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[swift crag]

Figure out what the actual problem is first!

you can use Debug.Log to check which thing is null

[polar acorn]

I'm not sure what angle it could be that is outside of the range of -180 to 180

[hasty spire]

it is audio manager, visual studio says that an if statement for sliderValue is useless because it will always be true

[swift crag]

I don't see sliderValue anywhere

Do you mean volumeSlider.value ?

It's true that value can't be null because it's a float -- a value type

[polar acorn]

volumeSlider absolutely can be null. Slider is not a struct

[tame mist]

shouldn't it be between 0 and 360?

[polar acorn]

Those are the same values

You can't really control which way of expressing an angle unity will choose

so the best way is to just not write code that expects it to be in one form or another

[swift crag]

you are looking at volumeSlider.value, yes

this is not volumeSlider

[polar acorn]

volumeSlider is not a float

[swift crag]

these are two different things

The compiler is telling you that a number can never be null

This is true.

But volumeSlider could be null, meaning that volumeSlider.value throws an exception.

If you have a volume slider, you can always get its value property, and the result will never be null

but maybe you don't have one in the first place

[hasty spire]

right ok i think i understand

[small mantle]

I am making a enemy for my 2D game. I am wondering if I can somehow obtain a direction value with Vector2.Distance, or any simple way to do that.

[hasty spire]

ok the issue is the volume slider

[swift crag]

distance is not a "direction"

[swift crag]

explain what you are trying to make your game do.

[small mantle]

I need this direction. The Player is the Ball, and I want the enemy to update a direction towards it. I want to have the Enemy Follow the Player but need direction to do that.

[swift crag]

Subtract the enemy's position from the player's position.

This gives you a vector pointing from the enemy to the player.

[wintry quarry]

B - A gives you the direction from A to B

[swift crag]

because...

C = B - A
A + C = A + (B - A) = A - A + B = B

[small mantle]

This works, thank you both!

[swift crag]

You can also use Vector3.Normalize or the .normalized property to get a vector with a length of 1

this is useful if you only care about the direction and not the length of that vector

rb.velocity = toTarget.normalized * speed;

e.g.

If you did not normalize the vector, you'd move faster at longer distances

[small mantle]

I just check if the x Axis is greater than 0 or less than 0.

[final totem]

So is a scripteable object just a struct?

[swift crag]

No.

[eternal needle]

What for? A direction is supposed to be normalized which is different from just checking if something is 0

[swift crag]

A ScriptableObject is a way to create your own kinds of unity objects without all of the behaviors (ha) of MonoBehaviour

(they also aren't components, so they aren't attached to game objects)

This is useful because Unity can serialize references to unity objects

and unity objects can be stored as assets

I mostly use ScriptableObjects to store read-only configuration data.

[final totem]

What that means?

[tepid pike]

will somebody beable to guide me and help me with a gorilla tag fan based game that i have a idea for pls

[swift crag]

[SerializeField] GameObject someObject;

When you put this field into a class, you'll see a field named "Some Object" in the inspector.

You can drag a game object into the field.

Unity will serialize that reference: it's saved in the scene or prefab data.

for example: if you create a cube and inspect it, you'll see that the Mesh Renderer has a material on it

[final totem]

Isn't it saved on disk?

[swift crag]

Materials are stored as assets in the Project window. You can drag one in to that field toa ssign it.

Right.

You can also create a material with code -- that doesn't exist in your project window

It's just like DefaultHDMaterial here, except that it did not come from an asset.

You can do the exact same thing with custom ScriptableObject types.

You can create assets out of them, and also create them at runtime.

I mostly just use assets, since I want to be able to set them up in advance.

Here's an example of one of my ScriptableObject types.

my "Icon Set" class holds some icon sprites, plus a list of bindings that the icon should be displayed for

[swift crag]

coming back to this: if you meant "a bag of data", then that is a pretty common way to use SOs!

oftentimes, I will create a class that just holds some data

then I add methods later

very similar to what I do with prefabs:

• create a component with public fields for things I want to be able to find
• make those fields private and add methods later

public class Bullet : MonoBehaviour {
  public Rigidbody rb;
  public ParticleSystem explosionParticles;
}

then, down the road...

public class Bullet : MonoBehaviour {
  [SerializeField] Rigidbody rb;
  [SerializeField] ParticleSystem explosionParticles;

  public void Fire() {
    rb.velocity = Vector3.left * 10;
  }

  public void Impact() {
    explosionParticles.Play();
  }
}

[SerializeField] tells Unity you want to save that field. Normally, only public fields get saved.

in case you were wondering about that.

[final totem]

Gotcha, do you know what the static checkbox does in the inspector?

[swift crag]

there are several "static" flags a GameObject can have

the static checkbox toggles all of them at once

in general, "static" means that the object is not moving or changing.

"Contribute GI" means that the object is used for baked lighting.

"Batching Static" promises Unity that you aren't trying to move the object. That lets it glue a bunch of small meshes together into one big mesh.

[ionic zephyr]

Im making a game in which two players are given 2 random bonuses at the end of each game and then they fight each other, Street Fighter style, does somebody know how to face the way in which bonuses are given? Im instantiating each of the fighters from prefabs at the start of the round so, how could I make them have a reference to the bonuses, Im really lost, thanks in advance

[swift crag]

You usually just toggle everything at once, from my experience

[swift crag]

whoever instantiates the prefabs should know about the bonuses

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, for example a GameManger, and should those bonuses be a component?

[swift crag]

components have to be attached to a game object

You could have a prefab for each kind of bonus, and instantiate a copy to give to the player, I suppose

[ionic zephyr]

Yeah, the thing is I dont know how to "give" each player the boosts

[final totem]

@swift crag so basically static does not contribute to lighting, does not occlude other stuff?

[swift crag]

the opposute: if you check "Static", then the object is included when doing baked lighting

occlusion culling lets Unity hide things that are completely behind a solid wall

[ionic zephyr]

I thought of making each boost a separate component so that all of the fighters have them but the GameManager activates the ones tha have been chosen randomly

[swift crag]

to do that, Unity needs to know what's a wall (something that doesn't move)

[ionic zephyr]

but that might be too complex

[final totem]

By default it's "nothing" cheked right?

[swift crag]

Right.

[final totem]

Thanks Fen

[ionic zephyr]

or unnificient

[swift crag]

sounds fine to me; you'd make a prefab with all of the boosts on it

[ionic zephyr]

but only one?

[final totem]

Then with non static objects we don't do oclussion culling nor baking?

[swift crag]

a non-static object can't occlude other objects

unity has to do expensive calculations in advance for things like baked lighting and occlusion

so it only works for stuff that doesn't change

[ionic zephyr]

Each of my fighters is a prefab, so should I attach all of the boosts to each one?

[swift crag]

you'd have a "boosts" prefab that you attach to each fighter

or even just attach at runtime

Or, perhaps, the game manager is given all of the boosts

if each is on its own game object, it can just Instantiate the boost it wants to give

[abstract finch]

Is it possible to share a variable between two classes without having either one know each other? In this case its a Vector3. I want it to be unique to each gameobject though. So a monster's shared vector3 is diffferent than another spawned monsters.

[ionic zephyr]

But then if one of the boosts is: "gets a fire ball" for example, does that require that the fighter has that method??

[swift crag]

i don't know how you're actually implementing this

i remember talking about this a while ago with you

implementing complex abilities you can attach to any character you want (something i'm doing in my own project right now) takes a fair bit of work

on the other hand, if every character knows how to throw a fireball, and they just need a boost that says "Yep, you can use it!", that's easy

or if you can put all of the logic in the fireball boost, so that the character just asks the boost to do something, that's also easy

[ionic zephyr]

I think I may follow that path so I dont explode

[swift crag]

whateverMyBoostIs.Activate();

you don't care if it's a FireballBoost or a ShieldBoost

[ionic zephyr]

I thought of that but the thing is, how do I give each fighter that boost? for example, should I give each fighter the SAME component so the GameManager Activates it when necessary??

[ionic zephyr]

A player is given: "water gun and more speed" for example. Should I have in all of the fighters those components in case those are the two habilities that have been randomly chosen??

[swift crag]

Do these components need to reference things on the fighter?

if so, then you'd have to put every boost on every fighter

so that you can drag things in to the boost components

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, so basically, every boost on every fighter and the GameManager activates depending on the chosen one at the begging of the game right?

[swift crag]

If your boosts need lots of per-fighter configuration, yes.

If they don't, you can just instantiate a copy of the boost you want to give to a fighter

and then, I dunno, give the fighter a method like:

public void AddBoost(Boost boost) {
  boostList.Add(boost):
}

[ionic zephyr]

Can I Instantiate components?

[swift crag]

Sure. It will copy the entire game object the component is attached to, though.

You can't have a "naked" component that's by itself, without a game object

[ionic zephyr]

Why did I choose to do this game hahaha

[ionic zephyr]

I might just make each fighter to have the component, maybe its simpler

[ionic zephyr]

but is it messier as well?

[scarlet skiff]

Bro i dont understand events, what is the point of having both delegates and event args? if both are used to pass more information, to me it seems they do the same thing

[polar acorn]

delegates are just variables that can hold a function

events are how you actually call the functions

events are basically delegate[] but with some syntactic sugar

[bitter walrus]

hi yall

[scarlet skiff]

what do you mean hold a function

[polar acorn]

a delegate is a type that specifices a method signature that a variable of that type can hold

delegate void SomeFunction(int x) defines the type SomeFunction that can hold anything that returns void and takes an int

[final totem]

What does the avatar field do in the Animator component?

[deft grail]

thats for like a full 3D model body i think something like that
wrong channel for your question anyway though #💻┃unity-talk #🏃┃animation

[hasty tundra]

Im having a small issue with onlick in my game. I need to be able to click a certain object, but there will always be an invisible collider above it (the game is 2d), so the click is blocked (Like the image shown). Is there a way i can bypass this?

[polar acorn]

Use a raycast that ignores the red object's layer

[hasty tundra]

would that work with onclick?

[polar acorn]

No, you'll need to use a raycast

[slender nymph]

or, preferably, use the EventSystem interfaces, like IPointerDownHandler, which allows you to configure the layermask for the Physics Raycaster 2D you put on the camera

[ember tangle]

#if !UNITY_EDITOR //if not ran through the editor
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Confined; // lock cursor to monitor. disabled for editor testing.
#endif

Does this make sense? It compiles but I'm not sure if this is correct.

or would it be

#if UNITY_EDITOR == 0

[deft grail]

did you try this?

[ember tangle]

Hmm, I guess not. I saw both used online. I'm not so sure about preprocessor stuff and there are less resources for them. The #if !UNITY_EDITOR compiles while the other one doesnt.

[slender nymph]

well that tells you which one to use then, doesn't it?

[ember tangle]

does using #ifndef instead make more sense?

[deft grail]

why cant you just use what works? why come up with other solutions when you already have a solution

[ember tangle]

im just trying to follow best practices 😅

[deft grail]

you will delete this when building the game anyway so who cares?

[slender nymph]

does ifndef even work in c#?

[teal viper]

They're mostly doing the same thing afaik. ifndef stands for if not defined. However when not defined keywords are evaluated they result in 0. Which is also the logical false.

[slender nymph]

because it is definitely not even mentioned on the actual documentation page for conditional compilation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/preprocessor-directives#conditional-compilation

[teal viper]

Hmm... Maybe it's different with C# compiler.🤔

[molten dock]

is there a general procedure for bugfixing bugs that only occur sometimes

like finding the cause

[polar acorn]

Ensure that whenever it does happen, you collect copious data. Breakpoints, debug logs, hell even writing stuff to disk

Then just try over and over to get it to happen

[ionic zephyr]

why cant i get a text gameobject reference attached to my component?

[molten dock]

🦧 ✅

[polar acorn]

You wanna give that sentence another go? I'm not entirely sure what you mean

[ionic zephyr]

I cant fill the second gap with any gameobject

[polar acorn]

Does the GameObject you're dragging in have a legacy Text component on it

[ionic zephyr]

Im adding the TextMeshPro in UI gameobject

[polar acorn]

That field doesn't take a TextMeshPro. It takes a legacy Text

If you want to use a TextMeshPro object, use TMP_Text

[ionic zephyr]

whats the difference?

[polar acorn]

They're completely different components

[teal viper]

Basically you try to reproduce it until you can do it 100% of the time. Some bugs are almost impossible reproduce 100% of time. If that's the cas, it's likely related to race condition and multithreading.

[ionic zephyr]

Which is used more frequently to represent counters

[ionic zephyr]

for example money

[polar acorn]

You should basically never ever be using legacy UI elements at all

TextMeshPro has completely replaced them

[teal viper]

In this case it's a pain in the ass, and the only thing you can do is make assumptions and try to confirm them via logs or debugger.

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, thanks a lot

[molten dock]

right now when i teleport something to a position abit of the time it just gets teleported to somewhere far to the left

not lookin fo help there just thought id say my current bug

[polar acorn]

Are you setting the position to something when you should be adding to the position

[molten dock]

transform.position to another transform

[polar acorn]

Then if your object is ending up somewhere you don't expect, that other transform probably isn't the object you expect

[molten dock]

how come it would get transported to it most of the time then

[polar acorn]

because most of the time it is the object you expect it to be

[molten dock]

ill check it out

[teal viper]

Alternatively, that target object is moved around at some frames.

So when the issue happens it's at that invalid position.

[cedar prairie]

I may be stupid but i really dont get why brackeys here calls it xRotation when its all about the cameras Y rotation

[swift crag]

well, it's not about the camear's Y rotation (:

It's rotating the camera around the local X axis

X is right, so it's tilting up and down

[cedar prairie]

i am very confused haha

[swift crag]

X - red - right
Y - green - up
Z - blue - forward

Ignore the player body rotation for now.

If you want the camera to look up and down, you need to rotate it around the correct axis.

Rotating it around the Y axis would make it spin side to side.

Rotating it around the Z axis would make it roll over.

to visualize this, try pointing right/up/forward and imagining what happens if you spin yourself around that axis

[elder osprey]

I do have an error. I'm not sure what this means.

[cedar prairie]

very hard to wrap my head around haha

[swift crag]

start by getting a handle on the actual rotation.

[cedar prairie]

so looking right and left is based on the y axis

[swift crag]

Correct.

[cedar prairie]

and up and down is based on the x

[swift crag]

A very common pattern is to:

• Rotate the player body around the Y axis
• Rotate the camera around the X axis

That's what the code you posted is doing.

[ivory bobcat]

Whatever you do, make sure to remove the delta time from the equation. It's framerate independent.

If the axis is mapped to the mouse, the value is different and will not be in the range of -1...1. Instead it'll be the current mouse delta multiplied by the axis sensitivity. Typically a positive value means the mouse is moving right/down and a negative value means the mouse is moving left/up.

This is frame-rate independent; you do not need to be concerned about varying frame-rates when using this value.

[swift crag]

The entire body rotates to look side to side

The camera rotates to look up and down

[teal viper]

Struct fields all need to be initialized. If they are not initialized at declaration, you should implement a constructor that initializes them.

[swift crag]

Are struct field initializers even allowed by unity's version of C#?

[slender nymph]

don't think so

[cedar prairie]

Im coming from Gamemaker lol so this is scrambing my brain

[swift crag]

huh, my unity 6 test project isn't complaining

[cedar prairie]

i apprecaiate the help btw thanks

[swift crag]

ah, but I think it's not going to compile in unity

yeah

it's just that something is misconfigured in my IDE

[teal viper]

Ah, indeed. You can't initialize fields at declaration in C#.

[swift crag]

You need C# 10 or higher for struct field initializers.

[cedar prairie]

may aswell ask this while i am here, In the same tutorial he uses Mathf but uhh it doesnt work for me has it changed?

is there a diffrent way to use the clamp thingy

[slender nymph]

no, Mathf has not changed

[cedar prairie]

IGNORE ME

[ivory bobcat]

Describe "doesn't work"

[cedar prairie]

lol did something wrong haha sorry

[slender nymph]

make sure you have your spelling (particularly the capitalization) correct

[cedar prairie]

i did a fullstop insted of equals

quite hard to understand this but ill get my grips lol

thanks again

[elder osprey]

If I can't initialize them how can I use structs in my ScriptableObject?

This is what I have atm: ```cs
public class ScriptableObjectTesting : ScriptableObject
{
enum Detectability
{
none,
detectBuildings,
detectBuildingsAndMonsters,
detectAll
}
[System.Serializable]
struct UpgradeData
{
public int upgradeID = 0;
public string upgradeName = "name";

    public float scanSpeedMultiplier;
    public float scanRangeMultiplier;
    public Detectability detectability;
}
public UpgradeData[] upgradeData;

}

[teal viper]

Initialize them in a constructor. I don't see how that's gonna prevent you from using them..?

[slender nymph]

note that it has to be a parameterized ctor, you cannot have an explicit parameterless ctor on a struct in unity's version of c# either

[elder osprey]

I'm trying to make a struct array on a scriptableobject

[teal viper]

Hmm... I guess there's that as well. That being said, upgradID would be initialized as 0 by default anyway. And it doesn't seem like "name" has any functional meaning anyway.

So just don't assign these values.

If you really need "name" assigned, you could loop the array in OnValidate and assign it there to each element.

[elder osprey]

Wait, why doesnt upgradeID or upgradeName work?

[slender nymph]

the field initializers do not work. remove those and everything will compile

a field initializer is the initialization of the class level variable on the line it is declared. in other words those = and everything to the right of them are invalid in this version of c#

[elder osprey]

What I'm trying to do is create a struct array of variables that I can change in the inspector. Like this

But I want it on a scriptable object

[slender nymph]

yes and none of that info is relevant to the actual issue at hand

[elder osprey]

Currently the variables are inaccessible in the inspector. This is my code currently: ```cs
public enum Detectability
{
none,
detectBuildings,
detectBuildingsAndMonsters,
detectAll
}
public UpgradeData[] upgradeData;
[System.Serializable]
public struct UpgradeData
{
public float scanSpeedMultiplier;
public float scanRangeMultiplier;
public Detectability detectability;

public UpgradeData(int UpgradeID, string UpgradeName, float scanSpeed, float scanRange, Detectability detect)
{
    this.scanSpeedMultiplier = scanSpeed;
    this.scanRangeMultiplier = scanRange;
    this.detectability = detect;
}

}```

[slender nymph]

that is not an instance of the scriptable object

[elder osprey]

Oh wait, I see now

My apologies

Although I do still have another problem. I was planning on accessing the upgradeName variable in another script, so I could display the name floating above an object.

[slender nymph]

then put the variable back on the struct. there was no need to remove it

[elder osprey]

Oh wait, I think I understand now.

You mean I can't assign the variables values inside the code, I can only assign it within the inspector.

[slender nymph]

just not in the field initializers

[elder osprey]

So I can't do this public string name = "defaultName"; but I can do this public string name;

That makes sense.

Thank you

[gentle stratus]

trying to use a script to make all the parts of this model black but a couple of the model parts dont have a renderer, what should i do in that situation

[swift crag]

most of the game objects will not have a renderer at all

unless this is some unusual model with lots of small pieces

either way, if there is no renderer, then there's no visual

[gentle stratus]

its made up of several small pieces

[swift crag]

so you can just skip that object

[gentle stratus]

the object that caused the crash is highlighted and clearly its visible

[swift crag]

use this:

if (target.TryGetComponent(out Renderer renderer)) {
  // do something with the renderer
}

[swift crag]

show me the entire inspector for the selected object

[gentle stratus]

hm ok

[teal viper]

I think you're confusing objects.

[swift crag]

that's the hierarchy

i need to see the inspector

[gentle stratus]

oh my bad

[swift crag]

also, yes, that's not the object that caused the error

there is a Renderer on this object

and the name is wrong

That's part of the armature, it looks like.

which won't have any renderers on it

[gentle stratus]

oh i read it wrong

thanks

[molten dock]

my friend on laptop cant run my game well

wondering if theres any general project settings things i can mess with to help

[slender nymph]

profile the game to see where the biggest performance impacts come from

[molten dock]

ooo how do i do that

[slender nymph]

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

[molten dock]

thank you#

[teal viper]

Just to be clear, by "can't run my game well" you mean performance drop/lag, right?

[molten dock]

yeah

[teal viper]

Then, yeah, profiling the game(ideally on the machine with the issue) is the way to go.

[molten dock]

the gpu usage has a warning sign so its probably bad

the part thats really bad is the part where a you play on a UI canvas

and there are a bunch of rigibody objects u gotta dodge

[teal viper]

Start with CPU usage

[teal viper]

Rbs are part of the UI canvas?

[molten dock]

yeah

ive heard that moving objects on a parent is bad optimisation

but they gotta be on the canvas to be visible

[teal viper]

Having physical objects on a canvas is a terrible ida

Idea

But you should profile properly before deciding on any optimizations

[teal viper]

I'm sure that's not true

And if it is, there must be a bigger issue with your setup

[molten dock]

its true

afaik

wait why is it bad

is it bc of what i said

[teal viper]

Because updating ui and physics is performance heavy. And if there are physical objects on the canvas, they would be affected by changes in UI and the UI would be affected by changes in the physics.

[eternal needle]

You should really start with some tutorial or the unity learn site if you think everything must be on a canvas

[molten dock]

understood

okay if i have the canvas very low on the sorting layer it probably will let me do it right

have the objects infront of it

cuz usually canvas is ui and therefore infront of everything

[teal viper]

If it's a screen space canvas, you can't have objects in front of it.

Why would you want to have ui behind your gameplay objects anyway?

[molten dock]

because i need the pbjects to dodge to be infront of the canvas but not attatched to it as u said

[teal viper]

That doesn't answer my question

Why do you need ui behind other objects?

[molten dock]

ur confusing me

what diddnt get answrd

the canvas is the background to the moving objects

its like the undertale fights

dodge a buncha blobs

[teal viper]

Why do you have your background as ui?

[molten dock]

cause i had the whole game on a ui canvas

if my game is 3D besides that part how can i make that specific part be 2D

but not using a canvas

[teal viper]

2d is just a plane/quad mesh. There isn't really "2d" in unity and most other engines.

So you can have a plane/quad mesh behind your other objects and render your background to it.

[molten dock]

okay

[latent iris]

I made a 16x16 texture for a basic cube but when I try to assign it as a sprite, I get "White Square_0's rect lies (partially) outside of texture. Will not generate Sprite for this slice." Please help me

[stiff peak]

private bool CanSeePlayer()
    {
        if (player == null) return false;

        Vector3 directionToPlayer = player.position - transform.position;
        float distanceToPlayer = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, player.position);

        // First, check if the player is within the sight radius.
        if (distanceToPlayer < sightRadius && !isDead)
        {
            RaycastHit hit;

            // Then, do a raycast to see if there is a direct line of sight.
            if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, directionToPlayer.normalized, out hit, sightRadius, playerCheck))
            {
                // Check if the object hit is indeed the player.
                return hit.transform == player;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

playerCheck is a Mask for the player object
how do I make it hit the wall properly then
Im new to this so Im still learning this stuff 😅

[near wadi]

Did you check that Layermasks as they suggested?

[stiff peak]

I tried removing the playerCheck mask from the Raycast line but it didnt seem to change the outcome

[near wadi]

well shoot. had fingers crossed for an easy fix

[stiff peak]

me too xD

[wintry quarry]

Show how you defined the layer mask?

[stiff peak]

 // Serialized Fields
 [SerializeField] private NavMeshAgent agent;
 [SerializeField] private Transform player;
 [SerializeField] private LayerMask groundCheck, playerCheck;
 [SerializeField] private float health, sightRadius, attackRadius, walkingRadius/*, attackInterval*/;
 [SerializeField] private bool isPatrolling = false;
 [SerializeField] private Transform[] patrolPoints;
 [SerializeField] private Animator animationController;
 //public float AttackInterval => attackInterval;
 [SerializeField] private AudioSource movingSound;
 [SerializeField] private AudioSource idleSound;
 [SerializeField] private AudioSource chasingSound;
 [SerializeField] private AudioSource deathSound;


 // Non-Serialized Fields
 private bool isPlayerInSightRadius, isPlayerInAttackRadius;
 private Vector3 walkNode;
 private bool isWalkNodeSet = false;
 private int patrolPointIndex = 0;
 private bool isAttacking = false;
 public bool Attacking => isAttacking;
 private bool isIdle = true;
 private bool isDead = false;

 private bool CanSeePlayer()
 {
     if (player == null) return false;

     Vector3 directionToPlayer = player.position - transform.position;
     float distanceToPlayer = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, player.position);

     // First, check if the player is within the sight radius.
     if (distanceToPlayer < sightRadius && !isDead)
     {
         RaycastHit hit;

         // Then, do a raycast to see if there is a direct line of sight.
         if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, directionToPlayer.normalized, out hit, sightRadius, playerCheck))
         {
             // Check if the object hit is indeed the player.
             return hit.transform == player;
         }
     }

     return false;
 }

[wintry quarry]

I mean show the inspector

That's still only hitting the player layer

Add the wall layer to it

[gentle stratus]

public class EnemyDetection : MonoBehaviour {
    public Material invisible;
    public Material visible;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider c) {
        if (c.CompareTag("Enemy")) {
            for (int i = 1; i < c.transform.parent.childCount - 1; i++) {
                Debug.Log(c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material);
                c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material = visible;
            }
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider c) {
        if (c.CompareTag("Enemy")) {
            for (int i = 1; i < c.transform.parent.childCount - 1; i++) {
                Debug.Log(c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material);
                c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material = invisible;
            }
        }
    }
}```
using this code to turn every piece of a model to one material but when it goes through it sets it to default material, whered i go wrong

[wintry quarry]

You didn't change it?

[stiff peak]

Im confused

[wintry quarry]

Why are you adding a separate wall thing

[stiff peak]

ohhh

[wintry quarry]

Add the wall layer to the Player Check LayerMask

[stiff peak]

I gothcu

[teal viper]

If you click the player check field you'll see that you can select several layers

[wintry quarry]

Wdym by "default material"?

[gentle stratus]

its a bright pink and when i debug.log it says default material

[teal viper]

If it's pink, it means that the shader is broken or incompatible

[wintry quarry]

What did you assign those material fields to?

[gentle stratus]

c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material

[stiff peak]

I added the wall layer and nothing changed

[teal viper]

Try visualizing your rays with Debug.DrawRay
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.DrawRay.html

[gentle stratus]

what makes something incompatible bc if i manually add the material in the scene editor it works fine

[teal viper]

Many things, but if it works manually, then it's probably an issue with your code

[gentle stratus]

can you see any problems with the code then

[stiff peak]

Ive been spotted

[teal viper]

Not really. Can you pause the game when the issue occurs, switch to scene view, select the pink objects and take a screenshot of the inspector?

[gentle stratus]

alright

[teal viper]

Also, check if there are any errors in the console

[gentle stratus]

no errors in console

ig somehow its not setting material

[teal viper]

I wonder if just goes between the ground and the wall..? Can you offset it vertically a bit?

[stiff peak]

well

it aint that

[teal viper]

Debug the material that you're assigning.

[teal viper]

I see. And the wall has a collider?

[stiff peak]

yea

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of the wall object inspector with it's layer visible too

[teal viper]

Now the same thing at runtime when the debug ray is drawn

[teal viper]

Okay, now share the updated code

[gentle stratus]

put breakpoint at c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material = visible;

[teal viper]

Assign the Renderer to a local variable and step through the code again. Check the renderer material after stepping through the assignment.

[stiff peak]

wait

I think I know my issue

i might be really dumb

[teal viper]

Doesn't sound like a direct cause, but might be relevant.

[gentle stratus]

var renderer = c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>();
renderer.material = visible;```

not sure what i should be looking for

[teal viper]

So you're assigning that SomeReflection material?

[gentle stratus]

oh oops i forgot to step after it executed

[teal viper]

Ok, so it's assigned correctly at least

[stiff peak]

it was relevant xD but still not stopping them from seeing me, but it was returning False all the time for some reason 🥴

but now the logic is all in place and they're still seeing me through walls

[teal viper]

One thing that bothers me is that it says (instance)

[stiff peak]

I just changed the logic in the canSeePlayer to compare for the "Player" tag so it can detect any part of the player instead of just the empty object used to define the location

[gentle stratus]

whats that mean

[teal viper]

Are you doing it at runtime or in the editor? Can you add. Debug.Break right after the assignment and check the object in the scene? Does it seem to have the correct material assigned and not pink?

[gentle stratus]

at runtime

[teal viper]

It means that it's a new instance of the material.

[gentle stratus]

oh

[teal viper]

Well, you're yet to share the updated code.

[stiff peak]

    private bool CanSeePlayer()
    {
        if (player == null || isDead) return false;

        Vector3 directionToPlayer = player.position - transform.position;
        float distanceToPlayer = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, player.position);

        if (distanceToPlayer < sightRadius)
        {
            RaycastHit hit;
            Vector3 rayOrigin = transform.position;
            Vector3 rayEnd = transform.position + directionToPlayer.normalized * sightRadius;

            // Perform the raycast
            if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin, directionToPlayer.normalized, out hit, sightRadius, playerCheck))
            {
                // Visualize the raycast
                Debug.DrawLine(rayOrigin, hit.point, Color.red);  // Red line to collision point

                // Check if the object hit is indeed the player.
                return hit.collider.CompareTag("Player");
            }
            else
            {
                // Visualize raycast when no collision occurs
                Debug.DrawLine(rayOrigin, rayEnd, Color.green); // Green line if no hit
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

[gentle stratus]

nope

[teal viper]

Which makes sense I guess, since you're assigning it with material property.

[stiff peak]

havent changed much really

[teal viper]

Hmm... What does it look like before that code runs?

[teal viper]

You did at the very least add debug ray

[gentle stratus]

something like this

somereflection was added in editor

[teal viper]

Hmm. Share the updated code.

[gentle stratus]

public class EnemyDetection : MonoBehaviour {
    public Material invisible;
    public Material visible;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider c) {
        if (c.CompareTag("Enemy")) {
            for (int i = 1; i < c.transform.parent.childCount - 1; i++) {
                Debug.Log(c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material);
                var renderer = c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>();
                renderer.material = visible;
                Debug.Break();
            }
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider c) {
        if (c.CompareTag("Enemy")) {
            for (int i = 1; i < c.transform.parent.childCount - 1; i++) {
                Debug.Log(c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material);
                c.transform.parent.GetChild(i).GetComponent<Renderer>().material = invisible;
            }
        }
    }
}```

[teal viper]

Hmm... Can you take a screenshot of the material you try to assign?

[gentle stratus]

like the inspector?

[teal viper]

Yes

[teal viper]

Also, try using the sharedMaterial property instead of material.

[gentle stratus]

still didnt work

[teal viper]

And if you comment the code our, the issue doesn't happen?

[gentle stratus]

youre asking if i comment the material setting code out the model doesnt turn pink?

[teal viper]

Also, do you not have errors in the console when running this code?

[gentle stratus]

no errors

[teal viper]

Yes

[gentle stratus]

ok lemme try

no models turned pink

[teal viper]

That's weird. Do all of the children have a Renderer component?

[gentle stratus]

yeah

[teal viper]

Can you reference one of the renderers explicitly(in the inspector) and assign a material to it instead of getting the component from collided object?

[gentle stratus]

oh wait a minute i found the issue

invisible and visible material arent set at runtime even though i set them in editor

[teal viper]

What do you drag in there?

[gentle stratus]

the materials from assets

[teal viper]

From the assets tab?

[gentle stratus]

yeah

[teal viper]

Can you take a screenshot of them in the assets tab?

[gentle stratus]

oh oops i was being dumb and set those variables while a game was running so they didnt save when i stopped the game

thanks for the help though i do have another issue

i have this enemy behavior script ```c#
public class EnemySystem : MonoBehaviour {
bool lookat = false;
public GameObject player;
Rigidbody rb;
public EnemyStats enemyStats;
public EnemyStats thisStats;
public PlayerDetection playerDetection;
public Animate animate;
public float hp;
public bool dying = false;

private void Start() {
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    playerDetection = transform.parent.GetComponentInChildren<PlayerDetection>();
    animate = transform.GetComponent<Animate>();
    hp = enemyStats.stats[StatNames.MaxHealth];
    thisStats = enemyStats;
}

void Update() {
    if (hp <= 0 && !dying) {
        dying = true;
        animate.Die();
    }
    if (playerDetection.found) {
        lookat = true;
    }
    else lookat = false;
    if (lookat) {
        Vector3 newtarget = player.transform.position;
        newtarget.y = transform.position.y;
        transform.LookAt(newtarget);
        animate.Chase();
        rb.AddForce(thisStats.stats[StatNames.Speed] * Time.deltaTime * transform.forward);
    } else if (!animate.anim.GetBool("isDying")){
        animate.Reset();
    }
}

...

but the enemies are walking through walls somehow

even though i made sure that collisions exist for both the enemy and the walls

[teal viper]

You should use add force in fixed update, but I'm not sure that's the cause of this issue

One thing to try is to disable your animator.

[gentle stratus]

what is fixed update

[teal viper]

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

[gentle stratus]

would i move just the addforce to fixedupdate or everything

[teal viper]

The add force and anything required by it.

You also don't need to multiply force by delta time.

[ivory bobcat]

I would think the entire if-statement

And the if-statement prior could probably be refactored to lookat = playerDetection.found (semantic stuff though)

[gentle stratus]

true

[gentle stratus]

yeah didnt fix it

[teal viper]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[ionic galleon]

hello everyone , i have code singleton this :

public abstract class RingSingleton<T> : MonoBehaviour where T : RingSingleton<T>
    {
        private static T _instance;

        public enum ChangeDestroy
        {
            DontDestroy,
            Destroy
        }

        public ChangeDestroy _changDestroy = ChangeDestroy.Destroy;

        public static T Instance
        {
            get
            {
                if (_instance == null)
                {
                    _instance = FindObjectOfType<T>();

                    if (_instance == null)
                    {
                        Debug.LogWarning("An instance of " + typeof(T) +
                                         " is needed in the scene, but there is none.");
                    }
                }

                return _instance;
            }
        }

        protected virtual void Awake()
        {
            if (_changDestroy == ChangeDestroy.DontDestroy)
            {
                DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
            }

            if (_instance != null && _instance != this)
            {
                Destroy(this.gameObject);
                return;
            }

            _instance = (T)this;
        }

    }

I use it like this: public class DataManager : RingSingleton<DataManager>
but when I use awake for DataManager and the code is as follows :protected override void Awake()
{
base.Awake();
DataBeforePlayGame.Instance.db = FirebaseFirestore.DefaultInstance;
Debug.LogError("Retrieve data");
Load();
if (!data.removeAdsData.IsRemoveAds())
{
AdsManager.Instance.PopupBanner();
}
}
I have set it to dont destroy on load but why is it displayed every time I switch to the debug scene?

[slender nymph]

presumably there is one of those objects inside the Debug scene so each time you enter that scene a new one is created which runs that code. and since you only return from the base implementation if you are destroying the object, the rest of the inheriting object's Awake method will run because it isn't destroyed until the end of the frame

just check if instance == this and return if it isn't

[gentle stratus]

disabling the animator seemed to just break it entirely, it doesnt move at all

[teal viper]

That would imply that you're not moving the object via physics, but via the animator.

Are you using dynamic(non kinematic) rbs?

[gentle stratus]

no its kinematic

[ionic galleon]

that right ?

[teal viper]

Well, kinematic objects are not moved by forces.

[gentle stratus]

i added the addforce and then the animator so itd be weird if it were moving by the animator

[slender nymph]

no, you need to do it in the derived class, you're already returning there if instance has already been assigned

and you need to return if Instance is not this

[teal viper]

Well, I don't know what setup you had before, but now the issue is that you try to move kinematic rbs via force.

[gentle stratus]

i tried removing the kinematics and the enemies just fall through the floor

[teal viper]

And also, the animator is probably try to move the objects too. Disable root motion on it.

[teal viper]

Do you have colliders on the floor?

[ionic galleon]

I have it different from this , that's not right

[gentle stratus]

ig i only check colliders for the player, maybe thats the reason why i dont fall through the floor and id do so otherwise

[teal viper]

Check how? Layermask/collision matrix?

[gentle stratus]

yeah

layermask

[teal viper]

Where?

[gentle stratus]

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour {
    public CharacterController controller;
    public PlayerStats playerStats;
    public float speed;
    public float multiplier = 1f;
    public float gravity = -9.81f;

    public Transform groundCheck;
    public float groundDistance = 0.4f;
    public LayerMask groundMask;

    Vector3 velocity;
    bool isGrounded;
    bool isSprinting;

    void Start () {
        speed = playerStats.stats[StatNames.Speed];
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update() {
        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask);

        if (isGrounded && velocity.y < 0) {
            velocity.y = -2f;
        }```

[slender nymph]

btw it is against server rules to send an unsolicted DM to another user here

if you want help, i will help you here not in DMs

[teal viper]

You wouldn't really need a ground check with dynamic rbs. Physics should handle collisions for you.

You also don't need to change velocity

If you use forces.

It seems like you were mixing all kinds of movement methods that resulted in a mess.

[gentle stratus]

well player works fine

its only the enemy adding force that screws up

[ionic galleon]

sorry, I didn't know that

[teal viper]

How are you moving the player then?

[gentle stratus]

Vector3 move = transform.right * x + transform.forward * z;

controller.Move(multiplier * speed * Time.deltaTime * move);

if(Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && isGrounded) {
    velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(playerStats.stats[StatNames.JumpHeight] * -2f * gravity);
}

//gravity
velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
controller.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);```

[teal viper]

So it's using a character controller

[gentle stratus]

yeah

[teal viper]

Why don't your enemies use a character controller then?

[gentle stratus]

i thought that character controllers are for like voluntary movement

like its controlled by inputs

[teal viper]

Both CC and RB are for moving objects. Whether you move them based on input or not is up to you

[gentle stratus]

oh ok

would cc possibly fix the walking through walls thing then

[mighty yew]

hey guys, is there any way to open a project using 5.6.4p2 editor version? I try many things but when I open this project, it shows a window and I have to login to confirm my lisense (i'm using free lisense), I logged in successfully and It doesnt happen anything, same crash but dont show working space window. I try to quit then open again but still nothing happened

[ionic galleon]

add new lisence

[teal viper]

Perhaps. It kinda feels like there're a lot of issues in your project.
I highly recommend going through the beginner pathways on unity !learn as well as referencing the manual and documentation when you encounter a component of system you've never used before. Also, following some tutorials instead of trying random implementations is also adviced.

[eternal falcon]

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[gentle stratus]

ok ill take a look thanks

[mighty yew]

I try bro, I create a new one account but not work 😦

but when I open a project in newer version, It still open without requiring lisense

so I think there is sth happen with older version

😩

[nimble apex]

i want to optimize the code further, i have a script that is used by more than 1000 objects in the game, all of them are tuned to have certain values already

right now i have 3 public fields in this code

  public int enFontSize = 60;
  public int tcFontSize = 60;
  public int scFontSize = 60;```
*remember they already have certain value that is different than 60

if i make them into an array, will those value assigned on inspector lost?

[teal viper]

Yes

[nimble apex]

ok i gonna give up doing that ty lol

no way i gonna remap 3000 values

[teal viper]

Could write a script that does it perhaps 🤔

If it's just one script, could add the array and the run an editor function to populate the array with these variables, then save and remove the deprecated variables.

[gentle stratus]

so i have this enemy hierarchy where zombie1 has a character controller but when it moves the viewsphere/attacksphere dont move so it stops seeing things when it moves out of it

so naturally i moved the viewsphere and attacksphere into zombie1 but suddenly the game became really laggy and viewsphere/attacksphere seemed to catch the player when its way out of their radii, dont know how that happened

[teal viper]

Why did you need to move it to under the Zombie? Logically thinking, the Enemy is the object that should be moving, not the zombie

Unless Enemy is a container for all enemies in the scene

In which case it should be named Enemies

[nimble apex]

it is 3 public fields inside one script

thats it

but that script is used by 1000+ objects, thats what makes it annoying lol

[teal viper]

Are these objects in the same scene?

[gentle stratus]

enemy just holds all the things below it its just an empty object itself

[nimble apex]

scattered across 10+ scenes, also in 100+ prefabs that will generate by code during runtime

[teal viper]

So it represents all the enemies in the scene?

[gentle stratus]

no its just one enemy

[teal viper]

Why do you need it then?

[gentle stratus]

ig i dont need it

[teal viper]

What components does it have?

[teal viper]

That's gonna be problematic then.

[gentle stratus]

it just has a mesh collider but idt i use it

[teal viper]

Then it sounds like a redundant object.

[nimble apex]

yeah that means i must go thru all the contents in the game, even if i gonna have editor scripts doing it, if i forgot some place it will be disasterous

[teal viper]

Btw, you said optimization, but that wouldn't really have any expected impact on performance.

[gentle stratus]

ok removed it but issue persists

[nimble apex]

oh ok lol i just gonna go to next stuff

no worries

[teal viper]

Well, to investigate the performance drop, you'll need to use the profiler. As for the "catching up" issue, I'm not sure I understand it correctly.

[gentle stratus]

basically i use two spheres, one to detect the player to chase after them and another to make sure they can attack within a certain radius

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming you did not modify those three values for all 1000 items so just having an array initialized default to [60, 60, 60] should suffice.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/arrays

[gentle stratus]

but when i move the spheres into the zombie parent somehow it like detects the player from way farther than it should

[ivory bobcat]

Where you'd modify the few specific items that you did change

[gentle stratus]

in the prefab editor

[teal viper]

What exactly are these spheres? Are they just visuals?

[gentle stratus]

yeah theyre invisible spheres

[teal viper]

What? If they're invisible then what's the point? Are they not visuals?

[gentle stratus]

no theyre only there for collider logic

[teal viper]

Ok.

1. It might be better to use OverlapSphere instead of colliders.
2. Let me guess - your zombie object is scaled?

[gentle stratus]

howd you know

[teal viper]

Because that would explain the issue. Parent scale applies to children. If you pause the game and look at the spheres when they're parented, you'll probably see that their gizmos are scaled as well.

[gentle stratus]

oh

well even then the attackspheres are really small so the player shouldnt be in them when the enemies start off pretty far away

[teal viper]

Typically, you shouldn't scale objects. If you really need to, only scale the visuals, so that they don't affect the game logic.

Have your game logic separate from visuals.

[teal viper]

Then it might be some other issue as well.

What's the scale of the zombie object?

[gentle stratus]

scaled 2x

attacksphere should only have radius of 5 and theyre placed like 50 units away typically

what i really dont understand is why the game suddenly lags so much

[teal viper]

How do you know that the spheres detect the player when 50 units away?

[teal viper]

For that you'd need to profile it

[gentle stratus]

bc my hp goes down

also have a debug log that triggers when player enters it

[teal viper]

That's not very reliable. Where in the code do you detect it?

[teal viper]

Share the code

[gentle stratus]

public class AttackDetection : MonoBehaviour {
    public EnemyStats enemyStats;
    public PlayerStats playerStats;
    public GameObject sphere;
    public static bool canHit = true;
    public Animate animate;

    private void Start() {
        animate = transform.GetComponentInChildren<Animate>();
        float scale = enemyStats.stats[StatNames.AttackRadius];
        sphere.transform.localScale = new Vector3(scale, scale, scale);
    }
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
        canHit = true;
    }

    private void OnTriggerStay(Collider c) {
        if (c.name == "First Person Player" && canHit) {
            animate.Attack();
            StartCoroutine(Waiter());
        }
    }
    private IEnumerator Waiter() {
        canHit = false;
        playerStats.Damage(enemyStats.stats[StatNames.Attack] - playerStats.stats[StatNames.Defense]);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(enemyStats.stats[StatNames.AttackInterval]);
        canHit = true;
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider c) {
        if (!animate.GetComponent<Animator>().GetBool("isDying")) animate.Reset();
        canHit = false; 
    }
}

code for attack sphere

public class EnemySystem : MonoBehaviour {
    public CharacterController controller;
    bool lookat = false;
    public GameObject player;
    public EnemyStats enemyStats;
    public EnemyStats thisStats;
    public PlayerDetection playerDetection;
    public Animate animate;
    public float hp;
    public bool dying = false;
    
    private void Start() {
        playerDetection = transform.GetComponentInChildren<PlayerDetection>();
        animate = transform.GetComponent<Animate>();
        hp = enemyStats.stats[StatNames.MaxHealth];
        thisStats = enemyStats;
    }

    void Update() {
        if (hp <= 0 && !dying) {
            dying = true;
            animate.Die();
        }
        lookat = playerDetection.found;
        if (lookat) {
            Vector3 newtarget = player.transform.position;
            newtarget.y = transform.position.y;
            transform.LookAt(newtarget);
            animate.Chase();

            Debug.Log(enemyStats.stats[StatNames.Speed] + " " + transform.forward);

            controller.SimpleMove(enemyStats.stats[StatNames.Speed] * transform.forward);
        }
        else if (!animate.anim.GetBool("isDying")) {
            animate.Reset();
        }
    }```
uses playerDetection which is the script for view sphere

[teal viper]

I don't see any debug logs

Related to player detection

[gentle stratus]

its not exactly related but it only logs if player is in the viewsphere (playerDetection.found returns true)

[teal viper]

Where is playerDetection.found set to true?

Share the code

[gentle stratus]

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

public class PlayerDetection : MonoBehaviour {
    public EnemyStats enemyStats;
    public GameObject sphere;
    public bool found = false;
    private void Start() {
        float scale = enemyStats.stats[StatNames.SightRadius];
        sphere.transform.localScale = new Vector3(scale, scale, scale);
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider c) {
        if (c.CompareTag("Player")) {
            found = true;
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider c) { found = false; }
}

[teal viper]

Debug the colliding object name.

Also add a Debug.Break and inspect the scene when it pauses.

[ivory bobcat]

Unless it cannot be triggered by anything other than player, you ought to only set found to false if the collider that triggered the exit callback method was tagged "Player".

And if you've got multiple players, you'll need to check if every player has left - you'd have a list of players and register/unregister them on the trigger events

[frail whale]

there's a super obvious reason as to why this cube I've named Ground isn't showing up in game view right...?

[teal viper]

Is the layer included in the camera culling mask?

Also, are you sure it's the correct camera? You seem to have 2

Try disabling the UI camera

[frail whale]

layer is included, i tried setting the cube to default layer and camera to everything as well

and strangely disabling the UI camera fixes it, not sure why that would be

[teal viper]

Your ui camera is marked as main, so it's rendered instead of the actual Main Camera

Wait, none of your cameras are marked as main, so it selects one randomly

[frail whale]

i just noticed that myself

set the tag for the mainCam to MainCamera and still same issue

[teal viper]

Why would need 2 cameras anyway?

You shouldn't need a separate camera for ui

[frail whale]

honestly it's how I had it setup on a different project from following some guides, never had any issue like this crop up

[teal viper]

Are you testing in edit mode?

[teal viper]

You'd typically use a screen space canvas for ui, not a camera.

[ruby python]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[ruby python]

Mornin' all,

I'm working on a top down controller (similar to Vampire Survivors), but I'm having a weird issue that I can't seem to figure out. Video attached for refrence.

Basically I'm not entirely sure why (probably a logic error) but I can't seem to get the up/down movement to work. I think I know where the error is, but I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

https://streamable.com/i7rssa

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

Everything works fine, up until this section

if (mainCamera != null)
{
    cameraForward = Vector3.Scale(mainCamera.transform.up, new Vector3(1, 0, 1).normalized);
    move = moveY * cameraForward + moveX * mainCamera.transform.right;
}
else
{
    move = moveY * Vector3.forward + moveX * Vector3.right;
}

Debug.Log("Move X = " + move.x);
Debug.Log("Move Y = " + move.y);

I'm 99% sure that I'm doing something wrong in the logic relating to the assigning of 'cameraForward'

Would anyone have any ideas please? 😕

[frail whale]

sorry im not familiar with edit mode. if I wanted say, text to appear above an npc's head, when the player walked near it; would world space not be the correct route for that canvas?

[willow scroll]

Hold on, so what's the issue? Your character is supposed to move up n down, but it doesn't? Haven't had a look on the code yet.

[teal viper]

World space canvas, yes. You don't need a second camera for it though.

[ruby python]

Yeah, that's exactly it. The left/right works perfectly.

[frail whale]

i suppose youre right, figured the reasoning for a second camera was to make it easy to hide all UI elements through disabling of a UI camera instead of going one by one turning them all off

[ruby python]

Like I mentioned I'm positive it's something to do with how I'm assigning the value to cameraForward as everything works fine up until that point

[teal viper]

You'll have some kind of a UI manager for that.

[willow scroll]

You multiple the camera's up axis by 0, which results cameraForward.y being 0 too.

cameraForward = Vector3.Scale(mainCamera.transform.up, new Vector3(1, 0, 1).normalized);

(0, 1, 0) * (1, 0, 1) -> (0, 0, 0)

[ruby python]

Oh god dammit. lol. Yeah, that makes sense as the camera is pointing down it's relative forward/back would be the Y axis

[willow scroll]

I don't see why you have to multiply the vectors

Also I haven't heard about this method before and don't see why Unity wouldn't impelement it as Vector3's operator

[ruby python]

It's part of making it so that the correct animation plays based on the rotation of the player (character always moves up/down/left/right in world space and not in the direction of travel, so setting the animation 'state' direction makes it go all screwy when rotating in a different direction of travel, if that makes any sense. lol. I'm following a video on doing it, but making a couple of changes to fit my game and preferred way of moving the character.

[topaz mortar]

     {
        public Character()
        {
            Level = 1;
            Experience = 0;
            ExperienceToNextLevel = ServerVariables.CalcExperienceToNextLevel(this);
            CurrentHealth = 100;```
What happens when I pass my object to another function while it's still in it's constructor? Does that work?

[frail whale]

not to backtrack on bad habits but i did figure out why the UI cam was essentially overriding the Main Camera, forgot to set Clear Flags to depth only on the 2nd Cam

[willow scroll]

Just multiply the camera's up by your current move direction

Although I don't even see why it should depend on camera

Do you want to move your character in the direction the camera is facing?

I can just see it moving in a specific direction, as the camera's angle isn't changed at all

[gentle stratus]

as i expected the viewsphere should not intersect with the player

[ruby python]

Actually yeah, thinking about it, it does seem like an unnecessary step. I could just move the character in World Space (Vector3.forward/vector3.right yes?)

[willow scroll]

Yes, that's so. Make you know that right is (1, 0, 0) and forward is (0, 0, 1)

[gentle stratus]

can someone help me with this

oh nvm dlich is back

[teal viper]

0.5 * 35 = 17.5 radius. More than enough to collide with the player.

I don't even see the gizmos of the collider

[gentle stratus]

but the player is like 30-50 units away

[teal viper]

Ah, okay, I see it now.

[teal viper]

So do the other things I suggested

[willow scroll]

Your CalcExperienceToNextLevel is simply going to use the Character without ExperienceToNextLevel and CurrentHealth assigned in the constructor

[topaz mortar]

perfect

wouldn't want any weird NullReferenceErrors

[gentle stratus]

remind me what those things are again

[willow scroll]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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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.

[gentle stratus]

i debug.logged and debug.breaked it

[teal viper]

Share the updated code with the logs

[gentle stratus]

public class PlayerDetection : MonoBehaviour {
    public EnemyStats enemyStats;
    public GameObject sphere;
    public bool found = false;
    private void Start() {
        float scale = enemyStats.stats[StatNames.SightRadius];
        sphere.transform.localScale = new Vector3(scale, scale, scale);
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider c) {
        Debug.Log(c.name);
        if (c.CompareTag("Player")) {
            found = true;
            Debug.Break();
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider c) {
        if (c.CompareTag("Player")) {
            found = false;
        }
    }
}

[willow scroll]

This short example gives the following output:

Foo constructor started
Bar constructor - foo: field1: 0; field2: ; field3:
Bar method - foo: field1: 0; field2: ; field3:
Bar method - foo: field1: 0; field2: 123; field3:
Foo constructor finished - foo: field1: 0; field2: 123; field3: 1; 10; 100; 123

[topaz mortar]

public async Task<Character> CalculateCharacterStats(Character character)
Is this silly? I can just update the character in the parameter instead of having to return it right?

[willow scroll]

Right, the Character is a class, reference type, so there is a need to neither return its updated version nor using a ref keyword

So yes, simply change the parameter

[topaz mortar]

should I still use Task? or does it make more sense to use a void?

it's not async either

[willow scroll]

Well, yeah, I don't see why you would use Task here?

[teal viper]

So it seems to be colliding with First Person Player. Is that your player? Take a screenshot of it's hierarchy and inspector.

[gentle stratus]

yeah

[topaz mortar]

still a bit confused as to when I should use Task vs void
I read up on it a bit, but it's not very clear

as far as I remember it doesn't really matter that much

[teal viper]

If you need to return something, use a task. Otherwise use a void. The only exception is if you want to have a handle to the async function.

[willow scroll]

Use tasks if you have any I/O-bound needs (such as requesting data from a network, accessing a database, or reading and writing to a file system)
If it's not the case, there is no need in using it

CalculateCharacterStats, probably, doesn't do it

[teal viper]

Do you have any colliders parented to it?

[gentle stratus]

collider is the viewsphere for player

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of it

[teal viper]

It could be colliding with this collider

[gentle stratus]

but the collider tag isnt player

[teal viper]

It's a composite collider, since it has an rb as a parent.

So it's probably using the tag of the rb object.

Assign a kinematic rb to it and see if it changes anything.

[gentle stratus]

basically same thing happened

[slate haven]

in my game I just implemented Object Pooling. So when Player Picks up coin, its meant to deactivate the coin. But I get this following error when i pick it:

Your script should either check if it is null or you should not destroy the object.
ObjectPooler.SpawnFromPool (System.String tag, UnityEngine.Vector2 position) (at Assets/Scripts/ObjectPooler.cs:56)
CoinSpawner+<SpawnCoins>d__13.MoveNext () (at Assets/Scripts/CoinSpawner.cs:55)
UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine.InvokeMoveNext (System.Collections.IEnumerator enumerator, System.IntPtr returnValueAddress) (at <b1fe495152fd4f0180f79e56e3bccacc>:0)

    {
        if (!poolDictionary.ContainsKey(tag))
       {
           return null;
        }

        
        GameObject objectToSpawn = poolDictionary[tag].Dequeue();
        objectToSpawn.transform.position = position;
        objectToSpawn.transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
        objectToSpawn.SetActive(true);

        poolDictionary[tag].Enqueue(objectToSpawn);
        
       return objectToSpawn;

    }

    public void DeactivateGameObject(string tag)
    {
        if (poolDictionary.ContainsKey(tag))
        {
            GameObject objectToRemove = poolDictionary[tag].Dequeue();
            objectToRemove.SetActive(false);

            poolDictionary[tag].Enqueue(objectToRemove);

        }


    }```

[teal viper]

Okay. Going back to this screenshot, what is the view sphere parented to? To the zombie?

[gentle stratus]

yeah

[teal viper]

And it had what scale?

[gentle stratus]

35

[teal viper]

So both the sphere and the zombie have 35 scale??

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you probably destroyed one of the pooled objects

[gentle stratus]

zombie only has 2 scale

[gaunt ice]

that means you destroy the gameobject somewhere and your pool implementation doesnt tell anything

[teal viper]

Ok, then 2 * 35 * 0.5 is definitely big enough to include your player

I said that before, but you should avoid scaling objects involved with game logic

[gentle stratus]

then how do i modify the view distance of enemies

[teal viper]

Modify the collider radius instead. Using scaling for that is a terrible idea

And the zombie also shouldn't be scaled

[ruby python]

Ooookay, this is annoying me. lol.

Here's my updated code, player now moves properly.....ish.

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

And a video for reference.

https://streamable.com/82r9mg

If you look at the debug on the localMove variable, x works fine (and drives animation properly), but the Y is just the raw movement input value and I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. 😕

[white iron]

I have a problem with the fact that my visual studio code has stopped highlighting words

[willow scroll]

Stopped? Are you sure you have your !ide configured?

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[willow scroll]

What's the player's rotation?

[white iron]

Does not help

[willow scroll]

Are you sure you have read my 2nd question?

[ruby python]

https://streamable.com/5d6y7h

I've debugged the rotation so you can see what's going on. 😕

[willow scroll]

Your localMove is based on the player's rotation, so it's x and z axes aren't going to be 1 & 1 if your player's y position changes.

If you debug moveDir, you'll see that it's raw

[ruby python]

Oh balls, I think I just spotted the mistake and it's idiotic. lol. moveDir is a Vector2, but should be a Vector3 (and I think would make things a lot easier.

[gentle stratus]

ok im modifying scaling and fsr thats fixing the fps significantly but the attack sphere is still screwing up as shown here

clearly the player is not in this area

https://gdl.space/oquduwabaz.cpp

[willow scroll]

Consider using a site for huge code blocks, please

[willow scroll]

I don't think it will change a lot

[ruby python]

Yeah maybe not, but tbh, it'll make it easier to 'read' without having to translate y/z all the time. lol.

[ruby python]

LMAO. Okay well, funny story. Changing it to a Vector3 completely fixed the issue. lol.

[willow scroll]

Alright, so are you getting the raw values now?

[patent compass]

public void Method1()
{
    Debug.Log("Method1 before test");

    TestMethod();

    Debug.Log("Method1 after test");
}

void TestMethod()
{
    Debug.Log("TestMethod");
}```

Hello method1 before test
Method1 after test are printing but test method is not printing even If I am calling the function. Anyone know why?

[willow scroll]

And I hope you have also fixed these lines. Assigning moveDir is better.

moveDir = move;
playerVelocity = new Vector3(moveDir.x * moveSpeed, 0f, moveDir.y * moveSpeed);

[ruby python]

https://streamable.com/aqktln

[frigid sequoia]

What the best way to check if a spawn position is "valid"? this is that it is a patch of ground that is a plausible point for spawn but that is also not near enough to some randomly generated points that would negate that area as "valid" (such as being to close to the player or another thing generated

[ruby python]

Yeah, now it's working, I'm going to go through and clean up some stuff.

[frigid sequoia]

Like should I create colliders for valid points of spawn and invalid ones and check with some raycast or something around those lines?

[willow scroll]

Alright, yeah, forget what I have told you before about the axes depending on the rotation. I have confused it with both keys being pressed simultaneously.

In your code, you don't get 1 on both x and z when moving them together

[patent compass]

Anyone?

[ruby python]

No worries, seriously thank you for your help, very much appreciated 🙂

And yeah, I noticed only getting 0.71 when going diagonal, don't really understand that if honest. lol.

[willow scroll]

This is impossible. And use 3 ` to format your multiline code

[patent compass]

Ik. But it's not printing for some reason.

[frigid sequoia]

Seems like a syntax or compile error somewhere

Recheck that

[patent compass]

@maiden grail @modest latch check this

[willow scroll]

The diagonal vector is split when 2 vectors are applied in different directions. If you, for some reason, want it to always be 1, use Vector3.Normalize

[ruby python]

Gotcha, thank you 🙂

[willow scroll]

I wonder whether you should ping people this way to check out your issue, unless you know them

[patent compass]

It's okay. They are my friends and the ones who shared the problem.

[willow scroll]

Check whether you have any syntax errors or you haven't updated the code

You might be not running the last version of your code, which makes your method not be called

[slate haven]

i have already replaced the code where it was destroying the objects with calling the deactivate function

[ruby python]

Sorry for the potentially idiotic question, but with the Vector3.Normalize, where and what would I do that to? (sorry, brain is a bit fried atm. lol.)

[teal viper]

Debug the colliding object name.

[gentle stratus]

its FirstPersonPlayer (Controller or whatever it was im away from my comp for a bit)

it happens immediately when i enter the enemy’s viewsphere

oops capsulecollider

[willow scroll]

Vector3.Normalize returns a Vector3 with the same direction, but a magnitude of 1.

Say, you have 2 Vectors: (5, 10, 2.5) and (50, 100, 25).
You may see that the Vectors have the same directions, but the 2nd one is simply 10 times larger than the 1st one. Applying this Vectors to you player's movement will result in a 10 times larger distance / force in the 2nd case.

Vector3.Normalize will modify these both Vectors and return at least a single axis, which equals to 1. Other axes will be less.
In this case, it will return (0.5, 1, 0.25) for both Vectors.

If you want to implement this kind of logic yourself, you'll have to take the largest axis of the Vector and make it 1, 100%. The other 2 axes should be calculated based on it.

100 - 1 (100%)    z = 25 * 1 / 100 = 25 / 100
25  - z           z = .25

100 - 1 (100%)    x = 50 * 1 / 100 = 50 / 100
50  - x           x = .5

Where 100 is the y axis

[teal viper]

So it's correct..?

[gentle stratus]

no because the attacksphere is 4 while the viewsphere is 20

[teal viper]

Is it parented to the enemy with the rb?

And what's the scale of the object?

[gentle stratus]

scale is 1

and yeah its parent has an rb

[wintry quarry]

You might have missed a spot.

Or you might be reloading the scene

[eternal needle]

#archived-networking and there are tutorials out there on this exact thing. multiplayer really isnt for beginners

[gentle stratus]

so i have an enemy prefab that uses a rigidbody, and its children include a large sphere collider that serves as a player detector sphere and a small sphere collider that serves as an attack radius, but because rigidbodies integrate the colliders it attacks at the same radius as the player detector sphere, how do i reorder the hierarchy to fix that

[teal viper]

Add a kinematic rb to the attack collider and see if anything changes.

And share the latest code on the attack sphere

[gentle stratus]

https://gdl.space/abozumequs.cpp

rb didnt fix it

[queen adder]

can someone help so i made a player model and it has like a image on it i made it with blender if i put it in unity the image doesnt show up and if i go to the back of my player model i see white on that image

[languid spire]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[queen adder]

ok

[languid spire]

which object is this script on?

[gentle stratus]

the attacksphere

[languid spire]

ok, show the viewsphere code

[gentle stratus]

https://gdl.space/xuqecixita.cpp

[languid spire]

So you are saying the OnTriggerEnter on the AttackSphere is firing at the same time as the OnTriggerEnter of the ViewSphere ?

[gentle stratus]

yeah

[languid spire]

then just test for other.gameObject

[gentle stratus]

didnt work

bc the rigidbody combines the attacksphere and viewsphere into one so attacksphere has the same radius as viewsphere

i think thats how it works at least

[languid spire]

but the colliders are on different game objects so other.gameObject should return differently

[gentle stratus]

both children of one rigidbody object though

[languid spire]

does not matter other.gameObject is the game object of the collider

[gentle stratus]

evidently the fix doesnt work though
https://gdl.space/ecozayawoh.cpp

[languid spire]

it would if you did it right

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
        Debug.Log(other.gameObject);
        if(other.gameObject==gameObject) canHit = true;
    }

[gentle stratus]

now they never attack

because they keep comparing themselves to the player

[languid spire]

Sorry, you are right, ignore what I said. Could do it for 2D but not for 3D

@gentle stratus which object is your rigidbody on?

[gentle stratus]

the parent, enemy

[languid spire]

ok try this
Enemy
-- Empty with RB
--- The rest of the objects
-- ViewSphere with kinematic RB
-- AttackSphere with kinematic RB

if your Player has a RB then you dont need the kinematic RB's on the Sphereobjects

[swift vessel]

Hello friends, I am making a 2D Platformer game, but when my character jumps to the corner of the platform above him, I wanted him to continue jumping by sliding from the corner. how do i do this (so corner correction)

[teal viper]

You should debug the colliding object in on trigger enter. Also make the debug meaningful so that you can tell that the log is from this script and not from the view sphere or any other script.

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
        Debug.Log("object entered attack radius: " + other.gameObject.name);
canHit = true;
}

[dusty salmon]

hello! I'm making a endless jumping game with mouse tracking shooting and wanted to add parallax to the bg. I got it to work with perspective camera and layering but now the mouse tracking is working but its really bad and barely is working. It's specifically because of the perspective background because when I switch it back to orthographic it immediately goes back to normal. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[rare basin]

maybe share the code so we can actually see it

how can we tell whats wrong ;p

[dusty salmon]

Oh sorry! I forgot to paste it.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Shooting : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Camera mainCam;
    private Vector3 mousePos;
    public GameObject bullet;
    public Transform bulletTransform;
    public bool canFire;
    private float timer;
    public float timeBetweenFiring;
    AudioSource shootSound;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        shootSound = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
        mainCam = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("MainCamera").GetComponent<Camera>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        mousePos = mainCam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);

        Vector3 rotation = mousePos - transform.position;

        float rotZ = Mathf.Atan2(rotation.y, rotation.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;

        if (GlobalVariables.isFlipped)
        {
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, rotZ + 180);
        }
        else
        {
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, rotZ);
        }
        if (!canFire)
        {
            timer += Time.deltaTime;
            if (timer > timeBetweenFiring)
            {
                canFire = true;
                timer = 0;
            }
        }

        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0) && canFire)
        {
            canFire = false;
            Instantiate(bullet, bulletTransform.position, Quaternion.identity);
            shootSound.Play();
        }
    }
}

is this ok?

[rare basin]

mainCam = Camera.main btw

[dusty salmon]

Sorry, im extremely new to unity and scripting, for the line that has FindGameObjectWithTag?

[harsh shale]

u can use mainCam.ScreenPointToRay instead.it give a ray direction that your bullet should heading

and you can get the final rotation by Quaternion.LookRotation(ray.direction, Vector3.up)

[willow scroll]

Yes, this is a better way to access the camera.

[willow scroll]

I don't think it's better than with tan^(-1)

[willow scroll]

You have mentioned the mouse tracking is working really badly. The code shouldn't cause you this kind of problems, as the angle is assigned correctly

[brazen canyon]

Excuse me
Can I get a little help ?
Can anyone explain this to me ?

bool isOffset = (x % 2 == 0 && y % 2 != 0) || (x % 2 != 0 && y % 2 == 0);

[willow scroll]

Could you say how exactly is it not working properly?

@brazen canyon consider asking the full question in a single message, please

[willow scroll]

What exactly do you want to be explained?

x % 2 gives you either 0 or 1 if the x is odd or event respectively

0, 2, 4, 5, 6 -> 0
1, 3, 5, 7, 9 -> 1

[brazen canyon]

I have never seen this kind of bool assignment before
When is the bool gonna be true, and when false ?

[dusty salmon]

If its ok I send a video, I'm not sure how to verbally explain it

[willow scroll]

This boolean is going to be true if

• x is odd and y is even, or
• x is even and x is odd

[brazen canyon]

Okay ...

[willow scroll]

And false if both of them are odd or even

[willow scroll]

Of course, this can be simplified to

bool isOffset = x % 2 != y % 2;

[brazen canyon]

What ??
At first look at this I couldn't understand

[willow scroll]

Read my previous messages. It returns false if both of them are odd or even

So if x % 2 == y % 2, it returns false

So, basically, x is odd & y is odd / x is even & y is even -> false

Otherwise return true

[willow scroll]

I haven't worked with the projections yet. It will take a while for me to check this out

[dusty salmon]

The shooting is attached to wherever the arm is aiming so the projectiles arent that important (i think) its just that the arm cant track the mouse, I guessed it was because it was tracking way out where the perspective lines were rather than just in the view but I really dont know much..

[civic cradle]

I have a pretty basic problem:
My VS doesn't find UnityEngine.InputSystem. I tried several things already, including creating new .csproj-files.
I switched the Input system from "old" to "new" in the project settings as well
Restarted unity obviously.

any other ideas?

Visual Studio Code Editor (package) is in version 1.2.5

[willow scroll]

UnityEngine.InputSystem namespace cannot be used without Input System package installed

[civic cradle]

well, that makes sense. thought it would be there right from the start. How can I install it then? Not connected to git, nor sure where on the disk it is
There is pretty sure an easier way to install it, right?

nvm - I'm dumb

Unity Registry ofc

[willow scroll]

New Input System is not included from the start. Go to Windows -> Package Manager and search for Input System

[willow scroll]

Alright, I have found it.
The issue is in the method, which converts the mouse position to the world space, Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint(Vector3 position).

When the camera's projection is orthographic, you can simply pass the Input.mousePosition as the parameter.

When the camera's projection is perspective, the z axis of the position parameter is required, and passing the wrong value, 0 in your case, will result in the wrong rotation being calculated when there is some distance between the player and the camera.

The z axis, in the case with perspective camera, should correspond to the distance between the player and the camera. So simply calculating their position difference and making it Input.mousePosition's z axis, rotates the perspective camera correctly, regardless of the player's distance to the camera.

// where transform is the player's
transform.position.z - _mainCamera.transform.position.z

So the full world mouse position can be gotten this way:

Vector2 worldMousePos = _mainCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(
    new(screenMousePos.x, screenMousePos.y, 
    transform.position.z - _mainCamera.transform.position.z));

The orthographic camera's ScreenToWorldPoint method is not affected by the z axis at all, so calculating it, even with the changed z position, will result in no behavior change at all. The performance is just going to decrease unnoticeably.

The script I used for the reference, in case you need it.

Also make sure you use the feature I've used in the script, check if the current mouse position doesn't equal to the old one.

if (mousePos != _prevMousePos)

In case you wonder whether the rotation is going to mess up, if the distance between the player and the camera is changed, and no rotation is updated, because of the Input.mousePosition not being changed: it doesn't matter, as no rotation will be changed until the new Input.mousePosition is set, so changing the distance will just keep the rotation the same

[dusty salmon]

Thank you so so much for this! I am struggling a lot editing my code with all this because I dont know anything about scripting (this is a assignment for a class) but I will try my best with putting this in!

[willow scroll]

Simply assigning the z axis, as I have mentioned in my previous resposnse, fixes it.

Implementing the code I have written isn't necessary, but it would make your code much more readable

[desert ferry]

Hi, I have problem with saving and loading data on android device. On windows everything works fine and it is saving and loading, but on android it's not. I added permissions requests in android manifest xml file, but it's still not working :/ Am I doing something wrong or maybe do I have to configure something more in Unity?]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.unity3d.player"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <application>
        <activity android:name="com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity"
                  android:theme="@style/UnityThemeSelector">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
            <meta-data android:name="unityplayer.UnityActivity" android:value="true" />
        </activity>
    </application>
</manifest>

[dusty salmon]

it worked thank you so much!

[willow scroll]

It was a pleasure to help, I have learned something new

[dusty salmon]

me too 🥲 youre a life saver,

[topaz eagle]

What does it mean when the console says the object is active in the hierarchy but it isn't active in the hierarchy?

[deft grail]

what are you logging

[willow scroll]

This means, you're using GameObject.activeSelf instead of GameObject.achiveInHierarchy

[languid spire]

an object can be activeself but not active in hierarchy because a parent is inactive

[willow scroll]

Check [this](#💻┃code-beginner message) out

[ivory bobcat]

Consider showing your code

There's a possibility you're simply referencing the wrong object (a prefab instead of the scene object)

[karmic kindle]

This isn't drawing the line between the child objects and I'm not sure where to debug why? public void Highlight() { for (int i = 0; i < PathPoints1.transform.childCount; i++) { if (i == PathPoints1.transform.childCount - 1) { lineRenderer.enabled = false; return; } else { int j = i + 1; lineRenderer.enabled = true; lineRenderer.SetPosition(0, pathPoints1[i].position); lineRenderer.SetPosition(1, pathPoints1[j].position); Debug.Log("I should be highlighting " + i + " & " + j + " ."); } } }

[ivory bobcat]

Log the path point object, child count and position count

[karmic kindle]

Like this? Position count is always 2 Debug.Log("I should be highlighting pathpoint > " + pathPoints1[i] + " & pathpoint >" + pathPoints1[j] + " & PosCount is " + lineRenderer.positionCount);

[wintry quarry]

What is it doing instead?

Is the line renderer on local space mode or world space mode?

[karmic kindle]

World space and I can't see it doing anything. Ive tried changing the material, setting a color and increasing the size but I don't see anything other than the debuglog

[wintry quarry]

Isn't your code just always going to disable the renderer?

Due to the if statement in the for loop

You're disabling the renderer every time 🤔🤔🤔

This will also show in the inspector that the renderer is disabled

[karmic kindle]

I disabled that line for testing and it hasn't changed anything

[wintry quarry]

Did you look at the inspector?

Is the renderer enabled

[karmic kindle]

I can see the object on the final part of the loop on the map

[wintry quarry]

Ok but did you look at the inspector for the line renderer at runtime?

[slate haven]

I am facing this null error when I pickup coin, I have removed all the code where it destroyed the gameobject but still the same problem. Whats crazy is that the OnTrigger function is working when its script is deactivated. Look below

CoinMove.OnTriggerEnter2D (UnityEngine.Collider2D collision) (at Assets/Scripts/CoinMove.cs:34)```


Code:

``` private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if(collision.gameObject.tag == "Player")
        {

            //Destroy(gameObject);
            if(gameObject != null)
            {
                op.DeactivateGameObject(gameObject.tag);
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("NULL COIN", this);
            }
            
        }
    }```

[languid spire]

and which is line 34? op. ?

[karmic kindle]

Yeah, I don't see anything change. With the code commented out, the line still shows at the end

[slate haven]

yes

op

[languid spire]

then op is null

[slate haven]

okay got it, fixed

[wintry quarry]

I thought the line wasn't showing

I'm confused

[karmic kindle]

Apologies, when I commented out the line to make hiding it; false - now all i see is the line between the final loop.

[wintry quarry]

I don't understand what you mean by "now all I see is the line between the final loop"

[slate haven]

Now I have changed the instantiation method to Object Pooling. But now my objects get deactivated with a delay if you can see. The colliders are working but the its working weird. Also If I hit a car of a specific type, all the types of that car will get deactivated. And last but not the least, Im facing fps drops, Please help urgently

[karmic kindle]

The loop is running through a "path" and I'm trying to draw a line between each point so I can show the player which direction everything is going to move in. The loop shows me it's going through all the points in the path, but I don't see anything moving. Once I commented out "linerenderer.enabled = false", I can now see that the linerenderer is only showing on the final calculation.

[wintry quarry]

The loop happens instantly

When are you expecting to see any intermediate part?

The game is not going to render until after the entire loop is finished running, at the end of the frame

Maybe you meant to make this a coroutine?

With a delay between each iteration?

[karmic kindle]

That is exactly what I'm trying to do, then! Thanks very much

[rancid tinsel]

I'm running into a bit of a logic issue that I'm not sure how to fix - I want the spikes in my game to move progressively faster over time, but I'd like the distance between the spikes to remain the same, in other words as the spikes get faster, I want them to also spawn faster to account for the faster speed (otherwise you end up with larger and larger gaps), any idea how I could calculate this? Spike spawner: https://gdl.space/ekufukifaq.cs LevelManager (handles the speed scaling): https://gdl.space/oqorelawaw.cs

[atomic yew]

Hello, how can I access the ItemImage in this hierarchy and change its image?

The method I use seems ridiculous. I want to do this with the GetComponentsInChildren method.

This is my method : bilgiPanel.transform.GetChild(0).GetChild(1).GetChild(1).GetChild(0).GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent<Image>().sprite = bilgiitem.itemicon;

[rancid tinsel]

Update: tuning my prompt with chatgpt, it actually came up with this solution that fixed the problem:

Now I can alter the "+ 2" bit to adjust the spacing I want and it works perfectly

[rocky canyon]

turn it into a variable and u can dynamic adjust it thru the inspector 😉

[rancid tinsel]

which I am actually very confused about because from what I understand, the Mathf.Max only does anything once the wait value gets too small, aside from that its the same as the original code?

[swift crag]

well, if you had actually written the code instead of having a GPU generate it, maybe you'd know why it works 😉

[atomic yew]

I used to do what you said, but I need to do this in 6-7 scripts, not in one script, so I want to do it with GetComponentsInChildren, but I can't.

[cosmic dagger]

this is much easier if you have a variable on the script and drag the GameObject into the slot to reference the component . . .

[swift crag]

Then drag references in to 6-7 different components.

I do not see the problem.

[rocky canyon]

Mathf.Max is a function used to determine the maximum value among two or more given numbers

[swift crag]

I see no reason for this to behave differently, yes, other than that the delay now can't go below 0.1

[rocky canyon]

float a = 5;
float b = 8;
float c = 3;
float max = Mathf.Max(a, b, c);```
max will be 8 (b)

[cosmic dagger]

and if this is the same for all 6-7 objects, make it a prefab, drag the correct GameObject and use the prefab for those objects . . .

[atomic yew]

ok I will do that. My method is a bit lazy.

[cosmic dagger]

you can check the unity docs for the Mathf.Max method . . .

[rocky canyon]

code is supposed to be lazy.. ur supposed to be programming "lazy" into ur systems 😉

smart lazy tho.. not dumb lazy

[atomic yew]

😄

[rancid tinsel]

i just did and i was correct no?

Mathf.Max wont do anything until the wait time calculation returns a float below 0.1f, in which case it will change wait time to 0.1f

[swift crag]

correct

So you're spawning spikes at fixed locations, and they then move towards the player?

It doesn't look like spikeLeftPos and spikeRightPos are changing

ah, I see it

There is a very important difference between your original code and the new code

rnd + 1 / speed

vs

(rnd + 1) / speed

[rancid tinsel]

omg youre right

[swift crag]

The original code does not divide rnd by speed, so the speed doesn't affect the random part of the delay

[rancid tinsel]

basic maths 😭

i see now, that makes a lot more sense

i cant believe i made that mistake tbh lol

[rocky canyon]

order of operations

[rancid tinsel]

yup

[rocky canyon]

who knew that'd come in handy

[rancid tinsel]

btw how do you "anchor" sprites/2D objects? so that the layout stays the same on different resolutions

i know how to do it with UI but i have no idea about sprites

[swift crag]

You could use a script to set their positions based on screen size.

[rocky canyon]

shift will set the pivot.. and alt will set the position

[swift crag]

But this would mean that your gameplay changes as you change the screen size.

Not the best option.

[rancid tinsel]

thats only for rect transforms tho no?

[swift crag]

I think you should try to adjust the camera to fit the objects

well, you could add a recttransform to your sprite objects

[rancid tinsel]

oh wait you can?

[swift crag]

it's just a more specific kind of Transform

[rocky canyon]

oh u mean 2d sprites? yea the camera adjustment sounds like it makes the most sense

[swift crag]

but i think you want to change the camera

you would not move objects around in a 3D game based on your screen size

[rancid tinsel]

is there some sort of tutorial for it? im not sure what to search up

[rocky canyon]

sounds like its time to work on a camera system

[swift crag]

Cinemachine lets you target a group of objects and keep them all on screen.

If this is a pixel-art game, you will also want the pixel perfect camera component

[rocky canyon]

cinemachine ftw! ya.. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.3/manual/CinemachineTargetGroup.html

[rancid tinsel]

so would that allow the game to look exactly the same on different mobile devices?

[rocky canyon]

basically tells the camera to keep a, b, c targets in frame

yea, its camera logic.. it'd run the same on any platform

[rancid tinsel]

ive only used cinemachine for following the player before so im confused lol

[swift crag]

you should read the documentation. it can do many things.

[rocky canyon]

can be used for soo many different things

[swift crag]

It would keep the objects on screen. It would not make things look exactly the same, though.

[rocky canyon]

ya, it wouldn't be 1:1 but it wouldn't be unless the screens are the same

BUT it would follow the same rules..

[rancid tinsel]

there is also this tutorial i just found that uses this script, not sure if thats exactly what im looking for tho?

[swift crag]

I presume this calculates a world-space position based on a viewport position

[rocky canyon]

could be..

[rancid tinsel]

ill try both and test them out

[rocky canyon]

prototyping! yes

theres never a 1 size fits all

so yea, trying them out for ur use-case and seeing what works the best is what u should do

[rancid tinsel]

would the cinemachine method work for prefabs?

since you have to reference it

[rocky canyon]

prefab is just a normal gameobject

[rancid tinsel]

oh so if i drag the prefab in, it will still work when its instantiated?

[rocky canyon]

u'd just add the gameobject to the script /component after u instantiate it

[rancid tinsel]

ah after

got it

[rocky canyon]

just as u would if u spawn a bullet and then need to add a force

[rancid tinsel]

i tried cinemachine and its working fine, but it does look different with different resolutions

its not a big difference tho so i might be able to work around it

game works the same and thats the main priority

[willow scroll]

Why don't you have a BulletController for this?

[rocky canyon]

? i was just giving an example.. when I spawn bullets they're self contained.. the code the adds force is on the actual prefab.. just gotta spawn em

[slate haven]

pls do check this

[rocky canyon]

but its a usual occurance, when people spawn a prefab and then need to manipulate it somehow.. just gotta cache a reference first and then do it..
was an example of how u'd deal with adding prefabs to a target group.. you'd spawn ur prefab and then add it to the cinemachine targetgroup

[willow scroll]

Got it

[rocky canyon]

i usually use this anyway

built-in component

[willow scroll]

I haven't known about its existance

[rocky canyon]

yea, i didn't until recently.. theres a couple of different types

[willow scroll]

BulletController might also be inherited from it 😉

[timid hinge]

did someone know why this is locked?

[rocky canyon]

select the gameobject the animation is controlling

[muted cradle]

im losing my mind. Why does my debug.drawline draws from this point and not its transform.position?

[timid hinge]

oh thank you so much for the video

[zenith cypress]

transform.up is a direction, not a position

Looks like you want Debug.DrawRay instead

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

[muted cradle]

yeah i know, i just did it in reverse in hopes to change anything

[muted cradle]

and it works fine with this

thanks and fuck me lol

[vast vessel]

what's causing the infinite loop?

[gaunt ice]

i dont see it causing dead loop

[vast vessel]

unity stops working when it runs

[cosmic dagger]

is this inside of a coroutine?

[vast vessel]

yes.

the break point isnt reached btw

so its something else causing unity to be stuck i suppose

[gaunt ice]

the yield return null will make your coroutine gives up the cpu, i think you need to show your PlayStage() method

[cosmic dagger]

what does the coroutine PlayStage do?

[vast vessel]

this is the last line that runs

[vast vessel]

ill send it in a bit

[cosmic dagger]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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

[vast vessel]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/oquceqabir.csharp

so is my code waiting for PlayStage to finish before running the rest of the code? beacuse there is a loop in there if the stage that its trying to play is a looped stage

[vast vessel]

first case in the switch statement

[gaunt ice]

no, you just fire and forget another instance of ienumerator with startcoroutine

[vast vessel]

okay so why is it that my code stops here?

[keen dew]

PlayStage can get stuck in a loop in two places

if s.transitionMarkers is empty or if trackData.audioSources[stageIndex].isPlaying is false

Not the latter one actually because it increments the index

but transitionMarkers can

[vast vessel]

thanks. fixed it 👍

[scarlet skiff]

how does one use the same gameobject (ui) to display different things based on values the client has, currently whenever a player joins, there is a joint healthbar that recieves the lives that should be for that client that just joined only, but also only the host can see the lives, where do i go from here?

script is a networkBehaviour but the lives ui gameobjetc and its canvas are nto network objects

[rancid tinsel]

how is it possible for the OnTriggerEnter2D to activate twice here?

same thing happens if I do Destroy(circleCollider)

[swift crag]

Destroy runs at the end of the frame.

It's not instant.

disabling the collider will not help; the physics system has already figured out all collision and trigger messages that it needs to send

[rancid tinsel]

but even then, it is OnTriggerEnter2D

[swift crag]

Consider adding a bool field that makes you ignore any additional messages

[rancid tinsel]

and it can only enter once

[swift crag]

Perhaps it's hitting two different colliders on the player

or a collider and a trigger

[rancid tinsel]

the player has a rigidbody2d and a circlecollider2d could that be it?

but then again it only happens sometimes, like every few coins

maybe im spawning 2 at the same time somehow

[swift crag]

no, a rigidbody is not a collider

[wintry quarry]

Why not print the exact collider you're hitting

[rancid tinsel]

yup its that

[swift crag]

you can check for this manually in the scene view, or you could log your instance ID

ah, there you go

[rancid tinsel]

am I wrong for thinking that the if statement can only go through on the last index of the for loop?

[swift crag]

looks valid to me

it also requires rndCoin == 1, of course