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[primal lintel]

I wonder why he does this

[summer stump]

There are many reasons that could happen. Show something helpful so we can figure it out.
Are you animating the model to move, but the parent is not moving?

[primal lintel]

what to show you more exactly

[short hazel]

How the animator is set up would be the first thing that comes to mind
Looks like you have root motion enabled, not sure if the problem is really about the code
The object moves, but the animator moves it again, and with root motion enabled it snaps back when the animation clip loops

[bitter cove]

where would I ask for help, cause im struggling?

[slender nymph]

#🔎┃find-a-channel

[dense root]

How would you go about making a pokemon style movement system? Would you create a grid for the player to move to square to square?

[primal lintel]

and how I could solve it

[short hazel]

Read the message I sent

[primal lintel]

I see

can you help me with anydesk

[slender nymph]

yes, that's pretty much exactly what pokemon did. and you can use tilemaps for your map which means you have a grid right there. Just lerp the player's position to the next cell center each time it needs to move and voila you've copied pokemon's movement

[glossy turtle]

The animation you made is not at a fixed state so it happens. Simple.

[short hazel]

No, I won't be connecting to your computer and fix it for you

[dense root]

There are quite a few tutorials on this subject... do you think as a beginner it's best to avoid these and try to make my own system?

[slender nymph]

use the tutorials to help understand how you do certain things so that you have the knowledge to make your own system if the tutorials don't do exactly what you want

[dense root]

So when you're learning do you just watch the video without trying to copy?

I've been stuck in tutorial hell for quite some time and I'm really trying to claw my way out of it

[slender nymph]

there's really no one way to learn and everyone learns a bit differently. you just gotta figure out what works best for you

[summer stump]

Anything useful. The video didn't show much.
Show the code, the animator settings, the inspector for the player, anything

[warm condor]

can someone answer my question here please https://discordapp.com/channels/489222168727519232/497874004401586176/1244706234637090917

[dense root]

For sure, thank you

[glossy turtle]

It's not with the animator settings or the code it's the animation itself.

[short hazel]

Who knows? Way too few details were shown

[primal lintel]

or if you don't send a video from yt where I can see

[short hazel]

That person does not seem to understand what we're trying to say

[summer stump]

I'm asking YOU to send something useful

[stuck palm]

what does ref mean? im using this package i found

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/method-parameters#ref-parameter-modifier

[random cave]

!code

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[short hazel]

Pass-by-reference. It's as if a pointer to the value was passed instead of the value itself.
In this case, the method will recieve the original quaternion, not a copy

(since Quaternion is a struct, a value type, it's by default copied when you pass it around)

[stuck palm]

awesome thaks

[random cave]

Can someone help me with my air resistance code? Im trying to make it so my bomb goes all over the place and rotates and sways then stabilizes at 90* pointing down heres my code
https://hastebin.com/share/eqaluwomug.csharp

[stuck palm]

@rich adder fixed that stupid rotation issue i had by passing rotation in the update rotation method in the KCC

[primal lintel]

its ok now

[short hazel]

In this very specific case, that method could modify the quaternion, and you'd still get the changes from outside that method

Quaternion q = transform.rotation; // copy
UpdateRotation(ref q); // reference, modified inside
Debug.Log(q); // modified

[random cave]

Or should I post this in #archived-code-general / #archived-code-advanced

[tidal basin]

How can i set my fps characters direction to go to the direction it is looking? (My camera script turns the character already in Vector3.up)

currentInputVector = Vector2.SmoothDamp(currentInputVector, input, ref smoothInputVelocity, .1f);
Vector3 move = new Vector3(currentInputVector.x, 0, currentInputVector.y);
controller.Move(playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime * move);```

[slender nymph]

transform your input direction (after turning it into a vector3) using transform.TransformDirection

[willow scroll]

transform.forward / transform.right

[willow scroll]

All over what place?

[tidal basin]

Yea i tried that too but it says "cant convert vector3 to float"

[willow scroll]

They are both Vector3s

[stuck palm]

i feel like the fading goes too quickly, but i cant use standard delta time if im making the timescale 0. how can i fix this issue?

[willow scroll]

Multiply them by the value if needed

[summer stump]

You didn't show much of what I asked for at all.
The child is definitely moving on its own, and the parent is much slower. That's about all I can say

Oh, it's a long video...
Well, video is perhaps the worst way you could possibly share that information, but give me a minute to watch it

[grim tulip]

What code editor are you using looks very colorful oooo

[tidal basin]

.forward looks okay but .right...

[zenith cypress]

deltaTime / duration

[willow scroll]

That's already right, using unscaled one

[stuck palm]

jetbrains rider with the nightfall theme

[grim tulip]

Is it different from Visual Stuido

Or nah

[zenith cypress]

Rider is paid

[tidal basin]

yea,

[grim tulip]

Ohhh yea nvm

[willow scroll]

What's wrong with transform.right?

[summer stump]

Your animation itself is moving moving the transform, right? I don't see that in the video, but it's hard to follow along the way it is recorded, especially on my phone

[tidal basin]

idk

[willow scroll]

Well, send the code

You've already done it with forward

[lethal apex]

guys do i need to learn about the .NET to develop games?

[willow scroll]

Changing a single word is enough to make it work with right too

[random cave]

Just all over randomized

[summer stump]

Right is a vector

[random cave]

No

[lethal apex]

oh great tysm

[summer stump]

And you are trying to assign it to a float

[willow scroll]

Not necessarily

[tidal basin]

But forward not?

[lethal apex]

i learned the basics of C# upto OOP what should i learn next?

[tidal basin]

check dm

[willow scroll]

It is. Simply check them out. And read what I've written you.

[summer stump]

Hmm, interesting. That should cause an error too

[random cave]

Just play around with unity lol

[lethal apex]

💀 oh

[random cave]

That's how I learnt to code

[lethal apex]

ohhhh

[random cave]

Played a lot any idea that came to mind tried to make it

[willow scroll]

What's the problem in continuing it here?

[random cave]

Quite fun, your game wont be polished but gotta learn things here

[lethal apex]

we dont have to learn about the codes and syntax at all?

[tidal basin]

it says i cant convert vector3 to float

[random cave]

when I say play around with unity as in make very random things in unity

[primal lintel]

yes

[random cave]

So you're learning unity and coding

[lethal apex]

oh.

[summer stump]

Why?

[willow scroll]

Does it also say not to continue here?

[grim tulip]

Is the a POSSIBLE way to make it look like that

[tidal basin]

themes for syntax highlighting?

[summer stump]

Why are you trying to plug forward and right into a vector at all?

They are already vectors

[primal lintel]

I'll show you the code

[grim tulip]

Possible

[summer stump]

Just set move to forward * your multiplier (or right if that's what you want)

[willow scroll]

Visual Studio allows you to change the colors

[tidal basin]

Sorry english isn't my main language so i cant explain myself so good. In this line Vector3 move = new Vector3(transform.right * currentInputVector.x, 0, transform.forward * currentInputVector.y); I am trying to move my character through to looking direction. The last argument, transform.forward * currentInputVector.y is okay. But in the first argument, its saying you cant transform vector3 to float. Please say if you didnt understand anything..

[random cave]

There are themes yes

"Tokyo Night" would look close to what you saw

Wiat no

[tidal basin]

Maybe tokyo night is a better choice?

[willow scroll]

Neither of them are floats

[summer stump]

You cannot do that
I don't know why the error is NOT showing for forward, but what you are attempting to do is not right

[random cave]

Wait mb

[willow scroll]

So you assign the x axis to (currentInputVector.x, 0, 0)

[slender nymph]

this is a much easier option with no extra math involved #💻┃code-beginner message

[tidal basin]

can I smooth out after that?

[slender nymph]

what do you even mean by that

[random cave]

Yeah I ment tokyo night

[tidal basin]

In here, i am smoothDamping the value for much smoother movement.

[random cave]

Search the extensions for "theme"

[willow scroll]

To smoothly interpolate between the colors, the 3rd parameter time should be constant, and, in your case, correspond to Time.unscaledDeltaTime

[summer stump]

Can you use the vector in smoothdamp? Of course... why not?

[grim tulip]

Yes sir!

[slender nymph]

all what i suggested does it transforms the direction to be the world space direction based on your object's rotation. it has nothing to do with changing the length of the vector at all

[tidal basin]

um okay i will try it

[willow scroll]

This is wrong, by the way

Make sure to change the Time parameter according to the fade duration

Setting the parameter to unscaledDeltaTime makes it only work when the duration is 1 real-time second

So simply multiply em

[tidal basin]

So i add that "move = transform.TransformDirection(move);" line and now its working. Idk am i do it right but at the end its working. Tysm!

    {
        // Smooth movement codes.
        Vector2 input = moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        currentInputVector = Vector2.SmoothDamp(currentInputVector, input, ref smoothInputVelocity, .1f);
        Vector3 move = new Vector3(currentInputVector.x, 0, currentInputVector.y);

        // Transform the move direction relative to the object's rotation
        move = transform.TransformDirection(move);

        controller.Move(playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime * move);
    }```

[slender nymph]

yes, that is how you use that

[mighty marsh]

I'm getting an error in unity for the 1st line of code in this function and I don't really understand why. The error is "object reference not set to an instance of an object. ```cs public void Movement(bool move)
{
//Extra gravity
rb.AddForce(Vector3.down * Time.deltaTime * 10);

        //Find actual velocity relative to where player is looking
        Vector2 mag = FindVelRelativeToLook();
        float xMag = mag.x, yMag = mag.y;

        //Counteract sliding and sloppy movement
        FrictionForce(InputManager.x, InputManager.y, mag);

        //If speed is larger than maxspeed, cancel out the input so you don't go over max speed
        if (InputManager.x > 0 && xMag > currentSpeed || InputManager.x < 0 && xMag < -currentSpeed) InputManager.x = 0;
        if (InputManager.y > 0 && yMag > currentSpeed || InputManager.y < 0 && yMag < -currentSpeed) InputManager.y = 0;

        float multiplier = (!grounded) ? controlAirborne : 1;
        float multiplierV = (!grounded) ? controlAirborne : 1;

        float multiplier2 = (weaponController.weapon != null) ? weaponController.weapon.weightMultiplier : 1;

        if (rb.velocity.sqrMagnitude < .02f) rb.velocity = Vector3.zero;

        if (move)
        {
            rb.AddForce(orientation.transform.forward * InputManager.y * acceleration * Time.deltaTime * multiplier * multiplierV / multiplier2);
            rb.AddForce(orientation.transform.right * InputManager.x * acceleration * Time.deltaTime * multiplier / multiplier2);
        }
        else
        {
            if (grounded) rb.velocity = Vector3.zero;
            return;
        }```

Also the error is only showing up in the unity console and not in the code

[slender nymph]

runtime exceptions will not show up in the code. go through this: https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[mighty marsh]

thanks

[void forum]

The error "object reference not set to an instance of an object" indicates that the variable rb is referencing a null object, likely due to a missing Rigidbody component or the script being attached to the wrong GameObject.

[mighty marsh]

ohhhhh okay thank you

[void forum]

Yeaa

[random cave]

#🖱️┃input-system

[shut finch]

How do I parse a json that uses the following naming convention: example_property

Having exampleProperty field in the target class does not work. Can I somehow give custom names to fields?

fyi: I am using JsonUtility.FromJson<T>() method

[short hazel]

Not with JsonUtility. With more potent serializers like Newtonsoft.Json there are attributes you can put on the fields/properties in case the names differ, but not with the basic JsonUtility

You'll either need to switch to another serialization library, or rename your fields so they have the same name as in the JSON objects

[shut finch]

how do I install Newtonsoft Json package? Couldn't find any installation guide here https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json@2.0/manual/index.html

[stuck palm]

am i doing this right? it doesnt feel like its lerping between the two curves correctly.

switch (damageMultiplier)
                {
                    case > 3:
                        MoveVector = MoveVector.normalized * (launchSpeed * heavyCurve.Evaluate(progress));
                        break;
                    case > 2:
                        MoveVector = MoveVector.normalized * (launchSpeed * Mathf.Lerp(mediumCurve.Evaluate(progress), heavyCurve.Evaluate(progress), damage / 3));
                        break;
                    default:
                        MoveVector = MoveVector.normalized * (launchSpeed * Mathf.Lerp(lightCurve.Evaluate(progress), mediumCurve.Evaluate(progress), damage / 2));
                        break;
                }

[solid pendant]

could anyone help me? i have 2 main problems with visual studio when working in unity. I dont have autocomplete pop up when i type code and I dont see any errors until i save and go back into Unity. It is wasting a lot of my time and none of the solutions online are helping me

[short hazel]

Add by URL from the Package Manager: com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json@3.2

[languid spire]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
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[polar acorn]

What values are you expecting to be getting for damage

[stuck palm]

oh waitttt

its meant to be damage multiplier

thanks

[solid pendant]

When I go to external script editor and change it from file extension to Unity 2022 it doesnt show any code whatsoever

[polar acorn]

That still doesn't make much sense

[solid pendant]

i cant find a solution

[stuck palm]

im trying to lerp damagemultiplier between itself and the next tier if that makes sense

[polar acorn]

If damageMultiplier is greater than 2, it's entirely possible that damage / 3 is greater than or equal to 1

[languid spire]

why would you change to 'Unity 2022'? That is not even an option offered

[stuck palm]

but then it goes to the next one doesnt it?

[solid pendant]

sorry, visual studio 2022

[rich egret]

!code

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[solid pendant]

mistyped, my brain turns to mush quickly

[polar acorn]

Ah, right, it'd always be somewhat less than 1. But it's odd to want to lerp approximately 90% of the way to the end every frame

[rich egret]

Why isn't the room list function being called back?
https://gdl.space/boyumokiwo.cpp

[languid spire]

Di you change it and press regenerate project files?

[solid pendant]

yep. visual studio pops up but no code appears

[languid spire]

screenshot your VS window

[stuck palm]

for my use case, it doesnt have to be super precise

as the value usually jumps over these thresholds anyway

[lethal bolt]

Why cant i see the Gizmos+

[polar acorn]

I'm just wondering what you're actually trying to do here. You're trying to set MoveVector to some value that is roughly 90% of the way between a specific point on two curves?

[polar acorn]

with a script from your project open

[polar acorn]

What function are those in

[solid pendant]

when i changed it to visual studio from file extension thats all it gives me

whenever i try to go into my code

[stuck palm]

im trying to do balloon knockback with my characters.

obviously the video is an extremely exaggerated version of what i want to do

but thats basically it

wait a minute

no this looks right

[lethal bolt]

Huu?

[polar acorn]

What function is the code in

[lethal bolt]

This?

[stuck palm]

its spelt wrong

[polar acorn]

Okay, and are you calling OndrawGizmoos anywhere?

[lethal bolt]

no...

[languid spire]

Window->Reset Window Layout

[stuck palm]

@polar acorn

while (stunRemaining > 0)
        {
            yield return null;
            stunRemaining -= Time.deltaTime;
            if (decay)
            {
                launched = true;
                float progress = (length - stunRemaining) / length;
                switch (damageMultiplier)
                {
                    case > 3:
                        MoveVector = MoveVector.normalized * (launchSpeed * heavyCurve.Evaluate(progress));
                        break;
                    case > 2:
                        MoveVector = MoveVector.normalized * (launchSpeed * Mathf.Lerp(mediumCurve.Evaluate(progress), heavyCurve.Evaluate(progress), damageMultiplier / 3));
                        break;
                    default:
                        MoveVector = MoveVector.normalized * (launchSpeed * Mathf.Lerp(lightCurve.Evaluate(progress), mediumCurve.Evaluate(progress), damageMultiplier / 2));
                        break;
                }
                MoveVector = FightPhysics.ApplyGravity(MoveVector);
                MoveVector = FightPhysics.CalcEnv(MoveVector);
            }
        }

this is the full thing, am i doing it wrong possibly?

[lethal bolt]

This is the code

[polar acorn]

Gizmos can only be drawn inside of a specific function

[stuck palm]

it doesnt feel like its following the curve

[polar acorn]

That function is not OndrawGizmoos

[lethal bolt]

oh

What is it suppose to be?

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, you want it to follow the curve, I'm wondering what the point of lerping between two curves is?

[solid pendant]

now i get that

[polar acorn]

Try looking it up. Let this be a test of your ability to find and read the documentation

[stuck palm]

just to try and do like a smooth transition between three discrete curves i've made

[polar acorn]

click that install button

[stuck palm]

make it feel better in the game

[languid spire]

RightClick On Solution-> Reload Project with Dependencies

[lethal bolt]

man.... okay i JUST got home from an 5hour test but ig the point is to learn XD

[polar acorn]

Why would you be changing between curves? Wouldn't you just be progressing through a single curve?

[lethal bolt]

Figured it out

❤️

[stuck palm]

i want the movement curve to be different depending on what the players health is

i thought it would be okay to lerp based on the difference between health

[polar acorn]

Okay, but is their health going to be changing during this coroutine? Seems like this would run once all the way through an animation curve, unless you restart it, in which case it would run all the way through a different curve

[polar acorn]

And absolutely nothing here has anything to do with health

[stuck palm]

no it wont be changing

[stuck palm]

health is called damagemultiplier

its not health per se

its more like smash bros

where ur damage goes up

bad naming on my part

[polar acorn]

Okay, so then it seems like that damage should be deciding which curve you use, rather than getting some value between two curves

[stuck palm]

so should i just remove the lerp, then?

[polar acorn]

I think so, yes

[stuck palm]

will try this, thanks

[split jay]

hey i also have a question, does anybody know how i can make something fly along a predetermined path in a natural way? ( i have this fireghost that is looking for shelter from the rain in a forest, he searches for a few seconds and then stops under a tree)

[wintry quarry]

Use the spline package

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.splines@2.5/manual/animate-spline.html

[split jay]

ahh that looks promising, is that like a curve i can draw in the world?

[worthy tundra]

i have something that makes 0 sense.
i have a pick up script, with an assignable layerMask variable, call it allowedLayers.

the player object is under the Player layer (i checked) and the allowedLayers is assigned to the Player layer.

i then do an OnTriggerEnter, and something illogical happens.

i have

if (other.gameObject.layer != allowedLayers) 
return;

and when the PLAYER enters the trigger, it returns (i checked with debug.log). however... when i do

if (other.gameObject.layer == allowedLayers)
return;

it DOESNT return.
idk why

[outer coral]

How can I load the unique GUID's of my objects when entering a new runtime? All the old ones are gone on startup (new ones get assigned) and I have them saved but theres no way for me to find which objects had which ids, currently I have it working except I am using FindObjectsOfType so it keeps loading the objects in a different order and thus not mapping to them correctly how can I accomplish this? Having a hard time trying to figure this out

to be explicit my enemies spawn coins if its the players first time defeating it, so i am saving the guid of all the enemies that were defeated, and then loading them to determine which enemies should drop coins (since the enemies will be back the next runtime) - essentially the incorrect mapping results in the wrong enemy not spawning coins when it should

[slender nymph]

because allowedLayers is a layer mask, but gameObject.layer is not
https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks

[worthy tundra]

what? isnt gameObject.layer the layermask of the game object?

[slender nymph]

no, it's the layer index

[worthy tundra]

but the manual says "the layer the gameobject is part of"

[slender nymph]

yes, it is the layer's index. it is not a layer mask. read through the link i sent

[languid spire]

no. Layer Id is not LayerMask of that id

[worthy tundra]

then how do i check for the layermask of a gameobject

[slender nymph]

did you bother reading the information on the link i shared?

[polar acorn]

Create a mask from the layer index

[languid spire]

convert the Layer id to a LayerMask

[slender nymph]

there's a convenient side bar that has some options for things like exactly what you are trying to do

[old dew]

can i ask a basic question about why unity cant find a gameobject i made?

[polar acorn]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[worthy tundra]

im not smart enough for binary lol it scares me

[old dew]

i wrote it bad

[polar acorn]

!code

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[willow breach]

how carful should i be with the data i need to save? do i need to write to the file every time there is a change incase it crush or can i just save when the game closes?

[old dew]

yea i know i miss clicked the enter without the shift

[slender nymph]

also why are you even checking if it is in a mask manually? just filter the collision from the layer matrix

[worthy tundra]

    if (partita != null)
    {
        partita.SetActive(false);
    }

how can you set it to inactive if you dont have a reference to it?

[worthy tundra]

damn im a dumbass how did i not think of that lol thank you

[old dew]

its strange because that part works well, its just the FinePartita one that doesn't get setted active

[worthy tundra]

wait nvm i read != as ==

my brain refuses to function today

[old dew]

void HandlePlayerCollision(GameObject player)
    {
        // Disable the player
        player.SetActive(false);

        // Determine the winner
        string winner = player.name == "Player1" ? "Player 2" : "Player 1";

        // Disable the game object called "Partita"
        GameObject partita = GameObject.Find("Partita");
        if (partita != null)
        {
            partita.SetActive(false);
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("Partita GameObject not found");
        }

        // Enable the game object called "FinePartita"
        GameObject finePartita = GameObject.Find("FinePartita");
        if (finePartita != null)
        {
            finePartita.SetActive(true);

            // Update the text of the "WinnerText" object
            Text textComponent = finePartita.GetComponentInChildren<Text>();
            if (textComponent != null)
            {
                textComponent.text = "complimenti al " + winner + " per aver vinto il round! \n \n \n \n \n Premi la X per tornare al menù";
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.LogWarning("Text component not found in FinePartita");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("FinePartita GameObject not found");
        }
    }

i get the debug warning Debug.LogWarning("FinePartita GameObject not found");

i checked the name alredy and its the same

[polar acorn]

Then there's no active objects in the scene named "FinePartita"

[languid spire]

this
GameObject partita = GameObject.Find("Partita");
will only find an active gameobject. Is it active?

[old dew]

ohhh i see

and how should i write it?

because it is not active

[slender nymph]

you should use a better way to get a reference to that object

[polar acorn]

Is there a reason you can't just use a public or serialized variable and dragging it in?

[old dew]

idk i can try

[solid pendant]

@languid spireI think i got it fixed thanks to you, i appreciate it ❤️

[outer coral]

Any advice on this? I cant seem to find any tutorials on how to do this

[swift crag]

are you talking about InstanceIDs?

[outer coral]

No

[swift crag]

Unity objects don't have GUIDs on them.

Show me what you're doing, then

[outer coral]

I am giving them unique guids at runtime and saving the ones that have been killed, then loading those guids the next runtime my problem comes when I cant map the objects to the ids they were given the first time

I've tried using a dictionary but if anything it just made it worse

[slender nymph]

ideally you would assign the GUID at edit time, not runtime. the problem with doing it at runtime, is how do you know what GUID maps to which object without a deterministic way to remap them. and it's not like you'd be able to just generate a new GUID, because that would be kind of pointless.
so assign the GUID at edit time, then it will never change and you will just not have the problem you are currently trying to solve

[outer coral]

What do you mean edit time?

would that work in a build?

[slender nymph]

wdym would it work in a build? if you have already assigned the GUIDs and they are serialized in some way then it will just be there in a build already

[outer coral]

Okay that makes sense

So how do I assign them at edit time

[final sluice]

Can someone recommend me a good free unity course for developing 2d games using Unity ? Thank you

[eternal needle]

Get a GUID, assign it to the field you want it to be. The same way you assign any other value

[outer coral]

So you mean manually go add a guid to all of my objects? That is the easiest way?

[slender nymph]

i mean you could write a script to do it automatically, but otherwise yeah

[eternal needle]

You can have an editor script do it for you

[silk fossil]

yo my block cooldown method is not working

the BlockCooldown is not startinf

idk why

[slender nymph]

do you actually use those bools you assign to?

[wintry quarry]

the code is probably not running in the first place

Use more logs

[silk fossil]

I use the canBlock and canParry

[zenith cypress]

Can even just:

// example
public string Id => _id;

[SerializeField] private string _id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

And just serialize the string. I do this for my dialogue graph nodes.

[silk fossil]

the canblock and canparry are sucesffully equaling to false but its just the startcouroutine not working

[wintry quarry]

how do you know

show logs

[silk fossil]

my player is taking damage

[wintry quarry]

show your console

[silk fossil]

oka

[solid pendant]

very simple question that i never quite understood even when explained a few times. when would i use public and private? what exactly is the difference?

[rich adder]

encapsulation

[zenith cypress]

class Foo {
  public int A;
  private int B;
}

var foo = new Foo();
foo.A = 1; // no error, public is accessable to anything if it has an instance to Foo
foo.B = 2; // error! private cannot be accessed outside of the type

[silk fossil]

do you just want me to show whole console

[astral falcon]

public is accessable outside of the class, private is only accessable inside the class / reference itself

[silk fossil]

before block cooldown

and after blockcooldown

it looks like it prints blockcooldown has started

[rich adder]

https://upstackhq.com/blog/software-development/object-oriented-programming-with-c-abstraction-and-encapsulation

[silk fossil]

which is in the couritine

[wintry quarry]

Looks like your code is running just fine

[silk fossil]

but does not reset the blockcount

[wintry quarry]

See how it says "Block cooldown started"

[silk fossil]

ya

[wintry quarry]

So the problem is not what you said

the BlockCooldown is not startinf
This is not correct

[wintry quarry]

and yes that would have been preferable to these cropped screenshots

[silk fossil]

ya now I think the problem is that the playerhealth.blockcount=0 is not happening

[outer coral]

yeah... this is definitely smarter, I got to remove like 300 lines of code and it works exactly how I want. I guess manual is better sometimes, thanks!

[wintry quarry]

Maybe your coroutine is not coming back from the yield which can happen for several reasons:

• You have a really long cooldown
• Time scale has been slowed or set to 0
• The object running the coroutine was deactivated or destroyed

Most of the time it's the third one

[robust turret]

hey everyone

I am new here and confused of everything

[silk fossil]

ohhh that makes sense

[wintry quarry]

That's unfortunate

[zenith cypress]

Why are you needing to assign a guid manually 🤔

[astral falcon]

Does your coroutine get started several times as you wait for some seconds on the beginning before setting the block back to 0? So its overwriting itself?

[silk fossil]

basically this code is attatched to an projectile object and when it hits something, it gets destroyed

alr tnx man

[wintry quarry]

well yeah then that's obviously the issue

[outer coral]

because of this issue I was having read up if you are interested, assigning at runtime was not working out

[robust turret]

Is there any store in unity on some mock projects to start with?

for free

I wanna try a few things

[rich adder]

https://assetstore.unity.com/templates

unity learn aslo has more

[robust turret]

here or separate website?

there are a lot of threads here

[astral falcon]

google unity learn

[robust turret]

kk

[rich adder]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[robust turret]

also which one is more useful youtube tutorials or unity learn?

[rich adder]

learn

[astral falcon]

#💻┃unity-talk for general questions like this also

[robust turret]

ye that was my next question XD

there are 100 threads here XDD

thanks y'all

[zenith cypress]

I don't get the issue though from your description of it in relation to what you are trying to do. There isn't any code to show off the problem either from your original message, so it's mainly guesswork on what you were originally doing. That's why I'm asking.

[outer coral]

the original issue was that I was assigning guids at runtime, saving and loading them, and then attempting to correlate them back to their original objects with some sort of mapping, but as some others pointed out it seems to be more efficient to just assign them at edit time so that that whole mapping issue goes away

[solid pendant]

but in that case why not just use public for everything and only access it if you need it. why lock it to only a specific class?

[swift crag]

yeah -- if you can assign GUIDs reliably at runtime, then you already have a way to correctly identify which item is which: their order!

[wintry quarry]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_programming)

[zenith cypress]

The more public everything is, the more issues you will end up having when everything touches everything else all over the place. Encapsulation makes code easier to manage.

[astral falcon]

To have clean code, to be able to avoid unwanted changes of variables, that should only be handled by the class itself. Same question would go for, why not write ALL code in one csharp file?

[wintry quarry]

Think of it this way:

When designing a car, why don't they just expose the engine components to the passenger cabin? Wouldn't that make it easier to work on the engine when necessary? You could just ignore it otherwise.

[outer coral]

yeah... my code was a mess trying to map them back as if its somehow more efficient doing all that extra work just so i didnt have to enter them manually

[west sonnet]

I have 2 sprites for my player jumping animation. One for when the player jumps up and one when they fall back down. Anyone have any idea how I could detect when the player is moving up and down in script?

[solid pendant]

that does make sense, thanks guys

[west sonnet]

I know how to detect when the player is moving along the Y axis, but not up or down seperately

[swift crag]

by the way, this might be handy for giving the coins their IDs:

void Reset() {
  myId = GenerateRandomID();
}

[astral falcon]

What is your movement based on? rigidbody, transform.position, kinematic or physics gravity based?

[swift crag]

Reset runs when a component is attached, or when you hit Reset in its context menu

[slender nymph]

you still don't have to enter in anything manually, just generate the GUID automatically when the object is created/reset

[west sonnet]

Rigidbody

[swift crag]

I do this in my game, actually!

I assign GUIDs to some things so I can identify them when I save and load config data

[astral falcon]

Check if velocity is going up or down and if its jumping might do the trick

[outer coral]

that works on monobehaviour?

[zenith cypress]

That's what this example was for

[astral falcon]

But you do create those items before runtime anyway, right?

[swift crag]

Right.

If you create the items at runtime, then you can at least keep track of the order you created the objects in

maybe keep a running counter

[west sonnet]

Checking the velocity would just give me a float, right? How could I differentiate the up and down movement?

[swift crag]

velocity is a Vector3

[astral falcon]

velocity is a directon vector

[swift crag]

speed would be a single float

[west sonnet]

Oookay, I think I get ya

[outer coral]

incredible!!! thank you ❤️

me when I didnt even know that method existed

[zenith cypress]

Serialize it all to an ecs and store the world to disk

[swift crag]

dump the game's memory to disk

[astral falcon]

Not sure why you want create a guid for runtime created objects anyway

[west sonnet]

It worked, thanks

[astral falcon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.GetInstanceID.html

[zenith cypress]

That would be "fine" if you didn't save the object state to disk, as that is an instance id. So it will change every time.

[swift crag]

the original goal was to remember which items got collected

if you know the order you generate coins in, you can just write down the indices of the coins

instance IDs are not consistent, so they are not useful here

[astral falcon]

Yeah, this is only for runtime obejcts that only live in that runtime scope. If you wanna store those values across game starts, you need to save them anyway.

[swift crag]

well, if the objects aren't going away, you just store references to the objects themselves :p

[astral falcon]

Thats why I was so confused when the discussino began about tracking the order of the generation of coins for example 😄

[zenith cypress]

Guids are nice too if you need cross-object communication across game state deserialization. Since then you can load them back up where they were, with their same id, and use that guid as an id into a lookup map. Dunno what that would end up being needed for but it is a useful thing nevertheless. Maybe if an enemy has to follow another enemy around, that could be a use-case for it

[swift crag]

I use GUIDs in two places:

• I copy asset GUIDs into my ScriptableObject assets, then look them up in a big dictionary. That lets me write GUIDs and then read them to look up the correct asset
• I generate GUIDs in some MonoBehaviour instances, so that I can identify them in serialized data

[zenith cypress]

I do the same for asset guids yeah. I have a custom AssetRef<T> that I serialize to its guid generated from its asset path relative to a root folder (we don't change the paths after we make it). Then that is converted to a guid when saved to disk. And is converted back when loaded up. Super nifty. I do need to rewrite this at some point once we get funding, but for our latest demo it works great.

[stuck palm]

velocity.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        if (velocity.y < maxSpeed)
        {
            velocity.y = maxSpeed;
        }

is this a good way to clamp if i only want to clamp a maximum?

[swift crag]

you have that backwards, I think

it sets the Y component to maxSpeed if it's less than maxSpeed

otherwise, yes, that's reasonable

[stuck palm]

maxspeed is meant to be like the fastest you can fall

so like

if its less than -30 for example

sets it to -30

[swift crag]

ah, okay

[stuck palm]

-30 being the vector y component

[astral falcon]

Could also be written like this I guess

float maxSpeed = -30;
velocity.y = Mathf.Max(velocity.y - Time.deltaTime, maxSpeed);

[swift crag]

an alternatve that's more general:

Vector3 down = Vector3.down;

Vector3 fallingPart = Vector3.Project(velocity, down);
Vector3 otherPart = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(velocity, down);

if (Vector3.Dot(fallingPart, down) > 0)
   fallingPart = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(fallingPart, 30);

velocity = fallingPart + otherPart;

Not so useful here, but it would be if gravity was going all over the place!

split your velocity into two pieces:

• the part that's aligned with "down"
• the part that isn't

if the first part points in the same direction as "down", clamp its length

put them back together

[stuck palm]

 velocity.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
 velocity.y = Mathf.Min(velocity.y,maxSpeed);

i did it like this

[astral falcon]

But min will return anything below maxSpeed, if I am not wrong

[swift crag]

this is for falling

[stuck palm]

i guess i could max and the absolute value of velocity.y

[swift crag]

you want Mathf.Max for falling

so that you get your currently Y velocity as long as it's more than -30

[astral falcon]

See my one liner

[stuck palm]

i see

[stuck palm]

velocity.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        velocity.y = Mathf.Max(velocity.y,maxSpeed);

so like this?

[astral falcon]

yes

[swift crag]

I would call that variable "max fall speed" to make it more obvious than it's going to be negative

[stuck palm]

okay

thank you 😄

[stuck palm]

i suppose for bidirectional movement i'd use clamp?

[swift crag]

Yes, you could use clamp there

[reef patio]

Hello.

I have a player controller script that's a bit buggy, can someone help?

Courtesy of Udemy.

[deft grail]

you need to be more descriptive and show more information

what script? !code
whats buggy about it

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[reef patio]

https://gdl.space/midesawero.cs it has a few red lines

[swift crag]

okay, and what are the actual errors?

[deft grail]

😂 screenshot the console in Unity to explain "the red lines"

[reef patio]

ok one moment

[deft grail]

following a multiplayer course, not good...

[deft grail]

Enemy enemy = hit.collider.GetComponent().< Enemy > ();

[wintry quarry]

These are basic C# syntax errors. If you're struggling with these it's really not a good idea to be trying to make a multiplayer game.

[deft grail]

this is A line with an error

[eager wolf]

is there a way to link one TMPro text box with another in a scene so that it copies what ever is written in the other one WITHOUT using Update() ?

[reef patio]

the get component stays underlined in red

[rich adder]

events

[wintry quarry]

Make a function that updates both

[reef patio]

is there a spacing error

[eager wolf]

which even is triggered when the text changes?

[reef patio]

or is it a missing brace?

[wintry quarry]

no you make your own function that updates one and fires the event

[swift crag]

the syntax is completely wrong

[wintry quarry]

or a property, which is basically just a function.

[swift crag]

the generic type parameter has migrated past the function call, and then you're trying to call it again

[swift crag]

i concur with this

[rich adder]

yes make a property that invokes event onchange or use regular method as suggested

[eager wolf]

i'm trying to do text shadow, and only way i found was to create another text, place it under and update it. Is there a better way?

[deft grail]

how long have you been using Unity and C# and have you done any previous tutorials?

[wintry quarry]

TMP has a built in text shadow thing

[wintry quarry]

yeah I mean I get it

[reef patio]

ive been using Unity a couple months, and c# for about a couple months, I have done other tutorials

[wintry quarry]

If you must do it with two objects, just make a component that handles it all

[reef patio]

its asking for an identifier

[zenith cypress]

Unity also has a Shadow component for ui

[rich adder]

TMP has it as build in material ?

[wintry quarry]

You should know how to write GetComponent properly by now if it's been a few months

[eager wolf]

right, with Underlay?

[rich adder]

whats wrong with the shadow built in TMP shader?

[deft grail]

these are basic errors you should be able to solve then, is your !ide configured?
and if you cant then you shouldnt really be doing multiplayer

[eternal falcon]

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[wintry quarry]

Just compare your code:

GetComponent().< Enemy > ();```
With literally any GetComponent example on the internet

[rich adder]

couple of month is not even remotely close for doing multiplayer

[eager wolf]

when i try doing that, it creates these bugged lines

Does that have to do with my font settings?

[summer stump]

Count these braces. Seems like an issue. See it?

[reef patio]

yeah

[rich adder]

you've been coding these few months without a configured ide ?

[deft grail]

a lot of people do that who dont come to the server

if a video doesnt say it how else would you know it needs to be configured

[reef patio]

ive been with a ide that's at Csharp

[summer stump]

By wondering why the video's code looks different and autocompletes, then researching it.
At least that was my path to it

[reef patio]

one moment ill brb

[trail crypt]

I have a question about exporting from blender into unity. I have this animation, mesh, and rig that's in blender and it loops well, uses root motion, and doesn't have any obvious errors while it's in blender. I store the animation in a NLA editor strip. However, when I export the thing into unity, the root motion seems to change and instead of working like it should, the animation moves the character back every 22 frames, which I know doesn't exist in the original blender animation. Does anyone know why this could be happening?

[wintry quarry]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow #🏃┃animation

[reef patio]

ok, I'm going to go over it again, much more thoroughly

thank you guys for your time and support

[wintry quarry]

Use a field initializer?
Or have the constructors call each other.

Also make sure you're not using a constructor on a MonoBehaviour

Optional parameters are a potential alternative too

structs are not classes, no

they are types

[eager wolf]

can i edit a font's generation settings after it's been generated? Trying to change the padding

[wintry quarry]

unclear what you mean by "use them as classes"

[rich adder]

in c# they are difference between reference types and value types

[wintry quarry]

In C# the difference is that structs are value typed and classes are reference-typed

C# has proper access modifiers

[rich adder]

pretty big in my opinion

[slender nymph]

in c++ structs just hold data

nothing at all to do with being a "private version" of a class

[rich adder]

if you dont specify access modifier its also private in c#

[slender nymph]

wdym it's defaulted to private? like the members? because c++'s struct members are public by default iirc

[dense root]

Any ideas on why my player is refusing to move?

private void Update()
{
    if (isMoving)
    {
        input.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        input.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

        if (input != Vector2.zero )
        {
            var targetPos = transform.position;
            targetPos.x = input.x;
            targetPos.y = input.y;

            StartCoroutine(Move(targetPos));
        }
    }
}


/* 
coroutine to move player from current position to target position
used to do something over a period of time, in this case moving the player from current position to next position
checks difference between target position and current position is greater than some value
yield return null stops coroutine and begins it again
*/
IEnumerator Move(Vector3 targetPos)
{
    isMoving = true;
    
    while((targetPos - transform.position).sqrMagnitude > Mathf.Epsilon)
    {
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, targetPos, moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        yield return null;
    }
    transform.position = targetPos;
}

[wintry quarry]

you're only processing movement... if you're already moving?

Should if (isMoving) be if (!isMoving) ?

or maybe even better:

if (isMoving) return;

// the rest of the code```

Also, you never set isMoving = false

[slender nymph]

also this code will only ever allow you to move within 1 grid space unit of 0,0

[dense root]

Oh I see...

What do I need to do to move more than 1 grid space within 0,0?

[slender nymph]

consider adding to the target position instead of assigning each axis to the input

[wintry quarry]

Well first off best practice would be to store the current grid position with int variables or a Vector2Int

because right now if your user is using a joystick / gamepad, sadness is going to happen

[dense root]

Can you show me an example?

[slender nymph]

it's literally just += instead of =

[dense root]

Oh

Thank you

[wintry quarry]

Or a = a + b; instead of a = b;

[dense root]

Works great, thank you all

So i copied this code from a tutorial video, what steps do you recommend I take so that I understand it further?

[random cave]

Vector2 inputDir = value.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        Vector3 movementDir = new (inputDir.x, 0, inputDir.y);
        rb.velocity = movementDir * speed;```
Why isnt this working?
It says:
'InputValue' does not contain a definition for 'ReadValue'

[slender nymph]

bool does not have an implicit cast to integer in c#, nor does the inverse exist either

[random cave]

Ctrl c ctrlv or wrote it?

[zenith cypress]

It always saddens me that I cannot if (myInt)

[dense root]

Well I hand wrote it of course

[random cave]

Make him look at the cursor

[rich adder]

int isTrue = myBool ? 1 : 0 ;

[dense root]

But I still "copied it" from a video

[random cave]

Make him look at the cursor.

[dense root]

Wdym make him look at a the cursor? Like point the animation towards it?

[random cave]

Make the player look at the mouse cursor

[dense root]

How do I go about doing that?

[rich adder]

haha yeah it happens in the beginning a lot

value types are pretty efficient

[silk fossil]

bro wtf is happening bro why is my console not outputting everything

just a second ago it was outputing everything

now nothign

[rich adder]

yeah you can throw really bad code at them and they still run great

what a time

[summer stump]

Clicked hide logs?

[eager wolf]

How would I go about changing the underlay color of my text based on the color of the text?

[rich adder]

we wont even need code just inject our ideas into the machine

[silk fossil]

🙏 🙏 you deserve nirvana

[dense root]

What position does transform.position refer to? Is it always self-referential? So in my case the player object?

[rich adder]

transform.position is self world position
transform.localPosition is position from parent, if no parent its world pos

[dense root]

What is world position?

[rich adder]

the position in the world

[dense root]

Position in the world of the object? Isn't that transform.position?

[ivory bobcat]

Transform's position property would be that of the world position

The local position would be what you'd see in the inspector

[dense root]

Can you provide an example of when you would use the world position?

If I understand it correctly transform.position would be used for something like movement, but what would world be used for?

[ivory bobcat]

They are both simply positions

Either can be used for movement

The local position would simply be the position of the object without accounting for the parental offset.

[dense root]

Hmm I think i kind of understand it

[silk fossil]

if (!collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Boss") && !collision.gameObject.CompareTag("shooter") && !collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Projectile"))
{
Destroy(gameObject); // Destroy projectile if it hits anything else
}

bascially there is one boss object, one shoooter object and there are multiple projectile objecters everywhere, and the projectile objects sometims hit each other and just get stuck in the air, how would I fix this

I dont want the projectile objects to destroy each otehr when they touch

but I also don't want the projectile objects to collide and just float in the air

this is an "oncollisionenter" method btw

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe have them on a layer that would ignore each other

[eager wolf]

How can i make it so the Text Underlay (aka shadow) is based on the text color (like example on the right) rather than a fixed color for every piece of text (like on the left example)?

it seems impossible

[real trellis]

i just typed a big ass thing and resolved my problem just by typing it out bye

[ivory bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LayerBasedCollision.html @silk fossil

[rich adder]

also if you want collision, you typically don't move transforms directly but thats another topic 😛

[silk fossil]

like if I have projectiles all in the same layer, they wont collide or do anything with each other?

[rich adder]

this is a code channel

[zenith cypress]

Root @ (1, 0, 0) // local position
 - Child @ (10, 1, 0) // local position

Root world position -> (1, 0, 0)
// this is effectively each transform's local position added up
// in its parent tree
// so (1, 0, 0) + (10, 1, 0) = (11, 1, 0)
Child world position -> (11, 1, 0)

// local positions allow you to position relative to a parent.
// such as an item that bobs up and down on a moving platform.
// the platform would want the item to move along with it
// while the bobbing effect would want to only apply to the local position
// so it still follows the platform, but moves up and down.

[ivory bobcat]

Have that layer ignore objects on the same layer 🤷‍♂️

[eager elm]

If your projectiles don't need collision data, i.e. they never bounce off walls or anything like that you might want to change the collider to a trigger collider and use OnTriggerEnter() instead.

[eager wolf]

oh, where am i supposed to post this, then?

[silk fossil]

oh i see the thing you sent me, i can cahnge it in settings

[silk fossil]

i tried on trigger enter before but the object never destroyed itself when the method was callled, im going to try the layer method first

[analog pivot]

hello, I did a little looking. I know its a bit of a meme to say I followed a tutorial verbatim but I checked it out and set { doesnt need a ; before it but... again super new here just trying out.

I kinda understand that most parameters or whatever the term is need ; but thats usually within the brackets

[deft grail]

are you serious? you didnt join the server today...

[dense root]

I think I get it, thank you so much for that

[zenith cypress]

remove the ; on those. They aren't fields anymore, they are properties.

[eager elm]

you might have to write your own script that handles that.

[analog pivot]

that worked. not sure how or why but thank you

[teal viper]

You don't need the semicolons after the property name. I'm sure that's not how it is in the tutorial

[eternal needle]

you should configure your !ide also

[eternal falcon]

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[analog pivot]

it isnt. youre correct

[silk fossil]

good news: it ignores objects
bad news: though minimal, it is randomly getting stuck on something which I do not know of

[faint agate]

Hello, im having trouble on something im sure is simple. I made a script to shoot a ray cast and if it hits the object tagged with candrag, I want to move it up and down on the y axis while its still on the line of my raycast. How should I approach this?
here is my script https://gdl.space/toxiciwopo.cs

[rich adder]

move it up and down as in animation? use dotween or coroutine

[faint agate]

would this be me manually moving it since thats what Im going for. Not something I click on and it automatically moves up or down

[rich adder]

you did not specify that

[faint agate]

sorry

[rich adder]

how do you want to move it up and down?

you could probably raycast on a plane

set plane center where the object center is

maybe explain the mechanic of what you want to do

[dense root]

If you got code from a tutorial, what process do you do to understand how it works and ensure you can replicate it later?

[eternal needle]

this is called learning

[dense root]

I hate just watching a video, writing the code and not retaining the information/concepts

[rich adder]

look up the functions you are using, use them in different usecases over and over

repetition is key to retaining info

[eternal needle]

you need to experiment with it, change values, see what outcome it does. Try to understand what most functions actually do

A lot of tutorials really are just shit though, so be wary

[faint agate]

simply put
The redcircle game object is a target. I click, hold down mouse to drag down redcircle on the Y axis to hit a greencube. The player has to keep the crosshair on the redcircle in order to keep pulling it down and hit the greencube. I need the redcirlce to follow the crosshair going down on the Y axis as long as the crosshair is on the redcirlce.

I hope this makes sense, bad at explaining things

[hybrid tapir]

how do you prevent 2 bools from being active at one time in the inspector? like if there is bool lamborgini and benz, you cant have 2 favorite cars.

[rich adder]

I still think raycast on plane is way to go and just only have the obj you casted on only use y pos. I'm still confused on what you're going for fully

[rich adder]

use enums

[summer stump]

Use enums or have a setter where when you set one true you set the other false
Enum is better

[cosmic dagger]

bools aren't active, but either true or false. when one is set to true, set the other to false . . .

though, an enum is definitely better for this . . .

[hybrid tapir]

can an enum run without play mode? i want to make a big selection of bools for the inspector and if any of these bools are set to true, this other bool will be set to false if it was true and if the one bool is set to true, sets the other bools to false

[cosmic dagger]

you need a custom inspector, or possibly, OnValidate for that . . .

[summer stump]

Enums do not run. Nor do bools.

Selecting an enum will make that the current value only though

[hybrid tapir]

darn it my mind switched meanings again, i was thinking of ienumerator when u said enum

lmao

[cosmic dagger]

an enum displays a drop-down. only one value can be selected . . .

[hybrid tapir]

i should probably stop trying today

[summer stump]

public enum MyValues {
  X,
  Y,
  Z
}

public MyValues currentValue;

currentValue can only be x, y, or z (as written, there is a way around this, but that is not what you want)

[rich adder]

well

flags

think Layermask

[cosmic dagger]

i didn't mention flags or using bitmasks though. that's a different story . . .

[rich adder]

for sure, just pointing out its an option for selecting multiple in inspector

[hybrid tapir]

i know the way to just correct the bool at runtime, i was wondering if there is a way to run my if statements out of runtime

[cosmic dagger]

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[hybrid tapir]

oh

thank you

[hybrid tapir]

how do i reference the bool in my struct from here

[teal viper]

Item perhaps? I'm really skeptical about subclassing a dictionary though

[cosmic dagger]

you loop by accessing the value of each kvp (key-value pair) of the dictionary . . .

then you can access the bool field of each extVals struct . . .

[hybrid tapir]

i saw this on stackoverflow but theres only an example void of how to add a value to the dictionary

[summer stump]

Just fyi, those are called methods, not voids.
Void is something a method can return (meaning it returns nothing)

[wintry quarry]

You would do:

foreach (KeyValuePair<int, extVals> pair in this) {
  int key = pair.Key;
  extVals value = pair.Value;
  bool myBool = value.fileBool;
}```

It's pretty unusual to be deriving from Dictionary in practice though

instead of just, for example having a Dictionary field

Also it's C# convention for type names to use PascalCase, not camelCase (extVals -> ExtVals)

[cosmic dagger]

honestly, i missed (skimmed over) the derivation from Dictionary. that's wild . . .

[teal viper]

Maybe share the stack overflow page that you're referring to and provide some more context on the issue.

[hybrid tapir]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/569903/multi-value-dictionary

isnt it funny this is how i just discovered what a struct is

[summer stump]

you could even go a step further and implement your own dictionary class that will handle any special operations that you would need. for example if you wanted to have an Add method that accepted an int, object, and double

Is there a reason you chose that?

[timid oriole]

Hey guys I wanna learn code is there a full course where I can learn all the basics I know most of the theory behind coding just not the actual words lol

[summer stump]

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php

Microsoft has a guide

And !learn, which is obviously specific to unity

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[timid oriole]

awesome I'm going to look into that thank you

is it free im kinda poor

[summer stump]

All are free

[timid oriole]

awesome ty

[hybrid tapir]

my intention was to hard code the values, somehow serialize the bools, and then use OnValidate to make sure that one specific bool is false when any of the others are true, and when that one bool is true, sets the other bools to false

[summer stump]

And remind me why you don't just go with enums?

Which would not need all that extra work

[hybrid tapir]

i wanted to make it so that with any of the other bools, any amount of them can be set to true

[summer stump]

So, you can use the [Flags] attribute on an enum

But then you need to deal with setting flags false. Certainly a lot easier and cleaner than with bools though

[tall cliff]

hey all I have no programming knowledge but I have to make a unity game for my scholarship that could grant full ride and it's due in about 3 weeks

I'm trying to adjust the center of mass of my car. How can I do so if the boxes are greyed out? (I used a script from a tutorial on youtube)

[polar acorn]

Those are read-only values. You can't edit them

[tall cliff]

So there's no way to change them? I heard lowering the COM helped keep the car from flipping over

[wintry quarry]

From code

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-centerOfMass.html

[timid oriole]

hello guys I'm very new but not to sure why I get error

[queen adder]

how to change tiling of a material again? I remember there's a specific code for this

[queen adder]

if() = true; is wrong

[timid oriole]

oh

[queen adder]

and the other one

[timid oriole]

what would I use instead of if ("potato") = true then?

[queen adder]

should just be if(x) and if(!x)

[tall cliff]

do I just replace the "com" in the script with the value? public class `ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour
{
public Vector3 com;
public Rigidbody rb;

void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    rb.centerOfMass = com;
}

}`

[timid oriole]

I don't fully understand sorry do you mind explaining

[queen adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/statements/selection-statements

[timid oriole]

Thank you I'm reading it now 🙂

[polar acorn]

Why are you trying to set an if statement to a boolean

[timid oriole]

Honestly not sure just learning code since 5 minutes ago haha

[queen adder]

new dev that skipped basics

[timid oriole]

I mean

I'm following a guide recommended by someone

[polar acorn]

I know, I'm asking leading questions to let them realize why the code makes no sense

[timid oriole]

Just curios how they interact with each other

Well to me it makes sense

idk

If applesauce is true say this and if its not true say that

I don't know coding but that's just how I saw it

[tall cliff]

I'm not seeing any setting in the script when I go back to unity to adjust the COM

[queen adder]

anyways, the () is important to look out for, it controls who can intereact with another

[polar acorn]

Why did you put an entire second class inside this script

[queen adder]

im more worried with that semicolon tho lol 😆

[real trellis]

hey man, keep it up! you'll get this sorted out in no time. once you get to applying these skills, it'll all help over time.

my best advice is when you see an example/tutorial, retype all of it without copy/pasting.

[timid oriole]

I see in the link you sent is it not refering to an int instead of a booleen can I not use the true and false instead of a numerical value?

[tall cliff]

I got no idea how this works tbh, I'm trying to make a game for a scholarship project so I can go INTO game development

lemme try something rq

[timid oriole]

I appreciate it man its honestly really interesting but hard lol

[polar acorn]

Then you should take some time to actually learn the basics of how code works. There are links in the pins, or on !learn

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[wintry quarry]

do you have two classes in this file? What's going on there?

That' looks super weird

[polar acorn]

You can do whatever you want

as long as whatever's in the if condition evaluates to a boolean

[tall cliff]

I don't have time unfortunately or else I would

[timid oriole]

won't it evaluate it based on what I set it as for exmaple I said it was true so if I said if its true say this why didn't that work

[tall cliff]

I thought the code was copy and paste my neurons didn't connect LOL

[polar acorn]

Then you very very do not have time to just make shit up and hope it works

[tall cliff]

I got an idea tho

[polar acorn]

It will evaluate to what it is

[queen adder]

if() only accepts bools, the docs I sent used numbers with < > and == to convert numbers to bools

[real trellis]

you don't have a week?

[tall cliff]

I got a job

[real trellis]

okay so does nearly everyone here

[tall cliff]

Once I'm done with fixing the center of mass I'm just making levels and stuff

I can model all night

[timid oriole]

bools are true and false statements right?

I guess what I read was wrong in the tutorial rip

[tall cliff]

CHAT I DID IT

[queen adder]

yes

[tall cliff]

YIPPEE

[real trellis]

hey man, good on you. good luck with your project - try to keep the scope of it small and simple! (i say this as someone who did modeling and art first and foremost)

[tall cliff]

thanks! It's just a simple racing game

one last thing though, my car is jittery now when I drive. How can I fix that

[real trellis]

what is the geometry of the ground like? is it terrain or something you'd modeled?

[summer stump]

Your issue is that = is not checking if it is true, it SETS it to true. == is a comparison

Also, the whole thing needs to be INSIDE the parentheses

[tall cliff]

it's a flat plane

I'll record rq

[timid oriole]

Doesn't the if statement check if its true or is there more code involved in that?

We confirmed I set it to true then if see's if its true no?

[summer stump]

An if statement evaluates a bool

[summer stump]

You set it to true incorrectly,

[timid oriole]

dang

[summer stump]

if (whatever == true) {
}

Not
if (whatever) = true

[timid oriole]

THAT

[polar acorn]

an if statement runs the code inside it if the condition evaluates to true

[timid oriole]

makes so much more sense

because

the condtion

should be in the if statement

not outside

Dumb mistake ty ❤️

[tall cliff]

it's flat terrain however here's the vid

ignore the colors that's just bc i'm bad at OBS lol

embed fail moment lemme convert it

[timid oriole]

Does anyone know why I'm getting error

[tall cliff]

I could be wrong but doesnt the code end with a } usually

[polar acorn]

What do all those underlined lines say

[tall cliff]

like the last line

[timid oriole]

sorry

[tall cliff]

I'm no programmer though so dont take my advice lol

[timid oriole]

Uh I thought

could ends with } to close it

[timid oriole]

I'll check again

[real trellis]

hovering over those will tell you -- if you have C# and intellisense working in your IDE

[timid oriole]

Yeah it added another {}

but it didn't fix it

[summer stump]

The braces are not the issue

[polar acorn]

Did you hover over all of the errors and see what they are saying the problems are

[summer stump]

Look at the last character on the if line

And reread how to write else if

[timid oriole]

Yep

they just said preview and add {}

[timid oriole]

I don't see a problem with the last letter

[summer stump]

Character, not letter

[timid oriole]

Does it need a condtion but I thought I set the condtion above

I don't think it needs caps and the spaces look right

I'm not ending the code there either so idrk

[summer stump]

Look at the format of an if statement and compare it to yours

[polar acorn]

You're ending the code whenever you hit a semicolon

[summer stump]

Especially what comes between the ending ) and beginning {
Hint: nothing should go there

[timid oriole]

Yeah

[timid oriole]

Yeah google tells me to set condtion2 but that doesn't make sense

[tall cliff]

oop now my car is buttery smooth I just changed the interpolate value from "none" to "interpolate"

[real trellis]

{
    gamer = fuel;
    Debug.Log("hi");
} ```

oops bye guys i'm done for

[summer stump]

Not relevant at all to the issue

[timid oriole]

oop

[spare mountain]

put ```cs on the same line

[summer stump]

if (something)
{
  // do something
}

else if (something else)
{
}

[timid oriole]

ohhh

U would put the something else in the ()

So It would be console.writeline(") in the else if

[spare mountain]

() is for conditions

{} is for actions

[polar acorn]

What condition are you checking in the else if?

[summer stump]

That is part of the issue. Also, as was explicitly said, remove the semicolon after the if condition

[timid oriole]

I'm not checking to see if applesauce is greater than or equal to 5 and if not write you suck

[polar acorn]

So why use else if

instead of else

[timid oriole]

Because it kept auto filling whenever I tried to use else

[summer stump]

You don't HAVE to use what it suggests

Also, have you gone through the entire https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php yet? Seems like it would be pretty quick to be finished since I said it

[real trellis]

have you tried asking chatgpt or smth to evaluate your code? it can help break down the basic concepts n stuff so that you can ask it direct questions. tell it to elaborate and everything

[real trellis]

i second w3schools

[timid oriole]

yes! I'm currently going through that one right now as we speak haha

Just got confused about how the statements worked

[lavish magnet]

If i want a 3d healthbar to be in my game above my player at all times, Just always facing the camera no matter what orientation the camera is in, how do i do this? Do i use a canvas

[timid oriole]

I tried chatgpt but I got the wrong answer from it

[lavish magnet]

==

true

[timid oriole]

shit

wait

[cosmic dagger]

= is assignment
== is comparison . . .

[timid oriole]

ignore that so sorry I set applesauce to a nubmer I meant to put potato in there

[summer stump]

There is no need to even do == for a bool.
Just If (boolVar)

Ah, it is not a bool. Ignore that then

[timid oriole]

How would that be comparing thoo am I not checking if its true

[timid oriole]

ohh okay thanks

[summer stump]

Do not use gpt. It lies most of the time and will make things much harder

[polar acorn]

if statements can only check if something is true

You need to give it a condition that evaluates to true or false

[timid oriole]

ah okay thank you

[lavish magnet]

Agree, if you're experienced, you can utilize it, but for the most part, it is wrong

[timid oriole]

awesome thanks

[cosmic dagger]

no. using = assigns the left-hand side (field) to the right-hand side (value). you need == to compare the left-hand side to the right-hand side . . .

[cosmic dagger]

within the Canvas component on the GameObject, change the "Render Mode" to World Space . . .

[lavish magnet]

Okay that works

How do i make it always just face the camera, like theirs an option in particle system to always face camera

[cosmic dagger]

place a script on it, with code that allows it to always face the camera . . .

[lavish magnet]

I can do Transform.LookAt, but my characters rotation is very sharp and it bugs,

[cosmic dagger]

oh, so you already have the code. have it face what ever GameObject you want, and that's it . . .

[lavish magnet]

healthSlider.transform.LookAt(mainCamera);

I have that in Update, But my players rotation is instant ant sharp, w rotates it 90, s rotates -90 and it bugs a little bit

[cosmic dagger]

if the camera remains in this position, there is no reason to have it in 3d or rotate with the player . . .

just have it face the current view and move along with the player. i don't see a need to rotate it at all . . .

[lavish magnet]

I'm not rotating the camera i'm rotating the player

[cosmic dagger]

you don't have a camera assigned for the "Event Camera." just watch a video for 3d ui and it'll give you all the details . . .

also, the glitchyness is because the canvas is a child of the player. it should follow/track the player's position instead of being a child . . .

[lavish magnet]

I dont know why thats necessary

[lavish magnet]

This was my only concern

So in a seperate script, it shouldnt be a child, and ill just manually set it to follow the player in Update?

[cosmic dagger]

it's part of using 3d ui; that's why there is a warning. the warning give you further details. i'd read it . . .

[lavish magnet]

I will read it

Why add ... to all your messages lol

[cosmic dagger]

that's how i type . . .

[silk fossil]

I have these vfx i wanna add to the "WROLSSHALSG" object

but its not working

[teal viper]

You were directed to the vfx channel. Why did you decide to cross post off topic here as well?

[cosmic dagger]

sorry, this doesn't seem like a coding issue . . .

[covert obsidian]

I have this code for movement on a 2d sprite:

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


public class movemnt : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float jumpForce = 5;
    public float speed = 5; // Added speed variable
    private Rigidbody2D rb; // Declared rb as a class member
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal");
        
        rb.velocity = new Vector2 (moveHorizontal*speed, rb.velocity.y);
        if(Input.GetButtonDown("Jump")){
            rb.AddForce(new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpForce));
        }
    }
}

(ignore jump)

When you go 1 direction for too long, it starts jumping a little. I'm unsure of why or how to disable it.
When you press both keys, it stops, as expected, but several things happen. When you release both and you press the key you pressed first, it doesn't move until you go backwards. It also gets buggy.

[silk fossil]

there was noone there and this seemed more like a simple issue that vfx issue

but now I know

from pin

so its alright

[teal viper]

This channel is not for random simple issues. It's for code issues.

[teal viper]

Doesn't look like the issue is related to this code. Do you have other scripts on the object?
Also, you should probably move the velocity and add force to fixed update.

[summer stump]

And (I know you said ignore jump, but...) consider using ForceMode.Impulse for a jump

[covert obsidian]

No other scripts. The collider has an offset because the player was floating before it. There are no bumps on the surface it is moving.

[summer stump]

Show the inspector for the rigidbody

[teal viper]

This could be relevant.
Typically you'd offset the visuals, not the colliders/rbs.

[covert obsidian]

Well the colliders aren't touching and it's floating. I don't know why but it fixed it.

[teal viper]

Avoid the "I don't know how, but it fixed it" solutions. Figure out what's happening first and why. This kind of solutions are a sure way to get more issues.

[covert obsidian]

These are the colliders. An offset of 0.1 on the y of the collider of the player fixed it.

The collider of the floor is at the bottom of the orange line, behind it.

[covert obsidian]

This is in pause after it fully hit the bottom.

[teal viper]

1. You should probably use a simpler collider, like a capsule or sphere. Colliders with corners can get stuck/stumble on a surface where 2 colliders meet.
2. You can offset your visuals(sprite renderer) instead of the collider.
3. It's likely that you are working with small scales judging from the size of the gap. I'd recommend not scaling your objects down too much. A character should be somewhere between 1 and 2 units ideally.

[covert obsidian]

ill change it to capsule and change it back if i need it.

imma try doing that and come back if issues presist

[covert obsidian]

uh the cell size of the grid is 1, and the player's size is 0.2

idk how to scale it up properly

[teal viper]

This doesn't look like .2

[reef patio]

Can I hire someone to help me with some coding for games, guidance with manuals I get, give me a tell and I can add you?

[wintry quarry]

It's.2 times whatever the actual size of the sprite is to start with

[covert obsidian]

oh then it should be inbetween 1 and 2 right?

[teal viper]

1. This is scale. Not the actual size of your character. Which means that your sprite is just huge originally. You should modify the units per pixel property of your sprite.
2. You should avoid scaling rbs.

[summer stump]

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[reef patio]

Ok ty.

!code

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[reef patio]

I need help with this code... https://paste.ofcode.org/32suhgRqiZG3gUT7vWL7ivE

I was coding the whole thing over, and then this 1 error in the compiler had appeared to be a bit difficult, I want to finale it with you all hopefully.

[eternal needle]

your brackets are all messed up. Look at the method Die() and past that.
Did you write this code yourself? You really shouldnt be doing multiplayer if you arent decently good with coding

[reef patio]

Is it just brackets?

No, I'm taking a tutorial.

To improve and get a certificate.

I seem to be getting into a multiplayer, that's basic and just leave it as experience made.

Theres 2 (die)'s.

both have no error

[eternal needle]

for the error you have, yes. One thing which points this out is the weird indentation on it, which your IDE likely did

[lavish magnet]

why would this crash my game private IEnumerator HealthRegenerationCoroutine() { while (health < maxHealth) { health += (0.1f * regenSpeed); UpdateHealthSlider(); } health = maxHealth; UpdateHealthSlider(); yield return null; } 😭

In my take damage function i call it here HealthRegeneration = StartCoroutine(HealthRegenerationCoroutine());

[eternal needle]

what do you mean? there is one method named Die. And is your !ide configured

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[reef patio]

i'll check the IDE, brb

[eternal needle]

its likely not crashing your game, just infinitely running (for whatever reason). your coroutine also does nothing here that a regular method wouldnt do.
In a loop it will instantly keep increasing the health by 0.1f * regenSpeed then call UpdateHealthSlider();.
If this loop ever finishes, it will set the health to max, then call UpdateHealthSlider();
THEN it finally waits for 1 frame before doing nothing

[reef patio]

IDE updated... probably needs more tuning, brb

[lavish magnet]

I feel dumb

regenSpeed was set to 0

I am alsi using yield return new WaitForSeconds(regenSpeed); now

[reef patio]

ok it's updated

[dense root]

What's the difference between Lerp and MoveTowards? Are they similar in principle?

[eternal needle]

i would add a sanity check in that while loop as well to do nothing if regen speed is 0 or negative. Also this doesnt fully make sense that you are using regenSpeed in the WaitForSeconds. If your regen speed is 1, you heal 0.1 every 1 second. if its 0.5, you heal 0.5 every 0.5 seconds... same thing (assuming we ignore the imprecisions here)

[eternal needle]

your ide now should point out the errors, but in this case really just go through your brackets because you have extras. Errors will be near the brackets because theres code where there shouldnt be, according to the IDE

[lavish magnet]

    {
        while (health < maxHealth)
        {
            health += 0.1f;
            UpdateHealthSlider();
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(regenSpeed);
        }
        health = maxHealth;
        UpdateHealthSlider();
        yield return null;
    }```

[eternal needle]

have u read the docs for them? they both do different things

[reef patio]

ok, ill keep you guys informed

bbl

[eternal needle]

ah i see you arent multiplying by regenSpeed in health now. I guess this is fine depending on what you want

[lavish magnet]

Yeah Sorry 😭

Should i swap the 0.1f and regenSpeed?

[dense root]

They both smooth out two points, right?

[eternal needle]

well do you want to heal by regenSpeed every 0.1 seconds, or heal by 0.1 every (regenSpeed) seconds?
Pretty big difference there

[eternal needle]

there is nothing smoothing about either, a lerp is a linear interpolation. Meaning some point between A and B at percentage T.
MoveTowards goes from A to B by some amount C.

[dense root]

What is creating the smoothing in MoveTowards?

[eternal needle]

Nothing, what smoothing?

[summer stump]

Smoothing would be done entirely separately from both methods

[lavish magnet]

Also with this coroutine, In the beginning, Its delayed with the WaitForSeconds. If the player gets hit, I want it to cancel that coroutine, and start it again, how come this doesnt work? HealthRegeneration = null; HealthRegeneration = StartCoroutine(HealthRegenerationCoroutine());

In the TakeDamage() function

[summer stump]

Setting the reference to null does not affect the actual coroutine

[lavish magnet]

Hmml,

[summer stump]

There is a StopCoroutine method

[lavish magnet]

Oh

if the corutoine is null tho, will it error?

[summer stump]

I believe yes. Not sure. Try it

[lavish magnet]

Looks like this worked, Thank you! ``` if (HealthRegeneration != null)
StopCoroutine(HealthRegeneration);

    HealthRegeneration = StartCoroutine(HealthRegenerationCoroutine());

[eternal needle]

i forgot you were storing the coroutine also, you will want to set it to null at the end of the actual coroutine too

[lavish magnet]

after the yield return null?

i'm dumb

[eternal needle]

well that specific line doesnt need to exist, but yes at the very end

[lavish magnet]

dont answer that

Okay thank you

[dense root]

MoveTowards doesn't do any smoothing?

By updating an object’s position each frame using the position calculated by this function, you can move it towards the target smoothly.

[eternal needle]

Theres a difference between smoothing, and something moving smoothly. The docs are just telling you that MoveTowards can be used to make something move towards another object in a way that doesnt look its teleporting or stuttering

[dense root]

Oh I see

So how does it go about the smoothing then?

[eternal needle]

there is no smoothing

[dense root]

Oh okay lol

[eternal needle]

its always useful to just make a test script and debug what the values are, like print the result you get from MoveTowards if you give it a 0 vector, and try to move towards (1, 0, 0) for example. Change the max distance around.
Its not like the method will magically give you a different value than what you asked for because it thinks itll look better

[dense root]

yeah i'll go ahead and try that

[slate haven]

Hey Everyone,
I have a certain functionality that a lane can get removed out of the scene by scrolling downwards out of the scene. As you can see the items which are on the lane fully are no issue, as they leave the scene exactly when the lane leaves. But there are other items:

I want to handle these 2 situations such that the items which arent on the lane get destroyed immediately. The item partially on lane should be handled such that it doesnt look that its lying on the ground and lane as well. Its all about it shouldn't look absurd to the player

[mighty marsh]

When trying to build my project as a WebGL I kept running into errors and while trying to close an error message I accidentally closed the unity editor. When I reopened it I had a bunch of nullreferenceexception errors that dont make sense and I can't figure out how to fix, does anyone know what might have caused this? I'm not even able to move around in my game anymore.

[wintry quarry]

Debug the errors as you would any normal NRE error

Probably just something wasn't saved

[mighty marsh]

Sorry this is my first project how would you debug any normal NRE error

[wintry quarry]

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

Figure out what's null and make it not null

[mighty marsh]

thanks

[lavish magnet]

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "New Gun", menuName = "Gun Data")]
public class GunData : ScriptableObject
{
    public string gunName;
    public int damage;
    public float fireRate;
    public enum FiringMode {SemiAuto, Auto }
    }
``` This is my scriptable Object class, But their is no option for it in my Create Menu?

[wintry quarry]

Do you have any errors in your console?

[lavish magnet]

None

[wintry quarry]

Show your asset menu?

[lavish magnet]

i also should mention that i have these settings enabeled.

[rich adder]

should not matter

[rich adder]

you sure you saved/compiled ? Try triggering a recompile, right click inside project window do Reimport

[lavish magnet]

That should work

Trying it now

Its there now!

[rich adder]

woo!

[dense root]

Noob question: How come I need to AddComponent CharacterController?

controller = gameObject.AddComponent<CharacterController>();

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

[summer stump]

You do not need to

you can add it via the inspector as well 🤷‍♂️

Ah, I see. The code is like that just so they don't have to explain that you need to add the component in SOME way.
You can do it via inspector, or in code. It doesn't matter. The example code simply chose to do it via code with addcomponent

They could have also done [RequireComponent(typeof(CharacterController))] and then getcomponent

That example code is not great honestly. It is preferable to combine all the vectors and only do ONE Move() call per update

[dense root]

Makes sense, thank you

void Start()
{
    controller = gameObject.AddComponent<CharacterController>();
}

void Update()
{
    Vector3 move = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
    controller.Move(move * Time.deltaTime * playerSpeed); 

    if (move != Vector3.zero)
    {
        gameObject.transform.forward = move;
    }

}

What am I doing wrong here I am trying to move the player left and right, top to bottom but it disappears into the void then reappears when I hit a key

[lethal apex]

i am having problem with vs code agan

does anyone know how to turn back the red wavy line again

idk what i did yesterday

[dense root]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
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[lethal apex]

the red thing is not showing up

the error things

[dense root]

Yeah you gotta enable it

[dense root]

Checkout the link above

[lethal apex]

see there is no error

btw i still havent started programming in unity

[dense root]

So the character is moving just fine but the sprite disapppears... any thoughts?

[tiny plaza]

can someone explain to me why i can't drag my GameObject into mt component

[astral falcon]

You are trying to assign a Scene Object, which will only exist on runtime to a prefab in your assets folder

[tiny plaza]

what can i do then?

[astral falcon]

You cant do that. If you want your player to be assigned to the bullet, either have a player singleton in your script or assign your player as soon as you instantiate it

[tiny plaza]

can you assigne in code?

[astral falcon]

Seems like you should go through the starter tutorials on unity learn, to understand what you actually doing 🙂

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[burnt vapor]

You assign the player to the singleton when they wake https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons

Or spawn the player from the singleton directly, for example

There are multiple ways, mostly depends on your needs

[astral falcon]

You do not even need the player. Just rotate the bullet to the correct rotation when instantiating already and let it fly its own forward vector

[tiny plaza]

it's my second time making a game so i'm bad

[tiny plaza]

oh true i didn't think about that

[astral falcon]

Not bad, unexperienced probably. Just keep learning and digging into the unity docs while using their functions. The extra step will help you understand the whole thing better in the long run

[tiny plaza]

true the unity docs are so good

[dense root]

    void Start()
    {
        controller = gameObject.AddComponent<CharacterController>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 move = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
        controller.Move(move * Time.deltaTime * playerSpeed); 

    }

I'm trying to move the character along both the X and Y axis top down style yet it just moves left and right, where did I go wrong?

[tiny plaza]

you are putting vertical on the z axis

[dense root]

Tysm

[tiny plaza]

don't forget to normalize your vector or your character will move faster diagonally

[dense root]

How do I do that?

[tiny plaza]

you just type . normalized at the end of your vector

[burnt vapor]

Vector3.normalized

[leaden vector]

Hi, I am currently having an issue with the "Loader" field getting removed when I press play. I have included parts of the scripts that might have made the problem.

[languid spire]

why line 16 (GetComponent) when the value is set in the inspector?

also the inspector value is set from the Transitions game object NOT the game object containing this script

[leaden vector]

Sorry, once I removed the (GetComponent) line and it immediately fixed itself. Thank you very much!