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[steep rose]

character controller

[polar acorn]

You've been saying Rigidbody but this has a Character Controller

Then what's this?

[terse spindle]

I have both bro

[steep rose]

both??

[rocky canyon]

ya, thast just causing trouble

pick one or the other

[terse spindle]

but I stil need gravity

[steep rose]

you cant have built in physics on a non physics object

you make your own

[polar acorn]

You can't

[terse spindle]

how I make my own

[rocky canyon]

if u need gravity.. just add it into the Move() function of the CC

[polar acorn]

That'd be your problem

They cannot coexist, you need to pick one or the other

[terse spindle]

now I dont fall thru the ground

but I dont fall

[steep rose]

look up a brackeys tut

[terse spindle]

thats what iit mae

[polar acorn]

You need to do the math yourself

[terse spindle]

3rd person character basic tutorial from brackeys

[polar acorn]

CharacterControllers don't have gravity built in

[steep rose]

threre is a simple formula for gravity

brackets has it

[terse spindle]

physics.gravity?

[steep rose]

brackey's

[rocky canyon]

yea Vector3.up * gravity

😛

[steep rose]

reset velocity when on ground

[terse spindle]

how do I know Im ground

[rocky canyon]

nah, u need a little bit of gravity to keep u good on slopes

when grounded (little constant gravity)

when airborne (bigger accumulative gravity)

[steep rose]

no, the character controller will just go up the slopes just fine without gravity

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController-isGrounded.html

[steep rose]

besides it will move the character controller down slightly

[rocky canyon]

but it wont go down w/o gravity 😉

[polar acorn]

Correct but that's also not the reason to have a small downward force even when grounded

[steep rose]

if its in the air it should be applying gravity

[polar acorn]

isGrounded is only true when you attempt to move into the ground

If you don't have a downward force when grounded, you'll switch between grounded and not every frame

[rocky canyon]

   private void ApplyGravity()
    {
        if (characterController.isGrounded && gravitySim < playerSettings.gravity)
            gravitySim = playerSettings.gravity;

        gravitySim += playerSettings.gravity * Time.deltaTime;
    }
``` heres my gravity..

[steep rose]

dont use the built in isgrounded then, its much better being able to adjust it

[rocky canyon]

works delightful on slopes and stairs

[terse spindle]

controller.Move(tform.position += Physics.gravity);

heres my gravity

[cosmic quail]

gotta make your own isgrounded method

[terse spindle]

should that work

[steep rose]

johnsmith got it right

[rocky canyon]

you probably need to scale it w/ time.deltaTime if ur running that in update

[terse spindle]

okay sheck wes

[polar acorn]

It works fine if you actually use CharacterController properly. As long as you have exactly one call to Move every frame and make sure to have gravity even when standing still, it handles almost all cases

If you need more precise ground checking, you almost definitely need more precise movement and would be using a Rigidbody instead

[rocky canyon]

ive been using my CC's is grounded w/o problems

it even runs , slides, crouches, flys, and all that stuff

[terse spindle]

hey sheck wes

I tried and

I couldnt see my character just void

it flew away so fast

I think that didnt work

[steep rose]

a checksphere ground detection method would work wonders, both ways are fine but one is preffered by the user over the other

imo

[rocky canyon]

true.. im not debating not using a custom check

[terse spindle]

Screen position out of view frustum (screen pos 123.000000, 397.000000) (Camera rect 0 0 274 398)
UnityEngine.SendMouseEvents:DoSendMouseEvents (int)

[rocky canyon]

yea, ur player went WEeeeeeeEeeeEEEeeee

[terse spindle]

Assertion failed on expression: 'IsNormalized(ray.GetDirection())'
UnityEngine.SendMouseEvents:DoSendMouseEvents (int)

[steep rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QajrabyTJc&t=5s

please follow this

[terse spindle]

I dont need first person !

😠

[rocky canyon]

it doesnt matter.. bro

[steep rose]

it has gravity

[rocky canyon]

they move the same

[terse spindle]

I just completed the third person one

what has changed

[rocky canyon]

well obviously u skipped some steps

ive done the third person one and it works fine

[terse spindle]

with gravity?

[rocky canyon]

yes

[terse spindle]

is there 2 video of it

because I didnt skip

or did I

[rotund hull]

how do I get the point of collision of an object in Collision2D

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collision2D-contacts.html
You get a list of em in 2D

[rotund hull]

alright

[terse spindle]

Im watching it second time it better I skip

it better work now

[willow scroll]

"I better do it correctly now"

[rocky canyon]

ya, tbh i just skimmed it and it doesnt look like he addresses gravity in that tutorial 🤔

[steep rose]

please watch this from 14:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QajrabyTJc&t=5s

he explains the formulas

[terse spindle]

what is wrong with you

[terse spindle]

thanks wes

[polar acorn]

Honestly Brackeys does basically everything wrong with the Character Controller. He calls Move multiple times, clobbers jump velocity with input, multiplies mouse input by deltaTime, basically all of the things that are going to cause major problems down the line

[terse spindle]

is that so

[steep rose]

im just giving him a tutorial hes already following

[terse spindle]

that got me thignking

[steep rose]

if you have any other content creator to suggest please suggest them

[polar acorn]

Honestly, I'd suggest documentation, not content creators

[rocky canyon]

just download the Unity THird person asset

and start modifying that

[rocky canyon]

lmao.. sooooo true

[steep rose]

im not sure complete beginners even know where documentation is and how to use it. im also not sure if it would even help them ngl

[rocky canyon]

he should stick to gadot

[steep rose]

as seen here

[polar acorn]

Then that is what they should be learning. Not "how to add gravity" but "how to read documentation and learn through experimentation"

[terse spindle]

as seen where sheck wes

[rocky canyon]

here, i believe he said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f473C43s8nE first person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCwwn2q4Vys third person

these are good imo

[steep rose]

what you are saying is true but most beginners wouldnt want to look through documentation and learn through experimentation even though its great for learning.

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCxSjgYTw9c running/ slopes

[steep rose]

i used tutorials when i was first starting

[terse spindle]

where you are now

[steep rose]

these are a gem

[polar acorn]

Yes, I'd definitely suggest these over Brackeys, although they're Rigidbody.

[rocky canyon]

as a beginner i can't think of a better one

[steep rose]

i used them

they are great imo

[rocky canyon]

goooo Dave! ❤️ ya if ur in here somewhere

[terse spindle]

hes not

[rocky canyon]

theres 21,000 users

how would u know

[terse spindle]

oh I know

everything except gravity in unity

[rocky canyon]

... rekt lmao

[steep rose]

then use a rigidbody

they are beginner friendly

[rocky canyon]

rigidbodies are better than CC anyway

you'll learn CC and then eventually you'll want a RB

either way u go. u got to customize the logic to get what u want

Player Controller Feel is the most important thing for a game

[terse spindle]

I came from unreal

[rocky canyon]

i came from my mother..

[polar acorn]

The reason it's hard to find a complete tutorial for Character Controllers is that by the time you get to the point where you actually care about how a character moves you've discovered you actually want a rigidbody

[rocky canyon]

pretty much

[terse spindle]

why man why

[wanton hare]

using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(CircleCollider2D))]
[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody2D))]
[RequireComponent(typeof(SpriteRenderer))]

public class Ball : MonoBehaviour
{

     [Header("Variables")]

     [SerializeField] private float _throwSpeed;

     [Header("Ball components")]

     public Rigidbody2D _rb2D;

   
     void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
     {
         bool hasHitPlayer = collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Player");
         bool hasHitOpponent = collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Opponent");

         if(hasHitPlayer)
         {
           ThrowBall(1);  // Throw the ball to the right.
         }
         if(hasHitOpponent)
         {
           ThrowBall(-1); // Throw the ball to the left.
         }
     }
 
     void ThrowBall(int direction)
     {

        /* If direction = -1 => left
           If direction = 1 => right */
 
       float xVelocity = _throwSpeed * direction;
       float yVelocity = _rb2D.velocity.y;
  
       Vector2 ballVelocity = new Vector2(xVelocity, yVelocity);
   
       _rb2D.velocity = ballVelocity;

     }
}

[rocky canyon]

no meme'in my man

[wanton hare]

Hello, im a Unity newbie and im trying to recreate the Pong game, can I get some feedback on my ball script?. And are there any changes I can make to the ball movement? (i.e. ThrowBall() method)

[rocky canyon]

whats the issue?

[terse spindle]

XxNabilMasri99xX

[rocky canyon]

by the time u get to that point ur pretty well versed in how the work.. and u should start creating ur own logics and stuff

[polar acorn]

Do you have any issues with it? What are you trying to change about it?

[rocky canyon]

its simple af.. i dont see any issues

[steep rose]

you can put it in #1180170818983051344 and make it an itch page if you want feedback of the game

[rocky canyon]

looks pretty well structured too, its readible.. u dont smash everything into 1 function

[wanton hare]

The ball is moving at a constant speed in the x and y directions, here is a preview of the ball's movement, (I've also added physics so it can bounce through walls)

[rocky canyon]

it should be slowly getting faster and faster imo

those artifacts are wild!

[steep rose]

grainy

[rocky canyon]

lol u can trace the balls trajectory

[wanton hare]

I posted my script on reddit to get feedback as well but I have a downvote I don't know why : (

[rocky canyon]

thru the grain lol

[rocky canyon]

reddit is harsh

[wanton hare]

maybe

[rocky canyon]

just the way they be

[steep rose]

but true in some cases

[rocky canyon]

ur best posting ur BESTEST stuff

[wanton hare]

so my script is well structured and readable??

[rocky canyon]

stuff that people hadnt seen before

[steep rose]

they will bash you down and then give you the answer

[rocky canyon]

very much so

[wanton hare]

thank you very much : D

[rocky canyon]

great choice as a starter game too!

more people should start with pong... instead of angry birds or flappy birds

idle clickers dont teach u nothing

well i guess they teach u infinite scrolling

thast about it

[steep rose]

I was kind of adventurous and stubborn so I just tried to make a 2d and 3d game off the bat

not the best idea

[rocky canyon]

thats what i did too

straight to 3d

i actually find 2d harder

[wanton hare]

I actually started with Flappy Bird first but it was pretty straightforward, would you like to try it?

[steep rose]

yikes

[rocky canyon]

(b/c u gotta make all the art and stuff look good)

[rocky canyon]

the pong game?

if u put it up on itch i'll give it a shot

the flappy bird tho, i'll pass

i played enough of the original to actually despise it

lmao

[wanton hare]

I can send you the link to my github repo and download the zip file from there, if u want

[steep rose]

put it on itch

[rocky canyon]

nah, ill pass.. i dont download exe's very often.. but i'll play a WebGL build

thats how ur gonna grow ur audience anyway..

most people are the same.. they'd rather play online in the browser until they determine ur legit

[zenith cypress]

put on itch then people can play it via the itch desktop app which has a sandbox you can enable, or make a webgl build on itch.

[wanton hare]

alright, I'll put it on itch, brb

[rocky canyon]

brb he sed... 🍀
ˢᵗᵃʳᵗˢ ᵀᶦᵐᵉʳ

[wanton hare]

btw, Pong is not done yet

[rocky canyon]

booooo..

[wanton hare]

but i'll put it anyway

[craggy lava]

Hello i can only find tutorials on how to make full inventory systems i just need a hotbar where you can select items and check holding items and drop item and use items

[wanton hare]

I posted it on the Unity Play site instead , are we allowed to post links here??

[wanton hare]

i posted it on the Unity Play site, try it : https://play.unity.com/en/games/3a9ef49b-3796-470d-a0ed-e3c8052eefda/neon-pong

[modest dust]

A hotbar is pretty much also a full inventory system, just with fewer slots and with less/different functionalities. Watch one tutorial, get a basic idea on how the system works and adapt it to your needs.

Break down the problem into separate steps and do them one by one. If a step is too complicated then divide it into even smaller sub-steps. If that doesn't help, do some research or ask here.

[mint remnant]

Been working on inventory myself, thought it would be simple, now it's a hot complicated mess that is hard to debug

[weak cedar]

my advice would be counting hits, you could make it so that ball gets faster each hit

[weak cedar]

I advice you to use scriptableobjects if ur already not, it makes everything a lot easier

[wanton hare]

I have used _rb2D.velocity to move the ball, should i use _rb2D.AddForce() instead??

[modest dust]

If it's your first time doing something bigger then, in most cases, it's probably a good idea to grab a pen and pencil and plan out the structure beforehand, think of how it will be used, what needs access to it, think of some edge cases that might happen and how to handle them. Few years ago I went into my first inventory system blind, spent a week coding it and applying band aid fixes to things that didn't work and ended up scraping it after realizing that adding a new feature to it would break half of it. Better to spend a few minutes to an hour making even a basic plan than to struggle later.

[rotund hull]

how do i get the contacts in a OnTriggerEnter2D Collision2D

[mint remnant]

THe hard part has been traversing the UI heirarchy, finding the image to set and enable. Have yet to try scriptable objects, but maybe it would be wise to switch to

[weak cedar]

if u want the ball to travel at a constant speed, use velocity

[languid spire]

try reading the Collision2d documentation

[rotund hull]

I did, and I don't know how it works

[rotund hull]

I tried collision2D.GetContacts() but it isn't working

[mint remnant]

that describes this attempt, went in blind, adjusted as I thought about edge cases haha, what a mess

[wanton hare]

yeah i already did, but which one is a good choice?

[languid spire]

seriously? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collision2D-contacts.html

[weak cedar]

ideally for a pong game you would want the ball to travel at a constant speed, but increse that constant speed each time it hits a border

[rotund hull]

I need it to work on Trigger not collision

[wanton hare]

Here is the method responsible for the movement of the ball, what changes can I make? ```csharp

void ThrowBall(int direction)
{

    /* If direction = -1 => left
       If direction = 1 => right */

   float xVelocity = _throwSpeed * direction;
   float yVelocity = _rb2D.velocity.y;

   Vector2 ballVelocity = new Vector2(xVelocity, yVelocity);

   _rb2D.velocity = ballVelocity;

 }

[languid spire]

then why say collision2d and not collider2d

[weak cedar]

check the isTrigger checkbox in the inspector

[rotund hull]

sorry

[rotund hull]

I can't run the code

[weak cedar]

is ur ide set correctly

[rotund hull]

the code is red

I think

[weak cedar]

send the code then lets troubleshoot

[rotund hull]

do you want the code?

ok

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[weak cedar]

I mean it looks all good idk what else can I add

[rotund hull]

https://gdl.space/budobekava.cs

[wanton hare]

Should I set the ball speed on the y axis to the throwing speed variable as well? or it doesnt matter

float yVelocity = _throwSpeed;

[weak cedar]

did you read the error?

[weak cedar]

your choice

[rotund hull]

no I thought the syntac what just wrong

Assets/Scripts/World/Building Part.cs(13,49): error CS1501: No overload for method 'GetContacts' takes 0 arguments

that is the error in unity

[weak cedar]

ok so fixed that part

cuz in the code you sent, there was no GetContacts

[wanton hare]

alright, thanks for the help, one last question, even though the game is not finished yet how would you rate it out of 10?

[rotund hull]

I tried to replace that with GetContacts and the same thing happened

[weak cedar]

ok so what does the error mean

"Assets/Scripts/World/Building Part.cs(13,49): error CS1501: No overload for method 'GetContacts' takes 0 arguments"

[weak cedar]

10, looks pretty cool

[rotund hull]

does it take an argument

[weak cedar]

well it clearly does

otherwise why would it give an error

[rotund hull]

idk

[weak cedar]

moreover, you should be seeing the error in your code editor

is that line of the code red?

[rotund hull]

just the getcontacts part

public int GetContacts(ContactPoint2D[] contacts);

that is what the documentation says

[verbal dome]

You know what the doc also says?

[weak cedar]

"You should pass an array that is large enough to contain all the contacts you want returned. This array would typically be reused so it should be of a size that can return a reasonable quantity of contacts. No allocations occur in this function which means no work is produced for the garbage collector."

[verbal dome]

It doesn't work with triggers.

[weak cedar]

This theoratically should work

I said '3' but you could make it larger as the docs say

[main quarry]

hey i actually fixed my first problem that wasn't just a simple typo! (I had placed my code under void start rather then void update like a dummy) so i was very confused why i wasn't getting error's but nothing was working. I can't wait to stop making big oversights like that (it stops.. eventually.. right?)

[rotund hull]

it works

thanks

[sleek gazelle]

Hey, I'd need help, those 2 colors have the same hexadecimal, but are not equals in script, how can I fix that? Is there a way to get the hexa code of a color (like color.hexa maybe)?

[polar acorn]

Don't use hexadecimal ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sleek gazelle]

I don't

[polar acorn]

So why does it matter they have the same color hex?

[sleek gazelle]

Cause they are the same color

[polar acorn]

Yes

[rich adder]

wdym not equal in script ?

[sleek gazelle]

if I do color1 == color2, it returns false

[verbal dome]

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

[polar acorn]

Well, yeah, because they aren't

[rich adder]

its probably not the values you think they are?

[polar acorn]

They're the same hex

and they look the same on any RGB display

but as far as the values are concerned, those aren't the same color

[sleek gazelle]

But how can I fix that? In RGB (0-255 ) they're the same too

[verbal dome]

What are you doing though? Why do you need to compare colors?

[polar acorn]

Right, but in the 0-1 numeric space you're using, they aren't the same

So, why does it matter?

[sleek gazelle]

Thanks! This worked

[verbal dome]

It works, but you will end up comparing strings

I would make a helper function that approximately compares the floats instead

[sleek gazelle]

The first one is a preset (in a menu), and the second one is the color of a customizable object, I want to check if they're equal so I can grey out the preset

[verbal dome]

If you care about performance, that is. Maybe it won't matter

[polar acorn]

If you want to detect for "close enough" colors, you'll need to define how enough counts as "enough" enough

[rustic wasp]

those are the same color

colors are displayed on screen between 0-255

when you use floats

[sleek gazelle]

But unity doesn't think the same

[rustic wasp]

0.2001 and 0.2 are going to be the same color

oh

my bad, i thought your problem was that

[verbal dome]

Using Color32 (0-255 range) and comparing those would work too

[sleek gazelle]

I can do image.Color32?

[polar acorn]

They're going to look the same on a 32-bit display, but they aren't actually the same data

[rustic wasp]

are colors the same as vector4's when storing?

[polar acorn]

If you want to check for colors to be "close enough" then you want to define what counts as close enough. If you want to check the hex or the 32-bit color, convert them both

[rustic wasp]

what if you multiply by 255 and round?

[verbal dome]

Ah you are grabbing it from an Image, well you could always cast the color to Color32cs var color32 = (Color32)image.color; // Or this should work too Color32 color32 = image.color;

[rich adder]

yes color is just fancy Vector4

[polar acorn]

Yes, and hypothetically, if you had a display with a higher color range than standard and a GPU that supports it, those would look different too

[verbal dome]

But I'd personally just make an approximate comparison function
Meh, not sure actually. Pick whatever lol

[sleek gazelle]

Thanks!

[polar acorn]

Very very slightly different, but still different

[sleek gazelle]

Operator '==' cannot be applied to operands of type 'Color32' and 'Color32'

[sleek gazelle]

I'll do that

Thanks!

[rich adder]

must be using different color32

[verbal dome]

Apparently you can't compare Color32..

Wtf

[rich adder]

yeah just realized

i recall having this issue last time

[verbal dome]

.Equals could work

[rich adder]

yup just found same answer on unity discussions
https://discussions.unity.com/t/operator-cannot-be-applied-to-operands-of-type-color32-and-color32/192927/6

[sleek gazelle]

Yes, it works

[verbal dome]

It produces a bit of garbage though, because it uses the object type

[rustic wasp]

is garbage collecter a c# thing or a unity thing?

[rich adder]

c#

[rustic wasp]

oh

so thats why you dont see memory leaks in c#

[weak cedar]

you don't usually see memory leaks in IL languages

[rustic wasp]

but i remember having to free textures when coding renderer features

[weak cedar]

because they have built in garbage collectors

[rich adder]

You can create one, is just more rare

very rare cause of GC does its job, most of the time

[rustic wasp]

i somehow managed to do it one time

[ivory bobcat]

Memory leak during the applications life time can still occur but normally only if you've got some circular dependencies.

[rustic wasp]

is garbage collecter really slow or something?

why is it not implemented in every language

like c++

i know it is low level but

[eternal needle]

Yes it is relatively slow

[rustic wasp]

it prevents memory leaks

[queen adder]

you can test it, create a load of garbage and watch the profiler and the frame drop when gc kicks in

[verbal dome]

Hmm, so if A and B reference each other, but nothing else references them, they stay in memory?

[rich adder]

GC comes with the tradeoff ofc

[verbal dome]

Or something else?

[queen adder]

one of the reasons i dont use linq in hot methods

creates a bit of garbage

[ivory bobcat]

You'd just release memory yourself in C++
It isn't much faster.. you'd simply get to choose when it's released rather than wait for the compound hiccup.

[eternal needle]

Iirc (I could be wrong) it only keeps track if something is current referencing the object. Not how many or what specifically

[verbal dome]

Hmm, I see. As opposed to Reference counting, I assume

Which Godot uses for example

[main quarry]

"Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) CS0619 'Component.camera' is obsolete: 'Property camera has been deprecated. Use GetComponent<Camera>() instead. (UnityUpgradable)' Assembly-CSharp C:\Users\Brennon\First game 1\Assets\Scripts\Worker.cs 22"

Uhhh im sorry what? what does it mean it's deprecated? (this is an error im getting)

[rich adder]

google the word deprecated

are you doing myScript.camera ?

[main quarry]

Vector3 mousePos = camera.main.ScreenToWorldPointInput(Input.mousePosition); thats the code in question

[rich adder]

yea you're using the property of the MB which is old

[verbal dome]

It's so cute that they used to think that every component needs a camera, light etc properties

[rich adder]

use Camera.main

[main quarry]

MB? i dont know what that means

[polar acorn]

MonoBehaviour

[polar acorn]

You really need to double check your capitalization before coming here

[rich adder]

soo annoying every time I want to make a light referencenew Light light

[main quarry]

I love the fact every time i come here becuase I cant figure it out it's a capitalization error, i went over it about 10 or so times trying to figure it out. but the few times i have actual issues that aren't capitlization i figured it out on my own, what is about capital letters that I can't figure out? i guess ill never know

[rich adder]

is your IDE even configured?
even though its technically not wrong syntax here just wrong component

[main quarry]

As far as i can tell it's configured, i've gone over the link i got sent multiple times and think i did it how do i know if its done?

[rich adder]

mine automatically want to correct it to Camera
but yeah this one is a confusing one since its a property already

[verbal dome]

I think that's the only way I have used new for fields/properties/other members

[rich adder]

yeah exactly lol

[verbal dome]

Hiding seems meh to me

[rich adder]

I wonder how many projects would break if they finally got rid of those properties

[eternal needle]

I dont even know why they cant get rid of it. It's literally an error to use it

[rich adder]

isn't it deprecated since 5?

[main quarry]

okay yeah im configured then, but it didn't bring up camera once for me until i erased it and rewrote it about 3 times and THEN it brought up Camera

[rich adder]

are you on VS or VSCode. I also have mine automatically replace stuff, that can be toggled off

[main quarry]

VS i was on code but moved to Vs community, it doesn't auto fill for me i have to press enter of tab for that

[rich adder]

oh yeah tab or spacebar for me too

but yeah just keep that in mind just those few things are depracted really, not much else.. unity decided to make properties camel case so, capitlization is also important there lol

[steep rose]

spacebar is the way to autofill 💯

[craggy lava]

Ohhh yea i see now

[ivory bobcat]

I recall the early days of Java and C# having issues but maybe not (anymore, if ever). Apparently this isn't true as they only ever care if a root object isn't destroyed/freed. It would require a live object referencing this chain to keep them alive. Good catch.

[eternal needle]

That might not be hard to test using the memory profiler also. Just create 2 poco which reference each other. I think if you do it from a unity object itll be destroyed later though. That's what I noticed in some testing which realllllly confused me

Not on my pc or I'd love to test this myself

[brazen jolt]

hello, i want to make a UI square where i can cut it as much as i want from the point i want but idk how to do it

can i send a vid to show an example

https://youtu.be/5JV3p_JAZlc?si=q6rRr67UCoWy1HYj

[wintry quarry]

You wouldn't do this with UI

[brazen jolt]

u mean i cant?

ok then i will do it with normal objects i though i can with UI

i still want an answer

[rich adder]

lookup catlike coding has good series on making custom mesh

You can see in the video you're just basically making more triangles as you slice

[flat gale]

Is there a way to get a script off a imstantiated object. I have a turn based battle system and am trying to call the script in a attack function but am not sure how to reference the script on the active enemy

[rich adder]

what is " a script off a imstantiated object."

you want to access a script on an instantiated object ?

[flat gale]

Yes

[muted wadi]

why is it that when i fire a raycast at a child object, it always returns the name of the parent object?

[rich adder]

Instantiate method returns you that object

[rich adder]

probably because the parent collider is above/covering it?

[muted wadi]

the parent's collider is on the IgnoreRaycast layer

[verbal dome]

If the collider is part of a rigidbody, then hit.transform/hit.gameObject returns that rigidbody's object

If you want to make sure you get the child, use hit.collider

[rich adder]

does that actually do anything if you dont specify layermask

but yeah I usually just go for hit.collider to avoid issues

[muted wadi]

im not sure, but i have specified the layermask as such
if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin.position, rayOrigin.forward, out hitInfo, rayMaxDist, ~ignoreLayer))

[verbal dome]

Docs say

This can be used in the layermask field of Physics.Raycast and other methods to select the "ignore raycast" layer (which does not receive raycasts by default).
Seems like it should be ignored by default unless you add it to the mask

[rich adder]

try changing it to .collider if you didnt already

[verbal dome]

Is ignoreLayer a layer mask or a layer?

[rare elm]

I bought a kit on Unity Store, but I can't find any getting started instructions inside. It feels like I'm just expected to know what to do, here. When that's the case, there's usually a tutorial online somewhere that I can read, but I can't find one. Can any of you recommend a "how to use a kit" sort of blog article or video or something?

[muted wadi]

a layerMask that i specify the layer of in the editor

[rich adder]

not really a code question

[rare elm]

yeah, it is. i'm going to have to do something like placing the first scene, or whatever.

[rich adder]

placing scenes has nothing to do with coding questions

[rare elm]

i see that you're a former irc user.

[rich adder]

wut

[rare elm]

at any rate, if someone has a tutorial that could be helpful, i'd appreciate it

[muted wadi]

scenes are not coding. That is a design element

[rich adder]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[rare elm]

ok then i guessed wrong.

[muted wadi]

i'm more confused about why you immediately pulled out attitude when you clearly guessed about something you didn't know

[rare elm]

because i had been given three non-helpful non-responses in a row.

if the response is by design not actionable, it's basically just telling someone to shut up and go away.

[rich adder]

have you tried reading the #854851968446365696 and #📖┃code-of-conduct

No because your question is very vague

but not code related, there are other channels that may fit depending on what it is.. Art assets? #🔀┃art-asset-workflow
etc

[muted wadi]

@rich adder i have an object that has a script which has an IIinteractable interface. I want to get the script which has this interface without referencing the script itself. This doesn't work, and I'm stuck.
interactable = hitInfo.collider.GetComponent<IInteractable>;

[rare elm]

if someone had the kind of tutorial i asked for, it sure would be helpful.

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[muted wadi]

its almost like if you clicked the Learn Unity link that was posted a few minutes ago you would have stumbled upon this handy menu made for beginners, outlining all the lessons available.

[rich adder]

it should work

[rare elm]

ya, those actually don't address what i'm asking for, is the problem.

[muted wadi]

they do actually

each one of those is a tutorial on how to use the unity editor (including how to create scenes)

[rare elm]

i didn't ask how to use the editor.

with respect, i've already gone through them, and they do not. i'm not being a jerk, i'm not refusing resources that are offered to me, and i did click the link. there's no reason to talk down to me in this fashion.

[muted wadi]

forgot to add the brackets at the end

[rich adder]

so what are you asking cause it sure didn't come off clear

"how to use a kit"

[muted wadi]

he's asking how to use a kit, but its not that simple

[rich adder]

what does that even mean

whats a kit ?

never heard of it

[muted wadi]

you need to know how to use the editor to use a kit

[muted wadi]

like a paid asset that comes with a bunch of stuff premade

[rare elm]

that's actually not what i'm asking for. please don't try to explain on my behalf. thanks.

[deft grail]

well maybe he knows how to do that

[deft grail]

and also your question isnt very detailed

[rare elm]

it cannot be. i'm a rank amateur. i don't know how to give detail.

[rich adder]

" a kit " is very vague

[rare elm]

please have sympathy. this borders on a bad episode of the IT crowd.

[muted wadi]

💀

[rich adder]

every asset is different.. no one can give a specific answer to how a kit works

[rare elm]

i asked a very simple, very straightforward question, which puts 99% of the burden on me to do the work

i am literally just asking for a link.

[rich adder]

clearly its not

[deft grail]

a link to what

[rich adder]

a link to a kit that we know nothing about, logical

[rare elm]

any kind of tutorial that has to do with getting started with kits and templates that are sold on the unity store.

[rich adder]

you should contact the asset maker

or use the readme like any other dev does

[deft grail]

every "kit" and asset is different

[slender nymph]

that would literally just be reading the documentation that comes with it, if it has any, and understanding how to use the unity editor and make a game

[rare elm]

you know, if someone came to one of my communities, they'd get a helpful and supportive answer. this is not actually a generic question.

[muted wadi]

as navarone already said, every kit is different. It should come with a manual or documentation that explains how the kit works and crucial information about its components. Other than that, if you still don't understand it, then you probably don't know how to use the editor itself.

[rare elm]

i feel like maybe i should go somewhere where people don't spend all their time showing their channel friends the emoji they can use

what a pity.

[verbal dome]

I thought all assets are required to have some sort of docs/instructions, or is that just for code?

[slender nymph]

just repeating "how to use a kit" is not a question that would garner helpful responses other than "learn how to use the engine"

[rich adder]

👋

[deft grail]

maybe ask a specific question holy

[rare elm]

osmal: i mean, they might? i did my best to look for some. i might not be looking in the right place

i found a readme.txt but it's pretty bare

there's a support link but it basically just goes to a gumroad store

but if you didn't know what you were doing in node, you woudln't know to look for the host block in package.json

[rich adder]

dont use a shitty kit thats poorly documented

[rare elm]

so i might just not be looking in the right place

[slender nymph]

also there's never one singular answer to how to use an asset because there is no standardisation in how the assets are created or meant to be used

[rare elm]

ya you guys keep saying that

[rich adder]

careful you might get blocked too for saying the right thing

[slender nymph]

one "complete game template" could have entirely different methods of doing things than another

[rich adder]

this kids a 🤡

[midnight meteor]

Hello , can update method be IEnumerator and not void ?

[slender nymph]

yes because it's correct.

[verbal dome]

If the kit only has visual assets like models, textures, materials, then maybe it doesn't need manuals. At that point you should just know how to use the editor
But I don't know what the kit includes

[rare elm]

okay, no need to keep repeating it

[rich adder]

no

[slender nymph]

no, why would you want it to be?

[midnight meteor]

i'm just messing around

appreciate the answer

[deft grail]

then dont ask the same question 15 times and we wont answer it 15 timies, SIMPLE

[rare elm]

@verbal dome - it's a complete game. you're meant to swap out the images and sounds, the ad id, and publish.

@verbal dome - when i build it, you can see the wrong scene come up, and it's scaled wrong.

[deft grail]

ah here we go, so iis the question "wrong scene in build and scaled wrong"?

[muted wadi]

wow its almost like those are both editor functions that you probably don't know to use

[frosty hound]

If you haven't found a tutorial or support for someone's asset, then you've likely hit the point of all this where it simply doesn't exist.

[rare elm]

honestly, i'm just looking for some advice, but these neckbeards are obsessed with saying "it can be anything" over and over again, instead of giving helpful practical advice like "there are usually instructions here, you usually need to start by doing x, there's probably something named y," etc.

[frosty hound]

If you insist on continuing to bring it up, at least make a thread.

[verbal dome]

If you have specific questions about stuff like wrong scales, then ask in #💻┃unity-talk or other appropriate channel

[frosty hound]

Don't get upset that people are telling you the truth. If you are going to start insulting people, you may as well leave now.

[rare elm]

i haven't insulted anyone

oh

i guess actually i said "neckbeard."

[slender nymph]

if you'd bothered asking about this instead of insisting upon a "tutorial for how to use a game kit" then we could have provided answers to your questions. but if you want to be an ass and insult people attempting to help, then you're unlikely to receive help

[frosty hound]

Don't waste my time or I'll mute you as well.

[rare elm]

/me shrugs

it would have been easy to be supportive if someone had actually wanted to.

[frosty hound]

Make a thread if you're going to continue on this.

[deft grail]

just go to #💻┃unity-talk and say you have scaling issues and scene issues, simple
iif you said that from the beginning the problem would be solved by now

[muted wadi]

If my raycast hits the red object's collider, and i do this interactable = hitInfo.collider.GetComponentInParent<IInteractable>(); to find the IIinteractable interface in a parent object, how come when I press the button that is supposed to called the Interact() method which the interface incorporates, nothing happens?

sorry if thats confusing

[rich adder]

how did you verify the method is running

[slender nymph]

yeah make sure the code that actually invokes whatever method on that object is running, and make sure it has actually found the correct object

[muted wadi]

print("Can interact with " + hitInfo.transform.name); + a bool when canInteract is true

[rich adder]

this is inside Interact? nd how do you call interact

[verbal dome]

Show a bit more of your code

[muted wadi]

oh no no

    {
        if (scopeViewActive)
        {
            scopeViewActive = false;
        }
        else
        {
            scopeViewActive = true;
        }
    }``` this is Interact, every script that has the IIinteractable interface needs this method in it

[slender nymph]

right but show the code where you are calling this method

[muted wadi]

{
    CheckForInteractables();

    if (Input.GetKeyDown(objectInteract) && canInteract)
    {
        if (interactable != null)
        {
            interactable.Interact();
        }

    }
}``` the interactables check is the raycast

[verbal dome]

Need to see CheckForInteractables too

[muted wadi]

{
    //check if the object the player is looking at is an interactable.
    if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin.position, rayOrigin.forward, out hitInfo, rayMaxDist, ~ignoreLayer))
    {
        //Cosmetic effect for the crosshair when object can be interacted with. Makes it change size when
        //looking at interactable and when not.
        //crosshair.rectTransform.localScale = new Vector3(0.20f, 0.20f, 0.20f);
        //interactionText.gameObject.SetActive(true);
        interactable = hitInfo.collider.GetComponentInParent<IInteractable>();
        canInteract = true;
        print("Can interact with " + hitInfo.transform.name);
    }
    else
    {
        //crosshair.rectTransform.localScale = new Vector3(0.14f, 0.14f, 0.14f);
        //interactionText.gameObject.SetActive(false);
        interactable = null;
        canInteract = false;
    }

}```

[verbal dome]

You should still check if interactable is null or not, before setting canInteract to true.
But if it is truly hitting the object you marked in red, then it should work

I would print the hitInfo.collider.name instead/also

[muted wadi]

when i do print transform it gives me the name of the parent object

[verbal dome]

Right but have you confirmed which collider your ray is actually hitting?

[muted wadi]

yes

i changed it to collider and its the red object

[verbal dome]

Okay, put a log inside Interact and see if it prints

[muted wadi]

so by the laws of coding it should now get the parent object that has IInteractable

yup, it prints right after interactable.Interact();

but still nothing happens

[verbal dome]

So you put the log inside the Interact method? If it prints, then it is indeed getting called

[muted wadi]

yep

[verbal dome]

All we can see is that you are toggling a bool inside the method

Your problem is somewhere else then - wherever you use scopeViewActive I assume

Btw you can invert a bool with cs scopeViewActive = !scopeViewActive;

[muted wadi]

oh i didn't know that

[muted wadi]

{
    if (scopeViewActive)
    {
        mainScopeViewport.enabled = true;
        interiorCamera.enabled = false;
        HandleInputs();
        HandleFiring();
    }
    else
    {
        mainScopeViewport.enabled = false;
        interiorCamera.enabled = true;

        //Reset the vertical rotation of the lewisGun and puteaux to the default
        lewisGunPivot.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
        puteauxPivot.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
    }
}``` interiorCamera has the script that is doing the interaction checks

[verbal dome]

Is this object or script inactive by any chance?

Update won't get called on an inactive object/disabled script

In any case - keep using Debug.Log to see what's getting called and if the variables are what you expect them to be

[muted wadi]

interiorCamera holds the interaction script, and the mainScopeViewport is just a standalone camera, the scope view script is never disabled

[main karma]

Hello, I've been trying to make this work but I got stuck

 void BakeMirror()
    {
        cam.targetTexture = PortalTexture;
        PortalMaterial.mainTexture = blackTexture;
        cam.Render();
        PortalMaterial.mainTexture = PortalTexture;
    }

Basically, I got a number of portals in the same room, trying each to render the room to a texture. Now, when I look through a portal, all of the other portals should have a black texture because I'm too dumb to handle recursion. Unfortunately for me, this script only works when I look at the portal through itself, it does nothing for the rest of them for some reason. I think it has to do with the order at which the action happen. I need a way to set the texture to ALL of the cameras to black, then render the portals, then change it to the rendered one then render the Main Camera

I'll attach some images to understand what I mean

[main quarry]

well i have spent about an hour+ on this and can't figure out why it won't work even redoing the script entierly

"Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) CS0029 Cannot implicitly convert type 'Resources' to 'UnityEngine.ResourceRequest' Assembly-CSharp"

Im getting this error for this code

currentRessource = col.GetComponent<Resources>(); and i don't know why and i can't figure out any issues as to why it's giving me this error, as far as i can tell i copied the tutorial directly

[polar acorn]

What type is currentRessource?

[main quarry]

EVERY SINGLE TIME! every time i struggle for hours and can't fix it myself before coming here it's a typo? well less a typo this time and i miss clicked and let it auto fill in an extra part. so it turned Resource currentRessource to ResourceRequest currentRessource i can not figure out why i am in capable of finding this, i scoured the code and the tutorial back and forth i rewatched it mulitple times, i litterally redid everything from scratch and i missed it both times that it auto added that request to it.

but the funny thing? every time i have an actual complicated fix mess up with no errors or anything to guide me i can fix it withint 10 minutes?

like this isnt a joke im legit mad at myself why im struggling so badly with typos and making myself look like an actual idiot but i work just fine with everything else so far!

[polar acorn]

There's a reason Rubber Duck Debugging is a term

Just gotta give the lines throwing errors a real close once-over. Those error messages are important.

[eternal needle]

Not the best idea to also make a class with the same name as a unity class. Resources already exists by unity

[polar acorn]

 Cannot implicitly convert type 'Resources' to 'UnityEngine.ResourceRequest' 

This means you're trying to store a Resources in a variable that can only hold UnityEngine.ResourceRequest. Then you just gotta think: "Which one of these did I really want? Where'd the other one come from?"

[main quarry]

I really wish i could say i didn't give them a real close once over, i went through every line one by one multiple times and could not FIND IT as i said i rewrote the whole thong both scripts that matter from the start rewatching the tutorial im going through to figure out what was wrong, and some how both times i ended up with the same issue of getting that request stuck in there

[mint remnant]

tried using VS debuger?

[main quarry]

anyway ill try the rubber duck stuff to the best of my abilities next time maybe it will help me, but with my track record with typos

[main quarry]

didnt work as the code it was saying was the issue was just fine, the issue was the code it was trying to go off of had a whole extra word but had nothing to error off of. so debuger didn't help (if i even used it properly)

[mint remnant]

you can single step line by line and inspect variables

this of course only helps if you fully understand what should happen on a line of code

[main quarry]

I did step by step, i just seem incapable of seeing typos

[slender nymph]

the debugger of course would not be helpful for compile errors because you can't even enter play mode if you have a compile error. however you should be seeing red underlines in your code for compile errors, and if you are not then your !IDE is not configured 👇

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[main quarry]

I have looked through the IDE again and again and again as far as i can tell i have it on as i get those autofill with a button click options and such, if that isnt proper IDE config then i have no clue what to do even with the help

[slender nymph]

do you see red underlines in your code when you've got a compile error?

[main quarry]

yes I do

[slender nymph]

if the answer to that is no, then your IDE is not configured

[mint remnant]

so what's the issue? you see the errors and yet can't find them???

[main quarry]

okay ill lay it out

[eternal needle]

Honestly this is just an issue of not understanding the errors you're coming across. Mostly you can solve with just google. the one you shared is quite straightforward

[main quarry]

currentRessource = col.GetComponent<Resources>(); this was the issue i was getting underlined, the code is fine and works just fine exactly as it should, the issue is it couldn't find currentRessources

Resources currentRessource; should have read like this but due to a mistake on my part it was ResourcesRequest currentRessource; or something like that, but debug wasn't telling me that was an issue and wasn't giving it a red underline it was only giving a red underline under the first part. none of this is helped that i went through the code mulitple times over, multiple google searches that didnt help (i did try) for over an hour and every time i missed that request was added extra, i went as far as to delete the script and redo it all and i STILL miskicked again adding another request to it when it shouldn't have been there. but still no red underlines it only had red underlines for the first part.

TLDR: ResourcesRequest currentRessource; wouldn't underline for some reason despite needing only Resources currentRessource;

[mint remnant]

sounds like you just need more debugging experience is all, compiler will let you declare any type you want, but it will throw up if you try to assign it wrongly

[teal viper]

Perhaps just hovering over the underline and reading the error message would've been enough..?

[slender nymph]

well the variable declaration wasn't the error so naturally that wouldn't be underlined in red. the error was you trying to assign a completely different type of object to the variable. the compiler assumes you are smart enough to declare the correct type of variable, so it will tell you when you try to assign the wrong type of object to that variable because how would it know you actually wanted the variable to be a different type rather than your assignment just being wrong?

[main quarry]

YES that is what i was trying to say

[mint remnant]

contrary to some book titles you can't learn C# in 21 days

[main quarry]

i've been doing this for 2 days about (all on a tutorial video, im quite slow at watching it but im doing a lot today)

[teal viper]

The error would probably say something like "invalid assignment of instance of type X to a variable of type Y".

Or that it can't cast implicitly or something

[main quarry]

'CS0029 Cannot implicitly convert type 'Resources' to 'UnityEngine.ResourceRequest' ' but it was giving me this error. truthfully i didn't and still don't udnerstand what the error is trying to tell me and googling it didn't help as it was kind of just specific questions people had about specific code nothing general

[slender nymph]

The error says that there is no conversion available from the type Resources to the type ResourceRequest which means you are likely trying to assign an object of type Resources to a variable of type ResourceRequest

[eternal needle]

These kind of errors are probably a lot easier to learn outside of unity, when you come across them doing basic c#.

[queen adder]

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

[teal viper]

It says that it can't convert one type to another. Implicitly just means automatically(without any additional code).

[mint remnant]

one of C#'s biggest helpful things is that it's type safe, it prevents you fron assigning wrong types

[main quarry]

okay i get it now and if i udnerstood what the error meant i could have figured it out a lot faster now i realize.

[slender nymph]

assign either its transform.up or transform.right (whichever direction the object faces with no rotation) to the direction from that object to the other. direction is defined as (endPoint - startPoint).normalized

[teal viper]

Errors usually have 90% of the information you need to fix them.

So read and understand them. And if struggling, ask in the community

[queen adder]

transform.right = (firePos.position - transform.position).normalized;

Like that?

[main quarry]

i just didn't know how to read the error was all. yeah ill just ask next time i just figured if i could get it done myself that woudl be best for learning first.. and i didnt want to humilate myself again with another type (how long until the next typo? find out next time on noonehere coding!)

[mint remnant]

btw when google searchign an error message, often best to leave out insignificant details like the variable names. Them can vary from person to person

[main quarry]

i did, didn't help

[slender nymph]

the name of your variable here indicates this is probably for a projectile, in that case why not just use the fire position's rotation? or is it not rotated with your object?

[teal viper]

Well, to understand this one you do need to understand the types system to a degree

Which is basically the C# basics

[main quarry]

don't worry I don't know c# basics besides what im learning in the tutorial (which is supposed to help with it, ish) wait thats not a good thing!

[main karma]

took me 3 hours but I did it, if anyone wonders how,

void OnPortalPreRender(ScriptableRenderContext context, Camera cam)
    {
        if (cam != PlayerCam)
        {
            if (PortalMaterial != null)
            {
                PortalMaterial.mainTexture = blackTexture;

            }
        }
    }
    void OnPortalPostRender(ScriptableRenderContext context, Camera cam)
    {
        if (cam != PlayerCam)
        {
            if (PortalMaterial != null)
            {
                PortalMaterial.mainTexture = PortalTexture;
            }
        }
    }

I took the black texture and put it on prerender and the portal texture afterwards and it works like a charm, the function BakeMirror() now only has the cam.Render();

Took a while to figure this out because aparently Camera.OnPreRender and Camera.OnPostRender have been deprecated and so when I used the previously trying this approach I didn't know the delegate wasn't doing anything

works like a charm

if I could figure out how to use this to handle recursion it would be even better but idk how to do that yet

[main quarry]

oh my gosh i actually did it, i fixed mulitple typos on my own!

it's a Christmas miracle! (wait it's august)

[muted wadi]

quick question, why doesn't this work?

[pulsar forum]

well obviously the type taken in by Play isn't the type that is provided.

[rich adder]

what is sounds array of

[muted wadi]

audioclip

[rich adder]

you prob want PlayOneShot

[muted wadi]

ahhh

legend

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.Play.html
play does not take clips

[muted wadi]

yeah that makes sense

its late and i completely forgot about playoneshot

unity's sound system is kinda bad im ngl

[rich adder]

why's that?

[muted wadi]

difficult to use as well as just being vastly inferior to something like wwise

the problem is wwise is a whole other nightmare to install

i still have flashbacks of when some team members tried to install it for one of our university projects

[rich adder]

have only messed with it a little bit , I've seen people use fMod as an alternative

[muted wadi]

yeah thats true, i've never tried fmod but i've seen a lot of indie games use it

maybe its actually good

[rich adder]

its free, worth trying

[muted wadi]

true

[amber spruce]

when making a enemy spawner script is it better to make a gameobject variable for each enemy i wanna spawn or a array of them all

[deft grail]

an array, theres no reason for individual ones

[amber spruce]

alright thanks i thought that i just wanted another opinion

can someone send me the link thing to set up visual studio with unity

because i dont think i set it up right

[deft grail]

why are you doing a timer like that

dont start that couroutine in Update first of all

and if you want a timer in Update then add a float by Time.deltaTime

[amber spruce]

i wasent gonna keep it there i was just trying to figure out why it wasent showing up correctly

like i couldnt auto complete IEnumerator

[deft grail]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
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• :question: Other/None

[deft grail]

because its not setup

[amber spruce]

everything is setup right though

[deft grail]

i mean i can see just from the screenshot it isnt setup even before you said it doesnt auto complete

was it working before?

[amber spruce]

no i just got a laptop and am setting up unity with it

[deft grail]

then how do you know everything is setup right?

[deft grail]

thats not the only step to it

[amber spruce]

because everything that the link said to do is done already

[deft grail]

did you restart your computer and unity?

[amber spruce]

no but that was already set up i didnt change that

and i have restarted since i installed unity

[deft grail]

huh

so you did everything in the link or not

did you install Unity in the visual studio installer?

[amber spruce]

everything in the link was done already

[amber spruce]

yeah

i checked unity tools

should i click attach to unity

[deft grail]

dont have to

thats just for debugging things

my only suggestion is restart your laptop, or you didnt do everything in the link/missed something

[amber spruce]

is there a way to check that i installed unity in the visual studio installer

[deft grail]

open visual studio installer

[amber spruce]

yeah so i have it checked

[deft grail]

what about the visual studio editor package in the package manager IN Unity?

is it up to date

or even installed

[amber spruce]

yeah

[deft grail]

i think it was this unless im wrong.
do you have this installed? https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download

get that then restart your laptop

[steep rose]

did you install visual studio via unity?

[amber spruce]

k i will do that i will let you know in a few minutes

seems to work now

thanks

[deft grail]

nice

[amber spruce]

is this a good way to do a gametimer

[summer stump]

Why not just a while loop? Instead of the recursion

[amber spruce]

wdym

[deft grail]

i would just do

float timer;
void Update()
{
  timer += Time.DeltaTime;
  if(timer > 1)
    timer = 0;
}

[summer stump]

while (timerActive) {
Timer++;
Wait
}

[desert bough]

Aha!

Absolute complete beginner here boys

[amber spruce]

what does this do exactly?

because im trying to make a timer that tracks how long you have been playing for

[deft grail]

in the if statement where you reset it, you can call some method or whatever you wanna do

[summer stump]

#🤝┃introductions is best for that. Unless you had a question?

[deft grail]

aha, then just dont use the if statement

just keep the float += Time.deltaTime

that tracks your time played im pretty sure

try it out with a Debug.Log

[amber spruce]

alright i will try that

[desert bough]

im sure i'll have a lot of questions soon

[steep rose]

you probably will

[amber spruce]

i can confidently say unless you are a coding prodigy you will have plenty of questions lol i know from experience

[summer stump]

Also to be clear, in case the word recursion caused the confusion, that means calling method from INSIDE that same method

void Foo() {
Foo();
}

[desert bough]

I'm a developer on roblox, already have a game that brings in a lot of revenue monthly. They just tax cashouts way too much for my liking lol

[steep rose]

you will love steam then

[desert bough]

I can also code discord bots, apis, and webservers so

do they tax a lot.....

[deft grail]

30% i think?

[amber spruce]

ah ok yeah i did that alot in my previous game lol

[desert bough]

lol that is way better than roblox

roblox takes 70%

[deft grail]

its like 60 isnt it? dont remember

[summer stump]

You generally don't want to do it

[summer stump]

#💻┃unity-talk
This is not code questions

[desert bough]

How to code in unity

[deft grail]

you open a !ide after creating a script in Unity and start slamming your keyboard 👍

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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[desert bough]

Do i need to stomp my keyboard if i run into an error

[deft grail]

errors are usually pretty easy to fix in beginner code

[desert bough]

Yeah ill throw myself into the thick of it most likely

[summer stump]

Don't do that.
Do !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[desert bough]

I appreciate it, but I learn better via forcing myself to think critically

[mint remnant]

Critical thinking "How to code in Unity?"

[steep rose]

use docs then

[summer stump]

Be aware that this method will alienate the helpers here and depending on if you ask questions covered by the link I sent, will cause people to get very upset and refuse to help

So be sure to at least google things before asking here
Best of luck!

[desert bough]

That was just a joke 😂

[desert bough]

I usually look at dev forums and documentation extensively before asking for help in discord server for sure!

[amber spruce]

how do i set a tmp text to a number?

[steep rose]

can you not write numbers in TMP text?

[amber spruce]

im not sure if im doing smth wrong or not

[mint remnant]

try .ToString()

[amber spruce]

nope doesnt work

[mint remnant]

add .text

[steep rose]

ah i misread then i guess.

[amber spruce]

where?

[mint remnant]

on the TMP_text part

[amber spruce]

nope doesnt work

i got it

[mint remnant]

well I mean on the object, gameTimer.text =

[shell sorrel]

gameTimer.text = Timer.ToString();

[amber spruce]

yeah that was it lol thanks

[mint remnant]

let the compiler help you, it will tell you the types when you hover over htem

[amber spruce]

also i want it in this format how would i achieve this

[shell sorrel]

consider what things are your gameTimer is not a string its the whole component that shows the text, so gameTimer.text is the text on the timer

[mint remnant]

.ToString() has overrides available for formatting

[shell sorrel]

TimeSpan.FromSeconds(secs) then use that to format and display the time how you want

[mint remnant]

String.Firmat() has many options too

[shell sorrel]

yes but it is not aware that float is repersenting seconds

if they want mm:ss then it would need to be aware its a time span

[native thorn]

does figuring out how to handle game logic go in here too or is this just strictly for how to convert logic into code

[mint remnant]

depends, but you can always ask and get redirected if needed

[native thorn]

Im somewhat lost on having an efficient way to handle quests without running an update each frame to check if theyve been completed
I figure this would be an inefficient way to handle it when most of the quests are completed based on a trigger occuring within the game world

[shell sorrel]

events is prolly what you want @native thorn

[deft grail]

just use an event when that "trigger" occures?

[mint remnant]

Update could work, or you could try using events

[native thorn]

So my issue with events is

[shell sorrel]

though update would work fine, checking a few flags is not costly

[native thorn]

Other than having a list of events relitive to the quest for that specific game object, which would otherwise never be called or used outside of the quest how do I do this

[shell sorrel]

would not worry about its performance at this stage unelss you know its a issue

[native thorn]

ahhh ok

so is this something more times than not a modern computer will just breeze through?

[mint remnant]

yes, early optimization can be a killer

[native thorn]

ahh ok, thats good to hear lol

[shell sorrel]

yeah would jsut do what gets you to your end goal and makes sense to you

[native thorn]

My biggest issue with moving from art to development is I have no clue how far you can really push anything or how much performance anything takes up ;

[shell sorrel]

you will figure it out from experience

[deft grail]

make an fps counter / check profiler.
most things you do wont affect anything much really though at a beginner stage

[shell sorrel]

though for a lot of things best to not worry till you hit a issue, then use the profiler and tests to learn why its a problem

[deft grail]

if somethings a problem then you will know

[native thorn]

yea, as expected rendering the world map itself takes up pretty much 85-90% of the profiler

[shell sorrel]

even that 90% is not a true number btw

since if you are not taxing it yet, most of that time will be waiting for vsync

[native thorn]

Ahh, with art i'm used to having a budget that slowly fills up over time and having to optimize everything at the present time

[native thorn]

oh ok

[mint remnant]

if things get really tight, you can always switch to threading, but that is more advanced topic

[shell sorrel]

so there is no 1 budget with art, like its possible for something to be more optmized by having more polygons in some cases for example

its really balancing of concerns

[native thorn]

that ones a little confusing to me, what situation would having a higher polycount increase performance?

[shell sorrel]

like i said many concerns to consider, but gave this example because on a game i was working there was fillrate becauise of a ton of overdraw when rendering foliage

so having meshes that more tightly fit the content on the foliage cards resulted in less overdraw in that case

[native thorn]

Oh I getcha, not so much an inherent performance gain than just removing a necessity to render certain parts by view

[shell sorrel]

there are tons of similar cases, where you can trade higher memory usage for hitting less cpu/gpu or vice versa

[native thorn]

Yea, I understand ya now

[shell sorrel]

it really depends on your needs at the time, and where issues are which is why everyone says to keep it simple till you hit a issue

then use tools like the profiler to learn what is going on

[native thorn]

Guess I'll just keep working away until I hit the play button and my fps tanks to 15 lol

Thanks for the help anyway, it's nice to know I havn't screwed myself over this early on

[shell sorrel]

over time you will learn to make more educated decisions from past experience

but in games its very hard to set rules that work in all cases

[native thorn]

Yea they're very very dynamic but that's the best part about game dev im finding

you cant really get as creative hanging sheets of drywall 🤣

[shell sorrel]

like art budgets for example, it so heavily depends on what you game is and what is important to it

look at characters in a game like the last of us, hundreds of thousands of polygons, with advanced blend shapes and complex rig

[native thorn]

yea, I've got everything atlassed atm into a simple pallet texture, its all flat shaded low poly anyway, hopefully a lot of the budget can go to giving me leeway on my spaghetti code lol

[shell sorrel]

works fine there because the focus is on a small number of characters

try using those as units in a rts game and it will be like 5 fps

[amber spruce]

like this??

        gameTimer.text = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Timer).ToString("mm:ss");

[native thorn]

I remember 15 years ago when there was a huge workflow difference on creating third person assets and first person assets as well

we're not so constrained by polycounts these days but I getcha

its all materials now

[shell sorrel]

might need to escape the : gameTimer.text = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Timer).ToString("mm\:ss")

[shell sorrel]

well overdraw, and fill rate, shader complexity, draw calls and if things are batching properly and memory

[shell sorrel]

yeah i have not test it, just said it might be needed
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Timer).ToString("mm\\:ss")

[amber spruce]

THAT WORKS THANKS SO MUCH!!!

[crimson plover]

Hello, I am new to programming and I wanted to know how I could make the button larger when I pass the mouse over a button.

[rich adder]

EventTrigger component or IPointer interface, link some type of Animation / Tween or Lerp

if you're new might want to start !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[crimson plover]

thank you

[sour fulcrum]

If im making a class has a variation per value type whats the kinda standard way to name it? eg.

ScriptableSettingString, ScriptableSettingInt
StringScriptableSetting, IntScriptableSetting
ScriptableStringSetting, ScriptableIntSetting

i kinda like the third option but it doesn't feel standard

[polar acorn]

ScriptableSetting<T>
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/types/generics

[sour fulcrum]

why on earth did i think you can't put value types in generics

am i ok

thank you

[flint barn]

Hey guys, I'm having issues with collisions whenever I walk into the cube it moves but when I freeze the x and y the character goes through the cube. I want the character to completely stop and not move the cube.

[teal viper]

Freeze the what x and y? And why?

[flint barn]

I assumed doing so would make it not move when I walk into it.

Trying to make a wall.

[teal viper]

That doesn't exactly answer my question

Freezing the position you mean?

[slender nymph]

does the character perhaps have its rigidbody set to kinematic?

also if that wall is supposed to be a static object, why does it have a rigidbody?

[teal viper]

Is the wall supposed to move or not?

[flint barn]

No

[flint barn]

yes its kinematic

Should it not be?

[slender nymph]

kinematic bodies are not affected by outside forces like collisions or gravity

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[flint barn]

When I change it to Dynamic, the player stops moving but the camera still moves.

[slender nymph]

that's not enough info to determine what the issue is

though I'm guessing you perhaps mean that the player stops when hitting a wall but the camera keeps moving? if that is the case then you're probably controlling the camera separately from the player rather than using something like cinemachine (or your own following script) to specifically follow the player

[flint barn]

I apologize, I think the issue is that the character is moving fine but the sprite isn't.

[slender nymph]

huh? is your sprite not literally attached to the character?

[wintry quarry]

Show how you set up your GameObjects

[wintry quarry]

Uhuh but we need to see which components are attached to which objects

Also your camera setup seems wrong

[slender nymph]

yeah camera and vcam shouldn't really be a child of the player. vcam will have a reference to the player as its follow target

[flint barn]

Every tutorial I've seen online had the camera as a child within the player

[slender nymph]

and you'll also find dozens (if not hundreds) of tutorials that teach you to multiply your mouse input by deltaTime. that doesn't make it correct

[flint barn]

So it would just be outside the player and each time the player "spawns" it would search for the VCam object and make its follow target them?

[slender nymph]

yeah that is one way to handle it. although if you are respawning by destroying and instantiating a new copy of your player, you could instead just disable it temporarily, teleport it back to the spawn point, and reset any relevant variables (like health) so that you don't need to keep finding the reference and you put a little less burden on the garbage collector

[main quarry]

I can't click this button, theres no errors in the code this time, it's all set up to the correct button. in face none of my button's are working but i have no errors so i don't even know where to begin looking. like what am i missing to click the icons? i was told i needed some ui event system but the tutorial doesn't explain it or bring it up again

{

    public Ghosts worker;
    public Ghosts villiage;
    public Ghosts tree;
    public Ghosts crystal;
    public Ghosts trap;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

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

    public void OnShopClick(string whatItem)
    {

        if (whatItem == "worker")
        {
            Instantiate(worker);
        }

        if (whatItem == "villiage")
        {
            Instantiate(villiage);
        }

        if (whatItem == "tree")
        {
            Instantiate(tree);
        }

        if (whatItem == "crystal")
        {
            Instantiate(crystal);
        }

        if (whatItem == "trap")
        {
            Instantiate (trap);
        }
    }
}```

[slender nymph]

do you have an event system in the scene?

[main quarry]

I do but idk what to do with it as it isn't ever explained, its just sitting a 0,0,0

[slender nymph]

it has an EventSystem component on it, right?

[main quarry]

it does

[slender nymph]

also is that a collider on a button? 🤔

[main quarry]

idk what that means. and also wait where is the event system supposed to be? its just sitting in the heirarchy, i still dont know what it's supposed to do

[slender nymph]

that is exactly what you do with it. it handles your interactions with your UI. show the hierarchy because this eems like a weird setup if your button has a collider on it

[grand badger]

I answered this same question on another discord, hope you don't mind the copy-pasta 😄 It goes like this:

[...]
Your design isn't ideal here. It'd be much straightforward, scaleable, and maintainable if you did something like:

[SerializeField] Transform classesLayoutParent;
[SerializeField] List<ClassData> classDatas; // ClassData : ScriptableObject
[SerializeField] ClassButtonPrefab buttonPrefab;

void Awake() {
    foreach (var classData in classDatas) {
        var newButton = Instantiate(buttonPrefab, classesLayoutParent);
        newButton.Initialize(classData); // assign sprite, Texts, etc
        newButton.onClick.AddListener(() => SelectClass(classData));
    }

    SelectClass(classDatas[0]; // initialize with the first class
}

void SelectClass(ClassData classData) {
    PlayerData.Class = classData.Class;
    // SkillsDisplay.SetDisplay(classData.Skills);
    // ..etc (just a demonstration of how it's more scaleable)
}

[slender nymph]

looks like the button objects have children, those children are likely blocking the raycast from the mouse to the buttons. make sure that any graphic objects (like text or image components) on the child objects are not raycast targets

[grand badger]

in your case, List<ClassData> classDatas would be List<ShopItem> shopItems, but the design applies perfectly

[main quarry]

it's a tutorial is why it's not ideal, its getting me into the basics

[slender nymph]

also what Lyrcaxis pointed out is important, but not really related to the issue you are experiencing.

[main quarry]

im trying to figure out what im doing wrong now so i can learn for the future

[slender nymph]

tutorials shouldn't actively teach you bad code/design though

[grand badger]

ah it's fine if you're learning the absolute basics of UI, but for learning code I don't recommend that code you have for any reasons

[main quarry]

this is a tutorial for learning how to make a game at all, from 0 to basics anyway, as someone who doesn't know how to do C# it's been extremly helpful so far

[grand badger]

as for your actual issue, the issue most likely is that your text is raycastable, blocking the click on the button.

[main quarry]

I dont have anything covering the buttons so idk what's wrong

[slender nymph]

the buttons have children. those children draw above the button

what children do they have

[grand badger]

the text transform is separate -- it seems to be in front of the button to me. Click on it and check its rect in scene view to find out

[main quarry]

the children are the number and icon besides the button, i moved their boxes away from the buttons as to not cover them at all

[slender nymph]

did you make sure that they are not raycast targets like you've been instructed?

[main quarry]

okay idk what raycast means

[grand badger]

also, post the full inspector, please, instead of just the small snippets

[main quarry]

i also have no clue what that means

[slender nymph]

then you should probably start with learning the absolute basics of using the editor. start with the unity essentials pathway on the unity !learn site

[eternal falcon]

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[sick storm]

Hi I want my dash to instead of being just a normal dash i want it to give me a normal dash but afterwards I maintain my velocity and slowly go back down to my normal max speed here is my whole player movement script can someone help me im pretty lost when it comes to momentum and velocity https://hastebin.com/share/osubigekax.csharp

[grand badger]

1. Flip logic should be in Update, not `FixedUpdate

2. AddForce/velocity logic should be in FixedUpdate, not `Update

3. Might wanna separate your conditional functionality to smaller methods. Your Update method is longer than 200 lines and it's not great

[slender nymph]

You also dash by applying force, but your normal movement is capped at a specific velocity which means when you switch to that again you start capping the velocity and overwrite the faster speed (line 300)

[main quarry]

wait im confused raycasting seems to be a 3d thing and this is 2d/what does that even yhave to do with clicking a button when nothings covering it? and what collider?

[grand badger]

Now, regarding your issue, I propose this solution:

1. Store and modify a single targetVelocity variable instead of calling multiply body.velocity = calls.
2. To make it gradually reduce, use a conditional Mathf.MoveTowards(), like so:

if (!dashing && Mathf.Abs(targetVelocity.x) > walkVelocityX)) {
    targetVelocity.x = Mathf.MoveTowards(targetVelocity.x, walkVelocityX, slowDownForce * Time.deltaTime);
    // or without the targetVelocity it becomes 3 lines:
    //   var tempVel = body.velocity;
    //   tempVel.x = Mathf.MoveTowards(tempVel.x, walkVelocityX, slowDownForce * Time.deltaTime);
    //   body.velocity = tempVel;
}

[slender nymph]

the EventSystem does the raycasting. stop focusing that specific word, and look at the inspector for the child objects. you'll find a Raycast Target property on them

[grand badger]

there are no "actual colliders" involved in UI components. I see from your picture you have an actual box collider on it, which is wrong

this is part of why I asked you to post the full inspector, so we can see what else might be wrong

[sick storm]

thanks will look into this and thanks for the other fedback i have taken note of this

[grand badger]

to be more correct on a technical level, there actually ARE colliders, but they're just the RECTS themselves, and they're not Physics colliders like Box Collider.

[main quarry]

okay don't worry im just a blubbering idiot as alwasy and have learned to hate myself more

i figured out the issue

[grand badger]

nice

[main quarry]

there was a canvas group button on

[grand badger]

take it easy

[ruby python]

Mornin' all, please forgive the potential idiotic question, not long got up and still half asleep. lol.

But, am I right in thinking that

i = i + 10;

is the same as

i += 10;

[grand badger]

yes it's the same if i is an integer/float

[ruby python]

Thanks 🙂 Got an error in my Maths somewhere and just wanted to double check lol.

[grand badger]

np

[abstract flicker]

how do i toggle a certain script thats on another object in code?

i tried googling but didnt find an answer

[grand badger]

[SerializeField] MyOtherObjectType myObject; // assign via inspector

void CallOtherMethod() {
    myObject.myMethod1();
    myObject.myMethod2(myParameters);
}

Could also check out this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4xNz23Wlfo

[abstract flicker]

alright thank yuo so much

[grand badger]

np

[cosmic dagger]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[abstract flicker]

but how do i toggle a script?

[deft grail]

disable/enable it or its GameObject

[grand badger]

wdym toggle it?

there's myObject.enabled = true/false; and myObject.gameObject.SetActive(true/false);

[abstract flicker]

i have script X on the camera and i want to toggle it when i do something

[grand badger]

right, .enabled then 👍

the first way disables the SCRIPT/COMPONENT, and the second way disables the whole GameObject (including all its scripts/components, and hierachy (including any visuals)

[rough orbit]

Probably an easy question. I created a script in the Scenes folder, but to clean things up I created a new folder called Scripts in the Asset folder and moved the script there. When attempting to access the script I get an error now and can't do anything. How do I fix this without screwing up my new, clean directory path?

[deft grail]

cant access it how?

how are you accessing it

[rough orbit]

Double clicking it from the Scripts folder in Unity. I get this in VS

[deft grail]

restart unity and vs

[rough orbit]

Thank you 🙂

[weak cedar]

cameraObject.GetComponent<X>().enabled = true;

[abstract flicker]

yeah i figured it out but thanks

[weak cedar]

You would want to disable it from the inspector first

[abstract flicker]

rn i have other things to figure out

[weak cedar]

U can ask if u have questions

[faint fractal]

Hi. Does anyone have any experience with running multi displays from the editor?
Multi display works in the build but displays are always seen as 1 when running on play mode in the editor.

[languid spire]

If you add another Game tab, you can select which game tab is which Display

[faint fractal]

Thanks, and actually i need the second display to run full screen. It's a projection mappings application. Is this possible?
I don't want to see windows task bar, and the windows menu bar.

[rough orbit]

If I was to enable player controls through:

X Axis movement (left and right):

float xValue = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");

Z Axis movement (forwards and backwards):

float zValue = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

How would I enable the player to go up and down? What would the string ref be?

[craggy lava]

2D or 3D?

[rough orbit]

3D

[craggy lava]

What do you mean go up and down?

[languid spire]

you would need to check this out
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Screen.SetResolution.html

[rough orbit]

Currently this little block can go left/right, forward/backwards using the code above. But let's say I want it to be able to fly up and down freely as well...what then?

[craggy lava]

up and down is more tricky since as i know there is no axis for up and down and you would need to use keybinds like space and CTRL (default keys in alot of games to fly up and down ) or other keys

[rough orbit]

Perhaps I'd have to use some other method to implement the controls then, cus while Jump is available in Input Manager there doesnt seem to be one for "descend" from what i can tell

[craggy lava]

Well you could make custom keys in the script

[steel stirrup]

just define a new axis in project settings -> Input

There's nothing 'special' about the predefined horizontal/vertical axes, you can define your own here by just increasing the size value at the top and adding your own keys and settings. Just look at one of the predefined ones to get a handle on it

[final dune]

ik it's a channel for coding, but what options should i choose if i want to make a game on mobile? (android and iphone)

[abstract flicker]

that

[short hazel]

Next time ask in the dedicated channel #📱┃mobile !

[final dune]

the options that i already choose?

[languid spire]

if you know this is a code channel, why post here?

[abstract flicker]

yeah

[final dune]

im new

also thanks @abstract flicker for responding

[abstract flicker]

but fr next time not here

[final dune]

i undrestood. I didn't know what channel was for that, but thanks for saying.

[languid spire]

thar is why #🔎┃find-a-channel exists

[final dune]

what

i didn't know that that exists

[hasty tundra]

I could swear ive used this exact code before and it has worked, any ideas what im doing wrong?

[teal viper]

Did you init/assign the dictionary?

[hasty tundra]

THATS WHAT I WAS MISSING

thanks 🙏

[neon ivy]

I'm making a chat system to use for testing and debugging in-game. so I'm making a dict of commands.
auto complete says this but I'm wondering why it says that, I don't understand what the error means. why is .Add not correct here?

[rare basin]

becase you are adding KVP

you shouldnt

[keen dew]

The syntax for Add is .Add(key, value)

[neon ivy]

oh

[keen dew]

not sure why you're creating a key-value-pair manually

[rare basin]

Dictionary<float, float> test;
test.Add(10,10);

[neon ivy]

I guess that makes sense

[languid spire]

btw you donit ititialize your Dictionary so it will throw a null ref exception

[neon ivy]

right, clear ain't enough

fixed that, thanks

[rare basin]

clear will throw null ref aswell

if you dont initialize it

[neon ivy]

I mean just making a new dict will clear it anyway

[languid spire]

yes

[languid spire]

you need to implement a singleton pattern for that gameobject

[hidden iris]

could someone help me in my game

[deft grail]

if you say whats wrong... yes

[hidden iris]

Okay, just a minute

[wintry quarry]

Yep, because there's the preserved one from the previous scene and the new one loaded in.

[main karma]

So I have this piece of code in Unity

 void CheckDeceleration(ref Vector3 moveDir3D, Vector2 inputVector)
    {
        float decelerationRatePerSecond = 0.0000001f; 
        float decelerationFactor = Mathf.Lerp(0.80f, decelerationRatePerSecond, Time.deltaTime);
        moveDir3D *= decelerationFactor;

        if (gravity_Check)
        {
            moveDir3D += ((inputVector.y * transform.forward) + (-inputVector.x * transform.right)) * 2;
        }
        else
        {
            moveDir3D += ((inputVector.y * transform.forward) + (inputVector.x * transform.right)) * 2;
        }
        
        Debug.Log(moveDir3D);
    }

I am trying to make it independent of the frame rate but can't quite get it right, right now it's close but not there

this runs in update and works on a character controller

[ivory bobcat]

How to post large !code blocks (follow the large code blocks guide and not the online guide for large code blocks)

[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.

[ivory bobcat]

You'd integrate delta time otherwise it's frame dependent.

And by the looks of it, you're already doing so relative to the deceleration factor.

[timber galleon]

Hi! I don't understand what is wrong with this code.. I need an enemy attack with animation

code

[main karma]

yes, but it still does not work exactly right

if I add it relative to the input as well has the same issue but inverted

[steep rose]

So what's your issue then

[teal viper]

Debug

[wintry quarry]

Anything involving a second order operation like "deceleration" will not be completely consistent in a dynamic framerate system. That's why the physics engine uses a fixed framerate

[grave forge]

what does this mean "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

[frosty hound]

It means you're trying to reference something that doesn't exist, so the code doesn't know what you want to do.

[terse spindle]

is there any active ragdoll tutorial website or videos that you can recommend me

[main karma]

then would you recommend that I cap my game at a fixed framerate like 144?

[deft grail]

Application.TargetFrameRate

[wintry quarry]

No, there's no way to make your game run at a fixed framerate

You should run your simulation at a fixed framerate, for example by using Unity's physics engine or running your own fixed framerate simulation in a similar way

[raw robin]

Hi all, I've got a general question around Scriptable object(?) structuring. In the game Im making, the player can hold onto to these items(artifacts), and they each have a special effect, (think artifacts in Slay the spire), and they trigger at different time slots (e.g. Before an attack, After an attack, after taking damage).

public abstract class Artifact : ScriptableObject
{
    public EffectFreq artifactFreq;

    public abstract void ApplyEffect(Character character);
}

I extended from this abstract scriptable object script to create a specific artifect

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "BonusAttack", menuName = "Artifacts/BonusAttack")]
public class BonusAttack : Artifact
{
    public int everyNthAttack;

    public override void ApplyEffect(Character character)
    {
        if (character.attackCount % everyNthAttack == 0)
        {
            character.BonusAttack();
        }
    }
}

So that I can drag and drop the artifect into the List<Artifact>() that the character script

    public List<Artifact> artifacts;

my question is with this approach, each new artifact will be a new ScriptableObject script by itself, and an extra ScriptableObject. Does this sound correct? Or is it redundant and there's a better way of doing it?

[mint remnant]

Is there some weird rule for wether an object uses enabled/disabled vs. SetActive()? seems kinda inconsistant. Also strange that I can't get the componets from an inactive item, but once gotten I can SetInactive and the scripts on them still work fine for like updating UI elements data

[raw robin]

If i recall correctly, enabled/disabled is for components while activeSelf is for the game object

Each component you can individually set to disable/enable

[mint remnant]

seems like a panel is an object while an image is a component, yet they are damn near the same thing

https://gyazo.com/eee7aa7058a3c0d23d67b869da94ced0

Did I gain anything my making an image a child of the panel? Maybe I should have just made the panel's image that image?

[raw robin]

Is the image like a background image?

[mint remnant]

it's the inventory image (think minecraft inv)

[raw robin]

Like the grids..?

[mint remnant]

like the entire thing lol, using this as a learning approach https://gyazo.com/bacefbdb0ddcd1c92ad6a9e41552e737

[raw robin]

If so, I'd keep it the way you have it, just looks a bit clearer in the Hierarchy

I normally use a panel to block out areas I wanna work on, for example, the crafting area could be a second panel with more UI elements in it

[mint remnant]

then I have sub panels for hte various sections and a prefab slot that goes into grid layouts

[raw robin]

Correct

[mint remnant]

This has been very adhoc, but good to know I'm half on the right path 🙂

Keeping the bottom row in sync with hte main in game toolbar was quite a challenge

[raw robin]

How are you currently handling that?

[mint remnant]

an update call that first checks was any slot modified, if so it essentially blast copies hte elements to hte main toolbar

[raw robin]

Cool cool, if you wanna look into it, an observer pattern would be perfect for something like that

It's a bit confusing but could potentially worth the learning