💻┃code-beginner

[limber marlin]

no, I don't want to use Unity VCS, I want to use Git, I want to know the recommended option for HOW to use Git (with the addon, or without the addon?)

So I'm just not gonna use the addon, and use Git with a CLI

[rocky canyon]

best option imo even tho i don't use CLI i wish i could

[rich adder]

did you see the video i sent ?

you don't need any addons

just use a git client, github desktop works fine but others are good to. just showing the process real quick

[limber marlin]

yes, I went through it, I know Github Desktop exists, I choose not to use it, I'm going to use a Git Client

[rich adder]

they have many 🤷‍♂️

or use the CLI

[rich adder]

also why "choose not to use it"

[summer stump]

Github desktop is a client...

[limber marlin]

CLI > GUI imo (except for looking at prior version history, but that's more that I'm not very good with the CLI)

[summer stump]

Set up git (git init the folder) then download some gui, it does not matter at all which

[summer stump]

Oof

Then you are done

[rich adder]

yeah because typing is faster than clicking a few buttons, if that works for you though more power to ya

[summer stump]

You set up the folder, use the cli. Done

[limber marlin]

ok, what is a git client?

[rich adder]

an app which communicates with the repository

[limber marlin]

and the git thingy you put into the path is NOT a git client

[summer stump]

Github desktop and others

[summer stump]

Git thingy?

[rich adder]

wdym the "git thingy"

the .gitignore or ?

anyway if you decide to use GIT and set it up without a GUI for whatever reason
the very least yyou need https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore in your folder

[rich adder]

yes that is the client

[limber marlin]

What you download, from here

[rich adder]

Windows

or whatevr you got

this is the client, not a GUI Client

[limber marlin]

ok, so I will use the Git CLI Client. Is this the correct terminology?

[rich adder]

correct

[silk night]

If you really want it easy use the github client, brings git bundled and you can directly manage your repositories, if you really want to learn it i suggest using the command line

[rich adder]

you mean github desktop client ? it was suggested

[silk night]

yeah, oh sorry didnt see that, shouldve read further back

[rich adder]

they said CLI > GUI 🤷‍♂️

for me its easier with gui to make a push while im eating pizza with my other hand 🍕

[languid spire]

how dare you eat pizza whilst developing, shame on you

[silk night]

Only mountain dew and cheetos permitted

[rich adder]

my battery cells are only fueled by pizza 🤖

[languid spire]

NO food or drink allowed in the computer room, it's a controlled environment

[rich adder]

you code in one of those Cleanroom ?

[languid spire]

of course, you mean you don't

[hexed terrace]

My office is like a NASA clean room

[rich adder]

my cat alone puts furr in keyboard

[rocky canyon]

my computer wont operate correctly w/o 3 lb of dust circulating around teh case

[languid spire]

tell me about it, my clean room is shared with 4 dogs

[limber marlin]

yeah but I know git

also I feel like an epic programmer with epic skills when using the cli

(should start using neovim too)

[silk night]

2 cats here, i think i pulled 4 whole cats out of my pc last time i cleaned it

[rich adder]

try setting up a unity game on a linux server, you will have all the epicness you want with CLI and vim

[rocky canyon]

fr.. linux calling ur name

[languid spire]

One of these days I shall put my mind to inventing the perfect anti-dog/cat hair computer ventilation system. I will be rich(er)

[rancid tinsel]

any idea why toggling a bool on one of these changes it for all the others?

what could i have messed up here

[silk night]

you are most likely toggling it on the prefab, not the instance

[rancid tinsel]

there is no prefab

[silk night]

Any scripts running on there?

[rocky canyon]

well, would u care to share the code? or are we gonna play guessing games

[rancid tinsel]

!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.

[rancid tinsel]

https://gdl.space/gobagemipa.cs

it was working fine until i added the Update() function

[rich adder]

so whats wrong with it?

[rancid tinsel]

toggling the "friendly" variable toggles it for all of the objects instead of just one

same with the other rvalues it seems

wait

OMG

[rocky canyon]

forloops say what?

[rancid tinsel]

i am a giga idiot

i had the inspector window frozen 😭

locked i mean

[rocky canyon]

ouch.. lol

u caught that suprisingly fast tho..

[rancid tinsel]

thank god

[late burrow]

how i disable repeats "aaa".replace("aa", "a") gives aa not a

[polar acorn]

I'm afraid you're going to have to use... Regex

[languid spire]

logic
"aaa".replace("aaa", "aa") .replace("aa", "a")

[summer stump]

And now we see more cracks of a string based system forming

[late burrow]

well i thought of that

[languid spire]

so wtf ask then

[late burrow]

because if character repeats 20 times it will require many replaces

[polar acorn]

Regex

[summer stump]

Complete refactor 😸

[languid spire]

string processing is ALWAYS going to be slow, learn to do it correctly, not at all or suffer the hit

[limber marlin]

never

actually maybe if I do hca and get a laptop that I have to install linux on, but not

[languid spire]

you know you can install linux on any laptop even if you don't have to

[polar acorn]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49138673/find-repeating-characters-in-a-string-using-regex

[thorn lake]

(Bump)

#💻┃code-beginner message

[silk night]

Those are ide annotations, what IDE are you using?

oh nvm, you meant the text below

[rocky canyon]

CodeLens i believe it is

theres mixed opinions bout disabling it

[glass aurora]

how to download C# in extensions when i search c# it doest appear

[rocky canyon]

for what IDE/

[glass aurora]

another tpye of c# appears not the same as this

[glass aurora]

Visual Studio 2022

[polar acorn]

I don't think Visual Studio has extensions

[glass aurora]

dont be angry i am learning course since 5hours

see

[polar acorn]

There's modules, but that doesn't appear to be one

[summer stump]

No one is angry

Incorrect

[summer stump]

Is this on mac?

[glass aurora]

window 10

[summer stump]

Ok, go into tools, not extensions

[polar acorn]

Where are you seeing that you need to install any extensions on Visual Studio?

[glass aurora]

then

[rocky canyon]

c# isnt in an extension.. its a in the tools / workloads

[summer stump]

You want the workloads as digi said

[glass aurora]

it is important to install C# language into it

[summer stump]

get tools
Or whatever it says

[glass aurora]

now

[polar acorn]

Yes, but this isn't where you do that. So what is telling you to go here

[summer stump]

Well duh, but extensions is not how you do that

[polar acorn]

!ide shows how to get all you need for VS

[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

[summer stump]

I just said.

get tools

[rocky canyon]

C# included in the Game Devlepment with Unity workload

[glass aurora]

how to

[glass aurora]

wait leme show you

[summer stump]

The literal option that says "get tools" in your screenshot
Click it....

[glass aurora]

already

[summer stump]

And what else did you get?

[summer stump]

Because the ide guide above shows everything you need

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rocky canyon]

then you already have c#

[glass aurora]

bro it is already installed

[glass aurora]

how to check

[summer stump]

What ELSE did you install?
Read the guide

[glass aurora]

this guy have another?

[polar acorn]

This is literally an entirely different program

[summer stump]

That is vs code

[glass aurora]

yep it appears when i open the script

[glass aurora]

what then what i have

[summer stump]

Visual studio

[rocky canyon]

you have visual studio u said

[glass aurora]

bro what the hel!

[rocky canyon]

vscode is blue

visual studio is purple

[glass aurora]

😢

leme download it

how to downlaod it properly guide me what to download and etc

ide=?

[polar acorn]

or just

use the one you have

[rocky canyon]

theres already a guide its been linked over and over

[glass aurora]

ok

[thorn lake]

I did everything listed there. Maybe I just need to enable something? What I’m specifically not seeing is autofill for many things. For example when I type “SerializeField” it doesn’t autofill.

[glass aurora]

!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

[rocky canyon]

the vscode one.. if u want to use vscode

[glass aurora]

they say install via unity hub and mannualy on studio

then vs code

then jetbrains rider's brain

[rocky canyon]

u dont need studio && code

[glass aurora]

then other/none

[rocky canyon]

u only need one or the other

[glass aurora]

oh but i want code pl

plz

[summer stump]

Why? It is worse

[glass aurora]

nah idk but ... eeeee

i should download it how much gb ?

my wifi speedi 20MB but i got 200-500kbs on my pc

[summer stump]

You can google all of this

[summer stump]

Just go google it and stop spamming the chat

[polar acorn]

So did you install VS manually or through the hub

[summer stump]

If you have trouble AFTER googling it, we can help

[glass aurora]

sure, i will come back with another problem as always.

[thorn lake]

Wait….if I’m only using the blue one here is that a potential issue for autofill?

[summer stump]

Maybe. VS code is finnicky
It is getting more stable though

[rocky canyon]

you need a bit more extensions to get good autofill

[dense cargo]

(Sorry in advance if this is in the wrong spot).. Why might my trail renderers for my planet objects (and moons since ya know...same functions there in another script) be behaving as shown in the picture when the scene loads? Code for the trail renderer initialization/control attached.
https://paste.myst.rs/btzxh445
https://paste.myst.rs/ztflnwln

[rocky canyon]

heres the ones i use.. u can ignore codieum, c++, and platformio

[thorn lake]

Thank you. I saw someone had autofill when they were writing “SerializeField” and figured I must be missing something.

Do you advise using all of those?

(Besides the ones you said to ignore)

[rocky canyon]

Unity Code Snippets is the most important

[thorn lake]

Thanks sm!

[rocky canyon]

its hard to know which one does which. b/c codieum is an AI tool.. and it helps fill in almost everything

[thorn lake]

Is this the best channel to ask for help with figuring out why a small program isn’t working in some way?

[frosty hound]

If it's related to code, yes

[dense cargo]

I think it's an issue with position of the parent transform on load but I'm not sure. :/

[thorn lake]

Okay. Yesterday I posted a message here with code I needed help with. I’ll grab the link to the message.

Essentially the issue is that it wasn’t visually changing the Scene at all once uploaded. Not sure if I needed to press Play or what. Idk why it doesn’t change anything.

This is the code that I was thinking would change my Scene to include an array of several rectangular “rooms:”

#💻┃code-beginner message

Didn’t have any compiler error messages.

My question: Why might this code not change anything in my Scene?

Or just, in general, could something prevent a scene from updating?

[glass aurora]

what should i select for C# For Game dev etc

anyone kindly tell me

[rich adder]

this is inconsequential welcome screen

just mark done

[glass aurora]

which?

[polar acorn]

Mark Done

[rich adder]

Mark Done

[polar acorn]

The button that says Mark Done

[glass aurora]

without sleecitng

[rich adder]

blue text usually indicates a link

[glass aurora]

bruh what is this?

it says "i am in your pc"

is that vs code? i downloaded cracked apk of vs code

[cosmic quail]

wtf is that lol

[rich adder]

apk version of vscode?

[summer stump]

Why would you download a cracked apk?

[glass aurora]

is it paid

[summer stump]

Looks like a virus. Good work

[summer stump]

Is WHAT paid?

Vs code? No

[glass aurora]

yo baby?

bruh who is on my dc!

[rich adder]

there is no apk version of vscode

whatever you smokin let me get some

[glass aurora]

who are you

[glass aurora]

your dad

what the helll

wait i am restarting

[rich adder]

alright

[frosty hound]

@glass aurora Enough spamming this discord with your nonsense. You've been at this for days.

[glass aurora]

how to remove users from pc ?

anyone?

[rich adder]

format your harddrive and call it a day

[glass aurora]

okay and sorry

[rich adder]

this isn't a PC support channel

[glass aurora]

bro how i let my Script open on Vs code it's opening on STUDIO!

[rich adder]

you have to configure Unity

[summer stump]

!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

[rich adder]

you've been linked to the guide

follow it and stop wasting ppls time

[glass aurora]

in preference then select that right

[summer stump]

Like six times now

[polar acorn]

Why the fuck would you download a cracked version of a free program in a format it's never been released in

[rich adder]

if you cannot read the instructions in the vscode link, you should perhaps consider another hobby

[glass aurora]

no bro its safe i guess that was a prank

[summer stump]

Because they're a troll

[polar acorn]

You know I'm beginning to understand why you said "everyone was mad at you" and it's not because you're a beginner

[dense cargo]

Realized I forgot to include a potentially important bit of code for my problem. Also.. this probably got buried under the spam. lol

[summer stump]

I am mad at them now
Like jfc, stop lol

[rich adder]

nah def not because of beginner, many beginners come here and get help no problem.

[polar acorn]

Fair

[glass aurora]

language issue because sometimes i cant understand english

[rich adder]

I just interacted with them 5 mins and already I'm mad lol

[summer stump]

No, not a language issue. A maturity issue. Grow up

[rich adder]

no showing willingness to put your own work goes a long way

[glass aurora]

it is i cant understand any interface

[polar acorn]

Then why isn't your system in your native language

You seem to understand us just fine, but not when it's on your PC, which you can change the language of

[rich adder]

yet you type well beyond what app words mean..

[glass aurora]

Well i am matured making games at 15 is not a normal thing

[rich adder]

when you are asking questions that can be easy to google answers for that shows lack of care of responsibility for self improvement

[rich adder]

no offsense but there are 14 years that come here for help and show more maturity so idk what you're on

[summer stump]

It kinda is pretty normal. But for 15 you act pretty young. Stop trolling or risk being banned.
If you have an actual question THAT YOU RESEARCHED THOROUGHLY FIRST, then come back. Please not before then

[glass aurora]

well i dont wanna waste my time here in a useless debate you both grow up first. You Both are Exper at dev but still blaming ppls.

[glass aurora]

Sure.

[polar acorn]

Broseph you faked a ransomware attack in the middle of people answering your questions for no reason

Anger is kind of the expected reaction to wasting people's time with asinine bullshit

[frosty hound]

!mute 1126119936369102958 3d You can return if you are going to actually be productive.

[eternal falcon]

_notfurry_ was muted.

[rancid tinsel]

do navmesh agents work like obstacles? as in 2 agents cant walk through eachother?

[rich adder]

they avoid each yes RVO is built in

which can be annoying sometimes they get stuck in tight hallways

[rancid tinsel]

it looks like they still push eachother though

im trying to think of a way to prevent that but idk how

[rich adder]

You have to try varying the priorty of their agents

[rancid tinsel]

rebaking the navmesh at runtime over and over would be very inefficient too

[rich adder]

they can't all be 50

someone needs to be "priority"

[rancid tinsel]

ah i see

so as i spawn them in i should assign an increasing priority

put them all into a list and do it that way?

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshAgent-avoidancePriority.html

so lower = most priority

[rich adder]

rip

[rancid tinsel]

my rigidbody and nav mesh agent wont uncollapse

time to restart unity i guess

[rich adder]

which version are you on?

[rocky canyon]

exactly what u need to do.. or reset layouts

[rancid tinsel]

2022.3.10f1 because thats what we were using at uni

[rich adder]

you are many patches behind

[rancid tinsel]

i know

but i think its still better to use the same version just so everything works the same

[rocky canyon]

you should take initiative and write a strongly worded letter to whom-ever it concerns

and let them know to update 😈

[rich adder]

updating to newer patches wont change how anything functions

[rocky canyon]

idk why so many schools use old af versions

i seen a guy the other day using a versions before dark mode

[rancid tinsel]

then whats the point of patches

[rich adder]

to fix bugs?

like known bugs

[rancid tinsel]

its not on purpose, just that updating it for a network of like 300 computers would be a pain i imagine

[rich adder]

maybe you're think a whole version upgrade. which *might * be tricky for *specific * assets

[rancid tinsel]

unless its really needed they wont bother

[languid spire]

that is a damn silly version 2022.3 was not stable before .11 and .21 and above are much better

[rancid tinsel]

yeah it feels like it lol

[rocky canyon]

looks at hub real quick

phew... 😅

[rancid tinsel]

i mean aside from some errors that dont mean anything that you can disregard it doesnt really break anything

aside from the necessary occasional restart

[rocky canyon]

yea, if ur fine restarting time to time.. no worries

[languid spire]

and, of course, the perennial UnityEditor bugs which keep springing up

[rocky canyon]

part of the lifestyle as i see it now 🤣

[languid spire]

thats what you get when you expect game devs to do app dev

[vale karma]

Im getting a weird issue where the plant that is not picked up yet by the player is having origin issues or something around the player once it is placed on the cart. I will send scripts ina sec

https://paste.ofcode.org/iVMuNpfu5MeiAxjJXCVZPK

All the plants, the tray, and even the cart have the same exact script on them to pickup. Im not sure if its a parenting issue or not

[rancid tinsel]

hmm setting a different priority didnt fix the pushing issue

im guessing the avoidance is in regards to obstacles?

it doesnt seem to work on the agents themselves

[hallow acorn]

hey how can i get the tag of the object hit by my raycast?

[summer stump]

RaycastHit provides collider and transform, both of which have a tag property (since both inherit from Component)
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RaycastHit.html

[hallow acorn]

like this? if (objHit = true && raycastHit.transform.CompareTag("Grabbable"))

[summer stump]

Yeah that works.

[hallow acorn]

ty

[hallow acorn]

one question, why can you access the tag from the transform??

[summer stump]

So the inheritance chain of transform (starting in Unity) is:
UnityEngine.Object > Component > Transform
Every component is on a gameobject, and every gameobject has a tag. So they just added the tag property to the Component class to make things easier.

[hallow acorn]

oh ok. ty

[winter tinsel]

im fully lost

it wont destroy the gameobject

[summer stump]

1, use CompareTag
2, add a debug BEFORE the if statement to see if OnCollision is even being called

3, uncrop the image of the tag. What is it on? Show the whole inspector

[winter tinsel]

Debug.Log($"is collision being called{}")what do i put in the brackets?

[winter tinsel]

ok

[winter tinsel]

i minimised everything , if you need details on individual components ill send that too

[summer stump]

This is a syntax error.

[winter tinsel]

right

§

[summer stump]

debug.log("is collision being called")

Just do this

But it is the dollar sign for string interpolation
$

[winter tinsel]

what

[hallow acorn]

in th void but before the if just use debug.Log("Colission") this should get written in the console

[winter tinsel]

i meant the dollar sign*

[summer stump]

Got it, but you do not need it.

You could write this though
debug.log($"is collision being called. Hit: {collision.collider}")

[terse plume]

components that listen to events...
register and unregister on enable/disable?
vs
stay always registered and just exit early if the component is not active?
👀

[summer stump]

Show the rigidbody and collider expanded

[winter tinsel]

okay

first

amazing

[winter tinsel]

second

[winter tinsel]

not even called somehow even though the bodies to act like they collided, the physics work

[summer stump]

Go through this
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

Oh. Nm

You are doing 2d

[winter tinsel]

yes

[summer stump]

You need OnCollisionEnter2D
OnCollisionEnter is for 3D

[winter tinsel]

i want to make a 3d game but tahts for later rn just familiarising myself with the engine and the language

[winter tinsel]

shoulda guessed

[summer stump]

3d is not any harder really. They are about the same difficulty (or 2d is more difficult in some ways haha. I struggle with it more due to having more experience in 3d than 2d)

[winter tinsel]

are you-

ah

i tried gadot before this

mess

absolute mess of an engine

btw, excuse me?

[winter tinsel]

the 3rd dimension is the final frontier, my dream game is on it but id like to start simpler

[summer stump]

Collision2D is the parameter

[summer stump]

2d in unity is already 3d behind the scenes.

[winter tinsel]

i know

its like doom but reverse

[halcyon dagger]

any way to invert the selectable options firection in the editor?

[winter tinsel]

instead of 2.5D its 3D-(0.5)

[summer stump]

I would not call Godot a mess really. It is quite good. I list it third in my favorite engines. Bevy and Unity battle for 1.

[winter tinsel]

people joke the original doom is 2.5D

since its techincally 2d with illusions to make it 3d

unity is reverse

its 3d and its 2d but with illusions

[summer stump]

Ok, I get that. Makes sense

[winter tinsel]

its 3d (Behind the scenes)

like doom is 2d(behind the scenes)

[winter tinsel]

how can i make it NOT collide with something with a specific tag?

another IF within the void?

what do i put in the if block?

[summer stump]

There is a collision matrix, but it works with layers, not tags

Could that work?

[winter tinsel]

i need it to not collide with the player

but i need the player to still have a collison lol

[summer stump]

Ok, put the player in a Player layer and disable collisions between those specific layers in the collision matrix

Tags are only relevant after the collision has already occurred

[winter tinsel]

aha

where do i disable them

is it in the inspector or is it codable?

wait i found

layers okay

[summer stump]

It is in settings. One sec

Oh, the layer itself, yes

That is in the inspector

[winter tinsel]

what is the player layer?

[summer stump]

Matrix is in Edit > Project Settings > Physics (and be sure to go to the 2d section)

[summer stump]

Something you make

It is not there by default

[winter tinsel]

ah

[winter tinsel]

how do i add a layer? it just lets me take care of the existing layers

if they should be disabled

or enabled

[summer stump]

There should be an "add layer" option at the bottom of the layer dropdown

Otherwise, Edit > Project Settings > Tags and Layers > Layers

[winter tinsel]

it was the second one

okay i can make a new layer how do i connect it to the player=

also in the inspector

found it

ok thanks man

[sand otter]

I have my enemy with a navmeshagent and its hitbox is slightly to the right. Is there a way to move it?

[wintry quarry]

Make sure your tool handle position in the scene view is set to Pivot not Center

I think it's more likely your mesh is the thing that is not positioned properly

[frank zodiac]

gameObject.activeSelf checks if the gameobject is active right?

because mine doesnt seem to work

[summer stump]

Are you using that in update?

[frank zodiac]

Yes

[summer stump]

Because if it is inactive, update is not called

[frank zodiac]

.. oh

[summer stump]

So that line will not run then

[frank zodiac]

Oh right

[frank zodiac]

Lmao thanks

[sand otter]

okay, thanks.

[river quiver]

i know why the properties in animation editor turned yellow. cause in the docs of SetCurve instead of position.x its localPosition.x, idk why it works this way but it does work

[hallow acorn]

pls help me i have no idea how i can fix this mess. somehow my grab and throw script resets the force applied to my projectile in other scripts and i get nullreferenceExceptions on a few lines if i try to drop for example https://gdl.space/opupexoqan.cs (script used for grabbing and throwing) https://gdl.space/atetotumun.cpp (script used to shoot my projectile)

also my object doesnt move when i try to grab it

[polar acorn]

What line is throwing the null reference exception

[hallow acorn]

wait

35

i think in the drop "section" too but it doesnt show bc i cant even grab it

[polar acorn]

if (objHit = true && raycastHit.transform.CompareTag("Grabbable"))?

You aren't checking if you actually hit something there

You're setting objHit to true

[rocky canyon]

== ftw

[hallow acorn]

oh.

[hallow acorn]

ok thats it?

[rocky canyon]

thats the comparison operator

if equal

= assigns things

two different things

[hallow acorn]

ok thank you need to refresh my coding skills havent made something since half a year

[rocky canyon]

for bools i tend to not even use one.. just if(myBool){ }

[hallow acorn]

yeah ik but i want to use this in other projects thats why i have so many comments and made my code as readable as possible haha im a bit stupid sometimes

[summer stump]

Sorry, should have caught that earlier. I was focused on the second part
#💻┃code-beginner message

[rocky canyon]

no worries.. cs // comments are king

[rocky canyon]

ohhh bro.. 🫣

😈 😅 ❤️

if it weren't for comments on my own code id lose my mind

especially after returning to a script i havent worked in a while.. "wtf was i doing here"

[hallow acorn]

bro trapped me XDD

[rocky canyon]

im big into <summary> now

        /// <summary>
        /// Get a direction vector corresponding to the specified cardinal direction.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="direction">The cardinal direction.</param>
        /// <returns>A vector representing the specified direction.</returns>
        public static Vector3 GetDirection(Direction direction)```

[hallow acorn]

haha thats exactly what i mean. im trying to build a small library of assets i can use in a few projects (grab&drop system, playermovement, cameramovement, a few shaders...)

[hallow acorn]

yo whats thattt

[rocky canyon]

i do the same

[rocky canyon]

it makes these when u hover a function

[hallow acorn]

this is so insanely cool

i love it

[rocky canyon]

i agree.. u should start using em 😉

[hallow acorn]

damn bro how did you learn this power where can i learn this mighty weapons please tell me

[rocky canyon]

u can basically comment every section of ur function

[hallow acorn]

aint no way textColor is the color of the text xD

[rocky canyon]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-can-i-add-a-summary-to-a-function-void/104815/2

its basically simple.. u can see in my examples how they work

[hallow acorn]

cool thanks but how did you know this even existed? do you just read random articles/discussions?

[rocky canyon]

/// your stuff
/// </summary>``` and so on.. w/ param and return parts [#💻┃code-beginner message](/guild/489222168727519232/channel/497874004401586176/)

[rocky canyon]

unity uses em for their functions..

i just found out how

[hallow acorn]

oh ok

[rocky canyon]

you gotta use descriptive names and descriptive comments 😄

they just happen to be redundant

if u miss one you'll notice the other

theres also [Tooltip("Describe this variable in the inspector")] public float weirdFloat;

[hallow acorn]

ok i dont get any nullReferenceExceptions anymore but my drop function doesnt even get called (no debug.Log) and my grabAndThrow scripts still resets the force applied in toher scripts :(

[rocky canyon]

welp, time to track it down

why no debug log? figure that out first

[hallow acorn]

in austria we say: "doppelt hält besser" (basicly better safe than sry)

[rocky canyon]

exactly.. when coding thats a super fitting phrase

[hallow acorn]

yeah i have no idea if i grab it the object isnt null anymore so it should switch to the else idk what happened

[rocky canyon]

when ur project corrupts.. have a backup

[rocky canyon]

right.. so if ur object isnt null it got assigned? if ur not sure debug that too.. if that parts running.. why isn't the debug part running

i actually havent looked at ur script.. im just thinking basic debugging steps in a general sense

[hallow acorn]

haha im working on a laptop from 2014 and have 44gb free and im using every bite of it and if it dies i would die too.

[rocky canyon]

use version control

github for example

whats ur code look like now.. i think u need to share it for anyone to help diagnose why the no debug log etc

[hallow acorn]

no my if statement checks if the object is null, if it is, it grabs it. than its not null anymore so if i press e again it switches to the else case

[rocky canyon]

!code paste it into a bin website so its referenceable

[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.

[hallow acorn]

i used gdl.space a few mins before theres the exact code (except for the == instead of the =)

[rocky canyon]

ok so it hasnt changed any? cool

#💻┃code-beginner message here it is btw

which part are u working on?

[hallow acorn]

idk im running my code and testing why theres no debug log in the console :(

why doesnt it switch to my else on line 41 im boutta cry fr

[rocky canyon]

debug this function

put a debug in the first if and the second if

Grab() must not be running somewhere..

i bet the 2nd if never gets true

[hallow acorn]

i have a debug in my grab function so it comes to the second if means the first one gets called to. but also i can grab multiple object(i get multiple debugs) so i think it just doesnt get not null idk why

i think im onto something

[rocky canyon]

i set my item to null when i look away..

the other part of it uses E to interact.. and it checks if theres a cachedInteractable.. and then interacts w/ it

[hallow acorn]

ok i have absolutely no idea what you mean haha

[rocky canyon]

no worries.. i thought maybe seeing how my chain of if elses might help u a little

u cast a ray when u press E

i cast a ray non-stop.. and then the If(pressedE) part is seperate..

if theres an interactable i cached i do something... if theres not i ignore the keypress

(raycast still casting)

[raw token]

I haven't been following this conversation at all, but a couple things that really stand out me in this code:

• Nowhere in the code is objectGrabbable ever assigned a value. It will never be anything but null.
• Grab(objectGrabPointTransform) just assigns the objectGrabPointTransform field to it's current value, which seems strange.

[rocky canyon]

i also expose the variable in the inspector

soo i can see what im interacting with

[hallow acorn]

btw this is the tutorial i used as a foundation bc i had no idea of raycasts and whatever. https://youtu.be/2IhzPTS4av4?si=Qqkl2sKdIcTSKOVb. but i dont like his coding style its so unreadable with is

//blablabla
}```
these if chains can get insanely confusing very fast

[hallow acorn]

ok that makes sense

[rocky canyon]

long if-else chains mean ur coding is getting subpar

switch statements are cool

[hallow acorn]

look at his code im just following. thats why i customized it😭

[rocky canyon]

switch statements = cleean

[hallow acorn]

yeah ik but i forget how the syntax works all the time so i just use if

[rocky canyon]

very good observations lol

[rocky canyon]

well when u go back and refactor to clean things up thats when ull know when to use em.. and learn a bit about em

[rocky canyon]

code-monkey can get intimidating for a beginner

i personally think he codes messy and complicated

[hallow acorn]

but i dont want to rn😔

[rocky canyon]

thats fine.. just bringing them up..

[fading mountain]

are you guys talking about C# or is switch statements another language?

[hallow acorn]

THATS WHAT I MEAN HIS CODE LOOKS WORSE THAN MY ROOM

[rocky canyon]

ya c# switch statements

[fading mountain]

woah cool. I've never heard of them

[rocky canyon]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/switch-statements#

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ConversationScript : MonoBehaviour 
{
    public int intelligence = 5;
    
    
    void Greet()
    {
        switch (intelligence)
        {
        case 5:
            print ("Why hello there good sir! Let me teach you about Trigonometry!");
            break;
        case 4:
            print ("Hello and good day!");
            break;
        case 3:
            print ("Whadya want?");
            break;
        case 2:
            print ("Grog SMASH!");
            break;
        case 1:
            print ("Ulg, glib, Pblblblblb");
            break;
        default:
            print ("Incorrect intelligence level.");
            break;
        }
    }
}```

[hallow acorn]

i dont have the time to clean my code its for a game jam and i just have this week to finish my game bc of holidays :(

[hallow acorn]

this looks so delicous

[rocky canyon]

they're great for going thru Enums

[hallow acorn]

me reading through your prints lol

[rocky canyon]

unity's prints

[hallow acorn]

btw is there a difference between print and debug.log??

[rocky canyon]

yes debug.log can take in a 2nd parameter

[hallow acorn]

oh ok

[rocky canyon]

u can send the reference to it

so u can double click it and see what sent the message etc

[hallow acorn]

"Ulg, glib, Pblblblblb"

[queen adder]

Im wanted to make something happen when only colliding with a certain object it says I need to define the tag

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
if (collision.collider.CompareTag("Bullet"))
{
takeDamage(1);
}

}

[hallow acorn]

ok we know my objectGrabbable value is null at all time how can i fix this mess i hate this pls help me

[polar acorn]

Do you have a tag "Bullet" on any objects?

[queen adder]

No i dont... How do i make a tag

[hallow acorn]

click on untagged and add tag.

dont forget it is not set to the object automaticly after creating the tag

[foggy orchid]

Hey, I'm new to unity and I'm just now learning programming so I'm going through the tutorial. But on section of the tutorial where I add the movement script I keep getting this message, Can anyone help?

[queen adder]

Thank you it fixed it so when using a string I need to make a tag for it?

[summer stump]

When checking a tag, the tag must exist, yes

[queen adder]

Okay thanks

[ivory bobcat]

Add the reference again to the inspector of your object. Major changes to the script can have it be identified as something else, breaking references - for example, changing the name of the script.

[glad rune]

why are my particles invisible when i change the color of the material

[ivory bobcat]

This is the beginner coding channel, maybe ask in #✨┃vfx-and-particles or #💻┃unity-talk

[foggy orchid]

Okay I'll try this

[thorn lake]

initialRoom.GetComponent<Room>().roomIndex = roomIndex;

For the aboveline of code I'm getting the following error:

wait it won't let me copy the error...

Thought I could just right click in the console and click copy but right clicking isn't opening that

[ivory bobcat]

I'm guessing a null reference exception error or unassigned reference exception error

[thorn lake]

'Room' does not contain a definition for roomIndex' and no accessible extension method 'roomIndex' accepting a first argument of type 'Room' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[ivory bobcat]

Make sure to have your !ide configured

[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

[languid spire]

and what dont you understand about that?

[ivory bobcat]

You should not have been allowed to type .roomIndex

Intellisense should have underlined it or not auto complete it.

[thorn lake]

I've followed those steps, still isn't allowing autofill for some things. It's not underlined. I did notice that Room (and other Objects) are all the same color as variable names. Currently using the blue Visual Stuido application and not the purple one. I know the purple one has more features so maybe I just need to swap for that one

[foggy orchid]

This worked thanks 🫡

[hard yoke]

would this be a place i could ask for help about my game not building and throwing a error

[thorn lake]

quite a lot tbh. Are they just saying that the Room object does not have roomIndex as an acceptable attribute?

It's been about 4 to 6 years since I've been into coding so I'm pretty rusty

[ivory bobcat]

It's saying that whatever Room is (assuming you don't have other errors prior) doesn't have anything called room index.

[languid spire]

no ,it is saying that the Room class does not have a roomIndex variable or method that you can access from the script you are on

[ivory bobcat]

Possible reasons may be:

• Room doesn't have anything called roomIndex and that this was a bad/dirty port (copy/paste)
• Room is referring to something other than what you think it is (auto import of an incorrect name space with something other called Room)
• There is no Room and the error is a false positive due to us neglecting an error about directives prior to this error

[hallow acorn]

@rocky canyon I DID IT! i just swapped the objectGrabbable value which is always null with a bool which is et to true if i grab something and to false if i drop something. the grab function just gets called if the bool is false else it switches to my else containing the drop function it finally works im so happy right now omg

[thorn lake]

it looks like

initialRoom.GetComponent<Room>().roomIndex = roomIndex;

Should have been written

initialRoom.GetComponent<Room>().RoomIndex = roomIndex;

(with capital RoomIndex.)

not sure why it needs to be capitalized. Must just be the wat C# works with classes ig

[ivory bobcat]

Make sure to configure your ide to prevent simple errors like these.

[thorn lake]

I need to review the difference between classes and objects. It's been wayyyy too long

[polar acorn]

A class is a piece of paper that says how an object should do things. The object is that actual thing that exists

[raw token]

It would be because your Room class has a member named RoomIndex and not roomIndex... C# won't demand specific casing for your identifiers, nor change it behind your back 😉

[thorn lake]

in my example which one is the object? I thought it was Room but ig Room is a class...

[languid spire]

I needs to be capitalized because C# is case sensitive and YOU declared the variable with the capital R

[ivory bobcat]

It's necessary to acquire help on this server @thorn lake

[polar acorn]

The class is the literal script file in the assets. An object is an instance of the class

[thorn lake]

How does one configure it to catch those types of errors? I thought I already had it configured because I did everything listed in the "!ide" instructions

[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

[thorn lake]

ah okay, that makes sense now, thank you sm!

oh wait

it looks like my IDE did catch that originally

I had gone back and changed it to a lowercase thinking it was an error earlier

not realizing that it was not an error

What confused me was seeing roomIndex as lowercase in my input parameters for the function and then uppercase later in initialRoom.GetComponent<Room>().RoomIndex

[hallow acorn]

sry but can somebody tell me why my grabbed object doesnt move at all? even though all of the debug.logs say it should work.. https://gdl.space/enezineley.cs

[ivory bobcat]

I haven't used VSC for Unity for a couple of years now but you'd follow the guide and ensure that you've remove the Visual Studio Code Editor package (not supported and apparently conflicts with the new Visual Studio Editor package). May need to also add some extra Unity add-ons as Visual Studio Code doesn't seem to auto complete some (or any) of the Unity callback messages.

[thorn lake]

thanks. Looks liek these are the ones I currently have:

[ivory bobcat]

Without a configured ide, you'll trip and stumble every step of the way on your journey with Unity and folks will immediately know if you do not have a configured ide

[queen wren]

Sorry guys, I'm getting this warnings:

The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object 'SolarySystem') is missing!```

But I can't find what object/s that have this  missing files... any idea?

[thorn lake]

I did find out it was actually configured...I think, considering it does do the correct autofill (gives me the capitalized option only)

[queen wren]

also the Game Object 'SolarySystem' is absolutely fine 😒

Ohhh... it's a prefab! 😅

[thorn lake]

I've noticed I have an error msg about not having any .NET SDKs tho

[queen wren]

lol now it's fine 🤭

[vast vessel]

hey guys. which one of these is better for an AI sight sensor system?

1.https://github.com/walterellisfun/ConeCast
2.

step2)filter out using Vector3.Angle
step3)do lineCast check for all objects that pass step 1 and 2```

wait, this cone casting script dosnt check for occlusion

[eternal needle]

Did you look at what this github repo actually does? You've just described using the code here or doing what the code does yourself

[vast vessel]

anyways, are there any better ways then the second way i said

[vast vessel]

i read the code now

its just a sphere cast with an angle check lol

basically what i described without occlusion checks

[hallow acorn]

pls help me im working on this for 4 days by now

[polar acorn]

What object did you drag in for grabbableObject?

Also objectGrabPointTransform

[hallow acorn]

my projectile prefab

[polar acorn]

Why are you trying to move a prefab

The object is moving, but since the object you've dragged in doesn't actually exist you're not gonna see anything

[hallow acorn]

an empty transform childed to the playerCam with an offset

[hallow acorn]

oh. ok

that makes sense

[thorn lake]

I think I'm not entirely sure what constitutes "configured enough" for my IDE in terms of requirements for asking for help here. I think it's configured all the way.....

[ivory bobcat]

Syntax highlight and auto complete specific to Unity

[hallow acorn]

how can i access the instantiated clone instead?

[polar acorn]

Which clone do you want to reference

[thorn lake]

Does Syntax highlight just mean where if you highlight a variable it highlights all variables w/the same name?

[polar acorn]

It means it highlights classes, including ones defined in UnityEngine. If MonoBehaviour is a different color than the default and errors are underlined in red, it's configured

[hallow acorn]

the one i grabbed using my raycast

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you should probably be calling MovePosition on that instead of an object you dragged in from the inspector

[hallow acorn]

makes sense yeah. how can i access it sth like raycastHit?

[polar acorn]

You already are accessing it

You're checking its tag

[thorn lake]

looks like mine does not do that yet.

[ivory bobcat]

Try Visual Studio (the purple one, configured) and you'll see what you ought to have with VSC to be productive - relative to intellisense (syntax highlights and auto complete)

[quick fractal]

I am aware this is an incredibly basic question but, ᴴᵒʷ ᵈᵒ ᴵ ᶜʰᵉᶜᵏ ᵗʰᵉ ⁿᵃᵐᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵃ ᴳᵃᵐᵉᴼᵇʲᵉᶜᵗˀ 🥺

[hallow acorn]

im stupid what should i write instead of the prefab?

[ivory bobcat]

Dot net sdk is required to do any c sharp project and I'm assuming the unity vsc guide assumes you've got a c# configured vsc setup #💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

.name

[quick fractal]

Thank you

[polar acorn]

Instead of getting the rigidbody of something you've dragged in, get it from the raycast. You're already getting the object to check its tag

So get the rigidbody from that the same way

[hallow acorn]

rb = raycastHit.transform.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();?

[quick fractal]

I do have another question if you're willing, how would I go about lerping the emission value of more than one skinned mesh renderer?

[ivory bobcat]

Make sure to select the Unity work load (something you'll have to manually do) when installing the ide - visual studio is an application used for other purposes as well so it'll not be selected by default

Select the Workloads tab, then select the Game development with Unity workload.
(from the guides) @thorn lake

[quick fractal]

I've tried a for loop and I'm aware getcomponent isn't all that efficient, just can't find the right function 😦

[polar acorn]

Smr is an array. If you want to set the color of each thing in the array you will need a loop

[quick fractal]

Wait I might be an idiot

I'm trying to set the smrs colour.. Didn't even get the materials 😭

[rocky canyon]

congrats! 🎉

[rocky canyon]

for VSCode u need that .net sdk

and u can remove PlatformIO from ur extensions.. (thats for programming computer chips)

you can get the sdk from microsoft

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/visual-studio-sdks

i use .net 8.0 since its Long Term Support version (x64)

[ebon vessel]

I have formatted my pc and backup my files before the formatting. But when i tryed to open my project, unity said that i need to open the project in the safe mode. So i opened the file as safe mode and this screen has appeared. What should i do in this situation?

[summer shard]

how would i go about making objective system without needing to create loads of c# scripts or loads of classes

[silk night]

Search on the Unity Marketplace if there is a free or buyable system that does what you need

[summer shard]

i don't like already made systems, i always want to make things myself to learn but thanks for the idea

[rocky canyon]

objective system gonna be a hand-ful of classes regardless what u do

[native seal]

is it recommended to use object pooling to create VFX effects using vfx graph? For example, i'm trying to make a death effect on an enemy but the enemy is being destroyed so the effect doesn't play. Is it better to make some VFXManager which creates an object (object pooled) at the location to play the effect then is removed after it's done instead of holding the "visual effect" compoennt on the enemy itself?

[rocky canyon]

💯 or ull find urself hacking at other effects too

someone just had the same issue yesterday, had to unparent an effect just to keep it fading away after his obj was destroyed

[summer shard]

how do big games manage that? like there are games that have like 500 objectives meaning 500 classes, damn

[rocky canyon]

its probably abunch of classes deriving from a base class

that has all the common functionallity in

[silk night]

You can store data for objectives in scriptable objects deriving from a "task" class or similar

[rocky canyon]

[silk night]

Or load a csv/json with objective data, whatever suits best for you, scriptable object is most likely best cause you can reference prefabs and other internal unity stuff without matching IDs

[rocky canyon]

they just change out the things.. (location, items, rewards, etc) all the same class.. w/ different variables

i would search "objective system unity"

and see what u can learn about it

[summer shard]

So just class "Objective", "ObjectiveManager" and storing "Title", "Id", "CompleteEvent" etc?

and like adding objective component to triggers, interactables etc?

[silk night]

If its small scale you can set a timer to wait the same time the animation plays and then destroy the enemy. If you know this will happen more than just this once the pooling + spawning effects at the same position instead as a child is most likely best

[rocky canyon]

public abstract class Objective : ScriptableObject
{
    public string Title;
    public string Description;
    public bool IsCompleted;

    public virtual void CompleteObjective()
    {
        IsCompleted = true;
        Debug.Log($"Objective Completed: {Title}");
    }
}```

public List<Objective> Objectives;

[summer shard]

wait, ScriptableObject? what's that

[rocky canyon]

something u should learn about

heres a scriptable object

im using it to hold all my player data

i can slot in a different one w/ different values if i like.. and it'd work

[summer shard]

ohhhh, yea now i understand

[silk night]

If you want a real-world example, see it as a physical quest board in the town hall

Your board is the ObjectiveManager
The ScriptableObject Objective is the paper you can fill out to pin at the board, you can pin as many at the wall with different data as you want

[rocky canyon]

and on my player controller.. it just grabs the values

[native seal]

im making a system to handle all vfx in my game really. So weapon effects, hit effects, spell effects, etc

[summer shard]

but there would be so many "files" of Objective class

[rocky canyon]

yes, as many as objectives as u have (many scriptable objects)

[silk night]

Yeah but thats not a problem, you can put them in sub-folders, name them and structure them

[rocky canyon]

like i said earlier.. theres really no way to not have lots of files... if u want lots of objectives

u could put everything in 1 master class. but thas bad

public class ObjectiveTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public ObjectiveManager ObjectiveManager;
    public Objective ObjectiveToComplete;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            ObjectiveManager.CompleteObjective(ObjectiveToComplete);
        }
    }
}``` this could be a trigger for example

u just slot in ur objective that would be marked as complete when u enter

(this one being re-useable ofc)

[native seal]

so i'm thinking of holding all my visual effects on an SO so i can call to the fx manager from anywhere passing in an enum which associates with the effect ie enemyHit, etc. I already do the same for audio, good idea?

[rocky canyon]

sounds like its something ur familiar w/

i say go for it

[native seal]

👍

[summer shard]

hmm can i do something like that? and adding that class as a component to other game objects to trigger "completed" Event?

public class Objective : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] protected UnityEvent completedEvent;
    [SerializeField] protected string title;
    [SerializeField] protected int id;
}

[rocky canyon]

i dont see why not

the scriptable object idea is u dont need it on a monobehaviour for it to work

a MonoBehaviour would need a gameobject

[radiant frigate]

hi! is it okay to use a while loop inside a coroutine?

[rocky canyon]

as long as u can break out of it

[eternal needle]

What would specifically be wrong with it? This is common if you want to have behaviour run over frames while something is true.

[radiant frigate]

okay, and another one if i may, is there a way to make a collider become a trigger for certain objects? (example: i dahs towards an enemy and i dash through it, but the enemy collides with the walls)

[trail harbor]

Is Kinematic Character Controller still the go to? or better options? 3D 3rd person

[rocky canyon]

imo yes

[rocky canyon]

this ones a bit trickier

[eternal needle]

Look into layer based collisions, you can have certain layers ignore each other.

[rancid musk]

how many hours on average would you say it would take to learn the absolute fundamentals of c#

[rocky canyon]

kinematic gives u the best of both worlds (rb and cc)

[radiant frigate]

i will! is creating a navmesh better and just making them become triggers as default another viable option?

[eternal needle]

Theres no answer to this, everyone learns at their own pace. Some people just understand computers better

[silk night]

Do you know other programming languages, especially OOP ones?

[radiant frigate]

havent used navmesh so i wanted to know if it makes sense or if it would just phase through the walls

[rancid musk]

nope. complete beginner

[rancid musk]

alright sorry if it's a dumb question

[rocky canyon]

i feel i got a grasp on basic fundamentals about a year or so in.. (a few hours per day) but.. i still learn stuff everyday.. and theres soo many things i haven't even touched yet as well

[silk night]

What would be your goal to have created after that timeframe?

[eternal needle]

A navmesh is completely independent here of the question. A navmesh agent by default will move along its path, which wont go through walls or anything assuming you set it up properly.
If the enemy has a collider, which it probably should, then you'll need layer based physics no matter what

[radiant frigate]

okay, ty!

[rancid musk]

I'm really not sure I asked a question without really knowing the result myself. I guess the main thing I want is basic game functionality and good enough code knowledge in order to actually understand the tutorials I follow for more advanced things

[rocky canyon]

50-100 hrs

[rancid musk]

okay. what way did you go about learning from square one? I'm happy for this to be a long process

[rancid musk]

alright thank you

[rocky canyon]

i jumped in head first.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw&ab_channel=SebastianLague

this series taught me the basics.. and then i just went hamm on google

[eternal needle]

One thing as well, if you use a trigger then the person dashing would be able to go through walls or fall through the floor. Depends how you're moving like a rigidbody will fall through by default

[rancid musk]

thank you so much. sorry for the slight time waste and I appreciate the help from all 3 of the people who have just spoken to me

[silk night]

Unity feels like a wall you run into at first, dont let that discourage you, the tutorial above is a good intro but give it 2-4 weeks of doing bits by bits daily until you feel like you are digging out of the first hole of information and it starts making sense 😄

[rocky canyon]

also check the pinned comments in this channel ^

good resources in there

[rancid musk]

yeah for sure. I expect no less to be honest. thank you

[rancid musk]

alright ty

[eternal needle]

I would really recommend getting a decent grasp of c# first if you have the patience for it. We see many people here struggle with c# while trying to learn unity. Itd be like if you were told to solve complex math yet didnt know how a calculator works

[rancid musk]

where should I do that?

if it would be helpful then I'm happy to

[rocky canyon]

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

is the best resource for basic C#

u can do that along-side the unity stuff.. or do it first.. i skipped it. but i had some knowledge of coding

[rancid musk]

okay thank you all

[eternal needle]

There is also the Microsoft learn site, I havent used any of them in a loooooong time but ms learn is often recommended now

[rocky canyon]

word?

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

[eternal needle]

It's what I see recommended in some other places, and by other people here

[rocky canyon]

well i b a sonofa

[eternal needle]

W3 was pretty good to me for a lot of other languages but now that I think about it, dont think I ever used the c# one too much

[rocky canyon]

i thought microsoft only had docs.. TIL

lol.. 13!

it doesn't even show 9 anywhere. guess ud have to hunt for it

[eternal needle]

at the most basic level, i dont think anything changed so it shouldnt really matter which version they use

[radiant frigate]

its top down and i meant the enemies being trigger (with a navmesh)
(but the layer solution seems to be the best option for sure)

a layer collision matrix is way more efficient than a Physics2d.IgnoreCollision() right?

[real inlet]

I need help with the way a script interacts with/references an input map - can I ask about it here? I am a beginner programmer so I may need beginner help

[silk night]

Yes you can ask here, if its indepth input system you might find better help in #🖱️┃input-system though

[silk night]

What are you planing to do? In certain situations you might want the ignore

[radiant frigate]

that the player ignores objects in the enemy layer

[silk night]

Oh yeah in that case setup the matrix 😄

[radiant frigate]

ty!

[real inlet]

I have two characters in my 2D scene and two input maps. As it stands now, I also have two seperate scripts, for movement. I'd like to make one script that has a slot to assign an input map, just to streamline things. I've tried to achieve as such by doing what I did below -

public InputActionAsset _fieldControls;

private void Awake() {
    _fieldControls = new InputActionAsset();
    ...
    _moveAction = _fieldControls.Player.Move;

which does result in getting the option to choose the input map when attaching the script to an object like shown.

However, it results in the compiler error, also attached to this as an image. How can I fix it so that I can assign an input map to the script outside of the .cs file but still have that script work with that map?

[twin pivot]

question

is the OnMove function started when the objects position is moved

[slender nymph]

you should not be creating an instance of an InputActionAsset by calling the constructor

[twin pivot]

or just updated

the latter right

[slender nymph]

also the InputActionAsset does not have that property on it, if you were generating a C# class from the input action asset then you'd invoke that class's constructor and it would have the relevant properties on it

[slender nymph]

OnMove is a method that you create, it is not built into unity so the answer is "it is called where ever you call it, or some event invokes it"

[real inlet]

But doing it that way limits me to only having one input set for a script, right?

[slender nymph]

no

[twin pivot]

its from the unity input system package

[slender nymph]

no it isn't. it's a message created based on the name of your input action(s). it is invoked by the PlayerInput component when your input state changes for that input action

[real inlet]

Oh. How would I make it so that I can choose what input map to use like it is here in a way that works with the script?

[slender nymph]

it has nothing at all to do with an object's position moving. unless you are moving an object inside of it. but then it's invocation still isn't directly related to the object moving

[slender nymph]

please go through the documentation pinned in #🖱️┃input-system to learn how to use it

[real inlet]

I have. I haven't been able to find an answer to my issue. Every instance I've seen of people talking about using multiple input sets has been about switching input maps. That's not what I'm trying to do

[slender nymph]

and why is that not sufficient?

[twin pivot]

i'm following the learn.unity tutorials for a movement script though

[slender nymph]

so? that doesn't invalidate anything that i said

[twin pivot]

what exactly does the onmove do then

[lament jetty]

i need help with procedual generating rooms if anyone could help that would be amazing

[slender nymph]

whatever the fuck you want it to do. it's a method that you define in your script. and you put what you want inside of it. it is invoked by the PlayerInput component when your Move input action's state changes (like i already told you)

[summer stump]

It is a callback for when certain inputs are pressed (if you set up the input action asset properly)

It has nothing to do with movement unless you actually move something in it

[slender nymph]

Don't Ask To Ask

[twin pivot]

sorry bad phrasing

[real inlet]

Because I want to be able to create one script for movement, then attach that script to two different player objects, being given the option to choose which input map the script uses when I attach it to the object. I'm not trying to switch the input map from one to the other on a single object

[twin pivot]

was asking for how it was invoked

[slender nymph]

none of that prevents you from just using two different maps

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[slender nymph]

and for the third time now, it is invoked by the PlayerInput component when your Move input action's state has changed

[twin pivot]

yea i saw

thats why i corrected my phrasing

and changed to was

[summer stump]

But that answers your corrected phrasing too

[twin pivot]

yes?

[summer stump]

Yes

[real inlet]

I want to do it in the same script and make it so that I can choose which input map is used. If I assign an input map in the script then I'm locked to using that input map in that script, which I do not want

[summer stump]

I see what you mean. Why change it to was, that is just confusing

[twin pivot]

im running on no sleep rn

brain not braining

[slender nymph]

fun fact, but you can use one Input Action Asset that has multiple action maps in it. and an if statement to choose which one to enable/actually use in the code.
but of course that would require you to have actually bothered to read the documentation on how to use the input system like was suggested to you

[real inlet]

Right, I'm aware of this and have it implemented in my script. That doesn't solve my problem. I need to use a different input map depending on which object the script is attached to. As far as I know, the ability to enable/disable action maps doesn't allow me to use different maps on different objects unless there's a way for me to check what a script is attached to from inside of the script

[summer stump]

Sure it does
Why can you not check what a script is attached to from inside a script?

[slender nymph]

alright we've reached the point where it has become clear you haven't bothered paying attention to anything i've told you so i'm done attempting to help now. do yourself a favor and actually read the documentation pinned in #🖱️┃input-system so that you might actually get a clue as to what the fuck you are doing

[real inlet]

I have. You are not processing my question. I appreciate that you tried and understand you're done helping - thank you

[real inlet]

I... don't know. Are you asking rhetorically or do you know how I might be able to do that?

[slender nymph]

no, i definitely did read and understand your question. and i provided information on how you could solve it, but you refuse to actually process what i've told you because you don't have the requisite knowledge you should have for using the input system

[summer stump]

I mean, it is extremely simple to do...
What do you want to check for? .gameObject .transform .TryGetComponent .tag .layer what? There are SO MANY ways to check what a script is attached to

[summer stump]

They definitely processed and answered your question

[real inlet]

How would I do that?

[summer stump]

Edited

[real inlet]

ty

[slender nymph]

or it's as simple as a serialized boolean or enum to determine which action map to enable

[summer stump]

A serialized enum would be nice

[slender nymph]

because you just need an if statement to determine which of your action maps need to be enabled

as i already said

[real inlet]

I am sorry that I need more help as you've made clear it's an annoyance, but I am a beginner to Unity, and I have no idea how to do that. Would you be willing to point me in the direction of what documentation to look for to achieve that?

[slender nymph]

the documentation pinned in #🖱️┃input-system will teach you how to use the input system. from there it's just a matter of knowing the absolute basics of c# to write an if statement

[real inlet]

For pete's sake, dude. I know how to write an if statement and I know how to enable and disable input maps. I do not know how that would solve my problem without the ability to check what object the script is attached to. I'm trying to figure out how to do that - if you're not willing to help me figure that out, just say so and move on

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message
#💻┃code-beginner message

[real inlet]

Does the input system documentation explain how to make a serialized boolean?

[slender nymph]

no, but making a field show up in the inspector should be something you already know how to do

[real inlet]

Well I don't, because I'm a beginner, hence me asking for help in the beginner channel. I am an idiot and I do not (yet) know what I'm doing. If that upsets you and you're unwilling to help because of it, that's fine. Bye

[slender nymph]

then start with learning the basics. the pathways on the unity !learn site are a good place to start

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[slender nymph]

and maybe also consider reading the rest of your code because you have been making fields appear in the inspector already

as shown here: #💻┃code-beginner message

[twin pivot]

https://hastebin.com/share/zemeredige.csharp
why is this not working?

[slender nymph]

be more specific about what exactly isn't working

also maybe consider using a site other than hastebin since it likes to take forever for the code to actually appear on the site

[twin pivot]

im following the player movement thing on learn.unity but its just not working

[twin pivot]

i got the same thing when i first got here lol

[bitter sequoia]

guys, I want to trigger a function in a class for multiple instances of the same script.
Like the enemy, when I run the walk script in the enemy script all other enemies also trigger that script.
This is the list of event types I found:
Delegates, Event Delegates, Actions in Unity, Unity Events, Scriptable Object Events
But yeah chatgpt is just suggesting SOE and it's too much.

[slender nymph]

you're adding a very small amount of force each fixed update, it's probably not enough to overcome friction, multiply your movement vector by your desired speed

[twin pivot]

ah thanks

[real inlet]

I did not realize that box was called the inspector - that's my bad. Dumb misunderstanding on my end. Okay. I do know how to make fields appear in the inspector, but I don't know what a serialized boolean is in this context nor how I would implement it. Would I just declare like "public Boolean thisIsAboolean;" in my script and get a T/F field in the inspector?

Fair point. I will do that now

[twin pivot]

probably the worst way to do it but make a public variable that is saved as 1 when the script is running and 0 when its not

[real inlet]

Okay. Cool. I'm sorry for needing my hand held on something that simple and silly
Is there any chance there's documentation anywhere that has like a list of what variable types can be fields in the inspector?

[eternal needle]

You shouldnt be using chatgpt especially if you dont know what you're doing.
Delegates, events, actions are all the same thing. Unity event is just a c# delegate thats exposed in inspector, lets you subscribe things in inspector. Scriptable object events are not a thing.

[slender nymph]

anything that is serializable or UnityEngine.Object types
https://unity.huh.how/serialization/serializing-a-field-1

[twin pivot]

i multiplied it by 1000 and it still isnt moving

[slender nymph]

is the rigidbody kinematic

also have you confirmed that your OnMove method is being called

[eternal needle]

In your case, you would maybe want some event that all these enemies are subscribed to. Then the player can invoke the event when they run. though you'll need some way of determining which is truly the player, so enemies arent trying to invoke this function as well. (assuming thats the logic you want)

[twin pivot]

no its not apparently

[real inlet]

This is a really helpful website; thank you. Is variables being serializable a unity-specific concept or a general programming concept? Either way I'll work on learning that/how it works

[bitter sequoia]

not in my case, It's just a bad example from me. I think something like static event

[slender nymph]

being shown in the inspector due to being serializable is a unity-specific thing, but serialization is a programming concept for turning data into a format that can be saved to disk

[slender nymph]

do you have a PlayerInput component attached to the same object that this component is attached to?

[twin pivot]

ah

looks like im stupid

[real inlet]

Thank you

[eternal needle]

well yea thats what i said, i just didnt write static. but you should truly just say what the use case is. its tiring when people want to hide what they're truly doing, then get told a suggestion just to respond with "well im not really doing this"

i dont use static events often but this seems like an ok use case for it

[bitter sequoia]

sorry

[bitter sequoia]

tks

[twin pivot]

the player input component just detects what key is pressed right

[slender nymph]

not quite https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.8/manual/PlayerInput.html

[twin pivot]

thanks

[waxen adder]

Bit of a general question. How do people tend to do player characters in games? If I'm to be more specific, do you add character controllers, colliders, and rigidbodies? What are your settings for those things?

[wintry quarry]

That's a really vague question. It depends heavily on the specific game you're making. Every game is different and has different needs

[waxen adder]

Let's do it from the perspective of a first person game

If that helps anyway

[wintry quarry]

Still very vague

Dear Esther and Apex Legends are both first person games

And they have extremely different needs and character control styles

[waxen adder]

Fair point. Might need to think about this a bit more

[queen adder]

Hello, im relativly new to csharp and unity in general but for me to learn its best if i experiment and i was wondering if anyone knows a good first person controller tutorial ish

[waxen adder]

^ You can't go wrong with Brackeys! Even though his tutorials are old and there might be new features to mess with, they tend to be very clear and concise

[waxen adder]

I went ahead and just brainstormed what I want onto notepad. I came to a conclusion on my own, but was curious if you have any opinions.

[wintry quarry]

Unfortunately Brackey's popular FPS controller tutorial has some glaring unfixed errors in it. But it's generally decent

[wintry quarry]

If you're using a Rigidbody you definitely don't want "horizontal moviement to still use Transform.Translate"

You will do all the movement through the Rigidbody

[waxen adder]

Gotcha

[thorn lake]

I currently only have the blue option (VisualStudio Code) and was recommended to download the purple one. I didn't realize there's be multiple options. Which of them would be best just for some beginner Unity gamemaking?

[rich adder]

none

get community 2022

those are old

update your visual studio installer its probably outdated

[thorn lake]

I just downloaded it now. Is it just the wrong installer?

[rich adder]

where you dl from ?

[thorn lake]

this location: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&channel=Release&version=VS2022&source=VSLandingPage&cid=2030&passive=false

[rich adder]

uh yeah not sure why its showing you 2019

[thorn lake]

hmm weird

[rich adder]

bottom right what is the version on VS installer

[thorn lake]

oh weird, After closing it and reopening it it seems to have changed

[rich adder]

crazyy

[thorn lake]

Magic

[rich adder]

just like that

Community is the free version so get that one

[thorn lake]

thanks sm

[rich adder]

After you will need to hit modify and install the modules. Instructions are here

!vs

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio guide

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

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[thorn lake]

Are these what you mean by modules?

oh wait nvm, I was just reading the wrong sections of the webpage

Does coding a game in C# restrict what platforms it can be played on? I might've misunderstood someone a few days ago who made it sound that way

[rich adder]

no it all gets compiled into machine code

unity has all platforms pretty much

[thorn lake]

"Navigate to the Common7/IDE directory inside your Visual Studio installation directory and select devenv.exe. "

I'm assuming this needs to be added as the External Script Editor rather than Visual Studio Code but I'm not seeing a "Common7/IDE" directory.

It says it is in the Visual Studio installation directory but I'm not seeing any sort of Visual Studio installation directory.

[rich adder]

you dont have to navigate to any directly if you did it correct you should just see visual studio popup in external tools

if you're manually assigning exe you did something wrong

(make sure you did restart unity after you installed everything)

[thorn lake]

I only see this optioin but that's for the blue Visual Studio program. I do think I restarted everything but I'll do it again justttttt in case

[thorn lake]

I did not install any additional modules aside from "Game Development with Unity" yet.

[rich adder]

nothing else is needed for unity

[thorn lake]

Could it have anything to do w/how I didn't set this portion up yet? (I wanted to ask for advise regarding which might be best practice for game creation out of these options before choosing one)

[rich adder]

you don't have to touch any of that, you open the script from unity it will automatically load the proper csproj/assembly

[thorn lake]

Yeah, only seeing this option still

(just restarted everything)

[rich adder]

just make sure you do have visual studio editor in the package manager ?

doesn't hurt to restart whole pc at this point too lol

[thorn lake]

Could it be because the project existed before VS (purple) was installed?

Wondering if I should make a new project

[rich adder]

unity should still read a new editor installed

it did for me every time

[rich adder]

these settings are Editor wide not project wide

[rich adder]

did you check this just incase #💻┃code-beginner message

[thorn lake]

I was told to remove that by someone here earlier. I'll Install it back in

[rich adder]

rip

we're talking about the visual studio editorone or visual studio code editor

they have two different ones

[thorn lake]

woohoo!

[rich adder]

cool

now I would click Regen Project files just in case

[thorn lake]

Thanks sm!

[thorn lake]

clicked it and nothing happened. Is that.....ok?

[rich adder]

yeah double click a script from unity, make sure its all loaded up

[thorn lake]

woot woot!!

[rich adder]

cookin with gas

[thorn lake]

Maybe it was "Visual Studio Code Editor" that they were saying to uninstall

[rich adder]

probably

it conflicts with VSCode / Unity connection now since it no longer is being used for communicating the two programs

[thorn lake]

Thanks!

Earlier someone told me that I need to have a ".net SDK" to do any C# project. How do I make sure that I have that? (I'm assuming it's there by default with this purple VS

[rich adder]

Unity already comes with .net standard and i think another one bundled

you need the .net sdk if you ever want to make other apps instead of just unity

[thorn lake]

ah ok

[rich adder]

or use VSCode for unity

[thorn lake]

He must've been referring to VSCode bc hat's what I was using at the time

From what I've gathered, I should just stick to only VS (Purple)

[rocky canyon]

it was, thats what i thought u were using at the time

[thorn lake]

It was, but I didn't realize that I needed the purple one to have the IDE calibrated properly

[rocky canyon]

purple ones better for beginners

[rich adder]

Yes on windows VS is the obvious better choice

vscode is catching up finally

[rocky canyon]

im hooked

[thorn lake]

I really dislike the naming convention for these two programs lol. The fact they're named so similarly made this beginning process so confusing haha

[rich adder]

but it is at the end of the day just a fancy browser

vs is a true IDE

[rocky canyon]

ya, everyone feels that way

[rich adder]

yeah microsoft really fdup this one

[thorn lake]

I'm surprised no one said "Wait a min" about that decision ngl

before it was finalized haha

[rocky canyon]

for the logo they just said, meh.. make it blue

[rich adder]

and its missing a piece cause its a not real ide xD

[rocky canyon]

thats why u run both

[rich adder]

VS always looks badass like a masked hero coder lol

[rocky canyon]

i need vscode for embedded programming..

so thats why i have 2

[thorn lake]

lol:

[rocky canyon]

aye! lol

[rich adder]

lol

[rocky canyon]

the newer versions of unity handle both pretty well now

u can switch back and forth relatively easy

[thorn lake]

Are we all the same person?

Just different timelines ig

or universes or whatever

[rich adder]

I'm trying work on Timesplitters 5 rn

[rocky canyon]

soo u finally gonna get coding now that u have an ide set up?

[thorn lake]

Anyways, thanks guys. I feel like I've graduated from Unity coding infancyh into adolescence now.

[rocky canyon]

or are u still in the process 😅

[thorn lake]

I'm pretty sure it's all set up now

[rocky canyon]

👍 nice... good luck 🍀

[faint sluice]

Hello, what's the proper way to implement "confirm quit popup" on pressing back button on Android?

I'm seeing suggestion to check for input in update but I'm not sure if that's best way to go about it since it's in update

[charred spoke]

Checking for user input in update is the preferred way to do it

[worthy veldt]

how do i access Sorting Group component through code ? there is no GetComponent <SortingGroup>()

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.SortingGroup.html

[worthy veldt]

my god i thought i already implement UnityEngine.Rendering ma bad

[fierce geode]

Is there way to make variables collapsible in the Editor?

I have a lot of variables that aren't necessary sometimes; so it would just be clean if I could dollapse them to make things look tidier

[fickle plume]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/preprocessor-directives#defining-regions

[fierce geode]

Thanks!

[eternal needle]

are you asking about in unity editor which is what i thought or the IDE? for unity editor you'll either need to look into editor scripts like using EditorGUILayout.Foldout, or put the variables you want in a serializable class which should already have this dropdown looking button to expand it

[fierce geode]

Yeah, I'm currently looking into those.

working good so far 👍

[eternal needle]

the thing linked above would be for your IDE. The solution depends how you're using the variables. Like if these were public variables being used, and weren't neccessarily related to each other you wouldnt want to throw them in a class which would change how other things use it.
IIn which case you'd need a custom editor script

[fierce geode]

Thanks!

[dry spruce]

I have a problem