it and despise it so I refrain from them.

[abstract pelican]

I'm trying to bro

I just wonder why people are still sitting on the old system and recording videos about it

[rich adder]

ohh but they're fun to look at, since we're in digital space and reading text is a bit emotionless. I get downvoted on reddit for using emojis

[languid spire]

do you have any idea of the bandwidth you are wasting with a stupid image when one or two words would convey the same sentiment?

[polar acorn]

I will admit I have been infected by the emoji mind virus since basically every other social platform on the internet became unuseable. Helps that I finally bit the bullet and got nitro

[rich adder]

well idk bandwidth is non-issue these days lol maybe 56k days

[queen adder]

I got nitro but I am planning on cancelling it because it has no benefits besides more stuff on an app.

[rich adder]

I miss my nitro too many good ones!

[languid spire]

for you maybe, but not for everyone

[rich adder]

fair enough

[abstract pelican]

Can we stop rambling off-topic about development?

[polar acorn]

Yeah, definitely. Back on topic.

[rich adder]

I reacted "Ok" but they blocked me

weird flex

[polar acorn]

I gotchu

[rocky canyon]

https://streamable.com/w06il9 part1
https://streamable.com/dypf48 part2
maybe visualizing it would help you out..

[crisp anvil]

I have a question If i define a virtual method in a parent class and override that method in the child class will it work the way i think it will?
I'm expecting when I override UseItem and call the base method itwill the isOnCooldown boolean from the child class and the cooldown timer from the child class as well, or is that something that would need to be passed in?
Parent Class

    public virtual void UseItem(Player player, ConsumableType type)
    {
        if (!isOnCooldown)
        {
            isOnCooldown = true;
            StartCoroutine(Cooldown());

            switch (type)
            {
                case ConsumableType.Health:
                    if (player.CanHealPlayer(replishmentValue))
                    {
                        int playerhealthbeforepotion = player.playerHealth;
                        player.HealPlayer(replishmentValue);
                        int actualHealing = player.playerHealth - playerhealthbeforepotion; // Calculate actual healing
                        Debug.Log($"Player restored {actualHealing} hit points.");
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Debug.Log("Player is already at full health.");
                    }
                    break;
                case ConsumableType.Mana:
                    if (player.CanPlayerDrinkManaPotion(replishmentValue))
                    {
                        int playerManabeforepotion = player.playerMana;
                        player.GivePlayerMana(replishmentValue);
                        int actualMana = player.playerMana - playerManabeforepotion; // Calculate actual healing
                        Debug.Log($"Player restored {actualMana} mana points.");
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Debug.Log("Player is already at full mana.");
                    }
                    break;
                case ConsumableType.Stamina:
                    if (player.CanPlayerDrinkStaminaPotion(replishmentValue))
                    {
                        int playerStaminabeforepotion = player.playerStamina;
                        player.GivePlayerStamina(replishmentValue);
                        int actualStamina = player.playerStamina - playerStaminabeforepotion; // Calculate actual healing
                        Debug.Log($"Player restored {actualStamina} Stamina points.");
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Debug.Log("Player is already at full stamina.");
                    }
                    break;
                case ConsumableType.Food:
                    break;
                case ConsumableType.Drink:
                    break;
                case ConsumableType.Buff:
                    break;
            }
        }
                else
        {
            Debug.Log("Potion is on cooldown.");
        }
    }
    IEnumerator Cooldown()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(cooldownOnUse);
        isOnCooldown = false;
    }

Child class

public class MinorPotionofHealing : ConsumableBase
{


    public override void UseItem(Player player, ConsumableType type)
    {
        if (player == null)
        {
            Debug.LogError("Player not found. Cannot use potion.");
            return;
        }
        if (!isOnCooldown)
        {
            base.UseItem(player, this.consumableType);
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log($"{type.ToString()} is on cooldown.");
        }
    }

}

thanks.

[wintry quarry]

If you want to also invoke the base class version you would need to do base.UseItem(player, type);

overrides completely replace the behavior of the virtual method

(hopefully I understood the question properly?)

[crisp anvil]

In the child class I include that
if (!isOnCooldown)
{
base.UseItem(player, this.consumableType);
}
Would that extra stuff in the override negate the base class?
Sorry, My question was if I called the base method from the parent would the Coroutine use the cooldownonUse variable from the Child class?

[languid spire]

if the variable is overridden in the parent it will use that

[crisp anvil]

so im fine if its only declared

from the parent class
public float cooldownOnUse;
public bool isOnCooldown;

[languid spire]

yes

[dawn kestrel]

If vectorB is a Vector3 found by multiplying quadC * vectorA, can I get from vectorB to vectorA by multiplying -quadC * vectorB?

[crisp anvil]

ty

[autumn tusk]

why isnt unity accepting this?

[rocky canyon]

b/c random doesnt give u gameobjects

[autumn tusk]

weapons is an array with 4 items, if i print it it works fine

[crisp anvil]

use system.Random or UnityEngine.Random i think

[rocky canyon]

weapontospawn is a gameobject.. not a number

[crisp anvil]

or that

[rocky canyon]

weapontospawn = weapons[randomstuff]; might make more sense

[autumn tusk]

yeah

ill try that

[polar acorn]

You're trying to store a number in a variable of type GameObject

[autumn tusk]

oh i realized

i am trying to store an int in a gameobject

🤦‍♂️

thats the major issue here

[rocky canyon]

split out if it helps u understand better..

int randomNumber = randomStuff;
weapontospawn = weapons[randomNumber];

tends to help me.

[rocky canyon]

its 2024.. who says a gameobject cant be an int.. 😅

C# thats who!

your ide should have also told you that..

if you hover over the error.. it should give u some pretty good hints

cant implicity convert integer to gameobject or something like that

[rich adder]

well int is an Object just not a GameObject 😛

[dry gate]

Hi! I'm following a beginner tutorial on writing code in unity (using Microsoft visual studio), and for some reason, when typing the code, the text suggestions don't appear below

[rocky canyon]

true

[rocky canyon]

!ide

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[rocky canyon]

configure it

[dry gate]

Thank you so much!

[tropic marten]

can anyone suggest the reason why play player doesn't wallslide correctly if the gravity has been inverted and they are now on the ceiling? The wall slide doesn't slow down the y movement like ity does if the player is on the floor:

    private void WallSlide()
    {
        if (IsWalled() && !IsGrounded() && horizontal != 0f)
        {
            isWallSliding = true;
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, Mathf.Clamp(rb.velocity.y, -wallSlidingSpeed, float.MaxValue));
        }
        else
        {
            isWallSliding = false;
        }
    }

[rocky canyon]

if ur inverted.. then obv is not the same..

[oak mist]

Navmeshagents cant do pathfinding for objects roaming in 3d correct

right?

[tropic marten]

everythign else is the same though?

[night mural]

like things flying around? nope, only flat surfaces, but they can be in a 3d world

[rich adder]

wdym they are strictly in 3D

[oak mist]

no sorry i mean flying wise

[rich adder]

oh you cannot make flying ones, but you can certainly Offset your enemy to make it look like its flying

[oak mist]

oh havent thought of that.

[languid spire]

yes they can, you need to offset the agent base to be on the nav mesh, then flying objects can use pathfinding

[oak mist]

what do you mean?

So in context, theres a spaceship, enemy spaceship and some asteroids

[rich adder]

you can also bake a navmesh surface for sky itself if you have obstacles there, then disable the renderer for it

[oak mist]

i want the spaceship to avoid the asteroids when trying to gun for the player spaceship

[oak mist]

Right but the asteroids only spawn on start, would that still be possible to do?

[languid spire]

normally the agent base is the object pivot point, you can offset that by, for example 2 y, so that the obuject can be at + 2 y (i.e. flying) and still use nav mesh

[rich adder]

bake surface at same level your enemy ship will be then use navmesh obstacle on the rocks but its tricky cause agent wont move itself if obstacle is approaching

[oak mist]

so my navmeshsurface would actually be the enemyship?

oh i see

or am i hearing it wrong

[rich adder]

no navmesh surface is the plane / height they will be at just used for bake

[oak mist]

sorry im still a little confused#

[rich adder]

your usecase is diffcult to do with navmesh without some hacky bits

honestly might be better off using rays and shifting your enemy, cause you can make ship avoid them

[oak mist]

yh i was thinking to use raycasts and detection

[kindred stratus]

How do I detect when someone clicks a circle collider

[swift crag]

For avoiding sparse obstacles, just steer away from them.

[swift crag]

It's unlikely that there will be a huge wall of asteroids that completely blocks movement

[oak mist]

yh

they are spaced out

[swift crag]

A navmesh is a good idea if your game isn't full six-degree-of-freedom space combat

i.e. your game is mostly aligned to a plane

[rocky canyon]

for asteroids in teh way.. u could do the same.. u could have them exist on the navmesh

[rich adder]

the problem is this wont avoid the Asteriods at the same plane as ship unless they will also be offset

[rocky canyon]

but their graphics be in the sky

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats the hacky bit

[rich adder]

truth

[oak mist]

ah fair enough

[rocky canyon]

A* ftw

[swift crag]

Pathfinding is useful for dense obstacles

where most random paths will just bang into a corner and get stuck

If you can just move towards a target with some small deviations, do that

[oak mist]

yh i may just stick with learning raycasts

[rocky canyon]

oh 💯

[oak mist]

thank you so much anyways i may experiment

[rocky canyon]

if u havent yet, learn raycasts asap

raycasts and trigger volumes are like 60% of gamedesign

[oak mist]

actually one last issue while im here. Ive been practicing with some AI movement: https://pastebin.com/XCu4DFRn. It moves pretty well, but it seems to rotate insanely quickly. I saw a channel that used navmeshagents 'SetDestination' method, but i cant use navmesh in my example so i improvised, but yh im getting the rotation issue.

because after i am going to add it so the ai can target asteroids to shoot at rather than the player (which i just learnt how to do), and this adaptation could be very useul. I have made some code to control the move of my actual ship that i like so im thinking of adding it in to it once i figure this out

[rich adder]

!collab

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[summer stump]

You've been on this server a long tome to get banned

Oh, it's gone

[rich adder]

oh they posted in all channels

fml

[ivory bobcat]

Don't ping everyone (it doesn't work) and collab posts aren't accepted

[oak mist]

cold

[rocky canyon]

i tend to rotate the graphics myself.. and only use the navmesh to move position

like here, the navmesh is actually always facing forward..but depends on what u want to accomplish.. you can change the rotation speed in the navmesh settings

[kindred stratus]

How do I detect when someone clicks a circle collider 2d

[wintry quarry]

IPointerClickHandler

Or IPointerDownHandler

[queen adder]

hey, why the audio doesnt play?

public AudioSource audioSrc;

(...)

private void SpriteTouched()
{
    if (audioSrc != null && audioSrc.clip != null)
    {
        audioSrc.Play();
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("AudioSource or AudioClip is missing!");
    }

this is NOT the whole script, but everything after audioSrc.Play(); works and no error or warning is shown

[wintry quarry]

Needs more context

[polar acorn]

What calls SpriteTouched

[queen adder]

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

[queen adder]

when sprite is touched, but everything other works

[polar acorn]

Try logging audioSrc and audioSrc.clip outside the if

See if anything logs at all

[oak mist]

Ah right I see makes sense

So it’s not entirely needed in my scenario

Fair enough

[queen adder]

sure

[oak mist]

But what I still don’t get is why the ship moves so weirdly. It quickly moves or sometimes teleports to a certain positions and then just moves straight forward

I want more fluid movement when going to that position

I’ll do some more research on plane movement and see what comes of it

[polar acorn]

Okay, so it looks like it is playing fine. Are you sure your editor isn't muted and you have an audio listener close enough to source to hear it?

[wintry quarry]

You are quite possibly starting the sound every frame in Update

Which will cause it to restart each frame

[queen adder]

no? im not

[queen adder]

the audio listener is on the camera

[rich adder]

try PlayOneShot and see the difference

[wintry quarry]

Seems from your code like you are

You're running it in update

[queen adder]

but it basically runs the spritetouched function only when there is input from mobile device, not every frame...

[wintry quarry]

As long as you have touches

It's definitely every frame as long as there's at least one touch

Debug and see if and when the code runs

[queen adder]

and what to put in the ()?

[rich adder]

pass the clip.
Or if you want to prevent a possibly looping Play() without one shot Just do
if(audioSource.isPlaying == false ) audioSource.Play()

[queen adder]

oh wait, i think i see the problem

im litteraly destroying the object directly after i play the sound

[rich adder]

[queen adder]

now i gotta think how to solve that

[rich adder]

have an Audio Manager which wont destroy

[queen adder]

in an empty object?

[rich adder]

yeah why not

you can also use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint.html
(iirc it creates a gameObject with the AudioSource just to play the sound without caring about other object)

idk if thats pricey though constantly making a new AudioSource

[queen adder]

i didnt complete coding it yet but i think there can be another problem

cause when there is going to be a lot of piece then the sound will be player every 0.1s and that may not work with audiomanager gameobject

[rich adder]

not sure I understand wht you mean there

[queen adder]

okay dont worry playclipatpoint solved it

[visual hedge]

Maybe I'm in wrong channel, but I think it's appropriate to ask it here anyways:
Planning tiled dungeons. Only option the player will ahve from the moving and input = those 2 UI arrows. THose aren't coded yet, basically clicking on either it will just give the MoveTowards() which will move player to the tile left or right from present one (if possible). 1 Tile at a time and I guess each frame will have it's own "thing" which player will ahve to go thru first before moving further. Again, 1 tile at a time.
The question is, though: Best way to determine which direction player can go? For instance: there may be situations where player can't go right or can't go left. As far as I understand it has to be detected within the tile player is standing on or by the grid code? I use some tile gridmap editor.
Asking for suggestions, what would be best approach to such type of dungeon? What do I ahve to do first, what do I have to do second and so on?

[rocky canyon]

@rich adder good idea mate

[rich adder]

haha yea!!
Lookin good

[rocky canyon]

ya, imma keep the readme for the BIRP project

but this is hella more stylish

[rich adder]

Next is custom Inspectors 💪

[tender stag]

how can i access this height through script?

[rocky canyon]

i hate those ngl lol

[rich adder]

lol I have way too much fun with them

[rocky canyon]

thats why my first dependency is NaughtyAttributes! lol

[rich adder]

i make everything a custom inspector now

[rocky canyon]

love that [Button()] attrib

[rich adder]

haha yeah its convenient , I just hard headed and code everything myself when possible

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TerrainData.html

check out the doc's has all the properties and how to access em

[kindred stratus]

How do I make onmouseenter work with a specific collider?

[rocky canyon]

put it on a script the object, or use Unity's EventTrigger component

[rich adder]

usually the script its on, is the collider

[rocky canyon]

you'll also need the event system and the graphic raycaster that usuaslly comes w/ it

[rich adder]

on mouseenter doesnt use Canvas

you're thinking of OnPointerEnter

[rocky canyon]

the EventTrigger uses it doesn't it

[rich adder]

they're using
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnMouseEnter.html

[rocky canyon]

the inspector component

[rich adder]

the only way that works on colliders if you have the 3D/2D Physics Raycaster on the camera

EventTrigger component I mean

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdgKuNSiw9k&ab_channel=SpawnCampGames

i actually have a video i forgot about lol

[rich adder]

lol nice

[rocky canyon]

been a while.. i always get all the different methods mixed up

have to re-watch my own video sometimes lol

[rich adder]

this is still using raycast thouggh no ?

[rocky canyon]

well the world buttons 1 uses a raycast 1 just uses the OnMouse functions

[rich adder]

I meant the World Objects colliders can get EventTrigger events if you put this

without raycast

[rocky canyon]

ahh true, this is how the left world button works

[rich adder]

yeah OnMouseDown is different cause it runs from Monobehavior

the collider on it to be precise

[rocky canyon]

mmhmm soooo many different ways to click lmao

[rich adder]

yeah I usued to use that non-stop before using raycasts lmao

[rocky canyon]

raycasts make me feel more powerful 😄

[rich adder]

i started learning raycast when I realized it wasnt that precise

[rocky canyon]

like i have more control over the world

[rich adder]

yeah that too, especially once you deal with Layers

[rocky canyon]

https://youtu.be/FdgKuNSiw9k?t=314

[kindred stratus]

if i have 2 colliders on the object will it happen for both colliders and how do i make it so it only happens for one of the colliders

[rocky canyon]

remove the other one 😬

why you have two colliders? whats the reason?

[queen adder]

navarone check #📱┃mobile

[rocky canyon]

ahh clicker game.. u evil

[rich adder]

make a raycast

😛

[rocky canyon]

i normally seperate my colliders onto different gameobjects

even if its for the same object

that way i can set layers, and ignore 1 if i need to

[rich adder]

nice!
but like I said any showcase should prob be on #1180170818983051344

[queen adder]

well technicaly its a mobile channel and my game is related to mobile development

[rocky canyon]

you'll probably get away with it a few times b4 a mod sends u a message 😄

[rich adder]

but its not "mobile help questions"

[queen adder]

i posted it there also

[rocky canyon]

crossposts ftw 😅

[rocky canyon]

loophole

[queen adder]

i may be wrong but its not only for questions

[rocky canyon]

well dev-log is a better place anyway.. you can add to it

[queen adder]

i did it

[rocky canyon]

instead of ur posts being gapped up

[rich adder]

all channels say that but generally are for help questions/topics

[rocky canyon]

Foptciy got a big question coming

[rich adder]

(not me saying , mod)

[toxic flax]

When I click the Add Component btn on a gameobject I get an error:

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[TKey,TValue].TryInsert (TKey key, TValue value, System.Collections.Generic.InsertionBehavior behavior) (at <ee4485bb020b402fb901fb78b3f9a4cd>:0)```
When I double click the error it says file not found. I am using pretty mismatched versions of things like assets because I'm trying to program on a mac where the project unity version doesn't exist for mac, any quick fixes?

[rocky canyon]

ohh photon 🤔

[rocky canyon]

you dont have (2) Photon View components on that gameobject?

if u do u should get rid of 1

[rich adder]

what exactly is weird about it ?

make a custom struct ?

[rocky canyon]

[x,y]

its like basic math

[rich adder]

something you should probably ask Microsoft lmao

[toxic flax]

the component window thing doesn't even pop up

[rocky canyon]

the inspector doesnt show?

[toxic flax]

like I can't even add a sprite component or anything

[rich adder]

it makes kinda sense to me,
its an array but deuce

[toxic flax]

ill record

[rocky canyon]

show the inspector of said gameobject

[rich adder]

make a custom struct

[eternal needle]

int[][] does exist but it is also different
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/arrays

[toxic flax]

this is consistent on EVERY gameobject 🥲

[rocky canyon]

ohh, have u tried a simple restart?

[toxic flax]

yea

[rich adder]

its not even that difficult

    public struct XY
{
    public int X; public int Y;
}```

[rocky canyon]

im not very familiar with Photon, but ill do a bit of googling to try to help ya real quick

[toxic flax]

no similar results 🙂

[rocky canyon]

its an Editor/Photon error..

[toxic flax]

yea

[rich adder]

then having a smart IDE this would be a non-issue

[heavy knot]

so subjective its not even fathomable

[rich adder]

so? X n Y are just variable names, you can call them Rows,Column if you want

wdym rows contain columns

[heavy knot]

chess board is a grid

[rich adder]

rows and columns are different

[eternal needle]

Did you miss this? <#💻┃code-beginner message>
Jagged arrays exist. Also what you are saying really doesnt make sense.

[toxic flax]

when I dble click the error vscode says
File not found: /Users/bokken/build/output/unity/unity/Editor/Mono/Inspector/AddComponent/AddComponentDataSource.cs

[rich adder]

wat i sent is exactly a GRID

[heavy knot]

yes but rows containing columns is what you said that is not a grid in my mind

that sounds like a jagged array

[rich adder]

man this is how microsoft wrote it, just get over it

[eternal needle]

Then make a class which represents the grid, and can only be interacted with through your class. Enforce any structure you want

None of these are matrixes, everything is simply just an array of arrays. But yes a jagged array let's you have different array sizes

[kindred stratus]

how do i check if a collider is triggered

[ionic juniper]

is it normal visual studio is not showing me the files ?

[rocky canyon]

mark the collider as isTrigger in the inspector
and in the script on the collider use OnTriggerEnter()

unless im confusing what u want to do

[rich adder]

yes its normal

cause you should not be touching those

[rocky canyon]

visual studio shows u text /code

it doesn't care about ur .assets and graphics

[rich adder]

.meta files are important files to keep reference not broken , they are generally ignored in IDE

[polar acorn]

2D Array: Array[rows,cols]

• Creates rectangular matrix with the given numbers of rows and columns
• Indexed with [x, y]

Jagged Array: Array[][]

• Creates an array of arrays, meaning each "sub" array can be of any length
• Indexed with [x][y]

[strong wren]

You can most likely change a setting to show all files, if you so desire.

[rocky canyon]

not the same name..

[eternal needle]

At the same time you can call it a grid, these are just things we associate it with. It can be called a matrix but you most likely are not doing any real matrix math on these

[rich adder]

should be fine

also thats a field not property

[rich adder]

although myself I try to use a suffix of Current or Instance whenever I can't come up with name 😛

[rocky canyon]

myThang

[rich adder]

Piece CurrentPiece

or something

[rocky canyon]

NotReally notReally;

BoardSquare boardSquare

i just end up using alot of compound words

works out good

u can always come up with own convention..

just gotta be consistent

[rich adder]

no one is forcing you to use them

[rocky canyon]

ohh then yea,, try to stick to c# conventions then

if its a portfolio

[rich adder]

"I want a job in c# but hate everything c#" 👍

[rocky canyon]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/coding-conventions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/identifier-names

[polar acorn]

Who cares, better than having a variable with the same name as a class. But also since this is a collection you should at least call it Squares instead of just Square

[rich adder]

well better get used to it then lol

[rocky canyon]

atleast with an IDE it'll hold ur hand a bit.

imagine not using conventions back b4 intelligent IDEs

[rich adder]

c# recommends _ for private variables

I dont do it

I hate _

[rocky canyon]

neither do i..

i use _localVars;

PublicVariable;
privateVariable;

[rich adder]

that or just type this.similiarVar = localVar

[rocky canyon]

yup that too..

[rich adder]

i dont see the big fuss for _ scripts look ugly af

[rocky canyon]

depends on how much my brain is working for the day

m_Variables; are ugly tho

[rich adder]

Unity 😵‍💫

[modest dust]

Yeah, it should be m_variable instead

[rich adder]

the only benefit for _ or any other prefix i found is that it speeds up finding all Fields for example in IDE list

[rich adder]

like this

[modest dust]

Any convention is fine, as long as it's consistent and not too... unique. Keep it simple and all will be fine

[north kiln]

They don't collide with built-in Unity nonsense, and they're the C# standard, both of which are the benefits to me

I don't think I've ever used prefixes to find fields, I would look at the structure view

[rich adder]

yea

[eternal needle]

The only difference would be if this was some serialized class and property I believe

Which is unity specific

[teal viper]

If it's supposed to be a constant value, maybe use const instead.

Instead of a property + baking field.

[modest dust]

Maybe he wants a runtime const, but for that you'd use a readonly field

[rocky canyon]

sounds valid to me

public static bool IsValidMoveForPawn
public static bool IsValidMoveForRook

etc, then pass in the current row and col to see if the move is valid...
then check if theres a piece there, capture it, etc

i think thats how i'd do it.. but im just a noob 😄

[autumn tusk]

i am so confused

so i have an input

[rocky canyon]

hello confused 👋

[autumn tusk]

and it works whenever i open it inside the unity editor

but whenever i play a build

the input doesnt work for some reason

[rocky canyon]

and the window is focused?

[rich adder]

prob resolution change issue if its UI

poor anchoring elements prob overlap

[rocky canyon]

^ thinkin this too.. not sure about other inputs

[rich adder]

unless they mean some other type of input 😅

[rocky canyon]

i think ur on to it

not sure why kb or mouse input wouldnt work

[autumn tusk]

yeah

[rocky canyon]

UI clickity click input?

[autumn tusk]

basically i have a weapon pickup

its a key input

[rocky canyon]

ohhhh.. odd

[rich adder]

ohhh key input

[rocky canyon]

build a developement build..

and have debugs run to make sure they are indeed working

(that way you'll have a console window in ur build)

[rich adder]

I use this sometimes
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/in-game-debug-console-68068

[rocky canyon]

aye, i use that guys command window

life-changer

[rich adder]

neat! thought about building one but if there is an asset im down for that

i like the one inside source sdk

[rocky canyon]

ya, debugs get routed to it.

soo its like the best of both worlds

[rich adder]

oh yeah i use his runtime file browser

dudes a saint

[autumn tusk]

ughhh

this is so frustrating

i thought my build was done....

i even released it on itch 💀

[rocky canyon]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/command-terminal-123344
woops, wrong guy.. but i got confused b/c i use alot of his stuff too.. this is the command window asset

[autumn tusk]

how do i do this btw

[rich adder]

was about to say I couldnt find it 🥲

[rich adder]

thanks!

[rocky canyon]

tick the box that says development build

[quartz mural]

im really sorry but i dont understand, can u give me an example please?

[polar acorn]

What do you want the moveBase of this object to be

[autumn tusk]

i got warned about my own game, nice

[modest dust]

A struct or class.

[rocky canyon]

hellz ya, thats how u know you're on top

[quartz mural]

emmmm the moves stored in learnable moves ig?

[rich adder]

yes you need code signing to get rid of this

or self sign just works on your machine

[rocky canyon]

Publisher: Unknown 🏴‍☠️

[autumn tusk]

dont you also have to pay microsoft to get rid of the unknown app popup

[rich adder]

yes for code signing it cost money, not microsoft you do it via code signing company

[polar acorn]

I literally cannot answer this question for you. You need to decide what you want this variable to hold and then set the variable to that

[rocky canyon]

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

[rich adder]

or just like, upload it to steam. It signs it all for you

[quartz mural]

ok

[rich adder]

macos instructions ?

[rocky canyon]

im also looking for win10/11 link but cant find it

only unity discussions

[rich adder]

yeah sadly it cost yearly, just like macos dev account

thats why steam is convenient , its a one time fee and your app is pretty much signed

yay DRM!

[autumn tusk]

god i hate code signing so much

i feel like itd be the easiest thing to replace with ai

[rocky canyon]

meh, i run unknown sources all day long 😄

windows defender got my back

[rich adder]

Live dangerously or no gains!

[rocky canyon]

if its a unity program.. i gotta elaborate

not unkown source exe's

whats about this sign-tool

self- signing i guess thats what that is

[rich adder]

yea you can self-sign to get rid of warning on your machine

doesn't work across machines

[rocky canyon]

seems a bit.. pointless lol

[rich adder]

if you could self sign your apps people would self-sign a spyware/virus as a legit app

[rocky canyon]

oh im not saying that..

but if ur running ur own software..

are u ocd that bad u have to remove the warning u know about?

[crisp heart]

hi kinda of a dumb question, ive just downloaded some assets from the store into my unity. but they didn't show up in assets under project? last assets i downloaded showed up, but not these ones, anyone know a fix?

[rocky canyon]

gotta make sure i dont run this virus i wrote on myself lol

[rich adder]

lol

[rocky canyon]

have u tried shuffling thru teh different types of assets

[rich adder]

not really a code question. Also did you refresh the package manager?

[autumn tusk]

jesus christ my game is laggy

[crisp heart]

does reopening unity count as a refresh? also i didn't know where to ask since this question is not specific

[crisp heart]

thanks man imma try that

[rich adder]

oh thought you meant inside package manager they werent showing

[crisp heart]

(its my 2nd day using unity lmfao)

[rocky canyon]

no, dont try, do it

[rich adder]

also #💻┃unity-talk

[crisp heart]

ty

[crisp heart]

ohhhh i just forgot to import after downloading bruh

[rocky canyon]

indeed

[rich adder]

classic!

[crisp heart]

had to happen at some point

[rich adder]

happens to me at least once every few weeks

[rocky canyon]

you're gonna end up being one of those guys that adds a new script reference and always clicks play before realizing it isn't assigned

[crisp heart]

btw did u guys learn coding while making games or went straight to learning code specificly?

[rocky canyon]

both

[crisp heart]

im planning on learning code while modifying already existing scripts if that makes sense, good strat?

[rich adder]

my first project in unity was modifying the FPS Microgame

[rocky canyon]

decent strat, but gonna need supplemented with Google

and extending ur knowledge about what it is ur modifying

[crisp heart]

yeah i guess

appreciated

[rocky canyon]

no, you know

😉 lol 🍀 good luk

[rich adder]

as long as you're not using GPT

[crisp heart]

haven't actually thought of that yet

is it good ?

[rich adder]

well dont

no its shite

[crisp heart]

yeah i guess its like a cheat code

[rich adder]

not even

it will give you mostly wrong answers

[crisp heart]

oh ye that happens alot

thnx for the headsup

[rich adder]

people mistake it for "thinking" its just pattern matching close enough to your prompts

[dim bridge]

Hello does anyone have a tip on checking the collisions for a collider that is serialized (I have two colliders on an object and want to use one as a check for jumping) could I do C# if ( [ColliderHere].IsTouching() && ![ColliderHere].IsTouching(playerCollider) ) to check if this collider is touching anything

Ok ig not intellisense says that's invalid. Ik I can do a box cast in the script but I figure this might be a good method for if you had multiple triggers on a game object using colliders also ig this wouldn't truly work anyway bc its a trigger

[wintry quarry]

What exactly are you trying to figure out with this check?

[dim bridge]

I have a 2nd collider on the player marked as a trigger I am trying to check. I want to check if this trigger is colliding with anything else except the players main collider

[proven inlet]

hey guy sorry for disturbing, i have a player that move toward point to point but i want to invert the mouvement (and vice versa) when i press space but i dk how to inverse the count of an index

transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, Pattern[pointsIndex].transform.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);

  if (transform.position == Pattern[pointsIndex].transform.position)
         {
           pointsIndex++;
         }
        if (pointsIndex == Pattern.Length)
         {
           pointsIndex = 0;
         }

[rich adder]

pointsIndex--; ?

[dim bridge]

Thats what im guessing he wants

[proven inlet]

not working :/

[rich adder]

where did you put it , also you probably want some proper checks for it like if pointsIndex > 0

or use modulo to wrap it

[dim bridge]

well if it reaches 0 then itll try to do- E he beat me

[proven inlet]

like its working but one time

[rich adder]

again share current code, also check console for errors

[dim bridge]

well it'll decrement till it reaches 0 then it'll go to -1 which would be an invalid point

[proven inlet]

{
    [SerializeField] Transform[] Pattern;
    private int pointsIndex;

    public float speed;

    private void Start()
    {
        transform.position = Pattern[pointsIndex].transform.position;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, Pattern[pointsIndex].transform.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);

        if (transform.position == Pattern[pointsIndex].transform.position)
         {
           pointsIndex++;
         }
        if (pointsIndex == Pattern.Length)
         {
           pointsIndex = 0;
         }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown("space"))
        { 
            pointsIndex--;
        }
    }

}

[dim bridge]

yeah check if points index is !0

if it is either dont let it do anymore or set the index to the length

depends what you want

[rich adder]

yeah def at least put if(pointsIndex)>0

also shouldn't this be
if (pointsIndex == Pattern.Length-1)

[dim bridge]

yeah this

because if the length is say 3 you have index 0,1,2

[quartz mural]

@polar acorn bro i finally got it to work, but i got this new problem can u check it out

[proven inlet]

ok ty ill try

[dim bridge]

        if (Input.GetKeyDown("space"))
        { 
          if (pointsIndex != 0)
          {
            pointsIndex--;
          }
          //Add if you want to go from the first to last point, else remove this else statement
          else
          {
            pointsIndex = pointsIndex.Length-1;
          }
        }

This should be right

also might not be bad idea to add a delay to this so the object has time to get near the next point if you are trying to make it look snappy

(Sorry, I went ik what I'm doing mode, but I'm still here to ask a simple question myself lol)

[dim bridge]

Anyway anyone got a tip on using a 2nd collider as a trigger on a gameObject with a serialized field for the trigger

just need a method to check what the serialized trigger touches/ doesnt touch bc i cant use void OnTriggerEnter Since that handles the first collider

[rich adder]

just use an Overlap, ignore player layer

[ionic juniper]

how can i change "EniCode" name ? to a specific name

[polar acorn]

Change the namespace in the code

[rich adder]

doesnt new Collider component have option to already ignore certain layers anyway ?

[teal viper]

It's best to have different colliders/triggers on separate objects(with their own rb) and forward the events to your controller.

[rich adder]

or yeah just have it on two diff objects ^

serializing a collider how you're doing is not a good way to do it

[dim bridge]

Is there a way to carry variables between scripts bc all this trigger does is check if the player is allowed to jump

[rich adder]

ofc there is, if you couldn't this language would be useless

[teal viper]

The trigger shouldn't be checking that.

[ionic juniper]

once i do that this error occurs

[teal viper]

All the trigger should be doing is telling your controller wether there's is a collision or not and with what.

The controller should decide what to do with it.

[rich adder]

though , if you're doing ground check may I suggest using OverLapBox/Circle instead of Triggers

[dim bridge]

yes.. I'm saying the boolean for that will be the bool I need to determne if the player can jump in the player script

[polar acorn]

Are you missing a using directive?

[rich adder]

If you weren't able to share variables between script this programming language would be useless

[ionic juniper]

i just changed the name and that error occurs

[dim bridge]

well I've seen serializing and dragging gameObjects etc but how would I be able to drag a variable from one script into the serialized field of another

[polar acorn]

And what namespace is Ability in

[dim bridge]

one sec im gonna draw what I mean since I suck at words

[rich adder]

the same exact way you said it

[rich adder]

take a look

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

scroll down to Object reference fields

[quartz mural]

can i show u a problem?

index out range one

but im not using any loops

its an array

[polar acorn]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[rich adder]

Scripts are Types that can be serialized in the inspector.
GameObject for example is a type
Transform is a type
etc..

[quartz mural]

thanks bro

i can deal damage

and the opponent/AI does it too

when i try to implement type effectiveness

then it goes wrogn

[teal viper]

You would do it the same way you do it in C# outside of unity:

objectReference.PublicMember

[quartz mural]

@polar acorn

the error on line 147

[quartz mural]

is the last line in this one

[polar acorn]

Pretty sure we already went over index out of range exceptions. You're trying to get an element from the array that doesn't exist

like getting the fifth thing out of a list with four things in it

[quartz mural]

but this time its with an array

[polar acorn]

if the error is on chart[row][col] then either row or col is out of range of the array

[polar acorn]

It was last time too, List uses arrays internally

It's exactly the same principle

[quartz mural]

i see

i swr last time the base was null

and i had to assign a value to it

ok so either row or col is out of range

[polar acorn]

Yes but the error before that was an out of range error

[quartz mural]

i see

[dim bridge]

ngl dont understand these words rn maybe my mind is a little wonky and not clear with my previous memory of C# rn but I have this if this made my intention any clearer if there was miscommunication

I have Serialized Fields Already ik that process

I just have done at with Text, GameObject, etc. not directly a bool value or etc

[bright rain]

I'm using RigidBody2D for this capsule character that has a simple jump, left and right. However, hitting walls at an angle makes it tilt or spin. Is there a way to negate this?

[rich adder]

lock the rigidbody rotation under constraints

[timber tide]

do you want to tild in spin at all

[buoyant knot]

bool backwards is loob

[bright rain]

Thank you, I solve it

[bright rain]

And no, no spin at all

[dim bridge]

Ok yeah this is serializing a gameobject and dragging it but I need a boolean from the script not the script itself and if theres an option to select a var from a script or smth how am I doing that because that means I would need two inspector windows open with each gameObject

[rich adder]

you access it the same way you access anything else in code , with . operator

[teal viper]

Then I suggest going through the C# basics. As well as unity !learn beginner programmer pathway. They cover all the stuff you need there.

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[rich adder]

yes you need the c# basics or this will be diffcult

[dim bridge]

oh wait so in the player script am I doing like [scriptvariable].[variablevaluelogic]

[cobalt kestrel]

I'm following a guide (I'm super new to this) and it's already giving me an error that I don't understand

[dim bridge]

I have took a C# beginner course on code academy

I think im just doing piss poor job of explaining/understanding rn

cause like I have serialized other stuff already and did checks and modifications to it

[rich adder]

if you did beginner course you should know how to access variables between objects

this is a c# basics not Unity

[rich adder]

Get rid of using UnityEngine.Windows

You're basically accessing Input class from wrong namespace, well at least the computer is having a hard time telling which one you want to use

[cobalt kestrel]

I also did the C# basics and struggle with the actual basics like accessing. I think we need practice so we can "remember" the basics. I tried unity a while back

[teal viper]

No. We understand what you're trying to do. That's why we're suggesting to go through the basics.

[rich adder]

sometimes the IDE will try to add in the namespace for you if it doesn't know Input..
ohh you deleted message lol

[eternal needle]

those courses are mostly useless because most beginners will just look at it, assume they understand it and move on. you need to also create your own codes where you test around with how this stuff works. you can even do it on an online compiler https://dotnetfiddle.net/

[teal viper]

I don't know what they have in code academy. It would be weird if they didn't teach you how to access other object's members.

[cobalt kestrel]

I was gonna resend it lol I worded it wrong and forgot to tag you

[cobalt kestrel]

if you want, maybe we can practice together as we learn

[dim bridge]

I mean I understand like an object is a copy of a class and it has properties that can be modified on it ik that I'm just like.. brain rotting because these are two completely seperate scripts so am I like getting the component on my gameobject in my code then getting the scripts variable like uhm GetComponent("Player").[smth here]?

[teal viper]

You can reference the component however you want(serialized field being the preferable way). Then you just access the member you want to access with reference.member

[dim bridge]

thats backwards id do get component for the triggers go if this works

[dim bridge]

wait so am I referencning the entire gameObject that has the trigger in it then doing ref.member.[script].[variable]?

[teal viper]

No..

[swift crag]

"member" is just a placeholder

foo.bar.baz.buz.whatever.you.want

[teal viper]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/members

[swift crag]

a member is something you access with the member access operator!

.

[teal viper]

You reference the object of the type(class) that you have your member in.

Looking at the code academy course they covered classes,types, and fields, so you should know how to do that.

[dim bridge]

oh so damn ok reference the class name since each script is wrote in a class

ok I think I got it now..

[teal viper]

Script is not wrote in a class. A script can contain a class.

A script is just a text file that contains your code.

[sterile wraith]

Does anyone have experience implementing steering in a car without wheel colliders.

[dim bridge]

Well this defines a class with the Interface MonoBehavior correct

ah wait

ok but I need the bool of the object not the class

ok uhm

lemme looksie here

This gameObject is considered an Object code side correct?

I understand properties and methods its just the Unity fricking with me

sorry I just feel like this could be explained in a timely manner rather than having to like read smth that will end up repeating parts I may be aware of but then again.. maybe not

[rich adder]

MonoBehaviour is not an interface

[dim bridge]

... hmm

[rich adder]

its a Class

[dim bridge]

wait

so its

ah ok

its a class inherited from a class

[rich adder]

yes

[dim bridge]

ok

forgor about that for a sec

[rich adder]

you cannot inherit multiple classes, thats where interfaces come in handy

[supple sand]

This one is a class implementing an interface

[rich adder]

yes if class has no inheritence then you do : otherwise you normally add interfaces with ,

[supple sand]

You inherit classes (only one) and implement interfaces (many)

All are choices, can be included or not

[dim bridge]

yeah I was thinking very flat minded going hey an interface goes here then remebered class inheritance

[rich adder]

public class Human : Mammal, ISleep, IEat, IRun

[dim bridge]

you forgot IDie Womp Womp

I feel the need to prove I'm not an absolute dum dum and that I have used serialized fields for other things

Ignore that this is messy and should probably be separate scripts

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/classes-5#5c8a695cedbc2a067d475193 welp that didnt explain it.. just what I knew

[ionic juniper]

guys this is the last error

https://gdl.space/tozupuxoca.cs

what is wrong ??

[dim bridge]

Does your serialized field have the gameObject in it?

Ik thats on reason that shows if theres more than one

[ionic juniper]

it's null , but where can i get it from?

[quartz mural]

quick question

im not signed in on unity

but im making a game

if i sign in

will i lose the game

or will the data just be added to my accoutn

[dim bridge]

@rich adder Do I have to do this? define the class of the other script in my player script to access it? I feel this is wrong when you were talking about easily being able to use a serialized/public field

wait ok ok so I think I see now I need to make my own class to hold the boolean then I can reference it in the other script?

[rich adder]

You have to always declare something you want to use

[bleak pasture]

Hello, sorry to disturb you this is more of a "good practice" question. I have a model from the asset store with crop as submodel of a model. model A is a labeled and textured empty box for it, model B is a lone crop, model C is the labeled box with all the crops. I have the choice of two approach: I. Drag both multiple instance of model B to mirror model C as you fill the box dynamically II. forget about model C and do a physics simulation with mesh colliders and a trigger zone to keep it all in the box and redropt it doing a editor helper to run that simulation in the editor and printing the relative x,y,z pos of all the crops once all of them have stopped moving or after a timeout ?

[quartz mural]

bruh i got aired

[rich adder]

you already have the boolean in a class, no need to make an additional class

[bleak pasture]

The scope of my question doesnt include dynamically showing the model/subbed childs of it since I already know about this. It is more of a scene organization/model parenting thing to make code easier / make game more believable

[swift crag]

keeping a bunch of objects in a box with physics sounds like it'd just be a headache

I would write a script that shows the appropraite number of crops in the box as you fill it up.

[bleak pasture]

But I never done physics in unity before so maybe Im underestimating the difficulty of approach II of running a full simulation to realisticaly fill the box and use the results to produce the final scene

[rich adder]

like this

public class A : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool MyBool;
}

public class B : MonoBehaviour
{
    public A a; //We declare A before we access/use it, we just need to make sure its assigned. IN Unity the inspector is one of them ways to do

    public void Method()
    {
        bool theValueInA = a.MyBool;
    }
}```

[bleak pasture]

Is there a way having no access to the original mesh that I could detect the edges of the crops in the original box model or I have no other choice to place X crops by hand in the scene and compare it to the baked full box model ??

[swift crag]

No*

*The Hub used to have a really bad bug where signing into your account in the editor immediately after creating a new project would wind up replacing your project with the original template. This would only happen if you weren't signed in when you made the project and you then signed in before you closed the editor.

I believe that has been fixed now

And beyond that, no, nothing will happen

[dim bridge]

ok

I will test that

[quartz mural]

thx

[dim bridge]

what I'm missing is the declaration right there

[rich adder]

Its an example

ofc dont copy this exactly

[swift crag]

So asset C is just one mesh renderer, right?

[dim bridge]

ik lol

[swift crag]

It's not a bunch of game objects

[rich adder]

ok lol You'd be surprised how many people mindlessly copy and paste example code

[swift crag]

In that case, it won't be easy to identify where each crop belongs, no. It would be easy to pop the asset into Blender and separate the crops back out into individual objects.

[dim bridge]

but wait this code is referencing the class not the object isn't it so whatever the value of the thing in the class is... It wouldnt change then would it... ugh hehfhsfeie brain

[rich adder]

you just drag the class inside , that is the object as far as the computer knows.
GameObjects are unity concept, but aside from that anything in c# in an Object, including a class

[bleak pasture]

yeah it's all together as a baked unity model. The asset didnt come with the original meshes . The crop just all have a submodel A: empty labeled box B: individual crop C: box filled with all the crops together. Where has if ivisually lettuces have 5 crops in the box I want to fill it dynamically before I display model C as agents/player fill it up. I assume I would want a prefab as well since you could place 8 of these things on a single shelves rack model and they would have all to fill individually. The manager for it would need a model name in the prefab and the number of crops to be full to show model C. Does that sound good ?

[dim bridge]

but how is that gonna work if I have multiple objects

[bleak pasture]

Also I tried blender before and I completely broke my teeth on it, I dont think that is doable short term where as I have around 40 crops and pre-positioning them should take like 15 mins per

[rich adder]

you drag the specific object you want?

[swift crag]

well, you'd pretty much just select the object, go into edit mode, and hit P to separate by loose parts

[swift crag]

but that sounds reasonable enough. You'd just need to make a nice way to define where the individual crop models are positioned

I'd consider having all of the models pre-attached (but deactivated)

[dim bridge]

wait so I drag the gameObject in the game editor and it uses that to determine which script to grab the object data from?

[swift crag]

you'd have a list of the objects, and turn them on one at a time as you add crops

[dim bridge]

wait no thats serializing an unused field

[bleak pasture]

I was planning to sub says crop1 crop2 crop3 crop4 crop5 as invidual crop as child of the main GO in the scene as meshrenderer GOs and show their visibility from the bottom up, ie: crop1 to 5 where 5 actually disable all of them and shows model C

[dim bridge]

grah be smarter mE

[bleak pasture]

but obviously if the individual crops arent placed almost the same as model C that would ruin the player immersion

[rich adder]

if you drag the whole object it will grab the first one, otherwise you normally just drag the component itself inside

components are the scripts on a gameobject

[bleak pasture]

I think I can get away with the skyrim/oblivion modding technique where I make the parent go disappear before I redisplay the whole box 1s later so the player dont notice the positioning isnt exactly the same...

[dim bridge]

each script is on a seperate gameObject tho

[rich adder]

and?

[dim bridge]

im gonna record myself doing this setup and you can yell at me when you see what I do wrong. Can we do that lol

[bleak pasture]

thanks for helping me avoid coding a complicated physics simulation 😄

[rich adder]

how about I show you a quick gif so we can probably just make it very obvious

[dim bridge]

ok

[dim bridge]

oh wait

im making the declaration public which means its a serialized field isnt it

[rich adder]

public field are serialized in the inspector yes

[dim bridge]

AAGGGHH

I think I finally got it

[rich adder]

it doesnt need to be public , it can just be [SerializeField] private

they both show in the inspector as a field/box

[dim bridge]

yeah

I use serialize field as privatizing is good

at least usually it seems

[rich adder]

as long as the variable you want to access is Public

[red geyser]

hello! I'm trying to use a prefab to spawn a button at a spawner location, but I believe the button is spawning really small. Is there specific logic needed when you instantiate to copy the size of the button? or is it not playing nice becauase it's a UI object

[dim bridge]

ok

lemme try this now

[rich adder]

is UI button? are you spawning it inside/child of a canvas ?

[red geyser]

yes and yes

[rich adder]

how big is BtnOne originally

[red geyser]

400x200

[rich adder]

shouldbe able to spawn at that size on Instantiate

[dim bridge]

ok so I have the setup for this and it didn't return an error but when set to false it acted like it was true

[red geyser]

hmm, I do see the button spawn in the Hierarchy on run, I guess I'll have to look harder why it's not spawning right

[rich adder]

not even sure what that means

[rich adder]

show me where it spawns

press F on keyboard when selected in hirerchy during playmode on spawned object

then show inspector n where it is

[dim bridge]

Ill send the editor pic and the files

if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && playerJump.canJump) is where im using it

[rich adder]

alr..so what do you expect this is gonna do ?
yourcant jump, is always gonna be false

[red geyser]

F isn't doing anything, but::

it may actually just not be spawning in the canvas lol

[dim bridge]

yeah but for some reason its letting me jump rn

I was using it as a test

[rich adder]

"for some reason"

i literally told you why

[dim bridge]

its LETTING me jump

when its false

[rich adder]

ohh

[dim bridge]

goober..

[rich adder]

is the inspector for canJump set to false?

[rich adder]

yes thats a problem

spawning UI elements outside a canvas will cause them not to be visible

pass the canvas as a parameter inside Instantaite

Instantiate(myButtonPrefab, canvasTransform)

or Instantiate(myButtonPrefab, myPos, Quaternion.identity, canvasTransform)

[dim bridge]

bruh I forgot about that

ok it's good

thanks for dealing with my dumb butt

[rich adder]

lol sure

[dim bridge]

I just didnt realize I could make a class into a serialized field like that

it makes sense now

[rich adder]

most objects can like custom classes or regular MonoB

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializeField.html

there is the whole list of stuff

[red geyser]

eh? am I dumb

[rich adder]

dont blindly copy

[red geyser]

😄

[rich adder]

you need to define what canvasTransform is

[red geyser]

figured

[rich adder]

also dont code without a configured IDE

[dim bridge]

Yeah guess I should have taken into account that those gameObjects are all from classes until that are instantiated..

unity just handles it so well I didnt think much about the internals

[bleak pasture]

I seem to be missing newtonsoft.json, I just use nuget to add it right or I should get a version specially made for unity ?

[dim bridge]

Haha I would've gave up by now

[rich adder]

get the one from unity

add by name

com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json

[red geyser]

just realizing my IDE from VSCode isnt in Visual Studio ig

but thats a problem for later

[rich adder]

they're two different code editors
make sure to have it configured with underlinging and all

[red geyser]

correct

[dim bridge]

anyways thanks once again @rich adder bc it prob would've taken me like a whole day of googling just to try to understand that one simple concept

I really appreciate it

[rich adder]

well nothing wrong with googling 🙂

[dim bridge]

People are more helpful bc they can point out my issues..

and phrasing issues etc

[rich adder]

sure well keep it at it soon you will be doing the same with your own code

[dim bridge]

I'm AI's archenemy...

[rich adder]

Google is just past people being stuck in the same problem as you 🙂

[bleak pasture]

thanks for your help, I have tasks for the next 1-2 week now 🙂

[dim bridge]

They know how to speak though and aren't literally autistic.. well maybe depends lol

[burnt crow]

Hello folks, I’m making a beginner Meta Quest 3 VR application to place 3D objects in an AR space. The user can choose to place either a cube or a sphere. Where they place the item is determined by where they point a laser from the right controller to wherever they want.

Right now, I have a parent prefab for a cube that encapsulates both the cube, the “highlight” when the cube is selected by a laser, and text over this cube. I want the highlight to show when the laser raycast hits the box collider of the cube element (not the cube parent). Just to clarify, the cube parent structure is like this

cube parent

• cube
• highlight
• textMeshPro Canvas
• textMeshPro text

How can I do this within Unity? Thanks so much folks

text wall I know

[red geyser]

hmm

when I ran as GameObject got similar error

[rich adder]

ehh no reason to get down on yourself is only counter-intuitive

[dim bridge]

To clarify I'm not sure if I'm actually autistic but I heard it from a close family member and I'd believe it

[dim bridge]

I like to poke at myself

[rich adder]

please config your ide first

[burnt crow]

doesn’t matter, your brain is your brain yk

[red geyser]

yessir

[dim bridge]

Yeah

[rich adder]

also the Instatiate parent expect Transform

[dim bridge]

My exact thoughts actually

[rich adder]

any Component has access to their transform property @red geyser

you can also just declare it as Transform and skip the .transform

[burnt crow]

right now I’m trying to do the highlight by getting the parent of the cube the raycast hits and then going down a level again to get the child highlight

this isn’t working though :/

[rich adder]

which one has the collider/ which one is ray finding

[burnt crow]

the ray is finding the cube element, the sibling of the highlight element I want to setactive(true)/setactive(false) depending if the ray hits it

[rich adder]

put a script on the cube that references the highlight script / object

access it from the cube script

imo the most solid way

without resorting to string or weird indexes

cause you would need to do Transform.GetSiblingIndex

actually dont even know how would access a sibiling after that without transform.Find or transform.GetChild(sibilingIndex)

[burnt crow]

This is what I think I do now, on cube parent initialization it gets child index 1 or 2 or whatever and that’s the highlight

[rich adder]

its a mess , i never do it

[rich adder]

man using indexes is brittle af just create the field for it

assign in the inspector

the cube is on the same object there is no reason you cannot just make a field

[burnt crow]

hmm I have a field that I assign using the index

I thought if I seralizefield-ed it that it would not be specific to each cube yk

[rich adder]

if you need multiple, you make a prefab with the highlight already assigned

then all prefabs have the same assigned field

[burnt crow]

yeah so you mean instead of like having the cubeparent structure and the highlight in that as a child it’s just a serializefield in the cube?

I wouldn’t know how to make sure the cube and the highlight are linked though yk

maybe I’ll just change the cube color at this point LOL

[rich adder]

you drag and drop highlight inside the cube script field

what do you plan on doing with highlight with ray

[burnt crow]

right but how would I link it to one instance

[burnt crow]

let me draw a picture one second

[eager spindle]

I have multiple scripts attached to a gameobject that do the same thing but act on different game objects, is there a way I can "rename" the scripts to differentiate them?

[rich adder]

put them on different gameObjects ?

[rich adder]

yes and is Highlight a script or wat?

[burnt crow]

yeah it’s a method in a script attached to the cube parent

[eager spindle]

hmmm
the way that I structured my projec right now is that I place all the "manager" scripts on one gameobject 😅

[rich adder]

ok so Reference that script then link it inside the inspector

[eager spindle]

i dont like to put my scripts across too many gameobjects because if i accidentally delete something then the references will mess up

[rich adder]

You might be able to do a custom inspector with color labels or maybe custom label but prob more trouble than worth, just put it on a child of this manager object

I dont know personally any other way you could 'label' them without a custom editor script

[burnt crow]

right right

I think I’m making progress one second

[eager spindle]

I see, thanks!

[burnt crow]

ok I think I’m on the right track for that issue now @rich adder , much appreciated, but I also have (what should be) easier thing that I’m having trouble with and I was wondering if I could get your take

so like in the images I want the highlight to go off when my laser hit right

however, the hit detection only happens when my rightcontroller is touching the cube object, not when the laser is touching right

[rich adder]

touching right ?

[red geyser]

Just wanna come back and say I did get it, I see what you meant by what you were saying, thank you!

I did some more digging on youtube and found this really helpful guide that explained Instantiate at dummy levels that helped me conceptually understand. Thank you again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwecdOv-40E

[rich adder]

awesome! np. 🙂

[red geyser]

I appreciate you taking the time to explain

[burnt crow]

I have a box collider over the cube and when the rightcontroller touches the cube, it’s the cube itself selected. I just can’t move the controller away while the laser stays

[rich adder]

show current !code cause I'm a little confused still.
Also make a vid if possible

[eternal falcon]

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[burnt crow]

hmm I think it’s kinda working now?? but it works poorly LOL

I’m just gonna try to simplify my code, make it braindead, I’ll let y’all know if I get stuck again

thanks so much for the help

[nimble linden]

Hey, With the help of a tutorial I just created a movement script where I can walk, sprint, jump and crouch. But when I crouch I can occasionly double Jump. I believe there is an issue with the raycasting on line 68, and to fix this I have tried changing the players height to half of what it normally is when crouched but the issues still persists? I was wondering if anyone had any insight into how to fix this?

[ivory bobcat]

Some users aren't able to see embedded text files on discord. Consider using one of the two !code sharing solutions below.

[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
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[rocky canyon]

GetKey for jump?

[nimble linden]

Thank you, here is an updated version using hastebin

[nimble linden]

What do you mean?

[rocky canyon]

i always use GetKeyDown (a single frame)

[rich adder]

you have to send the link to the page

[nimble linden]

Ok

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

[nimble linden]

Ok I will change that thanks for the advice!

[rocky canyon]

i'd just try it first

[nimble linden]

ok

I can still double/tripple jump whilst crouching with GetKeyDown instead

[rocky canyon]

ahh, its a deeper problem then

[nimble linden]

It's ok I just found the issue turns out I was assigning varibles incorrectly and that fixed the issue, thanks for all your help though

nevermind I can no loinger jump whilst standing

[burnt crow]

actually I got my other problem working . . . would you be willing to take me up on this?

With all my cubes in the Cube layer, I'm doing . . .

// earlier
layerCubeNumber = LayerMask.NameToLayer("Cube");
// a bunch of code later

if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, laserDistance) && hit.transform.gameObject.layer == layerCubeNumber) {
  // highlight the cube hit.collider.gameObject (working)
}
else {
  // do other stuff (working)
}

What doesn't work about this is that the highlight only works if the right controller (where the laser originates) is touching the cube, not the laser touching the cube. Anyone know why this could be? Thanks so much folks

I've also tried changing hit.transform.gameObject.layer to hit.collider.gameObject.layer but I get the same result

[rich adder]

why are u doing that anyway

you can just filter out only cubes if you put layermask in Rayacast

[burnt crow]

but I want only cubes, not to filter out only cubes yk

[rich adder]

what

[burnt crow]

ok so like here, the laser is used to select a cube right? I'm trying to see which cube the laser hits by using the hit from the Raycast

[whole idol]

Why is there no add 2d vector composite option?????????

[burnt crow]

based on which cube the laser hits is the cube that should be "highlighted"

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe it's got to do with the action type being a button?

[burnt crow]

this means I only care if the laser hits a cube, an object in the cube layer

[rich adder]

so how do you not understand that you can already do that without the && layer == part?

[whole idol]

how do i change the action type then?

[rich adder]

I understood what you're trying to do a while ago, the problem is how you're explaining what you're doing makes no sense to what the issue is @burnt crow

[ivory bobcat]

It's in the action property on the right

[burnt crow]

well 1. rude and 2. thanks for the advice LOL

how would I do it without the && part

I'm still not sure I understand what you're saying

[whole idol]

Im following this tutorial, and he's got the button property on

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private LayerMask cubeLayers;//assign cube layer in inspector
    void Update()
    {
if(Physics.Raycast(etc. , etc. , cubeLayers)){
    
}
    }```

[burnt crow]

right so in my case it would be if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, laserDistance, cubeLayers)) {

the reason I didn't go with that initially was because I thought that would filter OUT the cubeLayers, like that would be the only layer you can't use

[whole idol]

which one option of this list would match my options?

[rich adder]

no that would be doing ~cubeLayers

which would hit everything BUT cubelayers

it has to do with bitmasks and how they work

[burnt crow]

right its a bitmask ofc that makes sense now

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks#bitmasks-and-layermasks
this page explains it quite well

[burnt crow]

right so in Awake() I have _layerMaskCube = LayerMask.GetMask("Cube"); and then later on if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, laserDistance, _layerMaskCube))

[rich adder]

switch the action type, it will work

[rich adder]

I mean sure it works but assigning it in the inspector without need for awake makes more sense to me personally

[burnt crow]

ok so I did this and my code looks better lol, but it's still the same result. It doesn't let me select/highlight from a distance still

I'm not sure I understand how this is happening

[rich adder]

show ray origin point and all that

make sure to always draw debugs too with rays / overlaps

[burnt crow]

I'm not sure what you mean by that. My ray is always visible to the user, they always see it as a lineRenderer

[ivory bobcat]

Might be related to why the tutorial shows stuff you aren't seeing https://forum.unity.com/threads/no-option-of-2d-vector-composite-in-input-system-1-0-0.888607/

tldr change the action type to something that supports 2d vector (button does not)

[burnt crow]

my endpoints for my laser are always rayOrigin.position (the rightcontroller position) and rayOrigin.position + rayOrigin.forward * laserDistance

laserDistance scales based on user controller input (works for drawing it)

[rich adder]

I trust Debug.DrawRay but anyway, are you certain the cubes all have proper layers setup?

is just at distance ?

[burnt crow]

hmm, could you explain what you mean?

[rich adder]

first id draw the ray direction to make sure direction is correct using DrawRay not LineRenderer

then Id make sure all cubes / collider that im hitting has the Cube layer assigned

if that is all checked out something is wrong in the highlight logic perhaps

[burnt crow]

wait i have an idea, may have spotted a mistake in logic

[burnt crow]

I fixed it, the problem was I had the wrong direction when initializing ray, thanks so much!

[rich adder]

nice!

[rocky gale]

https://hastebin.com/share/irixajofaq.csharp why does this not work im, trying to see what image the player i hvering over but it diesnt work

[rich adder]

doesnt make much sense to me

what you need to use image for

[rocky gale]

cause when you hover over image i want to show stats

ik how to tdo the stat thing

i just wanna be able to detect if player is hovering iover image and have it in a variable and chek its tag

[rich adder]

where is the stats located

[rocky gale]

its in a script thats in the image

[rich adder]

how do you distinguish different stats type then

[rocky gale]

wdym

they have a public string that has description

[rich adder]

yeah but how do you know which stat you want to pullup from specific image

[rocky gale]

i get the stat component and then use variable

wat

wdymn which stat

its a script with public string

[rich adder]

sounds like you don't know yourself what you want to do lol

[rocky gale]

i do

[rich adder]

cause what u sent doesn't make much sense

[rocky gale]

i domt knoq what youre asking

[rich adder]

current script aside..
show more of your setup, and what ur trying to accomplish.

[rocky gale]

i have image and i want to detect when the player hovers over it and then show stats when mouse is hovering over it

[rich adder]

you explained the script part, I meant your current setup

how many images ? each image different stats? how do you handle that

etc

[rocky gale]

i have image with stat script and a script in an empty game object (dript we were talkimh about)

[rocky gale]

the stats are serializec in script so i assign in inspector

[rich adder]

I dont see anything about stats in your script tho

[rocky gale]

ik cuz i cant even detect image yet

[rich adder]

jutse use IPointerEnter interface

[rocky gale]

ik ow to do the stat part thats not the pronlem

[rocky gale]

didnt work when i tried

[rich adder]

show what you tried, you probably did it wrong

[rocky gale]

let me redo it uz i deleted it

[rich adder]

also do you have a canvas with Graphic Raycaster and do you have event system in the hierarchy

[rocky gale]

yws

wait

not ipointereter method?

[rich adder]

IPointerEnterHandler is an interface

that needs graphic raycaster / event system

[rocky gale]

i trird the method

[rich adder]

huh which method?

[rocky gale]

hold on'

oh i did onpointerenter

[rich adder]

OnPointerEnter yes is the method

but did you have the interface

[rocky gale]

no

im watching tut

[rich adder]

here is example
https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.4/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerEnterHandler.html

[rocky gale]

thx

[rich adder]

#archived-networking

[low perch]

help me there if possible, thanks

[rocky gale]

public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        print(eventData.pointerCurrentRaycast.gameObject.name);
    }

why doesnt this qork tho

[rich adder]

i use NGO

[rich adder]

do you have the interface

[rocky gale]

sir yws sir

[rich adder]

could you send whole script with link also screenshot which object has this script ?

[rocky gale]

yes

https://hastebin.com/share/idugidolov.cpp

its im empty go

[rich adder]

ohhh..

this should go on an actual UI element in the canvas lol

[rocky gale]

oh

woah it worked man

thx

[rich adder]

np!

[thin hollow]

how do i make it so a sprite is above a layer than my UI. im trying to change the layer its on but its not working

[rich adder]

you mean you want Sprite to go above UI Image

also not a code question

[thin hollow]

ya

[rich adder]

try sett canvas to ScreenSpace-Camera then play around with the proper Plane number

[thin hollow]

it works but not its pretty hard to work with lol

[rich adder]

wdym

[thin hollow]

it looks wierd int eh editor

[polar wasp]

i need more coder friends

[small mantle]

Why is this so fast? moveSpeed is at 1 and it zooms around. Is there a way to make it slower?

void MovePlayer() {

        rb.MovePosition(transform.position + movePosition * moveSpeed);

    }```

[polar wasp]

add * Time.deltaTime to the end

[rocky gale]

moveposition bad 👎

[polar wasp]

transform.Translate(); lmao

[rocky gale]

lmao

goat

[carmine turret]

Took a mini break from my project now back to it. Can anyone make some suggestions on improving movement if my rigidbody co troller when grounded? Current it cannot go up Inclines and flies over them when going down

(gravity is applied)

[rocky gale]

can we see code

[summer stump]

Raycast in front of you to see if the ground drops
Check the normal of the ground to see if it is a slope

[carmine turret]

I'm not entirely sure how raycasting Infront would help, wouldn't that always return false unless there's a wall?

[summer stump]

Angled down

[carmine turret]

Of course but the movement is simply a velocity movement with horizontal input currently