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[rich adder]

try moving scatter.Enable() on Start

[wraith phoenix]

This one is really hitting home for me

[autumn pine]

ooh I think its the first one

that would explain why everything still functions as it should

[shell sorrel]

yeah i will pretty heavily use lambdas for callbacks, but for events that you must unsub from just always use a named function directly

[wraith phoenix]

One more error now:

        if(playerControls.Movement.Dash.triggered){PlayerDash();}
    }```
"There is no argument given that corresponds to the required parameter 'ctx' of 'Dash.PlayerDash(InputAction.CallbackContext)'"

Do I need to pass something through PlayerDash() now? I tried `PlayerDash(ctx)` but that didn't work.

[shell sorrel]

you changed the signature so it require a passed arg now

in your PlayerDash do you ever use the context

or you just added it because its required for the event?

if its not required or used in your function just pass null in

or could even defualt it to null in the signature

[wraith phoenix]

I don't believe I ever use the context.
I'm still not 100% clear what information would be in the context.
Would it be something like how hard the button was pressed? (aka a short or long pull on a controller trigger)

[shell sorrel]

so what does the signature of PlayerDash look like?

[autumn pine]

it is called in start

[wraith phoenix]

    //private void PlayerDash() {
        Debug.Log(Stamina.Instance.CurrentStamina);

        if(!isDashing && Stamina.Instance.CurrentStamina > 0) {
            Stamina.Instance.UseStamina();
            isDashing = true;
            playerController.moveSpeed *= dashSpeed;
            //myTrailRenderer.emitting = true;
            StartCoroutine(EndDashRoutine());
        }
    }

    private IEnumerator EndDashRoutine() {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(dashDuration);
        playerController.moveSpeed = coreMoveSpeed;
        //myTrailRenderer.emitting = false;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(dashCDTimer);
        isDashing = false; 
    }```

[rich adder]

no you showed it being in OnEnable

[wraith phoenix]

Working on getting my stamina working now

[shell sorrel]

private void PlayerDash(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx = null)

make it that

[wraith phoenix]

But that basically works

[shell sorrel]

that will let you have the ctx arg the event requires, but also call it without providing a context or having to manually pass null

[autumn pine]

it's in OnDisable which happens via a method in start

[shell sorrel]

other option is just have 1 method that is only for the event, that just calls your regular playerdash

[rich adder]

wait i misread OnDisable with OnEnable..nvm

[autumn pine]

is OnDisable automatically called as soon as the game is run

if the script is off

[wraith phoenix]

with = null
error: "A value of type '<null>' cannot be used as a default parameter because there are no standard conversions to type 'InputAction.CallbackContext'"

[rich adder]

ok so where do you disable the script ?

must be after scatter gets unassigned

[autumn pine]

unfinished debug.log ignore that

[rich adder]

btw CallbackContext is a struct unless nullable you can't pass null

value types are not null types

[shell sorrel]

ah my bad can just use default then

or make a dedicated method just for the event

[wraith phoenix]

So this basically makes the data structure empty?
Not sure how the data structure looks but basically it's empty lol

[shell sorrel]

yeah default just creates the "zero" value for a given type

[wraith phoenix]

= default did work in the coder. Testing it in the game

[shell sorrel]

if its a reference type that is null, if its a struct thats it just with its stuff zeroed out

[wraith phoenix]

Testing in game did not work.
Now my PlayerDash() doesn't fire when I press the associated input to trigger it.

        if(playerControls.Movement.Dash.triggered){PlayerDash();}
    }```

Do I need to pass through something in PlayerDash() now

[rich adder]

is there a reason you're not using events?

[polar acorn]

Yes, you need to pass a CallbackContext

[wraith phoenix]

Mostly just don't know what events are

[rich adder]

I thought you were already doing that with a => _ function

[wraith phoenix]

I was but that was from following a tutorial where they glanced over why we use those.
I'd have to go back and review it. Some C# that I still don't fully understand.

[wraith phoenix]

I tried passing default as my CallbackContext but that did not work.
What would be a thing I would pass through?

[polar acorn]

Presumably, you wouldn't ever be manually constructing a callback context, you'd be adding this function to an event that calls it for you

Like you were doing up here, except using the function instead of a lambda

[wraith phoenix]

So OnEnable is an example of an event?

[polar acorn]

In what context

[wraith phoenix]

Only example I have is that I find it in all scripts that are linked to an input action map.
Maybe the event is the button being pressed?

[polar acorn]

An event is basically a collection of functions that are called when the event is invoked

playerControls.Movement.Dash.started is an event

and you can add a callback to it

So that whenever playerControls.Movement.Dash.started is invoked (in this case, by the input system), it will call every callback subscribed to it

[wraith phoenix]

Interesting, could this be used to trigger something like a co-routine?

[polar acorn]

Depends on the event

You need to subscribe with a function that has the same return types and parameters the event expects

[wraith phoenix]

Ok, I hear you but it's still hard for me to imagine such a scenario

[polar acorn]

A scenario such as what

[wraith phoenix]

Of using an event

[polar acorn]

You literally already are

[wraith phoenix]

Yea, but I don't understand why

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[wraith phoenix]

lol

[polar acorn]

So that whenever the button is pressed it calls every function subscribed to it

[wraith phoenix]

Ahhhh

[autumn pine]

solved btw

[wraith phoenix]

So there could be multiple functions triggered at one time from one button being pressed.
And one wouldn't have to snake each function from one another but rather it would act as a spider web from a central point.

I don't know what I would use that for just yet but it sounds quite useful.
Probably could optimize a bit of my code once I get better at using this.
But obviously it's the first I'm learning about it

So for my current scenario,
I don't really think I need an event... Only one function needs to be called when I press the associated button.

[sly canopy]

hello

How do I script

[polar acorn]

Create -> C# Script

[wraith phoenix]

Back to the heart of the problem, why doesn't this:
private void Update() {if(playerControls.Movement.Dash.triggered){PlayerDash(default);}}
trigger this:
private void PlayerDash(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx = default) {}

[polar acorn]

It does

That function has nothing in it

what are you expecting to happen?

[rich adder]

keyboard usually

[wraith phoenix]

At the very least I'm expecting my concel to say "dash fired"

        Debug.Log("dash fired");

        if(!isDashing ) {
            isDashing = true;
            playerController.moveSpeed *= dashSpeed;
            StartCoroutine(EndDashRoutine());
        }```

[cosmic dagger]

add the Debug.Log back inside of the method to see if it displays. also, you don't need to assign ctx = default . . .

[polar acorn]

If that's not logging, then playerControls.Movement.Dash.triggered is never true

[cosmic dagger]

oh, there's the actual method. something with the button is not registering . . .

[wraith phoenix]

Sorry, typo didn't have the curly bracket

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe the if statement isn't ever true

[wraith phoenix]

It used to trigger

[sly canopy]

I am going to eat your grass cause of that

[ivory bobcat]

Better not to guess and just test

[wraith phoenix]

If I take out all the Callback Context stuff, the button triggers

I just get an error about Callback in my concel

[rich adder]

good my grass has arsonic in it.
also lets not go offtopic lol

[ivory bobcat]

An error would cause undefined behavior

[sly canopy]

what

why is um

why is um blocked message

[polar acorn]

That would have been good to know. What error

[polar acorn]

It tells you the reason

[rich adder]

prob because "um" contribuites nothing to a conversation 🤷‍♂️

[wraith phoenix]

Oh, the button is no longer working anymore

        if(playerControls.Movement.Dash.triggered){Debug.Log("button pressed"); PlayerDash(default);}
    }```
Through in the Debug log before the PlayerDash(). Concel never reported anything

[sly canopy]

yeah well um

[rich adder]

alr no need to keep spamming. We get it

[polar acorn]

So "button pressed" isn't logging either? That would lend credence to my statement that playerControls.Movement.Dash.triggered is never true

[wraith phoenix]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

That was fixed when you added the callback context parameter to the function

[wraith phoenix]

Agreed, now the button is no longer wokring at all

I think the Start() is now no longer working.

        playerControls = new PlayerControls();
    }

    void Start()
    {
        playerController = GetComponent<PlayerController>();
        playerControls.Movement.Dash.started += PlayerDash;
    }

    private void Update() {
        if(playerControls.Movement.Dash.triggered){Debug.Log("button pressed"); PlayerDash(default);}
    }```

Is this when I would create an instance of PlayerDash() the way I used to?
```playerControls.Movement.Dash.started += _ => PlayerDash();```

[polar acorn]

PlayerDash can no longer be called without parameters

it takes a parameter now

you cannot call it without one

playerControls.Movement.Dash.started is an event that takes functions which have a CallbackContext as a parameter and return void.

You add the function to the event

so that when it is invoked, the functions subscribed to it are executed

[wraith phoenix]

Ok. The event is the button press. But the event is never being registered when it happens (aka the button is pressed). Why has the event stopped registering when I press the button.
PlayerControls is instantiated during Awake().
The path to the button is correct and the input controller is configured correctly.

Is the playerControls.Movement.Dash.started += PlayerDash; event needed at all anymore?

[polar acorn]

The Input System handles calling the event. It depends on what your settings are on the input asset, whether it's enabled, and what devices you have the Input System listening for

[wraith phoenix]

The input system is correct. I've had it all work before

Only trying to fix the callback concel message broke it

Fixed it

[frank flare]

events can only contain functions with one argument?

unityevent

[wraith phoenix]

Removing the code in Start(). Changing OnEnable() to playerControls.Enable(); and leaving private void PlayerDash(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx = default) {...}

[frank flare]

cus I'm trying to do it like this it doesn't display it in the event thing

[wraith phoenix]

Mission successful!
Thank you to @polar acorn @rich adder @ivory bobcat @cosmic dagger @shell sorrel and all the chatgroup for bearing with me (:

[polar acorn]

yes

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe you should lookup a tutorial about the new input system - you shouldn't have to be polling for input or calling the event with the new input system.

[cosmic dagger]

Make a custom struct and use the struct as the event parameter. If these are unity events, you'll need to create a custom unity event with the struct as a parameter to use it from the inspector . . .

[frank flare]

Can I make instead of "40" some list

[frank flare]

I don't know what is struct

[wraith phoenix]

Definitely wouldn't hurt. I watch many tutorials daily. I'll throw that one in the mix.

[rich adder]

google is your friend in dev struct

[queen adder]

Hey, Im trying to make my bullet destroy when It hits the target but I cant figure out how. When it hits It it doesn't delete and I just get this error.

[polar acorn]

You cannot destroy a prefab

That would be akin to deleting a file

[queen adder]

Yeah I understand that. I cant figure out how to destroy the active game object

[polar acorn]

Destroy(this.gameObject)

on the object you want to destroy

[queen adder]

I still got this

What do I need to put in the variable

[polar acorn]

Are you still calling destroy on a prefab elsewhere

[ivory bobcat]

Is the hit bullet script on the bullet?

[queen adder]

No, on the target

What do I put in active bullet

[ivory bobcat]

Call cs Destroy(collision.gameObject)

[queen adder]

On hit bullet script?

[polar acorn]

What is the purpose of this variable? What should it be referencing?

[queen adder]

oh it worked

I tried this before and it didnt

[queen adder]

no clue, i had an idea and it didnt work

[ivory bobcat]

A concern would be that anything other than the bullet hitting the target would also be destroyed. When/if your game gets more complicated, consider having an if statement prior to differentiate or set the collision matrix to only allow interaction between the specific types.

[queen adder]

Yeah I just came across this

[frank flare]

addtorpue or addrelativetorpue?

[low wasp]

Hey yo! I am having some issues with getting my second player to respawn after scoring. I have it working for player one. I copied all the code from player one but chnaged bits to reference player two. It is just not working. In fact, I cannot get it to save without an error when I add the player two stuff. In the paste below, I have commented out the part the gives the error. I don't understand how it is not working as I copied it from the player one stuff. Would anyone be able to tell me the error of my ways?

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

[wintry quarry]

You shouldn't be copying any code for a second player

They should reuse the same code generally

Also if you're getting some kind of error it would help greatly if you shared the error

[wintry quarry]

Pretty straightforward - you're trying to use a variable you never declared

in C# you have to declare all variables before using them.

[low wasp]

Let me see where I am missing this.

[wintry quarry]

Notice that on line 12 you declared one variable:

public PlayerController respawn;```

You never declared a variable called respawn2

[low wasp]

I see it now

I am an 10DIT.

[low wasp]

What do you mean don't copy but use the same code? I don't need two player controllers? One for each player?

[upper forge]

How would I check to see what the current scene name is?

[rich adder]

SceneManager class (hint: its the second static method)

[polar acorn]

Why not just make one script and put it on two objects

[low wasp]

I don't know. In my limited experience, I thought each needed its own controller. I see what you are saying now though. Even though it is the same script. It will only control the one it is attached to.

That would have made things a bit easier.

[polar acorn]

You can make public or serialized variables that change which input device it reads from or what objects it interacts with by changing them in the inspector

[low wasp]

I will have to try that.

[wintry quarry]

Use the same script on both of them

We don't write new code for every object in a scene. Objects that are similar use the same code.

otherwise it's a nightmare to maintain everything

[upper forge]

I get this though

[rich adder]

Enemybehavior4502

[wintry quarry]

you should read your error messages

[rich adder]

whya re you doing it this way, this is not how you check a scene name

did you not click the second static method that is on the docs

[polar acorn]

What's the error say

[coral ivy]

I am following a tutorial on creating a 3D terrain with grass and trees. In the tutorial he said if I want to interact with trees later on like cutting them, I will need to place them directly on the terrain. But doing that will take a while if I want to create thousands of trees. Is it possible to place large amount of trees and be able to create a script to interact with them all?

[steep rose]

you could instatiate the stump with the correct position and the tree part above it

you do not have to manually place them

[coral ivy]

what is a stump?

[rich adder]

create a script that samples the terrain height and mass place them

[steep rose]

huh?

a stump?

a tree stump?

[coral ivy]

oh ok

just learned that word alone.

but if I don't need to manually place them, how do I do it?

[low wasp]

I can see that now.

[coral ivy]

I need to create a script to place trees automatically?

sounds complicated

[upper forge]

So should on awake should i get the active scene name then store in in a variable then check that variable in my if statme to see if it matchs to what i want?

[steep rose]

well you can put them manually 🤷‍♂️

[rich adder]

how else would you do anything substantial without script ?

[coral ivy]

like using a brush or something

I can use a brush to mass plant trees everywhere but can't interact with them

[rich adder]

that could work if thats what you need happening yea

you can probably just call it directly if you only do it once or so

make a field sure, if you need it more than once / other method same script

[upper forge]

So im doing this in the game to check the level name to make sure it plays the right cutscene after they beat the level

okay i got it calling on awake but im confused on how to store the actual name in a variable...

[stable narwhal]

Anyone know a way to make the bullets come from the ship and not from thin air?

[rich adder]

you looked at the example page ?

it has code how to store it inside a variable, except make it a field so its stored in the entire class not just within the method

or just store it as string the name itself

up to you

[polar acorn]

How are you spawning them?

[upper forge]

omg i feel stupid
So in this example when i go to check the scene name i would just do

if (scene == ("Level_1")
{
DO this
}

[unkempt zenith]

Spawn a prefab bullet that's not colliding with the ship, and add a horizontal velocity so it moves right

[stable narwhal]

im using a gameobject called "gun" to spawn the bullet prefab whenever I press the button but it just spawns from thin air and doesnt follow the ship whenever I move around

[polar acorn]

Where are you spawning them at

[unkempt zenith]

Is the "gun" inside the ship ???

[rich adder]

you wouldn't use the Scene type , you probably want the Name so a string from its name property

[stable narwhal]

at the middle of the ship according to the scene but as I move they stay in place and just stay there whenever I shoot

[stable narwhal]

yeah

[polar acorn]

Show code

[stable narwhal]

gimme a sec

[unkempt zenith]

Use rb.velocity = new Vector 2(x,0)

Consider rb as the rigid body of the bullet

And x the speed of it

[polar acorn]

I don't think they're asking anything about moving it

[unkempt zenith]

That's what I thought

🙃

[leaden crow]

Does anyone know why this script is preventing me from rotating the camera with other scripts (Like a recoil system for example)

[rich adder]

wdym why ? because you keep assinging rotation here

[polar acorn]

Because you're setting the camera's rotation directly every time this function is called

[leaden crow]

ah

that tracks

[rich adder]

you would need another parent object to apply the recoil too

[polar acorn]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[stable narwhal]

my bad

[rich adder]

use Links for large code

[stable narwhal]

https://paste.ofcode.org/ZYxUhttvizfR6LNAYeMeEP

[polar acorn]

Nothing in here appears to be spawning anything

Also, I really hope you're not actually coding like this with no indentation

[unkempt zenith]

1-Where's the Shoot() method ???
2-Use switch statements,comments and space out lines so the code is more lisible

[upper forge]

So i did this no errors but it didnt go the the cutscene

[stable narwhal]

its indented in VScode so idk why it came out like that

[polar acorn]

Does the object running the coroutine get destroyed or disabled

[rich adder]

this is wrong

[upper forge]

No this code is on the gameManager so its always there

[wintry quarry]

Time to use Debug.Log

[rich adder]

you need activeSceneName = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name

[leaden crow]

yes that fixed it thanks!

[polar acorn]

Log the value of activeSceneName outside of the if

[rich adder]

you're doing ToString on the struct idk if that gives the name of scene

[stable narwhal]

I sent the wrong code lol
https://paste.ofcode.org/Kw4fVzrKEd9PxiqwbezgK5

[leaden crow]

All camera movement tutorials just tell you to use the camera GO so thats what I was doing

created a parent and now everything is working proper

[polar acorn]

So, you're spawning an object at the position of the object with GunShooter on it. Where is that object?

[upper forge]

YES its working now thankyou so much (:

[stable narwhal]

right here

[polar acorn]

Okay, now move the ship and show the gizmo again

[stable narwhal]

It starts at the correct position at the beginning of the playtest but starts to spawn incorrectly as soon as I move.

[polar acorn]

So, where is the object after you move

show the transform gizmo, just like you did before

but after you move the ship

[stable narwhal]

changes position to here for some reason

[wintry quarry]

Do you have your tool handle position set to Center, or Pivot?

[steep rose]

is your object a child of your ship?

if its not and you are not moving it, it will stay still

[polar acorn]

Does this object move, or does it simply stay where it is and the ship moves

[stable narwhal]

Pivot

[stable narwhal]

yeah

[stable narwhal]

it stays where it is and the ship moves

[polar acorn]

Please show the hierarchy of your scene with this object selected

[viral mural]

Can anyone help me make a game?

[polar acorn]

And does Ship move or does Sprite move

[rich adder]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[stable narwhal]

ship

[steep rose]

can you show us your script that moves the ship?

[polar acorn]

Show a full screenshot of your entire unity window with Ship selected, the inspector visible, and the transform gizmo in scene view, while the game is running. Then, move the ship, and send another

[polar acorn]

Okay, good. That's step 1, now run the game, move the ship somewhere else, and take another picture just like this one

[polar acorn]

Okay, now show the inspectors for Sprite, Gun, and FirePoint

[stable narwhal]

1. Sprite 2. Gun 3. FirePoint

[polar acorn]

you have a Ship Controller on the ship and the sprite

So yes, you are moving the Sprite and not the Ship.

Every time the ship moves, the sprite moves double that

Also you have two gun scripts, that's probably not intentional

[stable narwhal]

ah

ok let me go ahead and delete that

Yeah now it's working perfectly

thanks

[faint osprey]

        {
            var emitParams = new ParticleSystem.EmitParams();
            for (int i = 0; i < CDPS; i++)
            {
                dustCount += 1;
                massCount.text = ((double)dustCount / SolarMassConversion).ToString() + " Solar Masses";
                float time = 1 / CDPS;
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
            }
            yield return null;
        }```
this is my script for handling my Dust per second and it works great when the DPS stays a whole integer however if it becomes a float it obviously wont work because of how the for loop is set up so how would I change it to work with floats as too

[cosmic dagger]

clearly you need an int for the for loop, so why not round?

[faint osprey]

so your saying if my DPS is like 1.5 just give the player 2

[cosmic dagger]

you need an int for the loop to work, that's a fact. so you have to determine how you want to convert the float to an int. you choose how you round (determine which way to value goes) . . .

[eternal needle]

you dont need to use an int in a for loop. you could use a string for all it matters

[eternal needle]

what part of it "obviously wont work"

[wintry quarry]

Sorry why would this not work if CDPS is a float?

[leaden crow]

Alright after putting it off for months I finally have functioning recoil and ads

[tender cloak]

Anyone able to help me with rotating the camera around an object on both the worlds and local axis using arrow keys

[steep rose]

rotating a camera around an object?

which camera? scene view or game view?

give details

[tender cloak]

I'm pretty sure it's game view my bad I'm off my laptop now but I have an object and I used the rotateAround method for left, right, up and down

But it gets a bit wonky

[steep rose]

how so?

[tender cloak]

So I need to rotate up and down on the local axis and the other two on the worlds axis

[tender cloak]

2 secs

"Does it work when you rotate around the x axis a bit (up/down arrows) and then around the y axis a bit (left/right arrows)? What I'd expect is the latter will feel wrong as it's the world's y axis and not the camera's y axis you're rotating around - and they're no longer the same as each other."

My bad if this isn't making much sense

[steep rose]

it isnt

and it doesnt

[tender cloak]

I will text again in the morning when I'm on my laptop

Again

Thank you anyways

[steep rose]

im guessing you are trying to pivot around something using arrow keys?

[tender cloak]

Yup

[steep rose]

what is happening when you use the Transform.RotateAround function?

[steep rose]

what do you mean by "wonky"?

[tender cloak]

It's what my lecturer is saying cause when you use rotateAround for both the x and y axis then then it starts rotating around the world's axis and not the local axis so I need to implement space.self onto the y axis but I can't use rotateAround and space.self together

So I think I have to use the rotate method along with space.self

But trying it I can only get it to look up and down not actually rotate around

[steep rose]

not sure if it does allow local coordinates

someone will probably correct me if im wrong

[tender cloak]

I appreciate you trying to help but I feel like it'd be easier to explain with the code but I don't have that right now

So thanks again

[steep rose]

alrighty, come back when you have it 👍

[tender cloak]

Perfect

[nocturne kayak]

I'm guessing this goes in this channel

Does anyone know of a way to implement gizmos ingame?

i want to make a sims-ish building game, and for that i'd want to move, rotate and scale some furniture around

[teal viper]

Simply think of them as another object with a mesh in your scene, possibly animated.

[nocturne kayak]

I`m doing just that, i want to change the x, y z pos and y rot with visible gizmos

[eternal needle]

havent played myself, are you trying to make some sort of object silhouette before its placed? in that case youd really just use another object with the mesh as dlich said
if you're trying to render lines around, there is the line renderer you could probably use. though its not very pretty imo but neither is gizmos as its a tool during editor time

[nocturne kayak]

I`d be modelling the gizmos myself, as to prettify it a tad

and that provides another problem

how would i implement the gizmos?

my first guess was to apply a move constaint and do an onclick > slide parent along that axis

but i don't know if there's a better way to do that

[teal viper]

Break it down:

• implement the ability to move and rotate the gizmos with mouse input.
• track the change in gizmo position/rotation
• apply the tracked changes to the target object

[nocturne kayak]

it doesn't make it easier that i'm doing it in VR, but i'm counting on the meta XR SDK to handle most of the distance grab problem for me, overall, crossing that bridge when i get there

[nocturne kayak]

That makes sense

[teal viper]

Implement the system with mouse first. Then adapt to VR.

[nocturne kayak]

That's the plan

[teal viper]

If your implementation is good enough, you'd just need a small wrapper for the vr input.

[nocturne kayak]

I'm coming in from Unreal, so it's a bit harder getting used to the component workflow

prefabs seem similar to blueprint actors, but there's still some weirdness

[teal viper]

Doesn't unreal have components as well..?🤔

[nocturne kayak]

Well

Yes and no?

Most things i'm doing with components in unity i'd do with blueprinting alone in unreal

[teal viper]

I know the line between objects and components is less clear in unreal. Like you can parent "components" to the object.

[nocturne kayak]

sure i can use components in UE to speed things up if i had, let's say, a specific movement script i want to reuse and don't want to ctrl v it about a lot of blueprints

but for instance, to make a grabbable object i'd spend most of my time doing busywork with BPs than just adding, idk, 4 components and calling it game

Back to the task at hand

How i'd approach this is

make each axis gizmo a child of the mesh

and when click\drag relative to where it was first clicked, slide it around that axis

slide parent along that axis*

i guess that'd involve doing a camera raycast to convert screenspace to world space? maybe not? who knows

That's the main problem here, i'm not entirely sure where to begin

and not in a plan-it-out way kind of begin, moreso hands on

having come from visual scripting i'd say my logic is ok but C# is trash, so

I'm not exactly asking to be spoonfed here, but would you happen to know of a tutorial or two that would roughly point me in the right direction so i could take it from there?

[eternal needle]

you dont have to make it exactly like the unity gizmos. also not sure about your game but doing it this way would imply they can move it freely along the axis in any rotation, which im not sure is what you want.
Id start simple, realistically the code is very straightforward of literally just having a method for moving, rotating, and scaling the object. Then its just a matter of setting up the UI or objects that can be dragged/clicked

[eternal needle]

stuff like this would probably fall under "level editor" if you wanted to google

[nocturne kayak]

Oh, thanks, i think i've found something good

The man in the tutorial's got a thick accent and 40k views so i'm pretty sure i'm finishing this one as a pro

While i have you guys here- something i'm finding hard to understand

What exactly does serialize field do?

i read it has something to do with making variable accessible at runtime but i don't feel super secure on that definition

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializeField.html
just exposes it to the inspector

a private variable with [SerializeField] can be changed through the inspector, but not through other code (normally) as its private. that "at runtime" part doesnt make sense

[tender cloak]

am i allowed to send a part of my assignment in this to help me explain a problem?

[eternal needle]

doesnt matter if its an assignment to us, as long as you're allowed to share whatever this is. though not many people would take time to read through an assignment so try to share just relevant information. ask according to the guidelines in the #854851968446365696 if you dont know what to ask

[tender cloak]

perfect thank you

[eternal needle]

i see you asked about this before in the general channel, ill continue this there since someone replied to you there too

[tender cloak]

my bad didnt see

[topaz mortar]

I'm making a 3d tower defense game. What's a good way to have turrets find a target?
The tutorial I'm using uses FindGameObjectsWithTag, but it seems pretty bad to run that on each turret?
Would it make sense to have something like an EnemyManager script, that just has a list of all enemies? Turrets can then just each go through the list to find their target?
On spawning an enemy I add it to the EnemyManager and when it is destroyed I remove it again?

[wraith grotto]

I made a prefab for a cleaver throw to rotate and go straight when thrown but for some reason the gravity is still impacting the projectile and it's not rotating. i left a screenshot of the prefab and the script connected to it.

Please, pretty please, help a colleague out

[wraith grotto]

From personal experience, i use raycast to find a target in certain range. don't have a good example but that should get you started.

This seems ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTKwvpeY08

[topaz mortar]

don't think that makes sense for 10s of towers having to throw raycasts in all directions
especially not when I already know the position of all objects and can easily compare them?

[eternal needle]

Youd probably want to look at what other games do. Even if they're 2d youll still get some decent ideas. Maybe look at bloons tower defence 6. I believe it was made in unity
Yea raycasts arent ideal for this, if you wanted to check if any are within an area then youd probably use an overlap function. Honestly "10s of towers" is not gonna be an issue but you can then profile it always

[stiff fjord]

is it bad too do this?

[elfin hatch]

I have three objects I want to rotate on their local X axis. Their Y rotations are 0, 120 and 240.
myObject.transform.Rotate(myObject.transform.right, 20 * Time.deltaTime);
that works for the one with a y rotation of 0, but rotates the others badly.
What should I do to get the rotations working correctly?

[teal viper]

Depends. Inheritance on its own is not bad at all.

[stiff fjord]

im trying multiplayer and in the gamehandler script i have a timer and in the playerhandler script i have a function that says if the tiemr = 0 and u still have the potato your out should that be fine?

[slender nymph]

why does the player need to inherit from GameHandler for that? just get a reference to it from the player component

[stiff fjord]

this is all the gamehandler script is so far but if i were intending to inherit lots of variables from game handler should i just get a reference for each one

[teal viper]

Think of your classes like real life objects. Do the 2 have anything in common? You wouldn't categorize a cat as a fruit, would you?

Can you categorize your player handler as a game handler? Depends on what their purpose in the project. Then the next important point is naming your scripts correctly. If all it does is increment a timer, it's probably a TimerHandler, not a GameHandler.

The 3d point is that you probably shouldn't be doing multiplayer if you're asking these questions.

[topaz mortar]

let's say I can have up to 50-100 towers in my game at most and there can be like 100-200 enemies at most
if I have a EnemyTracker script that has a list of those 200 enemies, each of my towers can just compare their location to each of the enemies to get the distance not?
would raycasts really be more efficient?

how would I figure out how bloons does this?

I'm never gonna have 1000s of enemies or towers, so I doubt it really matters how I do it either way?

[wintry quarry]

I use trigger colliders

And/or OverlapSphereAll

[eternal needle]

Well a raycast alone isnt comparable because it wont achieve the same thing. A overlap check would be a way of getting everything in range. Also if you need to check line of sight, then suddenly you need to raycast anyways

[languid spire]

point to remember, it's probably not important for each tower to know the position of each enemy ON EVERY FRAME. So you can stagger the calculations across multiple frames to reduce the overhead

[eternal needle]

Ah im not sure there, maybe through a modding community? Theres tons of mods for the game.
I just listed it as an example since it's the only one I've played and its decently popular

[topaz mortar]

but comparing two transforms to get the distance is not expensive is it? why does it matter that each tower is doing it for every monsters?

[languid spire]

200 enemies and 100 towers is 20,000 calculations

[topaz mortar]

is that too much? I have no idea lol

[languid spire]

per frame? yes, that's a lot

[teal viper]

"too much" is relative. If you can afford to spend 16ms on that calculation alone, it's probably not much.

[steep rose]

Instead of getting all the enemies at once, get the enemies from a trigger or overlapsphere when in radius

[eternal needle]

Honestly it could be valid to do. You could probably HEAVILY reduce that if you have some sort of area system (if towers arent global range). Like simple example, divide the area in however many segments you want. Have towers check which segments are visible. Put all the objects in a segment in it's own list.
Also you can break after it finds the first valid result. So suddenly instead of searching through 200, itd be more like 10 objects

[topaz mortar]

something like ontriggerstay?

[steep rose]

That would work or ontriggerenter

[ivory bobcat]

Could probably get the distance of each monster from one tower and simply check the offset of every other tower from that first tower before evaluating all of their distances from the other towers.

[eternal needle]

If that's how you want to detect when an object moves between these segments, sure. Not exactly sure how you're game would work but the 2d games at least follow a set path so youd know exactly when its in a new segment

I did mention looking at bloons for this because they did optimize it a ton, and I believe they have such a system similar to what I described. But my knowledge of it is very limited

[steep rose]

Doesnt bloons use a range based detection?

[eternal needle]

I dont really know what you mean by that. Any form of checking distance would be range based detection

[steep rose]

When in radius => find enemies in range and do something

[topaz mortar]

but how would I set up radiuses?

[steep rose]

Scroll up, bawsi did talk about a neat system you could incorporate

[topaz mortar]

I was thinking of adding a collider around each tower and only check enemies for distance inside that collider
also towers don't just shoot the first enemy, they will have settings, like first, lowest health, most armor, ...

[steep rose]

You can use triggers, overlapsphere, etc. Anything that has to do with finding something in a radius, best you look on docs

[eternal needle]

If you reduce the problem so it's not searching through a ton of objects each time this wont be an issue. You could even go as far as have each segment (the system I described above) store which is the lowest hp or whatever else

[topaz mortar]

but I don't understand what you mean with segments

or at least not how to set it up

[steep rose]

Segments, tiles of the map

To search in

I wouldn't even have come up with something like that, seems pretty neat burrito too 😅
So great job bawsi

[topaz mortar]

so then a tower would have to search the segment it's in and all the surrounding ones too?
cuz it could be on the edge of 2 or even 4 segments?

but why not just use a collider to check which enemies are in range? is that bad?

[eternal needle]

You'd ideally use some overlap function once to know which segments are in range, and then search accordingly everytime you want to update the targeting.

[topaz mortar]

but then isn't using a collider that has the tower's range exactly the same thing? or is collision checking expensive too?

[eternal needle]

You could try using colliders or physics queries only, and profile it. The performance most definitely wont be as pretty but 🤷‍♂️ if it works then that's good

[topaz mortar]

so segments is probably the way to go?

[steep rose]

It's easier for the computer to check 2 or 3 segments for each tower than for it to always check for 100 to 200 enemies continuously

[topaz mortar]

I could make small segments and then assign each tower type how many segments far it should search 😮

[eternal needle]

It's how I'd start honestly, though it was also an idea partly randomly thrown together

[eternal needle]

This part sounds off though. just upon making the tower, you'd definitely wanna grab every segment in range. If you try to see how far down the line it should search, you might run into weird scenarios like it searching something which is always too far.

[topaz mortar]

wouldn't the same be true for large segments? even more so?

[eternal needle]

Well you could still make them relatively small, but the point was more about grabbing all the ones in range rather than "how many segments far"

[topaz mortar]

yeah that's pretty much what I meant, but probably a bit better

[ashen frigate]

can u help me find why my 3d model faceplant and not move throw x axis ?
https://paste.ofcode.org/39muPfmreSEBXEmw5kcpFgr

[unkempt zenith]

hi, i'm working on a 2d topdown project, and i'm searching for a way to move my player, but i saw multiple ways, so i wondered, what's the best way to move a 2d player ???

[slender nymph]

use a rigidbody

[steep rose]

Or a CharacterController

But do not translate it

[slender nymph]

CharacterController is a 3d collider. do not use it for 2d

[steep rose]

Did not know that

[unkempt zenith]

i know, but what i meant is should i use like rb.translate(), or rb.velocity, or rb.move() ...

[steep rose]

Dont translate it or else it will ignore collisions

[slender nymph]

rb.Translate does not exist. and which method of moving the rigidbody you choose entirely depends on how you want your game to feel and behave. there is no "best"

[elfin hatch]

So... my bool "clawOpen" starts true and the angle starts 0, so the first condition starts being met.

    {
        foreach (GameObject claw in _claws)
        {
            if (clawOpen && claw.transform.eulerAngles.x < 60)
            {
                claw.transform.Rotate(claw.transform.right, 20 * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);
            }
            else if (!clawOpen && claw.transform.eulerAngles.x > 0)
            {
                claw.transform.Rotate(claw.transform.right, -20 * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);
            }
        }
    }```
I use spacebar to toggle the bool clawOpen.
it opens automatically to 60 degrees then stops. perfect.
I then press spacebar and it closes past 0, doing another full 360 before finally stopping at 0. PROBLEM....
but then any opening and closing after that 1 problem, everything works fine. its just that initial toggle to closing will do 360 degrees more than it should.
help me understand why/how to fix 😦

[unkempt zenith]

i want precise movement

and the project isn't based on physics

by physics i mean like angry birds or smth smiliar

[steep rose]

Then use the velocity of it or use its add force function

[unkempt zenith]

ok thx

[steep rose]

Translating the collider will only make it ignore collisions, best not do it that way

[slender nymph]

you are basing your logic on the transform.eulerAngles which is going to lead to issues (like what you are experiencing). euler angles are interpreted from the quaternion that is used for the rotation at the time you access it, and rotations can be expressed in a large number of ways in euler angles. you would be much better off either using something like a hinge joint if you want to do it the really easy way, or use a float that you modify as the rotation about that one axis and use that for your logic and assigning the rotation

[slender nymph]

there are plenty of tutorials for moving a 2d object, you should consider finding one

[unkempt zenith]

okay

[elfin hatch]

it's for a kinematic claw that needs to have physics interactions. how would the float method you describe look?

[slender nymph]

if it needs physics interactions then modifying its transform is definitely not the way to do it. you should be using a joint

[elfin hatch]

ok, wasn't aware joints existed. Where should i start looking 😛

[slender nymph]

[topaz mortar]

I'm using MoveTowards, seems really nice

[naive lion]

                                 .setOnUpdate((float value) =>
                                 {
                                     outlineShader.SetFloat("_DisolveValue", value);
                                 });```

Hey guys does anyone know why when I changed the disolve value of a material, after playtesting in the editor, when i stop playing, the value is still at 1?

[astral falcon]

Cause you are accessing the material directly and not an instance of it I guess

[naive lion]

Material outlineShader = outlineIMG.material;
I thought .material creates an instance or am I wrong?

[agile trail]

Can someone help me fix this issue I have been having with my project?

[slender nymph]

no, you're correct. that will instantiate the material
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-material.html

This function automatically instantiates the materials and makes them unique to this renderer. It is your responsibility to destroy the materials when the game object is being destroyed. Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets also destroys the materials but it is usually only called when loading a new level.

[agile trail]

Whenever I click spacebar my code does not run

[slender nymph]

!ask 👇 (pay particular attention to those last couple lines)

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[naive lion]

any clue why the material itself is being saved after play testing then?

                    if (outlineShader != null)
                    {
                        LeanTween.value(gameObject, outlineShader.GetFloat("_DisolveValue"), 1f, .5f)
                                 .setOnUpdate((float value) =>
                                 {

                                     outlineShader.SetFloat("_DisolveValue", value);
                                 });
                    }```

[agile trail]

Im quite new and dont realy understand the full extent of my issue I have look across multiple forums and still cannot find an answer. Is there any way of creating a disccusion and there I can show my issue?

[slender nymph]

just to confirm outlineIMG is an object that inherits from Renderer, right? and isn't something like some other kind of component or scriptable object that just references a material asset?

[slender nymph]

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[agile trail]

I am asking in here but cannot send all my code over due to the limit on characters

[slender nymph]

!code 👇

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[slender nymph]

this is also in the posting guidelines in #854851968446365696 that the previous bot message advised you to check

[agile trail]

ight can I post the link here?

[naive lion]

well its a UI.Image
im guessing the issue may be that images dont inherit from the renderer? not 100% sure tho. potentially might need to just use a sprite?

[agile trail]

https://paste.ofcode.org/n3RjudCVEJB7GnvgUSArTs There are no errors on unity but still seems to not work

[slender nymph]

correct, UI.Image does not inherit from Renderer so that link i sent before does not apply. it probably is just a direct reference to the material asset

[slender nymph]

be more specific than "seems to not work"

[naive lion]

noted, didnt know that
thanks for the help

[slender nymph]

you could always just instantiate the material yourself then assign the instantiated one to the image

[agile trail]

I litteraly loaded up the software for the first time and think the issue is due to the spacebar part not outputing the information

[slender nymph]

mate i don't even know what isn't working because you've not bothered saying

[agile trail]

Ight bro, I have not used Keycodes before and want to know if the way I used them is right as whenever I use spacebar (which is referenced) It does not complete the action

[naive lion]

huge brain<33

[pulsar meteor]

how can i use the unity cloud

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[slender nymph]

lol "does not complete the action" that's super specific. i'm not going to even look at your code until you actually describe what your issue is. i don't feel like digging around through the entire file until i find something that might be relevant to whatever it is you are afraid of saying

[agile trail]

I litteraly have like minimal experiance with code and currently dont know how to formulate a responce due to lack of knowledge but idrk what is expected from a begginer channel

[slender nymph]

this has nothing to do with your "experience with code". you are literally not describing anything at all about what you are expecting to happen. as for what is expected from you, you are expected to at least have some idea of what it is you are having trouble with.

[thorny basalt]

So are you subscribing the callback to an action?

[verbal dome]

They are using old input system

[frosty hound]

It's just the classic beginner mistake thinking it's the input that's not working, when it's just grouped with other conditions they're not verifying working.

Space = jump = isGrounded = classicisgroundedisnotworking

[agile trail]

should I update to the inputsystem and rewrite?

[frosty hound]

Your issue likely has nothing to do with the input system

[thorny basalt]

does the old one not support callbacks?

[hasty tundra]

Im using unity 2d, and trying to find a function / way to calculate which of 2 objects is closer to 0,0, how would i do this?

[verbal dome]

Nah, it is based on polling

[agile trail]

is there any videos I could look up to wrap my head around these terminologies better?

[verbal dome]

Vector2 has a magnitude and sqrMagnitude which you can use

[pulsar meteor]

!code

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[verbal dome]

@hasty tundra so the value with smaller magnitude is closer to 0,0

[thorny basalt]

Will it always be two objects?

[hasty tundra]

yeah

[hasty tundra]

ill have a play around with it, thanks 🙏

[pulsar meteor]

https://gdl.space/melewaxuci.cs is thewre a better way to have this code i know the movement and the animation arent right

[verbal dome]

Make it work first, then see if theres a better way. What issues does it have?

[pulsar meteor]

i have the wrong values on the walking tree but i know hot to fiks it

[thorny basalt]

return(vector2.distance(position1, vector2.zero) > vector2.distances(position2, vector2.zero) ? position1 : position2;

[verbal dome]

Distance is overkill when comparing against zero, might as well use magntude/sqrMagnitude directly

[frosty hound]

If you haven't started already, you need to go through the !learn series

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[agile trail]

perfect thanks for the help (Been on here 3 times and your the first person to actual teach me something!)

[verbal dome]

return position1.sqrMagnitude < position2.sqrMagnitude ? position1 : position2;```

[thorny basalt]

That’s also fair enough

[brittle kelp]

how do i make a audio clip play with scripts

[deft grail]

reference an audio source then assign a clip to it and use .Play or .PlayOneShot without assigning a clip

[sick ether]

is Assets/Plugins still advisable? Im getting some conflicting googles and I dont see it as a special folder in the current docs--but it is specified in the older docs.

[pulsar meteor]

how to get the measure texture

[wintry quarry]

What's a measure texture?

[pulsar meteor]

this 1

found it

[wintry quarry]

It's on the asset store for free

Just search for prototype materials or something

[nocturne kayak]

Hey

I have a tad of a problem here, and may god forgive me for my ifelsing but, i have this code

and what i'm expecting to happen here it, when i click down on an object, i drag it, when i let go, it stops dragging

[cosmic dagger]

use this to format your !code or use one of the sites to paste . . .

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[nocturne kayak]

Thank you

https://gdl.space/kekuwexewu.cpp

[nocturne kayak]

So, there's this code, i was hoping to achieve this

however, what happens is:

it moves to spot X when i click it

it doesn't really follow the cursor, if that makes sense

[keen dew]

GetMouseButton instead of GetMouseButtonDown to start with

[nocturne kayak]

That seems to work

but i don't quite understand the difference

[cosmic dagger]

check the unity docs. it has a description for both of the methods. they are slightly different . . .

[nocturne kayak]

Alright, thank you

something else, the way i understand it, my code should only ever affect the z axis of the cube

[pulsar meteor]

how can i make a e to interect npc

[nocturne kayak]

actually, no it shouldn't because i'm never setting the originalPosition.

coolio

[polar acorn]

Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)

[pulsar meteor]

but i mean by a npc

[native basin]

Hey. Im trying to edit my script for a game im making and ran in to this issue where the c# is opened in memorandum. is it supposed to open there or do i need to download something

[polar acorn]

Physics.CheckSphere

[polar acorn]

!ide

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[nocturne kayak]

back to this

using GetMouseButton seems to work for what i'm aiming for, and it works great for moving it around world Z

however, if i rotate it....

still drags around world Z

when i'd like for it to be localZ,

I'm kind of at a loss here

[queen adder]

You can use local position or local rotation

[nocturne kayak]

i tried just that

https://hatebin.com/ydhpojcogj

and it still drags around world Z

[pulsar meteor]

can i get help to clean up my code

[polar acorn]

You're setting the object's Z position to the position of the mouse. This isn't a local/global thing

X and Y are unchanged, Z is going to the world position of the mouse

[nocturne kayak]

how would i go about getting the mouse position relative to the object itself?

[cosmic dagger]

post it and be judged . . .

[pulsar meteor]

!code

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[polar acorn]

You could use InverseTransformPoint to turn a world position into a position relative to an object, but I'm still not entirely sure that's what you're wanting.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.InverseTransformPoint.html

[pulsar meteor]

https://gdl.space/yadifepere.cs

[cosmic dagger]

post it to the channel, not just to me. i'm working out, so not much time to help . . .

[pulsar meteor]

https://gdl.space/yadifepere.cs can anybody look at my code and help me clean it

[cosmic dagger]

also, you should clarify which part you want to fix (that is messy) . . .

[native basin]

okay i downloaded the visual studio how do i get the code there

[pulsar meteor]

everthing is messy i think but idk that

[polar acorn]

Follow the rest of the steps

[polar acorn]

What is the specific problem

[verbal dome]

It doesn't look that messy to me

[native basin]

what steps

[polar acorn]

In the guide that I linked

[pulsar meteor]

i think my code is really messy

but i am not sure

[polar acorn]

Then clean it up to your own liking. We aren't the ones who are going to be working with it so code that is formatted how we do it isn't going to be much help

You want your code to be "clean" as defined by the people actually working on it

[pulsar meteor]

but i thought it was really messy and i am not really good at this

[polar acorn]

Other people's coding styles are just going to make it less understandable

[native basin]

i cant find it

[polar acorn]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[native basin]

which of these

[polar acorn]

The one you're using

[native basin]

ohhh now i understand thanks

[pulsar meteor]

i thought maybe there is like a whole thing that could be done 1 line or something like that

[tulip nimbus]

Hello! When using ridigBody my character collision works just finde. However once i put it in Dynamic mode and use Vector3 for transform my character just glides trough the collision that worked before. What can i do?

[polar acorn]

How are you moving the object?

[tulip nimbus]

im using transform.position and i use Vector3 for changing it

[polar acorn]

Teleportation does not care about collision

[verbal dome]

Is "walkingTree" controlling a blend tree in the animator?

[pulsar meteor]

yes

[polar acorn]

If you want your rigidbody to collide with things you need to move it by using the rigidbody

[tulip nimbus]

yeah i guessed that it changed the values regardless of collision, what can i do?

[tulip nimbus]

Thanks!

[verbal dome]

Can you show a screenshot of that blend tree

[polar acorn]

Either MovePosition, AddForce or setting the Velocity

As long as it's the rigidbody doing the movement, not the transform

[pulsar meteor]

you mean like this

[verbal dome]

Click the blend tree and show the inspector

[pulsar meteor]

this is the blend tree

or this

[verbal dome]

I'm just thinking you could have the blend tree be controlled by two floats and then from code just call .SetFloat("MoveX", moveX) and .SetFloat("MoveZ", moveZ)

But meh, the code already looks readable to me

[pulsar meteor]

oke thx my biggest conceure was it was to diffecult made

why has everybody a ! if i look to the right of my screen

[deft grail]

they have a ! so you CAN look at them

its in alphabetical order

[pulsar meteor]

oo

[cosmic dagger]

!ask

[eternal falcon]

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:mag: Search the internet for your question!
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:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
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[deft grail]

of course its possible, theres many tutorials on youtube for it if you want

[ashen frigate]

can u help me with my code ?

idont know why my double jump wont work

https://paste.ofcode.org/bjkAVeD8hbkBridJYYTb8Z

ive change my code to simple one

to check it

i get infinity jumps but not double jump

void handleJump()
{
if (isJumpPressed)
{
if (grounded == true || air_jump == 1)
{
rb.AddRelativeForce(Vector3.up * 10);
//ChangeAnimationState(PLAYER_JUMP);
air_jump = 0; <--------------------------- even with this
}

[deft grail]

you need to make a if grounded, jump and if not grounded and air jump == 1, jump and do a -- / -1 when you do the air jump

[pulsar meteor]

why isnt it working

[deft grail]

do you have a script or something called NPCinteract?

also the class name for this script is NewBehaviourScript which is most likely wrong

[polar acorn]

What is NPCinteract

[ornate vector]

Hello, i'm trying to make a visual novel game and i'm struggling playing the next sentence. This is my BottomBarController code -> https://hastebin.com/share/pocibetepa.csharp and my GameController code -> https://hastebin.com/share/axuxajeyun.csharp when i changed the void Start() to public void PlayNextSentence() it doesn't even show the type writer effect or color anymore.

in the video tutorial he changes the name of void Start() and it works for him?

[deft grail]

you do realize Start is run at the beginning of the game, PlayNextSentence is a custom method that will run whenever you run it?
usually your supposed to make a new one instead of changing Start to your own

[ornate vector]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33XDR6E5W7g&list=PL6_cpWr0PK5w086Tm_9uyxky63xQWW6jU doesn't he rename it at 6:15?

[polar acorn]

And then later on in the tutorial do they call it manually somewhere

[deft grail]

yeah he does

do you have any errors in the console?

[polar acorn]

Yes, they do, roughly six seconds after they rename it

[ornate vector]

he does it under the public void PlayScene

i think?

[polar acorn]

Yes, and then right after that, you can see where they call PlayScene

[ornate vector]

No i don't

[polar acorn]

You should probably watch the whole thing

[ornate vector]

I watched till the part that the next ssentence played for him and i'm just rewatching it

i also looked at his script and i don't know what could be wrong

[polar acorn]

Notice how this is in Start

[ornate vector]

Yes and i also have that, so why wouldn't it work?

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector of your GameController object

[fresh ferry]

um i need help

[polar acorn]

Then you should ask a question

!ask

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
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:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
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[fresh ferry]

oh

[deft grail]

no way you still did the same question thats not even a question 💀

[ornate vector]

Is that what you're looking for?

[polar acorn]

no

[ornate vector]

I'm sorry this is my first time asking for help 🥲

[polar acorn]

the actual instance of the component in the scene

[rich adder]

this is just a preview window of the script file in your folder.

the one thats on a gameobject is always what counts

[finite dove]

it's okay, he's trying to see your gameobject not the script.

[ornate vector]

I don't see him having a gameobject called GameController in the game

[polar acorn]

It doesn't have to be named that

it needs to have that component on it

[fresh ferry]

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

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{

    public CharacterController2D controller;

    public float runSpeed = 40f;

    float horizontalMove = 0f;

    void Update () {

        horizontalMove = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");

    }

    void FixedUpdate ()
    {

        controller.Move(horizontalMove * Time.fixedDeltaTime, false, false);
    }
}

[finite dove]

where's this script attched to

[ornate vector]

Oh let me look!

[pulsar meteor]

what wrong whit this

[rich adder]

you should probably attach an actual question to your code..

[deft grail]

we already responded to you, which you ignored

[rich adder]

what is NPCInteract?

[finite dove]

Namespace...

[polar acorn]

We already replied to this and you just said nothing

[pulsar meteor]

script

[rich adder]

filename != class name

[polar acorn]

show it

[pulsar meteor]

i never saw that sorry

[rich adder]

NPCInte

very nice

[polar acorn]

This is NPCInte, we asked for NPCinteract

show that

[pulsar meteor]

it should be NPCinteract

[fresh ferry]

how 💀
the code does not work

[polar acorn]

but it isn't

[rich adder]

so you just solved your own issue

[pulsar meteor]

then i misspeld

[rich adder]

what "doesnt work" mean ?

[polar acorn]

is there a question here

[fresh ferry]

the player cannot move

it's only changing directions

[ornate vector]

Ahh thank you i think i was too tired to notice it was missing, but everything works perfectly now!!

[finite dove]

Change your class names. to NPCInteract. i saw that in your folder you have NPCInteract script i assume you renaming it.

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector for this object

[rich adder]

give it more speed probably

[pulsar meteor]

i reanamed but i thought i would change automaticly

[fresh ferry]

oh

[rich adder]

horizontalMove * Time.fixedDeltaTime * runSpeed

also thats my first time seeing CharacterController moved in FixedUpdate 🤔

[polar acorn]

This should be working. You're moving it at 1 unit per second, assuming CharacterController2D is actually doing anything with the .Move function

[deft grail]

making it 9999 wont do anything if the variable isnt used

[fresh ferry]

Shi im confused

[polar acorn]

It's not a CharacterController, it's a CharacterController2D, a custom script

[rich adder]

Ahhh yes I'm blind .

[finite dove]

correct me if im wrong but i dont think when you change the script names on unity folder will automaticly change the class name itself. you need to changes both. except if you using jetbrains.

[pulsar meteor]

i used jetbrains for other things and that 1 automaticly changed but in unity not

[fresh ferry]

so what should i do 😔

[fresh ferry]

uh can you explain more

[deft grail]

#💻┃code-beginner message
you have the answer here

already

[polar acorn]

You aren't using the variable RunSpeed anywhere

[fresh ferry]

I literally copied everything from Brackeys tut

[polar acorn]

Show it

[polar acorn]

Show the tutorial

[rich adder]

management wants you to find differences between these two

[fresh ferry]

can i send links?

[polar acorn]

yes

[fresh ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwcT-Dch0bA&list=PLPV2KyIb3jR6TFcFuzI2bB7TMNIIBpKMQ&index=3

[rich adder]

bot smacked you down w/ that meme lol

[deft grail]

yes you arent using the variable here

[rich adder]

omg ads on discord embeds

[fresh ferry]

i dont have many brain cells

[finite dove]

look. you have horizontalMove and runSpeed here. and the only variable being used is horizontalMove.

[deft grail]

if you cant see you arent using the variable in that line of code, then yes you dont have many brain cells

[rich adder]

I'm paying Brackys because OP couldn't copy it correct 😦

[polar acorn]

Oh hey look at that, Brackeys didn't use it either. Congratulations, you're one of the 6 people who actually found a problem in the tutorial

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 177
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 6
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2024-09-19

[rich adder]

average brackys shenanigans

[polar acorn]

The last shot of the script in the tutorial is still wrong, he never fixes it

[rich adder]

a+ production quality , d- code

[deft grail]

because he does it with the input

the multiplication

[polar acorn]

Ah, right

it's not in the movement but in the input for some reason?

Strange choice

[rich adder]

yeah you can't ever check horizontalMove < or > 0 for other logic

silly

[polar acorn]

https://youtu.be/dwcT-Dch0bA?list=PLPV2KyIb3jR6TFcFuzI2bB7TMNIIBpKMQ&t=735

Yep, he adds it in at about 12:15

Well, since I missed it as well, it'd be unfair to add it to the first counter, but I'm afraid I have to revoke that point for the second:

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 177
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2024-09-19

[nocturne kayak]

from the video i posted earlier- i`m trying to move an object on it's local Z using the blue capsule as a handle

right now i'm only trying to move it along it's local z and use the blue capsule as a handle later on

[fresh ferry]

shi

[rich adder]

no memes

[fresh ferry]

oh

mb

[rich adder]

@fresh ferry do you know what you have to fix now ?

[polar acorn]

Then you probably don't want to set the object's position to the mouse, but instead get the mouse's movement and apply a speed on the transform.forward axis

You'll want to add to the object's position, not set it

[fresh ferry]

nope

[polar acorn]

Go to the most recent link I sent, that's the timestamp in the video you missed

[rich adder]

omg. Did you not look at the tutorial fully?

or read anything we said these past minutes

[snow girder]

hey guys, i just wanted to ask a question. would charactercontroller work better for a stealth game or rigidbody?

[nocturne kayak]

I think that's the way to go, is there any proper way to get the mouse drag or do i just manually calculate a mouse delta?

[rich adder]

irrelevant to the game style which controller you use.

[finite dove]

[fresh ferry]

i did not, im still at 13:19

[snow girder]

like movement wise would character controller feel better for stealth or would rigidbody?

[fresh ferry]

i can't understand shi tbh

[polar acorn]

There's Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") and Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") which is the amount the mouse has moved in that direction this frame

[deft grail]

i think character controller is used more often, Rigidbody is more for like movement type games
but you can use both and make it work

[rich adder]

well copy it exactly and it should work. Or just put the speed variable there

[polar acorn]

Click on the link I sent. It's literally timestamped. It goes directly to the part of the video you missed

[fresh ferry]

okie

[rich adder]

both can feel the same, its just that Character Controller OR rigidbody kinematic is easier to code because you're not fighting the physics

[snow girder]

welp, you made me more indecisive than i already i was 😭 but thanks. i'll see what's easier for me

[finite dove]

idk but i do think both is same tho...

[rich adder]

Character Controller is basically a kinematic rigidbody but with .Move collisions

[polar acorn]

Do you want to make movement easier or collision detection easier

[nocturne kayak]

but if i do that, it'll get the mouse axis on the screen, right? so if i move it 400 pixels to the right it should move the cube 400 units forward, which might not translate to the actual handle position

[polar acorn]

That's really it. You can do whatever with both

[snow girder]

movement

[polar acorn]

then character controller

[snow girder]

alright, thank you for your input

[rich adder]

+1 c controller

[polar acorn]

You can make some sort of multiplier

[pulsar meteor]

how can i make a widget with text

for npc talking

[finite dove]

like when you near NPC a popup will appear?

[rich adder]

Canvas, either world space or screen space

[pulsar meteor]

if i click E then a text thing and i have the click e and it works

and if you near the click e to interact

[finite dove]

add canvas. if you work with addictive scene then make the canvas overlay. if not then just use screen space camera

[fresh ferry]

uh what does that mean

[rich adder]

it means exactly what it says

[polar acorn]

It means all compiler errors have to be fixed before you can enter playmode

[pulsar meteor]

i dont understant like what is a addicitve scenen

[fresh ferry]

why is it so complicated

[finite dove]

this. i seperate a game and ui.

[polar acorn]

It's not.

1. You have errors
2. You can't start the game with errors

So, fix them

[pulsar meteor]

i have this

[polar acorn]

Look at the errors and see what they are

[rich adder]

lots of different disciplines involved , most of them require critical thinking or common sense

[finite dove]

it's okay you also can start like that, add canvas > set to camera scale
and all you have to do was.

• check if the player near npc
• if so then send trigger to canvas
• show popup

[rich adder]

you have clear syntax issues in your IDE

[deft grail]

line 17 of PlayerMovement has an error

[polar acorn]

Okay, now look at that line and see what's underlined in red

[polar acorn]

Then you have not configured your !ide to show errors

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[polar acorn]

do that

then fix the underlined problem

Compare your line with the tutorial's

[fresh ferry]

ight

[pulsar meteor]

i have thise

and

[deft grail]

in this script, just instantiate/enable a game object that shows your Text

[polar acorn]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-ui-in-unity

[finite dove]

thats good start, then you need to check does player really detect an NPC there? and also use

[rich adder]

keep an object you can use for showing text, carry it /enable disable with player

[finite dove]

when you finish that then create a canvas for it, and crreate a logic to make it happen

[nocturne kayak]

i'm trying to implement this but Visualstudio is getting transform.forward as a Vector3, and thus i can't add a float

but shouldn't transform.forward be a float in it self, since i'm only getting one item of a vec3?

[pulsar meteor]

is there any video turtorial

that is good

[rich adder]

vector3.forward is the same as Vector3(0, 0, 1)
(transform is just the local version of that)

it's not a float, magnitude is a float

[finite dove]

dunno...

[finite dove]

but you can start with this

[rich adder]

NPCInteractable can store the "string" for each text or make a component for it which is better

then grab it on the E interact method to display it on the text object you carry about enabling /disabling it

[pulsar meteor]

to amke this thing i use this tt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdoImzaY6M4 but he uses a

other thing that i dont want

[rich adder]

a "other thing"

speaking in vagaries

[fresh ferry]

IT WORKS

YES

FINALLY

[finite dove]

dont feel discourage about other thing, just try it first step by step.

[polar acorn]

then don't use that thing and just use the things you do want

[pulsar meteor]

idk how to make that

[polar acorn]

Hang on I have a video tutorial you could use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdoImzaY6M4

[pulsar meteor]

just want someyhing like this

[pulsar meteor]

i am using that turtorial

[inner bane]

hey @deft grail can u check ur DM rq?

[pulsar meteor]

but i want a other text

[polar acorn]

Yes I know that's why I linked it again

[polar acorn]

then use other text

[rich adder]

its not complex but it is if you just skip your way through learning anything

[finite dove]

wait so the other thing you speak of, it jsut Text?

[pulsar meteor]

just text i want this text thingy

anf i dont know how

[polar acorn]

yes we know

[rich adder]

"I want this" but doesnt go and learn it

[polar acorn]

and the tutorial you linked seems to tell you how to do that

so go do that

[pulsar meteor]

he does something else

[finite dove]

Text? like the FONT? or the UI Design? im confuse

[pulsar meteor]

UI desing

[polar acorn]

Then don't do that part and do the parts you want instead

[rich adder]

where is the "generate dialogue code and UI the way i want it" Button

[pulsar meteor]

but de turtorail uses de text bubble

[polar acorn]

okay?

so if you don't want a bubble

[pulsar meteor]

like you are texting

[polar acorn]

don't use a bubble

[pulsar meteor]

i dont know how to do it other wise

[rich adder]

apply some creative thought, learn the tools and manipulate to your liking

[polar acorn]

the shape of the dialogue box is not a major factor in the tutorial

just... use a different shape

[inner bane]

Hello
I have a problem with my main menu script,when I click play in the main menu's scene it is supposed to teleport me to the game scene but instead it does a quick flash like it loads something and then it crashes.
Here is the main menu's script:
https://hastebin.com/share/ofohocivic.csharp

[polar acorn]

When you say "crashes", do you mean the entire Unity Editor crashes, or the game stops?

[inner bane]

the game stops

[polar acorn]

So, it exits play mode?

[inner bane]

like its just like I click stop play mode

yeah

[polar acorn]

Then it would seem like something is calling ExitGame

Try putting a log in that function and see if it prints

if it does, it should tell you what's calling it

[inner bane]

like debug?

[polar acorn]

yes

[inner bane]

alr

ima test rq

[slender nymph]

does it actually exit playmode entirely or does it actually pause play mode?

[inner bane]

entirely exit playmode

I also tried on the build version and it closed the game

[pulsar meteor]

what is the sprite 3d version

never mind

[slender nymph]

in that case digi is likely 100% correct and something is calling ExitGame. you probably want to double check what your buttons do

[inner bane]

uhm yeah but im kinda new into these and I dont really know how to check and fix it 😭

[polar acorn]

did you put in the log

[inner bane]

Ima run it rn

yeah... pressing play and it says exit button clicked,quitting game

[slender nymph]

then look at the button

specifically the play button and make sure it isn't set to call ExitGame

[inner bane]

yoo... im dumb,they were colliding between themselves and the exit button had a chunk of it over the play button 🤦🏿‍♂️

lol

ty for the help

[pulsar meteor]

how do i make this

wit this

[polar acorn]

Change the text on a UI panel instead

[pulsar meteor]

what

[polar acorn]

Instead of creating an object with that text on it, change the text of an already existing gameobject

[pulsar meteor]

you mean the tmp

[faint osprey]

in visual studio how do you do the thing where you search for a variable and it shows u every point in your code where its refrenced

[languid spire]

double click, right click, find all references

[faint osprey]

thanks

[vocal wharf]

on mine I just have to single click on the variable and it highlights other references of that variable

[rocky canyon]

only within that class tho

[languid spire]

yes, but that will not find ALL references

[vocal wharf]

oh?

[vocal wharf]

oh ok makes sense

[pulsar meteor]

the code from the turtorial doesnt work

[frosty hound]

That is very rarely the case.

[rocky canyon]

he's got a point.. people rarely script, record, and then edit for hours to publish a video containing code that doesn't work..
its not a viable strategy

[tender cloak]

Why does this cause a gimbol lock when i reach the top using the up and down arrow keys and how would i go about fixing it?

[rocky canyon]

it would
a. be removed by now
b. have a comment section filled to the brim with "don't waste your time it doesn't work"

[rocky canyon]

not sure.. but i did notice all those LookAt() functions inside the if statements are redundant.. since ur doing at the end of the function anyway.

[tender cloak]

so there's no need for them?

[rocky canyon]

nope.. not the ones in the conditionals

you can just have moveCamera.y/x logic in there

[pulsar meteor]

what is the path from cancas for hide unhide code

[tender cloak]

yea everything seems to work fine just when i reach the top or bottom of the mars it starts spazzing out

[rocky canyon]

canvas.SetActive(false);

[rocky canyon]

is it a possibility to clamp the rotations before u reach those positions?

you may want to use a different function than LookAt.. i know its simple.. but when using quaternions and rotations and stuff theres better ways that prevent gimbal lock

[tender cloak]

We haven't done quaternions and clamping yet but maybe i need to somehow find the distance between the camera and the mars position and use that?

[ruby python]

Not sure if in the right place for this one, but would anyone know if it were possible to create a day night cycle while using an image based skybox in URP? Everything I've found is all based on the default skybox, but I want it to rotate with the 'sun' (terrain based game, same skybox for day and night, just want to rotate it. 😕

[pulsar meteor]

why is this

[rocky canyon]

you could create ur own shader that just plops a sun on top of ur image skyboxes

it'd be like combining the procedural one w/ a regular one

[languid spire]

you are calling SetActive on a Component not a GameObject

[echo sand]

any idea why this doesnt work? my character is standing still

    void UpdateGravity()
    {
        Velocity += Gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        Vector3 NewPos = transform.position + new Vector3(0, -Velocity, 0);
        Vector3 Dir = NewPos - transform.position;
        float Dist = (NewPos - transform.position).magnitude;
        RaycastHit Hit;

        bool RayCast = Physics.Raycast(transform.position,Dir, out Hit,Dist, Layer);
        if (RayCast)
        {
            transform.position = Hit.point;
            Velocity = 0f;
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log(NewPos    );
            transform.position = NewPos;

        }
        
    }

[rocky canyon]

ya, what Steve said

[pulsar meteor]

how do i change

[rocky canyon]

SetActive is for gameobjects

[short hazel]

Do you get one of the logs?

[pulsar meteor]

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

public class NPCInteractable : MonoBehaviour
{
// Referentie naar het Canvas GameObject
public GameObject menuCanvas;

private void Start()
{
    // Zorg ervoor dat het canvas verborgen is bij het begin
    Canvas.SetActive(false);
    Debug.Log("Canvas is uitgeschakeld");
}

// Methode om te interacten
public void Interact()
{
    // Activeer het canvas bij interactie
    Canvas.SetActive(false);
    Debug.Log("Interact!");
}

}

[echo sand]

yes the second one Debug.Log(NewPos);

[ruby python]

Not entirely sure what you mean tbh. But this is my skybox. Haven't lined up the 'sun' yet, the one on there is part of the HDRI I'm using.

[rocky canyon]

either canvas.gameObject.SetActive(false);
orr.. if u want to disable the component
its canvas.enabled = false;

[ruby python]

I'd like to be able to rotate the sun (direction light) and the skybox, I know it's possible in HDRP cause I've done it, but it's all Volume based, and no options for it in URP 😕

[short hazel]

Log the value of Velocity, it might be too low for you to notice any movement

[echo sand]

seems to be increasing tho

[short hazel]

Also prefer naming local variables using camelCase, so they're differentiated from class-level ones: Vector3 newPos, Vector3 dir, etc.

Replied to the wrong user

[ruby python]

Huh? That ain't mine. lol.

[short hazel]

Are you by chance using a CharacterController to move?

[echo sand]

ye

[echo sand]

lol mb

[short hazel]

That's why, you cannot modify transform.position when the CC is active

[echo sand]

oh

i read i have to make my own gravity behavior if i use CC

[short hazel]

The position changes and is immediately rolled back by the CC

[pulsar meteor]

dtill

Canvas.gameObject.SetActive(false);

[short hazel]

Yes you do, but you need to streamline it into the part where you move:

Vector3 movement = // get mouse input or something
// other stuff...?

// apply gravity here!
movement += Vector3.down * -gravity;

cc.Move(movement);

[pulsar meteor]

never mind

[echo sand]

oh i see, i will try this ty

[hallow acorn]

hey im trying to compare the tag of an object hit by my raycast, but for some reason i only have these options and ive seen a lot of people on yt having the method compareTag there

[pulsar meteor]

how can i add a timer of 10 seconds

[hallow acorn]

IEnumerators

look it up

[short hazel]

Raycast returns a bool so it's normal you don't have any options for that.
If you need to access the collider, use the overload of Raycast that allows you to specify a out RaycastHit parameter.

If you're using 2D, use Physics2D!

[lethal meadow]

using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyLunge : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform player, characterHead;
    public float force = 1;
    private bool ready = true;

    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 aimPos = player.position - gameObject.transform.position;
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(gameObject.transform.position, aimPos, out hit, 5) && ready)
        {
            gameObject.transform.GetChild(2).GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(aimPos * force, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
            ready = false;
            Debug.Log("gotcha");
            Invoke("applyDrag", 1f);
            Invoke("resetReady", 1f);
        }

        characterHead.LookAt(player);
    }

    void applyDrag()
    {
        Vector3 dragPos = gameObject.transform.position - player.position;
        gameObject.transform.GetChild(2).GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(dragPos * (force * 10), ForceMode.Force);
    }

    void resetReady()
    {
        ready = true;
    }
}

[rocky canyon]

In Unity, the difference between impulse and velocity change is how they affect the velocity of rigidbodies:
Impulse: Applies force instantly, taking the object's mass into account.
Velocity Change: Changes the velocity of every rigidbody in the same way, regardless of mass. This is useful when controlling a group of objects with different sizes, like a fleet of spaceships. @lethal meadow

[lethal meadow]

its only doing the func once

[hallow acorn]

im in 3d

[lethal meadow]

sometimes twice

idk why

[lethal meadow]

i see thx

[rich adder]

the RaycastHit is inside the out parameter

[short hazel]

See https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.Raycast.html for more info on how to use the out parameter

(scroll down to the 2nd overload)

[lethal meadow]

still looking for help on this

the main thing in update only runs twice

then stops working

[rocky canyon]

then the raycast is returning false afterwards

[lethal meadow]

it is

but i dont see why it stops working consistently after 2 turns

[willow scroll]

Since you're struggling with C# syntax, I think it's better if you first learn it

[hallow acorn]

oh ok ty works now