💻┃code-beginner

[fair steeple]

It still isn't working

[spiral glen]

changing the material doesn't do anything, I just tried

[rich adder]

it works just fine, you probably did it wrong...

[languid spire]

you need to add it all the way down the inheritance chain

[spiral glen]

that's normally the case

{
    [SerializeField] Renderer playerRenderer;
    
    [SerializeField] Texture2D[] backgroundTextures = new Texture2D[2];
    void Start()
    {
        int random = Random.Range(0, 2);
        Debug.Log(random);
        playerRenderer.material.mainTexture = backgroundTextures[random];
    }
}```

[rich adder]

what are you showing me ? this is changing texture not material

[spiral glen]

oh

[rich adder]

by swap material I mean make the material already with texture you want then just swap material on renderer

[spiral glen]

that's what the unity thing you sent told me to do

[fair steeple]

I just added it to all these and still nothing :/

[rich adder]

You asked about swapping textures , but I suggested swapping material is easier

[spiral glen]

ah

the issue is I have texture2D's and idk how to make a material

[rich adder]

huh? you just drop the texture in the material.

thats how textures are displayed

unless you're doing UI ig

[spiral glen]

it's not ui

[raw token]

Just to make sure, you're not doing this for like a 2D sprite are you?

[spiral glen]

I am

I put texture2D so that shouldn't be an issue

[glad rune]

why can i destroy the gameobject on the update function but not in destr function, the script is in a prefab (its the pipes in flappy bird)``` cs void Update()
{
transform.position = transform.position + (Vector3.left * PipeSpeed) * Time.deltaTime;

 if (transform.position.x < DeadZone)
 {
     Destroy(gameObject);
 }

}

public void Destr()
{
Destroy(gameObject);
}

[rich adder]

depends how you call Destr

[summer stump]

Did you add it to PlayerBaseState

[glad rune]

i call it in another func in the players script

[fair steeple]

yeah

[summer stump]

That is cropped. PlayerBaseState does not inherit from anything, right?

Also, do you have ANY errors in the console? Not necessarily errors related to these classes, but ANY

[fair steeple]

using UnityEngine;

[System.Serializable]
public abstract class PlayerBaseState
{
    public abstract void EnterState(PlayerStateMachine playerStateMachine);
    public abstract void UpdateState(PlayerStateMachine playerStateMachine);
    public abstract void OnCollisionEnter(PlayerStateMachine playerStateMachine);
}

clean as a whistle

Maybe it's not working because I instantiate them directly from the script?

[summer stump]

Might be an issue of doing new() in the initializer? Not sure

[fair steeple]

I'll try another way

Nope

Even without using new

[rich adder]

so did you put Debug.Log in the method to see if thats actually calling it

[fair steeple]

I'll just assume it's a unity bug and work around it

[glad rune]

yeah it does execute it but i get an error saying destroying assets is not permitted to avoid data loss

just dont understand why i could do it in the update func and not in destr func

[languid spire]

then you are calling Destr on the prefab not on the instantiated game object

[rich adder]

yes sounds like you're trying to destroy the prefab not the instance

[glad rune]

how do i destroy the copy

[rich adder]

call that function on the instance

references

var myInstance = Instantiate(etc..
...
myInstance.Destr()

idk what you're trying to achieve so it depends, you might even store it as a field or in an list?

[glad rune]

just destroying all the copies on the screen

[rich adder]

all at once?

store all the spawned copies in a List then loop through to destroy them all when needed

[charred spoke]

That would destroy all spawned copies not the ones just on the screen however

[rich adder]

oh if they mean literally within screenbounds, i suppose to can check that too if its within bounds of screen

[trail harbor]

Anybody with some knowledge in the kinematic character controller done by philippe ?
I need to know the correct way of moving an AI character smoothly, it just teleports atm

[glad rune]

yeah im making a revive mechanic and all i have to do left is to destroy the obstacles on screen so that the player doesnt hit them while hes static for 3s

[rich adder]

should be easy enough. You can even use a trigger probably.
Overlaps can also be an option

positioning check probably being most performant but takes a bit of math

[potent echo]

I have an Enemy object that flips directions by multiplying his transform.localScale.x by -1.

The enemy has a child object (healthbar) that I don't want to be affected by the parent's change of localScale. How can I do this?

[rich adder]

instead of direct parenting use a Constraint component maybe and just use it for positioning

[long jacinth]

so im making a game where chess pieces are enemies so i want the knight piece to dash at the player

so do i add force and make him go in the players direction?

[rich adder]

its an option sure

[long jacinth]

ok

[raw token]

I don't think unity will serialize an abstract class to a value... You can use a [SerializeReference] attribute on the field, but your abstract class itself does not have any serializable members, so I don't think there'd be anything for Unity to draw to the inspector except for an empty drawer

[summer stump]

This is what they were trying to show
#💻┃code-beginner message

So it is a non-abstract child class

[raw token]

Oh I see 👍

I guess then the question becomes "Does MovingState have any serializable members?"

[pallid nymph]

I've made a package with a custom inspector that allows you to do [SerializeReference, TypePicker] private IInterface/AbstractClass field; and it'll show nicely in inspector and give you a picker to select concrete instance and fill its stuff: https://github.com/pulni4kiya/unity-editor-tools
I use this all the time in all my projects, because it's very convenient to be able to serialize interface/abstract class

(what's the policy on sharing one's packages when they're kinda relevant to the context? 😅 )

[slender nymph]

that's not really going to matter if there is nothing to serialize in the object

[long jacinth]

not really working still i find it under -1

wiat

im stupid

[slender nymph]

Mathf.Clamp returns the clamped value, it doesn't do it in place

[long jacinth]

i have to do currentGas = before it

damn

my game is coming together well

i want to thank you guys for helping if i didnt have ur help i would have been like my friend yassin we dont really talk about him

[mint remnant]

THis is a bit baffling to me
https://gyazo.com/eba7cc5f32189d57f0ce62c8a2982323

        Color [] colourMap = new Color [width * height];
        for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
        {
            for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
            {
                colourMap [y * width + x] = Color.Lerp(Color.black, Color.white, noiseMap [x, y]/10f);
            }
        }
        colourMap [0] = Color.red;
        colourMap [12] = Color.yellow;
        texture.SetPixels(colourMap);
        texture.Apply();

The red pixel, upper right corner of the plane (index in the setpixels of 0) is landing in the opposite corner I'd expect. Couldn't find anything in docs stating the setpixels array is like this.

Actually hte docs do state the exact opposite of what is occurring: colors must contain the pixels row by row, starting at the bottom left of the texture. The size of the array must be the width × height of the mipmap level.

[spark glacier]

Hey so can I ask questions in this channel?

[mint remnant]

Yes, but you're limited to 1 and you just used it up

[spark glacier]

okay lol

[prime pebble]

So, i stg I just took a class on Function but for the LIFE of me I can't get them right lol I mess them up EVERY time. This is Python script.

[half egret]

This isn't a channel for any code help, it's specific for unity. The function is just returning whatever you pass in though, and the "str + x" line is doing nothing.

And the print line is out of scope of the function as well

And you never call the function

The code doesn't really make any sense

[prime pebble]

Oh, sorry i saw "beginner code" and was like "that's where I gotta go." lol I see, so I need to play the Print function within in the Function right?

[half egret]

Depends on what your code is trying to accomplish, I'm not sure exactly what you want.
That being said you'll get better targeted help for Python in any Python related discord. I cannot send any invite links but it's very easily googleable.

To the best of my knowledge, python isn't really used in Unity aside from automation

[prime pebble]

Fair, alrighty thanks for the help!

[ionic zephyr]

Hi guys, Ive got aproblem in which I have 3 menus that show three different types of objects but the information display in each of them shares some data like the name or the description of the different objects, however, there are some things that they don´t share, for example, weapons have damage quantity but resources don´t, any ideas of what should I do code-wise?

my idea is to click a Slot and show the information on the different menus, the problem is that not all the menus show the same information

[hushed hinge]

#1265813900037853255 message is am currently with the issue of increase my counter and have it persist across scenes and runtime, since I don't know how to fix that so the number in the stage selection can be increased from touching the muon objects in the other stage scenes

[long jacinth]

i know this is a stupid question but its late and my brain is not functioning the problem here is that its looping

so its keeps going in the z rotation -10 then 10 then -10 then 10

[ionic zephyr]

Is it okay to check if an interaction (with unity events) has been executed in the update method?

[cosmic dagger]

What do you mean by, "with Unity events?"

[raw token]

Assuming these objects are all in the same inheritance hierarchy, you might add a property or method to the base type to retrieve a collection of the relevant statistics, and override it in the subtypes. Then the menus could just ask the thing for it's stats and print out whatever it spits out

[ionic zephyr]

something like this

[ionic zephyr]

Imagine an inventory with three tabs, weapons, resources and key objects. The weapons tab may show a damage stat that the key objects tab doesn´t

[long jacinth]

i think i might be cooking nvm

[cosmic dagger]

I don't see where InteractAction is invoked, but to check when it has, subscribe a method to it that sets a bool variable . . .

If that bool variable is true, then the event was invoked . . .

[raw token]

I myself would aim to keep the inventory UI generic, such that you're not building different UI specifically for different types of inventory items. It kind of sucks to add a new stat to some type, or an entirely new type, and have to tweak the UI each time.

If the items themselves are capable of providing a list of their relevant stats, then the UI's only job is to display that list, and it will inherently work for all items.

[ionic zephyr]

Oh okay but, if I am using Unity InputSystem and have a PlayerInput controller (imagine I configure it so that "E" is the interaction Input), how could I check I am in range in the Player Input script

public void Interact(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
{

}

[ionic zephyr]

How could I check that the event object is there if I am checking that in this Interactable script

[ionic zephyr]

So is it better just to have one tab with all objects and have only ONE manager for that tab that has all of that information???

[raw token]

That's a design decision - your call. But I think tabs and filters are always nice.

All I'm saying is that instead of creating code to implement different menu for each type of item, I would try to create a single implementation that doesn't care that there are different types of items or know about which specific stats it needs to display. It just displays whatever it's given.

and have only ONE manager
I would only have one controller or manager here, yeah - at least, if all of these items are in the same inventory. If multiple tabs aren't simultaneously being displayed on screen at once, then all a tab is doing is filtering the items which are to be displayed. One UI controller feels convenient and intuitive to me, but you could certainly implement it with multiple.

[ionic zephyr]

Thanks a lot for this precious help

[ionic zephyr]

could you help me with this other thing I was talking about earlier?

[ionic zephyr]

This

[raw token]

So you want to invoke InteractAction here when the player's in range and hits some key?

[ionic zephyr]

yes

[ionic zephyr]

but the InRange check is done in the object so Im a little bit messed up

[cosmic dagger]

You wouldn't. The interactable should subscribe to the "E" input event in your player actions. When pressed, the subscribed method can check if inRange is true. If so, run whatever code you need . . .

[ionic zephyr]

Hmm I see, however, how is this translated to code?

[cosmic dagger]

I basically wrote it out. The "E" input should have an event that the interactable script can subscribe to. Inside of the method (located in the interactable script), check if "inRange" is true . . .

[ionic zephyr]

is that event "eventadata"??

[sleek gazelle]

Hi, just wanted to know, is there any better way to do something like this? Cause rn it setactive(false) all game objects and then it only setactive(true) the one I wanna keep but that means the one I want to keep are setactive(...) twice

    public void HideEverything(){
        gameMenu.SetActive(false);
        textLogo.SetActive(false);
        levelModeExtraButtons.SetActive(false);
        levelSelectionMenu.SetActive(false);
        coinsCount.SetActive(false);
        gameHUD.SetActive(false);
        lastChance.SetActive(false);
        deathScreen.SetActive(false);
        nextLevelButton.SetActive(false);
    }

    public void ShowGameHUD(bool debug = true){
        HideEverything();
        gameHUD.SetActive(true);
    }

    public void ShowLevelSelectionMenuHUD(){
        HideEverything();
        levelSelectionMenu.SetActive(true);
    }

    public void ShowMainMenuHUD(){
        HideEverything();
        gameMenu.SetActive(true);
        textLogo.SetActive(true);
    }

    public void ShowLevelModeDeathScreen(bool extra = false){
        HideEverything();
        deathScreen.SetActive(true);
        levelModeExtraButtons.SetActive(true);
        if(extra){
            nextLevelButton.SetActive(true);
        }
    }

    public void ShowInfiniteModeDeathScreen(bool extra = false){
        HideEverything();
        deathScreen.SetActive(true);
        if(extra){
            lastChance.SetActive(true);
        }
    }

[raw token]

Invader's describing something like:

public InputActionReference InteractInputAction;

void Start() {
  InteractInputAction.action.performed += HandleInteraction;
}

void HandleInteraction(InputAction.CallbackContext _) {
  if (!InRange)
    return;

  InteractAction.Invoke();
}

void OnDisable() {
  InteractInputAction.action.performed -= HandleInteraction;
}

I've not worked with PlayerInput, so your actual implementation might vary depending on your Input System workflow. But this maybe illustrates the general idea.

[cedar mirage]

is it better to use the unity built in animation tools? or to do it all with coding?

ive heard you can do either

but im not sure what is better practice

well im just referring to a 2d platformer

for the player movement

like walk,idle,jump

[slender nymph]

please finish a thought before pressing enter

[cedar mirage]

I said the thought was not finished?

I just broke up the statements

[slender nymph]

mate you sent 6 messages in the span of 2 minutes. that could have all been one or two messages at most. see #📖┃code-of-conduct

[cedar mirage]

I did, but you're assuming I didnt finish thinking before pressing enter

but I got you I dont mind doing paragraphs either

[slender nymph]

here you go doing it again

[cedar mirage]

where?

2 messages lol

[cosmic dagger]

There is no better practice. You either like using Unity's animation tools, or you prefer to control the animation manually (through code) . . .

[summer stump]

It is not about what you mind. It is the rules of the server 🤷‍♂️

But yes, it is about what you prefer and are comfortable with in terms of the question
Coding it can be quite powerful, but get fairly complex

[cedar mirage]

Sounds good thank you!

[rocky canyon]

u can also animate in 3d modelling programs like blender

and/or use tweening libraries + code if thats the kind of animation u mean

[jaunty bay]

hi guys, quick question

do u guys usually use one object for both Warper and SpawnLocation (for landmark) or one for each?

for example, when i exit the room through the red door, i want my player to go back through that red door (just like how real life works)

actually, better question:

can i have a door that has some kind of extension in which it sets a spawn point? like, some button to "addSpawnLocation" and then i can drag that spawn location to a spesific coordinate

[north fulcrum]

so like the screen fades in and out and you're somewhere else, in front of the red door?

[jaunty bay]

yes, but i want to make it flexible, so i want to be able to modify the spawnlocation of each door

[honest trench]

wsg, how do i make 3d character controller movement more snappy. right now if i walk, and then let go of w, it takes a second before the player stops moving. whats the solution to this weird problem?

[summer stump]

I would have a DDOL object that holds a vector3 variable for the position you should go into for that scene
When you enter the door, update that value.

Perhaps a dictionary or list of classes

[summer stump]

GetAxisRaw instead of GetAxis

[honest trench]

welp that was simple, thanks lol

god but now my animations are not smoothly transitioning because they dont have time to transition

let me attach a video hold up

its really clear when crouching

what else can i show to help solve this

[jaunty bay]

ok, so heres what i understand

DDOL is runtime storage of data, in which it stores data only across scenes, but not after you close the game

PlayerPrefs are stored between game restarts, so it's ideal to be used as save points

[steep walrus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swOfmyJvb98&ab_channel=Mike'sCode
Im following this tutorial and for whatever reason it looks like this groundcheck is not working. I put it exactly where he put it in the tutorial, at the bottom of my player. and followed the steps to make sure the correct empty was put as the variable and the correct plane was put as the ground mask. Yet when I start my game I fall for a second, underneath my plane and then the collision starts working like it should a few feet higher. I'm getting a warning in the console that says my variable "isMoving" is assigned but its value is never used even though my code is exactly like the tutorial. I don't think it is related to that though

[rocky canyon]

theres an extra collider in that picture.

[steep walrus]

ohhh i see what youre talking about i understand the issue now idk why i didnt pay attention to that

[steep walrus]

is there a way to get rid of that? as I already have another collider on the player

or is that the only collider and I need to align it to the player

I aligned it to the player all is working fine

[summer stump]

DDOL is a scene, that persists when other scenes are unloaded
Basically yes on both counts though.
I strongly recommend against playerprefs for anything other than game settings like resolution and volume though. JSON or Binary is preferred (that way you can have multiple files, formatted for more complex data, and honestly a lot easier to set up, plus not saved in appdata!)

[steep walrus]

even though it is working fine its kind of annoying I am getting the warning about my bool variable "isMoving" being assigned but not used even though it is "used" in an if statement. If I am getting that warning does that mean I have bad code? can I fix it? is it like a falty warning or something?

[rocky canyon]

ur just setting isMoving ur not technically using it there..

[steep walrus]

thats the only time it is referenced besides the top of the file where I just wrote bool isMoving;

[rocky canyon]

the if conditional uses the lastPosition, transform, and isGrounded

[steep walrus]

since I am getting the warning does that mean there could be an issue down the line I should fix now? or as long as it is working I shouldnt worry about it?

[rocky canyon]

it just means isMoving isn't utilized yet... u havent used it.. u could delete isMoving = true; and isMoving = false; and the code wouldnt change any.

[steep walrus]

okay thank you for the help I appreciate it

[rocky canyon]

np, i have a few of those as well

i intend on using em eventually

[quick kettle]

Hello can anyone help me solve this error, ive watched countless tutorials and still cannot find a solution. Im a complete beginner with around 20 days of coding. This is the code that the error brings me to for line 20. I'm trying to make a script that holds the prefab of this obstacle that moves up and down but then i found out that the references of scripts on my prefab dont carry over, so then I tried to reference the game objects and im met with my error. One thing i think it could be is that on start up the things in the canvas of my game are disabled but i dont know what to do.

[wintry quarry]

Your use of GameObject.Find is incorrect

the error is clear

it didn't find any object with that name

that's all

[quick kettle]

Ok i understand that but the names are correct, is this error happening because the object is disabled inside of my hiearchy?

[wintry quarry]

Tes your objects are disabled and therefore cannot be found with Find

make a script on an object that ISN'T disabled which referneces those texts, find that, and interact through that

this is all bad practice

reaching out to random objects and directly modifying them in once place like that

[old dune]

Hi can someone help me solve my problem? When I parent my player to a GameObject, the player doesn't follow the parent's movement

It only slightly moves in the direction the parent's moving

[wintry quarry]

It depends what components are on your player. A dynamic Rigidbody, CharacterController, or a custom script could easily cause this

[old dune]

Oh yeah I'm using a charactercontroller for my player

But shouldn't it only move when I use my mouse and keyboard?

[summer stump]

No. It tracks its own position

[old dune]

Oh I see, thank you

I have another problem though, when I repeatedly change the MeshRenderer material of my GameObject, for some reason my cpu usage for unity drops from 20% to 5%, and the charactercontroller follows the GameObject when it's parented to it

But that only happens when I repeatedly change the MeshRenderer for that one specific GameObject

I have other objects in my game where I repeatedly change the MeshRenderer but my game doesn't get laggy

[quick kettle]

I made a new script that holds the references but now what do i say to connect those two scripts to know that those objects exist

[teal viper]

Wdym by laggy? How do you confirm it? Did you try profiling the game?

[cold ruin]

While learning Draggable Item on yt, I'm kind of struggle trying to move the "item" to another "slot" while it keep snapping right back to my original slot, does anyone know what am I missing here?

[wintry sluice]

Hi! I'm struggling with writing PlayMode tests.

I have a script that calls Screen.height.

It works in the editors Play Mode, but not in Play Mode tests.

There it gives a null.

I'm loading a scene in {Setup] with SceneManager.LoadScene("TestScene", LoadSceneMode.Single). Why is Screen null?

[eternal needle]

Show the actual error, this is a static int so it really cant just be null

[wintry sluice]

The error is just

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

The line in question is top = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0, Screen.height - 100, 0)).y. @eternal needle

[eternal needle]

theres a lot more on that line than Screen.height. Did you debug what was null specifically?

theres only one thing i see here that could be, the Camera.main

[wintry sluice]

I created an empty scene with a camera and loaded it with SceneManager.LoadScene. Is that not sufficient?

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ not sure how thats related at all. Do some debugging and actually see whats null instead of assuming

[wintry sluice]

So, Camera.main is returning null in my test. How do I rectify this? Do you have a beginner tutorial for Play Mode test writing?

[eternal needle]

i havent done this myself, but this just means your code is running before the main camera actually exists

or you dont have the right tag on the camera

[wintry sluice]

Thanks, @eternal needle . I want to pull back the curtain on the workings of Unity. It's black magic to me right now. Can you recommend resources?

[eternal needle]

ive never really used play mode tests so I cant suggest myself. Really everything is just trial and error, and looking into specifics related to the next game mechanic that you want to create. Also proper debugging skills, like of what happened above. Once you realize Camera.main is null, you can look into why

[wintry sluice]

Can you recommend resources for getting better at debugging? I'm still learning all of this.

[eternal needle]

its really just trial and error. the most basic way with Debug.Log and seeing what value is what. Solving null problems is ALWAYS the same. Find out what specifically is null, then you find out why. And most of the time you'll realize very quickly why something is null if you wrote the code
Theres also the debugger with VS (and i think rider) where you can pause execution and actually hover over the variables in your IDE to see what they are at that moment. theres a ton of features

you could look into tutorials for the debugger specifically, but the actual skill is just something you get with time

[wintry sluice]

Thanks.

[ashen trail]

I couldn't solve this last time but how can I spawn a bullet on my player and not have my player die from the collision detection. like how do I say "Only kill the player if the bullet came from the enemy"

[teal viper]

Check if the other colliding object is not your player🤷‍♂️

[ashen trail]

how would I code that?

this is as far as I got last time but I just made myself confused

[summer stump]

what is FirePoint?

[ashen trail]

The fire point is the player position but Im not sure if I did it right

[summer stump]

Since the thing you are detecting is a bullet, and not the enemy itself, you will need the bullet to have some script on it (or perhaps a tag) that you can check. If the check is false, do not call destroy 🤷‍♂️
Something as simple as other.CompareTag("EnemyBullet"); would work, or as 'complex' as if (other.GetComponent<Bullet>().fromEnemy) (fromEnemy being a bool you toggle when shooting the bullet)

[summer stump]

No, you did not do it right, because that variable does not exist

FirePoint is nothing, that is what I was getting at. It is not declared anywhere
Compare it to Player, which IS declared
Also note that = is an assignment. Lower in the script in that if statement, you want to COMPARE it, with ==
Lastly, instead of whatever that IgnoreCollision call is supposed to do, you can just return

[ashen trail]

Okay i will try to fix the code and be back in half an hour

[cold ruin]

is this because of that i'm stupid over a simple thing so no one care enough to help me or no one know what is the problem ?

[summer stump]

I generally skip over videos honestly. I see you even showed the CODE in the video, which is awful hahaha.
Try sharing the code properly and see if anyone can help
!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[cold ruin]

here is the code in my previous video, i hope this could be more clear
Draggable Item

public class DraggableItem : MonoBehaviour, IBeginDragHandler, IDragHandler, IEndDragHandler
{
    [Header("UI")]
    public Image image;

    [HideInInspector] public Transform parentAfterDrag;
    public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        parentAfterDrag = transform.parent;
        transform.SetParent(transform.root);
        transform.SetAsLastSibling();
        Debug.Log("Begin Dragging");
        image.raycastTarget = false;
    }

    public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        transform.position = Input.mousePosition;
        Debug.Log("Dragging");
    }

    public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        transform.position = parentAfterDrag.position;
        transform.SetParent(parentAfterDrag);
        Debug.Log("End Dragging");
        image.raycastTarget = true;
    }
}

Inventory Slot

public class InventorySlot : MonoBehaviour, IDropHandler
{
    public void OnDrop(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        GameObject dropped = eventData.pointerDrag;
        DraggableItem draggableItem = dropped.GetComponent<DraggableItem>();

        if (transform.childCount != 0)
        {
            GameObject current = transform.GetChild(0).gameObject;
            DraggableItem currentDraggable = current.GetComponent<DraggableItem>();

            currentDraggable.transform.SetParent(draggableItem.parentAfterDrag);
        }
        draggableItem.parentAfterDrag = transform;
    }
}

[vernal bone]

if your bullet prefab is same for both player and enemy agents, you can do init in bullet's script. Something like that:

private GameObject owner;
public void Init(GameObject owner){
  this.owner = owner;
}

and then check if collided object is owner or not.

[raw token]

Chuck in a Debug.Log() for your OnDrop() handler as well, to see if that's getting called and the order of events here.

I suspect OnEndDrag() is called before OnDrop(), so the item does not get parented to the new slot nor repositioned

[ancient rampart]

I'm pretty new to unity (like, very new to it) and I need to have a file explorer pop up so you can select a .wav file, I got that part all set up with an audio source plugged in, but I can't seem to find the right way to make that file you choose get plugged in as an audio clip into the audio source, but I'm getting help from some other people and they're kinda just throwin code at me hahaha, I don't really understand what it's all doing, in the vid I saw to set up UnityStandaloneFileExplorer they let you open a .obj and it turned it into text in a textmeshpro game object, but doesn't really explain how to do something useful with it lol, and I'm struggling to figure it out for audio stuff

#if UNITY_WEBGL && !UNITY_EDITOR
    // WebGL
    [DllImport("__Internal")]
    private static extern void UploadFile(string gameObjectName, string methodName, string filter, bool multiple);

    public void OnClickOpen() {
        UploadFile(gameObject.name, "OnFileUpload", ".wav", false);
    }

    // Called from browser
    public void OnFileUpload(string filepath) {
        StartCoroutine(OutputRoutineOpen(filepath));
    }
#else

    // Standalone platforms & editor
    public void OnClickOpen()
    {
        string[] paths = StandaloneFileBrowser.OpenFilePanel("Open File", "", "wav", false);
        if (paths.Length > 0)
        {
            StartCoroutine(OutputRoutineOpen(new System.Uri(paths[0]).AbsoluteUri));
        }
    }
#endif

    private IEnumerator OutputRoutineOpen(string filepath)
    {
        UnityWebRequest www = UnityWebRequest.Get(filepath);
        yield return www.SendWebRequest();
        if (www.result != UnityWebRequest.Result.Success)
        {
            Debug.Log("WWW ERROR: " + www.error);
        }
        else
        {
            
        }
    }
}```

ik it's gotta go in the else section of the OutputRoutineOpen block

but idk what I need to do or where to look to figure it out

[wintry quarry]

You should be using https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Networking.UnityWebRequestMultimedia.html

[ancient rampart]

so replace all the UnityWebRequest with UnityWebRequestAudio and then replace .Get with .GetAudioClip?

[half egret]

I would definitely not recommend telling beginners to use AI

[wintry quarry]

If people wanted AI help they'd ask AI, not here

[ancient rampart]

yeah I was gonna say, I typically tend to avoid that if I can

[cold ruin]

when I added Debug.Log() for my OnDrop() handler, it seem to not show up the debug whatever i try to drop it into another slot, so is it because of my code or in the unity scene that i setup ?

[ancient rampart]

so I can figure it out before actually tossing it to the misinformation bot

[wintry quarry]

Follow the example here https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Networking.UnityWebRequestMultimedia.GetAudioClip.html

[ancient rampart]

ohhhh my bad, didn't know clicking it would give examples and stuff

thank you

[sour fulcrum]

my lack of math education is showing, apologies,
If I have a pool of rarities, how can i convert a 0-100% value into a rarity in the context of that pool (is this even possible)

eg.

• Pool is 1,1
• I have 50%
• Result is 2

[half egret]

You mean mapping the percentage chance to a corresponding rarity?

[topaz mortar]

I would definitely not recommend telling

[ashen trail]

Do to guest coming over I cant work on it right now but I will as soon as I can

[raw token]

Hmm... I haven't actually ever implemented this myself, but maybe something is still blocking the still blocking the raycast or something 🤔. I'll dig around a bit and see if I can glean any leads

[summer stump]

Stop

[half egret]

I hate doing this but <@&502884371011731486>

[north kiln]

!mute 804862024525021215 1d don't post here if you don't want to contribute meaningfully. We have no off-topic.

[eternal falcon]

shadowisbetter was muted.

[queen adder]

meh

[old dune]

my frame rates were low and when looking in task manager my cpu usage dropped from 20 to 5

but for some reason it isnt happening anymore

its fine now

[eternal needle]

look at the actual profiler, not your task manager

[summer stump]

Not really a great response, especially as the first one to all the suggestions, with the more important suggestions seemingly ignore completely

Did you fix the Collision error?

[queen adder]

yeah, but like i have another error, #💻┃unity-talk if u wana help

[cedar bone]

Do you guys reccomnd using svg instead of PNG? I've heard GPU's arent made to render SVGs

[mint remnant]

Anyone encountered anything like this using SetPixels() on a textture? #💻┃code-beginner message

[languid spire]

Does Unity even support SVG

[languid spire]

shouldn't your for loops be the other way round? First x then y

[cedar bone]

i heard theres a package

[languid spire]

not something I've come across. Perhaps ask in #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[cedar bone]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.vectorgraphics@2.0/manual/index.html

[raw token]

@cold ruin After much digging and a small effort to replicate the problem - I cannot :/ . My drop events are triggered in a simplified hierarchy.

I think something in your scene has to be intercepting the raycast/event, but I'm not entirely sure how you might go about debugging that. Watching the Event System preview window thingy might be a good place to start

[languid spire]

Still not a code question but anyway,
GPU's are very much better at rendering SVG's than PNG's. It's why they were developed in the first place. Monitors, however cannot deal with vector graphics so must have a GPU to preprocess the data

[mint remnant]

I swaped them around same result, so no that doesm't have an impact

[languid spire]

did you also change your position calculation

[mint remnant]

what should it be instead of x + y * width?

btw it's a square

[languid spire]

just, checked, that should be correct

[mint remnant]

yea I've researched it a little bit, but coming up sorta empty, I beleive it's either a bug or at hte very least improperly documented. Possibly why I find so many people asking how to flip a texture responses

[languid spire]

I've just checked my production code and it is identical to yours however I did notice that the forward on your texture is along the Y of the texture wheras mine is along world Z. This maybe the reason for the strange result

[mint remnant]

is that using setpixels? if so can you try adding colorMap[0] = color.red to color just the 0th element as red?

mine is on a 3d plane, so not sure of the connection between hte 2

https://gyazo.com/1788cd9205d8989204a0e97c008c7753 THis is with the for loops completely commented out and no rotation applied to a stock plane

making the 0th element in the upper right, instead of the bottom left per the docs

[crisp token]

anyone know why this isnt changing animation controller's animation?

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

[languid spire]

what I'm suggting is that Unity is rotating the texture when applying it to the plane, try just using a Sprite Renderer with the same texture.
Sorry I cannot alter my code, it is production code

[cold ruin]

if then, I wonder if the screen space - overlay and the canvas Scaler actually does involved in my issue of not be able to run onDrop normally

[half egret]

Not by default, but there are packages with dubious functionality.

Still experimental/preview

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.vectorgraphics@2.0/manual/index.html

Limited support by the looks of it

I tried relatively recently to get an SVG in and it wasn't worth the effort/potential bugs, I just rasterized what I needed and used that instead.

Oh sorry it seems he already linked that

[languid spire]

I was actually responding to his question, cross platform SVG support is always going to be tricky

[thorn field]

Having issues with Vector3.SignedAngle, doesn't seem to return the correct angle when you are facing the object with your back.
If i'm standing in front of the object with my back turned, the result is angle=120. Need help

Vector3 targetPosition = mainCamera.WorldToScreenPoint(TargetObject.transform.position);
float angle = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.up, targetPosition, Vector3.forward);

[eternal needle]

did you debug what these vectors are? because this doesnt make a ton of sense imo

[thorn field]

yes, I made a sanity check. Vector3.up, Vector3.forward, TargetObject are all the correct values

[echo hamlet]

After watching this tutorial up to 7:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxs3GrhcZI8
When ever i diel the angle it acts rely sensitive.
Video demo: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17OZNDa0erUUIYB1FWAjKwl7OjM21keHD?usp=drive_link

[eternal needle]

you mean targetPosition? because https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.WorldToScreenPoint.html i really dont see how this would ever make sense to compare the screen point to (0,1,0)

[echo hamlet]

notice the difference between when he moves angle compared to me

[drowsy totem]

I have a question about inheritance and virtual variables (or a workaround) in Unity

Basically, can I change the type of an inherited variable in a subclass, in Unity?

public class Card : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] protected CardScriptableObject cardScriptableObject;

and

public class PlayingCard : Card
{
    [SerializeField] PlayingCardScriptableObject playingCardScriptableObject;

So a base Card class, with variants (playing cards, tarot cards, pokemon cards, whatever). The base class just knows it needs an image.

The sub classes have more information, which depends on the type. Playing cards have suits and numbers, some cards could have names and costs and abilities, etc.

Is it possible to change the type of inherited variable in Unity? Generic C# answers started talking about fields vs properties, but I'm not sure that works in Unity's ScriptableObjects.

Should I just make the base class abstract?

[eternal needle]

also the method you're using doesnt care at all what way you're facing. Its literally just taking in 2 positions and getting the angle between them

[teal viper]

No, but you can override it with "new". Wouldn't suggest doing that though.

[eternal needle]

can I change the type of an inherited variable in a subclass, in Unity?
you cannot override a field, this doesnt matter if its in unity or not. this is c#
what are you trying to do with these scriptable objects though? because typically you would just be reading information from them and not return it to anything

also new just hides it, doesnt override

[drowsy totem]

I think I need to watch a proper tutorial about this, hopefully that answers my questions.

[arctic mantle]

hi, someone know how to make a sprite move using the touchscreen like if i want to move to the left i have to drag the finger to left and press?

[drowsy totem]

I basically want to be able to use ScriptableObjects to define card data. 5 of Spades, 2 of Diamons, Joker, whatever. The SO would know the image it needs to use, and the suit and the value.

[eternal needle]

no matter what you do, the PlayingCard class is gonna need to know it requires a PlayingCardScriptableObject or you'll never be able to access anything related to it. You'd only be able to access the type that you store it in

[drowsy totem]

However, I'm looking into this as a way to learn how to program card game mechanics, so I'm aiming to do a generic system that could be expanded to the needs of different card games.

I think making the Card class abstract helps quite a bit, but I'm facing other issues, so as I said I'm going to check out some tutorials and examples to see how other people have implemented this.

[eternal needle]

One thing that comes to mind is you could store it as CardScriptableObject and then in some method (maybe awake) you could try casting it to the PlayingCardScriptableObject. If the cast fails, throw an error because someone plugged in the wrong SO. Then you read all the information you need

[drowsy totem]

Thanks, that sounds like it'd answer my initial question.

So I shouldn't try to override it, but I can check if it's the correct type.

[eternal needle]

yea, you could even try casting in OnValidate which would prevent you from plugging in wrong values in the first place

[winter tinsel]

how make jump

the gravity is set to -200 because otherwise my body falls really slow

[drowsy totem]

playerbody.velocity tells Unity which direction the character is moving.

One way to do a jump is to add an up-force to the velocity, at each frame. However, then you'd have to manually change the amount of up-force each frame.

Currently, you replace the velocity with a new velocity each frame, so you have to add more stuff to it to make sure it "remembers" that it's supposed to keep moving up

If you just add direction += transform.up; , spacebar becomes a jetpack boost that constantly pushes the character up

[winter tinsel]

yeah

thats what i have rn

i thought 10 would be a small value but uh

[drowsy totem]

Which tutorials about basic movement have you watched so far?

[winter tinsel]

i went to jupiter

[drowsy totem]

It's 10 per frame

You may want to learn about Time.deltaTime

10 per frame is a lot.

10 * Time.deltaTimeis ten meters (ten Unity units) per second

[winter tinsel]

i watched an introductory video to teach me about unity then ive just been:
walking till i hit a wall, go to the documentation, learn how to scale the wall; keep going

i made a simple topdown shooter game to learn the engine basics now im going to actually start developing the game i want to

and i figured out the movement on my own lol

[drowsy totem]

You don't know what you need to know, so I think it's good to watch a few more basic tutorials. Movement systems have lots of parts into them. I recommend making a few more practice projects first.

[winter tinsel]

i mean this is all practice, might even start a new project if this one gets too spaghetti code-like

[drowsy totem]

Smooth movement, jumping, dashes that don't go through walls, and then you get into stuff like coyote timers.

[winter tinsel]

im gonna build the game upto where my knowledge with my practice game ends

[drowsy totem]

deltaTime, too. Have you noticed that your character currently moves waster diagonally than straight? Holding down WD is faster than W or D

[winter tinsel]

my game wont have any of that, just a regular jump , walking and running

mostly, the game is gonna be a walking sim lol

i mean not really just the run will be pretty detrimental

still usable just, better keep it for running away from mutants

[drowsy totem]

Still, I do recommend watching some tutorial about basic movement. You need to know when you're touching the ground, otherwise the jump will allow infinite air jumps.

Any way, one super simplified way to do a super simple jump is like this:

// GetKeyDown() is only true for one frame, not all the time
// the player can only jump again once they're not jumping
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isJumping == false )
{
    isJumping = true;
    jumpTimer = 0f;
}

if (isJumping = true) 
{
    // push upwards at specific speed
    direction += transform.up * jumpForce;
    // jumpTimer variable knows how many seconds have passed since the jump started
    jumpTimer += Time.deltaTime;
    // once the jump has pushed up for a specific time, it's over and the character falls down again
    if (jumpTimer > jumpBoostTime)
    {
        isJumping = false;
    }
}

However, there are several issues with this.

The character will basically have an invisible jetpack pushing them up at a constant speed, and when it stops, they are instantly falling down at maximum fall speed. So it's not a smooth jump arc, but a very uncomfortable, sudden motion.

The player can keep spamming space to jump constantly, even in the air. You'd need to add another condition to the initial if, && IsGrounded() , and make a function that returns a true or a false value, and checks whether the player was touching the ground when the jump button was pressed

[cedar bone]

Can seomeone explain this? From what I understand its grabbing the current rotation and lerping to the target rotation. But isnt the current rotation and target rotation the same?

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

public class WeaponSway : MonoBehaviour {

    [Header("Sway Settings")]
    [SerializeField] private float speed;
    [SerializeField] private float sensitivityMultiplier;
    
    private void Update()
    {
        // get mouse input
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * sensitivityMultiplier;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * sensitivityMultiplier;

        Quaternion rotationX = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-mouseY, Vector3.right);
        Quaternion rotationY = Quaternion.AngleAxis(mouseX, Vector3.up);

        Quaternion targetRotation = rotationX * rotationY;

        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.localRotation, targetRotation, speed * Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

[winter tinsel]

so it would be better to have it accelerate upwards?

[cedar bone]

forgive me if its simple, I can't grasp my mind around queternions

[drowsy totem]

There are better ways to do it, but that's better explained in video tutorials.

[winter tinsel]

and ofc im gonna need something to check if the character is grounded

[winter tinsel]

i dont really like tutorials, most of them just tell you how to do it not how it works

[languid spire]

Debug the code and find out. Also that is not the way Slerp should be used

[cedar bone]

I got the code from YT

the code is working

i just dont understand it

[drowsy totem]

At the moment, you don't know how to do it or how it works.
After a tutorial like that, you'll know how to do it, and can start figuring out how it works.

[languid spire]

As usual, YT is wrong

[cedar bone]

: (

what part is wrong?

[drowsy totem]

While that's not the way Slerp is supposed to be used, I'm not sure if that's an objectively bad way of doing things

[languid spire]

All of this
transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.localRotation, targetRotation, speed * Time.deltaTime);

[winter tinsel]

ill try to figure it out on my own using unity docs, but if i cant ill go watch a tutorial

[cedar bone]

i skimmed through the doc rq, whats wrong?

[drowsy totem]

LERP and SLERP are basically ways to transform value from A to B, by changing a third value.

LERP is supposed to, for example, transform from 0 to 1, or from 50 to 80, in a specific way.

SLERP is supposed to, for example, transform from forward to up, or from (0, 50, 180) to (-100, 50, 0), in a specific way.

[languid spire]

Slerp and Lerp are
current = start, end t
you are doing
current = current, end , ?

[drowsy totem]

That functions seems to use SLERP to change an initial value a little bit, but not all the way, so it's using SLERP in a way that it wasn't mean to be used. But if it works, and SLERP isn't super slow, it's not... horribad.

Just not elegant

[cedar bone]

so lerp are values, and slerp are vector3s

[drowsy totem]

Yup, and they're meant to transform from start value A to end value B by using a third variable

but the example doesn't use the same A and B, so it's not actually doing that

If you like math, I have a video about that stuff

[cedar bone]

i dont get the 3rd variable part

do u mean, it keeps adding a 3rd variable

[drowsy totem]

it's just a variable from 0 to 1

basically, how much to fix it

[cedar bone]

oh ok

[drowsy totem]

0% to 100%

The way it's meant to be used, A and B don't change, but the T (time / mix factor) does

[cedar bone]

hmm got it

[drowsy totem]

so that way works, but isn't the way it was meant to be used

[cedar bone]

does hte problem have smthing to do with the speed * Time.deltaTime

[drowsy totem]

Not really. That just means the change is happening constantly at a given small percentage.

The weird part is that A value is changing every frame.

[cedar bone]

ohhhh

[drowsy totem]

If you want to watch a video explaining this through math, you can check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSNQuFEDOyQ

But it's not needed to use lerp functions, it just goes into detail about the math side

[cedar bone]

is there any problem with using this method?

[drowsy totem]

I don't know any

[cedar bone]

like for example if the users FPS is really low, then the t value would be higher than 1 i asssume

[drowsy totem]

then it just snaps to B position instantly

[cedar bone]

oh ok thats very good!

[drowsy totem]

any way, most likely it rotates something so it sways a little bit behind some other thing

[cedar bone]

cuase i used slerp previously

and i ahted having to add time.deltaTime

every time

[drowsy totem]

just a visual delay

[cedar bone]

it just feels dirty

[drowsy totem]

using LERP/SLERP this way is, arguably, something that feels dirty

but it works more or less

any way, as the video explains, lerp and slerp give different results on different framerates

so they should only be used for visual stuff that doesn't affect gameplay mechanics

[cedar bone]

watching rn

anyway, I wanted some help understanding this

wait I think I get it

nvr mind I don't

cause isnt the pistol always at the desired position?

[cedar bone]

Im a couple minutes in, but doesn't multiplying by delta time fix the issue of different framerates?

[drowsy totem]

for movement yes, but for lerp/slerp no

[cedar bone]

I meant the code I sent earlier

[cedar bone]

well if they multiplied speed by deltaTime shouldn't it fix the problem?

sorry if I'm being dumb

wait nvr mind I'm dumb

[drowsy totem]

8:00 or so, it says that yes, it works

[vague wigeon]

what causes this >_>

[cedar bone]

@drowsy totem Could u help me interprete this?

[cedar bone]

last sentence

[vague wigeon]

wait let me see

[long jacinth]

oh

[vague wigeon]

what xD

[vague wigeon]

u arab ?

[long jacinth]

yes

[vague wigeon]

me too

[long jacinth]

egyptian?

[vague wigeon]

its complicated

UAE

[long jacinth]

damn hello brother

[vague wigeon]

hello

can u help me do u know in unity ?

[long jacinth]

https://pastecode.io/s/a0hft46n

[languid spire]

Guys, if you want to chat, do it in DM's, this is not a social server

[long jacinth]

ok

[verbal dome]

This is still using transform.rotation

[long jacinth]

i removed it and the line above it

[cedar bone]

can someone at least explain to me how this line works?

[languid spire]

that is adding the rotationX to the rotationY

[cedar bone]

so like adding vectors together?

[long jacinth]

wait can i use transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, Player.transform.position, speed *Time.deltaTime);?

and i remove the RigidBody2D

[languid spire]

kinda, yes

[cedar bone]

also I don't get why transform.localRotation isnt the same as targetRotation

[long jacinth]

but the only problem is that i want the enemy to be next to the player i dont want him to be inside the player and push him

[cedar bone]

thats the only other part I don't understand

[long jacinth]

so maybe keep moving until he collides with the player?

[verbal dome]

Sure, if you put it in a loop in a coroutine or update for example

You wont get collisions without a rigidbody but if you use the ray to check collision anyway then maybe it is fine

[long jacinth]

the enemy and play have colliders tho

[languid spire]

why would it be localrotation is how the transform is rotated, targetRotation is based on the mouse position

[hot palm]

I use input actions way too complex, is there a one liner for reading the value of a button? I cant find anything online or in docs 😭
like what value do I want to read??

buttonValue = InputAction.Map.Action.ReadValue</*???*/>();

[verbal dome]

Sure but that doesn't affect how you move it with transform.position. Colliders affect rigidbodies

[cedar bone]

OOOOOH

i think I get it

[long jacinth]

so the player will still get knockbacked

[cedar bone]

targetRotation is not trying to get the rotation to (0, 0, 0) [Which is my desired rotation]

its making it lag a bit behind which is a bit proportional to the mouse movement

[languid spire]

what data type do you expect to get back from a button?

[hot palm]

I was thinking bool like Input.GetKey, but that's apparently not the case

[cedar bone]

also ik I said my last question was the last, but why is it that many scripts set mouseY to negative?

[languid spire]

if you look at your action map it will tell you exactly what is being passed

[hot palm]

Button?

Wait is value -> key what I am looking for?

hm nah button should be button

[long jacinth]

@verbal dome i have a problem the enemy keeps going in the player

[rocky canyon]

they both have colliders?

[long jacinth]

yes

and bec he keeps going in the player

he is pushed and appears on the oppisite side

[rocky canyon]

sounds like ur using the wrong type of movement on something

for example translation.. (setting the transform.position directly) will cause something like that.. it doesn't respect physics

[long jacinth]

what can i do

[rocky canyon]

you either have to write code/logic for ur own collisions, or use rigidbodies for movement

[long jacinth]

but if i use rigid bodies they will push eachother

and writing my own logic will probably take forever

only got 6 hours left in the jam

[rocky canyon]

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

use physics layers..

enemy doesnt interact with enemy
but enemy interacts with player

[long jacinth]

so the enemy will push the player?

[rocky canyon]

yes, if u use a rigidbodys

this would make enemies ignore other enemies.. but still collide w/ player
once u assigned the layer to the GameObjects

[long jacinth]

no no other enemies are not rigid body this one is

the problem i have is the playr

he has a rigid body

wait

[rocky canyon]

and the enemies dont?

both will need rigidbodies to collide w/ each other

[long jacinth]

other types dont this one yes

i can make enemy not collide with other enemies later

but my player is a rigidbody

[rocky canyon]

yes, thats what all this is#💻┃code-beginner message

[long jacinth]

wait i can maybe use a character controler 2d?

this will stop the player from pushing the enemy and the enemy from pushing the player?

[rocky canyon]

theres no such thing as a character controller 2d component.. ud need to build it or copy one online

[rocky canyon]

with a character controller it wont be able to push or get pushed

[long jacinth]

excellent

[rocky canyon]

unless u code it in urself

[long jacinth]

i think i can still switch i got time

[rocky canyon]

yea, theres plenty of basic ones online

[long jacinth]

what do i search for?

[rocky canyon]

are you using 2D ?

Unity 2D Character Controller

but its not a built-in component so i can't say how they would act.. it'd just depend on the person coding it

a 3D Character Controller acts as i said.. but 2D doesn't have one out of the box

[long jacinth]

so if my player doesnt have rigid body it wont be able to push right?

[rocky canyon]

correct

unless u make ur own code to detect when ur touching something.. and push it like that

a rigidbody = physics

https://github.com/Brackeys/2D-Character-Controller theres one i see alot @long jacinth

follow his video to figure out how to set it up

[long jacinth]

uses rigid body 2d

ok scrap this

[rocky canyon]

ya, b/c rigidbody is the most common way to move things around.. (takes less work)

[rocky canyon]

whatcha gonna do?

[long jacinth]

i might do the feature not bug

there is no way to disable rb right?

[rocky canyon]

what u mean by disable it?

[long jacinth]

disable the componenet through script

[rocky canyon]

you could freeze its position unless ur giving it input

void FixedUpdate()
{
    Vector2 direction = (player.position - transform.position).normalized;
    float distanceToPlayer = Vector2.Distance(player.position, transform.position);

    // If the enemy is too close to the player, stop moving
    if (distanceToPlayer > 1f)
    {
        rb.velocity = direction * speed;
    }
    else
    {
        rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
    }
}``` you could just do something like this

[long jacinth]

also i cant build my scene bec of this silly thing

[rocky canyon]

u shouldnt call the class SceneManager

[long jacinth]

wait i can actually do that

[rocky canyon]

it confuses it

[long jacinth]

ok

[fickle plume]

This should be in a thread really

[long jacinth]

Prevent RigidBody 2D from pushing Eachother

still problems

i found something

i can try making it static then dynamic

i kind of did it

[winter tinsel]

uh, why does the force sometimes not want to get added?

i have an if statement taht runs, but for some reason just when adding the force to an object it doesnt run

but the rest of it does??

and its inconsistent, sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt

[ivory bobcat]

Break the problem down. Does the if statement work as expected (it must work 100% of the time it's expected to work)

[winter tinsel]

it works but it doesnt

theres multiple things in the if statement

and one allways works but specifically the one that adds force doesnt

[ivory bobcat]

So it doesn't work - the if statement.

[winter tinsel]

but even then its inconsistent

[ivory bobcat]

It needs to always work when expected

[winter tinsel]

okay then no

[ivory bobcat]

So the addition of force shouldn't be the focus but rather the reasons why the if statement might not be working. You should provide some !code

[eternal falcon]

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[winter tinsel]

wait let m try something

[slate badge]

Is there anyway to use box colliders without the physical touch? Like if the player goes through or in the object, an event will then occur.

[ivory bobcat]

Set the collider to "is trigger"

[winter tinsel]

ok nvm that if statement works, a different one doesnt

currently, the box is colliding with something tagged "ground" and grounded which is a bool is false

it doesnt change it to true

does the collider only work on the first collision?

does it not check continuously wether its colliding or not?

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe you're changing it back to false immediately

The above code doesn't show us when the if statement would be executed

[slate badge]

Is OnCollisionEnter2D still available?

[winter tinsel]

gimme a sec

[slate badge]

Or is trigger must be turned off for it to work

[ivory bobcat]

On Trigger Enter 2d

[slate badge]

Alr ty

[winter tinsel]

wait 0 is smaller than 0.1 right?

this is the only code that resets it

right now rage is = 0

which should be smaller than that value right?

meaning its not being set to false again

[rocky canyon]

last time i checked

[winter tinsel]

so its not setting it to false??

and all the conditions in the if are correct so why isnt it setting it to true?

[rocky canyon]

if its not true, the conditions are indeed not met

possible case of assumption

[winter tinsel]

well its not grounded,

the only condition that MIGHT not be met

[ivory bobcat]

You need to properly provide !code
Those small snippets do not show us enough of what's going on.

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[winter tinsel]

those small snippets are everything thats going on lol

[ivory bobcat]

If the statement grounded = true was executed, grounded will be true.

[winter tinsel]

but grounded is NOT true

its currently false

which is one of the conditions

the other condition

is wether or not the bodies are colliding

[ivory bobcat]

Your concern was that it doesn't change to true. If the statement was reached, it will be true.

Your problem most definitely lies whatever

[winter tinsel]

and they currently are, my only assumption is if the collision only checks if its collided not if its currently colliding

single collision instead of constant collision something

[ivory bobcat]

We cannot tell you unless you show more code

[ivory bobcat]

You aren't providing enough info

[winter tinsel]

https://hatebin.com/utakgsdiml

[ivory bobcat]

On Collision Enter would only be called when a collision occurred - the first time.

[winter tinsel]

thats what im saying

how do i constantly check if its colliding?

just oncollison?

[ivory bobcat]

Try the other message ||Stay||

[winter tinsel]

okay now it allways works

finally thanks

[stable narwhal]

    void Update(){
        if (CanMove){
            HandleMovementInput();
            HandleMouseLook();
            ApplyFinalMovements();
            // Enable Jump
            if (ShouldJump)
                HandleJump();
            // Enable Crouch
            if (canCrouch)
                HandleCrouch();
        }

        // Enable stamina system
        if (IsRunning){
            EnableStamina();
        }
        
        // Disable stamina system
        else if (stamina < maxStamina){
            DisableStamina();
        }
    }

Is it ok to have this in Void Update?
Cus im not sure what the (rules) are in unity on what not to use in void update

[slate badge]

When my character dies, the scene is supposed to reset but when my character does die. The scene resets BUT in the hierachy it states "SampleScene (is lost)"

[lethal bolt]

This way of doing target rotation worked fine until i start rotation the model. Does anyone know why there is none tutorials on how to do this.

[hot palm]

You might be loading the scene additively to your old scene, you would want to load it single

SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(index, LoadSceneMode.Single);
SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(index, LoadSceneMode.Additive);

[jaunty coyote]

Question, I have objects in my "Assets/Resource" path and im trying to load them, works flawleslly in editor but not in an exported build(Windows). Any ideas how could i fix it?

string objectPath = (objectsPath).Replace("Assets/Resources/", "") + "/" + d.Name + "/" + f.Name.Replace(".prefab", "");
GameObject tempItem = (GameObject)Resources.Load(objectPath);

[pallid nymph]

not sure you need the starting "/" in the path

[wintry quarry]

Where are you even getting objectsPath from in the first place?

[jaunty coyote]

private void OnEnable()
{
    foreach (Transform child in transform)
    {
        Destroy(child.gameObject);
    }

    DirectoryInfo info = new DirectoryInfo(objectsPath);
    DirectoryInfo[] dirs = info.GetDirectories();

    foreach (DirectoryInfo d in dirs)
    {
        DirectoryInfo subInfo = new DirectoryInfo(d.ToString());
        FileInfo[] files = subInfo.GetFiles("*.prefab");

        if (noneOption)//--------------
        {
            GameObject emptyElement = Instantiate(itemUiElemnt, transform);
            Sprite itemIconEmpty = null;
            emptyElement.GetComponent<ChangeText>().ChangeTextFunc("None", "0", itemIconEmpty);
            emptyElement.GetComponent<RetriveIten>().pathToObject = removeItem;
            emptyElement.GetComponent<ChangeText>().imageIcon = null;
        }
        //------------

        foreach (FileInfo f in files)
        {
            GameObject element = Instantiate(itemUiElemnt, transform);
            string objectPath = (objectsPath).Replace("Assets/Resources/", "") + "/" + d.Name + "/" + f.Name.Replace(".prefab", "");
            GameObject tempItem = (GameObject)Resources.Load(objectPath);

            int itemAmaunt = LoadItemAmaunt(tempItem);
            Sprite itemIcon = LoadCorrectIcon(tempItem);

            element.GetComponent<ChangeText>().ChangeTextFunc(GetItemName(tempItem), itemAmaunt.ToString(), itemIcon);
            element.GetComponent<RetriveIten>().pathToObject = objectPath;
            element.GetComponent<ChangeText>().imageIcon = null; //idk how
        }
    }
}
```this is the whole code

[wintry quarry]

this doesn't answer the question of where objectsPath is coming from in the first place

[jaunty coyote]

its probably really clunky written but what it does, it bassicly make a virtual arsenal, similar to arma 3

[jaunty coyote]

Assets/Resources/Items/Primary -this is one of them, there is also secondary and so on

[wintry quarry]

Then you should use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.LoadAll.html with Resources.LoadAll("Items/Primary")

get rid of all the filesystem code

[jaunty coyote]

but i need the folders

like the folder names

[wintry quarry]

They will not exist once you build the game

Resources doesn't work that way

your approach here is fundamentally broken.

It will not work, you should rethink it

[jaunty coyote]

ig ill leave this project behind than, coded way to much to pull myself out

sounds stupid ye, but the whole thing built relaying on those folder names + it was more or less a testing one

[languid spire]

can you not even contemplate changing a few folder names and access methods?

[rocky canyon]

oofsicle 🍭

[jaunty coyote]

the code got way to messy... xD

[rocky canyon]

it happens..

[jaunty coyote]

was thinking of quiting this project bc of bad FPS framework i built so this is just a nail in the coffin

[languid spire]

good opportunity to 'un-mess' it then

[rocky canyon]

tis called refactoring ^

[jaunty coyote]

thanks for the feedback, will keep in mind for the future projects

[zenith cypress]

I mean, it takes little effort to move from folder names to just a scriptable object that can scan/populate an array that stores a folder name + prefabs in itself when you build the game/press a button in a custom editor.

Then you'd just read from that SO instead

Then you wouldn't even need resources at all

[jaunty coyote]

i see

either way, thank you all for the valuable info

[grave furnace]

hi guys, i got an object called player and theres a script on it that instances a prefab called hand. I need to reference the player inside a hand's script, can i pass the player object as a variable to the hand somehow?

thats confusing

[languid spire]

yes, no problem

[grave furnace]

i mean, how do i do that?

that script communcation

[modest dust]

Make a method in the hand script with a player script param

And pass this after instantiating the hand

[languid spire]

public Hand prefab; / set in inspector
...
Hand hand = Instantiate(prefab);
hand.player = this;

assuming being run in Player script

[grave furnace]

guess im not doing it right

[languid spire]

Look at my code, I'm not using GameObject

[grave furnace]

oh

[wintry quarry]

Neither hand nor player should be GameObject

[modest dust]

public class Hand : MonoBehaviour
{
  private Player m_player
  
  public void Init(Player player)
  {
    m_player = player
  }
}

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
  [SerializeField] private Hand m_handPrefab;

  private void InitHand()
  {
    Hand handInstance = Instantiate(m_handPrefab);
    handInstance.Init(this);
  }
}```

For clarity I suppose

[grave furnace]

Here Player references the script, right?

the class i created to code this

[modest dust]

The Hand class instance, yes

And a Hand prefab

If there's a Hand component directly on your prefab, you can drag and drop it into a Hand field in the inspector

[north fulcrum]

can i somehow make scripts broadcast messages that other scripts listen to so i dont have to acces both components every time? or is the latter just easier

[wintry quarry]

Player is the player script
Hand is the hand script

[wintry quarry]

wdym "access both components every time"?

You can use UnityEvent or C# events if you want events

[modest dust]

Instantiating it will instantiate the whole prefab and you already have a reference to the Hand component, which has the needed method

[north fulcrum]

so like lets say my character jumps and i want to forward that to the gui

[wintry quarry]

You can use events for this yes

[north fulcrum]

do i have to acces both the character script and the text component to change that or is there an easier way

and im doing this in the character script

[wintry quarry]

note that events don't really save you from references, they just invert the dependency. I.e. instead of the Player script referencing the UI, the UI will reference the player in order to listen to the event.

[wintry quarry]

Again i have no idea what you mean by "acces both the character script and the text component"

[north fulcrum]

in my code i have to reference them both as an object i think and im just wondering is that really the best way to go about it

[grave furnace]

whats the site we use to post a long code here?

[wintry quarry]

In which code

you will need references somewhere

[north fulcrum]

in the character script

[modest dust]

!code

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[north fulcrum]

in the update() function

[wintry quarry]

Ok so like I said, no you don't need to reference the ui in the character script. You can use events.

[wintry quarry]

Options are:

• Use a UnityEvent on the player and assign it to a function on the UI in the inspector
• Use a C# event on the player and have the Ui reference the player to listen to it
• Use a static C# event on the player class and have the UI script just subscribe to the static event

[grave furnace]

https://hastebin.com/share/luyopoziki.csharp
https://hastebin.com/share/dabojuvire.csharp

[slate badge]

Where do i add this code? Within update?

[grave furnace]

am i doing it right?

[wintry quarry]

no you're still doing GameObject handPrefab;

and GameObject player

[grave furnace]

i mean, am i posting the code in the right way?

[summer stump]

Yes, but why post the old code at all?
Fix it and THEN post it

[wintry quarry]

yes

[hot palm]

No, you use what you need to in the place where you currently reload the scene. Those are the 2 different types of how you CAN load a scene

[grave furnace]

cause if i replace the GameObject for my script i can't instantiate it

i hate language barrier lol

almost using google translator

[wintry quarry]

This is not correct. Yes you can Instantiate the handMovement directly.

[slate badge]

So if I simply want to reset the scene entirely, i would use single no?

[north fulcrum]

would you say unity events or c# events are preferred in my case

[wintry quarry]

Kind of personal preference, but I prefer C# events for this.

[north fulcrum]

why so?

[languid spire]

ask yourself, do you want them exposed in the inspector or not

[grave furnace]

ok it says i can't convert handMoviment into GameObject

prob because im trying to instantiate the script not the prefab lol

[north fulcrum]

that may be helpful but i cant say for sure, is that the main difference?

[languid spire]

ok, so change the return type of the Instantiate

[languid spire]

basically, yes,

[polar acorn]

Incorrect. If you give it the type of a component it still instantiates the whole object, it just returns that component instead of the GameObject

[summer stump]

Change the variable on line 7 AND the return type on line 18

You need to change BOTH

[grave furnace]

OH now i see that

i feel i was refusing to think

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

i replaced GameObject for var idk why

but it wont change anything i guess

what i don't understand is how am i instantiating a script?

[languid spire]

who is writing your code? You or some other entity?

[north fulcrum]

is there a site with all the naming conventions specifically the ones like ``m_, g_ or __name`

[grave furnace]

me

[summer stump]

Did you remove the instantiate call?

[languid spire]

then why dont you know what you are doing?

[north fulcrum]

i want to understand their purpose so i can read the docs better

[summer stump]

Depends on the conventions you want to follow. Microsoft of course has their own

If you google "c# naming conventions" it will come up with them

[polar acorn]

https://unity.com/how-to/naming-and-code-style-tips-c-scripting-unity

[grave furnace]

guess ik what im doing just can't use the right english words

[north fulcrum]

thanks

[grave furnace]

to tell you guys what im doing

[summer stump]

Did you remove the instantiate call?

[grave furnace]

no i just change the types

[willow scroll]

"idk why"

[summer stump]

What line is instantiate on now then. I do not see it in your most recent code

[grave furnace]

wdym, it stills line 18

[summer stump]

Ah my bad. I'm on my phone so it was off screen and I just missed it

What is the current issue then?

[grave furnace]

oh ok

now it says the object i want to instantiate is null

i have to drag it

[polar acorn]

When you change the type of a variable set in the inspector, it forgets its previous value, you'll need to assign it again

[grave furnace]

when i drag the player, it says the type mismatches, since the type of the player referenced on the hand script is playerMovement (the script) should i drag the instead script?

no it doesn't work

[hot palm]

yep, single unloads all other scenes

[polar acorn]

Does the object you're dragging in have a playerMovement script on the root of the prefab? If it's a child object it won't work

[latent gale]

help why is it giving me errors 😭 i have no idea whats happening

[grave furnace]

the object im dragging (the player) isn't a prefab

its an object on the scene

[polar acorn]

Are you trying to drag it into a prefab?

[grave furnace]

yes

[languid spire]

you have a private declaration inside a methed

[grave furnace]

i can turn it in a prefab

[polar acorn]

Prefabs cannot reference objects in the scene. You will need to set that value on the instance that is created in the scene

[latent gale]

oh.

i understand now but all these random errors just dont make sense

[languid spire]

then you need to spend some time to learn c#

[polar acorn]

They're not random. You just dropped a class-level structure in the middle of a function. The compiler is going to get confused

You essentially cut your function in half by putting that there

and the first half has no ending braces, while the second half has no start

Hence all the other errors

[latent gale]

oh

[grave furnace]

thxx guys

[latent gale]

ph eeah i can see that now

thanks

[grave furnace]

everything is working now

so, when i instantiate the script instead of the prefab itself im instatiating the prefab if thats inside the root of it?

thats what i understand

[languid spire]

you got it

[grave furnace]

is it possible to a script to be inside more than one object?

i mean

more than one prefab

[languid spire]

sure

[grave furnace]

then if i try to instantiate a script inside two prefabs what will happen?

[languid spire]

the inspector will accept any prefab that has that script on it

[grave furnace]

what

[languid spire]

you can only assign one prefab in the inspector, wdym by 2 prefabs?

[grave furnace]

oh i drag one prefab to the inspector so it won't have to choose one since i've already done

nvm

ok i get it

thx

[slate badge]

what do i replace index with?

[loud sage]

is the rigidbody component toggleable through a script?
I'm trying to make a ball turn on its physics when I enter a trigger box but the toggle I'm supposed to work with per the tutorial I'm following isn't there for rigidbody specifically

[rich adder]

you can only toggle if its Kinematic or not

there is no enable/disable directly per se

if you are in 2D afaik there is actually one to disable it , turn off Simulated

[loud sage]

I'm doing the bonus scene in the fundamentals tutorial, adding a trigger for it in the kid's room

so it's a 3D scene

[loud sage]

okay so the kinematic toggle kinda "pauses" the object's simulations as long as it's checked?

[rich adder]

yes. Are you in 2D or 3D ?

[loud sage]

3D

[rich adder]

kinematic stops all velocity / outside forces from affecting it

[loud sage]

and that's workable then
my other Idea was gonna be an invisible bowl to cradle the ball that I would disable on trigger lol

[loud sage]

oh so it's still gonna fall if the object starts out in mid-air?

[rich adder]

why would it fall if no velocity is present

or affected by outside forces (gravity)

[hot palm]

The build index of your scene

[summer stump]

No
Gravity is an outside force

[loud sage]

okay fair enough, I'm gonna test that out once I write out the script

it's like ontriggerenter into rigidbody.kinematic toggle or something along those lines I figure

I'll figure it out now that I know what property to manipulate

[hushed hinge]

what doesn't is the number counter not going up when i touched a game object from other scenes, since I don't know how to make it persistent

[slate badge]

is it the title of the scene?

[dire torrent]

just wanted to confirm, does this event still get invoked if the Video Player is not set to Loop?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Video.VideoPlayer-loopPointReached.html

[hot palm]

If you go to Build Settings and add the currently opened scene, you should see the scene in build on top and the index on the right side

[sage abyss]

Hey, how do I get info from project settings? Like gravity in project

[fringe plover]

Is it ok to name value same as enum name? it wont cause any problems right?

[slate badge]

As in the number order of the scenes?

[hot palm]

yep that's the build index

[full kernel]

Not typically, but for readability I would give one or the other a different name

[fringe plover]

okay thanks

[slate badge]

Alr thanks man

[hot palm]

I like to use current[enum name]

So currentRarity for example

If it's public it'd be CurrentRarity

[fringe plover]

ill mostly likely use WeaponRarity

[hot palm]

Yeah depends on what you need it for

[sage abyss]

Oh, it was Physics.gravity.

[summer stump]

If the enum is called WeaponRarity, I would probably make the variable called rarity

In state enums, I usually just put current in front of the Enum name (currentMoveState)

[fringe plover]

enum is Rarity, its gonna be used everywhere, not only weapons

and its not state

[summer stump]

I know it is not a state. That was clear from the name. That was just an aside in addition to the previous statement

[fringe plover]

okay, thanks!

[loud sage]

I think I'm missing something
the console tells me it couldn't find the namespace for rigidbody

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

public class BallPhysicsTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
//new classes to store properties of RigidBody component
public RigidBody rb;
public bool isKinematic = true;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}

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

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    // Check if the object entering the trigger is the player (or another specified object)
    if (other.CompareTag("Player")) // Make sure the player GameObject has the tag "Player"
    {
        if (rb != false)
        {
            //turn off the Kinematic property and enable physics
            rb.isKinematic = false;
        }
    }
}

}

[wintry quarry]

You spelled Rigidbody incorrectly.
In your code you wrote RigidBody

[polar acorn]

!code

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[loud sage]

oh ffs yeah

now it's whining about the output directory for the build, I don't know what that's about

[rich adder]

do you have a configured IDE ? it should show you all the correct names

[loud sage]

idk the autocorrect worked fine for the other scripts, probably typed it all the way in autopilot mode

the trigger works now tho

[rich adder]

did it not underline red in editor when you wrote it wrong?

[loud sage]

nope Visual Studio even gave me full green bars on the left side

I've always had beef with custom classes, we go way back

[rich adder]

can you screenshot your visual studio rq

[raw token]

That's an indicator of file changes, not syntax or errors 🙃

[rich adder]

make sure it says Assembly-CSharp up top. not miscellaneous

[rich adder]

yeah not configured

[loud sage]

retyped it wrong on purpose

[rich adder]

double check these steps !vs

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio guide

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

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[rich adder]

also closing VS n clicking the Regen project files button after

[loud sage]

alright yea I was just using the virgin configuration of VS I as using for normal programming

[rich adder]

yeah its gonna make your coding better when you can pullup all the proper classes and whanot

[loud sage]

what's weird is that it did give me the suggestions for the autocomplete, but not the red underlines

[rich adder]

at least you will know it compiles with no errors, even the code doesn't work as expected sometimes lol

[rich adder]

I think it was just giving the common used items you had already, not the actual Unity classes

[raw token]

I did update VS recently and noticed it seems to have introduced an AI autocomplete of some variety

[loud sage]

nope it gave me the proper list from the namespaces
I barely used VS before this

let alone the 2022 version

[rich adder]

well right now its not lol so I'd take care of that first

[loud sage]

alright

gotta love the random grunt work you'd have never thought you needed to do in order to not go insane 100 hours down the line

huh
it's all already there

same goes for the Unity hub & editor side

I did run an update in VS tho, maybe it was just a version conflict

[rich adder]

there are more steps to it

[summer stump]

That is just one step
And having a checkmark doesn't mean it was installed necessarily

[loud sage]

I checked all the steps in here

[summer stump]

Ok, and did you regenerate the project files as navarone said?

[loud sage]

okay I didn't know what that meant so my eyes kinda skipped over that part

[summer stump]

No worries. It makes sense to do it at the very end anyways

It is just a button in external tools. Only the top one or two checkboxes need clicking. That's all I do at least, I am still unclear on which are necessary. Definitely not all of them though

[loud sage]

okay where do you go for that

[summer stump]

In external tools. The same place in the guide where you selected visual studio as the external tool

It is in unity

#🤝┃introductions 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[loud sage]

okay did that, it finally works now

[frosty hound]

Fix up your name/profile if you want to use this server.

[loud sage]

celebrations are in order indeed
it's like 30 degrees C right now
I'm gonna double dip the ice cream after dinner 🫠

[summer stump]

Come on.....

[raw token]

🤦

[frosty hound]

!ban 920336052231749652 Shitty human being

[eternal falcon]

7moodyxd was banned.

[loud sage]

rip that guy
he showed promise to make irreverent slav jank

good riddance

[long jacinth]

    {
        if (DisplayVar != null)
        {   
            string FormatTime(float time)
            {
                var minutes = (int)time / 60;
                var seconds = (int)time % 60;
                return $"{minutes:00}:{seconds:00}";
            }
            val += Time.deltaTime;
            System.TimeSpan timeSpan = System.TimeSpan.FromSeconds(val);
            DisplayVar.text = timeSpan.ToString(@"hh\:mm\:ss");
        }
        else
        {
            val = 0;
        }
    }```

its not updating

[raw token]

Weird place for a local function 🤔

[earnest rivet]

Youre declaring a method inside a method

lol

[rich adder]

why did you make the function local

[long jacinth]

wait

so where am i supposed to declare it

[earnest rivet]

outside of Update

[rich adder]

the same place you declared the other ones

[raw token]

You're also not actually calling said function

[long jacinth]

alrght how do i call it tho

[rich adder]

i literally showed you verbatim where to place it & how to call it lol

[earnest rivet]

kek

[raw token]

myFunctionOrMethodName(andItsArguments);

[rich adder]

you're confusing declaring vs calling @long jacinth

[long jacinth]

i mean how and where

[earnest rivet]

I would highly recommend a beginner C# course.

So you can get a grasp of functions/methods, variables and the like

[summer stump]

You also combined two solutions. Delete the timespan stuff

[long jacinth]

i just need to finish this jam

[full kernel]

Are you even "finishing" it if you need people to spoon feed the code to you?

[earnest rivet]

Right, were giving you the solution but you don't know how to implement it

[full kernel]

Sounds like you're asking us to finish this jam for you

[earnest rivet]

So you're having the crowd do it for you

[long jacinth]

        {
            var minutes = (int)time / 60;
            var seconds = (int)time % 60;
            return $"{minutes:00}:{seconds:00}";
        }
    void Update()
    {
        if (DisplayVar != null)
        {   
            val += Time.deltaTime;

            DisplayVar.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = FormatTime(val);
        }
        else
        {
            val = 0;
        }
        
    }```

[earnest rivet]

You won't properly learn anything if you're copying and pasting

[rich adder]

or at very least know what you are copying & what it does

[long jacinth]

im panicking really my eyes are rolling all over the screen

[long jacinth]

im gonna try to learn

[rich adder]

we dont have to know any of that. write a journal

[earnest rivet]

What is this jam for? Your life?

[long jacinth]

no a special discord role and a youtuber playing my game

[earnest rivet]

Are you working on this by yourself?

[long jacinth]

sadly

actually thats a good thing my friend is convinced i should stop learning unity bec ai can do everything for me

[earnest rivet]

Your friend is delusional.

[long jacinth]

WORKS THANKS GUYS!!!!

[loud sage]

it's alright bro it's easy to get overwhelmed if you don't have any coding background
hell, I do and sometimes it's hard for me to follow references and inheritances too
just take things one step at a time and get creative with the stuff you look up

[summer stump]

Your friend, I'm sorry to say, is very incorrect and steered you wrong. This is laughable thinking
They clearly don't know anything about unity or ai

[earnest rivet]

In the western world we call them a "Hater"

[long jacinth]

well he isnt a hater he tried learning unity too he just thinks that ai will improve to the point where u just tell it to make a game and it makes the game

[polar acorn]

Then your friend is a fool

Or a grifter

or both

[long jacinth]

he left that ideology thankfully

[rich adder]

lmao

[earnest rivet]

maybe in a thousand years

but we wont be around to know

in the meantime, your friend is still delusional

[ripe shard]

when AI gets good enough to do X, everyone can do X, so doing X will become meaningless.

[earnest rivet]

unless someone here is immortal or a lich.

[long jacinth]

maybe he is

idk

im gonna stop here and make a leader board

[earnest rivet]

Yes, go get your discord role

[long jacinth]

i was gonna make a high score

but no good

[analog wraith]

    {
        bossTransform = animator.transform;
        playerTransform = GameObject.Find("Player").transform;
        monoBehaviour = animator.GetComponent<MonoBehaviour>();
        initialWidth = UnityEngine.Random.Range(1.5f, 3f);
        initialLength = UnityEngine.Random.Range(2f, 4f);
        monoBehaviour.StartCoroutine(Trigger(animator));
        animator.SetTrigger("Return");
    }
    IEnumerator Trigger(Animator animator)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < UnityEngine.Random.Range(3, 5); i++)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds((i) * Random.Range(.15f, .3f));
            // monoBehaviour.StartCoroutine(Fire(widthMultiplier, lengthMultiplier));
            Debug.Log("HI");
            widthMultiplier *= Random.Range(1.5f, 2f);
            lengthMultiplier *= Random.Range(1.5f, 2f);
        }
    }```
Could someone help me with this? I'm trying to make it so when I enter the state I start a coroutine that happens independently and I call SetTrigger("Return") to go back to the preivous state the next frame. Problem is it seems to be waiting for the coroutine to finish before returning to the previous state.

[earnest rivet]

The coroutine allows you to call the method without blocking the update calls

but still is technically "synchronous"

[analog wraith]

So would the workaround be to call SetTrigger inside the OnStateUpdate?

[wintry quarry]

Problem is it seems to be waiting for the coroutine to finish before returning to the previous state.
What makes you think that? There's a lot missing from the code you shared. Where does returning to the previous state happen?

btw:
i < UnityEngine.Random.Range(3, 5) you should really do this before the for loop otherwise it's generting a new int each iteration of the loop

e.g.

int count = UnityEngine.Random.Range(3, 5);
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)```

[analog wraith]

ok wait thats really dumb mb ty for catching that

[raw token]

        monoBehaviour.StartCoroutine(Trigger(animator));
        animator.SetTrigger("Return");

The coroutine will only run up until the first yield before proceeding to the animator.SetTrigger() call, and the coroutine will not advance until the next frame... There should be no delay.

You could chuck some Logs in there to verify

[hushed hinge]

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/211548/how-can-i-increase-my-counter-and-have-it-persist-across-scenes-and-runtime using tis website instead

[analog wraith]

basically when I return to the previous state the boss sprite the animator is in starts moving, but the " Debug.Log("HI");" line runs before the sprite starts moving

[wintry quarry]

you sure that's because of the coroutine and not because your animator transitions have an exit time or something?

[analog wraith]

I alr made sure all of the transitions dont have exit times

[wintry quarry]

there's nothing in this code that waits for the coroutine to finish

unless widthMultiplier etc. are properties for example?

[analog wraith]

nah their just private variables

[verbal dome]

Are you sure you always have only one Counter script in the scene?
You have this, which makes it the instance:cs Instance = this;
But can the scene you loaded already have a Counter in it?

If yes, you should handle destroying duplicate singletons

[hushed hinge]

actually, the counter is for the gameplay scenes at first it was used to collect coins
while MuonCounter is a different thing where it counts how many muon objects you have touched

[verbal dome]

Well then my question stands but for MuonCounter instead of Counter

Are you sure that only one MuonCounter is instantiated during the game and when switching scenes?

[hushed hinge]

what do you mean only one MuonCounter?

[frosty hound]

Thread

[queen adder]

How would I make a method run on a perfab when its instantiated

[ripe shard]

MonoBehaviour.Start() gets called when an object is instantiated and active for the first time.

[queen adder]

So start is when it spawns in

[wintry quarry]

Awake is when it spawns in

Awake and OnEnable will have run by the time Instantiate returns.
Start will run later, just before its first monobehaviour lifecycle function runs (FixedUpdate/Update, etc)

[ripe shard]

Start is when it is "alive", awake/enable are more technical/local events, you'd pick and choose depending on what you want to do.

[raw token]

I often refer back to this page in the manual when I need to sort out execution order

[summer stump]

Oh dang. That is good to know. I never knew that (about awake and onenable completing before instantiate returns) 🙏

[ripe shard]

this isn't entriely guaranteed, if you instantiate an inactive prefab awake/enable will not get called

[summer stump]

Yeah fair. I get that part, but thanks for the clarification

[queen adder]

Okay thanks a lot

[ripe shard]

i find that to be a very useful property when constructing complex objects or as part of a save-system.

[summer stump]

Yeah, lotta control over the execution flow that way

[ripe shard]

you can basically inject your own lifecycle by hacking around these events

[queen adder]

How would I change the rotation of an object to face another in 2d?

[wintry quarry]

transform.right = other.position - transform.position;

[slender nymph]

get the direction from that object to the other (direction is (endPoint - startPoint).normalized) and assign it as the transform.up or transform.right depending on its non-rotated orientation

[polar acorn]

Set transform.right or transform.up or whatever direction serves as "forward" on your sprite to the direction between the two objects

[queen adder]

Thank you a lot never knew it was so simple

[wintry quarry]

"YouTUbe tutorial makers hate this one simple trick!"

[foggy osprey]

I watched Codeer’s video on how to make a procedural animation. I need a bit of help with the second step of the video, which involves anchoring/fix the the bottom of the foot to the ground.Thanks!

[eager spindle]

not exactly sure what you mean. do you mean positioning the model so that the bottom of the model is in contact with the ground? or do you mean using IK constraints to detect the ground

[long jacinth]

oh my lord the game jam has over time

i just want to thank all of you guys

[foggy osprey]

Yes i mean :do you mean using IK constraints to detect the ground.

[eager spindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Gjhr1IP6w
are you looking at this video?

[foggy osprey]

Yes!

[eager spindle]

im not sure what your setup looks right now but is your model positioned such that one leg is on the ground already?

[hybrid gust]

how would I go about finding out which child has been hit in code?
The parent gameObject that is highlighted has a rigidbody and the script I'm using. OnCollisionEnter (Collision) seems to only have members that can get me a reference to the sword that hit it, but not areference to the body part I've hit

[ashen trail]

how do I say "if the bullet spawns on the player don't do OnTriggerEnter " in code.

[eager spindle]

which gameobject has oncollisionenter?

[hybrid gust]

The training_dummy

[eager spindle]

assign your player the Player tag.
within OnTriggerEnter, check if the gameobject does not have the player tag.

[eager spindle]

do this check in your sword instead

[foggy osprey]

Yes the foot is on the ground here is where i am Rn:

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

public class Walker : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform Target;
public float maxDistance = 0.9f;
public float moveSpeed = 2f;
public float arcHeight = 2f;
private Vector3 startPosition;
private Vector3 endPosition;
private Vector3 arcMidpoint;
private float arcProgress = 0f;
private bool isArcing = false;

void FixedUpdate()
{
    if (isArcing)
    {
        PerformArcMovement();
    }
    else
    {
        CheckDistanceToTarget();
    }
}

void CheckDistanceToTarget()
{
    float distance = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, Target.position);

    if (distance > maxDistance)
    {
        // Börjar gå
        startPosition = transform.position;
        endPosition = Target.position;
        arcProgress = 0f;
        isArcing = true;

        // Calculerar var mitten är på Y axlen
        Vector3 midPointBetween = (startPosition + endPosition) / 2;
        arcMidpoint = new Vector3(midPointBetween.x, midPointBetween.y + arcHeight, midPointBetween.z);
    }
}

void PerformArcMovement()
{
    // Hur snabbt ska det gå
    arcProgress += Time.deltaTime * moveSpeed / Vector3.Distance(startPosition, endPosition);

    if (arcProgress >= 1f)
    {
        // gör klart animationen
        transform.position = endPosition;
        isArcing = false;
        return;
    }

    // Slerp från början till slut
    Vector3 positionToMid = Vector3.Slerp(startPosition, arcMidpoint, arcProgress);
    Vector3 positionToEnd = Vector3.Slerp(arcMidpoint, endPosition, arcProgress);
    transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(positionToMid, positionToEnd, arcProgress);
}

}

[cosmic dagger]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[foggy osprey]

Oh thanks

[hybrid gust]

I was hoping to avoid that if at all possible. Are my hands tied here or?

[eager spindle]

unfortunately your hands are tied here

best to do the check in the sword now so when you have multiple targets later your sword code easily carries over

[short hazel]

Doesn't collsion contacts have a reference to both colliders?

Or that's only in 2D

[hybrid gust]

I don't think so?

Unless I missed it

But so be it ig

[short hazel]

collision.GetContact(0).???, let me check

[cosmic dagger]

OnTriggerEnter is a method, not a variable. You cannot assign or compare it. No idea why you have return there . . .

[hybrid gust]

checking rn

[ashen trail]

sorry I just know a bit of coding from learning from unity courses. How would I do that?

[hybrid gust]

yup

it works

Granted I still thing Uldynia is right in terms of flexibility

[short hazel]

It does, there's otherCollider and thisCollider!
So as long as the Rigidbody is on the dummy object and the children have colliders, collision events will get reported bubbled up to the Rigidbody meaning you only need the script in one place, where the rigidbody is

[eager spindle]

when you tag an object. you can easily check the tag of the object later on in case you wanna do stuff. Here, since we want to tag our player with the Player tag we don't have to do more checks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2lLNZgCu6k

very short video on this

I strongly recommend you to learn c# before you start coding in unity, have solid foundations

[round mirage]

Pepper = gameObject.transform.GetChild("Object Preview");

i want get child object of my gameObject with his name someone can help me 🙂

[eager spindle]

for some people they did dive straight into unity, that's also an approach. but for me I started learning a lot faster and understood a lot of things by learning programming(c++) before diving into unity