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[open fog]

this is the code that will select what turret to spawn, the randomization is just the sprite variations for the purchase button

[summer stump]

Ok.
Well i have no idea how data.index is set

[open fog]

its set when you press the arrows on the shop

[summer stump]

Ok. Gotcha. Then sure, that sounds good. Makes sense now

[sacred dagger]

Hello. I have a database containing approximately 19,000 data (image, text, sound). 786 lesson objects in Unity as well. I want to pull 19,000 pieces of data into these lesson objects - using MYSQL - and divide them into parts, and print them as text, audio and image to my phone application. How can I do that?

[rich adder]

this isn't exactly a Unity question

ask the general c# discord

[sacred dagger]

alright ^^

[rich adder]

!cs

[eternal falcon]

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[sacred dagger]

Thank you so much

[scarlet skiff]

well uhm, anyone?

[swift elbow]

maybe look at spawn camp's question and answer that first #💻┃code-beginner message

[scarlet skiff]

I did answer him #💻┃code-beginner message

[swift elbow]

super broad; be more specific

[rich adder]

you only scale the collider size

[onyx cove]

Hello, i want to change the height of a box when i grab it, what do you think will be the best to do it, change the vertices coordinate of the box or the scale ?
and how can i make it smooth (seeing the box "growing")

not really grabbing it but only when i select it

[swift elbow]

lerp scale

it will, but you can always change the camera height so that its different when crouching thru code

[rich adder]

are you using character controller,
use this
https://youtu.be/-XNm7dPVVOQ

[onyx cove]

ty

[onyx cove]

but if it is based on the height of the hand is it the same way ?

[rich adder]

and no scaling collider, wont be a problem, just follow the vid @queen adder

[swift elbow]

i have no idea what you mean by this

[onyx cove]

like only pulling the top of the box based on the height of the hand

[swift elbow]

how does that correlate with your original problem?

that sounds like something different entirely

[onyx cove]

oh yeah sorry i didn't explain it well

[rich adder]

ok the process is pretty much the same

capsule collider has the same properties as CC with sizing/center

[onyx cove]

what i want to do is to be able to "pull" the box and make it "grow" from the first screen to the second (sorry if i'm still explaining not very clearly)

[wintry quarry]

This is called Extrusion

You're basically looking at procedural mesh processing or using the ProBuilder library or something.

[onyx cove]

yeah i created a procedural mesh

[onyx cove]

so i need to change the vertices coordinates to be able to do that ?

[wintry quarry]

Could change the vertices or add completely new geometry

Up to you

[onyx cove]

okay ty and for the interacitble part how can i do it ? i tried with the XR simple interactable but idk how to get the hand's height

private void OnSelectEntered(SelectEnterEventArgs interactor)
    {
        Debug.Log($"position current 3D Rayhit{ray.point}");
        
    }

can i get the hand height from the interactor ?

[summer stump]

Chatgpt WAS working correctly (to mean it was creating spam that looks like code but doesn't function)

I'm confused, I see playerprefs stuff, but nothing with JSON

Ok, and so what is the question?

Oh. Ok.

[polar acorn]

Huh, did they just get banned in a different channel or something? All their messages just vanished at once

[swift elbow]

chatgpt was his savior and you disrespected the machine 😔

[swift elbow]

they deleted their messages 1 by 1

[summer stump]

I watched it happen one at a time, I think it was them that did it

[polar acorn]

Musta been quick, I looked away for like a second

I opened the code in a tab and came back and everything was gone

[summer stump]

I got pinged for one where they linked to a chatgpt link, then as I was about to respond they removed it all

[open fog]

uhhhh what does this mean
this is in a prefab

[polar acorn]

Are you trying to drag a scene object into a prefab

[open fog]

im trying to make set it as a script that it can exchange with

but yes, it is from the scene

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what that means or how it answers my question

[rich adder]

can't do that

[polar acorn]

Prefabs cannot reference objects in the scene

[open fog]

huh

[polar acorn]

Prefabs exist anywhere. What would those values be if you spawned it in a different scene?

Scene objects only exist when that specific scene is loaded

If you want to reference a scene object on an object you spawn at runtime, you'll need to spawn it first, then set the references

[summer stump]

Have you taken a look at !learn yet?

[eternal falcon]

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[polar acorn]

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

[open fog]

omggg, ok
Ive spent an hour on this, now time to delete it all and go back to the drawing board

aka this bitch ass line of code

[polar acorn]

This seems like a good candidate for a scriptable object

Then you could create instances of it as files

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[open fog]

My main problem is that in the original version of the game, (which is text based and written in python)
theres an entire library of things you can buy

[polar acorn]

This seems like a good candidate for multiple scriptable objects

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

[open fog]

which, would be selected based on the number you inputted, it would just go to that place in the library and pull the stats from there

I have no clue how it works in c#

I have the number input sorted out, each page in the shop has its own number. The thing is, don't know how to make a library with each object that can have their own individual stats attached

[polar acorn]

So you need some sort of object that is able to be scripted

if only there were a system someone had just linked a tutorial about

[open fog]

if only

[ionic loom]

!code

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[ivory bobcat]

Probably in the same manner but if you're wanting to use the Unity features like the inspector and whatnot, you'll need to work with some constraints like the one mentioned above about prefabs not being allowed to reference scene objects.

[open fog]

welp time to take a break because Ive been at this for close to 5 hours
like making the game in general
I've saved your link to my queue, thanks for trying to help

[ionic loom]

if anyone is free, I'm getting a null reference exception error and I know why, I just don't know how to fix it

[open fog]

Ive done this entirely text based, so that shouldn't be a problem, I can write the whole thing in code, I just need the syntax

welp cya

[polar acorn]

Look at the line the error is on. Something on that line is null but you're trying to do something to it anyway

[ionic loom]

i know but I have no other solution

[ivory bobcat]

Normally, you'd just post your description of the problem, attempts made and all of the necessary data and people would voluntarily provide suggestions.

Use the thread

[ionic loom]

i am

[magic galleon]

Does anyone have a general rule of thumb on how you organise certain script aspects on an objects?

i.e. animation controller script has logic for all animation triggers etc?

I've got a stats script on an object, should I trigger animations on stats from the stats script or should I split it out?

[dawn wharf]

how to know that if an isometric game is in orthographic or perspective camera mode?

[rich adder]

if has depth then its propsective

[dawn wharf]

i understand but sometimes i feel it is difficult to observe it for me, cause hades game feels like orthographic but i somehow cant confirm it

[summer stump]

I don't think hades is ortho

Or else it is at least faked perspective

You get smaller when you move further away from the camera

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera-orthographic.html

[dawn wharf]

i need to open hades again now to see this

brb

[swift elbow]

wait really?

[rich adder]

I think hades is Ortho

[swift elbow]

i never realized

[south sky]

How do you add a delay in your code

[rich adder]

google it

[dawn wharf]

coroutine?

invoke

[dawn wharf]

my bad\

[south sky]

e.g

variable1 = VALUE;
[I want to add a delay here]
variable 2 = VALUE;

[rich adder]

don't ask things that can be easily googleable

[south sky]

I tried

No luck

[rich adder]

try harder

[rich adder]

don't lie

[south sky]

Please

[tender stag]

how can i also check the vertical angle?```cs
//Horizontal angle
if(Vector3.Angle(transform.forward, directionToTarget) < horizontalAngle / 2)
{

}```

[tender stag]

i tried doing something like this

//Vertical angle
float verticalAngle = Vector3.Dot(Vector3.up, directionToTarget.normalized);
float verticalAngleInDegrees = Mathf.Acos(verticalAngle) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;

if(verticalAngleInDegrees < verticalAngle / 2)
{

}```

[rich adder]

imagine that

[summer stump]

It's been a while. So i may be misremembering. Let me know!

[rich adder]

the items are all same size , its def ortho

[dawn wharf]

this

[summer stump]

Gotcha gotcha. Sorry for the misinfo!

[dawn wharf]

no worries we are all learning

[south sky]

Stack overflow made no sense

I didnt understand it

And I couldnt reas properly

[rich adder]

how about the Link that literally says how to do it

[dawn wharf]

or watch a yt video of it

[south sky]

I am rn

[dawn wharf]

i lub this website

[ionic loom]

lube? 🤨

[dawn wharf]

[south sky]

It only says how to delay a function

But its not what im looking for

[rich adder]

you said delay code

[ionic loom]

waitforseconds??

[dawn wharf]

u can create a function to delay the values here

[rich adder]

dont spoonfeed

they're being laz

[south sky]

Some errors popped up idk how to interpret

[rich adder]

there are literally more than one way shown how to make delays

[ionic loom]

try coroutine

there gotta be some turtorial

brackeys

i lub 🤨 that dude

[south sky]

Come on, I hate reading. And i couldnt find much vids

[dawn wharf]

[polar acorn]

How is it not what you're looking for

[rich adder]

aight ima just block you cause you're being childish

[ionic loom]

@summer stump why do you not like brackeys

[south sky]

Maybe bc i am a child, but even then what did I do

I apologise

[summer stump]

Because I have to fix errors from their terrible code too often. People do their tutorials and come here with all the issues caused by it.
I always consider them the worst youtuber for unity stuff. Very charismatic and fun though

[queen adder]

Bro i changed my script editor but still the same glitch https://streamable.com/psqg4x

it isn't working

[ionic loom]

lmao

[queen adder]

Sorry for the background music

[polar acorn]

Brackeys is a great presenter. Not the best programmer. A lot of his code has problems that don't reveal themselves until you try to expand upon his tutorials, so around here a ton of our time has to be spent trying to de-program bad habits that cause problems further down the line

[ionic loom]

thats true

i followed his 3d player controller and couldnt do anything after

tried to make grapple hook and quit after 2 days

[polar acorn]

He's great at presenting topics, and is great for getting an overview of broad topics, like "how to use post processing" and whatnot. But the code itself is the least important part of the tutorials and people tend to just lift it wholesale

[carmine sierra]

any idea why the last velocity is wrong?

[dawn wharf]

but its a good way to start off game dev isnt it?

[queen adder]

Idk why this never works

[summer stump]

Spelling error

[ionic loom]

yeah i guess he teaches beginners what each line and thingy does

[summer stump]

Well, capitalization error

[polar acorn]

I would say Brackeys is dangerous to start with. You need to be at the point where you can read documentation and debug your own problems before using Brackeys. I'd call him more of an intermediate level

[polar acorn]

Whats a RigidBody2D

[carmine sierra]

yeah 🤣 i looked and even highlighted but only took you to say it for me to realise

[summer stump]

No. His beginner stuff is by far the worst
His more advanced stuff becomes OK

[dawn wharf]

i see

[short hazel]

Seems like you don't have the .NET SDK installed.
Using Visual Studio 2022 would be simpler, as it comes bundled with everything required on install.

[ionic loom]

🤨

[summer stump]

What? It is not a thing

[queen adder]

how do i download it?

[ionic loom]

really? sounds like a real thing

[swift elbow]

"the worst" is definite overkill. his cube runner tutorial is good for beginners

[polar acorn]

What? It's not a Unity component so if it's something in their project they'd need to show it

[summer stump]

You would be wrong

[short hazel]

=> Visual studio 2022 download

[polar acorn]

"The worst" of Brackeys content is his beginner-focused stuff. Not that Brackeys' beginner content is the worst beginner content

[ionic loom]

wait a rigidbody 2d is a component

[polar acorn]

No, Rigidbody2D is. Not RigidBody2D

[swift elbow]

ah ok

[summer stump]

Rigidbody2D is, RigidBody2D is not

[queen adder]

But why it works on one of my scripts

but doesn't work on the other one

[ionic loom]

Oh i thought you meant the entire thing didnt exist not the spelling error

[short hazel]

Because it's VS Code doing what it always did, work half the time with Unity

[queen adder]

wdym

[short hazel]

It's unreliable, that's it

Sometimes the plugins don't load, sometimes it doesn't detect the project, etc.

[queen adder]

Bruh i was using JEtBrains rider but i was getting the same error

[rich adder]

its gotten better 😦

[short hazel]

Switching from Rider to VSC
bruh

[rich adder]

sad

[queen adder]

I was getting the same error

so how do i fix rider instead?

[short hazel]

What "error" are you talking about?

[rich adder]

just install .NET sdk dude

[queen adder]

Things don't load

[rich adder]

its not that diffcult

[queen adder]

and the script doesn't work

[rich adder]

the one you showed on VSCode is you missing .net sdk

[short hazel]

First things first, open a command prompt (outside of VSC) and input dotnet --info and see what it tells you

[rich adder]

which is needed for dotnet commands

[rich adder]

ok so dotnet is not installed

just like the error told you earlier

[queen adder]

ok

[short hazel]

No wait

You typed incorrectly lol

[rich adder]

ah yea missing whitespace

[short hazel]

Add a space between dotnet and the --info argument

[rich adder]

you can also do dotnet --list-sdks

[ionic loom]

omg ive been tryna do smt for the past 2 days it finally worked

[ionic loom]

feels so good

[short hazel]

Yep confirmed, it's not installed

[rich adder]

yup dotnet is not installed

[queen adder]

Nice bro

[queen adder]

i'm downloading it

[rich adder]

make sure is .NET SDK not runtime

[queen adder]

ok

Am I on the right website?

the designs looks like cracked games websites

[rich adder]

Resart PC is required after

[queen adder]

ok

so i don't need to download this

sure?

[rich adder]

I mean, you can do both.

[queen adder]

i will use rider

somehow i got the professional for free

[rich adder]

"somehow"

lets just pretend you didn't mention cracked game website from earlier..

[queen adder]

ye

nope

i didn't

i promise

[ionic loom]

is it possible to put to oncollisionenter2ds on the same script? i already googled and couldnt really find a good answer

[short hazel]

No, you cannot have two functions named the same, with identical parameters

You can put all your code in the same one though. Or call two of your own functions from OnCollisionEnter

[ionic loom]

ohhhh that makes a lot more sense

[rich adder]

sounds like an XY Problem

[ionic loom]

female?

[rich adder]

https://xyproblem.info/

[ionic loom]

nope my question was the x problem

[swift elbow]

its all one problem...

[rich adder]

adding two oncollisionenter2d in one script certainly sounds like Y

[devout flower]

Wait that's so funny, i do that all the time

[ionic loom]

i was just trying to change my speed and jumping power with certain platforms in the same script

uh oh

[rich adder]

You need individual script on each platform

then you can send a "event" or "message" to the root script

[summer stump]

Exactly. XY problem. You asked how to do x when you wanted y
To get y, you don't need x at all

[ionic loom]

oh wait

[rich adder]

actually with this sounds like you only need to check specific Tags

or platform type

[ionic loom]

i am

i have TWO tags

ik unbelievable

[rich adder]

You cannot have two tags on one object

[ionic loom]

i know im saying two in total

[rich adder]

oh ok , still confused why you needed two OnCollisionEnter

[ionic loom]

  private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("SpeedPlatform"))
        {
            maxSpeed = 14f;
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("SpeedPlatform"))
        {
            maxSpeed = 9f;
        }
    }

i was just trying to replicate this but for jumping power

[queen adder]

@short hazel @rich adder it's working now ! Tysm 😄

[ionic loom]

youre welcome! 🙂

[rich adder]

ohh just put them inside the same method lol..

[swift elbow]

i would really recommend you learn more c# first if youre struggling with this 😅

[polar acorn]

So why would you need another copy of the function

The function runs when you collide with anything. That's why you check for tags

[short hazel]

One's Enter, the other is Exit. They're not the same so perfectly valid in this context

[ionic loom]

I’m so dumb I thought that entire method was one thingy

[ionic loom]

I’m trying bro but I don’t wanna watch 8 hours of some dude yapping about code I wanna learn from experience

[modest dust]

Spending "8 hours" to learn basics is better than spending entire days or weeks trying to figure out basic error etc

Don't worry, you'll have more than enough opportunities to learn from experience once you get past the basics

[swift elbow]

i started out the same way, but i would ABSOLUTELY recommend listening to some dude yap for a few hours

that'll save so much more time for the future

unity learn has you do stuff and gives tangible results so try that !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[modest dust]

Or better than listening to someone yapping for a few hours straight, take a course and practice what you learn

[polar acorn]

I mean in response to their original question of wanting to add new ones for a different tag

[ionic loom]

Shush that was stupid I wasn’t thinking

[frigid sequoia]

Is this like... too much to have for an start method for each projectile? Cause I plan on adding more and I am kinda worried I should be doing something different

[ionic loom]

What is a proyectile

Sounds funny

[modest dust]

I feel like this all could be encapsulated in a separate class and just save a reference to that instance of that class with all the data

[ionic loom]

Is it just me or is proyectile a thing

[frigid sequoia]

Hardly, you are probably better faking it out yourself

[wintry quarry]

you should just wrap all that projectile data into a class or struct and copy that. It should be a single line. Rather than duplicating all the variables like that.
Also the layermask thing is somewhat inefficient.

[frigid sequoia]

How so?

Like... a scriptable object or something like that?

[wintry quarry]

no just a class or struct

POCO

I mean you could you a ScriptableObject too

up to you

but it's not necessary

[modest dust]

plain class/struct, serializable if it's set in the inspector

[ionic loom]

Omg [SerializeField] I know what that is !!!!

You can drag the thingy and it works

[rich adder]

Serializable is something else

[ionic loom]

Aw 😦

[rich adder]

similiar thing though

[frosty river]

Hi, I'm on Mac and trying to now build my game for both Mac and Windows. In the Unity Hub, the only windows modules I see are under "WebGL". How to get windows build support?

[lofty sequoia]

What does your unity hub modules look like?

[frosty river]

Should I select that even though it's under WebGL?

[modest dust]

They're not "under" WebGL in the sense you're thinking

[frosty river]

I thought it should appear under Platforms

[frigid sequoia]

So... I create a script that just holds a struct with all the projectile data? S

Sry I never used that before, I don't quite understand it

[modest dust]

WebGL module is simply already installed, hence displayed differently

[wintry quarry]

you create a class or struct that holds the projectile data

[summer stump]

@ionic loom did you really mean the middle finger react?

[frosty river]

oh its just a funky ui

its not "under" it

[ionic loom]

No

I just clicked smt random

Why would i even do that

[summer stump]

I dunno. People do weird troll things all the time

[rich adder]

"under" would probably be a collapsable arrow

as you see for "Dev Tools" or "Platforms"

[frosty river]

Is it safe to update modules in unity hub while you're doing stuff in the editor?

[lofty sequoia]

probably best to close the editor

[rich adder]

should be fine

[frosty river]

seems like it's still running

[ionic loom]

Oooo conflict

[rich adder]

just restart after

[frosty river]

why are so many games made just for windows if platforms like Unity can build for both?

[wintry quarry]

Laziness

And lack of testing resources

[lofty sequoia]

performance

[modest dust]

Should be fine, but it doesn't cost anything to be extra careful and close it for 5 minutes

[frosty river]

I was able to build for mac before adding the IL2CPP module, is there going to be a difference having this module or not?

I'm guessing I'm currently building for Mac mono

[frigid sequoia]

And how does that make it simpler to pass the data? I have to still set everything to the playerController stats don't I?

[wintry quarry]

It becomes one line

[rich adder]

IL2CPP is needed for IOS iirc

[whole idol]

!code

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[whole idol]

https://gdl.space/ucudofaset.cs

Does anyone know why this code is so buggy?

[wintry quarry]

myBulletData = payerStats.bulletData;

[summer stump]

What does buggy mean?

[swift elbow]

buggy can mean 10 million things be specific

[wintry quarry]

These are compile errors, not bugs

[swift elbow]

thats not a bug thats an error

[summer stump]

Is your !ide configured?

[eternal falcon]

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[ionic loom]

Is there a reason for putting a public float into a. Serialize field

[swift elbow]

looks like a spelling mistake for the highlighted error

[summer stump]

Foe the unassigned ref error, do you destroy the target?

[wintry quarry]

public already makes the field serialized

[frigid sequoia]

So I set the struct on the playerController, give it all the relevant data and then pass that to the bullet itseflt and set every stat of it according to the struct data? Isn't that equally ineficient or I am just overthinking it?

[wintry quarry]

MathF < the Unity one is Mathf

[frosty river]

When you're messing with your code in the editor and clicking "Play", is it interpreting rather than compiling the C#? (this may be a very stupid question)

[ionic loom]

So why not make the private serialized float public?

[queen adder]

Guys why my health bar script isn't working? https://streamable.com/v3ezwp

script: using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;
public class UIHandler : MonoBehaviour
{
public float CurrentHealth = 0.5f;

private VisualElement m_healthbar;

public static UIHandler instance { get; private set; }


private void Awake()
{
    instance = this;
    
}

void Start()
{
    UIDocument uiDocument = GetComponent<UIDocument>();
        m_healthbar = uiDocument.rootVisualElement.Q<VisualElement>("HealthBar");
        SetHealthValue(1.0f);

}
public void SetHealthValue(float percentage)
{
    m_healthbar.style.width = Length.Percent(100 * percentage);
}

}

[wintry quarry]

I just showed you the entirety of the code to "set every stat of it"

[swift elbow]

!code

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[wintry quarry]

It's one line

[summer stump]

Because other classes can modify a public variable

[queen adder]

Again, mb for the music

[summer stump]

You can mute that btw

[queen adder]

Iknow

i always forget to do that

tdah

[ionic loom]

Makes sense

[queen adder]

script: https://hastebin.com/share/ocikubukuw.csharp

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;
public class UIHandler : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float CurrentHealth = 0.5f;

    private VisualElement m_healthbar;

    public static UIHandler instance { get; private set; }


    private void Awake()
    {
        instance = this;
        
    }

    void Start()
    {
        UIDocument uiDocument = GetComponent<UIDocument>();
            m_healthbar = uiDocument.rootVisualElement.Q<VisualElement>("HealthBar");
            SetHealthValue(1.0f);

    }
    public void SetHealthValue(float percentage)
    {
        m_healthbar.style.width = Length.Percent(100 * percentage);
    }
    
}

[frigid sequoia]

No, like, what I am refering to, that would give me the data stored for how I make a porjectile, I still need to assign every stat of it manually. Like for example for range I would set it to range = proyectileData.range instead of PlayerController.range

Right?

[carmine sierra]

I have a function which is running later than expected, could this be to do with processing power and the way my function is being obtained? (from another script)

[wintry quarry]

wrong

there's no need to do that at all

when you need it you just do myProjectileData.range

there's no reason to duplicate all the variables

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by "running later than expected"

code runs immediately when you call it
Nothing to do with processing power.

[queen adder]

Why it isn't working?

[ionic loom]

I tried to do that and its didn’t work because I tried put a script in the serialize field

[carmine sierra]

I have set it so it is called when a countdown (which starts from 2 seconds), is less than 1.5 seconds (so it should run 0.5 seconds after the countdown begins

[carmine sierra]

i will run a debug rq and let you know if it is just the function or the debug that it is affected too.

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "countdown"? You really need to show the code

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, so.... I would have to refactor everything then...

[summer stump]

The field would have to match the class type
But you can certainly do that

[frigid sequoia]

Ok... sure, I guess I will do that

[wintry quarry]

refactoring is a normal process. But yes you would simplify your code.

[ionic loom]

I know I just found a better method

[summer stump]

Ok 🤷‍♂️

[frigid sequoia]

So if I set the struct on the playerController I can use it no problem in any script or...?

[modest dust]

Anywhere you want

[ionic loom]

Hey why the shrug

[wintry quarry]

you have to follow the normal rules of objects and reference management in C#.

[ionic loom]

Sounds sarcastic somehow

[wintry quarry]

Not really sure what you mean beyond that

[summer stump]

Please stop doing that.
But because you pinged me about it and then said nevermind. So i said ok

[ionic loom]

Wait stop doing what

[summer stump]

Acting like that

[modest dust]

Same as with all the separate field you had earlier, but instead you'd have a single container for all of them at once

[ionic loom]

Ok

[frigid sequoia]

Like if I pass a projectileData struct from the PlayerController to the projectile, I can use it there no problem, but I cannot use it from a script with no direct reference to the struct itself right?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "direct reference to the struct itself"?

[queen adder]

why it is growing

[wintry quarry]

Like anything else if you need the data you have to access it somehow through a reference or by copying it passing a parameter around, whatever.

[carmine sierra]

I wasnt able to find the issue so here's the code:

https://paste.ofcode.org/UVrCe6YdGKAzesPuEWNpe5

The countdown function is running normally, so i want to know why the trishotskill function is running late? Thanks

[carmine sierra]

woah are those custom sprites?

[frigid sequoia]

Like if I create a new script I cannot create a new ProjectileData there if the stuct is declared in other script. I can just use the data from an already passed struct

Is that it?

[queen adder]

No, i'm following a tutorial

anyone can get it for free in unity store

[modest dust]

You can create a new instance of ProjectileData anywhere you want as long as that type is public if that's what you mean

And you can't pass around private types anyways (outside of the declaring scope)

I feel like you're missing some C# basics

[frigid sequoia]

Of course I do, I literally just used whatever I needed for unity until now

I never "needed" a struct

I would literally wouldn't know about it if I didn't ask you guys

[modest dust]

Well, it would be good to learn C# basics first or you'll be stuck on non-Unity related issues, like right now

Either learn one thing at a time or make a mess trying to learn both

[frigid sequoia]

The only way for me to learn anything usefull is by making it practical

Doing isolated stuff with code practice or stuff like that doesn't work for me whatsoever

I just forget it as soon as I finish it

[modest dust]

Well, at least learn the absolute basics

Such things as structs are one of them

[carmine sierra]

hi caesar, any chance you could help me?

[modest dust]

With what exactly?

[frigid sequoia]

Stuct is actually quite complex is the sense that you wouldn't really need it unless you want to do something big enough that the performance might be an issue

[carmine sierra]

this

[frigid sequoia]

Precisely the reason why I am doing kinda of bigger thing here, just to force me to learn this stuff

[carmine sierra]

I am trying to run this function 0.5 seconds after the countdown starts

[carmine sierra]

the countdown is tested and working, although the function isn't running when it's called

I was wondering if you could pinpoint what could be preventing this (i couldnt myself)

[modest dust]

I wouldn't say complex, performance isn't the first thing to consider whether you need a struct or not

It's just a way to bundle related fields and copy the instance by value rather than by reference

Passing around a struct is just passing a new separate instance, changing the original fields doesn't change the copy

Passing around a class is just passing around a reference to that instance instead of making new copies, changing the fields of the original changes the passed "copies"

[frigid sequoia]

Which would only really matter for perfomance... I don't see why I would use a struct rather than just passing the values I need one by one if it wasn't the case

[modest dust]

Not only for performance

If I were to instantiate 10 bullets with a struct containing initial speed and rotation and maybe something more, and I'd want to modify these values differently for each bullet over time then passing via struct rather than class would make sense

And passing one by one is just.. wasteful. Why would you want to separately copy every single field. Rather than that if you ever want to change something, just add a new field to your struct and you're already done, no need to modify the method responsible for duplicating data

[frigid sequoia]

I just do it at the start, the values don't need to change dinamycally, so each projectile just has their own differetn values anyways

[frigid sequoia]

I just add that new field on the PlayerController, which is basically the same that adding it to the struct

[whole idol]

ye

[whole idol]

line?

[frigid sequoia]

I am kinda just using the PlayerController as struct now that I think about it....

[modest dust]

It's still more readable and extensible if you just bundle them in a class/struct and pass the instance instead of separate values

[frigid sequoia]

It basically holds most of all the data, which is kinda weird

[whole idol]

I'll list all the errors here in numerical order in case it's difficult to read📋

1. Assets\Scripts\PlayerController.cs(91,18): error CS1061: 'Movement' does not contain a definition for 'isPrinting' and no accessible extension method 'isPrinting' accepting a first argument of type 'Movement' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

2. Assets\Scripts\PlayerController.cs(69,39): error CS0117: 'MathF' does not contain a definition for 'MoveTowards'

3. UnassignedReferenceException: The variable target of CameraManager has not been assigned.
   You probably need to assign the target variable of the CameraManager script in the inspector.
   UnityEngine.Transform.get_position () (at <17484a9af6b944dea5cd9be4dbb0da2c>:0)
   CameraManager.Awake () (at Assets/Scripts/CameraManager.cs:20)

https://gdl.space/ucudofaset.cs 👈 code

[modest dust]

The very moment you'll ever have to use these fields anywhere else than that one single script, you'll get to know why it's better to pass just one bundle instead of a flood of separate values

[summer stump]

If it is configured, it should show the other errors directly in your code

I dunno what line the unassigned reference error is talking about, but it should tell you in your console

[plucky ether]

Hello everyone, literally just joined and was wondering if I could get a bit of help with a final project for school..

[slender nymph]

https://dontasktoask.com

[whole idol]

if its a compiler error, then I'll try to restart it rn.

[summer stump]

Not sure what you mean by configure error

[whole idol]

compiler error* sorry

[frigid sequoia]

Like, my player needs to pick up stuff that modifies what it does, and most of the changes are attached to how the projectile works, so I would need to pass the reference of all the power ups picked by the player to be attached to the projectile

So my question here is... how would I make the proyectileData struct have a reference to all the power ups that effect the projectile the player has?

[plucky ether]

I'm not sure if I'm running into an issue with my code, or if I'm not implementing it properly into Unity, but I'm trying to get cakes that are falling from the sky to stick to a tray I've attached to the player by using a spring joint.

[modest dust]

What type of effects exactly?

[plucky ether]

this is what my code looks like

[slender nymph]

your methods are inside of the Start method. they do not belong in there

[ionic loom]

Why is void update in ur void start

[plucky ether]

Still really new, so it's something I didn't notice, I'll change that now thank you

[whole idol]

can you take a video of what the game looks like right now without the cakes falling properly from the sky etc etc.? Id be curious to see

[plucky ether]

yes I did, I just didn't know if that was okay to post

[teal viper]

using static UnityEditor.Timeline.TimelinePlaybackControls;

For starters, are you sure you need that using in your code?

[whole idol]

no but thanks for noticing that that was there, idk what that does but imma remove it right now

[slender nymph]

use mp4 rather than mkv to embed in discord

[plucky ether]

got it!

[frigid sequoia]

Like so you undestand it better, powerUps shoud hold a list of all the the powerUps currently picked and should be taken in account. In this case, the "hasExplosiveShoots" IS a powerUp but I need to pass it to the projectile for it to do the stuff. "NinjaCloak" for example does other stuff that needs extra parameters that pretty sure should be better stored on a struct. So how the hell do I even organize this?

[whole idol]

Assets\Scripts\PlayerController.cs(91,18): error CS1061: 'Movement' does not contain a definition for 'isPrinting' and no accessible extension method 'isPrinting' accepting a first argument of type 'Movement' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Assets\Scripts\PlayerController.cs(69,39): error CS0117: 'MathF' does not contain a definition for 'MoveTowards'

Anyway so here's the new console errors that seem to be only 2 trustable errors after restarting my unity

https://gdl.space/ucudofaset.cs Codezilla here.

[summer stump]

One minor thing, you likely want to check the tag of the thing you're colliding with, not your OWN tag
Also use CompareTag

So:
if (tray.gameObject.CompareTag("cake"))

[teal viper]

You still didn't remove the line I mentioned

[wintry quarry]

the isPrinting is almost definitely a typo. Does your movement involve printers??
The other one is also a typo. Unity has Mathf. Not MathF

[plucky ether]

I'll check that out, thank you

[summer stump]

Can you show a screenshot of your code editor?
It should tell you how to correct at least the MathF one

[teal viper]

Didn't notice that the correct var is isSprinting lol

[frigid sequoia]

Should I just past the whole PowerUps struct to the ProjetileDataStuct?

Is that right?

[modest dust]

The easy and simple (and probably primitive) way, would be to make classes out of the powerups and add fields for each powerup to ProjectileData

If it's null, there's no powerup of that type

[eternal needle]

The use of structs here sounds weird but I would consider using inheritance here for what a power up

[modest dust]

Otherwise apply powerup

[teal viper]

So it's configured properly. How could you not see it suggesting you the correct variable name..?

[summer stump]

Ok, and when you hover over the underlined word (movetowards), does it say "quick fixes"

[whole idol]

it's not

it was showing me isprinting, it should had been issprinting instead

[teal viper]

For the isPrinting I mean. When you were typing it should have showed you the correct option.

[frigid sequoia]

What I was doing until now was to create parameters in the PlayerController and keep them "unused" until the bool that indicates that the powerUp is picked is true; which happens when they pick the powerUp, it also sets all the relevant varibales

So you are telling me I should extend the struc on the powerUp itself?

[modest dust]

Add powerup class (or nullable struts) fields to the ProjectileData struct

[whole idol]

This is all I get

wrap, unwrap and the last one, introduce parameter for 'movement'

[frigid sequoia]

How do I do that? Like I can attach new "value slots" to an already existing struct?

Is that what you are saying?

[teal viper]

Not here. When you type it...

[whole idol]

ok i only get on error now which is this

Assets\Scripts\PlayerController.cs(7,7): error CS0138: A 'using namespace' directive can only be applied to namespaces; 'Mathf' is a type not a namespace. Consider a 'using static' directive instead

it does show recommended keywords but its not always wanted keywords

[modest dust]

struct ProjectileData
{
   // Some normal data
   // ...
   public MyCoolPowerup mcp;
   public MyOtherPowerup mop;
}

...

if (projectileData.mop != null)
  // Powerup active, apply to projectile...

Could also be done via inheritance and an array/list of powerups, with some virtual or abstract apply method

[wintry quarry]

delete that yellow circled line entirely (why did you add that?) and change the other line to use Mathf not MathF as mentioned before.

[teal viper]

That's what you should've looked at with movement.

[frigid sequoia]

But... my powerUps are not like classes that I can referenced like that I think....

[whole idol]

was recommended by Ai

[wintry quarry]

well AI is dumb

[queen adder]

Can someone help me fixing this glitch?

[wintry quarry]

stop listening to it

[modest dust]

Then make them into classes

[whole idol]

now the error wants something like this but still doenst work

[devout spire]

I have a function that loads saved settings from PlayerPrefs which runs when the game launches (I know it's running because I can see the Debug.Log in the console) but the settings only apply when I open the settings menu for some reason. I've tried allowing the settings menu to be active for a moment when the game launches but that didn't work either. Does anyone have any idea why this is and how I could fix it?

[teal viper]

What ai? Don't use it as a replacement for basic programming understanding.

[wintry quarry]

if you do what I said it will work. Already told you the answer

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, no they ARE classes, they just adjust some parameters and then they just are destroyed

[wintry quarry]

!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.

[teal viper]

If it's GitHub copilot, I'd disable it entirely while you're still learning.

[frigid sequoia]

For example

[whole idol]

oh thanks sorry I didn't see that message, seems i missed this one ok ty

[wintry quarry]

at this point I meant this one #💻┃code-beginner message

[devout spire]

Load Saved Settings Function:

    {
        Debug.Log("Loaded saved settings!");

        volumeSlider.value = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("volume");
        musicSlider.value = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("music");
        sfxSlider.value = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("sfx");
    }```

Main Menu Class:
```using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class MainMenu : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject settingsMenu;

    void Awake()
    {
        settingsMenu.GetComponent<SettingsMenu>().LoadSavedSettings();
    }

    public void PlayGame()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1);
    }

    public void QuitGame()
    {
        Debug.Log("Quit!");
        Application.Quit();
    }
}```

[frigid sequoia]

Should I for example create and stuct there and pass that?

[summer stump]

Well that explains the issues

[wintry quarry]

You load function only sets the UI sliders. It doesn't actually change the volumes etc.

[devout spire]

wow... you're right, i didn't even notice that. i think i watched a crappy tutorial

[modest dust]

Or a class, if you plan to store it in ProjectileData and do powerup checks via a null check

[devout spire]

ty

[whole idol]

Ok so, my player has stopped moving and instead when I press the WASD keys he just rotates around himself...

https://gdl.space/dayeqabaqo.cs < CharacterController script

https://gdl.space/gazomuwasa.cs < CameraManagement scirpt

You probably need to assign the target variable of the CameraManager script in the inspector.
UnityEngine.Transform.get_position () (at <17484a9af6b944dea5cd9be4dbb0da2c>:0)
CameraManager.Awake () (at Assets/Scripts/CameraManager.cs:22)```

^^^ Not true I did assign it

[wintry quarry]

You didn't assign it

You might have assigned it on ONE copy of the camera manager script

but there's another copy somewhere you didn't assign it

[crisp knoll]

Hello, need a bit of help.

I have this function in my BallBehavior script attached to a gameobject, and i want it to turn around as if it would bounce using it.

public void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        Rigidbody2D rb = this.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Vert Wall")
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, -rb.velocity.y);
        } else if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Hor Wall")
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(-rb.velocity.x, rb.velocity.y);
        }
    }

However, the velocity is set to zero before i can flip it. is there any way to counteract this? or am i doing something wrong?

[whole idol]

ok true there was one in my Player himself. thanks

[whole idol]

aaaaand... I still get the same error lol.

[wintry quarry]

the velocity has already changed by the time you're in OnCollisionEnter2D. You could use collision.relativeVelocity to see what the velocity diff was before th collision if you want.

[crisp knoll]

what is collision.relativeVelocity exactly?

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collision2D.html

[crisp knoll]

thanks

[lost anvil]

bump

[whole idol]

I deleted the copy in the Player Gameobject and now I still get the issue

[crisp knoll]

Im not sure this will work. My object is colliding with a wall that wont be moving, and so wont the relative velocity be zero?

[summer stump]

No

The only way the relative velocity would be 0 is if neither object is moving or they are moving in the same velocity in the same direction (meaning no collision)

[wintry quarry]

then there's one somewhere else too

[wintry quarry]

no in fact that's ideal

[summer stump]

Relative velocity of one moving object and a static object is simply the velocity of the moving object

[wintry quarry]

the relative velocity will be whatever the pre-collision velocity of the moving object was

[crisp knoll]

okay, i think i get it now.

so replacing rb.velocity in the new vector2 with collision.relativeVelocity would solve my problem?

sorry if I seem stupid im very new to unity

[wintry quarry]

try it

[crisp knoll]

it still seems to have the problem

[wintry quarry]

have you tried Debug.Logging the relativeVelocity?

[whole idol]

it's no where except for where it should be

https://gdl.space/dayeqabaqo.cs < CharacterController script
https://gdl.space/gazomuwasa.cs < CameraManagement scirpt

[frigid sequoia]

So I ended up doing something like this. Is this the intended way of using it?

[crisp knoll]

thats really wierd. the relativeVelocity is logging the correct velocity, but it seems that im having trouble changing the velocity to the right thing:

public void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {

        Vector2 newVelocity = collision.relativeVelocity;
        Debug.Log(newVelocity);
        Rigidbody2D rb = this.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Vert Wall")
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(newVelocity.x, -newVelocity.y);
        } else if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Hor Wall")
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(-newVelocity.x, newVelocity.y);
        }
    }

[queen adder]

i should die when the remaining distance is less than 1 but the death object activates before that

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.AI;
using UnityEngine.Animations;

public class navmesh : MonoBehaviour
{

private NavMeshAgent agent;

public Transform Player;

public Animator anim;

public int Health;

public GameObject PlayerPrefab;

private void Update()
{

  agent=GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();
  agent.destination=Player.position;
    Debug.Log(agent.remainingDistance);
    if (agent.remainingDistance>2)
    {
        
        anim.Play("run");
    }


    if (agent.remainingDistance<0.6){
       
        anim.Play("attack1");
      
        Health = 0;
        Debug.Log(Health);
        if (Health==0)
        {

            PlayerPrefab.gameObject.SetActive(true);
        }
       
    }
    



}

}

how do i type the code in the bars like you guys

[crisp knoll]

do triple backtick

and then the language

so like '''cs

but with backticks (left of the 1 on us keyboards)

[queen adder]

i can't send it for some reason

[frigid sequoia]

Also, I just noticed, struct cannot be modified from the the inspector right? Cause just pressing a bool to tick if some powerUp is active was VERY usefull for testing

[whole idol]

Why does my player rotate around himself everytime i press the WASD keys to move the player himself?

https://gdl.space/dayeqabaqo.cs < CharacterController script
https://paste.ofcode.org/KvAHCNW6XANHwqx7nuzQgK < CameraManagement scirpt

[winter cedar]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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[queen adder]

can you guys help with my problem

up

[summer stump]

What does the debug say the remaining distance is?

[queen adder]

yes

[summer stump]

That is not a response that makes sense

That was not a yes or no question

[queen adder]

sry im new i just started like 2 or 3 days ago

[summer stump]

So... you don't understand what I asked?
Because usually questions that start with "what" are not yes or no questions.

[whole idol]

Why does my player rotate around himself everytime i press the WASD keys to move the player himself back and forth etc he just stays in place and spin like a bayblade?

https://gdl.space/dayeqabaqo.cs < CharacterController script
https://paste.ofcode.org/KvAHCNW6XANHwqx7nuzQgK < CameraManagement scirpt
and doesn't jump either

[crisp knoll]

private Rigidbody2D rb;
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

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

public void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {

        Vector2 newVelocity = collision.relativeVelocity;
        Debug.Log(newVelocity);
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Vert Wall")
        {
            Debug.Log("Velocity to change to: " + new Vector2(newVelocity.x, -newVelocity.y));
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(newVelocity.x, -newVelocity.y);
        } else if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Hor Wall")
        {
            Debug.Log("Velocity to change to: " + new Vector2(-newVelocity.x, newVelocity.y));
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(-newVelocity.x, newVelocity.y);
        }
    }

I cant seem to find problems in this code except setting the rb.velocity. Im not sure what to do

[queen adder]

34

[summer stump]

Ok, I kinda think the issue is in some other code.
You have PlayerPrefab.gameObject.SetActive(true) (which is kind of concerning, because prefabs do not exist in the scene, and don't have an active state), but it's a ui element that is set active?

[queen adder]

first it was player prefab now its the UI prefab i forget to change the name because the setactive thing wasn't working on the player and i got tired

ahh man i think i messed up

[summer stump]

Prefabs do not exist in the scene, so this is a gameObject, not prefab

[queen adder]

i pasted the wrong code

[summer stump]

Ok, I thought so. That code didn't seem to be causing the issue

[twin bolt]

Why wont this script show up in the tools menu in the editor? https://hastebin.com/share/ijihojiyeq.csharp

[summer stump]

Ah, should probably ask in #↕️┃editor-extensions
I dunno much about them. My first naive thought is that the attribute should be over the class? But I have no idea

[queen adder]

this code is better i think 😢 the Dead UI gameobject should be setactive true when the distance < 0.6 but it activates the moment i start the game

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.AI;
using UnityEngine.Animations;

public class navmesh : MonoBehaviour{
private NavMeshAgent agent;
public Transform Target;
public Animator anim;
public GameObject UIObject;
private void Update() {
agent=GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();
agent.destination=Target.position;
Debug.Log(agent.remainingDistance);
if (agent.remainingDistance > 2){

        anim.Play("run");
    }
    if (agent.remainingDistance < 0.6) {
        anim.Play("attack1");
       UIObject.gameObject.SetActive(true);          
    }
}

}

it looks like the code doesn't care about remaining distance and just activates

[teal viper]

What do you see in the log?

[queen adder]

remaining distance

[teal viper]

I mean, is it more than 2 on start?

[queen adder]

its around 25

[teal viper]

Is that what you see in the console?

Take a screenshot of the very first message

[carmine sierra]

what would you call an instance where there is only of them? (documentation reasons)

[teal viper]

One instance

[carmine sierra]

thought singleton was right

[teal viper]

Singleton is a programming pattern that makes sure that there is always only one instance.

[carmine sierra]

oohh okay

[teal viper]

Open the damn console tab, scroll up and take a screenshot...

[queen adder]

its 0 at start

wow

then it goes to 27

[teal viper]

Yep

[queen adder]

but why

[teal viper]

Navmesh agent takes time to calculate the path. Before it's ready, it doesn't know the remaining distance

Maybe check if it has a valid path before making the distance check

[queen adder]

how do i check ? and where

[grave frost]

This is a very noob question but I can't seem to remember. When setting transform.position, does the parent transform affect the output position? Because from the documentation it looks like it shouldn't, yet it seems to do this when set.

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't affect the world position being set but it will certainly affect the local position you end up with

Not sure what you mean exactly by "output position"

[grave frost]

the position that is resulted from setting the transform's position

so this line should set the object's transform position to the 'unit' position, reguardless of parent, correct?

gameObject.transform.position = new Vector3(unit.gameObject.transform.position.x, gameObject.transform.position.y, unit.gameObject.transform.position.z);

Will a normal transform having a parent that is a rect transform effect that at all?

[summer stump]

for one thing, you can do unit.transform and transform (skipping the gameObject part entirely).
Just as an aside

[teal viper]

Have a look at the ba mesh agent documentation for the available methods.

[grave frost]

yes I know. I just haven't looked at this code before 10 minutes ago so I haven't had time to fix anything, but looking at it I don't really see a reason for it's behavior to be faltering.

[wintry quarry]

that's what .position does, it sets the world space position

regardless of parentage

[grave frost]

for some reason it's getting set to really large numbers of x, y, z instead of the unit's position. Its parent is a rect transform so that has to be it, right? But i thought parents shouldn't affect setting the position value.

[wintry quarry]

This should basically never happen

why do you have that situation?

[wintry quarry]

Because UI elements with RectTransforms live in screen space. Using those as the world space positions for your objects will result in this.

[summer stump]

To be clear, you have a non-ui unit with a normal transform as a child of a ui element with a recttransform?

[grave frost]

the object is displaying the unit's range which is all UI except for this object.

[grave frost]

yes thats how it currently is

[wintry quarry]

that's where you've gone wrong

[summer stump]

Yeah, that is really not good

[grave frost]

hmm why not? Even where I currently intern they do this. (this is not for intern, personal project)

[wintry quarry]

In Screen Space - Overlay, it results in what you're seeing.

If you use a Screen Space - Camera canvas it will work more or less

[grave frost]

okay, interesting. But it's generally fine to have the reverse?

[wintry quarry]

no

it's not ok in general to have UI objects that are parents of world space objects and vice versa

[grave frost]

what about when the canvas is in world space? Is that ok?

[icy flume]

I have a simple question. How do I set what UI element the mouse focus is on?

[carmine sierra]

what type of thing is time.deltatime

is it an enum?

I need to know for documentation

[grave frost]

deltatime is a float

[carmine sierra]

but time

and deltatime

[summer stump]

There is real documentation that will tell you all this

[carmine sierra]

thanks

[summer stump]

deltaTime is not an enum
Nor is Time

[carmine sierra]

thought so

[summer stump]

Wait, when you say for documentation, is this like a school project?

[carmine sierra]

yes, and im thankfully finished as of now

time i could call like an in built class?

or from unity's class library?

[rancid tinsel]

this doesnt do anything right?

[frosty river]

built my first game 🙂 followed a tutorial and its pretty basic, but still a good notch under the belt

[frigid sequoia]

What the heck is this error I am getting?

[north kiln]

Something wrong with the trail renderer inspector. If you don't need the changes to the component you could try resetting it and hope it goes away

[summer stump]

It does do something
It returns from the whole method if any Image in menus is active

[twin bolt]

How do i change antialiasing in HDRP during runtime from script?

I've tried google, but none give good explanations.

[carmine sierra]

unity crashed what do i do?

[rancid tinsel]

yeah but it goes through regardless no?

I mean I know the code itself does something but I mean effectively, it does nothing?

Nothing changes by that being there I'm assuming

[frigid sequoia]

It somehow fixed after resetting, but pretty sure I didn't touch any trail renderers like for a long while

I am now getting this error out of nowhere. I have no compile errors showing anywhere

[eternal needle]

Probably nothing you did. I had lots of random errors/warnings from stuff like vfx graph in 2021.3 when I wasnt even touching it

[eternal needle]

Check the file name and the class name, or share the code if it does match

[frigid sequoia]

It does match. I just copied one name into the other just to make sure

[summer stump]

No
If you had that at the beginning of a method and there was code after it, and one of those was active, the code after would not run
That could have a profound effect

[frigid sequoia]

https://gdl.space/axitosulez.cs

Doesn't show any compile errors

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/script-loading-issues

[inland monolith]

Is there an easy way to take the text in a text object and project it to a text mesh on the canvas?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "project"?

[inland monolith]

like I have it set up where I want information on the canvas to be updated based off whats in the text object

[frigid sequoia]

I just have to do another restart, seems to work for all these random erros, for some reason; thxs

[wintry quarry]

what's the confusion here?

isn't it just destination.text = source.text?

[inland monolith]

wait....

[carmine sierra]

any idea why these if statements aren't being entered? i have debugged everything

[wintry quarry]

presumably the name of the object doesn't start with either of those things. Or perhaps it's not even getting to that point

[carmine sierra]

i debugged and it does reach those if statements

[wintry quarry]

then the name doesn't start with those

[carmine sierra]

this would be valid no?

[summer stump]

This would be a good use for enums

Instead of using a gameobject name

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log($"My name is {name} and do I start with RED KING? { (name.StartsWith("RED KING") ? "yes" : "no") }");```

something like this

but yeah

using object names is crazy

as is having scripts named P1_NameInput and P2_NameInput

[carmine sierra]

i know its just barely getting by

[carmine sierra]

name automatically refers to gameObject.name?

[wintry quarry]

you can call name on any component and it will give the GameObject's name yes

[wintry quarry]

then it's entering the if statements

[inland monolith]

I cant use .txt doesnt allow me to show it in a canvas unless I'm missing something

[wintry quarry]

i have no idea what you mean by that

[carmine sierra]

okay ill double check the code im running

[wintry quarry]

make sure there aren't any exceptions happening or anything. Do you have errors showing in the console?

[carmine sierra]

for some reason the first debug works but not the "game over" debug

no errors

[inland monolith]

The idea is I click on a seat lets say 1F for right now I then take that seat name and add it to the canvas where it says SEAT:. My issue is that I cant just directly connect the two because the code uses .txt which doesnt work with the textmesh
my question is there some way to have the textmesh read what is on the txt file at real time then display it?

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of your console

[carmine sierra]

oh crap there are errors i just had them closed

this line is the issue

says object reference not set to an instance of the script

@teal viper idk if its fine to @ you

[summer stump]

Do you set instance to anything?

It isn't automatic

You have to actually assign it. Usually to "this"

[carmine sierra]

ohh right the {set: getter} thing?

ohh

[summer stump]

No, that is for making it a property and is unrelated

[carmine sierra]

YES

as broken as it is

thank you @summer stump youve helped me alot finishing this project

[summer stump]

No prob

[wintry quarry]

Yeah I asked you about that lol

[carmine sierra]

yeah mb i had them closed for a long time

[frigid sequoia]

If I instantiate a collider just on top of a another one, does that trigger an OnTriggerEnter? It should right?

[swift elbow]

I tried this before thinking it would work, but sadly it doesn't 😅

[teal viper]

If they intersect on instantiation, then no.

[frigid sequoia]

I want to instantiate an explosion with a collider and it instantly detecting any enemies inside

[wintry quarry]

pretty sure it works 🤔
Try it and let us know

[wintry quarry]

Why not just use Physics.OverlapSphere?

[frigid sequoia]

I have to deactivate the collider for a frame and then activate it?

[swift elbow]

It doesn't because the colliders never enter, they just exist and are never triggered

[wintry quarry]

but colliders overlapping at the start of a scene trigger it

anyway, it's not the right approach for this problem

[frigid sequoia]

Cause, it is not physic based and also I already have all the logic setup up for a "DamagingCollider" script

[wintry quarry]

wdym it's not physics based?

[swift elbow]

Idk abt existing ones on scene enter, but they were talking about instantiation so I assumed during play

[wintry quarry]

of course it's physics based

you're literally talking about colliders

[teal viper]

How is it not physics based if you're using colliders?

[frigid sequoia]

Colliders, but not rb

[wintry quarry]

that's physics

anyway the fact you don't have a Rigidbody is why it's not working

but really

[teal viper]

Physics is not just an rb

[wintry quarry]

USE OVERLAPSPHERE

it's the right way.

[frigid sequoia]

No, no, they do

[wintry quarry]

Using a collider for this is insane because you'd have to wait until the physics simulation step to react to the explosion

[teal viper]

Then the mention of it not being physics makes even less sense now

[frigid sequoia]

Cause all related to damage and collisions is not using any phisics, it just to apply some very minor physic based effects such as knockback

[teal viper]

I'm really clueless how it's not related to physics now.

[frigid sequoia]

If you want to call detecting collisions by just colliders and not any physic simulation beyond that such as you would do with Raycast, sure, it is physiscs

[teal viper]

Or rather, in your understanding what would make it "physics based"?

[frigid sequoia]

But this is no different than taking two sprites and see if one is on top of each other

[teal viper]

It is different, because you're relying on the physics system to calculate the collision

[frigid sequoia]

Not collision, trigger

[languid saffron]

Silly question, but how would I get the "Focus on Tilemap" option in Scene view?

[teal viper]

If anything an overlap query would be "less physics based", although that really doesn't make sense.

[teal viper]

Trigger is a type of collision

[frigid sequoia]

As far as I know only rb use actual physic based collisions

[wintry quarry]

Ok if you're done arguing semantics, you need to use OverlapSphere

[teal viper]

Every thing related to collisions and triggers is going through the physics system. There's no magic telling the object that it entered a trigger. It's the physics system that's doing that.

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, that's to detect THIS particular case, I want this to be modular enough to allow ANY shape, that's why I am using a specific script that uses a collider

[swift elbow]

Actually, it all goes through me first because I AM the physics system 😁

[frigid sequoia]

https://gdl.space/qogegowege.cs

[teal viper]

You want explosions to be of different shapes..?

[languid saffron]

Why doesn't it let me add a Scene when I click "Add Open Scene" button in build settings?

[frigid sequoia]

Not specifically explosion, anything other than bullet basically

[frigid sequoia]

They all use that script

[swift elbow]

Are you currently in the scene you're trying to add? Also not a coding question

[teal viper]

Well, then you need some distinction. You can't push abstraction to a point where you use 1 script for every single thing in your game.

Have explosions use overlap sphere. Other cases would implement logic that suits them.

[languid saffron]

My bad, and I hope I'm understanding you correctly, but I'm currently in SampleScene (the default one) and trying to add a new Scene.

[frigid sequoia]

The abstraction in this is: Is meant to be a zone where if either you or an enemy enter, you take damage

[swift elbow]

Then double click the new scene so that you are in it, and press add open scenes. You can also just drag and drop scenes from the assets folder into the build settings menu to add them

[frigid sequoia]

With some extra modularity and configurations

[teal viper]

Then abstract the zone part, but implement the exact logic in different types of zones. Explosions would do an overlap.

[timber tide]

you can probably swap out different mesh colliders if you want different shapes that arent primitives

no clue how doable that sounds

[languid saffron]

ty

[green copper]

Why can't I preassign the enemy manager in the prefab for a sentry turret?

if I try to set it to enemyManager, it says there's a type mistmatch, but the handmade turret I'm trying to prefab accepted it fine

[wintry quarry]

prefabs can't reference objects in scenes

[green copper]

is there a way I can give the turret an Awake() to assign it, or should I do it in the blueprintManager that instantiates the turrets?

[wintry quarry]

do it in the thing that instantiates turrets

Or

use the singleton pattern

EnemyManager sounds like something that would be a singleton

[timber tide]

yeah. you can reference it directly from the class would be preferable

or via GameManager singleton such that you can dot access it via GameManager.EnemyManager

[green copper]

Having googled singletons, that sounds exactly correct, thank you

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, never mind, I am absolutelly drunk, it was not even usign a trigger Collider, how can I be so dumb?

It does work now, I just let a single frame where the colliders don't touch just to be sure

[languid saffron]

When I click the start button in my main menu, it takes me back to the same main menu, and I'm trying to get it to load the next scene. I've troubleshooted a bit like switching the Scene Load to 0 or 2 to see if the scene was labeled a different number. But it didn't work (Sorry if this sentence doesn't make a lot of sense, I'm very tired lmao)

[young warren]

please show the code for your start button

[hard lodge]

ive tried for soo long but isk why it is not working, any help?

[young warren]

that's not where you declare variables, you need to declare them inside the class

please look closer

[eager spindle]

the cheap way is to go into enemyManager, have a public static enemyManager instance, go into enemyManager's Start() and set instance = this

in any of your code you can call enemyManager.instance

[young warren]

which is what was suggested already. a singleton.

[eager spindle]

depends if you want to put it in game manager or enemy manager

I used to do it in game manager but I realised it's a bit of a hassle if I want to delete something

And it's also not great for multiple people to change the game manager to add their singletons in a collaboration situation

[hard lodge]

Wdym

[young warren]

do you know what declaring a variable means?

[hard lodge]

No

[young warren]

then you need to take a step back and watch this video first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1RsydH2nA

[eager spindle]

when I started unity I made the mistake of immediately trying to link my code with my game, I feel that it's better to have a strong foundation in coding before starting unity

[young warren]

then compare where you declared your variable versus how they do it in the video

i would highly recommend you learn some basic terms for programming like variables and functions first

https://learn.unity.com/project/beginner-gameplay-scripting

[near wadi]

!learn has a rather helpful Junior Programmer path.

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[young warren]

otherwise you can't understand the help that is given

[languid saffron]

Sorry it took me so long, I was in the shower. Hella short code tho

[young warren]

that's a * 1

[eager spindle]

very interesting way to do it

[young warren]

that's going to just reload the current scene

did you mean to do + 1?

also show the scene index list in your build settings

[languid saffron]

Main Menu is 0, SampleScene is 1

[eager spindle]

you should add your scene to the scene index list

[young warren]

okay, so you want to load SampleScene right?

and this code is running in MainMenu?

[languid saffron]

yea

[eager spindle]

it's not loading the next scene in this case since it's multiplying by 1

[languid saffron]

yes

[young warren]

ok, so then what do you think SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex will give you?

if this is running in the MainMenu scene, GetActiveScene will refer to the MainMenu scene, correct?

[languid saffron]

Yes if I'm correct.

[young warren]

and you said MainMenu's buildIndex is 0

so what is 0 * 1?

0 multiplied by 1

[languid saffron]

Zero

[young warren]

okay, so you run SceneManager.LoadScene(0);

following so far?

[languid saffron]

LoadScene loads the scene yes

[young warren]

yeah, and what does SceneManager.LoadScene(0); mean?

[languid saffron]

Shouldn't we change it to 1 instead to load the next scene?

[young warren]

exactly

so do you need to pass to SceneManager.LoadScene instead?

in order to load the SampleScene

[young warren]

you already know SampleScene's index is 1

[languid saffron]

Pardon?

It works yippee

[young warren]

what does the 0 in SceneManager.LoadScene(0); refer to

[languid saffron]

Loads Scene 0 (Main Menu)

[young warren]

yep

[languid saffron]

But if we change it to 1 then it loads the actual game.

[young warren]

so to load SampleScene, as i'm sure you've figured out now, you use the scene index of SampleScene, which is 1

[languid saffron]

Can't this also be applied to a death screen? Like on collision with a certain object with a tag we can load the next scene?

[young warren]

sure

but i dont think you understand where the numbers are assigned to the scenes

please go to File > Build Settings

there should be a window that pops up

[languid saffron]

I'm there

[young warren]

can you pass me a screenshot of it please?

[young warren]

see the numbers on the right

0 for Menu, 1 for SampleScene

[languid saffron]

That's the numbers of the scene yea

[young warren]

yep

[languid saffron]

I understand that part

[young warren]

okay

so you understand what went wrong with your code?

as in why was it loading Menu instead of SampleScene earlier?

if not, it's okay. I can explain again if you'd like

[languid saffron]

not only does 0 * 1 = 0 (basic multiplication), but scene 0 is main menu and the actual game is scene 1

[young warren]

yep

now here's something else you can learn

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadScene.html

documentation says SceneManager.LoadScene does this

[devout linden]

just wanna question if any programmer is Googling too much

[young warren]

you can pass in the scene name instead of the index

[eager spindle]

Google more

[young warren]

no such thing. if anything, most aren't googling enough

[languid saffron]

Googling too little if anything..

[eager spindle]

As a programmer it's important to be able to solve your own problem by searching

[devout linden]

I really use it even for player movement

[languid saffron]

Off topic, but why do you hate Java?

[eager spindle]

And don't use chatgpt

[young warren]

which means, you can do this SceneManager.LoadScene("SampleScene"); @languid saffron

[languid saffron]

Thank you kind sir.

[young warren]

of course this is prone to user error if you mistype the name or change the name of your scene in the future

[charred spoke]

Well use chatgpt responsibly.

[languid saffron]

So it's like a more direct way of telling the game to load the scene

[young warren]

i'm a ma'am, but you're very welcome. happy to share when others are happy to learn

[languid saffron]

My bad.

[young warren]

not so much "direct", just a different way

[eager spindle]

Java 😡
Overly verbose, lacks a lot of language features, expects users to know OOP before even stepping into the language, 2 build systems that split the open source community, users are expected to install the JRE just to run any java program,

[charred spoke]

Technically this is a more indirect way than using the build index

[young warren]

you can reorder the scenes in the build settings as well, so using the scene index isn't foolproof either

[languid saffron]

I did try it once. I feel the pain

[eager spindle]

I'll talk about it another day 😴

[languid saffron]

What we thinkin about my menu?

[young warren]

let's try to keep things on topic 🙂 this is a code channel

[charred spoke]

Very avant-garde

[young warren]

i'll head off now. happy developing

[swift elbow]

#archived-game-design

[whole idol]

Hi today I tried to play around with a new tutorial that teaches you how to use netcode, and the tutorial has me so far open 2 unities, why? because its how you play and test your game to see if the multiplayer actually works and stuff, so i tested it and it worked but now because I have too many windows open, is it okay if i close one? I can still access everything through the hierarchy of one of the unity's windows

not sure how it actually works really

I mean look

I can access the Network Object component through these game objects in the hierarchy

so why do I need to keep 2 Unity windows open at the same time?

[young warren]

because its how you play and test your game to see if the multiplayer actually works and stuff
isn't this why?

[whole idol]

yeah but

where is this like saved?

what will happen if I close one of them?

This is what im asking

[young warren]

you can always reopen it right?

[whole idol]

Im not asking things i already know

how?

[young warren]

how did you open the 2nd unity window the first time?

I'd assume if you close one, it's like the player disconnected

[whole idol]

I clicked the clone button or something

soon ill have to go to sleep and continue this project tomorrow

so this is why im asking

i dont want this to get lost or whatever

[young warren]

you dont need to save 2 copies of anything

this is just one unity project isn't it?

and you just opened 2 instances of it, that's all

so if your project is saved, that's fine

[whole idol]

ok ty

[wicked cairn]

The new HUB doesn’t allow two Unity open at once. Only separate projects. I use ParrelSync, works nice

[tough lagoon]

Me too, ❤️ it. I'm wondering if the tutorial led them on that path and confused them though

[lost anvil]

bump

[severe robin]

hello every one, I was following the tutorial to create the custom ui line renderer by game dev guide, every thing is working fine but while adding the material the texture of the material is not being applied to it, why? here is a code snippet:
https://paste.ofcode.org/AgP6AvqCDVepQSMy7Zg3SF

[fickle plume]

Do you not get error on line 18?

your material name is m not material

[severe robin]

@fickle plume no there is no error, and here is the attached material

[severe robin]

yes, it's m but that must not be a problem right?

[fickle plume]

what are you assigning then?

[severe robin]

I have assined a materail to "m" in the inspector

[fickle plume]

And then you set it in the code to something else

recheck the tutorial code

[severe robin]

No, i am just overriding the material of canvasRenderer to m..thats the problem in the tutorial no material with texture is being used

[fickle plume]

@severe robin If you are using your own material don't switch it on line 18 to something else called "material" in inherited graphic class

[severe robin]

I removed the material switching part, but still only the color tint is being applied and no texture is being shown

[fickle plume]

You are using a custom shader there, there's no guarantee it actually uses the texture.

[severe robin]

It is not a custom shader it is built in ui shader, it is being applied correctly to an image but not to custom graphics:

[teal viper]

Could be uvs or something

[fickle plume]

Try changing color on the image component. I'm seeing in 2023.1 it doesn't update texture taken from material unless color changed at least once

might have to trigger refresh for UI to update

[lost anvil]

bump with update, the item is moving to the player hands last position when the item is interacted with

[magic pagoda]

is there a way to have a drop-down menu for your strings on the editor under the script variables? or does it have to be a seperate window

Im trying to make a drop-down menu for myself to pick from a list of enemy types when making a new enemy

[severe robin]

I tried refreshig the ui but is not working

[teal viper]

Can you pause after the issue occurs and check where the item is in scene view?

In terms of position and hierarchy

[lost anvil]

its all parented fine and whatever im experimenting with localmove etc right now and im getting somewhere so ill get back to you if this doesnt solve anything

[timber tide]

https://dbrizov.github.io/na-docs/attributes/drawer_attributes/dropdown.html

[magic pagoda]

thank youu!

[timber tide]

however, enums inherently have a drop down if you just want to use those

[severe robin]

the uv seem to be fine too.https://paste.ofcode.org/35dur7iYhH7sw9YG5Pkwk3Y

[teal viper]

Maybe check the frame debugger for clues?

Also try playing with tiling scale

[magic pagoda]

this may be a dumb question but... shouldnt this script make the enemyType variable a drop down menu in the inspector?

[teal viper]

I think it should.🤔

Though, I don't see the whole context, so hard to say.

[magic pagoda]

well, it appears as a string...

what other info do you need?

[teal viper]

You must be looking at the wrong place, as there's no way for an enum to turn into a string.

[teal viper]

The whole script code for starters.

As well as a screenshot of your console tab

[magic pagoda]

still very much a wip btw but, here ya go.
https://paste.ofcode.org/3biaTnkmfSbkEn3My2SgNdT

[timber tide]

ya got any errors in your console window

need to clear them before editor updates

[magic pagoda]

oh shit I do actually- I hadnt noticed that

these two

..and the first one is still there

...I have a feeling that Im being a dumbass atm

[timber tide]

second probably just unity being silly so just deal with the top

[teal viper]

It tells you the line number and the issue.

[magic pagoda]

yeah second was gone after the clear but the first one is still there

ohhHHH-

okay I see

the enemyType used to be a string value and apparently another script is still trying to access it that way

my random enemy spawning script