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[idle maple]

Hi, I'm trying to make an object rotation rotate with a camera
Quaternion target = Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x, 0, transform.rotation.z);
heldObj.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(heldObj.transform.rotation, transform.rotation, Time.deltaTime * 5.0f);

This is one solution I found but unfortunately it just sets the rotation of the object as exactly the same as the camera and what I was looking for was to take the rotation of when i picked up the object and add to it the changes in rotation of the camera if I move it.
How could I do this?

[wintry quarry]

you're using quaternion components as if they're euler angles

they are not

transform.rotation.x never ever do this

(although your code is not actually using this target variable, thankfully)

[idle maple]

Oh yeah I forgot to remove that sorry, I got that when I tested it xD

[wintry quarry]

Can you explain this better

what exactly do you want

you are saying you want the rotation of the camera but not exactly

You mean you want it but flat on the x/z plane?

[craggy lava]

My navmesh agent looses its sprite when i press play

[wintry quarry]

likely your code setting the reference incorrectly.

[craggy lava]

This is my script

    [SerializeField]
    private float lookRadius = 10f;

    [SerializeField]
    Transform target;

    NavMeshAgent agent;

    void Start()
    {
        agent = GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float distance = Vector3.Distance(target.position, transform.position);

        if (distance <= lookRadius)
        {
            agent.SetDestination(target.position);
        }
    }

[idle maple]

Imagine you have an object in your hand, you can pick it up from all sides, after you pick it up I want it to stay in the same rotation in relation to the camera of how you first picked it up

[wintry quarry]

Yeah your code is doing this:
agent = GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();

if you don't want to change the agent, delete that

[idle maple]

Even if you move the camera around

[wintry quarry]

Transform camTransform = myCamera.transform;

Vector3 localForward = camTransform.InverseTransformDirection(theObject.transform.forward);
Vector3 localUp = camTransform.InverseTransformDirection(theObject.transform.up);```
Then whenever you want to _set_ the rotation again:
```cs
Vector3 forward = camTransform.TransformDirection(localForward);
Vector3 up = camTransform.TransformDirection(localUp);
Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(forward, up);```

[craggy lava]

Did that still gets removed

[wintry quarry]

save your code

[wintry quarry]

wait wdym removed

removed from where

agent isn't even serialized

[craggy lava]

I save all time

[craggy lava]

i made it serialized

[wintry quarry]

it's not serialized here

what do you mean by "loses its sprite"?

What loses its sprite

[craggy lava]

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

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private float lookRadius = 10f;

    [SerializeField]
    Transform target;

    [SerializeField]
    NavMeshAgent agent;

    void Update()
    {
        float distance = Vector3.Distance(target.position, transform.position);

        if (distance <= lookRadius)
        {
            agent.SetDestination(target.position);
        }
    }
}

[craggy lava]

The enemy

[wintry quarry]

WDYM by "its sprite" though

[wintry quarry]

What am I looking at here?

[wintry quarry]

What does it mean to lose a sprite?

[craggy lava]

My scene when i am not playing and under is when i play

[wintry quarry]

what do sprites have to do with navmesh agents

[craggy lava]

It has a sprite rendere but it gets broke

[wintry quarry]

gets broke how

show what happens when it "gets broke"

[craggy lava]

It just isnt showing and the order in layer is right

[wintry quarry]

it's probably just behind something

check z positions

[craggy lava]

did that still nope

[wintry quarry]

You missed something

[wintry quarry]

what is this orange thing

and the blue thing

[craggy lava]

Thats the floor

[craggy lava]

The wall

[wintry quarry]

ok and

how are they rendered

and what positions are they at

[craggy lava]

using sprite rendere

[craggy lava]

Z = 0 on both

[wintry quarry]

and the player?

or the enemy

or whatever the thing that's going missing is

[craggy lava]

On 0 and enemy is on Z = 3

[wintry quarry]

enemy is at 3 which is farther away

so the enemy is behind the floor

that's why it is hidden

[craggy lava]

but i tried with 0 and did not work

[wintry quarry]

if they're all at the same position and same layer and order in layer it's a crapshoot

[craggy lava]

Not same order in layer

[wintry quarry]

what orders are they all

show them

[craggy lava]

Enemy is order 3

[wintry quarry]

Also just disable the floor renderer

to see if the enemy is behind it

disable them just to check

[craggy lava]

Enemy is fully gone also if i hide floor

[wintry quarry]

where's your camera? Double click the enemy in scene view. Is the renderer disabled?

[woven crater]

just found out you can have multiple scene in the hierachy. its like mixing two scene together or something?

[dark mirage]

hi there

[wintry quarry]

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

[craggy lava]

No its just so you can work on 2 scenes at once

[dark mirage]

is there any beginner guide? or where should I begin? I just downloaded unity 😄

[woven crater]

oh thank you

[craggy lava]

in playmode

[wintry quarry]

looks like the enemy is there

Can you change this to "Pivot"?

Also disable 3d mode

and press F while the enemy is selected

Oh wait I see the problem here

You have rotated it sideways

like paper mario

it's infinitely thin

[craggy lava]

thats the navmesh doing so

[wintry quarry]

yes

well

that's your problem

it's probably doing LookAt

[craggy lava]

nope

[wintry quarry]

Well IDK what code it's using but it's rotating the thing

figure out how to make it not do that

[idle maple]

just tested it and it's working nicely, thanks

[tawny hedge]

Player glitching while in a lane

[vivid igloo]

Anyone knows whether I should use regular LODs or HLOD in an open world game!

[real perch]

hey guys, having an issue with mesh/materials. I'm trying to learn a bit how they work. I've managed to generate a big grid of quads pretty simple, I'm trying to add some materials to each quad now, but for some reason the top of the material is appearing like this (only applying to first quad in grid at the moment) and attaching it's self to the triangle above it

I've attached the code I'm using. This is all in 2d btw.

the material is just this

[wintry quarry]

Aren'y you only applying UVs to the first four vertices here?

[real perch]

yeah, but isn't the first 4 vertices the bottom left quad?

I'm trying to add a material just to that quad in the bottom left

[wintry quarry]

The quad above it shares some vertices with it, no?

If you want to be able to isolate the UVs per quad you can't do shared vertices.

[real perch]

ah right, so for every quad, it would need 4 vertices that arent used anywhere else

and two triangles

[gleaming kraken]

aint no way i spent 10 whole minutes trynna figure out why my translate wasn't working until I realized i put it in void start so it only happened once

💀

[rocky canyon]

coding for ya

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I don't know how to attach my game object component to that script here. Do you know why? I have it as a prefab but I am not sure why I cant do that.

I can't drag and drop the game object to that field here

I can do that for my other game objects that are not prefabs

[swift crag]

yes, because you can't reference scene objects from a prefab

https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[polar acorn]

Prefabs cannot reference scene objects

[sage mirage]

So, what can I do now?

[polar acorn]

Prefabs can exist anywhere. Scene objects only exist when that scene is loaded

[sage mirage]

I have to use that main game ui manager

[polar acorn]

You could read the link Fen sent

[real perch]

what would be the best approach for this? If I wanted each quad in a large mesh of quads to have it's own material? should I use multiple meshes with a single quad in each and then combine them into one?

it's for top down terrain with unique materials in a large grid

[scarlet skiff]

Its not really changing the gravity scale :/

even if i comment the method that changes the scale back, still the player doesnt float

and the dbug shows up like 5 times

[swift crag]

does changing the gravity scale in the inspector have any effect?

[hidden sleet]

Currently for this crafting system I've got two lists, one containing the list of output objects and one holding a scriptable object that points to the object prefab for that item, with a dictionary mapping different crafting methods to these items. However I really don't like how I'm assigning the dictionaries, as changing the list in the inspector in any way, will ruin the whole thing. Is there some better approach to take here so that crafting is consistent and doesn't require as much reopening and editing to change?

using Inventory.Model;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class CraftingManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    //Handles turning one object into another and holds the process to perform
    public InventoryManager inventoryManager;
    public RawInventorySO rawInventory;
    public ProcessedInventorySO processedInventory;
    public List<ImmutableItemSO> itemPrefabs = new List<ImmutableItemSO>();
    
    public List<ProcessedItemSO> outputItems = new List<ProcessedItemSO>();
    public Dictionary<CraftMethod, ProcessedItemSO> craftToItem = new Dictionary<CraftMethod, ProcessedItemSO>();
    public List<ImmutableItemSO> itemTemplates = new List<ImmutableItemSO>();
    public Dictionary<CraftMethod, ImmutableItemSO> craftToTemplate = new Dictionary<CraftMethod, ImmutableItemSO>();
    public static CraftMethod craftMethod;


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

        
        craftToItem.Add(CraftMethod.RodCraft, outputItems[1]);
        craftToItem.Add(CraftMethod.CuboidCraft, outputItems[0]);
        craftToItem.Add(CraftMethod.PlateCraft, outputItems[2]);

        craftToTemplate.Add(CraftMethod.RodCraft, itemTemplates[1]);
        craftToTemplate.Add(CraftMethod.CuboidCraft, itemTemplates[0]);
        craftToTemplate.Add(CraftMethod.PlateCraft, itemTemplates[2]);
    }

    public void ProcessInput(GameObject inputObject)
    {
        if (inputObject.CompareTag("RawMaterial"))
        {
            switch (craftMethod)
            {
                case CraftMethod.RodCraft:
                    ProcessedItemSO newRodItem = craftToItem[CraftMethod.RodCraft];
                    newRodItem.itemTemplate = craftToTemplate[CraftMethod.RodCraft];

                    processedInventory.AddItem(craftToItem[CraftMethod.RodCraft], 1);
                    //rawInventory.RemoveItem(inputObject.GetComponent<ItemController>().item);
                    

                    Destroy(inputObject);
                    break;
                case CraftMethod.CuboidCraft:
                    ProcessedItemSO newCuboidItem = craftToItem[CraftMethod.CuboidCraft];
                    newCuboidItem.itemTemplate = craftToTemplate[CraftMethod.CuboidCraft];
                    processedInventory.AddItem(craftToItem[CraftMethod.CuboidCraft], 1);
                    

                    Destroy(inputObject);
                    break;
                case CraftMethod.PlateCraft:
                    ProcessedItemSO newPlateItem = craftToItem[CraftMethod.PlateCraft];
                    newPlateItem.itemTemplate = craftToTemplate[CraftMethod.PlateCraft];
                    processedInventory.AddItem(craftToItem[CraftMethod.PlateCraft], 1);
                    

                    Destroy(inputObject);
                    break;
                default:

                    Destroy(inputObject);
                    break;
            }
        }

    }
}

[scarlet skiff]

it gets changed back but.. i dont remember having any other script that controls it

[swift crag]

Disable components until you can change the gravity scale.

It will either be one of your scripts or an Animator.

[polar acorn]

It doesn't just reset itself. Something is doing it

[scarlet skiff]

its the animator component again... idk what to do with it..

[polar acorn]

Don't animate values you don't want to drive by animation

[scarlet skiff]

i didnt think i changed the gravity scale from an animation

[swift crag]

well, the animator certainly thinks you did!

[hushed spire]

Hey guys, I have a first person player with a camera. I want to make a script that draws the camera to a certain direction, but that the player can still resist and have some control over. Any ideas on how I’d do this?

[swift crag]

oh yeah, I've done this before

you can do something as simple as

[hushed spire]

Everything I’ve found online is just about taking the camera control completely away and focusing on one object

[hushed spire]

Oooh?

[swift crag]

camera.transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(camera.transform.rotation, targetRotation, Time.deltaTime * 45);

this will drag the camera towards targetRotation at 45 degrees per second

You can also cap the player's look input (it'll depend on how exactly you read input) to limit how quickly you can try to look away

[hushed spire]

But the camera is locked onto the cursor

If I don’t disable that it’ll just override

[swift crag]

show me how you rotate the camera.

[hushed spire]

Alright give me a minute

[scarlet skiff]

but ok so if i have 2 animations layers, then the current two animations playing, one on each layer, one of them has to be resposible for this ,right?

[swift crag]

If any animation clip controls the property, it will be written to constantly by the animator.

It doesn't matter if the animation clip is in a state that is not currently active.

[hushed spire]

I can’t tell because I’m using a first person controller package called Opsive and the script is mad confusing

[scarlet skiff]

even if its not being currently played?

[swift crag]

well, that's going to make it dramatically harder to do anything to the camera

[scarlet skiff]

oh my goodnes...

[swift crag]

Yes. If it's present in any state in the animator controller, it will be controlled.

[hushed spire]

Yeah… you mind if I get back to you in ten minutes with a ping?

[scarlet skiff]

i have 12 animations

[scarlet skiff]

oh

[swift crag]

I would suggest making a component with two fields:

• a bool for "control gravity"
• a float for the gravity value

[polar acorn]

Why are you animating the gravity scale if you're intending to affect it in code

[swift crag]

Animate these properties.

The component will overwrite the rigidbody's gravity scale if the bool is true.

[scarlet skiff]

bro i didnt change the gravity scale via an animation.. at least not intended to

[swift crag]

unity doesn't care what you intended to do

[polar acorn]

So then it should be easy to remove it from whatever animation is doing it

[swift crag]

of course, if you never intended to animate the gravity scale at all, just get rid of it entirely

[scarlet skiff]

so its a game of hide and seek now, to find the animation that is resposible

[swift crag]

i'd just go over to my shell and do a grep -R gravityScale Assets/Animations/ and see if anything pops up

dunno if there's a nice way to do that in-editor

[karmic lichen]

Fen you have officially motivated me to learn how to use terminal more effectively.

[swift crag]

i often just grep for a GUID to figure out if an asset is totally unused before I delete it

[scarlet skiff]

whats a shell?

[karmic lichen]

that's a really good idea

[polar acorn]

I am convinced that the difference between a "coder" and a "programmer" is how well they use grep

[karmic lichen]

pretty much a command line interface (i know this is technically wrong)

also a protective plating that grows on the backs of some reptiles

[swift crag]

broadly speaking it's just anything that lets you interact with a computer

see "graphical shell"

i guess that "shell" alone implies that you're talking about a command-line interface

[stark berry]

I have this unity game that is being programmed in C#. The basis of the game is that there is a worm that is made up of 3 points that moves across the screen. I am having an issue where when the input data is being read (its just a smooth sin wave) the constraints lock and unlock where I do not expect them to. I have tried a few things but can not get it to work. If a video would help explain my issue I can provide one.

[swift crag]

you'll need to provide much more information

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by "the constraints lock and unlock"? What constraints? What does this have to do with your code?

[scarlet skiff]

where do i find my shell

[hexed terrace]

on your back?

[stark berry]

am i allowed to upload pictures and videos in here

[hexed terrace]

shell in windows is cmd prompt

[swift crag]

if you've never used a terminal before, this probably isn't the best time to learn :p

[swift crag]

cmd.exe is an elaborate prank

[hushed spire]

Ok Fen, let’s say I find a way to just disable the camera being locked by the mouse in the first person controller. Could you please help me with the separate script that would give the control back to the player but still have the attraction force of the camera to the object?

[fickle plume]

To illustrate a problem, yes. Make sure it's in the correct channel though.

[stark berry]

this is what is happening. i can attach my fixed update aswell

[wintry quarry]

share your code. !code

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[wintry quarry]

and explain how you expect this to work

[stark berry]

https://gdl.space/cuyevitova.cs

[hushed spire]

Fen did not give me permission to ping them… so I guess I’ll just wait for my hero lol

[scarlet skiff]

damn

[wintry quarry]

you're moving your objects with MovePosition. This isn't really going to respect physics/constraints etc much.

[scarlet skiff]

i mean ig i gotta learn it at some time so, got any good tutorials?

[stark berry]

the game takes in hip angle data, calculates the speed, and if the speed is positive the front one locks so that as the center body rises the back body moves forward because the front body is locked. then as the speed goes negative the center body moves down while the back body is locked which pushes the front body forward. for testing I am using a smooth sin wave

the center point moves up and down correctly without the other bodies but when i add them in it starts to mess up

if any more info is needed pls lmk i've been stuck on this for a while

[swift crag]

It depends entirely on how you're controlling the camera's rotation. If your first person controller is using your mouse input to adjust the camera's current rotation, then you just need to move that rotation towards a target

If it's updating pitch and yaw values that it uses to compute a rotation, then you need to modify those values

[limpid wren]

I’m making my first sound manager and had some questions regarding the systems design stuff. My first instinct is to make like a dictionary of string/audioclips and then have a "playsound(string soundID)" function to interface with it, is this a reasonable approach or is there some other common way to do this?

I'm expecting to play quite a lot of sound effects at once, so I'm concerned about the AudioSource management too, if anyone has any stories from their own sound managers they'd like to share I would appreciate it a lot

[hushed spire]

I’m saying let’s pretend that there is no camera controlling being done because I disabled it, so how would I set up a mouse input to fit the requirements I need?

Basically like I’m disabling one script, taking away the camera movement, and enabling another script that gives that movement back but now it can rotate towards another object

Or does that not make sense to do?

No clue if this solution is smart or dumb

[swift crag]

I would just make it so that the original camera movement script continues to run

i don't know what you're doing, so i can't say anything more specific than that

[hushed spire]

I can’t move the camera during runtime in positional or rotational values if that helps

Only with the mouse, not with the inspector

[stark berry]

what should i use instead?

[wintry quarry]

set the velocity

[empty dagger]

Hello, I'm trying to implement a wall slide/jump mechanic into my game- I'm trying to use Debug.DrawRay to start with (I was following a tutorial) but it's just not doing anything, even tho the same code worked on the tutorial (code here: https://gdl.space/eduricokiy.cs (In the PlayerMovement script)), does anyone know what the issue could be?

[wintry quarry]

Did you enable Gizmos in your game view?

[vocal marlin]

private IEnumerator AttackCo()
    {
        Vector2 facingDirection = new Vector2(animator.GetFloat("Horizontal"), animator.GetFloat("Vertical"));
        animator.SetBool("Attacking", true);
        player.rb.MovePosition(player.rb.position + facingDirection * lungeDistance * 5);    
        Debug.Log(player.rb.position);
        Debug.Log(player.rb.position + facingDirection * lungeDistance);
        player.currentState = PlayerState.attack;
        yield return null;
        animator.SetBool("Attacking", false);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds (attackAnim.length);
        if (player.currentState != PlayerState.interact)
        {
            player.currentState = PlayerState.idle;
        }
    } 

for some reason this line: player.rb.MovePosition(player.rb.position + facingDirection * lungeDistance * 5); isn't moving the player. Can anyone tell me why? I debugged it and the numbers were all right

[wintry quarry]

MovePosition doesn't move the object immediately. It cues up the movement to happen during the next physics simulation phase.

[empty dagger]

oh theres a thing i have to enable? The tutorial never mentioned that, where can I find that option?

[wintry quarry]

Top right of the game window

[vocal marlin]

oh. How would i do what i want it to do? which is move immediately

[wintry quarry]

With the physics engine? You can't really. Unless you want to teleport.

[empty dagger]

got it! tysm

[vocal marlin]

well it would technically be a teleport but only a short one

[polar acorn]

Set rigidbody.position
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-position.html

[vocal marlin]

ok ty

[west sonnet]

I've got an issue with my enemies throwing animation. If I move to the other side of my enemy, my enemy throws downwards instead of upwards. I'm using DOTween to do the enemies throwing movement. I believe the issue is happening because in my code, I'm telling the enemies hand to move forward and up, so when the hand is rotated to the left side of the enemy, the hand moves downwards instead of upwards

Here's the DOTween code I'm using for the hand movement

[wintry quarry]

well yeah you're doing "DoLocalMove"

so if you've rotated 180 degrees, that 1.5 up will be 1.5 down

Or if you've given your enemy a negative scale

[rocky canyon]

ur rotating around like this

[west sonnet]

Yeah, I get it, but how can I resolve this?

I'm not sure how to fix it

[rocky canyon]

not sure off-hand

[west sonnet]

Could I change the enemies X scale when it turns around?

[rocky canyon]

u could... do a - scale to just flip the character

see if it works out w/ just that single change

[west sonnet]

Can't figure out how to change the scale. I'm trying to do gameobject.transform.localscale.x = -1, but it's not letting me

[rocky canyon]

could also probably but the shooting thing on a gameobject that doesnt rotate

[buoyant knot]

don’t change local scale unless you actually want to change scale.

[rocky canyon]

so its axis' are always the same.. and u can do ur math off of those

[wintry quarry]

Vector3 scale = transform.localscale;
scale.x = -1;
transform.localscale = scale;```

[vocal marlin]

for some reason i'm getting this error

Cannot reparent window to suggested parent. Window will not automatically close.
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

[rocky canyon]

since its a sprite u should probably use FlipX

instead

[vocal marlin]

and it's making me unable to select stuff in the editor

[wintry quarry]

Eh i prefer
transform.localRotation *= Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0); 😜

[west sonnet]

I'm doing FlipX, but that only changes the sprite, not the actual object or its orientation

[rocky canyon]

ohh true

[rocky canyon]

i actually adopted negated scale a while ago.. ive found and solved all edgecases for the most part

[vocal marlin]

does anyone know why or how i can fix this

[rocky canyon]

restart ur editor..

[wintry quarry]

differnet classes of edge case 😉

[cosmic dew]

i have uplaod a game to internal testing to get IAP key. i have also created purchasing script. i have a question regarding this did i have to publish the game on playstore to test its working or not. because when i build apk and tested on mobile its showing the item that you were attempting to purchase could not be found.

[rocky canyon]

set layouts to default

[buoyant knot]

every time i flip sprite, it bites me in the ass because asymmetric hitboxes don’t get moved too

[rocky canyon]

facts

[vocal marlin]

that didn't seem to fix it the first time

[rocky canyon]

reset ur layouts to default then

and then restart

[buoyant knot]

flipped scale has its own issues, but it is better than flipped sprite

[rocky canyon]

as long as u remember ur scale is flipped

[vocal marlin]

wdym by layouts?

[rocky canyon]

top right

reset all layouts

[vocal marlin]

ok ty

[rocky canyon]

layout is just the way ur windows are arranged

and since its an issue with the editor and it's windows.. it might solve it

[vocal marlin]

yeah I've seen it now hopefully it fixes it

[rocky canyon]

ive had certain assets ive installed be the reason for continuous errors like that

[fading rapids]

does changing a ascript in one scene that is also used in other scenes(like movement scripts for levels) chgange the script for every scene or change it only for that scene

[rocky canyon]

if u change the actuall code (the script) then yes..

[summer stump]

A script it a file. It does not exist in a scene

[rocky canyon]

if ur only modifying values then those values will be back to default on a new scene load

[summer stump]

You create INSTANCES of those scripts in scenes
If you change the code, it changes the file
If you change the inspector, it changes the instance of the scene object, or could change a prefab file

[rocky canyon]

unless u carry that instance of the object across into the new scene with DDOL or something

[vocal marlin]

ok it doesn't seem to be happening anymore ty

[cosmic dew]

did you work on mobile games

[rocky canyon]

no..

[fading rapids]

ok ty

[rocky canyon]

i tried and then stopped

why did someone rob my name? 😅

[fading rapids]

"If you have multiple scenes that use the same script and you want to update the script across all scenes, you'll need to manually make those changes in each scene or use some form of automation or scripting to apply changes across scenes programmatically." chatgpt capping these days

[wintry quarry]

ChatGPT has always been "capping"

[rocky canyon]

or if its plausible could DontDestroy it

[summer stump]

It should be assumed to be wrong always. But what it likely means is changing the component instance on a scene object

[fading rapids]

yh obv

[summer stump]

No.....

[rocky canyon]

Obviously

[fading rapids]

xd??

[summer stump]

It is not obvious apparantly.
#💻┃code-beginner message

[fading rapids]

oh no i meant it obvious to not take schatgpt as a reliable source

[summer stump]

I would say the flood of people arguing otherwise makes that not obvious. Haha
But I agree with that.

Spam machine writes spam

[rocky canyon]

should be changed to will

[cosmic dew]

i have uplaod a game to internal testing to get IAP key. i have also created purchasing script. i have a question regarding this did i have to publish the game on playstore to test its working or not. because when i build apk and tested on mobile its showing the item that you were attempting to purchase could not be found.

[summer stump]

Please don't cross-post
See #📖┃code-of-conduct

[cosmic dew]

ok sry did you know what i have to do next

[summer stump]

No idea. Sorry

[cosmic dew]

thanks no problem

[gleaming kraken]

so in the junior programmer pathway's comments, I've been seeing a lot of people say the instructor is teaching bad code practices. How do I identify these and learn the better method of them?

[summer stump]

Do the comments say what practices exactly?

Avoid Find, avoid Invoke (except with events of course), try to limit scope of classes, try to cache things when possible

Tons of things to keep in mind. Looking up cs principles can help

SOLID is a big one

[swift crag]

link to an example please

[gleaming kraken]

some of them do, for instance, an example could be:

• On one of the scripts, it checks if gameOver is a false variable in a different script, and if it is, then it runs the code, otherwise, it doesn't. What the comments say is that it could instead use a "CancelInvoke" to stop the "InvokeRepeating()" that would occur

[gleaming kraken]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/lesson-3-2-make-the-world-whiz-by?uv=2022.3&pathwayId=5f7e17e1edbc2a5ec21a20af&missionId=5f7648a4edbc2a5578eb67df&projectId=5cf9639bedbc2a2b1fe1e848#5ce362afedbc2a2b6f90799a

lots of comments about bad practice on this one

[woven crater]

why these button component look so different?

[gleaming kraken]

i mean i'm learning a lot from this, but I'm just trying to avoid bad practice so that's why

[swift crag]

check the "Transition" dropdown

[woven crater]

dam im dumb

[swift crag]

this uses GameObject.Find to locate the player's game object. It's not great (it'll break if you change the player's name or create another object named Player)

It would be ideal to just directly reference the player.

[gleaming kraken]

yeah, I personally thought we could just check if the player has the "Player" tagged we defined earlier

rather than look for a specific object with the name player

just look for an object with the tag player

that way even when renaming it won't break

[west sonnet]

I've got an explosion I've made using a Particle system. What would be the best way to create a force that pushes back all nearby object when the explosion happens?

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddExplosionForce.html is appropriate

[wintry quarry]

Most convenient: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddExplosionForce.html

[swift crag]

jinx

[wintry quarry]

Damn 🐢

[swift crag]

note that this won't involve the particle system at all

it'll be a separate thing

[wintry quarry]

Generally preceded by a Physics.OverlapSphere to find the objects to all that with

(as in the example code in the docs)

[west sonnet]

Oooh, interesting. Thank you!

[compact crescent]

Literally none of my scripts are working when I try to import them

[polar acorn]

do you have any errors

[compact crescent]

Yes, but they are all because of the files?

Even though other people use them.

[polar acorn]

You'll need to fix those errors before your code will compile

[compact crescent]

Could it be the version I'm on?

[polar acorn]

start at the top and move down the list

[wintry quarry]

How did you "try to import them"?
And what errors are you seeing

[polar acorn]

fixing one often fixes future ones

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you're trying to reference PUN

[compact crescent]

I dragged them in from my file explorer

[wintry quarry]

is Pun installed in this project?

[compact crescent]

No, is it needed to do this?

[polar acorn]

Do you have anything named MonoBehaviourPunCallbacks in your project or packages?

[wintry quarry]

your code is referencing the Pun framework

you'll need it in the project to use it of course

[compact crescent]

Ok, I'll download it 1 second.

[wintry quarry]

Also that filename is not going to work

Did you copy the scripts multiple times or something

fix the filenames

[compact crescent]

No.

[wintry quarry]

JoinRoom (2).cs ain't gonna work

[compact crescent]

Alright.

[polar acorn]

So that would be why you have the error. The code references that class, which you don't have

[compact crescent]

Yeah, because I'm just trying to add a code computer.

[polar acorn]

...a code computer?

[compact crescent]

Yeah, I'm making a VR game thing

[wintry quarry]

What does code computer mean and what does it have to do with VR

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what you're talking about

[compact crescent]

It means like lobbies, you can be in your own private lobby while playing the game or be in a public lobby while in the game.

[polar acorn]

Okay that part I get but I have no idea how this relates to the words "code computer" or the concept of VR

[wintry quarry]

What? I think you're way out of your depth here. Do you mean a "dedicated server"?

Why are you manually copying scripts around?

Wouldn't you just clone the whole project (ideally through version control)?

[compact crescent]

Like this?

[polar acorn]

What?

[wintry quarry]

or rather, if you just want to run a server, you make a build of the game and run that

[compact crescent]

They're scripts.

[wintry quarry]

you don't need to do anything with the project

yes those are scripts

why are you copying them around manually?

[compact crescent]

Because that's the way I do it....? I don't understand?

[polar acorn]

Maybe we just stop for a second and back up

what are you even trying to do

[wintry quarry]

The way you do what? If you just wanted to make a server that is running to connect to, there is no reason to copy scripts around anywhere. You would just make a build of the game and run that

[polar acorn]

There are several fundamental miscommunications and I think we need to just throw out the entirety of the last minute or so of conversation

[compact crescent]

I'm trying to create a Horror Game in Vr, this might sound crazy but you are a monkey while playing.........

[summer stump]

Sounds wild....

[compact crescent]

No...

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you're trying to add in online multiplayer? And you've pulled code from some other online multiplayer project and expecting it to just work?

[compact crescent]

1st Yes. Second no, I'm trying to watch tutorials on how to do it, it's my first time so I'm not very experienced.

[polar acorn]

So what's this code you've imported then

[compact crescent]

I'll send you the scripts.

Pictures

[polar acorn]

no

Right now just tell me what you're importing and from where

Are you just trying to drop in the code from a tutorial without doing the actual tutorial?

[compact crescent]

I am watching exactly how they're doing it

I'll jsut quit, it's fine, I don't want to give you more trouble

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, what was this talk about "importing" scripts? If you were following along surely you'd be making them in the project and not having to import anything?

The tutorial probably mentions installing Photon so you can actually use this code

[compact crescent]

Do you want me to send you the video in DMs to show you what they're doing?

[polar acorn]

No

[compact crescent]

ok

It's fine, I'll just quit

Thanks for trying though

[flint falcon]

Is it a bad idea to try and code basic ideas things like movement with chatgpt to try and learn? I've already gotten a few issues but when I relay them back to get it can fix them. Starting to think it's showing me not great ways to do things

[polar acorn]

Instead of trying to fix hallucinated ChatGPT code, instead check the documentation for the thing you're trying to do and learn to put the bocks together yourself

[flint falcon]

Yeah I did that originally and it was going well but the style of movement I was looking for I must have been an idiot cause I couldn't find it or where to start

[hoary locust]

hello there. i ran into a pretty weird problem with the unity engine. I have 6 layermaks and instead of their values being 1 to 6, its instead 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64. does anyone have any idea whats the problem with that?

[languid saffron]

I'm still having the issue where I can't hear the music, It's set to 3D, I have Audio Listener on my camera. I do have a Radius that isnt too big

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks

[hoary locust]

thank you

[polar acorn]

Is your game view in the editor muted

[languid saffron]

wdym?

[swift elbow]

honestly chatgpt isnt all that bad as long as youre asking it to explain each part of the code that its generating. as long as youre learning from it, its a really effective tool and it rarely messes up (as long as you explain what you need carefully)

[polar acorn]

There's a mute button on the game view window in the editor

[languid saffron]

(i am very new to coding lol)

Audio Source isn't muted if that's what you ment

[swift crag]

No. Look in the Game View for a mute button in the top right corner.

it looks like this when muted.

[languid saffron]

Still doesn't work

[swift elbow]

check your audio mixer settings

[flint falcon]

Yeah at first it seemed good but then I started getting alot of issues. And I was only trying to code movement where the direction follows the house cursor and W and S accelerate and decelerate

[swift crag]

Can you hear the music if you put it back on 2D mode?

[languid saffron]

It was already on 2D

[swift crag]

you said it was set to 3D

[languid saffron]

The Audio Source

[swift crag]

I'm not talking about the "2D" button in the scene view

[languid saffron]

oh

[swift crag]

that just locks the scene view camera to the XY plane

I'm talking about the spatial blend on the audio source.

[languid saffron]

Yes I can hear it on 2D, but it still plays even when I'm across the map

[swift elbow]

ive experienced a lot of this myself when using cgpt, but if you arent capable of seeing where the code goes wrong on your own, you should definitely watch some tutorials before you keep going. when cgpt makes stupid mistakes, theyre almost always fixable by changing one or two lines.

[swift crag]

then the problem is that the volume is falling off too quickly

The default volume curve is very aggressive.

[timber tide]

OnTriggerEnter and OnTriggerStay dont have a discreet executing order right

[languid saffron]

this is what i have for it rn (if thats what u mean)

[swift crag]

The max distance is 5

if you're more than 5 meters away the audio source is completely silent

and if you're more than 1.5 meters away, the audio source is already at 30% volume

[languid saffron]

yea but when i go right next to it, it still doesn't play

[swift crag]

Reset it to a linear rolloff and give it a reasonable max distance.

say, 30 meters

[steel geyser]

what is worng

[swift elbow]

not that im aware of

[languid saffron]

it worksss tysm

[swift crag]

PostProcessProfile is in UnityEngine.Rendering.PostProcessing

you haven't added a using directive for that namespace, so the name can't be found

[steel geyser]

error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'PostProcessing' does not exist in the namespace 'UnityEngine.Rendering' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

[swift crag]

sounds like you don't have a package installed, then

I presume you're using the built-in render pipeline. Have you installed the Post Processing V2 package?

[steel geyser]

ig no

[swift crag]

well, you'd better figure out what you're actually doing first

did you copy this script from somewhere?

[flint falcon]

Probably right

[steel geyser]

yes :)

chatgpt

[swift elbow]

if you asked it why you got these errors, i think it wouldve told you that you dont have the package installed

[swift crag]

I am not interested in helping you with machine-generated spam.

[swift elbow]

why? (genuinely curious)

its not like the code is bad, it just omitted a few steps before implementation

[languid spire]

do you not realize that GPT does not write code

[swift crag]

did you look at the code that was shared?

it's bogus

[steel geyser]

nice i'm stupid

[swift elbow]

ive never seen it write code this awful unless specifically told to do so

[swift elbow]

i genuinely dont know what you mean by this

[languid spire]

IT DOES NOT WRITE CODE

[swift crag]

It produces sequences of text that can happen to match the syntax of code.

It also does not think.

[languid spire]

it writes text that looks like code, there is a huge difference

[swift elbow]

if it works it works. whats so wrong with that?

i feel like yall are being too harsh with specifics

[swift crag]

because it produces weird sludge

[summer stump]

That we then get asked to fix

[swift crag]

normalizing it means i'm forced to look at more weird sludge

[swift elbow]

yeah and i would only blame the person who posted it without trying to learn unity or coding beforehand

[summer stump]

I blame gpt

[swift crag]

i would blame the machine that generates infinite sludge

[languid spire]

or people like you encouraging them to use it

[swift crag]

and thus producing exponentially more sludge

i'm already dealing with enough AI-generated spam

[summer stump]

If it happens to produce something right, it is because it copied it directly. And that could have been found and support the writer instead of gpt

But it rarely gets stuff right ime

[hidden sleet]

Tried to see if it could help me fix a coding problem as my first attempt at using it, and it straight up spat out exactly what I gave it as a ‘solution’. Top tier stuff

[swift elbow]

ive specifically stated that you should learn how to read it on your own before even trying this stuff #💻┃code-beginner message

[swift crag]

okay, so you either:

• don't know enough to recognize right from wrong yet
• know enough to not need it in the first place

fantastic. never use it.

[swift elbow]

or you know how to read it but are just unfamiliar with the phrasing you need to get it to work

its much easier to ask it than to go read the docs yourself, and it explains it a lot more comprehensively

[swift crag]

it also confidently tells you things that are wrong

because it is a very large pile of text smashed into a gigantic statistical model

it is not documentation.

[gleaming kraken]

bit confused on why this doesn't work, wouldn't it get the transform of the part the player collides with and then set it's y to 0?

[swift crag]

If you can't be bothered to even read the documentation, you're never going to make it as a game developer. End of story.

[swift crag]

What is the error?

Always start with the error message.

you can't just see a red squiggle and stop there

[languid spire]

cannot set a property of position directly

[gleaming kraken]

ah I have to declare a variable for it?

looking at the console it says that

[swift crag]

Indeed.

Vector3 is a struct, so it's a value type

Value types are never shared. They're copied around.

[summer stump]

Copy the position, modify y of the copy, write the modified vector back

[swift crag]

Transform.position is a property, so it's actually a function that returns a Vector3

The Vector3 you get is much like a float or an int

You can't have several variables that reference the same Vector3. It's just a value.

So modifying the returned Vector3 would do nothing.

[gleaming kraken]

private Vector3 thing = collision.gameObject.transform.position.y```

something like this?

[gleaming kraken]

ah I see

[languid spire]

no

[swift crag]

The access modifier is invalid here.

[languid spire]

.y is not a Vector3

[swift crag]

An access modifier can only be used when declaring a member (field, method, property, nested type, etc.). Local variables are not a kind of member.

[gleaming kraken]

wait right

its just the position

[gleaming kraken]

an access modifier?

[summer stump]

Remove .y

[summer stump]

private, public, etc

[gleaming kraken]

ohh

[steel geyser]

good job gpt , very nice 👍

[short hazel]

F*ck around and find out

[gleaming kraken]

hypothetically this SHOULD work

[gleaming kraken]

999 is insane

[scarlet skiff]

you will need some level of understanding if you are gonna use chatgpt

if anything you can use it to do stuff you already know, not new stuff

[languid spire]

no, you need to set thing back to position

[scarlet skiff]

many times it can miss minute detaljs or not ask for important stuff you forget to mention, and when it doesnt work and you ask it to fix it, it will take a total different approach and still not think of those basics

[craggy lava]

Error:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
PickUpObject.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/PickUpObject.cs:21)

Line:

if (hit.transform.tag == "Pickup")

Full code:

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

public class PickUpObject : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    Transform pickupPoint;

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;
            Debug.Log("Shooting ray!");
            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))

                Debug.Log(hit.transform.name);
            if (hit.transform.tag == "Pickup")
            {
                hit.transform.parent = pickupPoint;
            }
        }
    }
}

[gleaming kraken]

isn't it already position?

[summer stump]

No

It is a vector3 variable

[swift crag]

did you read what I wrote?

[summer stump]

That isn't used anywhere

[gleaming kraken]

yeah and then I got it's y. to make it a float

[steel geyser]

i can read codes but i cant write

[gleaming kraken]

or would that not work unless I declared it initially

[verbal dome]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs1612

[swift crag]

no, I didn't talk about why float and Vector3 are different things

[summer stump]

You have to write it back to the transform.position

[swift crag]

I talked about the meaning of a value type

It is not shared.

It is always copied.

[short hazel]

The if statement that raycasts only includes the Debug.Log below it, and that's it. Use braces { } to include more instructions

[gleaming kraken]

ohhhh

[polar acorn]

Your if statement contains only the debug log. Meaning you are running the second if statement regardless of whether the raycast hit anything

[craggy lava]

I missed that i need more caffein

[craggy lava]

It still does not work when i am hitting an obj with a polygoncollider

[scarlet skiff]

keep writing code and some things will come naturally, tbh even if you 100% know something and it would just be easier to write a prompt to chatgpt, i think you yourself should still write that code, let it become engraved in your mind, soon you will become your own chatgpt

[short hazel]

Do you get the log? What does the new code look like?

[craggy lava]

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

public class PickUpObject : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    Transform pickupPoint;

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;
            Debug.Log("Shooting ray from your cursor!!!");

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
            {
                Debug.Log(hit.transform.name);

                if (hit.transform.tag == "Pickup")
                {
                    hit.transform.parent = pickupPoint;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Do you get the second Debug Log ever?

The name of the object?

[craggy lava]

Nope

[short hazel]

First log?

[polar acorn]

Then your ray never hits anything

[craggy lava]

yes it says shooting ray

[short hazel]

Your ray isn't hitting anything then

[craggy lava]

yea but it needs to hit where i am clicking in my 2d game

[polar acorn]

Do you have a 3D collider on the object you're trying to hit

[craggy lava]

Nope Polygon Collider 2D

[polar acorn]

Then why are you using the 3D raycast?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.Raycast.html

[craggy lava]

Oh yea i forgot I NEED MORE CAFFEIN to work better

[polar acorn]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/raycast-with-sprites.210960/

[steel geyser]

i know how to code some movment :)

is there code editor in unity , i can open it from windows ?

msv is slow

[empty dagger]

How do I use "(Input.GetButton("Jump"))" in a way where it only activates once and not the whole duration i hold the button? Is there a different version of GetButton I can use?

[swift elbow]

Input.GetButtonDown

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetButtonDown.html

[empty dagger]

Ohh okay, thanks

[summer stump]

What is msv? But no. Gotta edit it externally
VsCode is lighter than VS if you really want

[steel geyser]

this bad one

[summer stump]

That is VS
But it is the way better one. Just heavier

[craggy lava]

Ty!!!! but i have too much caffein in my blood right now or just today

[steel geyser]

microsoft vs

[languid spire]

in your situation slow is good, it will allow your brain to actually absorb and process the code you write

[summer stump]

Yeah, you said msv. Mvs I might have guessed, but not msv

Either way, like I said, try VsCode

[trail folio]

Hey,
I downloaded an asset and I would to reference it my code but I can't find it in Rider.
What should I do?

[polar acorn]

Is it in a namespace? You probably need to add the using statement

[trail folio]

Yeah it is

[polar acorn]

if you type the class name, your IDE can probably auto-complete the import

[steel geyser]

i can use VsCode ?

[summer stump]

I mean, I have suggested it twice? Why would I do that if you could not. You can use notepad if you want (please don't)

Why would you not be able to?

[trail folio]

But that's the problem, it doesn't even work if I try to import it manually with using

[polar acorn]

Does your project use assembly definitions?

[steel geyser]

okk thx

[trail folio]

I think so, but I don't know what they for sure do because I haven't worked with C# before

[polar acorn]

Assembly Definitions define which files belong to the same assembly, basically a "group" of code. If each of these scripts belong to different groups, you need to make sure the one you're typing code in has a reference to the one that has the class you're trying to use

[zinc warren]

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        Debug.Log("TOUCH");
        if (collision.gameObject == enemyCreature)
        {
            Debug.Log("Collision Detected!"); 
            TakeDamage(10); 
        }
    }

why won't it output TOUCH when there's a collision? i have attached a rigidbody 2d and a capsule collider 2d to a 3d capsule as i want to achieve some an isometric effect

[rocky canyon]

if its on a 3d capsule are u sure the two colliders are on the same plane of existence?

or will that even work that way? im not sure

[swift crag]

i don't think 2D colliders care about depth

[summer stump]

Oooo, one is 3d? Intereeesting
No idea how that works out

[swift crag]

depth can be used when doing queries

[rocky canyon]

yea he said he put those components on a 3d capsule

[swift crag]

Although the Z axis is not relevant for rendering or collisions in 2D, you can use the minDepth and maxDepth parameters to filter objects based on their Z coordinate.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapCircle.html mentions this

[rocky canyon]

ahh okay

[craggy lava]

Error:

My error is that it does not set the position of the hit obj to 0,0,0

Line:

hit.transform.position = Vector3.zero;

Full code:

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

public class PickUpObject : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    Transform pickupPoint;

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {

            RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition), Vector2.zero);

            if (hit)
            {
                if (hit.transform.tag == "Pickup")
                {
                    hit.transform.parent = pickupPoint;

                                   hit.transform.position = Vector3.zero;

                }
            }
        }
    }
}

[rocky canyon]

soo it just sort of smashes it into a single plane of existence

[zinc warren]

both capsules are 3d

[summer stump]

The one in the image says 2d

[polar acorn]

Does the object you hit have a parent object?

[craggy lava]

ye

[summer stump]

What is the other object?

Show that one

[swift crag]

The actual renderers don't matter at all. All that matters are the colliders.

2D and 3D colliders will not interact.

[polar acorn]

Okay, and after the raycast, what are the positions of the object you've clicked on and its parent?

[zinc warren]

both are the same 3d capsules

[rocky canyon]

but with 2d colliders

both having 2d colliders?

[craggy lava]

The parent is a child of the player and the key is a child of the parent called HoldPosition but they keys position are not 0,0,0 like they should be so you are holding the key

[zinc warren]

ye bc im trying to make a topdown view of the capsules and by having them 2d i can better control the movment

[polar acorn]

The point I'm trying to make is that you're setting the object's world position to 0,0,0. The value you see in the inspector is local position, relative to its parent

[craggy lava]

I tried to do that

[polar acorn]

It's entirely possible that the object is at 0,0,0, but you don't see that in the inspector

[craggy lava]

But i also dont see it in game view

[polar acorn]

How are you moving the objects

[zinc warren]

    private void MoveCreature(Vector2 input)
    {
        creature.transform.Translate(new Vector3(input.x, input.y, 0f) * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
    }

[polar acorn]

What are you seeing? You said your issue is the position isn't becoming zero, but how are you checking that

[craggy lava]

Looking if the key is at the hold position and in the inspector

[polar acorn]

So, teleportation. There's no collisions if you move by teleportation. You're going to need to actually use the rigidbodies to move if you want collision

[polar acorn]

And as I said, the inspector shows local position, so how do you know it's not actually at 0,0,0 world space?

[summer stump]

Is the PARENT at origin?

[craggy lava]

idk

[craggy lava]

I have no clue

[summer stump]

Is the parent a root object? Or a child of something else?

If root, is it at 0,0,0?

[craggy lava]

Its a child of the player that is moveable so is not at same pos

[polar acorn]

Log this after you set the position:

Debug.Log($"{hit.transform.name} is at world {hit.transform.position}, local {hit.transform.localPosition}");

[summer stump]

Does it need to be a child then? You want this object to move as well with the player?

[craggy lava]

Yes

[craggy lava]

Player is at world (0.00, 0.00, 0.00), local (0.00, 0.00, 0.00)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
PickUpObject:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/PickUpObject.cs:25)

[polar acorn]

Okay, looks like it's definitely being set to 0,0,0

If it doesn't stay there, something else is moving it

[craggy lava]

But its not at the HoldPosition

[craggy lava]

Yea

[polar acorn]

What is HoldPosition

[polar acorn]

Okay and what does this have to do with the code provided

What object is this

is this HoldPosition?

[craggy lava]

This is the object i am trying to pickup

[craggy lava]

Its HoldPoint so its under the player

[polar acorn]

The object you're trying to pick up is Player

According to your log

[craggy lava]

No

[craggy lava]

My Player is teleporting when i move away and click on the key

[summer stump]

hit.transform.name resulted in the word Player
Unless you changed the debug log digi gave you

What object is PickupObject attached to?

[craggy lava]

The player

[little seal]

why does the highlight child disable when it spawns? its enabled in my prefab

[summer stump]

Ok good. Well, it is hitting the player for some reason.
Two things

1. use Debug.DrawRay to make sure it is going where needed
2. use a layermask to prevent the player from being hit

[craggy lava]

Yea

[summer stump]

Likely answer is because of code

[little seal]

issue with that is there is no "enabled" in any of my code

[summer stump]

What about SetActive?

[little seal]

oh hold on

i forgot to remove setactive

ur right

ty

[summer stump]

This doesn't make sense

Are you setting the transform.position?

Try to reexplain because it wasn't clear what the issue is

[empty dagger]

I'm trying to make it so if the player is colliding with a wall and not grounded, they can press the jump button to do another jump, but atm it barely ever works, I think it's only activating during the peak of the jump, meaning it doesnt work if the player is already moving up/down, I think? What do I change here to make it so it works at any point jump is pressed? https://gdl.space/tehekavini.cs

[covert crown]

Can anyone help me? Usually what I want to type, it wont color that word. Is it supposed to be a problem?

[indigo wagon]

I've came from a different engine so can someone point me as to why this is wrong

[slender nymph]

start by reading what the error said

then i recommend also looking into using Input.GetAxisRaw instead of manually polling the keys and adding/subtracting manually from the Vector2

[indigo wagon]

any specific reason as to why raw is better? (never heard about it before)

[slender nymph]

better than GetKeyDown or better than just regular GetAxis? because for the former, it actually returns the value of the axis rather than requiring you to add/subtract manually. the latter because it only returns -1,0,1 for digital input which is clearly what you want

[indigo wagon]

as for this it says the issue is the fact that the vector was unassigned

[slender nymph]

correct because you do not assign to it. local variables do not get their default values assigned, they are unassigned until you actually assign to it

[rocky canyon]

this is the axis input he spoke of

2 lines vs (howmany ever u have)

does the exact same thing

[polar acorn]

What value does inputDirection hold if you have not pressed W, S, A, or D this frame?

[indigo wagon]

Nothing which makes sense as to why it obviously won't work

so is there no way to just make it assigned to do nothing until something is pressed

[polar acorn]

Well, yes. What you're doing right now. It's assigned to nothing until you press a button. That's not what you want to do

[gleaming kraken]

so on one of the junior programmer challenges, I needed to make a balloon bounce off of the ground. I noticed in the comments most people actually used a tag to get if the balloon collided with the ground, while I just checked if the y is lower than 0. Which one of these two methods is considered a better practice than the other just to know for future reference?

[polar acorn]

you want to instead assign it to something until you press a button and assign it to a different thing

[slender nymph]

assign it a value that includes 0 on both axes. or just use the GetAxisRaw methods instead which returns 0 when there is no input on that axis

[slender nymph]

the tag 100%. if you just check against a specific Y value then you cannot have your ground at anything but that Y value or lower. so no hills, no floating platforms, etc

[rocky canyon]

or if the balloon has a script on it could check that

[indigo wagon]

so essentially this should solve it?

[slender nymph]

just assign Vector2.zero instead of each axis manually

[polar acorn]

Yes but why not just assign it when you create it

or just use GetAxis

[rocky canyon]

            inputDirection.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
            inputDirection.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");```

[indigo wagon]

gonna sound really petty but I like powering through my coding mistakes even if they are stupid lol

[rocky canyon]

sure thing 👍

[indigo wagon]

so it's obviously not as efficient

but fun

[polar acorn]

Switching to GetAxis is powering through it

The same way fixing your compile error is

[rocky canyon]

i get what ur saying about using ur own code.. but ur gonna learn real quick to refactor what u have

nothing wrong with changin something to make it work

[indigo wagon]

I know for a fact you're both obviously right

I guess I'm just stubborn

[slender nymph]

yeah fix the issue, don't just leave bad code there just because you want to "power through it". you wouldn't try and cook a steak but leave it on the grill until it's done even though you forgot to turn the grill on

[rocky canyon]

ur gonna spend 2x time as long when u could be having fun doing ur next thing

[rocky canyon]

i want it rare as possible please

[indigo wagon]

Only thing is I've gone through both godot and monogame so I tried to stick to what I "knew" but I'll give it a shot

[polar acorn]

If you want to stick with what works in Godot or Monogame, use Godot or Monogame

[rocky canyon]

i mean, hes not wrong

[polar acorn]

If you switched engines it was surely for a reason, right? Use the stuff the engine gives you

[rocky canyon]

ur gonna need to adapt to what works for Unity

[indigo wagon]

widening the variety of what I can use is all

[slender nymph]

also the original issue would have happened in both godot and monogame since it was a compile error with how c# works and not specific to unity

[reef oyster]

hi i need some help w/ my vs 2022, Its not detecting the documentation and I cant really know if it's working or not. Any possible fixes? I already tried downloadnig any missing asset.

[slender nymph]

!ide

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[rocky canyon]

but yes, just set the input to 0 at the top of the first frame.. then ur chain of if statements will change it to what it needs to be..

if no input is given it will stay 0 for ya

hacky but will work

[reef oyster]

unfortunately i already triedthis

[slender nymph]

if you have completed all of the steps there then regenerate project files and restart visual studio

[rocky canyon]

if its working Monobehaviour will be colored.. and hovering it will tell u its from Unity

[reef oyster]

thats the problem.. it isnt

[rocky canyon]

yea, just letting u know what to look for since u said u didnt know how to tell if it was or not

u gotta follow the steps again..

theres no other way to get it working

[pine umbra]

Hi! I have problem with my enemy's knockback - There is a func which is responsible for tracking player and its based on .MoveTowards func which is using enemy's positon from transform component. In diffrent script there is func .AddForce which is using (or at least should) enemy's rigidbody2D component to push it from my player when it's beeing hit. Problem is that my knockback simply doesn't work and I just wonder if that is a bug or it should be like that and manipulating this could cause other problems.

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[slender nymph]

MoveTowards overrrides any force applied. pick one or the other, you cannot do both

[rich egret]

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[rich egret]

https://gdl.space/nitemazije.cpp

Does anyone know how to solve it so that it won't move the player and only the camera?

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6H3_Ry49k&ab_channel=SpawnCampGames
i have a video for it if that helps

[polar acorn]

Nothing in this code moves anything. It rotates the object this script is on

[slender nymph]

don't make your player a child of the camera

also obligatory: use cinemachine

[rich egret]

AH Ok

[pine umbra]

But there must way to have both knockack and player following

[slender nymph]

yes, you choose one way to move the object and use that to do both

[polar acorn]

Sure there is. MoveTowards is not the only way to have player following

[rich egret]

Yes, but without this script the camera moves really slowly @polar acorn @slender nymph

[pine umbra]

Yup, thank u guys

[rocky canyon]

cinemachine

[frigid sequoia]

Can I instantitate an object in relative coordinates? Like... adding an offset vector to the position of instantiate but taking into account that the item might be rotated....

Kinda hard to explain like this....

[rocky canyon]

just add the offset to its localPosition

[hexed terrace]

you can instantiate an object wherever you want to

[rocky canyon]

^ this too

[pine umbra]

btw. I guess u have much more experience - do u read repositories? I mean at all. I'm curious if that can improve my unity knowledge in noticeable way

[frigid sequoia]

Like the cone instantiates proyectiles, but it does so in its possition, so its origin; that cone rotates in the green axis, seeking for targets, I want the offset to add a bit of "foward" depending on which direction the cone is rotated at the moment, so I can swap the current red trayectory to the yellow one

[hexed terrace]

easiest way is to have an empty game object in the location you want to spawn things, and pass that in as the position when instantiating

you can then easily move that empty transform around to reposition without going in/out of code

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, that would be the most precise, but I am already having this thing kinda like... really nested in a good chunk of parents, doesn't this cause performance issue? Can I not just add the offset by code?

[hexed terrace]

no? why would you get performance issues with an empty transform?

you can add the offset by code if you want to do it that way..

[frigid sequoia]

Not that itself, just having many things nested within other things

[hexed terrace]

nope

[polar acorn]

Do you mean do I read other people's repositories for my own personal reference, or are you asking if I can read your repository and review it? Yes to the former, no to the latter.

[pine umbra]

no XDD, I mean unity repository

[ionic zephyr]

If I want each of my characters to have different habilities or attacks should I make a Script for every character like "Character Name"Attacks???

[polar acorn]

I don't often need to look at any of Unity's repositories, the documentation and experimentation are usually enough

[ionic zephyr]

or is it better to have one for every character and then check which gameobject is the one handling that script???

[muted wadi]

my camera will not rotate towards the new vector

{
    float step = speed * Time.deltaTime;
    Vector3 camTargetQ = camTarget - cam.transform.forward;

    Vector3 newDir = Vector3.RotateTowards(cam.transform.forward, camTargetQ, step, 0.0f);
    cam.transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(newDir);
    cam.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(cam.transform.position, targetPos, step);
    yield return null;
}```

i dont get what im doing wrong

[brazen canyon]

Hey guys

I'm trying to detect when I start using the joystick and when I stop

I'm using the Joystick pack on the Asset Store
Here is my script
https://paste.myst.rs/zq15ukvm

[reef oyster]

yea im clueless to why it isnt detecting monobheaviour

i followed all the god damn steps already

aight i figured it out

how i feel now:

[rich adder]

stop with the useless meme crap

[reef oyster]

bro cant handle a single png

[brazen canyon]

Can I get a little help please ?

[muted wadi]

blud does NOT wanna keep image perms

[muted wadi]

can someone tell me what im doing wrong here i feel like im going insane

[rich adder]

how about read the #📖┃code-of-conduct about memes and reactions..

[reef oyster]

i was here for a relevant issue to the channel, relax

[polar acorn]

And then you derailed it with off topic memes

[reef oyster]

you mean a single png

[rich adder]

bro cannot count and wants to code.. I counted 2 images

[reef oyster]

its the end of the world

its over

[languid spire]

you let one idiot get away with posting crap, all of a sudden all the idiots want to do the same

[reef oyster]

yea guys dont express how you feel when you fix something here

go post your crap elsewhere

[rich egret]

Does anyone know how to change rotation speed in CinemachineVirtualCamera?

[languid spire]

guess what, we don't care how you feel

[reef oyster]

because you have probably never touched grass

[polar acorn]

<@&502884371011731486>

This has gone on long enough

[muted wadi]

@languid spire my brother could i get your help with this

[polar acorn]

There should be a parameter in the component where you can set the multiplier for the inputs. I think it's Transposer that handles the rotation? Might be LookAt depending on what you mean by "rotation"

[languid spire]

the first thing you are doing wrong is not Debugging anything and then showing the logs

[rich adder]

idk anything about the joystick asset.. Why aren't you using new Input System ?

[muted wadi]

im not really sure what to debug here, i tried to debug the position of the target rotation but it came up with numbers that weren't correct at all

[languid spire]

everything, so far you know nothing, your just guessing

[rocky canyon]

correct @rich egret check out the drop downs in the vcam

[pastel pollen]

When scheduling an IJobParallelFor job, the documentation says that unity automatically splits the work into chunks of no less than the provided batchSize, does that mean that unity performs some check behind the scenes if a larger batch size is better? I'm not sure how to reason about choosing batch size, and it seems like a time sink manually benchmarking for different batch sizes, any tips?

[north kiln]

There are no memes allowed on this server. Next time stop, instead of acting like an ass

[ionic zephyr]

If I want each of my characters to have different habilities or attacks should I make a Script for every character like "Character Name"Attacks???
or is it better to have one for every character and then check which gameobject is the one handling that script???

[eternal needle]

The 2nd option sounds horrible, dont do that. The first one would make sense if you didnt have access to the unity editor. You should make each ability it's own script, then attach it or provide it to some ability manager script.

[frigid sequoia]

Do I need an animator controller to add a single simple animation? Cause pretty sure I did that before but now it isn't working for some reason

[ionic zephyr]

Oh okay, so imagine my object has two attacks, I make a script with those attacks and then manage them with an HabilityManager right?

for example

[eternal needle]

Make 1 script per attack. Both dont need to live in the same script

[ionic zephyr]

Oh isnt that less efficient, just asking because Im really noob

[ionic zephyr]

like take for example pokemon attacks, should each of the 4 pokemon attacks be a script?

[modest dust]

Depends on the kind of attack

If each attack has similar properties, it can be one script, then just make several instances of the same script for each attack and set up its fields accordingly

[rugged plover]

Nevermind

[ionic zephyr]

for example if one attack launches projectiles that follow the target but other makes the player jump higher?

[modest dust]

That would require two different scripts.

[ionic zephyr]

And what about when talking about boosts?

[modest dust]

Could be one parent class, say Ability with an Invoke(ICaller caller) method, and several effect scripts, let's say deriving from an IEffect interface

IEffect could have an Apply(ICaller caller) method, each effect would define it's own apply behaviour and manipulate ICaller's properties / call some methods

Effects can be stored in an [SerializeReference] IEffect[] array within the Ability class

[eternal needle]

Efficiency shouldnt be your concern here. No it is not less efficient, you simply just attach the needed scripts to an object. If it doesnt have the script, it doesnt have the ability. If your abilities were all grouped in 1 script, itd be worse actually because this would be a major hassle to make 2 enemies with the same abilities excluding one

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, thanks, it is just that I´ve been lost with this for almost a week now and I still dont know how to face this

[modest dust]

This array can be hidden in the inspector and instead the visible thing would be an [SerializeField] EffectWrapper[] array, which basically contains two fields, enum EffectType and IEffect, the first one used purely to know which class deriving from IEffect to instantiate (idk if there's a prettier way). EffectWrapper would exist purely to instantiate the correct effect and unwrap it back into the IEffect[] array in the Ability class

That's a bit of work, but will hopefully result in a somewhat flexible ability system

[eternal needle]

Split everything into steps. Making an ability system without knowing what you want isnt gonna work. You cant make an ability that shoots a projectile if you dont have a projectile first.

Similarly, cant make an ability which boosts your players stats if your stats doesnt accept boosts yet

[nocturne parcel]

Well, kinda. If multiple abilities are similar to each other, you can make it share one script.
For example, if multiple characters have a projectile ability that only changes the visual effect and the sound for each character, you only need one script and maybe multiple scriptable objects.

[ionic zephyr]

I have some common scripts for all of my characters in the roster (Movement, MeleeAttack, Shoot, Health...) but each character has some special boosts or habilities which are managed by a bar that increases every second (when reached a point int that bar the player can use that hability

[ionic zephyr]

this is the premise

[nocturne parcel]

Take a look at League of Legends. Any champion ability that spawns something in the map shares the minion code.

[next reef]

quick question do i need to name something doorAnim from line 7?

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

public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public Animator doorAnim

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
    {
        doorAnim.SetTrigger("open");
    }
}
void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    if(other.CompareTag("Player"))
    {
        doorAnim.SetTrigger("close");
    }
}

}

[nocturne parcel]

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[ionic zephyr]

yeah, thats right, that is the way Im trying to face it, however, I dont know how to manage those habilities depending on the character

[ionic zephyr]

sory, just curious, are you spanish? because maybe my questions would be better in my native language

[eternal needle]

They arent known for having good code, not really the best suggestion there

[nocturne parcel]

I dunno, better than suggesting a bunch of redundant code they must be.

[nocturne parcel]

No, i'm not.

[ionic zephyr]

oh sorry

[nocturne parcel]

What even is line 7? Paste your code in a paste site please.

[ionic zephyr]

taking this premise, how would you face it guys?

[magic condor]

I have an issue with my VR game mod, I'm trying to apply a custom material from an asset bundle onto the player model's SkinnedMeshRenderer, but the material isn't getting applied to the player.

[eternal needle]

Who here suggested using redundant code? Anyways there isnt much to look at for leagues ability system. There are many tutorials out there which cover basics

[nocturne parcel]

Caesar gave a suggestion. For me, it's hard to tell what I would definitelly use. My first try would be an ability script that either inherits from interfaces or uses scriptable objects.

Again, you need to test it out and have a definitive goal in mind.

[ionic zephyr]

Im really new to heritage but I should definately check it out if you suggest it

[ionic zephyr]

I do have it but I dont know how to execute it

[magic condor]

Heres my code: https://hastebin.com/share/heluteqape.csharp

[summer stump]

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[magic condor]

Sorry

[carmine sierra]

any logic wrong with this

i want it to move to the mouse position when the if condition is met

[north kiln]

Perhaps. https://unity.huh.how/screentoworldpoint

[fierce geode]

This is more of a subjective question, but when do you choose to split off code into different scripts? Is it just when the script gets too long, or if the elements of the script stray too far from the core execution idea of the script?

[carmine sierra]

it doesn't follow the mouse at all though

[north kiln]

Presumably due to the issue mentioned in the link

[carmine sierra]

fair ill check it

[nocturne parcel]

A script should have a clear and specialized goal. Any code that strays from that goal, should be on another script.
Length isn't really an indicator of anything.

[carmine sierra]

i dont understand the issue still

the same code works when another object follows the mouse

just in this script im doing something wrong

[north kiln]

So your camera is orthographic?

[carmine sierra]

not sure

[north kiln]

Select it and look at the projection type

[rocky canyon]

check

[carmine sierra]

orthographic

[north kiln]

Okay, then my only assumptions would be that either the code isn't running, or something else is driving the transform and overriding it

[carmine sierra]

here is the script if someone is able to check 🙏

[rocky canyon]

shouldnt it be OnMouseUp? where spawned goes false?

idk im just guessing

id put a debug in ur if(spawned) block to see if its running

[carmine sierra]

I found the issue i think

I was trying to transform the prefab

not the instance of the prefab which is spawned in

[rocky canyon]

oh, yup thats what u were doing

[ionic zephyr]

Is it better to have all my habilities classes in one script or in separate ones?

[summer stump]

Assuming you mean abilities, it depends

How similar are they?

[ionic zephyr]

I mean like pokemon attacks

for example

[summer stump]

And when you say "in the same class" do you mean like a list of them, or implemented in the same class

If a list, then the same is fine.
If implementation, then CERTAINLY separate classes

[ionic zephyr]

I mean have one Csharp script with all of the classes or one Csharp script for each class

[summer stump]

The latter

One class per file

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, makes sense

[ionic zephyr]

And another question

[ionic zephyr]

Is it okay to make the system with interfaces

I am doing an Habilities Class from which every habilities class will inherit

[summer stump]

It's ok to do whatever you want. But yeah, interfaces could aid in modularity

Is hability something specific, or just a way of saying ability?

[ionic zephyr]

oh sorry, spanish error

ability

[summer stump]

No worries. Just curious

All good

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, thanks, Im really confused with inheritance and stuff

[summer stump]

Yeah, it can get very confusing.
With actual inheritance (like normal classes or abstract classes), I recommend trying to stick to as few "levels" of inheritance as possible.
Like having a Ability class
And inheriting from that. But not doing Ability > AttackAbility > MySpecificAttackAbility

[ionic zephyr]

Yeah, thats a total mess

thanks for all!

[rocky canyon]

dog < four legged < furry < mammal < living creature

[frigid sequoia]

I need the first if clause to execute in normal Update and the rest in Fixed, but I need all the logic to happen in the same Update, how do I... fix this mess? XD

[summer stump]

As funny as that is, I'd say that is actually a good place for a flags enum!

[rocky canyon]

no clue what that is 😄

yea mean just a reg enum?

the purpose being to flag certain groups?

[summer stump]

Just an enum where you can have more than one option enabled

[Flags] attribute over it

[rocky canyon]

ahh yea yea . ok gotcha.. u know how to help daleo_dorito up there ^ 😅

id be interested in a solution.. just cuz lol

[summer stump]

Which if clause should be in update?

The null check?

[rocky canyon]

i was thinking extra bools.. but thats always my solution

[carmine sierra]

does onmousedown only trigger when the script parent object's collider is pressed on

[summer stump]

All of it will happen in the same physics frame (that is for Daleo)

[empty dagger]

I'm trying to implement a walljump but it only works randomly and I can't figure out what's causing it.
https://gdl.space/tehekavini.cs
it works consistently if I change GetButtonDown to GetButton but then it keeps jumping if I hold the button in. atm if I stand against a wall and spam the jump button, instead of continuously jumping up it will ignore most my inputs and just jump at random intervals. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

[rocky canyon]

havent tested that.. but usually its just the collider its sitting on.

collisions can occur on child colliders if the parent has a rigidbody.. (all colliders get grouped like 1 big collider)

not sure if that applies to the OnMouse events tho

[summer stump]

Dont do input inside OnCollision or OnTrigger

Set a bool true or false, and then handle input in update based on that bool

[rocky canyon]

^ thats like trying to snatch a fly out of mid-air

the odds that u hit the key the exact same frame that the OnCollision fires off is very low

[carmine sierra]

i might be an idiot but what is wrong with this

[frigid sequoia]

The second one of instantFollow

[empty dagger]

that seems to have fixed it, thanks !!

[summer stump]

Do an early return in fixedupdate and update based on that bool. If true, do your transform positioning in update, if false, continue to the rest in Fixed

[quartz mural]

how do i make it so that the background goes

i thought by getting a transparent one it would already be ogne

seems not though

[rich adder]

not really a code question

[carmine sierra]

does anything need to be returned?

from the function?

[quartz mural]

where do i got for those kind of questions

u dont know how?

[rich adder]

you should explai what ur trying to do instead

[frigid sequoia]

How so?

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk or #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[carmine sierra]

if the if conditions are met it should turn on the gravity of the object and make spawned equal to false

[rich adder]

and where do you call PlaceWood()

[carmine sierra]

sorry?

idk what can means

i thought itd just enter on the if conditions

but i see that i am assuming it works like other functions

i should just put it in update then?

[rich adder]

wdym other functions?

[carmine sierra]

like onmousedown and update

cause that's what ive been using for the most part

[rich adder]

why would it be called by itself

[carmine sierra]

wym

but yeah i see what i might be doing wrong

[summer stump]

What do you mean how so?

Are you asking what an early return is?

[rich adder]

do you not know what calling a function is?

[summer stump]

if (isInstantFollow) return;

[frigid sequoia]

You mean, like do "return [something]" cause I have never use that on update

Can u dod that?

[ionic zephyr]

Please help, I am making each of my habilities A method from an interface, should the set of habilities be a List of IEffects(my interface) or how can I do this?

[summer stump]

I wouldn't suggest it if you couldn't. I wrote the exact code you would write here
#💻┃code-beginner message

[carmine sierra]

yeah i do

i just forgot that every function needs to be called

since starting c# i only coded within functions when I am not initialising variables

[rich adder]

yes functions don't run by themselves

unity Monobehaviours is special case with built in Events like Update

[carmine sierra]

yeah

[summer stump]

I would make SIGNIFICANTLY different ones their own class. The interface would just have a "Activate()" method (or whatever you want to call it), and the classes would implement that their own way.

And then yeah, you could have a list of those interfaces

[carmine sierra]

OHH nvm

[ionic zephyr]

Like this?

but if I want to assign the different habilities how can I do that in the editor?

[summer stump]

Well, that's where it can be an issue. Interfaces cannot be serialized by default. You can find assets online that can do it

[ionic zephyr]

Oh shoot

[empty dagger]

What do I add to this code to make it so the player is pushed away from the wall theyre currently colliding with? atm it's just a jump but I want it to push them in the opposite direction too to prevent jumping up the same wall continuously, I couldn't find a tutorial for this, probably because I don't really know how to word it specifically
https://gdl.space/lecokonuve.cs

[modest dust]

He can serialize a reference to a class instance implementing the interface though

[summer stump]

Yeah. He wants a list of many classes that implement the interface

[modest dust]

Yeah, so there's no issue with that

Idk about a List tho, didn't try it out

But a [SerializeReference] IEffect[] array should do the job if set up correctly

[summer stump]

if set up correctly
What would the setup be? I use odin so I am a bit spoiled, but I remember exactly that not working with intercaces when doing lists in the past

Maybe the issue was list vs array?

And we're talking about drag and dropping via the inspector, right? Because that's what they wanted

[modest dust]

I'm talking about setting it in the inspector, not drag and dropping
In that case it's a different scenario

[summer stump]

Ah, I could have misunderstood them too. I dunno

[modest dust]

But it still could be done via drag and drop I guess..
By drag and drop I assume using ScriptableObjects? Then just move what I just wrote into that and drop a singular-type SO into the field

[summer stump]

I had been assuming they meant MonoBehaviours

[modest dust]

I mean, they were talking something about an Ability System

So these abilities would either be set up directly on the MonoBehaviour in the inspector or on the SO and dropped into a field on said MonoBehaviour

[empty dagger]

How do I specify the direction of a contact point? Like, so far I'm trying a "rb.AddForce(something * jumpForce)", I can't find out how to specify that the direction should be opposite to the contact point currently being touched (assuming I'm going about this the right way)

[north kiln]

would it not be the normal?

[abstract sparrow]

so void start is where the script is called into a scene. whats the void for when you first boot up the game

[summer stump]

Huh alright. I was never able to do that before getting Odin. Good to know
@ionic zephyr , Caesar says I was wrong about serializing them. Apologies on that

[eternal needle]

"void" is the return type, the name is a method or function. what are you trying to do? there is https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethodAttribute.html but you really not might need it

[north kiln]

Preferably you would have a scene that is loaded before all others and you use normal callbacks in that. Otherwise, the RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethodAttribute just mentioned might be suitable.

[summer stump]

Perhaps just use Awake on an object that exists before the scene starts

[abstract sparrow]

i have basically 3 types of score. score/highscore/wr

once a high score is hit, it saves into disk along with the wr

but then when i reboot the game, the highscore gets filled and i want it to basically reset to 0, now i tried to do awake but now it didnt pick up my all time highscore when teh games first booting up

[summer stump]

Make all saving and loading happen from the same place. And when the game starts, simply read before writing