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[elder raptor]

Ohhh I seee, thanks for the information!

[willow sand]

https://hatebin.com/jsurafomkp when i launch my game the muzzle effect keeps playing even if i don't shoot

[sterile cairn]

im trying to use lerp so the camera follows the player but for some reson it doesnt work properly ingame

[elder raptor]

I asked the same thing just rn xD

[sterile cairn]

oh lol

[elder raptor]

I'll dm u the code I did which ended up working

[elder raptor]

Is "Play on Awake" enabled in the Particle System?

[sterile cairn]

sure

[willow sand]

no

[copper crest]

UpThis

[elder raptor]

What about looping?

[willow sand]

no

[elder raptor]

Will be good if you added a muzzleEffect.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().Stop(); too.

Try adding this to your Update

if (!isShooting && muzzleEffect.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().isPlaying)
    {
        muzzleEffect.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().Stop();
    }

And update the first line of FireWeapon() to this and try:

if (!muzzleEffect.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().isPlaying)
    {
        muzzleEffect.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>().Play();
    }

Just try these and see if it works

It will also make your code cleaner if you accepted a ParticleSystem instead of a GameObject for muzzleEffect lmaoo

[willow sand]

it made it so that if I click it starts but when i click again it stops and in between it just keeps going

[elder raptor]

Ohhh

Hmm, it would be easier for me to Debug if I could replicate the project xD I guess you need to wait for someone who can debug stuff through code itself

But I assume it's because the Particle System State is not aligning with the isShooting state. Or the .isPlaying is not working as intended.

[astral falcon]

Why not set a global bool instead of relying on getcomponent in update (bad idea) and the isPlaying state that could lack behind

[silent falcon]

I can’t wait to share this good news, it turns out that I was just overthinking it. When I moved ImageElement.cs from Assets/Editor/UI to Assets/UI, the problem was solved.👍

[humble forum]

public Transform firePoint;

how can i set my minimage as startpoint for it?

[vocal urchin]

Is there a way to reference a prefab from a prefab's instance?

[languid spire]

only in editor code, not at runtime

[split solar]

aye need some help, how do i take a seed and make it into a random number?

let's say my seed is 9173617199 and i want it to give me a random number between 1-20, how do i go about this?

[languid spire]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Random.html

[split solar]

i think i can see the vision thanks

[dense bridge]

Agreed, Update() should be the thiniest possible, it's for time related variables and inputs on top. Getting a component at update for only few objects is okay i guess though.

[hexed terrace]

If the GetComponent is getting the same component every frame, then it's pointless. Do it elsewhere so it can be called just once

[burnt vapor]

The point is that GetComponent is a heavy operation and doing it every frame is a bad idea

You can get away with quite a few things in an Update frame because C# is generally very performant. However, if you are going to waste it getting a component every frame instead of caching then that does add up eventually

[stable quail]

Hi, i've question for a code :

How to create a procedural animation for a game character ? (i've don't know how to create this, i've searched a tutorial, but i've don't fund)

[little meteor]

What kind of animation are you looking for? There are some easy ways to do common proc anim tasks with humanoid characters.

[stable quail]

Walk, and move, but it's for humanoid characters and multi-legged characters (and maybe crawling or flying characters)

[little meteor]

I've done multi-legged characters using the animation rigging pacakge, let me find a link.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.3/manual/index.html

Take a look at the two bone IK constraint example in there,

[stable quail]

in procedural animation ?

[little meteor]

yes, procedural walking animation for bipeds and quadrupeds

[stable quail]

i've don't understand what's that

[stable quail]

oh ok

[bitter apex]

does OnClick() for buttons run the method given whenever it is pressed, or only the first time it is pressed?

[little meteor]

if you're looking for tutorials you can search for 'unity animation rigging'

[bitter apex]

because right now it's only running the code the first time I click the button

[stable quail]

ok and, if u explain at me ? (if u want and u can)

[verbal dome]

Whenever

[bitter apex]

yeah nevermind I realised the problem in my code

cheers

[little meteor]

animation rigging is a package that lets you do lots of cool procedural animation tricks on preconfigured rigs, I would suggest you learn some about IK (inverse kinematics) which is used a lot for moving bones realistically towards a target, it lets you animate where you want the feet (procedurally or otherwise) and then the package handles moving all the other bones

[little meteor]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.3/manual/constraints/TwoBoneIKConstraint.html

take a look at these images and then look up a proper tutorial

[stable quail]

ok very thx 😄

[tulip nimbus]

RoundManager roundManger;
public TMP_Text mainTableText;

void Start()
{
    roundManger = FindFirstObjectByType<RoundManager>();
}

void Update()
{
    mainTableText.SetText("Round " + roundManger.Round);
}

Why am i getting a NullRefrenceExeption even tho the code works completely fine and shows no compiler errors. It can grab any Data from mainTableText and roundManager without issues

[eager spindle]

first off which line has the nullreferenceexception?

[tulip nimbus]

sorry, first line in the Update Method

[eager spindle]

I'll just say that it's RoundManager

RoundManager isn't actually being set

[keen dew]

Null reference exceptions aren't related to compiler errors. If the text gets updated then you have the component on more than one object, or twice on one object

[eager spindle]

In the start function, the find function returns null but doesn't give an error

You'll need to think of another way to get the round manager

[tulip nimbus]

There is another script using the exact same way of grabbing the roundManager Data. Could this be the issue when using FindFirstObjectByType?

[eager spindle]

https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons

This will change your life

No more findfirstobjectbytype

[tulip nimbus]

Ill look into it! Thank you!

[eager spindle]

To answer this, nope the other script finding RoundManager isn't the problem here.

It's probably because you're calling findfirstobjectbytype before roundmanager is created

today I learned that TMP_Text has SetText

[humble forum]

i got this and health is a slider i want to make sure to bind it to my enemy and see it in the world but can t seem to bind the image only the canvas

[wooden sandal]

ive got a question to events
lets say i have a couple of brick objects. they all have the same script running on them. random variation may occur.
if one of these bricks is destroyed, i invoke a signal

        public delegate void BrickDestroyed(BrickBase brick, int points);
        public static event BrickDestroyed OnBrickDestroyed;

 private void Hit()
 { 
     if (remainingHits <= 0 || brickState < 0)
     {
         gameObject.SetActive(false);
         OnBrickDestroyed?.Invoke(this, points);
     }
 }

but from what ive witnessed. this signal is called for all bricks on the screen and not just for the one destroyed.

private void Spawn()
      {
          collectable.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sprite = collectableSprite;
          Instantiate(collectable, transform.parent.position, Quaternion.identity, transform.parent);
      }

      private void OnEnable()
      {
          BrickBase.OnBrickDestroyed += CheckForSpawn;
      }
      private void OnDisable()
      {
          Physics2D.queriesStartInColliders = true;
          BrickBase.OnBrickDestroyed -= CheckForSpawn;```

so in this example code, it would instantiate an object on all bricks on the screen. this is why i check for the brick.

but i still dont want all the bricks to fire the signal. is there a best practice way to write signals in a way, so they only get invoked from one single object?

[eager spindle]

Is this in world space UI? You should make a script that sets the position of the healthbar

Just parenting it won't work

[humble forum]

got this right now

but images don t work seems only to work on gameobject

so sort of need the object and the image

[stable quail]

it's very hard, i don't understand how to function ;-; i test every time, but my test not function

I need bones for this to work?

[cosmic dagger]

because OnBrickDestroyed is static, the event belongs to the class, not each instance of the class. as you can see, you had to reference OnBrickDestroyed through the class name BrickBase.OnBrickDestroyed, not from an instance. using the static modifier means there is only one copy of the field . . .

[wooden sandal]

oh i see. but that only shifts the problem to having to know the component of the sender.
i guess ill have to build a whole listener system

[visual linden]

If you pass the instance to the delegate function, your listeners can check if instance == this to see if they're the one that got destroyed.

[little meteor]

Yes, a rig, or a tranform heierachy will do, don't forget to add a rig builder somwhere

[stable quail]

i'm lost....

[little meteor]

Take a look at the rigging workflow docs: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.3/manual/RiggingWorkflow.html

[cosmic dagger]

you can pass the brick instance to the event and check if it's the correct one . . .

[cosmic dagger]

also, this looks like #🏃┃animation, not coding . . .

[stable quail]

oh sorry, i was thinking of coding the procedural animation at first

[stable quail]

good thx

[stable quail]

so i go to this chanel ?

[cosmic dagger]

as uldynia mentioned, you position/move the ui differently if the canvas is screen space - overlay or world space . . .

[cosmic dagger]

that channel is specific for animation. they have more information and resources for animation/rigging than a coding channel . . .

[stable quail]

oh, ok thx ^^

[humble forum]

?it just doesn t update yet and dunno how to update it

[humble forum]

anyone?

[little meteor]

am I understanding correctly that you want to update a world space UI element?

[cosmic dagger]

We can't help without seeing your code, but first, have you tried following a tutorial for creating or updating screen space UI or world space UI (whichever one you're using)? It's a popular topic, so there are many . . .

[humble forum]

yeah have tried

[humble forum]

yeah

[little meteor]

You'll need to keep a reference to the instantiated object, and I suggest a gameobject to assign and expose the bits you want to change to make it simpler.

[humble forum]

  public void ApplyDamage(EnemyData enemy, int damage)
    {
        if (enemy == null)
        {
            Debug.LogError("Enemy is null!");
            return;
        }
        enemy.MinHealth -= damage;

       
        enemy.MinHealth = Mathf.Clamp(enemy.MinHealth, 0, enemy.MaxHealth);

        Debug.Log($"Enemy health after damage: {enemy.MinHealth}/{enemy.MaxHealth}");

      
        UpdateHealthBar(enemy);

        
        if (enemy.MinHealth <= 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("Enemy health reached 0, removing enemy...");
            if (enemy.spriteRenderer != null)
            {
                Destroy(enemy.spriteRenderer.gameObject);
            }
            if (enemy.healthBarImage != null)
            {
                Destroy(enemy.healthBarImage.transform.parent.gameObject);
            }
            temporaryEnemies.Remove(enemy);
        }
    }


    public void UpdateHealthBar(EnemyData enemy)
    {
        if (enemy.healthBarImage != null)
        {
           
            float healthPercentage = enemy.MinHealth / enemy.MaxHealth;

            Debug.Log($"Updating healthbar: {healthPercentage * 100}% health");

            // Stel de fillAmount correct in
            enemy.healthBarImage.fillAmount = healthPercentage;
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("Healthbar Image is null!");
        }
    }
}

all debug logs work just can get the fillamount working

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't look like you're saving a reference to the health bar anywhere when you instantiate it so how is it you are trying to update the image later?

Where do these references come from:

enemy.healthBarImage```

[little meteor]

yeah that ^

[wintry quarry]

You are only saving the reference in a local variable which quickly disappears

My guess is you are modifying the prefab instead of the actual instance you created in the scene

[wintry quarry]

This doesn't make sense - how would this refer to the instantiated prefab then?

It seems like you're just referencing the prefab with these fields in the inspector

so it makes sense the code doesn't do anything

How is this assigned?

[cosmic dagger]

Where do you assign the healthBarImage?

[humble forum]

newEnemyData.healthBarImage = healthImage;

[wintry quarry]

so where does healthImage come from?

why don't you just show the full script. And not with screenshots

!code

[eternal falcon]

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```
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[humble forum]

Image healthImage = healthBarObj.GetComponentInChildren<Image>();

[wintry quarry]

and where does healthBarObj come from...

show full code instead of playing this game

[little meteor]

if it's all set up correctly I'd double check the Image.type is set to Image.Type.Filled

[humble forum]

but if i drop the full code is it safe against plagiat cuz don t want my code to be plagiat cuz i dropped it here first

[wintry quarry]

Nobody is going to steal your code that doesn't even work

and also wouldn't be applicable to anyone else's game

[humble forum]

it is not about stealing it is about handing it in later and then i get in trouble cuz the teachers think someone else wrote it

[wintry quarry]

I don't know anything about your teachers' plagiarism detection methods

[humble forum]

can t i just sent 2 big code blocks?

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

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
{
    [System.Serializable]
    public class EnemyData
    {
        public SpriteRenderer spriteRenderer;
        public float speed = 2f;
        public float MinHealth = 100;
        public int MaxHealth = 100;
        [HideInInspector] public int currentWaypointIndex = 0;
        public Image healthBarImage; 
    }

    public List<EnemyData> enemies = new List<EnemyData>();
    public Transform[] waypoints;
    private List<EnemyData> temporaryEnemies = new List<EnemyData>();
    public GameObject HealthBarPrefab;

    void Start()
    {
        if (enemies.Count > 0)
        {
            SetEnemy(0);
        }
    }

    void Update()
    {
        foreach (var enemy in enemies)
        {
            if (enemy.spriteRenderer != null)
            {
                MoveToWaypoint(enemy);
            }
        }
        
        for (int i = temporaryEnemies.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
        {
            var tempEnemy = temporaryEnemies[i];
            if (tempEnemy.spriteRenderer != null)
            {
                if (MoveToWaypoint(tempEnemy))
                {
                    Destroy(tempEnemy.spriteRenderer.gameObject);
                    temporaryEnemies.RemoveAt(i);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public void SetEnemy(int index)
    {
        if (index < 0 || index >= enemies.Count)
        {
            Debug.LogError("Ongeldig vijand-index!");
            return;
        }
    }

shitt i need 3

[swift crag]

Please use a paste site.

[swift crag]

as described here

[humble forum]

but scared i get plagiat bullshit then and then i did all for nothing :/

[swift crag]

using a paste site will be equivalent to posting all of the code in here

[humble forum]

yeah but then it is on the web here im directly bind to it

[verbal dome]

Do you think people steal code from random pastes?

[tall brook]

Yo does anyone have any links to a good intro to coding. I know “how to” but the actual writing of code is confusing. Just started yesterday

[swift crag]

particularly private ones..

[humble forum]

no it is about handing it in with plagarism like i said before

[humble forum]

guess you don t understand the point

[verbal dome]

I don't think we do

[muted pawn]

yeah me neither tbh

[wintry quarry]

They are afraid their professor's plagiarism scanner will see the paste online and then detect their homework as plagiarism

[swift crag]

You appear to be concerned that a plagiarism detector will dig through every single paste every made on any paste site

[burnt vapor]

Plagiarism detection is not going to find random pastes

[verbal dome]

Oh.
I'm so out of the loop when it comes to this stuff

That's a real concern?

[swift crag]

I have no idea!

[wintry quarry]

Honestly I have no idea, it might be a legit concern

[swift crag]

notably, non-public pastes are very hard to randomly find..

[humble forum]

yeah cuz then i can throw my whole project away

[burnt vapor]

There's no public list of these pastes, so I very much doubt it would matter

[frosty hound]

Change the names of variables? The spacing? Comments?

[swift crag]

is this actually grounded in reality

or is this just something you heard of once from A Guy

[frosty hound]

It's very hard not to have near identical code to something else online, even if you're not intending to.

[swift crag]

a good plagiariam detector would pick up on that 😛

[verbal dome]

Maybe just add a comment // By timo

Lol

[swift crag]

just use https://paste.ofcode.org and get on with it

[cosmic dagger]

regardless, without seeing any code we can't determine what/where the problem lies and how to fix it. i doubt posting code will ruin your assignment . . .

[humble forum]

by chance of python 10s of hours to 0?

maybe i should encrypt it and tell the pw in here

[swift crag]

Just use the damn site. It doesn't have a public list of all pastes and everything gets deleted after a week

This is a complete non-issue

[burnt vapor]

Reminds me of the plagiarism detector that didn't like the word "The"

[humble forum]

ok but if not i will come after you 🙂

https://paste.ofcode.org/VMiqWAXHhwHMrCAircMpdC

done

[little meteor]

did you double check the Image.type is set to Image.Type.Filled?

[humble forum]

yep

[little meteor]

when you instantiate the health bar set the .fillAmount to Random.value

and just check to see if it's working at all

[swift crag]

you should check that you're getting the correct image. perhaps there are multiple images

you could do this by logging the Image you get

[humble forum]

sure but i have 1 health

[swift crag]

if so, it would be preferable to make a Healthbar component that you reference instead of a plain GameObject. It could tell you where the actual fill image is.

[humble forum]

this didn t work

[little meteor]

also comment out your UpdateHealthBar body

if it works after that then you're calculating the fillammount value incorrectly

[humble forum]

Debug.Log($"{HealthBarPrefab}");
like this?

[humble forum]

how would i do that?

[little meteor]

no like this

[humble forum]

so comment everything out?

[little meteor]

yes, set the value to a random amount and then don't change it, then tell us what you see

[humble forum]

but in the func itself ?

[little meteor]

set it when you instantiate,

[vast stirrup]

I want to be able to control the player with wasd and this is my code:

horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

transform.Translate(Vector3.right * horizontalInput * speed * Time.deltaTime);
transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * verticalInput * speed * Time.deltaTime);

Problem is when I rotate the player, its z axis changes direction and the controls are very weird then. Can anyone help me?

[swift crag]

Do you want the player to move in the same direction no matter how the player is rotated?

[little meteor]

perhaps you want transform.right rather than vector3.right

[swift crag]

Translate is already working in the object's "self" space

It is correct to give it fixed "right" and "forward" vectors here

[vast stirrup]

yes, I want to make a top down shooter game and I need to set up player rotating in the direction of mouse and that the player doesnt move like a car.

[swift crag]

In that case, use Space.World as a second argument to Translate

[little meteor]

oh yeah it has a optional param for Space

[vast stirrup]

oh ok ill try that ty :)

[swift crag]

This tells it to interpret that vector as a world-space direction

instead of a local-space direction

[humble forum]

now it doesn t wanna work anymore :/

[little meteor]

one learns something new every day

[vast stirrup]

argument?

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/method-parameters
TLDR arguement / parameter of a function
egvoid Move( arg1, arg2, etc.)

[swift crag]

You have imported the wrong Random.

you probably have a using System; at the top of your file

You can just write UnityEngine.Random to make it very explicit that you want unity's Random class

[swift crag]

ah, you got the third random, haha

Unity.Mathematics.Random

[little meteor]

🤣

[swift crag]

You can remove using Unity.Mathematics;, which will then make the IDE ask you which class you meant to use

or you can explicitly use UnityEngine.Random

[rich adder]

btw you can also just do using Random = UnityEngine.Random

[swift crag]

That too, yes.

using directives let you avoid writing out all of the namespaces for a class

using Foo.Bar.Baz means you can write Buz instead of Foo.Bar.Baz.Buz

[humble forum]

done

don t see a random value the slider works

[swift crag]

While you're at it, consider logging which Image you're actually targeting here.

Debug.Log(enemy.healthBarImage, enemy.healthBarImage);

the second argument is the "context". You can click on the log entry to go to that object

[little meteor]

I suspect the image you have reference to isn't the right one then

[swift crag]

While you're still in play mode, click on the log and see what you're actually getting

I bet you got the frame image

Which is why GetComponentInChildren is evil and will break your project in new and surprising ways at random!

I had a killer bug where GetComponentInChildren<Renderer> wound up grabbing a VisualEffect instead of a MeshRenderer. My code wound up breaking the visual effect, and I couldn't understand why it was failing to play

now I will retrieve my wall of text I was typing earlier!

[little meteor]

I tend to make a monobehaviour which explicitly publicly exposes the bits of the UI I care about and attach this to the prefab, assign them manually

[swift crag]

Instead of using GetComponentInChildren, you can make a component that talks to the components for you.

public class Healthbar : MonoBehaviour {
  [SerializeField] private Image fillImage;
  
  public void SetHealth(float percentage) {
    fillImage.fillAmount = percentage;
  }
}

Make a prefab that has a Healthbar on it. Assign the correct reference.

Then, your creation method would look more like this:

Healthbar newBar = Instantiate(HealthBarPrefab, newEnemy.transform);
newBar.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0, 0.5f, 0); 
newEnemyData.healthbar = newBar;
UpdateHealthBar(newEnemyData); 
}

You would also need to store a Healthbar instead of an Image on the enemy data.

You no longer talk directly to an Image. You just tell your Healthbar that it needs to display a certain health percentage.

[rich adder]

sadly we still don't have an argument for GetComponentInChildren / Parent to skip the root object too

[swift crag]

I know how to fix it! Never use it 😄

I only use GetComponentsInChildren

[rich adder]

true lol

I use parent sometimes to get a parent component from a collider only child

[swift crag]

GetComponentInParent is generally less surprising

just because you only have a few parents, but can have many, many children

[swift crag]

HealthBarPrefab's type would no longer be GameObject. You'd change it to Healthbar

[humble forum]

so first step is making a prefab adjusting health seems so simple but 3 hours stuck on it lol :/

[swift crag]

It's simple, but you footgunned yourself with GetComponentInChildren

It gave you the first component it could find on the object

It's just...the wrong component

Which is why I try to avoid it as much as possible. Your code shouldn't care about the exact order of components on an object (or the order of its children)

[humble forum]

f i see

[queen adder]

whats the best ide for c# and python

[rich adder]

VS , Rider or VSCode

[humble forum]

jettbrains ide

pycharm for python

[queen adder]

thought thats for python

[humble forum]

yeah so i can fix it with changing orders but that is just the cursed solution

[swift crag]

Right. It might break later for very subtle reasons

like if you add another Image to show the previous health value

[burnt vapor]

For C# you use Visual Studio or Jetbrains Rider.
For Python you use Jetbrains Pycharm.

[rich adder]

Jetbrains is just the company that makes many different editors

[swift crag]

Also, by doing this, you'll be able to keep all of the healthbar logic in the healthbar

[queen adder]

thanks and noted

[swift crag]

If you want it to slowly drain over time, that's very easy. The game will just call SetHealth on it, and it'll decide how to change the image's fill amount over time!

[humble forum]

okay so what are the steps basically 😅 ( it is based on the towers hitting)

[swift crag]

I have several components that started out as "bags of references" -- no logic, just public fields -- that then got more features

[swift crag]

well, focus on getting the healthbar working first (:

[swift crag]

Create your healthbar component and put it onto the existing object. Reference the correct image component.

[humble forum]

yeah that works already what are the steps for the healtbar 1 make a prefab from the canvas and then?

[swift crag]

You're already instantiating prefabs, right?

or are you just instantiating an object that's in the scene?

[humble forum]

the towers and projectiles from the towers are prefabs the rest isn t

[swift crag]

Okay, then start by actually making a prefab

you can just drag the healthbar template into the Project window to create a prefab

Then, after adding the Healthbar component, update your scripts to reference a Healthbar, not a GameObject or an Image

and then assign a reference to the prefab where needed

[humble forum]

will try thank you

[swift crag]

I almost never reference prefabs as a GameObject -- that implies I could use any prefab!

[neat frost]

Click-to-Move (Camera Jitter)

[humble forum]

tried object but can t seem to find the right type to fix it

[swift crag]

"tried object"?

[humble forum]

Object

but the heatlbar image needs image in order for the slider to work and the child thingy is a bit annoying to get rid of

[swift crag]

that's even less specific!

use Healthbar

the point is that you reference the prefab as a Healthbar

[humble forum]

super stupid but dunno what im suppose to do 😅

[swift crag]

Did you actually create a component called Healthbar?

#💻┃code-beginner message

[humble forum]

oh so you create a custom script for it in other to find it was like how is it suppose to find it 😅

[swift crag]

Yes -- you're creating a new component called Healthbar

[winged osprey]

Hey, so apparently i've tried anything to make my animation loop, but it just doesn't work. I mean, i might know why, but don't know how to fix it.
The idle animation, which i set up as default state, exit time is off for the transitions that should be off, like moving animation and idle animation. So it should be right.

"'Player' AnimationEvent has no function specified" error shows up.
Any ideas?

[cosmic dagger]

did you set the actual animation clip to loop?

[winged osprey]

yes i did

[cosmic dagger]

the error means you have an animation event on the animation clip but did not specify a function (method on a script attached to the GameObject) to play when the timeline reaches the animation event . . .

[winged osprey]

Do the events just auto add themselves?

I mean as far as i know i didnt add any

[cosmic dagger]

not that i know of . . .

[winged osprey]

let me check rq

[cosmic dagger]

check the clip for an animation event. if you don't need it, remove it . . .

[winged osprey]

well, it auto added itself

it took me 3 hours

to find this

it wasnt it though

[humble forum]

https://paste.ofcode.org/7XNg7XkwGfpWksJ3E79ubz

[winged osprey]

The animation plays really slow, doesn't play or just stops and doesn't animate any other things.

[neat frost]

What is the appropriate wait time before reposting if I don't see a response to my help request?

[winged osprey]

It's not like everyone knows the answer to your question, but you can try at some kinda 10min-ish interval

ohhhh wait

forgot about those

there's like

999+ warnings

[cosmic dagger]

you can post a bump to your question by replying to the original message or repost it altogether . . .

[neat frost]

Sorry I don't discord a lot, how do I bump my thread?

[cosmic dagger]

the chat moves fast and if it's been a while, no one will know you had a question or remember . . .

[cosmic dagger]

bump . . .

[winged osprey]

Alright, basically i fixed the reason of warnings, but the animation still feels slow and stops itself after a moment. No idea why.

[cosmic dagger]

just hit/select reply on your original question (message) and put any text you want, like, "bump," or "here's my original question if anyone can help," or just repost the question altogether . . .

[neat frost]

Camera Movement (Camera Jitter)

[brittle isle]

Slope Movement Issues

[cosmic dagger]

if it doesn't involve code and it's just the animation, i'm unsure what could be wrong. we have no way of seeing what the problem is . . .

[winged osprey]

im trying to fix it

if i wont be able to fix it imma send it here

[coral fossil]

bump

[winged osprey]

can you show me the script?

or the inside of a button or however you call it

js dm if you cant send it here imma look for it

[coral fossil]

this is the game manager script

[winged osprey]

i only started recently coding in c#, but i think the #if, #else and #endif seems interfering with the editor.

my exitgame looks simple

public void ExitGame()
{
Application.Quit();
Debug.Log("Game Closed");
}
}

but yours is kinda complicated

[languid spire]

that is because your code will not do anything in the editor play mode, his will

[winged osprey]

and somehow mine works and his doesn't?

it seems off

[coral fossil]

this is just the code my prof gave me so i assume theres nothing wrong with the script itself

[winged osprey]

welp i have no idea then

[languid spire]

Add some more Debugging, make a development build then check the player log

[vast stirrup]

Hi! I am working on a top down shooter\survival game but I don't know how to make the players gun face the mouse, here is my attempt at this:

    mousePosX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X");
    transform.Rotate(0, mousePosX * sensitivity, 0);

[rich adder]

get the mouse world position, then set your forward with direction (mouseWorldPos - gunPos)

[fervent abyss]

i feel the lobotomy effect rn

[polar acorn]

Vector3s, in fact, cannot be changed. Changing any of them creates a new Vector3 every time

[rich adder]

yes you're fine. not something you should worry with. Vector3 is efficient its a struct with 3 floats.

[fervent abyss]

oh okay thanks! and digiholic also

[polar acorn]

They're structs, they're designed to be created and disposed of freely

[fervent abyss]

i actually feel like lobotomy effect rn

[vast stirrup]

I... don't know anything about that. I don't know how to get the mouse world position and I don't know what "set your forward with direction" means 😅

[rocky canyon]

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

[rich adder]

thats what we call Developement, problem solving. See how you have each part you can ask, look at things like google chances are someone already asked those questions and the solutions are right there

[vast stirrup]

why do I need to get the main camera for this?

[verbal dome]

3D or 2D game?

[swift crag]

The relationship between your screen and the world depends on where the main camera is

[verbal dome]

Like how is your world oriented

[late burrow]

i have 600 objects whats cheaper looping them all every frame to check which is closest or strap collider to each of them and do ontriggerenter

[verbal dome]

The code suggest 3D game since you tried to rotate on Y axis

[late burrow]

i assume second one

[rocky canyon]

think of it like shooting a ray From ur camera thru the mouse position and into the world

[rich adder]

why not do some profiling and test, instead of guessing ?

[vast stirrup]

3D

[verbal dome]

Orthographic or perspective camera?

[vast stirrup]

orthographic. I wanted to make an fps game at first but when I looked up tutorials for fps camera I felt like I got brainfreeze.

[coral fossil]

still not having any luck, i didnt see anything of note in the player log

[verbal dome]

With ortho, ScreenToWorldPoint should be fine but be mindful of the y position

Like if you create a direction vector with mouseWorldPos - playerPos, set the y to zero

At least if you use it for projectiles... If you use it just for y angle then it's probably fine

[vast stirrup]

wait, so now I have got the world position and the mouse position, how do I get the player to face that point?

[rich adder]

transform.forward = dir

[languid spire]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform.LookAt.html

[green flame]

Hello, I'm new in the unity world (from webgl) and I have a question. I hope this is the right place to ask for some advices!

I'm creating to understand unity some single pages like in the web and for that I use UI Document. To "catch" a click event on buttons in C# I do this (on my screen). But I'm not "sure" about the right way, is this OK ?

[rich adder]

#🧰┃ui-toolkit

seems correct though

also you should probably configure your VSC

[languid spire]

you might understand your code better if you did not use var

[rocky canyon]

i agree w/ steve here.. try to limit ur use of var

if u know what type it is go ahead and assign it to the correct type..

[green flame]

Ok thanks for ur advices, I'll limit the use of "var"!

[sleek notch]

Hi, can someone help me what to do with this kind of error?

[rich adder]

scripts had compiler errors, fix them?

[sleek notch]

like how

exactly

[rich adder]

how if you haven't shown all the errors?

[sleek notch]

this is the only one

[cosmic dagger]

did you check which scripts have compile errors?

[rich adder]

screenshot entire console window

[cosmic dagger]

are their any other errors messages in your console window?

[sleek notch]

there is no specification

I'll show you

new error apeared for no reason? What does that mean?

[rich adder]

the error was always there, you just didn't look

[sleek notch]

no

I had 2 errors before I just fixed them and now ner apeared

[cosmic dagger]

i'd checkout that first error . . .

[sleek notch]

I'm telling you the truth

[cosmic dagger]

fixed errors mean more of your script(s) compiled further until they reached another error . . .

keep fixing them until they all disappear . . .

[sleek notch]

I'd like to but what does that mean the transparency thing

[rich adder]

also these errors should be appearing in your IDE, if its not I'd configure that first

[swift crag]

I believe this happens if you previously had a syntax error

I'm pretty sure the compiler just gives up on further analysis

(which can result it finding non-syntax errors, like that one)

[sleek notch]

It is not apearing because I was trying to build the game

[swift crag]

Ah, I know what it is, then

[rich adder]

the IDE has 0 to do with building the game

[swift crag]

You've got editor code that's getting included in the game

[sleek notch]

then why are you telling me about ide

[swift crag]

Editor code should go into a folder named Editor. That will put it into a different assembly that doesn't go into the build

When you build the game, the UnityEditor namespace is not available. Any code that tries to use that got included in the built game will fail to compile.

Importantly, you will not see this in the IDE, because it still thinks it's analyzing code for use in the editor

[rich adder]

because usually compiler errors are underlined in IDE

[sleek notch]

Does that mean I have to move the Texture Maker to some kind of folder named Editor?

[swift crag]

Yes. It can be a subfolder if you want, but it needs to be inside a folder named Editor

[sleek notch]

I'm desprate about this. ChatGPT won't help in this

[sleek notch]

Do you mean in project folder or in the installed editor?

I'm sorry it is too late for me

[swift crag]

e.g.

[sleek notch]

oh

I'm idiot

sorry

did you made the Editor?

I can't see it xd

[alpine fjord]

If it doesn't exist, you'll have to make it.

[sleek notch]

Okay

[swift crag]

you need to create the folder if it doesn't already exist, yes

[humble forum]

fen do you see anything weird i am unable to select my healthbar

[swift crag]

the name must be exactly Editor

[swift crag]

there is no Healthbar in the scene

which is reasonable

Annoyingly, if you switch to "Assets", it won't show you the prefab you made

apparently it's a performance concern

You'll have to drag the prefab into the property in the inspector

[humble forum]

it doesn t wanna do that either

[swift crag]

Then your prefab doesn't have a Healthbar component on it

[humble forum]

huh but i don t need the script 3x im confused

[swift crag]

What script "3x"?

I don't understand that statement at all

[humble forum]

3 times

[swift crag]

You need to attach a Healthbar component to your prefab

If you don't, then there is no Healthbar to reference at all

[humble forum]

and how does enemy know that then?

[swift crag]

know what?

[humble forum]

the health because now it is only bind to the prefab

[swift crag]

"the health"?

The enemy class has a HealthBarPrefab field on it

This lets you store a reference to a Healthbar

Drag the prefab into this property in the enemy's inspector

[tawny notch]

Im tryna make a script which tries to get the layer of the object it collided with. I use a LayerMask for EnemyLayer but its not working lol:

    void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision){ //Called whenever object collides with another object
        if (collision.gameObject.layer == EnemyLayer){
            Debug.Log("Enemy Hit");
        }
        Destroy(gameObject); //Destroys bullet object
    }```

[swift crag]

.layer will not be compatible with a LayerMask

the layer property is a number from 0 to 31

[humble forum]

like this?

[swift crag]

a layermask can be any integer (each bit represents a layer)

[tawny notch]

So i need index of layer?

oh ok

[polar acorn]

You haven't dragged in a prefab yet

[swift crag]

Annoyingly, LayerMask doesn't have a convenient method for this

if (mask & (1 << whatever.layer) != 0) {

}

[tawny notch]

alright thanks

[swift crag]

This tests if the mask has the relevant bit set

[polar acorn]

Layermasks are a bit weird, but this goes over what they actually are under the hood.
https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks

You can turn an index into a mask by bit shifting 1 by the index, as Fen just posted

[swift crag]

1 << 0 is the rightmost bit and 1 << 31 is the leftmost bit

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks#bitmasks-and-layermasks

dammit

[polar acorn]

Hey, we scooped each other

I got the link first, you got the answer first

[humble forum]

i did the one below but those 2 above shouldn t be the same ?

[polar acorn]

Oh, there's a prefab field, but also an Image field in both of the enemies

So, you've got your prefab referenced now at least

[humble forum]

oh damn that works already

oh no gifs :/

[swift crag]

Ah, I see what you're talking about.

You don't need to assign anything here

These fields are getting filled in by your script as you spawn enemies

I would suggest adding [System.NonSerialized] to them so they don't even appear in the inspector

(and so that they don't get saved at all, ever)

Serialized fields are used to configure an object in the inspector, but you aren't doing that for the "Health Bar Image" field. Your code sets that field.

[humble forum]

alright thank you so much think i am almost done with the core features 🤩
now need to find out why i can t see the projectiles (prob go too fast) but that is a problem for tomorrow 🙂

[coral fossil]

is anyone able to help

[swift crag]

Try changing the size of your game view (put it on Free Aspect and resize the view, and also try different resolutions)

Your UI is probably not scaling properly, causing something to get in the way of the buttons

[coral fossil]

ah yup!

[swift crag]

Show your setup in #📲┃ui-ux. I suspect you'll need to adjust some anchor points

Ideally, turn stuff off until you have one button and one other object that makes the button unclickable

(and the canvas, of course)

[rocky canyon]

more people need to do this when troubleshooting.. ^
i see soo many times w/ sooo much stuff going on in the background its hard to know what the problem actually is..
and ofc u got ur long compile times to wait thru to show a video clip 😄

[viscid fable]

i would be really happy if anyone would be willing to give out an helping hand. so i am working on a ready or not CQB FPS style game and ive been stuck on this issue for a week now for some reason the bullets sort of stick to the gun and pushes the other bullets out making them fly out and thats making the bullest fly slower than what they are supposed to be so what i did was that i tried to make a colliding checking system as to not make the bullets collide with eachother now the bullets just dont fire and are just stuck in the barrel ive also tried rotating and fixing the bullet spawn point but at some angles the bullets just dissapear just when they spawn. if anyone is willing to help i will be very happy.

[timber tide]

Well, for the collision problem you can just remove projectile colliding with other projectiles via collision matrix in the settings, or just exclude the layer on each bullet rigidbody

[rocky canyon]

make sure ur bullets are ignoring themselves.. (other bullets)

could use layer-based collision solutions..

very common occurance if u have a high fire rate..

[timber tide]

probably ignore guns too I guess if it's spawning inside

[rocky canyon]

could be clipping the gun's collider as well

[rocky canyon]

haha, same page

[timber tide]

honestly I would just make them kinematic too, but I guess you lose on on the collision detection interpolation

and collision callback I guess

[swift crag]

I would not let the physics system move my bullets at all

[timber tide]

yeah, but those collision callbacks giving to the exact point is pretty gooood

[swift crag]

I'd be doing raycasts forward to figure out what's in the way (doing very small steps)

certainly not updating just 50 times per second

[pastel dome]

ya most games are hitscan

getting actual speed out of physics bullets is a stretch

[timber tide]

even with rigidbody detection, stuff likes to clip through walls a lot for higher speed projectiles

[swift crag]

Random example -- H3VR does raycasts to move bullets forward by a bit at a time

(i think, at least; been a hot minute since i modded that)

[timber tide]

like if you're shooting a bullet at 100 units a second, you might as well make it hitscan cause the next frame it's probably going to hit anyway

unless you're doing some battlefield type game. I'm pretty sure most of that is actual projectiles

[rocky canyon]

bullet drop!

[timber tide]

the horrors

[rocky canyon]

worked on an Anti-Aircraft type gun earlier this year.. i had problems just like that.. bullets colliding w/ bullets.. then colliding w/ the gun barrel.. etc.. **edit: nevermind it seems i just offset the firing position well in front of the gun, not sure that would work for your situation since its personal arms.. and will probably fire at closer proximity to other things, might not be the most accurate)

i couldn't use raycasts in order to get the desired effect (with bullets creating that arc), well now that i think about it i probably could.. but i just used rigidbodies.. still need to build a pooling system for them tho..

[rocky canyon]

lol.. i used exactly 100 for my bullets 🙂

i havent done much of any testing tbh after getting it firing correctly.. (not sure what kind of physics issues a projectile moving 100 units / second causes)

[timber tide]

rb physics does an ok job, but at 100 I'd have 1 clipping through every so often

[rocky canyon]

true, true.. since my target is 100s of units away i dont have those issues

[timber tide]

may just want to do your own raycast checking if that happens

[rocky canyon]

the bullet has a CHUNKY collider.. and continuous dynamic i think

yup, thats all.. unity's physics engine does the rest 💪

i hate certain things like wheel colliders for example.. but i have to say. Unity's physics engine is pretty nice most of the times i deal w/ it

[timber tide]

yeah it's pretty decent. I've kinda just use the KCC for everything nowadays though

can't be bothered with the game physics parts like moving platforms and slopes ;)

[rocky canyon]

i have a paid variant of it.. and i can agree.. kinematics are the way to go when player characters are involved

i swap from that and a CC

[timber tide]

I have ecm2 as well which is identical but havent used it much

I'd say it's more like the continued supported version of KCC

[rocky canyon]

Character Movement Fundamentals is the one I use. No real complaints so far

i think that cool capsule w/ a cap caused me to impulse purchase 😄

[rocky canyon]

is KCC not getting updates/supported anymore?

or did i read that wrong

[timber tide]

looks pretty good. If I had all the money in the world to buy the 30+ cc solutions on the store I would

KCC is released free but unsupported now as the dev got hired by unity

I think he probably got paid for making it free too

[rocky canyon]

oh okay

[timber tide]

he makes the CC for entities I think

[viscid fable]

sorry for the late answer i was eating dinner, thank you a lot for all the answers ill try all of them and see what works!

[warm raptor]

So I tried to understand how "singleton" works, and I still don't understand, also I tried to understand how static class work and I don't really understand etheir , so I just try to remove the "static" when I instanciate my class

//I changed this 
public static Client Instance { get; private set; }
// to this 
public Client Instance { get; private set; }

and it seam to work completly fine, and hasn't changed anything, but when I'm trying to call the "Died()" void from my Client script I still have this issues, even if nothing is static anymore (or at least I think nothing is static)

Assets\_Script\Multiplayer\Client.cs(335,29): error CS0120: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'FPSController.Died()'

[cosmic quail]

its not a singleton if its not static. make it static

and then call FPSController.Instance.Died()

[warm raptor]

why do you add .Instance when calling this void ?

[cosmic quail]

thats how you access the singleton

[timber tide]

Singleton isn't truely static... you can always renew the instance inside of it and get a whole fresh new state

they have some uses over static classes though which you should use if it's not just static read-only data or simple global utility methods

[warm raptor]

okay that's it, I'm now completely lost 😆

[timber tide]

puting them on a monobehaviour and throwing it on the scene will allow to serialize values right onto it too so really helpful for setting up the scene to a main manager type system

[warm raptor]

but, the script where is my Died() void isn't a singleton ?!

[real grail]

Here is a simple example to help you understand Singletons:

public class ScriptA : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static ScriptA Instance;
    
    private void Awake()
    {
        if(Instance != null)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
        else
        {
            Instance = this;
        }
    }
    
    public void Die()
    {
        Debug.Log("Die");
    }
}

public class ScriptB : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start()
    {
        ScriptA.Instance.Die();
    }
}

[timber tide]

static classes only come in scope when they are first referenced, but mono singletons will only scope when you choose so (usually on scene load)

[warm raptor]

I kind of understand what you're doing, but in my case, it would be the scriptA instance that try to call a void in the scriptB

[cosmic quail]

you're turning your script into a singleton, not the methods inside it (the void thing is called a method)

[burnt vapor]

Sorry, can't really discuss it because it's late here but I think the others explain it very well

[reef tangle]

hey, im new to unity and making a game for a school project. I found and learnt this code for a following camera, but i cant seem to edit it to make the camera only follow on the x axis. any help would be appreicated :).

[warm raptor]

don't worry, and thank you so much for helping me yesterday!

[slender nymph]

obligatory: use cinemachine

[timber tide]

only update the x axis then ;p

[quartz anvil]

Having trouble adding a force to a prefab instatiated from code. Im declaring a public Gameobject and assigning it in the editor to my prefab. im then running a method that instantiates the prefab how I want but wont apply a force to the Rigidbody?

[warm raptor]

I'm really sorry, but I didn't understand what you meant.

[slender nymph]

show !code but i'd bet you're trying to apply force to the prefab rather than the instantiated object

[eternal falcon]

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[cosmic quail]

what do you think a singleton is?

[reef tangle]

yeah I figured, I dont really understand the code at the moment so im not sure which specific bit is affecting the x and y axis

[warm raptor]

to be honest, I have no idea

[real grail]

So if the hole class is static that means all methods in the class are also static.
So all you need to do is

public static void DiedUI()
{
    PlayerUI.gameObject.SetActive(false);
    LeaderBoard.gameObject.SetActive(false);
    DeathUI.gameObject.SetActive(true);
}

[quartz anvil]

public class ShipCoreSpawner : MonoBehaviour
{
    
       public GameObject LaserShot;
   





public void FireCannon()
    {
        Instantiate(LaserShot);       
        Rigidbody rbS = LaserShot.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
              
        rbS.AddForce(Vector3.Forward * 200f);
        
        
    }
void Update()
{

FireCannon();



}
}

this is the summerized version

[slender nymph]

yep, you're adding force on the prefab not the instantiated object. Instantiate returns the newly instantiated object so use that instead

[timber tide]

You're setting a vector3 with another vector3. Check the properties of a vector3 to get an idea what you can access

[cosmic dagger]

don't forget, you cannot access instance fields, only access static fields as well . . .

LaserShot is the prefab, not the instantiated object you created. reference the instantiated object and use that instead . . .

[quartz anvil]

whats that reference called / how is it accesed?

[cosmic dagger]

check the !docs for Instantiate to see how the method is used . . .

[eternal falcon]

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[slender nymph]

you access it the same way you access the returned object from any method that returns an object. assign it to a local variable. if you do not know how to use a method to return an object, perhaps start with the beginner c# courses pinned in this channel

[quartz anvil]

brainfart, ty

[cosmic quail]

think of it as a way of accessing your script from anywhere without needing a reference. you know how scripts are usually referenced right?

[warm raptor]

I don't know if that's what you said (and I apologize if it is), but in the script where the Died() methode is, Nothing is static.
Also I already tried to set the Died() method as static but I get this error 3 time (one for each UI):

Assets\_Script\Character\FPSController.cs(476,9): error CS0120: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'FPSController.PlayerUI'

[reef tangle]

im aware it refers to the x, y, z positions right? Im still confused with the code because it doesnt seem to be changing those positions seperately

[timber tide]

It sets the whole vector, but you want to make a new vector with the previous yz units but with new updated x values. Just got to expand it out more.

[cosmic quail]

have you done the beginner unity courses at !learn ?

[eternal falcon]

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[warm raptor]

Normally, I know, it's when you reference them directly via the inspector, or when you search for them on a specific object using the .find method. So if I've understood correctly, this means I can do exactly the same thing as when I reference my scripts, but without going through this referencing stage?

[warm raptor]

I think I never finished it. 😅

[real grail]

In update if you just want to update the X position it would be something like this crude in Update:

transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(new Vector3(transform.position.x,0f,0f),new Vector3(target.position.x,0f,0f),ref velocity,smoothTime);

[cosmic quail]

yeah you just call the .Instance to access its methods. and singletons can only be used for scripts that you have only one of

[reef tangle]

ohh that makes a lot more sense now how you can expand it. I will try that. Thanks everyone

[warm raptor]

that seams to be quite powerful and useful

[cosmic quail]

true

[warm raptor]

I never thought that such a simple error could have taught me so many things, thank you so much for your help (on that note, I still have to find a way to display this UI 😆 ).

[inner pine]

I purchased an asset with its source code provided and attempted to add new features using it. Upon reviewing the code, I discovered that most of its functionality is implemented without the virtual keyword, making it difficult to extend and use. I understand that such keywords should be used with clear intent, but there are parts where I genuinely believe inheritance is necessary.

How do you approach resolving such cases? Would it be appropriate to modify the asset's code to make it more extensible?

[frosty hound]

That would seem to be the approach, assuming there's no breaking updates to come with it.

You could always message the developer too?

[inner pine]

It seems I need to look for the developer’s email. (It is not listed in the asset overview.)

[tawny edge]

I have a basic question, if i call this "for" function inside void Start() would the "for" run 3 times in a single frame?
Or would it complete it''s rrun in the third frame, meaning the "for" run incrementaly each frame?

    {
        for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
        {
            Instantiate(enemyPrefab, GenerateSpawnPos(), enemyPrefab.transform.rotation);
        }
    }```

[slender nymph]

loops do not happen "over time" like that, the entire loop is completed before the next line of code runs
if you want something to happen over a period of time, use a timer in update without a loop, or use a coroutine

[inner pine]

It seems I can find the developer's email and contact them through it.

[frosty hound]

What's the asset?

[zenith cypress]

A simple example to show that it doesn't happen over time, is with a while(true){}, which will freeze your app since it never escapes it. So code afterward doesn't execute.

[inner pine]

Here it is: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/ui-node-connect-4-245389

[polar acorn]

All functions run to completion when called. Whenever you call SpawnEnemyWave, it will do the entire function before moving to the next line

[frosty hound]

[e-mail]

[steep rose]

you can look for their email by clicking on their name

[weak isle]

Idk if this goes here but I have my player equip a wand. When I look left and right it rotates fine but up and down makes the wand weird. How would I make it rotate the same as left and right and also not look weird to other players

[hallow hound]

Hello!! im kinda new using unity and im getting so anoyed with the camara in the editor, rigth now i cant zoom in my objects and they are in the coords 0 0 0 and the editors camera is like soooo far out but it doesnt let me zoom in, like i can zoom out but when zooming in it just stops

[steep rose]

it is required by unity to have some sort of way for others to get in contact with you

[tawny edge]

got it thanks!

[tawny edge]

thank you!

[steep rose]

zoom out and select an object and press F to focus

[hallow hound]

omg thank youuu

[steep rose]

it will move the editor camera near the object, of which you should be able to zoom in

[hallow hound]

yeees thank you, been more anyed with that camara than coding itself haha

[inner pine]

It seems that modifying the code might be the best solution. I will discuss this issue with the developer. Thank you!

[hallow hound]

hey another question, this anoying error is there almost since i started the proyect, what is it?

[vocal wharf]

Exactly what it says in the error. In one of your scripts your code is referencing and trying to do something to an object, but there is no object there for it to do anything with. If it's a public gameobject or something just assign it in inspector, or if it's not public then use GameObject.GetComponent to get the reference to the object.

[flat sphinx]

is there a function for "return number thats further from 0"

ik theres piping abs into max but i'd rather it be inplace

and the only way i can think of to have that is multiplying it by the var's sign after which feels yucky

nvm got it

[zenith cypress]

Sounds like this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.mathf.round?view=net-9.0#system-mathf-round(system-single-system-int32-system-midpointrounding) with MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero, but might not be the same thing you want

[grizzled fulcrum]

So I've been having two issues I don't quite know how to fix
For one, I'm trying to build a game in the same aspect ratio for a phone, but for Windows, so I tried setting the resolution on Player Settings as 1080x1920, and 720x1280, and fullscreen mode as "WIndowed", both without success, as the game launches with a wider than intended screen
Any clues how I can fix this?

[vast stirrup]

Vector3 worldPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
transform.LookAt(worldPosition);

apparently I am doing this wrong. how do I make my character look at the mouse, but never look up or down. how?

[rich adder]

you have to omit the y position

[vast stirrup]

how

[rich adder]

you assign the target Y pos to height you want

[rich adder]

if thats sprites you have to probably make some code to adjust the sizes according to screen.height/width
(similar to how canvas scaling works in UI)

the camera resizes with the resolution, you probably did not align everything using the same res as your window/player build

even with the same aspect ratio you have more pixels

[grizzled fulcrum]

Hm, I wonder if that's related with the fact the Canvas I set doesn't appear with the title of the game either

[rich adder]

you'd have to check your canvas scaling mode and whatnot

the resolutions you pick in game view mode are important for testing, after that they do not affect the player

[grizzled fulcrum]

The whole pixels per unit schtick?

[rich adder]

ideally you would have Scale With Screen

then set a reference base resolution (eg if i target 16:9 i usually start at a low HD like 1280 x 720)

[grizzled fulcrum]

I probably didn't do either of those, lemme open the project and check some stuff to see if it helps

I think it's the typical case of "What I see in Game Mode I presume will be there in Build"

[rich adder]

thats strictly UI btw, for sprites it gets tricky because there is no such component that does it for you

[rich adder]

yea only if the resolutions fit the ratio you tested on

[grizzled fulcrum]

Eh, if anything I can just put some black boxes on the sides and call it a day, no biggie

[rich adder]

also viable. Also you can check Screen class to see whats the current size for what you did in game view. If anything keep the window size around that rez

[grizzled fulcrum]

I think the Game worked because I specifically set it to be ran on a 9:16 ratio, while also keeping the camera to the same size

As for the Canvas, eh... red circle is where the sprites and stuff for the game are. I should probably screenshot the Canvas itself, no?

Yeah, I probably found the issue

One second

[hallow hound]

I dont know what it is!, literally it started saying that rigth before i started the new proyect, i ignore it and keep adding stuff, and what i have done is working fine, so it should be any of my objects, how can i know where is the error coming from?

[vocal wharf]

It gave the error on a blank project with no scripts? Try double clicking the error to see where it takes you or what more info it says

also does it keep coming back if you delete the error?

[polar acorn]

Open your Package Manager and look for anything that needs to be updated

[dense bridge]

If it's a brand new project, could it be outdated ? 🤔

[polar acorn]

Yeah, the templates don't get updated unless you reinstall the editor

[dense bridge]

Good to know, thanks

[hallow hound]

i just takes me here but thats part of unity itself

[vocal wharf]

man idk sorry.

[hallow hound]

yes it does

[vocal wharf]

try this

[hallow hound]

there was something that needed to be updated and i did it but still that error

literally this all i have

i mean what im doing still works but just wanted to get rid of that error

[steep rose]

looks like a unity VC issue, if you need unitys VC make sure you have the package installed

[dense bridge]

can you search for the script in the project, select it and show the inspector please ?

[rich adder]

delte unity version control

[steep rose]

yes, if you do not need or want it you should not have it as it may cause issues like this.

[hallow hound]

Ohh

[rich adder]

new blank templates are borked

[hallow hound]

where do i delete that?

[steep rose]

you should be able to do so via package manager

just get rid of the version control package

[rich adder]

give unity a restart too mayb

[hallow hound]

Yeess it worked

thank you guys!

[grizzled fulcrum]

Huh, now it's way too big

I just redid the Canvas as a whole and adjusted it with Scale with Screen, dunno what went wrong this time

[rich adder]

whats it look like in game mode unity?

[grizzled fulcrum]

Still normal as it should look like

[rich adder]

but what resolution are you testing.. like i said the Aspect ratio isn't the only factor

if its a bigger pixel area it has to compensate

[grizzled fulcrum]

Oh right. Currently it's 720x1280, that's prolly the issue

Lemme increase back to 1080p

[grizzled fulcrum]

Nnnnope, still big

[rich adder]

where? whats is the resolution in the Game view and what resolution are you making build with

[grizzled fulcrum]

I'm using 1080x1920 for both, swapped the Aspect in Game view for the 1080x1920 outright

[grizzled fulcrum]

But when I tried to build, it's essentially the same image as I sent up here

[rich adder]

also are you making a clean build each time ? and new folder?

[grizzled fulcrum]

Yup

I'll give it another shot in a different folder

Egh

Is it because it tries to emulate the big screen but my computer screen is not as big to fit it perhaps?

[rich adder]

you have to anchor/resize things accordingly. Espcially the top logo
also you can tell the P and e Letters are pretty much the same distance from edges like you see them in game view.

[grizzled fulcrum]

So now it's just a game of resizing to fit in the frame?

[rich adder]

and achoring

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

[grizzled fulcrum]

I frankly don't understand how the anchoring system-- thanks.

[rich adder]

see link 👆

[grizzled fulcrum]

Yea, I was gonna ask about it as soon as you sent it lol

Mmm, I wish I could just see how big the thing actually is when I make the game, so I don't need to rebuild it all the time

[rich adder]

thats what the game view is for lol

[grizzled fulcrum]

Well yeah, albeit when building it becomes different it's a little bit concerning

[rich adder]

thats again, not proper layout / anchoring with UI will do that

for sprites, its a similar concept but there is no built component for sprite renderers
(canvas resizing i mean)

[warm raptor]

Hi! Is it possible to have an error in the unity console that isn't actually an error?
I was looking for a solution for 2 days to my error in my C# script, I left for about 1 hour to do other things, and miraculously when I came back my script was recompiled and no more errors appeared, even though I hadn't changed anything.

[slender nymph]

are you certain it was a compilation error in your code and not a runtime exception (including exceptions in editor code) or a warning?

[late burrow]

wait do chars actually have 65k number capacity?

[warm raptor]

I don't really know, I was having this issue :

Assets\_Script\Character\FPSController.cs(476,9): error CS0120: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'FPSController.PlayerUI'

[polar acorn]

C# chars are 2 bytes. The maximum unsigned integer that can be stored in 2 bytes is 65,535

[slender nymph]

That is a compile error, yes. and you had to have changed something to fix that. you likely either got a reference to the object or made PlayerUI static

[polar acorn]

What's on that line

[warm raptor]

I'm 100% sure I don't change anything

[late burrow]

thats a lot of space inside single char i could mash in many data into string and extract char by char

[real grail]

char type has the size of 16 bits or up to 65,536 ( 2 1 6 ) unique pieces of data

[slender nymph]

and i'm 100% certain that you did because compilation errors don't magically fix themselves

[polar acorn]

Congratulations you've just discovered binary serialization

[late burrow]

it never worked well with strings

i will have to base64 it each time i want to hold it

[polar acorn]

It works fine, as long as you don't care about your string actually containing anything readable

[warm raptor]

Yeah I know, that's why I was asking, because it seems to be a very strange situation.

[polar acorn]

What's on the line with the error

[warm raptor]

it was this line

fpsController.Died(); 

[slender nymph]

i guarantee that is not the line the error you just posted was referring to

[polar acorn]

The error you posted references PlayerUI

This line doesn't

so you probably changed more in the code which changed which line this was

[warm raptor]

ok so let me explain the whole problem, because I quite dont understand everything about what was the problem

[slender nymph]

i don't need you to explain the whole problem. the error was referring to something else and you've fixed it if the error is no longer appearing

[polar acorn]

It looks like you tried to access a non-static variable called PlayerUI using the class name

when you'd need to tell it which FPSController you wanted to access PlayerUI from

[warm raptor]

so basically I have a script "client" that handle my websocket connection, and with this script I was trying to call a void in an other script that basically show a certain UI when the player die, and the issues was that my script was using a static class, and the void Died() wasn't static, so it gave me an issue, so I decided to make my "client" script non static, but it was still telling me that I couldn't call the Died() void because it wasn't static, so I tried to make it static and this gave me the error that I've mantionned earlier. then I decided to remove the static atribute from my Died() void and left unity with an error, then when I came back 1hour later, the script compile again for no reason, and the script was fix . (I hope I've explained it well and that my English isn't too bad. 😅 )

[polar acorn]

If a function is static, you call it with ClassName.Function(). If the function is not static, you have to call it on an instance of that class

[warm raptor]

I still don't understand the concept of static class and singleton, but now that the problem has been mysteriously solved, I'll be able to take the time to understand these concepts.

[slender nymph]

it was "mysteriously solved" by you changing something.
#💻┃code-beginner message

[late burrow]

ok but what stops me from turning id into char no matter how i edit it i cant make it char

[polar acorn]

It's a string

Strings are many chars

[late burrow]

yes im trying make it char instead

i want make string from multiple chars

storing multi digit int in single char is great for coding

[polar acorn]

Which char do you want from it

[late burrow]

i want everything to be char

[polar acorn]

A string is many chars

[late burrow]

yes

[warm raptor]

even if I'm visibly afflicted with dementia and I managed to fix my bug without even realizing it, I'd like to at least understand what I did to resolve this bug 😅
Thank you very much for taking the time to help me !

[polar acorn]

Which char do you want from id.ToString("D2")

[late burrow]

so why it errors out if i try make id char instead

(char)id

[polar acorn]

Because you've made it into a string. A string is not a char

[late burrow]

ok so

(char)index + (char)id + (char)rot.x + (char)rot.y + (char)rot.z
why this wont work

[slender nymph]

why do you need to make it a char here anyway? you're concatenating multiple objects to create a string, why does id need to be cast to char for that?

[late burrow]

because for networking i need 3 copies of same var and storing everything in single var is much less code

[polar acorn]

What does it say when you try

[late burrow]

cannot convert int to string

[polar acorn]

For networking you should be using bytes

[slender nymph]

this is incredibly fucking cursed. and does not answer the question i actually asked

[slender nymph]

you are adding multiple chars together which, surprisingly (but only to you), does not concatenate them. it performs an integer addition

[late burrow]

ok so adding another () around them should stop it but it doesnt

[polar acorn]

What type are you trying to store the variable in?

[late burrow]

string

[polar acorn]

You're going to get a char as the result

Char is not string

You'd need to store it in a char

[late burrow]

i want mash chars together

[polar acorn]

Then you wouldn't be adding them

[late burrow]

oh you mean that cursed char[] thing

and i need convert it to string then

[polar acorn]

Don't use a string as a ghetto byte[] for networking because you are scared of the data type

[slender nymph]

what do you think is the result of this operation: 'a' + 'b'

[late burrow]

i expected it wont autoconvert them to ints while in char format

[polar acorn]

chars are numbers

when you add two numbers, it gives you a number

[late burrow]

ok so solution is starting addition with ""

[polar acorn]

Solution: Stop doing whatever the fuck you're doing

[void thicket]

Have you heard string interpolation

[late burrow]

i know i can pack it tighter by storing it as bytes but then it will be pain to reuse into code

[grizzled fulcrum]

@rich adder
Thanks a bunch for the help, I managed to fix what I needed

[late burrow]

single char is very nice in every aspect

[polar acorn]

you're literally going to have to do exactly the same kind of decoding to get it back from the chars

[slender nymph]

but then it will be pain to reuse into code
not if you do this the sane way

[late burrow]

no i can do something like
transform.position = new vector3(string[2], string[3], string[4])

its super simplified

[slender nymph]

what's going to be even worse is attempting to store a shit load of data in single chars, you cannot fit an entire integer in a char. you cannot fit an entire float in a char. that is not going to work

[polar acorn]

How is it that every fucking time you post here you're doing some absolutely wild bullshit and refuse to do the sane and simple thing that would solve your problem instantly

This has to be some kind of psy-op

[rich adder]

anuked secret ai

[void thicket]

Lol what

[polar acorn]

Can't be. An AI would need to be sourcing its data from somewhere

[rich adder]

touche

[polar acorn]

and literally no one ever at any point in history has ever done shit this wrong

[slender nymph]

also just casting a float to a char is going to lose data because the char is an integer which means it loses the floating point data and only stores the whole number

[rich adder]

ai would also use bytes here 😆

[void thicket]

Now they made the history

[late burrow]

vector3int i never use floats

[rich adder]

you missed the entire point

[void thicket]

Anyways int also does not even fit in a char

[polar acorn]

I'm gonna blow a fucking gasket

[slender nymph]

"vector3int" except you're using a vector3 right there in the example and if you're storing positions it's not a Vector3Int either

[late burrow]

im just saying about solutions that fit are quite more complicated than what im doing mostly

[polar acorn]

No, they really, truly are not

[late burrow]

and theres no arguing that is simplest way to create different data from string

since theres literally no built in method to make vector from string

[slender nymph]

in that case since you've clearly got this figured out, why are you here?

[void thicket]

We call it "deserialization"

[late burrow]

yeah i did i only wanted know why cant i add chars

[polar acorn]

You can

Pretty easily

But what you're doing isn't addition

you're doing what can only be described as a "thought crime"

You seem to be under the assumption that you're literally the only person who has ever needed to transfer a vector over the internet.

This assumption is false.

There are ways to do this. Well-trodden ways with decades of follies behind them.

Converting numbers into chars and packing them into strings to send over the network to unpack into bytes then back into chars then cast back into ints is not it

[naive pawn]

you can, you just aren't concatenating them, you're adding them numerically into a single char

[teal viper]

You can. As numbers. If you want to concatenate them(which is what you want to do from the looks of it", you'll need to convert them to strings first.

[late burrow]

dam ppl really want extend discussion as much possible

here i got the solution already

[teal viper]

Yes, that's concatenation. They get converted to strings here

This is not "char addition" though

[naive pawn]

"A" + " " -> "A "
'A' + ' ' -> 'a'

[polar acorn]

(a.k.a. you are using 8 times as much memory as just storing the fucking vector)

[naive pawn]

what's the point of this, even

[polar acorn]

They're scared of arrays

[naive pawn]

if you were going to stringify this info, you would probably just interpolate the string

if you're trying to serialize it, then.. do that instead of.. whatever this is

[void thicket]

Now imagine you have 350 degree rotation

[naive pawn]

this isn't a solution to anything, wth are you trying to do lol
you must be so deep in a https://xyproblem.info at this point, let's get ya out of that hole

[polar acorn]

They won't give you the actual problem.

They assume it's "unnecessary"

[naive pawn]

which is why i gave that link

[polar acorn]

It's not the first time

Probably not even the hundredth

[naive pawn]

christ

[spark sinew]

hi y'all, if I want to transfer data from a sensor to a quest, for a game, how do I set up a connection between the two? I am ultra beginner. I heard from people we have to use a UDP ?

[ripe shard]

What sensor?

[spark sinew]

a Lidar that detect pedestrian positions (x,y)

[ripe shard]

Does that sensor have microcontroller attached to it with a WiFi, bluetooth, usb, RJ45 or other module for networking?

[spark sinew]

yes, there will be

WiFi

and we can be on the same network

[ripe shard]

Does it already send the data? How do you configure what it sends and where to?

[brisk nest]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[brisk nest]

Im having an issue where my player is constantly gaining y value and floating upward when i move for the first time. Here my movement code https://hastebin.com/share/eneloyobob.csharp
does anyone see anything wrong with it that could be causing this?

[wintry quarry]

Not totally sure why you're floating up... but the fact you are normalizing before zeroing out the y component in both cases is a problem.

Do you have any other scripts, and/or does your gravity happen to be set to a positive y value or something?

How is this code even getting invoked?

Nothing seems to call HandleAllMovement. Presumably you have at least one other script involved.

[wheat canopy]

Why does this not work? If slider.value = 1 then the boolean is true. Does CS not work this way?

[slender nymph]

= is the assignment operator, not the equality operator

[wheat canopy]

how did i forget this lmao

live, love, =

[wheat canopy]

Is it possible to use short-hand notation for this?

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel if you don't know how to do basic comparisons

[spark sinew]

I have not yet configured it, actually I do not have the system yet. I just wanted to get something going on the quest side to be ready to receive data

[wheat canopy]

cs is my second "real" programming lang, i just need to get basics down and then everything else is basically the same.

[slender nymph]

like i said, there are beginner courses pinned in this channel

[inland mesa]

This is a script attatched to the player model, when I click down the debug log isn't popping up, anybody know why?

[slender nymph]

you need to start by configuring your !IDE

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[pure drift]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[wintry quarry]

checking for inequality uses !=

[pure drift]

https://paste.ofcode.org/byjkvyva9tuTtmKUSaA4D5 does anybody know why my explosion spawns so far ahead of my enemy when my player colldies with the enemy i tried fixing it by resetting explosion prefab position so i assume its something to do with the code

[slender nymph]

GameObject exploPrefab = Instantiate(explosionPrefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
it spawns on this object's position

[dense bridge]

Instantiate(explosionPrefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity); you need transform of the hit collider

[pure drift]

ohh got it thank you both

sorry if it maybe obvious but what would be the syntax of implementing this because i tried playing around with it but all i get is an error

[wintry quarry]

What error?
What did you try?
What was the error?

the syntax is - use the position that you want instead of the position of the obejct this script is on

e.g., maybe you want the position of one of the contacts in the collision: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collision2D.GetContact.html

[pure drift]

oh i tried to do collider.position but i guess that is invalid and doing it completly wrong

[wintry quarry]

Well yeah the Collider2D component doesn't have a "position" property

And why would you want that anyway

you don't want the position of the collider

you want the point where the collision happened presumably

[pure drift]

oh ok right now im just researching the contact points and it seems to be what im looking for not too sure as im still kinda new to unity

[remote torrent]

how do i offset a box collider?

in the c#

[wintry quarry]

Change its center: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/BoxCollider-center.html

[remote torrent]

sorry i meant 2D, would that still work?

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider2D-offset.html

You could/should just check the docs yourself

[pure drift]

@wintry quarry i struggled for 2 hours just for the solution to be two lines of code thank you

[cerulean bear]

why are my laser beams like this?

using UnityEngine;
using static Enemy;

public class LaserBeam : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject player;
    public Transform spawnLocation;
    public bool isShooting;
    public Vector3 spawnRotation = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
    public Vector3 offSet = new Vector3(0, 2, 0);
    public float laserSpeed = 100f;

    void Start()
    {

    }


    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            isShooting = true;
        }
        else
        {
            isShooting = false;
        }
        if (isShooting)
        {
            Clone();
        }

    }
    void Clone()
    {
        Instantiate(gameObject, player.transform.position + offSet, Quaternion.Euler(spawnRotation));
        transform.Translate(Vector3.up * laserSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        if(transform.position.y > 6)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerEnter(UnityEngine.Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Enemy"))
        {
            // Get the Enemy component from the collided object
            Enemy enemy = other.GetComponent<Enemy>();

            if (enemy != null) // Ensure the object has an Enemy script
            {
                enemy.TakeDamage(1); // Call the method on the instance
                Destroy(gameObject);
            }
        }
    }
}

[brisk nest]

this fixed it, thank you

[cerulean bear]

forgot to attach the video

do I have to increase the speed to like 800 it's currently at 100

Please ping me when you reply

[eager spindle]

you're only calling transform.translate once in clone

this should be put in update

[eager spindle]

ok so there's several things to take note here

• this script is on a LaserBeam. If this is attached to the LaserBeam game object, every time you call Clone you're calling it on every laser beam. You're doubling the number of laser beams

• you should be moving the laser beams in Update. doing it in Clone only moves it once

• in Clone, you're moving the current laser beam, not the instantiated one

• in Update, your Input.GetKeyDown code can be simplified to like 2 lines

[silent falcon]

I would like to ask why the non-null comparison is shown expensive? Then what should I do? >>>

[eager spindle]

does it do the same if you call .CompareTo

[brisk nest]

Im trying to get my player to fall on sloped terrain but the issue is they remain floating after they walk off the terrain, and the y level drops by around 0.3 a second. Any ideas? All player scripts: https://hastebin.com/share/wikebeyudu.csharp

[silent falcon]

_tip does not seem to have the CompareTo method

[eager spindle]

The way some games do it is raycasting to the ground if the distance is small enough, teleporting the player there

There's a video on making better player controllers with tricks like these but I need to find it

[eager spindle]

which editor is this?

if it's anything from jetbrains they have this: https://rider-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/12950505395090-About-guide-that-comparison-to-null-is-expensive

[silent falcon]

Rider

[eager spindle]

first time seeing this but I don't think it's much of a concern

[silent falcon]

Ok, I can ignore the tip. 😀

[swift crag]

I don't get this suggestion in Rider

I'm using 2024.1.6

[north kiln]

You have turned it off

You can turn it off via the alt-enter menus too if you want

[warm mason]

why does unity gray out and not let me edit some options in the inspector?

i add a cube and it doesn't let me change the surface inputs 0.o

[polar acorn]

You can't change the default material

Give it a material and you will be able to

[warm mason]

the more you knowww!!!!!

tank u!

[fervent plover]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Screen-fullScreen.html

the docs don't specify this, but if Screen.fullScreen is set to on, does that make it "exclusive fullscreen" or "borderless window"? I noticed that sometimes my game "skips" frames and it feels like it runs in slow motion until I set Screen.fullScreen to off, but then it becomes windowed

[pale vault]

Just confirming with you guys, are Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") and Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") framerate independent, thus not needing any multiplication with Time.deltaTime?

[timber tide]

https://i.imgur.com/UAtVC4X.png

[pale vault]

Thank you

[wanton stirrup]

What would be the best way to get into C# and get enough knowledge about it, so I can start making stuff in Unity? My problem is that almost all the tutorials I found are for people who have no idea about programming, but I have coded in other programming languages before. I have also tried out C# once, but sadly I forgot almost all of it, so I want to refresh my knowledge. There are some more advanced concepts though, I don’t understand yet, like static classes, private and public variables, etc.
I can’t really learn by only reading the documentation :(
I appreciate any advice!

[burnt vapor]

I would still follow the tutorials and just skip the extra babbling

Or look up the documentation, and try to make an application

If you have knowledge of programming, possible ask tiny parts to ChatGPT and try to apply those while learning how the keywords apply relative to what the documentation specifies

It's usually what I'd do

[dense bridge]

Hey, weren't you the one that told me i gave terrible advice by suggesting chat GPT ? 😁

[burnt vapor]

There's a big difference between telling complete beginners to just let ChatGPT write their code and taking AI code as reference when learning a language as an experienced general programmer

[dense bridge]

If you have basic knowledge of programming, you can sort of "retro engineering" like i did to learn : import a popular asset renowned for the clean and well commented code, and try to understand how everything works. Join their discord and ask questions about the parts of their tool you don't understand. It's a cool and motivating way to lear for me.

[burnt vapor]

Considering you didn't understand why this was a bad idea to suggest, I really don't feel like having yet another discussion if that's what you're going for

[dense bridge]

Nope, it was just to kid you, i mean no harm. But still, i never suggested that, just being misunderstood, end of discussion 😉

[burnt vapor]

Beginners take AI code as it is and end up with horrible code and no idea how to debug. There have been plenty of users in this server seeking help with strictly AI code and it is a waste of time

Alrighty 👍

[eternal needle]

i agree with what fusedqyou is saying, look into tutorials and just skip the stuff obvious to you. For c# specifically, if you have a good idea of programming in other languages you could even try problem solving sites like leetcode or whatever else is ppopular. I wouldnt call "static classes, private and public variables" advanced concepts though, I do question how much experience you have though if public/private specifically is new to you. A lot of languages still have this
As for unity specific stuff, i looked at tutorials just to find out what exists/what its used for. Then id read through the docs and experiment with it in unity

[flat sphinx]

good coders look at code samples and learn from them
asking shartgpt for samples is fine
asking it to generate code just generates headaches

*generate code for you

[dense bridge]

Personnaly tutorials and doc was a big no to start, but i'm no pro in programming. There is different ways to learn for different people, but i think the worst way to start is having samples by AI because a little bad prompt can lead you to terrible sample, big waste of time at least, big bad habbit to erase at worst.

[wanton stirrup]

That actually sounds like a good idea

[naive pawn]

you could just have chatgpt explain examples instead
still not 100%, but at least there's less oppurtunity for hallucination if you're hellbent on using it

[naive pawn]

what other languages do you have experience in? we could point to more specific ways if we know what you already know

[wanton stirrup]

That also sounds like a good idea haha

[dense bridge]

That is a good idea, taking samples from the API and questionning AI

[naive pawn]

(statics and access control are pretty fundamental for OOP for example, but advanced for say, python where OOP itself is somewhat advanced)

[wanton stirrup]

Yeah maybe I will just ask ChatGPT to explain me the basic things, and then try to put together some simpler console applications

Just to get the hang of C#

[wanton stirrup]

Dart and Python mostly

[dense bridge]

As i say to my students, take advices, apply them "a little" then choose your way. Sometimes we think this is our way and it works better doing other way (sorry for my english, i hope you get the idea)

[naive pawn]

ah, i see why you're unfamiliar with OOP then

[wanton stirrup]

I wouldn't want to use ChatGPT to write actual code tho, I don't want to take the easy path haha

[naive pawn]

in that case, you may want to research that specifically?

OOP concepts, i mean

[wanton stirrup]

Ohh maybe I should do that, since I'm not even sure when is OOP used O_o

[dense bridge]

path of hell, seems easy, then debugging it could turn into nightmare if you rely only on AI ^^

[wanton stirrup]

Yes, I got the idea, thank you^^

[naive pawn]

OOP is object oriented programming. it's a somewhat advanced concept in imperative languages ie js, py, but it's a fundamental in c#, java

[wanton stirrup]

and I feel like you have to write most of the code by yourself, because then you will fully understand it and be able to add stuff later

[naive pawn]

in, i think most non-fp/sh/asm languages, objects are built-in to the language structure, but creating your own classes is somewhat advanced in imperative languages

for example in python, instanceof and class are where OOP happens

[dense bridge]

Yes, do dirt code and correct it, optimize it. Just do it. But for me a blank script was scary, so i prefered an asset well written and started to read it, and "tinker" it to add small parts, change some things... It was really fun (i do this for fun only, im paid for maths and helping/teaching in non traditonnal ways)

[timber tide]

just make small games and learn from your mistakes

dont start off with dream game

[wanton stirrup]

alright, I mean in Dart I pretty much understood classes and have actaulyl used them

[wanton stirrup]

The biggest project for now I have in mind is recreating Pong O_o

[timber tide]

perfect idea. Flabby birb for physics

oh I guess pong itself does have physics right right

[astral falcon]

And now combine to flappy pong 😉

[timber tide]

I think tetris is best learning game to make since it forces you to learn arrays, and uses the update loop so it's not fully static like checkers

[dense bridge]

game of life was fun to clone too

arrays and for loops intricated

[static ice]

Hi guys. I have frozen rigidbody constraitrs in X and Y in my unity editor but when I play game, the tick disappears and my player body is able to rotate on X and Y. Why is this happening? I searched online and people are freezing rigidbody in code, but there would be a better way than this...

[timber tide]

you sure it's not already being changed in code? Either way, adding it in start is fine too

[dense bridge]

something in sccript change it for sure, there's no way serialized change instead of this

press ctrl+f and research "Rigidbody.constraints" in VS

[burnt vapor]

Time to make a pong game where you're the ball and you go back and forth between the flipper thingies whilst evading pipes

[timber tide]

sound pretty legit

[static ice]

yeah your right there is a rb.freeze n my script. how does one make it freeze on x and y only?

using code

[tired slate]

Hi, I have a problem with detection when my hero touch the tile with city in 2D game, anyone can help me? I'm new in coding and i don't know how to do this

[dense bridge]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionZ.html

[burnt vapor]

We don't know your game, so if you want to be helped you have to give more context

Explain the problem with detection and optionally share related code if it's not related to physics

If it is related to physics, follow these steps, maybe https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/2d-physics-messages

[tired slate]

My hero move by WASD and he "jump" tile by tile, but when he jump on city tile the message isn't send to me. tile with city and my "hero" have BoxColider
and this is a code for my hero to detected the city
private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
{
if (other.CompareTag("City"))
{
// Wyświetl komunikat w konsoli
Debug.Log("you are in city!");
}
else
{
Debug.Log("it isn't a city!");
}
}

it's look like this:

and the brown tile is city

[burnt vapor]

Does your Unity console show one of the Debug messages?

[dense bridge]

If box colliders are triggers they wont collide, do you have a rigidbody ?

[tired slate]

console did't send any massage

[tired slate]

Only at hero

[burnt vapor]

Then please follow the steps from the link. Specifically this step: https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-matrix-2d

[little meteor]

do you need colliders for this? a better way might be to store an array with information on what's in each cell, that way (for a turn based movement game) you can just read the info on what's in each tile based on the position of your character?

[burnt vapor]

Yeah I don't think collission is really required either, but maybe I am missing something specific

[tired slate]

how can i do this?

[dense bridge]

If he is a beginner, it is indeed better but harder from my point of view

[little meteor]

Yes, If they want to learn about triggers and colliders then continue with this way, but if they want a more reliable solution, then storing it in a data structure would make more sense.

[little meteor]

let me make an example

[dense bridge]

Since you seems more advanced than me i have a question for you, i don't really do stuff in 2D but could it be Z axis changes then there is no collisions ?

[burnt vapor]

I personally don't even use Unity

I just know plenty of C#

But collission and things like this are some of the things I do know

[dense bridge]

• double check if your tag is well spelled
• play your game, click 3D, and see if boxes are actually colliding (if you touch Z axis for graphic parts but didnt make another gameobject for physic part)

[winter aspen]

been a while since I last did 2d, but iirc this is a thing

[dense bridge]

So, you're basically my doppleganger, i am unity certificated for game developping but not C# ^^

[tired slate]

thats it?

[dense bridge]

is the box collider a component of this ?

[tired slate]

can u explain step by step how to check this? i set 3D vision and i don know whats now

[little meteor]

how can i do this?

[dense bridge]

click on your object city tagged city, if there is a box collider (trigger checked) as a component say yes to me, and tell me if position Z is the same for hero (the gameobject having a box collider trigger and a Rigidby) and city

[tired slate]

yes and the position Z is the same like hero

[dense bridge]

Did you change anything to the physics matrix by layers ? https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LayerBasedCollision.html

[tired slate]

I only set the layers for hero and every tiles at "3: Tile"