💻┃code-beginner

[gusty dome]

should be setup

[short hazel]

The error is now underlined

[polar acorn]

Okay, it's underlined, that's what was missing in the last one

[languid spire]

not configured

[short hazel]

Good, with Solution Explorer again

[frosty lantern]

how do I call a static member without an instance?

[polar acorn]

So look at that line and see what's wrong with it. Hint: You cannot assign a value to the word float

[tender stratus]

it says assembly csharp not compatible

[wintry quarry]

looks like positions is null

You need to assign it first.
The syntax is fine.

[polar acorn]

Like that

[short hazel]

Right-click where it says that and select "Reload with dependencies". That should be fixed

[gusty dome]

so its confused cause im trying to give a name to a float?

[tender stratus]

Works, thanks a bunch!

[wintry quarry]

no it's confused because float = lerpSpeed is nonsense

[polar acorn]

You cannot have a variable named float. So setting it to whatever lerpSpeed is isn't going to work

[gusty dome]

ahh ok i think i see, sorry im tottaly in the deep end here

[wintry quarry]

you're in the shallow end

https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/csharp/csharp-variable

[gusty dome]

i mean yeah obvs but for my c# knowledge i have no clue haha

got it fixed thanks all, seems very simple now ive got it

[short hazel]

"identifier expected", basically it expected to see a (variable) name, but it found a = instead. That's how parsers work, they scan your input element by element and yells at you when it's not what they want

[gusty dome]

ahhhh ok cheers

[blazing ruin]

sup y'all. Anybody know why when I start to write void Update or void Start. And push tab, visual studio auitomatically type for this useless thing:

[dusk cedar]

how would i make something wait for like 3 seconds before doing the next thing "yield return new WaitForSeconds(3);" gives me an error

[wintry quarry]

MP4 embeds into discord. MKV doesn't

[wintry quarry]

Use a coroutine

yield return new WaitForSeconds(3); is only valid inside a coroutine

[dusk cedar]

alr thanks ill look it up

ive been lost on this same thing like 3 times now

[blazing ruin]

u can't open mkv ?

[short hazel]

Make sure the method you put this in has a return type of IEnumerator. Sometimes people put the similar but invalid IEnumerable by mistake

[wintry quarry]

I can't download them on my work laptop

[dusk cedar]

ok thanks

[blazing ruin]

u know i need converter or enough just tap .mp4 instead?

[polar acorn]

I'm not going to download a random file off of some guy on Discord

[short hazel]

Your screen recorder might be able to export as MP4 if you change the settings

[blazing ruin]

sup y'all. Anybody know why when I start to write void Update or void Start. And push tab, visual studio auitomatically type for this useless thing:

[rare basin]

wdym useless thing

[short hazel]

That is normal, it's a code snippet Unity adds to VS. Instead of having to type all the symbols manually, it does it all for you.

[rare basin]

it's normal

[polar acorn]

What's the problem?

That looks completely functional

What are you expecting it to do?

[blazing ruin]

yep, but when u create a script firstly, there is only void without private

[rare basin]

okaay, and?

[blazing ruin]

when i delete start and decide to write it again, it write me with private

[polar acorn]

If no access modifier is specified, private is implied

[rare basin]

but why do you delete it and write it again?

[polar acorn]

So? What's the problem?

[rare basin]

private float x;
float x;

its the same

[blazing ruin]

exactly. Where can I find autofill setting in Unity?

[rare basin]

huh

[eternal needle]

You can also adjust the settings so it doesnt explicitly write private. Google should tell you where

This isnt a unity thing. It's a VS thing

[polar acorn]

But it really doesn't matter, and being explicit is almost always better than implicit

If anything the Unity template should be changed to add the private

[blazing ruin]

but u know, it doesn't matter for code work, but for my eyes when I have everywhere Start and Update method without private, and here VS tab for me with private it's a little bit annoying

[short hazel]

You can modify the default "new script" template yourself to add these access modifiers, if you want

[blazing ruin]

u know where i can do it in VS?

can't find

[short hazel]

It's not in VS, it's from Unity directly

[blazing ruin]

4:19

[rich adder]

u got ocd or something

[blazing ruin]

4:20

[short hazel]

Huh?

[eternal needle]

We are talking about different settings.

[short hazel]

Modifying code style preferences -> From VS
Modifying Unity's default template file -> From Unity

[blazing ruin]

I'm talking about default modifier

[short hazel]

If you need to remove the default modifier on code completion, then this is done via the code style preferences in VS.
If you need to add the default modifiers to the auto-generated Unity script, then this is done via modifying the script template located in the editor's program files (https://blog.theknightsofunity.com/customize-unity-script-templates/)

[rough dust]

Sorry, not sure what channel this problem fits under, so please redirect me if this is the incorrect channel

I have an orthographic camera that looks at my minimap, a world space canvas group. And the camera feeds its frames to a render texture which is then fed into a raw image in my screen space canvas group. And just 5 seconds ago, it was working. But as you can see, it just stopped updating the texture. What could be the reason for this? Because in my code, nowhere does it make the camera stop feeding its frames. I don't even know if that's possible

[short hazel]

You seem to have the "Stop" button (top-center of the window) enabled, can that interfere with rendering?

[rough dust]

It's not enabled. Only the "play" button is enabled. It was never paused, it just stopped updating the frames of the camera and I can't figure out why

But yes, if I did pause it, that would interfere with rendering

[short hazel]

Ask in #💻┃unity-talk, that's more of a general question

[rough dust]

Alright, thanks

[stuck palm]

what kind of stuff do you put in lateupdate?

[rocky canyon]

stuff that makes sense to run (after update).. like when things settle down a camera tracking script for example, maybe

[eternal needle]

If you need anything that relies on everything else having moved already, that's a use case. Its typically used for camera stuff

[stuck palm]

awesome

[rocky canyon]

character animations (updating based on final state of movement/actions)
physics related operations (if u need to calculate stuff based on a final state)
input handling (processing and responding to input after all updates have been processed)

ive only ever written 1 or 2 scripts in lateupdate myself tho.. my code isn't structured that well lolio

[eternal needle]

All input happens before update, according to the execution order on the docs

[covert cairn]

How would one have the raycasts pivot while rotating similar to how the model does. I have a class that sets up some rays for firing and there are two sets in this example video.

public class Antenna
{
    public Transform agentPos;
    public Vector3 offset;
    public Ray leftRay;
    public Ray rightRay;
    public void InitializeRays()
    {
        leftRay = new Ray(offset + agentPos.position, -agentPos.right);
        rightRay = new Ray(offset + agentPos.position, agentPos.right);
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Rays are cheap, there's no need to cache them. You can absolutely just make them on the fly whenever you need them

Maybe make a function (or property) that generates the left and right rays when you actually intend to use them

[covert cairn]

I'm doing it that way mostly because of how I want it set up in the inspector

[short hazel]

Ray being a struct it may be actually more performant to not have them as fields, but as locals instead?

[polar acorn]

You can still have all the properties set up in the inspector, just generate the rays when you need them instead of only whenever InitializeRays is called

[covert cairn]

true but I'm less worried about performance atm, I can always optimize later. Right now I just want the rays to pivot their positions long with rotation of the cube model

[polar acorn]

So, generate them when you need them instead of doing it once and never changing them

Your code already uses agentPos's orientation. You're just only checking it in InitializeRays

[short hazel]

Yeah in that case you must create them each time because the values you pass to it are computed once, they're not reactive

[covert cairn]

I guess I'm just not understanding what I'd need to change.

[short hazel]

Meaning if the position/rotation changes and you get the ray again (if it's a field), then there will still be the old position/rotation in them

[polar acorn]

Get rid of leftRay and rightRay, and InitializeRays. Whenever you need a ray, make one on the spot.

[covert cairn]

so instead of:

antenna[i].InitializeRays();
if (Physics.Raycast(antenna[i].leftRay, out RaycastHit hitL, .75f, enemyLayer))
{
  print($"Left Antenna hit {hitL.collider.name}");
}

do this?:

if (Physics.Raycast(antenna[i].agentPos.position + antenna[i].offset, -antenna[i].agentPos.right, out RaycastHit hitL, .75f, enemyLayer))
{
  print($"Left Antenna hit {hitL.collider.name}");
}

[polar acorn]

Yes

[covert cairn]

Was this supposed to solve the issue, or was a code esthetics thing, because i'm still getting the same result.

[polar acorn]

It should now be following the rotation of agentPos at the time that raycast happens. So if that object rotates, the rays will rotate as well

[short hazel]

Pre-emptive layer mask mistake detection: make sure your enemyLayer variable is actually a layer mask, not a single layer number

[covert cairn]

maybe I'm missing something

[polar acorn]

Those do seem to be rotating as the box does

[covert cairn]

Ohhh I think I may have asked the question incorrectly

I meant like they literally move as the box rotates

[small mantle]

How can a beginner in 2D AI, go about making an enemy that can chase the Player even when the Player jumps to higher ground? (No help needed for Horizontal Movement)

[covert cairn]

I essentially want these raycasts to function as axls, the rotation part was already working as I expected

[rich adder]

if you want simple one, you can use points at the corners to to some type of curved lerp to.

but its not very dynamic

[small mantle]

Do you mean adaptable?

[polar acorn]

So, rather than having them at the position and rotation of the base cube, you should make empty child objects at the positions you want the rays to start at. That way when you rotate the parent, these spots rotate with it

Then you'd use one of those spots instead of agentPos

[small mantle]

The whole map is off of square Tilemap. If it works for that, then it should be enough

[covert cairn]

Ok, that makes sense, I'll give it a shot

[polar acorn]

You could even make it so they all point forward or up in the direction you want, so you would no longer need leftRay and rightRay, you can have each ray just pointing in its own forward direction

[rich adder]

yeah but for generated levels wont work well

[small mantle]

All my levels are made by hand. It wouldn't be an issue. How can I achieve what you recommended?

[rich adder]

when your enemy gets close to one of those edge positions point, it checks the Y of player to which next edge pivot to go to next

but this won't take into account complex pathing

[small mantle]

I don't really understand what complex pathing you mean?

[rich adder]

You could probably do a*

[summer stump]

Going around corners or moving AWAY from the player to get around a "local minimum" distance area (like a U shape)

[rich adder]

like a* would help but being sideview introduces complexities than topdown say

[small mantle]

🤔 @rich adder Where could I look more in depth on the solution you gave?

[rich adder]

google the words together lol

pretty much need good amount of trajectory math

[small mantle]

curved lerp Enemy AI. Is that it?

[rich adder]

trajectory math

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/DlkMs4ZHHr8

sauce https://torchinsky.me/kwad-devlog-11/

its not direct code but more or less explains such an approach

[small mantle]

Thanks for sending more information. Really appreciate it 🫡 @rich adder

[celest holly]

hi there, idk why im getting this error, its at line 70 in my gun script

this is line 70 as it wasnt in the picture

[rich adder]

new bullet doesn't have Bullet script on it

[polar acorn]

Either newBullet is null or it doesn't have a Bullet component on it

The bullet prefab should probably be of type Bullet so you don't need to use get component

[celest holly]

the bullet prefab is just a model of the prefab with a rigidbody and bullet script

newbullet does have the bullet script on it too

im confused

[polar acorn]

So then you should make bullet of type Bullet instead of GameObject

[celest holly]

okay ill try that

will that fix the problem though?

[polar acorn]

In that it will prevent you from attaching a prefab without that component on it, yes

[brave acorn]

can i make this so the run animation only kicks in when shift is held and the player gets a speed bost

[celest holly]

but when im instantiating it i need it to instantiate the whole prefab not just the script

[rich adder]

You would need to use the BlendTree parameter somehow

[polar acorn]

it will

Instantiate spawns an entire object

[celest holly]

like this?

[polar acorn]

The type just determines what is returned

[polar acorn]

yes

[celest holly]

still no spawning

this is all my prefab is

[polar acorn]

Do you still get the error

[celest holly]

yeah

[polar acorn]

what line

same one?

[celest holly]

69 now

theone above it

instantiate

[polar acorn]

Then bulletSpawnPos or gun is null

[celest holly]

dont seem to be

ill check again

improvements

its spawning now

now i get an error on line 20

have i not grabbed gun correctly

[polar acorn]

gun is not set before this object exists

Awake runs, then you set it. This shouldn't be in Awake

[celest holly]

right

ill look for a different function thne

[rich adder]

make an Init method

[polar acorn]

Or just use Start

[celest holly]

never heard of that,i was gonna use ienumerator

i havent coded for long in this language

start works?

[polar acorn]

Yes

[celest holly]

i thought start played before anytjhing else

[polar acorn]

Start runs before the first Update

Awake runs the instant this object exists

[celest holly]

oh okay

no more errors

thank you very much

so helpful

[rich adder]

oh its not like a special method, i meant just as a setup method, but yeah this way works very well too

[torn edge]

Hello can someone tell me why my mathf.clamp() is not working properly? Here is my code and logs https://hastebin.com/share/laqeqovite.csharp

[celest holly]

ill look into inits later then

sounds useful

[polar acorn]

Clamping rotations does not work like you'd expect because you have no idea if a value is something like -30 or 330 which are both the exact same angle

[torn edge]

Really?

Actually you're right wow

[polar acorn]

Yes. Angles are a circle

[torn edge]

How would I do otherwise

[rich adder]

yeah basically something like this

Bullet bullet = Instantiate(etc..)
bullet.Setup(this);

//in the Bullet.cs
private Gun gun;
public void Setup(Gun gun){
    this.gun = gun;
    //setup rest of stats from awake
}```

[torn edge]

It doesn't work when I use if/else statements (for the same reason I think)

[polar acorn]

You could convert it into 0-360 range by doing (angle + 360) % 360 and do two separate clamps against positive values

[celest holly]

so simple yet i would never have thought of it hahaha

thanks for showing me

[rich adder]

No worries, takes some time and practice, as time goes on you will write more simple code to the same issues 🙂

[torn edge]

Why two separate clamps though, wouldn't I only use one after I convert it

[celest holly]

i hope so, im ashamed to say the only languages ive learned before this one is lua and python 🤢

[rich adder]

haha yeah had to play around with lua back in gmod server/modding days but yes, I found it "difficult" which is funny considering i find c# easy

[polar acorn]

Well, let's say you want to have it between -30 and 30, the value 350 is above both when converted into 0-360. You'd want to check to see if it's above your lower bound, then below your upper bound. You basically need to do an anti-clamp, it needs to be anywhere but in between those two values

[torn edge]

Umm I'm not sure I understand what you're saying sorry

Like, I would need to check it before I convert it?

[polar acorn]

So, again, let's assume -30 to 30 is the range you want. You'd need to convert the angle into positive values as I said above, but you need to check if it's below 30 or above 330

Clamping between 30 and 330 would get you if the number is above 30 or below 330

So since there's not an "inverse clamp" the best way to do it is to just do two checks

[celest holly]

i liked it until i realised i actually hated it

mainly because i was using it for roblox lol

ive never gotten into modding

is it fun?

[torn edge]

I'm so sorry but I don't get what you're saying. I think I'm just gonna try to have it limited between 0 and 20

[polar acorn]

Is that the actual value you were originally trying to do

[rich adder]

if you enjoy the game enough to mod yea, also modding source SDK got me into looking at a game engine, unity felt more comfortable

[torn edge]

I wanted to have it between -20 and 20 so 20 and 340?

[polar acorn]

Yes, so you'd need to check if it's less than 20, or if it's greater than 340

[torn edge]

and then convert it?

[celest holly]

thats nice, c# has been fun, i tried c++ and stopped quickly. I still dont even get singletons anyway so it a bit above my level. have u evver used any other engines?

[torn edge]

So if it's between 0 and 20 or between 340 and 360

Wait convert it after?

[waxen adder]

Same on singletons. Heard it tossed around a few times. Sounds like some kind of global static object or something?

[polar acorn]

You'd take your current rotation angle, add 360, then mod 360. The angle is now in the 0-360 range

then you check if that angle is below 20 or above 340

If it's not, then set it to whichever of those is closest

[rich adder]

I've used Game maker a lot back in the day, also playaround with Unreal.
tried godot but didn't offer anything new. but yeah probably going into offtopic territory here so lol

[torn edge]

Isn't that one clamp though

[celest holly]

honestly idk, delegates and singletons are mentioned enough for me to be annoyed that i cant understand them but i havent come across a time where ive actively searched up how touse them unless its out of my own interest

[polar acorn]

How would you write that as one clamp

[celest holly]

well thanks for the help anyway

[waxen adder]

I've kind of got delegates figured out, but that's thanks to modding another game lol. One that uses unrealscript of all things XD

[celest holly]

like blueprints?

[waxen adder]

No, it's some old language unreal used

Like a decade ago now?

[torn edge]

I suppose you're right actually

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Clamp.html

[torn edge]

Wait

[torn edge]

Ik I have it open too

[celest holly]

are they actually useful though? should i go out of my way to learn delegates as a moderate beginner

[waxen adder]

Ehhhhh, not really. They're really nice, but unneeded

[rich adder]

I use events almost everywhere

very good for decoupling code

[celest holly]

another term im not sure on

what is decoupling?

[rich adder]

gotta search what u dont know, from google:

When we say two pieces of code are “decoupled”, we mean a change in one usually doesn't require a change in the other. When you change some feature in your game, the fewer places in code you have to touch, the easier it is.

[waxen adder]

^ That gets important as your game's infrastructure gets larger. Idk how big that's gonna get for a beginner

[rich adder]

true but also best learning good practices early too

for example a score Logic script should have no idea about a UI score display script

UI Score script just "listens" to events thrown by the Score such as Updated score event to refresh the UI

[celest holly]

ahhhh i see

thats helpful though i get that

[rich adder]

imagine you put UI inside the score script too, now you need UI every time you want to test logic for score

[celest holly]

ive been doing that a bit but never knew thats what decoupling actually meant

isnt that kind of like interfaces too? with functions

[rich adder]

interfaces can help with decoupling sure

makes things more modular

[celest holly]

i love interfaces so much

[rich adder]

but yeah as beginner don't worry, its good making mistakes so we learn WHY something else is better to use instead

[celest holly]

thank you for the advice

[torn edge]

Wouldn't I need to use an if/else statement for this though

[polar acorn]

Yes. If it's below 180 but above 20, set it to 20. If it's above 180 but below 340, set it to 340

[torn edge]

Okay thanks

[stuck palm]

what does this mean?

like i know the value is null

but im unsure as to what value is null

and it wont show me what is null and where

[grizzled zealot]

Question on structuring audio for killing monsters; Do you:

1. assign an audio source to each of the many monsters, each audio source with an instance of the asset audio clip, and then play the clip when the monster dies; or
2. create one audio manager, and when a monster dies, ask it to spawn a new audio source at that location and play the clip; or
3. create an audio manager with a pool of audio clips, and move a pool instance to the location of the dying monster; or
4. something completely different that I haven't thought about.

[frosty hound]

#3 for sure. Unity also has a built in object pool you can look into using.

[torn edge]

Wait so how would I even use a clamp after this because wouldn't it already be in between 20 and 0 or 340 and 360 after the if/else statements

[polar acorn]

You wouldn't. No clamps required

[torn edge]

But you said I needed to use two

[stuck palm]

anyone know what could be happening here?

i think its because they are set first then immediately turned off, which could be causing the error

[polar acorn]

Yes, these if statements. These are your clamps

You don't actually call Mathf.clamp, you do the math manually

[torn edge]

I thought you meant like actual mathf.clamp()

It works now so thanks

[hollow slate]

I mean, it says the issue no?
You're trying to do .PlayOneShot on a clip that returns null.

double-click the error, it should enter your IDE

you'll see what's null.

[stuck palm]

fixed it by doing

private void Awake()
    {
        _audioSource = FindObjectOfType<MenuManager>().GetComponent<AudioSource>();
    }

instead of start i did awake

fixed it

[hollow slate]

Just as a general guideline, you want to avoid using FindObjectOfType unless absolutely necessary. It's not a very great practice.

[stuck palm]

Yeah i know

[hollow slate]

I'm saying this as a general thing - if it works in your case that's fine.

[stuck palm]

it is absolutely necessary in this case

i guess the object was inactive at start time

so doing it in awake fixed it

[wintry quarry]

Seems like you could just use the Singleton pattern for this

[eternal needle]

it definitely doesnt look necessary here. dont these objects both exist just in the scene? You could drag it in. Or use singleton

[stuck palm]

there are multiple menus in a game

so idk if singleton would work

[hollow slate]

that should be fine.

[wintry quarry]

Then FindObjectOfType won't find the right one always either

[stuck palm]

theres only one in a scene

but multiple in a session

[wintry quarry]

Then Singleton works

Just not DDOL Singleton

[stuck palm]

oh i thought singleton was for like DDOL stuff

[wintry quarry]

The basic form of Singleton just has the static accessor, DDOL isn't required

[hollow slate]

what's DDOL?

abbreviation for...?

[wintry quarry]

DontDestroyOnLoad

[hollow slate]

ah

[stuck palm]

i see, either way its not mission critical so this implementation works fine even if its dirty

althought i recognise it is better practice to use a singleton in this case

[frosty lantern]

If I have an instance variable in my abstract class, why doesn't the inherited class include that in it's scope? I can only modify baseclass in the Awake/Start... methods, but not in the variable declaration area.

[timber tide]

usually you modify parent variables in the constructor but since you can't really use one with monos that's why you're usually using awake or start

or make a custom initializer method

[frosty lantern]

ok, I guess that makes sense.

[polar acorn]

It needs to be in a function

You can't override things in the declaration

[cosmic dagger]

you're trying to initialize the inherited variable in the class scope . . .

also, you're missing a Vecttor3Int in one of those lines . . .

[frosty lantern]

oh the compiler told me I dont need it because it was implicit

i wiped the rest of them too

[cosmic dagger]

true, but you should do that for all of them . . .

[cosmic dagger]

yep, exactly that . . .

[frosty lantern]

yeah, i was trying to see the compiler suggestions about the other error and it tossed that one at me too

[frosty lantern]

For some reason, my knight class thinks it's special, because it isn't creating the polys it's meant to. I am calling the exact same method on all of the classes in the same manner, and I've even setit up so that the instantiating of the poly is done in the abstract class that's inherited by the subclasses just to ensure a consistent result.

Of course, everything was consisten except for the horsey.

[wintry quarry]

it would appear that basicHexMoves is empty

Debug.Log to double check that

or perhaps we're looking at the wrong code

!code is a better way to share

[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.

[frosty lantern]

https://gdl.space/egumehujoj.cs

You are correct, that the debug.log is saying hexmoves is empty. In fact I debugged the start method of the knight:

https://gdl.space/wiwabayebi.cpp

And it's not even adding the vector3ints. It' s just ignoring the assignment.

I am calling the instantiate method the same way for all of the classes, though the abstract parent class:
https://gdl.space/epoyetazud.cs

the CubetoQuad is for thoroughness
https://gdl.space/igowiqiwet.cs

my bad on the code flood tho

what's really messing me up is the fact that my program is literally ignoring me

[wintry quarry]

It's unclear where InstantiateMovePoly() is defined

[frosty lantern]

it;s in the chesspiece method too, that's how I call it in start()

[wintry quarry]

why not just include it there O.o

showing the full scripts may help

[frosty lantern]

https://gdl.space/uyukuzusiz.cs

that's the full chesspiece method

[wintry quarry]

and Knight?

[frosty lantern]

https://gdl.space/wiwabayebi.cpp
that was the full knight

there isn't much in there

[wintry quarry]

Ok so this logs what exactly again?

like what does this log?
Debug.Log(name + "\n" + basicHexMoves.Count);
and
Debug.Log(name + "\n" + basicHexMoves.Count + "\n" + moveIndicators.Count);

[frigid sequoia]

What's the difference between a trigger and a boolean as an animator parameter?

Aren't they both just a toggle?

[timber tide]

trigger is once

boolean is toggle

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, so trigger cannot be dissabled after called once?

[timber tide]

it's for like one-time attack animations

any one-off animation it's useful for

[frosty lantern]

Debug.Log(name + "\n" + basicHexMoves.Count);
The log in the knight statement verifies the length of the knights hexmove list. It's right after the assignment so I can verify that the assignment happened correctly

Debug.Log(name + "\n" + basicHexMoves.Count + "\n" + moveIndicators.Count);
The log at the end of the InstantiatePoly() method verifies the length of the hexmove list for all pieces and verifies how many move polys I create for each of them.

[frigid sequoia]

That's basically what I am doing rn, but isn't that just make it not loop time and done?

[timber tide]

ye, got to probably add some exit time to them too so they don't fallback to your other animation state instantly

[wintry quarry]

I'm asking what it printed

not what they do

[frosty lantern]

The assignments fail immediately in the awake method, which leads to empty lists for them in the instantiate method

[frigid sequoia]

That's basically build in in the animation itself, it has a downtime in which it recovers from the attacfk

[wintry quarry]

basicHexMoves = new List<List<Vector3Int>>();```

it's because you have a semicolon here

[frigid sequoia]

If I want for them to transition from ANY point of the idle state to the attack state, I have to dissable exit time right?

Else it waits for the end of the loop isn't it?

[wintry quarry]

Collection initializers don't have a semicolon like that:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/object-and-collection-initializers

[timber tide]

not really played with animation stuff for a while but I usually wouldn't add exit time to loops so you can exit it instantly, but sometimes like attack animations you do want to interupt if you were attacked and stuff

[frosty lantern]

that's the first time I've put a semicolon that wasn't supposed to be there. usually I forget to put them where i need them.

Do you happen to know why the code doesn't throw an error when declaring a bunch of new lists without identifiers, since the semicolon was separating them?

[wintry quarry]

Because new List<Vector3Int>() { new (-3, 2, 1) }; is a complete, fully valid line of code that happens to do nothing of use.

A real collection initializer uses commas and curly braces:

List<Cat> cats = new List<Cat>
{
    new Cat{ Name = "Sylvester", Age=8 },
    new Cat{ Name = "Whiskers", Age=2 },
    new Cat{ Name = "Sasha", Age=14 }
};```

[frosty lantern]

oh, cool

[frigid sequoia]

This is just a guy that floats around randomly and at random intervals does a superfast spit with barely no telegraph. So pretty sure this is not meant to have exit time

[timber tide]

yeah but if it's a trigger animation without exit time I'm pretty sure it falls back into the previous state instantly without it or maybe im mistaken

I usually just try to use booleans if possible since I like that control better

[fiery notch]

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

Im getting this error msg when swinging at my enemy, how can i fix this?

[slender nymph]

not everything in the hitEnemies array has an Enemy component

[fiery notch]

is it because my enemy has a bunch of children

[slender nymph]

if those objects are on whatever layer is included in the raycast, then yes. you'll want to use TryGetComponent to check if the object has the component if you don't want to change the layers on those objects

also consider using the NonAlloc version of the query to reduce your garbage generation

[fiery notch]

each child object under enemy has the enemy tag

[slender nymph]

it's the layer that matters, you're not doing anything at all with tags

[fiery notch]

sorry

i mispoke

they all have the enemy layer

[slender nymph]

yes, i gathered that. hence my suggestions

[fiery notch]

how would i use trygetcomponent in my script?

[slender nymph]

check the docs to see how to use it https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.TryGetComponent.html

[fiery notch]

im looking at it, im still confused on how it works

[deft grail]

whats confusing

the doc shows exactly how to use it, should be easy to implement into your script

[fiery notch]

i am just lost on what to replace in my script

[deft grail]

your using GetComponent, you need to use TryGetComponent

thats what your replacing

[slender nymph]

did you not look at how it works

[deft grail]

you cant just replace it 1 to 1, look at the docs

the docs for GetComponent and TryGetComponent are completely different

[fiery notch]

i just dont get it

idk what else to say

[frigid sequoia]

Can I check if a local parameter already exist before creating it?

[deft grail]

copy the code from the docs

literally

[fiery notch]

ok

[rich adder]

you dont need the <> part if you specify type by the out keyword

[deft grail]

idk why its in the start method, anyway now change it to your components

[slender nymph]

because they literally copy/pasted the whole example

[deft grail]

what are you taking damage of?

cant do it from nothing

[slender nymph]

you also need to call TryGetComponent on the colliders in the array, not on this component

[deft grail]

again, look at the code in the documentation

how they use .useSpring = false;

[frigid sequoia]

Like let me explain, I have a parent general class for enemies that gets the player position in Update and sets other basic stuff with it. I want all that to happen AFTER some modifications in the Update of the specific enemy (that also need the player position), so I am calling base.Update() after that but I don't want to calculate the player position once again at the base.Update() if I already did before, is there a way to do this with a variable inside update itself or it NEEDS to be a class parameter for that?

[fiery notch]

i dont know what usespring = false; would equate to in my code

[deft grail]

that would be TakeDamage(attackDamage);

you definitely should take a beginner C# course

[fiery notch]

im in one now, but ive never dealt with trygetcomponent before

[rich adder]

its the same thing as get component , you're just accessing stuff with .
same thing

Enemy e = enemy.GetComponent<Enemy>();
if(e != null)
e.DoSomething();```
as
```cs
if(enemy.TryGetComponent(out Enemy e))
e.DoSomething();```

[timber tide]

I think what you're describing is better done with overriding methods instead of overriding update

because your 'base' update will always call the most derived method if it's overriden

[buoyant thistle]

I am trying to add a force that would push my object forwards depending on the angle its rotated

2d btw

but i can only seem to get it to go straight up and im not quite sure how the addforceatpostion function works

[deft grail]

just use normal AddForce? why do you need the atposition one?
also show your code

[buoyant thistle]

void Update()
{
if (Input.GetKey("w"))
{
rb2d.AddForce(Vector2.up);

    }
}

[deft grail]

your only making it go up, use transform.up to get it from the actual object not just a static direction

[buoyant thistle]

ohhh

thank you

I have another question, right now im using addtorque to change the rotation of my player but how can i do it where it stops immediatly after i stop changing the rotation and not continue to rotate

[frosty lantern]

Debug.Log("( ${x}, ${y}, ${z})");
how do I get the values from variables like this?

[slender nymph]

Dollar sign goes on the string, not in it

[frosty lantern]

oh wow that beautiful

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/tokens/interpolated

[frosty lantern]

thanks

[eternal needle]

Do you need to use add torque? Usually it's fine to just directly affect the rotation with the values you want especially if this is just a capsule.
Otherwise you can set the angular velocity

[eternal needle]

Meant to reply to you

[fiery notch]

just wanted to say i figured it out, thanks for the advice

[frigid sequoia]

If I want this to Translate locally I have to pass it the parent right?

[timber tide]

I'd do a considering that second parameter there

[frigid sequoia]

Is kinda hard to see with what I am trying rn, but sure

This is the pattern I am seeking, which I assume is best done if I just parent every bullet to an spinning empty parent and move them forwards locally

Is it? XD

[timber tide]

sounds probably right then

transform.foward is always considerd relative to itself such that it's a direction its forward direction is pointing to

such that you should just be able to refer to its forward and use world position local/absolute units to go in the direction it's facing

[frigid sequoia]

Is basically that the world itself is the parent if there is none given

[timber tide]

eh, I don't really think of it that way. Tranform.Forward just uses the object's orientation as is, such that you can create a direction from the coordinate system its composed of

so no matter where it is in the world, transform.forward will always just go in its own forward direction

I don't really use transform.Translate but it sounds like you just refer to is own object space and then use absolute units

otherwise you do something like transform.position(Transform.forward * speed * deltatime)

[summer stump]

#📲┃ui-ux

[grizzled zealot]

What can cause this? I have gameObject.SetActive(false) in a MonoBehaviour, and it only deactivates the current script, not all the GO's scripts and the children.

[worldly ravine]

I need help fixing this i have no idea how this works

Assertion failed on expression: 'CompareApproximately(SqrMagnitude(result), 1.0F)'
UnityEngine.Quaternion:Internal_FromEulerRad (UnityEngine.Vector3)
Test:Update () (at Assets/Test.cs:28)

float angle = Mathf.Atan(rb2d.velocity.y / rotate) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, 0, angle));

nevermind It's because i forgot to set the variable rotate to something

[topaz mortar]

that's the normal behaviour

[summer stump]

Hmmm, that should not deactivate a script. Just the gameobject. And if it has children, those too.

Can you share more of the code?

[summer stump]

MyScript.enabled = false would do that. But not gameObject.SetActive

[topaz mortar]

Deactivating a GameObject disables each component, including attached renderers, colliders, rigidbodies, and scripts.

so it would deactivate the scripts on the GO

but the children should become inactive too yeah

[summer stump]

Correct

They are saying it is ONLY deactivating the script

[grizzled zealot]

   void Update() {
        if (_hasHit) return; // spurious
        _life += Time.deltaTime;
        if (_life > _pld.Lifetime.Value) {
            gameObject.SetActive(false);
        }

        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Linecast(transform.position,
            transform.position + Direction * _lookforward * Time.deltaTime,
            (1 << LayerMask.NameToLayer(UnitManager.LAYER_PLAYER)) | (1 << LayerMask.NameToLayer(UnitManager.LAYER_ENEMY)) | (1 << LayerMask.NameToLayer(UnitManager.LAYER_NEUTRAL))
            );

        if (hit) {
            if (hit.transform.gameObject.TryGetComponent<HealthCapability>(out HealthCapability hc)) {
                _hasHit = true;
                enabled = false;

                transform.position = hit.point;
                transform.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = Vector3.zero;

                hc.DecreaseHealth(_pld.Damage.Value);

                // show explotions
                Instantiate(_pso.explosionPrefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
                // play audio
                AudioSource audioSource = gameObject.GetComponent<AudioSource>();
                audioSource.clip = _pso.soundExplosion;
                audioSource.spatialBlend = 1f;
                audioSource.maxDistance = 100f;
                audioSource.Play();

                gameObject.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
    }

[grizzled zealot]

Correct, it is only deactivating the script.

Btw. I understand that deactivating right after Play() means that the audio clip is not played.

[topaz mortar]

show your hierachy of gameobjects (where it shows which ones are active and not active) after this is called

[grizzled zealot]

Found the many bugs:

1. I disabled the script separately (enabled = false)
2. I didn't reset _hasHit when I returned an object to the pool

Consequence: the object that had hit had the script disabled and had never hit anything anymore, because of the check right at the top of update().

object pools are fun

[willow nexus]

    {
        if (outlineColor == Color.white)
            return;
        outlineMaterial.SetColor("_Color", outlineColor);
        outlineMaterial.SetFloat("_Thickness", highlightedThickness);
        outlineMaterial.SetFloat("_ColorOverlayActive", 1f);
    }

    private void OnMouseExit()
    {
        outlineMaterial.SetFloat("_Thickness", defaultThickness);
        outlineMaterial.SetFloat("_ColorOverlayActive", 0f);
    }```

Any idea why this would be causing my object to flash?

[topaz mortar]

either always manage the scripts / gameobject state from the same script
or add lots of comments 🙂

[grizzled zealot]

I only implemented a simple pool (standard array with iterating over it to find a non-active GO). Need to look into the provided ObjectPool<T>. But the many callbacks look intimidating at first, even though they make sense.

[topaz mortar]

What's with the if (outlineColor == Color.white), OnMouseEnter will only get called once anyway
Also seems like you don't remove the color again on exit?
Is this script on the correct gameobject? Are there any other scripts interfering?

[willow nexus]

that first bit was so if i dont apply an outline color with item rarity it just never enables the outline

i disabled any other scripts that could interfere i think, ill check again

it grabs the outline color from the scriptable object so the color.white (default) is just so it doesnt do weird stuff if i forget to set it

[topaz mortar]

but the return prevents the rest of the OnMouseEnter to execute

[devout spire]

for some reason when i press the console key and call RunCommand, it is not able to match the command entered to one of the commands in the array. it will log in the console the "no such command" message, and even include the command in the message that should be getting found successfully but for some reason isn't.

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

public class ConsoleController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Keybinds")]
    public KeyCode consoleKey = KeyCode.BackQuote;

    [Header("Command List")]
    public string[] commands;

    [Header("References")]
    public TextMeshProUGUI commandLine;

    bool showConsole;

    void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(consoleKey))
        {
            RunCommand(commandLine.text);
        }
    }

    public void RunCommand(string command)
    {
        foreach(string s in commands)
        {
            if(s == command)
            {
                Debug.Log("Command Found! Command: " + s);
                return;
            }
            else if(s == commands[commands.Length - 1])
            {
                Debug.Log("No such command '" + command + "' found!");
            }
        }
    }
}```

that is my full class, not sure what's going on

i will note that for some reason, if i manually set command to one of the commands in the RunCommand function, it works correctly. but it doesn't work correctly when getting the string from a tmpro input object

[eternal needle]

look at your logic in the if statements, they dont seem right.
foreach(string s in commands)
...
if(s == commands[commands.Length - 1])

as for why its not working, try printing out the actual results like
Debug.Log($"Command {command} Comparing to {s} Result {s == command}");

[willow nexus]

found the issue lol
wasnt even a problem with the code
the Z was just 0, which was also the layer of the background png
so it constantly swapped between

[devout spire]

well i was using a TMPro input field but i was referencing the text object child of the input field. when i instead switched to referencing the input field itself, it started working. strange

[eternal needle]

not entirely sure how tmpro handles that stuff, but some basic debugging should've pointed you towards that the input was flawed

also, you can do if(commands.Contains(...)) using Linq

[verbal dome]

The text object in input field has an invisible character at the end of its string

That's why your string comparison wasn't working when you were using the text from text object instead of the input field

[devout spire]

ah

thanks

[brazen canyon]

Hey guys, I wonder what if I serialize a list of scriptable objects into json.
And when i deserialize it, what do I get ?
Say i have a class

public class Demo : ScriptableObject
    public List<DataSO> listOfLust;

After deserializing, do I still get a list or what ?

[onyx tusk]

how 2 fix this text? autosize is already true

[timber tide]

You get back whatever type you specify it as, or even a less derived class if you wanted

and yes, you can serialize scriptable objects usually

[brazen canyon]

Thanks

[timber tide]

Though, you don't actually want to deserialize/serialize SOs but rather you should be id-ing them and grabbing the pre-defined instance from your assets. Assuming you aren't writing to your SOs

[feral moss]

So my goal is just to program Minesweeper so I can figure out the basic tools because I already know how to make the actual algorithm for generating a Minesweeper board
I've run into 2 snags though:
I need a way to have the camera size up enough to capture the whole board regardless of the size up to the max size I'll allow,
Second, I'm running into an issue with the board... losing detail when the camera gets large enough I think?

Here's the board 9x9 with camera orthographicSize 5

It looks a little trippy because I slapped the sprite together in like 5 seconds

Here it is 13x13 with size 7 though

Some of the lines are losing visiblity, and the problem worsens as the camera gets larger

[timber tide]

is it a texture? Could be mipmaps related

[onyx tusk]

maybe something in cameraObject.GetComponent<Camera>()?

stop, i understoodproblem

[feral moss]

I have a GridManager object that uses a Tile prefab object I made, and that Tile object has a SpriteRenderer with a 1200x1200 sprite scaled down to 0.09 in all dimensions

[onyx tusk]

maybe, you will make some lines above field?

[feral moss]

Like... have the lines be separate objects from the tiles?

[timber tide]

I would just tile a texture and use the tiling and offset values of a shader

usually they comes with unity's default shaders

[onyx tusk]

you can use any image as texture & add it to tiles

& image will become a material

[timber tide]

sprite import probably has some similar options if you don't want to do it via shader I guess

shader stuff just easier to manipulate at runtime

[feral moss]

I just didn't know it was an option and I'll need to research how to do it

[timber tide]

I think the idea here is you shouldnt be moving the camera, but you should be tiling the texture differently

[feral moss]

It does sound like a better plan for retaining detail I imagine

I'll give it a shot

Thanks

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/9SliceSprites.html

that would probably be the sprite way to tile, or just use repeat/wrapping mode?

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/shader-graph-tiling-and-offset-2019-3
otherwise this node is on most unity shaders in the material options (or include it in your own shader if you want)

[faint osprey]

Script error: OnTriggerEnter
This message parameter has to be of type: Collider
The message will be ignored.
why am i getting this error

    {
        if (other.tag == "Pickup")
        {
            Debug.Log("woking");
            endOfConveyor = false;
            approve.interactable = true;
            deny.interactable = true;
            baggageInScanner = other.gameObject.transform.parent.gameObject;
        }
    }``` thats the method its talking about

[charred spoke]

Well what do you think the solution is ?

[faint osprey]

I looked it up online and it was that the parameter should be collider not collision and i havent got collision so idk

[charred spoke]

Think a little about the error msg. It says it should be of type Collider, not any type of collider.

Collider and BoxCollider are not the same type.

[faint osprey]

But i need to distinguish between box and sphere tho as i have more than one on the gameObject

[topaz mortar]

Ah Uri, you never told me how to send my data over the network if not in a dictionary.
Why is it bad to use a dictionary and what is the alternative?

[timber tide]

list of structs

[charred spoke]

Are both triggers ?

[charred spoke]

I never told you dicts were bad all I was saying was that I think you are sending too much data over the network

[faint osprey]

Yos

[topaz mortar]

but how do I send less data then 😦

[timber tide]

bulk of what I send over networks are usually just ids

some vectors and whatnot... but im talking about a crappy vampire clone and shooter arena ;)

[languid spire]

look at other.GetType() == typeof();

[charred spoke]

I would just separate the triggers into their own gameObjects and have a script for each

[charred spoke]

Like I said you would send a itemId and the relevant generated stats. Anything that is not random the client can reconstruct when creating the object on his side for example having the item start with 100% durability.

[topaz mortar]

yeah that's what I'm doing, it's just structured in a dictionary

[charred spoke]

I believe last time we talked you were sending pretty much the entire item serialized as json.

[topaz mortar]

yeah because there's a lot of generated stats on the item

[eternal needle]

surely other players can also generate the same thing then

[topaz mortar]

it's multiplayer, needs to be generated by the server

[eternal needle]

definitely not

[charred spoke]

Look if it aint causing network traffic issues and it works it works right hah. I suppose generating items is a rate enough event.

[topaz mortar]

I just thought there was something wrong with sending a dictionary structure over the netwerok

[charred spoke]

Depends on your dictionary I suppose

[eternal needle]

if you are thinking that as a security issue, then whats to stop someone from just modifying the string they receive?

[topaz mortar]

it's item with randomly generated stats
if I let clients generate them, it's easy to cheat max stat items

[hot lily]

how do I make cinemachine camera orbit around a target?

[eternal needle]

i can guarantee you its as easy in your current method compared to what I am saying.

[hot lily]

i've been fiddling with this the whole day but the camera just refuses to do so

[topaz mortar]

the items are stored in a database, only accessible by the server
combat is also generated by the server
so yes, you could alter your item client side, but nothing would change

[eternal needle]

What are you saying, that your method is currently hacker proof? Because regardless if you send the full item string (i think you were doing this as json?) vs sending a number for them to use in generation. both will be easily modified by people who want to modify it

[topaz mortar]

I'm saying it doesn't matter if they modify it client side, because everything happens on the server and the server doesn't accept any client data

[eternal needle]

orbit it via user input or just by itself? Theres the freelook camera which allows for it

[eternal needle]

If it doesnt matter, then exactly why does it matter if the user generates it for themselves based on a seed compared to sending them the full string?

[topaz mortar]

because I want to display the item data to the user? 😛

[eternal needle]

When you say items are generated, you mean randomly right?

Or these are all just preexisting items already declared

[topaz mortar]

damage for example is randomized between certain values yeah

all the stats are

[eternal needle]

then whats stopping you from just sending the user the seed and having them generate the item data with the same algorithm the server used?

[topaz mortar]

that is actually a really great idea

[eternal needle]

That is what ive been saying from the start

[topaz mortar]

thanks for explaining it 🙂

[timber tide]

your server should be generating everything and giving it back

unless you dont* really care about clients bsing about getting the best rolls possible

[eternal needle]

theres really no difference in this case

i vaguely remember what they were doing but i believe it was creating a json string from their item information. which was like a dictionary in a dictionary or something.
Theres literally no difference if someone wants to modify that string compared to modifying the seed they receive

[timber tide]

you'd still verify it, not like when you smack a mob the server does going to look away when the client hits it for 1000k damage

[topaz mortar]

yeah it's a dictionary containing 2 dictionaries
one for the combat and one for the items dropped
but in both cases I can just send the random seed and then let the client calculate it by itself
should solve a lot of my issues 🙂

[eternal needle]

that verification still doesnt affect if the client or server generates something. its really nothing if the client generates something wrong intentionally while the server has its own correct copy. Because itll be using the correct information in damage and other things.
Ive played a few games where they really dont care what you have or see client side, because its not like you can do anything with it. I've tried a lot to actually do something with it too, but the game just didnt care

[topaz mortar]

that's exactly what I'm going for 🙂

[timber tide]

seems like that would cause a lot of desync issues

idk, i'd just ask the server hey, I'm rerolling my weapon mods can you do it for me

[eternal needle]

to be fair, you cant really complain about desync if you're trying to hack

[topaz mortar]

only way there's desync is if the server & client have different generation methods, which I guess could happen lol

[eternal needle]

The 20 year old game osrs has massive desync issues, that you kinda have to intentionally cause. they really dont care, you just get booted off when that desync eventually causes an error clientside

other competitive games have it too, which arent intentionally caused but sometimes by lag. Nothing you can really do. Best not to worry about hackers unless you're making the next valorant

[topaz mortar]

bawsi is there a simple way to use one random seed to generate different randomized results?
say we fight a monster, I need player damage, monster damage, experience gained, item dropped
can I easily use 1 seed or would it be better to send 4 random seeds?

[burnt vapor]

Pretty sure they just have a lot of malicious attacks. The game is incredibly optimized in terms of networking capabilities

[burnt vapor]

A single Random class works fine

If you use a set seed then the result will be the same each time

Nowadays there's Random.Shared for a shared random class because there's no point in having 4 different classes for randomization

IDK if that is in Unity though

[eternal needle]

yea single seed, but this is probably gonna lead more into a #archived-networking discussion because you also have to make sure everyones generating it in the same order. Otherwise this will be a desync issue

[topaz mortar]

ah there's no real multiplayer, the clients do not communicate with each other, only with the server

and not all that often really

[native seal]

how should I setup skill trees to work alongside the UI? should I just handplace every ability in the tree for each class and then just activate whichever class the player is? or are there any better suggestions

[topaz mortar]

I think I'm not exactly following, atm I'm just doing stuff like Random.next(0, 100)

[burnt vapor]

Yeah that's Unity's build in Random

[eternal needle]

well theres some malicious attacks but really not much since they "fixed" the server crashes associated with it. also a TON of bugs which abuse their system.

[burnt vapor]

There's two, idk why Unity has one

[eternal needle]

are these predetermined? Itll probably be best to just do this by hand if so.

[eternal needle]

The UI can also just have handpicked locations for where the ability goes, which takes in an array and places them in order. Then link that array to your players abilities

depends more so on how the player even stores abilities

[timber tide]

that's really up to preference. If there's endless/randomized skill trees I'd go with auto-gen, but otherwise handcraft it all

or go half way and handcraft a reusable template

[terse raven]

Would splines or a grid system be more efficient in making a conveyor belt system?

[topaz mortar]

what do you mean with the same order?
does Random have a way to generate multiple random numbers from one "seed" or something? are different parameters possible?

[eternal needle]

you are generating multiple random numbers, by calling the functions many times. You can change the seed here
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.InitState.html

though I would just use the c# random class, you can also provide a seed in the constructor
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.random?view=net-8.0
If you provide the same seed, it will always generate the same numbers in the same order

[topaz mortar]

would it work with parameters if I want to generate a number between certain values?
like mindmg = random.next(1,10)
maxdmg = random.next(500,600)

[verbal dome]

Random.Next is from System.Random

[burnt vapor]

So the whole point of it is to have a static reference to an existing feature? I'm confused

Because I was looking it up and apparently it was it's own generator to some people

[topaz mortar]

The point is to have my server generate the random number (or numbers or seed)
and then generate a lot more numbers based on those on both my server & client

[verbal dome]

I'm saying that it is System.Random.Next, nothing to do with UnityEngine.Random

[burnt vapor]

Then I got confused because he capitalized the wording, assuming it was some static class

Either way my point was that I don't see why Unity would have its own Random to begin with 🤷‍♂️

[topaz mortar]

probably slightly faster, optimized for games

I don't care about which Random class I use though
I'm just using System.Random.Next atm because my server is C#, not unity

[verbal dome]

Unity Random also has a bunch of useful features for gamedev, such as insideUnitCircle/Sphere

[eternal needle]

yes, you are always using a seed even if you dont specify one. It would work the same as it works now. When you dont specify the seed, it just uses the current time

[topaz mortar]

awesome 🙂

[onyx tusk]

how 2 fix this text? autoFontSize is already true

[burnt vapor]

Could have just added an extension to the existing class 🤔

[whole idol]

Why does this script have a screw nut symbol

rather than a script symbol?

SUS

[green ether]

Cause its named GameManager

[whole idol]

ok

[green ether]

just a fancy icon for that class

[whole idol]

First time I see something like this

hopefully it wont cause any problems later on

[tepid summit]

also thats a gear

[whole idol]

yeah whatever

😛

[tepid summit]

[green ether]

I have a GameManager aswell and mine didnt get that icon for some reason... In the other project I have it does though

Why is that

[topaz mortar]

🔩 u

[whole idol]

unity's trolling you

maybe its an easter egg or something

[verbal dome]

I don't see a problem with UnityEngine.Random tbh. It also generates floats, not doubles like System.Random

Static random class can be useful, though I often find a need to use instances so that's when I use System.Random

[burnt vapor]

Suppose it mostly boils down to convenience then. I wondered if there was an actual reason apart from that

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[tepid summit]

ok

damn i need to bookmark these

[naive pawn]

UnityEngine.Random doesn't overlap much with System.Random.
System.Random lets you get uniformly distributed integers, while UnityEngine.Random is more for floats in closed ranges

you can't get uniformly distributed integers (easily) with UnityEngine.Random since it's closed instead of half-open

[tepid summit]

Hey so here I have these 2 scripts, which are causing these 2 errors that i have no clue how to get rid of. any ideas?

https://gdl.space/geqesekuxe.cpp

[rare basin]

maybe show the code?

[naive pawn]

for the first one, maybe follow what the error says to do

[tepid summit]

yeah my bad forgot to paste the link

[rare basin]

UILink = UILink2.GetComponent<UIHandler>;

UILink is type of GameObject

[naive pawn]

yeah the error tells you exactly what to do

[rare basin]

and you are trying to assign UIHandler to it

[tepid summit]

ok

[rare basin]

you can just read the error

it's exactly the same i wrote

[tepid summit]

yeah idk what to do to my code

[naive pawn]

no, not really

[tepid summit]

ive tried a million and 1 solutions

[naive pawn]

did you try the one the error tells you to do, first off

[tepid summit]

it doesnt

[naive pawn]

GetComponent is a function, you didn't call it

[tepid summit]

or im dont get it at least

[naive pawn]

right, but it's a step in the right direction

[rare basin]

you cannot assign UIHandler

to GameObject

it's a type mismatch

[tepid summit]

right i need the parenthesis

[naive pawn]

that's not what the current error is

[rare basin]

ok so?

it's still an error

that needs to be fixed

[naive pawn]

not the current error

[tepid summit]

not currently

[naive pawn]

one step at a time my guy

[rare basin]

it is

it wont even compile

he didint even screenshot the entire console

[naive pawn]

i don't think you registered what i said

[rare basin]

im not talking to you please carry on

[naive pawn]

it's not the current error. the current error is that the function wasn't called to begin with. fix that, and get the new error, the one you're referring to, with a more helpful message

[tepid summit]

damn

my brother got hit with the clown reaction

[rare basin]

is your ide configured?

[tepid summit]

pretty sure

[rare basin]

can you screenshot it just to be sure?

[topaz mortar]

so no probably lol

[tepid summit]

one sec

[naive pawn]

once you've added the function call, you'll be able to see another error that you're trying to assign UIHandler to GameObject

you've declared UILink as GameObject, but you're trying to set it to a UIHandler, and you're trying to use it as a UIHandler, so you haven't declared it with the type you actually want it to be.

[tepid summit]

making it a gameobject was just a test as when i had it just as uimanager it still made errors

just explaining

[naive pawn]

UIManager != UIHandler though

you're trying to use it as a UIHandler, not a UIManager

[tepid summit]

its been that long, ive forgotten where to find it again

[rare basin]

find what?

screenshot your code

[tepid summit]

ide

[topaz mortar]

ctrl + win logo + s = screenshot

[rare basin]

huh

[tepid summit]

i know ho toscreenshot

[rare basin]

so screenshot

your code lol

[tepid summit]

you asked me to ss my ide

[rare basin]

do you know what is ide?

doesnt look like

[tepid summit]

i do

[rare basin]

you dont

[naive pawn]

ok, what is "it" in this sentence

[tepid summit]

integrated development environment

[rare basin]

so why can't you screenshot it

[tepid summit]

my ide config

[rare basin]

i asked you to screenshot your CODE

[naive pawn]

you were asked to screenshot your ide, not your ide config

[rare basin]

i want to see if your ide is configured

i dont care about your ide config/settings

[topaz mortar]

can we dial down the rudeness a little pls?

[rare basin]

that just proves

you dont understand what is ide

[tepid summit]

id love that

[rare basin]

screenshot your code please

as asked already

[tepid summit]

ok

[rare basin]

yup, it is not configured

it is required to have your ide configured in order to get help here due to #📖┃code-of-conduct

[topaz mortar]

!ide

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[rare basin]

!ide

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[vapid tendon]

Is there info on what order Update()s are processed?

Context (not a problem, I solved it, but I want to understand it more):
I had a 2D camera follow a player, with this logic (pseudo code):

// player
void Update(){
    transform.position = new Vector3(...);
}
// camera
void Update(){
    tranform.position = playerObject.transform.position;
}

There was jittering when I tested this.
I googled about it, saw some people say use FixedUpdate instead. So I tried that, it helped with the jittering (but didn't completely solve it), and also like now movement is 60fps on my 165hz monitor, it looked slightly off.
Then I remembered LateUpdate exists, I move the camera code to LateUpdate and it worked like a charm

[nimble scaffold]

please help me fix this

[rare basin]

is this in one script?

basically camera operations should be called in LateUpdate

after the player changes his position

[vapid tendon]

two scripts, one on the player, one on the camera.

[rare basin]

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

[tepid summit]

i followed thesteps

[nimble scaffold]

here is it lacking new input system of unity?

[naive pawn]

all the Updates are processed before all the LateUpdates, i don't think it's well-defined how 2 Updates or 2 LateUpdates are ordered

[vapid tendon]

I just want to know more about order of operation.
Is there any logic to the order of different scripts' Update() calls, or is there no particular order one can rely on (treat it as if it's random order)?

[rare basin]

it is

[topaz mortar]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.html
These are the docs on Update and other similar functions

[rare basin]

in script execution order

[nimble scaffold]

anyone??

[rare basin]

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

[vapid tendon]

Thx will read

[naive pawn]

oh sick

[topaz mortar]

I think Update() functions are completely unrelated, so there's no order, but not sure

[rare basin]

there is order

that you can set

[nimble scaffold]

anyone please help solving this issue

[naive pawn]

did you install the module

[rare basin]

stop spamming man

[nimble scaffold]

yeah

[nimble scaffold]

help🥹

[tepid summit]

nothing changed

[topaz mortar]

how? 😮

[tepid summit]

we will

give it a minute

[rare basin]

in MonoManager, script execution order

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-MonoManager.html

[naive pawn]

have you tried recompiling after that

[nimble scaffold]

do i need to download new input system?

[topaz mortar]

doesn't seem like it's mean for the Update function though?
Would you be able to make a specific Update function of one script consistently run before/after another one?
Wouldn't it depend on the time it takes the function to run?

[twilit cliff]

Hi Guys, I have added RB and the bounciness Physics material to the ball object, however, the balls are stacking on top of each other, I want them to interact and fall just as normal, how can I make it happen? Please excuse my language.

[tepid summit]

should i click regenerate project files

[naive pawn]

the package, yes

[naive pawn]

from what, exactly

[tepid summit]

when i followed the steps to configure

nothing in vs changed

[nimble scaffold]

okie

[stiff fjord]

how to make buttons scale with screen size
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1217805647463055453/1232251794910871553/image.png?ex=6628c76a&is=662775ea&hm=0b2bbf6952dd592e67913a1d71ab6b923f7920195afffa15c21f8fca7b18557f&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1217805647463055453/1232251885595918388/image.png?ex=6628c77f&is=662775ff&hm=54c9263618f0a9e8cc8715528561d2d7fe298f28312c08718afa6c99283dbdd3&

[burnt vapor]

Are you using VSCode or VS? And would you be able to switch to VS?

VSCode's configuration is annoying

[stiff fjord]

i figured it out nvm

[burnt vapor]

Either way your syntax should be properly highlighted so if this is not the case follow the steps again and perhaps try a restart

[twilit cliff]

Can someone please help me with this?

[hot lily]

user input, i intend to make a 3rd person camera

[naive pawn]

you're clicking in the same spot, so they're spawning at the same spot, so they're perfectly aligned and balanced. nothing's wrong with your physics

[eternal needle]

freelook camera should just do what you need then

[naive pawn]

maybe you could add some variance to the spawning to make it improbable to spawn in the same place?

[eternal needle]

this is probably due to the settings you put on the physics material, not really a code question though.

[twilit cliff]

I'm trying to make it work like how the balls are falling realistically in above video clip, I clicked on the same spot as on my other video but in this video, you can see that the balls are falling down normally but in my first video, the balls are stacking

[naive pawn]

that looks smaller, perhaps it's having some floating-point stuff so it's not perfectly aligned

[eternal needle]

is this video from like a tutorial you are following? Try doing the same without a material at all, and see the result. Also its a lot better if you show the settings you have for the rb and material

[hot lily]

it seems that my camera is being clamped orientation wise but i don't know why

[twilit cliff]

Yes, I'm taking reference of the above video and here is the SS of both RB and collider components of the ball object

[eternal needle]

I'm not really sure what you mean orientation wise. There are lots of settings on the component, play around with them

[hot lily]

nvm figured out why#

[burnt vapor]

Perhaps compare the position of the ball against the one below it on collission and if they match perfectly (with some tiny margin of error), apply a very small amount of horizontal velocity in a randon direction on the upper ball

The physics makes sense here

[hot lily]

in my infinite wisdom i might have accidentally clamped the camera and prevented it from moving at all

[burnt vapor]

It's just super perfect here with where it lands which is unrealistic

[eternal needle]

Can you show the physics materials settings?

[eternal needle]

That's weird, I wouldnt really expect this with circle colliders but I dont do 2d. Maybe try to play around with the settings like a higher bounciness

Obviously can be done with code solutions but you mightve missed a step when following the tutorial. That part is more concerning to me that it's not acting exactly like a video you're following

[twilit cliff]

I'm not following a tutorial to make it, I'm trying to create on my own keeping that as a reference and thank you, I'll keep trying different aspects, maybe that will help me figure out. Thanks to @eternal needle @burnt vapor @naive pawn 🙏

[naive pawn]

btw this was directed to you, in case you missed it

[twilit cliff]

That will affect the actual gameplay I believe since the game requirement is to fill the container so if I modify this way as suggested, it may make it more difficult to instantiate the balls to drop inside the container

[naive pawn]

it could be so small as to be unnoticable, just so they aren't perfectly aligned

a gaussian distribution perhaps, but even a uniform distribution in [-0.001, 0.001] would probably be fine

[twilit cliff]

Will try that as well, maybe as you suggested, it may help me get the output I'm expecting... Thank you once again 🙂

[native seal]

is it preferable to have everything on one canvas or have many canvases

[eternal needle]

You definitely dont need any statistical distributions here. Even just a unity random range (-0.001, 0.001) will be fine.

[topaz mortar]

any reason you're asking? both are fine

[native seal]

just wondering how I should construct my UI, redoing it cause its a mess

[topaz mortar]

well it depends on your UI lol
I have my real UI on a single canvas
but each monster healthbar has it's own canvas

[native seal]

kk, thanks

[topaz mortar]

I think in most cases a single canvas is easiest

[ripe shard]

It’s preferable to split ui into many (sub)canvases and group widgets that change together on one canvas. Your layout needs may also dictate where you can use separate canvases.

[eternal needle]

I believe there is something pinned in #📲┃ui-ux about it.

https://unity.com/how-to/unity-ui-optimization-tips

[topaz mortar]

ah nice to know

[native seal]

thanks

[topaz mortar]

most of that probably doesn't matter for a small game though

[onyx tusk]

how 2 fix this text? autoFontSize is already true

[carmine elbow]

Yoooooooooooooooooo, I have an inventory system with items that ALL have a different use case. Generalizing them into different classes like WeaponItem and ArmorItem wouldn't work. Should I just create a different class for every item and let them inherit from ItemBase or is there a better approach?

[charred spoke]

What do you mean by use case ?

[carmine elbow]

Just usage for the player, all items have different interactions which cannot be generalized

[charred spoke]

Well there is nothing wrong with several levels of inheritence like ItemBase-WeaponBase-m4a4

[naive pawn]

are they all completely separate though?
they would still have general or common attributes like damage and speed, no?
even stuff like equipping or putting them in an inventory.
those can be in a common parent class

if they're all "weapons" in a way a player can understand, then they can be handled the same way in code to some degree

[timber tide]

ItemBase is a good idea, and even a more less* derived based for serialization purposes perhaps?

otherwise can use interfaces for that if you want

[naive pawn]

if they can't be generalized at all that would just be an incoherent system that would be hard for a player to understand.

[hexed terrace]

this is a code channel bud, delete and ask in #💻┃unity-talk .. showing screenshots of before and after.

[cunning mesa]

My current approach is to use a combination of inheritance and interfaces.
Sword should extend Weapon should extend Item.
This way, things like your inventory can simply hold Items.
However, to provide functionality, I use interfaces. So perhaps any item that can be equipped would implement IEquippable

[blazing ruin]

Hi. Can I write here my problem, when I wrote early in code-general branch to get help asap?

[naive pawn]

please don't crosspost

[blazing ruin]

well. Delete there and write here?)

[languid spire]

no, you might want to rethink your question, I read it and have no idea what your problem actually is

[blazing ruin]

when I change the size between the scene and the project window, red lines appear, the buttons break up and it affects when I start the game and the buttons there also change, but I don't change their size, I just want to make the scene window smaller

[green ether]

you didnt properly set your anchors, i would assume

[languid spire]

dont post that here, update your original question in the other channel

[blazing ruin]

solved, thank you

[carmine elbow]

Do you use Scriptable Objects or just Classes

[cunning mesa]

Yeah ScriptableObjects for my items

[green ether]

I have it like
BaseItem
_EquipableItem
__Armor/ Helmet

So instead of an interface the equipable items all derive from EquipableItem first

Not sure if that was a good idea or if I should also use interfaces

[wintry quarry]

This is a classic pitfall

Going to bite you in the ass

Get rid of the inheritance, use composition and tagging

That's my suggestion

[green ether]

What do you mean with composition/ tagging?

[cunning mesa]

Completely remove inheritance?

In-built tagging or a custom implimentation?

[wintry quarry]

Custom obviously since these aren't GameObjects

[mild summit]

how to solve that combined mesh problem?

[wintry quarry]

Composition meaning the item would have something like List<Effect> or List<StatBonus> to satisfy equipping or consumption.

[green ether]

hmm I will have to read up on it

[cunning mesa]

Where would you define your items?

[mild summit]

bro plz help!

[wintry quarry]

In the inspector, as SO assets

[mild summit]

yes

[green ether]

I also am doing it a bit different where I dont use scriptable objects in the game but just use them to hold the data.
Then I use the stuff set in the scriptable objects to build Items through an ItemBuilder/ Builder pattern

Not sure if thats the proper way

[young fossil]

I've heard that generalisation/inheritance is something to avoid in Unity for the most part. Been told you can use it to extend specific classes with more functionality but the typical use of inheritance is better to just use composition since that's how the engine has been designed

[wintry quarry]

That's more about MonoBehaviour scripts

[stiff birch]

This should help visualize what PraetorBlue is talking about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TIkManpEu4

[wintry quarry]

But in general composition is better for solving a lot of problems than inheritance is

[carmine elbow]

Problem is that you can't have different interactions with scriptable objects (change the Use() function for each scriptable object), So ig I won't be using that and will be sticking to classes

[cunning mesa]

Haha ahh yes, well not easily at least

[wintry quarry]

You would do something like mapping effect types to delegates

[timber tide]

you can do anything with scriptableobjects that you can with plain c# classes

the benefit of SOs is being able to reuse instances

throughout the editor itself, so you can reference them on different GOs

[green ether]

Can you create new scriptableObjects in the Build?

[timber tide]

sure, why not

[green ether]

i thought you only can through the CreateAssetMenu thing

[timber tide]

I would recommend just using them as readonly assets though, this way you can be sure that referencing them on different GOs won't change them internally

[willow scroll]

No, you can easily create and copy them via code

[carmine elbow]

Yeah I could put loads of effort into trying to find out how to make it work, and I might...

[carmine elbow]

Hmmmm makes sense...

I'd rather use Scriptable Objects as it's alot easier for my Artists to use and then they won't have to keep on bullying us devs 😄

[cunning mesa]

I have a question of my own.
Without giving too much context, what I think that I want is a LateFixedUpdate method, so that I can perform an action once I know all FixedUpdates have finished.
I imagine this is a common desire - is there a common answer?
(I'm not interested in specifying script execution order, unless that's unanimously the one and only correct solution)

[timber tide]

The only real downside of SOs is asset bloat, as sometimes you don't really need to reuse those instances

but even with that downside I've came to other problems with unity's serialization with plain c# classes and it's that there's a point where these serializable classes would bloat the editor itself, or become initialized with compiler defaulted values

[burnt vapor]

I don't think there is a common solution to this

That said, why would you want this?

If you want something to happen after another thing, usually you'd write an event, or have your own system that calls methods in order. Having a LateX method solves nothing

Especially when later on you need something to happen after this LateX and now you need a LateLateX

[cunning mesa]

Sovles nothing? Surely it solves the issue of being able to call a method between all FixedUpdates and the end of the fixed frame?

[burnt vapor]

My point is that you now have a strict limitation where something is forced to run later, so rather than having a general "Late" feature of something, instead consider hooking up an event somehow that is called after the required work is done

This is why things like LateUpdate are also bad because you will always have an order in a way and making new LateX methods for everything won't solve it cleanly

[cunning mesa]

I see, thank you for the input. I'll modify my implimentation to not need one - cheers

[boreal dove]

I have a problem with my figure, no matter how i rotate it, either the parenting object nor the others below, when i walking in the simulation everything seems to be resetted. the values in the inspector are still the values like i rotated it, but the figure itself is resetted like all values are 0. i have no clue whats going on.

[topaz mortar]

show your code

also !ide

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[topaz mortar]

don't pm me, post it here

[boreal dove]

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

public class ThirdPersonCam : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("References")]
    public Transform orientation;
    public Transform player;
    public Transform playerObj;
    public Rigidbody rb;

    public float rotationSpeed;
    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        //rotate orientation
        Vector3 viewDir = player.position - new Vector3(transform.position.x, player.position.y, transform.position.z);
        orientation.forward = viewDir.normalized;

        // rotate player object
        float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        Vector3 inputDir = orientation.forward * verticalInput + orientation.right * horizontalInput;

        if (inputDir != Vector3.zero)
            playerObj.forward = Vector3.Slerp(playerObj.forward, inputDir.normalized, Time.deltaTime * rotationSpeed);
    }
}

[languid spire]

!code

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[topaz mortar]

use some Console.Log() messages to figure out what's going wrong
if you have a specific question, feel free to ask

[wintry quarry]

the figure itself is resetted
What do you mean by "the figure"?

[boreal dove]

player character

[wintry quarry]

still vague

Are we talking about animations or something?

[topaz mortar]

camera rotation it seems?

[naive pawn]

does that work in unity?

i vaguely recall it not working but it's been a long time since i tried

[wintry quarry]

You have all of these:

    public Transform orientation;
    public Transform player;
    public Transform playerObj;
    public Rigidbody rb;```
And it's unclear which object is which. Super confusingly named and probably duplicated objects.

[topaz mortar]

Debug.Log, my bad

[boreal dove]

ive got another idea how to show you what i mean

[brittle isle]

https://hatebin.com/vgeblndado botched mercy invincibility code. the player stays invincible and can push enemies and obstacles away

[boreal dove]

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

[wintry quarry]

what do your logs say in the console window?

[brittle isle]

collisions are still detected, but the player stays invincible

[wintry quarry]

that's not what your logs would say

Logs are things like this:
Debug.Log("Invuln On");

show your console when this stuff happens

[brittle isle]

there is no "Invuln on"

[wintry quarry]

then your code is never running

Is Debug.Log("Taking Damage: " + _damage); ever printing?

[brittle isle]

yeah

which is weird

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like isInvulnerable is starting out as true

or you're dying

those are the only possibilities

[brittle isle]

https://hatebin.com/lyjsplkpjg

updated my hatebin

[wintry quarry]

show your console

[brittle isle]

I've found the problem - the Is Invulnerable bool stays true and the coroutine stops itself when it calls for collisions between players and enemies to no longer be detected

even so it still stays invulnerable

[wintry quarry]

the coroutine will stop if:

• The Gameobject running the coroutine is destroyed or deactivated
• Time.timeScale is small or 0 (will make the WaitForSeconds take forever)
• StopCoroutine or StopAllCoroutines is called

[brittle isle]

which is weird

[boreal dove]

@topaz mortar you saw my problem in the video ?

[naive pawn]

does timescale affect the Update methods?
am i right to assume that Update/LateUpdate aren't affected, but FixedUpdate is?

[wintry quarry]

No

Update runs once per frame

it doens't care about Time Scale

FixedUpdate is yes

So actually I guess the answer to your whole question is yes not no lol. Didn't see the second message at first

[naive pawn]

lol, i probably shouldve written XUpdate or *Update to make it less confusing

[lunar carbon]

    {
        int minutes = (int)(time / 60000);
        int seconds = (int)((time / 1000) % 60);
        int milliseconds = (int)(time % 1000);

        return string.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:000}", minutes, seconds, milliseconds);
    }```

could someone explain this code

[ebon skiff]

Please help, it says The variable of FollowPlayer has not been asigned and then the camera dosnt follow the veichle how do i fix this, this is my code and editor

[wintry quarry]

What part is confusing you

[languid spire]

what dont you understand, looks pretty self explanatory to me

[wintry quarry]

You have to assign the variable

[lunar carbon]

return string.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:000}", minutes, seconds, milliseconds);

that part

[ebon skiff]

didnt I

[wintry quarry]

No^
it's clearly not assigned

[languid spire]

so go look up string.Format in the docs

[ebon skiff]

Ohhhh thanks

[wintry quarry]

you declared the variable. You didn't assign it.

[undone rampart]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[ebon skiff]

Now i declared it but the camera goes flying backwards when I press play

[undone rampart]

you can just parent the camera to the car and drag it to offset it, you dont need a script for it

[ebon skiff]

Oh

[bold nova]

I have a troubled time with enemies looking at a player. For some reason enemy looks in complete random direction, does anyone see mistake in my code? ignore layer in ray cast is so that enemy doesnt project ray in himself, its one layer only.

 private void LookAtPlayer()
    {
        UpdatePlayerPosition();

        agent.transform.forward = lastPlayerPosition.normalized;
    }
    private void UpdatePlayerPosition()
    {
        var direction = (player.position - agent.transform.position).normalized;

        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(agent.transform.position, direction, out hit, 100f, ~ignoreLayer))
        {
            Debug.DrawRay(agent.transform.position, direction);
            if (hit.transform.CompareTag("Player"))
            {
                lastPlayerPosition = hit.transform.position;
            }
        }
    }

[undone rampart]

i would just use the look at constraint component

[bold nova]

rigidbody constraints?

[undone rampart]

no

[naive pawn]

please don't spoonfeed code, at least say what changed lol

[undone rampart]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-LookAtConstraint.html

[brazen canyon]

Guys I need a little help.
How to stop an object from falling when this object has Character Controller component ?

[brittle isle]

so I put "before ignorelayercollision" and "after ignorelayercollision" in my code for mercy invincibility, and it does seem to stop when ignorelayercollision is called

[wintry quarry]

Can you show the console

[brittle isle]

here you go

[wintry quarry]

the whole console

[brittle isle]

most are debug lines about enemies

[wintry quarry]

you need to turn off Collapse so the logs are shown in order

also this isn't the full console

[brittle isle]

oh right

[boreal dove]

i'm a beginner and i wrote down the script from a video, with the things i wanted to do. but for some reason the character is rotating back in the original rotation when i start walking in the simulation. and i have no idea what causes that. and yes i know about Debug.Log messages but what exactly shall i call ? i dont even have a clue whats the matter.

[wintry quarry]

Start over with the video

delete all the extra stuff that isn't in the video

follow the video exactly

and pay attention to what they're doing and try to understand it

[boreal dove]

there is nothing more in the video

[wintry quarry]

I didn't say there was

You didn't follow the video

You did some things differently

so start over

and follow it more closely

[brazen canyon]

Guys I need a little help.
How to stop an object from falling when this object has Character Controller component ?

:((

[wintry quarry]

CharacterController only moves when you tell it to move

So it is your code doing the "falling"

[boreal dove]

the only different thing is my character, and it ignores if i rotate it. one script seems to reset it to the original position and i dont know how to fix that without ruin the meaning of the whole script. can i somehow rotate the whole pivot of an object ?

[brittle isle]

eureka

it hates layermasks, thought i could kill two birds with one stone

[wintry quarry]

the only different thing is my character,
That's a pretty big difference.

There's also the high possibility that you made a mistake

I also doubt the tutorial has both of these:

    public Transform player;
    public Transform playerObj;```

That would be very weird

[boreal dove]

it has, but i cant tell you why.

[wintry quarry]

oh yeah you're using IgnoreLayerCollision incorrectly

you passed in a LayerMask

[brittle isle]

makes sense

[wintry quarry]

it wants a layer index, not a LayerMask