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[rich adder]

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

[ivory bobcat]

Either that or if you're aware of the two objects and only need these two objects to ignore each other, you can opt for https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.IgnoreCollision.html

[eternal needle]

Check if it is the character or camera stuttering. Easiest way is to watch it in scene view, if the character moves smoothly then it is the camera

[ionic zephyr]

somebody know how to fix?

[icy junco]

yes thx its the camera the player is moving smooth

[ionic zephyr]

this is my matrix

[rich adder]

what did you do

[rich bluff]

this is unrelated to the error

[rich bluff]

at some point you assigned incorrect value to gameObject.layer

[ionic zephyr]

I dont know where really because the original layer is assigned in Start

[coarse lance]

I have a working score in my ingame quiz scene, which is ++ if correct answer, but i want to make it appear in the next scene, printing that player 1 has had ... right answers.
How do i do that? its smh not saving the score for the next scene

[rich adder]

show

[rich adder]

Well you can it make it DontDestroyOnLoad

[rich bluff]

then InvulnerableLayer has incorrect value

[coarse lance]

how do i write that

[ionic zephyr]

what does "incorrect value" mean?

[rich bluff]

error says 0.. 31

[rich bluff]

range of correct values

is that a layer mask?

[ionic zephyr]

yeah

[rich bluff]

gameObject.layer is not layermask

[ionic zephyr]

oh

[rich adder]

DontDestroyOnLoad(theObjectYouWant)
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.DontDestroyOnLoad.html

[rich bluff]

just int value directly

[ionic zephyr]

what is the difference?

oooh okay

[rich bluff]

one is bit flags another is just an int

[ionic zephyr]

so I should introduce the layer number?

[rich adder]

There is also PlayerPrefs you could use but that also saves between sessions, so if you want fresh score each run you'd have to wipe value

[ionic zephyr]

8 in this case

[rich bluff]

there probably is a method in LayerMask struct that converts layer name to its int value, or something else

[rich adder]

indeed

NameToLayer iirc

[ionic zephyr]

Yesss, thanks a lot

it still hits me even if I am in the layer

[ionic zephyr]

and I specified not to collide here

[coarse lance]

my game is like 3 questions for player 1 -> scene which shows his results and for player 2 to get ready -> 3 questions for player 2 -> End Scene and who won (game for one handy, not online)

[wintry quarry]

is this 2D or 3D?

[ionic zephyr]

2D

[wintry quarry]

well i mean is that the matrix for 2d?

make sure you set up the correct matrix

[ionic zephyr]

Oh, not really

my god, silly me

[rich bluff]

unity uses PhysX for 3d and Box2D for 2d, separate libraries separate settings

[rich adder]

alright then. Not sure how that changes anything I suggested lol

[coarse lance]

Player Prefs would be better no? i tried to use that but its smh not working
its still saying 0 correct even if player 1 is guessing some correct

[solid bough]

quick silly problem
after building the build and sharing it with my friend
after she opens the .exe file nothing happens, ever
any simple solutions i might be missing?

[rich adder]

Like I said, Playerprefs would also persist after they close game, so just something to keep in mind

show me how you implemented it

[rich adder]

tell them to check playerlogs maybe ?

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe show your implementation

[solid bough]

they dont appear

[rich adder]

the txt file ?

[solid bough]

si, it doent appear in the data folder

[rich adder]

AppData / localLow ?

[ivory bobcat]

Did you add/set the correct scene in the build settings?

[solid bough]

should the game make any files there?

[solid bough]

yes, it works for me, just not for her

[rocky canyon]

yes, it should be the CompanyName you used

[rich adder]

ideally a playerlog if it doesnt completly silently crash
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\CompanyName\ProductName\Player.log

[solid bough]

i don't recall making a companyname and i cannot find anything like that in my locallow

is it necessary to be here and im missing it?

[rocky canyon]

u gotta change ur Pc's name bro.. thats a gnarly profile name 😈

[rich adder]

I think default is "DefaultCompany"

if you never set it

[coarse lance]

i dont know, i tried a lot, im pretty confused rn, but thats what i wrote

[solid bough]

OH it isthank you

[rich adder]

ur assigning the value to a local variable inside Start, it never escapes it

classic mistake

[solid bough]

well there is only Player.txt with some two random paths

[rich adder]

for your friend ? nothing inside ?

[coarse lance]

where do i put all of that otherwise hahahahahaha

[solid bough]

just mono path and mono config path

for me there is a lot of stuff, for her nothing

[polar acorn]

Create variables outside of Start. Populate them inside Start

[rich adder]

preferably inside a field

[rocky canyon]

do they have a firewall / something blocking the program from running? since its gonna be unknown publisher (not signed)

[rich adder]

worth checking

[solid bough]

build works for me, she also has 64-bit, no antivirus on, could windows firewall be blocking it?

[rocky canyon]

it would prompt you to allow it

[rich adder]

can they run other unity games?

[solid bough]

never tried before

[rich adder]

or any other 3D games

[coarse lance]

i actually dont know what to do lol

[rich adder]

do you know how to make fields inside a class

[solid bough]

she must have

[rocky canyon]

private float makeYourVariableHere;

void Start(){
      makeYourVariableHere = AssignYourVariableHere;
}```

if its a public variable you can access it outside the class, as long as you have a reference to the class its within

myScript.myVariable = newValue;

[acoustic crow]

how i can remove this line from my wheelcollider?

[rocky canyon]

collapse the component

[coarse lance]

yes, but still i have no clue what to do

[rocky canyon]

or go in here and find the component to disable

[solid bough]

hm, it actually works for other people, just not her, so it makes sense that it should be something like a firewall?

[rocky canyon]

ya, its most likely something on her machine

does it even show that it starts up? could check in the taskmanager

[rocky canyon]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/variables-and-functions

[solid bough]

how would i go about checking in task manager whether it starts in any capacity?
do i stay in details and look for the slighest change? there must be an easier way right

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/qKXnkgynYG0

[rich adder]

might help

[rocky canyon]

should just pop its head up in ur processes

you'd know if it even starts running (im doubting it does)

[solid bough]

well it doesn't appear there so unless it starts for a milisecond we wont know

i suppose it just doesnt

[proven junco]

I am trying to get a audio slider funktion but it is not working

[rocky canyon]

ya, i think even if it insta crashes the task manager would show it red-lining ur ram for a second before closing lol

[rare basin]

very useful info

[rocky canyon]

i dont think its running.. try right clicking and running as administrator?

[solid bough]

tried it, i think i got her to turn off all firewalls and antiviruses, still nothing

[rare basin]

also configure your !Ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[rocky canyon]

very odd

[proven junco]

what

[proven junco]

i thought I alr done

it

I think I configured it yeasterday

[polar acorn]

What calls ChangeVolume? What calls Load?

[rocky canyon]

MonoBehaviour gave you away.. in urs it's not colored

[solid bough]

he says it was crashing, so doesnt sound too similar, hers doesnt even start
and i dont want her to underclock her gpu for me 🥹

[rocky canyon]

true, im just lookin at all avenues

[proven junco]

what I tried doing it yeasterday n I thought I did it

[swift sedge]

what ide is that?

[rocky canyon]

VSCommunity

[swift sedge]

ah

[proven junco]

I installed some add ons too

[swift sedge]

the text looks similar to vs code

[solid bough]

that sounds pretty silly too

[rare basin]

it is not configured

[proven junco]

no clue watched a video on having the slider UI be connected to the script

[rocky canyon]

im using the font that Rider uses

[rare basin]

then you are just blindly copy&pasting the code

[polar acorn]

and did you do that

[rare basin]

without understanding it

and without your ide configured?

[rocky canyon]

thats nutty lol

[proven junco]

I dont really know coding I just gotta get this slider working

[carmine sierra]

If im making a menu with multiple stages (such as one to click play/options/quit and another stage where players can enter their names) should i split them into different scenes and go through the scene manager order? or is there an easier way where they stay in the same scene

[rare basin]

get your ide configured first @proven junco

[flint falcon]

So I'm trying to learn some super basic game stuff and following a tutorial. I go into VS to add some code for movement but things like Vector2 arent changing color like in the tutorial. I have the unity plug in checked and updated on the VS installer

[rocky canyon]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/every-game-that-uses-the-unity-engine-wont-launch/d4661d59-1d78-45ef-ae76-ae63018989ff @solid bough

[rare basin]

!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

[rich adder]

!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
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[proven junco]

man I tried and I thought I did

[rare basin]

ok, so your try wasn't succesfull

dont think - check

[carmine sierra]

anyone know?

should i just use different scenes for every step in the menu

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6H3_Ry49k&ab_channel=SpawnCampGames

[carmine sierra]

also can variables carry over into different scenes

[rare basin]

such a google questions you are asking

just try to googile it first

[proven junco]

I promise unity was attached yeasterday

[rocky lava]

is there anything wrong abt this? i genuinely cannot see it, first pic is mine, 2nd pic is the tutorial

[proven junco]

it said Unity type

thiny

omg

[rocky canyon]

sure, you can.. while doing a menu system i ended up using additive loading.. to load multiple scenes at once..

[rare basin]

you cna clearly see a red underlined error

[rich adder]

if statements dont want ; right when you open it

[rocky canyon]

i had one scene that had DDOL objects that i could store my data in..

[polar acorn]

Try looking at the things that are underlined in your code. Start from the first one, since one issue often casues another

[ivory bobcat]

Was it a crash or was it the warning about the application not being signed/safe/trusted etc?

[rocky canyon]

whats this guy doing?

lookin for a friend? lol

[solid bough]

nono, i was talking about the guy from the link,
for my friend it doesnt even start

[polar acorn]

Also,

Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 150
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2024-3-21```

[solid bough]

trying it but it doesnt bode well

[rare basin]

Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1 lol i want to hear that story someday xD

[rocky canyon]

like i said, im just sending any solution i find lol.. since not sure why it would run on ur machine and not theirs

if its the exact same build

[rich adder]

maybe they just have a crappy potato 😛

[polar acorn]

Code Monkey tutorial on an online lobby that literally made the lobby script "An exercise left up to the viewer" despite the other code directly referencing specific properties and functions from it

[solid bough]

the game really really doesnt require a strong machine
its ultra basic

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe reboot the computer? If they rejected it the first time, it may continue to block the application if an attempt is made to run it again.

[polar acorn]

Never shown in the video, not on the github

[solid bough]

trying it rn 😼

[proven junco]

yeah stupid vs and unity dont wanna stay connected

Do I have to change everytuime

[swift sedge]

they do

[proven junco]

well they were

and today they wernt

[swift sedge]

theres a visual studio package especially for linking to unity, so they are meant to be together forever

[solid bough]

still nothing :( exe doesnt start

[proven junco]

well I installed unity pack and connected yeasterday and it was working

but not today

[rocky canyon]

no.. make sure on ur current open project you set it to be VSComm in the External Editor drop down in the settings

[rich adder]

keep regen project files

until it stubbornly accepts

[rocky canyon]

as long as u select this.. and somehow dont change it back.. it should remember

[proven junco]

yeah I know It was selected yeasterday

[rocky canyon]

👍 yea just regen the files.. and make sure not to change it back before u close unity

[proven junco]

I only had to do it again today

[rocky canyon]

i find a good restart of unity / vscommunity/ sometimes the machine all at once solidfies things

[proven junco]

do I need to do some special to regen files

[rocky canyon]

just click that button

Regenerate project files

[proven junco]

everytime I've closed?

[rocky canyon]

no just after u set it to ur IDE

after that it shouldnt need to be done again

[proven junco]

Yeah strange

[swift sedge]

that external script editor can be set to any executable in theory. Unity just executes the program and adds the path to the opened file to the args

[proven junco]

well my code still dont work

[rocky canyon]

did u restart it?

[rocky canyon]

aye that ones right

[swift sedge]

yay

[rocky canyon]

its now configured

[proven junco]

yes

i did

[rare basin]

now fix the errors

[polar acorn]

There you go, now your error is underlined in red

[proven junco]

omg

sorry

[swift sedge]

and dont use player prefs...

[rare basin]

and make sure ChangeVolume is being called

[rocky canyon]

; say what?

[rare basin]

huh? why

[rocky canyon]

cuz he's gonna say use JSON

[proven junco]

why

[rich adder]

its fine for a newbie

[proven junco]

how would I do

if not

[rare basin]

also there is a typo in your player prefs saving

[proven junco]

prefs

[rare basin]

sometimes you have "volume" sometimes "Volume"

[rare basin]

many ways

not something you would be intrested for now, using prefs is completely fine for a begginer

[swift sedge]

data contracts are pretty cool, Unity also has a built-in JSON class

[rocky canyon]

json is dope

Kosmiq file 😄

[proven junco]

there are "Volume" and audioListener.volume and ChangeVolume

[swift sedge]

player prefs is just hackable since code can be injected into it, but its fine if you are starting

[rare basin]

and json isnt? lmao

[rocky canyon]

ya ^ just remember if ur saving ur remaining lives in playerprefs..

[proven junco]

thx

[rocky canyon]

imma have an infinite lives hack

[rich adder]

anything on client is hackable..

[rocky canyon]

obsfucation

[rich adder]

not even

[rocky canyon]

obfuscation?

[short hazel]

Since you're using that "Volume" string a few times, consider making it a const value, so you onlyhave to modify it once to reflect changes everywhere

[swift sedge]

thats why you use data bases if you are a large scale company

[proven junco]

yo my game gon be on itch so hackable either way, Im I right .... ha ha ha ha

[rocky canyon]

MongoDB free database 😄

[polar acorn]

You're thinking of binary serialization. The issue with PlayerPrefs is that they persist after deleting the game and storing too much is just a leech on your player's hard drives

[swift sedge]

or make your own

[rocky canyon]

as if

[swift sedge]

buy a server, get linux running, etc etc

[eternal needle]

Not this shit again...

[rocky canyon]

i got a server, still not gonna do it

not worth imo for an indie lol

[eternal needle]

There is no way you are suggesting this to a guy who just got his ide configured

[rich adder]

yeah your db will be hacked in minutes

[short hazel]

Plus not all of binary serialization has vulnerabilities, just BinaryFormatter...
You can use a BinaryReader/Writer just fine

[rare basin]

yea don't use BinaryFormatter

[proven junco]

yeah Imma just make a server while I'm at it

[rare basin]

just use player prefs

you are fine

[swift sedge]

a game obviously had to be breached for people to find out how unsafe binary formatters are

i wonder

[rich adder]

that has nothing to do with games

[rare basin]

the thing that binary formatter is unsafe and dangerous has nothing to do with games and game development

[short hazel]

People thinking C# is only used for making games be like:

[rocky canyon]

is this the unity version of json?

[swift sedge]

yes

[rich adder]

prettyprint

[rocky canyon]

i had tremendous help building my save system

[swift sedge]

i dont know why unity has one when there is a perfectly good one in the system namespace

[wintry quarry]

Unity's is faster

[rocky canyon]

aye!

[eternal needle]

You should really stop worrying about breaches. Its seemingly mentioned everytime saving comes up. This is a fact: any offline game can 100% be "hacked" and any data can be injected/modified. No ifs buts or ands.

[rocky canyon]

the guy that helped me build mine has a few published games so i trusted he knew best

[timber tide]

Is there a reason to use Slerp over RotateTowards? Also, what defines the up axis for RotateTowards, does it just Vector.Up the space that it's in?

[polar acorn]

Same reason you'd use Lerp over MoveTowards

[rocky canyon]

im sure thats just a world coord

Transform.up would be local, Vector3.up world

[polar acorn]

They do different things. One of them gets a value some percent of the way between two values, one of them moves towards a value without exceeding some defined maximum

[wintry quarry]

Slerp is great when you know the start, end, duration and if you want to apply an easing function of some kind

[rocky canyon]

ya, true.. i construct my quaternions/rotations before hand. and then feed them into slerp

found thats the best way for me

[timber tide]

Well, one thing I don't understand is that you define the up axis of rotation with Slerp, but RotateTowards you dont

[rocky canyon]

i use slerp for all rotations.. even if they dont need it, the fact that i could smooth it later is always a plus

[wintry quarry]

You don't define any up axis 🤔

you just give start and end rotations

[polar acorn]

What do you mean, there's no "up axis" in slerp

[wintry quarry]

Are you thinking of LookRotation?

[timber tide]

oh ok right it's look rotation I am defining the up axis

maybe the better question is, I want to Slerp on both the y and the x (to tilt forward and down), but getting some unintended behavior

[polar acorn]

Slerp takes two direction vectors, it doesn't operate on individual axes

[timber tide]

Yeah, so do I make two look rotations and apply slerp on that rotation twice with different look rotations?

[proven junco]

back again, what do I do

[polar acorn]

You give it the start direction, the end direction, and the percentage of the way between them

[rocky canyon]

hehe, im already getting anxious thinking about it

[polar acorn]

What's line 37 of SoundManager.cs

[short hazel]

You cropped out line numbers

Post !code correctly

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[proven junco]

how do I do

[short hazel]

Read the bot message

[hexed terrace]

volume slider will be null

[proven junco]

youtube did not teach

[polar acorn]

Show the tutorial

and show a screenshot of your inspector for this script

[rocky canyon]

muahah i feel a list addition

[timber tide]

right, but if I do

targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up);

then slerp this towards the direction, it will only rotate on the world axis (in global)

[rocky canyon]

u hadn't assigned ur volume slider as mentioned

it don't know which slider is volumeSlider

[timber tide]

it's like I want to do:

targetRotationY = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up);
targetRotationX = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.right);

[polar acorn]

That will be the exact Quaternion you'll get when the t parameter of Slerp is 1

[proven junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWCHaTwVblk,

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector of this script in your scene

[rocky canyon]

watch 3:16

[hexed terrace]

Stone Cold?

[rocky canyon]

lol i thought that too

[hexed terrace]

this is not the requested inspector

[rocky canyon]

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/60554748/227689794-0f5b9380-7db1-4a99-91c5-0644e45e8cf3.gif

[proven junco]

yeah I think I found the problem

wait I cant fix the priblem

oh

[swift sedge]

attach the script to the entity and then slide the slider onto the variable in the now created script component

[proven junco]

nothing

[rocky canyon]

Unity 101

[polar acorn]

Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 151
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2024-3-21```

[proven junco]

well I did asign now

[rocky canyon]

well, that error will be gone 👍

[proven junco]

but it dosnt change the audio at all

so no errors but error in brain

[swift sedge]

lol

[rocky canyon]

New Boss Enter

[proven junco]

yeah

I was joking

ha ha ha

found it

Now I have to make an menu with audio slider in the gane to

game

[rocky canyon]

part of coding is designing things to be easily copied

u should have the bulk of it ready now, since u just did it

[proven junco]

Yeah Probb easy task

[visual wharf]

Hello, I don't want to interrupt anything but I am currently struggling with making a little menu in the FPS microgame template. The issue I am facing is that I can click through my menu when it is active. I tried to copy the way the pause menu works from the template itself but for I can't seem to figure out where they prevent the player from clicking through the UI. Here is the code I am working on https://hastebin.com/share/jazipicope.cpp

[rocky canyon]

nah, ur fine.. we're hovering around 1 issue atm

we got room for lots moar

[visual wharf]

cool

[rocky canyon]

do u have an EventSystem in ur scene?

[visual wharf]

yes

but that was already there as part of the template

oh and I can use my menu when the pause menu is open

[gleaming kraken]

i need help, why cant I update the VS Code package? It says on the documentation it needs to be a newer version, and even warns me so in vs code.

[proven junco]

is there any shortcut for scenes in unty

[short hazel]

It is deprecated. Now VSC uses the same backend as VS, so you need the Visual Studio Editor package

[hexed terrace]

"for scenes" ... what?

[gleaming kraken]

oh, I see, thank you

[proven junco]

yeah scenes

comprende

[hexed terrace]

your question was stupid and doesn't make sense.

[proven junco]

how doesnt it make sense

scenes in unity

one for the game, one for the menu

[short hazel]

What is a "shortcut for scene"?

[hexed terrace]

what do you want this shortcut to do..

[proven junco]

shortcut for scene

[short hazel]

Ah switching scenes?

From code

[proven junco]

aka press key 5 and scene 5 will pop upp

like numbpad in blender

[hexed terrace]

no, there are no shortcuts to quickly load scenes

[proven junco]

alr

[short hazel]

In Blender it [numpad] just orients the view, it does not change scenes?

[proven junco]

no but "same" consept

just a refrence

[polar acorn]

I don't think Blender has a concept of "scenes"

[short hazel]

It's very much not the same concept yep

[polar acorn]

The closest analogue is opening an entirely different .blend file

which there is not a shortcut for

[hexed terrace]

there's an asset on the UAS that does quick loading / swapping of scenes..

[proven junco]

okey well it was an refrense

[timber tide]

Quaternion rot;

void RotationMethod1
{
  Vector3 targetDirection = (newTarget.Transform.position - transform.position).normalized;

  Quaternion  targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up);
  rot = Quaternion.Slerp(rot, targetRotation, speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
  targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.right);
  rot = Quaternion.Slerp(rot, targetRotation, speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
  
  transform.rotation = rot;
}

//don't believe this is the ideal way
void RotationMethod2
{
  Vector3 targetDirection = (newTarget.Transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
  
  Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up);
  targetRotation *= Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.right);
  rot = Quaternion.Slerp(rot, targetRotation, speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);

  transform.rotation = rot;
}

void RotationMethod3
{
  Vector3 targetDirection = (newTarget.Transform.position - transform.position).normalized;

  Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up);
  Quaternion temp_rot1 = Quaternion.Slerp(rot, targetRotation, speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
  targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up);
  Quaternion temp_rot2 = Quaternion.Slerp(rot, targetRotation, speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
  
  rot = rot1 * rot2;
  transform.rotation = rot 
}```
So between these three methods, what would be the solution to how I want to combine these slerp rotations every frame, or what else should I consider cause all my testing coming out pretty bad.

[proven junco]

so that my "stupid" question could be understood

[polar acorn]

Why do you keep doing two LookRotations?

And why with one using Vector3.Right as up?

[timber tide]

because Vector3.up look rotation only seems to rotate me on the world up axis

[short hazel]

And I still don't understand it, because what you want to do and what Blender does is different. Blender has no concept of scenes, so do you want to open another scene from the code, or move the camera in the currently active scene?

[timber tide]

I need both y rotation and x tilting rotation

[polar acorn]

No, the up you give it there is to set the roll for the resulting rotation. LookRotation creates a quaternion such that it's forward is the given direction and it's local up is oriented towards the given parameter

[timber tide]

perhaps something else wrong with my logic, because what I am applying it to is being stubborn and only rotating one axis

[polar acorn]

Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up) will produce a quaternion of this object, looking straight in the targetDirection, while still staying upright

Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, -Vector3.up), for example, would have it pointing the same way, but upside-down

[vale geode]

hi when i try to bake a object navmesh i the buton doesnt give me the option to what should i do

[swift crag]

are you in play mode?

you can't bake through the inspector in play mode

[timber tide]

Hmm, alright, so slerp should technically get me to the point where I am directly looking at it, but it has some different orientations for how it will do that eh

[neat beacon]

i put it in a separate script and referenced the game object component and still no luck.

 foreach (Collider2D collider in colliders) {
     if (collider != null) {
         GameObject parentObject = collider.transform.parent.gameObject;
         SpriteRenderer parentSpriteRenderer = parentObject.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
         if (parentSpriteRenderer != null) {
             parentSpriteRenderer.sprite = null;
         }
         Destroy(collider.gameObject);
         pm.CreateDust(collider.transform.position);
         
     }
 }```

[vale geode]

yup thanks for help

[neat beacon]

where did u go buddy (on runtime after a click)

[polar acorn]

So, picture a tennis ball with a nail sticking out of it. You can rotate the ball so that the nail is pointing due north, but notice that you can spin the ball however you like by twisting the nail. This is why you can't get an orientation with just one axis. If you instead put a second nail somewhere in the ball, and made sure that second nail was pointed straight up and the first one is pointed due north, you can't rotate the ball any more without invalidating one of those conditions. That's why you specify two vectors for LookRotation

[potent nymph]

so far I've only used coroutines with waitforseconds, which is pretty straightforward. However, I've seen examples online that looks like this:

IEnumerator MyCoroutine(){
    while(true){yield return null;}
}

Although I know coroutines are used for executing code asynchronously, I don't understand why while(true) doesn't result in an infinite loop

[swift crag]

If you frequently forget that you're in play mode, you can configure the color the editor tints itself with when in play mode. The default is very subtle.

[polar acorn]

Either you set pm to null or pm is destroyed

[swift crag]

You yield return null; every iteration of the loop.

A while loop that does nothing at all would, indeed, freeze your game.

[swift sedge]

which is a bad thing?

[polar acorn]

The yield return null means "Wait until next frame to do anything else here". This means it does one iteration of the loop per frame, kind of like a mini-Update

[swift crag]

most gamers do not enjoy the game not running

[polar acorn]

I did answer a question once where that was the desired outcome.

[swift crag]

In an enumerator, yield halts the method and returns control to whoever called MoveNext() on the enumerator

[polar acorn]

They were making a meta horror game and needed a way to force a game crash and asked for ideas

[potent nymph]

I see, so it essentially is an infinite loop, but only executes once per frame if I'm understanding correctly

[polar acorn]

I told em "just stick in an while true loop"

[swift crag]

It's an infinite loop that takes a nap every iteration

so yeah

[polar acorn]

Yep. It will do one iteration per frame for ever, so there's plenty of time for all the other stuff to run in the meantime

[neat beacon]

i never made it null. Not sure what's going on with it...

[timber tide]

Right, I guess there's more flawed somewhere in my logic, but beyond rotating with a single look rotation and adding forward offset, the object that's rotating eventually gets to the point where it only wants to rotate on the y axis and not the x. Specifically for projectiles that home onto their targets.

[swift sedge]

until the user presses the X button on the top right of the window, or cancels it in task manager after freaking out that pressing the X button doesnt work because the app is frozen

[polar acorn]

Well, when a statement is true and one of the conditions in the or is false, then the other one must be

[polar acorn]

So, you want this object to rotate towards looking at newTarget over some period of time, yes?

[swift crag]

if only there were some way to, say, RotateTowards a target rotation...

[timber tide]

I've tried both, but idk once the projectile overshoots it just wants to stay on the y

[polar acorn]

Well, either one could work, it'd just depend on if @timber tide wants a constant speed or constant time to reach the destination

[swift crag]

indeed

[timber tide]

sec let me chop up the code a bit

Vector3 targetDirection = (newTarget.Transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
Quaternion targetRotation;

targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up);

homingRotation = Quaternion.Slerp(
    homingRotation,
    targetRotation,
    currentHomingSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);

Vector3 posChange = currentSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime * transform.forward;

transform.rotation = homingRotation;

transform.position += posChange;

that's basically only stuff I've acting on rotation and position at the moment

so basically the projectile spawns facing an incline and homes onto a target, but since the rotation speed can be slower/faster than the target, it can over/under shoot. And, the problem is that once it over shoots it does not want to correct its rotation and tilt upwards

[polar acorn]

Do you want the rotation to happen at a constant speed or do you want the rotation to reach the destination in a given time

[timber tide]

it's a constant speed here

I do update it via my own curve though

[polar acorn]

Okay, so if you want the speed to be constant, RotateTowards is what you want to be using instead of Slerp

[proven junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1AQxNAQV8g

Okey Im eithe like really dumb or something, I try to follow but he says pause buttom and shows a ui obj but does not say what it is, like hello

[timber tide]

I do get similar behavior with RotateTowards but ill try it out again

[polar acorn]

transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRotation, maxDegreesPerFrame)

[polar acorn]

What do you mean "Does not say what it is"? Surely they say it's a UI object, since you seem to know it's a UI Object. What else would they need to say?

[flint falcon]

why everytime i open unity i get this error? Assertion failed on expression: 'SUCCEEDED(hr)'

[proven junco]

I only know it is some kind of ui think bc of the inspector and the options that is has but he dpsnt say what it is

just "Pause buttom"

[rare basin]

yea so he said what it is

a pause BUTTON

[proven junco]

but WHAT is a pause buttom

[polar acorn]

A... button

[rare basin]

it's a UI element called a.. button

[proven junco]

an invisable button

[rare basin]

lol

[proven junco]

yeah but he has two diff sections of buttons

one pause menu buttons

and then pause button

[rare basin]

anyway this is code related channel

[proven junco]

well it is code related

[rare basin]

and your questions doesnt make sense

[rare basin]

then show the code

[proven junco]

okey

no worrie

[rocky lava]

is there a way to connect this transparent box to the red enemy to use as a vision cone?, he goes through waypoints so i would also like him to turn at corners

[past brook]

is there a way to test if an Axis key is released like Input.GetKeyUp?

[rare basin]

axis can't be released its a.. axis

not a key or button that can be phyiscally released

you can test if the getaxis returns 0 for example

[polar acorn]

If by "connect" you mean "make this move when the enemy moves" then make it a child object of it

[polar acorn]

Axes don't have a press or release state. Check if the axis's value is 0 to see when it's "released"

[rare basin]

depends on what they mean by released

but yea

[past brook]

i was asking if it had a way to tell if the axis wasn't having one of its input keys pressed

[rare basin]

check for the return value

and if it's 0 then no input is detected

[past brook]

that worked thanks

[visual wharf]

Anyone know why I am clicking through my ui menu back into the game instead of on the ui?

[summer stump]

Does the UI have raycasttarget enabled? Do you have an event system in the scene? What layer is the ui on?

[visual wharf]

The UI is on the second layer, there is an event system but I am not quite sure where the raycastTarget setting is supposed to be

there is a graphic raycaster component on it with the blocking mask set on everthing

Found it! Raycast Target is enabled on all the elements

if it helps I am using the FPS microtemplate from unity and the pre existing pause menu does work in it and even makes my menu work when it is enabled in the background

could it be caused by having a second canvas in my scene?

[carmine sierra]

I added a new scene to my game. The build works as intended but the play test is still stuck on the previous scene indexes.

[swift crag]

did you add the scene to the scene list in the build settings?

[carmine sierra]

yes, although i do realise instead of saying Scenes/scenename, it says Player1 Name, which is the name of that scene

[swift crag]

that's just the path to the Scene asset

[carmine sierra]

yeah but it doesn't have that path on the new scene that i added

[swift crag]

Screenshot the scene list for me.

[rich egret]

hi

[vale geode]

hi i cant get the agent to move in the navmesh, i have baked the mesh blow him and its blue but i cant get him to walk

[rich egret]

in need help

[swift crag]

Okay, so the scene named "Player1 Name" should be loaded when you load scene index 1

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[carmine sierra]

yeah

[polar acorn]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[polar acorn]

#1180170818983051344

[rich egret]

I'm trying to make a 3D model run on a 2D screen but it doesn't work

[rich egret]

[polar acorn]

Looks like it's working just fine you're going to have to say what the actual issue is

[neat beacon]

fixed! Instantiated a prefab for the effect instead, and it deletes after with the deleted block Performance efficient solution 🙂

[swift crag]

What behavior are you observing in the editor and in the built game?

[rich egret]

No, when I start the game it disappears

[carmine sierra]

the built game runs the scene order fine (although there is another issue with an input box) however the editor doesn't load the scene entirely and skips to the next scene

[swift crag]

Show the code that loads the scene.

[polar acorn]

Well, with all of the information provided, the only thing I can possibly answer is "Is it actually somewhere visible to the camera"

[swift crag]

Log the currently active scene and its build index before calling LoadScene

See what value it actually has in the editor.

[rocky lava]

i'm using waypoints to make this enemy move, how do i turn the field of vision block when its going a certain direction instead of having it at the front the entire time

[carmine sierra]

okay, but the build settings shows it is 0 and it should load 1 by the code logic

[swift crag]

right, but what value do you actually get in the editor?

[carmine sierra]

not sure what this means

[swift crag]

log the buildIndex

you logged the actual scene object

[carmine sierra]

was this wrong

[swift crag]

I forgot that the scene object alone wouldn't tell you anything; i should've said the name and the build index

[carmine sierra]

nvm i see the issue

[rich adder]

vision block?

[swift crag]

Parent the object to the enemy and then make the enemy rotate.

[carmine sierra]

@swift crag woah your right it logged 1 instead of 0

why

[swift crag]

I don't use build indices in the editor. Maybe they can be wrong until you restart the editor or something

[rocky lava]

how would i do that while it's walking though?

[carmine sierra]

thanks ill try that

[swift crag]

You can use Quaternion.LookRotation to compute a rotation in the direction of movement, and then use Quaternion.RotateTowards to steadily rotate the enemy towards that rotation

[rocky lava]

the red transparent cube in front of it

OH ok

[rich adder]

is it not parened? it should move with it

[rocky lava]

it is, it moves with it

[swift crag]

Quaternion target = Quaterion.LookRotation(direction);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, target, Time.deltaTime * 90);

[rocky lava]

just does not rotate

[swift crag]

Note that this will make the enemy tilt up and down if the destination is above or below them

If you don't want that, consider...

[rich adder]

is the enemy rotating then

[swift crag]

direction = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(direction, Vector3.up);

This will throw out the up-and-down part of direction

I guess direction.y = 0 also works 😉

[carmine sierra]

the new scene i added is in bold

I haven't used unity in a while so maybe i added the scene in a different way?

[rocky lava]

where would i put this in the code? im not that good with coding sorry\

[swift crag]

Ah, I get it

you have multiple scenes loaded

[rocky lava]

or would it be a seperate script?

[rich adder]

you're not rotating here ofc the box would not rotate as well

[swift crag]

"Player1 Name" is the active scene.

[carmine sierra]

yeahh

cause it says multiple audio listeners

[rich adder]

put it in update

[swift crag]

If you don't want to actually have multiple scenes open for editing at once, just close the others in the editor

You've dragged the scene assets into the hierarchy window to open them like that

[carmine sierra]

yeah it worked, i just unloaded the scenes i don't want active

but I have an issue with an input text box not appearing when I load the game, any ideas why?

[swift crag]

I prefer to not look at the active scene index; I just directly go to the scene I need

[carmine sierra]

is this how id do it?

[honest haven]

im checking for null but its still throwing an error

[carmine sierra]

sorry nvm just googled it

[polar acorn]

It's not null. It's destroyed

If this is an expected outcome, the object being destroyed, you can do != null. Unity has overridden the == operator to work properly for destroyed objects, but the C# implicit cast doesn't

[honest haven]

Im not destroying it, its has a ddol, and im just trying to deactive it

i know there error says i am

[polar acorn]

The error is pretty specific in letting you know it's been destroyed

[rich adder]

You would store the string or int probably

[honest haven]

but i have not writen any code to do it

[polar acorn]

Show the !code for PlayerController

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[honest haven]

https://gdl.space/ehiqodonub.cs

[polar acorn]

This script doesn't seem to have a DDOL in it anywhere

[honest haven]

https://gdl.space/musecuyepi.cs

could it be this?

[rich adder]

 [SerializeField] string SceneName = "MyScene";
    public void Method()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneName);
    }```

[polar acorn]

Several things.

1. Why are all your prefabs of type GameObject if literally the first thing you do with them is GetComponent
2. Why are you setting instance inside of this script when (presumably) all of these scripts set instance inside of their own code
3. Why is this object a DDOL and none of the things it's spawned?

[honest haven]

Number 3) im trying to load a battle scene, and i dont want to craft in that scene nor use that type of inventory. Battle scene is the only exception where the ddol is not needed

number 2) i do need to refactor.

number 1) again i will refactor

[polar acorn]

You're treating your PlayerController.instance as if the player controller is a DDOL, but it isn't. Changing scenes destroys PlayerController.instance

[honest haven]

when you say its not a ddol. i know im not setting it in the player controller. but i am in the Essentials loader am i not?

well im setting the essientals loader as a ddol

[polar acorn]

You are setting the EssentialsLoader to be a DDOL

[honest haven]

Is that not a good way to do that?

[polar acorn]

I mean, does it need to be a DDOL? There doesn't seem to be anything relevant on this that would need to persist between scenes. It doesn't even hold any data

Why did you make the EssentialsLoader persistent but all of your singletons not be

[honest haven]

No true but when i go into a new scene or create a new scene. i was thinking it would be easier to use the essientals load as it holds all my UI stuff. then i dont have to add it to a new scene each time.

[timber tide]

Ok, I figured it out. Apparently unity's rigidbodies was fighting with my navmesh (I've not used unity's for a while), and it seems like the transform values I was sampling was not the same as the ones that I was debugging/displayed in the editor

[polar acorn]

It doesn't seem to hold anything. Although I suppose it's possible you put this on your canvas or something

[timber tide]

but RotateTowards does make more sense so I'll stick with that.

[honest haven]

So if you was building or have built an rpg game. would you manually add the player the ui to each scene? When you say data also. the game manager does keep track if a battle is active and the inventory menu does keep track of what items i have

[polar acorn]

It's very simple:

Does this object need to exist in multiple scenes? If so, then make it a DDOL.

[honest haven]

so or though i wont use items in the battle when i go back into the scene world i do want to be able to craft again

[polar acorn]

Nothing you've shown of EssentialsLoader indicates it should be a DDOL at all. All it does is spawn in a bunch of prefabs when the game boots and then do nothing else ever again

[honest haven]

ok thank you for sharing

been a big help

[primal shadow]

Does anyone know what code it is to give roles

Like bartender or manger stuff like that or vip

[rich adder]

make an Enum ?

[primal shadow]

What does that do

[polar acorn]

Lets you define ints with names basically

[timber tide]

IEnumerator HomingAbility()
{
    while(true)
    {
        do
        {
            int randomFrames = UnityEngine.Random.Range(1, 4);

            for (int i = 0; i < randomFrames; i++)
            {
                yield return new WaitForFixedUpdate();
            }

        } while (!isHomingAllowed);
        
        //home onto target;
    }
} ```
When I deactive this, it will exit out of the yield and won't re-enter when I flip it back on, right? So I'd have to call the coroutine again when I activate it

trying to spread out some work over frames cause it is a lot of projectiles

[rich adder]

don't think so, but also why not test 😛

[timber tide]

ive already frozen unity once testing some stuff haha

[rich adder]

I was under the assumption when you deactivate it basically runs something like StopAllCoroutines

[north kiln]

By 'it' do you mean isHomingAllowed?

[polar acorn]

I am unsure what this is supposed to be doing.

[proven junco]

someone got a video on how to choose fullscreeen mode or windowed

[polar acorn]

Also, if isHomingAllowed is true, there's no yields, so it'll go infinite

[proven junco]

kinda stuck on that

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Screen-fullScreen.html

[timber tide]

it's not supposed to exit out of the ienumerator and it will always yield at least 1 frame

[rich adder]

there are plenty, what did you search?

[polar acorn]

Where

[north kiln]

Presumably there's other code where the comment is

[polar acorn]

Ah, probably

[proven junco]

"choosable fullscreen mode button unity"

[timber tide]

the do while will always fall into the for loop

at least 1 frame (there is no waitforframes(int num) so this is my solution)

[rich adder]

i mean, why not just
"FullScreen Switch Unity"
"Making Button Unity"

combine the two

[proven junco]

do i put this on a button?

[polar acorn]

You call this wherever you want to change the full screen mode

[timber tide]

it's an infinite coroutine, and it's to control overlap sphere operations every frame cause I don't really need to update the rotation that quickly

[proven junco]

I'm searching for a menu button script that allowes me to put a button into work by pressing it and activating fullscreen or windowed

[rich adder]

why not just use a Toggle

[carmine sierra]

thanks got there

[polar acorn]

Once you know how to run code from a UI button you can do literally whatever you want on a button press

[proven junco]

I did find one with toggle but it didnt work

[carmine sierra]

the input field and the border around it (below the text) doesnt load when i play it

[proven junco]

but I will try to make my own code

[rich adder]

combine these two and you're golen
https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Toggle-onValueChanged.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Screen-fullScreen.html

[potent nymph]

I have the following code that starts a coroutine which is supposed to call the method AssignMeshData after the vertices have been defined

    //called on button click
    private void CreateMesh()
    {
        _meshDataCS.CreateVertexBuffer();
        StartCoroutine(AwaitComputeBuffer(_meshDataCS));     
    }

    private IEnumerator AwaitComputeBuffer(MeshDataComputeShader meshDataCS)
    {
        while (meshDataCS.vertices == null)
        {
            yield return null;
        }
        AssignMeshData(meshDataCS.vertices, meshDataCS.uvs);
    }

However, it only appears to work when CreateMesh is called a second time, but doesn't work when called the first time

[carmine sierra]

any ideas?

[potent nymph]

vertices are assigned on line 84 https://gdl.space/oqositorip.cs

[proven junco]

Yeah I made my own code and feel like a god

[proven junco]

but thx for the help either way

[vale geode]

hi same question from earlier but now it clips in the ground

if i can give more context for help i will

[frosty hound]

More context? Maybe start with the context.

[swift crag]

if you're wondering why serializing a Scene didn't work, that's because Scene is an object that represent a runtime scene (the actual data Unity creates when it loads a scene)

If you google "unity scene field" you'll find a thread on the unity forums talking about this

there's a nice "SceneField" script in there that can be used to pick a scene in the inspector

[frosty hound]

Also, @vale geode , I suggest you remove the inappropriate stuff from your server profile.

[vale geode]

i trying to make the nav mesh agent follow waypoint in the scene ,i have baked the scene already and yeah thats it, but im stuck and i cant figure whats going on, the tutorials i follow dont seem to have the same problems and no errors on console

[frosty hound]

Looks like the pivot for your character is too high

[rich adder]

also why is there a giant box collider

[vale geode]

is it supposed to be below ground?

[vale geode]

dont know but il make it smaller if it helps

[rich adder]

you just added something without reason?

[olive storm]

@rich adder yaw its been 4 days i still dont knoe womp womp

[vale geode]

it afects the mesh?

[rich adder]

not really but it might affect collision wrong just remove it and put capsule if you want collider on it

fix the mesh , you haven't shown how you put mesh

[vale geode]

i imported a fbx from blender, the origin is on ground level and removed the colider but it didnt change

[rich adder]

where at ? also the pivot mode should be Local not Global

seems you got something tilting forward but gizmos shows upright

[vale geode]

looks like this when not in play

[rich adder]

you probably baked the navmesh wrong / tiled maybe

[carmine sierra]

I entered one scene by accident and now cant access multiple scenes at a time

how can i return to that

the hierarchy just shows the one scene rn

nvm got it fixed

[gleaming kraken]

is code monkey a good place to start for someone who has no clue what unity is apart from that it makes games?

[rich adder]

no.
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[gleaming kraken]

what's this

lemme check it out

[rich adder]

proper way to learn unity, start with the essentials pathway first

[carmine sierra]

these are not appropriate for TMP right?

what are the variable names for tmp

[teal viper]

TMP_Text

[carmine sierra]

underlined in red though

also the input field needs one

i did google this btw

[teal viper]

What fixes does your ide suggest? What ide is that even?

[carmine sierra]

asks me if im missing a directive

idk if i am

screenshotted to show the ones im using

also the ide is configured, it is vs

code

found the issue

[teal viper]

It should give you a suggestion of how to fix the issue or what namespace to use.

[carmine sierra]

using TMPro was necessary

[teal viper]

As for the other one, you can look for it in the docs:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@1.0/api/TMPro.html

[coarse lance]

   void Start() {
 

    // Display results, for example, using UI text elements:
    player1ResultsText.text = "Player 1: " + player1Score + " correct answers";
    player2ResultsText.text = "Player 2: " + player2Score + " correct answers";

    // You could also display who won or if it's a tie
    if (player1Score > player2Score) {
        winnerText.text = "Player 1 Wins!";
    } else if (player1Score < player2Score) {
        winnerText.text = "Player 2 Wins!";
    } else {
        winnerText.text = "It's a Tie!";
    }
}







            public void CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore(string selectedAnswer)
{
    // Assuming 'actualAnswer' holds the correct answer (e.g., "A", "B", "C", or "D")
    // This value should be set whenever you generate/load a new question+
     // Example correct answer

    // Check if the selected answer matches the correct answer
    if (selectedAnswer == QuestionGenerate.actualAnswer)
    {
        // Correct answer, increment the score of the current player
        if (currentPlayer == 1)
        {
            player1Score++;
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer1", player1Score);
        }
        else if (currentPlayer == 2)
        {
            player2Score++;
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer2", player2Score);
        }

        // Optionally, you can add feedback for the correct answer here
        Debug.Log("Correct! Player " + currentPlayer + "'s score: " + (currentPlayer == 1 ? player1Score : player2Score));
    }
    else
    {
        // Wrong answer, add feedback or handle accordingly
        Debug.Log("Wrong answer.");
    }

    // Ensure to save the updated scores
    PlayerPrefs.Save();


    
}









    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {



     if (totalQuestionsAsked >= 4) {
    // Save the score for the current player
  
    PlayerPrefs.SetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer" + currentPlayer, currentPlayer == 1 ? player1Score : player2Score);
    PlayerPrefs.Save();

    // Reset for next player or end game
    totalQuestionsAsked = 0;
    correctAnswers = 0;
    displayingQuestion = false;

    if (currentPlayer == 1) {
        // Switch to Player 2
        currentPlayer = 2;
        UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadScene("ZwischenScene"); // A scene where Player 2 gets ready
    } else {
        // Both players have played, go to results
        UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadScene("EndScene"); // The scene where you compare scores and show results
    }
    return; // Prevent further execution in this update
}
        // displayingQuestion = true;

i dont get why it issnt working, in "ZwischenScene" it doesnt show how many player 1 actually correctly guessed, it just says 0.
can smn help me out?

[teal viper]

Wat? ZwichenScene?

[coarse lance]

so, the game is asking 3 question, which can be answered wrong and correct.
after these 3 question it switches to a scene, where it shows how many questions you have answered correctly.

but its just saying 0 no matter what, so i guess i did something wrong

[vale geode]

update i checked the navmesh suface and baked again did see changes on the rotation of the colider of the navmesh agent, but the model it self rotates 90 degres and it still doesnt follow the path im going to rotate the model from blender and import again to see if thats the problem

[teal viper]

What scene is the code above from..?

[coarse lance]

from the scene before

but i have also connected it to both scenes

ofc

[rich adder]

You set Int but never load it

[coarse lance]

why shouldnt it load there ?

it should load on the scene change no?

[rich adder]

where are you loading anything to make it not 0 ?

[rich adder]

yeah where is PlayerPrefs.GetInt

[proven junco]

why scripto not worko

no pause menu popping up when hitting esc

[rich adder]

you've been told a few times how to share code here

[proven junco]

what

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[coarse lance]

it just load the saved no

[proven junco]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject pauseMenu;
    public static bool isPaused;

    void Start()
    {
        pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Escape))
        {
            if (isPaused)
            {
                ResumeGame();
            }
            else
            {
                PauseGame();
            }
        }

    }

    public void PauseGame()
    {
        pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
        Time.timeScale = 0f;
        isPaused = true;
    }

    public void ResumeGame()
    {
        pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
        Time.timeScale = 1f;
        isPaused = false;
    }

}

[rich adder]

where are you loading to make it not 0 when you switch ?

[proven junco]

no pause menu when pressing esc

[coarse lance]

but why sould it be wrong to use getint in start??????

[rich adder]

what?

[rich adder]

Start debugging the script

[proven junco]

how I do that

[rich adder]

Put logs. inside the methods, make sure everything is running

[coarse lance]

PlayerPrefs.GetInt is in start.

[rich adder]

where

[rich adder]

maybe send the correct script ?

[coarse lance]

huh

oh

[coarse lance]

yeah ok but its still not working with that

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



public class QuestionGenerate : MonoBehaviour
{
    
    public static string actualAnswer;
    public static bool displayingQuestion = false;
    public int questionNumber;
    public static int totalQuestionsAsked = 0;
    public static int correctAnswers = 0;
    public static int currentPlayer = 1;
    [SerializeField]
    private Text player1ResultsText;
    [SerializeField]
    private Text player2ResultsText;
    [SerializeField]
    private Text winnerText;
    public static int player1Score = 0;
    public static int player2Score = 0;

    public int scorevalue;




 void Start() {
    // Correctly update class-level static variables from PlayerPrefs
    player1Score = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer1", 0); // Use default value of 0 if not set
    player2Score = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer2", 0);

    // Display the scores using the updated static variables
    player1ResultsText.text = "Player 1: " + player1Score + " correct answers";
    player2ResultsText.text = "Player 2: " + player2Score + " correct answers";

    // Determine who's winning and update the winnerText accordingly
    if (player1Score > player2Score) {
        winnerText.text = "Player 1 Wins!";
    } else if (player1Score < player2Score) {
        winnerText.text = "Player 2 Wins!";
    } else {
        winnerText.text = "It's a Tie!";
    }
}







            public void CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore(string selectedAnswer)
{
    // Assuming 'actualAnswer' holds the correct answer (e.g., "A", "B", "C", or "D")
    // This value should be set whenever you generate/load a new question+
     // Example correct answer

    // Check if the selected answer matches the correct answer
    if (selectedAnswer == QuestionGenerate.actualAnswer)
    {
        // Correct answer, increment the score of the current player
        if (currentPlayer == 1)
        {
            player1Score++;
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer1", player1Score);
        }
        else if (currentPlayer == 2)
        {
            player2Score++;
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer2", player2Score);
        }

        // Optionally, you can add feedback for the correct answer here
        Debug.Log("Correct! Player " + currentPlayer + "'s score: " + (currentPlayer == 1 ? player1Score : player2Score));
    }
    else
    {
        // Wrong answer, add feedback or handle accordingly
        Debug.Log("Wrong answer.");
    }

    // Ensure to save the updated scores
    PlayerPrefs.Save();


    
}









    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {



     if (totalQuestionsAsked >= 4) {
    // Save the score for the current player
  
    PlayerPrefs.SetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer" + currentPlayer, currentPlayer == 1 ? player1Score : player2Score);
    PlayerPrefs.Save();

    // Reset for next player or end game
    totalQuestionsAsked = 0;
    correctAnswers = 0;
    displayingQuestion = false;

    if (currentPlayer == 1) {
        // Switch to Player 2
        currentPlayer = 2;
        UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadScene("ZwischenScene"); // A scene where Player 2 gets ready
    } else {
        // Both players have played, go to results
        UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadScene("EndScene"); // The scene where you compare scores and show results
    }
    return; // Prevent further execution in this update
}

[rich adder]

is the script running in second scene?

[coarse lance]

yes

[rich adder]

dont sharecode like this

[coarse lance]

and connected to ui

[rich adder]

its too large

[coarse lance]

oh

sry im new

[rich adder]

use a codebin website

edit that and use link instead

[coarse lance]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[coarse lance]

https://gdl.space/nojusuzase.cs

[rich adder]

how many of these scripts do you have

[coarse lance]

how many scripts in the whole game?

[rich adder]

these are static
public static int correctAnswers = 0;

[coarse lance]

yes?

so thats the problem?

[rich adder]

prob not, wondering why you made them static

[coarse lance]

im getting depressed

okay, i guess im stupid

it always say wrong answer

[teal viper]

Start from debugging from both sides:

1. Is the value saved at all?
2. Is the correct value saved?
3. Is it overriden later on?
4. Is the value loaded at all?
5. Is the value overriden later on?

[coarse lance]

i guess i went somewhere wrong

[coarse lance]

thanks :)

[teal viper]

I guess that would mean that 2 is failing.

[coarse lance]

im crying

i have to send this project to my teachers tomorrow hahaha

11.59pm

[teal viper]

How is it that you're only debugging it now though?

[rich adder]

why did you do it last minute

[coarse lance]

yeah im lost

[coarse lance]

i can only work under strong pressure

[coarse lance]

nah i can still finish it, its almost done, but this is so annoying rn

[rich adder]

Debug.Log your selectedAnswer and actualAnswer

make sure the values are what you assume them to be

[coarse lance]

i mean actual answer is correct ( i can see that from jsut playing )

[rich adder]

huh thats 1 out 2

[teal viper]

How is the actual answer correct if the debugs are not? Either you're debugging the wrong thing or confirming the wrong way.

[coarse lance]

yeah i dont get it

[coarse lance]

by playing, i can see that only the right answer is right, which tells me that the actual answers are correctly used

i mean my buttons are working with actual answer

[rich adder]

what does it have to do with selectedAnswer

[coarse lance]

i just dont see, if actual answer is correct, what should be wrong here

[polar acorn]

Why all the getcomponents. Why are your answerX variables already of type button

[rich adder]

but where is selectedAnswer variable coming from

[coarse lance]

im not advancend

[polar acorn]

Instead of just logging "Wrong answer", why not log selected answer and actual answer

[polar acorn]

You've made it more complicated

[coarse lance]

beginners like to do that

[polar acorn]

So do you want solutions or do you just want validation

[coarse lance]

solutions ofc

[polar acorn]

So, log the values, see what they are versus what you expect them to be

[coarse lance]

yeah sad life

[polar acorn]

So it appears your selected answer is null or blank.

[rich adder]

so where do you pass the selectedAnswer to CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore

[polar acorn]

Where do you call CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore

[coarse lance]

CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore is defined to an active GameObject in the scene

[rich adder]

no you defined in QuestionGenerate

where are you calling it

[coarse lance]

thats all i have with CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore

[rich adder]

then how exactly do you expect selectedAnswer not the be null ?

[coarse lance]

i thought
if actual answer -> selected answer +1

like defined

[quartz mural]

what does it mean if the function name is in a darker shade

bcz its not working for some reason

it used to before

i think the shade of it and its functionlaity is linked?

anyone?

[rich adder]

it means its not used anywhere

[quartz mural]

ok

thank u

[rich adder]

whats that even mean->

where is the function running from?

[coarse lance]

what do i have to do now??

[rich adder]

how else is it printing Debug.Log("Wrong answer.");

[rich adder]

pass the right string for CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore

[coarse lance]

how do i do that?

[gleaming kraken]

so im trying to get the collider to scale it to the pipe, but for some reason, the collider just isn't showing, why is that?

[polar acorn]

Show where you are calling this function

[coarse lance]

public class AnswerButtons : MonoBehaviour
{
    public QuestionGenerate questionGenerate;

    public void OnAnswerASelected()
    {
        questionGenerate.CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore("A");
    }

you mean like this?

[coarse lance]

idk what to do

[polar acorn]

okay and what calls OnAnswerASelected?

[coarse lance]

bro what does calling mean

show me an example

i mean trough that now this happenms

[polar acorn]

If you don't know the very very basic words that make up the concept of programming I can't really help you. You literally don't speak the language

[coarse lance]

i only took german courses

issnt this the beginners chat?

and if you show me an example i will understand it xd

[polar acorn]

So, somewhere, you're passing in a blank or a null. Click on that log and look at the stack trace at the bottom. Show that

[coarse lance]

it shows no stack trace

the red error there can be ignored

[coarse lance]

but if i clikc one answer, its being output several times instead of one time

[polar acorn]

You seem to have somehow disabled the stack trace in your logs. Try to find out how to get those back. It'll tell you what function is calling this one so you can see what's passing in a blank

[coarse lance]

oh

[karmic mulch]

yo I have a problem with
my script
someone will help

[summer stump]

https://dontasktoask.com/

Just ask then

[scarlet skiff]

now might be a little late but, do you happen to know any good tutorials regarding this? some sort of guide with visuals, would be helpful as im not the sharpest tool in the shed

[summer stump]

What is the question?

[karmic mulch]

the projectile does not destroy itself upon contact with the wall

[summer stump]

Does the projectile have a dynamic rigidbody on it?

Do either have a trigger collider?

[silk night]

Look for it in the unity docs, there should be sample code

[summer stump]

Ah, you move it with velocity. So I guess question 1 is yes

[summer stump]

Is the WALL a trigger? Why use OnTriggerEnter here instead of OnCollisionEnter

[silk night]

Is any of your colliders a trigger?

[coarse lance]

i am crying

[karmic mulch]

it works but the player passes through the floor

[foggy lion]

is it possible to disable the gravity of a 3D character controller?

[summer stump]

What?
Please answer my questions

[verbal dome]

What do you mean with 3D character controller?

[summer stump]

You have to add gravity via code if you use Move. So just DON'T do SimpleMove and don't add gravity

[verbal dome]

Yeah if it's CC, then just.. don't apply it

[karmic mulch]

the player falls through the wall

[summer stump]

That has nothing to do with what we were talking about. But ok, if you want to change subjects without answering me...
Does the player have a collider?

[karmic mulch]

yes

[summer stump]

Ok, back to my question earlier, IS THE WALL A TRIGGER. Please answer this time.
It should NOT be

[karmic mulch]

yes

[summer stump]

Don't make it a trigger 🤷‍♂️

[foggy lion]

If the info helps, im trying to make a vr ice pick climbing game using open xr tool kit

and right now im trying to apply force in the opposite direction of my ice picks

but gravity is weighing my player down

and im using the Character Controller

[coarse lance]

how do i fix this?

[karmic mulch]

but then the bullet is not destroyed..

[summer stump]

As I said, use OnCollisionEnter

[summer stump]

Well yeahhhh

You have to look at the docs...

Google it for the right signature. It is not the same as OnTriggerEnter

[coarse lance]

public void CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore(string selectedAnswer)
{
   
    Debug.Log("Selected Answer: " + selectedAnswer + ", Actual Answer: " + QuestionGenerate.actualAnswer);

    
    if (selectedAnswer == QuestionGenerate.actualAnswer)
    {
        
        if (currentPlayer == 1)
        {
            player1Score++;
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer1", player1Score);
        }
        else if (currentPlayer == 2)
        {
            player2Score++;
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("CorrectAnswersPlayer2", player2Score);
        }

        
    }
    else
    {
       
    }

   
    PlayerPrefs.Save();
}

0x0000028b35b4a083 (Mono JIT Code) QuestionGenerate:CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore (string) (at ....QuestionGenerate.cs:62)
0x0000028b35b499eb (Mono JIT Code) AnswerButtons:AnswerB () (at ...AnswerButtons.cs:82)
the right one ⬆️
0x0000028b35b4a083 (Mono JIT Code) QuestionGenerate:CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore (string) (at C...QuestionGenerate.cs:62)
wrong one ⬆️

its somehow getting triggered twice, but where

https://gdl.space/buyadadasi.cs
thats my whole code.

[foggy lion]

If the info helps, im trying to make a vr ice pick climbing game using open xr tool kit
and right now im trying to apply force in the opposite direction of my ice picks
but gravity is weighing my player down
and im using the Character Controller

Its just the default character controller

[verbal dome]

And you want to disable gravity?

[foggy lion]

Yes

[verbal dome]

You have code that is applying gravity, CharacterController doesnt apply it by default. Add an if statement or something

[foggy lion]

Well that must be the default open XR stuff then

[verbal dome]

Not familiar but probably yeah

[bleak pasture]

it's not illegal to edit it, swat not gonna swat you

[foggy lion]

I know lol

[bleak pasture]

Ok I said this because I didnt know at some point I thought it was against the license to change downloaded assets code 😄

[foggy lion]

XD

[bleak pasture]

where as now I just have one megaproject with all the assets and I just copy the code when I need it rather than to have to use all the other garbage in the package

cuz I dont need a 12th inventory manager, or a 6th basic controller etc or fixing someone else code

[foggy lion]

ugh

I hate this

I may just try to remove the character controller and make my own rigidbody movement

But that scares me, considering all the new names for VR stuff I have to deal with

[bleak pasture]

Are you not able to find what is applying gravity is that the real problem ?

[foggy lion]

Please work

I just need to figure out how to access this now

[summer stump]

GetComponent<ContinuousMoveProvider>().UseGravity = false
?

No idea

[foggy lion]

No I know how

It just may be different???

idk either lol

We will see I guess

[bleak pasture]

could enable fly as well looking at the docs since it overrides gravity

possibly it would override conflicting code that does gravity as well if you dont know whats causing it

[polar acorn]

Why is actualAnswer static? Does every question share the same answer?

And as to the blank one, look for anything else calling CheckAnswerAndUpdateScore because it isn't in this script

[foggy lion]

This was the answer: GetComponent<ActionBasedContinuousMoveProvider>().useGravity = false;

And I think it works?

But also not really

Idk man

I've been dealing with this for 6h :(

[woven crater]

Do I need to create a level management object that swap out tile or just making each level a separate scene?

[rich adder]

second sounds easier

[eager spindle]

is system.serializable a c# thing or unity thing?

if its a c# thing how would I serialize a class myself?

ive not been able to find many articles on it because all of them are about unity

[granite atlas]

i have isTrigger turned on in my box collider but i cannot pass through it]

[eager spindle]

do you have another box collider on the same object?

that happens to have istrigger turned off

[granite atlas]

nope only 1 box collider

[eager spindle]

if you remove the box collider are you able to pass through it?

[timber tide]

if (hasHitThisFrame)
{
    rb.MoveRotation(hitRotation);
    rb.MovePositon(currentSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime * transform.forward);
}```
Does rb methods usually resolve as soon as you call them such that transform.forward will be updated?

otherwise I guess ill add this to my backlog of tests to do

[granite atlas]

i can

[eager spindle]

stop the simulation and add the box collider back, set it to trigger before startingthe game

should be fine now

[eager spindle]

it should resolve immediately, i think transform.forward is a getter/setter that rotates(the quaternion) immediately

but you might need to check your script execution order

are there any scripts depend on the transform.forward of this gameobject?

[timber tide]

beyond just adding constant forward speed, no

[narrow girder]

how do i create an ai npc that moves and acts by itself?

[frigid sequoia]

That's basically asking for wish. Be more specific

[narrow girder]

sorry uhmm I created a sprite that have all the animations but I dont want I would would be the one to control it. but instead it will just spawn randomly and do its own thing and maybe attack the player also

[frigid sequoia]

Then just do it step by step. Each of the thing u want it to do

[narrow girder]

I mean like the script in unity. Like the code to import it into the game. Is there a reference that you might have?

[teal viper]

There are many ways to implement npc ai. I suggest looking up some tutorials. Also, research what ai techniques are there overall: state machines, behaviour trees, planners like GOAP, etc...

[narrow girder]

ahhh i see okie

[bleak pasture]

also ai is a very hot suject atm so beware of wasting money on assets you don't fully understand

cuz a lot of them use AI as a buzzword

[narrow girder]

I just want it to spawn and do random things without me controlling it XD

[bleak pasture]

Id start with rule based systems in all case you have to design and implement the rules. Id start with stuff like ai controller besides what dlich said

[frigid sequoia]

Man, just make the same u did with the player, but change the input with random values

[bleak pasture]

at the end of the day it just the same stuff as you except without a keyboard. so if you have a controller that handle walking that would need to work without player input. So if you have no idea of what you want to do as a player you wont be able to have an AI do it either. AI assets dont make them magically know about your features/world, even machine learning require a lot of hand holding at the start to define goals

[teal viper]

That's a very complicated thing to do you know

[bleak pasture]

and nothing prevent you from starting with a bunch of if since your gonna need those rules later

[teal viper]

It's like saying "I just want million dollar without doing anything. Am I asking for too much?". Obviously, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but the point is, "I just want it to do random things" is not a one click of a button thing. Neither it's one script. It's probably some 10s of scripts and a setup in the scene

[bleak pasture]

• optimization do cuz game loop are under 1s so you cant spend 10s every tick in your game loop on AI so you have to fake a lot of AI ...

[lilac olive]

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("FingerTip"))
        {
            button.onClick.Invoke(); 
        }
    }```

Hey, i was watching a video on setting up UI buttons for VR controllers and he has this function in a script
However when i rewrite it IDENTICALLY it says onClick "onClick is obsolete. Use clicked instead (UnityUpgradable)" 
however when i use clicked "The event 'clicked' can only appear on the left hand side of += or -="

[bleak pasture]

clicked is from uitoolkit and onclick is from the unity standard gui manager. Are you sure you are using the same UI package as the streamer ?

[lilac olive]

Yea the problem was i did
using UnityEngine.UIElements;

and not
using UnityEngine.UI;

[wintry quarry]

onClick is a UnityEvent. clicked is a C# event

But yeah you had the wrong one

[lilac olive]

oops

Well moment of truth if buttons finally work

Does "OnClick.Invoke" Still do the colour Changing properties?

[north kiln]

No. The event doesn't do anything you haven't set yourself

[lilac olive]

damn i guess im stuck adding a box collider to every button

[teal viper]

You shouldn't mix ui with physics.

[lilac olive]

i have to ?
to have Physical clickable buttons atleast from what i saw

[teal viper]

Wdym by "physical clickable buttons?

[lilac olive]

u might wanna mute it 🤣 it was a showcase for spotify

VR Hand clicking buttons

[covert sinew]

I've got a halfway decent inventory system working right now, but my next step I've been struggling with, due to being unsure which route to take with it. What are some good resources that describe good current methods for handling dragging an item out of one slot and into another?

Should I be storing item data in a mouse-cursor-object? A temporary variable? An Event?

I'm sure I could muddle my way through one possibility or another, but without knowing which methods are good, and which ones are dead ends, in terms of implementation, I'm worried I'll pick the wrong idea to pursue and screw myself over.

[bleak pasture]

so you are saying you are scared of learning/getting experienced in unity ?

even if you picked the perfect one you might realize at some point it's no longer what you want at a future point of time

just try to not waste 80$ on assets promising ultimate solutions of ultimate destiny

there are plenty of examples for many things on abandoned unity projects on github or youtube

[covert sinew]

It takes longer to unlearn bad habits and practices than it takes to learn good ones.

I haven't bought any assets yet, making everything myself from what resources I can find, so I prefer to learn from good resources, since a lot of the "tutorials" I've found seem to almost teach someone the wrong way to do something on purpose.

[bleak pasture]

how do you know at this point ? You are gonna asks us about every possible approach you see which is subject to personal opinion when the true answer is best approach depends on your use case?

[covert sinew]

No, I only come here when I'm uncertain, because that's typically when someone would come to more experienced individuals to get pointed in the right direction?

[timber tide]

there's a few ways to do it, but the (most) correct way is that your inventory should be functional without the UI

beyond that, it's really up to your design, but anything on the UI should not be considered required to serialize any data.

[covert sinew]

Yeah, that part is all good and done right now, I have an inventory system which, in pure data, can handle stacking, splitting stacks, moving, removing, and adding in various ways. I came here because I was uncertain what the best practice was for implementing the mouse as a tool to interact with it.

[timber tide]

what operations are we talking about? Swapping data?

[covert sinew]

Currently, it can handle:
Adding an amount of items to the earliest valid slot
Adding an amount of items to a specific slot (and stacking if items already exist in it)
Removing an amount of items from the earliest valid slots (and spreading to multiple slots if need be)
Removing an amount of items from a specific slot (and optionally requiring that it be a specific item in order for it to do so)
Moving an amount of items from one slot to another

I'm investigating how to use the mouse to drag an element from one part of the UI to another, in order to move items from one slot to another, and what some common and "best practice" implementations of that would look like.

[timber tide]

each inventory type manager should have a swap method with parameters from and to where you check if the item dragged onto it is compatable with the correct type

mouse drag would be considered UI such that you've slots (also UI) that corresponds to the inventory slot

so inventory slot 1 -> Inventory UI Slot 1

[covert sinew]

My UI already makes sure that all inventory slots automatically coincide with the child index of the slots that are displaying them.

[timber tide]

for the most simpliest design I'd just give each UI slot the reference to the pertaining inventory and the slot index it corresponds to.

otherwise bind callback events if you care

[covert sinew]

I'm trying to figure out if my mouse cursor should have what is basically a "one slot inventory", so when you drag an item out, it leaves the inventory and enters into a mouse cursor object's inventory, where it can then be acted upon to swap it into a different slot, or if it should just hold references to the slots and amounts in question, and then perform the Item Moving function using that temporary data once initiated.

Because I can think of a few different ways to do this, but I don't know if any of them are beginners traps.

[bleak pasture]

I personally only encountered implementations using raytracing and I dont like implementing it

Id rather use a container system with weight/# of items limit than this

[timber tide]

IDragHandler event is fine, you drag the UI slot onto another inventory slot and you basically invoke the swap event on that slot which references the inventory it's bound to

[covert sinew]

Gotcha, so use the IDragHandler, and feed it variables based on what is being dragged, and what it has been dragged over, then fire once the drag event ends?

[timber tide]

so example ->
Drag Slot1 InventoryA to Slot1 InventoryB
Slot1 InventoryB has a method that passes the information that Slot1 InventoryA has been dropped onto it
InventoryB resolves the swap operation (it should have information about InventoryA and the slot index dropped from the drop operation) and does a callback for slots to update

[foggy lion]

What does | do in code?

[covert sinew]

I might still need to have a "mouse slot" though, since my inventory can in theory split stacks. if only because I'd need to visually modify an icon as soon as an amount is dragged off of it, and create a new icon that holds the removed amount, right?

[timber tide]

you have a fake drag icon yes

the whole visual aspect of dragging is just fluff, you technically dont need any indication that you're dragging to complete a drag and drop operation. The only thing that matters is IDrag and IDrop interfaces for the most part.

It cares where you clicked (get info from that if it has IDrag), and where you unclicked (read info into gameobject if it has IDrop)

[covert sinew]

Interesting. So basically, have a fake invisible icon as part of a mouse cursor icon, which only serves the purpose of displaying its variables for the event during dragging, but don't actually change anything until a valid swap is done.

[timber tide]

you start a drag operation, enable fake item slot and change the sprite and text (if you've got stacks)

and follow the cursor

[covert sinew]

Yeah, thank you very much.

I don't know if this counts as spoonfeeding, but if you hadn't given me the right direction, I'm almost positive I would have done very nasty things to my code without knowing any better.

[timber tide]

and hide item slot you clicked temporarily until drag is completed (and unhide if operation did not swap)

yeah no problem. Inventory stuff is a pain

[timber tide]

|| is OR operation, while | is bitwise OR

[covert sinew]

ye, I almost had a panic attack when a minor bug cropped up, I was so wound up trying to make the inventory system work, lmao. It turned out to be the simplest thing to fix, too.

Basically, my current system has icons, but it also has empty slot gameobjects, and the icons slide towards the "slot" they belong in. I was deleting the empty slots when they were no longer needed, which was causing bugs when trying to use certain functions, since item icons would get confused which slot they were meant to be "assigned to"

[foggy lion]

Thanks

[timber tide]

It's useful for combining layer masks for raycast operations and such

[covert sinew]

Now, my inventory currently only creates empty slots, without ever deleting them, so the "array" of empty slots is always equal to the highest number of items to have been in the inventory so far, preventing issues where there are too many icons and not enough slots to assign them to.

I might do something more optimized later, but I'm goingto hold off on it until it becomes a problem.