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[slate haven]

Thank you!!

needed something like this

[halcyon dagger]

np! literally watched it a few days ago to solve a problem, just ignore the part where he links the turret rotation to the crosshair

[rich adder]

you can make a list of functions . Though I have no idea what you want to do with the switch, you can just use a switch if anything

[atomic holly]

But with enum, we can just put some names but not directly functions

[rich adder]

enum is just a number

what are you trying to do exactly..

[atomic holly]

I do a scriptableObject to create my weapons and I want to can choose what function of the weapon we will use it with, like the bowattack or the magicspells

[waxen adder]

Having a tough time understanding the difference between Move and SimpleMove for character controllers, despite having looked at the documentation. Can anyone help paint a better picture?

[rare socket]

Hi all! I'm currently attempting to create a first person camera. Though it functions, I find that in-scene objects suffer from a sort of jitter movement. I've looked through different tutorials posted on Youtube, however none seem to work. If anyone could link a video or suggest a solution, that would be awesome!!

My camera's code: https://gdl.space/ekupenuxag.cpp
My player movement script: https://gdl.space/ahacequkox.cpp

[rare socket]

SimpleMove automatically applies gravity, is framerate independant (I.E. applies deltaTime), doesn't support verticle movement, but is simplier and easier to use than Move.
Move requires you to apply gravity and Time.deltaTime, supports jumping and complex movements, and all round better control over your player character.

However, move takes more effort to code. :D

[rocky canyon]

Move() is the best.. coding in ur gravity isnt hard

u just add a simulatedGravity to the vector

[waxen adder]

Gotcha, appreciate it!

Also, I went and made my camera a child of my player and I also get the jitteriness you're getting @rare socket

[rare socket]

Ooooh. Thanks for the heads up!

[waxen adder]

What are some good ways to check if a player is on the ground (assuming character controller is being used)?

[rocky canyon]

CC has its own built in Grounded

most people like to make their own

raycasts, trigger colliders, checksphere etc

the builtin one is good enough for basic stuff

[waxen adder]

Huh, I never knew that. Any idea why people would make their own? Any undesirable things about the built in one?

[rocky canyon]

i haven't found anything that stops me from using it

some say its less than accurate

[waxen adder]

Hmmm. Will take a look at that

[rocky canyon]

basic characterContoller.isGrounded

there was an issue.. my headBob.CameraRebound() method shuld get called when the player lands.. in my head it made sense to set the wasGrounded bool @ the end of hte update loop.. but that didn't work.. so i had to set wasGrounded on the first of the frame.. (which in my mind didnt feel right) but it works out just fine..

could be issues like that that cause ppl to code in their own groundCheck.. but as long as i can work around little issues like that i'll keep using the cc's ground check

[waxen adder]

Interesting. Yeah, looks like I have some playing around to do

[rocky canyon]

have fun 🍀

    private void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        if (Application.isPlaying)
        {
                var gizmoColor = characterController.isGrounded ? Color.green : Color.red;
                Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, -transform.up * (characterController.height/2 + 0.2f), gizmoColor, .1f);
        }
    }``` i also use some Gizmo's DrawRay to visualize it

(green w/ its grounded and red when its not)

helped me when working on it (my jumps and slopes especially)

characterController.height/2 + 0.2f i just guessed the length..

[scenic saffron]

how do i round floats

[summer stump]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Round.html

[scenic saffron]

thx

but how can i round to a different decimal? (fixed)

[rocky canyon]

are u actually rounding the float? or do u just want to display the float as text (with a certain number of decimals)

[ionic zephyr]

If I have an Inventory and in one of the UIs I only want to show ONLY slots that contain specific types of objects is it okay if I instantiate the maximum number of slots in my inventory in each UI and then setActive ones and others no???

or is it a better way to do It?

I have an abstract inventory which holds ALL the objects but I want specific UIs that show specific types of objects

suggestions are accepted

[ionic zephyr]

It is not an Abstract class but it is a List that isn´t seen (it is just NOT Viewable). This class separates all of the objects in the Main Inventory (which is a class that contains a list of all the objects the player has) and holds them in slots of 30 items max.

[eternal needle]

You should really just show code or what you're specifically trying to display. A lot of this doesnt make sense.

All I got from this was you're trying to display stuff and are asking if you should use setactive. Which yea would let you show objects by setting them active

[ionic zephyr]

My idea is to have multiple UIs that show the state of the inventory, however, I want some of them to SPECIFICALLY show the objects of a certain type (tools for example)

And I want them to be expandable, for example, if I have 2 tools I want it to show 2 slots that contain tools, same for 1, 4, 6, 2...

[eternal needle]

Again, this doesnt make sense. You want what to be expandable.
Sounds like you want a filter, in which case you'll need objects to have some sort of grouping. Like an enum, scriptable object, string, or whatever. Just something to group it by so you can go through and see if it's under the filter

You can use setactive I guess if your UI automatically adjusts based on active UI elements.

[ionic zephyr]

I want the UIs to be expandable

[ionic zephyr]

What is the best way to do it?

[rocky canyon]

a UI manager.. thats controlling what gets enabled /disabled

thats my go-to.. id like to see other suggestions tho

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, but is the enabling/disabling method ok?

[rocky canyon]

for UI ? sure

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, just to show slots or not

[shell matrix]

I find the concept of state machine very difficult, if you know any sites that explain it well, I watched a course on Udemy

and i don t understand nothing

[slate haven]

Folks I have participated in the 48 hour game jam. I worked for 12 hours till now and all I have completed is Player Input, Idle Run Jump Animations and little bit of Rigging, Movement, Aiming, Crosshair for a 3D game

How would you judge my speed?

[rocky canyon]

my UI manager enable and disable Graphics..

the logic and stuff remains on the Component

shouldnt affect the logic any.. unless u need it to

[ionic zephyr]

okay, thanks a lot

[rocky canyon]

from scratch thats not too bad

i recycle stuff for game-jams.. i'd have most of that in my backpocket

[slate haven]

this is my 1st game jam, I have experience in creating 2 original 2D games

[rocky canyon]

no worries.. its good to even try out gamejams

[slate haven]

I would say I am using imported assets and animations.

from kenney

[eternal needle]

Mostly video tutorials are shit. What part dont you understand though?
Think of the animator if you've used it, it's just a way of running certain logic when you want. The animator is a bit more advanced as it gives you a way to define what state can happen next, and when it can happen. That's about it

[slate haven]

Yeah I wanted to because I suck at doing something really fast. Mostly i get stuck making things perfect, especially the mechanics

[rocky canyon]

game-jams aren't gonna end up perfect

[half egret]

Keep doing things over and over and eventually you'll get faster, keep at it and good job

[rocky canyon]

best to just try to get ur mechanics.. and bulk of the game..

polish the last few hours

[summer stump]

games aren't gonna end up perfect either 😸

[rocky canyon]

facts lol

[slate haven]

I got 20 hours left, and have AI to do, with some sort of object pooling and level design... Let's see how much I can bring to the table

[slate haven]

yeah hope so

[half egret]

Incorrect, E.T. is a perfect game

[rocky canyon]

source: land-fill

[half egret]

perfect for trash

[rocky canyon]

helps motivate me tbh

i know they had technical hurdles to cross

i just like to think they gave it their best.. with Good tech

and im just a better developer 😈

[half egret]

To be fair to them! Resources are far more abundant today 😄

[rocky canyon]

🤫

i kinda miss when everything was awe-inspiring no matter how simple

now its like "meh, thats been done before.. nothing special"

[slate haven]

yes

Imagine creating something unique to you but you see the whole world already way ahead of it

[dim yew]

i'm having issues with singletons, what am i doing wrong?

i didn't know it was possible to have a nullreference for this

[slender nymph]

this is not the file your error originates from. what is line 12 of TileColor.cs

[dim yew]

forgot to send that oops

[slender nymph]

so the reason you are getting a NRE here is because you are trying to access the singleton before it has been fully set up. Don't access GameManager.instance before its awake method has run, to ensure you don't you should not access the instance property until Start at the earliest

[rocky canyon]

yup, sounds accurate

[dim yew]

ahhh i see

thanks a lot

[copper python]

Why is the short hand for null pointer exception NRE and not NPE 💀

[summer stump]

Because NRE is short for Null Reference Exception

[slender nymph]

because C# uses references not pointers

[copper python]

Oh yeah that's right haha, I'm used to work with C

[languid spire]

which are, basically the same thing, it's just a C# reference is not a pointer to where you think it ought to be if you come from the C world

[slender nymph]

yes I am aware of the similarities of pointers to references, but references are not pointers, though they use them under the hood. i would think you of all people would be super pedantic about that sort of fact

[languid spire]

I'm just trying to make it clearer to someone coming from a C world, not overwhelm them with technical information

[shell matrix]

I don't understand the logic of this code, I watched a course on Udemy, I can barely keep up. That's all I wrote and apart from the fact that I didn't understand anything, the code doesn't work anymore, my status doesn't change https://paste.ofcode.org/bLWE285Hz85PbcCtwEann3. if somebody help me to the code and make a logical explication. Thx

[atomic holly]

Hi, I develop my weapons system and I do this script for the ScriptableObject (Item is a ScriptableObject)
And I call it in a script on my Player gameobject
Scripts :
https://gdl.space/obonoboret.cs
But when I click on my right click, I have this error :

Weapon+BowAttackBehavior.Attack () (at Assets/Code/Scripts/Items/Weapons/Weapon.cs:61)
PlayerDamage.Update () (at Assets/Code/Scripts/Player/PlayerDamage.cs:32)```
Why ?

[atomic holly]

I don't really understand all 😭
But when I don't understand some code, I put in within an IA like ChatGPT or blackBox.ai and ask it to explain me. It works well !

[slender nymph]

BowSystem.instance is null. are you certain it has been assigned to?

[atomic holly]

I need obligatory to assign it to a gameobject ?

[slender nymph]

it likely needs to be assigned an instance of BowSystem because i'm assuming it is part of the singleton pattern. if it is null then trying to access any of its members, like that ThrowArrow method is going to throw a NullReferenceException

[atomic holly]

No it's not a part of singleton pattern :|. I just let it in my folders of Unity and assign directly the prefab of the arrow

[slender nymph]

huh?

[atomic holly]

Maybe I don't understand your question 😭

[eternal needle]

Please dont tell someone else to go use AI to learn. You might as well not have wrote anything there

[slender nymph]

I didn't ask a question. i told you that you need to actually assign something to the BowSystem class's instance variable

just like you are for your other singleton the PlayerDamage class

[summer stump]

Yes. It must be on a gameobject

[eternal needle]

Have you debugged anything related to it? Like adding debugs where you are changing states

[atomic holly]

I don't very understand

What I need to assign to instance of the class BowSystem ?

[slender nymph]

BowSystem is clearly meant to be a singleton (this is extremely clear even though you haven't bothered to show its code). you have another singleton that you have shown called PlayerDamage. look at how you set that up and do the same for the BowSystem

[summer stump]

Because that is how the singleton pattern works
How could you access BowSystem if Instance is not set, with the way you are trying?

[atomic holly]

When I don't very understand a little part of a program or just a function, I think it's not very bad :/

[atomic holly]

But I set it with instance = this; no ?

[summer stump]

Either way, do not suggest it. That is against the rules here. People know about it, there is NEVER a reason for you to suggest it
#854851968446365696 #📖┃code-of-conduct

[jaunty wedge]

Hey, could someone help me out please? I have a button which covers whole screen horizontally, and when I click it a create function is called, which takes the mouse position, and creates an object (action) with that value. Then a line is created, which takes the same position, and is spawned right under my cursor. The thing I'm having trouble with is that I want to connect each object with each line, so that I could change the position in the object, and the position of the line would change respectfully. The initial idea was that when a line is created, I could click on it, a "settings" menu would pop up, and I could change each value manually through there, but I can't figure out a way to parse the values between an instance of an object (action) and a game object.

[atomic holly]

Sorry, I just wanted to help him 😭 . But i'll don't suggest it also.

But I don't see it's against the rules to suggest use an IA for it in the rules of the server

[rocky canyon]

problem w/ AI and learning is you don't know when its wrong.. or telling u some stupid ridicilous thing.. then they'll end up back here trying to fix something the AI can't anymore

[kind stratus]

Hey

[rocky canyon]

and you may not be around to help fix it.. (then guys that never suggested using it are stuck trying to help them sort it all back out)

[half egret]

(And at that point humans probably can't either)

[rocky canyon]

lol. trash it 😄

[languid spire]

nah, we'll just ping Magico every time someone posts AI code

[rocky canyon]

🤣 saucy..

[atomic holly]

I don't want it 😭

[atomic holly]

Okay I see

[rocky canyon]

who would? 😄

[atomic holly]

I just started a month ago so for me, AI for it was good

[languid spire]

then be very careful of the advice you give

[rocky canyon]

if it works for you thats great 👍

[atomic holly]

But now, I know it's not very good 🙂

[ivory saffron]

I have a list items. I want to make a method that takes a value and adds it to the list, then returns it's reference, so that you can delete that item later. How would i do that?

[languid spire]

why would it return the reference if you are passing that in as a parameter?

[ivory saffron]

a simplier case is when it returns void, and i just delete by value. But there could be problems with that

[languid spire]

you mean return the index

[ivory saffron]

if it returns the index, and then some items are deleted from the list elsewhere, wouldnt it become wrong?

[languid spire]

yes indeed

but you alread have the value so why return it?

[waxen adder]

How bad would it be to spam approximately 360 raycasts to check all around a player?

[languid spire]

bad

[ivory saffron]

I need to add the value to the list then delete it.

[waxen adder]

Gotcha, will do box/sphere then

[languid spire]

yes but you are passing the value into the method so you already have it when you want to delete, so why return it?

[ivory saffron]

right, i just overcomplicated things. i know how to do it now

[jaunty wedge]

the yellow line is the one created by clicking on the button, all the red lines are there just for the reference of position I needed when creating this, and the second picture is the function ran by clicking the said button

if there's any more info I need to provide please let me know, because I'm really stuck here

[languid spire]

you probably want worldPositionStays=true on your SetParent

and, please dont use classes like Action, they confuse with System.Action

[jaunty wedge]

yea I figured

I need a better name but I cant come up with it lol

[jaunty wedge]

how would I use that?

[languid spire]

it's a parameter of the method

[jaunty wedge]

yea ik, I mean like how would that help me connect the object to a game object

[languid spire]

sorry, I just thought you were having a problem with the position

[jaunty wedge]

oh

well sorry if I my description confused you lol, I was just trying to explain everything in a single message

[tardy needle]

could someone help me out with rotating 2d objects, im new and it seems confusing for me. Thanks

[chrome cobalt]

why is my text so choppy

[rocky canyon]

i just use AngleAxis w/ transform.forward

[rocky canyon]

is it TextMeshPro? or Legacy Text

[chrome cobalt]

text mesh pro

[rocky canyon]

is this in gameview? is ur scaling set to 1x?

any bit of zoom will cause jagginess

[chrome cobalt]

i just spawned it and it was choppy

and whenever i mess with the settings it doesnt help

[rocky canyon]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/my-text-is-pixelated-grainy/913760

[chrome cobalt]

theres no aliases tab

this all i got

no rendering tab either

[rocky canyon]

that first setting guy mentions is on the camera i believe..

the other settings mentioned down the page are on the actual TMP material

TMP is typically pretty smooth everytime ive used it...

unless it was a bad font.. or a low quality atlas texture

but i see ur using the built-in LiberationSans font.. (that font isn't as smooth as the others i tend to use.. but i dont think ive seen it as jaggy as the example you shown)

[ivory bobcat]

You ought to show the inspector for that object

[rocky canyon]

i changed mine to /Mobile/ shader to test.. and that doesn't make mine jaggy either.. soo not that either..

ya, possibly something im not seeing

[queen adder]

Why are my tree's like this when built and ran but not in the unity editor

[rocky canyon]

something something shader keyword

[ivory bobcat]

Is this code related?

[queen adder]

I mean i dont really know where else to ask

[rocky canyon]

#archived-shaders #🔀┃art-asset-workflow #archived-lighting

my guess would be lighting would be the best place for it

[queen adder]

alright thanks

[ivory bobcat]

Or #💻┃unity-talk if you're uncertain

[rocky canyon]

may get a faster response in there ^

less refined.. but quicker

[ivory bobcat]

But definitely where spawn has suggested

[rocky canyon]

my guess is the terrain shader u use for the tree's isn't being built over to the standalone correctly

looks like they're using an unlit shader or something (hence why all the tree's are the same color) no shadows*

w/ some PPFX grain/dither on top 🙂

[chrome cobalt]

ok 1 sec

[pearl temple]

question about how serialized fields can be set.
I am using a dear imgui package for unity and it needs a script attached to objects in order to render. That script has several serialized fields to setup the rendering.
If I attach this dear imgui script to an object in the scene some of these fields are prefilled with defaults. Yet when I search in the code for references to the field there are none. So I am guessing there must be some other thing going on? The reason is because I don't want to have to setup this component in every scene myself, I would rather just do it once from code

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe those fields are private-serialized.

[pearl temple]

they are all private yes

[eager spindle]

i mean you can have dontdestroyonload and carry the whole canvas with you

along with the script that has the setup

using external IMGUI with unity in 2024 is quite frankly a strange choice

but go ahead

[pearl temple]

yeah but e.g I want my managers which are singletons spawned when they are called to render imgui stuff for debugging. There is nothing for me to setup

I have been using imgui for a long time and have no desire to switch to something else

[eager spindle]

unity already has imgui too, if it hasnt been deprecated yet

[ivory bobcat]

You wouldn't be able to access the members through code if they're private - assuming you're attempting to do so through a different script.

[eager spindle]

see Unity's OnGUI, you can use stuff like GUI.DrawTexture

even less setup required

should follow imgui standards too

[pearl temple]

I am just trying to create the script on an singleton object using AddComponent<DearImGui>()
I fill those first two fields after I created the object. But those other three fields at the bottom are empty when I just create it from code. Yet when I drag and drop the thing they are filled.

[grave cipher]

how do i check if a rigidbody has stopped?

[steep rose]

you can check if a rigidbodies velocity is 0

[shell herald]

how can i check if currently no children selectable objects are selected?

[half egret]

I'm unsure what the question is here, just see if it doesn't have a blue highlight?

[shell herald]

i mean ui buttons and stuff mainly for controller support

[scenic saffron]

How do I change the Position of my Player without them loosing there momentum? (2D)

[half egret]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.SyncTransforms.html

This might help

In your movement controller, sync your transforms before moving

[pine aspen]

Is it possible to acess a Script from another Scene?

[half egret]

Actually hrm, I don't think it will. It'll flush the momentum.

[scenic saffron]

For some reason tho the vertical momentum stays

[pearl temple]

well to answer my own question. I just load a prefab for my singleton that already has the imgui script configured. Works like a charm and I don't have to setup things in the scene

[shell herald]

if its a monobehaviour im pretty sure its not. but why would you want that?

[pine aspen]

just asking, incase i need it somewhen

[shell herald]

you can take objects with scripts into another scene with dontdestroyonload

but you cant directly call a monobehaviour that is in another scene

[pine aspen]

wait thats actually smart

ty

[summer stump]

@pine aspen @shell herald
To be clear. No, you cannot load an object from a scene that is not loaded, because it simply will not exist. Everything in a scene is destroyed when unloading the scene.
However, you can have multiple scenes loaded at the same time, and you can access a gameobject from another loaded scene the EXACT SAME WAY you access on from the same scene
DontDestroyOnLoad IS a scene. It is a special scene that doesn't destroy everything in it when a new scene is loaded non-addively.
It works nearly the same as additive scene loading.

[grave furnace]

why i can't see the camera limits?

[strong wren]

Looks like you have gizmos disabled in scene view (last button on the scene view toolbar). This is not a code question.

[grave furnace]

thxx!!

is that disabled by default now?

idk if im crazy but i can remember old versions not being like this

[frigid schooner]

hello im new to unity, can someone teach me how to move rigidbodies?

currently I have a character controller and rigidbody attached to an empty called the FPScontroller, and the main camera is a child of this empty. I have another sphere with rigidbody attached to it, but I cant seem to push the sphere by walking towards it.

I think the main reason would be that I dont have a 3D object attached to the FPS, I trial and errored adding a capsule+rigidbody as a child of fps, but weird stuff happens even if I lock the rotation of the capsule

[eternal needle]

It's a game object, not an empty. If you're using rigidbody movement, you shouldnt have the character controller component as well. You either move via the cc or the rb. If you want unity physics (objects pushing each other, colliding, etc) then stick to rb and use AddForce or assign its velocity

[frigid schooner]

sorry can you explain more

I am like new new to unity, I just followed youtube tutorials to get to this point.

[radiant frigate]

just realized this isnt code related

[eternal needle]

About what specifically?

[steel stirrup]

Eh it can be depending how you set it up. Did you figure it out?

[radiant frigate]

nope

i think i dont even have one

does one come by default?

[steel stirrup]

So the issue is that you're trying to edit a collider on an object right?

[radiant frigate]

or do i need to add something somehow manually?

on a tile map specifically

i want to change its collider type´s effect to grid based instead of sprite based

[frigid schooner]

explain why rb and cc cant coexist
and what specifically should I do now to be able to push stuff. If you are saying rb and cc cant coexist, can I move stuff with player using code? How exactly would that look like

[steel stirrup]

Character Controller is specifically designed to allow easy mvoement without a rigidbody. Adding a rigidbody to it means it's going to be fighting against itself unless you micromanage which is enabled at any given time

Basically, it's self defeating and combining them means you have a design issue

if you want physics based movement, you shouldn't want the features a character controller provides because they're simply out of scope, and vice versa

[summer stump]

It is not disabled by default now, no

[summer stump]

I remember explaining that to you multiple times in the past

Edit: no, slightly different
#💻┃code-beginner message

[eternal needle]

they are both different methods of movement. They can co-exist, you can have a kinematic rb on a character controller if you want other stuff like physics messages OnCollisionEnter (and the rest). But you shouldnt be moving by both

[eternal needle]

Look up tutorials for rigidbody movement,

How exactly would that look like
this is something you'll have to try out, use the docs and guides to help you. If you have specific problems with trying then ask that

[steel stirrup]

Haven't used tilemaps, but you can just check in your scene whether it has the appropriate collider component or not

If it's present, all you need is to get a reference to it (either by drag/dropping to your script in the inspector (preferable) or finding with one of the appropriate methods (slower)

[radiant frigate]

i want to access this

but it isnt showing nowhere

[steel stirrup]

create a public or serialized field for it in your script and refresh, then drag it there.

[radiant frigate]

the thing is i dont have this on my editor

i cant find it

i know how to acces via code but i do not have this component/asset

or if i have it im blind

[steel stirrup]

zoom out a bit, is this still about trying to change the collider type?

[radiant frigate]

that screenshot is from the unity manual

[next bolt]

Im having a problem. In my player theres a variable. public TMP_Text popup; and in unity i assing the script with the text but as soon as a start the scene my script unassigns it.

[radiant frigate]

i do not have that in my project, or if i have it i do not find it

[steel stirrup]

It's just showing you an example then, you're not going to have the assets shown in the manual

[radiant frigate]

but i do not know how to add one like that

[eternal needle]

if it gets unassigned, either the reference gets lost or you are trying to assign it on awake/start but its not finding anything. show code/your setup

[steel stirrup]

I'm not sure what type of asset it actually is from what you're showing. But generally just right click in the project view -> Create -> 2d -> Tiles if its a tile

[next bolt]

ik you guys always like the code sent to you on some website? how do you want this?

[radiant frigate]

!code

[eternal needle]

!code

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[radiant frigate]

i found it, but this didnt solve my problem :((

[next bolt]

https://gdl.space/itemiqetay.cs

[radiant frigate]

https://gdl.space/malaneyulu.cpp shouldnt this activate if i enter on the tilemap collider?

[eternal needle]

#💻┃code-beginner message|

you are trying to assign it on awake/start but its not finding anything

[steel stirrup]

if you're assigning it in the inspector, then only call GetComponent if its null

[next bolt]

Thank you very much

[steel stirrup]

if that fixed it, then you need to check in the editor for where your component actually is relative to the script

wild guess, it's probably in a child

[radiant frigate]

i figured out my problem

[steel stirrup]

GetComponent will only get the component if its on the same gameobject as the script, if you want to get a component on a different object you need to call getcomponent in that scope instead

[radiant frigate]

it was as simple and dumb as one can think

i forgot to add a collider to the player

💀

[steel stirrup]

Also, ignore this if you don't care, but I'd strongly recommend using a standardized naming scheme for your code, it will make things MUCH easier to maintain and read at a glance in the future.

[next bolt]

Im confused what do you mean? like camel casing?

[steel stirrup]

To start with yes, also reconsider the names of your fields so they relate to the type. Also multiple declarations are allowed in c# but generally very strongly cautioned against as they're relatively messy

[somber herald]

vector3.magnitude can't be negative, right?

[steel stirrup]

that's right iirc

[green ledge]

worst case scenario is to just try it with a quick test script and find out

[steel stirrup]

The length of the vector is square root of (x*x+y*y+z*z).

[steel stirrup]

like to break it down. In this declaration why is the first field a lower case verb, the second a capital noun and the third a lower case noun despite all being the same scope and type? public GameObject carrying, Player, furnace;

[mint remnant]

been messing with mesh generation, started with simple a voxel, I keep seeing videos where people have like double or even tripple verticies on the corners. I'm guessing here that the GPU just don't give a shit about that and only cares where's the triangle I need to draw one.

[next bolt]

i was in sped english so often i never really look at small details like that also idk what a noun or verb is. yk?

[steel stirrup]

It's important to focus on details, these aren't small things

Someone looking at your code (or you when you're tired) can easily confuse your 'carrying' gameobject with a bool, since you named your bool 'holding'

Inconsistency creates spaghetti down the line

[next bolt]

ohhhh i get what you mean now

[steel stirrup]

Also, this public bool holding, nearFurnace =false; isn't doing what you think it is

[next bolt]

thats not done yet

[steel stirrup]

false is the default value of a bool, so the assignment is pointless (though totally fine) but when you do it this way it's ONLY assigning nearFurnace to false, not holding. holding is only false because that's the default value, not because you're assigning it

[next bolt]

oh i see

[steel stirrup]

if you want both to be false then you should either not declare anything or (if you want to visualize it) do public bool IsHolding = false, IsNearFurnace = false;

[next bolt]

i just had a look in the inspector while trying it and the game works fine with it. I appriciate the help im putting all this into consideration thank you bro.

[steel stirrup]

The game works with it because it's technically valid and does nothing

Try doing it with true and you'll see what I mean

the bool will be false even if you don't include = false

because all bools are false unless set otherwise

bool isHolding = false; is exactly the same as bool isHolding;

The way you have them set up atm, you also can't trust them to actually be false

[next bolt]

oh so putting it as set to false is pointless and accoplishes the same thing if i did set them to false in seperate lines. ok thank you

[steel stirrup]

Since they're public, their actual value will depend on what you set in the editor

[next bolt]

which is false i see

[steel stirrup]

if you need these to be false, you should either be setting them as private/protected, setting a DoNotSerialize attribute or using a property

For example, let's say today you edit the prefab this script is used on and tick the bool as 'true' in the inspector. When you go to debug later, you're going to probably just look at the script and see that it's set 'false', not realizing that in actual gameplay it's going to be true.

[next bolt]

noted. Thank you

[steel stirrup]

In general, everything should be private unless it needs to be accessed from another class or inherited

it'll save you a ton of time later

You can make your update much less stressful to manage as well by using a coroutine

[mint lodge]

Hey guys

I have this Camera and the Boxes you see are the borders of my level.
I can't scale the camera to display the entire level for some reason, it becomes larger. Do you guys know a way?

[thorny basalt]

Can you reword that?

[mint lodge]

The Camera can only show these many boxes at once, I want it to be able to show all of them

I have a Following Camera script but I would also like a Fixed Camera

[raw token]

Have you tried modifying the camera's "Size" field in the inspector/.orthographicSize in script?

(assuming you're using an orthographic camera, that is)

[thorny basalt]

Which property are you modifying to scale it?

[mint lodge]

Yes

[mint lodge]

Size as mentioned by mr raccoon

[thorny basalt]

Like scale?

[mint lodge]

No

ortho size

[thorny basalt]

Ah.

[mint lodge]

Anyway, I think I'll go with the following camera. May I ask your opinion on something?

[final trellis]

is there a https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Texture2D.SetPixels.html equivalent for 2d float arrays? trying apply a 2d float array of numbers 0.0f to 1.0f to a Texture2D

[thorny basalt]

Just check to make sure. Orthographic size is vertical based.

[radiant frigate]

is there a more optimized way of doing bullets "hit you" than Collider? because im doing a bullet hell and there are a lot of bullets, dont know if the game will be able to render it

[steel stirrup]

Collisions won’t be your issue

[thorny basalt]

Don’t use unity physics for a bullet hell!

[radiant frigate]

so i should use .translate or something like that?

[steel stirrup]

They’re fine, don’t over complicate it

Use an object pool for instantiation

And set all the bullets in a layer that ignores itself

[radiant frigate]

what is an object pool?

[shell herald]

im a bit confused by this. this always returns true even if i dont have any of the required materials exept 1.

[summer stump]

Definitely no

[steel stirrup]

Instead of instantiating a new bullet every shot, create a pool of hundreds or thousands when you start the game and recycle them

[summer stump]

Enable and disable instead of instantiate and destroy

[steel stirrup]

Instantiation is incredibly expensive relative to nearly anything else

[thorny basalt]

Use your own logic for bullet movement and physics

[raw token]

You loop returns true at the end of the first iteration rather than after all items have been checked. So all that is necessary is that the first item in the array is true

[steel stirrup]

You can use OnEnable and OnDisable to handle state if you want to be quick about it, otherwise you should set up a generic object pool class + an interface for poolables so you can recycle it throughout your projects going forward

[mint lodge]

Which one looks better? A Fixed Camera like this? Or a zoomed in Following Camera like this? Your feedback is greatly appreciated 🙏

[radiant frigate]

i only am familiar wih monobehaviour classes at the moment

[shell herald]

how do i change that?

[summer stump]

Bullet hell may be too much at the moment then.
Do some small games and learn the bits and pieces you'll need as you go.
Prototypes are great too, just doing one system at a time

[rocky canyon]

#archived-game-design or #1180170818983051344 (it depends on your game) both options are good.. both work

[raw token]

Move your return true to after the loop, such that it only does so if no item in the collection was false

[radiant frigate]

i made a movement system and that looked cool, but yeah it was fairly optimizable,

i want to make a very simple bullet hell

[mint lodge]

Thank you. I may use both in the end.

[shell herald]

like this ?

[steel stirrup]

Just think through the problem and take a stab at coding out a simple solution. it's not terribly complicated if you break it down piece by piece

[radiant frigate]

which i nearly have already finished, but the last thing im doing is the colliders and thought it would consume a lot

[raw token]

Yeah - the log is inaccurate now, but the logic checks out :)

[steel stirrup]

you're going to have a collection of disabled gameobjects. Other classes can request an object, in which case you enable and return one if one is in your collection or you create a new one and return it. Other classes can also return an object to you, in which case you disable it and store it.

[steel stirrup]

Don't worry about optimization this early

[radiant frigate]

a collection as in List?

[steel stirrup]

It doesn't really matter, personally I'd use a stack but whatever floats your boat

[radiant frigate]

yeah but im a bit obsessed with that, im scared to even use more than 50 raycast 😭

which i know are like nothing

but it seems to much to my eyes

lmao

[steel stirrup]

You have to get over it.

Overoptimization causes more problems than it solves

it's better to get something down and working, then iterate on it

[summer stump]

Then JUST learn object pooling (so many guides online) and do a simple one

Don't worry about optimizing

[steel stirrup]

Obviously don't throw caution to the wind and do something absurd, but don't get action paralysis from worrying about a few nanoseconds here and there

[summer stump]

Raycasts are basically free....
A couple thousand a frame is cheap

[rocky canyon]

i use tonnes

[summer stump]

The ObjectPool collection unity has built in may be best

[radiant frigate]

i know, thats the sad part

[summer stump]

Well, get over it then. Easy as that. You need things like that. Optimizing always should come last
Some simple things, sure, consider at first, but as we said, raycasts are basically free, so limiting them is NOT EVEN optimizing

[steel stirrup]

Something you really need to ingrain is that there is no virtue in having hyperoptimized code if you don't have an actual product to show for it

[radiant frigate]

does this seem like it would need object pooling?

i want to learn that

[steel stirrup]

Everything (where there are many instances of an object being dynamically created/destroyed) should use object pooling in general, there's no reason not to

But no, you could easily get by that without

[final trellis]

how do i make this function run whenever the values of a specific AnimationCurve or an int changes
plan is to get this to run in the editor btw

[thorny basalt]

Do you need physics in your game? I mistake I see from beginners is them using Unity’s physics engine when making a game that doesn’t need it

[radiant frigate]

its not an excuse for not doing it, but at this precise moment im in a bit of a rush, since a group of friends an i wanted to make a only-friend gamejam

[summer stump]

I mean why not just.... do it. Who cares if you need it?

[steel stirrup]

At this point you've spent more time considering it than it takes to code

[summer stump]

Then don't 🤷‍♂️

[radiant frigate]

is object pooling that simple?

[steel stirrup]

Yes

it's literally just doing all your instantiation in one go instead of spreading it out

[radiant frigate]

so i could learn it in under 10 min ?

[steel stirrup]

yes

[radiant frigate]

oh

[summer stump]

Have you even looked it up?
Just go look up a guide. It is one script and some modifications anywhere you instantiate and destroy

[radiant frigate]

i didnt know about object pool before hyunahri told me about it

[thorny basalt]

Getting the method to run in the editor is another can of worms but you can run the function in the mutilator when it is set

[summer stump]

Yeah, I meant since then and since you were told to look it up
It onlu takes a minute to look up

[final trellis]

the WHAT

[rocky canyon]

can u learn it in under 10 min? probably not.. can u understand it w/in 10 min sure..

[radiant frigate]

nope i didnt

on my way

[thorny basalt]

Mutator. Typo

[rocky canyon]

u were suggested using unity's builtin pooling stuff.. u should look into that

or u could go completely custom if u wanted

[steel stirrup]

Oh just a headsup, a lot of versions are probably going to use delegates if you aren't familiar with those. If you don't want to learn that now, just use OnEnable and OnDisable and enable or disable objects when they enter/leave the pool

[thorny basalt]

Unity had there own api for running things in the inspector but that is a whole can of worms

[radiant frigate]

oh

it was indeed that simple

[radiant frigate]

i didnt look the built in, i watched a video explaining it and he used scripts

maybe its the same tho

what is an ObjectPool type?

[rocky canyon]

a class

[radiant frigate]

so im basically making a reference to the class itself?

[rocky canyon]

ObjectPool is anything u want it to be

[radiant frigate]

oh true

[rocky canyon]

then theres a static instance of it called instance

[radiant frigate]

its like if i do: private MovementScript movementScript;

right?

like obviously not the same

[rocky canyon]

more like if u did ```cs
public class MovementScript : Monobehaviour{

}```

[radiant frigate]

so the static ObjectPool creates a class instead of a reference?

[steel stirrup]

Don’t do this unless you’re setting up an array of pools

If you design it this way, you’ll only be able to have 1 pool because any new instance will wipe out the static reference to the last

[radiant frigate]

i would like to make one for the towers, another for the skulls, for the mages (2 types) and for the bullets

[steel stirrup]

Instead use a static dictionary of instances with the key as the gameobject name

[rocky canyon]

ur only pooling bullets right?

[teal viper]

These are not 2 interchangable things.

[radiant frigate]

no im also spawning waves that are randomly generated

[radiant frigate]

so if i need to pool more than 1 thing i need to make the static "ObjectPool" var or not?

[rocky canyon]

https://blackcatgames.medium.com/easy-pooling-in-unity-6eef64ccf541
heres a simple artcle that explains it

[radiant frigate]

lol the image

kewk

[steel stirrup]

Create a static collection

[radiant frigate]

programmer humour at its finest

[radiant frigate]

ty

[steel stirrup]

And static methods for getting the needed pool or creating it if it’s not yet created

[rocky canyon]

basically it'd be a static instance or Instance that u could call

to get ur particles /gameobjects when not being used

rcycled

[radiant frigate]

poolManager is the object, instance is the class and despawnEnemy is the method?

[steel stirrup]

No

PoolManager is the class, Instance is an object of PoolManager and DespawnEnemy is a method of the instance

[rocky canyon]

like this example u had earlier

ObjectPool.instance.Function();

[radiant frigate]

ohhh

so the first one is the class, the second is the gameobject and the 3rd is a method

but what i dont get is what does method of the instance mean

[rocky canyon]

thats how Singletons work too

myGameManager.instance.LoadGameWithData(data);

[radiant frigate]

i do not know what singletons are srry

[rocky canyon]

no worries, a different thing, different use-case.. same underlying principle

[teal viper]

The second one is an instance of that class.

[radiant frigate]

so it basically creates a new instance of the class each time?

[teal viper]

I feel like you need to go over some C# basics. Specifically, the Type system and the difference between types and instances/objects.

[fading mountain]

Hey guys. I am trying to play a crossfade animation when a new scene is loaded. I have a button that will wait a certain amount of time before loading a new scene, say 5 seconds. I also have an animation which is 3 seconds long. When the button is pressed, my game manager script should wait 2 seconds before starting the animation, and then continue to wait another 3 seconds before loading the next scene. I've tried to do this in code with two different Coroutines, the effect that I'm getting though is that the animation is not playing until after the scene has loaded. In other words its waiting 5 seconds. Here is my script as well as the crossfade animator controller:
https://gdl.space/oxofadakug.cs

[radiant frigate]

yes i probably should, and most certainly will

[teal viper]

It depends on the implementation, but usually no. Singleton pattern implies that there is one instance that you access via a static field reference.

[steel stirrup]

this might help a little with the structure. https://hatebin.com/pngrmgbpaz

[radiant frigate]

but as i said im currently in a bit of a rush, and even if i know that this is not the optimal way to procceed( which i know isnt) i would love to finish this game since everything left is the colliders/triggers and the ui

[radiant frigate]

i do not know how to use abstract class

[rocky canyon]

then go for it.. but if u run into any performance stuff u wanna change you'll know where to look

[steel stirrup]

The abstract part isn't relevant, i just didn't want to code out the logic

the static vs instance is the point

[radiant frigate]

i do not understand that code

ty for the code but my current level is like nearly non existent

[steel stirrup]

Nothing external ever interacts with object pool instances, instead object pool instances only register themselves and handle actually creating and handing off their objects. Everything flows through the static methods, allowing for easy debugging

[radiant frigate]

what is string doing here= static GameObject getObject(String objectName)

[steel stirrup]

the pools are indexed by string, so to get the correct pool (which itself contains the correct object) we pass in the name of the object we're asking for

[radiant frigate]

we use the name of the object to check in which pool it is?

[steel stirrup]

Dictionaries map the first type to the second type, so in this case string -> pool

[teal viper]

Start with debug logging all the relevant values to make sure they are what you expect.

[steel stirrup]

so when we put in a string, it gives us a pool (hopefully)

If you changed string everywhere to just be GameObject you could instead pass the prefab itself, or if you wanted to use hashes or enums or whatever, it wouldn't matter as long as its 1 to 1

[radiant frigate]

i also need to learn Dictionaries

[steel stirrup]

practically name is probably the worst possible way to do this lol, but I figured it would be more legible that way

[radiant frigate]

god damn im a newbie to this lol

[fading mountain]

i've confirmed that the levelLoadDelay is 5 and the length of the animation is 3

[steel stirrup]

just think of dictionaries as a list of unique pairs

[radiant frigate]

unique pairs?

[teal viper]

That's not all the relevant values, though, is it?

[steel stirrup]

In a dictionary, all keys are unique. Every key must map to one and only one value

ie, if a key "name" maps to "bob", it cannot possibly also map to "john"

however two keys can map to the same value. ie "age" and "wealth" can both be 50

[radiant frigate]

im getting a bit confused over all these new things that i dont understand completely

[steel stirrup]

The main advantage is that a dictionary is a good collection when you want to be ablet o access specific things very quickly, rather than iterate over an entire list

[radiant frigate]

with the object pooling, the type of classes,dictionaries, etc, my mind is becoming a rollercoaster

im a bit slow if i may say it

so its a bit hard

[radiant frigate]

because the key only maps to one value ?

[steel stirrup]

tl;dr version. I have a lot of stuff and I want to act on all of it -> list. I have a lot of stuff, and I want to access specific ones individually -> Dictinoary

[steel stirrup]

its because of how the memory is structured and its very technical

[teal viper]

You only have 2 options then:

• learn correctly
• implement it using only whatever you understand 100%

[steel stirrup]

just know that it's fast and it stays fast even at very large sizes

[radiant frigate]

is it bad if i: do it as i know, and once my friends an i finish this mini game jam, learn it the correct way?

[steel stirrup]

Take half an hour and just read up on the basic collections in C#, it will make EVERYTHING easier going forward

tons of issues can be completely sidestepped by using the right collection type

[radiant frigate]

okay im going to take a look into that

[steel stirrup]

Like you don't need to dig into big o notation and 'why' they work the way they work, just know which one to pull out in a pinch

[teal viper]

There's no good or bad. There's no one to judge you for that aside from yourself.

[radiant frigate]

okay let me rephrase then

could it still be "not
harmful" if i do it that way

[steel stirrup]

In general, I'd say look at List<T>, HashSet<T> and Dictionary<TKey,TVal>. Later on you'll want to also learn Queue, Stack and LinkedList, but those can wait

[teal viper]

Wdym by "harmful"? Is it gonna explode someone's head if they play a game with bad code? Probably not.

[radiant frigate]

no

[teal viper]

Are they gonna experience lag/ performance issues? Maybe. It depends

Are you gonna experience issues with extending on the project? Probably yes. Is it bad? It's up to you to decide.

[steel stirrup]

Go and read up, then try to implement one collection of each type into your project and come back here to review

you'll learn alot more that way rather than overthinking it

[radiant frigate]

i really dont have the time for that at this precise moment

[teal viper]

Then I really don't get what that conversation is about

[steel stirrup]

you've spent more time talking here than it would take to learn any of these things

[teal viper]

If you don't have time to learn, do it the way you know.

[steel stirrup]

It's like a bike, once you get it going a few times it'll become second nature

[radiant frigate]

probably not, i dont know why but i suck at learning

[steel stirrup]

Learning to use your tools saves you time, usually even in the relatively short term

the classic example being new programmers accidentally creating a bunch of duplicates in a list fo what are supposed to be unique objects

[radiant frigate]

yes but i dont even know what hashSet is or what its used for

[steel stirrup]

That's kind of the point isn't it?

[teal viper]

This is kind of an excuse. Learning is difficult to anyone. Yet you need to go through it if you want to get better.

[radiant frigate]

neither the <T>. what does t even mean?

[radiant frigate]

now that you say it kinda

i feel like im acting childish for some reason

[steel stirrup]

Have you tried searching it or asking chat gpt

[steel stirrup]

Because you are, just look these things up and ask us to clarify

[radiant frigate]

but im just currently under a lot of preasure because of time and circumstances (which is also sort of an excuse)

[steel stirrup]

It's okay to have questions, but you need to actively help yourself instead of making excuses. Learning sucked for all of us

[teal viper]

It's so annoying to see people say here "I just suck at coding/learning". Then freaking learn. There's no easy way. Everyone went through that. Don't deny their effort.

[fading mountain]

After some more debugging the crossfade.GetNextAnimatorClipInfo(0) will always be the Transition Idle state instead of the Crossfade Out state. Transition Idle obviously has a length of 0 so loadLevelDelay - the transition Idle state length = 5, hence why the animation is playing after the scene has loaded

[steel stirrup]

It's a game, you're not going to sell it. No one outside of your friendgroup (and most in it) will not care about it at all after about 5 minutes. Learning to do things properly will let you create things that you're proud of and make the entire process easier. The better your foundation the easier it is to build on it

[radiant frigate]

agreed, i want to say srry for my past behaviour

okay

fresh start

what should my plan be now

[teal viper]

Sounds about right. One thing to note is that your transition doesn't even start at the point in time.

[radiant frigate]

learn this?

[steel stirrup]

I think you know List already, but just lookup hashset, if you want to skip dictionary for now that's fine

[radiant frigate]

yes i think i do

list is an array that can get its lenght modified

right?

[steel stirrup]

at a super simple level, hashset is just a collection where every item is unique

ie if you use a list and add 0 twice, you now have a list with two zeros in it

[teal viper]

I say: if you're in the middle of a game jam and have to submit it soon, do it first. Even if it's weird and has bad code, it's fine. It's a valuable experience as well. After done with that, go through proper learning though.

[radiant frigate]

ive seen people use that for randomwalk generation ç

[steel stirrup]

if you do the same with a hashet, it has one zero no matter how many times you try to add more

[radiant frigate]

what is ie

[steel stirrup]

for example

[radiant frigate]

ive seen people write that a lot of times

oh

[teal viper]

I think lists and hashsets are the last of their issues. There are many more basic things that they need to learn first

[summer stump]

That is a generic. The T is short for Type

You fill it in with the type you want to use when implementing it

For example, the class List uses generics so you can store any type

public class List<T>

MyType newList = List<MyType>

[radiant frigate]

i did not understand it

i think i need to correctly learn what types are

[steel stirrup]

You’re already using them, dw about it

You’ll get to it later, it’s a weird concept

[radiant frigate]

for what i know its: bool, int, float, etc etc etc

[summer stump]

Those are types.
Also every class you make is a type

[radiant frigate]

gameobject, and so on

[summer stump]

Every class, struct, and enum are all types

[radiant frigate]

i want to learn about class types( i dont know if its called like that)

[summer stump]

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour

Enemy is a type

[radiant frigate]

but i mean: what is monobehaviour, abstract

etc

[steel stirrup]

Monobehavior is just a class

[summer stump]

Is is a class, which you inherit from

[steel stirrup]

It’s already defined in Unity, you’re just inheriting from it, it’s not part of c#

[radiant frigate]

what am i inheriting from it?

[summer stump]

MonoBehaviour inherits from Behaviour, which inherits from Unity.Object I think

[summer stump]

That you should google. Lots of things though

Like .gameObject, .transform, .tag, etc

[steel stirrup]

I wouldn’t worry about digging too deep on this, just learn how to use it

[radiant frigate]

btw, ty for even if i was a crybaby still helping me out and having patience, not only to you but to everyone here and everyone that has helped

[radiant frigate]

i have a problem and its that i want to understand things at its most

[teal viper]

That's what we are here for. To put you on the right path.

[radiant frigate]

i dont like to use int for example, i like to know what an int means and then use it

[summer stump]

Experience and use will do that more than trying to understand BEFORE using them

The worst thing you can do is try to learn every bit before trying to use it. Never do that

[radiant frigate]

makes sense

[teal viper]

All of that is covered in the documentation. It depends on some other knowledge though. That's why you need to go through a structured learning program.

[radiant frigate]

seems like what im doing

[summer stump]

Default int is
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

[teal viper]

I mean, practice is important of course. But you can't grasp the whole thing without the theory

[radiant frigate]

so an int cant be bigger than that number but with the zeros being 9 for example?

[summer stump]

Agreed, I just mean that practical knowledge will put theoretical knowledge into a far more understandable perspective

[teal viper]

No

[radiant frigate]

i think you were the one that said to follow this path to me variables

data types

conditional statements

switch statements

collections (arrays, linked-lists, lists)

loops(for, while, do)

functions/methods

references

scope(global, local, parameter)

LINQ

sorting algorithms

inheritance

composition

classes

abstract classes

interfaces

polymorphism

SOLID

namespaces

events

exception handling

Debugging

break points

algebra

calculus

basic trigonometry

[teal viper]

I think we're all confusing them. Speaking about concepts that are too early for them...

[summer stump]

Not sure what you are asking here.
It is binary

[radiant frigate]

oh

[teal viper]

I don't remember. Maybe I did. It would be easier to just google "C# basics" and follow the first link that looks like it covers things from the very start.

[radiant frigate]

i thought that you meant that when i declare an int( and dont assign any value) its value is "that amount of zeros" and not one 0, and the way int works is it changes the zero needed(or other number if already changed) to the number that we want, therefore having a limit of "that amount of zeros", but instead of a zero a 9

[radiant frigate]

okay surely will

[summer stump]

It is that many bits, all assigned to 0 as default

[steel stirrup]

You’re mixing up value and the actual bits

[summer stump]

It is a 32 bit value

[radiant frigate]

yes i didnt think about it being bits

[teal viper]

They meant that it's the default value of int in binary. Again, too early for you to pay attention to that now.

[radiant frigate]

before anything,

will it have a big performance issue if i use( lets say 3000) rigidbodys and colliders?

[summer stump]

Yeah sorry. You just said you don't know what an int is. I just wanted to point out that it is extremely simply just 32 0's until you assign a number

[radiant frigate]

i know what an int is

[steel stirrup]

No one knows

[radiant frigate]

a whole number

[steel stirrup]

Try and find out

[radiant frigate]

i think

i hope it is

[teal viper]

If you use them all at the same type, probably pretty bad. But it depends on many factors.

[steel stirrup]

How you use them is going to matter a lot more than the actual amount

[radiant frigate]

well they will be flying across the screen

[steel stirrup]

Yes, and how you decide where they fly and spawn is going to probably be the important part

[radiant frigate]

like in this video

how would that perform?

[steel stirrup]

You have the answer already

No one knows

Go make it

[radiant frigate]

on my way

ill report how it went

[steel stirrup]

How it would perform if I coded it is very different than if you do or anyone else, we all have different approaches and different system specs

I will guarantee you don’t need 3000 bullets though lol

Even tohou and the like doesn’t hit anywhere near that

[dusty ember]

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
        {
            shiftHeld = true;
            Debug.Log("ShiftDown");
            if (shiftHeld == true)
            {
                if (speedAcceleration < 15)
                {
                    speedAcceleration += 0.01f;
                }
                else if ((speedAcceleration > 15))
                {
                    //nothing lol
                }
            }

          if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.LeftShift))
          {
                shiftHeld = false;
                Debug.Log("ShiftUp");
                if (shiftHeld == false)
                {
                    if (speedAcceleration > 1)
                    {
                        speedAcceleration -= 0.1f;
                    }
                    else if (speedAcceleration < 1)
                    {
                        //nothing lol
                    }
                }


            }```

So basically when I hold left shift DOWN it will send the message and increase acceleration
but when i put it up it doesnt send a debug message and doesnt accelerate

[steel stirrup]

Before we even check the code, are you sure you’re using the right input system?

[radiant frigate]

but im pretty sure im already around the 300 hundred or so

[dusty ember]

I think?

[steel stirrup]

At 3000 in 2d either the bullets are so small as to be invisible or you can’t see the screen

[radiant frigate]

okay

[summer stump]

Your GetKeyUp is INSIDE the GetKey, so it can never be true

[radiant frigate]

then my perception of reality is completely altered lol

[dusty ember]

OH

[steel stirrup]

At that point, just make bigger individual bullets and fewer of them

[radiant frigate]

at what point

at 3000?

or at the ones i have?

[steel stirrup]

Why do you think you need 3000

[radiant frigate]

i do not think i need 3000

im just using that number as an example

[steel stirrup]

Then just go make the system, don’t use hypotheticals unless they relate to your actual requirements. This is just over optimizing lol

If you need a car to go 60mph, plan to make that car, not a Ferrari

[radiant frigate]

as i said, a big problem that i have

i need to ignore my thoughts about it

[steel stirrup]

Then just solve it

[radiant frigate]

i overcomplicate systems that could be solved so much easier but i try to use weird equations

[radiant frigate]

i try to

[gaunt cypress]

Made some progress on making the character walk/run using an animator, but I am still having an issue.
I don't know why, but when I try to run forward, it executes the Walk animation, even though the speed and position matches the criteria to execute the run animation. There are other animations that are not executing as intended, even when the numbers are matching in the inspector. Any ideas? Thank you very much!

[native hill]

for some reason the gliding isnt working correctly, it doesnt stop gliding and the jumps dont reset im pretty sure ```using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Jumping : MonoBehaviour
{
private Rigidbody rb;
// to count down to five seconds
private float TimePassed = 0;
private bool CanJump = true;
private float JumpsRemaining = 2;
private float JumpCooldown = 5;
private bool Gliding = false;

void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}

void Update()
{       // jumping
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && CanJump)
    {
        Jump();
        JumpsRemaining -= 1;


        Debug.Log(JumpsRemaining);
        Gliding = false;


        if (JumpsRemaining <= 0)
        {
            CanJump = false;
            Gliding = true;
            Debug.Log("hello");
        }
    }

    // making the cooldown
    if (!CanJump)
    {  
        TimePassed += Time.deltaTime;

        if (TimePassed >= JumpCooldown)
        {
            CanJump = true;
            JumpsRemaining = 2;
            TimePassed = 0;
        }
    }
    // starts gliding 
    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && Gliding == true){
        rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * 10, ForceMode.Force);
        Debug.Log("Im gliding");
        

    }
}

void Jump()
{
    rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * 5f, ForceMode.Impulse);
}

}```

[somber herald]

Hiya! I'm making a character controller where the character is looking towards the golden vector, and I have the vector of movement working in the normal directions, but I want it to be relative to where the character is facing, how do I do this?

For example the green line would be like me pressing A and W but the character isn't facing that way.

My question is how to make it work based on where the character is facing

[raw token]

You can either calculate the movement vector by directly factoring in transform.forward and transform.right, or you just run your world-space vector through transform.TransformDirection()

[raw token]

Gliding is only set to false again when a jump occurs, and if you've started gliding then the cooldown prevents you from jumping. So you're effectively stuck in glide mode until the cooldown times out and you jump again

[native hill]

what do you suggest I do?

[raw token]

The first thing that comes to me is creating a new condition to drop out of glide mode in the case that the player is gliding and releases the space key

[native hill]

alright, thank you I appreciate you a lot

[somber herald]

Took a while to understand but tysm

took a while to understand transform.TransformDirection

[raw token]

I probably should have elaborated further 😅. I'm glad you've sorted it out though. It's definitely a useful tool

[somber herald]

omg got it working you saved me so much time ty

no dw at times like these its better to learn to research yourself

[loud mango]

is there any better way to use

 if(!Mathf.Approximately(movementJoystick.Direction.x, 0)){
            animControl.SetBool("isMoving", true);
            animControl.SetBool("isFlying", true);
        } ```

to write 

``` if direction.x is approx. 0 and direction.y is not approx. 0 then do #code ``` so its not spaghetti

[slate haven]

im making a unity 3D game, My Character player looks in direction of cursor/mouse. It also has a gun in his right hand. So the problem is when the gun shoots, it doesnt shoot in the direction of the cursor because cursor is making the player look on it. I want such that the cursor gets binded to my gun's direction

    {
        mousePos = Mouse.current.position.ReadValue();
        Ray ray = mainCam.ScreenPointToRay(mousePos);

        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hitInfo))
            {

            Vector3 targetPoint = hitInfo.point;
           Vector3 direction = (targetPoint - player.position).normalized;
           
            
            direction.y = 0f;
          

            if(direction != Vector3.zero && direction.magnitude > minDistance)
            {
                Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(direction);
               
                
                
                player.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(player.rotation, targetRotation, Time.deltaTime * 10f);

               Cursor.position = Input.mousePosition;
            }
           
        }
    }

[cosmic dagger]

assign the Mathf.Approximately checks for Direction.x and ``Direction.y` to bool variables, then use those variables in your if statement. easier to read . . .

[fringe plover]

idk if its unity or IDE, but it feels wrong

[modest dust]

And is Inventory a MonoBehaviour?

Or anything deriving from Object

[fringe plover]

Its class

its in other class which is monoBeh

[cosmic dagger]

Instantiate is a static method from the Object class. if it derives from a unity Object you can access it, otherwise, access it from the Object type (class) itself . . .

[modest dust]

Instantiate is a static method defined in the Object class, if you don't derive from it you have to call it like you do there.

[fringe plover]

the thing is, IDE says that i can call it without MonoBehaviour.

nvm, it says that its better to call it with Object.

[void thicket]

That's pretty much generic suggestion when you access static member of base class

UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate doesn't look so good tho

[topaz mortar]

So I have a working combat script but now I want to add spells to my combat.
Each spell has a unique effect.
When a spell is cast in combat, how do I find and execute it's effect?
My game will have 50-100+ spells, do I just huge a giant switch statement?

I guess I could also make a new class for each spell that extends Spell and just call Spell.Cast or something
But that seems like a ton of work, might be more future proof though?

[teal viper]

There are many ways to organize it.
One way is composition. Have a set of minimal components of a spell and combine them in a sequence or graph. You could have several types of components, like a base(projectile/touch/ares), effect(damage, heal, whatever), modifiers(repeat over time, condition, etc).
Then creating new spells would be just a matter of combining all these components into a spell instance and only write new components if you really need something new that the existing components don't allow you to do).

[topaz mortar]

wow that is very interesting! I will probably refactor my code into that at some point in the future, when I know more what I want the end result to be exactly

[copper orbit]

i have a script that loops and instantiates an Enemy gameobject instance. What would be the best way to keep track of enemy1, enemy2 and so forth? Aren't they all Enemy(Clone)?

[cosmic dagger]

when instantiated, you can store the enemy in a collection: array, list, etc . . .

[copper orbit]

if I place into a list or an array, wouldnt it be just Enemy(Clone) for all of the enemies

[cosmic dagger]

that is just the name of the instantiated GameObject. when instantiated in the scene, the GameObject will add " (Clone)" to their name . . .

[copper orbit]

what would be the best way to differentiate if not, name?

[willow scroll]

These structures don't change the reference of the item added to them

[willow scroll]

They all have different indexes in your array or list

[cosmic dagger]

differ how? enemy types? if so, you decide that. it could from an enum, class, tag, etc . . .

[copper orbit]

i think it could be as simple as what sashok said

i guess i would just make the list or the array public so other class can see it.

[fringe plover]

Guys i need help...
I did inventory system for items, and make them dropable and etc, but not i have no idea how to make items usable, they are currently ScriptableObject's with prefabs.
I want to make different prefab with script that will instantiate when player use item, is it good idea or there is any other way? i just dont have any other ideas.

or i could add method to interface and use same prefab and script, and just call different method in it

[muted narwhal]

Add public abstract void Use()
to your item scriptable object, then add a new SO called UsableItem that inherits from your original Item SO, and then add

public override void Use(){
  Debug.Log("Used item.")
}```

[fringe plover]

And, how do i add code in UsableItem SO? like, i want different items act different

I will have to make different SO for every item type?

[muted narwhal]

using UnityEngine;

public abstract class UsableItem : Item{
      public MonoBehaviour itemUseScript;

      public override void Use(){
            itemUseScript.enabled = true;
      }
}

Something like this could work.

[fringe plover]

maybe ill stick to using prefab with interface..?

I dont think its good idea to have script to do smth.. isnt its same as spawning prefab?

[muted narwhal]

"I don't think its good idea to have script to do something..."
w.h.a.t?

[fringe plover]

I dont understand what public MonoBehaviour itemUseScript will do, what its even for? am i creating object with this script or what?

[muted narwhal]

You assigning script to add item use logic.

[fringe plover]

Hmm.. It means there is no diff with just having an Interface and script that will handle dropping object, using it and etc?

[muted narwhal]

I'm not sure, I'm not that one ultra-smart game dev, that's just my implementation :clueless:

[modest dust]

Adding an abstract method to the base class would require to make the class abstract too, and thus make it non-instantiable, and every class deriving from Item, non-usable too, would have to override Use

[fringe plover]

Same lol

[muted narwhal]

You can test every way of implementing this and choose the best way for you

[fringe plover]

Okay, ill try.
Anyway, thanks for helping 👍

[muted narwhal]

Ah-

I forgor

[modest dust]

What exactly do you want to do when you "use" an item?

And how do you want to use an item

From inventory-level? While holding it?

[fringe plover]

Im gonna have a LOT of diff items, so, basicly, potions, keys, bombs, and etc, so, i wanted to make different class for each item and make Interface for them

[fringe plover]

Nah, player dont hold them, they are just in inventory, they are not stored as objects while they are in inventory

Thats what i made rn.

[languid spire]

It does sound to me that an Interface (IUsable) is a better option here

[fringe plover]

I have "IItem" interface

[modest dust]

The way I did it is just adding a flags field, activating a flag shows an array where you can add different behaviours

[languid spire]

you can have more than one on an object

[fringe plover]

I know

[fringe plover]

What type of items? like, there is only few types or you make new flag every time?

[languid spire]

so
public class Potion : IItem, IUsable, IDrinkable
public class Cake : IItem, IUsable, IEatable
etc, etc

[modest dust]

One type of item, a few flags (usable, equipable, etc) and several modules for behaviour

[fringe plover]

Im also going to add weapons... i want to make separate inventory for them, like, there is gonna be a lot of guns and i want them to be stored separatly and not as items

[muted narwhal]

How can I fix this? I have a vertical layout group, it works with messages that >1 line, but if it's more than 1 line... I'm getting this.

[languid spire]

not a good plan, a Weapon IS an Item

[fringe plover]

Yeah, but its gonna be equipable in hands and player wont be able to use them like items

[languid spire]

you are just overcomplicating things

[fringe plover]

I think text should have ContentSizeFilter, and layout object should have one too, but only for vertical

[muted narwhal]

Oh, I have CSF on content-

lemme try

[fringe plover]

Welp.. i planed to make only 3 slots for items and 2 for weapons

[languid spire]

Sit down with a piece of paper and pencil and draw out the items you want and the relationships (what they have in common) between them.
This will help you design your system correctly

[muted narwhal]

It did fixed the problem, but now I can have only one line of text

[fringe plover]

Screenshot of text..?

[muted narwhal]

Oh, wait-

It works

I just need a little bit more characters

Alright, it's works... but not

[fringe plover]

Try using minimum?

[muted narwhal]

What "minimum"?

[fringe plover]

Change Vertifcal Fit mode

[muted narwhal]

It made it better, but didn't fixed it

[fringe plover]

I have no idea, does other/small message size fit text or not?

[fringe plover]

Idk what to do then...

Never did thing like this before

[boreal root]

why am i getting NA in the place of high score

[languid spire]

Because that is what your code is doing

[opaque ibex]

Hi guys

Can I ask something?

I have this model I made in blender and it comes with armature (bones) and I imported it to unity. After that I created a script that has addforce but somehow the model is not affected. I already added mesh collider(convex), rigidbody, and navmesh. Meanwhile Imported the model again but without the armatures and the addforce work on it. What might be the cause of it?

[boreal root]

what

[boreal root]

could you help me

[languid spire]

what kind of help do you expect on the basis of 2 screenshots?

[boreal root]

I want to display the high score of the player in the place of N/A

[languid spire]

I know what you want, I asked how can anyone help you using the information you have supplied

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 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.

[boreal root]

could you say what kind of information you need

the lowest time taken by a player to complete the particular level should be the high score

https://paste.ofcode.org/ukwEecaPmCE4Mgycb3VA2W

[languid spire]

#854851968446365696 tells you how to ask questions.
The first thing I see is you have made no attempt to debug this code. Do you even know if it is running?

[boreal root]

ok

Yeah it is running if i click on the button it is redirecting

[fierce geode]

Is there an alternative to the static keyword that still allows to be edited in the inspector but has the same effect of having the static variable be the same across every version of the script?

[wintry quarry]

No. But sounds like you want a Singleton basically.

[languid spire]

This
if (time == float.MaxValue) return "N/A"; // Handle uninitialized time
is obviously where the N/A is coming from. So debug time

[fierce geode]

heard of singletons before. same with factory's. Some kind of software design patterns

[boreal root]

Ok thank you but how to do that

[languid spire]

Debug.Log ? It should have been the very first statement you ever wrote in Unity/C#

[boreal root]

yeah ok

[fierce geode]

Yeah, I'm using a script to keep track of all the items in the game. Currently I just have two lists, one being a static and one being not static and exposed to the inspector. and in the start the static list just becomes a copy of the non-static list. Which is prob a bad practice.

[languid spire]

indeed it is. The Singleton pattern is definitely what you want

[muted narwhal]

Bump

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

[fierce geode]

Thanks

hope you have a nice day

[raw robin]

Hi all, Im using a few prefabs with just a sprite renderer and initiating them as "splatter" once a character jumped. It looks good, but can't help but notice the overall large amount of gameobjects sitting in the Hierarchy and wondering if it could potentially cause lag. Is there a better way to go about it?

[languid spire]

if the gameobjects are not long lived then you could look into object pooling

[raw robin]

hmm gotcha, object pooling is kinda like recycling unused game objects so I can reuse them quicker in the future right? For example let's say they don't go away, is there any method to kinda keep them permenantly there without it being an "gameobject" (seems like it would get intensive)

[languid spire]

you are correct on your assesment of object pooling.
No, there is no way to have a gameobject without a gameobject.
You can mitigate the runtime impact of a gameobject by making it static, not sure if that applies to your use case

[steel stirrup]

Don't overthink it

you can have thousands of gameobjects without any significant performance cost if most of them are disabled at any given point

[steel stirrup]

If you're just trying to setup a script at the beginning of the game and need to grab everything in the scene, you can just use RuntimeInitializeOnLoad or a static constructor with one of the Object.Find methods

[fierce geode]

Nah, I mean like a database containing a list of all the items that can be obtained in the game.

[steel stirrup]

Why is that being exposed inthe inspector?

It should be generated at runtime

[fierce geode]

at the current point, my items are scriptable objects. So I need to assign them somehow into the database.

[steel stirrup]

Dump them all in a directory in Resources and Resources.LoadAll<your object type>

Although in general I'd also strongly caution against using scriptable objects that way, it's personal preference I'd suppose

[fierce geode]

Why would you caution against it?

[steel stirrup]

SOs are, imo, a noob trap and kind of crap

They provide absolutely no benefit, are very easy to lose data with if you change the class, overcomplicate editing the data of individual instances and make it impossible to separate your data from your game

[languid spire]

oh yes, and what alternative non gameobject related system do you advise?

[steel stirrup]

What does using a scriptable object provide that you wouldn't get more easily by simply using a CSV file?

[steel stirrup]

Storing data externally in CSV/JSON/XML/markdown of choice

[languid spire]

great plan when you dont need references

[steel stirrup]

That way non-programmers can also work on your data without needing the entire project, and it's easy to add modding support later'

If you need references to individual objects rather than the just the type itself then something has gone horribly wrong with the design

[languid spire]

if you need string format data something has gone wrong with your design

[steel stirrup]

That doesn't even make sense but go off

External data files allow you to have multiple contributors who don't need unity, easily share data files and edit together using any collaboration tool and with appropriate parsing logic can handle essentially any datatype. It also means that if you update Unity or have bad luck with the editor or need to rewrite your data structures you don't need to worry about references or data actually being lost.

[languid spire]

rofl, there is no way I would ever allow anyone to edit raw data if I want to guarantee data integrity

[steel stirrup]

You're completely missing the point

If you don't trust your team members, then you probably shouldn't have any

This is a lot easier to understand at a glance and balance/edit than having 14 separate scriptable objects sitting around a folder in unity

All you would do to make references in Unity is store these into a static dictionary when loaded and use a key that you can write in the inspector, I usually prefer strings but anything would work.

[languid spire]

man, it takes an hour or so to write a custom editor AND you then have data validation to boot

[steel stirrup]

Data validation just goes into the map class or your factory. I'm not sure what you mean by a custom editor

Pretty much any modern IDE already supports all markdown formats by default

and the actual IO is handled by CSVHelper or Json.NET or whatever you prefer

Scriptable Objects are great if you have a singleton and don't want to just use a static class for whatever reason, but using them for classes where there are many instances (like items in most games) almost guarantees that your project will grow massively in complexity as data is added, which is always something to avoid

Another trap ofc is people using them as 'item' and not 'item blueprint' lol

but that's just a structural thing

[fierce geode]

off-topic question here. Is it possible to initialize the length of the arrays inside a jagged array
like "private int[][] levels = new int[30][8];"
making it so that there's 30 arrays that have 8 elements in it?

[languid spire]

no, but if you want to do that you wouldn't use a jagged array in the first place because it is not jagged

[fierce geode]

oh my bad, I just thought jagged array meant an array with arrays inside it

this is what I get for coding at midnight, pretty sure I'm looking for a 2D array.

[languid spire]

indeed

[half egret]

We did something similar for the aurora engine. All strings and game-class data were stored in binary formats which were difficult for contributors to update/modify, so we converted it to JSON. Then when they submit the edited JSONs, our build pipeline validates the entries and if something is off we tell them "You made an oopsie".

To be fair though, it was kind of necessary because of how old the engine was. But I do see the use-case for this kind of design

[languid spire]

but then you are using a data pre processor which is absolutely essencial because string format data is extremely easy to bork

[half egret]

Yeah, it has actually caused some major crashes because our pre-processor missed some problems early on in development

[languid spire]

does not surprise me

[half egret]

Very difficult to consider ALL the possibilities strings can bork, it will undoubtedly fuck up somewhere

[languid spire]

yep, which is why I would NEVER do it

[half egret]

We were in a corner and the alternative was an extremely high barrier to entry for writers on an engine that was extremely unintuitive to setup for our dev environment, so it was a necessary evil.

[steel stirrup]

Meh, it's pretty straightforward to check if the incoming string parses to the correct type, particularly if you standardize your formats so you can disregard capitalization and trim all extra whitespace

[languid spire]

It is so simple to knock up a GUI based custom editor, I cannot see why you would not do so

[steel stirrup]

Because spreadsheets have been perfected over the past couple decades, so why reinvent the wheel

By all means, ship a custom editor with the project for endusers, that's a great idea

I'd definitely do that over having them go at the raw csv, but it's overkill for developer use and probably less efficient overall

[languid spire]

It takes more time to produce a strong spreadsheet than it takes to generate a Win Forms program

[steel stirrup]

in what world

And why would you use winforms anyway, just toss it at GPT4 and have it generate a webapp based on the CSV format, ime it pretty much nails it

[languid spire]

in the world of someone who does both

[languid spire]

And with that comment you have just lost what very little credibility you had, bye

[steel stirrup]

Are you twelve?

[half egret]

Using GPT to generate csvs is so much riskier and prone to errors than writing a straightforward generator

[steel stirrup]

100%

Personally I'd toss it together by hand since it takes about 10-20 minutes depending on how complex we're talking, but it's an option for someone not familiar with any languages besides C# and it's very straightforward to edit whatever code it spits out to fix up the output since really we're just talking about a set of rules for each output type + an end result string

I don't really see the point in having an editor aside from your IDE at all aside from maybe as a modding tool, but ymmv

[naive pawn]

fyi, a jagged array is an array of arrays where the inner arrays aren't all the same length. if they are all the same length, it's a matrix. both are 2d arrays, just different forms (and probably different internal representations)

[fierce geode]

Thanks!

Hope you have a nice day

[atomic holly]

Hi,
I write this program because I want to call the function of this class from an another override function. I see we can't use directly Coroutine in an override function. Can I optimised it or I have the obligation to do like this ? (I call ThrowArrow() in the other override function)

public void ThrowArrow()
{
    StartCoroutine(DelayThrowArrow(2));
}

private IEnumerator DelayThrowArrow(float seconds)
{
    Debug.Log("Arrow throws");
    Vector3 position = SingletonManager.instance.playerObject.transform.position;
    position.x += offsetX;
    position.y += offsetY;
    //Create the arrow in front of the player gameobject
    //Quaternion.identity don't change the rotation of the object
    _ = Instantiate(arrowPrefab, position, Quaternion.identity);
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(seconds);
}

[half egret]

Why can't you use a coroutine in an override function?

[atomic holly]

When I write this, the IDE tell me that StartCoroutine doesn't exist in the current context

public class BowAttackBehavior : AttackBehavior
{
    public override void Attack()
    {
        StartCoroutine(BowSystem.instance.DelayThrowArrow(2));
    }
}

[steel stirrup]

Is AttackBehavior inheriting from monobehavior?

[atomic holly]

No, it's an simple abstract class

[steel stirrup]

That's why

[atomic holly]

Okay thanks

[steel stirrup]

If you don't want to inherit from monobehavior, then instead you can create a singleton that you pass all your coroutines to

[atomic holly]

I thinked that Coroutine is from C# and not need to can interact with the engine

But now, I have this warning in Unity : ```
You are trying to create a MonoBehaviour using the 'new' keyword. This is not allowed. MonoBehaviours can only be added using AddComponent(). Alternatively, your script can inherit from ScriptableObject or no base class at all

Because I have this : ```c#
private void SetAttackBehavior()
{
switch (attackType)
{
case weaponAttack.Bow:
attackBehavior = new BowAttackBehavior();
break;
case weaponAttack.Sword:
attackBehavior = new SwordAttackBehavior();
break;
case weaponAttack.MagicBook:
attackBehavior = new MagicBookAttackBehavior();
break;
case weaponAttack.Sarbacane:
attackBehavior = new SarbacaneAttackBehavior();
break;
case weaponAttack.Axe:
attackBehavior = new AxeAttackBehavior();
break;
}
}

[steel stirrup]

monobehaviors need to exist on a gameobject, so you need to create them with AddComponent

Don't convert your class to a mono, just pass the coroutines to a singleton instead

[half egret]

Alternatively, are you sure you need coroutines? you could use async/await

[steel stirrup]

async in #💻┃code-beginner, you're brave

[half egret]

Gotta start somewhere 😝

At this point he's going to have to make a lot of changes to implement coroutines

[atomic holly]

What is it ?

[half egret]

when he could save a lot of time learning async/await and use that instead if it's just simple delay/waiting

I don't really know of a good tutorial to point to for async/await... But microsoft docs aren't that bad
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/asynchronous-programming/

[steel stirrup]

Fwiw this is my solution to the same problem https://hatebin.com/zfcdzbqnyv

[modest dust]

A few lines of code to pass the IEnumerator and start the coroutine from a MonoBehaviour class?

[half egret]

Just seems messy to me if it's a self-contained class, but fair

[modest dust]

Being messy is one thing, that's a bad design fault

Making it work is another thing

[paper sable]

hey, i have a question about the input system. i was thinking that it wouldnt be very good to keep creating a new instance of the input class in each script i need to use it so i just made one instance in my GameManager class and referenced it from there in a script, but im getting a object reference not set to an instance of an object error when i press start. did i do anything wrong? is this thing that i did with the GameManager even a good thing?

[lavish gate]

when you get that error it just means the code doesnt know what youre trying to reference is, how does the code know which object that script is attached to?

[paper sable]

in my game manager class i have a static GameManager variable called instance which is assigned to the object itself in the start method, and the GameManager class is attached to an object in the scene. when im referencing the input class in my scripts im using GameManager.instance.input.

[half egret]

You should Initialize the singleton in awake not start

[languid spire]

that is called a Singleton, fyi

[half egret]

And then you're likely referencing the singleton before it's been initialized

If you try to reference it in start/onwards when the singleton is initialized in awake, it should avoid those reference errors

[lavish gate]

i forgor about singletons, you guys are probably more equipped to answer his questions than i am

[paper sable]

ohhh alright, i assigned it in awake and now it works properly

thanks for the help guys

[lavish gate]

I have this god awful way of handling turns but i cant really think of a way to handle the turns nor write this code better. any ideas?
https://pastebin.com/ffD9mh74

[languid spire]

!code, use a paste site

[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.

[lavish gate]

Alright

[languid spire]

looks like you need some arrays rather than individual variables

[lavish gate]

probably wiser to share my entire script instead

https://pastebin.com/0v51BzQy

here we are

[atomic yew]

While I was testing my game yesterday, the fps started at 60 and dropped below. While testing my game today, my game, which normally starts at 60 fps, started with 2 fps. Thinking that the reason was due to the project, I opened my old projects and the same problem occurred there too. I wonder what's the problem? What causes this? If you look at the screenshot I sent, everything is on the ceiling in Profiler.

[steel stirrup]

If it's every project, the problem is probably just your PC

check that you're not out of disk space

[slate haven]

    {
        if(other.gameObject.tag == "Elevation")
        {
            rb.AddForce(transform.up * 5f, ForceMode.Impulse);
        }

        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Attractable")
        {
            
            hitCount++;
            if (hitCount >= 3)
            {
                isAlive = false;      
                op.DeactivateGameObject(gameObject.tag, gameObject);
                hitCount = 0;
            }
        }
    }```

I have set this code such that if the object of tag "Attractable"  is thrown to the zombie and it collides with it, zombie gets killed. Also I dont destroy the attractable/throwable item as Player can reuse it.

The problem is if the throwable item is lying on ground as it is, and if zombie walks and collides with it then it gets killed automatically. Please help!

[cinder crag]

can someone help mew ith the new input system , how can i check if the mouse button is Up like canceled ? checking if im pressing works fine , its just the mouse button up idk how to check for that, tried to make bools _isLeft/RightMouseButtonCanceled and then turning it false and true in the respective methods so im not sure what to do

[teal viper]

Well, you'll need to provide some more details. Select a profiler frame and share the hierarchy view data sorted by CPU time, and ideally expanded a bit.

[modest dust]

You should probably handle dealing damage from the thrown item instead. And then, what's stopping you from turning off the damaging behavior if the item falls on the ground / already hits something?

[slate haven]

how do i stop the damaging behaviour? Also if i want to reuse that item i would want it to damage enemies again

[modest dust]

Turn off the collider? Add a boolean?

There are a few ways

[slate haven]

oh

[cosmic dagger]

you can have an isActive variable, or if this is on a separate component, simply disable the component (on the throwable). set it active or enable the component only when the player throws it. what happens when it hits the ground? if you want to reuse it, you'll have to set isActive to false or disable the component . . .

[modest dust]

bool m_canDamage = true;

...
if (hit && m_canDamage)
{
  // Damage whatever you hit
  m_canDamage = false;
}```

[slate haven]

got it

[slate haven]

thanks

[cinder crag]

anyone know how to do this?

[shell herald]

is there a good way to remap values? ideally with curves i can controll outside the script? i have a value that goes from -2.5 to 0 and for the ui i would need it to go to something like 2 to 1

[teal viper]

AnimationCurve's
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationCurve.html

[shell herald]

im currently on that page but i still havent quite figured out how to implement

[languid spire]

InverseLerp value using -2,5 and 0. Lerp the result using 2 and 1

[teal viper]

They're serializable and editable in the inspector. All you need to do in code is sample(Evaluate) it.

[topaz niche]

Hello guys. Maybe someone can recommend tutorial on Youtube about doing inventory like in Minecraft?

[shell herald]

ok, so im guessing on the curve the x achsis value is what i get out and the y axis value is what gets transformed?

[cinder crag]

okay fixed it , used isPressed() for the mouse button down and it works perfectly and for the mouse button up i just used WasRleasedThisFrame()

[teal viper]

X axis is the time of the curve. The value that you input. And the Y is the returned value.

[shell herald]

ok, so if i want to transform -2.5 to 2, i need to put it and -2.5x and 2 y?

[teal viper]

Yes. Though if you just need to map 1 value, I don't see a point of using a curve.

[shell herald]

its a time value that fluctuates between -2.5 and 0

[languid spire]

KISS!

floar t = Mathf.InverseLerp(-2.5f, 0f, value);
float newVal = Mathf.Lerp(2f,1f,t);

[topaz niche]

thx

[teal viper]

They mentioned they want it to be controlled by a curve and outside of the script though.

[languid spire]

I suspect that was somewhat of a red herring

[cosmic dagger]

Even so, they can evaluate the curve and pass in t . . .

[pastel flume]

making a system where the cinemachine camera shakes when the player starts running

right now it works by broadcasting an event when the player starts running and one when the player stops running to display the screenshake
but i'm struggling to get it working well with other features like jumping which i just added

are events the right way to go about this

[wintry quarry]

How would jumping be related?

[steel stirrup]

I could be misunderstanding what you're trying to do, but this seems very overengineered for a simple first person camera

[pastel flume]

the camera shake is kind of an illusion to the footsteps

so when you jump the camera doesn't shake as much

[pastel flume]

😭 maybe
but it's interesting

[steel stirrup]

So, simplest solution, is there any reason why your camera shake (headbob?) can't just check if you're grounded or not?

[pastel flume]

public class CameraShake : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private CinemachineBasicMultiChannelPerlin perlin;
    private Coroutine _currentCoroutine;

    private void Awake() {
        perlin = GetComponent<CinemachineBasicMultiChannelPerlin>();
    }
    private void HandleSprintChanged(bool isSprinting) {
        if (_currentCoroutine != null) {
            StopCoroutine(_currentCoroutine);
        }
        float targetAmplitude = isSprinting ? runAmplitude : walkAmplitude;
        float targetFrequency = isSprinting ? runFrequency : walkFrequency;

        _currentCoroutine = StartCoroutine(LerpPerlinValues(targetAmplitude, targetFrequency));
    }
    
    private void HandleJumpChanged(bool isJumping) {
        if (_currentCoroutine != null) {
            StopCoroutine(_currentCoroutine);
        }
        float targetAmplitude = isJumping ? walkAmplitude : runAmplitude;
        float targetFrequency = isJumping ? walkFrequency : runFrequency;

        _currentCoroutine = StartCoroutine(LerpPerlinValues(targetAmplitude, targetFrequency));
    }
    private IEnumerator LerpPerlinValues(float targetAmplitude, float targetFrequency) {
        float startAmplitude = perlin.AmplitudeGain;
        float startFrequency = perlin.FrequencyGain;
        float elapsedTime = 0f;

        while (elapsedTime < transitionDuration) {
            perlin.AmplitudeGain = Mathf.Lerp(startAmplitude, targetAmplitude, elapsedTime / transitionDuration);
            perlin.FrequencyGain = Mathf.Lerp(startFrequency, targetFrequency, elapsedTime / transitionDuration);
            elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;
            yield return null;
        }

        perlin.AmplitudeGain = targetAmplitude;
        perlin.FrequencyGain = targetFrequency;
    }
}

[pastel flume]

would it make sense to have a public bool of if my character is grounded or not

also how do i check for that
usually it's a raycast from the rigibody to the floor in an update frame but that sounds like a performance cost

[steel stirrup]

raycasts are practically free

and you're going to need it for a lot of different things in all likelihood, so yes I'd make it public and if you want to cover all your bases just set it up as a property that shoots on an on change event

Also, totally up to your personal taste, but in general you don't use perlin noise for this, you use a sine curve to emulate how the head naturally moves

[pastel flume]

how do you implement that

i'm currently just working with what cinemachine provided

the preset handheld shake noise

[steel stirrup]

Is there a specific reason you're using cinemachine? Or is it just a learning project

[pastel flume]

probably skill issues lol

i'm new to unity

[steel stirrup]

Don't use cinemachine to start with

Learn to do things with the basic camera first, cinemachine is its own entire ecosystem

Nothing wrong with it, but you're basically diving straight into the deep end, and you really do not need it for a first person view

[pastel flume]

alr ty!

[steel stirrup]

https://hatebin.com/tqnrnfrvik Here's a very simple headbob script, just replace playermovement with yours

Take a shot at figuring out how to do the grounded check and ask if you have any questions

[pastel flume]

currently i had put the ground check in a collsion check
but i can just toss it in update?

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision other)
    {
        if (IsGrounded())
        {
            OnJumpChanged?.Invoke(true);
        }
    }

    public bool IsGrounded()
    {
        return (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, _rayLength));
    }

[pastel flume]

ty this code looks way more sane and readable

[steel stirrup]

Use a public IsGrounded bool and just update it each frame in update

Use raycasts instead of collisions

Try to use a layermask too, check the docs if you haven't tried that before

[muted narwhal]

Bump x2

[steel stirrup]

that headbob script in use and the hierarchy I use for fps cameras in case thats helpful

[void thicket]

You just need to turn on "control child size" on the parent for size fitter to work, and shouldn’t have size fitter on child

Anyhow this doesn’t look like code problem

#📲┃ui-ux

[muted narwhal]

Thank ya!

[topaz mortar]

is Application.wantsToQuit a good way to save data to the server before the player exits the game?

[void thicket]

Depends
For example you don’t have good quitting events on mobile platforms

[neat bay]

does anybody know why this happens to my scene when baking lighting an dturning on "contribute to global illumination" on my GameObject?

for reference this is what it looks like without baked lighting