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[solemn fractal]

Thank you

[waxen adder]

Trying to think of a way to do a "box cast" but one not beholden to physics.

The reason for it is to see what a 1x1x1 cube/box passes through on a grid between two points.

[cosmic dagger]

np, it's much nicer to install the NaughtyAttributes package. it's free and they have a ton of useful custom attributes for the inspector . . .

[indigo mirage]

Sorry was busy, but ive implemented this, and am running into an issue with the angle checker, And it mis declaring the angle

[solemn fractal]

Insteresting. I will check this out.. ty

[indigo mirage]

if(CustomIsGrounded && Physics.SphereCast(transform.position, groundCheckRadius, Vector3.down, out RaycastHit slopeHit, 2f))
            {
                hitPointNormal = slopeHit.normal;
                angle = Vector3.Angle(hitPointNormal, Vector3.up);

heres the angle code again

[cosmic dagger]

you mean, you just want a box to see what it touches or passes through?

[waxen adder]

More like what grid positions it passes through. Grid positions do not have colliders and there are no collisions involved in what I want.

Imagine a graph paper, and you got two, cells(?). One's the start, one's the end. I want to project the start square in a straight line to the end square and record what other squares are hit along the way

[cosmic dagger]

i believe pathfinding will do that for you . . .

[waxen adder]

Navmesh pathfinding? This is a turn based game that uses a grid

[grand badger]

Navmesh isn't the only pathfinding solution. I opt to A* unless there's freeform movement

[cosmic dagger]

more like A* or dijkstra's . . .

[grand badger]

and before you even think about it, Imma go ahead and say that I didn't like this asset and ended up writing my own solution within a few days when I needed it

however there are cheaper ready solutions that you could get if you don't wanna code your own for whatever reason: https://assetstore.unity.com/search#q=A* Pathfinding

[waxen adder]

My goal is XCOM 2 style movement, which is "go exactly to location, unless there's an obstacle in the way. Otherwise, A* pathfind around it until there's no obstacle in the way"

At least, that's what I've got through messing around with it

Here's a variety of examples for what it's like and what I'm aiming for atm.

[teal viper]

I'm not sure about the moment the character is moving, but the positioning seems to be grid based, so A* should probably handle that.

[waxen adder]

Yeah, the in-between is what I'm struggling with. Like that first image? Just go straight to the location

[rich adder]

the free version includes something grid based
https://arongranberg.com/astar/docs/gridgraph.html

[teal viper]

I'd assume that both grid-based A* and something similar to a navmesh are used.

[waxen adder]

In what context for each I wonder? Navmesh until there's something in the way?

[teal viper]

A* could be used to make sure there's a path to the point. And the navmesh to get the shortest path towards it.

[waxen adder]

Definitely going to nab this instead of trying to reinvent the wheel

[teal viper]

This is just a guess though, they probably have a system that integrates both the grid and direct path finding in one system.

Apparently Xcom2 is built on UE3.5. But Unreal engine is way more lenient with source code access compared to Unity, so I wouldn't be surprised if they have their own system or modified heavily one of the ue systems.

[waxen adder]

Sadly I think the actual pathfinding stuff is native to unreal, so can't access it just from the modding resources as far as I can tell

[teal viper]

I'm not sure how modding is related here at all. Modding depends on how much the developer decides to expose via modding.

[waxen adder]

True

[waxen adder]

Where's the free version of this?

Oh wow, that asset seems to do things very closely aligned with what I want

[hallow sun]

sliced SpritedRender changes in width/height when changing from Empty to containing a Sprite, is this normal behaviour?
i've currently solved this by adding an invisible 1 pixel Sprite, instead of letting it start empty.

[rich adder]

on the website there https://arongranberg.com/astar/download

[abstract flicker]

how can i smoothly rotate the camera while it is being moved? i tried a couple of things and it just doesnt work

[teal viper]

Just smoothly rotate it the same way you'd do it when it's not moved

[willow scroll]

Where Vector3.up should be changed according to where it should be rotated

transform.Rotate(rotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime * Vector3.up);

[abstract flicker]

private void LateUpdate()
{
    transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(
        transform.position,
        target.position + offset,
        ref currentVelocity,
        positionSmoothTime
        );

    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(transform.rotation, currentRotation, rotationSmoothTime * Time.deltaTime);
}

private void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
    {
        ToggleGamemode();
    }
}

public void ToggleGamemode()
{
    if (toggle)
    {
        offset = new Vector3(0, 12, -30);
        currentRotation = Quaternion.Euler(16, 0, 0);
    }
    else
    {
        offset = new Vector3(0, 0, -30);
        currentRotation = Quaternion.Euler(-8, 0, 0);
    }

    toggle = !toggle;
}
```That also works?

yeah

i think it does

[muted wadi]

I have two arrow buttons that I want to cycle forwards and backwards through a list of materials that are applied to an object. Is there a way to check in the method which button has been pressed?

{

}```

[willow scroll]

It shouldn't work, since rotationSmoothTime seems to be a constant value you don't adjust using Time.deltaTime. You have to add it instead

currTime += Time.deltaTime / rotationTime;

[abstract flicker]

idk it works

[willow scroll]

And put it inside of a Coroutine

[solemn fractal]

Hi.. Is there a way to give more than 1 tag to an object or other identifiers ? like give a tag and also another identifier I can use to refer to that object?

[teal viper]

You can only assign one tag, but you can identify and object by it's components.

[solemn fractal]

what do you mean?

[summer stump]

TryGetComponent is a great workaround for that

[summer stump]

The components attached to the object. Like check if the Player script is attached
Or the Bomb and Throwable scripts.
Whatever you want

[teal viper]

If the object has a certain component, it might be the object you're looking for

[solemn fractal]

Because I have a situation. where I want that the bullet will always be deleted when it hit an enemy so I would use enemy tag in all enemies.. But i need something else to distinguish them for other things. But all my enemies or most of them will have same scripts attached. They will just have dif variable values in general. Maybe is there a way to put script on all my enemies and inside that script I create IDs? and somehow I use it or something like that?

[teal viper]

if(enemy.SomeProperty == theValue)

[solemn fractal]

hmmmm ok makes sense

[eternal needle]

what i do is create factions using an enum. every character has one. The bullet can just check the enum

kinda just like assigning them a team

[solemn fractal]

that is what I was thinking

thank you guys

[short hazel]

If you haven't found a solution yet, what you can do is modify the method to add an int parameter, and in the first button pass -1, and 1 for the second.
That way you keep only one, and can add the parameter to a variable representing the current material index in use.

[muted wadi]

i found a solution already, but thanks for the answer

[muted wadi]

why exactly am I getting an error here?

            {
                wheel.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().material = currentWheelMaterial;
            }```

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe consider showing the actual error from the console window

[muted wadi]

bunch of gibberish

[ivory bobcat]

Where did you copy this code from? If not, what exactly are you trying to do?

[muted wadi]

i didn't copy it. I'm trying to change the materials on a prefab so that when the prefab is spawned, all the changes the player made in the customisation screen are saved

[ivory bobcat]

Your for each statement looks like it's expecting a collection of mesh renderers

[muted wadi]

it partly works

            mesh.material = currentCarMaterial;```
specifically, this works. The singular mesh renderer on the prefab gets the new material applied when the save button is pressed. It just wont work for the wheels, and I'm not gonna do one for each because thats jarring

there has to be a way to do a foreach, and also find all of the wheels

[ivory bobcat]

Yeah, looks like you simply inserted invalid code into a foreach statement tbh
To use the foreach statement, you've got to provide it a collection to iterate.

[muted wadi]

if i do getcomponentsinchildren then i can't use Find

[ivory bobcat]

Well, logically you'll need to find all of your wanted objects first then iterate them using the foreach. You're missing the first step, providing a collection of your wanted objects.

[ivory bobcat]

Basically something like... (convoluted solution relative to your specifications - precaching is preferred and avoidance of Find)cs var children = ...GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>(); foreach(var child in children) { var found = child.Find(...); if(found != null) { ... } }

[muted wadi]

yeah i'll have to see what i can do with that

[ivory bobcat]

Sure you can, you'd just iterate each child and use find like your original code

Where you original code called Find on one child whereas you've now got a collection of children

The least possible change would be something like... (Edited to reflect your original design)
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[muted wadi]

i think i got it, but i need to finish my menu script now

cant test until thats finished

[digital cave]

How can I add cameras to here within code? URP.

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@17.0/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.UniversalAdditionalCameraData.html

Actually IDK how

Not from there, but you can read it there

[eternal needle]

yea you should be able to from there

@digital cave
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@17.0/manual/cameras/add-and-remove-cameras-in-a-stack.html#add-a-camera-to-a-camera-stack-with-a-c-script

[hollow zenith]

I've got an issue with instantiated text not positioning properly, in some rare cases.

    textVnMode = Instantiate(textPrefab);
    textVnMode.transform.SetParent(floatingTextContent.transform, false);

It's basically 50% off on y axis, it's inside a vertical layout.
Is it possible that the layout doesn't update in some cases?
Is there a way to force layout to update?

[teal viper]

When the issue happens, try disabling and Reena ling the layout group in the inspector. If it doesn't fix it, the cause is probably something else.

[hollow zenith]

It didnt help, but it happens only in certain cases, I think it might be due to a coroutine?
In that 1 case a coroutine is running I think

reenabling it at runtime fixes the issue tho, but thats not a solution

[teal viper]

It could be a timing issue indeed. I'd check the layout group API for methods that allow rebuilding the layout.

[hollow zenith]

Alright thanks

That didnt work, I tried few things.
What worked is adding Layout Element to the Verical Layout group and setting Min Height to a higher value, to match the text.

[dire shadow]

Hey, is this the right place to ask questions? 🙂

[languid spire]

!ask

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[dire shadow]

I was wondering if I could make my sprite look sharp, I think I messed somehting up

[languid spire]

So you did not bother to read the bot message I just gave you

[dire shadow]

Ah, I understood that as ask! lol sorry

[errant flower]

where is the hdrp material thing in unity 2022

and i dont see a package for it

nvm found i t

[steep rose]

Well that's definitely interesting

Does the angle code work on a normal slope then?

You caught me at a time where I was sleeping 😅

[marble hemlock]

im not exactly sure where to look in documentation exactly but say i have two colliders, and i want it to do a specific thing if the thing its colliding with has a specific tag, how would i go about that, and what's the correct function?

is it OnTriggerEnter?

[deft grail]

OnCollisionEnter or OnTriggerEnter

or you can use other things that are part of Physics.

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

specifically the Overlap and Raycast or similar

[marble hemlock]

i didnt expect this bit to be as complicated as it ended up being

i cant escape raycast

[deft grail]

it is easy

you dont have to do a raycast

[rich adder]

doing any type of reliable interactions require some sort of physics functions, raycasts are great because they only need Colliders to work not rigidbodies like OnColl/OnTrigg do

[marble hemlock]

time to begin studying ig
https://youtu.be/EINgIoTG8D4

[rich adder]

Sadly even these old videos don't point out that LayerMask is not to be confused with the Layer number on a gameobject, even if they said so

[marble hemlock]

So I just can't see the raycast itself?

[rich adder]

no, but unity has built in Physics Debugger that will show you all casts

[steep pier]

Does anyone know what I should learn about when it comes to turn based combat systems?

[rich adder]

depends what you know so far?

[steep pier]

i dont really understand what i should do, im kinda lost

[late burrow]

how i loop through jobject storing more jobjects

[rich adder]

learn enums

learn arrays

etc.

[rich adder]

nested foreach ?

[late burrow]

not nested

just it gives me jtokens not jobjects

and i cant seem make use of them

i saved entirety of my json with jobjects

[rich adder]

https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/jobjectproperties.htm

[late burrow]

no like literally everything is jobjects

i have jobjects inside jobjects inside jobjects

i vant to make single loop that will get me one step down

[steep walrus]

I have a bunch of objects moving towards the player and I want to reset them to their starting place when the player dies. In the awake method I assign my Vector3 array of positions to the Vector3 of the GameObject array but I am having trouble setting the Vector3 when the trigger is entered

public GameObject[] tracks;
    Vector3[] startPos;

    void Awake()
    {
        startPos = new Vector3[tracks.Length];
    }

   void OnTriggerEnter(Collider player)
   {
        tracks = new Vector3[startPos.Length];
   }

[rich adder]

    JObject outerObject = JObject.Parse(json);
    foreach (var property in outerObject.Properties())
    {
        Debug.Log($"Key: {property.Name}");
        if (property.Value is JObject innerObject)
        {
            foreach (var innerProperty in innerObject.Properties())
            {
                Debug.Log($"  {innerProperty.Name}: {innerProperty.Value}");
            }
        }
    }
}```
try it

[rich adder]

why is it an array ?

[steep walrus]

cause there are 6 different objects

should I make 6 variables?

[rich adder]

oh this is some type of object manager?

[steep walrus]

ugh not really I dont think but I could eb wron

im basically making subway surfers and when the player dies I want the tracks to reset to their original position

and there are 6 different tracks

[languid spire]

d you actually understand any of that code?

[rich adder]

could use a dictionary

[steep walrus]

I think I do

[rich adder]

yeah also, how did you write an array without knowing what you need array for lol

[languid spire]

I know you dont

[steep walrus]

alright

[steep walrus]

I need the array for the object positions

[steep walrus]

so then what was the point of asking

[rich adder]

have the objects register themselves to a dictionary stored in on 1 script

or have each object track their own original pos

[steep walrus]

okay, I havent used a dictionary before but Ill look it up

[steep walrus]

can I have them do that with the dictionary?

[rich adder]

you dont need dictionary for that one, just store a Vector3 on each object

[languid spire]

startPos = new Vector3[tracks.Length];

initialize the startPos array to an array of Vector3.zeros the same length as the tracks array

tracks = new Vector3[startPos.Length];

try to set the tracks array (which are GameObjects) to a new Vector3 array, which it cannot do

[rich adder]

its just a fancy way to store information (key value pair). Think like real life dictionary

[steep walrus]

how do you store a vector3 on each object? would I need 6 different variables

[rich adder]

why do you need 6 ?

[steep walrus]

cause there are 6 different objects I need to reset their position

[rich adder]

each object has their own script ?

[steep walrus]

oh okay I see

is that effecient? like there isnt an issue with having a different script on each object?

[rich adder]

Vector3 originalPosition
Awake() { originalPoisition = transform.position; }

[rich adder]

not something to worry about as beginner , especially if you have not a lot going on in Update

[steep walrus]

okay thanks I'll try it

[rocky canyon]

typically if its doing something like that you can use a single script..
each values assigned per object will correspond w/ that instance of the script

soo u could use 1 variable
public Vector3 positionToResetTo;
and change that per object

same logic... different data

but yea, while ur learning nothing wrong w/ doing it the way ur most comfortable.. and then later on you'll adapt, less is more

[magic panther]

Can someone please tell me a better way to do this?
I need a GlobalGameManager script that just exists and loads scenes, stores global variables etc.. I also place a LevelInfo object with a LevelInfo script that is supposed to have a scene selected as nextScene and load it. When I tried to do this I found out that you can't serialize Scenes in unity, so I switched to strings. After that, it turned out these scripts have something massively wrong with them. I don't know how to do this, and google isn't helping.

GlobalGameManager script -> https://gdl.space/iweyatajog.cs
LevelInfo script -> https://gdl.space/voduyacosi.cs

[lapis frigate]

yo any1 can hop on vc for like 2 minutes and help me with a few general stuff please?

[signal cosmos]

Guys, I want to ask a modest question about the save/load system.

The problem is that it's registered as AsSingle, which means I use it in the LoadPlayerProgressState, and as a result, I can't save data from any part of the application anymore. What should I do?

[willow scroll]

I don't think anyone is going to do that. If you want help, you may consider asking your general staff in the appropriate channel.

[lapis frigate]

ok...

[lapis frigate]

then how do I fix that..

[willow scroll]

Maybe you could describe what's wmassively wrong about them?

[willow scroll]

You have to consider learning Unity basics !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[willow scroll]

GameObject does not have a definition for getComponent, since methods in C# are written in PascalCase, which means, it's called GetComponent

[magic panther]

this appears.

[willow scroll]

What does the error tell you?

[lapis frigate]

so the problem is cuz I didn't used capital G?

[willow scroll]

Yes. A bigger problem is that you haven't checked docs

[magic panther]

That's it's not been added to something in the build settings. Do I really need to do something like this for every scene?

I'm fine with that, just asking

[willow scroll]

Surely, every scene has to be added to build settings if it has to be opened in your game

You can add existing scenes by pressing a single button, but you'll have to do that after creating every new scene, since it's not done automatically

[lapis frigate]

aight I deal with a lot of small problems like that cuz my Visual studio doesnt show that redline when there is an error do u know how to fix that by any chance?

[willow scroll]

Of course. That's from what you should've started. You must configure your !ide

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[magic panther]

Like this?

[willow scroll]

Yes

[magic panther]

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[rich adder]

finally icons

[lapis frigate]

!Ide

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[rich adder]

you're meant to read it not spam it..

[lapis frigate]

I just typed it 1 more time just to see if it will be the same for me

but its just 1 more time its not spaming

[summer stump]

Of course it would be the same. And yeah, please don't do that. It is quite large and on mobile pushes a lot out of view.
We do indeed call it spam even if only one time

[willow scroll]

Unfontunately, I don't have vip commands, so it also works the same for you

[lapis frigate]

Allright sorry

Im new here and to unity in general so im just trying to figure out everything

[pine bone]

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

public static class PlayerData 
{
    public static int coins;
    public static int level;
    public static List<string> ownedSkins = new List<string>();
    public static string equippedSkin;

    public static void AddSkin(string SkinID)
    {
        ownedSkins.Add(SkinID);
    }
}

Hello, i have a code like this that i will use to load players skin when they start a level. How can i create an AllSkins to get any skin by just providing name? Since the code is static i cant manually add all of my skin scriptable objects to the list

[rich adder]

why is everything static..

[pine bone]

because i save this class to a file when the user leaves

and i load it back when they join

and i want it to be usable globally

[rich adder]

ig you don't know yourself why its static

[pine bone]

i want it to be usable globally

[rich adder]

so make a singleton and make the Instance itself static.

then you can put whatever you want in through the inspector

https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons

[pine bone]

should i make it a prefab and copy it into every single scene

[rich adder]

nah you can use DontDestroyOnLoad and persist it through diff scenes, just make sure its on a MB script

[pine bone]

thanks

[rich adder]

so basically make the containing class static instance then have playerData be serializable

[pine bone]

should i keep the coins and levels variables static

[rich adder]

no need

they're already public

public class PlayerManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static PlayerManager Instance { get; private set; }
    [SerializeField] private PlayerData playerData;
    public PlayerData PlayerDataInstance => playerData;
    [Serializable]
    public  class PlayerData
    {
        public int Coins;
        public int Level;
        public List<string> OwnedSkins = new List<string>();
        public string EquippedSkin;
        public void AddSkin(string SkinID)
        {
            OwnedSkins.Add(SkinID);
        }
    }
}```

[pine bone]

what does => mean

[slender nymph]

expression body syntax. that is creating a get-only property

[pine bone]

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

public class PlayerDataManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static PlayerDataManager instance;


    [SerializeField] private PlayerData playerData;
    public PlayerData PlayerDataInstance => playerData;


    public List<string> AllSkins = new List<string>();

    private void Awake()
    {
        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
        instance = this;
    }

    public void AddSkin(string SkinID)
    {
        playerData.ownedSkins.Add(SkinID);
    }
}

[System.Serializable]
public class PlayerData
{
    public int coins;
    public int level;
    public List<string> ownedSkins = new List<string>();
    public string equippedSkin;
}```

How does this look

[rich adder]

yea although I would make the singleton how the the link I sent you does it

use a get only property with a instance check for any copies, just incase

[rich adder]

thought you said you were gonna use scriptable object to store all skins

[pine bone]

i will

i accidentaly wrote string

why do i get this even though they have the same name

[rich adder]

did you check for compile errors?

[pine bone]

oh it was because of another script

thanks

@rich adder by the way why did you do something like this instead of making it public

[thorny junco]

my bro jumping twice :(((((((

[rich adder]

its good practice to limit where that can be changed from, if it must be accessed from outside ideally for reading only purposes. if it must be changed from another script, a Method or at least a property is better so you can keep track of changes better

[pine bone]

whats the difference

[timber galleon]

How does one add knockback when an enemy attack is 2d

[rich adder]

its mainly for self-protecting yourself or whoever writes code with you. Prevents mishaps, if you want to learn more read about "Encapsulation"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/tutorials/oop

[pine bone]

i can still edit the values outside the code

[rich adder]

no, you would write a method for that ideally

[pine bone]

i can still edit it

[rich adder]

wdym outside "the code"

its all code lol

are you talking about outside its own class?

[rich adder]

rigidbody

[timber galleon]

Basically when I try to add knockback it doesn't work

[timber galleon]

doesn't work(

[pine bone]

yes

[thorny junco]

someone help me please with my shitty code :3

[rich adder]

make a method, make the PlayerData class modify the coins

[pine bone]

im asking whats the difference of using this instead of making it public

[rich adder]

oganizing mainly, prevents other scripts accidentally changing it and you forgetting about it later on, then not know which one is changing it..

[rich adder]

jumping twice? you mean in the air ?

[pine bone]

other scripts can still change it

[thorny junco]

yes sir 😦

[rich adder]

yeah cause its public

I was talking about the PlayerData itself
if you want whats Inside the PlayerData to have the same thing you would also use properties there (but you wont be able to use inspector so no reason to)

[thorny junco]

I wanted it to only jump one and be blue while in the air but this dude is defying him creator by making him jump twice in the air

[pine bone]

doesnt this code edit the player data

[rich adder]

you're changing coins yea, you're not replacing PlayerData with another playerData

[rich adder]

then your gravity check is wrong if it still jump while in air

[pine bone]

same thing as what

[thorny junco]

thank you very kind and handsome man

[rich adder]

i shown a quick example, you could technically do

private int coins;
public int Coins => coins;```
but you dont need to worry about this in beginning

[pine bone]

what does this do

[rich adder]

it would make it so only PlayerData can change coins

no other script can directly, only read it

like I said don't worry to much about it now, later on it might make more sense

[pine bone]

is it the same thing as doing private set public get

[rich adder]

yes

well you have a backing field here. edit ops fixed mistake

so it would just be closer to

private int coins;

public int Coins
{
    get { return coins; }
}```

[pine bone]

thanks

[frank flare]

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

public class AttachableItems : MonoBehaviour
{
    List<Collider> colliders;
    float oldTime = 0f;

    void Start()
    {
        oldTime = Time.time;
        colliders = new List<Collider>();
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collider)
    {
        if (!collider.isTrigger)
            colliders.Add(collider);
    }
    
    void OnTriggerExit(Collider collider)
    {
        if (!collider.isTrigger)
            colliders.Remove(collider);
    }

}

how can I get List<Collider> colliders from another script? or should I do it that way? (this script is attached to gameobjects and the other one to the player)

[rich adder]

make a public property or a method
public List<Collider>GetColliders(){ return colliders; }. Right now its private

[rich adder]

what is attachable items doing exactly?

[frank flare]

gets items near that item and gets them into colliders then from other script I would get add forces to 2 items to go near each other and combine them

actually I think I don't need attachableitems

because it's too messy that I don't know what I'm doing

[rich adder]

what is the game mechanic behind this exactly?

there is probably a better way

[frank flare]

well there are 2 cubes behind each other

there's this script

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

public class AttachItems : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject item1;
    public GameObject item2;
    public Camera cam;

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

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyUp("e"))
        {
            var ray = new Ray (cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward);

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out var hit)) {
                if (hit.collider.gameObject.tag == "Item" && hit.collider.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>())
                {
                    if (item1 == null)
                        item1 = hit.collider.gameObject;
                    else if (item2 == null)
                        item2 = hit.collider.gameObject;
                    
                    if (item1 != null && item2 != null)
                    {
                        Debug.Log("combining 2 items");
                        Debug.Log(item1 + " " + item2);
                        item1 = null;
                        item2 = null;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

these 2 cubes are item1 and item2

on

if (item1 != null && item2 != null)
                    {
                        Debug.Log("combining 2 items");
                        Debug.Log(item1 + " " + item2);
                        item1 = null;
                        item2 = null;
                    }

I want these cubes be pushed to each other (so they're actualy attached) and attach

so that there's no space field in their center

[rich adder]

what does the list of colliders factor into this

are you going to use Fixed Joint to attach them ?

[frank flare]

there was some other idea a few days ago but I forgot it and it's bad I think

[steep rose]

then why did you ask for a list of colliders

[rich adder]

i still have no clue the thought process behind it and why you need it

[steep rose]

from another script

[frank flare]

after I asked I realized it's a bad idea

[rich adder]

I saw the setup but you didnt explain the mechanic you wanted to achieve there lol

[steep rose]

if you are planning to use a fixed joint or smth you need the rigidbodies

[rich adder]

yea if you want to attach them use fixed joint assign the rigidbodies dynamic, change your code to use the rigidbody

[steep rose]

or you could parent one to another

[rich adder]

parenting doesnt work with rigidbodies sadly'

[steep rose]

and turn one RB off

that would work wouldnt it?

[frank flare]

the cube has rigidbody

[rich adder]

you could make them both kinematic and parenting should work fine

[steep rose]

parent one to another and remove/turn off the child rb

[rich adder]

but no collisions

[steep rose]

ah

thats rough

[rich adder]

also would change it to cs if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out var hit)) { if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Item") && hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out Rigidbody rb)) // do whatever with rb
eg item1 = rb

Rigidbody item1, item2

[steep rose]

kinda sucks you cant parent rigidbodies but i can see why, it might cause a ton of problems

[rich adder]

yea the physics are simulated in a different place iirc

unity just adapts what physx already has

moving transform disrupts that flow

fixed joint works like parenting, it just sucks at high velocities

[steep rose]

yeah thats true

also i had no idea unity uses PhysX

or if i did i forgot

[rich adder]

yup for 3d

2d its box2d

rewriting a whole physics engine would be time consuming

[steep rose]

😅

[rich adder]

it also has Havok if you're a Pro member

which is 😍

[steep rose]

Havok is really nice

[rich adder]

imo one of the best physics engines

[steep rose]

its just expensive

[rich adder]

not by much

[meager sentinel]

So i've been trying to make an enemy and a bullet for way too long now, i've followed a tutorial and adapted it to use velocity instead of rb force, i watched the docs of unity and i thought i was ready, but there's many problems, the firerate doesn't seem to be according to what i want, and the most important part is that the bullet is shot at a direction where the player isn't, sometimes it shoots backwards and other times it shoots to the side. https://hatebin.com/hccfnqykqg (ah yeah and the variables have weird names because, well, why not.)

[steep rose]

well if you factor in that you have to pay Havok and some other company to use it

[frank flare]

do I just do it like that?

if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Item") && hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out Rigidbody rb))
                {
                    if (item1 == null)
                        item1 = rb;
                    else if (item2 == null)
                        item2 = rb;

[rich adder]

can you make short vid?

[meager sentinel]

wdym?

[steep rose]

i havent looked at havok for a while so they might have done smth different

[rich adder]

the gizmos and stuff

[meager sentinel]

what's a short vid?

[rich adder]

well through unity its only as expensive as the pro plan, i think unity takes care of the rest

dont quote me on it, its been a while 😅

[steep rose]

i thought you had to pay the other company if you uploaded your game but if unity does it, actual cool beans

very cool

[rich adder]

a video showing your bullets going out of whack and gizmos for weapon and whatnot, its easier to see a problem sometimes to know what could b wrong

[meager sentinel]

I would but my computer is staying without ram

[steep rose]

what

[meager sentinel]

am barely running discord

[steep rose]

you dont have ram?

then your PC shouldnt be running (like it wont run)

[rich adder]

if you change item type from GameObject to Rigidbody yeah it suld work

[meager sentinel]

I mean that i have too many things open

[steep rose]

close them

[meager sentinel]

that slow down the pc too much

[meager sentinel]

it's unity and visual studio code

[rich adder]

can you screenshot maybe

mainly interested in seeing the gizmos and all that

also why did you change it from velocity to translate?

[meager sentinel]

i was trying things i think

[steep rose]

translate will ignore collisions

btw

[meager sentinel]

but both dint work

and well i left the project for a while

[rich adder]

yeah translate will just phase the bullets through walls,

[meager sentinel]

the player is the capsule with a camera and the enemy is the more red one

idk if you wanted to see something in particular

am not good with english

[rich adder]

are the gizmos in Local Pivot mode ?

[meager sentinel]

Where can i see that?

[rich adder]

top left of scene view

[meager sentinel]

if you mean this then not

[rich adder]

well if you been setting everything up with that, it could explain why your directions are not what your code is doing

[meager sentinel]

wdym?

[rich adder]

and the most important part is that the bullet is shot at a direction where the player isn't, sometimes it shoots backwards and other times it shoots to the side.

[meager sinew]

why does an image in my canvas for 2d scale from a weird spot and not the middle of the canvas?

[meager sentinel]

No but i mean why setting up everything like that makes directions not work

well not "not work" (i dont know how would i say this)

[rich adder]

this is more of a #📲┃ui-ux question

[rich adder]

because blue might always point the direction you think it is when in reality it might be pointing else where

so all your transform.forward can be wrong or any other direction

[meager sentinel]

wdym with blue?

[rich adder]

blue arrow**

the Forward of any gameobject

[marble hemlock]

fucking hate raycasts

[rich adder]

you're missing out, they're easy and powerful

[marble hemlock]

i am losing this battle

i cant even tell whats wrong

[rich adder]

me neither

[marble hemlock]

hold on

[summer stump]

Show the code?

[marble hemlock]

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

[rich adder]

and what exactly is supposed to happen vs whats happening ?

[summer stump]

Do CompareTag for one thing
Also add some debug logs to see where the code actually executes

[rich adder]

this is world dir btw Vector3.forward);

idk if thats intentional

[marble hemlock]

okay so when i get near the thing, it activates an image that says you can click it

[summer stump]

Very important consideration. No object rotation will be relevant to Vector3.forward
Probably want transform.forward

[marble hemlock]

thats what its supposed to do
however, for as long as im holding down any movement key, that prompt will stay up

or sometimes it'll just decide its not going to work
if i move towards the object from the side it just doesnt show the prompt

[meager sentinel]

So what could i do to fix it?

[marble hemlock]

i feel like i need to record this

[meager sentinel]

Tried with velocity before and dont really remember how it works.

[rich adder]

just told you why

your ray is always pointing the same direction

[rich adder]

well can you select what i asked you to select and screenshot it again with arrows of each item that is going /pointing in wrong direction?
switch from Center / World to Local/Pivot

[marble hemlock]

hold on let me catch up

okay so it only works when im facing a specific way, because its referring to the world's direction, and not mine

[meager sentinel]

Could you explain it easier?

[rich adder]

indeed

[summer stump]

Simply change Vector3.forward to transform.forward

That is it

[marble hemlock]

Vector3 is never the solution 😔

[summer stump]

Well, unless you want the world direction. It is often the solution for grids

But rarely for characters that can rotate around granularly

[rich adder]

transform.InverseTransformDirection(Vector3.forward) 😛

the long version

[marble hemlock]

my brain will not process such a thing
not today

[rich adder]

Vector3 also useful for having proper direction of the world

if my character flips into a roll I wouldnt want transform.down to check for ground, i would use Vector3.down

[marble hemlock]

this is very much a losing battle on my end

something else broke but im reaching exhaustion

[rich adder]

well thats part of the job

endless chase

[marble hemlock]

joy

i think its redoing interactPrompt.SetActive(false); or true thing every time i move

[rich adder]

be glad those are the easy bugs that can be noticed right away and not hundreds of run where you get that edge case 🥲

[marble hemlock]

if i reach that point i might just have to accept that the project is doomed

[rich adder]

its doing it as long as you have ray hitting collider .

[meager sentinel]

Did you mean like the bullets transform?

[marble hemlock]

i kinda wanna use a box collider to do this now it feels way simpler

its at least something i would have grasped

[rich adder]

select it withthe move tool

[marble hemlock]

this collider touched that collider which means bad

wait no that would be good

[meager sentinel]

now what

[rich adder]

its simpler at first but less flexible and also you need at least 1 rigidbody

[marble hemlock]

can't tell if im off to a bad start or not

i'll use the box collider and if i ever regain enough sanity to try to understand the raycast function better i will

[rich adder]

is this when

[meager sentinel]

Wdym?

[rich adder]

since they are screenshots you should describe at least which object this is

and whats going on

[meager sentinel]

bullet

and it's going a complete different direction to the player

[rich adder]

show the original bullet not Instantiated

[meager sentinel]

And what do you want to see from it?

[rich adder]

the same things we've been talking about the past half hr

i said first step was to make sure all your pivots are correct

including the Shoot point

[meager sentinel]

Well the shoot point is the enemy itself

[rich adder]

well you should probably have one , put the look at on that one

[meager sentinel]

I'll try

[rich adder]

regardless, show it

[meager sentinel]

So i have to make another script for the shoot point right?

[rich adder]

not necessarily, just a Reference to its Transform

[frank flare]

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

public class AttachItems : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody item1;
    public Rigidbody item2;
    public Camera cam;

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

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyUp("e"))
        {
            var ray = new Ray (cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward);

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out var hit)) {
                if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Item") && hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out Rigidbody rb))
                {
                    if (item1 == null)
                        item1 = rb;
                    else if (item2 == null)
                        item2 = rb;
                    
                    if (item1 != null && item2 != null)
                    {
                        Debug.Log("combining 2 items");
                        Debug.Log(item1 + " " + item2);
                        Vector3 direction = item2.transform.position - (item2.transform.position - item1.transform.position) * 2f;
                        item1.velocity = item2.transform.position - direction;
                        item1 = null;
                        item2 = null;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

(the pain never stops)

how can I disable gravity while that item1.velocity happens and when it stops check if item1 and item2 are colliding and attach them (make them move like 1 thing)?

[meager sentinel]

Tried doing it and it's the exact same

[frank flare]

the pain never stops

[rich adder]

show which direction the Firepoint is pointing at

[rich adder]

use pastesite when sending large code
https://gdl.space

[meager sentinel]

The one selected is the shootpoint, yeah, i reused the AI script, but only for trying, maybe it's that and im dumb

the blue arrow shows where the player is

[frank flare]

yes but I already shared it

[meager sentinel]

like it is not there but on that way

[rich adder]

so its pointing at player correcty?

[meager sentinel]

like it seems to be pointing

[rich adder]

yes

[meager sentinel]

but shoots completely on other way

[rich adder]

which direction did you pass

for bullet

also now put the script back on the enemy , make a reference to the firepoint only for the lookat

then do this
Rigidbody rb = Instantiate(projectile, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation;

rb.velocity = rb.transform.forward * bulletSpeed

[meager sentinel]

Ahh, all this mess only to make the bullet slower on slow motion

[rich adder]

wdym. This is actually important concepts in unity you should be aware of

especially knowing which arrow is what direction, World Space vs Local Space

your old code you're spawning bullet with Quaternion.identity, which means no Rotation

[meager sentinel]

No one ever told me that

I was following a course

worst 14$ ever spent ngl

[rich adder]

well paid courses are usually trash money grabs

unity has decent ones !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[meager sentinel]

Yeah but i mean none of them are in spanish

[rich adder]

yeah sadly they dont really have text based tutorials as much, so they can't be translated easily..

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys.. when I create a getter or a setter. Is there any convencional naming for that? Because I always want to know if that is variable that I am getting or setting. Normally I use like "" public int PlayerCurrentHealthGetSet {get{return _playerCurrentHealth;} set{ _playerCurrentHealth = value;} }
"" But i find that naming ugly.

Like that: PlayerCurrentHealthGetSet

[rich adder]

just CurrentHealth

or PlayerCurrentHealth

[solemn fractal]

Hmm. I see. ok thank you

[rich adder]

btw its backtics ` for code snippets , not '

[solemn fractal]

Yeah I miss typed 😛

[meager sentinel]

goddamn it

it seems like i fixed it but somehow it broke the player

if the character crouches it goes at very high speed suddenly

and cant move

but how the hell would this script affect the player movement

[rich adder]

how do you know its happening from this?

[meager sentinel]

It dint happen before

[rich adder]

what did you change

[meager sentinel]

literally the 2 lines of code you gave me

but now it's bugged

now i wonder

what did i change without noticing

[rich adder]

this wouldnt mess with anything on the player

unelss your bullet is collding with player and causing some other issue there

[meager sentinel]

maybe

yup

that's it

it seems that it fires so fast that it makes the movement bug

[rich adder]

on the enemy or player ?

[meager sentinel]

player

even though it is set to trigger

if i deactivate the enemy it works normally

[rich adder]

not sure how that would ever mess with player then

[frank flare]

how can I apply on a rigidbody a mega super force and make it not ricochet from a wall or whatever it collides with? there should be a setting in rigidbody

I just want that effect temporarily

[meager sentinel]

me neither

[rich adder]

turn off Bounce on the material (set it to 0) and maybe turn on Friction more

[meager sentinel]

also what the hell

i realized i disabled the attack from the enemy when it started bugging

and it stills attacks (shoots) even with it off

or smth

why the hell is enemy ai so hard

even when it is only shooting

[rich adder]

not possible

[meager sentinel]

yes

it is off

[rich adder]

Update does not run with Disabled GameObject

[meager sentinel]

no i mean

i disabled the script part that spawned the bullet

adding the //

[rich adder]

this ?
Rigidbody rb = Instantiate(projectile, transform.position, Quaternion.identity).GetComponent<Rigidbody>(); ?

or whatever

[meager sentinel]

yes

[rich adder]

did you actually save..and compile again..

[meager sentinel]

wdym?

[rich adder]

when you added // did you save the script and did it compile ? without errors

[meager sentinel]

yes

though there are errors that dont seem to appear in console

[rich adder]

where is this?

[meager sentinel]

in the scripts folder

there is like a red line

[rich adder]

uh what?

[meager sentinel]

that one

[rich adder]

looks like some type of custom editor thing, never seen that b4

[meager sentinel]

only the enemy folder has it

[summer stump]

I have never seen that before

[meager sentinel]

I dont have a custom editor

or what you mean idk

[frank flare]

can I do
IEnumerator something() {}
without initializing the function and then calling it?

[meager sentinel]

Oh yeah

i forgo

[rich adder]

wdym without initilizing ?

[meager sentinel]

it's fast script reload or something

[slender nymph]

wdym by "without initializing the function"

[meager sentinel]

it's the only one i installed

[rich adder]

man those things usually more damage than good

[meager sentinel]

but i need it

if not it takes like 1 minute to add a ;

[rich adder]

you're relying on a third party to keep things always updated, and that wont break at some point

[frank flare]

for an example there's

IEnumerator SpawnItem(float posRange = 0, float posRangeDivide = 0, float pushPower = 0, int quantity = 1, float cooldown = 0)
    {
        Debug.Log("Trying to spawn an item");
        Debug.Log(posRange + " " + posRangeDivide + " " + pushPower + " " + quantity + " " + cooldown);
        GameObject sigma;
        for (int i = 0; i < quantity; i += 1)
        {
            sigma = Instantiate(itemToSpawn, Items.transform);
            sigma.transform.position = spawner.transform.position;
            float randomX = Random.Range(-posRange, posRange) / posRangeDivide;
            float randomZ = Random.Range(-posRange, posRange) / posRangeDivide;
            sigma.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(new Vector3(randomX, pushPower, randomZ), ForceMode.Impulse);
            if (cooldown != 0)
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(cooldown);
        }
    }
IEnumerator SpawnItem(something)

can I do it cleaner?

[meager sentinel]

I dont think it is the cause of the problem anyways

it has happened before i even installed it

idk how i fixed it tho last time

[frank flare]

ignore the parameters / arguments thing

[slender nymph]

do what "cleaner"

[rich adder]

first of all id at least use String interpolation
this is wild
Debug.Log(posRange + " " + posRangeDivide + " " + pushPower + " " + quantity + " " + cooldown);
vs
Debug.Log($"{posRange}. {posRangeDivide}. {pushPower}. {quantity}. {cooldown}.);

[short hazel]

Optional parameters allow you to omit some of them, so you'll be able to do SpawnItem(cooldown: 10) for example

Another option is to create overloads - methods with the same name but different parameter counts or types

[frank flare]

well for an example in lua you can

task.spawn(function()
print("amogus")
end)

instead of

function amogus_printer()
print("amogus")
end

task.spawn(amogus_printer)

that's what I want to do here

[slender nymph]

that's not "cleaner" that's just creating a delegate instead of using a method. i don't see how that would make your code any cleaner either

in fact that would do the opposite of making the code cleaner because you would be declaring the logic inline when creating the delegate instead of just using a method

[frank flare]

I'm doing a similar function in a different script, not editing the SpawnItem one

[slender nymph]

and yet that changes nothing at all about what i've said

[frank flare]

how can I do it like with

task.spawn(function()
print("amogus")
end)

tho?

[meager sentinel]

why the hell it is attackin g ahhh

literally deactivated everything that made it shoot

[slender nymph]

again, that is the less clean way, but if for some reason you want to insist on doing it that way you could use a lambda expression. but again, that is the worse way.

it is in no way cleaner and will likely result in more allocations so in every sense of the word it is worse

[meager sentinel]

50 minutes trying to fix a problem and i get even more problems

ahhhhhhhhhh

[frank flare]

ok

[short hazel]

Right-click AttackPlayer (not the commented one, the method definition), and choose "Find All References", that will list all the call sites, make sure there are none

Also check strings, maybe you have a Invoke("AttackPlayer", ...) somewhere?

[languid spire]

I see no Debug.Logs. How do you know THIS code is running?

[rich adder]

the trick is to start shrinking that time into nanoseconds 😛

[polar acorn]

Put a log in this function. That log will have a stack trace that shows what calls it

[meager sentinel]

Okay, sorry for making yall waste your time

but somehow it is not updating

idk how

like i added a variable in public to realize

[rich adder]

oh so it was like I said, it never compiled..

[meager sentinel]

and i even restarted visual studio

[rich adder]

restarting vs doesnt fix compile errors

check there

[meager sentinel]

there aren't compile errors

only debugs of jumping

[slender nymph]

are you certain your hot reloading plugin hasn't actually somehow prevented it from compiling your changes?

[short hazel]

Make sure you saved and that there's no errors across the entire project.

[meager sentinel]

idk

let me try saving another variable

[rich adder]

yeah that asset is probably messing with autocompile

[short hazel]

Then, try moving the file to another folder and back (from Unity) to force a compiler pass

[rich adder]

^ this , can also right click project view / file hit Reimport

[meager sentinel]

doesn't seem to be caused by the error

like the script

so i think it may be needed to reimport as you said

Soo, Navarone, the code that you gave me is weird

what should firePoint be?

A transform or a gameobject

both give errors

Well, idk if transform gives error

It says cannot convert unitygameobject to rigidbody

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] Transform firePoint

drag n drop in the inspector

firePoint.LookAt(target)
etc.

[meager sentinel]

Doesn't seem to fix the problem

39 is the code you gave

[rich adder]

huh ? idk what line 39 is

[meager sentinel]

this one

but the one you made

[rich adder]

change projectile's type to Rigidbody

you have to drag bullet inside inspector again when you change it

you will get Mismatch or Missing

[frank flare]

https://gdl.space/okezinoxol.cs

IEnumerator BringAndAttach()
    {
        Debug.Log("itgwerogerjoererjgoierjgeroig");
        Vector3 direction = item2.transform.position - (item2.transform.position - item1.transform.position) * 2f;
        item1.velocity = item2.transform.position - direction;
        Debug.Log(direction);
        item1 = null;
        item2 = null;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);
    }

how can I predict time that will take item1 to reach item2 and put it into WaitForSeconds? (the time item1 takes to reach item2 is always the same)

[slender nymph]

that waitforseconds is 100% pointless because it waits to do literally nothing at all

[frank flare]

it will have a use later...

[slender nymph]

okay well why not just use a loop and a yield return null instead

then for your loop you just check if the object has reached its desired destination or whatever condition you want

[frank flare]

because it's not always going to reach the target, sometimes it can just get stuck or go into a wrong direction

[slender nymph]

then the statement "the time item1 takes to reach item2 is always the same" is categorically false

[meager sentinel]

So now bullets get destroyed

after getting created

[frank flare]

it works like that

[meager sentinel]

and the ones that dont dont move

[frank flare]

if it goes through a straight direction then the amount of time should be the same (hopefully?), if it has some obstacles on it's way it's gonna be slower or will actually stop at some moment without reaching item2

[slender nymph]

okay well the magnitude of the velocity is the number of units per second it will move

[rich adder]

did you remove collision between enemy layer and enemy bullet layer ?

[warm raptor]

Hello I'm made this script that create a new player when someone join the game we are in , but I don't know why, the script can find the bone "Bone.002" of my player and I don't know why

if(!Players.ContainsKey(newID))
            {
                var playerInfo = new PlayerInfo { Health = 100, Kills = 0, Coordinates = "0", PreviousLivingState = "1", PreviousTeamState = "0", ArmRotation = 0f};
                Players[newID] = playerInfo;
                player = Instantiate(PlayerPrefab, new Vector3(10, 10, 10), Quaternion.identity);
                player.name = newID;
                Players[newID].Player = player;
                Players[newID].BackBone = player.transform.Find("Bone.002").gameObject; //--> this is the line that don't work
                Players[newID].PlayerAnimator = player.transform.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Animator>();
                Players[newID].PlayerAnimator.enabled = true;;
            }

[main karma]

I use a RenderTexture, that has a custom shader on a 3D plane, how would I flip it horizontally after the custom shader but before displaying it? (not sure where to ask this question)

[slender nymph]

ideally you wouldn't need to search for that object specifically like that. if you put a component on the root of your prefab that has a reference to the desired object you can grab immediately upon instantiation

[warm raptor]

I'm not sure I understand what I should do 😅

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/references/references-to-prefab-children
pretty much this

[warm raptor]

Thanks! I'll have a look

[zenith cypress]

If you just want it horizontally, you could just invert the uv axis you need since those are normalized (1.0 - uv.x for example), or if you have an exposed texture in the shader, and you utilize its tiling properties, you can invert the scale on that itself. Or invert the scale of the plane, etc different ways to do it. Do whatever works for your stuff

[frank flare]

https://gdl.space/ijazecesil.cs how can I repeat wait until cubes are touching each other / should be touching each other if they were going through a straight direction?
after I detect it I want them to attach to each other

[wild rampart]

hey guys how can i fix this

[main karma]

for some context, I got a custom shader from a youtube tutorial for my portals that makes sure that it only fits in the portal the part of the image that my character can see through the portal, and I either need to mirror the camera that takes the picture, or somehow include a function in the shader or in code that allows me to flip it after it does all of the fitting stuff
this is the shader, and ideas?

Shader "Unlit/ScreenCutoutShader"
{
    Properties
    {  
        _MainTex("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}

    }
        SubShader
    {
        Tags{ "Queue" = "Transparent" "IgnoreProjector" = "True" "RenderType" = "Transparent" }
        Lighting Off
        Cull Back
        ZWrite On
        ZTest Less

        Fog{ Mode Off }

        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag

            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            struct appdata
            {
                float4 vertex : POSITION;
                float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
            };

            struct v2f
            {
                //float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
                float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;
                float4 screenPos : TEXCOORD1;
            };

            

            v2f vert(appdata v)
            {
                v2f o;
                o.vertex = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
                o.screenPos = ComputeScreenPos(o.vertex);
                return o;
            }

            sampler2D _MainTex;

            fixed4 frag(v2f i) : SV_Target
            {
                i.screenPos /= i.screenPos.w;
                fixed4 col = tex2D(_MainTex, float2(i.screenPos.x, i.screenPos.y));

                return col;
            }
            ENDCG
        }
    }
}

I honestly don't really get how shaders work

so any help would be, well... helpful

[rich adder]

do not crosspost. You were already linked explanation to what null reference is and how to fix it

[zenith cypress]

Well like I said, either flip the uv o.screenPos.x = 1.0 - o.screenPos.x;, or figure out how to allow for tiling from the exposed texture in the inspector for that variable (no clue what macro that needs).

[waxen adder]

Is there some way to get a navmeshagent to calculate a path to a destination, but without actually moving to it? iirc as soon as you do SetDestination, it immediately starts going to the location

[frank flare]

the pain never stops

[frosty hound]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMesh.CalculatePath.html

[waxen adder]

Nice! ty

[sleek gazelle]

Hey, I'm not really sure of what you're trying to do here but you could:

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
if(this.gameObject.GetInstanceID() > collision.gameObject.GetInstanceID()){ //Makes sure the code only triggers for one of the two cubes, there might be better alternatives
   collision.gameObject.transform.SetParent(this.transform); //set the parent to be the first cube
   collision.gameObject.GetComponent<RigidBody>.isKinematic = true; //set the rigid body as kinematic

this.enabled = false; //disable this code for this cube
}
}

I'm not sure this is the exact syntax tho

[runic urchin]

hey, anyone know how to change the speed that my sprite animation is at in code? i want to do the code in my movement script but i dont exactly know how to change the speed of it from there.

[sleek gazelle]

Hey, if you're sprite animation uses unity animator components, you could ise that https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animations.AnimatorState-speed

[runic urchin]

i was able to figure it out lol, thank you so much!

[sleek gazelle]

No problem

[surreal plover]

Guys I have a question

Im trying to open my scripts from unity

[waxen adder]

Reword: how can I tell if a NavMeshAgent has reached its destination? As well as if it's still in the process of getting to the destination

[surreal plover]

But it no longer has the build option when I open it

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshAgent-pathStatus.html
You can also just check the distance with v3 Distance, or remaininig distance + stopping distance https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshAgent-remainingDistance.html

[waxen adder]

Gotcha, ty!

[frank flare]

it's not the solution of what I'm currently making, I'm trying to find a moment when to check the collision and if it collides then attach these bodies. that way a loop wouldn't happen forever if the body never collides

plus with that script I would also have to make another script and attach it to the body which will make things messier and harder...

[sleek gazelle]

That's exactly what OnCollisionEnter does, it's only called when a collision happens

[sleek gazelle]

You can add that method to an existing script you already have on your cubes if you want to

[warm raptor]

Hello, is there a way to make a defined component run at a specific time in my code? I'd like a parent component to run at the very end of each frame, after the late update.

[sleek gazelle]

There is a script execution order but not sure that's what you want

[warm raptor]

what is it? we never know maybe it could help me 😄

[sleek gazelle]

With this you can specify the order scripts will execute (the order in which unity will call Update())

[warm raptor]

also my problem is that the gun don't stay in the player hand because the parent constraint is run before the bone rotate

[frank flare]

maybe there's a function that returns all colliders the collider is colliding with?

not through a loop way (oncolliderenter is a loop way)

[sleek gazelle]

OnCollisionEnter will be called for each collider the cube is colliding with (but only at the start of the colision)

[sleek gazelle]

So script execution order won't help, sorry

[frosty hound]

There is no way to know when to check if a collision happens without checking if a collision happens.

How are you supposed to "know" when to check otherwise?

[frank flare]

is there a way to do a one time check?

[warm raptor]

no problem 👍 😁

[frosty hound]

You can do an overlap cast and check, yes

[frank flare]

if ... then

[frosty hound]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.OverlapSphere.html

[frank flare]

should I use overlapsphere or overlapbox?

[frosty hound]

Whatever shape fits your situation

[frank flare]

hmm, overlapsphere might be better

[waxen adder]

Came up with an interesting way to use a navmesh for grid movement, bypassing a lot of coding in the process (A* and others).

Ran into a problem with the pathfinding though. In the image, the wire cubes are what is recorded as the corners for the NavMeshPath. Start position is where the capsule is and end position is on the furthest left wire cube. For some reason, the agent wants to go around through the bottom, with what seems to be a very unecessary "corner" in between the two ones that matter. ON TOP OF THAT, for some reason, it does not want to take a path on the northern part of the wall, which should be shorter. Any thoughts?

For additional context, the center of these corners are where the agent gets its destinations individually set to, essentially creating grid movement, but via the Unity navigation system

Oh, hm. Looks like messing with voxel size helped out. Set the ratio from 2.00 per agent radius to 4.00

[plain garden]

How to GetComponent the X-Position?

IDE is Visual Studio btw and I did try and troubleshoot with the API

[frank flare]

are there Physics.OverlapBox gizmos?

[plain garden]

Elaborate?

[steep rose]

thats not how that is done, you get the object first then get the transform of said object.

[frank flare]

I did

[plain garden]

If you manually add it then no

[plain garden]

Is it something like Get(NameOfObject)<Transform.position??>;

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Gizmos.html
you can use the cube with whatever size you want

[steep rose]

someobject = GetComponent<Gameobject>();

i suggest you use docs next time for GetComponent

[rich adder]

xPos = transform.position.x

Transform and GameObject have properties on component to get them so no need for GetComponent
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.html
(Monobehaviour inherits Compoent)

[plain garden]

Thank you so much for actually being so much clearer

[plain garden]

Honestly I did look at the documentation for GetComponent tho

[main karma]

ended up copying the RenderTexture in a temporary one, using that one with a custom material that has a shader which flips it and then copies it to the original, all in RenderPipelineManager.endCameraRendering to make sure the first shader does not get overwritten so the order is kept, but it works

[steep rose]

if you did you would see that what you were doing was wrong

[fading mountain]

Hey guys. I'm having a wierd problem where the bullets coming out of my gun are following the rotation of the player when it moves AFTER being instantiated. I've looked through all my code multiple times and I can't find the issue.
I have three scripts (relatively small):

1. PlayerMovement (attached to the player) https://gdl.space/iliratoyin
2. Gun (attached to the player) https://gdl.space/iropupadec.cs
3. Bullet (attached to the bullet prefab) https://gdl.space/neqezunugo.cs
   if you need more info see the video:

[deft grail]

its a child of your player

and bullet spawn point

since the player is moving, so is the bullet

[fading mountain]

there you go

wow

thank you so much lol

[hallow sun]

yeah just remove the last value on that instantiate which sets the parent

[fading mountain]

I think it's better to just make the bullet spawn point a seperate object

[deft grail]

it needs to follow your player though 🤔

so its fine and should leave it a child

[fading mountain]

I can set its position to the position of the player when ShootBullet() is called

[deft grail]

seems kinda pointless

just make it a child

[fading mountain]

you know actually I think Faywilds is right

I dont even need the bullet spawn point to begin with

I deleted that and made the spawn point position the player, and removed the parent

[deft grail]

thats not even what he said lol, but alright you do you

[fading mountain]

removed the parent in code

as of right now they are just in the hierarchy

which is what he said

[stark summit]

Im having a issue with my camera and my movement

[flint barn]

Hey, so I finally got a chance to work on my game. I removed the camera that was a child of the player and I now have a script that searches for the player and makes it follow them. However, this only works for the first player, for the 2nd the camera is stuck.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using UnityEngine;
using Unity.Netcode;
using Cinemachine;

public class CameraScript : NetworkBehaviour
{
    public GameObject cameraTarget;

    private CinemachineVirtualCamera vcam;

    

    public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
    {
        if (!IsOwner)
        {
            gameObject.SetActive(false);

        }
    }


    private void Start()
    {
        vcam = GetComponent<CinemachineVirtualCamera>();


       

    }

    private void Update()
    {
        cameraTarget = GameObject.Find("Player(Clone)");

        if (cameraTarget != null)
        {
            vcam.Follow = cameraTarget.transform;
        }
    }

[plain garden]

Another dumb question.

How do I make variables accessible through all scripts?

[summer stump]

!ask

[eternal falcon]

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:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.
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[summer stump]

Make them public

[plain garden]

It says that it doesn't exist when I use it

let me pull it up hold on

[steep rose]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[steep rose]

public for sure exists

or else i am crazy

[summer stump]

Perhaps you wrote Public instead of public?

[plain garden]

let me get screenshots

[summer stump]

You have the method collapsed, uncollapse MovePlayer
Show line 23

[steep rose]

you didnt access your script

nvm

[plain garden]

Irrelevant tho

[summer stump]

Oh, this is a completelh differe script.

[steep rose]

you are not accessing movement

[summer stump]

The error is in EnemyScript
Everything you showed is completely irrelevant

[rich adder]

you should learn how references work

[plain garden]

What does that mean

[summer stump]

Show the correct script

[rich adder]

also you have nested MB classes..

[steep rose]

you have xPos and yPos on the Movement script

so of course it wont work

[summer stump]

Oh damn. Awful screenshots on mobile. I see the script now
This is why screenshots suck

[steep rose]

its an entirely different script you need to access

[plain garden]

Honestly I’m just gonna learn this and try to stop being confused so much about Unity

[summer stump]

But the issue is that you never referenced the Movement script as dec said. You need to do something like
public Movement movement;

movement.xPos

ObjectReference Dot Variable

https://unity.huh.how/references

[steep rose]

you got to it first

how

[summer stump]

The link? I have it pinned in my phones clipboard haha

[steep rose]

you have the website loaded lmao

[rich adder]

its also pinned in this channel

[steep rose]

where?

[steep rose]

ah

thats nice to know, ty nav

[steep walrus]

I've been trying forever to get this to work but I just can't figure it out. No matter what I do I try to make it so when my player hits an obstacle by entering its collider box with an OnTriggerEnter method and then calling a method from another script that resets the position of certain objects in my scene.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization;
using UnityEngine;
using static Track;

public class Obstacle : MonoBehaviour
{
    Track trackScript;

    void Awake()
    {
        trackScript = GetComponent<Track>();
    }

     void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        trackScript.ResetPosition();
    }
}

public void ResetPosition()
    {
        left.transform.position = startPosL;
        middle.transform.position = startPosM;
        right.transform.position = startPosR;
    }

Then I get an error that says "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" on the line "trackScript = GetComponent<Track>();"

I've tried so many things and just can't figure out how to avoid the null reference

[wintry quarry]

Double check the line number for your error. That line is not capable of throwing that error

Anyway it seems very strange that TrackScript and Obstacle would be on the same GameObject so that code is almost certainly not correct

[stark summit]

So my character moves in the direction of the camera but eh camera is stuck where the player is facing instead of the player looking where the camera is

[steep walrus]

its cause I grabbed a method from my trackscript so thats how I called the method in the obstacle script

also I swear it says the same line number im 100% sure

[wintry quarry]

That doesn't make any sense because your code is trying to get the script from the same GameObject

[wintry quarry]

Prove it to me

Show the actual full error message

[ivory bobcat]

Track script was null

Show the inspector for that game object

GetComponent would return null and would assign that null to the track script if there isn't a track script component in that game object.

[faint agate]

Hello, so im trying to make player look in a certain direction on start. When I press start, my camera is reset to 0 and looking in the direction the mouse was last left at on the screen(ex. If mouse was top left of screen on start, the fps cam will be looking top left).

https://gdl.space/etapuxitoy.cs

i tried getting rid of cursor lock but it didnt help

https://gdl.space/uxaziwezay.cs

this script is attached to the camholder and Transform cameraPosition is on the player

[wintry quarry]

That's not the same line you mentioned at all

So your "100% sure" was wrong

Anyway it's as I mentioned, your code doesn't make sense. I would expect you to get the script from the object you collided with, not this same object

[tranquil zealot]

hey i need some help, i was making a game about combat with colours and i got stuck in a really weird technicality. so basically, what i was trying to create, was a combat system, where the longer i hold space, the bigger and slower the attack "blob" is, and the shorter i hold space, the small and faster the blob is. but what the error is, is that sometimes, the blob first comes out big and fast, and right after that, no matter how long or short i hold space, the blob comes out small and slow. here's the code -

[frosty hound]

@tranquil zealot !code on how to share code here. Don't just dump it.

[eternal falcon]

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[frosty hound]

You're meant to read the message, not parrot what I wrote.

[tranquil zealot]

public class PlayerAttack : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator animator;
    public Transform attackPoint;
    public LayerMask enemyLayer;

    public GameObject prefabBlob;

    public BlobScript blobScript;

    bool isBlack;
    bool isWhite;
    bool isRed;
    bool isYellow;
    bool isBlue;

    GameObject instantiatedBlob;
    Renderer blobRenderer;

    float startTime;
    float endTime;
    public float totalTime;

    void Update()
    {
        ChangeBrushColor();

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && instantiatedBlob==null) 
        {
            animator.SetBool("isAttack", true);
            startTime = Time.time;
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Space) && instantiatedBlob==null)
        {
            endTime = Time.time;
            totalTime = endTime - startTime;

            if(totalTime > 0.7f)
            {
                totalTime = 0.7f;
            }
            if(totalTime < 0.1f)
            {
                totalTime = 0.1f;
            }

            Debug.Log(totalTime);

            Attack();
            startTime = 0f;
            endTime = 0f;
            totalTime = 0f;
        }
    }

    void Attack()
    {
        animator.SetBool("isAttack", false);

        instantiatedBlob = Instantiate(prefabBlob, attackPoint.position, attackPoint.rotation);
        blobRenderer = instantiatedBlob.GetComponent<Renderer>();

        blobScript.speed = (1f - totalTime) * 15;
        instantiatedBlob.transform.localScale = new Vector3(0.3f + totalTime, 0.3f + totalTime, 1f);

[summer stump]

InstantiateBlob is not null after the first time

Unless you set it to null somewhere else?

Why even check whether it is null in update?

[faint agate]

Hello, so im trying to make player look in a certain direction on start. When I press start, my camera is reset to 0 and looking in the direction the mouse was last left at on the screen(ex. If mouse was top left of screen on start, the fps cam will be looking top left).
https://gdl.space/etapuxitoy.cs
i tried getting rid of cursor lock but it didnt help
https://gdl.space/uxaziwezay.cs
this script is attached to the camholder and Transform cameraPosition is on the player

[tranquil zealot]

well my intention was to not be able to spam the attack, is that not necessary?

[summer stump]

You are using GetKeyDown and Up so it will not spam faster than keypresses. If you want a cooldown, I would just go with a timer.

But if the null check works, that is fine, you just have to actually set it back to null

[steep walrus]

super condescending for no reason

and not constructive

[wintry quarry]

It wasn't constructive to give misleading information about the situation which made it take longer to solve the problem

[steep walrus]

this is the beginner chat, you think I'm intentionally giving you the wong information. I thought I was sure, and I wasnt simple as that. you felt the need to be condescending and point out that I was wrong

[wintry quarry]

Be more humble, less confident, since it's the beginner chat.

[acoustic arch]

is it a bad habit to not feel like learning and using some of unities tools like with IDragHandlers, and instead just making my own item to mouse drag

i just made my own for my game cause i was too lazy to look into unities and i prefer it i suppose

[steep walrus]

being not confident and humble are two different things. if anyone needs to be humble its the one in the beginner chat dicking on people for making small mistakes

[acoustic arch]

you'll make them again if he doesn't, and it's less of being humble and not confident and more of being willing to learn

besides it's a chat for programming why argue? just get to the facts

[summer stump]

False. It was an important fact

[steep walrus]

thats exactly my point. why did he need to point how that I was wrong explicitly

[steep walrus]

not really, i would get that I was wrong out of any correction

[acoustic arch]

so you'd know for next time

[steep walrus]

my point is there is a better way to get that point across

[summer stump]

What he said was a pretty polite correction imo
No need to be rude to him when he was just helping

[acoustic arch]

one way or another it gets said as long as it conveys the idea oh well

my teachers in school could use that lesson tho 💀

[steep walrus]

I appreciate the help, minus the condescending tone. thats my point. anything extra to actual constructive criticism which "your statement was wrong" is not constructive. instead he shoulda just pointed out my mistake and left it at that. I also still don't know the fix because he was super vague

and didnt point out what I was missing and just said where I should get the script which I dont know how to do

I tried fixing this problemon my own and came to this server as a last resort. im not js coming here as my first resource

reacting to a message with an x is literally the definition of non constructive criticism

[summer stump]

Well, he is unlikely to continue helping after the insults, I will not either. He was not condescending. You could have just asked for clarification, instead of attacking people for no reason. Literally no one was anything but polite and helpful to you before whatever this was
Just gonna block.
Please watch your behaviour before mods take action

[steep walrus]

I dont want anyone helping me that is condescending so that works idrgaf if i get blocked

[steep walrus]

okay and i disagree bruh just block. youre going in circles

i hope the mods take action against me for pointing out condescension

you can @ them if you want

[acoustic arch]

i think the point is to just be respectful to those trying to help out even if you feel an indifference

[steep walrus]

and I'm saying I deserve the same respect, i didnt want to call it out with soft speak so I called it for what it was, condescending.

[acoustic arch]

last thing i say cause i don't want mods fishy with me for sum reason. personally i could see how you think it sounds condescending when he's more deeply telling you to look outside the box even if you feel "100% sure". but morley you should have focused on the help he gave you right after you practically ignored

[steep walrus]

im not ignoring, i knew exactly what the line said. because he didnt point out what i missed. i still dont know how i was supposed to read the error message. not everyone has the same level of knowledge as you. that guy didnt know how to explain it to me. and thats okay. but it didnt need to be disrespectful

[acoustic arch]

it's because GetComponent is trying to get track script from you obstacle object

[acoustic arch]

you need to make track script variable on obstacle public then reference your track script's object from the inspector

[steep walrus]

I ended up figuring it out. i think using a different solution. but I appreciate it, thank you for the explanation

[acoustic arch]

no problem, and yeah MonoBehavior scripts are in unity considered "components" so using GetComponent will look on the object with the script that ran it or you can do GameObject.GetComponent() to get one from a different object but replace GameObject with a referenced Game Object

[steep walrus]

ohhhh thats good to know thank you

[languid spire]

!code

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[simple fjord]

so what do I need to do

[languid spire]

use a paste site as the bot says

[simple fjord]

so is this alg

[languid spire]

no, you post your code to the pastesite then you post the link to that here

[simple fjord]

https://paste.ofcode.org/sYdRJM4GdXLiYGYr9nt6Uy

[languid spire]

Ok, so you are going to need to add some Debug.Logs in there to see exactly what is going on

[simple fjord]

could you tell where

[languid spire]

Well I dont know your data or setup so no, but basically start with everywhere

[marble hemlock]

ok so it took a while and i figured out how ray works and i got it drawing the ray

we making progress i think 👍

only took me

[marble hemlock]

6ish hours of sifting through tutorials, feeling like im getting nowhere, going through documentation, getting frustrated again, etc.

[simple fjord]

well this quite the predicament cause idk where

also get @timber wedge banned for this inappropriate message

[marble hemlock]

that black line coming from the camera

[languid spire]

every method needs a Debug.Log so you know if it's being run or not. Every if statment needs a debug.log to see which path is being taken. This is Debugging 101

[marble hemlock]

thats the only ray coming out of it right?

that just needs to hit something for it to detect?

[languid spire]

you can report it if you think it's necessary

[bold nova]

Hello everyone. I tried to subscribe SessionManagers method GameOver to a unityEvent in the EnemyManager OnRechingfinishLine.

public UnityEvent OnReachingFinishLine;

Do you know why this is wrong?

FindAnyObjectByType<EnemiesManager>().OnReachingFinishLine += GameOver;
CS0019 Operator '+=' cannot be applied to operands of type 'UnityEvent' and 'method group' 

But this is just fine?

        FindAnyObjectByType<EnemiesManager>().OnReachingFinishLine.AddListener(GameOver);

aren't those the same statements?

[marble hemlock]

i actually dont know how to go forward from here

raycasts kinda have me cooked

[eternal needle]

+= is how you do it for c# delegates
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Events.UnityEvent.html
unity event doesnt use that as an operator

[willow scroll]

To subscribe to a UnityEvent, you have to use the AddListener method

[simple fjord]

these 2 works

[bold nova]

ah, I see, Thanks!

[languid spire]

OK, Debugging 102. Dont just output literals, show some useful data, in this case waypoint index and target

[willow scroll]

How does "skibidi toilet" printed in both methods tell you which one was called?

Seems like to will have to check the stack trace for each

[marble hemlock]

something is severely wrong im gonna

[simple fjord]

idk how to do this

[languid spire]

Did you actually learn C# basics or just copy/paste this code?

[marble hemlock]

oh

[simple fjord]

hey this not very nice

i actaully tried

[marble hemlock]

did you go to unity.learn

or learn.unity

whatever the order is

[languid spire]

just asking because string interpolation is a pretty basic thing

[simple fjord]

@devs can sm1 else help this guy is rachet

i was just curious on what variables i could displaye

[marble hemlock]

they have great resources and honestly its better than just trying at random tutorials with rough explanations because they either A) expct you to be pretty far in understanding or B) don't really explain wha they're doing and simply just tell you to follow

[timber wedge]

hey, could you try be a bit nicer, he is trying his best to help as many people as he can.

[simple fjord]

ok

[marble hemlock]

in my attempt to record the problem
i have found the problem

i was noticing that whenever i looked down, the raycast was triggering "hey something is in the way", and i couldnt figure out why, and i thought it was the floor

but no the raycast was hitting the player, which i tagged an interactable for some reason

wait ive just reverted back to another problem fuck

[simple fjord]

hey no swearing

[timber wedge]

):

[marble hemlock]

im not even sure whats going on here

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

[rich adder]

void Update()
    {
        RaycastHit hit;
        Ray ray = new Ray(cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward);
        Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction * interactRange, Color.black);
        if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactRange))
        {
            if(hit.collider.tag == "interactBlock")
            {
                Debug.Log("Something is in the way");
                interactPrompt.SetActive(true);

            }
            else
            {
                interactPrompt.SetActive(false);
            }
        }else {
            interactPrompt.SetActive(false);
        }
    }```

[marble hemlock]

i might be doomed

it fixes the problem, thank you, but now its freaking out whenever i move
i mean it was doing it before but now its doing it all the time

raycasts are hard

[simple fjord]

i m more doomeed I cant even doing nuthing the bro isnt helping me

@timber wedge apologize

now

[timber wedge]

im sorry ):

[simple fjord]

good boy

[willow scroll]

good luck, you need it

[strong wren]

@timber wedge @simple fjord Both of you can stop this sort of stuff. This really isn't the server for this.

[marble hemlock]

this is rough

[simple fjord]

apologies

[marble hemlock]

whenever i move it just

idk

[timber wedge]

I apologise for my past actions. sincerely, D1 flickerer

[marble hemlock]

the raycast is still colliding with the interactBlock but whenever i move the player's position, it just bleh

well

[willow scroll]

What does it mean?

Could you, perhaps, describe the issue?

[marble hemlock]

well its doing this

i have a debug log that whenever the ray cast is hitting the thing tagged interactBlock, which is the white rectangle thing over there, it'll say that something is in the way

and if something is in the way, it will show an image prompt

the problem is that whenever i start moving, even if the raycast is colliding, it starts to just spaz out

im not even sure what exactly is the problem

moving the camera seems to have no issue

[willow scroll]

How can I help you if you are not sure what is your problem

[marble hemlock]

the problem seems inconsistent

the problem seems most notably whenever i get close to the object hold on

[short hazel]

From the video, it only seems to detect the white object when you're not moving

[marble hemlock]

yeah

i dont know why

it notably gets worse whenever i get close to the object

[short hazel]

Which could mean the raycast hits the player first
I would debug the raycast position and direction using the physics debugger

[willow scroll]

Yeah, your player also has the tag "interactBlock"

[marble hemlock]

that was causing a problem earlier but i did fix that

whenever i looked down it would cause it to immediately trigger

[willow scroll]

Oh, that's your white block selected

[marble hemlock]

Ray ray = new Ray(cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward);

Well the raycast positionand direction is based on the camera, which i named cam, and whichever way "forward" is for the camera

this is rough

[short hazel]

Show the code that executes the raycast

[marble hemlock]

oop wait

was slightly redone

[willow scroll]

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

[marble hemlock]

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

[willow scroll]

Here, under this condition

if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactRange))

print

$"name: {hit.collider.name}; tag: {hit.collider.tag}"

[marble hemlock]

something had to be changed because earlier whenever the player looked away it kept it on screen until they looked around

[short hazel]

And you already have a Debug.DrawRay, good

[marble hemlock]

i dont know what that means

not the draw

[short hazel]

Put the string in a Debug.Log, I guess

[willow scroll]

Yes, I have mentioned printing it, which means using the print method

[marble hemlock]

that would explain why i dont know what it means 😭

[willow scroll]

Use the MonoBehaviour.print method to print the message I've shown above

[fiery badger]

Hi guys I have this read only error, what should I do?

https://hastebin.com/share/orekiduyiy.lua

[short hazel]

print() is roughly a shorthand to Debug.Log()

[willow scroll]

Which can only be used on MonoBehaviours, and calls Debug.Log inside of it

[marble hemlock]

give me a moment my head is struggling with this

[willow scroll]

How is your head struggling with printing a message to the console?

[short hazel]

This is the Unity server, this doesn't look like Unity C# code

[marble hemlock]

up until this point ive only been referred to debug.log, so print is new to me
im not fully understanding its purpose but im trying to read the documentation on it

[willow scroll]

You cannot assign a string's char, if it's inside of an Enumable

You have to set the string fully

[short hazel]

Yeah you cannot change a single string's character via the indexer str[i]

You can get the character at this position, but not set it

[willow scroll]

Yes, here the last part is redundant, since it's not only in Enumerables, but overall

[fiery badger]

I see thanks

[marble hemlock]

okay i just started tagging everything i can

its hitting... something

im not sure what it is yet, but we're getting there

[elder condor]

can i have help pls

[short hazel]

!ask a question!

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.
-# For more posting guidelines, go to #854851968446365696

[elder condor]

do u flicker goon or jelq

[short hazel]

What

[languid spire]

<@&502884371011731486>

[marble hemlock]

an alt

odd

[short hazel]

Ah, some slang I'm not aware of?

[marble hemlock]

or perhaps a friend of theirs

[simple fjord]

bro is this toast

[marble hemlock]

okay its hitting something related to the player

[elder condor]

chur

[thorny junco]

"Hello, friends. I have a question that's been on my mind. When I can't remember how to write a certain code (like how to create a timer... etc. ) or when a question pops into my head, should I research it on the internet or use ChatGPT? Which would be more beneficial? ChatGPT really speeds up the process.

[elder condor]

ermm what the sigma

[timber wedge]

mb flickered a little too close to the sun

[marble hemlock]

i think its hitting the player position object

[hollow sedge]

Guys pls keep it proffesional this is a unity server

[simple fjord]

@strong wren

[elder condor]

just turn off and on