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[swift crag]

Scripts are not "on objects". Scripts are files that contain text.

Do you have a BorderController component attached to anything?

[polar acorn]

So then why did you say that you had no instances

[swift crag]

borderController is the name of a field. Are you talking about that field?

[wooden socket]

theres 2 scripts

[late burrow]

implicit conversion is amazing i can use one type for everything

[wooden socket]

borderController and transitionController

I want to pass the lives value from borderController into transitionController

because I have this

[polar acorn]

Cool have fun I'm sure that's not going to backfire in a hilariously over-the-top fashion

[swift crag]

borderController is not "A script"

[shell sorrel]

just kicking a problem down the road to become a future you problem

[wooden socket]

yea its a class

[swift crag]

borderController is a field -- a variable -- on your TransitionController class

[polar acorn]

Which instance of BorderController do you want your variable borderController to hold

[swift crag]

Its type is BorderController

[wooden socket]

okay wait its clicking a bit

[swift crag]

public Foo bar;

I have to actually put a Foo in this field, or else it's just going to be null

[shell sorrel]

fields and variables that are not primitive types or structs are just a slot you can plug a isntance of that thing into

[wooden socket]

okay so I would type public borderController collisionCollider;

[swift crag]

No, because there is no such thing as borderController

BorderController certainly exists

A field declaration needs a type -- the kind of thing it holds -- and a name -- how you'll refer to that field

The name can be whatever you want

public BorderController florp;

This would be perfectly legal.

[wooden socket]

okay I think I fixed it

[swift crag]

public bordercontorller florp;

This would be a compile error, because there is no such thing as bordercontroller

[wooden socket]

okay well I got the same error in unity but VScode doesnt

[polar acorn]

Allow me to explain classes and variables using "The Cat Metaphor".

Imagine you are a mad scientist with a cloning machine. You can 3D Print any animal by running their genome sequence through your Animalizer 3000™️. You have the full DNA sequence of a cat on a big sheet of paper. This sheet of paper is not a cat. It is, in essence, how to cat. You cannot feed the paper catnip. You cannot flip the paper over and pet its belly until it bites you. It's a piece of paper.

Now, when you run that paper through the Animalizer 3000™️, you can make a cat out of it. The window pops open and you've got a black cat, and you give it the name ollie. you now have a variable of type Cat that is named ollie. public Cat ollie. This is an instance of Cat. This one can eat catnip and get belly rubs, but you can't fit it in the paper slot of your Animalizer 3000™️. It is not a genome, it's a Cat. It is no longer a script, this Cat is a Cat.

You can then feed that sheet of paper into the machine again, and the door pops open, this time, a gray cat. You can name him junior. If you want to call ollie, you'd use his name. If you wanted to call junior, you'd use his name. If your friend came to your house and you told him "Watch out my cat bites", they would probably ask you "Which one?". You'd need to tell him which cat is the one that bites. He could then store that in his brain as public Cat thatOneThatBites. Now, public Cat ollie and public Cat thatOneThatBites both refer to the first black cat, but each person has their own variable that holds it.

If you then told your friend "Watch out, because my Tapir also bites." they'd probably be confused. You don't have a Tapir. You have two Cats. There's no Tapirs in this house! Why would they tell you the Tapir bites if there is none? They are confused and angry. They start smashing stuff in frustration. This is a NullReferenceException. Their variable public Tapir thatTapirThatBites contains no Tapirs because there aren't any. If you want them to know that there is a Tapir that bites, you'd need to actually have a Tapir to tell them about.

Now, your file, BorderController.cs is the genome of your script. Have you ever "turned on the machine" by attaching that script to an object anywhere?

[wooden socket]

i just did

i have 2 files named the same thing for some reason

[wooden socket]

also this is genius someone please pin it

i now perfectly understand

[daring tiger]

can anyone help with a player movment issue

[verbal dome]

Why private? Better chance of getting help if you ask here

[naive pawn]

no thanks, just ask here

more people to check your issue and answer

[polar acorn]

I was originally going to make this a youtube video but I can't draw and can't be arsed to have someone draw it for me

[swift crag]

Reflection is when you shove the cat back into the machine

allowing you to pirate your cat by creating new cats based on its reverse-engineered blueprint

[polar acorn]

Reflection is when you hand someone a big box with a ? on it and telling them that whatever is in here, you can definitely pet it

[naive pawn]

that sounds more like an interface

[swift crag]

Here's my pet System.Object

[polar acorn]

Yeah, fair

[swift crag]

actually, that is a very accurate description of one, haha

[shell sorrel]

also about the above, anyone new should just forget what reflection is and never use it till you are experienced

[swift crag]

actually reflection is COOL and we're just gatekeeping you from it because it's so fun and epic

[wooden socket]

okay well

[swift crag]

[zenith cypress]

hides the cat
pulls out reflection
finds the cat forcibly
pets the cat that you shouldn't be able to pet

[remote osprey]

has anyone done a "click on specific gameobject" event?

I have something I know I can make

but just writing the code feels daunting

[wooden socket]

okay so problem

[shell sorrel]

its pretty easy to do, with the IPointerClickHandler and a physics raycaster on your camera

[wooden socket]

when I press space it does the transition but NOT when collisionCounter is 4

[polar acorn]

"My cat is in a box you can't pet it"
* Fires orange portal on wall *

[remote osprey]

Cool

Could you show me ropes?

[shell sorrel]

2d or 3d game?

[remote osprey]

3d

[polar acorn]

Show the current code

[naive pawn]

this is my cat. he has IBS. you can't feed him, only i can

portals into stomach
ibs activates

[remote osprey]

but honestly i use orthographic camera

it's just that the z values will be different for reasons

[shell sorrel]

ok better question does the object have a 2d or 3d collider on it

[remote osprey]

3d

[wooden socket]

https://gdl.space/isokukadul.cpp

[shell sorrel]

so make sure you got a PhysicsRaycaster component on your camera

[remote osprey]

Got it

Done

[shell sorrel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler.OnPointerClick.html
then make a script like this

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you want to start the transition either when you hit space, or when the collisionCounting's collisionCount is 4?

[wooden socket]

when its 4

[shell sorrel]

where it implements the IPointerClickHandler interface

[daring tiger]

when i press start from my main menu i cant look or move

[wooden socket]

the space thing is for another scene

[shell sorrel]

and does the logic you wnat to happen in the OnPointClick method, then put this component on the object you want to respond to clicks

[polar acorn]

Both conditions call the same function

[wooden socket]

yea

so im saying

[polar acorn]

If either condition is true, it runs that function

[wooden socket]

OH

well no

[remote osprey]

Ok, done!

[wooden socket]

bcs im saying when its 4 it doesnt do it

[verbal dome]

Okay. What should let you look and move?

[wooden socket]

it just goes straigh to the next scen

scene

[polar acorn]

Try logging that value before you check it

[shell sorrel]

yeah so that OnPointerClick method, will execute anytime you click a object that has a collider that you put this script on

[wooden socket]

theres also this

[shell sorrel]

also make sure your scene has a EventSystem

[wooden socket]

unassigned reference erroir

[daring tiger]

im on first person template then added main menu, it worked at first but i cant remember when it didn't

[remote osprey]

Cool!

[verbal dome]

Any errors in the console after you press start from the main menu?

I assume that loads a new scene?

[daring tiger]

yes

[remote osprey]

Then all I have to do is call the object's TargetType.HandleBeingClicked()

[polar acorn]

So assign it

[remote osprey]

And implement a HandleBeingClicked() for eevery object

[daring tiger]

zero

[remote osprey]

Thank you very much, @shell sorrel !

[wooden socket]

heres a problem

[shell sorrel]

wait do you only want to act when a certian object is clicked, or you just want to always act but know which object?

[remote osprey]

I just want to select each object that is from a certain type

[wooden socket]

i took the obect called transStart off Trans Start just before to test

[shell sorrel]

way i showed you is most ideal if you want logic to run on 1 object when its clicked, if you want it for any object without having to add a script to each one there are other ways. Like getting your mouses position then using ScreenPointToRay on the camera then using the returned ray to raycast

[remote osprey]

so something like

public abstract ClickHandler : MonoBehaviour, IPointerClickHandler
{
 public bool CheckIfClicked();
}

Should do what I want just cleanly 😄

[remote osprey]

I see

It's cause what I want to do is complex

[shell sorrel]

public void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData pointerEventData)

is what you need for the signature

not CheckIfClicked

[remote osprey]

Oh, I see

[verbal dome]

Also missing class

[remote osprey]

I want to be able to initiate a click event, also

So the next click is gonna determine the outcome of the event

[slender nymph]

seems like you're just recreating the EventTrigger component, but worse

[remote osprey]

IF it hits a target object type, then it returns that target Object type sas the target

else, it stops the event and doesnt do anything

[noble reef]

is this in the correct order, if im trying to make a script to make text pop up when the mouse hovers over the cube

[shell sorrel]

@remote osprey also if you dont want to call logic in this script like @slender nymph suggested, the EventTrigger component will letyou call a function on a other object when this object is clicked

[remote osprey]

Oh is see

[slender nymph]

a cube is not a UI object, it should not be attached to the canvas

[noble reef]

i thought the cube should be the child of the canvas

[remote osprey]

How do i do this exactly? xD

[shell sorrel]

Add Component -> EventTrigger

[wooden socket]

man idk what to do

[slender nymph]

the children of a Canvas object should be UI objects. a Mesh Renderer is not UI

[shell sorrel]

then in there you can listen for multiple types of events to execute a function on, works smilar to how Button does in UI

[noble reef]

so should the canvas be a child of the cube?

[slender nymph]

if it is not a world space canvas, then no. if it is a world space canvas, then sure. but does it need to be a world space canvas

[remote osprey]

oops

I put a mesh inside my canvas xD

Then inside the mesh there are UI gameObjects

It was working fine, tho :p

[polar acorn]

What is the problem currently

[noble reef]

wait im confused now

for my purpose do i need a world space canvas?

[daring tiger]

but if i go to my firstpersonmap without the main menu it works fine

[remote osprey]

Cool!

I'll try it out

[slender nymph]

i don't know what "your purpose" actually is.

[rich adder]

when canvas needs a position in the world

[noble reef]

im not tryna make it have a position in the world, im tryna make the text appear on the screen

[wooden socket]

wait i can fix the bottom one

[slender nymph]

The variable transStart of TransitionController has not been assigned. You probably need to assign the transStart variable of the TransitionController script in the inspector.

[polar acorn]

Looks like the variable transStart of TransitionController has not been assigned. You probably need to assign the transStart variable of the TransitionController script in the inspector.

[wooden socket]

it is assigned

[polar acorn]

So then it looks like this Cat isn't the one that bites

[wooden socket]

okay then I should assign it

[polar acorn]

You should try to find the one that doesn't have that field assigned

Hint: you can search your hierarchy for instances of a script by typing t: Script Name in the search bar

[verbal dome]

Isn't that... Unreal Engine?

[daring tiger]

oh

im fucking stupid

[polar acorn]

GET HIM

[wooden socket]

I typed t: TransManager and it didnt work

wait wrong worfd

@polar acorn i literally cannot find where it isnt assigned

[polar acorn]

Have you searched for every TransitionController in your scene?

[slender nymph]

put a log on the line right before the error that prints the object it is null on

[wooden socket]

search doesnt work

[polar acorn]

I assure you it does

Show your search

[polar acorn]

Is your class named Transition Controller?

[wooden socket]

yup

[polar acorn]

That doesn't say Transition Controller

[wooden socket]

oh

[wooden socket]

wait is it because

i have the keyInput set to none

[polar acorn]

What

You need to spell your class's name right in the search

that's it

[wooden socket]

okay

well yea idk what to do

everything is assigned in inspector

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[wooden socket]

ill do that

[polar acorn]

Show your search results

[wooden socket]

wait

is it bcs I have the same code in 2 scripts

[slender nymph]

no, but also why do you have the same code in two scripts

[wooden socket]

i just realized yea ikd

[slender nymph]

that's not even the same code

[wooden socket]

ok

yea idk whats going on

[polar acorn]

Show the search results

[wooden socket]

the objects collide with the object

ok

[slender nymph]

now show the TransitionController component on each of those two objects

[polar acorn]

Hey look there's two of them

[wooden socket]

found it, but now I get a COMPLETELY different error

[polar acorn]

Do they all have the variable set

[loud patio]

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[polar acorn]

Go ahead and just clear that

[wooden socket]

found something weird too

[polar acorn]

If the stack trace doesn't mention a script you wrote, clear and see if it goes away

[wooden socket]

this object didnt exist until now

and I cant put anything in the collision counting

[teal viper]

You can probably put a BorderControl instance in it.

[wooden socket]

okay I just put it on

yup, that temporary object appears and then i cant edit it

[loud patio]

!vscode

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[polar acorn]

There's no such thing as "temporary objects" unless you've explicitly coded it to do so

[wooden socket]

lemme check my scripts, idk if I even did that

Yea I didn’t

[stuck palm]

is there a way to do Directory.GetFiles asynchronously?

nvm found a solution

[wooden socket]

i didnt make a temp object and it still made one

yea the error is from the temp variable what the hell can I do @polar acorn

[polar acorn]

What is "the temp variable"

for that matter, what is the error

[wooden socket]

lemme sss it

it makes an object called "transition" and THATS where this error comes from

I cant put the script in the slot its supposed to

[polar acorn]

What makes that object?

[wooden socket]

https://gdl.space/beyiqikufi.cpp

this script

[long furnace]

cs:25 means the reference in that line is lost.

[wooden socket]

i dont want to delete it right?

[polar acorn]

So, where do you assign collisionCounting?

[polar acorn]

And did you check to make sure you don't have another copy of TransitionController?

[wooden socket]

lemme check

i have a script called transitionController

[polar acorn]

And is it on any other objects

[polar acorn]

Two questions:

1. do either of them have a variable missing
2. why is there another instance of this script on another object

[stuck palm]

is there a way to force framerate other than Application.targetframerate

[polar acorn]

Should there be two? If so, you need to assign the variable on both

[wooden socket]

ill disable it on border

[polar acorn]

Why is it on border

is it supposed to be there

[wooden socket]

okay yea same error

let me try and disable it on the other one

[verbal dome]

Why do you need something else?

[stuck palm]

idk i was jsut wondering if it was like a quality option or something

cus idk how i would set it to 60 right as the application started

[verbal dome]

From Awake in a script in your first scene

[wooden socket]

@polar acorn yea the error is this temporary object that goes away when it iisnt running

is it the coroutine?

IT IS

how do I set the collisionCounting in here now

YUP

still not working

[carmine sierra]

startcoroutine() is the only way to call another method within a method?

[verbal dome]

No, that starts a coroutine

[rocky canyon]

no?

[verbal dome]

Or what exactly do you mean with "method within a method"?

[stuck palm]

@swift crag might just have to force 60fps on the game which is annoying cus i wanted it to be smoother, but most dont have a monitor above that value anyway so

[polar acorn]

So then you're spawning it somewhere

If you don't want to spawn it, don't

[wooden socket]

is it the coroutine?

[polar acorn]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

You wrote the code, where are you spawning an object that has this script on it

[verbal dome]

I haven't followed this thing all the way but are you doing your logic in FixedUpdate, Update or both?

[wooden socket]

but it makes an object ive never made

[polar acorn]

Objects don't just spontaneously come into being

You're making one somewhere

either with Instantiate or new GameObject

[wooden socket]

IT WAS IN ANOTHER SCENE

SHIT

aaand I still cant assign it

[stuck palm]

originally some of it was in update, but i've sinced moved all of it fixedupdate. im trying to get a replay system working, but some discrepancies keep creeping through and desyncing the players, and the only thing i can think of at this point is that the framerate is really high

[polar acorn]

You cannot assign an object in one scene to an object that is not in that scene

whether it be a prefab or in a different scene

[wooden socket]

okay well

now im in the other scene

i cant put ANYTHING into collision counting

okay well now theres an even BIGGER PROBLEM

THE SCORE KEEPS STAYING AND WONT RESET WHEN YOU RESTART THE GAME SCENE

im dealing with the transition stuff later

this is more pressing

[verbal dome]

If you have any logic in Update (or other framerate-dependent logic) then even limiting the framerate wouldn't make it deterministic.
It doesn't assure that the framerate stays exactly at the max value. Like a target of 60 could bounce between 59 and 60 as far as I know (assuming that your PC can run it 60+ fps)

[wooden socket]

guys I seriously need help

this is a core part of my game

I cant have this be messed up

i need the score to reset every time the player enters a scene

lemme do some resarcg

[stuck palm]

I've literally searched through my entire project, and couldnt find anything using update() relevant to the fight simulation 😭

[polar acorn]

Isn't your score manager a singleton?

[wooden socket]

idk

[polar acorn]

Just have something in the new scene reset it on Start or something

[wooden socket]

okay how do I do that

[polar acorn]

You remember how you accessed the score to display it

Do that, but set it to 0 instead

[wooden socket]

so in start I just do

[dim yew]

0 idea why this is happening, just copied the code from another one of my games

i am on a slightly newer version of unity so maybe that's why?

[wooden socket]

what the hell

idk what to do man

[frosty hound]

The version has nothing to do with broken code. You don't have a GameManager class according to this error.

[polar acorn]

Not how you accessed the text, the score

[wooden socket]

https://gdl.space/gukusokuti.cs

[wooden socket]

please help me with this, i dont know what to do here

[ivory bobcat]

You'd assign it the score value as a string from the instance of the score manager.

[polar acorn]

Do you remember how you accessed score when you were trying to set the text

[wooden socket]

scoreManager

[polar acorn]

No, in this case they want to actually change the number

[wooden socket]

so then I should put start in there right

[polar acorn]

If you want it to reset in a new scene, put it in Start on that scene

[wooden socket]

this object goes into which scene

okay i think i figured it out. let me test

[dim yew]

thanks 👍

[polar acorn]

Start runs on the first frame an object exists for. If it's on any object in a scene, it'll run when that scene loads

[stuck palm]

I'm convinced this system I've made is vulnerable to even a sneeze and it all topples over

Because why does a replay work flawlessly one time and fail the next time

Would frame dips mess anything up?

[wooden socket]

@polar acorn ur not gonna believe this

i think I fixed both issues

[teal viper]

Debug it to figure it out.

[dense plume]

It must be some RNG function, or framerate... those would be the only two variables right?

[loud patio]

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[wooden socket]

okay so

is this the way to reset the score?

[stuck palm]

Surely, lol. Back on that grind tommorow 💪

[stuck palm]

I've been keeping recordings of the game state which has player locations and velocities. They are very similar mostly, and sometimes identical, but most of the time they're off by about a tenth of a unit, which could be the problem.

[ivory bobcat]

I thought you fixed this already?
#💻┃code-beginner message

[wooden socket]

different issue

[summer stump]

If by resetting it you mean setting it to 0 when start runs, then sure.

Have you tried it? Because this is extremely easy to just run and see what it does

[wooden socket]

i mean when you re enter the scene

[summer stump]

Ok, and what happened when you tried?

[wooden socket]

yea it keeps being added

i put it in scoreManager

[summer stump]

I assume that by "it" you mean the score, and "keeps being added" you mean from the value it was before the scene reset.

Is scoreManager in DontDestroyOnLoad? If so, Start will not run

[wooden socket]

oh shoot

[summer stump]

Please try to be a bit more descriptive too. Because that was very confusing

[wooden socket]

lemme get rid of this right?

[summer stump]

If it is in DDOL, then you can do a few things

Either register to the onSceneChanged event, or just set it to 0 where you load the scene

[summer stump]

No

[wooden socket]

ok

[wooden socket]

lemme look into that

[dense plume]

You might already know this but Application.targetFramerate might help

[wooden socket]

could I do this just by saying like

man idk

[ember tangle]

I cannot for the life of me understand why this does not work when the queue is larger than 2: public void ClearFormationQueue() { for (int index = 0; index < nextPosition.Count; index++) { GameObject destroyMe = nextPosition.Dequeue(); Destroy(destroyMe); } Debug.Log($"position queue cleared, new size is {nextPosition.Count}"); }

[wintry quarry]

while (nextPosition.Count > 0) {
   GameObject destroyMe = nextPosition.Dequeue();
   Destroy(destroyMe);
}```

your code doesn't make sense. Think about this example with 5 elements in it:

index  count
0      5
1      4
2      3
3      2 << your code will stop with 2 left.```

[ember tangle]

Hmm y'know that makes a lot of sense

I guess a for loop would never work for clearing a queue then?

[wintry quarry]

if you really wanted to use a for loop it should look this way:

int count = nextPosition.Count;
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
  GameObject destroyMe = nextPosition.Dequeue();
  Destroy(destroyMe);
}```

just reading the count once at the start

[wooden socket]

can I still have some help with this?

im very confused

[ember tangle]

Damn. '.Count' being different every pass through the for loop never occurred to me. Thanks!

[summer stump]

You call LoadScene somewhere, right?
Just set score to 0 right then

[wooden socket]

ah true

lemme find it

man

@summer stump i cant do it

[summer stump]

Why not?

[wooden socket]

i cant find it

like check this out

wait

should I just make a new script

I FIXED IT

YEAA

nvm

i didng

[frosty hound]

Can you stop spamming?

[wooden socket]

okay im sorry

[frosty hound]

And stop bothering people, if they want to take a break from doing this dance again, let them.

[wooden socket]

okay, im sorry

[rocky canyon]

dance he said lol

[summer stump]

No, you should not make a new script.
You should absolutely know where you have the LoadScene call. If you don't, ctrl+f it like in any text program or in a browser

[wooden socket]

wait i think I found it out. I put the line of code when the scene changes to the leaderboard, not when the leaderboard changes to the gamae

[candid walrus]

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[teal viper]

It's definitely the problem. Butterfly effect.
Even if you record them perfectly, there's gonna be an error due to floating point error. Saving positions and velocities is very unreliable. Instead you should be saving the inputs.

And be running the same logic during a replay as during an actual game, but providing inputs from your replay data instead of the player controller

That's how some AAA fighting games handle replays

[candid walrus]

Hello, I am a beginner at c#/unity. Can somebody tell me how I should create a building/hammering animation. Should I use code to transform the object or should I make an animation?

[teal viper]

Either way would work. It's up to you and your game design choice.

[candid walrus]

Which way would be easier if I will use the animation very often?

[teal viper]

Easier in terms of what?

Implementation?

[candid walrus]

Yes

[teal viper]

Well, depends on how sophisticated you need it to be. If it's just a building rising from the ground like some strategy games do, it would probably be easier to just code it.

If you want a unique animation for each building with walls and other parts rising and what not, it's gonna be pretty difficult to do via code.

[candid walrus]

OK, thanks

[potent raft]

What is the preferred setup for C# code editing on mac with unity

is it vs code? or visual studio for mac? because i've heard bad things about visual studio for mac

[wintry quarry]

I use Rider

[potent raft]

i've never even heard of that

[wintry quarry]

It's the best one

It's just... not free unless you're a student

[potent raft]

ok, i'll check it out!

[summer stump]

Visual studio for mac is essentially just visual studio code from what I understand.

[potent raft]

i just got started with vscode for mac and found it straightforward

added a property and it compiled when i went back to unity. very similar to godot

[rich adder]

yea the Visual Studio mac is getting retired and fully replaced with VScode @potent raft

[magic panther]

neither hatebin or hastebin are working. Any other alternatives recommanded?

[slender nymph]

there are several alternatives linked in #854851968446365696

[magic panther]

!code

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[magic panther]

I don't know if this is more suited for #archived-code-general, but I have a big problem here and need the function to have a very precise functionality.

Function -> https://gdl.space/nucilatawi.cs

Fragments are parts of Pieces. At some point in the code, a Piece will call the function on each Fragment it consists of twice. Once with Vector2(0f, 1f) passed, once with Vector2(1f, 0f), so, vertical and horizontal.

The function is supposed to check both ways if the fragment exists in a position where it's in a horizontal or vertical line between two Walls, with at least one Fragment (including itself) and at least one BrittleWall with it inside the line. If yes, set itself and everything between these two Walls as marked. Later on, marked objects will be deleted. If there is air or anything unwanted detected, the function automatically fails. So no air or players.

There is a problem with this, where stuff just isn't properly recognized. In the formation on the screenshot, selected Fragment(1) is somehow telling me that it encountered a wall, when there is no wall it could access.

If anyone has any idea on how to fix this, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I think it's working

but I'm not sure

[wheat rune]

would netcode for entities or something like Mirror be better for a base building strategy game with multiple worlds

[slender nymph]

#archived-networking

you also need to research the available networking solutions to find out which fits your needs best. there is never a "one size fits all" answer to something like that

[chrome shadow]

what is a good way to break of out update loops?

[slender nymph]

can you be more specific about what you mean by that

[cosmic dagger]

huh? it's a unity method. it runs every frame . . .

[chrome shadow]

im not sure if this is the correct way to do it

i want to activate the function A when isDone is true

[rich adder]

what is function A? and what isn't working?

[chrome shadow]

i just wanted to know if there are other methods of breaking out of update loops

[wooden socket]

my animation wont work in one scene but it works in every other scene 😭

this is rlly strange

[rich adder]

you can put an early return at most, there is no "breaking out "

[chrome shadow]

oh alr thx

[slender nymph]

Update is not a loop. it is a regular method that just happens to be called every frame. the only time Update is not called is when the component is disabled or the object it is attached to is inactive

[chrome shadow]

ah i guess i misunderstood its function, thanks a lot

[wheat wave]

your ide doesn't appear to be configured correctly

!ide

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[slender nymph]

why do you think that? we can clearly see that the Update method is recognized as a Unity Message. that indicates that it is in fact configured

[wheat wave]

LOL I was playing an old game that changed my moniter colors

all the text appeared white 😭

[wooden socket]

okay so for some reason I have an animation that plays in EVERY other scene BUT this one

i think its a code thing

[slender nymph]

you really ought to give #854851968446365696 a read at some point

[wooden socket]

isnt this a help channel

[slender nymph]

i'm guessing you didn't bother actually reading the channel i suggested you read

[ivory bobcat]

You might want to provide the necessary data like code, what you've tried, what's happening and not happening, etc

[wooden socket]

ahh

okay fair

okay let me explain

[slender nymph]

please finish a thought before pressing enter again

[wooden socket]

so I have scripts in other scenes that have an animation play when a button is pressed, however, in the actual scene of the game, I have it configured to play the animation when an object collides with another object 10 times

lemme send my code

https://gdl.space/inuxebeyaw.cpp

[slender nymph]

!collab 👇

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[severe sluice]

my bad bro

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe verify the collision count

[wooden socket]

the scene still changes when it collides 10 times though

the animation just doesnt plau

[ivory bobcat]

So the coroutines fires and code works?

[wooden socket]

mhm

the only problem is the animation

[ivory bobcat]

So this isn't a code question but rather an animation setup problem?

[wooden socket]

seems like it

[ivory bobcat]

Could try #🏃┃animation or #💻┃unity-talk

Make sure to provide the necessary like animator controller and whatnot

[burnt vapor]

Not really. Technically there is return; but your code just runs next frame

Best thing is a state variable that determines how far it is and to see if it should run from there

Consider putting your code in a separate method and then write a check as a guard clause so it's not in the way of anything else using the Update method

[raw sigil]

Hi! How can I add a collaborator to my unity project on the free plan? (we're both on the free plan and I've watched tuts but nothing actually tells me how?) Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask! I hope it isnt haha I thought it would be the right place since I'm a newbie coder trying to collaborate with another newbie coder

[eternal needle]

!vc
probably better another channel, maybe#💻┃unity-talk or #archived-unity-gaming-services

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[raw sigil]

thank youuu I really appreciate it

[eternal needle]

git is also pretty much the best option if you arent so deep into learning unitys vc. Used in every other aspect of computer science as well

[serene sedge]

!bug

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[serene sedge]

this code doesnt work right anyone knows how to fix this?

[cosmic dagger]

!code

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[magic panther]

For the last 5 hours of my life I've been trying to fix this one script from freaking out randomly. I tried so many changes I don't even remember what I was doing, but every FIX resulted in another BREAK. Something is always broken. This is the state at which I noticed the error. Tell me what to fix here, PLEASE. The script is supposed to mark the fragment and any line of brittleWalls and Fragments including it on any axis between two Walls with nothing else inbetween. These would then break, which you can see working in the video above, EXCEPT THIS ONE CIRCUMSTANCE which rips horizontally. I don't know what's causing this shit to freak out this bad, but I'd be eternally thankful if anyone manages to tell me what will fix this function.

It used to be a very clean, short piece of code, but now it's a screen sized mess of useless crap I tried to use as band-aids just to be done with this.

I'll stay here until someone maybe asks a followup, which I'll do my best answering and guiding

Function --> https://gdl.space/izalohejim.cs

I don't want to give up on this project because of a little shit like this

I suspect it's with the order of checking stuff

but I can't think anymore

my brain's a soup after all the attempts at fixing this

I'd even go in a call and stream all the scripts to test whatever you need but there's no vc here

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not on an appropriate device to be debugging based on videos but I'm assuming the issue is with the last detection where it had destroyed two separate segments from that three piece (4x4).
Although you're able to visually inspect what's wrong, log those pieces and verify why the first portion of your code added them to the list to be marked for destruction. According to the code, hit count was greater than 2, fragment count was greater than 0 and brittle was above 0 - obviously we're in disagreement with what had occurred so we'll need to figure out which of these were wrongfully added.

[magic panther]

btw no need to worry about when this occurs. All marking functions are executed on all pieces, on all fragments, all at once before proceeding with destroying the marked ones

also pieces move, not fragments, so it's not like the function was run before the rest moved

what do you need to know/confirm from me?

we'll try to do this

if you want ofc

As a last resort I could just rewrite the function from scratch

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming this line was true when it wasn't meant to be

if (hitWalls >= 2 && hitFragments.Count > 0 && hitBrittleWalls.Count > 0)```

[magic panther]

I think yes

unsure how to confirm that

obviously it runs

as we see

but if that was the case, why did it shift over 1 full length

[mental aspen]

Whenever I switch to Android/Windows and create a build I suddenly have changes in these files.
I wonder if I should commit these changes?

Oh I also have changes in sln.DotSettings

[ivory bobcat]

You'd first just log the hit fragments and brittle wall elements to see which pieces were found. Then go in reverse and figure out why they were added to the lists.

[magic panther]

tried that

genuinely couldn't tell why they got added

[ivory bobcat]

So which pieces were in the lists?

[magic panther]

the ones deleted. The walls above the top fragment and ones below the right fragment, including the fragments

So everything that's in the lists, including the fragment executing the marking will be deleted as stated in this area

[ivory bobcat]

So you'd want to validate each of the three expressions:

• what was the actual number of walls hit?
• which part of the code added the fragment elements for this specific case?
• which part of the code added the brittle elements for this specific case?

[magic panther]

we can add a counter that increases every time I add something to the lists

[ivory bobcat]

Just printing the number of hit walls would be a start

[magic panther]

you mean the ones stuff should be between?

[ivory bobcat]

I'd like to know what the hit walls value was before the unwanted behavior

[magic panther]

if it was more than 2 it'd say "between 3 walls"

it's logged right here, just before marking everything in both lists including the fragment itself.

[ivory bobcat]

I cannot see the logs from the video but that's good to know - mobile device portrait mode resolution.

[magic panther]

the values are correct. That part works as desired, it's the actual detection messing up

[ivory bobcat]

Now which of the if statements between lines 27 to 75 added the objects?

You can probably verify this by adding some unique statement prior to adding to the lists

[magic panther]

At this point I think even if we fix this issue the function will be cluttered as hell. I might as well just rewrite it to save us time.

[ivory bobcat]

Figure out which statements are misfiring.

[magic panther]

btw I'm doing this rn

tho it's weird it only happens in this exact scenario. For example when I did this (screenshot), it just stayed like that

there is some obscure shit happening. I really need to rewrite this

Thanks for help anyway mate

I think if I think and ponder a bit I'll get it right

after this mechanic an even worse one needs to be added

[late burrow]

can i use implicit conversion for predefined classes too?

[naive tundra]

this code crashes unity, and i have no idea why. if someone smart could explain why it crashes, and how would i make it do the thing it's supossed to? (move the platform with the boxcollider2d, platform on the screenshot, and code snippet below)

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class movetheplatform : MonoBehaviour
{
    private BoxCollider2D BoxCollider;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        BoxCollider = GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>();
        
    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        Vector3 newPosition = BoxCollider.transform.position;
        if (collision.gameObject.layer == 6)
        {
            while(newPosition.x < 3)
            Invoke("TheMovement", 2);
        }
    }
    private void TheMovement()
    {
        Vector3 newPosition = BoxCollider.transform.position;
        newPosition.x += 0.5f;
        BoxCollider.transform.position = newPosition;
    }
}

layer 6 is the layer called "player", and the player gameobject is set to it, the BoxCollider is the box collider 2d of the platform

[polar gulch]

Hi everyone! New to coding and gamedev!

Any beginner for C# recommendations would be highly appreciated! 🙂

[ivory bobcat]

Check the pins. !learn may seem boring but thoroughly explains everything - skip steps if necessary.

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[ivory bobcat]

It's a good means for getting familiar with Unity, how to approach the api and whatnot - you'll not be making cool special stuff but it goes through the basics and will not mislead you (it's the official source to learn from).

[naive tundra]

i LOVE unity learn, rlly a great resource

[dusty shell]

Anyone know how the brawhalle attack system works?

[glad pawn]

first of all, what's the error Unity is giving you?

second, try renaming the BoxCollider variable to just boxCollider

it might be clashing with the class

[chrome shadow]

what did i do wrong? ;-;

[cosmic dagger]

what does the error say?

[glad pawn]

you should use the variable clip

not the class

[swift crag]

you have to read the error

[willow scroll]

You are trying to reference the class itself. You already have a variable created, still, it will throw an error anyway.

[cosmic dagger]

move the cursor to read what the error actually says . . .

[swift crag]

this will still not work

[glad pawn]

and you can't use it in the variable definition

[naive tundra]

it just crashes. nothing else, no error, no anything. the moment i click the play button it just dies

[chrome shadow]

oh

[glad pawn]

it needs to be on start

[swift crag]

read the error message.

[chrome shadow]

ok

[swift crag]

you can't just see a red squiggle and immediately shut down

[glad pawn]

firstly try renaming the variable

[willow scroll]

To do it this way, you have to either make your clip constant, or reference it in the method like Awake, Start, OnEnable etc.
Note that the 1st option does not make any sense.

[glad pawn]

and I believe you might have an infinite loop

[chrome shadow]

thanks

[glad pawn]

as there is no delay in the while, it'll keep invoking thousands of times until it just crashes

(I believe)

[swift crag]

Unity freezes when that happens

[willow scroll]

Yeah, if you mean there is no WaitForSeconds in the loop, Unity is just going to execute the code non-stop until it freezes

[glad pawn]

btw, that movement code looks very strange

[willow scroll]

Sure, because Invoke is called in a while loop while newPosition.x is smaller than 3

Since Vector2 is a struct, which, unlike a class, is a value-type, the once assigned value on this line is not going to be updated when changing the position of your BoxCollider

Vector3 newPosition = BoxCollider.transform.position;

The first thing you're going to do is reference the BoxCollider.transform.position.

You can save is as a class Transform, which is a reference-type, but not as a struct Vector3

Secondly, this is still going to freeze your Unity for at least 2 seconds until the position is assigned

[mild lake]

Does anyone know why my headers aren't showing up?

 [Header("Positioning")]
 public Vector3 originalPos;
 public Vector3 zoomPos;

 [Header("Stats")]
 [SerializeField] private float fireRate = 0.5f;
 [SerializeField] private int damage;
 private float nextTimeToFire = 0f;

 [Header("Graphics")]
 [SerializeField] private AudioClip shotSound;
 [SerializeField] private GameObject decalPrefab;
 [SerializeField] private Animator _animator;

[swift crag]

Do you have any compile errors?

Look at your console. There must be zero errors.

[mild lake]

Nope

[cosmic dagger]

do you have errors? is the file saved?

[swift crag]

also ensure that you've saved the file, yes

[mild lake]

It's saved with no errors

[swift crag]

prove that it's working by adding a new field to the class

public int foo;

[mild lake]

Yup, i added a new varible to the weapon and still no headers

[SerializeField] private float gluff;

[burnt vapor]

Do you have the debug option enabled at the top of the inspector?

[mild lake]

Where do i find that?

[burnt vapor]

click the More Items (⋮) button to open the context menu, and select Debug/Normal

[wintry quarry]

Where are you expecting them to show up

show screenshoits

[mild lake]

Dividing each category where they were placed

[wintry quarry]

You either:

• Have a compile error
• Have a custom editor for this script

or:

• You didn't save your code

Or you're editing the wrong script

[mild lake]

Well because the new varible was added in the inspector, that rules out everything besides a custom editor

[burnt vapor]

Did you check for debug mode yet?

[wintry quarry]

It's definitely not in debug mode

we would see instance id

[burnt vapor]

I don't know how much debug mode lists

[glad pawn]

where is the new variable?

[burnt vapor]

I know it does remove headers

[mild lake]

Yeah not in dbug

[burnt vapor]

Alright

[wintry quarry]

Seeing a screenshot of your whoole console window would be great

for my peace of mind

[mild lake]

    [Header("Positioning")]
    //New varible
    [SerializeField] private float gluff;
    public Vector3 originalPos;
    public Vector3 zoomPos;

    [Header("Stats")]
    [SerializeField] private float fireRate = 0.5f;
    [SerializeField] private int damage;
    private float nextTimeToFire = 0f;

    [Header("Graphics")]
    [SerializeField] private AudioClip shotSound;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject decalPrefab;
    [SerializeField] private Animator _animator;

[glad pawn]

I meant in the screenshot

[mild lake]

Oh i removed it, i'll add it back

[glad pawn]

strange

[wintry quarry]

Can you show the full script?

I see you're using FishNet

Maybe FishNet messes with things especially if this is a network component

[mild lake]

What's that quick pastebin people use here? i forgot the name

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[burnt vapor]

Does something happen if you add an order to the header?

[Header("Foo", order=5)]

Just shooting in the dark here, I have no idea why it would not work

[mild lake]

Type or namespace couldn't be found

[burnt vapor]

I would guess it's otherwise somehow a custom editor interfering

[swift crag]

It does.

It has a custom editor

I remember this coming up before.

[wintry quarry]

Yeah I'm thinking this is a FishNet problem

[mild lake]

https://gdl.space/pefekowide.cs

[swift crag]

IIRC it has a custom editor for Component?

[wintry quarry]

big if true

[wintry quarry]

oof

[mild lake]

what's this mean?

[swift crag]

FishNet draws a custom editor for every single kind of unity object

If it doesn't respect the HeaderAttribute, then headers won't work

Perhaps someone should open an issue about it

I don't see anything on the github repo

[mild lake]

That's annoying, but sounds like we found the root of the problem

I'll ask in their server about it. Thanks!

[wintry quarry]

Yeah your exact code produces this in my project btw

so definitely fishnet

[magic panther]

apparently the loop label is wrong.

[swift crag]

pretty sure C#'s break doesn't work like that

[magic panther]

need the full function?

[swift crag]

you have to break out the epic gamer goto to jump to a label

[magic panther]

so break goto rayCheck or something

[swift crag]

no, it'd just be goto rayCheck;

but reconsider your design first (:

[wintry quarry]

^ that but the label should be in the place you want to go TO not before the loop

but really... avoid goto and labels if at all possible

[magic panther]

so how do I break out of both loops from inside the nested one

[wintry quarry]

can you show the full code in question?

the simple answer though is - put whatever you want to break out of in a function, and return; from the function

[magic panther]

!code

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[magic panther]

https://gdl.space/hozapajoli.cs

here

I need to break out of the loop, not the function

the loop is inside a function

[wintry quarry]

of course it is

put it inside another smaller function, and return from that

[glad pawn]

out of the second for, check if mishap is true and break

[wintry quarry]

but yeah that's possible too

[magic panther]

one sec

[wintry quarry]

why not just this:

for (int i = 0; i < 2 && !mishap; i++) {```

in the outer loop

that solves it all, no?

[glad pawn]

like ```csharp
for (...) {
...
for (...) {
...
mishap = true;
break;
}
if (mishap)
break;
}

[magic panther]

not really

[wintry quarry]

why not

[magic panther]

I need both iterations, just a cancel last second

there's some code ran after the for

[wintry quarry]

if you always need to iterate twice then you don't want to break out

ever

[magic panther]

I'll give it a go

[wintry quarry]

#💻┃code-beginner message this code will still run the stuff after the for loop

[magic panther]

so just remove breaks and add the extra condition?

[wintry quarry]

it doesn't affect anything outside the loop

[wintry quarry]

well you still want breaks in the inner loop, no?

[magic panther]

but I need the breaks to not run the rest of the loop

[wintry quarry]

that's what break does, yes

it ends the loop

[magic panther]

actually a if (mishap) { break } below the first if could just do the job

[wintry quarry]

I'm saying leave this exact code, change break break; to regular break; and add this:
#💻┃code-beginner message

but really just putting this loop in a function would be so much cleaner

and using return;

you could even make it a local function and then you don't need to worry about passing local variables as parameters etc..

[elder raptor]

Any idea why this coroutine isn't working?

public IEnumerator StartOccupiedSequence()
{
    float occupiedTime = UnityEngine.Random.Range(minRoomOccupiedTime, maxRoomOccupiedTime + 1);
    Debug.Log("Will Wait for " + occupiedTime + " secs");
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(occupiedTime);
    Debug.Log("Done waiting!");
    SetRoomState(RoomState.NeedsCleaning);
}

I am starting the coroutine in another script like this: StartCoroutine(room.StartOccupiedSequence()); but for some reason, I get the first Debug "Will wait for X Secs" then nothing happens.

[swift crag]

Do you deactivate the game object of the component you started the coroutine from?

e.g.

StartCoroutine(...);
gameObject.SetActive(false);

[cosmic dagger]

is the GameObject the coroutine running on destroyed at any time?

[ivory bobcat]

Did you destroy the object?

[wintry quarry]

The object that is running the coroutine was deactivated or destroyed
OR
Time.timeScale is 0 or small

[elder raptor]

The object that started the Coroutine is destroyed yeah.

[wintry quarry]

then mystery solved

[elder raptor]

Time.timeScale is never 0

[swift crag]

it's gooooone

[elder raptor]

ohh, so it isn't supposed to be destroyed?

[swift crag]

StartCoroutine doesn't mean "run the coroutine out in the aether"

it's equivalent to this.StartCoroutine

you run the coroutine on a specific MonoBehaviour

[wintry quarry]

whether it should be destroyed is up to you but it's certainly not going to continue to run its coroutines if it is

[cosmic dagger]

if the GameObject is destroyed, the coroutine no longer exist; therefore, it cannot continue to run . . .

[elder raptor]

Ahh makes sense, I can destroy it after the coroutine then. Thanks!

[cosmic dagger]

you can run the coroutine on a separate MonoBehaviour class to avoid that, but may be more than needed for your situation . . .

[magic panther]

I'm boutta snap bro
I rewrote the script, now it's clean, but the SAME THING HAPPENS

https://gdl.space/ivebedalin.cs

Everything works except this script. Something is just completely wrong here

[elder raptor]

Destroying the object after the coroutine worked perfectly, but that's a nice suggestion

[magic panther]

@swift crag bro would you mind giving this a look?
I have an idea on why this is happening but I'm not sure

or anyone

over 7 hours and this is still giving me a headache

[swift crag]

I find this very hard to parse.

[magic panther]

there's extra info in the convo below when Dalphat was trying to help

[verbal dome]

The fact that you are being very emotional steers me away from helping you tbh

[ivory bobcat]

Put break points where you're adding to the lists and see which are misfiring.

[magic panther]

ik

I'm sick today

my bad mate

[ivory bobcat]

It's not going to be a simple "you did this instead of this" solution without debugging.

[magic panther]

I'd also be steered away tbh

[magic panther]

yeah ik

[magic panther]

Do you need me to add comments or send something external? Rvec3() just rounds all values of a vector3 argument passed

[ivory bobcat]

Basically the two lists are being populated when they aren't supposed to be because the if statements in your double for loop likely doesn't handle some edge cases.

[magic panther]

Problem being I have no damn idea what the edge case could be, both brittlewalls and fragments are treated the same way.

[cosmic dagger]

whoa, this is a lot to look at and try to figure out what is going on or supposed to happen. is there a specific snippet/part of the code that doesn't work?

[magic panther]

That's the problem, I tried figuring this out all day. As dalphat says, there appears to be an edge case where the objects break sideways

I can try the same level but replace the brittlewalls for fragments

just to get the possibility of treating them differently out of my head

ok here it didn't work because there needs to be at least one brittlewall and at least one fragment to break

[ivory bobcat]

This is likely true when it isn't supposed to be #💻┃code-beginner message
Specifically the two lists have added the blocks when the blocks shouldn't have been added - logic flaw.
The solution was to test and see which of these if statements were adding to the lists so he could further focus on the actual problem. As is, there hasn't been enough debugging yet.

[magic panther]

My biggest question is why does it, like, shift to the side??

how does that even happen?

I think I could add a non-marker bool as a debugging thing and just check it on for the right fragment of the piece causing trouble

[stuck palm]

😭

private void OnEnable()
        {
            Application.logMessageReceived += ShowMessage;
            
            Application.targetFrameRate = 60;
            SendNotification(MessageType.Info, "GameManager Created, Set fps to 60");

why does it still say 165 fps

[magic panther]

this is what I meant btw

the function will not be run for this fragment

[ivory bobcat]

What's generating that text?

[magic panther]

idk what we'll get out of this

[cosmic dagger]

it looks cool, but i'm unsure what the video is supposed to convey . . .

[swift crag]

i dunno, i presume it's your code that's creating the text

[stuck palm]

this fps counter i found on unity forums

https://gist.github.com/st4rdog/80057b406bfd00f44c8ec8796a071a13

[magic panther]

nothing, me admitting to a dumb mistake.

On the other hand, it's solely an issue of the top fragment of the piece.

I disabled the bottom right, changed nothing

[ivory bobcat]

Oh goodness, I don't want to read/debug/fix their code too, maybe someone else will help you out - apologies.

[magic panther]

turned the nonMarker bool on for the top one and it works as intended now.

so something's up with the top fragment

[stuck palm]

lol thats fine, could it possibly be because of vsync, though?

[magic panther]

to the sides it had nothing so the loop fails.

holy shit it might be it hold on

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not sure as we'd need to know where or how that 165 fps is evaluated.

[stuck palm]

165 is the refresh rate of my monitor

which is why i thought that

turns out turning off vsync fixed it lol

i can definitely feel the difference now

[magic panther]

Unity's trolling at this point

[verbal dome]

Can you explain the problem in a couple of sentences?

[cosmic dagger]

if you change the nonMarker bool does it work?

i didn't understand the intent or design or your game, so i couldn't what or where smth was wrong . . .

[magic panther]

I'm trying to implement a mechanic where if 1+ fragments of a piece and 1+ brittle walls (grid things) are in a line which begins with a wall and ends with a wall and has no air and no other elements in it (I checked, the special floors don't break anything) the fragment and brittle walls in that line break, similar to tetris.
Here, as you can see, for some reason, this specific piece just breaks stuff diagonally.
I deleted it and placed a new piece of same exact shape, we'll see how that goes

wait

you're kidding

[cosmic dagger]

if you push a red piece with horizontal or vertical blocks touching opposite ends of this grid, they are all removed?

[magic panther]

no, because at least one brittle wall needs to be in the line as wall

[swift crag]

This is fully grid-based, correct?

If so, you should throw out the raycasting entirely and just work in grid-space

that would simplify your code quite a bit

[magic panther]

anyways, turns out I did everything right from the start and wasted yall time, because this specific block was just built different.

I deleted the old one and placed a new one of exact same shape and position

now everything works as it should

I mean I should get used to stuff this tiny messing up my entire day, happened three times in this project already

[swift crag]

sounds like a weird physics quirk caused by these raycasts on a grid (:

[cosmic dagger]

wouldn't the grid (brittle) column on the left break before pushing it to the right (where the second brittle column broke)?

[glad pawn]

btw, very cool game!

[magic panther]

once was a misspell by capitalizing a letter on accident, another was assigning the Piece script instead of object to the room

[verbal dome]

Wouldn't it be cleaner to ditch the boxcolliders and raycasts and use a 2D array instead or something

[wintry quarry]

I wouldn't use physics for such a game in the first place

[magic panther]

What should I use then?

Yes it's pirely grid based

[wintry quarry]

Just a grid

[swift crag]

a grid

[wintry quarry]

2d array

[swift crag]

you can use Unity's Grid component

[magic panther]

so comparisons like this.x == me.x + 1 >> move?

[swift crag]

it converts between world-space and grid-space

[wintry quarry]

Well you'd use Vector2Int or an equivalent for coordinates and yes just check things manually

[magic panther]

It sounds like it's too late, but thank god this is just a test demo to see if people like the idea

[wintry quarry]

Very simple for loops etc

[magic panther]

in the actual project I'll ask some more questions on proper code stuff like the grid things.

[swift crag]

Raycasts make sense when you have irregularly shaped objects spaced far apart

They do not make sense for very rigid grid-based logic

[magic panther]

I mean I planned some off-grid mechanics, but that just sounds painful to work with so I scrapped the idea

[magic panther]

The idea for it and most levels comes from the idea guy in my team, I just glue stuff they make together

I don't take credit for it

Thanks to you all for the help

but now I need to make them split into individual pieces if a cut occurs in the middle of a piece

I won't whine like I did today when I mess it up tho

cyall

cya all

however you say that

dude

[glad pawn]

well, a poorly coded game isn't a cool game, so I guess you have credit 🙂

[magic panther]

nav I leave it to them

[magic panther]

also, how the hell

is there another bug 🧌

[magic panther]

Can anyone help and tell me why this is not breaking?

Script -> https://gdl.space/jerovuxuwi.cs

the given script is inside each fragment and it's called vertically and horizontally (Vector2(0f, 1f) and Vector2(1f, 0f) passed as the lookDir) in a LateUpdate, after everything happens in terms movement and so on. It works literally everywhere except this piece. I tried deleting it and placing a new one, still not working

like this it works

[tender breach]

Why isn't my tag changing when touching another gameobject https://pastecode.io/s/1n3ouidw

[magic panther]

pushing the T piece in leaves a dot

[polar acorn]

Add this log to the first line:

Debug.Log($"Colliding with {other.gameObject.name} on layer {other.gameObject.layer}");

See what thing you're hitting and see if it matches any of your conditions

[astral falcon]

Might be a simple question and answer, but have you guys experienced switching a camera from base to overlay and back killing all values that have been there for physical camera for example?

mainCameraData.renderType = spectator ? CameraRenderType.Overlay : CameraRenderType.Base;

[tender breach]

I added a Debug Log so

[polar acorn]

Okay, what does it say?

[tender breach]

It says Ninja which is supposed to happen when the gameobject tag = other falling 2.

[polar acorn]

Using my exact log, what is the exact message you are getting

[astral falcon]

Guess I have to store it in an extra component to assign back when renderType base.

[magic panther]

Alright I fixed it. I just forgot to add the fragment itself to the list. Again, I appreciate all the help and advice

[tender breach]

I don't want to

[polar acorn]

Then perish

[tender breach]

Ok

[polar acorn]

Why ask for help if you don't want it?

[frosty hound]

If you're not going to actually do what people ask of you, please stop posting here. You have been a difficult user in the past to attempt to help. Consider this an official warning.

[wooden socket]

i need a bit of help with an animation playing, and th problem is the code. I want it to play when the collisionCount is equal to 10, and when I put it in Start() it plays, but not when the value is 10

lemme send my code

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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

[wooden socket]

https://gdl.space/alagajuhej.cpp

[polar acorn]

Are you getting your debug logs?

[wooden socket]

on Start yea, on collisionCount no

[polar acorn]

Then this object never collides with any triggers

[stuck palm]

I have this graphic script that I found, but i've put it on canvas and im not getting the debug logs at the end.

public class UILineRenderer : Graphic
{
    public List<Vector2> Points = new List<Vector2>();
    public float lineThickness = 2f;
    
    protected override void Awake()
    {
        base.Awake();
        material = new Material(Shader.Find("UI/Default"));
    }
    
    protected override void Start()
    {
        base.Start();
        Debug.Log("UILineRenderer Start");
        SetVerticesDirty();
    }

    protected override void OnPopulateMesh(VertexHelper vh)
    {
        vh.Clear();
        Debug.Log("OnPopulateMesh called");

the Start one is being called

but not OnPopuklateMesyh

[polar acorn]

The Three Commandments of OnTriggerEnter2D:

1. Thou Shalt have a 2D Collider on each object
2. Thou Shalt tick isTrigger on at least one of them
3. Thou Shalt have a 2D Rigidbody on at least one of them

[wooden socket]

well, the weird part is that it switches scenes when it reaches 10 but the animation doesnt play

i know it isnt a problem with the ACTUAL animation

bcs it works on other scenes

[polar acorn]

If you aren't getting your log message in OnTriggerEnter2D then that function simply is not happening

[glad pawn]

you need to have the rb?

I didn't know that

[willow scroll]

Sure

[glad pawn]

interesting

[polar acorn]

No I just made up a commandment for no reason to confuse people

[ivory bobcat]

One of the two does

[glad pawn]

no, that's not what I meant

[glad pawn]

It's not you were confusing people

it's just I didn't know

[willow scroll]

Either of them or both should have a Rigidbody

[glad pawn]

I only thought both had to have colliders and at least one of them had to be a trigger

[polar acorn]

Yeah, I was just snarkily replying because I put it in the commandments because it's a requirement

[willow scroll]

Sure

[polar acorn]

They do, that's the first commandment

[willow scroll]

Both should have their Colliders, and either or both a Rigidbody

[polar acorn]

at least one. They can both have rigidbodies just fine. My words were chosen very carefully

[ivory bobcat]

Wasn't there a rule for easy fast and free assets as well?

[willow scroll]

That's why I said "either or both", which means "at least one, can be two"

[polar acorn]

Oh, right, I missed the "or both", my bad

Now I have the reading comprehension shame cone 😔

[wooden socket]

well, I get the debug log

[polar acorn]

So then why did you specifically tell me otherwise

[willow scroll]

The method OnTriggerEnter2D is called when the Collider2D with the script that detects a collision is a trigger, otherwise OnCollisionEnter2D, regardless of the other Collider2D's type

So both can be non-triggers

[wooden socket]

shoot im sorry

[ivory bobcat]

Likely it's to do with your animator controller if the logs are printing

[wooden socket]

okay this may sound dumb but

if i copy the same controller

from another scene into this one, will that help?

[willow scroll]

Well, this will work

Not sure with what it should help, haven't followed

[wooden socket]

aaand still didnt work

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe show your animator controller

[wooden socket]

kk

[ivory bobcat]

Referring to something like this

[carmine sierra]

any simple ways to prevent randomly spawned enemies from spawning within each other

is a placeholder needed to see if they will collide, before placing

[frosty hound]

You can overlapsphere the area to check for collisions with other enemies and then doing that until you find an open spot.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.OverlapSphere.html

Though you'll want to set a hard limit so you don't cause an infinite loop in situations where there might not be space. And just either cancel the spawning, or allow spawning wherever in those circumstances.

[polar acorn]

And what is the transition condition

[polar acorn]

Okay, that's all fine. I was suspecting Exit Time might have been enabled but this is all set up correctly.

Replace this log:

Debug.Log("Triggering the StartTransition animation.");

With this one, that gives a bit more info:

Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name} is Triggering the StartTransition animation on {transitionAnimator}", this);

[wooden socket]

will do

[polar acorn]

Also, quick sanity check: The birdTransition state does have an animation on it, right?

[wooden socket]

where would I find that

[polar acorn]

You'd click on it

[wooden socket]

like this?

[polar acorn]

No, the animation state

in the animator

[wooden socket]

ah

[ivory bobcat]

I think he's referring to the state from here

[wooden socket]

which node do I click

[ivory bobcat]

The bird transition state

[wooden socket]

OH nvm yea I see

[polar acorn]

Okay so it has a clip, that's good. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't an obvious problem. Back to the log then

[wooden socket]

ok

What’s especially weird is that

I literally copied tbe components

Should I just send screenshots of everything involved?

[polar acorn]

Let's start with just the results of that log

[languid spire]

Please read #854851968446365696 on how to ask questions

[ivory bobcat]

This doesn't look like it's related to coding and a cross post from#💻┃unity-talk message

[ivory tendon]

oh mb im new to unity

[sullen zealot]

hello is EventTrigger.OnDrag called multiple times per frame?

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, the border object is changing the animation on the transStart object. Can you show the full inspectors of both objects?

[wooden socket]

this is on border

[polar acorn]

Show the full inspectors of the objects, so I can get some context

[wooden socket]

kk

lemme see if I can get a full ss

[polar acorn]

That's good enough for border

I just needed to see the collision-y stuff since that's what's calling the function.

transStart next would be good

[polar acorn]

Okay, everything seems to be on the up-and-up. The only thing I can think is maybe the animation clip itself is incorrect?

[wooden socket]

lemme look into that

it would be in border right?

[polar acorn]

The best way would be to just change that state to be the "entry" state and see if it plays when you start the game

[wooden socket]

kk

wouldnt putting it in Start() do the same thing? just curious

bcs i did that and it played

[polar acorn]

Okay, so the clip works. If it doesn't play then, maybe an object involved in this gets destroyed or deactivated? Or some variables change?

[wooden socket]

ykw it may be

okay no its not what I thought it was

i disabled an object that included the script that was redundant and it still didnt change the outcome

[ivory bobcat]

If it works in start but not in the physics callback function then it's likely not being called or something has happened later (outside of start)

When playing at the start method, are you firing the same instructions - changing scenes and whatnot

[wooden socket]

in Start() all I did was use StartTransition()

wait hold up

something changed

okay so

the image im using to transition is BEHIND the background image

yea its behind the image but its in the highest part of the canvas

[polar acorn]

Okay, so it is animating, it's just behind everything?

[wooden socket]

yup

[polar acorn]

Canvases are drawn back to front in hierarchy order. So, transStart is rendered, then scoreText on top of it, and RawImage on top of that

[wooden socket]

OH

so its in reverse?

okay so it works, but now the transStart isnt on top of everything

[polar acorn]

Picture it as a physical drawing. Once you put something on paper, if you take a crayon to it after, it's going to end up in front of what's already on the paper

[wooden socket]

its just over the background

[polar acorn]

This order applies within the canvas. If you have another canvas, or objects in front of the entire canvas, they're still going to be in front

[wooden socket]

so im putting the canvas at the bottom?

of the hiearchy

no, right>

[polar acorn]

Where the canvas is in the hierarchy doesn't matter. The hierarchy determines order within the canvas

[wooden socket]

yea ik

wait lemme send a ss of what I mean

see how the small birds are above the big one?

[polar acorn]

Is the canvas an overlay canvas

[wooden socket]

it was a camera canvas

i jusut changed it, and the problem still stands

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, then you'd need to make sure the distance between the camera and the canvas is less than the distance between the camera and the stuff in the game world

[wooden socket]

wait but if I make the canvas overlay, it makes everything huge

[polar acorn]

That's so it's in real pixel sizes. The position and size of an overlay canvas don't matter

[wooden socket]

but then I run the game and the other game objects are hidden

[swift crag]

An overlay canvas is drawn directly onto your screen. It doesn't really have a meaningful position in the world.

[wooden socket]

lemme send a ss

[polar acorn]

So, that bigger box is your screen. That's the stuff that is drawn on top of the game. Imagine it like a sticker inside of your computer monitor. It does not matter where it is or how big it is, it will be your screen

It's drawn over everything else

[wooden socket]

but then my game objects dont even

appear

[polar acorn]

Where are they on the canvas?

Or do you mean your non-UI stuff doesn't appear?

If it's the latter, that's probably because your canvas is covering them

[wooden socket]

all the way in this bottom corner

do I have to manually move them?

[polar acorn]

Yeah, that's what your camera sees. And your canvas is glued to the inside of your screen

it literally does not matter where the canvas is

it can be anywhere

[wooden socket]

but when I run the game

its just the image

[polar acorn]

Yes, because it's an overlay canvas

it's covering everything

[wooden socket]

ykw

[polar acorn]

Overlays are drawn on top of the game

[wooden socket]

oh wait I see

so do I have to manually move everything

or can I just make the image smaller

[polar acorn]

It does not matter where anything is

Your background shouldn't be a canvas

[wooden socket]

its not its an image

[polar acorn]

your canvas should contain UI that is drawn on top of things

[wooden socket]

OH

wait then how do I make the background an image

[polar acorn]

You don't. It should probably be either a sprite in world space, or a skybox texture

[wooden socket]

okay so ill make it a skybox texture

wait i can just use sorting layers

well

it works!1

[still pond]

Hey, I have an object in my hierarchy called "ScoreKeeper" and I can't reference to it in my code. For example if i try to declare the "ScoreKeeper scoreKeeper" it says that the type 'ScoreKeeper' can't be found. The object is enabled

[raw token]

In ScoreKeeper scorekeeper, ScoreKeeper is a C# type - it'd be referring to a class you've defined in a script, not a GameObject

[still pond]

And how should I refer to the game object "ScoreKeeper"