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[rich adder]

Assets -> Reimport ALL also should work when issues like this occur

[spring tusk]

The good new is it's not burning fuel like hell anymore,Coroutine runs only once. But it's still burns fuel even the engine is not on/ not clicking

Perhaps there is another problem with Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)

[swift crag]

GetMouseButtonUp is true for one frame

You're probably missing it due to that WaitForSeconds.

[rich adder]

yeah the timing would have to be insane

[swift crag]

If you just want to know if the mouse button is now up, use GetMouseButton

if it's false, the mouse is not being pressed

[swift sedge]

right to the millisecond

[rich adder]

Capcom games

[swift sedge]

the guys that made resident evil?

[rich adder]

only resident evil ?

[swift sedge]

• many others

[rich adder]

indeed

streetfighter ehem

Capcom is def one of the most successful game company

[swift sedge]

we have to include resident evil 2, 3 and 4

[rich adder]

where is 1 ?

[swift sedge]

its behind EA, but EA slowly turned into a cashgrab

[rich adder]

wat?

[spring tusk]

ah sorry but can you tell me where to put it? TwT

[rich adder]

EA never touched resident evil lol

[swift sedge]

I mean in success

[rich adder]

not even close

EA got big because of Sport games, mainly publishing*

they had good games they Published but not made.
Notably Freedom Fighters and alike

dead space was good too

[swift sedge]

well, they have their own game engine at least

[spring tusk]

I miss dead space

[rich adder]

DICE made frostbite yeah. It was good

[spring tusk]

I need mouse button to hold : (

[swift crag]

So what? You can check if it’s currently pressed

You don’t need to know if it was released this frame

[spring tusk]

It's working for "flame", which appears on hold

[swift crag]

If GetMouseButton returns false, you aren’t holding the button

[rich adder]

wouldnt something like this work

no needed

[spring tusk]

lemme try

[willow scroll]

for (int i = fuelAmount; i >= 1; i--, fuelAmount--)

while (fuelAmount > 0)
{
    fuelAmount--;
}

[swift crag]

This runs until you’re out of fuel

[rich adder]

ahh yeah you're right

[spring tusk]

this didn't work

lemme try other

[willow scroll]

What exactly doesn't work?

[willow scroll]

Are you talking about my variant? They're the same.

Both won't work in your case

[spring tusk]

It doesn't stop burning fuel

[rich adder]

nah original question is they want to stop burning when they release

[swift crag]

if you want to burn fuel until you let go of the mouse, all you need to do is use GetMouseButton, not GetMouseButtonUp

that's it

[spring tusk]

T_T

[swift crag]

you will need to invert the condition, of course

if (!Input.GetMouseButton(0))

this will succeed when the left mouse button is not being pressed

[spring tusk]

wait

[willow scroll]

You can say

if the mouse is being held
    burn the fuel

[swift crag]

and yes, you should really just do this

[spring tusk]

When I try it, this time I can only click once

[swift crag]

also, the for loop is really weird

just do

while (fuelAmount > 0 && Input.GetMouseButton(0)) {
  ...
}

[spring tusk]

It's not my code, got it from youtube

[rich adder]

yea this can probably be easily just in Update

[willow scroll]

Why not in Update?

[swift crag]

using a coroutine makes it easier to do the 0.2 second interval, I guess

but it'll also be inaccurate, since you'll get more than 0.2 second delays (because the coroutine actually resumes on the next frame after 0.2 seconds pass)

so yes, this really belongs in Update

You can use a float field to store how long until the next unit of fuel is burned

[rich adder]

time.time also can help do the intervals

[swift crag]

void Update() {
  bool burningFuel = Input.GetMouseButton(0) && fuelAmount > 0;
  if (burningFuel) {
    burnTimer -= Time.deltaTime;
    while (burnTimer <= 0) {
      fuelAmount -= 1;
      burnTimer += 0.2f;
    }
  }
}

[willow scroll]

This won't be too different from Update, since both are called there

[swift crag]

something like this

[swift crag]

This would correctly let you do super-short burns without losing a unit of fuel each time

Although, if you do want that, you'd need to rewrite it a bit

[spring tusk]

I am trying : )

But update makes much more sense

[swift crag]

Coroutines are useful for when you might be doing the same thing many times

where it'd be annoying to keep track of everything in fields and handle them all in Update

e.g. spawning a particle system and then destroying it after 3 seconds

(although, in that case, you can just pass a second argument to Destroy to tell Unity how long it should wait)

[spring tusk]

IT WORKS ! It finally works. Thanks you all so much

[rich adder]

[swift sedge]

oh? I thought some software developers at EA worked on it

[rich adder]

no it was DICE who was acquired by EA. They got the cash to buy studios out

[swift sedge]

ah

so then frostbite became what source is to valve

[rich adder]

not sure what you mean by that

[summer stump]

But... valve actually made source.

[stray pelican]

Hello! I am a beginner with unity and I am running in a bit of an issue.
I called a variable "public int points;" and then tried to increment this variable by 10 every time I called the function pointUp but it keeps resetting my point variable to 0 and I always end up having 10 points no matter what I do. Can someone help me?

(I am not in void Update here btw)

[wintry quarry]

You don't seem to be calling pointUp() anywhere in this screenshot

[wintry quarry]

also - why does the function return an int, if it's also modifying a member variable?
It should probably only do one or the other

[wintry quarry]

Add Debug.Log to your code to check when it's running and what it's doing

[stray pelican]

just modifying point wasn't working so i tried different things

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log($"Before adding points: {points}");
points = points + 10;
Debug.Log($"After adding points: {points}");```

[wintry quarry]

My guess then is you are almost definitely looking at the wrong copy of this variable

which class is this on?

[short hazel]

Is that script on an object that gets destroyed at some point?

[wintry quarry]

Share all the relevant code in paste sites !code
And explain which components are on which objects.

[eternal falcon]

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[stray pelican]

https://gdl.space/yuyujawoqi.cs

[wintry quarry]

Why is this on TetrisBlock?

You want each block in the game to track its own number of points?

Because that's what you're doing

[short hazel]

Called it - destroy a block and its own number of points is lost

[wintry quarry]

Yes we have identified the issue here #💻┃code-beginner message

[short hazel]

You should keep the point count in an object that does not get destroyed, maybe that's the original point of using return in the method? So you can get the number of points this block gives, and store it in another variable?

[stray pelican]

okayy I think I understand

so I should do another script?

[wintry quarry]

You would need a centralized manager that keeps track of score, yes

[stray pelican]

because when the block is destroyed it destroys my points

[wintry quarry]

Just think about it. Should each tetris block have its own "score" variable? That doesn't make much sense.
Same thing with the grid etc

these should be part of some central game manager type thing

[stray pelican]

haa okok

honestly for everything except the points I followed a tutorial

but yeah I get it

thx! I'm gonna try that

[swift crag]

when designing your game, it's important to think about who "owns" a concept, as well as how many "owners" you'll have

A block might own its own score (maybe you have special golden blocks that give more points)

but it should not own the total score

[vast ivy]

why Cant I drag my GameObject parent into the editors GameObject section?

[wintry quarry]

You're looking at the Script Defaults for the INventory Manager script

[vast ivy]

do I have to apply the script to something before I can link them?

[wintry quarry]

You would need to look at the inspector for a GameObject in the scene that you attached the script to

[vast ivy]

ah ok

[wintry quarry]

yes... If you haven't dont that, you aren't using your script at all

[vast ivy]

yea I thought I could just link it before I used it somewhere

[swift crag]

When you click on a script asset, you're inspecting the script itself

you can set defaults for when you add new instances of the component

i've never really used that

[queen adder]

Reallyyy!?? it is helpful for Editor classes

[cosmic smelt]

Yo a while ago someone gave me a website to help me with c# can someone help me remember i know nothing

[rich adder]

check the pins

[cosmic smelt]

Yo its telling me that i should download an LTS version of unity but i already have normal unity what should i do

[swift crag]

the LTS version is about as close to "normal unity" as it gets

[warped ginkgo]

Hello, is there someone experienced who could help me make a system like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWFuPmEj6xc except in 3D? I think it may be highly advanced and I dont have much time, so I would be really happy if someone could enlighten me on how to do this

[cosmic smelt]

Wait so do i get LTS or no because cant my game files stop working if there is no support or somthing

[swift crag]

no, they won't "stop working"

the long term support version is just a major release of Unity that gets patches for a long time

[queen adder]

Interesting. In 2D would be a little headache

[swift crag]

If you have an existing project, use whatever version it uses.

If you don't, install the 2022 LTS.

[cosmic smelt]

Im on the first steps of unity learn doing a microgame so idk

[warped ginkgo]

Yeah... I need it in 3D though, so even harder probably

[swift crag]

If you want to use the microgame templates, then you need the 2021 LTS.

The tutorial should tell you this

make sure to read it (:

[cosmic smelt]

It does but why cant i do it in normal unity

[swift crag]

because the templates were only made for the 2021 LTS

this is also "normal unity"

it's just an older version

[cosmic smelt]

And there is 2d platformer microgame on the one i have

[dense root]

Does text have a method similar to button's onClick or should I just use a button and the methods from that for simplicity?

public class ClickExample : MonoBehaviour {
    public Button yourButton;

    void Start () {
        Button btn = yourButton.GetComponent<Button>();
        btn.onClick.AddListener(TaskOnClick);
    }

    void TaskOnClick(){
        Debug.Log ("You have clicked the button!");
    }
}

[swift crag]

is this on UI text?

[cosmic smelt]

So do i get rid of the one i have and get LTS

[dense root]

I believe so, yes

[rocky canyon]

if u dont have much storage I would..

but if u got room just keep both

[cosmic smelt]

Wont it get confusing?

[wintry quarry]

Add an Event Trigger component to your Text

[swift crag]

if so, you can either:

• implement IPointerClickHandler handler in your component
• add an Event Trigger component and set it up

[wintry quarry]

Or just make it a button

with an empty image

[rocky canyon]

not really.. the hub does a good job of showing u what version what project is using

[dense root]

Yeah I saw that IPointerClickHandler but it seemed a bit excessive when I could just use a button

[swift crag]

Oh right, you can just add a Button component

duh

[wintry quarry]

well a Button is really just a Selectable with IPointerClickHandler on it tbh

[cosmic smelt]

Wheres that

[rocky canyon]

when u make a new project u can choose the version to use it

[cosmic smelt]

Ohh

[swift crag]

just follow the instructions in the tutorial

[cosmic smelt]

I am but there confusing

[swift crag]

they were written to be followed, not to be completely skipped over

[dense root]

Is there a way to make my button background transparent? Other than setting the color to the background, which I want to avoid in case I change things around

[rocky canyon]

u change the Alpha/Opacity to 0

[dense root]

Oh awesome, I forgot about that. Thakn you

[rocky canyon]

the last number/ lower number in the color picker

[dense root]

Found it, thank you so much

[stray pelican]

hello it's me again, I made another script to change the number of points but I wanna call it when a block or when a line is detroyed. I tried using "FindObjectOfType<pointManagement>().pointUp(); " in my script that deletes lines but it tells me
"NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
TetrisBlock.DeleteLine (System.Int32 i) (at Assets/TetrisBlock.cs:83)
TetrisBlock.CheckForLines () (at Assets/TetrisBlock.cs:60)
TetrisBlock.Update () (at Assets/TetrisBlock.cs:45)"

and I have no idea of what it means

[summer stump]

You can have multiple editor versions installed at the same time. No need to get rid of any unless you don't plan on ever using that version again.
And you should almost always be using one of the LTS versions unless forced to use an old one by something you need or want to check out the cutting edge changes is brand new versions.

[wintry quarry]

That's a NullReferenceException - the most common error that beginners will encounter

It means you tried to use a reference that wasn't actually pointing at an object

[cosmic smelt]

Idk what im doing im just gunna try random stuff till it works

[rocky canyon]

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

[dense root]

Can you show a bit of the script at the offending lines?

[summer stump]

Bad idea

[cosmic smelt]

Why

[wintry quarry]

If this was the line that caused it:
FindObjectOfType<pointManagement>().pointUp();
It means you didn't have an instance of pointManagement in your scene.

[summer stump]

To just try random stuff until it works? Kinda self-explanatory

[rocky canyon]

good way to break it more and more until its unsalvageable lmao

[summer stump]

Just follow learn until you have the foundation to know a little what you are doing

[cosmic smelt]

Its fine

[stray pelican]

I don't get it :/

[rocky canyon]

errors meant to point u directly at the error.. to save time/ trouble/ headaches

[wintry quarry]

What part don't you get? I explained it pretty clearly I think.

[stray pelican]

point management is a script what do you mean I don't have a instance

like it's not connected to anything?

[summer stump]

It is not attached to a gameobject as a component inside the active scene

[stray pelican]

yeah sorry I'm a beginner beginner

[rocky canyon]

you're saying BlueScript.DoSomething();
and the editor is like yo, guy.. I don't know what BlueScript you're talking about.. its either missing or you didn't tell me which one to use

[dense root]

Show your inspector where you are trying to get the pointManagement object

[stray pelican]

this?

[stray pelican]

so I have to create and object and connect my pointManagement to it?

[wintry quarry]

You have to attach your scripts to objects in the scene for them to do anything

[rocky canyon]

if pointManagement isn't on a gameobject in the scene it wont find it..

[dense root]

Well yeah because you're telling the code to find the pointManagment object in the scene

[rocky canyon]

if its a Manager type script or something you can jsut attach it to an Empty GameObject and give it a good name

[stray pelican]

okok I think I understand thx! I thought that it could work if I just used debug

[rocky canyon]

regular monobehaviour scripts that aren't attached to anything in the scene will get completely ignored when u build.

[stray pelican]

god it workkkksss thxxx

[dense root]

Celebrate good times

[rocky canyon]

if u can.. you might want to cache the reference in a variable in Start() or Awake()

that way ur not using FindObject every time u run that loop

bad for performance

[stray pelican]

I meannn it's a tetris performance should be ok

if it works don't touch it

[rocky canyon]

private pointManagement myPointManagementScript;

void Awake(){
myPointManagementScript = FIndObjectOfType...```

then u can just call myPointManagementScript.pointUp();

you'd already have that reference stored

[stray pelican]

ha

ok

Imma try

[rocky canyon]

just a good tip for later.. might be fine for a tetris game.. but depending on how many times that looop runs. and especially if its in an update or something

[stray pelican]

yeah I understand

[stray pelican]

why do you use private here?

[rocky canyon]

b/c unless its accessed elsewhere theres no need to make it public

keep things private unless they have to be made public (like in order to access them from an external script)

[stray pelican]

it's accessed when I update my point no?

[stray pelican]

yeah or it use more data for nothing right?

[rocky canyon]

well its more like exposure..
if other scripts can access it.. (like when they don't need to)
it could be easy to accidently call a function or rewrite a value u dont mean to..

[stray pelican]

ha okkk

[rocky canyon]

or if its public in the inspector u could risk forgetting to assign it or something

[stray pelican]

okok

[stray pelican]

one last thing, find objectoftype what?

like pointUp()?

[rocky canyon]

and u can still assign it in the inspector if u'd like
you can make a private variable visible in the script's inspector
by adding [SerializedField] in front of it..
like
[SerializedField] private CharacterController myCC;

u could drag it in and assign it in the inspector.. but it wouldn't be able to be accessed outside that class still

[rocky canyon]

the type it is..

just this part

;

[stray pelican]

ha

oks

[rocky canyon]

and then when u say myPointManagementVariable.pointUp();
its the same as
FindObjectOfType<pointManagement>().pointUp(); (but not really, b/c its already been assigned, ur just accessing that instance of the pointManagement script)

[stray pelican]

I feel like a two years old

it died...

[slender nymph]

you need to get your !IDE configured

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[slender nymph]

after that you should declare the variable in the class

[stray pelican]

what is that

[rocky canyon]

ur code editor

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[summer stump]

What is myPointManagementScript?

Ah, yeah after fixing your ide

[stray pelican]

this

[summer stump]

No. What is it in the pointManagement class?

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃code-beginner message
actually this

[summer stump]

Hint, it is nothing

[rocky canyon]

lol..

[dense root]

Hmm so the way I'm doing this seems bad in the long run but I have two separate scripts, one attached to my enemy and another attached to my button. Both call the camera to switch. How would you handle this?

[wintry quarry]

Only one should do it

or rather

[dense root]

Would you attach it to the enemy or the UI? Probably the UI, right?

[wintry quarry]

you should make a function that switches to the battle state

in a singleton probably somewhere

and both of these pieces of code should call that function

[dense root]

Interesting, I've never used a singleton I'll look into that

[rocky canyon]

FindObjectOfType() is ❌ deprecated in Unity6 anyway 😈

[swift crag]

only because it's been replaced by a version that lets you specify if you care about it being the first object or not

well, by two functions

[rocky canyon]

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

[dense root]

Discussion goes a bit over my head, but thank you for that

[vast ivy]

Any clue why Im getting a null reference when I interact with this object with the Item class on it? The interactions are working correctly, it just stopped working when I tried to get the itemName from class Item
item.cs:

using UnityEngine;

public class Item : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string itemName;
    public Sprite icon;
    public int maxStack;
}

Interact function:

    private void Interact()
    {
        Ray ray = playerCamera.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0));
        RaycastHit hit;

        if (canInteract)
        {
            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactRange, interactableLayer | collectableLayer))
            {
                GameObject interactedObject = hit.collider.gameObject;
                string objectName = interactedObject.name;

                if (objectName == "Charging Station")
                {
                    playerStats.ToggleCharging();
                }
                else if (objectName == "Chip Terminal")
                {
                    ToggleChipTerminal();
                }
                else
                {
                    Debug.Log("Interacted with: " + item.itemName);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("Nothing interactable in range");
            }
        }
    }

[swift crag]

well, what is the actual error?

there are plenty of places here that could cause an exception

[short hazel]

The item variable did not have a value. Make sure you assigned a value into it before accessing things on it

[swift crag]

look at the line number, then verify that everything used on that line isn't null

[vast ivy]

Yea I assigned 2 different objects with this class attached to them, heres one of them

heres the full error message fen: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

[swift crag]

okay, and what line is it coming from

[short hazel]

You might want to actually get that script on the object you just hit with the raycast, right? Because you're not doing that right now

[swift crag]

yeahs, nothing here actually assigns item

[vast ivy]

I did it earlier in the script with this line: public Item item;

oh wait

[swift crag]

yes, that declares a field that holds an item

[short hazel]

That targets one specific item. Your raycast might be hitting something else entirely

[swift crag]

it doesn't do anything to assign a value to that field!

[vast ivy]

so I need to get the object im hitting, get the item component from it, then I can get the info from it

[swift crag]

Correct.

TryGetComponent is useful here.

if (!hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out Item item))
  return; // give up and quit early

item.foo = 123;

or, in your case

if (!hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out item))
  return; // give up and quit early

item.foo = 123;

since item already exists

The first one declares a new variable.

[short hazel]

That variable should probably be kept local if you're not using it elsewhere

[swift crag]

yes -- that simplifies your class

you don't want random cruft floating around

(my cat is sitting on me. help)

[rocky canyon]

it's basically a static instance of a class that you can access from anywhere within the scene b/c there's only (1) version of it.. that way there are no conflicts finding the right instance of it.
https://hastebin.com/share/apewuvelot.csharp <-- basic singleton setup
like here in this TestScript.. you can attach this component/script to a gameobject in teh scene and w/o having to assign any more references you can access it from any other script.. like:
TestScript.Instance.MethodYouCanCallFromAnywhere();

[swift crag]

A singleton is anything that should only ever exist once -- not zero times, not two times

[rocky canyon]

great for things like Score Counters, AudioManagers, GameManagers, etc

[swift crag]

"game controllers" are often singletons

I have a set of singletons that only exist in individual levels, and then a set of singletons that exist for the entire life of the game

[rocky canyon]

only way i like em! 😈

[dense root]

Right I get the overall concept

Thank you for the explanations

[rocky canyon]

de nada.. i was just pasting the relevant snippet of code from that source i linked.. as u mentioned it was a bit over ur head..

that way u can kinda focus on the important part of it.. and work it out

  public class Widget : Singleton<Widget>
  {
  }``` my singletons are *tiny* now, I love it ❤️

[spiral narwhal]

OnApplicationQuit() is called before OnDisable() :(
Is there a way to make sure it does OnDisable first

[summer stump]

Well, you could finagle something with Application.wantsToQuit:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-wantsToQuit.html

like disabling the object you want OnDisable called on, or just doing the behaviour manually

[spiral narwhal]

I see, I think i will use OnDisable instead of OnApplicationQuit and change the execution order

[eternal needle]

Why would you need to do this? What's specifically the issue you're having?
There are definitely better alternatives

[spiral narwhal]

Backend API subscriptions. Basically I just want to unsubscribe to everything when the app closes, just to have a clean exit

[swift crag]

this only really matters if you have Domain Reload disabled

which only matters in the editor

[spiral narwhal]

Still, it feels more clean to actually do the unsubscriptions.
Btw I solved this using OnDestroy

[swift crag]

one thing I've noticed is that, when the scene is being torn down as the game quits, objects can start comparing equal to null immediately after they get destroyed

(rather than this waiting to happen at the end of the frame)

I have a singleton class that instantiates a prefab if an instance isn't available

it wound up spamming lots and lots of copies of the prefab

[rocky canyon]

the new update makes inline code look soo much more presentable 🙂

[spiral narwhal]

Exactly that is the issue I was having

[swift crag]

I need to go look at that again

maybe make a small test project to really figure out what order stuff is happening in

OnDisable gets called on everyone before OnDestroy does, iirc, so you can subscribe and unsubscribe in OnEnable and OnDisable instead

[swift crag]

...but sometimes I really need to stay subscribed at all times, even when the component is disabled

[spiral narwhal]

Oh no, I've solved it now :)

[swift crag]

(e.g. I want to be able to enable the component in response to an event)

[spiral narwhal]

using main.model;
using main.service;
using UnityEngine;

namespace main.mono
{
    public class GameCloser : MonoBehaviour
    {
        private void OnDestroy()
        {
            ServiceManager.Instance?.CloseAll();
            GameSaveManager.Instance?.Close();
        }
    }
}

That was all I needed in my case

[wintry quarry]

🤔 I would think thjat doesn't work

Because ? won't detect destroyed objects

[spiral narwhal]

They aren't mono behaviours

[wintry quarry]

Ah

[swift crag]

✨ they are now ✨

I wound up writing this

[wintry quarry]

Make them implement IDisposable 😃

[swift crag]

public static bool Safe => _instance != null;

this tells me if the instance either doesn't exist at all or got destroyed by unity

I have Domain Reload off, so I have to make sure everything unsubscribes from static methods properly. I also try to unsubscribe from everything else so that I'm certain the game will behave properly as I go back and forth between scenes

(even outside of the editor, forgetting to unsubscribe from something that lives longer than you is a problem!)

[marsh saffron]

Sorry to bother anyone, but I am struggling trying to figure this out. When I start the game, my player movement doesn't want to function.

moveDirection = cameraObject.forward * inputManager.verticalInput;

this is the line that the error is finding, and im not really understanding why.

[teal viper]

Start from sharing the error

[wintry quarry]

what error?

[north kiln]

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

[summer stump]

The null reference is going to be cameraObject or inputManager (or potentially verticalInput, but that is likely a value type, so cannot be null).
Assuming that code is PlayerLocomotion line 31

[winter fractal]

Very very stupid question (probably not coded related), but does someone know why I cant click on the elements of my canvas?

I can move the elements changing the transform values, but I dont know what option I touched that I cant move them using the mouse in the editor

[north kiln]

#📲┃ui-ux -> see pins -> UGUI input issues

[winter fractal]

oh thanks man

[void seal]

Getting hit with the classic noob dilemma of not being to use the + operand for type Vector3 and float. What I'm trying to do is add a positive-y offset to my camera which is hard coded to follow the player. The focus.position being that it's centered on the player. I can give more info as needed. Hope this question was clear!

[winter fractal]

sorry again for posting here, didnt found the UX place

[void seal]

Full function if it helps at all. And to be more specific by default the focusPoint is the centered of the player model.

[verbal dome]

You can't add a float to a vector, but you can add a float to the vector's y component

[outer coral]

using UnityEngine;

public class FollowSquirrel : MonoBehaviour
{
    private SquirrelMovement squirrel;
    private RectTransform rectTransform;

    private void Start()
    {
        squirrel = FindObjectOfType<SquirrelMovement>();
        rectTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        Vector2 screenPos = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(squirrel.transform.position);

        rectTransform.localPosition = screenPos;
    }
}

im trying to make a UI object follow the screen position of my gameobject, the movement is right it is just weirdly offset and this offset changes when the screen size changes (i.e if i drag the game window to make it bigger/smaller the offset will shift) anyone know why this is occurring? Seems like it would be an easy fix but google is unhelpful on this

[void seal]

Feel like I'm missing something obvious.

bleh

[outer coral]

Its readonly you cant modify it like that

Vector3 myVec = focus.position;
myVec.y += cameraOffset;
Vector3 targetPoint = myVec;

[verbal dome]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs1612

[north kiln]

You also need to configure your !ide . Errors should be underlined in red

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[verbal dome]

Also you should configure your !ide. I dont see error highlighting in the screenshots

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[void seal]

Ok. Thought I did configure the other day but might have done it wrong.

Sorry and thanks.

[wicked osprey]

So I tried to make a certain custom button change transparency on hover

public class ButtonHighlighter : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void OnMouseOver()
    {
        Debug.Log(gameObject.name + " highlighted");
    }

    private void OnMouseEnter()
    {
        Debug.Log(gameObject.name + " highlighted");
    }
}

But it won't fire, neither on Canvas elements nor game objects.
I mean it's simple, as shown in the Documentation, but won't do...
What am I doing wrong here? (or is it the facts it's 3am here?)

[wintry quarry]

OnMouseOver etc are not for UI

[wicked osprey]

what?

[wintry quarry]

Use IPointerEnterHandler / IPointerExitHandler

[wintry quarry]

did you read the docs?

[wicked osprey]

Yeah, maybe I overread it

[wintry quarry]

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

This function is called on Colliders and 2D Colliders marked as trigger when the following properties are set to true:

It's for objects with colliders

Not UI

[wicked osprey]

I really should call it a night XD

[wintry quarry]

Actually first line:

Called every frame while the mouse is over the Collider.

[wicked osprey]

clearly: don't try to read at 3am XD

thx

[outer coral]

update on this...

i am printing out the screenPos and it prints the correct coordinates, however for some reason, although I am setting the rectTransform's position exactly to that, it is the wrong values. e.g. screenPos prints 888, 417 and the rectTransform gets set to 1765, 958. I am guessing it has something to do with my canvas setup or something but I am using localPosition so I am a little confused, interesting that it is double (roughly) the printed coords

[wintry quarry]

Screen space and canvas space are not the same

[outer coral]

can I do a conversion?

[wintry quarry]

Yes but it's complicated

[outer coral]

crap

is there a workaround

[wintry quarry]

Like you suspected it depends on your canvas settings as well as your canvas scaler

Some of this can help

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

[void thicket]

RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle

Something like that but it is not so intuitive

[wintry quarry]

My favorite way is to just use Screen Space - Camera canvas

and then you can basically just put things at world space positions and it works IIRC

[outer coral]

i think I do have a camera canvas set up

if you mean like an orthographic camera ontop of the ui

[wintry quarry]

Like literally:

        rectTransform.position = squirrel.transform.position;``` when you use screen space - camera

[wintry quarry]

I mean the canvas being set to Screen Space - Camera

[void thicket]

given that camera is same camera as world camera, yes

[outer coral]

lol i have this as well

[wintry quarry]

Well have you tried this code?

#💻┃code-beginner message

[outer coral]

just tried it

[wintry quarry]

And?

[outer coral]

using UnityEngine;

public class FollowSquirrel : MonoBehaviour
{
    private SquirrelMovement squirrel;
    private RectTransform rectTransform;
    private void Start()
    {
        squirrel = FindObjectOfType<SquirrelMovement>();
        rectTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        Vector2 screenPos = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(squirrel.transform.position);

        print(screenPos);

        RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(rectTransform, screenPos, Camera.main, out Vector2 newScreenPos);

        rectTransform.localPosition = newScreenPos;
    }
}

its even further off now

[wintry quarry]

that's - not what I said

#💻┃code-beginner message This

[outer coral]

oh lol

1 sec

no way its that easy right

[void thicket]

Sometimes it is

[outer coral]

no does not seem to be working either

could it be because of the render camera?

[wintry quarry]

render camera?

[outer coral]

like i have a ui camera on top of the canvas

[void thicket]

ui_cam

[wintry quarry]

oh yes

[void thicket]

So it is not the same cam

[wintry quarry]

assuming that's not your game camera

then yes it could be because of that

[outer coral]

it is not

ok

so is it just not possible to do this then

[wintry quarry]

of course it's possible

[void thicket]

When I'm lazy I just use world space canvas on the character

[outer coral]

last resort maybe

[wintry quarry]

I mean in this case you could do:

Vector3 localPos = gameCamera.transform.InverseTransformPoint(squirrel.transform.position);
Vectot3 worldPos = uiCamera.transform.TransformPoint(localPos);
rectTransform.position = worldPos;```

(I think)

[outer coral]

ill try

[void thicket]

*given that both camera has same settings

[wintry quarry]

yeah if their projections/fov/orthographic size etc are different that further messes things up lmao

[outer coral]

well they are lmao

i shouldve probably been more specific

they r both orthographic just in different spots

[void thicket]

RectTransformUtility is "proper" way to do

[wintry quarry]

positions rotations/scales are fine

[void thicket]

While verbose

[wintry quarry]

they just need the same orthographic size and projection type

But yeah RTU is the robust way to go

[outer coral]

does it matter if one is an overlay?

[wintry quarry]

no

[outer coral]

i see no reason for what you sent to not work then

but alas

here we are

[lavish magnet]

Object reference error here. But in Start() I set it buttonTExt = GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>();

The child of the object with this script on it has a textmeshpro ui component on it?

[wintry quarry]

Either:

• Start hasn't run yet
• You don't have such a component on this object

[cosmic dagger]

is the object with the script active?

[lavish magnet]

I put it in Debug mode, everything else on the script works

It doesnt detect it

[wintry quarry]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[lavish magnet]

Its a button with textmeshporugui under it

[cosmic dagger]

is it the correct component?

[wintry quarry]

those are the two options

[lavish magnet]

Why would strat not run

[wintry quarry]

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Sherlock Holmes

[wintry quarry]

I said it didn't run yet

lots of reasons

[lavish magnet]

If theirs no update does that matter?

[wintry quarry]

• This is running before Start
• Your object isn't active
• The script is disabled
• The object is a prefab

[lavish magnet]

None of those are true though?

[wintry quarry]

completely irrelevant

Prove it

also

show the full stack trace of your error

[lavish magnet]

https://paste.ofcode.org/vSg4zv4rPE92T9EXraThVj

Wait wrong error oops one sec

[wintry quarry]

yeah looks like the wrong line entirely

[wintry quarry]

If this error is happening on line 23

then line 24 won't run at all

[cosmic dagger]

can you post the actual error lines from your script?

[wintry quarry]

You need to fix this error first

this will make line 24 not run at all

[lavish magnet]

I am so sorry i did not realize i tried to use the component before i even used GetComponent

It's been a bit

Ive got it now

[outer coral]

        Vector2 screenPos = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(squirrel.transform.position);

        RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(rectTransform, screenPos, uiCam, out Vector2 newScreenPos);

        rectTransform.localPosition = newScreenPos;

this is super close, the issue now is that its moving in the correct direction whenever my player is moving, but its just not moving enough? but it starts in the correct position and everything idk whats happening

I do have cinemachine so my thought is that is whats making it mess up?

[void thicket]

So RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle convert your position into local position of rect transform

Thus you'd want your transform's parent

To go in the first parameter

[outer coral]

rectTransform.parent as RectTransform

this works? or no

[void thicket]

Well that works, not pretty

And remember that your rect transform's position is based on your pivot

[outer coral]

yup that did it

love you @void thicket

that shouldnt have taken that long but i learned something so ill call it a win

[lavish magnet]

With TextMeshProUGUI, I have multiple menu buttons. And when i hover over them i want the buttons outline width to change to 1, WHy does this change very instance of this buttons outline width?
buttonTExt.outlineWidth = 1;

Am i supposed to change something else?

[wintry quarry]

Well - that depends - what does your code look like?

Based on the docs it should create a new material instance so I would expect it to only affect that one button: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/api/TMPro.TMP_Text.html?q=outlineWidth#TMPro_TMP_Text_outlineWidth

So maybe something else in your code is off

[lavish magnet]

Well even just changing it in the inspectro

[wintry quarry]

changin in the inespector I would expect to affect them all

[lavish magnet]

if i Ctrl D - Duplicate the button, and manually change the width of 1, it does it

[wintry quarry]

because that changes the material

[lavish magnet]

Is their a way to not do that in the inspector?

[wintry quarry]

give them different materials

[warm condor]

Hi guys, I have this issue where a boolean value is set to true based on the current input and the previous input. The problem is that that variable will stay true only for a few frames and it will go back to being false. What I want it for that variable to stay true, even if the condition turns out to be false.Is there a way I can program the boolean variable to wait till it becomes true and once it is true, I can manually set it to false when a condition is met?

[wintry quarry]

This is really vague.

Anything is possible with the right code. Maybe show what you have and explain exactly what the behavior should be?

at a simple level though:

myBool = myBool || theCondition;```

or maybe more understandably if you don't know boolean logic well, just:

if (!myBool) {
  myBool = theCondition;
}```

[north merlin]

Hey guys. I want to snap and object around its local Y axis as shown in the image through code. How would i go about changing the objects forward facing direction while keeping its perspective. (kinda like making it spin on its y axis but without the spinning, i just want to hard set it.)

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean "hard set it"?

[north merlin]

if the object was completely vertical, I could do transform.localRotation...and sets its y value

but its not so all 3 values need to be edited.

[wintry quarry]

If you want to rotate the object around its local y axis just do transform.Rotate(0, 90, 0)

[north merlin]

that would maintain its perspective?

[wintry quarry]

idk what you mean by "maintain its perspective"

it will rotate the object around its own y axis

[north merlin]

perspective means basically how the object looks to the eye

[wintry quarry]

90 degrees clockwise around it, in this case

[summer stump]

Any rotation would of course change its perspective

[wintry quarry]

No, the object will have rotated around its y axis

so it won't remain the same way

[summer stump]

The fov would not change, but the perspective would, by definition.

Even translating tiny bits side to side would change it

[north merlin]

image 1 has a rotation of 90 and image 2 has a rotation of 0 but to my eyes they look the same. I want image 2 through code

[wintry quarry]

Are you asking how to actually change which way is "forward" for the 3D model itself?
To do that you need to edit the mesh in Blender.

[wintry quarry]

The object looks like it has rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise in these two images

[north merlin]

no. i just want to change it in game as shown by the images

[summer stump]

So what you are saying the object is identical on all sides?

[wintry quarry]

to do that you would do transform.Rotate(0, -90, 0)

[north merlin]

yes

[summer stump]

Then it will look the same 🤷‍♂️
Perspective is the wrong word for that imo

[wintry quarry]

yeah IDK why you're using the word persective. You just mean you still want it to be tilted over like that I guess

[north merlin]

yes

[wintry quarry]

So, back to my original answer then

transform.Rotate(0, degrees, 0)

[viral shadow]

guys im encountering the most absurd issue

here let me show yall

[north merlin]

rotate is an addition. I have the final value i want it to be which will constanly change.

[wintry quarry]

put it under a parent object with the tilt, then set localRotation or localEulerAngles

Or just compose the tilt and the y axis rotation as quaternions, if you're comfortable with them

[north merlin]

that wont work as the tilt is done on spawn

[viral shadow]

i can't change the color of my outline on text but when i change nothing in the code and save it mid play, it somehow changes the outline color

can anyone help with that?

[wintry quarry]

both of those will work, I don't see how "the tilt is done on spawn" matters

[north merlin]

the problem will just affect the child object rather than the parent. I have tried this approach before.

[wintry quarry]

It will not, if you do it correctly

[north merlin]

nvm, ill figure something out

[wintry quarry]

I mean, I've given you multiple working solutions

You will come around to something similar

[summer stump]

The only way that wouldn't have worked is if they did something weird with it.
Showing what they tried would have helped in diagnosing that

[cosmic dagger]

what weird stuff we talkin' here? 😉

[summer stump]

I dunno, non-uniform scale on the parent was my first guess

But maybe something more.... interesting ? Haha

[cosmic dagger]

ohhh, that's the stuff . . .

[wintry quarry]

or they applied rotations to the wrong objects or used the wrong thing between rotation and localRotation

[restive kayak]

I'm working on a rigidbody player controller, I'm manually setting the velocity of the player through rigidBody.linearVelocity = new Vector3(inputVelocity.x, rigidBody.linearVelocity.y, inputVelocity.z);, and I'm using Debug.Log(new Vector3(rigidBody.linearVelocity.x, 0, rigidBody.linearVelocity.z).magnitude) to read the horizontal velocity of the player. The rigidbody's gravity is enabled and is default (9.81). When the player is on the ground and their movespeed is 10, their horizontal velocity is 9.94114 instead of 10, but when they are in the air, it is 10. I made sure the ground material's dynamic and static friction are 0 as well as it's bounciness and I made sure the rigidbody's drag is 0 but this problem still occurs. Can anyone explain why and how to fix it?

[dense root]

Any clues on why my line is refusing to draw?

https://gdl.space/opuciqegik.cs

[wintry quarry]

show the full code

[finite lark]

does anybody know why the sword keeps jittering i cant figure out wy

[warm condor]

This is really vague.

[wintry quarry]

because it's a dynamic rigidbody that's colliding with stuff as your script forces it inside other objects

and gaining velocity

thus fighting against your code

[finite lark]

oh ok

[summer stump]

You can use the layer matrix to disable collisions between the sword and ground (and likely walls), or have your code NOT force it into the ground and walls

Or just call the jittering purposeful and leave it

[wintry quarry]

I don't see any good reason that sword should be dynamic

if it's fully controlled via code

[finite lark]

im trying to replicate the deepest sword sword mechanic

[summer stump]

Oh yeah. That is a good point (what praetor said)

[dense root]

When using LineRenderer how do I break the line when the mouse is let go?

private void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
    {
        Vector3 currentPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        
        currentPosition.z = 0;

        Debug.Log("currentPosition " +  currentPosition);
        Debug.Log("InputMousePosition " +  Input.mousePosition);

        if (Vector3.Distance(currentPosition, previousPosition) > minDistance)
        {
            if (previousPosition == transform.position)
            {
                lineRenderer.SetPosition(0, currentPosition);
            }
            
            lineRenderer.positionCount++;
            lineRenderer.SetPosition(lineRenderer.positionCount -1, currentPosition);
            previousPosition = currentPosition;
        }
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by "break" the line?

[dense root]

The line is currently being drawn but when I let go of the mouse it continues to draw

1 connects to 2, I know it's hard to see

[velvet mango]

how would i go about getting the name of an GameObject that just triggered a OnTriggerEnter?

[wintry quarry]

It shoiuldn't since your doing if (GetMouseButton(0))

Or do you mean when you click again it does that

[cosmic dagger]

just access the collided GameObject from the collision . . .

[wintry quarry]

.name on the collider

[dense root]

When I click again it does that

[wintry quarry]

yeah makes sens

you would need another line renderer

or you would need to make a section of the line between the clicks have 0 width

[dense root]

The other issue is that my color isnt changing despite being set in the inspector

[rich adder]

are you checking gameobjects name comparison 🤨

[summer stump]

!code

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[north merlin]

found a fix. I just subtract the current y rotation from desired rotation and used the product in transform.rotate

[summer stump]

Well, that is certainly one way to approximate just setting it. Glad it works for you!

[restive kayak]

my bad, https://hastebin.com/share/iqomahazah.csharp

[velvet mango]

to the three people that responded, imagine im very stupid and dont know how to do them, cause im not sure where to put .name, dont know how to access the GameObject from collision and cannot find how to on the API, and im not sure how to check gameobjects name comparison

[rich adder]

perhaps you should start here !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[cosmic dagger]

not a problem. i'd start with some learning courses to understand the basics, but you can actually copy/paste your question in to find answers. just add "Unity" at the beginning . . .

[restive kayak]

solved the problem, the capsule collider didn't have a material on it and therefore had friction with the floor

[velvet mango]

i think i figured it out based on @wintry quarry's Solution, thanks

[wintry quarry]

just other.name would be the same

[velvet mango]

so it would

[void seal]

So with this, hit is the raycast name variable we're checking for? So all raycasts begin with Physics.Raycast? And the out hit specifies the bool we're trying to compare to?

[wintry quarry]

hit is not a bool

it is a RaycastHit

the Raycast function returns a bool

which is why you can put it inside the if

it also populates that RaycastHit variable in addition to returning a bool

it is able to populate it due to the out thing

is the raycast name variable we're checking for
This part of your question doesn't make any sense to me

what is a "raycast name variable" and what would it mean to "check for" it?

[void seal]

Trying to move over to Unity and C# from Godot. So I'm used to just doing if raycast_named_this.

The bool would be in the return and in turn I use that variable.

[wintry quarry]

I don't know how Godot works, and that seems strange to me

Yes unity does the same

Raycast returns a bool

The raycast function fires an imaginary ray into the physics scene according to the parameters you give it. If it hits something, it returns true. If it doesn't hit anything, it returns false

[void seal]

pog

[wintry quarry]

bool hitSomething = Physics.Raycast(...);
if (hitSomething) {
  // do stuff
}```

you could write it in this more verbose way if you wish but it's usually more convenient to just do if (Physics.Raycast(...))

Gosh I'm loooking at the Godot docs for raycast and they're not very good

[zenith cypress]

Godot's raycasts are overly complicated

[void seal]

Gotcha. Trying to make a specific variable name to reference for complex bs.

[wintry quarry]

Seems like it returns a map/dictionary and the whole thing is just falsey if it hits nothing?

[summer stump]

I do feel spoiled by unity docs pretty often
Especially working with all these pre 1.0 cargos for rust lately, with no description for any api call, just the names

[wintry quarry]

this is what dynamically-typed languages do to a mf

everything's just a goddamn shapeless dictionary blob

[zenith cypress]

And if you don't use the raycast node you gotta set up a raycast query through the world, and it's like man let me just fire a ray

[wintry quarry]

Apprarently all of the Godot C# docs just use var for all variables making it impossible to tell wtf is going on 😦

[void seal]

In Godot you can also just make a raycast Node, define the direction and length, and can drag and drop it into your code as a bool. It's actually easier for me to comprehend but just less powerful which is why I wanted to learn C#.

[wintry quarry]

a raycast Node, define the direction and length, and can drag and drop it into your code as a bool
wat

I don't really know what nodes are tbh. Is that visual scripting stuff?

[void seal]

And that's fair. Even when I was learning Godot I didn't like the sheer amount of vars I'd see on the top of the script. Plain C# makes more sense than Godot C#.

[zenith cypress]

Nodes are their game objects

[void thicket]

Confusing

[zenith cypress]

Well more like if a component became a game object, as each node is a single "type" of a thing. And the inspector shows its inheritence tree.

[void thicket]

You need raycast component?

[void seal]

It's easy to setup but has less fidelity is all.

At least from personal experience.

[grim tulip]

How do I learn how code something without just searching up a tutorial every Time I want something done? Ik it takes experience but is there a way to do that without it or just sitting and writing code?

[dense root]

The advice I was given was to start with projects smaller and simpler than you think you can make and try to rely solely on documentation and/or forums.

[lavish magnet]

IF you're good enouggh you can use chat gpt to generate some ideas. But it is never always correct, and often wrong, but can still be utilized

[wintry quarry]

Learn the fundamentals, instead of trying to make specific things in your game work

[lavish magnet]

Like in Super mario bros, when the player is hit or gets a power up, It hads a nice animation where the players transparency fades off and on rapidly. How can i recreate this affect? I tried accessing the alpha of the material and it does not work, i am in urp.

[wintry quarry]

2D? 3D?

Meshrenderer? SpriteRenderer?

[lavish magnet]

3D, Mesh Renderer

[wintry quarry]

You will need to be using a transparent material for transparency to work

[lavish magnet]

Like the shader?

[wintry quarry]

The material

[lavish magnet]

I can set it to Transparent instead of Opaque, But It does not recieve shadows or cast shadows, even though set to On in mesh renderer

[wintry quarry]

If it's opaque it can't be transparent

Shadows I guess are a separate concern

[lavish magnet]

Yeah it looks very weird without shadows?

what can I do about that 😭 ?

Do i just duplicate it without mesh and turn shadows on?>

[wintry quarry]

Probably that. IDK

[lavish magnet]

Lmao

I feel like this would be one of the more easier things

[topaz fractal]

{
    private void Start()
    {
        startYScale = transform.localScale.y;
    }


    public CharacterController controller;
    private float movementSpeed = 12f;
    public float walkSpeed;
    public float sprintSpeed;
    public float gravity = -9.81f;

    public float crouchSpeed;
    public float crouchYScale;
    private float startYScale;

    public KeyCode sprintKey = KeyCode.LeftShift;
    public KeyCode crouchKey = KeyCode.LeftControl;

    public float jumpHeight = 3f;
    public Transform groundCheck;
    public float groundDistance = 0.4f;
    public LayerMask groundMask;
    Vector3 velocity;
    bool isGrounded;
    

private void StateHandler()
{
    if(isGrounded && Input.GetKey(sprintKey))
    {
        movementSpeed = sprintSpeed; 
    }
    
    else if (isGrounded)
    {
        state = MovementState.walking;
        movementSpeed = walkSpeed;
    }

    else 
    {
        state = MovementState.air; 
    }

    if(Input.GetKey(crouchKey))
    {
        movementSpeed = crouchSpeed;
    }
}

private void Crouch()
{
    if(Input.GetKeyDown(crouchKey))
    {
        transform.localScale = new Vector3(transform.localScale.x,  crouchYScale, transform.localScale.z);
    }
    
    if(Input.GetKeyUp(crouchKey))
    {
        transform.localScale = new Vector3(transform.localScale.x,  startYScale, transform.localScale.z);

    }

} ```

    public enum MovementState 
    {
        walking,
        sprinting,
        air
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        Crouch();
        StateHandler();

         = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(, 1);


        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask);

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

        float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

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

        controller.Move(move * movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

        if(Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && isGrounded)
        {
            velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2f  * gravity);
        }

        velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;

        controller.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

[lavish magnet]

Hello

[topaz fractal]

@wintry quarry

[lavish magnet]

Absolute Business

Whats the issue?

[topaz fractal]

when i use any 2 inputs to go diagonally

i move faster

[wintry quarry]

You should store x and z variables in a vector instead

Then you can clamp it as per my example

Oh wait

You do already

It's called move

[topaz fractal]

ohhh i get it now

it says i cant use it before its declared

move = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(move, 1);

nvm

i just moved it in front

sweeet thanks so much

[eternal needle]

Pretty sure you asked this before, if not my bad. Dithering is a common technique instead of transparency. Transparent objects will also suck if they have complex geometry and you'll see it render within itself even at 1 alpha

[finite lark]

i got a sword and i made it so whatever direction my mouse is facing the tip of the sword faces and its working all good but now idk how to attach my sword ):

[wintry quarry]

Wdym by "attach my sword"?

[finite lark]

here lemme get an imag

trying to do something like this

[wintry quarry]

I know what you're trying to do.

I still don't know what you mean when you say "attach my sword"

[finite lark]

well the sword doesnt follow the player it kinda just sits there

[wintry quarry]

Oh this movement stuff is pretty advanced actuallly

[wintry quarry]

You would make it a child of the player at the most basic level

[finite lark]

yeah i tried that but then if its a child i cant add the rigidbody and get it to work so the sword can affect the player or am i going about this the wrong way lol

[wintry quarry]

you're going about it the wrong way. If you want that physics movement it's going to be pretty complex. Probably attaching the sword to the player with a physics joint

and applying drive motor force on the joint to rotate it for example

it's not exactly a beginner thing

[finite lark]

ooo

ima try and do it (:<

[queen adder]

    public float brakePower = 1; // 1 stops at 1 second, 2 stops at 0.5 seconds
    public float positiveAcceleration = 1;
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Truster.gameObject.SetActive(WillMove);
        if(WillMove)
        {
            speed = Mathf.MoveTowards(speed, maxSpeed, Time.fixedDeltaTime * positiveAcceleration);
            rb.velocity = transform.up * speed;
        }
        else
        {
            speed = Mathf.MoveTowards(speed, 0, Time.fixedDeltaTime);
            rb.velocity = transform.up * speed;
        }
    }``` can I get some help with `brakePower` logic

[wintry quarry]

what kind of help are you looking for?
What are you trying to accomplish?

[queen adder]

basically i want it to slow down as the comments say

[wintry quarry]

But wouldn't the time to slow down depend on the current speed?

[queen adder]

move towards not the right thing to use

[wintry quarry]

MoveTowards is fine

Is the comment intended to mean from max speed?

[queen adder]

if current speed is 10, it will currently take 10 seconds to halt

[wintry quarry]

Because slowing down from less than max speed should be faster than from max speed right?

[wintry quarry]

yeah because you're doing 1 per second

10 / 1 is 10

10 seconds

[queen adder]

yea so what is supposed to be changed?

[wintry quarry]

You would need to answer my clarifying question first

[wintry quarry]

here^

[queen adder]

current speed

[wintry quarry]

that... doesn't make a lot of sense

[queen adder]

no matter how fst you are, i want it to stop exactly 1 sec

[wintry quarry]

because current speed changes all the time

when you're halfway through braking, current speed is half of what you started braking at

so you mean.. speed at which you started braking?

you'll need to record whatever speed you were going when you started braking then

[queen adder]

yea

[wintry quarry]

then it will be:

speed = Mathf.MoveTowards(speed, 0, Time.fixedDeltaTime * (startedBrakingAtSpeed / brakePower));```

but you need to make sure you set startedBrakingAtSpeed properly elsewhere

[queen adder]

then, id have to like edit my willMove

to a prop that catches curent speed when falsed

[wintry quarry]

no you just need to set startedBrakingAtSpeed when you start braking

[wintry quarry]

this is one way, sure

[eternal needle]

shouldnt lerping be fine there? you'd need to setting the lerp time same way you'd be recording the startedBrakingAtSpeed

[wintry quarry]

sure either way would work

both Lerp and MoveTowards result in linear changes over time when used properly

Lerp is unlikely to be used properly in this server though 😆

[queen adder]

id probably go with the movetowards with division

ig

[silent vault]

go.GetComponent<EventXmlRow>().Init(node, attr);
Regarding this piece of code, is it possible to make the GetComponent type variable ?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "make the GetComponent type variable"?

can you show an example of what you would like to achieve here?

[silent vault]

Because this class is used as a base class with an init function

I'm creating several child classes based on this and I want to init those child classes with their own new init function

[wintry quarry]

wouldn't those child classes just override Init?

[silent vault]

They do

[wintry quarry]

the code that actually calls this wouldn't change then

go.GetComponent<EventXmlRow>().Init(node, attr); < this stays the same

[silent vault]

I'm not sure I understand this answer

[wintry quarry]

When you override a function, it replaces the behavior of the parent function

[silent vault]

Currently, this line will call the Init function of the base class

[wintry quarry]

Not if you overrode it

[silent vault]

Yes exactly

``using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class EventXmlRowTrigger : EventXmlRow
{
public Dropdown dd;
private static string[] labels;
private static string[] codes;

public new void Init(XmlNode node, EventsXmlAttribute xmlAttribute)
{
    SetLabel(xmlAttribute);
    this.node = node;
    attribute = xmlAttribute.code;

    if (labels == null)
    {
        labels = GetLabels();
        codes = GetCodes();
    }

    string value = node.String(attribute);

    dd.options = labels.ToDropdownOptions();
    dd.SetValueWithoutNotify(GetIndex(value));
}

public void OnValueChanged(int value)
{
    node.SetAttribute(attribute, codes[value]);
    EventXmlRowEventCode.instance.TriggerMode();
    //Debug.Log(EventEditor.doc.OuterXml);
}

public string[] GetLabels()
{
    List<EventsXmlEnum.Trigger> list = Enum.GetValues(typeof(EventsXmlEnum.Trigger)).Cast<EventsXmlEnum.Trigger>().ToList();
    List<string> values = new();
    foreach (EventsXmlEnum.Trigger value in list)
        values.Add(EventsXmlEnum.TriggerLabel[value]);
    return values.ToArray();
}

public string[] GetCodes()
{
    return Enum.GetNames(typeof(EventsXmlEnum.Trigger)).ToLower();
}

public int GetIndex(string value)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < codes.Length; i++)
        if (codes[i] == value)
            return i;
    return 0;
}

}
``

[wintry quarry]

If you override it properly, it will call Init of the derived class.

[silent vault]

Ups

[ivory bobcat]

When you override a method, it's as though that method has been completely substituted.

[wintry quarry]

you did new void Init

that is not how you override things

[silent vault]

Oh

[wintry quarry]

override void Init is how you override it

and the base method needs to be virtual or abstract

[silent vault]

Ah... What's the difference with new ?

[wintry quarry]

new doesn't override

[silent vault]

Oh, got it.

[wintry quarry]

it makes a completely unrelated method

[silent vault]

Ok I see. That makes sense. I'll updte my code. Thanks !

And the difference between virtual and abstract ?

[wintry quarry]

abstract doesn't have a base implementation

and forces the child to implement it

virtual has a base implementation and it's optional to override it

[silent vault]

Got it, so in my case, it should be abstract

Thanks again

[wintry quarry]

the base class will need to also be marked abstract in that case, just FYI

[silent vault]

Ok thanks! That's exactly what I need.

Hm, I've marked both the base class as abstract and the init method as abstract and changed new to override like said but the base init has the following error now "Cannot declare a body because it is marked as abstract"

What's a "body" in this case ?

    {
        Debug.Log("This needs to be overwritten...");
    }```

[wintry quarry]

Like I said, abstract cannot have a body

public abstract void Init(XmlNode node, EventsXmlAttribute xmlAttribute);

An abstract function will only have a signature

and leave the implementation to the overriding child class

[silent vault]

Ohhh

Ok I understand

I removed the body. I didn't know the stuff in { } was the body. but that makes sense.

Thanks again 😉

Great, it's working as expected now, thanks a lot!

[ruby python]

Mornin' all. Really silly/stupid maths question, but multiplying a number by 1.1 is the same as adding 10% right? lol.

[void thicket]

Yes

[ruby python]

Okay, thanks. No idea why but my brain just wouldn't wrap itself around that. lol.

[dense root]

How do I change the text of my button?

    public Button mButton;
    void Start()
    {
        Button button = mButton.GetComponent<Button>();
        button.onClick.AddListener(TaskOnClick);
    }

    void TaskOnClick()
    {
        mButton.text = ""
    }

[languid spire]

what? why ?

 public Button mButton;
    void Start()
    {
        Button button = mButton.GetComponent<Button>();

[dense root]

Why do I want to change the text of my button via script?

[languid spire]

no why the GetComponent

[wintry quarry]

Button doesn't have Text

the text is a separate component on a child object

[dense root]

Oh I see

[wintry quarry]

TMP_Text likely of this type

[dense root]

I'm using legacy

[wintry quarry]

Text then

[dense root]

How do I get the child object from mButton?

[wintry quarry]

but yeah this is a good question

[wintry quarry]

Why not just assign it in the inspector

public Text myText;

[dense root]

public class HintSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Button mButton;
    public Text mText;
    void Start()
    {
        mButton.onClick.AddListener(TaskOnClick);
    }

    void TaskOnClick()
    {
        mText.text = "a";
    }
}

Fixed it up a bit

[languid spire]

that's fine

but why add the listener in the code and not in the inspector of the Button?

[void thicket]

I prefer assigning in code

Inspector so messy

[languid spire]

nothing wrong with it but, when it is done incompletely, as in the code above, it exposes a vulnerability

[rare basin]

why is my IDE going crazy

it's saying that UI doesnt belong to UnityEngine namespace

[cosmic dagger]

it doesn't recognize the UI namespace . . .

[rare basin]

yea i already know that

but why

it doesn't recognize text mesh pro aswell

and many other things

althought its just IDE, no errors in console and can enter playmode/build

[void thicket]

Maybe regenerate project

[rare basin]

i tried that already

[cosmic dagger]

looks like your configuration broke . . .

[void thicket]

Switch to Rider

[rare basin]

it just worked yesterday

[topaz mortar]

item.EndDrag();```
Does this not work? Item does contain a public method EndDrag

[rare basin]

i tried deleting Library aswell

and .cspro jfile

[void thicket]

IDE says you don't have one

[topaz mortar]

it works in other places:

[void thicket]

Maybe it's not same Item they are looking

[rare basin]

probaly it's trying to use Item class from another asset

[topaz mortar]

ah forgot to add the namespace 🙂

[void thicket]

I think Item is too generic for a class name

[flat summit]

Hey. So when i load a new scene, my main camera gets destroyed (as it should) but then i get null errors when the new scene starts for stuff that uses the main camera.

[wintry quarry]

When you say "stuff that uses the main camera" Can you be more specific?

As in - Camera.main?>

If so - you need to make sure the camera in the new scene is properly tagged with the MainCamera tag

[flat summit]

yeah sorry, so i use the main camera for input stuff, getting the reference in start - cam = Camera.Main

[wintry quarry]

See here

[flat summit]

it is,

    private void PlayerInput()
    {
        if (!IsOwner) return;
        mousePosition = Input.mousePosition;
        mousePosition = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePosition);
    }

Heres the exact code btw, and remeber im setting the reference in start.

[rare basin]

prove it

[wintry quarry]

In Start of what exactly? Show more details

Does the camera exist when Start runs?

What error are you seeing exactly?

[rare basin]

show the camera's inspector

[wintry quarry]

You said "null errors" but didn't elaborate

[void thicket]

So you are setting camera in start

[void thicket]

Then camera got destroyed

[flat summit]

yes

[void thicket]

It won't pick up new camera automatically

[wintry quarry]

That's a MissingReference exception not a null error

[rare basin]

you are caching the camera from the old scene i assume

[flat summit]

my apologies

[rare basin]

and you are trying to use the old camera

on the new scene

[wintry quarry]

You are still referencing the old one

one fix here is simply not to cache the reference

[flat summit]

but start is called when a new scene is laoded no? or am i mistaken

[wintry quarry]

i.e. just use Camera.main every time

[wintry quarry]

you are mistaken

Start is called only once per object

when that object first starts its Updates etc

If the object is DDOL, it won't Start again in a new scene

[flat summit]

thanks, does calling Camera.Main every frame have a biger impact than using the cached reference?

[wintry quarry]

slightly

[void thicket]

You can subscribe to SceneManager.sceneLoaded if that is what you need

[wintry quarry]

Most likely not a concern

[void thicket]

Camera.main was horrible at some time

But now it is bit better

[flat summit]

can i use something like a " scene loaded " type of deal?

ah just saw that message

[rare basin]

does it? i heard it's cached now

[wintry quarry]

It's still a method invocation (property) and probably an if statement

compared with a field access that is slightly slower

[rare basin]

right ,that makes sense

thanks

[void thicket]

I still don't like it as it is associated with tag

😦

[wintry quarry]

Camera.main is my guilty pleasure.

[flat summit]

public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
{
    base.OnNetworkSpawn();
    NetworkManager.SceneManager.OnLoadComplete += SceneManager_OnLoadComplete;
}

private void SceneManager_OnLoadComplete(ulong clientId, string sceneName, UnityEngine.SceneManagement.LoadSceneMode loadSceneMode)
{
    cam = Camera.main;
}

this works, thanks again!

[wintry quarry]

You'll want to make sure you unsubscribe if/when this thing despawns too

[boreal hare]

Hello!! Is there a documentation about win32 api (Windows system)?

[wintry quarry]

There absolutely is, and it has absolutely nothing to do with Unity

[boreal hare]

Ok thanks!! :))

[boreal hare]

I want to test win32 api and how it works

[languid spire]

then you should be making a desktop app, not using Unity

[boreal hare]

I'm using unity 2021

[languid spire]

and?

[boreal hare]

I saw a game called KinitoPET and it's using win32 (KinitoPET Made with Godot) I want to make it in unity or smth

I saw codemmonkey tutorial about Transparent app in unity

[languid spire]

my point was, if you want to learn the win32 api you should be making a desktop app which is specifically designed to give you access to that api rather than Unity which is not

[boreal hare]

What about PINVoke in C#?

Wait i saw this

[languid spire]

you can do all kinds of stuff. The question is how will you know what, where and how you have screwed something up without at least a basic understanding of the underlying code

[void thicket]

What do they use WinAPI for?

Unity already wraps most of what you need

[boreal hare]

Control windows system, window apps and more

[boreal hare]

Ok

[languid spire]

I bet what they did in that game is wrap the game in a C++ windows desktop program. That is ceetainly the way I would approach it

[boreal hare]

Windows is written by C++ the most

[languid spire]

if you want real low level access to the OS, yes

[boreal hare]

Ok :)

[teal viper]

C++ and C

[languid spire]

I don't think anybody writes windows desktop programs in C anymore, it's been over 20 years since I last wrote one

[teal viper]

It's used a lot for low level stuff. But I was commenting the "windows is written in C++" message

[languid spire]

I took that to mean user written programs not windows internals

indeed a lot of windows internals were written in both C and ASM

[errant pilot]

Hey guys i need help, i want an object to go to a point and slow down exponentially until it reaches it, can anyone help?

[ivory bobcat]

Should it ever reach that point?

[errant pilot]

yes

[ivory bobcat]

Move towards the target and have the distance be a factor

[errant pilot]

ok ill try that but one thing i want it to go towards another object theyre both children objects how can i translate the positions?

[ivory bobcat]

Is there an issue with coordinates? If you're using coordinates of the same space, you'll not have to do any converting.

ie world space

[errant pilot]

they have different relative spaces

theyre both children of different objects

[ivory bobcat]

That shouldn't be an issue if you're using their world coordinates (position instead of localPosition)

[quasi sparrow]

hey guys

[ivory bobcat]

What you'd see in the inspector would be their local position.

[errant pilot]

so smth like this?

[ivory bobcat]

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

[quasi sparrow]

hey guys

[ivory bobcat]

Unless you're only needing the x axis

[quasi sparrow]

my charactr player in unity is weird

can you help me please my player character is weird

[errant pilot]

ya only the x

[ivory bobcat]

How to properly post code questions #854851968446365696

[quasi sparrow]

can you help me , idk why is this happening , with the player

[ivory bobcat]

!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.

[quasi sparrow]

can you help me with this issue

[bright violet]

i want to make an interaction system. Before going to look for tutorials: to show the nearby interactable objects, should i go for an OverlapSphere? or a collider on the player GO? and would it be heavy to call it on fixedupdate?

[quasi sparrow]

hello

[bright violet]

i was thinking of going with overlapSphereNotAlloc and limit the target pool to the default layer, that should be enough?

[swift crag]

that sounds fine

[frank zodiac]

https://hatebin.com/kplbjgrbpy im trying to make a cube go up and down continously between 2 points but all it does is go up to infinity and never come back to its desired spot

[halcyon geyser]

because youre never applying a different position other than it going up

[frank zodiac]

i set the if statement to set the endposition to startposition so shouldnt it go back down with the newly applied position

[halcyon geyser]

wait ur right

[frank zodiac]

okay nvm im just going to set a box collider with a trigger and use that

the issue is the value will never EXACTLY match the endposition cuz it has like 100 decimal numbers

[halcyon geyser]

You could use a lerp

[frank zodiac]

people keep telling me to never use lerp

[halcyon geyser]

void Start()
    {
        startTime = Time.time;
        journeyLength = Vector3.Distance(startPoint.position, endPoint.position);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float distanceCovered = (Time.time - startTime) * speed;
        float fractionOfJourney = Mathf.PingPong(distanceCovered / journeyLength, 1.0f);
        transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(startPoint.position, endPoint.position, fractionOfJourney);
    }

basically this acts like a sine wave function

[frank zodiac]

thanks

[storm pine]

You can also use an offset on the if statement instead. something like

public float offset = 0.1f;
    private void Update()
    {
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, endPosition.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
        if (Vector2.Distance(transform.position, endPosition.position) < offset)
        {
            endPosition.position = startingPosition.position;
        }
    }

[frank zodiac]

the lerp isnt working btw```
private void Update()
{
Vector2.Lerp(startingPosition.position, endingPosition.position, Mathf.PingPong(Time.time, 1));
}

[frank zodiac]

i see..

thanks

[bright violet]

I got these errors the moment i saved my player map asset. They don't go away and don't let me start playmode. Anyone knows how to fix the bug?

[storm pine]

Or you can use LeanTween with the the pingpong loop if you want the animation with a specific ease (https://easings.net/) instead of lineal movement

[halcyon geyser]

have u also changed it to vector2.distance in ur start?

[storm pine]

Looks like you have a duplicate file

[frank zodiac]

whats leantween?

[frank zodiac]

wdym?

[worthy veldt]

why is if(scriptableObjectOne = scriptableObjectTwo) doesnt return error in my IDE nor Unity ? i swear that was not the case before i upgrade from Unity 2021 with VS 2019 to Unity 2022 with VS 2022

fucked me up twice this week, why is this happening, where is my error

[languid spire]

using = in an if statement is a no=no, always has been

[storm pine]

It's something from the asset store (https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/leantween-3595) but it's so easy to use, with a lot of tutorials and with a documentation. It's so helpful for animation movements and somethings like that. I'm doing my first game and using it is really helping a lot. You can also use .setOnComplete so when the animation is complete you can do a specific thing

[worthy veldt]

yes thats why im asking, the error doesnt appear

[languid spire]

it's not an error, it's just wrong

[worthy veldt]

always has been ?, no red line under text ??

[dark hatch]

1 == 2 does not return a error, pretty close to that

[languid spire]

there is nothing syntactically incorrect in using asignment in an if but it it is almost never what you want to do

[storm pine]

That's not an error what you are making is to asign scriptableObjectOne = scriptableObjectTwo as you can do outside outside of the statement and checking if scriptableObjectOne it's true or not

[frank zodiac]

that seems useful

[worthy veldt]

well then i guess apparently i never made that mistake before, cause in my memory when i made such typo it wont run. good to know

[karmic kindle]

I have a camera script that can rotate view, but when I do that, dragging with the mouse will keep following the original orientation forward and not follow the camera in the new direction it is facing - Vector3 offset = cam.ScreenToViewportPoint(lastPanPosition - newPanPosition); Vector3 move = new Vector3(offset.x * PanSpeed, 0, offset.y * PanSpeed); transform.Translate(move, Space.World);

If I set Space.Self instead, it will follow the direction correctly, but I can't find a way to lock the Y axis to stop the "zooming"

[storm pine]

It gives you an error if the variable is something that it's not a condition, like

string hi = "hi";
if(hi=""){
}

But in case you use ScriptableObject, GameObject or something that can be null it will work since null is evaluated like false an any other value as true. I think it works this way

[bright violet]

can you auto-set a layer mask from a script? Something like how you can auto add another script from a script if required. I'd like to automate this task to prevent me forgetting to set the right layermask

[wintry quarry]

You can set it from script. Not sure what you mean by "auto-set"

[ivory bobcat]

Are you referring to assigning something in Awake/Start?

[bright violet]

No. Just set it permanently in the editor. Should've specified that

[languid spire]

Sure, custom editor

[ivory bobcat]

Permanently? What's the situation/use-case? I'm having difficulty understanding what the wanted feature is.

[bright violet]

I'm making an interaction system, each interactable object is gonna have an Interactable() script with an IInteractable interface, and is gonna have to reside in the "Interactable" LayerMask. It's something i'll have to set manually each time in the editor and i'd like to avoid the chance of me forgetting in the future. I know i could set it in awake() but i'd like to know if there is a better way instead of changing it each time for each object

[cosmic dagger]

Place all interactable prefabs in a folder, mass select all of them, and set the layer . . .

[bright violet]

what if they're not prefabs?

i mean i could do that yeah. just wanted to know if what i wanted to make was a possibility

[cosmic dagger]

Then auto-set the layer in code. I don't see what the problem is?

[astral falcon]

Onvalidate()

[bright violet]

mhm?

[astral falcon]

As Invader said, just do it by code if you know, that its gonna be that case anyway

[bright violet]

aight

[cosmic dagger]

A better way of changing it each time for an object is to use code, to do so automatically. That, or manually select all of them, typically, from a folder and set their layer . . .

Not sure what other way you think there is . . .

[bright violet]

I get it yeah, i knew how to do this. Just wanted to know if I could do something like RequireComponent() that automatically adds a component in the editor

[bright violet]

bro i'm literally just asking if it's possible, idk where you see me saying that i have another way

[cosmic dagger]

Well, you were asking about setting a layer, not adding a component. That's a totally different situation . . .

[astral falcon]

I guess the question has been answered 🙂 So there is no PreSetLayer or something. Just do it by code when you add/create the monobehaviour/object 🙂

[bright violet]

I was making an example. Just nevermind, it's fine

[wanton crater]

guys ive been getting this error a lot lately ive never got it before yesterday

the script is not that complex

[astral falcon]

Did you make sure, there are no compile errors?

[bright violet]

It happens when the name of the script file is different from the main class name

[halcyon geyser]

Youve probably renamed the script, where it first had a space in the file name

[cosmic dagger]

Did you make sure there are no errors and that the file name and class name match?

[wanton crater]

what do you mean file name and class match

[astral falcon]

If FollowPlayer does not get called FollowPlayer.cs as filename, it wont work

[cosmic dagger]

The file name is the name of the file. The class name is the name of the class . . .

[wintry quarry]

You can't have a space in the name

The complexity of the script isn't relevant