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[vital tangle]

here is a debug

i dont know how to parse it then

[rich adder]

so use kinematic.
immobilize gravity is a weird term

[vital tangle]

if its not a JObject

[steel stirrup]

he just forgot a comma

immobilize the player, gravity included

[rich adder]

idk immobilize gravity I assumed they just wanted to "pause gravity"

[steel stirrup]

set rb.isKinematic = true

[pallid nymph]

can't you just use JToken? if not, you technically would need to handle each subtype of JToken separately

[vital tangle]

i tried jtoken as well

it also failed

sadly

[rich adder]

yeah now that i re-read it it makes sense

[pallid nymph]

it can't fail

because that's the type of the objects

[vital tangle]

wait let me show proof

[pallid nymph]

I mean, if it fails, it fails in a different way

[steel stirrup]

save rb.velocity to a variable and set the rb's velocity to 0. When you want to continue moving, set the rb.iskinematic true and then use rb.addforce(cached velocity, forcemode.velocitychange)

[vital tangle]

maybe

[pallid nymph]

🙂

[steel stirrup]

Are you trying to parse a json?

[vital tangle]

yep

[steel stirrup]

Why are you manually dealing with jobjects and all that?

[vital tangle]

i am trying make a text highlighter

like the keys look orange

and the strings look green

[steel stirrup]

As in you're making a json editor?

[vital tangle]

the int looks blue

[vital tangle]

yep

i made everything work

aside from the JArray

dont know how to parse them

[pallid nymph]

whatever you do for "everything else" do it for each element of the JArray recursively

[steel stirrup]

Is this just an academic project?

[vital tangle]

just a fun stuff

i am still 18

no university yet

[steel stirrup]

alright, is there some reason you want to edit a json in this way?

It's kind of going about things completely backwards

[vital tangle]

not edit

but just showcase

[steel stirrup]

Yes even then

It's a terrible format for that

[vital tangle]

🥲

[steel stirrup]

What I mean to say is, why are you showing a user the json at all, instead of the actual object it describes?

JSON is a storage format. It's convenient because it's plain text, but it's not particularly user friendly

It also tends to sprawl quite a bit, especially with collections, and can get borderline incomprehensible if it needs to support references

[vital tangle]

yea same troubles here

[steel stirrup]

Yeah so skip the json

just show the object

[vital tangle]

even if i want to show the objects
I still need to parse the JArray

i dont know how to do that

[rich adder]

did this not work btw
#💻┃code-beginner message

[vital tangle]

it also works

[steel stirrup]

Why? You can simply deserialize your json to the object and work on your collections there

[vital tangle]

not using a specific serialized class here

just random json files

[steel stirrup]

Then you're basically just building a json viewer, which is totally valid but a tad pointless. In that case I would honestly say just go look up the regex you need, I'm sure it's floating around

[vital tangle]

i also tried to resort to regex

[pallid nymph]

and you had 2 problems 😛

[vital tangle]

but it was too complicated to use
so i tried this method

[fathom bramble]

How is this possible? why is a non-prefab enemy able to accept the players transform but the prefab version of the same enemy calling it a type mismatch? It's the same exact script???

[vital tangle]

🤣

[steel stirrup]

I didn't even know there was a type mismatch message

[short hazel]

"the plural of regex is regrets"
More seriously, parsing abstract JSON and going through all of its elements is easily doable with type checks, and a recursive method

The root of a JSON file will always be an object { } or an array [ ]. Go through all of its elements. If one of the elements is itself an array or object, call the method recursively on the child element

[vital tangle]

in my case its an array

not like the root
but i cant parse an array

[short hazel]

void ParseArray(JArray array)
{
    // however you list the elements are here...
    foreach (var element in something)
    {
        if (element is JArray arr)
          ParseArray(arr);
        
        // implementation for other data types go here...
    }
}

Do one for a JObject where it lists the properties recursively and you're done

[vital tangle]

what does a JArray contains normally
isnt it JObject {}

[short hazel]

The docs will tell you what's available to get on that type

There most likely is the inner elements collection yes

[vital tangle]

its kind of like not stated cuz i got type as JValue which was an integer

how can an array contain and integer directly without any JObject

[short hazel]

[ 42 ] <- like this

JArray contains JObject which is really an int

That's why you need to type-check

[vital tangle]

ohhhhhhh

and i got 3 objects type from JObject type as well

when i ran a loop

like 92 int and 3 objects

it really goes over my head like how does it work?

[short hazel]

You should post the original JSON payload, but an int and 3 objects would correspond to something like

[
  42,
  { /* ... */ },
  { /* ... */ }
]

[vital tangle]

my json looks something like this

  "Cages": {
    "Array": [
      {
        "Dogs": 2,
        "Cats": 4
      },

      {
        "Dogs": 6,
        "Cats": 1
      }
    ]
  }  
}```

just a simplified one

[short hazel]

Yeah, so first things first, the root element is not an array, it's an object. With one property, "Cages", which is itself an object, which contains an "Array" property, which is an array that contains two objects

So yes you definitely need a recursive algorithm to scan all of that

[vital tangle]

isnt the cages key in the JObject?

and the rest of the JArray is the value of that key?

[short hazel]

In the root one. There are 4 JObjects in this JSON string

[vital tangle]

ok so keys are like objects

[short hazel]

No, { } is an object

[vital tangle]

ohhhh

now it makes sense

the array contains 2 objects inside which there are simple keyvaluepair<string, object?>

[pallid nymph]

you need something like

Parse(Jtoken jt) {
  // handle boring cases
  if (jt is JArray jarr) {
    // foreach subelement call Parse(array[i])
  }
  if (js is JObject jobj) {
    // go over each key value pair and call Parse(value)
  }
}

[sleek marten]

I've got this script that loads a new scene when a button is pressed

// That scene will be loaded when prompted to

[SerializeField] Object scene;

  public void LoadScene()
  {
    SceneManager.LoadScene(scene.name);
  }
}```
It WAS working in the build but now it's not loading the scene at all. It DOES load the scene while in the editor. Does anyone have any idea why making the build could stop the scene from changing?

[vital tangle]

yea i got it

let me try if it works

[copper matrix]

why is it wrong

[pallid nymph]

Scenes are annoying, I doubt this has ever worked with that code in build... If it's an addressable scene, I think there's a build-in something that you can drag a scene to and it works, but if it's a standard scene in the list of scenes... you'll need some custom script that allows you to drag a scene and stores the name/index/something to load it

[raw token]

What does it say?

[vital tangle]

yoooo
it worked

[sleek marten]

It's been working fine ever since I made it

[vital tangle]

thanks for the help your the best

[sleek marten]

all of a sudden it just doesn't

[eternal needle]

Those comments look suspiciously AI like. But if you want to drag in the scene as an asset, just use SceneAsset wrapped in #if unity editor

[pallid nymph]

In the editor - sure. In builds - I find it unlikely, because it's always been a problem... unless it's been resolved in newer Unity versions

[sleek marten]

I made those comments 😔

[pallid nymph]

how does it not? what's the error?

[raw token]

huh... Is that the same message when you hover over the red squigglies in your IDE?

[eternal needle]

Oops forgot to say the 2nd half of this,
Then in onvalidate write that scene asset name to a string

[sleek marten]

there is no error that I'm aware of

[eternal needle]

I doubt what you're doing would work considering SceneAsset is unity editor only. So dont think you can just use object to get around that

[sleek marten]

I've made a few builds and never had an issue

I must have done something then

something dumb

but what?

[eternal needle]

Are you using version control? could just see what changed directly
Or start debugging in your build

[copper matrix]

doesnt have access because the security level sth like that

[sleek marten]

I did a debug countdown before it tries to load the scene and that works fine

it's just that single line that isn't running

[sleek marten]

could be that since I'm not on VC

[rich adder]

you made a custom SceneManager class

[copper matrix]

what :(

[rich adder]

right click on SceneManager and do View Definition

does it take you to the Unity Scene Manager

[polar acorn]

Did you make a class named SceneManager

[eternal needle]

I don't know what a debug countdown is. I meant debug specifically like the name. Because that's all you're passing into the method anyways.
Also you should be using version control but it's not like this is related to your issue suddenly happening

[sleek marten]

let me rephrase

I'm doing a countdown as a way to debug

[copper matrix]

this?

[sleek marten]

like this

[copper matrix]

idk

[rich adder]

yup. Do you see this is wrong?

[copper matrix]

nope :(

[rich adder]

You should not name class name something already taken by unity

the Compiler has no clue which one you want to use unles you specify its Namespace
eg
UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager

[eternal needle]

well, dont. use actual debugging techniques and print out the name. All i see is a timer thats completely unrelated to the issue

[raw token]

Why doesn't it complain about the ambiguity, in this case? Does it just default to the current namespace, and only whine if you import multiple namespaces with conflicting definitions?

[polar acorn]

Don't make classes with the same name as Unity classes

[rich adder]

iirc it looks for the one already in the current namespace this class is in

[polar acorn]

It's ambiguous if both are in imported namespaces. If there's something in this namespace, it'll be automatically chosen when there's multiples

[rich adder]

much better explanation lol ^

[polar acorn]

If they're both external, they're the same "priority" and it throws the ambiguous reference exception

[raw token]

Oh alright - I suppose that makes some sense. But good to know in any scenario. Thanks 🙃

[sleek marten]

the timer was to see if the script was running at all

which it is

so I narrowed down the problem to the scene loading specificially

[eternal needle]

you could narrow down the problem even further if you just debug the name like i suggested

[sleek marten]

I'm doing that next

[eternal needle]

and debugging the name, in the same method as youve shown above would also told you the code is running

[sleek marten]

hey, well, all roads and what not

[hushed hinge]

#1265474997183320204 message am i doing it right?

[rich adder]

doing what right ?

can you give me a TLDR cause thread is too much commitment 😛

[hushed hinge]

#1265474997183320204 message it start here from the conversation

[rich adder]

so you're doing a saving system or what?

[hushed hinge]

well i am havinga problem with something, and now it comes to this whole saving thing

[rich adder]

TLDR ideally you should explain in a few words.
What is happening vs what you expect

[eternal needle]

yea honestly i cant even find what the issue is myself and i dont really wanna read through a whole thread (even from that link) to try understanding from just messages between you and someone else

[hushed hinge]

what's tldr?

well i am having problem with the muon count firt, but then we jump over to this whole saving system... but i just wanna fix the muon text changing first that like when you rescue a muon from a scene one time, it would trigger that a number chanes up on the ui text in the other scene

[summer stump]

Too long didn't read
They are asking for a synopsis or summary to shorten the necessary reading

[hushed hinge]

https://gdl.space/hanutixoya.cs and i changed "0" on _allMons to "15" so i can finally show how many muons there are instead of counting how many muons there are from different scenes...

[steel stirrup]

Why aren't you just adding a script to the Muons that has void OnEnable() => allMuons++; and void OnDisable() => allMuons--;

[hushed hinge]

https://gdl.space/tajixajijo.cs the muons already have hteir own script

[teal viper]

No one knows what "muons" are. Please use more general terms instead of your game specific vocabulary.

[summer stump]

That doesn't really address what they said at all
You could implement their idea to that script

[rich adder]

if they have their own script just search the component directly

[hushed hinge]

oh, well "muons" are like the gameobjects the player touch to rescue them from a game scene

[polar acorn]

Are you just trying to maintain a count of some kind of object?

Is that all that's necessary?

[steel stirrup]

A search is pretty inefficient and would need to be repeated everytime the number changes

[polar acorn]

Or is there more to it

[teal viper]

Then call them gameObjects/ entities or whatever.

[steel stirrup]

just increment an int on creation and destruction

[rich adder]

Im talking about caching the original list, then using events to add/remove them from said list

[summer stump]

Nah, they would not have to repeat it. Only once on scene start. They decrement in OnCollisionEnter

[rich adder]

public List<MuonScript> muons
mouns = FindObjectsOfType<MuonScript>();

[teal viper]

"rescue them from a scene" is also your game specific thing. We don't know what "rescuing" implies? Is it just removing them from the scene? Or is there something more to it?

[steel stirrup]

So long as all are created in awake and no new ones are added yeah, but that's a pretty rigid solution

[hushed hinge]

when the player touches the muon gameobject, it does the rescue animation and then the happy animation and then disappear, like triggering them

[steel stirrup]

simply adding/removing to a collection adn using the built in .Count is probably the most flexible

[hushed hinge]

and even if the muons would have that, allMuons would have ared underline because allMuons text only apply in the MuonCounter

[polar acorn]

Okay, and you need a count of how many are in the current scene?

[rich adder]

no one is saying otherwise..

[teal viper]

Describe your issue in a way that everyone can understand without playing your game and you'll see more people try to help you happily.

[ionic zephyr]

How can I controll that if I click on one slot, the background highlights but the other slots background stays normal?

[ionic zephyr]

Do I have to have a reference to ALL the slots?

[rich adder]

other slots? which slots

are you assuming we know what your specific setup is :?

[polar acorn]

Give each slot a function that detects when it's clicked on. When that runs, change the background

[hushed hinge]

here are the ui text and the entities, they are in the level select scene while all the entities are in other different scenes where you play is, when you touch an entity (like on trigger) that would change the number up on the ui text in the level select

[ionic zephyr]

and what about when it is not clicked anymore?

[summer stump]

This is a rigidly designed level. They are all placed by hand before runtime
But yeah, no one is saying your idea was bad or wrong...

[steel stirrup]

Usually it's easiest to just have the collection since you'll want to update them at some point anyway most likely, but if you really don't want that then you can have each slot register a listener to a static event that passes the currently selected slot Then each slot would compare itself to the currently selected and set its visual accordingly

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, you have a UI element that shows how many of these things are in the scene, and how many you've collected?

[hushed hinge]

yeah, and it is currently on "0"

[polar acorn]

What do you mean by "not clicked on any more", like when you release the mouse button?

[ionic zephyr]

what collection?

[steel stirrup]

A collection of all possible slots

[polar acorn]

Are all of these objects in the scene at the start? Or are they spawned in at runtime?

[steel stirrup]

You can either have a central controller that has references to all slots and updates them on changing the selected slot, or use an event and have each slot register itself to that for an update, same end result just a slightly different flow

[ionic zephyr]

no, I mean more like when I click a slot, it highlights but when I press another, the one that was highlighted turns normal and the new one highlights

[hushed hinge]

they are not in the scene, the entities are in different scenes, not in the level select scene

[polar acorn]

So, you're going to want a sort of manager object, which keeps a reference to the currently selected one. Whenever you click on any of them, tell the Manager object. It will deselect the currently selected one (if it exists) and then select the new one

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, so it is better to have a manager then

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, in this level select scene, where do you get the information about how many objects there are?

And how many are left?

[hushed hinge]

i choose the number 15 there because that's how much are the amount together from the different scenes, since each scenes have 3 entities, and when you touch one, it would trigger a number going up in the ui text in the level select scene

[ionic zephyr]

And what if I want the slot to be clicked to display a piece of information when it is clicked, should I use a manager or a complementary component to my slot prefab?

[rich adder]

dont use magic numbers..

[hushed hinge]

what?

[rich adder]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)

A unique value with unexplained meaning or multiple occurrences which could (preferably) be replaced with a named constant

[polar acorn]

But if there aren't any instances of the object in the scene, how are you going to "touch" one to increase the count?

[polar acorn]

Each slot can have its own function that runs when its selected. The manager just calls that function

[steel stirrup]

Think about it this way, let's say you're trying to show an inventory with individual slots that can each have something in it. You're going to have an Inventory object that contains Slot objects and each Slot object may or may not contain an IItem

[hushed hinge]

you can't touch the objects in the level select scene because they aren't there while the ui text are there, but you can touch the obejcts when you select a stage and play there while playing as a character to touch an object so that would trigger a number up in the ui text in the level select scene

[polar acorn]

Okay, and how are you passing data between scenes?

[hushed hinge]

I don't know, that is what I'm asking for on how I can do that so the number can be increased between the scenes

[steel stirrup]

In those classes you'll stick all your backend logic concerning how your inventory system works. Then, you'll create your UI hierarchy and create a Manager monobehavior that contains the prefab + necessary references and positioning information and a slot monobehavior that contains all logic needed to display a single slot

[summer stump]

So remember how we discussed DontDestroyOnLoad months ago multiple times?

[polar acorn]

Do you have any sort of save data system? Does it need to actually be saved between sessions, or just between scenes in the same game session?

[hushed hinge]

yes, but the number counting it is not an object

[summer stump]

Yes it can be
It is ON an object of course

[steel stirrup]

Your UIManager should then take as input your InventoryManager and create a UISlot object for each slot in that manager, and then pass that UISlot a slot which it will render

[ionic zephyr]

so I should keep the display logic in my inventiry object

[hushed hinge]

even if i did, it wouldn't work because root objects

[steel stirrup]

No the exact opposite

[summer stump]

Yes it could

[steel stirrup]

Separate UI and game logic entirely

Nothing about an inventory is realtime, it should go in a regular C# class that doesn't inherit monobehavior

[ionic zephyr]

Oh, I think I didnt mention

[steel stirrup]

only the UI controllers need to be monos

[polar acorn]

It sounds like what you want is a DDOL Singleton that has something like "TotalMuonsPerLevel" and "CurrentMuonsPerLevel" as dictionaries. In your UI scene, you read from that singleton to get the values for each level.

If you need to save the data, you can just serialize that object to disk using JSONUtility, and reload it when you start the game

https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/

[ionic zephyr]

My architecture is all about having an ABSTRACT InventoryManager which is a list that stores objects, A CentralInventoryUI in which I separate my objects into slots of prefixed capacity. Then that distribution is passed to all of the different inventory UIs (The main one, the one in the crafting station...)

[steel stirrup]

Ok that doesn't change anything though

also by definition your inventory cannot be abstract since you actually seem to plan on, you know, having an inventory

[ionic zephyr]

abstract in terms of that this list isnt shown on screen but obviously exists, the screen representation is carried out by the different Inventory Uis

[rich adder]

the DDOL gameobject needs to the Root like it says

[summer stump]

Yeah, you need to make changes of course
That doesn't mean it won't work....
Put the object counting the muons on a root object

[steel stirrup]

that's not abstract, that's just C#

abstract has a very specific meaning

[ionic zephyr]

yeah sorry

[steel stirrup]

You're actually talking about what I was saying before

[polar acorn]

So put it on a root object

[steel stirrup]

99% of your code should NOT be in a monobehavior

[polar acorn]

Why is it on a child object in the first place?

[steel stirrup]

so yes, your inventory should be a regular boring object and it will have a collection of items, then you'll pass your inventory to a InventoryUIController mono etc

[hushed hinge]

the script is on a ui text that is in canvas

[polar acorn]

Eh, that's a bit high. I'd say an average Unity project will have about half their code in non-mono. Monobehaviours are pretty powerful, you gain a lot by using them. I don't think they should be avoided

[polar acorn]

Then put it somewhere else

[steel stirrup]

It depends massively on genre of course

In something like an FPS or a physics game probably the majority of code is going to be in monos

[rich adder]

then its not Root. Root means its the top parent object

[steel stirrup]

The closer you get to a spreadsheet/strategy game the more you want to just use Unity for UI and little else

Also, anecdotally, the fewer monos you have the less of a pita save/loads become down the line

[cinder crag]

so i have my turrets working but the bullets are weird like they arent rotating with the tip of the bullet towards the enemy or and they are in the same position , im a bit confused

[rich adder]

where do you set the rotation
Quaternion.identity means no rotation

[steel stirrup]

you need to show us the SetTarget function

[summer stump]

Here's the thing you seem to be forgetting.... you can move it.....

[cinder crag]

im kinda not setting the rotation

[steel stirrup]

you probably want your bullet to inherit the rotation fo the gun

[rich adder]

then that explains why its not rotating

so your question is self answered lol

[steel stirrup]

think about it this way, the bullet should be going forward out of the barrel of the gun, which is hopefully also pointing forward

[rich adder]

pass the firePoint.rotation on instantiate

[cinder crag]

okay the firingpoint had the red arrow pointing in the wrong direction

fixed it

[hushed hinge]

i haven't forgotten, but even if i remove the ui text away from the canvas, the ui text would jsut disappear from there

[summer stump]

The ui text and the manager counting muons can be on..... different objects
So no, you do not need to move the ui text

[hushed hinge]

never heard of JSONUtility before

[polar acorn]

Don't remove the UI text

Why are you assuming the text needs to be the Singleton

[cold belfry]

Hey does anyone know how to adjust the rotation offset of the rotation constraint GameObject Component? I've been searching the internet for like an hour and I can't find any documentation on this.

[steel stirrup]

If you're setting rotation by script anyway, why not just clamp?

[steel stirrup]

this?

[rich adder]

they're talking about the component

in the inspector

[cold belfry]

Let me try that

[rich adder]

did you see there is settings

[cold belfry]

yes im aware, im trying to dynamically adjust the offset

[rich adder]

do you mean with code?

at that point why even use the rotation Constraint if you can just do it via .rotation

[cold belfry]

yes, hyunahri's snippet helped a lot tho

bless you

[steel stirrup]

anyway @cold belfry if your IDE is setup right you should be able to just start typing the name and have it pop up

[cold belfry]

it works now

[steel stirrup]

ie

[cold belfry]

yeah that's strange i don't know why it didn't autofill for me

[rich adder]

when in doubt always look at the manual
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animations.RotationConstraint.html

[rich adder]

make sure your !ide is configured

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[cold belfry]

either way thanks a lot yall 😄

[rich adder]

make sure your ide is configured 😛

[cold belfry]

i will

[steel stirrup]

and you probably already know this, but you can almost always get all the available methods and their params & overloads by just typing '.'

[rich adder]

*if your ide is configured

[hushed hinge]

i am working on trying to make that the script can have hte uitext attached to it

[rich adder]

backticks not single quote

its above tilde key

[steel stirrup]

I'm well aware of how to do code blocks

[hushed hinge]

ok, now i have done that

[steel stirrup]

colorful

[rich adder]

is that why you wrote it with single quote instead of the code formating

[steel stirrup]

yes

it's a period, not code lol

[rich adder]

well . makes more sense, they might confuse the ' to be used

technically an Operator not a period

[steel stirrup]

[rich adder]

didnt we go over saving last time?

[steel stirrup]

It's an access identifier

not an operator

[rich adder]

access identifier ?

never heard of it

[hushed hinge]

i meant putting the script on a root object while attaching the ui text to it

[steel stirrup]

|, &, ?? are operators

. is just for access

[hushed hinge]

also..

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/member-access-operators

operator

[steel stirrup]

It's a built in utility for parsing JSON files

[rich adder]

These operators include the dot operator

[cold belfry]

sorry don't mean to bother you again but i checked and my IDE is set up, yet i don't have the ability to see available params and overloads

[eternal needle]

It's called the dot operator
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/member-access-operators

[summer stump]

Did you google it. When you haven't heard of something, take the time to research it on your own

[rich adder]

hmm can you screenshot your IDE really quick

[cold belfry]

sure

[steel stirrup]

which IDE?

[cold belfry]

im using vscode

[rich adder]

you followed all the steps

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[rich adder]

make sure you get rid of the older Visual Studio Code Editor package too

[cold belfry]

yes i followed all the steps

[cold belfry]

ah okk i will try that

[rich adder]

regen project files after with vscode closed.
open script again in unity

[summer stump]

The package. In unity
Just to be clear

[rich adder]

check Output window for any errors

yes from Package Manager

[cold belfry]

alright hold on ill try regening project files

[hushed hinge]

https://gdl.space/exenomivus.cs i do have this

[polar acorn]

Well stop trying to do that.

The UI text and the thing that keeps track of the numbers should be different objects

[hushed hinge]

i just did

[rich adder]

just realized 2023/6 didnt even include the Visual Studio Code editor package anymore.. nice.

[hushed hinge]

#💻┃code-beginner message i just did here

[polar acorn]

Okay, now you can have your dictionaries like I suggested earlier and have the UI read from it.

[hushed hinge]

like this?

[polar acorn]

I guess? What is the string

And int

[rich adder]

this local dictionary is gonna do what exactly?

[hushed hinge]

I don't know... i just searched up what dictionary is

[rich adder]

and what is it?

by now you know the differences between local variables and member fields right?

[hushed hinge]

yeah

[rich adder]

okay because you can only use that dictionary in awake right so idk what ur intentions is

[summer stump]

So then you understand why declaring it in Awake is wrong?

[cold belfry]

So I regened my project files and tried what you said here, this is what i ended up with

im on unity 2022

[rich adder]

well I said to remove it, you did not

[summer stump]

You have to remove that package as said

[cold belfry]

i can't remove it though

[summer stump]

Remove the Engineering package first

[rich adder]

its locked to Engineering thats why

[cold belfry]

ah ok

[teal viper]

If you encounter a new concept in programming, do a proper research and read the docs instead of copying the first code that you find.

[hushed hinge]

is it like for example public string object { get; set; }?

[rich adder]

no thats a property.. completely unrelated to dictionary or declaring one

[frosty hound]

Use a thread, since your issues take days to fix.

[hushed hinge]

there, a thread

[polar acorn]

So now that you know what one is, you can implement this
#💻┃code-beginner message

[hushed hinge]

like this?

[cold belfry]

alright i removed my visual studio code editor package as well as engineering, i now have solely visual studio editor package installed, additionally i regened my project files. I am still unable to see available params etc

[rich adder]

show the output window from VSCode

check for any errors for .NET SDK

[cold belfry]

the output is somewhat large should i post it in here?

[rich adder]

does it say anything about .net sdk missing?

or dotnet command not found

[cold belfry]

let me see

[cold belfry]

something akin to this yes
2024-07-24 16:43:55.286 [warning] Via 'product.json#extensionEnabledApiProposals' extension 'ms-dotnettools.dotnet-interactive-vscode' wants API proposal 'languageConfigurationAutoClosingPairs' but that proposal DOES NOT EXIST. Likely, the proposal has been finalized (check 'vscode.d.ts') or was abandoned.

[rich adder]

this is a warning this might not be it. anything else?
send the log here https://gdl.space

[cold belfry]

Wait im incredibly stupid, it's working now, sorry for the confusion

[cold belfry]

Thank you for your help though you are genuinely a goat

[summer stump]

What? No....

[copper orbit]

what is the point of the singleton here and the Instance= this. Will this ensure that there is just one instance of AIManager?

[hushed hinge]

i am currently talking in the thread right now

[rich adder]

no it just assigns the current instance from this instance, to that static field
also you dont want to have a public set

you should however deal with also a edge case where theremight be two AIManager scripts in one scene

https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons

good example here ^

[hushed hinge]

right here

[copper orbit]

what would be a possible use case of assigning current instance to a static field?

[rich adder]

easy access to the current instance

AIManager.Instance.Spawn() for example

the difference here is that you dont make everything like methods and field in the class static. Doing that would cause other issues, in unity specifically you wouldnt be able to assign any static field through inspector

[graceful walrus]

I need to run some functions to initialize some data before the game starts because many scripts will rely on this data being initialized. How can I do this without worrying about keeping references to each script that requires such data?

[rich adder]

depends what it is, one way is store it in a scriptable object and just have that inside whatever class you need

[pallid nymph]

*some whisper from the distance*: Just don't do DDOL singletons, they'll make you really sad!

[rich adder]

I mean..Singleton is valid too but I think they said they want to avoid reference ? idk

[hushed hinge]

i am still having problem with the script

[ionic zephyr]

If i want to display the information of a slot should I have a Display component on the Slot that passes to a Manager that displays it?

should it be an EventTrigger?

[graceful walrus]

Are scriptable objects singletons? As in, they run just one and only one instance of them exists?

[rich adder]

meaning the instance stays the same across

closer to a static variable

if you change 1 scriptable object value it changes for all of the ones that have that SO

so its the same instance yea

[steep rose]

well we would need to see some code

we cant really help you without seeing anything 😅

well use this !code format and you will be fine

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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📃 Inline Code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[rich adder]

You can just state your issue there are more people here lol its not a turn based help channel

[steep rose]

this is the absolute truth

which script handles the item?

[rich adder]

I read it and still dont understand the issue

[steep rose]

lets start with that one

[rich adder]

can you give me a quick , whats supposed to happen vs what is happening instead

[steep rose]

the item is supposed to be filling an item paremeter in the inspector

its not

thats what i saw

[rich adder]

through code?

[steep rose]

yup

[rich adder]

so what happens otherwise

alr send the code as links from sites linked above

[steep rose]

we would need to see the specific code that is supposed to do so

[rich adder]

send relevant scripts lol

if you have so many scripts to handle a specific thing you might have a design issue to begin with..

is it throwing an error ? start with the stacktrace

ok so first one to start is InventoryUIManager

UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning is a custom message though ? did you write this script or get it from somewhere ?

I would avoid "AI" as you're learning because it can mislead you and also not teach well what you're writing

anyway send the script via link something like https://gdl.space

where is DropItem called

InventorySlotButton ?

send that

[steep rose]

im looking more towards slot.SetItem(item, itemPrefab);, they said the item slot is not filled up so they cant really drop nothing

well i guess i just found the script i was looking for

[rich adder]

where is SetItem called

[steep rose]

lol

is it clearing the item? i see a clear item script

[rich adder]

SetItem is probably passing a null somehow

[molten orbit]

In my InventorySlot script (I think)

[steep rose]

give it, please

[rich adder]

oh right I see

so you have a InitializeInventorySlots with null

[steep rose]

wait where do you see that

which script

[rich adder]

InventoryUIManager

are you destroying the item gameobject ?

this might be a reference issue where you're destroying the item

im talking about the item though

is that ClickableItem

what is item

yes but gameobject wise, is it something you do destroy or something

when do you destroy it ?

no Im just asking if you're destoying the gameobject before Drop

cause I see it says missing in your screenshot

I can't read on white background sorry

also screenshots 😵‍💫

I understand the intention but its important to know if you are destroying it somehow before hitting DropItem because you wouldnt be able to drop a null (destroyed) object

transform.Find("Border")?
also don't use?. on unity components

doesnt work

look at the inspector since the field is public

before you hit drop item, check if the item is in the field of inspector

visually looking at it

start narrowing down issues

so when you pick up item it says Missing ?

under Item ?

what about the slots

InventorySlotButton slotButton = slotObj.GetComponent<InventorySlotButton>();

[steep rose]

where is ClearItem() called, sorry i was away for a bit

[rich adder]

thats inDropItem

which is After the error/warning but only runs if item is not null

[steep rose]

ah

nevermind then

[rich adder]

no. the List

that you initialize

screenshot that during playmode when you said it shows "missing"

yes

want to see if you already missing all of the newItems there

make sure to uncollapse the list elements

on InventoryUIManager the List of Slots

wait its private

nvm

put [SerializeField] private List<InventorySlotButton> slots = new List<InventorySlotButton>();

line 13, on inventoryUImanager

[steep rose]

it basically makes the list visible

without being public

[rich adder]

yes seems like the slots are initialized correct but the item is not

then passing null and causes the warning

the code is a bit confusing at first glance

yeah show the list during playmode

[steep rose]

i know this is vague but do you know where you set item to null or delete it?

i cant think of anything else

that would cause this

the inspector

[rich adder]

no mate. this is not a list, these are gameobject

[steep rose]

in playmode

[rich adder]

the List is the thing that says List in the code

oh right they are components and not a poco

ok my mistake

they will not show the nested fields

[steep rose]

[rich adder]

so each one of those has missing as item

or is it just 1?

does this run ?
Debug.Log($"SetItem called. New item: {item?.name}, New itemPrefab: {itemPrefab?.name}");
what does result say

[steep rose]

an item can fill up one of those slots

that shouldnt be a problem

unless unity wanted to be a dingus today 😂

[rich adder]

its already in your script lol

im asking what its printing

yes If i were you Id start from scratch

and not touch ai

at all

following a guide maybe but you have to understand your own code to debug it

[steep rose]

is it even getting a slot to put something in?

or no

[rich adder]

knowing what Debug.Log($"SetItem called. New item: {item?.name}, New itemPrefab: {itemPrefab?.name}"); prints
should shine some light on what it is exactly being SetItem with

(missing) usually implies the gameobject was destroyed

wdym by "Destroy" messages

is that one the one that works?

or the one "missing"

you can put this

void OnDestroy(){
Debug.Log($"{name} was destroyed", this);
}```
inside `Item` script

but its printing the correct name right

because you're grabbing that from item

{item?.name},

it would throw null otherwise

having to fill manually is not "function correctly" lol

you're covering up the main issue which is why item goes missing

well yes because its passing the null check..

if (slot.item != null) // Ensure there's an item to drop

You put this warning here
Debug.LogWarning("No item to drop.");

if its not found

so finding out why is going null

check if it printed anywhere

[rare valve]

sorry for interrupting your conversation, but can someone help me with this problem? I don't see how the game object is both active and inactive

[rich adder]

what about the parent object?

well there you go..thats why its missing

[rare valve]

hm i'll check rq

[rich adder]

the power of debugging ⚔️

which script does it btw

either I'm blind or you never sent it

no i mean which scripts destroys it lol

[rare valve]

the parent is active too

[rich adder]

ahh so you did never sent it. Good to know I'm not going blind

remember reference types are pointing all to the same object

so if you remove it from the scene, its gone everywhere else

why destroy it if you're gonna use again to drop it or whatever, easier to just hide it. aka Inactive

Debug.Logs or logs in general can be very useful if know how to use them 😈

yes tbh should've been your first thing you learned in unity lol

debugger is next , you will be on some 5D galaxy brain

[rich adder]

is the animator itself active ?

thats od

[rare valve]

how do i check that?

[rich adder]

is the Checkmark on ?
but it probably has a specific warning on disabled component

[rare valve]

yeah its checked

[rich adder]

can you show the complete console when that message prints

no crop preferably i mean

[rare valve]

theres 2 errors but they're from an unused script

[rich adder]

if its unused why would it error?

[rare valve]

i have no clue
its not even connected to anything in that scene

[rich adder]

alr share the screenshot with all logs

no crops

including the sides

[rare valve]

oh okay one second

wdym the sides?

[rich adder]

edge to edge no crop

[rich adder]

is this object child of something

[rare valve]

which one

[rich adder]

the one that calls Animator

i feel like one of the parent is inactive when this is called

[rare valve]

this is the whole tree for that one

enemy has the script, sprite has the animation

[rich adder]

oh

what is GoblinEnemy child of

wut

[rare valve]

root

[rich adder]

so it has no parent ?

[rare valve]

yes

[rich adder]

something obvious I'm not seeing lol

[rich adder]

btw when do you call that method

[rare valve]

its a little complicated, but first update runs in something else, then if a key is pressed the player moves and it calls the tick, then in the enemy script when it recieves that it tries to move towards the player

[rich adder]

sounds..complicated..you mean you have custom tick movement?

[rare valve]

yeah its turn based

[rich adder]

oh okay. Not sure it would matter unles you're calling it on the wrong component which doesnt seem you are..

maybe step through code with debugger and see whats happening when that line is hit

https://unity.com/how-to/debugging-with-microsoft-visual-studio-2022
https://unity.com/how-to/debugging-with-microsoft-visual-studio-code

[hushed hinge]

https://gdl.space/ujehumiwox.cpp is there anyways to save the data from the uitext from going back to 0? when you exit the game and play agian?

[summer stump]

Yes, using JSON or Binary files. JSONUtility was mentioned earlier, have you researched it yet?

[hushed hinge]

but don't i already have the load and save code there?

[rich adder]

where is GameData stored

[summer stump]

Ok, I see you went with PlayerPrefs.
Where do you call LoadData?

[hushed hinge]

https://gdl.space/uwukohiwis.cs

[rich adder]

the one you pass in the saving /load method

the instance, not the class definition

[summer stump]

Honestly, if you just go back through those MASSIVE threads, you've been told everything you need. You just need to take more time reading them and actually thinking about it
You are trying to go too fast which makes you ignore things

[hushed hinge]

https://gdl.space/lebefeluvu.cs this one

[rich adder]

this aint even it

go back n read the threads, because the load and save is the same across..

just apply it to different data..

[summer stump]

Do you see LoadData() in that?

Edit: i guess I should be clear. Not where you DECLARE LoadData, but where you call it

[hushed hinge]

no

[summer stump]

Ah, too slow with my edit....

Where do you CALL LoadData

You know by now that if a method is not called, it will not run

[uncut trench]

Yo

[elder kite]

so guys, I watched a toutorial where they typed Rigidbody, and Mathf into a script editor from unity and it turned green, does anyone know what extensions and scripe editor is best to do this?

[summer stump]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[summer stump]

Depends on which ide you use

Find the right one in that list and follow every step

[uncut trench]

Visual studio better tho

[summer stump]

Honestly, misread your message. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Rider are your choices.
All are fine. You cannot use Visual Studio on mac though. Also, Rider costs money, but is the best

[hushed hinge]

oh well... i don't have loadData that calls somewhere in the script

[summer stump]

Ok, then you will not load data of course

And I said call LoadData, not LoadData calling somewhere

[uncut trench]

So in here is all beginners

[summer stump]

What?

Are you asking if everyone in this channel is a beginner? Or if the channel is only for helping beginners? Or what?

1. no
2. yes
3. not sure

[hushed hinge]

am i supposed to call loaddata from the counter script? in another script?

[uncut trench]

Yes helping beginners

[summer stump]

Call it from wherever you gave the GameData instance

[summer stump]

Yes it is. In coding specifically

[uncut trench]

Ohhh

[north merlin]

this is my first time seeing a void function like this. How would i go about calling it? Tried alot of stuff but always get a null exception error. public void NextSentence(out bool lastSentence)

[uncut trench]

Yea I need to learn coding

[summer stump]

Think of out as a second return

[rich adder]

call it the same way its wirrten

NextSentence(out bool lastSentence)

[summer stump]

NextSentence(out bool lastSentence)

[uncut trench]

Can anyone train me

[summer stump]

No

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[uncut trench]

Dang

[hushed hinge]

gave the GameData instance? oh wait you meant the GameData script?

[summer stump]

No

Not the script. The instance of the class in memory

[rich adder]

by now you should know what at instance is..

[elder kite]

If I press help and go to unity API refrence I can see the commands I am looking for, but they do not come up under suggested when I try to type it

[hushed hinge]

I know what it is

[rich adder]

so why do you ask such questions?

[summer stump]

Then it is not configured

[north merlin]

NextSentence(out i) this didnt work so...

[summer stump]

Which ide are you using

[rich adder]

the instance is the one that is created new() somewhere. So your question makes no sense. you should know where you put it

[summer stump]

Missing bool

Unless you have a bool variable called i within that scope?

[north merlin]

yes it is

[elder kite]

im using visual studio

[summer stump]

Show the code

[rich adder]

define "didn't work"

[summer stump]

And you followed EVERY step in that guide?

[north merlin]

 public void SetAutoButtons()
 {
     Status.instance.yes.onClick.RemoveAllListeners();
     Status.instance.no.onClick.RemoveAllListeners();



     Status.instance.yes.onClick.AddListener(() => CompleteTask());
     Status.instance.yes.onClick.AddListener(() => dialogueManager.NextSentence(out i));

     Status.instance.no.onClick.AddListener(() => dialogueManager.NextSentence(out i));
 }```

just throws a null exception;

[rich adder]

which line

[summer stump]

Well that is because dialogueManager i null

Not because of the method call

Most likely at least

[north merlin]

let me double check that

[summer stump]

Show the exact error, word for word, including the stack trace.

Edit: if you don't get it yourself

[north merlin]

bloody hell. Thanks. Im so dumb

[summer stump]

Nice. No problem

And no, not dumb! We all do stuff like that

[hushed hinge]

i have wrote inthe instance in the counter script

[summer stump]

To be clear, you don't mean a static variable CALLED instance, right?

[rich adder]

no

[summer stump]

You mean the instance of GameData?

[rich adder]

this tells me you don't know what instance is.

[summer stump]

Just looked, you did mean a static variable called Instance....
That is NOT what instance means, which leads me to believe you do not know what an instance is

Also, you do not even set Instance in that script, so it is null

[hushed hinge]

it is not so easy to remember everything since all i do is forget and forget, that is what I always do...😢

[elder kite]

I read it all, and I think I did it all. but it was a little confusing

[summer stump]

Ok, show your External Tools menu

[north oar]

in 3d for making a player move i have the getaxis for horizontal for left and right arrow but what do i put to make the player move on the z axis..?

[rich adder]

if you forget then you need to practice it more before you move on the next thing..

[summer stump]

GetAxis vertical

[elder kite]

ya im there, do I have to do something there?

[summer stump]

Show it with a screenshot

[rich adder]

like its been literal months and we guided you through a bunch of it. Seems you just want to move on to the next thing while not fully absorbing what you learned, this way you can't problem solve on your own..

[summer stump]

Every time you learn a term, write it down
Next to it, write down the definition and an example. Every so often, cover the definition and example and try to say out loud what the term is. Test yourself.

[final trellis]

so I have this procedurally generating texture, but when i save the scene it vanishes into dark. is there a solution for this? or will it just not matter since the scene probably wont be saving during gameplay

[summer stump]

No, the external tools from the guide

[rich adder]

the solution is not even loaded

[summer stump]

It is in unity

[hushed hinge]

Instance = refers to an object's relationship to its class?

[summer stump]

No.

[elder kite]

huh?

[summer stump]

An instance is a specific object in memory

[rich adder]

@hushed hinge no, instance the object created from the Blueprint. Aka a class/struct
Unity instance also can refere to GameObject/Component

[summer stump]

What do you mean huh? If you look at the guide, it tells you where External Tools is. It is not in Visual Studio, it is in Unity

The one you screenshot is different

[hushed hinge]

creteated?

[elder kite]

ohhh, im stupid, the unity one

[rich adder]

typo

I meant created

[summer stump]

Obviously a typo. Guess what they meant

[hushed hinge]

oh

well... i don't know what i'm suppsoed to write in the loadgame or savegame to save the uptatedtext from MuonCounter script...

[rich adder]

you're passing GameData from somewhere, decide where to store it

[summer stump]

You call LoadData and pass in the GameData instance (which is in a dictionary if I remember right)

[hushed hinge]

but savedata and loaddata only save the amount of coin counts, it doesn't have anything with updatedtext

[summer stump]

Ok nice.
Close visual studio, then Click regenerate project files right there

[rich adder]

what are you trying to save with the text?

[summer stump]

One step at a time. That is completely irrelevant right now.
Once you actually LOAD the data, and fix the Instance variable in the counter script, it is trivial to set the ui

[elder kite]

ok

[elder kite]

it still doesnt work

[summer stump]

That was fast...

[rich adder]

did you close vs and open script again?

[elder kite]

yep

[rich adder]

open the solution explorer in Visual Studio

[hushed hinge]

top left

[summer stump]

Where are you opening it from? Inside unity?

[elder kite]

yea

[rich adder]

the score?

[hushed hinge]

fix the instance variable in the counter script? but i don't know which needs to be fixed

[hushed hinge]

not score, from the entitties you have touched

[rich adder]

so you know how to save score? its the same exact process..

[summer stump]

@elder kite Ok, did you install the workload in Visual Studio? It would be this part

[summer stump]

I told you earlier. You do not set it, so it is null

Simple as writing Instance = this in awake

[hushed hinge]

yet it wouldn't work with muonCounter.UpdateText();

[hushed hinge]

yet red underline on INstance since there is no word of the Instance somewhere else

[rich adder]

if it didnt work then you didn't do the same

[summer stump]

It looks like there is to me
https://gdl.space/lebefeluvu.cs

[hushed hinge]

that was the muoncounter, i was talking about counter script

i thought you meant that

[frosty hound]

@hushed hinge I'm not going to keep pointing you to use a thread.

[summer stump]

I was talking about MuonCounter.
Since it... you know... HAS A VARIABLE CALLED INSTANCE
lol 😸

[hushed hinge]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1265813900037853255

[north oar]

how do i find cinemachine from this?

[frosty hound]

You're only viewing packages you have installed in your project. Open the drop down to see them all.

[north oar]

ah yes thx

[fringe plover]

@fathom bramble chan you show !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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

[fringe plover]

or atleast error message

[fathom bramble]

Is this easier to see?

or do you prefer the text

but basically I get a null reference with ui.TriggerGameOver()

[fringe plover]

then show me that method..

wait

[teal viper]

The the ui is not assigned at that point.

[fringe plover]

i forgot abt that..

[fathom bramble]

that's what I'm asking, how do I assign it? Unity screams at me if I use new

[summer stump]

You probably want the serialized reference method in the link I sent before.
Just drag and drop it

[topaz mortar]

I need some help with UGS Cloud Save.
I'm saving my Character to cloud save, you can just directly save the class, no need to serialize it or anything.

How do I prevent game crashes when the data structure changes?
How can I check if the data structure is still intact without crashing the game?
How do I prevent overwriting an existing Character that fails to load?

[summer stump]

It gives you and error. Not screams at you. No need for the drama

Just read the link I sent before. It tells you everything you need to know here
https://unity.huh.how/references

If UIManager does not exist yet, then use Instantiate as I said twice already

[teal viper]

I recommend going through the unity !learn beginner courses as they cover that and many more things.

[eternal falcon]

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[topaz mortar]

You haven't shown the code that throws the error

[summer stump]

The error is line 37 there
#💻┃code-beginner message

[topaz mortar]

the easiest way is to add a reference to it that you set through the inspector
if you don't know how to do that, you really need to watch the basics of unity, you pretty much use it for everything

you can also use the Instantiate method, which you use to create new MonoBehaviours instead of new

but I doubt that is what you need here

[fathom bramble]

I've already tried that, it won't give me the option of selecting the UIManager script from the inspector

and manually dropping it is not an option either

[summer stump]

No, it has to be an object

Not the script itself

A script is a blueprint, it does not "exist"
You need an instance of the class, which is a component on an object

So create an empty gameobject, attach the UIManager, then drag that object into the box

MonoBehaviour inherits from Behaviour, which inherits from Component

That is important to keep in mind. All MonoBehaviours are going to need to be a component of a gameobject to be useful

[fathom bramble]

Does not work, if it says type mismatch

if this helps

[topaz mortar]

is your script on the UIManager gameobject?

[fathom bramble]

Yep

[topaz mortar]

show it pls

[fathom bramble]

the UIManager then has a reference to the Text object

[topaz mortar]

Typo?
I see UIManager and UI Manager

not sure if it's just unity messing it up

[fathom bramble]

Nah that's just Unity that adds spaces

[topaz mortar]

any errors in console?

[outer hamlet]

anyone meets this problem?

[topaz mortar]

ah lol

[topaz mortar]

you're trying to add an object from the hierarchy to a prefab, that's not possible

[summer stump]

Prefabs cannot reference scene objects

Prefabs are like blueprints (I know I used that that analogy already). Your blueprint cannot mention "the house two doors down", because it may be built in a different city

You will need to instantiate, store that reference the method returns, and the inject the reference where needed

This is a staple in pure c# where you will use di a lot more in Main

Enemy newEnemy = Instantiate(prefab)
newEnemy.Initialize(UiManager)

You could also just make UIManager a singleton.
UIManager.Instance

This is all mentioned in the link i sent twice before

https://unity.huh.how/references

[fathom bramble]

Ew that's the unity way to do it? god that's ugly but okay

I'll try it

[summer stump]

DI is standard in pure c#
It is the c# way to do it, not the unity way

The small inconsequential difference being that you would generally do it in a constructor

But calling that different would be wild

[topaz mortar]

It's a bit complex to understand at first, takes a while to get used to, but once you understand, it makes a lot of sense

I got very confused with references on prefabs at some point too

[versed forge]

hello everyone I am new to unity and was planning on making a game with a friend so we joined the UCVS and i was messing with the branches and made /main/test/ and /main/test/m and wanted to move /m back into the /main/test and then back into /main, when moving i was told i could only ove into empy branches and when trying the merge it made that weird loop and was wanintng to know if there was a may to move or merge it wihtout the weird loop. I accidentally separated the setting from the root and was wanting to put them back while also learning this for future refence. I am new to the git stuff.

[fathom bramble]

Then it's definitely not how I've ever done it in any game. My general way is UIManager.GameOver()

just one line

done

[topaz mortar]

if you make UIManager static or a singleton you can still do that

[summer stump]

Well yeah, that would be a better way, but you are insisting on calling it from Enemy

If you wanted to call it from inside an object in C#, you would have to do it similar to how I showed above of course. You could not just call UIManager.GameOver without injecting the reference to UIManager

But as I said multiple times.... singletons are explained in the link I sent

https://unity.huh.how/references

[summer stump]

The thing that may be causing confusion is that in c#, you have access to Main()
You set up all the references there. You pass everything in as needed or are just IN the same scope as the references you created. But in Unity (and Bevy, Godot, Unreal, and every big game engine I know of), you do NOT have access to Main. The engine consumes it, and calls things for you.
You have to understand that fundamental fact to proceed.

[fathom bramble]

Christ I finally fixed it. I appreciate all the help @summer stump @topaz mortar. All I ended up doing was ripping out a pub-sub system I wrote in another C# game and I put it in here

no need for references, everything communicates through a common messagebus now

[topaz mortar]

yeah this looks much simpler than adding a simple reference 🤔
but I guess you know what you're doing

[summer stump]

Certainly one way to do it 🤷‍♂️

[fathom bramble]

@summer stump @topaz mortar I seriously do still appreciate the help you provided. If you guys were curious, this is the game so far

I'll uh..have to make the brightness on those bursts less..hurt my eyes

[summer stump]

Nice. And no problem. Good luck with it all!

[topaz mortar]

cool, hope you have a epilepsy warning lol

[loud mango]

 
void ShootBullet(){
        if(isCoolDownAvailable == true){
            GameObject bullet = PlayerBullet.instance.GetPoolObjects();
            if(bullet != null){
                bullet.transform.position = muzzlePoint.transform.position;
                bullet.SetActive(true);
                if(playerTransform.rotation.y == -180){
                    bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = Vector2.right * -bulletSpeed;
                }
                if(playerTransform.rotation.y == 0){
                    bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = Vector2.right * bulletSpeed;
                }
                DoMuzzleFlash(); 
            }

            StartCoroutine(StartCoolDown());
        }
    }```

Please help, the bullet isnt going left. angle -180 is when my player has turned left

[rich adder]

rotation is NOT eulerAngles

[loud mango]

why would it matter? its just using the value to check if the player is facing left or right

i used a different method, retrieving direct information from the joystick but it still has the same problem

[rich adder]

why ? because 180 is nonesense

quaternion max value is 1

[loud mango]

then what should i use?

[meager gust]

euler angles

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-eulerAngles.html

this is the natural XYZ rotation you're used to.

transform.rotation represents a quaternion, which is a complex 4d rotation

[loud mango]

oo

[rich adder]

yes what you see in the inspector is Euler angles

[loud mango]

still doesnt work

the same problem

it just doesnt move

[rich adder]

log the if statement to see if its actually hitting
also log the velocity of the rigidbody

[loud mango]

                    Debug.Log("Before Push");
                    bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = Vector2.left * bulletSpeed;
                    Debug.Log("After push");
                }``` i did this to log

Before push isnt coming

but the bullet still spawns

[rich adder]

Debug.Log playerTransform.eulerAngles.y before the if statement

[loud mango]

says 0 when right and 180 when left

but if i check in the editor, its says -180 when left

[rich adder]

only whats in the code matters

you could absolute the value but usually its always 180

[loud mango]

then why would it change in the editor?

[rich adder]

the editor can keep going past -180 for example

[loud mango]

works now, thanks

also

if i add a light compnent to the enemy bullet, would it be performance heavy? or just adding some post processing is better

[eternal needle]

Honestly I'd stay away from checking the angles like this, at some point in your code you set the rotation. You could at the same time, declare that its facing left or right with a bool

[loud mango]

i just want it to feel like a laser

[loud mango]

i tried that, but it didnt seem to work for some reason, the code was correct

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ if the code was correct then itd work. Not really much for me to say there

[loud mango]

yeh you are right

[jagged socket]

can anyone help me in a unity input reblinding menu problem?

[steep walrus]

im following a tutorial and whenever this guy runs his code it opens up int the console cause its a console app but when i run my code it just opens in the terminal tab within vs cdoe

[rich adder]

this is a Unity discord

also it makes no difference between the two, vscode integrates the terminal in the editor.

[somber herald]

If I have a script with a function like this:

void Jump()
{
    // If not grounded just quit
    if(Grounded == false)
        return;
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
    {
        rb.velocity += transform.up * jumpPower;
    }
}

I need to hook up my animator to this so I want to detect for a spacebar input on another script as well, will it trigger both input scripts or is it a race?

[eternal needle]

What do you mean trigger both scripts? You pressing space doesnt run this code, the code runs (i assume from update) and checks if space was pressed. Any script checking for it will see the same value that frame

[queen adder]

Hey how do I fix this please. I'm new to interfaces.
To my knowledge I think this says that the interface is not public but I wrote "public interface" so I have no idea.

[languid spire]

its complaining because your implementation of fired is not public

and, of course, because you have not implemented public selected

I always find it easier, when implementing interfaces to let the ide do so using Quick Actions

[queen adder]

Ohh okay thank you!! yeah it seemed to have fixed it but now a theres a different error
tried playing around with it but I can't find a solution

[languid spire]

that has nothing to do with the interface. WeaponObj is null

[queen adder]

Oh. do I set it to an object? I pretty much want the interface to be global through out all the scripts that I can use any time as a preset

[languid spire]

that is the point of Interfaces but, of course, they do need a specific instance of an object to work on

[topaz mortar]

So I have a Spellbook GO that contains spells with a Spell script on them
I made a copy of it with Instantiate(SpellbookGO), so I can show a smaller version while in combat to show the active spell
But for some reason that removed my Scriptable Object references the Spells have?

Not sure how it can even throw an error?

            {
                if (spell.SpellSO.Description != null && spell.SpellSO.Description != "")
                {
                    fullItemDescription += spell.SpellSO.Description + "\n\n";
                }```
195 is this line: `if (spell.SpellSO.Description != null && spell.SpellSO.Description != "")`

so somehow it doesn't copy the SpellSO field/reference dunno what to call it

This is how I copied the GameObject

{
    combatSpellBook = Instantiate(spellbook, combatSpellBookTransform);

    // Loop through all spells
    for (int i = 0; i < combatSpellBook.transform.childCount; i++)
    {
        GameObject spell = combatSpellBook.transform.GetChild(i).gameObject;
        spell.GetComponent<Image>().color = new Color(1f, 1f, 1f, 0.4f);
    }
}```

[languid spire]

we are missing a lot of context here like the inspector of spellbook and the contents of the Spell component on it

[topaz mortar]

yeah I know, but the version I'm Instantiating from* works, so not sure what more I need to provide

[jagged socket]

manCry

anyone please help me sad_cat

[topaz mortar]

!code

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[topaz mortar]

#854851968446365696

[jagged socket]

؟

[jagged socket]

okay

one sec

[topaz mortar]

        {
            combatSpellBook = Instantiate(spellbook, combatSpellBookTransform);

            // Loop through all spells
            for (int i = 0; i < combatSpellBook.transform.childCount; i++)
            {
                Spell spell = combatSpellBook.transform.GetChild(i).GetComponentInChildren<Spell>();
                Debug.Log(spell);
                Debug.Log(spell.name);
                Debug.Log(spell.SpellSO);
                Debug.Log(spell.SpellSO.Description);
            }
        }```

so for some reason it doesn't copy the spell.SpellSO from the original gameobject?

[jagged socket]

i`m using this to make a menu to rebind controls

[topaz mortar]

and yes I am certain the original has it because I can see the description in SpellSO when I hover it 🙂

[jagged socket]

and here is the inputs if you want to check it

and this

the problem that i have to set the action in here in play mode or it won`t work

i have to change the action and the blinding in play mode or the blinding won`t work

can anyone help me it`s the second day with the problem

manCry

[topaz mortar]

So Instantiate doesn't seem to copy the fields in the scripts attached to the gameobject you're copying (in this case)
Any way around that?

[jagged socket]

what?

[topaz mortar]

not talking about your issue 😉

[jagged socket]

manCry

you made me sad 😔

[teal viper]

Start from logging the SpellSO in the original object and then sharing the code of it's implementation

[topaz mortar]

The original works, it's just a field SpellSO that contains a reference to my scriptableobject, which I'm 100% sure works, because I can see the description when hovering the original spell
The issue is, I'm copying my spelbook gameobject in my scene with combatSpellbook = Instantiate(spellbook)
And the Instantiate is not copying the values of my Spells script on my spell objects in my spellbook, it's just giving me empty Spell scripts

[ivory bobcat]

This. Most likely the original has null as well - no reason a copy wouldn't succeed and more likely the original isn't the target you think it is.

[topaz mortar]

but I've debugged it and it showed me the Spell I'm expecting, but all the fields on it are empty

[languid spire]

prove it. Show the relevant inspectors as I asked earlier

[ivory bobcat]

Can you log prior to instantiate for verification?

Log prior to instantiate

[topaz mortar]

Oops it's actually this one:

[topaz mortar]

I'll try

            combatSpellBook = Instantiate(spellbook, combatSpellBookTransform);
            Debug.Log(combatSpellBook.transform.GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponentInChildren<Spell>().SpellSO.Description);```

[languid spire]

Is that Spell->script supossed to be an SO? Becaise it isn't

[topaz mortar]

no, there's a Spell script and a SpellSO reference on it

[languid spire]

not on that image there isn't

[topaz mortar]

it's not exposed to the inspector

    {

        private SpellSO _spellSO;

        public SpellSO SpellSO { get => _spellSO; set => _spellSO = value; }```

[languid spire]

if it's not serialized it wont be copied with instantiate

[topaz mortar]

ugh

        private SpellSO _spellSO;

        public SpellSO SpellSO { get => _spellSO; set => _spellSO = value; }```

thank you 🙂

[somber herald]

https://gyazo.com/296858ce1dfb960765757ca48df29f7e
Can someone help im not really sure why it wont jump up sometimes

the full code is too big but lmk if you need it i can send it on pastebin but this is it

 void Jump()
 {
     // If not grounded just quit
     if(Grounded == false)
         return;
     // If cooldown not met, quit
     if (Time.time < timer + jumpCooldownTime)
         return;
     if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Jump") != 0)
     {
         timer = Time.time;
         rb.velocity += transform.up * jumpPower;
         AnimationManager.instance.JumpAnimation();
     }
 }

It doesnt make any sense to me that the rigidbody velocity code wont trigger but the animation will??

[topaz mortar]

to me it looks like the jump is a bit too early, so it's just cancelling the downward movement with the jump, just guessing though

[somber herald]

wait is it bc of fixedupdate....

ohhh interesting okay

ill try that

[ivory bobcat]

This is the beginner coding channel. If it's not related to coding, you should try elsewhere (to move, delete here and post your original message elsewhere - looks related to #🖱️┃input-system or #💻┃unity-talk and not specific to code)

[somber herald]

Omfg you're right how in the flying duck did you get that

[topaz mortar]

because you can see the jump animation starts while you're still moving downwards lol

how did you miss that? 😇

[jagged socket]

okay

[somber herald]

WHA

omg you're right

theres even a velocity bounce for a milisecond

[bright wind]

Is there any way to check an objects order in its layer?

been googling it can't find a solution

I want to be able to check all game objects in range and select the one with the highest layer order

[muted narwhal]

var mousePosition = Mouse.current.position.ReadValue();

_itemRectTransform.anchoredPosition = mousePosition;

My mouse position, let's say at the center of the screen. But the actual GO is... outside of the canvas. Anyone know why?

[ivory bobcat]

Break the problem down. If you've got an array, you'd just grab the object relative to the layer - assuming you've got some means of acquiring the objects already.

[bright wind]

Currently it selects, I think the closest, but it looks a bit random

[ivory bobcat]

Log where you think the mouse is, where the center of the screen is (yes, it's an actual point in 3d space) and where the anchor position is.

[bright wind]

but the selection is based off of the layermask

[muted narwhal]

It's somewhere in ~ X -753 Y 686, but Mouse.current.position.ReadValue() gives me ~ X 1057, Y 1719

[topaz mortar]

I think you need to transform the mouse position to game position somehow, not sure how it works
shouldn't be too hard to find

they're not the same thing somehow

[polar kraken]

Hey guys,
TerrainData doesn't support YAML MERGE ? It must be handled by Git LFS to avoid corrupting ?

[teal viper]

Typically unity assets(and assets in general) are not very tolerant to merging. It's better to avoid it.

[polar kraken]

So it is better to support .asset with lfs instead of yaml-merge ?

[muted narwhal]

I'm not sure how to do it with new input system

[teal viper]

That's not what I said. I said that it's better not to merge them at all. Meaning, make sure only one person works on the asset at the same time. As for wether you store it in your repository and how is up to you. I don't think there's much of a difference.

[topaz mortar]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/how-to-convert-the-mouse-position-to-world-space-in-unity-2d-3d/

not sure if that helps or is even relevant

but since no one else answered 🙂

[muted narwhal]

tried this already

[topaz mortar]

the code you showed doesn't show any of that

[muted narwhal]

because I tried and it didn't worked so I swapped to my original code?

it's kinda overcomplicated imo

[polar kraken]

About Terrain Data it is really an issue because with using yaml-merge it is always corrupted on git repo. I'm trying to figure out why that happens about Terrain Data tho

[muted narwhal]

alright, let me try again then

[teal viper]

What meaning are you putting into "yaml-merge"? It might be that were speaking of different things?

[polar kraken]

unityyamlmerge I mean from .gitattributes
merge=unityyamlmerge eol=lf linguist-language=yaml

[teal viper]

This?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SmartMerge.html

[polar kraken]

Yup

[teal viper]

Well, it's the first time I hear about that feature, so not sure I can answer that question.

[polar kraken]

Anyone ?

[cedar bone]

Anyone know why my player's gizmo thing is not at the actual position of my player?

        if(Input.GetButtonDown("PickUp") && heldWeapon == null && Physics.Raycast(cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward, out hit, 10f, LayerMask.GetMask("Item"))) {
            PickUp();
        }
    }
    private void Movement()
    {
        rb.AddForce(Vector3.down * 5, ForceMode.Force);
        // calculate move direction
        moveDirection = transform.forward * verticallInput + transform.right * horizontalInput;
        if(grounded)
        {
            rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * 10f, ForceMode.Force);
        }
        else if(!grounded)
        {
            rb.drag = 0f;
            rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * 10f * airMultiplier, ForceMode.Force);
        }
    }
...
void PickUp()
    {

        Debug.DrawRay(cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward*200, Color.red);
        heldWeapon = hit.transform.gameObject;
        heldWeapon.transform.parent = weaponHolder.transform;
        heldWeapon.transform.gameObject.layer = LayerMask.NameToLayer("Weapon");
        heldWeapon.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().useGravity = false;
        heldWeapon.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().isKinematic = true;
        heldWeapon.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero;
        heldWeapon.transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
        heldWeapon.GetComponent<Collider>().enabled = false;
    }   

[hexed terrace]

• You've got it set to center, not pivot
• It's not clear which game object the cylinder is on, if it's not the selected game object, then it's position is probably not 0,0,0

[cedar bone]

Thank You!! The first point fixed it

is it set to pivot by default?

[queen adder]

I've got OnCollisionEnter running inside my script

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Breakable")
        {
            BreakObject(collision.gameObject);
        }
    }```
But if it hits anything that has the tag "Breakable" nothing happens, anyone know why? (BreakObject) prints "Broke An Object!"

It's got a convex mesh collider, I've tried with and without istrigger.

[languid spire]

have you tried to use CompareTag rather than tag ==

[queen adder]

Even if I'd just do console.log in the void oncollisionenter, it didn't display anything either. So I'm just switching to using a raycast

[languid spire]

console.log ??

[queen adder]

Yeah?

[languid spire]

does not exist

[queen adder]

Er sorry I meant debug.log

Even if I did debug.log it wouldn't print anything in the console

[languid spire]

so the collision is not happening at all

[queen adder]

Apparently

[languid spire]

screenshot the collider that has this script

[queen adder]

I've tried without and with is trigger

[languid spire]

so thats a trigger not a collision, you are using the wrong method

[queen adder]

I've tried both

What method would it be for specifically is trigger

[languid spire]

OnTriggerEnter of course

so who has the Rigidbody?

[queen adder]

Nothing has a rigidbody

[languid spire]

no RigidBody, no collision event

[queen adder]

?? You can't work off of just a collider

Do I need to make my crowbar or cube a rigidbody? Or both?

[languid spire]

read the docs, they are VERY clear