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[slender nymph]

so then what do you think that means

and also what do you mean it "stops" at the if statement?

[hexed dove]

that the raycast doens't hit the ground

[slender nymph]

then what does it hit?

[hexed dove]

i mean that it doesn't execute the ground sorry

[hexed dove]

the teleporter collider probably

[polar acorn]

Instead of relying on "Probably", log the object the raycast hits

[slender nymph]

don't assume, verify. you said you've been at this for 3 days and you haven't bothered checking what the raycast is actually hitting?

[hexed dove]

it hits the teleporter for sure

i just verified

[polar acorn]

Just log the object it hits instead of adding another if statement

[hexed dove]

yes it hit the tp

[slender nymph]

so if the raycast is hitting the teleporter, how do you expect it to hit the ground?

[polar acorn]

Okay, and should it be able to hit the teleporter

[hexed dove]

the thing is that i want it to stay on the teleporter for one tick and then start moving again

but he needs to be able to take the teleporters in both ways

[slender nymph]

okay so if you want it to be considered grounded on the teleporter, then why not also consider that ground

[hexed dove]

it can't

[polar acorn]

Why not

[hexed dove]

because if i do so, the cube will just ignore the teleporter and just roll above it

[polar acorn]

So code it not to do that?

You get to decide what it does when the raycast hits something. None of that functionality is "built-in"

Decide what you want to happen when the ray hits a teleporter, or use different rays with different layer masks for different things

[sour nimbus]

Hi, I'm making a game in which a murderer chases the character and I made the map with tilemaps. The problem is that when the murderer chases the player, he goes through the walls. How can I make it only walk along the path without going through walls?

[slender nymph]

you need some sort of pathfinding. it sounds like this is probably 2d, so i'd look into aron granberg's a* pathfinding project, or you can implement the a* algorithm yourself, or there's also an asset that allows you to use navmesh in 2d (i can't be bothered to google for its name though so you can look it up)

[sour nimbus]

thanks

[queen adder]

Is there something such as an interger number in C#

[polar acorn]

yes

assuming you spell it right

[slender nymph]

surely you learned about int on your first day learning c# . . .

[queen adder]

ohh

lmao

my brain stopped working for a second

thanks

[red igloo]

does anyone know any good tutorial videos that talking about the basics of coding? like what are variables/different types what are methods or functions etc. I can't seem to find any good ones. They either don't mention it or explain it in a way I cant seem to understand.

[slender nymph]

there's the beginner courses pinned in this channel. and i know you mentioned video specifically, but if you don't mind books, then the c# player's guide by rb whitaker is probably the best and most engaging c# learning materials i've found

[dire cloud]

i have a problem in my 3d game when i look up and walk forward i walk up to the sky. don't really understand why

[slender nymph]

show relevant !code

[eternal falcon]

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[magic panther]

I have a simple problem:
When I try to set the .position of a rectTransform component, it's Pos Z is usually something like 37,000, when I explicitly set it to 0 in C#
The element is a direct child of the Canvas it's in, without wrappers (fyi)

AREnforcer.cs -> https://hastebin.com/share/waqakoruqa.csharp

[slender nymph]

ideally you would be assigning the anchoredPosition of a recttransform, but are you sure you are explicitly assigning it to 0? this does not show your Vec2ToVec3 method so we have no way to be sure

[magic panther]

My bad, here they are

    virtual protected Vector3 Vec2ToVec3(Vector2 vector) {
        return new Vector3(vector.x, vector.y, 0);
    }

    virtual protected Vector2 Vec3ToVec2(Vector3 vector) {
        return new Vector2 (vector.x, vector.y);
    }

I'll try the anchoredPosition, this might be it

[slender nymph]

well that Vec2ToVec3 method is pointless considering it does exactly what the already existing implict cast from Vector2 to Vector3 does

also if you really want to keep these methods, you might consider making them extension methods instead of instance methods on this DefaultJrlGameObject class you have. also why are they virtual

[magic panther]

In case you're curious this is that Defaults file -> https://hastebin.com/share/gorifovagi.csharp

Also putting anchoredPosition appears to not work, the Z position is still messed up and they're improperly positioned (that last thing is just a thing of adjusting)

[slender nymph]

yeah literally 0% of that needs to be an instance method on the base class

[magic panther]

Either way, what am I doing wwrong?

[slender nymph]

what is this object's parent

[magic panther]

A canvas

[verbal dome]

When moving the player you should rotate the movement direction on the camera's horizontal (Y) axis, but not on the vertical (X) axis

[slender nymph]

okay so whatever is instantiating this object is affecting the Z position because the anchoredPosition doesn't even assign that axis

[fathom geyser]

I’ve been learning from the c# players guide. I would recommend it as well.

[magic panther]

Here's what's instantiating it: https://hastebin.com/share/buwegikezi.csharp

[slender nymph]

and you're certain nothing else is affecting the position? also why are you even worried about the z position anyway? the canvas doesn't really care about that, it's an overlay canvas and things are drawn in hierarchy order not z position order

[magic panther]

when the Pos Z is not 0 the black boxes are invisible

I have to zoom out extremelly far to see them

[slender nymph]

and you're certain nothing else is affecting the position? also why are you even worried about the z position anyway?

[magic panther]

I doubt this is having such impact (rect transform of the canvas), I don't even know how to change this

Besides this I have no ideas what might be causing issues here

[slender nymph]

none of the code you've shown assigns anything but 0 on the z axis. so something else must be modifying it if you are actually using the rectTransform.anchoredPosition now and not the transform.position

[magic panther]

How do I find out? Just click random stuff until you get it is enough?

[slender nymph]

look through your code at anything that references those objects

[magic panther]

@slender nymph besides this class it seems nothing uses these objects, if I'm looking correctly

||I also changed it a lil bit https://hastebin.com/share/piqayivipe.csharp||

What can change the Pos Z besides .somethingPosition in code?

[rocky canyon]

animations

gravity/forces on a rigidbody's position

[slender nymph]

you're clearly missing something. or you didn't actually save the code after switching to assigning to the anchoredPosition instead of the transform.position

[magic panther]

It's all saved. Should I maybe just set the Z position to 0 on LateUpdate for now and come back to this later? This system besides this issue is somewhat finished

[vale chasm]

Q: i have multiple scripts, am i able to combine them to one? each ahs its own class

[polar acorn]

If any of them are MonoBehaviours, no you cannot

If they're all non-components, you still shouldn't

[vale chasm]

they are all things like this:

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
using System.IO;

public class MoveUsedPrefabs : EditorWindow
{
    [MenuItem("Fluffums/Move Used Prefabs")]
    static void MoveAllUsedPrefabs()
    {
        string usedPrefabsFolder = "Assets/! ! ! ! Fluffums/Prefabs";

        if (!AssetDatabase.IsValidFolder(usedPrefabsFolder))
        {
            AssetDatabase.CreateFolder("Assets", "! ! ! ! Fluffums/Prefabs");
        }
        GameObject[] prefabs = Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll<GameObject>();
        foreach (GameObject prefab in prefabs)
        {
            if (PrefabUtility.IsPartOfPrefabAsset(prefab))
            {
                string assetPath = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(prefab);
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(assetPath) && assetPath.StartsWith("Assets"))
                {
                    string newPath = Path.Combine(usedPrefabsFolder, Path.GetFileName(assetPath));
                    newPath = AssetDatabase.GenerateUniqueAssetPath(newPath);
                    AssetDatabase.MoveAsset(assetPath, newPath);
                }
            }
        }
        AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
        AssetDatabase.Refresh();
        Debug.Log("Moved all used prefabs to __UsedPrefabs folder.");
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Editor scripts should also be in their own files

[north kiln]

(btw If that's the whole file it shouldn't be an EditorWindow it should just be static)

[vale chasm]

ah okay, just tring to condence what i can

[vale chasm]

like this?

[north kiln]

Yes. Though your screenshot notes some other issues, do you not have error highlighting and autocomplete, or had your IDE just not fired up fully or detected that file?

[vale chasm]

im just running it in VSC, not VS

[north kiln]

I presume you mean that you've opened it quickly in VSC and you usually use a configured VS?

[vale chasm]

i usually use VSC not VS, just never really touch C#
{even in VS it shows no errors}

[grand walrus]

What’s the best way for a beginner to learn programming?

[north kiln]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[north kiln]

You should configure it even if you don't use it a lot

[vale chasm]

will do

[urban sky]

So I want to show you guys my coding because I can't figure out how to fix two errors. Can I post the entire Visual Studio code here?

[north kiln]

There are links pinned to this channel that are good places to start

[north kiln]

!code

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[grand walrus]

oke thenks

[vale chasm]

[i did the vsc setup from the bot above]
it seems my prefab script is a tad broken, its stuck loop renaming a prefab

[north kiln]

Yeah that logic seems rather bad

it's not stuck in a loop, it's just doing the logic for every gameobject inside a prefab

instead of doing the logic on the prefab assets

[rocky canyon]

works ok on a small project 🙂

i def despise the ! ! ! ! part of it

[north kiln]

It only works okay because those prefabs have only one child

Resources.FindObjectOfTypeAll<T> finds all T. Which inclides all the GameObjects that are loaded childen of a prefab

as the check is just are you a part of a prefab asset

it doesn't only do the logic on the root, it does it on all of them

This is my assumption. I wouldn't use FindObjectOfTypeAll in 95% of cases. You should use AssetDatabase.FindAssets("t:GameObject") which will find all the prefab assets (including the model prefabs)

[vale chasm]

the ! ! ! ! is to force it to the top, oh okay, clearly I need to do more research, as I'm sure my mats one is fucked as well seems it moves prefabs and fonts

[rocky canyon]

ah, that makes sense.. i just i try to avoid special characters in my filenames
has never been anything buy worrisome..

if u want to push it to the top u can use something a bit more traditional..
a_Prefabs or something

for the Menu Item.. u can use Priorities to have it listed at teh top.. but im guessing u mean the hiearchy/folderstructure

[north kiln]

is what we have (I personally hate it but whatever :P)

[rocky canyon]

i dont even trust underscores as a lead character 😄

maybe for Folders its fine tho..

i mean you're doing it.. soo that i trust lol

[vale chasm]

my project is just a mess

typically I do a . or _ but some packages I used did !!!

[north kiln]

That's wild lol

[rocky canyon]

just broke my brain

[rocky canyon]

im actually gonna go play video games now.. 😬

[vale chasm]

and I'm gonna try to fix my script logic

[rocky canyon]

what if? string[] allPrefabGUIDs = AssetDatabase.FindAssets("t:Prefab"); ?

[north kiln]

That will exclude the model prefabs, yeah

[rocky canyon]

ahh, nvm that wont reference the used ones tho

[north kiln]

Used?

[rocky canyon]

would it? like if thats the goal prefabs being used within a scene in the scene-builds

not sure the end-goal tbh

[north kiln]

Who even knows what the goal is lol

[rocky canyon]

lol i just get all excited for editor code ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[vale chasm]

the goal is to move used [in the current scene/build] prefabs / mats so I can find and edit them easier

[rocky canyon]

okay.. thats what i kinda guessed... soo from all the scenes included in the build index

[vale chasm]

I think? mainly just the active one

[rocky canyon]

makes me wonder how unity does it.. when u build out ur game

cuz it ignores everything not used.. magic 🪄

i'm actually research that a bit.. never thought about it and now im curious 🙂

[north kiln]

the first idea would work if you checked if the GameObjects were actually in the scene and also built a hashset so you didn't move the same prefab multiple times

[rocky canyon]

very smart.. no duplicates + the speed of hashsets

✅ Confirmed, Hashsets + AssetDatabase works great.
haha, too bad I didn't think to include an undo button 😅

[polar acorn]

If everything is high priority, nothing is

Why are there a dozen folders that "need" to be at the top of the list

[devout flume]

That looks like my brain during lectures at uni

[sterile radish]

hi, my game currently has a save system using a binary formatter. im trying to save a string,bool dictionary from my gamemanager called "flags" i set one of the values of this dictionary to true during playtime but whenever i re-open the game the value is false why is this? am i not saving the dictionary properly?

method for loading the player data from the player script
https://hatebin.com/nybycwdniv

the stuff im saving:
https://hatebin.com/pbtpdtakcl

[teal viper]

How are you actually de/serializing the data?

[sterile radish]

i deserialize/serialize the data through my savesystem script
https://hatebin.com/hcpwkvsohi

[teal viper]

I don't know if it's able to serialize dictionaries properly.
Start with debugging the values at save and load time

[sterile radish]

hi, i've debugged the values and i think its what you said. at save time it debugs "True" which is what i want but then at load time it debugs "False"

[slender nymph]

just FYI, you shouldn't be using BinaryFormatter
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serialization/binaryformatter-security-guide

[gray bough]

Hi! Can someone please help me with a problem in my C# code. I've been following a tutorial and I got this error and I cannot figure out how to fix it. I cannot figure out how to fix it

[slender nymph]

1. !code 👇
2. what are you actually trying to accomplish with those lines that have errors on them?

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[gray bough]

ah I'm so sorry. I am making a 9 tile game and I need to keep an index of the tiles and their position

[slender nymph]

that doesn't answer the question i asked. what are you actually trying to do with those specific lines. at a guess i'd assume you're trying to just swap the indices of those objects in your array, but considering you're not actually indexing the array there that is just a guess

[gray bough]

yes, I am trying to create the index. I create a variable to do so tile[i] and it is made from a different variable referenced from another C# Script so the type is [name of script] varName but it is telling me I cannot index a variable of this type

[slender nymph]

you need to be indexing the array, not the variable that holds your TileScript object (also TileScript is not a great name for a type)

[slow mantle]

I fold, I definitely need help

I'm trying to increase the regen stat by 1.5x if the current enemy is enemy 0, but I can't think of a way to do it without permanently multiplying it by 1.5x, I just want it to return to the normal amount when fighting everything else

I've tried a few things but I ended up going back to where I started lol

I hope this is the right place to ask-

[gray bough]

yes, I am trying to index the array. And TileScript is the name of the other C# file I'm referencing

[slender nymph]

so index the array, not the tile variable

[slender nymph]

if you want to go back to what it was before you need to store that value somewhere. presumably you should do this actually on the PlayerManager object, and just tell it when you spawn an enemy that would influence its regen rate rather than having the EnemySpawnSystem object directly modify the regen rate

there's also so much static happening in that screenshot 😬
i hope you have a specific reason for that to be static rather than just using static for easy referencing

[slow mantle]

I don't unfortunately, I'm new, and I've heard that it's bad, but I currently do not know what to do about it lol

[slender nymph]

you should learn how to properly get a reference to an object

[slow mantle]

Wait, what problems would this cause if I kept going like this?
I'll definitely try to learn it, but why is this bad?

[slender nymph]

well static variables are not owned by each instance, so the first thing would be that having multiple copies of the same type of object may end up causing issues.
debugging with a whole bunch of public static members is also a pain in the ass because anything anywhere can change it at any time for no reason
it turns your code into spaghetti as you try to make everything static just because you don't know how to correctly reference other objects

believe me, when i was brand new to code i did the same thing. it is much better to learn to do it right

[slow mantle]

Hmm... It seems like that won't cause too many issues now since there's only ever one enemy instance, but I should learn this soon before it becomes a problem in the future

[frail iris]

I def need help

[slender nymph]

obligatory: use cinemachine

[frail iris]

huh

is this built into unity?

[rocky canyon]

you can get it from the package manager

[frail iris]

whats it under?

[rocky canyon]

Cinemachine

[frail iris]

if i search it up

i get nothing

[steep rose]

you could also just make it match the rotation of your plane object as well if you do not want to use cinemachine

[naive pawn]

Packages: In Project

[rocky canyon]

change Packages: from In Project

to something else..

[slender nymph]

it's a unity package, so it will be in the unity registry

[frail iris]

i see

sorry im new to unitiy

im not new to programming or OOP at all been programming for 7 years just to the unity enviorment

I did a lot of roblox game dev over the years...

[naive pawn]

if you could ask as text that would also help fwiw

[frail iris]

alright after installing cinemachine how do i use it

[slender nymph]

yeah, that was a lot of yapping just for "how do i make my camera rotation follow my object"

also asking using your voice in video rather than via text means anyone who is hearing impaired likely won't be able to help you

[frail iris]

okay my bad

how does one set up and use cinemachine

these docs are very extensive

and idk if i need to read all this yap

[frail iris]

fair..

?rtfm

no danny bot

[slender nymph]

Read The Fucking Manual

[frail iris]

ik what rtfm means

[slender nymph]

this looks like you are asking what it means

[steep rose]

you could also look up a tutorial on how to use cinemachine as well

[frail iris]

its a common bot command

[steep rose]

this server does not do that, you can look at bot commands here #854851968446365696

[frail iris]

I see

im just gonna watch a video at 2x speed

[rocky canyon]

you can create a cinemachine camera (whichever type you want)

it'll automatically put a cinemachine brain on ur main camera..

how it works is it uses ur main-camera..
for example you could have a dolly camera.. (that'd be a cinemachine camera).. and it'll have the main-camera Track and follow it along..

or if u had two different types of cinemachine cameras u can toggle them on and off.. and the main camera will know which one to track and when (depending on priorities)..

[rocky canyon]

for your use-case i think you just want the normal cinemachine camera

[rocky canyon]

did u install the package?

[frail iris]

i did

but ykqw

[steep rose]

did you import it

[frail iris]

i was in play mode

[steep rose]

you can install it but must import it, if you do not it will not work

[frail iris]

i got it

[rocky canyon]

theres also a menu in the GameObject menu

[frail iris]

lemme watch tutorials to figure out how to work it

[steep rose]

cinemachine should just be integrated into unity by default as it is used by many, I wonder why they did not do that yet 🤔

[rocky canyon]

its a bit different now (most tutorials are about the older cinemachine) w/ the red logos

the new one is blue.. Cinemachine 3.0+ but it works pretty similarly

[frail iris]

only 7 years old

[rocky canyon]

Cinemachine Camera is basically what you'll probably see referenced as a Virtual Camera in older videos.. You should be able to work-it out tho watching videos about the older version.

[frail iris]

i cant look around anymore

like in unity itself

if i hold right click i cant pan or move and idk if i locked my view or smth

[rocky canyon]

are u in the game-view? or playmode again?

[frail iris]

nether

this view

if i press the scene camera button i can

but it opens up a dialog

and once i close out of the dialog

i cant move my camera anymore

video for reference

[rocky canyon]

thats expected..
when using cinemachine the cinemachine camera is what controls the camera...

the camera follows it.. you can't manually move the camera

[frail iris]

to look around the game world?

[rocky canyon]

well which is it. is it the scene-view you can't move around?? or the Camera? two different things

[frail iris]

watch the video for reference cus idk which is which

the camera that allows me to pan around

[steep rose]

he is talking about scene camera, not game view

[frail iris]

and look at objects

[frail iris]

this then

[rocky canyon]

looks to me like the scene-view is moving around just fine..

[frail iris]

when i press the button at the top

[rocky canyon]

^ scene-view camera

reset ur layouts

[frail iris]

i have to press a button at the top and it opens a dialog

how

[rocky canyon]

you have errors down here

[frail iris]

how do i reset my layout

[rocky canyon]

top corner...

[frail iris]

ngl i just closed and open unity

[steep rose]

from what I'm seeing it is working only half of the time, and only when he opens the dialog box it works (most likely because of the errors)

[frail iris]

restarting unity worked

[rocky canyon]

ya, b/c hes got "DrawErrors"

restarting will fix it..

but what i thought u meant is this...

after adding a cinemachine camera.. u can't manually control the main-camera anymore..

its done thru the cinemachine components

[frail iris]

right

okay how do I see the camera in a seperate window

nvm found it

[steep rose]

select game view and you will see whatever the current camera is seeing

oh yeah, nevermind then

[rocky canyon]

theres also the overlay menu

pressing the ` key brings it up

[frail iris]

i only want the camera to rotate while right click is held

i figured it out

[prime goblet]

i have a script which relies on the mouse right click being held down, but when i move the cursor while still having the click held down, it acts like i released it,

        if (Input.GetMouseButton(1)) {
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
            print("yeah");

        } else if (!Input.GetMouseButton(1)) {
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
            print("no");
        }

when i hold it down, it prints "yeah" but when i move the cursor, it moves to "no" and releases the mouse lock

[prime goblet]

notably it's only with trackpad

[spare mountain]

sounds like your mouse is registering a release, I can't imagine unity is at fault here

[jaunty bay]

    {
        mouseCoords.z = 0f;
        Vector3 direction = (mouseCoords - transform.position).normalized;
        var bulletBoomerang = Instantiate(boomerang, transform.position + direction, Quaternion.identity);
        bulletBoomerang.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = direction * boomerangSpeed;
    }```
how to calculate distance when this function happens?

[wintry quarry]

How to calculate distance of what?

[jaunty bay]

distance of how far does the boomerang fly

i just need some sort of step measurement to track it

[wintry quarry]

It will presumably fly forever

unless there is friction

or drag

or some other code

or an obstacle

[jaunty bay]

oh sorry i meant the distance of how far it traveled

[wintry quarry]

It hasn't travelled at all yet

it's just being spawned in this code

[jaunty bay]

bulletBoomerang.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = direction * boomerangSpeed; this one flies it tho

[wintry quarry]

Yes that gives it velocity

[rocky canyon]

position it stopped - position it began = distance it travelled

[wintry quarry]

it's very unclear what you're asking about.

[jaunty bay]

okay, when bulletBoomerang.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = direction * boomerangSpeed; happens,
i want to have some sort of step to track on how long/far did the boomerang travel

[wintry quarry]

So you mean to say something like "When it stops moving, how can I check how far it travelled from the starting point"?

[rocky canyon]

or do u want to know how far it will travel before it gets force added?

[jaunty bay]

so that i can add some codes to Destroy() (for now) it when it reaches certain limit

[wintry quarry]

Put a script on the boomerang to track it. Like:

Vector3 startPosition;

void Start() {
  startPosition = transform.position;
}

void FixedUpdate() {
  float distanceFromStart = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, startPosition);
  if (distanceFromStart > something) DoSomething();
}```

[jaunty bay]

mkay thats actually quite handy ty

[feral oar]

comrades, i'm working on making a player object using the built in character controller component with a third person camera. my goal is to have the character move in relation to the direction the camera is facing, which i have successfully done with a tutorial and it results in quick, snappy movements.

now i'm trying to smooth the movement out with some acceleration/deceleration like i would get if i utilized the "sensitivity" and "gravity" values in the input settings, but i can't figure out how to do so based on what i've gotten from the tutorial. maybe if i understood the math functions i could figure it out myself, but i don't know what to look into at this point to achieve what i'm attempting.

here's the relevant movement code: https://paste.ofcode.org/33hccHhCerP5Xhff5bK68Am

[rich adder]

maybe look into animation curves?

[feral oar]

that can work for something like this? i would have thought animation curves would be for actual animation related things

[rich adder]

eh yeah the names confusing but you can use those cool bezier for code so like acceleration but animating too sure

https://unity.com/blog/games/animation-curves-the-ultimate-design-lever

[toxic yacht]

I've started thinking of animation curves as draw-able easing functions.

var result = Vector3.Lerp(start, end, curve.Evaluate(frac));

[feral oar]

ahhh i see

might be a good solution. thanks fellas

update: i found an alternative solution. i went to chat gpt for an explanation on how some of the other functions worked, and with a simple edit of multiplying the moveDir by move.magnitude it got me where i wanted. i guess the moveDir vector is normalized and that's why it took away that gradual acceleration?

[astral citrus]

Hi could you please help me to test DOTween. It's not working for some reason. I can't grasp why.
Test run in EditMode via Rider using NUnit annotation Test and Test Fixture.

I have code like this

DOTween
  .To(() => Time.timeScale,
  x => Time.timeScale = x,
  targetTimeValue,
  duration)
  .SetUpdate(true);```
And test like this

// Call method above
// Validate
var constraint = Is.EqualTo(timeScaleBefore * GameSpeedScaleSlowdown).After(2000, 1);
Assert.That(() => Time.timeScale, constraint);```

[slender sinew]

everything about that looks suspicious, have you verified that DOTween even executes in an editor test by default? have you verified that the time scale is being reset between consecutive test runs? have you verified that the timeScale is not affecting the duration of the tween? there are a lot of things for you to debug / test.

[tardy tendon]

Ayooo guess what, this worked mate. And im not even sure why it didn't even cross my mind, thanks a lot mate. Cheers

[ripe shard]

you can't realistically use DOTween in test code, there are too many caches and static processes involved that would confound the test results

[real thunder]

glad to hear 🙂

[long jacinth]

i know what im doing is nonsense but how do i make it so that this script can store different types of buildings and i can add more by editing this script

[devout flume]

If by building you're referring to gameobjects, store them in a List<GameObject>. If you are referring to types, you'd need to write classes, and one of them is the mother of all the others (let's call it Building). You'd make a list of Building that way

More globally my guess is that the 2nd solution would fit more

[real thunder]

yeah, and I think it should not be one script, rather it should be one script per each building, but they are being children of main one

[urban prawn]

I don't know if this is the best channel, as I have a hierarchy-organization question.
I guess it is a common thing, but I lack the vocabulary to do a good google search.
When I build objects, I usually create a parent object, that has the scripts attached and also a child object, with the actual geometry.
My thought was, that I can easily switch the geometry from placeholders to the actual models that I want to use in the final game.
That gave me some headache searching for components. Sometimes I have to search for a component in the children (when I search by tag) as I only tag the parent. And sometimes I have to search all parents, when I search a script component after a collision.

Is there a standard to form those objects and where to put the components? Or a best practice to make the player, enemies etc, modular?

[teal viper]

I think most people do it the way you described: root object with logic and controllers and children with meshes, rig and whatever else you might need.

[urban prawn]

So the rigidbody and colliders would also be on the object with the meshes?

As I beginner I had the urge to put everything in the place with the tag that I might change from a script

[rich adder]

lookup scriptable objects

[willow shoal]

hi.. quick question.

how to move one transform like a position "z" after click "space" button
keyboard

I need a link or script for it

[blazing horizon]

Okay, this is likely an ultranoob question:

What is a likely cause that in a new project me clicking UI buttons gets ignored? Is something obscuring them maybe?

[languid spire]

screenshot your hierarchy

[blazing horizon]

UserInterface is a canvas

[languid spire]

you are missing an Event System

[blazing horizon]

main menu is an empty rect

of course 💀

thanks

[snow warren]

hi guys

i am having some trouble with UnityEngine.LoadRawTextureData(byte[] bytes);

you see this method works pretty well inside the editor but it doesnt work on build
any helps or idea why it isnt working?

[rich adder]

no way to know since "doesn't work" can mean hundreds of things

[snow warren]

it gives an error at runtime that the texture is not readable

i thought read and write are for textures that are imported into the editor

[rich adder]

so make sure its readable/writeable

[snow warren]

look at my code

                                            tex.LoadRawTextureData(tf.pictureData);
                                            tex.Apply();```

how can i possibly make this read/write able

[rich adder]

what is tf ?

[snow warren]

a class i wrote for handling raw textures

[rich adder]

by default is readable when you create via code. what is the fullstack trace of the error

[snow warren]

wait let me send

[steep oyster]

how do I get the live blend percentage from cinemachinebrain to use in code?

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/api/Unity.Cinemachine.CinemachineBrain.html#Unity_Cinemachine_CinemachineBrain_ActiveBlend
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/api/Unity.Cinemachine.CinemachineBlend.html#Unity_Cinemachine_CinemachineBlend_BlendWeight

[steep oyster]

tysm ill try

[snow warren]

it gives Null reference exception at UnityEngine.Texture2D.Get_IsReadAble;

[burnt vapor]

Then Texture2D is null

[rich adder]

the full stack trace though

[burnt vapor]

Not much else to say until you share the !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

[snow warren]

hmmmmmm
ok let me

[steep oyster]

i did [SerializeField] CinemachineBlend mainCamera; but it doesnt show up in inspector

why

says object reference not set to instance of an object

[burnt vapor]

Screenshot your editor and share it here please

[burnt vapor]

Right, I thought it wasn't configured

What is the exception, then? Please share that one including stacktrace

[steep oyster]

wdym exception?

[burnt vapor]

including stacktrace

[steep oyster]

what's that

this

[burnt vapor]

Good enough

Please share the code for FixGroundRoof.cs

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[steep oyster]

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

public class FixGroundRoof : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] CinemachineBlend mainCamera;
    [SerializeField] CinemachineVirtualCamera normalCam;
    [SerializeField] CinemachineVirtualCamera roofCam;

    void Update()
    {
        if (normalCam.Priority == 10)
        {
            //transform.localPosition = new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x, Mathf.Lerp(transform.localPosition.y, 7, 5f * Time.deltaTime), transform.localPosition.z);
            transform.localPosition = new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x, 7 * mainCamera.BlendWeight, transform.localPosition.z);
        }
        else
        {
            //transform.localPosition = new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x, Mathf.Lerp(transform.localPosition.y, 6.5f, 5f * Time.deltaTime), transform.localPosition.z);
            transform.localPosition = new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x, 6.5f * mainCamera.BlendWeight, transform.localPosition.z);
        }
    }
}

[north kiln]

There is an instance of this script in the scene with main camera unassigned

[burnt vapor]

I would assume that CinemachineBlend can't be used through the inspector

But more importantly what vertx said

[steep oyster]

but i cant assign it

[burnt vapor]

Either way it could also be that there's another exception you're missing and the code doesn't compile. This indirectly doesn't show any updates you made in the inspector

Hence the configuration + code that might run in the editor. Both which isn't the case

[steep oyster]

i also got this

[burnt vapor]

Please don't share videos, just share screenshots

Especially since the stacktrace is very much something you can just screenshot

And if you must, at least have the video embed in Discord

[snow warren]

let me

@rich adder here is what i could get

[steep oyster]

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

public class FixGroundRoof : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] CinemachineBrain mainCamera;
    [SerializeField] CinemachineVirtualCamera normalCam;
    [SerializeField] CinemachineVirtualCamera roofCam;

    void Update()
    {
        if (normalCam.Priority == 10)
        {
            //transform.localPosition = new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x, Mathf.Lerp(transform.localPosition.y, 7, 5f * Time.deltaTime), transform.localPosition.z);
            transform.localPosition = new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x, 7f * mainCamera.ActiveBlend.BlendWeight, transform.localPosition.z);
        }
        else
        {
            //transform.localPosition = new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x, Mathf.Lerp(transform.localPosition.y, 6.5f, 5f * Time.deltaTime), transform.localPosition.z);
            transform.localPosition = new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x, 6.5f * mainCamera.ActiveBlend.BlendWeight, transform.localPosition.z);
        }
    }
}

fixed it btw, you're supposed to use ActiveBlend.BlendWeight on a CinemachineBrain

[burnt vapor]

Some Texture2D appears to be passed somewhere that is null

Considering the stacktrace is pretty much internal or unclear I suggest you validate these instances

[snow warren]

it works fine in editor
at runtime the texture2d created is not readable

or writeable

[languid spire]

that is not what the error is saying. The texture does not exist at all

[snow warren]

idk but my code is really simple

                                            tex.LoadRawTextureData(tf.pictureData);
                                            
                                            tex.Apply();```

and it works in editor really well

[languid spire]

you are looking at the wrong code, the problem is likely to be in the tf class whatever that is

[snow warren]

the tf class contains only raw texture bytes and their height and width and an enum for texture format
this works fine in editor
but on build crashes
on android it also works fine
but on standalone build it is error

[steep oyster]

is there a way to only move the sprite but not the collider?

[snow warren]

make the collider as a separate game Object

[steep oyster]

ok ty

[jolly pendant]

A little geometry problem. I have (the drawing is 2D, but the problem is in 3D so there are technically 2 angles per ray) a green and red rays, I want to build a blue ray which has double the angle between green and red rays. How do I calculate that?

[snow warren]

are you using quaternions or simple angular rotations?

to calculate angle between red and green you can substract them with each other
that gives you the difference

or you can find the mean angle by this

(anglered + anglegreen)/2

this gives you the mean angle

[jolly pendant]

I got the rays by doing (end - start).normalized for red and green

[snow warren]

ok

good for you

[jolly pendant]

But there is no end for the blue ray

[snow warren]

lets suppose we take 2 rays

one at angle 10 and other at angle 20

the angle in between them is 10

man maths aint mathing

i wish if you could use trignometry in computer like tan and sin

they are much easier to use

especially in the case of couples

[jolly pendant]

I guess I could use sin and stuff, but then I must to convert back and forth. And geometry isn't my strength hehe

[snow warren]

ok lets take one ray

or take 2 rays

to find the slope we use tan(a) = rayred/raygreen

this gives you the magnitude of slope

for the angle of the slope you can do
a = tan^-1(rayred/raygreen)

this gives you the angle of slope

this is if the two rays are at right angle or similar in 2 axis

you can then turn the blue ray in the z axis at the same angle of slope you found earlier

[night raptor]

@snow warren @jolly pendant why are we not using Vector3.Reflect?

[snow warren]

what does it do?

[night raptor]

reflects a vector along normal (green vector in this case)

[snow warren]

didnt know about this

[jolly pendant]

Wouldn't that give me yellow?

[night raptor]

I think Vector3.Reflect(-redVector, greenVector) would give the blue vector

[snow warren]

the normal would be yellow

yes

sorry my bad

i didnt see the - sign

[jolly pendant]

I see, but there is a little catch. I said double the angle as a simple example, but actually it's more like increasing b degrees from the green ray to the red rather than double it. 🤔

So probable reflect wouldn't work in my case

[night raptor]

If a is the angle between red and green, where would the blue be then in reality? b degrees from where?

[jolly pendant]

Following the direction between read and green, I want to extrapolate blue being it b degrees more

mm, not sure if I'm explaining myself

[night raptor]

more than what? a * 2 + b from the red line?

[jolly pendant]

I have an enemy which attacks the player.
The enemy has its forward (red ray), and a direction between himself and the player (green ray). Basically, it must rotate red towards green in order to shoot at the player.
That would be a normal enemy, but this one is special. Rather than just rotate to the target, this enemy on purpose attack further from the player as if it "accidentally" misses (blue ray), and then it rotates towards red ray as a conventional enemy would do. So blue ray is like an extension from the angle of green and red plus a constant, a + b.

Actually, after attacking the enemy will continue rotating (like yellow ray), this time being something like -a - c, as it continues in the opposite direction.

I'm having trouble figuring out the math to get both blue and yellow axis.

[random bough]

ima ask in genral

[snow warren]

write it down on paper

i hope you didnt miss lectures about vectors in high school

[jolly pendant]

Actually, our math teacher in high school was always complaining that the trigonometry program of our school was very bad 🥲

[snow warren]

why dont you use worldtoscreen position

[jolly pendant]

WorldToScreen? Isn't that something for the camera?

[snow warren]

and determine from that where the player is
the enemy will rotate accordingly and when the raycast hits the player it will rotate upwards a few degrees before coming down

[snow warren]

world to screen is a way of calculating where the object is from world to the screen point

[night raptor]

Well, if that's what you are doing, I'm not sure this is at all what you want but regarding the question itself I would calculate the axis along which you would need to rotate the vector by doing Vector3.Cross(redVector, greenVector), figuring out a quaternion that rotates the vector by given amount using Quaternion.AngleAxis(angleToRotate, axisJustCalculated) and finally rotating either green or red vector by that quaternion

[jolly pendant]

I will try that. Thanks

[jolly pendant]

I think that actually do what I wanted. Thanks!

[upbeat wind]

hello, can someone help, I'm trying to get an object to move from (0,1,0) to (-7,1,0) but I want it to move not just instantly teleport there. I've tried giving it a new vector but if I times it by speed or time.deltaTime it breaks and the object goes into the ground. and I've tried looking it up but I can't find anything that does what I want. I also want to use getkey so I can press A to activate it

[night raptor]

Np, I still didn't quite understand the end effect you were looking for so there might be a better way to achieve what you want but when it comes to the question about the rotating vectors itself I think the solution provided should work. Btw. if you wonder how to rotate a vector by quaternion, Quaternion * Vector3 should do just that

[cosmic dagger]

you can use a coroutine to move the object in a direction and check its distance each frame. when the distance is met, set the exact position, and end the coroutine . . .

[jolly pendant]

I was trying to use Vector3.SignedAngle to get the angles and Quaternion.AngleAxis or Quaternion.Euler to make the new rotation. But that wasn't working fine. Hadn't think in using Vector3.Cross to get the rotation axis, very clever!

[upbeat wind]

I'm pretty new to unity and c# sorry I don't know how to do that, if you know I'll be able to look it up tell me and I'll do that, otherwise can you please explain?

[night raptor]

Nice way to get perpendicular between two vectors

[past spindle]

Just making sure I got this right in my head. Inheritance requires the use of a parent script and child script, right? Do the objects those scripts are attached to need to have a similar relationship?

[cosmic dagger]

the script itself has the relationship, not the object . . .

if you have an Enemy script and an Orc script derived from Enemy, when you place the Orc script on a GameObject, it will contain the members of the Enemy script . . .

[past spindle]

Would you not need to attach the enemy script to an empty parent object then?

[cosmic dagger]

No, there is no physical relationship between the scripts (code) . . .

[past spindle]

What would you attach the parent script to then?

[cosmic dagger]

Nothing, unless you want a basic enemy to have the Enemy script . . .

[past spindle]

Scripts don't have to be attached to something in the scene to run?

or hierarchy

[cosmic dagger]

Some enemies may only need the basic stats (fields) of an enemy, while others will have specialized members (variables) for a specific type of enemy. that is when you would derive a child class from another script (which is Enemy in this example) . . .

[cosmic dagger]

yes, a script will not run unless attached to a GameObject, but a derived (child) class can run the methods of its parent class . . .

[past spindle]

ok, so the parent class can still be accessed by the child even if it isn't attached to a GameObject. Am I understanding that correctly now?

[cosmic dagger]

this explains coroutines pretty well . . .
this shows how to move to a position quick and dirty . . .

[cosmic dagger]

yes, that is correct!

[upbeat wind]

thank you very much, I appreciate it

[cosmic dagger]

@past spindle just make sure to setup the parent class correctly so the child (derived) class can access the necessary members: fields, properties, methods, events, etc . . .

[atomic sierra]

can anybody explain why this keeps happening to me?

I'm just tyring to create a project with the 2D (Built-in Render Pipelin)

and I keep getting this error

it also happens for other templates as well

[steep rose]

what is your projects path, it shouldn't be in OneDrive but only in the C: drive

[atomic sierra]

i was doing it through onedrive

[steep rose]

yeah don't

as that is cloud storage which unity has a hard time with

[atomic sierra]

but then i switched the path to This PC > C Drive > Unity Projects (newly made up folder) and it still gave me the same error

still got the same error

and i switched it to c drive

[steep rose]

I'm not entirely sure if that error would show up in the !logs but if it does, it should provide more information. You can also use a different version of the hub and or run it in administrator mode, this is a unity hub bug which is very weird to deal with.

[eternal falcon]

📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[steep rose]

also this is more of a #💻┃unity-talk question

[atomic sierra]

Oh i c

I was tryong to find an appropriate channel, mostly eith the posting feature

But thanks for letting me know ill keep that in mind

[steep rose]

#🔎┃find-a-channel should help for finding a correct channel as well

[steep rose]

if none of this works, you can restart the hub and or restart your PC as well

[ancient halo]

can someone hook me up with a link or the way to implement camera movement using the inputSystem and ECS ?

or is there no need for that i should just use mono ?

[frail hawk]

really unclear what you want.

[ancient halo]

I'm making a game using ECS and My player's Camera Movement woudn't work as the camera doesn't get converted to an entity as a whole

the entity that get's created with the baker is spreat from the actual camera so it doesn't move

[frosty hound]

We have a #1062393052863414313 general chat you should be asking these questions in, that's where the experts are.

[valid violet]

@ancient halo You can do not convert camera and use combination of ECS and Gameobjects I think, it is not hard (when watch tutorial video) to communicate simple way between ECS and GameObjects

[red igloo]

Hey I'm a beginner at coding and I have no idea where to start. I am already familiar with unity itself but coding not so much. I tried watching some tutorials about C# and it's just confusing they don't explain in detail what this and that does. I'm lost any advice? I know about unity.learn and unity documentation but is there anything else I could do?

[proper bobcat]

Theres many paths to learning, you could pick up a C# book or take a general short 1-4 course on the fundmentals of programming with C#. The only thing that really matters, is not necessarily the medium in which you learn through, but that you attempt to apply the lessons taught, that is, you need to code, over and over and over. Tweak and question "what if".

[steep rose]

just start making a project to get the hands of unity and C#, I know I and many other recommended many tutorials and sites for you already so use those as referencing as well

[red igloo]

I'm already doing that ("Making a project") I am very familiar with unity itself the videos that you have previously recommended didn't really help. I keep questioning my self what are methods or what do the data types do what is Vector 3 etc. The tutorials that have been recommended by people and the ones I find myself are just bad they don't talk in detail about what does this do or what does that do. The only video that generally help a bit is the tutorial you sent a while back the learn unity basics by imphenzia

[steep rose]

if the questions you are asking about is "what a Vector3 is" and "what are methods" you should use the documentation and google as tools to help, tutorials only explore the very basics to dip your toes into unity and C#, https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.html, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/methods

but you have to start projects and tinker with them in order to learn, failing is the only way to learn

[proper bobcat]

Agreed. If your question is "what's a vector3?" Then that'll lead you to search for Vector3 explanations. Which will tell you its just a collection of 3 float's or ints. Then you might ask "whats a float mean?"

And you just keep doing this piece by piece and building a small project.

[frail hawk]

are you learning c# for unity. if so switch to c# basics instead

[steep rose]

I believe I gave him that course for C# solely and for unity as well

[red igloo]

yes but what if I want to make my player move how would I know how to do that? I want to stop myself from watching tutorials

[steep rose]

you would use the transform of an object or one of the move methods provided by a RB or CC

using a vector3 you can control the direction and magnitude of them

[steep rose]

it is mainly experimenting though, if you do not experiment you will still cling to tutorials and not better your skills

[proper bobcat]

I always advocate as someone who teaches beginner regularly that there is nothing wrong with a primer. Learning the basics of the engine + C#. The problem arises when you never stop watching them and rely on them to do anything.

You might watch one of those 1-2 hour starting courses, where they make a simple 2d game from start main menu to finish. Even if its just picking up a coin and tada, the level is finished. Because that teaches you many of the fundamentals of game dev, (Transforms, collisions/triggers, sound, ui).

Just realize in whatever medium you intake learning, you aren't trying to learn the specifics really, like How do I move the player. You need to take a step back and realize that its teaching you how to move anything.

[cosmic dagger]

you have to start from somewhere. we all wanted our players to move and looked up tutorials (either video or blogs) . . .

a problem i see most novices come across is watching and not doing. it's easy to keep taking in information, but not put it to use . . .

[wind raptor]

In Unity, I have a monobehaviour with a a static boolean variable. In the inspector, I would like to link a UI toggle's state to that variable. Is there a way to do this without referencing a specific instance of the class?

[cosmic dagger]

static implies that field belongs to the class itself, not an instance. unfortunately, you cannot view static fields from the inspector (unless you create a custom inspector) . . .

[rich adder]

Why is it static anyway? Statics do not get an inspector since they belong to class not instance

[cosmic dagger]

there is likely a better solution based on what you are trying to do . . .

[tight fossil]

can you apply two MovePositions to the same object?

[cosmic dagger]

sure, why not? it's just calling a method . . .

now that doesn't mean it won't mess anything up, but it's probably easier to combine the two into one call instead . . .

[long jacinth]

I tried that before and it isn’t good the thing is I want each gameobject or city to have its own stuff and if u want all cities to have a factory u gotta select all of them

[wind raptor]

It's a global variable that will affect all instances of the class. I was just curious if there was a workaround while keeping the event logic in the inspector AND separate from a specific class instance

[languid spire]

write a custom inspector, it'll be less than a dozen lines of code

[wind raptor]

Custom inspector for the UI toggle? That's where the event lives

[languid spire]

for the class where the static bool is

[naive locust]

how are custom inspectors made?

[languid spire]

with code, read the Unity Docs

[frail hawk]

#↕️┃editor-extensions

[wind raptor]

Sorry, you don't have to respond to this since I've moved on. More out of curiosity now. But since the event is on the toggle script, how would a custom inspector work if not on the toggle?

[languid spire]

you're talking about having a static bool on a class and being able to visualuize it are you not. So I do not see where the the actual event comes into it.Presumsbly you have code in your toggle script to read/write the static bool from the other script

[cosmic dagger]

if these buildings are just data with base/static values, then ScriptableObjects (SOs) are an easy and modular solution. you can create a bunch of BuildingConfig SO assets with different values for each type of building. your Building class would have a reference to a BuildingConfig SO where it can either copy the initial values over to the Building class fields or use those values directly (if they are immutable — don't change — during gameplay) . . .

[frail hawk]

i agree SOs could be the best soloution in that case.

[tawny edge]

TLDR;

My code fo jumping doesn't work and i don't undestand why.

So here is my code in which jumping doesn't work, i tied a few tests and hee is what i found:

• if i cut and past the line "rb.AddForce(transform.up * jumpForce);" fom the Jump function and paste it in the Update method, my main characte stats going up, so i don't think this is the poblem.
• i placed a Debug.Log line inside the Jump method to see if it's woking, and it is! Evey time i press space on my keyboad, a message appeas on my console!

So what is it that i am missing here? why is it that the line "rb.AddForce(transform.up * jumpForce);" doesn't work inside my Jump method?

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


public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
     [Header("Movement")]
    Rigidbody rb;
    private float vMovement; 
    private float hMovement;   
    public float speed = 10;
    public float jumpForce =100000.0f;
    void Start()
    {

    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    rb.freezeRotation = true;
    }

    void Update ()
    {
      Movement ();
      Jump();
    }

    void Movement ()
    {
     vMovement = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
     hMovement = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
     rb.position = rb.position + new Vector3(hMovement,0,vMovement) * speed * Time.deltaTime;

    }

    void Jump ()
    {    /*
        I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS DOES NOT WORK!!!
        my guesses:
        -I'm using addforce wrong?
        I tested and the game recognizes when i press the spacebar
        */

        
        if(Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
        {
            rb.AddForce(transform.up * jumpForce);
            Debug.Log("command received");
        }

    }

}

[wintry quarry]

Your code is bypassing physics entirely and manually moving the object in Update:

rb.position = rb.position + new Vector3(hMovement,0,vMovement) * speed * Time.deltaTime;```

So adding forces is not going to do anything

because you're overwriting everything the physics engine does

[tawny edge]

i'm unsure how to fix this.
How do i erwite code so that rb.AddFoce works?

[wintry quarry]

Rewrite your movement to properly use physics yes

[frail hawk]

make sure you assigned jumpforce in the inspector

public float jumpForce =100000.0f; or change the public to private and assign a lower value

[tawny edge]

i did that for testing when lower values didn't wok

[rocky canyon]

when working correctly ur forces are gonna be way closer to 0

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats bc ur overriding the rigidbody position

add force cant do what it wants to do

#💻┃code-beginner message

[frail hawk]

oh yeah and than, you are overriding the position/physics

[tawny edge]

I'm unsure what to change this to so it could work with the physics in the game.

should i use Addfoce in that line too??

[rocky canyon]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/moving-player-character-via-rigidbody/930210/2

theres sources to follow via that link ^

[verbal dome]

This is misleading

Always use the .MovePosition() and .MoveRotation() methods on the Rigidbody (or Rigidbody2D) instance in order to move or rotate things.
Those aren't the only correact ways to move/rotate at all lol

Oh. It's Kurt-Dekker 🤦‍♂️

[rocky canyon]

yes it is.. i dont particularly agree with all that

but theres plenty of other discussion links.. and the guys actual youtube tutorial.. i think he manipulates Velocity directly

while omitting the Y

[rocky canyon]

is that someone noteable?

is it the same guy that made the game 👇 he's referencing?

[rocky canyon]

if u wanna really learn i suggest keeping on learning about rigidbodies and doing ur tests..

if ur wanting to skip that and just have a character my fav is this one https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131?srsltid=AfmBOor_CGwouIvQq7ejbPCmYZSuQh1G1ZVYGXZJW806UJD2l0CQVyP- might help u skip some of the headaches associated w/ rigidbodies and movements

[verbal dome]

Hes a bit of a meme because every time anyone asks anything related to null reference exception, he always responds with the same mantra that starts like this

Even if it's like a NRE from unity's own code that you can't even fix

[rocky canyon]

lol.. oh okay i gotcha lol

ole Kurt.. I thought it was a YanderDev type reference

[rocky canyon]

i just link vertx huh how page now-a-days 😈

[tawny edge]

OOoooh, OK!! Thank you for that!

[rocky canyon]

best of luck.. give some of those articles / tutorials a look.. try again and after that if ur still having problems come back.. 🍀

[tawny edge]

Will do!!! Thank you fo taking you time to help me!

[rocky canyon]

no worries. 🙂

[tawny edge]

To futrhe contextualize, i am learning coding with the Unity Learn couse, and fom what i talked with some people here before, that course doesn't have the best practices implemented for a work enviroment.
I used to hear that the best way to lean how to code is coding, so i tried to do something on my own but i'm unsure if i am getting ahead of myself.

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't have all the best practices no but it will get you started at least so you're not 100% disoriented.

[tawny edge]

good to know, because the disorientation feels too real sometimes XD

[rocky canyon]

nothing wrong w/ learning by doing.. its actually the best way imo to cement ideas and concepts u come across...
just keep in mind that ur probably never gonna write the best code the first time.. even after 3 years I still refactor on the daily..
you can always go back and change things here and there when u learn something new..

and even more-so when theres a problem and then you realize that what you've been working on is flawed from the get go..
experiences like that stick around w/ you

[raw loom]

i'm trying to make a pinball game for a school project, i got the flippers to flip, but for some reason the ball doesn't get launched up when it gets flipped. how do i make it so the ball gets launched up?

[slender nymph]

hint: read the error in your console

[grave bluff]

This is messing with my head. It looks like a 3d ball bouncing off 2d flippers lmao

[raw loom]

tried doing that, it told me to remove the rigidbody, but it produces the same result

[slender nymph]

hold on, you removed the rigidbody and the behavior stayed the same? then something isn't moving with physics which means it's not going to behave correctly anyway.
but the error was implying you need to make the mesh collider convex

[steep rose]

I would suggest just using primitives anyway unless you absolutely need the mesh collider

[raw loom]

yeah it's the same

[tough sundial]

How do I swap the game logo?

[slender nymph]

if you want proper physics interactions then you need to move the objects with physics

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel. also
https://screenshot.help

[tough sundial]

Ok.

[raw loom]

move as in, the flipper going up?

[slender nymph]

yes . . .

[crimson widget]

Hi all, question!

Is it a bad idea to use SO's to help with data storing of sorts?

For example I have a SaveData class that stores all sorts, like currency, number of objects purchased or whatever.

I was thinking of having an SO where when the game loads, I set its data at runtime, then I can utilise that during play, and finally, when I quit the game, I save the data from the SO back into the player prefs?

I am using SO's atm to handle all the unique resources and so on, but wanted them to also maybe hold some data at the same time maybe?

[rocky canyon]

u could do that..
have you looked into JSON tho?
much better than playerprefs

[crimson widget]

I have looked into JSONs, but thought player prefs could be enough for my game, as im simply storing basic data such as strings, floats, and ints. I can look into it further tho

[slender nymph]

you should avoid playerprefs for anything other than preferences for the application (player). it isn't really meant for save data, despite how many people bastardize it into being a save system.
and this goes especially for platforms where it doesn't store the data somewhere that is easily managed, like Windows which stores player prefs in the registry so you bloat the users registry with your data instead of writing it to disk correctly in a sane location like Application.persistentDataPath

[rocky canyon]

yea, i do the same thing w/ json. i have a savedata class that has a few structs.. like player position (made up of 3 floats) as a vector.. and the players name (a string).. and it works out really well..

ends up looking really nice and pretty

[brittle vector]

Sorry for wall of text btw
Heya, I think this is a pretty simple question and I'm probably just missing something.

I have a button esq object that behaves like a button should, i.e. the player jumps on it the button depresses, then springs back up to an upper limit. It works via adding force to the button rigidbody until it reaches the top position. This all kind of works.

My problem is mostly that other objects sink into the button, I believe this is from me adding force to the rigidbody, but I'm not sure of a good solution to this? (See video). I have tried doing this work in FixedUpdate (instead of update, because it's also physics calculations), but if I move it into FixedUpdate from Update, my button object spazzes out (see other video).

So I guess my question(s) are:
Is there a good way to prevent my player rigidbody sinking into the button rigidbody while doing this addforce and button logic in the Update method?
OR
Does anyone know why my rigidbody spazzes out when I try to do this logic in the FixedUpdate method?

Some other things I've tried is making my button rb kinematic, I've tried messing around with the level of "spring force" to push the button back up, I've tried altering the mass and what not. Both Rigidbodies are set to interpolate and continuous as well.

I can also provide my code if people would find it useful for troubleshooting.
oops video embed fail let me fix

[timber tide]

cant embed mkv

[brittle vector]

yeah one sec

[rocky canyon]

the only thing is i see some people mention something other than JsonUtility

[timber tide]

JsonUtility is fine honestly

[rocky canyon]

i agree 👍

 private void Awake()
    {
        saveFilePath = Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "saveData.json");
        Load(); // Load existing save data or initialize a new one
    }

    public void Save()
    {
        string json = JsonUtility.ToJson(saveData, true);
        File.WriteAllText(saveFilePath, json);
        Debug.Log($"Save complete: {saveFilePath}");
    }

    public void Load()
    {
        if (File.Exists(saveFilePath))
        {
            string json = File.ReadAllText(saveFilePath);
            saveData = JsonUtility.FromJson<SaveData>(json);
            Debug.Log("Save data loaded.");
        }
        else
        {
            saveData = new SaveData(); // Default data
            Debug.Log("No save file found. Created new save data.");
        }
    }``` works lovely for my small needs

[timber tide]

Newton handles nested types better though

[rocky canyon]

having saveData.SpawnCampData makes me feel all official 🤣

[timber tide]

but if you keep everything independent jsonutility is enough

[rocky canyon]

thats the one..

thanks for reminding me

[brittle vector]

First half is first problem, Second half is second problem

[rocky canyon]

"prettyprint" comes in clutch

[rocky canyon]

soo ur pushing the button down w/ code? vs letting the rigidbody do it automatically?

[brittle vector]

The button gets pushed down through physics calculations
The code pushes it back up via AddForce

[steep rose]

we would need to see the code

[brittle vector]

Here is the relevant button code

// Need to clamp the button top so it only moves up and down
        // new Vector3(0f, _buttonTop.transform.localPosition.y, 0f);
        var pos = transform.position;
        pos.y = Mathf.Clamp(_buttonTop.transform.position.y, _buttonLowerLimit.position.y, _buttonUpperLimit.position.y);
        _buttonTop.transform.position = pos;

        // Top of button is parented to base, so it should always have a local rotation of zero
        _buttonTop.transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(0f, 0f, 0f);

        // Is the button's local position is 0 then it's at the upper limit, so clamp it there if it exceeds it
        // And if it isn't, add the spring force to put it there
        if (_buttonTop.localPosition.y >= 0)
        {
            _buttonTop.transform.position = new Vector3(_buttonUpperLimit.position.x, _buttonUpperLimit.position.y, _buttonUpperLimit.position.z);
        }
        else
        {
            // Is it okay to do physics here?..
            _buttonTop.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(_buttonTop.transform.up * _force * Time.deltaTime);
        }

        // Same logic but for lower limit
        if (_buttonTop.localPosition.y <= _buttonLowerLimit.localPosition.y)
        {
            _buttonTop.transform.position = new Vector3(_buttonLowerLimit.position.x, _buttonLowerLimit.position.y, _buttonLowerLimit.position.z);
        }

oh that didnt format nicely

[rocky canyon]

you could possibly fix that 2nd problem by making it static once it returns to the topmost position

[timber tide]

I'd figure out why both your player and button arent physically colliding

[rocky canyon]

liek a trigger that when the player gets on top of it it becomes dynamic again

[rocky canyon]

exactly.. thats the first thing i noticed too

[brittle vector]

Yeah I guess I'm looking for a solution to either of those problems, realistically best practice would say I should be doing this in FixedUpdate because physics so I'm kinda trying to figure that one out

[brittle vector]

I think this is a physics related issue of my force logic being done in update instead of fixedupdate, as this specific issue is resolved when the logic is moved there

Like I said my only problem when that happens is my button spazzes out?

[rocky canyon]

ya, u should keep all ur rigidbody forces in fixed..

[raw loom]

i dont really follow ;-;

[rocky canyon]

id then try to fix the spazzing button

[brittle vector]

Right, so does anyone have any ideas on why the button spazzes lol

[rocky canyon]

rigidbody.AddTorque() most likely

[slender nymph]

you have to move using the rigidbody, not using the transform. otherwise it won't correctly interact with physics because you are not moving with physics

[raw loom]

ohhhhhh i gotchu

[steep rose]

why is your button top a child of the upperlimit? also you are mixing transform movements with rigidbody movements which should not happen

[rocky canyon]

possibly with a spring to pull it back..

[steep rose]

if you solely want to use physics for the button, then just use joints

[slender nymph]

is the preachy name really necessary? pretty sure that's against the #📖┃code-of-conduct

[rocky canyon]

he could probably get away with just locking the x and z constraints

[brittle vector]

I think the transform stuff is just for clamping but I can see where they might interfere

[rocky canyon]

@steep rose not sure if it is..
just throw it in ur bio if people have a problem w/ it

[timber tide]

forget movement logic right now. Make player object naturelly fall onto button and button dont move

[rocky canyon]

this ^ one step at a time

but the correct way

u can put a collider beneath it so it doesn't move past that..

[brittle vector]

I'm not sure what you're getting at if I remove the button script it does just that

[rocky canyon]

and then once its being pressed down.. your only worry is about having it return after the rigidbody is removed from it

[brittle vector]

That's why I said I think it's a problem with me adding force against another rigidbody, causing them to sink into each other

[rocky canyon]

if ur willing to hang out just a bit i can probably reproduce this pretty quickly

[timber tide]

When I think of buttons, I don't think of an opposing force from the button when I stand on it

[rocky canyon]

yea, thats a bit too complex lol

could use linear drag to replicate that

[brittle vector]

I guess long term the idea was eventually to have the force of the button as a factor in gameplay, so I wrote it with that in mind

[rocky canyon]

like a sonic spring?

[brittle vector]

Yeah or just having the button give enough force to project the player obj

[rocky canyon]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/521/548/ca2.gif

[brittle vector]

I think I might have found the problem

true lmao

[rocky canyon]

im on the fence that ur overthinking it.. and u should let physics do more of the actual work than trying to manipulate it so much

is ur character controller a rigidbody? or a kinematic rigidbody? and are u manipulating the velocity or just using forces?

[brittle vector]

Yeah so my player is a rb with forces

[rocky canyon]

good good, great start. b/c being kinematic would complicate things a bit

[brittle vector]

I'm gonna try to remake my button object like 1 part at a time because right now, with no scripts whatsoever on it, it just starts.. flying away LOL

So I think I messed up something simpler

[timber tide]

Must have missed that, but yes. You want all rb method invokes in fixed update

If you want opposing forces, I'd probably use mass (and constant gravity) against a constant upward force from the button's body

[rocky canyon]

💯 good way to think about it

building simple.. (testing after every step)
and working in isolation really helps get the ball rolling...

after it works in isolation.. anything that breaks afterwards is a consequence of something else

[brittle vector]

Yeah so I've narrowed it down to 2 lines of code

[rocky canyon]

for example.. i wouldnt even worry about the player first..

u could just take a rigidbody cube.. and use gravity.. and drop it on top

etc

[brittle vector]

I'm not, like I said my problem is just my button wiggles back and forth

The player is perfectly fine

[rocky canyon]

yea, physics jitter

[brittle vector]

Is it best practice to call Physics.IgnoreCollision in Start or Awake, or does it matter?

[rocky canyon]

https://blog.oimo.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/jitter2.gif

[rocky canyon]

i always see that done in the Physics methods..

Raycast, OverlapSphere, Etc

i guess it just depends.. it could go either place

[brittle vector]

Sure if you're doing like instantaneous stuff, but for general stuff I would think you want it to call on the first frame/before. I.e. my button ignoring its housing rb

Anyways I guess I'll just look around, or maybe try springing my button differently

ty

[rocky canyon]

• If the behavior is static (unchanging during runtime), Awake or Start is ideal.
• If it’s dynamic (dependent on gameplay), use it within relevant physics methods or gameplay logic.
• Use Awake for immediate initialization and Start for initialization requiring external dependencies.

[timber tide]

The button spazing out just seems like the force is accumulating and you're not capping it. You could consider setting the velocity to 0 once it reaches the max

            _buttonTop.transform.position = new Vector3(_buttonLowerLimit.position.x, _buttonLowerLimit.position.y, _buttonLowerLimit.position.z);

Like, you're setting position directly (shouldn't be doing this regardless), and constantly applying a force

I guess when you kill the velocity it may be fine to set the position to a keypoint, but not every frame.

[rocky canyon]

figured out a bit of it... @brittle vector

takes hella parameters to be able to fine-tune it to work how u want

https://www.spawncampgames.com/paste/?serve=code_555 something like this is what i came up w/ but im sure theres more that could be done to it

[sour fulcrum]

Anyone know why this script in my package is being a little weird?

[upbeat wind]

sorry for replying so long after our initial conversation, but I've got the coroutine working, however I can't figure our where to put a getkey input as I want it to start when I press A

[wintry quarry]

Does the filename have a space in it or something?

[pure drift]

does anyone know how i could fix this greyed out code its in all of my files for all of my functions

[ivory bobcat]

Is there an actual issue other than the aesthetic grey color?

[timber tide]

my eyes

[sour fulcrum]

Nah. Something with Unity ended up just being completely fried. wiped the library and obj folder and reinstalled and its all good

super weird

[pure drift]

doesnt run anything

[ivory bobcat]

What do you mean by 'doesn't run anything'? Are you referring to the code not executing? Did you try placing a log to see if it prints to the console?

[pure drift]

let me check real quick

on another project i tried and it doesnt run anything with debug

[ivory bobcat]

But this project it does?

[pure drift]

no

[ivory bobcat]

The script is likely disabled or not in the scene.

[pure drift]

it is

in the scene

[ivory bobcat]

Your sentences are too short. I'm unable to interpret what you're asking without having to assume. Going to take a break, good luck.

[cosmic dagger]

Typically, input checks are done in Update . . .

You can assign a bool variable based on the input and check that variable within the coroutine . . .

[pure drift]

does anybody know why my code may be greyed out in unity: after more testing it is able to run but i can barely look at it which is so annoying

this is how it looks like

[eager spindle]

might want to show the full code. this usually happens if you #if a region in your code that causes it to not be included in the current platform.

#if #PLATFORM_STANDALONE_WIN
...
#endif

so in the above example the code may be grey if youre running it on android

because it only works on windows

[pure drift]

i have this code and only the variables i set are showing up as normal verything else is grey and i am on windows

and this issue has happend to all of my projects/files essentially

[eager spindle]

you may need to regenerate your project solution

[upbeat wind]

I'm confused sorry

[pure drift]

i already tried that inside unity it didnt work

if this helps i get the error message ide 0051 inside my methods

[eager spindle]

void FixedUpdate() {
  Input.GetKeyDown("D");
}

^ will not work as you shouldn't call Input stuff in FixedUpdate. instead, you can do this in Update() or a coroutine.

The Update() method:

bool isDKeyPressed;
void Update() {
  isDKeyPressed = Input.GetKeyDown("D");
}
void FixedUpdate() {
  // you may use isDKeyPressed here
}```
`Update` runs as frequently as possible, while `FixedUpdate` runs every 0.02 seconds.

[pure drift]

my code does manage to get back to normal when it has an error inside it:

[upbeat wind]

would it be easier if i sent a screenshot of my code?

[eager spindle]

just understand that you should put your Input.GetKeyDown in Update instead of FixedUpdate

[eager spindle]

your ide is not paired properly unforunately

[upbeat wind]

but how do i make it activate the coroutine?

[eager spindle]

if you'd like to use a coroutine instead then you can

bool isDKeyPressed;

IENumerator DKeyPressedCoroutine() {
  while(true) {
    isDKeyPressed = Input.GetKeyDown("D");
    yield return null;
  }
}

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

void FixedUpdate() {
  // you may use isDKeyPressed here
}

This consists of a coroutine that checks if the key is pressed. yield return null just means that it will wait until the next frame to check the key again. There are other things you can put besides null but you should look into coroutines to learn more.

The coroutine created will be started in Start().

note that this does about the exact same thing as the Update thing I wrote earlier

[upbeat wind]

I just read the unity documentation, it makes sense now, thank you for your help!

[gentle pilot]

Why does transform.localRotation no longer work

[nocturne kayak]

Hey, can someone help me with events? i seem to be having some trouble setting them up

I created an event in this script (https://hastebin.com/share/waropafuho.csharp)

[slender nymph]

it does work. you need to show your code properly so we can see what you did wrong.

[nocturne kayak]

And am trying to subscribe to that same event in this one: (https://hastebin.com/share/evixabolay.csharp)

Still, i get this error

[slender nymph]

well the current variable is not static so you need to access it via an instance reference

and you are attempting to subscribe the return value of setObjectToSpawn(prefabOne) to the event which is wrong

[gentle pilot]

‘’’cs
transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(x, y, z)
‘’’

[slender nymph]

share the full code because that alone isn't incorrect

[brittle vector]

just saw this by the way, I'll check it out! Thank you!!

[slender nymph]

and pay better attention to the bot embed for sharing !code

[eternal falcon]

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[gentle pilot]

Yeah

I did that?

[slender nymph]

you did not

[gentle pilot]

… how?

[slender nymph]

wdym how? you used completely different characters

[near wadi]

see ~ that key? use Shift with it, three times, then three more at the end

[gentle pilot]

I’m on phone

[near wadi]

come back when on the PC

[slender nymph]

then use a paste site like the bot linked if you cannot be bothered to post your code correctly. and since i asked you to share the full class anyway you should be using a paste site anyway

[gentle pilot]

you say if I can't be bothered to post my code correctly, I AM trying to post it correctly but the current console that I am on is not allowing me to do it. I understand you are trying to help but it wont work if all you are going to do is make assumptions and try to make me feel unworthy of help. I am trying to get a site to work so give it a minute Ill have to switch to PC so I can paste my code.

[near wadi]

simply post the entire code to the paste sites linked.

[gentle pilot]

i did it to paste of code

[nocturne kayak]

Alright, i might not be fully understanding how to use events here

(jk, i'm fully not understanding how to use events here)

[slender nymph]

you likely want to subscribe the method itself to the event, not the return value of a method call

[gentle pilot]

https://paste.ofcode.org/6qJJ4aiKb93spsQmxtvRzT

[nocturne kayak]

How can i achieve that? i assume i can't just subscribe WITHIN the method, right?

[slender nymph]

your class does not inherit from MonoBehaviour therefore it does not inherit the transform property of a MonoBehaviour. it also means it is not a component and won't be attached to a gameobject to receive the Start and Update messages

[gentle pilot]

how could i get around this?

[slender nymph]

inherit from MonoBehaviour . . .

[near wadi]

take the Junior Programmer Pathway on the !learning site, since that is not making sense to you yet

[eternal falcon]

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[slender nymph]

what resource(s) did you use to even learn about events? surely whatever you used showed how to subscribe to an event, right?

[nocturne kayak]

Honestly? two different youtube tutorials i watched while sleep deprived at 5 AM

[slender nymph]

give them another watch while not sleep deprived then

[teal viper]

If there's something specific about the tutorials that you don't understand, feel free to ask a specific question and link the video with a timestamp.

[jaunty bay]

usage wise, im pretty sure this is a mess for lines of codes, but as a beginner, im pretty sure making it as efficient as possible is the least of my concerns, right? 😅

[timber tide]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[hasty socket]

hey guys! not sure if i am in the right channel for this but ill ask anyways
i am trying to add the newtonsoft json package but im kinda struggling here, i am using unity 6, and whenever i try to install it via package manager > install package from git URL/install package by name i get an error that it couldn't find it

[keen night]

hello, did the way that ScriptableObjects are saved changed in Unity6 ? My script that changes some values in my scriptableobject in editor was working before, but since i'm on U6, when i quit unity, it resets... The only way I found right now to save it, is to change manually a variable in it, after doing my changes with my script. I tried this but nothing changed. If someone could help me, I don't find anything about it on the net :/

[burnt vapor]

Should work fine, please use the proper channel and share your error there because this is a coding channel for actual code

#💻┃unity-talk

Apart from that, maybe try downloading again

[north kiln]

Just install it via name com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json

[north kiln]

You call RecordObject before making modifications

[keen night]

ye i tried before and after

but it didn't changed

(because i didn't know if i had to record before or after)

[rare basin]

I am having design issue how to pass my manager reference to the factory. I am learning factory pattern, and making a simple game with it. I have a TileFactory with a static function CreateTile(TileType type), inside that function I am spawning proper tile and referencing a proper tile prefab from my scriptable object TilePrefabs. How can I properly referene that TilePrefabs SO to my TileFactory. Should I make some kind of TileManager (singleton?) and make a reference to the SO there?

[hasty socket]

and i tried to do that and got the error i mentioned above, however i will probably take this issue to unity talk as qyou said

[teal viper]

Yes. Though maybe make it a MonoBehaviour instead of an SO.

[rare basin]

so just store all prefabs in a dictionary (i have serialized dicionaries so can edit them in inspector) in the TileManager instead of making additional TilePrefabs SO? is that ok approach?

and make TileManager a singleton

and reference it easily in the factory?

[errant pilot]

Guys can i have a spritemask work on a single object only as i have multiple overlapping masks and i want each mask to work on its respective object

[rare basin]

i've heard that using singletons isn't a good practice not sure if it's the case here aswell

[teal viper]

Yes. Or you can combine both. Have the TileManager reference an SO TileDatabase or something that would actually hold the prefab references.

[rare basin]

I see, that would be a nice idea, i think i will go for it, i just constantly have in back of my head that i shouldnt be using singletons and i feel "guilty?" lol

[timber tide]

If your class has Manager in the name, it could probably be a singleton

[teal viper]

If it fits your project and use case and you use them correctly, why not🤷‍♂️

[rare basin]

i'd like to make it as my 1st main project and make it available on github so the recruiters can browse throught it, I always heard that singleton is anti-pattern and just because of using singletons i could not get the job, but im not sure if thats true

[timber tide]

Not too sure the easiest way to go about that without using multiple viewports because masking deals with a single stenciling stack

[teal viper]

Singletons are fine if you use them correctly. If you were not hired somewhere due to a few singletons in your code, you're probably better off not working in that company.

[rare basin]

I see, thank you 😄

[errant pilot]

ok ill see what i can do thank you

[timber tide]

This would also mean that the most next rendered viewport will render over the previous sprite/mask renders

Another idea is learn custom shaders or URP render objects and take control of the buffer

this way you can specify a single index to the mask and shader to reveal

[errant pilot]

that would work on a 2D game?

[timber tide]

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure you could get similar behavior from disabling* mask-all for the sprite mask for your use case or maybe I'm not understanding it completely

[summer hound]

So, i just got an update to Visual studios, and after that i get these errors. The start is sitll running and setting variables and such, but it says its unused and its all greyed out and that screws up my OCD :D.

Anyone seen anything similar?

[languid spire]

if it bothers you that much, rollback the update

[hexed terrace]

or use the workaround available here:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Private-Unity-messages-incorrectly-marke/10779025

[burnt vapor]

These are not errors by default

These are analyzer suggestions

If you don't want these, either change your analyzer configuration or suppress the alayzer sugegstion/warning/error

You can change the severity of these so maybe you have done that

[hexed terrace]

The last update of VS causes this change

[burnt vapor]

#pragma warning disable IDE0051
private int _foo;
#pragma warning enable IDE0051

This is one way, syntax is probably not right though

[burnt vapor]

VS tends to do a lot of changes to analyzing, but this should still not be an error AFAIK?

[hexed terrace]

It's not an error, it's greying out the method because it thinks it isn't used - a change that happened because of the last update

[hexed terrace]

see here

[burnt vapor]

Okay, just want to be sure there

[hexed terrace]

It's the case of someone using 'Error' when they don't know the correct term/ applying 'Error' to everything different/ wrong

[burnt vapor]

Yea ok

This is a "suggestion/refactor"

[hexed terrace]

I think the three dots under the method name have always been there? The actual only difference is the colour fade

[burnt vapor]

The three dots indicate that there is a suggestion, which is what OP showed

Same as with warnings where it would get a yellow underline, this is for suggestions

[hexed terrace]

Yes..

And the aren't what are new here, but the user has done 2+2 and gotten 5 - maybe

[burnt vapor]

I mean in this case it's only there because of the bug

[rare basin]

I have a code design type of question. I have a Player class, and I also have HealthSystem InventorySystem ExperienceSystem etc monobehaviour classes. I will need to reference these classes a lot in my game, either to add item to my inventory or heal my player. What is the best approach to access these classes dynamically in code? I was thinking, that my Player.cs should store references to all the reliable components, and because I already have reference to Player i could just do Player.healthSystem.Heal(amount) for example. Is this a good approach? That would force me to make my references public or private with public getters, which approach is better?

[hexed terrace]

seems like those three could just be singletons?

[burnt vapor]

I suggest you just stick to adding singletons/dependencies on the actual class rather than getting it from a "central" source

Because in the event it does change, it becomes a mess

And generally this is just more readable

[rare basin]

it's a lot more than just those three, it was just an example

[burnt vapor]

Also helps a lot with testing etc. since you're not bound to using the Player class if you want to test some of the systems

[hexed terrace]

and I can't think of a reason why the Player class should be the point to get info from

[burnt vapor]

What you could do is have a general abstract "system provider" where you get the systems from. It could also manage making these systems for you

[rare basin]

I thought that it will be a good idea, since player relies on all these component

[burnt vapor]

The benefit is that it has a single purpose and it could be mocked

[rare basin]

it's worth mentioning that Enemy.cs class will also have access to some of its own components (health system, loot system) etc

so im trying to figure out the best way to gather references to these systems

[burnt vapor]

Is the only reason to avoid repetitive code?

[rare basin]

so when I enter healing fountain location, that implements ILocation itnerface

i want to call player.healthSystem.Heal() or any other way

to heal the player

so health system cannot be obviously a singleton

[hexed terrace]

it can

[rare basin]

how come

when i will have multiple instances of health systems

for enemies, player, destructible objects

[hexed terrace]

No, right - I'm thinking of 'system' differently to how you are

[rare basin]

so in my ILocation how can I reference the player's health system? the player should also have a reference to health sytsem, no?

[hexed terrace]

you either get it from the player, or do a getcomponent to get it

[rare basin]

so it's okay to have a Player class, and reference to all the player related components in that class?

[hexed terrace]

it's ok to do whatever works for you 😄

[rare basin]

well i want to follow good practice and SOLID principles

i want to actually learn design patterns and stuff so i want to make things the right way

[hexed terrace]

It's best that the Player class isn't full of everything though.. so for example, it shouldn't have movement in there with references to health

[rare basin]

I can imagine that at some point the Player.cs class will have like 20 referneces to it's related components

[hexed terrace]

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

[rare basin]

no like it wouldnt have any logic inside Player.cs

just references to components

[hexed terrace]

so it should be named appropriately

[rare basin]

so it's more like uuhm.. PlayerSystemReferences.cs rather than Player.cs

at this point i dont know why do i even need Player.cs class

damn it's annoyingly hard to make clean architecture/design lol

last question, should i just make straigh up public HealthSystem healthSystem or make it [SerializeField] private HealthSystem healthSystem and then a getter for it?

[hexed terrace]

the latter

"never" have public fields

[rare basin]

what about events?

is making public UnityEvent OnCharactedHealed also bad?

if i want to subscribe to that event in other class, let's say HealthUI

[hexed terrace]

I never use those, I would say they're slightly different - unsure if they'd still be classed as fields

[rare basin]

you're not using delegates at all?

Action etc?

[hexed terrace]

I use C# ones, not UnityEvent

[rare basin]

ah, how are you communcating between the events?

health -> healthUI for example

so you trigger OnDamageTaken in health, and want to listen to that event in healthUI

[hexed terrace]

Action would be public, it has to be for another class to subscribe to it - but Action isn't a field

[rare basin]

should healthUI have referene to health, or vice-versa? it's so many question damn 😄

i guess health shouldn't know anything about healthUI

that's the healthUI purpose to listen to health stuff

[hexed terrace]

Health doesn't need to know a..

[rare basin]

right 😄

i swear once I started learning all the good principles stuff got harder but it's so easier and pleasant to work with later on in the project

thank you for your time

[summer hound]

Thanks for the help you all, i had no clue it was a problem in the latest update, or well i mean, i kinda figured since it started last update. Thanks again 😄

[queen adder]

if i decleare function as static, buttons arrays needs to be static too. then it doesn't show up on inspector. Created instance but error "cant create monobehavior with new keyword".

[rich adder]

statics don't belong to instances, which is what scripts on gameobjects are.

this is bad use for static, because you gotta start making everything static. Must use a better way to do it

[queen adder]

example?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/498400/cs0120-an-object-reference-is-required-for-the-nonstatic-field-method-or-prop

like this?

[rich adder]

serialize it in the inspector when possible or pass the reference another way, like through a method

this is for regular c# you should not be looking at that in terms of unity because monobehavior classes behave different (they are not created with the new() keyword)

[keen dew]

What you're trying to do is called the singleton pattern. See https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/ for example

[rich adder]

yes just be mindful about using singleton, reserve it for specific scripts like managers (when you only need 1 of it, the name single-ton)

anything else should be https://unity.huh.how/references

[queen adder]

thanks

[frozen pebble]

Is this web using industry programming rules?, because i found it useful

[rich adder]

focuses on unity mainly but yeah they are common patterns used

[frozen pebble]

I should say game industry

[hexed terrace]

It's made by one of the mods here

[rich adder]

some concepts are similar/generic all around, but all depends on the framework you use

ofc none would apply to an unreal project, but the concepts can. "Singleton, References" etc.

[past spindle]

Can you not create a parent override within an if statement?

[teal viper]

Wdym?

[past spindle]

I have a method that displays "You have clicked a shape!" on my parent, but I'd like to override it in the child script to display "You have clicked a " +shape where shape is the type of shape.

[teal viper]

You can override a method for sure, but not sure what it has to do with an if statement

[past spindle]

The call to display is within the if statement I used to detect the click on the shape

private void OnMouseOver()
{
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
base.DisplayText();
}
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1))
{
displayedText.SetActive(false);
InvokeRepeating("ChangeColor", 0.0f, 0.1f);
}
}

[teal viper]

Call the actual method override, not the base one.

[past spindle]

the method is in the parent. Isn't that how I call the method from the parent?

[teal viper]

Did you not want to override it? You're confusing me.

[past spindle]

I do

[teal viper]

If you want to call the base method, then what you have is correct.

If you want to call the override, then you don't need 'base'

[past spindle]

so just replace base. with override protected void?

[teal viper]

No. Override, protected and void are keywords used at declaration.

Just call the method normally, without base.

[past spindle]

I swear I tried that before and it didn't work. Ok, so I don't need the base. Do I just start a new line for the declaration then?

[languid spire]

the declaration does not go inside the if statment, it is just a normal method with override

[past spindle]

ok thank you

[rich adder]

public class Parent{
public virtual void SayHi() { Debug.Log("Parent says Hi"); }
}
public class Child : Parent{
    public override void SayHi() { Debug.Log("Child says Hi"); }
    //output : Child says Hi
    public override void SayHi() { base.SayHi(); Debug.Log("Child Says Hi"); } 
    // output : Parent says Hi - Child Says hi
}```

[polar acorn]

base is how you refer to the parent class
this is how you refer to the current class the code is being run on

Since this is more common, it is the default behavior. If you call a method without specifying what object you call it on, the code will essentially assume this.theThingYouJustCalled()

[errant pilot]

for (int i = 0; i < numCamels; i++)
{
int randomIndex = Random.Range(0, combinations.GetLength(0));
combinationsList.Add(combinations[randomIndex, 0]);
}
guys why does this give me the same combination numcamels times?

its not luck

[polar acorn]

Log randomIndex

See what it's giving you

[errant pilot]

i get different indeces but same combination?

and im sure my array has unique combinations

[polar acorn]

Next step: log the things pulled from the array and see if they're what you expect

[mental wind]

Hello, I want to ask help with downloading the Unity editor.
I found my installation failed due to not enough permission even I run the Unity Hub as an admin.
Doesn't anybody know what to do with this?

[rich adder]

this is a code channel.
use #💻┃unity-talk
also check logs

[mental wind]

oh okay thank you

[polar acorn]

They did check logs, that's the log

[rich adder]

yea my eyes ain't working this morning 😵‍💫

[willow shoal]

hello. how to make a light off/on after click "M" and then save it, when i play again this scene

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class ligth00 : MonoBehaviour
{
    private bool isMuted;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        isMuted = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("MUTED") == 1;
        AudioListener.pause = isMuted;
    }

    
    
    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.M))
        {
            isMuted = !isMuted;
            AudioListener.pause = isMuted;
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("MUTED", isMuted ? 1 : 0);
        }
    }
}

i try this. but i dont know what to do next

this is script for audio but i need for light

[rich adder]

literally the same exact concept

ideally you start grouping these settings together with a class/struct you can then jsonify

[willow shoal]

thx

i will try

[rich adder]

yea try it. if you have issues post them

[placid elm]

Hi, I am trying to make a fps meter for my mobile game however everytime I test the build on my mobile device it's constantly changing between 30 and 60 fps. It never goes above it, below nor in between those 2 values. This is code I am using

    private float updateTimer = 0.2f;

    [SerializeField] TextMeshProUGUI fpsTitle;

    void Start()
    {
        Application.targetFrameRate = 300;
    }

    private void UpdateFPSDisplay()
    {
        updateTimer -= Time.deltaTime;
        if (updateTimer <= 0f)
        {
            fps = 1f / Time.unscaledDeltaTime;
            fpsTitle.text = "FPS: " + Mathf.Round(fps);
            updateTimer = 0.2f;
        }
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        UpdateFPSDisplay();
    }```

[wintry quarry]

Mobile devices do that

they lock you to 30 or 60 fps

if you can't get 60 you get locked to 30

[placid elm]

So it is impossible to check how many fps do I have in stock when it goes over those values?

[wintry quarry]

I don't know what you mean by "how many fps do I have in stock"

[placid elm]

if it is set to 60 idk how much stuff can happen more on the screen before it goes below 60

[wintry quarry]

That's what the profiler is for

an FPS meter will not tell you that

[placid elm]

can I have profiler in my build?

[wintry quarry]

Yes

[placid elm]

I will have to look it up

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Profiler.html tells you how to use a profiler on your development build

[placid elm]

thanks

[rare basin]

should the fields in my ScriptableObject class be upper or lower case

public class LevelData : ScriptableObject
{
    public string LevelName;
}

should it be levelName?

or is it a common standard to use uppercase for public properties and field in c# unity?

or should it be

[SerializeField]
private string levelName;

public string LevelName => levelName;

im not sure if it's also "forbidden" (yes ik nothing is forbidden lol) to use public fields in SO classes?

[rich adder]

public fields/props
PascalCasing
private fields n such, camelCase.

[rare basin]

i see, what about the 2nd question?

[rich adder]

nothing wrong with using public fields in SOs

[rare basin]

alright

thanks

[hexed terrace]

I still don't use public fields in SO's

[rich adder]

i always prefer props with backfields, over public fields but thats just me

[ashen isle]

Hey is this the right tab tio ask questions

or should i go to unity talk

[frail hawk]

code related questions can be asked here

otherwise unity talk, yes

[neon ivy]

quick question, in a behaviour tree, does a sequence node do the entire sequence in one go or does it do it per tick through the tree?

[verbal dome]

Should probably specify which behaviour tree you are talking about

Or do you mean in general/usually?

[ashen isle]

ok cool i'm wondering how to write code for a back button to load the previous scene. Like in this instance I want to have a settings menu, and ik how to open it, but how do I program a button to go back to the scene they were just in instead of calling a specific scene. I.E if they came from the main menu go back to main menu, if they opened settings from scene three go back to scene three

[slender nymph]

does the settings menu need to be open in single mode? can you not just pause the current scene the open the settings in additive mode so that you can then just unload that scene and unpause the original scene?

otherwise you'd need to store what scene you were in when the settings menu was open, as well as the state of the scene, unless you want to just restart the scene when closing the settings

[ashen isle]

yes that sounds great how do i do that lol

[slender nymph]

look at the documentation for the LoadScene method

[ashen isle]

i'm like just escaping tutorial abyss and trying to figure stuff out, i have a grasp of the very basics

[ashen isle]

ok and that will show me how to pause a scene?

[slender nymph]

no, you can look up how to pause things though

[ashen isle]

ok gotcha and last question for now sorry

this is the code i used to make the new game button load the new game scene

this code works

[slender nymph]

you need to configure your !IDE

[eternal falcon]

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[ashen isle]

this code is the exact same but its to tell the main menu button in the settings menu to load the main menu scene. But when I go to on click event to sleect the main menu load function its not there

[ashen isle]

thank you i'll do that

[slender nymph]

just FYI, you do not need a completely separate component for this. just use the other component and change the string variable in the inspector

you'll also want to rename the variable and the method so it is more obvious that it can be reused

[ashen isle]

seperate component like i don't need a seperate button script? even if they are different scenes?

[slender nymph]

yes, your variable is serialized which means it can be edited in the inspector. just change the value in the inspector and you can change what scene the method loads

[ashen isle]

i think i get it