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[frank zodiac]

what are some states i should put in my enum which keeps track of the turn based battle?

im stumped

[tropic vault]

depends on your game

[errant anchor]

Is it the settings that caused the speed changes after landing?

[frank zodiac]

its turn based so its similiar to undertale and final fantasy. heres a diagram

[tropic vault]

like maybe FlavorText when there is text in between turns or Ended when displaying like gained stats after the battle

[frank zodiac]

what is a flavortext?

[tropic vault]

something like this

[frank zodiac]

oh yeah

somethnig like that but more visual

[tropic vault]

it really depends on what states you want

[fickle plume]

Yes. And material only applies friction on contact.

[safe radish]

    {
        float scale = ChunkManager.Instance.scale;
        float halfScale = scale * 0.5f;        

        int x = Mathf.FloorToInt((worldPosition.x + halfScale) / scale);
        int y = Mathf.FloorToInt((worldPosition.y + halfScale) / scale);
        int z = Mathf.FloorToInt((worldPosition.z + halfScale) / scale);

        return new Vector3Int(x, y, z);
    }``` I'm using this to convert my hit location to a gridposition but im getting different gridlocations back depending on which side of the voxel i'm hitting. is there something wrong with my formula or should i try subtracting the hit.normal to get a location more centered on the voxel?

[errant anchor]

ok i got know thank u very much You've been a great help. I've been struggling with this issue for a long time.lol

[frank zodiac]

public enum States
{
    Initialization = 0,
    PlayerWait = 1,
    PlayerAttack = 2,
    PlayerItem = 3,
    PlayerTalk = 3,
    EnemyAttack = 4,
    BattleWin = 5,
    BattleLose = 6,
    BattleDraw = 7,
}

i guess this is sufficent, right?

its the bare minimum

[tropic vault]

depends on the game

i mean this is plenty

also the = 0 etc. are unnecessary

they are assigned like that implicitly

[frank zodiac]

rlly? oh ok thanks

[tropic vault]

you should only use that when you need a different order

[frank zodiac]

ic

[full kite]

Hello guys! Can you tell me how to make a prefab child of a gameobject without using the normal? Instantiate(prefab, parentObject);

Because I used to spawn the prefab this command
Instantiate(Resources.Load("Lvl1"), transform.position, Quaternion.identity);

[rocky canyon]

var newObj = Instantiate....
newObj.parent = otherObj;```

[full kite]

Thank you sir!

[rocky canyon]

.transform.parent perhaps?

[rocky canyon]

transform.parent or gameObject.parent its one of dem

[full kite]

transform,parent isnt

[rocky canyon]

what is it that ur instantiating?

a normal gameobject right?

[full kite]

!code

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[full kite]

var newObj = Instantiate(Resources.Load("Lvl1"), transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
        newObj.transform.parent = carpet1.transform;```

newObj is a prefab

carpet1 is a gameobject

[rocky canyon]

GameObject prefab = (GameObject)Resources.Load("Lvl1");
GameObject instantiatedObject = Instantiate(prefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
instantiatedObject.transform.SetParent(transform);``` is how id try it

[rocky canyon]

ya Object is the basic type of Object in Unity... it doesn't have a transform

but a gameObject does

[full kite]

damn bro

ur good

[rocky canyon]

ahh yes, Resources.Load returns an Object you need to cast it to the appropriate type

[full kite]

[rocky canyon]

aka GameObject

[full kite]

can you basically explain me a bit

what did you do

[full kite]

from these

[rocky canyon]

i already knew how to set the parent by both methods... either .parent = otherGameobject.. and the SetParent() function

[full kite]

to these

[rocky canyon]

what i wasn't aware of is that it returned an Object

once i learned that.. its easy to cast (GameObject)

same for other types of casts.. u just prefix the type in parenthesis

like u could cast a float to an int like : (int)myFloat; and that'd return an Int

soo after the reference is a gameobject it works like it alwys does 👍

[full kite]

so what I spawn is a prefab or a gameobject?

[rocky canyon]

when u use Resources.Load it covers many things..(an asset)

u just have to make sure thats a gameobejct to set it as a child of another gameobject.. im not exactly sure why that is or even when i'd use Resources.Load

[rocky canyon]

every prefab i can think of is a gameobject..

b/c for it to be spawned in the scene it has to be a gameobject right?

[full kite]

indeed

[rocky canyon]

Resources.Load is designed to return a generic UnityEngine.Object because it can load various types of assets, not just GameObject instances. This allows Resources.Load to be flexible and versatile, accommodating different asset types such as textures, audio clips, materials, and prefabs. Since Resources.Load doesn't know the exact type of asset you're loading at compile time, it returns a generic Object, which you can then cast to the specific type you need.

heres an explaination ^

[full kite]

Thank you

[rocky canyon]

no thank you.. Today I Learned about Resources.Load b/c of you 🙂

[full kite]

😂

thats what I called a W/W situation

[rocky canyon]

yessir

[safe radish]

    {
        float scale = ChunkManager.Instance.scale;
        float halfScale = scale * 0.5f;

        // Subtract the hit normal from the hit point to get a position more centered on the voxel
        Vector3 worldPosition = hit.point - hit.normal;

        int x = Mathf.FloorToInt((worldPosition.x + halfScale) / scale);
        int y = Mathf.FloorToInt((worldPosition.y + halfScale) / scale);
        int z = Mathf.FloorToInt((worldPosition.z + halfScale) / scale);

        return new Vector3Int(x, y, z);
    }``` subtracting the hit.normal fixed my issue

[full kite]

Im still re-reading what you wrote to understand more clearly

[radiant frigate]

https://gdl.space/uceyunujos.cs i have no clue why it says it is null

[rocky canyon]

heres a prefab.. its a normal gameobject u can spawn it and add it as a child

[brave compass]

Or use the generic version.
GameObject prefab = Resources.Load<GameObject>("Lvl1");

[rocky canyon]

this is an Asset.. but it could be loaded using resources..

but its not technically a gameobject

so u couldn't set it to be a child of anything..

soo when u used Resources.Load (even tho u were loading a prefab) u had to implicitly tell the engine that it was a gameobject

[rocky canyon]

yes this too! lol sorry I wasn't aware o Resources.Load i had to look up the docs 😅

[glass aurora]

anyone know how to get these suggestions kindly tell me.

[rocky canyon]

@full kite u could do it this way too apparently

w/ the <GameObject> part

[full kite]

ill like to it

right now

[rocky canyon]

!ide

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[rocky canyon]

configure ur IDE and u should get autocorrect / intellisense

[glass aurora]

i got all the suggestion and all works but still some arent downloaded

[rocky canyon]

are u using VSCode or VSStudio?

[willow scroll]

The suggestions can be opened with

Ctrl + Shift + Space

[glass aurora]

studio

[rocky canyon]

ya, studio should have all the stuff as long as u have the Unity Game Environment setup

[glass aurora]

i only get white color text but tutorial owner getting coloured sorry for broken english

[glass aurora]

already

[rocky canyon]

at the top of ur IDE in the left corner above the text does it say CSharpAssemb

[full kite]

yea its working

[rocky canyon]

or does it say Miscellaneous?

[radiant frigate]

could it be because it isnt dettecting anny collider?

[full kite]

but urs is way more clealy

im also a c++ learner and ur code was more clearly for me cause I use the same thing in C++

[glass aurora]

well can you type in detail (what is ide)

[rocky canyon]

in the top left

if u see Misc its not set up correctly.. if you see Csharp then it is

[glass aurora]

i have these

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats set up 👍

[glass aurora]

can you tell me whats that

[rocky canyon]

ur probably using Transform when u should be using transform

capitalization woes 😄

[glass aurora]

what the hell now i have to find that Transform ?? and change it on every line

bro didnt worked

new one 😒

[rocky canyon]

read ur words homie

what in the heck is a trasnsform?

[glass aurora]

i dont know i am watching tutorial so i am following him

[rocky canyon]

he wrote transform i bet..

u wrote trasnsform

[glass aurora]

10000$ ✅

noooo!! my 10000$

[glass aurora]

TYSM!

[rocky canyon]

🤑

hell ya, i can take an early vacation

[glass aurora]

too sus!! i am thinking that you are in my pc!

[rocky canyon]

nah, just common mistakes most beginners have

[glass aurora]

no no no dont lie

[rocky canyon]

until they realize how important spelling and capitalization are

then it tends to happen less

[glass aurora]

ik you are in, so please make game for me 🙂

[rocky canyon]

lmfao!

[glass aurora]

lmao c ya

[rocky canyon]

i been workin on my own one forever!

[glass aurora]

ahem ahem ...

[ivory bobcat]

Wrong line, it's line 25

[glass aurora]

what?

[ivory bobcat]

The error is complaining about line 25

[glass aurora]

i love this discord server!! fixed ✅

[fringe tusk]

Hello everyone. I got kind if a dumb question but how would I go about making a canvas persist across scenes. Do I need to attach a script to it with the don't destroy on load stuff or what. I'm trying to make some simple text ui and have 1 of em always persist and the other only exist in gameplay scenes.

[willow scroll]

You should have some kind of UIManager script, right? This script should be attached to Canvas and derive from the generic Singleton, you may copy [here](#archived-code-general message)

[fringe tusk]

Oh ok I do have one so I need that to be a child of the canvas?

[willow scroll]

No, it has to be put directly on Canvas. DDOLs cannot have parents

[full kite]

ur first method was working as well

we just had to add (GameObject) to it

cause it was object and it couldnt switch from Object to GameObject

[vast vessel]

hey guys.
any idea why im getting an infinate loop?
its probably caused by the coroutine, since when i comment out the StartCoroutine and StopCoroutine methods on the lines 102 and 88, the editor hang.
it happens randomly.

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/yovuxehade.csharp

[keen dew]

ShootLogic has an infinite loop if targeting system has a target but it's not in sight

[vast vessel]

ah youre right

thanks

[radiant frigate]

https://gdl.space/huxutatelo.cpp does someone know why it isnt detecting the enemies?

i have no clue why its ignoring them

[vast vessel]

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[vast vessel]

sorry i wanted to get another paste bin link xD

[near ridge]

Is it normal that in this piece of code:

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player") || other.CompareTag("Enemy"))
        {
            Debug.Log("triggered enter: " + other.transform.name);
            player.enemyList.Add(other.transform.parent);
            other.transform.parent.GetComponent<AShip>().OnDisableEvent += RemoveShipFromList;
        }
    }```

Even though there is only one enemy object with a box collider and rigidbody, I get "triggered enter: Ships" x 2 but only one object is added to enemyList?

[scenic saffron]

how do i cap fps?

[near ridge]

Application.targetFrameRate = target

[scenic saffron]

thx

[sharp abyss]

you can check if there is 2 triggers or 2 scripts

[willow scroll]

Replace your print with this:

Debug.Log($"triggered enter: {other.transform.name}; this: {name}", this);

[near ridge]

Thanks.
Just noticed that it it picking itself too since it meets those criteria lol

[hallow delta]

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

public class Movement : MonoBehaviour
{
public Rigidbody rb;
public float movementSpeed = 5f;
public float rightLeftSpeed = 5f; // Adjust for desired movement speed
public CharacterController cc;
public float jumpspeed = 10f;
public Animator anim;
public Transform groundCheck;
public float groundDistance = 0.4f;
public LayerMask groundMask;
public bool IsGrounded;
public bool isjumping;
public float crouchHeight = 0.2f;

private void Start() {
   anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
}
void Update()
{
    // Forward movement (unchanged)
    cc.Move(Vector3.forward * movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

    // Left and right movement with smooth transition
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
    {
        transform.Translate(Vector3.left * rightLeftSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
    }

    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow))
    {
        transform.Translate(Vector3.right * rightLeftSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
    }
    if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && !isjumping)
    {
        transform.Translate(Vector3.up* jumpspeed * Time.deltaTime);
        anim.SetBool("isjumping",true);
        isjumping = true;
        StartCoroutine(jumping());
       
    }
    
    
}
IEnumerator jumping() {
        
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.75f);
        anim.SetBool("isjumping",false);
        isjumping = false;
        transform.Translate(Vector3.up* -jumpspeed * Time.deltaTime);
    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision other) {
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("obs"))
        {
            anim.SetFloat("die",3);
            rightLeftSpeed = 0f;
            jumpspeed = 0f;
        }
    }
    

public void FixedUpdate() {

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.DownArrow)) {

cc.height = crouchHeight * Time. deltaTime;
anim.SetFloat("crouch",3);

}
}

}
@eager spindle

[glass aurora]

how to fix it explain me whats going on.

[remote osprey]

Is there an horizontal layout group for colliders?

[glass aurora]

it is fixed ✅

[remote osprey]

What do you mean

[eager spindle]

!code

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[eager spindle]

enough to flood chat

[quick pollen]

How can I draw a raycast/spherecast between 2 points? the documentation requires a direction and a distance, but I want to check for collision between 2 points

[eager spindle]

also it would be better if you asked more concise questions rather than "how can I improve this"

[eager spindle]

debug.drawray

spherecast no

[quick pollen]

can you use that for physics stuff?

[eager spindle]

oh you want collision between two points

[quick pollen]

yes

basically take an initial point and an end point

and check if theres something inbetween

[eager spindle]

difference = vector2 - vector1

then raycast using vector1 and difference

[quick pollen]

what about direction?

[eager spindle]

difference is direction

[quick pollen]

hmm okay

ill try, thanks!

actually, how can I check what I found between those 2 points?

[eager spindle]

raycastall

[quick pollen]

hitinfo?

[eager spindle]

returns an array of collider

theres also spherecastall

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I am dealing with a problem. So, I am currently making stairs functionality for my player, actually I am using character controller and for one reason that's happening what you see in the video. I think I don't have any colliders there and I am not sure why my player continue moving forward and doesn't getting down the stairs as he did for the upper stairs.

[eager spindle]

its most likely that you have colliders there. could you select all objects in the scene(ctrl-a) and double check?
also when moving your player are you using charactercontroller's Move or SimpleMove?

your game looks great so far btw

[quick pollen]

how can I set it so it detects triggers without setting a layermask?

[eager spindle]

queryTriggerInteraction

[quick pollen]

yes, but i also need to set a layermask for it

[eager spindle]

what

didnt you just say you dont want to set a layermask

oen sec

[quick pollen]

yes.

[eager spindle]

this is the overload you should be using

[eager spindle]

oh as in you want to skip setting a layermask

just use the default setting of layermask.all

you can use 0 << 100

as the layermask

so it selects all layers from 0 to 100

dumb solution but it works

[quick pollen]

hold on

[glass aurora]

please anyone tell me why this is happening

[brave compass]

No, 0 shifted 100 places to the left is still 0.

[glass aurora]

i just followed the tutorial why this is happening tell me

[languid spire]

dumb solution that does not work and makes no sense

[eager spindle]

or the other way round

the one to select all the layers

[brave compass]

To select all layers, it would be the opposite of 0, or ~0, which happens to also be equal to -1.

[eager spindle]

do you know what , does in c#

[sage mirage]

You know I am pretty sure there is no any collider there and specifically at that layer where he continuously moving forward. What's the difference between Move and SimpleMove? I mean it could prevent my player from getting down the stairs?

[eager spindle]

simplemove takes gravity into account and also deltatime

im not sure what your gravity system looks like

[quick pollen]

something like this works? @eager spindle

            RaycastHit[] hit = Physics.SphereCastAll(chargeStart, chargeRadius, distance);
            foreach(RaycastHit hits in hit){
                if(hits.collider.CompareTag("Enemy")){
                    explosion.Play();
                    hits.collider.GetComponent<EnemyStagger>().TakeHit(500);
                }
            }```

also id kind of want like a capsule, not a sphere, now that I think about it

[sage mirage]

Oh, ok. Then maybe I have to use simple move.

[eager spindle]

whats the direction of this raycast?

[quick pollen]

Vector3 distance = chargeStart - chargeEnd;

[eager spindle]

where is that distance in the spherecastall?

[quick pollen]

its set beforehand

[eager spindle]

as in where is it used

[quick pollen]

its on direction

[remote osprey]

Don't quote me please

[remote osprey]

You can just ask on this chat normally, someone will respond you

[eager spindle]

ah kk distance is not the radius

misleading name

[quick pollen]

actually

theres a capsulecast

[eager spindle]

isnt a spherecast a capsulecast

oh its setting the points

this is news

[quick pollen]

@eager spindle

I want to check if I hit anything in this line

I basically want to check all that space

[glass aurora]

nope

i am new thats why

[quick pollen]

why does capsulecast have a direction variable if theres already a start and end point

[eager spindle]

learn c# before you start

itll help you understand a lot more

[glass aurora]

💀 tho i cant bcz i wanna learn make games not to learn C#

[quick pollen]

god I need gizmos for this

[eager spindle]

theres visual scripting actually

[glass aurora]

where is courses in my language or eng doesnt matter

urdu/eng

[eager spindle]

what language

oh urdu probably not

[glass aurora]

hindi

and urdu are same

[eager spindle]

hindi definitely has

[glass aurora]

urdu and hindi are same

k bye

[eager spindle]

🫡

[glass aurora]

well i got ashamed...

[eager spindle]

we all start somewhere

[glass aurora]

at yt or where

oh i see many courses at yt

[quick pollen]

yeah youtube is one

@eager spindle seems to work!

[languid spire]

!learn and, btw, you cannot learn to make games with Unity if you do not learn C#, so the advice you were given is totally correct

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[quick pollen]

it also detects the player but its okay

[eager spindle]

erm acktually unity has visual scripting

[quick pollen]

altho itd be fun to see what the fuck its even doing

[eager spindle]

but yea c# is very important if you want to get anywhere

[eager spindle]

just check tags ez

[quick pollen]

cuz idk what the capsulecast looks like

[quick pollen]

thats what I do yeah

@eager spindle tysm for the help :))

i still dont get why capsulecast requires a direction but yeah

[short hazel]

Think of them as thick raycasts

[quick pollen]

yes, that makes sense

but if I set a start and end point

which should create the "edge"

then why do I need a direction

[short hazel]

Because the CapsuleCast requires a direction

Start point + direction

[quick pollen]

if you have 2 points, and you draw a line between them, then isnt the direction already evident?

like maybe you can change if it does from a to b or from b to a

isnt this what capsulecast does?

take the 2 points, draw a line between them, and then thicken it using the radius?

[glass aurora]

i beg please kindly tell me only this why this is happening

[polar acorn]

Because you have a syntax error

[glass aurora]

and i will learn

ik

how to fix

[polar acorn]

Look at the bit underlined in red (by the IDE, not by you) and fix it

[glass aurora]

that pechkus?

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what that means. But start at the top of the script and fix the red underlined things one at a time

[glass aurora]

screwdriver i clicked that now

listen

send code on private

[polar acorn]

You should only ever call CharacterController.Move one time per update per character controller

You should have one script handling both movement and jumping

If you try to do it multiple times, they will conflict with each other and mess up things like collision detection and ground checking

My guess is they're going to try to rope you in to spoonfeeding them the solution to their typo

[digital kelp]

Anyone know of a way to clear all subscriptions to an event such as this one?
researchButton.clicked += () => ResearchTech(tech);

[polar acorn]

If it's an actual C# event and not a UnityEvent, I believe you can just set it to null

[digital kelp]

researchButton.clicked = null?

[polar acorn]

Yes. That'll cause all the existing events to get garbage collected so it's not as good as everything unsubscribing itself when it is no longer necessary, but if you're doing it during something like a scene transition, the extra memory overhead won't matter much

Just don't clear it like, every frame, and you should be fine

[digital kelp]

Alright, ill try it out, thanks 👍

[digital kelp]

Cant set it to null it seems

[polar acorn]

Ah, you can't clear it from outside of the class. Events are weird, they're kind of both private and public. You'd need to do it in whatever class researchButton is

[rich adder]

You can't assign it because action is not mutable

[polar acorn]

You can make a public function that sets it to null and call that function

[full kite]

Can anybody help me with smthing? I got a prefab that its a child of a gameobject that has a pivot. He is anchored in a place. When I switch my resolution, the prefab is also moving in the screen. Why s that?

[digital kelp]

Button is a ui toolkit class

[rich adder]

Are you talking about UI ?

[polar acorn]

Ah, then you're probably not going to be able to modify it.

[full kite]

nope

[polar acorn]

You might need to keep track of the functions you add and remove them one by one

[frank zodiac]

why do i get errors?

[rich adder]

Read the error

[polar acorn]

You can't have two things with the same name

[frank zodiac]

I want to do a forward definition of my coroutine tho

[digital kelp]

Is that just this:
researchButton.clicked += () => ResearchTech(tech);
then
researchButton.clicked -= () => ResearchTech(tech);
?

[polar acorn]

So name it something else

[frank zodiac]

What good will that do?

I dont understand

[languid spire]

no, you cannot unsubscribe anonymous methods

[polar acorn]

No, you'd need to make that function into a "real" function,

private void Research(){
  ResearchTech(tech);
}

Then you'd do

researchButton.clicked += Research;
researchButton.clicked -= Research;

[remote osprey]

What's the right way to set collision detection in 2d objects?

[polar acorn]

It will allow it to compile

It will do quite a bit of good actually

[frank zodiac]

How do i make a forward definition of my coroutine then

[remote osprey]

I have a 2d collider on each of my game objects with scripts in them implementing public void OnCollisionEnter2D(UnityEngine.Collision2D collision)

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what you mean by this or why the name of the variable would matter

[rich adder]

This is a mess up mixing ui with sprites

[remote osprey]

nothing happens

[digital kelp]

Real function?

[frank zodiac]

I want my script to know theres a coroutine before I implement the functionality of it

[polar acorn]

Like I showed, an actual function with a definition, rather than an anonymous function that you lose a handle to once the function ends

[polar acorn]

Okay but why does that mean the variable needs to have the same name

call it literally anything else

[rich adder]

Do you have a rifusbody

[remote osprey]

rifusbody?

[polar acorn]

I believe he means rigidbody

[remote osprey]

Oh

[remote osprey]

I don't think so

[frank zodiac]

Sooo then how would the script know the coroutine im referring to if its named a different way

[polar acorn]

Because you tell it to

You are the one who assigns a value to the variable

[frank zodiac]

Ohhh i see ok

thanks

[polar acorn]

That's what = does. It tells the code what value the variable has

[summer stump]

Looking back it seems you are trying to get OnCollision working?
It requires a rigidbody. So if you do not have one, it will not work

[remote osprey]

Gotcha

[summer stump]

Here is a troubleshooting guide
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[full kite]

So I got a problem. I got a prefab that is anchored that is a child of another gameobject that is anchored and has a pivot in order to let that prefab to move. Even with all of those, when switching the resolution, he s still moving. Why s that?

[frank zodiac]

is there a way to make the variable name in a script different from the one in the inspector

[polar acorn]

You could use a custom inspector but it's usually better to just pick better names

[frank zodiac]

custom inspector doesnt seem that hard

[polar acorn]

Sure but "Just pick a better name" is even easier

[glass aurora]

does anyone have a Fps movement wsad normal speed and jump etc and also mouse movement script.

[rich adder]

Yup Google

[summer stump]

Did you fix the spelling and punctuation errors in your script?

[radiant frigate]

quick question, is there any way of "stopping/breaking" a for loop if certain conditions are met?

[languid spire]

break;

[radiant frigate]

ty!

[glass aurora]

i give up bcz of no idea i dont even know ","in C#

[summer stump]

Then stop working with unity until you do both of these
https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php

And then
https://learn.unity.com/pathways

[glass aurora]

i dont want to learn C# i want to make games and C# is used for others work

[summer stump]

Then stop trying to use c# and just do the part you want to do, and be prepared to pay a lot of money for the programmer

But you should probably take the couple hours to learn c#

[glass aurora]

well treat me like a beginner because you should tell me why to learn C# and why to use it to make games

[polar acorn]

we are

[summer stump]

I just did

[polar acorn]

You've been given some great starting resources

that you should definitely look at if you're a beginner

[glass aurora]

you all means that learning C# will also guide me to make any kind of code like wsad moving etc when i press jump button so player plays that animation of jump etc..??

[polar acorn]

If you intend to make games in Unity you will need to learn C#. Full stop. That's not really negotiable. Even if you hire a programmer, chances are you're going to have to make changes to their code at some point

[summer stump]

I should tell you why to learn c#?

Because you need to in order to use unity....

[polar acorn]

C# is the programming language unity uses. You will be writing C# code when you write any functionality whatsoever in unity

[subtle garnet]

just stop crying and try using chatgpt, it can give you any type of wasd movement script

[polar acorn]

Absolutely the fuck not

[silk night]

If you want to run you first need to learn to walk

[polar acorn]

I'm not debugging spam machine output from someone who doesn't know the difference between a comma and a period

[glass aurora]

nah bro i should learn and it gives too much error so i cant use it

[glass aurora]

yes we have to gain knowledge and work on codes well too silly

[silk night]

Yes and if you take that knowledge from chatgpt it will be meh at best and absolutely wrong at worst

[summer stump]

Absolutely wrong on average*

[subtle garnet]

@glass aurora already replies like a bot

[summer stump]

Just stop. No need to insult people...

[silk night]

I have encountered chatgpt being usefull exactly once when i had a build error nobody had a clue how to solve it and after 2h of googling i decided, whatever might aswell ask it and it told me to delete and recreate a file that finally helped. Out of the around 10 other times i tried this I got no useful answers 😄

[subtle garnet]

Im here to answer questions and no one asks anything, just blames chatgpt.

[glass aurora]

is it necessary to download this well i already downloaded the development with unity

[silk night]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[glass aurora]

nah tell me here!

[silk night]

read the manual

[subtle garnet]

just code online

[glass aurora]

okay so i am learning C# from W3SCHOOL it says that download this so what to do

[silk night]

If you want help learning general C# you should follow the W3school tutorial and join the C# discord server

[summer stump]

Are you blind. This is the most active channel on the server, people constantly ask questions. Only complaints about gpt are when lazy people just say use gpt.
Just gonna block you.

[summer stump]

No
Step 1 is learning to follow instructions

[rich adder]

I suggest learning C# from here
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/collections/yz26f8y64n7k07

[glass aurora]

um Okay so they are saying that download the first one to learn C# but you are saying that follow instruction

[subtle garnet]

I don't see any active coding questions atm.

[rocky canyon]

everyones using chatgpt i guess 🙄

[summer stump]

They both are basically the same thing

[glass aurora]

hey please just tell me which website i should select for C# to make games

[summer stump]

That question doesn't make sense honestly
C# is c#

[rocky canyon]

check the pins on teh channel ^

[summer stump]

Just configure your ide as shown above

And follow w3schools

[upper yoke]

Hey, so I'm trying to make a game work on Android and I have a code like that:

            var pressed =
#if UNITY_ANDROID && !UNITY_EDITOR
            Touchscreen.current.primaryTouch.IsPressed()
#else
            Mouse.current.leftButton.isPressed
#endif
            || _isClickAltPressed;
            if (pressed)
            {
                var mousePos =
#if UNITY_ANDROID && !UNITY_EDITOR
                Touchscreen.current.primaryTouch.position.ReadValue();
#else
                Mouse.current.position.ReadValue();
#endif

But somehow when I build things doesn't work at all, would anyone please know why?

[keen trout]

Can we

Play a unity project

[rich adder]

put logs

[keen trout]

From command line?

[rich adder]

yes

[upper yoke]

How can I see the logs on Android?

[summer stump]

Yes

[rich adder]

also not a code question

[keen trout]

How

[summer stump]

Run the exe using the command line

[keen trout]

I'm noob pls help

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CommandLineArguments.html

[rich adder]

Logcat

[rocky canyon]

is ur Active Input Handling setting in the Player Settings set to Input System Package.. or Both

[upper yoke]

It's set to the new one

[glass aurora]

can i watch this?? or waste of time

[rocky canyon]

and it just doesn't work at all on mobile?

[rocky canyon]

nothings wasteful

[glass aurora]

yes or no

[rocky canyon]

more exposure == more better

[rich adder]

its only a waste of time if you dont learn anything

[glass aurora]

spoke broken eng

[rocky canyon]

nothing is a form of no

[rich adder]

these long format videos are horrid though

[upper yoke]

Stuff like menu that just use buttons work but the code I sent where I try to access it from code doesn't

[glass aurora]

how do i learn

[rocky canyon]

just stop procrastinating and dive in

[rich adder]

apply your brain to it

[rocky canyon]

theres been tons of resources linked

[verbal dome]

You were already linked some learning resources

[rocky canyon]

and theres pins at the top

[keen trout]

Anybody here more experienced in unity i want to make simple 2d games can anyone teach me

[rocky canyon]

^ tons of information

[glass aurora]

where

[rocky canyon]

the pins at the top

[glass aurora]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[rocky canyon]

top right of this channel

[keen trout]

Ya but learning alone is very boring

[glass aurora]

inviting you...

[rich adder]

sure I charge 25$/hr

[keen trout]

And no one in my home is interested in games

[glass aurora]

uh oh samee

[rocky canyon]

meh, i find it easier to learn by myself.. less distractions

[glass aurora]

i think i got a partner..

[silk night]

Either attach your phone to your PC and build it to the device directly or use the unity phone streaming (not sure if that is still a thing)

[upper yoke]

I'll try to use the first option thanks

[rocky canyon]

yea the menu works b/c of the event system component.. its a little different than the rest

[silk night]

in the build options should be an option on what device to start it

[silk night]

oh and make sure USB debugging is on on the device

[rocky canyon]

for sure

[rocky canyon]

robbing urself

[rich adder]

hehe special learners discount * limited time only

[rocky canyon]

ahh that trial experience 😉

[silk night]

Also to your general problem, if you want to keep it simple you can enable touch using mouse events and then just using those, if you want a more elegant solution go for the input system, but thats a major refactor warning right there 😄

[rocky canyon]

he's already half-way there w/ the new input system

[glass aurora]

bruh he is directly teaching me about components

😦

[rocky canyon]

altho he's using it like polling and current? stuff

[silk night]

Oh yeah thought for a second its the old one

[silk night]

learn c#, not unity c# first

[glass aurora]

where and how to

[rich adder]

i showed you where

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/collections/yz26f8y64n7k07
^^ this one is the best one imo

[silk night]

the screenshot you posted above, the 4h youtube video is very good

[verbal dome]

Are you trolling?

[vast vessel]

how do i find Vector3 vel?
(vel is rotated by angle degrease along the right vector)

[glass aurora]

this?

[glass aurora]

am not

[rich adder]

If you want to really dive into c# yes

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw&ab_channel=SebastianLague
this helped me when i first learning.. think of it as a crash course.. then once u get a feel for it move onto to something else

its a bit tamer and starts w/ fundamental conversational type info

[rich adder]

not big Sebastian Lague fan for these

[glass aurora]

what is bit tamer and w/fundamental conversationol type info

[rocky canyon]

watch 20 or 30 seconds of it and find out

[glass aurora]

aok

[silk night]

You can rotate any vector by doing Quaternion * Vector (only in this order, vector * quaternion does not work)

[rocky canyon]

its an entire playlist starts small and works it way up to making ur own prototype /game

[summer stump]

You are underselling yourself.

[rocky canyon]

its not a replacement for unity learn and the documentation.. but it helps wrap ur head around whats happening

[verbal dome]

Doesnt look like it is rotated along right vector. The axis seems to be the cross product of right and forward

[rich adder]

ahha too kind!
its *intro pricing

[glass aurora]

so you watched the full playlist

[rocky canyon]

2 years ago yes

[rich adder]

I have

its good

[vast vessel]

well its supposed to be going into the air.

[zenith cypress]

spawn puts in the effort

[rocky canyon]

moderate effort

[rich adder]

but honestly the microsoft one is the best c# because its just you and the console/compiler

no bs UI and other distractions

[silk night]

$25/h is entry level, like the kind of i know nothing and need a teacher level, if you can do more than creating a pong/tetris demo double it (for freelancing atleast) 😄

[glass aurora]

do you suggest me to watch it full as a beginner ?

[rocky canyon]

^ yea.. like i said.. its not a replacement.. but its a solid foundation

[rocky canyon]

yes

try to work along side of it when he starts getting into the engine parts

but the first few are just going over parameters/variables/methods/classes

[rich adder]

at this point im entertaining all offers, I got laid off and still working at a restaurant

[rocky canyon]

all the basic stuff u need to know about

[rocky canyon]

i'll trade my roofing job

[rich adder]

roofing in july . RIP

[silk night]

Hey, same problem here, i have 3.5y of professional experience + around 400m downloads on google play and its still hard to find a job in games rn, looking at offers around 75k€ in europe right now

[rocky canyon]

yea im lobster

gotta get that freelance on

[vast vessel]

so something like this?

[rich adder]

yeah much harder to find anything in game development , the traditional software jobs are "easier"

shit I'm willing to take that at this point in the market

[silk night]

yeah im looking at frontend dev as a fallback atm, which i did before gamedev

[rocky canyon]

backends where its at

jobs dime a dozen

[rich adder]

yeah though those are mostly senior jobs

[silk night]

nah not another backend, im freelancing a backend gig rn and dont wanna do more in that area

[rocky canyon]

lmao i dont blame u brother

[rich adder]

you use frontend in c#/.net or another framework ?

[glass aurora]

bruh i cant understand anything

[frank zodiac]

dk if i can post this here or in #archived-game-design but basically im making a turn based battle system and every enemy has its own special attack pattern so should i just:

jam it all into one script
or make seperate scripts for each enemy or
make a script called EnemyAttacks

[silk night]

I can use either React or Vue, so typescript based

[rocky canyon]

if nothings making sense then brute-force it...

follow an entire tutorial Flappy Birds/ Angry Birds clone

and then return

[zenith cypress]

Should probably watch more than 3 minutes

[glass aurora]

basically my language is hindi/urdu

[rich egret]

I'm trying to run OnRoomListUpdate, but it says that entering the lobby in ConnectToServer makes it not work, where should I put OnRoomListUpdate? this's on Photon

[rocky canyon]

ouch.. sucks to have a language barrier

[willow scroll]

Was my answer not good enough?

[glass aurora]

😿

[rich adder]

ahh nice.. TS and JS are nightmares for me, I'm stuck with whatever .net gives. Blazor aint bad though if you combine with nice css library like Tailwind

[zenith cypress]

Ah ouch

[frank zodiac]

im looking for a variety of answers, is that against the rules?

[silk night]

oh a language barrier instead of a tech barrier? search on youtube if you can find something in your language, maybe there is a good tutorial guy out there

[rocky canyon]

i dont have any hindi resources unfortunately

subtitles hopefully do you justice

[glass aurora]

let me research

[silk night]

Typescript comes closer to c# than you think if you use the OOP stuff

And yes im prepared to be beheaded for that statement

[glass aurora]

yep but i want detailed english

[summer stump]

I mean, it does make sense haha.

[willow scroll]

It's not. But, maybe, you can point out [your first question](#archived-code-general message), so that people may be able to correct my response too?

[zenith cypress]

It can use tailwind? 👀 Okay maybe I am tempted to try it out at some point. The web app usage of it made be wary of it for general sites though, but I've never used it sooooo haha

[frank zodiac]

oh ok 👍 thanks

[silk night]

i mean tailwind is just a styling library, anything that translates to valid HTML can in theory use tailwind

[rich adder]

do it! it's fun , I know a few good C# devs are kinda sleeping on this

thats whats amazing about Blazor since its web you can combine it with any frontend you want, even react. So yeah any css library works, boostrap(default template), tailwind and "mudblazor" (specific blazor utility library)

[zenith cypress]

wait so it's a front-end that can also use react? How does that work? Is it like a weird layer on top of what they provide for you to use

[rich adder]

blazor basically is a backend that can handle any frontend with Razor files which are essentially C# + HTML/JS files

[rocky canyon]

i broke my arm on a Razor

wait.. nvm wrong Razor 😵‍💫

[zenith cypress]

but it says it is a front-end 🤔

[rich adder]

oh maybe i'm confusing what a backend is ?

[rocky canyon]

i just found out you can use c# to build web apps.. like last week

isnt that awful?

[rich adder]

you can certainly use it to write backend, because thats how i'm using databases n whatnot

[zenith cypress]

Like NextJS is a backend framework that uses React as the frontend, but I am not sure what Blazor does if it seems to be both (?)

[rich adder]

yes blazor is similiar to nextjs basically

[zenith cypress]

Ah I see

[languid spire]

in the MS MVC concept, Blazor is basically the V part

[silk night]

why do you think microsoft is pushing typescript (and in parts react)? 😄

backend c# is fine, everybody i know that used c# in the frontend was like "never again"

[rich adder]

here is a blazor login im doing for a unity cloud account

made with tailwind

https://services.docs.unity.com/docs/client-auth/

the syntax is basically html with c#

[silk night]

well that is basically vue at that point xD

[rocky canyon]

no offense but 🤢

html and css is my evil villan

[silk night]

css especially with a preprocessor like scss got pretty good, html can go and dig itself a hole somwhere 😄

[rocky canyon]

scss has eluded me for now.. but i havent had really a reason to dive into css again for now

🤞

[rich adder]

with web you have no choice though

[rocky canyon]

i use inline css >8)

[rich adder]

I mean thats why i use utility css like tailwind

so i write 0 css

i literally just copy and paste it

[rocky canyon]

but whats the deposit on learning that?

[rich adder]

wdym

[silk night]

no wonder you hate it 😄 next you tell me you write all your unity code in one file and wonder why you hate it 😄

[rocky canyon]

like how much time invested in learning that to utilize it

to save urself from writing css containers all day

[rich adder]

not much at all. All i do is say, Ok I want a dropdown

https://flowbite.com/docs/components/dropdowns/

copy and paste it works lol

tailwind and other utility css usually have premade components you can use , you write no code if you don't want to

I just switch up the items to actually c# array items etc

[rocky canyon]

im trolling just a tad lol

i ofc use external css

[rich adder]

yeah screw that

writing a # for every little div

[rocky canyon]

yea bad workflow now-adays innit?

[rich adder]

#  listButton
#  listButton:Hovered
#  list-Button_darkmode 

etcc.

[silk night]

nah thats still normal if you dont have tailwind, but we might be a bit far offtopic here right now 😄

[rich adder]

true lol bringing it back to unity.. so um yeah using front end to login players of UGS via website

[rocky canyon]

this is how much i hate html and css

my website is literally a file-tree

[rocky canyon]

ya, im u-turning.. but thanks imma look into these libraries mentioned

thanks for the heads-up

[rocky canyon]

interesting.

whats UGS ?

[rich adder]

Unity Gaming Service

now its technically called Unity Cloud

[rocky canyon]

ohh ofc ofc.. that any good?

[rich adder]

its ..getting there..

[rocky canyon]

figured as much

[rich adder]

still lackluster on the web side

[rocky canyon]

got a good dashboard?

[rich adder]

yea

[rocky canyon]

welp thats enough for me to try it

[rich adder]

speaking of react I think its actually react

[rocky canyon]

better than finding a place to host my own

[rich adder]

dont you use the Asset Store publisher pagge ?

[rocky canyon]

ohh i like react

[rocky canyon]

mmhmm is it similar?

[rich adder]

the UI is the same

[rocky canyon]

ahh gotcha

[rich adder]

they finally give cloud save their own section woot

[rocky canyon]

whats the speeds like?

[rich adder]

speeds of what?

[rocky canyon]

like data transfer.. no wait times or nothing negative?

[rich adder]

pretty quick so far

[rocky canyon]

nice.. im not a fan of ur dark reader 😛

[rich adder]

I only tried Leaderboards and cloud saving

[rich adder]

yeah I rather not get flashbanged though

[rocky canyon]

i wish there were better ones out there

i ran mine for a while and had to toggle it off all the time b/c some sites were unreadible

[rich adder]

darkmode on cloud actually is decent

I just have dark reader on by defualt

the edges are more defined. But yeah it works well. The Leaderboards is good too, I mainly use it because its authentication already built into unity games

[rocky canyon]

yes ^ thats a 110% improvement

[rocky canyon]

yea, i think imma try out some leaderboards soon

im not going multiplayer.. but leaderboards would be coo.l

[rich adder]

working on a quick video on Leaderboards rn

[rocky canyon]

link me when ur done.. ill use ur implementation 😉

[rich adder]

sure thing! I'm going to show both Anonymous login and Username/pass for auth a user

[rich adder]

the theme I use on the microsoft docs xD

[rocky canyon]

and he doesnt wanna get flashbanged

[rich adder]

wdym you never used High Constast on windows XP ?

[rocky canyon]

lmao.. no...

[rich adder]

it was all kewl futuristic looking!

afaik its meant for partially blind people

[rocky canyon]

yea, the bright ass lime green borders

chefs kiss.. (not)

[rich adder]

god I uused to feel real hax0r

[rocky canyon]

ya, i turned my parents cellphones on high contrast

but its been calmed down a bit

[rich adder]

omg myb im steering this into titanic size offtopic

[rocky canyon]

i was waiting for Heco to post a question..

guess he figured it out

[silk night]

or you scared them away with the offtopic 😄

[rocky canyon]

perfect time to post a ? tbh.. u got 4/5 just itching to answer something

[rich adder]

*give me questions now! *

[zenith cypress]

Why? || ||

[rocky canyon]

imma get some work done.. i'll have questions as soon as i run into my first wall of the day

[rich adder]

touche

[rocky canyon]

#1253440741322133545 message

[fickle plume]

@rocky canyon You can save it for #1180170818983051344

@rich adder @rocky canyon Take it to DMs next time

[safe radish]

    {
        Vector3Int positionToCheck = GetNeighbourPosition(cell, direction);

        if (ChunkManager.Instance.IsValidGridPosition(positionToCheck))
        {
            if (CellIsEmpty(positionToCheck) && !newFluidCells.Contains(positionToCheck))
            {
                Vector3Int positionBelow = GetNeighbourPosition(positionToCheck, Direction.Down);

                while (ChunkManager.Instance.IsValidGridPosition(positionBelow) && CellIsEmpty(positionBelow))
                {
                    positionToCheck = positionBelow;
                    positionBelow = GetNeighbourPosition(positionToCheck, Direction.Down);
                }
                MakeWaterTile(positionToCheck, newFluidCells);```   what am i missing in my logic here? i want water tiles to only be made on the lowest tile at their neighbours xz coordinate. but it keeps spreading horizontally

[rich adder]

yes! apologies

[fickle plume]

Break it down with debugging more and see what exactly is being executed. And in which order.

[zenith cypress]

What does GetNeighbourPosition do?

[safe radish]

    {
        switch (direction)
        {
            case Direction.North: return new Vector3Int(gridPosition.x, gridPosition.y, gridPosition.z + 1);
            case Direction.East:  return new Vector3Int(gridPosition.x + 1, gridPosition.y, gridPosition.z);
            case Direction.South: return new Vector3Int(gridPosition.x, gridPosition.y, gridPosition.z - 1);
            case Direction.West:  return new Vector3Int(gridPosition.x - 1, gridPosition.y, gridPosition.z);
            case Direction.Up:    return new Vector3Int(gridPosition.x, gridPosition.y + 1, gridPosition.z);
            case Direction.Down:  return new Vector3Int(gridPosition.x, gridPosition.y - 1, gridPosition.z);
            default: return gridPosition;```

[zenith cypress]

Maybe while (ChunkManager.Instance.IsValidGridPosition(positionBelow) && CellIsEmpty(positionBelow)) is not always running and then it places a water tile at the original position, instead of the lower one? 🤔

[safe radish]

from what i can see the lowest one always gets placed

[fickle plume]

Don't guess, debug it.

[safe radish]

i set up a debugger breakpoint after 5 loops but other than the gridpositions i cant find much. im also very new to using the debugger

[vale karma]

Hello, Ive been working on a problem for a day now, I have to lerp the object using physics or it wont move the object correctly, the problem is, it doesnt "stick" once its done lerping. It seems to keep lerping once i pick it up endlessly.

https://paste.ofcode.org/Saec7Qy3JfR28XjkU6NSGh

[fickle plume]

Sometimes more visual debugging is easier. You can place a gizmo on the coordinate where current block is placed temporarily, then break point will halt it on that moment and you'll see current placed object. Or change color of it really temporarily and put break at that moment.

You can even just print out coordinates in the log of the current element placed, then you'll know their order.

Their order should tell you how the code executed and why extra blocks are placed.

[fickle plume]

If you are overriding physics with animation you should make it kinematic for duration and also might have to zero out any momentum it had when switching back to dynamic physics.

[vale karma]

I have it swapping through kinematic when it needs, so its not fighting physics or jittery

[rich adder]

btw
Vector3 lerpingPos = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, placePoint.position, Time.deltaTime * lerpSpeed);
https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[vale karma]

it seems as if it has a second lerp on top of the tray lerp

Yes i heard that, so it doesnt ever really reach 0 right?

[rich adder]

yea it wont ever reach exact value and it varies on diff fps

something to look into for sure later on

[vale karma]

I tried jerryrigging it to do < 0.001f but it just kept doing it but at a greater cuttoff range. Im guessing MoveTowards needs to be used in tandum with it

[rich adder]

yeah , I usually use Coroutines for these lerps, or if i need a quickfix in update or something use
1 - Mathf.Pow(fraction, Time.deltaTime * 10)
part

[frank zodiac]

is there a way to make UI interact with physics

[rich adder]

no

[vale karma]

ugh coroutines make my eyes hurt. I havent gotten used to using them correctly

[rich adder]

they are in completly different spaces

[frank zodiac]

thats a shame, what about colliders

[rich adder]

colliders are physics lol

[vale karma]

use a 3d object, worldspace UI, then put it on there and put physics on the object

[rich adder]

what are you trying to do exactly ?

[frank zodiac]

tried that; screen wouldnt scale

[vale karma]

Yea its bad scaling stuff, gotta get width and hieght to match object. Probably easier way of doing it but htats how i do it if i need to

[frank zodiac]

i want to make my buttons fall and stuff and the player has to catch them or alternatively click with his mouse, its a very strange combat system but i need to have UI with physics

[vale karma]

liike that google browser wityh physics lol

[rich adder]

you can fake it

[frank zodiac]

can a sprite interact with UI in collision or not?

[frank zodiac]

yeah exactly that was my reference

[vale karma]

if its 2d yea

no ui tho

just collisions if its a GO

[frank zodiac]

how exactly?

[rich adder]

just use tweening libraries and simulate the falling, then use the Event System to raycast on them

[frank zodiac]

i need the player to be able to hop on the buttons too

[vale karma]

DOTween is free might be helpfull in your case

2d Colider with a sprite on it

[frank zodiac]

ill look into it, ive heard good things about it

[rich adder]

i use tweening to animate the breaking pick

[frank zodiac]

nice

[vale karma]

here i have a vid ofwhat your trying to do i think

[rich adder]

dotween is my top choice

[zenith cypress]

PrimeTween is also fantastic https://github.com/KyryloKuzyk/PrimeTween

[frank zodiac]

heres a reference of what im trying to do exactly, the stickman is the player and the thing on the top is the enemy. the player has to collide with stuff obviously but he also needs to be an image not a sprite so he can scale with the screen accordingly

[zenith cypress]

That center area could be a render texture in your ui

[frank zodiac]

yes thats similiar

[vale karma]

Yea its just a 2d cube with a collider, and an image slapped on it

[frank zodiac]

what do you mean?

[vale karma]

that way you can move the object with physics, or transform

[zenith cypress]

A camera can render to a render texture, you can put that in a RawImage ui component

[frank zodiac]

whats a render texture again?

[rich adder]

its a texture that renders from your GPU

so a camera output can be used for example

[frank zodiac]

ahhh i see

[frank zodiac]

what are some use cases of render textures in games? just so i can get a better understanding

[rich adder]

uh off top of my head now..
for example you want a monitor to display what some other camera in the game is seeing

or a mirror

[frank zodiac]

oh ok interesting

[frank zodiac]

ohhhh so like a minimap?

thank you! that helps

[zenith cypress]

It's just what a camera sees (in this case), yeah

[ashen sonnet]

anyone with too much time feel like explaining a couple lines of code to an idiot (me)?

[rich adder]

[slender nymph]

Don't Ask To Ask

[ashen sonnet]

my bad bro i was typing it

        float targetRotation = Mathf.Lerp(-maxRotation, maxRotation, (RB2D.velocity.y + FlapForce) / (2 * FlapForce));

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, targetRotation), rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

all the context you should need for this is that i have a maxRotation int var set to 45, a rigidbody2d var thats letting me access the velocity, a flapforce var set to 5, and i think thats it
im very very new to this and i am trying to re create flappy bird and this is intended to recreate that effect where when the bird is falling it rotates down proportionatley, my system so far has been to use a combination of google and chatgpt to get code that works, then figure out why it works (idk if its efficient but its working alright so 🤷‍♂️ ) but this code is way too big brain for my caveman cranium to comprehend

[rich adder]

what exactly is the part you're confused on?

first one just finds the target rotation to do a slerp (spherical lerping) on.

[languid spire]

It might help you to understand it if you broke it down into it's constituent parts instead of that spaghetti

[ashen sonnet]

pretty much all of it honestly
like i know super basics but idk wtf a quaternion.slerp is lmao or how to use it ect
just like an explanation on what everything does cuz im lost lol

[frank zodiac]

"slurp" or "es lerp"

how is it pronounced?

[rich adder]

sleeerp

[ashen sonnet]

slurp is objectivley funnier so im going with that

[rich adder]

7/11 sleeerpy

[frank zodiac]

if you dont know what you're typing then you should go step by step

[frank zodiac]

🤤

[rich adder]

RB2D.velocity.y + FlapForce) / (2 * FlapForce)

this is pretty much doing that math for the rotation . No idea where it fished those numbers from

[ashen sonnet]

ok so i know it makes a var called targetrotation by getting the min rotation and max rotation, and interpolating between them using the interpolation variable i think its called, but i dont know what that does? and then the other line im just lost on lmao

[rich adder]

Lerp will give the value between (0-1) A n B by a ratio of t

so if t is .5 then it would be 50% out of 0-100%

[ashen sonnet]

is t always a decimal?

[frank zodiac]

wait why dont coroutines show up here?
do i have to make a function to call that coroutine now? seems like a pain in the ass bcuz i have 12 of them

[ashen sonnet]

atleast always for when i would need to use it

[rich adder]

not always but t is 0-1 ratio

so only whole number would be 0 or 1

[rich adder]

thats the proper way to do it anyway

[frank zodiac]

okay then

[rich adder]

I would never call Coroutines from any other scripts but its own (with a void method)

[ashen sonnet]

so would u say this code is convoluted or my baby brain cant understand it

[rich adder]

not really thats the most math its doing

the rest is just applying that rotation "smoothly"

[ashen sonnet]

why is it doing that math tho? like i get that its taking the velocity and adding the flapforce (5) then dividing it by 2*flapforce but why??

[rich adder]

its only taking the vertical velocity, I have no idea why those division numbers probably to get a decimal out of it

my math aint mathin today to explain how gpt came to that

[ashen sonnet]

how would you have done it ?/whats a way to get the same result in a way that is readable/makes sense

[rich adder]

if it works , I would not touch it

maybe doing the slerp(rotation one not targetRotation ) with a coroutine https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[ashen sonnet]

here i can give u chatgpts logic if u want (aka i asked it wtf it was thinking lol)

    RB2D.velocity.y gives you the vertical speed of the object.
    If the object is moving upwards, RB2D.velocity.y is positive.
    If the object is moving downwards, RB2D.velocity.y is negative.

Normalization Process:

    FlapForce represents the force applied when the object flaps (jumps or flies upwards).
    The range of RB2D.velocity.y is approximately -FlapForce (max downward speed) to FlapForce (max upward speed).

Offsetting and Scaling:

    Adding FlapForce to RB2D.velocity.y shifts the range from [-FlapForce, FlapForce] to [0, 2 * FlapForce].
    Dividing by 2 * FlapForce scales the range from [0, 2 * FlapForce] to [0, 1]. ```

[rich adder]

yes the first Lerp is normalizing the value

[ashen sonnet]

sorry if this is a dumb question
what that mean?

[rich adder]

basically making it 0-1

well max length of 1

not necessarily 0-1

[ember tangle]

Whats the best way to track down the "AABB" errors?

[vale karma]

It has a small amount of jittering when moving, but im gonna have to move on if i want this game finished this year loll

[rich adder]

are you scaling or something ?

show errors

[ember tangle]

once I take away the reference I get about 15 unique AABB errors that dont point to the code

[rich adder]

can you show the full stacktrace or are we to guess lol

[frank zodiac]

something insanely creepy just happened. chatgpt knew my function and method names even though i didnt give them to it, word by word, as its written in my script + its memory is erased. weird...

[ashen sonnet]

for now i wont touch my code for this bit and maybe ill come back later when i have more practise and when im not running off 3 hours of sleep in the last 24 hours lmao

[rich adder]

I would be very careful using gpt, especially as beginner

[zenith cypress]

If you just wanted a t for y velocity you could do like (not tested but should be simpler to look at)

// gets percentage between -1.0 and 1.0 velocity -> 0.0 to 1.0
// -1 velocity -> 0.0
// 0 velocity -> 0.5
// 1 velocity -> 1.0
var t = Mathf.InverseLep(-1f, 1f, velocity.y);
// gets the angle at that percentage between -90 and 90
var angle = Mathf.Lerp(-90, 90, t);

var fromRotation = transform.rotation;
var toRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, angle);
// will suffer from rolling lerp.to speeds, but should be fine for a
// flappy bird visual tbh
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(fromRotation, toRotation, Time.deltaTime / duration);

[ashen sonnet]

its watching you

[ember tangle]

I don't know what that means, but the errors don't provide any context in the debug log:

[ashen sonnet]

is there a way to bookmark stuff in discord? cuz i should probably read this later lol here one sec ill be able to find this lemme at keywords
||(thing i needed to read later find this script fixed)||

[rich adder]

yeah looks like some strange stuff you're doing maybe with transform component ?

[ember tangle]

it happens exactly when the formation state machine changes to "dead" and I take away a 'target' GameObject reference from a script.

[rich adder]

i would start with the one that says about assigning position to that rigidbody .position @ember tangle

since you're trying to assign NaNs to it

what is AttackRange

[ember tangle]

Its a sphere collider trigger for ranged attacks and fire at will behaviour, but you're right it does have a rigidbody, ill disable it in the script when the formation enters a dead state and see if that is the issue

but I haven't destroyed any GameObjects so I don't know why it would be causing this

[rich adder]

oh ok
if you can show the script where you assign that maybe can offer some clue there

[safe radish]

i fixed the issue with water stacking on top of eachother. but am wondering if there is a name for a fluid system like this? i'd like to read more about it but can only find about particle based fluid systems

[zenith cypress]

Cellular Automata

[rich adder]

holy shit your batches shoot through the roof with that water though

[safe radish]

just want to get the algorithm working for now. even the water cubes themselves are just for testing

[safe radish]

thanks ill read some more about that

[rich adder]

yea naa looks good ! procedual stuff frightens me
was just staring at that for a second but you still got a respectable 300+ fps so its a non-issue lol

[vale karma]

UnityException: Transform child out of bounds
Handle.Place (UnityEngine.Transform placePoint) (at Assets/Scenes/User Mechanics/Handle.cs:63) getting this error

https://paste.ofcode.org/nrkJ8cktfWbAabMTu2Y3dQ
https://paste.ofcode.org/nrkJ8cktfWbAabMTu2Y3dQ

im trying to place stuff on a cart but its not acting like any other object when being placed on it

[rich adder]

are you sure about that line

[slender nymph]

this is the wrong file

[zenith cypress]

That's the wrong script

[rich adder]

wait this wrong script

[ember tangle]

hmm I disabled the collider object and it caused 999+ divide by zero errors in addition to all the AABB stuff

[rich adder]

send Handle

[ember tangle]

except im not dividing at all

!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.

[rich adder]

you're making the transform implode somehow lol

[languid spire]

sounds like you have a negative size somewhere

[ember tangle]

https://hatebin.com/mgqmanyosk the divide by zero error is pointing at this function, really confused as all GameObjects are still active.

they just change into a dead state

I guess they get removed from a list

maybe just wrapping everything in some type of foo != 0?

[glad rune]

i change the start color of this particle in the particle generator with the script. It does change the color but the particles dont spawn

what wrong

[frank zodiac]

is there a way to get the position of the edge of the screen in world space?

and store it in a Vector3

or Vector2

[rich adder]

Screen.width
Screen.height

[frank zodiac]

wouldnt that get the entire WIDTH of the screen? i only want one point on the edge of it

[rich adder]

yeah but you have the "edges"

[vast vessel]

hey guys. why is the initial velocity, calculated by the CalculateProjectileAngle() method incorrect?
because it seems to be working when using this debug script, that has the same code.

debug script : https://hastebin.skyra.pw/vohapujeho.pgsql
the one used on the soldier : https://hastebin.skyra.pw/quqerututa.pgsql

[quick pollen]

Is there a way to draw capsules using Gizmos?

[rich adder]

so find a point between 0, and screen.height at the screen.width x

[frank zodiac]

oh i get it now

ok thanks

[quick pollen]

I am having some issues with a capsulecast I have

and I have no way of even seeing what the capsulecast looks like

[rich adder]

you might want to account for "safe area"
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Screen-safeArea.html

as some screens can cut off that very edge

[frank zodiac]

seems useful

[vast vessel]

this is the formula i used from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile_motion#Angle_θ_required_to_hit_coordinate_(x,_y)

i just subtracter the init positions x and y from the target positions x and y, since the formula originally only worked for a projectile that starts at (0,0)

[quick pollen]

anyone?

[frank zodiac]

Camera cam = Camera.main;
Vector3 bottomLeft = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0, 0, cam.nearClipPlane));
Vector3 bottomRight = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Screen.width, 0, cam.nearClipPlane));
Vector3 topLeft = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0, Screen.height, cam.nearClipPlane));
Vector3 topRight = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Screen.width, Screen.height, cam.nearClipPlane));

so can i use this?

this wouldnt work for UI though right

[rich adder]

if this is going on UI item you don't need screentoworldpoint

[frank zodiac]

my canvas is in world space so its ok right

[rich adder]

if its a world object then its in world coordinates yes

[frank zodiac]

👍

[ember tangle]

{
    float totalX = 0f;
    float totalY = 0f;
    float totalZ = 0f;
    foreach (var unit in units)
    {
        totalX += unit.transform.position.x;
        totalY += unit.transform.position.y;
        totalZ += unit.transform.position.z;
    }
    float centerX = totalX / units.Count;
    float centerY = totalY / units.Count;
    float centerZ = totalZ / units.Count;

    return new Vector3 (centerX, centerY + vOffset, centerZ);
} ```Turns out this function was trying to access an empty list, crazy how many unique errors that can cause...

now I live in fear of AABB errors

[rich adder]

its because you're diving by 0

which is a big nono in any calculator, that includes a computer lol

[ember tangle]

now it checks units.Count before its called. It all makes sense to me now

[languid spire]

I dont understand why you create 3 individual floats when a Vector3 at the start would do it for you

[ember tangle]

hmm that is a good point

I assumed that at some level 3 floats were more lightweight than a Vector3.

[languid spire]

no, actually heavier to a minisucule amount

[ember tangle]

why is that?

[polar acorn]

Because they might be stored in different places in memory and it's faster to read three values in a row instead of spreading around

[languid spire]

because 3 floats are 3 stack addresses whilst 1 Vector3 is 1 address + 3 ofsets

[polar acorn]

A Vector3 is all in one contiguous stream of memory

[ember tangle]

I learn so much from this discord lol

[languid spire]

more importantly, your code would look so much cleaner using a Vector3 rather than 3 floats

[rich adder]

tuple

[languid spire]

why reinvent the wheel?

[rich adder]

true true. vector3 unity only no?

or Numerics ig

[languid spire]

not if you have your own library, no. I have every Unity class and struct remapped into POCO's

[rich adder]

I just remember Json.net threw a hissy fit for Unity's V3

something something self referencing loop

[glad rune]

i change the start color of this particle in the particle generator with the script. It does change the color but the particles dont
spawn for some reason, if the color isnt changed it spawns normaly

[short hazel]

Yeah without the custom serializer, it tries to serialize its normalized property, which is a vector, so it tries to serialize its normalized property, which is a vector, until it overruns it's internal serialization depth limit

[rich adder]

ahhhh the property normalized yeah I remember reading about that

i had to enable the option for json.net but was only a bandaid

unity cloudsave uses json.net it cannot be modified so i couldn't serialize anything with v3 via sdk sadly

[rich adder]

so I'm guessing the json utility handles this case specifically ?

[short hazel]

It's a property IIRC, so it just skips over it lol

[rich adder]

in json.net I had to do ( only works on my local unity project save not unity cloud)

JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Poco, Formatting.Indented, 
new JsonSerializerSettings 
{ 
        ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Serialize
});```

maybe they have something like that by default? that would be horrid seems like its a bad thing here no

[short hazel]

Yeah that, or declare a custom JsonSerializer<Vector3> class (it comes bundled with the version Unity uses, or as an addon if you install it yourself) and add it to the settings

[rich adder]

Yeah i'll look into that might be easier, so far I just made a custom struct that handles the V3 conversion

[frank zodiac]

why doesnt Vector3 correctly translate to my image rect transform? its a little off

[rich adder]

can we see it?

[polar acorn]

A Vector3 is just a collection of numbers. If it's not where you expect it to be, you gave it the wrong numbers

[frank zodiac]

i cant screen record right now, everytime i do it doesnt work

[rich adder]

are you usin anchoredPos?

[frank zodiac]

but basically i have this vector3 and i want to instantiate an image in my world space overlay UI canvas in a random x position somewhere and when i put them its a ltitle off

[frank zodiac]

no im using position

[rich adder]

if the image is UI rect transfrom inside the canvas try using anchoredPos

iirc transform.position doesn't account for scale of canvas so its off, I could be wrong there

[timid hinge]

hi guys anyone know why is this error showing?

[rich adder]

first you should configure your vscode

[timid hinge]

how?

[rich adder]

yeah button list doesn't match unlockedLevel , is out of range of whats available

[rich adder]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[rich adder]

follow this guide exactly

[timid hinge]

done

but is showing the same error

what i was supost to do is the first map is clickeble but the other dont

[rich adder]

you done what?

configuring this wouldn't fix the error, it would fix your editor from being just a text editor

[timid hinge]

the vs

[rich adder]

the error you have is a runtime error , nothing to do with the fix

[timid hinge]

oh

[rich adder]

you should still not be coding in "Restricted mode" and without the Unity extension enabled

[queen adder]

Can someone tell me why when I press restart button, timescale doesn't reset and gets stuck on 0.3 value? I need it to completely reset the scene what am I doing wrong?

[rich adder]

the error to fix is simple keep the amount of unlockedlevel always less than buttons.length

sorry no other way around

[frank zodiac]

when i run a coroutine does it automatically wait for the coroutine to finish THEN continue to the next line?

[rich adder]

no

[frank zodiac]

well how do i make it wait

[rich adder]

make what wait

[frank zodiac]

mak the script wait for coroutine to finish executing

[rich adder]

wdym "the script"

the coroutine is part of the script

[frank zodiac]

like the compiler

the game

[rich adder]

im saying where are you trying to make it wait, explain what you're doing

Update?

[quick pollen]

can anyone tell me how to debug a CapsuleCast?

sorry for asking again but yeah

[radiant frigate]

!code

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[rich adder]

you can yield coroutines

[frank zodiac]

i screenshotted it so the comments would be easier to read

[rich adder]

no dont screenshot code

[frank zodiac]

how? yield return enemy.Attack1()?

[rich adder]

right

[frank zodiac]

but.. the colors

[frank zodiac]

so that would wait it out?

[rich adder]

 private bool someResult = false;
 private void Update()
 {
     if (someResult == false) return;
     //other stuff waiting
 }
 private IEnumerator Operation()
 {
     yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
     someResult = true;
 }```

colors work fine

but yea i see you're trying to do something else

[frank zodiac]

oh wait they do? i thought it was black and white

[rich adder]

inline is black n white

codeblock and inline are different things

large classes use a website

[frank zodiac]

codeblock is for a paragraph one inline is just one line

right?

[rich adder]

codeblock

[radiant frigate]

https://gdl.space/iwafiqiwub.cs does someone know how could i use vector2.dot with each vector2 and choose which one is the highest

[frank zodiac]

ah ic ic

[radiant frigate]

i wasnt telling you to paste the code lol i was using it for myself lmao

[rich adder]

you can use it for one line if you need highlighting

[frank zodiac]

oh lol

[rich adder]

void Method(string something) //wow colors```

[radiant frigate]

srry for the confusion

[frank zodiac]

epic

[frank zodiac]

nw

[rich adder]

you should bookmark these by now.

[radiant frigate]

bookmark?

[rich adder]

no need to keep summoning bot

[rich adder]

bookmark you know it

[radiant frigate]

no clue

you mean like save the link somewhere or something like that ?

[rich adder]

my guy you want to gamedev you should know what a bookmark is

[radiant frigate]

no clue srry

[rich adder]

are you trolling ?

[frank zodiac]

you save websites in your browser

for later use

[radiant frigate]

oh

[frank zodiac]

pretty sure thats what he means

[radiant frigate]

makes sense

[frank zodiac]

eh thats subjective, bookmarks have nothing to do with gamedev theyre just a normal thing

[radiant frigate]

yeah i should save the link somewhere

[frank zodiac]

👍

hatebin.com is my favorite

use it

[rich adder]

yes it does, know how to use a computer should be a mandatory requirement for any gamedev..

[frank zodiac]

i didnt know what a bookmark was till the end of my first 4 months of gamedev and i was fine

but i agree, it is pretty useful to know

just not, mandatory

[rich adder]

thats just sad

[frank zodiac]

wesbtie names are short theyre not that hard to memorize anyways

i know them by rule of thumb

[rich adder]

this day and age someone who doesn't know a bookmark should have computer locked away

[radiant frigate]

i can think of a way but it would take like 300 lines for sure alone lmao