💻┃code-beginner

[minor radish]

I found it but what should I do is it already updating ?

[cosmic dagger]

If using transform.position to move, make sure to use Lerp, MoveTowards, or a coroutine to interpolate its movement . . .

Though, you'll still have a problem with collision. You'll need to handle that manually using raycasts and physics checks methods . . .

[frail wind]

place it like this [ Lerp.transform.positsion ]

[cosmic dagger]

No, don't just guess. Look up the methods and tutorials on how to use them . . .

[frail wind]

ok

[minor radish]

Anyone I don't know what to do ?

[burnt vapor]

Once you confirmed that the package is installed, you proceed with the next step

Select the Help > Check for Updates menu.
If an update is available, the Visual Studio Installer shows a new version. Select Update.

[whole cliff]

Can't add script component 'TRIGGER script' because the script class cannot be found. Make sure that there are no compile errors and that the file name and class name match.

does anybody know how to fix this?

[frail hawk]

it is actually clear

[burnt vapor]

You have compiler errors, please share those

[languid spire]

did you do what the message tells you to do

[burnt vapor]

Check your console

[whole cliff]

in c#?

i started today so im very new

[burnt vapor]

No, In the Unity editor console

[whole cliff]

it doesnt say anything

[burnt vapor]

The issue is somewhat clear already, your editor is probably not configured. However, you should share the exception to confirm

[wintry quarry]

Show a screenshot of your console.

[burnt vapor]

Alternatively it just didn't compile, which is the same problem

[wintry quarry]

you're in play mode

stop the game

[whole cliff]

i did now

[wintry quarry]

also try not to include the nvidia overlay in your screenshots

[whole cliff]

yeah sorry wait

[wintry quarry]

If the console is empty, then it's probably, like the error said, that your filename and class name do not match

[whole cliff]

wait

my bad

it says nothing

[wintry quarry]

Given the name of this script file seems to have a space in it, then it's pretty clear the filename and class name do not match

So you need to fix that

[whole cliff]

there is no space now and it still doesnt work

[wintry quarry]

Does the filename match the class name?

That's what you need to happen

[whole cliff]

what is the class name?

[wintry quarry]

public class <?????>

for example

in a file called Goldfish.cs, you would name your class public class Goldfish

[whole cliff]

the tutorial i followed didnt do that and it was working for him

[wintry quarry]

I disagree

the tutorial you followed definitely did that

[whole cliff]

oh

[wintry quarry]

it doesn't work if you don't do that

[burnt vapor]

Unity generally handles the names for you, but if you decide to add a space initially it's going to mess up

[whole cliff]

ohhh wait

maybe this is the problem

[wintry quarry]

Again read your error message - which is very clear about the script name and class name needing to match

[wintry quarry]

i mean seeing as it STILL has a space in it, it's definitely the problem

because class names cannot have spaces

[minor radish]

It's already up to date and nothing happen

[frail wind]

for some reason unity think that [ target.position ] didn't exist and i can put that in. why is this happen?

[whole cliff]

how do i change it?

[wintry quarry]

how do you change a filename?

[whole cliff]

well how do i just fix it

[wintry quarry]

click on it once to select it, then click it again and wait. You can rename it

[burnt vapor]

You have done all the steps then. Try double clicking your script from the editor and it should open it in Visual Studio

[wintry quarry]

Or right click and rename it

[frail wind]

nvm

i just need to add the target first lol

[wintry quarry]

Refer back to my example #💻┃code-beginner message

[whole cliff]

it worked tysm

yall gonna be hearing alot from me bc im THIS stupid

thanks alot!

[frail hawk]

quick tip , if you want ot rename a script inside unity go into visual studio (if you are using it) and rename the classname from the context menu, it will also rename your unity script

[whole cliff]

can i use pyton for scripting beacause i feel like it would be easier

[wintry quarry]

no

you cannot

[whole cliff]

oh

[red igloo]

Hey so I am a total beginner, I know how to use unity itself but for the coding part I have 0 knowledge. I am more interested in making 3D games than 2D. How can I make myself get better at coding? I tried watching some tutorials which didn't help at all any advice?

[whole cliff]

then imma learn c#

[wintry quarry]

I recommend going through this stuff https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp

[frail hawk]

let us make a deal, unity implements python and unreal engine implements c# 😉

[minor radish]

Thank you but I'm still confused I don't see anything to guide me anyway I finally solved the problem

[burnt vapor]

It should point out the issue. If it still doesn't work you should download VS manually instead

I strongly suggest you configure it properly. It's a pain in the ass to work without it

[minor radish]

It might be just me but judging this screenshot above is it install for you ?

[languid spire]

no

[minor radish]

Okay I have to doanload it manually then ?

[languid spire]

no, you just have to follow the configuration steps exactly

[minor radish]

I did it and it doesn't work

[languid spire]

then you did it wrong, it's worked for 1000's of other people

[burnt vapor]

I suggest you just install VS manually since it's less tedious

[minor radish]

So I download the recent update manually ?

[mortal fog]

I have this code running in update, however only the first weapon that gets added to the list equippedWeapons is activating its Fire function. I have tested that multiple weapons are in the list, it's just that only the first to be added is calling the fire function. Weapons are added through the second function.

//running in update, firing logic happens in the WeaponBase
foreach (WeaponBase weapon in equippedWeapons)
{
    weapon.Fire();
}

public void EquipWeapon(WeaponBase newWeapon)
{
    if (!equippedWeapons.Contains(newWeapon))
    {
        upgradePool.weaponPool.Remove(newWeapon);
        equippedWeapons.Add(newWeapon);
        Debug.Log($"Weapon {newWeapon.weaponName} equipped.");
        newWeapon.player = gameObject;
    }
}

This code is in the WeaponBase class

    public void Fire()
    {
        if (Time.time >= timeSinceLastShot + 1f / fireRate)
        {
            timeSinceLastShot = Time.time;
            PerformFire();
        }
    }

    protected abstract void PerformFire();

[obsidian dagger]

Has the velocity changed to linear velocity?

[mortal fog]

yeah use linearVelocity now

[obsidian dagger]

Gotchu, so instead of velocity.x itd be linearVelocityX

[mortal fog]

linearVelocity.x

mb you are right

whoops

[wintry quarry]

Add Debug.Log lines to check:

• how many elements are in the list
• Every iteration of the loop

[naive pawn]

pretty sure both work

[frail wind]

is it necessary to add Time.deltaTime in this code line [ transform.position -= (Vector3.MoveTowards(a, b, moveSpeed)); ]

[frail hawk]

yes

[wintry quarry]

the third parameter should be moveSPeed * Time.deltaTime, yes

[frail wind]

beacuse if i add deltaTime the collision doesn't set in

[wintry quarry]

assuming this code is running in Update

[wintry quarry]

This code is completely wrong if you want collision

you should not be moving via transform.position at all

and it has nothing to do with deltaTime or not

You need to move via the Rigidbody if you want collisions to work

[frail hawk]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[frail wind]

yeah but like if my frame rate was high then the object would move faster without delta time right?

[frail hawk]

true

[frail wind]

btw i run [ transform.position -= (Vector3.MoveTowards(a, b, moveSpeed)); ] in fixedUpdate

[frail hawk]

not good

[limber epoch]

Hey guys, I need help with this error. I got Photon Quantum working, but Photon Voice 2 isn't being imported and this keeps popping up

[wintry quarry]

FixedUpdate avoids the framerate issue so no, but it should still use deltaTime because speeds should be expressed in distance per second not distance per frame

Anyway you should NOT be moving via the Transform regardless

[mortal fog]

2 elements are in the list and both are being called in the update

[wintry quarry]

as mentioned several times.

[wintry quarry]

Then it's working fine

what makes you think it's not working

Did you make timeSinceLastShot static or something?

[mortal fog]

yes

[wintry quarry]

put logs inside Fire in and out of that if statement

[wintry quarry]

well then it's pretty clear what's going wrong

all your weapons are sharing the same cooldown now

[finite heron]

for some reason, my jump animation isnt initating or doing anything actually, does anyone know how to resolve this issue? I genuinely cannot see my mistake

[frail wind]

is ther any method to keep collision on object while also not making it update everyframe that make object go so fast

hello?

how about i use transform.Translate

[wintry quarry]

For like the 5th time, no, Do not move the object via the Transform

Move it via the Rigidbody

[wintry quarry]

how is the transition configured between any state and Player_Jump?

[frail wind]

oh

i see

if i use Rigidbody then disable gravity then i will keep collison on on my spike

[whole cliff]

im back again!

how do i fix this?

[wintry quarry]

start by opening your console window

and then never close it again

you should always have it open

Then, like it says, fix all your compile errors

[whole cliff]

yeah i did that on accident

Assets\scripts\triggerscript.cs(8,26): error CS1002: ; expected

Assets\scripts\triggerscript.cs(9,6): error CS1513: } expected

what are these type of errors?

[wintry quarry]

these are compile errors

looks like basic syntax errors

[whole cliff]

hoe do i fix them?

[wintry quarry]

By opening the scripts they are pointing to

and looking at the line they are referring to

and fixing the code

You wrote invalid C# code.

In this case in triggerscript.cs on lines 8 and 9

The first one says " ; expected" which means you forgot a semicolon
The second one says } expected which means you forgot a } but it couold also mean you just generally wrote things improperly and it's confused.

[wintry quarry]

wrong transition

THe one I asked about is between Any State and Player_Jump

[finite heron]

oh sorry, I missread

[whole cliff]

i have good and bad news

[whole cliff]

the code was rewritten for me

but there is now a extra error

Should not be capturing when there is a hotcontrol
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

[wintry quarry]

what does that mean

ChatGPT?

[whole cliff]

like they changed my code

[wintry quarry]

Who did

who is "they"?

[whole cliff]

unity i think

[wintry quarry]

Unity doesn't change or rewrite code for you.

[whole cliff]

maybe this hobby is not for me

this shit is making me soo confused

like tf is this

[verbal dome]

That is very confusing indeed

[humble hound]

Hii everyone

[verbal dome]

The pins of this channel have C# beginner courses if you wanna actually learn

[humble hound]

can i use kinematic character controller to help make a dragon/bird controller

[charred spoke]

Do you mean KCC from the asset store ?

[humble hound]

yea

[whole cliff]

wait guys

i feel like im getting the hang of it

[humble hound]

or is it for humanoid characters only

[whole cliff]

what could i use instead of private

bc thats my last error

@wintry quarry could u help me?

[charred spoke]

Well you could make it work for a flying character as well, it’s kinematic it just goes where you tell it to.

[humble hound]

ok

[fervent abyss]

i do it like this:

targetTransform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(targetTransform.localEulerAngles.x, rotationReference.localEulerAngles.x, targetTransform.localEulerAngles.z);

[cosmic dagger]

You don't unlock the mysteries of coding and game dev in a day. It's an adventure: a journey of perils, with trials and tribulations waged upon your character. It's not an afternoon stroll through the park . . .

Just take it one step at a time: one tutorial/article. Redo it again. Make sure you understand every line of code before continuing. Most of all, discipline over motivation . . .

[lament agate]

Hello , Im trying to learn about gpu instancing. Im following some simple yt tutorial, but it doesnt work. I tried to google the error but idk what to do with it. Can someone give me an advice?

here is the code for it

[finite heron]

3 nested for in an update is crazy...

your runtime complexity is like non exsistant xD
But eh, im new myself when it comes to unity, sorry, maybe ask chat gpt

[swift crag]

it seems very reasonable given that you have three dimensions to work with...

[lament agate]

I hardly understand anything from it, i just followed simple unity tutorial 😄

[swift crag]

These things can be a bit fussy

DrawMeshInstanced is obsolete, according to the docs

you want to use RenderMeshInstanced

[lament agate]

@swift crag something like this ? Graphics.RenderMeshInstanced<Mesh, 0, material, metrices>; it gives me erors

[swift crag]

well, definitely not with that syntax...

Try the examples on this page https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Graphics.RenderMeshInstanced.html

[lament agate]

@swift crag It worked. Thank you. Do u know maybe some good tutorial on gpu instancing ?

[swift crag]

hm, not really -- https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/ has a ton of useful information about shaders and rendering, but I don't see an entire tutorial on instanced rendering

[lament agate]

@swift crag ok , thanks 😉

[fervent abyss]

omg can u help me with this

im bouta snap fr 😭

[verbal dome]

Is your gizmo set to Global or Local in this video?

Ok I see it's local

[fervent abyss]

local

[verbal dome]

Euler angles are tricky.. You could try something like targetTransform.forward/up/right = rotationReference.forward/up/right depending on how those things are oriented
Edit: Made the variable names match your example

There are better ways to do this but brain fog is real right now

[swift crag]

yeah, I try to avoid directly working with Euler angles when I can help it

[verbal dome]

You could also try additively rotating the hand around an axis with RotateAround, assuming that the character is animated every frame

[cosmic quail]

there's public and protected too for example

[swift crag]

what is the actual problem?

[fervent abyss]

im trying to make this script reusable for other objects too. is there any other solution?

[swift crag]

well, presumably, you'd assign different references each time...

[fervent abyss]

tho rn im trying to set this one x axis

[swift crag]

You could specify the axis in the inspector

[fervent abyss]

the up/right/forward is broken for me

[fervent abyss]

its like rotating other axis

[cosmic quail]

yeah a good reusable script would be to define in the inspector which axis it should be rotating around

[fervent abyss]

i want to do that and i almost did but rn im trying to figure out how to rotate

the axis is locked on 180 because quartenion

[swift crag]

this is part of why you shouldn't be fussing with euler angles

they produce interesting behaviors

[fervent abyss]

im just trying to rotate by x axis tho 😭

like theres no way its that hard 😭

[cosmic quail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPWO6LrQmck

2 minute video

[fervent abyss]

wont work for me. im trying to make an object rotate using my VR tracked hand

[cosmic quail]

how does that work?

[verbal dome]

Show the orientation of your hand object

Select it with gizmos in local and show us

The orientation is slightly weird, I usually expect bones to have the Y or Z as forward, not X

Not sure if that matters here tho

[fervent abyss]

it doesnt

[swift crag]

i've seen some WEIRD bone rolls and orientations

[verbal dome]

Z would be preferred since euler angles are applied in the order Z > X > Y so the Z wouldn't interfere with the other axes

[fervent abyss]

im so tiredddddd with thissssss 😭

[fervent abyss]

so what do i do

[verbal dome]

What else is rotating the hand? Does it have an animator running?

[fervent abyss]

theres an armature

but i think it doesnt really matter since the problem is that the rotation is limited?

[mortal cedar]

hello ! i 'm trying to make a 2d game on unity but i have a problem, i want an enemy to follow the player when he attacks for the first time, the player has a sword and a variable called "HasAttacked" in the sword script and i call it to the enemy script by typing "public Sword sword;" and if (sword.HasAttacked) {
isFollowing = true;
It works but when i put my enemy in the prefab folder the script of the sword (and the player) disappear and i can't put them back in. Picture of the prefab enemy here:
does someone know what to do ?

[verbal dome]

Just thinking about this #💻┃code-beginner message

[proper needle]

exact same settings, but only one key glows. Am I doing something wrong

[fervent abyss]

nah i tried it does it constantly

[wintry quarry]

The enemy having a direct reference to the player's sword is... crazy, and unnecessary

[mortal cedar]

what should i do then ?

[wintry quarry]

Depends why it needs that reference

But get it opportunistically

[fervent abyss]

like it rotates constantly

[wintry quarry]

Or have the enemy spawner pass it to the enemy

[verbal dome]

Try targetTransform.forward = rotationReference.forward

[mortal cedar]

how can i do that ?

[wintry quarry]

Depends on how your game works
But I'm thinking something like in a Raycast or a collision callback

[mortal cedar]

basically it's a 2d game but it's really to learn, it looks like that for now

[verbal dome]

Btw is your gizmo set to Center, not Pivot?

Use Pivot

[mortal cedar]

i just need the big foots to be notified when the player attacks for the first time

[fervent abyss]

yeah

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to use an event

[proper needle]

@wintry quarry @verbal dome can one of u help me with this after ur done with @mortal cedar

[fervent abyss]

k but it didnt really change anythin

[mortal cedar]

okay i'll try

[verbal dome]

Doesn't seem like a coding issue

#archived-urp ?

#archived-lighting ? #🖼️┃2d-tools ?

[proper needle]

alr ill post it there

[fervent abyss]

physics and math suck for quartenion

[tough trench]

Does anyone know why I can't add my script to anything

[fervent abyss]

nvm im so done

[verbal dome]

Now it's facing the correct way in the Z axis but it doesn't know which way to face the X axis

[fervent abyss]

WHY IS IT SO HARD its supposed to be easier 😭

[fervent abyss]

[verbal dome]

Yeah I'm not going to help someone who's constantly on the brink of giving up

[fervent abyss]

im not

im just tired and brain fog is coming

as well as my wifi is DYING

[frail hawk]

make sure your scriptname and classname match, you might have renamed one of them, also make sure you don´t have any errors in the console, if so fix them first

[tough trench]

anyone know how to fix these

[languid spire]

Yes, remove the Version Control package from your project if you are not using it
Pretty sure you were told that already

[robust condor]

What way is it best to achieve the following. I have an ability system where player clicks an ability then a target. The selected character shoots a projectile or a spell from character toward the target. The game is turn based and enemies are static (3D). Should I still spawn gameobjects and projectile them and check for colliders, or should I use particle system? You can't miss if you click incorrectly. I need a projectile travel effect and one effect when it hits the enemy. Particles can't detect collision so I should use some kind of duration timer calculated by range? It seems more complicated than spawning gameobjects. It's basically like Baldurs Gate 3 when using a spell or ability.

[verbal dome]

IMO depending on particle collisions for anything that affects the gameplay feels wrong

[swift crag]

yeah

[robust condor]

Right, so using gameobjects the only way to detect when I should initiate the explosion effect is to check the collider hit?

[verbal dome]

You could do a ray/spherecast also

You can't miss if you click incorrectly.
Clarify this part a bit?

Is it like arcadey in the sense that it's not about aiming

[robust condor]

It's not an aiming system, you click a target or you don't, if you don't click the enemy collider you can't shoot anything, IE the ground

[verbal dome]

More about stats/dice rolls

[verbal dome]

So you don't need accurate collisions here?

[robust condor]

Kinda like in final fantasy where you use a little hand to select the target

No I just need to make sure the projectile whe it travels has an effect, like a fireball and when it arrives on the target it needs to explode

[verbal dome]

And you determine if it hits or not, right when you shoot?

[robust condor]

Yeah

[verbal dome]

I should use some kind of duration timer calculated by range?
I think you are on the right track here

You could use colliders and physics for this, I just think calculating it yourself is more reliable/aligns better visually

Is it turn based?

[robust condor]

Yes

There seems to be something called ParticleCollisionEvent

[verbal dome]

Yes, particles can have collisions

If it's purely visual then you can use that

[robust condor]

How do I make the projectile arc when traveling with particles? Can I arc a raycast and make it follow it?

[verbal dome]

You could make an arc of multiple raycasts, but what is the point of the raycast then

[wet lark]

chat question about instance ID, is it ideal to use it for find and search or should i make a different ID. Example searching through an Inventory System for a dictionary that uses it as the key?

[verbal dome]

You could just calculate like a parabola and move the particles along that path

[robust condor]

Ah yeah I know the pos of the character and the enemy, so I can just move the particle along the arc

[verbal dome]

Instance ID's don't persist between sessions, so if that's an issue then no you can't use those

[wet lark]

oh wow they are different every session, ok thats good to know. What if its on a Scriptable object ?
like i have an ItemDataSO that has the id
public int ID => GetInstanceID();

[swift crag]

Also unusuable.

[verbal dome]

Doesn't matter what the Object is, it will be problematic if you try to have persistence

The ID changes between sessions of the player runtime and Editor. As such, the ID is not reliable for performing actions that could span between sessions, for example, loading an object state from a file.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.GetInstanceID.html

[swift crag]

If you want to be able to identify an asset, consider copying its asset-database GUID into a field on the object!

I use this all over the place in my game

https://bronsonzgeb.com/index.php/2021/09/11/the-scriptable-object-asset-registry-pattern/

[verbal dome]

I should probably do that too instead of having a component with an ID on everything

[swift crag]

I also use GUIDs on a few non-assets

like specific components in my entity prefabs

in that case, I just generate one

[verbal dome]

System.Guid, right?

[swift crag]

Nah, that can't be serialized by unity

you have to create your own bootleg guid

[verbal dome]

Right

[swift crag]

I want to rename the fields in my guid class

that's going to cause so many goddamn changes

[robust condor]

How does this work if you have a diablo like loot system where things are randomized?

[verbal dome]

I do have an "UniqueID" class that contains a hash
The hash is generated from a Guid

Should probably use long instead of int tho..

[swift crag]

An ID is necessary if you want to refer to a shared "thing"

Randomly generated loot will still probably point at a template

(and the modifiers might also point at templates of their own!)

[robust condor]

There is a scriptable object as the base, but it has ranges, how would you store the ranges it spawned?

[swift crag]

but the actual modifier data would be part of the item itself

[Serializable]
public class Item {
  public ItemSpec specification;
  public List<Modifier> modifiers;
}

extremely rough example

[verbal dome]

This is always scary

[robust condor]

Seems like you need to store the entire thing no?

[swift crag]

it's not scary; i'm going to reserialize all of my assets afterwards

unity will update every single damn guid properly

it's just going to be one hell of a commit

[swift crag]

ItemSpec would serialize as a GUID to look up later

Modifier might also contain some GUIDs (e.g. a modifier that adds a stat bonus would need to identify which stat it affects)

and stats themselves can be assets!

no need for them to be an enum that you're terrified of rearranging

[robust condor]

I am thinking composable, SwordSO, FireModSO, ColdModSO ?

[swift crag]

I would not have a separate class for every kind of elemental effect -- that's too granular

I'd have ElementSO (defines a kind of element) and an ElementModSO (defines a modifier that adds an element to a weapon)

actually

nah, scratch the latter

there would be a plain old class called ElementalModifier that stores:

• the strength of the modifier
• a reference to an ElementSO

[swift crag]

(this is great for preventing random version control churn -- I just get it over with all at once!)

[wet lark]

are you making a Buff Debuff SO for your Sword?

[robust condor]

Probably, I am just speculating at this point

I do want the weapons to affect the characters attributes

[wet lark]

i am doing something similar but i am using a ModifierSO, its like a Single modifierSO with a list of StatModifier serializable struct object

[robust condor]

Also on particles, if I create an arrow particle that I want to stick to an enemys head permanently once it hits, is there any downside to have it linger for infinite duration?

[verbal dome]

You mean an actual particle from particle system? Not sure how you'd make it stick

With a gameobject it's very doable tho

The downside being the rendering cost of the stuck arrows (probably negligible)

Unless you let your character pincushion its enemy with 1000 arrows

Might wanna add a limit

[robust condor]

I saw a vfx video where they shot a projectile at a wall and it stuck on it for like 3 secs after hitting

[swift crag]

The wall doesn't move!

that's the hard part 😉

I've been fussing with kind of thing for VRChat

You could certainly spawn an object to replace the particle, then parent it to the appropriate bone

[robust condor]

Oh you cant have the particle as a child of the object or something?

[swift crag]

No, you can't do anything like that for individual particles

[robust condor]

I see

[swift crag]

You could attach a particle system to the enemy's head bone and play a particle in the same spot

but that sounds a bit silly

[verbal dome]

Yeah might as well just use a GO at that point

Well, meshrenderer+meshfilter to be more specific

[swift crag]

If you need to stick a LOT of arrows to a lot of different things, you might look into more advanced rendering techniques

you could store a list of transforms and Matrix4x4s -- one four each arrow

then you could compute the correct matrix for each arrow every frame and then render them all at once

but that's quite a leap

[urban sluice]

Anyone got any idea why this doesn't work? Basically I want 1 of the first 2 conditions to be met and the third one. Every single one works on their own, but not when bundled like this.

[swift crag]

what is velocity?

consider logging the relevant values to find out if they're all true at the same time

[urban sluice]

It's calculating mouse velocity

[urban sluice]

They are, I tried, unless clicking disables mouse movement calculations???

[swift crag]

maybe clicking is causing a tiny mouse movement (I have no idea how much "1" is here)

[urban sluice]

It wouldn't matter, basically it's like calculating if a flick or fast mouse movement happens

I had it be without clicking and it worked

But clicking on it's own also worked

[swift crag]

Log all of the values together to check

Debug.Log($"Velocity: {velocity} /// Mouse: {Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)}");

string interpolation, yum

[urban sluice]

Doesn't print just work?

[swift crag]

Yes, they do the same thing!

[cosmic dagger]

You are correct, but Debug.Log works inside of any class. Print is only available when the script derives from MonoBehaviour. That's why you'll see most people use Log instead . . .

[urban sluice]

Interesting

[swift crag]

i also don't like how print is lowercased

[urban sluice]

For some reason I'm getting mouse true only when spamming and not holding

[swift crag]

Yes

[urban sluice]

It makes sense

[swift crag]

GetMouseButtonDown returns true for one frame

[cosmic dagger]

Me neither, lol . . .

[urban sluice]

why the fuck would it do that

that is very stupid

[swift crag]

because that's...what the function is supposed to do

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetMouseButtonDown.html

[cosmic dagger]

Because it only captures during the frame it was down . . .

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetMouseButton.html

perhaps you want this

[urban sluice]

Oh yeah this is better thanks

[urban sluice]

But also I think it's just weird behaviour of the function.

[swift crag]

The point is to detect that you just clicked the mouse

so that you don't, for example, fire a gun every single frame

[urban sluice]

makes sense, but the labeling is a bit confusing

[bold plover]

How many of these should I have checked in everyone's opinion?

[swift crag]

This determines which kinds of packages your code editor will be told about. I have it set like this

To be honest, I just picked these arbitrarily

[bold plover]

Fair. Wasn't sure how many of these were crucial but at cursory I think it's fine this way.

[rocky canyon]

mines just default

[sterile radish]

how can i check when an animation has finished playing?

[swift elbow]

you can trigger an event at the end of the animation (not sure if theres an easier way; best to ask in #🏃┃animation )

[serene barn]

''' private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy"))
{
Destroy(gameObject);
loseText.SetActive(true);
}
}'''

anybody can help why this is not working when colliding

[languid spire]

is it even being executed?

[serene barn]

yes

but the if statement not

[swift crag]

How do you know that?

[serene barn]

because when i debug the function is called oncollision but not the if

[polar acorn]

Then the thing you're hitting doesn't have the tag Enemy

[serene barn]

yes it does

[polar acorn]

Not according to your code it doesn't

Try logging the tag of the object you hit before the if

[serene barn]

found the problem thx for the quick help!

[finite heron]

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public CharacterController2D controller;
    public Animator animator;
    public float runSpeed = 30f;
    private float _horizontalMove = 0f;
    private bool _jump = false;
    //bool crouch = false;

    void Update()
    {
        _horizontalMove = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") * runSpeed;
        animator.SetFloat("Speed", Mathf.Abs(_horizontalMove));

        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
        {
            _jump = true;
            animator.SetBool("IsJumping", true);
        }

    }

    public void OnLanding()
    {
        animator.SetBool("IsJumping", false);
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        controller.Move(_horizontalMove * Time.fixedDeltaTime, false, _jump);
        _jump = false;
    }

}```

I am having a slight issue with my setup, I want to play a 3 framed jump animation, the first frame to go up, the second to start falling and the third to land.

But with this code, it obviously starts the animation, and even if I havent landed yet, it switches to the running anim, is it possible for some way to play the 3rd frame until my character has landed?

[wintry quarry]

#🏃┃animation

[verbal dome]

Sounds like you want to enable "has exit time" on the transition out of the jump anim state

[midnight jolt]

Hi. After a year long break I'm getting back to Unity.

I'm trying to get an UI element to appear above a game object. While it does appear on the game objects, I can't get it to appear above...

Vector2 infoPanel = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(gameObject.transform.position);
panel.transform.position = new Vector2(infoPanel.x, infoPanel.y + 5);```

this is how it looks like right now

[swift crag]

Consider adjusting the RectTransform's pivot point!

If you set the pivot to X=0.5, Y=1, then its "origin" will wind up being at its bottom-center

(or was it X=0.5, Y=0?)

turn left! no, the other left!

[zenith cypress]

You are also now working in pixels, so your + 5 is probably that part of the cube showing

[swift crag]

yep yep

[midnight jolt]

yep, that was the problem

mb

works now

thank you both

[sterile radish]

hi, im currently making a doodle jump clone and im having a problem with the cracking platforms. below in my script, i start my FadeOut() coroutine but for some reason in runtime my cracking platform neither goes down or becomes transparent? however, it DOES destroy itself after the while loop is over

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/ziborolaro.pgsql

[swift crag]

hm, the code looks sensible enough

[verbal dome]

Yep

[slender nymph]

make sure nothing else is controlling those properties

[verbal dome]

Does it have an animator?

[sterile radish]

yes, after you said this i removed it cuz i had forgotten too from before and it solved the problem. thank you so much!

[verbal dome]

Noyce

[slender nymph]

yeah if the animator has animations that modify those properties then it will hijack all control over them (unless you change the properties each frame after the animator updates)

[swift crag]

(even if the current animation state doesn't control that property!)

[verbal dome]

Yeah, by default

I think that can be changed with "Write defaults" on the animator and/or in the state

[swift crag]

You'd think, but no!

"Write Defaults" controls what value you get for properties that don't currently have a motion that's controlling them

when enabled, you get the value that the animator saw when it turned on

when disabled, you get whatever value was last set by a motion

If you want to go clinically insane, try replacing all of your game's code with an Animator (i.e. create a VRChat avatar)

(WD On is generally more predictable)

I had a hilarious problem where an animation state that controlled a screen shake effect could exit slightly before it reached zero

I had WD Off, so the effect just...stayed there

random people would see their screen rattling near me

[verbal dome]

Are you talking about "Write Defaults" in the animator's inspector, or the state, or both?

[swift crag]

the animator component does not have a "Write Defaults" property

this is a property on animation states

[verbal dome]

Oh, someone mentioned it some weeks ago when I brought up Write Defaults in the state

I have been bamboozled

[swift crag]

apparently the animator starts freaking out when you mix WD On and WD Off states

[verbal dome]

Ok I wasn't insane :D #archived-code-general message

[swift crag]

ah, debug mode

[verbal dome]

Yeah I'm slowly transitioning into using Playables instead

[swift crag]

oh, it's ACTUALLY writeDefaultValuesOnDisable

exciting

[valid vector]

why is my navmesh not working

[frosty hound]

"Not working" is too vague. What's not working about it?

[valid vector]

its just not moving

[verbal dome]

Hmm
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshAgent.SetDestination.html

Note that the path may not become available until after a few frames later. While the path is being computed, pathPending will be true. If a valid path becomes available then the agent will resume movement.

Think the problem is calling that in update

[languid spire]

to start with you are setting the destination every frame so Unity never gets a chance to calculate a path

[valid vector]

so how do i make it work then

[languid spire]

dont do that

[verbal dome]

Don't call it if path is pending

[slender nymph]

don't set the destination every single frame, do it every x amount of time instead

[valid vector]

how

wait no would this work

[wintry quarry]

Just check if the path is pending currently, and only do it when it's not

[valid vector]

like this?

because its not working

[verbal dome]

Have you assigned everything in the inspector? target and agent

[wintry quarry]

sure. What isn't working about it?

[verbal dome]

If you didn't, you should be seeing errors

[wintry quarry]

Have you checked your console to see any errors etc?

[valid vector]

its not moving

[wintry quarry]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[timber hound]

hi, can i get some help?
im doing the pathway for beginner programming, making a door trigger, followed everything literally to a tea and still no trigger is happening

[valid vector]

i have this but the navmseh has nothing to do with the camera

[wintry quarry]

To a T*.

But - presumably, you didn't follow everything properly.

Show what you tried

[wintry quarry]

IIs your code even running at all? Did you attach it to the correct object(s)?

[timber hound]

clock that T, thanks for the correction, here is what i gots

[cosmic quail]

maybe you forgot to add the Player tag to your player

[wintry quarry]

And the player object?

[timber hound]

how do i do that?

[cosmic quail]

guess you missed it in the tutorial then?

[wintry quarry]

Tutorial shows you

[timber hound]

untagged, damn i didnt see it

[cosmic quail]

😔

[timber hound]

works now, i mean....... let me sit my stupid a** down

actually, im looking the word tag in the tutorial its now showing

maybe its in earlier tutorials?

omg i skipped to "more things to try" by mistake without doing all the beginning lmao

[acoustic belfry]

hi, what function can work for delay? Cuz im trying to make an assault rifle, and it fires countless of proyectiles in a milisec

    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        {
            rifle_shooting();
        }

    }```

[rocky canyon]

a simple timer can work.. or a coroutine

[acoustic belfry]

so, what script i have to put above rifle_shooting();?

[acoustic belfry]

oh, ok

[acoustic belfry]

a courutine?

[rocky canyon]

yes, 1 second

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Coroutine.html
https://gamedevbeginner.com/coroutines-in-unity-when-and-how-to-use-them/

a simple timer would look something like

public float fireRate = 0.1f;
private float nextFireTime = 0f;

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetMouseButton(0) && Time.time >= nextFireTime)
    {
        nextFireTime = Time.time + fireRate;
        rifle_shooting();
    }
}``` you'll need to track the `nextFireTime` in the update loop for example

for using a coroutine its something along the lines of..

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetMouseButton(0) && !isFiring)
        StartCoroutine(FireCoroutine());
}

IEnumerator FireCoroutine()
{
    isFiring = true;
    rifle_shooting();
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(fireRate);
    isFiring = false;
}```

but i suggest u see my [previous comment](#💻┃code-beginner message) and take the time to read up on the documentation, and the other site i sent to learn what they are and how they work (or rather when to use them)

[acoustic belfry]

ok

well

thanks :3

[rocky canyon]

try out each.. see what works for you,
if u need additional help afterwards w/ specifics or issues feel free to ask

you'll need some additional using statements:
using System.Collections;
when using Coroutines

[gloomy cosmos]

Did a bunch of testing with my threading system (in build), these are the results:
6 threads, no transforms:
100 fps
1 thread, no transforms:
120 fps
no multithread, no transforms:
110 fps

I dont even know how to understand this

[night mural]

Threading isn't magic and comes with a cost. It's not something you 'just do because it's good', you have to look at your game and figure out which pieces actually make sense to parallelize

[gloomy cosmos]

well im trying to understand how 1 thread does better than no multithreading at all

like it makes no sense

the main thread waits for that one thread to finish every frame

[night mural]

right, it's not magic. If you have sequential dependencies, those still exist

[gloomy cosmos]

they run in parallel

[rocky canyon]

wait what? isn't (1) thread and no multi-threading the same thing?

[night mural]

especially in unity where a lot of the importnat work must be on the main thread

[gloomy cosmos]

yeah exactly

[rocky canyon]

as someone that doesn't use threads.. just basing it off semantics

[gloomy cosmos]

ok I think I am losing my mind

1 / Time.unscaledDeltaTime should be the fps, correct?

[kindred cedar]

I am relatively new to unity and c# and was wondering if anyone could help me get my collisions to work

[tawdry quest]

shouldnt it be 1.0f / Time.deltaTime, not unscaled

but 1.0f / Time.unscaledDeltaTime should also work

[gloomy cosmos]

interesting

[verbal dome]

unscaled is correct

[verbal dome]

So what is the difference of "1 thread" and "no multithread" here? What do you mean by those?

[gloomy cosmos]

no multithread means it runs on the main thread, 1 thread means it creates one job and waits for it to finish

anyway after using deltaTime instead of unscaled the numbers changed quite drastically

[rocky canyon]

i guess u could think of it like this then..

🧑‍🍳 Imagine a bakery with:

• 1 baker
• several assistants

if the bakery has just enough orders for 1 baker to handle efficiently adding more asistants wont help. thy'll just get into each others way..
worse the baker has to:

• spend time managing the assistants (overhead)
• and waiting for assistants to finish tasks that they might not have needed to do

sometimes its better to let the baker work alone.

• use multithreading like if the baker had to handle a large catering order. In this case, having assistants (threads) to manage different tasks, like baking and decorating, would allow the baker to focus on other things while others work in parallel.
• use none when theres more of a costs/savings thing if chef has to wait for a cake to bake in the oven or the baker wait for it to be decorated before it’s sent out.. they'd equally be standing around

[verbal dome]

So your timescale is not 1?

[gloomy cosmos]

It should be, I never change it

maybe something else was wrong and I accidentally fixed

anyway it seems to make more sense now, fps becomes better with more threads

[verbal dome]

Then unscaledDeltaTime is the same as deltaTime

[rocky canyon]

fps in general? or multiplayer?

[gloomy cosmos]

frames per second, in my singleplayer game testing with multiple jobs is probably better to say than threads

[rigid tiger]

The more tasks you can split into threads the better, because tasks not split into threads have to wait for each other to be complete (In sequential order)
Though becareful with threads, as they introduce the issue of one task potentially getting too far ahead, or one task locking up other threads

[tawdry quest]

You cant just throw any code in there either

it needs to make sense to run it simulatnous

[gloomy cosmos]

the code in question was causing 20% of the frame to be taken up by vector multiplication, seemed to make sense to me

[tawdry quest]

vector multiplication ?

[verbal dome]

Wasn't it the moving transforms part?

[tawdry quest]

what are you doing that a vector multiplication eats 20% if a frame

[gloomy cosmos]

that took 20% as well

but for testing I disabled it

[gloomy cosmos]

Im making a bullet hell game, updating positions of 10k objects

[tawdry quest]

oh yeah

thats defo something you should multithread

[gloomy cosmos]

well I think things are finally starting to work, multithreading seems to have taken me from 42 -> 150 fps

which if thats really true is amazing

this is without updating transforms though

[rigid tiger]

Is the collission checking on your bullets or on the characters?
Having 10k objectives constantly checking collissions would slow it down

[gloomy cosmos]

collision is non existant for these tests

[rigid tiger]

Oh, this test is just about making them move then

[gloomy cosmos]

yeah

and to avoid fps annihilation i was gonna make my own data driven collision system which only checks bullets near the player, as we dont care about most other interactions with bullets

[rigid tiger]

I think that would be event based collision, which unity uses by default, so don't worry on that end
It's all about finding which setting effects the things the most xD

[gloomy cosmos]

Hello

I measured a ton of job counts

and wanna see if someone can give me insight on results

the fps seems to oscillate like almost a sin wave,
near multiple of 6 pretty close to its max, and at non multiples of 6 lower, The highest recorded was at the first multiple of 6, 6

[rigid tiger]

I am not sure I understand the question, but I do not think there is correlation between optimization and multiples of 6 for FPS

[sterile radish]

hi, im making a doodle jump clone and translating my player whenever they touch the jetpack but it feels a bit too instant. how can i i ease it in and out like doodle jump?

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/udugeyujip.pgsql

[wet lark]

so im trying to create like an Action Bar that allows items and skills, i want to make it similar to how in farming games the item on the action bar decrease while also having the same in the inventory. A simple idea of what i did is basically the following UML. Is there anything else i should consider. I am currently only focusing on single player so my assumption is SO is not ideal for a inventory System in a multithreaded environment.

[viral schooner]

could someone help me with this the codes not working im a begginer

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

public class playermovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed;
public float jump;

private float Move;

public RigidBody2D rb;

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

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    Move = Input .GetAxis("Horizontal");

    rb.velocity = new Vector2(speed * Move, rb.velocity.y)
}

}

[wintry quarry]

Read #854851968446365696 then try posting your question again

[viral schooner]

OK

im trying to make a 2d movement controller for unity and ive been making this for like 2 hours but every tim i go back to unity it says error cs1002; expected do you have any ideas what i did wrong like did i not capitalyze smthing?

this is the code

[rigid tiger]

It means you have a missing semicolon, at the end of the line rb.velocity = new Vector2(speed * Move, rb.velocity.y)

[viral schooner]

you put semicolons after ) ?

[wintry quarry]

The error message has a message and a line number. You should be reading those and looking at your code to see what you did wrong. Ignore the cs1002 part.
"; expected" is pretty clear about what you missed here

[wintry quarry]

A semicolon goes after every statement in C#

[viral schooner]

oh

thx

[wintry quarry]

Do you have your Visual Studio configured?

Is it showing you red squiggles under your errors like that

[viral schooner]

whats cofigured?

[wintry quarry]

Showing errors

and autocompleting

[viral schooner]

umm no

[wintry quarry]

Then you need to stop everything and get that sorted out first

!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

[wintry quarry]

Trying to write code without that is a fool's errand.

[viral schooner]

thysm

[rigid tiger]

Translate moves the xy co-ordinates directly. If you want gradual acceleration followed by gradual deceleration, I suggest looking into rigidbodies for physics and velocities.

[pallid kite]

Hey, I'm currently having an issue where my prefab that has a worldspace overlay of a text input field not taking any input even when I click it. This doesn't seem to be too common of an issue, but I've been stuck on it for the past couple hours on how to fix it. Can someone help me possibly debug this issue?

[dry geyser]

anyone know why i get "Type Mismatch" in the unity inspector when i select a text mesh pro text to go to this variable?
public TextMeshProUGUI prompText;

[swift crag]

You can't reference scene objects from prefabs

That's the most likely cause

[dry geyser]

oh ok

[queen adder]

idk how to fix that

[cosmic charm]

my character stops moving in random areas, she stays in the move state but the xVeocity keeps switching between moveSpeed and 0 so she doesn't move but when I change direction then it goes fine, how can I fix it?

[sour cape]

anyone know why the "step" button is ghosted out?

[next flint]

hey guys, i am trying to get my ads work in my game but i keep getting this error

Assets\Scripts\AdsManager.cs(72,45): error CS0426: The type name 'Builder' does not exist in the type 'AdRequest'

No one seems to know how to solve this, i ended up joinig here

[sour cape]

hmm u got a screenshot of code and ide error

[next flint]

this is the code

this is the error

[sour cape]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20607746/adrequest-builder-cannot-be-resolved-to-a-type

seen this?

argh unity6 is so jerky, need to restartedl iek 10x a day

[next flint]

oh nah! let's see

[cosmic dagger]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/ , https://paste.ofcode.org/ , https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 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.

[next flint]

whats this?

[polar acorn]

Posting code
📃 Large Code Blocks
Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/ , https://paste.ofcode.org/ , https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 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.

[sour cape]

whats what?

[cosmic dagger]

Exactly what it says; use paste sites to post code or inline small code blocks correctly by formatting . . .

You inserted a text file (to download) instead . . .

[steady flame]

yo! i need help, i get this message out of the console:
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.Graphs.Edge.WakeUp () (at <a31f1ba8e689484984b8d32e3f901c80>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.DoWakeUpEdges (System.Collections.Generic.List1[T] inEdges, System.Collections.Generic.List1[T] ok, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] error, System.Boolean inEdgesUsedToBeValid) (at <a31f1ba8e689484984b8d32e3f901c80>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUpEdges (System.Boolean clearSlotEdges) (at <a31f1ba8e689484984b8d32e3f901c80>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUp (System.Boolean force) (at <a31f1ba8e689484984b8d32e3f901c80>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUp () (at <a31f1ba8e689484984b8d32e3f901c80>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.OnEnable () (at <a31f1ba8e689484984b8d32e3f901c80>:0)

what do i have to do to make it gone

[slender nymph]

that is an editor error. you can pretty much ignore it

[sour cape]

i think thats a unity bug

[steady flame]

sure?

[slender nymph]

if it bothers you then close any windows that use the graph editor like the animator or shader graph editor

[sour cape]

yeh i see it sometimes

[steady flame]

ok thanks

[marsh hearth]

anyone have a waypoints script ?

where an ennemi goes left-right-left.. tc

[rich adder]

whats "a waypoints script"

[marsh hearth]

uhm i call it like that but basicaly a script that make an ennemi travel from a point A to B and goes back

[rich adder]

what did you try so far

not everyone handles waypoints the same way

[marsh hearth]

i tried a script from someone online, but didnt work lol

trying to follow a tutorial

[rich adder]

all you're doing is setting the current waypoint, use Distance or timing, go to the other waypoint . Rinse and repeat

[marsh hearth]

and having a 60% kb is a fking shit show for scripts

[rich adder]

huh?..I use 60 no issues with scripts

[marsh hearth]

im not having issues, i just dont know the keys combo to do the things

[marsh hearth]

idk how to do that man its my first video game, its an optional class i took

they dont teach us scripts

[rich adder]

there is no such thing as "teaching scripts"

scripts/code is just a tool. The code starts in your brain

You have to figure out the design of what you want to accomplish, then you find which pieces code helps you do that

[marsh hearth]

yeah nvm imma just ask snuffer if he wants to make one when he get online

like i said, idk shit about making a game so telling me to guess things isnt helping x)

[rich adder]

who said anything about guessing lol
forget making a game in the beginning, you have to learn the starting building blocks to get going

I suggest you go through the pathways on unity !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[rich adder]

break down each thing you need into smaller goals, start getting comfortable

[marsh hearth]

i have to give my game tmw, forget it. my ennemy is my last step

[rich adder]

yeah goodluck with that then lol. Whoever told you making a game was a "overnight" thing might have mislead you

[marsh hearth]

no one ever said that

dont worry

[rich adder]

you're asking today about making an enemy AI for something due tomorrow 🤷‍♂️

[marsh hearth]

Ill find a way

Worst scenario i give my game without the ennemy moving, all good its worth 15% and i have ~98%

[rich adder]

its possible to do but if you don't understand the implementation it won't work.

You can store Store waypoints in an array of transforms then cycle through the array through an index that gets increased each time you reach a waypoint using Vector3.Distance, or use a timer.

then reaching the end of array you either cycle index back to 0 (first) or go back the other way doing --

[marsh hearth]

All good chat gpt made it for me

☠️

[upper forge]

WOuld anyone know why my player is bouncing for no reason.... its only happeneing in one level but the same ground and same players are being used..

Ive added debugs for the jump methods but those are not being called so its not a jump being called

Im so confused as this is only happening in one level.

[keen owl]

I had that same issue happen to me. You’d track the state of jumping using a boolean and set jump request to false when your jump keys aren’t pressed basically

[rich adder]

this is a coding channel

[steady flame]

where should i ask my question?+

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk

[steady flame]

thanks

[upper forge]

But its not bouncing because of my jump code I thought it was, but i also commented out ALL jump code to see if that would make it stop and it didnt I also took the jump animation from the controller and it still bounces and the way i do call my jump in the animator is if isgrounded is true but a button has to be pressed for it to work

[rich adder]

wydm by "bouncing"

[keen owl]

Check if any scripts (if any) are acting upon your player by toggling an animation at an unwanted time. Also, check physics material bounce value if you’re using one. Other than that, not exactly sure as to why. You’d have to dig into your set up deeper

[rich adder]

are you sure your JUMP method isn't being called somewhere else?

[queen adder]

what would should i start with as a projekt, im just started to learn coding and know basicly nothing, but still would like a little projekt to start with. know idk if i should go into 2d first, because people said that the change from 2d to 3d is hard

[keen owl]

Or check if one of your animations have a loop enabled.

[rich adder]

2d/3d more or less are similiar in unity

the best projects are the usual simple ones, break out, flappy bird, invaders, etc.

[upper forge]

yeah I only have 2 references on my jump method, and i commented everything out that had to do with my jump methods, but the weird thing is its only happeneing in this level and no others..

[upper forge]

i made sure and it wasnt on loop

[sour cape]

use this its great https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/waypoints-free-143216#description

[upper forge]

no physics material

[rich adder]

lock the rigidbody and see if it still jump

[upper forge]

when i put it in static it didnt bounce

[queen adder]

i already made like a platformer but its still hard with all the code, and i don't want to get it all from youtube. On the other hand it's hard to remember what code does what (and english is also not my first language). is is there any kind of website that like idk, shows you what what code does?

[rich adder]

ok so now you can narrow down to the fact that something is adding that velocity to your RB
Find all scripts that reference the RB and go from there,
you know it was the RB and not Transform.position otherwise static would not affect it

[sour cape]

use something like the corgi engine

[upper forge]

hmm okay.. I guess i just need to check though all my scrips to see if something is changing it

[sour cape]

itll either be some force being applied or your jump getting called.

or an animation?

[keen owl]

If it’s happening in one scene only, it seems to be something in that scene is affecting it. Check all scripts in that scene

[rich adder]

its easy to narrow down with IDE search. Usually you can search for all the Rigidbody components, then each script that has one see what they're doing with that component and whatever name you gave it

[upper forge]

will check all this and report back

[sour cape]

first thing just turn all scripts on that player off

if it stops u know its one of them

[upper forge]

thats what i was thinking but before i made other levels this scene wasnt doing this

[rich adder]

well mostly the API and manual. They explain those.
You have practice more the same things you DO already know somewhat

if you are not remembering it means you're not doing it enough

you're not gonna learn say, how to make a raycast then use it once and expect it remember how to do it again next time..

you have to engrain it into your mind until its pretty much easy muscle memory almost

[queen adder]

so basicly get a code and then use it as often as possible?

[rich adder]

exactly, not just "a code" but the process you used that code for

[sour cape]

put the code into meaningul method names too, then its easy, buttechnically by reading code you should be able to see what it is trying todo

[rich adder]

the code is just the tool to achieve a solution to a certain problem

thats why the syntax is very much the least important part, its important to you WHY that code is being used , what problem is it solving

Physics.Raycast, what does it do? Makes ray that can hit colliders, what problems does it solve? Detecting Objects etc.

[sour cape]

u should be a teacher 🙂

[rich adder]

Im still a newbbb

[steep rose]

he is teaching

[rich adder]

I looked at the Unity certs, hella expensive

maybe one day I also have my Udemy course lmao

[sour cape]

hehe, i never seen anyone even care about certs really

very rarely does anyone care if u even have a masters

[rich adder]

I'm sure its a good look for places that care about papers, school

[sour cape]

yeh

until they hit u with a carmack level exam

[rich adder]

I'd only teach if it was a school that offered gamedev

[sour cape]

im stunned ppl get into google after taking one of their exams lol.

need to be a savant to understand the question.

[rich adder]

basically either almost genius with problem solving or a machine.

[sour cape]

yes exactly, being a great coder with 30 yrs experience wont cut it..

[rich adder]

yeah year is important, but showing off what problems you can solve for them is everything

[sour cape]

also i cant see a single enjoyable job at google anyway, all boring nightmares.

[rich adder]

thats most jobs now days, all machine learning and data science

[keen owl]

I think mastery in C++ demonstrates a lot of that considering you’re working with a lot of stuff more manually that .NET already handles

[sour cape]

yeh i thin ki have a test laterfor "alignnr" bet thats too hard

[rich adder]

anyway lets not veer offcourse to unity programming topics lol

[upper forge]

OMG I got it THanks to all that helped me
it was in my enemy script where i have the player jump on an enemies head and then the player jumps somehow that was trigging it

thanks @rich adder @keen owl @sour cape

[sour cape]

np good luck,

[keen owl]

Nice job! Make sure to look out for small mistakes like that next time as they can get annoying to deal with lol

[rich adder]

I sure hope you don't have everything Public everywhere lol

[upper forge]

they forreal do..

[sour cape]

i once took 2 yrs to fix a bug, and i cried when i finally did lol

[upper forge]

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
{
    if (other.CompareTag("Player") && this.gameObject.CompareTag("Slime") || this.gameObject.CompareTag("Bat"))
    {
        currentHealth--;
        if (currentHealth <= 0)
        {
        // THE LINE COMMENTED BELOW IS THE ONE CAUSING THE PLAYER TO JUMP ON START    //PlayerController.instance.theRB.velocity = new Vector2(PlayerController.instance.theRB.velocity.x, PlayerController.instance.jumpForce = 13f);
            PlayerController.instance.jumpForce = 13f;
            PlayerController.instance.anim.SetBool("isDoubleJumping", true);
            PlayerController.instance.jumpForce = 19f;
        }

    }
    else if (other.CompareTag("Player") && this.gameObject.CompareTag("Kidnapper"))
    {
        PlayerHealthController.instance.DamagePlayer();
    }
}

So this is my code for if the enemy's health is 0 then is makes the player jump is there a different way to do this..

[upper forge]

holy shiiiiiittt...... this insane im so sorry lmao i woulda have def cried myself!!

[sour cape]

seems alright, id prob put brackets around this.gameObject.CompareTag("Slime") || this.gameObject.CompareTag("Bat")

yeh then i was so happy i drank a half bottle of whisky, carried on working and somehow lost the solution lol, took another 6 months to find

no point in setting jumpforce twice btw

hardest bugs to solve for me are usually timing issues, race conditions or actual differences in timing on hardware

but once u fix one u are aware of the hell 🙂 this was 2 identical phones behaving different in same game.

[upper forge]

but

PlayerController.instance.theRB.velocity = new Vector2(PlayerController.instance.theRB.velocity.x, PlayerController.instance.jumpForce = 13f);

this line of code is whats causing this bounce for no reason

would u know why this could would do this?

[upper forge]

oh wow haha yeah youll def not forget that mistake!!!

[sour cape]

i remember being on my knees in the garden nailing whisky, screaming.... before backing up lol.

always back up before celebration 🙂

[upper forge]

if i put these [ ] around that could i just get red line

[sour cape]

use ( )

[cosmic dagger]

what are you trying to do?

[sour cape]

just so its IF THIS && (THIS OR THIS)

[north kiln]

It seems weird to handle it all with tags, and that the slime, bat, and kidnapper share this implementation

I'd make a separate script for damaging the player on hit

[sour cape]

i dont find it that weird

[cosmic dagger]

you shouldn't have to check what tag this object has. it should already be known . . .

[upper forge]

but

PlayerController.instance.theRB.velocity = new Vector2(PlayerController.instance.theRB.velocity.x, PlayerController.instance.jumpForce = 13f);

this line of code is whats causing this bounce for no reason

would u know why this could would do this?

Trying to figure why this line of code is making my player jump even thought the enemys health is not a 0 or the player did not go over the trigger for it to be called

[north kiln]

The value of components is that you can compose them instead of writing a monolithic implementation that switches between different logic

[sour cape]

the health must be 0, print out what health is after u do the --

maybe u forgot to initialise health and it starts 0 ?

[upper forge]

WAIt NVM doing this fixed it
IF THIS && (THIS OR THIS) @ @sour cape

[cosmic dagger]

why are you assigning jumpForce? do you mean to use the value instead?

[upper forge]

so the player dont jump as high as a normal jump
Jumpforce is the value of jump

[sour cape]

good yeh there was some ambiguity there without brackets

[upper forge]

What you mean?

[cosmic dagger]

they meant the parentheses (). they separate the logic in your expression (if statement) . . .

[sour cape]

it was saying if other one is a player and this one is a slime OR if this one is a bat

hard to explain, think maths style, like 5 x 10 x 10 is different from 5x (10x10)

[north kiln]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators#operator-precedence

[upper forge]

ahh okay kinda makes since when u explain it like that

[queen adder]

i wrote a collision code so i can kinda push objects around. but they just dissapear instread

[sour cape]

maybe the force is so much they appear to disappear but theyre miles away

reduce pushPower to like 0.01f to test

[queen adder]

ok wait

[queen adder]

you were right

thanks

[sour cape]

niiice.. np

[marsh hearth]

Anyone have an idea of why it does that?

[sour cape]

looks like something turns off your camera, or the parent of it

check in hierarchy if its off

[marsh hearth]

When i start, my player,celling check,ground check and main camera turn grey in the hierarchy@sour cape

Okay i fixed it

[sour cape]

dark grey, somethings turning them off yeh, start by trying to find which script it may be, turn off likely candidates then start game again until u narrow it down

[marsh hearth]

That was weird

[sour cape]

cool

[marsh hearth]

Thx for helping

[sour cape]

np

anyone know a discord where u can find unity paid work?

[rich adder]

dont crosspost next time and this is not a coding question

[sour cape]

lol

[marsh hearth]

Anything about Crosspost in the rules? I didnt see it. And yup , you got it there's no coding. Congrats. Mod can warn me if they want

Ill make sure to ask in code-advanced next time

[nova kite]

How do I fix this?

I managed to fix some through this but now it’s grayed out

It’s an official Unity project btw that I imported

[sour cape]

pink is usually unsupported material due to using the wrong graphics pipeline

[rich adder]

its in the #📖┃code-of-conduct
also no need to be upset at me about it, I'm just telling you what the community rules are.. Same post, multiple channels especially unrelated to channel, is crosspost

[sour cape]

so you need to convert the materials to support

[nova kite]

How do I do that?

[sour cape]

which pipeline is the sample?

[nova kite]

Where do I see that?😅

[sour cape]

window->rendering->hdrp wizard is "semi" good at converting materials to HDRP

hehe where did u get the sample from whats the name

[nova kite]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/67559be5edbc2a0e9fb7cc49?uv=6&pathwayId=5f7e17e1edbc2a5ec21a20af&missionId=5f71fe63edbc2a00200e9de0&projectId=5cdcc312edbc2a24a41671e6#67559be5edbc2a0e9fb7cc4b
this tutorial

i downloaded the "Challenge 2 starter files"

it also messed up some other textures on the tutorial project

[sour cape]

hmm, im assuming thats built in or urp

[nova kite]

Which option do I click here haha

The converter?

[sour cape]

what does inspector say about them materials

when u click on them

[sour cape]

yeh i guess thats only ther ein hdrp projs

[nova kite]

What does that mean haha😅

I’m very new btw, only been studying for a week

[sour cape]

open the materials drop down select one of the materials

then click on that see what it says

[rich adder]

https://screenshot.help

[sour cape]

yehi get it, its all confusing as heck in the beginning

[nova kite]

You mean the materials folder?

[sour cape]

doesnt help that i can barely type because every keyboard i get breaks within a week

in mesh renderer theres a merials dropdown

[nova kite]

Having the same problem😭

[sour cape]

if u click o na metial in there itll show more info about the merial

[nova kite]

Is it a Razer keyboard

[sour cape]

or maybe just scrollright now on that inspector

no razor have done tho,

[nova kite]

I have a double monitor so it always captures the other monitor too

[sour cape]

i break spacebars for a living

[nova kite]

Hahaha

[sour cape]

haha yeh, i got 7 here

[rich adder]

thats fine, its better than cancerous phone pictures

[nova kite]

I have a BlackWidow v4 and it has a double clicking issue it’s the third already

[sour cape]

its like being in a tanning salon just using pc

[nova kite]

You wouldn’t be able to see anything, and discord doesn’t let you zoom in on pictures

[sour cape]

basically the material u need to change the "shader" to compatible one

[rich adder]

you seriously think this is better than an actually screenshot of your desktop..no..can barely see shit

[nova kite]

Ohh I see the shader component

Fair enough

[sour cape]

yeh whats it say under shader

[nova kite]

what option should i select here?

[rich adder]

the pink one

[sour cape]

ah ok theyre URP and u must be on BIRP,

[marsh hearth]

Ok dad, like i said they can Warn me

[nova kite]

I mean at the bottom right after I opened the shader list lol

[sour cape]

so u can either convert them to BIRP or move to URP

[nova kite]

How do I do that haha🥲

[sour cape]

id just change it "standard"

in that little search thingy type "standard"

[rich adder]

those are BIRP material they are using URP already

use the Pipeline converter

[sour cape]

yeh or use the pipeline converter

[nova kite]

its on standard but nothing changed

[sour cape]

oh yeh ur right the green works and is URP

[nova kite]

the red ball got fixed for some reason lol

[rich adder]

cause Standard is wrong

[nova kite]

even tho i didnt pick it

[rich adder]

Standard = BIRP

[nova kite]

ohh

[rich adder]

Rendering -> Pipeline Converter

[sour cape]

so type "universal" and select a universal renmder pipeline/lit one

or do that ^^^^

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/features/rp-converter.html

[rich adder]

it will change material but then you have to re-link texture

its usually better to convert

[sour cape]

unity haveconfused the whole situ with all this

[nova kite]

what do i do here?

[rich adder]

tick the boxes? hit initialize and convert

[sour cape]

tick material upgrade his convert assets

yeh tick em all

[nova kite]

Let’s gooo that worked!!

Thank you guys🙏🏻🙏🏻

[sour cape]

yessss

np

[nova kite]

Let’s see if I can get the challenge done now🤣

[rich adder]

btw next time is #💻┃unity-talk question as its not really code lol

[nova kite]

It’s fun they give you a game with many bugs and you gotta fix them

[sour cape]

sounds like my last job 🙂

[nova kite]

Oh I thought this is the channel for beginners

[nova kite]

Haha that’s a fun job

[rich adder]

code-beginner

[nova kite]

I love finding problems and find solutions

[rich adder]

then coding is for you

[nova kite]

Well yeah but people treat people here like beginners and I need someone to explain like I’m 5 to me when it comes to this😭😭

[rich adder]

huh? how's that change anything lol the #💻┃unity-talk channel is also aimed for beginners, if anything more who know unity but don't code also hang out there.. so more visibility 🤷‍♂️

[nova kite]

Ohh I thought that’s like for people who already know Unity lol

[rich adder]

nahh read description

[nova kite]

Sweet, I’ll ask there when it’s not code related then

Ohh!

It’s like the general channel

[rich adder]

yea

[nova kite]

Thank you😄

[sand moss]

Hi. I have stumbled upon a problem regarding in app updates.

    {
        // Wait a brief moment to let the scene fully load
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);
        
        InAppStatus.text = "Checking for updates...";
        
        PlayAsyncOperation<AppUpdateInfo, AppUpdateErrorCode> appUpdateInfoOperation = appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo();
        yield return appUpdateInfoOperation;

        if (!appUpdateInfoOperation.IsSuccessful)
        {
            string errorMessage = $"Update check failed: {appUpdateInfoOperation.Error}";
            Debug.LogError(errorMessage);
            InAppStatus.text = errorMessage;
            updateCheckComplete = true;
            yield break;
        }

        var appUpdateInfoResult = appUpdateInfoOperation.GetResult();
        
        if (appUpdateInfoResult.UpdateAvailability == UpdateAvailability.UpdateAvailable 
            && appUpdateInfoResult.IsUpdateTypeAllowed(AppUpdateOptions.ImmediateAppUpdateOptions()))
        {
            InAppStatus.text = "Starting update...";
            StartCoroutine(StartImmediateUpdate(appUpdateInfoResult));
        }
        else
        {
            InAppStatus.text = "No update available";
            updateCheckComplete = true;
        }
    }```
this is my code.  
The code stops at Play async operation for unknown reason. can someone guide me regarding this issue.

[prime goblet]

is there anything in the console?

[sand moss]

No. The console is not showing anything. The app works fine. just this script stops at this point

[burnt vapor]

What is appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo()?

Also, does your code hang the application or does it just not continue when you say it stops?

Also, how did you determine this is the issue? Can you confirm by logging before appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo() and after to see if truly only 1 log is printed?

[sand moss]

It checks if new version is available for you app and returns information about available update.
The app doesnot hang it works fine. I am showing status of this process on my screen. InAppStatus.text = "Checking for updates..."; The screen shows this status. In the code provided above I am updating this status in multiple instances but it just stops there.

[burnt vapor]

Okay but did you actually check if it stops at appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo()? Put a log message after that

Also, I still don't see what appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo() is. Is this user code?

If it hangs on appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo() and it's not user code, there's not much you can do. At best I'd check if it ends up timing out, or if you can somehow make it time out. If that's the case your credentials are wrong

[sand moss]

I will put a log and check if it is the issue here.
https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-updates/unity I am using this documentation for implementation you can mor details about appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo()

[teal viper]

Add logs to see if the async operation starts correctly and whether it still waiting.

PlayAsyncOperation<AppUpdateInfo, AppUpdateErrorCode> appUpdateInfoOperation = appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo();
Debug.Log("gettubg update info");
yield return appUpdateInfoOperation;
Debug.Log("got update info: {appUpdateInfoOperation.resultsOrSomehting?}");

[gilded canyon]

how do i set angle limits for a hinge joint 2d . there is very little documentation for it anyways heres my snippet

vent = collision.gameObject.GetComponentInParent<HingeJoint2D>();
JointAngleLimits2D limits = vent.limits;
limits.max = 0;
limits.min=90;

[teal viper]

if JointAngleLimits2D is a struct, you need to assign the limits back to vent again.

[gilded canyon]

i complely forgot

thanks

[burnt vapor]

Did it work?

[sand moss]

I added new logs. It still stops at log checking for updates... I am thinking of changing the version of library.

 
        InAppStatus.text = "Checking for updates...";
        PlayAsyncOperation<AppUpdateInfo, AppUpdateErrorCode> appUpdateInfoOperation = appUpdateManager.GetAppUpdateInfo();
        InAppStatus.text = "After PlayAsyncOperation...";
        
        yield return appUpdateInfoOperation;

        InAppStatus.text = "After Yield reuturn...";

it is logging like this

[burnt vapor]

That's weird, I would expect it to stop at the yield

So After PlayAsyncOperation... would be displayed

The yield would explicitly drop the coroutine until it's finished. If it stops at GetAppUpdateInfo as soon as it's called I would expect it to block the application

[eager spindle]

Is it stuck in getupdateinfo?

If you're running this on an android device(not unity's emulator) try to run the debugger there

Some errors only show when tested natively instead of unity editor

[sand moss]

yeah. it is weird

[rich egret]

How to fix this UI problem?

[eager spindle]

There's a chance that getappupdateinfo is throwing smth but unity doesnt catch it or doesn't respond

[sand moss]

I upload it on internal testing and check the status with txt

[eager spindle]

ah the art of scalable UI

Different screens have different sizes, the position of some elements may be different. See how to build UI menus to counter this change:
https://youtu.be/QnT-2KxVvyk?si=fnhl-LXqi9rD4OGl

[teal viper]

To be on the same page, are you actually starting CheckForUpdate as a coroutine?
And is it actually Enumerator? Or was it just a typo in the copied code?

[burnt vapor]

This is a coding channel #📲┃ui-ux

Also, absolutely no clue what problem you are indicating

[rich egret]

The message is visible in the Scene but not in the Game

[eager spindle]

see the video I sent

[burnt vapor]

Ask in #📲┃ui-ux

[eager spindle]

Where did you get this AppUpdateManager from?

I'm only seeing results for android studio

[sand moss]

Its just typo in copied code

[sand moss]

using Google.Play.AppUpdate;
using Google.Play.Common;
It is coming from AppUpdate packege

[eager spindle]

erm

is this package from unity package installer? googles website?

could you link the documentation? all the results are for android studio in java which doesn't exactly help here

[rich egret]

Well that didn't change anything but thanks

[eager spindle]

ok how about this

resize your editor window

what happens?

like try dragging the border around

look at how your chat box moves

[sand moss]

The code is from documentation. https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-updates/unity#import-from-github

[teal viper]

Can you share the actual code, including the place you start the coroutine?

[sand moss]

this is the file for in app updates functionality.

[teal viper]

The best I can think of is that it doesn't work in the editor.
Aside from that maybe google similar issues.

[sand moss]

I downloaded the packege from github.

[rich egret]

@eager spindle nvm i fixed it

i forgot to add content size filter

[sand moss]

I will try downgrading the packege or installing from the unity packege manger. let's see how this goes. @teal viper @eager spindle @burnt vapor thanks for giving your time

[teal viper]

Can you step into the api code in the debugger?

[burnt vapor]

Honestly it's a shit library if it doesn't incorporate at least some sort of a timeout for this

Many things can stop a connection

[teal viper]

It seems to be calling into a java api internally, so I wouldn't be surprised that it doesn't work in the editor.

[frail wind]

what does Is Kinematic in Rigdbody mean?

[timber tide]

It disables many features of what rigidbody provides like forces, but this is one way of creating your own character controller if you're looking for collision detection but with your own physics logic

[valid vector]

my navmesh isnt moving my object

[eternal sierra]

Can some expain how slerp works pls

[jolly stone]

is it fine if i use python for unity?

[frosty hound]

Unity uses C#

[jolly stone]

Okay

[thorn tree]

hloo

[thorn tree]

can we?

[frosty hound]

🫴#💻┃code-beginner message

[thorn tree]

ik

[cosmic dagger]

Lerp interpolates (moves along the shortest path) from a to b in a straight line

Slerp interpolates (moves along the shortest path) from a to b on a sphere

It uses directions instead of a point in space. Imagine picking two cities on a globe. Your finger will move in an arc (spherically) around the globe between both points. That's how it will move

In Unity, the interpolation (movement along the shortest path) is based on the angle between both directions, therefore, noting it rotates from one direction to another

Basically, imagine moving your head from left-to-right; that's sleeping . . .

[thorn tree]

can i send tutorial links here?

[cosmic dagger]

For what purpose?

[thorn tree]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzmVVPWao8U

[cosmic dagger]

If to help, or show what you need help on, sure . . .

[thorn tree]

thanks

[cosmic dagger]

Well, as this is a coding channel. You need to find the proper channel for that . . .

You'll find better help in one that is suited for level design than us keyboard warriors . . .

[thorn tree]

um can u tag the channel for it?

[cosmic dagger]

Oh, I wouldn't know. I only code; not design or build levels . . .

Maybe #⛰️┃terrain-3d , #🛠️┃probuilder , or #💻┃unity-talk