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[ivory bobcat]

Doesn't look specific to Unity, maybe try !csds

[eternal falcon]

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[river quiver]

okay

[random cave]

Im trying to make a marker for my minimap, I can move around the map with right click and left click is suppose to move the marker to cursor place, but the coordinates are wrong, how do I fix this?:
This checks if your mouse is over the map.

    {
        PointerEventData EventDataCurrentPosition = new PointerEventData (EventSystem.current);
        EventDataCurrentPosition.position = new Vector2 (Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y);
        List<RaycastResult> result = new List<RaycastResult> ();
        EventSystem.current.RaycastAll (EventDataCurrentPosition, result);
        return result.Count > 0;

    }```
**This moves movePoint2 to where the mouse hit.**
```if (IspointerOverUiObject ()) {
            if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)) { 


                ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);


                if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, mask)) {

                    movePoint2 = new Vector3 (hit.point.x, hit.point.y, hit.point.z - offset);
                }
            }
        }```

[polar acorn]

That returns an int. You can just use >

[river quiver]

yh but my if statement looks like this if (hour > 21 && hour < 6), but if its lets say 22 hours it wont be less than 6

[polar acorn]

Well, yeah, because 22 is not less than 6. && doesn't make sense here, there's no way it can satisfy both conditions

[river quiver]

but it has to be at night

[polar acorn]

Right

[river quiver]

so like you know when its night time and its dark

[polar acorn]

It'd be either after 21 or before 6

So why use &&

when it's an or

[river quiver]

aaaaaa okay

damn

mb

shi

xd

ty

[cosmic dagger]

Try speaking in complete sentences . . .

[crisp anvil]

What am I doing wrong here? Everything works correct except checking if the tile is blacklisted and should return false.

    public Tile[] BlacklistedTiles;

    public bool CanSpawnOnTile(Vector3Int tilePos)
    {
        TileBase tile = GameMap.GetTile(tilePos);
        if (tile == null)
        {
            return false;
        }
        if (BlacklistedTiles.Contains(tile))
        {
            return false;
        }
        if (!IsWithinSpawnDistance(tilePos))
        {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
    public void GetSpawnPoints()
    {
        for (int x = GameMap.cellBounds.xMin; x < GameMap.cellBounds.xMax; x++)
        {
            for (int y = GameMap.cellBounds.yMin; y < GameMap.cellBounds.yMax; y++)
            {
                Vector3Int localPlace = new Vector3Int(x, y, 0);
                if (CanSpawnOnTile(localPlace))
                {
                    Vector3 place = GameMap.GetCellCenterWorld(localPlace);
                    spawnPoints.Add(new Vector2(place.x, place.y));
                }
            }
        }
    }

[eternal needle]

what debugging steps have you taken? if its not returning false, then the array doesnt contain the same instance of the tile

[ivory bobcat]

What's happening that shouldn't be happening?

[crisp anvil]

It's adding spawn points ontop of blacklisted tiles, I added a Debug log in the

        {
            return false;
        }```
And it never gets called. The tile is added to the array in the inspector.

I figured it out

I had two tile maps one named obsticles and another for the ground, the ground is the tilemaop attached to the script that was painted under the Blacklisted tile in the other tilemap. Erasing the painted ground tiles under the obsticles fixed it. cause then it returns null.

        if (BlacklistedTiles.Contains(tile))
        {
            return false;
        }

Pretty sure with the setup I have this code becomes unreachable.

still worth having for future tiles that might not want things to spawn on.

[brave pecan]

Hello everyone, im learning about 2d games. I want to do some practice. Can you guys suggest me any game idea for reinforce my basic knowledge? i made a quiz game and a basic platformer. I want to try something different.

[ivory bobcat]

What do you want to focus on?

[brave pecan]

actually i want to make my own platformer game but my idea is hard to make for me right now.

[ivory bobcat]

This is the code channel, so maybe ask folks in #💻┃unity-talk

[brave pecan]

okay sorry

[rocky canyon]

are Queues<> expensive??

hm.. i found something about Circular Buffers

[teal viper]

Not any more than lists. Though it depends on how you're using them.

[remote osprey]

Hello

foreach (int i in Enumerable.Range(0, 2))
{
    GameObject column =  Instantiate<GameObject>(new GameObject("Column"),CardGrid.transform);
    column.AddComponent<VerticalLayoutGroup>();
    foreach (int j in Enumerable.Range(0, 2))
    {
        GameObject cardObject = Instantiate<GameObject>(CardPrefab, column.transform);
        Card card = cardObject.GetComponentInChildren<Card>();
        card.Initialize(chosen[i*3+j]);
    }
}

Any specific reason this code would fail when i*3+j = 4?

I keep debugging but have no idea why

It's supposed to create columns of 3 cards but it only creates 2 columns of 2 cards before giving ArgumentNullException...

Curiously, it creates 2 columns outside of CardGrid, which is insane

[orchid hatch]

Hey! Anyone have an idea for the simplest way to know which direction is the shortest distance between two points on the circumference of a circle? Once my enemy comes into a radius around the player it rotates around the player until it reaches a collider (player's gun) . I want to make sure it always rotates in the direction that is the shortest distance.
It's a little over my head so if you know where to start lmk!!
Thanks :)
Working in Unity w/ C#

[cosmic dagger]

Nah, it just depends how you're using it. A Queue<T> is for constantly adding and removing elements as those operations are fast, but you cannot index specific elements. If you need to access specific elements (indexing), then List <T> is preferred as removing and adding are expensive . . .

[fading mountain]

Hey guys. Im working on a quiz game and currently trying to implement the ability to select from a list of quizzes - for example, a quiz about computers, a quiz about video games, etc. - I have one list for each quiz that has a certain number of scriptable objects with the question and answers. I want a way to add these lists of scriptable objects to another list called quizzes so that I can access them by an index number and populate the questions and answers in the quiz. How would I go about doing that? Is there a better way to do this rather than a list of lists?

[cosmic dagger]

Create an SO that holds a list of quiz SOs, then drag your quiz SOs to the list . . .

You can do it manually or write code to add all quiz SOs to the list automatically . . .

[rocky canyon]

im using it as a rolling frame/sec counter.. ```cs
//current frame rate
frameCounts.Enqueue(fps);

    //older than averageDuration
    while (frameCounts.Count > 0 && totalTime - frameCounts.Peek() >= averageDuration)
    {
        frameCounts.Dequeue();
    }```

it runs every frame so i was curious

ya, i might use a fixed array

float[] frameRates = new float[BufferSize];

[cosmic dagger]

No reaction gifs . . .

[cosmic dagger]

That looks fine. Adding and removing are O(1) because there's no shifting involved . . .

[rocky canyon]

ok thanks 👍 i wanted someone more experienced to give it a look

[remote osprey]

I don't understand your question.

Distances don't have a direction

You could think of the direction from A to B or from B to A

[orchid hatch]

I think I need to calculate which angle is smaller ("left" or "right" of the enemy towards the gun) and then choose whichever direction is along the smaller angle

[rocky canyon]

i think he means like if the guy is almost turned 45* away from the direction it should look.. instead of rotating around the opposite direction 315* it rotates back the 45* rotation

[orchid hatch]

yeah exactly

[rocky canyon]

i think ive used Atan2 for that

https://discussions.unity.com/t/rotate-an-object-based-on-shorter-angle/127881

[remote osprey]

You could use dot product between OA and OB

Where O is the center of the circunference

If it's negative, then A is "up" B, therefore rotate - (360 - angleAB)

If it's positive, then B is "up" A, therefore rotate angleAB

I just took this off my head so it might not work as I have no way to pen test this xD

@orchid hatch

[orchid hatch]

thanks for the replies

is "OA" a vector A - O?

[remote osprey]

Yes

I used linear algebra solution

[orchid hatch]

so I would do Vector3.Dot(OA,OB) ?

[remote osprey]

yes

Then check the sign

I'm gonna try drawing something

[orchid hatch]

okay i think this makes sense to me

thank you!

I'll try it & lyk

[remote osprey]

you're welcome!

Hope it works for you c:

[remote osprey]

scratch that

what you should use is the dot product between OA and Rot90(OB)

Because that way, if the sign changes it means crossed OA

in other words:

var dot = OA.x*-OB.y + OA.y*OB.x;
if(dot > 0)
    console.log("OB on the right of OA")
else if(dot < 0)
    console.log("OB on the left of OA")
else
    console.log("OB parallel/antiparallel to OA")

[rocky canyon]

antiparallel eh?

[remote osprey]

I guess both are parallel lol

[rocky canyon]

😄 lol

var dot = OA.x*-OB.y + OA.y*OB.x; lookin scary

i always have to look back on dot, cross, and atan

[remote osprey]

just rotate OB then take its dot with OA :p

[remote osprey]

me too and it's always interesting/fun

[rocky canyon]

bout to make a gun turret, i'll be doing this myself soon

[remote osprey]

@orchid hatch

[remote osprey]

Cool!

Wanna see the result :p

[orchid hatch]

It seems to give inconsistent results depending on where it approaches from

oh i just saw the scratch that

nvm

[remote osprey]

that's because it's the wrong answer :p

[orchid hatch]

haha

ok i'll try this!

i think it works!

though it gave the seemingly wrong direction a couple times but every other time it's right

it seems like there's one specific approach that confuses it

i'll take a video

hmm okay once i started recording it's actually wrong a lot of the time

rats

here's my code ignore the direction bool lol

[remote osprey]

Oh ok, so the player is that little dog, right?

And the pistol(collider) is the cursor?

Oh, my mistake

try dogToBat.x * (-dogToTarget.y) and see if it resolves

[orchid hatch]

the player is the dog and the bat's target is where the bone/gun is

[remote osprey]

it should be a minus sign

[orchid hatch]

rather a point thats slightly between the bone and the cursor

a minus sign where?

[orchid hatch]

try this as "dot"?

[late burrow]

is tostring still works on class that is null

[remote osprey]

nah, try this:
float dot = dogToBat.x * (-dogToTarget.y) + dogToBat.y * dogToTarget.x

I used the wrong sign and misled you, sorry :p

[orchid hatch]

oh my bad i missed the minus sign that was there in your original response

[remote osprey]

You didn't miss it, I edited it later xD

[orchid hatch]

oh true

that works!!

tysm

[remote osprey]

You're welcome!

I'm happy to help 😄

[orchid hatch]

@remote osprey in practice c:

[cosmic dagger]

Would like to see that. I did a test on a design pattern using a turret a while back. It was mainly a separation of concerns using an individual script for each action the turret can do, but I used SOs as pluggable behavior for each script . . .

[remote osprey]

What a cool little game! UwU

I your pixel art, it has such a light feel to it :p

[orchid hatch]

thanks!

hoping to finish this 1 up & put it out soon

[remote osprey]

I hope you do!

I really feel like playing this, feel free to tag me when you release it :p

[orchid hatch]

cool will do!!

[icy tree]

Hey, I’m looking to start programming what do you guys recommend that I learn first

[teal viper]

C#

[remote osprey]

I'd you can start with anything you like!

If you want to get into gaming, you could try using something simpler like GameMaker

But if you just want raw programming, you could pick any of the major languages, really

Like Java, C#, Python, whatever is more directed to what you want

[cosmic dagger]

since you're here, C#. you can check out the pinned messages in here to get started . . .

[remote osprey]

C# is more directed to Unity, since that's what you seem to be more intested in

[teal viper]

Mentions major languages. Forgets C/C++

[icy tree]

Yeah

[orchid hatch]

for what it's worth I found the way gamemaker simplifies things and uses visual scripting to be kind of confusing as a beginner & it was more useful to just start learning c# by messing around in Unity and looking up things that I didn't understand

[cosmic dagger]

i was going to say smth, but nah . . .

[remote osprey]

Memory allocation

I both like and despise C

It gives me so much control but but

(Segmentation Fault)

[bold plover]

Any opinions on when to run the initialization for my state machine? Trying to decide between Start() and Awake. The former seems the most stable but I'm not sure if that's a good take.

[remote osprey]

Start runs after Awake

It really depends on what your needs are

[slender nymph]

use Awake to initialize its own variables, then Start to access other objects

[bold plover]

Gotcha. Thank you! I was reading the page but the dots weren't connecting in my brain.

And the order in which they execute is the opposite when initializing during gameplay?

[cosmic dagger]

no, GameObjects already existing in the scene will call their Start method called before an instantiated GameObject will call its Awake method . . .

[bold plover]

Got it. So it's *not *a reversal and more so the order in which they execute? GameObject already existing will do Awake() into Start(), and then another Awake() runs after that for the instantiated ones?

[summer stump]

Awake and start are called in the same frame. So objects that exist when runtime starts will have both called the first frame of runtime (with the first start being called AFTER every awake). An instantiated object may be called IN that first frame, but I believe the object isn't actually created until the very start of the next frame? It will at least be later no matter how soon Instantiate is called

[bold plover]

ahh

[summer stump]

This is helpful to look at too.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

[slender nymph]

start by learning to code. there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel

then why are you here

[naive pawn]

coding is kinda necessary to make anything with logic

it doesn't have to be writing code, unity has a visual scripting system

but you will still have to create logic

[slender nymph]

my guy, how are you going to go into a code channel, ask how to get started with unity, then say you don't want to learn to code

[naive pawn]

drag thingys
if by that you mean blocks, yes, unity has visual scripting.
watch yt
you could do that to learn, but you can't just copy everything forever

you actually have to learn

why would being 2d have an influence on being multiplayer

[slender nymph]

you absolutely need to learn to code if you want to do anything remotely related to multiplayer

[naive pawn]

if you want it to have multiplayer, you have to make your game support multiplayer

learn

there's resources in the pinned message

you've been told that already

you don't, not yet.

learn to actually make it first

then add multiplayer

don't get ahead of yourself, you'll just create a nightmare for your future self

[queen adder]

guys, ive been learning the creative core thing but yeh i mean it gets you through how to a 3d environnement which is fine but i thought i need much that 3d knoweldge for a mobile game

like i would more interested in like the architecture of a mobile game for exemple, idk how to explain it yeh yeh designing a 3D environement isnt it cuz 3d environnement will be like 1/5 of my game

[naive pawn]

....ok, what's your question?

[queen adder]

hmm my question like where could i learn that i guess

[naive pawn]

learn... what?

aside from user interfacing, a mobile game isn't much different from any other environment

[eternal needle]

you can google for tutorials on how to make multiplayer games. no one here is gonna spoonfeed u all that you are looking for, especially since you said you dont wanna code

[naive pawn]

probably not an import, the environments are fundamentally different

[eternal needle]

repeating the question is just spamming, this isnt even a code question.

[naive pawn]

if you can make a fully functioning game in scratch then you already know how to write logic

just rewrite that logic using stuff unity understands

there's no shortcut for this

ok, go learn then

plenty of resources exist

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[summer stump]

It would take weeks of one on one help to "just tell you".
You need to put in the work yourself. If you have SPECIFIC questions, we can help. But you're questions are simply not how any of this works.
People pay a lot of money for what you are demanding for free

[timber comet]

yes

[queen adder]

this guy must be a troll

[summer stump]

Learning c++ and spending the time learning

Ask in an unreal server

But first put a tiny bit of effort in by yourself.

<@&502884371011731486>

They can see deleted comments. Clearly not a misclick

You are the type of person that is going to struggle really hard

[north kiln]

!ban 1145876377992712242 offensive crap

[eternal falcon]

chatisbest101 was banned.

[queen adder]

is there some guide out here to learn the basics principles of an idle (plays itself) mobile game rpg style? i know i could do it how i think it should be done but im sure il shoot myself in the foot and waste big amounts of time to implement stuff that is already establish

[chrome shadow]

where would i store variables such as volume and player health? in a GameManager script attatched to an obj, scriptable object, static float... im really confused
the main point is i need them to be adjustable / updated across scenes

[slender nymph]

store them in an object that makes sense to have them. for example why would the GameManager need either of those variables? the player's health should be stored on whatever component manages its health, and the audio volume should be stored on whatever deals with changing the volume

[chrome shadow]

maybe im overthinking it but for example, i currently store my volume float on a SoundManager in scene 1 with donotdestroyonload() setup, and when i want to edit it in scene 2 it doesnt work when i call SoundManager.instance.volume since i didnt load scene 1 yet

im not sure how to overcome this problem

[slender nymph]

This isn't necessarily what you need to do, but what I personally do is put my settings into a static class, when the game is launched I load the settings from disk and apply them to that static class. Then when something has changed them I save the settings to disk again.

[chrome shadow]

so should i have the same SoundManager on both scenes?

[slender nymph]

if you are using a singleton instance to manage that though, you'll need some way to ensure that an instance of that singleton exists. either by putting extra copies into your scenes, or by instantiating it when it doesn't exist

[chrome shadow]

ahhh ok

[dreamy dune]

public void EjectObject(Item item)
{
if (item == null || item.quantity <= 0 || item.ground_prefab == null)
{
return;
}

    GameObject g = Instantiate(item.ground_prefab, drop_Target.position, drop_Target.localRotation);

    if (g.GetComponent<Rigidbody>())
    {
        Rigidbody r = g.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        r.AddForce(playerCam.transform.forward * EjectForce / r.mass);
    }
}****

can anyone help me why my object is spawning like 5 meters away from me and in wrong rotation

its just not spawning at target_drop

[burnt vapor]

We can't help you because this tiny snippet of code has nothing to do with the location of your object. Please properly share all the !code related, preferably the whole class to avoid confusion with relevant context

[eternal falcon]

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[subtle garnet]

Hello guys! This code sets a ScriptableObject parameter in ScriptableObjects at runtime, but when I stop running it, it's not saved anymore in the ScriptableObject. Why?

private void ApplyDinosaurDataToItems()
    {
        DinosaurItem[] dinosaurItems = Resources.LoadAll<DinosaurItem>(dinosaurItemsPath);

        foreach (DinosaurItem dinosaurItem in dinosaurItems)
        {
            dinosaurItem.dinosaurData = Resources.Load<DinosaurData>(dinosaurDatasPath + $"/{dinosaurItem.name}");
        }
        
        AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
        AssetDatabase.Refresh();
    }

[languid spire]

you need mark the SO as Dirty. Look at SetDirty

[subtle garnet]

omg, it works now, thanks ❤️

[languid spire]

you do realize that this will not work in a build

[subtle garnet]

No? I think it would

[languid spire]

no it wont

SO's are immutable in a build

[subtle garnet]

Oh sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I won't use this in build.

I thought you mean the ScriptableObjects won't work. Sorry!

[crimson ibex]

I have a problem with Collision2D.
I have multiple gameobjects (counters) close to each other. I need my "player" gameobject to collide with one. But "player" tends to collide with 2 counters at same time.

My solution - Can be ignored - spent 3 days.
I solved that by changing layer of "counter" dynamically to "collidable", based on my what "player" must collide next. And setting up my layers such that the other counters dont initiate "CollisionEnter2d". And on CollisionExit , I change back the layer to "non-collidable".
Now, I have N no. of player gameobjects, that can collide as their algorithm dictates. There is no user input.
My use case is , any player can collide with any counter.
So, if I have changed counter layer to "collidable" for 1 player, other players may collide it by mistake.
And I can not control when to disable "Collidable" state, as other player may have same target.

What other way I can solve this ?

[languid spire]

probably this is what you need to implement
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.IgnoreCollision.html

[crimson ibex]

Thanks @languid spire I need the opposite of it. There are N no, of counters and M no. of players. Might be too costly to set Ignores for NxM ?

[languid spire]

what I would do is to set the collision matrix of the players and the counters to ignore eachother by default then you can use IgnoreColllision with false to activate specific Player Counter collisions

[crimson ibex]

Ohk ! That sounds promising. Thanks a lot @languid spire

[river quiver]

i dont understand what is singleton coding pattern?

[burnt vapor]

Singleton means the instance is guaranteed to only have a single instance. Singleton instances also usually have a direct reference to it through a static property on the class.

It is useful for things like managers that usually only have one instance in the game. You can easily access it and its data this way.

[half egret]

Unity had a great live session explaining/highlighting how to use singleton patterns, but I can't seem to find it anymore. That's where I'd usually direct people

[river quiver]

thanks

[burnt vapor]

I would just read this https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons

[atomic yew]

How can I assign Gameobjects in different scenes to scripts?

[languid spire]

generally you would use DDOL objects and a Singleton game manager

because it can only be done at runtime

[atomic yew]

Can you share a written source or a tutorial? I never knew of anything like this before.

[barren vapor]

Google is a great source to find it

[ripe shard]

make sure you read this before learning about singletons

• https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/singleton.html
• https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/service-locator.html
  and don't skip the discussion of pro/con

[languid spire]

I can give you Pseudo Code

LoadScene(0)
Instantiate GameManager as a Singleton DDOL
LoadScene(1)
Set GameObjects to save as DDOL and inject them into GameManager
LoadScene(2)
Access gameobject from Scene1 via the GameManager

[burnt vapor]

A C++ explanation about singletons when we're using C#? 🤔

Two out of three cons also apply here. Only the coupling one, which I'd argue doesn't really matter for a beginner

[atomic yew]

Ok

[atomic yew]

Thank you Steve and everyone else.

[ripe shard]

The language doesn't matter, its a software design pattern.

[languid spire]

it does when you are trying to explain concepts to a complete beginner

[crimson ibex]

Physics2D.IgnoreCollision(player.GetComponent<Collider2D>(), counter.GetComponent<Collider2D>(), false);
When I make IgnoreCollision false, the collisionEnter2d is not called,

Is that expected behaviour , for IgnoreCollision

[languid spire]

that should work. Are you sure you are doing it at the right time?

[frank zodiac]

charactersPerSecond.ToString();
charactersPerSecond = tagValue;

tagvalue is a string and CPS is a float. i get a red squiggly line on tagValue that says cannot convert string to float. any ideas??

[crimson ibex]

Yeah I am sure. Now, I am testing by to setting ignore as true manually for all. BRB

[barren vapor]

is charactersPerSecond the varname?

[frank zodiac]

yes

[barren vapor]

You're reaching it wrong. You're basicly doing:

• Turning charactersPerSecond into a string, but do nothing with it.
• Trying to attach a string to charactersPerSecond (which is still a float)

[frank zodiac]

i tried putting the to string and = tagvalue on the same line but i get the same error

thats why i tried seperating them

[barren vapor]

that's really wrong

[frank zodiac]

how am i supposed to do it tho?

[barren vapor]

You can't do that. C# doesn't work like that

[barren vapor]

Turn tagValue into a float or create a new variable which is a string

C# isn't dynamically typed like Python

[frank zodiac]

charactersPerSecond = charactersPerSecond.ToString();
charactersPerSecond =  tagValue;

like this?

[frank zodiac]

oh okay ill try that

[eager spindle]

this wont work as charactersPerSecond's type wont change accordingly

[barren vapor]

String newCharactersPerSecond = charactersPerSecond.ToString();
newCharactersPerSecond = tagValue;

create a new variable

wait

no

[frank zodiac]

ohh that makes sense. thank you!

[barren vapor]

that doesn't work either

[frank zodiac]

it doesnt?

how

[burnt vapor]

Why do you want to assign a string value to something that seems to be numeric? Don't you want to assign a numeric value instead?

is the issue that the value you try to assign is a string?

This sounds like an XY problem so please explain

[eager spindle]

wait are you setting tagValue to newCharacterPerSecond or the other way round

[barren vapor]

you're overriding the variable right after you assign it's value

[frank zodiac]

CPS to tagvalue

[frank zodiac]

oh yeah

[barren vapor]

ah

you're turning it around I think.

[frank zodiac]

im using ink and in ink there are these tags and i want to set it so that when i type "cps:9" characters per second is going to be 9

[frank zodiac]

how though?

[barren vapor]

So:

tagValue = charactersPerSecond.ToString();

[frank zodiac]

its suppoed to be CPS = tagvalue

[barren vapor]

I think you need that

[eager spindle]

characterPerSecond is a number, tagvalue is a string.
you want to convert tagValue to a number, done like int.parse(tagValue).
afterwards you can set characterPerSecond to tagValue

[burnt vapor]

So you have a numeric value and you need to set it to 9 when you type this?

[frank zodiac]

wouldnt that set the tag value

[frank zodiac]

yeah

[burnt vapor]

Yeah nobody is helping you with an actual answer here

Your use case seems unnecesarrily complex

[eager spindle]

im not sure if you can do (int)tagValue but using int.parse is the best bet here

[barren vapor]

I'm also really confused what the goal is

[burnt vapor]

Parsing cps:9 into assigning 9 sounds too complex

Why do you need to do that?

[eager spindle]

setting characterpersecond to tagValue

[burnt vapor]

Again, this doesn't help because the issue is completely different

Is the point of this code to set a variable based on its prefix?

I mean, I can answer it, but there's a lot of parsing involved

[barren vapor]

Isn't it what I've done above?

[frank zodiac]

ill try that

[eager spindle]

whats the value of tagValue actually, are you sure its only a number?

[burnt vapor]

Don't bother, it won't parse something like cps:9

I don't think half the people here read the actual question

[frank zodiac]

i have a switch statement that checks if a tag starts with "cps" and then splits it with a semicolon and after the semicolon will get the number that i typed and SET it to the scripts character per second variable

[frank zodiac]

tagValue is a string

[burnt vapor]

If you really, really want to have something like this, determine the location of :, and get the string part before it and after it

[frank zodiac]

tagValue is the second half of a string called tag which I just split with a variable

[burnt vapor]

Then, int.TryParse the part after the semicolon and you can assign the result to the variable related to the part before

[frank zodiac]

i already did that, its tagName and tagValue respectively

[burnt vapor]

Okay, then just do the int.TryParse part. Don't use int.Parse unless it is guaranteed that the value is always numeric

[frank zodiac]

thats what the switch statement i have does. tagValue is the part after the semicolon.

[eager spindle]

so to clarify,
tag would look like cps:9
tagName is cps
tagValue is 9
?

[frank zodiac]

yes

[eager spindle]

ok yea then you can definitely int parse tagvalue

[frank zodiac]

charactersPerSecond = float.Parse(tagValue);

this?

[eager spindle]

yuh

[frank zodiac]

okay ill test it out real quick

[eager spindle]

if it works you should know about dictionaries too

rather than using this tag system

[crimson ibex]

Manually setting is working fine. It seems to me, IgnoreCollision does not work when against Collision Matrix settings.

[frank zodiac]

im do know about dictionaries but im following a tutorial so i prefer to just keep everything as is

[eager spindle]

ah ok

good luck 🫡

[burnt vapor]

What exactly is the point of this, though?

[crimson ibex]

some day I will write some test code to confirm. too tired today.

[burnt vapor]

Like I said, this is complex and I don't see what this achieves

[frank zodiac]

dialogue system using ink

[eager spindle]

woah

are you trying to read an ink file?

[frank zodiac]

i want to change the speed at which the character talks to add drama and stuff

[frank zodiac]

yeah

i mentioned that before

[eager spindle]

i heard of it i should prob give it a go soon

[frank zodiac]

yeah it saves you so much time and its insanely worth it

should cost money but its free for some reason

[eager spindle]

in all honesty the format isnt that hard

but i think its a good start

a lot of people write their own node based dialogue manager when ink exists

[crimson ibex]

thank you @languid spire my use case is solve with Ignore Collision.

[frank zodiac]

i attempted to make my own node based one and it was insanely difficult

[eager spindle]

editor tools

[frank zodiac]

didnt work..

charactersPerSecond = float.Parse(tagValue);

[eager spindle]

any error?

is charactersPerSecond an int or float?

[frank zodiac]

text.maxVisibleCharacters++;
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f / charactersPerSecond);

this is the thing im using for characters per second by the way

[frank zodiac]

float

[frank zodiac]

no

[eager spindle]

try printing out tagValue and charactersPerSecond to see

[frank zodiac]

okay

..... weird, this is what it printed out. even tho in the ink file i set the cps to be 20 but it says 0.05

and tagvalue 20

[eager spindle]

20 * 0.05 = 1

if that is of interest

[frank zodiac]

okay nevermind it works

i accidentally commented out something

thanks for your help

[eager spindle]

🎊

[hallow acorn]

guys please help me i set up my first person movement in unity and idk why it always moves me into one direction. I also tried to comment out some of the areas which have effect on the position one at a time to find the section with the error but i couldnt find anything

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Movement")]
    public float moveSpeed;

    public Transform orientation;

    float horizontalInput;
    float verticalInput;

    Vector3 moveDirection;

    Rigidbody rb;


    private void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        rb.freezeRotation = true;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        InputHandler();
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        MovePlayer();
    }


    private void InputHandler()
    {
        horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
    }
    private void MovePlayer()
    {
        //Calculate movement direction
        moveDirection = orientation.forward * verticalInput + orientation.right * horizontalInput;
        rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed, ForceMode.Force);
    }

}```
thats the main code of my project everything else is just a script to move the camera to an empty object attached to my player and the script to rotate the camera

[eager spindle]

what's orientation set to?

[hallow acorn]

orientation is a empty child for my player gameobject

[languid spire]

Debug your values so you KNOW what you are dealing with

[eager spindle]

are you sure orientation is rotating

[hallow acorn]

wait

{
    public float sensX;
    public float sensY;

    public Transform orientation;

    float xRotation;
    float yRotation;

    private void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        //get Mouse Input
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * sensX;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * sensY;

        yRotation += mouseX;

        xRotation -= mouseY;
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);

        //Rotate cam and orientation
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0);
        orientation.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);

    }

}```
thats the script i use to rotate the camera

[eager spindle]

ok so is orientation set to the camera?

i dont know where orientation is in your scene

if it's even rotating

[eager spindle]

play the scene and check if orientation is rotating

and look more into debugging your code

[hallow acorn]

it is

[hallow acorn]

how

[eager spindle]

try pressing this big green button

[hallow acorn]

ok wait

[eager spindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2YdrUlzgg

this is a fun watch

[hallow acorn]

ty

[eager spindle]

i didnt know about the big green button until 1.5 years into unity 😄

even though i learned c++ beforehand I didnt know you can debug unity

[languid spire]

tbh 'Attach to Unity' is a bit of a hint

[eager spindle]

i never looked at it tbf

[languid spire]

rofl

[eager spindle]

since unity is the one running the game

[timber comet]

wait you can debug with that?

[languid spire]

of course, that's what it is for

it 'Attaches' your VS 'to' your 'Unity' project so you can debug in VS

[eager spindle]

are there any drawbacks to enabling debugging for all projects

i had that on for a while now

[fading seal]

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

public class fridgeScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject inticon, fridge, fridgeOpened, fridgeClosed;
    
    
    void OnTriggerStay(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(true);
            if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E)){
                fridgeClosed.SetActive(false);
                fridgeOpened.SetActive(true);
                fridge.SetActive(true);
                inticon.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerExit(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}``` is there a simple way to make the door close if i were to press e again?

[languid spire]

only speed

[teal viper]

Probably some overall overhead. Especially during recompilation and domain reload.

[eager spindle]

just set fridgeopen to inactive fridgeclosed to active

idk

[hallow acorn]

me actually learning unity for about 1.5 years now xd

[eager spindle]

the 1.5 year mark where everyone learns about the big green button

[fading seal]

like this? ```cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class fridgeScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject inticon, fridge, fridgeOpened, fridgeClosed;

void OnTriggerStay(Collider other){
    if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
        inticon.SetActive(true);
        if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E)){
            fridgeClosed.SetActive(true);
            fridgeOpened.SetActive(false);
            fridge.SetActive(true);
            inticon.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}
void OnTriggerExit(Collider other){
    if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
        inticon.SetActive(false);
    }
}

}```

[full kite]

I got a big question if anybody can help me. I setted the Canvas Scaler to 1920x1080 ; The canvas render mode to the main camer. I putted some UI, anchored and when I change the resolution from 1920x1080 to device resolution 1560x720, the UI moves a bit and its uncentered as he needs to be. Anybody can help? To anchor the UI even more, so it doenst matter the resolution, UI stays the same?

[timber comet]

Well you just create a Boolean, get the state of the door (if open or closed) and then add ! In SetActive

[fading seal]

oh ok

[timber comet]

Not sure about that tho

[hallow acorn]

haha i think ive heard about it before but didnt really realize the power

[eager spindle]

thats normal, look into how unity UI works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnT-2KxVvyk

[full kite]

Thank you

[eager spindle]

tldr use this tab

[languid spire]

then that is even more reason to have expected Debug.Log statements in your code

[eager spindle]

its a standard across a lot of UI editors. Figma has a near identical system. Godot lets you use either position or the standard anchors

[fading seal]

do i add the ! before the "SetActive"

[eager spindle]

do you know what ! does

[timber comet]

SetActive(!YourBool)

[fading seal]

ok

[eager spindle]

bool yourBool = true;
Debug.Log(yourBool); // returns true
Debug.Log(!yourBool); // returns false```

we'll talk about ? another day 😴

[full kite]

@eager spindle I got 12 UI Images that are around the screen. Can I put all of them to the left side and then arrange them even tho some are the center or some are to the right?

[eager spindle]

idk what that looks like

[timber comet]

I think you should ask here: #📲┃ui-ux

[fading seal]

do i paste that into my code and change "yourBool"?

[full kite]

The idea is that I spawn some gameobjects around the screen. I arrange them with anchor and position through code but its work only one one resolution. With anchor and pivot

[eager spindle]

no

do not copypaste my code it is ass

and its not related to what youre doing

[timber comet]

No, you should apply this logic into your code

[fading seal]

oh ok

[eager spindle]

if youre not sure on what it does you should learn c# basics before going to unity

some people do wing it through unity but waste a lot of time because they dont understand basic coding concepts

[timber comet]

So, you should take the state of your door in start(), save it into a bool, then when you check for your input, you set the setactive to !yourbool (you need to save the changes also to your bool, so the best is to set first when you get the input your bool to = !YourBool and then in the setactive(YourBool))

[fading seal]

is this correct

[timber comet]

Well no

[timber comet]

First, Boolean is not a bool

[timber comet]

Second, with that your door will only open and then won’t do anything else

[fading seal]

i fixed it

[timber comet]

In Start you need to get if your door is closed or open, you can get that by checking if fridge open or fridge closed is active or not

[fading seal]

in the inspector?

[timber comet]

No, it’s a function of Unity

You need to write in your code void Start()

[fading seal]

i just did i realized i didnt have it there before

[burnt vapor]

Incorrect, a Boolean is a bool. bool is a keyword referring to Boolean

[fading seal]

is this right

[burnt vapor]

Works fine, just adviced to use bool

[timber comet]

So it works fine? Ok

[burnt vapor]

It's an alias

[timber comet]

Well no, again

Because if you press e you will get what you want only once

[hallow acorn]

@eager spindle i have completly no idea why it does this im not pressing anything and i really dont know how i should debug this pls help me

[timber comet]

I strongly advise you to learn unity before making a game

[burnt vapor]

What are you trying to do? Open a door?

You don't need two booleans

[fading seal]

open and close a door

[burnt vapor]

Do you know what a boolean is?

[fading seal]

a bool right?

[eager spindle]

well what does a bool do

[burnt vapor]

Yes, but what is the point of a boolean?

[eager spindle]

how does it help you here

[burnt vapor]

I think you are lacking some very basic c# fundamentals and I strongly advice you learn those first instead of making a game

[fading seal]

yes or no

[safe radish]

        int xMax = Mathf.Max(initialGridPosition.x, currentGridPosition.x);
        int zMin = Mathf.Min(initialGridPosition.y, currentGridPosition.y);
        int zMax = Mathf.Max(initialGridPosition.y, currentGridPosition.y);

        for (int x = xMin; x <= xMax; x++)
        {
            for (int z = zMin; z <= zMax; z++)
            {
                selectedGridPositions.Add(new Vector2Int(x, z));```  how could i trim the edges here to end up with a round pattern?

[burnt vapor]

Not only is c# way different in Unity, you are effectively trying to learn two frameworks

[timber comet]

Well, it’s a: true or false

[eager spindle]

thats nice
so do you know what SetActive does?

[fading seal]

yeah

[timber comet]

you said yes or no tho

[fading seal]

for example "cube.SetActive(false); makes the cube unactive right

[fading seal]

i did mean true or false

[timber comet]

Ok

[timber comet]

Yes

[hallow acorn]

wtf i just disabled all of the scripts i use and it still moves exactly the same i created a monster its living rahh

[barren vapor]

Nice font you have there. Looks like the one from Minecraft or smt

[eager spindle]

yep its monocraft

minecraft font all over my system

its inconsistent though

[timber comet]

Check your prefab position

[barren vapor]

haha nice. I screwed my last pc over. I used comic sans as default font. Forgot how to turn it back

[eager spindle]

in this image the new win10 font is used

[timber comet]

Cool

[hallow acorn]

this is beautiful.

[fading seal]

using UnityEngine;

public class fridgeScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject inticon, fridge, fridgeOpened, fridgeClosed;
    bool open = true;
    
    void Start(){
        fridgeOpened.SetActive(false);
        fridgeClosed.SetActive(true);
    }
    void OnTriggerStay(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(true);
            if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E)){
                fridgeClosed.SetActive(true);
                fridgeOpened.SetActive(false);
                inticon.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerExit(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}``` right now if i press e it stays closed

[hallow acorn]

wdym? its all set to 0, 0, 0 and i dont have a prefab

[timber comet]

Yeah because your bool is hardcoded

[burnt vapor]

Why do you have two gameobjects for the door

Also

Why not just move the door

Why set something as active/inactive

[fading seal]

one game object is the door closed anyother is it open

[eager spindle]

thats correct, you havent set it to check if the fridge is open or close.

In the section where you set fridgeClosed, add another section to check if the fridge is closed. if so, open the fridge. if not, close the fridge

we are not giving you code here and can only tell you so much

learn about the big green button today

it will help you understand what youre typing

[burnt vapor]

You need one bool indicating the state, bool isOpen;
Then when you press the fridge and trigger a method, you set isOpen to !isOpen. This means true becomes false, and false becomes true.
Finally, depending on the final state you move the door to the correct coordinates.

You currently complicate this way too much

[timber comet]

When it spawns, in what position does it go?

[hallow acorn]

where it is just falling bc of gravity but it doesnt stay

[fading seal]

this?

[burnt vapor]

You still have two gameobjects you don't need

and I don't see the boolean being changed. You are merely using it in a method

[timber comet]

So basically you don’t want gravity in your GameObject? Or it should spawn somewhere else

[fading seal]

do you mean in the start?

[burnt vapor]

Refactor your code so there is a single door. Put the door in a closed state, and then on opening the method will call isOpen = !isOpen;
Then, make an if statement that sets the door transform to the correct location

[hallow acorn]

it should fall to the ground like a human would to but it doest it flies this weird curve and falls through the ground. even though i disabled all scripts which have acces to my player

[burnt vapor]

Also, what is intIcon?

[timber comet]

Try to block some rotation, go to your rigidbody and check one of your rotation

[fading seal]

interaction icon for short

[burnt vapor]

Ah okay

[hexed terrace]

press play on unity BEFORE starting to record.. so that the first 50% of your video isn't you pressing play and waiting 😄

[hallow acorn]

its litteraly frozen an all axis

[fading seal]

is this right

[hallow acorn]

would be a good idea if the main event isnt exaclty when it starts playing

[burnt vapor]

Why do you call setActive twice? You call it once

[fading seal]

oh yeah hold on

[burnt vapor]

Also, I would assume intIcon should be shown if it's closed so this should depend on open

Unless the point is showing it until you interact with the fridge

[fading seal]

thats correct

[burnt vapor]

All you need to do now is remove the second SetActive and move the door depending on the state

And maybe rename the gameobject but this is more code style

[fading seal]

so do i have 2 gameobjects? one being open one closed?

[timber comet]

Idk then, maybe its colliding with the tree and that’s why you have that weird behaviour when you spawn

[timber comet]

Only one

[burnt vapor]

No, you have a single one that you change the location and rotation of

[hallow acorn]

what behavior

[burnt vapor]

The point is that having two is messy and this will not work properly

[timber comet]

I mean that strange rotation at the start of the game

[burnt vapor]

Like, what if you want it to open smoothly? Two gameobjects that appear and disappear do not work

Not to mention collission means you will be stuck inside the door if it opens, probably

[hallow acorn]

oh yeah thats because the camera has a weird startposition wait

[hallow acorn]

it cant be the tree i tried it on a flat plain before

[safe radish]

#💻┃code-beginner message bumping this

[severe spear]

I'm trying to make a movement system by myself and I got an error that I don't really understand saying that the expression '==' is invalid

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

public class movement : MonoBehaviour
{  
    //measured in unit per second
    private float jumpHeight = 7f;
    private float walkspeed = 5f;
    private float runspeed = 10f;
    void Update()
    {
        float verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("vertical");
        float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("horizontal");

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) == true;
         transform.position = transform.position + new Vector3(verticalInput * jumpHeight * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0);

        Debug.Log(transform.position);
    }
}```

[modest dust]

You misplaced your closing )

Should go after true

[languid spire]

this
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) == true;
is invalid C#

[modest dust]

And besides that, == true is redundant either way

[eager spindle]

dumb method would be to check if the distance from the current tile to the center tile is less than the half width of the square

[modest dust]

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) is already enough

[merry osprey]

any of you guys know where i can find unity version 2017.4.9f1

[modest dust]

Probably in the archive

[severe spear]

thanks

[merry osprey]

its not there, there isnt anything in 2017

[fading seal]

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

public class fridgeScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject inticon, fridge, door;
    bool open = true;
    
    void Start(){
        door.SetActive(false);
    }
    void OnTriggerStay(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(true);
            if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E)){
                fridge.SetActive(true);
                door.SetActive(!open);
                open = !open;
                door.transform.Rotate(new Vector3(-90, 0, -90));
                inticon.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerExit(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}``` is this right

[modest dust]

Yeah, just checked myself, not sure then

[merry osprey]

its okay

[burnt vapor]

Very close, you just need to rotate it depending on open

Right now you always rotate it the same way

Also, try it and see. Half the debugging is about seeing what it does

[fading seal]

this kinda happened

[fading seal]

do i add another if statement?

[burnt vapor]

Yes, how else do you close it?

It just opens, then it opens again, and again

[fading seal]

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

public class fridgeScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject inticon, fridge, door;
    bool open = true;
    
    void Start(){
        door.SetActive(false);
    }
    void OnTriggerStay(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(true);
            if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E)){
                fridge.SetActive(true);
                door.SetActive(!open);
                open = !open;
                door.transform.Rotate(new Vector3(-90, 0, -90));
                inticon.SetActive(false);
                if(open == true){
                    door.transform.Rotate(new Vector3(-90, 0, 0));
                }
            }
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerExit(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}``` this is the code idk if its right but the door keeps disappearing

oh wait

[fading seal]

@burnt vapor i fixed that but when i press e the door is gone

[full kite]

I want to be like this, and instead of that Its looking like this @eager spindle

[eager spindle]

make the dog a child image of the carpet

or the other way round

[full kite]

what you mean the other way round?

[eager spindle]

carpet a child image of the dog

[full kite]

but lets say i didnt have that solution. Why do I anchor it, put some positions throughtout the script and its still moving through ui

this is my main question

@eager spindle this was the code to setparent a gameobject?

myGameObject.transform.parent = carpet1.transform;

[burnt vapor]

Why do you still have a rotation that is called regardless of the state?

it's either the open rotation or the closed rotation

Now it's either the closed rotation or the closed+open rotation

[fading seal]

how do i do that

[burnt vapor]

Instead of an if statement make an if-else statement

[fading seal]

ok

[weak talon]

hello, i am making fps shooter and my camera is jittery

the player is a parent to the camera and when i move the camera (like rotation) it is fine but only when i start moving and rotating the camera the camera movement is very jittery

the rigidbody is interpolate, movement is in fixedUpdate as it is rigidbody movement, and cameramovement is in lateupdate
please help (tell me if you need to see any code)

[safe radish]

got this by making a radius for x and z and checking the distance from the center tile, its pretty good but has a single pixel on the edge sometimes

[fading seal]

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

public class fridgeScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject inticon, fridge, door;
    bool open = true;
    
    void Start(){
        door.SetActive(true);
    }
    void OnTriggerStay(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(true);
            if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E)){
                fridge.SetActive(true);
                door.SetActive(!open);
                door.SetActive(true);
                open = !open;
                door.transform.Rotate(new Vector3(-90, 0, 0));
                if (open == true) {
                    door.transform.Rotate(new Vector3(-90, 0, 0));
                }
                else{
                    door.transform.Rotate(new Vector3(-90, 0, -90));
                }
                inticon.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerExit(Collider other){
        if(other.CompareTag("MainCamera")){
            inticon.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}``` is this right

[burnt vapor]

You are STILL rotating regardless of state

How often do I need to mention this

[burnt vapor]

Also

door.SetActive(!open);
                door.SetActive(true);

I understand you lack basic knowledge of C# but surely you notice these mistakes?

Especially after I mentioned them three times

[fading seal]

what do i do to fix it

[random cave]

screenPosition = Input.mousePosition;
            worldPosition = cam2.ScreenToWorldPoint(screenPosition);
            worldPosition.y = 1000f;```
>
```cs
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)) 
            { 
                box.transform.position = worldPosition;
            }```
Why is this not precisely on where the mouse is? its off by this much [Check ss below]

[weak talon]

hello, i am making fps shooter and my camera is jittery

the player is a parent to the camera and when i move the camera (like rotation) it is fine but only when i start moving and rotating the camera the camera movement is very jittery

the rigidbody is interpolate, movement is in fixedUpdate as it is rigidbody movement, and cameramovement is in lateupdate
please help (tell me if you need to see any code)

[burnt vapor]

Sorry, I'm not going to spoonfeed this any longer

learn some basic c# before you undertake a game at any scale

[random cave]

Try without interpolate

[burnt vapor]

Hi, can you please send a proper screenshot? Or copy paste the full error in here.

[full kite]

myGameObject.transform.parent = carpet1.gameObject.transform;

this is the line of code to set the parent of "myGameObject" to "carpet1" ?

[random cave]

Please format it into something else other than jxr

[trail heart]

How do you even end up with a jxr file

[silk night]

If you are on win 11 press WIN + Shift + S, mark the area and just do ctrl + v here

[weak talon]

when i have the rigidbody to 'none' the camera movement is fixed but the movement of the player is a bit jittery
and with extrapolate it doesnt change anything

[silk night]

do you use update or fixedupate to move?

[weak talon]

fixedupdate

[silk night]

oh i apparently cant read. What methods do you use to move the player?

also if you disable the camera movement itself and just keep the player movement enabled (moving the camera through parenting), does it still jitter?

[weak talon]

it is hard to tell but yes, and when i dont move my camera, like i keep it still it does still move jittery

[random cave]

🙏

[silk night]

so there is no code affecting camera position right now? only the player being moved (and the camera following through parenting) and the camera still jitters?

[silk night]

are you using orthographic view?

[weak talon]

yeah i disabled the cameramovement script and it still jitters

[random cave]

Yessir

Perspective does not work

[silk night]

I think the screentoworld if for perspective, i remember having a problem but I am not 100% on that statement

[silk night]

What method do you use to move the player? Velocity, rb.move, transform move?

[random cave]

Bruhh wellif I am in perspective mode the world positio isnt changed

[weak talon]

rb.addforce

[weak talon]

the camera is fine right now, just the movement is jittery

but when rigidbody is on interpolate it is the other way round

[silk night]

wdym the other way around?

[weak talon]

when it is on interpolate the movement is fine but the camera is jittery when i rotate it like moving my mouse

[silk night]

is your arena you'd like to click on an even plane?

[random cave]

Yea that can work

[silk night]

if so you can create a plane in code, and on click send a ray to your mouse cursor from the camera which then intersects with your plane and gives you a point

[random cave]

aH

[silk night]

that just tells you the build failed, is there no other output?

[silk night]

the rotation is done in late update? try it in normal update

[lean sedge]

I've created a canvas in which a panel with an image to become an inventory slot. When I add an image to it that's literally a square with a border I only see two sides of the border when running the game. Almost as if the camera is looking at my canvas from an angle.

[languid spire]

Those are NOT screenshots #854851968446365696

[silk night]

if you make your image smaller than its original size some pixels are omitted

you can slice it to always show the border and resize the center

[lean sedge]

I must admit I forgot to resize this image now I think about it

[silk night]

you can just slice that image and have it any size you want

[lean sedge]

Sometimes the answer is so easy you'll never find it yourself

[weak talon]

i tried that but it still does it.

[silk night]

the border will stay the same size and the center will stretch

[silk night]

then im out of ideas without having unity on hand rn (im on mobile) sorry

[lean sedge]

I did slice it however

so thats kinda odd

[silk night]

is your image component set to that type?

it was called sliced too i think

[weak talon]

no problem thanks for atleast trying to help.
you almost fixed it with changing the rb mode to none
thanks anyways

[silk night]

wait, does your camera have a rb too?

[lean sedge]

Yea it is set to sliced, and I set the borders I never pressed slice tho

[weak talon]

nope

[silk night]

ahh alright, hope it works then

[silk night]

ok good, sounded like that, one more thing, how do you rotate the camera, around the player (independently) or do you rotate the player rb?

[tranquil scarab]

https://gdl.space/ucurivegav.cs does anybody know why this happens? i have made this function for floor objects that can be bought. it is about the wave part in the buy function where it breaks. for some reason the refrence to the object that i want to instantiate is null??

[languid spire]

showing the actual error and where it happens may help

[tranquil scarab]

oh yeah srry forgot to add the screen. its on line 128 where the print is.

[cosmic dagger]

Can you post the error message so we can see where it occurs? No way to tell beyond that . . .

[silk night]

which line is 128 in your paste? hard too see without line annotations

[languid spire]

so hexagonPrefab is null

[cosmic dagger]

The reference variable on line 128 is null (not assigned) . . .

[tranquil scarab]

the last foreach loop

[tranquil scarab]

then why would the print give me a name then? because it is assigned in the inspector when i look at it.

[languid spire]

that is reference not reference.prefab

[tranquil scarab]

also not null

so i dont get why this happens

[cosmic dagger]

It is within a loop. How many times does the print occur? Check the number on the right of the log . . .

[languid spire]

obviously what you are looking at is not what the code is pointing to. So debug it

[languid spire]

irrelevant, one exception aborts the loop

[cosmic dagger]

is this the reference.prefab (the prefab within the reference SO?) hard to tell with small screenshots of the inspector. just send the entire inspector so we can see . . .

[tranquil scarab]

i get the print as many times as the loop should run so if it runs 4 times i get it 4 times. i know that the error comes from the instantiated object but i dont know how

[languid spire]

I would guess that you are looking at 2 or more different objects. Add an instanceid to the debug

[lean sedge]

No first of all, it was already the perfect size for the object. Also I have sliced the image borders. Yet it's still looking at it as if it's at an angle

[silk night]

check the compression then

[tranquil scarab]

there u go

[languid spire]

dont collapse your console and look at each stack trace

[lean sedge]

Compression is high quality

[silk night]

filter, sorry

set it to point

[lean sedge]

point no filter I think

[silk night]

whats your wrap mode?

[lean sedge]

clamp

[silk night]

nvm, doesnt matter

hmm weird then

[lean sedge]

Yea I dont get it lol

[cosmic dagger]

hexagon.prefab is assigned to refrence.prefab. we need to see the Refrence ScriptableObject inspector, not the Hexagon script component . . .

[tranquil scarab]

this is what the instance id gives me

[tranquil scarab]

and this is the scriptable object

[languid spire]

you need the instance id of the object causeing the null ref

[silk night]

what happens if you just enlarge the image object a lot?

[lean sedge]

Now it has borders on three sides

[silk night]

can you screenshot your slices and the result that you currently see?

[tranquil scarab]

oooohh i found it. whenever i call the BuyPlace function to the new hexagon the refrence isnt set yet. this confuses me tho because that means that the start isnt giving the refrence before the function is triggered?

[lean sedge]

If I move it around the canvas it will change the side where the borders show

[silk night]

yeah then your image has more pixels than you can show and as the border is pretty thin it gets omitted

[cosmic dagger]

you mean from the instantiated hex?

[tranquil scarab]

yeah

[lean sedge]

I'll try enlarging the border

[silk night]

how big is your slot image in pixels and whats your pixels per unit set to (try to play around with that value)?

[cosmic dagger]

honestly, your hexagon prefab should be of type Hexagon instead of GameObject. you need access to the Hexagon script, not any field of GameObject . . .

[tranquil scarab]

but i want to instantiate it right? or does instantiate take other stuff as well?

[cosmic dagger]

also, where do you set the reference for the instantiated hex? you mentioned, "the refrence isnt set yet," . . .

[cosmic dagger]

when you instantiate a component, the entire GameObject is instantiated, but the component is returned . . .

this avoids calling GetComponent to grab the component reference . . .

[tranquil scarab]

i now have made a function called GetRefrence to call out on start but also in the start of the BuyPlace function to get the refrence of the scriptable object. this is the new code: https://gdl.space/apozeyokop.cs

[tranquil scarab]

i didnt know this tnx. i will change it. thats gonna help a lot in the future

[lean sedge]

image object 100x100, image.png 100x100

[silk night]

and your pixels per unit (setting on the sprite)?

[lean sedge]

100

[silk night]

what happens if you change that value? play around with it a bit

[lean sedge]

It doesn't really get better, but must say making the border a bit bigger is already hella better

[silk night]

i mean it fixes your symptom but not the source

Oh, are you zoomed out in your editor game window maybe?

if you simulate a bigger window that it is able to display those symptoms might appear too 😄

[lean sedge]

Im not zoomed out in the game window

[silk night]

hmm weird 😄 my last try would be making a build to see if it still happens on fullscreen, last thing i can imagine is in-editor scaling fuckery

[lean sedge]

Think it did have to do with the scaling of the window

it was on free aspect

So I think it just did some weird things, on full screen 16:9 Im good

[silk night]

do you have a canvas scaler active?

if so that would be pretty normal to happen as your in-editor window is much smaller than your targeted resolution 😄

[sudden pilot]

guys how can ı random ınstantıate an object ın cırcle transform area?

[cyan vortex]

I wanted to say sorry to everyone for earlier as I really want to fix this issue because I've got a meeting for my new course on Monday.

[broken cargo]

There is a Random.insideUnitCircle property

[cosmic dagger]

Use Random.insideUnitCircle . . .

[sudden pilot]

ı am looking on it now

[cosmic dagger]

You can also use that to write a method to instantiate between specific radii as well . . .

[sudden pilot]

ı searched that but ıt says only 1 radius circle

ı mean can ı make higher or smth

[charred spoke]

Yes just multiply it by your desired radius

[sudden pilot]

oh just example * 4

like that right?

[charred spoke]

Yes

[sudden pilot]

okay

[cosmic dagger]

You have to set the size by multiplying . . .

[sudden pilot]

yep

[random cave]

screenPosition = Input.mousePosition;
            worldPosition = cam2.ScreenToWorldPoint(screenPosition);
            worldPosition.y = 1000f;```
```cs
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)) 
            { 
                box.transform.position = worldPosition;    
            }```
Trying to move a box when I click (inside of a minimap), it works but it has this very weird offset can anybody help? Using orthographic view I heard this can do stuff to it but I have no idea

[swift crag]

you're working on an interactive map, right?

[ionic zephyr]

I have slots for the inventory which show the quantity and the sprite of the object but I also want to create slots that only show the name and other type of slots which only show the sprite, should I make only one component for the three or different components?

[swift crag]

I'm guessing your problem is that [0,0] on your screen does not correspond to [0,0,0] in the world

[random cave]

Yes

[random cave]

Yup

It works and everythng its just the offset

I want it to be precisely on the mouse

[swift crag]

If you can figure out where the bottom left and upper right corners of the map correspond to, it'd be easy enough to get the world position

[random cave]

I tried that but it didnt go well

[swift crag]

I'm not exactly sure how I'd handle this, though. Haven't implemented a map before.

You could stick down two empties in the world

line them up properly manually and you'll be good to go

[random cave]

Yes I did that

The dot was moving out of the screen

[cosmic dagger]

you can do either. mutliple components are easier because they do only what you need. when using the one component, you must have checks in place to display certain data and make sure you set up each slot to display the correct data (more room for error) . . .

[swift crag]

I would give that another try. Show me the code you're using to find the world position if it's not working

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, got it, thanks!

[ionic zephyr]

should I implement an interface for all slots maybe?

[random cave]

Ok...... 😭

[random cave]

Also I already have a method for checking if mouse is over ui

[cosmic dagger]

hmm, you could. that would allow you to have one component and use the specific interface to only access the field you need . . .

[ionic zephyr]

maybe I´ll just make different components

[cosmic dagger]

yep. try one method. if that doesn't work, try the other . . .

[ionic zephyr]

alright, thanks!

[random cave]

cam2.WorldToScreenPoint(movePoint2);
Im trying but its giving me very wrong coords and also top left and bottom right only have a -2 diff

[vast moat]

could anyone help me write a piece of code that makes an object rotate towards where my mouse is in a top down 3d game? i've tried so many things but most of them just end up pointing towards the ground or rotating in a really funky way that isnt a smooth circle around my character. thanks!

[wintry quarry]

is this a 3D game? With a perspective camera?

[random cave]

Yes 3d No orthographic

[wintry quarry]

Are you providing the appropriate Z distance?

[random cave]

Its a minimap trying to convert an image to real coords

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you're directly using screenPosition

which has a z distance of 0

[random cave]

[random cave]

How am I suppose to get that tho

[wintry quarry]

You don't get it you provide it

https://unity.huh.how/screentoworldpoint

See the diagram here

Honestly I prefer to use Plane.Raycast

it's much easier to think about

[random cave]

Ok wait

Vector2 localMousePosition;

                RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(Minima, Input.mousePosition, null, out localMousePosition);

                movePoint2 = new Vector3 (localMousePosition.x, localMousePosition.y, 10);```
Would the plane raycast work with this

This is how I move it

[silk night]

Yeah told him that earlier but got no Response 😅

[wintry quarry]

you would do everything in world space game world coordinates

[random cave]

Mb I experimented withstuff

[cosmic dagger]

post the code you've tried and/or any errors received. we can only go based off that. if you don't have any code, i suggest starting with a tutorial (as there are many online to move or look at the mouse) . . .

[random cave]

What..?

How would I do everything in world space if I need to use a red dot first thats in screen space

[swift crag]

they're trying to do a minimap. they need a way to relate a point on the minimap to a point in the world.

[random cave]

Do you think plane.raycast would work here?

[wintry quarry]

you convert to world space, do the raycast, convert the resulting point back to canvas space

[random cave]

I dont see how thats helping

Thats like moving what I have rn to world space

[wintry quarry]

The minimap is a visual representation of world space objects, no?

[random cave]

Yes

No I understand what you mean

But I also have o idea how to make it back to canvas

I also tried to do that earlier but it had a weird offset

[wintry quarry]

You can convert world space to viewport point in the camera
Viewport point for the camera is a normalized 0-1. So you can use that with the rect points with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RectTransformUtility.PixelAdjustRect.html to get the canvas space position

[swift crag]

Is the minimap being rendered live by cam2 in your code?

Or is it just a static image?

[random cave]

Yes

[swift crag]

Okay, then it's a lot simpler

[random cave]

It is a real camera

So you guys think I should use the plane raycast?

[random cave]

Just tried it, AGAIN has the annoying offset

I clicked inside the blue circle

Its not the same everywhere

Ray ray = cam2.ScreenPointToRay(screenPosition);

                if (plane.Raycast(ray, out float distance))
                {
                    worldPosition = ray.GetPoint(distance);
                }```

It also changes if I increase the fov or not

If I use perspective still bugged

[swift crag]

Is cam2 rendering to your entire screen, or is it rendering to a RenderTexture that you then display in a UI?

[random cave]

Yes render texture

[swift crag]

Then cam2.ScreenPointToRay is not correct. You have to figure out where you clicked inside whatever is displaying the RenderTexture.

[wintry quarry]

you would have to do something like:

bool clickedInMinimap = RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(myRectTransform, Input.mousePosition, mainCamera, out Vector2 viewportPoint);
if (clickedInMinimap) {
  Ray r = minimapCamera.ViewportPointToRay(viewportPoint);
}```

[random cave]

SO USE WORLD SPACE OR SCREEN SPACE? im going crazy help

[swift crag]

Neither. Read what Praetor wrote.

[random cave]

I already have a script that shows me if Im hovering over the ui

Then I just check for mouse input

[swift crag]

The camera has no idea how you're displaying its output. It can't possibly know the size or position of your RawImage (or whatever you're using to show the render texture)

So you can't just ask it to turn a screen point into a world point

[random cave]

Ah

[swift crag]

Which is why you need to do this instead.

You figure out where inside the RawImage you clicked. That gives you a viewport position for the camera. You can then convert that into a world-space ray

[random cave]

mainCamera player camera or minimap camera

[wintry quarry]

well considering there's another variable in my example called minimapCamera...

[random cave]

Well yes but I dont understand why would it need player camera but okl ol

[wintry quarry]

because that's the camera the UI is being drawn on

[swift crag]

actually, if the UI is an overlay canvas, you should pass null there

[random cave]

Oh that makes sense

[swift crag]

i bumped into this recently

[wintry quarry]

yes was about to mention this

it's important

[random cave]

Just remember yea lol

Ok ill go try that

Box is not moving

bool clickedInMinimap = RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(Minima, Input.mousePosition, null, out Vector2 viewportPoint);
                if (clickedInMinimap) 
                {
                    Ray r = cam.ViewportPointToRay(viewportPoint);
                    if (plane.Raycast(r, out float distance))
                    {
                        worldPosition = ray.GetPoint(distance);
                    }
                }
                box.transform.position = worldPosition;```

[swift crag]

well, you'd better do some debugging then

check each value you get

[random cave]

Gotcha

[bold swallow]

is there really no way to multiply a bool with a float?

[swift crag]

Why would there be?

You also can't multiply a GameObject with a string

[bold swallow]

well a bool is either 0 or 1

[swift crag]

Incorrect. A bool is either true or false.

The internal representation is irrelevant.

[swift crag]

References to these types are just a ulong, internally, but that doesn't mean you're allowed to do math with them

Now, if you want to pick between two values using a bool, you can use the conditional operator

cond ? foo : 0;

[bold swallow]

All right

[radiant frigate]

can someone help me understand input system callbacks and how to use them? been reading docs and watching yt tutorials for 2 hours and dont understand why or how the " += (InputAction.CallBackContext) " is used

[swift crag]

You're seeing someone subscribing to an event.

System.Func<int, int> add1 = (int x) => x + 1;

This syntax is used to create an anonymous function. It's a function with no name.

(int x) => x + 1; is an anonymous function that takes one argument (an int) and returns an int

InputAction has a few events on it, like performed and canceled

You can subscribe to an event by adding your function to it.

[bold swallow]

thanks a lot for the explanation, I am going to use this for what I am trying to do

[swift crag]

someAction.performed += (InputAction.CallbackContext context) => { /* multiple lines of code can go here */ };

you can simplify that down to just

(context) => { /* ... */ }

since the type of the argument can be inferred

or even just context => { /* ... */ }

if there's only one argument, you don't need the parentheses

[radiant frigate]

inferred?

what does that mean?

[swift crag]

the compiler figures it out from context

var x = 1;

the type of x is int here

[radiant frigate]

alright

im going to read it and tell you if i need some more assist, am i able to ping you in that case ?

[swift crag]

So when you do this, your anonymous function will be called whenever the performed event is invoked

whatever code is inside the braces gets executed

note that you can't unsubscribe from the event if you do this

even if you use -= with an identical-looking anonymous function, that's a different anonymous function, so it won't work

[radiant frigate]

but i can -= right?

[swift crag]

I generally do this:

[radiant frigate]

ohhh

since its anonymous?

[swift crag]

not because it's anonymous, but because two identical looking anonymous functions are still different

just like two functions that have the same name but are in different classes

[radiant frigate]

i understand

[swift crag]

void OnEnable() {
  action.performed += HandleAction;
}

void OnDisable() {
  action.performed -= HandleAction;
}

void HandleAction(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx) {
  // ...
}

[radiant frigate]

why the ctx?

its just the name right?

[swift crag]

ctx is the name I gave to the parameter.

It could be named anything.

[radiant frigate]

ty for the help im kind of new to unity and programming

[swift crag]

I use ctx because it's short. context is also reasonable

Or even _, if you don't care about the parameter at all

That tells the compiler it's just "filler"

you can't have no parameters at all, because then HandleAction would take the wrong number of arguments.

[radiant frigate]

okay let me try to read all again and see if i understand

[radiant frigate]

okay i think i "understand" but i dont know how to write it, let me explain what i think it is:

what im understanding is that whenever an event happens i can susbscribe a function by adding it, InputAction has events like performed, started or canceled, but i dont know exactly how to add the function

[swift crag]

You don't subscribe when the event happens

[swift crag]

You subscribe once, like this.

Every time the event is invoked, HandleAction will run

[random cave]

Shows correct coordinates but its not detecting the mouse, the raycast is just in the middle of the camera and its not affected by mouse

[radiant frigate]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

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

[random cave]

If I move the camera tho, the coords are right

[random cave]

Red dot = middle of screen
I clicked and copy pasted the coords it gave the black circle went there 👍

[radiant frigate]

https://gdl.space/yadavoqiye.cs so this should work now?

important lines are from 43 to 51

[swift crag]

You should also unsubscribe in OnDisable.

But yes, that sounds fine otherwise

[radiant frigate]

okay so let me understand it again, whenever the performed event happens it will automatically start the dash function

[polar acorn]

General rule of thumb is to always unsubscribe in the opposite of the function you subscribe in. Subscribe in OnEnable, unsub in OnDisable. Subscribe in Start, unsub in OnDestroy, etc.

[radiant frigate]

without a need to tell it via code

[swift crag]

Every function that has been subscribed to the performed event will be executed whenever the performed event is invoked.

[polar acorn]

Every time dashInput.action.performed is invoked, every function subscribed to it is called

[radiant frigate]

okay

ty very much

and to subscribe to it i just need to add the (InputAction.CallBackContext ctx) after the name of the function

[swift crag]

You need a function that takes one argument

[radiant frigate]

so it doesnt throw an error

[swift crag]

The argument must be an InputAction.CallbackContext

That's it.

[radiant frigate]

okay

another question if i may

[swift crag]

The function can be anonymous, or it can be a method.

[radiant frigate]

why does it work with that argument but not with an int for example

[swift crag]

because you can't put a round peg in a square hole

[radiant frigate]

ik it sounds dumb i just want to interiorize it

[swift crag]

performed wants a function that takes exactly one argument

the argument must have the correct type

[radiant frigate]

okay let me formulate it again i think i missexplained myself

why is it inputAction.CallBackContext

what does it do

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.CallbackContext.html

[radiant frigate]

ty!

[swift crag]

InputAction.CallbackContext is the type of thing the function is given.

CallbackContext is defined inside of InputAction

hence you refer to it as InputAction.CallbackContext

it's a nested type

public class InputAction {
  public struct CallbackContext {
  
  }
}

[radiant frigate]

okay i think i understand now

thank you!

[random cave]

ViewportPointToRay wouldn't work here because thats just the center of the camera with no mouse

Imma keep researchng ty tho

[swift crag]

there is nothing special about a mouse position

[random cave]

What

Wdym special

[swift crag]

because thats just the center of the camera with no mouse

[polar acorn]

ViewportPointToRay has absolutely nothing to do with a mouse

[random cave]

Yes exactly

Whats what im saying

[polar acorn]

So why can't you use it

[swift crag]

No, what you said is that it doesn't work because there's no mouse involved

[random cave]

Because im using my mouse to point and click

[random cave]

I said it wouldnt work here because there's no mouse

[polar acorn]

Okay, so use the mouse position as your ViewportPoint to ToRayify

[swift crag]

The function takes a positions whose values are in [0..1] and outputs a world position

RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle figures out your local position in a RectTransform

[random cave]

I acn just do that?

[polar acorn]

ViewportPointToRay does exactly what it says on the tin. It takes a Viewport Point -> Ray

[swift crag]

I think I see the problem, though.

[polar acorn]

If you can get a viewport point from your mouse, you can use that

[random cave]

Yes theres already that there

[swift crag]

ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle gives you a local space position

That is not a normalized position inside the rectangle

You can use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rect.PointToNormalized.html to convert the local position into a normalized position inside the rectangle

which will have values in [0..1]

Show the actual values you're getting. We haven't seen those yet.

[random cave]

Now I need a rect

Brah

[swift crag]

well, you have a RectTransform...

[wintry quarry]

So you ignored the part of my code that converted the mouse position into the appropriate viewport position for the minimap?

[random cave]

bool clickedInMinimap = RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(Minima, Input.mousePosition, null, out Vector2 viewportPoint); ?

[swift crag]

It doesn't, though

[wintry quarry]

Yes...

[swift crag]

It finds a local-space position

This is not a normalized position within the rect

[random cave]

Yes but how do I make the point to normalized use it, doesnt work

[swift crag]

by using this function with the rect you can fetch from your RectTransform

[random cave]

oh just add .rect....

I feel stupid

"Member 'Rect.PointToNormalized(Rect, Vector2)' cannot be accessed with an instance reference; qualify it with a type name instead",

[swift crag]

Pay attention to the page I linked.

public static Vector2 PointToNormalized(Rect rectangle, Vector2 point);

This is a static method.

You don't call it on a specific Rect

[random cave]

I dunno what static does expect that its always there

[swift crag]

static means that the member is part of the type, not part of a specific instance of the type

Foo myInstance = new Foo();
myInstance.Bar();

vs.

Foo.Bar();

[random cave]

Ah

[swift crag]

In this case, it would be very reasonable for this to be non-static

but it isn't 🤷

Returns the normalized coordinates cooresponding the the point.

great docstring

[random cave]

Yea its a bit frustrating sometimes these documents dont tell me how to apply them

[swift crag]

The function signature tells you everything you need to know, though.

[random cave]

Signature?

[swift crag]

this is the signature.

[random cave]

Ah

True

[swift crag]

It tells you the name and type of each parameter, as well as the type that gets returned

[random cave]

Yea its quite useful

After a bit of debugging the worldposition is 0 even tho the viewport normalized is fine, distance is fine, it gets fucked up in the raycast somewhere

[swift crag]

Show the actual values.

(and show your new code, including the debug.log lines)

[random cave]

ViewportPoint: (85.10, 98.09)
Normalized: (0.63, 0.65)
Distance: 19,999.99
World Position: (0, 0, 0)

bool clickedInMinimap = RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(Minima, Input.mousePosition, null, out Vector2 viewportPoint);
                Debug.Log("ViewportPoint: " + viewportPoint);
                Vector2 viewportPointNormalized = Rect.PointToNormalized(Minima.rect, viewportPoint);;
                Debug.Log("ViewportPointNormalized: " + viewportPointNormalized);
                
                if (clickedInMinimap) 
                {
                    Ray r = cam.ViewportPointToRay(viewportPointNormalized);
                    if (plane.Raycast(r, out float distance))
                    {
                        Debug.Log("Distance: " + distance);
                        worldPosition = ray.GetPoint(distance);
                    }
                }
                box.transform.position = worldPosition;
                Debug.Log("WORLD: " + worldPosition);```

[swift crag]

is cam the correct camera? I remember it being named cam2 last time you showed the code

This one should be the minimap camera.

[random cave]

Yes it is

[swift crag]

20,000 is a very large distance. Is the minimap camera just really far away from the ground?

[random cave]

I made cam2 the player cam

[random cave]

Yes

The y is indeed 20k

[swift crag]

I would use Debug.DrawLine to visualize this