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[wintry quarry]

Isn't that to be expected when you stretch the object?

[dreamy junco]

no but i want pixel by pixel

[wintry quarry]

Your options are to make a new sprite with that new shape, or use 9 slicing or something: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/9SliceSprites.html

[wintry quarry]

turn on point filtering for your texture in the texture import settings

[stone saddle]

i dont think it does anything with the players position or movement

[willow scroll]

You don't think?

[stone saddle]

it just moves the background, right?

public class ParallaxEffect : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform cameraTransform;
    public float parallaxFactor = 0.5f; // Adjust this value to control parallax effect strength

    private Vector3 startPosition;
    private float initialZ;

    private void Start()
    {
        startPosition = transform.position;
        initialZ = transform.position.z;
    }

    private void LateUpdate()
    {
        float parallaxOffsetX = (cameraTransform.position.x - startPosition.x) * parallaxFactor;
        float parallaxOffsetY = (cameraTransform.position.y - startPosition.y) * parallaxFactor;

        Vector2 parallaxOffset = new Vector2(parallaxOffsetX, parallaxOffsetY);

        Vector3 newPosition = startPosition + new Vector3(parallaxOffset.x, parallaxOffset.y, 0);
        transform.position = new Vector3(newPosition.x, newPosition.y, initialZ);
    }
}

[willow scroll]

Well, it's your script, right?

And consider sending big code blocks using sites

[stone saddle]

my bad

[stone saddle]

yeah i was just a bit confused by the question lol

[willow scroll]

"The player is still jittering between pixels", you said. Where's the player script?

[stone saddle]

here

[willow scroll]

Could you also send it via site?

Since I have to download it to fully see it

[stone saddle]

ah right

[molten dock]

did they remove the thing that shows ppl on mobile

[stone saddle]

https://pastebin.com/3heMENFE

[willow scroll]

This is not the script I was referring to

[willow scroll]

What does it mean?

[stone saddle]

ah right, which script did you mean?

[willow scroll]

Player.

[stone saddle]

for collision? or the camera

i dont have a specific player script

[willow scroll]

So what is [PlayerController](#💻┃code-beginner message) for then?

[stone saddle]

urrrrr

Moves the player?

Im not entirely sure what youre asking

oh my bad

i had the wrong script copied

thats the one for the paralax effect

[willow scroll]

You have said you don't have a specific player script. I have asked you what the PlayerController is for then. For controlling the enemies?

[stone saddle]

no its for controlling the player, sorry

i pasted the wrong script

https://pastebin.com/LPS3LQHK

this should be the correct one

[willow scroll]

The things associated with the Rigidbody should be executed in FixedUpdate

In your case, you're changing the Rigidbody.velocity

[bleak yew]

Anyone know how i can fix the issue where my ui components are clipping through my 3d gameobjects?

[stone saddle]

So I should be using FixedUpdate at any point that i change rb.velocity?

[willow scroll]

It shouldn't happen unless your canvas is too near to the camera

[polar acorn]

Are you using a world-space canvas?

If you don't want it to be occluded by world-space objects, you should be using an overlay canvas

[bleak yew]

No a screen space - Overlay

[willow scroll]

I don't see you setting the transform there, so, yes, you should use FixedUpdate whenever you work with the Rigidbody. This includes Rigidbody.velocity

[polar acorn]

Then nothing in world space should be affecting it. It's drawn on top of everything else

[stone saddle]

alright, thank you

[willow scroll]

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[frosty hound]

No there is no console channel, and yes that would be against the NDA.

[next bone]

Thank you!

[bleak yew]

Found out more after playing around its just text mesh pro objects doing that i can make a image and it will be renderd on top of it

[willow scroll]

I'm sorry, have you received the answer?
This is how the default Inspector is drawn, with the script's name at the start, and I don't really know whether you can somehow make the script's name go before the editor fields.
The code

[fervent abyss]

ye i got an answer in #↕️┃editor-extensions

thanks

[rocky lava]

Can i put stuff from UI where im struggling with buttons here? or would that be in another channel

[slender nymph]

is the issue code related? if yes, then yes. if no, then #📲┃ui-ux

[rocky lava]

nvm i got it already, thank you!

[opaque hinge]

This isnt as much a scripting question as it is a logic question so Im not sure if this is the right place to ask, but say you have a grid made of hexagons with a character in the center hexagon. On every turn the player destroys a hexagon and the character will move one hexagon closer to the nearest outside piece. If no hexes are deleted at the beginning of the game, the character always reached an outside piece assuming the make the most logical move. So is there a way to determine how many pieces need to be destroyed so that the player always could win if they play perfectly. For example I know if you have a 7x7 grid and remove 14 pieces at the start, the player can win by destroying a max of 10 tiles. How can this be scaled to different size grids?

[stone saddle]

sorry, bad timing

[opaque hinge]

haha all good thanks

[stone saddle]

@ PraetorBlue sorry for the ping. I've tried fixing the wall collision with your advice but I cant quite get it to work. Would you mind looking at my stuff again when you have time?

[wintry quarry]

It's unclear to me who "the player" and "the character" are

and if those are different things

[opaque hinge]

character is an ai enemy trying to reach the outside piece, player is the person playing that is destoying tiles trying to stop the enemy from reaching the outside. Sorry for confusion

[wintry quarry]

what's a "7x7" grid mean in hexagons?

and are they trying to reach the 7th ring or the 8th ring?

For example I would consider the outside ring here the "4th ring" and the center piece is the "0th ring"

Anyway it is not clear to me that if the player removes one hex per turn, they could ever stop the character from reaching a particular ring at all.

[opaque hinge]

7 hexagons wide by 7 hexagons long

yeah exactly

[wintry quarry]

Ah - that seems weirdly designed because the corners are further away than the sides

the sides are only 3 moves away. The corners are 4+

[opaque hinge]

I suppose

[wintry quarry]

anyway at each piece there are at least two possible moves bringing them closer to the outside, so destroying one hex at a time will never stop them

[opaque hinge]

but I have working logic for this right now that if I destroy 14 tiles at the start of the game, the player can win everytime

yes exactly, so I would need to destroy tiles before the game starts

[wintry quarry]

I mean couldn't you just destroy the 6 tiles surounding the start position and win?

[opaque hinge]

no its randomly destroyed

like a certain number of tiles are randomly destroyed before the game start

[wintry quarry]

Then what happens during the actual game?

[acoustic arch]

is their any use or way of sorting values in a dictionary?

[wintry quarry]

dictionaries are not ordered in the first place, so it doesn't make sense to "sort" them

[opaque hinge]

the player destroys one tile per turn trying to prevent the enemy from escaping

[wintry quarry]

sorting implies there is an order.

[acoustic arch]

gotcha that's what i thought just wanted to be sure

[wintry quarry]

I mean I guess it depends on which tiles are destroyed.

[acoustic arch]

gonna use a List<> instead

[opaque hinge]

If any 14 tiles are randomly destroyed before the game starts, the player always has a chance to win if they play correct

doesnt matter which ones

ive tested that

[wintry quarry]

I don't think that's correct

If these are destroyed

it seems the player cannot win

[opaque hinge]

that is not 14 tiles, but they could win that im pretty sure

[acoustic arch]

very interesting game design

[wintry quarry]

Oops

[opaque hinge]

yeah I thought it would be an interesting start, ive already implemented the pathfinding logic for the enemy which was fun

[wintry quarry]

Player can't win like this

I can't count apparently lol

[abstract finch]

I'm trying to make a third person over the shoulder camera but I'm struggling to get it to take into account the offsets. The line represents the direction its facing. here it should be looking straight ahead.

            transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(lookDir - transform.position);
            Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.forward * 1000, Color.red);```
Am I doing something wrong here? The character itself is facing (0,**90**,0). The Target Transform is facing (-38,**85**,0)

[wintry quarry]

Quaternion.LookRotation(lookDir - transform.position); This doens't make any sense

lookDir - transform.position < in fact this doesn't make any sense

[abstract finch]

i see

[wintry quarry]

subtracting a position from a direction is ??

[abstract finch]

I figure I need the mid point between these two

[wintry quarry]

what is this code meant to do

[abstract finch]

Its something like an over the shoulder camera. So the camera looks straight ahead of where it is but also accoutns for the pitch and offsets.

Im struggling with getting it to look at the proper spots atm

[wintry quarry]

btw this:
var lookDir = _targetTransform.forward + (_targetTransform.right * _sideOffset) + (_targetTransform.up * _yOffset);
Can just be:

var lookDir = _targetTransform.TransformDirection(new Vector3(_sideOffset, _yOffset));```

[stone saddle]

Hi, would you mind quickly looking at my code again if you have time? Ive tried to do what you said regarding wall collision detection and teleporting the player to the wall when the player is on the wall but now the player cant move up and down, and gets stuck when holding the direction of the wall. https://pastebin.com/zQwewP1s

[abstract finch]

ahh

[wintry quarry]

er wait actually

[opaque hinge]

you may have gotten me with that one, so there might be a few unwinnable scenarios

[wintry quarry]

that's not right haha

it's weird to use addition etc.

[abstract finch]

is it inverse?

InverseTransformDirection

[opaque hinge]

im honestly playing it in a different tab trying to win

[wintry quarry]

Let's ignore the first line for a second

which should sort of work

[abstract finch]

ok

[wintry quarry]

the second line should be:

transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(lookDir);```

But the real question is what do you want the "offset" to represent?

An angle? A position offset from something?

[abstract finch]

Its producing this

[abstract finch]

The offset just means how far off from the transform do you want to place the over the shoulder cam. Since its over the shoulder it would be something like Vector3(0,2,.2f) To the right of the player

[wintry quarry]

I think if you truly are taking random positions, there are still unwinnable positions all the way up to 19 tiles

Unwinnable position with 19 tiles removed:

You'll have to be a bit smarter about this than just removing random tiles.

[opaque hinge]

that isnt unwinnable

[wintry quarry]

isn't it?

[opaque hinge]

just removed the yellow middle right

[wintry quarry]

ah true

good call

[opaque hinge]

but I see your point

I feel like unwinnable positions are rare enough that my method is fine for a 7x7

I just wouldnt know how it would change when I scale it

[wintry quarry]

if you write an algorithm that detects an unwinnable position you can use that

and regenerate if you get one

[acoustic arch]

to be fair half my legit solitaire games are unwinnable

but i wouldn't say it's a good thing

[opaque hinge]

ah that would be smart, I would need to look into how to do that

[opaque hinge]

lol

[slender nymph]

physics material 2d with no friction

[stone saddle]

it was working fine before, i just recently updated the code so that the player is teleported to be agaisnt the wall when a wall is detected

working other than always being 1 or 2 pixels away from the wall

[slender nymph]

oh in that case, physics material 2d with no friction

[slender nymph]

yeah i'm not going to try and read that code. if you want to share your !code do it correctly 👇

[eternal falcon]

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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[stone saddle]

sorry, i just meant to demonstrate that it was working without being teleported to the wall

https://pastebin.com/zQwewP1s

[acoustic arch]

is it possible for my class to have a constructor that can take 3 arguments but only NEEDS 1 argument to be filled when the object is created?

[slender nymph]

if you're going to use pastebin, at least have the courtesy of selecting the language so that there is syntax highlighting.

[slender nymph]

yes, your ctor can have optional parameters

[wintry quarry]

Yes using optional parameters or multiple constructors with different # of params

[acoustic arch]

thanks

[stone saddle]

https://pastebin.com/tbsJGHyn

sorry, never used pastebin before

[slender nymph]

okay, and now have you bothered trying my suggestion. or are you just going to dump the code, expect me to read all of it and tell you some other solution to your issue?

[lost cypress]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;


public class Ob : MonoBehaviour
{
    Vector3 originalPos;

    void Start()
    {
        originalPos = transform.position;
    }

    void Update()
    {
          if (transform.position.x < 52611)
            {
                transform.Translate(Vector3.right * 10 * Time.deltaTime); 
            }
            else
            {
                transform.position = originalPos; 
            }
    }
}

I have this object that is moving and when it passes a certain x point I want it to go back to the starting state and then start moving again.

[stone saddle]

sorry, i dont understand what your suggestion is

everything was working fine as shown in the video

[slender nymph]

physics material 2d with no friction

[lost cypress]

This code is not really working and I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me with it.

[stone saddle]

how do i add friction?

[polar acorn]

What isn't working about it

Is it not moving at all or is it not resetting

[cosmic dagger]

What are you trying to do?

[slender nymph]

well for starters i am saying to remove friction. by using a physics material 2d. that has no friction.

[summer stump]

With a physics material

[lost cypress]

It moves but it keeps going no matter what then it falls of plane/ floor and down to eternity.

[stone saddle]

like a component attached to the player? i dont see anything named physics material 2d.

[slender nymph]

why are you trying to move your object 52000 units away from the origin? that is going to lead to some funky behavior

[summer stump]

Have you googled it?

[slender nymph]

have you bothered googling it? or even looking at the components that are already on the player?

[molten dock]

is singleton like i make a script named singleton, do the singleton loop thing and then whatever variables i make in that script are now acessable thru all scripts

[polar acorn]

Try logging transform.position.x, see what value it is when you're expecting it to be resetting

[lost cypress]

It is a huge environment and it is a train moving.

[polar acorn]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/

[slender nymph]

well that environment is too large. anything over 10k units away from the origin is going to experience floating point inaccuracy issues

[wintry quarry]

transform.position.x < 52611 bruh

52611????

that should be basically the entire known universe in Unity terms

[slender nymph]

and i don't just mean weird issues with positioning. here's an example of how rendering is affected by being too far from the origin: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/148ctmb/dont_forget_floating_origin_if_youre_working_with/

[lost cypress]

Probably but we worked on it on blender and moved it to unity and tbh nothing in unity makes sense (the coordiantes).

[summer stump]

Many programs have different coordinates

Maya and blender have different ones haha

[molten dock]

u can just scale it down

[summer stump]

I always laugh about unreal sitting there out in the cold

[lost cypress]

I will see what I can do about scalig it down. Anyways so the size is the problem tho right?

There is no fixing the problem if not scaling down

[slender nymph]

i mean, that's likely part of the problem

[summer stump]

You could split the model and use floating origin
Loading pieces as you move closer to them, unloading when moving away

[polar acorn]

Possibly. Did you try logging the X value and seeing what it is when you're expecting it to turn around

[acoustic arch]

how fast is this train to go from the origin to over 50k

[wintry quarry]

floating origin is the other fix

[summer stump]

Why are you showing this? And there are five listeners in the scene!?

[polar acorn]

You've cropped off the important bit of the error

[lost cypress]

Debug.Log("Resetting position: " + transform.position.x);

[summer stump]

Why ping me with that?
Digi is the one who asked for it

[lost cypress]

I did this and nothing is showing.

[dusty silo]

Vertecies have CircleColliders and Edges have EdgeColliders

[slender nymph]

the errors you've shown have nothing to do with the code you previously showed

[wintry quarry]

(but you should sitll fix them)

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[lost cypress]

can you elaborate a little more?

[polar acorn]

Okay, what's Controller.cs line 110

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[wintry quarry]

basically every time you get to around 1000 or so away from the origin you move everything in the world back the other direction so then you're at 0,0 again

[lost cypress]

This is a huge project, that is not my part of the project so I have no clue tbh

[polar acorn]

So, why post it?

[summer stump]

Well you should easily be able to access it

[wintry quarry]

pretty sure they're trying to show that their log didn't print

[lost cypress]

Just thought I would show you everything

[wintry quarry]

which we already knew

[summer stump]

Then wherever you put the log didn't run? Not sure how that is useful without seeing the code where you added it

[lost cypress]

sure but "show don't tell" kinda thing

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Move : MonoBehaviour
{
    Vector3 originalPos;


    void Start()
    {
        originalPos = transform.position;
    }

    void Update()
    {
       
            if (transform.position.x < 52611)
            {
                transform.Translate(Vector3.right * 10 * Time.deltaTime); 
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("Resetting position " + transform.position.x);
                transform.position = originalPos; // Reset position
           
        }
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

right we already knew this wasn't happening

because the object is NOT at x >= 52611

[summer stump]

Should have gone in the top if

[polar acorn]

I said log the X position so you could see what it's actually at when you expect it to be greater than 52611. That'd mean logging it outside the condition

[wintry quarry]

BTW this code makes me panic, deeply.

[polar acorn]

See how far it actually gets before it "falls off"

[wintry quarry]

Seeing this tells me something somewhere has gone horribly wrong

and the project is in trouble

The blind are leading the blind in this project

[hidden heath]

By the way this is a less than not a greater than.

[wintry quarry]

Yes I believe that's expected. They want to keep moving until they reach that point

[lost cypress]

It falls off at 100000 lol

[slender nymph]

what, you don't like seeing trains move in a completely straight line for 32 miles and expecting it to do so in just a few moments at only 10 meters per second?

[polar acorn]

Is that what your log outside the if says?

[lost cypress]

this is the original state:

[stone saddle]

I wasnt sure what you meant, apologies for my ignorance. Ive attached a physics material to the player with zero friction, but the issue persists. Does the material need to be on just the collider? The bounciness of the material is working, if thats at all relevant.

[wintry quarry]

I mean my bigger fear here is that the entirety of the functional scene has been built somewhere around the vicinity of (51872, 65221, -4325)

[wintry quarry]

what the fuck lol

why

[molten dock]

has anyone else experienced their scene being way darker when they load it ingame

[wintry quarry]

yes common problem, due to not baking your #archived-lighting

[lost cypress]

Why what?

[slender nymph]

there is no way your object is moving nearly 70 thousand meters at 10 meters per second in time for any logs to print.

that would take over an hour

[wintry quarry]

Why are you starting the game at -17km, 4.6km, -17km

why not like

near the origin

[hidden heath]

Here just let me know what you're trying to do. I'll make it. Also be careful of floating point precision errors!

[summer stump]

Why is this like this, it's beyond wild lol

[wintry quarry]

but yeah to move 70km in a few seconds it will have to be travelling at orbital velocities.

[polar acorn]

That's the local position. What does the code say the absolute position is when it falls off

That's why you log

[wintry quarry]

-17000 is way less than 52611

even if this thing has no parent

[polar acorn]

Oh, definitely. Just wondering where this "It was at 100,000" claim came from

[wintry quarry]

indeed I'm wondering that myself. Along with where the magic number 52611 comes from

[lost cypress]

It is not really a game, but sure I will fix it but not right now since I'm gonna need to discuss it with other memebers

[wintry quarry]

Anyway whenever you release "Kerbal Train Program" let me know so I can play it.

[summer stump]

Also, They said it was from blender at that size, but it's scaled up to 600? What is this?
#💻┃code-beginner message

Edit: Sorry for the ping ultrasnow

[wintry quarry]

why are you starting the simulation at that position then?

anyway Unity doesn't really support anything happening at more than about 1-2km away from the origin. This sounds like a perfect candidate for a floating origin system.

[lost cypress]

So I have this object, I want it to move and when it passes certain point I reset its position. Technically I am gonna do more than just reseting the position but that is what I am struggling with rn

[wintry quarry]

The bare minimum here would be to actually log the position.

Debug.Log($"My x position is {transform.position.x}");```

[lost cypress]

No clue we made the blender design and randomly threw it in the unity.

[formal escarp]

Hey. I have a player and i have two animations made. One for Idle and one for Walking. How can i make it so when you start the game its the idle thats playing and not the walk? its connected correctly on the Animator. And i wanted to ask how can i make it so you move and play the correct animation?

[polar acorn]

So, right now, that is indeed what your code is doing.

There's just no way in hell it's travelled 73,000 meters at 10 meters per second in the amount of time you've said you've been saying you've seen the problem occurring

[wintry quarry]

maybe be a little more thoughtful with what you're doing then.

[polar acorn]

This will start in the Idle animation when the game starts. It won't enter the Walk state until that condition is true

At which point it will stay there for as long as this object exists.

[formal escarp]

It walks at the start 💀 thats the thing i dont understand

[polar acorn]

What is the transition condition

[lost cypress]

That is true. That is why I am telling you guys I am so weirded out by unity coordinates. I have never really understood them. I can see my object moving and it never resets because it prolly never got to that point. I decided to take that point becaus I made an object and dragged to the limit I wanted to set and read the coordiante and said tada that is where I want the limit

[formal escarp]

There´s no transition candition yet.

I dont have any code. It just starts.

[polar acorn]

Okay so it transitions to walk as soon as Idle ends

and then never leaves walk

[summer stump]

#🏃┃animation

[formal escarp]

No one is active in that channel :(

[summer stump]

Be patient

[lost cypress]

Tbh I'm not sure if it even was me or someone else but you are right I will be careful next time but anyways this is not really a big problem tho

[polar acorn]

The values you see in the inspector are local coordinates. They're relative to the parent object's position, rotation, and scale. transform.position is world position, which is relative to the origin point, which is 0, 0, 0 on an object with no parents.

[acoustic arch]

alright for my enemy ai i have thought of a way to calculate all of the possible moves the enemy could make and weight them

[lost cypress]

but doesn't transform.position show me these

[formal escarp]

:(

[polar acorn]

That shows you the world position

[lost cypress]

guys it is now working

[acoustic arch]

but how do i slow it down so it doesn't use a move every frame, but only when necessary?

some kind of coroutine waitunti maybe

[lost cypress]

anyways but doesn't this transform.position show me these:

because rn I set the limit for x =150 and it works like planned

[polar acorn]

The values you see in the inspector are local coordinates. They're relative to the parent object's position, rotation, and scale. transform.position is world position, which is relative to the origin point, which is 0, 0, 0 on an object with no parents.

[lost cypress]

transform.position = originalPos

I wanna start a little earlier than originalPos
what do i do?

[dense root]

What's going on, how come it says there's already a script named that when there isn't?

[wintry quarry]

My guess would be that there is such a script and you forgot about it

[dense root]

This is a blank project

Weird even when I try to create a blank folder it's not working

Maybe I need to remake the project

[crystal chasm]

Have you tried turning it off, then turning it back on?

[dense root]

Sorry?

[rocky canyon]

delete the library folder and restart unity

looks like corruption

[celest holly]

Should i try and make my own inventory system or follow a tutorial

[crystal chasm]

Always try.

[celest holly]

i know following a tutorial would give me a more optimal script but i feel like i learn less doing so

[eternal needle]

No tutorial is gonna exactly fit your needs

[summer stump]

Watch two or three tutorials and then afterwards try to make your own using bits and pieces as inspiration

[lost cypress]

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

public class Move : MonoBehaviour
{
    private float timer = 0; 
    private float moveInterval = 30f; 
    private MeshRenderer meshRenderer;
    Vector3 originalPos;

    void Start()
    {
        meshRenderer = GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();
        // originalPos = new Vector3(gameObject.transform.position.x, gameObject.transform.position.y, gameObject.transform.position.z);
        originalPos = transform.position;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (transform.position.x < 150)
        {
            transform.Translate(Vector3.right * 10 * Time.deltaTime); 
        }
        else
        {
            timer += Time.deltaTime; 

            if (timer >= moveInterval)
            {
           
                transform.position = originalPos;
                meshRenderer.enabled = true;
                timer = 0f; 
            }
        }
    }
}

guys this is my code

[rocky canyon]

@celest holly this is the optimal answer

[celest holly]

okay thanks for the advice

just whenever i follow a tutorial i realise im just mindlessly copying

[lost cypress]

I wanted to set a 30 sec interval, as in when my object passes a certain point, I want to reset its position and make it wait 30 second before making it move. The problem here is that it is not really waiting 30 seconds.

[celest holly]

i want tolearn these big systems so i dont have touse other peoples code

[celest holly]

use an ienumerator instead

or an invoke

[crystal chasm]

Ask chatgpt to write the script and then give you a coding lesson on how it works, and then quiz and grade you on it.

[rocky canyon]

🤢

[celest holly]

no

i refuse to use ai

[crystal chasm]

It's not ideal, but still better than a tutorial.

[rocky canyon]

good man

username checks out

[crystal chasm]

I'm sorry, I forgot where I was. Use Unity Muse, not ChatGPT.

[rocky canyon]

lol. thats marginally better

but still.. hands on / docs / tutorials is the secret sauce

[lost cypress]

Anyone got any tip for this?
The issue is that after the first round of waiting 30 seocnds before movng.It never waits. It moves, resets and moves and resets.

[rocky canyon]

you can post w/o trying to emphasize your message
we'll still respond

[polar acorn]

Markov Chain's gonna Markov Chain no matter what you name it

[slender nymph]

sounds like you probably have an exception being thrown from that code that you are ignoring

[lost cypress]

what is w/o?

[lost cypress]

Yeah

[crystal chasm]

without

[lost cypress]

It says that there is no meshRendered attached etc.. but I saw online that this what I should do in order to control setting on and off the mesh.

[polar acorn]

Does the Train gameobject have a MeshRenderer on it

[rocky canyon]

ya, probably missing entirely, or its missplaced

[lost cypress]

no. But I thought since it was a mesh it didn't need anything else.

[polar acorn]

A MeshRenderer is the component that renders a mesh

[lost cypress]

So do I have to create a meshrenderer component to be able to set on and off the mesh?

[polar acorn]

If you can see a mesh, there's a meshrenderer somewhere

[crystal chasm]

Are you just trying to hide the mesh?

[lost cypress]

Wait I get it.

There is no mesh because

I have mulitple objects in the same folder with a shared script and collider

should I create a meshrenderer?

[polar acorn]

A MeshRenderer is a component that renders a mesh. You would create one if there's a mesh you want to render.

[crystal chasm]

Just create a reference to the mesh renderer on the mesh.

[lost cypress]

how?

[polar acorn]

Usually with a public variable and then dragging in the object with the renderer

[crystal chasm]

Public MeshRenderer mRenderer;

[ivory bobcat]

If you're wanting to learn, consider asking yourself if you're at a level where you can digest and learn what's being shown or just simply copying/pasting and being overwhelmed?
Truthfully, it's going to take time either way. The main difference would be if you learn better by doing it yourself or if you learn better by repetitively implementing the work of others. Doing both would probably the better choice where the order would be what you'd be comfortable with:

• learn and implement it yourself then observe how others have implemented it
• learn how others have implemented it then implement it yourself
  Whichever is easier for you. The main goal would be to be learning and not simply accumulating unnecessary practices.

[lost cypress]

Can I not create a meshRenderer component for the entire folder containing my object that I wanna move? Let the code be the way it is?

[polar acorn]

How would you add a mesh renderer to a folder

[lost cypress]

not a folder I just don't know what they are called. I created an empty gameobject and put multiple partsof my object which together in the same heirarchy make one object.

At least now the error is gone and my program works but no meshs are being set on or off tho.

[crystal chasm]

It looks like you are only turning the meshRenderer on. It's already on, so unless you are switching it off someplace else, there is no need to turn it on.

[summer stump]

No. Use neither. No spam generator is good for learning

[polar acorn]

So you have multiple objects, some of which are child objects. If you want to toggle a MeshRenderer you need to reference the specific MeshRenderer you want to toggle.

[lost cypress]

but what if there are mutliple parts

[polar acorn]

Then you'd toggle multiple parts

[queen adder]

    private void generateGrid()
    {
        parentObject = new GameObject();
        parentObject.name = "Tiles";

        tiles = new Dictionary<Vector2, Tile>();

        for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
            {
                var spawnedTile = Instantiate(tile, new Vector3(x, y), Quaternion.identity);
                TileSettings(spawnedTile, x, y);

                if (x == 0 || y == 0 || x == width - 1 || y == height - 1)
                {
                    // Outline
                }

                tiles[new Vector2(x, y)] = spawnedTile;
            }
        }

        cameraObject.transform.position = new Vector3((float)width / 2 - 0.5f, (float)height / 2 - 0.5f, -10);
    }

What can I do to give an outer outline to all the outer tiles? I figured changing the sprite wont work because then it would need to be rotated etc based on the side the tile is on. Is that the only way?

[lost cypress]

I want the whole thing to dissapear so I gotta create a variable for everything?

[polar acorn]

You could disable the parent object, which would also disable all child objects. A disabled game object also disables all of their components

[crystal chasm]

Create an array, and then use find objects of type <gameobject> then use a var to check if it has a meshRenderer.

[rocky canyon]

if u want to manipulate /modify something then yes it has to be a variable..
the code needs to know what ur talking about..
you can say.. disable the audiosource.. but the codes gonna ask which one

[polar acorn]

Absolutely do not do this

[crystal chasm]

Or make a public gameobject array and manually fill it if you are afraid of code

[rocky canyon]

u can change things directly.. but its still sort of a variable..
for example..
transform.position =
youre accessing the position property of the transform .. which is just a Vector3 variable

[lost cypress]

but the parent object like said is empty

it has no mesh

[modest dust]

It does not matter, the child objects will get deactivated alongside the parent object, thus disabling their meshes and anything else there might be on them.

[rocky canyon]

    [SerializeField] GameObject objectToDisable;

    private void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            objectToDisable.SetActive(false);
        }
    }```

[lost cypress]

but the partent is an empty gameobject

[modest dust]

So what?

[rocky canyon]

you can reference other objects

[lost cypress]

it has no mesh

[summer stump]

Objects themselves can be disabled

[rocky canyon]

doesn't have to be on the object running the script necessarily

[modest dust]

So what?

[summer stump]

Irrelevant

[lost cypress]

yeah but not using mesh rendered tho

[summer stump]

Completely irrelevant

[lost cypress]

But I thought we were talking about meshes

[summer stump]

You disable the OBJECT

[lost cypress]

so got confused a little

[summer stump]

Which disables the children

Which disables the mesh renderers (and every component)

[modest dust]

If you want to disable the meshes and keep everything else you could just recursively go through each child starting from the parent, check for a MeshRenderer and disable it.

Or just make a serialized array of MeshRenderers.

[summer stump]

is the correct way to do what Jester was suggesting

[lost cypress]

like this: gameObject.SetActive(false)

[modest dust]

That's disabling the object itself in it's entirety

Will also disable any components and children

[lost cypress]

the enitre project or just its children

in which case that is the point

[modest dust]

Entire object alongside it's children

[lost cypress]

oops

[lost cypress]

how do i do it correctly then?

[modest dust]

Depending on the end result you want, there are different ways

[lost cypress]

The only result I want is to make the object (and its children) invisble and then visible and toggle with it given if and else statements

[polar acorn]

You could make a new object that all of the meshes are children of, and then disable that. This way you just disable the meshes and not the main parent object

[modest dust]

Do you care about any other components attached to that GameObject?
No? -> parentGameObject.SetActive(false);
Yes? -> Recursive or array

[lost cypress]

I have already done that

[polar acorn]

Okay, so then disable that parent object

That'll disable all of its children

[lost cypress]

How?

[polar acorn]

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

[lost cypress]

I am kinda new to unity scripts

nvm

[queen adder]

How do I handle the corners? I want the corners to have the outline on both sides.

    public void SetOutline(bool left, bool right, bool top, bool bottom)
    {
        outlineOverlay.SetActive(true);

        if (left)
        {
            outlineOverlay.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 180);
        }
        else if (right)
        {
            outlineOverlay.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
        }
        else if (top)
        {
            outlineOverlay.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 90);
        }
        else if (bottom)
        {
            outlineOverlay.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -90);
        }
    }

[main anchor]

this is what it looks like when i sink, it just isnt very clear in the last video as there wasnt alot of objects around

[wintry quarry]

You should just use a 9-sliced sprite

[hushed hinge]

i will take this whole death thing later. i have a problem is that i wanted to make a thing when you touch something, your power-up disappear and it works, but it only worked one time. when i take the power up and goes to the thing which removes your power-up agian, it doesn't work
https://gdl.space/aditihiker.cpp

[rocky canyon]

why would it work a 2nd time?

u set _isActive to false..

[polar acorn]

Log collision and make sure you're changing the functions on the correct object

[rocky canyon]

it'll not be true again.. unless u manually switch it to true somewhere else

ahh.. nvm i do see where u set it back to true..

[rocky canyon]

try changing the conditional to if(_timer <= 0.0f)

[hushed hinge]

why?

[polar acorn]

Two reasons:

1. It makes sure that you're calling the function at all
2. It makes sure that you're calling the function on the object you think it's on

[polar acorn]

So, you're colliding with an object named remove powerup?

[hushed hinge]

yeah

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector for it

[hushed hinge]

doesn't work

[rocky canyon]

ahh sorry then, must be something else..

[hushed hinge]

this is all

[polar acorn]

This doesn't have either of the tags you're checking for

Wait, this is the object the script is on

I asked you to log the thing this collided with

[hushed hinge]

yeah,

[hallow sun]

i think it may be an issue with <Player2D>, can you show us this script?

[hushed hinge]

i did

[polar acorn]

Okay, so remove power-up is colliding with remove powerup?

[hushed hinge]

https://gdl.space/ejexuqupip.cpp

[polar acorn]

Why are you just logging the word "remove powerup". You should log collision to make sure you're hitting the object you are actually expecting to

That's why I said to log collision

[rocky canyon]

    public bool _isActive = true;
    private float _timer = 2.0f;
    private float _timerReset = 2.0f;
    private void Update()
    {
        if(!_isActive && _timer > 0)
        {
            _timer -= Time.deltaTime;
            if(_timer <= 0.0f)
            {
                _timer = _timerReset;
                _isActive = true;
            }
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if(_isActive)
            _isActive = false;
    }
``` i tested w/ and reduced the timer to 2 seconds.. so it'd work faster.. but it **works**
@hushed hinge

[polar acorn]

Did you log the word "collision"?

Or is the object named collision

[hallow sun]

are you properly setting !_suitOff to false when you powerup?

[hushed hinge]

hmm... lemme check

[hushed hinge]

i did log the word collision

[strong geyser]

Hello, my text is not entering the text field of my script

[hallow sun]

are you using text mesh pro? that uses a different type

[strong geyser]

yep

[polar acorn]

Why

[hushed hinge]

that is what you told me to

[summer stump]

No it is not

They said to log THE collision

[hushed hinge]

like what you said here

[summer stump]

Oh, yeah, log the VARIABLE collision

That is why it is in that font

Debug.Log(collision);

See the lack of quotation marks?

[hallow sun]

There's a bunch of options for some reason, but this one is what works for me:

using TMPro;
public TMP_Text textObject;

[summer stump]

But better would be Debug.Log($"Collided with: {collision}");

[hushed hinge]

oh

[strong geyser]

ty

[summer stump]

There is a world type and a ui type. The one you did is the parent of both

[hushed hinge]

oh, not it's working

[hallow sun]

i've tried all options and this one is the only one that worked for me for simple UI 🤷

[prime bough]

Hello! I'm having a little bit of trouble using UnityWebRequest.Post to send raw body data to a api server on Unity 6. I'm i supposed to be using a different function? It seems like it doesn't like it when I give it any other data in the second string slot.

[teal viper]

You mean as the second parameter? Wdym by "it doesn't like it"?

[summer stump]

Yes, it is the parent of both types. So of course it will work no matter what.
You said it has multiple types "for some reason"
I explained the reason

[rocky canyon]

either one of these will work for UI text..

[prime bough]

Rider tells me its deprecated and unity auto corrects it to a UnityWebRequest.PostWwwForm

[wary igloo]

does anyone know how why when my tiimerboo is true the timers doesnt start adding up ?? and when it reaches 10 it should reset but that is not happening here``` if (timerboo == true)
{
if (timers < 10)
{
timers += 1;
Debug.Log(timers);
}
}
else
{
timers = 0;
timerboo = false;
}

[valid marlin]

When does it set timerboo to false, since the else statement only runs if timerboo is false

[rocky canyon]

use debug statements to debug whats happening

[prime bough]

turns out i can use a upload handler and just send the raw data through that

[rocky canyon]

if (timerboo == true)
{
    if (timers < 10)
    {
        timers += 1;
        Debug.Log("Timers: " + timers);
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.Log("Timers reached 10");
    }
}
else
{
    timers = 0;
    timerboo = false;
    Debug.Log("Timerboo is false. Resetting timers.");
}```

[wary igloo]

it still for some reason does't run when the timerboo is true

[valid marlin]

Move the else statement after the if timers

[valid marlin]

Oh

[wary igloo]

oh nvm I see what I did wronig

it works now

thank you

[valid marlin]

Np

[grizzled fulcrum]

Alright I've been having issues with this walking animation for so long, but I'm having a multitude of problems with it
I want to solve at least one, so I would appreciate some insight on this issue at hand

Been trying to make the player jump, but we have a variable in which if you hold the spacebar, the player jumps higher, but it occasionally plays on that, and occasionally doesn't
What do I need to change here for the entire animation to play out both on a tall and short jump?
(I'm unsure what else I need to screenshot to have more info on the matter)

[teal viper]

!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.

[grizzled fulcrum]

https://gdl.space/megacehaxa.cs

That should be it--

[random cave]

How do I make my missile that uses rb velocity look where its going

Its kinda facing one direction ALWAYS

Firing code

Missile code

[random cave]

It instantiates the missile and the shooting effect then deletes the shooting effect after 4s, switches to the next firepoint and repeat [This gives a left right effect]

[random cave]

It just gets the component, adds velocity, enables the rocket's thruster and keeps adding thrust in FixedUpdate

[ivory pollen]

try setting transform.forward = _rb.velocity.normalized

[real rock]

Could also use something like lookAt (I forget the exact name) if you want it over time

[random cave]

For me that just makes it look at it without moving towards it

[real rock]

What like it keeps moving but sideways or?

[random cave]

Yeah

Its like locking on to the target but doesnt care

[real rock]

Are you using AddForce?

[random cave]

Nah

[random cave]

Thank you good sir it has worked

Now back to struggling with guided missiles 😭

[real rock]

Sorry I’m on a phone so reading code kinda hard lol

[random cave]

Yeah all good

[real rock]

What’s rocketSpeed?

[random cave]

I've tried using LookAtConstraint & transform.LookAt but both I cant get the target because the missile a prefab

[random cave]

the speed

its speed

how fast it goes

[real rock]

Mm but what is it

Vector.forward or a (1,1,1)

[random cave]

a float

[real rock]

Oki

[random cave]

Also sorry

How do I make something smoothly rotate towards an object or have a delay like its a realistic thing not instantly snapping?

[real rock]

I wanna say Quaternion.Lerp is the best, which may also fix your looking at things issue

[ivory pollen]

there's also Vector3.RotateTowards()

[random cave]

Ok last thing

If im tryna get an object [a target] from a prefab how do I do that

Its kinda not in the game

[real rock]

Yeah I’ve found that to be funky sometimes but I’m probably just using it badly

[random cave]

Ill try both

[real rock]

GameObject.Instantiate

[random cave]

No no

Find it

[real rock]

Uhhh idk what you’re trying

[random cave]

Say I want my missile to RotateTowards an object that isnt inside the prefab

[ivory pollen]

depending on your use case, using quaternions might be better, for sure

[random cave]

I cant serializefield it

I cant assign it using the GetComponent

[modest dust]

How do you determine what object to target?

[ivory pollen]

@random cave the thing that is responsible for instantiating the prefab should also set some kind of .target field on it

[random cave]

its a ball that I can move

[random cave]

what

ok ok listen

[modest dust]

So it's always the same target?

[random cave]

I want my missile to look at a ball that is in the scene, since its not with the prefab I cant assign it or anything

[random cave]

Yes.

[ivory pollen]

oh, if it's always the same target, that's easy. You could stick a tag on the target, and then use GameObject.FindWithTag() to find it in the missile's Start() method, for example.

[acoustic arch]

!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.

[real rock]

FindWithTag or FindObjectOfType are probably best

[random cave]

OH YEAH TAGS

[modest dust]

Pass it into the missile after instantiating or just make a static instance of it so that the missile get's it by itself

[modest dust]

Hell no

[random cave]

how do I pass it into the missile after instantiating lol

[real rock]

Depends what specifically you’re looking for

[random cave]

Unity also pauses if I leave it empty

[real rock]

Is OfType in optimised? Yes. Is it very convenient for getting the component you need when optimisation isn’t an issue? Yes

[modest dust]

By keeping a reference to the ball in the object that instantiates the missile, or again - via a static instance

[random cave]

wait a minute

[ivory pollen]

You get the Missile component from what you instantiated (if you didn't instantiate the missile directly) and then you can access the public fields/properties/methods on it

[real rock]

That sounds smart

[random cave]

can I do
enter script name here.ball and I can use that?

[real rock]

I mean

Yes

[random cave]

if ball is a gameobject

[real rock]

But no

[random cave]

no harm in trying

[ivory pollen]

that sounds close to the static field approach that @caesar is proposing.

[modest dust]

You could, that's a static instance, most likely

[random cave]

yeah thats what im getting

ok ok thanks I will go try now

[real rock]

Do static fields work in the inspector properly?

[ivory pollen]

no

[modest dust]

But passing it from the instantiating script has the benefit of easily expanding it to having several different targets for each missile if ever needed

[random cave]

yes it is from the instantiating script

[ivory pollen]

downsides: they are also a bit of an issue if you want playmode hotreload to work, or if you want to disable domain reloading when entering/exiting playmode

[random cave]

the mother of the missile lmfao

[real rock]

So you’d be probably looking at a singleton for the static approach which I’d argue is less what this channel is aimed at. What caesar is actually saying is smart though

[random cave]

yes

caesar is very smart human

i think

[real rock]

I prefer to dynamically get stuff at Start but I have a bad habit for that that I wouldn’t recommend if you’re aiming for super optimisation

[random cave]

what should I set for the radians delta [no idea what they do]

[ivory pollen]

it's how much you want it to rotate. probably you want something * Time.deltaTime

[real rock]

Radians are kinda like degrees but in another unit, it’s the max rotation (I think?)

[random cave]

my game is extremely simple and phones acn probably run it

[random cave]

but its in fixed update lol

[ivory pollen]

oh, then use fixedDeltaTime

[real rock]

Deltatime still works it will just not change tbf

[random cave]

I am still missing one number

its 2 vectors3 and 2 floats

[real rock]

Unless I’m misremembering how that works in fixed

[real rock]

Max magnitude iirc

I don’t remember how that one works

[random cave]

maybe max turn rate?

imma set it to 60 and test it

[eternal needle]

deltaTime in fixed update still just returns fixedDeltaTime

[random cave]

how do I make transform into a vector3

wait no im stupid

My brain thought transform was position for a second and confused why its not a vector3

[real rock]

Lol

Been there done that

[random cave]

Well now the moment of truth

[vital hinge]

anyone knows why input field doesnt work on mobile? The keyboard doesnt pop up to allow me to type

[real rock]

Can you not cross post pls

Someone will get there

[random cave]

I dont want it to work because then I have to work on making guided bombs that GUIDE MOVING TARGETS [like bruh]

[real rock]

Well thats easy

Once you have them guide towards a stationary one you just change it to a moving one

Should be the same logic

[random cave]

Now that im thinking bout it

I just get the moving target, lookat its position and done

[real rock]

Exactly :3

[random cave]

Bro what that seems too simple

[real rock]

A lot of the time something that seems insanely complicated is just a small change

[wheat tangle]

Does anyone know why my visual studio code just opens a blank screen with just the normal stuff at the top
(I have literally never used unity before this)

[vital hinge]

mb, it just seems weird that nobody has fixed it in years, cuz I saw that this issue has been around for a long time

[real rock]

I was ready to tear hair out over a bug someone found because I spent like 2 days fixing it, I’d swapped a - to a +

[random cave]

😭

[real rock]

Yeah sometimes it be like that

I’d help if I knew but I’ve not needed that yet so :/

[random cave]

I havent bug fixed yet

Maybe because my standards are too low lmfao

[real rock]

Mine was not a fun bug tbf

But it was a high impact one

[random cave]

If I give my game to someone to test they'd probably cry

[real rock]

Did you open it by opening it or by double clicking a cs file on Unity?

[wheat tangle]

I double clicked on the file in unity like I saw an tutorial I'm watching

[real rock]

Can you post a pic of what VS looks like?

[wheat tangle]

It's going to take maybe a minute or two because I have to get discord on my PC turned on

[real rock]

Oki

[modest dust]

To be completely honest, showing your game to someone else for testing is one of the best things you could ever do

[random cave]

damn

[real rock]

^ I’m so glad I started testing this terms game early

[modest dust]

The amount of bugs they notice is sometimes insane

[random cave]

Imma do that

But I barely have any friends lol

[real rock]

My first and second term didn’t get much testing but this term I’m already on V0.5.2 and it’s week 3 I think?

[random cave]

Dang thats a lotta bugs

[real rock]

Yes and no

[random cave]

Lotta updates?

[wheat tangle]

here it is

[real rock]

Sometimes an update is a bug fix spree and sometimes it’s just a hot fix or two

[frosty hound]

Can you all take this to DMs, this isn't a hangout channel.

[real rock]

Hhh been a while since I’ve had that, try ending the task in task manager and double clicking the file again

[real rock]

technically were talking about code lol but yee sure :3

[random cave]

sorry we will only yap bout code now

[wheat tangle]

It still looks the exact same

[real rock]

I can’t help then sorry :/ hopefully someone else can

[wheat tangle]

Do you know if there's anywhere I can look or try to find the way to fix this

[summer stump]

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

[modest dust]

One is already enough, it's about quality, not quantity. Both are important but having a single person who'll check your game from start to finish is already better than doing it yourself, as the more you develop and test the more you tend to skip over some stuff and might not notice a fair amount of bugs.

[real rock]

Would this fix the issue? Looks like their IDE isn’t even opening the files properly rn

[summer stump]

It may, yes

[real rock]

[unique gust]

hey guys i need some help

i'm making a snake game in 2022lts version and i made a line to spawn the apple but it causing an error and idk how to fix

private Transform SpawnApple()
{
return Instantiate(applePrefab, new Vector3(Random.Range(-9, 9), Random.Range(-5, 5), 0, Quaternion.identity));
}

[frosty hound]

And what does the error tell you?

[unique gust]

here's the example i'm following and the editor says that does not support 4 arguments

[slender nymph]

look a little closer at the example then your code

[frosty hound]

There is a small difference between yours and the example

[unique gust]

i was wrinting wrong oh gods

[shell ice]

Hi there,

my question is whether there is some way I have missed of making a gameObject a child of another object without affecting it’s local scale?

Example:

Object A has a scale of 1,1,1 and it is not a child of any object.

Object B has a scale of 1,1,0.5.

At runtime, Object A becomes a child of object B. Currently, object z suddenly changes scale along the Z axis to account for the 0.5 of it’s parent. Can I avoid this change in any way?

[cyan imp]

Has anyone had an issue where some animations don't fully listen to gravity while others do...? Basically 2 of my animations aren't fully contacting the tilemap but 1 of them has no problem working properly and I'm so confused lol

[unique gust]

Now another problem has arisen, the game spawns the apple but when passing over it it does not destroy it even though it has the function

[slender nymph]

there's an overload for the SetParent method that will allow the object to change its local position, rotation, and scale to stay the same relative to world space. you can also tell it to not do that with that overload

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[unique gust]

how i use it?

[slender nymph]

did you read the bot message?

[unique gust]

https://gdl.space/keyacejifa.cs

[slender nymph]

transform.position == appleInGame.position this is not a good way to determine if two objects are overlapping. this will only ever be true if the objects are in the same position, but just because they overlap doesn't mean that they are in the exact same position

[unique gust]

how can i do it?

[rich adder]

probably an overlap or something, or trigger?

[slender nymph]

you should start by going through the beginner courses on the unity !learn site. the pathways teach you all about the important stuff you'll need to understand, like collision detection

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[unique gust]

but in the video I'm watching he collides and "eats" the apple

[red siren]

I'm having trouble setting the position of an UI element that gets instantiated at runtime. Basically I spawn an object, then spawn the text on top of it. I can't get them to align. Are there any function helpers for this?

I'm thinking ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle but it doesn't seem to be working

[slender nymph]

can you link the video where they are comparing the positions for equality to check for an overlap?

[rich adder]

you have to show a bit more of the setup, are you setting it to UI ? etc..

[red siren]

I'm parenting it to the canvas

the canvas is set to scale with screen size

overlay

That's the canvas and that's the Text that I'm instantiating

[rich adder]

just use anchored position then

if they're both ui

[red siren]

Basically I need to position the Text to an object that's also instantiated at runtime

So spawn object, spawn text. It's like one of those popups for health

[rich adder]

an "object" is very vague

[unique gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gGPldhTYzQ&list=PL_Po4gU1A7RxBzR0At6K01bMlJid4dVlD 3:30

[rich adder]

everything is an object

[red siren]

GameObject

[rich adder]

UI objects are also GameObjects

[red siren]

Gotcha

[rich adder]

you mean like a world object?

[red siren]

A GameObject in world space yeah

[rich adder]

oh have you tried just WorldToScreenpoint ?

[slender nymph]

wow that is not a very good tutorial. please go through the pathways on the unity learn site, they will teach you the concepts that you need to know

[unique gust]

can u tell me why?

[red siren]

Let me try

[rich adder]

its pretty bad

[slender nymph]

well there's the whole "comparing positions to check for an overlap" thing that is a truly god awful way of checking for collisions. what if the objects are 0.001 units away on a single axis? they are fully overlapped, but the positions are not the same so they don't count as overlapping with that terrible code

[hushed hinge]

i have a problem, is that the twon different pencils in the background are like shown on both of the cameras even though each camera are supposed to be focues on the background which is supposed to follow the player

it works for all of the backgrounds

[unique gust]

Would it be better for me to learn about colliders then?

[rocky canyon]

well, ur gonna need to know about colliders for game dev anyway

its just 1 of many important parts

[slender nymph]

yes. and that's one of the many important concepts that the pathways on the unity learn site would teach you

[unique gust]

So I think I better stop the project for now

[rich adder]

Its better to follow the offical pathways to get a good grip on the basics included.

come back to it when you learn the proper tools/functions available to you

[red siren]

Yeah it's not working.

What I'm doing : Getting the world space object's transform. Using WorldToScreenPoint, then ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle, then parenting it.

[rich adder]

why ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle.
just use screenpoint and set RectTransform anchorpos to it?

[unique gust]

thanks

[red siren]

Yeah that seems to work better. I think I'm getting up the anchors of the text incorrectly

Would the canvas in the prefab cause issues or it's just temporary?

[rich adder]

you might need to account for scale of canvas

[red siren]

makes sense, let me see

[rich adder]

also just for shits n gigs try just setting transform.position maybe?

[gray elk]

I'm trying to have my cannon change position based on where the mouse is, but it always chooses to the same angle when the mouse is clicked no matter its placement on the screen. Does anyone know what is causing this?

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

public class CannonManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject cannonBallPrefab;
    public Transform firePoint;


    private Camera _cam;
    private bool _pressingMouse = false;

    private Vector3 _initialVelocity;

    void Start()
    {
        _cam = Camera.main;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
            _pressingMouse = true;
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0))
        {
            _pressingMouse = false;
            _Fire();
        }

        if (_pressingMouse)
        {
            // coordinate transform screen > world
            Vector3 mousePos = _cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
            mousePos.z = 0;

            // look at
            transform.LookAt(mousePos); 
        }
    }

    private void _Fire()
    {
        // instantiate a cannon ball
        GameObject cannonBall = Instantiate(cannonBallPrefab, firePoint.position, Quaternion.identity);
        // apply some force
        Rigidbody rb = cannonBall.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        rb.AddForce(_initialVelocity, ForceMode.Impulse);
    }
}

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/screentoworldpoint

[gray elk]

In which part of the code do I place the resolution into?

[red siren]

Got it to work, it was a problem with the scaler

[slender nymph]

that page is about how to correctly use a specific method that you are using in your code. take a guess at where you may need to change any of your code

[red siren]

It's not perfect, but close enough I guess for now

[rich adder]

what it look like now

[red siren]

It works with constant pixel size, but it breaks with match screen size.

screen to screen size*

It kinda misaligns it a bit

If I change the ref resolution to 800 x 800 it works perfectly as well

But as soon as I go for a ref resolution of 16:9, it breaks again

at least it kinda works

[rich adder]

did you try using the canvas scale?

[red siren]

           Vector2 anchoredPosition = (screenPoint - centerPoint) / canvas.scaleFactor;```

This is what I got. I guess I should divide each component of the vector2? I'm a bit mind numb right now.

[rich adder]

oh I was thinking something like

var canvasScale = canvas.scaleFactor * Vector2.one;
var scaledScreenPosition = new Vector2(screenPosition.x / canvasScale.x, screenPosition.y / canvasScale.y);```
but its prob not right

[red siren]

ah yeah

[unkempt carbon]

hi guys does anyone know how to add more than 1 submenu for create asset menu?

[gray elk]

I applied a few different versions which make it move sure, but it doesnt work with the model of cannon i am using i think?

[deft grail]

add a /

MyName/OtherName

[queen adder]

Hi

Guys I want to create an score board and an starting screen for my ar game any tips?

[slender nymph]

huh? your issue was with ScreenToWorldPoint. i provided a resource that explained why ScreenToWorldPoint was returning the same position every time you used it as well as some solutions to get the position you desire. what part of that resource did you not understand?

[deft grail]

use UI components

[unkempt carbon]

I tried this and it makes a sub menu of the sub menu

[deft grail]

huh?

[queen adder]

And I had a problem with my hit box how to fix it

[deft grail]

what does it do and what do you want it to do

show a screenshot of what it does

[queen adder]

It's a Ballon shooting game

[deft grail]

you need to be more specific with your questions

[summer stump]

See #📖┃code-of-conduct
It is against the rules to dm people without permission

It is also not a good idea for YOU. Less eyes on the issue = less help

[gray elk]

I'm sorry, I have been sick as a dog all weekend and I'm being a lot slower than usual, my bad

I made this change to my code:

if (_pressingMouse)
        {
            // Calculate the distance from the camera to the near clip plane
            float distance = _cam.nearClipPlane;

            // Transform screen coordinates to world coordinates using the distance
            Vector3 mousePos = _cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y, distance));

            // Set z-coordinate to 0 to ensure the cannon aims at the same plane as the cannon itself
            mousePos.z = 0;

            // Look at the mouse position
            transform.LookAt(mousePos);
        }
    }

[slender nymph]

this is AI generated code, isn't it

[gray elk]

the code I originally sent is all me
the one i just sent was a fix AI sent me, yes
because i could not figure it out on my own

[queen adder]

Oh my bad

[gray elk]

Our professor suggested we use AI to figure out issues with code we were having for some reason haha

I know thats what i was thinking too but when he demonstrated it in class it worked for what he was doing so i guess thats why he suggested it
he said if we could pinpoint the problem it would be helpful

[queen adder]

Damn the proffs lazy

Paying thousands of dollars just for the proff to say use gtp

[red siren]

I wouldn't suggest using chatgpt, it's gonna block your progress

[gray elk]

he's a great prof, he has been teaching us stuff all year, but if its anything outside of our understanding he said to use Unity forums and chatgpt to skim the code and find where the flaws may be
of course he said it is unreliable, because obviously, but there wasnt any other methods given if we were thinking outside the box from what was learned in class

we haven't learned any mouse location sensoring for the semester and i thought it would be much easier to apply but i was incorrect

[red siren]

One way to progress is to learn what words you should be using and learn to google or look for tutorials for it, another one that's very valuable is learning to read the documentation

It's weird to read the docs at first, but once you get into it it's really really useful

[queen adder]

Docs?

Is it C#scripts?

[gray elk]

I've been watching a tutorial for a physics based cannon ive followed step by step at, which is helpful but everything works EXCEPT the cannon angling and im insure why

[deft grail]

google the unity documentation

[red siren]

Unity documentation, learning the API. It doesn't fix all problems but it helps. If you know what class you want to use, you can read up on it and learn what it's able to do for you

Got something working yeee

[rocky gale]

whats the advantage of using abstract classes as opposed to interfaces?

[charred spoke]

Thats like asking whats the advantage of eating apples over oranges

[rocky gale]

i mean it seems similar

[north kiln]

Abstract classes are mostly intended for providing default implementations. Interfaces only recently allowed for default implementations, so the gap has lessened, though there are still differences. Abstract classes can have fields, and I don't think interfaces can iirc?

[summer stump]

If not changed recently, then yeah, only properties for interfaces

[rocky gale]

ah

[north kiln]

But really it's a semantic thing, an abstract class means you expect a subclass to be that thing, but an interface expects an inheritor to implement that thing

[rocky gale]

oh i see

so with abstract theres a default but you can still change implementation in subclasses?

[charred spoke]

You use abstract classes when you have a concrete base functionality you want to inherit. Imagine a abstract mammal animal class. All mammals breath so you would implement that in the base class. Interface are when you have no concrete functionality but still provide a method signature.

[rocky gale]

oh that makes sense

[charred spoke]

You can if you define the implementation as virtual, you can have something that can not be changed as well

[rocky gale]

oh ok

i understand better now, thanks

[north kiln]

The thing is that categories suck and implementations can vary a ton, so it is apples v oranges, do what feels right to the scenario.
For example, reptiles also breathe, so why would mammal implement breathe. Would you move that to a subclass, or would that be an interface? 🤷 depends on what matters as far as the implementation is concerned

[rocky gale]

mmmm yea that makes sense

[pseudo laurel]

I need help with this error I've tried everything its impossible. Heres the script:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

namespace HTC.UnityPlugin.Pointer3D
{  
    [RequireComponent(typeof(BaseMultiMethodRaycaster))]
    public abstract class BaseRaycastMethod : MonoBehaviour, IRaycastMethod
    { 
        public BaseMultiMethodRaycaster raycaster { get; private set; }
   
        protected virtual void Awake()
        {
            raycaster = GetComponent<BaseMultiMethodRaycaster>();
            raycaster.AddRaycastMethod(this);
        }

        protected virtual void OnEnable()
        {
        }

        protected virtual void OnDisable()
        {
        }

        protected virtual void OnDestroy()
        {
            raycaster.RemoveRaycastMethod(this);
        }
        public abstract void Raycast (BaseRaycaster module, Vector2 position, Camera eventCamera, List<RaycastResult> raycastResults);```

[red siren]

Is that the full script?

cuz if it is you're not closing the class, you're missing some }

Every { needs its corresponding }

[ivory bobcat]

What line is 31?

Is this your code?

[red siren]

It's the last line of what he copy pasted, might be something he just found cuz the error from what I see is pretty basic

[torn rain]

This is a super basic question but is there a way to mass assign things in the unity editor? I have like hundreds of sprites that I need to assign to scriptable objects and I was wondering if there was a way to automate the process

Rather than dragging and dropping

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.LoadAllAssetsAtPath.html

mix in some onvalidation and then serialize it to a list

or ISerializable interface

oh, or do the menuitem attribute way as shown in the example

[blissful spindle]

I have a 2D project and I want to rotate my player towards my pouse position but this seems to not work as intented can anyone help me? https://hatebin.com/tqqtrsrupe

[slender nymph]

there are a number of issues with that. firstly, that Input.mousePosition is in screen space not world space, which is where i assume your player is at so you need to convert that using the ScreenToWorld method on the Camera

then you're trying to rotate a position to another position and use that as a direction, that makes almost no sense at all. direction is computed with (endPosition - startPosition).normalized

and finally, Quaternion.LookRotation makes the Z axis point along the direction you pass to it. in 2D the Z axis is used for depth, it points in toward the screen. so when you make your object point its Z axis in the direction of the mouse it will rotate in a way you are not expecting. for 2d the "look" direction is typically either transform.up or transform.right depending on how your sprite is designed. you can just set the direction from the player to the mouse as the transform.up/right (whichever is its "forward" direction)

also why bother storing the mouse position in a field if you only use it in that one method?

[topaz mortar]

I have a Character class, where I ended up putting all my character logic and visuals in, it's 600 lines of code.
But now I'm working with Cloud Save and json data to save my character
Like half the attributes are for visual stuff that don't need saving and a lot of the functions are too
I'd say what I need for saving/loading my character would probably be only 100-200 lines of code.

Any ideas how I would "fix" this?
Do I completely rework the class and separate it? How would I split it up?
Would it work just fine like it is now with a lot of the attributes not in json to Serialize/Deserialize it? Or would I have to write custom functions for this? I've been using JsonConvert.SerializeObject and DeserializeObject on a simple class and it works great.
Or is there some other way I don't even know of?

I have a Character object in my scene as well, but can't really think of a clean way to split it up. It just has the Character class script on it now.

[sand gate]

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[sand gate]

ok so i tried learning unity 2 years ago but had to stop due to highschool. Now that i have graduated hs , i have started learning it again. I donot want to follow any yt tutorials as i cal easily fall into the "only watching tutorial" thing. My main problem is the scripting. I suck at scripting. I would love an advise.

scripting is the worst part for me

[rare basin]

advise about what exactly

ask specific question

there is no general advise how to learn programming

[modest dust]

Learn pure C# basics if you haven't yet as these will be necessary at all times when using Unity.
Don't want to watch youtube tutorials? Good. Go read a book or follow a course: w3schools is often recommended, as well as the course from Microsoft.

Once you're already past it, go through !learn to get a good grasp of all the Unity basics.

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[sand gate]

Yes thats exactly my question

I want to learn unity basics

But from where

I have done c# basics

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The bot link right below my message

[sand gate]

thankyou

[burnt vapor]

You are missing multiple characters. I assume you do not have your !ide configured as it would point these out.

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[fierce shuttle]

Personally, I would split your serializable logic, and even your visual references if you want, if your able to offload the visual logic to another system your character can plug into, I think that may be helpful incase youd want other systems to reuse parts of your character (maybe for AI for example), but without much code change, you could have a reference to a serialized POCO to represent your data, and save/load that, you would have to write functions to save your specific data, though if you decide to build a generic save/load system, then youd only need to write those functions once, and any class can use it to save and load its specific data

[timber tide]

I've been playing around with a ILoadable and ISaveable idea where I'd just have these custom methods in each class with their own initializer logic instead of sticking all that logic in the manager.

[topaz mortar]

ChatGPT called it a DTO class

[real rock]

DTO?

Data to object I wanna guess?

[topaz mortar]

Data Transfer Object

[real rock]

Makes sense

[topaz mortar]

Is it weird/bad to have these classes: Character (just the raw data), CharacterLogic, CharacterVisuals

But a lot of the logic is tied to the visuals
Say health changes, that's logic, but it also need to be redrawn on the canvas
Pretty easy to call a function in the other class, but it might become hard read the code really fast?

[real rock]

Sounds sensible to me tbh

[fierce shuttle]

I like using events for that kind of logic separation - your player could fire a "HealthChanged" event for example and pass the new HP value, your UI can subscribe to that event and update health bars, text objects, images, etc based on that health value as the param

[topaz mortar]

I have some logic for changing player max health, on level up for example.
This needs to happen on my server (non-persistent, REST API) because we don't trust the client
The issue here is that when I sent a request to my server, the client has to wait for a reply to be able to update it's max health, which looks pretty bad
The logic could be really simple like maxhealth += 10 but if I decide to change it to 15 at some point, I would need to do it on both client & server, which I was strongly recommended against here.
So how do I fix this delay?

[real rock]

Feels overkill when it’s likely to be on the same object and you can just getcomponent

[fierce shuttle]

Thats also an option if your UI is on the same object as your player, then yeah you can just reference the object directly and cache the GetComponent in Start or something, though usually UI is a separate system to your player (if your trying to decouple a script)

[topaz mortar]

I just have the UI elements as attributes on my CharacterVisuals script now

[SerializeField] private Slider healthBar;

[eternal needle]

Definitely not overkill, and its not like GetComponent is a separate or different solution to this. You can still GetComponent and then subscribe to events. Without using events, for example how would you know when to update your hp bar? You could check every frame but thats just not needed when events will literally notify you when to check and what the value is

[timber tide]

usually if it's UI related then I'm subscribing to it

if hp changes -> UI needs to be notified then updated

[eternal needle]

It also helps if you're reusing scripts, the character script shouldnt know anything at all about the HUD (visuals). This lets you reuse the character script if you're making npcs or whatever, since you would handle their visuals differently

[timber tide]

just playing around with networking it's gotten me to the point where I do need to split a lot of the visuals and the scripting data, but sometimes on smaller objects I feel like I could just handle it together in a single script

like, when you think about monobehaviours that are slots of an inventory, the correct way is for them to just have scripts that relay what's been clicked to the inventory, but if I'm lazy enough I'd just use those monos and make them into the actual data object too

another thing too is that you don't really need to share or reuse inventories (UIs) across different clients. To each their own so just integrating what's on the scene together with your data object can make sense.

[topaz mortar]

Is there some way to make this work? I need exactly the same logic to increase strength, dexterity and intelligence
IncreaseStat(ref Character.Vitality, 1);

        {
            // Do not add stats if there are not enough points available
            if (CheckNotEnoughStatPoints(amount))
                return;

            stat += amount;
            Character.StatPoints -= amount;
            CharacterVisuals.SetStatsUI();

            SaveStats = true;
            SaveStatsTimer = 0;
        }```

[gaunt ice]

you cant pass properties as ref or out

[ivory bobcat]

Is Vitality a property?

[topaz mortar]

yes

it's a property of Character

[ivory bobcat]

Likely you're only passing a copied value

[topaz mortar]

I understand the error, I just don't know how to write this properly, without having to write a separate function for each stat

[teal viper]

Make your stat a reference type

[ivory bobcat]

var vitality = Character.Vitality;
IncreaseStat(ref vitality, 1);
Character.Vitality = vitality;```

[teal viper]

*use a reference type for stats

[topaz mortar]

I'd still have to write that 4 times 😛

[ivory bobcat]

It's three lines...

[topaz mortar]

In these situations I hate that C# doesn't allow you to pass variable names like PHP does

[gaunt ice]

dont make it property

[teal viper]

Character.Vitality.ModifyStat(1);

[ivory bobcat]

You're attempting to ref a value type like cs IncreaseStat(ref 5, 1);//error

[gaunt ice]

public get/set doesnt encapsulate anything

just make it class field

[teal viper]

Well, it's a different language. It's supposed to be used differently.

[ivory bobcat]

The return value from the property isn't the back field variable itself but a copy.

[topaz mortar]

I don't understand

[teal viper]

What exactly?

[topaz mortar]

What you mean by that or how it would work?

[teal viper]

You'd have a Stat class that has that method. Then you change the type of Vitality to that Stat class and there you go.

C# is an object oriented language, so that's the most natural way to do what you're trying to do with refs.

[topaz mortar]

I'm just trying to find a way to turn this (example has 2, but I have 4) into one function

        public void IncreaseStrength(int amount)
        {
            // Do not add stats if there are not enough points available
            if (CheckNotEnoughStatPoints(amount))
                return;

            Character.Strength += amount;
            Character.StatPoints -= amount;
            CharacterVisuals.SetStatsUI();

            SaveStats = true;
            SaveStatsTimer = 0;
        }

        // Increase Dexterity
        public void IncreaseDexterity(int amount)
        {
            // Do not add stats if there are not enough points available
            if (CheckNotEnoughStatPoints(amount))
                return;

            Character.Dexterity += amount;
            Character.StatPoints -= amount;
            CharacterVisuals.SetStatsUI();

            SaveStats = true;
            SaveStatsTimer = 0;
        }```

Adding a stat class sounds interesting

[teal viper]

Or you cloud use a dictionary of <StatEnum, int> to store your stats. Then it would be as simple as Character.Stats[StatEnum.Vitality] += value;

[burnt vapor]

Make a Dexterity struct and implements the + and - operators, and set the value that way

@topaz mortar

[topaz mortar]

yeah this is all a bit too complicated for me lol

[burnt vapor]

Structs work the same as a class if you assume it is just like your integer

But it takes some reading

[topaz mortar]

I tried making a Stat class, but it doesn't fix my issue because there's still duplicate code in each function then, but it was interesting to learn this 🙂

[burnt vapor]

Why care about duplicate code?

You can't merge everything

[topaz mortar]

yeah I think I'll just stick with duplicate code 😛 not a big deal

[burnt vapor]

If you want an easy to read way, a struct is one of those ways

[topaz mortar]

just looking for a better solution

[gaunt ice]

just use field instead of property if no special logic needed to be encapsulated

[real rock]

Oh I didn’t think about UI, in which case yeah events makes sense

[topaz mortar]

tried it but doesn't seem to change anything, same error as in my original post above

having github copilot auto-generate the duplicate code makes life easy 🙂

[real rock]

I think you have some bugs

[topaz mortar]

yeah I moved Character to CharacterLogic & CharacterVisuals, nothing major, just gotta update all the references

and optimizing some stuff while I'm at it

[timber tide]

//class that maps an enum, for all its entries, to a list of StatValues which when computed returns a final float value pertaining to that enum entry
public class Stats<E, T>
where E : Enum
where T : StatValue<E> //stat value is just wrapped values (percent, additive, ect) before being computed is added to our float dict value
{
  //keep track of our instances of increased values
  Dictionary<E, List<T>> statValueDict = new();

  //values which are the result of all computed StatValues
  Dictionary<E, float> valueDict = new(); 
    
  public virtual bool AddStatValue(T statValue) { }
}

this is how I encapsulate my stats which is just a bit more logic than doing enum dict mapping

[topaz mortar]

looks like something I might be able to understand in a year or two lol

I should really get a book on OOP and study it some more

[timber tide]

it's just saying that an enum type, for all entires, have some stat they are specific to

[burnt vapor]

If this is something you don't understand, why exactly are you generating your code using AI?

Sure it would help if you learned the process yourself?

[topaz mortar]

I understand all the code I use 🙂

[queen adder]

Hi there, i have added this models of a mannequin, and i wanted to add a feature to them but idk how i do it, i wanted to them to make a random audio, but only when i am a little far away, if i am to close then them don't make any sound, but if i am far from them, it would make a random audio.
Does anyone know how to add that feature?

[real rock]

Tbf VS started trying to guess what I’m typing and I never bothered to tell it to stop

[topaz mortar]

if I'd use AI to generate something like that I would definitely figure out how it works

[real rock]

I might have to soon though because it’s getting less accurate

[topaz mortar]

I've been programming for 20 years, but just never got to any of the more fancy/advanced stuff

[topaz mortar]

github copilot is amazing

[topaz mortar]

I use it mostly for speed, not to generate code I don't understand 😛

[real rock]

I don’t like to fully AI gen unless I’m completely stuck on learning a concept but so far VS has been not too bad at taking what I’m typing and extrapolating my goals based on names

[topaz mortar]

what would you recommend to learn stuff like this?
to me this is far beyond the basics, I've been a professional web developer for 4 years and never came into contact with stuff like this
most of my colleagues barely understood what OOP means, well not sure if I'm very good at it either since starting working with Unity

or it might just be the difference between PHP & C#

[real rock]

Definitely

[real rock]

Php to me as someone that knows python, js and c# and has education in CS is a really bad “language” that basically tricks html into doing clever things (that’s my perception at least). Even JS which works on browsers tends to have a much more object oriented structure, but C# takes that much further than browser based stuff

[topaz mortar]

PHP is just a lot easier than C#, at least how I remember it, it allows you to do so much more, most of which is probably just bad practice and why C# doesn't allow it

[real rock]

Eh it depends

[timber tide]

I just use php because everything still uses php

[real rock]

I have no .net background so I can’t speak for that side of it but I would be in disbelief if php and html could make a game half as well as c# and Unity

[topaz mortar]

I haven't used it for like 3 years now and started working with C# like 6 months ago

[real rock]

I refuse to lol

People say python syntax is weird but my mind is broken whenever I look at php

[topaz mortar]

you can do some crazy shit with html these days html5 I think it is?

[real rock]

Oh for sure

I mean hell Unity can build to webgl

But that doesn’t make it optimal, especially from a developer side

[rare basin]

programming for 20 years and don't understand generics?

what did you programm past these 20 years lol

[topaz mortar]

yup, just never got to any complicated/advanced stuff

basic PHP mostly

[rare basin]

it's not advanced

it's kinda basic

of c#

or any language

[real rock]

Tbf generics don’t exist in other languages like python and js because they aren’t type safe so I only learned about them recently

[topaz mortar]

I'm really bad with terminology as well, so I might understand "generics" but just not recognize the word

[rare basin]

huh?

generics exists in python

and in js

[real rock]

Not if you don’t set a type for anything

[topaz mortar]

nope, never really used Generics, seen it a few times but never had a need for them

or I just never learned what they are so didn't recognize the need for them

[real rock]

They’re handy and powerful

[rare basin]

i can't kinda understand how can you use something for 20 years

and don't want to improve

your skills

[real rock]

I’d recommend learning them or finding something online that uses them understand use case

[topaz mortar]

that's a weird assumption

I looked it up, I understand what they are

[timber tide]

i mean, if you can understand why list works in c# then that will probably help out

[topaz mortar]

I like learning while doing, I hate theory
so if you can find a way to work around it without actually needing it, you kinda never learn stuff like that

[rare basin]

weird approach but alright

[topaz mortar]

Anyway, if anyone can recommend a book to teach me these "basics" I'd be very interested

[real rock]

If you want an example for something I first used them for, I made a script that emulated pythons random.choice. I could have made an interface for every type I needed or I could use a generic to allow it to handle a list of any type

[gaunt ice]

generic in java/python/typescript is just static type checker iirc, the value is still got boxed

[topaz mortar]

I have dyslexia, which makes it very hard for me to understand terminology like "generics" without actually using them
So I would only learn what they are and how to use them by actually using them myself
I learned programming in school and it never came up and then afterwards I never needed it, or maybe I did, but I just worked around it not knowing it

In a week I won't remember what "generics" are if someone would ask me

I can't even remember the difference between parameter and attribute lol

[rare basin]

that's correct

well, actually it depends

depends if it's value or reference type

iirc value types are being boxed into their correspdoning wrapper types

[real rock]

One is in a method/function, the other is in a class

[rare basin]

but there's no boxing for reference types

[real rock]

Parameters are limited to the context of its method, attributes are limited to the context of the whole class

Otherwise they function sumilaraly

[topaz mortar]

this sentence for example has 0 meaning to me
but if you showed me the code I'm sure I would understand it

[rare basin]

you don't know what's a value or reference type?

[topaz mortar]

I probably do, I just don't recognize the terminology

[topaz mortar]

yeah I know the difference, I just can't remember which one is which lol

dyslexia is fun 🙂

[rare basin]

actually im not sure now, since generics are used for static type checking and do not affect runtime behavior, meaning there's no boxing at all 🤔

[twilit dirge]

I have scriptable tiles I'm using for seasons. To save myself the time, I'm using a script to programatically update all the sprite references for each season. This works, at runtime and in the editor.

But when I restart the unity editor all of the references to the sprites just go blank, except for the first season which retains all the sprite refereneces. why is this happening? I'm saving the asset after I update sprite list, I'm saving the project

sprite references to other tiles that I added manually are also retained, but the first season's were all added programatically as well, so it makes no sense for this to be happening.

oh wait. i think i realize it's because when I added the first season to all these tiles it was added when the actual asset was created too

well, how do I make sure all these references are saved when updated programatically?

this is my code https://pastebin.com/k72T550X

nvm im dumb i needed to mark it as dirty

[languid spire]

one thing you could add in you foreach loop is

EditorUtility.SetDirty(customTile);

[twilit dirge]

i like how i come to that realization as soon as you reply-

[topaz mortar]

Not sure if this helps, but look into: SetDirty(itemSO), AssetDatabase.SaveAssets(); and AssetDatabase.Refresh();
It worked for me for saving SO's from script

[twilit dirge]

thanks yall

[languid spire]

lol, that's the way it often goes

[manic sphinx]

I need help, I'm a beginner and I want to save the open chests so I can't open them again and they stay open, the problem is that I change scenes in the game so it gets complicated because they go by index and if I change scenes and the I try to load it goes crazy, I don't know if I explain myself, can anyone think of how to do it? Could I just destroy the gameObject with tag chest that I just opened and it disappears? The problem with deleting it would be that if I start the game again it would be there again, right??? please help

[topaz mortar]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unity+save+object+state+between+scenes

[manic sphinx]

I have no problem sharing between scenes, the problem is that the chests are a list with an index, because I am not going to pass chest to chest, that is where I have the problem, a list between scenes with an index number, when in a scene the 012, in the next one it should be 234, but it is still 012, so the order does not work