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[queen adder]

but now its saying "cannot assign move position because it is a method group"

[deft grail]

👆

[queen adder]

ooo

rb.MovePosition(respawnPoint.transform.position);

is that right?

[deft grail]

should be, try it and see

[queen adder]

looks good so far!

damn. i think it works

[steady helm]

Hey! Is anyone able to help me with an issue I'm encountering?

My script works; however, it's doing something I don't want it to do. I've created a script that uses OnTriggerEnter to detect collisions with any mesh. It's supposed to check the material of the mesh and play an audio clip from an audio source. The audio clip should be different for each material. However, the problem I'm facing arises from my meshes having multiple materials. When I tap a mesh with multiple materials, instead of my script playing the audio clip set for the material "Tiles", it plays the material that's located at the top of the MeshRenderer's Materials list. I don't quite understand why it's doing this, and I'm also not sure how to fix this issue. If anyone can help me with this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Basically if thats too much to read (i yap too much) my script needs to check what material its touching correctly to play an audio clip based on that material but im having issues getting it to detect what material its touching... cus im not good at coding lol.

[summer stump]

I would consider abandoning the material idea and adding a script that holds a simple enum
TryGetComponent to get that enum and play the sound based on that

But to answer your actual question, I don't know how to do that, sorry

[steady helm]

😭

[steady helm]

ill see what i can come up with

[hardy maple]

You're going to have a tough time pulling out the Material that corresponds to a the specific point on a mesh where a collision occurred (Not impossible, but tough). I think you would be better off breaking the meshes apart and reassembling them as prefabs. Then you can keep the code that works and only have one Material per mesh

[steady helm]

maybe. i was gonna do that originally but i thought it might be a bit cleaner.

i just remembered my friends unity project uses what im looking for 😏

[slow pecan]

can enyone help me with my code

[deft grail]

help with what, whats the code

[slow pecan]

im trying to make it so it teleports you to the next scene

[summer stump]

Show the code

[deft grail]

and whats the actual problem

[summer stump]

And any errors or bugs

[slow pecan]

what is wrong with my code
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.sceneManagement;

public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour

{
void onTriggerEnter(Collider other)

{
sceneManager.LoadScene(1);
}

}

[summer stump]

Do you have two scenes?

[deft grail]

onTriggerEnter

whats wrong with that

[slow pecan]

its just dosent work and i dont iknow what is wrong

[summer stump]

Ah. See what gr4ss said

[deft grail]

and whats wrong with using UnityEngine.sceneManagement;

[hardy maple]

anything in the console?

[slow pecan]

no

[rocky canyon]

!ide ?

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
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• Other/None

[deft grail]

and sceneManager.LoadScene(1)

[summer stump]

Lots wrong here. Definitely configure your ide. Also keep in mind that c# is case sensitive

Also, loading scene 1 would be the second scene (just to be clear)

[slow pecan]

i know that

[hardy maple]

also, this syntax error will definitely show up in the console

[summer stump]

Good. Lots of other errors to fix

[slow pecan]

ok ill try and fix it

[deft grail]

if you want to have full long term support, do !ide

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[deft grail]

otherwise just fix the errors you have and encounter the same problem 100 times

[slow pecan]

ok thank you

[dusk minnow]

I am fairly new to Unity I am taking C# classes rn and am trying to make a game, I followed taroDevs tutorial on a trajectory line and tried to tweak it to suit my golf game, however it needs optimization and I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to optimize it

If I could send my project to have someone check it out that would be great I want to make sure I am structuring my project well.

[deft grail]

i doubt anyone is going to do that

however people can look at your code

[acoustic arch]

anyone got tips for programming an enemy battle ai? for a card battling game etc

using abilities

[hardy maple]

Learn everything you can about ScriptableObjects

[acoustic arch]

i use them in my game, i mean like npc decision making

each card has 3 abilities to choose from in battle, and can swap between cards

[timber tide]

well, depends how complicated you're making it but if you wanted to just make it pure rng

[hardy maple]

It's hard to give "Quick Tips" on AI approaches. I would probably use a filter based approach as that would give you the ability to configure different AI Players, but there's lots of ways to do it, and it's all VERY dependent on the granular details of your game.

[acoustic arch]

i think i'm gonna calculate ability effectiveness based on situation then output the top 3 decisions and depending on the skill or level of enemy your fighting will determine it

like how in pokemon games some trainers are less smart than others

[acoustic arch]

yeah definitely going to try this

[timber tide]

I can image pokemon AI pretty straight forward

[acoustic arch]

i agree it feels smooth

[timber tide]

use best move, or throw the die

[acoustic arch]

that'll likely be how my battle works but different style of battling

the battling is like the game Teeny Titans that is on mobile from the cartoon shows

but cards instead and other mechanics

[steady helm]

after an hour of stealing. i think i may have stolen my friends code 🤦‍♂️ i am ashamed but as a legend once said
bibaty Bopaty your code is now my property ( he might kill me tmr 😭 )

[teal viper]

He should've put the code in bank if he didn't want it to get stolen.

[steady helm]

Nah he did but he gave me his Bank login and bank files

[teal viper]

Well, then he shouldn't complain about it being stolen.

[steady helm]

ong!

[supple needle]

My game can only manage upto 20 FPS? Can anyone tell me why?

[steady helm]

u mean it depends on how your game is made sometimes a game may lag cus its in the unity editor and not a build.
but you could try using occlusion culling, Render distances,

you can use the built in Unity profile to find bottle necks to see what in the game causes lag.
you can try compressing your textures, the polygon count of your models can cause lag you can try reducing them
you can try Batch Rendering
and static batching

idk theres alot you can do but its hard to just determent the issue thats causing you lag.
It's hard to know you will have to run some tests most likely

[supple needle]

So the number of trigs and verts arent abnormal right? This is all new to me so

Ok thanks! I'll see what i can do

[steady helm]

same 😭

[steady helm]

Hope you manage to figure it out

[summer stump]

Open the profiler and look
Here is an overview for it
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Profiler.html

[supple needle]

Im seeing this

[summer stump]

Set it to hierachy mode and look at what is taking the most time

But yeah, lotta rendering time going on

[teal viper]

You have a crazy amount of batches. And looking at the profiler graph, rendering seems to be taking quite a while.

The editor is taking a lot as well, though.

[hardy maple]

The verts and tris may or may not be a problem depending on what hardware you're targetting. I'm guessing your issue is the crazy number of batches and setpass calls.

I think you need to mark pretty much your whole scene "Static" and then use Baked GI

[supple needle]

Static huh, ok will look into it

[supple needle]

Ok let me have look thanks!

[lofty dome]

i have just begun using unity and i am having a hard time figuring out how to open this door via animation

[grizzled fulcrum]

I've been having a little issue with some box stuff. I made the code so that my character may not jump if he's holding the box, with the SetHoldingBox value. But for some reason, even when he's just standing right next to the box (That has two Box Collision 2Ds for both hitbox and for pulling the box), the character is not allowed to jump, even if he is not grabbing the box. Any clues on how I could fix this?

[maiden parcel]

hey can anyone help me with a code?

im doing a school proyect and my code doesnt work, basicly i need unity to get a int information from one scene to another, but it isnt working

[green ether]

Theres alot of ways to do that

What exactly do you need?

[maiden parcel]

im doing with GetInt

[maiden parcel]

save a puntuation for a GameOver Screen

[green ether]

Static Variables/ Static class
Or a singleton
is what I would do, depending on what fits your need, but im no expert by any means

[nimble apex]

  public int m_iTableID
  {
    get
    {
      return tableid;
    }
    set
    {
      tableid = value;
      this.gameObject.name = value.ToString();
    }
  }```
will this property by itself have big problems? because i just found out a stack overflow error that blows up the whole editor

[maiden parcel]

i can send you the code? maybe i write it worng

[green ether]

Sure, post it here

[gaunt ice]

i dont see thing thats causing stack overflow

[maiden parcel]

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

public class GetValue : MonoBehaviour

{
 string Puntuacion = "Puntuacion";
 public int CurrentScore { get; set; }
 public void Awake ()
  {
    CurrentScore = PlayerPrefs.GetInt(Puntuacion);
  }
  public void SetScore(int score)
  {
    PlayerPrefs.SetInt(Puntuacion, score);
  }
}```

Thats for getting the information

[green ether]

put the code in three `

3 before and 3 after

and add c# after the first three `

for proper formatting

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

public class GetValue : MonoBehaviour

{
 string Puntuacion = "Puntuacion";
 public int CurrentScore { get; set; }
 public void Awake ()
  {
    CurrentScore = PlayerPrefs.GetInt(Puntuacion);
  }
  public void SetScore(int score)
  {
    PlayerPrefs.SetInt(Puntuacion, score);
  }
}

[maiden parcel]

thanks 😅

and i got this for getting information

using TMPro;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class Score : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TextMeshProUGUI textMesh;

    void Start()
    {
        if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey("Puntuacion"))
        {
            int GetValue = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Puntuacion");

        }
        
    }
}

[nimble apex]

it was the cs this.gameObject.name = value.ToString(); itself causing the overflow

i dont even know why tho

after i commented it out everything works perfectly fine

"this" made the overflow

its really about that keyword itself

[green ether]

I never used playerPrefs so i am not sure whats the issue, it looks right to me technically

One thing here is that you only get the score once in Awake() you never update it again, you onlyset the PlayerPrefs in SetScore() but the value CurrentScore is not being set when setting the score

Is that what your problem is?

I wouldnt use playerprefs for a score though

Just a static class I guess

[gaunt ice]

i dont believe the this pointer can cause stack overflow but let me try

[maiden parcel]

so change playerperfs to a static would be better?

[nimble apex]

make sure u save ur project first

[green ether]

Dont really know, I dont use playerPrefs so I cant tell you if its better or worse

But what exactly is the problem/ why is it not working?

[maiden parcel]

the text in gameover screen its not changing

its not getting the information

[green ether]

public void SetScore(int score)
  {
    PlayerPrefs.SetInt(Puntuacion, score);
    CurrentScore = score;
  }

Add this line to Setscore

[maiden parcel]

the code doesnt print any error, but when player dies, the puntuation in gameover screen stays in 0

[green ether]

yeah because you never update CurrentScore

you only get it once in Awake() right?

[maiden parcel]

oh

[gaunt ice]

no stack overflow

[green ether]

try if it works with this

But you dont need the whole playerPrefs I think

[maiden parcel]

stills the same

[green ether]

public static class Score
{
 private static int _currentScore;

 public static void SetScore(int score)
 {
    CurrentScore = score;
 }
 public static int GetScore()
 {
    return CurrentScore;
 }
}

I wouldve probably done something like this

Im not at home so not sure if the syntax is correct

[maiden parcel]

so i need to add another line? like C# void update ?

[gaunt ice]

run successfully

[maiden parcel]

its ok, dont worry

[maiden parcel]

so i change the player perfs to a static value in both codes

[green ether]

i think it would be easier

public class Score : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TextMeshProUGUI textMesh;

    void Start()
    {
        if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey("Puntuacion"))
        {
            int GetValue = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Puntuacion");

        }
        
    }
}

What is this even supposed to do?

it doesnt do anything rightnow

[nimble apex]

no way

[maiden parcel]

i should get the other code information for showing it in the other screen

[green ether]

public class Score : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TextMeshProUGUI textMesh;

    public int GetScore()
    {
        if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey("Puntuacion"))
        {
            return PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Puntuacion");
        } 
    }
}

This at least does something

Now GetScore() returns the score

but the static class I posted makes more sense than splitting it in 2 classes

[gaunt ice]

how you assign the value to m_iTableId

[maiden parcel]

sorry 😅 , im really abd at this

[nimble apex]

theres 8 spots for assignment

RoomManager.Instance.myCurrentTableNumber = m_iTableID;```

mainly like this

definitely not about backup field tho

yoooooo its backup fields

aight problem solved thx lol

[maiden parcel]

with this its says this error

[green ether]

public class Score : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TextMeshProUGUI textMesh;

    public int GetScore()
    {
        if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey("Puntuacion"))
        {
            return PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Puntuacion");
        } 
        else
        // Return whatever you want if the Key "Puntuacion" doesnt exist
        { return 0; }
    }
}

add the else

If no key exists it still needs to return something

[maiden parcel]

im trying it

the puntuation still not changing staying at 0

[green ether]

public static class Score
{
    private static int _currentScore;

    public static void SetScore(int score)
    {
        _currentScore = score;
    }

    public static int GetScore()
    {
        return _currentScore;
    }
}

I would just do this

its much simpler and less error points, unless you absolutely need to use PlayerPrefs

[maiden parcel]

its not necesary player perfs jaja

[green ether]

try this static class then

it should work already like this

you can add an extra method like

[maiden parcel]

that should go to the code whos need to get the information, no?

[green ether]

public static void AddScore(int score)
{
  _curentScore += score;
}

to add score instead of setting it

[green ether]

No

create a new file

Name it whatever you want

Score or something

ScoreHandler

if score is already taken

something like that

Remove the monobehaviour

make it static

Then you can use it from all scenes

[maiden parcel]

ooooooh

ok

[green ether]

It doesnt need to be attached to any gameObject

it cant actually

and then you can do ScoreHandler.GetScore() or ScoreHandler.SetScore() from anywhere

[maiden parcel]

i gotta leave, im gonna try later

thanks for all

sorry for inconvinience

[polar grail]

hey guys im trying to instantiate a prefab by using Resources.Load but it's giving me "The object you want to instantiate is null"

[hardy maple]

code please

[polar grail]

GameObject bulletInstance = Instantiate(Resources.Load("/Assets/prefabs/projectile"), firePos.transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, AngleDeg - 45f)) as GameObject;

[gaunt ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.Load.html

[hardy maple]

To use Resources.Load. the prefab must be in the Resources folder

[polar grail]

oooohhh

works now thank you!

[hardy maple]

You should consider why you are using Resources.Load. There are certainly good reasons for it. But if you don't already have a Resources folder, it may be better not to use it.

[polar grail]

I have my reasons

[west sonnet]

How can I immediately stop a gameobject from moving? I tried doing Rigidbody.velocity = Vector3.zero; but the object still slides a little before stopping

[languid spire]

set isKinimatic to true

[west sonnet]

I'm guessing that changes it from Dynamic or Kinematic?

and would I still need to change the velocity to zero?

[languid spire]

no, once it's kinematic it removes it from any physics calculations

[west sonnet]

I tried this but the object still slides a bit

I should specify that the object is actually the player, but when a trigger is enabled, the players movement script is disabled and the velocity set to zero

and now IsKinematic set to true

[tawdry quest]

Sorry to comment on this, but you should avoid using Resources.Load at all costs

[green ether]

I heard the same

[polar grail]

whats wrong with it

[green ether]

And I havent had a reason to use it yet anyways

[tawdry quest]

If you want to spawn different prefabs its better to do public Prefab myPrefabBullet public Prefab myOtherPrefab and attach the prefab in the editor

[polar grail]

the thing is, i dont want to attach it in the editor

[tawdry quest]

The thing is Resouce.Load takes about 10-15x the amount of time and you load it from disk every time you instanciate

[polar grail]

oh

😢

[green ether]

First of all this

2nd: You have to refer to everything in there by string which is prone to error

[tawdry quest]

Yeah attaching the script to a gamemanager and then dropping the prefabs onto the fields in the Inspector is way better

[green ether]

3rd: I think the whole resources folder is packages in the build no matter if you use it or not and fully loaded into memory

which is bad if its alot

If you absolutely have to use it, dont use Resources.Load over and over again, cache it on startup or something

[fringe plover]

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[tawdry quest]

Idk why it even exists, it has very specific reasons afaik, and unless you know why you need it, you shouldnt use it

[green ether]

Yeah I only used it once cause I thought it would be nice to not have to assign some things

But then I learned and knew better xD

[polar grail]

is there other ways

[tawdry quest]

This, but i see 0 reason why @polar grail couldnt just use the normal and more performant way.

[green ether]

yeah

[polar grail]

to instantiate my prefab without having to assign it

[green ether]

I cant imagine having so many prefabs that you cant just assign them

[tawdry quest]

Why

Explain why and if it makes sense i explain how

[green ether]

You shouldnt have so many that its too much work

if you do you are probably doing something wrong and should design your prefabs in a different/ better way

[polar grail]

i guess so

[burnt vapor]

It's useful for loading common prefabs. Just make sure to cache it and not call it more than is needed

Considering it was all inlined here I doubt it was needed

[tawdry quest]

I have one PrefabManager that has my PrefabManager script that has like 200 prefabs attached

Lol

[burnt vapor]

But if this is some common prefab then they should just load it beforehand

[polar grail]

i guess i have to do that then

[burnt vapor]

Also nice for loading things like JSON by the way, it definitely has its uses

[tawdry quest]

Even if not you should just put it on the script that need it as an public Prefab Reference

Not with Resouces

[timber tide]

cant stop me from using it :)

[burnt vapor]

That's why I mention common prefabs

[tawdry quest]

Cant stop you from making your game unplayable and choppy true

[burnt vapor]

It's very nice to just Load some prefab that is used literally everywhere, and there is no shared instance possible

[tawdry quest]

But we can advise against bad decisions

[burnt vapor]

And even if it's 10x slower that whatever you specify, doing it just once doesn't make your app unplayable and choppy lol

[timber tide]

im not making the next skyrim yo

[tawdry quest]

Yes thats true, but loading it every shoot event, like it looked like is just no

[burnt vapor]

There's definitely room for a better alternative with things, and I assume with the inlined code it's the same case, but this method definitely has use cases so it should not be shot down because it's super slow

[burnt vapor]

No you're right, the code is horrible here

[languid spire]

how do you justify your advice given the scene load time that will be impacted by having 200+ prefabs loaded when the script loads?

[tawdry quest]

You should just not use Resouces.Load unless you really need it. As the other options are way more performant and dont require string literals (references by string)

[tawdry quest]

The other one is even a longer load time ?

[languid spire]

no it is not

[tawdry quest]

As it loads from disk by string search

Uh yeah it is ?

[polar grail]

uh oh!

[tawdry quest]

Its known that Resources.Load is worlds slower then loading by Script Reference

Could even spin up a benchmark if i was home to tell you exactly how much slower

Last time i saw someone talk about it it was about 10x slower

[green ether]

There is just no need for it

[tawdry quest]

Sure if you only load it here and there its not that bad, but then you also have the string references, which is also abysmal

[green ether]

Pretty sure the official docs say to avoid it aswell

[tawdry quest]

It has basically only very rare usecases, most of the time referencing a prefab or something else on a script directly by dropping it in the Inspector is better.

[languid spire]

you will find no one more anti string than me but, if I have 200+ prefabs and I only want to load 1 of them you can be damn sure I will use Resources.Load and I will be faster and more efficient than loading all 200+ in one go

[eternal needle]

I wouldnt say a prefab manager with 200 references is much better. And calling a game unplayable and choppy because it uses resources is silly

[tawdry quest]

?!? Where does that even make sense

Then you only reference that one on the script

Where in the world is Resources.Load better there

My example with the 200 prefabs is cuz i need them all at runtime as its a shooter and every player could have a different prefab as player, outfit or gun, so i need them loaded at all times.

[languid spire]

you are saying that is is better to have a script that prereferences all of the 200 prefabs rather than use Resources.Load to access 1 of them

[tawdry quest]

No ? Never did that ?

I said doing 200 references is way better then 200 Resouces.Load

[tawdry quest]

As in my example i needed 200 prefabs

[languid spire]

you did
#💻┃code-beginner message

[timber tide]

I don't use resource folder cause it's better, I use it cause im lazy

[tawdry quest]

Sorry but are you confused ? Where am i saying that there ? There is 0 mention about any number.

Now please stop talking about it, im out.

[timber tide]

if I was making games composed of hundreds of these high res 8k textures I'd probably build some decent bundles

[tawdry quest]

Use it if you want to. We explained enough why it bad.

[timber tide]

but I can't be bothered with the asset browser at times haha

[eternal needle]

You can explain why it is bad, but please do not suggest a prefab manager as an alternative when you have 200 stored in there.

There is literally no reason for such a script to exist

[tawdry quest]

Litterally is, but if you cant read thats on you.

[tawdry quest]

This

[eternal needle]

Ok by that same logic then there is a reason for resources to exist. Both reasons may be shitty though.

[tawdry quest]

Resouces.Load would be fatally slower in the case of my script, that was the example for the speed.

Both of you just go in read half and then try to comment on it...

Use it if you want, im not here to try to defend why its better, if you dont believe me, then feel free to use it

Are we done ? Good then i go back to work on my Multiplayer thats haunting me since days.

[green ether]

I mean, i also never needed a prefabmanager with 200 prefabs

That seems like alot

Whats the difference between all these prefabs?

[tawdry quest]

I can look into a better way, but for now i have no other way i can think of how i can have the player have them all loaded, so if they encounter a player with that equipped that they see them correctly.

[eternal needle]

And I am not telling you to use resources either as an alternative. Lots of passive aggressive comments from you but it seems you dont even understand what I and others are telling you.

[tawdry quest]

They are different weapons, different armour, helmets, jackets, etc pp

[languid spire]

that is a damn good question, if you need 200 similar prefabs I would suggest there is something very wrong with your design

[tawdry quest]

Its a multiplayer game ?

[green ether]

Yeah thats what im saying

[tawdry quest]

Completly normal

[green ether]

No

[timber tide]

prefabs are just pennies in terms of mem, it's the textures and audio that you'd want to be loading and deloading.

[tawdry quest]

Yes it is, go start fortnite, valorant or splatoon and tell me how many different clothes and guns you find that people could have equipped

[green ether]

They wont be their own prefabs

[tawdry quest]

No its often different models

Not just skins

[green ether]

My game is multiplayer with alot of different equipables/ races/ etc and i only have one player prefab

On there is a script that Syncs the IDs of each equipment between players

[tawdry quest]

And the equip, weapons and co ? They are also prefabs

[green ether]

not for me

[tawdry quest]

How do you spawn them then, directly the model ?

[timber tide]

and the models too, yeah. But you can always manage a lot of the loading on the fly instead all at once

[green ether]

I have one basic weapon GameObject inside of my player

I change model/ textue depending on the Id of that equipment/ weapon

[tawdry quest]

Yeah but i dont want a lot of loading or stutter when they encounter "new" objects they have not in memory

Thats why im preloading them, and prefabs so they have their animation scrips and other stuff already attached

[timber tide]

I mean you load async it shouldnt be a problem

[green ether]

Same with the player, instead of switching out prefabs i just switch the visuals depending on selected gear/ race

On the same prefab

And all players perfectly see what everyone else has equipped

[teal viper]

You don't want your whole game assets loaded at the same time. That's a recipe for disaster.

[tawdry quest]

And what do i display while its loading ? Some black texture ?

That looks bad too

[green ether]

me?

[timber tide]

well, for one I wouldn't load exactly when encountering that object

[teal viper]

No. Generally. Mostly in reply to Elry.

[green ether]

ah ok

[timber tide]

I'd be a bit smarter on your loading manager and have some idea of when and where to start loading your assets, even outside of a loading zone

[tawdry quest]

But you do made me think about my approach with the 200 prefabs, maybe when the people are loading into the new server they get told what different objects are in the round and then they load that

Before the game starts

[eternal needle]

Just a note since you listed valorant above, there are times you can select an agent and nothing will appear for a few seconds except the loading animation.

[tawdry quest]

True tho, but once ingame it all works and also the skins

[tawdry quest]

Prolly use a approach like this

Load what the server says can appear ingame

But then i have to use Resouces.Load and thats kinda slow, but again when you are in the loading screens who cares about the 50-100ms more

What i dont know how to is that the main menu i wanted to do like fortnite where people could just join, then i would need to load the stuff while they are already appearing

[green ether]

But does that make a difference?

All things in resources are loaded into memory on startup anyways no?

Regardless of theyre ever actually used

Thats why its not recommended

[tawdry quest]

I currently use 3gb ram when ingame and 2gb in lobby, thats with all 200 prefabs loaded

[green ether]

I didnt check my usage ever, but my game is very simple so i doubt ist uses alot

[green ether]

Would be interesting to see how/ if that changes when you use Resources.Load instead

[tawdry quest]

So i should be good like rn and i dont have to load them when they are needed

[tawdry quest]

Not much, if at all

Once they are loaded into memory it stays the same

[green ether]

yeah thats what Im saying

So there is no point for Resources.Load

[tawdry quest]

But loading them is prolly more intense on Resouces.Load

[green ether]

yes, and you have stringreferences

[tawdry quest]

Cuz you do string searches for files and then load them different

Didnt i say i wanted to leave and suffer with networking

[green ether]

lol

What are you using for networking?

[tawdry quest]

@eternal needle @timber tide thanks for the headsup about the 200 prefabs, i will look into if its better to load them async when needed or all at once at start

[tawdry quest]

Fishnet, defenetly easier then mirror, but still a pain

[green ether]

Ah okok

Im using mirror

Whats causing more problems is steam and the horrendous documentation for alot of things on steamworks

[tawdry quest]

I found mirror horrendously bad to understand / use and while looking i found fishnet

So far really easy and it comes with neat stuff predone

[green ether]

Took a while but I understand alot now

The devs are very helpful in their discord and the docs are not bad

Also alot of examples etc there

[tawdry quest]

I like that i dont have to do clientside prediction or lag compensation, that comes with FN

The lag thing only with Pro tho

Anyways i go back to suffering how to do scene stacking properly

[near wadi]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[kindred halo]

Is there any way to detect If an object has been activated
not talking about checking if it's active or not
I want to trigger an animation only when the object is activated

[gaunt ice]

on enable

[near wadi]

I am trying to get this to watch for *.uxml also, but i have not found the proper syntax to do that.

watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(dataPath, "*.cs")
//I have tried 
watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(dataPath, "*.cs | *.uxml")
//and also 
watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(dataPath, "*.cs; *.uxml")

i have even tried making a new watcher, but nothing i do seems to make things work. It Does work if i use *.cs or *.uxml independently though, so the surrounding code is doing its job
IDK why the hell the code blocks do not want to work for me, and i am done trying.

[kindred halo]

It's a function that I can't use on objects

[gaunt ice]

what object?

[kindred halo]

I mean

actions.gun.OnEnable.SetTrigger("WeaponSwitch");```
It's not possible

[gaunt ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnEnable.html

[kindred halo]

I know
but I need it to be that way I showed above
As it's done in another gameobject's script

[languid spire]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.filesystemwatcher.filter?view=net-8.0
'Note use of multiple filters is not supported'

[gaunt ice]

then when another object is activated, call back to the object

[near wadi]

ACK! Ok, thank you

[languid spire]

tbh, I just use asterix . asterix and then filter myself

[near wadi]

This is for a background recompiler, so when i press save in VS, is compiles over in Unity, without me having to click over to Unity and such. I do not know how to post filter a watcher for *.* though

[languid spire]

 string path = Path.Combine(project.path, "Assets");
            watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(path);

            watcher.InternalBufferSize = 32768; // 16384;

            watcher.NotifyFilter = 0 //NotifyFilters.Attributes
                                             //| NotifyFilters.CreationTime
                                             | NotifyFilters.DirectoryName
                                             | NotifyFilters.FileName
                                             //| NotifyFilters.LastAccess
                                             | NotifyFilters.LastWrite;
            // | NotifyFilters.Security
            // | NotifyFilters.Size;

            watcher.Changed += OnChanged;
            watcher.Created += OnCreated;
            watcher.Deleted += OnDeleted;
            watcher.Renamed += OnRenamed;
            watcher.Error += OnError;

            watcher.Filter = "*.*";
            watcher.IncludeSubdirectories = true;
            watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;

[near wadi]

I'll give it a shot and see how it goes. Thanks

[quartz igloo]

Hey guys, I'm trying to make movement for my rigidbody2D (the player) with inputs. I followed a guide on Youtube, but his script doesn't work at all for me

Here's the script:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody2D body;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float xInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")
        float yInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical")
        body.velocity = new Vector2(xInput, yInput);
    }
}```

and here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-c3ErDzrh8

[near wadi]

@languid spire Ok, for some reason i thought it was going to get strange on me when i made new assets, or created a new thing in the hierarchy, but that seems to be fine. Thanks again

[green ether]

Any errors in the log?

surely
cause you are missing some semicolons

[quartz igloo]

Assets\PlayerMovement.cs(18,49): error CS1002: ; expected

[green ether]

yeah

[quartz igloo]

I will try now

[languid spire]

Seriouslly man, you need to pay attention to what you are doing

[quartz igloo]

Ok ?

[green ether]

if it still doesnt work, my next 2 guesses from what the first error was will be that

• The script is not on the gameobject at all
• the rb is not assigned

[quartz igloo]

I think it is on the game object, I created a new component in the inspector

It send me an error when I hit play:
UnassignedReferenceException: The variable body of PlayerMovement has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the body variable of the PlayerMovement script in the inspector.
UnityEngine.Rigidbody2D.set_velocity (UnityEngine.Vector2 value) (at <39c25c7743074133aa8a65861b64bb60>:0)
PlayerMovement.Update () (at Assets/PlayerMovement.cs:19)

[green ether]

lol

[green ether]

gonna refer back to past me who saw the future here

But this is really basic stuff, you should probably go back to some basic programming tutorial in general to understand the basic principles and what the errors mean/how to use use/read them

[quartz igloo]

I guess I should

[green ether]

but sometimes the errors are

almost

Plain english text that tells you what to do

Like

You probably need to assign the body variable of the PlayerMovement script in the inspector.

[quartz igloo]

I know it's a problem about a missign variable in the inspector, that's what I'm trying to do

[languid spire]

do you know how to set variables in the inspector?

[quartz igloo]

I think yes, I created a variable called xInput of type float by adding a new component

[languid spire]

no, that is declaring a variable for use in the inspector (maybe) that is not setting it's value

[quartz igloo]

I can set the value in the inspector if I'm unserstanding correctly

I set the value to 4

[languid spire]

then that is what you need to do here.
You have declared a variable 'body'

public Rigidbody2D body;

So now you need to give it a value in the inspector

[green ether]

you could set a string to "bananas" but im not sure how that will affect your playermovement

body is the name of your RigidBody2D component

its not assigned on the gameObject where the playerMovement script is

1. Add a Rigidbody2D to the gameObject if it doesnt have one
2. Drag that Component into the field body of PlayerMovement

or alternatively you can do

body = GetComponent<Rigidbody2d>();

in your start method

[tawdry quest]

@languid spire i wanted to say sorry for the condesending way of talking to you earlier, i just had a bad example and i shouldnt have talked like that

[burnt mantle]

Hi guys i have a question why when i add a camera to a gameobject the pivot position change like my object is in 0,0,0 and visualy on 0,0,0 and when i add my camera the position don't change but visualy not in 0,0,0

[warm cove]

hello guys! So I just downloaded a death animation and created a transition from "any state" to it, with the requirement of a bool named "alive = false". To set the bool to false, I used a private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision and then a gameobjectcomparetag and the tag of the enemy to set it to false. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work, as now my character repeats the die animation constantly without having touched the object but when he touches it it stops. Could this be because the if with comparetag enemy is in the same private void as another comparetag?

[burnt mantle]

Show your code, the bool is already to false and you wanna set it to false ?

[tepid summit]

i have this here script that desnt give any errors but it doesnt call the debug nor does it instantiate anyhting. i was wondering if anyone could help

 public Vector3 Tree;

 void Start()
 {
     DropBranches();
 }

 IEnumerator DropBranches()
 {
     yield return new WaitForSeconds(Random.Range(1, 18));
     ItemPrefab = Instantiate(ItemPrefab, Tree, Quaternion.identity);
     Debug.Log("Dropped");
     Start();
 }```

i originally had it set to Update()

[burnt mantle]

its a coroutine so you have to have to put in StartCoroutine(DropBranches());

[tepid summit]

ohh yeahhh

my bad

easy mistake

tysm

[warm cove]

My code was kinda long so I sent you a dm ^^

[burnt mantle]

You can show only the OnCollisionEnter2D method

[warm cove]

alright

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision) { if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Platform")) { anim_grounded = true; grounded = true; // Man nuddar marken jumps = 2; // Refreshar mängden hopp du har när du väl nuddar marken } if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("enemy")) { alive = false; } }
earlier I have a private bool for alive set to true and anim.SetBool("dying", alive);

could it just be an issue with me having two different comparetag ifs in the same method?

[burnt mantle]

no its not the issue you can put 10 compareTag its same

[warm cove]

alright

btw sorry for swedish comments, this is a school project of mine ^^

[burnt mantle]

What is the bool alive for ?

[warm cove]

I use it as a condition for an animation transition

[burnt mantle]

because if you want to change the bool in the animator you just need anim.SetBool("dying", alive);

[warm cove]

so that when I touch a certain object the character enters the dying animation

oh

[burnt mantle]

so if you don't use the bool alive for an other check you can just put anim.SetBool("dying", alive); in you condition

[burnt mantle]

anim.SetBool("dying", true or false);

like anim.SetBool("dying", true);

[warm cove]

👍

tysm ^^

[quaint anchor]

What does this error mean?? It keeps showing up and appearing and I can't do anything

[burnt vapor]

This appears to be an internal Unity error judging by the underlying stacktrace

Try reloading your editor if this keeps popping up

[quaint anchor]

okasy

[burnt vapor]

Otherwise it's possible something does influence it but there's simply not a clear exception build in to explain it, so try finding something related to these nodes it mentiones

[quaint anchor]

okay reset and its working fine it seems

thank you

[scenic saffron]

I need to assign the transform of my player to my prefab and cant open both in inspector at the same time, can anyone help me?

[languid spire]

is Player a Scene gameobject?

[scenic saffron]

yes

[green ether]

cant assign

those to prefabs

[languid spire]

you cannot put scene objects into prefabs

[green ether]

You never need to. What are you trying to achieve?

[scenic saffron]

i just made the player a prefab too it fixed

[languid spire]

oh, no. I can see what comes next

[scenic saffron]

did u see that i tell that it just takes the positions from the prefab and not actually from the Object in the scene?

[hollow dawn]

im trying to download my game to my phone but it wont let me, how do I fix this?

[languid spire]

and what makes you think that the transform of the player in the Scene will be the same as the Player pefab?

[scenic saffron]

brain not braining

[languid spire]

do you notice how it says 'See Console for Details' and yet the one thing you obscure is the console?

[green ether]

took the words out of my mouth xD

[languid spire]

I am so tired of people that do not read messages

[green ether]

it must be easier to read one sentence rather than posting a screenshot here and writing a question no?

[languid spire]

obviously not

reading take effort and thought, man that is too much to ask

[green ether]

one step ahead would be to then google what you read before asking here

but thats like

very advanced already

[languid spire]

but google isn't youtube and if it aint on youtube it don't exist

[scenic saffron]

idk how but it is, the problem was that i was using Start() and Update() and now it works fine

so im even more stupid

[languid spire]

than maybe you should think about the 'how' and actually learn something

[split dragon]

Hi. I have a problem: I have a float "Hi", and from its values I need to get certain numbers: 300 = 0.1, 200 = 0.5, 100 = 1. This is just a rough example, I still need to take data between these numbers (250, 175. 63, etc.). What formula or function should I use for this?

[wintry quarry]

is 300 0.1, or 0?

if it's 0.1, that's not a linear function so the question to ask would be what kind of curve do you want?

One option is to use an AnimationCurve.

[split dragon]

is 0

[wintry quarry]

then that's just a remap function

https://forum.unity.com/threads/re-map-a-number-from-one-range-to-another.119437/

[split dragon]

Thanks

[wintry quarry]

i.e. remap(Hi, 300, 100, 0, 1)

Alternatively:
1 - Mathf.InverseLerp(100, 300, Hi)

[scenic saffron]

Is there a really simple way to get the direction from one transform to another transform?

[wintry quarry]

to.position - from.position gets the offset aka difference

(to.position - from.position).normalized if you want a normalized direction vector

[scenic saffron]

that gives me smth like this: (0.42, 0.15, -0.89) and what do i do with it now? like what number means what?

[wintry quarry]

it's the direction vector you asked for

Why were you wanting the direction in the first place?

You can do whatever you'd like with it. Make an object face that direction. Fire a projectile in that direction

whatever

[green ether]

you could even revert it and go the opposite way

endless possibilities!

[scenic saffron]

i dont know how to do math with vectors we havent had that in school yet, but i'll try to figure it out

[wintry quarry]

If you explain exactly what you want to do, we could give a better answer.

You don't generally have to do any math

There must be some reason you asked for a direction vector

Those numbers are just the x, y, z parts of the vector

[silk night]

Vector is basically a distance but in 2/3 dimensions 😄

[scenic saffron]

im in 2d why do i get a z

[silk night]

If you want an easy imagination

[wintry quarry]

Unity is a 3D engine

it's always a 3D engine

[scenic saffron]

makes sens

[wintry quarry]

if you have a non-zero Z component it's because your objects are at different z positions

[scenic saffron]

if i make it a Vector2 instead of a vector3 can i just forget about z?

[wintry quarry]

that depends

it depends on when you make the conversion and whether you're normalizing or not

If you convert first and then normalize, then yes

[summer stump]

You should probably just set the z positions to the same thing if you are doing 2d

[wintry quarry]

if you don't normalize at all, then yes

[silk night]

if you are working in 2d, why are your objects different on the Z axis anyway, did you accidentially move one on Z?

[wintry quarry]

(one object might be the camera!)

[summer stump]

Ah of course.

[scenic saffron]

its not

[wintry quarry]

ok then generally they should all be at z = 0 but not always

[scenic saffron]

but the second object was created by the camera so the z was messed up

i'll just subtract Vector3(0, 0, 10)

it works

[silk night]

you can set a position at creation in the Instantiate function

var newPosition = new Vector3(cameraTransform.x, cameraTransform.y, 0) would be enough to get the camera position with 0 on Z

[willow scroll]

var 😨

[silk night]

whats wrong with var?

[willow scroll]

They are hard to read

[silk night]

Not really 😄

also any IDE will annotate it for you, if the type isnt obvious in the first place

[willow scroll]

Changing the var by the actual type and simplifying the type assigned looks better

Vector3 newPosition = new(cameraTransform.x, cameraTransform.y, 0)

[silk night]

Its preference

there is no better or worse for that

[willow scroll]

Sure it is, that was merely my opinion 😅

[scenic saffron]

i have to update the position constantly anyways so adding 10 is easer for me

[silk night]

wait are you moving your player based on the camera position?

[scenic saffron]

no

[scenic saffron]

i want the player in my Game to be moved by getting attracted to a blackhole and i have to update the position of the blackhole constantly so it follows the mouse curser

and i want the strength of the attraction to decrees exponentially as the distance increases

and i want to unalive myself

[willow scroll]

The last piece of information was redundant

[silk night]

Oh, then what I would suggest is creating a plane that is on Z = 0, send a ray from camera to cursor position and get the intersection with the plane, put the black hole position on the intersection point

will automatically give you Z = 0 for your black hole position

[willow scroll]

So you want your black hole's position to the the same as cursor's and your the player to be dragged the this black hole?
So you want to move the player towards the cursor?

[silk night]

as for the attraction to the black hole, sounds like you need help with that? 😄

[scenic saffron]

yes

but when the distance increases it gets exponentially slower

[willow scroll]

Create a hole GameObject and set its position to the position of the cursor in the world space

private void Update()
{
   Vector2 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;

   if (_mousePosPrev != mousePos)
   {
       blackHole.position = _mainCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
       _mousePosPrev = mousePos;
   }
}

[scenic saffron]

i allready have a hole

that works

i just need the attraction part

[final kestrel]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[silk night]

Do you want actual physics or calculations to do that for you?

physics would be less predictable and harder to controll but might look better

[final kestrel]

https://hastebin.com/share/zefuziludi.csharp Any Idea why my cursor still shows on game window even after starting the game?

[silk night]

In a build or editor?

[final kestrel]

editor

[silk night]

Try building, editor is funky with the mouse sometimes

[final kestrel]

All right thanks.

[willow scroll]

Then this should work

private void FixedUpdate()
{
    Vector2 dir = blackHole.position - transform.position;

    _rigidbody.AddForce(1 / Mathf.Pow(dir, 2) * blackHoleForce, ForceMode.Force);
}

[scenic saffron]

i guess like Inverse-square law in real life but to a power of 1.5 so its not that strong

[silk night]

Never multiply by DeltaTime when adding force

[scenic saffron]

I will try this first tho

[willow scroll]

No, this is a wrong statement.

The delta time is necessary here, as we're moving the rigidbody continuously

[silk night]

AddForce already factors in deltatime

[raw ledge]

Hey how could I do a wall such that some objects go through it but some no?

[silk night]

Unity has a collision matrix where you can set which layers collide with which

[slender nymph]

use layers to filter collisions https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LayerBasedCollision.html

[raw ledge]

Thanksss

[willow scroll]

I see, yes, that's right, the fixedDeltaTime shouldn't be used with the AddForce method inside of the FixedUpdate. I have corrected the code.

[summer stump]

It shouldn't ever be used with any addforce mode in any location, nor with setting velocity

[long jacinth]

How do i access a boolen from a database

[polar acorn]

What's the error say

[long jacinth]

when i hover over the wiggly red line it tells me

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

[polar acorn]

Okay, so what is IsColor?

[long jacinth]

boolen i made in my database

[polar acorn]

Show it

Show CharacterDataBase

[slender nymph]

that's not CharacterDataBase

[polar acorn]

That's not CharacterDataBase

[long jacinth]

oh wait sorry wrong one

[polar acorn]

So, where in this file is there anything named IsColor

[long jacinth]

hmm no

[polar acorn]

So then what are you trying to get IsColor from?

[long jacinth]

im confused

i followed a tutorial for this

why does this work with the sprite renderer and not a boolen

[summer stump]

You didn't follow it correctly

[long jacinth]

i finished the tutorial and i want to make something of my own

[polar acorn]

You have a variable that holds a reference to a CharacterDataBase. You can see all the things that CharacterDataBase has in the code here. It doesn't have anything named IsColor so what are you actually trying to get

[polar acorn]

It doesn't

[slender nymph]

link it

[polar acorn]

CharacterDatabase doesn't have a sprite renderer either

[summer stump]

It WOULD work with a boolean, if you actually had that boolean, which you do not

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[polar acorn]

Find the button that looks like this in your image editor of choice

[long jacinth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PKBChN10us

[long jacinth]

how do i put it

[polar acorn]

Notice how at no point are they ever trying to read a sprite renderer from the CharacterDatabase

They are trying to get it from a Character

[long jacinth]

isnt this Character?

[polar acorn]

Yes

But you're not trying to get IsColor from that

[polar acorn]

You're trying to get it from this

You cannot tell what color a pair of shoes are by looking at the shoebox

Your variable characterDB is a shoebox full of Characters

The shoebox itself is not shoes

[summer stump]

public bool MyBoolean
Same way as writing any variable.

[long jacinth]

hmm okay

its not showing up in unity

[polar acorn]

What isn't

[summer stump]

Compiler errors?

[long jacinth]

none

[summer stump]

Show the code

[slender nymph]

any compile errors include the one you were trying to receive help with

[polar acorn]

Show your console

[summer stump]

Did you save?

If you did, there is likely an error

[tame delta]

Hello guys, I'm trying to make a project following a Youtube video, however this video is dated. in the code it states csharp public override void OnActionReceived(float[] vectorAction) { if (vectorAction[0] == 1) { Thrust(); } } But since Im using the newer version I have to use ```csharp
public override void OnActionReceived(ActionBuffers actions)
{
}

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[long jacinth]

i saved

now it shows up inside unity

[burnt vapor]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ml-agents@2.0/api/Unity.MLAgents.Actuators.ActionBuffers.html

Idk the difference but my guess is one new one was added

[long jacinth]

but i dont know how to make isColor in the database equal to IsColor in the character

[sand silo]

Can someone help me with this code?

[polar acorn]

Why would you want to

Why does your database have an IsColor

[long jacinth]

so character manager can get it like the sprite

[summer stump]

Why not just get it from the character

[polar acorn]

1. !code
2. You have to actually ask a question

[slender nymph]

!code 👇
also describe the issue you are experiencing with this code

[eternal falcon]

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[long jacinth]

a boolen to check if you can change the sprites color

[slender nymph]

double kill

[polar acorn]

But why does the database have one

[summer stump]

Get it from the character

[polar acorn]

Do you understand that a database is not the same as the things inside it

Do you want the IsColor boolean to belong to the Character or the Box the characters are stored in

[long jacinth]

i want each skin to have a boolen

which now it shows

[summer stump]

Then don't put IsColor in the database. get it from the character

[tame delta]

thank you

[polar acorn]

So, then why does your database have an IsColor boolean

What is the point of that

what value does that represent

[long jacinth]

i removed it

[summer stump]

Imagine a big box. It contains a piece of paper with some information, and other boxes.
The other boxes also have information inside.
You are trying to look in the big box for information in the little boxes.
Just open the smaller box

[long jacinth]

ok i will try this out

[polar acorn]

Okay. Now that it's gone, if you want to get IsColor from a character, you need to actually do .IsColor on a character. Not the database. Look at how you're getting the sprite renderer

You are not getting it from CharacterDB

[whole narwhal]

Super quick can you have 2 yield(s) in 1 coroutine?

[summer stump]

Yes

[whole narwhal]

It's giving me an invisible error when I try to do it

[summer stump]

You can have as many as you want

[wintry quarry]

you can have as many yields as you like

[summer stump]

"Invisible error"?

[wintry quarry]

what is an "invisible error"?

maybe just share your code and your error

[whole narwhal]

In VisualStudio there is no errors but I can't drag it onto my objects in unity over a compile error or class issue (I took out the 2nd yield and it worked fine)

[wintry quarry]

Look at your unity console

unity console is the source of truth for compile errors

Also double check that your class name matches your filename

[summer stump]

maybe just share your code

[whole narwhal]

Nvmd NOW it want to cooperate

All good

Ty

[chrome tide]

whats the difference between OnCollisionEnter and OnTriggerEnter ?

[frosty lantern]

I figured out I can search the debug statements and apparently my assignment to the dictionary isn't working

[polar acorn]

One of them detects whenever you've hit a solid collider. The other one detects whether you're inside a non-physical trigger area

[chrome tide]

ok, thanks

[polar acorn]

Is that key a Vector3 or Vector3Int? If it's a float vector, it might not actually be equal

[orchid trout]

How do I wait for a unity Animator animation to finish playing before executing some code?

I cannot seem to find a way to detect state to wait for that, the code keeps returning true that its not animating even when it is

[rich adder]

check animator state, or you can do Animation Event

or maybe Exit state

[orchid trout]

        private bool IsAnimationPlaying(string animName)
        {
            AnimatorStateInfo stateInfo = atlasAnimator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0);
            if (stateInfo.IsName(animName))
            {
                if (!stateInfo.loop || (stateInfo.loop && stateInfo.normalizedTime % 1.0f < 0.999f))
                {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }```

this is how I am trying to check state but its returning False when I expect True

How would you suggest checking animator state?

[rich adder]

is this placed in like Update or something ?

[orchid trout]

Yes

Because I couldnt figure out how to wait for the animation to finish

[polar acorn]

The easiest way is to put in an Animation Event on the last frame that calls some function. Whenever that function reaches the end, it'll call a function where you can either do something or set a boolean
The downside being that it has to finish. Transitioning away wouldn't call that animation.

[rich adder]

OnExitState couldhelp if you got transitions

When I know the Animation Event wont be skipped I usually use that

just be careful with adding AnimationEvent at the end if you have long transition, as this can make it skip

[orchid trout]

I was just about to say/ask - its important that the Animation Event not get skipped and in the past almost always some kind of bug occurs where its being skipped to the point that I don't trust using them for critical game logic (or any game logic really)

I do have transitions for this one particular animation so Ill google into looking for OnExitState 🤔

[polar acorn]

If you want to make sure something runs no matter how this animation ends, that's the way to go

[orchid trout]

Will it proc on just any animation end, or I suppose If I google how OnExitState works Ill get my answer

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/StateMachineBehaviour.OnStateExit.html
It gives you a reference to the state being exited, so you can check to make sure it's what you want

[rich adder]

basically its a special script

ah yea beat me to link,

[silk night]

Is it possible to have a script as a property in a ScriptableObject without things like Odin? I wanna be able to plugin in a "check if active" script to my powerups that all base on the same interface

[polar acorn]

That use case sounds like you want to reference an instance, not a script. Which is something you'd need to pass in at runtime, since the instance doesn't exist yet to be assigned

A ScriptableObject is an asset that exists on disk, and it can't reference scene objects for the same reason a prefab can't

So, you could have a field of your interface type, you'd just have to set it in-game after that object is spawned or when the scene is loaded

[silk night]

well looks like odin auto-references that by default in my project i did that in before, for this one i dont have odin available, im gonna think of a different solution then 😄

[timber tide]

if it's only a single SO instance you can probably just check a singleton ref?

[silk night]

I have 5 powerups, 2 of those have an option to be turned of in a settings menu, i just wanna check on load if those 2 should be loaded or not and wanted to attach a script to their data each that checks for that setting

[astral basin]

why is it not working

[queen adder]

Sorry for being rude, but will somebody else address the problem I have? I've marked every section in Publish your project as complete, yet it won't let me continue.

[astral basin]

object with script has box collider
other has box collider too

[willow scroll]

Why not store it in a list-like struct if you don't have a script for those powerups yet?

[polar acorn]

What is "it" that won't let you continue? What is "Publish your project"?

[ripe shard]

If you store your settings in a SO you can reference that SO in all objects/prefabs that need to toggle features based on them

[polar acorn]

The Three Commandments of OnCollisionEnter:

1. Thou Shalt have a 3D Collider on each object
2. Thou Shalt not tick isTrigger on either
3. Thou Shalt have a 3D Rigidbody on at least one of them

[queen adder]

It's in Unity Essentials pathway.

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[silk night]

I cannot change the structure of the powerups other than adding data, I'm doing work in a project of somebody else, that I cannot structurally change

[astral basin]

alr ill try thanks

[willow scroll]

They're referring to the question previously asked in #💻┃unity-talk message

[astral basin]

problem was the rigidbody thanks!!!

[silk night]

Thats a good idea, ill try with that

[polar acorn]

Ah, I was missing context

[willow scroll]

Well, he hasn't given the context.

[timid hinge]

hi can someone help me

i dont know what animator isnt running

[polar acorn]

You need to assign an Animator Controller

[willow scroll]

What does it mean? I'm suggesting you to create a struct in your Manager class, which will reference all those powerups

[silk night]

Yeah but storing all powerups somewhere doesnt help me to disable 2 of them dynamically 😄

And I certainly dont want to do a hard-code check on their names, I need to build a condition into their properties

[willow scroll]

What is the problem in disabling them if you have their references?

[willow scroll]

Why would you do a hard-code check on their names if you can just assign them in the Inspector, if they aren't spawned via code? Otherwise, add them to a list when spawning.

[silk night]

I have 5 ScriptableObjects that hold powerup data, they get loaded into a list on startup + the list gets reloaded on settings-save. I want to have a dynamic option on each powerup to disable them when certain conditions are met (in this case option to disable them is checked) in runtime

[willow scroll]

Should the option be stored via a Func?

[silk night]

I found a way now though, each powerup has an active bool now and the settings save proecess will change the active on the two i need disabled to false

[silk night]

The option should be a function if possible, yes, in my previous project (with odin available) i just added a check script that got auto-referenced by odin, without it seems to not be available so easily

But i found a solution now, so doesnt matter anymore 😄

[willow scroll]

Alright, if you need a dynamic option, you should have a Func<bool> for those powerups.
If you don't want to change their data, I would consider having, as I have previously mentioned, a struct, which has the Powerup and Func<bool> fields.
The dynamic options cannot be serialized and should be set via code in the e.g. Awake or Start method.

[silk night]

I cant set a func in the scriptable object though, thats the point^^

[willow scroll]

Alright, you have found a solution now anyway. That's great

[vapid lintel]

Hello guys i want to make an AR app and link it with a flutter app can someone please tell the steps on how to do that or what do i need for it ?

[rich adder]

thats very vague, link it what way?

[vapid lintel]

For exemple you enter the app made with flutter (user interface) then click on play and you are in a the AR

Made using unity

[ivory bobcat]

So you're wanting to make a flutter app that can launch a Unity app?

[rich adder]

you can probably make it a webgl and embed that or you can use unity as external library

[vapid lintel]

Yess exactly

[vapid lintel]

So i build it on webgl ?

[rich adder]

just saying, its an option

there are many ways to do something :p

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65305792/add-unity-webgl-to-flutter-web

[ivory bobcat]

Consider asking the Flutter social media (forum, discord, etc) else Google. Probably something related to this https://medium.com/@joachimmpanda97/how-to-launch-direct-another-app-from-your-flutter-app-d1daa4687fe6
It's not really related to unity, relative to constraint.

[timid hinge]

whys is this like that

isnt supost to be like that

[rich adder]

huh what is that? and what is the code part

[honest haven]

GameObject effectInstance = Instantiate(effectPrefab, this.transform.position, Quaternion.identity); this works ok but i need to move it up alittle as soon as i do GameObject effectInstance = Instantiate(effectPrefab, this.transform.up * 1.5f, Quaternion.identity); it moves it up but seems to instanciate at the wrong location

Where as the first one does it in correct place

[languid spire]

transform.up is a direction not a position

[honest haven]

So do i need a local var Vector 3? or would this be the same as transform up

[languid spire]

do you not understand what I wrote?

[polar acorn]

Well, the first one is spawning at this object's position. The second one is spawning at 0, 1.5, 0

[honest haven]

ok so transform.up is a postion or not a postion

sorry direction

[languid spire]

it is a direction like I said

here and there are positions, left and right are directions

[honest haven]

so to achive it to move up on the y axis by 1.5 it would need to be a vector postion

[honest haven]

understand

[polar acorn]

Then you would be adding 1.5 to the y value of a position

[languid spire]

so to go up on the transform Y axis you want
position + (up * 1,5)

[honest haven]

ok and not var newPos = new Vector3(transform.position.x, 1.5f, transform.position.z);

[languid spire]

that goes to 1.5 not up by 1,5

[summer stump]

Think about it like this. If someone said "look up" in real life, would you think they are talking about a specific position, or a direction?

[honest haven]

well i can hear a plane in the sky ill look up? would that be a direction haha. yh thanks i understand now

[polar acorn]

That would set the y value to 1.5

[polar acorn]

Think of it in 2 dimensions. Where is this point at on the graph? Where is the point 1 space above it?

[radiant merlin]

public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour
{
    Transform orientation;
    Transform pOrientation;
    Transform camera;
    [Header("Variables")]
    public float camSpeedX = 5.0f;
    public float camSpeedY = 3.0f;
    void Start()
    {
        orientation = gameObject.transform.GetChild(1).transform;
        camera = gameObject.transform.GetChild(0).transform;
        pOrientation = gameObject.transform;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float camX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * camSpeedX;
        float camY = -Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * camSpeedY;

        Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(camY, camX, 0);

        camera.rotation *= rotation;
    }
}

so i have this code for my camera but how do i stop my Z axis from changing? it leads to the camera tilting at odd angles after a few movements

[young fossil]

Testing an Android APK build and getting the error "App Not Installed" while trying to open the APK.

• Admin permissions granted on the OS
• Last build worked fine.
• No debug information... Unity says it "succeeded" while the app cannot be opened

Any ideas?

[honest haven]

Thanks digiholic

[honest haven]

thanks steveSmith

[young fossil]

Actually I think it's obivious what's happened. One of the versions courrpted the saved data of the app

So now when I reinstall, it wont allow it due to the left over corruption

[loud mango]

hello, i want to make it so that whenever the zombie has velocity > 0, it will start an animation

how could i do something like

[languid spire]

are you sure you want to do that?

[loud mango]

if(rb.velocity > vector3.zero)

[summer stump]

!learn . Check out the animation lessons. It's pretty simple

[eternal falcon]

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[loud mango]

idk the other approches

[polar acorn]

When the velocity is greater than 0, set a parameter in the animator. Use that parameter to determine when to transition to a new animation state

[loud mango]

how do i check the velocity when its greater than 0?

[polar acorn]

if

[loud mango]

no like

[languid spire]

well, what you ask will start an animation every frame that velocity > 0 and I doubt very much you want that

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3-magnitude.html

[young fossil]

Just so you know, it is bad practice and not a good idea to directly reference physics like that.

[loud mango]

like i showed here

idk what code i could write. ik i have to use if

[polar acorn]

No, checking velocity is fine

setting it directly is unrealistic but also fine if realism isn't your goal

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message
Use this.
Also consider what steve said

[loud mango]

oh sorry, didnt notice it

[polar acorn]

if statements take in a condition and execute the code inside of them if the condition is true.

So, what is the condition you want to check for?

[radiant merlin]

do i need to clamp the z axis to zero or something?

[young fossil]

Can you expand some more on this?

[polar acorn]

There's no problem with reading the velocity. It doesn't change anything.

You're just checking how fast the object is currently moving

[summer stump]

Can you expand on this more? It runs counter to what my experience is, as well as the common wisdom
I would go so far as saying it is just straight up incorrect

[loud mango]

i am revamping my enemy in my game. new ai and stuff u can check #1232638796311560224

[young fossil]

Maybe that property was not the one I was talking about, but generally the physics engine is unreliable. And directly referencing it with an if statement and threshold with a bool such as playing an animation, you will get unreliable results. I could be wrong, but I'd like to hear your take on it

[summer stump]

Physics engine is unreliable?
Unreliable results?
I have not experienced that

[polar acorn]

It is the case that setting the velocity directly (instead of using AddForce) can lead to non-realistic movement, but oftentimes for a game you want unrealistic movement because having a realistic ramp-up and momentum can make a game feel swimmy and slow

[young fossil]

I could be wrong, I'm not trying to prove anything

[polar acorn]

You shouldn't check if it's exactly a value

but checking that it's non-zero is completely fine. I would probably set a bit of a higher threshold though

[young fossil]

Hence why I asked and posted in the #💻┃code-beginner in the last five minutes

[summer stump]

Very true. I think realistic and reliable are kinda separate concepts in this case though

[summer stump]

I didn't think you were? Just giving my experience.

[languid spire]

you are correct, the physics engine if not exact (rather than unreliable). However testing variables for threshold values is perfectly fine

[young fossil]

Yea I am purely talking from my own experiences. I tried that MrcJoc asked for when I was first starting, not good results. Then I was told by various people the engine was not reliable unless you stuck to certain settings, and that basing animations of a velcoity threshold is not ideal or "good practice"

[summer stump]

^ this I agree with

[summer stump]

That is not the issue. It is fine to base it off physics engine. You just have to do it right
As steve said, it is not going to be exact (as opposed to reliable). If you understand that, it will be reliable
Basing animation on velicity is perfectly fine practice, AND common

[young fossil]

Honestly this. I should have said the engine gave unreliable results, so basing something such as animation states off it is not a wise idea (or anything that has a definitive state). That's how I should have put it.

[languid spire]

you are still using the word unreliable which is incorrect in this context

the values are reliable just not exact

[young fossil]

I guess it is more reliable than I thought. Sitting here trying to think of a certain context where you would do what we are talking about though...

Out of interest do you have any working, real examples you could share?

[summer stump]

I have been using velocity for setting animations for like 5 years or more. It is perfectly valid

Most of my non-rts motion is dynamic rigidbodies with usually addforce. I really like the impricision

[young fossil]

You guys are right, it is reliable, I'm sure it is. I was unaware how reliable it was

[young fossil]

Do you have a link to your projects? Even without the code, just want to see it working

[polar acorn]

Checking if an object's velocity is exactly 3: Bad. Imprecise. You will almost never get that exact number.
Checking if an object's velocity is at least 3: Fine. There's a lot of numbers bigger than 3 that would all satisfy the condition.

[summer stump]

No not really. Never published anything. Just a hobby for me.

[languid spire]

sure
https://www.youtube.com/@stevesmith.software
Check out any one of the engine videos, all made using Unity physics

[young fossil]

Ah yep. Seeing this helped. Doppler effect comes to mind straight away

Personally for animations I went down the road of attempting to base it off the physics engine, didn't have great experience and those around me told me not to do it. So these days I go for a finite state machine and base the state changes on inputs

[languid spire]

I actually have a great Domino effect made using Unity Physics, I'll see if I can post a video of it over the weekend

[young fossil]

By the way, just reposting so people can see it.

Android APK is corrupted... Phone wont open it with the error "App Not Installed". If anyone knows where Unity saves App Data lmk pls

[languid spire]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-persistentDataPath.html

[young fossil]

Ok, so I thought this too, but

1. Currently I am not writing any files to that path, it's been disabled for testing.
2. I don't use Android much, looking everywhere and I don't know how to access that path. I think it gets deleted when I uninstall the app?

To my understanding I cleared the associated data by uninstalling the app. I also looked over the build details and those are correct

[radiant merlin]

thanks for ALL the help guys..... i figured it out myself lmfao

[languid spire]

the path is created whether you use it or not. If it is deleted upon uninstall varies between Android versions. I have seen both behaviours

[young fossil]

Ah... the worst news to hear.

[summer stump]

Cool. No need to anounce it. The sarcastm is not appreciated

[vast vessel]

Any way to have a custom asset type? Like how an fbx file is "t:Model" and how sprites are "t:Sprite".

I want my scriptable object to have a type of "t:STrack"

[radiant merlin]

cool... no need to respond lmao

lol

[languid spire]

It gets worse. Each major hardware manufacturer has their own version of Android so the behaviour can vary on the same version but from different vendors

[short hazel]

t: searches by type (class) name, so you should be able to just put the ScriptableObject's class name to get the correct results

[vast vessel]

Oh... thank you!

[young fossil]

I Fixed the problem... I had to disable some automated thing by Moto, then change another setting, theeeen I could delete it. Such a joke, basically it was just random troubleshooting since as you say, researching it and there's so much different hardware, some with no corresponding docs 🙃

[languid spire]

Lol, Android docs, those that exist at all, are virtually useless and certainly not to be relied upon

[young fossil]

I'm assuming there is a developer mode that cuts that crap that I'm not aware of yet? I hope so...

[timid hinge]

why i cant create?

[languid spire]

Basically you can go through Android Studio and that's about as good as it gets

[young fossil]

I'm so glad Unity exists for app development. Imagine dealing with all that stuff manually... I admittedly have no clue where to start

[short hazel]

Seems like you created an Animator Override instead of a regular Animator

[languid spire]

Unfortunately I had to learn the hard way. In fact developing and trouble shooting Android apps has become such a major PITA I am dropping the platform completely

[young fossil]

Did you do it for games dev or something else?

[languid spire]

game and app dev

[young fossil]

Did you use or do you know any libraries to make it easier?

[languid spire]

no, what we used is all in house stuff

[young fossil]

Oh wow. I need to do it eventually so just trying to find the easiest way I can too

Good thing F-droid exists, you can see so many examples

[languid spire]

Sorry, no easy way just years of pain

[young fossil]

Alright well thx Steve and others for this and the physics question

[young fossil]

Wait sorry, I do have one last question. Did you go the software or web-based approach?

[languid spire]

Both

[young fossil]

I did web app development but it was more front end. I don't really know how the backend works but I'm assuming it's different

[languid spire]

For Android/Web we used the Cordova framework, not sure if it still exists but we had very good experiences with it

[rich adder]

MAUI is very good for android/ios if you like C# .net ecosystem

[timid hinge]

what does that mean

[young fossil]

Going to sound crazy but how much knowledge is transferable from C# and C++ in games development to that?

[short hazel]

I can't be any clearer than that. When you right-clicked the Assets tab to create your Animator, you chose "Animator Override Controller" instead of "Aniamtor Controller"
The file has the .overrideController extension, which is not correct

[young fossil]

See the icons in the content browser? They are different to the other animations because you accidentally picked the wrong type

[rich adder]

depends on what, most knowledge is transferrable to many languages.

[young fossil]

Backend app development

[rich adder]

just use c# ?

[polar acorn]

An Animator Override swaps out the animation clips of an existing Animator Controller without changing any of the logic or transitions.

[young fossil]

Yea but that's .Net? Must be pretty different?

So is it different but easy to pick up

[rich adder]

.NET is the whole framework ecosystem, including C++

c# is part of the languages supported in .net

[languid spire]

Almost nothing, apart from basic language/programming skills is transferable from gamedev to back end dev. They are two very different beasts each with their own specific requirements

[young fossil]

Wait what. Can you explain what you mean? Sorry I have looked this up before and didn't get it, you explain it better

[rich adder]

there are different variations / app frameworks within .NET

[young fossil]

.NET is the ecosystem?

[rich adder]

yeah pretty much

[young fossil]

So C# and C++ are like components of .NET?

[wicked cairn]

Unity C# IS .NET, it is just covered with easy functions like a API

[rich adder]

no they are languages

nothign to do with .net

.NET uses many languages, C# is one of them

C# exists without .net

[wicked cairn]

Ok what these guys said lol. The .NET part doesnt matter much, C# is C#

[languid spire]

lol, can't do much with it though

[young fossil]

Ah gotcha. So you can choose to use C++ or C#

and stuff like X++

[rich adder]

yeah pretty much lol sitting this in mono like waaa

[rich adder]

or F# 😈

[languid spire]

or even Visual Basic (God rest it's soul)

[rich adder]

also visual basic is pretty well supported

[young fossil]

What sort of skills are new then? So starting from a game dev background is like starting brand new?

I imagine stuff like databases.

[rich adder]

well yeah you have to learn new APIs

[wicked cairn]

For backend linux, Node js is cool too. Unity C# <-> Nodejs has great communication. I know C# but I dont know Node, so asking ChatGPT to write it has been a breeze lol

[rich adder]

most of the other logic is tranferring (maaking loops, lists etc)

[young fossil]

That's fine, same as switching a game engine

[rich adder]

yeah pretty much.

[languid spire]

Biggest one of all is an attitude change. If it can possibly go wrong, it will go wrong at some point, so deal with it correctly

[rich adder]

also Debugger will be your best friend

[young fossil]

Ah, so more error handling and stuff

[languid spire]

absolutely

[wicked cairn]

Unity is easier than most others, especially with its C#. You are looking at this backwards. If you are moving from Unity to another engine thats when theres more to learn

[rich adder]

.NET already has a great backend to replace node

[languid spire]

When Unity finally goes to .Net 7 the whole landscape will change

[wicked cairn]

Eh I enjoyed seeing the node script run. easy command to launch and its just a couple lines of code in a single js script

[rich adder]

ASP.NET core is basically full fledged

[young fossil]

It may be surprising from all my questions but I made a C++ SDL engine and did some Unreal, yea I agree Unity is way easier. Doesn't mean I am great at C++ btw, just can do it. So I am wondering how easy it would be to transfer to App dev

[rich adder]

ew javascript

[wicked cairn]

Node js, not javvascript

[summer stump]

TypeScript

[rich adder]

slightly better but still fugly

[languid spire]

wtf does it matter, you use the language that gets the job done, end of story.

[young fossil]

I could go and ask this on Reddit or something to general programmers but it's easier to get answers from Games programmers who have done both because they are talking from definite experience

[wicked cairn]

I didnt write it. I asked chatgpt and it gave me a unity script to read/write to the server node js script it gave me 100%, which does integrity checks and links to a database.

[rich adder]

oh gpt.. I bet it put the database connection string in the client code

[wicked cairn]

No, it encrypted the unity script to hide the domain, and it verifies the scores on the server node program before the node program uploads it to SQL

without asking it added sql injection prot

[rich adder]

it encrypted the unity script to hide the domain

id love to see that

[wicked cairn]

sry, not script exactly, but the domain/ip

it gave me some key generator

Try it yourself lol - ask gpt

[rich adder]

I dont need to , I do it properly with REST/ API calls

storing anything on client is hackable

[wicked cairn]

nothing is stored on the client, and its a singleplayer game

[rich adder]

just saying, storing any connection string/ip in client to connect is unwise

[fading dune]

Hey guys! Very beginner question here: Would setting the active state of a game object in Unity to its current state have any impact or performance implications? Or does Unity optimize for such cases, preventing redundant operations?

Wondering if I should always make a check before setting the state (if game object not already active, set it active)

[rich adder]

the gameobject is already loaded into memory

[wicked cairn]

show me a script that connects to a dedicated server/node without needing a ip or domain

id love to use that instead

[rich adder]

No smart person would put a dirrect connect in the client

You make API calls

to the server

authenticate using cookies / tokens

[wicked cairn]

its a offline game to store settings

[rich adder]

then a database is overkill

[wicked cairn]

doesnt matter much if it has a domain in the code, which is encrypted tho

the code to verify stuff is server side

[rich adder]

the same thing that encrypts it, unless its on the server can be reversed engineered

[wicked cairn]

the only database code visible is on the server app

the game does not connect to a databse

[rich adder]

right so you have to write server code in javascript now

[wicked cairn]

the game sends a web request to the server/node, and the server checks the data, if its fine then it uploads to database. I didnt write the code, gpt did

[rich adder]

which is why I doubt its method

[wicked cairn]

well it works

[rich adder]

idk to me thats more of a hassle than using what .NET already has built in. Asp.net app all the way 🤷‍♂️ no dealing with JS/TS

I made a players dashboard/admin panel for my game using WebAPI and server

[wicked cairn]

writing a .NET app for a server is the same as running a Node script thats a couple lines, maybe 15. theres no hassle, the code was given by gpt lol

Writing it in .NET does not take away the fact you still have to write code

[rich adder]

all I can say is, you seemed to have not gotten deep the rabbit hole yet to know what you're talking about here

[gaunt ice]

i prefer writing the backend in c#, now you can copy and paste (or use the dll) of your api classes and the logic of verification

[rich adder]

sharing Class Libraries isa breeze, not having to write code over and over again

[wicked cairn]

You are trying to say that .NET is less work, but its no actual difference, its the same amount of code.

[summer stump]

Amount of code is really not an important factor at all
Unless it is extremes

[rich adder]

where did I say its less work?
I said if you're doing c# it only makes sense to continue using C# than dealing with another language.
Also its foolish thinking what GPT gave you is scalable

[wicked cairn]

before doubting, ask it, you might be surprised.

[rich adder]

Its not even doubt, I've experienced it

GPT doesnt write scalable code..

it has no reason or forethought

[summer stump]

We have all tried gpt. You act as if we haven't.
Ignoring the immorality of it, it's just been a constant let down in my experience.
Including gpt 4

[wicked cairn]

then you didnt provide enough info on what you need

[rich adder]

How so ? I knew exactly what I want to build

[wicked cairn]

Ive learned a good bit from it, I dont copy paste code from it

[rich adder]

its not an instruction issue, its a Listener/Student issue

[rich adder]

so if something breaks you know how to fix it?

[wicked cairn]

try again once you know how to code

[polar acorn]

No, ChatGPT cannot make scaleable code because it is literally incapable of forethought. It can't plan for the future because it doesn't even have a present. It's not magic and it's not alive, it's a very complicated markov chain

[rich adder]

so you're saying GPT not understanding is me not knowing how to code?

[summer stump]

I promise that navarone knows how to code quite well

[rich adder]

that makes no sense

[polar acorn]

Hahahaha

Oh wow

[rich adder]

already scaled up 4 games to AWS/Azure.. I dont think its my lack of "code knowledge"

[languid spire]

Gotta love these people that seem to think that these LLM's even know how to code. Guess what? They do not!

[wicked cairn]

Its a fair learning tool, im ofc not going to copy all of its code, the thing is I dont know Nodejs code so it was fine to learn from it.

[polar acorn]

I think you seem to be confusing the term "Scaleable code" for "code that runs". These are not the same thing

ChatGPT can sometimes make code that runs

It is, in absolutely no sense of the word, scaleable