💻┃code-beginner

[swift crag]

public int CoolInteger => otherObject.myInteger;

[wind raptor]

ah, sure

I'm not familiar with =>

why not just =?

[swift crag]

this declares a get-only property

[wind raptor]

neat

[swift crag]

public int CoolInteger
{
  get
  {
    return otherObject.myInteger;
  }
}

this is the most verbose way to write that

=> is used in several places to use an expression instead of a whole block statement

public int GiveMeThree() => 3;

for example

public int CoolInteger
{
  get => otherObject.myInteger;
}

another example

[wind raptor]

Huh, cool. Thanks!

[swift crag]

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

if you've never used properties before

[wind raptor]

Briefly

public getters, private setters mostly

[swift crag]

I've done this once when writing "features" for a component that all care about a few values from the component

just to make it less verbose

still kinda iffy on it

[hexed terrace]

I use it all the time

for properties and oneline methods

[rich adder]

😮
cursed? public bool IsSpacebarHeld => Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space);

[swift crag]

very reasonable

[swift crag]

oh, I mean my specific use-case of saving a bit of typing

I use => everywhere

[west sonnet]

I have an object with a collider and OnTriggerEnter2D. it's working all good. But the OnTriggerEnter2D is being called when I enter the trigger of a different object? Anyone ever experienced this?

The triggers overlap eachother but they're on different objects?

[swift crag]

public int TheInt => myObj.itsInt;

vs. just using myObj.itsInt directly

[swift crag]

yes, that's how it works

[west sonnet]

But surely OnTriggerEnter2D should only work for the object that the script is attached to?

[swift crag]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-matrix-2d

[wintry quarry]

it works when the object is attached to is involved in a trigger intersection, yes. With any other object.

[violet glacier]

Sorry for bothering again, but do I put this script inside the main camera?

[swift crag]

I don't know what you mean by this. It fires whenever a trigger collider on the same object as your MonoBehaviour hits another trigger or collider

[swift crag]

It could go anywhere

it would make sense to be on the camera, I guess

[west sonnet]

I have 2 trigger colliders. One Big, and one small. The small one is inside the big one. I have an OnTriggerExit2D on the small collider. If I exit the small collider, it called the OnTriggerExit2D for the small collider, but it also does it for the big collider, despite me still being inside it

[polar acorn]

OnTrigger functions are run on the rigidbody that the colliders are attached to. If a Rigidbody contains multiple colliders, that code will run whenever any of its child colliders has an exit event

[west sonnet]

The 2 trigger colliders are on 2 seperate objects

[polar acorn]

Do they share a parent object

[west sonnet]

Oh yeah

[onyx tusk]

how 2 make some field editable on runtime in editor?

[polar acorn]

public or [SerializeField]

[violet glacier]

Would it make sense to put a full 2d game on a canvas? I've read online that the canvas updates every time one object updates.

[thorn crown]

hello, is this where i could ask for help with code?

[wintry quarry]

Here

[wintry quarry]

No

[thorn crown]

i have this problem where if i have more than one coin in the scene, none of them load except one

[polar acorn]

What do you mean by "load"? Like, you put coins in the scene, start the game, and all but one are destroyed?

[thorn crown]

yeah

[polar acorn]

Show !code

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[thorn crown]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI; // Import Unity's UI library

public class Coin : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int coinValue = 1; // The value of the coin, can be set in the Inspector
    public Text scoreText; // Reference to the UI text element

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            CoinDisplay.Instance.AddCoins(coinValue); // Add the coin value to the coin display
            UpdateScoreText(); // Update the score text
            Destroy(gameObject); // Destroy the coin object
        }
    }

    void UpdateScoreText()
    {
        if (scoreText != null)
        {
            CoinDisplay.Instance.UpdateScoreText(); // Call a method to update the score text
        }
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class CoinDisplay : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static CoinDisplay Instance; // Singleton instance

    public int score = 0; // Current score

    public Text scoreText; // Reference to the UI text element

    void Awake()
    {
        if (Instance == null)
        {
            Instance = this;
            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject); // Don't destroy this object when loading a new scene
        }
        else
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }


    public void AddCoins(int value)
    {
        score += value; // Increase score by the coin value
    }

    public void UpdateScoreText()
    {
        if (scoreText != null)
        {
            scoreText.text = "Coins: " + score.ToString(); // Update the UI text with the current score
        }
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Did you put CoinDisplay on the coin objects

[thorn crown]

yeah

[polar acorn]

So, it's doing exactly what you told it to do

Since CoinDisplay is a singleton, it's destroying every additional copy of it

so there is only ever one

[thorn crown]

oh shii right

so i should attach it to the UI

[polar acorn]

Doesn't really matter where it is as long as there's only ever one of it

[thorn crown]

okay thank you

[brave robin]

If you put the changing objects on their own canvases it's not so bad, assuming you don't have much changing. Like a simple puzzle game. Definitely don't do it if there's a lot moving and changing/

But there's probably other ways to do what you need

[onyx tusk]

ok, how 2 make it with static field?

[brave robin]

Static can't be displayed in the inspector, unfortunately

[onyx tusk]

any crutches?

[brave robin]

A separate var on the class to expose it, which on Awake is made equal to the static.
Then in OnValidate you copy the separate var to the static, so it changes the static if you modify it?
Its hacky, but might work

[onyx tusk]

i just tried public var i => staticvar; & throught get; set;

[polar acorn]

you don't

[willow scroll]

var cannot be serialized

You cannot simply write public var

[onyx tusk]

it's just any type, i have float

[willow scroll]

Alright

[brave robin]

properties won't show up in the inspector either, so this won't get it to show up unfortunately

[willow scroll]

If you wan to serialize a property, you have to make sure it doesn't have a custom getter or setter

[brave robin]

Ah, true, but in this case they'd need one so that it modifies the static

[willow scroll]

// works
[field: SerializeField]
public Something MyProperty { get; set; }

// doesn't work
[SerializeField]
public Something MyProperty { get; set; }

// doesn't work
[field: SerializeField]
public Something MyProperty => _something;

[eager spindle]

today I learned

[onyx tusk]

thx

stop, it doesn't work

[willow scroll]

[SerializeField] private Something _myField;

public static Something myField;

private void OnValidate()
{
    myField = _myField;
}

That's with the static

[polar acorn]

static things don't show up in the inspector no matter what you put before them because they don't belong to an instance. It wouldn't make sense to have them editable through an instance

[willow scroll]

The code I've shown works unless you're trying to use the variable of type Something, which you probably don't have, or making the property static

[onyx tusk]

thx

[willow scroll]

Also first consider whether you do need this static variable

Cause I'm not sure

If you really do need to serialize it this way, why not forget about the static one?

[brave robin]

Sounds like they want a global value for all instances to use?

But still control it in the inspector during play?

[willow scroll]

I don't think there is a need for both static and serialized variables. It should be better to just remove the static one

This way they can simply make all their serialized variables static, which will definitely reduce the readability

[knotty ferry]

any ideas how to make text ui to hide when gameisoverui shows?

[brave robin]

Have whatever turns on your gameisoverui also turn off the object/canvas/etc that contains the UI you don't want

[late burrow]

but to make sure- loading from text wont cause any loss in quality right? i feel like mp3 -> audioclip conversion might generate much more samples that it has when compressed

[onyx tusk]

yes

[rich adder]

the same way you hide any other game objects

you should start getting into a habit into googling things

[tough lagoon]

I don't see your original message, but regardless of what format you import with - Unity will compress and convert it to a format for your target platform based on your settings. So if you override it as uncompressed, and load in mp3s, yes it will make it bigger. If you add raw wav files, but let it compress by default, it will compress them. What you put in, and what format and compression it uses for the platform, is separate.

Unless, of course, you are doing something like live-streaming in the data and bypassing the importer/exporter.

[late burrow]

i dont mean unity compression but just mp3 compression

compared to raw audio

[tough lagoon]

OK, you said mp3 -> audoclip though. That will end with a unity asset conversion.

[summer stump]

It will not generate new samples.

[late burrow]

okay so it just me messing up byte conversion then

[jagged flame]

Hopefully this is the right channel. I'm working off a tutorial template and need to fully rename the project.

Folder is named right, and it generates the .sln file correctly.

The .unityPackage still has the old name. I did change the name in Project Settings > Player but I haven't seen that have any effect yet.

If I change the namespace in Visual Studio, everything breaks so that must not be the right track. But I do need that namespace changed as well.

Where else do I need to change this name?

[rocky canyon]

unitypackage is just a package u import.. the name really doesn't matter

the folder name is teh projects name.. once u open the project u can go into project settings and make sure hte name matches

[jagged flame]

I did change the name on this page, no effect

[rocky canyon]

it doesn't really have an effect until u build the game.. that becomes the exe name

[jagged flame]

Yeah I saw that the build files are updated now, my bad

[brave robin]

Project name can be anything really, I always just give mine generic names like "Turn based RPG" and then I change the product name in settings when I know the final game's name

[jagged flame]

So the Unitypackage file, am I able to just rename that in Windows Explorer without issue?

I already know the name I want 🤷‍♂️ Why are you guys trying to talk me out of this lol

[rocky canyon]

we're not.. ur misundertanding.. the unitypackage is the package u import..

liike a zip file..

its name also doesnt matter..

[slender nymph]

yeah that unitypackage file is not part of your project

[rocky canyon]

its an extra file thrown in there.. like if u didn't want to open abrand new project.. u could import into an existing project

and again its name doens matter because the files inside of it.. are named what they're named and are gonna import the same no matter what u name it

[jagged flame]

So, a yes to this question then?

[rocky canyon]

yes. name it whatever you want.. its been answered

[jagged flame]

No, not directly lol

Thanks

[rocky canyon]

literally means it doesn't matter

name it anything u want

[jagged flame]

That's a direct answer if I fully understand the context of how to work with unity, but I lack that context. That's why I needed a yes or a no. Thank you.

As for the default namespace, what do I need to do to safely change that?

[summer stump]

Change the default namespace!?

[jagged flame]

Where do I change that? I changed the namespace in VS but it broke everything

[summer stump]

First explain what you mean by that. It makes no sense

Maybe I am missing some context
But you cannot change the default namespace

[jagged flame]

Damn I'm feeling a really hostile vibe in here. Why are people getting snarky about beginner questions in #💻┃code-beginner ?

[brave robin]

You can rename a namespace in VS through solution explorer

[rocky canyon]

hte namespace u can rename thru ur editor

[summer stump]

Who is snarky? I don't see any of that

Ah, so not the default namespace. The namespace of the package?

[jagged flame]

Disregard, maybe I misread the tone

The C# namespace

[rocky canyon]

u can rename ur namespace using the rename.. now if ur ide isnt correct configured that may not change it everywher.e.

[brave robin]

Or possible by right clicking on the namespace in your code and choosing rename

[rocky canyon]

and u'll have to manually change it around the project

[brave robin]

Spawn beat me to it

[rocky canyon]

i had to test myself first lol.. wasn't sure VSCode would rename them all..

but it does 👍

[jagged flame]

When I do F2 to change this project-wide, the project stops working. Project Settings doesn't open.

[rich adder]

indeed

[summer stump]

Just to explain my confusion. default namespace is the namespace that is there by default when you don't write any namespace

And you cannot change that

But I see I WAS missing context

[jagged flame]

Ok, I'm going off what VS calls it, the one it will enter into files automatically.

I checked if there was a mismatch in .csproj but no references to the name at all in there

[rocky canyon]

RoqueSharpTutorial is the main namespace..

.Controller means theres a class called Controller within that namespace somewhere.

your renamed would be SomethingElse.Controller

[jagged flame]

Correct

[rocky canyon]

can't remove that .Controller bit unless u rename it as well

[short hazel]

Given that VS is configured and the project is loaded, hitting Ctrl + R twice while the caret is over the namespace name will trigger a project-wide rename operation

[rocky canyon]

try

[jagged flame]

I'm trying to rename the RogueSharpTutorial portion, not the latter part

[rocky canyon]

try what spr2 mentioned.. im working out of VSCode at the moment

[jagged flame]

I did try this earlier, the project stopped working in unity after I tried it

[short hazel]

Stopped working as in, you got errors? Scripts detached from game objects?

[jagged flame]

No, it loads the game but none of the sprites from the look of it

Canvases are intact

No sound to check

Changing that namespace back causes it to work again

So I think there is still a mismatch somewhere

[short hazel]

Unless the sprites are loaded from the code, it's unrelated to the code

[brave robin]

Console might be full of warnings about monobehaviours being missing

[rich adder]

not a limbo master

[jagged flame]

What daily yoga does to a mfer

[rich adder]

that looked painful

[brave robin]

"Look up"
SNAP
"... ow."

[late burrow]

no like logically speaking

57 million long byte array

meaning takes up around 57 megabytes

going below that would reduce audio quality isnt it

how is audio file itself much smaller then

[summer stump]

I have no idea. Where is the 57 mil coming from?

[late burrow]

i debug logged the samples in untiy

57 million bytes, 14 million floats

mp3 is some kind of zip isnt it

[summer stump]

In the broadest sense that they are both formats and deal with compression... i guess so

In any real sense, no, not at all

[late burrow]

that why i was getting huge white noise when going for mp3 itself

because it was compressed and unusable

so i need in fact convert it to raw audio

[summer stump]

Once it is compressed into an mp3, the data is lost (which is why it is called a lossy format)
Converting it to "raw" audio (not really a thing, but I get what you mean) will either do nothing, or make it worse

[late burrow]

i dont mean that

mp3 is 3mb

pcm is 60mb ish

[summer stump]

Yes.....
Not sure what that has to do with what I said.
Compressed files are indeed smaller

[slender nymph]

oh dear god, please don't try and encode a 60 megabyte file to base64 just to download it as a string like i just know you want to

[late burrow]

i will definelly not use base64

just raw byte

dropped from 75mb to like 57

[slender nymph]

again, why do you need to do all of this. you know you can just download the audio file directly from the server, right? you don't need to convert it to a string, send it to the client, then convert it back

and all of this is still illegal no matter how you try and go about it because you do not have the rights to distribute these songs

what you are trying to do is actual piracy

[late burrow]

its not about songs or whatever

[summer stump]

Oh damn. Did not realize the context.
Alright, I'm out

[late burrow]

its just my main possiblity of downloading things

i use strings for everything

[slender nymph]

which is pretty fucking wild considering you don't need to do that at all

[short hazel]

Generally speaking, transmitting stuff over network is done using a stream of bytes. Of course you can interpret these bytes as characters, but why?

[late burrow]

i already succeeded at that

the issue im seeing is i should take dirty work in my hands with changing formats

[slender nymph]

and i can succeed at flinging my shit at unsuspecting zoo goers, that doesn't mean i should or that it is in any way a good idea

you don't need to do all this reencoding just to download files as strings when unity already comes with tools to download files very easily at runtime

[summer stump]

I will just say, again, if it is mp3, do not try converting it to pcm. That makes no sense. It has already been dithered and the data is already lost

[late burrow]

whats the use of mp3 bytes for audioclip creating

they are unusable

need be turned into something else

[short hazel]

If you don't know the format of what you're getting from the server, why not write it to a file and put it through an online recognizer? There are plenty of services which can guess the file type based on their contents

[late burrow]

its my server so i can control format

[summer stump]

That is a separate issue that has nothing to do with them being mp3
(Meant to reply to the "they are unusable" part)

[late burrow]

just everything else than pcm has not worked

wav semi worked but i heard some noise in background already

[rich adder]

did you debug ? if so how

for example would start with
LevelManager.GetInstance().currentLevel putting that into a variable

debug it

[knotty ferry]

i debug it

[rich adder]

never assume your values are what you think they are

[knotty ferry]

it says timer added

but in other scenes like level 1 level 2 the text updates

but in level 3 it doesn't

[rich adder]

so just text doesn't change? but the value adds?

[knotty ferry]

yes

u are correct

[short hazel]

How are you loading the data? Tried with UnityWebRequestMultimedia.GetAudioClip() and passing the expected format? You can even enable streaming if the file is large
See https://forum.unity.com/threads/async-streaming-audio-with-unitywebrequest.487062/ for an example

[rich adder]

be careful with this

timerScript = FindObjectOfType<TimerScript>();

this will find the First one it can,

make sure you dont have 2

[knotty ferry]

2 these?

[late burrow]

audioclip.create and only that

[rich adder]

yes TimerScript

make sure it grabs the correct one

[knotty ferry]

mhm

[rich adder]

since this is going ontimerScript.timer.ToString

[knotty ferry]

but in other scenes it works in the level 3 scene it doesn't 🤔

[rich adder]

thats why i said to check if you dont have an extra TimerScript left over somewhere in scene3?

also debug.log your currentLevel

[knotty ferry]

i only have in level manager and in obstacle but one is marked other is not

[knotty ferry]

i tried debbuging it it says Added 5 seconds for level 3

[rich adder]

what

[rich adder]

where did you put log

alr

can you show me during playmode in level 3 the ObstacleController object

[rich adder]

screenshot of the inspector

also mp4 for embedding video on discord

[knotty ferry]

me bad i thought u asked video

[rich adder]

nah just need to see during playmode which component it has

[rich adder]

Obstacle( Timer Script)

is this correct to you ?

[rich adder]

that doesn't answer the question lol

[rocky canyon]

u know if u disable that script.. it can't re-enable itself..

[rich adder]

Do you want ObstacleController to get TimerScript from Obstacle?

[knotty ferry]

yes

[rocky canyon]

im suprised ur still working on this 😄

[knotty ferry]

Xd

it's new

[rocky canyon]

ahh okay

[rich adder]

that makes no sense. wdym thought you said the one from Level Manager

why would you want Timer from the Obstacle

why is it still there in the first place

You dont need 2 timer scripts..

[knotty ferry]

but one script is for level manager

[rich adder]

You're grabbing the one disabled

what use is that

[knotty ferry]

in level manager GO its enabled

[rich adder]

so what?

[knotty ferry]

so i don't think that would work without it

[rich adder]

what?

whos talking about the Level Manager one

[knotty ferry]

alr i will disable it

[rich adder]

what?

thats not what I said at all

[knotty ferry]

u saying that im grabbing the one that is disabled

[rich adder]

yes.

thats what FindObjectOfType does

it literally finds the object of type

it doesn't care if its disabled or not

it does have a bool you can pass for that to disable

[knotty ferry]

ok

[rich adder]

to recap, You're not grabbing the one that is useful to you LevelManager timer script

you're grabbing the one on obstacle that is disabled, hence why the text isn't changing

because value isn't updating on correct script

You should not even have the one on Obstacle was my point from before

[knotty ferry]

ok

i need to change to grab the one that is enabled

[rich adder]

you could..sure..or just delete the extra copy.

again, why do you need 2 Timer scripts?

[rich adder]

why are you showing me this?

[knotty ferry]

i can delete the other one

[rich adder]

why

if its disabled why is it even there ?

you still have not answered that

[knotty ferry]

i wasn't focused on that problem so i didn't do anything to the script i fixed it

[final totem]

should i use DieID = Animator.StringToHash("die"); then set bool or the .setbool("die") for string lookups?

[slender nymph]

using the hash is more efficient over a long period of time (assuming you store it in a field and don't just hash it each time). if you just need set it once or twice though using the string directly is perfectly fine

[rich adder]

that literally was the root of problem though lol why would you not focus on that

[ember tangle]

do you ever have an epiphany and suddenly realize that you can turn 30 lines of code into 5?

what a great feeling

lol

[timber tide]

then you realized maybe you shouldn't have shaved off that vector normalization

[willow scroll]

And those 5 lines can be turned into 1 with linq, which you won't be able to read when refactoring the code anyway

[polar acorn]

And that one line can become zero when you decide to just lay face down on the floor and dream your game into existence

[jagged flame]

Trying to open a UnityPackage, and the launcher just spins endlessly. How do I troubleshoot this?

God damn it, just click it a bunch of times? Why the hell did that work

[strong wren]

nah when i was a beginner they were all bulying me cause i didnt know how to round with code

[calm dove]

guys which better to detect the attack from an object is it by using polygon collider or a raycast?

[polar acorn]

No you were bullied because we kept sending you the documentation for Mathf.Round and you just wouldn't click on it

[strong wren]

yeah but some people dmed me and told me to give up on coding

[stray jacinth]

namespace Phone
{
    using Player;
    using UnityEngine;

    public class PhoneAnimation : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Transform phone;
        public Transform camera;
        public float rotationSpeed = 5.0f;

        private Quaternion originalRotation;
        private Quaternion targetRotation;
        private bool isRotatingToPhone = false;
        private bool isRotatingBack = false;
        private float transitionProgress = 0.0f;
        private bool toggled = false;

        void Start()
        {
            targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(phone.position - transform.position);
        }

        void Update()
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Q) && !isRotatingToPhone && !isRotatingBack)
            {
                toggle();
            }

            if (isRotatingToPhone)
            {
                camera.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

                if (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, targetRotation) < 0.1f)
                {
                    isRotatingToPhone = false;
                }
            }

            if (isRotatingBack)
            {
                camera.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, originalRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

                if (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, originalRotation) < 0.1f)
                {
                    isRotatingBack = false;
                    phone.gameObject.SetActive(false);
                }
            }
        }

        void toggle()
        {
            if (toggled)
            {
                PlayerController.instance.toggleMovement();
                isRotatingBack = true;
                toggled = false;
            } else {
                PlayerController.instance.toggleMovement();
                phone.gameObject.SetActive(true);
                originalRotation = camera.rotation;
                isRotatingToPhone = true;
                toggled = true;
            }
        }
    }

}```

 Does anyone know why whenever i press Q it just locks forward and doesnt let me unforward

[tired peak]

hello i need help with something, im coding for a school project and decided to make kind of a horror game and im stuck, i want to when my player and my"monster" collides ther pop ups an image, i dont get it to work please:D

[polar acorn]

What part do you not know how to do, the collision or the pop-up

[tired peak]

pop up, collision is showing in the debug

i just need the image to "activate"

[polar acorn]

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

[tired peak]

@polar acornthx ill take a peek

[summer stump]

Report the ones that dm'd you to the mods.
But that is not a reason to say everyone was bullying you. That is an objective lie, and I think it is not ok. The people who were talking to you HERE were not bullying. I was there and remember that

[strong wren]

nah not everyone but i was getting bullied

yeah ofc if they wouldnt bully me here they would get muted but in dms not really

[summer stump]

As I said. Report them. But stop all this here

[strong wren]

YES SIR YES SIR 🫡

[timber tide]

you can mute dms per server too so opt into that setting

[rocky canyon]

i need to do that ^

i get unsolicitd messages all the time..

[tired peak]

ehm im really sorry to bother again but i dont understand anything, lets just say im super mega new to coding but i really enjoy learningXD

[rocky canyon]

"since ur the one that helped me the most... do mind just doing my entire project for me!?

[cosmic dagger]

i did not know that either . . .. . .. . .

[polar acorn]

If you know how to detect the collision, and you have an object you want to enable, you just call SetActive on that object

[timber tide]

https://i.imgur.com/WYAGAZs.png

[faint agate]

I have a sphere gameobject, the X and Z axis are locked, so I can only move the gameobject up and down on the Y. A script is attached to the gameobject that allows me to click and drag it up and down.

The problem is when I hold the gameobject and move far or closer, the gameobject moves a lot faster and not the speed of the player looking up and down. I understand the issue is the X and Z axis being locked is causing this, but I’m having a hard time finding a way to fix it without unlocking them.

the z and x axis constraints are not in code but on the gameobject itself with a component called, " position constraint"

[rocky canyon]

ur the OP

[frail laurel]

how to make with playerwalksound when gameisover the script must disable??

[tired peak]

should i SetActive the name of the image?

[faint agate]

https://gdl.space/obepoxumel.cs

[rocky canyon]

no more annoying red pills popping up everywhere'

[faint agate]

here is the code on the game object

[polar acorn]

You should call SetActive on the object you want to set active

[polar acorn]

Could you consider rephrasing that question in a way that makes sense

[rocky canyon]

how to make it so my player doesn't make walking-around (footstep) sounds after the game has ended

lol.. feels like price is right..

[frail laurel]

yes

[faint agate]

heres a video for better understanding. Im not really holding it but trying to move it on the y axis

[rocky canyon]

you could set teh footstep script to be disabled.. in the gameover script.. (using a reference to the script)

[polar acorn]

So, you have an object that can only move up and down, and you want it to move at the player's aiming speed, but it's moving at a constant rate, no matter the distance. Am I understanding this correct?

[polar acorn]

Ah, the video explained it. Seems like what I expected

[void thicket]

So you wanna put the distance between your player and that ball in count?

[frail laurel]

okey ima try

[void thicket]

Sound like you could utilize raycast to the plane

[polar acorn]

What you could do, instead of having the aiming input move the ball directly, consider doing a Plane.Raycast to get the point a ray from the camera intersects, and set the ball to that position:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Plane.Raycast.html

You'd make a plane at the ball's XZ, and get the ray from the center of the camera

[rocky canyon]

just use a [SerializeField] private FootStepScript footSteps; and u can drag in the gameobject / the scripts on

[polar acorn]

Then, get the plane intersect point, ignore the X component, and set the ball to that Y position

[rocky canyon]

then its just footSteps.enabled = false;

or footSteps.gameObject.SetActive(false); to disable the entire gameobject

[arctic shadow]

hi i know it is probably a stupid question but i have looked around and can't find anything to match what i need to do. Is there a way to transfer the information from a variable in a different "void" ,don't know what to call it, as i am having a problem where it wont unfreeze a rigidbody's position as it doesn't know what it is.

[frail laurel]

i tried it doesn't work https://hastebin.com/share/ozixabibip.csharp

[void thicket]

It's called function/method not void

[polar acorn]

Show the code and what the issue is

[rich adder]

"a void" is a return value of a method
void means the Method doesn't return a value.

[slender nymph]

it's a method, not a "void". and you can either pass the object as a parameter to the method or store it in a class-level variable

[polar acorn]

what doesn't work

[frail laurel]

the sound doesn't turn off i dragged in the gameobject

[rocky canyon]

        // Check if the player is below the ground
        if (transform.position.y < -10)
        {
            isDead = true;
            gameManager.gameOver();
            footSteps.enabled = false; // Disable foot steps when game is over
        }```

this should disable it..

[void thicket]

That being said you probably should start from beginner C# stuffs pinned in this channel, no use trying to figure out without basic knowledge

[polar acorn]

Try logging footSteps after you disable it and see if that code runs

[arctic shadow]

Don’t completely know who to reply to here but, thanks for the proper term. Can you explain how I can pass the parameter to the method?

[rocky canyon]

did u check the inspector after the code should have run

the tickbox next to hte component should become unticked

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel. start there if you don't even know how to write a method with parameters

[arctic shadow]

Thanks didn’t see the message from someone else earlier

[rocky canyon]

float c;
public void CombineToMakeC(int a, int b){
  
  c = a + b;

}```

CombineToMakeC(1,2);

[frail laurel]

it says they disabled

[rocky canyon]

ya, check the gameobject and see if the tickbox next to the component is ticked or unticked

[rich adder]

whats good with those speed lol

[frail laurel]

;Dd

[rich adder]

someone doing Rigidbody * time.deltaTime?

[polar acorn]

Okay, so the object you have assigned to footSteps is being disabled

[frail laurel]

yes it does say that

[polar acorn]

Why do you have two variables pointing to the same object

[frail laurel]

i don't have any other variables to assign

it

[polar acorn]

I have no idea how that is an answer to my question. Why two variables that hold the same reference?

[rocky canyon]

yea, thats odd.. if u already had one.. there wasn't a need to create another one..

[frail laurel]

oh

okey

fixed it

but it still doesn't turn off the playerwalksound

[rocky canyon]

i dont see how thats possible.. unless something else is enabling it

you could just mute the audiosource

[frail laurel]

how?

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.html

all its functions and parameters are down below..

audioSourceReference.mute = true;

or audioSourceReference.Stop();

and before u go gungho with it.. audioSourceReference is just an example name.. and u use w/e u want to call urs..

as long as it has a reference like any other type

umm.. idk what to do here

[rich adder]

wat

Transforms are attached to gameobjects

you can't create one without the other

those are separate things

[rocky canyon]

i'd just create a transform within the gameobject and use what u need from it

[rich adder]

make a custom struct

[rocky canyon]

u can unattach it when the game starts

orrr custom structs work too

just more typing..

i use a transform for a car controller i have.. the transform follows the rigidbody but can't be parented to it..

so the script just references it.. and i unattach it at start

mockTransform.parent = null;

mockTransform.transform.forward i see what ur doing there

i do that too.. i call them mimics

lol

yeap.. just use u an extra gameobject for its transform

and call it a day

[smoky bobcat]

Hey everyone can someone help please, i want my character to jump but he don't jump

[rich adder]

oh jesus

[languid spire]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[rich adder]

also !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[rocky canyon]

clean ur monitor bro

[smoky bobcat]

How ?

[rocky canyon]

with windex probably

[rich adder]

haha microsoft using github to show other peoples code

[rocky canyon]

😄 lmao just messing.. but for real.. post code using an external paste bin site or something

[rich adder]

ik its just funny , when you agree to a free* account

[smoky bobcat]

I started unity 5 days ago i m a beginner i just want my character to jump, how ?

[languid spire]

If you want help on this server you obey the rules of the server. you have been shown how to post code

[smoky bobcat]

Ok thx

[rocky canyon]

tf is going on here??

just the 1

unless VSCode is trolling me in the background

i renamed the symbol yesterday and all was fine..

today i got all those errors.. which all i had to do was modify a character or so and resave

and they get fixed

¯_(ツ)_/¯

its unity6 soo i guess ill give it a pass

[short hazel]

If you don't make your own constructors, by default the class will already have a parameterless constructor accessible.
Do not implement constructor on classes deriving from MonoBehaviour. As Unity manages the lifetime of the objects, constructors might be called at unpredicatable times, or not called at all.

Do not call constructors on classes deriving from MonoBehaviour, they won't be attached to a GameObject and it's not valid, use AddComponent<T>() instead

[rich adder]

creating GameObject is okay just not MB

Unity handles MB for you , so you use Awake as faux constructor (to setup object)

[rocky canyon]

am i missing something?
wouldn't it just be cs GameObject newGameObject = new GameObject("MyGameObject"); Transform newTransform = newGameObject.transform;

[strong wren]

how can i change a String to a Float?

i know that i can easily change a float/int/double to a string using .toString() but there isnt a toFloat Maybe ToInt32 b

[short hazel]

float.TryParse() method, it's the safest way as it can handle invalid input

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.single.tryparse?view=net-8.0#system-single-tryparse(system-string-system-single@)

[strong wren]

tysm,

[brave robin]

Yup, that works

[rocky canyon]

yay! 😄 lol

[rich adder]

is default spawned at Vector3.zero worldpos?

[gaunt ledge]

exporting unity build for android, and it keeps giving me gradle failure, do you guys know how to solve this?

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk or #📱┃mobile

[faint agate]

i messed around for a bit and understand what you're saying and plane.raycast but implementing it is a bit difficult for me. I feel I may need a whole new method of moving the object to begin with

[brave robin]

For new GameObject? Yup, transform will be all default values, so 0,0,0

[faint agate]

https://gdl.space/obepoxumel.cs
this is what I have connected to the object for me to move it. Do you think I can do it with what I have or need a whole new method

[rich adder]

if it works ur fine

i usually move it in update and just use a bool in the OnMousedown/up

[faint agate]

are you responding to me?

[violet glacier]

Are animations in canvas ui expensive?

[short hazel]

The entire canvas is redrawn each frame, so it can get heavy if there are a lot of objects under that canvas.

[swift crag]

Animations can cause layouts to get recalculated every frame

[brave robin]

To add to SPR2's comment, its best to put your animating thing on its own canvas, so that you minimize what is redrawn to just what is actually moving

[short hazel]

Or use a tweening library which doesn't use the animator system.
Before changing things though, make sure you have used the profiler and confirmed there's an issue caused by excessive canvas renders

[swift crag]

would using the animation system actually matter?

it's just setting properties on things

I guess it can wind up setting lots of properties on lots of things, constantly

[short hazel]

Not if you only keyframe the stuff you plan on changing

[brave robin]

I have my own fancy layout group classes that I use to "animate" UI elements from time to time, and haven't noticed any performance hit when using them. But when I'm doing that there's only UI being rendered and nothing else is going on. I'm not simultaneously rendering a 3D scene under my fancy moving UI.

[swift crag]

right -- i just don't see how this would make a tweening library "better" here, then

I don't have much UI animation beyond fading canvas group alpha, but I do have a lot of menus. I deactivate whatever isn't being used and it runs very well.

I did used to have a problem where I deactivated the entire menu when its alpha hit zero...but I was using SmoothDamp to change the alpha

0.0000000001 > 0

[short hazel]

Faster customization of easings, predefined effects, ability to chain them or run them at the same time

[swift crag]

ah, fair enough

i was thinking you were talking about performance there

[short hazel]

Depends on if you prefer doing it all via code, or with curves

[swift crag]

i vastly prefer code-driven behavior

[rich adder]

yea

[strong wren]

how can i get the Volume Variable to be the same as the slider value

ive tried some stuff like Slider.value = float; but that just makes the Slider unusable

[brave robin]

The slider has a value of 0 to 1, so you need to lerp it to the range you want through some other script

[strong wren]

the value is 0 to 100, i checked the min value is 0 whilst the max is 100

it only works when i change the volume variable thru the inspector

[faint agate]

the issue im having is creating a planeraycast on an object in which the script is assigned to that object to move. How can I make a plane at the objects XZ axis if that same object is whats holding my script to move using ScreenToWorldPoint. I think I may need a new method to move the object, but this is the only way I know I can move it without holding the actual object

[eternal needle]

Have you googled how to do this? There are tons of tutorials out there.
For volume you really dont want to just assign the value from 0 to 100 either, youd want to use a common formula you'll find in most tutorials which is representative of how we hear sound

[brave robin]

Is your slider's On Value Changed doing something?

[strong wren]

i have already but they all used the same thing

public method(float name123)
then for me to put it in the OnValueChange
but then i cant get the name123 variable to be the same as my volume variable as Volume = name123 just makes the slider uninteractable

[astral falcon]

So, its getting late, my head is stuck 😄 Does anyone have a quick hint on how to achieve the following. I got a hand and head position, I want to target the UI to stick with the hand (working) and look at the head (working). What I am missing now is, how do I add some kind of offset to the final position in relation to the angle?

                Vector3.Lerp(
                    uiRuntime.transform.position,
                    XRHandPalm.instance.transform.position + offset,
                    Time.deltaTime * RuntimeHandler.Settings.uiFollowEasing
                );

[rich adder]

would be easier to answer knowing the usecase of what the mechanic you're going for here

[strong wren]

ye but i cant make it so the variable that i have to make has the same value as the variable i want

[brave robin]

Show the code for that method that OnValueChanged is calling

[strong wren]

like i have this public void ValueChange(float volume) { Volume = volume; } then the slider is usuable agian but then the Volume Variable deosnt change

its confusing but if u look at the first letter of those variables one is capitalized and one isnt

making them 2 different variables

[brave robin]

Is anything in your SettingsManager forcing the slider's value to be something? Like in Update?

[strong wren]

nope

i dont even have a update method

[brave robin]

And if you remove SettingsManager, does your slider move again?

[strong wren]

yeah

i dont have to remove it tho

[short hazel]

And make sure that from the slider you have selected your method under the "Dynamic Float" section, so the new value is actually passed to your method, not some constant.

[strong wren]

its only when i say smth like
Volume = VolumeBar.value;
or
Volume = volume;

[strong wren]

i have no idea what a dynamic float is as the tutorial said nothing of it

[short hazel]

It's an option that appears when you select the method to call on the event

In the Inspector

[strong wren]

ohh

yeah i do have it as dynamic

[strong wren]

ye

[astral falcon]

So how would you add lets say 0.5 to the right inside my code snippet?

[storm pine]

Maybe you have check the "Whole number" thing on your slider by error or something and you are trying to obtain a float, idk. A slider isn't that hard to use

[brave robin]

Can you show the code for your Volume = VolumeBar.value;, ?

[faint agate]

I have a sphere gameobject, the X and Z axis are locked, so I can only move the gameobject up and down on the Y. A script is attached to the gameobject that allows me to click and drag it up and down.

the z and x axis constraints are not in code but on the gameobject itself with a component called, " position constraint"

The problem is when I hold the gameobject and move far or closer, the gameobject moves a lot faster and not the speed of the player looking up and down. I understand the issue is the X and Z axis being locked is causing this, but I’m having a hard time finding a way to fix it without unlocking them.

I was told using planeraycast to make a plane at the ball's XZ and get the ray from the center of the camera. The problem now is the way I'm really moving the object. https://gdl.space/obepoxumel.cs .. Since im doing it from the object itself and not the player, this is where I get confused cause I can't find another way to move the ball like I am now or implement the planeraycast with what I have now.

[strong wren]

i think i fixed it i just turned on the Handle Slide Area

[strong wren]

yeah it isnt but im considered to be slow

[faint agate]

here the vid that might help you understand better what im doing

[bright violet]

I'm trying to build a splitscreen system from scratch. I'm using the joining feature of the player input system to get events. And on join i'm firing this:

void DoSplitScreen(PlayerInput playerID)
{
    Debug.Log("Initializing SplitScreen for player: "+ playerID.playerIndex);
    var camera = playerID.camera;
    
    float cameraXMin = playerID.playerIndex / 2;
    Debug.Log("CameraXMin equals: " + cameraXMin + "since playerID is: "+ playerID.playerIndex);
    float cameraYMin = 0;
    float cameraxMax = cameraXMin + 0.5f;
    Debug.Log("CameraXMax equals: " + cameraxMax + "since playerID is: " + playerID.playerIndex);
    float camerayMax = 1;
    camera.rect = new Rect
    {
        xMin = cameraXMin,
        yMin = cameraYMin,
        xMax = cameraxMax,
        yMax = camerayMax
    };

    Debug.Log("xMin: "+ camera.rect.xMin+ " xMax: "+ camera.rect.xMax+ " yMin: " + camera.rect.yMin+ " yMax: " + camera.rect.yMax);
}

it should work, yet the result is always the same. It looks like cameraxMax = cameraXMin + 0.5 is referencing the previous cameraXMin. Why?

[rich adder]

oh so the offset gets messed up?

[astral falcon]

And what if there is no parent? I guess I need something like

UIRuntime.transform.position += UIRuntime.transform.TransformDirection(RuntimeHandler.Settings.uiHandOffset);

Yeah no, that code did not work either. Jesus, its such a simple task but I might just need some sleep 😄

[faint agate]

I believe so, all I want is the speed in which the ball moves up and down to match my speed of the camera while im holding it.

[faint agate]

Even when I move closer or far away

[pure pike]

can someone help me fix this

[bright violet]

what exactly -

[velvet sierra]

Hello again everyone. So i managed to do some stuff by myself but i ran into an issue rn. Player should die when slime touchs it and indeed it dies no problem here but i didn't managed to add die animation. I mean there is a die animation but there is no time to play it, player just disappear. ho can i manage to do that. this is the code:
Player script:

  void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
  {
      if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Enemy")
      {
          anim.SetBool("is_alive", false);
          gameObject.SetActive(false);
      }

  }```

[rich adder]

using a plane projection is prob the best way for sure with a ray

[pure pike]

the errors

[polar acorn]

Configure your !ide so you don't make spelling errors

[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

[pure pike]

it is configured

[rich adder]

here we go again..

[polar acorn]

It very demonstrably is not

[pure pike]

huh

[rich adder]

I told you this yesterday and you still haven't done it 🤔

[polar acorn]

Miscellaneous files - not configured
Unity classes such as MonoBehaviour uncolored - not configured
Line with error on it not underlined - not configured

[bright violet]

you wrote serializefeild

[faint agate]

Do you think I can implement this with the way im doing it? Or will I need to find another way to move the object with a new method

[polar acorn]

Follow the guide

[languid spire]

No it is not

[rich adder]

lets see difference between yours and mine @pure pike

[pure pike]

ok

[astral falcon]

That looks quite promising, let me try and thanks 🙂

[rich adder]

personally I would use the plane method

if you want an example I can show you when I get back home soon

should be easy though look at docs for plane

the is ScreenToRay too you can use directly then put that on the plane for obect placement

[bright violet]

other than well fixing your editor, try and learn how to read the error messages: they give you the exact line where the mistake is so you can find it easily. as an example in your screenshot your error says "...playerMovement.cs(18,5) this is the file and the line that is causing the error

[storm pine]

I haven't test to much with that but It looks that for 3D you have to use Raycast and maybe a plane. I have see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTPKz3ga4w
So maybe something like this can work: https://hatebin.com/jqeyurtfdf

[pure pike]

i know that

[rich adder]

oh god his videos are the worst..

[polar acorn]

It is imperative that you do not simply fix this one error and go about your business. Configure your IDE so you stop making spelling mistakes in the first place

[bright violet]

cmon why

[polar acorn]

You see I thought that, but there are worse

[pure pike]

i sorta know how to read errors

[faint agate]

Should I give that watch or would it make this more confusing?

[bright violet]

i thought he was really knowledgeable, what's wrong with him?

[rich adder]

aside from the older ones using the annoying "use my library to use this method" and downloading from his site.
His other videos' now are watch this other video before you watch this video. which is quite annoying

[faint agate]

Ill watch wen I get home

[polar acorn]

I keep a counter of the times that people claim they have exactly the same code as the tutorial:

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 162
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2024-5-21

Three of the five "times it was like the tutorial" and the one "time the code literally did not exist" were all Code Monkey

[rich adder]

that is true

but most dont claim to be writing "clean code"

which is what tickles my gooch

[pure pike]

i did everything in the screenshots and its still not configured

[astral falcon]

Thanks again, this seems to be working. Jesus, now seeing it it totally makes sense. Thanks for saving me some hours of sleep 😄

[rich adder]

no idea if that even covers what you need

[faint agate]

Trolin, ill check out the vids ina bit tho. Appreciate the respond

[bright violet]

oh man XD

[pure pike]

@polar acorn ^

[faint agate]

I have no idea what im doing but ill figure it out

[bright violet]

i just thought i was too dumb and messing stuff up

[polar acorn]

There's more than screenshots. Did you go through all the words too

[pure pike]

yeah

[polar acorn]

did you install VS through the hub or manually

[pure pike]

manually

[rich adder]

if you still cant figure out Ill send an example with a plane when I get back in 20 min or so

[polar acorn]

Show a screenshot of your VS Workloads section where the Unity workload is installed

[bright violet]

is there something I'm not understanding?

[polar acorn]

Now your external tools window

[pure pike]

i changed it to the vs thing bc i was on open by extension but i swear i changed it to vs but ig not

[rich adder]

close vs, click Regen and open script again

[rocky canyon]

https://hatebin.com/dipkrzqfns
i have a god camera that uses the plane technique

[pure pike]

i got it now yippie

[bright violet]

honestly i have this annoying bug that it'll reset this option each time i restart unity. check out for it

[storm pine]

Well, you have also this tutotial that can clarify some ideas, but if you blink you lose it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_BB_YsyDk
But the summary is, for 3D you have to use Ray

[pure pike]

oh that stinks

[bright violet]

iirc it should help if next time it happens you manually look for visual studio's executable and select that

[rich adder]

@faint agate

but obv you want a diff normal dir, prob maybe transform.forward

[pure pike]

theres nothing wrong but it still says theres an error

[rich adder]

great now read the error

; expected

you're missing ;

[pure pike]

im not tho

[rich adder]

ofc you are

look above the line it underlines

its "leaking"

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnqF6S7PfFA&t=496s&ab_channel=GameDevGuide @faint agate i used this tutorial.. he's the one that exposed me to using the raycast plane method for moving

[pure pike]

huh

[rich adder]

nothing a joke

you forgot to close the valve

[rocky canyon]

LoL

[pure pike]

i get it now, i got it so thanks

[rich adder]

; is like a period to a sentence

[pure pike]

i know

[polar acorn]

You are. Remember, a line only ends when it hits a semicolon. So, line 18 is actually private float jumpBufferCounter [SerializeField] private Rigidbody2D rb; which makes no sense

[pure pike]

i got it now

those dang semicolons

[rich adder]

the importance of IDE config ✊

[rocky canyon]

braces too

braces are just as evil

[rich adder]

python users got so scared of them they took em out

[rocky canyon]

im soo glad i dont have to use python very often

[pure pike]

yeah its a little weird to setup but when it is MY GOD ITS SO GOOD

[rich adder]

you got lucky lol usually there are some people here who have to do the whole Reload with Dependencies on the assembly inside VS

[rocky canyon]

i made a video on how to configure it.. and because of that i had to unconfigure and reconfigure it multiple times..

some of those times required me to do a restart on the ide and my pc

glad thats over with 😄

[rich adder]

sometimes it says the assembly is incomplete or missing

[rocky canyon]

vscode was the worst

ngl

rider the easiest

[rich adder]

😢 VSCode before Unity plugin came out was the WORST

Visual Studio mac was the easiest

only used rider for a year was also pretty easy, nothing to setup

[rocky canyon]

💯 , thank God for this

[rich adder]

Microsoft really came in with the clutch

Unity would've took another 5 years

they figured out how to connect VSCode to the Visual Studio package 😛

[rocky canyon]

yup, my older projects were a mess

w/ both plugins.. one always complaining

[rich adder]

Frienemies

[rocky canyon]

ive upgraded most of my stuff to unity6

🤞

[rich adder]

yeah the new version dont even install the VSCode package anymore lol

that shite goneee

[rocky canyon]

ya, the new package manager doesn't even let it exist hehe

[manic fjord]

hey sry to bother, I got an issue understanding instances, i'm using a "Spawner" gameobject with a script linked to it and I would like to copy this object and maybe use it with a spawnRate not set to 5 but to 20 for exemple, therefore I would have one "Spawner" object with a spawnRate parameter of 5 and the other one cloned, with a spawnRate parameter of 20. I guess the thing to do is to use public variable to set them independently in each "instance"/"copy". But when i'm modifying the parameter of one object, the other one also gets affected, any ideas ?

[ivory bobcat]

How are you modifying the value: inspector or through code?

[manic fjord]

was using the inspector through public variables

[ivory bobcat]

So you'll need to modify the scene object and not the prefab.

[manic fjord]

This is what i'm modifying

[rich adder]

are you cloning the scen object and not a prefab ?

[manic fjord]

yeah, i'm not supposed to ?

[rich adder]

not if want different values on new object

[rocky canyon]

nah, thats not a good way to do that..

make it a prefab and instantiate that instead

[rich adder]

Instantiate returns a clone of the object

[manic fjord]

for each layer i'd like a different value for exemple but all layers seem to be affected that's the problem

i'll try

[ivory bobcat]

So you're wanting to modify through code then. Cache the instantiated object and modify the field for the cloned instance.

[rocky canyon]

layer1 = Instantiate(prefab);
layer2 = Instantiate(prefab);

layer2.setting1 = 10f;
layer1.setting1 = 5f;``` etc super simple example

[manic fjord]

okay i see

[digital wharf]

Is there any way to detect collisions between a primitive collider and mesh collider using the ontriggerenter method? The level in my game uses a mesh collider and is an indoor level(I can't make the mesh collider convex), but that means the box collider that I am trying to detect collisions with won't detect collisions for the level.

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-matrix-3d

you could just use physics queries which works on any collider type

[shy ruin]

I'm getting this weird camera stuttering and I don't know why. I've had this before, someone please help! Here is a video of it, and some of my code ```// Called later and update.
void LateUpdate()
{
HandleCamera();
}

/// <summary>
/// Handles the camera, call in LateUpdate.
/// </summary>
void HandleCamera()
{
    // Get the mouse inputs and add them to current rotation vector.
    currentCameraRotation.x -= Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * CameraSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
    currentCameraRotation.y += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * CameraSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
    currentCameraRotation.x = Mathf.Clamp(currentCameraRotation.x, -85, 85);

    // Set the camera position to the camera position gameobject.
    Camera.transform.position = CameraPosition.transform.position;


    // Orientation object is set to the correct rotation, then the players rotation is set to it to prevent player model stuttering, but when setting the camera rotation it doesn't work.
    Camera.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentCameraRotation.x, 0, 0);
    Orientation.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, currentCameraRotation.y, 0);
    transform.rotation = Orientation.transform.rotation;
}```

[ivory bobcat]

If you're moving through physics, consider updating the camera in the physics step to have it be accurate.

[shy ruin]

Isn't LateUpdate the best?

[teal viper]

Typically you want to move the camera as often as rendering happens, so update or late update is correct. Now, jittering usually happens when the camera or objects in the scene are not moved in sync with it's update.

Since physical objects are moved in fixed update by default, this is often the cause.
That's why there's interpolation option on the rbs. What it does is actually moves the rb in between it's fixed update positions during the regular update.

[rich adder]

You should never * Time.deltaTime any Mouse Input

mouse is already framerate independent

[shy ruin]

I tried that before though

Just changed it and I'm still getting the problem.

[rich adder]

I'm saying it as a general thing you should not be doing

idk what ur issue is I havent looked yet

is your character a character controller or rigidbody ?

[shy ruin]

Rigidbody, interpolation on, using AddForce inside fixedUpdate from Input.GetAxisRaw multiplied by delta time

[rich adder]

makes sense why its jittering

your mouselook is def happening faster than rigidbody can update

[shy ruin]

So... what should I change?

[rich adder]

I think mostly the rigidbody rotation

[shy ruin]

So you're saying I should rotate the player inside Update

[rich adder]

if its an option you should use Character Controler since thats moving in Update

shouldbe less of issue jittering

[shy ruin]

Wait,

I'm rotating my player in LateUpdate, will that cause the problem?

[rich adder]

it should be okay, but You tried Update already?

[shy ruin]

One second

Still has the problem in Update

[rich adder]

its a tricky problem with rigidbody

[shy ruin]

I would use character controller but this game is physics based

This is the worst problem 😦

[rich adder]

understandable, its for sure the camera though

[shy ruin]

The weird thing is I copied this code from my old working script...

[rich adder]

did you turn on the interpolations and everything?

[shy ruin]

Yeah, what is everything?

[rich adder]

maybe playing around with the Physics settings

[shy ruin]

In the Project Tab?

[rich adder]

yeah project settings

[shy ruin]

https://pastebin.com/G9T4xLhF

[rich adder]

maybe something in there

[shy ruin]

Here is my old code that works for a different game

Wait... I did lerp in that one.

Is that maybe it?

[rich adder]

also , s this rigidbody also ?

[shy ruin]

Yes

[rich adder]

oh ok

also note no TIme.deltaTime here either 😛

[shy ruin]

Well in that one it was ok

It was lerping

Let me add some lerping rq

[rich adder]

the lerp is somewhat inaccurate

it will work differently across framerates

[shy ruin]

wdym?

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp
this explains better than i can 😛

[shy ruin]

Lerping didnt work.

It's even worse with a parent transform

[rich adder]

maybe try rotating player in FixedUpdate with rb.MoveRotation ?

I haven't worked on physics based controllers too much so not sure what fix is

i know its definitely the mismatch in rigidbody move/rotating in physics loop while rotating in update

[shy ruin]

So, not the camera?

[rich adder]

yeah its the camera

fighting rb

[shy ruin]

Then why'd you say this

[rocky canyon]

cuz thats the underlying issue

[rich adder]

because the camera is moving in a different loop ?

[shy ruin]

Oh my

It's even worse now when I reverted the code??!??!?!

It seems the rigidbody moving, then rotating the child camera is conflicting with each other

Im rotating the rigidbody in update

[rich adder]

also I think camera being parented to a rigidbody doesn't help

parenting and dynamic rigidbodies don't work well

transform following a rigidbody what i mean

[shy ruin]

What if I damp the position of the camera so it smoothly follows the view

Even smoothing isn't working...

Once I make it higher at least

[hasty sleet]

Can you exclude the camera from viewing the player?

[shy ruin]

What do you mean by that

[rich adder]

now its laggy instead of studdering

[shy ruin]

I've figured out the problem

It's the rotation of the rigidbody

It just doesn't like rotating with the camera

[rich adder]

yes rigidbody is working on FixedUpdate

[shy ruin]

No but

[rich adder]

camera isnt

[shy ruin]

I'm not rotating it in fixed update

I rotate them both

at the same time

in update

[rich adder]

yes but the rigidbody will still wait till the next physicsupdate to rotate

thats why its outta sync

[shy ruin]

I'm doing transform.rotation though

[rich adder]

and the physics rigidbody has to catch up to that

imagine the physics objects being a seperate scene

[shy ruin]

I got to go for now, but I really want to fix this 😦

[rich adder]

also haveyou tried this in the build ?

you might get different result than editor

[shy ruin]

Ok one second

[rich adder]

editor has more overhead to run could be messing with physics sync

https://forum.unity.com/threads/camera-jitter-when-rotating-player.1232142/

found this
untested but read last answer from unity employee

[solemn fractal]

Hello guys, one question. If I would like to make a game like tap ninja, it is easier in programming and more logical do do the screen move and not the character or its better to move the character? It seems like games like that the scenario moves but not the heroe itself.. anyone can enlighten me ? thank you

[shy ruin]

Happens worse in build, I'll check out cinemachine later I used that last time and I think it will fix it

Actaully yeah

I think thats it

[rich adder]

yes cause you can pick to update rate of cinemachine brain

[rich adder]

if its inifnite runner

ideally you want to move objects towards player

[solemn fractal]

So the scenario moves and the player stays still right?

[rich adder]

if you hit a certain amount of position with big float you will get weird issues (float point errors big numbers)

[solemn fractal]

ok thank you very much

[rich adder]

usually games get around this problem by respawning player at 000 and then moving the world with it

but for inifinte runner easier to just let obstacles move to you

and terrain for you

[solemn fractal]

ok, thank you i will do like that.

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=crOrMGgjpLg&ab_channel=BeginnerLife

like dis 😄

[misty coral]

How does sphereCast with the distance of the cast set to 0(So the sphere has no ray length presumably) differ from CheckSphere

[wintry quarry]

spherecast with distance 0 does nothing afaik

[misty coral]

huh

[wintry quarry]

since spherecast doesn't detect colliders it starts out overlapping

Notes: SphereCast will not detect colliders for which the sphere overlaps the collider. Passing a zero radius results in undefined output and doesn't always behave the same as Physics.Raycast.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.SphereCast.html

[hybrid tapir]

why isnt putting [System.Serializable] over my class definition and/or putting [SerializeField] over the variable for the class putting my values in the inspector?

[rich adder]

what are you serializing ?

do you have like properties or something

[wintry quarry]

Presumably you are not following the rules here https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-Serialization.html#SerializationRules

Show the code if you want to know exactly what's wrong

(or maybe your code just isn't compiling yet, because you have a compile error)

[rich adder]

RawImage?

also those are private

[wintry quarry]

you don't need the [SerializeField] for a public field.

but uyeah you put [SerializeField] only on an enum declaration, which makes no sense

All the actual fields in your class are private

[hybrid tapir]

just to see if it would do it with my enum

[wintry quarry]

enum is a type definition

it's not a field

if you had a field like:
posFromText exampleField; you could serialize THAT

such as the one you have on line 37

[hybrid tapir]

yea, thats the only thing serializing

[wintry quarry]

Why are you defining the same enum in two different places though

[rich adder]

you have two definitions you don't need two

[wintry quarry]

because it's the only actual field you have

the rules are simple

fields only

the thing on line 19 is not a field

[hybrid tapir]

yea i added the field

why wont my other fields serialize tho

[wintry quarry]

because they're private

as already mentioned

[rich adder]

u need above each

[wintry quarry]

and you didn't put [SerializeField] on them either

Again, the rules are here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-Serialization.html#SerializationRules

Look at the first rule:

Is public, or has a SerializeField attribute

[hybrid tapir]

ok so i changed it back to what i had first and NOW everything is serializing (what i had first wasnt in the ss)

[rich adder]

do you plan on using them because you would need a property/method or a public field to use them elsewhere

you wouldn't be able to access the private fields in a script from instance

[hybrid tapir]

i put the words public back in the beginning of my class fields and they finally seiralized

odd that it didnt do that the first time i made them public

i thought something changed lol

[wintry quarry]

you likely were missing something else at the time

or had a compile error etc

[hybrid tapir]

ah ok

[wintry quarry]

possibly were missing [Serializable] on the class for example

[hybrid tapir]

oh

how do i use foreach with a list

[wintry quarry]

Isn't that the canonical example for foreach?

https://www.programiz.com/csharp-programming/foreach-loop

[hybrid tapir]

ooop i forgot they need the temp var name

[wintry quarry]

Yeah - https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethodAttribute.html

Usually a bootstrap scene is a good idea anyway though

A scene that you load just to set things up

Always loaded as the first scene

even before a main menu etc

[true birch]

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

public class TestingPathfinding : MonoBehaviour
{
void Start()
{
print(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, new Vector3(5, 0, 0), 5));
Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, new Vector3(5, 0, 0), Color.white, Mathf.Infinity);
}
}

Why does the raycast return false here? The following script is attached to the smaller box and the raycast comes from it and arrives at the point with nothing but black around it at the end of the drawn line.

[wintry quarry]

If you want to draw a Raycast use DrawRay
If you want to draw a Linecast use DrawLine

Raycast and DrawRay take one position and one direction
Linecast and DrawLine take two positions

you're confusing position and direction vectors

Also for sharing code please format it !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[true birch]

thank you

[rocky canyon]

thats teh coolest name ive ever heard for a piece of code

i imagine it refers to "pick yourself up from your bootstraps"

lol, its just im always trying to think of clever/ witty names for things

and that ones is pretty dang cool LOL

[summer stump]

Yeah. It means it sets things up itself.

Basically the idea behind that phrase.

[rocky canyon]

im weird i guess

[summer stump]

(Even though that phrase originates from the idea of lifting oneself by ones bootstraps being impossible)

[rich adder]

debugging literally meant removing insect that was fried in early computer 😛

[rocky canyon]

see that stuff is super interesting to me 😄

[rich adder]

#computersnappleacts

[rocky canyon]

dang moths blowing my tubes

[rich adder]

you know that moth is famous af now

but he didn't expect that shit

[rocky canyon]

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fvn9xg77v90j61.png

coool lol

the bug one.. says Thomas Edison coined it..

but the other source i read was about the Moth and Grace Hopper a admiral in the US Navy

Edison.. always trying to take credit for things 🙄

[rich adder]

yeah half this stuff is nonesense

[rocky canyon]

it did come from reddit

im definitely gonna rename my Master scene to Bootstrapper 😄

I've thought about using Bootloader.. but i didn't think it fit well
i'll keep the Bootloader for my embedding stuff

[magic panther]

@summer stump

Ball Script --> https://hatebin.com/noizeouboc

(Ball is moving on screenshot, hence the transform values)

[summer stump]

This is the camera controller script again

Can you show the ball controller script?

[magic panther]

sh my bad

updated

[summer stump]

Ah, remove deltaTime from the addtorque calls completely. You will need to reduce your speed variable a lot afterwards

Also consider setting interpolate to interpolate and collision detection to continuous

[magic panther]

ok, one sec

[magic panther]

idk what that means tho

[summer stump]

On the rigidbody component

[magic panther]

ok

lemme test

bro, how do you know that

works perfectly now, thank you

[summer stump]

Eh, lots of practice, and making the same mistakes haha.
Glad it worked!

[solemn fractal]

hey guys, when I use Json system to save my game. where can I find that save inside my computer?

[summer stump]

You would decide that. You have to create a path for the file when you create it

Ah, persistentDataPath depends on the os

[solemn fractal]

windows

[summer stump]

The docs tell you exactly where it goes

[solemn fractal]

thank yuou

wil check it out

[keen dew]

Debug.Log(Application.persistentDataPath); <-- there

[summer stump]

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

[unkempt carbon]

Hi guys, I'm trying to write a script for saving and loading a deck of cards and so far I have this logic:
Functions:

• when button is clicked, unity saves string (i).
• when loading said string (i), profile (i) is loaded.
• when loading said string (i), load card preset (i).

is this correct?

[hasty sleet]

This seems logical, but is largely contingent upon whether saving strings is sufficient to describe the cards. This should work as long as each card is accurately represented by a string.

[unkempt carbon]

Thanks

[queen adder]

What's the easiest way to render geometric primitives in both scene and game view? Just trying to do some testing for a geometric algebra library I'm working on.

[queen adder]

Debug.Log(GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("BossHealthText").GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>());

Why is it:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
EnemyBoss.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/EnemyBoss.cs:25)

yes I have the tag assigned to the GUI text mesh

[languid spire]

that is not even valid C#

[queen adder]

that is, I figured it out, I had disabled the components, thanks for the response though

[eternal needle]

what you posted is not code that would compile

[languid spire]

no it is not.
FindGameObjectsWithTag returns an array. You cannot call GetComponent on an array

[low sandal]

Can anyone make me an Ultrakill type movement for free? (Please dont ban me or wtv I read through the rules and couldnt find anything about if commisions were bannable)

[languid spire]

!collab

[eternal falcon]

📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on discord.
Please use the forums:
• Commercial Job Seeking
• Commercial Job Offering
• Non Commercial Collaboration

[low sandal]

okay thanks

[queen adder]

Yes I figured that out, sorry didnt update the code.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;
public class EnemyBoss : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed;
    public float health;

    public GameObject enemyMissile;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        transform.position = new Vector3(0.0f, 4.0f, 0.0f);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        // spawn at top of screen and moves left and right continuosly (facing downwards) always facing towards player ship (roatating towards player ship)

        TextMeshProUGUI bossHealthDisplay = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("BossHealthText")[0].GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
        Slider bossHealthSlider = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("BossHealthSlider")[0].GetComponent<Slider>();

        GameObject player = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Player")[0];
        // move left and right
        if (transform.position.x > 10.0f)
        {
            speed = speed * -1.0f;
        }
        if (transform.position.x < -10.0f)
        {
            speed = speed * -1.0f;
            // asd asdadsa
        }

        transform.position += new Vector3(speed, 0.0f, 0.0f);


        // rotate towards player
        Vector3 direction = player.transform.position - transform.position;
        float angle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.y, direction.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
        Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle - 90, Vector3.forward);
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rotation, 0.1f);

        // shoot missile
        if (Random.Range(0, 300) < 1)
        {

            Quaternion missileRotation = transform.rotation;
            GameObject missile = Instantiate(enemyMissile, transform.position + new Vector3(0.0f, 0.6f, 0.0f), missileRotation);
            missile.GetComponent<EnemyMissile>().speed = 0.02f;

        }
        bossHealthDisplay.gameObject.SetActive(true);
        bossHealthSlider.value = health / 2;
        bossHealthSlider.gameObject.SetActive(true);
         //asd 
    }

}

So I am trying to implement something where the Text Mesh and slider is only created when Enemy Boss object is created, however when i keep these as inactive, it says array is out of index (hence they are not found), is there any workaround this?

[languid spire]

Problem you have if No objects are found an index of 0 will be out of range

eg

Slider bossHealthSlider;
GameObject[] gos = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("BossHealthSlider");
if (gos.Length > 0) bossHealthSlider = gos[0].GetComponent<Slider>();

Also FindGameObjectsWithTag does not have an override to include inactive objects

[queen adder]

in general, if I want that a particular gui component to be activated only if a GameObject is added to game, how can i do that?

[languid spire]

I wouid use this https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.FindAnyObjectByType.html which allows for inactive objects and add a specific component to the gameobjects that could trigger it

your other option, which is more efficient, get the relevant gameobjects to inject themselves into a List when they instantiate and remove from the List when they Destroy. That way, if the List.Count > 0 then one of the objects exists

[south sand]

who invented vector flow field pathfinding?

[timber tide]

me

[raven ferry]

hello i made a script that changes a object color when clicked, but how do i change the way a new color value makes a object look? the defuelt is that it adds the color ontop of the original color and blends into it. how would i make the color change solid or ajust things like opacity and blend mode

[wintry quarry]

What kind of object are we talking about

[raven ferry]

a object containing a sprite rendere

the script changes the color value of the sprite but the color change itself blends into the original color, and doesnt replace it

[stoic glen]

Why doesn't the Start function get called after returning to a scene that was loaded before. How can I fix this

[surreal mango]

Hello, does object instantiate - clear events from the copy?

[molten dock]

in 3d games are you supposed to rotate the camera with local or world position

like transfom.rotation and transform.localRotation

[burnt vapor]

It depends (tm)

[wintry quarry]

Yes SpriteRenderer color is multiplicative.

The easiest option is for your sprite to be greyscale to start with.

Otherwise you'll need a custom shader.

[molten dock]

first person game

[brave compass]

If you mean it clears serialized/persistent listeners from a UnityEvent, then no, those get copied. But anything that isn't serialized, i.e. not visible in the inspector, will get cleared.

[wintry quarry]

Start only runs once per object. That's intended and not something that can be or needs fixing

[languid spire]

for FP the camera should be a child of the player so local rotation

[molten dock]

i am transforming the cameras position to the player personally

[languid spire]

if the camera has no parent then local and world are the same

[molten dock]

oh alright

okay ty

[surreal mango]

ok thanks

[molten dock]

its said to make cam movement smoother

[mortal ginkgo]

hi. can someone show me like basic code to make a 2d object move left and right? i'm trying to learn unity but when i follow youtube videos to remake something i get an error

here's the code and the error

[cosmic dagger]

you should post the error message and the code used, then we can help fix the error . . .

[mortal ginkgo]

oh lol i was doing that

[cosmic dagger]

oh, this is pretty straight-forward. it says the Rigidbody2D does not have a definition or member called Velocity. check the docs for Rigidbody2D and find/use the correct definition/member . . .

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D.html

[mortal ginkgo]

ok thanks

[molten dock]

ill let u figure it out but its a capital letter issue

gotta use the right casing in these things

[mortal ginkgo]

the V in Velocity?

[cosmic dagger]

click on the link and see how it's used . . .

[mortal ginkgo]

ok

[cosmic dagger]

you say this, but tell them in the same sentence . . . 😄

[molten dock]

do you have a bot which puts three dots at the end of each sentence

still gotta figure something out

[mortal ginkgo]

i just need examples before i start making something my own

[mortal ginkgo]

i'm not on my pc rn, i'll try things when i get back

but thanks

[cosmic dagger]

no problem, you can compare your text with the docs. as bbbbb stated, capitalization matters. C# is a case-sensitive language . . .

[queen adder]

How would you achieve constant velocity for a Rigidbody2D? I thought of a backend variable that overrides the current velocity. I dont know if it's good to set velocity in Update() frequently. Movement seems okay in 60 FPS but not in 30-40 fps if i do it in Update()

// Acts like speed. It sends negative version of self to overrideHorizontalvelocity on negative input (left-right)
public float constantVelocity = 5f;

// Overrides velocity in FixedUpdate
private float overrideHorizontalVelocity;

[molten dock]

could use a constant force component

if you want to do it in script do it in fixedUpdate

void FixedUpdate()
{
rb.velocity = Vector2.up * speed;
}

[queen adder]

Great thank you

[cosmic dagger]

you only need to set velocity once, and it will remain constant. you can change it on input instead of every frame in an Update method . . .

[molten dock]

would it fr keep the momentum that is useful for me lol

[queen adder]

It will remain constant? Gotta try this

[molten dock]

tell me if its still smooth despite being out of fixed update

[queen adder]

Ah no velocity does not stay constant. Maybe he confused with 3D?

[molten dock]

may be able to make it constant with the correct rigibody settings

[queen adder]

Okay i will try no friction for you this time

Yeah so i understand that i must edit velocity inside FixedUpdate() now. Thank you

[molten dock]

do you know that physics should usually be in fixedupdate

[queen adder]

Actually wait friction had worked lmao you were right

[queen adder]

Yes. I am getting confused about Physics variables and methods since sometimes some of them may be edited or called outside FixedUpdate()

[languid spire]

simple view, read physics in Update. Set physics in FixedUpdate

[molten dock]

fixedupdate updates at the same frequency as physics is the reason

[burnt vapor]

Dunno why RandomUnityInvader didn't mention this but the issue is that you need to have your editor configured. That way you won't have these issues.

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[prime kelp]

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[late burrow]

wait am i missing something

raw bytes actually weight more than base64

perhaps unicode is bad format?

[slender nymph]

if only there were some other way to transfer that data instead of encoding it as a string

[late burrow]

if only people stopped complaining about my solutions

[slender nymph]

if you'd stop trying to turn your audio data into a string just to transfer it from your server to a client, then you might actually get somewhere

[late burrow]

i could download it as video but then all the other data would be put somewhere in that video as string regardless

[slender nymph]

why would you download it is a video? that makes no sense

[late burrow]

because 1 link and only 1 link

[slender nymph]

okay first of all, this is your own restriction you've placed on this problem. second, as i have already told you, if you store the path to the audio in your string that you are sending already you can use that to then download the audio.

so you just have your "one link" that your players will enter or whatever, then your "one link" will contain the level data and another link for the audio. this will also allow you to download level data without immediately downloading the audio data allowing you to potentially set up a preview or whatever because it will be much faster since i'm sure the level data is much smaller than the audio

[late burrow]

i could make like 10 sub sites just for sake of downloading audio

if i really were to take like 300mb to download single mp3