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[wintry quarry]

That doesn't really change the advice given

[teal viper]

Ask them what dependencies you need to install

[rocky gulch]

ok thanks

[old karma]

ok so i feele like this shouldn't be a big deal, but maybe im overlooking.

i'm trying to make a simple editor script that will allow me to select multiple gameobjects in a child as if i were Ctrl + clicking them individually.

for the sake of just making them select, i was just trying to make them select all children

i can get it to select all the transforms, but it doesn't display as it should when you actually click them, and it's not quite the same objects as if i selected them manually in the inspector/heiarchy window

[restive kayak]

Can someone help me with my rigidbody player movement script? When I hold W, the player's velocity increases until they reach max speed. However, when I start pressing W and A together, I use Vector3.MoveTowards to change the player's velocity to the new direction. During this transition, the player's speed drops below the max speed until it reaches the new velocity. I want the player to maintain max speed (or increase to it if not already there) even when changing directions, like from Vector3(1, 0, 0) to Vector3(1, 0, 1).

I'm not sure what to do as I don't want to keep the players movement speed at max if they were to move from forwards to backwards.

code if anyone is interested: https://hastebin.com/share/miyapogiyi.csharp

[ivory bobcat]

Have a variable for speed and use that with your direction as the velocity

Where you'd increment that variable (a float) instead of some velocity (vector 3) - you'd simply be modifying the scalar or rather, the magnitude of velocity.

if moving
    speed increases 
velocity = speed * direction```

[dry cairn]

!code

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[dry cairn]

https://gdl.space/osirucenek.cs

how come i cant jump

[wintry quarry]

because you're completely overwriting the velocity every FixedUpdate

[dry cairn]

oh how do i fix tht

[wintry quarry]

or because your gorunded check isn't working

Use Debug.Log and figure out which

or maybe jump speed is 0

you need to debug it

[dry cairn]

how do i debug im VERY new

[wintry quarry]

The simplest way is adding log statements to your code to see what's going on

If you're very new, the first thing you should have learned in Unity was how to use Debug.Log

[dry cairn]

never done tht lol just looked up how to make a character an just followed the tutorial an here i am lol getting stuck is there a free way to learn all the code i need

[wintry quarry]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[dry cairn]

thank u

[lavish magnet]

How can i make a unity slidfer follow this trail? I want the ball to slide from the ends

[sweet zenith]

Do you want to be able to grab and drag the slider handle, or just show it as a progress bar? This is something you'd have to decide. Then from there it will be a bunch of custom code.

Probably the easiest way is to have a circular rail image (like you have there) then put a drag handler on that. When you click and drag adjust the float value (between zero and one) and then set the handle position using local position and rotating a vector by an angle based on the value.

[lavish magnet]

Nope Cant do that

Nope, not interactable*

[sweet zenith]

Oh that's easier then

In that case have your handle image as a child of the background image

Set the pivot of the background image to (0.5, 0.5), that means its origin is in it center

Then have the circle image as a child

[lavish magnet]

I wont lie to you i'm just a kind of conmfused

So using an actual slider right?

[sweet zenith]

No, no reason to do that

[lavish magnet]

No slider component

[sweet zenith]

Sliders are for interaction

And they're hard coded to be straight

You'll need to make your own thing

[lavish magnet]

Ok handle image

I thought that was the knob?

[sweet zenith]

Yeah the knob

Exactly

That's what I'm talking about

But you'll need your own code to move it around

Iirc the slider uses margins or anchors to move left/right

[lavish magnet]

how do i do that 😭

[topaz fractal]

can i not call a variable in the middle of a string using {}?

[polar acorn]

You need a $ in front of it

[topaz fractal]

I see, and why does that work

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/tokens/interpolated

[topaz fractal]

@rich adder thanks sm

[abstract finch]

is there any way to use the token variable in the second switch here without renaming it? They are in different switches so I dont understand the clash

[ivory bobcat]

Use the curly braces with the cases to isolate the statements

[wintry quarry]

Or declare the variable before the switch

although honestly I'm struggling to see the point of this switch

the code is identical @abstract finch

if it's just going to be the _timeSinceMeleeTokenAssigned = _standardTokenAssignCooldown line that changes, I would just put that particular line in the switch and do the rest outside anyway.

[versed light]

i created a scriptable object asset its residing in a folder and im trying to get it from the asset database by type but its not finding anything i keep getting 0 results:

string[] result = AssetDatabase.FindAssets("t:TestDatabase");
Debug.Log(result.Length);

my scriptable object class is defined as public sealed class TestDatabase : DatabaseAsset

does it matter where i place the asset in the projects directory? currently the created asset is in Assets/Game Assets/test.asset

[abstract finch]

ill try that thanks
That seemed to have done it

[abstract finch]

Ah i just implemented the code but the second switch uses specialToken instead of standardToken

[thorny prawn]

how can i render only the object of a plane and down like if camera is up
imagine my main player is in a plane of XY axis i want to render only object of that plane based on Z axis but if camer is on top or in +Z so Object of the Current plane and -Z should render

[wintry quarry]

What? I have no idea what these words mean.
Also what does this have to do with code?

[thorny prawn]

how can i explain it idk
but in code the object above player should'nt be rendeer if camer is on Z axis facing down from + to- direction or vice versa
similarly in different axis for if camer is facing player from + to - direction of X or Y axis

[wintry quarry]

disable the renderers for objects that shouldn't be rendered

Or use the Near Clipping Plane distance on the camera to exclude them

[zinc shuttle]

!code

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[zinc shuttle]

https://paste.ofcode.org/qdVqYWWvGAxycw8YXAwugp

How can i spawn only 1 ball by only 1 touch?

[wintry quarry]

Use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Touch-phase.html

[zinc shuttle]

its instantiating many balls, what alternative method i can use

[wintry quarry]

See the code example

Also this:

            CanPlace=false;

        }
        if(CanPlace==false)
        {
            Debug.Log("cant place");
        
            Invoke("delayedcanPlace",3f);
        }```
Is crazy

Why not just:

            Instantiate(Ballz, spawnPosition, Quaternion.identity);
            CanPlace=false;
            Invoke("delayedcanPlace",3f);
        }
}```

[ivory bobcat]

You could probably evaluate when the touch began (phases) and combine it with a cool down timer or something

[zinc shuttle]

problem is with instantiating, its spawning multiple balls even with given delay, will it fix this?

[wintry quarry]

Did you look at the link I shared?

[zinc shuttle]

yes i did

[wintry quarry]

The multiple balls is happening because of this actually

Becasue you're starting 8 bajillion Invokes

that all set CanPlace = true

so this code suggestion alone should fix it

[zinc shuttle]

ok let me give it a try

ok it worked perfectly

[restive kayak]

I tried this but couldn't figure out how to maintain speed when changing from moving forward to horizontally in a controlled manner, the only thing I could thing of was multiplying the new velocity vector by the current speed but doing that made it so if I was below the max speed I wasn't increasing velocity. I feel like there is a simple solution I'm not seeing.

[modest oar]

just curious about why this freezes my project

    IEnumerator batteryDrain()
    {   while (true)
        {
            if (flashlight.enabled == true)
            {
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(2.5f);
                Battery = Battery - 0.1f;
            }
        }
    }

[burnt vapor]

Because you have a recursive while loop

If flashlight.enabled is false it will just restart the while loop infinitely

To fix it, add a delay in an else statement

[gaunt ice]

 IEnumerator batteryDrain()
    {   while (true)
        {
            if(bool that is false){}
        }
    }

[modest oar]

oh ok, thanks

[burnt vapor]

    IEnumerator batteryDrain()
    {   while (true)
        {
            if (flashlight.enabled == true)
            {
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(2.5f);
                Battery = Battery - 0.1f;
            }
            else {
                 yield return null;
            }
        }
    }

This waits 1 frame @modest oar

[modest oar]

thanks

[gaunt ice]

btw you should take the "duration" into account

float time_before=Time.time;
yield return
float time_after=Time.time;
Battery-=0.1*((time_after-time_before)/2.5f);

though 2.5f should be a relatively big number vs 1000ms/60frame

[storm pine]

Or even better just put the functionality on the Update() using Time.deltaTime so you avoid the infinite loop.

private void Update()
    {
        if (flashlight.enabled) //You don't need to compare if it's true since it's a boolean itself
        {
            drainTimer += Time.deltaTime;
            if (drainTimer >= drainInterval) //drainInterval 2.5f in your case
            {
                Battery -= drainAmount; // 0.01f in your case
                drainTimer = 0.0f; // Reset the drainTimer
                if (Battery <= 0.0f) //Extra funcionality, turning of the flash when it runs out of battery
                {
                    flashlight.enabled = false;
                }
            }
        }

[frank zodiac]

[field: Serialize] or [SerializeField]?

[keen dew]

[field: Serialize] throws an error so [SerializeField]

Use [field: SerializeField] for properties

[frank zodiac]

oh okay

thank you

[night raptor]

Yup. Often times serializing the backing field of a property isn't a great idea though (if we talk about exposing properties to inspector) because then the change in inspector won't go through the setter of the property. In context of serialization on save and load systems for example, serializing the backing field is fine

[rich seal]

Can anyone help me with my player's movement script? My player walking to automatically moves to the right and I want it to automatically move to the right as well with a and d keys. How can I do it?

[signal spruce]

is there any way to close quickly a lot of scripts in visual studio?

[teal viper]

middle mouse button click on a tab

[signal spruce]

and to close all of them except the one im in

or all

[teal viper]

middle click all of them except the one you're in🤷‍♂️

I guess there are also options in the context menu

Close other tabs sounds like what you need

[signal spruce]

Thanks ❤️

[vestal adder]

hi im wanting to make some complex enemy ai for a 2d top down game and im not sure where to start, like should i use navmesh agents, a* or something elsee

[fossil drum]

AI and pathfinding are not the same thing. But sure, both of those will fix your pathfinding problems.

[vestal adder]

what would you say ai would be in that context

[fossil drum]

AI does things, pathfinding moves things.
AI could move somewhere sure, but it's more then just that, it can also flank, or shoot, or pick up weapons, or solve any other problem you can think of.
But simple AI can just move to player and attack when close for example.

And there are tonnes of ways to make an AI.

[bitter spruce]

does anyone know, for Platform Effector. How do i make it so that my player does not collide with the sides of the platform. Just the top when the player stands on it. Im doing a 1 way platform but when the player enter the sides of the platform, it just dosent allow my player to walk through it

[vestal adder]

yeah i see

i think to start i wanna make good pathfinding

[fossil drum]

That's a good idea, fix the problem in smaller pieces.

[outer coral]

did you change the surface arc

[bitter spruce]

i left it as default

liek i can jump through from the bottom and land at the top but the sides are making me collide

[outer coral]

on 180?

objects collide with things at certain directions that surface arc property on the effector defines at what angle threshold it should register the collisions

if you left it at 180 then it makes sense the sides would collide, change it to something like 90 for a better result

[bitter spruce]

okay

[jovial forge]

Currently having a weird issue with the old input system. There is input being given from somewhere and I can't figure out where. I have unplugged all of my controllers from my PC, and confirmed this with joy.cpl. When I hit play, horizontalInput becomes -1 and verticalInput becomes 1, even though I am not providing any input

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 5.0f;
    public float turnSpeed;
    public float horizontalInput;
    public float verticalInput;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed * verticalInput);
        transform.Translate(Vector3.right * Time.deltaTime * turnSpeed * horizontalInput);
    }
}```

[deft grail]

is the input actually changing? or is the object just moving

[bitter spruce]

ohh thank you so much man

[outer coral]

check your input manager

[wintry quarry]

leaning something on your keyboard?

[jovial forge]

The input is changing. The inputs are set to zero before I hit play

[jovial forge]

Everything in the input manager is default

[jovial forge]

No lol

[wintry quarry]

if you unplug the keyboard does it stop

[outer coral]

these are set in the inspector? i cant see why this would matter but maybe try making the variables private see if theres a difference

[jovial forge]

It does not stop

[wintry quarry]

Try restarting your computer?

[jovial forge]

Setting them to private didn't change anything

[jovial forge]

Guess I'll give that a try

[swift crag]

with the new input system, at least, I've had problems where I need to reconnect a controller to fix a ghost input

specifically my wireless xbox controller on my macbook

[jovial forge]

Restarting fixed it

Wonder if it was some ghost input from one of my many custom flight sim controllers

[dusty silo]

Can I have an object that only exists in the code have a Collider2D?

[swift crag]

I don't know what "only exists in the code" means

Collider2D is a component. Every component must be attached to a game object.

So you can't just have a loose Collider2D that isn't attached to a game object, no

[dusty silo]

Okay, thanks

[swift crag]

are you trying to do something in particular?

[modest dust]

If, for some reason, you're creating a GameObject from zero via code, you can just call AddComponent on it

[molten robin]

is there a reason for why the _defaultPosition goes so high even though in editor the objects transform is this?

[graceful crescent]

Is this GO a child of any parent GO?

[polar acorn]

The transform you see in the inspector is local position. You're logging world position

[cosmic oxide]

Guys, So I have loaded a scene "InputSys" as an additive and I am trying to unload the same using var operations =SceneManager.UnloadLevelAsync("InputSys"); . The function is returning null. Can someone look into this? Will really appreciate the help.

[polar acorn]

Is it possible this is being called without having the InputSys scene loaded? Perhaps if it were called twice?

[swift crag]

(note that it doesn't run "on a new thread")

[cosmic oxide]

I can see it being loaded on the hierarchy in play mode

[cosmic oxide]

Can you help explain that, I thought since it runs in the background it runs on a new thread 😛

[swift crag]

I'd sanity check by making sure you don't call WaitForUnloading anywhere else

shift-f12 while the name is selected

[swift crag]

think of how a coroutine isn't threaded -- it just runs for a little while each frame

although, I would expect at least part of the async scene loading process to include loading stuff from disk on other threads

(you can watch the profiler's timeline view to see exactly what's going on )

[cosmic oxide]

Well I found this on forum xD

[swift crag]

oh, yes, you were trying to do that

[cosmic oxide]

Yup haha

[swift crag]

"last loaded scene" meaning the only one left, not the most recently loaded one

Note: It is not possible to UnloadSceneAsync if there are no scenes to load. For example, a project that has a single scene cannot use this static member.

this line is very weirdly worded

it should just say "if there's only one scene loaded, you can't unload it"

[cosmic oxide]

Well I have multiple scenes loaded

[swift crag]

i've loaded and unloaded a scene without loading any other scenes in-between

[cosmic oxide]

I fixed it by calling the UnloadLevel as as coroutine.

Is it possible that previously it didnt completely finish loading the scene in the memory?

Thats why I bumped into null reference exceptions

[swift crag]

if you try to unload the scene before the scene ever loads, it would break

but there's no point where a scene is "partially loaded"

by that I mean partially set up

Unity loads all of the assets, then synchronously activates the new scene

so there's no point where it's..."half there"

[karmic river]

Hello guys, am new to Unity, I created this function in a script that returns a boolean value and now i want to use the value returned by this function in another script in an if statement

[swift crag]

You will need a reference to this component.

[karmic river]

I did but it didn't work

[swift crag]

what class did you declare that method in?

[wintry quarry]

Why not just return birdIsAlive;? No need for an extra if statement here

[karmic river]

BirdScript

Oh waittt now I understand

[swift crag]

Okay, so whoever wants to ask if the bird is alive needs a BirdScript

[karmic river]

I have to write BirdScript rather than LogicScript

[karmic river]

Thanks

[swift crag]

ah, yes, you used the wrong type

it tried to get a LogicScript component from the object tagged "Bird"

so it gave you nothing

[karmic river]

Why is this if statemenet returning error

It says this

[swift crag]

You're trying to compare the method itself to true

you need to call the method

[karmic river]

How can I compare teh value?

[swift crag]

the method returns a bool, which you can compare to true

[karmic river]

It is now working, thanks man 🙂

I declared a bool variable rather than the method itseld

[swift crag]

why not just..call the method?

Bird.IsTheBirdAlive()

[vestal adder]

i am trying out a* and downloaded the latest free version from the website but it came with these errors, and i dont understand the error messages on how to fix them

[swift crag]

read the warning

it tells you what to do

oh, fair enough, you just didn't grok it

Check here:

You want to switch from Web to Windows, Mac, Linux

[vestal adder]

thank you fen

am i already on it?

[swift crag]

You are, yes

Ah, I suppose you need to go fix this in the Player settings instead

well, this should really be something that the asset creator fixed by having it connect securely...

what asset is this?

[vestal adder]

https://arongranberg.com/astar/docs/

i am fairly sure its a legit thing

if theres no issues with turning that off then its fine

[swift crag]

it'd be this setting, found in the "Other Settings" section of the Player settings

[vestal adder]

thanks i couldnt find it

[fluid kiln]

    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneId);
    }```

Why is this not working? i tried with scene name aswell

[vestal adder]

think it has to be in quotations

the scene name

[fluid kiln]

oh tysm!

[vestal adder]

welcome

[swift crag]

that'd be if the scene was literally named "sceneId"

or "sceneName" or whatever

if sceneId is 0, then this should re-load the starting scene

[fluid kiln]

but scene name is a variable

that's why no ""

[swift crag]

correct, since "this is a string literal"

you would not quote variables

I would check that the code is running at all

add a Debug.Log statement to the method

[vestal adder]

it does work now

says itd be insecure if its always allowed so i put in development builds

though i think that it would crash in a built game in that case

[swift crag]

this code probably doesn't run in the built game at all

I'd just turn off the update check, if that's an option

[vestal adder]

it is just to check for updates it looks like

yeah

[fluid kiln]

uhmmm i think the issue is that it says

To add a scene to the build settings use the menu File->Build Settings...```

even tho its in there

[swift crag]

There is no such thing as "Prologue Class". There is "PrologueClass"

[fluid kiln]

ooooooh

its case sensitive, mb, cuz if i use caps unity automatically puts a space in there with inspector

tysm! it all works now!

[willow scroll]

Surely it is

[final kestrel]

Is it better to save/load the inventory? or like save both the items and the inventory and deserialize them on load? I do not know how to save the inventory.

[final kestrel]

by inventory I mean a class that holds the Item list in it

The Item part just confuses me

[willow scroll]

What's the difference between these both variants?

[final kestrel]

There may be no difference. Thats why I am confused.

[willow scroll]

How do you want to save the inventory?

[final kestrel]

Like serialize the contents and the slots somehow and load them back in.

[willow scroll]

You want them to stay persistent when loading the game again?

[final kestrel]

Yes.

[willow scroll]

You would usually use json for this

Have you tried that out before?

[final kestrel]

Yes I have the data handler already for that It just does not deserialize the scriptable objects

[woeful dawn]

prefer saving just items and than populate inventory

[final kestrel]

How can I do that? My brain is like a soup at the moment.

[woeful dawn]

like it was said use json or any other method of making persistans data save. read that when you need to load them, and populate inventory

remember that unity serialization is not a way to make persitant runtime data save

[final kestrel]

So I individually save the items. I give them all an ID. Then I give the inventory an ID. Then read the item data and uhhj

[willow scroll]

Yes, serializing the objects on runtime is going to set them back to their initial values when the game ends

[woeful dawn]

SO behave slightly different when game is build in comparison to Editor runtime.

[final kestrel]

So I have to keep updating them?

[willow scroll]

Not all the items have to be saved separately

[willow scroll]

No, you cannot achieve this by simply serializing them in the Inspector. That's why we're talking about json now

[woeful dawn]

i think at this point its about data virtualization...
u need to define structare of save data that will let you reconstruct objects again

[final kestrel]

Well we can keep the player data in the persistentdatapath. And when scene loads it deserializes (json) then it all works.

[willow scroll]

You would usually have a class, which contains a List of your items. The class can be casted to json and back

[final kestrel]

That class is inventory then?

[willow scroll]

Yes, it would usually be

[woeful dawn]

honestly don't know common approach, but for me saving system is separate thing

[final kestrel]

So I make an Inventory class Which holds the Item(SO) list

and also the inventory slots right?

[willow scroll]

You then get the List of Items from your saved json, which you then enumerate through to add them to your Inventory once more

[final kestrel]

the inventory slots hold the inventory items. Inventory items are scriptable objects fed into the InventoryItem.

[willow scroll]

Assuming the inventory slots are the UIs, yes

[final kestrel]

Yeah they are just images.

[willow scroll]

Then this should be a great approach

[final kestrel]

Basically what you feed in them just changes sprite and type

Uh so just to be clear and I do not do anything wrong. I make class Inventory. Should I hold the scriptable object list? or just go with Inventory slot and inventory Item list?

[spiral narwhal]

I have a global reference that should be used for every object that has the respective script on it. For example:
[SerializeField] private Material _globalFlashMaterial;

However, I feel like I should handle this differently... Like have it be a public static reference. Or maybe I should use the addressables feature here? What's the best way to handle such references?

[willow scroll]

• Have a static class, which contains the class with a List of your ItemScriptableObjects
• Add the Items to the class' list using the static class' methods
• When you exit the game (or a scene), save the items to a json file
• When you enter the game, get the items from the json file, and enumerate through them to add them to your Inventory once more in the specified order

[woeful dawn]

either use addresables or put Mateterial in Reources folder and than u can make static helper method to retrive that at any point

[final kestrel]

o one class in another?

[willow scroll]

Right

The static class holds the methods and other logic, I usually call them SomethingUtility.

The another class should be used to be parsed to json

This is the class you will get when deserializing the json

[woeful dawn]

exatly! keep single resposibility! create class for handling persistence of data, and let inventory just be inventory...

[final kestrel]

Okay I will try. Never nested classes like this so im a bit confused 😄

[willow scroll]

I also like to make it a public static in a static class

[willow scroll]

I wonder whether you can call that nesting

[woeful dawn]

its not nesting... its basic composition

[final kestrel]

I see

[willow scroll]

It's the same way you would use any other class in your script

Like... a Coroutine?

[woeful dawn]

netsing would be to define class in a class... with have its use cases... but not here xD

[final kestrel]

Well all right. It kinda got me confusing cos I have 3 things in my inventory. Item (this is a scriptable object which feeds its data), Inventory slot and Inventory Item which is inside the Inventory slot hhaha

[willow scroll]

Yes, I would usually define those classes simply in a single script

public static class InventoryUtility { }

public class InventoryData { }

Note that this doesn't reffer to your previously sent message

[final kestrel]

Hm okay. I think i got it

So uh the utility class in my case is for writing and reading jsons

[woeful dawn]

in this case i belive so...
if there is more things that would requre persistancy i would recomand just making small generic system for that

[final kestrel]

Hm actually yes. I can hold player data. I just followed a tutorial from git-amend. It binds data between playerData and the actual player.

[eternal needle]

Ideally you would have some class which handles the actual writing and loading, so you arent repeating logic for every single class that wants to save data. Then this inventory uses save system

[willow scroll]

No, I would do it in a non-static class, as it would be easier with the various paths

[woeful dawn]

man you getting so much helping love xD

[final kestrel]

Yeah haha. Its kind of confusing me a bit.

thanks for all the answers

[woeful dawn]

well there is more than 3-4 ways do it it so sure it will be confusing xD

[willow scroll]

Well, we've been talking about a single one

[final kestrel]

Just the part that i should or shouldnt be saving scriptable object data is kind of unclear because I read you need some other stuff to read SO data

[final kestrel]

Ill do dis

[willow scroll]

I'm not saying that the approach I have mentioned is the only one, but that's what I would use.

• A static utility class for adding the Items to your class InventoryData
• A non-static class to handle the serialization and deserialization of jsons. Make sure to access the paths using Application.dataPath

[woeful dawn]

thing about serialization in unity is that it is relevant only in moment of building... game after build will always return to its initial state

[eternal needle]

Changes to your SO does not persist in a build, so its something that doesnt really make sense to save. It's meant to be just a data container, some read only stuff.
Theres nothing special for reading the data, you just reference the asset and it's all available

[stuck palm]

how does a singleton actually work? How can I reference a static class as if it was a normal class?

[final kestrel]

Ah okay I already have a non static class called FileDataHandler. Which just has a serializer dependency and acts upon it. Reading and writing to json

[willow scroll]

What do you mean by referencing a static class as if it was a normal one?

[eternal needle]

Singleton is not a static class. It is a static reference to an instance of a class

[stuck palm]

ahh

[woeful dawn]

you create normal non static class and do not make public constructor... also you have public static acces field to instance of self. in case of monobehaviors there is bit more twiks to it

[final kestrel]

Yes thats where I got confused. How can I get the data of my Item from Json because I get the information on my Inventory Items from SO's.

[eternal needle]

If you look online at Newtonsoft, there will be tons of examples how to read from file

It handles all of it for u

[swift crag]

The difficult part here is recording which scriptable object assets you were using

[woeful dawn]

wait i think i got you... do your SO even change state or they just have for example image (that will never change) and thats it?

[swift crag]

I have a lot of read-only information that lives in scriptable objects

I chose to serialize them by ID and to then look them up by that ID when deserializing

[lethal swallow]

https://pastebin.com/RcxvZmFL enemyhealth [fricked up] code
https://pastebin.com/e0NE3Tfc collisionDetection

when I try to write enemyhealth = enemyhealth - 10;, i get this error:
[image attached: image.png]

[swift crag]

https://gdl.space/alapezutic.cpp

This is the converter that I use. Identifiable is an abstract ScriptableObject-derived class. When the game starts, I read all of the Identifiable assets into a giant dictionary. I can then use that dictionary to look up the object by its ID.

https://bronsonzgeb.com/index.php/2021/09/11/the-scriptable-object-asset-registry-pattern/

It's this pattern.

[final kestrel]

They do not change. I apologize for not being clear enough. Let me explain it. I have a simple hotbar. In the hotbar I have InventorySlots which are just sprites. In the InventorySlot I have InventoryItem (which are also sprites). I have 4 Item types as scriptable objects. This SO just has ItemType enum and Image. I feed its image into InventoryItem with a method. I want to be able to save the inventory with all its items and load back in with that state.

[swift crag]

using a converter means that I don't have to do any extra work -- Json.NET directly gives me the objects

You could also just serialize the IDs manually and then look them up yourself

[woeful dawn]

ok so you only need to save information about what have to persist... in your case it can just be id of SO + index in invetory sapce

[polar acorn]

1. Your error is on line 18 of CollisionDetection but there's nothing there
2. What is enemyhealth in CollisionDetection

[final kestrel]

I can hold Player data which is just an ID and rotation and position. I just could not figure out how to do it in inventory.

[lethal swallow]

It is the enemyhealth value

[woeful dawn]

you want to get SO's by ids and ppulate invetory with them at given index

[lethal swallow]

sorry, i typed the line after the pastebin log

[polar acorn]

There's nothing named that in your CollisionDetection script as you shared it, but since your error is on a line that isn't in there anyway, share the current code

[polar acorn]

Okay so what is enemyhealth

[swift crag]

Make a list of all of your inventory items. Give each one of them a unique ID. Save that ID to serialize. Deserialize by reading the ID and then looking the item up in the list.

[woeful dawn]

simple... you never defined this variable

[lethal swallow]

sorry could you elaborate

[final kestrel]

Do I make a list of Inventory Items or the Item SO? because like I feed SO's into inventory items.

[polar acorn]

You have literally nothing named enemyhealth in this script

you're trying to use a variable you have never made

[lethal swallow]

https://pastebin.com/RcxvZmFL

[swift crag]

The scriptable object assets that you need to be able to find later.

[lethal swallow]

I'm trying to access the public variable

[woeful dawn]

there no field, nor variable with that signature

[polar acorn]

This is a completely different script and has nothing to do with the error

[lethal swallow]

ahh ok, how do I access the variable in enemyHealth script in this script?

[final kestrel]

Ah okay. Understood. And the InventoryItem(the actual item that is in the slot)? Do I make a list of that too?

[polar acorn]

Which EnemyHealth instance are you trying to access

[lethal swallow]

the variable consisting of the enemyHealth

public float enemyhealth; in the pastebin

[polar acorn]

That doesn't really answer my question

Which instance of the EnemyHealth script do you want to get enemyhealth from

This is a component that could be on thousands of objects for all the script knows

which one do you want

[lethal swallow]

the float that holds the value for health

[polar acorn]

that's not what I asked

[woeful dawn]

first of all i feel like you should either set up your vs code properly or just use actual IDE than you would see that there is no enemyHelth Symbol defined

[polar acorn]

I'm asking which EnemyHealth (component) you want to get the float enemyhealth from

[lethal swallow]

ahhh

[lethal swallow]

from this slider

[polar acorn]

So then you need to reference that object.
https://unity.huh.how/references

[lethal swallow]

i've currently set it up so that when Z is pressed healt goes down

*as seen in the mentioned linked scripts

[woeful dawn]

all those offcial discord communities always lack voice chats.... i get it would be extreamly hard to moderate thou

and sometime it would be easier to just share screen :/

[lethal swallow]

so sorry if what i'm saying makes no sense, but:

i've set the slider to always equal the enemyhealth constantly in the update in the enemyHealth file void Update() { if(enemyhealthSlider.value != enemyhealth) { enemyhealthSlider.value = enemyhealth; }

i've set it up so when Z is pressed enemyHealth goes down if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Z)) { enemytakeDamage(10); }
[these both are in this pastebin: https://pastebin.com/RcxvZmFL]

all i want to do now is decrease the enemyhealth when a collision is detected.

[eager spindle]

decrease enemyhealth when collision is detected?

you can look into OnCollisionEnter, then compare the tag from there

[weary egret]

Why might I be getting this error when trying to LinkWithUnityAsync

[Authentication]: Request failed: 400, {"detail":"external token not provided","details":[],"status":400,"title":"INVALID_PARAMETERS"}

I do it after:

await UnityServices.InitializeAsync();
await AuthenticationService.Instance.SignInAnonymouslyAsync();

Access token is null here however

var accessToken = PlayerAccountService.Instance.AccessToken;
await LinkWithUnityAsync(accessToken);

[eager spindle]

external token not provided

which line is this from?

looks like the last line, could you check if accessToken is null

huh

[weary egret]

It is null

Shouldn't it be populated from SignInAnonymouslyAsync?

[lethal swallow]

thanks

[eager spindle]

yes it should but its not

prob because it might not be awaiting correctly

ill go check the reference

are other variables null like AuthenticationService.Instance.PlayerId?

the docs actually put this in a try/catch error which can give you help on if the sign in was successfull

[weary egret]

public async void SignIn()
        {
            try
            {
                var accessToken = PlayerAccountService.Instance.AccessToken;
                await LinkWithUnityAsync(accessToken);
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                Debug.LogError(ex.ToString());
            }
        }

It is in one.

[polar acorn]

Did you read the thing I sent about how to reference an object

[lethal swallow]

Sorry i'm stupid i've just realised

tysm for sticking with me and my annoying self

[jade trout]

Hello friend, I was wondering if someone else gets this error when trying to follow the documentation for mlagents unity?
I am following this documentation: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ml-agents/blob/develop/docs/Installation.md
And the error happens when I run this command: python -m pip install ./ml-agents-envs

[magic panther]

I asked him about creating an object. Is he yapping?

ofc this is plain cs, not unity one

[spare gate]

why does PrizeClick not show up in the On Click() menu?

[wintry quarry]

because it has two parameters

UnityEvent inspector only supports one parameter

[spare gate]

ah

is there a way i can use 2?

[wintry quarry]

serialize the parameter separately

[summer stump]

Is he "yapping"? That is indeed a struct with a constructor and making a new instance of it....

[wintry quarry]

public int price;
public GameObject delete;

public void PressButton() {
  PrizeClick(price, delete);
}``` @spare gate

[spare gate]

i dont understand

oh nvm

[magic panther]

unsure how to create an object with variables of different type

[spare gate]

so i should call a seperate function inside the pressButton function?

[magic panther]

in js that's simple as hell, dunno about cs

[wintry quarry]

simple in C# too

They're called classes

(or structs, but that can wait)

[summer stump]

Can you be specific about what exactly you're doing?
Because you just showed code that does create a new struct object...
If you want to make that object a class, write the word class instead of struct...

If you mean a GAME object, then that is a little different. You likely would want to use Instantiate on a prefab reference

[woeful dawn]

just tkink its ts and dont do functional stuff xD

[mellow shuttle]

Hi. What is the best way to make HP recount? Which will be secured and easy?

[summer stump]

What does recount mean here, and what does secured mean here?

[woeful dawn]

if you exclude actual behind scenes stuff witch are two separate paradigms in terms of constructor they are fairly similar if we think just syntax... althou if i remember js lets define object fields inside constructor

[mellow shuttle]

takeDamage

[summer stump]

That does not answer either question

[mellow shuttle]

when someone hit player or enemy

[summer stump]

But yeah, making a TakeDamage method is very easy

[magic panther]

Something more comfortable to use than like 5 variables with the same prefix to differenciate

is what I mean

[summer stump]

So like a dashStats struct or class or scriptable object?

[magic panther]

dashBar.progress.target or dashBar.progress.current feels better than combining all

[mellow shuttle]

Ok. It is good way to make public takeDamage() method?

[magic panther]

just a dash or dashBar, yeah. I need different value types and an unspecified ammount of them

[woeful dawn]

define struct and add serializable attribute... or even SO

[magic panther]

in js that's

const dash = {
  load: {
    progress: 0,
    target: 60
  },
  finishEase: {
    progress: 0,
    target: 60,
    onFinish: () => {
      blahblah
    }
  }
}```

how do I translate this into unity cs

[woeful dawn]

u know js support object like way with constructor?

[magic panther]

yes I do, but there will be more and each will have different structures

writing an extendable base class would be futile due to the fact that I'll change, cut and add stuff separately to each

just, how can I create an object with properties of different values, is what I need

an example would be easiest for me to understand

like 5 lines

or something idk

spare change ahh problem

[woeful dawn]

well its not dynamic languege and if you can't structure it than maybe you should redesign it ?

you can use stuff like dictionary...

remeber OOP by desing will create alot of code... its normal to have many classes.

[timber tide]

Well, how would you do damage otherwise? ;p

[woeful dawn]

objects in static languages are... static(in terms of of structure). c# supports dynamic type but its not recomanded unless u really know what are you doing and ussly there are better options

[wintry quarry]

you make classes/structs for each of those maps

[timber tide]

Usually if you want to do some sort of modulated code, you're thinking of composition

declare what you need, if you don't use them then don't initialize them and check at runtime

[swift crag]

what does "load" mean here?

i am thinking about how i'd translate this

[woeful dawn]

load is field with : {
progress: 0,
target: 60
}, object

[swift crag]

well

yes, i can tell

but what does it mean?

I can't really understand what the design intent is here

[woeful dawn]

dynamic languages support something like Anonymus objects... you dont need to define structure like class u can just create object on fly

[swift crag]

i am (painfully) familiar with how that works, yes

[wintry quarry]

public class AnimationAction {
  public int progress;
  public int target;
  public Action onFinish;
}

void Example() {
  List<AnimationAction> dashActions = new() {
    new AnimationAction() {
      progress = 0,
      target = 60
    },
    new AnimationAction() {
      progress = 0,
      target = 60,
      onFinish = () => {
        // blahblah
      }
    }
  };
}```
Something like this @magic panther

[mellow shuttle]

I think to make empty object with collider in enemy and when attack scan it for player entries. If player entered while attacking, enemy should call public player method TakeDamage(int damage) where hp will be reduced. Same for player

[woeful dawn]

you mean exactly this case not in general? xD sorry if so xD

[timber tide]

Usually these type of methods where you've some object interacting with another you will usually have to have a way to access those methods. So yes, you'd have some public accessor to get/set the other object's data.

[woeful dawn]

sorry bro, i am getting slow at late houers xD now when i read it back if feel awkwardly annoying xD

[timber tide]

The alternative is to have some manager in between that will only be able to access these objects, which you would communicate to instead. But, that's not always needed.

[mellow shuttle]

Thanks

[stuck palm]

is it more expensive referencing another class's variable as opposed to your own variables?

[summer stump]

They want to know the purpose of that specific code so it can be translated properly

[wintry quarry]

no

it's the same

because every time you reference your own you are actually doing this.var
this.var and that.var are the same cost, because this and that are just references

[woeful dawn]

yee i got it now, makes me feel little stupid, but also realize that I may should go to sleep xD

[summer stump]

Ah no worries. All good

[stuck palm]

okay thansk

[rocky canyon]

https://paste.ofcode.org/3M7zPxeEEnWVugvmnQTXXn
@hollow dawn

i see where ur conditional is..

but i still dont see where u set that bool to true anywhere...

and also not seeing where u actually have ur crouch input

Input.GetKeyDown(crouchKey){//make player crouch like where is this code?

somewhere else?

if it is.. ur gonna need to copy the input and also keep track of it in this script.

oor reference this script and set teh bool to true and false thru the other script

i think u might be doing ur crouch stuff in some animator controlling type script..

if thats the case read the bits above ^

[magic panther]

Why am I getting an error here?

both of these variables are floats

[wintry quarry]

Because that property is a ClampedFloatParameter - as the error is implying

so you can't put a float in it

[magic panther]

so what do I do

[hollow dawn]

bro my crouch input was in another script lol

[magic panther]

mate

how can I apply the changes

[summer stump]

0.4f

To make it a float, instead of double

[wintry quarry]

you probably want something like vignette.intensity.value = whatever;

just like the other one right above it you have

[magic panther]

worked, thanks mate

somehow it's locked at 1

why is it locked at one

[sterile radish]

how would i fill up a bar based on a timer in a coroutine?

[wintry quarry]

depends on how you want it to fill

smoothly? Stuttery?
linearly? Some kind of easing function?
depending on some other variable?

[sterile radish]

linearly

[wintry quarry]

just a while loop, with a yield return null, and proper use of Lerp

[sterile radish]

oh okay, thanks!

[stiff fjord]

could i get some help with this
https://paste.ofcode.org/Sx76X9jqU4vEVTBkT4g82t
i dont know how to make force public

Assets/scripts/movement.cs(49,45): error CS0103: The name 'force' does not exist in the current context

[summer stump]

Declare it in the class, not the method

You can SET it in the method

So, just remove float right before force

[stiff fjord]

ok

[summer stump]

And add public float force up top

[stiff fjord]

doen thanks!

now the boat doesnt move at all

[stiff fjord]

what about something like this
public void ApplyForce(qForce)

[summer stump]

Did you ONLY remove the word float from that line?

[stiff fjord]

yes

[summer stump]

Not sure the context here, so I can't say

[stiff fjord]

ok but do you know how to fix this
Assets/scripts/movement.cs(33,34): error CS1001: Identifier expected

nvm

i figured it out

[ivory bobcat]

Is your ide configured?

[sick jay]

What's the best way to go about saving the state of collectible items between scenes?
ex: One scene has a frying pan that you can collect. once you collect it, it disappears. however, currently, it reloads if you leave the area(load another scene) and come back. should i make an ItemManager of some kind that keeps track of that and destroys the already collected gameobjects each time the scene is loaded? or is there a better way

[summer stump]

Storing the state in something that is added to the DontDestroyOnLoad scene.
An ItemManager seems reasonable

[outer coral]

if you dont want it to come back between runtimes you'll also need a save file

[sick jay]

yes I gotta relearn that, when I tried to do it with something else(saving a simple name as a string in a JSON file) i failed

[outer coral]

It can be tricky

[eternal needle]

Theres tons of save system tutorials out there, ideally find one using Newtonsoft. Just a note if you save to file, you'll still need some item manager which exists at runtime. You dont want to pickup the pan in game and then immediately write to file. This should simply set a value on your item manager, for example a bool to true or false. Then later like if the user saves or if you change scenes, save the data. File operations are relatively slow

[sick jay]

sounds good. how does saving things to a file work in the editor? will pressing play and stop and play again persist if the save data code is run?

[shell herald]

is there a function that activates once the object the script is on is activated?

[wintry quarry]

OnEnable

[cosmic dagger]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnEnable.html, but i would search: "onenable unity"; there are some video links that tell you the difference between Awake, Start, and OnEnable . . .

[shell herald]

works thx

[neat scarab]

hey! im doing a simple fishing game for a university class and wanted to know if anyone has some good tips for doing simple coding like the contact between the fish hook and the fish, movement of the boat etc :) thank you

[timber tide]

depends how much realism you want

[eternal needle]

not sure what you're asking tbh. writing to a file works the exact same way as in a build, and same way in a console application. pressing play/stop has nothing to do with it. if you save data, then load it from file then the data will be set.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-persistentDataPath.html
the only difference is where the persistent data path points to depending on your build or if in editor

[neat scarab]

not a lot actually, the game is rather cartoonish

[timber tide]

fishhook and the fish can just be some trigger event using colliders. The boat mechanic can be as simple as adding velocity in the direction of your input

if you want some more realism, only allow velocity somewhere in the forward direction

[eternal needle]

A lot depends how you want the game to actually play, try and think of that first and really the logic comes easily. Like most games dont really have fish swimming around looking for food and getting hooked. If you do want this, then you'll need some basic fish ai. Most games just use a random chance to catch one and that's all, then play some animation

[neat scarab]

thank you mao! I will look into that

[neat scarab]

Thats some good advice thank you :) I already have an idea of what I want but i'm really bad at coding and i'm trying my best to figure things out

it's in pixel art and most of the art is done

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.OnTriggerEnter.html
For the hook.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-velocity.html (addForce is fine too, but velocity works)
For the boat (if you want to use rigidbodies)

[neat scarab]

saved it! <3

never heard of unity documentation

will look into that as well

[spare mountain]

you live a dangerous life

[neat scarab]

Once I get into it there's no coming back?

[spare mountain]

I meant you've not been using documentation
it's basically a cheat sheet

[ember tangle]

Is there a wrong way to write a command in the command pattern? How complex should a command be on average?

I have a command inheriting from a command interface and it contains a lot of methods, im not sure if this is best practice

[sterile radish]

why does my fill bar not fill up linearly rather it's fill amount just jumps to a fixed value when i press play?
https://hatebin.com/yiffppqzho

[worthy merlin]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.Graphs.Edge.WakeUp () (at <cd7e7093392847c5af50f12a53ad0586>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.DoWakeUpEdges (System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] inEdges, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] ok, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] error, System.Boolean inEdgesUsedToBeValid) (at <cd7e7093392847c5af50f12a53ad0586>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUpEdges (System.Boolean clearSlotEdges) (at <cd7e7093392847c5af50f12a53ad0586>:0)

I've been getting this error every time my Unity reloads after a script update, none of my scripts are failing to work and all of the object assignments seem correct. None of my scripts are named like anything in the error either. Very confused how to resolve this rn...

[slender nymph]

The while loop will complete in a single frame because you don't yield inside of it

[deft grail]

just ignore it, restart Unity if you havent

[slender nymph]

That's an editor error, usually caused by having the animator window open

[worthy merlin]

Is it just having it open in general or caused by a specific situation?

[slender nymph]

Just having it open in general. You can typically just ignore that error.
the bit about UnityEditor.Graphs.Edge.WakeUp shows it is happening due to a graph editor window and the animator is the usual suspect for that, however any graph editor window can probably produce that error

[worthy merlin]

Understood, I shall ignore the blinking red light 🫡

restarting unity did remove it from poping up for now

[slender nymph]

The animator is easily startled. It will soon be back and in greater numbers

[worthy merlin]

Also, need some advice. I need a charge up animation for my player that will change its duration based on the weapon that fired (matching a firerate in seconds variable). My hope is for it to run the animation until the weapon recharges and repeats.

Would it be better to do this with the animator or manually changing the sprites myself in code?

[wheat wave]

either works

it'd be silly to use both methods concurrently imo

you can use a short animator state and have it loop while a bool is true

[slender nymph]

It really depends on how you want to handle it, there's hardly ever a "best" way to do so. However my suggestion would be to have 3 animations for it, the first is the start up of building the charge, second is a looping one that's just building charge or whatever, and the third is the end of building the charge when it "completes". This solution allows you to stay in that charging state however long you need since it loops the middle of the full animation and can transition into and out of it.
Of course it also depends on how you want it to look as looping the charging part only works if the visual part doesn't change much based on charge percent or whatever

[worthy merlin]

My confusion is that I have the variable that says the time in seconds. But how do I feed this to the animation controller?

Maybe Motion Time?

[sick jay]

sorry, i meant pressing play and stop reloads the editor and would be similar to closing the game in a build. the question was asking if it still would save the data to a file that is specific to the editor

[umbral bough]

Hi, I've been struggling with this one for quite a bit.
When I separate inputs and manually call Open() and Close() instead of Toggle() it works fine.
However, the Toggle() function somehow executes Close() and Open() if the menu is already open.
Am I just being incompetent rn and this is normal or is this something weird?
Script I am calling it from:

        public void Update()
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Escape)) _radialMenu.Toggle(_pauseMenuContent);
        }

Relevant part of the Menu Script:
https://gdl.space/abuwukelab.cs

[flint tendon]

hey there, i have a png and i want to take certain parts of it out and use them is that something i can do?

[wintry quarry]

Make sure Toggle is only running once

[wintry quarry]

Yes, with GIMP or Photoshop

not a code question

[flint tendon]

so theres no way of me doing it in unity?

[wintry quarry]

There's a way to do everything

[umbral bough]

I did, I had a Debug.Log() in toggle and it was getting called only once, I'll rerun that just to make 100% sure.

[wintry quarry]

but with your vague description, sounds like photoshop is your best bet.

[worthy merlin]

Motion time was useless. Changing the Speed multiplier was the most effective, will have to tune it tho

[wintry quarry]

Anyway doesn't sound like a #💻┃code-beginner question anyway

[umbral bough]

yeap, Toggle() is getting called only once :/

[wintry quarry]

Use the debugger

put a breakpoint in Open and CLose

see what the stack trace is for each

somewhere along the line something is triggering it, probably a listener for the radial menu or something

[umbral bough]

don't have any, wrote the whole thing myself, only thing calling Toggle()/Open()/Close() currently is the function I provided

I'll do the debugging tho

I might've figured it out 🤦‍♂️

it was me being incompetent afterall

and you were in fact right, I did call the Close() function from this script aswell and completely forgot about it 0_o

[jagged hare]

Convert to normalized time and pass that in

[worthy merlin]

Thats what I ended up trying but it only played 1 out of the 5 sprites I had.

[jagged hare]

are you actually converting it, or just passing the real time to normalized time?

[flint tendon]

Assets\Scripts\PlayerController.cs(22,20): error CS1061: 'Weapon' does not contain a definition for 'Fire' and no accessible extension method 'Fire' accepting a first argument of type 'Weapon' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
i am getting this error in my code

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

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float moveSpeed = 5f;
    public Rigidbody2D rb;
    public Weapon weapon;

    Vector2 moveDirection;
    Vector2 mousePosition;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float moveX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float moveY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            weapon.Fire();
        }   

        moveDirection = new Vector2(moveX, moveY).normalized;
        mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
    }

    private void FixedUpdate() {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(moveDirection.x * moveSpeed, moveDirection.y * moveSpeed);

        Vector2 aimDirection = mousePosition - rb.position;
        float aimAngle = Mathf.Atan2(aimDirection.y, aimDirection.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg - 90f;
        rb.rotation =  aimAngle;
    }
}
``` any help

[spare mountain]

can you show your weapon script?
also can you not flood chat or at least color your code? !code

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[flint tendon]

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

public class Weapon : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject bulletPrefab;
    public Transform firePoint;
    public float fireForce = 20f;

    public void fire()
    {
        GameObject bullet = Instantiate(bulletPrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation);
        bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(firePoint.up * fireForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
    }
}

[spare mountain]

"Fire" and "fire" are two different things

it IS case sensitive

take another look

[flint tendon]

oh shit thank you

[spare mountain]

np

[worthy merlin]

I'll have to pop up my code tomorrow but If I remember right I am grabbing the length of what it was. Dividing that by my time

[dry cairn]

can someone help me understand this ik i have the right answer cuz i already failed once but it was for a challenge i couldnt really do on the course so i never really got an understanding of it

[rich adder]

you're using the index 0 in the array and assigning it a value of 5, arrays start with index of 0

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

[dry cairn]

so does that mean it wont start at 0 anymore an itll start at 5?

[rich adder]

no, what makes you come up with that conclusion

this is an array with 5 float numbers

[dry cairn]

i have no idea im still kinda confused with arrays

[rich adder]

did you look at the link I've sent?

[dry cairn]

i was just reading it

ok can i bounce off u wat my brain has interperated tht as?

ok this sets the what is in the array -------public GameObject[] animalPrefabs;
an this pull from tht array of animal prefabs -----Instantiate(animalPrefabs[animalIndex], spawnPos, animalPrefabs[animalIndex].transform.rotation);
an this specifies in tht index of the array that i want to randomize the animal spawned starting with 0 to how long the index is?

int animalIndex = Random.Range(0, animalPrefabs.Length);

[rich adder]

pretty much

[dry cairn]

ah ok thank u for some reason i had so much trouble with tht

[rich adder]

yeah tricky at first but they are powerful, keep practicing using them eventually they will be easy to deal with

[dry cairn]

so the array in the pic has 5 different floating numbers

[rich adder]

indeed

they're all default values except the one you assigned

[dry cairn]

just doesnt specify in the pic i think thts y i got confused

[rich adder]

tbh the one on the w3schools makes a bit more sense
especially with strings/names

[dry cairn]

so it told the array to put 5f into the array to be used later?

[rich adder]

it just replaced the first value of 0f with 5f

now the array is follows

5f,0f,0f,0f,0f

[dry cairn]

oh so it started with 0f, 0f, 0f, 0f, 0f

an all it did was change 1

[rich adder]

yea unless you specify a value they all use default values

if you were to do GameObject, default value is null because reference types work different

[dry cairn]

so how would u change 5f, ?f, 0f, 0f, 0f

[rich adder]

well how would you access the second element of array

from what you told me earlier

[dry cairn]

and my mind went blank this always happens let me try to reread

[rich adder]

if you changed value at index 0 to 5, what do you think the index of second element in array would be?

[dry cairn]

would it be 5?

[rich adder]

first element is at index0, how would second index be 5?

this is simple mathematics lol

[dry cairn]

then i think im misunderstanding im sorry

[rich adder]

whats 0 + 1

[dry cairn]

ok so the float 5f got added earlier to make it 5f, 0f, 0,f 0f, 0f
and to answer u its 1

im confused where i got confused

[rich adder]

ok so what do you think the second index element is

[dry cairn]

i kinda dont wanna say cuz im not sure if its right but would it be 1?

or 6?

how did it become 1 if we are using 5s

[rich adder]

you asked about changing the value of the second float?

first you need the index of where it is stored

[dry cairn]

yea i fiqured it would be something like value[1] =5f

[rich adder]

right

arrays are 0 indexed, so to easily remember which one of the array you want going always -1

[dry cairn]

oh i think ik where i messed up

[rich adder]

You want the 4th element inside the array ? do 4-1

[dry cairn]

what would be the point of doing in the code if u can do it in the inspector

or wait are u pulling from the index in this case?

[rich adder]

inspector is only useful for Components, also you don't always want an array/list to be public or serialized

[dry cairn]

oh

[rich adder]

the index is like "position" it stored at

[dry cairn]

i kinda had them like tht so i could always see them so is tht a bad idea

[rich adder]

imagine you have a bunch of boxes, this makes up your array

in each box you can store stuff, but only the type of declared array

each box is numbered

so you know which thing goes where

[dry cairn]

thank u i think i have a "better" understanding

do u think id be able to message u if i have anymore questions bc u are VERY patient in explaining

[rich adder]

You could just post your question, there are lots of helpful patient people here not a worry

Also I'm around here often

[dry cairn]

ok good ive been using chat GPT to help but i was using it to try to help me get a character made buti could not get it to work at all

[rich adder]

honestly it will be more harmful than helpful, best you do actually structured courses that step you through novice to advanced

the good stuff is pinned in this channel

[dry cairn]

like ive been researching how to put a character in a scene but i cant figure it out i used mixamo but when i added the character he t posed so i went back to get more anims so i couldnt figure out how to get them to work

[rich adder]

!learn has all sorts of videos including how to use animator and humanoid rigs

[dry cairn]

so dont think about doing anything till i get some more courses done on unity

[eternal falcon]

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

[rich adder]

but I see you already used that so keep at it

[dry cairn]

im on like unit 2? i think

[rich adder]

are you doing essentials one?

[dry cairn]

i ve been having issues with remembering all the codes ive been told

[rich adder]

when you learn something new, you have to practice it and do examples yourself until "it clicks"
dont move forward until it does

[dry cairn]

junior programmer is this not the rioght one

[rich adder]

its good yeah keep at it, they have more there

[dry cairn]

which one should i do more to help me with the coding aspects to help me retain knowledge

i looked up this flash card thing but i dont know how to set it up

[rich adder]

do a little bit of that and a little bit of basic c# practice

the site i sent like w3schools are good for this

they also have some more traditional ones on the microsoft c# site

[dry cairn]

ill try the w3 schools one

[rich adder]

Like I said, when you learn for example array, You have to keep practicing it until it finally makes sense then move on to a new thing

[dry cairn]

i do tht before i continue on with my unity things an ill restart on unity as well to try to learn it again without the help of the video

[rich adder]

make array of strings, replace elements, count them, make new types of array etc

[frank zodiac]

Whats the best way to move a player for my 2d top down game?

is it transform.translate?

[timber tide]

depends if you want auto collisional stuff

[rich adder]

not if you want collisions to work right away

[frank zodiac]

i dont need collisions, maybe only trigger collisions

[wintry quarry]

Nobody knows anything about your game so...

[timber tide]

translate is probably fine then, but even then there's no interpolation done

[frank zodiac]

its an rpg game with minimal combat focusing on story

[frank zodiac]

well what would be the best way IF i was using collisions?

[wintry quarry]

Ok but how should movement work? For example classic Pokemon games used frid based movement

[frank zodiac]

not grid based, just regular movement

[timber tide]

could look into character controller stuff. It's not rigidbody physics but gives you some tools for collisional purposes

[rich adder]

rigidbody2d

[frank zodiac]

okay thanks

[frank zodiac]

theres no charactercontroller2d though

[timber tide]

oh, is there not? I've actually not done 2D beyond 2.5D ;p

I don't see why there isn't. It's just a raycasting controller.

[frank zodiac]

i see

ill consider it

thanks

[timber tide]

Ah, ok. So people questioning about that brackeys 2D video uses a custom made character controller which is what I was thinking of.

[frank zodiac]

.AddForce() or .velocity?

[rich adder]

depends what you're going for

[frank zodiac]

i want snappy movement

no gliding

[rich adder]

both work, each with their pros and cons

[timber tide]

I usually do velocity for toggle, otherwise AddForce for continuous input

[rich adder]

velocity usually

[frank zodiac]

what are the pros and cons?

[timber tide]

docs say that velocity can clip your through colliders, but I've not experienced that

assuming you change it constantly

[frank zodiac]

hmmm interesting

[rich adder]

I've read mixed things about directly setting velocity

never had issue myself with my usecases

[frank zodiac]

ill try both and see which ones more suitable

[rich adder]

addforce also has different modes

[frank zodiac]

yeah im aware

[timber tide]

velocity is fine honestly. One problem is if you do have a fps spike, addvelocity will continue to move your guy without input until you set it to 0

so like I was saying, it's fine for a toggle

[frank zodiac]

should i use ForceMode2D.Force

[frank zodiac]

oh that might be an issue

[timber tide]

actually that issue is more related to how you do the input. I forget it's been a while.

[frank zodiac]

what does the error mean?

[rich adder]

can you show the full function !code

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[frank zodiac]

https://hatebin.com/cnjjumqeyo

[rich adder]

also don't use ? for unity components

[frank zodiac]

why?

[rich adder]

doesn't work on unity components

[cosmic dagger]

yeah, don't do that . . .

[rich adder]

unity overrides it

[frank zodiac]

oh that solved the error

thank you lol

[cosmic dagger]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.html

[iron mango]

i have a question, object pooling is better for performance than instantiate, but for that i have to instantiate them at start, and if i have a game with hundreds of projectiles on screen, do i just spawn thousands of them on start? and what if i change the fire rate? there won't be enough bullets available to spawn with a high fire rate

[cosmic dagger]

you need to spawn the amount needed at startup to fill the pool . . .

[timber tide]

yeah pretty much. Mem is cheap, spawn all you want when you can

you can always extend your pool too, but ideally just make a large pool

[cosmic dagger]

its best to spawn during startup since everything else is loading at that time . . .

having a dynamic pool is always an option, as well . . .

[iron mango]

but every "gun" has it's own pool right, not all have one

[cosmic dagger]

that depends on the projectiles. if they're the same, then they can share the same pool . . .

[timber tide]

Object Pools go hand in hand with dependency injection

[iron mango]

in my mind it just looks weird if every spaceship has 20 turrets, and every turret has a 200 inactive projectiles

and yes performance isn't bad

i tested it xD

[timber tide]

it should be 20 turrets that share from those 200 projectiles

[cosmic dagger]

you have to determine the max/average amount of bullets each object will have on screen . . .

again, if they are the same projectile, they can share the same pool . . .

[iron mango]

yeah i just thought what if the player changes the firerate of one to be so fast it drains the pool (lol)

dynamic it is then ig

[timber tide]

[SerializeField] int initalPoolSize = 1000;
[SerializeField] int poolExtension = 50;
private Queue<Enemy> enemySystemPool = new();

public Enemy RequestEnemy(EnemySO enemySO, Vector3 pos, Quaternion rot)
{
    if (!enemySystemPool.TryDequeue(out Enemy enemy))
    {
        ExtendEnemyPool(poolExtension);
        enemy = enemySystemPool.Dequeue();
    }

    enemy.transform.SetPositionAndRotation(pos, rot);
    enemy.AssignUnit(enemySO);
    enemy.gameObject.SetActive(true);

    return enemy;
}

private void ExtendEnemyPool(int amount)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++)
    {
        Enemy enemy = Instantiate(EnemyPrefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity, transform);
        enemy.gameObject.SetActive(false);
        enemySystemPool.Enqueue(enemy);
    }
}

that's basically what I do for every single pool

all enemies share a single prefab type here

[iron mango]

alright, but, if i spawn all those projectiles for the pool at start, so when i spawn a spaceship, won't that cause lag? because spawning one is during the round

[timber tide]

Right, well like I was saying with the same prefab type. If you expect any type of projectile, make a global projectile pool

spaceship spawns and now syphons projectiles from the pool

[iron mango]

where are the pools located then? (if i think about it i shouldn't use pooling 💀 )
if a ship is spawned that is from a mod, with all new projectile types-

[timber tide]

Singletons

ProjectileManager.Instance.GetProjectile(ProjectileSO)

then do some assignment method on that projectile

public void AssignAbility(AbilitySO abilitySO, Vector3 pos)
{
    this.abilitySO = abilitySO;
    
    transform.SetPositionAndRotation(pos, Quaternion.identity);

    //Reset state
    returnAbilityToPool = false;
    currentHitTarget = null;

    previousColliderHits.Clear();
    previousTargetHits.Clear();
}```

One of my projectile methods with DI

You can also do the assignment inside of the manager instead.

I choose the init/assign method way

[iron mango]

brain can't comprehend... shutting down

[timber tide]

Which part?

[iron mango]

(everything)
also, as i said, if a player is spawning a mod ship with mod projectiles, they are not it any pool yet, which will require me to instantiate them and will cause lag?

[timber tide]

You know what singletons are?

They are mono's that live on the scene and usually be living there from the start of that scene

[iron mango]

._.

[timber tide]

so the idea is to create one of these global monos and just cache all that data onto them for you to just grab as you please

[iron mango]

yeah that's what i don't understand

[timber tide]

https://i.imgur.com/1so8ojo.png

[iron mango]

ok?

[timber tide]

They just sleeping there till I need them

[iron mango]

i know

[timber tide]

Well, reflect on the idea of a single prefab, dependency injection, and a singleton that provides monos globally to all objects which request it.

[iron mango]

uh what

forget it

i give up for now

[timber tide]

Start with a singleton that instantiates a bunch of prefabs at the start of your scene, and if you have any questions after that come ping me.

[iron mango]

what i think you mean is that i have empty prefabs and if a different type of projectile is needed the values are changed?

[timber tide]

the idea is all your projectiles have similar components. If you're using 2D you know these projectiles will always have spriterenders, if they are 3D they must have a model, and most importantly they have the Projectile script which drives them.

[iron mango]

well it's 3d, and if it's a different projectile it has a different script (laser, rocket, ...) they are very different

[timber tide]

So, if they all share these similarities, it shouldn't be hard to grab one of these prefabs and say, "hey rocket, you're now a lazer projectile"

[iron mango]

lol

i mean a laser flying in a straight line behaves differently than a homing missile with an explosion

i would need to change a script

[timber tide]

why can't you just flip a bool that says this lazer now homes?

[iron mango]

the game already is mod based

for custom ships/ projectiles (scripts)

[timber tide]

If it's already built up, I getcha. But in the future if you did want this modular single pool system they must be composite logic

but in your situation if the logic is greatly split, then yes you need to make a pool for each projectile type if you can't do dependency injection

and in this case you'd simply reset the state of your projectiles instead of injecting them with different data types

so, the same idea applies though that you should be making these pools as soon as you start the scene, even if you don't use them

[iron mango]

for each projectile in the game?

[timber tide]

each type of projectile

prefab

if you expect enemies to only have specific projectiles in a level, you can cut down on some pools like that

and instantiate new pools on level 2, ect

[iron mango]

uh

[timber tide]

but everything a player can acquire, you want to make in a loading screen, or in a pause screen (maybe you got a select weapon screen?)

[iron mango]

that's the point it's a multiplayer game with mod support, and i don't put all projectiles of all mods + the vanilla ones in a list to pool at start

._.

[timber tide]

I'd profile it. Pooling isn't that expensive honestly, and there is ways to dynamically increase it like I've shown.

[iron mango]

yk what i will create the pool while shooting, so the first projectiles fired are instantiated, but put in a list to reuse

scared of lag if i spawn multiple

[timber tide]

if you start with a small data container and gradually increase it, that could be fine too. C# is pretty good at managing extending data types like that.

[iron mango]

kk

[timber tide]

Garbage collection is the bigger problem and just not destroying projectiles and recreating is already miles better

[iron mango]

can you help me with one more thing i am struggling with?

[frank zodiac]

what are the official c# unity naming conventions?

[timber tide]

same as c#

you'll see some inconsistencies from some methods, usually stuff that are properties

[iron mango]

the turrets shooting the projectiles,
i want them to rotate towards the enemy and i can't get it to rotate independent of the parent (if the turret is upside down or sideways)

Vector3 direction = target.position - transform.position;  
    direction.y = 0;
    turretBase.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(turretBase.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation(direction), horizontalRotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
``` example code fore one of the parts

[frank zodiac]

how do i add a {get; set} to an enum

[timber tide]

Same as any other auto-property field

[frank zodiac]

when i put it in it gives me an error

[timber tide]

probably post the code and the error

[frank zodiac]

idk where to put it

[timber tide]

So is the problem just that because of the parent child relationship that it's being rotated by the parent

[timber tide]

private Enemy enemy { get; set; }

unless you want to create a new enum then

public enum Enemy
{
   Enemy1,
   Enemy2,
}

private Enemy enemy { get; set; } ```

[frank zodiac]

ohhhhh i see

thank you

[iron mango]

ah sorry i meant dependent of the parent rotation not independent xd
so, the parent (turret itself) for example is rotated 180 degrees, and the child (the turret i rotate with code) always looks at the target the same way, but i want it to be dependent of the parents rotation to also be upside down (why is this so hard to explain wtf)

[timber tide]

Oh actually you can't serialize auto properties like that you need to do

[field: SerializeField] Enemy enemy {get; set;}

[frank zodiac]

oh yeah i forgot abt that

[lavish magnet]

Hello all, trying to code popup text like this, but i am struggling with animations on making it smooth. Starts like this, and ends like this which works perfectly, however their is no lerping or smoothing. I tried to add it and it crashed

    public void MoveUp(float amount)
    {
        //If currently the newest (Still moving to original spot) and this is called again, our end position must be adusted
        if (isNewest)
            endPosition += Vector2.up * amount;

        rectTransform.anchoredPosition += Vector2.up * amount;

    }```

This function is on each text popup prefab, and when a new one spawns, it gets called on all of them in the scene. THe issue is  the `rectTransform.anchoredPosition += Vector2.up * amount, I want to lerp that but i'm not sure how without bugs.

[timber tide]

so you don't want the child to rotate with the parent when the parent rotates. You can look into RotationConstraint class and make its rotation based on a stationary gameobject (like gamemanager) or just dont child it to the parent and instead make it a sibling relationship inside of a container, OR just reduct the rotation from the parent.

[frank zodiac]

wait why wont my enum show in my inspector?

[iron mango]

no, i want it to rotate with the parent raaaah idk how to explain

[timber tide]

Ah, maybe you're looking for localRotation then?

[iron mango]

that doesn't work tho, i tried

[timber tide]

I'd say just use the parents rotation, but you're using rotate towards which takes a transform

[iron mango]

and it has multiple parts, one only rotating on x one only on y

[timber tide]

You can do Quaternion.Lookat and use the parent's rotation to get a new rotation

[timber tide]

Oh wait you are using Quaternion's Rotate towards uh

[iron mango]

yes

[timber tide]

I feel like you can just take the parent's rotation in place of the turret but rotate the turret using that rotation

[iron mango]

i am so confused

yk, i asked here, i asked on stack overflow, i asked chatgpt but i can't get it working i feel so dumb

[timber tide]

probably need something to see to go off of cause I'm not too sure of the requirements

[iron mango]

wait

[violet glacier]

Does it make sense that two scripts reference each other?

[timber tide]

Usually the proper way is that you have some delegate callbacks but that takes time

it's called bi-directional referencing, but honestly unless you're working with a lot of people it's not a problem

usually you see this with UI and slot (think inventory/UI) interactions as sometimes they need to communicate back and forth

[iron mango]

ok both models are children of the the turret object itself, one only rotateson x one only on y
which works but if i flip the turret upside down or sideways, ... they still rotate in the normal rotation and not upside down/sideways, ...

[timber tide]

I think I know what you mean but it's not something I've ran into enough of with doing rotations to really know at the top of my head.

I can only think that there may be some conditional logic on when it's flipped or not

[violet glacier]

Thanks, this is similar to mine

A slot with

• script 1: information (item name, picture, etc)
• script 2: event system (handle clicks)

should I just put these two together in one script instead?

[timber tide]

or some offset values when it is flipped

[timber tide]

Slot stuff I have both event system logic and the data together

[iron mango]

i used a bool to set if it's upside down or not, but that's not really a solution

if the ship hull is not flat

well

[fossil drum]

What are you even trying to do? 🤔
Seems like an easy 2 step rotation right? 1 over the y axis then 1 over the x axis?

[iron mango]

yes i know but i can't get it working that's why i feel so dumb

._.

[fossil drum]

Whats your code to rotate? Probably EulerAngles right?

[iron mango]

here

[exotic hazel]

Hello
So I am making a car game for an exhibition. I wanted to do if because of being so fast the car leaves the track. It gets teleported back to the start. So I gave the track a tag and used oncollisionenter to confirm that if the tag is not road change the position to the sytart. But nothing happened could someone tell how to do it.

Another thing I have an error in a script can it interfere with a function of some other script but on the same object? I have an error on the particle effect on the car can that intergere with the teleportation or anything in any way?

[fossil drum]

Hmm, is this the child code or the base code?

[iron mango]

ah sorry the base is a child of the turret itself, like the barrel, those are rotated through code, the turret itself is what for example rotate upside down to stick on a spaceship

[fossil drum]

Not what I was getting at.
If you have turretBase and turretBarrel the base needs to rotate on the flat axis and the barrel on the vertical axis.
But turretBase.rotation sets a global rotation, if I understand you correctly you want to let turretBarrel keep it's parent rotation from turretBase, but setting the .rotation is again the global rotation.
Isn't your whole thing solved by setting the .localRotation instead?

[iron mango]

wait how do i make it rotate on x only

[timber tide]

y = 0

or constrained to the previous rotation value

you can also chop on individual rotations using angle axis

[iron mango]

y is what i set to 0 for rotating on y only xd

[frank zodiac]

what is this

how do i remove it

[ivory bobcat]

Looks like a break point

Click the red circle

[frank zodiac]

ok i just got rid of it

[frank zodiac]

whats it for?

[ivory bobcat]

Debugging purposes from the ide

[frank zodiac]

oh i see

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/using-breakpoints?view=vs-2022

[late burrow]

whats the shortcut for application.datapath but 1 folder earlier

[fossil drum]

Just check the docs for Application https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application.html

[twilit cliff]

!code

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[tepid horizon]

I cant move without sprinting and this error keeps showing up.

[twilit cliff]

You haven't assigned the specific object to the FirstPersonController Script, click on the object that is attached to FirstPersonController and make sure the reference object is assigned

@tepid horizon Check in the hierarchy

@tepid horizon Share the script

[tepid horizon]

ok thank you i am now. but theres no reference point. attached to firsPersonController is my camera, Joint, and my character model

cc:

you able to find anything

[twilit cliff]

Does the error says 425 or 42:5?

[tepid horizon]

425

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
FirstPersonController.FixedUpdate () (at Assets/Imports/ModularFirstPersonController/FirstPersonController/FirstPersonController.cs:425)

this is the whole error

[twilit cliff]

It's related to the Joint variable Transform, make sure it's assigned properly in the inspector

I'm a beginner as well but as far as I understood, it's trying to take the Transform reference of the Joint object which is not assigned properly

[drowsy oriole]

can someone help make me a script to fix this?

[tepid horizon]

its weird cause i can move but i need to either sprint or jump and then it works for a second then just stops so i dont know

[drowsy oriole]

2 problems

1. the monster is supposed to look in the direction the nav mesh agent is
2. Its not supposed to be in the floor

[twilit cliff]

Not to worry, someone here who's better will help you out, please do wait for response and hope it gets fixed soon, I also came here to post the issue I'm facing...

[languid spire]

Show line 425 of the script

[tepid horizon]

iits not there.

[hexed terrace]

For some reason you're in the edit collider mode, so I'm assuming your pivot is in the middle of the enemy. The nav stuff sets the position of the transform using the pivot, so you need to put the the monsters pivot at the same Y pos as the feet

[tepid horizon]

i dont have a line 425

[hexed terrace]

sure you do, line counts don't skip over numbers.. it's just hidden, you can expand and see line 425.

HOWEVER you need to configure your VS 👇

!vs

[eternal falcon]

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[languid spire]

because you have the code collapsed

[tepid horizon]

sprintBarCG.alpha -= 3 * Time.deltaTime;

[drowsy oriole]

there is no feet

[languid spire]

configure your IDE. It is required to receive help here

[drowsy oriole]

its a gtag fangame so nor the player or monster have feet

[hexed terrace]

ok, so extrapolate the meaning from what I said and what do you need to do....

[tepid horizon]

Sorry where you talking to me?

[languid spire]

yes

[tepid horizon]

it must be outdated i definetly had it configured

[drowsy oriole]

its not working but that isn't the collider for the monster, that's the jump scare collider

[languid spire]

well do it again, because it most certainly is not configured now

[hexed terrace]

I hate having to keep spelling things out ...

so I'm assuming your pivot is in the middle of the enemy. The nav stuff sets the position of the transform using the pivot, so you need to put the the monsters pivot at the same Y pos as the feet

Move the pivot of your monster so that it is located where you want the monster to touch the floor.

[drowsy oriole]

WHERE IS THE PIVOT

[hexed terrace]

As you haven't shown it, and like I already said... I ASSUME it's in the middle of the monster, which is why the monster is in the floor.

[drowsy oriole]

where do I find it

[hexed terrace]

do you mean - "What is the pivot?"

[drowsy oriole]

i just started unity

[hexed terrace]

ok.

Do you mean - "What is the pivot?"

[drowsy oriole]

yes

[dry cairn]

can someone give me a hand its not telling me Game Over in the console window

[hexed terrace]

The red/ green/ blue axis gizmo that appears when you click on an object

[hexed terrace]

Why would you highlight the text like that making it harder to read ? 🤣

[dry cairn]

was gonna copy an paste didnt know if it was too big or not

[hexed terrace]

!code

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[drowsy oriole]

ok you are right it is in the middle of the player how do I move it down

[languid spire]

debug your collision to make sure it is even being called and what is calling it

[hexed terrace]

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

[drowsy oriole]

carwash

[hexed terrace]

Create an empty game object, put the monster as a child and move the monster so that when you click on the parent it's pivot is where you need it to be on the child

or if you modeled this yourself, go back to your 3d prog and do it properly in there

[drowsy oriole]

and then what

Carwash

[hexed terrace]

and then what what?

[drowsy oriole]

it still dont move with the player

and still goes in the ground

[hexed terrace]

of course this doesn't affect that

you have to point the Nav stuff to the parent now

[drowsy oriole]

it still goes in the flor

[hexed terrace]

this is a code channel, move to #🧰┃ui-toolkit

[hexed terrace]

... see how your pivot is STILL in the middle of the monster

select the children (Armature + Cube + anything else) and move them up until they're in a good position

at this point, i really think you should go back and !learn the basics of Unity 👇

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[drowsy oriole]

no im good

just one more thing

how do I fix the rotation

i fixed the pivot btw

[hexed terrace]

by telling it where to rotate to in your !code

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[drowsy oriole]

I am not a good coder

[hexed terrace]

So? What difference does that make? You get good by keep doing and learning

But I've gotta go now, someone else will have to pick that up .. while you wait, try fixing it yourself.

google things like :
unity how to rotate an object
unity how to make an object look at an other
etc

[late burrow]

or ask gpt

[stuck palm]

Can structs inherit each other?

[teal viper]

No

Structs can only implement interfaces afaik