💻┃code-beginner

[eager spindle]

roblox needs you to deal with a lot of online services, saving player variables and constraints such as no orthographic perspective

people have made crazy things

[rocky canyon]

not denying that

[steel hull]

yeah I agree on that one

[eager spindle]

and arguably indie studios on roblox have a much wider reach

6yo kids love throwing robux at pet sim games

nonetheless game engines let you do way more and let you make your own shaders

and don't take 70% of your revenue

[worthy tundra]

ROBLOX TAKES 70%???????

[half egret]

Does roblox really take 70?

[rocky canyon]

lets try not to jinx us now

[half egret]

The fact that kids are working on roblox games means that it technically consitutes exploitative child labor, 70%, jesus.

[eager spindle]

effectively yes because their robux conversion rate is terrible + they charge a developer fee

[eager spindle]

70% before taxes, need to factor in VAT, Income tax, business tax

roblox automatically does it for you

[rocky canyon]

if roblox is a calculator..
unity is spaceX's flight controller..

[eager spindle]

and roblox still pays you a better cut than vtuber agencies 😄

[steel hull]

I agree

I love unity way more

[polar acorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ&pp=ygUScm9ibG94IGNoaWxkIGxhYm9y

And the follow up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY&pp=ygUScm9ibG94IGNoaWxkIGxhYm9y

[rocky canyon]

i wish you luck in ur game-dev endeavours

[half egret]

Thank you! This looks like a morbidly fascinating watch. I've literally never touched the Roblox sphere.

[polar acorn]

And yes, it's 70% revenue. Not even 70% profit

[eager spindle]

roblox argues it comes with server hosting, publishing and outreach though + you get access to an underage audience who throws their robux at anything they see

third point being evil but money is money

[rocky canyon]

their parents money*
ftfy

[half egret]

Steam does all that and they take 30%

[steel hull]

Yeah I am planning to release games on steam If I become good enough

[eager spindle]

steam doesnt handle making your game popular tbf you need to do marketing on your own side

on roblox you can copy the most popular trend and not need to make social media

[worthy tundra]

what do they even do with all that money??

[steel hull]

yeah I got marketing

[eager spindle]

microsoft owns roblox

[half egret]

True, does roblox really handle google/social media marketing and all for your game?

[steel hull]

actually If you pay yes

[eager spindle]

people search "tycoon" on roblox and click what they see

[steel hull]

haha so true

[eager spindle]

doing that on steam won't net you as good of a result

[polar acorn]

The same thing every capitalist pig does with their money -- buy senators and US Supreme Court Justices, mostly

[eager spindle]

i am people

[steel hull]

well my plan is social media on the marketing side

[eager spindle]

btw ms edge actually gives free robux if you earn enough coins

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4mqcR7wBcw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwjbLFImXOg&t=1s
heres some resources i watched a while ago that helps you get an idea of whats involved

[eager spindle]

my current game is on alpha testing on play store

will think about marketing another time

[steel hull]

I am currently just trying to learn the basics of c# and unity

[worthy tundra]

until you make it to steam, you can upload your games to itch.io for free

[eager spindle]

steam takes $100 from you for each game you upload, until you make $1000

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw&ab_channel=SebastianLague heres a solid crash course/introduction

[worthy tundra]

i remember my first ever unity game....
it was a brackey's cube game clone

[steel hull]

holy thankss

[steel hull]

Idk what that is but I'll definetly check it out

[rocky canyon]

poor mans steam

[worthy tundra]

its a website where you can upload games, basically indie version of steam

[finite dew]

I love SebastianLague, but do mind the series is 8 years old, here's a newer one by GMTK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQMytORBmM

[steel hull]

tyy

[rocky canyon]

doesn't really matter.. 8 years is nothing.. all the fundamentals are the exact same

but im not gonna complain about GMTK, he's solid too 👍

[worthy tundra]

btw it wasnt until i recently watched this video out of curiosity that i learned how to make visual studio use the unity thing lol

goes to show how you can always learn

[eager spindle]

itch.io is a site that lets you upload your games for free and even lets people follow you there. great for indie devs; people actively look for indie games on that site to play so its a great way to boost your popularity

can also monetise your content there

youll find lots of silly games there, though be careful about running random .exe files on your computer

[worthy tundra]

itch.io is also THE place for game jams

[rocky canyon]

facts, to expose ur game the fastest and easiest way is to upload them as webGL

ive never stopped and thought whether or not i should open a WebGL build

[eager spindle]

to expand on this, game jams are a period of time where you make a game based off a given theme and submit it

[worthy tundra]

like, imagine trying to have a steam game jam

[eager spindle]

e.g. you got 5 days to make a retro arcade game

at the end you can find everyone else who participated in the jam

some of them have prizes too

the one I plan to participate in has 5 gaming chairs as a prize

[worthy tundra]

a huge jam is also coming next week

[eager spindle]

you dont need to be professional expert coder to join a jam, just have fun

[worthy tundra]

GMTK game jam 2024

[eager spindle]

once I uploaded my game as a webgl build, some of my relatives who were testing it asked why it was laggy for them and I had to teach them how to turn on hardware accel

idk why it was disabled for them by default

[steel hull]

yo

isn't private just useless

[eager spindle]

not really

its good practice to hide things others don't need

[steel hull]

but no I can just do float instead of private float

[eager spindle]

cause its private by default

[steel hull]

ohh

[worthy tundra]

i think they meant manually typing the word private

[steel hull]

that makes sense

[steel hull]

yeah yeah

[worthy tundra]

tbh idk why you would do that

[eager spindle]

some companies have it standard

[half egret]

Coding standards matter a lot when you have a codebase past a certain size

[worthy tundra]

also do you know about [SerializeField] ?

[steel hull]

no its like I just spawned in learning controls :/

[eager spindle]

anything in square brackets are called Macros, unity things

[steel hull]

what are macros

[worthy tundra]

you can put [SerializeField] before declaring a private variable and that variable would show up in the inspector.

its probably the thing i type the most in unity ever lol

[eager spindle]

its kinda like an indicator

[steep rose]

[SerializeField]'s are good when you dont want a variable to be public but you still want to see it in the inspector

[steel hull]

uhm why don't you use public instead?

[steep rose]

with public other scripts can detect it

[worthy tundra]

sometimes you dont want other scripts influencing that variable

[steel hull]

well but why would you even use it then

[eager spindle]

when you add a script to a gameobject you can add a field to set your variable.

[SerializeField] Vector3 spawnPosition;
public bool unlocked

both let me show them in editor

[steel hull]

oh like someone cheating?

[worthy tundra]

in order to assign and change the value in the inspector instead of manually typing it in the script

[eager spindle]

in this example other rooms need to check if the room is unlocked but no one really needs Spawn Position

i mean you could set everything to public

[steel hull]

to prevent cheaters?

[eager spindle]

nah

its for other people reading your code

[steel hull]

interesting

[steep rose]

lets say you have 2 variables with the same name. you dont want to put them public or else 2 scripts would be affecting those variables which you dont want, so [SerializeField] is there to allow you to see them in the inspector without causing problems

[eager spindle]

imagine you have a variable that you dont want other coders to change, you can hide it with private

cause if other people change it stuff will break

this doesnt apply to cheaters/hackers ofc they can do anything they want

[steel hull]

just put a indicator number in front of it?

[eager spindle]

but this is more of people who you're working with next time

[steel hull]

Idk sounds useless but maybe I'll get to use it later on

[worthy tundra]

like, if a script has a public variable, every script that has a reference to that script can change that variable.

for example:

script 1:
public float varName;

script 2:

private script1 scriptName;

script 2 can influence varName, and sometimes you dont want it to do that

[eager spindle]

thats what I thought at first, now that I'm working with other programmers a lot I am thankful for it

[steel hull]

so to prevent glitches?

[worthy tundra]

and bugs yes

[steep rose]

theres a lot more to this, i just explained 1 thing

[steel hull]

well time shows it I guess?

[steel hull]

makes sense

[worthy tundra]

its a good idea to only have a variable public if other scripts need to interact with said variable

[eager spindle]

referring to this example. since spawnPosition is private and unlocked is public, I can do room.unlocked = true but not room.spawnPosition = ...

so no one can touch the spawn position of the room

another fun fact: the opposite of SerializeField is HideInInspector.

[HideInInspector] public bool unlocked;
``` makes it so it won't appear in the editor.

[dense plume]

The purpose of making fields private is to eliminate any possibility of external modification. Unity only serializes public fields by default, so you must explicitly serialize private fields in order for them to be modified in the inspector, which is actually editing an instance object of your script.

"Serialize" means to make something into a string of bytes, basically text. This makes it possible for Unity to "expose" it via the inspector. FYI, not everything is "serializable" out of the box. Dictionaries and hash tables are not, for instance

[eager spindle]

dont be discouraged by this barrage information

theres lots to learn in both programming and unity

[rich adder]

its generally better practice to make methods / properties

[eager spindle]

it took me a very long time before the unity workflow clicked for me

[worthy tundra]

wdym

[rich adder]

instead of making the field public, you interact with the private one through a public method.

or properties ie (get; private set;)

[worthy tundra]

oh so like instead of
scriptName.boolName = true;

you can do
scriptName.functionName();

and have
functionName()
{
boolName = true;
}

?

[dense plume]

private int _someField;

public int SomeField
{
    get
    {
        return _someField;
    }
    private set
    {
        _someField = value;
    }    
}

[eager spindle]

to expand on this, rather than just letting other programmers directly modify variables you can

int money;
public int GetMoney() {
  return money;
}
public bool Purchase(int cost) {
  if(money >= cost) {
    money -= cost;
    return true;
  }
  return false;
}

Not only does this ensure that users interact with your systems in the way you want it to, it could even save programmers many lines of codes.

[dense plume]

Other things can be dome during get and set which makes properties particularly powerful

[humble snow]

guys please wth is unity doing

why is the export missing objects

[dense plume]

Hard to tell without code

Show the call stack that occurs when pressing the offending button

[eager spindle]

this is more of a c# thing but you can even

float _health;
public float health {
  get {
    return _health;
  }
  set {
    _health = value;
    if(value < 0) Die();
  }
}

so you can health -=5 and itll do everything in the setter

[eager spindle]

these are important practices to adopt once you head out into the working world, especially when maintaining big codebases

[worthy tundra]

idk how get and set work lol im a bruteforcer

[eager spindle]

fair you can just use functions

[rich adder]

just look up properties

[eager spindle]

depends on what your companies want you to do

[rich adder]

they are essentially..just "fancy" methods

[worthy tundra]

i game dev for a hobby

[dense plume]

Depends yeah, and if you are using certain libraries (Mirror networking comes to mind) you can't really use properties for everything

[humble snow]

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.X)) { collectCanvas.SetActive(true); }
else { collectCanvas.SetActive(false); }

thats for the transparency mask

toggleGroup.SetActive(!toggleGroup.activeSelf);
rulesCanvas.SetActive(!rulesCanvas.activeSelf);
if (toggleGroup.activeSelf) { foreach (GameObject player in players) { player.SetActive(true); } }

thats for the book (this is on button press not update btw)

[eager spindle]

they're clean tbh and dictionary getters/setters are a big help in my current project

[rich adder]

yes props are awesome, I have many usecases. Also I use MAUI / Blazor so props are core to binding

[worthy tundra]

do you run the first part in Update()?

if so, you are setting it inactive every single frame that youre not pressing X

[humble snow]

thats intended

you hold x to view it

[eager spindle]

rn I serialize a dictionary as part of my savesystem but I need a bit more internal work before getting a key, so rather than doing Savesystem.variables.SetString(key, value) I can just SaveSystem.variables[key] = value

super clean

[eager spindle]

trying to wrap my head around the workflow for it rn

ive been raw htmlcss user my whole life and dont even know what server side rendering is

not even bootstrap

[rich adder]

server side rendering is so the client never downloads the executable/dlls

your code is never seen

[eager spindle]

even the htmlcss?

does it still have accesibility built in?

[rich adder]

I think so

[eager spindle]

that is very neat

[humble snow]

also ive seen a lot of problems about materials being off but the first transparency mask in the build works and the two transparency masks use the same material

so that isnt the problem

[rich adder]

im not 100&% on the css/html part. But in a nutshell SSR is for keeping your code *more secure (making calls to db etc)

most of it compiled to webassembly in blazor at least

so you dont want someone just peeking your code there (say if you have a algo for signing files etc)

[raw token]

SSR also improves the time to first render, which helps SEO and UX and such. And then for interactive stuff you can hydrate data and interactivity after the markup loads, which is super awesome 👀

#SSR4pres

[rich adder]

yeah! good point there

they have one on blazor specifically to do that SSR first then its client side

[raw token]

I've heard great things about blazor, but C# was always out of my wheelhouse at the time. I might have to finally check it out if I find the time!

[steel hull]

is there an already built in system for character controlling?

movement

[rich adder]

do it! it really simplifies front-end combined with backend, ala NEXT
if you need/love doing web and know c# its a no brainer

[wintry quarry]

There are many but remember every game has different styles of movement so it really depends

[raw token]

The built in CharacterController is very popular - there's also a lot other solutions on the asset store

[rich adder]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-thirdperson-updates-in-new-charactercontroller-pa-196526
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starterassets-firstperson-updates-in-new-charactercontroller-pac-196525
unity has starter ones too with CC

[raw token]

It's settled then! I love Next 😁. But I don't especially love JS backends as it turns out

[rich adder]

yeah coding backend with JS seems like a nightmare. Typescript seems ok but
Luckly the only time i deal with JS is if i want C#/JS interop. So you can easily jam in any javascript library your heart desires 😄
render modes explained (sorry for getting a bit offtopic 😛 best of luck in your journey)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/components/render-modes?view=aspnetcore-8.0

[steel hull]

what about Input GetAxis("Vertical")? does it automatically get a vector3 of the Vertical directions you are looking?

or horizontal

doesn't really matter

[rich adder]

GetAxis does not return a Vector

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetAxis.html

[steel hull]

no I checked this out but doesn't make sense with the tutorial I am watching

[rich adder]

which tutorial, which part doesnt make sense?

[mint remnant]

reference more than one tutorial

[steel hull]

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

[rich adder]

brackys 😛

shocker

[steel hull]

well

[rich adder]

where do you see V3 th

[mint remnant]

Vector3 moveDir = new Vector3(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")).normalized;

[rich adder]

well yes that makes perfect sense

V3 needs 3 floats

[steel hull]

this does

[rich adder]

GetAxis returns floats, so they are constructing a v3 with 2 floats (3 but 2 are returned by get axis)

also this the worse part of this tutorial

you NEVER multiply your mouse input by deltaTime

it is already framerate independent

[steel hull]

no I am talking about the movement

not the mouse rotation

[rich adder]

I get it, I already told you . They are not returning a v3 from GetAxis

they are constructing a new v3 based on those floats

[steel hull]

plus this was a bad tutorial I had to figure some things out myself

[rich adder]

no shite
its okay is not your fault, they just kinda left it there cause its got views

[steel hull]

no what doesn't make sense to me is that how is that giving us a move direction?

like you're constructing a vector3, how does that make you move?

[rich adder]

because generally you apply vector math to move

[crisp token]

Was it stupid for me to make my own character controller

[steel hull]

no

[rich adder]

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

[crisp token]

Transform.forward should return direction an object is facing right

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-velocity.html
take a look at velocity of a rigidbody. it is described as a vector3 for example

[rich adder]

yes

local rotation forward

[rich adder]

depends what you're going for

and what yours will need that other controllers dont provide

if you're quickly prototyping so much esaier to use premade ones like CC starter ones or KCC and modify them

but yes if you want more control, you would build your own

[crisp token]

well whats done is done

[round mirage]

i have put a box collider in an empty who is a child of my gameObject and i have use OnTriggerEnter but it dont work . we cant use OntriggerEnter with ChildObject ?

[rich adder]

only if parent or thing triggering into it has rigidbody

[crisp token]

local rotation forward is synoynmous with transform.forward right?

[steep rose]

nav remember when i asked you if you wanted to test my movement package out before release, its very early but you can if you want

[rich adder]

should be afaik

[steel hull]

what does the getaxis horizontal return

exactly

[round mirage]

ok ty

[steep rose]

a 1 or -1

depending on what you press

[rich adder]

it says it in the manual..

I sent it to you

[steel hull]

oh

wait

[mint remnant]

call it and debug log the values

[steel hull]

oh

[steep rose]

or is that getaxisraw

[rich adder]

awesome , you want me to DM a link ?

[steep rose]

yeah for sure, lemmie get you one

[summer stump]

If you press A it will go from 0 to -1 over a couple frames, and whn you let go, it will return to 0 over a few frames

GetAxisRaw will snap directly from 0 to -1

[rich adder]

hold up I have my DMs locked, I will msg you see if itworks

[steep rose]

yeah mb, you getting spammed or smth?

[rich adder]

unsolicited help requests lol

[steel hull]

WAIT WHAT IT IS A BUILT IN FUNCTION THAT DETECTS WASD KEYS?

[worthy tundra]

iirc getaxis horizontal/vertical

lemme check

[steel hull]

no like I am doing this rn

[raw token]

Or whatever - it's just configured for directional keys/wasd by default

[worthy tundra]

yeah this

[steel hull]

It returns a value between -1 and 1

depending on which key I press

a is 1 if I press w and -1 if I press s

[polar acorn]

Technically it detects whatever inputs you've specified as "Horizontal" and "Vertical" in the input manager

[rich adder]

the only thing that makes it WASD is because unity created Horizontal and Vertical axis that correspond to it
(in the Input class)

[polar acorn]

it's just that those values are WASD by default

[worthy tundra]

you can multiply that value by your move speed and then add these two values (make sure you NORMALIZE) to get a movement direction

[steel hull]

where is the Input manager

[rich adder]

ops

[slender nymph]

Project Settings

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-InputManager.html

[polar acorn]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/input-manager

[steel hull]

but what about

[worthy tundra]

also btw unity got a new input system a few years ago

[steel hull]

how do I fix the character moving faster when holding both buttons?

[worthy tundra]

normalize

[steel hull]

what does it exactly do

[worthy tundra]

send me the movement code, the part where you put the two axes into a direction

[worthy tundra]

lemme visualize

[rich adder]

you normalize the v3

[crisp token]

how do I get the rotation of a child game object with respect to global axis?

[rich adder]

it gives a max magnitude of 1

[steel hull]

oooh

I get it

[polar acorn]

It creates a vector with the same direction but with a magnitude of 1

[steel hull]

its litteraly like clamping

[raw token]

Yeah, within the range 1,1

[steel hull]

alrightt thanks

this is right, no?

[polar acorn]

Did you normalize it

[steel hull]

I'll

[worthy tundra]

square is not normalized direction, circle is normalized direction.

red and yellow are x and y, green is diagonal

[worthy tundra]

normalize dir

[steel hull]

yh Ik this

yeah but the variable

like thats how you assign a vector3 variable, right?

[polar acorn]

new Vector3 is in fact how you create a new vector3 yes

[steel hull]

thanks

[rich adder]

you can do dir.Normalize()
or
dir = new Vector3(a,0,b).normalized

[crisp token]

im trying to get the direction the cameraHolder is looking in but I suck

[rich adder]

whats the problem ?

[steel hull]

wtf

now I am moving at godspeed and camera is the only thing that is moving

[crisp token]

transform.forward isnt working

[worthy tundra]

CameraHolder.forward?

[rich adder]

why not?

[crisp token]

idk

[rich adder]

well whats happening instead?

[worthy tundra]

where is the code where you apply the movement?

[crisp token]

let me put a few debug.logs in to test rq

[steel hull]

wait

[rich adder]

Debug.DrawRay(startpos, mything.transform.forward * length, Color.red, 2)

[steel hull]

no why is it at godspeed?

[rich adder]

did u multiply it by time.deltaTime

[steel hull]

wait

I got more things to take care of

what does Input.getaxis horizontal get the axis of? the main camera? the object that it is assigned?

[rich adder]

AD/LeftArrow RightArrow keys

[polar acorn]

It gets a value between -1 and 1 based on what keys you have assigned to horizontal

by default, it'd be A/D

[raw token]

An "axis" in that context is just a pair of inputs which can evaluate to values in the range -1 to 1

[slender nymph]

neither, it gets the value of the Horizontal input axis defined in the input manager settings

[steel hull]

well I can't turn around

when I do w makes me go backwards

[rich adder]

show code?

[naive swan]

sup fam! im a newbie but got much interest in game dev, would love a few tips regarding a difficult journey i want to embark haha

thanks fam

[slender nymph]

then you are using a method of moving the object that expects a world space direction rather than a local space direction or you are not actually rotating the object being moved

[rich adder]

you need Time.deltaTime to fix speed thing btw

[steel hull]

ty

[polar acorn]

This object is indeed moving forward when you hit W. What direction is the object facing?

[steel hull]

playerbody is set to the Player

empty object

[crisp token]

I fixed it and I have genuinly no idea what I changed

thanks tho

[rich adder]

lets see the player and where you put the camera in scene in Local Pivot view mode

[steel hull]

Idk what the local pivot view is

thats all

[rich adder]

top left toolbar on the scene view

[steel hull]

I already was in

local

[polar acorn]

Okay, now show the arrows on the object in the scene

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, hitting W should move this thing in the direction of the blue arrow

[rich adder]

which one is Body and Which one is Player btw
(script wise, which one is linked to what)

[steel hull]

yes, but allways

[steel hull]

empty is player, capsule is body

[rich adder]

which one has character controller

[steel hull]

empty

[rich adder]

ok

[polar acorn]

Okay, what direction is the blue arrow on that one

[steel hull]

all same

all of them are the same

[round mirage]

hello i have this error message only with my instancied gameObject but i dont understand what is the problem.

[rich adder]

are you sure youre in local, dont crop screenshots next time

[steel hull]

yeah

[polar acorn]

What direction does it actually move when you press W?

[polar acorn]

Which "arrow" does it follow?

[mint remnant]

make sure read/write is toggled on for your texture

[steel hull]

wait I need to see

oh my bad

I turn it on the local side but it is the same on the global side

[rich adder]

are you sure its not the model

[steel hull]

but wait

no it looks true

[rich adder]

normals are part of mesh not texture

[round mirage]

where does i change this pls ?

[steel hull]

playerbody.transform should effect the global side no?

[polar acorn]

Import settings on the file. Click on it in the assets folder. There should be a checkbox

[steel hull]

it effects local side

which doesn't make any sense

[polar acorn]

CharacterController.Move will move the object in that object's direction. W will move that object in the direction of its blue arrow

[round mirage]

when i export from blender ?

[polar acorn]

in unity

[steel hull]

yeah thats what I am trying to say, the blue arrow changes direction in the local side but not on the global side

[polar acorn]

What do you mean "on the global side"

[steel hull]

global pivot

[rich adder]

that doesnt help

[polar acorn]

Global and Pivot are two opposite things

[rich adder]

maybe record a video 😅

[polar acorn]

Yes, that's the global Z-axis

That doesn't change

[round mirage]

thank you 🙂

[polar acorn]

that's the world

[steel hull]

should I move it in local direction?

[polar acorn]

you are

[steel hull]

I don't think so it moves like its facing the global direction

[rich adder]

the object is rotating properly, you're just applying dirrection from your inputs directly

[steel hull]

wait I am gonna try something

[polar acorn]

Hang on, I can't actually find decent documentation as to whether Move is local or global

[rich adder]

its global afaik
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

i recall this examples moves a third person character and its consistent regardless of facing direction

[steel hull]

I need to go

[rich adder]

i just do transform.forward * vertInput + transform.right * horizInput

but you can probably do Transform direction? or is it inverseTransform ?

[drowsy flare]

What's a nice way to pass an argument to a prefab when I'm instancing it from a script?

[polar acorn]

Call a function on it after instantiating it

[drowsy flare]

Okay, thanks

Not possible at the same time as instantiation?

[ionic zephyr]

if a class inherits from another that has a Start method, does the code in Start run on the object with the child class?

[polar acorn]

The only thing that'll run between the two is Awake. Don't put things in awake that depend on this initialization code

[ionic zephyr]

I tryed it but it doesn´t run but I wanted to check if it is normal

[slender nymph]

*and OnEnable

[drowsy flare]

Great, thanks

[rich adder]

well something else is wrong cause it should run

it inherits MB

[ionic zephyr]

So if I have the Item object and I have Resource which Inherits from Item, I have a Start function in Item but it doesn´t run whenever a Resource Object is instantiated

[slender nymph]

does Resource define its own Start method?

[ionic zephyr]

Yes

[slender nymph]

is it a separate Start method or is it actually overriding the one from Item? if the former, then it is working exactly as expected because the two methods are unrelated and Start is only called once on an object and there's nothing in place that will propagate the call to its base class(es), if the latter then you need to make sure you are also calling base.Start() in the overridden Start

[ionic zephyr]

Oh, I might be overriding the method, how can I call the base Start?

while preserving the start of the child class

[steel stirrup]

either don't override it at all, or use base.Start()

[slender nymph]

if you are actually overriding it, then i already gave you the line of code you need, it is literally just base.Start()

[slender nymph]

if it needs to perform any actions in its own Start method then it must be overridden. do not hide the base Start method, it will need to be virtual in the base class and overridden in the derived class

[ionic zephyr]

Is it okay to override it? In my case the Resource needs to call the Start Method to run some code that the other child classe of Item don´t, what is the best method to do this?

[slender nymph]

the real question is, are you actually overriding it or are you actually hiding it. those are two different things and overriding is what you should be doing

if you are unsure then show the code

[ionic zephyr]

!code

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[steel stirrup]

Sure, but depending on what precisely needs to be done and the overall class structure, it may be cleaner to separate out whatever is happening in start into discrete functions, inherit the relevant ones and call those directly. base.Start() is perfectly okay of course, but it can get a bit messy down the line (especially if the base class isn't 'finished')

[ionic zephyr]

https://gdl.space/ulogifenif.cs

[slender nymph]

those are two unrelated Start methods. make Start protected and virtual on the Item class and actually override it in the ResourceItem class and call base.Start() there

[ionic zephyr]

Wow this is new! thanks a lot

It isnt working

[ionic zephyr]

It still only calls the start of "Resource"

[crisp token]

I was having a bit of a lag spike every time a Debug.LogWarning was called, is there anyway to make that not happen? I commented out the warning statement and it didnt lag anymore

[slender nymph]

show your current code

[ionic zephyr]

https://gdl.space/ejubefotot.cs

[crisp token]

are you allowed to extend a monobehavior? Ive never done it

[slender nymph]

Before we get further into troubleshooting, I do have one question about this, why is there a CreateAssetMenu attribute on Item? it's a MonoBehaviour, which means it is a component that should be added to a gameobject, not a ScriptableObject

[ionic zephyr]

Yeah, I forgot to remove it

[slender nymph]

be more specific, because typically when someone says they want to "extend" a class that means they want to inherit from it (in fact, some languages even use that to denote inheritance like Java)

[drowsy flare]

Got it working, thanks a lot, something clicked for me

[crisp token]

im just looking at the example Pingu gave

extend a class that inherits from

[slender nymph]

what Pingu has is just plain inheritance. You do know that you can inherit from a class that inherits from other classes, right? in fact every class you inherit from isn't even the base class (with the exception of inheriting System.Object which you don't even need to directly do anyway)

[crisp token]

yea ik that

[slender nymph]

just to be clear, the gameobject is not being deactivated or destroyed after you instantiate it, right?

[slender nymph]

then i am confused on what your quesiton pertains to

[ionic zephyr]

No, it isnt

[crisp token]

but i thought the whole point of a monobehavior is to add it as a component, so how do you add the ResourceItem class as a component

[slender nymph]

the same way you do any other object that inherits MonoBehaviour

because it is inheriting MonoBehaviour

[crisp token]

oh I thought it added the entire script

[slender nymph]

in fact, it isn't even MonoBehaviour that makes something a component, it's the even more base class Component which Behaviour inherits and then MonoBehaviour inherits Behaviour

[crisp token]

so Pingu has the option to add Item or Resource Item as a component rn

[slender nymph]

yes because they are two different classes that both inherit from MonoBehaviour. it's just that ResourceItem also happens to inherit from Item so an instance of ResourceItem is not only an instance of a MonoBehaviour, it is also an instance of Item

[slender nymph]

can you show your entire console window when you expect that Start log to be printed?

this is not the entire window

[slender nymph]

even this is still cutting off the important part on the right where it shows what types of logs are hidden. but also just to be clear, this is during Play mode, right?

[ionic zephyr]

yes

[slender nymph]

show the code that instantiates the object and make sure that code is actually running

[ionic zephyr]

the Start code?

[slender nymph]

how is the object instantiated? or is it already in the scene?

[ionic zephyr]

it is already in the scene

[slender nymph]

then screenshot your entire unity editor window during play mode with that object selected in the hierarchy so it appears in the inspector and make sure the console is also visible

[slender nymph]

you've screenshot two separate objects where only the prefab (which is not the object in the scene) has that component on it

[ionic zephyr]

The prefab has an Overworld object component

which contains the Resource script

[slender nymph]

the prefab you've shown a screenshot of does not, it has a SpriteRenderer and a ResourceItem

[polar acorn]

I mean, it very demonstrably does not

[slender nymph]

your OverworldItem component contains a reference to a prefab with the ResourceItem, but that item does not exist in the scene

[polar acorn]

That's not a prefab, and also that's not the thing that has the Start code you want to run

[round mirage]

hello i have made a program that when i am near enough of the gameObject and i look this gameObject i can take but if i look this gameObject before i am near enough i cant take it . Someone can help me 🙂 ?

    {
      if (!gameManager.Echap)
      {
        if (distanceFromPlayer < 5f)
        {
            Near = true;
        }
        else
        {
            Near = false;
        }
        distanceFromPlayer = Vector3.Distance(gameObject.transform.position, Player.transform.position);
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E) && CanTake)
        {
          transform.position = new Vector3(0f, 1000f, 0f);
          outline.enabled = false;
          PickUptxt.enabled = false;
          if (gameObject.CompareTag("Pepper"))
          {
            invSave.pepperAmount += amoutOfItem;
          }
          else if (gameObject.CompareTag("Glass Bottle"))
          {
            invSave.GlassAmount += amoutOfItem;
          }
          else if (gameObject.CompareTag("Sunflower"))
          {
            invSave.sunflowerAmount += amoutOfItem;
          }
          StartCoroutine(InvMessage());
        }
      }
    }
    void OnMouseEnter()
    { 
      
        if (Near && !gameManager.Echap)
        {
         outline.enabled = true;
         PickUptxt.enabled = true;
         CanTake = true;
         PickUptxt.text = "Press E To Take " + gameObject.tag;
        }
    }
    void OnMouseExit()
    {
        outline.enabled = false;
        PickUptxt.enabled = false;
        CanTake = false;
    }
    IEnumerator InvMessage()
    {
        AddInvtxt.enabled = true;
        AddInvtxt.text = "+ " + amoutOfItem + " " + gameObject.tag ;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2.5f);
        AddInvtxt.enabled = false;
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }```

[ionic zephyr]

Oh, that is confusing

what can I do?

[slender nymph]

if you want Start to run then the object must be instantiated

[polar acorn]

Not really. Only objects that exist run Start. You don't have any objects that exist that log what you want, so it doesn't log

[ionic zephyr]

but the resoureceItem inherits from it

doesn´t that count?

[slender nymph]

no because there is no active ResourceItem object in the scene

[ionic zephyr]

but resource Item only stores data

I dont want it to be on the overworld

[slender nymph]

then why is it a component

[polar acorn]

Well, the "Press E to take" seems to be working, so the OnMouseEnter stuff works. Try logging something inside the if condition to see if the that code is running.

[polar acorn]

What object in the scene has the ResourceItem component on it

[ionic zephyr]

Because I had a problem with my tools and weapons. All of my tools and weapons are SO´s which have different stats, however one of them is Durability. I want to know how to remove the object from my inventory whenever it breaks. The problem is that when I reduce de Durability counter with each hit, I am reducing the SO stat so I am facing the problem that I might have to create a new class of tool that has a durability float and add that specific class into a different List on the Inventory Manager, is there another way to solve this?

[ionic zephyr]

and resources too

[slender nymph]

you can have classes that are neither MonoBehaviours nor ScriptableObjects

[ionic zephyr]

this is the problem I had this afternoon

so I should turn Resource into a non-heritating class?

[slender nymph]

it really depends. i don't have the time to walk you through refactoring all of this so maybe if you describe exactly what you are trying to achieve instead of the problem you are trying to solve someone can help you

[polar acorn]

This seems like a completely different problem to "I want to run Start on a child class of a MonoBehaviour." I don't know how one problem led to the other

[steel stirrup]

regarding the durability issue, you need to treat the SO as a blueprint for a tool/weapon and not as the tool/weapon itself

[ionic zephyr]

yeah thats the thing, I imagined that the tool/weapon should be a class then

and that is what lead me here

[steel stirrup]

so instead of the SO representing the tool, what you want to do instead is have a tool/weapon/usable whatever class that has mutable fields within it

the SO should generally be treated as immutable at runtime

[polar acorn]

Yes, that makes sense. You would want a class that represents the real thing in the game

the SO is a database

you read from the database, and make a thing

[ionic zephyr]

exactly, this is why I refactored all of my code

so now every single object has a database but also a Class

[steel stirrup]

you're tossing around a lot of terms here that don't really mean what you're using them to say

[ionic zephyr]

With what i have now, my Items have SO´s and classes that contain that data

[polar acorn]

Example:

public class ItemData : ScriptableObject
{
  public int maxDurability;
}

And also:

public class InventoryItem : MonoBehaviour
{
  public ItemData item;
  public int currentDurability;
}

That's it

that's all that's needed

[fiery moss]

speaking of databases, i never touched a single line of code in my life, yet i want to make some sort of 'game' where you can interact with a computer, and get to enter the database of some secret organization, i'm gonna first consult guides that already exist first and come here if i need help

[ionic zephyr]

that is what I have no?

[steel stirrup]

ScriptableObject is itself a class, which your SO class inherits. The individual items are objects of your SO derived class

[polar acorn]

Yeah but I don't know why you've got Start functions on objects that are never components

When do you expect Start to run

[ionic zephyr]

In the Start function, the Item Class gets its data from the SO (ItemData)

[polar acorn]

Okay, what calls Start on the Item instance?

[ionic zephyr]

what?

[steel stirrup]

Is there a newer version of his Item class posted? The one I pulled up is a mono

[ionic zephyr]

Start calls at the beggining

https://gdl.space/vijocehaxa.cs

[polar acorn]

What do you mean what

I'm asking you what calls Start on the object

[steel stirrup]

His item class is a component, start should work fine?

[silk fossil]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class CameraMovement : MonoBehaviour
{

    public float mouseSensitivity = 400f;

    float topClamp = 90f;
    float bottomClamp = 90f;

    float xRotation = 0f;
    float yRotation = 0f;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked; //lock cursor middle screen
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime; 
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;  //mouse inputs;

        xRotation -= mouseY; //rotate aroud x axis, up and down

        //clamp rotation
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, topClamp, bottomClamp);

        yRotation += mouseX; //rotate around y axis

        //apply rotation to transform
        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0f);

        
    }
}

Why is this camera movement script not working, when I start the game, it is just the character staring out the ground, and it cant look up

[polar acorn]

Only if it exists in the scene anywhere

Which it doesn't

So I'm asking what they're expecting to call Start

[steel stirrup]

Obviously an object needs to exist to have an instance method called, really not sure what you're getting at

[wintry quarry]

    float topClamp = 90f;
    float bottomClamp = 90f;```
?????

[ionic zephyr]

The problem is that Item doesnt get the variables of its SO

[polar acorn]

It's called "asking leading questions" to try to get them to realize that Start needs to be called by something

[wintry quarry]

Your second problem is you need to get rid of this, it's wrong

[polar acorn]

So, when should it be

[silk fossil]

wait what do you mean

[ionic zephyr]

At Start

[wintry quarry]

they are both the same number.

[polar acorn]

Okay, and what calls Start

[silk fossil]

the guy in the tutorial had it so i put it too

[wintry quarry]

Bad tutorial

[silk fossil]

💀

[wintry quarry]

many tutorials make this mistake

get rid of it

[silk fossil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swOfmyJvb98

this is what i was using

[wintry quarry]

Yeah just another bad tutorial

[silk fossil]

alr

[wintry quarry]

they all based it off Brackey's FPS tutorial which was wrong too

you don't wnat deltaTime there

[ionic zephyr]

The program itself at the beggining of the scene

[silk fossil]

alr tnx man

[polar acorn]

Okay, so the object is in the scene when it begins?

[ionic zephyr]

Yes

[silk fossil]

good thing i was not too into the tutorial before you told me

[polar acorn]

Please show a screenshot of this object in the scene

[ionic zephyr]

The overworld item containst this

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you're trying to call the Start function of OVERWORLD Item then ?

[ionic zephyr]

No, the Start on Item which is the class ResourceItem inherits from

[polar acorn]

Okay so please show me a screenshot of an instance of Item in a scene

[ionic zephyr]

But I dont want it to be directly on the scene

[polar acorn]

Then what is calling Start

[ionic zephyr]

I want the Start at “Item” to run once the Overworld item is in the scene

[polar acorn]

So, where are you calling Start?

Since it doesn't exist in the scene, the scene isn't going to call Start

So, where are you calling it?

[ionic zephyr]

Oh okay

Now Im getting it

I am using “Item” as a receiver of the database

But it makes no sense

[polar acorn]

Right now, you have no Item in the scene. So, you have an object that can be the real-world implementation of your SO, but it doesn't exist.

[ionic zephyr]

So the structure could be that the overworld item gets the data but the abstract items “in Inventory for example” remain as SOs

But what about the weapons and the durability, what should I do?

[polar acorn]

What is the actual object that needs durability

[ionic zephyr]

A weapon object?

[polar acorn]

Sure, whatever thing in the game represents this specific weapon

Suppose you have The Axe of Despair and The Sword of A Thousand Truths. The axe has 10 durability, the sword has 20. How would you represent those two objects in your game

[ivory flare]

help my script cause the screen to bug out and like flicker

public class CameraMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Vector3 dragOrigin;
    private bool isDragging = false;
    public float zoomSpeed = 1f;

    void Update()
    {
        HandleDrag();
        HandleZoom();
    }

    void HandleDrag()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)) 
        {
            isDragging = true;
            dragOrigin = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        }

        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0)) 
        {
            if (isDragging)
            {
                Vector3 dragPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
                Vector3 move = dragPosition - dragOrigin;
                transform.position -= move; 
                dragOrigin = dragPosition;
            }
        }

        if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0)) 
        {
            isDragging = false;
        }
    }

    void HandleZoom()
    {
        float scrollInput = Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel");
        if (scrollInput != 0)
        {
            Camera.main.orthographicSize -= scrollInput * zoomSpeed; 
            Camera.main.orthographicSize = Mathf.Clamp(Camera.main.orthographicSize, 1f, 20f); 
        }
    }
}

[ionic zephyr]

As Weapon SO’s but how can I “materialize” them?

[polar acorn]

That's not something I am physically capable of answering. This is something you have to decide

How do you want to represent an object that exists

[ionic zephyr]

Maybe a “Weapon Object” which has an “actual durability” int

[rich adder]

what are you trying to do ?

your zoom is probably wrong

[ionic zephyr]

But my Inventory system is programmed to store SO’s how can I store “Material” things

[polar acorn]

Kind of like this
#💻┃code-beginner message

[ivory flare]

make it so i can move the camera and drag it around

[rich adder]

million dollar question

[ionic zephyr]

So it would be a separate process to all the objects?

[rich adder]

treat SOs like templates , not the actual object

[polar acorn]

What would be the difference between the objects that aren't represented by either item or currentDurability

Why would you need a different InventoryItem class

Just change which ItemData it holds

[rich adder]

i dont even see Time.deltaTime on that zooming, its probably doing it very fast
hard to say just by this alone, can you record video maybe? idk what "flickers " means here

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, I think I get it

[ionic zephyr]

But I dont want all of the objects to have Actual durability

[polar acorn]

Okay, so they'd have a different class

A class represents a "shape" of an object

[ionic zephyr]

That could inherit from a common class

[polar acorn]

If an object has an ItemData and a currentDurability then it's one of these

[rich adder]

so when moving or also scrolling ?

[ivory flare]

no just moving

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, thanks!, Ill keep you informed

[rich adder]

are you following some type of tutorial?

could also be the z value messing with the calculation

[ivory flare]

no i just pulled it from one random website and then modified it slightly

[rich adder]

can you link it

[steel stirrup]

I find it helpful to have examples, so here's a quick mockup of how I'd approach your issue. There's a billion ways to solve it, and inheritance is certainly not the most flexible, but probably the simplest. https://gdl.space/areqaxabey.cs edit: oops, forgot to cache the result of the name func in the implementations, kind of pointless without

[proud spoke]

Hi can anyone help me figure my what the problem?

so im making the ladder system

it kinda works you can go up and down
the problem is once you get down you cant go up you have to re-enter the trigger

here is the code

using System.Security;
using UnityEngine;

public class LadderClimbing : MonoBehaviour
{
    private bool isLadder;
    private bool isClimbing;

    private float vertical;

    private float climbingSpeed = 2f;

    private Rigidbody2D rb;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        vertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        if (isLadder && Mathf.Abs(vertical) > 0f)
        {
            isClimbing = true;
        }
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if (isClimbing)
        {
            rb.gravityScale = 0f;
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, vertical * climbingSpeed);
        }

        if (!isClimbing)
        {
            rb.gravityScale = 1;
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.CompareTag("Ladder"))
        {
            isLadder = true;
        }   
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.CompareTag("Ladder"))
        {
            isLadder = false;
            isClimbing = false; 
        }
    }
}

[eternal needle]

#854851968446365696 please

Have all your information ready then just post it as a single message

[proud spoke]

oh okay sorry

[wintry quarry]

What debugging steps have you taken?

[proud spoke]

here is the issue i think

isClimbing is false

[wintry quarry]

right so - keep debugging

find out why it's becoming false

when you don't expect it to

[proud spoke]

but im trying to multiply it speed and vertical but vertical is 0

it should be false

because im no climbing

the issue is i cant start climbing once im down

[autumn lintel]

if this is a string, is this "" or null

[wintry quarry]

It's an empty string.

Unity's serializer doesn't support null for reference types

[wintry quarry]

May be easier tyo use Debug.Log for this becasue you won't be able to do input stuff while using the debugger

[autumn lintel]

if I put [System.NonSerialized] and have public string currentEffect;, will it then be considered null?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[autumn lintel]

cool thanks

[eternal needle]

#854851968446365696
this is a coding channel. dont ping users in on your discussions if they arent involved

[eternal steeple]

hi (3D), i'm using joystick for movement, i'm trying to add inertia and i'm wondering what's the best way to detect when you should de-accelerate as currently my player will only de-accelerate when there's no input on the joystick

[deft grail]

that should just be happening automatically, unless your not using the input as a float or something?

[wintry quarry]

Depends on how your code is but the simple answer is "decelerate when there's no input" as you said

[eternal steeple]

wouldn't having separate deceleration/acceleration for example when strafing feel much better, atleast what's what i'd imagine which is why i'm trying to implement it
because otherwise the character, whenever input it'll always use acceleration to calculate it's velocity

[eternal steeple]

and i'm using the magnitude of the joystick to determine wether to move or not

[wintry quarry]

I don't really know what you mean by that to be honest. But acceleration and deceleration are the same thing

They're just "change in velocity"

If you're asking how to make it so it decelerates at a different rate than it accelerates, you would just use a different rate when the target velocity magnitude is lower than the current velocity magnitude

[eternal steeple]

my bad,
and yes but the issue is that if you for example move the joystick from left to right because i set the target velocity magnitude in relation to the joystick magnitude

[wintry quarry]

What's the issue with that exactly? I'm not sure I understand

[eternal steeple]

sorry if i'm explaining it poorly 😅
basically i want 2 different acceleration rates,

i just don't know how to do if i for example am strafing, when i flip the movement joystick from one side to another one quickly then i want it to have a faster acceleration rate until' it reaches 0 speed on that axis and it'll switch to another rate,
it's basically detecting if your joystick moved from negative value to positive value or the other way around on a specific axis
not sure if this would be the best way hence i asked if anyone knew a good way to determine this

[wintry quarry]

just sounds like a few if statements in the code.

looking at the current velocity and the target velocity

what side of 0 those are on

etc

Draw up a comprehensive set of circumstances and what the result should be

there's probably only 4-8 possibilities

cover all the cases with if/else statements

and you're good.

[rocky canyon]

all that ☝️

[eternal steeple]

guessing it's just that simple,

thanks 😄

[rocky canyon]

basically lol..

could probably implement Mathf.Sign to differentiate between inputs in teh same direction or inputs in the opposite direction

or possibly even simpler than that.. if its only on 1 axis.. isSwitchingDirection = (input > 0 && currentVelocity < 0) || (input < 0 && currentVelocity > 0);

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys.. I always have this doubt.. if I want to create a game where I will have different types of enemies.. just to make it simple to visualize.. lets imagine the enemies types are like.. an enemy is a circle.. the other is a square.. the other is a triangle.. etc.. all of them.. they have damage, HP and maybe an hability. The have dif shapes and sizes.. is there a best way to create the system or ways? like scriptable objects and others? Any advises on which system you would use? Also I have a question about it related to classes. Should I have 1 class to control enemy Hps, damage and other to control their behavior? I am just a good newbie here. thank you.

[wintry quarry]

Incredibly vague question. At the most basic level you just make one script and multiple prefabs or prefab variants with different values set and different renderer and colliders

[solemn fractal]

So making one prefab .. each prefab with a dif script.. should that not be a problem? I would love to do that way for me would be way more simpler..

I know its vague. but I am newbie. cant elaborate better the question i think

I already did a small game using scriptable object but I didnt like the system

[wintry quarry]

each prefab with a dif script.
Not sure what you mean by this

why would the script be different?

Do they have different behavior?

[mint remnant]

Since you are a newbie, the best thing to do is probably start out with basic prototypes instead of a more lofty end goal of a game

[rocky canyon]

depends on what ur scripts are in charge of..
say u just want a simple enemy with a health variable..
you can have a script called Enemy.cs that has a health variable.. and u can make 10 different prefabs (all using that same script)
where each instance.. has its own version of Enemy and its own health value

[wintry quarry]

Let's say they all have hitpoints and stuff, but they move differently. You can use one hitpoint script which they all use and different movement scripts.

[solemn fractal]

Understood

[royal linden]

if i have a script with a public variable can a change it with a different script?

[solemn fractal]

Thank you.

[rocky canyon]

💯

[royal linden]

ok thanks

[rocky canyon]

yourScript.publicVariable = 10f;

[solemn fractal]

I can have 2 scripts in one object, or that is not good practice?

[rocky canyon]

thats called composition.. and is 1 of many different design structures

[wintry quarry]

In real games you will have many scripts on one object

[solemn fractal]

Ok. Thank you.

[rocky canyon]

my player object has like 15 different scripts 🫣

[solemn fractal]

hahahah

one day I will get there

hopefully

[rocky canyon]

look into SOLID principles

[solemn fractal]

ok thank you

[rocky canyon]

https://medium.com/@alejandrodiazjllo/s-o-l-i-d-principles-for-unity-a1556ee99e7c

the having multiple scripts is actually better than having 1 big chunky script..

Single Responsibility being that a class should only care/handle 1 thing or 1 aspect of things

[solemn fractal]

hmmm, ok, i was always afraid that having a bunch os scripts and prefabs ni a game would be bad for processing.. but it seems its a normal thing.

[rocky canyon]

for example.. Your PlayerMovement doesn't need to know about the players health

its just setting urself up for spaghetti code..

[mint remnant]

are SOLID principles different for Unity?

[rocky canyon]

if ur healthbar isn't working.. u should know to go to the script that handles ur healthbar.. and be able to find/solve the issue quickly

[solemn fractal]

hmmmm ok. Well my game is super simple.. but I will keep that in mind for future ones.. my mind is already having trouble to wrap around 1 script imagine to think about many interaction with each other.. it will just make things now more dif for me. Bur I will read the link u provided.. thank you

[rocky canyon]

instead of scrolling thru 1 big master class.. that has the player health somewhere in here

[solemn fractal]

makes sense

[rocky canyon]

yea, you just gotta use ur judgment.. theres nothing wrong w/ 1 script handling multiple things..

is ultimately up to you.. what works best for you..

[solemn fractal]

Interfaces are important to a game or you can avoid using them?

[rocky canyon]

public class PlayerHealth : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int health = 100;

    void Start()
    {
        health = 100;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if(health <= 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("PlayerIsDead");
        }
    }
}``` heres my health script for example

when i want to change the players health.. i just grab the <PlayerHealth> script from the player.. and just change its health variable.. (enemies usually do that) when they make contact (collide with the player for example)

[rocky canyon]

they get more important the more you develop

i wouldn't worry about them first thing tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw heres a playlist that helped me alot when i first started

[solemn fractal]

Wow.. a single script just to control that few amount of lines.. I would never have thought of that.. My player script.. last game I did.. simples super simple game.. I had like 700 lines hahahaand it was just 1 script.. I might think about doing that way also.. really would be easier.. that is amazing to know thank you a lot

[solemn fractal]

Thank you !!! I will watch it all

[rocky canyon]

oh it happens on the other end of the spectrum

[solemn fractal]

I am focusing in 2d games now as it seems to be more simple to create for beginners

[rocky canyon]

heres my player movement script... she's a thicc gurl

[solemn fractal]

Amazing organization

[rocky canyon]

it wasn't always that way 😅

[solemn fractal]

I imagine hahahaha

[rocky canyon]

but good luck mate 🍀

[solemn fractal]

Thank you. I posted a small game I did here in this discord dont remember what was the channel.. cant find now.

[rocky canyon]

use something like http://www.itch.io and start a portfolio of sorts

[solemn fractal]

yeah the game is there, but I posted here in the discord .. there is a channel here to post your gams I just dont remember which one i created the post

[rocky canyon]

#1180170818983051344 is the newer version of that

[solemn fractal]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1243564389907300422

[rocky canyon]

if it was much older.. there was a channel that wasn't set up w/ post/threads and that probably got archived

[solemn fractal]

there it is.. took me 3 months to make this simple game hahaha

but it was 8 months ago.. i stopped and I am just coming back now to unity so .. learning all again

[rocky canyon]

atleast you finished something! 👍

some people never make it that far

[solemn fractal]

I want to get money with games one day even if that takes me 10 years.

I am not in a rush

lets see 😛 thank you for the help

[rocky canyon]

yea, dont be.. just start small. and get bigger each time

[solemn fractal]

yeah.. that is the secret.. people try to already start with the dream game and that is why they stop it and never try again

[rocky canyon]

"Im learning Unity, going to make a Multiplayer Minecraft Clone!"

[solemn fractal]

hahahaha

[mint remnant]

hey now, that's how I'm learning lol, well not multi player, but it's a good exercize to learn

[solemn fractal]

Speaking about 2D and 3D.. in unity.. coding for both is that different.. or for a beginner surely is better to start with 2D?

[cosmic dagger]

The main difference is that 2d and 3d use separate physics engines. Everything else is the same . . .

[solemn fractal]

hmm.. so 3D you have more stuff to know I guess.. prob 2D will be better for beginners.

[cosmic dagger]

Oh and importing and using 2d/3d assets will be different . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Nope, as I said, it's the same. 2d still exists within the 3d space. A few physics methods are different and you need to use the correct colliders . . .

[solemn fractal]

understood. thank you.

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys.. I have this small code here. Its my enemyMovement, Each enemy will have a dif speed movement. Do I have a simpler way to do that, or its ok to do like that? ```public class EnemyMovement : MonoBehaviour{

private float _circleEnemyMovementSpeed = 2;
private float _squareEnemyMovementSpeed = 3;
private Rigidbody2D _rb;

[SerializeField] private Player _player;

void Start(){

    _player = GetComponent<Player>();   
    
}


void Update(){
    
}

 private void CircleEnemeyMovementSpeed(){

    Vector3 MoveDirection = (_player.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
    _rb.velocity = MoveDirection * _circleEnemyMovementSpeed;

    _rb.velocity = _rb.velocity.normalized * _circleEnemyMovementSpeed;

}

private void SquareEnemeyMovementSpeed(){

    Vector3 MoveDirection = (_player.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
    _rb.velocity = MoveDirection * _squareEnemyMovementSpeed;

    _rb.velocity = _rb.velocity.normalized * _squareEnemyMovementSpeed;

}

}```

Each enemy with a method for its speed.

[summer stump]

Why the two velocity assignments for each enemy type?

The second one achieves nothing
MoveDirection was already normalized

[eternal needle]

Why do you need different methods or variables here? Looks like you can just use one method here since the code is all the same

[solemn fractal]

I dont know that is why I am asking 😛 i am a complete noob here. as they are dif enemies,. every prefab enemy dif I have will get this script.. to control their dif speed.. but I dont know the best way to do it.. so creating 1 method for each enemy is not good or wroong?

[summer stump]

Not good

[solemn fractal]

ok

[summer stump]

Just have one method to move. Each prefab will just have their own speed value...

[eternal needle]

The methods are almost the same from what I see. You could just reuse the speed variable, and suddenly it is the exact same

[solemn fractal]

buit do I say in 1 method that enemy circle has speed 2 and enemy square have speed 3 ?

[summer stump]

Just change the speed variable in the inspector for each prefab

One method, one variable, you change it in the inspector for each enemy.

[solemn fractal]

ahh ok ,true. Making it as a serialized variable correct?

makes sense

Thank you.

[summer stump]

public class EnemyMovement : MonoBehaviour{
    [SerializeField] private float _speed;
    private Rigidbody2D _rb;

    [SerializeField] private Player _player;

    void Start(){

        _player = GetComponent<Player>();   
        
    }


    void Update(){
        
    }

    private void MovementSpeed(){

        Vector3 MoveDirection = (_player.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
        _rb.velocity = MoveDirection * _speed;
    }
}

Also remove the second useless assignment to velocity

[solemn fractal]

Yeah. Thank you.. and how did u post here the code with colors? I tried to find it on pined or read-me and could not find

[summer stump]

I would just call the method move btw

[solemn fractal]

Thank you.

[rocky canyon]

syntax highlighting

[ivory bobcat]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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```
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[summer stump]

Huh yeah, I see it is not mentioned in #854851968446365696

[solemn fractal]

But if I change it on the inspector.. and in the game I have factor that might change the enemy velocity, for a specific enemy.. wouldnt that be a prob? Because in the code I dont have a control for each enemy.. and have it only on the inspector

[rich adder]

you want to control each one differently in code ?

[solemn fractal]

I dont know, I mean. in the game i have dif enemies.. dif prefabs for each one.. they will have a fixed starting movement speed. But in the game I might have things that could change the velocity of just 1 enemy and not other.. having control over the movement speed only in the spector and not in the code could be a prob? That is what I am thinking now

[mint remnant]

just because it's in the inspector doesn't mean you can't change it in code

[rich adder]

so reference that specific enemy in the code when you need to and change it

make a public method to modify speed

enemyMovement.SetMoveSpeed(4f)

or whatever

[summer stump]

_baseSpeed
_currentSpeed

Oh, maybe I misunderstood

So you want ALL enemies of type X to get a speed boost at certain points

Same thing you used earlier for code formatting. Just a cs after
They still have to be on their own lines

```cs
//code inside
```

[solemn fractal]

like this one??

[solemn fractal]

I tried but it is not working sent a SS

[summer stump]

Because your attempt 1 had the ticks on the same line as words
And attempt 2 used apostraphes it looked like

[solemn fractal]

ah ok

[summer stump]

What is this for? But no, never ever use gameobject names in logic

[solemn fractal]

ok

[summer stump]

The cs has to be on the same line as the ticks

Just copy paste this:

[rich adder]

use TryGetComponent and get the component directly, there is no need for tags/gameobject names

[summer stump]

//code here

But what you are trying to show is not really important

The context is missing

What method is that code INSIDE?

[solemn fractal]

I guess I need to try more here. Will come back later with questions about it if needed. Thank you guys.

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys.. is it useful or good practice to use List of lists? Example. Instead of having 1 variable for each list of enemy that are spawning, I can have 1 variable of a list of lists to control all spawned enemies list. What is your advise?

[rich adder]

yes list of list is fine

[solemn fractal]

Great. Will try that. Thank you.

But can I have a list of dif types inside a list of lists? or they all need to be from the same type?

Something like that:

I guess not right?

[rich adder]

omg dont do this

are you making a class for each enemy?

two three four etc.

[solemn fractal]

No, it was just a question to understand how it works

😛

[rich adder]

ohh lol ok

[solemn fractal]

😅

I am still thinking here how I will do it, before starting.. otherwise It will be a mess

[rich adder]

how you wrote it is fine

exept dont make a class EnemyOne two etc

lol

[solemn fractal]

Ok

[summer stump]

They need to be the same types
You could have a dictionary with lists of different types as values

[solemn fractal]

hmm never heard about this.. will check it out. Thank you.

[drowsy flare]

I've made a game where a enemy objects attack player objects with their weapon object.

I did the hit detection in the player controller class. But I'm starting to think that maybe it should be in the enemy weapon class, and call a method in the player controller to reduce hp?

What is good measure here?

[eternal needle]

The thing that damages the player should have the code yes

[drowsy flare]

I had the feeling that this will make it easier in the future. Thanks bro

[languid spire]

yes, if the player can be damaged by multiple weapons it only needs one simple TakeDamage method which can be called by all weapons and they say how much damage is caused

[rough hill]

Does anybody know how to fix those?

[languid spire]

Unity bug, restart Unity

[steel hull]

hello

uhm I have an issue

where visual studio code uninstalled itself

[languid spire]

that is extremely unlikely, why do you think so?

[steel hull]

I don't know I reinstalled but

this is damn weird

one more thing

input.getaxisraw allways outputs 1 when I am pressing w

no matter the direction I am looking

getaxisraw horizontal and vertical

[languid spire]

how is the w key supposed to know which direction you are looking?

[eternal needle]

nothing about GetAxisRaw knows about what object you are calling it on, or what direction it is facing.

[steel hull]

I sent a video

[languid spire]

irelevant

[steel hull]

idk what I am doing wrong

[languid spire]

you know the direction, the keyboard does not

[steel hull]

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

public class CharacterMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    float a;
    float b;
    Vector3 dir;
    public float speed = 0.01f;
    public CharacterController newController;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        a = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        b = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        dir = new Vector3(a, 0, b).normalized;
        newController.Move(dir * speed);
        Debug.Log(a);
        Debug.Log(b);
    }
}```

[languid spire]

so what there says which direction the character is facing?

[steel hull]

shouldn't the getaxisraw say that? like if the input of the direction is a little bit rotated shouldn't it like when I press w give me both x and z vectors?

[languid spire]

no, that is telling you which way to move, not which way you are facing

[steel hull]

interesting

It seems I have misunderstood the function let me check

[steel hull]

no I don't get it, can someone help?

[teal viper]

Input only tells you what buttons are pressed. If you press up, it would always return the same value regardless of where your character is facing.

Direction in game on the other hand would be changing depending on your camera/character rotation.

[polar kraken]

Hey guys,
How can I change the start time on a state from animator via code ?

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationState-time.html
this?

[polar kraken]

I want to change the start time on current or specific animator state

There is Transition Offset on transitions but how can I modify it from code ?

Also there is Motion Time which by modifying that I can't achieve what I want and actually I don't understand what it is exactly.

[fickle wagon]

Hello friends, how can I get the user country in unity WebGL?

[languid spire]

one possible way https://api.iplocation.net/

[fickle wagon]

https://api.iplocation.net/?ip=8.8.8.8. I see, but we need to pass ip inorder to get information as json

[languid spire]

yes, you can get the IPAddrewss from the browser via JavaScript

[ivory bobcat]

You might not get any response because this is the beginner coding channel. Instead you should copy the message, delete this message here and repost your message in the non coding channel #💻┃unity-talk

[delicate laurel]

okey, thank you

[nova shore]

what happens if u
while(!input.getkey(somekey))

[finite dew]

If somekey is not pressed your editor might crash, unless you break the loop somewhere inside the while block

just skip out on the while and put it in update

in an if

[nova shore]

tryna make the script which doesnt derive from monobehaviour wait for input

[finite dew]

From where do you call the methods on that script?

From monobehaviours? Then call it from Update

[nova shore]

i tried

1. making an entire new ienumerator
2. using a bool to break out of the while block

[nova shore]

using update is outta the question
i wouldve done it if i can

the

[cosmic dagger]

You need to call a method from the non-MonoBehaviour class inside of Update on a MonoBehaviour script . . .

[nova shore]

while loop is inside of another ienumerator

[finite dew]

coroutines are attached to gameobjects, I'm pretty sure, so it shouldn't matter if you just call it in an update

[nova shore]

this isnt compatible with the setup i went for

[finite dew]

but if you're inside an ienumerator then inside the while loop just write yield return null; and it will wait a frame before continuing

[nova shore]

i HAVE
it still freezes

[finite dew]

show code

[nova shore]

time to ctrl + z hundred times

one sec

[cosmic dagger]

What setup? What do you mean? You need to check input from Update or receive it from an event using the new input system . . .

[nova shore]

 IEnumerator WaitForInput(KeyCode key)
 {
     bool breakpleasedontfreeze = false;
     while (!breakpleasedontfreeze) 
     {
         if (Input.GetKeyDown(key)) breakpleasedontfreeze = true; 
    
     }
 yield return null;
 }

this freezes

wait

now

its right

[finite dew]

it is very not right

[nova shore]

indeed

[finite dew]

first of all, in this case, the yield return null is never ran

[nova shore]

yea

[finite dew]

you should have kept it inside the while loop

like in your original message

that's the first thing

second thing

[cosmic dagger]

Your yield is outside of the loop . . .

[nova shore]

both end of freezing

[finite dew]

the while loop is never broken

oh no wait it is

-_-

[cosmic dagger]

Why aren't you using Update? You never explain . . .

[finite dew]

how do you run this function?

can you show me?

what code is running this function

[nova shore]

its

a spell

first its a wind up

[finite dew]

show codeeee I need to see how it's ran

[nova shore]

i am

[finite dew]

how are you calling the function

[nova shore]

one ec

[cosmic dagger]

You know you can respond in complete sentences, right?

[nova shore]

#nullable enable
    public override void Activate(MonoBehaviour monobehaviour, GameObject Player, GameObject? Target, Vector3? MousePos)
    {
        monobehaviour.StartCoroutine(WindUp(Player,monobehaviour));
        Debug.Log("A");
        
        
    }

    IEnumerator WindUp(GameObject Player,MonoBehaviour mono)
    {
        int Capacity = 0;
        List<GameObject> balls = new List<GameObject>();
        while (Capacity <= MaxCapacity)
        {
            Instantiate(Ball, Player.transform.position + new Vector3(r.Next(-offset, offset), r.Next(-offset / 2, offset), r.Next(-offset, offset)), Quaternion.identity, Player.transform);
            balls.Add(Ball);
            Capacity++; Debug.Log("Basdasd");
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.3f);
            
        }
        
        mono.StartCoroutine(WaitForInput(KeyCode.Mouse0));
        Launch(balls);
    }

    void Launch(List<GameObject> balls)
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("Mf");
        for (int i = 0; i < balls.Count; ++i)
        {
            balls[i].GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition).normalized * Speed;
        }
    }

    IEnumerator WaitForInput(KeyCode key)
    {
        bool breakpleasedontfreeze = false;
        while (!breakpleasedontfreeze) 
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(key)) breakpleasedontfreeze = true; 
        yield return null;
        }
    }

this activate fn is called in a another script that

 void Update()
 {
     for(int i = 0; i < SlotKeys.Length; i++)
     {
         if (Input.GetKeyDown(SlotKeys[i]))
         {
             StartCoroutine(newThread(i));
         }
     }
 }

 IEnumerator newThread(int i)
 {
     hum.SpellSlots[i].spell.Activate(this,gameObject, null, null);
     yield return null;
 }

[cosmic dagger]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[finite dew]

that sure is a way to approach this....
try
yield return WaitForInput(KeyCode.Mouse0);
instead of just
mono.StartCoroutine(WaitForInput(KeyCode.Mouse0));

[nova shore]

thats sick

also

[nova shore]

just realised i could simplify it xD

[nova shore]

ok

till unity starts
anyway i can improve on it?
tryna make a spellcaster system

[finite dew]

Also I know we're not supposed to comment on formatting on this server but pretty please 1 command per line -_-

[nova shore]

discord broke the formatting

EYYY IT DOESNT FREEZE

ok so now why

[cosmic dagger]

That's why I sent the bot. Paste your code to a site, save it, and send us the link. It's much easier to read and look at the code . . .

[nova shore]

didnt know it existed

[finite dew]

you have to wait for the coroutine to be finished, in windup
the way you called it didn't really make the function wait

[nova shore]

ooooo

so its similar to waitforseconds
instead of just calling an entire new coroutine i can just directly do it in the reutnr

damn
and is it healthy to create this many coroutines

[cosmic dagger]

Why do you have GameObject? as a nullable parameter type? It's already a reference type (meaning it can be null) . . .

[nova shore]

OCD

[cosmic dagger]

How, that doesn't make sense? It's already a nullable type . . .

[finite dew]

yes exactly, and it's fine to keep it in that separate coroutine it doesnt' matter much if you call it correctly

[nova shore]

OCD = over caring disease

im the type of guy to fiddle around with a table until its perfectly in place

not really(i dont go that far, i think)

[finite dew]

but you asked about improving your code

the way I like to make spellcaster-like systems is via abstract classes

not whatever you got going on, that's probably the less flexible and more work-intensive approach overall

do you know what abstract classes are? or how inheritance works in general

[nova shore]

spells in the game are really damn variable
ive thought of creating a baseclass for primary-type of spells like hitscan or projectile classification

but they are so damn different from each other

i thought making seperate script and hardcoding each spell was the only way

[nova shore]

ye

liek i cant think of a way to make a baseclass that is being derived by two spells that

1. does a ground slam
2. shoots smth

[finite dew]

you can make each spell a separate class but still derive from a generic Spell class that has things like windup or instantiating a gameobject with all the spell components on it or something
and you can make it pretty clean with virtual/abstract methods

no need to get into coroutine hell for this

[nova shore]

oh i do have a basespell class

that has like variables like manacost,name,desc etc etc

[finite dew]

your code will hang forever, until that input is pressed

that's an example of an issue

with your setup

[nova shore]

ill time out the player, after 5 seconds the spell deactivates or smth

and tbh if he intends to hold onto charging the spell forever, might as well be dead xD(thats the game look im goin for)

[finite dew]

my point is that this weird passing a gameobject and a monobehaviour setup you got going on would be better done by having a base class that does those things in Update(), without a need for coroutines

and I mean you can make it work

with coroutines

[nova shore]

my baseclass is scriptable object 😭

ive tried making base class as mono
that was easy af
the cooldown and all that bs was easy to handle
but i didnt know how i can make it so that the

player and enemies spell stats would differ

[finite dew]

you can in that scriptable object put a gameobject prefab that will be spawned on top of the player for example, and will handle all the spell effects and everything
and you will have a separate class for the effects and one class for the scriptableobject with just spell data

[nova shore]

wait idont get you..

[finite dew]

you can just make multiple instances of the scriptableobject and add different stats to them, assign one to player and another to enemies

[nova shore]

ye thats the plan

player folder = player spells/skills
entities have set moves

[nova shore]

this feels like smth i should understand but i dont

[finite dew]

you have a class SpellStats : ScriptableObject
you have stats in there like damage cooldown and things
you also have a reference to a prefab there
and when you wanna cast a spell, you spawn the prefab
and on the prefab there's a script that's called SpecificSpellType : GenericSpell with a reference to the scriptable object with its stats
and when you spawn the prefab, you pass the scriptable object into the SpecificSpellType script for the stats

this way you can have however many scriptableobjects with different stats for the same spell, and you can have 1 spell class that will just cast the spell according to the stats

and you make all the things happen from within the SpecificSpellType class, like all the VFX and raycasts for damage or whatever it is you need

[umbral rock]

So im following a tutorial on how to make an endless runner but i dont understand the code, he is spawning new floors the whole time but they are slightly higher every time then the previous floor that spawned, how? is this because he positioned the prefab higher and this has nothing to do with the code? or is there a line of code somewhere that tells the next floor to be spawned slightly higher?

[nova shore]

ohhh this is for how im gonna have to handle differnet entities have different spell stats?

[finite dew]

yes
and this way you can also handle all the waiting and windup and everything, inside GenericSpell
and you won't have to have this weird mess of coroutines

[finite dew]

is this what the tutorial told you to write?

please for the love of whatever is holy, find a better tutorial

[umbral rock]

yes lol, i know its bad but im just trying to understand it, how is it that every floot that spawns is slightly higher then the previous one?

[finite dew]

to answer your question however, no, there is no line of code that changes the position. It's probably done elsewhere

[cosmic dagger]

They access the last spawned object to find a child Transform called "EndPosition" and use its position to spawn the next GameObject . . .

[finite dew]

this is such a bad bad way to do this 😭

[winter tinsel]

curiosity made me come here, is there a way to make a gameobject, like a cube, have collision but be a ghost, so that it phases through objects, yet still checks for what it collides with?

[umbral rock]

yes but how is it that the spawning floors are higher then the previous ones? because of the prefabs positioned differently?

[finite dew]

here, a good, modern tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQMytORBmM

[cosmic dagger]

For sure, this is fucking terrible. for loops exist . . .

[finite dew]

like a trigger collider?

[winter tinsel]

the point is that it just moves through objects but still checks for what its colliding twith

so if it comes into contact with another cube that has a collider, it goes through it but it still prints that its colliding with it

or it stays inside of it ig

[nova shore]

aighty i think i get it, ill try to implement it and see

[finite dew]

you need to set the collider to trigger

[nova shore]

Thanks

[winter tinsel]

i am very stupid, i literally learned that in the very first unity tutorial but it just whooshed over my head

[umbral rock]

yes thank u

[winter tinsel]

thanks

[cosmic dagger]

I just explained. When a GameObject is spawned, it has a Transform named "EndPosition". The next spawned GameObject finds that transform (from the previously spawned GameObject) to use for its position. It finds the end position of the current GameObject to place the new one . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Use a trigger collider . . .

[umbral rock]

but how is the next gameobject higher and further away then the previous one then? theres no line of code that tells the spawner to spawn it higher or further away from the previous? is this because of the prefabs thatvare positioned differently?

[winter tinsel]

i have allready exposed my ignorance and stupidity

[umbral rock]

yes i understand this, that is why this guy his code is so bad (;

[cosmic dagger]

Because it spawns from the position of the "EndPosition" GameObject . . .

[umbral rock]

yes but that would spawn gameobjects on the x-axis, in this case they are also spawning on a higher y-axis and i dont know how he does this?

[cosmic dagger]

Because of the position of the "EndPosition" GameObject . . .

[umbral rock]

but the endposition is not higher up, its just on the far right side of the gameobject and not higher up

[cosmic dagger]

The code just uses the position, that's the only thing I can go off of (reference) . . .

[steep rose]

if you showed us what your scene looks like we might be able to fix this issue

[umbral rock]

aaah now i know, i think i saw it the wrong way, indeed i think the position is higher wait i'll show u

[steep rose]

all the code does is get the endpositions Position