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[polar acorn]

Is it a 3D Physic Material? There's a separate one for 2D, under the 2D menu rather than the Physics one

[spark tulip]

Yes, I will try that. Thanks for the response.

I think the problem might be related to the fact that variables are passed as copies or that the function should have a return parameter to be processed in the main class. Hmm, what's the issue?

[polar acorn]

Okay so it's not the input that's the problem, let's move on to the next step. Your rigidbody parameters will be passed as references, but all the floats and bools are going to be passed by value, as a copy. It doesn't look like you're actually expecting them to change though, and bubble back out to CarLogic so that shouldn't be a problem.

I wonder if CalculateTorque might be the problem? Try logging frontTireTorque and backTireTorque after you get them, see if they're what you expect

[ivory breach]

Update: I'm doing something wrong with the foreach loop to change the enemy's materials, but I don't know the cause or solution

[polar acorn]

Why are you trying to multiply a material by another material?

[ivory breach]

Whoops

This error popped up without that multiply sign

[polar acorn]

Yeah, assigning that variable to something else wouldn't make much sense. That's just going to change in the next iteration anyway

[wintry quarry]

you cannot modify the iteration variable of a foreach loop

use a for loop, not a foreach.

but also you need to copy the array, make the changes, and copy the whole array back in

Material[] mats = myRenderer.materials;
mats[1] = something;
myRenderer.materials = mats;```
dirty example^

[ivory breach]

Oh...

[rich adder]

np. did everything work out?

[radiant frigate]

kinda, give me a sec and ill explain

[mint remnant]

I seem to keep getting burned by inspector values overriding script values

[wintry quarry]

Something you will stop getting burned by as you become more familiar with Unity

and when and where it's appropriate to be serializing values

[polar acorn]

If the inspector didn't take priority, it'd be useless for adjusting values on a per-object basis

[radiant frigate]

sometimes it goes to a place it should not go, i dont know if its because the method gets called more than once, but for what i think it should be the case(if i dont answer im asleep)

[languid spire]

pro tip, never give serialized values a default value

[wintry quarry]

By the way most of the time if this is causing you an issue it means you shouldn't have serialized that variable in the first place.

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming your declared default values are modified by inspector values and that's got you confused?

[wintry quarry]

if you made your variable public or used [SerializeField] then you have serialized the variable.

[mint remnant]

I just be working in the code and go up top to see what value something is then realize later oh crap, it's not that value, I adjusted it in inspector

[obsidian shoal]

is programming 3d or 2d easer?

[wintry quarry]

the same

[languid spire]

exactly the same

[obsidian shoal]

should i continue on my 3d path or start 2d on unity

[wintry quarry]

It really doesn't matter

whatever type of game you want to make

[polar acorn]

It literally does not matter

2D is just 3D with a different dropdown on the camera and 2D at the end of a bunch of physics components

[normal cairn]

Hey there, im coming from unreal so not entirely used to the manual button tick calls.
But does anyone know why this is happening in my physics update? (This is the only playerArialState print in my script)

[polar acorn]

There's nothing in your if statement

That green underline is important -- see what your compiler thinks about that

[languid spire]

; in wrong place

[ivory bobcat]

That semicolon is likely unwanted

[normal cairn]

Always something simple 😂

Thanks guys, was overthinking it

[languid spire]

gotta love the way it jumps out at you (pun intended)

[mint lodge]

Does hitting Play after Compiling usually take a lot of time too?

Because in Unreal, it was instant

[half egret]

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

If you enable play mode settings and keep reload domain/scene disabled

It'll be instant

And compiles only trigger on code changes

If you have singletons/static classes your states my not be reset as a note

So be mindful

[polar acorn]

If you hit play and it seems to wait forever, that usually means an infinite loop in your code somewhere

[languid spire]

Unreal workflow and Unity workflow are 2 very, very different things, you cannot compare them

[ionic zephyr]

If I want my tools to have ranks (F,E,A,S+) that define their quality, should it be an Enum?

any Ideas?

suggestions are accepted

[thorny basalt]

Yep

Assuming you mean in-game tools

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, sorry

[mint remnant]

if they start to have more functionality you might decide later to go with a scriptable object and have each tool have different settings

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, I have a Tool SO

and I will add an enum parameter

How can I distinguish the functions of my different tools that all have the SO: Tool?????

[cosmic dagger]

if your ranks are set and won't change an enum is fine . . .

[ionic zephyr]

Should I distinguish each of the functions with components?, enum?

[cosmic dagger]

that works; each tool is made up of (built from) a group of components . . .

[ionic zephyr]

For example: Axe has an AxeComponent and ToolSO???

[mint remnant]

sounds like perhaps a good case for a delegate method

[cosmic dagger]

the components define its — the tool's — behaviour . . .

[eternal needle]

SO would be just simply to provide data to the tool. You could write functions on it but thatd be assuming theres no state associated with it

[zenith cypress]

I highly recommend keeping Reload Scene enabled at least. I've hit some weird bugs with it off when some objects don't refresh (was something like some Starts didn't re-run or similar I don't fully remember atm).

[eternal needle]

To actually create a tool, you should be reading from the SO and basically abandoning it after

[cosmic dagger]

i'd start with this. the SO will hold the data and the component will use said data . . .

[ionic zephyr]

but imagine Minecraft for example, does all of the tools hit but only the axe makes it faster to destroy trees

what is the architecture of that?

[eternal needle]

Not sure of what minecraft does specifically, but I would start with a tool base class which could be a component. Then on that base class you could make an OnHit or OnUse, whatever you want to name it

[cosmic dagger]

no idea about minecraft (never played it), but a tool will destroy an object faster based on its stats and what it's hitting . . .

[zenith cypress]

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Breaking there is a formula a little bit down under Calculation

[ionic zephyr]

but how does the game know what you are holding?

[cosmic dagger]

a simple check . . .

[ionic zephyr]

in the case of Unity

[eternal needle]

It doesnt, you make that functionality

There is no concept of holding

[midnight meteor]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[shell herald]

currently sturlling a bit with this. i want a 3d object to follow a spline while also following the player position. sort of like in this quick sketch. what would be a good place to start

[tough phoenix]

public void SetCoinText(float value) => m_coinText.text = $"{value}";
//
public void SetCoinText(float value) => m_coinText.text = value.ToString();

is there any difference in performance between them?

[willow scroll]

Yes. value.ToString is more efficient

But the difference is small enough for you to ignore

[tough phoenix]

thanks 🙂

[willow scroll]

Also, make sure you know TMP_Text.SetText(string) exists

[tough phoenix]

arent these the same?

[willow scroll]

I'm sorry, not sure what "spline" means?

[willow scroll]

They are, the text property calls it in its setter

[tough phoenix]

oh thanks again

[zenith cypress]

Sounds like you want something akin to this function (is a github repo for beziers) https://github.com/yasirkula/UnityBezierSolution/blob/79f4f28a8d4e3aea02f0600c6081a328700269ca/Plugins/BezierSolution/BezierSpline.cs#L824

[iron blade]

Hello, how could I make it so when the player goes through something (a coin) it disappears (the coin in this situation)? (I'm looking to know how to do it in both 3D and 2D)

[shell herald]

a curve made of multiple points

[shell herald]

i ll take a look

[willow scroll]

You have to implement OnCollisionEnter / OnCollisionEnter2D or OnTriggerEnter / OnTriggerEnter2D, according do the Colliders, and call the GameObject.Destroy(GameObject) method on the object the player collided with

The player is, probably, not a trigger, so OnCollisionEnter should be used

[flint python]

How do I get the same size circle as the circle collider 2D?

[rich adder]

You have scale at 20 times more

[slender nymph]

You've scaled the object rather than just changing the size of the circle collider, so you need to take the scale into account

[raw token]

SplineUtility has a bunch of useful functionality on it, including SplineUtility.GetNearestPoint()

[iron blade]

I tried that and it doesen't seem to work. The tags are set, so thats not the problem.

private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision other)
{
    if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Coin"))
    {
        Destroy(other.gameObject);
    }
}```

Is anything wrong with this script?

[strong wren]

Debug to see if OnCollisionEnter is being ran and then check if the condition succeeds. You can attach your IDE to step through the code or log to console.

[iron blade]

Hmm alright

[iron blade]

Something weird happens. When I touch the coin, nothing gets debugged, but when I jump and land back on the ground it does get debugged

the ground has no tag

and the coin has the tag "Coin"

[strong wren]

Are you visibly colliding with the coin?

[languid spire]

Then your Coin collider is not setup correctly

[iron blade]

yes

oh wait

It gets printed when I touch the ground because its colliding, but it didnt pass the condition

yet still, nothing happens when i touch the coin so it isnt detecting it

[languid spire]

screenshot coin collider

[iron blade]

okay

[languid spire]

yep, that's a trigger so you are using the wrong method

[iron blade]

what should I use then?

[languid spire]

OnTriggerEnter ?

[iron blade]

hmm alright

[strong wren]

Looks like you are most likely walking right through it instead of actually colliding with it, as triggers don't collide in that sense

[iron blade]

Yup it works now, thanks

[flint python]

I try multiply radius with the localScale value, but i got a bigger circle, how can I get the correct radius?

[rich adder]

dang you made it worse.. Just put scale on gameobject to 1,1,1 then resize the radius properly, put sprite render on child and scale that. Put code how it was before.
Your object hierarchy should be this

• Root (collider, script) 1,1,1
  • ChildObj (sprite renderer) 20,20,20

[ripe hill]

im learning how to make 2d games but what's up with this random artifacts that im getting while playing the game in game view can anyone help me out

[rich adder]

You need pixel perfect component

[ripe hill]

is that a setting i can change in unity itself or do i have to change the pixel art asset it self

[wintry quarry]

Google it

[rich adder]

like i said, its a component

[wintry quarry]

unity pixel perfect

It's for your camera

[ripe hill]

yes on it thanks guys

[stiff abyss]

How to turn off shadow on 3d terrian

[desert temple]

Running into an odd situation. I'm trying to drag my UI Text object from my hierarchy underneath my canvas, to a public variable in my game manager, but it won't accept it. Anyone know why this is?

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

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    //Here is where we're going to create the variables for score and lives.  Also holds references to these text objects.
    public int lives;
    public int score;
    public Text livesText;
    public Text scoreText;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }
}

The answer is probably something simple, but I feel like I'm going crazy.

[wintry quarry]

Because you're using the legacy Text class in your code

and your actual UI element is probably a TextMeshPro UGUI

which you should use TMP_Text for in your code

[desert temple]

Okay, so the tutorial was lying to me because it was old.

So it should be what, UnityEngine.TextMeshProUGUI? And TMP_Text for the public variables?

[wintry quarry]

As I said, use TMP_Text for the variable. You don't need anything else

other than using TMPro;

[halcyon dagger]

My game runs OK in Unity but when I create a build and open it it looks like this lmao, does anyone know how to fix? Music is playing tho. Might be something in project settings?

[wintry quarry]

First thing to do is check the log for errors

(make a development build)

[halcyon dagger]

should i enable something else?

[wintry quarry]

nope just that

then make the build and run it

then check the log file

Check https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LogFiles.html under "Player-related log locations" to see where the log file will go

[halcyon dagger]

It says DisplayProgressNotification: Build Successful
Build Finished, Result: Success.

Inside a ton of lines of dependecy loading and engine type stuff

No errors if running inside unity also

[wintry quarry]

That sounds like the build/editor log

You need to look at the player log as I mentioned

[halcyon dagger]

nothing seems to be wrong there

just showing the memory usage and class loading

[wintry quarry]

well what are you expecting your game to look like

[halcyon dagger]

It should load the start menu as it does inside Unity

[wintry quarry]

which looks like?

[halcyon dagger]

this

just a placeholder but yeah it should load i guess

🤔

[wintry quarry]

well one of two things is happening basically:

1. It's loading a different scene (check your build settings)
2. You have something like an execution order issue in your code

[halcyon dagger]

Nothing wrong here

[polar acorn]

Can you show a screenshot of your full unity window while the StartMenu scene is running? Game view and console open?

[halcyon dagger]

"You have something like an execution order issue in your code"

Shouldnt that pop as a big bad red error message in the console when runing the game ?

[polar acorn]

Only if it's a development build.

[halcyon dagger]

Inside Unity I meant

[wintry quarry]

not necessarily

[polar acorn]

Well, if there's something execution-order dependent, it might be happening in the right order in the editor, but not in a build

[halcyon dagger]

So, how do u debug that?

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log

[halcyon dagger]

where

[wintry quarry]

or the debugger

in a development build

[wintry quarry]

in whatever code that isn't working properly

[wintry quarry]

does this scene get dynamically loaded or something

[polar acorn]

You could get the !logs from a development build and look for any exceptions. In a dev build, they'll actually have line numbers.

[eternal falcon]

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Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[halcyon dagger]

The thing is that everything is working OK

[halcyon dagger]

not the first one

[wintry quarry]

If it was working ok you wouldn't be here

[halcyon dagger]

Guess ur right

[polar acorn]

A development build is a checkbox on the build screen. Enable that, run it again, and see if you can grab the logs

[halcyon dagger]

are those the same i checked b4?

[halcyon dagger]

here

[wintry quarry]

Maybe share the log with us, btw

[polar acorn]

Oh, yes. That's the ones, seems Praetor already told you about it, I just showed up

Yeah, post the log, using a paste side like !code suggests

[eternal falcon]

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[polar acorn]

It's not actually code but it'll work anyways

[halcyon dagger]

better than sending the file? its 13kb

[polar acorn]

Yes

[halcyon dagger]

alr

I hope I dont doxx myself sending this
https://hastebin.com/share/yahotojewe.csharp

[polar acorn]

Hm, are you sure this is the log from the standalone build?

Or is the log just not actually checking if it's in-editor

[halcyon dagger]

followed this
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LogFiles.html

used the path from player, not editor

Btw I had the same happen in an older project, but if I restarted the game it would work, it was a first time only thing

[polar acorn]

What prints the Game running inside editor line?

[halcyon dagger]

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

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{

    void Awake()
    {
        if (!Application.isEditor && SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex != 0)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("Game running inside editor");
        }
    }

}

this class

it shouldnt trigger until itt switches to a different scene tho

[polar acorn]

Okay, so it logs even if it's outside the editor, as long as the scene isn't index 0

Er, wait, other way around

[wintry quarry]

honestly why such a weird singleton implementation

[halcyon dagger]

yeah but wait lemme explain that

[raw token]

I'm trying to create a super basic ray from a cinemachine-controlled camera through the center of the viewport/frustum. But using either of the implementations below, the Physics Debugger is always drawing the ray on the lower left bound of the frustum:

Ray ray = new Ray(Camera.main.transform.position, Camera.main.transform.forward);

Ray ray = Camera.main.ViewportPointToRay(Vector3.one * 0.5f);

Am I overlooking something very silly? 😦

[wintry quarry]

Basically looks like your GameManager is likely to be destroying itself

[wintry quarry]

what's your raycast call look like? Also the Vector3.one implementation is a bit iffy since you're using .5 in the z axis for the viewport point

the first one certainly seems correct

[polar acorn]

How are you doing the DrawRay?

[halcyon dagger]

So I use singleton pattern to play audio, manage scenes, inputs, etc, but if im debugging a scene that aint the first menu, where the singleton is initialized, it thows a ton of errors since im trying to access methods of a null instance. so to fix that i attach a prefab of my temporary game manager to the scene, and use that script to destroy it if im not in the editor cuz its not needed.

[raw token]

No raycast involved at all at this point! I thought ViewportPointToRay() just ignores the z component?

[wintry quarry]

you could just use a normal singleton implementation

[polar acorn]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/
Your singleton shouldn't do different things in a build than it does in the editor, and there's much better ways to handle this.

[wintry quarry]

you're right it does

[wintry quarry]

if there's no raycast how are you seeing anything with the physics debugger?

[raw token]

I'll try DrawRay just for confirmation - right now I'm just drawing it with Window > Analysis > Physics Debugger

[raw token]

That's... that... hmm. Good point.

[wintry quarry]

so then what are we actually looking at in the video 🤔

[polar acorn]

Then... who was phone?

[raw token]

That's what I'm digging for right now 😁

I was confident there were no physics queries in this scene, but maybe I've overlooked one and thought I was looking at my ray. Or this scene is haunted 👻

[elder raptor]

private async UnlockPaths()
{
    await pathToBuilding[0].GetComponent<PathRise>().MovePlatformsUp();
    pathToBuilding[1].GetComponent<PathRise>().MovePlatformsUp();
}

How do I get this to work? I want the first function to finish running then it should start the second one. This one is not working, should I turn the MovePlatformsUp to tasks or something?

[wintry quarry]

async IEnumerator???

Are you writing an async function, or are you writing a coroutine? Pick one.

[polar acorn]

[wintry quarry]

I want the first function to finish running then it should start the second one.
This is in fact how all code in C# works by default

unless MovePlatformsUp is itself async

[elder raptor]

Yeah I was trying all possible things 😭 I tried Async Function, Ienumerator then both combined 😭 I am not sure on what to use for this

Await uses Async so Ienumerator is not needed

[wintry quarry]

Maybe back up, explain what you're trying to accomplish in simple english, and show the code for MovePlatformsUp() as well

[elder raptor]

Alright, so this is my MovePlatformsUp function

 public void MovePlatformsUp()
 {
     StartCoroutine(MovePlatformsCoroutine());
 }

 private IEnumerator MovePlatformsCoroutine()
 {
     foreach (GameObject obj in platforms)
     {
         Vector3 newPosition = obj.transform.position;
         newPosition.y -= yOffset;
         obj.transform.position = newPosition;
     }

     for (int i = 0; i < platforms.Count; i++)
     {
         GameObject obj = platforms[i];
         obj.SetActive(true);
         yield return StartCoroutine(MoveToInitialPosition(obj, initialYPositions[i]));
     }
 }

So, I have them attached to different platforms. So, what I am trying to do in the function I shared earlier is that I want to move the first platform up, and after the function (Coroutine) finishes running, I want to move the second platform up.

[wintry quarry]

ok so that's a coroutine but you need to actually return the coroutine if you want other code to be able to wait for it

[mint lodge]

?? suddenly red now

[wintry quarry]

read the error message

[elder raptor]

Ahh

[halcyon dagger]

Pretty nice, im saving that to improve my code, but it doesnt solve my problem, even removing that script and having a single GameManager removing the test one the game keeps on not loading at start

[raw token]

Alright, thanks for the sanity check Praetor & digi 😁

[wintry quarry]

you would do something like:

public Coroutine MovePlatformsUp()
{
    return StartCoroutine(MovePlatformsCoroutine());
}

private IEnumerator UnlockPaths()
{
    foreach (var path in pathToBuilding) {
      yield return path.GetComponent<PathRise>().MovePlatformsUp();
    }
}```

[wintry quarry]

Exactly like it says

you're missing a using directive

Let your IDE fix it for you with the appropriate using directive

[mint lodge]

Ohhh

[polar acorn]

Do you have the namespace imported? Try checking the suggested fixes in your IDE

[elder raptor]

Yessir, I changed it to that lemme see if it works!

[mint lodge]

Thanks guys

[wintry quarry]

make sure you start UnlockPaths with StartCoroutine since it's a coroutine in my example

[elder raptor]

Yes yes, I did !

[halcyon dagger]

in a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being actually viable, and 10 being burning me like a witch,how shitty is this

using System;
using UnityEngine;

public class Singleton<T> : MonoBehaviour where T : MonoBehaviour
{
    private static T _instance;

    protected virtual void Awake()
    {
        if (_instance == null)
        {
            _instance = this as T;
            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
        }
        else if (_instance != this)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
}



public class MyAudioManager : Singleton<MyAudioManager>
{
    public static MyAudioManager instance;

//so here i automarically inherit awake 
}

[slender nymph]

remove the instance variable from the derived class and just give the base class a read only property that exposes the already existing _instance variable

[halcyon dagger]

like this? ```cs
public static T instance { get { return _instance; } }

[slender nymph]

sure, or you can write it more simply as public static T Instance => _instance;

those are functionally the same though

[halcyon dagger]

alright thats bud

however

whats the rating

should I be publicly executed or is it an OK solution?

[slender nymph]

this is pretty much the same as any other singleton implementation

[burnt vapor]

There's nothing shitty about this

Just the thing Boxfriend mentioned

[halcyon dagger]

So, no downsides and it aint spaguetti code?

[burnt vapor]

Considering it's exactly how a Singleton should be implemented it would be a 9

I would only remove the excess else and return; in the if-statement

[halcyon dagger]

A 9 like good or a 9 like this

😂

[burnt vapor]

Oh, then it's a 2

I didn't realize 1 was positive here

[halcyon dagger]

fair enough

[halcyon dagger]

 protected virtual void Awake()
    {
        if (_instance == null || _instance != this)
        {
            _instance = this as T;
            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
        }
        else
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }

?

[burnt vapor]

    protected virtual void Awake()
    {
        if (_instance == null)
        {
            _instance = this as T;
            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
            return;
        }
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }

[halcyon dagger]

btw thanks both @slender nymph and @burnt vapor for helping ❤️

[burnt vapor]

Or even better, reverse the if statement

    protected virtual void Awake()
    {
        if (_instance != null)
        {
           Destroy(gameObject);
           return;
        }

        _instance = this as T;
        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
    }

This way happy flow is at the bottom

Generally you expect the code to end positively at the bottom

And now you have a guard clause preventing it because something happened that should not happen

[halcyon dagger]

I see, but if it works the same, in this case im more of a if / else guy myself, it seems clearer for me

like I take a quick look at the code after a few time and I understand it faster

[summer stump]

If you look bere
https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons

There is a base class you can create. Whenever you want a singleton, you can just inherit from it and it is done automatically

Under "generic implementation"

[burnt vapor]

All good, this is mostly preference, but it does use some practices like guard clauses that might be nice to learn

[halcyon dagger]

whats the difference between guard and else, wont they be executed anyways if the if block fails?

[ripe shard]

a guard is supposed to reduce nesting

[burnt vapor]

Guard clauses are something you start a method with and it is either one or multiple if-statements that ensure your method has everything it needs for a happy flow

Yes, it works to reduce nesting but that is not the point of it

[silver lagoon]

private bool PotionCollide()
{
return Physics2D.CircleCast(new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y), potSize, Vector2.right, enemyLayer);
}

This circle cast always returns true, even when not overlapping any other game objects. Any ideas as to why?

[burnt vapor]

@halcyon dagger https://medium.com/codenx/clean-and-secure-c-applications-in-net-8-with-guard-clauses-51d7c10a9bdd

[polar acorn]

Try logging the object it hits:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.CircleCast.html

[halcyon dagger]

Prettty similar to FusedQyou solition I see, just adds the DoAwake witch might be useful tho

[burnt vapor]

Yes, it would avoid the mistake of not calling the base awake by simply preventing its use entirely

[silver lagoon]

How do I log the colliders?

[ripe shard]

its the only reason to use them, because everything else can also be achieved with if/else

[summer stump]

Well the main difference is that you don't actually write any of that in the various classes. You just write
public class MyClass : Singleton<MyClass>

[halcyon dagger]

When I fist learned programming I was told that using more than 1 return per method was not the optimal thing to do

[polar acorn]

It returns a RaycastHit2D, which has some fields you could check
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RaycastHit2D.html

[halcyon dagger]

I kind of carried that until today

[summer stump]

Only one return will ever run. If a return runs, the method call ends of course

[slender nymph]

who needs to avoid that when you can use the secret __internalAwake message to setup the singleton instead

[halcyon dagger]

Thats how it is now

[halcyon dagger]

Ikr, I guess it also depends of which language/framework and app u trying to make

[summer stump]

Well, no not really. This is just a fundamental fact. Having multiple returns is impossible to be less optimal. In all languages I know with a return equivalent, it ends the method, thus making it irrelevant if there is one or more

[halcyon dagger]

I meant, that depeding of that, there are cases where is better to use only 1 return per method, and others where it works the opposite way

[signal mango]

Don't forget OnEnableINTERNAL and OnDisableINTERNAL

[halcyon dagger]

obviously everywhere the return ends the method

[slender nymph]

oh shit i didn't know those existed. thanks for the info!

[halcyon dagger]

sorry if i didnt explain correctly

[signal mango]

I found them while looking at how Unity handles built-in messages in a disassembler

They're used in a few places in the C# reference sources too

[halcyon dagger]

for example in TS multiple returns are a blessing usually, anyways, thanks yall 4 the help, now imma lay down and get some sleep, cya!

[north oar]

my visual studio doesnt look like the one from a tutorial im watchin and it doesnt give a list of code when i type something in it not sure what im doin wrong 🤔

[silver lagoon]

In all cases it only returns this, so I'm still unsure as to how to diagnose the issue

[polar acorn]

The linked message contains all the data that RaycastHit2D holds. See if there's anything that might let you know what object you hit

[polar acorn]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[silver lagoon]

What information can I actually extract from this?

[polar acorn]

Click on the link, and see if any of the properties of RaycastHit2D get you any information about the object the raycast hit

[silver lagoon]

Rigidbody, position and collider are all null for this object

[polar acorn]

So then it doesn't hit anything. Maybe your function should check if that object is null or not instead of checking if the RaycastHit2D exists?

[silver lagoon]

If it doesn't hit anything, shouldn't it return false

[polar acorn]

No, it returns a RaycastHit2D with a null collider

That was the first link I sent

[silver lagoon]

I meant that, when the call for the function was 'if (PotionCollide())', the function always returned true. Why is this?

[polar acorn]

Because PotionCollide is returning true if the RaycastHit2D exists. Because RaycastHit2D is a struct, it always exists. It can't be null. So your function always returns true

You should be checking if the object the ray hits is null

[silver lagoon]

I think I'm starting to get it. How would I check if the object was null then? Would it be:
if (hit <> null)
{
return hit
}

[polar acorn]

Well, remember when I had you log something, and you told me that thing was null?

[silver lagoon]

So hit.collider <> null

[summer stump]

And what are you expecting from <> ?

[safe radish]

i have a mesh for my fluid now. can anyone give me a good suggestion for how to fill in the sides?

[modest sierra]

ah yes, code "beginner"

Try your luck in cude advanced or code general

People in this channel usually are amateurs (not all but a lot) to help beginners. The more advanced people with coding are on the other chats

[polar acorn]

(yeah tbh this is a bit beyond even me at this point I do not fuck with fluid sim, even minecraft-like)

[stuck palm]

what does dirty mean?

[ionic zephyr]

does somebody know how to make a process in which you click an inventory slot and passes the object to the crafting slot and removes it TEMPORARILY from the inventory? Then, if the player doesnt want to craft anything with it, it clicks on the crafting slot and the object returns to the inventory, can somebody help me?

Ive tryed lots of ways but they dont convince me

[rocky canyon]

changed

"unclean"

[polar acorn]

If each inventory slot is just a container that knows what item it holds, and you have a function to add an item to the first available inventory slot, it's as simple as setting the old slot's item to null and then adding it back when you're done

[ionic zephyr]

but then I need to create a different type of slot that holds the event trigger right?

[polar acorn]

What?

[ionic zephyr]

the click event

[polar acorn]

Why would a slot hold a click event

[ionic zephyr]

if I click on the slot i want this to happen DEPENDING if I clciked a Crafting Slot or an Inventory Slot

[polar acorn]

They both do the same thing though - set their contents to the item you're currently holding

[ionic zephyr]

yeah but the behaviour is different no?

[polar acorn]

What's different about it?

[ionic zephyr]

and how do I make sure it happens when I click on it?

[polar acorn]

Do you have any sort of system that can detect what object you've clicked on

[ionic zephyr]

not really

[polar acorn]

then start there

figure out how to detect which slot you click on

[ionic zephyr]

the Ihandler interface

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, with the interface but still I have to add it to the script but the behaviour is different

[ionic zephyr]

could you give me a code example?

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you do have a system for detecting which things you click on?

[ionic zephyr]

yeah

[polar acorn]

So what's different between these slots?

What do they do differently

[copper python]

you're creating the minecraft inventory? lol

[ionic zephyr]

in one it goes from Inventory to Crafting and the other one the other way around

[polar acorn]

So, you click it and it instantly goes over? There's no "carrying" an object and clicking where you drop it?

[ionic zephyr]

yes

and I if I use the interface then ALL of my slots would be clickable and I dont want that

[polar acorn]

So, you have a function to add an item to an inventory, and you have a function that adds an item to the crafting grid. You click on a slot in the inventory, add its item to the crafting grid. Click on a slot in the crafting grid, add it to the inventory

[ionic zephyr]

yes

[ionic zephyr]

however I dont want my slots to be clickable for that process all the time

[ionic zephyr]

and also how do I distinguish if it is in Inventory or Crafting

[copper python]

Ah I see, I might be able to help aswell

[copper python]

Are the containers which hold items and the crafting containers inside one inventory (just like minecraft)?

[ionic zephyr]

what do you mean one inventory?

[ionic zephyr]

this is a placeholder, brown -> inventory, yellow-> crafting

[copper python]

ah

[ionic zephyr]

you speak spanish btw?

[copper python]

what I refer to by inventory was the intire menu which shows the slots/containers

[copper python]

nope

[ionic zephyr]

oh sorry "ah" is typical spanish reaction

[copper python]

fair enough

[ionic zephyr]

well, yeah they are all in one

[copper python]

should the user be able to select at which slot in the crafting grid the selected item needs to be positioned?

[ionic zephyr]

not at all

[copper python]

That makes it simple damn

[polar acorn]

Different child classes of slot

[copper python]

Okey, this is how I would program the inventory system:

Inventory script

• Manages display or enable/disable of the inventory.
• Manages on click and gets the clicked slot.
• Manages logic of transfering items between player slots and crafting slots.

Slot script

• Stores what kind of slot it is (player slot or crafting slot)
• (Optionally) Stores the index or id of slot.
• Stores item inside the slot (can be null).

[copper python]

On click you can see whether the slot is of kind player or crafting and add logic to it. For simply transfering items from one slot to the other the code would look something like this:

bool isHoldingItem = false;

Slot firtClickedSlot;

void OnInventoryClick(Slot clickedSlot) {
  if (!isHoldingItem) { // If statement for the first clicked slot.
    firstClickedSlot = clickedSlot;
    isHoldingItem = true;
  }
  else { // If statement for the second clicked slot.
    // Check if the click on the second slot is valid.
    // Optionally you could check if the clicked slot already contains an item.
    if ((firstClickedSlot.slotType == SlotType.Player 
        && clickedSlot.slotType == SlotType.Crafting)
        || (firstClickedSlot.slotType == SlotType.Crafting 
        && clickedSlot.slotType == SlotType.Player) 
    {
      TransferItemBetweenSlots(firstClickedSlot, clickedSlot)
    }
    else {
      // Invalid selection of the second slot.
    }
  }
}

void TransferItemBetweenSlots(slotFrom, slotTo) {
  slotTo.item = slotFrom.item;
  slotFrom.item = null;

  // Reset variables
  isHoldingItem = false;
  firstClickedSlot = null;
}

@ionic zephyr This would be simular to how I would build the inventory system. Hopefully it will help you

[ionic zephyr]

my god thanks for the help

[copper python]

Yeah I like to get over my head alot XD

[ionic zephyr]

also, how can I detect which slot I clicked in?

[copper python]

clickedSlot.slotType == SlotType.Crafting

[ionic zephyr]

and also just a quick question if you dont mind, do you think this is a good idea design-wise

[copper python]

I mean yes, it's just clean in my oppinion. Ofcourse you could improve it or change it to your liking, but having the things as discribed in the linked message for me would be the way to go

[ionic zephyr]

okay thanks a lot, you´ve been really helpful

[copper python]

You could ask others though

[copper python]

[ionic zephyr]

🫡

[copper python]

Btw obviously you'll have to fill in the blank gaps yourself, such as detecting when the user clicked a slot. As an example a simple button could be the way to go

Goodluck!

[queen adder]

I am getting NRE for this slider.value = BaseDeath.currentHealth; does this mean currentHealth is equal to 0

[wintry quarry]

No it means one of your references is null

slider or BaseDeath

[queen adder]

how would I fix this

How would I get a refrence i putcs public Slider slider; and public BaseDeath BaseDeath;

[wintry quarry]

You need to assign those references somehow

Either in the inspector

Or in your code

[queen adder]

The inspector isnt an option for me should I be referencing it a different way?

[wintry quarry]

Yes obviously

You need to get the reference somehow

The code cannot simply guess which object you want

[queen adder]

My problem is i have no idea how do you any ways to reference an object?

[queen adder]

Obviously

[wintry quarry]

Yes I know lots of ways

https://unity.huh.how/references

It really depends on the situation

[queen adder]

Will that link tell me how I should be doing it when I need a variable from another script?

[wintry quarry]

Yes

But "when I need a variable from another script" is ALL of the situations

It doesn't narrow anything down about the situation

[queen adder]

Oh so like what im using the variable for is what determines what method I should use that helps a lot but im using the variable to subtract the value of slider by that variable

[wintry quarry]

You're being like frustratingly intentionally vague

Explain the situation

[summer stump]

Why is the inspector not an option for the slider? Do you instantiate it?

[wintry quarry]

Like "this is for a health bar when a player gets hit by a bullet which is Instantiated from a prefab" or something

[queen adder]

I apologize im new i dont mean to do this

[queen adder]

Yes exactly

[summer stump]

So then what I wrote yesterday, with getcomponent

In OnTrigger or OnCollision

[queen adder]

Okay get component thank you got it

[queen adder]

Am i missing something? BaseDeath baseDeath = GetComponent<BaseDeath>(); slider.value = baseDeath.currentHealth;

I am i have an NRE im just so confused on what is missing

[wintry quarry]

You should use Debug.Log and see which reference is null

[raw token]

An NRE occurs when you try to access a member on null. So like foobar.someMember will throw an NRE if foobar is null.

There's two member accessors in the code you've posted, so the NRE can only be a result of slider and/or baseDeath being null. With that in mind, double check where those variables are assigned values. Use Debug.Log()s to find which is null

[queen adder]

slider is getting a value in the inspector and baseDeath should have a value from the getcomponent the value should be the script baseDeath

[raw token]

Don't work off of your assumptions - test them. Usually the computer does not operate according to our assumptions, and it has a better reason for what it's doing than we have for our guesses

[queen adder]

Okay ill try that i have been trying at this for hours and hours and i think my problem is in the GetComponent but im not sure what the problem is which is why im here

[polar acorn]

So, log the values, find out what the problem even is

The line before the NRE, log every variable that can be null

[queen adder]

I understand something is null/0 but i think im giving everything a value but obviously im not and i think the problem is in GetComponent

[queen adder]

Will do

found it baseHealthBar is Null ```{
baseHeathBar baseHeathBar = collider.GetComponent<baseHeathBar>();
if (collider.CompareTag("enemy"))
{
Debug.Log(baseHeathBar);
takeDamage(currentHealth);
baseHeathBar.setBaseHealth(currentHealth);
Debug.Log(baseHeathBar);
}

}```

So that means the GetComponent is not doing anything is there something wrong with the GetComponent

[raw token]

Cool cool. So the next question is "Why is GetComponent() returning null?" To answer that question, we turn to the documentation

[queen adder]

https://pastebin.com/Aw63Sy0x
so this is my pathfinding roaming code, and i was wondering if there are ways to improve it since im really new to this

Alright ill look through the docs and ill see whats wrong

[teal viper]

Looks fine to me. Is there anything specific you're worried about?

[lethal swallow]

sorry how do I make the enemy STOP where it has been hit, instead of sliding to the player thanks :))

code: https://pastebin.com/BCumJBCA

[queen adder]

Well the problem is, that it keeps walking into the wall alot (like in the corners of the navmesh) and i dont know how to fix it

[teal viper]

Can you record a video of what it looks like? Adding some visual debugging queues, like debug rays or gizmos would be helpful too.

[queen adder]

sure one second

[teal viper]

I assume that what you want is for it not to move when the hit animation is playing. For that you could use animation events to know when the animation starts and ends and pause your movement accordingly.

[queen adder]

Here. there are so many nodes in the corners and i dont know how to fix it.

I originally assumed doing a check to see if the nodes are overlapping i should delete them but same result

[queen adder]

Okay its null because it needs a gameobject and it doesnt have one so its turning out null So I would need to make a public gameobject for the object that has the script then put it on there

[teal viper]

What's the roam radius?

[queen adder]

50f

[raw token]

Nope. GameObject.GetComponent() and collider.GetComponent() do the exact same thing. But the very first sentence of either's documentation page reads "Returns null if the component is not found."

[queen adder]

the problem is mostly that the nodes are only spawning more around the corners and i tried everything to fix it

[teal viper]

That look like a lot. Considering the actual walkable area is limited, you would often get a point that is outside it, and then it gets clamped to the closest navmesh corner via sample position.

[queen adder]

Ahhh

Makes sense, i originally made it alot because the actual level/map is really huge

But i havent thought of changing it for the current scene

So i lower the roam radius and this happens.

[lethal swallow]

alr thanks

[queen adder]

Right the component isnt found therefore is null and the reason its null is because it doesnt have a way to the component so I made a public gameobject and put the object with the script in there in the inspector

[teal viper]

You could try limiting the sampling radius to something like 0.1, so that most position outside the walkable area are ingnored. Other than that, you'll need a more sophisticated algorithm, or place the nodes manually.@queen adder

[lethal swallow]

wait so sorry how would I implement that? eg. are there any examples / tutorials? tysm

[queen adder]

Alright ill look into it. Thank you

[teal viper]

Yeah, there are some examples in the docs I think. Google animation events in unity

[raw token]

You're jumping to assumptions. You already have a game object - collider is a reference to the collider on the object which triggered the collision. When you call collider.GetComponent() it will search the game object which the collider is attached to for components.

(Or at least I'm assuming this is in some OnCollision method, or similar - I haven't actually seen that)

[lethal swallow]

thanks

[queen adder]

Yes its on OnTriggerEnter and i changed a few things and this worked ```private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collider)
{
baseHeathBar baseHeathBar = basebar.GetComponent<baseHeathBar>();
if (collider.CompareTag("enemy"))
{
Debug.Log(baseHeathBar);
takeDamage(currentHealth);
baseHeathBar.setBaseHealth(currentHealth);

}

}```

Thanks a lot Raccoon you were a big help!

[outer coral]

is there some particular reason that print statements just lag the crap out of the game only in the build...

Everything runs perfect and then I add a single print statement and it lags the crap out of the game whenever its called...

only a print statement... i dont get it

[slender nymph]

have you actually profiled a build to determine that is the actual cause of performance issues?

[outer coral]

yes it is genuinely the cause

[slender nymph]

i will also point out that writing to a file can be a costly action. but i'd like to see actual data that proves that a single print statement is causing performance issues

[outer coral]

well tbf the print statement is in update but regardless

idk its happened in multiple spots now

[slender nymph]

don't make assumptions. use the profiler

[outer coral]

like ill print something for testing and then build without removing it and im like whys it so laggy, i remove the prints and it fixes everything

[slender nymph]

when i asked if you used the profiler i wasn't just asking if you made a guess that the print statement was the cause. i was actually asking if you had actually profiled your game to get real data instead of making assumptions

[outer coral]

okay well how can I do that

[slender nymph]

by using the profiler . . .

[outer coral]

every time I use that it just has a big block with some built in unity function 500 calls down the stack

thats what I get

i think thats what it is by the looks of it

same thing no print statement

[sand heath]

unless u have a console object in the game hooked up to the debug output and it has like 4-5 shaders that get compiled

quantum console v-v

[raw token]

Is this the hierarchy when having a lag spike selected? Is that DirectX call taking a lot of time?

From some fu, it sounds like that's Unity just waiting for your computer to draw the frame, nothing to do with your code or Unity's performance. In this case it was a user's RGB lighting program which was responsible for burdening their system's resources.

[outer coral]

yes it is, and here are times

[steep rose]

look at what he suggested

[outer coral]

if my rgb program is making my game lag when im printing out a float value im gonna flip

[raw token]

In that screenshot your whole player loop is only taking 7ms... It's very unlikely that the player loop is responsible for a lag spike on this frame

[outer coral]

ok hows this lol

everything else is at 0

or very low

[raw token]

Yeah, that looks like more of a problem frame

[outer coral]

i have no clue whats causing it I tried force ending most of my 3rd party application tabs including rgb programs has not helped thus far though

[sand heath]

doesnt wait for target framerate just mean its waiting for vsync?

[sand heath]

i havent read any of the context to this so forgive me if you already went over it but do you have vsync enabled in the editor

Application target framerate i believe is vsync related (if vsync is enabled it will be tied to the vsync count rather than the target fps)

[outer coral]

I do not, I also tried disabling it in the build/enabling it, no change

[outer coral]

tried this as well, no avail

[sand heath]

yeah it seems strange to me that a debug log would be causing any noticable amount of lag unless it was concatenating a bunch of strings or doing something more expensive than just the base debug.log

i would only think that its not the log but whatever the log is related to

[sand heath]

you can also just disable logging in builds if you dont care about them

that would also let you see if its actually the logs

[outer coral]

nope it is a float

[outer coral]

i thought this too but I have logged many different things with the same result

[outer coral]

might try this but kinda want the logs

[sand heath]

just disable them and see if that fixes it

then you can actually like be sure that its the logs

it might be an antimalware program or something scanning the log file

[teal viper]

This might be hardware drivven vsync. Check your GPU control panel and make sure there are no vsync related settings enabled.

That or you just have a gpu spike. Maybe check the GPU profiler module to see what the gpu does on that frame

[gaunt cypress]

Hey everyone. I hope you had a good week . Sorry for the newbie question.

What's an efficient/recommended way of creating animation transitions for lots of different animations? I have animation for walking in each direction, running in each direction, idle, jump, etc. I tried to connect them and create rules individually, but it became a mess. I heard something about Blend Trees, but I haven't had the chance to check it out.

Any ideas? Thank you so much!

[thorny basalt]

I personally use the animation component

You can play animations with blender or queued

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animation.html

[outer coral]

I turned off logs and it runs fine.

[outer coral]

I have AMD, I searched around for settings like that and disabled them, did not help things

[outer coral]

unless its windows defender this is unlikely (I don't have one)

[outer coral]

like I feel like this shouldnt work but it does

[slender dock]

can you guys spot the thing that took me over 2 hours to debug?

[elder raptor]

I am changing the mouse cursor through code using Cursor.SetCursor() and it does work, but the aspect ratio of the cursor image is wrong, it looks squashed as its Y Scale is low, how do I fix it?

[marble hemlock]

how would i go about putting a hole in a game object

like i have a square, and i want to completely hollow out that square so they could move through it

like a vent

[elder raptor]

You can use boolean modifier in Blender on a cube and then import it to Unity

[crystal chasm]

Is it that semi colon?

[elder raptor]

Unless that hole is dynamic

[marble hemlock]

oh blender how i cant escape you 😮‍💨

[marble hemlock]

thank you

[elder raptor]

You can do it in Unity too but it's just a bit overcomplicated xD as you should code mesh changes.

[marble hemlock]

perhaps there is only suffering

[elder raptor]

xD it's like a 10 seconds job in Blender though

[marble hemlock]

so as im waiting for blender to get up and running again

is probuilder not a good choice

[thorny basalt]

It is not a substitute for blender if that is what you were thinking

[slender dock]

yes lol, i'm so happy i got everything working that i wanted to get done 😄 ... ok well 2 months late but still

feels like that semicolon after the else should come up as an error or something, but i guess there's a warning underline thingie under it

[thorny basalt]

How did it not throw a compiler error?

[slender dock]

was a few weeks of 7 days a week, 16+ hour days, finally done'ish

[slender dock]

i thought i was going crazy, it was causing crazy behavior lol

[thorny basalt]

Did it actually not throw a compiler error?

[slender dock]

no error

guess it's valid c# :I~

compiler is like ... "yeah that looks good thumbs up"

[marble hemlock]

i mean for putting holes in things

[thorny basalt]

Huh. I never tried it

[slender dock]

i haven't used probuilder, but watched video tutorials on it

[thorny basalt]

Well, that is why you need to learn how to debug

[slender dock]

blender works great for me, i want to try probuilder some time though, is it free?

[marble hemlock]

i dont seem to have been charged so i'll say yes

[slender dock]

neat

[marble hemlock]

i went to window -> packet manager -> all
and then just installed it

[slender dock]

i've been learning more about debugging last few weeks, but with this project if i step through code too slowly, the lobby/relay might time out

[marble hemlock]

i dont believe this is meant to be used for any final things though, but i could be wrong

prototyping

back to blender it seems

i forgor how to use blender its already over before it began

[proud kindle]

I converted from roblox studio to unity

Bec obv reasons

Can anyone send me a good tut vid

For Vr/Ar projects

[marble hemlock]

i forgot how to do basic things in blender its so over

https://youtu.be/NXxlN_aHhIA

YEAHHH

THANKS GUY

ONE DRIVE CEASE EXISTENCE IMMEDIATELY

[vale karma]

Hello, Im having some trouble keeping clean code. I have been doing okay with managing spegetti, there really isnt much beside this growing interact script. Can someone direct me in the right area to research? ive been looking at event systems but they are very hard to comprehend fsr

https://paste.ofcode.org/XgZRUuue9huVysrhHrLz9y

It all works without bugs btw, very well crafted but brittle code lol

[radiant frigate]

does someone know why this line throws me an error? spawner = gameObject.GetComponentInParent<FlyingSkullSpawnerScript>;
it says that i cant convert a group of methods into a non delegated type "flyingSkullSpawnerScript

or something like that, im literally translating the error since i have it in spanish

[vale karma]

is that script in the scene at runtime?

[radiant frigate]

it should be

[vale karma]

ive seen it before, its like the script doesnt have monobehavior in it or something

[radiant frigate]

and also the object containing the script with this code is instantiated by the parent, so even if it wasnt it should still be able to get it since it gets instantiated after the parent exists in runtime

[radiant frigate]

it has

[vale karma]

im not sure bud

[raw token]

You're missing the parenthesis from the method call, so it thinks you're trying to use the method as a variable

[radiant frigate]

oh

[vale karma]

ahah

[radiant frigate]

indeed

that was it

lmao

[vale karma]

i remember doing that now loll

[radiant frigate]

dapper raccoon at rescate again

how you doing?

[raw token]

Well enough - thanks for asking :)

It's late and one of the smoke detectors in my apartment has gone rogue, but it's not long for this world, just as soon as I figure out which one it is >:)

[radiant frigate]

hope you find it soon!

and also that your pillow is always on the cold side

because you deserve it

[raw token]

hahaha, thanks!

May yours be as well

[kind stratus]

Hey

[radiant frigate]

hi

[kind stratus]

How are you?

Good at coding?

[radiant frigate]

not that much

[kind stratus]

Dm me

Know fnaf?

[radiant frigate]

yes i do

[kind stratus]

Dm me

[radiant frigate]

but i think its better to ask your questions here since there is a bigger base of people to help you

[marble hemlock]

ONCE AGAIN

CEASE EXISTENCE IMMEDIATELY

fucking with my file paths even though ive already deleted you
cease existence

i have to redownload it to fix the file paths 🗿

[eternal needle]

It looks like those 3 methods, water dirt and seed, can directly be replaced with 1 method call just using inheritance. You really shouldnt be using invoke like that. Also since those are unity objects, you shouldn't be using ? on them either.
They should either implement the same interface or be derived from the same base class.

[pliant sleet]

does someone know why I can't anchor a raw image ? like it doesn't appear anymore

it should have been on the transform

[pallid nymph]

seems like debug view

[eager spindle]

you're on the Debug page rather than the Inspector page

[pliant sleet]

oh my days

thank you

[elder raptor]

Why is only the first gameobject a bit to the left when compared to others? I am using a vertical Layout Group with the following settings.

It's only the DoD gameObject for some reason. No matter how I rearrange it, the DoD is stuck to the left. All of them are literal duplicates of the Name GameObject

Deleting it and re-making that object fixed it, but I want to know why this is happening 😔 Very weird

[idle ginkgo]

when i setTrigger an anim parameter

sometimes it gets stuck and doesnt get untriggered?

why is this

[slender nymph]

have you confirmed that your ResetTrigger call is actually executing?

[idle ginkgo]

if i havent set any Reset trigger

it still resests ?

[short hazel]

Triggers reset automatically when they're part of a transition's condition, and that the transition finishes

[idle ginkgo]

oh ok

[short hazel]

If you do not have a transition like this, it will never reset unless you call ResetTrigger in the code

If you do have a transition like this, make sure it's being used. While in play mode you can select the object in the scene that has the animator, and view its state in real time

[idle ginkgo]

thanks a lot

fixed it

[pearl temple]

When discussing singletons in unity I see a lot of people online deriving their singleton class from monobehaviour and also attach it to some game object. Is there a reason for that?
If its just a code singleton class why not just use new instead of instantiate?

[errant pilot]

Guys do I use this type?

[languid spire]

The Singleton concept is specific to Unity Monobehaviour.. For a POCO this would just be a static class

[languid spire]

that depends on what your trying to acheive

[pearl temple]

huh, isn't a singleton always a static class? There is supposed to be only one

oh wait, yeah I get it

nvm, ty

[languid spire]

no, a Singleton contains a static reference to a class instance

[wintry quarry]

Because they want or need some MonoBehaviour functionality

[errant pilot]

disable components

[languid spire]

then it is good

[errant pilot]

oh mb

i see it now

thank you

[atomic holly]

Hi
I want to implement differents weapons with their owns mechanical (bow, magic book can use some spells, sword, hammer...). For this, can I use some ScriptableObjects or it's not recommanded ?

[languid spire]

scriptable objects are fine for this

[errant pilot]

whats this 😭

[willow scroll]

I would rather have a non-ScriptableObject abstract class Weapon, and derive the required types from it.
Make sure you have e.g. an abstract void Attack in the main class.

[atomic holly]

I don't understand how u can do it

[willow scroll]

I'm saying that Component does not contain the boolean enabled. Only Behaviour does

[atomic holly]

So don't do ScriptableObject but use a class ?

[willow scroll]

Well, actually, do use ScriptableObjects

[errant pilot]

yes I get that but this script is used for all zombies which have different components and scripts do i rly have to put them all manually?

[atomic holly]

But how can I program different mechanics of each weapons because SO give all items same properties

[willow scroll]

I would have a class Player, which has its Weapon variable

public abstract class Weapon : ScriptableObject
{
    public abstract void Attack();
}

[languid spire]

no they do not

[wintry quarry]

If you do this you have to awkwardly create instance assets for all the different subclasses

[languid spire]

you dont just have one SO you have one per weapon and use an inheritance hierarchy for the comonalities

[atomic holly]

What is inheritance hierarchy ?

[willow scroll]

Right, that's what I mean. It would be hard to implement different attack patterns using variables
Surely, enums can be used, which are then checked within Player or the main SO, but I would prefer abstract over this

[iron blade]

Hello! I am transitioning from an idle animation to another one using a trigger. How can I go back from the other animation to the idle one after it ends?

[vague oyster]

what doing this code?

[languid spire]

invisibility inherits from Spell inherits from Weapon inherits from ScriptableObject

[wintry quarry]

I think polymorphism/inheritance is a trap for this kind of system

[willow scroll]

What do you mean by "put them all manually"?

[vague oyster]

i think it must authenficate player to google play services, but it doesn't work on my phone

[errant pilot]

nothing its fine im being stupid

if (comp is Behaviour behaviour)
{
behaviour.enabled = false;
}
else if (comp is Renderer renderer)
{
renderer.enabled = false;
}

i fixed it with this

[atomic holly]

And these differents classes, u put it where ? In the SO or in a script of the player ?

[errant pilot]

thank you

[iron blade]

Could someone answer my question please?

[willow scroll]

Right, make sure you know it does not work for a non-Behaviour

[languid spire]

I suggest you look up how inheritance works in C#

[atomic holly]

Okay, I think it's a good idea 👍

[languid spire]

maybe if you asked in #🏃┃animation

[iron blade]

Oh alright thanks

[vague oyster]

using GooglePlayGames.BasicApi;
using GooglePlayGames;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class GooglePlayServicesManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void Start()
    {
        PlayGamesPlatform.Activate();
        Social.localUser.Authenticate((bool succes) => { });
    }

   
        ```

why it don't work?

[languid spire]

wdym 'doesn't work' that code does not do anything

[willow scroll]

I would do it this way
https://gdl.space/inuqexakav.cs

[ivory bobcat]

You'd have to explain what's not working

[vague oyster]

nothing happens when I start the game. I was expecting a google play services login window

[ivory bobcat]

This should be done before any other calls into the API.
Here's the example docshttps://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SocialPlatforms.ILocalUser.Authenticate.html

[languid spire]

That looks like a completely different API

[vague oyster]

what code should I use to log in to Google Play services? to open the login window in the game

[languid spire]

no idea, maybe ask in #📱┃mobile

[vague oyster]

I didn't really understand. That is, do I need some kind of code other than authentication, for example, enabling the leaderboard?

[loud mango]

The lagg when starting the running animation, is it caused by a code or by the animation?

void Update()
    {
        if(movementJoystick.Direction.x > 0.001 && movementJoystick.Direction.x != 0 || movementJoystick.Direction.x < 0.001 && movementJoystick.Direction.x != 0){
            animControl.SetBool("isMoving", true);
        } else{
            animControl.SetBool("isMoving", false);
        }
    }```

[wintry quarry]

Well your code is pretty janky but most likely the animation

[languid spire]

to start with, your if statement makes no sense, fix that first

[atomic holly]

What is the goal of _canhit in the player class ?

[loud mango]

if you are worried about the way its typed, its cuz of discord

[languid spire]

no, the way it is executed

[slender nymph]

you have unnecessary conditions, and basically the same condition repeated. it can be simplified to just if(Mathf.Abs(movementJoystick.Direction.x) > 0.001) or if(!Mathf.Approximately(movementJoystick.Direction.x, 0))

[loud mango]

i want it so that it check if the x value is either more than zero or less than zero and then check if its not 0

i want it to check for !0 for the else{}

[slender nymph]

if it is more or less than 0 then you already know it isn't 0. so the check for 0 is unnecessary

[loud mango]

ooo wait

[languid spire]

yes, but you appear not to know how if statements are executed

[loud mango]

i am a big cat brain

so i removed the !0 part

and imma fix the animation cuz i just realized that it has a frame that is same as the idle animation

[wintry quarry]

Note though that your second part where you say < .001 doesn't make sense either

You should either be checking against -.001 there or just using the absolute value

[atomic holly]

Is it normal I can create a SO with this script : ```c#
using UnityEngine;

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "New Weapon", menuName = "Inventory/Item/Weapon")]
public abstract class Weapon : ScriptableObject
{
public int damage;
public int reach;
public int speed;

public abstract void Attack();

}

Is it absract the problem ?

[loud mango]

i first checked if the velocity changes, if it does then the animation starts

but that was kinda weird

but imma try that again cuz now i have uniform speeds

[loud mango]

the joystick gives value of 0 to -1 for left and 0 to 1 for right

[languid spire]

you should not be able to, no

[shell herald]

im mega confused. i have been debugging this script for a while now and i just dont understand what is wrong. can anyone tell me why the Debug.Log i marked in the pic is not called?

full code: https://hastebin.com/share/payiyotaru.csharp

[atomic holly]

So I can't do public abstract void Attack(); ?

[steep rose]

Read what he said fully

[languid spire]

no you cannot create an abstract class so abstract Weapon is incorrect

[slender nymph]

there are 3 reasons that log may not print:

1. that method is not being called at all
2. that method is not called when _isSpeaking is true
3. you have an exception in the console that stops execution before that log line happens

[steep rose]

Also boxfriend gave you code to try but you didnt?

[loud mango]

oh, forgot it was there. sorry

[languid spire]

Can I suggest you actually log useful information rather than just string literals

[loud mango]

i did that, it improved
although i have a different file for controlling animation, if i add it to the same script that controls the moving, will it improve further?

[wintry quarry]

Yes exactly

[hollow vortex]

I am trying to shoot a trail from the gun point, forward to its rotation

void Shoot()
{
    if (HandHolder.childCount == 0) return;
    HandHolder.GetComponentInChildren<HandScript>().Shoot();

    Vector3 mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
    Vector3 direction = (mousePosition - shootStart.position).normalized;

    RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(shootStart.position, direction, weaponRange);

    GameObject trail = Instantiate(bulletTrail, shootStart.position, HandHolder.rotation);
    TrailScript tr = trail.GetComponentInChildren<TrailScript>();
    if (hit.collider != null)
    {
        tr.SetEndPos(hit.point);
    }
    else
    {
        Vector3 endPosit = shootStart.position + direction * weaponRange;
        tr.SetEndPos(endPosit);
    }
}v

its only shooting to the same point

[blazing mauve]

im making a 3d game ive coded movement and all that but idk why but my player jus walks through the walll can anyone help?

[hollow vortex]

add a collider

to both

[blazing mauve]

the player has a mesh collider and a capsual collider and the walls have a mesh colliders

[shell herald]

i think i found the issue. the methods are called with FindObjectOfType, exept interact. so when i have multiple objects with that script. in only one of them _isSpeaking is true and in all others its not.

my guess is, that if i want to call the methods on not just one object but all objects i need to use FindObjectsOfType instead but then idk how to call the method

[hollow vortex]

same point I mean if I go down it shoots up, if I go right it shoots left

[languid spire]

and do any of them have a Rigidbody?

[blazing mauve]

the player

[languid spire]

screenshot the rigidbody and all of the colliders

[steep rose]

Remove the mesh collider from the player unless it's necessary, if your wall is a box you dont need a mesh collider

[hollow vortex]

did u set any of the colliders to trigger or sum?

[blazing mauve]

k il try that now

[steep rose]

Try what Steve and drip ward said as well

Good responses

[hollow vortex]

I tried every rotation but didnt work, Im not familliary with raycast 2d

or 2d

[blazing mauve]

my player jus falls through the floor and will still go straight through the walls

[hollow vortex]

yea u probs set the collider to trigger or something

[steep rose]

Are the walls triggers?

And floor

[blazing mauve]

i got rid of the mesh colider

[steep rose]

You still have the capsule collider though right?

[blazing mauve]

yh

[steep rose]

Check if it's a trigger

Same with the walls and floor

[blazing mauve]

where does is it say is trigger on the capsul collider

[steep rose]

Look under the inspector and it should say "istrigger"

[vague oyster]

why vs studio print error

[languid spire]

did you read the error?

[blazing mauve]

its not ticked

[steep rose]

Do what Steve said, send pictures of rigidbody and all colliders

[blazing mauve]

alr

[steep rose]

Colliders dont just do that unless something that shouldn't be ticked is

[vague oyster]

yess but i dont understand

[languid spire]

then I suggest you need to learn some c# basics

[vague oyster]

Cannot convert from "method group" to "System.Action<bool>".

[steep rose]

Your level doesn't have a collider on it? Also mesh colliders require a mesh field to be occupied by the mesh so it can make a collider for it

[blazing mauve]

soo... add a mesh collider

[steep rose]

I said remove it if your walls were just boxes and add box colliders instead

[blazing mauve]

they work now tysm!

and my jump script works now aswell

ty

[short hazel]

To be accepted into the Authenticate() method, your ProcessAuthentication method must adhere to the Action<bool> delegate type, which requires:

1. Your method must return void (that is the case right now)
2. Your method must take a single parameter of type bool (that is NOT the case - you take in a parameter of type SignInStatus instead)

[willow scroll]

Check whether the delay from the last hit has elapsed. Has to be updated in the Coroutine

[vague oyster]

it doesn't help anyway. and in the documentation, the code works without it.

[short hazel]

That's not what I suggested you to do - you do not call the method in Start, you change its signature

And these docs might be for a newer version of the library

[vague oyster]

and there is. I installed the old version, as many people had problems on the new one, including me. I don't know where to get the old documentation (I don't understand github and I'm not sure if it exists)

[vague oyster]

Do you mean that?

[short hazel]

Yes, it created the correct one for you on lines 15-18. The one on lines 20 and after is incompatible

On GitHub you can see files from other branches using the dropdown at the top-left, see if there's one matching your version

[vague oyster]

Thanks, I didn't know about it.

[lethal bolt]

Google didnt really know what i was asking about. How do i Check if a gameobjects Getcomponent BoxCollider is triggered?

[atomic holly]

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collision){}

And if it's a collider 2D it's OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider collision){}

[shell matrix]

I can't see the default functions like start or in this case Update in unity

[lethal bolt]

How do i get this OnTriggeEnter ?

[atomic holly]

Why you went to see Udpate in Unity

You can't see a function in Unity

[atomic holly]

Just put the script in the gameobject that have the collider and use the function OnTriggerEnter

[rich adder]

the parameter returned by the function in OnTriggerEnter gives you the collider component already

[shell matrix]

I expressed myself incorrectly, the idea is that the update method must be written in yellow

visual studio does not see it as a default method

[lethal bolt]

So this aint working did you mean something else because im confused?

[rich adder]

other is the collider.

also 2D or 3D

[atomic holly]

You mean when you write update in VS, it's not complete automaticaly the function ?

[shell matrix]

yess

[atomic holly]

What do u want to do with the collider when is trigger ?

[atomic holly]

Follow this turorial, I had the same problem before

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42597501/unity-scripts-edited-in-visual-studio-dont-provide-autocomplete

[lethal bolt]

Currently just sseing if it works but i want to set the Animation and phase to attack. but if fixed it Thanks!

[vague oyster]

is this the correct code? it dont work

using GooglePlayGames.BasicApi;
using GooglePlayGames;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using System;



public class GooglePlayServicesManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void Start()
    {
        PlayGamesClientConfiguration config = new PlayGamesClientConfiguration.Builder()
        // enables saving game progress.
        .EnableSavedGames()
        // requests the email address of the player be available.
        // Will bring up a prompt for consent.
        .RequestEmail()
        // requests a server auth code be generated so it can be passed to an
        //  associated back end server application and exchanged for an OAuth token.
        .RequestServerAuthCode(false)
        // requests an ID token be generated.  This OAuth token can be used to
        //  identify the player to other services such as Firebase.
        .RequestIdToken()
        .Build();

        PlayGamesPlatform.InitializeInstance(config);
        // recommended for debugging:
        PlayGamesPlatform.DebugLogEnabled = true;
        // Activate the Google Play Games platform
        PlayGamesPlatform.Activate();

        // authenticate user:
        PlayGamesPlatform.Instance.Authenticate(SignInInteractivity.CanPromptOnce, (result) => {
            // handle results
        });

        // show leaderboard UI
        Social.ShowLeaderboardUI();
    }

}

Why 👎

[languid spire]

And where did you copy/paste/generate this code from coz you damn sure did not write it

[vague oyster]

From the plugin documentation

[languid spire]

then ask the plugin writers

[vague oyster]

Ok

[rich adder]

https://github.com/playgameservices/play-games-plugin-for-unity/tree/master
specifically the "issues" section will have any questions you might want to ask

[vague oyster]

Okay thank you

[shell herald]

i need a 5 second break between these two sections. how would i do that it the method is only called once?

[crystal chasm]

Split it into 2 methods, and Invoke the 2nd half

[rich adder]

make this function a coroutine

[shell herald]

that was what im looking for thx

[shell herald]

maybe im messing something up, but shouldnt the MoveAgent() be called after the duration (in this case 5 sec) is over?

[half egret]

Call StartCoroutine on Delay

StartCoroutine(Delay(5));

[rich adder]

do you see the Rider suggestion on Delay.

You should bother reading those

[shell herald]

ah

[ionic zephyr]

how can I use AddComponent? I dont get it

[cosmic quail]

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

[half egret]

You just do
x = this.AddComponent<TypeOfComponent>() no new is required

[ionic zephyr]

But I am not trying to add a component to the gameobject with the script

[willow scroll]

Replace this with the suitable one

[ionic zephyr]

I want to create new instances of a component and adding them onto a list

[summer stump]

Does not change that you do not use new

Just do what sashok said
Basic dot notation

[eager spindle]

always wondered why c#, System's MathF and Unity's Mathf all don't have any checks to see if a number is between something. Would be nice if we could just min <= number <= max or Mathf.IsBetween(number, min, max)

[rich adder]

this makes no sense

[ionic zephyr]

I get this error

[half egret]

It needs to be of the type GameObject, see John Smith

[rich adder]

you're trying to add a component to something that wasnt created yet..

[summer stump]

Well yeah, you add components to a gameobject
And what nav said

[ionic zephyr]

yeah but Im creating a list of InventorySlots(class)

[copper python]

slot.gameobject.addcomponent

[eager spindle]

change the variable of one of them. in slot.AddComponent, slot doesnt exist yet

[summer stump]

Not sure what that has to do with what we said

[rich adder]

still wrong

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, the thing is

[rich adder]

why dont you just make prefabs instead of doing this mess

[ionic zephyr]

I am creating InventorySlot class List

[ionic zephyr]

because I only want to store data

[summer stump]

So what?

[eager spindle]

before you continue, ignore the left hand side of the code. what happens if you try to slot,AddComponent?

[copper python]

prob because youre using slot twice, try renaming either variable

[eager spindle]

slot doesnt exist

[rich adder]

it was more rhetorical , this is nonsense. use prefabs

[eager spindle]

you cant do anything to something that doesnt exist

[ionic zephyr]

but are they necessary for this? even if I dont want to create gameObjects?

[eager spindle]

youll also need to show us more code than this so we can help you re-organise your syntax

[eager spindle]

yes

make your code readable

dont end up like me

[summer stump]

You MUST create gameobjects

Components exist on gameobjects

[rich adder]

You cannot add components without a gameobject

components live on gameobjects

[summer stump]

You can use POCOs, but then you do not use components

[rich adder]

thats the whole point of component based system unity is based on

[copper python]

Can't you use a scriptable object for the slot?

[eager spindle]

you don't have to inherit from MonoBehaviour if you don't need it's functionality

[ionic zephyr]

oh my god I was having mental breakdown

okay, nevermind

sorry for all this mess

🙏

[copper python]

We're here to help

[shell herald]

i have this river here and instead of having to place dozens of audio sources along it, i much rather would set a single audio source to the point of a spline following the river that is the closest to the player. i ve seen in the docs that there is a function called GetNearestPoint in the unity spline utilities. but it uses float3 point positions instead of worldspace vector 3s and that confuses the hell out of me.

Anyone know how to achieve this in a not overly complicated manner?

[rich adder]

use that then use the Transform of the spline to do a TransformPoint

float3 works fine where vector3 works

[stone saddle]

Would anyone happen to know why whenever i press play, the text on 2 random buttons is getting deleted by this script? It started happening after I implemented the destroyBallsChildren function and the (not written by me) stuff to do with instances. https://pastebin.com/VgXWusu6

[arctic ibex]

Trying to run my code. Any clue what this means? I don't really have any context cause I have not the faintest clue what could be related. Happy to provide any extra info if it's needed

[tall depot]

uhmm hello, im having a lil problem with a code .3.

[rich adder]

this is a editor error probably a window gone wrong or something. no wrry

clear and move on basically

[arctic ibex]

oh okay, thanks.

Uh, I also somehow forgot o say that a button is not pressing for somereason

[rich adder]

#854851968446365696

[arctic ibex]

like in the game

[rich adder]

what kind of button?

UI ?

[arctic ibex]

UI button

[rich adder]

do you have Event System in the scene ?

[arctic ibex]

I'm pretty sure it's in the camera by default, let me check

yup, it's not in the camera but its there

[rich adder]

ideally should be on its own gameobject

ok inspect it during playmode and try clicking button see what it says in the inspector for it

[arctic ibex]

the button was working earlier

[rich adder]

you need to uncollapse the window at bottom right

[arctic ibex]

what window?

far out, nevermind, i figured it out

the button compnent isn't enabled

okay, code debugging time i guess, that should definitely be enabled

thankyou for helping

[rich adder]

nice.
any future UI debugging its right here

[arctic ibex]

oh neat thanks

[shell herald]

just quick confirmation, the Items[] and the Amounts[] are always the same size, so would this cycle through them equally?

[ionic zephyr]

Hey guys, Im trying to make that whenever an update is made on the ABSTRACT inventory (player gets an object for example) this is then traduced onto the UI, however what my logic does is to get rid of what was before and start from scratch, is it okay?

[rich adder]

its better you use for loop if thats what ur want to do

[shell herald]

ah, yes. that makes sense

[tall depot]

Im trying make a suikagame clone, at the moment in which 2 same tag objects collide make a new one, the problem here is that they get duplicated instead of be one, the script is assigned to each prefab (the pals)

[rich adder]

what editor is this

also !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.

[tall depot]

im new in this sorry :c

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

public class Merge : MonoBehaviour
{
    //Variables
    public Scorescript scorescript;
    public GameObject pal;
    public string tagToMerge;
    public int scoretoadd = 0;
    private bool hasMerged = false;

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (!hasMerged && collision.transform.CompareTag(tagToMerge))
        {
            hasMerged = true;

            GameObject palsContainer = GameObject.Find("PalsContainer");

            if (palsContainer != null)
            {
                GameObject newPal = Instantiate(pal, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);

                if (scorescript != null)
                {
                    scorescript.scorenumber += scoretoadd;
                    Debug.Log(scorescript.scorenumber);
                }

                newPal.transform.SetParent(palsContainer.transform);
            }

            Destroy(collision.gameObject);
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }

}

[polar acorn]

Each instance of this object runs `OnCollisionEnter. So they each destroy each other and spawn a new one. Since it doesn't matter which one runs this code, whenever you've confirmed the two objects are the same tag to destroy and spawn a new one, compare this object's InstanceID to the other. If it's lower, return from the function early and don't do anything else. The other object will handle destroying and spawning.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.GetInstanceID.html

[tall depot]

i dont wanna be kinky but can it be solved by dm? because im sure i will have more than this problem

[polar acorn]

no

[stuck palm]

trying to use a layermask for my own system. would comparing two layermasks return true if one had like layer1 and layer2 selected and one only had layer2 selected?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks#contains-another-mask-contains-all

[tall depot]

hmm i have this theory: if i set the script in palscontainer and check by the instance id the same type of pals are colliding?

[primal trench]

how would i make a child in a scene into a prefab?

[rich adder]

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

[polar acorn]

Drag it from the hierarchy into your assets folder

[rich adder]

also not a code question

[stuck palm]

so i'd have to use the OR operator?

[slender nymph]

did you read the section i linked to?

[verbal dome]

The answer is right there

[stuck palm]

so i might be stupid

[primal trench]

oh yeah woops sorry!

[stuck palm]

i want it to return true if at least one is ture

isnt that what OR is?

[tall depot]

honestly idk what to do :/
thats why i said to dm

[polar acorn]

I told you what to do - after you find a match, check the instanceID of both objects. This ensures that only one of them will execute the "merge and spawn a new thing" code

[tall depot]

look is because, i wrote the code in a template style, i mean you just set the code to the object and just mofiy the variables

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what you mean by this

[tall depot]

hmmm imagine this: you have a code to move the player, you just need to asing the player object and voila

[polar acorn]

I'm not sure what any of this has to do with the answer I gave

[languid spire]

I think he means he has no idea whatsoever what the code does or how it works

[polar acorn]

It sounds like your just describing how adding components to objects works, and I don't know what that has to do with what I said

[tall depot]

honestly yes :c
and insert triggered meme

[polar acorn]

I'm not making your game for you. You've gotten the answer. If you don't know how to implement an if statement, consider !learn or one of the tutorials linked in the pins

[eternal falcon]

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[tall depot]

ok, im just sorry for being so dumb

[languid spire]

this is not you being dumb, this is wilful ignorance which is worse

[midnight meteor]

hello , should i keep using rigidbody for player movement if i want to customize it like i want ? i'm thinking of something similar to celeste

[summer stump]

What do you mean "customize it like [you] want"

[languid spire]

that will depend what you want and as you dont mention that, who knows

[summer stump]

Of course all coding is customizing....
You will be forced to customize it

[midnight meteor]

as i understood , rigidbody is like a library for unity physics ? ( i know i'm not saying it right but i think yoou got what i mean )
but i want to like change the gravity/bouncing of player and all the stuff like i want

[summer stump]

No, that is not correct. It is a component that tells the physics system it should act on that object (simplifying). It is NOT a library
And you can customize gravity and bounciness via settings and physics materials respectively

[shell herald]

i have an array of bools and need to use them in an if statement. is there a way to check if all bools inside an array are true?

[languid spire]

why do you have an array of bools and not a [Flags] Enum ?

[midnight meteor]

so i should stick with it ? ( i'm talking in general )

[summer stump]

Again, not really something we can answer

But a dynamic rigidbody will react to forces, and a kinematic one will require you to handle forces... 🤷‍♂️

Your alternative is to use the transform (STRONGLY not recommended) or a CharacterController

[shell herald]

bc what gamestate.HasEnoughItems returns is a bool value and i would need to rewrite everything if i were to change that now

[languid spire]

the short answer is, if you want unity physics use a rigidbody

[midnight meteor]

how do i know if i want unity physics 😭

[summer stump]

By using it and seeing if you like it

[languid spire]

damn, it's your game

[rocky canyon]

well do u want stuff to fall, bump, collide

or do u wanna fake all that stuffs

[summer stump]

Why would you think WE could know what you want....

I edited this, but reread it
#💻┃code-beginner message

[midnight meteor]

which one is faking it ?

[rocky canyon]

well if u dont use real physics

[summer stump]

Kinematic rb or CharacterController (or transform, which you should not use)

[rocky canyon]

i tend to use Kinematics Rigidbodies

CC is easiest up and getting going solution for beginners imo

[midnight meteor]

aight got you appreciate y'all for help

[languid spire]

then there is no shortcut, you will have to write a method to do it

but at somepoint bad design decisions WILL come back and bite you on the arse

[waxen adder]

How do you detect collisions with a player character who's using a character controller?

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.OnControllerColliderHit.html

[languid spire]

Character Controller has it's own physics method

[rocky canyon]

a trigger collider will detect the CC but for regular Collisions u need to use the CC. method

[waxen adder]

Gotcha, thank you!

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! Can somebody help me in making Anti-aliasing for my game?

I have installed URP packages and I think I am ready to make it but I am not sure how.

[stuck palm]

when building, will debug.log stuff get stripped out of the compiled code?

[rocky canyon]

i believe so..

dont quote me tho

if not i have lots of refactoring to do before building

[shell herald]

as far as im aware debug logs are also in builds unless disabled in the playersettings

[halcyon dagger]

Hey! Asked yesterday but still havent managed to solve this, does anyone know why my game build looks like this? It works fine inside Unity framework

[rocky canyon]

@stuck palm

hes correct

for builds the debugs get logged in a text file in ur Build's Data Directory

[stuck palm]

oh right

thanks!

[atomic holly]

Hi,
I want to choose from Unity a function between a list of differents functions. Is it possible to do this with an enum ?

[slate haven]

Hey, I wanted my crosshair to follow my mouse cursor but as u can see when I start the game it just goes at the bottom of left of screen and stays there and reads minor mouse movements.

{
    [SerializeField] private RectTransform cross;
    [SerializeField] private Canvas canvas;

    void Update()
    {
        Vector2 mousePos = Mouse.current.position.ReadValue();
        RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(canvas.transform as RectTransform, mousePos, Camera.main, out Vector2 localPoint);
        cross.localPosition = localPoint;
    }
}```

[rich adder]

sure

[halcyon dagger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1Ex32VY2k&ab_channel=GameDevHQ this tutorial is pretty good

[atomic holly]

How ?