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[tulip tendon]

hi, i have a problem wih textures, i have an image that i need as ui sprite, but when i click at texture type and chose sprite, i cant hit apply, when i change other settings i can press aply but nothing will change

[fierce geode]

screenshot?

[tulip tendon]

here it is

[fierce geode]

the video doesnt show the thing on the side with the file settings,

[eternal needle]

The whole thing basically gets solved when you apply scriptable objects because now you can reference an instance. You can say A goes to B, B goes to A (looping dialogue). With what you had initially, each instance of dialogue (defined in that list) was unique so you couldnt say A goes to B goes to A, because you couldnt reference A like that. Even if identical, it would be A goes to B goes to C. Hopefully this wasnt confusing.
I wouldnt really describe what you had as segmented, it's more of just how you were creating instances that was the issue in the first case.

[tulip tendon]

i dont have it in scene yet, i want to transform it into sprite so i would put in on the image object

[slender nymph]

just FYI you should use mp4 rather than mkv if you want to embed the video in discord. most people wouldn't want to download the video to watch it

[slender nymph]

also this is not a code issue

[fierce geode]

i mean i cant see this thing in the video

[fierce geode]

Ah okay, and its alright. It wasn't confusing!

[slender nymph]

your inspector is in debug mode

that is the whole issue

[tulip tendon]

oh, thx you soo mutch

[frank zodiac]

get => _currentHealth;
set
{
    if (_currentHealth <= 0)
    {
        Die();
    }
}

for some reason this line of code is running in update, i only want it to run ONCE when the player dies

[slender nymph]

you'd have to share more context. but your setter doesn't actually assign to the backing field. so i assume that it remains 0 so each time you attempt to assign to it the Die method is called

[frank zodiac]

let me check my other script

if (collision.CompareTag("Projectile"))
{
    PlayerCombat.GetInstance().CurrentHealth -= 1;
}

im only setting it here

[slender nymph]

why do you insist on showing as little context as possible

[frank zodiac]

its in an OnTriggerEnter2D function so it should only run once

right?

[slender nymph]

one would assume so, yes. but you're barely showing any context at all so how could anyone possibly guess what is causing the issue

have you even bothered doing any debugging to find out what is going on?

[frank zodiac]

Yeah

I did a debug log when it hits a projectile and it only ran once

[slender nymph]

have you considered a log in the setter where your issue actually is?

at least i'm assuming that you've actually done literally anything at all to narrow it down to that being the issue

[frank zodiac]

ill try that

[eternal needle]

The issue doesnt even make sense, your property is not magically associated with update at all

[slender nymph]

maybe someday we'll see all of the code so we don't have to play "make 100 suggestions until they accidentally stumble upon something that might be related"

[fierce geode]

Changed the dialogue script to scriptable objects, and now can't assign a dialogue variable in the editor. This is my punishment for using custom Editor scripts lol

[eternal needle]

Custom editor scripts shouldnt really interfere with this, assuming you're using like DrawDefaultInspector, I forgot what the actual method is called if im wrong here.
What are you trying to assign? Also I highly recommend in some form saving all those dialogue options you already had because just changing this to scriptable objects might just break everything and lose you all those components saved in scene.

[fierce geode]

when I just use the base.OnInspectorGUI(), it works and assigns correctly. I'm just trying to assign a Dialogue variable.
#↕️┃editor-extensions message

[eternal needle]

Or maybe just create a new script for the SO to hold the dialogue information, create assets and then just copy what you had in scene to this asset

I dont know much about editor scripts, just double check that you're using the right types. Maybe even try this on a new test script entirely to see if you can drag it on there

[fierce geode]

My bad, first time using a custom editor script; and forgot to write ApplyModifiedProperties at the end.

but now everything functions well

[barren meteor]

I just opened my unity project for the first time in a month, but now I got some random errors I didn't have last time I opened the project, why did this happen?

[slender nymph]

configure your !IDE and check for duplicate script

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[eager spindle]

i want to make a game entirely in visual scripting for fun

but its gonna be so pain

[barren meteor]

ok yeah it worked, thanks!

[molten dock]

could someone simply explain what {get; set;} does

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/properties

[hallow acorn]

can i use "this" keyword if i want to for example the object my script is attached too?

[fierce geode]

Are all errors equal?

[cosmic dagger]

this refers to the current script instance . . .

[fierce geode]

I'm getting annoyed at Unity's SplineAnimate script, because it will set the position of the thing it's animating even when the script itself is disabled.

[hallow acorn]

wdym?

[cosmic dagger]

@hallow acorn Typically, it's used (to differentiate between) if you have a class field and a local variable of the same name . . .

[hallow acorn]

oh ok

[fierce geode]

The only way I've found to make it not do that, is to not give it a spline in the first place. But that makes it call an error.

[hallow acorn]

how can i destroy the object my script is attached to? is there like getComponent but for the object the component is attached to?

[languid spire]

gameObject refers to the object the script is attached to. So destroy that

[fierce geode]

Like, are some errors allowable in a project/game.

[cosmic dagger]

Just use the gameObject property. Also, check Destroy from the Unity docs, it should have examples . . .

[hallow acorn]

Ok ty

[cosmic dagger]

Accessing the gameObject property will refer to the object the script is attached to. Similar to transform . . .

[languid spire]

If you mean Exceptions rather than errors, no, uncaught exceptions lead to undefined behaviour so it's not a good idea to not deal with them

[tacit lava]

hi, I'm trying to reposition and resize a UI button with a script, but the UI button ends up being unaffected by my script. Does anyone have experience with doing something like this?

Here is my script:

public class RTS_ResponsiveUIElement: MonoBehaviour {
    [Header("Position offsets (in % of viewport height)")]
    public float positionX = 0f;
    public float positionY = 0f;

    [Header("Size (in % of viewport height)")]
    public float sizeX = 0f;
    public float sizeY = 0f;

    void Start() {
        Debug.Log("RTS_ResponsiveUIElement.Start: called");
        this.AdjustTransform();
    }

    void Update() {
        Debug.Log("RTS_ResponsiveUIElement.Update: called");
        this.AdjustTransform();
    }

    void AdjustTransform() {
        float vh = Screen.height / 100f;
    
        RectTransform rectTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
        rectTransform.sizeDelta = new Vector2(this.sizeX * vh, this.sizeY * vh);
        rectTransform.anchoredPosition = new Vector2(positionX * vh, positionY * vh);

        Debug.Log($"Setting size to: {rectTransform.sizeDelta}");
        Debug.Log($"Setting position to: {rectTransform.anchoredPosition}");
    }
}

the logs do show up in the console, and the numbers of size and position are correct; but in practice my button gets its size from Rect Transform and not from my script.

[fierce geode]

What if the exception is only in the Editor and not during runtime.

[languid spire]

that would depend on what is causing it

[fierce geode]

Well the script that reports the error is disabled when the error happens, im honestly surprised it can even log an error in the first place.

[languid spire]

just because a script is disabled does not mean it cannot be executed

[fierce geode]

That does feel a bit confusing, I thought it was to do with the fact that the script calls
#if UNITY_EDITOR
type code.

which might circumvent the script being enabled.

[slender nymph]

no. a disabled component only prevents a few specific unity messages from running such as Start, Update, FixedUpdate. other messages like Awake and OnCollisionXXX are not preventing from running when disabled. Likewise, any method you've defined can still be called on that object

[fierce geode]

Ah okay.

[languid spire]

I am guessing, if you have code which is throwing exceptions in the editor but not in a build then you have code inside a UNITY_EDITOR define which is causing it

[fierce geode]

Yeah, my only confusion is that the function that the error is logged in. Is only called in the Start function.

The script I'm talking about is the SplineAnimate script

  void Start()
    {

#if UNITY_EDITOR
if(EditorApplication.isPlaying)
#endif
Restart(m_PlayOnAwake);
#if UNITY_EDITOR
else // Place the animated object back at the animation start position.
Restart(false);
#endif
}

Context: the function that calls the logError is inside Restart

I think the error should be fine, since if disabled component stops Update or FixedUpdate; then I should probably be in the clear. Since it probably won't animate outside of those functions.

[hallow acorn]

hey i have a slight problem. my ship shoots barrel towards my target point, randomized by around +/-10° on the y axis. is there a not to complicated way to increase the probability for the barrels to get shot towards the middle of the island like an heatmap?

[fierce geode]

If I wanted to be really safe... I could use AddComponent to add the SplineAnimate script only when I needed it and then remove it otherwise.

[hallow acorn]

could i do 2 targets, one for every island with a bit smaller rotation range and a 50/50 chance on which target it lands?

[fierce geode]

I mean, you could randomize the randomization. Like have a Random from 0 to 100, then define some value, like 50 ; if its higher than 50. Then change the random +/- 10 degrees on the y axis to +/- 2 or 5 degrees instead. If its lower than 50, then the regular +/-10 degrees.

Or if you want the accuracy probability to be more gradual. You could lerp the former solution. Like
Mathf.lerp(10,0, Random.Range(0.0f,1.0f)).

[frank zodiac]

is this considered too much scripts for a game with a dialogue system and combat system and inventory system

[silk night]

no

[frank zodiac]

kinda thought it was overboard

[silk night]

but you should create some folder structure for it

[frank zodiac]

i already did but in VS it shows like this

in unity i have a huge array of subfolders

[final hull]

Heya, do anybody know how to store DoTween animation in a scriptable object please?

[silk night]

I dont think there is a way, you would have to write a converter, like make a list with instructions and then have another class piece together the dotween sequence

[final hull]

Alright, thanks will see what can I do

[fierce geode]

Simple question, how do you invert a layerMask?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks#inverting-a-mask

[fierce geode]

thanks!

[wanton canyon]

Can someone point me in the direction for how to program rain? I have a particle effect but I'm a little dumbfounded on how to randomly time the initiation of it, and when I google it I just get creating the particle effect...

[slender nymph]

which part are you not understanding how to do? like are you asking how you can randomly call the ParticleSystem's Play method?

[cosmic dagger]

That's baby scripts. You can have a thousand and be fine . . .

[frank zodiac]

?? 😨

[wanton canyon]

Yeah how do I implement it randomly?

[slender nymph]

well you can generate random numbers using the Random class. beyond that it really depends on exactly how you want it to behave

[hallow acorn]

can i get a transform in an array using getComponent and CompareTag? if yes how exactly would the index look i cant figure it out

[river quiver]

i want to build a game and this is coming up while building it The name 'AssetDatabase' does not exist in the current context.

{

    Camera mainCamera = Camera.main;
    int newPos = (int)mainCamera.transform.position.x + 21;

    switch (newPos)
    {
        case 0:
            nameText.text = "Bagieta:";
            descriptionText.text = "- podobno od niego capi\r\n- lubi fugę\r\n- jako skrzydło posiada piłę łańcuchową";
            twitchText.text = "- https://www.twitch.tv/mbagietson";
            break;
        case 21:
            nameText.text = "Mamm0n:";
            descriptionText.text = "- jeździ na wózku\r\n- lubi makowiec i chrupiącą\r\n- lata machając chrupiącą";
            twitchText.text = "- https://www.twitch.tv/mamm0n";
            break;
    }

    AnimationClip clip = new AnimationClip();
    Animation animation = mainCamera.GetComponent<Animation>();
    AnimationCurve curve1 = AnimationCurve.Linear(0.0f, mainCamera.transform.position.x, 0.75f, newPos);
    AnimationCurve curve2 = AnimationCurve.Constant(0.0f, 0.75f, -10.0f);

    clip.SetCurve("", typeof(Transform), "localPosition.x", curve1);
    clip.SetCurve("", typeof(Transform), "localPosition.z", curve2);
    clip.name = "CameraMoveRight";
    clip.legacy = true;

    animation.clip = clip;
    animation.AddClip(clip, clip.name);
    AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(clip, "Assets/" + clip.name + ".anim");
    animation.Play();

    leftArrow.SetActive(true);
}```
this is the code and the ``AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(clip, "Assets/" + clip.name + ".anim");`` is the line that the error is refering to

what can i do to avoid this

[slender nymph]

you cannot use the AssetDatabase in a build

[river quiver]

is there something else i can use?

[slender nymph]

is there a reason you are creating an asset there?

[river quiver]

so i can play it

or i dont have to create it there

i just want to be able to play that animation which is created in this script

[wanton canyon]

I was thinking something akin to "every X amount of time, do a random chance of like maybe 24% or something, then rain" but I'm stuck on how to code 😅

[solar arrow]

this.GetComponent<Image>().enabled = false;

why is this doesnt work can someone explain?

[slender nymph]

break it down into smaller steps. you need to figure out just a few things:

1. how to do something every X amount of time
2. how to generate a random number
3. how to use that randomly generated number to determine if your 24% chance was successful or not at the time you check
4. play the particle system if it was successful

[slender nymph]

be more specific than "doesnt work" because there is nothing about that line specifically that wouldn't work

[solar arrow]

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

it said this

[slender nymph]

you've got the wrong using directive. you are likely trying to use UnityEngine.UIElements.Image rather than UnityEngine.UI.Image

[solar arrow]

oh yea lol tysm

i dont see that UIElements.Image before

sorry, but i appreciate your help

[slender nymph]

no problem, you just gotta pay more attention to the options in the autocomplete in your IDE, when you start typing something like Image it will show multiple options, and should show the namespace for each option, which option you select or tab to complete will be the one the namespace is imported for

[solar arrow]

thanks for the advice man

[atomic holly]

Hello,
I want to put a bubble at the top of a PNJ when I come close to it. Should I create this bubble as a child of my PNJ or create it in the canvas ?

[willow scroll]

"PNJ" is "Non playable character"?

[atomic holly]

Oh yes sorry, PNJ is in french 😭

Yes so an NPC

[willow scroll]

So bubble is supposed to be UI?

[manic void]

i'm making an inventory system for a 3d unity project. right now i'm trying to add a drag and drop system to the items but it doesn't work.. I only have debug.logs right now and nothing shows up in the console

DragDrop - https://hst.sh/cufazifuva.cpp
ItemSlot - https://hst.sh/movubemodo.csharp

i've read forums talking about adding a StandaloneInputModule to the event system but because im using new InputSystem i need to use a InputSystemUIInputModule. I've added a canvas group to the item, made sure the canvas has a GraphicRaycaster. I also did an Event System debugger - https://hst.sh/musobofono.cpp and still nothing shows up in console. when i click on the item absolutely nothing happens

[atomic holly]

Yes

It will be an image with some text in

But I want the bubble is fix compared to the NPC

[willow scroll]

If your npc is not UI, you won't be able to make a UI bubble its child

In your npc script, serialize the bubble prefab and instantiate it at the beginning of the game, constantly aligning its position when changed

Surely, you will have to use the main camera to convert the spaces

[atomic holly]

But how I can put the NPC in my grid if it's a UI. If my NPC is a UI, it will be in a canvas no ?

[willow scroll]

That's right, is your npc UI?

[sharp abyss]

trying to recreate a system like qwop without ankleshttps://paste.ofcode.org/379dhvpMEsxaYJJxwDii8x4 I have this script but that doesnt work properly I cant go forward.Thought about it may be because of limits.(dont use animations)

[atomic holly]

No, it's just a gameobject with a box collider 2D to know when the player is close of the NPC and with a sprite renderer

[willow scroll]

Then implement my previous suggestion

[atomic holly]

So the NPC will not be a gameobject but a UI, that's it ?

[willow scroll]

No, have you read my response already?

[atomic holly]

This one yes

[willow scroll]

Yes

[atomic holly]

Mhhhh, so if I understand, I need to change always the position of the bubble UI in the script of the NPC ?

[willow scroll]

Yes

And transform it

[waxen void]

Hello, Can anyone help me with scriptable objects?

So, I'm trying to make an editor script for the scriptable object so that it shows toggle buttons like shown in the video and I can store where obstacles need to be instantiated on the grid. But, currently what happens is when I hit play or restart unity or recompile scripts the scriptable object gets reset as shown in the video.

Below are the relevant scripts:

Obstacle Editor:

using UnityEngine;

[CustomEditor(typeof(ObstacleData))]
public class ObstacleEditor : Editor
{
    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        ObstacleData obstacleData = (ObstacleData)target;

        for (int row = 0; row < 10; row++)
        {
            EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            for (int col = 0; col < 10; col++)
            {
                obstacleData.blockedTiles[row,col] = EditorGUILayout.Toggle(obstacleData.blockedTiles[row,col]);
                
            }
            EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();
        }

        if(GUI.changed)
        {
            EditorUtility.SetDirty(obstacleData);
        }
    }
}

ObstacleData:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;


[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "ObstacleData", menuName = "ScriptableObjects/Obstacle Data")]
public class ObstacleData : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializeField] public bool[,] blockedTiles = new bool[10,10];
}

[errant anchor]

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[languid spire]

you are not saving to the assetdatabase

[waxen void]

ohh? I'm still new to this can you explain how I can do that?

[languid spire]

look at the AssetDatabase.Save documentatioin

[willow scroll]

The ScriptableObject has to be saved to your AssetDatabase for its values not to be removed

[errant anchor]

https://gdl.space/laxiqikiga.cs hey guys some questions to solve from this code Where

[willow scroll]

What SetDirty does is mark the object as dirty for it to be saved in the AssetDatabase when the Assets are reloaded

[waxen void]

Ahh I see I'll take a look at the documentations then

[sage mirage]

Hello, guys! I am playing around with post-processing and I don't understand why it says that to me? Also, it doesn't work when I am checking and unchecking it, I mean in Screen Space Reflections.

[willow scroll]

Well, actually, it doesn't seem like you should

[errant anchor]

The x and y of debugvelocity are always 0,0 when running. However, in the velocity of info of rigidbody2d in the running window, you can see that x and y have numerical values. changing

[waxen void]

huh?

[willow scroll]

The object is already saved in AssetDatabase

[errant anchor]

why not the same

so confused

without any input

[waxen void]

ohh yea so why does it reset on reload?

[willow scroll]

I'm not sure yet.

[waxen void]

ahh alright please tell me if you find something. Thank you for the help!!

[verbal dome]

Don't multiply your velocity by deltaTime, it is incorrect

The physics will take care of that

@errant anchor The value it is printing is not actually (0.00, 0.00) but some small numbers (like 0.0001), that's just how Vector logs look by default. It shows only two decimals.

[silk night]

RigidBody.MovePosition already included deltatime, right?

[summer stump]

MovePosition actually does not. Only the physics methods shouldn't have it (addforce, setting velocity)

[fickle plume]

By the virtue of where it should be used

Since it should be used in FixedUpdate it will be frame independent (based on fixed frames instead)

[silk night]

Oh yeah right

Hmm i just changed from transform.position to Rigidbody.MovePosition and now my units are slow as hell and I am not sure what the difference is right now even though ive done it a hundred times by now xD

well the solution was just above this, forgot to switch to fixedupdate

[errant anchor]

ok got it and thx for your help

[errant anchor]

now the problem is I removed the delta time issue and it's still the same speed is 4 debug or 0

[normal badger]

Hi everyone, I'm currently developing a video game in unity, the game is set to be released at the end of this year, but I'm having trouble setting up the procedural animation for the monster, does someone knows about procedural animations on Unity?

[errant anchor]

the velocity go to seven

[uncut dune]

awesome now what

[verbal dome]

Put emission into a local variable first then modify that

[polar acorn]

You cannot both get and set a struct on the same line. You want to store the emission burst in a variable, then modify it's count

[verbal dome]

I don't really understand what you are saying

[polar acorn]

Try this log instead:

Debug.Log($"Input: {inputDirection}, speed: {speed}, Rb.velocity: {Rb.velocity.ToString("F6")}", this);

this will tell you more about the input and speed values to see which is the problem

[austere crypt]

Hello, can anyone help me add nuget libraries in unity ?
Tried but it's getting removed from project

[verbal dome]

Btw {Rb.velocity.ToString("F6")} can be shortened to {Rb.velocity:F6}

[errant anchor]

As shown in the image, your Rigidbody2D's velocity is displaying values of (-4, 7), even though you have not provided any input. This is puzzling, as you would expect the velocity to be (0, 0) when there is no user input.

[errant anchor]

ok

[uncut dune]

ight u guys are genius so this should fix it right?

no errors so Ig

[magic pagoda]

I have this line of code and I want it to pick a float between 0 and 1, but it constantly picks an int. how can I make it pick a float?
float spawnValue = Random.Range(0, 1);

[rich adder]

Random.value 🙂

[verbal dome]

Provide floats as arguments so it knows to use the float overload instead of int

[magic pagoda]

so is Random.Value more reliable or (0f, 1f) more reliable?

[verbal dome]

Same result

[uncut dune]

is this possible?

[magic pagoda]

okay, thanks!

[verbal dome]

You can't assign to the structs in particle system, you just modify them and unity does the rest automatically

The structs are just sort of wrappers with properties

[rich adder]

Random.value is only 0-1 float.
so its quicker to write if you you only need 0-1 (but it makes no difference functionally)

[uncut dune]

I see, so what is the supposed way to change the shape with code?

[verbal dome]

I think you are doing it right except you need to remove the last line

[rich adder]

its weird with Particle System man... you dont need to assign back only specific things

[uncut dune]

oh that was all it was required? I see, I will try it thanks a bunch!

[austere crypt]

Any way to add? I also modified package-loci file and minefest

[uncut dune]

much appreciated on the explanation!

[rich adder]

there is a Plugin for that
https://github.com/xoofx/UnityNuGet

[verbal dome]

Yeah particle system is doing things in a pretty non standard way in this case

[polar acorn]

I actually did not know that. Neat!

[magic pagoda]

oh, thank you!

ended up going with value ^^

[rich adder]

its funny because if you write that in VS it does give you the suggestion

[austere crypt]

Thansk

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, particle systems are really really fuckin weird in that they give a similar error to trying to modify the components of a vector, but they are passed by reference. So you just need to store it in a variable and modify it and that's the whole thing done and dusted, while the incredibly similar error with things like rb.velocity have that extra step of reassigning back. Unless you look up which things are structs or classes in the documentation, this is the kind of thing you just have to know through experience

[rich adder]

😛

[polar acorn]

I don't think I've ever done a string-interpolated formatter before in actual code, just when posting sample debug logs in Discord

[rich adder]

Oh wow I would've expected you out of all ppl 😛

[uncut dune]

I see, neat explanation thanks a lot! :)

[polar acorn]

Most of the time if I have to do a string interpolation like that my thought process is "Whatever format they considered most relevant to be the default ToString is probably fine"

[rich adder]

true true . learned this neat by accident formatting Currency or do ints as $"{sumInt:000}"

[rich adder]

"procedual animations" in unity is pretty vague

how much procedual are walking here

fully IK ? Script driven ? etc..

[uncut dune]

unity is messing me up

how do I work around this

it doesnt show up in editor

[rich adder]

yes they are not serializable

[uncut dune]

do I need a for loop to check every component of the game object?

[rich adder]

you could make a custom inspector too iirc

or there is one on github somewhere

[rich adder]

depends what you are doing tbh

[polar acorn]

IDamageable is presumably an interface, which is not serializable by default. What I tend to do in these situations is make an abstract class that extends monobehaviour, something like public abstract class DamageableBehaviour : MonoBehaviour, IDamageable and make your script extend that. It'll still have to implement the methods, and still be an IDamageable, but you'll be able to drag it in by making that field of type DamageableBehaviour

Note, the DamageableBehaviour should not have any functionality. It's just a passthrough for the interface methods while allowing it to also inherit MonoBehaviour

[uncut dune]

I just want to access the functions that the interface provides from another script in the same game object

[rich adder]

why not just GetComponent if its on the same object, store the private var assign it with GetComponent

[uncut dune]

oh I see

[uncut dune]

because the interface can be in different components depending on the object, so maybe if I reference the script specifically?

[rich adder]

that defeats the point of the interface no?

[polar acorn]

If you do GetComponent<IDamageable> it will get whatever component extends IDamageable

[uncut dune]

no because it would throw an error if I tried referencing any method or is it that not correct?

[polar acorn]

As long as there's only one IDamageable on it, it'll grab that one

[uncut dune]

oooo didnt know this

thanks

[polar acorn]

If there's more than one and you need a specific one, you'll need to go either the abstract class or custom editor route to be able to drag it in

[summer stump]

Being able to do that is honestly one of the biggest reasons to use an interface

[rich adder]

doesnt Odin support interfaces?

[summer stump]

Yeah iirc

[uncut dune]

I dont think I will need more than one, that would be redundant also what does an abstract class do? genuinly curious

[polar acorn]

UNLIMITED POWAAAAAH

[uncut dune]

I see that now

[rich adder]

ISleep, IEat, ICode

[uncut dune]

lmao

[polar acorn]

It's kind of the class version of an interface. Its a class that can't ever actually exist, but can have child classes, which can override specific abstract methods that you don't define in the class itself.

[rich adder]

yay love that comparison, use it myself. abstract is like interface but with inheritance instead of composing

[polar acorn]

For the most part, you can think of it as an interface that can define functions in addition to declaring them (since Unity doesn't support that feature of C# yet) at the cost of losing out on multi-inheritence

[uncut dune]

uu this sounds confusing for my still undeveloped uni student brain

will do some research around it, u made me curious

I just know that if I dont understand it its cuz its powerfull as heck

[rich adder]

or just havent used it yet often enough 🙂

[polar acorn]

Interfaces are definitely the more useful out of the two, and once Unity updates its dotNET version to allow for code in interfaces they become very niche

[uncut dune]

true, I wont give up thanks for all the help

[uncut dune]

I see, how awesome!

[rich adder]

yeah you can assign multiple interfaces to one object which can help composing a modular object.
With abstracted you are limited to only inherit one class

[polar acorn]

You know I never actually checked if Unity 6 is going to actually have that interface change yet or if that's still nebulously "in the future"

[cosmic quail]

what are the reasons for doing this instead of TryGetComponent<DamagableBehaviour>? i know getting an interface has better performance but are there any other benefits?

[rich adder]

jus want the new coreclr already 😦

[uncut dune]

I see, so cool! Ive been off of unity recently messing with C and even godot and Ive came with a more modular mentality, trying new things ended up making me learn about new stuff here so I feel like it was positive

[polar acorn]

In this case, being able to get component like that means DamageableBehaviour doesn't actually need to exist. I was assuming the reference was on a different object, but same-object you can use this instead

[rich adder]

we need a TryGetComponentInParent and TryGetComponentInChildren 😦

had to make extension methods..

[brave compass]

You mean default interface implementations? That's already supported. It was missing initially when C# 8 was added, but fully implemented once C# 9 was added.

[polar acorn]

However if you already have DamageableBehaviour there's fundamentally no difference, unless you're gonna need to access any MonoBehaviour methods like .transform

[zenith cypress]

You mean giving it a body in the interface? It has had that since C# 9 (~2021.3)

[polar acorn]

Oh dang is it? I really should check these things before assuming they just haven't updated them

[uncut dune]

true, I always have to do a check before cant we use try catch too?

[rich adder]

you generally dont use TryCatch in unity

unless you're doing basic c# stuff like IO writes or Web Calls

[zenith cypress]

Once modern net drops I can't wait for the "wtf it supports X, Y, and Z??? What is W??? This is great!"

file record struct TempFlag;

[uncut dune]

I dont think I have ever used it but why not?

[rich adder]

make your code more robust by not leaving any possibility something going wrong. That can't be controlled on certain things (ie writing to a file or formatting a json) for example

[hallow acorn]

can i somehow get a transform using getcomponent and compareTag if yes how exactly would the syntax look like? i cant figure it out

[rich adder]

you dont need GetComponent on a transform

[polar acorn]

You wouldn't need GetComponent to get a transform. Everything with access to GetComponent also has .transform

[rich adder]

generally all Components have access to their Transform
(components only exists on gameobjects anyway so they always have both transform/gameobject)

[warm condor]

Hey everyone, can anyone explain to me why my character in vibrating/bouncing when I am sliding. It works a lot better when sliding to the right, but when sliding to the left it is much worse. Here i'll show you a video:

[hallow acorn]

oh ok how can i get the transform itself then?

[rich adder]

they just told you how lol

[polar acorn]

.transform

[rich adder]

mkv dont work in embed

[uncut dune]

yah thta makes sens ethanks

[warm condor]

yea sorry, im working on that

[rich adder]

also Unity components are very Weird with null checking. I see tryGet plastered everywhere it makes me cry lol

[hallow acorn]

wdym should i just use compareTag("").transform??

[warm condor]

here is the video:

[rich adder]

this is nonsense

[polar acorn]

CompareTag returns a boolean. You cannot get a transform from a boolean

[uncut dune]

hahaha I see that makes sense

[hallow acorn]

than how do i get my objects plss

[polar acorn]

What object are you trying to check the tag of

[rich adder]

have you bothered looking at examples online

[zenith cypress]

@brave compass and it still doesn't support these lol

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.CompareTag.html

[hallow acorn]

my target points. they are used to rotate my ship towards the with some random variance

[polar acorn]

Okay, so once you've confirmed if the object has the tag you want, you can get .transform from that object

[hallow acorn]

how do i know it has the tag in the code???

[slender nymph]

in order to call CompareTag on something you have to already have a reference to that object

[polar acorn]

... CompareTag

[hallow acorn]

and how do i get the transform afterwards?

[polar acorn]

.transform

on the same object you just checked the tag of

[rich adder]

its literally in the example
replace gameObject with transform its the same thing

you probably should learn how references work @hallow acorn its essential knowledge

[hallow acorn]

ty i had no idea how to write it

[warm condor]

guys, can someone help me here... #💻┃code-beginner message
I don't know why my character in vibrating/bouncing when I am sliding, especially when sliding to the left.

[queen adder]

how can I make my character stick to the gameobject it lands on? like in crossy roads.

[slender nymph]

a common solution to that is to set the player as a child of the moving object

[rich adder]

do you know how street address / maps work ?
thats how the . dot operator works

imagine doing Country.State.City.Address

to find your home (in this case an object, or a function etc.)

[queen adder]

is there a simple code for that that you know or should I look it up if it takes a while

[celest holly]

Just set transform.parent to the transform you want it to stick to

[queen adder]

thanks ill look into it

[normal badger]

The creature that I’m trying to animate is a spider with 8 legs, and each already has IK rig on it, but I’m having trouble with the code, I have been using this video from YouTube https://youtu.be/acMK93A-FSY?si=sqU7fCK5ghzZkscu

[rich adder]

should probably post the code and explain exactly what the issue is with it. I personally don't know much about procedural walks, someone might

[rocky canyon]

ive gotten mine to stand.. but no walk yet

[rich adder]

took me ages just to get my character to press the button dynamically, it was not a fun experience lol

[rocky canyon]

ya, its never straight forward for sure

[river quiver]

is there something that only happens in unity editor?

[rich adder]

how should we know you only posted 1 function

debug it

animation component is wildly outdated

why is this even going on here typeof(Transform) ohh I see because animation clip function..

[river quiver]

wdym

what should i use then

[rich adder]

wasn't Animation component deprecated or am I misremembering 🤔

anyway I have no clue what this scrip is supposed to do but cant you just use the Timeline

[slender nymph]

it's not deprecated, it's just older than the mecanim animator system and is considered "legacy"

[river quiver]

its moving the camera to the right

[rich adder]

ohh I see.. mandela effect maybe. I remember putting component on gameobject once and it warned me

[slender nymph]

is there a reason you need an animation to move the camera to the right?

especially since each time you call this method you create a brand new animation clip

[river quiver]

i dont want it to just change position instantly but gradually move to the other position

[slender nymph]

sure, but is there a reason you need to use an animation for that? it's incredibly simple to just lerp its position or whatever

you can even sample an animation curve for the lerp's t value if you want easing

[river quiver]

i didnt know there exists a thing like lerp

im new to this

[slender nymph]

if you're so new, perhaps consider going through some basic courses to learn wtf you are doing. i don't understand how you came to the conclusion you needed to generate an animation clip and also save it into the asset database (since you were doing that earlier) just to move an object when almost every google search would have provided information about just modifying its position or using cinemachine or something

the pathways on the unity !learn site are an excellent place to get started learning how to use the engine

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

this some type of AI code aint it?

[river quiver]

no

but ok

i get it

shit code

[rich adder]

no one said that

[rocky canyon]

😄 nah, just not common

[cosmic dagger]

I'm all about the basics . . .

[rich adder]

usually AI comes up with wild functions to do basic things was curious were code was from

[river quiver]

i guess i code like ai

[rich adder]

you copied n pasted it or wrote it line by line?

[spiral glen]

Is there a way to make it so I can check if an object is touching ANY other collider instead of just one with a pre-defined gameobjects collider?

[river quiver]

i found it somewhere on internet when i searched how to create an animation by script

[rich adder]

ah yes I can see why that showed up now

if its a cinematic why not use Timeline or Animator?

no scripts needed

acutally even the dolly function in cinemachine

[river quiver]

idk man

you just have more knowledge than me

a lot

[rocky canyon]

its more rhetorical.. just giving u some options

[rich adder]

no worries you'll get there. its trial n error

[river quiver]

but you guys know everything about unity

[raw token]

I'm not sure what you're asking - that sounds like the default behavior. Unity will invoke collision messages for any two objects with colliding layers

[spiral glen]

I actually got it

It's good

[rich adder]

not me personally no, maybe 25%

[spiral glen]

👍

[rocky canyon]

lmao, i wish

[summer stump]

Such a person does not exist

[rich adder]

not even Unity Devs know about everything Unity

[twin bolt]

I'm having a issue with my script, the point of the script is to make a mini Looking system for a stationary player, my only issue is that the yaw never starts at the cameras y rotation i set it to at the beginning. https://hastebin.com/share/vanokurude.csharp

for example, my player starts at -180 y the script sets the player to -90

the look max is 90

[rocky canyon]

i see gimbal lock in ur future

[spiral glen]

anyone know how to make my colliders work?
I tried changing it from collider to collider2D, collision2D, collision and one other option I can't remember.

[polar acorn]

Where do you set it in the beginning?

[rich adder]

i would not directly set localEulerAngles

i would use .rotation/localRotation instead

[twin bolt]

CameraROTY

[twin bolt]

ok

[polar acorn]

Do you have a script named Collider in your project

[slender nymph]

you should be using OnTriggerEnter2D and its Collider2D parameter

[spiral glen]

ah ok

fixed 👍

[rocky canyon]

also theres an error there because ur trying to use OnTriggerEnter()

yea.. u seen nvm

[rich adder]

the IsTouching is def not needed if it already hit Trigger

[cosmic dagger]

Even Unity doesn't know everything about Unity . . .

[rocky canyon]

id clamp ur pitch.. then use it afterwards to construct a rotation.... then rotate w/ local like Digi mentioned

       Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(pitch, yaw, 0);
       CurrentCamera.transform.localRotation = targetRotation;```

[polar acorn]

Try this log before the clamp line:

Debug.Log($"Clamping Yaw from {yaw} between {CameraRotY - lookMax} and {CameraRotY + lookMax}, result: {Mathf.Clamp(yaw, CameraRotY - lookMax, CameraRotY + lookMax)}");
yaw = Mathf.Clamp(yaw, CameraRotY - lookMax, CameraRotY + lookMax);

[twin bolt]

ok

[twin bolt]

The first debug says its clamping from 0 which it cant so its set to -90

[polar acorn]

Then CameraRotY - lookMax is 0

Oh, wait, clamping from 0

meaning that's the default value of yaw

Maybe just give me the whole line

[twin bolt]

whole line of what?

[polar acorn]

the log I had you write

just give me the whole log

[twin bolt]

Clamping Yaw from 0 between -270 and -90, result: -90

[polar acorn]

Okay, that makes sense. Your starting Yaw is out of range, so it gets clamped

So what's the problem?

[twin bolt]

THe problem is i need it to start at the beginning rotation. So for example my camera is set to -180, but when i enable the camera the script sets it to -90

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you should probably set yaw to the value you actually want it to start at, instead of setting it to a value you don't

It's currently set to 0

[twin bolt]

at OnEnable?

[polar acorn]

Wherever you want, just set it to something, somewhere unless you want the default value

[willow scroll]

Yes, if your script runs in edit mode. Otherwise, usually, in Awake or Start

[verbal dome]

Could store the starting yaw (euler y) in a separate variable at start, then add that to the final yaw in the Vector3 that you assign to localEulerAngles

If you want the clamping to be relative to the starting angle

[twin bolt]

I'll try this

[spiral glen]

I'm trying to access a method from a different script, I tried doing it like this (basic movement is the script that has the metod and grabTest is the accessor for hte method. anyone know how to fix this?

[rich adder]

you need to get a reference

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[spiral glen]

isn't the reference basicmovement?

[rich adder]

access the instance, right now you're accessing a "blueprint"

[zenith cypress]

That's a type

[spiral glen]

ah ok

so if I got access to the player object (which has the script) it'd gain access to the method

[rich adder]

You need the Instance thats on the player
so if its on a player you have to find that first, or you can use a cheat sheet sometimes with FindObjectOfType(this is ideal if only 1 instance exists of said script) or whatever the new equivalent is

[twin bolt]

Wow it worked, not sure how i didn't think of this.

[queen adder]

are you availible about the parenting issue? I made it but now I need advice on un-parenting

[slender nymph]

use the SetParent method. and to unparent it, you set its parent to null

[polar acorn]

which BasicMovement do you want

[spiral glen]

what does that mean

[rocky canyon]

it means you have to tell the code What instance / version / copy of that Script are you using

u declared it (told the script it exists) but u dont assign it. (tell it which one)

[rich adder]

imagine you want to run a function called Slap()
and say you have class named Human..

the computer want sot know, which human you want to slap ? you are looking for Jeff

[polar acorn]

I mean you could have a trillion instances of BasicMovement in your scene for all the code knows. Which specific one do you want to call grabTest() on?

[queen adder]

no basically, my character now sticks but when it sticks it doesn't allow jumping, which is necessary to jump onto other obstacles. I tried a method to unparent first and then jump when the jump button is pressed but it doesn't seem to be working. ```void Update()
{
if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && IsGrounded())
{
Transform currentParent = transform.parent;
transform.parent = null;
rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
//transform.parent = currentParent;
}
}

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Obstacle"))
{
Debug.Log("Crashed");
}
else if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Platform"))
{
transform.parent = collision.transform;
}
}

void OnCollisionExit(Collision collision)
{
if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Platform"))
{
transform.parent = null;
}
}```

[spiral glen]

the one on my player object

[queen adder]

oops sorry mightve been too bi

[rich adder]

if you are using a rigidbody you're in a whole world of hurt with moving platforms lol

parenting wont work well

[queen adder]

ohh how should i change it

[rocky canyon]

aka slip and slide

[polar acorn]

So, you want to reference that specific instance, store it in a variable, and then call grabTest() on that variable

[rich adder]

there are so many videos covering this subject no ?

look up "rigidbody moving platforms" you get a plethora of info

[queen adder]

oki thank you

[silk night]

Is there something like physics2d circlecast without a direction? Like just detecting whats around you? or is that just 0 for distance?

[polar acorn]

CheckCircle

[silk night]

OverlapCircle?

[polar acorn]

Yeah, sorry, that's the one for 2D

[silk night]

CheckCircle doesnt exist 😄

ty

[grizzled gale]

@silk night

[silk night]

yeah?

[grizzled gale]

@rich adder

[polar acorn]

Please don't ping random users for no reason

[rich adder]

huh?

#archived-networking

[celest holly]

set the transform.parent to null if you still need help with this

[silk night]

if (closest < delta.sqrMagnitude)
if (closest < delta.magnitude)

Top one is faster cause its doesnt have to calc the sqrRoot right?

[willow scroll]

Otherwise.

[polar acorn]

No

@silk night is correct

[willow scroll]

The bottom one is faster, because it doesn't have to calculate the square root.

[polar acorn]

sqrMagnitude is faster

Because it doesn't have to square root it

[willow scroll]

Damn, I was...

Yeah, you're right

[summer stump]

A² + B² = C² (as an example, using 2D)
sqrMagnitude is the C², then you can square root it to get magnitude (or just C)

Just to be clear about the order of operations

[wanton pecan]

Y'all I want to learn c# but I don't want to watch boring tut that won't teach anything for 4 hours what do I do?

[frosty hound]

Give up?

Sit on tiktok and watch 5 second videos that won't bore you.

[rocky canyon]

lol.. that ^ or find better sources..

hopefully ur a fan of reading.. else game-dev is gnna be challenging for u

[hallow acorn]

brackeys makes good tutorials

[polar acorn]

If you don't find the act of learning fun, then there's not really anything that will

[zenith cypress]

the top one should be this btw, since your delta is now of a power of two (that the sqrRoot would remove)

if (closest * closest < delta.sqrMagnitude)

[final kestrel]

Are not brackey's tutorials outdated now?

[rocky canyon]

no not really..

[final kestrel]

I think he recorded those way before

[rocky canyon]

unity hasnt changed its basic functionallity in ages

some things change/ menus/ locations/ some things get deprecated and replaced.. but the gist of them are still the same..

i still recommend sebastian lague unity c# playlist.. its almost 8 years old

[final kestrel]

Sebastian is going too deep into maths I believe thats why he confuses me a lot haha. But yes Man knows what hes doing!

[rocky canyon]

ya his basic beginner series is good

his studies get deep tho

[rocky canyon]

if u follow along w/ brackeys.. just remember to not multiply ur mousedelta's w/ time.deltaTime like he does in every video 😄

[hallow acorn]

ok haha

[silk night]

I am just writing the sqr Value into the closest once i find a new closest, so i dont need to sqr it again 😄

[wanton pecan]

No no I mean like some guy just looking at the screen telling me plain things that won't help at all isn't good

I need some fun stuff that won't bor me as much but still teach alot

Yk

[willow scroll]

As was suggested above, you can watch TikTok. Create a new account and make sure it only contains 30-second programming tutorials and memes

[verbal dome]

Try !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[summer stump]

First step is to stop thinking about it as boring. Don't concern yourself with it being "fun"
Just learn. Make your own fun after learning

If you allow boredom to hinder you, you will not succeed

[languid spire]

if you know nothing how can you tell if it will help or not?

[spiral glen]

why no worky

oh gimme as ec ill show the red

[languid spire]

typo

[spiral glen]

oh

[polar acorn]

What is ActiveSelf?

[willow scroll]

Non-capital

[spiral glen]

damn

wrosk

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject-activeSelf.html

[spiral glen]

works

grati

[wanton pecan]

I tried bunch of tutorials and basics and it didn't even teach nothing

[languid spire]

Then the chances are the problem is you

[rich adder]

follow the unity courses

[wanton pecan]

Nope I followed every thing did everything correct and didn't help

[rich adder]

lol

[spiral glen]

putting a
timer += Time.deltaTime;
in a while loop doesn't do anything weird and just makes it into a timer, right?

[rich adder]

"I did everything " is redudant

chances is the opposite

[wanton pecan]

Nope

[rich adder]

correct
but in update it will freeze up iirc

[wanton pecan]

Most tutorials r wrong

[spiral glen]

it's in a while loop on a 'button use' function and it's instantly going to 3

actually that makes no sense without further blah blah

[rich adder]

you need to happen over a span of frames

this will just freeze until its done

[spiral glen]

ah ok

how would I make it happen over a span of frames?

[wintry quarry]

This is more or less equivalent to not having those two lines at all

[spiral glen]

oh in update()

[wintry quarry]

use a coroutine

or Update

[spiral glen]

what's coroutine?

[wintry quarry]

it's a piece of code that lets you "wait" in the middle of it

[rich adder]

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

[wintry quarry]

a special type of function in Unity

[spiral glen]

like the time.wait() in python?

[wintry quarry]

not quite

Because it's a special kind of waiting

that doesn't freeze the whole application

[rich adder]

its unitys way of doing something similar to how async works
(while not being real async)

[wintry quarry]

it lets the rest of the game engine run while it waits

[spiral glen]

oh ok

I'll check that out before going to update

[hallow acorn]

is this a solution? ```
Transform[] Targets = new Transform[2];
GameObject[] Objects = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Target");
for (int i = 0; i < Targets.Length; i++)
{
Targets[i] = Objects[i].transform;
}
if(Random.Range(0, 2)== 0)
{
Vector3 TargetRotation = new Vector3(transform.rotation.x, Random.Range(Targets[0].transform.rotation.y - rotationVariance, Targets[0].transform.rotation.y + rotationVariance), transform.rotation.z);
}
else
{
Vector3 TargetRotation = new Vector3(transform.rotation.x, Random.Range(Targets[1].transform.rotation.y - rotationVariance, Targets[1].transform.rotation.y + rotationVariance), transform.rotation.z);
}

[summer stump]

Incorrect
If a tutorial doesn't work, it is almost certainly your own fault for not following it correctly

[rich adder]

the link I sent you has methods you can use

[wintry quarry]

transform.rotation.z is nonsense as is transform.rotation.y

[willow scroll]

If it freezes the application, it should be symilar to Thread.Sleep(int)

[spiral glen]

I'm peeping that rn

[hallow acorn]

why?

[polar acorn]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[wintry quarry]

because those are components of a Quaternion.

They are not euler angles

you can't treat them as euler angles

[polar acorn]

Because transform.rotation is a Quaternion, a 4-dimensional complex number that unless you're a PhD in math means absolutely fuck all to anyone

[hallow acorn]

so what should i do to fix this?

[polar acorn]

169 people have said the same thing before you. And 169 more are probably to come. Yes this is a live counter. Yes this is only things I have personally witnessed.

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 169
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2024-07-09

[hallow acorn]

transform.eulerAngles?

[polar acorn]

If you want the rotation in degrees, use eulerAngles not rotation

[hallow acorn]

ok thank u

[hallow acorn]

but why is just z nonsense?

[wintry quarry]

they're all nonsense

[hallow acorn]

oh ok thats what i wanted to hear haha

[wintry quarry]

z is just the first one i noticed in your code

[rich adder]

.rotation will give you numbers into 0-1 range

[polar acorn]

Do you know how to compute four-dimensional normalized complex numbers in 3D space?

[willow scroll]

The thing is that assigning the matrix's elements this way is not entirely correct, as they don't seem to save their values when accessed from target.

obstacleData.blockedTiles[row, col] = EditorGUILayout.Toggle(obstacleData.blockedTiles[row, col]);

You're also unable to access a SerializedProperty for a matrix with the SerializedProperty.FindProperty method, so I think the only may to do it is create your own structure with, note, a custom PropertyDrawer, not Editor, for it. This way, you also won't need to create a custom Editor for your class, assuming only this Type is meant to be drawn.

[rich adder]

they're not angles -180 to 180

[final kestrel]

I have been using rider but shit started acting weird. Do i go with vs code or visual studio you think?

[hallow acorn]

do you think i know how to compute four-dimensional normalized complex numbers in 3d space?

[polar acorn]

No, that's why I'm saying don't use .rotation

[queen adder]

i did its in the code however jump is still disabled this is the code that corresponds to my pressing jump button while on the object: if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && IsGrounded()) { transform.parent = null; rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse); }

[polar acorn]

Because that is a four-dimensional normalized vector

[rich adder]

when using .rotation to set angles, always use the Quaternion.Euler method

[hallow acorn]

ok so i just delete every rotation and write eulerAngles instead and problem fixed?

[polar acorn]

Maybe? I don't know what the problem is I just wanted to explain why .rotation doesn't mean what you think it means

[celest holly]

i dont know what you mean or like i dont think thats connected to the parenting

[rich adder]

only when reading/setting angles really use euler

storing rotations always use Quaternions

[hallow acorn]

bro i just want to turn my cannon why is this so complicated

[wintry quarry]

because you don't understand it

[spiral glen]

would this work to create a 3 second delay w/ enumerators?

[rich adder]

its not. Once you understand difference between Euler angles and Quaternion

[wintry quarry]

not really, because it will wait 3 seconds before not doing anything

[queen adder]

it is but i think i found the problem, its because of my IsGrounded method

[hallow acorn]

yeah that sounds like me

[hallow acorn]

ok

[spiral glen]

how do I remove the not doing anything part

[polar acorn]

That would indeed delay for 3 seconds, but it will wait 3 seconds then do nothing then end so it wouldn't accomplish much

[celest holly]

show me the code

[polar acorn]

By having it do something

[spiral glen]

Do I put the something after the waitforseconds?

[polar acorn]

Yes, if you want it to happen after the wait

[spiral glen]

ah ok

[rich adder]

i thought you wanted to wait for the door activate ?

[wintry quarry]

are you just trying to point at a random direction between two directions?

[spiral glen]

I wanted to make it wait 3 seconds then close the door

[rich adder]

oh ok then yeah put after the wait

[spiral glen]

this function is being called by the door activate thing

[queen adder]

https://hastebin.com/share/valazevoyu.csharp

[hallow acorn]

no im trying to make it 50:50 which direction it points and then increasing the area by adding some variance

[wintry quarry]

ok those sound like two separate problems

[hallow acorn]

wdym?

[queen adder]

IsGrounded only check if my player is colliding with a ground object that has another layer not the platform layer

that must be the problem, ill fix it

[celest holly]

you could shoot a raycast down instead

i think thats how most people do it

i think it just works better in general

[queen adder]

i fixed it thanks for the advice

[wintry quarry]

1. Picking a random target
2. adding some random variance to the rotation

I think you just want something simple like:

// Pick random target
GameObject[] Objects = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Target");
int randomItem = Random.Range(0, Objects.Length);
Transform target = Objects[randomItem].transform;

// point at the target with some random variation
float rotationVariance = Random.Range(-10f, 10f);
Vector3 directionToTarget = (target.position - transform.position).normalized;
Vector3 rotatedDirection = Quaternion.Euler(0, rotationVariance, 0) * directionToTarget;
transform.forward = rotatedDirection;```

[hallow acorn]

bro what

youre blowing my mind

[wintry quarry]

It's unclear to me why your old code was reading the rotation of the target

we don't care about the rotation of the target unless I'm misunderstanding the ask

[hallow acorn]

yeah idk

[trail harbor]

Any idea why I have to regenerate csproj after opening visual studio 2022 everytime? IDE doesn't work before running the regenarate button in unity

[rich adder]

try deleting library folder maybe and refreshing the whole project ?

delete old csprojs if any

try other new projects see if its same problem

[slender nymph]

is it just that, or do you also have to change the dropdown setting there to Visual Studio again?

[trail harbor]

Exactly

[languid spire]

then you probably need to delete the .sln file as well

[rich adder]

ohh thats weird is it not saving the settings?

[slender nymph]

if that is the case then unity is for some reason unable to write the setting to the registry. if you launch it as admin, change that setting, then relaunch without admin permissions that setting will stick

[trail harbor]

deleted libary folder and the .sln ill try now

alright

[slender nymph]

neither of those steps you've tried are relevant to the actual issue

[rich adder]

oh yeah then this is prob not project

editor issue

[stark sapphire]

Hey so I'm new to the programming thing with Unity, currently I'm trying to make a Save System for Character Creation, I want it to be Artist Friendly without needing to touch code and it's set up, the only problem is, nothing saves.
What I want to save are mostly the Blendshapes on the Character Body and the Prefabs that attach during runtime, but no matter what I do nothing seems to make it save anything.

[trail harbor]

Thanks, it worked by using all 3 steps, running as admin and deleting libary & sln. Just did all at once and it worked.

[river quiver]

if i want to use the Vector3.Lerp and move the object smoothly i probably would need to place it in the Update() or can i try with a while loop inside another function which executes after clicking a button

[rich adder]

Coroutines or Update

[slender nymph]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[cosmic dagger]

Not like this . . . 😭

[stark sapphire]

What do you mean?

[languid spire]

He means if you want people to look at your code, post it correctly

[stark sapphire]

How do I do that?

[languid spire]

there is a bot message right there

[stark sapphire]

Ah okay, I'll try it that way.

[slender nymph]

and if it wasn't clear, you should be using links to a bin site, not the inline code section

[sudden pilot]

guys what is the more optimize way for read a code frame frame

ı mean like fixedupdate reads 50 frame each second

but ı want some funcıon reads 5 frame each second

[slender nymph]

can you explain wtf you mean by that

[verbal dome]

Do you mind elaborating a bit because this makes no sense

[sudden pilot]

be careful wıth your words

[verbal dome]

You could use a timer

[sudden pilot]

ı mean ı wants some new update functıon but it works 1 or 10 frame each second

[slender nymph]

use a timer

[sudden pilot]

ı know it thıs can be or couratıne ıs a optıon too but

isnt there any other way right?

[languid spire]

no way you can be sure to run for 5 frames/second you can only approx it

[sudden pilot]

yea ı need to do ıt approx

[languid spire]

coroutine is favourite

[sudden pilot]

just ı want to know is there any way to make more slow functıon lıke update

[sudden pilot]

yea ı love ıt

[spiral glen]

if I use a static class, can I access the methods from that class in any other class?

[summer stump]

Yes

Via the type of course

Mathf.Max
Oh wait, is that the weird one they made a struct?

[slender nymph]

naturally they do need to be public

[zenith cypress]

That's a static function in a struct

[summer stump]

Yeah just remembered. Picked the worst example of course

[spiral glen]

is there a static class thing on the unity website, I can only find it for game objects (so I can figure out what I'm doing with it)

[slender nymph]

wdym by "static class thing"

[spiral glen]

gimme a sec I'll try to find an exmaple

[slender nymph]

to create a static class you declare it as static in the code

[summer stump]

Well, a static class is more c# than unity

[slender nymph]

it is not the same thing as making a gameobject static

[spiral glen]

yeah idk I'm just trying to figure out how to solve the CS0713 error I got

[polar acorn]

What is the actual error

[spiral glen]

Static class 'Control' cannot derive from type 'MonoBehaviour'. Static classes must derive from object.

[polar acorn]

Well yeah

static classes can't be MonoBehaviours

[slender nymph]

you cannot inherit from MonoBehaviour or any class for that matter if you are making a static class

[spiral glen]

ik but then what do I put there

[summer stump]

Just NOT static, or NOT monobehaviour

[polar acorn]

Don't make it a MonoBehaviour

[summer stump]

You can write a class that doesn't inherit anything

public class MyClass { }

[slender nymph]

note that if you need this attached to some gameobject for any reason at all then it cannot be a static class because it must derive from MonoBehaviour

[zenith cypress]

it inherits object

[spiral glen]

I'm just gonna find a video to explain static classes

[slender nymph]

answer this: why do you need it to be a static class

[polar acorn]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/static-classes-and-static-class-members

[spiral glen]

Sharing variables with getters and setters

[slender nymph]

that has nothing at all to do with being a static class

[spiral glen]

damn man

[wanton pecan]

Or maybe have u ever thought if it's out dated

[polar acorn]

Unless it has to do with networking, render pipelines, or post-processing, it's probably been the same for ten years

[summer stump]

Yes I have. And that would be an incorrect assumption

[slender nymph]

a static class ensures that there are 0 instances of that class and that all of its members are static.
explain the actual use case for what you are trying to do and a proper solution can be suggested

[polar acorn]

How about you shouw an example? Show your code and the tutorial that "doesn't work"

[summer stump]

It would have to be VERY old (unity 5-) to be so outdated it is useless, and even then, it would just be different api calls most likely, so still useful. So yes, still your fault

[spiral glen]

I made a speed variable for my class, "basicmovement" and I'm trying to share it between "Phone" so I can change it whilst the phone is activated.

[polar acorn]

Then Phone should reference an instance of this class and modify that instance's basicmovement

[slender nymph]

you need a reference to the instance. you do not need static anything to be able to access variables on other objects

do not abuse static just for easy referencing

[spiral glen]

I'll give it a try

[eternal falcon]

Join the C# Discord server, a programming server aimed at coders discussing everything related to C# (CSharp) and .NET. https://discord.com/invite/csharp

[tired bluff]

Hey guys. Can you tell me why the code is completely highlighted in red in the upper right corner? It seems to have written everything correctly, but it is still highlighted in red.

[verbal dome]

All those red lines have errors in them

As you can see the red underlines in the code itself too

[tired bluff]

In another project, everything is fine, although it is written the same way

[verbal dome]

Is this on an older unity/C# version?

[tired bluff]

No, on a new one

[verbal dome]

The one with errors is a newer version?

In any case, look at the errors and show us

And share the whole script !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[slender nymph]

i do want to point out that if this did have errors, you wouldn't see them underlined in red because this visual studio is not configured for use with unity

[tired bluff]

So the whole problem is that Visual Studio is not configured for Unity?

[slender nymph]

i never said that. i said that your visual studio is not configured so it won't show errors

[tired bluff]

Understood. And how can you tell me how to set it up?

[slender nymph]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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[slender nymph]

also actually providing any information about what the errors are would help determine the actual cause of them

i have a theory, but you'll need to actually confirm the errors to confirm whether my theory is correct

[tired bluff]

Of the main problem, I can only highlight the fact that I have only screenshots on my hands.

[slender nymph]

wdym you only have screenshots? do you not have the unity editor open to actually see the errors in the console?

[tired bluff]

Specifically, the project with these errors is located on another computer, to which, at the moment, I do not have access

[slender nymph]

well then come back for help when you do have access

[bright grail]

Hey guys i need a little help im trying to make this thing in unity shoot 4 bullets in different directions based off of what directing the shooter is facing but they all seem to go into the same direction i tried looking on google and couldnt find anything. here is the script https://gdl.space/fihatavuye.cs

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/quaternions/members

[wintry quarry]

I don't see anything in this code that would shoot more than one bullet

[bright grail]

its put on all 4 shooters

[slender nymph]

also consider not using the rotation values at all for the force, and instead use either transform.up or transform.right depending on which direction they are supposed to face

[wintry quarry]

also

            if (timer >= 2)
            {
                timer -= 2;``` would be more correct

[wintry quarry]

EnemyGunPos.transform.rotation.z < this is nonsense

transform.rotation is a Quaternion

you will only get a value between -1 and 1 from this

so yeah they'll all basically shoot to the right

why wouldn't you just do

rb.AddForce(EnemyGunPos.transform.right * BulletSpeed, ForceMode2D.Impulse);```

why get angles involved at all

even if you wanted an angle here and had the correct one... you were applying it to the y part of a direction vector? It didn't make any sense at all as you had it

You could also just do:

rb.AddRelativeForce(Vector2.right * BulletSpeed, ForceMode2D.Impulse);```

[bright grail]

wait so are you saying this fixes it?

[slender nymph]

that will at least make it go in the correct direction instead of a nonsense direction. at the moment though you have nothing that makes them point in different directions

[bright grail]

i have them rotate around this circle

[silver flicker]

Hey, I've looked around, but I need some advice. I'm trying to detect a change in a variable (mouse position for context but it'd be nice to know what to do generally) that will need to be called every frame, what is the best method of detecting a change in this variable?

[slender nymph]

use a property with an event being invoked in its setter. only invoke the event when the value is different. then you just assign to the property and it will invoke the event so anything subscribed to that event will be notified of its change

[silver flicker]

Okay, gonna have to look up a lot of that terminology, but thats a good starting point, thanks I'll try it out

[wintry quarry]

I wouldn't have recommended a thing that doesn't work

[spiral glen]

anyone know why this error is happening?

(on 21 and 18)

[summer stump]

Movement is null

[verbal dome]

You have an instance of this component where movement is not assigned

[rapid storm]

Hey everyone, i need a little help with a editor script. i'm a beginner on unity and C#, but experienced programmer

My problem is in this print.

I tried make a editor script on unity and need use a class MonoBehaviour, but cannot use this by missing reference, error: The type or namespace Interactable could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Editor script: Assets/Editor/InteractableEditor.cs
MonoBehaviour script: Assets/Scripts/Interactable.cs

[spiral glen]

where?

[summer stump]

Type t:BasicMovement into the hierarchy

We cannot tell you where of course

[spiral glen]

how do i do that

[summer stump]

Go to the hierarchy and use your keyboard to type it?

Not sure which part is not clear

[spiral glen]

I don't know where the hierarchy is

[summer stump]

The hierarchy shows the names of th things in your scene, and their relations to each other. It is on the left by default

[spiral glen]

on unity or my code editor

[summer stump]

Unity

[spiral glen]

it only shows my player object which contains the basicmovement script which is being accessed through the Phone script

[verbal dome]

Close VS, then in your file explorer go to your project folder and open the .sln file from there

Worth trying

[summer stump]

Show the inspector of the object

[spiral glen]

am I being dumb or smthin, I really don't see what I'm doing wrong here

[verbal dome]

You should really learn what the windows in the unity editor are called

[summer stump]

Show the inspector of the object

[ivory bobcat]

Google Unity Inspector and show us the inspector

[spiral glen]

mb

[verbal dome]

You should search for t:Phone actually

[spiral glen]

oh

[summer stump]

This does not have Phone on it.
GetComponent only finds components on the SAME object

[verbal dome]

Also movement is private so it doesn't show in the inspector

[summer stump]

Unless you specify the object beforehand

[rapid storm]

i don't have a .sln

[spiral glen]

I'm still confused, what am I doing wrong here?
I used an object reference n' stuff

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

As I said, Phone is on a different object

So your method is not going to work

[polar acorn]

You have an object with the Phone component on it that doesn't have a BasicMovement component on it

[verbal dome]

@summer stump You told them to search for BasicMovement which probably confused them

[polar acorn]

You're setting movement to the BasicMovement component from this object

[summer stump]

Yeah, I get that. But that was the only thing that made sense to search for at the time

[spiral glen]

How does that effect the accessing of basicmovement

[polar acorn]

Because you set movement to the BasicMovement component on this object

[verbal dome]

Ah true, just noticed the GetComponent and private variable

[polar acorn]

if you wanted to get it from a different object you should reference that one

[spiral glen]

oh

[ivory bobcat]

You're showing the object with the basic movement component whereas they're asking for you to show the object with the Phone component

[spiral glen]

oh ok

[latent sedge]

What is the hotkey called where you want to skip a line without bringing everything in front of your current placement down to that line as well. Example

"He
llo"

[verbal dome]

Show your External tools settings

[polar acorn]

You mean how to add a line break in a string? \n

[verbal dome]

So regenerating project files helped, did you restart Unity and VS after that?

[ivory bobcat]

The object with the Phone component did not properly reference a Basic Movement component and does not have a Basic Movement component thus the Get Component call returned null to be assigned to movement on line 10. Best practice would be to reference from the inspector when possible.

[latent sedge]

I'd like to move down a line without bringing everything down with it. Like if i press enter, it'll bring the "llo" down with me, when i just want to go down

[polar acorn]

Like, in an IDE?

press the down arrow

[latent sedge]

The arrow key is so far away from my other fingies though! Theres not a closer hotkey?

[rapid storm]

• no errors on console of unity
• same errors on VS
• simple code not working

[latent sedge]

my pinky cant reach while im typing quickly

[polar acorn]

If you can reach enter you can reach the arrow keys

[latent sedge]

Phooey.

Okay thanks!

[verbal dome]

Turn on Numlock and use the numpad arrows 🧠

[ivory bobcat]

But the numpad is further than the arrow keys 😔 - assuming home row.

[verbal dome]

Closer to the right hand though lol

[fading mountain]

quick question, can I have script 1 with public IEnumerator method StartGame() and in script 2 call script 1.StartCoroutine(StartGame())

[verbal dome]

I'm mostly joking here, using that feels horrible

I use arrow keys with my right hand, at least

[latent sedge]

I use my my pinky to reach the enter key while my other fingers can type, in order to hit the arrow keys id have to reach over and stop typing in order to reach it!

[verbal dome]

I can't help you further, I don't really even use VS

[slender nymph]

looks like the assembly-csharp project is unloaded, that will need to be right clicked and loaded with dependencies. that should fix all of this

[wintry quarry]

You could but it would be poor practice on my opinion. It's usually best to have each MonoBehaviour start its own coroutines, since their lifecycle is tied to the object where StartCoroutine was called. Better practice would be to have a private coroutine which your public function starts

[rapid storm]

oh, what you use for scripting in unity?

[verbal dome]

Visual Studio Code. VS had some horrible performance issues for me, at least in large projects

[rapid storm]

genius, thats it

loaded the project with dependencies

thanks guys @verbal dome @slender nymph

[fading mountain]

Thank you!

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/glltpggfdy On line 42 it says index out of range exception. I have my Slots set up in the inventory. I can switch between my slots using my keyboard just fine but it throws the error.

I am kind of confused

[polar acorn]

Add this line before it:

Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name}'s inventorySlots is of size {inventorySlots.Length}, newValue is {newValue}");

And show what it says

[final kestrel]

It should be of size 4 all the time no? Why is it 0

I am following a tutorial btw

[spiral glen]

I figured it out 🙂

[final kestrel]

This is where I keep them

[polar acorn]

You have two copies of this script

[verbal dome]

Do you have another InventoryManager in the scene?

[final kestrel]

I do indeed. How did you notice?

[verbal dome]

Well, one log says it has 4 slots and the other says 0

[final kestrel]

Ah okay that fixes it. I copied another project which Ive been working on saving scriptable object data. I must've forgotten to delete that. Thanks a lot.

[final kestrel]

I thought i was actually removing stuff from the array

[polar acorn]

You can't remove things from an array

they're fixed size on creation

[final kestrel]

Unlike lists right?

makes sense all right.

[wanton pecan]

I think I already have with the pong

[polar acorn]

Show code show tutorial show error

[wanton pecan]

It's night bro

3 am to be exact

It didn't work cuz the ball didn't return

[polar acorn]

Then why didn't you reply to me five hours ago

[wanton pecan]

Followed all bits

Bad tutorial

[wanton pecan]

I was out

[polar acorn]

Bad user

They all blame the tutorial

I showed you my counter.

169 times it has been the user. Five times it has been the tutorial

[wanton pecan]

Tons of ppl said the same in the comments btw

[polar acorn]

And three of those five were the same codemonkey video

[wanton pecan]

Not code monkey

[final kestrel]

wait code monkey bad?

[wanton pecan]

Listen brother not all tutorials work

Not my fault

[polar acorn]

Right but the chances you've found one that doesn't pales in comparison to the chances you did it wrong

I have literally been tracking this statistic for years.

I'd love to add more examples of times the tutorial was wrong

but at this point, that just doesn't really happen

[wanton pecan]

Ok discord addict

[polar acorn]

Code Monkey not great and often leaves in mistakes they fix later in the video without mentioning

[wanton pecan]

All I came on here to do was find out what was wrong with the code

[final kestrel]

Ahh okay. I'll keep that in mind.

[polar acorn]

So there will just be a cut where the code is different and they never mention the changes

[polar acorn]

Okay, so post it and we can

You haven't ever done that

you've just said the tutorial is bad and never followed up

[wanton pecan]

I said I followed the tutorial and it didn't work and y'all kept going on and on about me not following it

[polar acorn]

We also said to show your code and what the tutorial was and you never did

[wanton pecan]

I did

[polar acorn]

okay, where is it

[wanton pecan]

U gotta scroll up on the other channel buddy

[polar acorn]

Oh this?

Where you were wrong and the tutorial was right?

[summer stump]

You can share it more than once.

[safe radish]

somewhat code related and im a beginner, how hard is it to use a compute shader?

[polar acorn]

To use one? Not too hard. To make one, pretty complex

[wanton pecan]

After I set the tag it still didn't work

[safe radish]

seems like part of the algorithm im working on will be to heavy for the cpu and saw that compute shaders were perfect for those tasks

[verbal dome]

Intermediate I'd say. What do you need it to do?

[polar acorn]

All right so show the updated code and what the current error is

[wanton pecan]

I checked all codes 10 times

[summer stump]

Share the code and the tutorial

[wanton pecan]

Already did

[summer stump]

No. Do it again

Now, so that those that are here can actually see jt

[wanton pecan]

It's 3am not showing that shit again late at night buddy

[summer stump]

Then stop talking and leave until you can

[safe radish]

havent finishbed the algorithm yet, but it will take all fluid cells and check their neighbours fillAmount and pressure to decide in which way to flow

[wanton pecan]

U said now

Just scroll up

[summer stump]

And you said you can't 🤷‍♂️

[summer stump]

That is a really dumb response.
You can link if you want but I am not scrolling through a ton of posts just to find the one from the person demanding help
When you want help, post the code and the tutorial. Until then, leave

[polar acorn]

Yet you've got plenty of time to sit here and complain

[wanton pecan]

Yup this GC ain't helping nothin

[polar acorn]

If it's too late to solve the problem then it's definitely too late to bitch about how you can't solve your problem

[verbal dome]

Well, there's some extra complexity when you need to read the neighboring cells in parallel, but it you should be able to find lots of learning about that online.
Compute shaders are pretty fun, but no one can really judge if it's above your level or not

If you ever wrote shaders then it might feel a bit more familiar

[safe radish]

only shadergraph, but ive seen they are way more suited for more complex algorithms. or too heavy for the cpu at least so i think its worth a shot at least if its not too advanced

[verbal dome]

Also knowing C# helps a bit, there's some similiarities

[verbal dome]

I'd say give it a try 🤷‍♂️

[safe radish]

will do👍

is there a specific channel for compute shaders if i cant figure something out?

[verbal dome]

Probably #archived-shaders but #archived-code-general / #archived-code-advanced might be fine too

[safe radish]

allright ty

[spiral glen]

isn't this how you make an advance for loop (i : array)?

[wintry quarry]

no

[polar acorn]

Not in C#

[spiral glen]

man

[wintry quarry]

that's java foreach syntax

[polar acorn]

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

[spiral glen]

oh it's more straight forwards

[wintry quarry]

you want either:

foreach (GameObject obj in beanArray)```
or a regular for loop

[spiral glen]

c# is so similar to java except when it decides to be randomly quirky

[polar acorn]

Actually foreach loops are pretty recent for Java so it's java that decided to be quirky

[spiral glen]

oh

quirked up coding language

[steep rose]

i have a step offset for a rigidbody controller i have and it works fine going up the steps, but when i go down my character kinda just floats off, any ideas on how to detect if my character is going down the steps?

[wintry quarry]

I would recommend, if at all possible, just using a flat ramp collider instead of actual step shaped colliders

it greatly simplifies things

[steep rose]

i know of that and i probably will for some parts of my map but i do need the stair code for other parts

[summer stump]

It's also quite common, even in big games

How are you currently detecting going UP steps?

[steep rose]

a raycast is right where the "foot" of my character is and if it detects a step my character goes up it a bit

currently only if you are walking forward

[eternal needle]

is this even related to the steps? Sounds more like you aren't projecting your movement to the floors normal which would have you move downwards with the slope
oh sorry, if it is steps then this is different

[frigid quartz]

Hope this makes sense...
Will a function stored in a variable be called when the variable is passed into another function call?

[steep rose]

theres no slope

[spiral glen]

can someone explain what the maxDistanceDelta means in regards to the Vector2/3.Movetowards?

[steep rose]

i will add the stepping based of movement

but for now

yeah

[polar acorn]

A function stored in a variable will not be called unless you actually invoke it

[polar acorn]

The maximum distance to move in one call to MoveTowards

[frigid quartz]

Okay so topCard wouldn't update when it's used within MoveCard?

Transform topCard = deckManager.GetTopCard();
MoveCard(topCard, players.GetChild(targetIndex).Find("Player").Find("Hand"));

[spiral glen]

oh so like how large the step is towards moving object

[polar acorn]

What does MoveCard do

[polar acorn]

Yes, but if that distance is greater than the distance remaining, it will just go to the end point and stop

[spiral glen]

that isn't a problem, thanks

[frigid quartz]

Just reparents the chosen card (topCard), to a new parent ("Hand" in thise case)

void MoveCard(Transform card, Transform toParent) {
card.SetParent(toParent, false);
}

[polar acorn]

Also, nothing here is storing a function anywhere

These are all just normal variables that hold objects

[eternal needle]

my bad i was thinking of something else, you could also snap the player down but i just wouldnt go for steps at all if it can be avoided as others wrote. This snapping down behaviour would be tedious. On small steps it'd look the exact same to just fake the stairs, on large steps it'd look unnatural

[frigid quartz]

Kinda confused by that, sorry

This is GetTopCard()

public Transform GetTopCard() {
    return transform.GetChild(transform.childCount - 1);
}

brb gonna figure out how to properly send you code, been awhile since I've been on here

[steep rose]

yeah i have the snap code in place, all i need it to detect if im moving down the stairs

wait

[polar acorn]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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```cs
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```
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[steep rose]

i might have thought of something

brb

[frigid quartz]

Thanks!

[polar acorn]

This is a function that returns a transform. Your question of "Storing a function in a variable" is not happening anywhere in what you've shown

[frigid quartz]

    void DealCardsToAllPlayers(int cardsPerPlayer) {
        CountTotalPlayers();

        Transform topCard = deckManager.GetTopCard();
        int startIndex = FindStartingSeatIndex();
        int dealerSeatIndex = FindDealerSeatIndex();
        int targetIndex;      

        //repeats as many times as cardsPerPlayer
        for (int c = 0; c < cardsPerPlayer; c++) {
            targetIndex = startIndex;
            //gives each player a card
            for (int p = 1; p <= totalPlayers; p++) {
                if (targetIndex < totalPlayers - 1) {
                    MoveCard(topCard, players.GetChild(targetIndex).Find("Player").Find("Hand"));
                    targetIndex++;
                } else if (targetIndex == totalPlayers - 1) {
                    MoveCard(topCard, players.GetChild(targetIndex).Find("Player").Find("Hand"));
                    targetIndex = 0;
                } else if (targetIndex == dealerSeatIndex) {
                    MoveCard(topCard, players.GetChild(targetIndex).Find("Player").Find("Hand"));
                    break;
                }                             
            }
        }                       
    }

[frigid quartz]

This is the full function that I'm using MoveCard in.

I'm trying to pick a new "topCard" from the top of the deck, each time it's dealt to a player.

[polar acorn]

Then you should probably call GetTopCard more than once

[frigid quartz]

   void DealCardsToAllPlayers(int cardsPerPlayer) {
        CountTotalPlayers();

        Transform topCard = deckManager.GetTopCard();
        int startIndex = FindStartingSeatIndex();
        int dealerSeatIndex = FindDealerSeatIndex();
        int targetIndex;      

        //repeats as many times as cardsPerPlayer
        for (int c = 0; c < cardsPerPlayer; c++) {
            targetIndex = startIndex;
            //gives each player a card
            for (int p = 1; p <= totalPlayers; p++) {
                if (targetIndex < totalPlayers - 1) {
                    MoveCard(topCard, players.GetChild(targetIndex).Find("Player").Find("Hand"));
                    targetIndex++;
                } else if (targetIndex == totalPlayers - 1) {
                    MoveCard(topCard, players.GetChild(targetIndex).Find("Player").Find("Hand"));
                    targetIndex = 0;
                } else if (targetIndex == dealerSeatIndex) {
                    MoveCard(deckManager.GetTopCard(), players.GetChild(targetIndex).Find("Player").Find("Hand"));
                    break;
                }                             
            }
        }                       
    }

[polar acorn]

Right now you're storing a reference in topCard and using that object for every MoveCard that happens

[frigid quartz]

Like so?

wrong copy/paste

my bad

[night raptor]

Find method 6 times in a double for loop 💀

[frigid quartz]

Edited this with the code I meant to send

[frigid quartz]

Yeah, I'm going to clean that up lol

[night raptor]

You better do. Fine for prototyping but not a great design choise long term

[polar acorn]

Whenever you call GetTopCard() it will return whatever thing that function gets and store it in the variable. It does not matter what you do with that variable afterwards. GetTopCard() is only called when you specifically call it

[frigid quartz]

I'm still beginner af, this project is just practice at this point. I've been on and off with unity though for a few years so sorta know some stuff but in bits and pieces

[frigid quartz]

Okay, yeah that makes sense. That's why I was originally asking if it would be called when the variable is used or if it is only called when it's assigned. But you confirmed that it's only when it's assigned. Thank you!

[polar acorn]

It's only called when you call it. The assigning doesn't matter.

A line that's just GetTopCard() would also call the function, even though you don't store the result anywhere

[night raptor]

Everyone started somewhere. Just as a general tip it's always good to avoid using the Find methods since there's always a better way to do it. Relying on object names is always prone to errors and has it's performance impact as well which in your case likely isn't that big of a deal

[frigid quartz]

Yeah, I guess I was seeing the variable as being a way to "copy and paste" GetTopCard(), but I'm realizing now that it's just calling it the one time and storing the return value, then it's "copy/pasting" the value, not the function.

[frigid quartz]

Okay good to know! I'll look into it and see what I can do to refactor(?) the code.

My goal with this is to build a poker game prototype that holds the basic foundation to make a card game mobile app, but I know the latter is far away.

Like eventually I wanna make a full on casino game, but again that's a future dream

[limber bear]

I just started today and i could have gone better. Why does it not find follow the object? Anything wrong with the code or have i doen something wrong in Unity?
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Hode : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform Kropp1;
void Update()
{

        Vector3 targetPosition = Kropp1.position + new Vector3(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); 
        transform.position = targetPosition;
    
}

}

[rich adder]

where you put script? did you verify its running ?

[limber bear]

Yeah its running. In the console it says that i have to do something with the Inspector.

[sharp abyss]

What does if(collision.collider.gameObject.CompareTag(‘’something’’)) check? Does it check if the tag of my gameobject is something

[rich adder]

Null reference exception you probably didn't assign Kropp

[rich adder]

thats not how you write it

CompareTag is a function

[sharp abyss]

Ohh with pharanthesis right

[rich adder]

correct.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.CompareTag.html

but yeah that check the tag on the object as you can see ^