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[twilit iris]

wait i forget how to change the language

[quiet pilot]

You could try using this https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TextAnchor.html

that might help

[twilit iris]

how do u cs for C# again??

[quiet pilot]

I'm not sure you can?

actually

no you can

[wintry quarry]

you don't need to

you set it in the prefab

[quiet pilot]

Debug.Log("test");

[quiet pilot]

oh yeah cs

i was thinking you'd type just c# 😭

Yeah it shows the correct upward force

(don't ask about the number that was a random one I was trying)

[mystic flower]

hello i have simple ray intersect to do functions, but if i click on UI button, it also run the function of any object that was behind the button, anyone know how to stop this?

Physics2D.GetRayIntersection(camera.ScreenPointToRay(Input.touches[0].position));

[quiet pilot]

(also it still sends me up like 20 feet)

[wintry quarry]

Physics is for physics only

UI is not physics

If you want to handle clicking on things and get UI blocking behavior, you should not be doing your own manual raycasts at all

you should use the event system

in this case - IPointerDownHandler

[quiet pilot]

physics on text makes me immediately think of like There is No Game or something lol

[wintry quarry]

Physics2D.GetRayIntersection

[mystic flower]

thanks! will look up about event system!

[quiet pilot]

LMAO I THINK I JUST PUT THE VALUE IN THE WRONG SPOT

I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR DAYS 😭

wait

no

no I didn't

[twilit iris]

Im confused what to do with the anchor... I'm so dumb

[quiet pilot]

wait that's an awesome emoji

[quiet pilot]

ok so on the top right you click on the corner

see the box

the square thing

[twilit iris]

Actually maybe time to change my question, maybe my question was the one that dumb

How this code end up spawning my text on -910x, -480y

T_T

[rocky canyon]

y are you doing this dynamically?

couldnt u just premake the highscore gameobject.. and just enable it (set its text value) when u need to

[twilit iris]

thought of this but I kinda want to learn how to spawn dynamic things for future project

[rocky canyon]

cool cool.. i'd start w/ gameobjects and stuff.. UI is the hardest thing u coulda started w/ lol

w/ all the anchors and noise

[twilit iris]

eh? it is ? T_T

[quiet pilot]

is ui really that hard?

maybe mine was just really simple

idk

[rocky canyon]

ya, some of it is easy

[cosmic quail]

ui positions are different, after instantiating it you gotta set the text's recttransform's anchored position to what you want

[rocky canyon]

positioning stuff on the screen dynamically.. (getting resolutions, setting anchors, and all that stuff) can make it a bit more difficult

i like to set up my UI in the editor.. and then just enable them

[cosmic quail]

does this work? temp.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition = new Vector3(50, 160 - i * 100, 0);

[twilit iris]

I'll try

[rocky canyon]

ya ^ u need to be using RectTransforms for Images/UI elements

its probably mixxing up worldspace coords w/ screenspace

[twilit iris]

IT WORKSS

THANKS T_T

[twin bolt]

Does anyone know why this code isn't working properly? https://i.imgur.com/jLWp1SD.png Releasing the Input enables gravity and removes constraints, but pressing the input only freezes the y rotation and disables gravity.

[quiet pilot]

If I remember correctly there's a bug that prevents this from working properly

or maybe it was something similar

Idk I'm probably wrong

[twin bolt]

I'm lost, im not sure why this wont work, so it may be a bug.

[quiet pilot]

I'm taking a unity class right now and I think they said something like that a while ago

so they might know

[raw token]

You're overwriting the constraints with each line, for one - though I would have thought that should freeze Z, not Y

[twin bolt]

sorry thats what i meant, it only freezes the z position.

How am i overwriting it?

Oh wait, is it not setting them one by one?

[raw token]

The same way in which

int foo;
foo = 5;
foo = 3;
foo = 1;

ultimately sets foo to 1

.constraints is a bit flag - so you need to bitwise OR the subsequent values

[twin bolt]

How would i set multiple constraints

[twin bolt]

Oh i see

[raw token]

.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionY | RigidbodyConstraints.FreezeRotationX | RigidbodyConstraints.FreezeRotationZ;

or

.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionY;
.constraints |= RigidbodyConstraints.FreezeRotationX;
.constraints |= RigidbodyConstraints.FreezeRotationZ;

[devout flower]

let's just say i wanted to disable a sprite, and the gameobject that the sprite is on only has a sprite renderer
if i were worrying about the code optimization, should i disable the gameobject, or use GetComponent and disable the spriterenderer component?

[languid spire]

if you are worried about optimization you should be using the renderer in the first place and not the gameobject

[twin bolt]

Thanks

[quiet pilot]

Does anyone know why

if (!(Mathf.Abs(transform.rotation.y * 360) < (181) && Mathf.Abs(transform.rotation.y * 360) >= (180)))
        {
            _bumper.transform.Rotate(0f, (-1 * _retRotModifier) * _rotationSpeed, 0f);
        }

makes the object (_bumper) rotate until it's at approximately -60 degrees?

[languid spire]

this
Mathf.Abs(transform.rotation.y * 360) < (181) && Mathf.Abs(transform.rotation.y * 360
is nonsense, rotation is NOT euler angles

[rocky canyon]

float yRotation = transform.eulerAngles.y; convert it to euler first -> then run ur comparison

[quiet pilot]

Oh, ok

I saw that it was a decimal

and thought that 1 would be like 360 or smth

[raw token]

Quaternion components are something which most of us may never hope or find motivation to understand 😅. Don't touch the x/y/z/w components of a quaternion.

[rocky canyon]

Quaternions are X,Y,Z,W

[languid spire]

you've given that advice before and I've told you before, that wont work

[rocky canyon]

really? why. i'll look back

im pretty sure i corrected myself then too 😅

[languid spire]

it's simple, when you convert a Quaternion to Euler you have absolutely no guarantee what you will get back

[mystic flower]

i found a solution to my problem on some obscure forum where it is confirmed that it was a bug with unity itself, but some guy remade their function and that worked , god bless forum people

[rocky canyon]

what if we normalize it first? is that possible?

[languid spire]

what? normalize a Quaternion

[rocky canyon]

no the euler

[languid spire]

that makes no sense

[quiet pilot]

(also the reason the 181 and 180 were in parentheses was from an old thing I tried but ended up removing)

[raw token]

What is this condition testing exactly? It seems like "if abs(y rotation) is greater than 0.5028f"

[rocky canyon]

i mean.. what do u mean theres no guarantee what you'll get back? its going to be an equivilent to the starting angle.. either on one side of the extreme or the other

couldn't that be made to be a 0 -360 result.. everytime

[polar acorn]

Euler angles aren't directions. Normalizing them doesn't make sense. You'll just end up at an orientation somewhere near 0,0,0

[languid spire]

try this
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(90,90,90)
Vector3 v3 = transform.eulerAngles
And see what v3 ends up with

[quiet pilot]

I thought that the decimal that was shown in the output was on a scale of 0 to 360 degrees, so I tried to multiply it by 360 in order to find the angle the object was at, and make sure it was somewhere in between 180 and 181 degrees.

[keen dew]

As a concrete example, (180, 0, 0) and (0, 180, 180) are the exact same rotation in Euler angles. You can see how it's a problem trying to check one component of the Euler angle if the conversion from a quaternion can return either of those (or any other value that's also equivalent)

[toxic yacht]

This looks like you're just trying to do y rotation, in which case using eulerAngles shouldn't cause any problems (and will be easier to think about). EulerAngles are using degrees. Quaternions are scaled differently and its some math magic. In general stick to using the Quaternion methods for comparing and transforming them.

[raw token]

As discussed above, you generally don't want to use .eulerAngles as an input to things, as a rotation can be expressed as multiple different euler representations so there too, you may not get the values you would expect without additional work 👀

[toxic yacht]

For this there are a lot of different options. For example, if you're trying to control the direction the bumper car is facing, it might even be easier to ignore rotation entirely, and use the transform's forward vector instead

bumper.transform.forward = directionVec3

[quiet pilot]

Well I'm not trying to move it

because it's like a pinball flipper

(while writing the script I forgot the name for it lol)

[toxic yacht]

Ah mb. Yeah if you're just rotation in a single axis then eulerAngles will serve you just fine. They start breaking down when you start working with multiple degrees of rotation.

[quiet pilot]

See I'm trying to make it rotate, bounce the player, and return to the original position (slightly slower)

I really should move this to a separate scene so I don't have to wait 5 minutes every time I have to test something lol

[wintry quarry]

You need to be moving this thing with physics anyway

touching the Transform is a mistake that won't work

[quiet pilot]

Oh

Ok

[wintry quarry]

(assuming this is pinball)

[quiet pilot]

Sort of

it's a pinball-themed racetrack thing

[wintry quarry]

gotta move via the Rigidbody, yea

[quiet pilot]

a little bit like waluigi pinball from mario kart ds

I think it was ds

😭

[rich adder]

infinite loop?

[quiet pilot]

actually i should probably close photoshop

because that'd probably slow it down anyway

(but it still takes this long either way lmao)

[willow scroll]

"Waiting for Unity's code to finish executing"

I think they tell you when it's your code

[quiet pilot]

    float _yRot = transform.eulerAngles.y;
    Debug.Log((Mathf.Abs(_yRot) < 181 && Mathf.Abs(_yRot) >= 180));
    Debug.Log(_yRot);
    if (!(Mathf.Abs(_yRot) < 181 && Mathf.Abs(_yRot) >= 180))
    {
        _bumper.transform.Rotate(0f, (-1 * _retRotModifier) * _rotationSpeed, 0f);
    }

did end up working

thanks

(although the bouncing is still weird)

[toxic yacht]

Its because of this

[quiet pilot]

what about it?

I thought that was just for it turning

[wintry quarry]

you can't move your object via the Transform if you want physics to work

[toxic yacht]

Changing transform values happens separate from the actual physics simulation

[quiet pilot]

Ohh

I did have a different idea that might work

so I'll try that

because I think I might be trying to do something slightly different

but idk

[willow scroll]

float rotY = Mathf.Abs(rotY);

if (Mathf.Clamp(rotY, 180f, 181f) != rotY)
{
    _bumper.transform.Rotate(Vector3.down * _retRotModifier * _rotationSpeed);
}

Alright, no Approximately required here

[errant solar]

why i can't call this function i made it static what should i do to call it?

[willow scroll]

The parameter required

Try reading the error first

[polar acorn]

What does the error say

[quiet pilot]

You forgot the boolean parameter

[summer stump]

Why does it need to be static if you are calling it in the same class?

[quiet pilot]

when calling it

I think

[errant solar]

I need to call this function in other script

[polar acorn]

Looks like there is no argument given that corresponds to the required parameter Sprinted of PlayerMovement.SprintingFunction(bool)

[errant solar]

so i made it static

[quiet pilot]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's your error

[summer stump]

Still not a good reason for static 90% of the time

[quiet pilot]

you need to call it with the parameter

[wintry quarry]

that function isn't going to work anyway if the goal is to change the parameter

basically you actually want to delete the parameter and remove static

[willow scroll]

It can be when no class' variables used inside of the method, but we cannot see the full method

[wintry quarry]

no you definitely don't based on what's in it lol

that's not something to call from another script

[summer stump]

Well yeah, can be. But this case looks like classic static abuse. Even if calling it from other classes

[quiet pilot]

in the method, add bool Sprinted and remove it as a parameter

and remove static like they're saying

[wintry quarry]

why add another local variable

Seems most likely that should be a member variable

[willow scroll]

Outside of the method

Inside of the class

[quiet pilot]

oh yeah that'd work too

actually yeah that'd work better

[willow scroll]

Surely, because the variant you've suggested won't

[quiet pilot]

because they'd probably need it in multiple places

[quiet pilot]

wait what

oh

(can you explain why not?)

[willow scroll]

You can see the warning on the bool Sprited

Which tells them the variable is not used inside of the method and is redundant

[quiet pilot]

Ohh

I didn't see that sorry

[willow scroll]

They seem to be redundantly updating this variable inside of the method, which does not affect the class at all

They either have to make this method non-static and update the global variable, or return this variable, making the method's return type bool

[late burrow]

are jobjects bad for using like array

[frosty hound]

No

Given what you've considered bad in the past (including the ridiculous belief that you'll make "the lag" from size of scripts), I'm going to just get ahead of this and say stop over thinking it.

[vocal wharf]

I'm kind of new to coding and I need help.
I'm working on a "test project," just a project made for exploring new things and learning about coding (it's not like a finished game or anything). I want to be able to spawn in a prefab and destroy it when I click with the mouse button. I have the spawning part done and it works great but unity will not let me destroy the prefab. It keeps giving me an error: "Destroying assets is not permitted to avoid data loss." Can you help? Here is my code so far:

[sweet sierra]

            string outputPath = Path.Combine(Application.streamingAssetsPath, "LevelAvailibility.txt"); ;
            System.IO.File.WriteAllText(outputPath, modifiedContent);

Can't seem to write to the file. Reading takes place fine.

I need to have a file that stores the data of what levels are accessible

[polar acorn]

A prefab is a file on disk. Destroying it would mean deleting the file permanently. Pretty sure that's not what you want to do

[vocal wharf]

Is there a way I can delete the cloned prefab somehow?

during runtime

[polar acorn]

Instantiate returns a reference to the object it creates. You can store that in a variable and use that

[sweet sierra]

Umm... access it through parent and destroy?

Or just attach script to it

[sweet sierra]

this

[vocal wharf]

hmm how can I find that reference?

[polar acorn]

Does it actually give you an error that it can't write, or is the file just unchanged?

[summer stump]

Instantiate GIVES it to you

[polar acorn]

It returns a value. You can create a variable and do thatVariable = Instantiate(...

[sweet sierra]

An error...

DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path "F:\Unity Projects\animal-hoop\Assets\StreamingAssets\LevelAvailibility.txt".
System.IO.FileStream..ctor (System.String path, System.IO.FileMode mode, System.IO.FileAccess access, System.IO.FileShare share, System.Int32 bufferSize, System.Boolean anonymous, System.IO.FileOptions options) (at <51fded79cd284d4d911c5949aff4cb21>:0)
System.IO.FileStream..ctor (System.String path, System.IO.FileMode mode, System.IO.FileAccess access, System.IO.FileShare share, System.Int32 bufferSize, System.IO.FileOptions options) (at <51fded79cd284d4d911c5949aff4cb21>:0)
(wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check)

[polar acorn]

and it'll store the result in that variable

[vocal wharf]

hmm ok thanks I'll try it

[polar acorn]

Well, first thing's first as a sanity check, plug F:\Unity Projects\animal-hoop\Assets\StreamingAssets into your file explorer and see if that can find it

[sweet sierra]

just use var address = Instantiate(prefab) i guess

But I usually destroy through the object itself

[vocal wharf]

can you show an example with my code? Sorry I'm a dumb beginner 🙂

[polar acorn]

That was the example

Make a variable, and set that variable to the return value of instantiate

Just plug in whatever you decided to name that variable instead of thatVariable

[vocal wharf]

do I put that in the top where I put my references?

[summer stump]

No

[vocal wharf]

I'm so confused

[summer stump]

You MUST call instantiate somewhere if you have your prefab being added to the scene, right?

[vocal wharf]

yes in the if statement in the update method

[summer stump]

Then THAT is where you write what digi showed you ....

[vocal wharf]

ok

[summer stump]

All you are doing is adding var instance = in front of it

Or whatever type it is, and whatever name you want to use

[vocal wharf]

I called it destroyableItem

how do I reference it

[polar acorn]

Actually, yes. Assuming you want to reference it across multiple frames @vocal wharf

Make a field variable, set that variable to the thing when you instantiate it

then you destroy that object

[summer stump]

Sorry, I meant that the Instantiate does not go up there.

Yeah, the cached variable can be a class member, and does make sense to be one

[vocal wharf]

um how do I do that?

here is what I have

[polar acorn]

Create a variable destroyableItem

Just like you have made your other three variables

[vocal wharf]

I feel so stupid rn that I don't know how to that

it's probably so simple

[queen vapor]

why do i get these errors can someone help me

[summer stump]

See how you wrote three variables at the top of the class?
item, meshRenderer, and canDestroy?
Make one like that, but called destroyableItem

[summer stump]

Remove using System.Numerics from your class

As for MoveDirection, is it a Vector? That one may clear after fixing the others

[queen vapor]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Numerics;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class PlayerMotor : MonoBehaviour
{
private CharacterController controller;
private Vector3 playerVelocity;
public float speed = 5f;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    
}
//recive the inputs for our InputManager.cs and apply them to our character controller.
public void ProcessMove(Vector2 input)
{
    Vector3 moveDirection = Vector3.Zero;
    moveDirection.x = input.x;
    MoveDirection.y = input.y;
    controller.Move(transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection) * speed * Time.deltaTime);
}

}

this is the code

i was following a tutorial im a beginner

[summer stump]

Ok so... just do what I said

Remove using System.Numerics from your class

You made a typo. It is supposed to be moveDirection, not MoveDirection

[queen vapor]

okay i did it thank yo so much

[vocal wharf]

Like this? It's giving errors

[queen vapor]

and these are still here XD

[queen vapor]

ohhh okay

[summer stump]

No, not like that. Look at the other three variables you have

You need to make it like those. With a type

You cannot just write a random word somewhere

[vocal wharf]

like public or something?

[summer stump]

No

[queen vapor]

@summer stump thank u so much u a real one fam

[summer stump]

The type

[summer stump]

Which in this case is the same type as item, because that is what you are instantiating

[vocal wharf]

ohhh gameobject

[summer stump]

That is a type, yes

[vocal wharf]

I hate myself

[summer stump]

Do not say that

Both annoying and unhelpful. Verbal self-harm is still self-harm

[vocal wharf]

well it's the truth lol

anyway I'm gonna test this rq

[summer stump]

I will not help you again if you don't stop with that
You are learning, it is absolutely wild to "hate yourself" over being in a learning process. Don't

[vocal wharf]

whatever

it works

however it only destroys the last object that I spawned

[stray wraith]

anyone know how I could mimic unity's scene view camera rotation? I want to make a perfectly accurate camera rotation script so that if I press right click on a small dot in the camera's view and start moving my mouse and rotating my camera the camera would move perfectly with the mouse, and the cursor would always stay above the dot

[queen vapor]

btw aethenosity why my player goes up to the sky when i press w and goes down when i press s but a and d buttons work @summer stump

[vocal wharf]

so if I spawn 2 objects and aim at the 1st object, it destroys the second one. I want to destroy the object that I am aiming at

[summer stump]

Because you are setting Y, which is up in 3d

[queen vapor]

ohhh but why does he sets it on y in the tutorial too

and it works

[summer stump]

Is it 2d?

[queen vapor]

no its 3d

but in the tutorial it works

[summer stump]

Then are you sure he is not using Z ?

Or has other code?

[queen vapor]

let me check again

ohhh he changed the code and didnt mention in the video

[vocal wharf]

@summer stump when I spawn 2 crates and aim at the first one it deletes the second one because it only destroys the one that I last instantiated. I have a sphere in front of my character that follows the camera movement and has a trigger collider. I want to delete a crate when it is inside that sphere and when I press the mouse button. Is there a way to do that?

[sweet sierra]

Kinda got caught up in smth but... in my file explorer?

I feel kinda dum dum but I'm new to unity so ig it's fine 🌝

[sweet sierra]

I guess use a List or a Queue and delete the first element?

To store the instances that you created

[vocal wharf]

But I wish I could detect the object that enters the trigger and destroy only that one

I've done it before but for some reason my project that had that code got deleted

[sweet sierra]

Ahh so like... What's the logic? You have to be close to the object and press mouse button, that's it?

[short hazel]

If your file explorer can't find it, your code won't either. Hence why you're getting the DirectoryNotFoundException.
Make sure this path exists or have it ensured by code, by using Directory.Create(path)

[vocal wharf]

yeah there's a trigger sphere out in front of my character that follows the camera movements. Basically a big round cursor out front

I want to delete the crate when it's inside that sphere and when the mouse button is clicked

[polar acorn]

Then that path doesn't exist and the error was correct to say as such

[sweet sierra]

Aghh ok so...

My textfile is in resources folder. I am reading it from there correctly but... what about writing?

How do I write the same file I've read from

 string filePath = "Data\\LevelAvailibility"; 
 string fileContents = Resources.Load<TextAsset>(filePath).text;

 int currentLevel = int.Parse(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name[5..]);

 string modifiedContent = fileContents + "\nLevel" + currentLevel++;

 string outputPath = Path.Combine(Application.streamingAssetsPath, "LevelAvailibility.txt"); ;
 System.IO.File.WriteAllText(outputPath, modifiedContent);

[short hazel]

Your path shows StreamingAssets, which means you've probably piped Application.StreamingAssetsPath to it

Yep

The StreamingAssets folder might just not exist under your project directory

Hence the needed usage of Directory.CreateDirectory(Application.StreamingAssetsPath) beforehand, which will ensure it exists (and do nothing if it's already the case)

[sweet sierra]

Ahh okie... so that will overwrite the ACTUAL file in the Resources\Data\ folder?

I sound so dumb but your help is much appreciated! 🙌

[short hazel]

No, that will make the outputPath actually exist on your computer, so File.WriteAllText() can actually locate it

The reading from Resources works fine, it's the writing to StreamingAssets that fails

[sweet sierra]

Ohh. Okie I'll try that

[vocal wharf]

Can someone let me know how to do this?

[sweet sierra]

When I'm done, surely. Kinda caught up

[sweet sierra]

Yes that resolved the issue. But like...

Now I have one file in Resources, and one in Streaming Assets. How do I load level information from it? 💀

[short hazel]

From the one in StreamingAssets? With the File.ReadAllText() method

[summer stump]

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[eternal falcon]

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[summer stump]

Using a trigger area is covered in the pathways

[vocal wharf]

wdym pathways

[short hazel]

As I understand it, the file in Resources serves as a template from which you create those "level files" elsewhere, correct?

It's read-only

[summer stump]

If you click into that link and look for the word, you will understand

[vocal wharf]

ok

[vocal wharf]

This was my original idea for this to work, but it's not destroying the object. Can someone point out any obvious flaws or things that make this not work?

[languid spire]

Damn silly to check for input in a trigger or collision method

[vocal wharf]

what why?

[languid spire]

you would need to hit the key on the exact same frame as the trigger goes off

[vocal wharf]

💀

no freakin wonder

Is there a way in the update method to reference the object that entered the trigger?

[summer stump]

That is incredibly trivial

[languid spire]

only if you make it so, why not the other way round?

[summer stump]

I really recommend you stop and do the guide I sent

Perhaps even do a beginner c# course as well
https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php

[vocal wharf]

wdym

[vocal wharf]

ok?

[vocal wharf]

I came here to ask questions not be put into school

[languid spire]

hmm, save the fact the the input was triggered and check for that in the trigger method

[sweet sierra]

Umm no. I'm just using it to store what levels I can access. That's it

[summer stump]

You are required to do research before asking here
#📖┃code-of-conduct
#854851968446365696

This is not a server for teaching you. You need to have SOME understanding of unity and c# when asking

[sweet sierra]

See

[vocal wharf]

I do have some

[short hazel]

You can't write to files in Resources. Once the game is built, they're baked into a single file and cannot be written to anymore

[vocal wharf]

I have googled many things and searched many forums already and I'm so done with this mess

[sweet sierra]

Alright. So, what would you recommend then?

Like, all I need is read and write from a file. The file simply stores text.

Also, what should I watch videos on? Like, I have no idea rn about this.

Like see here

I'm checking If I can access a level

[thick dove]

I'm trying to have two different trigger colliders on this gameobject. I tried using .Istouching but that didn't seem to work, is there a simpler way to detect which trigger collided with the object?

[short hazel]

You can both read and write from Application.persitentDataPath, which is made for data that needs to be kept in-between play sessions.

[sweet sierra]

Interesting... I'll research on that. Thank you sooo much! ⭐

[tulip cipher]

@thick dove where is the other collider?

[thick dove]

in a child

[sweet sierra]

So, to sum it up:

• Resources for reading
• Streaming for writing
• Persistent for both

Or I hope 😂. I'll search on this

[thick dove]

Oh, do I have to do this in the child and then send that to this main script?

[tulip cipher]

@thick dove can you explain me what are you trying to do?

[summer stump]

Generally best to have the triggers on separate children each with their own script and OnTrigger method. Then pass that information to the parent as needed

Otherwise you need to check some difference, like maybe the shape of the colliders, or radius/size. It gets annoying

[thick dove]

Alright, thanks

[tulip cipher]

Another thing you could do is to set the Ontrigger on the parent's script and then call childs

but the answer above is better

[wide raven]

I need help about making my parallax can anyone help me?
https://paste.myst.rs/c2cyp564
This is the one I did

[vocal wharf]

I FIGURED IT OUT LEZGO

[wide raven]

And this is what I wanted to do

[wintry quarry]

it looks fine to me

what's the issue?

[sweet sierra]

@short hazel This is insult 😂

It works fine for dataPath though

[vast vessel]

yo guys!
any ideas on how i can automatically correct the location of these portals after placing them via code, so they dont get placed on weird places, like half outside of the world, or being half placed on non portal-ableworld geometry?(black metal walls are non portal-able) (also already have code for detecting if the material that a Raycast hit is portal-ableor not)

here is my current code.
pretty simple

just checks if the raycast hit a portallable surface then rotates and moves the portal

[wintry quarry]

well I certainly wouldn't place them then correct the location,. I would just disallow placement in a bad spot

[vast vessel]

the game Portal, moves them and corrects them like you can see me manually doing in the video and thats what i want to achive.

i also want to PREVENT placing portals on surfaces too small

[wintry quarry]

yeah but it does that as it's placed and as part of the "is this a valid spot" check it doesn't place them then correct it

like, the "is this a valid spot" check should also be doing the "can I fudge this slightly to be in a valid spot thing

And it's probably doing something like a capsule cast

[vast vessel]

how do i know where to move the portal do so it dosnt overlap anything, or dosnt have any overhangs?

[wintry quarry]

probably something like:

• capsule cast
• if capsule hits on top or bottom (instead of on its side), try another capsulecast from the hit location along the tangent of the surface with a limited distance until finding a spot where the side of the capsule hits

definitely not a one-liner

there's probably a lot of edge cases as well

you probaly also will want to sample the wall at at least a few points within the projected oval area to make sure the material is correct everywhere

[crisp token]

what is the c# naming convention for abstract classes

[wintry quarry]

the same as regular classes

[wide raven]

The issue is that I cannot make it look like the second video that I sent I want it to resize based on the ortho size so i can fit it

[wintry quarry]

that would be unrelated to parallax itself

but, it doesn't look to "fit" in either video

[wide raven]

Watch this

[wide raven]

Owh it is bcs It is bugged out in the second video but if you give the bg a look

you can see it is resizing

In the original one

[wintry quarry]

ok well there's nothing in your script that seems to attempt to do any resizing

[wide raven]

Yea bcs I don't know what way I should go

like have a seperate camera that renders it

so It fits like that

or

Idk

Resize sprites?

[wintry quarry]

so then you shouldn't need to do any resizing etc

just only zoom the game camera

leave the separate camera alone

[wide raven]

Currently I use solo camera

So you say that I should use seperate cameras to achieve that?

[wintry quarry]

that's certainly an option

[wide raven]

But as far as you can see they kinda get closer like squish a little to fit but I feel like it is a seperate camera that squishes on the x axis to give the illusion i guess

This is non bugged one

This is one variation too

[eternal flame]

I can't get my unity app to receive data over udp

using UnityEngine;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

public class UDPListener : MonoBehaviour
{
    private UdpClient clientData;
    private int portData = 50505;
    private IPEndPoint ipEndPointData;
    private System.AsyncCallback AC;
    private byte[] receivedBytes;

    void Start()
    {
        InitializeUDPListener();
    }

    public void InitializeUDPListener()
    {
        ipEndPointData = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, portData);
        clientData = new UdpClient(portData);
        
        Debug.Log($"UDP client listening on port {portData}");
        
        AC = new System.AsyncCallback(ReceivedUDPPacket);
        clientData.BeginReceive(AC, null);
    }

    void ReceivedUDPPacket(System.IAsyncResult result)
    {
        receivedBytes = clientData.EndReceive(result, ref ipEndPointData);
        ParsePacket();
        clientData.BeginReceive(AC, null);
    }

    void ParsePacket()
    {
        Debug.Log($"Received packet from {ipEndPointData}. Length: {receivedBytes.Length} bytes");
        // Here you can add code to process the receivedBytes as needed
        // For example, converting to a string:
        string message = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(receivedBytes);
        Debug.Log($"Message: {message}");
    }

    void OnDestroy()
    {
        if (clientData != null)
        {
            clientData.Close();
        }
    }
}```

i can receive the data with a similar script if i don't run it in unity, but as soon as i try to use it in unity it won't receive the data

so unity must be blocking it somehow i just can't figure it out

[queen vapor]

hello guys

how do i fix these errors

[polar acorn]

Use variables that exist

[queen vapor]

this is my code

[languid spire]

!code

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[polar acorn]

So, use variables that exist

Start at the top

[queen vapor]

but i dont know how to im a beginner and i was following a tutorial

[polar acorn]

The first error says there's nothing called lerpCrouch and your code confirms

[queen vapor]

he didnt show me how to

[wintry quarry]

Seems like you need to start over from the beginning and take it more slowly

[polar acorn]

Show the tutorial

[queen vapor]

can i send links here?

[polar acorn]

yes

[queen vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqP5EesxLk&list=PLGUw8UNswJEOv8c5ZcoHarbON6mIEUFBC&index=1

and im at 21.18

[polar acorn]

You mean the "Here's what future videos are going to cover" section

Did you actually watch the future videos?

[queen vapor]

no he said try to do this by yourself

and i tried (failed)

[polar acorn]

Okay, so try to do that.

[queen vapor]

i did and it doesnt work

it gives me these errors

[polar acorn]

You're supposed to actually attempt to write the code yourself not just copy verbatim small snippets of someone else's code

[queen vapor]

but bro im new at this ;((

wdym write the code yourself

[polar acorn]

Well, you're 20 minutes into the tutorial, have you actually been attempting to learn what the code is doing or just copy-pasting what they've done without taking any attempt at understanding what it means

[polar acorn]

Whenever you open Visual Studio, keystrokes on your keyboard get translated into letters in the code. Letters can combine to form things called "Words" which can be used to convey meaning

[queen vapor]

i am trying but its my first time trying to make a game and i couldnt understand that well

[polar acorn]

Then you shouldn't be doing this tutorial

You should be learning the language first

There are guids linked in the pins, or on !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[polar acorn]

Code isn't magic. Those words all mean things. Learn what they say and you can combine them in literally infinite ways

[queen vapor]

k thanks so do i just close this project...

[polar acorn]

You should at the very least remove the code you were never supposed to copy-paste

Examples are meant to be instructive, not to do it for you

[languid spire]

why dont you study the code to see where you went wrong.
I shall give you a hint, concentrate on
IsGrounded and controller
then see why they are different from, for example
crouchTimer

[queen vapor]

okay thank you for the hint i will take a look rn

[queen vapor]

thanks for your help so much i made it

[eternal flame]

@polar acorn I can't get my unity app to receive data over udp
using UnityEngine;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

public class UDPListener : MonoBehaviour
{
private UdpClient clientData;
private int portData = 50505;
private IPEndPoint ipEndPointData;
private System.AsyncCallback AC;
private byte[] receivedBytes;

void Start()
{
    InitializeUDPListener();
}

public void InitializeUDPListener()
{
    ipEndPointData = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, portData);
    clientData = new UdpClient(portData);
    
    Debug.Log($"UDP client listening on port {portData}");
    
    AC = new System.AsyncCallback(ReceivedUDPPacket);
    clientData.BeginReceive(AC, null);
}

void ReceivedUDPPacket(System.IAsyncResult result)
{
    receivedBytes = clientData.EndReceive(result, ref ipEndPointData);
    ParsePacket();
    clientData.BeginReceive(AC, null);
}

void ParsePacket()
{
    Debug.Log($"Received packet from {ipEndPointData}. Length: {receivedBytes.Length} bytes");
    // Here you can add code to process the receivedBytes as needed
    // For example, converting to a string:
    string message = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(receivedBytes);
    Debug.Log($"Message: {message}");
}

void OnDestroy()
{
    if (clientData != null)
    {
        clientData.Close();
    }
}

}
i can receive the data with a similar script if i don't run it in unity, but as soon as i try to use it in unity it won't receive the data
so unity must be blocking it somehow i just can't figure it out

[languid spire]

!code

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[eternal flame]

that is on me

i had it in a code block

but i copy pasted it wrong

[summer stump]

Use a paste site

[eternal flame]

I can't get my unity app to receive data over udp

using UnityEngine;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

public class UDPListener : MonoBehaviour
{
    private UdpClient clientData;
    private int portData = 50505;
    private IPEndPoint ipEndPointData;
    private System.AsyncCallback AC;
    private byte[] receivedBytes;

    void Start()
    {
        InitializeUDPListener();
    }

    public void InitializeUDPListener()
    {
        ipEndPointData = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, portData);
        clientData = new UdpClient(portData);
        
        Debug.Log($"UDP client listening on port {portData}");
        
        AC = new System.AsyncCallback(ReceivedUDPPacket);
        clientData.BeginReceive(AC, null);
    }

    void ReceivedUDPPacket(System.IAsyncResult result)
    {
        receivedBytes = clientData.EndReceive(result, ref ipEndPointData);
        ParsePacket();
        clientData.BeginReceive(AC, null);
    }

    void ParsePacket()
    {
        Debug.Log($"Received packet from {ipEndPointData}. Length: {receivedBytes.Length} bytes");
        // Here you can add code to process the receivedBytes as needed
        // For example, converting to a string:
        string message = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(receivedBytes);
        Debug.Log($"Message: {message}");
    }

    void OnDestroy()
    {
        if (clientData != null)
        {
            clientData.Close();
        }
    }
}```
i can receive the data with a similar script if i don't run it in unity, but as soon as i try to use it in unity it won't receive the data
so unity must be blocking it somehow i just can't figure it out

[summer stump]

Also, this belongs in #archived-networking

[eternal flame]

there you go

oh

i thought this was code

[summer stump]

It is networking code

Basically no networking stuff EVER belongs in the beginner section though haha

Also, be sure to use a paste site. That is way too long for just a code block

[polar acorn]

why are you pinging me

[eternal flame]

fair

[ember gate]

if Im creating a small pick up system like coins I have to create a script for the coin itself and when its touched it deletes itself and adds to some ui at the top but like how can I make it so the ui text is raised when coin is picked?

I don't want an indepth explanation just where to write that code the one that adds 1 everytime coin is touched so I can figure out myself from there

[deft grail]

you can animate it or tween it or something

[ember gate]

the ui?

[deft grail]

yes

[ember gate]

im pretty new so I won't go into tweening just yet tbh

other way? cause like I know what to write for the coin but idk how to add a score when its picked

idk if it should be done in the same script or a different one

[deft grail]

you would use OnTriggerEnter2D usually

on the coin or player

[ember gate]

that for destroying it or for adding it to the score?

[deft grail]

everything, and animating it

if you trigger it, means you collected it, means you should add score > animate it > destroy it

[ember gate]

ok lemme try and i'll say if I managed to do that

[deft grail]

its like one of the easiest things, so im sure you will be able to do it

[ember gate]

it does seem really easy but im not too good at coding

[deft grail]

its pretty much just english with a few dots and () ; lol
at least for something like this coin collection

[ember gate]

i get this now

idk why I cant acces totalcoins value from the coins script into the counter script

[deft grail]

whats the error

you can see in the Unity console

[ember gate]

an object reference is required for the non static field

[deft grail]

so, its saying totalCoins isnt static, therefore you need a reference to it

[ember gate]

what does that mean?

[deft grail]

first of ill say the idea of this line seems weird and pointless anyway

[deft grail]

a reference would be for example
public Coin myCoin; then assign that in the inspector
then you can access myCoin.totalCoins

[ember gate]

im checking if the coin amount is different than the one that is on the text and if it is it should change it

oooh

[deft grail]

you should change the text when you change the coin amount

because checking that line in Update isnt the most efficient

probably would still run perfectly fine in your game, but its still not the best practice

[ember gate]

its still just so I can learn so its alright atm ig

[deft grail]

best to learn properly the 1st time though, but up to you
if you look back at this code in a future project for example, you might copy this

it also just doesnt really make sense to check "if the text and coin is different > update text"
when you can just do "on collect coin > update text and coin"

[ember gate]

ye but idk how to update the text through the same coin script

so i have a script for the text ui

[deft grail]

the same way as you do in the other script

the scripts are no different between eachother

[ember gate]

so in the same coin script I can manipulate the ui text?

[deft grail]

yes

[ember gate]

for some reason it seems so complicated for me

how can you do that

wait

I think i know how

one sec

what library I need for TMP text?

[deft grail]

to use it in your project? or access it in code?

[ember gate]

in code

[slender nymph]

if your IDE is properly configured you can just use the quick actions to import the correct namespace

[ember gate]

probably it isnt

[deft grail]

its just what tmp is called

[deft grail]

!ide

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[late burrow]

i kinda want use everything in json now

its nice to not need define every new variable i want to use

[ember gate]

for some reason I cannot drag my text to the coin inspector

like it does not want to go in the box

[slender nymph]

either you've used the wrong variable type or you're trying to drag a scene object into a prefab

[ember gate]

its not a prefab

I did this

[slender nymph]

TextMeshPro is not the UI one, it is the world space text object. you want to use either the parent class TMP_Text which is the parent of both of them or use the correct derived class TextMeshProUGUI

[ember gate]

oh

ok ye

thanks

good the counter works as well

thanks guys

oh btw would you guys know why the text is a bit blurry?

[deft grail]

np, also to say if you WERE to access your coins in another script
its private and wouldnt even BE able to access in another script

[ember gate]

I did put it on public at that time to be able to acces it

but thanks

[deft grail]

some of the settings on the text in the inspector, not sure what ones exactly from memory though
usually TMP isnt blurry on creation though

[ember gate]

no problem its not a big deal atm

i wanna make a small puzzle game sort of

idk don't got any ideas atm but ill come up with sum tomorrow

thanks for the help ❤️

[crisp token]

is this the correct way to use base class constructor in c#?

[short hazel]

Looks correct, it would report errors if you weren't using base correctly or at all

[crisp token]

base is just like super() from java right?

[short hazel]

Yes

Do note that since you use custom constructors, any of these cannot inherit from MonoBehaviour. Unity doesn't like the constructors, since it can't know what to pass when you attach the component onto an object. For other uses, it's fine

[crisp token]

yeah I just plan on instantiating these in my state manager : MonoBehavior class and any other movement classes as a means of keeping track of active abilities

[short hazel]

Huh?

[crisp token]

idk on my screen my text is red, nvm

[short hazel]

In Discord, means the message failed to send

[crisp token]

"I should just be able to apply any monobehavior stuff from there right?"

[primal trench]

how would i check if a mouse is hovering over a button?

[short hazel]

I need an example, "stuff" is not precise enough

A lot of features will not work if your class doesn't inherit from MonoBehaviour. You won't get Unity messages like Start and Update

[crisp token]

like in my monobehavior class, I could have a queue of active abilities, and then methods that read the queue and it's objects and, accordingly, apply desired effects

[short hazel]

Yes that's not tied to specific MonoBehaviour features, so it will work

[crisp token]

well it could be as long as I access the monobehavior features through the monobehavior class I thought

[crisp token]

im not familiar with UI or if unity has something built in but I'd try screen position + 2d colliders

[short hazel]

Yes they're only available there, unless you pass them around. If your abilities need to access the script that queues them, you can inject it: someAbilityVariable.DoStuff(this)

In ability: public abstract void DoStuff(YourScript context); and override in children

[rich adder]

use the IpointerEnterHandler
https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerEnterHandler.html

for the inspector only without script, you can use an Event Trigger

[crisp token]

why would a variable call a method?

[vast vessel]

to guys.
i have no idea how these bitwise operations work. can someone tell me what exactly this piece of code is doing?

[crisp token]

and equals would be my guess idk

[rich adder]

its bitwise AND

[vast vessel]

so like... what does it do?

[rich adder]

it does the AND bitwise and assigns it

[gusty scaffold]

a variable like an int or a char is ultimately stored in binary

[rich adder]

usually when dealing with bitmasks

[gusty scaffold]

so it's something like 1101

if you do bitwise "and" with 1101 and 0111

the first digit is 1&0 = 0

[vast vessel]

is this it in simpler terms?:
IsOverlapping = IsOverlapping && RandomBool

[gusty scaffold]

second digit is 1 & 1 = 1

third digit is 0 & 1 = 0

fourth is 1&1=1

so the result is 0101

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks

[gusty scaffold]

it's easier to see if you line them up vertically

1101
0111
----
0101

[vast vessel]

will these be the resaults of the operations shown below?

False&=True =>False
False&=False => False
True&=True =>True

[gusty scaffold]

it depends how a bool is stored in bits

which i'm not sure of

theoretically, you only need one bit to represent a bool

[polar acorn]

&= is not a boolean operation

[gusty scaffold]

but computers aren't designed to handle single bits

so a bool is probably stored in 8 bits or something

[vast vessel]

so what is this doing then?
how is it working on bools??
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/1268698490310234233/image.png?ex=66ad5f0b&is=66ac0d8b&hm=9f6d5a67302cdbee4fc75eb8b2247e3b9916bb481ee31086e169e1c42890f202&

[gusty scaffold]

my guess is it would be the same as a regular "and" operation

but to know for sure...

[vast vessel]

so this?

[gusty scaffold]

first of all, does Linecast return bool?

yes

[vast vessel]

yea

[rich adder]

it loops through all of them while assigning the value of overlapping

[vast vessel]

can someone just tell me if this is what that line is doing pleaseee
IsOverlapping = IsOverlapping & RandomBool

[gusty scaffold]

i would assume so

you'd have to check docs to be sure

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/language-specification/types#833-default-constructors

i'm taking a look

[gusty scaffold]

ah well that's a slightly different question

[rich adder]

if its hitting something overlapping will be true

its not that complex

true & true = true

[vast vessel]

wow thanks

[vast vessel]

brother i littleraly asked this and nobody answered

[vast vessel]

here

[rich adder]

you know what && is ? since its 2 bools its doing the same & while assigning . so yes you would conclude thats the answer

[vast vessel]

it was a mistake in that one message.
i asked the same thing later but corrected && to &

whatever dude

[rich adder]

the first one was also correct

[gusty scaffold]

yes x &= y is equivalent to x = x & y except that x is only evaluated once (which only matters if x has side-effects)
source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators?redirectedfrom=MSDN#compound-assignment

[orchid zinc]

does it matter what version of visual code studio i use with unity? for example can i use vcs 2019 with the latest lts unity

[gusty scaffold]

and someone said & is equivalent to && when the operands are bools, which makes sense to me

[rich adder]

there is no vsc 2019

vsc and vs are not the same program

[orchid zinc]

ohhhh

this one

[rich adder]

yes thats Visual Studio

its old, you should use the 2022 one

[eternal needle]

It doesnt matter what IDE you use at all, as long as you can configure it. Though you might as well use the latest

[rich adder]

a bit faster since its 64 bit app, and you have nice addition like intellicode

[orchid zinc]

alr thanks

[rich adder]

here ya go if you haven't seen this
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/gamedev/unity/get-started/getting-started-with-visual-studio-tools-for-unity?pivots=windows#install-visual-studio-and-unity

would recommend removing 2019 to save space

[gusty scaffold]

in the code you posted you don't have to worry about side effects

[orchid zinc]

when installing what happens if u dont select game development with unity? does it not work properly?

just curious

[rich adder]

it will not work with unity properly no

those two features you see .Underline red and showing the classes / and functions etc.

[timid quartz]

say I've got a Vector3 representing the offset I'd like the camera to be at in regards to the player - something like (0, 10, 10) or something to keep it simple. and I want the camera to follow the back of the player. if the player were literally always facing forwards, I could just add the offset to the player position, but what am I missing to make it so that the camera is offset in the direction of the player's transform?

[orchid zinc]

ok so thats why i was having issues lolll

[teal viper]

Transform the offset vector from local to world space.

[timid quartz]

sorry - how would I go about doing that?

ah, wait, https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.InverseTransformPoint.html

[teal viper]

That's the opposite of what you need.

"Transforms position from world space to local space"

[timid quartz]

oops you're totally right

you totally nailed it, that was exactly what I needed. thanks other lich!!

[thick swift]

If I want to use the Tunnelling Vignette prefab from the samples folder, how do I make my own version of it? When I copy the folder into my Assets/Prefabs folder, then drag the prefab over my camera, it creates Tunnelling Vignette_1 in the scene.

[copper orbit]

when enemy is hit, it moves the enemy 2 meters back based on shot direction. That's what i am trying to do with this code anyway. Not sure why the enemy is not moving on hit. No errors or null references

[rich adder]

MoveTowards should probably be in a coroutine or update , spanning across frames

[orchid zinc]

ok so i got vs 2022 and i checked the unity box while downloading but it doesnt see any of the unity functions

no MonoBehaviour, no start, no update

[rich adder]

close VS go back to External Tools in unity click Rgeen Project Files button, open script again from unity.
If this doesnt work, go in Solution Explorer in VS and if it says on the assembly missing or something, right click and Reload/Reimport with dependecies

[orchid zinc]

wheres external tools

[rich adder]

did you not follow the steps?

its there one of the steps

[orchid zinc]

well i just installed vs and unity just opened it on its own

[rich adder]

well go back n do the steps

[ivory bobcat]

During installation, did you make sure to select the Unity workload? !vs

!vs

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[orchid zinc]

yes i selected the unity workload

[ivory bobcat]

Make sure the external tools are setup correctly and regenerate the project

[sleek marten]

I'm using this code to prevent my player from moving to a UI element when it's clicked on

            if (EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
            {
                // Do nothing
                return;
            }```
and that's working fine when I'm in Game display. When I switch to Simulator and I click on a button I move to its location. If I keep clicking on a UI element I won't move to those areas anymore. Why is this happening?

[teal viper]

Probably because you don't have a cursor in the simulator, so the event system doesn't know what you're hovering until you click it.

[sleek marten]

huh

didn't know that could happen

what do I do?

[teal viper]

On mobile you'll need to handle it differently. For example, each time you click, make a check if the click is over the UI before executing whatever logic you want.

[sleek marten]

so something like(?)

       {
           // Do nothing
           return;
       }
 else{}```

[teal viper]

I don't see how that is different to the previous code.

You'd probably need to implement some method to check if a point is within the bounds of any of your ui.

[sleek marten]

I was thinking of throwing in an else statement but that didn't work

[sleek marten]

oh good idea

I really don't understand what the problem is with how I've set it up

        {
            // Check if the click is over a UI element
            if (EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
            {
                // Do nothing
                Debug.Log("Clicked on the UI");
                return;
            }```
I check for mouse input and then it checks for any UI right after. Works perfectly fine in Game mode and the manual says it should work in Sim too

[keen sonnet]

Is there a chart of all of the main codes

Like "if"

And that stuff to make coding easier

[sleek marten]

I'd start here

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

[keen sonnet]

Thanks

[misty remnant]

i have a question how can i rotate an object around another object to a certain degree so if i put transform.RotateAround(Vector3.zero, Vector3.up, 20) in void update it would not just keep spinning it would just stay at that angle around that object

[fathom timber]

probably the easiest way to do this is to just stop the rotation after the amount of time it takes to rotate the degrees that you want. You could even calculate the duration if you want different rotation speeds ( DesiredRotation / RotationPerSecond).

[raw token]

Not a bad idea for an extension method... RotateAroundTowards()

[gusty scaffold]

if you put that line in Update(), it will keep getting executed

[misty remnant]

i am trying to create procedural leg animation and i need the feet to rotate to a certain degree when they are to far back the i am done but the on issue is i need it to rotate around a point to that angle

[fathom timber]

do you know how to get the angle between your points? If so, you can just say "if this angle > desired angle, set to desired angle and stop rotating". Does that make sense?

[ancient rampart]

what would you guys recommend for importing and exporting yaml data? looking to read a yaml file and then assign gameobjects based on the info in there

I saw yamldotnet was an option, but not sure if that's the standard

[graceful crystal]

can someone explain how to fix this

[deft grail]

try restarting

[summer stump]

Not from your code. It is from something using the graph view (animation, shader-graph, etc). So close all those windows and restart again, if just restarting alone like gr4ss suggested doesn't work

[graceful crystal]

ahhh thanks it fixed that error

but got a new one which is so fun

[warm surge]

Im trying to simulate audio waves, but I'm not sure of how to go about it. I've thought about raycasting, but im not sure if it would be the most performant. I need to be able to detect when sounds collide with walls in particular.

[rich adder]

raycasting is very performant

[warm surge]

But in large quantities with maybe 1,000+ rays each frame will it still be performant?

up to 1,000*

[rich adder]

why do you need 1000 rays

it would probably make more sense using a bigger query like overlap that grows then do raycast on hit items you're interested to check walls

[warm surge]

what do you mean by "bigger query like overlap"

[rich adder]

like overlap sphere / circle for example

[warm surge]

thats what i was thinking about, but then how would that work? The sphere grows and hits something end keep expanding, but where do I cast the rays from? The sphere has a continuous surface so how would i cast rays several times on one surface from a sphere

[warm surge]

oh wait i had an idea

[rich adder]

like real sound

yea

[warm surge]

wait no i didnt

so what happens when the sphere collides with a wall or something. how does the wave bounce off

[rich adder]

if you want to use bouncing you mightbe better of raycasts maybe in a 360 circle

or spherecasts

[warm surge]

whats a spherecast?

[rich adder]

throw a ball of certain radius, whatever it hits, thats a spherecast

just a fancy raycast that is thicc

[warm surge]

that makes sense

im thinking that maybe a plain raycast might be the best option

[rich adder]

what are you trying to accomplish with these waves?

[warm surge]

i want to highlight the areas the waves are hitting. so if theres a wall next to a speaker or something, the wall is highlighted red because its close, while a wall across the room is highlighted blue because its far

and waves can bounce off walls and add onto eachother if they land on spots that are already highlighted

[teal viper]

This kind of a simulation would require a lot of computation

[warm surge]

thats what im worried about

[teal viper]

Might need to write a compute shader for that.

[warm surge]

i was thinking about shaders, and have known i'll probably need to write one, but my only problem is idk how to highlight walls and stuff.

The more i think about it the more complicated it gets

[cedar bone]

Is it a good idea to have every feature for the player in one giant script, or split it up to different scripts?

i mean features that directly address the player, not every feature for the game

[raw token]

It's really a personal preference, buuuut...

The sort of prevailing wisdom is that "monolithic scripts" are unwieldy and difficult to work with... The more atomic a script is, then all of the code related to that part/feature are in a nice condensed package such that you're less likely to overlook a necessary change or get lost in the implementation. Plus, you can easily leverage the strengths of OOP and inheritence such can easily create subclasses for unique variants.

In a monolith you often end up hunting around for all of the places which touch and implement that functionality, and it's easier to miss something if you make a change or decide to revamp or replace the implementation... let alone creating some variant of it.

This is some small portion of the reasoning behind the "Single Responsibility Principle" facet of SOLID, which asserts that a class should only have a single reason to be changed. More or less, a class should only be responsible for one thing only.

Personally, I'm not great at adhering to that principle out of the gate. But I often find I'll prototype in larger chunks of code and refactor into separate classes when the discrete behaviors become more defined.

[tiny plaza]

why does my chracter keep moving left when i jump?

[cedar bone]

hmm got u

is it a good idea to make variables in one script

and then make everyother script on the palyer change that variable from that script?

because main thing im worried about when using different scripts is having to getComponent 3 times to get a couple variables

[warm surge]

its mostly preference, but its generally more scalable to split each idea into its own 'module'. If you need to change the players inventory, you wont accidentally break sprinting, if you need to change sprinting, you want accidentally break interactions, and if you need to add a new feature, just make a new module the incorperate it into the main player script

[raw token]

Hard to say based on that video alone. If you suspect your code could be responsible, you should share that code. It might also be an input issue - if you're using a controller or have one attached, that could easily be like a joystick hanging out outside of the deadzone

[cedar bone]

wdym by module?

is it those things in the particle system component?

where u can see different settings?

[warm surge]

module is an arbitrary name for each script. you have your movement module, your inventory module, your interactions module. you dont need to call them module, but the fact that each idea is broken up into different scripts makes the parts of the player modular, which is why its called a module

[tiny plaza]

here's my code

[cedar bone]

oh ok, so its basically a synonym to scripts?

[warm surge]

yes, exactly, it just gets the point across a bit better that they come together to make the player work

and also the fact theyre easily changable

[cedar bone]

This was really helpful 👍

[warm surge]

youre welcome

[cedar bone]

thank you!

anything else I should know?

[warm surge]

maybe, i'll think and let you know if theres anything i can think of

[raw token]

Okay, cool. That all looks fine - that code shouldn't be responsible, unless the cube isn't sitting directly aligned with the world axes... You could test that real quick - temporarily swap out transform.up with Vector2.up

[cedar bone]

also what are scriptable objects?

it seems important for keeping code clean

[tiny plaza]

i tried it and it's still doing the same

[warm surge]

theyre a special class that lets you create assets that can hold data. Unlike MonoBehaviours, they dont need to be attacthed to game objects and dont exist in the scene. theyre saved as assets in your project and can resued on different scenes and prefabs

[cedar bone]

so its like a template?

[warm surge]

not necessarily, but you can use it like one

[raw token]

Alright - change that back to transform.up before we forget 👀

Does the yellow platform have any z rotation? Failing that, I think there's there's an input system debugger... somewhere 🤔

[cedar bone]

whats a use-case for scriptable objects?

[warm surge]

one example i can think of would be a dialogue system

[tiny plaza]

this is the transform of the player and the floor before hitting play

[cedar bone]

like having a scriptable obejct for guns and then attaching it to any new guns made?

[tiny plaza]

wait

[warm surge]

yes, actually

[tiny plaza]

i hadn't saved when i tried vector 3 the first time i tried it again it's not going left

[cedar bone]

but why is it better to use scriptable objects, than making a script that can be applied to every gun

where settings can be changed

[raw token]

Hmmm... that's super strange 🤔

[warm surge]

keeps data and logic separate, easy to reuse and update data across the game, easy to edit data in the unity editor without coding, more memory efficient, prevents unintended changes and maintains consistency

[cedar bone]

so a scriptable object is just a script that stores data?

[tiny plaza]

i tried changing the gravity scale to 10 then back to 1 and now it's doing it even when it's just falling on both vect and trans

[cedar bone]

and scripts can access it to do logic?

[cedar bone]

so basically this?

[raw token]

Does Player show any z rotation while jumping?

[warm surge]

yea pretty much. you can use it to store weapon stats, character attributes, etc. your code takes the data from your scriptable object and uses it however necessary

[cedar bone]

and it doesn't do any logic?

and it can store functions im assuming?

[tiny plaza]

not when jumping but it does for a short time when the player hits the ground then comes back to normal

[cedar bone]

sorry for the ton of questions

[warm surge]

thats correct. and no it doesnt store functions

and its fine ur asking lots of questions

i dont mind

[raw token]

What do your Devices look like in Window > Analysis > Input Debugger?

[toxic yacht]

The way I've thought about scriptable objects is as unity's all-in-one do to data driven. Its common to want to serialize data, like say the possible moves for a pokemon, in something like a json file. But in order to make that work, you need to do file parsing, and if you want type safety feed the dict that comes out of parsing to builder for your own class. Scriptable objects wrap all of that in a single feature for you.

[cedar bone]

but what about this?

[raw token]

Have you written any code for horizontal movement?

[cedar bone]

seems kinda useless if it doesn't save

[tiny plaza]

nothing

[tiny plaza]

the only other script i have is an fps limiter

[warm surge]

while youre running the project, changes to the scriptable object arent saved

[cedar bone]

rigidbodies are weird

OOOH

ok

that makes sense

[toxic yacht]

I'm not sure what they're referring to, but the serialized values on scriptable objects aren't intended to change at runtime

[cedar bone]

yeah thats fine

[warm surge]

yea that reddit comment didnt make much sense to me

didnt quite understand what they were getting at

[mint remnant]

what's Rigidbody look like in inspector?

[tiny plaza]

i tried going back to default gravity scale and it does nothing

[raw token]

My mind is boggled 😕

[mint remnant]

Angular drag defaults to 0.05, curious why or if that was changed if would impact it

[cedar bone]

are materials scriptable objects?

[tiny plaza]

i did this and it solved it

[cedar bone]

I always do this for my RBs

[warm surge]

no

[mint remnant]

at least it solves it, but definately strange that you need to

[tiny plaza]

do you know why it does a small z rotaion when it hist the ground?

[warm surge]

materials are not derived from the scriptable object class

[toxic yacht]

They're their own asset type, but stuff like the URP render pipeline file are

[tiny plaza]

i know right?

[cedar bone]

I have no clue

[cedar bone]

alright 👍

[toxic yacht]

A lot of frameworks/pipelines/libraries use scriptable objects for their settings

[tiny plaza]

btw do i need to use Time.deltaTime on addforce?

[raw token]

Nope! Already factored in

[tiny plaza]

perfect!

[mint remnant]

guessing if you increaed that angular drag it would reduce it, but freezing it seems to stop it completely

[raw token]

(For completeness' sake, it depends on your ForceMode... ForceMode.Force is default. But you usually don't want it at all if you're using one of the modes which doesn't already include it)

[toxic yacht]

I'm catching up on the jump doing a slight shift bug. One alternative is instead of using addforce, set the rigidbody's velocity. This isn't a one to one since add force takes into account the rb's mass tho.

[tiny plaza]

thanks and do you think i should use Velocity, addforce Force or addforce VelocityChange if i want to have a jump like this one? (or something else)

[raw token]

Probably an Impulse - though the reference there likely isn't really using any real physics 👀

That would immediately propel it into the air without needing to constantly apply force

[warm surge]

'this feel' has more to do with the animations than anything else. you can probably get the same results using any of those, but to get the same feel you'll need to have some specific animations to go along with it

[tiny plaza]

thanks i'll save this message for when i get to animating!

[toxic yacht]

Yeah I a fighting game id guess the jump is balanced based on height, and speed. Also can point out that the jump there has a higher gravity scale when falling.

[tiny plaza]

i feel like 10 is giving me the best result

[raw token]

Looking back at your code, the force mode is why you're having to use such a large force to achieve your current jump - the force is only applied for one frame, but since ForceMode.Force is scaled by time, you're having to use that large multiplier. If you switch to Impulse it'll just dump the entire force at once.

In short, when using a time-dependent force mode, the force value you give it represents "force per second." When you use a time-independent mode, it just represents direct force

[toxic yacht]

This is a pretty good short about it https://youtube.com/shorts/uCrHFjR6qzg?si=E9WcRk0KujSTKdik

And in general this channel is goated

[tiny plaza]

I'll check it out since he explains stuff really well from what i'm seeing

[tiny plaza]

it works really well thanks!

[tiny plaza]

what does the "!" do? it came when i tabed

[mint remnant]

negator for booleans

[tiny plaza]

does it means that the code work if it's false?

[mint remnant]

depends on what you want it to do, that code says return the result of isGrounded() then make it opposite of that value before it goes into the && check

[tiny plaza]

the isGrounded is a bool already can i not use it directly?

[mint remnant]

you certainly can, just read it like english and see if it is what you want. if something performed and not grouned then do this

the fact that hitting tab auto added it is beyond me though

[tiny plaza]

it's probably because my default value is false

also should i use fixedupdates or updates?

[mint remnant]

in general you want anything physics in fixed update

though adding a force I don't think matters as much

[tiny plaza]

is there a way to do something when not in collision with something?

because this doesn't work

[formal sable]

I have a problem. Yesterday I faced the problem that the pause is removed from the space bar, that is, I click on the button to press "continue the game", then pause, press the space bar and the game is removed from the pause. After deleting the EventSystem, it is no longer removed, but the buttons stop clicking

[raw token]

How are you hiding the pause menu?

[mint remnant]

Add soem debug.log statements, verify things you think are occuring vs. what's really occuring

[formal sable]

After I deleted the eventsystem using escape

[raw token]

There's not like an OnNoCollision() - but you can OnCollisionExit2D().

It is possible to check if a collider is touching something, but it's probably not a great solution for this

[topaz mortar]

I'm currently using FixedUpdate to send a raycast to find my target.
Is it ok to call my attack logic from FixedUpdate as well? Or should I use Update for that?

[raw token]

Sure, I mean like visually... Are you SetActive(false)ing the game object, or just making it transparent or something?

[formal sable]

Yes, SetActive(false), I can send the code of pause_menu here

There is no such problem on version 2021 🙂

I choose the 2022

[raw token]

Hmmm. I see what you're saying - the button's still selected when you close the menu. That definitely seems strange if you're disabling it 🤔

[formal sable]

Should I send you a code or something? It's just a very strange situation, and the EventSystem turned out to be guilty 😦

[raw robin]

Hi all, I have a fairly generic question on pros and cons of prefabs vs scenes

Currently Im using prefabs for different levels, and I destroy and instantiate the levels. Now Im aware scene is something usually to handle level changes, but if prefabs does most things I currently want to, is there a reason I should change to using Scenes?

Thansk

[raw token]

Sure you could send the code. I'm not very experienced with input stuff, but I'll take a look 👀.

Can you share a screenshot when the menu's disabled as well? I want to see the pause menu in the hierarchy, and it's inspector

[formal sable]

Sure... Can I send the code as a file?

[raw token]

Use one of the paste sites listed below 👇 !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.

[teal viper]

You might want to use scenes instead if memory is an issue, as using one scene with many prefabs is gonna keep all the prefabs loaded into the memory. On the other hand, when you unload a scene it releases all the memory it references.

It's a bit more complicated than that and there are ways to tackle the issue, but that's the gist of that. Also, it's just a different development workflow.

[formal sable]

Okay...

[formal sable]

https://hatebin.com/botvtqwhmo

Here code of pause_menu, but I can send the code of moving player, because I put the space bar on the jump, but it's not about it at all, because I was removing the code from the player, and still the pause was removed from the space bar

[raw token]

Huh! Very strange. I don't understand why it would be doing that... You might be able to fix it by adding

EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(null);

to Resume() though

[formal sable]

I can try

[formal sable]

Yes!!! It can be work 🙂

[raw token]

Woot woot!!

[formal sable]

Thank you very much

[limpid plinth]

Hey,
I wrote a script for my prefab.
Created 500 game object with different positions. (Clones)

How to link them back to blue link prefab? I have to more modifications and don't want to make.them manually for each

[raw token]

As in, update the clones with the changes you've made to the asset? Are they still instances of the prefab, or did you unpack them?

[copper orbit]

has anyone ever tried utilizing navmesh with spriterenderer in 3d?

[limpid plinth]

So i had to execute runtime for Awake to trigger for loops to crrate them, now they are name(clones) , but i want to have blue link connection back with prefab

[topaz mortar]

Does Physics2D.Raycast always return just a single target? The first one hit?
The docs are a bit confusing

[raw token]

I'm still not sure I follow... If you mean that you want the prefab clones to be linked to the prefab asset during runtime, you can't - prefabs don't really exist at runtime... You also shouldn't be modifying a prefab asset during runtime, as I don't think that's possible in a build

[north kiln]

It has overloads that do different things

[tiny plaza]

i'm trying to make my character jump without it's original horizontal velocity but it doesn't work

[limpid plinth]

@raw token No,
I just created them to position by script logically 500 objeects.
Now they exist in editor mode too.
But i want to LINK them BACK with prefab. Now they are grey. In editor. In editor i want blue link

i want this

blue hex, not gray hex

[mint remnant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyi7l2tWKo

[limpid plinth]

how to link gray Hex to be blue hax @solemn loom

but i have 500 of them

all same, just different pos

[raw token]

I don't think unity has a built-in faculty for restoring a relationship between a game object and a prefab asset...

If you need to instantiate a prefab within the editor, you should be using PrefabUtility.InstantiatePrefab(); which maintains the relationship.

There might be some hack to restore the relationship by editing the scene file by hand... but that seems sketchy, to me. If you decide to try that, definitely make backups 👀

Maybe use another editor script to iterate through all of the clones you've instantiated, instantiate new copies with InstantiatePrefab(), copy their values over, then delete the unlinked clones, I guess? 😦

[limpid plinth]

that helps alot @raw token

but can i execute it on playtime?

[raw token]

In editor playmode, I think? But not in a build

[limpid plinth]

letme try

OMG

it works

jesus christ

thank you

god bless you +1 life

i spend 4 h on this

[raw token]

hahaha 🙇‍♂️

That's... not a fun situation

[limpid plinth]

thanks buddy!

can i reach out to you dm?

[raw token]

Momentarily - but I'll be headed to bed shortly

[limpid plinth]

sent dm

[raw token]

"Doesn't work" as in you've still got horizontal velocity? Perhaps your code for horizontal movement is still running and overriding that code?

[tiny plaza]

it tried this way thinking it would solve my problem but it doesn't

[languid spire]

tbh the chances of velocity.x being exactly zero are very small

[tiny plaza]

what i want to do is to have a set jump for each direction that isn't controlled by the initial speed

[tiny plaza]

i use it for when my character doesn't move (i'm stealing street fight 3 movement)

[languid spire]

still, change you test to 0.01f

[pulsar shuttle]

Trying to implement pinch gesture zooming, but having trouble. I need to limit the zooming, just call the function when the fitting gesture is made, instead of directly passing the difference to camera's size. currentMagnitude and prevMagnitude almost feel random, i can literally hold two fingers in place and it will tell me the difference is 100 pixels sometimes.

        {
            Touch touch1 = Input.GetTouch(0);
            Touch touch2 = Input.GetTouch(1);

            if (touch1.phase == TouchPhase.Moved || touch2.phase == TouchPhase.Moved)
            {
                Vector2 touchOnePrev = touch1.position - touch1.deltaPosition;
                Vector2 touchTwoPrev = touch2.position - touch2.deltaPosition;

                float prevMagnitude = (touchOnePrev -  touchTwoPrev).magnitude;
                float currentMagnitude = (touch1.position - touch2.position).magnitude;

                float difference = currentMagnitude - prevMagnitude;

                if (Mathf.Abs(difference) < 50f) return;

                bool zoomOut = currentMagnitude > prevMagnitude;
                textMesh.text = $"{zoomOut} {difference}\n {prevMagnitude} {currentMagnitude}";

                if (zoomOut)
                {
                    //zooming out
                }
                else
                {
                    //zooming in
                }
            }
        }```

[astral falcon]

It might be an issue, that depending on the device, its registering one touch moving even when you think, you are holding it still. You should debug log your phases to see, that its behaving the way you think it should and if not, adapt your code to also cover starting and ending/canceling of the inputs.

And for sure you need more logs than just a result of multiple calculations to figure out, whats going on or going wrong

I would also store those toucheoneprev and stuff in a persistent value so you can log that values all the time and also can 0 them out when cancelled, just to make things clean and controllable

[pulsar shuttle]

that's why i've put the if (Mathf.Abs(difference) < 50f) return; line, as a failsafe against little finger moving.
Debugging would've been nice, but i'm testing it on web and builds take such a long time to make.
Is it possible that touch delta position is stored from the previous instance of the touch?

[languid spire]

touch can be extremely sensitive, even a slight roll of a finger can be seen as a move. You might want to put a minimum on your touch delta

[pulsar shuttle]

but don't those two get overwritten anyway?

[pulsar shuttle]

is checking the difference not enough?

[astral falcon]

Its just for debugging and not creating new references on every frame. So you can also see and answer your own question, what happens to deltaposition when you let go, or holding one finger, see if the touch count updates accordingly.

[astral falcon]

Thats something for you to test. As said, only one text field as debug is not enough to see if your code works. And if build times take long, try using unity remote or something to fake touches.

[pulsar shuttle]

i see, i'll try that. thanks

[astral falcon]

apart from that. You could easily store a start value when touches began and then just check for their positions in move and zero out all values when cancelled.

[pulsar shuttle]

still pretty frustrating it acts so odd, wonder if my understanding of how it works is wrong

[astral falcon]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72375631/converting-pinch-to-zoom-to-new-inputsystem that seems to cover what you need in KiynLs answer

[pulsar shuttle]

oh damn, i should definetly try that, didn't think of that

[ruby python]

Mornin' all,

In the attached image I have a bunch of 'connection points' that I'm using for a simple building system and I'm trying to figure out how to make it so that only the point facing the camera is visible (the player uses A and D currently to rotate the camera around the 'core' of the station) and clickable. I've gotten the clickable/building 'extra' bits all working, I just need to hide/deactivate any points that aren't facing the camera.

Anybody have any ideas? (the 'cross' is just for 'center screen' reference.)

Video for Reference

https://streamable.com/3l4yad

[topaz mortar]

Alright, so my bunnies were perfectly walking from right to left, I changed something (dunno what) and now they won't move
They still have their RigidBody, the velocity is set to Vector2(-3, 0),
rb.constraints only returns that the z axis is locked, which is intentional
when I unlock it, my bunnies start rolling forward instead of walking
Are they somehow stuck in my ground? Or is something else going on? Even if I manually move them out of the ground, they won't move forward, they do fall back down

[languid spire]

if you don't know what you changed (not sure I can understand how that is even possible) roll back to a previous commit when things did work

[topaz mortar]

I changed a lot of things, but nothing that seemed relevant

and I don't want to roll back, it would probably just cause the same issue again

just not sure what I'm looking for

[teal viper]

Start from looking at the physics debug info. See if their velocity is changing at all.

Additionally, confirm that your code executes at all and is applying velocity to the correct objects.

Additionally, when debugging issues like that, make sure you have gizmos enabled.

[topaz mortar]

ah, found it thx 🙂
I changed it so the velocity is set in Awake, but the drag cancels it out within a few frames

[pulsar shuttle]

thanks, this worked, you're a savior

[topaz mortar]

So I set both linear and angular drag to 0, but my velocity is still being cancelled out

[sick cloud]

Hello everyone, is this the right channel to ask for help?

[pulsar shuttle]

if its related to coding yes

[topaz mortar]

for coding questions yes, #854851968446365696

[teal viper]

Drag is not the only thing that stops velocity. There's friction too.

[sick cloud]

good, cause I'm gonna smash my table to pieces if this code won't start working 👍

so should I just post everything about my problem in?

[teal viper]

If you want your objects to keep moving, you need to keep on setting the velocity or applying forces.

[topaz mortar]

I guess that's why ppl set the velocity in fixedupdate and not awake 😛

[languid spire]

here is good, please read this first !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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

[sick cloud]

So I'm working on this application, in which you can choose a folder with DICOM files and the program makes a 3D model with it. I have already achieved to load a folder using a button and then removing the volume again with another button.
However, if I want to choose another folder or the same one again with the first button then no model will be created, which is not good and I don't know how to solve this :(

Here are the 2 scripts that include the folder dilemma.

"DataStore" Code 1:
https://paste.ofcode.org/hDK5Tjg82ZCH2HdjHtDVuD

"Vtk Volume render Load Control Script" Code2:
https://paste.ofcode.org/3PwawxqdNgjYNU64Y88Bbu

Here is a Picture of how the Program looks rn:

[pulsar shuttle]

which function does the first button call?

[sick cloud]

should be OnSelectFolderButtonClick()

second one is OnClearFolderButtonClick()

anyone who can help please just ping me, so I won't miss anything

[pulsar shuttle]

So it acts normally the first time and then after clicking the clear button it stops working, right?

[sick cloud]

yeah

[languid spire]

this OnClearFolderButtonClick( makes little sense as ClearVolume does it all

[sick cloud]

yeah I know, haven't changed it yet

but it's not really a problem rn

if any of the //comments are in german and you need them translated I'm ready to help

[languid spire]

why is ImageDataFolders even an array?

[sick cloud]

I work with the VtkToUnity Plugin and some of the code was already existing, so idk but it propably has to do with how the DICOM files are listed I guess

[round mirage]

how can i get a child GameObject by his name in a script ?

[sick cloud]

Also to be completely honest I'm a C# noob and actually wanted to make this in Python but the necessary libraries didn't like each other so I had to switch to Unity

[pulsar shuttle]

  if (child.gameObject.name == "some name")
    //your code
}```

[round mirage]

thank you 🙂

[pulsar shuttle]

im unfamiliar with this library so i'm not sure what this all means, but here it removes the prop, does it get recreated every time you load a folder?

[sick cloud]

It should, but I also tried running it without this piece of code, however it didn't change a thing :/

[pulsar shuttle]

Im not sure then, try rechecking everything in the clear method, you might be resetting some conditions or destroying some needed object

but if it doesn't give any errors it should be something to do with the conditions

[round mirage]

Bouchon = child.gameObject.Find("Bouchon");```
why it dont work ?

[pulsar shuttle]

game object isn't a collection

[round mirage]

but why i can use it without "child."

[pulsar shuttle]

you're thinking about GameObject the class, gameObject starting from lowercase is an object of that class

[languid spire]

this
yield return base.StartImpl();
is not going to work

[round mirage]

but what can i do

[sick cloud]

thank you for pointing it out
could you elaborate on this?

[pulsar shuttle]

what are you trying to do exactly

[languid spire]

should probably be a StartCoroutine

[round mirage]

i want destroy a part of my gameObject if i click

[sick cloud]

so should I try running it with the "yield return base.StartImpl();" part cut out?

[languid spire]

no add StartCoroutine to the call

[sick cloud]

theres a startCoroutine right above yield return base.StartImpl();
or should I add another?

[languid spire]

ffs
yield return StartCoroutine(base.StartImpl());

[sick cloud]

oh that's what you meant sorry

didn't fix it sadly :/
but I'll leave it like that for now

[pulsar shuttle]

ok lemme type out an example of that

{
  if (child.gameObject.name == "some name") 
  {
    Destroy(child.gameObject);
  }
}```

[languid spire]

I don't see where this
protected override IEnumerator StartImpl()
{
is ever invoked

[cedar bone]

Anyone know why the decal particle is starting so late?

[round mirage]

ty

[cedar bone]

nvr mind, fixed it

[sick cloud]

It's invoked in other scripts of the Plugin developer

[celest jay]

What's the closest we can get to run method like Update() in the edit mode?

[late burrow]

why jtoken.toobject uses constructor? it already has all data in text

[celest jay]

like always running a method without relying on any editor changes/window open

[languid spire]

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

[celest jay]

almost close, just a little faulty

[errant solar]

why erorr?

[sick cloud]

Hey man I have a quick question,
what if I write it like that:

     private void OnDataFolderChanged()
    {
        if (DataStore.Instance == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(DataStore.Instance.ImageDataFolder))
        {
            Debug.LogError("DataStore or ImageDataFolder is invalid.");
            return;
        }

        StartCoroutine(base.StartImpl());
    }

• in DataStore OnSelectFolderButtonClick() has VtkVolumeRenderLoadControl.Instance.OnDataFolderChanged();

Then I need to remove the "protected" from protected override IEnumerator StartImpl()

Will that even work?

[languid spire]

without knowing anything about the plugin I could not say, perhaps you should contact the plugin pubisher for support

[sick cloud]

I did but sadly they haven't answered yet

anyways thx for the help until now

[languid spire]

tbh we are not here to provide support for 3rd party code

The only thing I can say is your code seems horrendously overcomplicated for what it appears to be doing

[sick cloud]

it's because of the 3D model process and my custom code for UI mixing with each other :/

[languid spire]

I see no reason for this
public string[] ImageDataFolders = new string[0];
to be an array
which makes these
public int IDataFolder = -1;