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[cerulean tulip]

I scratching my head trying to understand it

[deft grail]

do the bomb and coin have parents maybe? and the baloon doesnt?

[languid niche]

no bomb and coin are just prefabs

if i remove the spin script it works fine though but they are not spinning on their own axis they just move left

[deft grail]

if you remove the move script does it work then?

[languid niche]

yup if spin script is removed they are left perfectly

[deft grail]

no

i mean if you remove the move script

not the spin script

[languid niche]

nope then they willspawn still

[deft grail]

huh

[languid niche]

yup they are rotating

[deft grail]

the way you want it?

[languid niche]

i removed moving script and they are rotating on their own axis<

i want them to rotate on their own axis while moving left

[languid niche]

yup the way i want it but they r not moving

[deft grail]

try adding a , Space.Self at the end of the Rotate

as a 2nd parameter

[languid niche]

ok let me try that..

[deft grail]

you shouldnt be using Find ever, and also gameOver should probably just be stored in a GameManager or something

[languid niche]

it is a tutorial prototype so it is a premade, where i have to solve the bugs

space parameter didn't worked but now i think the problem is in moving script i will try to debug it 🙂

[deft grail]

didnt work as in error? or as in the problem wasnt fixed

[languid niche]

problem didint fixed

they started orbiting again

[deft grail]

what if you try doing transform. instead of Vector3.

[languid niche]

transform dont have a left

[deft grail]

you need to do -transform.right

[languid niche]

ok let me try

this happened

is there something like pivot type maybe i have changed it

i got to know the issue maybe, the z value is also changing but i didn't told it to do so

[deft grail]

you are telling it

Vector3.up * ...
Vector3.left * ...

you can just do new Vector2(-1, 0) if you want

[languid niche]

should i use up

[deft grail]

for left, or 0, 1 for up

[languid niche]

still same

[frank pelican]

does anybody know a good tutorial that i can follow for lighting

The one that i am following all constantly have different button layouts which makes it super hard to follow

[deft grail]

maybe dont follow one thats 2020 when your on 2023 🤔

and also its different because its setup much easier in the newer ones im pretty sure

[native musk]

Hi everyone! I need help: I make a game with ennemies helthbar, all work. But when I add more game featurs, ennemies healthbars strangly stop working! skript seems good and no console errors, can someone help me?

[deft grail]

what features?

[native musk]

It's External things that no have link with the healthbar

[deft grail]

idk how you want me to help if you dont wanna tell me what you did

[native musk]

Ok I will send some screenshots

[slender nymph]

again, you should look at #854851968446365696 to see what you should include when asking for help

[native musk]

https://paste.ofcode.org/Gq7hWGLeVZNsRAjyffeuUL So this is my ennemy script
https://paste.ofcode.org/n3fHFS22ydYCDXRu73QgAg The healthbar code

I am sorry @slender nymph It's a little difficult to resume my problem in a paragraph

[slender nymph]

if you cannot describe your issue, then how do you expect anyone to be able to help?

[native musk]

I don't know how to make it my game is already very advanced

[burnt vapor]

Your first paste does not work

There's no need for your methods to call instance when they are part of a singleton.

And as was mentioned; this code does not explain anything. Nothing in here could suddenly stop working.

[native musk]

Yes I don't finish I have other things to send of course

https://paste.ofcode.org/Fh4eSSJdwsC4XmhxzHSYS4 try this for the first

[burnt vapor]

I have still not gotten your explanation as to what stops working. You're very vague

How does it stop working?

teslaHealth = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Tesla").GetComponent<TeslaHealth>();
gameManager = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("GameController").GetComponent<TGameManager>();

This is unnecessary by the way. You know how to make singletons, so you should to it here too unless there are multiple instances for some reason. You should never use Find methods.

Other than that the code looks fine, unless you explain what breaks

[native musk]

so i can remove this part of code?

[burnt vapor]

You should consider replacing the Find methods I pointed out in favour of singletons if there is a single instance

But, this is not part of your initial problem so feel free to ignore it

[native musk]

A little short video record of my problem will be helpfull? With other objects content?

So if my attack not able to one shot an ennemy, it will become invincible and health bar stop working

[deft grail]

is the problem not you just using a static instance and changing the health of it? meaning its only 1

but you need seperate for each skeleton?

[native musk]

Oh may be

I change the currentHealth variable to static but still not working

[deft grail]

huh

thats the complete opposite of what you want

[native musk]

so ctrl + z ?

[deft grail]

what you need to do is not use a static instance

[native musk]

yes i not used

The strange thing is why worked before and not now

Somone wants to send him my game to take a look in private?

[deft grail]

i already told you what to do, which you say you arent doing that which your code said otherwise

your code links dont work !code

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[slender nymph]

when you only had one object that needed a healthbar, your singleton worked just fine because it is literally designed to only have one single instance at any given time. you need to not be using the singleton pattern for this. and do not abuse static just for easy referencing.

[native musk]

so how can i replace singletons?

[deft grail]

you just delete it

you dont replace it with anything

[native musk]

delete every instance?

[deft grail]

what?

you delete the singleton

its a variable

its not that difficult if your paying attention

[native musk]

ok health works but the healthbar is still full

now the last problem is the healthbar

You will never believe me

It's actually worked! I'm so thanksfull, you saved my game!

[static wasp]

what is the difference between Input.GetAxis and Input.GetAxisRaw, i don't understand what the unity API said

[wintry quarry]

GetAxis has some smoothing built into it

That's all

[static wasp]

wdym by smoothing

[slender nymph]

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

Returns the value of the virtual axis identified by axisName with no smoothing filtering applied.
no smoothing is applied for Input.GetAxisRaw, this means that for digital input the values can only be -1,0,1. there is no "gradually move toward the value"

[wintry quarry]

Use Debug.Log to print the output and you'll see what I mean

[static wasp]

thanks

another problem:

every 5-10 times i playtest, it tells me this error

UnityEngine.Transform:set_position (UnityEngine.Vector3)
Cam:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Cam.cs:46)```

this is the code for the script

    public GameObject cam;
    public GameObject player1;
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public static float y_offset = 0;
    public static bool is_retracting = false;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = player1.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (is_retracting)
        {
            y_offset -= Mathf.Pow(1- 1/y_offset, 5);
    
            if (y_offset <= 2.5f)
            {
                if (y_offset <= 0.85f)
                {
                    is_retracting = false;
                    y_offset = 0;
                }

                y_offset /= 1.001f;
            }
            
        }

        if (rb.velocity.y < -30)
        {
            y_offset += Time.deltaTime / 2;
        }

        cam.transform.position = player1.transform.position + new Vector3(0, Mathf.Pow(y_offset, 4), -1); // this line is making the error
    }

even if is_retracting is false and velocity is higher than -30

it still happens

[wintry quarry]

Aren't you dividing by zero

On the third line of Update

If y_offset is zero

[static wasp]

y_offset -= Mathf.Pow(1- 1/y_offset, 5); ?

[wintry quarry]

Yes

y_offset starts at 0

[static wasp]

i just realized that

but it works fine when i do the smoothing

aka the part in the is_retracting

but thanks

i changed it to this
public static float y_offset = -0.01f;

sadly i can't replicate it on command, but i will say it here if it still has a issue

[static wasp]

it isn't infinity now

but it's 3.386269e+27

which is basically infinity

but no errors

it was because it got teleported 3.38 octillion units upwards

idk why

[rich adder]

wouldn't this be septillion not octillion ?

[static wasp]

just looked it up, nope octillion

septillion is 1e+24

[rich adder]

are you in europe?

[static wasp]

no

[rich adder]

oh ok . Thought 3.386269×10²⁷ was septillion . alr 😛

[static wasp]

idk why, but in third grade i wrote down all the numbers multiplying by 10 each time with their scientific notation and name

so i have it all written

i did it until 1 googol (1e+100)

[rich adder]

ohh googol wait..gooogle 🤯

[wintry quarry]

When you divide a number by a really small number, you get a really big number.
When you then proceed to raise that really big number to the 5th power, you get an even bigger number

hence your huge value

And since it's actually a huge negative number raised to the 5th power, it remains negative. So when you do -= with it, you end up with a huge positive number.

[static wasp]

but why is it so random

only happens every like 30 mins of playtesting

[wintry quarry]

Because it probably depends if:

        if (rb.velocity.y < -30)
        {
            y_offset += Time.deltaTime / 2;
        }``` happens before `is_retracting` becomes true

[static wasp]

it is meant to be like that

[wintry quarry]

Also some of this code is really nonsensical

[static wasp]

wdym

[wintry quarry]

nvm i misread something

[static wasp]

lemme show a vid to show why it's meant to be like that

here, the camera not following up with the player is the if statement that you sent, then, when it touches the ground and it's previous velocity was -30 or less (meaning it landed after the the camera/player misalignment happened) (the detection happens in another script btw), it makes is_retracting true, making the smoothing effect when it lands

[faint osprey]

when i instantiate something as a child of an object it spawns at the bottom of all the children how do i make it so it spawns just under the parent

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetAsFirstSibling.html

[faint osprey]

cheers

[topaz mortar]

I'm creating a whole bunch of gameobjects at runtime, any way to keep them so I can save them in my scene?

just need to do it once

[polar acorn]

Drag them all into the assets folder to make prefabs of them, then drag them all back in when you're done, unpack them from the prefabs, then delete the prefabs

[faint osprey]

how do you check if something is active because .active, .activeInHeirachy and .activeSelf isnt working

[slender nymph]

in what way are any of those not working

[rich adder]

in what way is "not working"

[silk night]

Anyone by chance know the update method for odin editor windows is called? Wanna filter a list based on a checkbox (bool) live in the editor

I know technically wrong discord but the question is so simple I was hoping I didnt need to join another discord for it

[faint osprey]

the bool was the wrong way round nevermind

[wind raptor]

I have a singleton class with a public instance, but I want calls to instance.StopAllCoroutines() to be private. How might I accomplish this?

[polar acorn]

Make a private function that calls StopAllCoroutines

[languid spire]

you cannot change the default access modifier of StopAllCoroutiines neither can you override it as it is neither abstract nor virtual

[faint osprey]

can you collide Ui into eachother

because im trying to get a button to be stopped by an edge collider and its not working

the button does have a rigid body

[deft grail]

why? what are you trying to achieve

[faint osprey]

a button that slides down and then gets stopped by a collider

[slender nymph]

why does it need to be stopped by a collider

[faint osprey]

so it doesnt slide off the screen

[deft grail]

so just animate/tween it?

why does it need physics

[faint osprey]

cause its a physicy game

[deft grail]

its a button

[slender nymph]

screen space objects should not have physics

[deft grail]

you can just get the same result by tweening it i dont really understand

[wind raptor]

Any recommended workarounds? I don't have any calls to it, but I have some logic that will get messed up if I forget and add the call down the road

[languid spire]

did you not understand what I wrote? There are none

[wind raptor]

Yes. I was curious if you had a "this is what I would do in your instance" or "best practices are to X"

[slender nymph]

if you really must prevent outside calls to StopCoroutine then you can just hide the method with your own method that does something like log an error. something like this:

public void new StopAllCoroutines() => Debug.LogError("StopAllCoroutines may not be called on this object");

of course in order to call StopAllCoroutines from within this class you must then cast it to MonoBehaviour and call it on that

there really should be no reason to need to do this though

[faint osprey]

cause i need buttons that are stacked up high and then when I click them the ones above it fall down and hit the collider and so on

[wind raptor]

thanks

[wind raptor]

Because I just should be intentional and not call it?

[slender nymph]

correct. much like you wouldn't just go passing everything to Object.Destroy all willy-nilly, you shouldn't just go and call random methods for no good reason

[lost anvil]

not particulary sure why my bullet starts spazzing out when the player moves, im applying force to the bullet when i instantiate it

https://gdl.space/givoyibusa.cs

*shoots fine normally

[deft grail]

im either stupid or i dont see anything wrong with the bullets?

[lost anvil]

they move towards the mouse cursor

and they arent in that

they are just spazzing

[deft grail]

ahh i see your mouse is right for example but bullet goes somewhere left?

is that what you mean

[lost anvil]

yeah

[deft grail]

should say that instead of spazzing out then lol

[lost anvil]

my bad 😄

[slender nymph]

you aren't using the direction to the mouse for this, you are just using the mouse's world position as the direction which makes very little sense

[lost anvil]

okay so i should calculate the direction from the player to mouse cursor im assuming

[slender nymph]

yes

[lost anvil]

alright thanks

[stuck palm]

public void LateUpdate()
    {
        int newStateHash = Animator.StringToHash(state);
        AnimationClip clip = GetAnimationClipFromHash(newStateHash);
        print("Normalized time: " + time / clip.length);
        print("Current state: " + state);
        anim.Play(newStateHash, 0, time / clip.length);
        print(clip.name);
    }

anyone know why this wouldnt be working? im trying to make an editor s cript.

the prints are going through, but the animator isnt playing.

[stuck palm]

this has the executeineditmode attribute, so

idk what the problem wis here

fixed it

[errant kayak]

Hiya, im trying to increment a value overtime based on time in order to check for cooldowns after things are paused, how should i implement increasing it when its paused?

ive tried many things but nothing seems to work, this was my latest attempt but :p

[cosmic quail]

why arent you doing pausing with Time.timeScale = 0f? or is this just to pause one thing, not the entire game?

[polar acorn]

This will add 1 to lostTime every frame that Pause is true after the first second of gameplay

That doesn't really make sense

If you want to keep track of how much time has passed this frame, that's what Time.deltaTime is

[errant kayak]

i see

[willow scroll]

Time.time already stores the time elapsed from the start of the game

Not sure whether you'll really need to do that, but storing Time.time before and after the pause gives you its length, when the values are subtracted

[wintry quarry]

If this is running each frame you would want to use Time.unscaledDeltaTime here

Not Time.time

And no need for any clamping

[ebon ore]

Hey, i have a 5x5, 10x10 and/or 15x15 (only one is rendered at a time) grid. i'm making it fit the screen (width-wise). if i fit the 5x5 grid to the screen then 10x10 and 15x15 grids are rendered outside the camera view (which is always static), which out of those options is better for retaining quality?:
change camera orthographic size to make grids fit the screen?
or change the size of tiles in the grids to make it fit the screen?
(a tile is a 1x1 unity's units square sprite)

[stuck palm]

this is running in an [ExecuteInEditMode] script. why wont it let me update the hitBox and hurtBox fields? the hitbox and hurtbox fields reference a scriptable object list.

https://gdl.space/ahevivuxup.cs

[wintry quarry]

Because your code is setting those fields

hitBox = moves[newStateHash].hitBox[frame];

[stuck palm]

oh right. so how am i meant to recieve these values? the idea is that i want to reference the list and update its values from this script.

[wintry quarry]

Not sure what you mean by "receiving" the values. You're trying to change the list here?

This code wouldn't change the list, this code changes the hitBox variable in this script

[willow scroll]

It's definitely better to change the size of the camera. Think about it this way, if you make the user able to zoom in and out, will you change the size of the tiles and manually align them according to the input or simply increase and decrease the camera's size?

[stuck palm]

im trying to access an item in the hitbox list with the frame index to modify the bounds values

[wintry quarry]

To change that value you would need to do something like

moves[newStateHash].hitBox[frame] = someNewData;```

Your = sign is backwards

[stuck palm]

how would i access the original valuye from the list, though?

[willow scroll]

With the index

[wintry quarry]

Like this

[ebon ore]

was thinking the same, just wanted to hear other's opinions, changing tiles' sizes could get out of control or difficult to manage

[wintry quarry]

The problem is you're doing it every frame right now

[stuck palm]

yeah i just realised that. how am i meant to only do it once?

[wintry quarry]

And also you're never changing the list data itself

[wintry quarry]

I would really recommend using a custom editor for this instead of whatever this setup is

[stuck palm]

i've written a custom editor window

thats what enables the slider and pop up window

i think i know what i ned to do now

sorted it out

[stuck palm]

why isnt ondrawgizmo running? its not even running print.

[wintry quarry]

Are gizmos enabled in your editor?

[stuck palm]

erm.. 😭

they werent

thank you

[steady crown]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[steady crown]

i have this code in update to spawn stuff every 5 seconds if the game is running which it is, in my game manager script i set the bool to true at the start and it shows it in unity, why is this not working
if(Time.time>i && gameManager.gameisrunning==true)
{
i += 5;
Instantiate(enemyPrefabs[Random.Range(0,2)], randomspawnpositionenemy, Quaternion.identity);
}

    if(Time.time>o && gameManager.gameisrunning == true)
    {
        o += 5;
        Instantiate(powerUp, randomspawnpositionpowerup, Quaternion.identity);
    }

its not spawning in

[polar acorn]

1. !code
2. What function is this in

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[steady crown]

update

it was working before i added the bool but id like to have the bool so it only spawns when im alive and not when ive died

[polar acorn]

Add this log:

Debug.Log($"Time: {Time.time}, i: {i}, o:{o}, gameManager.gameisrunning: {gameManager.gameisrunning}");

[steady crown]

https://gdl.space/quloteniye.bash this is for it to stop spawning after death but it doesnt even spawn in the first place

bruh how do i use this

[polar acorn]

use what

[steady crown]

the gdl space

[polar acorn]

paste the code, copy the link, post it here

[polar acorn]

like this, but generally with actual context

[steady crown]

oh

[steady crown]

do i put that in both if statements

[polar acorn]

put it outside any if statements

[steady crown]

ok

nothing seemed to happen

i do have this warning tho

[polar acorn]

If you put it outside of any if statements and nothing logged, then this script doesn't exist

[polar acorn]

This would have been good to point out from the beginning

you're going to need to fix that

code stops entirely when it encounters an error

[steady crown]

the script is there though

oh

what does the error mean

[polar acorn]

Something on that line is null but you're trying to do something with it anyway

[steady crown]

double clicked it and its something with this line of code https://gdl.space/deliwufuce.css

https://gdl.space/deliwufuce.css

did i do it right? dont think it worked again with the link lol

[polar acorn]

Then gameManager is null

Where do you assign a value to it?

[steady crown]

in unity i have an empy called gamemanager and attached the gamemanager script, i then just have a bool which is called isgamerunning and i put it to true at the start. then on my spawn manager i get its component and use that code

[polar acorn]

Where do you assign a value to the variable gameManager

[steady crown]

sorry im a bit slow today, wdym. a value to the bool or? can you give me an example

[polar acorn]

Where are you assigning a value to the variable named gameManager

In the script that you're getting the error in

[wintry quarry]

somwhere there must be code that says gameManager = something

else it is not assigned

[steady crown]

ohhh here

[polar acorn]

Or in the editor

[steady crown]

let me guess

[polar acorn]

That's where you create the variable

[steady crown]

it has to be public

[polar acorn]

where do you assign a value to it

[wintry quarry]

more than that you need to assign it

[polar acorn]

Where do you tell the code which GameManager this variable holds

[polar acorn]

Okay, and does the object with this script on it also have a GameManager?

[steady crown]

no my gamemanager script is only on the empty

[wintry quarry]

Then that code won't do anything

[steady crown]

i thought i only had to call it

[polar acorn]

So, when you assign gameManager to "The GameManager component on this object", it's assigning gameManager to nothing.

since there isn't one on this object

[wintry quarry]

you need to somehow tell the script which instance of GameManager that variable should refer to. You haven't done that properly, so it doesn't know, and you get an error when you try to use it

[steady crown]

ohhhh i gotcha. thanks guys

yea it works now, thx

sorry for being a pain in the ass lol

[obsidian current]

I have a problem in my pixelart game, I am using a small resolution and I'm not sure on how to stop my charater from moving between pixels, you can clearly see it between 2 pixels and not snapped in the pixel grid

[silver timber]

Are you using a pixel perfect camera?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.pixel-perfect@1.0/manual/index.html

[obsidian current]

ok thanks, seems to work

[queen adder]

rb2d velocity is logged as being active hundreds of times a second, not exactly sure what to do for fixes though this is probably a super ineffective way to code this anyway

{
    touchingGround = false;
    Debug.Log("In air");
}

if (touchingGround && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
{
    rb2d.AddForce(new Vector2(0, jumpHeight), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
}```

[rocky canyon]

? rigidbody velocities are active all the time am i missing something?

elaborate a bit

[queen adder]

i assumed velocity.y would only be active while im actually moving on the y axis

im only moving back and forth here

im not the most informed

i can just change it into something more effective got any ideas

[rocky canyon]

nah its just a velocity of the rigidbody

it always has a value

[queen adder]

oopsers

what would be a better way to get my desired effect

[rocky canyon]

what are you going for?

[steep rose]

you wouldnt need to check to see if you are in the air if you have a ground check

[queen adder]

i modified the code a little to add collision checks

        {
            rb2d.AddForce(new Vector2(0, jumpHeight) * Time.deltaTime, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D col)
    {
        // allow jumping again
        touchingGround = true;
        Debug.Log("touching");
    }

    private void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D col)
    {
        touchingGround = false;
        Debug.Log("Not touching");
    }
}```

debug.log says im touching the ground and should be able to jump but nothing happens

im probably using an outdated jump thing

[frosty hound]

There is no outdated jump "thing"

[queen adder]

is rb2d.AddForce(new Vector2(0, jumpHeight) * Time.deltaTime, ForceMode2D.Impulse); up to date? i saw a few conflicting things about it

i just clarified

[frosty hound]

And I'm clarifying

[queen adder]

i saw a few posts talking about some things being out of date regarding that line

is it fine?

[frosty hound]

Link said posts?

[queen adder]

lost to the sands of my search history

also i have tried it and its not working which is why im asking

[rocky canyon]

i'd probably use OverlapCircle for ground checks on a 2d projet

[frosty hound]

How do you know it's not working? You have no way of verifying it's even running in your code. You're assuming it is.

[steep rose]

or just a raycast

[rocky canyon]

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody2D rb2d;
    public LayerMask groundLayer;
    public float jumpHeight = 5f;
    public Transform groundCheck;
    public float groundCheckRadius = 0.2f;
    private bool touchingGround;

    void Update()
    {
        touchingGround = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(groundCheck.position, groundCheckRadius, groundLayer);

        if (touchingGround && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
            rb2d.AddForce(new Vector2(0, jumpHeight), ForceMode2D.Impulse);

        if (!touchingGround)
            {
            Debug.Log("In air");
            }
    }
}```

[rocky canyon]

i use raycast arrays for 3D.. but for 2D i typically use something simpler since its not really something (for me anyway) that needs to be super accurate

usually circle does the trick for 2D

[queen adder]

hold on gotta look up overlapcircle

[steep rose]

raycast arrays is kinda nuts

[wintry quarry]

deltaTime doesn't belong in AddForce

[rocky canyon]

should return a boolean.. (either true or false)

[steep rose]

at that point just use a boxcast 😅

[rocky canyon]

then u can do ur thing for whatever u are

[queen adder]

oh the time.deltatime removal fixed it

that saved alot of headache

[rocky canyon]

something like this kayla

u just use a position near the feet

and u can use a layermask soo it only detects the floor

(not the player itself)

[steep rose]

you dont add Time.Deltatime on anything physics related since it already has it incorporated in it

[queen adder]

would that work if i like ran up against a wall

seeing as it seems to only affect the bottom

[rocky canyon]

I like it. its probably my most used ground/check method

i haven't really started using alternatives yet.. but i shall soon enough

been wanting to give the overlapsphere a try

[rocky canyon]

the ground check is usually for ur own logic (applying jumping, sliding, etc)

the rigidbody should take care of collisions w/ walls all on its own

[queen adder]

hgmhhmhmg this isnt working for me i cant wrap my little noodle around it

its fine i dotn want the mods crawling around on me because i havent made a thread yet

[rocky canyon]

well if ur actively working on a problem and people are responding you'll be fine..
theres no other conversations going on right now that it would flood or anything

[queen adder]

not what happened last time but probably

i dont get the layer thing i dont really mess around with layers alot

ive put the player on its own sorting layer and set the layer in the inspector to default

[frosty hound]

You're made to make a thread because of your general belief of "just tell me" attitude which isn't allowed here. And as I told you, if you insist on doing so, use a thread.

You've spent hours on a single question. This channel isn't your 1:1 tutoring classroom.

But go ahead and say what you will.

[queen adder]

ive spent hours developing on a question into other things but i didnt come here to argue

[frosty hound]

But again, if you find yourself on something for a while, use a thread.

[frosty hound]

Just to whine apparently, I'm only responding to this. Carry on with your questions.

[rocky canyon]

oooh.. ya see i was unaware its been hours lol.. yea best make a thread if ur on the same issue

[queen adder]

you see. ive made myself out to be the calm and collected sleek model train. while you my friend are the frustrated seething coal based train. heh. guess i win this little internet argument.

it hasnt been hours-

hold on im gonna read up on layer collision

[rocky canyon]

if u use a layermask.. select the layers u want the groundcheck to detect/interact with..

the reason behind it is to

1. check less things
2. soo ur not checking the players collider (as ground)

[queen adder]

yeah i got it

code works now

[rocky canyon]

good to hear

[rare elm]

are there any setups for github actions besides game-ci ?

i went to set it up, and found five major bugs in my first two hours. i definitely need a project like that, but, i guess i'm not comfortable with a project with onboarding bugs

[frigid schooner]

I am following this youtube series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPGnpV1Y1c&list=PLGUw8UNswJEOv8c5ZcoHarbON6mIEUFBC&index=4
and ran into a problem at the second video 15:42

[ivory bobcat]

You may want to consider telling people what the actual problem is.

[frigid schooner]

Assets\Scripts\PlayerInterract.cs(41,34): error CS1061: 'InputManager' does not contain a definition for 'OnFoot' and no accessible extension method 'OnFoot' accepting a first argument of type 'InputManager' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[ivory bobcat]

Reminder that things are case sensitive

Also, don't confuse the Player Manager with Input Manager (a script) - I'm assuming that's why you felt the need to show the new Input Manager images.

[empty yoke]

I'm running into issues with picking up items in my first person game, whenever I go to pick up an item the anchor position seems to be the thing moving? but im setting the book as its child, and moving it to the anchor.transform.position, what am I missing here? https://i.imgur.com/ljAmdyt.gif

here's the pickup code:

    private void pickUp(Transform interactorTransform) {
        var pickUpAnchor = interactorTransform.GetComponent<PlayerInteract>().HoldItem(this);
        if (pickUpAnchor != null) {
            grabPointTransform = pickUpAnchor;
            transform.position = grabPointTransform.position;
            transform.parent = grabPointTransform.transform;
            rb.isKinematic = true;
            rb.useGravity = false;
           
        }
    }

[ivory bobcat]

What's the actual issue?
The book is properly being parented, it's moved, kinematic, gravity etc..

[empty yoke]

its not though thats not where the anchor is set

when the player moves away, the book doesn't move with it

[ivory bobcat]

What's not?

Do you've got any other scripts on the book that moves it?
If camera moves then the object should be moving - assuming the hold point moves and isn't some object in the scene with a position constraint.

[empty yoke]

this was a fresh scene with just the two things, no other movement is happening on the book

[ivory bobcat]

Have the hold anchor selected and see where it is in the editor when moving the camera

[empty yoke]

yeah thats the gif I sent

[ivory bobcat]

I don't know much about your interaction system - seems obvious but I'd rather not make assumptions. Log this in pickup for verification please: cs Debug.Log($"Self: {name}, Target: {pickUpAnchor.name}", pickUpAnchor); Debug.Log)$"Grab Point (?!): {grabPointTransform.name}", grabPointTransform);I'm assuming the book was this object, pickup anchor was a reference to some unknown that was returned by the hold item method and that grab point is the hold anchor object.

[ivory bobcat]

The gif would suggest that the script is on the hold anchor though - relative to the gif (seeing the scene tools would be nice as well).
Prior to interacting with the book, the position of selection gizmo had moved below the camera.. why? 🤔 Anything funky in the scene or on the hold anchor object that we should be aware of?

[empty yoke]

the hold anchor is just a transform, it doesn't have any scripts, the root object of that tree, the Player object DOES have a rigidbody if that does anything, but otherwise the only scripts in the scene is a player controller, camera controller for looking at the mouse, and the interact scripts, the function I sent, is on the item itself apart of an 'Item interactable" component, the player has an interaction controller that looks for interactables and invokes their interact function, the item just calls that pickup script. The holditem is just a check to see if the player is already holding something, it calls back into the interact and if it comes back with a transform that means the player isn't holding anything so go ahead and assign this item. I just started up unity so im adding those debug logs rn

yeah im getting the right values backhttps://i.imgur.com/tQ20faO.png

[ivory bobcat]

Comment out the grabPointTransform = pickUpAnchor line and see what happens.

That would be the only line that would likely be evaluated elsewhere and do something abnormal. Other than that, the function is simply moving the position of book and setting it's parent to the anchor point.
I'm assuming the rigid body reference is the book's due to it no longer abiding by gravity and being kinematic.

Only other potential culprits would be whatever the HoldItem method does and anything else before and after the pickup method was called.

[empty yoke]

so it seems, like...so the movement maps to my mouse movement, but not to the WASD movement, the movement is split on the camera and the player, but its all in the same nested gameobjects, I'd expect the book all the way at the bottom to inherit both sets of movment. When the object isn't picked up the holdanchor transform tracks both

I did change the script as you said, and it didn't do anything, the assignment itself seems to be totally fine, its just the movement

[faint osprey]

how do you stop colliders giving firction between eachother

[slender nymph]

physics material

[faint osprey]

cheers

[sand epoch]

I'm looking for a way to assign a few unchanging variables to a game object.
for example, if I have a bunch of card objects, (basically a bunch of clones of the same thing) but I want a way to add a couple descriptors that other scripts can read, i.e., suit and value.

[deft grail]

just make it public then they can see it?

the value isnt shared between each clone unless its static

[sand epoch]

They dont have any scripts on them, all of their functions are controlled by a single script

[cosmic dagger]

if you want other scripts to read data from another component, use a property with get-only access . . .

[deft grail]

then make a script that goes on each of them

or you would have to store all variables in a list or something but thats just stupid

[sand epoch]

wouldnt that be clunky? would that affect performance?

[deft grail]

thats not clunky, thats the way to do it

[sand epoch]

Makes sense

Ive heard that there are certain types of scripts that you use just for holding information

[deft grail]

if its a card, then each card needs to hold what colour, symbol, number it is
you cant just store that all in 1 script

[weak talon]

trying to code but there is like no pop ups or auto finish
trying to write OnTriggerEnter and nothing is there

[deft grail]

ScriptableObjects? thats not really what you want for this though

[wise hearth]

whats keeping me from adding my blender objects? literally my first time using this sorry

[deft grail]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

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• :question: Other/None

[cosmic dagger]

!ide

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[wise hearth]

i cant drag it in

[sand epoch]

type OnTriggerEnter

[weak talon]

i have already done these things that it says

[weak talon]

the problem isnt writing the words the problem is there is no autofinish like usual

[deft grail]

what are you trying to drag where

[wise hearth]

the drivers_cab into the scene

[cosmic dagger]

i would find a tutorial on how to import blender models to Unity . . .

[weak talon]

i already tried doing what it says and it isnt working

[deft grail]

looks fine to drag in

[wise hearth]

it worked before so im confused why it doesnt work now

oh my dumbass was in game view not in scene

[deft grail]

did you set your IDE in preferences in Unity?

[weak talon]

yeah

[cosmic dagger]

did you follow every single step or just the first one?

[deft grail]

why would you be dragging it like that anyway 😂
just drag it into the hierarchy

[wise hearth]

man its my first time using this

[weak talon]

if you are talking to me
yes i followed all of them
there was like 3 things that could fix it and none worked

it happend last night and i fixed it then but i just got on again and it is broken

[bold iron]

If I nest my if statment too much in my update/fixedupdate methode will the game lag? If yes is there any way to fix it like running both code independently?

[deft grail]

not really, depends what your doing

[steep rose]

nesting shouldnt hurt performance, but it will absolutely make your code unreadable

best not do it

[bold iron]

I’m just setting up a code that will check if my dash/run status is true. I was thinking that this might hurt my performance.

[steep rose]

it most likely wont

also dont prematurally optimize

[deft grail]

depends what your doing you can just do if(!something) return; i heard this is better

[steep rose]

and dont nest

[bold iron]

I put the whole dashing script on a separate methode. I’ve seen someone make a separate script just for dashing but not too sure how to summon a methode from another script as I keep getting errors

[deft grail]

so you need a reference to it

[bold iron]

That’s cool thanks

[teal viper]

Do you actually have a performance problem?

[bold iron]

Nope it’s a completely new game. I’m just worried that in the future if I put too much if if if it will break the game.

[steep rose]

also if you are doing this

if(Dashing)
{
   if(running)
   {
       //this is wrong
   }
}

this is wrong and can be shortened to this

if(Dashing && running){

}

[deft grail]

think about how you can avoid using ifs completely

[steep rose]

but as stated before, nesting shouldnt cause performance problems but will make your code unreadable

[steep rose]

thats not nesting

[bold iron]

Thanks I’ll try my best

[teal viper]

Well, you have been answered already - it doesn't affect performance. You shouldn't worry about that unless you have an actual problem.

[bold iron]

I mean in the future

I got it thanks guys

Because my code will involve a lot of combination of keys to summon a attack. But as someone mentioned I could just use &&

[swift elbow]

If you're on windows, you can win + shift + s (I believe) to crop a part of your screen and copy it as an img rather than taking a pic manually and uploading it

[bold iron]

Ok 👍

[steep rose]

thats if you have the snip tool

which should be installed

[swift elbow]

I have it but I don't remember downloading it ever, is it not a default program?

[steep rose]

i guess i have 2 snip tools, strange

but yes I believe it is default

[bold iron]

yep i have it despite never downloading it

[late burrow]

once again whats the workaround for running code in onvalidate that unity doesnt like

i remember it was writing another function inside onvalidate something

ok delaycall found it

[teal viper]

The workaround is not to run such code in OnValidate.

[late burrow]

onvalidate is nicest of unity functions as it runs whenever i need it to run

[teal viper]

If you need to do some editor only logic unrelated to valiation, you should use a custom editor/inspector

[night valve]

Not entirely true, depends on case, but a single layer of nesting can be acceptable. Consider this ```
if(dashing && running){...}
else if(dashing && swimming){...}
else if(dashing && flying){...}
...

In this situation I think it's better to nest those ifs in a parent if(dashing)
But of course the "right" way of doing it is to make separate OnDashing() method and do the checks there, or to use enum

[static cedar]

Hi peps, wondering how to use filepaths?

And also validate it.

[teal viper]

The docs should have that covered.

[sullen perch]

how can i centre my ai in the middle of the model?

[teal viper]

Either take your model back to blender and change it's pivot point, or have the agent on a parent and offset the child model however you like.

[sullen perch]

ok thx

[rare hawk]

Not sure where to ask this, but here goes:

When I start my scene the DDOL Canvas can't find the camera anymore. Which is strange, because prior to playing the reference is set correctly. The camera also doesn't show in the Render Camera dropdown anymore nor can I set it in code using camera = Camera.main;
I looked at the documentation, but didn't see any warnings about DDOL Canvasses. Am I missing something?
Video for reference (EDIT: Apparently you don't see the Unity dropdown in the video, but it doesn't have any options for camera's. Non-DDOL Canvasses work fine btw)

[sullen perch]

hi, my ai isnt working for some reason and i dont know why?

[deft grail]

make it work

[sullen perch]

i would paste code, but last time i did i got yelled at for doing it

[deft grail]

then you need to do it properly !code

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[deft grail]

but the problem i see is

your ai has nothing to follow

possibly thats the problem

[sullen perch]

i dont think so

[deft grail]

i think so, look at the error

[sullen perch]

its ment to travel to destinations

thats a differant ai

[rare hawk]

If your code shows an error, that's a major red flag. Try and fix that first.
Also, if Unity encounters an error while executing code, it doesn't execute the code after it (without explicitly telling you). So if your second AI should work, maybe it doesn't because your code isn't even being executed due to this error occurring first.

[sullen perch]

ok

[static cedar]

UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '...' is denied.
Trying to access a filepath. And also create a random txt file to test with but seems like I can't.

The path i'm pointing it to should be within the Assets folder.

Ok doesn't seem like i can read/write at all even if it's within the project.

[teal viper]

Make sure you're not confusing relative paths with absolute paths.

[static cedar]

I'm using absolute path.

Can't I?

[teal viper]

You can

[static cedar]

Directory.Exists returns true though.

[teal viper]

Well, the error talks about authorization.

Not about existance/non existance of the path.

If you need actual help, you should provide more info on the context and error details.

[static cedar]

Here's the error.
UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'path' is denied.
The path is within the assets folder. And uses absolute path which i copied from the file explorer in windows 11.

[teal viper]

error details. Not just the error message.

[static cedar]

System.IO.FileStream..ctor (System.String path, System.IO.FileMode mode, System.IO.FileAccess access, System.IO.FileShare share, System.Int32 bufferSize, System.Boolean anonymous, System.IO.FileOptions options) (at <c0b7b90d34a54066a7234dad69255116>:0)
System.IO.FileStream..ctor (System.String path, System.IO.FileMode mode, System.IO.FileAccess access, System.IO.FileShare share, System.Int32 bufferSize, System.IO.FileOptions options) (at <c0b7b90d34a54066a7234dad69255116>:0)
(wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.FileStream..ctor(string,System.IO.FileMode,System.IO.FileAccess,System.IO.FileShare,int,System.IO.FileOptions)
System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor (System.String path, System.Boolean append, System.Text.Encoding encoding, System.Int32 bufferSize) (at <c0b7b90d34a54066a7234dad69255116>:0)
System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor (System.String path, System.Boolean append) (at <c0b7b90d34a54066a7234dad69255116>:0)
(wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(string,bool)
System.IO.File.CreateText (System.String path) (at <c0b7b90d34a54066a7234dad69255116>:0)
Assets.Scripts.ExternalDependencies.Editor.ExternProjectList+ExternProjectListEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at Assets/Scripts/ExternalDependencies/Editor/ExternProjectList.cs:72)
UnityEditor.UIElements.InspectorElement+<>c__DisplayClass76_0.<CreateInspectorElementUsingIMGUI>b__0 () (at <043e10ec4a0f4999a2729072194b9cfe>:0)

[teal viper]

What path is it exactly?

[languid spire]

show the full code

[static cedar]

D:\TechnicalProjects\Unity Project Stuff\Plazma Haze\Assets\Scripts

                if (GUILayout.Button("Validate Dump Paths"))
                {
                    Debug.Log($"Dump: {Directory.Exists(Target.dump_location)}");

                    File.CreateText(Target.dump_location);
                }

Asking a fuller code than this, it's really just a scriptable object with a custom editor that has this button.

[teal viper]

Can you log the Target.dump_location before the File call?

[languid spire]

why are you using the same variable for Exists and CreateText, they take different values

[static cedar]

                if (GUILayout.Button("Validate Dump Paths"))
                {
                    Debug.Log(Target.dump_location);
                    Debug.Log($"Dump: {Directory.Exists(Target.dump_location)}");

                    File.CreateText(Target.dump_location);
                }

School wifi. 🗿

[languid spire]

you are missing a file name

[teal viper]

Did you check the C# docs of File.CreateText and what errors it throws when?

[languid spire]

File.CreateText(Path.Combine(Target.dump_location,"MyFile.txt"));

[teal viper]

Steve is correct. And you can see that the docs explicitly say that path needs to be a file to be opened, not a directory.

[static cedar]

If it just want a file name, i wish it didn't use UnauthorizedAccessException i thought it implied that I don't have permissions the entire time.

[languid spire]

but that is correct. you are trying to treat a folder as a file, that is unauthorized access

[static cedar]

Anyways, I think I got it, thanks.

[teal viper]

I agree, that they could've provided a more specific error for this case. But then again, it could've been an actual file without extension.🤔

[languid spire]

Also you should use Application.dataPath rather than hardcoding paths to the Assets folder

[static cedar]

Yeah, i've just been randomly searching and trying stuff.

[languid spire]

string dirName = Path.Combine(Application.dataPath, "Scripts");
string fileName = Path.Combine(dirName,"MyFile.txt");

[static cedar]

My first assumption was some kind of bug in unity and went off there.

[teal viper]

But that was not unity api that you were using.

[steady crown]

!code

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[steady crown]

i need help, i am trying to figure out how many enemies are in the scene and limit is so enemies are only spawned 1 at a time. in my game manager script i have this line of code

//  public int enemiesAlive=1;

then in my spawnmanager i have this code

//   if (Time.time>i && gameManager.gameisrunning && gameManager.enemiesAlive < 1)
{
    i += 5;
    Instantiate(enemyPrefabs[Random.Range(0,2)], randomspawnpositionenemy, Quaternion.identity);
    gameManager.enemiesAlive++;
}

which checks if there are no enemies on the scene and then it spawns and add ones to enemies alive

then in my detectcolissions script i have this code where when the projectile hits the enemy it should subtract enemies alive and then surely it should spawn again? but thats not working

//   private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    if(other.gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy"))
    {
        Destroy(other.gameObject);
        Destroy(gameObject);
        gameManager.enemiesAlive--;
        
    }
}

[languid spire]

To start with. simply saying something is 'not working' is not helpful.
Add some Debug.Logs to your code to see what is happening then come back with your updated code and a screenshot of the console

[night valve]

If the check is in Update method running every frame, "i" will be always greater than time.

Unless your frame takes longer than 5 seconds

[languid spire]

nonsense

[night valve]

Why, let me see one more time...

[languid spire]

i is only updated when it is < Time.time

[teal viper]

Also, you're probably confusing .time with .deltaTime

[steady crown]

sorry something came up so ill have to go back to this some other time but i shall take your advice thx

[night valve]

Ah you right, didn't see the enemiesAlive++ there, sry

[true stratus]

can anyone help i delted scene by accident and now i can only see from my player model

[night valve]

Omg need another coffee nvm

[languid spire]

not a code question, do not cross post

[true stratus]

sorry

[rough orbit]

Sorry for the long post but I’ve had this issue for over a week now and I’m at my wits end. I so desperately need this to work (school project), so any help would be incredibly appreciated.

In my game you’re a pawn on a chess board (100 tiles that are 2x2) where tiles will fall at random on player collision and enemy pawns track you and knock you back on collision.

I’ve made the PlayerMovement so that you snap into the center of each tile when you move using a move point. It works when moving around, but when other pawns knock into you more often than not the tile alignment gets screwed up so that the player ends up between 2 tiles instead of in the center of 1 tile without the possibility to align to a center. This breaks the movement scheme and basically the game loop.

My latest attempt was to place invisible spheres in the center of each tile (that I’ve added both a “CenterPoint” tag and layer to) to make the player snap to the closest center point while being pushed via a spherecast, but since it’s all very new to me I’m not surprised I haven’t been able to make it work yet. Is anyone here able to help me? The script in question: https://gdl.space/cijapakade.cs

[languid spire]

!code. Please use a paste site

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[languid spire]

copy/paste to the paste site. Save. Paste the link given here

[rough orbit]

My bad. Edited.

[languid spire]

first thing, never mix rigidbody and transform movement. chose one or the other

[rough orbit]

Gotcha, I'll keep that in mind. Since this issue only occurs when enemy and player collide, think that could be a factor?

[languid spire]

absolutely

tbh, with what I see of your setup and gameplay I see no need for rigidbody movement at all

[rough orbit]

Using transform movement has been the only way for me to get the movepoint-movement to work. DIdnt know it could screw with rigidbody though

[rough orbit]

Interesting. I'll see if I can refactor it without breaking everything.

[languid spire]

Lerp or MoveTowards are your friends

[subtle beacon]

hi i have a question, for some reason there where no errors and out of knowhere there where some errors i dont understand

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Poppetje : MonoBehaviour
{

    public Rigidbody2D myRigidbody;
    public float flap;
    public LogicScript logic;
    public bool playerIsAlive = true;
    public AudioSource audioData;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        logic = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Logic").GetComponent<LogicScript>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) == true && playerIsAlive == true)
        {
            myRigidbody.velocity = Vector2.up * flap;
        }

        if (transform.position.y < -12 || transform.position.y > 12)
        {
            logic.GameOver();
            playerIsAlive = false;
            audioData.Play(0);
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        audioData.Play(0);
        logic.GameOver();
        playerIsAlive = false;
    }
}```

[deft grail]

you have 2 of this script

probably by mistake

[deft grail]

and some tips for your code.
== true isnt needed, you can avoid the FindGameObjectWithTag by just making a static instance in your LogicScript

public static LogicScript Instance;
void Awake() { Instance = this; }

and make a method called PlayerDead or something instead of repeating the same play audio and changing bool and calling method 3 different times

[subtle beacon]

thnx

[subtle beacon]

jeah i started yesterday with unity and followed a absolute beginner tutorial hahah

[deft grail]

yeah can tell, you dont have to do what i said now if you want but just keep it in mind for the future as it would be the better way of doing these things

[subtle beacon]

thnx

[rough orbit]

I'll have to look into how to use that here. Tried removing rigidbody and some feeble attempts at scripting custom gravity etc and to little surprise it's wonky and breaking everything 🫠

[languid spire]

It's possible that using CharacterController may be more suited to your needs

[rough orbit]

And still keep the snap-to-grid movement? Spent a lot of time implementing it this way but at this point I wouldn't mind throwing everything out just to make this work

[languid spire]

tbh snap to grid movement is much more suited to transform or CharacterController movement than it is to Rigidbody. So either should work

[static wasp]

i did index[0] then index[2] then index[3] 🧠

i'm so dumb

[ebon ore]

hey, im trying to make a nonogram game for mobile, everything seems to be working correctly on unity's simulator phones, but once i build and run the game on my personal phone, the main grid object isn't rendering the grid, why that could be? i was getting some errors about Adaptive Performance, but it told me to install Samsung (Android) providers and so i did, but still no grid on my phone

[teal viper]

How are you rendering that grid?

[ebon ore]

the grid object is creating 5x5 grid out of gameobjects "tile"

tile is just a gameobject with square sprite

[teal viper]

You'll need to provide some more details. Maybe screenshots of the setup and what it looks like in the editor and in the build.

[ebon ore]

this is how it looks in simulator in unity, but on my phone only the "capsule" on the bottom shows up

[teal viper]

Take some screenshots of the setup. The hierarchy, camera, tile objects, etc..

[ebon ore]

hierarchy contains only the camera, grid, tile and clue tile (capsule is just a sprite for now (no code))

tile

cluetile

grid

camera

[queen adder]

Do you guys have a script to buy presonage or unlock it?

[teal viper]

Was that screenshot taken in play mode?

[ebon ore]

yes

[teal viper]

What do the scripts on the following objects do?

• Camera
• grid object
• Tile object

[ebon ore]

Camera:
checks for device's aspect ratio and check's grid's size to adjust camer orthographic size
Grid:
instantiates gameobjects Tile to make a grid,
instantiates gameobjects ClueTile that show the clues around the grid
moves the grid a bit depending on it's size (to center it on screen)
Tile:
checks if it has been touched and if so then it changes it's color

full code is a bit long so just the descriptions, if u want me to post the code, will do

[teal viper]

There could be a bug in:

• adjusting the camera size
• instantiating and repositioning the objects
• adjusting the tile color

You should test a bare minimum setup without doing the above-mentioned things to see if the objects are visible. If they are, start reenabling features one by one until the issue occurs. Then just debug it.

[ebon ore]

will do, but wouldn't it also break on simulator? i've checked numerous devices and screen resolutions

[teal viper]

Then there is something different between the simulator and your actual device. Otherwise it would work.🤷‍♂️

There's also a chance that you're using some API that doesn't work on an actual device or works differently.

The simulator is only for simulating aspect ratios. It doesn't emulate the whole device on the PC.

[ebon ore]

ok, thanks

[cosmic hinge]

Hi, I am kind of bit confused here. Why debug.log in IEnumerator is printing first than the one in sequence.Onstart. Is there a way to execute tween in current execution order?

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using DG.Tweening;

public class Follower : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            PlayAnim();
            StartCoroutine(Example());
        }
       
    }
    IEnumerator Example()
    {
        Debug.Log("Function started");
        yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
    }

    Sequence sequence;
    public void PlayAnim()
    {
        sequence = DOTween.Sequence();
        sequence.OnStart(() => { Debug.Log("Sequence started"); });
        sequence.Play();
    }
}```

[little seal]

private List<GameObject> supports = new List<GameObject>();
// Start is called before the first frame update
void start()
{
    foreach (Transform child in transform)
    {
        if (child.name == "Support")
        {
            supports.Append(child.gameObject);
        }else{
            print(child.name);
        }
    }
}```
i have this code that i hoped would just get the children named support but the section inside the for loop doesnt run (`supports` is empty and it doesnt print `child.name`)
the script is attatched to a gameobject. which gets activated when i rclick and deactivated when im not rclicking

does anyone know why its not giving me the transform of my support

[teal viper]

Probably because dotween updates later in the frame.

[languid spire]

start != Start

[teal viper]

You'll need to research how the asset works to answer that question.

[little seal]

oh.. thanks

[little seal]

still a nope, capitalized the S

[languid spire]

the script would need to be attached to Platform because it only gets direct children

[little seal]

it is, my bad for not making it clear

oh wait i attatched it to the wrong one 💀

i ment to attatch it to platform

its working now :) ty

[verbal dome]

What is presonage?

I did google it but it's a mess

[little seal]

maybe a character? personage

[queen adder]

Let's discuss it better in a private message

[verbal dome]

No thank you

[willow scroll]

Let's translate a word if we don't know it in English

[little seal]

im trying to make a script that extends the support for this platform to the ground, but there is always a gap. does anyone know why?
the support is a gameobject attatched to a platform gameobject

public class SupportExtensionController : MonoBehaviour
{

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        foreach (Transform child in transform)
        {
            if (child.name != "Support"){ continue; }
            RaycastHit hit;
            if (Physics.Raycast(child.transform.position, Vector3.down, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, LayerMask.GetMask("Ground")))
            {
                print("HIT SOMETHING!");
                print(hit.distance);
                //set the scale of the support
                Vector3 scale = child.transform.localScale;
                scale.y = hit.distance / transform.localScale.y;
                child.transform.localScale = scale;
                print(child.transform.localScale.y);
                //set the postition to the middle because unity scales the cube to both directions
                Vector3 loc = child.transform.localPosition;
                loc.y = -hit.distance * .5f / transform.localScale.y - .45f;
                child.transform.localPosition = loc;
                //just a visualisation to see if its working
                Debug.DrawRay(child.transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.down) * hit.distance, Color.yellow);
            }
        }
    }
}```

[ivory bobcat]

Looks like something to do with your scaling on the y

[little seal]

yeah since the gap increases with scale, im having trouble figuring out what though

[ivory bobcat]

Not entirely sure but the scaling should be the distance to the floor divided by the original object's height.

[little seal]

that is it right now

[ivory bobcat]

Pretty sure local scale y is a normalized value?

Or rather it's scale instead of the object's actual height.

[little seal]

maybe its because im moving the support to account for the scaling going up, so the raycast starts from lower after moving it the first time?

[ivory bobcat]

So if the object is 10 units tall and the floor is 15 units away, you'd scale the object by 1.5 times in the y.

[little seal]

thus it thinks the distance to the ground is lower and it lowers it scale?

[ivory bobcat]

Log the value of the scale and see if it's what you think it is

[lapis frigate]

I tried to create an enemy library for all of my enemyUnits and for some reason when I start the game it gives me the Object refrence not set to instance of an object. any help?

[ivory bobcat]

Formula would be (relative to the height of the object) current/original = scale. What I believe you've currently got is current/scale = scale

[little seal]

brb dinner

thanks for your input so far :)

[ivory bobcat]

Show the actual error message

It would tell you where the error was thrown

[lapis frigate]

its at the setup battle method

[ivory bobcat]

And what line is 60 of the battle script?

Your image crops do not show line numbers

[lapis frigate]

its says 60 but when I click it it sends me to line 146

which is the line that summons the SetupBattle method

[ivory bobcat]

Which variable is throwing the nre?

[rich adder]

lovely how you cut off the lines.

post code properly with links at least

[ivory bobcat]

Either tell us or simply post the entire script

[lapis frigate]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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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.

[lapis frigate]

aight

https://gdl.space/jowiyesozi.cpp

my battle system script thats the problematic script

[rich adder]

where did you assign enemiesLibrary

[lapis frigate]

its line 33

in the battle system

[rich adder]

thats not assigning

declaring != assigning

[ivory bobcat]

That would be the declaration

[languid spire]

thats declaring not assigning

[ivory bobcat]

It's null as it is unless you've assigned it a reference/value

[rich adder]

You go to the store with "I want apples" and then you leave the store..

you never got the apples

[lapis frigate]

good example

so the array is null?

[rich adder]

the object that contains the array is null

who knows if the array is even not null
if its not public/SerializeField private
and you did not do = new () chances are its null too

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe. Either that or the member being accessed.

[lapis frigate]

I think I assigned it in the inspector?

[lapis frigate]

here?

[rich adder]

if it on a gameobject then sure its no null

Unity automatically new() a serialized list/array when on an instance

[ivory bobcat]

How though, isn't it private non serialized?

Unless it's a value type

[rich adder]

this array is not null

so you're good there, just assign it in the inspector

[lapis frigate]

I attached to the battlesystem the Enemylibrary Script

[quick pollen]

So I'm doing this

            animator.ResetTrigger("Attack");
            animator.SetTrigger("Attack");

for making the player attack, but the problem is, that if I press the attack button twice, it will "queue" the animation again, even if I just press the button twice in a row really quickly by accident

[ivory bobcat]

Things that can throw null.enemiesLibrary.Length//error cannot access enemies library enemiesLibrary.null.Length//error cannot access length

[lapis frigate]

didn't I do it already?

[rich adder]

you never assigned enemiesLibrary to BattleSystem , so you can't access your specific array
(the code knows what to access cause its all declared, but you're missing the specific one you want to work with hence null ref)

[lapis frigate]

so I should remove the enemies library compoenet make the EnemiesLibrary public and reattatch it right?

[rich adder]

you dont need to remove it

just assign it as shown in the link sent to you

doesnt need to make everything in the inspector public , only when you want to access it from other scripts

[little seal]

yep, it halves every update 😩

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] EnemiesLibrary enemiesLibrary would suffice

then **assign ** it (drag n drop)

where you put EnemiesLibrary components is your discretion

[ivory bobcat]

Reminder that what was shown is implicitly privatecs [SerializeField] private EnemiesLibrary enemiesLibrary

[lapis frigate]

it doesnt let me drop it tho

[rich adder]

which one are you dragg in

[ivory bobcat]

The denominator of the formula needs to be an unchanging value and that of the object's original height - relative to #💻┃code-beginner message .
Not the object's scale (a ratio) or whatnot but the actual height.

[lapis frigate]

nvm I managed to assing it trough the + cricle

aight it works

[tawdry quest]

Im new to developing unity for android, how do i save data to android ? (I only used Windows so far)
Like i need to create a hanami.db file and read / write to that, also create a (cache) folder and save images in there, how can i do that ?

Found it Application.persistentDataPath, just like in Windows lol

[ivory bobcat]

You'd just save like you'd normally would on a PC but probably using the location https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-persistentDataPath.html (note that the location on Windows would be in the registry - nasty unwanted dumping)

[tawdry quest]

"the location on Windows would be in the registry", what ? Thats completely wrong, its in AppData ?

Yeah looking at the link it even tells you:
Windows Editor and Windows Player: Application.persistentDataPath usually points to %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow<companyname><productname>

[ivory bobcat]

Oops, I was thinking of player prefs, forget the second.

[tawdry quest]

yeah i wouldnt use that for anything anyways

rather do a settings.dat or save them in the .db

[little seal]

done, it works now thanks alot :D

[steep rose]

you do realize you just wrote the same exact code i did with some else if statements?

not sure what you are trying to get at

using else if statements is not nesting by the way

[night valve]

Yes I do. And no, it is not, my point was only that nesting is not always that bad in some simple situations

In that code I posted first snippet is just as readable as the second, without the need of rewriting "dashing" boolean 3 times

[night valve]

• now I realized that I posted only "else if" version, but I bet you get the point that nested equivalent is acceptable

[rocky canyon]

i'll typically chose the most important boolean and nest other conditionals within

if(dashing)
{
   if(running){

    }
   if(flying){

    }
}``` anymore than that tho and i start reevaluating my logic

breaking it up into switch statements perhaps

[night valve]

For me that is perfectly okay UNLESS you add another layer of nesting in these sub-statements

[rocky canyon]

i dont like using this && that && otherthat

too many &&s to read easily..

imo nesting just a bit is easier to follow

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats what im saying. i wont go any deeper than 1 or 2

especially not 3

statemachines come to mind if ur nesting that much lol

but i suck at those so far

can only muster up a basic enum one..

[night valve]

Yeah, enums are the right tool for such things

[little seal]

if (Physics.Raycast(feet.transform.position, Vector3.down, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, LayerMask.GetMask("Ground"))) { 
    canJump = true;
    Debug.DrawRay(feet.transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.down) * hit.distance, Color.yellow);
}

im raycasting down, to check if the player can jump. this works on my terrain, however it doesnt work on my other gameobject. does anyone know why the raycast phases trough?

both the ground and the platform are layered on ground

[rocky canyon]

probably begins within that object

[cosmic quail]

you forgot to assign it to ground layer?

[rocky canyon]

or its not set to check for it

[little seal]

so my ray cast origin is just too low?

i put it higher and it worked :D ty

[rocky canyon]

it could be

thats just a guess

accurate guesses : + 1

[steep rose]

nesting in of itself is a bad habit and can make your code unreadable, and im not even saying doing a ton of else if's is any better to but for his specific use case that was the appropriate way to go about it.

using an enum or a private void Dashing() is definitely way better for readability

i have a really bad habit of using a ton of &&'s 😅
but other than that, nesting for only 1 line is okay for readability

[queen adder]

first time messing with animations, what do i do to add this bool paramater into the animator? ive set it so the bool is true when im moving, which works fine. but im not sure how to add that to the animator so that it actually affects the animation being played, if im wording it right

i want the animation to play when isRunning is true

[steep rose]

i would !learn how to use the animator, and anything animator/animation related goes in #🏃┃animation

[eternal falcon]

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[queen adder]

oh right oops too used to talking in here

[real trellis]

Could I have a list of UnityEvents?

[willow scroll]

Can you have UnityEvent serialized without a List? In this case you'll be able to serialize it inside of the List

[tender stag]

if(currentInteractable.isHoldInteractable)
{
    if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F))
    {
        Debug.Log("Started holding interaction");
        currentInteractable.OnStartHoldInteract?.Invoke();
    }

    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.F))
    {
        Debug.Log("Holding interaction");
        currentInteractable.OnHoldInteract?.Invoke();
    }
    else if(Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.F))
    {
        Debug.Log("Let go of interaction");
        currentInteractable.OnStopHoldInteract?.Invoke();
    }
}```

my problem is that suddenly the isHoldInteractable can become false

and it will never reach the last else if statement

which calls the OnStopHoldInteract event

how can i also call the OnStopHoldInteract event if i was holding F and suddenly isHoldInteractable became false

i did this

i think it works let me check

yeah works

[queen adder]

does anyone know how i can prevent animations from overriding rotation?
i cant find anything about it online

[steep rose]

if you double click on an animation and right click on the rotation property, you can press remove properties to remove all rotation to said animation

also

next time go in #🏃┃animation

[queen adder]

oh ok

[ember tangle]

entities.Add(Resources.Load<Entity>("Prefabs/Entity"));
entities[i].transform.parent = this.transform;```

When I load prefabs as a script no GameObject is created in the hierarchy and I cant access the transform. Is there a way to make this work?

```GameObject entity = Resources.Load<GameObject>("Prefabs/Entity")
entities.Add(entity);``` this also does work

[slender nymph]

Resources.Load just loads a reference to the prefab. you still need to instantiate it if you want to put it in the scene

[rotund garnet]

regular c# arrays are more light-weight and faster than List<>, right?

[tough stone]

yes

less stuff

[rich adder]

I think its about the same

List iirc is wrapper to array

[slender nymph]

define "light weight" and "faster" because they have the same time complexity for performing the same actions because a List<T> is just an array with some extra functionality (like being able to be resized)

[tough stone]

yes but it still uses more ram

[slender nymph]

it has two extra ints

[tough stone]

however if you dont know how many elements in a array will be added, its better to use list

otherwise you will be resizing the array copying and so on

[tough stone]

less is always better

depends on the situation tho

[slender nymph]

if you are allocating so much that 8 extra bytes makes any amount of difference, then something is seriously wrong with what you are doing

[tough stone]

it is always better to use list if you dont use the features of List

thats what i want to say

there is nothing wrong with that

why add extra stuff to your code that you wont use

[slender nymph]

there is no "better" in any case. use the correct tool for the job. a list is not better than an array, nor is an array better than a list.

[tough stone]

this pretty much shows when is the other one better than the other

but yes what you said is sort of right, depends on the situation as i said

[ripe oyster]

i'm trying to make snake, and i'm looking for a way that the food doesn't spawn on the snake itself. here is the spawn code:

    public BoxCollider2D playArea;


    private void Start()
    {
        RandomizePosition();
    }

    private void RandomizePosition()
    {
        Bounds bounds = this.playArea.bounds;

        float x = Random.Range(bounds.min.x, bounds.max.x);
        float y = Random.Range(bounds.min.y, bounds.max.y);

        this.transform.position = new Vector3(Mathf.Round(x), Mathf.Round(y), 0.0f);
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            RandomizePosition();

        }
        
    }

does anybody know what i can do that it doesn't spawn on the player

i tried physics.checkbox but wasn't able to get it to work

[tough stone]

depends on how you coded the player, is the movement a grid like system or free movement like snake.io

[slender nymph]

that information isn't even accurate. for example, List.Count is o(1) which is the same as Array.Length because List.Count is literally just reading the value of a field. List.Contains and Array.Contains are also pretty much identical considering List.Contains just calls Array.Contains

[ripe oyster]

player (leaving out the enable and disable stuff)

private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        for (int i = _segments.Count - 1; i > 0; i--)
        {
            _segments[i].position = _segments[i - 1].position;
        }

        this.transform.position = new Vector3(
            Mathf.Round(this.transform.position.x) + _moveDirection.x,
            Mathf.Round(this.transform.position.y) + _moveDirection.y,
            0.0f
            );
    }

 private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
 {
    if (other.CompareTag("Red"))
    {
        Grow();
        Debug.Log("NOMNOMNOM");
    }

}

private void Grow()
{
    Transform segment = Instantiate(this.segmentPrefab);
    segment.position = _segments[_segments.Count - 1].position;

    _segments.Add(segment);
}

[tough stone]

just so you know i didnt make that list but found it on stackoverflow, and it is mostly meant to just show in what cases to use it

[rotund garnet]

So an array which always has a length of 64, and consists only of single digit integers, is better than list?

[tough stone]

yes, definility. However if you insert new elements so like add a new interger and make length 65, 66, 67 and so on List is better

[slender nymph]

and the information that provides is inaccurate. I already know the use cases of Lists vs Arrays, and in most cases it doesn't really matter which is used. but you cannot claim that one is better than the other at something when they do the exact same thing. verify your sources next time.

[tough stone]

alr so, you store the segments in a List with each their position right, on the RandomizePosition function i recommend you do a for loop over each segment then check if the position is equal to segment if so create a new position and try that one.
However you need to a look for float precision errors, so either you use Vector3Int or round them up everytime checking (Vector3Int is better if you are going for a grid like system which seems like it)

[slender nymph]

there is no "better" here. if you need a collection whose size will never change then it is more correct but not better to use an array. using a list for that is also perfectly fine and literally the only difference you will see is that extra 8 bytes in memory.

[tough stone]

The source is from stackoverflow with a comment of 153 upvotes, and i showed it just to show when to use an array

[ripe oyster]

so in the food script i'd do a for loop going over the segments in the player script, with if those don't overlap that it can spawn. did i understand you right?

[tough stone]

why are you seperating more correct and better for what reason? just say better, i dont understand why make it too hard to understand for him

[slender nymph]

anyone can post on stackoverflow. just because you see something on there does not mean it is correct. you can literally read the source code and see that many of those operations are exactly the same on a list when compared to an array.

[rotund garnet]

also, is there even a noticeable difference at all?

[tough stone]

yes and as i said use a array/list of Vector3Int instead vector3's which is what i am guessing you are using

[slender nymph]

no, that is my entire point. you will not notice any actual difference between the two for what you've described. it's just considered "more correct" to use an array for a collection whose size never changes. but there is literally no harm at all in using a list instead

[rotund garnet]

yeah okay

[ripe oyster]

right. i'm using mathf round instead to round it at the moment. i'm going to look into it. brb

[tough stone]

depends if its performance critical or not, if its not its just better code.

[rotund garnet]

what about using byte instead of int? would that have a noticeable difference?

[faint osprey]

Does anyone know why my particle system is visible over my UI elements

[tough stone]

again it depends on your situation, however bytes are less ram.

[slender nymph]

the difference will be in amount of memory used and the available values you can assign.

[rotund garnet]

yeah, but if i am 100.000.000% sure that my exceed 127 ( or 255), wouldnt it then be the best option to use sbyte or byte?

[slender nymph]

you are way overthinking this mate.

[rotund garnet]

hahahahah

[tough stone]

What are you building anyway actaully, something performace critical?

[rotund garnet]

Procedurally generated city...

[tough stone]

How are you generating the city?

On a monobehavior class or what

[rotund garnet]

nope, probably doing it in the worst way possible hahah, but im basicly just making it up as i go, it is gonna be tile-based, with 1 chunk being 8x8 tiles rn

[slender nymph]

fun fact, but it is more performant to use an int than a byte (with regards to CPU access). but also the performance difference is so fucking small that it realistically does not matter except in the absolutely most performance critical applications

[tough stone]

Just use int for know get it working, if you want it really performant than just go on the performance side

[tough stone]

produceral stuff are performance critical

[slender nymph]

lol not that much

[tough stone]

Depends, if he wants a nice 8km render distance

With lots of detail

then yes

[slender nymph]

ah yes, render distance definitely has anything at all to do with their procedural generation algorithm

[tough stone]

I am guessing he is building the mesh with scripts or not?

Like voxel games

[rotund garnet]

luckily i dont - im super into low-res stuff like the early half-life games

[slender nymph]

mate, this is the beginner code channel and this person was asking about using a list vs an array. they aren't doing that

[tough stone]

Oh than, dont worry about int and sbytes.

[tough stone]

alr bro my bad, i lost track of time 😂

[rotund garnet]

this is my life now...

[tough stone]

why no for loop

[rotund garnet]

because this looks cool 😎

[tough stone]

i aint even saying anything, that chad code you know

them nerds be using for loop

[rotund garnet]

xD

.... dont tell them i know how to use for loops

[slender nymph]

your condition is wrong, unless of course you never need to access the first tile for whatever that is supposed to be doing

[rotund garnet]

oh thats true hahah i missed that one

the other for loop goes from 0 - 63 so that one does access it, but might as well fix it rq haha

yes i have 2 for loops doing the same thing, just in different directions :0

[covert owl]

I just watched CodeMonkeys Video one a Grid building system and i want use it but i have some questions
Is the "Heat Map" scripts required to make it work, i only ask this cause in his powerful "Powerful Generics" video he talks and uses them
The Generics from "Powerful Generics" required/helpful to use
Since to put this into a 2D game, is all i have to do is put 2D instead of 3D and Y instead of Z
i only ask before hand so i dont break anything that ive made so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dulosHPl82A&t=101s

[cloud galleon]

hi, i want to have a small animation when i click the sprite, but when I click 1 time it loop the animation and if i click again it just stop (it's for a clicker game)

[rocky canyon]

well, i can't answer exactly but i wanted to at least throw out something helpful..
nothing wrong with experimenting and building out systems in order to fit what u need..
but experimenting is just part of that sometimes..
whatever you do.. before implementing a system like that.. I'd make you a backup copy of ur project
theres no need to having the worry if you'll break something or not.. not a fun way to develop imo

[rocky canyon]

just set the animation clip to not loop? oh and theres this

i made this yesterday for someone while testing the Animator's Trigger parameter

we figured out that we could use AnyState and transition from that to our animation..

then the trigger will interupt the animation and restart it

[cloud galleon]

I can't find the option for looping

[rocky canyon]

click the animation clip in the project window

and in the inspector there should be a parameter called isLoop Loop Time

or something like that

and for my transitions i mark hasExitTime => false (b/c i wanted my clip to interupt itself)

if it was set to true.. my clip would have to finish entirely b4 the trigger would play it again

altho.. that may be something you want.. for me it wasn't just wanted to throw that out there too

[cloud galleon]

oh yeah thanks, now my problems is that it play the animation every 2 click idk why

[rocky canyon]

ya, that sounds more like a logic/ code issue probably

you can barely see.. but my logic is calling Debug.Log("Messages"); soo i know whats happening

u should probably do the same..
log when u click
log when u change the animation trigger
and so on.. to see if maybe something stands out as being wrong

[cloud galleon]

ok o:

[rocky canyon]

if u cant figure it out then come back and re-ask ur question.. and share/link your !code

[eternal falcon]

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[rocky canyon]

someone will surely help ya get it sorted out

[cloud galleon]

now it make the whole animation and reset (as i want) but it's not fast enought even if the animation is fast

using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;

public class ClickHandler : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int score = 0;
    public TextMeshProUGUI scoreText; // La référence au texte UI
    private Animator animator; // Référence à l'Animator

    void Start()
    {
        // Récupérer l'Animator attaché au sprite
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    void OnMouseDown()
    {
        score++;
        scoreText.text = "Score: " + score;

        // Déclenche l'animation
        animator.SetTrigger("PlayAnimation");
    }
}

[rocky canyon]

on ur transition u can change the transition times

i bet its b/c the transition is taking soo long..

so it makes the animation appear to take longer

should set it to something like 0 to make it instant/snappy

[rocky canyon]

ya, not really much here.. looks fine to me..

• Start -> Get Animator
• OnMouseDown -> add 1 to the score, display teh score, and Trigger PlayAnimation

[cloud galleon]

now my animation is perfect and don't loop but it's played every 2 clicks XD

[ivory jasper]

how can i access another gameobject's script's variables through a script?

[slender nymph]

get a reference to that component

[ivory jasper]

thanks

[frosty cargo]

i was told to go here for my help so

[slender nymph]

Having a configured IDE is required to get help with your code here. Follow the instructions that were already provided to you in #💻┃unity-talk

[frosty cargo]

okay

i think i understand what an IDE is

is an IDE visual studio?

@slender nymph

[slender nymph]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[frosty cargo]

im going to take that as a yes

[amber spruce]

hey so for my game i have a gamemanager that is in the main menu scene and just has it so it doesnt destroy on load but if lets say i want lose and want to try again how can i make it so that game manager is still there since i dont think it will load the main menu again

[slender nymph]

if it is DDOL then the only way it will be destroyed at runtime is if your code destroys it. so just . . . don't destroy it

[amber spruce]

oh wait yeah im dumb nvm thanks

[ivory jasper]

literally what is wrong, my camera should have the MainCamera tag

[amber spruce]

do i have to apply DDOL more then once?

[slender nymph]

You've likely declared your own class called Camera and it is trying to use that instead of UnityEngine.Camera

[ivory jasper]

oh oops

[amber spruce]

because for some reason is works and doesnt get destroyed the first time i load a new scene but then it gets destroyed when i load another scene

[north glacier]

hi I'm wondering if anyone can help I'm doing this tutorial https://youtu.be/rJqP5EesxLk?si=WduWLD8AcMMIAWwy&t=626 and I'm using the code private "PlayerMotor motor;" and while writing the script it gives me an error. for some extra context I have another script called Player Motor and I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be referencing that but I don't know why I am getting problems I've followed this tutorial really closely.

I've time stamped it at a specific time where the specific line gives me trouble

[steep rose]

whats the error

[rich adder]

show the error from ur editor console window , and send !code

[eternal falcon]

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[static cedar]

Does Screen.height and Screen.width return different values depending on where it's called?

Cause that seems to be the case. I had a bug where i'm using those two and had problems with getting the playmode window.
Since one is called inside Awake, and the other through some custom editor.

[north glacier]

ok thanks

[static cedar]

I'm certain that the latter is returning the height and width of the inspector.

[swift elbow]

yes

[covert owl]

Can someone direct me to a good 2D Grid Building Turtorial, the ones I keep finding are always 3D or don't really do good job in explaining what's happening

[swift elbow]

there are tons on yt from what i can see if you look up unity 2d grid system

[covert owl]

Yhea but they don't seem to do a good job in explaining how they did it, a good amount usually preemptively set something up before and and don't really explian it

Something I can follow so I can understand it, best if it started from scratch

[teal viper]

You'll need to put some effort into researching the things that you don't understand in the tutorial. They expect some basic level of understanding from you.

[covert owl]

I have some level of understanding, it's just when the pull out a who package out of nowhere and grab functions, it tend to be confusing

I already know how to make the grid, it's just making the ability to place building down and making it snap to said grid is the issue

[quick fractal]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

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[teal viper]

What kind of packages are you talking about? If it's unity packages, then they have documentation. If there's something you don't understand about them, you should refer to the docs.

[solemn fractal]

Hi guys.. I am doing the same for multiple variables in my game.. no problem at all changing their value using my Getter and setters.. but there is 1 variable specific that I am not being able to change AT ALL, the value never changes no matter what I do. private bool _isPlayerDead;

my get and set: ``` public bool IsPlayerDeadGetSet{get{ return _isPlayerDead; } set { _isPlayerDead = value;}}

I have other getters and setters in this same script and I am able to change their values or get the values from everywhere.. but this one I cant.. any ideas?

Just doesnt work.. the values never change or never get the correct information.

[teal viper]

Debug it

[solemn fractal]

already did all the debugs I could imagine

I am 3h now just to understand that and I just cant

hahaha should be soimething simple and its giving me a headache crazy 😦

I am doing a game for weeks and all going smooth.. first time I am stuck with something that supposely should be simple

and have been working so far for everything. crazy stuff

[teal viper]

Did you try adding logs to the setter?

[solemn fractal]

Debug.Log("Game Started: " + _gameManager.DidGameStartGetSet + " Player Is dead: " + _playerHealth.IsPlayerDeadGetSet);

That is the logger I have been using

[teal viper]

This is not in the setter

[solemn fractal]

how to do a logger in the setter tho?

What do you mean

[teal viper]

A setter is just a method, you can add as many lines of code as you want.

[solemn fractal]

oh ok makes sense

[teal viper]

Debug the old and new values, and see if it's being set to values you don't expect

[solemn fractal]

The game must be crazy, I have no where in the game to change it to TRUE now. And I created a method where I click a button.. that method is inside the same class. when I click the button the variable doesnt change. that is the button public void PlayerIsDown(){ _isPlayerDead = false; }

I mean, does it make sense? hahaha

inside the button with a debug says it changed, but debug for the variable itself .. doesnt change

what a crazy world.

[short hazel]

You should use the property everywhere since you made one

You're still accessing the private field here, essentially bypassing the setter's logic (if you have some)

[solemn fractal]

I dont, I removed everything everywhere. Well who knows. 3h already trying to figure it out something " Simple" and I got go sleep to work. will try to sleep I hate to sleep when I cant figure it out something hahaha makes me sleep anxious.. hahaha anyways ty guys

[short hazel]

It's literally in the piece of code you posted

_isPlayerDead = false;

[solemn fractal]

what do you mean?

[short hazel]

You should be doing IsPlayerDeadGetSet = false instead, so it uses the property and runs your setter

[solemn fractal]

but inside the same script, what is the dif from using _isPlayerDead = false; or IsPlayerDeadGetSet = false? wouldnt it be the same?

[teal viper]

It would prevent the debug log from printing. Also, we don't know where else you might be setting it.

[short hazel]

The second one would run all the code in the property's set accessor, which would log, and therefore narrow down where your bug could be

[teal viper]

Basically, it interferes with debugging the property.

[solemn fractal]

understood. Thank you guys will try more stuff with the info you gave me and see what I get.

I will check more tomorrow but sounds like a bug in the view.. when I have only 1 bug.log it shows the debug on the botton left.. the value there shows as not changed of this variable but shows other variables changing.. but when I open the debug tab it shows correctly as changed.

I will need to do more tests, tomorrow, thank you!!

[teal viper]

What debug tab? Look at the console.

[tiny bloom]

Why is a diagonal look jagged with the mouse but smooth with a joystick?
TriggerConstantAction is being called in update()

[jade tartan]

Hello, I debuted in Unity and I'm following a tuto to make a 2D game, only I have a problem and can't activate Game mode. Apparently, FadeSystem is not defined, despite the fact I reproduced the coding necessary and assigned the fade system. Can someone help me, please?

[keen dew]

It says that the tag FadeSystem doesn't exist. Have you made that tag?

[deft grail]

its not about the code, its about the Tag

[sullen perch]

Is there any way to mass place destinations for ai? Its on terrain and i was wandering if it can automatics adjust to the hight of the landscape

[teal viper]

Not sure what you mean by mass place, but regarding the second question, you'd need to calculate the exact position.

[sullen perch]

i have big terrain and want to place a lot of destinations but i dont want to spent 10h doing it. Is there any faster way of doing it?

[teal viper]

What kind of destinations? Sadly, computers can't read your thoughts yet, so you'll need to tell it what kind of destinations you need.

[languid spire]

write code to do it

[sullen perch]

Like i have to place a lot o f ai destinations(just a empty game object) for the ai to pattrol to, but my terrain is big and i dont want to place all the destinations.

[teal viper]

Place where/how?? Randomly?

[languid spire]

you really don't need to do that, a list of Vector3's will do the same job

[teal viper]

Are there any requirements for these destinations?

[sullen perch]

yeah, or ordered, it dosent matter

[teal viper]

Then just place them randomly. Or better, fill an array with the vectors representing these destinations.

[sullen perch]

the terrain is realy big so i dont wanna place it manualy

[languid spire]

you keep repeating that, we are not idiots

[sullen perch]

sorry, i am new to unity, and aint the best at english

[languid spire]

so why can you not write code to do it?

[sullen perch]

as i sayed im new to unity

and dont realy know how to do that

[languid spire]

well you have a choice, either learn how to do it or place them manually. there is no shortcut

[sullen perch]

ok thx

[teal viper]

Place them randomly via code is what I meant.

[sullen perch]

oh, ok thx

[rich egret]

Hi, how is it possible to turn an object as a child into a parent but its original position will not change?

[radiant stag]

copy the value?

[rich egret]

I mean the original position to the preset position

[rich egret]

No, when you put a child in a certain object via script, its relative position changes u know

[eternal needle]

The world position should still be the same. The local position would change, as it's now local to something else. I'm not sure what result you want but you can use this method and specify the 2nd parameter
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetParent.html

[rich egret]

I'm trying to bring the child to the parent through a script without its X Y Z changing (the child is a prefab)

[eternal needle]

This really doesnt make sense

If you're just setting the parent to null, the actual position of the object doesnt change. Just what you see in inspector is in local space

[celest flax]

I have a base class with a virtual method, and that method contains a local variable

{
    GameObject currentTarget = enemiesInRange[0];
}```
I then have a child class that inherits from that one, with an override method that uses that variable
```protected override void Attack()
{
    base.Attack();
    transform.up = (currentTarget.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
}```
But in this case, the child class can't find the currentTarget variable. What could I change for it to work?

[languid spire]

virtual protected GameObject Attack()
{
    GameObject currentTarget = enemiesInRange[0];
    return currentTarget;
}
protected override GameObject Attack()
{
    GameObject currentTarget = base.Attack();
    transform.up = (currentTarget.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
    return currentTarget;
}

[ebon ore]

hey, my game works in unity play mode, but on my phone i'm getting an error:
2024/09/15 13:19:51.090 20214 20256 Error Unity DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path "/Assets/Levels/levels5.json".
why is that and how can i fix it?

[teal viper]

Are you trying to access a file at that path? The build does not have the same folder/file structure as the project.

[ebon ore]

yes

[teal viper]

Well, that's not gonna work then

[ebon ore]

how do get to the file on mobile?

[teal viper]

Reference it.

Or put it in Resources and load via resources.
Asset bundles and addressables are also an option

[sturdy wyvern]

having some issues applying forces to instantiated prefabs. im on unity 2019.4.31f1, following brackeys' "how to make a game in unity" tutorial. i added a simple proc gen system for my obstacles, essentially i just have a separate object which instantiates a prefab at certain positions. the issue im facing is that when i try to add force to the rigidbody of any of those instances, the object simply doesnt move

the whole script is included below.

this is the function for moving objects

void moveSpawnedBlock(GameObject inst)
{
    Debug.Log(inst);
    Rigidbody rb = inst.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    Debug.Log(rb);
    rb.AddForce(0, 0, constMoveForce * Time.deltaTime);
}

this is where that function is being called

 void FixedUpdate()
 {
    //Loop through rows
     for (int i = 0; i < obstacleRows.GetLength(0); i++)
     {
         //Reset position of off-screen rows of obstacles
         spawnBlocksOffscreen(obstacleRows, i);
         //Move all obstacles towards player
         for(int j = 0; j < obstacleRows.GetLength(1); j++)
         {
             moveSpawnedBlock(obstacleRows[i, j]);
         }
     }
 }

and lastly, here is the function which spawns in the obstacles

void spawnBlocksStart()
{
    //variable setup

    int randIndex = 0; //index of hole
    int instCount = 0; //number of obstacles made

    //Loop through all spawn-points
    for (int i = 0; i < spawnPoints.Length; i++)
    {
        //Create gap on each row
        if (i % blocksPerRow == 0) randIndex = Random.Range(i, i + blocksPerRow);
        if (randIndex == i) continue; //skip obj creation if reaches pos of gap

        //Instantiate obstacle
        obstacleInstances[instCount] = Instantiate(obstacle, spawnPoints[i].position, Quaternion.identity);

        instCount++;

         //Skip row formation if row is not complete
        if (instCount % (blocksPerRow - 1) != 0) continue;
        
        //Collect row
        var rowCount = (instCount / (blocksPerRow - 1)) - 1;
        for (int j = 0; j < (blocksPerRow - 1); j++) 
        { 
            var instID = instCount - ((blocksPerRow - 1) - j);
            obstacleRows[rowCount, j] = obstacleInstances[instID];
            //Debug.Log(obstacleRows[rowCount, j]);
        }
    }
}

any idea why this isnt working? im confused :') sorry if this is badly formatted, or if my issue is obvious. this is my first time working in unity and my first time using C#.

forgot to include the whole script, here it is