💻┃code-beginner

[round plover]

yeah id di

i dont get it

omgh

nevermind

i see

i put a , after 500 lmao

[cinder crag]

oh my god , im dumb mb , now the error doesnt show up but the weapon gets destroyed

[summer stump]

Well yeah. You call destroy on it immediately

Simply... don't

If you want to destroy the PREVIOUSLY held item, call destroy BEFORE instantiating and setting the new one

[cinder crag]

good lord , thank you man that worked perfectly

love you bro

[round plover]

can anyone help me via dm hjaving trouble w my project

[cinder crag]

now DoTween gives me warnings since im using it for my weapon rotation but it stops when i have a new weapon in hand but just in case how can i get rid of the warning

[eternal needle]

#854851968446365696

[raw token]

Most people won't commit to go into DMs and trying to answer a question they know nothing about, especially when they don't even know the scope or focus of the question. It's detrimental for all parties involved - the asker ends up with fewer eyeballs on the question and possibly with someone who can't solve their problem, or may lead them astray, and the answerer has no idea what they're getting into or what they're committing to. See also

[rich adder]

you're destroying a transform while its still tweening it seems

[round plover]

what the gyatt

[cinder crag]

yep , tried checking if the gameobject exists and if the transform exists but it still appears

[cinder crag]

aint no way you used gyatt unironically

[rich adder]

well because you're destroying it while the tweening is happening already
you would have to stop the tween itself first

[round plover]

lol

[summer stump]

You probably don't want to be moderated at this stage of your learning, so I recommend taking a minute to go do something else and be careful when coming back

[eternal needle]

you'll quickly be banned or blocked by most people here if you just troll. If you cant read then start learning to

[cinder crag]

you can stop a tween? how??

[rich adder]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37214649/how-to-kill-current-running-dotween-sequence-in-unity3d

[summer stump]

Of course you can. A tween library would be useless without that ability.
"How" depends on the library of course
Nav linked the way for DOTween

[round plover]

okay my problem is my getkey command isnt working it does nothing

[rich adder]

isn't working ? what does that mean?

[round plover]

well im following a tutorial to get fimilar with unity and c# and just followed what the guy did and im having issues i feel maybe because the vid was 7 years ago

[rich adder]

what kind of issues? thats vague

[summer stump]

No, there are no changes in the last 7 years that would cause any issues like that

[rich adder]

what is supposed to happen vs what is happening instead

[summer stump]

You should maybe... show the code...

[rich adder]

& link tutorial too

[mint remnant]

you've added debug lines already right?

[round plover]

ah im trying to move my object to the right using getkey D but it isnt working is hard to explain am noob

[summer stump]

You are adding force twice

And that should be upper case iirc

[rich adder]

def dont use time.deltaTime on addforce

thats why you had to crank it to 500

[round plover]

idk im just following the guy idk why it shoould be any different

[rich adder]

show tutorial. sounds like its a bad one lol

[summer stump]

link to the tutorial

[round plover]

https://youtu.be/Au8oX5pu5u4?si=m6I2SoWEHzlEDHq0

its a8 min video

[summer stump]

Ah brackeys. Of course

[radiant frigate]

https://gdl.space/wusawutigi.cs does someone know why my character isnt moving? is something wrong with the code? or is it external ?

[rich adder]

what a surprise

[raw token]

oof - I didn't realize he was the source of some of that confusion 😅

[round plover]

womp womp rookie mistake?

[rich adder]

oh mygod he doesnt even use KeyCode

[radiant frigate]

lmao

[rich adder]

was it not available back then ? or just typical bad brackys

[round plover]

i just need help figuring it out

[rich adder]

dont follow this tutorial is bad

Time.deltaTime in Force while in fixedupdate is horrid

[raw token]

What's getting logged there?

[rich adder]

if you want to learn unity properly start wiht !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[radiant frigate]

vector zero

[summer stump]

Verified that lowercase d SHOULD work. Add some debugs as suggested

[round plover]

oh and also when i put my foward force to 200 so my cube rolls foward it doesnt do anything unless i put it aobve 300

[radiant frigate]

i have it registered, or atleast so it seems

[round plover]

hard to explain for me

[summer stump]

Stop using YouTube (especially Brackeys or Code Monkey or Dave). Start a new project and follow !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[rich adder]

thats because you should not have TIme.deltaTime on addforce

thats why the numbers are ridiculously high

but if the cube is flipping you probably forgot to lock the rotation

[round plover]

yeah but i dont get why it isnt working the same as his?

[round plover]

no i did

[raw token]

Even when you apply the appropriate input? It sounds like that input action might be misconfigured... Maybe share a screenshot of the inspector for this script, and one of the configuration for the action?

[summer stump]

Because of some other issue. Start over with a proper tutorial

[round plover]

so how should i write it then

[rich adder]

you just dont add them

[radiant frigate]

maybe its just a rookie mistake, but i did a movement system like 3 hours ago and it worked

[summer stump]

Without deltaTime, as you were told

[round plover]

ah

but whjat do i add then

[summer stump]

But seriously, you keep ignoring this so I will keep saying it. Start over with a decent tutorial (like the one you were linked to)

[summer stump]

Oh geez. No, without the * Time either

[round plover]

no i know i just removed it

[round plover]

i cant because im learning this for someone and they want me to follow this

[summer stump]

Tell them that you don't want to learn from trash

And would rather learn properly

[round plover]

i mean i alridy put 5 hours into this id hate to js quit

[summer stump]

Because doing it this way will take far longer

[summer stump]

Sunk cost fallacy

[cinder crag]

tried everything there and still nth

[summer stump]

You will not lose your knowledge. And 5 hours is a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the time it will take for anything worthwhile

[rich adder]

some times is best to start over , you will go faster with something better

[round plover]

okay

ill talk to him i guess

[rich adder]

you could store the sequence then Kill it in OnDestoy method

[raw token]

Yeah that all seems fine to me, at a glance. Perhaps the Player action map is not enabled? I think there's a debugger for this 🤔

[radiant frigate]

the unity tutorials on their page are actually goated

[round plover]

i mean ill wait since hes more fimilar then me with c# and unity and see what he says

[summer stump]

If he recommended that tutorial, he is not very familiar with either 😸
No offense

Or maybe he just didn't look at it before suggesting it. Might have been first google result

[radiant frigate]

im following one on IA navigation and the girl that explains it start from things as basic as what a normalized vector is and how it is calculated

[round plover]

he didnt look at it he just told me to follow it

[radiant frigate]

how could i enable it in that case?

[round plover]

lol

[summer stump]

Ah makes sense. That is messed up of him

[wanton kraken]

in my game, i have a powerup that the player can collide with in order to gain. how can i sense the collision with the player, without the player momentarily being slowed down/stopped while the two collide?

[round plover]

i mean hes a busy guy so.

i really want to figuyre it out tho

[radiant frigate]

i dont know if you want this but making it a trigger?

again, im lacking context but pretty sure thats what you want

[wanton kraken]

how do i implement that instead of oncollideenter?

[radiant frigate]

exactly the same but with OnTriggerEnter

and change the collider to trigger

[wanton kraken]

thank you! :)

[rich adder]

if they told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?

[summer stump]

Well the issue is not with the code shown, other than the deltaTime issue we mentioned. So you would need to provide more information. Share ALL the code (not with screenshots)
!code

Show the inspector of the object with that script attached

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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

[round plover]

im not familiar with unity im learning myself so obvi what do ik

[cinder crag]

so put Sequence mySequence = DoTween.Sequence() at the top of the RotateWeapon() method then kill the sequence OnDestroy method?

[raw token]

You can check Window > Analysis > Input Debugger. If the input actions are active, they'll be listed under Actions there while in play mode

[round plover]

oops

[summer stump]

Rotation is NOT frozen, but you said it was

[round plover]

wait whta

where rotation

[rich adder]

somelike that or the tween its been a while since i used dotween

[summer stump]

I also do not see the script

[round plover]

yeah my bad

wheews rotation

wheres

[summer stump]

On the rigidbody

[round plover]

i dont see rotation

😭

[rich adder]

yes but now you're somewhere with more experienced devs suggesting you use the Unity learn site instead to learn 😉

[rich adder]

constraints..

[radiant frigate]

they dont

[summer stump]

Really?

[round plover]

do i check all the boxes?

[summer stump]

Except y

[round plover]

didjn tknow it meant that

didnt

lol

its literllymnot moving

[summer stump]

We said "freeze rotation" and that is the only place those words are shown in that screenshot

[rich adder]

why did u freeze position

and why is time.delta time still there..

[round plover]

UN TOLD ME TOOO

[rich adder]

I said rotation

never said position

[raw token]

Okay cool. You could enable the specific action with

movementReference.action.Enable();

if necessary. Enabling the whole action map varies depending on how your Input System is configured, but if you're using the global workflow, it'd be like... uhh...

[round plover]

misclicke

[cinder crag]

okay i just had to put DOTween.Kill(transform) in OnDestroy() method and it fixed the problem lol

[rich adder]

nicee

[summer stump]

Show the code as I said

[round plover]

when i set my foward force to 200 it never moves

[round plover]

i did

[radiant frigate]

10/10 profile description

[cinder crag]

also i wanna hear ur thoughts , what if chargeable bow that deals damage based on how long you held ur charge button or smth like that

[summer stump]

You sent a screenshot of some of the code, which I EXPLICITLY said not to do

[cinder crag]

thanks bro

[summer stump]

And it had a syntax error that you SAID you removed, but apparantly did not

[rich adder]

yea what about it ?

[radiant frigate]

on start void right?

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[cinder crag]

i wanna hear ur thoughts tbh

[raw token]

Yeah that'd make sense

[rich adder]

Yeah that sounds pretty cool, should be easy to amke

[rich adder]

are you trolling ?

[summer stump]

Do
Not
Send
Screenshots

[radiant frigate]

i dont know why now i need to do it tho, literally have the last player controller that i had on my other screen and it didnt need to be activated

[rich adder]

!screenshots

[eternal falcon]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[round plover]

😂

wdym sent it then

send

oh copy n paste

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[summer stump]

No, absolutely not

[round plover]

😂

then idk

[rich adder]

if you aren't willing to properly help yourself to get helped, you're just gonna get a mod on you

[round plover]

what you mean

[raw token]

I think enabling the whole action map with the global workflow would be like

InputSystem.actions.FindActionMap("Player").Enable();

... I think. I'm not great with the Input System. I'd refer you to #🖱️┃input-system for better information 😁

[rich adder]

this is a waste of everyones time. Put some effort

[cinder crag]

also since i alr have a WeaponShooting script that handles all the weapon shooting stuff , if i wanna make the chargeable bow , do i replace the WeaponShooting with the new BowShooting script and then reference the WeaponShooting in the BowShooting script?

[round plover]

no im confused idk what he means

[summer stump]

I linked you to how to share code three times @round plover

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[radiant frigate]

ty!

[summer stump]

Look at "large code blocks"

[round plover]

kk

[summer stump]

And also ffs remove the syntax error you said you took out
On line 16
Also remove deltaTime from line 20

[round plover]

how does that work i copy n past my code into whjat u sent me

[round plover]

ok

[rich adder]

copy. paste, save and send link.

its not complex

[round plover]

ok

[cinder crag]

anyone know abt this ?

[raw token]

Yeah, I thought all action maps were enabled by default - at least in the global workflow. I'd be curious to hear if you glean any insights into why yours isn't 👀

[round plover]

okay i clicked enter

what now

[rich adder]

are you willing to waste my time on purpose?

[cinder crag]

copy the link and send it in here

[rich adder]

cause ill jst get mod on you

[round plover]

oh okay

[cinder crag]

also u still didnt delete that syntax

delete/remove

[round plover]

yes ik

https://gdl.space/ixowilitez.cpp

[summer stump]

Do that BEFORE SENDING THE CODE of course

[rich adder]

why are you sending code with synax errors

[cinder crag]

[summer stump]

How can you say ik and still send it

[round plover]

this cant be real okay

idk

[rich adder]

are you 12 ? what is happening

[round plover]

whaty ou emkan by remove delta time though

[summer stump]

Send the most current code including all changes you have been told to

[round plover]

idk what you mean*

[summer stump]

Select the words and press backspace......

[rich adder]

Time.deltaTime its an entire thing

remove it

all

[cinder crag]

the * Time.

[round plover]

ohh

kk

[rich adder]

and lowerr the speeds

they should be 10 times less

[cinder crag]

navarone could you perchance know smth abt this?

[summer stump]

You really really need to go back to a basic c# course before even doing the unity course we sent

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

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

[round plover]

alr im just followeing the tut

is this fine

ill send link

[summer stump]

No of course that is not fine

Do you see the red underline?!

[rich adder]

if the weapon functions differently just keep it simple and make your own script for it

[round plover]

error mb

[rich adder]

red underline = compile errors

its not fine

[summer stump]

I think I am going to have to block you and leave. I wish you the best lano

[round plover]

yeah i know i didnt notice

fixed it

[cinder crag]

and just copy these in the BowShooting script since i need them

[rich adder]

you're going to have to pay attention to what you do if you plan on doing any games

dont do something without knowing why you are doing it

[round plover]

i know

https://gdl.space/bebiquditi.cpp

im just annoyed why it isnt working like the tut is telling me

[rich adder]

well we told you its a bad tutorial

[round plover]

okay but how if it works fine for him?

[rich adder]

again its wrong

prove to me that now it doesn't work with this new code

and lower the speed

[round plover]

wheres the error smh

[rich adder]

what error ? there is no error anymore..

[summer stump]

inb4 "what speed"?

[round plover]

oh you said there was okok

nvm then

[velvet mango]

How would i go about checking if a function has been just called for an if statement in another script

[summer stump]

Nah actually, inb4 "it is so fast"
Because ignoring 90% of what we say seems the norm here

[summer stump]

A bool or event either flipped or invoked in the called method (respectively)

[round plover]

i ran it and my foward force is crazy high even if its still at 200

idk what i did jow

now

[rich adder]

where is the part where you shoot? thats mainly the only part that can change or just add that as an options for other weapons too, maybea bool

[summer stump]

Called it

[rich adder]

yes i told you its too high

[round plover]

what should i change it to then

[rich adder]

what do you think..
its trial and error, not that difficult

[round plover]

okay

[cinder crag]

its this pretty much and in Update i just check if i press left mouse button then call Shoot

[rich adder]

so just add an option for a chargable shot

[round plover]

its still crazy fast

[rich adder]

then obviously 200 is too high?

use your brain for a moment

[round plover]

2000 was high and 200 was slow sooo idk

okay then

[cinder crag]

like add a bool as an arg to the Shoot method?

[rich adder]

200 was slow before because of Time.deltaTime

which was wrong

[round plover]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[rich adder]

thats why he cranked up

cause its wrong

[round plover]

i see

also i changed this

[rich adder]

Physics objects already move on their fixed Update

[cinder crag]

this can work maybe

[rich adder]

yeah..isChargeable or sum

[round plover]

should i keep it at 2000

or leave it as it is

it was 2000f before

[rich adder]

you would have to design the whole shoot method again though

to compensate for "charge time" and whatnot (timer)

[tight owl]

I restarted it because it arrived after 15 minutes, it gets stuck there, why doesn't it load?

[rich adder]

dont change it in the code if its exposed in the inspector, the inspector takes precedence

thats why we have Serialized in the inspector so they can be adjusted, also while playing to figure out th eproper numbers

[rich adder]

not really a code question at all

[round plover]

so leave it as 2000 how it sbeen forall this time or change

[cinder crag]

cant i just wrap the Shoot code into smth like this

private void Shoot(bool isChargeable)
{
  if (!isChargeable)
{
normal shoot code
}
else
{
chargeable shoot code
}
}```

[rich adder]

Like I just said.. if its exposed in the inspector what you change in code is irrelevant since it already serialized with whatever number
It has to be changed in the inspector in that case

[round plover]

ah opkay

okay

[rich adder]

something like that, the bool can also just be a field

[cinder crag]

yep but i think using it as an arg feels more clean for some reason

[rich adder]

ig depends where you are storing that info

[cinder crag]

also i dont want the other guns to be able to charge so how can i check if its the bow ?

[rich adder]

well you gotta store it somewhere lol

[round plover]

navarone my getkey command isnt working

[velvet mango]

my problem is i have a function that it is essentially i have the function im trying to check has a string name (example 1) and in the if statement im trying to actually check for a specific string name (Example 2)

public void Function(string name)

if (script.instance.Function("nameofthing"))

how would you go about it?

[round plover]

can u see if theres a problem

[cinder crag]

i forgot abt this heheheheheheheh

[rich adder]

try if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))

[cinder crag]

can just simply check WeaponSO.name == 'Bow'

[rich adder]

I meant the bool

but yeah that works

[cinder crag]

yippie

[summer stump]

I would set a variable and check that variable
Or actually return something function

[rich adder]

except you use " not '

[cinder crag]

time to stay all night working on this

[rich adder]

' is for chars

[cinder crag]

i used ' cuz i wrapped the message in "

[round plover]

iput deltatime because i wanteds the force value i put in to represent the force per second

[rich adder]

this isn't javascript lol

[summer stump]

AddForce already is

[rich adder]

you dont even know what it does, what kinda logic is that..

[round plover]

also the getkode didnt work

[cinder crag]

no no i meant like it doesnt let me use "when "the message is already between brackets" so yeah"

[round plover]

its not moving at all

[rich adder]

show the updated code

send it the proper way as shown to you earlier

[rich adder]

ohh == "idk"

lol

[round plover]

https://gdl.space/dizabawuki.cpp

[cinder crag]

wtf

[cinder crag]

how does it let you

[rich adder]

so is it moving forward ?

[cinder crag]

oh wait "im stupid"

[round plover]

when i press d i want it to move right

[cinder crag]

thought `` was the same as "

[round plover]

and so forth yk what im trying to do

[rich adder]

oh haha

[rich adder]

I get it mate..

i know what ur trying to do

I asked you if its moving forward

[round plover]

oh yeah

when i press d nthg happens

[rich adder]

ok can you show the inspector for the object

[round plover]

ok

its for the red cube

[ivory bobcat]

Does the x value in the transform component ever change?

Also, don't acquire input in the fixed update method

[rich adder]

this might be part of it too ^

[ivory bobcat]

Acquire it in Update as some bool and use the bool in fixed update

[rich adder]

though since its GetKey and not KeyDown it should work fine

since it doesn't apply the force till fixedupdate frame anyway

[round plover]

whats transform

[ivory bobcat]

Ideally, yes - relative to key held

[round plover]

while i ran it

yes it changes

[ivory bobcat]

So the object does move

[round plover]

i mean yeah its moving foward

lol

[ivory bobcat]

Are you perhaps moving the floor as well?

[round plover]

nope

[ivory bobcat]

Forward in the standard position would be the z axis - I'm assuming your object's forward is in the standard position.

[round plover]

so why is my getkey working

solution?

[rich adder]

if it moved its working

[ivory bobcat]

You mean "not working"?

Put a log and see if it prints

[round plover]

yeha not lol

[round plover]

kk

can u type it

so i can copy n paste

or do it to my getkey statement

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[round plover]

wdym put a log

[summer stump]

Look at the message right before yours.....

[round plover]

i did

[summer stump]

AND click the link?

[round plover]

ok i will do that

[summer stump]

If you do that, you should absolutely know what a log is

Oh my god, you actually didn't? I was joking by suggesting you click it. I assumed you would have tried that already

[round plover]

huh

im so lost

idfreakin know wym by log

[raw token]

Spoonfeeding, on sympathy for their early juncture in the learning experience.

It prints a message to the console. So if you put it in your if statement's body and it logs a message, you know that execution has reached the statement body, and thus that the condition was true:

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
{
    Debug.Log("D key was down during FixedUpdate");
    rb.AddForce(500, 0, 0);
}

[round plover]

yeah ik that but i js didnt know where u guys weanted me to writ it lol

[summer stump]

For perhaps the fifth time, you need to IMMEDIATELY stop what you are doing
You need to do some very very basic courses (preferably not on youtube). This is quite ridiculous

[summer stump]

They showed you exactly what to write and where....
You could literally copy paste that. You need to put in at least 1% effort here

[ivory bobcat]

I just wanted to see if the code was executing.

[round plover]

i did

copy n paste

[summer stump]

!screenshots

[eternal falcon]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[ivory bobcat]

Check your console logs

[summer stump]

How many times have you been told no screenshots

[round plover]

@ivory bobcat

wont letr me run it

[summer stump]

They asked you to show the console

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming you aren't aware of what the console window is

[round plover]

i am

[rich adder]

then why did you how this

[round plover]

becuase i ran it first

[summer stump]

Show the whole thing, not cropped

[rich adder]

you hit clear?

[rocky canyon]

i belive he has

[rich adder]

ohits collapsed ofc

[round plover]

ya

[rich adder]

gg

[summer stump]

Errors are hidden

[void thicket]

lul

[round plover]

whatt

[rich adder]

amazing , how did you manage to do that

[summer stump]

Click the red icon

[rocky canyon]

click the stop sign icon

[rocky canyon]

yu've gotten ur errors disabled

[void thicket]

I only want warnings no errors 😠

[rich adder]

ima laugh if its still broken from * Time.

[eternal needle]

It's a miracle you guys are even helping still

[summer stump]

Just for the sixth time, but in a different way. You would probably be FURTHER in your project if you had restarted and followed the guide I linked when I first sent it

[rocky canyon]

i just peeked in

[rich adder]

yeah my patience ran out lol off to cook some bok choy. goodluck guys

[round plover]

alright whatever ill just dropp unity isnt for me lol to confusing

[raw token]

I suspect you pasted what I wrote into the class body, instead of adding the Debug.Log to your existing if statement in the FixedUpdate() method.

But yeah, if you do want to pick up a higher quality tutorial, the Junior Programmer Pathway on Unity Learn is a good start

[rich adder]

its confusing because you're jumping int he middle of the book instead of starting from the beginning..

how would you follow a movie from the middle of the story or beginning ?

[ivory bobcat]

You need to fix the errors

[round plover]

C# is new to me im only familiar with python 🤣

[eternal needle]

I too would give up building a rocket ship if I never learned advanced physics.
You're ignoring all advice to go do the basics, of course you wont be able to make a game

[rich adder]

start with the pathways and you will pick it up withina year

[eternal needle]

Even if you were familiar with python, some skills would translate. But you dont even seem to be aware what debugging is. Start from the absolute beginning

[round plover]

eh its a bit diff for me

little

[rich adder]

just reminder. link again .https://learn.unity.com/pathways

[summer stump]

I started with python and moved to c#

You know how I did that? It wasn't by jumping into an intermediate tutorial and demanding help on every sub-step and issue along the way.

I took basics courses.

Unity is one of the simpler game engines. If you are giving up on it as too confusing, don't think anything else is going to be LESS confusing.

You need to actually try. Trying means doing the basics, which Nav just linked (which is what, the eighth time it was linked?).

But if you wanna stick with python and use a slightly more confusing engine, check out pygame

[round plover]

yeah im only doing this because i was put on to learn wich i am going to be creating a demo for someone and obv im getting run trhough it all i needed to do was copy exactly what brackeys did but apperantly it doesnt even work

[summer stump]

I did go through that tutorial (after you linked it) and it worked for me. You did something else wrong

But it is too hard to even find out what because it is like nails on a chalkboard trying to get any info from you

I did remove the deltaTime and fix the force, but it did work before that too

[round plover]

are yopu at getkey part ?

you at

[summer stump]

I finished it

[round plover]

what the

u did exacltyt how he did it?

exactly

[eternal needle]

brackeys tutorials are shit but they do work for the purpose of the demonstrations. His video wouldnt be popular if they were filled with actual compile errors
I did the same tutorial years ago, you really just arent copying properly

[summer stump]

I did remove the deltaTime and fix the force, but it did work before that too

I made that change at like three quarters of the way through because I just couldn't handle that haha

[mint remnant]

his tower defense tutorial I thought was pretty cool

[round plover]

so should i restart the turoial

all im doing is copying

[summer stump]

No

Do !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ consider that you also refused to read the initial messages any of us sent (which is why i stepped away from helping). Its doubtful that you're even looking at the tutorial properly. its clear you're trying to copy as fast as you can, in which case youve taken a 1 hour process and turned it into a several hour struggle

[raw token]

Roadwarden hit me really hard. I had a minor bout of delirium when I learned it was built on pygame 😅

[mint remnant]

if you insist on youtube vids, go find Sebastion Lague's

[summer stump]

Sebastian is a bit too advanced for them imo. ("A bit" being QUITE generous)

[round plover]

i did u guys werent be specific enough for me to understand lol

[rich adder]

seb is more like Devlogs to learn from

not really a beginner tutorials

[summer stump]

You are required to put effor in on your own (see #854851968446365696 )

[mint remnant]

fair enough, but he does good clean code

[eternal needle]

do you really expect me to believe this lol

[summer stump]

We try not to spoonfeed

[round plover]

i only just pciked up c# since the morning

[summer stump]

Clean code by itself is more advance then they are at this point haha.
I always say just write crap until you get why you shouldn't

[summer stump]

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

[rich adder]

debatable

[summer stump]

Dabba table!

[rocky canyon]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[raw token]

debebtababble

[rich adder]

debabby

[wanton kraken]

can anyone tell me why this method isn't properly using float RaycastDistance or stopping when it should stop?

                case KeyCode.W:
                    Vector2 RaycastDirection = transform.rotation * Vector2.up;
                    RaycastHit2D forward = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, RaycastDirection, RaycastDistance, BulletMask);
                    Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, RaycastDirection, Color.green, RaycastDistance);
                    MoveCheck(forward, PlayerRB, Speed, true);
                    break;
///
    private void MoveCheck(RaycastHit2D hit, Rigidbody2D PlayerRB, int Speed, bool Forward)
    {
        if(Forward == true && (hit.collider == null))
        {
            PlayerRB.AddRelativeForce(Vector3.up * Speed);
        }

        if(Forward == false && (hit.collider == null))
        {
            PlayerRB.AddRelativeForce(Vector3.down * Speed);
        }
    }

[teal viper]

I don't think your debug ray is correct. Check the de oca page

[wanton kraken]

sorry?

[summer stump]

That parameter is duration (in time), not distance

[rich adder]

btw RaycastDirection * RaycastDistance for drawray

[summer stump]

In drawray

[upper tide]

Someone mentinoed that Debug.log had something to do with varargs, can someone explain what this means?

[wanton kraken]

got it

[raw token]

I don't think Debug.Log uses variadic arguments?

[upper tide]

I have no idea what they mean either

[wanton kraken]

Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, RaycastDirection * RaycastDistance, Color.green, RaycastDistance); ?

[rich adder]

last one is duration

[summer stump]

What you call distance is still the time it lasts
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.DrawRay.html

[wanton kraken]

oh, i see

well that's probably the issue

[upper tide]

The original question was why debug.log has an overloaded parameter that allows you to pass in inf amount of parameters

which I have no clue of

[teal viper]

This would work, but the last argument is not distance

[rich adder]

do note Draw Ray will NOT stop at walls

[wanton kraken]

then how do i set it's distance?

[summer stump]

You already did with the multiplication

[teal viper]

You already did here. Please read the docs.

[summer stump]

Direction (a vector3) has a magnitude

[summer stump]

Does it?

[raw token]

I'm pretty confident that that overload does not exist - at least in modern Unity. It's not in the docs or the intellisense hints 👀

[summer stump]

I don't see one

I see one that takes a string, and one that takes a string and gameobject
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[upper tide]

okok so this is just misinformation I've gotten

thanks for looking guys

[rich adder]

yes

[silent tree]

im very new to unity and i just followed a tutorial completely with the entire game working, but when i go to build the game and run it, it just loads an older version and doesnt work properly? does anyone know any common fixes? let me know if theres any extra info i can provide.

[upper tide]

press save in your code editor

[silent tree]

i saved the game before building and it didnt change

[teal viper]

1. Make sure the build doesn't fail. That there are no errors on the console after the build

[rich adder]

make a clean build

[wanton kraken]

welp, i understand the raycasts a bit better, but it's still moving when it shouldn't be.. hmm

[rich adder]

3 seconds for a build sounds sus

[silent tree]

its a very simple game

[rich adder]

did you make sure you did a Clean Build?

[silent tree]

whats that? like make a blank game and build it?

[rich adder]

there is a dropdown arrow on the Build button

click it

[teal viper]

2. Make sure that the scene that you work on is included and loaded first.

[silent tree]

like in the top left here?

[wanton kraken]

no idea why it won't stop moving. any ideas?

[rich adder]

is that the correct scene you're working now ?

[summer stump]

Can you share the code with a paste site? Pretty hard to read.

[silent tree]

i only have one scene so yeah i think

[rich adder]

curious but try a Clean Build from here

[weak isle]

how do i exclude certain gameobjects to be found by findobjectsoftype. im searching for cameras but i want it to ignore itself

[silent tree]

ok got it

[wanton kraken]

https://pastebin.com/CYfvYb96

[rich adder]

reference the Camera component on the current gameobject and remove it from the array into a list
just an example, but there is probably a better way

[SerializeField] Camera currentCam;
 var cameras = FindObjectsOfType<Camera>().ToList();
        cameras.Remove(currentCam);```

[silent tree]

same output but longer build time

[rich adder]

what exactly is wrong on the build?

in comparison to editor

[silent tree]

it wont detect any input, and i changed the background color to test if it is the same in both versions but it is still the old color

i have code that when i click or press space it should fly which works in the editor, like in flappy bird, but in the build it just doesn't move

[summer stump]

So, what we said about DrawRay does NOT apply to Raycast. You have a duration in there, but raycast takes no duration

You need to change that back to how it was before

[wanton kraken]

ah, on it

[silent tree]

is there any way to screen record? would that help?

[rich adder]

yes use OBS or ShareX or Windows + G

[wanton kraken]

this still doesn't really fix my issue though? the drawrays aren't the problem here

[summer stump]

The raycast might be though. And that was just something I saw, not a solution

[wanton kraken]

ah, okay

[summer stump]

What should it be hitting? And what layer is that thing on? Does the layermask INCLUDE that layer

Masks are for what it SHOULD hit

[wanton kraken]

the mask is inverted, though

[summer stump]

Ah, so anything that is NOT the player? But it is not registering any of that

[wanton kraken]

it should just be colliding with walls, really. so obstacles. i could uninvert the mask and set it to obstacles

[raw token]

Just to be absolutely certain, what's your Physics2D.Raycast() call look like now?

[summer stump]

I would first of all put in a debug.log including the name of what it should hit

[wanton kraken]

RaycastHit2D forward = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, RaycastDirection, RaycastDistance, BulletMask);

[summer stump]

Personally, I would just make a LayerMask variable and set the layers in the inspector by hand

[wanton kraken]

yep, doing that now to see if it helps

[silent tree]

oh it didnt capture the other part hold on one sec

[wanton kraken]

yep, fixing the mask seems to have fixed it. thanks!

[rich adder]

well I can already see whats wrong anyway

[silent tree]

oh sweet

[rich adder]

remember when we asked if you're exporting the correct scene?

[silent tree]

yea

[rich adder]

notice something?

[silent tree]

oh is it because i changed the name?

[rich adder]

did you duplicate it then rename it?

or save As

[silent tree]

oh i figured it out

i had to add open scenes

[rich adder]

yes

[silent tree]

i saved as im fairly sure

[rich adder]

or you can drag n drop

when you do that(SaveAs) it created a new Scene asset

so you just never added it to the build but instead the old one is still there

[silent tree]

i really appreciate it. ill try to keep this in mind next time lmao

[ashen sonnet]

fellas im trying to draw a boxcast for something and im a very beginner to boxcasts entirley, (2d game) and it would be nice to have some help of how to write them and especially how to know where they are/ if ive done it correctly... is there a way to see them ingame?

[teal viper]

You can use gizmos to draw a cube or a wire cube at the hit point.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Gizmos.DrawCube.html

[ashen sonnet]

is there like a public function i can copypaste for debugging purposes, i really dont want to have to learn how to draw things just to start on my goal lol

[teal viper]

Might be if you Google or look on GitHub. This is not something complicated, so most people would write it themselves.

[ashen sonnet]

but im dumb 😭

[teal viper]

That's just a lazy excuse. !learn properly and you'll figure it out.

[eternal falcon]

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[teal viper]

If you stumble on an issue while learning feel free to ask the community. But don't ask people to provide you a complete and ready solution. Show some effort.

[ashen sonnet]

no i srsly do plan on learning stuff like this i just wanted to learn boxcasts today and this would make it wayyyy easier and i didnt wanna go on a detour ykyk

[teal viper]

Well, then consider drawing gizmos as part of learning about box casts. Then it's fine, is it not?

[ashen sonnet]

i guess, it looks complicated tho

ig ill never know till i try

[teal viper]

It will look so if you miss some more basic understanding, that you'll need for the boxcast as well. So maybe step back and start with the basics first.

[ashen sonnet]

ive just avoided most things gui cuz it looks like a completley different language
probably not the best thing but i'd rather get the fundamentals of the rest done first

[teal viper]

Don't know what you skipped, but you should probably not do that if you're following a structured course/pathway/tutorial.

[ashen sonnet]

no im mostly just making whatever i feel like and learning along the way

[teal viper]

Probably not a great approach for you. If you do it like that, you should be ready to research new topics when they're thrown at you and not complain about it being too difficult or beg for a complete solution.

If you can't do that, better follow a structured learning course.

[ashen sonnet]

dude omg i know stop backseating my aproach lmao
i thought "ok i wanna learn how to detect when onground, so ill learn boxcasts" and i can bearly wrap my head around that i just didnt want to take a massive detour in the middle of it

[teal viper]

Even simple things like ground detection can be pretty complex if you are missing some of prerequisite knowledge. There are many ways to detect ground and box casting is one of them.
If you really want to learn about casts then maybe start with a Raycast, as it's easier to visualize and understand in general. A box cast is just a more sophisticated raycast.

A raycastyou can visualize with Debug.DrawRay

[ashen sonnet]

i guess

[silver moon]

Personally if I'm just looking for an easy check I'll just use a debug.log along with a message (you can even print out the item(s) you hit). Then if I'm not getting what I'm expecting back I'll dive deeper into drawing the gizmos. There is an add-on on the unity store which adds a few more easy to use debug.draw extensions, which you may find easier than gizmos (though gizmos are not hard at all, trust. Can be intimidating) https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/debug-drawing-extension-11396#reviews

[ashen sonnet]

thanks :)
i knew i would be working with VERY small box casts so if there was a small mistake i made it'd be very hard to tell

which, by the way, how would i detect when the player is ON the ground, cuz say the box cast was on like a pixel down, you'd be able to jump higher if you jump exactly as you land right?
maybe i should just use a collision detector for ground detection and use my new found "knolege" of boxcasts for other stuff (i would assume it also transfers to raycasts atleast a bit)

[silver moon]

That depends on the size of your boxcast, so not necessarily.

Yeah there's a few ways to do it. Could certainly use OnCollosionEnter, boxcast is probably the way I'd go but you could also have a child object with your box collider on it, position where you want, set it to trigger and create a new script that uses OnTriggerEnter to detect the ground. And in this case you'd be able to easily see the ground detect box in editor because it's just a box collider component. This video explains this (and boxcast) method better. Trigger method is at the end https://youtu.be/c3iEl5AwUF8?si=0tz5SPYcLn49Krms

[devout flower]

!ide

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[quick fractal]

Probably a very basic question, do static bools act like switches you can flip from other classes? I'm thinking about hugely simplifying 90% of my code using it

[teal viper]

Static bools sounds like a terrible idea

[quick fractal]

Oh?

[teal viper]

In general, if you you're thinking of static fields it's usually a bad idea.

There are some exceptions.

If you're a beginner thinking of static fields, 99% it's a bad idea. Especially if it's to "simplify code"

[summer stump]

Simplifying the code that way is gonna make everything else subtly harder and harder over time until you gridlock. At least that was my experience when I had the same idea years ago haha

[quick fractal]

It would let me change this into this

And allow me to access functions that loop once per frame, which is far more useful than I imagined

Coroutines are fine and making an event for it is ok but having it in Update is so much nicer

[teal viper]

It you really need to, you could use singletons, although it's not a great idea to use them lightly as well. Still better than a public static field.

[quick fractal]

Why exactly shouldn't I use them?

[teal viper]

It's a bad habit. If you start using them as a beginner, you'll keep on using them in a more complex project which would bring a lot of issues. But you wouldn't know the proper way of doing it.
Imagine you have more than one character with skills in a game for example.

[glass prawn]

I got an error on my code while trying to do something, could someone help me figure out how to fix it

[summer stump]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[quick fractal]

Mm good point, the game I'm writing code for currently has multiple creatures that can use a skill which is giving me enough problems anyway

[summer stump]

Can't help without knowing the error or seeing the code of course

[glass prawn]

I have this error in my console

[summer stump]

Ok, show that code

[quick fractal]

Someone did just fill me in on a little thing called creature.HasSkill(""); which will be far better anyway

[glass prawn]

do you see what could be causing the error

[void thicket]

TowersInGame containing null?

[glass prawn]

how is it containing null?

[void thicket]

How do I know

I don't know how you are making that enumerable

[void thicket]

Not that

TowersInGame

[void thicket]

That does not show any value getting added

[glass prawn]

this is the only other place its referencesd

[void thicket]

Yes, so GetComponent likely returned null

[glass prawn]

how do I prevent it from turning null?

[void thicket]

Make sure it has the component you are querying

[glass prawn]

I think it does, how can I make sure

[void thicket]

Logging, breakpoint, whatever way you can debug

[glass prawn]

I might have fixed this but I got another error

I think I just forgot to put the script on the prefab, only the tower originally

[summer stump]

Did you try to check if it is null? (And accidentally write = instead of == ?)

And got that error?

[glass prawn]

i think it was trying to get me to fix this line because I removed it because for some reason it causes an error with enemy spawning

when I remove it enemies spawn but it returns the original error I had above

[summer stump]

The line numbers are cropped out here

[summer stump]

Oh, and the script is the wrong one. The error is line 24 of TowerTargeting

[glass prawn]

here is tower targeting line 24

[summer stump]

Wait... new float?

There is some odd stuff going on here

[glass prawn]

what do you mean

[summer stump]

Line 37 of GameLoopManager

[glass prawn]

whats wrong with it? I'm pretty new to unity api so I dont see the problems very easily

[void thicket]

You are creating NodeDistances based on NodeDistances.Length ?

[summer stump]

I'm just confused. You are making a new float array that is one shorter than the previous?

But also, it is likely emptied at that point? I would need to test. Not sure looks like that is the point

[void thicket]

Recursive definition

I assume it should be based on NodePositions.Length instead

[summer stump]

Ahhh, yes that does make more sense

[glass prawn]

so should I change it to NodePositions = new float[NodePositions.Length+1];

[void thicket]

Why it suddenly become +

👀

[summer stump]

Why +1 now? And shouldn't it be NodeDistances = NodePositions (you changed both sides)

[glass prawn]

misclick sorry

[void thicket]

Do you know how NativeArray works? Bit confusing that a beginner is using it

[glass prawn]

not really, I usually look at others peoples code until I understand the arguments and can write it myself, thats how I learned C# modding, but I havent used it much in unity context so its still confusing to me

They spawn now, but I get this error when I put down a tower

[summer stump]

Are you using ECS or Jobs?

[glass prawn]

jobs

[summer stump]

Probably shouldn't have a +1 OR -1 in that part we mentioned earlier

[glass prawn]

okay

[summer stump]

Ok, that explains it then

[glass prawn]

why

[summer stump]

Well nativeArrays only really make sense in the two contexts I mentioned (and other custom reasons, but not just general unity usage)

Unmanaged code vs managed code

[glass prawn]

when I removed the one I got

[raw token]

Your loop iterates until i == NodeDistances.Length - 1, but inside the loop you're accessing NodePositions[i + 1], which will be the element after the last element in the array on the final iteration

[glass prawn]

How can I fix that?

[raw token]

Presumably, stop your iteration at NodeDistances.Length - 2 - since you need two points to calculate a distance, you will have one less distance than you have points. But the solution may vary - I don't really follow what's going on in this code 😁

Like maybe you need an equal number of distances and the final one should instead be the distance between the first and last point

[glass prawn]

I changed it to 2 and got this

[raw token]

What's happening around that line?

[glass prawn]

which line

[void thicket]

original - 1 is fine

You'd want distance between nodes then it is natural to have one less element

[raw token]

The line responsible for the error - TowerTargeting.cs:67

But apply the fix cathei mentions and see if the error persists, first. Add the - 1 back to the NodeDistances initializer

[glass prawn]

line 67

[radiant frigate]

how could i make a variable that changes depending on what iteration i am inside a for loop, between certain numbers that i want, and how can i calculate how to rotate an object depending on what direction the objective if respecting the position? (further context in photos)

srry for the bad explanation but idk other way of telling what the problem is

i want to make a triple missile that goes towards the player, how do i get the degrees i need to set it for?

ive been thinking about switch case but i still dont know how to calculate the 3 directions i need

[raw token]

Apparently EnemiesToCalculate is an empty array and EnemyToIndex[0] is -1 🤷

[glass prawn]

is that bad

[hollow zenith]

Hey, is there a shortcut for this:

 DamageText.transform.position = new Vector3(DamageText.transform.position.x, DamageText.transform.position.y + speed*Time.deltaTime, DamageText.transform.position.z);

[raw token]

It's what the runtime is complaining about, so yes. Accessing any index of a 0-length array will throw an error, as will attempting to access the index -1 on any array

[hollow zenith]

oh found this:

transform.position = transform.position + new Vector3(horizontalInput * movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime, verticalInput * movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0);

To Answer my question:

DamageText.transform.position += new Vector3(0, 1, 0);

[glass prawn]

what should I do with it

[void thicket]

DamageText.transform.position += Vector3.up * speed * Time.deltaTime;

[hollow zenith]

That looks good, I will try that 😄

I assume Vector3.up is same as Vector3(0, 1, 0);

[raw token]

I guess you might return null early if EnemiesToCalculate is empty. That may or may not address the other issue with EnemiesToIndex[0] being -1 - I don't know how that's calculated

[languid spire]

Anyone else having trouble getting into learn.microsoft.com ?

[raw token]

Seems fine from Colorado

[wary sonnet]

!help

!cmd

[raw token]

Subtracting the launcher's position from the target's position will give you a vector which describes the distance and direction to the target. You can apply the rotation described with a quaternion to a vector by multiplying the quaternion with the vector - so if I did something like

Vector3 direction = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 30f, 0f) * directionToTarget;

now direction is 30 degrees offset from pointing at the target on the y axis.

You might store different rotations (maybe quaternions, maybe just floats for one axis) in a list or an array, and loop through it to produce directions for each projectile

[wary sonnet]

!docs

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[toxic frigate]

hello all, can someone tell me how something like this is possible? i am stumped (sorry if this is a stupid question with a stupid answer it is midnight currently)

the string is not changed at all, the first screenshot is taken while the game is running

[raw token]

You might have multiple instances of this component within your scene, and one or more may be missing that value. You can search your hierarchy for t:MyComponent to find all game objects with the component to double check.

Or alternately, supply that Debug.Log() with gameObject as the second argument and the error will link to the GO responsible for the message

[radiant frigate]

i did this to solve it:
https://gdl.space/jarazesupe.cs

but now the last one is the one that is exactly on the player and not the one in the middle

[sand epoch]

help request

I have searched long and far for a working method to do a very simple action.
I have a 3D project with a camera for a player. All I want to do is for it to rotate right when you press the right arrow, and vise versa for the left. I want to be able to control the speed of this, as well.

I do not want acceleration or deceleration, which all the examples i've seen do.

Something similar to DOOM (1993) camera movement

[radiant frigate]

i think its because they are on radians which would make sense

[winter tinsel]

do you want the player to rotate with it or?

[raw token]

Nice!

Yeah I'm trying to wrap my head around that - the angle's in radians but Quaternion.Euler() takes degrees

But what you might do is iterate from -1 to 1 instead of 0 to 2, and adjust the math accordingly. That way the middle missile will have an i of 0 that can be used to cancel out the adjustment

[sand epoch]

The camera is a part of the player object. the player is transparent, so I don't care if it visually rotates.

[radiant frigate]

thats kind off what im trying, since im substracting 5 from the starting point 1 is equal to -1, 2 to 0 and 3 to +1

now im trying to change it to degrees instead of radians

btw love the pfp

[sand epoch]

Too be more clear: I want to be able to rotate this player/camera side to side a la DOOM (1993) with the arrow keys, without acceleration or de acceleration.

[languid spire]

This is a code channel, we expect you to share the code you have. We do not do handouts

[sand epoch]

I have nothing that works remotely, so showing anything I think would be irrelevant. All I ask is what functions or strategies to get this working.

I'll work up something quick to have as reference.

[languid spire]

Well firstly you need code to recognise the key down then you will need something like
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.Rotate.html

[sand epoch]

This is effectively what I want to happen, but getting it to do so has proven difficult

[languid spire]

look at the link i posted

[sand epoch]

Okay, this looks like it's working, but would it stay stable at different framerates? Not a huge problem, but it'd be nice to know

[languid spire]

multiply your cameraspeed by deltatime

[sand epoch]

Thankyouuuu

It works

[radiant frigate]

how can i calculate the rotation i need to give in the z axis to an object at the time of instantiating it, taking into acount that it should go to the direction of the "player" originating from the "enemy"(gameobject instantiating the "bullet")

ive tried a lot of weird math and i cant make it happen

[winter tinsel]

are you in 2d or 2d

3d*

[radiant frigate]

2d

[winter tinsel]

ah

[radiant frigate]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[radiant frigate]

https://gdl.space/uzunagaxum.cs

[winter tinsel]

what i did was just

[radiant frigate]

that is the code for rotating it

[winter tinsel]

is it looking up when it spawns in?

the bullet

[radiant frigate]

the transform.up shouldnt be modified

if thats what you are asking for

[winter tinsel]

why not

[radiant frigate]

wait

it is

its currently 09:45 am and i havent slept srry if i dont grab things in an instant

sleep depravation hitting me hard currently

[winter tinsel]

then go to sleep

[radiant frigate]

it is indeed being modified

[winter tinsel]

pick this up after a nap dude

seriously

[radiant frigate]

i woke up at like 8pm

so ive only been awake for 14 hours

just that i get sleepy at this time of the day

lmao

[winter tinsel]

i encourage you to take a nap

[radiant frigate]

i aprecciate it but im to stubborn to leave it uncompleted

[winter tinsel]

you wont leave it uncompleted

youll just complete it

later

in an hour

or smthin

[radiant frigate]

i know what you mean

but i cant leave until i finish this

im to stubborn, ik i should take a rest because it will help me view it from other pov and think laterally but i have that negative trait

take some rest*

[winter tinsel]

so work on the negative trait

[radiant frigate]

i should

[winter tinsel]

take the nap dude, its worth it

besides

[radiant frigate]

ik its worth it

[winter tinsel]

your computer wont run away

[radiant frigate]

lmao

[winter tinsel]

take a nap and pick this up later

[radiant frigate]

i would love to

but i wont be able to fall asleep

[winter tinsel]

aha okay well

i was going to suggetst

transform.up = target.transform.position - transform.position

[radiant frigate]

ohhhh

[winter tinsel]

and make the target equal whatever you want to point at

in my code

target = gameobject.findwithtag("ship")

[radiant frigate]

yeah but my problem is that i want additions,

i want there to be 2 more that are slightly offset

therefore i think i need degrees and/or radians

[winter tinsel]

i dont know how to do this in code as i am very new myself

the way id do it is just make 3 different projectiles, make them all instantiate from one spot

and each one has the same code just offset by -30 or 30

[radiant frigate]

exactly

[winter tinsel]

thats the long way around but i believe theres a better way to do it

[radiant frigate]

thats my thought proccess

[winter tinsel]

so do taht

[radiant frigate]

but i dont know how to write it in code neither

lmao

since it is also in a for loop

[winter tinsel]

why a for loop

[radiant frigate]

because i want to instantiate 3 bullets simultaniously

[modest dust]

Get the vector from the enemy to the player

And look up rotating vectors online to get the other 2

[winter tinsel]

so just make the projectile instantiate 3 gameobjects

[radiant frigate]

thats quaternions right?

[modest dust]

Nope

lemme search for it

[stiff birch]

That's vector calculus

[radiant frigate]

oh

ill try that

[radiant frigate]

ill search myself no need

another time caesar coming in handy

[stiff birch]

https://matthew-brett.github.io/teaching/rotation_2d.html

(assuming you're in 2d)

[modest dust]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix

[radiant frigate]

i am ty

[modest dust]

Yeah, that works

[radiant frigate]

oh no... my biggest enemy, letters

💀

kewk

[eternal needle]

Unity directly has methods for rotating vectors, also Vector * Quaternion will rotate it.
You really dont need any trig

[radiant frigate]

but the instantiate method asks for a quaternion

[raw token]

#💻┃code-beginner message 👀

[radiant frigate]

lmao

[eternal needle]

You can create quaternions from vectors, or you can also just rotate the rotation directly with Quaternion * Quaternion

[night raptor]

isn't the multiplication the other way around? at least I thought so

[radiant frigate]

im scared of quaternions

tried to understand them once

was not a pleasing experience

[eternal needle]

Could be, I always forget the order. Doesnt matter though because one way will have an error so just swap it if so

[night raptor]

true

[radiant frigate]

it wouldnt matter since its a multiplication right?

or am i delusional right now?

[raw token]

It's an overloaded operator - it's not actually multiplication. Just a fancy function call dressed up as if it were

[night raptor]

for matrices and quaternions the order matters

[eternal needle]

Math doesnt always follow the rule that AxB = BxA
But this is different anyways that it's just used for rotating the vector

[night raptor]

You mean trying to undertand what each of the x, y, z and w component means?

[radiant frigate]

not only that but how it works

[night raptor]

You kinda shouldn't, I know neither and I can use Quaternions to my advantage

[radiant frigate]

understandable

[eternal needle]

For quaternions, you truly dont need to know much. Just know how to construct them from values u are familiar with, euler. Then rotating them with multiplication

[radiant frigate]

so i can just quaternion.euler(x,y,z)?

[night raptor]

knowing the multiplication operations and the utility methods provided by unity is all you need in 99.9% of the cases

[radiant frigate]

okay

ty!

ill try to make the code now

lets see if i can make it happen

[night raptor]

You can also use Quaternion.FromToRotation, .AngleAxis and such but you basically never need to know what the 4 values individually are. You only need to know it's some 3D rotation that you can visualize in various ways

[radiant frigate]

okay

[radiant frigate]

https://gdl.space/ibavuleqek.cpp

srry for the ping

[atomic holly]

Hi !
I develop the system of NPC shop where the player can buy some weapons. Now, I have this UI but I want to highlight what weapon button is selected with changes his opacity compared to the others. The arrows can change what weapon is selected. Someone have some ideas ?

[radiant frigate]

i dont know where i messed up but it doesnt work

[atomic holly]

The UI :

[night raptor]

Quaternion.Euler gives you Quaternion, not Vector3

[radiant frigate]

but the 3rd parameter in an instantiate needs to be a quaternion right?

[night raptor]

oh wait my bad

let me see

[night raptor]

So bulletDirection is now a direction vector, not rotation/euler angles of any sort. That's why the .z does not translate to any meaningful angle. Usually if you want to get rotation out of direction, you can use Quaternion.LookRotation(direction)

[radiant frigate]

so instead of quaternion.euler i need quaternion.lookRotation(vector3)

[radiant frigate]

btw how do you write in that space?

for example the .z

[night raptor]

you put these ` around (you can edit your message to see)

[radiant frigate]

testing

oh true

it works

[night raptor]

yes, vector3 being the bullet direction

[radiant frigate]

it asks for 2 float3

i dont know what float3 is

i guess 3 floats?

[night raptor]

pretty sure it's Vector3's, you don't need to give 2, the other one is set to Vector3.up by default which often works fine

[languid spire]

unless you are using the wrong math library or writing shaders

[radiant frigate]

for what i know im not using a math library at all

[languid spire]

if you hover over Quaternion you will see which one

[radiant frigate]

unity.mathematics.quaternion

[languid spire]

wrong math library

[radiant frigate]

so i need to use Q instead of q?

or how do i change it?

indeed

that was it

[languid spire]

why are you using unity.mathematics at alll?

[night raptor]

yeah, that's meant for the burst compiler/dots stuff afaik

[radiant frigate]

i dont know if it has anything to do, but my objective is to make an enemy that shoots like this

one towards the player and 2 slightly offset

idk if that has anything to do with why im using maths

[languid spire]

you need to pay more attention to what you are doing. you have obviously mistyped something somewhere and then blindly let the IDE correct it for you without reading what it was doing

[radiant frigate]

IDE?

whats that

[languid spire]

your code editor

[radiant frigate]

true

could i know where?

im really frustated right now since i dont understand on can come up with a solution to it

[languid spire]

look for the using unity.mathamatics statement and remove it. the ide will then highlight the errors

[radiant frigate]

ot does not highlight any error

[languid spire]

then it was only in the one place you have already corrected

[radiant frigate]

oh

[languid spire]

you should ALWAYS look at your using statements to see if there are ones that should not be there

[radiant frigate]

okay

i have a question if i may

why is it rotating the x? https://gdl.space/ifohedaquw.cs

[languid spire]

you mean here ?
Vector3 bulletDirection = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0, 30f * i) * direction;

[radiant frigate]

yes

[languid spire]

the joys of Quaternion math. Dont try to understand it just accept it works

[radiant frigate]

srry i was doing a micro mental pause to see if i would detox

but it doesnt even work 😭

i want it to rotate the z axis

[languid spire]

yes but quaternion rotations can be expressed in multiple euler rotations and that is what you are seeing

[radiant frigate]

i did not understand the meaning of that

basically im having a skill issue since im not using the correct euler rotation?

[languid spire]

basically, if you put Euler angles into a Quaternion and then get Euler angles out 99% of the time they will not be the same but they will represent the same rotation

[radiant frigate]

oh

so just dont use that for rotating it as i want?

[languid spire]

I'm not sure why you are doing this
Vector3 bulletDirection = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0, 30f * i) * direction;
as direction is also a Vector3. so calculate the direction first and then convert it to a Quaternion

[radiant frigate]

but the direction should be a vector3 right?

or should it be a degree?

because ive tried that and it did not work

neither with radian

probably because i did it wrong tho

[eternal needle]

did you check if the direction itself is an issue? or does the projectile even rely on its starting rotation?

[radiant frigate]

rely?

[eternal needle]

rely is a word
depend on with full trust or confidence.

you instantiate the fireball with a starting position and rotation, but does the fireball even use its rotation to move? Is there an actual issue with the direction of it moving?
because u shouldnt read the values from inspector to see its euler angles, due to what steve said

[radiant frigate]

yes

it doesnt go on the direction

mainly because i havent made the movement yet

but if i move it across the new y axis

it doesnt match with the direction the player is at

[eternal needle]

i dont really know what you mean by most of that. I would just look at the forward direction of these fireballs and see if they're oriented how you want. If not, then try to describe your issue based on that

[radiant frigate]

the forward direction is the y right?

like the transform.up

[eternal needle]

You realize you just asked if the forward is up

the forward is forward

[radiant frigate]

the forward is in the z axis

but idk how that has anything to do

[radiant frigate]

i think it was

i might just be talking nonsense at this point

[languid spire]

can I suggest you take some time with a pencil and paper and actually learn this stuff so you know not just think because otherwise you are in for a world of pain

[radiant frigate]

you can ofcourse

but for what i recall learning the forward direction was along the z axis in 3d

[eternal needle]

it is and you can read them all here https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.html listed under static properties

[radiant frigate]

maybe in 2d it works in other way which would make sense and i should look into that 100%, but thats why it seemed odd to me and thought about it being the transform up

[vocal junco]

did you ever get an answer to this, i have the same issue currently

[hexed terrace]

store the string value, and then pass it to the next scene

[vocal junco]

well yes but how do i do that, my script currently does not want to access other scenes things to be able to pass it

[hexed terrace]

https://www.google.com/search?q=unity+how+to+pass+data+between+scenes

[vocal junco]

oh thats really helpful, thank you

[hexed terrace]

first port of call is google

[vocal junco]

i mean i know its just a google search but i searched similar things and found not much useful other than a niche case scenario that didnt work for me

[topaz mortar]

How do I get to Left, Top, Right and Bottom on a RectTransform component in code?

[stiff birch]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/access-left-right-top-and-bottom-of-recttransform-via-script/129237

[river quiver]

if the assets database doesnt work on builds then how do i assign a different audio clip to the audio source component

[languid spire]

if you mean loading an unreferenced clip use Resources.Load

[zenith crown]

How do i lerp one value to another?

[languid spire]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/linear-interpolation?uv=2019.3&projectId=5c8920b4edbc2a113b6bc26a

[zenith crown]

Thank you!

[languid spire]

these things are in the pinned messages, always worth checking there first before asking

[zenith crown]

Ohh i see it now

[neon ivy]

I'm creating a procedural animation system and am trying to limit the rotation between segments to a rigidity variable, so if the segment after the one being checked creates too sharp of an angle its supposed to bring the position of the next segment back in line but it kinda just freaks out making me think there's either an issue with the math (probably the cross product being negative or positive) but I have no clue how to fix it.

this is my code:

Vector3 forwardVector = (segment.position - segment.parentReference.position).normalized;
Vector3 connectionVector = (segment.position - Segments[GetChildSegmentIndices(i)[0]].position).normalized;

float angle = Vector3.Angle(forwardVector, connectionVector);
Vector3 cross = Vector3.Cross(forwardVector, connectionVector);
if (angle < 180 - segment.rigidityAngle)
{
    Debug.Log($"Segment {i} is too sharp!");
    Quaternion myRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(180-segment.rigidityAngle-3, cross);
    Vector3 result = myRotation * forwardVector;
    Segments[GetChildSegmentIndices(i)[0]].position = segment.position + result;
}

[atomic holly]

Hello
To save data when we changed scene and save some data like the remaining life of the player or his inventory, is using playerprefs is correct or there is something more optimised to do this ?

[languid spire]

ScriptableObjects, PlayerPrefs is not a good idea for this

[atomic holly]

What would you use ?

[languid spire]

A ScriptableObject

[remote osprey]

Hello

Is there an easy way to make a sliding joint that slowly detaches from a rigid body using gravity?

[atomic holly]

Okay thanks 👍

[snow portal]

heyoo, ive been doin unity for a lil while now but first time actually tryin to do scripting and such and im wonderering if someone has a script to be able to make a collision detect any mesh thats touching it

ive been able to make it so when two objects with certain tags touch they send a message in console but i want any mesh that touches it to affect it

[eternal needle]

What's a "sliding joint". Something is either attached or not attached. Some joints have settings that allow it to be further away, if that's what you want. Depends on 2d or 3d but the 3d configurable joint has a shitton of options

[river quiver]

the problem is i dont have a resources folder, should i create it myself?

idk why, maybe its a unity version problem

[languid spire]

of course, if you need one

[remote osprey]

I'm trying to use a Slider Join 2D but it doesn't come off after the rigid bodies stop touching each other

[river quiver]

ight thanks, earlier it was created automatically

[eternal needle]

I would add a lot of debug drawrays here so you can visualize it. A lot of these variables arent really stuff we can see so it's hard to know what's correct just looking at this

[languid spire]

no, Unity will never create a Resources folder in your project. That is up ,to you

[remote osprey]

specifically, i want it to work just like a nail hanging from something, once it's removed enough it should fall off

[neon ivy]

debug draw rays?