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[queen adder]

can you explain to me how to do that? i just started using unity like a week ago sorry

[eternal falcon]

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[sly mountain]

How can i use this if statement to find if int waterDrank has ever been as high as int itemPrice?

public class DiscoverItemLogic : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int waterDrank;
    public int itemPrice;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    void isRichEnough(bool richEnough){
        
    }
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if(waterDrank)
        {

        }
    }
}

[willow scroll]

if (waterDrank >= itemPrice)

[hot palm]

You mean like

if (_waterDrank == _itemPrice
{
  // Code
}

[rich adder]

simple equality check

[sly mountain]

hold on

i need to explain more

[hot palm]

You can either check if it is the same value == or if it is the same or more with >=

[willow scroll]

Well, then do it in a single message

[sly mountain]

my bad hold on

[willow scroll]

Update is not called infinitely, so there might be a situation when the waterDrank has surpassed the itemPrice

[sly mountain]

im using the if statement to enable the item after the user gets enough cash, but If it only checks for when waterdrank is >= itemprice, wont the item dissapear after their cash goes lower

[hot palm]

Something like

[sly mountain]

so for example if it costs 1000, the user unlocks it, but then they spend and their money goes back to 200 for example, wont the item disable?

[rich adder]

why is it in update in the first place

[sly mountain]

i just have it there rn

to check

[hot palm]

Well they asked to check if it ever was as high as item price (==)

[sly mountain]

to check if the user has enough at all times

[rich adder]

there is no need tough, you just check when attempting to make purchase

once you purchased, store it in the inventory

there is no way they can disable it if you already own it

[willow scroll]

No, it shouldn't be in the Update. It is much better to check in the method the cash is being updated

[hot palm]

Guess that's not what they wanted in this case tho

[sly mountain]

I want this to only be shown once they have enough cash basically

[willow scroll]

Alright, checking it in the Update is wrong anyway

[sly mountain]

then never dissapear after

[vocal marlin]

you could have a bool unlocked, which is made true when waterDrank gets higher than itemPrice

[rich adder]

You should have events each time the money updates, if it passes threshold show the button

once amount is lowered, you update ui accordinly

[hot palm]

Yeah I rarely use update. I either check something every now and then with an IEnumerator or just invoke an event Action when the values changes

[sly mountain]

Oh alright ill look up how to set up events then

cause im not sure what you mean by that fully

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/events-uh

[sly mountain]

thanks

[willow scroll]

Yes, Update should never be used in this case

[hot palm]

Agreed

[rich adder]

this one is good too, you can probably just use the Action<int> type
https://gamedevbeginner.com/events-and-delegates-in-unity/
public static event Action<int> OnMoneyUpdated;
for example

[sly mountain]

I'll give it a read

thanks

[rocky gale]

how do i make a cinemachine virtual camera rotate with your mouse like a freelook camera?

[hot palm]

There is the POV Setting under Aim

there is also a free cam in cinemachine

[rich adder]

the same way you rotate regular cam

[rocky gale]

ik but i need to use a virtual cam

[rich adder]

you don't even need any Aim or Body settings

there is built in one Orbital

[rocky gale]

wdym

[willow scroll]

The started, performed and canceled actions are called when the input is started, changed while being held or canceled respectively.
If you have an action of type Value with the control type Axis, the started and performed actions will be called simultaneously just once when the action is triggered.
E.g. pressing the Space button on the Value Axis action looks the following way

started
performed

... the button is released
canceled

In your case, neither making the player fly, nor changing the global value and then using it in the Update in the method subscribed to the performed action won't work.

For your flying logic I'd suggest first unsubscribing your Fly method from performed and instead performing the logic in the FixedUpdate.
Get the flight direction by reading the float value of the Value Axis action and apply the continuous force to the Rigidbody considering its mass using the default ForceMode.Force.

private void FixedUpdate()
{
    float flyDir = _flyAction.ReadValue<float>();

    if (flyDir != 0)
        _rigidbody.AddForce(flyDir * flySpeed * 100f * Time.fixedDeltaTime * Vector3.up);
}

[rich adder]

you mean like rotate around object?

[rocky gale]

i told u i need a virtual camera

[hot palm]

You want to rotate it from a POV or around an object?

[rocky gale]

im tryna make over the shoulder cam and i want to rotate around player

[rich adder]

so use freelook?

[rocky gale]

but how do i do over the shoulder with thta

i want offset

[rich adder]

wdym how https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.3/manual/CinemachineFreeLook.html

[hot palm]

Add extension offset to pov cam and you get this

[rocky gale]

is that freelook

[hot palm]

wdym by freelook

I understand like fly around camera

[rocky gale]

is that virtual cam

which cam is that

[hot palm]

yes

virtual

[rocky gale]

oh ok

no ye i have the shoulder offset but i want it to rotate with mouse

[slender nymph]

the CinemachineFreeLookCamera is a virtual camera

it's just one specfically designed for 3rd person camera controls

[rocky gale]

ok

[hot palm]

Like this?

[rocky gale]

ye but with shoulder offset

[rich adder]

what is "shoulder offset" mean

[hot palm]

this is offset

[rocky gale]

like camera to the right a lil

[hot palm]

the camera follow is my eye

[rocky gale]

that just a freelook no?

[hot palm]

No this is pov

[rocky gale]

oh

[rich adder]

you probably want the Third Person mode on body then

[rocky gale]

yes i have that

but camera doesnt rotatd

[rich adder]

you'd have to manually do it via code in that case

[rocky gale]

with rotatearound?

[rich adder]

look at the Unity third person controller demo, it has that

[hot palm]

yeah. It's code you can do almost anything with code

[rich adder]

forgot how they do it

[rocky gale]

wow thanks for the enlightenment

[rich adder]

they just use tpc mode and it rotates around

with shoulder offset

[hot palm]

You asked xd

[rocky gale]

ok il look

th

[graceful lintel]

🍿

[hot lily]

In the end I just put a boolean "is flying = true" when performed and "is flying = false" when canceled
Then put an if logic that propels the rigidbody upwards in fixed update

[rich adder]

apparently is this

  private void CameraRotation()
        {
            // if there is an input and camera position is not fixed
            if (_input.look.sqrMagnitude >= _threshold && !LockCameraPosition)
            {
                //Don't multiply mouse input by Time.deltaTime;
                float deltaTimeMultiplier = IsCurrentDeviceMouse ? 1.0f : Time.deltaTime;

                _cinemachineTargetYaw += _input.look.x * deltaTimeMultiplier;
                _cinemachineTargetPitch += _input.look.y * deltaTimeMultiplier;
            }

            // clamp our rotations so our values are limited 360 degrees
            _cinemachineTargetYaw = ClampAngle(_cinemachineTargetYaw, float.MinValue, float.MaxValue);
            _cinemachineTargetPitch = ClampAngle(_cinemachineTargetPitch, BottomClamp, TopClamp);

            // Cinemachine will follow this target
            CinemachineCameraTarget.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(_cinemachineTargetPitch + CameraAngleOverride,
                _cinemachineTargetYaw, 0.0f);
        }```

[rocky gale]

whats _input.move

[rich adder]

see edit that was character, this is camera

[rocky gale]

oh

where can i find the ddmo

[rich adder]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-thirdperson-updates-in-new-charactercontroller-pa-196526

[rocky gale]

thx

[willow scroll]

That's more logic and might be a bit redundant. Additionally, as I have mentioned in my previous response, if you want to use the logic with enabling and disabling flying, consider setting it to true when started, not performed.

[honest haven]

hi i have a current turn int on my battle manager but in my other script i cant get access to it. dont understand why

Cannot resolve symbol 'currentTurn'

[hot palm]

What is the exact error you get?

[short hazel]

It's trying to search that variable on this script, not on the manager

[short hazel]

BattleManager.instance.currentTurn?

If that's declared in that BattleManager

[languid spire]

you know how to reference canBlock. Why would currentTurn be any different?

[honest haven]

in my battle manager under active battlers it returns if the current turn is an enemy or a player

[honest haven]

thats right why is it different

i dont get it

[short hazel]

Yes and there it can get it because you're already in BattleManager

But outside of that class, you must refer to it like usual

[languid spire]

why are you trying to do it differently?

[honest haven]

sorry im lost can you see where im doing it differently?

[short hazel]

When you open a [] it doesn't magically switch the context into the other class

You're not doing it differenly, that's what the problem is

[honest haven]

even if im calling it on a instance?

[short hazel]

Yes

[honest haven]

i see

[hot palm]

You can only pass parameters from the calling class

[languid spire]

Here
both variables are on the same script so you need to access them the same way

[honest haven]

BattleManager.instance.activeBattlers[BattleManager.instance.currentTurn].isEnemy) {

thank you

[stuck palm]

How can i make like a global static variable that i can access from anywhere?

like i want this specific array of 4 colors that i dont want to keep readding into my scripts

[hot palm]

have a static class with a static variable

[stuck palm]

where do i change those variables though?

[hot palm]

You can just do something like this

public static class Information
{
  public static Color[] MyColors =
  {
    // Colors
  };
}

(correct me if I'm wrong)

You could also have a class with singleton reference have a public variable, which you then access through an instance of said class

[soft kernel]

Can you define array like that?

[hot palm]

Yea

[soft kernel]

Didn't know that

[hot palm]

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_arrays.php

[stuck palm]

i'll just do your first implementation, thank you! i need to find the rgba values for the colors i need now though

[slender nymph]

it is collection initializer syntax
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/object-and-collection-initializers#collection-initializers

[hot palm]

That's quick to find on google or in the inspector, depending on what colors you need

[stuck palm]

yeah, its just annoying how in unity its between 0 and 1 instead of 0 and 255 like all other color generators

[hot palm]

I think you can choose different approaches no?

[stuck palm]

from the docs it looks like its strictly 0 to 1

[stuck palm]

huh

[summer stump]

Color32
That is between 0 and 255

Color32[]

[hot palm]

This is from the base map color of a material

[stuck palm]

either way, i found a website that does 0 - 1 calculations

[hot palm]

Yeah depends on how you implement it in the end

[short hazel]

Converting from 0-255 to 0-1 is as easy as dividing all values by 255

[slow marlin]

can someone help with Physics.CapsuleCast? it will only occasionaly detect (1 out of 100 times or smthing) objects.

[rich adder]

check out #854851968446365696 on how post questions and what to include

[slow marlin]

ok, thx. One sec. (i can post the question here right, i couldn't find if there was a particular channel for help)

[hot palm]

It's about coding so yeah

[slow marlin]

ok, so i got a problem with a capsule cast. If I Debug.Log(); it it will nearly only put out true's and only occasionaly a false. This seems to happen on spesific points but i dont know why. Is something wrong with the code?: (one sec typing it in with the ! code thingy)

[eternal falcon]

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[slow marlin]

oops, bit too big

[hot palm]

No you need to do

// Code

Or you copy it into a .txt and send the txt here

[slow marlin]

https://gdl.space/ojamaheqoz.cs

done

[hot palm]

Yeah or like this

You want to make the player move when the capsuleCast is NOT colliding?

[slow marlin]

when it is not colliding the player should be able to move yea

[hot palm]

Okay

So the problem is, that it is colliding when you dont want it to?

If the player has a collider attached, it may collide with the players collider. Try using a layermask

[slow marlin]

no, it isnt colliding most times. it nearly always says there is no collision even when i am going to the other gameobjects

[slow marlin]

i will try for a sec

[hot palm]

Are you casting it from the bottom of the player or the middle of the player?

[summer stump]

You should put in a Debug.DrawRay to check the direction and distance of the cast, make sure it goes where you want it to

[slow marlin]

is there a from the bottom or top with capsulecast? i thought it was the whole thing (but i dont know that much so educate me please if i am wrong)

[slow marlin]

ok, 1 sec

[hot palm]

You wrote transform.position as the origin, meaning at the position of the gameObject the script is component of

[summer stump]

All these positions are based on pivots. The pivot (and thus transform.position) of a capsule is the center if it is not changed. The pivot of the capsule cast should also be the center iirc

However, if you are casting from an empty and the capsule is a child, it may be going from the ground/feet

[hot palm]

Ah mb I thought about sphere cast

[slow marlin]

o, ok

[hot palm]

Also I would probably recommend sphere cast

unless you need a capsule

[slow marlin]

i do unfortunately need the capsule on the moment

[slow marlin]

i am casting from a empty

[hot palm]

Found this showcase of casts, may help. Bcs I can't help you otherwise rn sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyi7l2tWKo

[slow marlin]

i already looked at that one, but thanks still

[hot palm]

Oh okay

Well I assume you made a mistake somewhere in the cast, but idk what you want to achieve and where stuff has to be

Probably fastest if you trouble shoot it yourself

[summer stump]

Then it may he going along the ground. This would be colliding with the ground of course, making it so you can't move

I think a layermask was suggested earlier? That could help

[hot palm]

Yup

[slow marlin]

the thing is that it isnt colliding at all. i am falling trough the floor and if i go up it still doesnt collide

[hot palm]

Try simulating the problem in a test scene

[summer stump]

Ah, hmmmm. Does the empty gameobject have a collider?

[eternal needle]

just for a sanity check, is your game 3d?

[slow marlin]

yes

[slow marlin]

yes

[slow marlin]

already doing it

[slow marlin]

but the movement i only in 2 directions

or 4 depends how you look at it

[hot palm]

Aslong as you are using 3D Colliders..

[slow marlin]

i am

[eternal needle]

there can be a lot of issues here, like if the cast is starting inside an object. in 3d the cast wont hit something it starts inside. You can use Debug.DrawRay to visualize stuff, vertx also has this https://github.com/vertxxyz/Vertx.Debugging to visualize casts.
I think your first 2 points are wrong though
Physics.CapsuleCast(transform.position, transform.position + Vector3.up * playerheight
because playerheight is somewhat a random number here.
Plus you are also moving the transform before the cast, you arent using canMove anywhere in the moving logic

[slow marlin]

ok, thx. i will look into that

[hot palm]

lol

ur right

[obtuse veldt]

Hi, I am currently trying to put a pink icon on a gameobject so I can see it, but I still cannot. May someone help?

[hot palm]

Do you have gizmos enabled in sceneview?

https://unity.huh.how/gizmos

[obtuse veldt]

I think I have

I managed to do it, I had to disable 3D icons

[obtuse veldt]

Thanks for the help

[hot palm]

Np, great website

[sly mountain]

Hey guys, how can i reference an integer from another script? In one of my scripts I need to reference an integer created in another.

[ruby marsh]

it should be a public variable

[sly mountain]

ahhh ok thanks

i've been wondering what that means lol

public vs private

[eternal needle]

you dont need to make it public, often times it is bad to. Public means any script at all can change this value to anything they like, even if it makes no sense in context.
Design wise, its better if you have a property or method which returns the int as a value

[sly mountain]

Oh alright.. So how can I create a method to do this which I can call in other scripts too?

[eternal needle]

the method can be public, that is fine. This website is a decent resource https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_methods.php
a method has
[access modifier] [return type] Name
You need a reference to the script you want to call the method on

i strongly suggest doing c# outside of unity first. learning stuff like this can be done way faster especially if you arent trying to deal with unity bugs at the same time. plus unity will take way longer to compile

[sly mountain]

👍

Thanks for the help

[blissful spindle]

https://hatebin.com/hbfqtheqnz Hi, I have a problem with animations, the problem being that the "UI(popup)" animation plays out on starting the scene but then doesnt play again when the racast is in a collision with a gameObject that has the layer Interactable.

oh couldnt it be just that the animation is called over and over again?

just tested it out and can (MABY) confirm that that was not the case

[young fossil]

Hey guys, I have a game manager script that is persistent. How can I make sure the references between levels (unity events) are not lost?

[young fossil]

So to get it straight, it plays once when the scene starts then not again after?

[blissful spindle]

ehm, yes sir

[young fossil]

Delete the first log and keep the one inside the LayerMask if statemen then tell me if it still logs everytime

I know you're aware but the two Debug.Log lines are the same, so it's confusing. It may be logging the collision of the raycast but not the LayerMask part

[blissful spindle]

its registering

[young fossil]

So your issue is a visual one related to the Animator?

[blissful spindle]

hmm I gues you are right

[blissful spindle]

cuz setting the animation on loop works

[young fossil]

Then if that log is correct, it has fired the animation 376 times

[blissful spindle]

I resolved that already wait a moment

[blissful spindle]

https://hatebin.com/vnqdfgfgzv

I am stomped to be honest

[young fossil]

With the new script you sent, when does the Debug.Log fire?

Is it whenever a new object in that LayerMask enters?

Sort of like KeyDown

[blissful spindle]

I spams the console with the name of that object when I am looking at it

it

if that helps lol 😄

[young fossil]

So yea, it my understanding it is still firing the animation every frame when your object is colliding with the LayerMask

That bool check is not working and I don't believe it is a good way to check

There is an old legacy method called Animation.IsPlaying which would check if the animation finished or not

[blissful spindle]

and couldnt it be that this script is on another gameObject that the animator?

its theonly thing that comes to my mind now to be fair

[young fossil]

But you shouldn't use it, instead you can do:

1. Based on time. Do a timer that gets the animation length in seconds (this is ideal)
2. Use a key frame event at the end of the animation that sets your bool isPlaying to false (unreliable)
3. Apparently Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo replaces the old legacy method. Here

[umbral fox]

how do i make a gameObject move forward along the x and y axes based on it's z rotation in a 2d game?

[blissful spindle]

ok I will look into it thx 👍

[young fossil]

Well all I can see is that bool check is not at all reliable. You should change it because you'll need to eventually anyway when handling many different animations

For the timer you can use coroutines, then it gets the animation length, waits until finished then sets the isPlaying bool to false.

I do really think it is the bool playing up

[blissful spindle]

ye, I dont really know how coroutines work so I look into unitys API then, much appreciated

[umbral fox]

how to move a gameObject move forward in 2d?

[vagrant fjord]

i have a bullet script and even though i am trying to make it dissapear when colliding with an object it just phases through. ill link code here: https://gdl.space/tuqulugoqu.cs

[blissful spindle]

what I see is on CollisionEnter, which means one of your gameObjects needs to be isTrigger if I am not mistaken

[vagrant fjord]

can it be any of them

[blissful spindle]

ye, prefarably the bullet tho

[vagrant fjord]

not working. Any tips?

[blissful spindle]

show me your bullet in the scene with inspector

[vagrant fjord]

bullet on the right

[blissful spindle]

ok hold on for a minut I will try smth

[vagrant fjord]

ok

[blissful spindle]

ye, so you do have a rigid body attached to the bullet right?

[vagrant fjord]

no i dont it lags my game

[blissful spindle]

oh well you need it look https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.OnCollisionEnter.html

it explecetly says there needs to be a rigidbody attached to either of these objects

[vagrant fjord]

trying now

still not working it just increases speed of bullet

[deft grail]

turn off the isTrigger

[vagrant fjord]

kk

[untold raptor]

So i have a bunch of slots that may increase and decrease over time in my game, is there a way of adding the Slot's gameobject dynamically? (via code in the second screenshot)

[vagrant fjord]

still broken

[deft grail]

you need to move the bullet via the rigidbody i think

[vagrant fjord]

ill try that

[blissful spindle]

when I was making a bullet what I did was get an enemy with non-kinematic rigid body and collider then I made a bullet that had collider that was set to is trigger which worked.

[vagrant fjord]

i tried to make it move by rigidbody and it collides every now and again but the others just phase

[deft grail]

show how your moving it, and are all the objects your trying to hit setup the same way

[vagrant fjord]

ok ill send code

[deft grail]

try using AddForce with an Impulse

[vagrant fjord]

trying now

[spiral narwhal]

In C#, can I forgo event signatures if I don't need them?

        public void SubscribeToServices()
        {
            // is not interested in the current and max turn number 
            TurnService.Instance.OnTurnStart += SimulateSpaceshipMovementForAll; 
        }

        // is forced to define the signature -> quite bloaty
        private void SimulateSpaceshipMovementForAll(int currentTurn, int maxTurn)
        {
          / ...
        }

[vagrant fjord]

its still broken however some of them collide and bounce off

[short hazel]

No, a handler must conform to the delegate type of the event it's being subscribed to

You can add a lambda in between, but you lose the ability to unsubscribe from the event.
+= (_, _) => YourMethod();

[summer stump]

Make sure the collision mode is set to continuous

[vagrant fjord]

trying now

[spiral narwhal]

Yeah I need to unsubscribe. But thanks !

[vagrant fjord]

omg it works tysm

[craggy inlet]

can someone help my intellisense isn't working for unity its not coloring the words at all

my package is installed on visual studio for unity

[vagrant fjord]

can someone help me with the destroying of my bullet? code is here:

[spiral narwhal]

What's wrong

[vagrant fjord]

its not destroying the bullet

[spiral narwhal]

Is it a 2d game?

[vagrant fjord]

nope 3d

[spiral narwhal]

Does it have a collider

[thorn holly]

Do you have either whatever the bullets colliding with or the bullet set to isTrigger?

[vagrant fjord]

yes colliders on bullet and a rigidbody

[vagrant fjord]

no

[thorn holly]

Well, you can’t use on trigger enter if one of them isn’t set to isTrigger

Use on collision enter

[vagrant fjord]

alr

[grim pecan]

i downloaded the EZ Camera Shake asset but i cant add the script thats in the video? like its not popping up in the "add componant" for me even though it is in the video

[craggy inlet]

i wish I could figure out when I create a script it doesn't color any words other than the typical words built into c#

[vagrant fjord]

doesnt work

[thorn holly]

Show code

[vagrant fjord]

hold on im trying somethiong that might

[dense walrus]

hello complete beginner here! i am currently following a tutorial for crouching and sprinting in my 3d game. all the code is working and the button mapping is working but for some reason the actual crouching and sprinting in game doesnt work. please help and lmk if you need to see my code or the tutuorial im using. Thanks!

[summer stump]

It takes a bit of a different setup. You can't just change the name from OnTriggerEnter to OnCollisionEnter

The parameter also needs to change

[craggy inlet]

ok so visual studio 2022 works with intellisense is there any reason to use 2019 instead of 22 if Im using version unity 2021?

[vagrant fjord]

how?

[summer stump]

Takes Collision, not Collider

[grim pecan]

in "add component" its supposed to say EZ Camera Shaker and then show a script for me to add, but its not showing either of those

[slender nymph]

no

[summer stump]

When someone suggests something, step number one is ALWAYS to google the docs

[vagrant fjord]

ok got it

[dense walrus]

just to clarify when i said the code is working, i meant there are no errors

[vagrant fjord]

will this work?

[slender nymph]

if that doesn't work, then consult this: https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[dense walrus]

pls somone help

[thorn holly]

Post your code

[slender nymph]

see #854851968446365696 for what to include when asking for help

[thorn holly]

My time has come. I’ve put this off as long as I can, but there’s nothing else left to do. I have to shudders learn how to use text mesh pro.

[thorn holly]

Try again

[dense walrus]

wdym

[summer stump]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[rich adder]

!screenshots

[eternal falcon]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[dense walrus]

oh ok

it says my code is too long to send as a message

i think i found the problem tho

[thorn holly]

Read the pop up

[grim pecan]

bruh can someone help me

i cant figure out whats wrong

[thorn holly]

You’re ide might be configured wrong

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message
Yeah, do not just drag the file in or copy it in

See the "large code blocks" section

[dense walrus]

sry i joined discord literally 5 min ago

[summer stump]

No worries

[summer stump]

Do you have the right package installed
Because EZ Shaker isn't something in the base unity

[tender stag]

'Rigidbody' does not contain a definition for 'enabled' and no accessible extension method 'enabled' accepting a first argument of type 'Rigidbody' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

im on unity 2022

anyone?

[summer stump]

Rigidbodies cannot be disabled

[tender stag]

they used to

[summer stump]

Not that I ever remember

[tender stag]

so just set it kinematic?

[grim pecan]

i downloaded it, opened it, then clicked import

im prolly missing something aloong the way

[summer stump]

If that's what you're going for. Can't answer without details

[slender nymph]

incorrect. Rigidbody does not inherit from Behaviour, it inherits directly from Component which does not have an enabled property

[summer stump]

"It" ?

[tender stag]

oh alright

i swear i remember being able to disable them

[thorn holly]

I love that movie

[grim pecan]

i downloaded EZ Camera Shake

[summer stump]

Ok, do you see the folder in your project window?

[grim pecan]

yes

[young fossil]

What is a good way to orgnaise my levels? Right now I have a GameManager is in DoNotDestroyOnLoad, I use functions like GameManager.LoadScene(string sceneName) for serialisation. But the issue I've ran into is now the references are lost when the scene changes

[summer stump]

Find the script you want and just drag it on instead of looking through add component

[grim pecan]

: (

[tender stag]

if i set a rigidbody to kinematic does that already reset the velocity when i enable it?

[slender nymph]

make sure you have no compile errors

[thorn holly]

Generally, I use a DontDestroyOnLoad singleton game manager to handle switching between scenes and things that generally apply to the whole game, then a scene manager in the scene its managing to handle anything in-level

It varies game to game though

[slender nymph]

it probably depends on the type of rigidbody. for a 3d rigidbody kinematic bodies don't use the velocity so i would assume that it resets velocity to 0, but you'd have to double check. 2d rigidbodies actually do utilize velocity so i doubt it would reset it on that

[young fossil]

Yes, I went this route too, but now when I want to reference it let's say in level1 it already exists in the mainmenu level. So I lose the reference, makes sense?

Wait I will paste what I said earlier because I know that might be vague

So let's say my GameManager handles a method called LoadScene(string sceneName)

I use unity events so when the player from the main menu clicks "Play Game", it fires LoadScene("Level1")

Okay so it does exactly that woohoo. But then it gets to Level1 and the player wants to return to the menu. GameManager, which is persistent, cannot be referenced on the "Back to menu" button because it didn't exist already in that level, only MainMenu.
I can reference the level objects in static fields. But the issue is they are not serialized and that's really what I am aiming for.
The reason a method like GameManager.LoadScene(string sceneName) exists is again, due to serialisation

[thorn holly]

Don’t make the GameManager handle the main menu, make a main menu scene manager

[young fossil]

So each scene should have a GameManager of its own?

[thorn holly]

Each scene should have its own scene manager that handles anything that only applies to its own scene

Does that make sense?

[young fossil]

Yes, but what about general methods like LoadScene and scene transitions?

[thorn holly]

There are a couple ways to do it. You could make the scene manager switch scenes, or make the scene manager call a method in the game manager that switches scenes

[young fossil]

Hm, I see. Thank you noodle

[thorn holly]

Ofc

[swift crag]

I like to leave the "game manager" in charge of scene transitions

It often needs to run code before and after a scene change, so it just makes sense

[undone harbor]

My character starts with a y value of the transform to be 0.03, but as soon as I start walking it bumps up to 0.08

I am making sure moveDirection.y = 0, before updating the position

Could there be an issue with the animation. root motion is off

[thorn holly]

Yeah, or you can make it like a fsm and make the first scene have some code that runs before it switches scenes and have the second scene have some code that runs on Start()

[young fossil]

How I'll try it if you are interested is
SceneManager.LoadScene goes inside MainMenu.PlayGame

[thorn holly]

I think it just depends tbh

[young fossil]

That's the thing too, I have an FSM

[swift crag]

I use a big coroutine when doing scene transitions

[young fossil]

the FSM runs code before and after the scene is loaded

[swift crag]

The coroutine itself is responsible for fading out, triggering the scene load, and fading back in

[young fossil]

For example, pausing the game

[swift crag]

Then it runs another coroutine based on which scene is being loaded

so entering a game scene causes it to run a "start game" coroutine

[tender stag]

why when i sometimes drop the item, the position doesnt get set to the drop position?

[cosmic smelt]

hi im new to coding and i need help with a 2d project i have tried youtube tutorials but you need specific code that i have done a different way and i dont know what to do the thing that i am trying to do is make wall jumping in a simple little platformer i have made movement using youtube tutorials but there is nothing for the code i used and am unsure on where to go please help

[swift crag]

which yells at the scenario controller, which yells at all of my other controllers and then starts the game

[tender stag]

u can see when i dropped the last item the position didnt get set to the drop position?

and this is random

cause i then picked it up and dropped it again and it worked properly

[eternal needle]

i would add some bright glowing material to highlight where dropPosition is while playing

[tender stag]

i debugged it

and it does get set to the drop position

but instantly gets set back

to its original position

or some other position

the position is also random

i checked through every script and nothing is manipulating the position

[eternal needle]

It has to be some script doing it. Try attaching the debugger and going line by line if you can recreate it

[tender stag]

wdym the debugger

[eternal needle]

visual studio debugger, it will pause execution and you can play line by line

[tender stag]

im using vs code

[eternal needle]

unlucky

[young fossil]

I got bored at 1003 ngl. Also might be better to ask in #💻┃unity-talk or post a thread in #1157336089242112090

You'll get a better response I think

[eternal needle]

I would try recreating this issue in a barebones environment, no scripts anywhere else. With the minimum amount of scripts present, you can try following through whats happening. Add a lot of debugs around
Although the debugger would really make this easier

whoever wrote this question has their priorities in the wrong places. maybe you're better off not joining that club 😛

[swift crag]

weird rephrasing of your math homework

isn't this pretty much just asking if every power of 13 is coprime with 1003

oh god i'm getting nerd sniped here

this has nothing to do with unity and also nothing to do with programming in unity, so...

[young fossil]

Yea, like I said yeah, you should ask somewhere else yea. People may know yea but you wont get a great response here yea

also you're in the programming server, I'd ask there

[whole idol]

yes

[tender stag]

i found the issue

[grim pecan]

So i downloaded a weapon asset pack and the weapons are prefabs, how do i make them not perfabs

[tender stag]

but i still dont understand

[eternal needle]

Well time to move on and make your own bigger, better gaming club. It's a math question, written extremely poorly imo, probably by a student who wants to act smart.
Dont waste your time on silly things like this, you'll NEVER need to do this for a game. Start your own project and have fun 🙂

[tender stag]

could u help me understand why this has an affect? @eternal needle

i set the interpolate on the items

to none

and suddenly it works

[swift crag]

do you set the position on their transforms directly

if so, that's the problem

[tender stag]

yeah

[swift crag]

Interpolate causes the Rigidbody to set the position of the transform every frame

[tender stag]

item.transform.position = dropPosition.position;

[swift crag]

this will clobber the position you set

you need to set the position on the rigidbody itself

this will tell it to move there in the next physics update

[tender stag]

oh

[summer stump]

Why would you not want them to be prefabs?

[swift crag]

With interpolation disabled, the rigidbody will see the new position in the next physics update, and it'll..mostly work

[grim pecan]

nvm im being stupid

[tender stag]

so how do i set the position of the rigidbody?

item.rb.position = dropPosition.position;

like that?

[swift crag]

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

correct

[eternal needle]

😅 well time to check some of my code because i didnt know that was a thing either

[tender stag]

yeah lmao

i gotta redo most of my stuff now

[swift crag]

If you really want the object to move instantly, set both its position and tell the rigidbody to move, I guess

but the rigidbody will still wind up overwriting the position

setting Rigidbody.position just queues up a movement for the next physics update

[tender stag]

holy shit it works

thanks

[tender stag]

i think i need to

u can see it kind of teleport

cause im just doing item.rb.position = dropPosition.position;

would this be fine?

alright it works

[odd mason]

does anyone know what this means and if i can make it work trying to add pits to some free code im adapting to my game, pretty new to c# and been trying to research this for like 40 mins now still lost

cell refers to this for clarity

[teal viper]

Make sure that is the correct Cell type

[teal viper]

If you hover over Cell where it cause issue, you should see the full type signature.

Also, configure your!ide

[eternal falcon]

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[slender nymph]

you need to save this file

[odd mason]

crap you were right

thanks

[opaque bough]

so im pretty bad at coding, is there a way to make a code that says to set an object as a child of another object with the click of a key?

[teal viper]

Sure. There's almost nothing you can't do with code.
Break it down:

• input query
• check the input
• parent object a to object b

[opaque bough]

do you think you could give me an example?

sorry i really suck

[teal viper]

Then you should go over the basics. Unity !learn beginner pathways is a good way to start.

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[opaque bough]

ive actually started the create with code course

i just never finished it

i tend to lean towards the more artist side of things

[teal viper]

But to answer your question, you can use the Input class to query input. And parenting is handled via the object's Transform component. The API of both of them you can find in the API docs.

[opaque bough]

alr, thank you

[opaque bough]

alright so that worked but is there a way to set the child to a certain position then when its picked up? because right now it just attaches to the parent from its current position, and i want it to be closer, like a flashlight would be

[rocky canyon]

you can set its localPosition relative to the parent

[whole idol]

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

public class pipepositions : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float upperExtreme = 3.19f;
    public float lowerExtreme = -3.68f;
    public GameObject PipePair; 
    private float timer = 0.0f;
    private int spawnInterval = 2;


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

    }
    void Update()
    {

        Vector2 moveLeft = transform.position;
        
        timer += Time.deltaTime;
        Debug.Log(timer);
        if (timer >= spawnInterval)
        {
            SpawnItem();
            timer -= spawnInterval;
            
        }
    }
    void SpawnItem()
    {
        Instantiate(PipePair, new Vector3(1.8f, -5, -0.2f), transform.rotation);


    }

}

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

public class LeftMove : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        transform.Translate(Vector2.left* Time.deltaTime * 10);
    }
}

Ok so I have these scripts, making a crappy_bird game ( I literally call it crappy bird )

problem is I have these pipes but they're not moving to the left

I have this one right here outside of the camera

and It is cloning them

but the clones literally get spawned into the middle of the screen like this

Also this script you see called pipe position is in the Pipe Holder Object because otherwise it will create exponential duplicates through the instantiate method

[amber spruce]

hey so in my script that deals with saving and loading https://hatebin.com/afndomhsfy something in their is causing it to not load right and it just infinitly loops and doesnt load the scene can anyone help me please

[rough nest]

Having an issue that I just can't wrap my head around. So, I have this rigidbody controller, and moving around works perfectly, except for when I start looking towards the ground. The game seems to lag a lot, and unity just doesn't seem to know what direction I'm looking in? Give me a second to send the code here, I'm sending this from my phone

[whole idol]

what did u use to film this? looks so smooth

[rough nest]

here's the player controller, i used one of my old controller scripts as a reference, and it always worked just fine with normal unity input

[rough nest]

samsung screen recorder

looking at the floor also lags the game out for whatever reason

[rocky canyon]

can you also share the static SaveSystem class

[amber spruce]

https://hatebin.com/pypluziqqj

[rough nest]

ok uh, funny thing

i found out what was wrong

[rocky canyon]

i wonder how often ur Save() method is being called..

[rough nest]

setting either one of these to anything different causes it to lag, badly

just the input

[rocky canyon]

the only thing I can think of is maybe ur player is triggering the collision over and over? idk i'd debug the OnTriggerEnter2D better to see whats happening to make suer it wasn't

[amber spruce]

it gets called only once when you enter a save point

[dense walrus]

So Im coding rn, and I got an error which said something about protection level not being available. So I set the private thing to public and the error went away, but now in unity when i try to playtest it says theres an error about the same thing and when I go to fix it, visual studio says theres no error. What do I do

[summer stump]

1. your !ide is not configured

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

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[summer stump]

2. you need to show the exact errors

[teal viper]

Start from sharing more details

[summer stump]

3. the error will show the script name and line numbers, show that code

[dense walrus]

the error exactly: "Assets\Scripts\Player\PlayerInteract.cs(36,33): error CS0122: 'InputManager.onFoot' is inaccessible due to its protection level"

[amber spruce]

i did find when loading it from the main menu even though it works fine i get this error it doesnt seem to affect anything
Cannot load scene: Invalid scene name (empty string) and invalid build index -1
UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager:LoadScene (string)
GameHandler:Load () (at Assets/GameHandler.cs:62)
GameHandler:Start () (at Assets/GameHandler.cs:19)

[dense walrus]

but in visual studio theres no error

[rocky canyon]

off the top of my head i was thinking this..
your player triggers a save
then a new save is made
if the new save triggers a load i could see maybe a loop or something happening

[summer stump]

As I just told you, that is because your ide is not configured

#💻┃code-beginner message

[dense walrus]

i have no idea what that means

[rocky canyon]

but if the Save function doesn't itself cause a Load function to go off.. im not sure what is the issue.. im just overlooking it i guess

[summer stump]

Read the bot and follow the steps

[dense walrus]

which bot

[rocky canyon]

this bot

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[dense walrus]

ok

[amber spruce]

it does not the only way a load function gets called is when you start the scene

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats why im confused.. cuz thats not the case

[amber spruce]

oh wait hold on i think i might know why

[dense walrus]

wait that bot is just a picture

[rocky canyon]

yay! talking it out always helps

[dense walrus]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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

[dense walrus]

oh i got it

[rocky canyon]

the one above it isn't

[amber spruce]

if every time the scene is loaded it loads the scene then it probably is stuck in a loop

[rocky canyon]

make sure to follow those steps accurately..

[amber spruce]

although im not sure why it doesnt do it when its loaded from the main menu though

[dense walrus]

can i do this in safe mode

[rocky canyon]

people have a tendency to fly thru them.. and not get anywhere.. b/c if it doesn't work the first time.. the only step is to repeat it

[rocky canyon]

i doubt it..

[dense walrus]

will my game corrupt if i exit safe mode

[amber spruce]

if (saveObject.currentSceneName != SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name)
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene(saveObject.currentSceneName);
}

this should make sure that the current scene isnt the one to load correct

[summer stump]

No

[rocky canyon]

also doubt it.. if it opened the first time it'll open the 2nd time

[summer stump]

Safe mode is just faster to open because it doesn't load everything

Easier to fix the errors quickly and reload the rest after

[dense walrus]

game didnt corrupt lets go

[rocky canyon]

learn to use Github / Version Control..
until then.. Start to use local backups when u get to a good checkpoint

[dense walrus]

i cant find visual studio in my files but i can open it from the unity editor

should i just (re?)download it

[summer stump]

No

Are you on windows?

[dense walrus]

ye

[rocky canyon]

this isn't ran in an Update loop or something? is it..

[amber spruce]

nah just before it loads the scene

[dense walrus]

ye thats what i clicked

couldnt do the second step

[summer stump]

Common7 is in program files, microsoft visual studio

Or program files x86. Can't remember

[dense walrus]

i searched in my pc and nothing showed up

[summer stump]

Did you just look where I am saying?

[dense walrus]

ill try again

i dont see it in either

i looked in program files and program files 86

[rocky canyon]

if u can get it open just go to

then click System Info >

itlll show u where its installed

[summer stump]

For Microsoft Visual Studio?
If you don't see it- ah, spawn was fast. Nice

[dense walrus]

ok thanks

[rocky canyon]

just so happens to be a VS day and not a VSCode day 🙂

[dense walrus]

mine is in C:\WINDOWS\system32

idk where thats at

[whole idol]

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

public class pipepositions : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float upperExtreme = 3.19f;
    public float lowerExtreme = -3.68f;
    public GameObject PipePair; 
    private float spawnTimer = 0.0f;
    private int spawnInterval = 2;
    public void DestroyClone()
    {
        // Replace "cloneObject" with the actual reference to your clone GameObject
        
    }

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

    }
    void Update()
    {

        Vector2 moveLeft = transform.position;
        
        spawnTimer += Time.deltaTime;
        Debug.Log(spawnTimer);
        if (spawnTimer >= spawnInterval)
        {
            SpawnAndDestroyClone();
            spawnTimer -= spawnInterval;
            
        }
    }
    public void SpawnAndDestroyClone()
    {
        string cloneName = "Matrix_SuperPipe_600";
        Instantiate(PipePair, new Vector3(7.73f, -2.85f, 0), transform.rotation);
        PipePair.name = cloneName;

        StartCoroutine(DestroyAfterDelay(PipePair)); // Start coroutine for delayed destruction
    }
    private float destroyDelay = 10f;
    private float destroyTimer = 0.0f;
    IEnumerator DestroyAfterDelay(GameObject cloneToDestroy)
    {
        destroyTimer += Time.deltaTime;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(destroyDelay); // Wait for specified delay
        if (destroyTimer >= destroyDelay)
        {
            Destroy(cloneToDestroy);
            destroyDelay -= spawnInterval;

        }

    }
}

What is wrong with my code not destroying clone objects after a while?

[summer stump]

You are adding deltaTime every 10 seconds.
Then just checking if it's over the timer
deltaTime is a tiny number like .02. So it's gonna take FOREVER. And that's only if you call it over and over to actually increase the timer, because this is not a loop

Why not just do waitforseconds and destroy it? Why the other timer and if statement?

[dense walrus]

should i?

[rocky canyon]

its exactly where it is

[dense walrus]

my pc

i dont have skyNey

[rocky canyon]

This PC -> C: -> etc

thats the name of my computer..

urs will be different

[dense walrus]

oh

lol

[rocky canyon]

https://youtu.be/kI6H3_Ry49k?si=-B9stmhdC_ctV2mS&t=34

[dense walrus]

thanks

[rocky canyon]

heres a video i made.. i timestamped it at a place where u can isntall the Plugin from within the Visual Studio

that way u dont have to hunt down the Directory its stored.. altho u still will need to assign it inside Unity's Preferences

[whole idol]

is there a method for that?

[summer stump]

For what?

[whole idol]

waitforseconds

like you said

i wanna make a variable like that

[rocky canyon]

its normally used in a Coroutine

[summer stump]

You are literally using it

Already

JUST remove your if statement

    IEnumerator DestroyAfterDelay(GameObject cloneToDestroy)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(destroyDelay); // Wait for specified delay
            Destroy(cloneToDestroy);
            destroyDelay -= spawnInterval;

    }
}

[rocky canyon]

    void DestroyObjectDelayed()
    {
        // Kills the game object in 5 seconds after loading the object
        Destroy(gameObject, 5);
    }``` also fun fact, Destroy() has a parameter u can use to delay when it gets destroyed

good for use when its a more simple setup

[whole idol]

does that i mean i dont have to use the other methods?

[rocky canyon]

i dont see u using the coroutine for anything other than destroying it after a delay.. so i guess u could use it for that

[dense walrus]

@rocky canyon@summer stump thank you so much for your patience. I just started game development last night and I know nothing. Im starting to pick stuff up but if it werent for you I would have never fixed my problem

[whole idol]

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

public class pipepositions : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float upperExtreme = 3.19f;
    public float lowerExtreme = -3.68f;
    public GameObject PipePair; 
    private float spawnTimer = 0.0f;
    private int spawnInterval = 2;
    public void DestroyClone()
    {
        // Replace "cloneObject" with the actual reference to your clone GameObject
        
    }

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

    }
    void Update()
    {

        Vector2 moveLeft = transform.position;
        
        spawnTimer += Time.deltaTime;
        Debug.Log(spawnTimer);
        if (spawnTimer >= spawnInterval)
        {
            SpawnAndDestroyClone();
            spawnTimer -= spawnInterval;
            
        }
    }
    public void SpawnAndDestroyClone()
    {
        string cloneName = "Matrix_SuperPipe_600";
        Instantiate(PipePair, new Vector3(7.73f, -2.85f, 0), transform.rotation);
        PipePair.name = cloneName;

        StartCoroutine(DestroyAfterDelay(PipePair)); // Start coroutine for delayed destruction
    }
    IEnumerator DestroyAfterDelay(GameObject cloneToDestroy)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5); // Wait for specified delay
        Destroy(cloneToDestroy, 5);

    }
}

why does my code stop spawning pipes after a while?

[rocky canyon]

no worries.. it takes time.. u learn by doing.. trial and error is the best method to learn imo

[dense walrus]

ye Im learning about that stuff in my engineering class

[rocky canyon]

👀 well lets hope engineers do trial and error on small scale stuff first 🤣

[dense walrus]

yup

doing arduino

[rocky canyon]

hopefully they arent just throwing up bridges im driving over.. that they're using trial and error on

[summer stump]

Why are you combining the coroutine and what spawn said?

[dense walrus]

nah bro ur good

at least from me

[rocky canyon]

ohh electrical engineering 😄

[dense walrus]

lol

[rocky canyon]

yea im doing that as a hobby rn..

i thought coding was complicated..

[dense walrus]

i think everything is complicated

i just wanna eat and sleep

[rocky canyon]

lmao facts

[summer stump]

@whole idol Ah, you passed PipePair into your destroy method

You need to cached the object from the Instantiate call and destroy THAT

You should be getting errors when it stops spawning, right?

[rocky canyon]

pipesJustSpawned = Instantiate(prefab...); Destroy(pipesJustSpawned);

wanna destroy the pipes u just created.. not the prefab ur creating them from

[whole idol]

nope, didnt get any errors

ok so i made an entire new script cause it was getting too long and a headache to share and read so I made this and attached it to my new pipes and parent pipe object holders

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

public class DestroyerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject pipeToDestroy;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

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

    }
    public void SpawnAndDestroyClone()
    {
        string cloneName = "Matrix_SuperPipe_600";
        GameObject clone = Instantiate(pipeToDestroy, new Vector3(7.73f, -2.85f, 0), transform.rotation) as GameObject;  // Store the instantiated object
        clone.name = cloneName;

        StartCoroutine(DestroyAfterDelay(clone)); // Start coroutine with the clone reference
    }

    IEnumerator DestroyAfterDelay(GameObject cloneToDestroy)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5); // Wait for specified delay
        Destroy(cloneToDestroy); // Destroy the clone after the delay
    }
}

[summer stump]

Alright. Does it have an issue?

[whole idol]

wow I just almost crashed my computer

I didn't expect any problems out of this but somehow instead of destroying objects this started creating exponentially millions of objects in merely a few seconds filling up my screen with pipes and clones

[rocky canyon]

lol

[frosty river]

For organizing a unity project, does it make sense to group the models and animations with the scripts. like putting everything in assets/zombie/ ?

[rocky canyon]

ur not developing if u dont almost crash ur computer from time to time

[frosty river]

or should I make an effort to separate the scripts from the models and such

[rocky canyon]

it just depends on how u wanna sort things..

this is a common debate

[frosty river]

i've developed for a while, but new to game dev. does game dev favor the functional vs domain organization compared to what i've done before (web app dev)?

[thorn holly]

say I have variable A and variable B, both of the same type, myClass. If I assign variable A to an instance of myClass, then I assign variable B to variable A, then I reassign variableA to a difference instance of myClass, will variable B also now point to this different instance of myClass?

[rocky canyon]

is it Scripts, Prefabs, Models with a Truck folder in each one
or is it Truck folder with Scripts, Prefabs, and Models folder in each one

[frosty river]

in web dev you can organize either way, thought it might be a bit different organizationally with all the game assets.

[whole idol]

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

public class DestroyerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject pipeToDestroy;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

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

    }
    public void SpawnAndDestroyClone()
    {
        string cloneName = "Matrix_SuperPipe_600";
        GameObject clone = Instantiate(pipeToDestroy, new Vector3(7.73f, -2.85f, 0), transform.rotation) as GameObject;  // Store the instantiated object
        clone.name = cloneName;

        StartCoroutine(DestroyAfterDelay(clone)); // Start coroutine with the clone reference
    }

    IEnumerator DestroyAfterDelay(GameObject cloneToDestroy)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5); // Wait for specified delay
        Destroy(cloneToDestroy); // Destroy the clone after the delay
    }
}

ok so what I did is create a public GameObject pipeToDestroy; here and then I attached the GameObjects themselves onto their own DestroyerScript script. And this was supposed to force them to kill themselves not recreate themselves a billion times everywhere

[rocky canyon]

if i have something thats becoming a System.. i'll put its own Script folder within it..

if its not or something more simple.. it'll just put its script within a Root Script folder

[frosty river]

it's weird to have scripts/ but then have scripts elsewhere

[summer stump]

No

[rocky canyon]

i name my folders as such..
Scripts

• Utility
• AI
• UI

[summer stump]

You are creating an object every frame. You got rid of your timer

No memes allowed here

[whole idol]

ok

[rocky canyon]

I tend to organize with a Root folder being the type of stuff

[whole idol]

    IEnumerator DestroyAfterDelay(GameObject cloneToDestroy)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5); // Wait for specified delay
        Destroy(cloneToDestroy, 5); // Destroy the clone after the delay
    }

[rocky canyon]

Vehicles - Vehicle Scripts, Vehicle Models, etc

[whole idol]

I added it back in like this

ok so i realized why millions of objects were getting created

I instantiated on Update()

of my new "Destroyer" script

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

public class pipepositions : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float upperExtreme = 3.19f;
    public float lowerExtreme = -3.68f;
    public GameObject PipePair;
    private float spawnTimer = 0.0f;
    private int spawnInterval = 2;

    public void DestroyClone() // This function is not used in the current implementation
    {
        // You could implement logic to find and destroy a specific clone here if needed
    }

    void Start()
    {

    }

    void Update()
    {
        Instantiate(PipePair, new Vector3(7.73f, -2.85f, 0), transform.rotation);  // Store the instantiated object

        Vector2 moveLeft = transform.position;

        spawnTimer += Time.deltaTime;
        Debug.Log(spawnTimer);
        if (spawnTimer >= spawnInterval)
        {
            spawnTimer -= spawnInterval;
            DestroyClone();

        }
    }
}

so now I added this back in again here on pipeposititions

and now the Destroyer.cs looks more like this

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class DestroyerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject pipeToDestroy;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
    }
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
    }
    public void DestroyClone()
    {
 
        StartCoroutine(DestroyAfterDelay(pipeToDestroy)); // Start coroutine with the clone reference
    }
    IEnumerator DestroyAfterDelay(GameObject cloneToDestroy)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5); // Wait for specified delay
        Destroy(cloneToDestroy, 5); // Destroy the clone after the delay
    }
}

[summer stump]

You are just guessing with stuff. There is no timer limiting your instantiate call, and you are back to not caching instantiate too

Wait, this second one is all weird

[whole idol]

yeah im not actually calling anything in on Update() yet

[summer stump]

Wait, you are calling destroy from both scripts?

[whole idol]

oops

[summer stump]

In pipepositions? Because THAT is the issue

[whole idol]

i didn't mean to do that

[summer stump]

Destroy is not your issue, just to be clear. Instantiate is

[whole idol]

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;
public class pipepositions : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float upperExtreme = 3.19f;
    public float lowerExtreme = -3.68f;
    public GameObject PipePair;
    private float spawnTimer = 0.0f;
    private int spawnInterval = 2;
    void Update()
    {
        Instantiate(PipePair, new Vector3(7.73f, -2.85f, 0), transform.rotation);  // Store the instantiated object
        Vector2 moveLeft = transform.position;
        spawnTimer += Time.deltaTime;
        Debug.Log(spawnTimer);
        if (spawnTimer >= spawnInterval)
        {
            spawnTimer -= spawnInterval;
        }
    }
}

[summer stump]

Nope again

Every single frame this will instantiate something, make a variable called moveleft, add to a timer, check the timer, then subtract the timer if check is true

That timer has no affect on ANYTHING though

Oh, you also have the debug run every frame, sorry, skipped over that

[summer stump]

Honestly, I would go back to this code
#💻┃code-beginner message

It was waaaaay closer

[thorn holly]

public Color myOwnColor = new Color(1, 0, 0, 1); can I not make custom colors like this? Cause if I try and assign somethings color myOwnColor, nothing happens, but if I assign it to something like Color.red, it turns red.

[whole idol]

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;
public class pipepositions : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float upperExtreme = 3.19f;
    public float lowerExtreme = -3.68f;
    public GameObject PipePair;
    private float spawnTimer = 0.0f;
    private int spawnInterval = 2;
    void Update()
    {

        Vector2 moveLeft = transform.position;
        spawnTimer += Time.deltaTime;
        Debug.Log(spawnTimer);
        if (spawnTimer >= spawnInterval)
        {
            Instantiate(PipePair, new Vector3(7.73f, -2.85f, 0), transform.rotation);  // Store the instantiated object
            spawnTimer -= spawnInterval;
        }
    }
}

fixed

[summer stump]

Theeere we go

That does not store the instantiated object, so the comment is wrong haha. But functionally, now there is a timer

[rocky canyon]

can you show where ur trying to assign this color?

[whole idol]

now next goal is to get this bad boy fixed and make sure it works properly

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class DestroyerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject pipeToDestroy;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
    }
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        DestroyClone();
    }
    public void DestroyClone()
    {
 
        StartCoroutine(DestroyAfterDelay(pipeToDestroy)); // Start coroutine with the clone reference
    }
    IEnumerator DestroyAfterDelay(GameObject cloneToDestroy)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5); // Wait for specified delay
        Destroy(cloneToDestroy, 5); // Destroy the clone after the delay
    }
}

[thorn holly]

I can, but does it matter? This color here and Color.red should have the exact same value, yet one works and one doesn't

[rocky canyon]

they are

thats why im asking

[whole idol]

by the way i just realized

[frosty river]

Does it make sense to use Unity Version Control to avoid paying github lfs fees? My game is super simple but its 10 gigs folder

[rocky canyon]

u can ignore the Library folder

it should be much much smaller

[frosty river]

[Ll]ibrary/ is in my gitignore already

[summer stump]

public class DestroyerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float timeToDestroy = 5.0f;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        Destroy(gameObject, timeToDestroy);
    }

Alllll that is unnecessary. Just do this

[rocky canyon]

and its still 10 gig?

[frosty river]

proly not

locally its 10 gigs

lemme see if I can check repo size

[rocky canyon]

lol isn't LFS free?

[thorn holly]

fixed it, I forgot to assign it in Start

🤦‍♂️

[whole idol]

that PipeGenerator script is kind of a trojar horse meaning it looks perfectly fine on a first look but if you continue to play that script it will not permamently generate new pipes, it kinda as if PipeGenerator gets tired after 5-6 Pipes and stops. But at least Destroyer works properly

[frosty river]

ok its size: 209.18 MiB

it uses up git lfs limits

[rocky canyon]

i think the limit is 100mb per file

209 should be easily put on github

[frosty river]

it's not a per file basis

[summer stump]

What object is pipegenerator on?

[rocky canyon]

ohh, there is also a soft limit of 100mb per file

[frosty river]

yea

[rocky canyon]

ive never used Unity Collab tho

so i cant answer for sure

[frosty river]

im about to just pay for git lfs

60$/yr

[rocky canyon]

u have a team? it'd be worth it if u can split it up

[rocky canyon]

ive only got 1 project that has issues on github.. and its because of all the audio. i chose to zip the audio files on my local drive and push the rest

that kinda saves me the trouble of finding an alternative

[frosty river]

yeah so this got me wondering

does it make sense to have like a google drive or somesuch as developers

[rocky canyon]

i use it

not to share / pull /push

but for my own resource

if u have just a hand ful of people using it.. i think google drive would be good for that

[frosty river]

i decided just to pay, dont want to learn a whole separate thing and 50gbs means I can do git with any future game project

[rocky canyon]

apparently it has backups and can revert to previous versions as well

[whole idol]

one thing that is creating a big confusion i think iss that as code changes and scripts get new roles and need new descriptive names the class names dont get automatically changed as soon as you change the file name of the script so that is one thing creating confusion in my unity game project i think

[rocky canyon]

if u click the class naem and right click and rename

[summer stump]

Correct, they do not

[rocky canyon]

it will also rename the file

[summer stump]

Renaming the CLASS as spawn said, will rename the file if done right. Renaming the FILE will never rename the class

[rocky canyon]

newer versions of unity don't require u to keep the class name and script name matching

but i do it anyway just for peace of mind

[summer stump]

If Pipepositions is the script spawning the pipes, then yeah, you have a destroy script on it....

If it isn't the one spawning pipes, then I'm not sure why you showed those screenshots

[whole idol]

wait if i rename the classname inside of the script does that also change the script name on unity?

[rocky canyon]

it renames the script filename yes

[whole idol]

or that both should be done simutaneously?

oh okay nice, i didnt know that

[whole idol]

cool to know

[rocky canyon]

as long as u use the Rename right click menu

it'll rename it for u

[summer stump]

Misread, sorry

[rocky canyon]

something i wish i would have learned about a year earlier than i did

[whole idol]

does this call the moveLeft script?

I decided imma need to make a new Cloner script

cause PipeGenerator will be the one that will generate pipes inside of the upperExtreme and lowerExtreme

having a seperate Cloner script sounds more appropriate i think

[rocky canyon]

no that creates a local Vector2 named moveLeft and assigns it to the objects transform position

[whole idol]

do i need this Vector2 line?

[whole idol]

ok so it doesn't do anything

[rocky canyon]

nope, i dont see where ur using it anywhere else..

just assigns it.. and does nothing else

if u hover it it'll actually tell u that its Unused

[stuck sinew]

i tried to create a 2d life bar but everything i try dont work

[rocky canyon]

just start by debugging the values / getting the math working.. and then move on to setting a slider or a sprite's fillAmount to reflect it

[stuck sinew]

alright thanks^^

[summer stump]

Have you gone through the !learn course?

Or perhaps consider https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[thorn tapir]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[summer stump]

Why? The bot call is right there

[thorn tapir]

cuz

[summer stump]

A new link wouldn't help that. But yeah, unfortunate

[thorn tapir]

😦

[summer stump]

Try googling the phrase "unity learn" and see if it comes up. Curious if it's a localization thing?

No idea though. Sorry

[thorn tapir]

I opened it with unity hub, same results. Thats probably the case

[whole idol]

whats wrong with this?

[eternal needle]

you should do c# basics before unity. are you following a tutorial? i feel like ive seen this same sprite before. If so, go back and look at the code again.
Otherwise look at the error, you are trying to use a type and not an instance of an object

[whole idol]

i used some youtuber's assets

for the pipes and the player bird

thats it

[eternal needle]

you really arent gonna get far just guessing at how stuff should be written. Do yourself a favor and do c# without unity first

[whole idol]

i did the unity tutorial

followed the car tutorial and the plane project and it was good

but after that they have a whole tutorial about " okay now just go ahead and make your own stuff "

this is on the junior programmer course

but didnt do the c# basics course because I already saw their full tutorial on youtube about c# unity

and followed so many tutorial hell hour long playlists that now i think its time to create stuff

[whole idol]

true

ok maybe there is some value in that c# without unity thing

I was surprised by the quality of SOME of their junior programmer videos ( but not all )

some where absolute dogshit

[eternal needle]

To compare this to something other than coding, right now you are experimenting with building a plane instead of putting lego bricks together

[whole idol]

but the plane and car tutorials were so amazign they actually told me pretty much most than any tutorials on youtube

[whole idol]

ok thats is true i agree

i tend to do that with other languages as well, its a bad habit

[eternal needle]

its less of what language you are coding in, but more about coding concepts. the above error is just that you are trying to compare a type instead of an instance.
I recommend following this interactive website https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php

i see it was also linked above to u

[spice ravine]

my project crushes when I encounter a creature, I'll provide the part of the code with teh problem, here: ```cs

do
{
StartCoroutine(WaitForAction());
ActionActive = false;
CreatureHealth = chosenAnItem(CreatureHealth);
textField.text = "He bit you!\n" +
$"You lost {rand} Health!\n" +
"Click 'Next' to continue";
StartCoroutine(DelayAction(60f));
} while (CreatureHealth > 0 && player.Health > 0);

and I really don't know how to resolve it

in other parts of the script, it does wait

wait...

[eternal needle]

then the while loop condition is always true, its likely not a crash, just that your game is frozen trying to infinitely run this code. Also those coroutines look questionable

[spice ravine]

Yeah!! how would you regularly resolve this issue?

[eternal needle]

Look further into why your while loop is always true. player.Health isnt directly changed here, unless some method changes it (the coroutines or chosenAnItem)
So that means CreatureHealth is always more than 0

Those coroutines make me wonder what they're doing, because its entirely possible you are starting many of them

[spice ravine]

yeah, wait I am snipping some code...

int chosenAnItem(int CreatureHealth)
{
    if (chosenNumber == 1)
    {
        CreatureHealth -= rnd.Next(player.Weapon.DamageMin, player.Weapon.DamageMax);
    }
    else if (chosenNumber == 2)
    {
        Intermission();
    }
    else if (chosenNumber == 3)
    {
        textField.text = "Please choose an Item to use from above";
        ItemHandler();
        turnState = "UsingAnItem";

        // Check if an item was used
        if (UsedItem == "healingPotion")
        {
            player.Health += 20;
        }
        else if (UsedItem == "dynamite")
        {
            CreatureHealth = 0;
        }
        UsedItem = "";
    }
    else
    {
        StartCoroutine(DelayAction(1f));
    }

    return CreatureHealth;
}```

I wish there was just a wait(1) command...

I started learning unity yesturday

[eternal needle]

ok so what about the case where chosenNumber is 3, and used item is healingPotion?

or if chosenNumber is 2 i guess, look at what is returned. then look at the condition for the while loop

[spice ravine]

but it freezes... I can't see things retuned when unity won't react

[eternal needle]

you dont need to see it, you can think about it

Think about what happens if chosenNumber is anything but 1 or 3. Then think of the issue, the loop will go on forever if CreatureHealth > 0 & player.Health > 0

[spice ravine]

it doesn't work liek taht in the rest of the script, but I think I missed something gigantic...

wait

[eternal needle]

Also you can attach the VS debugger to play line by line, so your unity doesnt freeze entirely. Just need to put a breakpoint

[eternal needle]

it doesnt matter how it works elsewhere. just think about the cases i am telling you

this really is not complicated

[spice ravine]

public void Option3()
{
    if (turnState == "InMarket")
    {
        if (player.Gold >= 200)
        {
            player.Weapon = new Sword("Diamond Sword", 100, 130);
            player.Gold -= 200;
            UpdateUI();
            Intermission();
        }
        else
        {
            WarningText.text = "You do not have enough gold.";
            StartCoroutine(DelayAction(1f));
        }
    }
    else if (turnState == "InArmory")
    {
        if (player.Gold >= 80)
        {
            player.Weapon = new Sword("Diamond Sword", 100, 130);
            player.Gold -= 80;
            UpdateUI();
            Intermission();
        }
        else
        {
            WarningText.text = "You do not have enough gold.";
            StartCoroutine(DelayAction(1f));
        }
    }
    else if (turnState == "FightingCreature") // Added condition for fighting creature
    {
        chosenNumber = 3; // Set chosenNumber to 3 to trigger item usage
        Debug.Log("I have this SOOO much!!!!!!!!!! ayayayyay!");
    }
    else
    {
        WarningText.text = "You may not use this button right now.";
        StartCoroutine(DelayAction(1f));
    }
}

that you so much for the help so far, I really apreciate it

this function is triggered via a button

in game

[eternal needle]

I have no clue what the relation of these codes are, but wow thats a ton of string based stuff

[spice ravine]

do you want me to send the entire file? I feel like that might egsoust some people, and you

it seems kind of wrong to be honest...

(TEXT FILE)

[eternal needle]

!code for how to share code properly. But tbh im not truly interested in seeing it all. Ive pointed out already a possible issue, seeing more string based stuff isnt gonna change anything.

[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.

[eternal needle]

If you wont stop to think about that while loop condition, i cant really say much else

[spice ravine]

ok...

welp, Should I just stop working on this? I spent the past 18 hours working on this one problem nonstop...

I thought maby you could direct me to a better way to do it...

maby I was wrong, maby this was a bad project to begine with....

I made this project as a python project before hand, here is the file if anybody is interasted:

It's a project that I was very pashenate about...

it took me 26 hours...

I know I "need" to do what /!\code code tells me to do, but I feel like that's just a waste...

why do I end all my messages with ... 🤣 I just realized

[swift elbow]

i love reading 400 lines worth of strings 🤤

[summer stump]

Can't read that without downloading a file, which I will not do

[spice ravine]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

you can

you can just click the button beside expand

'view whole file'

[spice ravine]

oh, that's a \thing with your settings

[summer stump]

Incorrect

Mobile app

[summer stump]

Which most of us use

And is why there are the rules about posting code properly

[spice ravine]

ohhhh!!!!!!!!! Thank you!

ok, now I understand

[polar acorn]

!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.

[spice ravine]

I didn't know!, ok, amma start doing it

https://paste.ofcode.org/45ppEb5W4YbYifKumTMV5y

nice, thank you for providing me with that info, I was really confused

YESS!!!!! finally found the answer!!! yield return new WaitUntil(() => chosenNumber == 0);

[silent dove]

Uhh could I get a bit of help with something?
I've looked at different errors im getting online but I'm not sure how similar they are to my code because it doesn't seem to work with their solutions.
I have the enemies all as prefabs with the 'Enemy' tag, and so I'm trying to have it to be when all the Enemies are destroyed, then the scene replays itself, but as of right now I keep getting errors related to 'Cannot implicitly convert type UnityEngine.GameObject to UnityEngine.GameObject[], which I understand its because it isnt being assigned as an array? But, when I try to change the code to something that doesn't show an error, I still don't think it is seeing the array as null? I'm not sure.

[swift elbow]

your enemy list is an array but you are using FindWithTag

you have to use FindGameObjectsWithTag

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag.html

[silent dove]

yeah, i noticed that in one of the solutions, i should've mentioned but that's what i was trying when it would have no errors, but wouldn't do anything

[swift elbow]

"wouldnt do anything" is very vague. i would recommend adding debugs to your code or providing more detail

[silent dove]

right that's why i added uhh the print part, to see if that was the issue, and i believe it is

basically, when i destroy all of the enemies, the enemyList array should be null, but the print and function being invoked aren't running

[swift elbow]

i dont think thats how it works

[silent dove]

is it not?

[swift elbow]

when there are no elements in an array, the array doesnt "become null"

you should iterate through a for loop to check if all elements are null

that should work

[silent dove]

i was looking at code recommended in a tutorial, but i'll look at doing that and see how it goes

I'm not entirely sure how to go about this, I have this for the iteration, I'm not sure if it does work or not for sure
But if it does work, I'm not sure how to call a way for it to say like, an if statement for if it is true?

[static bay]

Wait sorry let me get this straight.

You want to have it so when all the enemies die, the scene resets after 2 seconds?

[silent dove]

Yeah, that's the idea,

[cosmic dagger]

you can check if it works by adding a log inside the if statement you want it to reach. check the console during runtime to see if it appears . . .

[static bay]

The code above unfortunately isn't going to do it then. When you call FindGameObjectsWithTag, the array will contain all game objects with that tag in that moment. If you're destroying enemies when they die, then the entries in that array will progressively become null, but not the array itself.

[cosmic dagger]

it's an array, so it has a fixed size. it's length would never be zero (unless you initialize it that way) . . .

[static bay]

This function would work for checking that.

[silent dove]

I found this function for the bool, so it isn't made specifically for my code, but if it's able to work even if it doesn't need the == 0 part then I can clean it up once I get it working

[silent dove]

My issue is just that, in our class we haven't done like anything with bools, and I'm not sure how to go about making the if statement for if the bool is true, and if I did that I think it should be fine? Does the enemyList == null work in this case? I'm not sure if it's trying to see if the array is null or if it's contents are null, should I do enemyList.Length instead?

[rich adder]

instead of array you should use List of enemies, each time enemy dies it removes itself from the list

[static bay]

enemyList == null won't work. FindGameObjectsWithTag will return an array regardless of if there's even gameobjects with that tag in the scene. It'll just be empty.

[silent dove]

So, I guess I can try the list if that would work out easier? Or would I just need to use enemyList.Length or something like that?

[rich adder]

use a list, check the Count each time enemies removes itself

[silent dove]

Yeah I think I found something online that uses a list that would work.

I'll try that rq

[rich adder]

as long as enemies have reference to that list in like a manager type script

[static bay]

Navaron is suggesting the correct solution. It just might be tough given what you know.

[static bay]

Ok but what if we bust out the degen shit and do GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemy").Length == 0 every frame?

🙃

How many GameObjects could they possibly have in the scene?

It's fiiiiine.

We're fiiiine.

[swift elbow]

not a lot of people know this, but unity actually does this on its own 😁 . Its just that... unity doesnt do it... and its me who added it to my script 😭

[static bay]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcgeRtcz074&ab_channel=Vijay1.M

[swift elbow]

very very true

[silent dove]

Alright, so, using a a list instead, I would need to change it away from FindGameObjectsWithTag right?

[rich adder]

ideally yes

[static bay]

Ok wait hold up though. Why do you think a list is better?

[silent dove]

Well, they had mentioned it, and I found something that had this code.
So, I thought that having a list might work? But right now I'm having an issue with List<GameObject> 'does not contain a definition for 'count''

[rich adder]

no you can't just guess your way around it..

[swift elbow]

count doesnt exist...

[north kiln]

Your !ide is not configured properly

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[swift elbow]

the same way you cant use "count" for arrays

[rich adder]

wdym you found a script?

at very least even stack overflow has more or less the idea
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64759710/unity-listing-enemies-and-removing-them-from-said-list-not-working

[silent dove]

when looking for other people having similar issues, this one person said they found a solution using a list instead, and it seemed pretty similar to what i was needing to do

[rich adder]

just start from the basics tbh

[north kiln]

You need to configure your IDE before continuing with any coding, as not having error highlighting and proper autocomplete is a waste of your time

[silent dove]

thats what the class is for, but i need to improve off of this project i currently have

[static bay]

Trust me when I say code is not something you can smack together and expect to work, unless you know what you're doing.

Listen to vertx first, get your IDE set up so it can help you understand what's going wrong.

And then you can tackle the problem.

[silent dove]

I can look at it, but I don't really understand this stuff, that's the issue uhh

[north kiln]

it's literally just instructions you follow, that I linked

[swift elbow]

i've been smacking things together for the past few years and everything works fine for me. why do you think i love quaternions so much? 😅

[static bay]

Disgusting quaternion lover BEGONE.

[silent dove]

yeah im looking at the VSCode one, but I dont see the IDE parts?

[teal viper]

VSCode is the "ide"

[static bay]

Visual Studio Code is an IDE.

Just follow the steps.

[rocky canyon]

the good stuff happens after Install part

[teal viper]

Or maybe that was a joke attempt about how VSCode is not a real ide...😅

[static bay]

holy shit

[teal viper]

"I'm looking at VSCode but I don't see ide anywhere"

[static bay]

Massive disrepect

[silent dove]

so i just need the unity extension?

[static bay]

Incoming "But I have this Vim thing here"

[north kiln]

That is one of the instructions, yes. There are a couple

[silent dove]

okay i have that then and it showed i just had one of the counts in lowercase? and its saying no issues but i guess the code won't be working since it isn't made for it, since still no print or function invoked

[static bay]

do you see red underlines

[silent dove]

no

So I'm assuming its the loop itself not working in this case.

[rich adder]

looks configured

but what do you think that backwards loop supposed to do

[static bay]

I was about to say "then wtf is print" but then I checked
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour-print.html

What?

[rich adder]

are the enemies already in the list?

[rich adder]

yeah its MB only and very old but valid

[static bay]

Why is it lowercase?

[rich adder]

omage to java idk

[static bay]

very odd

[rich adder]

same reason camel case properties 🤷‍♂️

[static bay]

See that ones not that bad (yet) because uppercase proprties are a relatively new thing in C#

[rich adder]

or maybe infection from having a javascript like language at some point..

[static bay]

You've got 3 problems to solve.

1. How does this script get all the enemies?
2. How does it know when an enemy dies?
3. How does it know when there are no more enemies?

[static bay]

do not speak of the dark times

[silent dove]

right, im back now uhh,,

right, so it more than likely means that what they were trying to do isnt similar at all, I'm not sure how to actually get all of the enemies, I'm assuming I need to use something with the finding everything tagged as enemy, but i'm not sure how to put this into a thing to add to the list either, for knowing if an enemy dies I would need to check if it's null I assume, and if the list's count is 0 then that would mean there are no more enemies

[rich adder]

i asked if enemies are already spawned or do you spawn them

[silent dove]

already spawned

[rich adder]

drag n drop them in the List

multi select

that should give you pretty much a list/count amount, from there just need to tell from enemy script to count/list script. " I died, remove me from list"

[silent dove]

alright, cool i didnt know you could do that, so the for loop probably shouldnt be reversed like that i assume?

[static bay]

We could maybe make this simple for them and just have a script on the enemies that ticks up a static int on Awake and ticks it down on Destroy?

[rich adder]

you dont need any loops

[silent dove]

alright, how should i check it then?

[rich adder]

enemies are already in the scene which should making caching the List script on awake a breeze

[rich adder]

When the enemy dies run a function on the script with the List, count when you remove it from list

[static bay]

Sure but I feel like explaining to them how to get reference to this Manager script from the enemy is going to get rough.

[rich adder]

they already were using FindWithTag

its not much more complex, change the tag to script with List of enemies counter

[static bay]

and call remove during OnDestroy on the enemy?

[rich adder]

whatever Death method enemy has yeah they call Removal function

[static bay]

alright

[rich adder]

its much simpler than polling everyframe with loops and whatever they were mashing

creating an array every frame is atrocious

[static bay]

I think their intension was to check if all the entries had gone null, to determine if all the enemies were dead.

[static bay]

yes very bad

[silent dove]

the stuff for the enemy's death is in the laser's script, so basically when the laser collides with the gameobjects tagged as enemy, it destroys the enemy and the laser

[rich adder]

either way they would need reference to the array to do removal at index, figuring out which index enemy is etc..

[static bay]

Alright. You're going to need a new script on the enemy.

[rich adder]

enemy needs a script if you don't have one for sure

[silent dove]

they have a movement script

[static bay]

Just give them a new one.

It's fine.

[silent dove]

alright

[static bay]

How we getting the manager on the enemy? FindObjectOfType?

[rich adder]

as long as they understand why they are using this method 😅