💻┃code-beginner

[marble hemlock]

are they all just friends

[hollow sedge]

thats harrasment i just want to make sure that people are able to get the help they need from this server

[short hazel]

Using the log sashok provided earlier will tell you what the ray has hit

[hollow sedge]

as i hope i will recieve

[marble hemlock]

i think i figured out what its hitting

[timber wedge]

gulp, I have a bad feeling....

[marble hemlock]

i have a capsule thats a physical object meant to allow me to see where the game controller is

kay hold on

yeah its the player position object

i dont even know what to do about that

i mean the quick and obvious solution feels like just deleting the object, but then i wont be able to tell where the player is

[short hazel]

You can use layers instead of tags, and pass a LayerMask to the Raycast, that will tell it to ignore everything except the layer you've selected

[marble hemlock]

so tags bad

[short hazel]

In your specific case, layers are a better solution

[marble hemlock]

okay i dont know how to handle layers for this, i'll be right back

[short hazel]

Avoid GPT for pure code generation, instead rely on online documentation.
GPTs are not intelligent, they spit out code to look like what they were trained on, and make mistakes sometimes

[thorny junco]

Thank you kind and handsome friend

[willow scroll]

I would only recommend using ChatGPT if you know what you are doing. For example, if I have a struct and I need to quickly create a property drawer with buttons in the Inspector for it, I give a fast request to ChatGPT. But since I know how to do it, I will be able to correct the mistakes and rewrite some parts to match my style, and this way, it will be the same as without AI, but faster

[thorny junco]

Thank you kind and handsome friend

also amazing

[marble hemlock]

hey should i be using fixedupdate

for raycast

[willow scroll]

Only use it if you know how to implement it without it, but when writing code, which is new to you, I would definitely recommend using Stack Overflow and docs, since ChatGPT is usually not that reliable

[thorny junco]

[marble hemlock]

im just looking at the documentation for layermask and i just noticed that it separated the physics function into fixed update
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LayerMask.html

[willow scroll]

Yes, since it's physics

[willow scroll]

Right, because all physics-related stuff should happen in Fixed Update

[eternal needle]

the unity docs often dont use the best practices, its mainly just to show the code. Their example checking for input in fixedupdate is horrible

[short hazel]

It's a physics query applied once and where results are returned immediately, it does not need to be in FixedUpdate

[marble hemlock]

so what you're all saying is that i should go to bed and give up on this

[short hazel]

What?

[marble hemlock]

oh i have to get up in half an hour anyways damn

how do i define the rate for fixed update

[eternal needle]

raycasts dont need to be anywhere specific. It depends how you're using the raycast or the result of it.
Like if you want something to move in the world respecting physics then it'd make sense to use fixed update

you dont, its already defined to be 50 per second

[short hazel]

You don't worry about this and keep your code where you raycast in Update.

You just need to create a layer in Unity, a LayerMask in your code, and pass the mask to the Raycast.
And change the layer of the interact object, of course

[marble hemlock]

might be getting there

ah

found problem

a single bracket did that

IT DISAPPEARED

THE OBJECT

okay its still there
i can walk into it but the moment i added the layer it turned invisible

[short hazel]

Layers do not turn objects invisible by themselves

[marble hemlock]

mine might be a lil magical

[short hazel]

Some code is doing that, maybe the SetActive() call in your script targeting the wrong object?

Also what layer did you choose?

[marble hemlock]

uncertain but i found a new problem i should fix

i chose layer 8

[short hazel]

Which is named?

[marble hemlock]

Interactable

[short hazel]

Good, on your main camera make sure this layer is rendered, it's a setting on the Camera component

[marble hemlock]

i am the fool
it worked
thank you

freedom...

[thorny junco]

you are not fool you are great friend

[marble hemlock]

thank you
unity unexpectedly hits me with new problems i didnt even know could be problems

[abstract copper]

    public void PackagePickedUp(GameObject package)
    {
        Vector3 localPosition = spawnArea.InverseTransformPoint(package.transform.position);
        if (col.bounds.Contains(localPosition))
        {
            packagesInSpawnArea.Remove(package);
            currentPackageCount--;
            Debug.Log("Picked up in bounds");
        }

        Debug.Log("Picked up");
    }

    public void PackageDropped(GameObject package)
    {
        Vector3 localPosition = spawnArea.InverseTransformPoint(package.transform.position);
        if (col.bounds.Contains(localPosition))
        {
            packagesInSpawnArea.Add(package);
            currentPackageCount++;
            Debug.Log("Dropped in bounds");
        }

        Debug.Log("Dropped");
    }

I cant get the code in the if statements to execute, do I need to be looking in the local space or world space? I tried both but I just cant get stuff to work

[marble hemlock]

how do i apply a function to only the thing the raycast is hitting, and not all things that have that LayerMask?

[eternal needle]

show code, because it would be a lot harder to accidentally apply code to everything on a certain layer compared to just the object the raycast hit

[teal viper]

The bounding box of the collider seems to be in world space:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider-bounds.html

[languid spire]

It might help you if you actually debugged the variables you are working with

[eternal needle]

it also wouldnt make sense for a bounding box to be in local space.
Bounds https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Bounds.html has no knowledge of your object, and it is not a component so it doesnt even have access to your transform

[orchid kite]

can someone help me i am making a game on unity and i want my monkey to throw bananas but its not working i made a firepoint and put it where i needed to on the attack part and i did object pooling and put like 10 bananas at that area as well where they are all hidden so im not sure whats wrong but heres the code

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

public class BananaThrow : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float speed;
    private bool hit;
    private BoxCollider2D boxCollider;
    private float direction;
    private float broke;

    private void Awake()
    {
        boxCollider = GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (hit) return;
        float movementSpeed = speed * Time.deltaTime;
        transform.Translate(movementSpeed, 0, 0);

        broke += Time.deltaTime;
        if (broke > 5) gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        hit = true;
        boxCollider.enabled = false;
    }

    public void SetDirection(float _direction)
    {
        broke = 0;
        direction = _direction;
        hit = false;
        boxCollider.enabled = true;
        gameObject.SetActive(true);

        float localScaleX = transform.localScale.x;

        if (Mathf.Sign(localScaleX) != direction)
            localScaleX = -localScaleX;

        transform.localScale = new Vector3(localScaleX, transform.localScale.y, transform.localScale.z);
    }

    private void Deactivate()
    {
        gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }
}

this is the banana throw code

and this is the monkey attack code

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

public class MonkeyAttack : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float cooldown;
    [SerializeField] private Transform firePoint;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject[] bananas;
    private MonkeyScript playerMovement;
    private float cooldownTime = Mathf.Infinity;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0) && cooldownTime > cooldown && playerMovement.canAttack())
            Attack();

        cooldownTime += Time.deltaTime;
    }

    private void Attack()
    {
        cooldownTime = 0;

        bananas[FindBanana()].transform.position = firePoint.position;
        bananas[FindBanana()].GetComponent<BananaThrow>().SetDirection(Mathf.Sign(transform.localScale.x));
    }

    private int FindBanana()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < bananas.Length; i++)
        {
            if (!bananas[i].activeInHierarchy)
                return i;
        }

        return 0;
    }
}

[languid spire]

!code

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[orchid kite]

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

public class MonkeyScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed;
    private float move;
    public float jump;
    private Rigidbody2D z;
    public bool isJumping;

    //scale values of monkey
    float zy = 0.56f;
    float zx = 0.53f;

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

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

        //movement
        move = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        z.velocity = new Vector2(speed * move, z.velocity.y);

        //jump
        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && isJumping == false)
        {
            z.AddForce(new Vector2(z.velocity.x, jump));
        }

        //change directions
        if (move > 0.01f)
            transform.localScale = new Vector3(zx, zy, 0);
        else if (move < -0.01f)
            transform.localScale = new Vector3(-zx, zy, 0);
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        //ground check
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Ground"))
        {
            isJumping = false;
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        //ground check
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Ground"))
        {
            isJumping = true;
        }

    }

    //attack

    public bool canAttack()
    {
        return move == 0;
    }

}

and this is my movement code jump code and ground check and the start of the canAttack

[ivory bobcat]

How to post !code (use the large code blocks guide rather than the inline guide)

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[orchid kite]

can anyone help thanks

[willow scroll]

Could you listen to the help attempt? Thanks.

[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 first person 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

[fickle plume]

If you are unsure what's wrong then debug the code. http://unity.huh.how/debugging
Then post what the problem is if you don't understand still.

[dusky tusk]

the box here is my player, for some reason when im on the wall and hold down the key that goes to the wall(in the pic i held down a to go left to the wall) my player just gets stuck vertically, no gravity, it returns to normal when i release the key though

void Update()
    {
        horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");

        if (isGrounded() && Input.GetButtonDown("Jump")) { 
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpSpeed);
        }
    }

    private void FixedUpdate() {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(horizontal*speed, rb.velocity.y);
    }

    private void flip() {
        if (facingRight && horizontal < 0f || !facingRight && horizontal > 0f) {
            facingRight = !facingRight;
            sprite.flipX = facingRight;
        }
    }    

    private bool isGrounded()  {
        return Physics2D.OverlapCircle(groundCheck.position,0.2f,groundLayer);
    }```

the tilemap uses a tilemap collider and a composite collider

[abstract copper]

    public void PackagePickedUp(GameObject package)
    {
        if (col.bounds.Contains(package.transform.position))
        {
            packagesInSpawnArea.Remove(package);
            currentPackageCount--;
            Debug.Log("Picked up in bounds");
        }

        Debug.Log("Picked up");
    }

Yea I had this but the if statement is not called

[teal viper]

Then it's probably not in the bounds. Did you try debugging the involved values?

[wintry quarry]

This is normal, and it doesn't mean there's no gravity. This is happening due to friction

[dusky tusk]

ohh

[wintry quarry]

In real life you wouldn't be able to magically push against the wall in the air like that

[abstract copper]

if the gameobject is being passed?

[teal viper]

What?

[dusky tusk]

i cant find the friction parameter lol, i must be blind

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-PhysicsMaterial2D.html

[abstract copper]

i didnt understand which values you mean

[teal viper]

Debugging the involved values:

• the gameobject
• the bounds position and size
• the position of the object

[abstract copper]

first is the position of the object and second the col.bounds

maybe i pick it up too fast?

[dusky tusk]

yep, thanks for the help, i fixed it:)

[tired surge]

this isent about coding but does anyone know how to share a project with a friend i have look everywhere but have found nothing to help

[teal viper]

The bounds are just 0.04 thick and are around 1 on the y axis. Yet the position of the object is 2.3 on the y axis. That is outside the bounds.
Maybe try visualizing the bounds with gizmos to make it easier to debug such issues.

[teal viper]

The simplest way is just to send them the project folder.
But a more prefered way is using a version control system.

[abstract copper]

should they be thick as the object?

oh i get it now

gonna have to rewrite the pickup because then i cant pick them up, the trigger of the area blocks it so it cant access the collider of the item

[grand badger]

keep the debugging practices up! get in habit of printing actually helpful values too instead of just reached here

you likely won't have any further issues with this specific system, but learning to deal with each issue/case will be easier once you're into the My code WILL have bugs mindset

of course we're going for the perfect system right off the bat, but let's face it it's not likely to happen xD
in your case the Scene view had all the necessary info regarding why the pickup doesn't work (-- you can see the "Scene" even if you're in "Play" mode).

[tired surge]

where do you send the project folder?

[teal viper]

To your friend.

[tired surge]

yeah but like how i tried using gmail but that didnt work

[teal viper]

I mean, it could be several GB in size. You can share it however you like. Google drive is one option.
But as I said earlier, version control system would be better.

I'm not sure gmail allows you to share files of such size.

[teal viper]

What "didn't work" though?

[tired surge]

it deleted the whole file when i sent it to my friend

he just got a gmail with nothing

[teal viper]

Well, I'm not sure if we can help you with gmail issues here, but it's probably the size limitation as I mentioned.

[tired surge]

yeah probably

i will try version control system

[abstract copper]

Yea I got it to work before but not the way I wanted to

I got it to work now one time but it just wont detect it again

they spawn on the min y of the bounds

so they should be in it

[mint grotto]

someone help im kinda new at unity but how to u make the object move around smoothly

this is what i mean its a vid

[grand badger]

which of these are the trigger? Use a sphere or something for a trigger until you make it work lol

[abstract copper]

was just gonna say I got it working, it was that it goes into the hand too fast

so thats why its out of bounds

[steep rose]

Do not crosspost

[abstract copper]

by the time function is called its out of bounds already

[mint grotto]

what

[grand badger]

nice

[steep rose]

You posted in multiple channels of the same thing

[mint grotto]

it was only 2

[steep rose]

Yeah dont do that

[tired surge]

i am now using version control system but i get errors when i go anywhere

[steep rose]

Also read what I said in #💻┃unity-talk

[teal viper]

When you go anywhere? Like in real life or?

Might want to provide a better explanation

[steep rose]

Also you should not be using gmail with version control

Dunno why you would do that

[tired surge]

when i press on for example attributes i just get an error saying "the specified repositry couldn't be found: then my project name"

[steep rose]

You moved the repository file location

It should say locate or something along those lines

If you click that you will need to go to your rep folder

[tired surge]

how i just downloaded the version control system

[steep rose]

What application are you using for git

[teal viper]

We have no clue what you're talking about. What version control system did you "download"?

Maybe take screenshots if it's hard to explain in words.

[tired surge]

unity version control

[teal viper]

And how did you "download" it?

Because it's not something you just download normally

[steep rose]

If you use unity version control and not the unity engine you need the Desktop Client so no you do not need this

You still dont need it even if it's highly recommended from you

[teal viper]

Ok, my bad. You might need to download the client, not the version control system.
What I'm trying to say is that they should be providing more info and be more clear as to what they're doing and what problem they have.

Because so far it was like half guessing. Really annoying.

[stark summit]

using UnityEngine;

public class CharacterMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 5.0f;
    public float jumpHeight = 2.0f;
    public float gravity = -9.81f;

    private CharacterController controller;
    private Vector3 velocity;
    private bool isGrounded;

    public Transform cameraTransform;


    void Start()
    {
        controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
       
        isGrounded = controller.isGrounded;

        if (isGrounded && velocity.y < 0)
        {
            velocity.y = -2f;
        }


        float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        Vector3 cameraForward = cameraTransform.forward;
        Vector3 cameraRight = cameraTransform.right;

        cameraForward.y = 0;
        cameraRight.y = 0;

        cameraForward.Normalize();
        cameraRight.Normalize();

        Vector3 move = (cameraForward * moveVertical + cameraRight * moveHorizontal).normalized;

        controller.Move(move * speed * Time.deltaTime);

        if (move != Vector3.zero)
        {
            transform.forward = move;
        }
        
        if
    (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && isGrounded)
        {
            velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2f * gravity);
        }

        velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;

        controller.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);
//right here AI keeps telling me that i should add (* Vector3.up) but then i get a error if added
    }
}
//code

[grand badger]

stop talking to the AI that helped you write this code immediately! Also, use https://gdl.space to post big blocks of code

if you REALLY have to move upwards, you can do this controller.Move((velocity + Vector3.up) * Time.deltaTime);, but I'm fairly sure you don't...

[sleek gazelle]

Any idea what's wrong about my code?

    [SerializeField] new Renderer renderer;
    Texture2D originalTexture;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        originalTexture = (renderer.material.mainTexture as Texture2D);
        int height = originalTexture.height;
        int width = originalTexture.width;
        float x = Random.Range(0,249092);
        float y = Random.Range(0,249092);
        for (int i = 0; i < width; i ++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < height; j ++) {
                if (originalTexture.GetPixel(i,j).a == 0) {
                    originalTexture.SetPixel(i,j, new Color(0,0,0,0));
                }
                else{
                    if(Mathf.PerlinNoise(x + i,y + j) < Random.Range(0.000f,1.000f)){
                        originalTexture.SetPixel(i,j, new Color(0,0,0,0));
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        renderer.material.mainTexture = originalTexture;
    }

It makes unity freeze

[grand badger]

that aside, calling controller.Move() twice on the same frame/method is a bad practice and could bring forth issues

[grand badger]

it freezes coz you're iterating through THIS many pixels, lol.

or not, idk.. but yeah if that's the case don't do it 😛

[silent vessel]

Anyone can help me I was just working as usual and any new scripts I created dont use unity

[sleek gazelle]

Am I? I don't think I am

[grand badger]

how big is your texture?

[sleek gazelle]

The random values are just offsets for the perlin noise

[deft grail]

!ide

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

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[grand badger]

also, have you tried commenting out JUST THE START method here? and see whether it still freezes

[sleek gazelle]

529 * 472

[sleek gazelle]

I can run a single method on it's own?

[grand badger]

no, I said comment out

aka delete

[sleek gazelle]

Ah

Yeah, it's the thing that makes unity freeze

[silent vessel]

Will try but shit just stop working out of nowhere

[grand badger]

well 250k operations shouldn't make it freeze, but if you have, say, 100 objects that have this, it might take a long time

[meager sentinel]

The part where it destroys the bullet is disabled

[sleek gazelle]

I have like 3

[meager sentinel]

ah yeah, and sorry for answering late, my light had went out

[sleek gazelle]

Might be because all the objects that are running this script are editing the same texture

How can I create an instance of a texture?

Looks like it is an instance already

[grand badger]

var pixels = originalTexture.GetPixels();
for (int i = 0; i < width; i ++) {
    for (int j = 0; j < height; j ++) {
        var index = i + width * j;
        var x = Random.Range(0,249092f);
        var y = Random.Range(0,249092f);

        if (pixels[index].a == 0) { pixels[index] = Color.Clear; }
        else if (Mathf.PerlinNoise(x + i, y + j) < Random.Range(0f, 1f)) { pixels[index] = Color.Clear; }
    }
}

originalTexture.SetPixels(pixels);
originalTexture.Apply();
renderer.material.mainTexture = originalTexture;

[sleek gazelle]

Thanks!

[grand badger]

this will be much more efficient than 250k GetPixel calls

[sleek gazelle]

That's much faster

But sttill no noise on my texture lol

I'll try to figure that out

[grand badger]

@sleek gazelle check updated version for noise

[sleek gazelle]

It's still the same? Except you removed the .000

[grand badger]

oh actually they have an example implementation here: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.PerlinNoise.html

[grand badger]

no I made each x/y be calculated inside the inner loop

[stark summit]

why stop talking to that AI?, and i mean this script is using the camera but the camera is locked to the players view and not visa versa

[sleek gazelle]

That's not exactly what I need though, I need it for randomness, I don't want the actual noise to be applied to the texture

[silent vessel]

did not help man

[grand badger]

because it's obviously not smart enough to teach you how to code and I believe it'll teach you bad practices instead :/

[sleek gazelle]

That's not what I need but thanks anyway

[grand badger]

np good luck

[sleek gazelle]

I found why it doesn't work:

ArgumentException: Texture2D.SetPixels: texture uses an unsupported format. (Texture 'RoadWorkSignTextureWithTransparency')
UnityEngine.Texture2D.SetPixels (System.Int32 x, System.Int32 y, System.Int32 blockWidth, System.Int32 blockHeight, UnityEngine.Color[] colors, System.Int32 miplevel) (at <2d8783c7af0442318483a199a473c55b>:0)
UnityEngine.Texture2D.SetPixels (UnityEngine.Color[] colors) (at <2d8783c7af0442318483a199a473c55b>:0)
TextureNoise.Start () (at Assets/Scripts/TextureNoise.cs:28)

[sleek gazelle]

Thanks!

[stark summit]

is there that much weird? or what

[deft grail]

the main point is the more code you write and the more complex the game gets, the harder it is to control everything if AI just wrote it all

you also barely learn anything

[sleek gazelle]

But I can't manage to find where the error is in the code

If I comment out the 2 conditions, it's not fixed

[grand badger]

yeah it has some terrible practices I mentioned above. And the fact it suggests adding * Vector3.up doesn't help

[sleek gazelle]

var pixels = originalTexture.GetPixels();
originalTexture.SetPixels(pixels);

Why would this not work?
EDIT: texture format was wrong

[grand badger]

the texture needs to be marked as isReadWriteable from the import settings -- is it?

[stark summit]

what are those was what i was asking because there have been no errors in its code till that and it only puts it in sometimes, but another thing just because AI helped write some of it means get it out of the "code-beginner" channel?

[sleek gazelle]

Yes it is

[grand badger]

I wasn't trying to be hostile, you misunderstood. I just genuinely think that this specific AI isn't helping you learn programming the proper way.

[grand badger]

@stark summit maybe I'm wrong though. But yeah give it a go with the standard way of google and stackoverflow imo

[steep rose]

using AI in general to write code for you is a bad idea, mainly you wont learn a single thing. secondarily it will lead you astray most time

[summer stump]

This is basically just a copy of Brackeys movement code, including the mistake of two Move() calls per frame

[silent vessel]

anyone know what this means

New compiled scripts dont work

[summer stump]

Can you show the context instead of cropping it so much?

[sleek gazelle]

@grand badger just wanna say thank you! I fixed the last error and it looks super nice!

[grand badger]

woah that DOES look super nice 👍 yw

out of curiosity, what was the last error?

[sleek gazelle]

Looks like the format of the texture was wrong, so I created another texture by script with the good format (chatGPT helped me a bit in finding why it wasn't working lol), here's the code now if you want:

        originalTexture = (renderer.material.mainTexture as Texture2D);
        Texture2D newTexture = new Texture2D(originalTexture.width, originalTexture.height, TextureFormat.RGBA32, false);
        int height = originalTexture.height;
        int width = originalTexture.width;
        float x = Random.Range(0,249092f);
        float y = Random.Range(0,249092f);

        Color[] pixels = originalTexture.GetPixels();
        for (int i = 0; i < width; i ++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < height; j ++) {
                var index = i + width * j;
                if (pixels[index].a == 0) pixels[index] = Color.clear; 
                else if (Mathf.PerlinNoise(x + (i * scale), y + (j * scale)) < Random.Range(0f,0.7f)) pixels[index] = Color.clear; 
            }
        }

        newTexture.SetPixels(pixels);
        newTexture.Apply();
        renderer.material.mainTexture = newTexture;

[cosmic dagger]

Is your !ide configured?

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[silent vessel]

yes

everything was fine

up till this happen

[cosmic dagger]

I don't use Visual Studio, but isn't MonoBehaviour supposed to be colored?

[silent vessel]

yea thats why

I can only sue plain c#

[steep rose]

did you delete anything you shouldnt have?

[silent vessel]

not that im aware of my commits looks clean

[rich adder]

Did you get it ?

[orchid kite]

guys i need help

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
MonkeyAttack.Update () (at Assets/MonkeyAttack.cs:15)

this is my error and here is the code

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

public class MonkeyAttack : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float cooldown;
    [SerializeField] private Transform firePoint;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject[] bananas;
    private MonkeyScript playerMovement;
    private float cooldownTime = Mathf.Infinity;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0) && cooldownTime > cooldown && playerMovement.canAttack())

            Attack();

        cooldownTime += Time.deltaTime;
    }

    private void Attack()
    {
        cooldownTime = 0;

        bananas[FindBanana()].transform.position = firePoint.position;
        bananas[FindBanana()].GetComponent<BananaThrow>().SetDirection(Mathf.Sign(transform.localScale.x));
    }

    private int FindBanana()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < bananas.Length; i++)
        {
            if (!bananas[i].activeInHierarchy)
                return i;
        }

        return 0;
    }
}

[steep rose]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[steep rose]

do new projects work?

[cosmic dagger]

Can you remove this post and use the link to paste your code?

[steep rose]

you basically deleted the file that tell files where to go to

[orchid kite]

oh i did the thing now

with the backquotes

any help would be appreciated thanks

[steep rose]

read the bot

[cosmic dagger]

No, you cannot paste large code. It blocks other people's questions and answers. Use the links provided from the bot dec_ves posted . . .

[silent vessel]

nope actually

new projects dont work either

sometimes the scripts I create work fine sometimes they dont

[cosmic dagger]

Plus, we cannot accurately access which line the error is on as the code wraps around. Very hard to read on mobile . . .

[steep rose]

explain what you did before this happened

it may be a bug, if it is, please follow this !bug

[eternal falcon]

Reporting bugs

🪲 To make bug reporting as quickly as possible, we made a bug reporting application for you. When running Unity choose Help->Report a Bug in the menu, or you can access it directly through the executable in the directory where Unity is installed. It will also launch automatically if you experience a crash.

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For more complete instructions on how to report bugs, access: https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/bug-reporting

[orchid kite]

Bro idk how to use it

[steep rose]

click GDLspace link and paste your code

then press the save in the site

simple

[rocky canyon]

paste -> click the 💾 save icon.. give us the new url thats generated

[orchid kite]

Ok

I’ll do it later cuz I just went off my pc

Sry guys mb

[steep rose]

if you have everything on github already, you can try to reinstall unity

or visual studio

[wooden minnow]

How would I make an object feel like it was thrown really hard?
I'm raycasting and then teleporting it to where it hits but idk how to make it feel like it was thrown there instead of teleported

(I'm trying to replicate the effect of Uzi throwing a [NULL] from murder drones)

[summer stump]

Your ide is not configured and the issue is with the csproj file. Try clicking regenerate project files in the external tools window of unity

[silent vessel]

I was just working on my game nothing special

[silent vessel]

okay

[silent vessel]

the button doesnt do anything unless it happens in an instance

[summer stump]

Are you clicking it when Visual Studio is closed?

[silent vessel]

yep

[rocky canyon]

delete the .csproj files manually if u have to..

[summer stump]

Try deleting all the .csproj files then do it again

[rocky canyon]

the button should work tho

[silent vessel]

just to not mess up how do u do that

[faint agate]

I’m 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 cursor was top left of screen on start, the first player will be looking top left when game starts).
https://gdl.space/ecusebusop.cs
https://gdl.space/osezedamig.cs
This script is attached to the camholder and Transform cameraPosition is on the player

I tried changing the player and cameras rotation from edit mode and in script, but I’m doing something wrong and need help.

any help would be appreciated

[summer stump]

Click the files that end in ".csproj", press your delete key
That is really it

[rocky canyon]

it'll rebuild them..

[silent vessel]

Sory didnt help. Same problem persist

[steep rose]

reinstall visual studio ig (if nothing works), this problem has been going on for a while with visual studio but pretty rare

[languid spire]

You could try a Repair via the Visual Studio Installer

[silent vessel]

Ok thanks alot. I take it as not a unity problem

[lethal meadow]

https://medal.tv/games/requested/clips/ixVyvdDhPWz5nceta/d1337j8W4y50?invite=cr-MSxDSW8sMTgzNjY1MDAxLA

is there a better way of doing an enemy that shoots back

    void Update()
    {
        if (player != null)
        {
            scanner.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(player.transform.position - scanner.position);
            if (Physics.Raycast(scanner.position, scanner.forward, out hit, 15f))
            {
                transform.LookAt(player.transform);
                if (!shooting)
                {
                    shooting = true;
                    Invoke("ShootPlayer", 1);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0);
            }
        }
    }

    void ShootPlayer()
    {
        if (player != null)
        {
            if (Physics.Raycast(scanner.position, scanner.forward, out hit, 15f))
            {
                player.GetComponent<PlayerHealth>().takeDamage(enemyDamage);

                GameObject MuzzleFlashInstance = Instantiate(muzzleFlash, endOfBarrel.transform.position, endOfBarrel.transform.rotation, transform);
                MuzzleFlashInstance.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
                Destroy(MuzzleFlashInstance, .3f);

                transform.GetComponent<ScreenShake>().TriggerShake();
                redTint.SetActive(true);
                Invoke("DisableTint", 1f);
            }

            shooting = false;
        }

    }

    void DisableTint()
    {
        redTint.SetActive(false);
    }
}

[steep rose]

i would make it lag behind a bit so its not aimbot

[lethal meadow]

how

i was thinking of adding spread

but its still instant

i dont know how to make actual bullets that travel

this is my 6th day of unity

[steep rose]

i would !learn the basics of unity

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[lethal meadow]

if you know what i'd need to learn

i dont like just going through everything one after another

i prefer finding what i need then learning it and using etc

[steep rose]

if you dont know the absolute basics of unity you should not be making a project like this

[lethal meadow]

what basics

[steep rose]

i would 110% learn how to use unity

you can learn by clicking the link i provided

[summer stump]

These basics
#💻┃code-beginner message

Essentials and then Junior Programmer pathways at least

[lethal meadow]

oh really

i didnt see it the first time

[faint agate]

I’m 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 cursor was top left of screen on start, the first player will be looking top left when game starts).
https://gdl.space/ecusebusop.cs
https://gdl.space/osezedamig.cs
This script is attached to the camholder and Transform cameraPosition is on the player

I tried changing the player and cameras rotation from edit mode and in script, but I’m doing something wrong and need help.
any help would be appreciated

[young warren]

i think it's because mouseX and mouseY is always 0 at the start

you could try setting the camera's transform.forward to the direction you want

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.LookRotation.html
or this. I'm not too sure

[steep rose]

why not set mouseX and mouseY on start

[young warren]

because mouseX and mouseY is a mouse input

[steep rose]

you set mouseX to 90deg and it will start there

its not a -1 or 1 input

it adds up over time

or decreases over time

[faint agate]

how would I do this?

[steep rose]

it actually might be Xrotation mb

[faint agate]

thank you for responding

i tried transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0); on cam but that didnt work

[steep rose]

set Yrotation on start

[faint agate]

how would I properly set this rotation on start?

[steep rose]

Yrotation = //something in the start method

[faint agate]

thats what im stuck at lol

yRotation.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0); and yRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0); wont work

[steep rose]

no literally just do Yrotation = //something

[faint agate]

yRotation = (0, 180, 0); this isnt working either

says error

[steep rose]

you dont add a vector

[faint agate]

ahhhhhh

[steep rose]

just a simple float

Yrotation = 90;

[faint agate]

it workeddddddddddddddd

thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

lol idk why I kept doin 3 instead of one

[bitter monolith]

so im making this world for vrchat and when i go to run it to test it out and everything. it doesnt let me move or anything. ive checked the meshes and ive even loaded it into a whole new project and still nothing

[wintry quarry]

!vrchat

[eternal falcon]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[steep rose]

I had zero clue you were talking about vrchat

you should use thier discord instead

[lethal meadow]

@upper geyser still want help?

[languid spire]

Did you read the message??

[orchid kite]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[orchid kite]

https://gdl.space/bupajokola.cs

can anyone help me this is the error i am reciving in unity this is my first time so i am not the greatest lol

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
MonkeyAttack.Update () (at Assets/MonkeyAttack.cs:15)

thanks

[languid spire]

did you read line 15 of your code?

[short hazel]

Stacktrace guide:

at Assets/MonkeyAttack.cs:15
  |         PATH         | Line of code

And a guide explaining what a NullReferenceException is, and how to fix it: https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[wooden minnow]

if i do

GameObject obj = new GameObject();
obj.AddComponent<myCustomComponent>();``` how can i change `obj` without deleting what it was before?

idrk how to explain it

[polar acorn]

If you don't want to change the value of the variable obj, then don't change it

That's really the most I can answer with the info given

[wooden minnow]

i basically just want to temporarily hold an object and then let go of it without deleting it

[polar acorn]

Then like that

[wooden minnow]

but im not really sure how i would do that

[polar acorn]

The code you've done will do that

[wooden minnow]

will it delete the object im holding tho

[polar acorn]

Do you run any code deleting it

[wooden minnow]

obj = new GameObject();

again

[polar acorn]

That changes which object obj holds

that doesn't delete anything

[wooden minnow]

alright ty

[rocky canyon]

    {
        Program program = new Program(0, "Test Message");
        program.GetMethod(program.dotCount).Invoke(program.message); // just recently learned I could do things like Grabbing a Method via a string
        program.CallMethod(program.dotCount, program.message); // this is more of what i'm used to
    }

    Action<string> GetMethod(int index)
    {
        switch (index % 3)
        {
            case 0: return A;
            case 1: return B;
            case 2: return C;
            default: return DefaultError;
        }
    }

    void CallMethod(int index, string message)
    {
        switch (index % 3)
        {
            case 0: A(message); break;
            case 1: B(message); break;
            case 2: C(message); break;
            default: DefaultError(message); break;
        }
    }``` decisions, decisions..

[short hazel]

Get yourself an Action<string>[] and you can get rid of the switch statement: return actions[index % actions.Length];

[rocky canyon]

everytime i realize something cool, its always just the tip of the iceberg 😄

[languid spire]

And did you check the 2 things it told you to check?

ok, so screenshot your console

[carmine narwhal]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using UnityEditor.Experimental.GraphView;
using UnityEngine;

public class BallMoveMent : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float startSpeed = 100f;
    public float speedIncrease = 1f;
    private Vector2 currentSpeed;
    private int collisionCount;

    
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        StartMoveMent();
    }

    private void StartMoveMent() 
    {
       
        float x = Random.Range(-0.5f, 1f);
        float y = Random.Range(-0.5f, 1f);
       
        Vector2 direction = new Vector2(x,y).normalized;
        rb.velocity = direction * startSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        Debug.Log(direction);
        currentSpeed = direction * startSpeed;

    }
    public void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        collisionCount++;
        if(collisionCount % 5 == 0) 
        {
            rb.velocity *= speedIncrease;
        }
       
      

    }
}
``` This script was supose to give the ball a random directions on every directinos exept for straight right or straight left. but it just gives a random direction.  What to google to get some type of answer? apperntly i dont know how to google

[white forge]

you are giving it a random range

that is how it should work?

[white forge]

random.range is a random number between the two inputs

[carmine narwhal]

yes but the inputs make it so the ball goes straight sometimes. i dont want that

[white forge]

thats how random works?

[carmine narwhal]

no

[white forge]

there will always be a chance of it going forwards no?

[carmine narwhal]

i want to restrict it

[white forge]

then you need to clamp it

[steep rose]

you would use Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") or Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") for inputs

[carmine narwhal]

THIS how should i know to google clamp?

[steep rose]

not random.range

[white forge]

he isnt asking about it being controlled with a keyboard

i dont think?

[carmine narwhal]

you are right 😄 im not asking it to be controlled

[steep rose]

Horizontal does not need to be controlled via keyboard

with the new input system

[summer stump]

He wants random uncontrolled movement it looks like. So no input at all

[steep rose]

ah ok

[carmine narwhal]

its a god damn pingpong game. the ball should just start moving but it needs some restrictions. but now i want to know how i should know how to google clamp?

[white forge]

he isnt asking for something controlled with input

read his original question

[steep rose]

i see that

[white forge]

yeah im reading over it to see if i can think of a solution

ive never had this exact problem

can you try and explain what you want to happen, and what is happening

[carmine narwhal]

im gonna try to paint it 😛 but i paint liek a 2yr old give me a min 😄

[white forge]

ok

[summer stump]

HOW you should know what to google? You wanted to know how to limit some values. When I googled "unity limit values" it was the first result. Sometimes just asking the question is perfect. Hope that helps for the future

[white forge]

why are you so agressive

[carmine narwhal]

green direction correct red not

[white forge]

they are actually trying to get help now

so you are getting the red

[carmine narwhal]

im getting all of them 😄

[summer stump]

I have seen you attack like six people today. I was trying to help them know how to google things and hopefully give them some confidence with that.
Stop attacking people

I am blocking you. I don't get why you are so hostile and angry to everyone. No one was ever hostile to you as far as I saw

[white forge]

ok.

[carmine narwhal]

how did you get from restricting direction to limit value?

[steep rose]

well obviously you are getting a random range between X and Y which is in all directions

just get a random range between X

[summer stump]

A direction is just values, so you can restrict those values as needed

[steep rose]

or Y depending on how it is orientated

[carmine narwhal]

but then it wont ever go up?` or down

[short hazel]

For Y choose between -1 and 1 (0 excluded) and build the direction vector from that

Make sure to normalize the vector though, that should give it a "random" Y velocity since normalizing affects both X and Y

[carmine narwhal]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using UnityEditor.Experimental.GraphView;
using UnityEngine;

public class BallMoveMent : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float startSpeed = 100f;
    public float speedIncrease = 1f;
    private Vector2 currentSpeed;
    private int collisionCount;

    
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        StartMoveMent();
    }

    private void StartMoveMent() 
    {
       
        float x = Random.Range(-0.5f, 1f);
        float y = Random.Range(-1f, 1f);
       
        Vector2 direction = new Vector2(x,y).normalized;
        rb.velocity = direction * startSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        Debug.Log(direction);
        currentSpeed = direction * startSpeed;

    }
    public void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        collisionCount++;
        if(collisionCount % 5 == 0) 
        {
            rb.velocity *= speedIncrease;
        }
       
      

    }
}
``` like this?  seems to be working, but i do not understand why 😛 Thanks though

[steep rose]

you changed values in the range

[summer stump]

Might wanna make those values variables, but that is not super important now
Like xMin, xMax, yMin, yMax

[short hazel]

For Y it will still have a chance to return 0, although with a low probability

[carmine narwhal]

could do 😄

[summer stump]

Like I said though, no biggie for now. You are just testing haha

[carmine narwhal]

Thanks.

[carmine narwhal]

im trying to make a pingponggame without using to much help 😄

[summer stump]

Ah, then sorry hahaha. You seem like you are on the right track and doing well though from what I saw

[carmine narwhal]

thanks now to my issue, how could have google my way to changing the value. even though its probably just math 😛

or my next problem..... now the stupid ball stops bouncing and goes in a single direction after the bounce 😦

[steep rose]

you need to flip the velocity when you hit a wall

[summer stump]

So for that one, maybe something like "unity change direction after bounce" and ignore any tutorials, see if there are any docs pages that pop up

I am avoiding giving you the answer, unless you want it

[polar marsh]

Can someone help me with this, I've got a sorting algorithm where if the player is at a higher checkpoint than the other, their position moves up the list

But it's being sorted the other way, the ones with a lower position are coming first

[carmine narwhal]

ill save the answer for later 😄 how ever the google didnt give me any hintsd 😄

[polar marsh]

The top one has position 0 and the bottom has position 1, it should be the other way round

[steep rose]

i would recommend flipping the velocity

thats a hint

[willow scroll]

using System.Linq;

playerObjects.Max(p => p.position.checkpointNumber);

[polar marsh]

It's running in a sorting algorithm, how would i use max here

[carmine narwhal]

thanks for the hint. i will check that. not totaly sure what you mean by that but but 😄 need to sleep soon

[polar marsh]

Needs to be compared between two players

[willow scroll]

Well, you just want to sort them by their numbers?

[magic panther]

This is a global class that I use for collectible storage, changing scenes and all that (at least that's my intent), and found something weird. LoadScene works fine, but RestartScene says that Instance is not defined. I don't know how to approach this. Any ideas?

Script -> https://gdl.space/hiburisosi.cs

[polar marsh]

No, should have said sorry. It sorts by lap number first, then checkpoint, then distance to checkpoint

[willow scroll]

Aren't you supposed to use

SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);

[magic panther]

oh, I didn't think of that xd

[willow scroll]

So you can make a list out of them and use OrderBy?

Are there also supposed to be other players? Since I don't see why you need a List for 2 items

[polar marsh]

Yeah, it's a network game i'm just testing with 2 clients right now

Difficult to test with more

[willow scroll]

I would use OrderBy

[polar marsh]

Okay I'll have a look ty

[willow scroll]

Do you have to perform an action on each player, regardless of them being the 1st in the order or not?

[carmine narwhal]

ok for this time i would like tha answer. so i can go to bed happy for once 😄 the googling did not give me anything

[polar marsh]

It runs on a managerscript that has references to each player object

Calls the sort function each frame

Really inefficient but i'm just trying to get something working right now

Does orderby still support selection like i've done above? I'd rather not call the distance function unless two are the same

[willow scroll]

I'm not sure what you want to do

You haven't answered my previous question

[polar marsh]

Sorry i'm not really sure what you mean

[willow scroll]

Describe what you want to do

[polar marsh]

It's a bubble sort algorithm,

First it checks if the otherplayers lap is lower, then it swaps if it is

If theyre the same, it does the same for the checkpoint number

If the checkpoint numbers are the same, then it checks the distance of the two players from the next checkpoint

Then if the other player is further it swaps them

[carmine narwhal]

after a few bounces this happends ``` using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using UnityEditor.Experimental.GraphView;
using UnityEngine;

public class BallMoveMent : MonoBehaviour
{
private Rigidbody2D rb;
public float startSpeed = 100f;
public float speedIncrease = 1f;
private Vector2 currentSpeed;
private int collisionCount;
private float bouncOffset = 0.1f;
private float minX = -0.5f;
private float minY = -1f;
private int maxX = 1;
private int maxY = -1;

void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    StartMoveMent();
}

private void StartMoveMent() 
{
   
    float x = Random.Range(minX, maxX);
    float y = Random.Range(minY, maxY);
   
    Vector2 direction = new Vector2(x,y).normalized;
    rb.velocity = direction * startSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
    Debug.Log(direction);
    currentSpeed = direction * startSpeed;

}
public void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    
    collisionCount++;
    if(collisionCount % 5 == 0) 
    {
        rb.velocity *= speedIncrease * bouncOffset;
    }
   
  

}

}

[summer stump]

You could do what sashok is saying and take the velocity and simply negate it with a - sign.

Or look up Vector2.Reflect

[grand laurel]

I dont know how advanced this is but I feel like its relativity beginner so im going to ask help in here

Im currently working on my FPS game with a lock on system similar to Metroid Prime/Dark Souls. I have made it so a raycast is shot out from the player camera and returns a vector 3 of a targetable object. After that, the player can push a button to make the camera LookAt the the targetable objects postion. However after the player is no longer holds the input required for the camera to target the object the camera goes flying off into a different direction.

    {
        CheckTarget();
        if(inputHandler.TargetTriggered) 
        {
            Debug.Log("Is Targeting");
            transform.LookAt(TargetsPostion);
            orientation.transform.LookAt(TargetsPostion);
        }
        
    }

    private void CheckTarget() 
    {
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, Mathf.Infinity, targetLayer))
        {
            Debug.Log("Object Hit");
            TargetsPostion = hit.point;
        }
    }```
Below I also provided a video of my issue

[carmine narwhal]

oki thanks i will try that if i can understand what you mean by that 😄 but with some testing maybe 😄

[willow scroll]

Do you have to actually order all the players in the list, or get a single one?

Since I've only heard about 2 now

[polar marsh]

Yeah, as each client will want to know their position in the list

And they're all separate objects

[willow scroll]

players
    .OrderBy(p => p.position.lapNumber)
    .ThenBy(p => p.position.checkpointNumber);

[polar marsh]

Perfect ty

Then i just do a check for ones that are the same? and then do the distance check from before

[willow scroll]

What do you mean?

[polar marsh]

If two players both have the same next checkpoint

[willow scroll]

You have to check till the point you are sure the player's ranks are not the same

[willow scroll]

Use ThenBy as many times as you wish

[polar marsh]

The one thats the closest needs to first

[willow scroll]

OrderByDescending and ThenByDescending exist

[polar marsh]

No but i havent calculated the distance already

I only want to do it if more than one player has the same checkpoint number

Because its an expensive algorithm to call each frame

And once you get 16 players running it for each of them will wreck performance

[magic panther]

that worked perfectly, thanks

[rocky canyon]

use cs float sqrDistance = (pointA.position - pointB.position).sqrMagnitude; float sqrThreshold = distanceThreshold * distanceThreshold;

[polar marsh]

Ignore that haha

Ty ill try that

[willow scroll]

That's what ThenBy does

[polar marsh]

Oh i see

I thought it ran it on all the players

[rocky canyon]

its cheaper but by how much idk

[willow scroll]

If OrderBy has left an Enumeable with the same values, ThenBy orders the same values once more

[polar marsh]

Ahh that makes sense

Sorry i thought it was just like running orderby again

[orchid kite]

https://gdl.space/bupajokola.cs

can anyone help me this is the error i am reciving in unity this is my first time so i am not the greatest lol

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
MonkeyAttack.Update () (at Assets/MonkeyAttack.cs:15)

thanks

[willow scroll]

So, here

score  time
200    50
400    40
200    30

Since 2nd and 3rd players have the same score, it's going to call ThenByDescending on time, and give

score  time
400    40
200    30
200    50

[polar marsh]

Okay ty thats a lot easier

[steel mauve]

One of the objects on line 15 of MonkeyAttack.cs is null/unset/uninitialized. Probably playerMovement?

[orchid kite]

But I thought that I initialized playerMovment as monkey script which is my movement code and ground check

[steel mauve]

Sorry, I'm super new to Unity (just got here), but lots of experience in C#. Maybe the answer is obvious to someone else, but I don't see anywhere in your script where you set playerMovement = anything

[verbal dome]

That is just declaration, not initialization

[orchid kite]

Oh I didn’t know that lol

[verbal dome]

You only told what type it is and its name, but didnt assign a value

[orchid kite]

So I just gotta write

playerMovement = some value

[verbal dome]

You can serialize that field and drag it in

Or use getcomponent if necessary

[queen adder]

i want that lizardman kills pigman but pigman dont want to die can someone help me

[verbal dome]

Yeah or assign it in the inspector

[orchid kite]

Ok well I will just assign it to 0 cuz I don’t want it to be moving while attacking thanks and also thanks @steel mauve

[queen adder]

can you help me execute a pig

[summer stump]

Show the code of course

[queen adder]

wich

[summer stump]

As seen in #📖┃code-of-conduct , do not ping people that are not in a conversation with you already

[summer stump]

The one that is supposed to do what you want

[queen adder]

ofcourse not

[verbal dome]

Troll detected

[queen adder]

im not

[summer stump]

If you cannot show what you need help with, we cannot help you of course

[queen adder]

https://pastecode.io/s/ddeekwkk

this is my player

he is okay

but i dont know how to kill pigman

[rich adder]

you still havent explained the problem

[queen adder]

like sometimes he flys away

sometimes i fly away

[rich adder]

what is pigman, we have no idea what you're doing

[summer stump]

Nothing here even has anything to do with attacking

[queen adder]

sometimes we both fly away

[summer stump]

It just animates and scales

[rich adder]

that doesnt explain what this represents in your game?

[queen adder]

VS

yes

it is pigman vs lizardman

[willow scroll]

Wow, that's epic

[rich adder]

yes you said that

[queen adder]

but the pig wont die

[rich adder]

bu you havent explained the mechanics of the game..

[queen adder]

its a 2d game

u can walk left and right

and jump and hit someone

[rich adder]

ok slowly getting somewhere useful..

maybe create a complete paragraph and explain the problem further..

[queen adder]

i have a weapon in my hand called

Hitbox33

pigs animations are ready

[rich adder]

did you put a script on it ?

[queen adder]

how do i manage to kill pigman now with my weapon

no ?

why

[rich adder]

put the collider , set it to Trigger. Use OnTriggerEnter to inflict damage on the Pigs health script

[queen adder]

health script?

[rich adder]

yea do you know what a script is?

[queen adder]

yes

its the logic

[rich adder]

so whats the confusion, create a health script

[queen adder]

how does the pc now that my weapon is my weapon

(Hitbox33)

[rich adder]

You create yet another script

[queen adder]

oh my

[rich adder]

yes if you want to make anything useful , you will need scripts..lots of them..

[queen adder]

true

ill tell u when i made the health script

[rich adder]

its fairly simple setup, use a Trigger on one script and health on the other. They both interact

you just cant put the script on a disabled object or it wont work

[willow scroll]

Could you also tell me, who wins: pigman or lizardman?

[rich adder]

manbearpig

[queen adder]

HAHAHAH

[willow scroll]

Yeah, that's some epic shit

[queen adder]

right

[rich adder]

needs some screenshake goodness

[queen adder]

oh hell yeaaa

[steep rose]

i cant tell if you mean its cool or its actually not 😂

im getting mixed signals

[queen adder]

iTS FUCKIN AWESOME DUDE

you dont even know where ill go with this shit

it will not be a fighting game

it will be a whole show

[willow scroll]

The only thing left is to improve pigman's fighting spirit

[queen adder]

yap

stands there like a pig

i need blood splattering across the black wall

aswell

[safe spear]

Hi this is the first time ive used a switch inside a for loop, im trying to get the amount of items inside a list and put those values into specific array indexes; i always remains a 0, the console says IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array. test.Update () (at Assets/test.cs:20)and the Debug.Log in the switch statements never gets called.

[waxen adder]

List.Count is one more than the maximum index of a list/array, which is why you're probably getting that exception

[safe spear]

oh my gosh i just rezlied the ammoun of coppy paste errors

[rocky canyon]

 public int[] AmmountsInTheLists = {0,0,0,};```
```cs
 public int[] AmmountsInTheLists = new int[3]```

[short hazel]

Make sure that, in the Inspector, your array has 3 items all set to 0. Since AmmountsInTheLists is marked public, the Inspector will serialize it and potentially overwrite what you've set in the code.

[safe spear]

that fixed it thankyou

[short hazel]

The rest of the code looks fine regarding the loop and the array accesses with i

To avoid the issue in the future always set the upper bound of the loop to the array's length, so it adapts when you resize it. for (int i = 0; i < AmmountsInTheLists.Length; i++)

[rocky canyon]

i always like to debug my results before everytime i access them for things like this..
.Count atleast

[safe spear]

yeah i kinda rushed making an isolated script of the section of code that was causing my issues

[rocky canyon]

Utils.cs

        public static float OptimizedDistance(Vector3 a, Vector3 b)
        {
            return (a - b).sqrMagnitude;
        }

        public static bool InRange(Vector3 a, Vector3 b, float range)
        {
            float squaredRange = range * range;
            return OptimizedDistance(a, b) < squaredRange;
        }
```useless or nifty?

[queen adder]

yo i got the health and the weapon got melee damage but pigman dont want to feel it

i dont know

[rocky canyon]

Dbug and find out why

[rich adder]

show the setup

[queen adder]

how can u hop in a call

[rocky canyon]

• Health Exists and has Value
• Weapon Exists and has Value
• Weapon/Holder interacts w/ pigman
• Value calculates w/ Value
• End Value is Presented

[rich adder]

no. just show which script you created, and which object you put them on

screenshot is is ok for inspector. Send code via links

[queen adder]

what did u just say to me

[rich adder]

mate I dont need to see the sprite

[queen adder]

AHAHAHA

[rich adder]

i get it

[rocky canyon]

his attempt at meme'ing

[queen adder]

frustrated bro

[rich adder]

<<too old to understand Z yuth memes :\

[queen adder]

im 25

[rocky canyon]

yea, i think its included free of charge in any type of Coding

[short hazel]

With the processing power we have nowadays, I'd say not doing a square root will have a very negligible impact on performance. If you're calling this method 10k times a second sure you might see a difference! And you'd also have added the aggressive-inlining attribute on top of those methods to tell the compiler to pull the code up directly to the calling method (to avoid an expensive (?) virtual call)! Or used Burst or Jobs already, idk

[rocky canyon]

anyway.. its easy.. like i said Debug the values.. every step of the way

once ur debug returns something u dont expect.. u found the issue

[rocky canyon]

no, id thinkso.. so far its just got XML tags

[summer stump]

That is gen z
1997 to 2012 is commonly used for it

[rocky canyon]

todays my Discovery day.. I like to start with a few stretches... and then work my way up to using System.Reflection;

[rocky canyon]

i do distance checks primarily for (in range) type stuff... soo thats the method out of hte 2 i'd use more often..

i dont need to know if its squared or not. but only if its within my range variable

i might keep it just for hoots

[eternal needle]

id just rename it to SqrDistance rather than optimized, because its not really clear just from the name.

[rocky canyon]

solid idea.. ty

[zenith cypress]

Keep in mind the aggressive-inline attribute is more of a suggestion to the compiler, and it can just ignore what you want, and can even end up making the function call slower

[rocky canyon]

            float squaredRange = range * range;
            return DistanceSqrd(a, b) < squaredRange;```

[short hazel]

You technically could use extension methods to do stuff like this?

bool inRange = (vec1, vec2).DistanceLessThan(5);

I hate it, what is going on with my brain right now

[rocky canyon]

thats kinda what i was trying to do but i build em out independently in my static Utils class first for some reason

[rocky canyon]

thats soo pretty 😍 lol

i try to think like cs bool inRange = (vec1, vec2).DistanceLessThan(5); this while im writing.. so I know the final use-case will look good and be readible + simple alll of that jazz

but its harder to do in practice (for me atleast)

[zenith cypress]

Could do the Godot approach where they english most of their API

var inRange = vec1.DistanceTo(vec2) < 5;

[rocky canyon]

i think spr2's code is actually more friendly

[short hazel]

I like how Godot's read like plain English when you say the words out loud

[rocky canyon]

i'd not know how to do yours or theirs tbh now that i look at it

dont understand how u can just tack on a DistanceTo() function to a float

[zenith cypress]

public static float DistanceTo(this Vector3 from, Vector3 to) {
  return (to - from).magnitude;
}

[rocky canyon]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

u make it look so simple

[grand laurel]

I’m just gonna reply to my issue up here cause it got buried in the chat, if anyone got any advice or wisdom they can share please do!

[rocky canyon]

i can add this anywhere right?

[zenith cypress]

Has to be in a static class

[rocky canyon]

doesn't have to be in the float class or w/e or named Float

[rocky canyon]

ya ofc

[short hazel]

In a static class, and then it's accessible project-wide

[rocky canyon]

i been stacking everything in a Utils.cs

probably time to stop doing that

[short hazel]

For mine:

public static bool DistanceLessThan(this (Vector3 a, Vector3 b) pair, float distance)
{
    return (pair.b - pair.a).magnitude < distance;
}

[zenith cypress]

cursed tuple

[short hazel]

Yeah that's why I don't like it lol, it abuses tuples

[rocky canyon]

public static bool DistanceLessThan(this (Vector3 a, Vector3 b) pair, float distance) => (pair.b - pair.a).magnitude < distance;
``` dis possible?

[short hazel]

Sure!

[rocky canyon]

lol!

noice!

never looks at it again

[rocky canyon]

i still keep going back to this.. its kinda shocking.. (its hard for me to read lines like this b/c i cant conceptualize how they're build)

soo thanks for the context @zenith cypress @short hazel

[cosmic dagger]

You should separate your utility/extensions into classes like: BoolUtils, VectorUtils, MathUtils, etc . . .

[rocky canyon]

i totally agree.. was just jotting something like that down actually 😅
edit: on the priority todo list

[cosmic dagger]

I started making ridiculous extensions just cuz. cs if (intVariable.IsLessThan(5)) { }

if (isReloading.IsFalse()) { }```

[short hazel]

The C# dev team actually works on better extensions right now, it won't be in the next .NET release but they did a few demos, where you can add new members (including properties!) to existing types, looks like this:

public extension SampleEx for string
{
    // length of the string, squared, because why not?
    public int LengthSquared => Length * Length;
}

// Usage
string s = "ab";
int ls = s.LengthSquared; // -> 4 | Seamless integration

I guess one that would be useful-ish for Unity is something like this:

transform.position.Log("label")
"debug, execution is here".Log();

Implementation exercise left to the reader...

[zenith cypress]

I'm still super uneasy about them, might be good, but also might be more confusing for onboarding when they see new properties mixed with existing one where they can be on instances and/or static. Guess we will see what it ends up doing to codebases in general when it comes out lol. Wonder if unity will be using modern net by then

[rocky canyon]

AYE! 🥳

figured it out lol

[short hazel]

gg

MORE! if ("FFFFFF".ToColor().IsWhite())

[rocky canyon]

holy crap, it took me this long to realize how extension methods really work.. and the whole this implication 🫣

[rocky canyon]

if theres a way, i'll eventually get around to procrastinating enough to find it

bruh.. i feel like not know that stuff has been a reeal hinderance on my learning/progressing lmao

[short hazel]

Yeah the "is this built-in or from an extension?" side of it is what scares me a bit
I guess if the IDE has a way to differentiate them (different color or font style, special icon in the completion list) it's fine, but for the 3 users who don't use an IDE, or do code review on GitHub for example it might get really confusing

[rocky canyon]

i feel like i just took a big step backwards

(but got gifted a brand new pair of boots i guess)

[zenith cypress]

Just don't overuse it

[rocky canyon]

i wont..

lol

i used chatgpt to explain the this keyword a little more thoroughly and it was just complaining about tuples and how that original method wouldnt work

[short hazel]

Once extensions go live on Unity I will finally be able to implement transform.back, .down, and .left muahahaha

[rocky canyon]

(v, v2).DistanceLessThan(5);

heh, i have a .North and all the Cardinal Directions lol

well, an enum and switch statement actually

it stays zipped up in the regions

b/c its hideous and i feel bad

[zenith cypress]

I can't wait for readonly record structs (great for a chunk of ecs component definitions), SIMD/compiler instruction access outside of Vector types, file-scoped namespaces, etc

[rocky canyon]

and.. im lost again

this is.. #💻┃code-beginner right?

[short hazel]

We go wild when there's no activity
Maybe there are 50 people reading and asking themselves "if this is beginner code i am not ready to participate here"

[rocky canyon]

1. extension methods not cause any extra taxing on the ide/compiler? (b/c of hte multiple ways they can be written) nvm.. i dont think so nvm
2. are Tuples okay to use like that on extension methods? (v, v2).DistanceTo(10);

[indigo hull]

I wouldn't worry about performance on extension methods.

[rocky canyon]

im not in general.. just curious more

[short hazel]

1. Nope, it's compiler tomfoolery like most "modern" things. Compiler just replaces your code with a standard call to the static method (hence why both the class and method must be static)
2. Tuples are types like any other

[rocky canyon]

roger that 🫡

[indigo hull]

SPR2 gots it.

[short hazel]

Basically:```cs
"something".Extension();
// ->
MyExtensions.Extension("something");

[rocky canyon]

ahh, yea i get u now..

in the end its all gonna be what is gonna be

well mark down another strike against chatgpt.. (quite a few now)
tellin me i cant use tuples like that.

[marble hemlock]

right

prob better to start this with the script

[indigo hull]

Learn from documentation and your own critical thinking. ChatGPT is worse than a crutch for programmers.

[zenith cypress]

I've only found gpt good for two things, vim commands, and converting rust structs to JS versions for Tauri

[cosmic dagger]

I just made those myself. It's crazy they don't have them . . .

[scenic saffron]

why is my animation not restarting?

nvm im dumb

[cosmic dagger]

I love ChatGPT for documentation. It writes all my extension method summaries . . .

[rocky canyon]

ya, im past the beginner stage for quite a bit now.. i use chatgpt for grunt work.. documentation writing and stuff..
but i can say its useful just as u said earlier.. combine it w/ critical thinking and it can still expose u to concepts, ideas, and whatnot pretty efficiently..
like the tuple thing seemd off, asked here to clarify, got expected answer.. sent a few pointless insult its way and now im off to the next todo bullet lol

[marble hemlock]

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

so i was learning raycast

[rocky canyon]

lmao same

[marble hemlock]

rough stuff, but i think ive gotten it down
i was wondering "how do i cause a change to whatever its interacting with, and not everything with the layer the raycast is looking for?"

[rocky canyon]

but i've notice my codeium plug-in is pretty good on its own.. filling them in after i write the method signature

[marble hemlock]

like if i had a bunch of stuff on the "rock" layer or something but i had a really specific rock i wanted the player to fuck with, how would i do that?

as an example, lets say i want it to make the specific object its interacting with a child of... some other object?

actually thats perfect

[rocky canyon]

when u hit something w/ a raycast u can store that object..

the layer would just be a conditional before hand to narrow down the raycast results

[marble hemlock]

im not entirely sure how id do that
so the layer wont be a problem, right?

[rocky canyon]

  void Update()
    {
        ray = new Ray(cam.transform.position,cam.transform.forward);
        if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit,distance, mask))
        {
            if(hit.collider.transform.TryGetComponent(out IInteractable interactable))
            {
                cachedInteractable = hit.collider.gameObject;
                if(Input.GetKeyDown(interactKey))
                {
                    interactable.Interact();
                    Dbug.Italic($"Interacted with {cachedInteractable.name}");
                }
            }```

[marble hemlock]

do i just go "gameobject", and then shove whatever game object fits that role in there

[rocky canyon]

soo. here its not the exact same.. but u can see where i got the hit.collider.transform

out RaycastHit hit this part here stores it for me when the raycast has a true-hit

[marble hemlock]

okay so id be looking for it hitting the mask, and then hitting object collider, and then trying for it to get whatever applicable script for "Interactable?"

[rocky canyon]

    // we somehow got a hit
    // var theThingYouHit = hit.gameObject;
}```

[marble hemlock]

it seems more study of raycasts is needed

[rocky canyon]

the mask is within the raycast method.. u dont even have to worry about that..

• after it hits something (that means its in the mask)
• then do another check to see what it is (if u want to interact w/ it)
• now store the gameObject

[marble hemlock]

see store is where you're getting me

[rocky canyon]

 ray = new Ray(cam.transform.position,cam.transform.forward);
        if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit,distance, mask))
        {
          //this will only be objects w/ layers that are in the mask
        }

[marble hemlock]

im going to try, thank you

i think im getting a grasp on this

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.Raycast.html
https://gamedevbeginner.com/raycasts-in-unity-made-easy/

[marble hemlock]

going through the docs can be rough at times

helpful yes, but sometimes a bit

[rocky canyon]

thats why i also linked an article

[marble hemlock]

thank you

[waxen adder]

White cubes are original navmesh path corners. Black cubes are the path corners translated to the grid. Green line is for visualizing a straight path or not. Why is it that the navmesh insists on creating two intermediary corners when there is a perfrectly straight line from start to end?

Edit: hmmm. It's tempting to just give it a metric ton of information and just, remove any redundant nodes

[prime cobalt]

If I change the string variable in InvokeRepeating to the name of another function while its running does it change which function it calls?

[rocky canyon]

nah, invoke repeating starts and then continues to call the same method until its canceled

[summer stump]

Or the invoking object is destroyed or PERHAPS disabled?

[prime cobalt]

What about a normal invoke? If that invoke repeats in updates for example and its value is changed will that work?

[summer stump]

no
Sorry. I see what you mean. The NEXT time it is called, yes
Generally just don't want to use invoke or invoke repeating. A delegate may be better (without knowing the use case)

[prime cobalt]

Oh ok good. I just need a way to call functions from a string with their name.

[slender nymph]

why

[prime cobalt]

Enemy ai brain. When the ai is doing a certain action then it sets the string to the function that corresponds with that action.

[slender nymph]

why are you using strings at all for that

[static wasp]

this line of code stopped working for no reason, even though I didn't do anything in this script

if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha1))

[slender nymph]

is that line perhaps inside of FixedUpdate?

[static wasp]

nope, just update

[slender nymph]

are you certain the code is actually running?

[static wasp]

it used to work fine, but when i added something in unity, it stopped working

[static wasp]

yes

[zenith cypress]

Well what did you add

[slender nymph]

be less abstract. nobody can possibly guess what you've done that made it stop working unless you provide actual details

[zenith cypress]

Did you enable the new input system?

[prime cobalt]

quick way to set which function needs to be called. Like when it stands for a certain time so the standing function decides to walk and so it sets the function that is called each 0.1f seconds to the one that corresponds to walking. Having it be strings means I can call it by name and not need a big switch statement.

[static wasp]

i assigned an unrelated script to an unrelated object

[polar acorn]

That will not affect the ability to read input

[slender nymph]

this is still not a reason to use strings. if you're manually typing the strings in anyway, you can also just type the method name for an Action or even just call the method properly

[static wasp]

that's why i'm asking why it stopped working

[zenith cypress]

Send over the script to see if it is a logic error. Also put a debug log before the if statement to see if the script is even running properly.

[eternal needle]

because it was always flawed from the beginning and this random vague change you made isnt related

[polar acorn]

How have you discerned it "stopped working"

what have you done in order to demonstrate that

[static wasp]

i put a debug log before it, and it worked, also lemme send the script rq

[zenith cypress]

Also, you are pressing Alpha1 right? 1 on your top row of the keyboard (not numpad 1).

[static wasp]

it used to do what was in the if statement, but now it doesn't, even when i added a debug log

[static wasp]

yes

[zenith cypress]

Just making sure 👍

[polar acorn]

Did you press numlock

[static wasp]

no

[polar acorn]

try it

Ah wait, alpha1, that's the normal number, nevermind

Continue with posting the !code then

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[static wasp]

doesn't work

[static wasp]

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

public class Gun : MonoBehaviour
{   
    public GameObject bulletPrefab;
    public GameObject gun;
    public GameObject player;
    private string weapon_active = "None";
    private Renderer rend;
    private GameObject bullet;
    public GameObject camera;
    public Vector3 mouse_pos;
    public bool bullet_move = false;
    void Start()
    {
        rend = GetComponent<Renderer>();
        rend.enabled = false;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if(Camera.cursor_locked)
        {
            if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha1))
            {
                Debug.Log("works");
                if (weapon_active == "Gun")
                {
                    rend.enabled = false;
                    weapon_active = "None";
                }
                else
                {
                    rend.enabled = true;
                    weapon_active = "Gun";
                }
            }

            if (weapon_active == "Gun" && Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) == true)
            {
                GameObject bullet = Instantiate(bulletPrefab, player.transform.position, camera.transform.rotation);
                Bullet bulletScript = bullet.GetComponent(typeof(Bullet)) as Bullet;
                bulletScript.direction = player.transform.forward;
                bullet_move = true;
            }
        }
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, it's never printing "works". Put a log before that if, but still inside the Camera.cursor_locked one. Does that log every frame?

[static wasp]

yes

i already tried it

[polar acorn]

Put a log there, then show a screenshot of your console after you tried to hit the button

[static wasp]

put a log before the if statement?

[zenith cypress]

Before the alpha1 if statement, yes

[static wasp]

ok one sec

[polar acorn]

Yes, before the input statement, after the cursor statement

[prime cobalt]

Ok actions is a pretty decent suggestion but I'll see if this works first

[static wasp]

it never said that alpha1 works

i checked all of the messages

[polar acorn]

Okay, no errors. Try enabling "Collapse" so you'll be able to see if there's anything in there

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, it would seem that Alpha1 is never pressed on a frame this object is active for. Try changing it to a different key for testing

[zenith cypress]

Also make a new Mono script and see if it works there. Just put the script on some random object in the scene

[static wasp]

any key or another number?

[polar acorn]

Any key. Let's say Spacebar

[static wasp]

still doesn't work

i pressed space like 30 times

it doesn't say works

[polar acorn]

Okay, show a screenshot of the inspector of this object while your game is running

[static wasp]

wdym

[zenith cypress]

play game, pick up weapon, show weapon in inspector

[polar acorn]

Take a screenshot of the inspector of this object while your game is running

At a time you'd be expecting the button to work

[static wasp]

wait

i remembered that my jump button is space

lemme try a different button rq

no buttons work

i can't move or jump, i can only look around

hello?

[steep rose]

Camera.cursor_locked is probably the issue

[static wasp]

why

[steep rose]

is anything being called underneath it?

[rich adder]

also should avoid using a class named Camera

[static wasp]

yes, the if statement

[steep rose]

no i mean did you test it

[polar acorn]

Have you tried restarting Unity

[static wasp]

i haven't saved, should i save and restart unity, or should i try to fix it, and if it doesn't work, restart it without saving (and lose some progress)

[polar acorn]

Save and restart

[steep rose]

did you test any code functions underneath the Camera.cursor_locked

using debugs?

[static wasp]

ok, it might take a bit to re-open because my pc is bad

[static wasp]

yes

[rocky canyon]

allz i saw was every frame

[steep rose]

did you place a debug right underneath the Camera.cursor_locked and not in any if statements?

[static wasp]

yes, and it worked

my 16 gigs of ram are suffering while re-opening unity xd

i re-opened unity and it worked, thanks, but any idea why it stopped working?

[steep rose]

unity being unity

ig

[languid snow]

hello! (top down 2d, just vampire survivors lel) I have a gun that shoots. I want that, when shooting a box, this box shoots out another bullet (just a different game object) in the same direction that it got hit. I know how to do it so it instantiates the 2nd bullet, but i have no idea how to make the second bullet have the first bullets rotation

[polar acorn]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

But if something is weird, a restart is always worth trying

[summer stump]

When it collides, grab the first bullets transform and read its rotation 🤷‍♂️
other.transform.rotation

[static wasp]

and my code that i was implementing worked first try, i'm so happy rn

[summer stump]

Are you using OnTriggerEnter or OnCollisionEnter? Or something else

[languid snow]

oh u can check the object that sth is colliding with?

[undone harbor]

Hello people, I have been trying to retrieve a curve attached to the current animation that is playing using this -

rotationCurve = AnimationUtility.GetEditorCurve(_psm.playerAnimationManager.animator.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo(0)[0].clip, EditorCurveBinding.FloatCurve(path, typeof(Transform), "Rotation Y"));

I have made sure that "Rotation Y" curve is present and also the name is returned properly. It still returns NULL, Could it be the binding?

[summer stump]

Well yeah of course. Collisions would be near useless if not
How are you even detecting the collision? I can tell you more if I know

[languid snow]

OnTriggerEnter2d

[summer stump]

Then that gives you the collider of the other object
OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
{
other.transform.rotation
}

That will be the bullet if the script is on the cube

[shrewd hill]

why doesnt this work

[steep rose]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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// Your code here
```
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[steep rose]

please

[shrewd hill]

sorry

[summer stump]

Describe "doesn't work"
Because that is not actionable

[steep rose]

use a bin site

[languid snow]

oh thank you! :D

[shrewd hill]

whats a bin site

[steep rose]

read the bot

and look at the links

pick one

i bet you rn he is missing a ;

[summer stump]

Missing curly brace perhaps
Likely an unconfigured !ide

[steep rose]

watch

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[static wasp]

btw how do i make it so that it fullscreens when i playtest (i used to have it but i restarted and i forgot how to do it)

[steep rose]

go to game view and at the top it should say fullscreen, focused, unfocused

right to the left of the play button

[shrewd hill]

if(flatVel.magnitude > moveSpeed)
would this need ;

[steep rose]

show the code

[shrewd hill]

didnt fix it

[shrewd hill]

im using notepad

[steep rose]

for an IDE?

[polar acorn]

don't

[shrewd hill]

idk what an ide is

this is like my first time ver doing this

[steep rose]

get visual studio

[static wasp]

it only says, play maximized, play focused, and play unfocused, and when i when i choose play maximized and playtest again, it doesn't save my choice

[shrewd hill]

whats wrong with notepad

[steep rose]

you need to not be in the game when you select it

[static wasp]

nevermind it saved after like 13 tries

unity is weird

[polar acorn]

Everything

[steep rose]

was the game running when you selected fullscreen?

[summer stump]

It in fact needs to NOT have a semicolon. That would break the if statement from the body

[shrewd hill]

im not missing a ; i dont think

[summer stump]

Look under the other/none link in the bot
#💻┃code-beginner message

[shrewd hill]

ive been looking at this for a good 30 mins

[static wasp]

yes, and when i tried without the game running, it fullcreened while i wasn't in the playtest

[summer stump]

Show.... the code

[polar acorn]

Load the code in any IDE and it'll be underlined in red

[steep rose]

thats why, you need to select it while not in the game

[polar acorn]

Don't use notepad

[shrewd hill]

fine

[steep rose]

nothing saves while in game

[shrewd hill]

but i dont see whats wrong with note pad

[steep rose]

it does nothing good for you

its just notepad

[polar acorn]

It does literally nothing

[shrewd hill]

it works

[steep rose]

you are on extreme difficulty

[polar acorn]

You might as well be writing your code on a piece of paper

[steep rose]

for programming

[steep rose]

now that would be different

[shrewd hill]

its working i got wasd to work and the cam

[polar acorn]

You will not end up with a working program either way

[steep rose]

dude get an ide

[shrewd hill]

i am

[steep rose]

😂

[steep rose]

which one

notepad is not one of them

[shrewd hill]

the purple one

[steep rose]

visual studio?

[shrewd hill]

yea

[summer stump]

Literally everything. There js nothing GOOD about using notepad with unity or coding.

In fact it is a rule that we cannot help you without a configured ide, and notepad is not an ide

Ah, lag

[shrewd hill]

its installing rn

[steep rose]

okay

please never use notepad ever for an ide

like never

[shrewd hill]

whats all this

[summer stump]

The guide above tells you

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[steep rose]

you can python in VS?

ive been doing it wrong

[shrewd hill]

ill tell yall when this is done

its done now what

[summer stump]

Now open it and see where the red underline is (as long as it is completely configured)

[polar acorn]

Continue following the guid for configuring your IDE, then see where your error is

[shrewd hill]

im confused bruh

idk what am doing

[steep rose]

what are you confused about?

[steep rose]

well you need to open a script

[shrewd hill]

how

[steep rose]

via unity or from Visual studio

[shrewd hill]

hold up

[summer stump]

Same way you opened it before
If you followed the guide, it will now open in vs

[steep rose]

well

not the notepad way

[shrewd hill]

like the one in notepad

[steep rose]

double click a script in unity

[shrewd hill]

becuase that ones open

it opens in notepad

[summer stump]

Then you did not follow the guide completely

[shrewd hill]

got it

[steep rose]

good

now show us the error

[steep rose]

in the script

not cropped out either

ive seen people do that before

[steep rose]

add another }

at the end of your script

dang man i thought it would have been a ;

bummer

[polar acorn]

Still not configured

Do the whole guide

[summer stump]

You have a semicolon after an if statement on line 74. As we said, never do that

But yes, this is not configured. You still did not do the guide

[shrewd hill]

THOUGHT I GOT RID OF IT MB

caps mb

[steep rose]

he still needs a } to fix the error

but yes

configure that ide

[summer stump]

Are you sure? There is the if, method, and one extra which is likely the class semicolon there
If all of these are in a namespace, then yeah it needs another

[steep rose]

well other than the semicolon but the error said line 81 space 1

[shrewd hill]

wheres the }

going

[steep rose]

and you can see the dotted line that should be there

connecting the script

but it isnt there

[summer stump]

Ahhh, I see it. It is a missing PARENTHESIS on line 77

[steep rose]

muahaha

[shrewd hill]

its on line 71 noe

now

[summer stump]

That is line 77

As I said

It is COLUMN 71

It is the exact error I described
#💻┃code-beginner message

[shrewd hill]

didnt fix it

[summer stump]

It will if you did it right

[steep rose]

put a } at the end of the script as well

[summer stump]

Put it before immediately before semicolon

[steep rose]

unless im reading this error wrong

[summer stump]

There is definitely not a missing curly brace

[rocky canyon]

its the ; at the end of the if conditional ()

[summer stump]

There is a BACKWARDS curly brace though

[summer stump]

Already removed that

[rocky canyon]

ahh okie 👍

[steep rose]

i bet you rn its a curly brace

bet

[shrewd hill]

i added the } at the end already

[summer stump]

The two errors are backwards curly on line 70 and missing parenthesis on line 77

[steep rose]

dang

i unbet

[summer stump]

Remove the extra curly at the end that is not it, and that will cause an extra error

[shrewd hill]

ok

[summer stump]

All of this would be easy to see if you just finished configuring your ide

And honestly, we need to stop helping until you do so

[steep rose]

oh i see what you mean now aethenosity 😅

mb

i completely missed that parentheses

[shrewd hill]

id rather use notepad

[steep rose]

please dont

just

dont