💻┃code-beginner

[quick pollen]

is it actually inefficient

calling a velocity change every frame, even if it is the same?

[verbal dome]

Insignificant. Dont worry

[quick pollen]

i also want to have a way to clamp the rotation in a way

like once it rotates 180 degrees it stops

ill figure that one out tho

hmmm it doesnt remain in a circle

how could I make it so it rotates constantly without converging back? I need to use pi for that somehow but im not sure how

probably something to orbit right?

[obtuse cove]

Someone?

[blazing flicker]

Mornin'. im struggling with persistent data. can anyone point me to a tutorial that can help with player data being persistent across the game. like coins gems stats lvl inventory etc. ?

[languid spire]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/persistence-saving-and-loading-data

[blazing flicker]

Thanks. I will take a look at them. @languid spire Sorry.

[night raptor]

@languid spire nope, please no. Never ever use binary formatter, never, for anything. back then it was ok before the security risks weren't known yet

[eternal needle]

please dont suggest brackeys videos, they are horrible

[night raptor]

Don't know about his videos in general but that specific tutorial should have been removed a long time ago

[eternal needle]

basically everything is complete hardcode, only designed to work for the purpose of the tutorial and cant really be extended by someone whos actually watching to learn. A lot of things just arent right as well

[night raptor]

can't really disagree. I used to watch a lot of his tutorials but never followed any of them, just wanted to learn the concepts and implement things by myself

[rare basin]

why are you suggesting BinnayrFormatter

[languid spire]

I think you will find that is Unity Learn doing that

[night raptor]

and they definitely shouldn't. it's from 2014 so wasn't really a thing back then

[languid spire]

but anyway, whichever method of serialization/deserialization is used the concepts are exactly the same

[rare basin]

still

not a good tutorial to link to someone who's trying to learn

that tutorial should be removed by Unity

[languid spire]

if by 'learn' you mean 'copy/paste', true

[rare basin]

you are here long enough to know that most new people just copy/paste stuff from tutorials instead of actually learning ;p

[languid spire]

indeed, and using Binary Formatter in a locally developed learning project has no security implications whatsoever

[night raptor]

true, but I still see no reason to use it for anything, even JSON or something similar does pretty much the same without any real downsides besides human readable format

[iron mango]

i am trying to rotate a part of a turret towards the target, but only on the y axis, but for some reason this code rotates it on all axis? (y and z are constantly 90) idk why, i am very confused

Vector3 D = target.position - transform.position;  
Quaternion rot = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation(D), verticalRotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
turretBarrel.localRotation = rot; 
turretBarrel.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0, turretBarrel.eulerAngles.y, 0); 

[languid spire]

not sure why you are setting the euler angles at the end.
my turret rotation code looks like this

        Vector3 target = Target.position;
        target.y = Turret.position.y;

        Vector3 targetDir = target - Turret.position;
        singleStep = turretSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        Vector3 turretDir = Vector3.RotateTowards(Turret.forward, targetDir, singleStep, 0.0f);
        Turret.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(turretDir);

[dim wharf]

this piece of code runs in an Update(). How do I make it so it doesn't go past the for loop until it has finished looping?

sort of like a roadblock for the update

i can only think of booleans but could there be a better way?

[ivory bobcat]

It doesn't go beyond the loop until it finishes

[dim wharf]

Ohhhh that clears up something. The way I check for input must be wrong as it still traverses the list

[ivory bobcat]

Are you perhaps wanting it to wait for each input in the loop?

[dim wharf]

Yes

Do you know any solutions?

[ivory bobcat]

You could use a coroutine and have a yield instruction that would wait till the particular key is pressed.

[dim wharf]

Thanks!

[ivory bobcat]

Pseudo code: for ... yield wait until (() => get key down) log ally namehttps://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WaitUntil.html

[iron mango]

hm. i think the problem is that the part i want to rotate, is a child of another one, that's why it's not working, but WHY, why does this object rotate on all axis if i give this specific code for one axis, just because it's a child of it???

[languid spire]

my turret is also a child, of the tank body. But look at your code and compare it to mine, your logic is flawed

[iron mango]

it works 100% the same, i tested yours, it's not the code

which is even more confusing

[devout wharf]

Is there any voice channel on this server?

I can't find it.

[languid spire]

then there is a problem with your model setup. you need to check that all of the forwards are set to the same

[devout wharf]

Tell me.

[languid spire]

there is no VC on this server

[frank zodiac]

[SerializeField] private Rigidbody2D rigidbody;
[SerializeField] private InputActions inputActions;
[SerializeField] private float movementSpeed;
private float movementInputX;

public void OnMove(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
{
    Vector2 movementInput = inputActions.Player.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    movementInputX = movementInput.x;
}

private void FixedUpdate()
{
    rigidbody.velocity = new Vector2(movementInputX * movementSpeed, rigidbody.velocity.y);
}

anyone know why it doesnt work??

i get this error

[ivory bobcat]

#1180178376028327936 message

[rich adder]

did you assign inputActions ?

[frank zodiac]

i cant find the paramater in my inspector

i cant assign it

whats that?

is there a doc for it

[rich adder]

is InputActions a class you made

[devout wharf]

Really

[frank zodiac]

yes

[rich adder]

show it

[rich adder]

what is this supposed to show ?

[frank zodiac]

this is the input actions and that is the generated class for it

[rich adder]

if its the generated class you dont reference it in the inspector

[frank zodiac]

oh i dont need to do that?

[rich adder]

You create a new instance of it

[frank zodiac]

new InputActions()?

[rich adder]

also dont name assets with the same name

[frank zodiac]

its the generated class for it tho, what am i supposed to name it

[rich adder]

not the same name? doesnt matter where it came from

[frank zodiac]

oh ok

[frank zodiac]

how exactly?

new InputActions()?

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/manual/ActionAssets.html#using-input-action-assets
has the instructions if u scroll down

[frank zodiac]

thanks

[weary steppe]

not too sure if this is the correct place to ask this but i am on windows and i have other people working in linux and mac, but for some reason when they clone the repo Unity starts to throw errors becuase some libs are not loaded in, such as dotTween from demigiant and such, its weird because there is another person on windows like me and its fine for him to clone and do anything. any idea?

[swift crag]

perhaps those libraries didn't get included in version control

the other person may have just gone and installed things from the asset store after cloning the repository

[slender nymph]

there's also the possibility that the assemblies for those assets have been set to windows only for some reason

[swift crag]

bill gates strikes again

[willow scroll]

Why would you replace the code I've sent you with mine, if I have literally copypasted this code from the script you've sent to point it out?

The strangest thing for me is that you haven't even noticed the code is yours?

[obtuse cove]

Sorry, I've been trying to get this to work for a while and didn't notice it was the same

[weary steppe]

pretty annoying

some libs get cloned fine whilst some dont but its weird that for a big lib such as https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/dotween-hotween-v2-27676 we are having this issue

i guess the only way to get around it is to create a package file which has these libs inside already as a wrapper, maybe that will work, i was thinking of writing custom editor scripts anyway so might just bundle all together

[slender nymph]

we've already told you the possible reasons for this issue, have you bothered checking any of them?

[weary steppe]

talking to me?

[slender nymph]

obviously yes, because these assets are just installed directly into your assets folder, they are not installed as packages. so there's nothing stopping them from being cloned correctly unless these files are not being commited to your vcs. or if they are only working on windows then that indicates that the assemblies are set to only include windows. all of this is something you can easily fix

[cosmic oxide]

Hey, I am trying to create a generic class but it gives me a message "no Monobehaviour scripts in the file, or their names don't match the file name". The message goes away as soon as I remove the type parameter. Can someone help?

[slender nymph]

right because you cannot specify a type parameter when adding it as a component via the editor. you need to inherit from the generic class in order to do so

so you could have a class like public class Foo : GenericSingleton<Foo> { } (you'll probably also want to constrain T to GenericSingleton type)

as an example, this is my singleton implementation. it is abstract because it isn't supposed to be attached as a component itself (not that it would work anyway since it is generic). behaviours that i have that are supposed to be singletons inherit from this

[cosmic oxide]

Thanks man

I am gonna try it out

[willow scroll]

Well, consider first fixing the part I've pointed out

[whole lark]

Hi Im trying to follow an old tutorial from Brackeys "MOVEMENT - Making an RPG in Unity (E01)" But in the newer versions I cant find this option, does someone know how to find this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2mK6KFdv0I&list=PLPV2KyIb3jR4KLGCCAciWQ5qHudKtYeP7&index=2 (3:43)

[final kestrel]

Anyone here use odin inspector? Should I consider getting even though I'm a beginner?

[swift crag]

Newer versions of Unity use the AI Navigation package.

You no longer bake a navmesh for the entire scene. You add a NavMeshSurface to an object and then bake that

[whole lark]

oh okay 😄 thanks

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ai.navigation@1.1/manual/

I think the default settings for a NavMeshSurface just grab all level geometry, so it'll match how the old scene-wide bake worked

[whole lark]

sry but do you know how to install the package too? 😅 https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.2/Documentation/Manual/upm-ui-quick.html the instructions on that website are not very up to date I guess...

[swift crag]

what version of unity are you using?

[whole lark]

bc its an older project

do you think that might be the problem?

[swift crag]

a version that old will still have the scene-wide Bake option

show me your Navigation window

if you can't find that; it's just Window > AI > Navigation

[whole lark]

Oh xD tysm thats what I was looking for I just didnt see that I had to click on "AI" first. aaah

[fringe plover]

Hi, need help with List<GameObject>.
Cant show code rn...
Im making mid play savjng to let player continue playing if he exit, just simple data (pos of object and some script stuff)
All objects are in list, but when i try to save list while player is doing smth it says that collection was modified..
i tried using try/catch, and restart saving corotine, but it stops itself if i use StopCorotine()...
What should i do? I also tried to save data from objects and then pass it to saving script, didnt help, same error but in passing method...

[burnt vapor]

The error means you are modifying the collection whilst iterating it.

Don't add/remove things from the list while it is in a foreach or another loop

The enumerable underneath assumes the collection is the same.
If you need to modify data, use a separate collection and replace the list with that one instead when you are done

[barren vapor]

Basicly create a second list and replace it once the loop is over

[fringe plover]

List stores GameObject, i tried storing script too, but Object/Script can be destroyed mid saving, which will lead to same error

[burnt vapor]

So don't destroy it

Or make a list with only the relevant content to save

Either way don't modify the content

[polar acorn]

You cannot modify a list inside of a foreach over it.

[fringe plover]

the only way to fix that i see is setting time to 0 and stop whole game for half second to save... which is not better idea

[polar acorn]

you'll need to use an indexed for loop and manually change the iterator if you change the list

@ whoever deleted that question just now
Quaternion.identity is the Quaternion representing the default orientation

[frank zodiac]

i know i deleted it because i decided to go to the docs instead of wasting your time

thanks

[polar acorn]

good call

[fringe plover]

Okay, thanks y'all who responded, ill try to do what ya said.

[violet glacier]

I have a gameobject that has an animation with keyframes that change alpha, how come when I change the alpha of the spriterenderer in inspector or in code, it doesn't apply?

[slender nymph]

show code

[lethal bolt]

Does anybody know why the enemy Car dosent move an floats?

[slender nymph]

actually wait, if you have an animation that controls the color then that will override any code you use for it

[wintry quarry]

looks like its collider has a big cylinder?

[ruby python]

@lethal bolt it looks as though you have a big cylinder collider, so it's using that to 'place' it.

[stuck palm]

whats the difference between a list and a linkedList

[lethal bolt]

Yes............

[ruby python]

Okay well the bottom of that collider needs to be 'inline' with the bottom (wheels) of the van, that should move it to the road surface.

[swift crag]

is that a NavMeshAgent on the truck?

[lethal bolt]

Yes

[ruby python]

What is that collider used for?

[swift crag]

the truck model appears to be positioned above the object with the agent on it

[lethal bolt]

I fixed Collider

[slender nymph]

this is a linked list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_list
and a List<T> is basically just a resizable array (it's literally just backed by an array)

[lethal bolt]

But he just rotates around

[swift crag]

linked lists do not provide efficient random access

but they do provide efficient insertion and removal

[violet glacier]

Yeah, even if there are no transitions to it

[swift crag]

the animator sets all animated properties in-between Update and LateUpdate

[ruby python]

Okay, next thing, how are you moving the van? (movement script etc)

[swift crag]

this includes every property animated by any state

[swift crag]

you can't make it stop writing by just leaving the state whose clip sets the alpha

[willow scroll]

Why not search for a Stack Overflow question with over 450 up votes?

[slender nymph]

if the animation is active then it will control that property. if it is not then you need to show your code so we can understand why it isn't setting the values you are expecting to be changed

[swift crag]

If you want to overwrite what the animator does, you can do it in LateUpdate.

[swift crag]

it doesn't matter if you aren't in the state that controls the property, or even if you've never been to the state!

[ruby python]

Okay there's nothing there that's actually moving it, just giving it a target. Can you show you NavMeshAgent settings please?

[ruby python]

Oh wait, sorry, misread. Can you show the 'Enemy' script please?

[lethal bolt]

This is the enemy script......

Its not much

[ruby python]

okay, sorry 1 sec, looking at a few things at the same time. lol.

[lethal bolt]

lol

[ruby python]

Okay so is it pointing at the 'target' correctly?

[burnt vapor]

List is better unless you need to apply content in between elements, then a LinkedList works better

Considering you usually don't add content in between, you should probably just stick to Lists

[lethal bolt]

Yes. Until i collide with it

[burnt vapor]

Also, I believe a LinkedList is bad when it comes to accessing data randomly. It uses a different system whereas a list is a basic array underneath

So it takes longer to do that

[ruby python]

Okay, are you sure that your NavMesh is being generated properly? (press play, pause the game and then look at the scene view to see if the 'roads' have a blue overlay?

[lethal bolt]

I think so?

[ruby python]

Hmmm......okay, it looks like it's being generated a little 'high' (intersecting the wheels), try moving your van 'up' quite a bit so it starts 'above' the navmesh plane (it should snap back down when you press play)

[lethal bolt]

Yes i moved the car up an the navmesh down and it works! THANKS !

[stuck palm]

you can change animation set values in lateupdate

[ruby python]

Awesome. No probs. Yeah anything that goes onto a nav mesh has to be able to 'look down' and see the navmesh, so if it's a little low it won't see it. Surprised it didn't throw an error if honest.

[stuck palm]

thank you!

[dense root]

In a pokemon style game where there is grass you can encounter enemy pokemon is it better to put the CheckEncounter function in the player movement script or on a grass script itself?

[frosty hound]

You check what kind of tile you're on and you act on that. That should be the responsibility of the player, not the grass.

[ivory bobcat]

It would depend on your game but if you're using a grid then maybe you can simply evaluate whatever you're wanting to when you enter that tile.

[dense root]

Great responses, much appreciated

[dense root]

I'm not using a grid based movement so I'll stick to keeping it in the player controller

I'm setting direction in the Update function yet it calls it over and over again as expected, what's a way to avoid this so as soon as Direction is set it just sets it once?

        SetDirection(movement);
        Debug.Log(direction);
    }

    private void SetDirection(Vector2 movement)
    {
        if (movement.x == 0 && movement.y == 1)
        {
            direction = "Up";
        }
        if (movement.x == 0 && movement.y == -1)
        {
            direction = "Down";
        }
        if (movement.x == 1 && movement.y == 0)
        {
            direction = "Right";
        }
        if (movement.x == -1 && movement.y == 0)
        {
            direction = "Left";
        }
    }

[slender nymph]

i'd like to suggest you use an enum for the direction rather than strings. you'll have compile time checking for things like misspellings instead of relying on you remembering how you spelled something since capitalization actually matters when it comes to comparing strings

[dense root]

Okay thank you I'll rewrite that

[ivory bobcat]

Only set your direction (call the function) if a move was made.

[void thicket]

Just letting you know that it is not good choice to compare equality (==) for floats (Vector2 components)

[stuck palm]

whats the difference between this and just a normal equals?

[slender nymph]

that is creating a get-only property

[stuck palm]

i see

[ivory bobcat]

That's not a math operation you've got there

[dense root]

What's the better decision?

[obtuse cove]

I tried to make some improvements to the code, but the fact that the fireballs don't disappear as I would like when they touch the ground or the player (they don't disappear at all) without any kind of explicit error remained

• https://gdl.space/quzobicoba.cpp
• https://gdl.space/oqupaloyaq.cpp

[void thicket]

Something ranged for example. if (movement.x > 0.9f && Mathf.Abs(movement.y) < 0.1f)

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/statements-expressions-operators/expression-bodied-members @stuck palm

[willow scroll]

Your OnTriggerEnter2D method tells it should disappear when the collision's layer is Player, or tag is Ground and the prefabName is not fireballPrefab2

Have you even tried check whether it's called? It's not going to be called since your Collider2D has its isTrigger disabled

• The OnTriggerEnter2D method happens for the object if it has its isTrigger enabled.
• The OnCollisionEnter2D method happens for the object if it has its isTrigger disabled.
• In both cases, the Rigidbody2D must be added to the object with the method.
• The collider it collides with must also have a Collider2D
• The isTrigger of the collider it's supposed to collide is doesn't matter.

[dense root]

I'm not sure I like how enums default to a value, for example when I am setting player direction it defaults to left even though input has not been received yet. Technically it should be null if I am understanding my own code correctly. Should I have it default to down? SInce the player is positioned that way at the start?

[slender nymph]

create a None member for the enum, or whatever you want as the default should be the first member

[languid spire]

then just set a Unknown as your first entry of the enum

[slender nymph]

also enums are value types so they are never null

[dense root]

Ohh thank you so much

[meager sentinel]

How do i install Visual Studio Code IDE?

[eager spindle]

I mean a sprite is normally facing down by default

[eager spindle]

Vsc is not an ide
You may visit the visual studio code website to get the installer which lets you get visual studio code

[polar acorn]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[meager sentinel]

I mean the thing that shows the herrors

[meager sentinel]

Already did that years ago and still doesn't work

did it like 4 times

[eager spindle]

Use normal visual studio 😴

if you really can't get it to work

[meager sentinel]

The IDE stopped working too

and my pc doesn't support it

[willow scroll]

It's not an IDE

[willow scroll]

Years ago? You can do it one more time now

[meager sentinel]

With years ago i mean like i did it since a lot ago and keep doing it but never worked

[willow scroll]

Have you been coding with no errors showing up all this time?

[dense root]

Hard core mode

[meager sentinel]

Yeah

[willow scroll]

I sincerely respect you

[willow scroll]

What version of Unity do you have?

[meager sentinel]

2022 but i also used 2020

neither worked

[willow scroll]

It's not supported by 2020

Have you installed the extension?

[polar acorn]

So then you should definitely do it again. "Years ago" is an eternity in software terms

[slender nymph]

if you cannot figure out how to get vs code configured using the guide the bot posted, then you should consider just switching to visual studio. it's just as easy to configure, but with less steps that are easily fucked up or forgotten. and it also is less likely to just stop working

[meager sentinel]

Yeah

[polar acorn]

The packages and plugins have definitely changed since then

[meager sentinel]

Visual studio stopped working

at least for me

and it goes to like 1 fps

[ivory bobcat]

Follow the guides once more, you can only try - as mentioned, things have changed with VSC.

[willow scroll]

Could you show your Package Manager?

[meager sentinel]

Am opening the project

[dense root]

How do you all feel about this gray area autocomplete that I think is relatively new? Invaluable? Fools gold?

[willow scroll]

I don't think it's new

[slender nymph]

that's intellicode. it can be helpful sometimes, but it's also annoying just as often

[dense root]

Do any of you turn it off?

[swift sedge]

oh yeah, i think its like 2 years old or something

[slender nymph]

i have turned it off because of how often it just gets in the way

[polar acorn]

I tend to just hit escape if it's suggesting something dumb

I probably tab about as often as I escape so it's fair to leave on

[swift sedge]

i dont think the specific unity API helps it much

[eager spindle]

what's your computer specs even

if vs is lagging because your pc doesn't have the power then it'll be very hard to use unity

[meager sentinel]

I only know i have 8GB Ram and GT 1030

[eager spindle]

that shld work fine tbh, more ram would be appreciated but nonetheless

watch the number of tabs you have

[slender nymph]

why does everyone always throw their GPU info out when that info is entirely irrelevant

your GPU is not going to impact the speed of your IDE in any meaningful way

[swift sedge]

the CPU will

it has to work out all of the intellicode stuff first

[dense root]

That's their point

[eager spindle]

ram is pretty important, with just OS and chrome on the 8gb is completely gone

[slender nymph]

right, i never said the CPU wouldn't. my point was about them providing their GPU info

[swift sedge]

yeah, thats irrelevant

[slender nymph]

yes and that was the entire point of what i was saying

[polar acorn]

Because GPU manufacturers have successfully gaslit people into thinking that GPU versions are akin to console generations and saying you have a "1030" is equivalent to saying like "It's a PS5"

So you have people with some beastly 1400 dollar graphics card and then they have like, an i3

[swift sedge]

and then they blame bad performance on their graphics cards. I know what people you are talking about...

[slender nymph]

guys why does notepad take 6 years to open this 1.3gb file? i have a RTX 3090 and a billion gigs of ram!
nevermind the fact i'm running an intel core 2 duo and have a 5 rpm hard drive

[polar acorn]

The system can only go as fast as its slowest part

[swift sedge]

the CPU relies on RAM, the GPU relies on the CPU and the VRAM that's inside the GPU body, etc, etc

[meager sentinel]

So this is what happens

visual studio code doesn't show the errors

[slender nymph]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel. #⛰️┃terrain-3d would be more appropriate for that question

[meager sentinel]

Why everyone ignores people when they submit this error?

when i search it no one of the people who have reported it get even answered

[slender nymph]

go to the output to see more details and maybe an actual error code or something that you can search for

[ivory bobcat]

It's not useful

[whole lark]

oh okay

[polar acorn]

Because it's pretty self explanatory - it couldn't connect to the language server

You got internet? Behind a firewall? VPN?

[meager sentinel]

I have ethernet

[polar acorn]

Any number of things could prevent your network from connecting to one specific endpoint instead of another

And we can't really know what your connection setup is like

[meager sentinel]

No VPN

[meager sentinel]

How could i know that?

[polar acorn]

Normally you'd know what kind of software your own computer is running

[meager sentinel]

wdym with that?

Like software like OS?

[ivory bobcat]

Just to make sure everything's up to date, did you do all of the steps in #💻┃code-beginner message ?

[meager sentinel]

Yeah i did...

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show your Unity package manager?

[meager sentinel]

It's all what yall say "just do the steps that the bot says" i did them million times

[meager sentinel]

Visual Studio Editor package is installe

[polar acorn]

Because they work

[meager sentinel]

But they dint for me

[polar acorn]

Your problems seem to stem from either:
A) Faulty hardware causing installations to fail
B) Software blocking connection to the language server

[ivory bobcat]

There may be a conflicting package, thus why I've asked

[dense root]

Sorry to interupt this editor thing but I have this issue where the player "walks" through the door (scene change), and then upon exiting to go back to the world their position has changed. Would the best approach be to store the position where player has walked and then re-position them accordingly on the second walk through to the world? Here's a gif to illustrate if my message was unclear

[ivory bobcat]

Are you loading scenes?

[polar acorn]

If you have each "exit" have a paired entrance tile on the new scene, you can keep track of the last exit you used, and spawn the player at that corresponding "entrance" tile on the new one

[dense root]

Yeah SceneManager.LoadScene(scene);

[meager sentinel]

You know any way to make the faulty hardware to fail or any software not block it?

[polar acorn]

So, you'd be able to see "The player's last exit is null" and put them in the middle, or "the player's last exit was house_front_door so find the tile marked house_front_door and place them there

[slender nymph]

yeah that would allow having multiple entrances/exits quite easily compared to just storing the last overworld position

[timber tide]

that may be a problem if there are multiple exits, so maybe just best to link exit one door to another

[polar acorn]

If it's A, you'll need to diagnose what specifically is failing and replace it (it sounds like storage but it could be system board or CPU as well). For B, you just need to find whatever software you have that can limit connections and disable it

[ivory bobcat]

Can you still simply provide an image of your package manager?

[meager sentinel]

yeah sure

[timber tide]

could probably just do some gamemanager with a list of entrance/exit

[dense root]

Isn't the simplest solution the one I proposed where we store the position at the point of walking and position them when exiting?

[ivory bobcat]

What would happen if you've got multiple entrances?

[dense root]

OH like a dungeon

[ivory bobcat]

Further expanding on that, what if you were to re-enter from a different entrance?

[dense root]

There's only one door in my head, how would there be a different entrance?

[slender nymph]

sure for now you only have one door. what if later on you decide to add buildings with two doors though? those absolutely exist in pokemon

[ivory bobcat]

Supposed the village was an entire scene. If you leave north but return from the south, what would happen?

[dense root]

They would reppear north

[stuck palm]

is there a time.Time for when you load the scene?

[dense root]

Nope, how is that necessary?

[slender nymph]

did you look at the docs?

[ivory bobcat]

Or if you teleported and exited a poke center, should you use your last position.

[dense root]

@slender nymph docs for what?

[dense root]

Ahh

[slender nymph]

not you, the person whose question appears right before my response

[stuck palm]

Theres something i dont want to run for the first half second since the scene has loaded

[dense root]

Oh this is for your game, not mine 😂

[slender nymph]

also yes that does exist. hence why i suggested looking at the docs

[ivory bobcat]

So if you entered a bug forest from the south entrance and exited towards the north entrance. Keeping track of your last position in the particular scene would have you teleported back to the bottom entrance.

[dense root]

Sorry I'll look at the documentation when I get the chance. but I'm still not sure how that relates to my scene loader

[slender nymph]

again, the suggestion for looking at the docs was not for you

[dense root]

Oh you tagged me so I was confused once again

[slender nymph]

i tagged you to say that your response of "no" when someone else asked if there was a time since scene load was incorrect

[summer stump]

This message did not tag you
#💻┃code-beginner message

[meager sentinel]

what just happened? I tried one of the errors i had solution i found on a reddit post and now this happens

and it loads normal visual studio

[dense root]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, I'm going to review these messages and take notes on the better implmentation

[eager spindle]

never seen this before

need the full error

[ivory bobcat]

You need to remove the VSC Editor package if you're following the new VSC setup

Note: The Visual Studio Code Editor package published by Unity is a legacy package from Unity that is not maintained anymore.

[meager sentinel]

I cant remove it because other package or dependency depends of it

[slender nymph]

it's the engineering package group, just unlock that or whatever

[ivory bobcat]

It's a common conflicting package that should be removed.

[lethal bolt]

I want to make the Wheels rotate 30 to the rigth an 30 to the left but now they just spin in circles and i know the problem but i dont know the sulotion and i couldnt find it

[ivory bobcat]

Have a class variable that maintains the rotation and add/evaluate/compute using that variable.

[lethal bolt]

oh

[ivory bobcat]

For instance, you'd be able to clamp the value.

[polar acorn]

If you want to change the rotation by an amount, use .Rotate

right now you're setting it to a specific value

[rocky gale]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[swift sedge]

like Dalphat said, you also need to clamp the value between -30 and 30, and after that you can just rotate it

[rocky gale]

Woooooo (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[dense root]

So I know I'm not doing this in the suggested manner but I figured I would do it simple first then smart later but here's my teleported function. For some reason the player is not being "put back" in the same spot as where they teleported from. Any insights?

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneToLoad);

    // We are storing the last position and name to be used later when we re-teleport back outside 
    lastPos = player.transform.position;
    Debug.Log("lastPos" + lastPos);
    hiraganaScene = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name;

    // If scene is equal to HiraganaScene then we telepot back to HiraganaScene in the position described
    if (hiraganaScene == "HiraganaScene")
    {
        player.transform.position = lastPos;
    }
}

[rich adder]

well are you preserving the object/position between scene changes?

[ivory bobcat]

Did you save last position?

[dense root]

Does lastPos not do the trick?

[rich adder]

you have to store it so the value isnt wiped

[dense root]

Oh the value is not persistent?

[rich adder]

maybe start with PlayerPrefs or DDOL

[ivory bobcat]

When the scene changes all objects in the previous scene are destroyed, along with their data.

[dense root]

I see, what and what is meant by PlayerPrefs or DDOL are these persistent data storage to be used game wide?

[swift sedge]

unless you add the attribute DontDestroyOnLoad

[rich adder]

PlayerPrefs is a simple storing system unity has built in

DDOL is not storage, its a DontDestroyOnLoad function you can add your object to a special scene that never gets destroyed between scene changes (this will require good system to pass references though or singleton)

[ivory bobcat]

Player pref and json are means of writing data to disk.

[gaunt ice]

using file system to store is overkill, static is enough in your case unless you expect player close your game and reopen it after switching the scene

[dense root]

PlayerPrefs seems like something I would need later on down the road when I want to save player states, right? I feel like I just need a static object like @gaunt ice is describing

[swift sedge]

they are also used for persistent scene 2 scene data

[ivory bobcat]

~~He may need a state manager for different scenes etc but maybe that's too much for now ~~

[rich adder]

@gaunt ice I guess static could work but its a Noob trap

[dense root]

"noob trap" 😂

[rich adder]

yes next thing you know you start making everything static 😛

"this is soo much faster"

why isn't everyone doing this

[swift sedge]

or just copy everything to the system clipboard (I'm joking btw)

[dense root]

This guy lol

[polar acorn]

"I'm the greatest!"

"Oh no!"

[dense root]

Okay I'm going to use static for now, but I appreciate you all pointing me all in the right direction for the future.

[rich adder]

"the power of static, in the palm of my hand"

[slender nymph]

one other thing about this that hasn't been mentioned yet is that your new scene hasn't actually loaded yet. it doesn't load until the next frame

[dense root]

What does that translate to in my game? The new scene is definitely still loading just not the position being changed.

[slender nymph]

i never said it isn't loading at all. but it has not loaded by the time that code you are using to assign the position has run. because the scene load does not happen until the next frame

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadScene.html

When using SceneManager.LoadScene, the scene loads in the next frame, that is it does not load immediately. This semi-asynchronous behavior can cause frame stuttering and can be confusing because load does not complete immediately.

[dense root]

Oh I see, so in a noobie nutshell the scene is asynchronous and not matching up with the frames. Therefore it can cause "frame stuttering" as described. What is the solution to this?

[slender nymph]

no that is not at all what i'm saying. that part of the description is irrelevant

there, i edited the quote, ignore what is crossed out and read it again

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe have your player in the new scene update it's own position or something from the new scene update the player's position

[dense root]

So are you saying that my lastPos is going to be effected by this async behavior?

[slender nymph]

oh my god, all i am saying is that all of that code in the method after the LoadScene call is still happening in the same scene because the scene has not changed yet

[dense root]

Oh my god now I understand

So even if I fix the issue with static it still won't load position correctly because the aforementioned code is happening at the previous scene

[slender nymph]

yes, but if you just let the player in the new scene assign its position from that saved position then it will be prefectly fine

[dense root]

So are you telling me to put lastPos = player.transform.position in my next scene?

[ivory bobcat]

Reminder that static data persists between scenes (everything really) - they belong to the class and not instances of the class.

[gaunt ice]

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneToLoad);

    // We are storing the last position and name to be used later when we re-teleport back outside 
    lastPos = player.transform.position; <-this line
    Debug.Log("lastPos" + lastPos);
    //some codes
}

[slender nymph]

no, just the last bit where you assign the position to the player

[dense root]

I am so confused because I am "cheating" by doing the ghetto trick of checking for the Scene Name and then assigning player.transform.position = lastPos; which as I understand will just change the position of the player once they are in our HiraganaScene

[slender nymph]

remember how i already told you that the scene has not changed by the time you check the scene name?

[dense root]

Let me draw this out with crayons and I'll get back to you

[slender nymph]

i thought you'd finally understood it here ^

[dense root]

I do not lol

[gaunt ice]

queried scene change
lastPos=player.transform.position;
if(some bool that is probably false){
  player.transform.position=lastPos;
}

[median vapor]

Ive stated a new project and i got stuck on rotation and Quaternion. Camera has a like topographical view on the player and the camera follows an object that is a child of the player. The issue is that i wanted the player obj to rotate towards towards the cursor.My idea of doing that was by sending the ray from the camer thro the cursor (variable "pozicijaMisaUSvijetu") and then initiating one vektor towards the point of the the contact i got from the RayCast (hitInfo) and one from the playerObj forward. Trom then on calculating the angle diffrence between them and setting the obj rotation with quaternion slerp.
Player curently spins not around his own axi, he on the axi around some unkown point
Peice of the code responsible for this:

    void fun_rotacijaIgracaPremaMisu()
    {
        Vector2 movment = new Vector2(horizontal_Input,vertical_Input);
        movment.Normalize();
        Ray pozicijaMisaUSvijetu = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(pozicija_Misa);
        if (Physics.Raycast(pozicijaMisaUSvijetu,out RaycastHit hitInfo))
        {
                Vector3 vektorDoPozicijePresjeka= transform.position - hitInfo.point;
                Vector3 usmjerenostIgraća =  transform.position + Vector3.forward;
                Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, usmjerenostIgraća,Color.red);
                Quaternion test1 = Quaternion.Euler(0,MathF.Atan2(vektorDoPozicijePresjeka.y,usmjerenostIgraća.y) * Mathf.Rad2Deg,0);
                transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, test1,0.5f);
        }
    }

Screenshot shows the POV of the camera (player shuld be in the middle of the screen)
PlayerObj has the script attached to it and has rigidbody
Player(Child of PlayerObj) is the capsule and has a box collider

[noble charm]

yo

[magic crown]

ok so small question i'm trying to do an if(lookingDirectionInput > new Vector2(0,0)) it do something, they are both Vector2 value but only problem if statement don't suport "<" with vector2 for some reason! any idea how i can go around this?

i don't want to use == cause i'm gonna do some other things with it and == wouldn't work

[summer stump]

< Vector doesn't really make sense
Which part do you want to check is bigger?
The magnitude, x component, or y component?
Pick the one you want to check and use that

[slender nymph]

what do you think that is supposed to do? because it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to compare which Vector2 is bigger

[magic crown]

ok wait no i think i have an idea on how i can fix this thank you dude

[late burrow]

when i setpositions for linerenderer is there any significant performance difference if i use array of 2 vectors vs 1000 vectors

[slender nymph]

use the profiler if you have performance concerns

[late burrow]

we already confirmed that profiler lies

[slender nymph]

i don't know who "we" is, but what would make you think it lies?

[late burrow]

1 performance on pc is completely different than on phone
2 pc has lots of random garbage that doesnt occur on phone as well

[polar acorn]

Actually I'm like 100% sure we proved the entirely opposite

[rich adder]

phone has their own profilers too

esp iOS has a good one

[polar acorn]

So then profile it on the phone?

[late burrow]

what about no

phone debugging is bad

i just wanted to know if theres difference

everybody start mashing "try it yourself"

i dont wish to code for next week just for answer

[rich adder]

yes no much better to ask random people on discord arbitrary performance values

[violet glacier]

Do people usually do unit testing or other testing for unity?

[frosty hound]

Just give them an arbitrary answer so they go away for another few days

[polar acorn]

Then continue to suffer the burden of not knowing

[frosty hound]

No there is no significant difference. See ya.

[polar acorn]

I've never been a fan of unit tests but I do pretty regularly set up "mock players" to feed a specified set of inputs to replicate specific behaviors. Kind of like making a TAS for bugs

[slender nymph]

dang nav, should've kept your answer up so that they could have chosen their favorite of the two

[rich adder]

Unit testing is useful but afaik is not very common in Unity games
(but unity does have decent tool for it)

[summer stump]

That doesn't mean the profiler lies in the least. The profiler tells you the truth for the place you are profiling. Just profile your phone, and it will also tell you the truth for that device

Ah, dang lag.

[eternal needle]

Just not very common in Indie dev games at all. It's truly hard to test a game, when half the bugs come from unique cases that the dev will never think of.

[dense root]

Am I reading this correctly? When I enter the house despite the scene changing to House001 it actually enters the if statement anyways at the moment the player collides. Is this the asynchronous behavior we were talking about?

[rich adder]

very true. So many potential things that can wrong in a game than a traditional app, yea throw physics in there too , very difficult to predict every potential problem

[slender nymph]

again LoadScene does not actually load the scene until the next frame

and the frame will not end in the middle of a method

[eternal needle]

Yea imo it's not even worth doing especially alone. It seems to get mentioned every so often, but I'd love to see how many big games even do it. Dev's at jagex (old school runescape) have even said theres no reason for them to unit test after many suggested it because of the amount of bugs in game.

[swift crag]

I don't know how I'd unit-test my game

I'm more interested in fuzz testing

[eternal needle]

The only thing I'd consider making tests for is like my item system to ensure formulas are correct. Other than that, if I made a mistake somewhere then it's likely not noticeable

[rich adder]

just seems like a lot of work most of the time with very little gain

[swift crag]

I wrote an editor extension that turns off graphics and increases the timescale to simulate, say, 10FPS gameplay at a much higher speed

then i let the game run for a while and see if anything errored out

as well as if I've got obvious leaks/performance drops

I also write editor extensions to scan for things like missing references (after annotating fields that are allowed to be null)

[rich adder]

yea its handy for me sometimes when I wanted to test the CommandPattern or something more predictable like grid movements

[swift crag]

This is very helpful for updating existing prefabs after I change how something works

(something I'm trying to do less and less as I start adding content, but...you know)

[eternal needle]

As many things do, it probably comes from the people with web dev backgrounds or in similar environments. Code testing even plagues other fields, where they want 100% coverage which is 99% useless.

[swift crag]

one thing I do need to do is better test weird filesystem problems

I don't know how people get some of these errors...

[eternal needle]

That's pretty smart, I'll probably do something similar

[swift crag]

I've heard of this being called "soak testing" before

Can't find too many people talking about the idea

Punch Out!! on the Wii has a mode where it just plays the entire game automatically

(with cheats enabled so it doesn't have to play well)

[dense root]

that's an amazing game

[swift crag]

it seems very well put together

[dense root]

IIRC you couldn't save so you had to beat the whole thing in one go

[swift crag]

you're thinking of the NES game

that used passwords

[dense root]

Oh right

[swift crag]

i guess i should just assume that no file exists, even if I just created the file, and that no file has non-garbage content

[polar acorn]

005-737-5421 to get to Tyson, IIRC

[dense root]

I think when I was a kid I didn't know the password system and just played it through till I got it

[rich adder]

ahh passcode checkpoints/saves. Dark times

[sour plinth]

hey guys can i get some quick help

[rich adder]

maybe

[swift crag]

if you ask a question, perhaps!

don't cross post; you already posted in #archived-code-general

[sour plinth]

yeah i was about to say if you can go there lol

[swift crag]

that problem is also not a code problem

ask it in #💻┃unity-talk and show what you are doing

[sour plinth]

kk

[dense root]

Alright... so I think I'm getting a bit warmer here but the player is still refusing to move back to the same spot. Am I still not taking into account for the async scene loading?

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneToLoad);

    // This scene is set to the current scene 
    thisScene = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name;

    // We check this scene for HiraganaScene in order to set the lastPos
    if (thisScene == "HiraganaScene")
    {
        lastPos = player.transform.position;
    }

    // If we have entered the house then we set hasEntered to true
    if (thisScene == "House001")
    {
        hasEntered = true;
    }

    // If we are in the HiraganaScene AND we have previously entered the house then we set player position
    if (thisScene == "HiraganaScene" && hasEntered == true)
    {
        player.transform.position = lastPos;
    }
}

[rich adder]

imo you're overcomplicated the shit out of this

make your House an actual object that stores its Entrance point as a Trasform/Vector3.

then you just lookup the coordinate from that object

 public class Building : MonoBehaviour{
        public Transform entrancePoint;
    }```

[eternal needle]

Which part even is async here? Nothing here seems to be waiting for anything

[slender nymph]

they latched onto the phrase "semi-asynchronous behavior" from the LoadScene docs that talks about how LoadScene does not actually load the scene until the next phrase

so they are ignoring everything about how the rest of the code in that method is running in the same scene still despite having been told several times that the new scene has not loaded yet

[dense root]

Oh I think I'm starting to get it... thisScene is the previous scene... right?

So when I teleport the first time, thisScene is still Hiragana001 and then when I teleport out of the house thisScene is House001

[rich adder]

using scene names for this is horrid

[swift crag]

yes, because nothing happens until the end of the frame

[dense root]

Jesus that was hard for me to comprehend lol

[slender nymph]

here, hopefully this spells it out for you https://hastebin.com/share/ehojoyerel.cs

[dense root]

Huh? It's blank lol

[slender nymph]

man fuck hastebin that's the least intuitive share site

at least changing the extension can fix the syntax highlighting though

[dense root]

Okay after a short review I see what you're literally drawing with crayons fo rme lol

[rich adder]

ever since topal changed it went to shit

[dense root]

I like GDL Space

[rich adder]

yeah I liked it to the point I've made a .NET version of it as pet project

maybe we can use it some day 😛

[valid epoch]

This code is giving an error that line 19 "type or namespace spike can't be found." Spike is another script that will be on the prefab instantiated on the line above. I've done this tons of times with other scripts and components so I'm not sure why it's not working in this instance specifically.
https://pastebin.com/1xArQD16

[deft grail]

are you sure you have a script called Spike?

double check the script name and class name

[wintry quarry]

You simply don't have another script called Spike 😸

Or it's in a namespace or another assembly.

[rich adder]

also is the error underlining inside the code editor ? make sure that is also configured

[valid epoch]

wow I just didn't rename it correctly, oops. Thank you!

[dense root]

So for my player to change position back to the correct spot is this the correct logic to implement? Rather than my previous approach of trying to actively set the positions and create a lot of confusion for myself.

* When the player enters the new scene, set their position using the scenePos

Basically set the tile position for the entrances and then manually set those positions based on where the player enters and exits

[slender nymph]

you should keep a collection of entrances and exits so that each entrance can reference some exit so you can always get the correct position from the exit point

[swift crag]

yeah, you should try to make this a little more...structured

[slender nymph]

you won't need to care about the player's previous position, you just need to know what entrance they are going through so that they go to the correct exit point

[dense root]

Right right, thank you for the insights

[swift crag]

I used ScriptableObjects for this kind of thing

each save point got a SO that had its name and its position

(i copied the actual position of the save point into the SO with a script, but you can just set it manually)

for "paths", like going through a door, you'd have a pair of SOs that reference each other

[dense root]

I see, I've used scriptable objects before but I'm still a bit unconfident with them. I'll definitely try it out with this use case though

[rich adder]

🥲

[swift crag]

the minor X-factor here is that you need to know which entrance to use

[dense root]

That's pretty similar to what we're discussing, right? Store the point as an object and then use that point to teleport

[rich adder]

pretty much

[dense root]

As you can tell I'm a slow learner 😂

[rich adder]

much easier if the buildings track their own points

less stuff for your player code to worry about

[swift crag]

That is why I'm a fan of the idea of having an "entrance" object.

When you go through a scene transition, you would store the entrance you used in the game controller (a singleton). After the new scene loads, you'd ask that object for the corresponding entrance in the new scene.

[CreateAssetMenu]
public class Entrance : ScriptableObject {
  public Entrance otherSide;
  public SceneField otherScene;
  public Vector3 position;
}

You could put the destination scene in there too

[dense root]

Right right I am starting to see your points

[swift crag]

Each doorway would have an Entrance reference

and each Entrance would reference another Entrance

[dense root]

Thanks for the sage advice all, much appreciated

[rich adder]

OOP 💪

[swift crag]

and, tbh, you could totally just use FindObjectsByType to find every single door in the new scene and figure out which one matches up with the otherSide field of the entrance you used

instead of storing a position to take you to

it's not the end of the world

[cosmic dagger]

i mean . . . it's getting there . . .

[lament jungle]

how can I watch for hits on my 3d mesh object?

[rich adder]

depends , what do you mean by "watching for hits"

what are you trying to do

[lament jungle]

I mean

I want my mesh to be "Clickable" using OnMouseUpAsButton

but it does not really work

when I click nothing happens

[rich adder]

which method did you use

only one method works built in on MB that use collider

[lament jungle]

yeah..it works now

i forgot to add a collider

thanks 🙏

[vernal crow]

I made it so that when the mouse hovers over The object the script is applied to it scales up a little and returns to original size after the mouse exits the collider area im just wondering how i can add range? ex: 5 meters away not interactable 1 meter away interactable.

[rich 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.

[vernal crow]

Ah man

I thought I followed it this time

[polar acorn]

Quite the opposite in fact.

!screenshots

[eternal falcon]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[vernal crow]

Woopsie

[polar acorn]

If you want to increase the area OnMouseEnter detects, you'll need to increase the area of the collider

[vernal crow]

Oh sorry I left out that it’s just infinite ranged I just want to know if there’s anyway I can make a limiter on range somehow unless increasing the collider is the way

[polar acorn]

Oh, distance from the camera? You won't get that with OnMouseEnter. You'll need to use Raycasting.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CameraRays.html

[vernal crow]

Thank you I will follow the rules if I come back

[ember tangle]

How do I instantiate a UI GameObject as a child of a canvas? Normal Instantiate is not working.

[deft grail]

not working how?

whats wrong

[ember tangle]

it wont take my canvas reference as a argument in the Instantiate function.

oh man

I should learn how to read, i fixed it

Instantiate(prefab, canvas.transform) is how, right?

[summer stump]

That would create your prefab as a child of the canvas

[ember tangle]

yeah I was trying to pass just canvas rather than canvas.transform for some reason

[sterile radish]

currently, the way this script works is by checking if a timer has reached its intended value allows the player to click a bar. during the timer trying to reach it's intended value, this bar fills up based on the timers current time and the max time. how can i reverse this so that the timer starts and the bar starts to fill up only after the player has clicked?

this is my script:
https://hatebin.com/sjtdhyygvp

[timber tide]

Easiest way is to just flip a bool when your user does an Input.MouseDown or w/e input you're using so that for each sequential update will now go into that section of code.

The idea is already on that code, just gotta move the bool logic around.

[snow oriole]

Anyone know a cool tutorial to learn hitboxes/hurtboxes for a 3D action game?

Please ping me if so ty

[sterile radish]

this sounds dumb but i forgot Input.MouseDown even existed 😭😭 thank you though

[teal viper]

What do you need a tutorial for? Hitboxes are just colliders.

[snow oriole]

I'm aware of that, but since I'm pretty new I would like to have a tutorial to learn about it more

This is the beginner channel so I thought it'd be a given that I don't know much atm

[summer stump]

We generally don't just suggest tutorials, since you can search that yourself.
If you have a specific question or concern, we would be happy to explain and help though

[timber tide]

You can use as many as you want and flip them on and off at will

[snow oriole]

Got it. Thanks

[dense root]

Oh my gosh, for those who were helping me out before. Thank you. The player now correctly goes back to the desired position when exiting the door. Celebrate good times

[summer stump]

You should make a #1180170818983051344
It's been cool seeing your progress so far, but I probably missed some of it

[dense root]

On it!

[keen pecan]

Does anyone know where to find the "NavMeshSurface" component? I only see NavMeshAgent and NavMeshObstacle

[slender nymph]

Do you have the Ai navigation package installed?

[keen pecan]

Like under package manager unity registry?

[slender nymph]

Yes

[keen pecan]

I dont see it as an option

[slender nymph]

What version of unity are you using

[keen pecan]

How do i check?

[rich adder]

look at your appbar?

[keen pecan]

3.5.1

[rich adder]

thats hub

[keen pecan]

Oh wait i see

2021.3.9f1

[rich adder]

you have to add package by name

[keen pecan]

Is it just "AI"?

[slender nymph]

You may also want to consider updating to the latest patch for that version, you're missing like 2 years of bug fixes and stuff

[keen pecan]

under Packages: Built-In

[keen pecan]

true

This one though?

[slender nymph]

no, that's the older built in stuff that the AI Navigation package was improving upon. i'm also fairly certain that the navmesh surface component was introduced in the AI Navigation package as part of the new work flow

[keen pecan]

Gotcha so I have to update unity itself

[slender nymph]

well you should update. but you can just install the AI Navigation package by name. a simple google search will tell you how to do so

[keen pecan]

Oh gotcha

So is it technically 3rd party or just not autobuilt in but still provided by unity?

[slender nymph]

it was just experimental still in the version you are using so it was not visible in the package manager

[keen pecan]

This is wrong, right?

[slender nymph]

you update the editor with the hub, not through that menu

updating requires downloading the newer version

[keen pecan]

I guess I dont have the editor downloaded somehow

But I guess I'll download Unity 6 preview

[slender nymph]

yes, this is the window you use to select which version of the editor you would like to install. if you just want to update to the latest patch then get the 2021.3 version listed right there

i do not recommend migrating an in-progress project from 2021 to unity 6, you may run into a few issues with API that has changed as well as a few other features that have changed

[keen pecan]

Gotcha I just started it so no trouble to reset

So is the editor where I actually make the game? Sorry if this sounds stupid but right now I know the hub and unity itself is the editor the same or different?

[slender nymph]

"unity itself" is the editor. it's literally called the unity editor

[keen pecan]

Ok gotcha so 2022.3.31 is the most recent patch? There's no 2023 or 2024 patch?

[slender nymph]

2022.3.31 is the most recent patch for the 2022 LTS release, yes. Unity 6 is the version that was 2023 but was renamed as they are moving away from the slightly confusing year naming scheme

[keen pecan]

Gotcha, do you know why it reccomended 2022 and not unity6 then? because its a preview?

[slender nymph]

yes, 2022 is the most recent LTS version where LTS stands for Long Term Support. in other words that version is going to receive patches for about 2 years (we're a bit more than a year into that cycle). unity 6 preview is the preview version before it becomes an LTS version, when it becomes LTS later this year it will likely receive the (Recommended) marking in the hub

[keen pecan]

Gotcha thank you so much this was insanely helpful. I guess one more question, what do you recommend for current projects when Unity 6 becomes LTS?

[slender nymph]

it's usually best to just stick with the latest LTS unless you need specific features from a different version or i guess don't want to be beholden to the pricing update that comes with using unity 6

[unkempt carbon]

hi guys can someone explain to me:
myBool = !myBool;

im not sure why its needed in a code for say a toggle switch

[slender nymph]

it assigns myBool to the opposite of itself

[keen pecan]

That makes sense thanks again

[cosmic dagger]

for this, you have to understand the ! operator . . .

[unkempt carbon]

so confused by this phrase itself

[cosmic dagger]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators#logical-negation-operator-

[slender nymph]

! is the "not" operator. if myBool is true then myBool = !myBool; assigns it to false

so if myBool is true, then myBool = !myBool is saying "myBool is assigned to not true"

[unkempt carbon]

does this mean that if I dont put this in the code, once I toggle something to false, it will stay false?

[slender nymph]

no because the next time it would then say "myBool is assigned to not false"

and what is the opposite of false?

[summer stump]

If you are setting it to false, then yes it will set to false

myBool = myBool will do nothing.
It would be setting it to whatever state it already is

[cosmic dagger]

in layman's terms, ! will negate the value . . .

[cosmic dagger]

if you set it to false, it will be false . . .

[slender nymph]

oh i misread that, if you do not include this line then the value is not going to be toggled to the other state

[keen pecan]

Instead of saying (if bool = false, set bool = true) and (if bool = true, set bool = false) you can say bool != bool for the same result

[unkempt carbon]

oooooooooooooooooooooo

[sour fulcrum]

very silly question but is there a way i can hide most of these projects in my solution without actually removing them?

[slender nymph]

probably not. although you don't really need most of those projects loaded so you can just delete the csproj file for them

doing so should speed up your load time for visual studio too

[sour fulcrum]

oh neat

debatably that's a very efficent way of hiding them

[vast mountain]

hey would anyone be willing to give some 1-1 lessons about making a first person character?

im kinda new to this whole coding thing and i cant find any good tutorials

[teal viper]

How much are you paying?

Private tutoring is not cheap

[slender nymph]

if you are looking for a tutor, you should look on a reputable site where you can hire one. you are incredibly unlikely to find someone here who is willing to privately tutor you for free.
there are also dozens, if not hundreds of tutorials on that topic. and if they are too advanced for you, then start with the beginner courses pinned in this channel

[vast mountain]

idk how much i have yet i dont get payed till friday

[vast mountain]

ight

thx

[dense root]

So I'm writing a collision with the grass for random encounters in Pokemon yet I don't know how to call the Collider2D of the LongGrass, how would I go about calling that collider to be checked for collision?

private void CheckForEncounters()
{
    battleTimer += Time.deltaTime;

    if (battleTimer > waitTime)
    {
        if (Collider2D col && longGrassLayer == "LongGrass")
        {
            Debug.Log("Collider2D Triggered");
            if (Random.Range(1, 101) <= 10)
            {
                Debug.Log("Encountered a wild pokemon");
                battleTimer = 0;
            }
        }
    }
}

[spare mountain]

why would "Collider2D col" ever be true..?

[dense root]

When it's triggered is what my thinking was going into it

[spare mountain]

you're defining a new collider and checking if it's not null

it will always be null

unless I'm misunderstanding something

[eternal needle]

🤔 what do you mean call the Collider2D? You handle collisions the same way as always, either some physics like overlap/cast function or some collider and using the collision or trigger messages

[spare mountain]

checkforencounters isn't the oncollisionenter method

[dense root]

I guess my question is how do I handle collision from the Player object, I know there's an OnTriggerEnter2D function but it needs to be called from the Grass itself

[spare mountain]

ontriggerenter2D should be called on both objects in the collision

so long as one has a trigger collider

you're not using it though

you're using your own method

[dense root]

The problem with using OnTriggerEnter2D is that it's going to call this no matter what

I need the conditional for it to be LongGrass

[spare mountain]

you can put a condition inside the ontriggerenter

[dense root]

Something like OnTriggerEnter2D(LongGrass)?

[spare mountain]

no call it regularly and then put a condition inside the method

[dense root]

Ahh

Makes perfect sense

[spare mountain]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnTriggerEnter2D.html

use the Collider2D class (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider2D.html) to find what properties you can reference

[zinc shuttle]

https://youtu.be/QbwgQSwMSGM?t=310

i am making a game similar to this, but having same issue(when the fruit collide its making infinite loop and crashes the unity),
how can i fix that?

[spare mountain]

can you show your code

[zinc shuttle]

how do i paste code

[spare mountain]

!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.

[zinc shuttle]

https://paste.ofcode.org/Wp56daBHTitqK6zgAfatXc

[spare mountain]

both objects register an "OnCollision2D" so you're summoning 2 objects which will collide and repeat this in a loop as far as I can tell

you need to summon one object total

[zinc shuttle]

ok

[spare mountain]

you could do this by comparing age or Y-level or using some central script that takes the average of their positions

[zinc shuttle]

how can I do that?

[spare mountain]

which one

[zinc shuttle]

i don't understand "age of y level" and how do i implement the average distance in the code

[spare mountain]

if you store the age of the two objects you can summon a new object at the oldest one's location so there's only one spawning (likely the one at the bottom)
or you could skip the age entirely and summon an object at the lowest collided object's position which will put it at the lowest point
average distance is just one position minus both positions' distance / 2

[zinc shuttle]

ok

[eternal needle]

that "average distance" is wrong, to get the average point you sum up everything then divide by the number of elements. In this case looks like 2 is always the guaranteed number
so (a + b) / 2

[spare mountain]

I wasn't giving a generalized average distance formula
there are 2 objects here

[eternal needle]

the formula you wrote is wrong, thats all.

"one position minus both positions' distance" doesnt even make sense, its just (a + b)/2

[zinc shuttle]

can i use the invoke method to invoke the collision after few delay after the first collision?

[spare mountain]

to find the average distance you just divide the distance by the number of elements, sure, you're correct
to implement the position they'd be at you could honestly just lerp though

[spare mountain]

yeah mb I worded that weirdly idk

[spare mountain]

you'd still have 2 objects summoned if I'm understanding that right

also you can't tell which is the first or second collision

they all look the same

[zinc shuttle]

not 2 but many objects in single collision

[spare mountain]

can you elaborate?

[zinc shuttle]

what my original code does is when 2 similar balls/fruit collide it makes many balls, and when i attach script to every ball it creates infinite loop

[spare mountain]

wait... what is Ballstart and Ballend?

[eternal needle]

theres no need for this, and no. you dont control when the collision events are sent. You may receive a collision event and then do logic after a delay with a coroutine (or invoke but really its worse).
I feel your setup is probably logically flawed though because from the code, im not entirely sure why you're trying to destroy Ballstart instead of teh current game object. I would have a single prefab stored on the script, which is the next fruit that should be spawning. A simple solution to your problem could just be storing a bool on the script like "isBeingDestroyed" and then set both to true on the first collision. Return early if isBeingDestroyed.
Then do the rest of your spawning/destroying logic

[zinc shuttle]

it's like ballstart is ball 1 which is colliding and the ball end is ball 2 which is bigger ball that has to be instantiated after collision

[spare mountain]

such an odd way to go about it

[eternal needle]

if ballstart isnt the current game object, then thats an issue

[zinc shuttle]

yes I tried adding a bool and invoke and invoke didn't work, now how can I use the bool to solve the logic?

[zinc shuttle]

learning it the hard way, i know how to do stuff but cant do anything efficiantly

[spare mountain]

this just doesn't seem to solve the problem at hand at all is the issue

[dense root]

So I am trying to workout what would be a better way to do battle encounters than the system I have currently since it only collides once (not while walking as intended) and appears to not ever actually enter battle sequence... any suggestions?

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{ 
    // Check for Long grass tag to begin the battle encounter
    if (collision.CompareTag("LongGrass"))
    {
        // Set timer
        battleTimer += Time.deltaTime;

        // Check for timer for timing of encounters
        if (battleTimer > waitTime)
        {
            // If number occurs, then battle occurs
            if (Random.Range(1, 101) <= 10)
            {
                battleTimer = 0;
                Debug.Log("Entered Battle Sequence");
            }
        }
    }
}

[eternal needle]

well without seeing what you did, i cant really say. Just adding a bool wont do anything by itself. And invoke here also wasnt a problem solver, it does nothing for your issue at hand. Its simply just a way to call a method, with an option to delay it

[spare mountain]

what is the "it" that only collides once?

also onTriggerEnter runs once

[dense root]

The grass

[spare mountain]

you're looking for OnTriggerStay

I believe

[dense root]

Ahh

Thank you

[spare mountain]

np

[zinc shuttle]

yes, I understand that.

[spare mountain]

this is going to run once every frame btw

not just once

it's almost guaranteed to execute

[eternal needle]

well OnTriggerStay here might be weird, because in pokemon you have to move around not just stay in the grass. One fix could be giving smaller colliders but more of them. Otherwise you'll want to just do some checks to see if you moved a certain amount

[rocky gale]

if i have a method that i want the enemy and player both able to use whats the best way to do that

[spare mountain]

ontriggerstay + isMoving variable might work?

I'm sure there's a better way to do it tho

[severe shard]

 
    void Update()
    {
 
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Tab) && !isOpen)
        {
 
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
            inventoryScreenUI.SetActive(true);
            TopBar.SetActive(true);
            isOpen = true;
            //Opend ui behaviour should be here
            Debug.Log("Sucessfuly opend inventory");
            if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)){
                Debug.Log("Go To Next Screen");
            }
        }
        else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Tab) && isOpen)
        {
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
            inventoryScreenUI.SetActive(false);
            TopBar.SetActive(false);
            isOpen = false;
        }
    }

Hello i just started programing in unity and im having a hard time understanding why this does not print Go To Next Screen it does print sucessfuly opend inventory so my error should be in these lines

 if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)){
   Debug.Log("Go To Next Screen");
  }

[spare mountain]

make it public

[spare mountain]

you'd have to press Tab and E on the exact same frame

GetKeyDown checks if it was pressed this frame

[rocky gale]

ye but i cant cuz the script is in the enmy

[dense root]

Interesting enough it's working just as intended...

[spare mountain]

what does this change?

[severe shard]

so i have to run it outside the scope then check if the inventory is enabled?

[rocky gale]

im not tryna use gameobject.find

[spare mountain]

or just use GetKey for one or the other or both

[spare mountain]

you don't need to

[dense root]

Check it out, runs just as intended perfectly. Even when I sit in the grass the battle encounter doesn't trigger

[spare mountain]

just get a reference to your script

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ if you're ok with the player standing still and it working then sure. Depends on what game design you want

[spare mountain]

or make some central script

[dense root]

Standing still, not triggering

[spare mountain]

weird

[dense root]

I can take more screenshots if you dont believe me

[spare mountain]

take a video

[rocky gale]

theres a lot of enemies spawnong

[spare mountain]

then make a reference to your enemy when it spawns or, as I said, make some central script they can both access

[eternal needle]

i dont need screenshots, add debugs and see for yourself when code runs. Print out from OnTriggerStay2D

[spare mountain]

depends on your use case

[severe shard]

    void Update()
    {
 
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Tab) && !isOpen)
        {
 
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
            inventoryScreenUI.SetActive(true);
            TopBar.SetActive(true);
            isOpen = true;
            //Opend ui behaviour should be here
            Debug.Log("Poop");
        }

        else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Tab) && isOpen)
        {
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
            inventoryScreenUI.SetActive(false);
            TopBar.SetActive(false);
            isOpen = false;
        }

        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E) && !isOpen){
         Debug.Log("Go To Next Screen");
        }
    }

I just moved the input.getkeycodedown out of the other if statement is this fine or are there any advantges to using GetKey?

[spare mountain]

GetKey checks if it's down every frame

[eternal needle]

not sure why you mentioned me on that one, that message was for someone else

[spare mountain]

what you've done checks if you press Tab or E separately

[dense root]

Yup still not triggering even while standing still

[spare mountain]

seems to have been a mistake

[severe shard]

yeah my fault sorry

[eternal needle]

add debugs inside OnTriggerStay2D, not just your current logic of when a battle sequence begins

look at every single time the method is called

[spare mountain]

if they care that is

if it works then it doesn't really matter tbh

[eternal needle]

it will, because its behaviour different from what they think is happening.

[spare mountain]

possibly

I agree in principle

[dense root]

It's not because I'm looking at the debug log, you just refuse to believe it's working

[eternal needle]

you refuse to add more debugs, and really i havent even seen the updated code but if you simply changed OnTriggerEnter2D to OnTriggerStay2D then this doesnt do what you think it does.

[spare mountain]

I agree

[severe shard]

        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E) && !isOpen){
            //Logic For Screens
            if(inventoryScreenUI.activeSelf == true){
                Debug.Log("Inventory Was Open");
            }
            else{
                Debug.Log("Inventory Was Not Open");
            }
        }

How can i check if a ui element is active i tried searching online but this does not print anything?, No Console errors either

[spare mountain]

what is your ui element?

[dense root]

I can open source the project if you want to debug it yourself 😂

[severe shard]

its a panel

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ you seem to misunderstand how much I care. I'm simply pointing out an issue. This isnt my game that'll suddenly reach "why isnt this working, it was working before"

[spare mountain]

can you show it in your inspector

[spare mountain]

that's just a gameobject

your .activeSelf should work fine

so long as you're enabling and disabling the gameobject

[severe shard]

ah i see my mistake i used !IsOpen instead of IsOpen in my if statement

[severe shard]

another quick question since i switched from lua to c for my projects

lets say i have a topbar and i have refrenced it in my gui script

Do i have to create a public varible to edit the content label or could i do something like in lua
topbar.Contentlabel.text = "string"

or do i have to create a refrence for each thing im edeting

[spare mountain]

so long as you have some reference to modify (and so long as your var isn't read only) you'll be fine

[eternal needle]

in response to your deleted message
i am saying that this behaviour is unexpected, and you dont know what its really doing. You may run into a case where suddenly your logic doesnt work but youve changed no code. Which leads many beginners to the common "it was working before i changed nothing!!". It was flawed from the start, thats why.
Try this, put a wall near the grass and keep walking into it, as in your location isnt changing. I suspect itll enter the battle sequence. Now honestly i dont remember if you could do that in pokemon, but i dont recall it being a thing.
Another thing, how do you plan to customize the walk distance needed to get a new roll at entering a battle sequence? You cant, because you didnt even define this behaviour to happen in the first place.

[severe shard]

how would i refrence it tho topbar.contentlabel?

[spare mountain]

get some reference to topbar first then get its 3rd child (transform.getchild iirc) and you'll have contentlabel

[dense root]

Fair enough, give me a second

[severe shard]

 TopBar.GetChild(3);

Assets\Scripts\Gui\InventorySystem.cs(83,24): error CS1061: 'GameObject' does not contain a definition for 'GetChild' and no accessible extension method 'GetChild' accepting a first argument of type 'GameObject' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[spare mountain]

it would be 2

0 is the first child

not 1

oh wait

not GameObject.GetChild

Transform.GetChild

[dense root]

Okay so you're right about the battle sequence triggering when the player runs into the wall, just to check I loaded up the original and it in fact, does not trigger when colliding/walking.

[severe shard]

alright thanks

[spare mountain]

np

[dense root]

What's your proposed solution?

[eternal needle]

this is something you could honestly keep if you're not trying to make a 1-1 clone. But besides that, this whole thing is because your rigidbody is sleeping. Its not calling OnTriggerStay2D while sleeping, but while moving against a wall its awake.
You could look more into what pokemon actually does, but its likely very different and would require change to your movement system. You could simply check if the player has moved by a certain amount before doing a new reroll, store the last position when you roll for an encounter.

[teal viper]

Might be missing something, but why the heck use on trigger stay. In Pokemon almost every event was triggered when the player moved between tiles. Why not do the same in your game?

[spare mountain]

good point
depends if they're using tiles

[dense root]

I'm using tiles

[teal viper]

It doesn't matter if you're using tiles or not

The movement is discreet

You move between 2 points always.

[severe shard]

  private GameObject contentLabel;
  contentLabel = TopBar.transform.GetChild(2);
  contentLabel.SetActive(false);

Assets\Scripts\Gui\InventorySystem.cs(84,32): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.Transform' to 'UnityEngine.GameObject'

[teal viper]

When you reach the destination point is when events should be triggered

[dense root]

Okay sorry give me a second there are two solutions being proposed here I need to decipher the proposals

[spare mountain]

getchild returns a transform
you need to do GetChild(2).gameObject;

[eternal needle]

I think their movement is with rigidbody, so what i said above about looking into what pokemon does would likely require changes to movement

if its not a 1-1 clone then honestly OnTriggerStay is fine there

[dense root]

I want to be as faithful to the original as humanly possible so I'm open to suggestions on how to improve it

[teal viper]

I guess it depends on how they implement it. Even with rbs it's possible they have a discreet sort of movement, otherwise it wouldn't behave like the one in Pokemon.

[teal viper]

Share your character movement implementation

[dense root]

Here's the PlayerController script. It's not much but it's honest work https://gdl.space/ixuvirekok.cs

[severe shard]

and how can i change the text im using textmeshpro

[teal viper]

Ok, so I guess bawsi is correct.
I guess you can stand in between 2 tiles, right?

[severe shard]

i tried using .text

[dense root]

@teal viper yeah I'm not using a grid based movement system yet

[spare mountain]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/changing-textmeshpro-text-from-ui-via-script.462250/

[dense root]

That's beyond my current comprehension

[spare mountain]

tons of info online

[teal viper]

Well, if you're planning on doing it, you should do it now, because everything else would depend on it.

[severe shard]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67411554/how-to-change-text-by-script-in-unity

I tried searching online before asking but i think my seach query was not good enough i apologize

[spare mountain]

@severe shard

this should help

[severe shard]

Yes i will read it thanks

[eternal needle]

i dont mean to deter you also, but consider kinda going in your own direction. Id say grid based movement could be worth implementing, if thats what pokemon does. You dont really need to clone pokemon though, like this clearly isnt gonna be something you sell as your own original idea. Theres not really a reason to spend tons of time rewriting massive parts of your code, when you could make something that works and move onto new things.

[dense root]

I think the movement feels close enough that it wouldn't be harshly judged if it didn't move in a perfect square everytime they moved

But then again if I want it to feel like the original it's a point of contention...

Very grateful for the feedback and insights. I need to revisit the drawing board

[zinc shuttle]

https://paste.ofcode.org/38CTnKBAMLbLSrM3EeL2LZ5

I solved the issue and this is the final code
@spare mountain @eternal needle thanks for the help

[eternal needle]

😅 this is gonna go wrong fast

[zinc shuttle]

i think so

[eternal needle]

you dont want a static bool, because this means the bool is associated with the type Ball_mechanism. So this means every single item isDone or isnt done at the same time. You want this bool associated with the instance of the ball. Meaning one ball should specifically store if its done (meaning being combined i guess?). After you do this, that invoke also isnt needed

[zinc shuttle]

oh i did that my mistake

[eternal needle]

theres definitely more issues here, like line 33 you REALLY shouldnt use the find functions here. You already know which object to destroy, its passed to you with (Collision2D collision) and then you destroy the current game object too.
After you make isDone to not be static, meaning every ball has its own isDone value, you now also want to set it to true on the other object you are about to destroy.

[zinc shuttle]

wait, when I removed static it started to break again, I guess in every collision of any ball it reset the bool and stops further collision, is that right?

[zinc shuttle]

what shall I destroy? i don't know the efficient way of destroying the game object that collides with the same type. what could I do here

[eternal needle]

the bool is being used as a way to know if its already been combined into another ball. This is the order that the logic should happen
The balls collide, collision event sent to one ball:
That ball checks if its already been combined into a new ball, check if the other ball has been combined. If both arent combined, combine them, and set the bool to true for both objects. Destroy both objects, spawn new ball.
Collision event sent to 2nd ball:
The ball checks if its already combined, it sees that it has been. Do nothing

[zinc shuttle]

how do i know what collision ball is going to collide, like what method i could use

[eternal needle]

im not sure what you mean by that, you dont need to know which is going to collide. You just need to make sure only one does the logic

maybe look into more c# basics, because im not sure if you know really how to set a bool on another object

[zinc shuttle]

ok i will try

[drowsy oriole]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Photon.VR;

public class ColorAddUp : MonoBehaviour
{
public ColorPureBlue ColorPureBlue;
public ColorPureGreen ColorPureGreen;
public ColorPureRed ColorPureRed;
float RedAddUp;
float BlueAddUp;
float GreenAddUp;
void Update()
{

    RedAddUp = ColorPureRed.PureRedValue;
    BlueAddUp = ColorPureBlue.PureBlueValue;
    GreenAddUp = ColorPureGreen.PureGreenValue;

    Color myColour = new Color(RedAddUp, BlueAddUp, GreenAddUp);
    PhotonVRManager.SetColour(myColour);
}

}

[spare mountain]

PureRedValue is a string
RedAddUp is a float

strings are not floats

[drowsy oriole]

so make red add up a string?

same with the others?

[spare mountain]

then you can't make a new Color with it

Color doesn't take in 3 strings

[eternal needle]

this is surely some AI suggested code.. why do you need a ColorPureBlue along with other colors? Literally just define it using a number

[spare mountain]

I need a whole script for every variable!!! >:((( 😤
/j

[drowsy oriole]

NO

I wrote it

caps lock

[spare mountain]

lmao

[drowsy oriole]

i turned them all to floats

[eternal needle]

dear lord, do some basic c# first and save yourself the headache

[spare mountain]

💀

[drowsy oriole]

just tell me what to do

please

[spare mountain]

you changed "them all" to floats... where?

[spare mountain]

💀

[drowsy oriole]

Im stupid

really

really

[spare mountain]

you're going to have so much more trouble if you don't learn C# first

[eternal needle]

#💻┃code-beginner message
just did. go learn some basics because you arent gonna struggle your way through making a VR game. Also configure your !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[drowsy oriole]

reeeeeeeeeally stupid

[drowsy oriole]

just tell me what to do first

[eternal needle]

best way to not get help is to demand help

[drowsy oriole]

please tell me what to do

[spare mountain]

ColorPurpleBlue isn't a variable you've just used two types on one variable

it'd be like saying "float string e"

[drowsy oriole]

NO

[spare mountain]

'public' is not a type

[drowsy oriole]

its not supposed to be a variable

[spare mountain]

I know

it's a script

[drowsy oriole]

BlueAddUp Is a variable

[spare mountain]

a different one

sure

[drowsy oriole]

Im trying to get that variable to equal a value in a script

[spare mountain]

you're trying to convert apples to oranges

[drowsy oriole]

yep

wait

no

[spare mountain]

first of all you're doing weird script stuff

but whatever

[eternal needle]

#854851968446365696

[spare mountain]

ColorPureRed.PureRedValue should be a float

[eternal needle]

configure your IDE #💻┃code-beginner message

[spare mountain]

they've got a lot more issues than just their IDE 😭

[drowsy oriole]

huh

[spare mountain]

sorry typo

[drowsy oriole]

You mean ColorPureBlue.PureBlueValue is a FLOAT

my brain is dead

[spare mountain]

it's a string

it needs to be a float

[drowsy oriole]

even more than it was 2 seconds ago

[spare mountain]

go configure your IDE though

[drowsy oriole]

ok

[eternal needle]

you can deal with those if you want 😅 im simply pointing out the IDE and not helping further. Theres a clear lack of fundamentals so you'll just end up writing the code for them

[spare mountain]

agreed lol

[drowsy oriole]

Ill brb ima go configure the ide but

[spare mountain]

wait

[drowsy oriole]

delete them?

[spare mountain]

I was looking at the wrong thing

1 sec

sorry ignore that

[spare mountain]

can you show line numbers please

[spare mountain]

did you save your file

[drowsy oriole]

yes

[spare mountain]

okay go configure your IDE and you'll see where the issue is

[spare mountain]

configuring your IDE will help a ton

[drowsy oriole]

I cant microsoft visual studio is saying I dont have wifi fsr

[spare mountain]

I'm going to bed

[drowsy oriole]

Plz help

@elfin cedar

[burnt vapor]

@drowsy oriole This server requires you to have a properly configured !ide in order to be helped. Until that time stop spamming the server and please look into getting that working.

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[burnt vapor]

Especially in your case the issue can be omitted by having your editor set up correctly.

And please don't spam random users. Helper is a user, not a role you can ping

[drowsy oriole]

i didnt know

he had his name as helper

this server dont got a helper role

[burnt vapor]

Because there is no need to. The whole point of these channels is helping

[queen adder]

Vector2: How to get green when i have red, white, and blue? The length of yellow line varies as well

yellow line is perpendicular to the long line

[astral falcon]

You cant get the yellow line from a straight line with three points. You either have to know the distance of yellow or the angle from blue or red towards green.

[queen adder]

length of yellow line is a variable, controllable

[astral falcon]

thats another infromation than "varies" 😉

[modest dust]

Look up how to calculate a line perpendicular to another line and passing through a point (the point being white)

[eternal needle]

Hopefully that is even perpendicular in the first place, otherwise this question doesnt make sense

[topaz mortar]

Is it bad to make functions like these and Update() for example async? I wonder what consequences that has, especially for Update?
public async void OnDrop(PointerEventData eventData)

[astral falcon]

Not sure what you mean. Call an async function from update?

Update wont wait for it to finish, so you just start that function on every frame. Whatever the function itself does might overlap with a more recent run of its code then

[topaz mortar]

async void Update() like that, because I need to await functions inside of it sometimes, which is probably bad design

[astral falcon]

You just cant async Update

[topaz mortar]

not actually sure if I do it in any of my Update fuctions, but the OnDrop is another weird example

[topaz mortar]

doesn't give any errors

[astral falcon]

Taking of car wheels does not scream at you it cant drive. It wont just work

[topaz mortar]

ok good to know

kinda expecte that yeah

so I guess it's the same for stuff like OnDrop?

well maybe not 🤔

[astral falcon]

Depends on where it gets called. If its a single call method, it might be also working as async.

[topaz mortar]

{

    // Equip the dropped item
    public async void OnDrop(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        // eventData.pointerDrag is the gameobject being dropped
        if (eventData.pointerDrag == null)
        {
            return;
        }

        // Get our item
        Item droppedItem = eventData.pointerDrag.GetComponent<Item>();
        if (droppedItem == null)
        {
            Debug.Log("No dropped item.");
            return;
        }

        droppedItem.dragged = false;
        await droppedItem.EquipItem();
    }

}```

[astral falcon]

Why exactly are you awaiting at all when the equipitem is not yielding anything afterwards ?

What Unity Version are you using btw

[topaz mortar]

because EquipItem() does server calls and needs to await the replies

2022.3.10f1

[astral falcon]

I just cant find the OnDrop method in the docs for that version

[topaz mortar]

IDropHandler

at the top

[astral falcon]

latest version supported 2019.1 ? Hm, im confused

[topaz mortar]

well it is working 😛

is there another method I should be using instead?

[astral falcon]

What is OnDrop actually doing?

[void thicket]

That's because Unity moved that doc

To an oblivion

[astral falcon]

You got the updated one? cause I cant find it 😄

[void thicket]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.IDragHandler.html

[astral falcon]

😄 you were faster

[topaz mortar]

it detects where you let go of the cursor when dragging

[astral falcon]

Okay, so its a onetime call, id say,just try to await something simple and after a second, call a dbeug log and see if it works then.

you can always call another async function from the not async OnDrop too

[topaz mortar]

it just feels safer this way, but yeah could test if it actually works

it needs to work in EquipItem though

so I'm afraid if I don't use await to call EquipItem, that won't await stuff either

[astral falcon]

Await is literally awaiting the other function to finish. So its just preventing your OnDrop to continue while Equipitem is not finished. If you dont await it, it will just call that function which will do whatever its supposed to do and ondrop will finish on its own

[topaz mortar]

that's what I get when I remove the async & await

[astral falcon]

Its right there what will happen. Its not an error, just a hint for you that it will continue the CURRENT method (OnDrop) without waiting. If you do not need to wait, ignore it

[topaz mortar]

the green underline kinda triggers me lol

[astral falcon]

I can tell 😄 Then just make your ondrop async and see if it works.

So the unity core will have its wiggle line somewhere but wont show it to you 😉

[topaz mortar]

also get in in unity console:

I can do _ = too

[astral falcon]

Double trigger! 😄

[topaz mortar]

but not sure what the effect is

[astral falcon]

Try OnDrop async