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[fading trench]

this line

[astral falcon]

so when you do NOT press the keys, like not touching the keyboard, the player flies up?

[loud mango]

uhhh ........ uhh

[fathom locust]

yepp

[willow scroll]

Simply using the GetKey(KeyCode) method

[loud mango]

for mobile

[queen adder]

i added a canvas with a slider, and it not appear on the gameplay screen, i new programmer, can anyone help me please?

[loud mango]

so i use a button

[astral falcon]

either use an UI button or get the new input system and use the touches input.

tutorials can be found on google or learn.unity.com

[astral falcon]

check your scaling of your game view 😉

[queen adder]

sry for my stupid question, but where can i check that?

[deft grail]

its in your "game" window

should find it really quickly, as the game window isnt big

[willow scroll]

I don't think the UI Button has the events other than onClick. You, probably, gotta use the OnMouseDown / OnMouseUp methods.

Actually, you may want to implement your custom Button, which should be quite straightforward

[queen adder]

this thing?

[willow scroll]

Yes

There's the Scale

[queen adder]

yea, what i should do?

[fading trench]

debug log your moveDir

[fathom locust]

ok I'll try

[willow scroll]

Well, you have just shown the image with the slider in it

[queen adder]

but when i run the game the slider dont apear

[willow scroll]

Then you may switch the scenes

Or disabling the slider

Please, show the slider on run time

[queen adder]

the slider do not apear on the run time, thats the problem xD

[hardy wolf]

hey all

would like to ask

how long would it take to code a Stamina bar?

[willow scroll]

Well, show its GameObject

[willow scroll]

Show it in the scene on run time

[queen adder]

OK

sry caps

[willow scroll]

Using a UI Scrollbar, adjusted by the script, which has the stamina variable.

[hardy wolf]

I see, would it take many hours?

Or is it a fast process?

[queen adder]

it follows the camera

[hardy wolf]

Looking at something like this

https://youtu.be/2OKReQ9HEzc

[willow scroll]

• 1. Create a Scrollbar
• 2. Create a script for your stamina if it's not created yet
• 3. Add the stamina variable
• 4. Add a reference to the Scrollbar
• 5. Add a method to adjust the Scrollbar's value
     Takes 2 minutes for me, which is 0.033 if you need to know it in hours

[maiden niche]

Could someone help me with adding a new inventory system to my project. i already made the new inventory system its just that i dont know how to add it properly.

[hardy wolf]

I see, that's dope, how long you been coding for?

[willow scroll]

Not for too much. And I don't think it matters for your stamina scrollbar creation process

[hardy wolf]

Might have a work opportunity for you if you are keen

[fading trench]

what do you mean add it properly?

[willow scroll]

Show its distance to the camera

[queen adder]

i realized that now

i so far away

[willow scroll]

Exactly.

[queen adder]

how i put it very very close

[willow scroll]

Does your canvas move with the camera?

[queen adder]

yess

[maiden niche]

so i made my game (which already has a inventory system but its very bad) and then i made a inventory system thats good but i cant figure out how to implement it properly and some classes are overlapping and its confusing me very badly

[queen adder]

I DID IT XD

thank you for your patience

[hardy wolf]

I received this charge from just that Stamina Bar, and multiplayer server set-up, can't really fathom why.

Context: I was hiring a developer

[willow scroll]

The question wasn't referred to you, so I don't see why you reply to it. Also, this place is not for you to post it, and, please, consider not writing me dms about this too.

[hardy wolf]

Okay no worries, just wanted a Game Developers POV, as I am afraid of being overcharged regarding this.

[willow scroll]

You'll have to show your current inventory system and provide a bit more context

[willow scroll]

Oh, alright, I'm sorry, I have not understood the question correctly.

[hardy wolf]

So could you tell me time wise, how long this would take? Multiplayer and Stamina system set up?

I just wanted some insight haha

[willow scroll]

This depends on the level of the multiplayer.

[hardy wolf]

It's just a lobby that's in a Pixel Game.

[willow scroll]

But stamina system, which is, if what you say, just a simply stamina bar, doesn't really require too much work, as mentioned above

[hardy wolf]

Like a common server, like Habbo

[willow scroll]

Well, it really depends on the difficulty of the multiplayer

If it's hard enough, it could, probably, cost this much

[hardy wolf]

I see, if it's something like Habbo, like a simple one where people just walk and interact via trading, would it be difficult?

[willow scroll]

I don't know Habbo.

[hardy wolf]

I see, like a social Pixel game, I have the beta ready and I can share it with you here.

Can you enter into it? @willow scroll

What do you think?

[maiden niche]

only the old version or also the new version or both?

do you also need the classes?

[willow scroll]

Which one do you need to be adjusted properly?

[maiden niche]

my old one needs to go and the new one should be added but the classes then get all mixed up

[hardy wolf]

Any thoughts on the beta multiplayer? regarding difficulty or complexity?

[willow scroll]

Well, just send what you've got now.

[willow scroll]

I'm not sure whether the game you sent is a multiplayer. The gameplay itself is not hard to implement at all, and is, as for me, very hard to understand (in terms of how to play the game).

[hardy wolf]

As in, just a common server whereby you could see the players in the same lobby, is that difficult to implement?

It's still in the early stages so it is not playable yet.

[willow scroll]

Implementing a multiplayer is usually quite advanced, and I don't have much experience about it. Implementing this kind of server shouldn't be too hard.

[hardy wolf]

I see, thanks a ton and appreciate your help here, really stressful for someone who hasn't really developed a game before to understand these timespans that are required for development tasks.

[willow scroll]

Well, I still don't see why you would hire a developer for this kind of game.

And I 1.2k is definitely too much for the simple lobby

[hardy wolf]

I see, thanks man appreciate your honesty on this.

I hired because:

1. I have no experience in Dev work.

2. Takes time, have too many commitments right now.

3. Opportunity cost for me to pick up Dev, and start developing it myself isn't worth it at the moment.

[maiden niche]

https://gdl.space/merepucecu.cs

[willow scroll]

Well, I honestly, don't think it's going to give you a profit this way...

But I'm not the one to judge

[hardy wolf]

Understandable, thanks for your insight on this.

[stuck palm]

How could I make a loading screen? Like a screen intermediary between 2 different screens where it says it's loading?

Two different scenes rather

[willow scroll]

So do you simply want to hear any suggestions on your code's improvement?

[maiden niche]

no i want to know how to implement the new one

i always get stuck bcs of variables that change and classes that overlap

[willow scroll]

Mm, I don't think I can give you a clear answer on this question

Simply name the variables the way that doesn't confuse you

And don't have a few different methods, all called Add or Remove

[maiden niche]

they are not confusing but the problem is for example in the old toolclass you dont have an enum but in the new one you do but then that doesnt work anymore

[fickle plume]

Load scene asynchronously. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync.html
Use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AsyncOperation-progress.html for progress bar

[willow scroll]

"Doesn't work"?

[maiden niche]

ye it doesnt show up anymore even though i have the same code in a different project

and there it does work

[willow scroll]

Why would you have the same code in a different project?

[maiden niche]

its just a samplescene project for making the new inventory

[willow scroll]

I mean, I don't know how to help you, as this doesn't look like a specific issue

[maiden niche]

ok np

[small mantle]

Is there a simple way to connect a float to a animation? I want an animation length for attacking to be the amount of attackSp. This attackSp will change often, so how would I go about making sure that the animation matches that attackSp length?

[wintry quarry]

You could just make the animation loop and control the transition from your script with a trigger.

[small mantle]

I tried that, but it isn't what my game needs. I need the attack animation length to be equal to the attackSp time (float)

[queen adder]

why is my bool changing states from false to true when scenes are changed?

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to show us what you mean

But, values don't change themselves

You might be getting confused by a different copy of the script existing in the new scene

[gentle condor]

@small mantle you can add a parameter to your animator controller with AttackSpeed or something similar, and in your attack state, use that parameter as a speed modifier.

[queen adder]

so i have this game manager with this method that is used for a button to switch states, the bool isOn is checked by another script to wether do something or not public void toggleSpeech() { if (isOn) { isOn = false; } else { isOn = true; } }

[wintry quarry]

Show the full script.

In a paste site

[queen adder]

can u send a link for a paste site 😄

[wintry quarry]

Also you can just do isOn = !isOn;

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[queen adder]

https://gdl.space/sokorarunu.cs

its a simple manager code just for a ui project

this is the script where isOn is checked https://gdl.space/wajiwuramu.cs

its at the last method

[wintry quarry]

Ok so since this doesn't seem to be anything special, when you switch scenes You're going to have a totally different copy of the script

Everything in the old scene will be destroyed

[queen adder]

right so i have to use dontdestroyonload?

[wintry quarry]

If you want it to survive between scene reloads yes

Look up the Singleton pattern

[queen adder]

right imma go learn that since i never have yet

[queen adder]

ight

[shell ice]

hello everyone , i have a gameobject and i want to create an animation where i move it around the scene ( i did it with the keyframes )

i wanted the animation to be relative to where the object is currently at

but it just always goes back the the position where i animated it in the window

any idea on how to do this

[strong wren]

Animate it as a child of another object

[shell ice]

it worked

thank you

[gilded kiln]

A specific script has a maximal gameObject limit ? Bcs I want to activate a gameObject with SetActive(true) the condition works i test it with a debug.log but just Unity doesn't want to activate the GameObject

if (isAttacking == true)
    {
        if (spriteRenderer.flipX == false)
        {
            glowAttackEffectright.SetActive(true);
            Debug.Log("glow right activate");
        }
        else
        {
            glowAttackEffectleft.SetActive(true);
        }
    }```

[wintry quarry]

A specific script has a maximal gameObject limit
Not sure what that even means

i test it with a debug.log but just Unity doesn't want to activate the GameObject
What kind of test did you do? Did the log print?

If that log did print, add more logs to every place where you call SetActive.

YOu're probably deactivating the object elsewhre

[gilded kiln]

It's a question

[gilded kiln]

No i never put SetActive(false) in the code for the gameObject bcs i was thinking it's that too

[wintry quarry]

Yeah but i'm not sure what the question means. Kind of like if you said "Does your dog have a maximal grocery store limit?"

[wintry quarry]

Ok so... did your log print? Show the full script and your console window when running the game

[gilded kiln]

Surely

[gilded kiln]

I can't start OBS bcs my computer is.... bad but screenshot is enough ?

[wintry quarry]

I just want to see a screenshot of the unity editor with the console window visible

and the full script

[wintry quarry]

Why you lie to me

    if(!isAttacking){
        rightSide.SetActive(false);
        leftSide.SetActive(false);
    }```

[gilded kiln]

That is really not the same gameObject

these gameObjects works perfectly

but the other idk why but not

[wintry quarry]

Because look at which objects you assigned

[gilded kiln]

OMG

I want to cry

bro you save me 💀

my mental health want to mercy you

I'm so dumb sorry to spend your time thx you

[main karma]

how would one go about checking if the collision on the capsule cast is at the top or at the bottom of the capsule (floor or ceiling, not walls) ? (because I want a different script to be checking for wall collision)

[summer stump]

You can get the normal of the raycastHit and check the angle

[wraith valley]

Hello, the character is not jumping, please help.

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

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 10f;
    public float velocity = 100f;
    private Rigidbody2D rb2;
    public float jumpForce = 10f;

    void Start()
    {
        rb2 = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        transform.position += Vector3.right * horizontal * speed * Time.deltaTime;

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.UpArrow))
        {
            Jump();
        }
    }

    void Jump()
    {
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, -Vector2.up, 0.1f);
        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, -Vector2.up, Color.green, 0.1f);

        if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Ground"))
        {
            rb2.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        }
    }
}

[summer stump]

Also check if the y value of the hit point is above or below the center

[slender nymph]

you are moving via the transform which is overriding any physics applied with AddForce

[main karma]

I didn't know you can get the hit point

one more question however, what if there's 2 hits one on the side and on the bottom for example

can I cycle between the objects that come in contact w the capsule?

[summer stump]

Well, not all overrides give you the RaycastHit, so you would have to ise one of those

[main karma]

if so that would solve all my problems

[wraith valley]

It worked for me until I added a beam check

[slender nymph]

it shouldn't have

[summer stump]

Each hit would be returned separately

[main karma]

great

[slender nymph]

move either via the transform or via physics. doing both is going to lead to issues.
and then once you've fixed that if it still doesn't work then you'll need to debug your raycast

[summer stump]

You might even need to do CapsuleCastAll

Pretty sure that capsulecast, like raycast, just returns the first hit only

So using capsulecastall WOULD allow you to iterate the collider array it returns

[main karma]

ah makes sense

thank you very much

[wraith valley]

void Update()
    {
        float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");

        transform.Translate (Vector3.right * horizontal * speed * Time.deltaTime);

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.UpArrow)) { Jump(); }

        

    }

[main karma]

I need to optimize my hit detection cuz I use like 2 capsules and 4 raycasts to check for collision and that consumes a lot of resources for no reason, which is why I asked

[slender nymph]

you've changed nothing here

[wintry quarry]

that is definitely not going to be a noticeable performance issue

[wraith valley]

What?

[slender nymph]

wdym what? transform.Translate is doing exactly what you were doing before
so nothing has meaningfully changed

[polar acorn]

That's almost literally nothing. Raycasts are basically free

[polar acorn]

What's different?

[wraith valley]

Similar

[polar acorn]

They appear to be literally identical

What are you expecting this to change?

[main karma]

well I also use portals that use cameras to render plenty of stuff at the same time so I try to save up where I can, also the collision system I got going on doesn't account for when the character stays still and objects move toward it so it just passes right through unless I press a key to move right b4 impact

[wraith valley]

The character can`t jumping

[slender nymph]

i've already told you why

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

You've been answered on what to do to fix that

[polar acorn]

Again, raycasts are basically free. If you're getting performance issues, it is almost 100% certainly something else causing it. If you hit performance issues, use the profiler to try to find out where and fix the things that actually have impact

[slender nymph]

proof for the "raycasts are basically free" claim: #💻┃code-beginner message
of course this was a test with no physics objects in the scene so i'm not sure if that would impact the performance. but doing 1000 took half a millisecond

[main karma]

about that what can others mean under CPU ussage?

also one last question, do events consume performance? like if I have an event going on every 0.1 seconds?

[slender nymph]

it's the work you do in the methods subscribed to the events that actually matter

[wraith valley]

void Jump()
    {
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, -Vector2.up, 0.1f);
        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, -Vector2.up, Color.green, 0.1f);

        if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Ground"))
        {


            rb2.velocity = Vector2.up * jumpForce;

        }

[slender nymph]

are you still moving horizontally via the transform? because if so, you've ignored what i said

[wraith valley]

What?

[slender nymph]

do you know how to read?

[wraith valley]

I don`t understand this

[slender nymph]

what about that do you not understand?

[wraith valley]

This move either via the transform or via physics. doing both is going to lead to issues.

[slender nymph]

you need to move either by modifying the transform or by using physics. do not do both.
moving using transform.position or transform.Translate is obviously modifying the transform. using the rigidbody to add force or assign velocity is moving using physics.

[fluid haven]

how can i save a .txt file, that all players canm access?

[main karma]

so I have it setup in a way that I run an event every 0.1s using a timer, and when a certain object gets their start time = to the time broadcasted by the event, I use the DOTWEEN library to move said object, the timer resets when the player dies and the position of the objects do as well

I just want to make sure this isn't a bad approach or anything

[slender nymph]

again, any performance impact would come from what is subscribed to the event. not the event itself

[main karma]

thank you

[wraith valley]

This? ```cpp
Vector2 movement = new Vector2(horizontal * speed, rb2.velocity.y);

[slender nymph]

well that doesn't actually perform a move, but it's at least on the right track

[wintry quarry]

You wouldn't use cloud save for that

just host a text file on your web server somewhere

[fluid haven]

Why not?

[wintry quarry]

Cloud save is to save per-user save files

that are private to that user

it's not for "public" text files or whatever your use case seems to be

What kind of data are you trying to save here? A high score list or something?

[fluid haven]

I have like an app, where we track meetings, like the duration, date and members and stuff, and i need that stuff to be accessible from anywhere

[slender nymph]

why use a game engine for that? 🤔

[wintry quarry]

Yeah what haha

[queen adder]

Hello everyone...I am still new to unity and I am having an issue, the editor status show that I am getting 600FPS in the game menu...but VERY stuttering and unplayable...(despite it's being just a plane ground and a cube with an fps player)

[wraith valley]

 Vector2 movement = new Vector2(horizontal * speed, rb2.position.y);
        rb2.position = movement;

[wintry quarry]

Your code is probably doing something wrong. like multiplying deltaTime into mouse input or something.

[fluid haven]

Just a small project for 6 people and i didnt want to learn anything new

[slender nymph]

well now you've made it worse. are you just guessing at what you should be doing? because if so, you should stop what you are doing and go learn the basics. there are some great courses pinned in this channel that will help you get started

[slender nymph]

well a game engine is for sure not the right technology for that

[wraith valley]

 Vector2 movement = new Vector2(horizontal * speed, rb2.velocity.y);
        rb2.velocity = movement;

[queen adder]

my code you say?

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform MainCamera;
    public float Sensitivity = 5.0f;
    private float yaw;
    private float pitch;
    private float Xrotation;

    public float speed = 1.0f;
    private float horizontalInput;
    private float forwardInput;
    private float sprintInput;
    void Start() {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    void FixedUpdate(){
        yaw += Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * Sensitivity;
        pitch = Mathf.Clamp(pitch, -90f, 90f);

        pitch -= Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * Sensitivity;

        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yaw, 0);
        MainCamera.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(pitch, 0, 0);
        
        
    }
    void Update()
    {
        horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        forwardInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * speed * forwardInput * Time.deltaTime);
        transform.Translate(Vector3.right * speed * horizontalInput* Time.deltaTime);
    }
} ```

"sorry"

[wintry quarry]

you're doing your rotation in FixedUpdate

so of course it will look stuttery

Why are you using FixedUpdate

[fluid haven]

Worked for me so why spend the time to learn something else

[queen adder]

well...thanks to youtube
what is the best practice then?

[slender nymph]

and you can get a screw into a wall using a hammer. that doesn't mean you should or that it is in any way the correct tool to use for the job

[wintry quarry]

Update

[queen adder]

with Time.deltaTime?

[wintry quarry]

no

literally just move your code into Update

[fluid haven]

Sorry to disturbe you here, didnt thing anyone would get upset!

[queen adder]

uhhhh oki

[wintry quarry]

mouse input is framerate independent already. It doesn't need deltaTime

[slender nymph]

nobody is upset? it's just silly that you are trying to use a game engine for something a spreadsheet can do

[queen adder]

WHAAAAAAAA
been stuck on this for 2 days!
man unity is not for me @-@

[queen adder]

oh yeah...thanks for the help man

for now on...FixedUpdate is an enemy

[wintry quarry]

it's not an enemy

you just need to understand what it's for

mainly physics

[queen adder]

mainly physics?
since I am working with a RigidBody for my player...should I put my physics in it without the Inputs?

[wintry quarry]

If your player is using a Rigidbody then all of this needs to be rewritten

[queen adder]

how come?

[wintry quarry]

because it's completely ignoring the physics engine

and just teleporting your character around

it's not going to respect collisions and gravity etc properly

[queen adder]

that's true...(this is what moving a player is all about)

[queen adder]

like walls and props?

[stoic glen]

Why cant I edit the second Collider and how can I use it only as a trigger and not a collider

[wintry quarry]

1. Unity bug I guess, try restarting
2. Check the Is Trigger box

[stoic glen]

In every Object I try to add 2 box collider, everytime the second doesnt display the button

[wintry quarry]

Well you can still resize with the Center and Size properties in the inspector

but maybe because it's a prefab override

[stoic glen]

I can use this Button, kinda weird

[stoic glen]

When the 2. collider is checked at IsTrigger, it works like a normal box collider

[wintry quarry]

Doubt

[stoic glen]

Oh, but it interacts with raycasts

[wintry quarry]

yes

that's not "working like a normal box collider"

normal box colliders physically collide with other colliders

[wintry quarry]

Raycast has this to ignore triggers if you want:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/QueryTriggerInteraction.html

but it's usually better to just put the collider on a different layer and use a layermask.

[stoic glen]

Can it be a problem if a create a layer below UI

Because I never used Layermasks

[wintry quarry]

I don't understand what you are asking

UI is not relevant to our discussion

[stoic glen]

I mean, should it be between the predefined or can it be below UI

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't matter at all

[stoic glen]

Ok perfect

[patent compass]

Hello, does anyone know why my camera is not moving when I drag my mouse.

    [SerializeField] private Camera cam;

    private Vector3 dragOrigin;
    private void Update(){
        PanCamera();
    }

    private void PanCamera(){
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){
            dragOrigin = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        }

        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0)){
            Vector3 difference = dragOrigin - cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);

            Debug.Log("origin " + dragOrigin + "newPosition " + cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) + "= difference " + difference);
            cam.transform.position += difference;
        }
    }```

[wintry quarry]

what is it logging?

Also do you have any other scripts or components moving the camera (e.g. Cinamachine)?

Is it logging any difference?

[patent compass]

Nope. And no, I am not using cinemachine

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you;re trying to use ScreenToWorldPoint with a perspective camera

and you're not passing in a z distance

so you're just getting the camera's position out

you should probably use Plane.Raycast with ScreenPointToRay instead

Read: https://unity.huh.how/screentoworldpoint

[dusty nimbus]

Hoy all! Just trying to figure out here why a world object with a canvas attached using world space is being physically blocked by being visible by a UI Canvas using Screen Space - Overlay

[patent compass]

Changed to ortho. That did the trick. Thank you!

[wintry quarry]

Overlay canvases draw on top of everything

[dusty nimbus]

Gotcha, so I need to use a Screen Space - Camera in this situation otherwise it'll always be blocking stuff - thanks! 😄

[hollow dawn]

I have this asset that im using and I was wondering if I could get the thirdperson prefab and make it into first person would this be possible? https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-character-controllers-urp-267961

[timber tide]

there is a first person template

[hollow dawn]

yes but I want the third person prefab cause it has animations so I just want to change it to first person

[timber tide]

Ah, well, anything is possible if you put the time into it

[chrome tide]

I have a script SoundsEmitter. It's attached to every object that emitts some kind of sound. This one is meant to be attached to the player:

using System;
using UnityEngine;

public class SoundsEmitter : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int[] emittedAudio = new int[2];
    public PlayerMovement playerMovement;

    private void Update()
    {
        AudioChange();
    }
    private void AudioChange()
    {
        switch (playerMovement.state)
        {
            case PlayerMovement.PlayerStates.Standing:
                emittedAudio[0] = (int)SoundsManager.SoundVolumes.Standing;
                emittedAudio[1] = (int)SoundsManager.SoundDistances.Standing;
                break;
            case PlayerMovement.PlayerStates.Walking:
                emittedAudio[0] = (int)SoundsManager.SoundVolumes.Walking;
                emittedAudio[1] = (int)SoundsManager.SoundDistances.Walking;
                break;
            case PlayerMovement.PlayerStates.Running:
                emittedAudio[0] = (int)SoundsManager.SoundVolumes.Running;
                emittedAudio[1] = (int)SoundsManager.SoundDistances.Running;
                break;
        }
    }
}```
Now i also want to attach this script to a Bell which makes sound once interacted with, but I don't want to create a completely new script just to change 1 thing (removing the playerMovement variable in this case). Is it possible to edit this script without creating an entirely new one?

[stark ruin]

Hi guys,i am having a problem with an object,i want to make it rotate but it starts to rotate if i give him a lot of rotational force,how can i decrease it
the friction is set to 0

[rocky canyon]

singleton audiomanager sounds like a solution

[rocky canyon]

a low friction material and low rotational drag (angular) drag

[stark ruin]

I did it

It is like i have to give it so much rotational force

cause i tryed via script

[chrome tide]

so its better if i keep this script and define every sound emitting object inside of it? the problem is that this script has to be attached to the sound source, because i have an entity that checks all the gameobjects that have a SoundEmitter component.

[rocky canyon]

drag = air resistance
angular drag = rotational resistence

[wintry quarry]

Reverse the dependency. The player movement script should reference this one instead

[stark ruin]

They are both at 0

[rocky canyon]

sounds good if its working

[stark ruin]

Yea but it doesn’t work

[chrome tide]

i'll try that. so do i do the AudioChange() method inside of the playerMovement?

[stark ruin]

I have 2 objects,1 rotates regularly and the other one not

[rocky canyon]

whats that mean? play "spot the difference"

[wintry quarry]

That method seems very specific to player movement

[rocky canyon]

one must not be like the other.. and the reason behind differences

[chrome tide]

hmm, i think it will be better if i just create different scripts for all kinds of sound emitting objects.

[wintry quarry]

It's really hard to say because the only part of this script you showed us seems very specific to player movement

[chrome tide]

How do i identify scripts with tags? I have multiple scripts that manage sound emitting, but each object has a different name of the script. for an example: player has a PlayerSoundEmitter script, while a bell has a BellSoundEmitter script. but these scripts all do the same thing: they manage sound, and each one of them has a emittedAudio[] float array. i can't attach a tag to the script, so how do i identify them?

[rocky canyon]

if they all have different names why use tags?

can search for the component directly

[queen adder]

I dont think u identify scripts with tags u would identify gameobjects with tags

[rich adder]

scripts dont have tags

[rocky canyon]

the only reason u'd use tags in that situation is if the scripts were named the same and u were trying to differientiate

[queen adder]

If ur looking for a specific script you just look for those types

I cannot believe i forgot the syntax for this

[rich adder]

FindObjectOfType

[slender nymph]

if they do the same thing, then why do they need to be separate scripts?

[rocky canyon]

FindObjectOfType

[queen adder]

Thank u lmao

[rocky canyon]

in Unity6 its deprecated tho

[rich adder]

yeah deprecated but still works

[rocky canyon]

true.. just pointing it out

[queen adder]

Also if each script has similar functionallity u should use a Interface

[rocky canyon]

ive switched to FindFirst

[queen adder]

IPlaySound

[chrome tide]

because i want to configure them differently depending on the type of the script. my PlayerSoundsEmitter script has a PlayerMovement playerMovement variable, but the BellSoundsEmitter won't need that variable.

[chrome tide]

i'll try using the interface

[queen adder]

And you can just call there PlaySound Interface methods that way u dont have to worry about the specific script. If all ur really worried about is them playing a sound

[wintry quarry]

again it's really hard to make recommendations here because the difference in what these scripts do seems really unclear

[slender nymph]

why not just have one soundemitter component that some other component drives? that way you don't have the same code in multiple classes

[wintry quarry]

If all they're really doing is holding an audio clip and playing a sound when desired, it seems like this script doesn't do much more than what an AudioSource already does.

In that case you should delete the script entirely and just use AudioSource directly

[chrome tide]

these scripts aren't playing audio, it just defines the loudness of the sound it is generating. for an example: when the player state is PlayerStates.Standing the volume is 0, when it's PlayerStates.Walking the volume i 3 etc. it wont play audio, it just stores the volume and range of the audio. i have the volumes and ranges defined in enums:

public enum SoundVolumes
{
    Standing = 0,
    Walking = 3,
    Running = 5
}
public enum SoundDistances
{
    Standing = 0,
    Walking = 10,
    Running = 20
}```

[wintry quarry]

Why can't your player movement script just do something like:

const float StandingVolume = 0;
const float WalkingVolume = 3;

// as needed
myAudioSource.volume = StandingVolume;
myAudioSource.volume = WalkingVolume;```

What does the script do when it's NOT being used for player movement

What does it do for a bell?

maybe sharing the code for this script would be a bit more illuminating

[chrome tide]

i didn't implement the bell yet, but the whole project i'm creating has a monster that reacts to sounds so it checks every gameobject with a script that manages the audio loudness, it checks the volume of all the scripts and checks which script has the loudest volume. then it sets the agent.setdestination() to the gameobject that has the script.

[wintry quarry]

Then you just want a script like:

public class NoiseMaker : MonoBehavior {
  public float volume;
  public float range;
}```
Other scripts can set those values (the player script) and read them (the monster script)

it definitely shouldn't know or care about player movement concepts like walking/running/etc.

[chrome tide]

Ok. Thanks for the code, I will try implementing this later.

[wintry quarry]

The bell script can be like:

[RequireComponent(typeof(NoiseMaker))]
public class Bell : MonoBehaviour {
  public float BellVolume;
  public float BellRange;

  IEnumerator RingBell() {
    GetComponent<NoiseMaker>().volume = BellVolume;
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(5); // ring for 5 seconds
    GetComponent<NoiseMaker>().volume = 0;
  }
}```

[molten dock]

should I worry about code efficiency in a 2D game

[wintry quarry]

just as a simple example

[chrome tide]

Thanks for the examples praetor

[wintry quarry]

Every game needs to worry about efficiency. But the specific things beginners worry about in terms of efficiency are usually not actually important. SO I don't recommend worrying too much about it until you have a performance problem.

[molten dock]

Very fast typer

[wintry quarry]

sure thing. These are quick and dirty examples which would need to be polished of course.

[rocky canyon]

im a simple man..
using UnityEngine;

public class AudioManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static AudioManager Instance;
    AudioSource source;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if(Instance == null) Instance = this;
        else Destroy(this.gameObject);

        source = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
    }

    public void PlayClip(AudioClip clip, float volume)
    {
        source.volume = volume;
        source.clip = clip;
        source.Stop();
        source.Play();
    }
}

i use singletons for all my audio (for the most part)

but i get that its not always the best way

[molten dock]

so is singleton the name for static variables

[rich adder]

singleton means only 1 exists

[rocky canyon]

its a single instance of a class

[strong token]

Return after destroy here?

[molten dock]

Oh alright

[rocky canyon]

but that means you can access it anywhere..

b/c theres only 1

no conflicts

[rocky canyon]

if Instance is assigned.. the class already exists elsewhere.. can just destroy this entire object

but.. i haven't figured out the best way to define a singleton just yet..

im working on it 😅 .. i have soo many different versions.. all a bit different

heres what i plan on adopting everywhere soon enough

[rocky canyon]

actually u may be right.. i wonder if source will get a Null b4 it has a chance to get destroyed

i added one just incase 😄

[strong token]

Hm i doubt it, but not sure. Iir destroy is handled at end of frame, so GetComponent() should still be able to find something.
Ig in that case it wouldn't do much difference anyways, just for later down the road if you implement something like ddol etc.

[rocky canyon]

using UnityEngine;
public class AudioManager : Singleton<AudioManager>
{
    AudioSource source;
    protected override void DoAwake()
    { source = GetComponent<AudioSource>(); }
}```

i went ahead and changed it over to use the generic singleton

[rocky canyon]

ya, good catch tho.. can't hurt to be sure..

and from my understanding, i agree, Destroy happens at the end of the frame.. it gathers it all up.. and destroys it all at once

theres DestroyImmediate() but i think thats more for editor stuff

[brittle isle]

So I'm using rigidbodies for my enemies and player in my 2d platformer, and even if I tinker with the collision grid, they can push each other. Any way to prevent this? https://hatebin.com/wwftbgdakf

[stuck palm]

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        HandleExplosion();
    }

    protected virtual void HandleExplosion()
    {
        
    }

if something inherits this class, does ontriggerenter still happen and will handleexplosion fire?

[slender nymph]

yes

but also

[wintry quarry]

As long as the inheriting class doesn't implement its own OnTriggerEnter

[paper sable]

the -2 below the 0 should dissapear after a second but it doesn't, can anyone help me please? this code makes the text appear and dissapear

public IEnumerator ShowScoreAddText(int multiplier)
    {
        GameManager.scoreAddText.gameObject.SetActive(true);

        GameManager.scoreAddText.SetText(multiplier > 0 ? $"+{scoreAddon}" : $"-{scoreAddon}");

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);

        GameManager.scoreAddText.gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }

[polar acorn]

What calls ShowScoreAddText?

[paper sable]

void Update()
    {
        if (transform.position.y < -5)
        {
            if (GameManager.score <= scoreAddon) GameManager.score = 0;
            else if (GameManager.score > scoreAddon) GameManager.score -= scoreAddon;

            StartCoroutine(ShowScoreAddText(-1));

            Destroy(gameObject);
        }

        transform.Translate(0, -speed / 100, 0);
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col)
    {
        if (col.CompareTag("PlayerTop"))
        {
            GameManager.score += scoreAddon;
            StartCoroutine(ShowScoreAddText(1));
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }```

[wintry quarry]

You're destroying the object

the coroutine will stop when you do that

you can't run a coroutine on an object that has been destroyed.

[paper sable]

shouldn't that happen after the coroutine ends?

[wintry quarry]

why would it happen after the coroutine ends

it happens immediately

            StartCoroutine(ShowScoreAddText(-1));

            Destroy(gameObject);```

you start the coroutine

then you immediately destroy the object

[paper sable]

should i destroy the object in the coroutine?

[wintry quarry]

the whole point of the coroutine is that your code doesn't wait until it ends

[wintry quarry]

sure, if you want it to happen at the end of the coroutine

[paper sable]

thanks

[rocky canyon]

calling a coroutine is like telling it to go ahead and run..
then the code moves along..

[stoic glen]

if(hitInfo.collider.gameObject.layer == 6)
Why does this line take so long to execute?

[rocky canyon]

idk, it shouldn't.. really it would depend on the complexity of ur scene.. or hiearchy..
it could involve traversing through a significant number of GameObjects and/or components which could be where the delay is

[stoic glen]

The following code is stuttering, but the fps doesnt drop

[rocky canyon]

if ur collision matrix is also configured in a way there are many layers with specific interactions it might also might make it where it has to do additional checks to determin the layer of the coliders gameobject

how did you come to conclusion its that line thats causing it?

if the fps doesn't drop.. its probably not a performance issue

[stoic glen]

in the following code, an object is moved to the position of the raycast, which only runs very slowly. If I change the code to e.g. false/true, the object is moved smoothly.

I'm really confused, because this doesnt require a lot of process power or a lot of data

It feels like a grid is created and the object can only be moved into the next cell

[rocky canyon]

is it not your code? are u using a third party codebase or something?

[stoic glen]

No, just normal code

https://pastebin.com/yNCmtv8p This is the code

[rocky canyon]

id say go ahead and profile it..

i dont see anything specifically

[stoic glen]

What does profile mean

[rocky canyon]

https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/using-the-unity-profiler-e282edf38142

look for big spikes.. when you come across one pause the game/profiler and select the spike..

you can go thru the heirarchy and find what in the code is causing issues

[stoic glen]

Ok, I try to search for the problem thx for your help

[shell ice]

i get stuck on this screen for no reason

my project isnt even that big

any idea ?

[summer stump]

It happened when you hit play?
Likely infinite loop

[rocky canyon]

^ try restarting.. if that doesn't help its probably a loop

[round arch]

how would i make a collision between a box collider and a rigidbody work at fast speeds? my box collider is a moving platform but when i move it faster the rigidbody falls straight through

[rich adder]

Continuous mode on collision for Rigidbody

[round arch]

i have tried that, still falls through...

[rich adder]

you're likely not moving with physics

[round arch]

does moving a platform in the editor not effect physics?

[rich adder]

not if you're moving the transform alone

[round arch]

ah

[rich adder]

it will affect it but not accurate

[round arch]

right, and to effect it with physics i need to script that?

[rich adder]

you need to move the Rigidbody itself with its own methods

like AddForce, Velocity etc.

[round arch]

i wanna explain what im trying to achieve, i have a platform that will be able to move to lauch the player, do i add a rigidbody to the platform so i can add force and just disable gravity on it?

[rich adder]

if it only has to push player you can AddForce sure

you can also make it Kinematic and do MovePosition

[round arch]

sweet, thanks for the help!

[lavish jolt]

Hi. I have a problem. I have bullet holes made by decal projector and if I shoot in the surface at a high angle the decal is stretching very much. How can I fix it?

        protected void SpawnDecal(RaycastHit hit, Vector3 direction)
        {
            GameObject decal = decalsPool.Get();
            float positionMultiplier = .1f;
            Vector3 multipliedDirection = direction * positionMultiplier;
            Vector3 spawnPosition = new Vector3(hit.point.x, hit.point.y, hit.point.z) -
                                    new Vector3(multipliedDirection.x, multipliedDirection.y, multipliedDirection.z);

            
            decal.transform.position = spawnPosition;
            
            decal.transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(direction);
        }

        public override void Shoot()
        {
            animator.SetTrigger("Shoot");
            audioSource.pitch = Random.Range(0.9f, 1.1f);
            audioSource.PlayOneShot(weaponSO.shootSound);
            fireEffect.Play();
            if (Physics.Raycast(mainCamera.transform.position, mainCamera.transform.forward, out RaycastHit hit,
                    weaponSO.range))
            {
                
                SpawnDecal(hit, mainCamera.transform.forward);
            }
        }

[kindred nest]

you're displaying it at an angle of it being shot regardless of how sharp that angle is, so you could see what values you get from the "mainCamera.transform.forward" once the decals look off and simply clamp it below and above the undesired values

unless you want them to not stretch at all then I'm sure there is a simple way to just spawn decals with the default normal at a given contact point, but didn't ever use decals just deducting from the code

[rocky canyon]

ya, just rotate it to match the hits' normal

[wintry quarry]

decal.transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(hit.normal);

or -hit.normal

one of those two

[kindred nest]

or clamp it if you want some stretching up to a point

[wintry quarry]

Also why new Vector3(hit.point.x, hit.point.y, hit.point.z) instead of just hit.point??
same with new Vector3(multipliedDirection.x, multipliedDirection.y, multipliedDirection.z);??

[kindred nest]

one does not question code that does the job

[wintry quarry]

yes one does

[rocky canyon]

is this ugly?

[willow scroll]

Yes, it makes my left eye slightly bleed

[kindred nest]

I have no freaking clue what I'm looking at

[rocky canyon]

lol 🤣

thats harsh

[wintry quarry]

could be worse... just put it in a function and forget about it 🙂

[willow scroll]

please, use a switch

[rocky canyon]

i had a switch statement originally..

[kindred nest]

this looks like a nice switch use-case

get it

use case

[lavish jolt]

Thanks)

[rocky canyon]

well its better than this

[rocky canyon]

great idea! 😉

[kindred nest]

not sure about speed between the two, but nesting this much ternary operators is never gonna be more readable/maintanable than the switch. Sure, you saved 15 lines, but try changing anything in it, or getting to the bottom of a bug in the middle of it

your call, you might never have to go back to it, so enjoy it working and don't worry about it

[rocky canyon]

ya, i havent checked the speed yet.. but my guess is its negligible

ya, i dont think imma ever have to modify it.. its just converting Cardinal directions to vectors

[kindred nest]

I see some examples of pattern matching for switch statements in C# posted on the web:

var operation = 2;

var result = operation switch
{
    1 => "Case 1",
    2 => "Case 2",
    3 => "Case 3",
    4 => "Case 4",
    _ => "No case availabe"
};

Console.WriteLine(result);

didn't have the opportunity to try them tho. Might be nice for what you try to achieve

[short goblet]

Good evening everyone! I started programming on Unity a little over a week ago, and I ran into what you might call a bug: when the character jumps, it moves in a direction not respecting the Vector3.up. I've been trying to figure out what causes it for days, but I've lost hope now. Here I attach the code. Thank you https://hastebin.com/share/uhomacexuv.csharp (If you see there's the function Jump() and MyInput(), i don't think the problem is in another position)

[wintry quarry]

I'd probably do this:

Dictionary<Direction, Vector3> dirMap = new() {
  {Direction.North, Vector3.forward},
  {Direction.West, Vector3.left},
  // etc...
};

public Vector3 GetDir(Direction dir, Space space) {
  Vector3 result = dirMap[dir];
  if (space == Space.Local) {
    result = transform.TransformDirection(result);
  }

  return result;
}```

[rocky canyon]

ur epic

never used a dictionary yet

perfect timing

[wind raptor]

Is there a way to change the font (or force monospacing of the default font) of the Text Input box in the inspector?

[wind raptor]

The black screen is text mesh pro text

[rocky canyon]

appears to be respecting it to me..

Vector3.up is global up.. it doesn't matter which way ur RB is rotated

transform.up is the local up

[short goblet]

Yeah, i know this

[rocky canyon]

well in the video its always moving up

[short goblet]

If you see I'm going backwords

[rocky canyon]

ohh, i thought ur issue was with the jump

[short goblet]

Even if in the code is only mentioned vector3.up

[rich adder]

btw dont do * Time.deltaTime; on mouse input

Mouse input is already Time Frame Independent

[wintry quarry]

Your code is adding forces all over the place

   void MovePlayer()
    {
        moveDirection = orientation.forward * y + orientation.right * x;

        if (OnSlope() && !exitingSlope)
        {
            rb.AddForce(GetSlopeMoveDirection() * moveSpeed * 10f, ForceMode.Force);
        }

        if (isGrounded)
        {
            rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * 10f, ForceMode.Force);
        }
        else if (!isGrounded)
        {
            rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * airMultiplier * 10f, ForceMode.Force);
        }
    }```

[rocky canyon]

i know.. i seen that too

he's also setting rb.velocity in several places as well

ignoring the current momentum

[short goblet]

Oh, i didn't know that. I use c# for site and html, so i'm a little confused in this moment

[rich adder]

no worries just a unity quirk 🙂

but yeah also rb.velocity is overriding anything you do with AddForce

[rocky canyon]

it'd be helpful not having to worry about the rigidbody rotating all over the place..

[rich adder]

its for slope correction it seems though? should be fine maybe

[rocky canyon]

most times people will rotate the player (root) gameobject on its lateral directions
and rotate a parented child Camera.. vertically

seperating the two rotations

[short goblet]

that's literally what i did

[rocky canyon]

then why is ur capsule leaning like its drunk?

[short goblet]

it's funny to see

[rocky canyon]

ahh, okie doke

[glad rune]

how would i add an intiger to the UnlSkins in line 15?

[rich adder]

OnSlope should probably be returning the corrected Velocity insted of being if statement.

[short goblet]

just it, it doesn't have anything functional, but with or without the rotation the problem remain. It seems like there's a strange line that's messing up the movedirection

[slender nymph]

wdym by "add an integer"? are you expecting to resize the array to append the integer at the end? if so, use a List<int> instead of an array since arrays cannot be dynamically resized and you must allocate a new one to change the size of the stored array

[short goblet]

but i don't have any idea where, this strange direction seems only picking the jumping from the ground (isGrounded) and not when the character is OnSlope or in Air

[rich adder]

yeah I just use premade controllers

[short goblet]

yeah, i also tried with like the character controller, but i want to test like my ability from physics classes

[rich adder]

yeah dealing with RB based controllers is tricky

[rocky canyon]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131?_ga=2.245514244.1823301150.1610991980-1268531305.1564534193
ftw

[short goblet]

yes, but it's fun asf

[rocky canyon]

https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/movement/ you ever messed with this one?

[short goblet]

when i will learn pretty well the part of movements i will give myself the permission to use premade code

[jovial sable]

Hello, I was wondering if yall know how to make it so i collide with something once it enables a gameobject, but if i collide with it again it enables a different game object?

[wintry quarry]

int collisionCount;```

[rocky canyon]

could do that with a boolean or a counter

[wintry quarry]

and some if statements

[short goblet]

Nono, i found some tutorials on youtube, but it's likme a mix with like 4 channels and some other things i made it by myself

[rich adder]

yeah! this one was fun, was trying to make a Jet Set Radio clone with splines but Its in uhhh pause right now..

[rocky canyon]

ya, i used this one heavily to learn how to code my character controller

lots of good stuff hidden away in that tutorial playlist

[short goblet]

so, anyone have any idea of where this problem come from?

[rocky canyon]

the only thing i can see.. is when u jump u set ur velocity directly..

thats going to cancel out any forces ur already applying to it

[short goblet]

I should try adding a force?

[rocky canyon]

theres an alternative..

pass its velocity back in to itself.. on the X and Z

and only change the Y for the jump

rb.velocity = new Vector3(rb.velocity.x, [yourcustomY], rb.velocity.z);

something like that ^

that way ur not setting em to 0

like u are now.

b/c as of now.. ur setting the X and Z to 0 when u jump

[short goblet]

Okk, i'm trying it right now

I'll let you know in like 5 minutes

[stuck palm]

why is this if statement producing a NRE

  protected override void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        print("BOOMERANG HIT SOMETHING: " + other.name);
        if (other.TryGetComponent(out Character player) || other.transform.parent.TryGetComponent(out player))

[rocky canyon]

but thats just (1) thing i noticed.. it probably isnt going to fix the main problem..

[short goblet]

so, i fixed it

[wintry quarry]

other.transform.parent is null

[short goblet]

i just used an addForce

[slender nymph]

because it does not have a Character component or a parent

[rocky canyon]

heck yea

[short goblet]

and not change the velocity

[stuck palm]

shouldnt it just not complete the if

[short goblet]

thank you so much and sorry, i'm noob asf and i thinki will kill myself ❤️

[rocky canyon]

no worries.. we all had to learn too

[wintry quarry]

if it doesn't have a Character, it will check the parent. At which case it will blow up if no parent

[slender nymph]

if it doesn't have a parent then calling TryGetComponent on the parent property will throw a NRE

[stuck palm]

i wouldnt go that far

[wintry quarry]

Do this:

        print("BOOMERANG HIT SOMETHING: " + other.name);
        Character player = other.GetComponentInParent<Character>();
        if (player != null) {
          // the rest```

[jovial sable]

are there jobs in c#?

[wintry quarry]

You mean, employment?

Of course

[rocky canyon]

nope..

[wintry quarry]

Or do you mean the job system

That's a Unity thing

[jovial sable]

no like employment

[wintry quarry]

of course

[rocky canyon]

no jobs anywhere..

lol.. ofc theres job 🤣

[jovial sable]

ima do smth like that when im older

[stuck palm]

thanks will try this

[rocky canyon]

you should learn more than just c# tho..

ur best route is to know many different languages

[rich adder]

gpt7 no more coders left /s

[jovial sable]

like python or smth

ah

[stuck palm]

gpt8 no humans left

[rocky canyon]

python, java, c#, cpp, c

[jovial sable]

jeez

[rocky canyon]

im learning cpp and c atm.. b/c alot of electronics (microprocessors/controllers) use c and cpp

[jovial sable]

unreal engine uses cpp right

and visual

[rocky canyon]

yes it does..

[rich adder]

and verse

[jovial sable]

cool

[rocky canyon]

but any Unreal i've done, its all been visual

you dont even have to touch cpp for most things in Unreal

its like a FPS generator.. everything has presets and wizards

[jovial sable]

i see

im just gonna try to get good a c# for now but thats something for in the future

[rocky canyon]

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp
https://learn.unity.com/

[jovial sable]

thanks i appreciate it

[quick fractal]

How would i go about using an IsTrigger collider to detect anything with the "Enemy" layer selected? I know how to detect collision from specific layers in theory but it's never worked for me.

Not sure if this is more fit for #archived-code-general but i have hardly any idea what i'm doing and started 7 hours ago

[rich adder]

use the method meant for triggers, and no this is not CodeGeneral topic

a quick google search should tell you which one you need

also you should configure you ide

[quick fractal]

ide?

[rich adder]

the code editor

[quick fractal]

What exactly should i configure?

[rich adder]

!ide follow the instructions here in bot message for VS

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
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[quick fractal]

So just to check since the documentation is doing something a bit different, would this detect collisions from any gameobject with the "Enemy" tag and destroy itself if that happens?

[slender nymph]

not collisions, but trigger overlaps. otherwise yes. Also use CompareTag rather than string equality to check the tag of an object

[rich adder]

the method is correct, the signature is wrong

[slender nymph]

oh wait, wrong paramter type lol

[quick fractal]

Which is the signature?

[rich adder]

the parameters of a method

if you're looking at the documentation you will see which part on the method doesn't match

[quick fractal]

The documentation has this, unless I'm not seeing it, all it does is change the speed when it enters

[rocky canyon]

you dont see the difference?

[rich adder]

look at the paremeters of the method

[rocky canyon]

you might wanna look again

[rich adder]

not inside the method itself

look at image spawncamp sent

[quick fractal]

Okay i can't say the word "O" for some reason, but my bad

[rocky canyon]

Collider vs Collision

[quick fractal]

Yeah...

[rocky canyon]

c# is a very picky language

punctuation, capitalization, all that matter

[quick fractal]

Alright i think it looks good now

Nope, compile error

[rocky canyon]

and another thing.. get in a habit of using .CompareTag("TagName");

its better than .tag

[slender nymph]

you need to get your !IDE configured 👇

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[rocky canyon]

u name the Collider other

u use that to compare..

not the type..

sooo.. it wouldnt be if(collision.. anymore

it'd be if(other...

[quick fractal]

I did all those things and nothing happened so i'm missing something in that

Sorry to be annoying everyone, I'm not normally i swear

[rich adder]

close vs, try Regen project files inside external tools in unity page, then open script again

[quick fractal]

So like that?

[slender nymph]

☝️
and if that doesn't work then screenshot the entire visual studio window with the solution explorer visible

[quick fractal]

I don't think it worked

[slender nymph]

let it finish loading first

[quick fractal]

Where does it say it's loading?

[slender nymph]

well it doesn't show Miscellaneous Files or the Assembly-CSharp in the solution dropdown at the top so that indicates it hasn't finished loading

you also conveniently cut off the bottom of the window where you would see the loading icon

[quick fractal]

It looks.. different

[slender nymph]

yes because it is correctly configured now

[quick fractal]

I cut off the bottom cause it has info i don't want on discord

Sweet, now i have to figure out why the red squiggly lines are there, thanks for helping with that

[slender nymph]

because you spelled it wrong

and you terminated the statement with ; instead of ) to close the if statement

[quick fractal]

Thanks 😅

[rocky canyon]

you can tell b/c of the Assembly-CSharp

now it knows its a C# script.. and will start highlighting errors in your syntax

and CompareTag

[quick fractal]

If i had more than one IsTrigger capsule collider on the same gameobject along with my script, would it detect them all as the "same" collider or would i have to specify something

Oh damn it destroyed the gameobject like it should.. That's sick

[rocky canyon]

🤯 lol

[polar acorn]

Multiple colliders on one object form what is sometimes called a "Composite collider". They basically end up becoming one collider

[quick fractal]

Do you happen to have any docs on setting up rudimentary health values for enemies & the player? I haven't been able to find any but now that you've all helped me figure out how i'm going to do damage i think that's gonna help immensely

Not that i have any enemies with a navmesh agent yet

[quick fractal]

Okay thanks that's perfect

[patent patio]

Hello 👋 I'm trying to set up URP and the Shader Graph.
When adding my URP Asset (with Universal Renderer) it breaks all of my textures (they turn magenta) and I get a missing reference exception camera error. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong. For reference I am running 2022.3.13f1.

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEk7mKovpUE&ab_channel=SpawnCampGames

i have this video

[quick fractal]

Oh that's perfect

[rocky canyon]

it kinda has something about that.. I toggle a bool in another script ... but u can just as well change a variable..

or call a method that changes that variable..

and passing in a float or int

[quick fractal]

I would imagine i have to define different damage values from different attack types and then subtract that from the health pool

[slender nymph]

#archived-urp
but also "it breaks all of my textures (they turn magenta)" means you need to upgrade your materials to URP shaders

[patent patio]

Thanks, I realized I posted this in the wrong channel. But also I’ve tried to upgrade them. It changed nothing. As well as creating new shaders and applying that to a new game object, there is no difference, it stays magenta.

[slender nymph]

then share screenshots of your materials in the correct channel and ask for help there

[patent patio]

Alright, my apologies.

[fathom prism]

Hello

Anyone know how do I rotate an object like it rotates using the rotate tool

[polar acorn]

transform.Rotate

[fathom prism]

the pivot is weird

using the rotate tool it rotates it on the center

[quick fractal]

How would I go about playing a sound just before the destroy? Sorry if this is a very basic question

[polar acorn]

transform.RotateAround with the center point of the object
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.RotateAround.html

[polar acorn]

Use PlayClipAtPoint, which will spawn in an object with an audio source and then destroy it when the sound ends.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint.html

This can be performance heavy if you do it a lot, in which case you would want to re-use the same audio source object and just update its position and play it again

[quick fractal]

Is the gameobject created as a child of the one with my custom script?

[polar acorn]

No, it just spawns an unaffiliated object whose sole responsibility is to play a sound effect and die

If it were a child objecti t'd be destroyed along with it and the sound would stop

[quick fractal]

It won't be Destroy(gameObject); for much longer

I'm tryign to implement health but it's confusing me a bit

Health & damage

[fathom prism]

the problem is that it treats one of the parts of the object as the center point

but when I use the rotate tool the center is the center of all the parts

[slender nymph]

lmao i like how the example code has [RequireComponent(typeof(AudioSource))] despite not using that required component at all
also thanks for reminding me this exists, i can add it to my feature suggestion of supporting AudioResource

[polar acorn]

Then use RotateAround and pass in the center of all the parts

[fathom prism]

I don't know the center of all parts

it's very confusing because when I click on one of the parts it shows up as 0 0 0 position

but the whole object is far away from that

how do I put the pivot somewhere else

[polar acorn]

What you see in the inspector is the local position

An object at 0,0,0 just means it's at the same position as its parent

[fathom prism]

it's rotating where that gray circle is

but I want it to rotate on this thing

[polar acorn]

What object do you have selected? Is your inspector in pivot or center mode

[fathom prism]

how do I switch the modes

[polar acorn]

Click the button on the top of the scene view

[fathom prism]

ohhh I see

it was rotating around the pivot

and not the center

[queen adder]

How should i start learning to make 2d games. I have literally no experience in coding. I once made a game in greenfoot :/

[polar acorn]

Pivot would be transform.Rotate

[shell ice]

hi

im still stuck on this and i couldnt solve it

how can i know what unity is doiing while i am in this state , i litteraly can't debug anything because i have no clue what is going on

[polar acorn]

If this happens when you hit play, then you have an infinite loop somewhere

[shell ice]

i removed every awake and start

[polar acorn]

What about Update

[slender nymph]

or OnEnable

[acoustic owl]

hello

[shell ice]

i removed everywhere where code can execute

still happens

[slender nymph]

don't crosspost. your issue is not code related

[eternal needle]

Instead of blindly guessing, attach the debugger and see what's actually happening

If you really have no code running, then this is a bug

[polar acorn]

So, you have a completely blank scene with no objects whatsoever?

[acoustic owl]

i'am strugling to install unity

[shell ice]

there are objects on the scene

[slender nymph]

do you know how to read?

[polar acorn]

Not a code question. #💻┃unity-talk

[polar acorn]

And do any of them have scripts on them

[shell ice]

yes they do

[polar acorn]

And do those scripts have functions that run at any point

[shell ice]

but those scripts are useless because i dont let them execute anything

[shell ice]

no

[polar acorn]

How do you prevent them from executing anything

Maybe show !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[slender nymph]

use the debugger instead of making assumptions about your code

[shell ice]

i don't know how to use it ( never did )

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/debugging/debugger

after you attach the debugger click the break all button

[quick fractal]

I got it working, thanks guys!

[slender nymph]

player health does not need to be static

[quick fractal]

Oh i did that cause i was using a different method

Thanks lol

[rocky canyon]

looks good 👍 besides the static variable.

u can also just remove the start and update(){} to make it a bit cleaner.. if ur not using them

[quick fractal]

I'm gonna probably use them later down in the line for updating the health and stamina bars but for now i think.. I might do some level design, y'know, the calm stuff

[prime maple]

Hey I got a quick question with unity. I imported a sprite and sliced them to my liking but when i put it into the scene in the game view it does not show up does anyone know how i can fix this pls

[rich adder]

make sure they are infront of the camera

also not a code question

[prime maple]

its infront of the camera and where can i ask this question?

[rich adder]

yea make sure the z position is bigger than the one on the camera

also #💻┃unity-talk next time

[quick fractal]

I have a kind of weird question, how would i influence an image in a canvas for something like a healthbar

I know i'd need to use void update(); to constantly refresh it but actually changing it is really confusing me

[rich adder]

why would you use update to refresh it?

[quick fractal]

So it's constantly checking for whether the players health has changed

[rich adder]

nahh , only change it when health goes down

no reason to be checking every frame that

[quick fractal]

So i'd add it to where it says PlayerHealth -= 20; just below

Okay that helps

[rich adder]

yes, in time you do it via events etc..

[fathom prism]

transform.RotateAround(centerp.position, Vector3.forward, -45);

@polar acorn How do I make it not be instantly but rotate it at a certain speed

like make the rotate take 1/2 of a second

[tacit grove]

Hey I have a question, how do I convert mesh to a terrain and if possible convert 16 meshes into one terrain, or maybe if that's not possible convert it into terrain data and then attach the terrain component?

[polar acorn]

Call it multiple times with smaller numbers

over multiple frames

[quick fractal]

I know sort of how to reference scripts on the same gameobject so i could have a "Health Bar" script on the image gameobject, the "Player" script on the.. well, player and then use the player to change the "Health Bar" script which would change the actual health bar

Does that sound.. Right?

[rich adder]

keep things simple for you have healthbar script be on the player

call method to update the bar only when your health changes

[quick fractal]

So put them on the same gameobject and then do something like this? myObject.GetComponent<MyScript>().MyFunction();

gameObject.GetComponent<Health Bar>().UpdateHealth();

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private HealthBar healthBar;

then drag n drop the object with HealthBar script inside the inspector field

[half star]

boys and girls, we will start a study group where we will all share our goal at the start of the day and at the end of the day we will share what did we do that day. So if you are interested message me . Let's learn to codeeee! :yay:

[quick fractal]

Thanks a bunch, it's starting to look really cool lol

@rich adder If i want to update the Health Bar each time i take damage, how would i go about making HealthBar.UpdateHealth; actually mean something within the script? I'm assuming i need some int reference in the health bar script

[rich adder]

pass in the PlayerHealth each time it updates

you would need to create the UpdateHealth method to take in whatever data type PlayerHealth is

[quick fractal]

How would i go about making UpdateHealth a method?

Or rather, do you have any good docs on making methods in general

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/methods

[quick fractal]

Thanks

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw&ab_channel=SebastianLague
heres an all around good series to watch for beginners..

[tacit grove]

does anyone know the solution to this?

[rocky canyon]

i watched it a few times when i first started.. near the end i was watching it on my 2nd monitor in the background while i worked with unity..
really helped me drill in the important parts and how methods work

[quick fractal]

Thanks, i'm incredibly new to this and probably annoying the hell out of people lmao. Should've watched a few hundred more tutorials

[rocky canyon]

if u watch the first 3 or so episodes of the series i posted you'll have plenty of context to work with..

knowing terminology and what stuffs called helps tremendously when first starting

[quick fractal]

100%, when i was first getting into unity and people were helping me with modding it took 4 hours to figure out that the tabs had names and weren't just random places info was displayed

[rocky canyon]

like if i said.. you should pass in the health variable as a parameter to the function.. someone without a clue would be like "tf did u just call me?"

[quick fractal]

My mother was a saint

[rocky canyon]

episode 4 walks you around the editor and tells u whats what.. Like "the inspector" "gameview" "Hierarchy" etc

but the 3 before it get u started with terminology of scripting.. and how variables and functions work together

[quick fractal]

Kinda feels like ep 1 kind of stuff

though I'm a year into unity and i still forget the names of tabs

So maybe not

[rocky canyon]

lol.. well he starts u off learning what code looks like.

and then teaches about the editor.. and then goes str8 into coding a game

this is the best tutorial, I dont feel lost even though I have no idea about coding..

this first comment kinda sums up how i felt too..

[rocky canyon]

im going on 3 years and i still don't know everything about the editor

and even less about everything code related

[quick fractal]

Okay damn maybe this is the best tutorial for real

The exact thing i'm doing

[rocky canyon]

mmhmm

[quick fractal]

Just a quick thing i haven't really looked into, is playerIsAlive = false; how i change the bool?

Also i know i'm getting annoying so probably last thing, if i want to play a particle system on the same gameobject how would i go about doing it?
just

gameObject.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>() ParticleSystem.Play();```

[rich adder]

wdym how can you change the bool?

also IMO its bad habit to write if statement without {}

[quick fractal]

I just noticed i didn't have that lol, rectified.

[rich adder]

it works but only for the line directly underneath it

[quick fractal]

What i mean is, since the bool is true by default, does the players health reaching 0 set it to false

[rich adder]

do you know what = does ?

[quick fractal]

is equal to?

[rich adder]

no

[quick fractal]

Oh is it double ==?

[rich adder]

== is comparison yes

= assigns a value

[quick fractal]

So if i wanted to asign it to be false i would use one =?

[rich adder]

you want assignment, I'd say so

[rocky canyon]

you may want to look at this closer..

if u want to destroy the gameobject if the conditional is true. u need to wrap them all in { }s

[rocky canyon]

there ya go lol

[quick fractal]

So that would set the bool to false and destroy itself

[rocky canyon]

in the code above that.. it would only set the bool to false..
and the destroy(gameobject) would run regardless.. b/c it wasn't in the brackets..

[rich adder]

this only happens when the instance is created.

in Unity thats when you attach to a gameobject

or hit Reset on the script

[rocky canyon]

if(bool == true){
CallMethod();
}
CallAnotherMethod();
``` is the same as
```cs
if(bool == true)
CallMethod();
CallAnotherMethod();

[rich adder]

well you probably had no value before when you added it in the script
no value = default is assigned which in a bool case is false

[rocky canyon]

you can omit the {}s.. but its only going to include the next line after it

anything else.. is considered outside the {}s

[quick fractal]

Kind of like that?

[rich adder]

that last if statement is redundant..

[rocky canyon]

no reason that i can think of to check that boolean at the bottom like that

b/c if it isn't giving the player damage.. it isn't gonna change the health.. and therefor.. he can't die

so only checking inside the ifenemy conditional would be good enuff

fun fact atm, the bool doesn't even matter.. b/c ur going to destroy the gameobject right after u set it to false..

[quick fractal]

If i did something like this where it's constantly checking if the bool is false and when it is, the player dies instead of having it in one if, would that be better or worse?

wait..

I removed the last if

[rich adder]

why are you doing this

[cosmic dagger]

You should check when the player takes damage, not constantly every frame . . .

[quick fractal]

So i can flip the bool and have something other than the gameobject get deleted and so i can do it with other scripts

[cosmic dagger]

Wait, you already have that check. Why are you doing it twice?

[quick fractal]

Ignore the bottom one i forgot to delete it lol

[cosmic dagger]

My first suggestion stands. Check after updating the health . . .

[quick fractal]

Like this? 👀

I'm seeing more and more how completely redundant doing this is..

[rich adder]

made it worse

btw code runs from top to bottom

[quick fractal]

I think this is just better

[rich adder]

also if you're destroying the object what is even the point of keeping the bool there

[quick fractal]

I'm going to replace it with a particle effect and disabling a few scripts then a respawn

Speaking of which, how do i disable specific scripts and play particles?

And respawn

[rich adder]

"how to disable script in unity"

[rocky canyon]

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Enemy"))
        {
            if (isAlive)
            {
                TakeDamage(damageAmount);
            }
        }
    }

    private void TakeDamage(int amount)
    {
        currentHealth -= amount;
        UpdateUI();

        if (currentHealth <= 0)
        {
            isAlive = false;
            Debug.Log("Player has died!");
        }
    }```

heres a snippet from one of my basic controller scripts

if alive -> take damage
if damage is taken -> update ui

[quick fractal]

I found the answer for that but i've been hunting for the particles one for quite a while

[quick fractal]

And updateUI is a custom method on another script?

With actual functions in it

[rocky canyon]

ya, or in this one

    private void UpdateUI()
    {
        healthText.text = "Health: " + currentHealth.ToString();
    }```

just updating a Text object

[quick fractal]

How do you get the text to actually show up

Textmeshpro?

[rocky canyon]

you create a TMPro element.. and then get a reference

[quick fractal]

And a reference is one of these? or is it a getcomponent and then modifying

[rocky canyon]

public TMP_Text healthText; ``` or
```cs
[SerializedField] private TMP_Text healthText; ```

[rocky canyon]

its either or..

they're both references... they're just assigned differently

[quick fractal]

the serialized field is better for me

[rocky canyon]

you can assign a reference via the inspector. by using a public or a serialized field and drag it in yourself.
or you can assign it w/ code in a awake() or start() method

[rich adder]

ideally you want to keep everything private unless you need specific reason for it to be public

[rocky canyon]

its better to do it that way anyway..
a variable should only be public if it needs to be accessed outside the script for some reason

[quick fractal]

Isn't it [SerializeField] not serialized?

[rocky canyon]

yea.. typo

variables galore!

lol

[quick fractal]

and you're using.. All of them?

That mustve taken ages

[rocky canyon]

about 6 months.. but it is a character controller

[rich adder]

holy hell

lol

ya need some structs my guy

[rocky canyon]

there used to be dozens more

[quick fractal]

I'm still just using the base unity one with a different rigged model

[summer stump]

playersActualSpeed is unused

[rocky canyon]

i know.. it was for a speedometer i made for debugging

[rich adder]

yeah i would def group them in their own structs, but yeah guess that could be too much abstraction for some :p

[rocky canyon]

Speedo!

[rocky canyon]

slowly getting it perfected 👍

spent 6 months or so building it.. and then 1 month or so refactoring.. and just last month i deleted about 25% of it

soo.. another refactor or so.. and it'd be package worthy haha

[rich adder]

hey if it works it works lol

[rocky canyon]

oh no, i totally agree.. it wasn't until this year i started getting comfortable using structs

structs, and the getter/setter properties.. took me a while to get a feel for

[quick fractal]

To detect a mouse input what do i do

I know the input is Mouse0/1

[quick fractal]

Oh not the axis, like pressing buttons

[rich adder]

Vector3 !

[quick fractal]

although i'll have to remake moving it anyway so that's really useful

[rocky canyon]

(0) (1) and (2)

[rich adder]

GetMouseButton

[rocky canyon]

..Down ..Up

[rich adder]

but really these are easily googleable

[quick fractal]

So Input.GetMouseButton(0);

[quick fractal]

Sorry.. I should be doing that more i know

[rocky canyon]

.. (0)

[rich adder]

only so you get used to the result usually is for the api

[rocky canyon]

no.. just (0)

GetMouseButton(0)

[rich adder]

look at the examples on the docs

[quick fractal]

Oh

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetMouseButton.html

[quick fractal]

Thanks guys 😮‍💨
I'll stop bothering you all now, thanks so much for the help

[rich adder]

its no bother just trying to get you towards the right way to do it :p

[rocky canyon]

Fire1, 2, and 3

are also mouse inputs

[rich adder]

clicking these usually link to more info :p

[quick fractal]

I looked at the docs before hand and i have one more question

[rocky canyon]

shoot

[quick fractal]

Does this mean it blends the current animation into a new one, or blend the one you want to play into another

I am finally setting up attacks

[rocky canyon]

that one I dont know.. im guessing it blends the animation thats currently playing into the one u give the function ¯_(ツ)_/¯

could be wrong tho as I normally use parameters and set up transitions from clip to clip... just changing the parameters to let the animator handle the transitions

[rich adder]

which function is this

[quick fractal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animation.Blend.html

[rich adder]

wouldn't it be easier to just use blend tree?

[rocky canyon]

ya, since ur beginner and everything is new to you.. it wouldnt hurt to jump right into blend tree's

[rich adder]

much easier to do transitions with the graph than through code

[quick fractal]

Blend trees? Using the animator or is this code

[rocky canyon]

animator

[quick fractal]

Oh i sort of know how to use that

Most of what i did was using an SDK so i haven't messed much with base unity stuff 😔

[rocky canyon]

blendtree's look like this.. where u can modify that 1 single value.. and it'll blend between the 3 clips on the right

[quick fractal]

How did you get to that menu? Spam clicking the blend tree up here just sends me to the animator tab

[shell sorrel]

you double click on the state for a blend tree in the graph, just like sub state machines, this is all done in the animator tab

[stuck palm]

newPassive.outline.OutlineColor = playerOutline.OutlineColor = GlobalValues.playerColors[ID - 1];

why does this line not produce errors?

how can i equal something equal something

[slender nymph]

this assigns GlobalValues.playerColors[ID - 1] to playerOutline.OutlineColor and then newPassive.outline.OutlineColor. it's perfectly valid to have mutliple assignments chained like that assuming you are wanting to assign the same oject to all of them

[cosmic dagger]

you're creating a chain of assigning the value to the right-hand side . . .

[stuck palm]

so they would all be equal to GlobalValues thing?

interesting

thanks

[quick fractal]

Hey, so i set up my enemy script to take 10hp whenever an is trigger collider with the RustedSword tag touches it (exact same method on player) yet it doesn't seem to work at all and i can't see any errors anywhere, anyone know where i might've gone wrogn?

This is player if it helps

[deft grail]

do you have Rigidbody?

a collider with IsTrigger selected, actually have the tag RustedSword?

[quick fractal]

On which? the player or the enemy

[deft grail]

one of the 2 things thats colliding with eachother

[deft grail]

and the enemy

[deft grail]

ok so you dont have a rigidbody

also this Collider shouldnt be IsTrigger most likely

for the enemy

[quick fractal]

The RB fixed it, thanks

[quick fractal]

It won't be forever, i'll end up only making enemy weapons actually hurt, the rest will be normal colliders

For now they're just static capsules lol

[quick fractal]

Have you ever messed with playing animations through script? I've been trying to get my attack anim to work but it constantly spits out an nre

[deft grail]

its pretty easy to play animations, and if you have a NRE thats an issue with your setup of code/inspector and not animations

[quick fractal]

I don't see anything up with it :/

At least i'm not getting the NRE anymore

[deft grail]

ah

[quick fractal]

Uh oh lol

[deft grail]

are you holding mouse the entire time before and after you collide?

[eternal needle]

Where do you assign the animator?

[quick fractal]

No, i just press it but nothing happens

[eternal needle]

It is private and not [SerializeField] so theres no way its assigned

[deft grail]

why are you playing the animation here even and why on mouse press?

and you get no NRE because the if statement doesnt run

unless you changed the code to assign anim after sending screenshot

[quick fractal]

Is that not how i should do an attack?