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[upper forge]

from the scene

[summer stump]

You spawn the prefab, not a scene instance

[summer stump]

Prefabs do not exist in the scene

[upper forge]

im spawning the prefab

[summer stump]

Then it cannot disappear

[graceful crescent]

Have you attatched any scripts in the prefabs that makes them disappear?

[summer stump]

Again, prefabs are NOT IN THE SCENE

[upper forge]

the error i get is: the object of type 'GameObject' has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it.

[summer stump]

They are not in the hierarchy

They are in the project window

Show the thing you are spawning with a screenshot

[upper forge]

GameObject newBalloon = Instantiate(balloonPrefab, spawnPosition, Quaternion.identity); takes me to this line of code when i click the error

[summer stump]

Yes. Show me the thing you dragged into balloonPrefab

You likely dragged a scene object, NOT the prefab

[summer stump]

Ok, that IS the prefab. Well, then are you calling Destroy(balloonPrefab) anywhere?

Can you show the actual error as a screenshot

[upper forge]

uhh, it randomly started working again?

[summer stump]

Well alright then. Haha. Good luck then

[upper forge]

appreaciate it

[graceful crescent]

Some things work with restarts of the editor for some reason, might be one of those

[summer stump]

Yeah. If something didn't compile, a restart would force that.
Ctrl+r also does a recompile too

[graceful crescent]

Ohh a recompile

Anyways thanks y'alls
Imma go sleep now gn

[upper forge]

very sorry lol, how would i make the balloons gravity increase over time, so it goes up faster

[upper forge]

well, decrease actually

[willow scroll]

You simply apply a specific value multipled by Time.deltaTime in Update

[wicked flare]

is there any difference in coding with VS and VS code? like for a beginner which one would be easier to grasp? (i know its the same code, i mean maybe the themes and shit like that might help)

[willow scroll]

VS is more popular for coding in C# and C++

[wicked flare]

yea i saw thats a bit more popular

[willow scroll]

I suppose, the majority would consider it much more comfortable

Also VS Code is not an IDE

[brave robin]

I don't use the vast majority of features in VS, but found it easy enough to pick up and work in, as the integration is very good and you don't need to do anything other than Save All and jump back to Unity to test 99% of the time

[compact nymph]

why is it saying hit is wrong in the getcomponet?

[brave robin]

mouse over it to get the reason why, it's probably because hit is unassigned

[polar acorn]

What is hit

[brave robin]

you're missing a method that populates hit with data

[polar acorn]

you never give it a value

[brave robin]

You're missing a physics raycast that populates your hit struct with actual data

[compact nymph]

okay thanks

[astral bridge]

Yo, can anyone help me brainstorm this please, I am making a hide and seek game where you can choose to be the hider or the seeker, the seeker can only see other players if they are in his fov, I am doing this using the URD (universal renderer data) by modifying the opaque and transparent layers and using the stencil effect.
Now for the question, how can I switch to be a hider and remove all the effects (because these are specific to the seeker). As of right know when I choose hider, I cannot see myself nor other hiders

[languid spire]

right.
A) This is a code channel and this does not sound like a code question
B) Read what you have written and think if you knew nothing about your situation. Would you understand one single word you have written?

[brazen canyon]

hey guys, I need a little help.
How to draw a class diagram for my game ?

[brave robin]

Define Class diagram?

[brazen canyon]

Like the UML Class Diagram ?

[brave robin]

There's a Class Designer tool in VS, but that's outside the scope of this channel, and I've never used it

[brazen canyon]

I'm working on my Thesis, a game project.
Idk if I have to put the class diagrams in there

[brave robin]

That's the only tool I know of that might generate them for you. Otherwise you'd have to manually make them with the graphical tool of your choice

[tiny plaza]

hey is it possible to activate the method of another game object on collision?

[timber tide]

very much possible

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

[willow scroll]

Which aspect are you having difficulties with?

[timber tide]

check the collision methods or trigger methods (if you're not using rigidbodies)

[tiny plaza]

i get an error when i try

[willow scroll]

What does the error say?

[slender nymph]

it's not public

[tiny plaza]

ohhh

i completely forgot lol

[tiny plaza]

thank you

[rich adder]

if(collision.gameObject.TryGetComponent(out PlayerHealth playerHealth))
{
  playerHealth.TakeDamage(1);
}```

[runic holly]

I'm quite confused, what shoul i do?

[slender nymph]

start by configuring your !IDE 👇

[eternal falcon]

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[runic holly]

i installed it via Unity already..

it's not working as i want

[wintry quarry]

Yes configure your ide. After that - read your error messages, you're not even looking at the right script.

[polar acorn]

Then click the link for "Installed via Unity Hub" and follow the rest of the instructions

[upper forge]

I found a bug, where, when i click out of the screen, the game pauses, and it makes it much easier for the player to win this way as they can easily keep pausing the clicking on the balloon, how can i make it so that the game carries on no matter what

[ruby thistle]

Problem: My Player is moving with the same Speed when i press "W" or "W" and "D" when i am touching a wall and pressing "W" and "D" at the same time i am moving to the right but with a slower speed (can someone help) ?

[swift crag]

there's a checkbox in the project settings for this

let me find it

[upper forge]

so in conclusion, player movement is fine unless you are touching a wall?

[wintry quarry]

what is your desired behavior

[runic holly]

not sure about getting errors while setting it up

[swift crag]

I believe you want to turn on "Run in Background"

[upper forge]

ah appreciate it

[ruby thistle]

and pressing W and D or W and A

[upper forge]

ah yes it works

[ruby thistle]

i want to move the player with the same speed and not slower

[wintry quarry]

when hitting a wall?

[ruby thistle]

when hitting a wall and pressing both keys at the same time

[upper forge]

well, its going to be slower, if youre moving diagonally to a wall

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to project your motion vector on the surface normal of the wall, subtract that projection from your motion, calculate the magnitude of the removed bit and add it back to the projected vector

[swift crag]

So you want to move at full speed, even though your movement vector is pointing into a wall?

[swift crag]

yep, bingo

[ruby thistle]

but how can i make it moving the same speed?

[upper forge]

ur answer

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Project.html

[ruby thistle]

i don't get it

[wintry quarry]

Well yeah it's not beginner stuff.

[upper forge]

anyone know how i can decrease gravity as time goes on for my sprite?

[wintry quarry]

RIgidbody2D has a gravity scale property you can change

[upper forge]

how would i implement that into the game though

[wintry quarry]

You would write code that decreases the gravity scale as time goes on

The exact nature of that code depends heavily on how you want that to work

[upper forge]

need to take track of the time thats been played and when it reaches a certain time the gravity decreases. Thats what i want it to do

or just gradually decreases

[wintry quarry]

Tracking time is simple. Just use Time.time or make a timer yourself with float and Time.deltaTime

[ruby thistle]

could you tell me how it would look correctly (you can see the code in the first message) ?

[swift crag]

you are splitting your velocity into two parts:

• the part going straight into the wall
• the rest of it

you get rid of the first part

then you increase the length of the second part to compensate

If you were moving at 2m/s into the wall and 4m/s along the wall, you want to throw out the first half

and then move 6m/s along the wall instead

[lethal apex]

can anyone help me with the grid thing in unity please?

[polar acorn]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[lethal apex]

oh ok

but yeee i figured it out tysm

[lethal apex]

i was just wondering since the channel name is code beginner not engine beginner 😅

[swift crag]

if your problem isn't a code problem, then ask it in another channel

like #💻┃unity-talk

[lethal apex]

ok

[queen adder]

is there a way i could make it so its like when im holding a button down something is consinstently happening

[polar acorn]

GetButton

[viral shadow]

Wait then what’s the difference between Time.time and Time.realTimeSinceStart

[swift crag]

read the documentation to find out!

[viral shadow]

Fair

[queen wren]

For some reason this won't work, any idea?
worldSpaceCanvas.worldCamera = Camera.main;

[slender nymph]

what isn't working about that? is the worldCamera property still null after that line runs?

[queen wren]

yes, the canvas won't take the camera, I also place it in Update but still won't work

Unity 2022.3.30

[slender nymph]

are you certain that code is running? do you have a camera in your scene tagged as the MainCamera?

[queen wren]

This code is running on the same gameobject of the Canvas

{
    private Canvas worldSpaceCanvas;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        worldSpaceCanvas = GetComponent<Canvas>();

        if (worldSpaceCanvas = null ) 
        {
            Debug.LogError("AssignMainCameraToCanvasWS component on " + gameObject.transform.root.name + " requires a Canvas on the same object!");
        }

        worldSpaceCanvas.renderMode = RenderMode.WorldSpace;
        worldSpaceCanvas.worldCamera = Camera.main;
    }
}```

[slender nymph]

the fact that you have this line GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("GuiCamera") and are (allegedly) not receiving an exception that would prevent the latter lines from running indicates that your camera is not tagged as MainCamera

[queen wren]

🤔 I didn't check that! 😅
Let me see

it's not tagged 🤦‍♂️

😅

[queen wren]

Thank you 🍻

[queen adder]

so is it possible i could make it so inside an if statement when on collision with a specific object it stops being held

[polar acorn]

The answer to every "is it possible to" question is "yes, technically"

[queen adder]

okay so how i would do that

[eternal needle]

inside an if statement apparently

[polar acorn]

You'd have to more clearly explain what you want to do. There's a lot of pronouns with no context. What is "it" and what do you mean by "stop being held"?

[eternal needle]

try to be more descriptive, and show relevant code with code questions. This is so vague it cannot be answered. What does it mean to be "held" in your game?

[queen adder]

when being held the object is at the position where the mouse is

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[queen adder]

   if (holding)
        {


                Rigidbody2D rb2d = heldObject.transform.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();


            if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
            {

                if (rb2d != null) heldObject.transform.position = mousePos;
                if (rb2d != null) rb2d.AddForce((mousePos - heldObject.position) * 6f);
                if (rb2d != null) rb2d.velocity = ((mousePos - heldObject.position) * heldObject.transform.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().mass);
                

            }

[slender nymph]

you know you can put more than one statement inside an if statement, right? you don't need to check the same condition three times in a row

[eternal needle]

this is truly some code

[queen adder]

yeah ima quickly do that

[summer stump]

Your getmouse condition has all that inside, so you clearly know you can do multiple statements.
Oh, and the if (holding) condition

[eternal needle]

you've already cached the rb2d, you dont need to GetComponent it again at the end there too.
But also for your problem, you still need to describe more. "collision with a specific object", what is colliding with what? The only thing i can suggest from this is using OnCollisionEnter2D and then possibly checking a layer, tag, or if some script is on the other object collided with

[stuck palm]

no idea why, but since migrating to a new kinematic system my scientist character remains suspended in the air when everyone else experiences gravity normally. combed through the entire class and was unsure about what caused this, as the scientist inherits the character class

[slender nymph]

you will need to review what is different about the scientist compared to your other characters. that information is not enough for anyone not intimately familiar with your project to have any idea what could have caused it

[stuck palm]

yeah i understand that, i've been trying to dismantle everything lmao but dismantling the components either disables movement completely or changes nothing so its been tough 😅

i tried adding a debug log to print the value of my movement vector every time its set, but the stack trace just shows things working as intended

[stable lagoon]

Can someone help me understand why this code isnt working?
using UnityEngine;

public class Handle : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private Collider triggerCollider;
[SerializeField] private GameObject guardToUnhide;

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{

    if (other.CompareTag("Guard"))
    {
        guardToUnhide.SetActive(true);
    }
}

}

when a gameobject with the guard tag enters the trigger colider nothing happens

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[stable lagoon]

ohh thankss

[signal comet]

Hi I wanted to make a game where normal game objects shoot bullets that are entities, is that possible?

[deft grail]

sure, why not?

[signal comet]

Doesn’t it use two different physics systems?

[deft grail]

whats "it"? you havent specified anything

if its 2d use a Rigidbody2D, if 3d use a Rigidbody

i dont really understand?

[rocky canyon]

3d uses PhysX, and 2d uses Box2D

but both are integrated into Unity.. just gotta select the appropriate components (3D) or (3D) and Physics. or Physics2D.

[teal viper]

Assuming you're talking about ECS, yes, it's separate from the gameObjects physics. You'd need to decide which system to use for your physics.

[rocky canyon]

oh yes..

[signal comet]

Ecs has one physics system and normal game objects have another. Is there a way to translate them?

[signal comet]

So either I do it with ecs or normal game objects?

[teal viper]

The physics, yes. But that doesn't prevent you from mixing other systems, like rendering.

For example, if you decided to use the GameObject physics, you could have an rb + collider for your bullets and have an entity with rendering related components sync position with the rb.

Or the other way around, you could have all the physics handled by ECS and sync GameObjects with it for the rendering.

You could also handle only the bullets by ECS entirely and other stuff by gameObjects physics. You'd need to create ECS colliders for your other objects that you want the bullets to hit and sync them with the GameObject counterpart.

[signal comet]

Ok I’ll look into that thanks!!

[nocturne violet]

    Vector2 keys

    private void Update()
    {
       keys = new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), rb.velocity.y);
    }
    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.MovePosition(rb.position + keys * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
    }

does anybody know how to make the gravity now slow?

[deft grail]

use .velocity or AddForce

MovePosition isnt good

[nocturne violet]

ah

ok

[eager wolf]

any insight on why this NavMeshSurfaceEditor returns this error?

[nocturne violet]

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(keys, rb.velocity.y);
    }

yo im back

it works good but is there any way to make it where it doenst stick to walls?

[polar acorn]

method is null

[nocturne violet]

it you walk in a wall you will just stick to it

[deft grail]

i mean

what else do you want it to do?

[slender nymph]

frictionless physics material

[nocturne violet]

ty

i want it to slide off the wall

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel, perhaps you want to ask in #📲┃ui-ux ?

[eager wolf]

are you, or someone, familiar with NavMeshPlus? This method legit doesn't exist, so not sure what to do

[tawdry arch]

uh great advice sir, mb

[queen adder]

maybe have a second parent with the same properties, scale the 2nd parent, and then move the children, then turn off the 1st parent. That's about all I can think of, I don't think there's a way to exclude children from scaling, I could be wrong tho

@tawdry arch

you could group those children, to make moving to the 2nd parent easier

[crimson ibex]

I am having trouble linking up my UI components to this script, anyone know why?\

[slender nymph]

you're likely using the Text Mesh Pro UI objects rather than the legacy objects.

use TMP_Text and TMP_InputField for the variable types

[crimson ibex]

in here right?

[slender nymph]

yes. you also need to get your !IDE configured

[eternal falcon]

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[crimson ibex]

now im getting this error

[queen adder]

use

[crimson ibex]

genius! thank you

[queen adder]

[crimson ibex]

Still having trouble connecting the last element lol

[summer stump]

Show the inspector for the object you are dragging in

[slender nymph]

again, get your !IDE configured because these issues can be solved using the quick actions

[eternal falcon]

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Select one:

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[queen adder]

use TMP_Text for the Chat Log

[rocky canyon]

use TMP for everything

legacy text is 🤢

[crimson ibex]

Thanks everybody it looks like my WebSocket client is connecting!

[eternal needle]

hopefully you configured your IDE as well during this. its really the most important thing you can do to make your future coding easier

[queen adder]

if he's knew, I doubt he knows what IDE even means

[rocky canyon]

the Bot message kinda makes it obvious

[eternal needle]

doesnt matter, its a rule to have it configured for help here. they can ask or google what an IDE is

[crimson ibex]

I know what IDE means lol, I am using Visual Studio, but I don't know how to configure it

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rocky canyon]

^ i was gonna say, if u dont wanna get tired of hearing it everytime u post a question you'll just get'r done regardless ;D

[crimson ibex]

I think it is configured now?

[queen adder]

if you wanna verify, comment out "using.TMPro", and if your visual studio yells at you and makes a suggestion for "TMP_Text", it's working fine

[crimson ibex]

Yes it does lol

[queen adder]

I mean there's more to it, but that's basically what they were suggesting

[untold pier]

im setting up running and jumping animations for my character on 2d unity, and when i call the methods that run the animation within my player mvmnt script, it just breaks and says "object reference not set to an instance of an object."

[slender nymph]

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

[teal viper]

Next time provide the code that throws the error and the error details.

[crimson ibex]

Do you need to enable rich text for TMP_TEXT?

[teal viper]

Is that a quiz?

You enable it if you need rich text features. I don't get the question

[rocky canyon]

no, you dont.. that just enables rich text

allowing u to use tags.. like <b> For Bold </b>

etc

[untold pier]

so this is running in my player movement script:

_playerAnim.Jump(true);

and the class looks like this:

public void Jump(bool jumping)
{
_anim.SetBool("Jumping", jumping);
}

this is my error 🥲 :

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
PlayerMovement.FixedUpdate () (at Assets/Scripts/PlayerMovement.cs:56)

[teal viper]

!code

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[rocky canyon]

ur animator is not assigned correctly

wel actually... ur using _playerAnim and _anim

which one is it?

[crimson ibex]

Looks like by default it is enabled, thanks bros

[untold pier]

playerAnim is reassigned as the PlayerAnimation script at the top of my movement script.

player animation is where the second chunk of code is from

[teal viper]

Try following the link that boxfriend shared first. There are followup links there as well. Show us that you put some effort into debugging.

[rocky canyon]

thats syntax for the Animator component.. not a script.. 🤔

ohh i see.. well anyway.. NullReferenceException.. just means its trying to access something that's not assigned.. or is null.. (doesn't exist)

[untold pier]

by the second bit of code i meant the jump method

[rocky canyon]

i can declare an AudioSource called aSrc.. and can call aSrc.Play(); but if its not assigned toa particular audiosource it isnt gonna do anything

[untold pier]

the two pieces of code i sent are from two different files

[rocky canyon]

well, the error is on PlayerMovement

on line 56

so.. kinda pin-points it for you

[untold pier]

yeah i get what you mean

[summer stump]

Either _playerAnim or _anim are not referenced properly. And thus null. What is line 56 of script PlayerMovement?

[untold pier]

like 56 was my call, so _playerAnim.Move(1);

[summer stump]

Then _playerAnim is null

[untold pier]

@rocky canyon is right. its something with my method in the other file

[summer stump]

Where do you assign the reference to it?

[untold pier]

but im not rlly sure how to properly run the animation that i have set for "Jumping"

i was following a tutorial

[summer stump]

The error is that _playerAnim is null

So lets resolve that

[queen adder]

This looks like the error is coming from the inspector, not necessarily the code it's self but we won't be able to be sure unless you share your code with us, but 1st check your inspector and just make sure everything is assigned properly.

also when I say inspector, I just mean, you're reference is not assigned

mb

[untold pier]

sry i’m not disappeared im still looking for help just away from my pc

thank u everyone for helping sm 😓

[rocky canyon]

You create animator with your clips

• then you create parameters you want to change to control the animator
• then you set up transitions.. -> those will have conditions that need to be met to transition from clip to clip
• then you reference the animator component... and use functions like animReference.SetBool("isJumping", true); etc

[untold pier]

how should i upload my code so it can be accessed easier

[queen adder]

click on one of these links

[rocky canyon]

someone posted a bot message right after you posted ur code..

[dense root]

        // remove diagonal movement
        if (input.x != 0)
            input.y = 0;
        if (input.y !=0)
            input.x = 0;

How come for removing diagonal movement in my character it works great with input.x !=0 but not the other way around with input.y !=0

[untold pier]

https://gdl.space/oxeqotadit.cs

https://gdl.space/enicariwel.cpp

[untold pier]

playermovement

[untold pier]

player animation

[teal viper]

Debug it.🤷‍♂️

[summer stump]

Is PlayerAnimation on the same object as PlayerMovement?

[rocky canyon]

b/c ur saying if input x is not 0 make input y 0.. then u ask if input y is ! =0.. (which it will never be zero.. if input x was not 0) because u just set it to 0

[untold pier]

yeah okay i have all that set up

[summer stump]

Generally/often the animation would be on the child, so just checking

[teal viper]

Assuming you're following a tutorial, double check that your scene/inspector setup is exactly as in the tutorial.

[summer stump]

This part is not relevant.

[untold pier]

hold up i dont need to assign the player animation script to any object right

[summer stump]

It is specifically _playerAnim in PlayerMovement, as the error said

[summer stump]

What?

[untold pier]

because im only using it to be accessed in my movement script that is assigned to my player

[teal viper]

check with the tutorial

[untold pier]

the tutorial was a randomly placed video in the middle of someones game with no extra background. thats why im looking for help here

[summer stump]

You are calling GetComponent for it, which is why I asked this. Please answer
#💻┃code-beginner message

[untold pier]

yes. sorry.

[summer stump]

No, the object

[untold pier]

im so confused

[summer stump]

Is the component on the same object

[summer stump]

Show the inspector for the object that PlayerMovement is on

[rocky canyon]

when u use GetComponent its searching the same gameobject ur searching from..

[untold pier]

okay yes

[summer stump]

Don't crop it

[rocky canyon]

so if the component is somewhere else.. it wont be found

[untold pier]

you mean this right

im selected on my player

[rocky canyon]

i dont see the PlayerAnimation script on there anywhere tho...

[summer stump]

So playerAnimation is NOT on the same object

[rocky canyon]

this isnt gonna work.. b/c ur playeranimation script isn't on the same gameobject

[dense root]

What's causing my code to throw an Object reference not set to an instance of an object error?

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

    // remove diagonal movement
    if (input.x != 0)
        input.y = 0;

    if (input != Vector2.zero)
    {
        animator.SetFloat("moveX", input.x);
        animator.SetFloat("moveY", input.y);
    }

    movement = new Vector2(input.x, input.y);        
}

I have the animator attached to the player object and an animator controller set too. Am I missing something?

[slender nymph]

where do you assign the animator variable?

[untold pier]

oh fuck

[slender nymph]

also i feel like we just went through this same thing with the rigidbody

[untold pier]

so i need to assign the playeranimation script to the animator component on my player on the inspector thing right

[dense root]

We did lol

[slender nymph]

yeah so you should know what to do then

[cosmic dagger]

which line exactly? the error means a value is not assigned to a reference variable . . .

[untold pier]

wait no

[summer stump]

No

[untold pier]

this is what happens when im jus trying to jump into it without knowing what half of this code means

[summer stump]

The component needs to be actually attached to the same object as PlayerMovement

[summer stump]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[rocky canyon]

if ur using GetComponent.. it should be on the same gameobject... to find it..
if u have a public or a [SerializedField] private reference.. it could be anywhere.. as long as u drag in the reference..

[summer stump]

Do this before doing anything on youtube

[rocky canyon]

it just depends on ur setup

[dense root]

Got it working, thank you so much everyone

[queen adder]

make sure your animator, movement script, and your playerAnimation script are on the same object

Spawn is right

[untold pier]

okay so first thing is what do you mean by a component. because right now its in my code and i dont really know what it means

[teal viper]

I've said several times already, but this issue is simply you not following the tutorial properly. Rewatch the tutorial from the start and make sure that everything in your project is exactly as in the tutorial.

[rocky canyon]

^ this would be the easiest.. as a beginner.. to make sure everythings together.. would cause lot less headache's trying to reference different things all over the place

until you get a grasp on why things work the way they do.. don't put objects on different places, just follow the tutorial 1:1

you may have missed a step also, not sure entirely

[untold pier]

so im not sure where i should put my playeranimation script then.

is there anywhere in the animator that i can assign it to

[queen adder]

on the same object as your movement script

[rocky canyon]

thats an Animator ^ its not the same thing as ur playerAnimation script

which is what confused me at first

[queen adder]

yea lol confused both of us

[rocky canyon]

thats this

[untold pier]

https://youtu.be/qdnoOlTxhng?si=pvwjvjxbJaYeYG3Z
this is my yt tutorial and there is no background context on anything going on in anything else on this guys code other than just the two scripts he opens

im trying

[rocky canyon]

what u just screenshotted would be private/public Animator animatorName;

[untold pier]

OHHH

[queen adder]

https://gdl.space/enicariwel.cpp this script, put it onto your character next to this script https://gdl.space/oxeqotadit.cs

[rocky canyon]

weird naming tbh

[untold pier]

im genuinely an idiot im so sorry

[rocky canyon]

PlayerAnimationController.cs woulda confused me alot less ;D

[queen adder]

no, I've made that mistake also, same with many others, you're not an idiot, you're learning, there's a difference

[untold pier]

i dont know why i was thinking i needed to drag the script into a little box thing. i forgot i can just add it as part of the object. thats why i didnt know what u guys meant

okay great so now player animation is assigned to my player object

AYEEE

okay that was a really stupid mistake by me thank u guys for being patient

[teal viper]

I can't watch that video now, but if it doesn't show you what components go where, this is not a suitable tutorial for your level.

[rocky canyon]

as long as ur Player Animation has the animator referenced correctly that should be good 👍 as long as ur playeranimation script is referenced correctly..

if its on the same gameobject now. the GetComponent should find it no problem

[summer stump]

I do think you should stop that tutorial, and go do !learn btw

[eternal falcon]

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[untold pier]

yeah i see what was going wrong now. i cant lie a lot of the terminology was kinda going over my head bcs this is all new to me as of the past two days.

[rocky canyon]

you can always debug references too..
Debug.Log(theReference);

and it will spit out in the console.. what gameobject it has assigned

[untold pier]

im done with that aspect of my code. im just gonna start trying to follow that then thank you

its not great trying to like cut and paste pieces of other ppls games and im seeing that now

nothing was integrated properly

and the guy was doing a bunch of stuff super weird

[summer stump]

It's a natural thing to try, but skipping a strong foundation makes it a slow path

[untold pier]

right now im just trying to get a basic layout down just to introduce myself for hs ISU

[rocky canyon]

^ once u understand how things work.. its alot easier to copy and paste parts that you need but u have to know how to integrate them into your code..

and know what changes to make to make it work

[untold pier]

just dipping my feet in. but i really should learn

[rocky canyon]

b/c everyone copy and pastes..

no one types out a simple mechanic that has been documented/ and written 1000 times before

[untold pier]

true true true

[rocky canyon]

BUT.. gotta get that context 🙂

[untold pier]

and right now the integration process is where im finding out which things i gotta learn i guess

[rocky canyon]

why am i copying this part.. and not that part*

etc

[untold pier]

learning by debugging

🙂

[rocky canyon]

debugging is a Valuable skill

i can't even stress how valueable it is

but it comes with experience

just keep trying and failing 👍

[untold pier]

yeah like all these errors are shit ive never seen in my life

but im getting there

[rocky canyon]

well big take-a-way from this one would be... the script name.. and the line-number..

if theres two numbers its the character number and then the line number

its the errors w/o any script name thats the hard ones lol

[untold pier]

lol

yeah

see when i saw the error with that line

i thought that it wasnt working because when i called the method something inside the method was brekaing

[rocky canyon]

you should be able to double-click most errors.. and it will open the script and go right to the line its on

just a tip

[untold pier]

would that have shown me a different kind of error then

or would it have still kinda just been generic about it being that line of code

[rocky canyon]

if u click the error on the bottom box theres a thing called a stack-trace

that will show u the order..

so if it calls another script.. it will show that too

[untold pier]

ahhh

[rocky canyon]

this script->
that script->
etc

[untold pier]

okay interesting

thank you

and thats all just with the error tracking on unity?

or are u talking about vs

[rocky canyon]

thats the console in Unity

[untold pier]

neat

[rocky canyon]

theres a different debugging process for inside the IDE

which is alot better.. but most people dont learn that until later on

cuz its a bit more involved

you can set break-points where the code i will stop.. and then it will wait for u to tell it to step-through it

and u can follow how the code is being called.. 1 step at a time (and it will tell u what values the functions are getting, and returning, and all that jazz)

[untold pier]

ive seen that before

havent really made use of it much yet though

[rocky canyon]

me neither..

[untold pier]

only really was useful for me when i was trying to do an assignment in assembly

assembler...?

whatever its called

[rocky canyon]

nah the IDE debugger

Assembly Definitions?

[untold pier]

nah im talking about a whole other language

[rocky canyon]

ohh assembly yea

[untold pier]

had that same stop and step process thing

on the website i was using for it

[untold pier]

oh i didnt see that

thats hella useful (eventually)

[rocky canyon]

yeap!

[untold pier]

seeing all the values and stuff is rlly nice i didnt know u could do that

@rocky canyon is there a way to speed up my jump animation depending on scale of my jump do you think

bcs right now the animation just runs through regardless of how high i jump... so i jump on the ground lol

[ivory bobcat]

Runtime debugging with the ide is good if you need to know the state of certain instances at specific moments. Logging to the console or a file is good if you don't have a specific instance (or know of the specific instance) that you're wanting to fixate on.

[untold pier]

or should i separate my animations into an up animation and a down animation

and then base it off of my velocity

[rocky canyon]

u'd probably control that in code.. or something
if you jump-> and you've reached so high off the ground -> then call the jump animation

theres also a thing called BlendTree's

[untold pier]

im afraid of logging to a file 🥲

[rocky canyon]

that does stuff for u automatically.. u give it abunch of clips.. and it'll transition between those clips depending on the values u pass..

[untold pier]

ill try and look into that

thank u

[cobalt creek]

is t.gameObject.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text or t.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text better? where t is a Transform in array of Transforms

oh wait nvm it doesnt work

i use firs one

[wintry quarry]

No reason to add extra unnecessary steps

Second one is simpler and therefore better

[cobalt creek]

thank

[wintry quarry]

Also - cache your references if possible

[acoustic arch]

can't use certain types as parameters for a button?

the type is a class it is asking for

[rich adder]

you mean the type?

[acoustic arch]

yeah

mb

[rich adder]

yea what are you trying to pass

[acoustic arch]

a class that simply holds my cards data

i've done it before tho

[rich adder]

with the inspector?

[cosmic dagger]

you need a custom unity event . . .

[acoustic arch]

yes

[acoustic arch]

alright

[amber spruce]

anyone know how i would change this to use a layermask

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    if (isAttacking)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Enemy")
        {
            Debug.Log("Hit Enemy");
        }
    }
}

[cosmic dagger]

create a LayerMask variable to check against. access and convert the GameObject layer to check with . . .

[amber spruce]

yeah what code would i use to check if the gameobjects layer is in that layermask

[cosmic dagger]

oh, that part you can easily google . . .

[amber spruce]

if (collision.gameObject.layer == enemyLayer)

like this

[cosmic dagger]

this checks the actual GameObject layer (from Tags and Layers manager), not a layer mask . . .

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks#bitmasks-and-layermasks

[amber spruce]

im a little confused with all this

if ((mask & (1 << layer)) != 0)
{
    // mask contains layer.
}

would that be the part that explains it

[rich adder]

mask would be layer number and layer is your Layermask

no sorry other way around

[amber spruce]

and how would i find layer number

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LayerMask-value.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject-layer.html

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

You already did it on the left side

[amber spruce]

 if ((enemyLayer & (1 << collision.gameObject.layer)) != 0)
 {
     // mask contains layer.
 }

so this?

[rich adder]

enemyLayer.value

[rocky canyon]

layermasks and bitmasks 👀 gives mes anxiety just spectating 🤣

[cosmic dagger]

i mean, let's give it a go and find out . . .

[rich adder]

as a enemeyLayer is not a int you get type conversion error

[amber spruce]

cool it works

thanks

also would there be a type of variable that holds 2 numbers?

or should i just make 2 floats

[rich adder]

tuple

[wintry quarry]

Vector2?

[rich adder]

even better ^

[summer stump]

Class or struct with two variables

Quite a few ways to do it

[cosmic dagger]

keep 'em coming . . .

[rich adder]

the possibilities

[restive kayak]

I've noticed some rigidbody FPS character controller scripts update the camera's position in the update function, rather than just attaching the camera to the player or the player's head. Since the player's head is always a satisfactory position for the camera and they aren't doing any camera smoothing, I'm curious why they keep the camera separate and use a script to update its position instead of just attaching it. Is there a specific reason for this? If so, wouldn't it be better to use LateUpdate to update it's position?

[rocky canyon]

rigidbody movement isn't always smooth if ur looking thru the FOV of the RB

it only updates 50 frames a second

[rich adder]

depends on the usecase, both are valid

[wintry quarry]

you would have to ask the authors of the scripts. I can imagine they do it for various different reasons. Maybe they want to move it elsewhere at other times, or maybe they want to do cemar shake or something

LateUpdate is most likely better, but it depends on how the player moves

[amber spruce]

whats the best way to do chances so like a 1 in 100 chance for x to happen is it just if random.range equals 1?

if (UnityEngine.Random.Range(whitefuryminimumchance, whitefurymaximumchance + 1) == 1)
{

}

so like this

or is there a better way of doing this

[wintry quarry]

Random.value < 0.01f

[rich adder]

fury?

[restive kayak]

It was simple scripts where the only camera movement function was void Update() { transform.position = cameraPosition.position; }, so i dont understand why not just have it attached?

[cosmic dagger]

how can you read those variable names? camelCase those . . .

[wintry quarry]

Maybe whoever wrote it just wasn't very good at Unity

[amber spruce]

yeah i cant rn i just wrote them quickly im changing them in a second

[amber spruce]

so the 0.01f is the chance right

[wintry quarry]

yes

[amber spruce]

cool thanks i no longer need 2 variables

[rocky canyon]

   if (Random.Range(0f, 1f) < 0.5f){ }``` is 50 precent chance

[rich adder]

just a guess. sp,e smoothness to it probably instead of being instant glued on the player

[amber spruce]

its gonna be a move

[wintry quarry]

Random.value does the same as that Range call

[rocky canyon]

oof, i always forget about .value

[rich adder]

.value 0-1

[amber spruce]

it will have like a 1 in 10000 chance of happening but will make you do insane damage and will have a really cool effect i hope

[rocky canyon]

protip

[cosmic dagger]

easier to use Random.value < 0.5f . . .

[rocky canyon]

yup yup.. im jotting that down in my notes rn

[amber spruce]

yeah didnt know random.value was a thing i always did the random.range

[thin wind]

Hey all I am having a confusing issue I am making one gameobject the child of another. I then change the local position and rotation to 0 which in theory should match the parents. The parents position and rotation are all 0. however when I do this in code, the position of the gameobject is 0 however, the rotation is (x -180, y 180, z 180)

' _currentEquipped.Equip();
_currentEquipped.transform.SetParent(equipmentSlot);

        _currentEquipped.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero;
        _currentEquipped.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.identity;

'

[rich adder]

random class has a few interesting ones

[rocky canyon]

if (Random.value < 0.01f)```

aye! much better lol

[wintry quarry]

the euler angles (x -180, y 180, z 180) are equivalent to (0, 0, 0)

that's the fun part about euler angles, they're not unique

[thin wind]

yes it seems that way, why does it do this?

[wintry quarry]

depends what you mean by "it"

where are you seeing that

[thin wind]

sorry, why does it make it all 180 instead of 0?

[wintry quarry]

Again, what do you mean by "it", and where are you seeing that?

[thin wind]

the gameobject, which is referenced as _currentEquipped

[wintry quarry]

where are you seeing that

the inspector?
In a log statement?

[thin wind]

the answer to that is that as i was having so much issues with the rotation i seperated them to see what the issue was.

[rocky canyon]

this is why quaternions are used..
euler angles can have some quirks about it

[thin wind]

in the inspector

[rocky canyon]

many different values can be the exact same rotation when using eulers

[wintry quarry]

my guess is you have some weird scaling or rotation or something in your hierarchy

[thin wind]

hmmm, I checked every parent and they all scale as 1

could a child have impact on it?

[wintry quarry]

just euler angles being euler angles. This is why you don't rely on them

[thin wind]

I used quaternion.identity to change it

[rocky canyon]

(-180, 180, 180)
(180, 0, 180)
(0, -180, 180)
(360, 0, 0)```

[wintry quarry]

yeah but you're reading euler angles

[thin wind]

oh you mean in the inspector?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[thin wind]

ahahaha

now i get it

thank you heaps mate

[nimble apex]

        while (true)
        {
            if (counter < 1)
            {
                float tempY = warpObject.transform.localPosition.y;
                tempY = Mathf.Lerp(tempY, 0.5f, counter);

                warpObject.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(warpObject.transform.localPosition.x, tempY, 0);
                counter += 0.02f;
            }```

im on my last step for optimizing certain animation, as u see its a lerp animation but its inside a coroutine
the only problem left is this lerping will finish in one frame, which its supposed to be at least 50 frames , and im trying to avoid doing it on updates/fixedupdates

aight looks like i gonna try fixedupdates first

[verbal dome]

I dont see a yield/wait here so yeah it will finish instantly

If you waited a frame in the while loop then it would happen over time

[wintry quarry]

Yeah where's the yield??

[nimble apex]

IEnumerator test(GameObject warpObject){
        while (true)
        {
            if (counter < 1)
            {
                float tempY = warpObject.transform.localPosition.y;
                tempY = Mathf.Lerp(tempY, 0.5f, counter);

                warpObject.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(warpObject.transform.localPosition.x, tempY, 0);
                counter += 0.02f;
            }
            else
            {
                //commented stuffs
            }
            yield return null;
        }
}```

[wintry quarry]

this won't finish instantly unless counter starts out at 1 or close to it

[cosmic dagger]

and why are you specifically adding 0.02f to counter? if you're increasing the value realistically, you should use deltaTime . . .

[wintry quarry]

Use Debug.Log to see what's going on

[nimble apex]

oh 💩 let me fix it ty 👍

[verbal dome]

If counter is a class variable then it probably is already at 1+ when you run this the second time

Unless you reset it to 0 somewhere

[nocturne violet]

Yo does anybody know what the correct variable name for a cinemachine camera (2d)?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "cinemachine camera"?

You mean virtual camera?

[nocturne violet]

yeah

[wintry quarry]

CinemachineVirtualCamera

[nocturne violet]

im trying to edit the lens for it

thank you

ill try that

[wintry quarry]

specifically https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/api/Unity.Cinemachine.CinemachineVirtualCamera.html#Unity_Cinemachine_CinemachineVirtualCamera_m_Lens

[vale karma]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[nimble apex]

IEnumerator test(GameObject warpObject)
    {
        warpObject.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(warpObject.transform.localPosition.x, 0, 0);
        warpObject.GetComponent<MegaBendWarp>().axis = MegaAxis.Z;
        warpObject.GetComponent<MegaBendWarp>().from = -0.5f;
        warpObject.GetComponent<MegaBendWarp>().to = 0;

        float counter = 0;

        while (true)
        {
            if (counter <= 1)
            {
                float tempY = warpObject.transform.localPosition.y;
                tempY = Mathf.Lerp(tempY, 0.5f, counter);

                warpObject.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(warpObject.transform.localPosition.x, tempY, 0);
                counter += Time.deltaTime;
            }
      yield return null;

dw it does reset

@verbal dome

[cosmic dagger]

cache those references . . .

[vale karma]

hello, I have a state machine built and i found that the PlantSeedState's UpdateState function is not getting called, I think the problem lies with going two levels deep into a substate. So the Superstate runs its Update function, the substate runs its update function, but its substate does not. Is there something im missing in this code? https://gdl.space/yutopidaka.cs

[wintry quarry]

• What's a substate?
• Where does the machine ever get set up with a PlantSeedState as the substate?

The only time I see substates getting set is here:

    public override void InitializeSubState() 
    {
        if (Ctx.IsYoung)
        {
            SetSubState(Factory.Young());
        } 
        else
        {
            SetSubState(Factory.Adult());
        }
    }```

[vale karma]

so the super state, in this case the Alive state, will initialize the substate Young, and that should initialize another substate further called Seed. Everything works up until the update function in Seed

im able to get all the way into the Enter function in the Seed state.

but it works for young and alive, so its like i didnt reach far enough down lol

[ivory bobcat]

IEnumerator Test(MegaBendWarp warpObject)```

[wintry quarry]

No it's because AliveState has this:

    public override void UpdateState() 
    {
        CheckSwitchStates();
        Debug.Log("AliveState");
    }```

iot's not updating its substate

[vale karma]

young is its substate and its running okay, are u meaning the seed state?

[wintry quarry]

    public override void InitializeSubState()   
    {
        if (Ctx.IsSeed)
        {
            SwitchState(Factory.Seed());
        }
        else if (Ctx.IsCutting)
        {
            SwitchState(Factory.Cutting());
        }
        else if (Ctx.IsSprout)
        {
            SwitchState(Factory.Sprout());
        }
    }```
Is this supposed to be calling `SetSubState()` instead of `SwitchState`?

This is in PlantYoungState

I just don't think you actually set the substate to Seed because of this^

[vale karma]

😮 Ohh my goodness

let me test it before i hug you

hollyyy crap it workedd, i have been staring at it for about 2 days working around this problem. Thankyou goodsir

[faint agate]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Plane.Raycast.html
can someone help me explain a plane raycast a little more. I read it and tried the script, but im still not 100% on whats going on
also
what does the " float enter = 0.0f; " mean in this test script?

[wintry quarry]

It finds the interesection of a ray and a plane

As per the docs you linked:

This function sets enter to the distance along the ray, where it intersects the plane.

[faint agate]

thank you

ima mess around a bit more, but that helped a lot

[wintry quarry]

think of it as the distance between the black and orange circles here

[vale karma]

now its not running through the Enter function of the Seed state lolll, its doing weird stuff now, its better tho XD

[wintry quarry]

becasue you're never entering the seed state

[vale karma]

i see it was orginally called in the switch state method, would i just need to add it to the intializeSubstatemethod too?

[nimble apex]

god dammit i figured out the problem

[faint agate]

Why can I only move the object along the x and y axis?

[nimble apex]

float counter = 0;
while (true && counter <= 1)```

if 1 is an integer, will it pollute counter and turn it into int as well?

[wintry quarry]

I have no idea what you mean by that

[wintry quarry]

counter will always be float

you declared it as float

variables cannot change types in C#

[nimble apex]

ok then i must debug

because

while(true){
    .....stuffs
yield return null;
}``` should make the coroutine having update like feature

[faint agate]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Plane.Raycast.html
im still testing this script, but it says " the plane is set to the Camera's x and y position ". Im guessing this is why I can only move the object along the x and y axis, but where in the script does it establish that

[nimble apex]

like it will not finish in one frame

but now it is, it just finished in one frame

[wintry quarry]

it establishes that here when it creates the Plane:

m_Plane = new Plane(Vector3.forward, m_DistanceFromCamera);```

Since it's using Vector3.forward as the Plane's normal vector, that's the X/Y plane.

[wintry quarry]

If you look at this picture again, the thing in the top left is the normal vector for the plane. If you think about Vector3.forward being the normal vector, it's plain 😉 to see that the Plane will be the X/Y plane.

[vale karma]

I got it working, i had to do the same thing with the update state to call EnterStates instead

[void seal]

Ok it's been a hot minute since I've touched an old project let alone use C# but I'm trying to make it so I deceleration slower if I'm above my top speed as to keep some of that momentum.

Feel like I'm missing a very obvious fix and syntax error.

[wintry quarry]

you forgot the f in 0.2f

[void seal]

LMAO

[wintry quarry]

also if (velocity.x) doesn't make sense 2 lines before that

also Your IDE is not configured

you need to configure it

!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)
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• Other/None

[ivory bobcat]

We don't know what line is 483 and 485

Definitely get it configured though to prevent minor errors.

[void seal]

483 is the velocity.x || velocity.y argument.

And could have sworn I got it configured but guess not? I'll get on that.

[wintry quarry]

If you had, it would be underlining your errors in red

[void seal]

Nice.

Wow the whole time I thought I'd just have to figure it out and deal with it lmao.

[faint agate]

another question, I have a script to shoot a raycast and hit a object. When it does, itll print the name of the object which works, but how would I acces the object, would I use " GetComponent<GameObject>(). "?

[wintry quarry]

What would you be calling GetComponent on?
And GameObject is NOT a component

Refer to:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RaycastHit.html

[faint agate]

okay

[void seal]

Ok, remembered magnitude exists and is a far better arguement. It's configured for Unity now too.

coolio

ty!

[ivory bobcat]

It doesn't look like it is? 🤔

[void seal]

Took the screenshot like 5 minutes before and was testing if it works.

It's installed trust.

[ivory bobcat]

You don't need to reinstall Visual Studio but simply run and modify it. Make sure the workloads section is checked. External editor stuff, regenerate project and reboot the Unity Editor.

[dense root]

My goal is to disable the animation when the player collides with the wall to prevent the animation from continuously walking. Any thoughts on where I'm going wrong?
https://gdl.space/ahisawivus.cs

[wintry quarry]

what's happening that differs from your expectaation?

[dense root]

The character is continuing to move

[wintry quarry]

Do you have a Rigidbody? Your code is using Transform based motion

[dense root]

Yup I have a RigidBody2D

[wintry quarry]

Well, lines 57 or 61 will overwrite whatever happens on lin 36

so line 36 is basically pointless as-is

[dense root]

Oh I see

In the original Pokemon is walking animation disabled when they hit a wall?

[nimble apex]

ok , the coroutine is good , the problem is a function call after the coroutine messed up the lerp animation💩

really sad

and it wasted 3 hrs

[faint sluice]

Hello, does StopAllCoroutines stop the coroutine immediately or after the next frame?

[wintry quarry]

By the time you can run StopAllCoroutines, all of your running coroutines will be waiting at a yield statement. After calling it, they simply will not continue.

[faint sluice]

I understand that but what I mean is if I call StopAllCoroutines inside a coroutine, and call a function in the next line.
Will that function be called?

[wintry quarry]

Yes it will

[faint sluice]

Oh that's neet

[wintry quarry]

It simply won't continue after its next yield statement

[faint sluice]

I see, thanks!

[wintry quarry]

The only things that can affect the actual line-by-line flow of C# code are C# control statements

i.e. return break yield if while etc...

Barring such things, code will run immediately, line by line, in order.

[faint sluice]

Ooo that's so good to know, thank you again!

[queen adder]

PB is nearing 300k messages here now

[smoky niche]

Hey, I had a quick question about Mathf.Lerp. If I have Mathf.Lerp(a,b,t) where t > 1, will it result in a number outside the bounds of a and b, or will it take a and b as min, max values?

[languid spire]

t > 1 will return b

t < 0 will return a

[willow scroll]

Do they have the most messages on this server?

[queen adder]

afaik

[smoky niche]

Thanks! And is there a way to linearly interpolate beyond a and b if t exceeds 0 or 1

Where it doesnt give a or b as min/max

[willow scroll]

Mathf.Lerp simply clamps the value between 0 and 1, so, I suppose, you'll have to implement your own version

[cosmic dagger]

by using an ease function for t . . .

[keen dew]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.LerpUnclamped.html

[smoky niche]

Thanks!

[unkempt carbon]

hi guys im trying to move a prefab game object to another game objects transform. The script is attached to the prefab game object. What am I doing wrong here

[willow scroll]

You're simply creating a new Vector2 struct

[cosmic dagger]

unfortunately, this doesn't assign a position to anything . . .

[willow scroll]

Moving a prefab to another GameObject's transform means assign the prefab's transform.position

So the created Vector2 has to be assigned to it

[cosmic dagger]

you need to assign the position of one GameObject to the position of another GameObject or Vector2/3 . . .

[willow scroll]

Also, make sure you don't Find the GameObject twice. The GameObject's position can also be assigned directly.

yourPrefab.transform.position = GameObject.Find("PlayerSlots").transform.position;

If the z axis is relevant, the (Vector2) cast should be used

yourPrefab.transform.position = (Vector2)GameObject
    .Find("PlayerSlots").transform.position;

[unkempt carbon]

thank u guys for the info

[willow scroll]

If z position isn't supposed to be 0, assign it this way

Vector2 newPos = GameObject.Find("PlayerSlots").transform.position

yourPrefab.transform.position = new(newPos.x, newPos.y, zPos);

Also make sure you know about the disadvantages of the GameObject.Find method

[unkempt carbon]

thank you, its in 2D so no z axis needed

[willow scroll]

Regardless of it being 2D or not, the z axis always plays a huge role

[unkempt carbon]

i didnt know that o:

[willow scroll]

Well, do you know about the role of the z axis in 2D games?

[unkempt carbon]

no o:

[willow scroll]

The z position in 2D games plays a huge role when displaying the objects.
If the camera's z position is 0 and it's facing the direction forward, then the objects in a specific distance, which have a larger position e.g. 1, 10, 20 will be displayed correctly. The object, which is nearer to the camera will be displayed above the farther one. This way, if the camera's position is 0, the object with the position 1 is on top of the one with position 2, as 1 - 0 < 2 - 0.
If you have an object with the z position smaller than the camera's, and the camera is still facing the direction forward, the camera will simply not see this object, as it's not in its range of view.

[unkempt carbon]

oooh so it affects the layering

[willow scroll]

Yes

[cosmic dagger]

there really is no "2D"; as from the scene view, everything is in 3D. it's just the illusion of 2D. physics and movement are applied on a different axis. it's all a LIE!

[unkempt carbon]

[cosmic dagger]

the z-axis is used for layering . . .

[unkempt carbon]

alright i made this

[cosmic dagger]

test it out . . .

[unkempt carbon]

it works!!!!

[willow scroll]

Yeah, so you can see the 3D view when pressing the 2D button at the top-right corner of the Scene window

[willow scroll]

this. and gameObject. are both redundant and can be removed

[cosmic dagger]

now, you can simplify it. this is redundant. no need to access gameObject because you already have access to transform . . .

i would use GameObject.Find in a different method to store the PlayerSlots GameObject. this avoids using Find every time you want to move the card . . .

[willow scroll]

• this is just needed when referencing the global value instead of the local one, or when deriving from an overload
• The MonoBehaviours are derived from Component, and can thus access the Component.transform property

[unkempt carbon]

For the game I'm making, the card is only moved between 2 positions

[willow scroll]

It doesn't matter, Find can still be quite costly

[unkempt carbon]

definitely not me googling everything you just wrote

[willow scroll]

Either call it once, or assign the desired object in the Inspector

[cosmic dagger]

it's still best to store the reference and use the reference instead. Try to avoid using Find methods, if or as little as possible . . .

[unkempt carbon]

i tried assigning it in the inspector, but I can't assign a prefab to another prefab? it won't allow it..

[willow scroll]

public bool value = false;

public void MyMethod(bool value)
{
    this.value = value;
}

In this case, this.value is the global one, and value is the method's 1st parameter

[willow scroll]

You can

Prefabs cannot just reference the objects from the scene

They can reference each other though

[eternal needle]

It's a good thing to google when you come across something new.

[unkempt carbon]

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming you've instead got something in the scene and a prefab not in the scene.

[cosmic dagger]

haha. they just mean that Monobehaviour derives from the Component class, which has the gameObject and transform property. you can access either of them straight from your MonoBehaviour script . . .

[unkempt carbon]

the game object in the hierarchy is also a prefab, but the thing im assigning it to is not a prefab in the hierarchy

[willow scroll]

I wonder whether it made it even more complicated for them

[unkempt carbon]

no, i understand now

[ivory bobcat]

Prefabs generally refer to things not in the scene (prefab assets).
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Prefabs.html

[unkempt carbon]

basically, monobehaviour has already defined "gameObject" and "transform" for you, so you dont have to do that

is that right?

[willow scroll]

Component does

[cosmic dagger]

@unkempt carbon yeah, i hit enter before finishing the second part. if they need access to the position (or a member of the Transform class), it's better—and more efficient—to use transform instead of gameObject.transform . . .

[willow scroll]

MonoBehaviour : Behaviour
Behaviour : Component
Component : Object

Component.transform & Component.gameObject

As you can see, both properties from from Component

[cosmic dagger]

the same applies for gameObject if you need access to any of the GameObject members . . .

[willow scroll]

MonoBehaviour is derived from Component, so can access them both

[supple belfry]

how to make linear motion for the playable character like with out momentum and acceleration pressing the button moves the playable character from a to b linearly

[ivory bobcat]

Try the Character Controller or non physics Controller assets.

[willow scroll]

I would start a Coroutine when the button is pressed

Then simply make it return null and apply the constant value multipled by Time.deltaTime

[supple belfry]

thx it works

[supple belfry]

i will try that for other objects

[unkempt carbon]

Idk what im doing

[willow scroll]

This is completely wrong

[unkempt carbon]

[willow scroll]

So you simply assign the position of playerSlot to... its position, assuming the object with the name PlayerSlots is the same one?

[cosmic dagger]

you had the right idea, but you accessed to the wrong value. you want to store the Transform itself, not its position . . .

[willow scroll]

And then, when the card is supposed to move, you simply assign it to the position of the playerSlot. So it just works once if the playerSlot's position isn't changed anywhere

[cosmic dagger]

then you can use playerSlot to get its position at any time . . .

[jade fox]

Hello, i'm struggling with shaders, i'm tryna make theese dynamic patterns and put them on sprites, but i keep having issues

[cosmic dagger]

#archived-shaders

[jade fox]

ok...

[unkempt carbon]

I have a new problem: I'm trying to limit the amount of child game objects to the parent object to 3. I tried to use bool in this way but its not working!

[unkempt carbon]

Is this the right way?

[eternal needle]

There is nothing about this that would be limiting anything to 3.

You simply have 3 bools that are false, they are then set to true while doing the same logic 3 times. Except for card 3 because you are checking if it's true instead of false

You should really look more into basics of c# first and just like really what classes are. Maybe do some basic problem solving using them
Theres a clear misunderstanding about what code does here

[unkempt carbon]

[cosmic dagger]

nope. you can access the childCount of a transform. just check if it's less than 3 when attempting to add a card . . .

your code checks a bool and adds a child if that bool is false. this will set all the bools to true when attempting to add a single card because it will run each if statement . . .

a collection would have been better here, but i would try to understand or work out the logic behind what you want to achieve first, then attempt to implement it one step at a time . . .

[eternal needle]

This is just the truth. You could keep going on with whatever solutions temporarily work, but eventually everything will be such a mess that you cant do anything new and debugging takes hours.
You will save a lot more time by learning simple stuff first. Even I could start trying to guide you towards the right code, but I've seen the messages above. You really shouldnt try struggling your way through a game. Especially if you think having 3 bools that do nothing will limit the child count of another object

[unkempt carbon]

no, you're right

[runic holly]

im following a tutorial on procedural dongeon generation and i got error even when i import the code from the github of the tutorial, here are the errors in VS Code and the code

[languid spire]

you have duplicate scripts in your project

[cosmic dagger]

duplicates!

twinsies!

[runic holly]

thx

[eternal needle]

For your learning relevant to this problem, look into lists and arrays. A much better setup for this would be having your player slot have some script on it. On that script, you could store an array or list of all cards. You can add cards via some public method on the player slot script. This script already has the list so it knows if theres already 3 elements.

[lavish galleon]

Does anyone use A* Pathfinding Project?

How to get the collider to work on 2 Ais?

[nimble apex]

        while (true && counter <= 1)
        {
            //card rotation fix 
            float rotFixY = cardObject.transform.localEulerAngles.y;
            rotFixY = Mathf.Lerp(rotFixY, 0, counter);
            cardObject.transform.localEulerAngles= new Vector3(0, rotFixY, 0);

            counter += Time.deltaTime;

            yield return null;
        }```
consider this lerping animation inside a coroutine , it does work, but the lerping seems a bit off

for example, when i stopped at -61 on y , this function executes , and then y will go from -61 -> -360( which is equal to 0)

why though? and how can i make it to -61 -> 0 instead of -360?
because if i ever moved from 61 to 360 it means the card will spin , which will be very bad

or if i try to do -61 -> -0.5f , it might work

[languid spire]

your logic is flawed.

float rotFixY = cardObject.transform.localEulerAngles.y;

needs to outside of the while

[nimble apex]

ok thats bad lol

ty

[nimble apex]

sry im a little braindead rn, is cs cardObject.transform.localEulerAngles
behave 100% same as

localrotation = quaternion.euler();```?

[languid spire]

yes. But bear in mind if you do
Euler A -> Quaternion -> Euler B.
A and B will almost certainly not be the same

[nimble apex]

rotFixY = Mathf.Lerp(rotFixY, 0, counter);```

the problem still exists, -61 -> -360 (0)

im now gonna do Mathf.Abs(0) and see if it works lol

[errant pilot]

Guys i want to collect a coin by dragging the mouse towards it how can i do that?

[languid spire]

you should not be updating the value you are Lerping in the Lerp @nimble apex

[unkempt carbon]

Thank you for your help! I have finally completed the code

[tough abyss]

how would I display the wave name on the HUD?

[deft grail]

set the text to the variable called name

[tough abyss]

could i do it in the wave spawner script or should i make a new one?

[deft grail]

sure you can do it in the same

[nimble apex]

i need to, this is not an update, it is inside a coroutine

so the only thing i can do is doing the whole thing in a while loop

[languid spire]

not at all. your logic should be
EulerA = eulerAngles
while
EulerB = Lerp(EulerA)
rotation = Quaternion.Euler(EulerB)
yield

No need to modify EulerA nor read from a quaternion more than once

[nimble apex]

oh ok nice

ty

[verbal dome]

See Math.LerpAngle

It wraps around 360 degrees correctly, unlike Math.Lerp

[hexed terrace]

!vs

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[nimble apex]

nice ty

👍

[tough abyss]

why does the name string variable display the name of the gameobject its under?

[storm pine]

Is there any way to set a Dictionary<> through the Unity Inspector? It just doesn't appear. I found you can create a Serializable class that constains the pair key-value and then use a list or array of this class. And finally on the awake or Start transform the list or array to an actual dictionary, but I think there should be a better way to do that, looks so complex for an easy problem. This is an example if I don't explain to good with words:

[System.Serializable]
public class IntPuzzleCanvasPair
{
    public int key;
    public PuzzleCanvas value;
}
public class PuzzleManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private List<IntPuzzleCanvasPair> puzzleCanvasList = new List<IntPuzzleCanvasPair>();

    private Dictionary<int, PuzzleCanvas> puzzleCanvasDictionary;

    void Awake()
    {
        puzzleCanvasDictionary = new Dictionary<int, PuzzleCanvas>();

        foreach (var pair in puzzleCanvasList)
        {
            if (!puzzleCanvasDictionary.ContainsKey(pair.key))
            {
                puzzleCanvasDictionary.Add(pair.key, pair.value);
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.LogWarning("Duplicate key found: " + pair.key);
            }
        }
    }
}

[fossil drum]

No clue what your actually trying to achieve, but name defaults to the name of the gameobject this script is on.

[tough abyss]

trying to show the wave name on the HUD

[languid spire]

so where in that script does it reference the Waves array?

[tough abyss]

should be referencing this

[storm pine]

You should get a reference to the Wave object and use something like wave.name to have it

something like waveSpawnerScript.GetActualWave().name;

[stuck palm]

if i comment out stuff like this, will the reference still be there when i uncomment it

[hexed terrace]

I want to say yes.. but test it. Add a new var

[stuck palm]

i've got this issue where this guy will stay in the air. p1 is a duplicate that uses the base character class, and player 2 uses the scientist class player 2 doesnt seem to be getting affected by gravity at all and remains suspended in the air. I've commented out the entire scientist inherited class, and he is still having this issue. what steps can i take to try and debug this error?

[verbal dome]

What components does that character have?

And start debugging its movement variables

Does the character always float?

[stuck palm]

its not meant to float, no

lemme show u the components one sec

[storm pine]

If you override some method like Start() you have to do on the child class protected override void Start() and inside this methos use base.Start() to call the parent method

[verbal dome]

Also make sure that all layers and layermasks are correctly set up

[stuck palm]

this character worked completely fine until i decided to move to the Kinematic Character Controller package. the other 3 i have work just fine

idk why this guy doesnt

[stuck palm]

offending character is on the left

on the right is the debugging one, which uses the base character class

I literally copy pasted the one on the right, removed the scientist class and added the character class, and changed nothing else

[verbal dome]

Does your animator have root motion enabled?

[stuck palm]

no

[verbal dome]

Does the left version work correctly?

[stuck palm]

left version works as intended, yes

gravity wise

you cant use the moves because thats the scientist class job

[verbal dome]

Maybe post the scripts. Character and scientist

[ivory bobcat]

Check out the asset store for free serialized dictionaries - they aren't visible in the Unity Editor by default.

[stuck palm]

can do, but the character one is very long

[storm pine]

Thank you I will take a look, I think this should be something already in Unity that I was missing, haven't think to look on the assetStore

[stuck palm]

Character - https://gdl.space/urujisunor.cpp
Scientist - https://gdl.space/pumedoreha.cs

[willow scroll]

You can also override the struct's serialization

[fossil drum]

Your wave manager knows which wave is currently alive.
You can just give that a method that retrieves that name from the current Wave object in the list/array you have in the manager.
What you call all those things is up to you.

[verbal dome]

Did you say that if you comment out all of the contents of the Scientist script, the issue is still there?

If thats the case then the script cant be the issue

Try recreating the scientist from the normal character again. Make a prefab variant

[storm pine]

I will suggest to Debugg the MoveVector after the base.Update() call and at the end of the scientist Update(), maybe is kind of overwritting it a way you don't want to

[stuck palm]

public Vector2 MoveVector
    {
        get => moveVector;
        set
        {
            moveVector = value;
            print("MoveVector changed! : " + value);
        }
    }

I've made this so that whenver MoveVector is changed, it logs it in the console. Similar thing surely?

[stuck palm]

will try this, thank you

[stuck palm]

I have managed to isolate the problem. It appears when I delete my animator component, gravity resumes as normal

[verbal dome]

So my root motion guess wasnt too far off 😁

[stuck palm]

haha, i guess its somehow like keeping the Y value in stasis somehow? any idea as to why that might be happening?

[verbal dome]

Maybe some animation has keyframes for y pos?

Not sure, I never control movement with anims

[stuck palm]

me neither 😭 idk where this is coming from

but i'll have a look, thank you

[stuck palm]

Figured it out 😄

everything works as normal again

[verbal dome]

Nice

[stuck palm]

such a stupid issue lmao i wish animator set values had callbacks 😭

[queen adder]

Guys what is the difference of

public float hallucinations;

And

[SeralizseField] (i forgot the rest lol)

[languid spire]

One you didn't forget, the other is complete nonsense ?

why would you ask a question and not even be bothered to ask a sensible one?

[wintry quarry]

[SerializeField] only serializes the field, without making it public.
public makes it public, and Unity also serializes public fields.

[spiral oak]

you can access the public field from other script, but if you can make the serialized field private, protected or whatever you want

[queen adder]

So serialize field is only a configurable setting by the user or the script, and public lets every script read and change it?

[queen adder]

Oh

[wintry quarry]

sorta... Seiralization is more than showing it in the inspector, but yes about the public thing, assuming they have a reference.

[spiral oak]

The serialized field is simply shown in the inspector. It could be a configurable setting, a changing variable or whatever you want.

(it's not just shown in the inspector, but let's say so to keep it simple)
The public, on the other hand, is also serialized, but yeah, any script could read and modify it

[swift crag]

To serialize is to turn something into data.

Unity records the values of serialized fields.

[queen adder]

Could you put Seiralization in a script? Like, inside the void update and void start scripts?

[swift crag]

okay, several clarifications here

[queen adder]

O ok 👍

[swift crag]

[SerializeField] is an attribute. It can only be applied to fields.

Fields are variables you declare in a class.

Update and Start are methods: functions inside a class

[wintry quarry]

I have no idea what that means

[swift crag]

Both of them return void, which means they return nothing.

[queen adder]

And what are classes?

[swift crag]

They are not called "void start" or "void update", just "Start" or "Update"

[spiral oak]

i think he's asking if you can serialize a local variable

[swift crag]

classes are collections of variables and functions (and other more niche things)

you have probably made several classes already

[wintry quarry]

https://brilliant.org/wiki/classes-oop/

[swift crag]

when you create a class that has MonoBehaviour as its parent, you're creating a new kind of component to use in Unity

[queen adder]

So basically in these? { }

[swift crag]

(and the answer to that is no, because local variables only exist while the function is running)

[swift crag]

No, because you use curly braces for much more than just declaring stuff in a class

[queen adder]

Oh

[swift crag]

public class Foo {
  public void Bar() {
    if (true) {
      Debug.Log("Baz");
    }
  }
}

this is a class called Foo

it contains a method called Bar

which contains an if statement

[queen adder]

That’s in python

[swift crag]

The premise holds.

[polar acorn]

The stuff inside those, if those things come after a class declaration. It literally has the word class in the code.

[wintry quarry]

The concepts are the same

You asked what a class is

This covers it perfectly

[polar acorn]

Classes are basically the same thing in every programming language

[queen adder]

Oh yeah could you put serialize in a class?

[swift crag]

you keep asking "can you put serialize in a X"

this doesn't make any sense at all

the [SerializeField] attribute can only be added to a field.

[queen adder]

I know but really I need help where you could put serialize fields in

[wintry quarry]

You can put it in exactly one place. On a field declaration.

[swift crag]

fields are declared inside of a class, I guess

[spiral oak]

OOP is an universal programming concept

[swift crag]

But I literally just told you where you can put them

[queen adder]

Oh thanks

[polar acorn]

The fact that you are asking this leads me to believe you still have no idea what a serialized field is

[queen adder]

Not exactly but I think I know now

[polar acorn]

It allows you to edit a variable in the inspector, but not access it from another class. That's all.

[queen adder]

I do

[queen adder]

Ik

[swift crag]

struggling to avoid hitting you with an "um, actually" here

today we will be writing a game entirely in Haskell

[queen adder]

What about in… scratch? Lol

[polar acorn]

I've done that actually

[swift crag]

does Scratch have inheritance

and used-defined types

[spiral oak]

No

[spiral oak]

Neither

[swift crag]

get well soon

[polar acorn]

I made a text based dungeon crawler in Haskell as a final project at college

[queen adder]

Yea classes don’t really exist in scratch

[swift crag]

ooh, fun

[queen adder]

I’m just starting code lol i started yesterday and still learning from a tutorial

[spiral oak]

Classes exist in Object-Oriented Programming languages, scratch isn't object oriented

[queen adder]

Ima make it simple for me and replace OOP with text based

Scratch is block based 🤷

[spiral oak]

Unity uses C# which is object-oriented, so you'll have to learn other language

[polar acorn]

Fine, I didn't want to get too specific to avoid muddying the waters but allow me to amend my statement:

Classes are mostly the same thing in every programming language that has them

[spiral oak]

Yeah prob learning scratch first would be a good idea

[queen adder]

I know, just making it simple for me to understand

[polar acorn]

What?

[queen adder]

Used scratch for 2 years now ima try to use unity now

[queen adder]

Scratch is object based, unity uses C# which is text based (simply)

[spiral oak]

Then you have to learn OPP because Unity uses an OPP language 🫠

[polar acorn]

What

[queen adder]

That’s what I’m doing lol

[spiral oak]

What do you mean C# is text based?

I mean, what is text-based?

[queen adder]

I mean like you type text so it works

[spiral oak]

Oh

[queen adder]

Text based is a simple way for saying oop (for me)

[spiral oak]

OPP and text based arent the same thing

[swift crag]

"object oriented" doesn't mean you're dragging stuff around on the screen

you're talking about the visual interface you use to write and modify code

[queen adder]

I’m saying text based so it’s simple for me

[swift crag]

"object oriented" means that you create objects: collections of code and data that you can pass around

[spiral oak]

But there are non object oriented programming languages that are still text based

[queen adder]

This started as a question now like 25+ msg lol

[queen adder]

I’m not talking about any other coding language just focusing on C#

[spiral oak]

You'll have to learn universal programming concepts which would probably be exampled with other languages

[queen adder]

!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.

[polar acorn]

Those are not even remotely the same thing

[ionic plank]

hello, I have a problem with my camera. I want its to follow my character (for a 2d platformer). I succed when i had just one character, but now I introduce an other one to choose which one you would like to play. But now the camera is fix and I don't know why (I have already put a cinemachineVirtualCamera but it doesn't work)

[queen adder]

I’m just saying it my way, I’m not using like idk rust or unreal engine

[polar acorn]

You should immediately take that mental shortcut you've hallucinated and throw it directly in the trash. It is not a useful hueristic and will only serve to confuse you and make it impossible to communicate with anyone who's touched code ever

[spiral oak]

Let's say you confuse yourself and also confuse us

[queen adder]

I could say OOP and text based whenever I want, u know

[spiral oak]

How did you introduce the second character?

[polar acorn]

Yes, and you'll make things infinitely harder on yourself, learn nothing useful and immediately run into a wall as soon as you see that unity has a visual scripting package.

The first way you learn something is important and it's maddeningly difficult to un-learn something.

[ionic plank]

I use prefab for both character.

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

public class PlayerManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject [] players;
    public CinemachineVirtualCamera CVcam;
    int characterIndex;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Awake()
    {
        characterIndex = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("CharacterSelected", 1);
        GameObject player = Instantiate(players[characterIndex], transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
        CVcam.Follow = player.transform;
        CVcam.LookAt = player.transform;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }
}

[queen adder]

Ok. I could detangle it from my mind when I need to choose one between one

[spiral oak]

Both characters use the same Player Controller?

[polar acorn]

Detangle it now. The fact that C# doesn't use Lego bricks has nothing to do with it being object oriented

[ionic plank]

yes I think

[polar acorn]

These are entirely unrelated subjects

[ionic plank]

I duplicate the first character and change the animation and the sprite

[spiral oak]

So the two characters are exactly the same but with a different sprite, right?

[ionic plank]

yes

[queen adder]

Is ‘’’cs
Test
‘’’

[spiral oak]

Okay, then lemme recommend you something

[queen adder]

Nvm

[spiral oak]

What if you use the GameObject for both characters, and change its animation and sprite depending on which character the user selected? @ionic plank

[ionic plank]

oh yeah may be

Let me try

[queen adder]

You’re smart I think that’ll work for him

I mean it’s easy to think about but

Hard to think it if you get it

[spiral oak]

Actually I think that wouldnt be very clean (my mistake)

the code looks well done tho

[ionic plank]

Just do you know how to change the controller of the animator of a gameobject

[spiral oak]

animator.runtimeAnimatorController
Howerever I recommend you to keep your old code as it's more scalable, I'll help you find out what's your problem

So did you add the PlayerManager to any GameObject of the scene?

[ionic plank]

yes

[spiral oak]

alright then start the game and select the Virtual Camera. Check in its inspector if follow and lookAt fields are actually set to your player

[ionic plank]

yes

[spiral oak]

oh that's weird

[queen adder]

The script is disabled and the player is set to none (camera follow)

Is that supposed to be like that?

[ionic plank]

yes it was my first script but i don't need it

I found my mistake ...

[queen adder]

Where is your other script

[ionic plank]

I had two Camera

so my screen display the second one

[spiral oak]

oh thats unexpected 😅

[ionic plank]

thanks you ❤️

[wraith hornet]

to get instanced of a material , use .getComponent<Renderer>().material, right ?