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[steep rose]

those are not debugs, those are warnings

actually Debug

[ashen frigate]

can u give exemple ?

[steep rose]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[ashen frigate]

u mean the dug.log?

[steep rose]

thats what debugging is

well not specific to Debug.log but it is a big area

debugging also expands to errors and warnings and knowing what they are telling you

and common sense

[ashen frigate]

https://paste.ofcode.org/yFTDRCMMZGtc6xcjfTuexc

placed debug but it still doesnt help me
https://prnt.sc/G_aQKwyC7cJc

[steep rose]

click on collapse in the console please

[ashen frigate]

when i press jump the on jump turn pressjump to true

https://prnt.sc/O_XEgeyvBdlf

doesnt reach Debug.Log("double jump");

[steep rose]

so, where is doubleJump being called?

im not seeing anything activating that boolean

[ashen frigate]

i dont think it the problem ive change the handlejump function multibles time but be cuz it called from update something is happening so fast that it dont let me count double jump or it does cout double jump but wont preform it cuz its happening so fast

`private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
grounded = true;
doubleJump = false; // Reset the ability to double jump
Debug.Log("grounded true");
}

private void OnCollisionExit(Collision collision)
{
grounded = false;
Debug.Log("grounded false");
}

void handleJump()
{
Debug.Log("entered handleJUMP");
if (isJumpPressed)
{
if (grounded)
{
Debug.Log("grounded jump");
rb.AddRelativeForce(Vector3.up * 10);
doubleJump = true; // Allow double jump after leaving the ground
}
else if (doubleJump) // This will only trigger if grounded is false and doubleJump is true
{
Debug.Log("double jump");
rb.AddRelativeForce(Vector3.up * 10);
doubleJump = false; // Disable further double jumps until grounded
}
}
}`

void Update() { //AnimatorStateInfo animStateInfo = animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0); //moveDirection = currentMovementInput; handleRotation(); handleJump(); } void onJump(InputAction.CallbackContext context) { isJumpPressed = context.ReadValueAsButton(); //if jump press true Debug.Log("Onjump"); }

[steep rose]

okay first off, please format your !code correctly

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[ashen frigate]

https://paste.ofcode.org/c3gqScVxCeAbH7asTnCFXx

[steep rose]

is your debug for DoubleJump being called?

from what im seeing, it looks like fine code other than you applying addforce in update()

[ashen frigate]

"double jump" yea

[ashen frigate]

what do u mean ?

[steep rose]

you are suppose to apply any physics things in FixedUpdate() due to the fact FixedUpdate() is in the physics update of unity and its framrate independant

while Update() is framerate dependant, so the lower the framrate the slower you go, vice versa for the faster your framerate is

show us whats happening when you double jump, it should be adding a force to your rigidbody

[quick cobalt]

Hm, im writting my own "Makeshift" Inventory, when i want to destory an object of a child component, it said im not permitted to destroy it because of data-loss what should i do instead? Replace it with a placeholder?

[ashen frigate]

https://prnt.sc/Z76n6Dp1Pk6K

[deft grail]

what are you destroying

[quick cobalt]

a gameobject

[ashen frigate]

do u want an public for somthing to see the check box ?

[quick cobalt]

maybe i should use scriptable objects instead (technically still gameobjects)

[ashen frigate]

or this is fine ?

[deft grail]

and is it an actual instance of a game object or is it a prefab from the assets?

[steep rose]

a video would be preferred

so we can see what it actually does

[quick cobalt]

Its a prefab currently

[deft grail]

so are you destroying the actual prefab itself instead of an instance of the prefab?

[quick cobalt]

Ah this makes more sense

[deft grail]

yeah, if your destroying the prefab itself thats why there would be "data loss" because you would be getting rid of the prefab completely.
but if you destryo an instance of it that would work fine

[quick cobalt]

Hm, can i make instances in the editor? Or only with something like a spawner

[deft grail]

an instance would be something you Instantiate(prefab) into the scene
not sure what you are exactly trying to do if you want instances in the editor?
that doesnt really make sense

an inventory realistically is just a list of items

[quick cobalt]

Yeah im just trying my functions and working on drag & drop

so i put something into my array

and want to drag it out, but i did put the prefab in it with the editor which is not an instance

[ashen frigate]

does this help ?

[steep rose]

sorry i was doing something, your code is working exactly how you told it to. your problem is that its activating all at once.

you can either use a coroutine or invoke it to make it stagger or preferably see if you pressed jump in a short amount of time then execute it

[outer coral]

How can I debug through my TestRunner code? It won't find my breakpoints in my tester file:

actually seems to be most the files

whats wrong with my breakpoints 😭

[solemn salmon]

why is it that if i set the body velocity outside the wallJumpCooldown block, the jump animation that pushes the sprite along the x axis no longer works (body.velocity = new Vector2(-Mathf.Sign(transform.localScale.x) * 10, 2);)

it only works if the i set the body velocity within the wallJumpCooldown block:

https://paste.ofcode.org/euxnD4BgHv8MMrgwHbFbTW

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!code

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[ruby python]

Bit about large code blocks. 😕

[solemn salmon]

is there any difference between setting the body velocity at the start of the awake method and inside the cooldown block?

ok i think i've got it, it's because of the delay introduce by the cooldown block. for anyone else with the same issue at this moment in time, if you don't have a delay between frames, your velocity movement will be interrupted and replaced by the next velocity line as soon as the next frame loads.

by putting it inside the cooldown block, i gave myself about 12 frames for the jump movement to finish before taking back control.

[vagrant heart]

Is it usual practice to put camera as player's child or to put it as independent object and then provide it to the player using SerializeddField? I've tried to have it as a child to my player object but I had a lot of problems with it's rotation and tried to move it out of player's hierarchy, which made it suddenly work, but I don't understand why my approach wasn't able to produce correct result. Relative rotation was a big problem for me. I wanted my camera to face the player while player is rotating (he is rotating as he is moving - he is facing direction in which he is moving). During that time, camera is keeping same offset from player (which is it's parent) and is looking at the player the whole time. Since camera was child of player, in order for it to keep looking at the same position, I had to apply invers of rotation that player was getting rotated for. I also wanted to be able to manually rotate my camera. Once camera is rotated, I wanted my player to move in the direction that camera is pointing to. Now what I had to do, is to apply rotation to the player which is equal to accumulated_offset_rotation (which represents all the inverse rotations that had to be applied to camera in order for it to look at the same point) * current rotation of the camera. I still don't get why is this approach wrong. If somebody got any suggestion on how to make camera work while still being child of a player, I would appreciate insight and ideas

[shell sorrel]

depends on the type of camera wanted

if its child object it will move and rotate with the player, that is often not wanted if its third person camera. where you often want some sort of easing and damping on its movement

[vagrant heart]

Yeah that makes sense. So it would make more sense to have it as a child in case of making 1st person camera right?

[shell sorrel]

yeah for a first person i would make it a child object

since you really want that directly tied to player faceing which is directlyed tied to mouse input

[vagrant heart]

I am making 3rd person camera, and as you have said, moving and rotating of camera with the player isn't wanted because it can result in lot of these edge cases and can cause a lot of tweaking to get the result. I am just bumped out because I wasn't able to find out what was I doing wrong even though relative rotation as a concept seems pretty straight forward

[vagrant heart]

That makes sense thank you!

[shell sorrel]

yeah for a 3rd person i would just make it its own object and give it reference ot the player so it knows how it track

would use something like cinemachine, or do some basic vector math and compute a position and rotation relative to the player

also other reason to have it its own object is most games let you have some camera control indedepent of player movement with right stick or mouse

[vagrant heart]

I considered using cinemachine but I haven't looked too deeply into it. I needed pretty basic functionality that might be upgraded and expanded further down the line, so I wrote my own camera class because I wasn't sure how flexible is cinemachine

[shell sorrel]

its fairly flexialbe, but wrting your own is also good experience

[vagrant heart]

Yes, I am doing the same thing haha. It makes sense now to have it as separate object

[rocky canyon]

cinemachine is a good solution even for a 1st peson camera..

vcam being the child

[vagrant heart]

I agree, you can't go wrong with it. You can add all of your requirements in it

[rocky canyon]

and the main camera is just loose in the hierarchy

[shell sorrel]

for simple cases computing the position should be easy

just cameras take a lot of fine tuning

[vagrant heart]

I'll definitely have to look into it as soon as possible because I've seen that everybody is using it. It must be really good

[rocky canyon]

you can still write ur own camera code and use a cinemachine.. thats how i do it..
(the camera code just rotates an empty gameobject) the cinemachine cam is just nested to that object

[shell sorrel]

yeah i have done all of hte above, pure scripted camera, cinemachine, or having the cinemaching camera follow a camera target i compute

[vagrant heart]

I haven't thought of that tbh. That seems like a good idea haha

[rocky canyon]

that way its easy to transition to cutscenes or Points of Interest etc..

[vagrant heart]

Which way is the best in your opinion? Or does it depend on the context

[rocky canyon]

i just enable another cinemachine camera with a higher priority

and then it takes care of the transition for me

done and done 🙂

[shell sorrel]

depends on context

but yeah spawn camps point about cutscenes is useful

[vagrant heart]

Oh I am miles away from the cutscenes haha. I am just getting into gamedev

[rocky canyon]

ya. just throwing it out there 👍

[shell sorrel]

cinemachine pairs very well with timeline if you want to have little in game directed bits where camera gets taken control of

[rocky canyon]

always good to think a bit ahead

[shell sorrel]

the blending between virtual camers is great

[vagrant heart]

I agree, I will think of this as I get there someday. Will need to dig less on the internet 🙂

[shell sorrel]

and the dolly camera's and what not are very nice for hand made camera movements in cutscenes

[vagrant heart]

what are dolly camera's

[shell sorrel]

lets you define a spline that the camera follows along

[rocky canyon]

the main take-a-way is.. cinemachine handles everything for you..
disable and enable cameras.. and ur gold..

the one w/ the highest priority will become ur main camera

[vagrant heart]

Oooh that't nice. It sounds a lot more interesting than just linear paths

Although splines can be pretty complex, I don't know how does unity handle them

[shell sorrel]

its good for cutscenes, but can also be used on gameplay cameras if you want the camera to follow player along a limited path. think like resident evil fixed camera angles but the camera can move a little to follow the player

[vagrant heart]

Oh I get it now. This really makes things easier

[vagrant heart]

I can't excatly visualize how would a spline be good in that situation. Isn't it more natural to have linear movement of the camera while following a player during gameplay

[shell sorrel]

also its really nice for framing of things, expecially in 3rd person games where you dont want the player right in the middle of the screen

[rocky canyon]

Dolly

Unity has its own spline system now doesn't it?

im guessing thats what cinemachine is using

[shell sorrel]

yeah really just a curve follow, they just call it dolly to use real film terms

[rocky canyon]

im 💯 okay with that..
i try to use Film terms as well

hence why i call it CameraRig

[shell sorrel]

fine with it too, before games i was doing audio and film stuff

[rocky canyon]

need to figure out how to implement the term Grip

lol

[rocky canyon]

same lol.. i used to make stop-motion films on a VHS recorder

[shell sorrel]

yeah some local docs, government ads and a bit of post production work cleaning up audio for some movies

[rocky canyon]

ohh thats cool

[rocky canyon]

i despise editing.. more power to ya 💪

[shell sorrel]

yeah doing that type of post production is pretty boring, its like 90% adding back in missing sounds based on context and fixing pops and bad mouth sounds in vocals

music production was much more fun but still pretty tedious

[rocky canyon]

lmao the last part of that sentence is the WOORST

i ahve this nice setup and i still have to edit almost all my vocals

[shell sorrel]

yeah still really have to fix all the sibilant sounds by hand

also sometimes i will just make things flow better and changing the timing a little

[low wasp]

Good afternoon, How is everyone doing this fine Sunday afternoon? I am having a heck of a time trying to get my game over screen to pop and disable movement or the renederer for the player. It seems in the list of actions only a few get done and/or it just does not run them. I also do not get any errors. So that make me think it is running just not as I intended. In gameOver, it will disable the CarSpawner and the cars stop spawning. It sets the gameOverScreen as active. It also logs the Game Over! What it does not do that I can tell is disabling the player input or the renderers. If I uncomment out any of the lines, the ones below won't run or don't show up in the screen. If I move the commented lines to the bottom. Everything works except for the disabling of the player input or the renderer. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction?

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

[rocky canyon]

good to know its pretty common tbh

[rocky canyon]

debug the GetComponents to make sure they're grabbing a Renderer

also.. show us the Disable() function..

[low wasp]

So, I found out why I was not getting an error. I had them turned off in the console. For the renderers, I get the error, Object reference not set to an instance of an object. For the disable, I was just trying to use the same code in my player controller. It just says:

'''cs
private void OnDisable()
{
move.Disable();
}
'''

[low wasp]

I get this for the renderer debug. It still does not disable it. So I looked at my prefabs and it is turned off in there. Just not the ones on the screen.

[ashen frigate]

do u know of any good video for joystick movement like if you push the stick a bit it will walk and if you push it all the way it will run ?

[shell sorrel]

You can get a Vector2 back from your joystick input, the length of that vector will already be greater or smaller depending on if the stick is pushed alot in a direction or just a little

can scale up that vector to use it directly, or you can use the length of the vector and a curve to choose how fast you want for any given vector length

[ashen frigate]

is there a code i can look at ? im kinda confused by all of that

im using the new inputs

btw

[green owl]

hi, does anyone know how to disable and enable emmision of material but with code

[steep rose]

the input system provides everything you need, so when you get an input from the input system by using Vertical or Horizontal it will give you the output of X or Y which you can compare to see if its greater than a threshold set

[shell sorrel]

with new input system no real need to do Vertical and Horizontal on there own, the binding can return a Vector2 directly

[steep rose]

oh, even simpler lmao

thats pretty nifty

[shell sorrel]

but yeah i don't really know a guide or anything, but sure the docs can show how to get that information and do basic input

[steep rose]

i mean if it just give you a vector2 you can just compare a value from it to whatever threshold you set

[shell sorrel]

the most basic case is just multiplying that vector from input by your speed, and it will scale it smaller if you push the stick only a little

though to get more control, i will do speed and directions independently, so will first get speed by taking the vector length and using that with a animation curve to remap the number to what ever i want

then will multiply that by my normalized vector

[steep rose]

but im not sure why they wouldnt make running togglable 🤔

or just make it a setting for either or

[shell sorrel]

most games still let you walk slower with less stick push

[ashen frigate]

is it called axis deadzone in the new input ?

[shell sorrel]

with run being its own modifer on top

[ashen frigate]

https://prnt.sc/35cm2vQYuOME

[shell sorrel]

no its not, axis dead zone just defines how much the stick has to move to do anything

no need for a processor

just make the type 2d vector
then when you read it with read value do ReadValue<Vector2>()

[steep rose]

nono i know that, but for example minecraft lets you push the stick in and it will go to running

[ashen frigate]

do i need to make a new run input in the input acction asset ?

[steep rose]

you can if you want it togglable but dont use a vector2 for it if thats what you want

[shell sorrel]

nah would want it for move

[steep rose]

but like passerby said, use the joystick inputs and multiply by some arbitrary float to get desired speed

[shell sorrel]

really just google stick movement unity input system or search it on youtube

sure that will give a starting point

[ashen frigate]

ty both @shell sorrel @steep rose ill try it

[shell sorrel]

would just get things working first, then after that can build on it to get the correct speed for the vector length on the stick

[steep rose]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[waxen adder]

Is there some way to tell in the editor what the "true dimensions" in unity units an object is? I know in code you can do something like check the bounds, but I just want to be able to check at a quick glance

[wintry quarry]

Not really, and it's not exactly clear what you are interested in. Presumably the size of the Renderer bounds?

[waxen adder]

Renderer bounds yeah, though with the objects I'm using they are more or less equivalent to the collider

[shell sorrel]

yeah assuming you just want its bounding box, could get that in a editor script and display it

[wintry quarry]

Nothing built in but it wouldn't be that complicated to write an editor script for it

[waxen adder]

How does one make an "editor script?" Is it like a static class or something?

[rocky canyon]

using UnityEditor;

[shell sorrel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/editor-EditorWindows.html

can define a custom window/panel you can dock that will show you the extra information you want

can have it just follow what the selection is

[rocky canyon]

make sure to put it in an Editor folder

then u should be golden

[waxen adder]

Gotcha, appreciate it!

Oh that's so cool

[shell sorrel]

yeah unity is very customizable, you can create new windows like this, toss custom stuff in its menus as you want

[ember tangle]

opinions on an in-line if statement if (!entity.target.targetPathing.enabled) { this.target.targetPathing.enabled = true; }

[frosty hound]

Just remove the braces if it's a single line?

[waxen adder]

How do I check the current selection? Atm, I have what the doc example has

Oh, nvm there's thankfully a built in class for selections

[eternal needle]

if the goal is for others to not want to read your code, then success. you arent printing this out on paper, you dont need to save lines.

[cosmic dagger]

Single-line if statements are common. No need for the braces . . .

[marble hemlock]

trying to learn inventory systems and scriptable objects are coming back up
i checked with the official unity account and to clarify: the data they store will persist throughout different scenes right?

[eternal needle]

on what you mean. scriptable objects (SO) are meant to be used as immutable data containers. you give it data, and then dont change it at runtime. Read and copy the data to your own instance.
During a build, if a scriptable object gets unloaded, i believe itll reset back to its original data

[wintry quarry]

THere are many different kinds of editor scripts:

• Custom inspectors
• Property Drawers
• Custom tools
• Custom windows

Editor tools would be the best for this in my opinion:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UsingCustomEditorTools.html

[marble hemlock]

trying to figure out how to do an inventory system with the proper ui has been beating my ass
im trying to understand what all the code is doing and why, so i just keep stopping the videos to try to learn about all the functions they use and its rough

i gotta get it done regardless ig

why scriptable object
why not mono behavior
why not a custom class

[rich adder]

thats because everyone has their own system to make inventory since its such a complex system usually, you're simply copying someone else's way its not necessarily the best method

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ i cant really suggest much based on what you're saying. if you have a specific issue then share that
just some general advice, first work on the inventory without UI. UI is just gonna be used to interact with your existing inventory. An inventory is just a list of objects. A scriptable object would be used here purely just to provide your objects with data. You can read and forget about the scriptable object immediately

[rich adder]

100% make a simple inventory on your own, start with simple collections and def without UI at first

[marble hemlock]

okay we'll just sideline the UI for a bit then

i feel like i kind of have ideas of how it would work but id have to try
ill return in 2 days and if i dont have the basics down then im going to accept defeat and the player will just have to move everything one by one

[waxen adder]

How can I run my DisplaySelectionInformation function the moment there's a new selection? Right now, it seems I have to mouse over the window for it to run.

My class as of right now:
https://pastebin.com/mtgeSKhW

Ah, the good old Repaint function. I remember this from school lol

[rocky canyon]

i have a method similar to this

its for drawing icons.. but anytime the editor repaints the icons get updated

[waxen adder]

Right, I forgot about that lol

[shell gorge]

Hi, I have a main menu on unity and would want to know how to make it to play the game when “play” is pressed

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadScene.html

[shell gorge]

K Ty! I’ll look at this

[shell gorge]

I downloaded this one, I’m new to scripting so idk what and where to do. I tried understanding this too

[shell sorrel]

well first stop using notepad

!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

[shell sorrel]

these will show you how to setup a proper IDE, which will help you alot while writing code

[shell gorge]

That’s how I edit scripts??

Okay, idk how to use that

[shell sorrel]

what the bot posts shows how to setup a proper IDE, unity install visual studio for you

[silk night]

Read a tutorial how to use VS Code, you will thank us for that

[rich adder]

that is kinda horrible lol

[shell gorge]

How is it horrible?

[rich adder]

too many reasons to list, formatting issues, no syntax error highlighting, no intellisense etc. etc

[shell gorge]

Oh.

What do I use then?

[silk night]

• No Code formatting
• No highlighting
• No error display
• No auto completion
• No Unity integration

[shell sorrel]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
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Select one:

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• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[shell gorge]

Oh. Okay

[shell sorrel]

when you installed unity did you let it install VS for you?

[silk night]

Free: VS Code
Free with more power but imo not needed: Visual studio
Paid: Rider

[rich adder]

chances are if you installed unity via hub you prb already have VS installed

[steep rose]

VS is preferred

[rich adder]

VS has been an absolute shitshow for me lately for some reason, just crashing constantly

[shell sorrel]

yeah for a beginner just use the VS that unity installs with its self

[steep rose]

what why?

corrupt install?

[rich adder]

I wish i knew..the latest updates.. me think so

[shell gorge]

Can someone tell me what to do here, like where to make it so it can load the game?

[steep rose]

reinstall it maybe

[rich adder]

it crashes usually when have multiple ones open with unity. which was never the case

[steep rose]

use a IDE

please

[shell sorrel]

you are not going to get very far without using a proper ide or code editor and learning some basics

[rich adder]

year Ill probably try that later, i have over 20GB of VS workloads installed

[shell sorrel]

would focus on those 2 things first

[steep rose]

20GB is crazy, best of luck 😂

[rich adder]

yeah .NET MAUI alone was like 8GB or some shit.

and All the Windows 10/11 SDKs are beefy

[steep rose]

well thats windows 🤷‍♂️

windows is notoriously heavy

[shell sorrel]

making me glad i just use Rider and really dont touch any windows .net stuff

[rich adder]

yeah much better now doing .net core because its multi platform

fuck the windows sdk and UWP tbh

[shell gorge]

Why are y’all so worried about me using notepad for, it’s what I use to open scripts.

Just tell me what to do so I can do it

[rich adder]

because you need a proper and configured IDE to even get help here

[steep rose]

you with your rider IDE, i should use it prob

[silk night]

rider for the win

[shell sorrel]

because it makes things literally 100x harder provides you no support, provides no error messages

[steep rose]

im guessing its nearly/roughly the same as VS?

[rich adder]

also otherwise you will just come back with some issue related to syntax or other simple to avoid issue with a configured ide

[shell sorrel]

also sounds like you just want people to do the work for you, this place is not about that

[silk night]

Faster, better UI, but usage wise yes, you can even use the VS keymap

[rich adder]

better be for that pricetag

[shell gorge]

Okay I’ll install whatever you want me to install , what is it?

[steep rose]

well when VS eats my PC ill switch lmao

it probably will soon, these load times are nuts

[silk night]

!code

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[rich adder]

VSC is faster

[silk night]

Please ues a paste site 😄

[umbral hull]

myb

[steep rose]

really VSC is faster?

[rich adder]

well yeah its basically a text editor with extensions, its very light weight

[shell gorge]

What is it?

[rich adder]

you've been linked to the instructions

[steep rose]

VS, VSC, or Rider

read the bot

[umbral hull]

can someone help me? im trying to figure out why im getting this error...

Assets\movement.cs(39,19): error CS1061: 'WheelCollider' does not contain a definition for 'breakTorque' and no accessible extension method 'breakTorque' accepting a first argument of type 'WheelCollider' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
https://hatebin.com/fjadbjrgqy

[shell sorrel]

its brakeTorque

[wintry quarry]

you made a typo

fix your typo

[rich adder]

check your system , again if you installed unity via hub chances are you already have VS installed

[shell sorrel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WheelCollider-brakeTorque.html

[umbral hull]

we love coding 🙂

thanks

[rich adder]

make sure you have a configurd IDE to avoid such mistakes 😛

[shell sorrel]

the error message clearly shows you why, but also your autocomplete should have only gave you the correct one

[silk night]

wdym? its even the all product pack, I'd hate to be a professional 3d modeller and have to pay maya or some autodesk stuff 😄

[umbral hull]

how do i add the autocomplete stuff for unity?

[shell gorge]

K thanks

[steep rose]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[steep rose]

follow this

depending on your IDE

and how you installed it

[shell gorge]

How do I download this?

[rich adder]

try being a Videographer / Editor .
Using Adobe its bleeding me dry lol

[shell sorrel]

yeah been using the all products packt for like a decade, i find the pricing is fine

[silk night]

The high seas are calling 😄 no but seriously, i hate adobe, charged me 150 bucks just to cancel my sub early

[shell sorrel]

like when i was doing tech art as a contractor and needed my own maya that was miserable

[shell gorge]

Idk how to download it, “🤔” dosnt help.

[rich adder]

yeah its fucking criminal. Thats mainly why I dont support any company that uses monthly subs. you never own your own purchase it sickening

[shell sorrel]

still have adobe stuff on my work machine, but for home i cancleded it and went with the affinity stuff

[silk night]

it is not something to download

[shell sorrel]

you were linked a guide 5 times now

[rich adder]

are you like a troll
you've been linked to the proper things many times

[steep rose]

hehe just use gimp

[shell sorrel]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[shell sorrel]

that might be worse

[shell gorge]

Not at all no

[rich adder]

gimp (i still use it over PS at times and I own PS lol ) doesn't even come close to PS and also I need something in comparison to After Effects/Premiere.
Tried Davinci and alike, they're ok but not as good

[umbral hull]

thanks

[steep rose]

wdym gimp is free

[silk night]

Affinity for images, davinci for video right?

[shell sorrel]

i have no need for video editing right now so not looked into it

[steep rose]

well ofc for a free software it wont have every bell and whistle possible but at least your wallet is not bleeding

[shell sorrel]

but the 3 affinty tools are great for the price

[shell gorge]

I don’t know what this is.

[shell sorrel]

that was not even for you

[silk night]

i dont mind subs if the policy around it is ok (jetbrains gives you a perpetual licence for the last version they published while the sub was active)

and the 2 times something wasnt working in rider / webstorm they responded in <24h and fixed it in a week

[shell sorrel]

i feel this model is a good mid ground, it still encourges them to innovate otherwise i sit on my last version

[rich adder]

yeah thats a better compromise that most wont do, i still don't see anyone else doing that
its because they are software dev company they probably know the pain, but still monthly pricing for a product is still scummy practices imo 🤷‍♂️

[shell sorrel]

even out of free ones its just bad

krita would be better

[steep rose]

krita or gimp, both are good

[shell sorrel]

no gimp just bad

[steep rose]

gimp is good

krita also good

[shell sorrel]

if i had to use it i would charge more

[shell gorge]

Oh

I think I need one person to DM me about it, I think it would be easier for me

[steep rose]

no one will DM you

just follow what we said

[rich adder]

just watcha youtube video or something

[steep rose]

and you will be fine

[shell sorrel]

!ide use the VS installed from unity hub

[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

[rich adder]

if setting up an ide is this complex to you, making a game wont be any easier

[shell gorge]

What’s a VS??? I’m so sorry I’m just so confused

[shell sorrel]

everything about making a game, will be about problem solving, and breaking problems down

Visual Studio

[silk night]

VS = visual studio

[rich adder]

google anything you don't know

[shell gorge]

Visual studio can that be downloaded?

[silk night]

yes

[shell sorrel]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[shell gorge]

Okay, thank you, I’ll download it now

[rich adder]

check your system you might have already installed it via unity hub

[shell sorrel]

literally follow the guide

we linked it 8 times now

[shell gorge]

Is this it?

Wait no

[steep rose]

what

[shell gorge]

I don’t think so now

[steep rose]

how

[shell gorge]

Obviously not

[shell sorrel]

you were linked a guide so many times

[silk night]

Yes, "clion" is actually "visual studio", same letters, letter by letter

[steep rose]

you trolling?

[shell gorge]

No!

[shell sorrel]

it shows you everything needed, where to get things and how to configure

[shell gorge]

I have a disability and I’m trying very hard to understand.

Please stop putting that emoji, I’m not trolling at all, I don’t have a reason to troll.

Thank you.

[silk night]

VISUAL STUDIO DOWNLOAD

[shell gorge]

Anyways I installed it

[rich adder]

no need to show us this, follow the steps and get it done

[steep rose]

follow the installer instuctions

[shell gorge]

Okay.

[steep rose]

then once installed come back and we will lead you to what you need for unity

[shell gorge]

Oh lord I gotta find it again

Hold on

Forgot where the instructions are

[rich adder]

scroll up then

[steep rose]

you can ALT + TAB to find the panel again

[rich adder]

quit being a child

[shell gorge]

I did

Just don’t be harsh on me.

I’m trying my hardest.

[rich adder]

try harder then

we linked to it like over 8 times already

[steep rose]

if VS is installed click on this link #💻┃code-beginner message

and follow the instuctions and you should be good

[shell gorge]

So THATS the instructions right?

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/gamedev/unity/get-started/getting-started-with-visual-studio-tools-for-unity?pivots=windows#install-visual-studio-and-unity

[shell gorge]

thank you.

[rich adder]

Start with number 1. work your way through steps until "Check for updates" section

[ivory bobcat]

Reminder that step 3 is important and something that you'll need to select on your own during the installation.

[shell gorge]

Why not just tell me what to do with the main menu part?? That would’ve been much easier

[rich adder]

#854851968446365696

[shell sorrel]

also the message with setup instructions lets people choose the option that applies to them most

[steep rose]

you have to do it yourself, we could do it for you and configure it how we like it but that may be not how you like it, not to mention you need to learn how to do this

[shell gorge]

Okay.

I already have someone helping me so thanks

[steep rose]

does the ternary operator ? work with booleans? like
boolean ? //dosomething : //dosomethingelse?

[shell sorrel]

correct

[silk night]

in fact it only works with booleans

[shell sorrel]

var value = condition ? ifTrueValue : ifFalseValue;

[steep rose]

hm, alrighty thanks guys 👍

[shell sorrel]

both branches of it must be the same type

[hollow dawn]

Hi trying to learn the code for basic movements, could anyone help me with a wiki or a code? thx!

[rich adder]

wdym "a wiki"

[wintry quarry]

"basic movements" is not really meaningful without explaining what kind of movement you're trying to achieve.

Look up a tutorial for the kind of movement you want.

[steep rose]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[hollow dawn]

thx dont really know what im doing, for context just a 3d game with w a s d and jump

though im trying not to watch tutorials

[shell sorrel]

you will need to know some basics first

but break the problem down

[wintry quarry]

tutorials don't only consist of videos

[shell sorrel]

learn about how to move a transform or rigidbody via code

learn how to read input

[hollow dawn]

oki thanks!

[keen jacinth]

Could someone give me some help?
I'm trying to make the delivery script
I'm using mouse click to move
I am currently suffering from some problems;
My player (any block) keeps flickering the base of the map
and if I hold and drag the mouse, instead of it stopping in the place I clicked and/or held, the block slides to wherever it wants
NOTE: you can't see the pointer

[wintry quarry]

You would have to share your code if you want help with your code.

[keen jacinth]

one moment...

Is there any problem sending the code here? ?

[wintry quarry]

As long as you share it properly !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[steep rose]

you are in a code channel

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[steep rose]

please follow the bot you just provided

[keen jacinth]

https://gdl.space/enuvowavaq.cs

the notes are in PT-BR

[wintry quarry]

You're moving your dynamic Rigidbody directly via its Transform

This is a problem

and it explains your shaking player.

You have to move Rigidbodies via the Rigidbody.

[rich adder]

also just note if you plan on using walls and navigation, you should probably use navmesh instead of Vector3.MoveTowards. Or you can still use rigidbody just pass it the waypoints from navmesh

[wintry quarry]

Not only that but the position you're moving it into is presumably inside the floor since you're directly doing target = hit.point; where the raycast hit the ground

hence the violent shaking into/out of the ground

Presumably your player's pivot is in the center of the capsule

[keen jacinth]

I understood, but I wouldn't know how to apply this in the code

[rich adder]

probably easier to just use a navmesh then do SamplePosition with the hit.point
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ai.navigation@2.0/manual/NavMoveToClickPoint.html

or use maybe offset / plane ?

[mortal spade]

is there really no way to read this property of Rigidbody from script? i cant use velocity cuz thats a Vector3, this is pretty much exactly what i need since im trying to see if the speed is higher than a constant

but rigidbody.speed doesnt exist

[rich adder]

thats probably just the magnitude

rigidbody.velocity.magnitude

[keen jacinth]

I'm taking a while to respond, because I'm trying to apply what you're saying

I'm using Google Translate to read what you're saying xD

[mortal spade]

oo maybe...

this was it thanks :D

[rich adder]

which one ?

[steep rose]

how would i find the closest transform to another transform in an array? would i use a for loop?

[rich adder]

linq maybe or write your own Icomparer class (using Array.Sort method)

or good old fashion loops lol

[rich adder]

wrote this yesterday to get closest target for autoaim, might be handy. Lets you just use Array.Sort
https://hatebin.com/luuiaclksj

then you do

var compare = new DistanceComparer(transform);
Array.Sort(closestTransforms, compare);```

[hollow dawn]

How come when i give my object a new script the script program opens and its just a blank page? How come it isnt the normal page with the bacis lines it gives you like unity engine and mono behavior

[rich adder]

unconfigured IDE maybe?

screenshot

[hollow dawn]

of the script page or?

[rich adder]

yeah , whatever opens

[rich adder]

and you're double clicking script from unity?

[hollow dawn]

yea

[rich adder]

can you screenshot rq Preferences in Edit -> Preferences -> External Tools page

[hollow dawn]

for refrence i created a folder and then put the script in the folder then dragged it into the player asset

[wintry quarry]

I would probably not use a rigidbody/collider for this at all

I would probably do like a CircleCast each FixedUpdate from the paddle's previous position to its current position

[rich adder]

I would code in directions using vector3.reflect and such methods instead of triggers

[rich adder]

close VS try clicking Regen Project files then open script again

if its still blank open up solution explorer window view in VS

[hollow dawn]

idk if this helps but it seems to show up on the right side just not when i open it

[rich adder]

yes but its the script file isnt opening at all

so there is a disconnect happening somewhere

[hollow dawn]

ok

[leaden cliff]

I don't have much experience, could you explain me what I should do? I heard about CircleCasts some time ago but I don't know how to use them.

Same about navarone's idea, I don't have much idea how to apply it.

[hollow dawn]

i think i found it, the script is in my player asset under sample scenses (the compontent is in there) though in the asset section the player doesnt have the compenent

[wintry quarry]

look it up and look at examples

[rich adder]

for mine was basically just suggesting, to instead of calculate the bounce directions via rigidbody bounce (I find this to have less control for me esp with how unpredictable physics material bounce is)
I opt in for using methods such as Vector3.Reflect and use casts, like a spherecast/circle for example to bounce off colliders and get the point for my reflect. I'm not expert though because I still get the sweats with trig math 😅
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Reflect.html
(so far only done for games like Pong, Breakout etc..) got much more control and precise results including adding specific "angled hits"

[keen jacinth]

Okay, I think I managed to solve it...

https://gdl.space/ulosuyalih.cs
Now, I need to solve the problem of it sliding when I hold and drag the click...

[rich adder]

you mean the ai code ?

[keen jacinth]

Yes,
This is code using the 'character controller', I applied gravity and with that I adjusted the ''tremors'' that were giving

and the problem was Rigidbody

[rich adder]

yes but now with AI code you know 0 of how any of it is working..

also " problem of it sliding sliding" is very vague

[keen jacinth]

yes, I'm using GPT to adjust the code, I'm ''doing'' this in Python and passing my code to GPT to change

[cunning raven]

hi, is there a way to know if an animation has been completed?

[rich adder]

that is horrid mate, why not just learn C# and do it properly so you know what you're doing.. The "AI" isn't a thinking machine and it wont know how to solve things unless its something very obvious you could've noticed yourself.

[keen jacinth]

slip into question

[rich adder]

isnt Animator just a FSM just use the StateExit function in code?

or what i do is just use Animtion Events and call it a day (this is diffcult if you have many transitions)🤷‍♂️

[keen jacinth]

Yes, I could have noticed, but I didn't read the documentation to see the functionality, I've been messing around with Unity for about 10 hours, so I'm just going for pure entertainment

[coarse juniper]

i need help inporting a map

[rocky canyon]

help will likely be hit or miss Mattheus, its like someone that was once a professional lego builder building a house out of timber, it falling on someone then him asking help from a carpenter to make his job easier by helping repair the fallen house and paying the insurance claims foor freeee lol

[rich adder]

not a code question

[rocky canyon]

why not just learn c# out-right

[keen jacinth]

great example xD

I have good programming logic, I really didn't want to waste my weekend studying, but rather thinking and getting frustrated, that's what I like about programming

[rich adder]

if you plan on making a game in unity you should lean c# period

[rocky canyon]

then that just means ur 1 step closer than the average beginner would be to learning how to code in c#

[rich adder]

anything you're doing in the ai wont get you very far at all without that base knowledge

[rocky canyon]

actually ur even closer.. b/c u know basic programming and structure

[rich adder]

C# is easier than python

[rocky canyon]

i would agree

[keen jacinth]

My didactic way of learning is a little exotic

[rocky canyon]

ur just using a translator to copy and paste stuff

[rich adder]

whatever you're doing now clearly ain't working chico lol

[keen jacinth]

I already work in the technology area, but I am a data engineer

[rocky canyon]

but i guess its still a form of learning.. if u take that gibberish.. try to use it, realize it doesnt work.. and then end up fixing it

then u by definition have to be learning

that is if youre fixing it

[rich adder]

that explains python

[rocky canyon]

lol fr

[rich adder]

literally for data science

[keen jacinth]

yes xD

[rocky canyon]

ud be great at making inventories and stuff

[cunning raven]

i hate python, one space fk everything

[rich adder]

GOAP or is it Utility ?

[keen jacinth]

I understand what you are talking about and it is justified

[rocky canyon]

i once wrote a discord bot.. now i'll never touch the stuff again

mmaybe for machine learning..

[keen jacinth]

I like python, I've done several atrocities on it

Russian roulette to delete the system32 folder

[rocky canyon]

what are we lookin at tho?

[keen jacinth]

keeps sliding infinitely, But that's enough for today, I work tomorrow and I drank a little today

[rocky canyon]

looks like how a rigidbody might act.. and the forces just doing their thing..

once u do the lil circle manuevr it has force sent out diagonally.. and just keeps taking u that way

then ur normal inputs clash over that to get normal movement + that odd diagonal

[keen jacinth]

having, now I'm going to sleep, thank you very much for the conversation and the help ❤️ ❤️
Tomorrow night I will try to solve this problem

''problem'', physics is not a problem xD

[near jewel]

uh heya quick question! what kinda variable would i use if i wanted to store multiple values? i'm trying to make a leveling system and i need to have different values stored for each level (exp til next level, defense increase, str increase, ability to gain, etc) and i was wondering if there was some sorta variable i'd use for that or if it's better to just make a class with one object per level for it or something like that

[teal viper]

A class/struct.

[near jewel]

okay thank u

[wintry quarry]

You kinda answered your own question lol

[near jewel]

i mean yeah i was only really asking because idk what would perform better

idrk

i'm not that good of a coder lol

[wintry quarry]

between what options?

Why are you worried about performance here?

[near jewel]

lemme rephrase that, i don't really know how classes work but i assume since i'm creating lots of objects they'd take up space in memory or storage

[wintry quarry]

Yes, data takes up memory

that's how it works

that's what memory is for, to store data.

[near jewel]

yeah fair

[worthy veldt]

how do you check which classes inherits your base class quickly among many references ?

[wintry quarry]

There's no getting around that. If you want to store information, it takes up space. This isn't a problem.

[wintry quarry]

Use your IDE tools

[teal viper]

In VS I think it's called "find all implementations" or something like that.

[worthy veldt]

i got it, for visual studio, in solution explorer you expand the class file, then right click on your class item. then select "derived types"

[marble hemlock]

okay i kinda got it right?

i can add things to the list
problem is that im not sure how to make it just add it once, and then destroy the object, but also not destroy the reference in the proces

trying to find the hastebin link

[ivory bobcat]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[ionic raven]

Are you trying to make an inventory system or something?

[marble hemlock]

yes

[ionic raven]

What do you want to do with the objects you add to your inventory?

[marble hemlock]

I don't understand

well the end goal is to have the objects be represented in an item slot, but for now im just trying to figure out how to add things to lists

currently im not even sure im going in the right direction here, because while the thing does get added to the list, im not sure how i control quantities

or how i will have it be represented in the slots

[ionic raven]

Can i see your code for inventory?

[marble hemlock]

InventoryManager:
https://hastebin.com/share/ruvavijahe.csharp

PlayerInteract:
https://hastebin.com/share/gibigixefe.csharp

player interact is kinda big so the only important lines are 28, 72, and 116

originally right under line 72 i just had it destroy the game object it hit, but doing that removed the reference, and now im just kinda stuck

[ionic raven]

Do the items get added more than once? is that the issue?

[marble hemlock]

will record

when i change it to destroy the item, the list updates, and then goes "Oop well you destroyed the item so no more reference"

leaving it so it doesnt destroy it doesnt really cause a problem. it lets me infinitely click it, but i kind of need to have the item slots organize it properly

[ionic raven]

I can show you how i have my inventory pickup done if you want

[marble hemlock]

im just not sure what im doing tbh
i can add it to the list but im not sure how im supposed to remove it but also store its data

[marble hemlock]

that would be appreciated, thank you

this is rough ;-;

[ionic raven]

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

this is my pickup method

hopefully the comments added make sense to you

[teal viper]

Well, if you still need the item to exist, then don't destroy it.

I think the issue is that you're not differentiating between items and their physicsl manifestation in the game world

[marble hemlock]

i dont understand

im going to try to start over

not the entire thing but just the part where im asking it to add an item

[ionic raven]

• Press E,
• Shoot raycast
• assign obj to the object that the raycast hit
• get the colliders and the rigidbody
• turn off the colliders and make the rigidbody kinematic
• set parent to my hand object, local location to 0,0,0 and rotation to 0,0,0
• Just realise that i left out the part where i add the item to the list

wait, no i didn't lol

Can i DM you?

@marble hemlock

[keen wasp]

Hello, this is one of my first times coding and Im watching a tutorial to help me get started. It was going good but I ran into a issue of then I did public GameObject pipe; the game object would not show up in my inspector.

cs
// 
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PipeSpawnScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject pipe;

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

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        Instantiate(pipe, tansform.position, transform.rotaion);
    }
}

[worthy veldt]

tansform.position is this typo or is it actually wrong

[keen wasp]

Oh whoops.

I'm still not getting the GameObject in the inspector.

[keen wasp]

It was a typo

[worthy veldt]

pipespawnscript already attached to gameobject in inspector ?

[keen wasp]

I think so

[worthy veldt]

no error at all ?

[keen wasp]

One second Ill send a picture

[rich adder]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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[worthy veldt]

you typo on rotaion too ?, fix your IDE first

[ionic raven]

double check your spelling errors

[keen wasp]

I just looked at IDE and it is up to date

[wintry quarry]

you don't even have your console window open

you clearly have a compile error

open your console

and configure your IDE

[ionic raven]

tansform.position and transform.rotaion

[rich adder]

up to date doesn't mean configured

[keen wasp]

Ok Ill make sure

[keen wasp]

I fixed those typos

I got the GameObject to work

[rich adder]

Im showing you what a configured IDE looks like, fixing typo now wont help you for future syntax / spelling issues without configured IDE

[keen wasp]

I changed some code on one of my other scripts

[worthy veldt]

problem solved then ?

[keen wasp]

Ok Ill make sure my IDE is configured

[keen wasp]

Yea thank you

[worthy veldt]

now i want to know, what tutorial instantiating in update. can you link the video ?

[wheat wave]

I hope there's a timer that controls that instantiation, yeah

[rich adder]

yeah def missing a timer or something

[keen wasp]

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

[rich adder]

you def copied wrong then

aside from spelling

[keen wasp]

Yea I think we are going to add one because he does some things wrong to show what happens then goes back and changes it

[rich adder]

actually you havent finished that part, he does it and then adds timer

[keen wasp]

yea

[rich adder]

its always good to watch a video like this a few times before copying the code
its easier to learn what video is about without code at same time

[keen wasp]

Im at 22:30 so I have a ways to go

[keen wasp]

Ok

[rich adder]

reflect wouldnt replace triggers thats what casts would do

reflect just to give the ball more precise control idk how precise you need the paddle hit

[knotty gust]

could anyone help me figure out why im not getting any collision detection from my enemy and bullets when the enemy has a rigidbody component attached to it, compared to when the enemy doesnt have the component attached to it and i do get detection, this is the case for both projectile/rigidbody based bullets and raycast weapons

[eternal needle]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages
this link has a ton of reasons for why u might not be getting a physics message

[nocturne kayak]

Hey, can anyone give me a hand here?

I have two transformer handles using MetaXR All-in-one SDK through the One Grab Translate Transformer

Problem is

when i switch between the X and Z axis, the parent transform resets, if i move it in a single axis it works fine

if anyone's interested, this is what the OneGrab translate transformer looks like

https://paste.ofcode.org/33mkHmVyZxSLazPKmFvtsWe

[tulip pilot]

Alright I need some help, I've been trying to make this setup work where we can set a Target RPM, Voltage, Max Torque and Max Current as well as a Load Torque and simulate how the motor will work as in how much torque and current it will need to spin the gear at the target RPM and whether it will reach the Target RPM before hitting Max Torque or Max Current or not.

I have attached the Pair of Scripts below (they are AI Generated because I cannot figure this out for the life of me) which control the Roatation of the Gears and govern the system.

[elfin hatch]

Trying to learn/use coroutines. I started a coroutine that has a "yield return new WaitForSeconds(5f);" inside of it, then after the coroutine I did a debug.log to see if it was delayed, but the debug.log happens instantly.
Does Unity not wait for that coroutine to finish before executing the next line(s)?

[marble hemlock]

I AWAKE

ive decided to completely sideline the inventory system

the solution to one's problems is to pretend they dont exist until i inevitably have to circle back around to it

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Coroutines.html
no the function does not wait for the coroutine to finish. this would pause your whole game if it did

[eternal needle]

!code

[verbal dome]

Nope, it doesnt wait for the coroutine. If you need to wait for a coroutine inside another coroutine, you do yield return StartCoroutine(...)

[eternal falcon]

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[tulip pilot]

Gear.cs: https://gdl.space/apelikisup.cs

GearSystem.cs: https://gdl.space/ohukafifel.cpp

[tulip pilot]

did that

This problem has been stumping me for the better part of a week

[nocturne kayak]

[elfin hatch]

Would this be a reasonable way to handle something?
Idea is they press a key, all control is disabled, then it starts a chain of events with like 2s~ delay between each. 5 or so events later, they're allowed control again

[tulip pilot]

did I do something wrong?

[verbal dome]

Sounds like a reasonable use of coroutines. Either that or manually keep track of the timers and counts in update

[nocturne kayak]

Not you

[tulip pilot]

ah ok my bad

[nocturne kayak]

Me, i'm losing hair over my issue there

[tulip pilot]

same

at this time I am cursing every single individual who encouraged me to take up CompSci

[eternal needle]

there really is a lot of code to go through here, and it doesnt really look like you wrote what the problem was tbh. though i just noticed you said it was AI generated. you'll probably not get help with that here. Start debugging and try to find what the actual issue is. go through the values yourself and see which dont line up

[tulip pilot]

okay

thanks

[elfin hatch]

also i don't currently trust AI with math very much

[tulip pilot]

If I were to start over, what approach should I take for the same Objective

that being to Simulate a Motor and a Load

[eternal needle]

break the problems down. i never really studied much physics so i cant be of much help for the actual equations. Id first start by getting the equations down on paper, then in code.
plug in some values, and debug what the results you get in code are. check if those results are correct for every line

[tulip pilot]

well I do have the Physics part sorted out, the problem is having that physics work with Unity.

I have never used unity ever in my life

[eternal needle]

if you're familiar with coding, even outside unity, this really shouldnt be hard to debug for what line is going wrong. Knowing why its going wrong may be unity specific if you didnt make an error in the equation

[ruby python]

Morning all,

So, I'm experimenting with MoreMountains Feel to control the steering of a vehicle, and so far it's working great (does exactly what I need it to do), but now I'm trying to apply the Y rotation value (That Feel assigns) of a SteeringController Empty to the .steerAngle of my WheelCollider, but as you can see from the image, the rotation.y value is very different (the steeringController empty is set to have a rotation.y value of 15 when the logs were triggered).

Is there some kind of conversion I need to do to get an accurate value?

[eternal needle]

you should also debug to see roughly where the error lies. It somewhat is a pain to read this code and you should be able to narrow down what part isnt working.
not many people are gonna go through all this code to understand whats happening

[tulip pilot]

Alright, Rephrased Question. What is the easiest way to make thing A spin thing B

just throw all the physics out right now

a hinge joint will only spin thing a

[eternal needle]

unity stores rotations are quaternions. 15 is not a valid number for a quaternion component

[tulip pilot]

I want the thing b to be spun by thing a

[ruby python]

Yeah I thought that too. I did try grabbing the localeulerangles value too (I may be misunderstanding how that works though I will admit) and it came out with the same value.

So I guess I need to convert the quaternion to a radian?

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ it depends heavily on what you're actually doing. if you want something decently accurate to the real world, which seemed to be case above, you arent using anything related to unity physics here in an easy way.
directly changing the rotation is gonna be the easiest way

[eternal needle]

i dont know what you're trying to do so i dont know how id answer that. it sounds like you just want to construct a quaternion using Quaternion.Euler. Im not sure where you want to apply radians here

[tulip pilot]

I only want the Visuals to be Semi-Accurate, the real data is in form of Text, that being the Heat generated, the Current Draw etc.

The Gears must only Spin, slow down when Load is too high and so forth

I think the Script I am using has become so Bloated it's practically unusable

[drowsy oriole]

So I want to make a script add a string to a list of strings in another gameobject

[eternal needle]

if you're already generating the real data, then you might as well just update the game objects with the real rotations
unity physics might be a pain in the ass for stuff like gears spinning.

[ruby python]

Sorry, the radian thing was a 'misthinking' lol.

Okay, so the wheelsteering controller empty object rotates to 15 degrees, so I need to grab that 15 degrees and apply it to the steerAngle of the wheelCollider.

[drowsy oriole]

When the object is added to your cart, the name of the cosmetic is put into the buyer with a string

[eternal needle]

still im not sure whats stopping you from doing this. the steerAngle seems to just be a float, so cant you just assign 15 to it then if thats what you want?

[ruby python]

Unfortunately no, I'm using MoreMountains Feel to control the rotation of the wheelSteering controller, so need to grab the y rotation of the controller and feed it to the steerAngle (it's just an experiment at the minute cause I was curious). and yes, the steerAngle is just a float.

[eternal needle]

then you might be fine to just read the euler angles. there might be issues since rotations are stored as quaternions, it will have to convert to euler. it may not convert to the values that you're expecting since multiple euler angles can be the same rotation

[ruby python]

Yeah, I've been looking around, but can't seem to find a way to convert from Quaternion to Euler (I only need the Y component). Couple of things I've tried just spit out the quaternion value. 😕

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion-eulerAngles.html

[nocturne kayak]

How'd i go about accessing the owner of a script component?

for some reason adding .gameObject at the end doesn't work.

[ruby python]

Blind as a bloody bat. lol.

[ruby python]

Thank you.

[verbal dome]

At the end of what?

Every Component class does have a gameObject property

[verbal dome]

Alternatively:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.ToAngleAxis.html
Since you only care about one axis

Ah nevermind that doesnt work like I remembered lol

I thought there was a method to extract one axis

[ruby python]

lol. Sokay, and tbh the first one you posted I don't think works for my use case, because the code examples show that you need to know the Euler angles beforehand 😕 I'll keep searching. lol.

[nocturne kayak]

I'm using meta's all in one XR SDK, in a script there's a var called _grabbable, when i tried to debug print that variable, it gave me a grab component within an object, which is expected

[verbal dome]

It was bawsi but uhh it should work

I mean, it does work. What did you try?

[nocturne kayak]

however, when i try to drbug print _grabbable.gameObject, it returns an error

as if _grabbable (being reffered to as IGrabbable) doesn't have a .gameObject

[verbal dome]

Are you sure that grabbable is a component though?

Ah IGrabbable, looks like an interface

[nocturne kayak]

not exactly sure, that's why i tried to debug it, which gave me a component inside a gameobject

(real quick how do i do small code blocks here?)

[verbal dome]

If you definitely need its gameobject and it is a component, you can cast it to Component first

[verbal dome]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[verbal dome]

@nocturne kayak So something like (Component)_grabbable.gameObject

[nocturne kayak]

        public void EndTransform() {

            Debug.Log("Owner of this shit is " + _grabbable);
            _grabbable.Transform.position = new Vector3 (0, 1.431f, 0);
           

        }

[verbal dome]

Might need to wrap grabbable in paranthesis too, not sure

[nocturne kayak]

gives this

      public void EndTransform() {

          Debug.Log("Owner of this shit is " + _grabbable.gameObject);
          _grabbable.Transform.position = new Vector3 (0, 1.431f, 0);
         

      }

[ruby python]

Oops, my bad. Sorry.

[nocturne kayak]

gives this

[verbal dome]

Oh if the IGrabbable interface has a Transform property then use that to access gameObject

[nocturne kayak]

Trying this out gives the same error as second option

[nocturne kayak]

Interesting

How do i do that?

[verbal dome]

Just try this but replace .gameObject with .Transform

Or .Transform.gameObject, not sure if it prints the same info

[nocturne kayak]

Alright, that compiled

let me try it out

Shit

that works

now my question is

why does that work

[verbal dome]

Well every Transform is attached to a gameObject

[nocturne kayak]

oh

ok

i think i got it

i'm still not used to thinking of the Transform as a component itself

[verbal dome]

And so is every component, but you are dealing with an interface, not a component type directly

[nocturne kayak]

Alright, i tried some stuff and

it still doesn't solve my problem

[nocturne kayak]

this problem.

[nocturne kayak]

I was trying to figure out the owner of the component in the first place to try and force it's transform into a specific position to see if that would mitigate this problem

I managed to do that, it doesn't solve anything.

   public void EndTransform() {

       Debug.Log("Owner of this shit is " + _grabbable.Transform.gameObject);
       _grabbable.Transform.gameObject.transform.position = new Vector3 (0, 1.431f, 0);
      

   }

this causes the same problem

kinda nearing my (limited) wit's end here

[ruby python]

I'm becoming very frustrated. lol. Surely there's a way to convert a quaternion to euler, without you needing to know what the euler is in the first place? lol.

[elfin hatch]

To convert from Euler angles to quaternions, you can use the Quaternion.Euler function.
To convert a quaternion to Euler angles, you can use the Quaternion.eulerAngles function.

[lost crest]

hi does anyone know how to see custom event parameter statistics within dashboard!? i see how many tiems event got called but i dont see a parameterthat i pass in !?

example i have a buy event .. that records how many times people bought items right.. i also pass in how many coins got spent but these coins are not showed anyware within dashboard!?

i see it as a parameter uder event explorer but they aint sohwing up in dashboard when i create a report

[ruby python]

Honestly I could be using it wrong, but the eulerAngles thing just doesn't seem to work at all.

Vector3 wheelControllerNewRotation = wheelSteeringControllers[0].eulerAngles;

Supposed to return 15. lol.

[verbal dome]

What are you talking about? It is just myQuaternion.eulerAngles

[verbal dome]

The code is correct. Something else is wrong

Maybe show more of your code

[ruby python]

I have no clue what it could be tbh. The object in the scene is rotating properly and the inspector shows that it rotates to 15 degrees. Seriously confusing the poop out of me. lol.

[ionic raven]

😂😂 if we DM I can help you out more

[ruby python]

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(leftKey))
        {
            wheelFLturnController.PlayFeedbacks();

            Vector3 wheelControllerNewRotation = wheelSteeringControllers[0].rotation.eulerAngles;
            Debug.Log("Wheel Collider Rotation = " + wheelSteeringControllers[0].rotation.y);
            wheelColliders[0].steerAngle = wheelControllerNewRotation.y;
        }

That's the entirity of the code that's delaing with this. The feel controller is what is rotating the option on the keypress, and that works fine, reports the correct rotation in the inspector etc.

It's just getting that value and feeding it into the WheelCollider.steerAngle. 😕

[verbal dome]

You are logging the y of the quaternion, not the y of euler angles

Not the same thing at all

[ruby python]

Sorry, I changed the debug to check something and forgot, but using this...........

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(leftKey))
        {
            wheelFLturnController.PlayFeedbacks();

            Vector3 wheelControllerNewRotation = wheelSteeringControllers[0].rotation.eulerAngles;
            Debug.Log("Wheel Collider Rotation = " + wheelControllerNewRotation.y);
            wheelColliders[0].steerAngle = wheelControllerNewRotation.y;
        }

Does the same thing.

[verbal dome]

🤷‍♂️idk what are wheelsteeringcontrollers. I assume they are transforms? Are you 100% sure you are looking at the correct object?

Also what you see in the inspector is local rotation. Here you are using world space rotation

[ruby python]

https://streamable.com/a01bw4

I get the same thing using local 😕

https://streamable.com/ujxu0o

[verbal dome]

You are likely using the wrong object then

Or something else is resetting its rotation between frames

[ruby python]

Definitely not the wrong object 😕

Thanks for trying to help though, I do appreciate it. I've asked the question in the Feel Discord too, in case it's something to do with the way Feel works.

[verbal dome]

Didnt know you are using an asset.
It might be an execution order issue. If you are currently using Update, I would try LateUpdate @ruby python

[ruby python]

Aaah, that's a fair point, that didn't occur to me.

Dear god, now I feel like a complete idiot. lol. LateUpdate fixed it. Thank you.

[verbal dome]

Nice

[ruby python]

Hate it when it's something really stupid like that. lol.

[burnt vapor]

There is no way to have these type of statistics in Unity AFAIK

Make them yourself

If you simply want to debug how the event is called, you can also just create a general method to call the event, and then log the parameters being send before invoking the event

But with how many events an application might have it makes no sense to add statistics to all of them

[lost crest]

i know how teh event is called .. i want to trakc how many coins users spend buying items , and how many they gain selling them simple as that

but anyways thanks i guess unity is not that advanced to trakc such simple things

[burnt vapor]

It's not about "being advanced". Your question revolves about your game requiring this type of information to function and Unity doesn't hold your hand with that.

It's a game engine, it doesn't support these niche features. It's not hard to add these yourself anyway

[lost crest]

lol they track ur current user acqusitions but cant track a simple float form a event ..

yeah point on bud

[eternal needle]

it takes literally 10 seconds for you to write the code to track this yourself. its not about them being able to. if unity even tried to keep track of these things, itd most likely be using reflection and would be just worse in every way.

unity doesnt care about such a niche use case

[burnt vapor]

Yeah because these two things totally relate with eachother

I think I was clear, what you ask for is something you have to do yourself

If that's something you don't understand then I'm afraid your expectations of a game engine is too high

[lost crest]

oh does it !? can you do it ?

[eternal needle]

no i dont do your work for you

[lost crest]

here we go

[burnt vapor]

If you don't know how to do this yourself then I suggest you !learn Unity. Maybe you could even begin with learning c# first before taking on Unity depending on your experience.

[eternal falcon]

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[lost crest]

did i say that i dont know how to do it !? im allreayd trakcing that within firebase .. and there it works simle as that .. in unity analitycs it dos not thats why im here asking for info ..

and you guys are werry helpfull thanks a lot 😉

[burnt vapor]

Great, then I'd suggest you figure out how to send analytics data to Firebase and send this data each time your event is called

Again, niche use cases are rarely supported. Look more broadly on the matter and you'll see it's often quite simple to implement

Perhaps this is what you need? https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/unity/save-data

[lost crest]

as i said this part is allready done. question was simple if you could track a float/int from custom event within unity analytics ..

[burnt vapor]

The answer was ** probably not**, but somehow this was too difficult to accept for you judging by the conversation that proceeded

Also, if you are aware this exists, then what is the problem? Call these methods when your event is invoked.

[lost crest]

for get it

[eternal needle]

there is also the #archived-unity-gaming-services which would be more relevant for this kind of stuff

[astral falcon]

I never worked with analytics, but this page seems to answer, that it should be possible: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Analytics.Analytics.CustomEvent.html

[lost crest]

im allready talking about this

he pases in these values right

        int totalCoins = 100;```

i just need to know if you could trakc these within dashboard .. as a metrics that accumulates etc.

cause this value is alrleayd there within event right

[burnt vapor]

I don't think Unity Analytics would work with Firebase but that is not something I have experience with

[astral falcon]

So do you want to see it in unity analytics dashboard or within firebase?

[lost crest]

i dont need it to work with firebase

[astral falcon]

ah okay

[lost crest]

no

my firebase allreayd reflects this.. lets say 2 identical events..

in firebase i call sellItem(itemPrice) in firebase it sohws me how many sell items evnets ogt called and whats the total value of itemPrice accumulated

within unity dashboard i do the same tihng but i see only event count

[astral falcon]

Ah, got it. Well, then I geuss what the others said states. Analytics is just lower level in providing pre filtered or processed information. You might need to do it yourself with sql explorer or similar. Information coming from: https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us/articles/30417903024020-How-to-view-a-glossary-of-Unity-Analytics-event-parameters

[lost crest]

even thoes itemprice is part of the event

[lost crest]

got it thanks

basicaly a lot more hustle

[astral falcon]

I guess its in the matter of time firebase has been around and being used vs analytics being younger. But yeh, if it does not fit your needs, just stick to firebase or try to combine them or do the little extra work if you want to analytics. guess thats all there is to conclude

[burnt vapor]

I see, this was not clear from what was said

Then perhaps this could work for you

Like I said the analytics part are not something I'm too familiar with, but it seems unlikely that these are just baked into random parts of the code. It really depends on your needs.

[leaden pebble]

Hey Hey!
Is there a Rule of Thumb what I want in the ECS Subscenes and what not ?

[hexed terrace]

ECS is too advanced for in here and has its own section #1062393052863414313

[tulip crystal]

So i was trying to learn unity with c# which course do i do

Anyone ?

[gray steeple]

. here @tulip crystal

[tulip crystal]

@worthy veldt

Where

[gray steeple]

check the 2 pin messeges

[tulip crystal]

Bruh which course

[gray steeple]

click into to c#

[worthy veldt]

im currently working on cooking/crafting part, certain ingredient cannot be processed certain way aka you cant cut water, cant tenderize egg, etc.
currently i have the information required for crafting kind of detached. i leave the value 0 if something isn't meant to be processed a certain way.

so how do i approach this, i want to have somekind of bool in editor that expands when its true, so i can input the required data for crafting

instead of leaving many empty

i could separate them into multiple classes but it feels like that will make it unnecessarily complicated

what should i look into ? interfaces ?

[tulip pilot]

Alright gents, I have made progress

now I need to figure out how to have a Slider Component in the UI [MotorSpeed] change the value of a variable [speed].

[teal viper]

Check the available callbacks in the slider class.

[eternal needle]

Im somewhat confused what you're trying to solve here. Is it just that you want it easier to setup crafting recipes so that you dont have a ton of options visible at once?
You could look into editor scripting to show options based on a condition. I think there are some premade assets which have attributes for this as well.

You could try to attach functionality with interfaces and classes, but this really depends what you're doing. I'm assuming you'd do an action to an object and itd just turn into another object. The code for this would likely be the same across most actions

[worthy veldt]

yes the code is similar, but the required value will be different across different process. for meat i would make 4 cuts at 60 work per segment = x milisec per segment times 4. tenderizing would be 10 smacks 20 work per smack etc

[wanton canyon]

I have this code on all my slime. what it does: looks for slimes that bump into each other does X. this one in particular is spawning a new slime. Since it's on every slime, of course this ends up spawning two. Any ideas how to make it spawn one, while leaving the script on every slime still?

[burnt vapor]

Honestly good question

I can't think of a simple way

[worthy veldt]

handle the spawning on different script

[burnt vapor]

If you want a not-so-simple way, create a lock

For example, SemaphoreSlim

If it's locked, don't spawn

If not, you're the first slime to enter

Though this solution sucks

[burnt vapor]

How is this supposed to help?

[wanton canyon]

I dont believe I used a lock before so I would have to look into that

[burnt vapor]

You can also use the lock keyword

[worthy veldt]

send the location to the spawnmanager, instantiate there

[burnt vapor]

But idk how you can tell the other slime to just not spawn anymore then

[burnt vapor]

They still both call this method and two slimes spawn so this still doesn't work

[slender nymph]

honestly the suggestion of handling it on a different script would probably be easier. just have each pair of colliding slimes contact that other component and provide the pair that are colliding, then like pairs are filtered down to just one by that script, then toward the end of the frame it spawns one slime for each of the remaining contact pairs

[burnt vapor]

You could maintain a counter which the slimes make go up on collission

Then, at the end of a frame, divide it by two and spawn the number of slimes. It's just having to maintain a reference to the slime so you know where to spawn it

Basically what Boxfriend said in that case

[wanton canyon]

OK thanks will give another script a try !

[carmine lagoon]

i have a question. i have this bullet that is instantiated by a turret and I was thinking of making a function that once the target is dead the bullet is destroyed. so no random bullets flying out the map. I came to the knowledge that what i did was deleting the prefab instead of the copy. so my question is where do i put the function of destroying the object. the script of the bullet or on the script of the tower?

[elfin hatch]

self destruct the bullets after x time?

[carmine lagoon]

wait hatebin is not working

when i save it it doesnt generate a code

[slender nymph]

either one works if you want to do it after a certain amount of time, you can pass a delay to Destroy so you could instantiate it then immediately call Destroy with that delay, then if it hits the enemy or whatever it will destroy it like it already does (i assume), but if it misses it will then still be destroyed after that delay time

[carmine lagoon]

i'm thinking of destroying it once the enemy is dead. since there are still bullets at times that is still going for the enemy right after its death

[elfin hatch]

i think it would look weirder having all travelling bullets delete when they die?
typically when a bullet collides with something, it destroys, else destroy it after X time to stop stray bullets in the sky etc

hard to say without knowing ur game though 🙂

[carmine lagoon]

i see. thank you

[elfin hatch]

you mentioned tower though, is it a tower defense?
you might want to pre-calculate whether the bullet will kill that target or not, so you can change target for new bullets while the old bullets are still travelling.
that would make your turrets seem smart and not waste shots on things that are going to die

[carmine lagoon]

so I will make a code that changes the target of the bullet every time their enemies are deleted?

their targets rather

[elfin hatch]

Nah. I would have a 2nd hidden health value on each enemy, and whenever you shoot a bullet at that enemy, instantly deal damage to that hidden health.
You can have multiple turrets shooting at that enemy, but as soon as a turret makes it reach 0 / go negative, it changes target.
so before shooting, check their hidden HP and change target if its already gonna die to bullets u already fired

[carmine lagoon]

oh that makes sense

thanks for that

That actually makes so much sense

[verbal dome]

Theres a trick, you can compare their GetInstanceID() values. For example, only run the code on the instance that has the greater ID

Since instance ID's are never equal it will always filter out one of the objects

[wanton canyon]

oh sweet that's a great idea, hang on lemme try it

it's spawning two @verbal dome any idea what I did wrong?

I just had to make sure they were gameobjects haha, it works now, thank you!!

[gaunt ledge]

does someone know if there is a way of doing the following

    if(_interactionState == (InteractionType.Building | InteractionType.Buying | InteractionType.Expending)) 
        _currentState = CharacterState.Normal;

instead of the following

    if(_interactionState == InteractionType.Building | _interactionState == InteractionType.Buying | _interactionState == InteractionType.Buying) 
        _currentState = CharacterState.Normal;

[ivory bobcat]

How to post !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[gaunt ledge]

come on*, its understandable the way I put it without me needing to post on this site

[ivory bobcat]

Small bits of code with the inline guide else use a free code sharing service (links provided above)

[gaunt ledge]

okay

does someone know if there is a way of doing the following

        if(_interactionState == (InteractionType.Building || InteractionType.Buying || InteractionType.Expending)) 
            _currentState = CharacterState.Normal;

instead of the following

        if(_interactionState == InteractionType.Building || _interactionState == InteractionType.Buying || _interactionState == InteractionType.Buying) 
            _currentState = CharacterState.Normal;

now I'm happy

I didn't realise that you can do that

[languid spire]

switch (_interactionState) {
   case InteractionType.Building:
   case InteractionType.Buying:
   case InteractionType.Expending:
        _currentState = CharacterState.Normal;
        break;
}

[gaunt ledge]

not any way of making it shorter?

[verbal dome]

Switch also prevents you from making duplicates like you have in your second example

[languid spire]

switch is much more readable and maintainable

[gaunt ledge]

yeah, I realised that... okay, gonna use switch

[keen dew]

if(_interactionState is InteractionType.Building or InteractionType.Buying or InteractionType.Expending)

[burnt vapor]

That's weird. Any chance you can log both ids before the comparison? Maybe we can check how often it's logged and also see what it compares

[elfin hatch]

they already solved it

[burnt vapor]

Oops, missed the picture below it

[thorny basalt]

You could do this:

InteractionType[] interactionTypes ={};
if (interactionTypes.contains(_interactionStates))
_currentstate = CharacterState.Normal;

[gaunt ledge]

that's what I was looking for, thanks

[gaunt ledge]

this can hipercomplicate thigs I think

[burnt vapor]

Pattern matching exists for this like Nitku showed

[thorny basalt]

Doesn’t that only work for types and enums though?

[languid spire]

what does your enum declaration look like? show the code

[drowsy oriole]

When the object is added to your cart, the name of the cosmetic is put into the buyer with a string

[gaunt ledge]

later, Already got what I wanted, thanks for the help tho

[drowsy oriole]

I need to make a script for that

[burnt vapor]

No, it works fine for values and such too

[thorny basalt]

Ah. My bad then.

[formal hill]

Anyone have any idea why this wont work?

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

public class SubtitleController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    public List<string> Subtitles;
    public List<float> timeToWait;
    public GameObject subtitleText;

    public Wizardthings Wizardthings;

    public void SubtitleStart()
    {
        if (Wizardthings.linePlaying) 
        {
            StartCoroutine(TheSequence());
        }
        
    }

    IEnumerator TheSequence()
    {
        if (Subtitles.Count != timeToWait.Count)
        {
            yield break;
        }

        while (true)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < Subtitles.Count; i++)
            {
                subtitleText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = Subtitles[i];

                yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeToWait[i]);
            }
            subtitleText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = "";
        }

        

    }
}

[deft grail]

what doesnt work

[formal hill]

The text won't change.

[deft grail]

does the code even run?

[languid spire]

yes, you really need to add some logging

[formal hill]

I'll try to debug.log it. How did I even forget to do that in the first place😅

[formal hill]

Oh no. It doesnt even run

[languid spire]

you do realize you have an infinite loop in there as well?

[formal hill]

I mean that was kind of the point to try and get it to run the subtitles as long as there was strings and floats in the lists

[languid spire]

that will just loop over the same data ad infinitem

[formal hill]

oh

[languid spire]

you dont need the while loop at all, the for is enough

[formal hill]

Oh alr thanks!

But now I need to get it running somehow

[languid spire]

so find somewhere to call SubtitleStart();

[formal hill]

Like where? It should run when my lineplaying is = true

Should I make an update void and add it there?

[languid spire]

why would it do that if the method is not called?

[verbal dome]

Methods dont get automatically called unless its one of the Unity methods (Update, Start etc.)

[cosmic quail]

technically you can but then you have to set Wizardthings.linePlaying to false when you start the coroutine, otherwise you're gonna call the coroutine every frame

[formal hill]

That's not too hard

[languid spire]

not how I would do it

public void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(TheSequence())
    }

    IEnumerator TheSequence()
    {
       yield return new WaitUntil(() => Wizardthings.linePlaying);

[umbral hull]

question. how can i use a timer script i made, to use that as a win condition? i want to disable the movement script i have when the timer runs out

[formal hill]

I just put it like this

IEnumerator TheSequence()
{
    if (Subtitles.Count != timeToWait.Count)
    {
        yield break;
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < Subtitles.Count; i++)
    {
       subtitleText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = Subtitles[i];

       yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeToWait[i]);
    }
    subtitleText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = "";
    
    yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
    Wizardthings.linePlaying = false;

}```

[deft grail]

just run a method when the timer reaches 0, and do the stuff you need to do?

[languid spire]

now why would you do that?

[umbral hull]

im saying idk how to access the movement script through the timer script

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[deft grail]

make a variable and drag it in the inspector

[umbral hull]

i was trying to do that, but it wasnt letting me

can i post pictures in here or will i get in trouble?

[formal hill]

So it waits for the end of the frame to disable the lineplaying bool so it doesnt start the sequence each frame?

[deft grail]

were you dragging a scene object into a prefab?

[polar acorn]

Are you trying to drag a scene object into a prefab?

[umbral hull]

lol

[languid spire]

so when do you think this executes?

Wizardthings.linePlaying = false;

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[formal hill]

On the start of the frame I guess...

[languid spire]

no at the end of the coroutine, and how many frames will have passed before that happens?

[formal hill]

Oooh. So how should I do it then?

[languid spire]

if you must use Update you want to do that immediately the coroutine starts

[umbral hull]

i was trying to drag the script into the field thing (idk the word) i have the timer setup as a TMP and im running a basic countdown script

[formal hill]

So just like this

 IEnumerator TheSequence()
 {
     yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
     Wizardthings.linePlaying = false;

     if (Subtitles.Count != timeToWait.Count)
     {
         yield break;
     }

     for (int i = 0; i < Subtitles.Count; i++)
     {
        subtitleText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = Subtitles[i];

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeToWait[i]);
     }
     subtitleText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = "";

 }```

[languid spire]

dont need the first wait, it's pointless

[formal hill]

oh yeah true

[umbral hull]

i was trying to make a singleton but idk if i was doing it correct. i made a the script a local singleton, and was able to access the components, but i wasnt able to put them into the field @deft grail

[formal hill]

Works like a charm, thank you!

[languid spire]

actually, looking at what I think is the logic you are trying to implement you probably want to move this
Wizardthings.linePlaying = false;
to after the first if statement

[formal hill]

Why?

[languid spire]

because you want to wait until the Subtitles List is full

but still try to run the coroutine until it is

[polar acorn]

Are both objects in the scene

[umbral hull]

i have the timer in the scene

[umbral hull]

would i be able to access the timer value through the TMP? is TMP stored as Text where i can just go if timer == value do X ?

[polar acorn]

And the object you're trying to drag it onto as well?

[umbral hull]

no, i can't put the script into the scene

[umbral hull]

to rephrase, im trying to make it so that when the timer reaches 0, the player movement is halted, and the game is finished, so then i can change the scene

[polar acorn]

why not

[umbral hull]

idk?? is that a thing im supposed to be able to do? (im new to unity)

[polar acorn]

What thing are you trying to drag onto what other thing

[umbral hull]

i wanted to use my timer script as a reference:

{
    [SerializeField] TextMeshProUGUI timerText;
    [SerializeField] float remainingTime;
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        remainingTime -= Time.deltaTime;
        int minutes = Mathf.FloorToInt(remainingTime / 60);
        int seconds = Mathf.FloorToInt(remainingTime % 60);
        timerText.text = string.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}", minutes, seconds);
    }
}

so i can then make a win condition within my player script

im unsure how to set this up tho

i want to be able to access the remainingTime specifically

[steep rose]

are you trying to access it from another script?

or from the inspector?

[umbral hull]

rn im trying to access it through the inspector, but either way will work for me. again, im unsure how to do either though

[polar acorn]

So you want your player script to reference a timer, or the timer to reference the player script?

[umbral hull]

player script to reference a timer, so that when the timer runs out i can halt the player script

[steep rose]

if you are trying to access that variable from another script you must make that variable public and remove the serializedfield and go into the script you want this variable on and use Getcomponent function to get the script

and then use the variable

and for the inspector either make it public or private with [SerializedField] (this way is preferred if you do not need to access this variable)

[formal hill]

Ran in to a new problem. I want to have another reason to have other subtitles, but this didn't work. How can I do it properly?

public void SubtitleStart()
{
    if (Wizardthings.linePlaying) 
    {
        StartCoroutine(TheSequence());
    }
    else if (Wizardthings == null)
    {
        if (WizardHitLine.linePlaying2)
        {
            StartCoroutine(TheSequence());
        }
    }
}```

[umbral hull]

the Getcomponent will go in the timer script?

[polar acorn]

Okay show the inspector of your player object

[steep rose]

no in your player script

[languid spire]

I thought you had moved that to Update?

[formal hill]

I did. There is a c# public void Update() { SubtitleStart(); }

[languid spire]

also it makes absolutely no sense to check something for null after you have already used it

[formal hill]

Yeah I thought that too, but I don't know how to check it the right way

[languid spire]

switch the if statement the other way round

[formal hill]

ok

[polar acorn]

If that's happening then either something is changing it after the check, or the thing you're checking and the thing that's null are two different things

[languid spire]

if you cannot understand basic logic, programming is not the job for you

[polar acorn]

Ah wait, just got into this, I thought the issue was a null check was failing to detect a problem, seems like it's just a pointless null check and the error would have already occurred

still scrolling back up

[formal hill]

Oh come on. I do understand why it didn't work now, either way it still doesnt work

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
SubtitleController+<TheSequence>d__7.MoveNext () (at Assets/Scripts/SubtitleController.cs:38)
UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine.InvokeMoveNext (System.Collections.IEnumerator enumerator, System.IntPtr returnValueAddress) (at <54724222b7684530a2810ae1eac94ec7>:0)
UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour:StartCoroutine(IEnumerator)
SubtitleController:SubtitleStart() (at Assets/Scripts/SubtitleController.cs:22)
SubtitleController:Update() (at Assets/Scripts/SubtitleController.cs:33)

[polar acorn]

So, what's line 38 of SubtitleController?