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[swift crag]

if you have Interpolate enabled

[rich adder]

UnityThings ™️

[wintry quarry]

Ah maybe that

[swift crag]

actually, that might not even work either

If you want to continuously rotate a rigidbody use MoveRotation instead, which takes interpolation into account.

[wintry quarry]

for some reason, this works in Update to make smooth rotation.

I agree the docs disagree

but this is Unity

[swift crag]

It will be a lot better than trying to set the transform's rotation when the rigidbody is set to interpolate

since that causes you to fight with the rigidbody

[summer shard]

uhhh it works now

private void HandleMouse()
{
    float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
    float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.fixedDeltaTime;

    cameraLook.y += mouseX;
    cameraLook.x -= mouseY;

    cameraLook.x = Mathf.Clamp(cameraLook.x, -85f, 85f);

    cameraHolder.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(cameraLook.x, cameraLook.y, 0);
}

private void Update()
{
    HandleMouse();
}

[swift crag]

well that's just wrong

[rich adder]

you should still not have deltaTime on inputs

[summer shard]

ik

but it works

[swift crag]

you're using fixedDeltaTime in a method you called from Update

and it's still wrong to use delta time at all

just get rid of it and divide your sensitivity by 50

also, note that this is exclusively rotating the camera holder

it's not rotating the rigidbody at all

so your player isn't going to turn to face the direction you are looking

[summer shard]

uhh yea it kind of works

thanks

[summer shard]

yuh ik

[swift crag]

i can only do so much to stop you from doing objectively wrong things here

[wintry quarry]

remove fixedDeltaTime and adjust your sensitivity

[summer shard]

i did that

[spice pendant]

hi i have wierd issue, i am using TextMeshPro i added font, when i create new material from default shader and color it green it works, but when i rename that material cuz i dont want to hav SDF 1 2 3 45 i want to have greenOutlineFontShader, when i rename it i cant select it as mterial in textMeshPro in inspector, wtf? it all works until i rename it

[rich adder]

I love Unity's "Do as I say not as I do" approach

[sonic mango]

Any noobs in USA timezone interested in teaming up with other noobs for a small project?

[languid spire]

!collab

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[sonic mango]

ty!!

[ruby flower]

anyone tips to learn coding in unity i find that most tutorials write the code and let you copy it and i want to learn how to do it

[languid spire]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[halcyon geyser]

Roll-a-ball tutorial

[ruby flower]

yeah same problem

[rich adder]

also some https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php goes a long way

[ruby flower]

i followed the roll a ball tutorial but they give you the code

and you can't figured it out on your own if you try

[rich adder]

some of the vids are bad at explaining the code

[ruby flower]

yeah but had it with some unity learn things to

[rich adder]

check the stuff pinned in this channel

[ruby flower]

and i dont find a place really how to learn it

it is mostly copying the code

[rich adder]

Imo this one is really good
https://learn.unity.com/project/beginner-gameplay-scripting

explains both Unity - specific functions and regular c# stuff

[ruby flower]

ima check it out 😄

thank you

[halcyon geyser]

Theres plenty of simple and easy ideas which you can code to ur own imagination

[rich adder]

np. All you need is the very basics on how to read c# code, the rest is literally reading the documentation

docs explains(usually) what each function in the API does

[ruby flower]

yeah i checked visual scripting out to see some functions to XD

and other things

didn't knew before it stood in the docs

does someone recommend some good books to learn from?

[rich adder]

books are meh

look up ones on traditional c#

those are way better than unity ones

[ruby flower]

yeah

which do you recommend from traditional c#?

[rich adder]

mostly just theory stuff but you can find those with e-books these days

unity has some too
https://blog.unity.com/games/level-up-your-code-with-game-programming-patterns

[ruby flower]

but i can read the code i find that simple but to make it yourself idk where to start

[rich adder]

hey mention a few books. But these are probably stuff you should worry after you learned how to do 2+2 on the computer

to make it yourself you think of what you want to do then lookup the functions you need through the docs/googling

[ruby flower]

oh

i understand now XD

[rich adder]

coding is literally problem solving

how do I solve this problem

[rigid tundra]

I dont understand whats wrong

[ruby flower]

never thought of that really but now you say it it is really dumb of me

[rich adder]

!cs

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[rich adder]

this is a unity coding channel

[rigid tundra]

ty

[woven crater]

is this look wrong?

[rich adder]

in the beginning it feels overwhelming and you have to like "memorize" stuff but its not like that

[rich adder]

maybe ?

are you having an issue or something

[ruby flower]

i installed the unity plugin on visual studio code but i still dont see like the recommendations idk how to explain i am dutch XD

[wintry quarry]

what are you trying to do?

it doesn't look inherently right or wrong - although those variable names are pretty bad

[rich adder]

oops

[wintry quarry]

Stat6??

It's being multiplied by a V3

[rich adder]

did you follow the setup steps ?

[languid spire]

Geeft niet. Microsoft hebben ook instrukties in het Nederlands

[woven crater]

im having a player manager that couple with PlayerStat/playerweapon/playerinventory/etc. and when a script that needd value from another script i get it through player manager just afraid its gonna be a noddle of coupling 😅

[ruby flower]

i can understand english a little bit ;D

[woven crater]

placeholder for testing stuff

[ruby flower]

but makes it more difficult

[polar acorn]

Why is it named Stat6 instead of what that stat actually is

[rich adder]

numbering stats

[woven crater]

just placeholder ill define each one when im theree

[woven crater]

just want to know if this is a good practice or i can do something else better

[rich adder]

simplify it with scriptable Object and you dont have to worry about coupling much

accessing something many layers deep isn't necessarily coupling

just high level abstraction

[past lichen]

If anyone has a tutorial on implementing Steam achievements using Unity VS, can you ping me?

[woven crater]

does SO only to contain data do i want to define method in there for anyreason?

[rich adder]

SO can have methods

think of them as a fancy static class that unity treats as an asset of sorts

[ruby flower]

i get this message should i install this for unity?

[rich adder]

ah yes, absolutely

when you install .NET SDK restart your PC (very Important)

[woven crater]

daBIIIIGGthink

hmm it does make a whole lot clearer to think them as static class

thank you

[ruby flower]

x64?

or x86

[rich adder]

well do you have a 64 bit os lol

[ruby flower]

oops

XD

does it automatically restart

or

[rich adder]

nah you gotta do it iirc

[ruby flower]

iirc?

[rich adder]

if i recall correctly

[ruby flower]

im going to restart my desktop then

Need to Update Some drivers to 😦

[brave pecan]

hi everyone. i made a quiz game. everything works without problem when i run game in unity. But after i builded my game, game doesnt work correctly. (questions are not showed when game started). What should i do i dont know what could be problem is? As i said i can still play in unity. but build not working right.

[rich adder]

Is it just UI ?
but first I would check any console errors in build, you can use onscreen console or devmode

[slow hollow]

I think the question must be showing but in it must be behind the background

[wintry quarry]

Yeah check the player log file in a development build.

[brave pecan]

thanks guys i will try it

[slow hollow]

Try to add ur phone resolution in the editor and try playing in that

[final kestrel]

When actually does OnAfterDeserialize work? I was watching something and the dude switched the item on a database scriptable object and it updated itself?

I read the docs I did not understand why it happened

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ISerializationCallbackReceiver.OnAfterDeserialize.html

It executes immediately after Unity finishes writing serialized values into the object. This means that Unity has created the object and filled in its fields.

[swift crag]

I'm guessing it's being used to set some non-serialized fields

[rich adder]

this also explains https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ISerializationCallbackReceiver.html

[swift crag]

private int currentHealth;
[SerializeField] int maxHealth;

you might want to write maxHealth into currentHealth after deserialization

and yes, the page for ISerializationCallbackReceiver explains what happens

[languid spire]

It's a good way of rebuilding Dictionaries without using 3rd party tools

[final kestrel]

Yeah he is using dictionaries inside

[swift crag]

OnAfterDeserialize is the very first moment you can safely use the serialized lists to build the dictionary

Doing that in a constructor would be too early.

[languid spire]

so onbeforeserialze splits the Dict into 2 Lists and onafterdeserialize reconstitutes the Dict from the Lists

[final kestrel]

all right thanks.

[ruby flower]

if i write Co i should get console but it doesnt stand here

[rich adder]

did you actually make a Console application?

just making a cs files does nothing

[ruby flower]

oh XD

that explains it

[rich adder]

You need the assemblies and such

[languid spire]

no you shouldn't Console is invalid at that point in the script

[rich adder]

create a script from unity then double click it, you will find all the Unity ones (hopefully)

make sure its all setup in External Tools

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity#_set-vs-code-as-unitys-external-editor

[ruby flower]

i did that now 😄

oh i see it now

[rich adder]

nicee

[ruby flower]

nvm XD

[rich adder]

regen project files too , it might

[ruby flower]

i had 2 visual studios on XD

i see it thank you so much this is going to make it easier

[rich adder]

it really does

[ruby flower]

damn i have deja vu abt this

this happend before i swear XD

[rich adder]

nahh that just means your brain unlocked a new achievement

[ruby flower]

XD

damn i am learning so much now so quick XD

asked chatgpt what void meant now i am reading his code and trying to understand it what you said earlier

i learned about recalling an event to idk how to explain it

[rich adder]

oh god learning through chatgpt is pretty bad

[ruby flower]

oh no XD

was some simple things

[rich adder]

at least as beginner is not a good way to start, it will mislead you

or show bad habits

[ruby flower]

oh okay i wil not use it 😄

well for learning

trying to make smth simple so i am asking for a really simple game idea

[rich adder]

yeah use it for other stuff , learning aint one of them

[barren vapor]

Are you dutch?

damn

[ruby flower]

no he answered to me i am XD

[languid spire]

Nope

[barren vapor]

oh leuk om een nederlander tegen te komen

[ruby flower]

zeker XD

[rich adder]

here some simple game ideas.
Pong, breakout, Angry Birds, Flappy Birds, Spelling Game etc.

[ruby flower]

want smth 3d XD

or not

[rich adder]

make a 3d version of them

[ruby flower]

should i make 3d or 2d

😮 damn good idea

[cosmic dagger]

Flappy bird is always a great first project . . .

[ruby flower]

then i am going to start with flappy bird

i learned blender so i can make a cool model 😄

[rich adder]

angry birds gets no more love 😦

[magic pagoda]

I have this function connected to an Input Field, but the input doesnt change when I hit enter... what am I doing wrong?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/unity-events/dynamic-values

[cosmic dagger]

I'd say do that, then Galaga or Gradius clone . . .

[magic pagoda]

thank youu!

[ruby flower]

they removed the first game and are making bad sequels 😦

and i need to make multiple maps and a physics engine

[rich adder]

its still fun to make in unity, all you're doing is playing with physics

playing w/ physics never get boring

[ruby flower]

yeah true

i can go make angry birds to

is procedural generation hard in unity

prob yeah XD

because otherwise you need to make a lot of levels

[jovial forge]

Quaternion.Euler(x, y, z) Appears to be setting rotation in world space. Looking through the API I'm not finding how to change the rotation based on the parent

[ruby flower]

or 1 level XD

[magic pagoda]

ohhh okay... I hadnt picked it from the dynamic part ^^;

[rich adder]

just make 3-4 levels but harder on each one lol

[languid spire]

world or local space will depend on where you are assinging the result to

[rich adder]

use transform.Rotate

[ruby flower]

im going to make one model and that is the red one XD

oh really simple models just a sphere XD

[rich adder]

use primitive shapes in the beginning, put graphics later

[ruby flower]

greyboxing

right

[jovial forge]

I'm trying to assign the rotation within the Instantiate method

[ruby flower]

should i make a first person angrybird game xD

or is that weird

[rich adder]

then you want the yourTransform.localRotation ?

[rich adder]

this is more question of #archived-game-design
well going to be diffcult to include the main mechanic which is swiping / holding left to charge a shot . how would one even do that in fpv

[ruby flower]

yeah okay XD

[jovial forge]

But localEulerAngels() can't be used as a method

[swift crag]

yes, beacuse it's not a method

it's a property of Transform, and you read and write it

[magic pagoda]

is there any way to round numbers into a small decimal instead of an int? like, rounding down 3.14 to 3.1 instead of just 3

[slender nymph]

unity's Snapping.Snap method can do that

[rich adder]

also eulerangles is not a quaternion

which is what instantiate wants

[polar acorn]

Do you need to actually change the number, or do you just want to display it with less digits?

[magic pagoda]

I want to change it yeah

[magic pagoda]

lemme try that!

[cosmic dagger]

Start with a simple idea and create a to-do list of the games' features. Don't feature creep or do anything big

I got stuck working on a custom inspector for a package and haven't touched Unity in months. Now I'm (trying to) learn C++ . . .

[night owl]

Hi! (im back ;,)) I've been trying to make the attack point for my player character to be shaped to a polygon collider but it keeps saying that "no overload for method OverlapCollider takes 2 arguements and I've gone thru so much documentation and trial/error but am still very stuck.
code: https://gdl.space/ikabidarid.cs
thanks for any help in advance!

[rich adder]

documentation? doubt

[night owl]

please i swear

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapCollider.html
There isn't any form of OverlapCollider that takes only two parameters

[jovial forge]

I want to tryQuaternion.AngleAxis(180, Vector3.up) but I have a feeling this will be in world space and not local

[rich adder]

did you look at docs of Physics2D.OverlapCollider

[rich adder]

I mean idk that has nothing to do with what I suggested lol

[night owl]

yes

[rich adder]

You mean now that digiholic linked you

[night owl]

no

yesterday i looked at it

and it was linked multiple times 😭

[rich adder]

so where did you see it takes 2 parameters

also is IDE even configured?

pretty sure it shows you what signature is

[jovial forge]

But what you suggested doesn't work with the Instantiate method

[rich adder]

yes it does

[night owl]

yeah i got it working

[cosmic dagger]

So, if you looked, then you know that it doesn't have a definition with two parameters. Why are you trying to input only two parameters . . .

[magic pagoda]

how... would I do that with snapping? the scripting API isnt really helping and there is literally nothing else online q.q

[rich adder]

I have my doubts lol it shows you inside the code editor what the 3 parameters are.
so you either are not paying attention or its not configured to help you

[night owl]

im very new to this, i didnt know what that meant

[night owl]

im trying really hard to pay attention i didnt understand

[rich adder]

if you dont know something look it up.

"what is parameters in function" etc

[cosmic dagger]

Try breaking down the error message. It says no overload for OverlapCollider takes two arguments

You can lookup c# overload and c# arguments if you don't know what they are . . .

[night owl]

ok thats fair

i really didnt mean to ask pointless questions i thought i was genuinely stuck

small part of yesterdays search history

[magic pagoda]

either Snapping.Snap didnt work or Im dumb... any other suggestions, guys..?

found a way I think.

[jovial forge]

Quaternion.Euler(Transform.localEulerAngles + new Vector3(0, 90,0)); I'm guessing this is more of what you were talking about?

[rich adder]

not at all

nowhere did i mention eulerAngles

i said Instantiate takes Quaternion instead of eulerAngles, not sure why you keep insisting on using that lol

transform.localRotation gives you the local rotation as Quaternion

[slender nymph]

show what you tried

[magic pagoda]

I found another way

[jovial forge]

transform.localRotation = startWall I think I got it now lol

Where private Quaternion startWall = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);

[polar acorn]

Protip: Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0) can be written shorter as Quaternion.identity if you wanna clean up your code a bit

[twin bolt]

Question, how would i go by adding a portal like pick-up system, where the object floats in front of the player, but the item kinda sways to the players camera, not just following. So its kind of delayed?

[ionic zephyr]

is it better to check if the inventory is full in Update or everytime I add an object??

[wintry quarry]

lots of ways - for portal though it'd involve something like setting the Rigidbody velocity towards the "holding point" in order to allow realistic physics interaction

[willow scroll]

Surely, every time you add an object. It's better for the performance.

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, thanks a lot

[wintry quarry]

Ideally you won't even have an Update function for most scripts

[twin bolt]

Okay i'll try that. Something like movetowards?

[wintry quarry]

No, setting velocity.

MoveTowards isn't a way of moving things anyway, it's a math function to calculate a position

[twin bolt]

Oh ok

[willow scroll]

Update is called every frame, so this will decrease your performance if you do all these things there. Aditionally, it's much more readable

[ionic zephyr]

thanks for this advice!

[polar acorn]

Doing nothing is always more performant than doing something. The more often you can manage to do nothing instead of something, the better

[ionic zephyr]

Im planning on making a crafting system similar to little alchemy (with drag-and-drop events) does anyone know how to check if the place where my object lands is in an specific area?

[wintry quarry]

IPointerEnterHandler/ExitHandler and just store whatever the most recent object was?

[swift crag]

one more thing: if you only check if your inventory is full in Update, anything that adds more than 1 item to your inventory in one frame will overfill your inventory

[jovial forge]

Somehow this Instantiate(walls[0], transform.TransformPoint( -2, 0, 2), transform.localRotation = leftWall); is causing the left wall to be spawned with a world position of (-10, 0, -2). The object that is spawn this wall has a world position of (0, 0, 0)

[swift crag]

checking if it's full in Update is just flat-out wrong

[ionic zephyr]

Im using the IBeginHandler, IDragHandler interfaces but I dont really get if the object I drag should be an special class of objects that can be mixed or something

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, I see, thanks!

[wintry quarry]

1. Scale and rotaiton also affect TransformPoint
2. transform.localRotation = leftWall < you sure you want to be doing this inside the Instantiate call?

[jovial forge]

Seemed like the cleaner way to do it. Instead of instantiating it and then transforming it. Their weird thing is it only effects the objects rotated at 90 or 270. The objects at 0 and 180 have the proper positions

[languid spire]

Have you actually looked at the Instantiate documentation?

[wintry quarry]

but you're setting the rotation of the object the script is attached to as well as the one you're instantiating with this

is that intended?

I doubt it

[late burrow]

can i make interface which requires index input

[faint agate]

Hello, I ran into a problem I dont understand why it wont destroy the game object, I even put a log to see if I hit a wall and it prints when I do hit a wall but it doesnt destroy the game object.

1. script to detect hitting a wall https://gdl.space/ujeqarajay.cpp
2. script to destroy gameobject upon hitting a wall https://gdl.space/awexosivuq.cpp

[jovial forge]

Wait, so the transform.LocalRotation is changing the object the script is attached to and not the object that is being instantiated?

[languid spire]

how do expect the HitWall varaible to be filled with anything ?

[jovial forge]

How am I setting the rotation of the object the script is attached to?

[languid spire]

wait. This code wont even compile. is your IDE configured

[slender nymph]

transform.localRotation = leftWall assigns this object's localRotation to leftWall

or rather it assigns the value of leftWall to this object's localRotation

[spiral rain]

Hello, I am using https://github.com/CMDRSpirit/RollercoasterDesigner this package to make my one roller coaster. Sadly it is not very polished but I have one problem with it. When I set the StartSlope Variable it sets its own. (See Attached video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CJEgclQS7Q3JbD32qIymqrm9aiU7Gspt/view?usp=sharing) Also when you try to make a vertical loop or any other loop it glitches out at makes it so you are not inverted.

I tried to get Chat GPT do help me fix it but that didn't work. I came to the conclusion that this line might be the source of the problem float3 startSlope = lengthsq(StartSlope) != 0 ? StartSlope : float.NaN; Here is the scipt https://pastebin.com/j957ybX3 and the GitHub project https://github.com/CMDRSpirit/RollercoasterDesigner

[languid spire]

and then passes that as the world rotation for the instantiated object

[jovial forge]

I don't understand what I'm missing here with the rotations

Should I just instantiate the object and then transform the rotation?

[slender nymph]

do you want the object with this component on it to be rotated whenever you instantiate something?

[late burrow]

i wondered whats the proper way of getting something like that, i have big array of interfaces, and these have some field in them which i want make array of, do i just loop through each of them

[jovial forge]

No, I just want to rotate the object that is being instantiated

[slender nymph]

then why are you doing transform.localRotation = leftWall

[ionic zephyr]

Does anyone know how to do a drag and drop system like in Little Alchemy? (I reckon it creates a copy of the object that can be mixed right?)

[rich adder]

you should prob explain for someone not familiar with the game

what makes it so special?

[ionic zephyr]

Oh okay sorry

[jovial forge]

Because I was trying to set the local rotation of the object that is being instantiated

[slender nymph]

as has already been pointed out, that sets this object's rotation, not the instantiated object. and then it passes that as the instantiated object's world rotation

[ionic zephyr]

the thing is it is a game in which you have an inventory with different items. Also you have a big space in which those items are manipulated. Whenever two items are mixed they are converted in something else (crafting)

[ionic zephyr]

this is how it looks

[jovial forge]

Yup, I see that. So how do I get this objects local rotation?

[slender nymph]

you cannot assign the local rotation in the Instantiate call, you have to do it after it is instantiated. so pass Quaternion.identity for the rotation, then on the following line assign the returned object's localRotation

[rich adder]

I still dont understand how it works by looking at a still picture lol
Ill look it up hold on

[wintry quarry]

Because you wrote transform.localRotation = leftWall

That's what that does

[jovial forge]

Yup, I got the answer now. Thanks

[languid spire]

next time please read the docs and save yourself a lot of effort

[rich adder]

ohh this is pretty simple in terms of UI

[jovial forge]

I searched the docs first and when I can't find the answer or don't understand I come here.

[rich adder]

@ionic zephyr just use the event trigger basically to do an OnDrop or OnEndDrag

[languid spire]

So you read the Instantiate documentation and did not see that rotation could not be set in local space?

[ionic zephyr]

Ive already created this inventory system I am stuck with the drag and drop stuff

[rich adder]

well first thing to know is it UI or SpriteRenderer

[ionic zephyr]

you mean UI Images?

[ionic zephyr]

My inventory is made up of slots that have an Image and a quantity text

[ionic zephyr]

I used Grid Layout Group

[jovial forge]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html I don't see in here where is says that it can't be set in local space

[rich adder]

so UI then. Canvas

[ionic zephyr]

Yeah, sorry

[rich adder]

You can use methods such as these for example
https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.EventTrigger.OnDrop.html

[ionic zephyr]

I started using the IBeginHandler interfaces

[rich adder]

yea

those are pretty much the way through event system

or just get raycast hits from the Raycaster directly , thats also an option

[languid spire]

' If the position and rotation are specified, they are used as the object's position and rotation in world space.'

[ionic zephyr]

Maybe. The thing is that I dont really know how to program it since I dont understand if I should create a clone of the object in the inventary evertime I drag it?

It is difficult to explain sorry

[jovial forge]

Then that would mean that I can't set the local position either

[rich adder]

only you know how your setup is and how an object is created
you said you already got the recipe part ?

[languid spire]

not using that method overload, no

[ionic zephyr]

Not the receipt but the UI and the inventory collecting items system

but I dont know how to do this, I thought of making a DraggingItem component and make also a CraftableComponent for the objects in the crafting area but Im really lost

[rich adder]

do you have a way to determine if its craftable or not etc.

the basic gist of it, I use scriptable objects to check recipies. I use the object being dropped on to call a "TryCraft" function or something

[tulip tendon]

hi, i have a horror gave and i need the monster to shoot object, but i tried codes from youtube last few hours and nothing works, can someone help me please

[rich adder]

"nothing works" are you sure you just didn't mess it up by copying wrong.
very unlikely multiple videos and "nothing works"

[lost wasp]

Hello there. I wanted to make my own little 2D Pixel Game for quite a while but im more like a designer rather then a programmer but im willing to learn C#. The Problem is, there are to many courses and guide and im not really sure, whats the best content for me to start this journey. For some more informations. I want to make like a basic demo of an 2D Pixel RPG and there for I want to make my own scripts with C#. Like an Inventory system and so on. Does anyone has a clue what content I could use of does anyone can recommend a C# course for a beginner? Greetings! 🙂

[rich adder]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

start with pathways ^^
this goes for you too @tulip tendon

[ionic zephyr]

I thought of making the sprites of the objects draggable and if when I stop dragging the image it is located within the crafting area, Ill create an object with the Crafting component, which can be mixed with other objects

[tulip tendon]

i edited some parts of the code, becose it gave me few errors, then th bullets just came out of nowere

[ionic zephyr]

does it sound logical?

[lost wasp]

Thank you but is it just about C#? I feel pretty good in the usage of Unity itself.

[ionic zephyr]

Also, do you know a way in which I could make sure a certain object is located within a certain area??

[languid spire]

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp

[rich adder]

ok they have both but do look at the microsoft site linked

[rich adder]

idk what that means, you have to show the problem and what you tried to resolve it along with what exactly you're going for

[rich adder]

are the objects just UI representation of inventory items you have ?

[lost wasp]

@languid spire @rich adder Thank you guys aswell. I will take a look! 🙂

[ionic zephyr]

yes

[rich adder]

Im confused on that part

[ionic zephyr]

as you can see, the slot has an image, which is the thing I want to make draggable

[rich adder]

oh ok so you dont know how to make it draggable ?

just set its position to Input.mousePosition in the OnDrag method or use Update

[ionic zephyr]

I do, with the interfaces, but I dont understand if I should make a Clone of the object

whenever it touches the crafting area

[rich adder]

what do you need a clone for ?

[ionic zephyr]

because the images are just that, they dont have the function of being mixed with other objects

[rich adder]

they don't have to, they can just be placeholders

but you do need some scripts to determine its craftable

[ionic zephyr]

so the sprite images and the crafting objects should be the same?

[rich adder]

if the sprites do stuff they are no longer just sprites but part of the logic/mechanic

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, maybe its simpler that way

[rich adder]

not a fan of working with UI myself but yeah you have to have a way to determine what you dropped on is a craftable object

I typically just have UI invoke an event to a manager of sorts

instead of dealing with the logic directly

[ionic zephyr]

could you explain this? Maybe its better of what I am thinking

[rich adder]

so basically If I have a script on the UI image you can drag onto. this script just says "Hey something was dropped on me , Invoke this event with this value (the object that was dropped on it)

then the manager that was subscribed to this event does the logic, because each spawned item has this event so on creation just subscribe to it when Instantiated

[ionic zephyr]

So the crafting should be done on a separate manager?

[rich adder]

Its mainly preference / workflow . I personally would do so

[ionic zephyr]

Okay really helpful

[rich adder]

when chain stores get money , they count it (through machines that ring you up) but whos the one that does processing and payrolls pays everyone is the company that owns those stores

[ionic zephyr]

I also have a doubt, how can you check if an object is located within a certain area?

[ionic zephyr]

oooh, okay

[ionic zephyr]

thanks for the metaphore

[rich adder]

I would just make a dropzone be an Image set to opacity to 0
this way all the UI event system work, like OnDrop
and you can resize it how you want through Canvas

[lusty nest]

Hello, is there a way to reset the entire scene without stopping play mode from within a script? Alternatively it would take longer but I would have to reset all the position, rotation, velocity, angular velocities of multiple gameobjects so

[ionic zephyr]

but what if I want to move the objects freely in the dropzone?

and also

how can I ensure the object is located in that zone

within those "borders"

[rich adder]

You can check for example PointerExit the dropzone image if its holding an item already to "drop it" where it is

I think you might be jumping 20 steps ahead already 😛

[ionic zephyr]

oh okay

but what I am saying is

if I drop the object in the crafting area it stays there wating for it to be mixed

but if I place it outside i want to destroy that object

[rich adder]

you can use OnEndDrag on the Sprite you're dragging

[ionic zephyr]

how do I ensure it stays there

[rich adder]

if its not dropped on anything you destroy or whatever

[ionic zephyr]

but how do I know what "anything" is?

[rich adder]

the Canvas Raycaster is always raycasting from your cursor, you can for example check if the raycast pointer is not on any UI elements of interest

[ionic zephyr]

how?

[rich adder]

ill show you an example rq gotta load up unity 🕚

[hasty sleet]

IDropHandler has a parameter that tracks PointerData which contains the object dropped onto

[rich adder]

basically this

[hasty sleet]

I haven't used it in a while but PointerData should contain all the information you need

[rich adder]

indeed

[ionic zephyr]

okay thanks dont worry

[rich adder]

if I drop what Im holding onto "nothing" it returns where it was for example

[ionic zephyr]

How can I access it?

[hasty sleet]

Check out docs here: https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.PointerEventData.html

[ionic zephyr]

this is just what i need

[hasty sleet]

You access it by implementing IDragHandler, IDropHandler, and other interface classes for pointer data.

Check out IDropHandler here: https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IDropHandler.html

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, I already implemented those

[rich adder]

yes exactly I use EventData

like ```cs
public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{
var obj = eventData.pointerCurrentRaycast.gameObject;
Debug.Log(obj);
if (obj != null)
{

    if (obj.TryGetComponent(out UISlot uiSlot))
    {

        SetUISlot(uiSlot);
        belongsTo = BelongsTo.Slot;
        image.raycastTarget = true;
        return;
    }```

[ionic zephyr]

Oookay, i think I get it now

thanks a lot guys

[robust kelp]

for rigidbody 3d transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y + 0.5f, transform.position.z); is it better to put it in update or fixedupdate?

[languid spire]

neither. dont mix rigidbody and transform movement

[robust kelp]

how do i crouch then

just change hitbox height?

[languid spire]

wtf has crouching got to do with movement?

[polar acorn]

Not sure what this code you've shown has to do with crouching or why the suggestion would preclude implementing a crouching system

[hasty sleet]

It is not clear what you are asking

This teleports the object up 0.5 units.

You didn't state your requirements or goals, so there is no way you can be helped.

[robust kelp]

mb again but i think i solved it on my own 👍

[zinc kite]

I have both the shoot and movement script follow the cursor they both dependent on a variable named rotaionZ. First where should I put the script that gets mouse cursor rotation and how can I update it in both scripts?

[polar acorn]

It doesn't matter that both have a variable with the same name, they're two different variables

[zinc kite]

I have the gun follow the mouse cursor and check it the location is more that 90 degrees to slip the sprite. So it is the same variable but used in both the sprite slipping and updateing the direction of the gun

[ionic zephyr]

eventData.pointerCurrentRaycast.gameObject doesn´t return the object in which I dropped my dragged object correctly

[polar acorn]

They're different variables with the same name. They both might even end up representing the same value, but they'd each need to be set independently. They don't "share" variables

[ionic zephyr]

does anyone know how to know where the object has been drop?

[ivory bobcat]

What did it return instead?

[ionic zephyr]

the object I was dragging

[ivory bobcat]

So it returned the object which was dragged

[ionic zephyr]

the same object I was dragging yeah

[ivory bobcat]

Get the objects position and it would be where the object is atm

[rich adder]

you have raycast target still enabled on what ur dragging ?

thats prob why

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not sure what the issue is

[ionic zephyr]

this is the code

_clothBackground is the background of the interface

whenever I drop the object, the Raycast returns the object itself

[rich adder]

did you see what I wrote?

[ionic zephyr]

yeah

[rich adder]

do you have Raycast Target enabled on the thing you're dragging

if you don't turn it off, of course the first returned object is what you're holding onto

[zinc kite]

I have both the gun rotation updated and character flip in the same player controller script. But I want to separate the gun rotation from the player controller script to the shooting script

[ionic zephyr]

Oh my god, thanks

[ionic zephyr]

and when interacting (mixing as I explained befor) with other objects is it better to do it with RayCast or with Colliders and Triggers?

[polar acorn]

Okay, so they're the same script currently, but you want to split them. You'll keep this variable in whichever script the CursorRotation function ends up in, and have the other script reference that one to read its rotationZ variable

[ionic zephyr]

Now I cant drag the object

[rich adder]

what I do is toggle it on and off

[ionic zephyr]

on when start draggin?

[rich adder]

yes

start drag = off
end drag = on

[zinc kite]

Okay I will try that. Thanks a lot ❤️

[ionic zephyr]

And what if I use Colliders and Triggers?

[rich adder]

if they are UI why are you using colliders?

[ionic zephyr]

Maybe Its better to create this system not UI?

[ionic zephyr]

Are crafting systems commonly created with UI? I really don´t know

[rich adder]

depends on your game

[ionic zephyr]

In my case is it convenient?

[ionic zephyr]

Also, speaking about recepies, how are they programmed?, I don´t think it is writting a bunch of "if´s" right?

[rich adder]

I use scriptable objects

[polar acorn]

Probably ScriptableObjects

[ivory bobcat]

It depends entirely on how or what you'd want to do with it. For example, you could evaluate combinations using a bunch of if statements, flags or whatnot. It's open ended.

[swift crag]

or plain old C# objects that you serialize into a scriptable object

you might want to be able to handle recipes without needing an asset

I mean, I guess you can create non-asset ScriptableObject instances, but,

[ionic zephyr]

In my case in which objects combine forming another when interacting each other?

maybe "if´s" are okay?

[ivory bobcat]

Just make what you can

[swift crag]

you don't want to implement the actual recipes directly in code

you want to write code that reasons about recipes

(which are just data)

[rich adder]

not a big code monkey fan but this video kinda summarizes the whole process with Crafting using SOs

https://youtu.be/_aC3NVIQ-ok

[ionic zephyr]

the thing is my items are objects

of a class

I didn´t use Scriptable Objects

[rich adder]

they are just for the recipe not the item itself

[ionic zephyr]

oh so those drag and drop objects should be Scriptable Objects?

[rich adder]

just the crafting system and recipes, helps matching

the output can just be a GameObject or whatever u got

look over it and you will see

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, thanks a lot guys

[twin bolt]

How do i rotate a object to a certain point, like a animation?

but from code

[rich adder]

Lerp in coroutine

for rotation you can prob use Slerp

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/coroutines
shows how to implement duration for example

[slender nymph]

or use a tweening library (if you already have a need for one or could use one in other situations as well, don't just download an entire tweening library for a single rotation)

[rich adder]

ah yes Dotween can do this in one line lol

[twin bolt]

Oh ok

[ionic zephyr]

navarone, Im thinking of making the Image as a placeholder from which you generate the objects that go into the crafting area

and cloning from it

[amber spruce]

what is the 2d version of physics.CheckSphere

[ionic zephyr]

See how i get many instances of the "Earth" object? I think I´m going to make the image of the slot a "generator" of instances of a class "Craftable Object"

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.html

since 2D only has circle and not spheres..

[rich adder]

You need to make a manager of Item amount

like quantity

[amber spruce]

i looked for any that sound like checksphere but for circles and stuff and there arent any that seem to check they just return either a list of colliders or the first collider

[slender nymph]

OverlapCircle

[amber spruce]

alright thanks

[slender nymph]

it still returns a collider, but you just null check that and that tells you if anything at all was found there

[void seal]

I have my VSC Configured for Unity but it appears my Quick Actions and Refactoring is no longer showing up! Any reason that may be? The only thing I can think of is variables that aren’t being referenced properly rather than an issue with VSC.

Or a mistake in proper inheritance?

[slender nymph]

i don't understand what you mean when you say you think it is "variables that aren't being referenced properly", but if your quick actions and other IDE related features are not working, then try regenerating project files and restart vs code. if that doesn't work, try reconfiguring it. and if that doesn't work then consider switching to a real IDE that isn't liable to break every 5 minutes

[winter spade]

i want to start dev. games in unity, does it make sense to build projects wiht c+ first to have an understanding of the p language or should i just go straight unity engine

[void seal]

I appreciate it but not sure what is gained by that last part. One could at least specify alternatives.

[ivory bobcat]

Unity uses c# not c+

[winter spade]

i meant c#* 😅

[swift crag]

what are you actually trying to do that isn't pulling up Quick Actions properly?

[slender nymph]

there are three code editors that are supported by unity. one is jsut a code editor with plugins that make it act like an IDE (vs code), the other two are fully featured IDEs and a simple google search, or even just looking at #854851968446365696 would have told you they are Rider and Visual Studio

[wintry quarry]

I think it will give you a great advantage in Unity to understand C# first. Yes

[winter spade]

alright so i think ill start learning c# first, thanks

[ivory bobcat]

If you know the basics and are simply moving to the unity platform, you may be able to get away with just some !learn tutorials - api, workflow etc. Else you'll really struggle if you're trying to learn to program and use Unity at the same time.

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[swift crag]

(well, they're "code actions" in VSCode: "quick action" is a Visual Studio term)

[rich adder]

oh yeah never noticed

[void seal]

Trying to generate override methods for a state machine. Just to save time. Nothing crazy. Don’t want to type them for each state but will if I need to.

[rich adder]

add missing cases you mean? make sure you're doing it on the variable in the switch

[void seal]

Unity code chat help will tell you about how they know better and answer a question last.

[swift crag]

if you're talking about implementing abstract methods, that should be a code action on the type name.

[short hazel]

You can also type override and the start of the method name whil in the class, and it should provide you with a list of available methods to override

[slender nymph]

Unity code chat will completely misunderstand a problem, not bother doing any research, then get mad when someone else tells them something that they don't want to bother researching at all

[swift stream]

anyone know how to fix failed to update android sdk package list?

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk or #📱┃mobile

[summer stump]

You HAVE been answered. The very first reponse gave you an answer
There have also been questions to help clarify what you mean, which you ignored

[amber spruce]

hey so i want to use math.lerp to lerp a gameobjects rotation from where its at to 0 on all rotation axis how would i do that exactly

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe consider using quaternion slerp for rotations

Else Vector 3 lerp/slerp.

[slender nymph]

also check out this page for info on how lerping (or slerping) works: https://unity.huh.how/lerp/overview
it even has a link to a page that explains how to do it in a coroutine

[amber spruce]

aight thanks

[twin bolt]

Why isn't this working, It seems to not be getting past the if statements. https://i.imgur.com/B6lMjlb.png

The second if statement is the one with the issue

[slender nymph]

why are you comparing floats like that? you should pretty much never compare floats for equality, use something like Mathf.Approximately. but also why the magic numbers

[ivory bobcat]

What do you mean by getting past the if statement? Are there any errors or are you referring to the statements never being true?

[twin bolt]

Nope no console errors. The object just isn't rotating. Without the if statement they rotate just fine.

[rich adder]

unless you set something to 24.938 aint no way thats gonna happen. Ah yess you're using quaternion as they were euler

[ivory bobcat]

Rotation would be a quaternion, so consider not to even bothering evaluating it.

[slender nymph]

oh yeah those numbers are way off for a quaternion, which is normalized

[twin bolt]

The object starts at 24.938

[twin bolt]

Oh ok

[rich adder]

yes eulerangles and quaternions are different

[slender nymph]

and even if they were the values you see in the inspector for its euler angles, you should never base your logic on the euler angles like that since they are interpreted from the quaternion at the time you read them. and rotations can be expressed in a very large number of ways using euler angles

[amber spruce]

any idea how i can make it so it does that but rotates to look at the player?

[rich adder]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/#lerp_rotation
just replace it with slerp

[amber spruce]

ok thanks

[late burrow]

how i make class with lists that doesnt start as null

[wintry quarry]

use a field initializer

[late burrow]

i added = new List<string> to them next to class but they still output as null

i dont want manually activate each of them

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "they output as null"? Show your code.

[late burrow]

i need to create them

when i create new class

[wintry quarry]

show your code

[late burrow]

wwhen i create new followdata i want lists to already be done

[slender nymph]

that's what will happen there. the lists will not be null when you create an instance of that class

[late burrow]

they are null

[slender nymph]

show where you are seeing that they are null

[wintry quarry]

What makes you think that?

[dense root]

How do you setup dialog for multiple characters? Right now I have it ghetto rigged as a string in a script but what if if I want to reuse the same dialog system for other characters?

    private string[] dialog = 
        { "こんいちは", 
        "The poor bell is jammed, it's like the heart of the town has stopped beating.", 
        ""};

[late burrow]

ok it was because i was confusing i with ii

[frosty hound]

Don't hardcode the array of strings, serialize it to the inspector and add it there for each NPC

[wintry quarry]

Dialogue systems are complicated. A good first step is maybe make a ScriptableObject where you can store dialog and reference it from a character.

[dense root]

Oh smart, smart.

[frosty hound]

(though architecturally speaking, this isn't the greatest method, but just to answer your question)

[late burrow]

also how can i make array of that class to autofill itself

[dense root]

That's a fairly simple way to go about doing it, thank you so much

[wintry quarry]

define "autofill"

[late burrow]

new followdata[] to have all in array not null

[wintry quarry]

Assuming it's an array of a class, you have to populate it

for(int i = 0; i < followdata.Length; i++) {
  followdata[i] = new Something();
}``` for example

[late burrow]

so regular way

[wintry quarry]

yes, the regular way

[late burrow]

thought i maybe can add [notnullable] something

[wintry quarry]

if it's an array of a struct, it will already bne filled with the default version of the struct, since structs cannot be null

[slender nymph]

but you should also note that structs cannot have field initializers

[late burrow]

so struct will make it both autofilled and lists autofilled

[slender nymph]

so reference types stored in the struct, like lists will default to null

[late burrow]

aw

[wintry quarry]

arrays are always autofilled with the default value for the type

For classes, the default value is null
For structs, it's a zeroed-out version of the struct

[late burrow]

oh i realized i dont want go by adds but by exact indexes

can i for example access 1000 index of list and it will auto extend to that range?

[wintry quarry]

no

Consider either a large enough array, or a Dictionary<int, MyClass>

[late burrow]

hmm so whats the best way for array of unknown length which i want to fill out with nulls in middle in some cases

[wintry quarry]

answered here

[late burrow]

isnt dictionary just list but double?

[wintry quarry]

no

what does that mean anyway? List but double?

[late burrow]

ah right using ints in non index way

[wintry quarry]

the int would be an index in the example of Dictionary<int, MyClass>

technically called a "key" but it serves the same purpose

[dense root]

Hmm I'm stumped, my dialog system works for one character's interaction but when I apply the same thing to another character they refuse to speak lol
https://gdl.space/lifekeseni.cs

The problem is that it won't set canvasDialog.SetActive(true) for some odd reason

Oh here we go, I'm getting an error message now

[wintry quarry]

read the full error - it will give you a filename and line number

on that line, you are trying to access a GameObject that has been destroyed

[dense root]

But I'm not destroying anything as far as I understand. I mean obviously I am destroying something but I don't get where that could possibly take place

[wintry quarry]

Start with this

filename and line number
Read it, or you're flying blind and guessing

[dense root]

I'm setting it to false at the beginning manually but other than that there's no reference to it being destroyed

[wintry quarry]

DID you do what I mentioned yet

read the error

you seem to be ignoring that part

and trying to skip ahead

you need to know the filename and line number where it's taking place. Without that, you're wasting your time.

[teal viper]

There should be an error thrown every time someone doesn't read the error properly

[slender nymph]

but they would need to read that new error too which probably won't happen

[slender bridge]

Also do a find all for "Destroy" in your project files

[slender nymph]

it's likely due to a scene change not an actual Destroy call

[slender bridge]

true but you never know lol

[slender nymph]

sure, but i am also pretty familiar with their project at this point. but they still need to read the stack trace for the error to see where it is actually coming from

[dense root]

The error disappeared

[teal viper]

A recursion that would result in a crash. A worthy punishment.🧌

[slender nymph]

don't worry. if you did nothing to fix it, it will be back

[dense root]

Yeah I cannot replicate the aforementioned console error

I'm really confused how it's working for another character but not the one that was duplicated. I made some adjustments to address the null error but i'm pretty sure that won't fix it

    private void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        hasEntered = false;

        if (canvasDialog != null)
        {
            canvasDialog.SetActive(false);
        }
        dialogInt = 0;
    }

[slender nymph]

have you actually confirmed this is the source of the issue?

[wintry quarry]

have you looked at the filename and line number of the error yet?

[dense root]

Yeah I double clicked the console error and checked the offending line

[wintry quarry]

and which line was that

[dense root]

canvasDialog.SetActive(false);

[wintry quarry]

the one in OnTriggerExit2D?

[dense root]

Yeah

[slender nymph]

and how is canvasDialog assigned

[wintry quarry]

Ok what oyu shoudl do then is this:

        if (canvasDialog == null)
        {
            Debug.Log($"CanvasDialog was null on {name}!", this.gameObject);
        }```

[slender nymph]

is this object perhaps a DontDestroyOnLoad object?

[dense root]

If I'm reading this correctly, no

[wintry quarry]

yes or no would suffice

you weouldn't know until the game is running

[dense root]

This is a screenshot of the game running

[wintry quarry]

anyway you may simply have a copy of this script on an object in the scene which is referring to an object you destroyed

[dense root]

I don't get how I'm destroying something when I don't have that call anywhere in my scripts

[wintry quarry]

pressing delete in the editor is one way

another is unloading a scene

[slender bridge]

You say it works on the primary object and then doesn't on the duplicated one, have you checked the inspector to make sure everything is still referenced correctly ? and that the game object is active when you need it again ?

[slender nymph]

you should pause execution when that variable is null so you can inspect wtf is happening. you can use Debug.Break() to pause play mode. or just don't null check and enable error pause on the consoel

also, unrelated to the issue (probably) but you don't need separate components for "Girl Dialog" and "Boy Dialog" and stuff if it's just to display dialog. you can reuse the same component

[dense root]

Oh okay, let me go back to the drawing board and see what I can come up with, i'll try that Debug.Break() trick technique

[slender bridge]

As boxfriend said, you just need to create a prefab that you can instantiate when you need it and just update the text if its a simple dialog with no uniqueness

[slender nymph]

i mean, it doesn't need to be a prefab. just reuse the same component type, the copy with a different name does exactly the same thing just uses different values for its serialized variables

[dense root]

So I figured it out, because of the way I've implemented dialog system I actually need to have an empty string so that it can iterate upon it

[slender nymph]

huh?

[dense root]

I think the way I did this line
https://gdl.space/laxahizemo.cs

            // When it reaches end of dialog/array, set dialog canvas to inactive.
            if (dialogInt >= dialog.Length)
            {
                canvasDialog.SetActive(false);
                // Reset dialogInt to 0 so you can speak to them again
                dialogInt = 0;
            }

[slender nymph]

i don't see how any of that would cause the error you were experiencing

[dense root]

Yeah I'm confuddled too

[slender nymph]

did you bother doing what i suggested and actually look at what is happening in your scene at the time the error occurs? or are you just taking wild guesses about what is causing it? because it seems like you are doing the latter

[dense root]

I can't, because the error refuses to reproduce

[slender nymph]

well yes, you're specifically preventing the error now. put the debug.break in the else statement with that debug.log call

[dense root]

The canvasdialog one? Okay

Yeah it won't break

[slender nymph]

what did you do before when it was throwing the error? do exactly that

[dense root]

Nothing special, honestly it was being thrown randomly

When I put the play mode

[slender nymph]

don't tell me . . . was it throwing the error when you left play mode? and not during play mode?

[dense root]

Yes

[slender nymph]

maybe say that next time so that we don't have to go through all of this pointless debugging

OnTriggerEnter2D will be called when exiting play mode or leaving a scene when there is a trigger overlap happening in the scene at the time you do that

[dense root]

Oh that makes sense, well I'm glad we fixed it

[slender nymph]

so if you were exiting play mode while within the trigger that caused that OnTriggerEnter2D then it will call that method and because everything is in the process of being destroyed at that time you get that error.

for some reason unity said this is expected behavior and not a bug

[dense root]

I see, that makes sense

Thanks for the assistance

[high walrus]

I'm trying to make it so that I can pause and unpause the game using the escape key, right now pausing does not work but unpausing does, I don't understand why

this is the code

it doesn't even do the debug

This is the correct image

if I manually set gamepaused to true and the pause menu to active escape does work to unpause the game, but pausing does not work

I tried to just have the if gamePaused == true (for unpausing which does work) and placing the pausing code in else, same result

nvm I'm an idiot I fixed it, I'll explain how. The script was linked to the main menu, which is DISABLED by default. that's why the script didn't work. I attached it to Canvas instead not which is active. Might not be the best place to link it but it seems to work now

[wintry quarry]

But also look at your logic

You set it to true right before checking if it's true

[high walrus]

Yeah I noticed that right after, changed it into an else

I've got a fun new issue to deal with now 😂

Pausing using the escape key now works fine, but in ever level except the first I can't click my buttons

I didn't have EventSystem gameObjects in those scenes, seems to work fine now

Though I don't really understand what the eventSystem does, that it's needed for buttons but not other scripts

[wintry quarry]

It handles all the UI interaction events

[high walrus]

Gotcha, thanks!

[violet glacier]

How do I sync runtime frames with animation frames? For example, I have an animation that shoots a bow at frame 50 (in the animation controller) and I want to do something. However, this code executes faster than the animation

int frame = 0;
while (true) {
  if (frame == 50) {
    // do something
    break;
  }
  frame++;
  yield return null;
}

How do I do this without using animation events?

[zenith cypress]

Without Animancer (paid asset), probably not easily without animation events

[faint sluice]

Does Time.UnscaledTime or Time.RealtimeSinceStartUp work on application's internal clock or uses System's time as reference?

[faint sluice]

~~You're using a while outside of coroutines, this will cause the entirety of this codeblock to run within single frame.

Idk if animation frames are in sync with application's frame rate or not but just in case you can try to execute this inside a coroutine, and use yield return null; to seperate each frame inside the while loop~~

[violet glacier]

yep, thanks that was a typo I forgot to include it. However, the do something actually executes much earlier than animation frames, seems like they are not in sync

[faint sluice]

Yeah, i guess animation events would be the way to go then

[violet glacier]

I can't use animation events because if I have more "do something" (e.g. 1000), I would need to create 1000 animation events which is not feasible

[teal viper]

You only need one generic "do something" event and the logic would be based on what animation/state fired it and what object receives the event.

Unless you have 1000 different animations that need different events..?

[olive lintel]

hey all, having some trouble right now with an editor window I'm trying to make, I have the MenuItem attribute set up correctly, as it works with my other editor window I've made before, but for some reason this one doesn't seem to appear in the window tab?

the "MarcLerp" editor window is my own custom tool I've made earlier and been using for a couple months, however my new one doesnt seem to appear :/

both inherit from editor window

[faint sluice]

Not a topic in familiar with but does #if unity editor have anything to do with it maybe?

Also on GUI

[zenith cypress]

You can only put MenuItem on a static function

Don't put it on OnGUI

[olive lintel]

I have

using UnityEditor;
#endif```
at the start of each of them

[zenith cypress]

You also don't need to wrap your stuff in that if you put your editor window/editor specific code in an /Editor/ folder

[olive lintel]

the reason I dont have it in an editor folder is because when I originally built the tool I was a lot less experienced, and now theres ~800 lines of code that can't be called from another monobehaviour if its inside the editor folder 🥲

[faint sluice]

Bumping cuz got scrolled up. If anyone knows answer much helpful

[eternal needle]

if you can declare somewhere when you want this event to happen, like at 50% or 0.5 through the animation, then you can just try checking the normalized time https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimatorStateInfo-normalizedTime.html
Or have a timer which runs at the same time you start the animation.
I use my own timer and it works well, assuming you arent taking into consideration stuff like transitioning which may cause your animation to not play fully. I define a total length which is how long the animation should play, then use another value (0 to 1), which indicates how long into the animation an event should happen.

[faint sluice]

That's why you seperate editor scripts and gameplay scripts

[olive lintel]

problem is its an editor monobehaviour

like it only executes code in the editor

its for like positions and stuff

its super janky

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-unscaledTime.html

time in seconds since the start of the game

[olive lintel]

its made of sellotape

but instead of rebuilding it I kept adding to it and now its like a bomb inside my computer

[eternal needle]

well clearly not, if you said another monobehaviour is calling code on it

[faint sluice]

So if i blackout and change the system's time, and come back, it will say whatever time has physically passed regardless of what my system's time says?

[river pecan]

I'm trying make line of sight in a 3d space. I'm trying to use a mesh at runtime to get a cone shape, however I don't understand the problem that is happening when setting the vertex positions. When the player moves, the origin vertex moves in a different direction than the player, the rotation of the mesh also does not follow the players rotation. I have very little experience with making meshes this way so I'm coming here to ask what I'm doing wrong with the meshes positions.

[olive lintel]

theres a monobehaviour that basically calls a function in the editor window when saving/updating data basically

[eternal needle]

i have no clue what "blackout" means in this case. Its literally just the time since the start of the game

[faint sluice]

Blackout as in don't close the game but just put it in background or minimize

Onapplicationpause = true if you will

[river pecan]

I've noticed the first vertex will follow the player if I set it to Vector3.zero

So I thought it was using localPosition since the object is a child of the player

[faint sluice]

I get that by documents as well, question is does the time since start of the game get calculated via internal clock? Or does it refer the system's clock for calculation

[eternal needle]

why? maybe try doing it in reverse, have the editor window grab what it needs rather than being given the data. That'll be an easy way to not rely on such editor scripts.
Just curious, can you even build the game? EditorWindow is under UnityEditor

[river pecan]

But using every conversion to world position I found online for the vertex didn't work when setting the position to the position of the object

[eternal needle]

im not sure how its calculated honestly or how it is affected in such case
Theres more information here but you might just wanna test that case you're asking about
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/TimeFrameManagement.html

[faint sluice]

It sounds like it's calculated internally, but yeah I guess I'll need to actually test this first. Thanks!

[olive lintel]

yeah I dont have it in the editor folder but the game runs fine

[river pecan]

My only thought was that it was using local position, however even this code doesn't fix the issue

        Vector3[] verticies = new Vector3[3];
        Vector2[] uv = new Vector2[3];
        int[] triangles = new int[3];
        verticies[0] = transform.TransformPoint(transform.position);
        verticies[1] = transform.TransformPoint(transform.position + transform.forward);
        verticies[2] = transform.TransformPoint(transform.position + transform.right);
        uv[0] = new Vector2(0, 0);
        uv[1] = new Vector2(0, 1);
        uv[2] = new Vector2(1, 1);
        triangles[0] = 0;
        triangles[1] = 1;
        triangles[2] = 2;
        mesh.vertices = verticies;
        mesh.uv = uv;
        mesh.triangles = triangles;

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[scenic burrow]

New to scripting so bear with me. I am making a simple game where the player is controlling a plane that is constantly moving forwards, which they have to guide through hoops without crashing. The plane is also meant to be restricted to certain boundaries so they cannot go off screen. I was able to get that portion right, but because of that I cant make it move forwards which should be simple. How can I fix this?

[scenic burrow]

To move the plane forward, I use a simple one line code which works, but since I am using a new Vector3 to add the restrictions, I am forced to set the value to 0 based on my understanding.

[charred spoke]

You are not forced to set it to 0 you can store the result of your transfrom.forward calc in a variable and put that as the z value of your clamped transform

[abstract finch]

I need to send a raycast x degrees from a transform forward. What would be the best approach to get the direction? I would like to add that I plan on doing subsequent raycasts all the way to the back of the transform.

[eternal needle]

you should configure your !ide

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[eternal needle]

You can rotate a vector with a quaternion, scroll to the 2nd description
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion-operator_multiply.html

though im not sure what direction you're trying to get from the question

[scenic burrow]

Actually I had another thought. My goal is to have the player fly towards rings which they need to fly through and not hit. Would it be smarter to make the player be stuck on the z axis and have the rings come towards me?

[abstract finch]

Thanks, I think this is it.

Actually I'm not sure I need to fire a ray towards this direction so it needs to be a v3

[eternal needle]

depends entirely on the type of game this is. Like an infinite scroller, then yea this could be a possibility

[scenic burrow]

I think Im going to go that route. Thank you!

[eternal needle]

public static Vector3 operator *(Quaternion rotation, Vector3 point); guess what it returns 😛

[abstract finch]

Ahhh

[nova swift]

I ran into a bug in a game of mine (platformer with similar physics to sonic), where a particular aspect of the physics appeared to be frame dependent. I attempted to replicate it in a new project in a much simpler manner to make debugging easier, and it seems the frame dependency carried over, but I don't really understand why there is frame dependency, or if that's actually what the issue is.

To me it looks like the issue is frame dependency, as the blue cube goes faster and higher the lower the frame rate, shown in the video. I also don't believe Time.fixedDeltaTime is ever getting changed, only the target frame rate, and I don't think the two are related. If the issue is frame dependency, could anyone point out what the issue is in the code? The code is pretty simple and short, as seen in the video, though a particular if statement is pretty specific to this physic sticking.

Code: https://paste.ofcode.org/ymiFDf9WB4GNSwdDsqriEb

[eternal needle]

from a quick glance, i see rotation is frame rate dependant. Try getting this value in fixedupdate from the rb.rotation.

also with transform.position, replace that with rb.position

[nova swift]

will give it a try

It looks to me as if the issue still persists

Here is what I changed in the code, perhaps I still left something unchanged: https://paste.ofcode.org/yt2Wi5FbSUyww4yYV9AzQ9

[eternal needle]

unless im missing something else, it could be because of still using stuff like transform.right and all that. You could calculate it from the rb rotation with Quaternion * Vector3.
like Vector3 forward = rb.rotation * Vector3.forward, and similar with the others.

[nova swift]

Could give that a try, I do wonder if any of the maths is frame dependent, tho I've been told that may only be the case if Time.fixedDeltaTime was to change

[eternal needle]

One sanity check you could do is print out some info from fixed update, save that somewhere (maybe even just write to file) and compare the 2 tests. You could see stuff like at which time they actually have a difference, maybe one is considered sloped or grounded while the other isnt

[nova swift]

Fair enough, I did remove all the ground there was, and it seems the issue was just based around the slope bit, as the blue sprite would go around the circle much faster at 60fps compared to 240fps

[eternal needle]

there is something im unsure of so i will test something, that it may even just be related to those ground checks and how it is using groundCheck.position.

[nova swift]

alright, I'm quite confused as to why there appears to be frame dependency so I could assume I'm missing something that may be obvious

[eternal needle]

hm these shouldnt even really be issues cause its being called from fixedupdate but i also am not sure if theres a difference in 2d objects

[nova swift]

yea I find it quite strange

in my original project I thought the issue would relate to how I retrieve inputs or even just something in the Update() function messing it up, but here with all those potential problems seemingly gone, I'm quite lost

[eternal needle]

im willing to bet its because of the child object, or the transform.right/those directions being used at least

were u able to change those?

from a quick test, at decent speeds and interpolate turned on there is actually a significant difference

[nova swift]

currently trying to change the transform.right stuff into rb.rotation things

would

Vector3 rightDirection = new Vector3(Mathf.Cos(rb.rotation * Mathf.Deg2Rad), Mathf.Sin(rb.rotation * Mathf.Deg2Rad), 0);
            Vector3 upwardDirection = new Vector3(Mathf.Sin(rb.rotation * Mathf.Deg2Rad), Mathf.Cos(rb.rotation * Mathf.Deg2Rad), 0);

be a correct way of getting the directions with rb.rotation?

[eternal needle]

nah just this, unity does the math for you already

[bold osprey]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using UnityEngine.VFX;

public class Domain : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private VisualEffect vfx;

[SerializeField] private InputActionReference vfxSpawnKey;

[SerializeField] private InputActionReference WarpSpawnKey;

[SerializeField] private VisualEffect Warp;
private void Awake()
{
    vfxSpawnKey.asset.Enable();
    vfxSpawnKey.action.performed += OnVfxKeyPressed;
    WarpSpawnKey.asset.Enable();
    WarpSpawnKey.action.performed += OnVfxKeyPressed;
}

private void OnDestroy()
{
    vfxSpawnKey.action.performed -= OnVfxKeyPressed;
    WarpSpawnKey.action.performed -= OnVfxKeyPressed;
}

private void OnVfxKeyPressed(InputAction.CallbackContext obj)
{
    if (vfx != null)
        vfx.Play();
    else
        Debug.Log("There is no vfx attached to this component");
    if (Warp != null)
        vfx.Play();
    else
        Debug.Log("There is no vfx attached to this component");
}

}
using a Reinit(); how do i stop warp vfx after 15 seconds

[nova swift]

So if I'm in 2d and I want to get the right direction of the transform, I would do

Vector3 right = rb.rotation * Vector3.right

?

[eternal needle]

ye doesnt matter if ur in 2d or not. transform.right is a vector3 anyways. theres a conversion done for you from Vector3 to Vector2 that allows you to use it anyways

we can make a thread for this also, might take some more messages

[nova swift]

Do I have to convert rb.rotation into something else first? Am I not multiplying Vector3.right by 0 if the player is flat on the ground, thus making a Vector3.zero?

[nova swift]

That's fine by me, thanks for your help this far :)

[simple furnace]

Hey, can anyone please help with getting a decent rotation camera going? Been searching for hours on YouTube for a script and found almost nothing..

[burnt vapor]

!code

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[bold osprey]

ty

[burnt vapor]

I was pointing out that you should format your code? Is there an issue?

[scenic burrow]

When setting up a spawn manager, should the function of the object be done in the spawn manager script or should I make it a seperate script? I am just trying to make them move in a certain direction until they pass the player

[burnt vapor]

What do you mean with function of the object?

The actual spawning?

[abstract finch]

```float angleSection = 180 / _numberOfRays; Create Radial ````
Is there a reason why I'm unable to produce a ray behind the transform?

    {
        Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle, Vector3.up);
        Vector3 rotatedPoint = rotation * transform.TransformDirection(0, 0, length);
        return rotatedPoint;
    }```

[scenic burrow]

Like the thing they are meant to do. Simply wanting them to fly towards player while they need to dodge them. Would I set that up in the spawn manager script or make the script the child of the object

I pretty much got them to spawn but haven’t done the actual movement part so they come towards player

[storm dove]

im having this problem where in vs some of my code that should be color coded just isnt, is there a setting that i need to change in vs or something that i need to do to get the colors back?

[languid spire]

!ide

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[storm dove]

cool, that worked thanks 🙂

[simple furnace]

Hey so like, is there a code out there to decide spawn points like something with coordinates?

[halcyon geyser]

sure

[languid spire]

what does that question even mean? If you are, again, asking for a code handout, you have been told on more than one occasion that this server does not work like that

[simple furnace]

I am just asking if theres actually a code out there in Unity which makes things spawn in a certain place based on coordinates.

[languid spire]

why dont you read the documentation on Instantiate

[green ether]

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

[simple furnace]

Yeah just read it, still making little to no sense to me.

[late burrow]

i want make custom string type which holds variables of different variations of same string, which thing is best

[languid spire]

you mean between a struct and a class ?

[queen adder]

should i start by learning general c# or unity specific c#

[languid spire]

general, at least the very basics

[queen adder]

alrighty thanks

[languid spire]

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp

[late burrow]

i think with struct i cant get

so between class and interface

[languid spire]

interface is not going to work for you. So that leaves class

[rare basin]

Anyone can help me fixing my IDE? 0 errors in the console, can enter playmode and build just fine

yet i have a lot of errors in the IDE itself

a lot of namespaces cannot be found like using TMPro; using UnityEngine.UI;

[languid spire]

open Solution Explorer, Right click on solution, reload with dependencies

[rare basin]

i don't have such option

compile solution

compile solution again

[languid spire]

what IDE ?

[rare basin]

vs 22

[languid spire]

should work. Screenshot complete window

[rare basin]

1 sec i'll change ide languagee

im trying to update vs22 to newest version aswell

[buoyant meteor]

hey I have some code that im using to give 2d objects a fake height. my issue is when i give the object im testing on a rotation of any kind and want my x position to
move based on the objects rotation, it still goes off its world position of x. Also how do I type my code in chat properly?

[verbal dome]

!code

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!code private void BodyPosition()
        {
            if (onGround)
            {
                return;
            }

            if (!onGround || body.transform.position.y > shadow.transform.position.y)
            {
                parentObj.transform.rotation = new Quaternion(0,0,rotation,1);
                // body.transform.rotation = new Quaternion(0,0,rotation,1);

                verticleVelocity += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
                body.transform.localPosition += new Vector3(0, verticleVelocity, 0) * Time.deltaTime;

                parentObj.transform.position += new Vector3(horizontalVelocity, 0, 0) * Time.deltaTime;
                // shadow.transform.localPosition += new Vector3(horizontalVelocity, 0, 0) * Time.deltaTime;
            }

            if (body.transform.position.y <= shadow.transform.position.y)
            {
                onGround = true;
                verticleVelocity = 0;
                horizontalVelocity = 0;
                body.transform.position = new Vector3(shadow.transform.position.x, shadow.transform.position.y, 0);
                // gameObject.transform.position = body.transform.position;

                transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
            }
        }

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[rare basin]

updating vs22 version didn't work, im installing english language now and i'll send a screenshot

there is no such thing as reload with dependencies

[night mural]

try regenerating project files?

Edit->Preferences->External Tools->Regenerate Project Files

[rare basin]

already did several times

aswell as deleting the Library folder

and .csproj files

[halcyon geyser]

you need the csproj files

[rare basin]

ik

that's not the issue

my IDE just doesnt recognize some unity namespaces

but i have 0 errors in the console and can enter playmode and build etc

[teal viper]

Try regenerating project files

[rare basin]

I did try that several times

[teal viper]

What checkboxes do you have ticked there?

[rare basin]

nothing

yesterday it worked fine

[teal viper]

What can you tick?

[rare basin]

tried many combinations

with all ticket

all unticket

etc

[teal viper]

Try deleting the csproj and sln files and regenerating

[rare basin]

all of them?

[teal viper]

Yes

[rare basin]

worked partially

for some namespaces

now it doesnt only recogznice DOFade on canvas group component

from DOTween asset

but it works, no errors etc

[teal viper]

Is is an extension method or something?

[weak grove]

hello my loverlies, did my first bit of c# without an example to follow yesterday , its silly its noob but honestly it made me so happy LOL

[burnt vapor]

Welcome to C#

[weak grove]

😄 😄 😄

[summer creek]

guys do you have any similar enemy AI code like the horror game granny?

patrolling and smart Ai thing

[whole lark]

Hi, in the following asset I made the mistake, that I built it and when I opened the menu of the game, I changed the resolution from 1920x1080 to 800x600. It was now a small window and it looked pixelated. I tried to undo it, but it doesnt work. after a lot of searching I gave up and deleted the project and imported the asset to a new project. I built it and opened the game. It is still 800x600... does anyone know how to fix that? (Here the link to the asset: https://github.com/DevionGames/inventory-sytem)

[silent bone]

need some help on how to start dm me

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[whole lark]

btw here is the script for the resolution:

[languid spire]

!code

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https://gdl.space/carefaxeba.cs

is that right?

[languid spire]

yes, the next question is, why is there absolutely no debugging in your code?

[whole lark]

... its not my code 👀 its just an asset

[burnt vapor]

What happens when you log width and height just before calling Screen.SetResolution? What does this log?

Also, does it possible skip the if statements? You could also log these

[whole lark]

oh okay... ill try it

[languid spire]

what has that go to do with anything, you have access to the source so you can debug it

[karmic kindle]

Hey, I just wanted to check, do I need to use the line 'pTimer = timer' or is that irrelevant because the IEnumerator has already started etc..? ```cs public void DotEffect(string spell, float timer, float damage)
{
switch (spell)
{
case "Poison":
pTimer = timer;
pDamage = damage;
StartCoroutine(Poison(pTimer, pDamage));
Debug.Log("I've chosen poison > d = " + pDamage + ". t = " + pTimer);
return;

        default:

        return;
    }
}```

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[languid spire]

the assignment is irrelevant in the context of the coroutine but pTimer is a class scope variable so maybe it's being used elsewhere

[karmic kindle]

Awesome, thanks. I'm moving my Dots into a new class, so I only added it to the class scope because I thought it was needed, I use it here for readability so wanted to check I'm not doing more than I should 🖖 - public IEnumerator Poison(float pTimer, float pDamage)

[languid spire]

if you are using class scope variables no need to pass them as parameters

[karmic kindle]

Unless I'm going the wrong direction, I plan to use the switch command for other things like "burn" etc.. so I'm thinking I do need to pass them?

[languid spire]

no, not at all

you may need to pass them into the coroutine so it has fixed values not affected by other processes

[green ether]

How is that? It takes an object and instantiates it on the coordinates you specify

[karmic kindle]

That was part of my testing but my logic is hoping that "Tower > DotEffect(Poison, 4, 4)" > [2 second wait] > "Tower > DotEffect(burn, 5,2)" are not going to be effected by each other because the coroutine for poison has already been started?

[languid spire]

correct, if you pass the values as parameters. Value type paramaters have a fixed value at the time of the call

[karmic kindle]

Thank you very much! (Again) Really appreciated 🖖 😇.

[jovial forge]

Dude, Unity learn is a great resource

[swift vessel]

How do I make a moving platform without using the setparent method? in 2d

[languid spire]

why would you even need Setparent for a moving platform. Platforms dont have parents

[eager spindle]

for your platform theres a part of the code where you add to its transform, smth like transform.position += moveDirection

you can then track if your player is in contact with the platform with OnCollisionEnter or OnCollisionExit. if the player is in contact with the platform when the platform is moving, you can also move the player

public bool inContanct
void Update() {
  transform.position += moveDirection;
  if(inContact) PlayerController.instance.transform.position += moveDirection
}
void OnCollisionEnter() {
  if(other.CompareTag("Player")) {
    inContact = true;
  }
}

void OnCollisionExit() {
  if(other.CompareTag("Player")) {
    inContact = false;
  }
}

not tested do not copypaste in

[timber tide]

moving platform/elevator logic makes me cry

[eager spindle]

its not horrible unless you're using something else besides hardcoding to move your stuff

some days I use an animator because funni effects

but nowadays I just have a state machine and transform.position += moveDirection

[timber tide]

I'm not really sure the right way to go about it using rigidbodies. It's never smooth no matter what I try

[eager spindle]

dont use rigidbodies on a platform??

the only way for that is parenting

[timber tide]

yeah unfortunately.

[eager spindle]

you can also track position delta

but still a bitch to use

idk how breath of the wild does it

AAA magic goes crazy

[timber tide]

It works for elevators since you can add that illusion, but moving platforms to jump between is a pain

[eager spindle]

this code works ok for jumping

just that it doesnt carry the velocity onto the player

[swift vessel]

@eager spindle Thanks, this worked great, but if I want the player to jump according to the speed of the platform while jumping, should I use rigidbody?

[eager spindle]

no

when collision exit, you can check the direction of the platform. use the direction of the platform to push the player

does your player have rigidbody?

[swift vessel]

yes

[eager spindle]

ok nc

you can rb.AddForce(moveDirection, ForceMode.Impulse)

[swift vessel]

okay ı will try

[sonic dome]

I'm using webgl platform unity

Is there any way I can make it so that let's say I use pun2
And I want to make it so that when I go to the link

Example.com/roomcode

And roomcode can be a I'd i have given and can I get that roomcode of the url and use in my code?

Ping me on reply

[summer creek]

guys do you have an enemyAI script patrolling around the map and if the player seen it will chase you

Reply to me or dm if u have one thank you!

[summer creek]

unity 3d btw

[eager spindle]

you cant really communicate from the webpage to your unity game. the dumb solution would be to host an external server, say in Flask.
the external server will serve your game at root. the external server will serve any extensions to your game as well, while attributing the device's MAC address to the game. when the game launches, it checks your external server to see if theres a room code cached for it

[eager spindle]

i do but we won't code for you 😴

[sonic dome]

I asked my lord and savior chatgpt he did send some interesting solutions

[eager spindle]

the approximate solution is to make a Frustrum raycast that's the same size as the camera, or a spherecast or whatever
when the raycast hits the enemy, activate the enemy, and turn on the enemy AI

[eager spindle]

chatgpt 🤮

ill review it onesec

[sonic dome]

This one line makes me believe it

[summer creek]

i have the enemy ai code but the prjblem is when i build the game, instead of the enemy patrolling the whole map it just spins around in one place😭

[eager spindle]

when you build the game?

or when you run the game

[sonic dome]

Application.externaleval()

[summer creek]

run i mean

[eager spindle]

what are you using for the enemy ai

navmesh? a*?

[summer creek]

yes

[eager spindle]

which one

[wintry quarry]

Read this https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/webgl-interactingwithbrowserscripting.html

[sonic dome]

Thanks so much

[lusty nest]

Hi guys, I was trying to reset the scene using a script (as seen below) since I have to reset the positions, rotations and velocities of many gameobjects but my unity crashes everytime I execute the code. Do any of you have any alternatives to reset the scene ?

public override void OnEpisodeBegin()
{
SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);
}

[summer creek]

navmesh agent
navmeshsurface

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "crashes"?

[lusty nest]

By "crashes" I mean that the entire game engine freezes and i can't click on the window anymore

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like maybe you're doing something like reloading the scene as soon as the scene starts. That will make it reload the scene infinitely and crash Unity.

The solution is - don't do that

[lusty nest]

Ok I think I understand the problem now tysm👍

[summer creek]

and navmeshsurface

[dim wharf]

Does add listener in buttons put it into a list of listeners of the button or does it replace the current listener?

[languid spire]

what does the word 'add' suggest to you?

[dim wharf]

so it does add another listener. i was overthinking it too much

[languid spire]

good guess

[wintry quarry]

adds, yes

[tough trench]

I am working on a idle game and I cant get number higher than 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 in my code for number notations does anyone if I can bypass this number?

[wintry quarry]

what datatype are you using to represent the number?

[tough trench]

a float

[wintry quarry]

welll that's a huge problem

you know there are precision limitations to simple datatypes like float right?

Most idle games use something like https://github.com/Razenpok/BreakInfinity.cs

[swift crag]

you'll get a much wider range if you use doubles instead of floats

[polar acorn]

Dang I was just about to post that library, you beat me to it

[swift crag]

but "BigNumber" data types are appropriate for completely ridiculous sizes

[tough trench]

Ok thank you

[swift crag]

It looks like this just uses a long for the exponent and a double for the mantissa

so it's conceptually similar to a 128-bit float

[slender nymph]

you know, recent versions of c# have a 128 bit integer now. where's my 128 bit float. I demand a System.Quadruple

[quick pollen]

@hollow dawn first of all, you shouldnt have multiple controller.Move() calls in update, you should only have a single one which handles all of them