💻┃code-beginner

[azure bridge]

oh

[burnt vapor]

Sorry, end of work shift so I can't really help anymore

[swift crag]

The canvas gets drawn directly onto your screen

An object at X=100, Y=100 goes at that exact pixel position on your screen

[azure bridge]

wait so anchoring doesnt matter if i do it overlay

[swift crag]

It does very much matter -- but you can't try to "line up" UI elements with stuff in the scene that way

[leaden pasture]

Yeah. Generally when changing stuff for a canvas, I find it easier to change the position and stuff in game view because it tends to create the canvas as a large element in random space within scene view

[swift crag]

Yeah, you can see how it'll look by watching the game view

What is this text meant to represent?

[azure bridge]

score:

wait ill try

[swift crag]

Okay, so it shouldn't really have a position in the world

It's just going to be a thing attached to your UI

In that case, anchor to the corner it belongs in and then adjust its position as desired

Look at your game view to check your work

While editing an overlay canvas, I'll generally put my scene view in 2D mode, then select the canvas and hit F to view the entire thing

[azure bridge]

but the thing is

in game view i cant find my text

😭

OH MY GOD

i just clciked something i cansee it now

i v e been blessed

[leaden pasture]

Nice! What was it that you clicked???

[azure bridge]

its this thing i edited the numbers idk how it works but now i can see a small text

[leaden pasture]

Ohhh. I tend to set that to 1920*1080 then make sure my display is at the same resolution. It's basically telling the canvas how it's going to move/scale each of its element based on screen size

[green flame]

Hello! I have a problem with the resize of gameobjects :/
When an enemy is going inside a certain circle, the enemy size decrease by 30%. My feature work well.
But the result IG is "bugged", there is a little freeze when the object change.
There is a little gif of the obvious behavior

[azure bridge]

omg guys look guys

[green flame]

Here is my script ^^

[leaden pasture]

Nice!!! I love the art as well btw, it looks great !

[azure bridge]

thx for helping!!!

[polar acorn]

I've looked at this gif a dozen times and I don't see any freeze

[green flame]

The blue alien, when the size change

you can see a non instant change

[polar acorn]

The change looks pretty instant to me

[wintry quarry]

comparing floats for equality like this isn't a good idea

[green flame]

I am alon e to see the little freeze on mobs ? XD

[wintry quarry]

what you should really do is put a script on the enemy and call a function on it

and just use a bool flag for isShrunk or not

don't mess around with comparing floats like this

[green flame]

Thx for ur advice, I'll update my code on this way!

[swift crag]

It looks like the enemy's shrinking for one frame, growing back for one frame, and then shrinking for good

Do you have an OnTriggerExit2D method that restores their size?

If so, I suspect that the shrink is making their collider small enough that they leave the circle

ooh, it's happening many times!

[green flame]

Hann something like

IN -> little -> OUT -> big -> IN again

[swift crag]

oh man that conversion did NOT go smoothly

[swift crag]

This is a common problem with size-changing effects

I'd call it "flapping" -- rapidly going back and forth

[green flame]

Here is my IN/OUT code

[swift crag]

If that is what's happening, then there are a few options

[green flame]

Yes 100% the problem I think

[swift crag]

• Don't make the size-change affect the collider's size (just shrink the sprite itself)
• Don't allow the enemy to grow back at all
• Add a delay before the enemy is allowed to grow

A delay is pretty easy to do

You record the time that something is allowed to happen after

delayTime = Time.time + 1f;

Until Time.time > delayTime, don't do anything

[green flame]

mmmmh

Is there a condition in unity like

"full enter" "full out" ?

OnCompleteTriggerEnter2D

Idk x)

[swift crag]

I don't think you can ask if a collider is completely enclosed inside of another, no

[green flame]

😢

The hard way, custom function to check if the current possition.x & y is inside the circle scale

Idk which option is the "proper" one

Add a delay before the enemy is allowed to grow

I'm not fan because later I'll have big enemies with slow moves

• Don't allow the enemy to grow back at all
  Maybe a smooth move to the circle when enemies size change ?

According to the current size of the enemy

And the current move_speed

aaah not easy x)

[pine cedar]

You would need to use bounding volumes for this sort of thing.

Test mathmatically if a point is within a given bounds.

Or in the case of AABBs use unity's Bounds struct: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Bounds.html

[green flame]

Ty i'll look at this 😄

[severe onyx]

Im stumbling over something which is probably just a simple math function away - how the hell do I rotate a sprite in 2d space so it faces into the direction it's travelling?

[wintry quarry]

myObject.transform.right = theDirection;

[sterile radish]

how can i get all children of a certain object and then put them into an array?

[wintry quarry]

if it has a rigidbody 2d then theDirection can just be myRb.linearVelocity

[wintry quarry]

Transform[] children = new Transform[myObject.transform.childCount];
for (int i = 0; i < myObject.transform.childCount; i++) {
  children[i] = myObject.transform.GetChild(i);
}```

but - why do you need them in an array, you can iterate over them directly from the object

e.g.

foreach (Transform child in myObject.transform) {
  Debug.Log(child.name);
}```

[sterile radish]

oh yeah ur right

the second option is a lot more suited for what im trying to do, thanks for the help!

[swift crag]

one annoying gotcha: you must explicitly write Transform there

If you do this...

foreach (var child in transform) {

}

...then child will be a System.Object

for some reason, Transform implements IEnumerable, not IEnumerable<Transform>

[snow ruin]

im trying to do the expert challenge 2 for the junior pathway and im struggling to get my sliders in the correct position. i put in the coordinates as the instructions said to but in play mode they are appearing at a wildly different place and i have no idea why it could be

[grand snow]

can we see the scene view as the anchors and any potential layout groups could be affecting it

[tiny vault]

Hey, when you interact with a specific NPC you load a new scene. Once you complete the game in the new Scene, you go back to the main game, however i don't go back to exactly where i was when i initiated the new scene, instead it resets the whole game. Any ideas how to fix that ? And btw the sampleScene is the main scene. Just haven't got to change the name yet

[grand snow]

If you load go from scene SampleScene -> PuzzleScene -> SampleScene then it will just load the scenes as is, nothing done at runtime will be 'saved'. Are you wanting to re load "SampleScene" but keep some state?

[tiny vault]

Yes exactly

[grand snow]

You need to implement some way to store the old game state of things in that scene, or just load the puzzle scene additively and remove it once done.
Then your sample scene is never removed.

[tiny vault]

I tried that already. Just gives me these weird errors

[wintry quarry]

What's weird about those errors? They are very clearly telling you what is wrong.

[grand snow]

If you load the scene additivley you need to wait for it to be loaded. If you want to manually activate it then it can only after this load is done (its async).
by default it should activate on load complete for you unless you changed an arg.

the doc page should explain this all and give examples.

[wintry quarry]

• LoadScene will not complete loading until the next frame
• LoadSceneAsync will obviously require handling the async task properly.

[bright sail]

Hey there! I am not sure where this belongs exactly so i might try my luck here, if thats the wrong channel please help 😄
So i have a Line renderer which should display 3 Points and i want my White Circle Sprite to repeat along the 2 created lines. But currently it looks like the picture. I need to have a 3d Material in the Linerenderer Material, so i created one gave it the 2d Img as Albedo (Which is a Single Sprite (Texture Type 2D) with Wrap Mode Repeat). On the SpriteRenderer i activated Texture Mode "Tile" and all goes well until the Edge of the Line where you can see it stretches very weird. Ive looked online but i have not really found why or how to fix it. Hopefully one of you guys can help? ❤️

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like maybe you have weirdly scaled your object?

Make sure the scale on the renderer and all its parents is 1:1:1

looks like a classic non-uniform-scaling skew thing going on.

[bright sail]

The object the linerender is on has no Children or Parents and is set to 1/1/1 on the scale :/

[swift crag]

do you mean you set the texture mode to tile on the LineRenderer?

[bright sail]

yes it set it to this

Tiling, Scaling 1 and 1 and left everything i dont know to the default 😄

[swift crag]

I do see some skewing when I slap a grid texture onto a line renderer

[wintry quarry]

Can you show the material too?

[swift crag]

It behaves much better if you set "Corner Vertices" to at leaset 1

[swift crag]

note that this will cause a bit of weirdness on the actual corner

[bright sail]

with no texture it looks right aswell but with the dot its screwed

[swift crag]

right, because each line is sheared a bit

[bright sail]

oh that is way better yea

[swift crag]

One edge is longer than the other, but they're trying to cover the same range of UV coordinates

so it skews

[bright sail]

ohhh that actually makes alot of sense yea

[swift crag]

Ideally, it would just create a separate pair of triangles at the corner

but I guess it can't do that if Corner Vertices is set to 0!

[bright sail]

That is actually exactly what i wanted thank you very much

dang 😄 Happy new year haha

[swift crag]

ah, nice (:

The corner winds up having constant UV coordinates along the arc. It doesn't look half-bad with this grid material

In your case, since the texture is transparent at its edges, you shouldn't see anything at all in the corner

[bright sail]

yea the corner is just blank

but its not tooo much of a problem for this specific project since its thought as a helper line for where a ball is gonna move towards so the exact corner location isnt that important rather than the reflected angle from the wall 😄

[bright sail]

yea thats actually very fitting

[gaunt sandal]

I cannot get my raycast to detect the ground no matter what i try:

    void OnCollisionStay2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        string otherLayerMaskName = LayerMask.LayerToName(other.gameObject.layer);

        if (otherLayerMaskName == "Wall")
        {
            Rigidbody2D rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
            HaltHorizontalMovement();
        }

        RaycastHit hit;
        LayerMask groundMask = LayerMask.GetMask("Ground");

        // Detect if there is ground beneath the player
        if (Physics.Raycast(
            transform.position,
            transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.down),
            out hit,
            (transform.localScale.y / 2) + 0.1f,
            groundMask
            )
        )
        {
            Debug.DrawRay(
                transform.position,
                transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.down) * hit.distance,
                Color.yellow
                );
            
            isGrounded = true;
        } else
        {
            Debug.DrawRay(
                transform.position,
                transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.down) * ((transform.localScale.y / 2) + 0.1f),
                Color.white
                );
        }
        Debug.Log("Colliding with: " + otherLayerMaskName);
    }

so far, i have:

• double checked that the ground object actually is on the layer "Ground"
• written the raycast such that it doesn't require a layermask and visa versa
• added Debug rays to check what's going on

my editor setup:

[swift crag]

You're using the 3D Physics raycast in your code

but this is inside a 2D Physics collision method

That does not sound correct.

[gaunt sandal]

oooooooooooooooooh

thanks!

[swift crag]

i usually mix them up when trying to help someone with 2D, haha

[gaunt sandal]

lol the 2d ptsd

[swift crag]

Note that Physics2D.Raycast looks and feels just different enough from the 3D one to be confusing

so pay careful attention to how it works

[gaunt sandal]

it is fixed!

[snow ruin]

here (also omg OMORI PFP i love omori so much :o)

[hallow bough]

I have a question. I am currently working on a menu navigation for my home screen. I am trying to make it so when I press a button, the program will close the current screen, and selected a certain button. Can someone please help me?

[leaden pasture]

Why what's the issue with your current method?

[hallow bough]

when I close the menu (run exit) nothing becomes selected

update: just restarted unity, its all working now. idk why it didn't

[leaden pasture]

Ahh right very fair. Unity does like to do random stuff sometimes but at least it works now

[hallow bough]

ty for trying to help

[grand snow]

Go into 2d mode and can you show it and then how it looks in play mode?
And thanks my gf drew it for me!

[polar briar]

How do custom game tick rates work

It’s not frames is it? (I kinda have an idea but I don’t get how to use it)

[errant pilot]

Guys how can i make a 2D object flash as in become brighter for a second?

[wintry quarry]

That's a pretty vague term that probably means different things in different contexts. But no it wouldn't be frames it would be in seconds.

[swift elbow]

use a coroutine to activate a gameobject with a light component for 1 second

[errant pilot]

im sorry i never messed with light how can i make it flash that specific object only exactly?

[swift elbow]

wdym by "flash that specific object only exactly"?

do you want the gameobject itself to glow or to mimic a general lighting effect?

[errant pilot]

yes i want the object itself to glow

[polar briar]

The best way I can explain what I want is Yomi Hustle. Where attacks last frames and then the game freezes so you can pick your next move

[swift elbow]

then you would probably need a custom shader, or add an emission map and toggle material emission

[errant pilot]

ill look into it thank you

[wintry quarry]

never heard of it, but yeah basically you would break the game simulation down into frames and you can define how much time each frame or tick takes however you want

it's more or less what FixedUpdate is

easy to make your own as well

[polar briar]

Ok that’s what I was kinda hoping

I just need to look into how fixed update actually works. It always kinda confused me

[wintry quarry]

Simple example:

int currentFrame = 0;
float timer;
float frameInterval = 1f/50f; // 50 frames per second

void Start() {
  timer = 0;
}

void Update() {
  timer += Time.deltaTime;

  if (timer >= frameInterval) {
    timer -= frameInterval;
    ProcessAFrame();
  }
}

void ProcessAFrame() {
  currentFrame += 1;

  // do whatever game simulation should happen each frame here.
}```

[polar briar]

Okay yeah that makes since

[wintry quarry]

To add pausing you could just do:

void Update() {
  if (!paused) timer += Time.deltaTime;

  // the rest...
}```

[polar briar]

I never seen a frame interval before so that’s a lil new

But I get it in concept

[wintry quarry]

it's just a number indicating how many seconds each frame takes

in this case I defined it as 1/50th of a second

[polar briar]

Okay

I need to understand code format first. I can read it but writing it feels rly foreign still

But that’s good to know where to start with my learning

[wintry quarry]

yes you'll want to have good code fundamentals before trying to tackle this

I recommend https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp

[polar briar]

Tutorial hell time

[gaunt sandal]

is there anything specific that you don't understand?

[hallow bough]

I am working on a input system for menu navigation, and I am having some trouble creating a delay in the middle of a script. I read online Invoke and coroutines help a lot in this kind of situation, but I do not know how to implement them. Can someone please help me? (I want the canMoveSelector variable to turn true after a few miliseconds so it doesn't skip any buttons)

{
    if (currentSelection != 0)
    {
        if (input.y > 0.9f && canMoveSelector && currentSelection + 1 < MainInteractions.Length)
        {
            UpdateColorMain(1);
        }
        else if (input.y < -0.9f && canMoveSelector && currentSelection - 1 > 0)
        {
            UpdateColorMain(-1);
        }
        else
        {
            canMoveSelector = true;
        }

        if (currentSelection == 1 || currentSelection == 0)
        {
            if (input.x > 0.9f && canMoveSelector)
            {
                UpdateColorMain(1);
            }
            else if (input.x < -0.9f && canMoveSelector)
            {
                UpdateColorMain(-1);
            }
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if (input.x > 0.9f)
        {
            UpdateColorMain(1);
        }
    }

    if (pressed)
    {
        MainInteractions[currentScreen].GetComponent<Button>().onClick.Invoke(); // run the button's on click event
    }
}```

[gaunt sandal]

• are you needing this to halt the function's process for a certain period of time, or
• are you needing this to run another process while this function runs?

[tame oriole]

Is this where I learn code

[gaunt sandal]

this is where you talk to strangers if you are having trouble learning code

[tame oriole]

Ah

[hallow bough]

I am trying to make the bool canMoveSelector become true after a certain ammount of time. The rest of the prgram should be running while this happens

[tame oriole]

Yes I am wondering if there's any free courses that teach c# to help understanding I've been stuck in tutorial hell and am unable to script without a tutorial

I did do a script once that worked and it's still in my game

[gaunt sandal]

what are you wanting to create?

[hallow bough]

I started leaning from GMTK. I recomend you check his tutorial to unity

[tame oriole]

Thanks I'll check them out

I wanna make a multiplayer rts

[gaunt sandal]

did you check out coroutines in the Unity Scripting API and the Unity Manual?

[tame oriole]

And I plan on adding multiple classes in the future

[gaunt sandal]

so what have you built so far?

[tame oriole]

I've followed a tutorial series but he doesn't explain the code very much I've got click select and drag select as well and deselect and when I click the selected object move to the selected point

[cosmic quail]

yeah tutorials tend to do that (not explaining code)

[gaunt sandal]

yeah, that's understandable.

[tame oriole]

Yea one tutorial just said copy and paste this script

[gaunt sandal]

have you programmed in c# before making this game?

[tame oriole]

Yep

[hallow bough]

I did, but I am not sure how to make that work. A friend built this script for me, and I do not fully understand how everything works in the script. How would creating a coroutine help in this situation? the NavigateMain function is being checked every update, so wouldn't it just restart the coroutine a lot?

[gaunt sandal]

join me in a call

i shall visually explain it

[tame oriole]

Not necessarily making an rts but a somewhat working multiplayer fps and single player horrors puzzle game

[gaunt sandal]

okay so you understand how classes work and some fundamental programming concepts

[tame oriole]

The puzzle game is out on itch but the UI is overcrowded and the puzzle is really difficult

[hallow bough]

alr give me a second

[tame oriole]

Not really

Classes are the start function type things right

[gaunt sandal]

oooooooo well i can explain some good stuff to know in a call once i'm done with computedduke

[tame oriole]

Wait that's fuctions

Ok

I'll get ready for the day in a sec

[gaunt sandal]

oki

[wintry quarry]

You need to drag a GameObject with the script attached to it to the slot, not the script itself

[frosty hound]

1. It's not a public function
2. It contains more than one argument

[wintry quarry]

Those also need to be true^

[steep rose]

A class is not a function, it is a class which I would say is the "holder" of all of your variables and methods which can be executed in it to get a desired outcome (e.g making a calculator class to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication, division for 2 numbers), A method like the Start method goes inside of a class and methods are functions which do a specific thing (which in my last example would be a Calculate(float x, float y){}; and would be called in start or update depending on what you put in it).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/types/classes
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/methods

[west radish]

Another thing to note, Start() and Update() comes from MonoBehavior, they aren't inherent to what a class is

[languid spire]

except in C# we call them methods

[steep rose]

yes, here you go

[gaunt sandal]

this is the easiest way to understand classes:

• Our game is like the house we want to build
• Classes are like a box
• In those boxes, we can put materials (variables, fields, properties) inside
• We can also put tools (functions) inside that allow us to create our house (game) using those materials

Classes allow us to couple data with methods of manipulating said data in a neat little package.

[torn jolt]

never coded in my life

need help as im trying to make a puppet combo kind of game

or you could say like Fears to fathom

[gaunt sandal]

what specifically are you needing help on?

[torn jolt]

camera movement. interactions. enemy movement

toggling i guess it says

[slender nymph]

!ask

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.
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[torn jolt]

we could hop in vc

[gaunt sandal]

sure!

[tame oriole]

i understand now a class is a script and scripts are the building block to the game

[west radish]

its more that the .cs file is the script itself, but aside from that, yeah

[tame oriole]

I'm now watching a 1hour explanation on the basics of c#

[cosmic dagger]

What errors do you have? What part of your script/code is not working?

[burnt vapor]

There are no voice chats in this server. Just ask your question instead of reserving a single person because you will likely get a better answer anyway

[cosmic dagger]

Server doesn't have any (for a reason) . . .

[hot laurel]

A class is a template or blueprint for creating objects, no more no less.

[gaunt sandal]

i just set up a call with

I sent over some resources to get started

[gaunt sandal]

it's more accurate to say that a class is an object that bundles data and relevant functions together in a neat package.

since everything in c# is an object

but in terms of unity, it's an object that can then be used as a component for GameObjects

[burnt vapor]

A class is not an object

It defines a type of object

[runic lance]

yeah, if it was an object it would be something more similar to Javascript prototypes

I think the blueprint definition is pretty accurate

[gentle bone]

Just imagine a Class like a Basket... In this Basket you have like Types(enums) Apples, Oranges, etc. with different properties (variables) like string NameOf Fruit .... int SizeOfFruit ... and Methods(functions) what you can do with them... void EatApple(); void EatBanana(); etc...

[burnt vapor]

Also, in what context? Does everything derive from System.Object? No it doesn't, but nearly everything is convertible to System.Object

Methods aren't objects, for example

But we can define a MethodInfo object

[gentle bone]

the class is simple just the whole Basket with all Info of the items and what you can do with them

[tame oriole]

um how do i make an object clicked and unclick

how i allow selected and deselected

[hot laurel]

class its not an object, its a blue print for creating an object

[fair badge]

whats difference between struct and class?

[inland cobalt]

Hey all, im trying to make a generalised abstract class that other classes can inherit to implement as a singleton, this is what i've done:

using UnityEngine;

public abstract class Singleton<T> : MonoBehaviour where T : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static T Instance { get; private set; }

    private void Awake()
    {
        if(Instance != null && Instance != this)
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("Duplicate instances of player controller exist");
            Destroy(gameObject);
        } else Instance = this as T;
    }
}```

And in my player controller for example, its being inherited like this:
```cs
public class PlayerController : Singleton<PlayerController>
{
  // ...
}```


however when i try to access this singleton in another script:

```cs
public class PlayerTelementery : MonoBehaviour
{
    private PlayerController playerController;
    
    // ...

    private void Start()
    {
        playerController = PlayerController.Instance;
        // ...
    }```

PlayerController.Instance causes a undefined reference exception to be thrown. Does anyone know what im doing wrong?

[burnt vapor]

A struct allocates on the stack, where a class allocates on the heap

The important thing here is that structs, being value types, are passed by copies of itself and classes are passed by reference

What happends here is that if a value type leaves the scope, it's gone

A class is not gone. It has to be collected by the garbage collector when it's fully out of scope

[tame oriole]

im trying to make a gameobject that when clicked it pops up a ui menu

[burnt vapor]

This makes value types the better choice when you have small allocations and/or want to run fast processes, as you want to avoid garbage as much as possible. However, it's not always the best idea here

Example, a Vector3 is small and a struct. It's used and called often by math so it should be fast

[tame oriole]

and when ground is clicked it closes teh menu

[fair badge]

what is garbage collerctor?

[burnt vapor]

It's an internal system used by .NET that handles the removal of stale reference types that are no longer used

You can look into some of its features with the GC class, but I advice you just leave it alone

In C++ you always had quite the risk of having dangling pointers because in that language there was no GC and you had to make sure pointers were properly disposed of.

.NET has it easier. You can say object referencing through parameters and such is kind of the same as the pointers, minus the manual disposing

[swift crag]

does the player controller class have its own Awake method?

Unity just grabs the most specific method it can find and runs that. It won't run both Awake methods

[inland cobalt]

it does yes

[swift crag]

Consider making Awake virtual in that case, and then overriding it on the player controller

(and then making sure you include a call to base.Awake()

[inland cobalt]

That makes a lot of sense thanks, but wouldn't this be bad practice? As im requiring myself to always call base.Awake() in anything that inherits from the singleton, and if i dont, things will break

[swift crag]

I have a fair bit of code that will malfunction if you don't call the base method, so it's not exactly uncommon, I'd asy

I don't see a way around that if you want to assign the reference in Awake

[burnt vapor]

BTW @fair badge this whole thing with classes and allocation is also why you should generaly try to reuse classes, like through pooling. It's always a very good idea to reuse a class instead of just creating a new one since you just take up more memory and force the GC to collect more stale objects

[inland cobalt]

would there be a better way to assign it then?

[swift crag]

I did this for a bunch of objects in my AI system, and it's been great

[swift crag]

I do it lazily in my SingletonBehaviour class

i find an instance with FindAnyObjectByType

this doesn't check for multiple instances

[inland cobalt]

do you mind sharing that code so i can see what you've done? I'm not asking in order to be spoonfed code, i just want to try and understand what you mean

[swift crag]

https://paste.myst.rs/yt2633tu

Not too much too it -- it checks if it needs to find an instance when it's used.

It has a mildly funny behavior if it fails to find anything

I have Domain Reload disabled, so I need to do some cleanup when exiting play mode -- but objects are getting destroyed by that point, so my instance can compare equal to null

[inland cobalt]

thanks, appreciate the help

[tame oriole]

how do i make a gameobject via script as in i click a button and it add a prefab to teh scene

[slender nymph]

couldn't you just do _instance = Find... instead of the Find then the null check? _instance is already "null" there and you'd just be assigning null to it if nothing is found anyway

or is that comment meaning that you are using the other data on your MB that doesn't touch unity stuff?

[swift crag]

Right.

It's all stuff that would be irrelevant in the built game

I should check if Application.quitting is raised before stuff gets destroyed

(I'm pretty sure I've also had problems with this during scene unload)

[verbal dome]

Perhaps you want GameObject > UI > Dropdown - TextMeshPro

[marble hemlock]

So I was originally going to have an array, and then try to have the game keep a list of all the different things that get spawned, and then... I guess just keeping track of it. I'm not exactly sure how to have the player leave and exit a scene but without restarting the scene so I was just going to do this, and forcefully have it manually update each time they leave but

surely there is a more efficient way to do this right?

[torn jolt]

ok so

[verbal dome]

I'm not exactly sure how to have the player leave and exit a scene but without restarting the scene
Not sure what that means

Do you want these things to persist when the scene changes or not?

[marble hemlock]

yeah

Okay so for an example, lets say the player goes through an entire section and interacts with everything, clicks on a door to leave, and it'll load a new scene. If they go back through that door to the original scene they just came from, I don't want everything to just reload, but to be in the same state they just left it in.

[verbal dome]

Okay so you need some sort of save/load system here

[marble hemlock]

agony

thank you i will look into it

is it a generally difficult thing to do?

[verbal dome]

It's not the first thing I would tell a beginner to do but most of us need to learn it at some point

[tame oriole]

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

public class Castle : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject indicator;
public GameObject menu;

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

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    
}


// Clicks on tower
private void OnMouseDown()
{
    indicator.SetActive(true);
    menu.SetActive(true);
}

}

[tame oriole]

I dotn exactly know how to deselect it but yeaa

[languid spire]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 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.

[marble hemlock]

[tame oriole]

huh

[marble hemlock]

its like that huh

[astral falcon]

Save and load could be a simple json string telling the game which item was what state. But it can also get super complex. You decide for the start what to include.

[tame oriole]

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

public class Castle : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject indicator;
    public GameObject menu;

    // Clicks on tower
    private void OnMouseDown()
    {
        indicator.SetActive(true);
        menu.SetActive(true);
    }



}

woa

ok how do i add a deselct thing

[marble hemlock]

i guess in my case, at most id need to keep track of
A) Where the player is
B) What areas the player has already been to
C) Their entire inventory 💀

[tame oriole]

this is for an rts its a summoner tower so its clicked on and a ui pops up

[marble hemlock]

The first two seem reasonably sane but the 3rd just feels like its going to beat me down

[sinful hawk]

Hey there-- for whatever reason my linerenderer keeps bugging out and swapping locations on the 0'th index here. The transform that is attached to the location is not actively moving, and seems to be a purely line renderer thing.

The only thing I can gather atm is that somehow the object parenting is messing it up, but it's so inconsistent that I am unable to figure out what is specifically the issue.

The gameobject labelled bobberstart is placed on the end of the fishing rod, and does not move unless you look around. The only thing glitching around is purely the linerenderer

[swift crag]

What is the line renderer attached to?

[sinful hawk]

The fishing rod object-- which also has this script attached

[swift crag]

totally irrelevant, but that's producing interesting video artifacts

[sinful hawk]

Oh weird

[swift crag]

are you sure that bobberstart isn't moving around? You can pause in play mode and have a look at where it is

[sinful hawk]

I am certain

I've compared the two whilst split screening it and the bobber start object is not moving whatsoever

Yeah

I'd get a gif for proof it's not happening, but it's somewhat hard lol

[swift crag]

What happens if you completely stop setting positions in this script?

(actually, just toggle the behaviour on and off)

I wonder if something else is trying to set the points as well

[sinful hawk]

hmmmmm maybe

lemme try

Also here's the gif for the bobberstart posiitons

[slender nymph]

so it's only happening when you move around?

[sinful hawk]

sometimes its when im stationary too

just depends

its a bit random

[astral falcon]

Moving two things separately is never a good idea if they are parented

[sinful hawk]

Ig I don't understand what you mean by that

I'm not moving things that are parented directly really

But yeah I'm really quite at a loss

Bc I'm only reading world position data and directly feeding that into the line renderer

And the thing that is supposed to be moving (the bobber itself) isn't even the thing causing issues lol

[swift crag]

Do you have anything setting bobberstart's position?

[sinful hawk]

It's just a basic parent on the fishing rod itself

🤷

[swift crag]

A very sneaky problem can happen if you use the position of something before you update it. You'll see the correct position in the scene view, but the position will be wrong when you actually use it

[verbal dome]

I'd try moving this to LateUpdate

[robust condor]

Should I use a global pool or a specialized pool for each weapon? Imagine if I have 10 different weapons in the scene, all shooting different types of projectiles, missiles, lasers etc. Should each weapon itself have its own pool or should I use one big pool for all bullet types?

[sinful hawk]

Lemme try it out-- I'll post updates

[swift crag]

Consider using Gizmos.DrawSphere to draw a gizmo at the exact position of bobberstart

Gizmos.DrawSphere(bobberstart.transform.position, 0.1f);

This'll draw a small solid sphere at that position

That'll rule out a bogus position

I'm also wondering if you have a rigidbody on the player or on FishingRod

This smells like something that's updating out of sync with something else

[verbal dome]

It isn't guaranteed that in OnDrawGizmos the positon is the same as in Update/LateUpdate though

[swift crag]

Oh right, you have to do that in OnDrawGizmos

duh

[sinful hawk]

Using LateUpdate seems to be solving the issue-- though oddly enough now when moving and casting the rod, it'll move in a strange direction, but I can realistically fix it

[swift crag]

I wrote a system to let me request a gizmo to be drawn later

so I forgot about that

[swift crag]

That's interesting -- LateUpdate means you're running after rigidbody interpolation, I believe

[verbal dome]

I recently wrote a "GLDrawer" that I submit triangles and lines to and draw it whenever I want

It uses GL.LINES etc.

So works in builds too

[swift crag]

I just shove an entire anonymous function into a list to run later lol

GC Alloc? Yes

[sinful hawk]

I think the weird casting position is a result of my own implementation though so idt its a huge issue

I appreiciate the help though guys!

Thats a weird desyncing thing though

You'd kind of think that the positions would be finalized when on screen, but ig not 🤷

[swift crag]

well that's the thing

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/execution-order.html

If you do things out of order, you can get "off by one frame" issues

[sinful hawk]

oh weirdddd

[swift crag]

Are you using a Rigidbody anywhere? if so, is Interpolation on?

[sinful hawk]

I have a rigidbody on the bobber and the player character for which the rod is parented to

[swift crag]

I believe interpolation applies between Update and LateUpdate

[sinful hawk]

Yeah there's no interpolation, so that's probably it

[swift crag]

So you were getting one-frame-old positions

oh, if there's no interpolation, then that wouldn't be relevant

[sinful hawk]

oh

Welp-- I'm very glad it's working now at least lol

[slender nymph]

that shouldn't have affected when it was perfectly still though and you indicated that it would still do that when not moving

[swift crag]

The video didn't show that; it looked like the error was proportional to the movement rate

as far as I can tell, at least

[sinful hawk]

it definitely exacerbated the issue yes

[swift crag]

Do you mean that it happens both when looking around and when moving around?

[slender nymph]

yep, but i specifically asked right after they posted the video

[swift crag]

not when you're both:

• not moving
• not rotating

[sinful hawk]

It could yes

[swift crag]

Moving and rotating both cause the objects to move around, so that would make sense

It would be weirder if it was happening when nothing was going on at all

[sinful hawk]

Sometimes it'd happen when standing in very specific circumstances, but I think that's because there's some slanted objects on the boardwalk which would cause the player position to shift

[verbal dome]

Just curious, do you have any other active cameras in the scene and/or do you have the scene view open side by side with the game view?

[sinful hawk]

I have one camera for the render texture and one for the fishing rod to make it appear before other objects

[verbal dome]

Oh well you do have them side by side in the video

Okay, could be related to that, maybe the cameras interfered somehow when the linerenderer is being calculated for each of them

Just guessing though.

[sinful hawk]

I thought about that-- but I think at one point I removed the fishing rod cam and the line also disappeared

And because the component was on the rod, the linerenderer itself was effectively on the same layer (that's my understanding at least)

[swift crag]

you mean the "HeldItemCamera"?

that's very interesting information

[sinful hawk]

Yep

It's an overlay cam for the rod

[swift crag]

The exact object the camera is on doesn't matter.

The camera's culling mask decides what layers it can see

[sinful hawk]

yeah thats what i meant

apologies

The culling mask only targets the helditem layer, and the rod and therefore the linerenderer component would only be rendered by that camera then

That's my understanding on the topic

Either way, I appreciate the help for getting it working! I can now finally progress without losing my mind over a line that teleports 😂

[swift crag]

I would want to figure out the root cause here

[sinful hawk]

Fair enough

[swift crag]

but I don't see anything particularly obvious at this point

[sinful hawk]

yeah-- especially considering even though there may be some difference between the update and lateupdate-- it doesn't make sense as to how far away the positions were when the line was to glitch out

Idk-- I'll come back and share more assuming it comes back up 🤷

[cold elbow]

I'm using rider and sometimes it tells me expensive method invocation

like how expensive?

I dont get it

[swift crag]

It's a very rough guess

[slender nymph]

$5 per call
/s
it's basically just warning you that you should cache the returned object for that method instead of calling it over and over if possible. you'd have to profile it if you want hard numbers

[swift crag]

I only charge $3

Buy now

[verbal dome]

I don't really like how it marks a method "expensive" when it contains, for example a Debug.LogError in case something goes wrong

But I guess I already got used to seeing those non squiggly yellow-ish lines

[cold elbow]

what does cache mean

[slender nymph]

store it for reuse

[swift crag]

I have a ton of methods flagged as "frequently called" because they're called by an Update message...even though they'll only run once, ever

i should probably turn off that analysis

[cold elbow]

how can you do that

[slender nymph]

well it depends on what the actual method in question is, if it's a method that returns void, obviously you can't. but if it returns some object then you just store it in a variable

like GameObject.Find returns a GameObject and beginners tend to spam that, but you can just call it once and store the returned GameObject in a variable instead of calling GameObject.Find each time you want that specific gameobject

[cold elbow]

nice

[cosmic dagger]

True; any method with a log inside will get flagged as expensive. I've seen methods flagged that didn't have it, but somewhere along the chain, one method had a log in it, thus activating the warning for every method along the chain . . .

[cold elbow]

in my case I keep using GetComponent

[slender nymph]

yeah that can easily be cached. though it isn't really an expensive operation per se

[cold elbow]

it's generally best used when you keep calling the method in update right?

[slender nymph]

i don't know what you mean by that. but storing the result of GetComponent can easily be done in Start and just reusing that variable so you aren't calling GetComponent unnecessarily each frame

[cosmic dagger]

Any GetComponent should be cached . . .

[cold elbow]

fair enough

[cold elbow]

does the position of this object depend on the position of the blue green red arrows thing?

[slender nymph]

set your tool handle to Pivot and the tool handle will be at the object's actual position
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PositioningGameObjects.html

[silk meteor]

is it possible to easily convert a vector 2 into vector 3

(simplest way possible)

[frosty hound]

Depends if you want to provide a value for Z or not

It's easy either way

[silk meteor]

well z can be 0

[frosty hound]

Can be or will be?

[silk meteor]

will be

Vector2 controller => transform.parent.localScale; because i have this code

[frosty hound]

(Vector3) myVector2

[silk meteor]

okay im stupid

i just realized

omgg

thanks :3

can you not multiply vector3's?

[wintry quarry]

You can - there are three ways to do it

Vector3.Scale, Vector3.Dot, Vector3.Cross

[silk meteor]

oh i see

[wintry quarry]

The reason the * operator doesn't work is because it would be ambiguous which of the three types of multiplcation you want

[silk meteor]

interesting

well i see, thanks

[inland latch]

hi, i keep getting this error

UnityEditor.SerializedProperty.get_objectReferenceInstanceIDValue () (at <64861216782042de93237b5c061bff1b>:0)
UnityEditor.EditorGUIUtility.ObjectContent (UnityEngine.Object obj, System.Type type, UnityEditor.SerializedProperty property, UnityEditor.EditorGUI+ObjectFieldValidator validator) (at <64861216782042de93237b5c061bff1b>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.ObjectField+ObjectFieldDisplay.Update () (at <64861216782042de93237b5c061bff1b>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.ObjectField.UpdateDisplay () (at <64861216782042de93237b5c061bff1b>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement+SimpleScheduledItem.PerformTimerUpdate (UnityEngine.UIElements.TimerState state) (at <9b3502c626dd433da43ca50f8c32f6ba>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.TimerEventScheduler.UpdateScheduledEvents () (at <9b3502c626dd433da43ca50f8c32f6ba>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIElementsUtility.UnityEngine.UIElements.IUIElementsUtility.UpdateSchedulers () (at <9b3502c626dd433da43ca50f8c32f6ba>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIEventRegistration.UpdateSchedulers () (at <9b3502c626dd433da43ca50f8c32f6ba>:0)
UnityEditor.RetainedMode.UpdateSchedulers () (at <9a95e3c806024daf96fa9e2a7f9d9fba>:0)

in the editor in unity, nothing breaks and everything still works, but it spams the editor and only after i've run the game once and closed it in unity?

[compact stag]

hey guys! just a general question, but if im starting out with unity is it better to use 2019.3 or unity 6?

[wintry quarry]

Are you using any plugins? It's an error drawing the inspector of something

[wintry quarry]

Why would you use a 5 year old version?

[compact stag]

because most tutorials and the unity learn programming starter guide is from 2019.3!

well, the tutorial seems to be from 2019.3

or a 2019 version, not sure

[wintry quarry]

If you want to do a specific tutorial, it's a good idea to use the same version that the tutorial was written for

But if you want to start an actual game project, using the latest LTS version is recommended

[compact stag]

alright! but why? because of the latest features and changes?

[wintry quarry]

Latest features, most supported, most able to build for modern platforms, etc.

plus you can remove the splash screen for free

[inland latch]

this is all of them

[compact stag]

thank you! ❤️

[inland latch]

i did have mockhmd too, but i removed it for testing as it's experimental and nothing changed

[wintry quarry]

Any Asset Store assets?

[compact stag]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
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[compact stag]

please! ^

[noble forum]

oh mb

can anyone help me?
im using a slider in settings to change the lens of my cinemachine camera (in 2d) and it only changes after i close the pause menu (so when i set the time back to 1 from 0)
https://paste.mod.gg/xfjvlmfndyna/0
this is the code

[inland latch]

none from the asset store but i did download the files from this tutorial

[winged seal]

hey im wondering if i have to code or anything im making a vr game and i just cant make the controller i have the model and stuff but i cant make it work

[wintry quarry]

What's your actual question?

[winged seal]

do i have to code?

[wintry quarry]

I don't know, do you?

[winged seal]

im no good at coding

[wintry quarry]

What are you trying to do?

Do you have to fly airplanes?

[winged seal]

no

shooting

[wintry quarry]

If you want to make a game in Unity you generally have to code, yes.

[inland latch]

find one online if you don't wanna do anything, look at the asset store

[winged seal]

i made the vr run on the headset

so thats something

[inland latch]

also, saving something so unity reloads stops the errors too, and they stop in play mode, but they start again when i exit play mode

and when focused inside a prefab in isolation it stops too

[winged seal]

when i downloaded the asset where does it go?

[inland latch]

in your unity assets folder

assuming you installed the package

[winged seal]

this?

[inland latch]

click open in unity

[winged seal]

i did

shoot i have the 2017 version downloaded

[wintry quarry]

The way to add assets to your unity project is from the package manager within Unity

not from the website

[winged seal]

but when i use the package manager it wants me to get the zip

yuh

[ashen frigate]

how do i find this collider i dont see it in the hierarchy

https://prnt.sc/fBP8Tu_ehprp

[wintry quarry]

It's the Character Controller

(which is a Collider btw)

[ashen frigate]

ohhh

how can i move it up ?

[ashen frigate]

rect tool dont work on it ?

[wintry quarry]

rect tool is for 2D stuff and UI

[ashen frigate]

isee ty 😘

[ornate aurora]

Hi! I'm trying to make an infinite version of Minesweeper in unity. At the moment I'm just messing with the map generation. I want a seed-based tile map generation that supports local mine density (you will see what I mean soon). I'm generating the maps completely revealed. So my current system goes as follows:
There are two functions that generate the infinite map. One is opensimplex2 from fastnoiselite and the other one is the same function on a different seed but shuffled (previously via trickery with hashes and now it's just a big sine wave with big frequency modulo 1) so that it resembles a bunch of iid uniform random variables for each tile. There's some constant threshold p and a given cell is a mine if the noises added up (open simplex is smooth, the other is just white noise) go higher than p.
The render system consists of a list of chunks that has the chunks that will be rendered, and has a maximum size. Every frame, it looks at the camera corners and removes all chunks that are outside the visible part. When removed, I call SetTilesBlock to set all the tiles to null. After that, it tries to add as many chunks as the list allows, from the visible part. When a chunk is added to the list, I call SetTile to all of the cells in the chunk. Setting the tile requires knowing the tile type (safe or mine) and that requires calling the noise functions from above.
My issue is that this is actually extremely laggy! The functions that use the most cpu (I got that from deep profiling) are the SetTile and evaluating the noises at a given point, with 22 and 17ms respectively (should be less than 16 to run a 60fps). This makes me think that my approach was flawed from the very beggining, because it's not like games can't generate infinite 2d worlds (Minecraft does it in 3d). What is the issue here? Are tilemaps not the right tool? Maybe there are better ways to generate noise? Any help is appreciated!

[winged seal]

this here right

[naive pawn]

package manager
Window > Package Manager > My Assets

[wintry quarry]

this is not the package manager

[winged seal]

what after i download it?

[wintry quarry]

then import it

[winged seal]

ok.

there is nothing

wait

[wintry quarry]

Is this the package?

[winged seal]

yeah i just realized xd

i think it is

[wintry quarry]

open the scenes folder

open a sample scene or whatever

[winged seal]

1st or 2th?

[wintry quarry]

whichever you're interested in

[winged seal]

or i can choose whatever i want

it just said this

not errors againn

[wintry quarry]

show your console window

[winged seal]

here

[wintry quarry]

do you have the XR package(s) installed?

[winged seal]

the vr ones?

[wintry quarry]

these

[winged seal]

let me check

i have interaction toolkit

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.template.vr-multiplayer@2.0/manual/index.html

Looks like you need the packages listed there and one of the Unity versions listed thre

er wait is this the same package you're trying?

[winged seal]

the game's name?

[naive pawn]

the asset you're using

[winged seal]

wait

its called xr interaction

[naive pawn]

this

[winged seal]

yeah

31 is alot

[winged seal]

do i have to download all?

[naive pawn]

seems like it doesn't list its deps

i see one of the errors is for the inputsystem

make sure you've set that up correctly

oh

you didn't install the sdk did you

[naive pawn]

scroll down and read the requirements. you gotta install the sdk too

[winged seal]

so theese right

i checked the entire page

[naive pawn]

no, praetor linked the wrong thing

[naive pawn]

scroll down on the asset page

[winged seal]

alright

[winged seal]

where do i get the sdk tho?

[naive pawn]

it's linked below the template

[winged seal]

this here?

[winged seal]

k downloaded it

also in unity

this here popped up

[naive pawn]

no don't download it

install it via package manager

like we've said before

[winged seal]

wait i cant find its name to download it via package manager

[naive pawn]

make sure you're on the "my assets" tab and that youve added to your assets from the store

[winged seal]

ight

why cant we just download it tho

[naive pawn]

this lets it be managed properly

[winged seal]

https://youtu.be/PmWBJILBV1E?si=rnzFnsvqzs_AANIP

[near wadi]

Is anyone using Rider (personal) fully offline? the wording in their EULA always gives me pause. I am wondering if it works indefinitely, offline

[winged seal]

k i downloaded it

it runs

[steep rose]

Why wouldn't Rider work offline, that seems unnecessary Actually I remember a conversation on here saying Rider is always checking to see if you actually own it or not (breaking license rules) using telemetry. What did the EULA say?

I could be remembering it wrong though

[near wadi]

well, that is the problem. the EULA is worded in such a way as to not make clear sense. it Seems that you can use it offline, but maybe you have to connect for license verification.
and they will do telemetry, but not too much, unless they think they need to, and then you can turn it off, but not really. etc..

Yeah, there have been conversations about it, so you are probably recalling correctly. they have changed the EULA a bit since i refused it last time. it used to not work if you took it offline. that seems to Not be the case anymore, but it works differently for personal vs paid, etc. So, i was hoping someone using personal, who has kept it offline, can tell me that it is working ok

[steep rose]

I'm guessing you are talking about https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/toolbox/user/ EULA 6.3 (A), (B), (C)? That's a doozy

[near wadi]

Yeah, that one is not terrible, but annoying. let me see if i can find what i was looking at exactly

[steep rose]

So you have to generate an offline code to use it offline then you have to generate a new one periodically, so I guess that means you have to come online but then go back offline

why even allow offline use then lmao

[near wadi]

indeed. strange way to do it., but not too terrible. they gotta track ya somewhow! 😛

[steep rose]

"you can be offline for approximately 2 minutes before you have to come back online to generate a new code to be offline again"

[near wadi]

They have expanded and revised since the last time i read it, and did not agree with it, so that is good. I still wish the data was not held under Czech jurisdiction though. this is a personal thing. not trying to start a political conversation. here is a link the the privacy notice https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy/

but, in the end, i am just trying to verify from someone who is doing it, that there is not an issue with it, if say, user is in a location without internet for extended periods. Doesn't seem to be a huge issue anymore, but hoping for verification. long ago, it was Supposed to work offline, but did not for me. that is the root of this question

[ornate aurora]

Bumping this.

[steep rose]

ooo yeah a bit weird that they do that but yeah we shouldn't start a political conversation, couldn't you use VS or VScode if you have no internet?

or is it a preference thing

[teal viper]

That's a hella lot of text for one message. Maybe keep the question simpler for starters and create a thread. It would also help if you share the profiling data(as a screenshot) and the relevant !code.

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[near wadi]

@steep rose
yeah, no problem there. I would like to utilize the advanced features that Rider has though, so collecting information (in case i end up stuck in Oregon without Internet again :D)

[steep rose]

ah okay 👍 what kind of info would you collect?

like business things?

[near wadi]

just the original question "Does it work indefinitely without internet" just trying to collect That information 🙂

[steep rose]

ah okay, cool 😅

[steady sentinel]

How do i adjust main camera size? I'm trying to make the main menu to a game but I just dont know how to do it

[slender nymph]

2d camera you just change the orthographic size. 3d camera is FOV, both are also affected by the resolution of the game. set your Game View to the desired resolution

[naive pawn]

not sure how that's related to making a main menu though?

[slender nymph]

but also main menu is typically UI, so check the messages pinned in #📲┃ui-ux to learn how to anchor and scale the UI based on the game's resolution

[steady sentinel]

Thanks

[steady sentinel]

where is that exactly?

[slender nymph]

read very carefully through the properties in that screenshot

[steady sentinel]

im guessing its display or viewport rect but I just want to confirm. is that how you adjust it to your desired screen size?

[slender nymph]

no, it is literally called Size

[steady sentinel]

How do i delete palettes?

[slender nymph]

If you mean a tile palette it's just an asset in your assets folder, delete that

[steady sentinel]

when i add in other sprites like trees it always deletes the preexisting tile how do i stop that also when i place sprites into the tile palette it appears like this

[spare mountain]

use separate tilemaps also this is not the channel to ask this

#🔎┃find-a-channel

[long niche]

Anyone know if there’s like a “main way” to resolve complier errors becuase i am so clueless

[spare mountain]

... what?

what does that even mean

read the error and address it

[long niche]

Like code wise becuase I physically and mentally have no clue how to code

[tiny wind]

Ok so I finally configured my editor, and I think the problem I have is that I have 3 unused private members

what do I do for that?

[naive pawn]

that's not a problem in itself, that's just warning you that you have stuff that's not doing anything, which you might have forgotten to remove/utilise

[tiny wind]

ohh ight

[naive pawn]

learn to code then
there's resources pinned in this channel
compiler errors are very broad, fixing them depends on what the error is
reading the error message will tell you what the issue is

[long niche]

I mean I can try that

[tiny wind]

well those three things are supposed to be doing something, not nothing

[naive pawn]

then make them do that thing they're supposed to do

[unreal snow]

Am i doing something wrong? Why is the asset not moving?

[teal viper]

Is it imported as a sprite? Check it's import settings.

[teal viper]

Also next time look for a more appropriate channel. This has nothing to do with code.

[steady sentinel]

is there a manual i can read for c# to know whatever statement or action i write does?

[unreal snow]

Oh yeah thanks!!

[unreal snow]

Ok im so sorry

[teal viper]

The API docs. Assuming you mean methods and such(the API).

[charred spoke]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/

Or rather https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/

[tiny wind]

Ok so I just realised that the axis that my player was moving was the wrong one, but the character is still stuck in place

atleast now the speed is correct

[echo kite]

    void DetermineRotation()
    {
        Vector2 mouseAxis = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y"));
        mouseAxis *= mouseSensitivity;
        _currentRotation += mouseAxis;
        _currentRotation.y = Mathf.Clamp(_currentRotation.y, -90, 90);
        transform.root.localRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(_currentRotation.x, Vector3.up);
        transform.parent.localRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-_currentRotation.y, Vector3.right);
    }

why cant i look left and right? i can look up and down

no errors too

[tiny wind]

!vs

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio guide

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

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[west radish]

!vsc

heh

[tiny wind]

anyone know how to help me with this?

[west radish]

I dont know much about characters, but looking at the values shown there, its clear you are applying movement to the character. But something in your code must be overwriting the movement

void Update() {

  player.velocity = 0f;
  player.velocity += 1f;

}```sounds silly, but there's not a chance that the code might be doing something similar to this, is there? like at the start of every frame the velocity you added last frame, is erased

ah, I just looked further up adn you posted code before

[tiny wind]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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// Your code here
```
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[west radish]

private void Update()
{
  Debug.Log($"A: {body.velocity}");
  
  float horizontalInput...
  body.velocity = ...
  
  Debug.Log($"B: {body.velocity}");```could you put those debug.logs into the start of the update?

[tiny wind]

alright

[burnt vapor]

I'm confused

I told you to log it yesterday, how come we are a day later and this information still hasn't been shared?

It has been mentioned 3 times

Is this the result?

[tiny wind]

i was configuring my editor and installing VS took a while, and I forgot to send it here, my bad

[tiny wind]

these are what showed up, the number juts kept going up

[visual cedar]

guys i am trying to follow up a tutorial and i cant make see a new project option so i just cloned my new repo now i want to create a solution file and and a folder with a project,it used to do that in vscode but i dont know it doesnt in my

https://youtu.be/KG8cAGvn9d4?list=PLlrATfBNZ98dC-V-N3m0Go4deliWHPFwT&t=498

like this

[west radish]

like I thought, something is erasing any momentum that you had gained last frame. Best suggestion I can give, add a lot more Debug.Log where each one is clear where it exists like log($"Jump() {body.velocity}") everywhere you alter the velocity

at some point one of those should have a value you dont expect, likely the place that resets momentum

[tiny wind]

ight, thanks for thye help

[olive galleon]

How would I implement an attackCoolDown function for when an enemy damages the player? Here is my code:

[whole cliff]

can any1 help me make a collision script

i always get errors when following tutorials

[ivory bobcat]

It seems you're overriding the local rotation

[night raptor]

Try to follow a tutorial and if you face a problem that you are not able to solve yourself, ask here. Just make sure to include the relevant code, errors you get etc.

[whole cliff]

||using JetBrains.Annotations; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using Unity.VisualScripting; using UnityEngine; public class triggerscript : MonoBehaviour { // Start is called before the first frame update void Start() { Public } public void OnTriggerEnter(Collision info) { if(info.gameObject.tag == finish) } // Update is called once per frame void Update() { } }||

wait how do i show yall my scripy

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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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.

[ivory bobcat]

You can't put that there

[night raptor]

I highly doubt the tutorial code looked exactly like that

[whole cliff]

yeah but they made the trigger a enemy and i couldnt do that

it was pretty old

this is the tutorial

[night raptor]

”Enemy” is a string literal as a tag should be. finish is a variable, constant or something else that doesn’t exist.

[whole cliff]

okay ill try to fix it

[night raptor]

Hint ||the double quotation mark might be of importance||

[whole cliff]

i just made it wayyyyyy worse...

[night raptor]

How so?

[burnt vapor]

If this is the way you write c# then I strongly suggest you start with some basic C# lessons before doing anything Unity related

Check the pinned messages for beginner C# courses

Instead of combining learning C# with Unity, start with just C#. Unity is a whole 'nother thing by itself and you will not have a fun time if you have to learn them both at once, and likely waste even more time in the process compared to just doing these seperately

[severe onyx]

I have issues with changes to SOs not being properly tracked by git, is this a known issue or maybe something I messed up in my settings/gitignore? unsure what the right channel for this is but yeah. whenever I pull from my master branch certain values of them are just empty afterwards, and when I change only those values and try to commit them it tells me that there's nothing to commit

[fickle plume]

That should not be happening. Make sure you are not selectively ignoring .meta files.

[north kiln]

Also make sure you hit Save Project before committing

[fickle plume]

Other possibility is if you are setting values from code and not updating undo system

[severe onyx]

I know for these specific cases that cant be it since Im only referencing some strings to put into UI text, but Id like some more insight on this regardless, I didnt know this was a thing

I have run into issues with accidentally overwriting values in other places for sure lol

[severe onyx]

*.pidb.meta
*.pdb.meta
*.mdb.meta```

could this be the cause?

[north kiln]

#↕️┃editor-extensions message
This post goes into persisting changes made by editor scripts

[strong wren]

Are you hitting Save Project before committing?

[severe onyx]

just tried doing that, here's the result

warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in Assets/ScriptableObjects/LevelData/Level1/Rewards/Pool1Early.asset.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in Assets/ScriptableObjects/LevelData/Level1/Rewards/Pool1Normal.asset.
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory

$ git commit -m "trying to push SO data"
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean

so when I run git add it recognises something changed but when trying to commit it doesnt anymore idk

[severe onyx]

ty, if anyone has any other ideas feel free to respond to me there in that case

[tiny wind]

hey, im wondering, what do the colors mean? because the tutorial im following said to make sure that "OnCollisionEnter2d" was blue, but it isnt blue in mine

[prisma ivy]

it looks fine for me as colors might vary depending on the ide

[hot laurel]

you following bad tutorial then, blue signalise its a method in most of themes, but its dependant of the theme

[fickle plume]

It means the method is not used anywhere. When IDE is properly installed and supported it recognizes reserved methods that engine uses and do not mark them like that. I think VS Code might still not recognise those properly as well.

You can mouse over as well it will tell you the reason

[tiny wind]

its saying its unused, i dont think its meant to be unused, but idk how to fix it

[naive pawn]

make sure that "OnCollisionEnter2d" was blue
well, colors will change depending on what theme you're using

but assuming default themes; methods are yellow in the default

[naive pawn]

it's unused to c#; unity uses reflection to access private methods, but without that context, it just looks like a private method that you aren't using, and since it's private, nobody else can use it
~~im not sure if/how you can specify that "unity uses it" context ~~
according to fogsight's message above it should know, did you follow the "setting ide up" guides?

[hot laurel]

Unity doesn't work on Assets internally, it have its processed equivalent to work with.
So any changes you make in Editor wont apply until you hit save or mark the asset of scriptable object as dirty to notify it changed and write back the changes by saving.

[obsidian plaza]

theres an error? what namespaces are you using at the top of your script?

[naive pawn]

"unused" is not an error

[obsidian plaza]

the whole function is unused?

didnt know that was a thing it said

[obsidian plaza]

the ide just sees 0 references and figures its never being referenced u mean

[fickle plume]

Just have to make sure that plugin is up to date.

[naive pawn]

anything can be warned unused if the proper info is given

types, members, variables

[obsidian plaza]

didnt know that ive only seen variables

[tiny wind]

ight lemme check

[fickle plume]

Also like I've mentioned, if it's VS Code, it struggles with supporting those, might just have to ignore. Still make sure everything up to date

[naive pawn]

are you on windows here?

[burnt vapor]

That's because you need to configure your analyzer. Right now it just defaults to either ignoring it, or suggesting a refactor that isn't important enough to explicitly mention

You can also change the severity, or assume all warnings are errors. Up to you

[steady sentinel]

what does this mean?

[naive pawn]

did you read the error message?

and did you check where it's coming from

[obsidian plaza]

ah i guess i just prefer it this way tbh.. might even take out the warnings for unused variables

[steady sentinel]

no im just starting out and i want to know what it means

[naive pawn]

is that function call in your own code?

[hot laurel]

the message is quite explicit

[naive pawn]

it can "mean" a few things depending on where it's from

[steady sentinel]

i havent written any

[naive pawn]

if it's from something internal, you messed up config or something is corrupt

[burnt vapor]

If you want my 2 cents I strongly suggest you look into setting up strict analyzers that do warn you of these. It helps with mistakes and it really cleans up code

[naive pawn]

...ok, but check where it's from

[severe onyx]

unfortunately so, only my laptop runs Linux as of now. but I think it has been resolved anyways, I may really just not have clicked save project when I was supposed to...

[naive pawn]

read the stacktrace

[naive pawn]

what shell are you using? i thought both cmd and ps used > as a prompt?

[severe onyx]

git bash

[rancid badger]

hi guys, can anyone help me to figure out how to implement a slower loading between scenes?
the following code works fine but it is too fast

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;

public class RetryLevel : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private GameObject loadingPanel;
    [SerializeField] private Slider progressSlider;
    [SerializeField] private TMP_Text percentageText;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject GameOverPanel;

    public void StartReload()
    {
        GameOverPanel.SetActive(false);
        loadingPanel.SetActive(true);
        StartCoroutine(LoadSceneAsync());
    }

    private IEnumerator LoadSceneAsync()
    {
        AsyncOperation operation = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);

        while (!operation.isDone)
        {
            float progress = Mathf.Clamp01(operation.progress / 0.9f);
            progressSlider.value = progress;
            percentageText.text = $"{progress * 100:0}%";
            yield return null;
        }
    }
}

but whenever i try to introduce a delay or a fake loading progress the loading panel stays stuck at 0%

[naive pawn]

ah, ok. cool

[naive pawn]

how did you introduce that delay, exactly?

[tiny wind]

I installed Visual Studio Editor 2.0.22

[obsidian plaza]

through unity? idk how it works if u dont tbh

[naive pawn]

it should work fine provided you follow the appropriate !ide setup steps

[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

[fickle plume]

VS actually had some problems supporting Unity 6

[tiny wind]

wait, whats the difference between VS Community, Enterprise and the other one?

[fickle plume]

But I thought they were fixed recently

[steady sentinel]

holy code

[rancid badger]

for example like this as suggested by gpt

private IEnumerator LoadSceneAsync()
{
    AsyncOperation operation = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);
    operation.allowSceneActivation = false; // Prevent immediate scene switch
    float fakeProgress = 0f;
    
    // Initial delay
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);

    while (fakeProgress < 1f)
    {
        fakeProgress += 0.005f;
        progressSlider.value = fakeProgress;
        percentageText.text = $"{fakeProgress * 100:0}%";
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.05f);
    }

    operation.allowSceneActivation = true; // Allow scene switch
    yield return operation;
}

[naive pawn]

community is for community (non-specific) use
enterprise is for enterprise (business) use
professional is for professional use

[fickle plume]

Functionally, virtually no difference, only Enterprise requires license.

[tiny wind]

ah, alright

[naive pawn]

not the code, check the stacktrace

[hot laurel]

yeah put everything in to one file, make it bigger

[naive pawn]

i don't think that's their code

[steady sentinel]

idk what that is

[steady sentinel]

you're right thats just smth i found on the studio thing

[hot laurel]

i can't even see whats inside

[steady sentinel]

its only maybe less than half of whats there

[naive pawn]

...so, that's gonna have a 12 second delay, you sure that's what you want?

[naive pawn]

click on the error and show the stuff under the error message

[tiny wind]

i installed it properly now, and its no longer saying the methods are unused

apparently i didnt see the installation steps

[steady sentinel]

still says the exact same thing

[rancid badger]

nope but is doesnt work

[steady sentinel]

but i found smth in the code thats hightlighted in orange

[fickle plume]

@tiny wind So currently at least VS 2022 Unity methods support is just fine for Unity 6. So you must have something missing in yours. Go over the IDE install guide that was linked.

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of your whole console with the error selected

[naive pawn]

for example of what dlich said, like this:

[steady sentinel]

doesnt say that it says the exact same thing as the statement with the red symbol

these notifications keep popping up

[tiny wind]

actually i think i have the wrong version cuz mine says Visual Studio 17.2.35527

[naive pawn]

does it literally just show the message and nothing else?

[steady sentinel]

i mean when it makes me go into the studio it shows this with orange

[steady sentinel]

yep

[fickle plume]

Make sure VS 2022 is set in Unity Editor. There's no reason to use 2017, VS was much improved since then.

[steady sentinel]

which one do i download

[naive pawn]

just click it, don't double click it

just screenshot the console, please...

[naive pawn]

whichever is appropriate for your device

[steady sentinel]

oh yeah when i checked the problems tab on visual it showed no problems

[naive pawn]

those are very different environments

so something's messed up internally

does the error appear after restarting the editor

[steady sentinel]

gimme a sec

[steady sentinel]

just to let you know it started after i downloaded the latest version

[naive pawn]

latest version of what?

[steady sentinel]

unity

[naive pawn]

and this is on startup, right? not when pressing play?

[steady sentinel]

yes

[naive pawn]

ive only found threads about it happening in playmode...

[steady sentinel]

oh (cooked)

oh the red message disappeared its only the yellow one now

[hot laurel]

so it fixed itself

[steady sentinel]

nvm i just restarted again and the red message appeared again

[naive pawn]

try closing all your vs and unity processes and trying again?

[naive pawn]

ah, the worst kind of error...

[steady sentinel]

yeah its the same one

[naive pawn]

try #💻┃unity-talk, this definitely isn't a code question, maybe you'll get better answers there

[hot laurel]

i would close project, remove Library folder and then open project to let unity reimport all assets/packs

[echo kite]

how do i fix it

[steady sentinel]

it disappeared ty

this is the start of the problems im going to come across 😭

and i havent even started coding which sucks

[hot laurel]

seems like something got corrupted during importing then, if something not related to your code generating errors and they persist, then just repeat what i wrote before

[steady sentinel]

oke

[static cedar]

Fiddled with Unity's RectTransform, finally understood how they work.

Had a vague idea for a while but had to make my own layout.

[tiny vault]

Hey, anyone have any idea why my button's " area of effect" is much larger than the button ? if i click either of the four buttons closest to the submit button, it still registers as if i pressed submit. I'm new to this, so maybe it's obvious, but i couldnt find any answers through google

[willow shoal]

Hi . my player is not teleporting : / why? ```cs
public GameObject gameObject;

public Transform start;
public void OnTriggerStay(Collider collider)
{
if (collider.gameObject.tag == "wood1ded")
{
gameObject.transform.position = start.transform.position;
}
}```

player in inspector to "gameObject" and my point "start"

[swift elbow]

you modified the way the button looks without also making the button itself scale with it, so you are pressing on submit when you dont mean to because the trigger is much larger than you expect

also not a coding problem, this question is better suited for #🔀┃art-asset-workflow or #💻┃unity-talk

[swift elbow]

debug if the statement is being called at all

[willow shoal]

okey

[tiny vault]

Thank you, and sorry for posting in the wrong. I'll just ask a quick follow up question. What exacty do you mean the trigger is much larger ? I mean as you can see the rect transform is the perfect size

[naive pawn]

make sure the other gameobject has a rigidbody

[naive pawn]

also should probably be OnTriggerEnter

[swift elbow]

what you have selected looks to be the text itself. the button trigger is the parent of the text, and doesnt have the same bounds as the text (based off of the behaviour youre experiencing)

[cold elbow]

I made this method to get the top most and bottom most of a box collider 2d but it doesn't really work as intended can anyone spot any issue

private float _getTopMostOrBotMost(Side side, bool isTopMost) {
        var boxColliderPaddle = side == Side.Right ? _cachedRightCollider : _cachedLeftCollider;

        var center = boxColliderPaddle.bounds.center;
        var size = boxColliderPaddle.size;
        
        return isTopMost ? center.y + size.y / 2 : center.y - size.y / 2;
    }

[swift elbow]

compare the bounds of the button gameobj and the text gameobj

[tiny vault]

You were absolutely right! It worked. Thank you so much

[wintry quarry]

Why not just use
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Bounds-max.html
And
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Bounds-min.html

[torn dome]

What is the diffrence ?

[wintry quarry]

Difference between what and what?

[torn dome]

this two pixel art sprites

[cold elbow]

thank you so much, this solved a my two days headache now

[torn dome]

one that work and the other doesn't

[wintry quarry]

One is the inspector for a Texture
The other is the inspector for a Sprite

[cold elbow]

@wintry quarry does it also work for 2d?

[wintry quarry]

I'm not even sure how you even got an asset that is just a sprite

[wintry quarry]

Everything in Unity is 3D ultimately

[cold elbow]

so I can just downcast it to vector2

[torn dome]

how to turn the texture one into a sprite ?

[wintry quarry]

Change sprite mode from multiple to single

You don't change it into a sprite

You get it to generate a sprite asset

And use that wherever you need it

[torn dome]

You are a hero

Sorry another question

how to add the other tow textures to the sprite

[wintry quarry]

Not sure what you mean by that

A single sprite can only come from a single texture

[torn dome]

somethig like that

[wintry quarry]

That's multiple sprites from one texture

[tiny wind]

anyone know where this could possibly be?

[wintry quarry]

That's done by setting sprite mode to multiple and slicing it in the sprite editor

You need to install the sprite package like it's saying here in order to use the sprite editor

[torn dome]

ok i will do download it

[wintry quarry]

Exactly where it says it is

In the visual studio install directory

[tiny wind]

the installer?

[wintry quarry]

No, the directory where visual studio is installed on your PC

[tiny wind]

ohh, ight

[torn dome]

I don't konnw what iam doing 🙂

[wintry quarry]

I mean there's clearly only one sprite in this texture, no?

[rocky canyon]

make sure u sprite is set to Single

[torn dome]

yes

[wintry quarry]

So I don't understand why you're trying to slice it

[torn dome]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i understand now

i have to draw the three sprites in one canva

[rocky canyon]

what ur doing right now would be this ^

which i doubt is what u want

[wintry quarry]

That's 9 slicing

[torn dome]

is that right

Hmmm it worked but it's not pixelated

[naive pawn]

set filter to point and compression to none

[torn dome]

Hmm in other words pls 🙂

[leaden pasture]

On your image import settings. They should be roughly a bit more rhan halfway down the inspector when you click your image in your project browser iirc

[naive pawn]

i can't use other words, these are the words in unity

[torn dome]

Bro english is not my mother language

[naive pawn]

click the texture and set those values in the inspector

[torn dome]

yah i did the filtir

[naive pawn]

i literally can't use other words, these are the exact words unity will show you

[torn dome]

sorry

[naive pawn]

make sure to apply the settings

[torn dome]

yah it worked

thx

[willow shoal]

@naive pawn my player stuck in one position. i need after touch a block teleport to my position then move still on map but player is stuck. ```cs
public Transform target;

public void OnTriggerStay(Collider other)
{
if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
{
other.transform.position = target.position;
}
}

can u help me?

[naive pawn]

please don't ping specific people for help

what is the context here

[willow shoal]

okey

[naive pawn]

is this still the loadzone thing

use OnTriggerEnter to make it activate when you first touch the collider

[willow shoal]

sorry i used stay

i change

[naive pawn]

and what's the issue here exactly?

[willow shoal]

if i use ontriggerenter my player move one time

for my position

i need every time

[naive pawn]

is your entire level a loadzone?

[tiny wind]

help, I tried to reconfigure my IDE, but now thinngs like hovering my mouse over code and autocmplete are not there

[naive pawn]

did you follow the instructions as per the bot message

[willow shoal]

what loadzone meen?

[naive pawn]

the trigger you're using to make the player go back to the start

[tiny wind]

yes

[naive pawn]

it sounds like it's covering the start position, too

[naive pawn]

what ide are you using

[tiny wind]

nvm its fixed now

[willow shoal]

yes i doing somethink like this. i need teleport for same postion every time on trigger

[tiny wind]

i was on the wrong IDE

unfortunately, none of what ive done for the past few hours fixed my first problem

character still wont move

[naive pawn]

can't really help without info

if you've posted about it before, link or reply back to it

[tiny wind]

this

[tiny wind]

and I have a video of it

[naive pawn]

what's your code

[tiny wind]

!code

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[tiny wind]

using UnityEngine;
 
public class PlayerMove : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float speed;
    private Rigidbody2D body;
    private Animator anim;
    private bool grounded;
    
    private void Awake()
    {   
        //Grabs references for rigidbody and animator from game object.
        body = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }
 
    private void Update()
    {
        float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        body.linearVelocity = new Vector2(horizontalInput * speed, body.linearVelocity.y);
        
        //Flip player when facing left/right.
        if (horizontalInput > 0.01f)
            transform.localScale = Vector3.one;

        else if (horizontalInput < -0.01f)
            transform.localScale = new Vector3(-1, 1, 1);
 
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && grounded)
            Jump();
         
        //sets animation parameters
        anim.SetBool("RUN", horizontalInput != 0);
        anim.SetBool("GROUNDED", grounded);
    }
 
    private void Jump()
    {
        body.linearVelocity = new Vector2(body.linearVelocity.x, speed);
        anim.SetTrigger("jump");
        grounded = false;
    }
 
    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Ground")
            grounded = true;
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

• Any errors in console?
• Show your Rigidbody inspector

[naive pawn]

wow i have... no idea what to make of that, tbh
make sure you've saved and recompiled

make sure the animationclip isn't setting anything it shouldn't

[tiny wind]

• no errors

[wintry quarry]

Try disabling your animator for a minute

see if that fixes the movement

[tiny wind]

oh, it does

[naive pawn]

i guess this then

[tiny wind]

im moving again

[wintry quarry]

yep you've made the classic animator pitfall of animating the root object

[tiny wind]

what

[wintry quarry]

best practice is to put your visual elements (sprites, renderers, etc) on child objects and have the animator only animate those

otherwise the animator is controlling the position of the root object

meaning it won't be able to move

other than how the animator decides to move it

[naive pawn]

oh god it just does that?

even if that's not set?

[tiny wind]

ah, mustve not seen that in the tutorial

[wintry quarry]

You can try checking "root motion" which is a quick fix sometimes but I think it's not best practice

[tiny wind]

thank uu

[wintry quarry]

becasue you're setting the localRotation of the same object twice

and the second call overwrites the first

presumably transform.root and transform.parent are the same

[echo kite]

but how do i fix it

[wintry quarry]

pretty sure you just meant to write transform.localRotation for the first one, not transform.root.localRotation

i don't know why you have .root there it doesn't make much sense

although actually... now that I think about it, several parts of this are weird

Which object is this script attached to?

[echo kite]

ak47

[wintry quarry]

uhh what...?

[echo kite]

its attached to that

[wintry quarry]

this appears to be a first person controller

why would it be attached to a weapon

[echo kite]

i put this script in ak47 and ak47 in player

[wintry quarry]

This script does not belong on the ak47

[echo kite]

thats why it says transform.parent.localrotation

[echo kite]

it also has shooting

so i cant move it

[wintry quarry]

Yes you can