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[rich adder]

it depends how you set up your moves

[buoyant finch]

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

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "Move", menuName = "Pokemon/Create a new move")]
public class MoveBase : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializeField] string name;

    [TextArea]
    [SerializeField] string description;

    [SerializeField] PokemonType type;
    [SerializeField] int power;
    [SerializeField] int accuracy;
    [SerializeField] int pp;

    public string Name {
        get { return name; }
    }

    public string Description {
        get { return description; }
    }

    public PokemonType Type {
        get { return type; }
    }

    public int Power {
        get { return power; }
    }

    public int Accuracy {
        get { return accuracy; }
    }

    public int PP {
        get { return pp; }
    }
}

I have this to set up the moves

[rich adder]

how do you plan on calling these moves

[buoyant finch]

for the animation or general?

[rich adder]

in general, because you could store animations anywhere

make another SO or mapping class

[buoyant finch]

the code is a little big

!code

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[buoyant finch]

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

I use this base to call it

[frail hawk]

did you google "animations on scriptable objects". it will give you some results

[rich adder]

nahh don't mix them

seperation of concerns

make another SO for example that maps everything

someothing like this cs [CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "MoveAnimationMapping", menuName = "Pokemon/Create Move Animation Mapping")] public class MoveAnimationMapping : ScriptableObject { [System.Serializable] public class MoveAnimationPair { public MoveBase move; public AnimationClip animation; }

 [SerializeField] private List<MoveAnimationPair> moveAnimationPairs;

    private Dictionary<MoveBase, AnimationClip> moveToAnimationMap;

[buoyant finch]

https://hastebin.com/share/opoyemihup.csharp this too

[buoyant finch]

I tried this but the animation doesn't play

[rich adder]

private void OnEnable()
    {
        moveToAnimationMap = new Dictionary<MoveBase, AnimationClip>();
        foreach (var pair in moveAnimationPairs)
        {
            if (pair.move != null && pair.animation != null)
                moveToAnimationMap[pair.move] = pair.animation;
        }
    }

    public AnimationClip GetAnimationForMove(MoveBase move)
    {
        moveToAnimationMap.TryGetValue(move, out var animation);
        return animation;
    }```

[buoyant finch]

I have a battleunit for controlling all the animations tho

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

public class BattleUnit : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] PokemonBase _base;
    [SerializeField] int level;
    [SerializeField] bool isPlayerUnit;

    public Pokemon Pokemon { get; set; }

    Image image;
    Vector3 originalPos;
    private void Awake()
    {
        image = GetComponent<Image>();
        originalPos = image.transform.localPosition;
    }

    public void Setup()
    {
        // Instantiate a new Pokemon and assign it to the Pokemon property
        Pokemon = new Pokemon(_base, level);

        if (isPlayerUnit)
            image.sprite = Pokemon.Base.BackSprite;
        else
            image.sprite = Pokemon.Base.FrontSprite;

        PlayEnterAnimation();
    }

    public void PlayEnterAnimation()
    {
        if (isPlayerUnit)
            image.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(-117f, originalPos.y);
        else
            image.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(117f, originalPos.y);

        image.transform.DOLocalMoveX(originalPos.x, 1f);
    }

    public void PlayFaintAnimation()
    {
        var sequence = DOTween.Sequence();
        sequence.Append(image.transform.DOLocalMoveY(originalPos.y -48f, 0.5f));
        sequence.Join(image.DOFade(0f, 0.5f));
    }
}

[rich adder]

hows that relevant to what I sent ?

[buoyant finch]

no it isn't but I am showing what I have done so you can get a better idea

[rich adder]

more or less I get what you're going for, hence the suggested code I sent

[buoyant finch]

public void PlayMoveAnimation(AnimationClip moveAnimation)
    {
        if (animator && moveAnimation)
        {
            animator.Play(moveAnimation.name); // Play the provided animation
        }

I had added this

[rich adder]

the whole thing I sent associates clips with moves

to use its easy

[SerializeField] private MoveAnimationMapping animationMapping;
    [SerializeField] private Animator animator;

    public void ExecuteMove(MoveBase move)
    {
        AnimationClip animation = animationMapping.GetAnimationForMove(move);
        if (animation != null)
        {
            animator.Play(animation.name);
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogWarning($"No animation found for move: {move.Name}");
        }
    }```

[buoyant finch]

ok let me try it out

[rich adder]

mapping SO class
testing script
@buoyant finch

actually you probably want to pass the clip itself not the name, but you get the point

[languid spire]

Animator.Play plays a Animator state not an Animation clip

[rich adder]

ye i messed up there lol

but gets the point across hopefully

[languid spire]

not really because op made exactly the same mistake

animator.Play(moveAnimation.name); // Play the provided animation

[rich adder]

here fixed version
https://hatebin.com/vacctjnwnw

wait no..

Animator.Play takes in a string
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.Play.html

[buoyant finch]

is this supposed to be a new script btw?

[rich adder]

the first one is a sepearate SO yes

[languid spire]

yes which is a state name not a clip name

[rich adder]

true true. Forgot which one to play clips without putting the states

[languid spire]

legacy Animation iirc

[rich adder]

oh okay.. i guess you need to add them in animator first

so yeah the clip name can be the animation state name if you drag the clips should be ok

[buoyant finch]

so is it a problem with the script ?

[rich adder]

don't just blindly copy it, analyze and try to understand what the first (important) class is doing

mapping

[buoyant finch]

no no I found that the animatorclip is turned into a string

[rich adder]

the animator uses strings as states yes, but the name has to match

if animation is called attack_01
then your Animator State has an attack_01 if you dragged that clip in animator window

[buoyant finch]

public class MoveAnimationMapping : MonoBehaviour
{
// Example dictionary to map MoveBase to state names
private Dictionary<MoveBase, string> moveToStateNameMap = new Dictionary<MoveBase, string>();

public string GetAnimationStateNameForMove(MoveBase move)
{
    return moveToStateNameMap.TryGetValue(move, out string stateName) ? stateName : null;
}

}

[rich adder]

no idea why you changed it

[buoyant finch]

is this true?

[rich adder]

you clearly dont understand its purpose

the whole point is to grab a specific state/clip

why did you use string?

[buoyant finch]

to return the name of the animation state (a string) instead of the animation clip.

[rich adder]

meh if you have clips instead of typing all names it would be easier to put the clip

and more modular, you just have to make sure the AnimaClip NAME matches the Animator State its in

[buoyant finch]

ye but the script has compilation errors

[rich adder]

what is the error then

[rich adder]

you can't just show the error without showing where its from

[rich adder]

yes make it animation.name but make sure the Clip you added to Animator has the same name

they have to match. If you animation.name is called attack_01 then in the animator , make sure the gray box also says attack_01

[olive lintel]

hey guys, I think this might be my dumbest question yet, but I'm having trouble while using the law of cosines in order to find the length of a triangle side (passMaxDist).

in my example, I'm solving for A (passMaxDist), and I'm plugging in localAngle for Y, localDist for B, and longDist for C.

It makes zero sense to me why I'm getting NaN for these values, I'm using Mathf.Rad2Deg! :/ even when I try plugging in 0.05f for B, 135 for Y and 1.4 for C, it just shits the bed and gives me NaN. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[languid spire]

break the statement down into it's constituent parts. Debugging 101

[buoyant finch]

but I will have to do it for multiple moves

[rich adder]

what?

[teal viper]

If you read my message again, you'll see that I recommend using a render texture, not the other option.

[buoyant finch]

the animation is happening but I need it to occur only when the move is selected in the move selector

[rich adder]

so im no expert but I think, Cos/Sin functions want radians not degrees, might want to get rid of Rad2Deg
so you probably want Mathf.Deg2Rad at some point there
NaN might be causing of squaring possibly a negative ?

[rich adder]

that clears nothing about my confusion, you assume I know what you touched and didn't touch. Or whatever. I'm not psychic

[buoyant finch]

ok wait a moment

[buoyant finch]

I am talking about this the move/animation plays in the beginning I want it to play only when the specific move is selected as you see that when I use scratch the animation doesn't play how to fix it?

[rich adder]

did you you use the code I sent? retrieve the animation paired to the moves. let the animator play

[buoyant finch]

without the paired moves only the animator component

[buoyant finch]

this one

[rich adder]

what am I looking at

[buoyant finch]

the animator only without the paired moves

there is no difference

[rich adder]

and how am i suppoed to know you setup the animator and the moves/pairs correctly ?

you just showed a video, and not like you know..the setup?

[buoyant finch]

ok lemme show you

[rich adder]

make a thread while you're at it so its not flooded channel

[steep oyster]

how do I get the transform of the current active camera

[ivory bobcat]

Get the current active camera then access the wanted component using the available property (transform in your case)

[steep oyster]

Camera.current.transform?

didnt work

[astral citrus]

Hello! I'm new here, could you help me wiht Time.timeScale? I heared that it's bar practice to change it from several peaople, but I didn't find any good points other than "you may want not all objects to be affected" about it. I wan't to do slowdown in my game, and after some research I believe it's ok to change it. Do you have some links to articles may be about it or just suggestions/advice?

[ivory bobcat]

Was there an error?

[rich adder]

nothing wrong with changing timescale as long as you're aware that anything frame-dependant will be affected

[steep oyster]

yeah theres no reference

object reference not set to instance of object

[ivory bobcat]

You'll need to elaborate on what you're trying to do else I'm unsure of your environment, hierarchy, scope etc.

[steep oyster]

i am new to this so I dont know a lot but I have 2 cameras and i am making a parallax background that moves based on camera position, but it stops working when i switch cameras

[rich adder]

just make a Camera reference directly in the inspector and plug them in

dont bother with those static props from Camera component

[ivory bobcat]

What stops working? Camera movement, parallax, crash etc?

[steep oyster]

parallax

btw, the parallax background is child of main camera

[magic panther]

I'm trying to get the player to read a float from an xml file. This system works, but only for non-float falues, as of right now. What can I do to get this working, without changing the xml file?

Player class --> https://hastebin.com/share/wafonifule.csharp
Defaults (DefaultJrlGameObject class) --> https://hastebin.com/share/amomadeniz.csharp

MovementVariants.xml

<MovementVariants>
    <HorizontalMoveAccel>0.2</HorizontalMoveAccel>
    <WalkSpeed>5</WalkSpeed>
</MovementVariants>

Error: FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.

(repost due to no reaction/response)

[steep oyster]

but main camera only has cinemachinebrain and the other one have cinemachinevirtualcamera

[rich adder]

well if its inactive how you expect it to move?

or is another script moving it

[steep oyster]

I want to move background based on position of current active camera

[crisp lodge]

hello do you know why my character do that ? its happening when my character don't have rotation restriction

[rich adder]

so whats happening instead?

[magic panther]

log the characters position or every frame, or log the distance travelled since last frame (save position in a variable, log distance from current pos to that variable as a distance in debug). It looks like the camera tries to move towards some spot a bit away then not

[ivory bobcat]

It would be useful to tell us how you're swinging about

[steep oyster]

it works until the camera switches

[rich adder]

okay what do you mean "camera switches" I'm not in your setup. Idk what you have so far
you have to show people your setup or else they cannot understand

[ivory bobcat]

Looks like you're teleporting to an incorrect position

[crisp lodge]

ok i share you the code https://hatebin.com/empsuuhifk

[steep oyster]

i change priority of cinemachine cameras

[rich adder]

so what happens after that, what stops working ?

you already have the cinemachine brain, you don't need Camera.current , what you need that for?

[steep oyster]

the camera switches correctly but the parallax background stops moving

idk

it work now but I use player velocity instead of camera transform

to move background

[rich adder]

then you need it make it follow the main camera not the virtual camera if you switch them

Cinemachine brain always tells you which virtual camera is active

[steep oyster]

oo okay

[rich adder]

and cinemachine brain will always follow the virtual camera active

[steep oyster]

ok ty!

[true parrot]

hey guys anyone knows any tutrial on making first couple games? i rageuninstaled unity becouse all the tutrials gave me sintax errors for code and i couldnt figure out how to fix them since im new to unity...

[rich adder]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

start with the paths, like Essentials -> Junior Programmer etc.
its a slow steady start but will get you setup

[night raptor]

Didn't cross your mind to ask the problem here?

[true parrot]

i rage quit since it just made me so mad smashed my pc... fixed it back and reinstaled 😄

[rich adder]

don't use random youtube vids, follow the structured courses from Unity Learn

[slender nymph]

and read your errors
as i pointed out in the first channel you posted this in, errors for obsolete code will tell you what to use instead

[lapis veldt]

Hello. I have this task assigment where I need to make an object go up and down. The code works well, but I am uncertain about a thing:
For example, I have maxHeight = 10 and minHeight = -1, and my object starts at y = 4.5. Why does it go 10 units instead of y = 10 and why doesn't go to y = -1 and stops at y =4.5?

[true parrot]

... Im actualy not someone you would think as a programmer... Im a chad... i mean not realy im 2 nice of a guy but my friends said i am one so...

😄

i lack patiance but im sick of having bosses who get on my nerves so i want to get into coding

or game dev

[naive pawn]

yeah ok please don't bring this here

[slender nymph]

yeah we don't need this moronic "chad vs incel" energy bullshit here

[rich adder]

cringe

[true parrot]

I had lack of patiance since discord didnt let me login as well...

[rich adder]

if you lack patience then coding isn't for you, find another hobby

[naive pawn]

transform.position is the global position. is it maybe at 0,0 relative to a parent?

[true parrot]

Well i need to better that aspect as well dont i 😉

[naive pawn]

if you lack patience then projects aren't for you, frankly.
projects take time. you will run into issues and roadblocks, and you'll have to solve them one by one. with help, sure, but you'll still have to do the work

[true parrot]

so unity is c# code mainly?

[slender nymph]

you're most likely looking at the object's position in the inspector which is relative to the parent. but transform.position is relative to the world

[rich adder]

complaining about it to random people on the internet won't help. Just do the thing and thats that, have an ethic of work

[crisp lodge]

i want that the chatacter follow the line's angle

[naive pawn]

c# entirely
there's a visual scripting system that's a layer on top of c# though

[lapis veldt]

so let's say that I have the object above y = 10, will it go crazy if it starts from above 10?

[true parrot]

but best to do c#? visual scripting would limit my learnng would it not?

[lapis veldt]

nvm, I found the answer

[naive pawn]

you can use localPosition instead for the local position

[slender nymph]

if the object is above 10 on the world Y axis then it will change direction, it wouldn't "go crazy"

[naive pawn]

it wouldn't limit your learning per se, but most people use c# so you'll be able to find better resources for it than visual scripting.
if you learn textual coding it'll also be a foundation for other coding
ive talked about this before one sec

[slender nymph]

unless of course the speed is so high that it stays above that position for longer than 1 frame 😉

[lapis veldt]

by "going crazy" I mean that it will look like it's flickering because it's trying to go up or down

[night raptor]

@lapis veldt You may find Mathf.PingPong useful if you want it to go back and fourth forever

[true parrot]

Oh i used to be decent artist when i was kid.. sorry for asking 2 many qestions maybe but is it recomended to learn to make my asets on photoshop on the side or somthing else would be better?

[naive pawn]

try reading down from here #💻┃unity-talk message @true parrot

[lapis veldt]

but yeah, transform.localPosition.y did the job

[naive pawn]

whatever works for you. there's no restriction

as long as unity can import it, you can use it for unity

[rich adder]

I wouldnt even worry about making assets in the learning/beginning phases of coding

[true parrot]

ok got the ide thx

[slender nymph]

right and this is because you were confusing the position shown in the inspector (which is the localPosition and relative to the parent) with the transform.position (which is relative to the world not the parent)

[lapis veldt]

I kinda need to use what the teacher showed us, since I still to learn trigonometry stuff and I don't want to have trouble with another teacher

[lapis veldt]

understood, thanks

[true parrot]

its just art part is easyer for me then coding so maybe im trying to make excuses to avoid my weaker points

[rich adder]

the least amount of graphics to deal with is easier, the GUI only adds extra complexity noise to learning code

ofc its always fun in unity to see stuff move around with a few lines but if you're absolute beginner its better learning how to even do simple arithmetic in code so basic c#, or learn the built in types first at least

[spiral narwhal]

        public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData eventData)
        {
            if (!eventData.pointerEnter.CompareTag("Player")) return;
            Debug.Log("OK");
        }

How do I detect a trigger for a UI element

[crisp lodge]

can someone hel me plz

[spiral narwhal]

This does not work

[true parrot]

My net is sooo bad its going to test my patiance XD

[slender nymph]

wdym by "detect a trigger for a UI element"? because this is for the pointer entering the object, not a player object
and UI objects shouldn't have physics objects like trigger colliders

[rich adder]

do you have the EventSystem object/component ?

if you want to use the EventSystem on colliders you need a Physics Raycaster on the camera

[true parrot]

So its recomended to go trught this : https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials Before i can understand most things?

[rich adder]

yes @true parrot

[spiral narwhal]

So basically I have a UI element following the mouse when I click a card in the player's hand. And I want to detect if that UI element (which has the Player tag) is "colliding" with the other element

[true parrot]

Ok thx a bunch 🙂 sorry for being this random 😄

[slender nymph]

this seriously sounds like an XY Problem

[spiral narwhal]

You can see that there's the black image which wants to check if the low-alpha image is hovering over it

I could make a static boolean flag when the card is selected and detect the mouse hover, but I thought it would be nicer if I could detect the tag name of the object

[rich adder]

you can just raycast from the EventSystem too, well it already does but you can retrieve info on what is cursor over

[spiral narwhal]

Can you elaborate?

[rich adder]

EventSystem holds PointerData like what object its over

you can use graphics raycaster

[spiral narwhal]

Okay thanks

[rich adder]

there is also https://docs.unity3d.com/560/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.EventSystem.RaycastAll.html

[rich adder]

this should've worked fine btw. it just needs each black image to have the script or a parent target raycast

[crisp lodge]

https://hatebin.com/empsuuhifk Hello, my character make this when there is no restriction in the rotation plz help me

[rich adder]

don't crosspost

stick to 1 channel

[crisp lodge]

sry

i delete

[rich adder]

pause the game when it start freaking out and see whats happening in scene view, like the anchors etc

[sterile radish]

hi, im making a top down rpg game similar to that of undertale. what is an efficient/effective way to manage/save/set a lot of bools to check if the player did some sort of action and change character dialogue according to the value of those bools? (i.e, a player chose to insult a character, next time they open the game the character is still bitter about them being insulted)

i thought about making a giant list of flags and checking values from there similar to how undertale did it (https://tomat.dev/undertale/flags) but i do not know how/when i would check these bools. undertale uses a switch statement with thousands of cases meaning it can check the bools there as all the dialogue is hard-coded in that script. for my game, i use a singular script which displays dialogue based on inputted dialogue objects. i can share my script if needed

[crisp lodge]

i see that the line is not constant, maybe this is the problem

i use a distant Joint

[rich adder]

quite possiblity, I use a different method, havent tried Distance component myself, i used spring

[crisp lodge]

what is spring ?

[rich adder]

spring joint

[crisp lodge]

okay i will try

[rich adder]

mine is a diff style though , i can go up or down

[crisp lodge]

oh

your character don't rotate with the line

[rich adder]

nop

i probably could though

[magic panther]

I am trying to take a slice of a sprite for further use through code, and so far all the TestBlock objects have no sprite being rendered (None (Sprite)) when I run the project.
I suspected it's something wrong with how I run the function, but after double checking, it seems fine. I believe the issue has to do with how I try to get the asset but I'm not sure.
Please ping on reply.

Screenshot #1 - TestStoneTileTileset.png
Screenshot #2 - Graphics folder (Assets -> Graphics -> ...) and it's contents

DefaultJrlGameObject -> https://hastebin.com/share/ufacologid.csharp
TestBlock -> https://hastebin.com/share/qewepilomu.csharp

[crisp lodge]

I want to make the same effect

[timber tide]

you can do it I believe

[fresh arrow]

can someone help me with this little problem i got?

[timber tide]

If it's code related, do share

[fresh arrow]

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

public class Elevator_script : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform Player;
public Transform Switch;
public Transform DownPos;
public Transform UpPos;
public bool ElevatorIsGrounded;
public float speed;

void Start()
{
    ElevatorIsGrounded = false;
}

void Update()
{

    StartElevator();

}

void StartElevator()
{
    if (Vector2.Distance(Player.position, Switch.position) < 0.5f && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)) 
    {

        if (transform.position.y <= DownPos.position.y)
        {
            ElevatorIsGrounded = true;
        }

        else if (transform.position.y >=  UpPos.position.y)
        {
            ElevatorIsGrounded = false;
        }
    }

    if (ElevatorIsGrounded)
    {
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, UpPos.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
    }

    else
    {
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, DownPos.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

}

[crisp lodge]

@timber tide look

[timber tide]

!code

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[fresh arrow]

i wrote this code to check if E is pressed then elevator moves

[steep oyster]

my entire camera system randomly stopped working and I ant find the lens ortho size on virtualcamera cinemachine anymore

it replaced by vertical fov

[rich adder]

post the code properly how it was linked to you

use links for large code, like entire classes

[fresh arrow]

ok

[timber tide]

And probably clarify on the question

[rich adder]

because your camera isnt set to orthographic

[fresh arrow]

https://hatebin.com/atalplstgo

here you go

this is a code for an elevator if e is pressed at ground level it should go up and if it is pressed at the upper level it should go down

but it doesnt work i dont know why

[rich adder]

i dont see any logs, start with that

[timber tide]

Probably want to be using GetKey as well

GetKeyDown is one-time until you release I believe, while GetKey is continuously checking as it's held. But first you should learn how to debug your code in print statements via debug.log

[fresh arrow]

ok doing that

[rich adder]

KeyUp waits for release KeyDown is called the frame you squish down the button

[fresh arrow]

alrighty

[timber tide]

Actually, GetKeyDown looks fine here. I was thinking you held it for the elevator to move but it's just a switch.

Brains a little wired to the other input system right now

[fresh arrow]

no problem

[steep rose]

if the boolean is not getting triggered to true nor false, then one of the if statements is not getting called,

wait

isn't MoveTowards vector3 and not a Vector2 🤔

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.MoveTowards.html

[fresh arrow]

https://hatebin.com/jnjmvmwugv

I added logs

when the game ran it game going to the down position never goes to up position even when i press e

[fresh arrow]

hol up

[steep rose]

sorry I was looking at the wrong one

[fresh arrow]

no worries

[steep rose]

well are the logs under the if statement ElevatorIsGrounded and or the else statement under it called?

[fresh arrow]

the else statement

it continuously says Moving downwards

its skips the first if statement and goes directly towards the if else statement with the boolean

it cant detect the e im pressing

[timber tide]

Did you log the input, because you have two conditions to go into your switch there

[steep rose]

and are you actually close enough to the button?

[fresh arrow]

i did right now it doesnt detect the e

[fresh arrow]

im literally on top on the platform while pressing it

[rich adder]

always split these up so they can be logged
Vector2.Distance(Player.position, Switch.position) < 0.5f && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E

var distance = Vector2.Distance(Player.position, Switch.position);
var eKeyHeld = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E)
Debug.Log($" distance is : {distance} and keyHeld {eKeyHeld}")

[fresh arrow]

ok

[timber tide]

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)
{
  Debug.Log("E Pressed")
    if(Vector2.Distance(Player.position, Switch.position) < 0.5f)
    {
      Debug.Log("Distance Check")
      if (transform.position.y <= DownPos.position.y)
      {
          ElevatorIsGrounded = true;
      }
  
      else if (transform.position.y >=  UpPos.position.y)
      {
          ElevatorIsGrounded = false;
      }
    }
}

[fresh arrow]

ill try changing the distance

[rich adder]

can also debug the value so you know what numbers you need

[timber tide]

Also worthwhile to learn how to use VS studio debugger so you can just use breakpoints

[rich adder]

Visual Studio Studio

[timber tide]

lel

[fresh arrow]

YOO I FOUND THE PROBLEM

[steep rose]

when checking Euclidean distance using one of the distance functions it checks the models pivot point when using a transform.position I believe (well it just checks the distance between 2 vectors but the vector it checks is the pivot point)

[fresh arrow]

it was the distance all along

thanks everyone really appreciate it

[past spindle]

How does data persistence between sessions work on platforms like Unity Play, where there aren't any files downloaded and the game is played online? Does the save data just go on their server?

[rich adder]

webgl you would use the built in datastorage of browser

unity has playerprefs but can also use via javascript interop
it would get stored in the usersbrowser not their server

[magic panther]

Could someone help me real quick?

It's being a roadblock

[stuck palm]

how do you guys store your event system / other unity things you're only allowed one of like audio listener?

[lone sable]

Unsure if this is a good place to ask or not TBH but:
Does anyone use the SteamWorks SteamManager script, and, have the issue where when stopping playmode, Steam says you're still playing the game?

[lapis veldt]

is there anyway that I can make the bean not going into squares?

[slender nymph]

Steamworks does this based on the running process, there's really no way around it. It doesn't harm anything and you won't have issues with starting play mode again, steam will just display that you're still running the game until the editor is closed

[lone sable]

It seems to be causing issues with my controller only in editor tho. Where it completely takes prio over everything, and disables Unity from detecting it. On build, it works fine and I can swap between Keyboard + Mouse and Controller fine. But after first launch of the game in editor, the second time the controller is never detected.

[slender nymph]

How have you confirmed that has anything to do with steamworks? Also in the future ask about the thing you are actually having issues with rather than your assumed cause

[lone sable]

Because if I disable Steam Works from launching inside of Unity completely/remove it from Unity, it works fine. So the assumption is Steamworks.

[slender nymph]

If it is caused by steamworks then ask whatever asset dev made the steamworks integration asset you're using (I'm just going to go ahead and assume that since you are asking about non-code issues in beginner code that you didn't use the steamworks sdk directly and are instead using some wrapper asset for it)

[lone sable]

Im using the direct Steamworks/SteamManager that they provide. https://steamworks.github.io/steammanager/

[slender nymph]

Yeah so you're using Steamworks.NET, a third party asset that wraps the actual steamworks sdk for use in .net

[red igloo]

hey so I am still a noobie at coding and I decided to make a flappy bird clone. I have added a rigid body to the player. I want it to have the same movement system as flappy bird. I have made a custom function called void OnJump there is 3 dots under On. did I do it wrong?

[keen dew]

Put the mouse cursor on top of it and see what it says

[lapis veldt]

no, it's just a warning that you haven't used the method yet

[red igloo]

oh your right lol

[sterile radish]

hi, im making a top down rpg game similar to that of undertale. what is an efficient/effective way to manage/save/set a lot of bools to check if the player did some sort of action and change character dialogue according to the value of those bools? (i.e, a player chose to insult a character, next time they open the game the character is still bitter about them being insulted)

i thought about making a giant list of flags and checking values from there similar to how undertale did it (https://tomat.dev/undertale/flags) but i do not know how/when i would check these bools. undertale uses a switch statement with thousands of cases meaning it can check the bools there as all the dialogue is hard-coded in that script. for my game, i use a singular script which displays dialogue based on inputted dialogue objects. i can share my script if needed (sorry for the repost)

[timber tide]

Post what you're managing so far via paste site

[rocky canyon]

sounds like you'll need some kind of GameManager to track flags.. and possibly some type of asset thats built for dialog.. and dialog trees..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVls6_srbNc&ab_channel=InfinityPBR•MagicPigGames scriptable objects seem to come up frequently
(or some kind of event based system)

[sterile radish]

okay, here is the script that manages writing dialogue in my game
https://hatebin.com/wzutmkqjqp

and the script that manages displaying it
https://hatebin.com/aadtqsqtlm

if you see a type "DialogueObject" in my scripts just letting you know that it's a scriptable object that holds dialogue, a voice sfx, the dialogue speaker's name, and repsonses

[rocky canyon]

whats ur biggest concern? like what part are you stuck on?

[sterile radish]

im just stuck on how im supposed to implement flags into this system that checks if a bool or smth else is true. and if it is, a new dialogue object replaces the current dialogue object

[timber tide]

I wouldn't really say no to making a class for each type of character assuming you've only a handful of them. Having a base that shares some similarities would be ideal, leaving you with some room to hardcode some logic and events.

because doing something completely modular could be a nightmare if you're a beginner in how to organize a lot of this stuff.

Dialogue is actually quite a tricky subject and I even use some assets to now deal with it most of the time.

[rocky canyon]

you could have a dictionary of flags and a singleton (game manager type script) that manages those flags..
such as setting a flag true, or setting on back to false..

FlagManager.Instance.SetFlag("InsultedNPC", true); for example

you could check the keys and swap dialog when u need.. (im just trying to think of something really simple)

ya, i've never made my own dialog system.. as its probably outside my skillset.. theres alot of good assets out there even if I don't use the entire asset it can really help to just peek at the code and see how its done in that specific asset

[sterile radish]

okay, but im confused on where i would check the keys? (or are you talking about using this in terms of what Mao said regarding a class for each type of character?)

[sterile radish]

sorry if this is wrong but are you saying that a possible solution could be to make a class for each one of my characters then hardcode what i want them to say based on what flags are true and what not then feed it to TypeWriterEffect? using this system i could then do what Spawn said about making a FlagManager probably

[potent garnet]

What would be the best way to indicate that all enemies in a given wave are defeated?

I’m instantiating waves by putting enemies under an empty game object and storing them as prefabs inside a serialized field list

[red igloo]

How can I make it so it falls down quicker? it feels very floaty.

https://streamable.com/yehg8x

[frail hawk]

on the rigidbody there are some options

[steep rose]

change the gravity of either your scene or the rigidbody

[frail hawk]

i would not recommend to change the global gravity

[steep rose]

I'm just displaying the options they could do, of course it would be better to change the gravity directly on the rigidbody if they want nothing else to be effected

[rocky canyon]

my only suggestion was the flagmanager.. if its a singleton or a static class it'd exist thruout the entire game..
and could be accessible anywhere..
for example

    // Set a flag
    flagManager.instance.SetFlag("PlayerFinishedLevel1", true);

    // Get a flag
    bool hasPickedUpRifle = flagManager.instance.GetFlag("PlayerPickedUpRifle");```
as for the rest of the dialog system.. i don't have any useful commentary sorry

[rocky canyon]

yup, I like to just add a negative force

// Simulate gravity manually
Vector3 simulatedGravity = new Vector3(0, -9.81f, 0);
rb.AddForce(simulatedGravity, ForceMode.Acceleration);```

tbf, i know alot of people, as well as myself, that thinks Unity's gravity is a bit floating everywhere.. soo I don't see anything wrong w/ cranking up the global gravity just a smidge 🤏 10-11 makes everything feel a bit more grounded imo

[slender nymph]

if they choose to go this route, then they need to make sure this is done inside of FixedUpdate.
They also need to make sure to reset the Y velocity to 0 before adding their jump force if they want it to be consistent each time instead of fighting against gravity

[rocky canyon]

💯 no lies told..

[steep rose]

also they need the rigidbodies gravity disabled if you implement artificial gravity unless they want it doubled

[rocky canyon]

i lied.. i changed it to 10-11 i was over-estimating when looking at my own projects they usually hang out around -10 for gravity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KiK0Aqtmzc&ab_channel=BoardToBitsGames this video comes to mind everytime

simply a fallMultiplier

also, that supermario character feeling where u press the button quickly for a small jump and hold it for a long jump seems to make every platformer ive worked on feel much much better..

[cosmic dagger]

I agree. Having a fall multiplier, separate jump multiplier for press and hold, coyote time, and jump threshold (when landing to jump again) definitely makes the player feel more responsive . . .

I think there were some other mechanics I did as well, but I can't recall atm . . .

[rocky canyon]

💯 believe all 3 are some of the most important aspects of "feel-good" controllers

"buffered jump" is what i've seen that last mechanic called a few times and what i've named my own as well

[stuck monolith]

Me because I know how to make a discord bot I will integrate it to tell me how many players are in the game

[grand walrus]

im trying to make my charakter jump but everytime i do the "if" code i get this message

this is how my code looks

[frosty hound]

You have a spelling error?

[cosmic dagger]

Did you look at the error in your code. Is it correct?

[frosty hound]

Among other things but that's the obvious thing that's underlined.

[grand walrus]

i dont think so

[cosmic dagger]

Did you check to make sure you typed it in correctly?

[grand walrus]

i copied everything from a tutorial viedeo

[frosty hound]

No you didn't

You have a spelling error

[grand walrus]

where?

[frosty hound]

The one that's underlined

[cosmic dagger]

You need to be 100% sure. If you don't think so, then go back and make sure it is 100% correct . . .

[grand walrus]

ohhhhhh

shit

ye i see it

lol

ok could swear i copied that bcs i had that problem for like 15 minutes and i retyped everything like 10 times

but maybe im just stupid

thx

huh now it falls like a rock

and the whenever i press space it doesnt do anything

[naive pawn]

did you attach the component

[rancid tinsel]

is this not the right syntax?

[slender nymph]

UnityEditor.DragAndDrop does not inherit from UnityEngine.Object therefore it cannot be used in FindOjbectsOfType

what are you even expecting it to find?

[naive pawn]

syntax is right, but it's semantically incorrect

[rancid tinsel]

wait does that mean UnityEditor has its own draganddrop thing?

[grand walrus]

i think i did

[slender nymph]

do you have your own class called DragAndDrop? if so, then the issue is that you have the UnityEditor namespace imported and it's using that rather than whatever yours is

[rancid tinsel]

wait lmao it highlighting gaslit me

mine is called DragDropSound

[naive pawn]

it's not enabled

click the checkbox beside the name

[obtuse quarry]

Isn’t it supposed to be a list?

[rancid tinsel]

i think it can be either

but that was the right syntax for arrays, just wrong class* name

[obtuse quarry]

Oh lol

[grand walrus]

ohhh thx

[slender nymph]

there is no overload of FindObjectsOfType that returns a List, it only returns an array

[rancid tinsel]

oh, good to know

im assuming if you really wanted to youd use a for loop then and put them into a list manually?

[slender nymph]

there's also the ToList method if you really wanted a list

[rancid tinsel]

oh nice! the more you know

i dont think ive seen that method before

[grand walrus]

can someone pls tell me whats wron with this script?

i just want him to jump man

[naive pawn]

what happened to what you had before

[grand walrus]

wellll

i had to restart my pc

and it was gone

[naive pawn]

angularVelocity is how fast something spins, you want linearVelocity to control how fast something moves

[grand walrus]

oh

[naive pawn]

have you added using UnityEngine;

[grand walrus]

no i havent

[naive pawn]

why didn't you just go back to check the tutorial

or yknow the code you posted here earlier

[grand walrus]

i didnt think of that

[grand walrus]

and the tutorial is 1 year old

the code doesnt 100 percent work

he just has "velocity"

[naive pawn]

right, that's somethign that changed with unity 6

i'd recommend using official tutorials instead of stuff that isn't kept updated !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[ivory bobcat]

It probably does for the stuff before Unity 6

[grand walrus]

oke

[grand walrus]

ye thats how the tutorial script looks like

[queen rune]

i'm working on my first unity game, which is vr, i have a guy who's helping me but he does most of the coding (so basically everything) but i want to work on it too. i just don't know much. how do I learn to code?

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel. and the junior programmer pathway on the unity !learn site is a good place to learn how to use the engine's API. i recommend learning c# separately from unity first as you'll have an easier time with learning the unity specific stuff after taht

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[frosty hound]

Once again, what you've written isn't what the tutorial has.

[grand walrus]

ye bcs it didnt work but now i got

i can finally jump

[naive pawn]

they're using unity 6

[coral lotus]

How to do camera switch from certain angle

[rocky canyon]

• Move the camera's position and rotation.
• Swap/Toggle from one camera to another
  Cinemachine package makes this pretty simple

[light merlin]

does anyone know why my camera zooms into the body no matter where i move the camera? ask for screenshots of scripts if u need
thanks!

[slender nymph]

check your vcam settings

[teal viper]

Must be something in your script, as the camera holder position changes drastically.

[light merlin]

this is the camerahandler script

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[molten dock]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[solemn dock]

Hi everyone just checking to see if this is the right place to ask some coding questions

[queen adder]

this or the other channels in the scripting section

[solemn dock]

I'm trying to dip my toes into character customization, starting from ground zero here. From what I've gleamed so far from some assets is that a character would have all possible options attached to them but only the ones being used are set active am I on the right path?

[eternal needle]

yea thats a common way to do it

[solemn dock]

Is this the simplest method? Wouldn't that limit me and the prefabs I can use to what's be made for the character avatar? and wouldn't that eventually create a lot of clutter?

[eternal needle]

simplest yea, also limited in that you now need prefabs which contain every possible option, yea.
you should first consider how much customization you'll actually have. if you arent having a ton of characters and unique customizations in the first place i wouldnt worry about it

[acoustic belfry]

Hi, i tried to make a script for check for the pointer for make my player sprite flip...and well

Technically it half-way works, cuz the player sprite flips, depending on where "the pointer" is in relation with it

...the issue is that it only reads the "pointer" as the center of the screen, and doesnt detect the mouse

what i did wrong?

[teal viper]

You'll need to provide a bit more info and code.

[acoustic belfry]

ok

    }

    void FlipSpriteWithMouse()
    {
        if (Camera.main == null)
        {
            Debug.LogError("No se encontró la cámara principal. Asegúrate de que una cámara esté etiquetada como 'MainCamera'.");
            return; 
        }

        Vector3 mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);


        if (mousePosition.x > transform.position.x)
        {
            if (spriteRenderer != null)
                spriteRenderer.flipX = false;
        }
        else if (mousePosition.x < transform.position.x)
        {
            if (spriteRenderer != null)
                spriteRenderer.flipX = true;
        }
    }
}```

This is the (sprite flipping fragment of the) code

i strongly believe the rest of it is irrelevant

[acoustic belfry]

The idea is what depending where the mouse is, the player sprite would vertically flip, like if they were "watching" the mouse, and i think sorta does...But it only flips to face the center of the screen

it completely ignores the mouse

[teal viper]

1. Are you using an orthographic camera?
2. Can you record a video of the issue?

[acoustic belfry]

1:i think yes
2: due Unity's heaviness i think it would be hard

so i think no

[teal viper]

Well, then it's kinda hard to help you, as it's not entirely clear what the issue is and what is the context of it.

[acoustic belfry]

well, the idea is this, this is a 2D game where the idea was that if the mouse pointer is on the right of the charatcer, the sprite would face right, and viceversa

but...it only does that, with the center of the screen

[acoustic belfry]

i hope that info helps a bit ;-;

[cosmic dagger]

Not sure I understand this part . . .

[teal viper]

The only thing I can think of is that transform doesn't belong to the character and remains positioned somewhere else(close to the center of the screen).

[acoustic belfry]

its like the cursor were permanently on the center of the screen

[acoustic belfry]

i got lost

the transform thing is supossed to swap it...i think

[cosmic dagger]

As dlich mentioned, I would make sure you are using/checking the correct transform . . .

[acoustic belfry]

how that would look like?

[teal viper]

Other than that we can't really help you without seeing what happens on the screen

[acoustic belfry]

maybe screen shots?

[teal viper]

If you can take a screenshot you can probably record a video.

[acoustic belfry]

i mean, how i can record a vid?

the only way i know is Obs

wich is quite heavy

[teal viper]

I'm not sure what you're asking here. The transform there needs to be positioned where the character does. Then it should work theoretically.

[teal viper]

That. Yes.

[teal viper]

Did you actually try and there was an issue?

[acoustic belfry]

it will lag like hell ;-;

i mean, every time i turn on Obs it lags a bit, and every time i turn on Unity it lags a bit

so by logic, they two turned on together would lag a lot

but i can give it a try i guess

[rare heart]

Is there any reason this function would be running twice? (It is tied to an enemy script, and when that enemy script detects collision with the player, it runs this LoseALife function)
public void LoseALife()
{

    if (hasShield == false)
    {

        lives--;
        
        GameObject.Find("GameManager").GetComponent<GameManager>().Lives();
        Debug.Log(lives);
    } else if (hasShield == true)
    {
        //lose the shield
        //no longer have a shield
    }

    if (lives == 0)
    {
        gameManager.GameOver();
        Instantiate(explosion, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
        Destroy(this.gameObject);
    }

[wintry quarry]

The number of times a function runs would come down to the code that calls it.

[rare heart]

This is the code I have that calls it. It should be called if this enemy gameobject collides with the player, but for some reason, it must be calling it twice. Im not sure why

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D whatIHit)
{
if (whatIHit.tag == "Player")
{
//I hit the Player!
whatIHit.GetComponent<Player>().LoseALife();
Instantiate(explosion, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
Destroy(this.gameObject);
} else if (whatIHit.tag == "Weapon")
{
//I am shot!
GameObject.Find("GameManager").GetComponent<GameManager>().EarnScore(5);
Instantiate(explosion, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
Destroy(whatIHit.gameObject);
Destroy(this.gameObject);
}
}

[wintry quarry]

The content of the function doesn't matter

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[wintry quarry]

If either of the objects involved in this interaction have multiple colliders that could be why

[rare heart]

is it possible for the collision to be detecting twice?

Or is this unlikely?

[wintry quarry]

only if there's more than one collider

[rare heart]

hooly hecck apparently I had 2 🤦‍♂️

tysm

[teal viper]

A bit + a bit = a bit. Logically. Though, this is complete speculation. You need to actually try and see...

[acoustic belfry]

Here is the vid. As you can see, the player is always facing the center of the camera, wich is not what i want to do (i also quickly moved to the oppositive side for prove that wasnt flipping due moving left or right). And i moved the cursor around to show that it doesnt follow the cursor

the idea is like this proyect i made in godot long ago

...wich for an strange reason now Obs frozen

[teal viper]

So, it's not orienting itself to the "center of the screen", but rather to the center of the scene.

[acoustic belfry]

;-;

[acoustic belfry]

wat

i mean

no matter how many i move around the map, happens the same

[teal viper]

It always faces one point in the scene

Which would make sense if transform in your code was some static object at that position.

[acoustic belfry]

this is the objetive

[cloud moss]

This is gonna make me seem really stupid but I just can't figure it out
I have an Image object in my canvas that I'm using to hold multiple different sprites (that is to say, it's setting itself to a different sprite depending on what data it's given).
It's not having any trouble changing sprites, but no matter which settings I toggle, the sprite always stretches to fill the entirety of the Image's Rect Transform space. I've tried preserving aspect ratio, setting it to native size, setting the source sprite's mesh type to Full Rect, and it still keeps stretching. I'm totally unsure how to fix this.

There are far too many images for it to be set to for editing them all to fit the same aspect ratio in photoshop to be a feasible option.

[acoustic belfry]

how i can make it face the cursor then?

[summer sphinx]

Looks good, you going to do a wall jump?

[acoustic belfry]

thanks ;w;. But this is a discarded proyect in godot ;w;

But im trying to conver from there, to Unity

[summer sphinx]

Oh I see, my bad.

[acoustic belfry]

and yes, its supossed to have dashs, double jumps, walljumps, etc

but now im struggling with only the sprite flipping ;-;

[summer sphinx]

I've been meaning to try godot but been too focused with Unity trying to get my 3rd year out of the way

[acoustic belfry]

but thanks for ask :3

I tried Godot, is easier to use...but it lacks a lot of tutorials and stuff that might be usefull, and also my teacher said it can make errors and glitches when it exports. So thats why i moved to Unity

[teal viper]

As I said, make sure the transform actually moves with the character. Do you not understand what your own code is doing or supposed to do?

[acoustic belfry]

50/50 ;-;

[summer sphinx]

Godot brought our GOAT brackeys back though lol

[acoustic belfry]

but i mean

[acoustic belfry]

what do you mean with that?

the transform is on the sprite part

wich causes it to flip

if the mouse is higher, it flips to one side

[teal viper]

Look, I don't know how to put it simpler than that. What exactly do you not understand?

[acoustic belfry]

;-; sorry. The exact way you want me to modify the code

[teal viper]

Is it? Take a screenshot of where that script is in the scene?

[acoustic belfry]

what do you mean?

everything's on the player script

[teal viper]

What GameObject is the script assigned to?

[acoustic belfry]

Player

actually, the name of the player

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot

[acoustic belfry]

but that's confidential till i finish it, due copyrights and etc

[teal viper]

Of the scene

[acoustic belfry]

the green fella

just unity frozen

holup a sec

[teal viper]

And take a screenshot of your camera component as well

[acoustic belfry]

camera component?

you mean what the camera has?

[teal viper]

You'd need to learn some unity basics if you want to use the engine. gameObjects and components are 2 of the very most basic concepts in unity.

[acoustic belfry]

i know what gameobjects are

components are the propeties of them?

[teal viper]

No

[acoustic belfry]

ok

its just i suck at names

[teal viper]

Components are components.
!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[acoustic belfry]

i was right, i strongly suck at names and descriptions

[teal viper]

At this point, the transform is probably not the cause. You'll need to debug the issue, as I can't see anything else that could be wrong.

[acoustic belfry]

this is the components

wait

[teal viper]

Well, share the camera component.

[acoustic belfry]

i didnt knew if you would need the ones that are hidden

i call those propeties ._. sorry

[teal viper]

You're using a perspective camera, not an orthographic one

If you want to use a perspective camera, you'll need to make sure that you use the correct z coordinate in screen space to world space transformation

[acoustic belfry]

i what? really?

what would be the correct z coordenate?

i always thought it was on orthographic o-o

[teal viper]

Look at your screenshot yourself. It says "perspective".

[acoustic belfry]

oh, right

i forgor i Ctrl-Z that

[teal viper]

It would be the same as your character z in world space.

[acoustic belfry]

well, so returning to the cursor part

how i modify the code?

[teal viper]

Modify for what purpose?

[acoustic belfry]

work like this

[acoustic belfry]

instead of this

hol on

i think i fix it

[teal viper]

Did you set your camera to orthographic?

[acoustic belfry]

yep

[teal viper]

And it still doesn't work?

[acoustic belfry]

nonono, now IT works

yey, well

thanks :3

[native seal]

what is the suggested way to handle sorting multiple overlay canvases that are all siblings? In my case, they are different UI tabs and I want the one clicked/dragged to be brought to the top. Reordering the transforms does not work since I believe canvases only sort with sort order? however there is already an order when all of them are on sort order 0, so not exactly sure why. Im trying to avoid setting the sort order since it would require each tab to know the sort order of the others

[wintry quarry]

Sorting layer/order in layer are the best way.

How many such tabs are there? You could just run a for loop that numbers them all in the desired order whenever you need to

[native seal]

3 for now but there will be more when I add more UI tabs, and yeah I could easily do that but was just wondering if there was a way as simple as transform.SetAsLastSibling since that seems to not be working

[wintry quarry]

Hierarchy order only matters within a canvas

[native seal]

figured

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't control how different canvases interact

[native seal]

what decides the order when all are on sort order 0?

[sour cape]

anyone else having package manager issues? its not connecting

[wintry quarry]

The "tie breaker". Probably the ordering in some internal list, or an instance id or something. Nothing you can or should rely on

[native seal]

got it

[queen adder]

is scripting define symbol in player setting automatically apply to assembly definition or i must add them manually to define constraint in the assembly definition asset ?

[languid spire]

assign manually. scripting defines are per dll

[queen adder]

So scripting defines is only for dll?

[languid spire]

for creating dll's, yes. What do you think an asmdef does?

[queen adder]

No i mean, does scripting defines only apply to script that is not in any assembly definition, or it also apply to script inside assembly definition ?

The scripting defines in the player settings

[languid spire]

the scripting define in player setting is applied to the Assembly-CSharp dll creation only

[queen adder]

Ah i see, so i must add the scripting defines again for each assembly definition right ?

[languid spire]

yes, that is what I said

[queen adder]

Okay thanks sorry i got a little confused there lol

[tall spade]

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[solemn fractal]

Hey guys... I have been searching and still not convinced best way to approach this situation. I have the player bullet. But it only spawns when he shoots. But I need to get information about the bullet before it is spawned, and also update it everytime it change it stats, but I cant do it as it says null because of course it didnt spawn yet. How would you approach this ?

[wintry quarry]

But I need to get information about the bullet before it is spawned
What kind of information? What do you mean by that?
and also update it everytime it change it stats
Update and change the stats of what?

but I cant do it as it says null because of course it didnt spawn yet
What "says null" What do you mean?

[solemn fractal]

The bullet has a speed and damage it deals. While the game is running the player can updagre his bullet damage. That is coming from PlayerBullet script. I want to show the damage and speed on screen but when I try to fetch that information it says it cant get as the bullet doesnt exist. So before the game start even on the menu you should be able already to see the bullet damage for instance.

[wintry quarry]

What does that have to do with the bullet? That sounds like information that should live on the player

[solemn fractal]

So the bullet should know its damage not the player I guess no? Why the player would have that information if the damage is not the player damage, but the bullet damage itself?

[wintry quarry]

Why the player would have that information
Because the player is the thing that levels up and the player is the source of bullets

it is "damage of bullets created by this player"

think of it that way

The bullet of course should know its damage, but that's something the player will assign to the bullet when the player spawns the bullet

it's not an intrinsic part of the bullet prefab

[solemn fractal]

hmm.. what abouit these other variables I have inside the bullet script. that should then follow the same logic you are saying?

[wintry quarry]

If they are actually things that are stats on the player they should be on the player

but really

you should wrap all this up in a class

or a struct

and slap a field of that type on both the player and the bullet

the player will hold the stats for what bullets it will spawn

and then you just copy it over to bullets as they spawn

[solemn fractal]

hmm, I was trying to save the player script to have more information, but it seems like I would ned to do the way u are saying

[wintry quarry]

Imagine:

public class Player {
  public BulletStats bulletStats; // Stats for bullets this player will spawn
}```

void SpawnBullet() {
  Bullet b = Instantiate(bulletPrefab);
  b.stats = this.bulletStats;
}```

[solemn fractal]

hmm.. so BulletStats I would create a new script for that appart of the Bullet script?

[wintry quarry]

I don't really understand the question

[solemn fractal]

BulletStats as you named, that is a script correct?

[wintry quarry]

It's a class

or a struct

[solemn fractal]

ok

Makes sense

that is a good fix

thank you for your insights on that

[queen adder]

I just checked documentation that define constraint in assembly definition does not define symbol, instead it is a constraint that a symbol must/must not exist for unity to include that assembly definition (for example, unity won't compile that asmdef if a symbol does not exist). How do i define symbol for assembly definition ?

I also checked the documentation that custom symbol apply to the whole project, but i havent test if it also includes script inside assembly definition

[digital hawk]

Hello !! I have one question, is there anyone who has already made a graphical dialog system ? I would like to have some help !!!!

[languid spire]

probably best to make a .rsp file
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/custom-scripting-symbols.html#asset

[vernal bone]

hello, i have some questions.

is there a much sense in making PlayerController not a monobehaviour?
Should i try to get rid of MonoBehaviours in places where it can be omitted. Like making a general MB script for player and inside make multiple others that do things? Or it's better to stick to MB for GameObject stuff and leave other for data and such?
What is a best practice for this kind of situations?

pseudoexample:

public class PlayerScript : MonoBehaviours{
    PlayerController _controler;
    
    void Awake(){
        _controler = new PlayerController();
    }
}

public class PlayerController{
    public PlayerController(){
        // here be code
    }
}

[keen dew]

It would be unusual if a player controller wouldn't need to use any monobehaviour methods but yes, if you have a class that doesn't need any of that and you don't need to handle it in the editor then it's usually better for it to not be a monobehaviour

[slender sinew]

it is completely up to how you want to architect the game, people have done both with success, or other options as well. It is probably easier in this specific case to just use MonoBehaviours since you are simply emulating a MonoBehaviour in the example (i.e Awake -> Constructor, probably Update -> PollInputs, FixedUpdate -> Simulate, etc, not too useful)

[vernal bone]

yeah it was gonna be something like that
i questioned this because i was once told that i use MB a bit too much and i saw that kind of implement in a video about zenject.

[slender sinew]

in my completely personal opinion, if you are working alone, you can pretty much just do whatever works for you, and therefore you are free to try new stuff out

some people like zenject and others dont, for example

at the end of the day, it's about creating something, and usually the means of doing so dont really matter that much (clearly demonstrated by many indie games)

stick with what you know until you can actually explain / analyze an issue with the approach. If that point never comes, then great

[vernal bone]

yeah, i do work alone but my intention is to get a job, so i try to at least look into things that is common in industry
big thanks for answers

[slender sinew]

each studio has their own opinions as well, so the best way to prepare is to actually just be good at programming and have experience with many things

[graceful fractal]

I need a bit of advice for a project I am working on. The project itself isn't difficult, it is mainly an interactable art gallery.

However, the project needs to support multiple languages. There needs to be a drop down where the user can select English, Korean, Japanese, or Chinese, and the entire app needs to swap its text to that.

What is the best way to go about something like this? My current prototype is a bit inefficient, but it has a Scriptable Object for each language, that contains a list of every word and sentence that is present in every item that has text, and when swapping languages, the system cycles through everything that has text, and replaces it.

It works, but I feel like it is extremely inefficient. Would anyone have advice or tips on how to tackle this please?

[languid spire]

Unity does have a Localization package

[graceful fractal]

I was not aware of that. I'll take a look, though for now, can you perhaps please provide me with the API for it?

[languid spire]

A 2 word google
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.0/manual/index.html

[graceful fractal]

thank you

[queen adder]

using UnityEngine;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections;
public class main : MonoBehaviour
{
IEnumerator seconds(){
yield return new WaitForSeconds(10);
}

void Start()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{           StartCoroutine(seconds());
            Debug.Log("salam");
}
    }
}

in running screen string just appers 5 times in console without waiting

[boreal cedar]

StartCoroutine(seconds());

the wait doesnt happen on the main thread

if you want to wait a second and print something

write it like this

void Start()
{
StartCoroutine(DoSomething());
}

IEnumerator DoSomething()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
Debug.Log($"Salam: {i}");
}
}

[queen adder]

yes, i am trying to make countdown system

[boreal cedar]

yea then write the entire logic inside the coroutine

[queen adder]

thanks for time

[boreal cedar]

np 🙂

[tardy tendon]

Hey everyone. so i am making a mobile game, basically there is a circular boundary and there is a ball and a hitpad. At the start of the game the ball randomlys goes in some direction and your objective is to use the hitpad to keep the ball inside the cirlce and not let it hit the circle. Cool.
The thing is, I have made the bal have 0 zero gravity and i use force to propell it in some random direction at the start of the game and but there is a problem, at some angles the speed of the ball can increase weird. So on every 5 hits, i am increasing the speed of the ball by a bit (equal amount every 5 hits). and the max is 10 magnitude of velocity. but at some weird hits sometimes, the speed of the ball can increase drastically and at some hits it even decreases drastically, So for this i added some checks in Update but to no avail.

To give a better idea of how the game works I added a picture. Anyhelp would be really appreciated

here is my Update method and the way i am increasing the speed of the ball
https://pastebin.com/rYnerD0S ask me if anything more is needed

[real thunder]

I am failing to see where it should be doing it's main function - increasing the speed of the ball

[tardy tendon]

it is being called in the OnCollision, the method called "IncreaseBallSpeed();"

 {
     // Increase the ball's speed slightly
     ballRigidbody.velocity *= (1 + speedIncrease);
     latestBallSpeed = ballRigidbody.velocity.magnitude;
     Debug.Log("Last Ball speed was " +  latestBallSpeed);
 }```

i forgot to add it to the pastebin

[real thunder]

I am personally not directly seeing the problem, but I can suggest you to go away from physics, I assume you are using standart Dynamic rigidbody?

[languid spire]

you should propably Clamp lastKnownSpeed here

[tardy tendon]

yes i am using dynamic rigidbody. I am sorry i might have worded my problem weirdly. So the thing that is happening is, on every 5 hits between "Ball" and "HitPad" i am increasing the speed of the ball by a bit (same amount every 5 hits) till it reaches a max speed after that it doesnt increase. Whats happening is that sometimes, the HitPad and Ball collides in a way (unintentionally/not same everytime) that the balls speed can either go from 4 (velocity magnitude) to 7 or from 7 to 4.

[prime hinge]

hello every on
my canva (gamecanvas ) start not showing any elements any one has face same problem?

[real thunder]

have you fiddle around with physics material 2D?
honestly that won't be a true solution but setting bounciness to 1 and friction to 0 for everything might help

on the other hand I would rather make my own reflection method in OnCollisonEnter2D and use kinematic rigidbody, because not using physics for this kind of game looks like a way to go

[tardy tendon]

yes i did try it, infact what i did was remove the material all together, and instead of relying on physics for bounces, i tried to calculate the angle of normal and then use transform.translate to move the ball in that direction, that went horribly so i had to switch back to totally relying on unity physics

[tardy tendon]

i tried it mate, still the same thing, i am able to weird to go up and down in speeds, except that i dont go below the min speed and do go beyond the max speed, so at least thats good

[real thunder]

transform.translate totally won't work here

if you remove 2d materials it would use the default one btw

anyway if you have something with a rigidbody you should never mvoe it via transform

[tardy tendon]

ah i see.

i could think of nothing else, so i tried that as well but yea it went how it should have, total fail

[real thunder]

yeah, I would ve get the angle and then just redirect the velocity

[tardy tendon]

im sorry english is not my first language. do you want me to do this or ?

could it be the way i am detecting collisions? cause it only happens when i am moving my hitpad fast or something, but then i even tried raycast and same thing still

[real thunder]

it would maybe be simpler for you to keep going with physics
I don't want to force you to redo stuff
But honestly... yeah I think you should do that

[real thunder]

Right, if you move it it might get odd, I guess it doesn't have a rigidbody on it?

[tardy tendon]

both of them have rb2d, my hitpad and the ball

[real thunder]

If the ball is getting too fast that might be because it just hits the pad several times?
But the decrease in speed is kinda odd

[tardy tendon]

yea it gets quite fast, still playable tho haha, but could the decrease be becuse the ball hits the HitPad while both of them are moving and somehow they overlap or something, like i am bad with physics so im not sure but what do u think

[real thunder]

try to put on everything friction 0 bounciness 1 material

[tardy tendon]

i just checked, i am indeed using phy mat 2d with 0 friction and 1 bounciness. its applied to the HitPad, do you want me to put it on the ball as well?

also on Ball i have set the collision detections to be COntinious

[real thunder]

yeah, I don't recall the default interpolation between those, might help

[real thunder]

might do that for pad, it's not stationary afterall
(not sure if it would actually help tho)

[tardy tendon]

just tried it, still able to decrease/increase the ball speed in weird way

[velvet mango]

heyo im trying to create a script to check for enemies within a room, not how many just if there are any. at the moment i was trying to use OnTriggerStay and Tags to see if any enemy is within the trigger collider. if anyone has a better idea please suggest as this doesnt seem to work.

[molten dock]

It’s probably getting lots of extra collisions due to the curvature of the hitpad

[real thunder]

that's true but how it could decrease the speed

[tardy tendon]

actually the hitpad's rb is set to static because if i make it dynamic, the ball sends it flying

[tardy tendon]

i made it that way to have better control over the ball's direction

[molten dock]

You need rigidbodys attached for on collision to work

[tardy tendon]

is there no workaround for this?

[real thunder]

I said abotu detection mode, not the type
and the type should be kinematic I guess

[molten dock]

There is definitely a workaround

[real thunder]

but that would break your code

[velvet mango]

sorry i should clarify, how i have it now its meant to only turn off the door when no enemies are detected, however its detecting the enemies and turning the door off. they do have rigidbodies

[tardy tendon]

oh yea i just did that and still the same thing

[tardy tendon]

and what would that be

[molten dock]

How about you have a trigger around the hitpad and whilst the ball is within that and it has collided once already, you make future hits not add to the speed of the ball

[real thunder]

you can set the ball velocity to the velocity you desire every frame just in case

[tardy tendon]

that sounds like it could actually work

[real thunder]

and make a cooldown timer

cooldown timer or trigger, yeah

[tardy tendon]

i tried doing that and it just doesnt work, while doing that i managed to clamp the min and max speed at least

[real thunder]

what exactly did not work

[molten dock]

U should share the code really

[velvet mango]

oh ok

its backticks right?

[molten dock]

!code

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[tardy tendon]

im not even sure, i even had debugs and debugs were showing but the velocity was not being set to the one i wanted to.

[real thunder]

ballRigidbody.velocity = ballRigidbody.velocity.normalized * Mathf.Clamp(currentSpeed, lastKnownSpeed, nextBallSpeed);
that kinda should be working if you just set the velocity

I mean without clamping

[velvet mango]

 public GameObject Door;
    private bool enemiesPresent = true;

    private void OnTriggerStay(Collider other)
    {
        if (gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy"))
        {
            enemiesPresent = true;
            Debug.Log("EnemyPresent");
        }
        else
        {
            enemiesPresent = false;
            Debug.Log("EnemyNotPresent");
        }

        if (enemiesPresent == false)
        {
            // Animation or Effect called Here
            Invoke("KillDoor",3);
        }

    }

    void KillDoor()
    {
        Door.SetActive(false);
    }

[tardy tendon]

wait im so so sorry i could be wrong, but am i not setting the velocity here?

[molten dock]

using one of the code websites makes it a little easier to read but its okay

[prime hinge]

ummm guys

[velvet mango]

oh sorry

[real thunder]

you are setting the velocity there

[real thunder]

so you may

• have variable curSpeed for current speed
• crudly set the speed each update like ballRigidbody.velocity = ballRigidbody.velocity.normalized * curSpeed
• increase that curSpeed each time you hit the pad curSpeed *= (1 + something)

[molten dock]

this looks fine to me do you have rigidbodys on this door object and the enemies

[velvet mango]

the enemies have rigidbodies but the door doesnt, but the door is still dissapearing just not when the enemies are gone

[real thunder]

you might use Physics.OverlapBox / Physics2D.OverlapBox

[tardy tendon]

figured, so you want me to clamp the velocity to the current speed, increase the current speed value from somehwere else, now its clamped to this new value, did i get it right?

[velvet mango]

ill try that

[real thunder]

yeah

[molten dock]

i diddnt know about that

[real thunder]

yeah those are not needing rigid bodies

but they are tied to physics

I mean colliders update their positions only in physics so if something is somewhere in the update loop but not there for physics system they would get detected likely

but that's a super edge case

[velvet mango]

should i have this on
private void FixedUpdate , instead of OnTriggerStay?

for when to check?

[real thunder]

actually I am not totally sure, maybe rigidbodies on continious detection bypasses those

[real thunder]

not ontrigger stay

it would work from anywhere, update or fixedupdate, but I won't recommend to use it every frame, I thought you wanted to do a one time check

[velvet mango]

i want to check if any enemies are in the room until theres none, like once the player kills all of the enemies the door opens

[real thunder]

oh, well, in this case yeah I guess you want OnTriggerStay, sorry

from performance perspective, I think it's better

[molten dock]

i believe it should be if (other.gameObject

include the other

[velvet mango]

but wont it then detect ALL rigidbodies?

[real thunder]

I can see why it's not working well, it runs this OnTriggerStay for each collider, so if it ever collides with something which is not an enemy it opens the door

[velvet mango]

OH

[molten dock]

no because you are still specifying the enemy

i was being lazy ill type it out in full

if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy"))

this door collider encompasses the whole room right

[velvet mango]

yes

this look right? https://hatebin.com/aymjiqigvq

that didnt work

[real thunder]

that still doesn't fix what I said tho

so basically

I can only think of one solution rn aside of doing that Physics.OverlapBox / Physics2D.OverlapBox

if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy"))
{
enemiesPresent = true;
Debug.Log("EnemyPresent");
}
replace that with
if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy"))
{
enemyTimer = 1;
Debug.Log("EnemyPresent");
}

and in fixedupdate substract from that timer Time.deltaTime

and if it's zero you open the door

because in your current realization it just cycles through things inside the trigger collider

and if one of them is not an Enemy it opens the door

[molten dock]

your script can be simplified to

if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy"))
{
enemiesPresent = true;
Debug.Log("EnemyPresent");
}
else
{
// Animation or Effect called Here
Invoke("KillDoor",3);
}

[real thunder]

that still won't fix what I said

[molten dock]

yes

[real thunder]

okay

[velvet mango]

so im kinda stupid and just checked the console, it is only detecting the enemies once

[molten dock]

look at the number next to those

if there is one

[velvet mango]

never mind its just doing this

[molten dock]

you should listen to what the other guy is saying really

[velvet mango]

ok

[molten dock]

can you expain what this does cause i dont get it

[velvet mango]

is it basically adding a time buffer every time the enemy is detected?

[real thunder]

yeah, not adding but setting tho

I haven't figure out anything better yet

[velvet mango]

oh it sets to 1 until it no longer detects them

[real thunder]

I would rather set bool to false at the beginning of the loop and set it true if any of enemies is detected, but FixedUpdate runs before OnTriggerStay

[velvet mango]

ok quick question if an object is already within a trigger will OnTriggerEnter work?

[real thunder]

and OnTriggerStay is not a loop, it runs each time for each object

[real thunder]

shouldn't? it's only about entering

[velvet mango]

dang

[real thunder]

unless it spawns there

if that's what you mean

I guess it will get detected

[velvet mango]

its already placed in the scene

within the trigger box

[real thunder]

at the scen start it will trigger one Enter I think

double checking is always worthwhile tho

[velvet mango]

then what im hoping is that on death it Triggers OnTriggerExit

[real thunder]

Deactivating or destroying a Collider while it is inside a trigger volume will not register an on exit event.

so, no

[molten dock]

do the doors close seemingly randomly

[velvet mango]

they can only open

at this moment

[molten dock]

open then

[velvet mango]

it doesnt look random

[molten dock]

what causes it

[velvet mango]

it still happens because of the Invoke

[molten dock]

okay

a more professional way to do this, would be to note how many enemies are in this room one time when the player enters it

using physics.overlapbox and an int

and then reduce the int by one per enemy killed

once the int is 0, open the doors

little room for errors there

[velvet mango]

i just tried doing the exact same thing but with OnTriggerEnter and Exit

which didnt work

so ill try that now

[stuck palm]

how can I check once a unity scene has finished loading? I'm using a framework which is meant to have a. callback for this but it's firing early. is there a unity event for when the scene is all done loading?

[molten dock]

changed my mind

[velvet mango]

this is what im trying to do but im not sure how to check for specific Boxes https://hatebin.com/sjpqgyefkc

[molten dock]

See if this helps

    Collider[] hitColliders = Physics.OverlapBox(transform.position, transform.localScale / 2, Quaternion.identity);

    foreach (Collider hitCollider in hitColliders)
    {
        if (hitCollider.CompareTag("YourTag"))
        {
            int++;
        }

    }

[velvet mango]

but how am i subtracting that number when they die?

[molten dock]

in whatever code you have for them dying

[velvet mango]

i can see how it might cause problems outside of this one time, like if i killed enemies outside this zone in a previous room it might subtract that from the int

[molten dock]

im resetting my sleep schedule so im probably too poop brained to help

[velvet mango]

all good

thanks for the help you did give

cause im sure im getting closer to solving this

[molten dock]

know that if youre tired the best thing you can do is sleep then come back to it when you wake up

always works for me

[velvet mango]

my predicament is i need it done in 6 hours

otherwise im kinda screwed

[molten dock]

lol fuck

[velvet mango]

yeah

[molten dock]

yo start your homework earlier man

[velvet mango]

this was on the backlog

and isnt the last item

other people in a group project not holding up thier weight and stuff

and its left to me

[molten dock]

the enemies that spawn in each room would use their own instance of the script, more complicated than i anticipated really

[jaunty bay]

System.RuntimeType.InvokeMember (System.String name, System.Reflection.BindingFlags bindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object target, System.Object[] providedArgs, System.Reflection.ParameterModifier[] modifiers, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture, System.String[] namedParams) (at <b11ba2a8fbf24f219f7cc98532a11304>:0)

  private void OnEnable()
    {
        shoot = controller.Player.Shoot;
        controller.Player.Shoot.performed += OnShoot;
        shoot.Enable();
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        controller.Player.Shoot.performed -= OnShoot;
        shoot.Disable();
    }

    private void OnShoot(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        Vector2 spawnPosition = spawnPoint != null ? spawnPoint.position : Vector2.zero;
        Instantiate(boomerang, spawnPosition, Quaternion.identity);
    }```

jello, i cant quite seem to see the problem here, but does anyone know?

[molten dock]

i know that story

[languid spire]

it's marked as private

[jaunty bay]

ive tried changing it to public, it still wont work

[languid spire]

then there must be an incompatibility between what is looking for the method and the method signature you have defined

[jaunty bay]

the script actually works, but it just gave that error somehow

[burnt vapor]

Lol I know this feeling

[velvet mango]

im not even a programmer im only a designer

i just have the need to know some programming

[molten dock]

game designers do commonly know how to code

if you screenshare i can help better

[velvet mango]

screw it im desperate

[burnt vapor]

For things like this I'd inform your teacher on how bad your group communicates

But I assume that they don't care

[spare mountain]

as in OnShoot runs after it says it's not found?

[velvet mango]

oh i have, and the teacher has taken notes

[molten dock]

i think game students are half wanting to make games and half thought thought they would be playing games all day

[jaunty bay]

yea so basically the error comes up after the script works (spawns object when i left click), magically

[languid spire]

probably something set up wrongly in your input actions

[velvet mango]

so far out of my cohort its more 10% thought it was just playing them, 30% dont see it as only a means to get money and dont care for anything past that and the other 60% either give plenty shits or are genuinely passionate, which i see as a decent margin

[molten dock]

you should focus on the project lol

[velvet mango]

yeah

[forest mirage]

how to fix this (Can't add script behaviour 'NpcInteractable'. The script needs to derive from MonoBehaviour!)

[molten dock]

dont think theres such a thing as NpcInteractable

[wintry quarry]

Make sure your script derives from MonoBehaviour and that you don't have any compile errors

[forest mirage]

I do all this and ever time give me this error

[wintry quarry]

You did something wrong

You should start sharing your code and/or screenshots of your Unity Editor and console window.

Right now we can't see your project so we can't tell what's wrong

[forest mirage]

its simple codes look

[jaunty bay]

ok so i fixed it by changing the name to OnClick, does anybody know why that happens??

programming is weird ffs

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you have some compile errors

you need to fix all compile errors, like i already said

It doesn't matter how simple the code is, it has errors.

[wintry quarry]

If you're talking about the PlayerInput component in SendMessages mode, the parameters need to be InputValue not CallbackContext

[forest mirage]

it tell me the error is ChatBubble3D it not exits in the current context

[wintry quarry]

Yep, you have to fix that error.

You're trying to use a type that doesn't exist or you are missing a using directive

[forest mirage]

ok....................

[wintry quarry]

So, either add the missing using directive

Or make sure you're only using things that actually exist

[hexed terrace]

ChatBubble3D is probably an asset? Which will be in its own namespace, so you'll need the correct using ... at the top to be able to access the ChatBubble3D type.

[forest mirage]

i will try

[wintry quarry]

RIght I said that....

add the missing using directive

[wintry quarry]

If you hover over the erroring code in Visual Studio it will automatically suggest this fix

if that is indeed the problem

[buoyant finch]

hello can someone help me I want to make animations for moves for my pokemon game pls explain how to do it with dotween

[wintry quarry]

Are you just asking "how do I use DOTween" in general?

[buoyant finch]

No like I made some transitions like fainting and all but have no idea how to make all the Pokemon moves with dotween

[wintry quarry]

That's extremely vague

[buoyant finch]

I actually tried to do it with animations but navarone said that due to transitions with dotween it would not work

[forest mirage]

look I have the Bubble 3D and it not work @hexed terrace

@wintry quarry

[wintry quarry]

MP4 to embed in discord.

[forest mirage]

ok but look I have the ChatBubble3D and it give me the same error

[wintry quarry]

Show us

[wintry quarry]

That's a prefab

That's not a class or script

You cannot reference classes that don't exist in code.

[forest mirage]

what i do

[wintry quarry]

Where are you even getting this ChatBubble3D stuff from?

You clearly didn't write it yourself

[forest mirage]

i creat one and it didn't work for this i get one from unity assest store it npc dialouge

[wintry quarry]

Follow the basic rules of C# programming

[wintry quarry]

What?

[forest mirage]

yes I am stubbed

[forest mirage]

plz help me i don't know what to do

[wintry quarry]

Learn the basics of coding would be the first step

As for the specifics of this particular problem, you're not providing enough information for us to help you

[lilac frigate]

Hello I'm new-ish to coding/game design I'd say I'm maybe a moderate beginner or expert beginner. Anyway I'm trying to code my first game ever using Unity and right now I have just movement and camera following. It's going to be a 2d platformer. I'm having a couple of issues one I can jump infinitely in the air instead of just a double jump. Two I have no idea wtf I'm doing. Should I be following tutorials to the tea should I code it on my own do I use some tutorials and do other things on my own. Plus I have no idea how to start coding things on my own like I understand coding but how do I start with a new mechanic. Anyway that's just me. If anyone has idea's or tips I'm open to them.

Also let me know what information you need to help like code screenshots, files, etc.

[wintry quarry]

focus on one issue at a time. Yes, you should share your code and explain how your jumping works if you want help with the jumping thing

I have no idea how to start coding things on my own like I understand coding but how do I start with a new mechanic
This usually comes from unfamiliarity with the Unity API and the basics of how to do things in general and will go away in time as you become more familiar with it.

[ivory bobcat]

if (jumpCount < 2)
{
    ...
    jumpCount++;
}```

[frail hawk]

first of all you should learn coding instead letting ai do the work for you

[lilac frigate]

This was not ai it was a tutorial

[frail hawk]

sure

[lilac frigate]

I can literally send you the video for it

[frail hawk]

in future send code as code block please.

[lilac frigate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHSWG05byEc

[wintry quarry]

!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.

[frail hawk]

debug.log your isGrounded see if it is working correctly when you are on the ground

that might be the reason why you can jump in the air too

[lilac frigate]

How excatly do I Debug.log cause it doesn't let me in the code. has an error

[frail hawk]

Debug.Log(isGrounded)

also the isJumping boolean

[wintry quarry]

Whenever you get an error you're not sure about you really need to share the exact code you tried and the exact text of the error you get.

Otherwise there is no way to help you. "An error" is about as vague as it gets.

[jaunty bay]

    {
        controller = new PlayerController();
        Vector2 mouseCoords = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        Debug.Log(mouseCoords);
    }

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        shoot = controller.Player.Shoot;
        shoot.performed += OnClick;
        shoot.Enable();
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        shoot.performed -= OnClick;
        shoot.Disable();
    }

    public void OnClick(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        Instantiate(boomerang, mouseCoords, Quaternion.identity);
        Debug.Log(mouseCoords);
    }```

every time Awake() happens, debuglog mouseCoords returns the actual coords. but when debugLog mouseCoords on OnClick happens, it returns 0, 0, and the script does so. does anyone know why?

[frail hawk]

Debug.Log($"{isGrounded} {isJumping}");

[wintry quarry]

You have two different variables named mouseCoords

[jaunty bay]

ah! my bad

ok2 ty

[slender nymph]

you also need to make sure to update the value of the variable because just assigning it once in Awake will not make it constantly update to the current coordinates

[lilac frigate]

It gives this error 'Debug' is an ambiguous reference between 'UnityEngine.Debug' and 'System.Diagnostics.Debug'

[jaunty bay]

yea i just realized it after i tried it xd

[wintry quarry]

remove using System.Diagnostics; from your code

[frail hawk]

yeah it simply means Debug exists inside of both of the namespaces

[lilac frigate]

The debug says they are both false for ever doesn't change

[frail hawk]

well there you have it, make sure to fix these 2 bools

the ground detection seems faulty

[grand walrus]

why is my text so low res?

[rich adder]

probably because its not textmeshpro

[grand walrus]

idek what that means

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-textmesh-pro

[grand walrus]

thx

[true lava]

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

The daynightcycle didnt work :/

Im using default unity skybox by the way, the skybox lights are going independently and didnt match with the terrain lights

[rough spade]

how can I make the player able to move sideways while colliding in front? (Like pressing W, colliding, but if you press A or D you can move to the left/right)

    {
        moveDirection = orientation.forward * verticalInput + orientation.right * horizontalInput;

        Vector3 moveForce = moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed;

        rb.AddForce(new Vector3(moveForce.x, 0, moveForce.z), ForceMode.VelocityChange);
    }```

[past spindle]

I'm trying to do my initial commit, but I get a bunch of errors warning me that the line endings will be changed from 'LF' to 'CRLF' and the commit doesn't go through. Can anybody help with this?

[frosty hound]

For starters, you're not using the Unity gitignore: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore

As seen by the fact it's trying to commit the Library folder, which you do not want added to your repo.

[past spindle]

I did select Unity from the drop down list when I created the Repo, but maybe it didn't take for some reason. Do I need to start a new repo to fix that or is there an internal setting?

[frosty hound]

You can fix it if you want to get fancy with git, but it's honestly easier just to start a new repo.

Make sure you commit it first before adding your project files.

[past spindle]

ok

[frosty hound]

Take the gitignore from the link above as well, and commit it as its own file.

[primal jewel]

@past spindle for the record, looks like your project isn’t in the root of the git repo. Make sure that either the project itself (contents of the folder that has Assets and ProjectSettings folders) is at the root of the repo, or the .gitignore file is placed in the project folder next to Assets and ProjectSettings.

[past spindle]

I see what you're saying. When I create a new project in the repo file, it creates a new folder. Would it be better to move the .gitignore file into the new folder or to move the project files out of the new folder?

or does it matter?

[primal jewel]

Either works. If the repo just contains a Unity project, I’d personally move the project

[past spindle]

I wasn't sure if it would mess with the path the hub needs to open the project

[primal jewel]

The key is the gitignore needs to be next to the project files
And yeah, you’d need to add the new project location to Unity Hub. Takes 5 seconds, though

[errant pilot]

guys how can i make this spawning animation without scaling?

[rich adder]

masking

[errant pilot]

Whats that? Ill read into it, thank you!

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/sprite/mask/mask-landing.html
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/ui-masking#6032b763edbc2a0564a8968e

[queen adder]

what is the proper way to get a world position, and translate it to a canvas postion, when the canvas is using Screen Space - Camera mode?

i was using transform.position = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(worldPosition.position); however, after moving over to not overlay, it causes it to be super off.

[verbal dome]

Try this? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle.html

[queen adder]

ah, so id go from world point to screen point to point in rect?

[verbal dome]

Yeah

Give it the parent recttransform as first argument

[queen adder]

hmm, yeah still not working. ends up giving me a value thats 67000, -23000, -67000.

exact code is.

void FixedUpdate() {
        if (worldPosition) {
            lastKnownPos = worldPosition.position;
        }

        Vector3 screenPoint = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(lastKnownPos);
        RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(transform.parent.GetComponent<RectTransform>(), screenPoint, Camera.main, out Vector2 localPoint);
        transform.position = localPoint;
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
    }

ah setting it to transform.localposition fixed it, strange, but I suppose.

[verbal dome]

Yeah the method outputs a position relative to the parent rect

Not strange, the name Local is in the name

[grand walrus]

why can i not see my text?

[polar acorn]

It's not on a canvas

[grand walrus]

how do i put in on a canvas?

[polar acorn]

Move it onto the canvas

And make sure it's a child of one

[grand walrus]

you mean something like that?

[polar acorn]

Yes, now move it into position on the canvas

[short hazel]

In this screenshot you can see the bottom-left corner of the Canvas, it's the two white lines extending up and right off of the screen.
The canvas is huge compared to your world, and it's normal (1px = 1 meter). You can click the Canvas in the Hierarchy, and while having your mouse over the scene view, press F to bring it into view

[grand walrus]

ahhh ok

thenks

[stuck palm]

does smoothdamp need time.deltaTime?

to stay framerate consistent? or is that done within the function

[slender nymph]

did you look at the docs?

[stuck palm]

can't say i have

[hexed dove]

Hello there, i have an issue with raycasts in 3D... I am making a little game about a cube. There are teleporters in my game, and i have a raycast for the ground check going from my cube to vector3.Down. When i teleport, the raycasts stops detecting any collision.. Could some1 help, i can call if needed because it's really a strange problem...

here is my cube code : https://pastebin.com/xET7auwT
and the tickManager : https://pastebin.com/JSa3QQkJ

thank you for your help

[slender nymph]

docs should always be the first place you check before asking here. your question would have been answered immediately

[slender nymph]

1. if you're going to use pastebin, at least have the courtesy of selecting the language so that there's syntax highlighting so the code is easier to read/navigate
2. you never invoke your _NextAction delegate which is where you call CheckCollision except for in that CheckCollision method. are you certain that logic for counting the ticks and invoking the delegate shouldn't be inside Update instead? or even DoActionVoid?

oh i suppose it's also subscribed to your OnTick event as well. but have you actually done any debugging to find out when/if these methods are actually being called as you expect?

[hexed dove]

yes i've been on this bug for 3 days xD

debbuging mode, printing etc

[hexed dove]

sorry i didn't knew thtat i could select the language

[slender nymph]

can you actually be specific instead of expecting people to read your mind? did you even check #854851968446365696 for what to include when asking for help?

[hexed dove]

yes, how could i detail more.. I will try, i have the blue cubes that are the teleporters. When my cube teleports to the top, like on the second screen, the raycast fires but, nothing happens. He stays blocked. when i tried debbuging, after the teleportation, the raycast doesn't detect the groundTag gameobject. I suppose its because the ray hits the teleporter before it hits the ground. but i have no idea on how to fix it.

here is the cube with the good language : https://pastebin.com/qHSZfVGu

[slender nymph]

you said you've been debugging this for 3 days, what useful information have you found from your debugging efforts? what have you actually done and what did that reveal?

[hexed dove]

the only good info i got was that after teleporting the condition if (_GroundHit.collider.CompareTag(_GroundTag)) at the line 90 in checkcollision doesn't execute. But i think its not relevent after thinking about it because i just use the setmodewait so we dont care about the checkCollision because i invoke the action int the setmodewait

i am new to c# so i am missing something for sure but i dont get what

is this specific enough ?

[slender nymph]

so you've spent 3 days debugging and the only conclusion you've come to is that the code is not executing?
also this statement "i just use the setmodewait so we dont care about the checkCollision because i invoke the action int the setmodewait" is incorrect because SetModeWait does not invoke the action, it is CheckCollision that is invoking the action, in fact SetModeWait is just assigning the lambda expression that calls CheckCollision to the action that is being invoked in CheckCollision. if CheckCollision is not being called at all anymore, then obviously that action will never be invoked. have you confirmed that this code is actually executing

[hexed dove]

it does execute

[slender nymph]

now verify that the raycast code is actually executing

[hexed dove]

it does execute but stops at the if (_GroundHit.collider.CompareTag(_GroundTag))