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[wintry quarry]

Yeah but you would want to turn off gravity for this, no?

[muted wadi]

let me give that a try

[wintry quarry]

body.useGravity = false;

[muted wadi]

even turning off gravity doesn't seem to fix it

i can see the rigidbody's use gravity checkbox gets unticked while im wall running too

[wintry quarry]

maybe show your full script?

[muted wadi]

is there anything in particular you want to see because the script is really long

dont think i can post it here

[wintry quarry]

Use a paste site

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[muted wadi]

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

[wintry quarry]

not sure to be honest. seems it shoud proably be mostly ok? The slerp to essentially 0 velocity is a little odd.

[muted wadi]

could it be because of my jump?

actually maybe not, its not being called every frame

[muted wadi]

what do you mean by that last part

[wintry quarry]

time to add more logs and/or attach the debugger

[wintry quarry]

Vector3 tempGrav = Physics.gravity * 0.01f;```
Followed by
```cs
body.velocity = Vector3.Slerp(wallRunVelocity, tempGrav, wallRunProgress);```

since tempGrav will be practically 0 (unless your gravity is crazy high to start), you're Slerping towards essentially 0

[muted wadi]

yeah thats the weird part

i turned it way down just to test but the gravity stays the same

i seriously dont get it

wait hold on

you were right before

i changed the slerp to lerp and now the gravity is changing

how tf does that even work

thanks for the suggestion anyway

[wintry quarry]

Slerp is really for direction vectors

linear stuff should use Lerp typically

[muted wadi]

ah i see

[karmic isle]

itll probably just be easier to rewrite my code for rigidbodies wouldnt it?

ill do it tomorrow im irritated

[rocky canyon]

each have pros and cons..

[summer stump]

All you have to do is add a downward vector into the Move command. That is it. (you are using CharacterController right? Just going on memory)

[buoyant knot]

gravity isn’t hard to do with or without rigidbodies

the main benefit of rigidbodies is that they already have implementation to interact with unity’s whole physics system. To connect with and interact with colliders of different shapes.

And to stage the movements so motion can respect collisions.

The downside is that rigidbodies have several aspects about their implementation that are hard to get around if you need to.

[twin bolt]

What is wrong with this code? Its "working" but instead of rotating to 50 (the dial starts at 90), it rotates to -39. https://i.imgur.com/aZwkycT.png

[wintry quarry]

transform.rotation is a Quaternion

you're treating it like it's a set of euler angles

you can't do that

because it's not

i.e. plugging transform.rotation.x into Quaternion.Euler(x, y, z) is not valid

you're putting a square peg into a round hole

garbage in, garbage out

[twin bolt]

so do EulerAngles instead?

[wintry quarry]

no

it's best to avoid reading euler angles back from a transform if at all possible

they're not reliable

what are you trying to accomplish

[twin bolt]

I'm just trying to rotate towards -40 of the current z value.

[wintry quarry]

I'm not sure what that means exactly. That's not very precise language

[twin bolt]

I'm trying to rotate towards a certain value. That value will be the current z value - 40.

[wintry quarry]

Perhaps something like:

Quaternion targetRotation = transform.rotation * Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -40);```
Then later on:

```cs
Dial1.transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(Dial1.transform.rotation, targetRotation, Time.deltaTime * speed);```

[gusty scaffold]

wow you're still helping out here

i have another question

can i remap materials on a per-instance basis?

[muted wadi]

@wintry quarry hey, you helped me with my script before, could you also help me figure out why when i stop the wall run coroutine, the player's speed is still super slow and seems like the coroutine is continuing even though it should be stopped? https://hastebin.com/share/sujinutufi.csharp

[raw token]

The only thing that caught my eye is that if you jump from a wallrun, isWallRunning is not reset to false, so the velocities don't get updated in FixedUpdate()

[muted wadi]

added a bool but that didn't seem to fix it

[raw token]

There might also be a problem when you stop the wall run before the coroutine runs to completion - body.useGravity may still be false

[muted wadi]

i tried setting use gravity to true separately but that didn't seem to fix it either. I mean its strange because if i stop the coroutine then it should just stop where it is and not even run the part after the while loop

[raw token]

One more thought: I'm not actually sure whether or not a stopped coroutine will pass an equality check for == null... On paper it would still be a non-null value, unless Unity overloads the equality operator like they do for destroyed game objects.

You might test that just to be sure 👀

[wintry quarry]

Yeah exactly:

body.useGravity = true;
        isWallRunning = false;```

So these won't run

Which doesn't bode well for the rest of your script

[wintry quarry]

I don't think it will

[muted wadi]

i added those to the jump call and it still does the same thing :(

[rich adder]

you have to explicitly assign it null

[muted wadi]

im at a loss here i have no idea what im doing wrong

the slide coroutine doesn't have this problem

if you start a slide you can end it whenever you want and you'll have your regular movement speed immediately

[raw token]

What's the current state of your code?

[muted wadi]

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

[raw token]

Perhaps the ground check fails immediately after breaking out of the wall run and canWallRun becomes true again, such that the coroutine is started once more.

[muted wadi]

yeah that seems like it could be an issue

ok so i've added a little check in update
if (isWallRunning && wallContact == null) { StopCoroutine(wallRunRoutine); }
but the issue still persists

[raw token]

Where did that go? I would think to just chuck a Debug.Log() into WallRun() just to check if it's starting multiple times

[muted wadi]

alright lemme try that too

btw that check just went to the bottom of update

[raw token]

is wallContact something that's changed externally or some such?

[muted wadi]

yeah wallcontact is a variable in another script that just checks whether or not the rigidbody is in contact with a wall. I can see it update through the editor and it doesn't react when touching the floor if you're wondering

also i checked the debug log and it seems like when im touching the wall in midair the wallrun coroutine is being called every frame

[raw token]

Excellent - we've located a relevant problem at least 😅

[muted wadi]

okay so, the sliding is only called once when the coroutine starts and loop runs any amount it needs to, but the wallrun routine is called every frame even when the debug isn't in the while loop

oh my god

thanks so much

the problem was that i forgot to assign a check to wall running like i did with sliding. Sliding has a check to make sure it doesn't get called if isSliding is already true. Wall running didn't have that.

[raw token]

I had just reached that conclusion myself 😁. Solid!

[muted wadi]

the only other problem i have now is that jumping off the wall doesn't seem to work the way i want it to

it kind of just boosts me forward instead of up

[steep walrus]

I have these targets in my game that I shoot down and I want to reset them automatically after 5 seconds. I have some of the code but I dont understand how I would go about "saving" the original position. I only have one variable for it but would I need 5 variables as I have 5 targets?

oh wait nvm I think i just figured it out

[rich adder]

store the position in a list or dictionary

I would make a custom class to keep it neat

[steep walrus]

would making an empty at the original position for each target and then using that as the transform be a valid solution?

[rich adder]

but ig how you have is good too store it directly on the object itself as V3

[rich adder]

creating empty gameobjects still has its allocation ig

why do you need the whole transform?

[steep walrus]

wdym? like including rotation and stuff?

[rich adder]

yeah thought you only want old Position

[steep walrus]

i dont really know how to store stuff in a list or what even a dictionary is and i also dont know what a custom class is

i think i do want the correct rotation tho fs cause i dont want them keeping their rotation after falling

[rich adder]

make it simpler on yourself and store it directly on the object then, Vector3 oldPosition

[steep walrus]

scale obviously doesnt change tho

[rich adder]

then modify it with a method

[raw token]

That might be because after the apex of the wallrun the body may already have some downwards velocity, and since the jump velocity is additive some portion of it would be spent counteracting what's already there. This could have the net effect of slowing the descent or gliding...

But if that's the case, I would think it would behave more as you would like when jumping anywhere prior to the apex

[rich adder]

so yeah thats why I suggested a custom class to also keep rotation

[steep walrus]

ohhhhhhh so i could just add that into my code

i see

yeah thats a good solution

ill try that

[rich adder]

custom class is nothing to fret, its just defining how an object would be.
this case you could combine Vector3 and Quaterion

or 2 Vector3s and store as euler

[muted wadi]

that's a good shout. I tested a bit more and it seems another issue is the wall run is activated again if i try to jump and thats why it looks like im being boosted forward. I'll give it a cooldown and see if that fixes the issue.

[steep walrus]

okay well my solution almost worked but the only issue is that they kept their original rotationfor some reason

[rich adder]

did you store it?

[steep walrus]

store what? the originalpos in the vector3 like you sad?

[rich adder]

I meant storing both as one object

 public class PosAndRot
 {
     public Vector3 Position;
     public Quaternion Rotation;
     public PosAndRot(Vector3 pos, Quaternion rot)
     {
         Position = pos;
         Rotation = rot;
     }
 }```

[steep walrus]

i do not have that in my code no

[raw token]

As an afterthought, you might just set canWallRun to false as soon as the coroutine starts instead of adding a cooldown. That would prevent a second wallrun until the groundcheck clears again

[rich adder]

its just an example of what you could potentially do to store both, but ofc you can just store the 2 fields on the object directly

[muted wadi]

thanks for the advice

really appreciate it

[rich adder]

this is also valid

private Vector3 oldPosition;
private Quaternion oldRotation;
public void Awake()
{
    oldPosition = transform.position;
    oldRotation = transform.rotation ;
}
public void Restore()
{
    transform.position = oldPosition;
    transform.rotation = oldRotation;
}```

[steep walrus]

that is what i wrote and when they respawn in the original spot they keep their rotation from when they fell on the ground so 90 off. they also glitch out randomly for a few seconds and then do nothing. when i try and shoot them again they have absolutely no physics

[rich adder]

are they physics objects? you want to store the rigidbody.position and also assign it on restore with rb.MovePosition

[steep walrus]

yeah all physics objects with rigidbody

okay ill make sure to store that and apply that

also is that maybe why they were glitching out. like does unity not like their physics colliders not connected?

[rich adder]

no you have to actually reset the velocity

when you teleport you still mainan the old velocity

im guessing this is whats happening , not sure

[steep walrus]

i think they were fully still but how would i set velocity to 0

[rich adder]

rb.velocity = Vector3.zero // linear vel
rb.angularVelocity = Vector3.zero // rotation vel

[steep walrus]

i put those two lines of code in the IEnumerator and im getting errors

should i put them somewhere else?

[polar acorn]

What does the error say

[steep walrus]

"the name rb does not exist in the current context" does it think its supposed to be a variable?

im assuming i did something wrong and was supposed to define it somewhere

[polar acorn]

Do you have anything named rb in this script?

[steep walrus]

no

[polar acorn]

So that would be the problem

[steep walrus]

oh so do I need to name a transform to some unity function

[wintry quarry]

You can only use variables that have been previously declared

[polar acorn]

What are you trying to change velocity or angularVelocity on?

[timid pike]

anyone got an idea what this means in simpleton words?

[steep walrus]

thats what i mean do i have to declare like "public (some unity function i dont know) rb"

[steep walrus]

on the gameObject that the script is applied on

which are targets that are just stretched out cubes

[wintry quarry]

Variables don't use "functions"

[polar acorn]

GameObjects don't have velocity or angularVelocity

[wintry quarry]

variables have types

[steep walrus]

variable types yeah sorry

[wintry quarry]

where did you even get the idea to write this code?

[wintry quarry]

this code I mean

[steep walrus]

the guy helping me before explained that i need to set the rigid body velocity and rotational velocity to 0

[wintry quarry]

ok so you need a reference to the Rigidbody of course

[steep walrus]

yeah thats what i was trying to do but idk how to reference it

[wintry quarry]

make a variable

drag and drop it in the inspector

[steep walrus]

what kind of variable

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you would probably want to be changing the velocity and angularVelocity of the Rigidbody

[wintry quarry]

The thing you're trying to reference

[polar acorn]

So, you probably want to make a variable that holds one

[wintry quarry]

What kind of thing are you trying to reference?

[steep walrus]

gameobject

[wintry quarry]

no

Not a GameObject

[polar acorn]

GameObjects do not have velocity

[steep walrus]

then rigidbody?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[steep walrus]

is that a variable type?

[wintry quarry]

of course

[rich adder]

how were you using rigidbody this whole time?

[wintry quarry]

All components are

[steep walrus]

wdym?

[rich adder]

you said they were rigidbodies.. i guess they just fall ? you never applied any force to them?

[steep walrus]

okay so now I would assign the specific target rigid body to that? and that would allow me to set the rigid body velocity to 0 as well as the position to my original position??

[timid pike]

wait is it possible that onclick is a variable name in the page and thats whats causing this?

[steep walrus]

theyre set so theyre standing

[rich adder]

i see. so you shoot them and you want them to reset how they were?

[steep walrus]

i can shoot them and they fall down correctly and after the 5 seconds its told to wait in the code they respawn like this

[rich adder]

so you throw a projectile at it not a raycast, thats why they fall down. Gotcha

[steep walrus]

yes projectile

sorry if i wasnt clear i dont have the knowledge of what is and isnt important and relevant to my code

[rich adder]

ok so then just reference the rigidbody thats on the target

[steep walrus]

and then set it to the original position and rotation as well?

[rich adder]

remember this ?

Just replace all the transform with rb.

[steep walrus]

oldPosition = rb.position;

like that

[rich adder]

ofcourse you need the component rigidbody referenced

correct

[steep walrus]

public Rigidbody Target; i did that at the top of the file is that how I could reference it

[rich adder]

this script i s on the target?

[steep walrus]

yes

[rich adder]

just call it rb

target doesnt make sense to me

[steep walrus]

okay ill add the other stuff now

and i js changed it ot rb

quick question is this part of the code setting those variables to the position and rotation to whatever they are at the very beginning of the game starting?

[rich adder]

yes

[steep walrus]

and oldRotation is a Transform correct?

[rich adder]

no its a quaternion as I wrote it

unity stores rotations in quaternions

they prevent gimbal lock issues

[steep walrus]

oh im understanding some of the stuff you were saying earlier better now this is making a little more sense

[rich adder]

haha yeah it creeps up on ya

[raw token]

More when the object first becomes a part of an active scene... So if you enter playmode and that object is already in your scene hierarchy, it is more or less the start of the game as far as that object is concerned

[steep walrus]

The code I wrote earlier when I had originalPos as a transform variable is now giving me an error saying that vector3 doesnt have a .position
how would I go about changing the vector3 as a position

that was my attempt

[rich adder]

well yeah gameObject doesn't have a Vector3 position

Vector3 position is a struct inside Transform

[eternal needle]

What you wrote isnt the error that its telling you

Vector3 is the type, a position is a Vector3

[rich adder]

Transform holds all 3
Vector3 Position
Quaternion Rotation
Vector3 Scale

[steep walrus]

oh i see

is that it?

[wintry quarry]

you can omit the this.gameObject part

[rich adder]

this is still wrong for two things

[wintry quarry]

just transform.position =

but also this is not anything to do with the Rigidbody

[rich adder]

you want to move the rigidbody position , and assign the variable you had stored

right now you're setting it to world 0 , 0 , 0

[steep walrus]

yeah i was just doing that as a placeholder

im not understanding these errors but is that how I would want to format tha

[burnt vapor]

Hover over them and you will know what's wrong

The errors are very clear

[rich adder]

you made it worse

i literally wrote it for you

[steep walrus]

oh yeah i see that now im copying it in my b

[rich adder]

i just said replace all the ones I wrote with transform with rb. You did something completly different

[steep walrus]

no errors this should work>?

[burnt vapor]

[rich adder]

why is transform.position still there

[burnt vapor]

Seriously, just test your code instead of asking

[rich adder]

you dont want to modify the tranform directly with rigidbody
delete the 2 lines transform

[steep walrus]

i was about to my bad

[steep walrus]

when i delete the transform.position and just make it position = originalPos; i get an error

[rich adder]

mate, delete the whole line not just transform lol

[steep walrus]

okay ill test now

[rich adder]

share the code with the proper formatting instead of screnshot I can show you since this might go on another half hour

[steep walrus]

lmao im sorry yeah idk how to format that

[steep walrus]

 private IEnumerator ResetPos(Vector3 originalPos)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);
        rb.position = originalPos;
        rb.rotation = originalRot;
        rb.velocity=Vector3.zero;
        rb.angularVelocity = Vector3.zero;
    }
}

thats what im about to test

that almost worked. like visually the targets are in the right spot but the bullets just go right through

oh actually it looks like the bullets get affected but the physics are basically gone with the targets like they arent moving at all

[rich adder]

how many times is this function called

its in update which looks like once you hit iit, it keeps calling it

you need a better way to start this coroutine

use a Public method which the projectile will call OnCollisionEnter

get rid of that Update

[steep walrus]

it only calls it if the current position is not equal to the original position and im realizing now i never defined the currentpos

[rich adder]

i know what it does, regardless its flawed logic

[steep walrus]

 public void OnCollisionEnter()
    {
        if(currentPos != originalPos)
        {
            StartCoroutine(ResetPos(originalPos));
        }
    }

thats what i have now and i got rid of the void update

[rich adder]

noo

[steep walrus]

do i need to get rid of the if statement

[rich adder]

this will call it when the item hits other stuff

OnCollisionEnter goes on the PROJECTILE script

[steep walrus]

ohhhhh okay

[rich adder]

the Target item only has a Public method that Starts the coroutine

[steep walrus]

public void OnCollisionEnter()
    {
      
    }

i added that in the "bullet" script i already ahve which is applied to my bullet prefab

[rich adder]

    //projectile script
    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        if(collision.collider.TryGetComponent(out ResetTargets target))
        {
            target.Hit();
        }
    }
    //ResetTargets script
    public void Hit()
    {
        if (restoring) return;
        StartCoroutine(ResetPos());
    }```

//ResetTargets script
bool restoring;
 private IEnumerator ResetPos()
{
  restoring = true;
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);
  rb.position = originalPos;
  rb.rotation = originalRot;
  rb.velocity=Vector3.zero;
  rb.angularVelocity = Vector3.zero;
  restoring = false;
}```

hope it makes sense where you're not blindly copying it..

[steep walrus]

i wasnt blindly copying it earlier i swear 🙏 i just dont have a good base knowledge of unity in general

thats why i was having a hard time i think cause i was comparing what you were saying without fully looking at the code

[rich adder]

a bit more to do with basics of c#

[steep walrus]

and all of these snippits should be going in the projectile script?

[rich adder]

no..

read the comment above

actually you can even get rid of the Parameter for IEnum thats useless if its a field already. Edited

[timid pike]

can someone tell me what this means? i dont have a single variable called "onclick" in all my scripts

[wintry quarry]

open the javascript console

look at the full error

[tired junco]

Hey, im currently attempting to create a third person character controller but im facing weird camera/world/player glitch effects (see video) this effect appears either on the player or on the world when im switching the camera (cinemachine free look camera) mode from lateupdate to fixedupdate and vice versa here's the code https://pastebin.com/wizzRc2Z

[rich adder]

also did you actually upload a zipped version

[timid pike]

am i not supposed to do that

whoopsies

[rich adder]

you're supposed to yes

[timid pike]

oh ok

[rich adder]

making sure index.html is at the root

[steep walrus]

 if(collision.collider.TryGetComponent(out ResetTargets target))
        {
            target.Hit();
        }

i only have an error on "Hit" and its telling me its "inaccessable due to its protection level" and im not sure what that means

[rich adder]

i fixed the code. I accidentally wrote Hit as private

[timid pike]

these are what are showing up, no idea what they mean

[wintry quarry]

idk afaik this is an error on your webpage/javascript code. Not anything in Unity.

[timid pike]

true

[rocky canyon]

i would concur

[steep walrus]

that worked thank you so much really appreciate the help and especially your time

[timid pike]

it doesnt affect the game at all it just does an annoying popup when you start it and i wanna get rid of it, probably gonna have to go to newgrounds forums since this seems like a problem with the website

[rich adder]

try making an uncompressed built if you havent already

I don't mean the final zip files.

inside the WebGL settings in unity, compression method. Try without compression

I know github throws a fit when I upload webgl compressed

[muted wadi]

so I know that it's possible to get the normal of an object using contact points, but how would i get this vector and what is it called? The idea is that when the player collides with an object, the camera forward will determine what direction that line will move in along the object.

[eternal needle]

Well the line you drew is a seemingly random one, is the player intended to be at the start of that other arrow facing in the direction of the arrow?
If so this would just be vector projection

[wintry quarry]

that would be a tangent vector

and yes - vector projection will get it

project the camera forward vector on the normal

[muted wadi]

the arrow labeled n is the normal

[wintry quarry]

e.g.
Vector3 tangent = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(cameraForward, surfaceNormal).normalized;

[muted wadi]

im afraid i cant understand that

could you dumb it down for me 🙏

[mint remnant]

n is just the cross product of 2 vectors that lir on the plane, if it's in the downward direction swap the order of the cross product vectors

[wintry quarry]

camera vector is the dark blue
projected vector is the light blue

the surface normal is not pictured, but it would be sticking straight up out of the yellow plane

imagine shining a light straight down on the surface

and your vector casts a shadow

that's what vector projection is

[muted wadi]

oh ok

so when the camera vector comes in contact with the object, the projected vector only takes into account the direction along the object's surface?

[wintry quarry]

well the vector doesn't "come in contact with" anything

projected vector only takes into account the direction along the object's surface
Yes

[muted wadi]

ok im starting to understand

if it doesn't come into contact with the object then how does it know a vector is being projected onto it?

[timid pike]

just force uncompressed or are there any other settings

[wintry quarry]

nothing knows anything

we just did some math with the vectors

we know because we chose to do the math

none of these things are "aware" of anything, they are mathematical abstractions

[rich adder]

nope just try build without compression (in unity)
then zip as normal

if it still gives error then its probably 100% on their end

unless you test it on itch i suppose

[muted wadi]

yeah i guess that was my bad for wording it that way. I'll try the code you posted before since i kinda understand it now

@wintry quarry thanks so much for that explanation, it works perfectly

i just suddenly found out there's a lot to like about vectors

[mint remnant]

until you get to quaternians lol

[raw token]

I never appreciated vectors in my physics coursework. I wish I had

They were neat, but not compelling, at the time

[rare socket]

Is it fine to have a coroutine running throughout my games entire duration?

[raw token]

Sure

[rich adder]

profile it if you have issues

[rare socket]

Will do :D

[muted wadi]

im realising nowadays that a lot of the stuff that seemed boring in school is actually way more interesting than all the stuff that got me hyped up

[rich adder]

in the context of school is boring, learning this in the context of a game stimulates the brain more for me

[rocky canyon]

its b/c they teach u the fundamentals.. and leave out the real-world examples

[muted wadi]

oh definitely, i want to learn way more when its something i care about

[rich adder]

they dont really teach WHY exactly its important

not in my school at least

[rocky canyon]

not in america

[ancient rampart]

how would you guys recommend I setup a scrollspeed for my timeline, since it'll be based on bpm, I need that time to scroll consistently based on seconds so that my beats line up, it seemed to work fine up until I tried to introduce deltatime

[rich adder]

at least not so much inner city schools , teachers are kinda bad

my cousin was raised in decent suburbs they had interesting classes like robotics n shit.
in mine had at most sports..lol

[rocky canyon]

may need to adjust ur values to compensate for the delta

[muted wadi]

is there a function in unity like ProjectOnPlane but for finding the edge of an object?

[rocky canyon]

we had home-ec and welding / sports

[rich adder]

welding at least is useful skil

sports suck when you're a hermit lol

[rich adder]

dont think so , maybe you can use bounds or cast on the collider?

[rocky canyon]

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/126184/unity-detecting-edge-of-mesh-or-end-of-mesh like this?

[muted wadi]

kind of? I'm not really sure what's going on here. The idea is I want to find the first edge along an direction on an object, and if that edge is within a certain distance of the camera, then that edge can be climbed, like a wall.

[rocky canyon]

u can just raycast forward. and increment the raycast upwards until it misses lol

[muted wadi]

wdym increment the raycast?

[rocky canyon]

raycast from center.. -> u hit.. okay
raycast from center + 1 upwards -> u hit.. okay
raycast from center + 2 upwards -> u missed..

meaning.. the ledge is between 1 and 2

[muted wadi]

oh, this just sounds like edge detection in shader programming lmao

[rocky canyon]

yea, but there'd be more too it..

[raw token]

deltatime is the only way it will be consistent 👀

But yeah - as SCG mentioned, since the time of your beats won't line up with your frames very well, you may need to offset the movement in frames that a beat lands in between, based on the difference between when the beat landed and the frame started

[rocky canyon]

u'd have to check if its the same object ur hitting..
u'd have to check if ur within range..
u'd have to check when u miss it is indeed a miss.. and u just didnt shoot thru a gap or something.. etc

[muted wadi]

interesting

[ancient rampart]

hmm how how would that work? just check to see when the beat object passes over a certain part of the screen?

and then do a bunch of timer stuff to get the intervals logged?

[rocky canyon]

just search for "ledge detection, unity"

now that i know what ur talkin about.. theres tons of examples/ tutorials/ code

[rocky canyon]

run the game.. modify a value (offset) until it matches.. then stop it and hardcode that value into

[ancient rampart]

that sounds super inaccurate for this

[rocky canyon]

ofc, u'd have to watch it for a while b/c just a tiny tiny offset would add up big

lmao

[rocky canyon]

facts

[muted wadi]

alright, i'll have a look, its usually just tough to find a tutorial that has elements which work with my current setup. I kinda dont have time to rewrite my entire movement script around one mechanic so I'm trying to work with what I can.

[rocky canyon]

im sure theres some math u can do to include the deltaTime..

but im not that math savy, perhaps someone else

[rocky canyon]

thats the case for all tutorials..

u get better at adapting the code..

taking fundamentals u learn.. adapting them to ur own use-case

[muted wadi]

yeah, i think i'll find something though

[rocky canyon]

thats where alot of ppl go wrong..

they just copy tutorial from cover to cover.. and never really learn anything they're watching

😢 makes me sad

[muted wadi]

i try not to make that mistake since im aware that just copying does no good

[rocky canyon]

.. it does until u want to change it

[rocky canyon]

good luck mate, come back if u still cant figure it out 🍀

[muted wadi]

thanks man, will do

[timid pike]

uncompressed fixed the typeerror from what ive tested so far thanks a ton

[rich adder]

awesome! good to know

[timid pike]

its funny because i made the game like january - march of last year but never bothered to fix the issues until now because im trying to get back into the groove of game development so i might as well patch it

it was a fun first project

[rich adder]

its always fun to come back to older projects and see progression lol

[timid pike]

yeah

[rocky canyon]

unless u forget wtf u were doing

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

can u use breakpoints and the debugger to follow the flow of a script?

[rich adder]

haha yea its happened before.
gotta write more descriptive comments

[rocky canyon]

they're too descriptive.. and convoluted lmao

[rocky canyon]

i need to learn to do that real quick

[rich adder]

basically once you hit breakpoint you can step through

[safe radish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn1ZJxAM1zw

[rocky canyon]

thankyou, edit: im about to get fool-proof 😅

[rich adder]

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

[ivory breach]

I want to implement an ammunition system for my special weapon where the game would check from left to right if any of the meters are full, and empty the first full meter the game finds, and fire a rocket. Can anyone help me how I can do that?

[rocky canyon]

i imagine its easier to do in vscomm

[ivory breach]

The picture is just a mockup btw

[deft grail]

well the first full one would always be the 1st one no?

[rocky canyon]

u'd doo all that in code.. (keeping up with values).. the UI would just reflect what ends up from the code

[ivory breach]

It won't always be

[deft grail]

i imagine you would be using them from right to left instead

[rich adder]

vscomm always a bit more mature software, vsc one works pretty good too though

[ivory breach]

Soemtimes the other meters might be full instead of first one, in which case the game would empty one of the other full meters instead

[rocky canyon]

this is excellent.. very str8 forward. thanks

[deft grail]

just use a loop/if statements and check them from left to right if its full or not

[ivory breach]

How do I assign each of the bars?

[rich adder]

ideally this would be an array yea

dont focus on "the bars"

this should all be data in code

[rocky canyon]

a array of bars

values* rather

if value = maxvalue (delete dat bich)

else skip to the next one

[rich adder]

do you have some type of AmmoBars[] ammoBars

[ivory breach]

Actually, I haven't done anything apart from that mockup yet. I was asking for a good approach on how I can implement that ammunition system

[rocky canyon]

if u use an image with a fill amount u can just use an Image[] array

0 being the left or right.. -> and just assign them in order

[ivory breach]

Guess I can make a public array for that

[rocky canyon]

yess

[rich adder]

make the data first , so maybe a custom class/struct for what your ammo will be . probably just a simple type of float

or int, depending what kinda weapon you do ig

[rocky canyon]

yup yup ^

AmmoManager.cs for ie.

[ivory breach]

Should I make separate classes for different kinds of special weapons?

[deft grail]

depends whats "different" between them really

[rocky canyon]

no.. u could keep up with all ur weapons in 1 class if u chose

[rich adder]

yea this is getting a bit abstract of a question

[rocky canyon]

lol

[rich adder]

how you define it is up to you

could be even an enum

[rocky canyon]

scriptable objx

[ivory breach]

I'll start working on the rockets' ammo system now following your advice

[rocky canyon]

yea, if u never done it b4 just focus on 1 ammo type.. (just a value really)

and do the logic/ math and conditionals

then come back

[rich adder]

for sure start with the basic one

[sleek marten]

I have multiple scripts on my player but I only need one active at a time. I need those scripts to be active in a specific order. Only one script in that order should be active at a time. what is the best way to manage that?

[deft grail]

with, another script 😂

[sleek marten]

I was looking into interfaces but I don't think that's quite what I need

[deft grail]

huh? you just activate and disable the scripts you need based on whatever conditions you need

[sleek marten]

surely there's a more efficient way to doing this than having a million "disable everything but this" functions

[rocky canyon]

could call an event

[deft grail]

just have 1 that disables them all and then enable only the one you need

[rocky canyon]

thats what i always do.. forloop (disable all) -> enable the one i need

every time

could even have it a method..

DisableAll()

[sleek marten]

@rocky canyon could you elaborate on how that process works? I'm trying to imagine it in my situation

[deft grail]

the process is disable your scripts either in a method or loop or something.
then enable the one you want seperatly

[rocky canyon]

    public void EnableGameObject(int index)
    {
        // Disable all GameObjects
        foreach (GameObject go in gameObjects)
        {
            go.SetActive(false);
        }

        // Enable the specified GameObject
        gameObjects[index].SetActive(true);
    }```

but in ur case, u could use w/e component u wanted

.enabled = true / false

[ivory bobcat]

You need to be specific with your requirements. Define "efficient" - I'm assuming you're wanting to do less work relative to design (there isn't any class or structure that'll automate this for you if that's your question).

[ivory bobcat]

This is pretty much as bare bones in simplicity as it'll get

[vital storm]

I'm trying to make an entity that spawns in every minute or so and hunts down the player. When that entity touches the player, it would flash an image onto screen and play a sound. Could someone help me with that? I'm pretty new to Unity so I don't really know much.

[deft grail]

no one will help you with the whole process at once really
do each step one at a time and break it down

[ivory bobcat]

Break the problem down and implement one step at a time

[deft grail]

how do you spawn an enemy 1st

[vital storm]

yeah im not saying for someone to do that

[vital storm]

im not actually sure

[deft grail]

spawn = instantiate
look it up on the docs and see how to use it

[vital storm]

ok leme see

!docs

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[vital storm]

wait actually no

i worded that wrong

[ivory bobcat]

The problem:

• Instantiate (spawn) something
• Delay somehow: timer, coroutine etc
• Player-enemy collision event
• Enable a renderer component or set an object active (flash an image on screen)
• Play sound

[sleek marten]

The process is that when a counter reaches 5, a new script is enabled and the previous one is disabled. I thought it'd be easier to use some sort of array to keep track of the order of scripts rather than using multiple 'enable component'

[rocky canyon]

correct

[deft grail]

you can use an array, still need 1 or a few enable components

[rocky canyon]

u'd not want multiple 'enable components' u'd just need a script to know about all of em and just enable 1 (disable the rest)

[ivory bobcat]

Sure, that isn't an issue. You can use whatever collection you'd want for managing the data. You'll need to disable/enable stuff if your intentions is to disable/enable multiple scripts - assuming they're mono behaviour component scripts.

[vital storm]

here's what i mean by "spawning an entity"

[polar acorn]

This is a checkbox

[rocky canyon]

enabling a gameobject

[vital storm]

yeah enabling a game object

[polar acorn]

There are many checkboxes in Unity

Without context, this could be any checkbox

[vital storm]

this one

in the inspector

[polar acorn]

Yes, that is activating or deactivating a gameobject

[deft grail]

ok so just get a reference to it and enable it

[polar acorn]

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

[vital storm]

how can i make it so after 1 minute an entity activates until it touches the player

[sleek marten]

well if I've got an array, and each thing is indexed from 0-5 then I'd want to do something like...?
each time the counter reaches 5; enable the next object in the array. Disable all others

[ivory bobcat]

Set Active would be the statement used in code

[deft grail]

a timer or a coroutine or something

[raw token]

I need to think on this more, but my brain is now spaghetti... This is either a vaguely clever start, or it's very very stupid. I was thinking of something along the lines of this psuedo-code.

Based on beats per second, it keeps track of how long ago the last beat should have occurred - a "beat delta time" - and a method that gets called as close to the previous beat as possible. The bps value could be multiplied to increase the number of beats per... tempo beat, I guess?

My hope is that a frequently resetting timer would be less affected by floating point inaccuracies... Though maybe there's a place in there somewhere to squeeze a little more accuracy out of doubles, if it proves necessary.

It may also benefit from actually checking how far along the audio playback is, if the tracks are not so long as to add more inaccuracies...'

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.SetActive.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Coroutines.html

[deft grail]

well depends if thats what you wanna do, then yeah do that

[rocky canyon]

since it'll be deactivated u'll need a reference to it.. like said earlier.. to do that for u

that code would run a coroutine like digi mentioned

[sleek marten]

it's the general idea, yeah

I'm just trying to validate the logic

[vital storm]

so basically the entity starts deactivated, after a certain amount of time it actives itself. When it touches the player it would go back to being deactivated and return to its original position. It sounds very simple on paper but I am a noob at C# so I don't really have a grasp on how to code all of that.

[late burrow]

for how long private variable will keep its value in editor

[polar acorn]

You will need a separate object to run the timer, since the object would be deactivated and cannot keep track of time

[rocky canyon]

until u close the program (restart the game)

[polar acorn]

Context is required

[late burrow]

so until i close unity

[ivory bobcat]

For the duration of the instance's life.

[rocky canyon]

nah just during the game

[late burrow]

editor script

[rocky canyon]

once u restart the game.. or stop it.. it goes back

[sleek marten]

until you close unity or stop running the game in the editor

[rocky canyon]

ohh that idk

why not debug it

[ivory bobcat]

If you've got some strange bug occurring, you ought to just explain what's happening.

[polar acorn]

If you've used an editor script to expose a variable in the inspector, then it will be essentially identical to a normal public or serialized variable

[vital storm]

is there any videos to help me learn more about these functions?

[polar acorn]

Probably

[rocky canyon]

search it up.. you've been told the sequence of events

[deft grail]

the best way to learn is just use them your self, the method of using is literally on the documentation

[rocky canyon]

"how to enable disable gameobject in unity"

"how to use a for loop in unity" etc

once u get stuck on something then return with specifics

[late burrow]

tutorials should start with foreach for is super unintuitive

[rocky canyon]

nah, pretty common in most languages.. well a forloop anyways

foreach may be special.. idk

[ivory bobcat]

They are used for different purposes but can overlap in some areas.

[crisp token]

im making a non monobehavior class but id like to use Vector3, should I just make my own struct or is there a way I can import it

[rocky canyon]

• for Loop: Use when you need to know the index or when you need to iterate a specific number of times.
• foreach Loop: Use when you only need to access each element in a collection without modifying the collection's structure.

[eternal needle]

Did you try just.. using it? Vector3 isnt restricted to monobehaviour

[crisp token]

Oh i fgigured that was a possibility. I got to reconfigure my ide lmao

ty

[eternal needle]

As long as you have using UnityEngine; itll be usable

[rare socket]

How do I solve these errors?

[polar acorn]

You appear to be passing null to a function somewhere.

[rare socket]

Okay, will look into it :D

[crisp token]

is there a way to make getters and setters for these without writing out entire methods?

[ashen scaffold]

!code

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[eternal needle]

Could also just be a unity error, is there a stacktrace

[polar acorn]

Auto-properties
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/properties

[rare socket]

Yeah, but its quite the mumbo jumbo:

ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: _unity_self
UnityEditor.SerializedObject.FindProperty (System.String propertyPath) (at <35c0e5f206594d2fa707969117964d70>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.Bindings.SerializedObjectBindingContext.BindPropertyRelative (UnityEngine.UIElements.IBindable field, UnityEditor.SerializedProperty parentProperty) (at <a26505b064194c429b83f4a02cfddb4d>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.Bindings.SerializedObjectBindingContext.BindTree (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement element, UnityEditor.SerializedProperty parentProperty) (at <a26505b064194c429b83f4a02cfddb4d>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.Bindings.SerializedObjectBindingContext.ContinueBinding (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement element, UnityEditor.SerializedProperty parentProperty) (at <a26505b064194c429b83f4a02cfddb4d>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.Bindings.DefaultSerializedObjectBindingImplementation+BindingRequest.Bind (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement element) (at <a26505b064194c429b83f4a02cfddb4d>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeBindingsUpdater.Update () (at <b8c852c145a8456ba2512bf23f96ab0b>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeUpdater.UpdateVisualTreePhase (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeUpdatePhase phase) (at <b8c852c145a8456ba2512bf23f96ab0b>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.Panel.UpdateBindings () (at <b8c852c145a8456ba2512bf23f96ab0b>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIElementsUtility.UnityEngine.UIElements.IUIElementsUtility.UpdateSchedulers () (at <b8c852c145a8456ba2512bf23f96ab0b>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIEventRegistration.UpdateSchedulers () (at <b8c852c145a8456ba2512bf23f96ab0b>:0)
UnityEditor.RetainedMode.UpdateSchedulers () (at <a26505b064194c429b83f4a02cfddb4d>:0)

[crisp token]

large code block""

[rare socket]

This isn't code, but I understand your request 👍
(Edit: I was replying to weather boy)

[eternal needle]

Ye unless u did some editor code yourself, just a unity issue

[rare socket]

Thanks, I'll look into it 🫡

[eternal needle]

Not really much to look into tbh, you just simply clear the errors and move on. I vaguely recalling having those errors on some scriptable objects but never remembered why

If it's not going away, then could always try resetting layouts/restarting unity (but that couldve been for another error)

[polar acorn]

Could also be passing a null to some static function like PlayClipAtPoint

[rare socket]

Restarting Unity worked! I have no clue why, but tysm! :D

[crisp token]

will including the "set" accessory with a class like Vector3 only allow me to completely change the object and not modify its components individually?

!ide

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[polar acorn]

Vector3s are passed by value

The only way to change it is to set it

[crisp token]

you can create a class that is passed by value?

or is vector3 a struct

[polar acorn]

No

But you can make a struct

[spiral glen]

how do I change this via script?

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-gravityScale.html

[spiral glen]

thanks

[eternal needle]

The names of the variable in inspector might be related to the names of the variable. You should get used to looking at the docs for stuff like this

[spiral glen]

That'd make sense, I'll make sure to check that before asking here from now on

Thanks ❤️

[honest trench]

So im tryna make it so theres a raycast sent out to the middle of the screen, and thats where the player should be aiming, the problem is that when the raycast from the center of the screen hits a object behind the player, the player looks towards it, subsuquentally breaking their back 💀 so whats a good way to solve this?```Vector2 screenCenter = new Vector2(Screen.width / 2, Screen.height / 2);
Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(screenCenter);

    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit, Mathf.Infinity, aimMask))
    {
        aimPos.position = Vector3.Lerp(aimPos.position, hit.point, aimSmoothSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
    }```

[mint remnant]

before performing aimPos change, check if hit.point is behind the player

[honest trench]

alright let me try that

[raw token]

😮 Whacky - it's never crossed my mind to look into that. I just sort of assumed that that was a detail left up to implementations, for some reason

[devout flower]

i'm trying to make a force stronger the larger the distance, but when the distance is less than 1, the force is too small

does someone have an idea of what function/formula to use?

[summer stump]

Have you considered an animation curve? It would clamp the max of course, but if there is a maximum defined distance, that is a non-issue

[devout flower]

i never thought of that 🤔 thanks! i'll try that now

[devout flower]

it worked! thanks so much 😄

[raw token]

Fair enough on all counts!

Maybe having grown up as a dev eating web techs I have just been conditioned to expect less of specs 👀

[ripe shard]

this is also just how the language presents itself to the user, it doesn't mean that this stuff is implemented with the same language features that it defines.

[raw token]

Ah certainly, that is a reasonable assertion... That was part of my surprise though, that they would bother to supposedly back a struct with an inheritance chain at all, whether functionally or just conceptually.

I reckon it does make a lot more sense in the context of "OOP all the way down." It may have been more of a shock for C being the only other language I've worked in which makes prolific use of a struct keyword; at least to the best of my knowledge. The knee-jerk of what I'm used to thinking of as a central and simple core data type being described with inheritance :)

[ripe shard]

it would be nice if the type system was cleaner and more "predictable" in that regard, if you think too hard about the low end of the CTS, you quickly run into this confusion and seemingly contradictory features.

probably one of the reasons why some people prefer the more technical languages that force you to do everything yourself.

[raw token]

For whatever reason, JavaScript became one of my favorite languages over the years, all it's warts and weirdness included. It is maybe similar in that capacity - delving beneath the surface can be maddening. I've usually found it best not to look 😅

I do very much enjoy being able to more or less comprehend what my C code is doing along every step of the way without wondering about what's happening to my code within the black box, but I can't say I hold any love for actually working with the language

[ripe shard]

they each serve their purpose and are best when used within their design goals.

[queen adder]

How would I reference another script without using anything from the inspector

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[queen adder]

thanks

[queen adder]

How do i get references from other scripts with my prefabs

[summer stump]

Pass it to the instance of the prefab when you instantiate it. It goes over that in the link

[slender nymph]

look at the sidebar of the page i linked and you'll find instructions for exactly what you can do for that

[queen adder]

Ill look into it

[pliant valley]

Because I can't use GameObject.Find() on inactive GameObjects, I created a static class that stores all UI elements that will at some point need to be referenced.

The UI has some tabs, though currently only the info tab has code set up for switching active UI elements when it's clicked

When the code first runs, it fills a list object that keeps track of all currently active UI elements

The first element is filled out correctly, but the second element isn't and references a null object.

[eternal needle]

id really avoid GameObject.Find and just make a singleton holding these, that exist in the same scene.

also your !ide doesnt look configured

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[pliant valley]

That's what UI Record is. It's a class that contains a dictionary called "UIElements" that keeps a record of all UI elements that can be addressed by any other script

Why do you think it's not configured

[eternal needle]

a static dictionary populated using GameObject.Find is not the same as a singleton thats populated from inspector

also you have no coloring on stuff like Monobehaviour which is one giveaway

[pliant valley]

How do I automatically fill a container object through the inspector

[eternal needle]

you just drag in the values from inspector, nothing about it is automatic. similar to how nothing here is automatic either since its relying on hardcoded strings

in relation to the error, a null reference error is always the same. something is null and you're trying to use it

[pliant valley]

Alright, so how do I do that with a Dictionary. It's only letting me me assign GameObjects to Lists through the Inspector

Or should I just create a List and then transfer it over to a dictionary in the Start function

Seems inefficient

[rare socket]

Hey all. I'm currently attempting to create a script that enables batteries to spawn in drawers. This script handles the instantiation of both drawers and batteries. The script should only spawn batteries when a drawer has also spawned. However, batteries are spawning when a drawer has not! Could someone help identify what I've done wrong?

The drawer/battery handler script:
https://gdl.space/ohecekubak.cpp
(The drawer spawning system is as follows: Drawer is instantiated alongside its parent prefab, if r = 2, drawer is destroyed)

The battery script:
https://gdl.space/vaqezivubi.cs
(This is here if needed)

I've added an extra collision check to both the drawer and battery, but it still isn't enough!! Help would be awesome! :D

[eternal needle]

well honestly its questionable as to why you need them as a dictionary in the first place, since you're just looking it up by some string. Couldnt you just declare a field for each ui element?

[rare socket]

What was the issue with the input manager?

[pliant valley]

No because the UI elements are not static, the program will need to create new UI elements dynamically, as well as have functionality for saving/loading them. The reason for using a dictionary is so they can be addressed without having to loop through every single UI element every time a single element needs to be addressed.

[eternal needle]

there are implementations of a serializeable dictionary online. the other workaround would just be using a list then populating the dictionary yea. this would still be faster than GameObject.Find anyways

[rare socket]

The input manager is not bad in anyway, its just simplistic. The input system is highly event oriented and requires far more set-up and configeration. However, its more flexible and versitile, allowing for complex movements. What I'm trying to say is, unless you are planning on complicated and intricate movement/user interactions, then the input manager is completely fine.

[pliant valley]

Alrighty, I'll do that then

[eternal needle]

but also your current code seemingly suffers from the same problem

[rare socket]

For my project, I'm currently using the input manager- however, I am also not incorperating complex user interaction.

Could you use a site to post your movement script so I could see a possible way to make your movement smoother?

[pliant valley]

Yeah, the code I showed wasn't the part that created UI elements dynamically, that'd be a separate function, not the Start() function. I implemented the changes based on your input about adding the initial elements through the inspector

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[pliant valley]

Seems to work

[rich adder]

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[eternal needle]

not sure how you're creating them but instantiate also returns a reference to the created object so you could populate it when created. or if you're using the GO ctor then you have the reference right there

[pliant valley]

My IDE is configured

[rich adder]

screenshot the editor

if it says Misc instead of Csharp -Assembly , its not

close VS, click Regen project files and open script from unity once more

[pliant valley]

Did that but it still says misc files

[rare socket]

I'm going to be completely honest, I myself am stumped. However, I recommend incorperating Mathf.Lerp or Mathf.SmoothDamp. Both of these can be utilized to add a smooth increase in velocity. You know your script best, so incorperate these where velocity or movement is being added. (I am not qualified for this 🤣 )

Here is what I mean:
https://gdl.space/befugehedu.cs

[summer stump]

Click regenerate project files while vs is closed

[pliant valley]

I did. It didn't change anything.

[rich adder]

can you show the solution explorer window in VS. If it says missing on assembly right click it and Reimport with dependencies

[pliant valley]

Alright it's fixed

[rich adder]

sweet

[drowsy oriole]

Ok a gtag fan game (A popular vr game with hands as movement) Ok, I want to add ropes when you grab them, they move forcefully in the way you push then in, and your hand sticks to the ropes and thier movement, I want this feature to be activated by the grip button

[topaz mortar]

{
    Vector2 startPosition = transform.position;
    Vector2 direction = (targetPosition - startPosition).normalized;

    RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, direction, 15, layerMask);
    Debug.DrawRay(startPosition, direction * 15, Color.red);

    if (hit.collider != null)
    {
        float distance = Mathf.Abs(hit.point.x - transform.position.x);
        Debug.Log(distance);
        if (distance <= 2f)
        {
            return;
        }
    }```
Why do I get 0 distance the first few frames? After the first few frames it correctly sets the distance

[raw token]

You might log which game object the hit collider is attached to... IIRC in 2d a raycast can hit the collider it originates within... though I'm not sure why that problem would resolve after several physics steps

[topaz mortar]

that's what the layermask should prevent and then it wouldn't change the distance after a few frames?

[raw token]

ah fair point 🤔

[slender nymph]

print something more useful than just a single number. log what is hit, and where

[slender nymph]

the "and where" part is also important. it seems like maybe these objects are very close to each other for the first few frames

Debug.Log($"{name} detected {hit.collider.name} at {hit.point} from {transform.position} at distance {distance}");

also fun fact, but you don't need to calculate the distance yourself. RaycastHit2D already has a distance property

[topaz mortar]

cool thx

[slender nymph]

there it is, it's hitting something else

[topaz mortar]

wasn't my mask supposed to prevent that?

[slender nymph]

have you looked at that object to see what layer it is on?

[half egret]

Never thought I'd need something like this, but it seems insanely convenient. Cheers

[echo hamlet]

Rigidbody movement jittering?

I dont know whats wrong

ignore all the other objects in the hierarchy. They are there to test other things

[rich adder]

turn interpolation on rigidbody

but its probably the camera?

[echo hamlet]

Here is my camera code

[half egret]

I often forget my pre-processor directives in the heat of battle, I appreciate the followup 🙂

[buoyant tendon]

Why is it shaking like that?

[raw token]

Double check your MoveTowards() arguments, and the doc page/example as well, if necessary 👀

[buoyant tendon]

I solved it thank you

[static cedar]

Harsh but yeah.
Also, i'm miffed to see get; set; with no access modifiers. Additionally, wrapping over collections is normal. If getting, and adding/setting is the only thing necessary, then that's all that needs to be exposed.

public RectTransform this[int i]
{
  get => UIElements[i];
  set
  {
    if (UIElements.ContainsKey(i)) UIElements[i] = value;
    else UIElements.Add(i, value);
  }
}

[bronze token]

hey guys, so me and my friend are making mario and the thing is we are working on two levels on our own laptops.
how do we combine these levels?
we've tried sharing folders (prefabs and scenes) but that didnt work :/
so yea how do we do it?
(we're both beginners )

[rich adder]

lookup version control

[static cedar]

Wa.

[bronze token]

aight imma look into it!
Thanks!

[half egret]

For scenes, if you're both going to be working on the same scene, you'll need to setup "Smart Merge" for your respective version control.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SmartMerge.html

By default, one person can work on a scene at a time. They have to commit (save) their changes before the other person works on it, or the conflicts will be essentially unresolvable.

[timber cargo]

    {

        SceneManager.LoadScene("MainScene");
        InitializePlayer();      
        
        
    }

    public void InitializePlayer()
    {
        level = 1;
        experience = 0;
        maxHealth = 20;
        health = maxHealth;
        MinDc = 1; 
        MaxDc = 4; 
        transform.position = Vector3.zero;

        SetHealthUI();
        UpdateLevelUI();
    } ``` https://streamable.com/fae5pn  When i click my npc and travel to the "skeleton dungeon" and die. The scene comes back to the main scene but my Onclick events are gone and i cannot re-enter the dungeon. I've been trying for 2 days now but im at a wall. Video to show whats happening.

[static bay]

I'm assuming your SceneManager is a singleton?

[timber cargo]

    

    void Awake()
    {        
        if (instance == null)
        {
            instance = this;
            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
        }
        else
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }```

[static bay]

Right. So what's happening is you load in, and the SceneManager sets itself in that instance variable. When you change scenes, the SceneManager still sticks around due to DontDestroyOnLoad. When you go back to the original scene, a new SceneManager is created but is instantly destroyed because the singleton is already set. Those buttons have a reference to the NEW SceneManager, which is getting instantly destroyed.

That's why they're displaying "missing".

[timber cargo]

wow, ive spend ages trying things and it was that simple, thank you ❤️

[cedar bone]

Can someone help me out here? #✨┃vfx-and-particles message

im sorry for posting here

but im kinda stumped

[median halo]

my unity project keeps deleting itself and i log on to just the main camera and nothing else. This has happened when i have been in safe mode for a couple days. Is that related?

[timber cargo]

so im guessing the same thing is happening with my playermovement, so ill look into that

[static bay]

Ya it's going to be the same thing.

[timber cargo]

hmm its getting playermovement from player gameobject, but i need that to be destroyed

or else im running about with a twin

[static bay]

There's many ways to solve this, and managing references for objects that move across screens can be a tricky problem.
But the lowest effort solution is to write a quick script that calls the method on the singleton instance.

[timber cargo]

    {
        if (gameObject.name == "Player")
        {
            if (playerInstance == null)
            {
                playerInstance = this;
                DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
                Debug.Log("Object marked as DontDestroyOnLoad: " + gameObject.name);
            }
            else if (playerInstance != this)
            {
                Debug.Log("Duplicate object detected and destroyed: " + gameObject.name);
                Destroy(gameObject);
            }
        }

thats attached to my player gameobject

[static bay]

So like for your SceneManager.

public void ChangeSceneOnManager(string levelName)
{
    LevelManager.instance.ChangeScene(levelName);
}

put this method on some script

throw it onto the button

have the button call this method

@timber cargo

[timber cargo]

Getting lost 😛

[static bay]

Do you understand why your buttons are saying "Missing"?

[timber cargo]

The first button is fixed by removing the singleton from my change scene script. And the same thing is happening to my Player movement script, but it is inside the player gameObject. And since my PLayer game object has a script ^ above that is needed to destroy my player. THe buttons player movement is also destroyed.

Thats what im guessing is happening. And my playermovement script does not have a singleton because it is inside the player gameobject that has the "Dont/destroy" script

The playermovement is attached to the button because i wanted to stop allmovement when the npc was clicked then start moving again when moved to a new scene. It was the only way i could manage to do it

[static bay]

Right so when you come back into the scene, Unity rebuilds everything, including new instances of the Player and SceneManager. The buttons have references to THOSE Player and SceneManager objects, not the old ones currently marked as DontDestroyOnLoad. Then your singleton code activates and kills these copies, so the buttons break.

Makes sense?

Your goal now is to tell the buttons "Hey, don't call the methods on the Player/SceneManager that come with this scene. Call the methods on the Player/SceneManager that are currently stored in those singleton instance fields."

The SceneManager stored here

and the Player you set here

Does this make sense?

[timber cargo]

Trying to make sense of it but my brain has a monkey playing symbols atm >.<

[static bay]

They're called cymbals 😛

Do you know what a Singleton is?

Like do you know what this really means?

and what you're doing with the whole null check and instance set thing?

Do you know what statics are?

[timber cargo]

It allows it to be accessed from other scripts

[static bay]

Not exactly. Statics belong to the type itself instead of specific instances of the object. For example imagine if you had a class called Apple.

public class Apple : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Color color;
}

Color is not static.

You can spawn multiple apples, and set each to a different color.

In the below case, Color is static, meaning ALL apples you create will share that color.

public class Apple : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static Color color;
}

You access static members by writing the class name, and then member name. In the case below, you're setting the value of Apple's color to white. Remember this applies across all apples.

Apple.color = Color.white;

So in the case of your SceneManager singleton, you can write.

SceneManager.instance.ChangeScene(*the name of your scene*);

[timber cargo]

Thanks you for the help, ill just remove the player movement part until i understand unity and c# more. Getting to lost with this at the moment.

[loud sage]

I wanna add a bouncing sound effect to the ball I was working on the other day, whenever the ball touches anything
can I use the original sphere 3d collider as a trigger or is it better if I add a new one instead?

if I add another one I could make it slightly bigger for a more consistent detection idk

not sure if making the original collider a trigger messes with anything since the rigidbody for the physical interaction stuff is already there

how do y'all usually work this kinda situation?

[languid spire]

why a trigger? If you already have a physics collider on the ball just add code to it's OnCollisionEnter to play the sound

[teal viper]

An rb is not a replacement for a collider. Making the collider a trigger, would prevent your rb from colliding with anything.

[loud sage]

okay so I do need to make a new collider that's gonna be a trigger

noted

[languid spire]

no, you do not

[teal viper]

You don't. Read what Steve said previously

[loud sage]

ohh alright I didn't factor in OnCollisionEnter; I thought you could only make scripts do stuff with specific triggers

mb

I'll try to script it with the OnCollisionEnter

[languid spire]

it's pretty simple, literally 4 lines of code

[loud sage]

I figure

[sick storm]

!code

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[sick storm]

hi im trying to make my character shoot projectiles but i cant get them to go left

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

the code is there

and i want to be able to shoot left without changing my players rotation

the bullet is spawned at a gameobject which is a child object of the player

[ivory bobcat]

-transform.right

[sick storm]

i mean left and right

as in if im facing left

i want to shoot left

and if im facing right i want to face right

shoot right

i am using a single game object for shooting left and right btw

[ivory bobcat]

if(left) 
    //go left
else
    //go right```

[languid spire]

so get your player to tell your bullet which way to shoot

[sick storm]

i have given it a flip function before

[ivory bobcat]

That would be the more appropriate solution, yes.

[sick storm]

but it would flip the bullet

and when i move it would flip the bullet in the direction i move in

while it is still out

[ivory bobcat]

Instead of setting the direction in Start, do it after instantiating the bullet.

[sick storm]

as in put it in update?

[ivory bobcat]

You'd put it where you'd instantiate the bullet

[sick storm]

i have that code on the player

and the code i pasted on the bullet

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

i tried to do a flip function but now when i shoot the bullet it only goes right and when i move left so does the bullet

[languid spire]

if (facingRight)
        {
            rb.velocity = transform.right * speed;
        }
        else
        {
            rb .velocity = -transform.right * speed;
        }

????????????

[sick storm]

what did i do

[languid spire]

you dont need to set the velocity EVERY frame

[sick storm]

so do i put it in fixed update

[languid spire]

you do it when the direction changes

[sick storm]

isn't that what that is doing

[languid spire]

no

[sick storm]

when i press a facing right is false

when i press d facing right is true

[languid spire]

and the next frame? and the frame after that?

[sick storm]

same thing

[languid spire]

so it sets velocity again and again

[sick storm]

yeah

how do i fix that

[languid spire]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[sick storm]

still don't get it

[languid spire]

do you not have 2 if statements which are true when you change direction?

[sick storm]

do you want me to put it where i put if input = a or d?

[languid spire]

yes, that is the logical place for it

[sick storm]

still does the same thhing

[languid spire]

yes, that is exactly what you have told it 'to do

[sick storm]

ik

[vital gale]

Hi, Is there a way to have only one instance of an object when I transfer back and forth between scenes? I added a DDOL on the object on Awake... but when I go back and forth, I have an issue of having multiple same objects

[eager spindle]

when you have multiple of the same objects its because a new one is created when you go back.
when switching back, check that the object you want to create doesn't already exist.

[languid spire]

then you need to implement a singleton patern

[topaz mortar]

or destroy the object when you close the scene 😛

[wide raven]

Guys what can be the problem? I'm trying to resize the parallax background to fit to the screen whenever I resize so I can keep the look (This is a map maker for growtopia so I want the parallax to look like growtopia)

And I need to fix this happening when you move the camera upwards

[teal viper]

Try debugging the relevant variables/values and see if they are what you expect them to be.

[wide raven]

My ortho size goes from 1,25 to 6,5 can that be the reason why it is flickering?

[teal viper]

Well, are these expected values?

The kind of flickering that you have in the video would imply that the scale is jumping back and forth.

So start from debugging the scale. Then follow down the calculations path to see where it goes wrong.

[wide raven]

Yea my ortho raises 0,25 every time I scroll

[teal viper]

Rising every time doesn't sound like jumping back and forth.

[wide raven]

This is how it looks like without the resizeBackground void

[teal viper]

Ok, so I guess it solves the issue?

[vital storm]

How do I make a dropdown menu of everything in my Animator Controller? Here's an image for example

[wide raven]

Nope cuz It is not the thing that creates the problem

[teal viper]

I don't see the problem in the last gif that you shared though.

[wide raven]

Yea but It is not resizing when I zoom out that's the problem on the second one

[sullen rock]

is it possible to override native unity functions

like AudioSource.Play

[cosmic dagger]

what are you trying to do?

[willow scroll]

Only if they are marked as abstract or override

[willow scroll]

AudioSource is sealed, so cannot have derived classes

[sullen rock]

force an audiosource to wait until one clip has finished playing until it starts playing a new one, I know I can do it with an extension method, but I was hoping I could override the .Play itself

thanks!

[cosmic quail]

what about extension methods?

[willow scroll]

What about them?

[cosmic dagger]

yes, much easier to create an extension for custom stuff when calling an api method . . .

[cosmic quail]

do they work here?

[cosmic dagger]

you can make an extension method for practically anything . . .

[willow scroll]

Where?

[cosmic dagger]

i believe they mean in this — ch3cky's — situation . . .

[cosmic quail]

oh he already said he knows he can do it with an extension method, nevermind

[willow scroll]

The extension methods can be used regardless of the class being sealed or not

They are the same as normal methods, but act as if they were implemented inside of the original class

[cosmic dagger]

oh, i know, haha. @cosmic quail was just wondering . . .

[willow scroll]

Yeah, I was referring to them, you were the one who's answered to my previous question

[cosmic dagger]

they're great for extending functionality of a class . . .

[cosmic dagger]

true . . .

[willow scroll]

That's why I do them for everything

[cosmic dagger]

i ended up creating a package because i started making a bunch of extension methods. some very specific to me, and others . . . probably not necessary, but for eas-of-use/funsies . . .

[cosmic dagger]

damn, that's an entire extension api . . . 👀

no, that's what i need in life . . .

packages that i can import into any package. a core package of common types i use in all projects and an extension package for the same reason . . .

[tawny bone]

hey all, so I was wondering is it possible to randomly spawn prefabbed tilemaps onto a map? Like a sort of "randomly generated" map? the idea is I want to make a bunch of prebuilt rooms that can possibly be pieced together to form somewhat unique levels

[ripe hill]

as far as i know u can spawn the prefab tilemaps onto a map

ive seen some one do it before but cant remember the way he did it

[vital storm]

yes

lol

[tawny bone]

alright I def could use some help, this is my second time creating a game in unity and i've been using a couple tutorials, but im realizing my code is all over the place and I'm trying to figure out how to fix it

this is my input manager, which does my player movement

currently im working on the attacking animations

and this is my player controller

[topaz mortar]

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[tawny bone]

my issue is that the input manager script is on a seperate object

[topaz mortar]

is your IDE set up? pretty sure it's not, but not familiar enough with VS Code to see

[tawny bone]

I'm not sure I think it is

but basically the input manager script is on a seperate object, so all I think I need to do is reference the animator attached to my player

but I'm not sure how

[cosmic dagger]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[mossy pulsar]

can anyone please tell me how to change a game object texture while moving left or right, and change it back to idle when not moving anything. its a 2d game btw

[tawny bone]

im wondering if I just moved the input manager onto my player object it would be a lot better

[topaz mortar]

there are a million youtube tutorials that explain this

[mossy pulsar]

i couldnt find one, do you mind telling me what to search

[cosmic dagger]

that's an option as well. it's up to you . . .

[topaz mortar]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=code+monkey+basic+movement

[polar acorn]

This is a two step process:

1. Find out how to detect when you're moving
2. Find out how to change a texture

Which one do you not know how to do?

[mossy pulsar]

i'll look at that one thank you

[mossy pulsar]

how to change a texture

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material-mainTexture.html
Set this to the texture you want

[mossy pulsar]

thanks

[fickle stump]

Heya! Doing an AR project right now and cam across an old problem i already had but I'm too dumb to figure out 😄 I currently have a setup with one parent, 3 child objects and each child has another child with more child objects (yes this sounds very weird haha). Question: I have a script on the child of the parent object. In that script i would like to load the child of the child and unload the other child object of the parent. Is there a way to unload other objects from the same parent? while loading child objects aswell... Not sure if you guys understand my question/setup

xD

(and i know there's an AR channel but this is more of a coding question than AR)

[topaz mortar]

you can enable/disable the gameobject or one of it's components

[fickle stump]

So I'm gonna access the parent and disable the two other child objects?

[topaz mortar]

sure

[fickle stump]

and i can acecess the child of the child which i want to load by... doing what?

doing the same thing?

[topaz mortar]

yes? Transform.GetChild, Transform.parent

you also have GameObject.GetComponentInChildren

and Component.GetComponentInParent

[fickle stump]

I see...

can i actually share images here?

[topaz mortar]

sure

[fickle stump]

this is basically the setup I'm having rn.
So to load the content of the Phoenicians marker, I want to use the GameObject.GetComponentInChildren and activate the content and to unload the other markers i want to use Component.GetComponentInParen?

Ah no wait 🤔

[topaz mortar]

really depends how/what/why you're trying to do this
if you have the parent object, you can just find it's children and enable one then disable the others
if you have the child object, you can find the parent and then disable the other children

[languid spire]

Firstly, this is not loading/unloading. This is activating/deactivating.
You can very simply active/deactivate game objects using the .SetActive method
and you can walk through the game object hierarchy using a foreach loop on the tranforms

[fickle stump]

Wait whats the difference between loading and activating?

[languid spire]

your gameobjects in your image are already loaded by the very fact that they are there

[fickle stump]

I'm having this setup. When i click on either of these orange circles i want to load the content of said area and disable the marker of the other areas, so i doesnt overlap ^^

and yes this is german, no need to read it xD

[fickle stump]

but i think i know what you mean I'm gonan try

thank you

[topaz mortar]

you could just have some sort of state manager that you call when you click one of these
put references to all 3 in the manager and then there's no need to search for parents and children

you just enable/disable the ones you want

[fickle stump]

This

kidna makes way more sense

LOL

[topaz mortar]

it's easier to help if we actually know what you're trying to do 😛

[fickle stump]

And trigger each object if the content is clicked

Lmao

Yeah yeah makes sense haha

I'm a bit afraid to show stuff that I'm doing cuz I really hate beeing jugded by people <-<

[willow scroll]

If there are multiple objects, there may be a need to create a single variable, List, which contains all references to the Buttons, and triggers an event when clicked

private void OnEnable() => 
    yourButtons.ForEach(b => b.onClick.AddListener(YourEvent(b)));

YourEvent disables the current button and enables the new one

[ionic zephyr]

Is it better to have the Interaction(for example talk, open an specific menu) component in the entity or in the player?

[frosty hound]

The settings, rules and overall definition of the interaction should be on the object. The actual interaction itself based off those rules, should be done on the player (in my opinion)

[ionic zephyr]

could you give me an example please?

[frosty hound]

A button on the wall?

[ionic zephyr]

what should the logic in the player and in the button be?

[polar acorn]

Player should have button pressing code. It should tell the button that it has been pressed. Then that button should do whatever it needs to after having been told "you have been pressed"

[frosty hound]

Player is responsible for detecting interactions, and then doing whatever is necessary based on the interaction type (button), such as handling the animation of pressing it

The interaction component on the object can have function calls to sync up its own results locally

OnInteractionBegin
OnInteractionComplete
Etc.

Each interaction type/object will have its own controllers that do what it needs to do. Button opens door. NPC initiates dialogue. Chest drops loot.

[ionic zephyr]

so should it be a corroutine?

[frosty hound]

If you want. Depends on how big of a sequence you want.

[ionic zephyr]

So I may have in the Input copmponent that if my player presses "E"...

for example

should I have an interaction component for chests, npcs etc

but i dont want the chests to talk or the npcs to open a box

so it cant be the same component

[frosty hound]

Hence:

[ionic zephyr]

yeah but when I write public void interact{ } how can I distinguish what I am pressing

and, if so, I dont want to make an if, if, if with the components

[frosty hound]

You can have a base Interaction class, and each controller type extends it

ChestController : Interaction
NPCController : Interaction

(or use interfaces)

[ionic zephyr]

I would like to have a common method with different reactions

[ionic zephyr]

which do you think is the best way of those two?

[raw token]

You could also rig up a generic interaction target component. Have it invoke an event or UnityEvent or something when the interaction occurs

[ionic zephyr]

Oh okay so I have the interface option, the events option and the heritance option

however, I don´t know what is the best way to do it honestly

all of the tutorials I´ve found show this working with events

[slender nymph]

yeah that's what I do in my current project. just an Interactable component with a few UnityEvents that are invoked when the interactions happen so anything can be interactable without needing to specifically inherit or implement anything. as long as it has public methods (to subscribe in the inspector) i can make it interactable

[raw token]

I haven't implemented one in my current project, but I think I sort of lean that way as well. It could still be extended into another class if it requires some sort of more complex general behavior 🤔

[frosty hound]

I just checked an old prototype, and that's apparently what I did as well 😆

[ionic zephyr]

So events win the game right?

[strong wren]

Generic component that then fires events, yes

[slender nymph]

after implementing it and using it for a while i think i actually prefer this way over the interface/inheritance method because i can move the interaction to another object, like for doors. I can just reuse the exact same door component that opens/closes it even for doors that would be opened/closed from some button rather than directly from the door itself

[frosty hound]

I seem to have done both, just to force implementing the functions.

Well, time to put that project back to sleep.

[raw token]

Night night, project 👋

[ionic zephyr]

the check of interactable area should be in the player or in the object?

[vital gale]

Hi, how do I debug a built game? The issue is when I try to "Host Game" or "List Lobbies" that is read from Steam, the buttons don't work. However, when I try it in the editor, it works just fine.

[slender nymph]

i typically give my player object a component that raycasts to check for interactable objects

[rain ginkgo]

hello

from where i can learn c# for the unity game dev?

[raw token]

Welcome 👋

Check the pins in this channel

[rocky canyon]

same cs if(hit.collider.transform.TryGetComponent(out IInteractable interactable)) { cachedInteractable = hit.collider.gameObject; if(Input.GetKeyDown(interactKey)) { interactable.Interact(); } } but i use Interfaces..

[slender nymph]

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

[rocky canyon]

are we talkin about pros and cons?

[rain ginkgo]

aight

[vital gale]

Yeah but can I attach to a built game?

[slender nymph]

hint: read the page

[tawdry ember]

Does anyone know how to get rid of the refrence things that keep serperating my code?

[slender nymph]

that's called code lens. it's typically better to leave it on as it helps with debugging

[rocky canyon]

you mean (1 Reference) thingy in ur IDE?

u can turn it off but i suggest u dont

[tawdry ember]

Why shouldnt I?

[rocky canyon]

b/c its more important than just the refernece thingy

[tawdry ember]

What exactly is it for?

[slender nymph]

it tells you where you are using the members of your objects. and as long as you've actually got your !IDE configured it is actually useful

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[tawdry ember]

Ok, thank you

[rocky canyon]

are u using vscode or vstudio?

in code u can turn off the reference part seperately while keepin CodeLens enabled

not sure about vstudio

[tawdry ember]

visual studio

[rocky canyon]

ahh, sorry

[mint remnant]

it can be turned off in studio as well, up under options

[rocky canyon]

w/o disabling the entire codelens plugin?

Via VS Code settings: Go to File > Preferences > Settings and search for "csharp.referencesCodeLens.enabled" and make sure its unchecked. code allows u to disable just the references

[twin bolt]

Question, I'm trying to make a moving system like skyrim or portal, but instead of the object following the players mouse, it stays on the ground, and moves with a delay, basically like real life. How would i go by doing this?

[rocky canyon]

like this but 3D?

[twin bolt]

Yes but its in 3d space, and i dont want it to leave the ground much or at all.

[rocky canyon]

hmm.. let me think about that a min

i use spring code btw..

w/ strength, dampening, etc

[twin bolt]

ok

[rocky canyon]

u can probably raycast towards the ground as u do it.. and when it gets too far away stop it from lifting anymore

[twin bolt]

Okay, or i could freeze its y?

[rocky canyon]

u could.. yes

[twin bolt]

ok

[rocky canyon]

depending on how it looks.. u probably need to try a few different methods

[twin bolt]

Yea i will.

[hazy fiber]

how to check if the moving player has crossed a certain boundary?
(i need to write a code where the player can't pass a horizontal/vertical boundary)

i wanna limit the player's movement area to just the red lines and the vertical blue line in this image

[wintry quarry]

Use a collider

[hazy fiber]

already have a circle collider for player1

[wintry quarry]

Yes now use more colliders to make the boundaries

[hazy fiber]

those colliders will be applied to a separate sprite ye?

[wintry quarry]

Sprites would not be involved

Just GameObjects with Colliders

[hazy fiber]

how to create a static collider to make boundaries then

oh ok

thanks

[rocky canyon]

yup, raycasting off teh ground and lockin the y pos works

may want to work w/ rotations as well

[twin bolt]

Okay thanks.

[ionic zephyr]

Should the interactable area be a child object or is it better to have it in the player gameobject

[frosty hound]

It should be on the interactable object

But it really depends on what kind of game you're making as well