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[wintry quarry]

yeah idk why you put in Values before

that's not at all what you wanted

that's an unordered collection of just the values in the dictionary

[spiral narwhal]

Ahhhh I see

makes sense

thx

[deft grail]

you are in 2D, your method is for 3D OnCollisionEnter, OnCollisionEnter2D

[stuck sinew]

ah thanks man i kiss your hearth

[stuck sinew]

omg its workig i love you man

[frail star]

is there a way to set a value to a list limit?

[deft grail]

set it to the lists length?

it has a variable for that

[frail star]

if I want the list to have 15 objects can I preset that?

[frail star]

yes

[scarlet skiff]

quick question is Time.time since the application started or since that scene ur in has loaded?

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-time.html

[deft grail]

thats a completely different question?

[frail star]

That was an example

[deft grail]

and you would do that by List<> myList = new List<>(15); if im not wrong

[wintry quarry]

not with a List no

[wintry quarry]

this preallocates memory for 15 elements but the list size will still be 0 when creating it

if the list is intended to be exactly a known length and not grow or shrink, you should just use an array instead

[frail star]

Yeah this is what I found
You don't explicitly set the size of a List; the size comes from the number of items in it. (Capacity is only for the internal size of the List and something you would rarely if ever use.) If you want a List with a particular number of items you can convert an array to a List

[eternal needle]

That will also still allow it to go over 15 elements, to be clear. You can also just create your own function which checks the length then adds if it's not at max capacity

[wintry quarry]

sure or add a bunch of empty or placeholder elements to it

but yeah if you want to set a max size for your list you'll need to write a little wrapper code around it to enforce the limit

[frail star]

I can't add to an array at runtime can I

[wintry quarry]

You can set elements in the array at runtime

or create a new larger array at runtime

which is essentially how lists work

[south sky]

Yo guys I want to made the UI panel to fade its alpha to clear when it is awake, how do I do this?

[deft grail]

if you want it to not be instant, it would be best to just make an animation and just play the animation

[wintry quarry]

use Update, a coroutine, or a Tween library.

or maybe an animation sure

[deft grail]

depends how much work and how quick you want it done, you can pick the way to do it

[south sky]

Bet

Yo anyone know what name I need to reference the audio source in code. Wanna add the volume to a slider

[wintry quarry]

AudioSource

[stuck sinew]

i need help again please, my player shoots projetiles and the projetiles should be make damge on an objekt "Enemy" but nothing works how do i do it do someone know it or know about a good youtube video

[deft grail]

show something? the code

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe show what you've tried

[deft grail]

both objects

[stuck sinew]

it hard to explain

[deft grail]

then its waaaay harder for us to help

[stuck sinew]

!code

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[south sky]

Thanks

[stuck sinew]

https://hastebin.com/share/onevosisur.cpp

[deft grail]

now show the inspector of both the bullet and the enemy

[stuck sinew]

i only made a script for the enemy i though that wenn the script says, when tag "Bullet" collide with Gameobjekt it will be destroy

[deft grail]

yes but it has some requirements

1. IsTrigger , 2. Rigidbody2D, 3. the Tag

[summer stump]

Or CharacterController, but that is unlikely to be used for a projectile
At least hopefully hahaha

[queen adder]

//LogicScript.cs

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

public class LogicScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int playerScore;
    public TextMeshProUGUI scoreText;
    public GameObject gameOverScreen;
    public BirdScript birdIsAlive;

//increase score
    public void addScore(int scoreToAdd)
    {
        playerScore = playerScore + scoreToAdd;
        scoreText.text = playerScore.ToString();
    }

//restart game
    public void restartGame()
        {
            SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);
        }
    
    public void gameOver()
    {
        gameOverScreen.SetActive(true);
    }
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && birdIsAlive == false)
        {
            restartGame();
        }
    }
}

//BirdScript.cs

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

public class BirdScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody2D myRigidBody;
    public float flapStrength;
    public LogicScript logic;
    public bool birdIsAlive = true;
    public LogicScript gameOverScreen;


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        logic = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Logic").GetComponent<LogicScript>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && birdIsAlive == true)
        {
            myRigidBody.velocity = Vector2.up * flapStrength;
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        logic.gameOver();
        birdIsAlive = false;
    }
}

im trying to make the game reset if my player character is dead and if the spacebar is pressed and im having an issue where it resets every time i press the space bar. heres my code

sorry for huge block of code

[deft grail]

then that wouldnt work im pretty sure? it needs to be a Rigidbody

[deft grail]

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[summer stump]

Nope
CharacterController works too.

If rigidbody, it needs to be dynamic though

OnCollisionEnter does NOT work with CC though

[deft grail]

idk about that, but its 2D anyway so character controller wont work

[summer stump]

Ah, missed that. But yeah, it absolutely does in 3d

[deft grail]

doesnt even mention that in the docs for OnTriggerEnter, but i dont use CharacterController so idk 100%

[summer stump]

Yeah, it unfortunately doesn't mention it. But I do know it 100%

[wintry quarry]

Ok so you confused the shit out of yourself with your variable name here:

public BirdScript birdIsAlive;```
You named your BirdScript reference birdIsAlive. So what you're actually doing with 
`&& birdIsAlive == false` is just checking if you have a valid reference to the bird script. Which apparently, you do not. So that's always true. What you should do is name your variable properly:
```cs
public BirdScript bird;```

Then when you want to check if it's alive you would be doing:
```cs
if (!bird.birdIsAlive)```

[south sky]

ANyone knwo how I can access volume in script?

[deft grail]

you can check the docs

or just place a . and the IDE will autofill the possible solutions

[south sky]

I tried the dot to no success but let me see the docs

I feel like you just said rtfm

[deft grail]

is your IDE configured?

[south sky]

Dont know what that means, but I looked through the list and the values there werent working properly

[deft grail]

IDE is your code editor, Visual Studio for example
is it configured means does it suggest things and highlight errors etc

[eternal needle]

to be fair, there are gonna be a lot of members associated with unity stuff. Just look through the docs

[summer stump]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource-volume.html

[south sky]

Yh it is

[small mantle]

I have this Stab Goblin Character. It is an Enemy, that when it gets close to the player will attack him. The issue is that the attack Collider that hits the Player does not keep colliding with the Player even though in the Goblin Script, it keeps disabling and enabling the Collider. This is the Collision script on the Player: private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision) { if (collision.TryGetComponent<GoblinKnife>(out GoblinKnife goblinScript) && !goblinScript.hasHit) { print("hit"); TakeDamage(goblinScript.knifeDamage); goblinScript.hasHit = true; } } private void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D collision) { if (collision.TryGetComponent<GoblinKnife>(out GoblinKnife goblinScript)) { print("hit Exit"); playerScript.currentHealth -= goblinScript.knifeDamage; goblinScript.hasHit= false; } } THE KNIFE OBJECT IS THE OBJECT WITH THE COLLIDER*

[dusk mural]

how do you do it?

[deft grail]

!ide

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[stuck sinew]

wait i send you the bullet and enemy script then tell what i am doing wrong pleay:,)

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[deft grail]

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i told you?

#💻┃code-beginner message

i also had a question here which you didnt respond

[stuck sinew]

https://hastebin.com/share/fuqujukosi.csharp

[wintry quarry]

Why not just have the Goblin script do a direct physics query

enabling and disabling a collider and using OnTriggerEnter is kinda... wacky

[stuck sinew]

https://hastebin.com/share/uhelupejow.cpp and this is the bulet script

[small mantle]

How should I add it to the Goblin Script?

[deft grail]

changing the way you take damage has absolutely nothing to do with the original problem

[wintry quarry]

not really sure what you mean by this?

I'm saying replace disabling and enabling the collider with a direct physics query and running the damage code

[summer stump]

You are not showing the crucial information that was asked for

#💻┃code-beginner message

[stuck sinew]

i did everything i think i'm to stupid for thist stuff XD

[small mantle]

Are you saying to have the Goblin Script do the code?

[deft grail]

you think so, but we dont know, so answer the question

[summer stump]

Just show the inspectors........

[eternal needle]

#💻┃code-beginner message
that is exactly what they said

right now your playing is checking for what is damaging it, when you want to add more damage sources you always have to adjust this script. Instead, just make a script that can deal damage and attach it to other objects

[wintry quarry]

Yes

The goblin script should handle its own attacking behavior

[small mantle]

I did so, but how should I fix the Disabling issue? Should I disable/enable the Knife Object instead?

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by disabling issue

I told you not to use disabling/enabling anything

just use a direct physics query instead of that

[small mantle]

How should I go about doing that? I only want the Goblin to have the Attack Collider active during the end frame of an attack animation

[wintry quarry]

Don't have an "attack collider" at all

Use a direct physics query every time you want the goblin to attack

use an animation event for hooking the code up to your animation

[small mantle]

What is "direct physics query"?

[wintry quarry]

things like Physics.OverlapBox

or Physics.BoxCast

Or Physics.OverlapCapsule

whatever makes sense

See options here https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.html

[small mantle]

I'll try that. Thanks!

[queen adder]

the game doesn't reset every time i press the spacebar but now it doesn't work at all

https://hastebin.com/share/ayamagejam.csharp

i get this error message in unity

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
LogicScript.Update () (at Assets/LogicScript.cs:34)

im assuming it means that the bird script isnt referenced at line 34 and thats why its not working but i referenced it with public BirdScript bird;

[wintry quarry]

yes because now you are seeing your real error

which is you never assigned your reference

[stuck sinew]

so i fixed the problem thanks man i forgot to add the rigidbody in the script XD

[wintry quarry]

Also what on earth is this:

Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && (!bird.birdIsAlive == false)```
It should just be `if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && !bird.birdIsAlive)`

but yeah you need to assign the bird reference properly

[queen adder]

ah

sorry i started using unity like a week ago

[wintry quarry]

Yes you are struggling with the same thing almost every beginner struggles with - figuring out how references work

[queen adder]

how can i do that?

[wintry quarry]

By dragging and dropping in the inspector, usually

otherwise - see options here https://unity.huh.how/references

[small mantle]

It works! If you were doing this, how would you approach to getting access to the Player's stats? There is no trygetcomponent with Physics.OverLapCircle

[queen adder]

it works tysm

[eternal needle]

look at what overlap circle returns. you can call GetComponent on other components

[frosty lantern]

can I make my object a child object to a "grouper" empty object without forcing the transforms to move together?

[eternal needle]

no, a child will always move with the parent. assuming you mean the grouper object is moving

[polar acorn]

Keep the parent at default transform and don't move it

[frosty lantern]

is there any other way of organizing them in the hierarchy?

wait no the grouper doesn't move

[polar acorn]

Then none of the child objects will be moving due to it

[frosty lantern]

it's just a folder object
oh so moving the child won't move the parent?

[eternal needle]

it is the other way around

[frosty lantern]

oh ok, i thought they were tied together and being a parent was for organization in code

cool

[high oyster]

im trying to make it so a walking sound plays when the player walks, i get no errors but no sound plays. could someone help? i wanted to incorporate the audio logic with my movement script but should i separate the two?

[summer stump]

You should generally try to separate things over combining. I am not gonna download that file, but consider making a step event that the footstep code can hook in to. Or have the footstep script just track distance moved

[high oyster]

oh my bad ill put it in text

using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using UnityEngine;

public class Movement2D : MonoBehaviour
{
   [SerializeField] private int speed = 3;
   private Rigidbody2D rb;
   private Animator animator;
   private Vector2 lastMovement = Vector2.zero;
   private bool hasStartedMoving = false; 
   public AudioSource AudioSource;
   public AudioClip walkSound;

   private void Awake()
   {
       rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
       animator = GetComponent<Animator>();

       AudioSource.clip = walkSound;
       animator.SetFloat("X", 0f);
       animator.SetFloat("Y", -1f);
   }

   private void OnMovement(InputValue value)
   {
       Vector2 rawInput = value.Get<Vector2>();
       Vector2 movement = Vector2.zero;

       if (Mathf.Abs(rawInput.x) > Mathf.Abs(rawInput.y))
       {
           movement = new Vector2(rawInput.x, 0f);
       }
       else
       {
           movement = new Vector2(0f, rawInput.y);
       }

       if (movement.magnitude > 0.1f)
       {
           animator.SetBool("IsWalking", true);
           animator.SetFloat("X", movement.x);
           animator.SetFloat("Y", movement.y);
           lastMovement = movement.normalized;
           AudioSource.Play();
       }
       else
       {
           animator.SetBool("IsWalking", false);
       }

       rb.velocity = movement.normalized * speed;
   }

   private void FixedUpdate()
   {
       if (rb.velocity.magnitude < 0.01f && hasStartedMoving)
       {
           Vector2 roundedPosition = new Vector2(Mathf.Round(transform.position.x), Mathf.Round(transform.position.y));
           transform.position = roundedPosition;
           animator.SetFloat("X", lastMovement.x);
           animator.SetFloat("Y", lastMovement.y);
           AudioSource.Stop();
           hasStartedMoving = false;
       }
   }

}```

[high oyster]

also thanks for helping, i separated the 2 but referenced eachother so i can still access when the player is moving and when the player isnt.

ohhhhhhhh

i need to use events

[summer stump]

Yeah that's fair. You're gonna always have references somewhere.

And yeah, events are useful, but not NECESSARY. It was just an idea

[high oyster]

thank you!

[grizzled zealot]

I'm currently using an array of <float, object> to list what kind of loot an enemy is going to drop. I already have 8 different loot items and I configure the array for each enemy.

I'm new to unity, but it seems to me that assigning all these values in the inspector is tedious, error-prone, and repetitive. Should I right away move away from 'programming' through the inspector and have these tables in an external file? I'm just thinking of balancing the game in the future and defining new loot types. It will be a nightmare to edit all of it through the inspector.

[eternal needle]

i would move these to scriptable objects, and let the enemy just take in a single LootTableSO. Defining them in a file will be a bit worse than scriptable objects because now you have to deal with each enemy taking in the correct array somehow. And then its also not immediately visible what loot an enemy drops

[grizzled zealot]

But don't you still have to configure the SOs through the inspector?

[grizzled zealot]

Doesn't configuring the SOs through the inspector become tedious? E.g., for balancing you have to subtract 10% of a probability of different loot items on everything. With SOs you have to click through everything and edit it. If it's in a lookup table, you at least see all the values on everything.

[eternal needle]

You could make an editor tool which would really make it easy to edit. SO would be a lot easier for seeing what loot an enemy has in inspector.
If you want the easiest solution for simply editing every loot table at once, without making any custom editor scripts, then yea whatever you use to edit a lookup table will probably be easier.

Assigning them to specific enemies wont be so fun though

[grizzled zealot]

I feel like making a large array with <enemyspawnid, Loot[]> in a well formatted way might provide an easier overview. Kinda like an excel table.

[eternal needle]

Now you need a link from enemyspawnid to the actual spawned prefab. It wouldnt be an easier overview because now you have to also go find what enemy is what ID

I would consider keeping a table purely for documentation purpose. In the actual game though, it's a lot nicer imo when you can just click on the enemy prefab, click on the assigned SO and see the values right there.

Also what about the case where 2 enemies share the same possible loot? Suddenly you have duplicated data, or duplicated ID

[grizzled zealot]

But for spawning items, you would use a factory anyways. I currently have the object factory read in all SOs and then test for a specific monobheaviour (spawnable) which contains the spawnid

[eternal needle]

Im not entirely sure what you mean by read all the SOs and test for a monobehaviour.
Maybe share code

[grizzled zealot]

I have a factory (a singleton) which has a serializeable array of SOs. I drag all SOs into the list. When I spawn an object, the factory goes through the list of SOs to look whether it matches the spawnid and then instantiates an object.

[sleek stone]

so guys before this script started working but now it just broke all of a sudden and the camera rotates on the X axis about 90 degrees upward into the sky
anyone might know the issue
oh and when I forcefully reset the postion to 0 while in the game the camera starts rising back up to the 90 degree postion so like it doesnt let me change i

[eternal needle]

If you're using ID, it would also make sense to throw all of these in a dictionary so you dont need to loop through it. But this is not really relevant to the talk above, about how an enemy can easily store what it can spawn

[grizzled zealot]

Sure, but a dictionary is not visible in the inspector (unless I buy Odin). With an array, I just select all SOs in the directory and drag them onto the factory.

The performance improvement is negligible unless you spawn often or have thousands of items.

[sleek stone]

this is what happens its having a seizure and I try to reset it to 0 but nothin

[eternal needle]

You can just have a dictionary build based off the list from editor. Theres other serialized dictionary implementations online too.
Still this whole factory part doesnt actually affect what the enemy stores. I am saying that the lookup from enemyspawnid to the actual enemy is an unnecessary step that's introduced by storing these in a file

[eternal needle]

Try just using cinemachine, itll be the best camera controller you'll have. I dont see the specific cause of your issue but theres a lot wrong with the code. Like multiplying mouse input by deltaTime and that lerp not really being used as a lerp

[sleek stone]

ive never used cinemachine do I need to keep my main camera though?

[grizzled zealot]

I agree that I can optimize this at runtime by converting the list into a dictionary. However, the main point was still how to store all the loot items. In a large table (ease of updates) or in the inspector ("ease" of drag&drop).

[eternal needle]

Yes cinemachine has premade controllers for the camera, you keep the main camera still

[sleek stone]

I see like 40 diffrent options which camera is the best virtual?

[eternal needle]

you can always create your own editor script for the loot tables, making it as easy as you need. Being able to keep references here really goes a long way

[grizzled zealot]

Or I create my own loader (instead of the editor) for loot tables and just use Excel as my editor.

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ depends on what you need exactly, im not really knowledgeable on the different controllers they provide. try google

[eternal needle]

Up to you, I would find it pretty awful if I was working on a team project and had to edit an excel sheet for the loot table. also while having to lookup the enemy ID and make sure its the correct one. This is definitely more error prone

With an excel sheet, you do not have a hard link between enemy ID and the prefab in game. There just so happens to be an ID in the sheet that matches the ID in game.
With drag and drop, there is a hard link

[grizzled zealot]

I agree that spawnid typos can be annoying. What do you suggest your loot editor would look like in the inspector? I would have different SOs for different enemies and all of them have their own loot bag. Now you want to update some items in some of them. How do you effectively display this in the inspector for editing?

[eternal needle]

I havent made one myself, but you can get pretty far with an EditorWindow and finding all the SO instances with AssetDatabase.FindAssets

Right now my loot tables are pretty simple, so I wont really need to edit it much

[grizzled zealot]

I feel like what I'm essentially building with the loot system is a database of loot. So why not use a form of database (CSV file or another lookup table) instead of drag&drop management of individual rows in the database.

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ if you feel its a lot easier to do, then do so. ive just given my opinions on its flaws

[oblique herald]

Hey guys, I am stuck on a problem, where currently I want to have a tmp_inputfield (password) pop up to collect input from a user when I get closer to the object (OnCollisionEnter2D), I tried using password.gameObject.SetActive(true) but it said NullRefException, I always tried using password.ActivateInputField(); and it still is the same error, am I wrong for using those lines of code or is there just some referencing problem in my code

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision) {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Player") {
            vaultText.gameObject.SetActive(true);
            password.ActivateInputField();
        }
    }

this is the code for OnCollisionEnter2D
where vaultText is just a tip for telling user the vault is locked, and it works and does show up,
but the lower one password.ActivateInputField(); doesnt

[rare basin]

vaultText or password is not referenced, it's null

[oblique herald]

    [SerializeField]
    public TMP_Text vaultText;

    [SerializeField]
    public TMP_InputField password;

how should I reference it then if you dont mind me asking

[rare basin]

you don't need to make it [SerializeField] if its alerady public

you need to drag&drop it in the inspector

[oblique herald]

i did

[rare basin]

if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Player") {
    Debug.Log($"Vault text: {vaultText}");
    Debug.Log($"Passowrd: {password}");
    vaultText.gameObject.SetActive(true);
    password.ActivateInputField();
}

show the debug logs

[oblique herald]

Vault text: vaultTip (TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
vaultTip:OnCollisionEnter2D (UnityEngine.Collision2D) (at Assets/Script/vaultTip.cs:26)

Password:
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
vaultTip:OnCollisionEnter2D (UnityEngine.Collision2D) (at Assets/Script/vaultTip.cs:27)

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
vaultTip.OnCollisionEnter2D (UnityEngine.Collision2D collision) (at Assets/Script/vaultTip.cs:29)

[rare basin]

what is line 29

[oblique herald]

password.ActivateInputField();

[rare basin]

the password is null

do you see a reference to password in the inspector

in runtime?

[oblique herald]

oh no

no it doesnt show in runtime

wait why is that..

[rare basin]

you probably override the reference somewhere

like in Start or Awake

[oblique herald]

    public void Start() {
        vaultText.gameObject.SetActive(false);
        vault = this.GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>();

        password.DeactivateInputField();
        password = this.GetComponent<TMP_InputField>();
    }

[rare basin]

yea, you dont mix it

you either drag&drop it in the inspector

or you reference it in the start/awake
unless you know what you're doing

[oblique herald]

okay ill try that

worked like charm. thanks.

[near wadi]

pretty sure you can write a small editor script that will show dictionaries in the inspector, without an additional purchase.

[rare basin]

you can use GenericDictionary from github

it's free and CC0 license

and it looks like this (this is GenericDictionary<enum,Vector2>)

[hazy minnow]

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[hazy minnow]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class ProjectileScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody2D theSeedBrain;
    public float deadZone = -17;
    public float timer = 0;
    public float coolDown = 5;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (timer < coolDown)
        {
            timer = timer + Time.deltaTime;
        }
        else 
        {
            addSeed();
            timer = 0;
        }
        if (transform.position.y < deadZone)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
    public void addSeed()
    {
        Instantiate(theSeedBrain, new Vector3(0, -2, 0), transform.rotation);
    }
}
``` Why my code doesn't work

[wintry quarry]

Wdym by "it doesn't work"? What are you expecting it to do and what does it do instead?

[hazy minnow]

well why when the timer reach 5 it doesn't Instantiate the object

[elder axle]

I have tried Everything i cant get the game over text which uses text mesh pro to pure white or any other light colors.

[wintry quarry]

Add debug.Log to see if that code is ever running

[wintry quarry]

This is not a code related question

[elder axle]

where should i post it?

[wintry quarry]

#📲┃ui-ux ? Somewhere relevant

[hexed terrace]

Nice to see they posted where told to.. #💻┃unity-talk message 🤦‍♂️

[vast crane]

Someone please help me! My hand colliders was working but it won't anymore. When I make my hand press a button it doesn't work anymore which is strange.

[hexed terrace]

delete from here and ask in #🥽┃virtual-reality

[wise saddle]

hello

I recently returned to Unity and since then I have had a lot of bugs since the new versions

[hazy minnow]

How do I make a multiplayer systeme with 1 player that can host a party and another player can join by entering his ip adresse

[hexed terrace]

#archived-networking and that's called P2P - Peer-to-Peer

[burnt vapor]

Okay

[teal viper]

I'd also recommend starting with a single player game.

[hazy minnow]

ok

[hexed terrace]

you haven't assigned the rigidbody, but you're trying to use it

[hazy minnow]

Another question how to make when a collider touch another collider this one goes in the other direction

[wise saddle]

or in my script or inspector

[hexed terrace]

yes

[teal viper]

Use OnCollisionEnter to detect the collision and run your logic.

[wise saddle]

What

[burnt vapor]

Assign the rigidbody as the error clearly indicates

This is not related to your code but instead the editor inspector

[wise saddle]

thank you, and how do I do it in the inspector

[hexed terrace]

This is really basic stuff, you need to go to !learn and follow the beginner tuts

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[wise saddle]

OK GREAT THANK YOU GENTLEMEN

[exotic hazel]

Hi So i am using emmision color to give a glow effect to my lights.But i want to switch up the lught in code.I can just use the Color to switch up the albedo but how do i mention the emmision color so the color of the glow changes

[wise saddle]

I had my file dragged into the other one, sorry, I didn't see it. No more error message when I don't put it I still can't move my character.

[burnt vapor]

That sounds like a different issue

Consider logging the rigidbody's velocity after you update it

https://unity.huh.how/debugging/logging/how-to

[void notch]

So if you have a reference to the material, you need to adjust the "_EmmisionColor" property. SomeMaterial.SetColor("_EmissionColor", Color.blue)
Docs: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material.SetColor.html

[exotic hazel]

Thank you

[wise saddle]

OK, thank you very well that's just it, it works thank you

[exotic hazel]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[exotic hazel]

void Update()
{
    StartCoroutine(ChangeColor());
}
IEnumerator ChangeColor()
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(3f);
    CurrentColor.color = CurrentColor.SetColor("_EmissiveColor",  Color.Lerp(CurrentColor.color, colors[Index], time  * Time.deltaTime));
    Index +=1;
}
void ResetIndex()
{
    if(Index == colors.Length)
    {
        Index = 0;
    }
}
}

Want to do this but theres an error

Color.Lerp(CurrentColor.color, colors[Index], time * Time.deltaTime));
This line

[burnt vapor]

So share the error

[exotic hazel]

oh right

[wintry quarry]

I would guess SetColor returns void

[exotic hazel]

yea

[wintry quarry]

Yeah why are you doing Color = SetColor

That doesn't make sense

I would expect one or the other

[exotic hazel]

oh wait it shoul be nothing there

[burnt vapor]

Basic c# questions like these can be avoided if you just learn c# before you even consider using Unity

This channel is not for these things

[hazy minnow]

number = Random.Range(1, 2); will the number be 1 or 2 ?

[wintry quarry]

This will always return 1

Read the docs

[exotic hazel]

my b i just did the error cus i was in a rush sry

[burnt vapor]

Always read the error properly because most of the time it clearly explains the issue

[exotic hazel]

I just did something very wrong cus unity just crashed when the code was supposed to be run

[hexed terrace]

-> in a rush
-> posts to discord taking longer to get the answer than would have if the error was read properly

[copper lotus]

I'm creating a game, and would love to invite other people onto the project. But what is the best way to colaborate with other people and manage all the code? Google is sending me in so many directions that i'm honestly lost on what to actually choose (Github, Unity Teams, Unity DevOps, Unity Cloud, Perforce, ...).
What exactly should I be looking into (Free would be preferable)

[swift elbow]

Git/GitHub is widely used

[copper lotus]

I'll just use that then, thanks

[hazy minnow]

 {
     transform.position = Vector2(0, 0);
 }``` Why is this incorrect

[languid spire]

you are missing the new keyword. Alternatively use Vector2.zero

[hazy minnow]

oh ok

[spiral narwhal]

Why can Unity not serialise nullable enumeration constants?

i.e.

        [SerializeField] private DiceType? _requiredDiceType;

[languid spire]

Simple answer, because their serializer is crap

[spiral narwhal]

Lool

[rare basin]

you can make a nullable wrapper<T>

i've used that workaround for some time

[timber tide]

just use classes :)

[hazy minnow]

    {
        if (collision.gameObject.layer == 3)
        {
            circle.initiPos();
            circle.leftOrRight();
            Debug.Log("YeaRunning");
        }
    }
}``` ```public void initiPos()
{
    transform.position = new Vector2(0, 0);
}``` Why the circle don't go to the position

[rare basin]

is the method being called

and that debug log printed?

[hazy minnow]

Yes the debug log is printed

[rare basin]

then the initiPos() is called aswell on circle instance

public void initiPos()
{
transform.position = new Vector2(0, 0);
Debug.Log($"Position: {transform.position}");
}

show that debug log

[hazy minnow]

Position: (0.00, 0.00, 0.00)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
CircleLogic:initiPos () (at Assets/CircleLogic.cs:20)
Points:OnTriggerEnter2D (UnityEngine.Collider2D) (at Assets/Points.cs:24)

[rare basin]

then it is 0,0,0

and the method works correctly

you are probably overriting the transform.position somewhere else

[hazy minnow]

maybe

[gaunt holly]

i installed the input system package. in my script, i initialized a var: "public InputAction cameraControls;". back in the editor, i added a "CameraHorizontal" action and bound it to Negative/Positive. then i enabled it "cameraControls.Enable();". but how do I access this action?

[hazy minnow]

I corrected the script

[cosmic dagger]

does another edit the circle position? what position is the circle at?

[tender stag]

Script A:

Script B:

[hazy minnow]

My code was wrong beause I forgot that the script wasn't in the object that's why it didn't worked

[tender stag]

script b runs after script a

which means this check is useless

[hazy minnow]

How do I change the name of a script ?

[cosmic dagger]

change the name in Unity, then update the class name in the script . . .

[hazy minnow]

ok

[tender stag]

i dont know how to phrase it

but pretty much Script B is still called when its not supposed to

because of the order

which causes me to drop an item im holding

[cosmic dagger]

both codes run in Update. unfortunately, you can not determine which update runs first (unless you change the script execution order for both scripts, so that script B always executes after script A) . . .

[tender stag]

so whats my best bet

i could just call both drop functions in 1 script

[cosmic dagger]

use the script execution oder to set which script runs before the other . . .

[tender stag]

or i could just do this right?

[cosmic dagger]

whoa, a question about date time or smth just disappeared . . .

[tender stag]

would i still get this issue if i used the new input system?

would there be a way around this?

[cosmic dagger]

you'd still send the key down input to both scripts . . .

[cosmic dagger]

i don't know what you're actually trying to do, so i can't say what a fix would be . . .

[tender stag]

its hard for me to explain

[charred spoke]

Why not add a &&inventoryIsOpen check to the shoulder part ?

If you want to drop from both states with G

[atomic yew]

how to change size of list with code?

[hazy minnow]

How to make that the ball don't go just on the x axe and how to make that the player don't slide until it hit a collider

  {
      if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) == true)
      {
          player1.velocity = Vector2.up * speedUp;
      }

      if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.S) == true)
      {
          player1.velocity = Vector2.down * speedDown;
      }
      if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.UpArrow) == true)
      {
          player2.velocity = Vector2.up * speedUp;
      }

      if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.DownArrow) == true)
      {
          player2.velocity = Vector2.down * speedDown;
      }
  }```

[deft grail]

well how do you move the ball?

[hazy minnow]

{
    rNumber();
    if (right == true)
    {
        circleRig.velocity = Vector2.right * circleSpeed;
    }
    else
    {
        circleRig.velocity = Vector2.left * circleSpeed;
    }
}
public void rNumber() 
{
    number = Random.Range(1, 3);
    if (number == 1)
    {
        right = true;
    }
    else
    {
        right = false;
    }

}```

[deft grail]

you only move it left and right, to move it up and down i assume you need to transfer the velocity of the paddle to the ball instead of just setting one velocity

[hazy minnow]

ok I will try

[cosmic dagger]

adding or removing an element will expand or contract the list; or reinitialize the list with a set capacity . . .

[atomic yew]

I can change the list size manually. I want to do this with code. I know what you said, but no matter what I did, I could not increase the size of the list or add empty elements with the code.

[cosmic dagger]

is that an actual list or an array? show the code . . .

you can add elements to the list with code, but an array is a set size . . .

but you can change the size of an array from the inspector . . .

[atomic yew]

public class ItemDatas
{
public List<ItemData> dataItems = new List<ItemData>();
}

this is a list

it isn't an array

[cosmic dagger]

add a null reference in Start and check if it changhes . . .

[polar acorn]

In code, to change the size of the list, you add elements to it. Setting the size to a specific number is a convenience unity provides in the inspector but under the hood it just calls Add several times

[cosmic dagger]

also, you never showed what you did. it was probably incorrect . . .

[hazy minnow]

how to make when I add velocity to an object it doesn't go in the direction without stoping

[wintry quarry]

"going in a direction without stopping" is pretty much the definition of velocity

if you want it to stop, change the velocity again

[atomic yew]

for(int i = 0; i < 210; i++)
{
itemDatas.dataItems.Add(null);
}

[wintry quarry]

or add a force in the opposite direction

[hazy minnow]

ok

[atomic yew]

It worked when I used for and null reference, thank you

[main karma]

you make it stop/slow, so reduce the velocity

[cosmic dagger]

you have to add smth to the list. null is an empty reference, though, if you wanted a set number, just initialize the list with a capacity/size and it'll do that for you . . .

[atomic yew]

Can you show it with code?

[burnt vapor]

Initializing a list accepts a single integer as a parameter which indicates the size

Same as how any other constructor works with parameters

[hazy minnow]

        {
            player1.velocity = Vector2.up * speedUp;
        }
        else
        {
            player1.velocity = 0;
        }```Why it don't work

[burnt vapor]

You're going to have to explain more about what doesn't work

[hazy minnow]

the else part

[burnt vapor]

Consider logging the player's velocity and seeing what happends to it

Also consider logging the GetKeyDown statement and see if this gets called

As in, check if the actual method returns true/false

[wintry quarry]

You'll need to fix your compile errors

player1.velocity = 0; this doesn't make sense

[hazy minnow]

so how do I make that the velocity stop

[wintry quarry]

velocity is a Vector3

set it to a vector with 0 on all axes, e.g. Vector3.zero

[atomic yew]

public class ItemDatas
{
public List<ItemData> dataItems[210];
} This isn't work

public class ItemDatas
{
public List<ItemData> dataItems = new List<ItemData>(210);
} This isn't work

void Start()
{
el = Player.GetComponent<El>();
er = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Envanter").GetComponent<Envanter>();

/*for(int i = 0; i < 210; i++)
{
    itemDatas.dataItems.Add(null);
}*/
itemDatas.dataItems.Capacity = 100;

StartCoroutine(ItemKaydetme1Cor());

} This isn't work

[wintry quarry]

Share you code in a readable way !code

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[wintry quarry]

and explain what "isn't work" means exactly.

[atomic yew]

What should I do to make empty instead of null value?

[wintry quarry]

make what empty

[atomic yew]

ok wait a minute

[atomic yew]

I want to change the size of the list with code. I don't want to enter values ​​manually.

[wintry quarry]

What you have would work but really you should be using an array not a list

[atomic yew]

This adds it but as a null reference I want it to be added as empty

[wintry quarry]

there is no other "empty" other than null

for a reference type like this

use an array sir

[atomic yew]

for(int i = 0; i < 210; i++)
{
itemDatas.dataItems.Add(null);
}

[wintry quarry]

Yes I saw the code

you don't need to show it again

Again you should really just use an array

ItemData[] items;

void Awake() {
  items = new ItemData[210];
}```

no need for a loop

[atomic yew]

I understand, thank you, I will try what you said.

[ionic river]

Hi, I'd like my character to fire a projectile at the target (the player) and move towards it. I've tried to do this but if I ever give my projectile an angle and apply the direction projectile.transform.position - target.transform.position then the arrow no longer goes in the right direction, if I remove the angle it goes in the right direction but is turned the wrong way. (I'm working on a 3D project)

what I've explained is from the enemy's POV

[hazy minnow]

Bro I thought the only way to move the player is to use velocity💀

[summer stump]

Here's all the main ways of moving

There are more too

[hazy minnow]

thx

Next time I will add mouvement I will read this

[copper lotus]

You have any more of those that help with decision making? Because damn I love me some diagrams

[summer stump]

Not made by me, made by Hariedo from the Unity Developers Community server

[copper lotus]

Creating my class diagram but I'm getting a feeling that my thinking is going to create some problems later on. Any feedback? (Still WIP btw)

Basing my game on kingdom new crowns, if that makes it easier to give feedback

[frosty hound]

@queen adder Please don't crosspost. Also this is a programming channel.

[hollow slate]

more organized than I've ever been.

good stuff.

[queen adder]

Ok

[hollow slate]

where'd you post from?

[burnt vapor]

#💻┃unity-talk

[hollow slate]

cheers

[unique idol]

Hello, I don't know if it's beginner question or maybe general / advanced, but I need help with chunks or cache.
I have tilemap 1500 width x 600 height. I created loading system which is loading all data between player position + and - 150 tiles every 5 seconds. It's ok when it's not unloading anything, but when it's going to unload tiles then it's lagging short amount of time, but still lagging. Video and picture should help to understand my problem.

The question is - how to optimize it more, remove unloader or it's possible to do it better? Maybe make similar option like load method has?

[teal viper]

Why do you even need to load/unload the tiles?

[unique idol]

When I loaded all the tiles my ram goes high and unity wasn't going smooth.

Laggs everywhere.

[teal viper]

Did you actually test and profile?

Are you using the unity tilemaps?

[unique idol]

Yes, unity tilemaps modified by extending TileBase.

[teal viper]

Tiles outside the camera frustum aren't rendered, so they shouldn't contribute to lag. And ram shouldn't be a problem. You're probably holding the "unloaded" tiles in memory anyway.

Basically, it's a classical case of premature optimization

[unique idol]

Well, it's 2 dimensional array with enums.

After player destroy block it's saved to array with null.

If player place any block - enum with tile information

[teal viper]

I mean, if you're planning to have an infinite level, that might be needed, but if you have a limited map, I'd just have it all in the tilemap at the same time.

Anyways, the answer to your original question is the same: profile the game to see what exactly causes the lag spikes.

[unique idol]

Ok, I'll try profiler

It will be limited map, but after loading entire map it caused lag, maybe your option will tell me more.

[teal viper]

Capture some profiler data when the whole map is loaded and share. Then we can talk.

Though, I'm going to sleep soon, so maybe someone else would be able to help you.

[unique idol]

Thanks.

Good night.

[hollow slate]

good night :)

[timber tide]

Not too sure what set tile operation consists of, but you could always just load little by little instead of by loading by large chunks.

or do some lazy loading

[unique idol]

@timber tide I already did it, when I loaded entire map it took like 4 GB, when I loaded parts it took only 100 MB.

[hollow slate]

feels like the issue lies elsewhere though. It shouldn't be very intensive just to have those things on screen no?

4GB goddamn

nevermind.

[unique idol]

When I made map bigger, like 5000x2000 it took 8 GB

[hollow slate]

what are you LOADING?

[unique idol]

Tilemap 😄

[timber tide]

Havent really used unity's tilemap but this is why you chunk

[unique idol]

Tilemap took everything, and it's only loading script.

And it's why I made loader part by part.

Please check the video, it's after split load.

[hollow slate]

is it a terraria-type environment you're making?

[unique idol]

Yes.

[wraith valley]

Hello, my raycast doesn`t work

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (h != null)
        {

            h = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
            Vector3 movement = Vector2.right * h * speed * Time.deltaTime;
            transform.position += movement;
            if (h >= 0.1)
            {
                animator.Play("BlackWerewolfWalk");
                GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().flipX = false;
            }
            else if (h <= -0.1)
            {
                animator.Play("BlackWerewolfWalk");

                GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().flipX = true;
            }

            else
            {
                animator.Play("BlackWerewolfIdle");
            }
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.UpArrow))
        {
            // transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y * jumpForce *Time.deltaTime);
            rb2d.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        }
        Jump();
    }

    void Jump()
    {
        Vector2 startPoint = transform.position;
        Vector2 endPoint = Vector2.down;
        float rangePoint = 0.1f;

        RaycastHit2D hitGround2D = Physics2D.Raycast(startPoint, endPoint, rangePoint);

        if (hitGround2D.collider != null)
        {
            if (hitGround2D.collider.CompareTag("Ground"))
            {
                isGround = true;
                Debug.Log("Ground");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            isGround = false;
            Debug.Log("Jump");
        }
    }
}

[hollow slate]

use Debugging in VS

check where the raycast is going

use gizmos to see in the scene where the raycast is going

[wraith valley]

Clear too

[wraith valley]

What?

[hollow slate]

Debug.DrawRay()

pretty useful for seeing it in the scene

[wraith valley]

 Debug.DrawRay(hitGround2D);

[hollow slate]

more like Debug.DrawRay(startPoint, endPoint, Color.blue, 5f);

something like that

if it happens in Update you can remove the 5f

[half egret]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.DrawRay.html

[hollow slate]

maybe Debug.DrawRay(startPoint, endPoint * rangePoint, Color.blue, 5f);

that gives you the raycast you're doing.

keep in mind 2D ignores z to some extent.

[half egret]

I think your raycast isn't working because of the direction...let me double check

[verbal dome]

Yeah it takes a position+direction not two positions

[hollow slate]

you rotating your character?

direction should be fine.

[verbal dome]

Nvm it is a direction, you just named it point

[half egret]

Oh I'm dummy yeah

[mild furnace]

Any suggestions for keeping track player aggro, total damage dealt, and other metrics in a multiplayer game?
When you deal damage to an enemy or become detected by it, id like to see if its registered to a list and record metrics.
Keeping track of things like total damage dealt would be important for things like qualifying for item drops, while aggro could fluctuate and probably be reduced by a % on an interval.

Would it be dumb to use a nullable data type as keys in a dictionary?

For instance dictionary where key is reference to player networked object, and value would be context info

[wintry quarry]

What would be the benefit of that?

[mild furnace]

So that you can easilly check aggroList.Contains(playerId) when you are handling detection checks and things lk that

Might be better to do it manually and loop through

[wintry quarry]

but why does it need to be nullable?

[mild furnace]

It doesnt exactly need to be,
I like using a reference to their NetworkIdentity component to easilly handle things on the server side

Using mirror in my case

Theres no guarantee that the gameobject might get destroyed though

Or moved to another scene

[wintry quarry]

definitely just use the int playerId or whatever as the key

[mild furnace]

I believe I can do that with NetworkIdentities in mirror

[wintry quarry]

a nullable int would mean your key is... null? Which means you have no idea what player it's for.

[mild furnace]

Havent had to til now though

Well yeah, that would be a case where I want to ignore/remove them from the list

[wraith valley]

void Jump()
    {
        Vector2 startPoint = transform.position;
        Vector2 endPoint = Vector2.down;
        float rangePoint = 0.1f;

        RaycastHit2D hitGround2D = Physics2D.Raycast(startPoint, endPoint, rangePoint);

        if (hitGround2D.collider != null)
        {
            if (hitGround2D.collider.CompareTag("Ground"))
            {
                isGround = true;
                Debug.Log("Ground");
                Debug.DrawRay(startPoint, endPoint, Color.green, rangePoint);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            isGround = false;
            Debug.Log("Jump");
            Debug.DrawRay(startPoint, endPoint, Color.red, rangePoint);
        }
    }

Only green

[polar acorn]

Then your raycast is always hitting a collider.

Also, endPoint is not a good name for what is a direction and not a point

[wraith valley]

I don`t understand

[wraith valley]

Ok, i`ll change

[wintry quarry]

rangePoint is also...? why not just range?

[polar acorn]

Your debug ray draws as red when the raycast doesn't hit anything. If you never see a red ray, then you're always hitting something

[wraith valley]

I`d like to write a lot of range

[wintry quarry]

wat?

[wraith valley]

But i`m jumping

[polar acorn]

Try logging the value of hitGround2D.collider inside of the null check. See what's being hit

[wraith valley]

I`ll have a lot of range

[polar acorn]

Again, wat?

[wintry quarry]

I'll say it again, what?

what does tha thave to do with the name of the variable rangePoint?

[wraith valley]

Range for weapons

[wintry quarry]

rangePoint implies it is a point in space or something.

It's just a range.

[polar acorn]

I don't know what you mean by this

rangePoint is not a point. It should probably just be called range

[wraith valley]

Ok

if (hitGround2D.collider != null) { Debug.Log("yes"); }
        else { Debug.Log("no"); }

[polar acorn]

how does that help

#💻┃code-beginner message

[wraith valley]

I`m checking

[summer stump]

You are just logging the words yes and no

Which is useless

[polar acorn]

I told you what to log. Log something useful, not just a word that tells us what we already know

[wraith valley]

if (hitGround2D.collider != null && hitGround2D.collider.CompareTag("Ground"))
    {
        
        Debug.Log("Hit Ground: " + hitGround2D.collider.gameObject.name);

    }

This?

[polar acorn]

Why are you now combining the if statements

we specifically are trying to find the thing that isn't ground that you're hitting

this, again, doesn't tell us any new information

[wraith valley]

I don't understand what you mean

[polar acorn]

If you hit something, log it

That's it

[summer stump]

Don't have the && part

[polar acorn]

don't check for anything else on the object

just unconditionally log the thing the raycast hits

I literally told you exactly what to do. Why did you go and change everything else?

#💻┃code-beginner message

[wraith valley]

I don`t know how to do this

Raycast always hitting

[polar acorn]

so log the thing it is hitting like I said

[wraith valley]

I don`t know why

[polar acorn]

And you never will until you actually check what is happening

[wraith valley]

void Update()
{
    RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, Vector2.down, 10f);
    
    if (hit.collider != null)
    {
        GameObject hitObject = hit.collider.gameObject;
        
        
        string objectName = hitObject.name;
        
        
        Debug.Log("Hit object name: " + objectName);
        
       
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Sure, there you go, but why is this a completely different ray than the one you were already using?

This is going to tell you what this ray is hitting but that's not the ray you care about so why are you checking this one?

[wraith valley]

What?

This is my character

[polar acorn]

So whatever ray you've put this log in is hitting BlackWerewolf

[wraith valley]

But that`s not object

This is my character

[polar acorn]

What do you mean "that's not object"

[hollow slate]

so, the ray is hitting your character instead of the ground then?

you would want to seperate layers, so that the ray ignores your character

[wraith valley]

In inspector?

[hollow slate]

every GameObject has a Layer, and it's used for many things

in this case you'd use it to ignore the physics of the player when raycasting.

Create a layer called "Player", and make sure the raycast uses a LayerMask.

[polar acorn]

Better to make a "Ground" layer and have the raycast look for specifically that

[hollow slate]

also works. Might want to do both.

[hollow slate]

personally don't do that very often actually, I just stick with default nowadays. It was too much of a hassle making anything that I want to be physically involved in the game into a layer instead of just leaving it

found that I more often wanted to interact with things than not ya know?

[wraith valley]

Raycast is lost

[hollow slate]

it's... lost?

[wraith valley]

I don`t see its

[swift elbow]

Went to the supermarket

[wraith valley]

Maybe

[polar acorn]

This isn't a layer

[hollow slate]

you mean the Debug.DrawRay?

[wraith valley]

Yes

[hollow slate]

strange... maybe it only runs when the raycast hits something. Make sure it runs every Update regardless of what happens.

either way, google on how to set up LayerMasks with raycasts and objects - it's very useful to know :)

[wraith valley]

 if (hitGround2D.collider != null)
        {
            if (hitGround2D.collider.CompareTag("Ground"))
            {
                isGround = true;
                Debug.Log("Ground");
                Debug.DrawRay(startPoint, endPoint, Color.green, rangeWerewolf);
                GameObject gameobj = hitGround2D.collider.gameObject;
                Debug.Log(gameobj.name);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            isGround = false;
            Debug.Log("Jump");
            Debug.DrawRay(startPoint, endPoint, Color.red, rangeWerewolf);
        }

Debug.Log doesn`t work too

[polar acorn]

You just found out that your ray is hitting the werewolf. The werewolf is an object, so the red ray doesn't get drawn. The werewolf is not tagged "Ground" so the green ray is not drawn. So, why were you expecting any ray to draw?

[wraith valley]

But raycast hitting square

[polar acorn]

No, raycast is hitting werewolf. We literally just checked that

that was the whole point of the log

[hollow slate]

put the Debug.DrawRay in front of the first if

have it always run

don't put it behind an else

[wraith valley]

Doesn`t work

[hollow slate]

also, due to how raycasts work (at least the one you're using), it stops after it hits anything.
What's happening is that the ray is hitting your character (because it starts inside it), and never continues towards the ground.

[polar acorn]

In what way doesn't it work

[wraith valley]

It should hitting the ground

But doesn`t work

[polar acorn]

What?

[hollow slate]

I told you why.

[polar acorn]

Do you have any idea at all what you're doing

[hollow slate]

you need to use Layers.

[summer stump]

You seem to be ignoring what everyone is telling you

[hollow slate]

Ignore the player with the raycast.

[wraith valley]

Just raycast

[wraith valley]

Ok

[hollow slate]

see, now we see the beam again.

[wraith valley]

I`ll watch

[polar acorn]

Oh hey look exactly the thing leo said would happen is happening. The fuck you mean "doesn't work"

it's working right there

[hollow slate]

see how the beam starts inside the player?

[polar acorn]

the red ray is visible

[hollow slate]

this means that the player is being hit.

[wraith valley]

Already

[hollow slate]

Because of this, the ground is never hit. The player is blocking the ground.

[polar acorn]

The thing they told you to do was to move the red ray so you can see it

And now you can see it

[verbal dome]

That should be ok. Rays cant hit stuff from the inside by default

Unless 2D is different

[polar acorn]

Pretty sure 2D rays can, since the collider is actually just the edge lines

[hollow slate]

I think it is.

[verbal dome]

I see

[hollow slate]

@wraith valley Do you understand what's happening?
The red line starts from the top and ends at the bottom. The thing is, it's not actually what your raycast is doing. As soon as the player is hit (the ray starts from the player, so it's instantly hit) the raycast stops traveling.
It never hits the ground, because the player is in the way. You need to set up LayerMasks to fix this issue.

[frosty lantern]

So using getname isn't working very well for me:

enum colorPiece {dark = -1,  light = 1};
[SerializeField] int startSide;
void Start()
{
    color = (colorPiece)startSide;
    kingFolder = new GameObject(System.Enum.GetName(typeof(colorPiece), color) + "King Folder");

}

[polar acorn]

You see, right now your issue is you're trying to teach them how to debug something, but they are literally just waiting for someone to write the code for them. So when you provide any code, they assume it's a solution to the problem rather than the next debugging step

[frosty lantern]

I want it to say dark king folder

[wraith valley]

Ok, player sprite covering byself?

[hollow slate]

Raycasts hit colliders.

The player has a collider yes?

[wraith valley]

Yes

[hollow slate]

so the raycast hits the player, and then stops.

[wraith valley]

But collider without tag Ground

[hollow slate]

It's like a lazer pointer, it doesn't go through objects, it stops when it hits them.

yes, but tags are different from LayerMasks.

Tags are a type of name for an object. A LayerMask actually affects the way physics works on objects

the issue is that we're hitting the player ->

[hollow slate]

then we check for the tag on the player

[summer stump]

And what did you do here?

[hollow slate]

we don't care what the player's tag is right? We want to know about the ground below the player.

[wraith valley]

Testing

[polar acorn]

Are you sure startSide is the value you expect it to be? If it's not -1 or 1, then it's going to be blank

[wraith valley]

Already working

[summer stump]

That explains nothing

[wraith valley]

But werewolf under ground

[hollow slate]

@wraith valley Do you understand why it's working now?
You can see where the ray is yes?

[wraith valley]

Ok

[wraith valley]

Yes

[hollow slate]

the ray isn't colliding with the player anymore, so it checks the ground like we want to

[wraith valley]

Collider don`t colliding with ray

[hollow slate]

the thing is, we don't want the werewolf underground right?

[wraith valley]

I mean this

[summer stump]

Is the ground set to the ground layer?

[hollow slate]

yes!

[hollow slate]

no layers involved yet, I'm trying.

[wraith valley]

What?

[hollow slate]

LayerMasks Brian.

[summer stump]

Ah, I thought you switched from tag to layer

[hollow slate]

I want him to.

[wraith valley]

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

[hollow slate]

YES!

[summer stump]

You need to google a guide on layers and layermasks. The docs are good. Maybe look up a video too

[hollow slate]

exactly this

[wraith valley]

This so hard

I`d rather to watch video

[hollow slate]

yes, I agree.

Video is usually easier and better.

[polar acorn]

Unfortunately you are going to need to learn how to read to code things

[wraith valley]

But with raycast is better in Unity Learn

[hollow slate]

that's good that you read and understood that, nice

[wraith valley]

I know

[hollow slate]

LayerMasks are a bit more complicated, but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it

[wraith valley]

I did that

When readed friend`s code

Easily write from 0

[hollow slate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDYE3RFMNzk
Watch this all the way to 7:30 and you should have a better understanding :)

[wraith valley]

Thanks

[hollow slate]

it covers all three things you need to know.

[wraith valley]

Oh...🗿

[hollow slate]

yeah, that's a part of it. I think he mentions it in the video.

[frosty lantern]

yeah it's assigned in the inspector. I multiply the position value by the startside to get the starting locations, and they end in the correct spot

[wraith valley]

I saw Code Monkey

He has games in Unity

[polar acorn]

Maybe log color after you get it from startSide? See if it's parsing that into the right enum value?

[hollow slate]

do you want it to say "Black King Folder"?

[frosty lantern]

No, dark, the name of the enum

[hollow slate]

Debug.Log(color);
check what it is

before the operation.

[hollow slate]

what digiholic just said, my bad...

[spiral narwhal]

In C#, is there a way to automatically have a class create an instance of itself?

This is my current version, which is rather error-prone, and it feels like there must be a pattern that does it better:

        public void StartNewGame()
        {
            _serviceManager = new();

            new ActionService();
            new CombatService();
            new MapService();
            new PlayerService();
            new RNGService();
            new GameTaskService();
            new GamePhaseService();
            new TurnService();

            _serviceManager.InitAll();
        }

[frosty lantern]

It's definitely the assigning to the color

[polar acorn]

Hm, there's some 0s in there

[frosty lantern]

maybe the cast was wrong?

[polar acorn]

those would end up being blank

[frosty lantern]

yeah the start side is correct but the assignment to color turns to 0

wait the assignment nees to be befors instantiatefolders my b

got it, the color=(colorpiece)startside needed to be done before the initialize pieces call

[scarlet skiff]

shouldnt this activate the gameobject?

like tick the little box here

[rich adder]

not if the method is not running..

[scarlet skiff]

it should be

the animation does play

i can see it playing

but the landmine stays inactive

[rich adder]

the script should be on the same object as animator, and if you select the actual instance running that animation you will see dropdown of methods

also whats up with that internal landMine is probably null too

[scarlet skiff]

it shouldnt be null

[scarlet skiff]

also ye it has both

here is full

its their spawner

wait

nvm i think i know the problem

[obtuse veldt]

Hi, I encountered this problem..., I tried to replace the "collisionInfo" with "triggerinfo", and unsurprisingly it didn't work. May someone help me? Thanks

[rich adder]

wrong signature for that parameter

[wintry quarry]

Have you looked at OnTriggerEnter code examples?

You're missing the parameter for the method

also the parameter would directly be the collider for this

From a basic C# standpoint - you can only use variables that exist in the scope 😄

[scarlet skiff]

the issue was that i had forgotten a previous attempt where basically i had it disable the landmine in update lol, anyways solved 👍

[rich adder]

Btw you should use this method for tags instead of ==
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.CompareTag.html

it even has proper example with Trigger

[obtuse veldt]

Thanks

[stuck palm]

IEnumerator WinSequence()
    {
        if (lastPlace != null)
        {
            Character player = Instantiate(lastPlace.character.characterPrefab, lastPlaceSpawn.position,
                Quaternion.identity).GetComponent<Character>();
            InitPlayers();
            player.playerShape.material = lastPlace.character.color[lastPlace.controller.colorNum];
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
        }

Why is this code block running when last place has nothing in it?

[hollow slate]

I guess Last Place itself isn't null - because it seems to be a container of some sort. Does that sound right?

it looks to be from the inspector at least.

[stuck palm]

last place and the other places are of type Win character

public class WinCharacter
{
    public CharacterInfo character;
    public MatchPlayerData match;
    public PlayerInputController controller;
}

[rich adder]

last place is not null

[hollow slate]

And what's WinCharacter?

oh

yeah, it exists.

[rich adder]

its serialized in the inspector

[stuck palm]

oh wait i see yeah

[hollow slate]

so the WinCharacter itself actually exists, but you need to check WinCharacter.character != null

[stuck palm]

is it because of this?

[hollow slate]

that should be fine.

you only care if the character exists no?

[rich adder]

Unity will automatically do new() on POCOs embedded(public/serializefield) as Serializable

[stuck palm]

okay, i'll remove that then

let me test now

[rich adder]

just check character?

if(lastPlace.character == null) return

[stuck palm]

okay that makes sense too. also what is POCO?

[rich adder]

plain ol c# object or class object

[stuck palm]

oh lmao

[rich adder]

like class/struct are pocos

[dusty canopy]

So I dont know if this is allowed here but im at my wits end. If i make a public field in a script that is inside an animator. So an animator object, why cant I drag anything into it?

it wont let me drag any of my animators into it

and its really driving me up the wall

I did ask in #🏃┃animation but that chat is dead rn

[wintry quarry]

What exactly are you trying to drag into those slots?

[dusty canopy]

Animators

[wintry quarry]

from where?

[dusty canopy]

my hierarchy. Objects that have animations on them

[polar acorn]

Objects in assets cannot reference scene objects. The animation clip is an asset like a prefab, and it can exist in any scene

[wintry quarry]

Assets cannot reference scene objects

[dusty canopy]

ah right. How do i get around that then?

[wintry quarry]

Since this is a StateMachineBehaviour (right? that's how scripts attached to animatins work I think?) you get access to the Animator in every single callback in the StateMachineBehaviour

[dusty canopy]

How do I change a param in another animator in this animator

if i cant reference it

[wintry quarry]

I don't understand what that question means

[dusty canopy]

I have other animators that I want to reference so I can change their parameters

[wintry quarry]

You get the animator reference in the callbacks

[dusty canopy]

not the current running animator

[wintry quarry]

for the animator this animation is attached to

[dusty canopy]

other ones

[wintry quarry]

You'll ahve to get the reference programmatically somehow

Either by proxying through some other script attached to the object

or some other way

if you want to set it in the inspector, using a proxy MonoBehaviour may be the easiest thing

For example:

    override public void OnStateEnter(Animator animator, AnimatorStateInfo stateInfo, int layerIndex)
    {
        MyProxyScript ex = animator.GetComponent<MyProxyScript>();
        Animator someOtherAnimator = ex.SomeAnimator;
    }```

[dusty canopy]

I dont understand "MyProxyScript". What type would that actually be lol.

oh wait thatd be a new script or smth

cos its a class type

[polar acorn]

A script that has references to the animators of other objects you want

[wintry quarry]

It's an example. It would be a new script you'd write that has the references you need.

It would derive from MonoBehaviour

[south mural]

my models broke after install URP

how can I fix this error?

[summer stump]

Not a code question

[south mural]

dangg

[summer stump]

Try reimporting* them

Ask for more in #💻┃unity-talk

[south mural]

I already reinstalled Baretti A1

okey

[formal escarp]

Sorry for dumb question. But Deltatime is only for small numbers right? Not for whole/big numbers. like 7.

[short hazel]

It's tied to the framerate. If your game freezes for 7 seconds, it will be 7

[formal escarp]

The thing is, i have a counter which uses deltatime and it goes like 0,500 (for example) and i need it to go like 1,2,3,4, etc.

[short hazel]

(delta time is the time in seconds elapsed since the last frame was rendered)

[abstract monolith]

im trying to make a grappling hook but when it hooks it just makes the character spin i cant figure out why

[formal escarp]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class Controller_Hud : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static bool gameOver = false;
    public Text distanceText;
    public Text gameOverText;
    private float distance = 0;

    void Start()
    {
        gameOver = false;
        distance = 0;
        distanceText.text = distance.ToString();
        gameOverText.gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (gameOver)
        {
            Time.timeScale = 0;
            gameOverText.text = "Skill Issue \n Total Distance: " + distance.ToString();
            gameOverText.gameObject.SetActive(true);
        }
        else
        {
            distance += Time.deltaTime;
            distanceText.text = distance.ToString();
        }
    }
}

[short hazel]

If you need it to go faster, multiply the value by another number. Like 2, to go twice as fast

(2 per second)

[formal escarp]

oh. i did not thought of that. thanks.

not sure how i can do that tho, but ill try i guess.

[short hazel]

Your current code will increase distance by 1 each second while you're not in a game over state

+= Time.deltaTime * 2 for 2 per second

[lilac hemlock]

Can someone help me out please. I attached a script for movement of my airplane. For some reason, after I do a couple of spins (line 90), my airplane starts to shake a little on turns. Also, sometimes spins perform weirdly if i am doing them during turning (line 146, line 228).

https://gdl.space/tovunucixu.cs

[wintry quarry]

You appear to be mixing Rigidbody motion with directly moving and rotating the Transform

[abstract monolith]

how do i keep it from spinning all arround

[wintry quarry]

that's a no-no

[lilac hemlock]

how should i approach it?

[wintry quarry]

oh nevermind your Rigidbody is kinematic?

[rich adder]

spin what

[lilac hemlock]

yes

[abstract monolith]

my player

[wintry quarry]

you know you don't have to disable gravity if you make it kinematic. Gravity won't affect the kinematic body anywat

[abstract monolith]

it like uses the grapple then spins arround after it grappled on to something

[lilac hemlock]

oh, okay, will delete it (gravity line)

[rich adder]

so how is this image supposed to help others help you

[abstract monolith]

mane you know im dumb

ill send the code 1 sec

[wintry quarry]

Are you asking how to prevent your Rigidbody from tilting over?

[abstract monolith]

https://gdl.space/ayirizegeb.cs grappling gun

[rich adder]

oh spring joints are tricky

is this from a tutorial? but yea might need to lock rotation maybe on rb

[lilac hemlock]

any idea what can cause that?

[wintry quarry]

well, your code of coursew

which is quite long

and involves a lot of weird/adhoc improper Lerping etc

[lilac hemlock]

improper?

[abstract monolith]

yeah it is how do i lock rotation

[wintry quarry]

Like you're doing a lot of stuff like smoothYawChange = Mathf.Lerp(smoothYawChange, yawChange, yawSmoothing);

[rich adder]

there are constraints on the rigidbody component, but idk if you're supposed to brute force it

[wintry quarry]

which is not going to be framerate independent and may certainly cause jitter etc

that's not really a "correct" usage of Lerp

[lilac hemlock]

I removed lerping, but the problem persisted.

[lilac hemlock]

i just wanted to smoth it a little.

[abstract monolith]

this what happens

[wintry quarry]

this isn't a code question

you are just asking how to constrain the rotation of your Rigidbody.

Do so in the inspector for your Rigidbody under "Constraints"

[abstract monolith]

ok

[stuck palm]

how can i chenge the shape outer spot in code

[short hazel]

Light API reference: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Light.html

[outer cobalt]

my game has a respawn, when the player dies it doesnt have a follow anymore on my cinemachine, how do i freeze the cameras movement till he respawns?

currently i am getting movement when he dies, i dont want that

[rich adder]

just disable it

[outer cobalt]

yea thats literally what i just thought of myself lmfao

lemme c

[outer cobalt]

thank u, worked, im stupid sometimes!

[scarlet skiff]

if invoke is called several times before it manages to run the method it is invoking with it still invoke it 3 times or once?

[wintry quarry]

it will invoke as many times as you invoke it

[scarlet skiff]

alright thanks

[bitter minnow]

How can I modify a rigidbody's velocity to approach a specific magnitude value of maxForce? Should I be using AddForce? How would I do the calculation?

[scarlet skiff]

how does one invoke a method but its through a reference like spawner.Spawn() but invoke it and make it run in 1seconds

[rich adder]

put the timed method inside that one

[rich adder]

spawner.Spawn()

void Spawn() { Invoke(etc..) }

[scarlet skiff]

i make a method that runs spawner.Spawn() then invoke that method?

[rich adder]

You want something in spawner to run after 1 second?

[scarlet skiff]

yes to run the Spawn() method in spawner after 1 second

[rich adder]

I would put delay on the spawner itself

using a coroutine

public void Spawn()
{
    StartCoroutine(SpawnDelayed(1));
}
IEnumerator SpawnDelayed(float time)
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
    //do stuff
}```

[scarlet skiff]

what does it mean to delay the spawner itself? 😟

[rich adder]

huh? I said put the delay in the spawner script

[scarlet skiff]

oh i meant that Spawn() is in script A and im running it in screipt B

[scarlet skiff]

oh

[rich adder]

i get that

either way you can do it, you can also put delay in script B 🤷‍♂️
You can reverse it

private void CallSpawnDelayed(){
    StartCoroutine(SpawnDelayed(1));
}
IEnumerator SpawnDelayed(float time){
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
    spawnerScript.Spawn();
}```

[scarlet skiff]

i use the Spawn() method in antoher way as well do if there is a solution to not change it id rather do that (cuz also i have 12 spawners that would need to be changed)

[rich adder]

if you explained what you're trying to do or why you need delay it would help offer a suggestion

[scarlet skiff]

basically, a timer n a bunch of rng stuff happen

if they all are right

return true

then the method decides wat type of projectile to fire

but i dont want it to spawn at that exact moment

otherwise the spawns will be in bulks

so i wanna space em out by 0 - 1second (thats the return value of SpawnDelayer())

[rich adder]

Put the loops inside a coroutine and use yield

[scarlet skiff]

but idk how to invoke the spawner.spawn()

[young fossil]

Is there anything inherently wrong with using a static FSM for my game states?

[rich adder]

You don't even need that just learn coroutines

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by "static FSM"?

[scarlet skiff]

hmm alright

[young fossil]

A finite state machine that deals with my game states. I don't need multiple instances of that FSM, more like a singleton.

Is it okay to make the FSM public and static? I can't think of a way to encapsulate it

[rocky canyon]

generic state machine?

[rich adder]

shouldn't an enum suffice for a game state?

[wintry quarry]

What's wrong with the typical Singleton pattern?

[green copper]

the code for adding to the singleton works fine, the code for removing it leaves an empty gameobject

[young fossil]

Not in my case. that really isn't the question though, since I have my FSM and it works. I am just wondering if my FSM/Enum should be public or if I should encapsulate it from a design perspective

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by "leaves an empty gameobject"?
which object is left?
Which object is this script on?

[vale geode]

hi, im having dificulties understanding how to acess a script in my game, im working on a enemy ai that uses a StateMachine, the enemy object uses a script for its ai that calls other scripts that are its states, being a patrolState and a attackState, im having dificulties in the attackState script being called, the way its supposed to work is by a canSeePlayer method that uses a ray to detect a player, i have run various debugs log, and it should work since it has all the requirements for the attackState to be called, but i dont really know what to do, these parts is where i think the issues are https://paste.myst.rs/3y6ymz3b

[young fossil]

Nothing. It's if the FSM states should be accessibly publicly

[wintry quarry]

Are you sure destruct() is running?

[green copper]

the node holding the script is the same node trying to remove itself from existence

[wintry quarry]

Use the singleton pattern then

which does include a static reference

[rich adder]

use property with private set

[wintry quarry]

that's fine

[green copper]

yes, it's the only place in my scripts where Destroy(gameObject) could be getting called

[wintry quarry]

Nonetheless - Debug.Log as always should be the first step.

[young fossil]

So like a property as navarone suggested?

[wintry quarry]

sure a static reference property

[rich adder]

though personally would Invoke an event when statechanged and broadcasting the enum

[young fossil]

thank you

[wintry quarry]

Could you explain exactly what isn't working here?

[green copper]

Found the problem, destruct() was running in two scripts, I added my console.log to the wrong one. Thank you, should have asked my partner which script he logged when he showed me

[vale geode]

i have an attakState and a patrolState, im having dificulties in transitioning to the attcakState

[wintry quarry]

You are going to need to get way more specific than "difficulties"

[vale geode]

it doesnt transition to an attackState, previously i had it working, but i then started to implement another enemy type in the stateMachine.cs wich is responsable for mojoraty of the logic between transitioning from a state when requirements are met, such as a method for seeing the player wich in varios debugs i ran shows its true and a method for the transiotioning wich also comes has true, the problem im having is its not going into the desired state wich is the AttackState

[stuck palm]

stats.DOMove(new Vector3(208, -374.2f, 0), 1)```

why is this sending it here?

stats is a rect transform

[ivory bobcat]

Is the object a child of something else?

[wintry quarry]

try DoLocalMove

[green copper]

InvalidOperationException: The operation is not possible when moved past all properties (Next returned false)
UnityEditor.SerializedProperty.get_objectReferenceInstanceIDValue () (at <2acbecbc299e4654adc94df891af51f2>:0)
UnityEditor.EditorGUIUtility.ObjectContent (UnityEngine.Object obj, System.Type type, UnityEditor.SerializedProperty property, UnityEditor.EditorGUI+ObjectFieldValidator validator) (at <2acbecbc299e4654adc94df891af51f2>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.ObjectField+ObjectFieldDisplay.Update () (at <2acbecbc299e4654adc94df891af51f2>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.ObjectField.UpdateDisplay () (at <2acbecbc299e4654adc94df891af51f2>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement+SimpleScheduledItem.PerformTimerUpdate (UnityEngine.UIElements.TimerState state) (at <65927d60dd5f4df5850222879a8ed9a4>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.TimerEventScheduler.UpdateScheduledEvents () (at <65927d60dd5f4df5850222879a8ed9a4>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIElementsUtility.UnityEngine.UIElements.IUIElementsUtility.UpdateSchedulers () (at <65927d60dd5f4df5850222879a8ed9a4>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIEventRegistration.UpdateSchedulers () (at <65927d60dd5f4df5850222879a8ed9a4>:0)
UnityEditor.RetainedMode.UpdateSchedulers () (at <546dbfe4aa3a47b4a64849b03910c33f>:0)

I get this error code approximately ten percent of the time when destroying a turret object, but only when the inspector panel for a singleton keeping an array of all turrets is open

[stuck palm]

thats fixed it thank you

[wintry quarry]

that error is from the inspector

[nimble wigeon]

hi guys, so im working on a 2d adventure game and ive got down the basic movement, camera follow, and i tried adding a heart system and it shows the heart and everything but when i enter game mode the hearts are nowhere to be found, this is my scene and health scripts:

[green copper]

so I don't need to do anything beyond "don't try to inspect the singleton while deleting stuff?"

or is it going to cause big problems later because something at the core is wrong?

[wintry quarry]

why did you put the health script on each individual heart?

It should be on only one object.

oh nvm it's on the player

are you sure it's not on any other objects?

also show your game view

[wintry quarry]

Yeah i think it's just a bug in the editor

[north kiln]

Also if your !ide always looks like this, it's unconfigured

[eternal falcon]

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[nimble wigeon]

ok sry for not responding was rewatching video to see if i missed something but i didnt:

[nimble wigeon]

ok ill do that

[nimble wigeon]

yea it's only on the player nothing else

in the video his shows up in the top left when he enters game mode

[wintry quarry]

is this while the game is running? Or at edit time?

you cropped the window so it's hard to tell

[nimble wigeon]

thats while running

[wintry quarry]

Ok so show those hearts in scene view when it's running. And also show their inspectors

[nimble wigeon]

i started playing around with the size of the hearts and they appeared but their still incredibly small

[wintry quarry]

this is not anything that I asked to see 😦

I asked to see their inspectors too please!

[wintry quarry]

select them

[wintry quarry]

ok so they're just too small

Make em bigger

[nimble wigeon]

i've never used UI before so i didnt know how big to make them

[wintry quarry]

since you cropped your screenshot they're probably here you just cropped them out

[wintry quarry]

Resize them until they look good in the Game window

you can open game and scene windows side by side if you want

[nimble wigeon]

ok ty

[scarlet skiff]

am i like on the right path here? i pass in the script but then calling it.. idk how

[native seal]

im curious what value_projectiles is

[rich adder]

make the function itself a coroutine and yield inside loop

[eternal needle]

Goddamn [][][]

I pray that isnt 3 dictionaries

[polar acorn]

What the hell

why is the parameter of type MonoBehaviour

[scarlet skiff]

cuz i wanted to pass in a script

idk

[scarlet skiff]

well uhhh

[polar acorn]

1. Why
2. If so, why MonoBehaviour

[scarlet skiff]

it kinda is

well a dictionary containing 2 dictionaries

[eternal needle]

Memes arent allowed here, but really focus on restructuring this. You 100% do not need whatever that value type is.
If you wanna pass in a spawner script specifically then you dont use monobehaviour, use either some common interface or abstract class that the spawners all implement

First things first, get rid of that triple dictionary

[scarlet skiff]

i wanna call a method inside them and uhh... they are of type monobehaviour

[rich adder]

either way starting a new coroutine is wrong approach

[polar acorn]

MonoBehaviour does not have a Spawn function. Why not pass in the type you actually want

[rich adder]

if you want to pause each loop , the whole function needs to be IEnumerator and put yields in the loops

[scarlet skiff]

i didnt wanna pass in the type i actually want cuz i want to able to pass different type.. but ig then it wont know about the methods each type

[scarlet skiff]

nope not pause the loops

[rich adder]

didn't you say you didn't want to spawn them all at once?

[polar acorn]

I suppose SpawnDelayer() could be returning a random value, causing each one to start at the same time, but delay for random lengths of time?

[scarlet skiff]

this is a bit diffuclt to explain cuz its like both a yes or no.

yes the loop tells all of the objects to spawn, but they wait a little before actually running the spawn method

if it makes sense

[rich adder]

tbh Im lost at this point what op wants lol

[scarlet skiff]

yea

ye sorry it was a bit hard to articulate

[rich adder]

oh there

that makes sense

[polar acorn]

Probably the best way to do this would be to have the spawners themselves spin up the coroutine that waits then spawns the object

So .spawn starts a coroutine with a random delay and then does whatever

[scarlet skiff]

yea but like due to how everything is set up, with .spawn being used in other scripts and havign a bunhc of different types pf spawners, id prefer if there was a way without changing the spawn method

[polar acorn]

So make a new method SpawnWithDelay that spins up a timer and then calls spawn

[scarlet skiff]

i suppose that is a solution, but if there is a way to do it via the original script and not the spawner script that would be nicer

[polar acorn]

The way to do that is the way you're currently doing it but pass in an object of the type you actually want instead of MonoBehaviour

[scarlet skiff]

meaning id need a method for each type of spawner, but.. is there a way to be able to avoid that and make a universal coroutine, or is that not possible?

[polar acorn]

No, you'd pass in whatever parent class or Interface defines that Spawn method

[obtuse osprey]

why is it red around this sprite?

[scarlet skiff]

but how would that look like? for example how would i be able to pass a spawner of type FireballSpawner in here

[rich adder]

do you have transparency?

also not code related

#💻┃unity-talk

[polar acorn]

You would make the function take whatever shared parent class or interface these all derive from

[obtuse osprey]

it was transparent on gimp when i drew it

ive looked for tutorials but i cant find any

[rich adder]

did you set it as sprite in the texture import settings?

[deft grail]

is it exported as a .png even?

[obtuse osprey]

jpg

[deft grail]

then that would be the problem

[obtuse osprey]

okay lets try again

[thorn holly]

is there any shortcut way to correlate, say, "Color.green" to the string "Green", or do I have to make a dictionary or something?

[deft grail]

you can just say "green" maybe i think? i dont remember fully

[rich adder]

that or you can do a dictionary with Html hashvalues

ig depends on your usecase

[thorn holly]

I'll just make a dictionary