💻┃code-beginner

[summer stump]

To hit the ground, but in front of you

[rocky gale]

its rigidbody right

[carmine turret]

Ahh okay, so slightly angled away from the ground. Check?

[carmine turret]

Yes

    void Movement(){
        if(currentState == movementState.Grounded && !_jump){//platform moving
            if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") == 0){
            }
            rb.velocityX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") * speed;
        }

That's pretty much all of the movement code at the moment

and theres a groundcheck in a seperate variable

[rocky gale]

this 3d?

[carmine turret]

2d

[rocky gale]

oh ok

[carmine turret]

Sorry, should have made that clear aha

[rocky gale]

lol all good

gimme a sec

[carmine turret]

Is there an easy way to calculate a direction?

for the raycast that is

[rocky gale]

i think there is a function for slopes

[carmine turret]

Obviously I can do Vector2.up or right for x and y, but calculating one in between?

[carmine turret]

Oh?

[rocky gale]

let me see

[carmine turret]

Alrighty

[rocky gale]

mayb this tutoiral sry i cant help much i dont rly do much 2d 😅 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8AI5UgmAw

[carmine turret]

no worries, will take a look

Hmm this seems like a really ehhh, hack way to do it because it switches between kinematic and dynamic haha

I think I do need to do the slope check that aeth suggested and somehow make it adjust the velocity

[rocky gale]

oh

ye idk 🤣 im bad with 2d

[carmine turret]

npnp!

I appreciate your attempt anyways

As it stands, once ive fixed this Im pretty much done with programming my character controller

[rocky gale]

oh nice

[carmine turret]

then its just menus maps and fluff

[rocky gale]

im sure a lot of ppl have the same issue

[carmine turret]

Im aiming for 9 maps that if played perfectly will be completable in 5 mins each, but difficutly will make the average around 20 mins per map I think

its the type of game where if you fall, you potentially lose a lot of progress ^^

[rocky gale]

sounds like a cool game

[carmine turret]

Good for streamers and viralization ;3

[rocky gale]

yea

[carmine turret]

the gimmick is that you use a grappling hook to swing, an airdash to move in air and a hookshot to latch onto walls to combo movement

[rocky gale]

can get streamrs speedrunning

[exotic hazel]

im trying to make a terrain bigger using scale tool but it isnt just working

[carmine turret]

if everything was flat, then it reuns VERY smoothly and feels good

[rocky gale]

woahhh

yea

[carmine turret]

Not quite the right place for this

this is for programming 🙂

[rocky gale]

#⛰️┃terrain-3d

[carmine turret]

I beleive you dontw ant to use scale for terrain as it messes up the terrain, and instead want to add more terrain segments? been awhile since i did 3d stuff

[exotic hazel]

sry

[exotic hazel]

ill not get a response there ever

[rocky gale]

search up on google

[timber tide]

size options should be right onthe terrain itself

Public or Property usually

I do dislike making private properties pascal case

you cant force me visual studios

[neat beacon]

why is my particle system getting destroyed after running Erase() once?

https://pastebin.com/3eKaJTjD

When I run, I click, the particle effect runs, then it deletes the gameobject for some reason. I tried making it a prefab but that didn't work (I shouldn't need to..?)

Help much needed.

[timber tide]

Destroy(collider.gameObject);

[neat beacon]

That's supposed to be for the object getting erased, i don't want the effect getting erased. What's the fix?

[timber tide]

You want to destroy the component (the particle system), but instead you're destroying the whole gameobject that contains the particle effect

or, you dont want to destroy the effect (half asleep here)

that means you need to deattach the system then if it's on the gameobject (that you want to destroy)

[cunning rapids]

Guys, when I disable/enable a game object while it is playing an animation, it gets stuck on that state of the animation

This is all the relevant info

[timber tide]

you can open the blend tree and look at it during runtime

[cunning rapids]

I'm not using a blend tree

The animations seem to be playing fine, too, it's just it practically resets the default state of the revolver and rotation

[timber tide]

usually disabling just removes update (and any rendering) from happening, but you can probably still check the duration if you want to make sure

[cunning rapids]

Again, it seems to be LITERALLY changing the default transform of the revolver

[timber tide]

probably ways about it, but a crude idea is to just stop the current animation, make sure all states are reset

[cunning rapids]

How would I achieve that?

[timber tide]

make sure all states are false (or w/e you need to have toggled to be certain that you return to idle)

[cunning rapids]

Again, how would I make all the states set to false?

[timber tide]

also you've warnings there about animation so that's probably relevant to your problem

[burnt crow]

hello, I have a cube and text like this and somehow the text never renders when I spawn in the cubeparent, anyone have any advice why?

[timber tide]

nothing you've not done before

[cunning rapids]

I've tried making it play the idle anim in the OnDisable() method. but it didn't work and gave me the "game object with animator is inactive" or something along the lines of that

A cheap fix seems to just reset the default transform of the gun ondisable, no?

[cunning rapids]

This doesn't tell us much dude

[burnt crow]

ah my bad, what other info can I include?

[cunning rapids]

This is code beginner, maybe some code?

[carmine turret]

Lets be a little nicer about that 😉

But yes, posting your code in a code block would be useful

[burnt crow]

this is what i got @cunning rapids @carmine turret

GameObject canvas = gameObject.transform.GetChild(1).gameObject;
canvas.SetActive(true);
GameObject canvasChild = canvas.transform.GetChild(0).gameObject;
 canvasChild.SetActive(true);
_biasText = canvasChild.GetComponent<TMP_Text>();
_biasText.text = "cooltext";

[cunning rapids]

I didn't mean to come off as rude or sarcastic, I was being genuine

But I apologize if I did

[burnt crow]

nah youre good

[cunning rapids]

Thanks man, just give me a second

[carmine turret]

No worries, probably just how you typed it ^^

[cunning rapids]

Hmmm.. screenshot the "occulsiontext" gameobject

The inspector

Also, this block of code belongs to the "cubeparent" gameobject, just in case it isn't attached there

The code looks correct at first glance, even if it looks a bit messy

[burnt crow]

yeah that's where it is yeah

I'm gonna try to serializefield the text

now I'm doing something like this with the TMP_Pro _biasText SerializedField and it still isnt working

_biasText.gameObject.SetActive(true);
_biasText.transform.parent.gameObject.SetActive(true);
_biasText.text = "cooltext";

[astral saddle]

Is the text supposed to be screen space or world space?

[burnt crow]

I'm not quite sure what that terminology means, gonna consult chatgpt and get back to you rq

[burnt crow]

I believe its world space

[astral saddle]

is the canvas set to be world space then?

[burnt crow]

where would i set that

[astral saddle]

so screen space = 2d UI
world space = 3d UI (so it gets treated like any other 3d object)

[burnt crow]

right yeah it's world space bc its above the 3d cube

how can i double-check its world space

[astral saddle]

in your canvas component

[burnt crow]

I can't find where to do that

in the inspector

[astral saddle]

can you take a screeenshot of the inspector that you have on the "Canvas" gameobject, the parent of your text gameobject?

[burnt crow]

wait i see i found it that makes a lot of things make sense now actually let me try that

it works now! thanks so much :)

[astral saddle]

No worries! Code looked fine so I figured it must've been something in the scene setup

[burnt crow]

a couple things just clicked for me about canvases and textmeshpro bc of what you were saying here, very helpful

[carmine turret]

Whats the easiest way to calculate the position of where I want something to be, for example if I want a raycast to start infront of my players location

Like this for example

[cunning rapids]

Get the current player position, get it's current orientation, calculate desired position

public float distance = 1.0f;
```example distance of the raycast

```cs
Vector2 playerPosition = transform.position;
Vector2 facingDirection = transform.right;
```Get the player position and rotation

```cs
Vector2 position = playerPosition + facingDirection * distance;
RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(position, facingDirection);```Start the raycast at the new position

[opal zealot]

I'm able to incorporate the jump code into my movecment control through the Unity Input system, but I am unable to make him jump.

From this video tutorial but incorpoating it into my movement code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnSqgA4OIEk

The code in question:

[cunning rapids]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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📃 Inline Code

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

[cunning rapids]

We need more details

In the minute mark ~4:30 in the video he adds a debug log when you press the jump key.

Does it do the same to yours?

Also, specify what you mean by "it doesn't work"

Have you tried doing some tests on why it doesn't work? if so, what were the results?

[opal zealot]

I try to have him jump w the spacebar, the character doesnt respond to the spacebar. The WASD keys work though.

[cunning rapids]

Is the ground detection working?

Most jump systems have a system to check if you're grounded

[opal zealot]

I'll check on that too.

[cunning rapids]

In this case (I must admit it's a bit weird), it checks the current player y velocity. If it's equal to 0, then you can jump

I prefer using raycasts but it doesn't matter

Log that part

Like the dude did in the video

[opal zealot]

I added those for sure.

[cunning rapids]

Right here

Post your code on any of those websites

[opal zealot]

An earlier friend said I should just use one characterController so I didnt add in _characterController.

[opal zealot]

Sorry: https://hastebin.com/share/xihiloyina.csharp

[cunning rapids]

What? What do you mean?

[opal zealot]

When I first added the jump code to my main movement code, I had both characterController and _characterController. They told me both are the same so I just added the former for streamlining purposes.

[cunning rapids]

Ah alright

[opal zealot]

Should I remove the _ on the rest as well, or would it break the script entirely?

[cunning rapids]

Log "isGrounded"

Check if it returns True or False

[opal zealot]

Never done that before.

[cunning rapids]

In update, type cs Debug.Log(_groundedPlayer);

[opal zealot]

Returned False.

[cunning rapids]

There you have it

[cunning rapids]

You can't jump if you're not grounded

Also thiss code feels a but messy

[opal zealot]

    {
        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(transform.TransformPoint(groundCheckOffset), groundCheckRadius, groundLayer);
    }```

My Groundcheck code.

[cunning rapids]

I haven't worked with CC ever before, but I feel like there are too many ground checks

[opal zealot]

Its my first time with CC. .x.

So I'm trying to see how to make it work.

Not to mention the movement code being from a different tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXw9QhsjlME

[cunning rapids]

You only need one groundcheck

For jumping

[opal zealot]

Ah

Not sure which Groundcheck do I keep

[cunning rapids]

private bool isGrounded;
```Grounded bool
```cs
void Update()
{
  isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheckTransform.position, groundCheckRadius, groundLayer);

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

  if (isGrounded && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
  {
      Jump();
  }

  velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
  characterController.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);
}
```Movement logic, first line to check if you're grounded, the rest is basic CC stuff (such as gravity and input)
```cs
void Jump()
{
    velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpForce * -2f * gravity);
}```Jump method

I'd do something like this. Simple and concise

But don't take jy word completely as I've never used CC before except a few times

[opal zealot]

No worries, thanks for the help.

[burnt crow]

Hey folks, I'm having trouble with an update function on a script I attach to an object that spawns in partly-in. I have a Debug.Log at the beginning of the Update() function, and the Update() function is never called according to that even though other functions in that script work

any idea what I'm missing here?

any help is appreciated :)

[opal zealot]

        _groundedPlayer = characterController.isGrounded;

        //If on the ground stop vertical movement
        if(_groundedPlayer) {
            _playerVelocity.y = 0.0f;
        }

        //If Jump pressed and on ground jump the player
        if(_jumpPressed && _groundedPlayer) 
        {
            _playerVelocity.y += Mathf.Sqrt(_jumpHeight * -1.0f * _gravityValue);
            _jumpPressed = false;
        }

        _playerVelocity.y += _gravityValue * Time.deltaTime;
        characterController.Move(_playerVelocity * Time.deltaTime);

    }``` Presume I don't need this one then?

[keen dew]

• Component is disabled
• Gameobject is inactive
• Gameobject is not in the scene
• Update is misspelled
• Logs are disabled
• something else

[burnt crow]

• Component is disabled: maybe?
• Gameobject is inactive: no
• Gameobject is not in the scene: no
• Update is misspelled: no
• Logs are disabled: no
• something else: maybe?

the component works for other stuff so I would assume the component isn't disabled

[keen dew]

well check it then

[burnt crow]

what's the difference between disabled and inactive

from my research I believe it's not disabled

[keen dew]

Show a screenshot of the editor window with the console and the inspector visible while the game is running

[burnt crow]

I'm making a very basic VR app on Meta Quest 3 on Mac so I can't run the game through quest link

[opal zealot]

Welp.

I'll need to come back after gym to try and fix.

[keen dew]

Does that mean you're not using the Unity editor?

[burnt crow]

no I'm using unity but I can't control the game with the run button

[keen dew]

Then where does it print the logs?

[burnt crow]

Android LogCat, I'm sure it works I've been using it for hours

[cunning rapids]

Think so. Comment it and check

[spiral narwhal]

Why is SetInt, SetBool etc of animators not available from the editor like it is in scripting?

[keen dew]

Because they require 2 parameters and the inspector can only pass one

[spiral narwhal]

The editor can only pass one? Lol how did I never notice

An unfortunate restriction, thanks for the heads up : )

[verbal dome]

You can get around it by making your own function in a script and call that

[fringe pike]

how to make the animation only play when highlighted?

and how to do it reverse when not highligheted anymore

[spiral narwhal]

Yup, that's what I did. I just kind of like the event based approach of programming, so the use case was like this: A movable platform has two events, one for when it starts moving and one for when it stops moving. So I wanted to call the animators SetBool by just using my events ^^ Used a method instead now

[spiral narwhal]

Remove the ones you don't want and leave highlighted

[fringe pike]

thanks

what abt this

[spiral narwhal]

What does this mean in reverse

The animation in reverse?

[fringe pike]

yeah so it get smaller when not highlighted

btw

shit still aint working

[spiral narwhal]

Create a new animation with the old one in reverse#

#🏃┃animation

[neon ivy]

hi, I'm making a jump but I need to transform the directional vector of this jump from the character's local space to global space.
for instance if my character's jump is straight up (0,1,0) but my character is walking on a wall that makes the character's transform.up to be to the right I need to transform the jump vector to (1,0,0). how do I do this? I'm not very familiar with vector transformations so please dumb it down a bit xD

[modest dust]

Isn't transform.up already in world/global space?

[static bay]

No that's Vector3.up

[modest dust]

I mean, the up Vector of the transform, including the objects rotation

[buoyant horizon]

Hello! I've mentioned this error a few days ago and someone recommended that I look into a specific forum in hopes of resolving my problem ( I have tried ). I've looked everywhere I could possibly think of in the game files searching for the solution ( all the scripts, assets / inspector tabs ) but no luck. The problem I encounter is a *** " NullReferenceException : Object reference not set to an instance of an object " ***. I've been told that perhaps I've failed to reference an object but I cannot find my mistake. This console error occurs when I interact with an object I've set as an "Interactable item" which after interacting with should go into a inventory ( I can show the code if necessary )

[modest dust]

I might have not expressed myself clearly, but I think that's what Alice was talking about

[timber tide]

translating with vector.up would be the idea though in world coordinates

[timber tide]

if you are sure it's not editor related then probably throw some script this way

[modest dust]

True, I just had a brain fart

But If Alice wanted the global representation of the local up, then tranform.up should be used

[buoyant horizon]

I know for sure that in the console it does not appear as a "script error". I don't know what else it could be

[buoyant horizon]

Screenshot of the script or?

[timber tide]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[buoyant horizon]

I copy - paste the code in here between the *** " ***, right?

[timber tide]

just throw it into a paste site

[buoyant horizon]

Aaa ok

[buoyant horizon]

Now I just give you the link? ( Sorry new to this )

https://gdl.space/tinoforusa.cs ( ITEM PICKUP Script ) - The error seems to be linked to this particular script

[slender nymph]

Inventory.instance is null

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[buoyant horizon]

It should or shouldn't be ?

[slender nymph]

it currently is and should not be. you cannot call a method on a null object

[buoyant horizon]

So I need to find my method containing the "Inventory.instance" and assign it a value?

[slender nymph]

you need to assign to the static instance field on your Inventory class

[exotic hazel]

How do i spawn random animals on a Terrain?I do know how to do it on a flat land its p easy but terrain is very uneven in shape so

[buoyant horizon]

One second, let me find the code for the inventory.

[charred spoke]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Terrain.SampleHeight.html

[neon ivy]

I just want to know how to transform a vector, my jump will be controlled by wad (no s, don't wanna jump backwards) and shift to cancel out the upward part.
it's like a 3d jumpking jump.
so if I'm holding w and d the vector I need to transform is (1,1,1) normalized which I then need to change to worlds coords

[exotic hazel]

this is also done using sampe, hieght?

[buoyant horizon]

https://gdl.space/aretuweren.cs This is a fragment of the Inventory code that contains both the static field and instance

[slender nymph]

configure your !IDE and spell your methods correctly

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[burnt vapor]

Configure your !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[burnt vapor]

Dang, too slow

[buoyant horizon]

On it

[exotic hazel]

so does sampleheight gives us the top of the terrain at a given point?

[charred spoke]

What is this ?

[exotic hazel]

it was sampleheight

[charred spoke]

I am very confused right now

[exotic hazel]

there was another thing i wanted to do and i was told to do it throught sampleheight as well

[charred spoke]

Ok…and ?

[exotic hazel]

and sampleheight gives us the highest point on the terrain of a given coordinate?

[charred spoke]

There is no lower or higher point at a given coord there is just a height

[modest dust]

Oh, so basically..
(0,1,0) (up) is your jump,
by pressing W, it's then (0,1,1) (forward-up)
and when pressing W+D it's (1,1,1) (forward-right-up)
And you want to convert that Vector from local space to global space?

[neon ivy]

yes, because my player rotates a lot since I change the direction of gravity a lot, mario galaxy style walking on spheres n stuff

if it helps, this is how I transform my movement direction

Vector3 crossProd = Vector3.Cross(Physics.gravity.normalized, GetGravityDirection().normalized);
float angle = Vector3.Angle(Physics.gravity.normalized,  GetGravityDirection().normalized);
Quaternion rot = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle, crossProd);

Vector3 transMove = rot * absMove;

InputVector =  transMove.normalized * magnitude;

I do not know what a cross product is though

but it works

[modest dust]

Just use:

• transform.up in place of (0,1,0) (up)
• transform.forward in place of (0,0,1) (W forward)
• transform.right in place of (1,0,0) (D right)
• -transform.right in place of (-1,0,0) (A left)

Add them up and normalize

Unless you're not rotating the object at all, just applying different forces / transformations

Then rotate the vectors I guess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix

[neon ivy]

I am rotating the object, I guess that is just the easiest way of doing it

[modest dust]

Yup

[neon ivy]

was making it way more complicated than it had to be, typical

[modest dust]

The best solution is the simplest solution

[neon ivy]

thanks

[cunning rapids]

Guys, my animation issue still persists, even when tweaking the OnEnable() method

Even when I MANUALLY type in the rotation through the inspector during runtime, it just reverts it back to whatever number it stopped at

Only the rotation is messed up, too

Position and scale works fine

[buoyant horizon]

Ok! I have setup my IDE ( succesfully I hope so )

Now what do I do? Do I just open up the code I have trouble with?

[burnt vapor]

Then if you correctly specify the Awake method (including correct casing), the editor should now point out it's a Unity method if everything is correct

[buoyant horizon]

Okk, let me see

[noble forum]

hi

[buoyant horizon]

Oh my god...

I feel so stupid right now. Apparently my dumb ass wrote "awake" instead of "Awake"

[noble forum]

any idea why?

[noble forum]

Heh, happends to everyone

[burnt vapor]

This is why a correctly configured editor helps

[buoyant horizon]

Thank you for the help Fused & boxfriend & Mao ❤️

[buoyant horizon]

I must've been really tired when I wrote that method

[noble forum]

any idea about it?

[buoyant horizon]

Yeah, I had the Unity extension in VS Code. It still didn't point out the error

I saw the spelling because I saw you writing "Awake Method" and I thought "Why do I have awake instead of Awake"

Thank you anyways 😅

[burnt vapor]

VSCode is ass with C# in general and if you can use Visual Studio or are willing to pay for Jetbrains you should switch.

[buoyant horizon]

I'll give VS a try. Thanks for the tip

[noble forum]

anyone?

[queen adder]

okay I have silly question, let's imagine two coroutine and you are starting the first one in Start method. And second coroutine is connected to this first one BUT! let's imagine first coroutine is in infinite loop. Would I get crash thanks to this logic?

[fossil tree]

hi i have a problem i try to instanciate my gameObject at a distance of my mousse but when i zoom that instanciate it under the map how can i calculate the distance i have zoom or something like that

the scrolling script

float scroll = Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel");
            
            Vector3 pos = transform.position;
    
            pos.y -= scroll * 1000 * scrollSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
            pos.y = Mathf.Clamp(pos.y, zoom, dezoom);
            
            transform.position = pos;

the script for instanciate my object

Vector3  mouseInScreen = Input.mousePosition;
        mouseInScreen.z = 695 ;
        Vector3  mouseInWorld = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mouseInScreen);
        transform.position = mouseInWorld;
        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
            
            putTurret1 = true;
        }
        if (putTurret1 && canBePlaced)
        {
            Instantiate(tourelle1placable,mouseInWorld,Quaternion.identity);
        }

[rich bluff]

if the map is flat you can use Plane struct and raycast at it, if its not flat, use physics Raycast

[fossil tree]

how can i use raycast for instanciate a object i never use raycast

[rich bluff]

is the map flat?

[fossil tree]

its a flat map with basement

so not really

its for make a td

[rich bluff]

it has some collision surface right? floor?

[fossil tree]

yes

[whole idol]

I tried creating a 3D (URP) and got this? wth is this?

[rich bluff]

use Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(mousePos) to get the ray
use Physics.Raycast() to cast that ray into the scene
RaycastHit will contain the world point to place your object at

or use Plane, its simpler to use but it wont take into account collision meshes

[fossil tree]

ok i see i gonna try that ty guy

[narrow girder]

im not sure if this is a animation thing or code but is it possible to create a code that would throw the hammer in a parabolic trajectory? or do i need to animate it to have a trajectory?

[cosmic dagger]

you can use code to create an arc or meet a certain height based on the end position . . .

[narrow girder]

ohhh thanks cause im trying to make a replica of the mario enemy wherein it throws hammers in a parabola XD

[sour yew]

hey guys. can smb help me out? 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()
    {
        float interactRange = 2f;
        Collider[] colliderArray = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, interactRange);
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)) 
        {
            List<GameObject> gameObjects = new List<GameObject>();
            foreach (Collider collider in colliderArray)
             {
                var npc = collider.GetComponent<NPCInteractable>();
                if (npc!=null)
                {
                    float distance = Vector3.Distance(npc.transform.position, transform.position);
                    Debug.Log("NPC position: " + npc.transform.position);
                    Debug.Log("player position: " + transform.position);

                    if (distance > interactRange)
                    {
                        npc.EndConversation();
                    }
                    else
                    { 
                    npc.Interact();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

and when i press E, i get 4 NPC instances logged. How can it happen? Can smb help me out? Thx

[cosmic dagger]

that's definitely feasible . . .

[opal zealot]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[exotic hazel]

could someone come to #🏃┃animation and help me

[burnt vapor]

This is a coding channel, and not an animation channel. There is a reason channels are divided in categories so please stick to it.

[hidden sleet]

Does an enumator coroutine have to be called in an update function?

[burnt vapor]

You could, but that's not the point

A coroutine has to be called once with StartCoroutine()

[cosmic dagger]

Log the GameObject name for the NPC to see which objects they are . . .

[hidden sleet]

It's just that this only seems to change the alpha of the image when I first click, and doesn't do the smooth change that I'd like

private void Start()
    {
        playerControls = new PlayerControls();
        playerControls.BasicMovement.Aim.started += SwitchToAimCam;
        playerControls.BasicMovement.Aim.canceled += SwitchToBodyCam;
        playerControls.Enable();
    }

    private void SwitchToBodyCam(InputAction.CallbackContext obj)
    {
        mainCamera.SetActive(true);
        aimCamera.SetActive(false);
        currentReticleFade = 0f;
        StartCoroutine(FadeCrosshairOut());

    }

    private void SwitchToAimCam(InputAction.CallbackContext obj)
    {
        mainCamera.SetActive(false);
        aimCamera.SetActive(true);
        /* Fade time to control duration of fade
         */
        currentReticleFade = 0f;
        StartCoroutine(FadeCrosshairIn());

        
    }

    private IEnumerator FadeCrosshairIn()
    {

        if (currentReticleFade <= reticleFadeTime)
        {
            currentReticleFade += Time.deltaTime;
            reticleAlpha = currentReticleFade / reticleFadeTime;
            Color newColor = new Color(aimReticle.color.r, aimReticle.color.g, aimReticle.color.b, reticleAlpha);
            aimReticle.color = newColor;
            yield return null;
        }
    }

    private IEnumerator FadeCrosshairOut()
    {
        if (currentReticleFade <= reticleFadeTime)
        {
            currentReticleFade += Time.deltaTime;
            reticleAlpha = 1 - (currentReticleFade / reticleFadeTime);
            Color newColor = new Color(aimReticle.color.r, aimReticle.color.g, aimReticle.color.b, reticleAlpha);
            aimReticle.color = newColor;
            yield return null;
        }
    }

[exotic hazel]

i never asked the question here i got no response and this is 1 of the most active channel so i just said someone to see that

[burnt vapor]

That does not make this any better. Use channels for what they are meant for and don't crosspost for help

[sour yew]

i have only one npc Girl1NPC, so its only this object

[burnt vapor]

What part is expected to change the alpha?

[hidden sleet]

The section down here Color newColor = new Color(aimReticle.color.r, aimReticle.color.g, aimReticle.color.b, reticleAlpha); aimReticle.color = newColor;
It does correctly change the image, but it's just on or off, with no smooth transition

[burnt vapor]

Your Coroutines all have a single yield return null; in an if-statement. This means the method starts, checks the if-statement, changes the alpha, waits 1 frame, and then ends

Perhaps you want this if-statement to be a while loop?

Right now yield return null; does nothing but wait a frame and then nothing at all

[hidden sleet]

Was a bit confused by what that return actually does, I was under the impression that would start the routine again

[burnt vapor]

So my guess is you need to change the if-statement to a while loop

[hidden sleet]

guess I was wrong

[burnt vapor]

No, a yield statement defined the delay basically

[cosmic dagger]

This doesn't run until the alpha is 0 or 1. You need a while loop with a condition to check until it's complete . . .

[burnt vapor]

Unity will wait this period before resuming the method

[cosmic dagger]

Does it have multiple colliders?

[hidden sleet]

Ah, so it doesn't start it again, just continues it

[burnt vapor]

You still need to define the flow of resetting yourself

[hidden sleet]

let's see if this works

[cosmic dagger]

Your code only logs the npc position and the player position but there is a log for the npc name that appears. Is that in a different script?

[hidden sleet]

ay! It works!
Alrighty then, that makes sense. Can use that in other places now then

thanks for the help

So if yield return acts as a delay, can I use that to control how many seconds elapses between each run of the routine?

[burnt vapor]

Yes: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Coroutines.html

See Coroutine time delay

Okay nevermind, looks like it barely explains the different yield statements. There are a lot of different yield instructions you cna use, like waiting for seconds, until the end of a frame, but also with predicates to wait until something becomes true

[sour yew]

oops. my bad. yes there is:

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

    public void Interact()
    {
        Debug.Log(this.gameObject.name);
        ConversationManager.Instance.StartConversation(npcConversation);
    }
    public void EndConversation()
    {
        ConversationManager.Instance.EndConversation();
    }
}

[exotic hazel]

ok sry

I wanted to find the no. of rabbits in the world through this line.I saw it in some learn.unity tutorial and remember it was written somethign like this but cant remember How."RabbitSpawner" is the name of the script

[burnt vapor]

Use plural FindObjectsOfType rather than the singular variant

[languid spire]

that line of code makes no sense

[exotic hazel]

the .length is not supposed to be there but idk wht was

[burnt vapor]

Why would it make no sense? That line is perfectly valid apart from the fact a Find type method is used

You just used the singular variant rather than the plural

[exotic hazel]

oh it was jsut Length and not length

[languid spire]

even so. it a singular find so how can it have a length of anything other than 0 or 1

[exotic hazel]

thx it worked too now lemme just see if its working the intended way

[burnt vapor]

The question was why it was not possible to count the number of spawners, which is because they used the wrong method

Not why Length can't be used for a single result

[languid spire]

indeed

[exotic hazel]

how do i do so that only a specific numberof rabbits spawn like a 100 and once 100 rabbit spawns through instantiate it stops spawning until 1 dies

[burnt vapor]

Have a general manager keep track of what spawner is allowed to spawn a rabbit and have it keep count of the total spawned

[exotic hazel]

then use if statement to stop spawning if it reaches 100?

[burnt vapor]

For example

If you want to keep a shared context between multiple spawners you would at least need a general manager that can keep track of this.

[exotic hazel]

i think i understand

[burnt vapor]

Then either have it spawn the actual rabbits on defined spots rather than having individual spawners, or have the spawners communicate with the manager by having a singleton pattern in some way.
I'd pick the former

[languid spire]

here is an example

    IEnumerator Spawn()
    {
        while (loop) {
            yield return new WaitUntil(() => Count < maxEnemies);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(Random.Range(3, 10));

            float angle = Random.Range(0f, 359.99f);
            point.x = Mathf.Cos(angle) * (radius+15f);
            point.z = Mathf.Sin(angle) * (radius+15f);

            GameObject go = Instantiate(prefab, point, Quaternion.identity);
            Count++;
            enemies.Add(go);
        }
    }

Count is decremented when an enemy dies

[exotic hazel]

thx

[exotic hazel]

thx lemme try

[gritty wagon]

Is it possible with a Collider2d, to have it detect collisions between like the ground, but not collide with the player, but still send triggers/collision when the play and it "collides", without them actually colliding and not being able to move into each other

[hidden sleet]

Just going over in my head how i'd implement a damage system. Is there much of a difference between having a health component that controls the current health value, which the player class can then reference, to having an interface with methods to adjust player and enemy health in their respective scripts?

[exotic hazel]

bruh my jump function suddenly stopped working

Theres no problem then why is the character not jumping upon pressing Jump

[spiral narwhal]

Is OnEnable called when the parent is enabled after having been disabled?

[exotic hazel]

i did find the problem when i touch the ground instead of making the bool Isgrounded true it makes it false.

[cosmic dagger]

does the object have multiple colliders? change colliderArray from a local variable to a public field, then you can see from the inspector if they are from the same GameObject . . .

[cosmic dagger]

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

[spiral narwhal]

That's why I'm asking

[cunning rapids]

Hello guys. I got a question regarding weapon switching. I have a script that switches weapons for me when I press the alpha 1 and 2 keys (etc.). I made sure that when the weapon is disabled, it resets the animation controller and disables the "isReloading" state of the scriptable game object it is referencing. However, while the "stop reloading" aspect works fine, the animation still gets stuck in that weird state in the reload animation. it seems to be LITERALLY changing the default transform of the revolver

[spiral narwhal]

This function is called when the object becomes enabled and active.
Technically it was never disabled, only its parent was

But then again it is now

[cosmic dagger]

then i would place a log inside of OnEnable for the child GameObject. when the parent is enabled—after being disabled—check if the log appears. then you know if OnEnable will be called . . .

[cunning rapids]

Gentlemen. I need help. I've been working on this for quite a while. The only solution I came up with is a cheap fix to disable all weapon switching while you reload

Funnily enough, it seems like I'm facing a quite similar issue

[exotic hazel]

could someone help
The Isgrounded bool telling us if we are on the ground or not disables when we are actually on ground but it shouldnt be this way .I dont understand why is this or how to fixc ir

[cunning rapids]

Log ground check

That's usually the most common cause

[exotic hazel]

log?

[cunning rapids]

Debug.Log();

[exotic hazel]

oh

[cunning rapids]

Well...?

Debug.Log(GroundCheck);
``` and see what it returns

[exotic hazel]

this

[exotic hazel]

it takes a min to load the game

[cunning rapids]

Dude

[cunning rapids]

Here

Not a string, debug the boolean GroundCheck

[exotic hazel]

i did that

[cunning rapids]

If it returns False, you have your answer

[exotic hazel]

it was working too suddenly jump stops working

[cunning rapids]

My guy. Your boolean for ground check is called "isGrounded"

[exotic hazel]

oh wait

[exotic hazel]

when u said this my mind got confused

its false

[cunning rapids]

There you have it

Your code doesn't allow you to jump if it's false

Show me the scene

[exotic hazel]

one sec

[cunning rapids]

Specifically, the position of your "Ground Check" game object

It should be slightly below or at the player's feet

[exotic hazel]

those arrow is the groundcheck

[cunning rapids]

What

Dude, do you know what your script does?

[exotic hazel]

yea

[cunning rapids]

"isGrounded" acts like your feet

[exotic hazel]

i wrote it bruh

[cunning rapids]

Alright, what is your ground layer supposed to be?

[cunning rapids]

Is it the second picture?

This your ground check? Is it attached to the player game object? Is the floor the correct ground layer?

[exotic hazel]

the groundcheck is the arrow in 2nd picture

[exotic hazel]

yea

[cunning rapids]

Show me the inspector for the movement code

[exotic hazel]

wait

i changed the terrain today

[cunning rapids]

Make sure your terrain has the correct layer for "Ground"

[exotic hazel]

dint apply ground layer to it :/

[cunning rapids]

or whatever you called it idk

[exotic hazel]

thats ground

[cunning rapids]

There you go

[exotic hazel]

i need to focus more. i didnt apply the layer when i made the new terrain

[cunning rapids]

I know, you need to be "grounded" to jump

[cunning rapids]

Happens to the best of us

[exotic hazel]

yep its working

finnaly spent the whole day on just the animal spawner and this jump

will setup the spawner tomorrow

thx

[swift crag]

Wrong Layer is a very easy mistake to make

[cunning rapids]

Yo fen

Your thing with my weapon problem worked yesterday

Thanks

Using Scriptable Objects helped

[errant canopy]

Hi, yesterday I got recommended to switch to Unity Event system for making my multiple triggers work. I've set it up and I'm getting notifications when touching each of them, but my problem wasn't that, more of how to know which one was touched.
https://paste.mod.gg/biegbuvflnfu/3

[swift crag]

Sounds like you need to be able to pass an argument.

[cosmic dagger]

did you figure it out?

[errant canopy]

I can pass an argument, but I'm trying to avoid using the name of the trigger object as a way of identifying. So what else could be passed to identify?

[swift crag]

You could use more scriptable objects here, I suppose

What do these triggers represent?

Are they mostly going to be "right" and "wrong" triggers?

[errant canopy]

Colored it to make it easier to see, but the idea is for me to know which trigger the player touched out of these

[errant canopy]

Depending on the map wrong and right would be depending, so don't worry about that.

[errant canopy]

When you say scriptable objects, could you elaborate

I'm still quite new to Unity

[swift crag]

My first thought was to just have the trigger manager pass itself, and to then reference the trigger managers from the script that's deciding what happens

[wintry quarry]

you linked the code for one in your original post...?
https://paste.mod.gg/biegbuvflnfu/0

[swift crag]

But it looks like you're trying to explicitly avoid direct references here

since you're running everything through this GameEvent system

[errant canopy]

Yes but I mean in how to use them :)

[swift crag]

I have to wonder if you actually need any of this

[wintry quarry]

Anyway you should make these things pass themselves in as a parameter to this event

[wintry quarry]

Aren't you already using it?

[swift crag]

You called these "Unity Events", but these are not unity events

[errant canopy]

Yeah I tried that before, but I wasn't sure how I'd compare it to check which one was being fired off

[swift crag]

UnityEvent is used for things like the "on click" events on a button

[errant canopy]

Yes, but how to use them in the sense of knowing which trigger.

[swift crag]

[SerializeField] TriggerManager wrongTrigger;
[SerializeField] TriggerManager rightTrigger;

void Awake() {
  wrongTrigger.RegisterListener(BadThingHappens);
  rightTrigger.RegisterListener(GoodThingHappens);
}

in this case, you just register different listeners for different triggers

(this code does not match your current code -- you're directly registering with a TriggerManager)

[wintry quarry]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[swift crag]

Thew code you have here is good for making very decoupled game logic

like "do something any time an entity's health reaches 0"

[spiral narwhal]

Yes thank you it appears it is being called

[swift crag]

But this is not appropriate for setting up very specific one-off interactions.

[errant canopy]

Well it's not a one off thing

[swift crag]

I wouldn't create a global event bus to handle a button that opens a door

The button will only ever do one very specific thing: open a door

The button should just directly reference the door and tell it to open

[errant canopy]

It's a core mechanic like the health example

[swift crag]

(or the door should directly subscribe to the button)

[errant canopy]

Have you seen the game "Exit 8", I'm making a small project to learn game development a bit, and trying to make a copy of that

[swift crag]

are you creating something like Antichamber's infinite hallways?

[errant canopy]

Not sure what that is

[swift crag]

It's a game based heavily around impossible geometry

which it accomplishes through a mixture of teleporting the player and Weird Shaders

[errant canopy]

Most simple way to describe what I'm doing is:
Playroom you look if there is a diferrence or not compared to the first room you spawned in. If there isn't, you walk forward, if there is, you walk backwards.
Between each level there is an area for a sign to show which level you're on.
If you were right about differences (or none) it goes up, if you were wrong, it goes down.

And I thought about player teleporting, but in the long term I believed that spawning and despawning would be easier.

[swift crag]

Okay, so all of these events are going to be either "success" or "failure"

in that case, just pass a bool

which will mean either:

• right or wrong
• change or no change

[errant canopy]

I have 2 type of maps

[swift crag]

the latter may be easier to deal with, since you won't have to tell the trigger managers about the correct answer

[errant canopy]

The normal map has the "correct trigger" in front, reverse is opposite ofc

[swift crag]

they'll just indicate which answer you chose

[cunning rapids]

A scriptable object just holds data that different scripts can reference

And interact with

You can make one by creating a ScriptableObject script instead of MonoBehaviour

[errant canopy]

So I have 2 triggers for that on each, and then a 3rd that I would be at the "start" of the current level to handle despawning of previous map and changing the level sign area behind to the correct one.

[errant canopy]

As I showed before

[swift crag]

You've already probably used lots of MonoBehaviour-derived classes. These are a kind of component (which is, itself, a kind of unity object). Components can be attached to game objects.

A ScriptableObject is another kind of unity object. It's not a component, so it can't be attached to a game object. Instead, you can store scriptable objects as assets -- much like a prefab, a texture, a material, etc.

[short gust]

hey guys, don't know where to ask about IDE/code editor problems with unity, so sorry if this an off-topic

I'm trying to move from Visual Studio 2022 to VS Code, but after proper setup by guide with packages, settings, extensions, etc. - VS Code is not compiling on save until I alt+tabbed back to unity, but intellisence, code completion, etc. is working fine still
am I doing something wrong? asset refresh in settings is checked both in Unity and VS Code, but it's not triggering at all
I found extension for VS Code that forces refresh, but I hope I messed up something during setup and just haven't done something, because Unity extension supposed to do that by itself

[swift crag]

since a ScriptableObject is a unity object, you can serialize references to them in the inspector

[errant canopy]

Right, ok, I wasn't sure about the terminology

[swift crag]

I'm usually trying to prevent Unity from auto-refreshing :p

There shouldn't be any distinction between VS and VSCode here.

Unity is just looking for file changes.

[errant canopy]

In the script "mapspawning" I already have a temp bool for that purpose

[short gust]

I'm just very lazy to alt+tab after I'm done editing code or adding a new file, that's a problem

[errant canopy]

But even if I pass a bool, how am I supposed to know if I should set it to true or not?
I still don't know which trigger is actually being touched?!

[swift crag]

there are only two choices, yes?

"change" or "no change"

[errant canopy]

Yes. So for example how do I pass a bool with the true value to represent "changed"?

All I know now is that a trigger is being touched

How do I know if it's the "CorrectTrigger" or "WrongTrigger" that the player is touching

[swift crag]

You're going to need to modify GameEvent

it currently can't receive any arguments

Raise needs to take a bool parameter

[errant canopy]

Yeah done that

[swift crag]

also, I see you have UnityEvent in GameEventListener after all

so switch that from UnityEvent to UnityEvent<bool>

(i'd missed the other files)

er, actually, you'll need to do this:

[System.Serializable]
public class LevelChoiceEvent : UnityEvent<bool> { }

then

public LevelChoiceEvent Response;

Unity can't serialize fields with generic types in them (except for a few things, like lists)

public UnityEvent<bool> Response; wouldn't serialize

so you wouldn't be able to see Response in the inspector

[swift crag]

You can declare that class wherever you want. I guess I'd put it in the same file as GameEventListener.

[errant canopy]

If I'm using UnityEvent<bool>, what would I use for the invoke method as an arguement?

[swift crag]

OnEventRaised will need to take a bool

since OnEventRaised now needs a bool, Raise will also need a bool parameter

[errant canopy]

Yeah, but what do I put in raise when I call it

[swift crag]

and since Raise now needs a bool parameter, TriggerManager needs to pass it one in its OnTriggerEnter method

[swift crag]

TriggerManager will need to store a bool field that indicates if it's the "Change" or "No Change" trigger

and that's where the chain ends!

[errant canopy]

I still need to give Invoke() something

Since we're now using UnityEvent<bool>

[swift crag]

indeed -- you'll pass it the bool parameter that OnEventRaised receives

[errant canopy]

Ah, right

[swift crag]

so:

• TriggerManager has a bool field that it passes to GameEvent.Raise
• GameEvent.Raise passes that parameter to GameEventListener.OnEventRaised
• GameEventListener.OnEventRaised passes that parameter to LevelChoiceEvent.Invoke

and thewn LevelChoiceEvent.Invoke winds up running all of its listeners, passing them that bool parameter

[errant canopy]

Yeah, that all works nice and dandy

I'm still unsure how we can decide if the bool should be true or not depending on which trigger is touched

[swift crag]

TriggerManager needs a bool field.

If you know which one is which, just set it up in the inspector

check the box for the "Changed" trigger

That bool will not be "right" or "wrong"

I mean, it can be, if you pre-author each level and know the answer already

[errant canopy]

I have that.

[swift crag]

I was imagining something where you randomly generate a "changed" or "not changed" level

[swift crag]

and then you just wait to see which trigger the player chooses

and, in response, you decide they were right or wrong

This way, you don't have to mess with the triggers for every single level

Their meaning is constant: "Change" or "No Change"

Keep the game logic out of the triggers.

[errant canopy]

I'm gonna be completely honest and idk if I'm just extremely slow or something. But I still don't see how this setup allows for me to know which trigger is touched. You say "set it up in the inspector" but from the picture here, how would I do that?

[swift crag]

There are only two triggers, correct?

"Change" and "No Change"

[errant canopy]

Well 3, but yeah mainly 2. Don't worry about the last one.

[swift crag]

If there are more than two options, you need to handle that.

[errant canopy]

There are only correct or wrong

Last one is just for spawning things, I'll figure that out.

[swift crag]

Okay, so the third kind of trigger is completely unrelated to these two

The "Change" and "No Change" triggers.

[errant canopy]

Yes

[swift crag]

Rename that field to "Changed". It will be true for the "Change" trigger and false for the "No Change" trigger

[swift crag]

When you touch one of the two triggers, the bool will be passed to GameEvent, which goes to GameEventListener, which invokes all of its listeners.

Suppose I subscribed this method to my GameEventListener.

public void ChoiceMade(bool changed) {
  if (changed == correctAnswer) {
    Win();
  } else {
    Lose();
  }
}

if correctAnswer is false and changed is true, that means:

• The level had no change
• The player touched the "Changed" trigger

So, you lose

[errant canopy]

Yes, but the bool value is never changed?

When is the value of Change set to false or true on each corresponding trigger?

[swift crag]

because you checked the box on the "Changed" trigger...

[SerializeField] bool changed;

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
  onTriggerTouched.Raise(changed);
}

[acoustic crow]

Why is the Wheels Collider so far down

[errant canopy]

Right, ok so that's what you meant by the inspector.

[swift crag]

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

give this a read if you're not familiar with these terms

[errant canopy]

Ok, yeah perfect. I'm really still new to Unity and only know slight few things. Thanks for the help 👍 😁

[visual hedge]

    private void Moving()
    {
        Vector3 dest = _grid.GetPositionCell(_index_grid);
        if (Vector3.Distance(dest, transform.position) > 0.1f)
        {
            Vector3 lerp = Vector3.Lerp(dest, transform.position, _speed_move);
            _rb.MovePosition(lerp);
        }
        else
        {
            _rb.MovePosition(dest);
            _is_moving = false;
        }
    }

Does this method needs to be run in update to work properly?

I mean... when I run it just as method from non-update... it only gets that RB around 30% of the distance...

So I guess the answer is it has to be run in update or ienumerator

[wintry quarry]

MovePosition should only be in FixedUpdate

not Update

also that's definitely an improper usage of Lerp

[hexed terrace]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/

[visual hedge]

okay... I got this code from a guide so yeah... I believe you that it's improper use

[hexed terrace]

Read this on how to lerp correctly

surely the guide told you were to put it 🤔

[visual hedge]

I think I will simply get rid of lerp since I don't plan using it anyways and I plan to use MoveTowards + Animate the character running

so this part is irrelevant, altho for self-education I willread the docs

[visual hedge]

what about MoveTowards? also needs Fixed Update or update?

[shell sorrel]

if there is physics involved and you are moving it use FixedUpdate

[wintry quarry]

MoveTowards is just a math function. It should be used as needed where needed

MovePosition is actually a thing that moves the Rigidbody and its effect gets queued up to happen in the physics update, that's why it needs to go in FixedUpdate.

These "rules of thumb" are actually all just stand-ins for actually understanding how these functions and methods work and applying your knowledge to get the effect you want.

In reality there are no rules, but these things like "only use MovePosition in FixedUpdate" are designed to keep things working properly without thinking too hard.

[burnt vapor]

Use the proper channel for your question #🔎┃find-a-channel

@sour yew This is a coding channel, which is for coding questions. Not for materials.

[sour yew]

sorry. m ybad. ill delete my msg

[visual hedge]

sorry, is there some pre-defined method to turn the gameObject towards the target it's moving to?

or it's actually there by default?

[wintry quarry]

Transform.LookAt?

for a Rigidbody though you'd probably want to use MoveRotation or set the RB's rotation with Quaternion.LookRotation

[visual hedge]

nah, I switched from RB to transform.position. My rb has different purpose

[wintry quarry]

those two may not be in sync

if you're doing physics it's usually best to deal with the Rigidbody

[visual hedge]

    private IEnumerator MoveThePlayer(Vector3 dest)
    {
        dest = dest + new Vector3(0, 0.5f, 0);
        if (is_moving)
        {
            yield break;
        }

        is_moving = true;

        while (MoveToPosition(dest))
        {
            yield return null;
        }

        PlayerState = PlayerStates.IDLE;
        is_moving = false;
    }

    private bool MoveToPosition(Vector3 target)
    {
        return target != (transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, target, animSpeed * Time.deltaTime));
    }

done it like this

[visual hedge]

nah, that RB is just needed to trigger some "events", nothing more

thank you

[shut spade]

its better if ya use rb, even if u arent working with physics rn, its for if later ya need

[frosty lantern]

Hey I'm using mouse deltas to control the rotation of my camera, but you can visibly see the ticks between the angles when you move the mouse slowly. I tried slerping but it doesn't keep up with the natural movement of the mouse, and when you move quickly the rotation tends to bounce back

how would I smooth out the rotation for slower turning?

[visual hedge]

the game I am working with does and will need literally 0 physics.

Not 0... physics, but... I mean I am not going to use physics at all

it's turn based game without any physics. I won't be needing to jump or something. And I will definitely get away with MoveTowards and so on.

[frosty lantern]

https://gdl.space/akafomegub.cs
here's what i'm working with

attempt one bounces in the other direction at high speed, attempt 2 just doesn't work

[rocky canyon]

ur first attempt looks the closest

just needs a slerp

and i know u said u tried it.. but it was most likely implemented incorrectly

[frosty lantern]

yeah i just don't know the variable to slerp over

[rocky canyon]

ull slerp the right side of this

[frosty lantern]

yeah so i slerp the current rotation to the new one, but I don't know what to put for the float to smooth it out but not cause bugs

[rocky canyon]

since ur rotating it in update u'd probably want to use some modifier multiplied with time.deltaTIme;

and then adjust that modifier in the inspector until it rotates like u want

[frosty lantern]

yeah, delta time felt nice at slow speeds, but at higher speeds it bounces. so I need my modifier to increase at larger mouse speeds

so I tried multiplying by the magnitude of mouse delta

but that didn't work

because mouse delta's in pixels

so then I divide mouse delta by the magnitude of the width and height of the screen

and my camera doesn't rotate

[rocky canyon]

void Update()
{
    // Calculate the target rotation based on mouse input
    float targetYRot = yRot - mouse.delta.y.ReadValue() * Time.fixedDeltaTime * panSpeed;
    float targetXRot = xRot + mouse.delta.x.ReadValue() * Time.fixedDeltaTime * panSpeed;
    targetYRot = Mathf.Clamp(targetYRot, yMin, yMax);

    // Smoothly interpolate the rotation using Quaternion.Slerp
    Quaternion currentRotation = transform.rotation;
    Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(targetYRot, targetXRot, 0);
    float slerpSpeed = 0.1f; // Adjust this value for the desired rotation speed
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(currentRotation, targetRotation, slerpSpeed);

    // Update strafe and accel variables
    strafe = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    accel = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
}```

it'd look similar to this, where ur building ur rotations before hand.. and then slerping

[frosty lantern]

for slerpspeed I don't want to limit the speed of rotation. I want it to line up tith the normal rotation, the slerping is just to smooth out the sudden ticks at lower speed. that's what I'm not sure about

but I should work on comments and organising anyways

[rocky canyon]

not sure i understand.. ur normal rotation (w/o smoothing) is just gonna be what it is.. its smoothing that prevents the jerky and snappiness

w/o it.. it would still be jerky.. u would need smoothing but very little of it

this is the new input system? i always had issues w/ mouse delta's

[frosty lantern]

yeah, i'm using the slerp function to prevent the jerky rotation

yes it's the new input system

[rocky canyon]

theres tutorials i found not too long ago that showd ways to use mouse delta w/ different settings in the input system that kinda helped w/o doing any smoothing in code.

let me see if i can't find one of em for reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JN9n1Lsp8g&ab_channel=CodeMonkey @frosty lantern

the actual problem/fix starts @ 1:00

[visual hedge]

Thank you all for the help, got it done, so far movement and so on works like intended

[rocky canyon]

eziest speed run ever 🙂

did that help?

[frosty lantern]

Hm. I think the issue might not be the input system but rate just the update rate or the precision. my setting was already on dynamic.

[rocky canyon]

oh, well they probably started using that as the default setting since ive used it

[frosty lantern]

yeah, probably

[rocky canyon]

idk mate, but the update runs super fast..

cant be that

[frosty lantern]

the stutter isn't it not receiving or overcompensating for a movement, but it's like a 10fps rotation as opposed to sixty or smth

[rocky canyon]

I poll for my player input the old system so i have no examples i can look at of my own to help out w/ ur setup

[frosty lantern]

well I guess i'll live for now, it's a mild QoP issue

[rocky canyon]

i simply use a basic slerp for rotation

and i multiply my inputs by a sensitivity modifier (for the speed)

[rocky canyon]

ya, you wont forget about it but it is important still..

player movement / feel is 1 of the more important things

[queen adder]

Hi I have a question, if two gameobjects collide and i want them to be a trigger and not to actually collide, is it fine to have a rigidbody and a collider with no trigger on one gameobject and just a collider with on the other gameobject with the trigger on? sorry if i explained it bad im new to unity

[rocky canyon]

yes

but another route (if u dont want any interaction to happen) and u just want it to pass thru.. u can set Include / Exclude option in the inspector to ignore each other..

[frosty lantern]

I think my issue her is that if I move my mouse at a moderate speed, it covers more than 180 degree rotation, so the slerp bounces back to chase the shortest path to the new rotation

[shut spade]

then transform.position will do the work, keep it up

[rocky canyon]

or can set up layers and use the layer matrix in the physics settings of the project settings to have two layers ignore each other

[rocky canyon]

thats a good observation

could very well be whats happening

[frosty lantern]

so how do i maintain a "path" to slerp through?

[rocky canyon]

and thats what will happen.. if 1 direction is closer to the other.. its gonna take the shortest path

[frosty lantern]

would I need to set up an enum to track the iterations of rotation and ensure each rotation is met?

[rocky canyon]

simple fix would be to clamp ur mouse delta... so it only lets u rotate in certain increments

[rocky canyon]

thats overcomplicating it i think

  // Smooth mouse input
    Vector2 mouseDelta = new Vector2(mouse.delta.x.ReadValue(), mouse.delta.y.ReadValue());
    smoothedDelta = Vector2.Lerp(smoothedDelta, mouseDelta, smoothingFactor);```

could also smooth ur delta before u use it

[frosty lantern]

oh wow

[rocky canyon]

just brainstorming for ya

[frosty lantern]

let me see how that works ill be a sec

[rocky canyon]

to me i work in iterations / trial and error.. when people post issues with movement code its always a challenge to know what will work and whats best..

b/c w/o the context and the lead - up to what u have.. its harder to troubleshoot little issues

[queen adder]

I want it to display "hit" to the console when they collide but right now they just go through each other

[rocky canyon]

isKinematic rigidbodies dont respect collisions

it'll have to be a regular rb to trigger isTrigger colliders

[frosty lantern]

you are awesome

amazing

perfecto

   void Update()
   {
       yRot -= mouse.delta.y.ReadValue() * Time.fixedDeltaTime * panSpeed;
       xRot += mouse.delta.x.ReadValue() * Time.fixedDeltaTime * panSpeed;
       deltaRot = new Vector2(xRot, yRot);
       slerpRot = Vector2.Lerp(slerpRot, deltaRot, Time.deltaTime);
       yRot = Mathf.Clamp(yRot, yMin, yMax);

       strafe = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
       accel = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
       transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, Quaternion.Euler(0, slerpRot.x, 0) * Quaternion.Euler(slerpRot.y, 0, 0), smoothSpeed);
   }
    ```

it's perfect

messy but perfect

[rocky canyon]

👍 glad it works

[wintry quarry]

Time.fixedDeltaTime needs to be removed

[swift crag]

it's kind of less wrong than just Time.deltaTime, since at least it's a constant

[rocky canyon]

yea ur delta is gonna be frame-independent anyway

[wintry quarry]

it's doing nothing except dividing panSpeed by 50

[swift crag]

mouse input is a distance

[wintry quarry]

but yeah

[swift crag]

it is not a rate of change

[rocky canyon]

just a simple constant should be enuff

[swift crag]

People usually use Time.deltaTime by mistake there

which winds up giving you very weird mouse input

the longer the frame, the larger deltaTime is -- and the more the mouse has moved in that frame

so as your game gets slower, your mouse gets more sensitive

[queen adder]

is there any way to make it work without disabling kinematics?

[rocky canyon]

soo i edited unity's URP template to make this readme.. it works and all but I get this error when opening the project

AmbiguousMatchException: Ambiguous match found.
System.RuntimeType.GetMethodImplCommon (System.String name, System.Int32 genericParameterCount, System.Reflection.BindingFlags bindingAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Reflection.CallingConventions callConv, System.Type[] types, System.Reflection.ParameterModifier[] modifiers) (at <eef08f56e2e042f1b3027eca477293d9>:0)
System.RuntimeType.GetMethodImpl (System.String name, System.Reflection.BindingFlags bindingAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Reflection.CallingConventions callConv, System.Type[] types, System.Reflection.ParameterModifier[] modifiers) (at <eef08f56e2e042f1b3027eca477293d9>:0)
System.Type.GetMethod (System.String name, System.Reflection.BindingFlags bindingAttr) (at <eef08f56e2e042f1b3027eca477293d9>:0)
ReadmeEditor.LoadLayout () (at Assets/Spawn_Readme/Scripts/Editor/ReadmeEditor.cs:73)
ReadmeEditor.SelectReadmeAutomatically () (at Assets/Spawn_Readme/Scripts/Editor/ReadmeEditor.cs:63)
UnityEditor.EditorApplication.Internal_CallDelayFunctions () (at <bf6080dbf0564cf1b405dfd6e0dac725>:0)

[frosty lantern]

removed the fixeddeltatime and lowered panspeed

still amazing

[rocky canyon]

static void SelectReadmeAutomatically()
    {
        if (!SessionState.GetBool(s_ShowedReadmeSessionStateName, false))
        {
            var readme = SelectReadme();
            SessionState.SetBool(s_ShowedReadmeSessionStateName, true);

            if (readme && !readme.loadedLayout)
            {
                LoadLayout();
                readme.loadedLayout = true;
            }
        }
    }

    static void LoadLayout()
    {
        var assembly = typeof(EditorApplication).Assembly;
        var windowLayoutType = assembly.GetType("UnityEditor.WindowLayout", true);
        var method = windowLayoutType.GetMethod("LoadWindowLayout", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static);
        method.Invoke(null, new object[] { Path.Combine(Application.dataPath, "SpawnReadme/Layout.wlt"), false }); // the error is here..
    }```

it worked before I changed the name / directory

but all i have done is renamed the folder from TutorialInfo to Spawn_Readme

and changed the matching strings in the Readme.cs script

[languid spire]

SpawnReadme not Spawn_Readme

[rocky canyon]

ohhh! really?

[swift crag]

changing strings shouldn't be causing an error when trying to resolve the method group, though...

[languid spire]

method.Invoke(null, new object[] { Path.Combine(Application.dataPath, "SpawnReadme/Layout.wlt"), false });

[rocky canyon]

yea, ive had this issue before and i couldnt figure it out

so i gave up on it until now

let me try w/o the underscore

if i mark the readme.asset as isLoaded = true it doesn't error.. but that was just bypassing it lol

[rocky canyon]

not that i know of

[frosty lantern]

oh I see path string in the code is different from the folder name

[swift crag]

I don't see any method that matches what you're doing, though -- there are only two methods named LoadWindowLayout and neither takes one string and one bool argument

[languid spire]

yep

[rocky canyon]

dynamic rigidbodies. are kinda the important part to detect collisions

[swift crag]

There is TryLoadWindowLayout

but not LoadWindowLayout with those args.

[rocky canyon]

ya its just unity's readme..

i hadn't changed anything but the filename string

[frosty lantern]

yeah theres an underscore in the folder name but not in the code

[swift crag]

Did the code work before you renamed things?

[rocky canyon]

ya, it still shows the readme if i select it.. but it doesn't load up on first start

like unity's did.. but yea i didnt catch that typo

i got it right up here 😄

[rocky canyon]

thanks for the eyeballs man

[woven crater]

do i need to learn how to save the grid and load it or do i just need to make a scene asset for each level

[rocky canyon]

https://www.spawncampgames.com/paste/?serve=code_52 full version of the Editor script if anyone interested

[languid spire]

one of the most difficult tasks to master in software development is to see what is actually there rather than what should be there

[rocky canyon]

pre-me-fukin it up 😄

[rocky canyon]

i looked at it 4 or 5 times before posting it 🤦‍♂️

[languid spire]

rofl

[woven crater]

neeed direction

[rocky canyon]

i copied the setup after i modified it and pasted it into other projects w/ their meta files..

question being.. the instanceID isn't a problem b/c of the meta files being transfered along side it?

it worked fine after recompiling.. so i guessing its a non-issue

[swift crag]

I reproduced this by messing up the file path. That's very weird.

[rocky canyon]

mmhmm its not hard to do 😄

i was worried about that layout.wlt file..

b/c i have no idea how those work

but seems u keep the directory intact its pretty easy to copy over/ move to other projects locations

[swift crag]

oh, actually..

no, it's not just when the path is messed up

The code just doesn't work at all.

[cunning rapids]

Hello guys, I found this extremely satisfying and relatively simple recoil system on youtube, however, with its implementation I was wondering how would you set different recoil values for different weaponss, if they all follow the values of a single parented object?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geieixA4Mqc&t=0s

[rocky canyon]

it works on first load

can't say after that tho..

[swift crag]

Does it actually run, though?

[rocky canyon]

well something has to make it focused to the readme when the project opens

[swift crag]

That's not what the method does

The method loads a layout

There's a separate method to select the readme asset

[rocky canyon]

ohhh ya, i cant say if that parts working or not..

my layout always looks like my last version i used

but it does set the bool to true

lol..

[rocky canyon]

you'd modify that value of hte parent object.. / per weapon

[swift crag]

yep, bingo

[rocky canyon]

or extract it and put it on the weapon.. and have it read the value from there instead

[swift crag]

cracked open the template

loadedLayout: 1

loadedLayout is set to true in the template and the code never runs

[cunning rapids]

Soooo... basic script comms?

[rocky canyon]

mmhmm

[swift crag]

I'm guessing that Unity removed the matching LoadWindowLayout method and replaced it with a TryLoadWindowLayout

But since they were using reflection to access the internal methods, this refactoring wasn't noticed

[rocky canyon]

ahh, i think imma just remove that part.. i dont need it to force a layout.. it was meant to show dependencies.. so if u click the readme asset..

[swift crag]

and they just wound up giving up on loading a layout entirely

[rocky canyon]

the readme will still be drawn in the inspector..

[swift crag]

yeah, there's no point in trying to load a custom layout anyway

the entire thing should just be removed

[rocky canyon]

nice.. thanks for looking mate 🙂

[rocky canyon]

            if (readme && !readme.loadedLayout)
            {
                //LoadLayout();
                readme.loadedLayout = true;
            }``` fixed lol
now i can remove the reflection stuff

[minor glen]

Hello, I'm currently on a school project. In this school project I have a Cylinder Gameobject ("electrode") and another Cylinder GameObject ("electrode holder"). "electrode holder" is a parent from "electrode". "electrode" 's scale following the Y-Axis is being modified. I want to be sure the "electrode" 's face facing "electrode holder" stays at the same position. How can I do ?

Thanks

[rocky canyon]

how does scaling it change the rotation?

either way.. if ur modifying the transform of a child object. best to make sure that the parent is scaled to 1:1:1

Electrode_Holder and Electrode are both 1:1:1 across the board..

i scale the _Graphics obj's instead..

then u can do all ur other stuff (movement/rotations/etc) to the Root obj's

and since they're 1:1:1 they should be fine

scale the graphics (rotate the parent) -> this will keep dimensions and stuff the same

if u scale the graphics and (rotate the child) -> this will break ur scales and cause weird stuff

[minor glen]

I'll try on my side (my electrode holder is not 1:1:1).
In case I need to use colliders, on what Object do I apply it ? The project is to simulate some electrode soldering (so the electrode is consumed when in contact with the table)

[cunning rapids]

@rocky canyon Yo so like, how do I change the values of the recoil script through the revolver script:

[polar acorn]

.

[bleak pasture]

Im a bit confused about coordinates, if I move an object from one end of my terrain to another supposed on the same axis I get: FROM: World space: Vector3(-8852.64, 76.46, -1066.66) 884.997,-6.044,3 (local space)
to: World space: Vector3(-8852.64, 99.11, 0.04) -181.701,16.606,3 (local space). World space is obtained from using the .transform property. I dont understand why I didnt move it on the Z axis in the local space ? the object has a rotation of 0,90,0

is the code showing world coords not correct ?

[polar acorn]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/member-access-operators

[bleak pasture]

the local space was obtained from the transform x,y,z in the inspector while the object is a child of the terrain gameobject

are the axis inverted in world space or something ?!

[polar acorn]

If the Z axis didn't change in local space, it's because this object never changed Z distance to its parent's origin

[bleak pasture]

cuz it seems my translation along the X axis in local space was done on the Z axis in world space...

[languid spire]

you have ommited the most important information. How are you moving the object?

[polar acorn]

Entirely possible. If the object is rotated, the local X axis absolutely could be the world Z axis

[bleak pasture]

by dragging the blue gizmo in the scene

ie:

[polar acorn]

which arrow, and is your gizmo set to world or local

[languid spire]

so you are using the object forward

[bleak pasture]

and I adjusted height with the green arrow

huh no idea how to know if it is local or world. I guess that would be somewhere in unity learning

[polar acorn]

It's the box on the top of scene view window

So, was this gizmo in local or global?

[bleak pasture]

so local

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, if the gizmo's in local space, dragging the green arrow would change the local Y axis

There is no way to know how this might affect the global position on any particular axis

[bleak pasture]

I should set the gizmo to work in world space then ?

[polar acorn]

I don't know what you're trying to do, so I don't know what you "should" be doing

[cunning rapids]

Yup that does it, immediately worked

The more I code my game, the more it starts looking like just a bunch of spaghetti code

Anyways, thanks @polar acorn

[bleak pasture]

well Ill try to put into words what Im doing cuz I have no idea myself and come back

[rocky canyon]

it depends.. if a script is interacting with the colliders it needs to be on the same object..
if ur using colliders for a rigidbody then all child colliders get combined into a composite type collider (so as long as the rigidbody is on the parent)

the removed comment, i think it was b/c you hadn't declared a variable named hit

in the doc's for raycast u can see here they delcare a RaycastHit called hit.. and then the function uses that variable

[rocky canyon]

thats part of it.. when first learning ur just learning new things... as u get better and ur project grows thats when u realize all the optimization stuff and the more complex stuff for structuring code.. that u flew past during learning was more important than expected..

so u go back learn about it more. and start refactoring ur code.. *this time using more coding practices that allow for optimization/ expandability

[primal shadow]

Can anyone help me with making a world in vrchat im a 3D designer not a coding exspert so wjag should i lear what code (U# ,udon ,)

[rich adder]

!vrchat

[eternal falcon]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[primal shadow]

Yes im in that but what code shoild i
Use

[rich adder]

what do you mean what code?

[summer stump]

Ask them

[rich adder]

ask the community which knows about this specific plugin workflow..

[polar acorn]

U# and Udon are not Unity concepts. They are VRChat constructions. You're not really going to find people here who know what that means

The VRChat discord is the place to ask this

[rocky lava]

My camera isnt attached to my cameraholder for some reason, my cameraposition (first pic) is in the player, but the actual camera position when i press play, it's all the way back here (2nd pic)

[polar acorn]

Is your gizmo set to center or pivot

Set it to pivot and see where the camera actually is

[rocky lava]

for the camholder

for the camera

this is the code btw 1 for the mouseinput and 2 for the following of locking of the camera to a position

[rich adder]

the cam holder is very far

[rocky lava]

NVM I GOT IT

[summer stump]

Is your gizmo set to center or pivot?
Also, don't crop images so much

[rocky lava]

ty guys!

[rich adder]

also do not multiply mouse by Time.deltaTime

[polar acorn]

What object has the MoveCamera script on it and what object did you set cameraPosition to

[summer stump]

Still cropped too much. Why are you cutting the image off so much?

[rocky lava]

oh because i thought it was the only thing that was needed, but i fixed it!

[rocky canyon]

the entire screen is always best

[rich adder]

btw notice how you have to crank the sensitivity to 400 to work? remove Time.deltaTime on mouse, if you havent

[rocky canyon]

sensitivity? yes.

[rancid tinsel]

im trying to check if between the script holder and the player, there is a wall object with the tag "Wall" - but it never returns true even if there is a wall. Any ideas what I did wrong? https://gdl.space/doquxoruze.cs

[summer stump]

Use Debug.DrawRay

To see if it is going the direction you expect

It SHOULD be, but just in case

Also, debug the hits

[final kestrel]

myForcedLookTarget = transform.Find("DemoForceLookAt").gameObject.GetComponent<DemoForcePlayerLookAt>();
        revealCurtain = transform.Find("DemoCutsceneStage/CurtainReveal").gameObject;
        mySpeaker = transform.Find("DemoCutsceneStage").gameObject.GetComponent<AudioSource>();

I learned that finding objects this way is expensive. What other way is more efficient and lighter?

[rocky canyon]

using components

[summer stump]

Serialized References (drag and drop) or passing it from the instantiate call

[rocky canyon]

or tags or ^

[rancid tinsel]

the issue is that there are so many of these script holders, I will end up with over 999+ debugs right after hitting play

[summer stump]

Collapse the logs

[rocky canyon]

nothing wrong with using Find once.. in a start / awake function to grab references

but using them in update (all the time) is really bad

[final kestrel]

Ah so okay. Thanks a lot for the answers

[polar acorn]

Incorrect. You should basically never use .Find. At least use something like FindObjectsOfType or FindWithTag so you aren't tying game functionality to the names of objects

[final kestrel]

oh

[rocky canyon]

ya, strings suck

if u ever change a string w/o thinking about all ur code they're all gonna miss over the objects ur hunting

[final kestrel]

All right. Got it.

[polar acorn]

But drag in references whenever it is possible to do so. Faster, easier, less error-prone

[rancid tinsel]

nothing in console with this

[polar acorn]

Then either nothing is running this code, or the raycast hits nothing

[rancid tinsel]

how do i check if between two points, there is a gameobject with the tag "Wall"?

[wintry quarry]

a raycast is a good way

[summer stump]

I see you call IsWallBetween twice EVERY frame
Is there a reason for that?

[wintry quarry]

LineCast actually would be better

[rancid tinsel]

i dont think so

[rocky canyon]

u do

[rancid tinsel]

got rid of the isWallBetween(); bit

[rocky canyon]

(); x 2

[rancid tinsel]

any way to actually check for a specific object though? there will be a lot of objects in the way of the linecast between the player and the wall

[wintry quarry]

use a layer mask

[rocky canyon]

if u want u can use layers.. and a layermask

[summer stump]

Do raycast instead of raycastall, and yeah, layermask to filter the potential objects that will be hit

[rocky canyon]

so 1 raycast only detects walls

[solid bough]

whenever me or my friends make a pull from our github (or checkout to a new branch, anything) we get the 'object reference not set to an instance of an object' error and need to assign the references over and over every single time

how can we make it so that they already come assigned?

[polar acorn]

Is the variable assigned in the scene?

[solid bough]

yes, when we make the push its all cool and working, but then the other person has to start over

[polar acorn]

Did you save the scene and push the scene to version control

[solid bough]

i think so? we saved the scene, we saved the code, commited and pushed and still wasnt there :[

[polar acorn]

And both the object you are referencing and whatever has AttackingRange on it are both in the scene to start, right? Neither one is spawned at runtime?

[solid bough]

they both exist as objects/scripts from the start and none are spawned, if thats what youre asking

[polar acorn]

Then the reference should be saved alongside the scene. Did you enable Force Text for your asset serialization in your settings?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-EditorManager.html

[solid bough]

got it set as force text >:(

[visual hedge]

I have dungeons like this in my game. Basically such a map is a dungeon. Game = turn based.
There are tiles in dungeons where player meets enemy and battle scene is loaded. Game manager (singleton, as is also persistent in battles) returns player afterwards to the dungeon (if player weren't killed in turn- based battle). But...
Any suggestions on how do I keep track of which enemies were destroyed already and which chests were opened? Basically best approach to store the progress?
I intend to use json at this point if that's the way. Do I store all the tile information and then when player re-enters the dungeon instantiate the information from the tiles that weren't cleared yet?

[wintry quarry]

• Give each thing a unique ID at design time somehow (UUIDs are an option)
• In your save file you can keep a list of already killed enemies and already looted chests (using their unique id)
• When you load the game, check each spawned thing's ID against those lists and do what you need to do (destroy them, make them already looted, etc)

[visual hedge]

**each **tile you mean?
Oh yeah... that makes better sense to destroy / disable / etc already looted ones rather than instantiate all those that aren't 😄

[wintry quarry]

Maybe? Empty tiles might not need one.

[visual hedge]

some tiles that look empty will have hidden traps and something liek that I think... so yeah, but anyways, empty ones are whatever indeed

[rocky lava]

is there a better way to make these stairs walkable, i keep having to press A and D to get it to work and i get stuck at the top

[wintry quarry]

A simple component like this might do the trick @visual hedge

public class GridItem : MonoBehaviour {
  [SerializeField, HideInInspector]
  private string _uuid = "";

  public string Uuid => _uuid;
 
  private void EnsureUuid() => if (_uuid == null || _uuid == "") _uuid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

  void OnValidate() {
    EnsureUuid();
  }
 
  void Reset() {
    EnsureUuid();
  }
}```

[wintry quarry]

really depends on your player movement code

[visual hedge]

daaang all those lambdas (...

[wintry quarry]

you don't need to use any lambdas - I just wrote it quickly in Discord

[visual hedge]

yeah, I will look into it, thank you 🙂 LEt me compute the thing you wrote 🙂

[rocky canyon]

use ramps as colliders 😉

[wintry quarry]

They seem to be using box colliders

unless there's another collider they're not showing

[rocky lava]

yeah i am

just box

the stairs arent colliders

[deep lotus]

Hey, I'm making a platformer, and I wanna make a custom script for collisions because I don't think the default one can do what I want.

Basically, I want the player to not collide with a platform if it is hidden behind another object, if the platform is partially hidden, I still want the player to collide with the part that is visible but not with the hidden part

[rocky canyon]

thers no code handling walkin up and down stairs.. rigidbody's dont do those too well unless suplemented w/ code to traverse them

[ionic zephyr]

Anyone knows if its a good idea to implement a character roaster with scriptable objects?

[swift crag]

I have an "Entity Info" scriptable object for each character in my game

it's been pretty nice

It does feel slightly weird for EntityInfo to reference the Entity and for the Entity to refer back to its own EntityInfo

I store things like "name" and "description" in the EntityInfo

so the Entity has to know about its EntityInfo so that it can tell you what its name is

[polar acorn]

Many why you gotta roast em they're doing their best

[swift crag]

🔥

[ionic zephyr]

bro thats hard

[swift crag]

get one of those costco chicken ovens

[ionic zephyr]

oh shit, it is spelled without the "a"

sorry, spaniard here

[polar acorn]

Yeah just joking about the typo, ignore me

[quiet scaffold]

whats a good way to do enemy spawning restrictions in 2d? i dont want the enemies to spawn too close/on the player, but also i dont want them too far away

[timber tide]

depends how many you are spawning

but usually you can get away with some sphere casting or distance checks

[rich bluff]

you have some structure to know where you can spawn enemies?

[visual hedge]

just came to my mind: Using UUID is quite overkill because the grid system I am using kinda assigns unique ID to each tile already and is expressed in Vector3int... plus the whole plugin comes with some tools to find desired tiles.
So might just use their Vector3int instead 🙂 But anyway, idea is clear.

[swift crag]

as long as the enemies don't move!

[wintry quarry]

Then you can use that yes.

[visual hedge]

they don't. Each "scenario" is bound to the tile and they don't move. Only player moves

[wintry quarry]

you just need some kind of unique identifier

you might want to think about things like "what happens if I update the game and move the chest?"

A UUID could solve that problem, the V3I solution doesn't. But that might not matter to you

[visual hedge]

yeap. I was thinking about using scriptable object to hold the information about the tile, but I am not so sure about that now... I mean there's very elegant ways to do so and not so elegant... and I gues I will have to take the simpliest one for now 🙂

[timber tide]

you'dhave a serializable container with the grid id and item id

[rich bluff]

yeah its much simpler to use unique id for serialization than to try to bind tile position to object that could have moved, or tile can have many, or object could not even be there anymore and so on

[visual hedge]

yeah, I was thinking about that indeed. There must be flexible and re-usable system... will give it a good thinking now. Thank you for suggestions

[austere hedge]

My goal is to select the text in the DisplayDifficultyLabel object, and modify the text. I believe what I have to do is get all the components in the children, that are specifically the text type, and store them in an array. If I can do this part, then I can probably figure out the rest.

I have tried the following:

var foo = GameObject.Find("GameOverMenu").GetComponentsInChildren<Text>();
var foo = GameObject.Find("GameOverMenu").GetComponentsInChildren<TextMesh>();

Both of these gives me an empty array.

[swift crag]

Just reference the thing you need directly.

Or are you generating these difficulty labels things at runtime?

[ionic zephyr]

if I want to perform a dodge should I use a bool or disable the collider??

[austere hedge]

So maybe var foo = GameObject.Find("DisplayDifficultyLabel").GetComponentInChildren<Text>(); ?

[swift crag]

no, just add a List<Text> field and drag the things you need into it

also, if you're using TextMeshPro, you have the wrong type

Text is the legacy Unity UI text

[austere hedge]

I am, so is that TextMesh?

[swift crag]

The correct type is TMP_Text

which covers both TextMeshPro (non-UI) and TextMeshProUGUI (UI) text components

[rich bluff]

its best to do what Fen says, but the problem seems to be either you are starting the Find from the object that doesnt have direct child "DisplayDifficultyLabel" or, the objects are disabled when GetComp is called and you are not using the overload of it that includes inactive children

or the legacy text thing yup

[ionic zephyr]

or should I change the layer of the object?

[austere hedge]

I did this in combination with using TMP_Text and I'm able to change the text now. Thanks!

[rocky canyon]

soo dpi cant be read by unity software?

[eternal needle]

Different solutions work on different things. For example if you disable the collider and are using rigidbody movement, you are falling through the floor. If you rely on the layer for other things, which you want to still function during this time, then changing the layer wont work either.

[ionic zephyr]

oh okay, so the best day would be a boolean right?

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ maybe. I wouldnt say it's the best because something suddenly has to check this bool. If you have a rigidbody projectile, your bool will have 0 effect on the object and it will still collide with your player even if it doesnt damage them. I think layers could work fine because you can do layer based collision

It all depends on your system

[ionic zephyr]

hmm I see, so maybe changing the Layer of the object should be more precise?

[eternal needle]

As long as you are aware that the characters can live in different layers while coding other features, sure

[ivory bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Screen-dpi.html Maybe this.

[paper star]

Can someone help me with a plugin quick

Assets\Scripts\PlayerMovement.cs(17,5): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'RigidBody' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

RigidBody rb;

[icy junco]

hello i have like kind of a problem with my movement when i am moving everything is fine but when i try to sprint its like stuttering could this be because of the sprint function being in the fixedupdate?

[paper star]

is what i typed

[paper star]

yeah i think so

[icy junco]

okay thx

[paper star]

yo what plugins you using for unity

[icy junco]

wdym

[paper star]

in visual Studio 2022

for some reason

[summer stump]

Rigidbody not RigidBody

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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[paper star]

thanks

[summer stump]

Your IDE is not configured if it didn't suggest the correction for you btw

[eternal needle]

It could be, are you using rigidbody movement? Show code
Also it depends on how the camera is moving. Its possible your character isnt stuttering at all, but that your character and camera arent updating at the same time

[icy junco]

what is the link to put code snipet in here

[icy junco]

and yes i am using rb movement

[eternal needle]

!code

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[icy junco]

https://gdl.space/eyoteyavox.cs

this is movement code

[icy junco]

would it help to just put everything in update?

[ionic zephyr]

how can I make a layer not to collide with specific layers?