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[north kiln]

The resource I linked tells you how to operate on them

There is never a need to convert to string, unless you want to display something in an interface

[blissful yew]

I was actually talking about nonbinary, but I guess there's not too much reason to do that

[regal kettle]

yall know how you can edit a null value in unity rather than assign a value in the script itself right

how do you do that with integers

nvm i found it tis serialize field

[rich ice]

small note, ints cant be null

[rich ice]

you can also make the value public instead of private. although usually you'd use serialize field (depends on whether or not you want the value to be accessed by other scripts)

[regal kettle]

ohhh right public

silly me

[rigid tiger]

Ints default to 0, but if you want the null option, try int? with the question mark

[sharp sigil]

i got a question guys
why does this not work?
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Q))
{
rb.velocity = transform.forward *dashForce;
}
my character just freezes in the air for a moment when i press it

and when i increase the dash force i just teleport forward

the same happens when i use
rb.AddForce(transform.forward * dashForce, ForceMode.Impulse);

[rich ice]

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[rich ice]

check what dashForce is equal to. it's probably zero

[queen adder]

Try printing the value of rb.velocity using debug log

[sharp sigil]

aight lemme try

its always 0

even when i dash

[rich ice]

is the position locked? it could also be set to kinematic

[frosty hound]

Where and how are you assigning a value to dashForce

[sharp sigil]

oh

i assign dashforce though the inspector

[rich ice]

freeze position should be false on all axis and is kinematic should be false

[rich ice]

is it higher than 0?

[sharp sigil]

yes its 1000 rn

[sharp sigil]

i did this and it still didnt resolve the problemn

[rich ice]

can you send the full script?

!code

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[queen adder]

Try printing both the value of rb.velocity and transform.forward*dashfore after setting it. If the former is 0 while the latter is non zero that means there is something that prevent you from setting the value

[sharp sigil]

i cant it says that i need nitro

i mean the position that i teleport to changes based on the value of dashforce

[rich ice]

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[queen adder]

Just print both of it, check if the value is different

[rich ice]

use one of the paste sites

[sharp sigil]

heres the code https://paste.ofcode.org/ubj3Ds43McCnkaCKpRNSyu

so i print rb.velocity and transform.forward?

transform.forward*dashforce changes but velocity is still 0

im pretty sure i used the same method on a previous project and it worked fine

[slate haven]

rb.velocity = new Vector3(movement.x * speed, rb.velocity.y, movement.z * speed);

call this inside fixedUpdate(), also multiply with time.FixedDeltaTime

[sharp sigil]

aight lemme try

[slate haven]

rb.AddForce(transform.forward * dashForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
Also this

anything related to physics goes inside FixedUpdate()

[slate haven]

Also for physics based calculations, use Time.fixedDeltaTime instead of Time.deltaTime but make sure to call in fixedUpdate()

[sharp sigil]

what exactly do i multiply with deltatime

[slate haven]

the force, or the velocity

[sharp sigil]

aight ty imma try that

[slate haven]

Anything you are applying to the object with physics

Multiply it with that

[fossil tree]

hello i have a problem i try to add a Coyote Time and a Jump Buffering but now my character can double jump if i spam space https://medal.tv/fr/games/requested/clips/jt4A5fUeWNTfh3BvI?invite=cr-MSx6Q1EsMjUxMjMyMDQ3LA
this is my character controller code: https://pastecode.io/s/iop2q9ak

[sharp sigil]

so im calling it in the fixedupdate and it doesent seem to do danyhitng now

not even teleport

[slate haven]

go in rigidbody settings, set to interpolate and continous collision detection

[sharp sigil]

private void FixedUpdate()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Q))
    {
        rb.velocity = new Vector3(rb.velocity.x, rb.velocity.y, rb.velocity.z * dashForce*Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

like thuis

[slate haven]

nope

Its wrong

[sharp sigil]

oh

[slate haven]

rb.velocity * Time.fixedDeltaTime

I meant this

Multiply the final product of whatever physics u calculated, with the delta time

[slate haven]

And why are you using deltaTime in FixedUpdate()??

[sharp sigil]

idk

bro i feel so stupid rn

[slate haven]

Its okay, everyone is dumb.. We just gotta do it better

[sharp sigil]

lmfao

[slate haven]

Try this

But what I suspect is, this might not even be the main issue, But atleast do this then lets see if it works

[sharp sigil]

just this in fixedupdate?

[languid spire]

deltaTime in FixedUpdate is the same a fixedDeltaTime.
The question is why are you reading Input in FixedUpdate. That should be in Update

[slate haven]

yeah

[slate haven]

yeah this, try taking the input in Update(), but apply the physics in FixedUpdate()

[sharp sigil]

i dont understand how do iget the input and then apply it in the fixed update

with a void?

[languid spire]

no, with a bool

[sharp sigil]

makes sense

[slate haven]

instead of bool, try working with Events

[languid spire]

how are you going to sync FixedUpdate with an event?

[slate haven]

use events whenever input is retrieved, store them somewhere, maybe the direction or anything.

[slate haven]

so isnt there any better way other than a bool?

[sharp sigil]

so i set isdashing true in update and i used the thing with velocity in a if statement in fixedupdate

[languid spire]

no

[sharp sigil]

it still does nothing

and after that i disable isdahing

[slate haven]

why wud it do nothing? did u debug

[sharp sigil]

i tried ye

[slate haven]

what does it show in debug

[sharp sigil]

by debug i mean go into play mode and press q

[languid spire]

bool isPressed=false;
void Update() { if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Q)) isPressed=true; }
void FixedUpdate() {
   if (isPressed) {
      isPressed=false;
      // Do other stuff
   }
}

@sharp sigil

[sharp sigil]

ye i did that

it gets my input but nothing happens

i printed something into the log in the if statement

[languid spire]

so you need to add some debugging

[sharp sigil]

im thinking about making teleportation into a feature man

[slate haven]

add more debugging, till the point it sounds silly just do debugging

break the problem into each step

try solving 1 at a time

take a paper and a pen, note down whats the problem?
You cannot solve it ofc, so debug, ask questions to the program.. maybe ask a duck about your problem..

it will help a lot

[queen adder]

   private float Speed = 8f;

    [SerializeField]private Vector2 TargetPosition;


    // Update is called once per frame
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if (TargetPosition == null || new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y) == TargetPosition) {
            TargetPosition = LogicManager.Instance.GetRandomCanvasPosition();
            Debug.Log("Searching");
        } else {
            transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, new Vector3(TargetPosition.x, TargetPosition.y, transform.position.z), Speed);
            Debug.Log("Moving");
        }
    }

I have a Objects that just should moving around the canvas, it works for 1-2 cycles, after that it stop moving. It still prints out "Moving", But the valus doesnt match. The Screenshot was taken after it stoped moving. Is something wrong with my moveTowards Code?

    public RectTransform MyCanvas;


    public Vector2 GetRandomCanvasPosition() {

        float RandomWidth = Random.Range(-MyCanvas.rect.width/2, MyCanvas.rect.width/2);
        float RandomHeight = Random.Range(-MyCanvas.rect.height/2, MyCanvas.rect.height/2);

        Debug.Log(new Vector2(RandomWidth,RandomHeight));
        return new Vector2(RandomWidth,RandomHeight);
    }

[sharp sigil]

you think my project is the problem?

once in my project the light flickered all the time

and i switched projects and it didnt happen anymore

[fossil tree]

hey?

[rich ice]

would help if you sent the !code

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[fossil tree]

i send it...

[rich ice]

updatE: nvm

yeah my bad, completely missed that

[sharp sigil]

forget it im giving up

[slate haven]

stop using FixedUpdate if you are just moving the object without the physics involved, use Update(), also use time.deltaTime in Update()

[queen adder]

Mhh okay, you mean instead of using speed, i should use deltaTime? and not moveTowards

[slate haven]

i meant, multiply the speed * time.DeltaTime

@queen adder also try this Vector2.Distance(new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y), TargetPosition) < 0.01f)

[rich ice]

make sure to set the correct language (top right option)
https://pastecode.io/s/khriurcb

[slate haven]

instead of comparing vector 2 positions directly, calculate if they are close or no

[rich ice]

reading the code now, i assume the coroutine is whats causing it

[fossil tree]

mb

https://pastecode.io/s/sz2w0uz3

[slate haven]

whats the issue, can u point it?

[fossil tree]

i make a clip of it

[fossil tree]

here

[slate haven]

okay

so you dont want the player to double jump?

[fossil tree]

yes

[slate haven]

what if u just press space one time? does it double jump too

[queen adder]

That fixed, now its moving constanly. Thanks !

[slate haven]

np

[slate haven]

what i understand is, if u keep holding space, it makes ur character stay more in the air, right? but in your case it is making it double jump

[fossil tree]

yes if i spam it that double jump

[slate haven]

but u want it to have more time in the air if u hold space?

[slate haven]

so holding space doesnt cause double jump? but spamming it causes right?

[fossil tree]

no i want he jump more if i hold space and shorter if i press it fast

[fossil tree]

yes

[slate haven]

In that case you can pause the input system for a while till the jump completes, make a coroutine, and make the elapsedTime get decreased until it reaches the jumpTotalTime. Then the input system can read values again

I mean, make something, make a function, that stops reading the input values from the keyboard till the jump completes and it is grounded

[fossil tree]

in that case the coyote time will be useless :(

[slate haven]

what is coyote time? and why have u named it such

[fossil tree]

https://youtu.be/RFix_Kg2Di0

[slate haven]

rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jump);

Try this when applying force

[fossil tree]

instead of the add force ?

that dont change anything

i can always do a double jump with spamming

but now the coyote time is more smooth i think

[slate haven]

i mean ofc this wouldn't solve your problem

i just noticed an area of improvement

otherwise i never have done buffer jump or coyote, so maybe i wont be able to help much in that sorry

[fossil tree]

np ty anyway

i found the problem it was because my scene is really small so i need to reduce the time of the coyote time and of the jump buffering

[slate haven]

great

[whole lark]

hi, i am pretty new to unity and all that stuff and i am trying do make a simple script that helps me open and close a inventory, that i copyed from an other asset. i really tryed a lot but im not finding a solution for it. so i am having a canvas that i want to be able to close and open with a button, but always when I try its just not opening xd does someone know what the problem might be?

[wintry quarry]

You would have to explain how you set it up

[cosmic dagger]

you have to post the !code so we can see what is wrong with it. there is no way to tell beyond that . . .

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[whole lark]

oh sorry, sure here is the code: https://paste.mod.gg/qhgnmrvifsxp/0
but i really don't know if that problem has to do something with the inventory system, if so i might also send you this

[lethal smelt]

did you put that code in that inventory gameobject?

[reef bluff]

how do I set the lightmodetag of a shader graph in urp?

by default its none in the generated shader and I can't find a way to change it

you can't edit the generated shader code either it just reverts

[sharp abyss]

https://pastebin.com/rvAmsfKv
I have this script for my stickman ragdoll enemies. But it doesnt work.I mean doesnt get the triggers from "weapon1 hold" gameobject.I want weapons to collide so I wanted to keep them as colliders but oncollisionenter2d doesnt work if gameobject doesnt have a rigidbody and when I put a rigidbody that is not kinematic, everything messes up.When I put a kinematic one, I prevnt collisions between weapons and thats not something I want. So I added a trigger collider to "weapon1 hold" and a normal collider on "weapon 1". Then, changed oncollisionenter2d to trigger enter.But it never triggers.

this photo is from when I equip a weapon.

[wintry quarry]

First step - can you explain what you're trying to do?

[serene barn]

hello I have a problem that when i jump i keep sort of floating and go down really slow is there any quick solution i am using rigidbody for my movement?

[rocky canyon]

u probably have some type of
movement code influencing it..
maybe a collider or two interacting w/ each other
ur drag value is too high..

or not enuff gravity * u can always crank up the gravity settings (but this will affect everything).. or add a bit extra negative forces to ur player when not grounded..

oh yea.. check ur grounded state ^ make sure its working as it should as well

[serene barn]

thanks!

[sharp abyss]

sending a video, sorry for answering late

[tulip nimbus]

   [SerializeField] float Sens;
   public Transform camtransform;

   float xRot = 0f;
   public float xMouse;
   public float yMouse;

   private void Start()
   {
       Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
       Sens = 180f;
   }

   void Update()
   {
       
       xMouse = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * Sens * Time.smoothDeltaTime;
       yMouse = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * Sens * Time.smoothDeltaTime;

       xRot -= yMouse;
       xRot = Mathf.Clamp(xRot, -90f, 90f);

       
       transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRot, 0, 0);
       camtransform.Rotate(Vector3.up * xMouse);

   }

So i have this problem in all my first person FPS games where my camera position and rotation is not calculated properly. When in Playmode my Camera stutters, randomly accelerates the sensitivity, and skipps multiple frames when looking at certain objects. How can i fix this, and what is there to know when making a camera controller?

[sharp abyss]

maybe this will help you to understand

[solid jay]

I have two objects I wann rotate the same amount, I input the same degrees but they rotate diffrently.

Code to rotate the Obejcts:

transform.Rotate(new Vector3(0, yRotation, 0), Space.Self);
Camera.Rotate(new Vector3(0, yRotation, 0), Space.Self);

[sharp abyss]

is the y values on inspector when you rotate, same on both?

[solid jay]

no, but it should be, since im rotating by the same amount

[sharp abyss]

do they have rigidbodies?

[solid jay]

one does but the rotation is locked

[sharp abyss]

Camera.Rotate(new Vector3(0, yRotation, 0), Space.World);

try this

[burnt vapor]

Show a video

Also, log yRotation, see if it matches

Rotate differently as in different rotational speeds?

[solid jay]

yeah the camera rotates faster

[solid jay]

its the same variable how could it be diffrent

[burnt vapor]

I would not know. You haven't shared anything but two lines of code

Are these two lines after eachother?

[solid jay]

yes

[solid jay]

this is the function

void TurnCamera()
    {
        /*
        yRotation += Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * xSens;
        xRotation -= Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * ySens;
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90, 90);

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentPlayerRotationOffset.x, yRotation,currentPlayerRotationOffset.z);
        Camera.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, transform.rotation.z);
        */
        
        
        //xCamRotation -= Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * ySens;
        //xCamRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xCamRotation, -90, 90);
        
        yRotation = transform.rotation.y + Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * xSens - transform.rotation.y;
        
        transform.Rotate(new Vector3(0, yRotation, 0), Space.World);
        Camera.Rotate(new Vector3(0, yRotation, 0), Space.World);

        Debug.Log("Y Rotation: " + yRotation);
    }

[sharp abyss]

whats the purpose actually?

[burnt vapor]

What gameobject is this on? the player?

[solid jay]

yes

[burnt vapor]

Is the camera a child component of anything?

And do these components have scaling of any sort?

[solid jay]

yes but the rotation of the parent is always 0

[solid jay]

the scale of everything is 1

[burnt vapor]

Well idk. If I were you I'd rotate the transform and then set the camera's rotation to match the transform's rotation

Doing it separate can lead to issues in general

I don't see why it's broken here, but I would just synchronize it like that regardless

[solid jay]

but then the cam doesnt rotate around its local y axis and I need that

[celest jacinth]

the only way to make a capsule collider stay fixed in one side (only increase or decrease height from one side) is to use an offset, right?

[sharp abyss]

can someone take a look

[rocky canyon]

as far as i know u can't change the shape of a capsule collider like that...

then it wouldn't be a capsule anymore.. but a weird metaball or somethin

[silk verge]

What do i need to do, when I want one animation to be played on S or D (Walking animation

Tried this but this dont work (first one)

[rich ice]

i really wish there was a !screenshot command

[slender nymph]

you mean like !screenshots

wait did that get removed

!screenshots

[eternal falcon]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[rich ice]

you probably set it up wrong in the animator or used the wrong name

[slender nymph]

there it is

[rich ice]

o, good to know

[slender nymph]

https://screenshot.help
also !code posting guidelines are below 👇

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[echo copper]

guys, hello. how to get an angular velocity. like... i use this code to move character on slopes:

rb.velocity += transform.TransformDirection(new Vector3(Xlimit * axis, 0, 0) * Time.deltaTime);

and how to get this Xlimit if z rotation is not 0 (that code moves body based on it's z rotation)

anyone?

[sharp wyvern]

trying.. but I

'm having trpouble understanding the Q

[echo copper]

Q? wdym?

[sharp wyvern]

you question, I cannot understand what you are asking.

you mention angular veloicty, but dont talk about rotataions.. just linear velocity.. not sure what XLimit is, nor where the z rotation comes in

do you want to rotate something?

[echo copper]

okay. I use this script to move my character along the slope with the same speed

and i want to check if this velocity.x is higher or smt like that

and as i use transformDirection, my velocity would not be like (Xlimit * axis, 0, 0)

should i describe it clearly?

[gleaming carbon]

just stared using untiy on my home computer instead of the ones at my collage, however visual studio wont recognize

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

or

MonoBehaviour

Can anyone help?

[sharp abyss]

check if you chose unity on installer

[rich ice]

!IDE

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
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• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[gleaming carbon]

done the unity hub and manual install, doesnt work for me sadly

im not too sure on what my issue is

[slate haven]

If i have a 3D plane in unity of some scale... I want to know what is the width and height of it, how can I calculate?

[sharp wyvern]

if you have the mesh, you can use localBounds, if you have the MeshRenderer you can use bounds. lemme find the links.. once sec

[gleaming carbon]

here is the basic code, but its just not compiling properly or recognizing anything

[slate haven]

yeah i have mesh Renderer attached

[sharp wyvern]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Renderer-bounds.html

[cosmic quail]

!ide configure your ide

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[burnt vapor]

They are aware, read above

[gleaming carbon]

lol

yeah i already done that

[burnt vapor]

Did you verify you have the Unity workload installed?

Also, is VS the external editor used?

[gleaming carbon]

no?

[gleaming carbon]

yes

[burnt vapor]

Alternatively, you might want to regenerate the project files

[gleaming carbon]

already have

[burnt vapor]

This is a step in the manual installation of VS to use Unity. If you didn't do this then that will be the issue most likely

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message
the instructions you claimed to have followed would have made you confirm that if you had actually followed them

[burnt vapor]

Considering there are only three steps, and it worked for everybody so far, I suggest you try again

[gleaming carbon]

well ive already done them prior to joining this server

[burnt vapor]

That's fine, but we require users to have their editor set up regardless of the problem

Not just to fix the problem either. You should have a configured editor to improve your development experience, and we want to ensure you have that

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio

[echo copper]

ok. I have velocity (a, 0, 0) and rotation (0, 0, 0) on the first image. And i have TRANSFORMDIRECTION velocity (a, 0, 0) and rotation (0, 0, 45). how to find this a in second image outside of TRANSFORMDIRECTION? like not from variable a, but from velocity.

[slender nymph]

since you appear to be manually assigning velocity anyway, just keep track of what the current velocity would be if you were travelling along flat ground, and just rotate that to use for assigning the rb.velocity. then you don't need to do extra math to dtermine the linear speed

[echo copper]

but... what math would i do to find this... velocity?

[slender nymph]

so you just completely ignored what i just said or what?

[echo copper]

no... i.. can't describe it clearly...

here is a code where i want to find this... velocity:

if (transform.TransformDirection(rb.velocity).x > 0)
    rb.velocity -= transform.TransformDirection((new Vector3(Xlimit, 0, 0)*Time.deltaTime));
if (transform.TransformDirection(rb.velocity).x < 0)
    rb.velocity += transform.TransformDirection((new Vector3(Xlimit, 0, 0) * Time.deltaTime));  
if (transform.TransformDirection(rb.velocity).x > 15 && transform.TransformDirection(rb.velocity).x < -15) { }
    rb.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(new Vector3(0, rb.velocity.y, rb.velocity.z));

[slender nymph]

i am telling you to change how you go about this, not to do something specific with your existing code. because frankly that's horrible

[echo copper]

okay...

[slender nymph]

instead of rotating the velocity increase before adding it to the current velocity, you instead just have a flat velocity that you increase then rotate that before applying it to the rigidbody. then your max speed is right there in your flat velocity

[timber tide]

setting velocity seems like extra work if you're doing a sanic game

cause you're going to have to manage the deacceleration on collision

[echo copper]

no, i use rigidbody, so my Sonic stops automatically on collision

or... it's not as i need to do..?

[timber tide]

and setting velocity overrides friction making physics material unusable

[slate haven]

I have Plane's width and height, now I want to decide how many cells must be in that plane, suppose 120 cells I want, so How do I calculate the no. of rows and no. of columns required? (Grid System)

[timber tide]

usually these games have some accumulation of forces; you don't instantly set the velocity to 0 when hitting a wall

[swift crag]

you do generally stop if you crash into a wall

[timber tide]

yes but the forces are still being applied

[swift crag]

you don't go through it or catapult into the air

[timber tide]

you can't just change your direction instantly when ramming into a wall at a speed

[echo copper]

that's why i use rigidbody

[tawny grove]

okay i thought i understood how transform positions work but apparently not. Why is the room being spawned at such an offset if the transform pointer is at the middle of it, and is being instantiated with no offsets?
(image 1 is the room, image 2 is the spawner, image 3 is the code spawning the room, image 4 is the result)

it was working fine until i increased the size of the room, and i thought i made sure the transform position was still correct

the script is inside the spawner btw

template.structures[3] is just the room prefab

[swift crag]

make sure that you have your scene view set to "Pivot" and not "Center" -- check the top left of the corner

[tawny grove]

oh my god why did it set it back to center

thank you

[swift crag]

there are two modes: Pivot and Funny Joke

(Z is the shortcut; you might've hit it)

[tawny grove]

oh lol, i need to disable that

what is even the point of using center?

[swift crag]

It's useful in a few cases

notably, when you have many objects selected, it lets you rotate them around the center of their combined bounding box

instead of rotating individual objects in-place

same goes for scaling

[tawny grove]

that is interesting, thanks!

is there a easy way using tile maps to move the tiles beyond the move tool?

[swift crag]

you should be able to select many tiles..

I'm a bit of an novice with the tilemap system though

[silk verge]

Anyone knows why animation that require 2 Keys pressed at same time doesnt work?

[slender nymph]

show code

[silk verge]

else if ((Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W) && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) || (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W) && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)))
{
animator.SetInteger("Animacie", 15);
}

in animator its set up correctly, from primary to this equals 15 from this to primary equals 0

[slender nymph]

have you actually confirmed the condition is true? also !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/, https://scriptbin.xyz/

📃 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.

[slender nymph]

note that if whatever if statement precedes this one is true this one won't be evaluated

[silk verge]

how? 😭

[silk verge]

i see

mhm

[slender nymph]

literally the first thing you should have learned in unity is how to log something to the console. so maybe consider doing that?

[lethal smelt]

Debug.Log("text");

[silk verge]

oh this xd

mb

[slender nymph]

this, except log something actually useful instead of just a useless message that provides no context

[lethal smelt]

yea lol I just gave example

[silk verge]

cuz i m trying to do mk character he jumps and walks but when u play W (jump) and D or A (Walk) all at once he just walks in the air

i thought i can fix it like this but idk

[celest flax]

If I have a list of game objects, and I am referencing the positions of those game objects several times in code, would it me more efficient to make a new array/list of vectors containing the positions of the objects, and reference those instead?

[wintry quarry]

probably not

Is this question in response to an actual performance problem you're seeing, or just exploratory premature optimization?

[celest flax]

I'm working on a school assignment, and efficiency and optimization is a core part of the course, so I just wanna make it as efficient as possible, even if I might not notice it at the scale of my project

[wintry quarry]

Use the profiler and check it both ways. My guess is the overhead of managing the secondary array etc is going to be much worse than any potential savings. But it really depends heavily on your access patterns.

There is no real way to answer this without profiling and benchmarking.

If you're doing something in the name of performance for your assignment you should be prepared to demonstrate with data that it actually helped.

[swift crag]

Accessing a property like .position involves a call into native unity code, so it's certainly possible that it'd be faster to store it and re-use it if it's being accessed many many times

Also, if you do wind up profiling this -- don't use the Deep Profile option. It will give you very skewed results

[grand snow]

when you get the position from a Transform its a copy so these will become outdated fyi

so as others say there isnt gonna be a benefit if you want to be looking at the Transforms actual positions

[swift crag]

It'd only be valid if you were certain that the transforms weren't moving (along with their parents!)

[grand snow]

Yea if if you need to grab many hundreds of positions and you have a shit ton of work to do over them all then it may help. Profile to find out!
Stopwatch is also good to time code: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnostics.stopwatch?view=net-9.0

[swift crag]

You can use the Profiler methods to view timings in the profiler window

[grand snow]

oh yea i forgot about those

[quick pollen]

is there a way to use Vector3.MoveTowards with root motion?

transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, currentTarget.transform.position, Time.deltaTime * correctionSpeed);

I am trying to make it so the player moves closer to the enemy when it's about to attack but is very slightly out of range, but changing transform.position directly causes issues, due to me also using root motion

[strong wren]

What sort of issues are you seeing? https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnAnimatorMove.html might be worth a shot.

[quick pollen]

well, the character doesnt move to the desired position at all

turning off root motion does fix the issue, so I can only assume that its that which is causing problems

oh shit

[quick pollen]

that works!

now I only have some mathematical things to deal with

thank you very much!

ah, one problem

it seems to... turn off root motion now?

[twin pulsar]

Hmm... I was replacing the Input Manager with the Input System, and I decided to try to do a lightweight replacement with this code:

if (_controls.DungeonEscape.Attack.IsPressed() && isGrounded)
{
_playerAnimation.SetAttack();
}

Except, when I do that, the attack fires off twice for some reason. I've replaced my code with catching the event for the button press being performed, but I'm curious as to why it worked this way.

[wintry quarry]

Maybe you wanted WasPressedThisFrame?

IsPressed is like GetButton
WasPressedThisFrame is like GetButtonDown

[twin pulsar]

Ah, that does fix it. Thank you.

[quick pollen]

        if(correcting){
            Debug.Log("correcting");
            float distance = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, currentTargetPosition);
            if(distance > maxDistance)
                transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, currentTargetPosition, Time.deltaTime * correctionSpeed);
            else if(distance < minDistance)
                transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, currentTargetPosition, -Time.deltaTime * correctionSpeed);
            else correcting = false;
        }  
    }```

it does work, it does the correction

but it just completely turns off root motion?

[quick pollen]

what else could I use, or how could I do it so I can still apply root motion?

I tried animator.applyRootMotion = true; but it makes no difference

[swift crag]

If you have a component with an OnAnimatorMove method, the animator will no longer apply root motion on its own

[quick pollen]

animator.ApplyBuiltinRootMotion(); worked

I just did it

[swift crag]

ah, there you go

[quick pollen]

thank you tho, thats good to know!

seems to work well!!

this is basically the effect I wanted

cause, you know, otherwise you might miss a hit because you were a few units off

[arctic shore]

hello any idea why my enemy is not moving he should move left between my posts and i dont understand why he is isnt

sorry i meant this code ```using UnityEngine;

public class PatrolController : MonoBehaviour
{
// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
[Header ("Patrol points")]
public Transform rightEdge;
public Transform leftEdge;

[Header("Enemy")]
public Transform enemy;

[Header("Movement")]
public float speed;
private Vector3 initScale;
void Start()
{
    initScale = enemy.localScale;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    MoveInDirection(1);
}

private void MoveInDirection(int direction)
{
    enemy.localScale = new Vector3(Mathf.Abs(initScale.x) * direction, initScale.y, initScale.z);
    enemy.position = new Vector3(enemy.position.x + Time.deltaTime * direction * speed,enemy.position.y,enemy.position.z);
}

}

[tawny shell]

Hello, i am currently working on a lil project and i am struggling with displaying the good layers of my sprite

[swift crag]

well, notably, your code does not use leftEdge or rightEdge at all

[tawny shell]

I tried to handle the layers i wanted to display with this script:

public class LayersHandler : MonoBehaviourPunCallbacks
{
    private Dictionary<string,GameObject[]> _allLayers = new();
    [SerializeField] [CanBeNull] private GameObject childToEquip = null;
    [SerializeField] [CanBeNull] private GameObject parentToUnequip = null;
    
    void Start()
    {
        // loads all layers
        GameObject group, layer;
        for (int i = 0; i < gameObject.transform.childCount; i++) 
        {
            group = gameObject.transform.GetChild(i).gameObject;
            
            GameObject[] layers = new GameObject[group.transform.childCount];
            for (int j = 0; j < group.transform.childCount; j++) 
            {
                debug += " | " + group.transform.GetChild(j).gameObject.name + "\n";
                layer = group.transform.GetChild(j).gameObject;
                layer.SetActive(false);
                layers[j] = layer; 
            }
            
            _allLayers.Add(group.name, layers);
        }

    }
    
    void Unequip(string parentName)
    {
        foreach (GameObject layer in _allLayers[parentName]) layer.SetActive(false);
    }
    
    void Equip(GameObject equipement)
    {
        // Equipements data
        string[] inputs = equipement.name.Split('_');
        Unequip(inputs[0]);
        equipement.SetActive(true);
    }
    
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (childToEquip != null)
        {
            Equip(childToEquip);
            childToEquip = null;
        }
        if (parentToUnequip != null)
        {
            Unequip(parentToUnequip.name);
            parentToUnequip = null;
        }
    }
}

[arctic shore]

but he should atleast move but he doesnt i dont know why

[tawny shell]

I wanted to drag and drop the gameobjects i wanted to equip or unequip here

the problem is that it should have equiped it and set itself to None

like that but it does not

thanks in advance

[crimson pike]

UI Toolkit and legacy UI can both be used in the same project right

[arctic shore]

problem was not in script but when i disabled animator in my enemy it started working but i dont understand

why?

[swift crag]

Ah, the animator was probably controlling the position of the enemy

[arctic shore]

but that animation is was idle

[swift crag]

As long as it sets the enemy’s position, it will override whatever you try to do to the enemy

[arctic shore]

nothing there

[swift crag]

This happens if any animation sets the position

I usually set up my characters with a root object that I parent the visual to

(And the visual is what has the animator)

[arctic shore]

how do i know if animation set postion beacuse in animation i only change sprites

[swift crag]

You'd need to look at every animation that the Animator is using

(which will be all of the animations in this list)

[arctic shore]

yes i know but how to check if they change postion beacuse my only animation that was running was idle

[grand snow]

if you have write defaults on (for an animation state) and another state set position, the other states will change it back to the "default"

[swift crag]

the Write Defaults setting is irrelevant -- the animator will control the property at all times

as long as any motion on any layer with a non-zero weight sets that property, the animator will never stop writing to that property

[arctic shore]

i dont understand i didnt write anything there
so what to do

[grand snow]

You may be right. Doesn't sound great though 😆

[swift crag]

Write Defaults just determines what value you get if the current motion doesn't set the property

[swift crag]

What object are you trying to set the position of?

Show me in the hierarchy. Also show me which object in the hierarchy has the Animator on it.

[arctic shore]

and melee enemy has animator

and in enemy patrol is script that makes enemy patrolling

[swift crag]

okay, but what object are you trying to set the position of?

I'd guess MeleeEnemy.

[arctic shore]

yes

[swift crag]

If you can't move MeleeEnemy around at all with the animator turned on, that means that an animation is controlling the position of MeleeEnemy

You'd see it in the animation window like this

You may want to have animations that actually move the enemy's sprite around

[swift crag]

I would suggest doing this

So the MeleeEnemy prefab would look more like this

• MeleeEnemy <-- enemy component (if you have one)
  • Visual <-- animator

[arctic shore]

i only have default sprite in idle so it doesnt change and i dont see anywhere where my animation is controls enemy postion

[swift crag]

Again: ANY animation setting the position is all it takes

It does not matter if MeleeIdle doesn't set the position

It doesn't matter that you never leave the MeleeIdle state (which plays the MeleeIdle animation)

[cold pier]

Hi, I’m making a game on Unity 2D mode, and when I turn the "Control the selected camera in first person" at the "Cameras" a message appears in the consol "SceneView rotation is fixed to identity when in 2D mode. Thie will be an error in the furur versions of Unity". What can I do?

[trail heart]

What do you intend to do exactly
As the warning implies, it doesn't make much sense to move a 2D perspective in the first person

[lusty marten]

How can you store calendars and dates in Unity? I need to keep track of what week of the year it is and having a hard time figuring out the best way to do it.

Basically I want to start with say January 7, 1980 and the be able to know the date for each subsequent week that follows.

[verbal dome]

System.DateTime

[tawny shell]

Please is there a way to change those variables while running the game ?

I am new to Unity and noticed that when i print(t) which is the range(1, 100) field it does not change

[wintry quarry]

sure you can assign variables in your code at any time with the = operator

[tawny shell]

yeah but can i change it directly on unity

[Range(1, 100)] [SerializeField] private int t = 50;

[wintry quarry]

why not

What makes you think it isn't changing?

[tawny shell]

even if i change the value it keeps printing 50

[cold pier]

Hello I’m trying to move my camera. And this message is a repetition. I’m in 2D. I go into the camera option of my scene and try to remanipulate it and this message comes out.

[wintry quarry]

What keeps printing 50?

You'd have to show your code

[tawny shell]

ok

[trail heart]

Scene window's camera controls are intended for 3D
In 2D you'd move the camera gameobject with the move tool or by changing its transform properties through the inspector

[sick jay]

tooClose = Physics.SphereCast(transform.position, personalSpaceRadius, Vector3.zero, out spaceBubble, 0f, ~0, QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore);

using a spherecast in this way causes the cast to be just a bubble of radius "personalSpaceRadius" on the transform.position, right? or am i misunderstanding how spherecasts work

[wintry quarry]

SPherecast with a direction vector of zero makes no sense

[tawny shell]

public class LayersHandler : MonoBehaviourPunCallbacks
{
    private Dictionary<string, GameObject[]> _allLayers = new();
    [CanBeNull] public GameObject childToEquip;
    [CanBeNull] public GameObject parentToUnequip;
    [Range(1, 100)] [SerializeField] private int t = 50;

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

[wintry quarry]

if you want to detect objects inside a sphere you should be using Physics.OverlapSphere.

[wintry quarry]

yes this is fine - make sure you're changing the variable on the actual instance of the script that is in the scene

not a prefab or something

[sick jay]

When you make a spherecast does it not check a volume in a sphere shape from the point of origin?

[wintry quarry]

Spherecasts, raycasts and other "casts" don't detect anything that the shape is already overlapping at the start of the cast

they are intended to be cast in a direction and a certain distance

That's what OverlapXXX methods are for

[trail heart]

Spherecast is a raycast in every sense but it has a thickness defined by the radius
So it's shaped like a capsule, in practice

[sick jay]

Oh so its more like a hyperspherical cast? Where it checks a sphere radius across a distance

[cold pier]

I start a 2D game i dont understand why my camera is like it.

[sick jay]

Thank you

[wintry quarry]

not sure what you mean by "hyperspherical". Imagine throwing a basketball through the scene and seeing what it hits

(but the ball goes in a perfectly straight line)

[tawny shell]

oooh okok

[sick jay]

Hypersphere is a 4 dimensional sphere. im saying that because when you do the cast its like a sphere in one position that moves across an 'axis' R and checks for hits anywhere that each sphere in the frame touches

[tawny shell]

thanks @wintry quarry

[wintry quarry]

It's definitely not a 4 dimensional sphere. But the rest of your explanation sounds roughly correct

[trail heart]

I don't quite know what this means
Unity 2D tutorials or courses should be able to tell you how you are meant to move the camera in a 2D project

[wintry quarry]

did you figure it out?

[tawny shell]

isn't there a way to do it on a prefab ?

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean

[sick jay]

I bet you it is. I'm not sure how better to explain it. But for a capsule cast instead, which I think might be more appropriate for what i need, are the two vector positions at the start the foci of the capsule?

[cold pier]

I'm sorry i'm not english. I just want move my camera and understand why i have this message to talk about future version unity

[wintry quarry]

Prefabs are not in the scene.
They are not loaded into the game.
Code on them doesn't run.

Code only runs on actual objects loaded into the game world.

[cold pier]

In my consol

[wintry quarry]

What are you actually trying to achieve gameplay-wise?

The docs explain what the points are - https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics.CapsuleCast.html, I guess you could call them the "foci"

not that it's an ellipse

[trail heart]

Well like I said the warning is there because there's no practical way to move a 2D camera with first person controls

[cold pier]

I understand i try to found houw to change the first person control

[trail heart]

CapsuleCast sweeps a capsule forward towards a direction, so the area of contact is more likely to resemble a rounded flat slab? than a capsule
As mentioned previously you'll probably want OverlapSphere or one of the similar Overlap checks

[trail heart]

You don't, if you're making a 2D game

[wintry quarry]

causes the cast to be just a bubble of radius "personalSpaceRadius" on the transform.position, right
If this is an accurate description of what you want, then as I mentioned earlier Physics.OverlapSphere is what you want.

[sick jay]

When you run into walls or steep slopes, its very annoying because the player rigidbody will 'stick' to the wall instead of just sliding down it like normal. I'm writing into a script that will push the player in the normal to the walls face with the same amount of force that the player is attempting to put into the wall in the hopes that it will prevent that sticking. It seems like the best way since thats very similar to what happens in real life physics

The cast is just going to be around the player to check if its close enough to a wall

the personal space of the player

[wintry quarry]

you should do a cast in the direction the player is trying to move

then you can see if there's a wall there

[sick jay]

Yes, I was trying to figure out how the spherecast and capsulecast worked to better understand how to use them

[wintry quarry]

actually the reason we don't stick to walls in real life is simply because we have no way of applying force to ourselves midair

[sick jay]

Do you still think I should use an overlap?

[wintry quarry]

no I think you should use a spherecast or capsulecast in the direction the player is trying to move

depending on the player's shape

basically simulate where the player will be next physics frame with the cast

and see if it's hitting a wall

and prevent that motion so you don't push into a wall and create that sticking effect

[sick jay]

I would assume the sticky motion still happens even when the player is on the ground, but in real life you can push against a wall on the ground because your feet provide the force necessary. The force still happens even if you push against the wall in midair(ex moving very fast toward the wall) but generally as soon as you hit the wall the wall will push back with equal force enough to stop you instantly and depending on the material of the wall elastically put some force back into you to push you away from the wall

Thats what I think would be best to simulate in unity to prevent the sticking to the walls

[wintry quarry]

The force still happens even if you push against the wall in midair
Unless you have rocket boots or something, you cannot consistently push against the wall

whereas in many games you have e.g. "air influence"

that's not a thing in real life

[cold pier]

Thank, you. It’s strange because the message is multiplied in my console

[sick jay]

Yes, but I didn't say consistently, the force vector exists until you hit the wall, and then an opposing force vector from the wall pushes you back and since you cant move in midair, you dont continue pushing like in the game

[tawny shell]

thank you a lot u saved me

[wintry quarry]

you're confusing "forces" with "velocity"

your willhave velocity towards the wall until you hit it and bounce

but you don't have a force pushing you

[sick jay]

The wall has to have a force pushing you

otherwise your acceleration wouldnt change and you would keep moving through the wall

[wintry quarry]

yes the wall will exert a force, that's why you stop moving

[wintry quarry]

You mean your velocity wouldn't change

you are one degree off in all this terminology

[trail heart]

Usually we want video game characters to be able to control their velocity in the air
Since the force to keep that velocity* comes from "nowhere" that's why it causes wall sticking
You don't go through the wall but velocity against the wall's friction prevents sliding down

[wintry quarry]

acceleration means "change in velocity"

[sick jay]

No, your acceleration too. You have an acceleration of 0 while moving fast toward the wall, but when you hit the wall, your acceleration goes negative until your velocity toward the wall is 0 or away from the wall

[wintry quarry]

sure

anyway, my suggestion is what I said above

you can take that or leave it

[sick jay]

I tried using a physic material to put the friction to 0, but it didnt seem to change anything. Did I do something wrong?

Or maybe the player object has a friction on it too thats affecting it, let me test

[trail heart]

Is it correct to assume you're letting the player move the character by overwriting the rigidbody velocity in some way

If so, 0 friction walls are usually a band aid solution at best

[sick jay]

I think so, is there a better way to do it? My current setup is adding force. I'm going to try setting up the script I was mentioning before where it sends a capsulecast in the players rb.velocity.normalized to check if a wall or some object that you cant normally stand on is too close to the player and then adding an opposing force normal to its plane

[wintry quarry]

Not normalized. Use the actual velocity and multiply it by Time.fixedDeltaTime

that will give you a cast that moves exactly as far as your player will actually move in the next physics simulation update

[sick jay]

Good idea, that would help in cases where the player is moving really fast as well

[trail heart]

Preferably you'd not let the character push against solid walls at all
But ultimately there isn't a simple answer to this, especially if it has to be a rigidbody based character controller

[livid pilot]

Does anyone know how to integrate a splatmap into a shader graph? The way I have it is I isolate each color using smoothstep and/or subtract, and then multiply that with the texture, and add all textures back together for the final product, but the result is terrible and extremely pixelated for the base color, and utterly broken for the normals. I know it's more straightforward with terrain tools, but I'm using my own procedural terrain implementation.

[sick jay]

Is there a better way to make a character controller? I had made characters that used transform.position and deltaTime before but it seemed like their wall interactions were even worse where if a wall was too thin or the player was moving too fast it would end up going inside or through the wall

[wintry quarry]

kinematic controllers that directly move the character will almost always be doing something like the capsulecast technique to handle collisions

[sick jay]

It's nice to know I was already looking in the right direction even if im on the wrong street

[trail heart]

That type of character should not be allowed to push into solid objects either
I recommend you use unity's own CharacterController component (which starter assets has an example implementation of)
Or find a character controller someone else made that works well and dissect it along with studying more general theory of how character controllers are made in game engines

[sick jay]

Is the way that characters are disallowed from pushing into solid objects done by what I'm trying to do? Or was I supposed to do something first that prevents characters from touching solid objects in that way before I set up the movement?

[trail heart]

There's more than one way to do that, varying both by whether the controller is kinematic or not, and also varying by the game's needs

I might let the character push against nonkinematic colliders when walking on solid ground, but if in air I'd instead not apply the force at all if there's an obstacle detected in the intended move direction

To prevent it from seeming like the character is getting momentum from the invisible rocket boots

But maybe that's not what you want, and maybe you can get by fine with a kinematic character controller
You can make them push objects just as well

It's a pretty common path to start making a transform based character controller, realise how terrible the collisions seem with a naive implementation
Then try to make it a nonkinematic rigidbody as a bandaid solution to that

[sick jay]

I think the type of game I am making would be better with a rigidbody over a kinematic controller, because I want it to be very physics and movement based

If I set up these type of interactions it would make adding new functionality a lot easier when it comes into contact with the player

[eager bear]

How can i do that a 2d object moves when a rotating force is applied?

[verbal dome]

This question is too vague

[eager bear]

Im using a physics material and the object bounces when i hit it

But not with rotation movement

I don't know how to explain it

[verbal dome]

Have you frozen that object's rigidbody rotation?

[sick jay]

Like spokes on a tire?

[eager bear]

I didn't

[wintry quarry]

It will behave that way by default if you use a Rigidbody2D

[verbal dome]

Yeah this is default physics behaviour

[verbal dome]

Does it have any angular drag/angular damping?

How are you moving the object that hits it?

[eager bear]

With a physics material

Im trying to do like a pong

[trail heart]

Perhaps so, but note that typical "video gamey" character movement that also interacts with physics both ways is not usually a beginner friendly challenge
Try to rely on forces that don't come from "nowhere" as much as possible, and try to keep the situations the character gets put into simple

[verbal dome]

That doesn't answer how you are moving the object. Like are you using AddForce, transform.Translate or what

[eager bear]

I'm not using anything the object just moves when i hit it

[verbal dome]

I mean the object that is hitting it. How are you moving it

Things don't move by themselves

Except for rigidbody gravity

[eager bear]

With move

[wintry quarry]

"move" is not a way of moving things

[sick jay]

You mean when another object hits it and moves it?

[wintry quarry]

unless you mean this? https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.Move.html

[verbal dome]

TIL that exists

[eager bear]

I don't know what type of movement is that

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[wintry quarry]

What you showed doesn't have any type of movement at all

share the full script

[eager bear]

That's the full script

[wintry quarry]

You could also just read the code and tell us

[wintry quarry]

no, it isn't

[eager bear]

It's from chat gpt so i don't understand a lot

[verbal dome]

You are making it very hard and annoying to help you right now

[wintry quarry]

You don't understand what "full script" is either, apparently

[eager bear]

I don't

[verbal dome]

Paste the whole script file into a paste site.

[wintry quarry]

Start over with code you understand then

[eager bear]

Here?

[wintry quarry]

!learn

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[eager bear]

Yeah i should probably learn instead of just asking chat gpt

Thanks for your time random gentleman's

[sick jay]

How can I tell the capsulecast to ignore only one layer rather than only apply it to one layer?

[wintry quarry]

public LayerMask mask; set it up however you'd like.

Or you can invert a mask with ~mask

[sick jay]

Thank you

So ~0 means ignore all masks

[wintry quarry]

~0 means all layers will be hit

0 means no layers will be hit

[sick jay]

Thank you

What is common practice when dealing with defining ground? You can add a layer to something like a building to set it as a 'wall' mask, but what about the top of the building? You'd have to add another object that sits on top of it to let people have the correct ground interactions if you use layer masks to define grounds.

[cold pier]

Nobody know how to clear the message 'SceneView rotation is fixed.....UnityEnfine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)" ?

I look in tuto but found nothing and i cant send pictures...

[sick jay]

I just think the easiest way to define whats ground and whats walls would be to just check the angle of the object you are interacting with

[wintry quarry]

yes that

Most games don't need to distinguish

[sick jay]

I guess that makes sense

I was about to ask why many beginner tutorials wouldn't just use that and instead do either tags or layers to define ground but I guess most games dont need more than tags and layers

[wintry quarry]

beginner tutorials often don't do things in a "good" way, they do them in an "expedient" way because they are competing on platforms like Youtube which are more about engagement and selling ads than making quality tutorials that emphasize best practices.

[sick jay]

This includes Unity's junior programmer class

[wintry quarry]

There are also many ways to do everything and there's not always a clear "best" way or it depends on the requirements of the given game

Unity's own tutorials are also not always perfect.

[cold pier]

Discord was my last chance. Have nice night everyone

[trail heart]

Layers are kind of a dead simple way to do it, and they're a unity feature which is relevant for tutorials that mainly try to teach how to use unity

[sick jay]

Understood

I know I'm close but I'm doing something wrong.

{
    // Prevent the player from pushing into walls
    tooClose = Physics.CapsuleCast(orientation.position + Vector3.down / 2f , orientation.position + Vector3.up / 2f, personalSpaceRadius, rb.velocity.normalized, out closeWall, rb.velocity.magnitude * Time.fixedDeltaTime, ~0, QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore);
    
    if (tooClose && climbScript.checkIfWall(closeWall))
    {
        Debug.Log("Attempting to force player away from wall");
        rb.AddForce(Vector3.Scale(closeWall.normal, rb.velocity));
    }
}```
I know the cast is hitting properly cause of the debug log, but its not pushing me away even if i set the personalSpaceRadius high.

[wintry quarry]

I wouldn't push the player away from the wall if the cast hits.

I would disallow adding force towards the wall in the first place

[verbal dome]

personalSpaceRadius is a funny variable name :P

[wintry quarry]

note that it's not going to push you away with this code because when you're not moving the cast isn't going to move

and if you are moving, this force would need to be stronger than your normal movement force to overcome it

[sick jay]

Would this be achieved with a projectonplane vector? where it takes the current vector direction and just projects it sideways rather than into the wall?

[verbal dome]

(What behaviour do you want?)

[sick jay]

Hopefully in the end itll be exactly just that, an invisible forcefield around the player that stops the player from moving into walls

[sick jay]

Basically, I want the player to slide across the wall as if it were frictionless

[verbal dome]

I would probably stop adding forces on the Y axis when I'm not on the ground

Some projection should be done too, if you want to be able to slide along the wall

Not sure how well Vector3.Scale(closeWall.normal, rb.velocity) works here.

[sick jay]

I'm going to try rb.AddForce(GetSlopeMoveDirection(rb.velocity, closeWall.normal), ForceMode.Force); public Vector3 GetSlopeMoveDirection(Vector3 direction, Vector3 plane) { return Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(direction, plane).normalized; }

This is the code i used to get movement for slopes, I'm sure it will still work on walls

[rich ice]

im pretty much in bed and half asleep. but, if the issue is the player sticking to the wall then im pretty sure you can fix that with a physics material

[sick jay]

I thought about this too, but I was told it was a band aid solution

[rich ice]

yup, but it works

all this extra code above is a good fix too (or so i assume, i've only read half of it)

[verbal dome]

That looks decent to me

[sick jay]

I can feel the force being applied, but I don't think its the correct amount. I'll try and figure out how to make it more precise

[verbal dome]

After projecting the movement to the plane, you could restore its original magnitude

If I understand what you mean

[sick jay]

I do, that's what I'm trying to figure out how to do now

[verbal dome]

Idk about using rb.velocity as the parameter here though

[sick jay]

What do you think I should use?

[verbal dome]

Don't you have something like a "target movement vector"?

What are you using to add forces/set velocity in the first place?

[sick jay]

I have a target max move speed, and a move direction

{
    // calculate movement direction
    moveDirection = orientation.forward * verticalInput + orientation.right * horizontalInput;

    // on slope
    if (OnSlope() && !exitingSlope)
    {
        rb.AddForce(GetSlopeMoveDirection(moveDirection, slopeHit.normal) * moveSpeed * 20f, ForceMode.Force);

        if (rb.velocity.y > 0)
        {
            rb.AddForce(-slopeHit.normal * 80f, ForceMode.Force);
        }
    }

    // on ground
    else if (grounded)
    {
        rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * 10f, ForceMode.Force);
    }

    // in air
    else if (!grounded)
    {
        rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * 10f * airMultiplier, ForceMode.Force);
    }

    // turn gravity off while on slope
    rb.useGravity = !OnSlope();
}

private void SpeedControl()
{
    // limiting speed on slope
    if (OnSlope() && !exitingSlope)
    {
        if (rb.velocity.magnitude > moveSpeed)
        {
            rb.velocity = rb.velocity.normalized * moveSpeed;
        }
    }

    // limiting speed on ground or in air
    else
    {
        Vector3 flatVel = new Vector3(rb.velocity.x, 0f, rb.velocity.z);

        // limit velocity if needed
        if (flatVel.magnitude > moveSpeed)
        {
            Vector3 limitedVel = flatVel.normalized * moveSpeed;
            rb.velocity = new Vector3(limitedVel.x, rb.velocity.y, limitedVel.z);
        }
    }
}```

[wintry quarry]

Well you're overwriting velocity entirely with this code

so adding forces won't do anything really

I would basically expect code like this:

if (there is NOT a wall in the way) {
  // move normally
}
else {
  // there's a wall in the way
  // remove the portion of the desired movement vector that coincides with the direction towards the wall with Vector projection and subtraction
}```

[sick jay]

because as soon as the player moves again itll just get reset back

I'm going to change this void to a bool

private void MovePlayer()
{
    // calculate move vector if theres a wall in the way
    if (PersonalSpace())
    {
        Debug.Log("Attempting to stop player from moving toward wall");
        moveDirection = new Vector3(GetSlopeMoveDirection(rb.velocity, closeWall.normal).x * verticalInput, rb.velocity.y, GetSlopeMoveDirection(rb.velocity, closeWall.normal).z * horizontalInput);

    }
    else
    {
        // calculate movement direction
        moveDirection = orientation.forward * verticalInput + orientation.right * horizontalInput;
    }
    // on slope
    if (OnSlope() && !exitingSlope)
    {
        rb.AddForce(GetSlopeMoveDirection(moveDirection, slopeHit.normal) * moveSpeed * 20f, ForceMode.Force);

        if (rb.velocity.y > 0)
        {
            rb.AddForce(-slopeHit.normal * 80f, ForceMode.Force);
        }
    }

    // on ground
    else if (grounded)
    {
        rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * 10f, ForceMode.Force);
    }

    // in air
    else if (!grounded)
    {
        rb.AddForce(moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed * 10f * airMultiplier, ForceMode.Force);
    }

    // turn gravity off while on slope
    rb.useGravity = !OnSlope();
    
    
}```

I know im close to figuring it out, but im stuck here because I know the values I put in for the new moveDirection vector are incorrect but im not sure what to change them to

[verbal dome]

Use paste sites or at least add formatting to your snippets

[sick jay]

Will do

Its kinda funny the wall acts like a magnet

https://pastecode.io/s/5go6bb9i
Heres a much better paste that includes all relevant information

Maybe changing rb.velocity in the plane projection to just the vertical and horizontal inputs would get the correct direction?

for something like ``` moveDirection = new Vector3(GetSlopeMoveDirection(orientation.forward * verticalInput, closeWall.normal).x, rb.velocity.y, GetSlopeMoveDirection(orientation.right * horizontalInput, closeWall.normal).z * horizontalInput);

[sick jay]

After some testing, I think it would be better to just do an overlap. I can't get it working

[round cairn]

Does anyone know how to make lerp or smoothdamp or similar functions framerate independent?

My code:

transform.localPosition = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.localPosition, targetPosition, ref currentVelocity, swaySpeed);

Every tutorial I've seen on weapon sway uses a function similar to this (usually multiplying swaySpeed * Time.deltaTime), and obviously it's not framerate dependent.

[verbal dome]

It already uses delta time by default, so multiplying with deltatime would certainly not be accurate.

Without context, the code you showed looks correct. Except that you use a "speed" variable in palce of the smoothTime argument

"Speed" would suggest that a higher value if faster. However a higher smoothTime value makes it slower

[round cairn]

When I manually set the framerate low, the sway goes absolutely crazy 😔

so maybe it isn't a framerate dependency issue but I actually have no idea

[verbal dome]

Show the GetLookVector method

[round cairn]

i also used the old input system but it doesnt seem to work

[timber tide]

start debugging the values and see if the vectors are changing drastically

I assume delta time is implied. I don't really use smooth damp much

[round cairn]

ok its difficult to tell but I think the input vector spikes on lower frame rates

yea I set the framerate to 6 fps and the Mouse X input goes up to like 80 while max on 165 fps is 11

[verbal dome]

It is expected that you get higher mouse delta values with higher framerates

[teal viper]

Sounds like you have some framerate dependent code/logic

[round cairn]

I always assumed mouse input was framerate independent buttt

like is this not framerate independent?

[teal viper]

It's more about how you use it.

[verbal dome]

Mouse delta = how much your mouse moved during the last frame.

So it is inherently "framerate dependent", you just have to use it correctly

[round cairn]

Yea my mouse logic are both inside Update()

[teal viper]

That's not it.

You seem to be clamping the value with const values. That's making your logic framerate dependent as it would behave differently on different framerates.

[round cairn]

Oh my mistake I was using different code earlier, Im using this code now. Got rid of the clamp

[verbal dome]

It might be easier to pinpoint the issue if you show a video of both low and high FPS

[round cairn]

Ok Ill get on it

[teal viper]

This is more or less fine, though I'm not entirely sure if smoothdamp is okay. Never used it myself.

[verbal dome]

Also if your swayTime is .15 and your frame takes more than .15 seconds, no idea how smoothdamp behaves then (or should behave)

I'm not even quite sure if smoothdamp is reliable on low framerates

One fix I can think of is to do multiple steps of smoothdamp with a smaller deltatime, when the frame's deltatime is high

[round cairn]

I sort of used smoothdamp out of desperation since I dont know how to use lerp

[verbal dome]

Like if you have 0.1 second frame, you would do 4 smoothdamps with 0.025 deltatime, for example

[verbal dome]

This page goes over how to use it correctly. Read it and see the "improvements" section for the framerate-independent way of doing it
https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

That's for Mathf.Lerp but it should apply to Vector3.Lerp as well

[round cairn]

ok thanks

[static cedar]

Could unity serialise other float values like +/-Infinity and NaN?

[queen adder]

That is something that you can easily try and see

[sharp sigil]

back to the problem i had yesterday in which when i dashed it just teleported me forward. I did the same with a basic cube and it worked fine. I get the input in update and set a bool is dashing to true, in fixedupdate i check if its true , set it to false and then add force to my player using addForce with the forcemode impulse but it just teleports me forward instead of a smooth dash.

[naive pawn]

make sure your rigidbody is interpolated, perhaps

[sharp sigil]

i set it to interpolate and it still does the same

i mean i spawned a cube and did the same with it and it worked fine

nvm it was the animator ig

but still i think i dash but its just too fast is there a way how i can slow it down?

[verbal dome]

Wouldn't you just add a smaller force?

You can also add it over time, in a coroutine for example

[sharp sigil]

then i just dash a little distance

[forest flume]

Please enlighten me what you did brother 🙏

[sharp sigil]

makes sense imma try that

[forest flume]

Been struggling with this for so long

[sharp sigil]

but i gotta learn what they are and how to use them :)

[verbal dome]

If you use a coroutine, make sure to use WaitForFixedUpdate to wait so it runs in sync with physics

[sharp sigil]

aight im learning how they work rn

[verbal dome]

This can ofc be done without a coroutine but they are good to learn

[sharp sigil]

i know what they do but i just dont know how to use them yk

[verbal dome]

You can find examples in the docs etc

[sick jay]

I have a Transform that I want to keep in its original spot, but I want to make another Transform variable based off the transform but shifted 1.0f in the y axis. How can I go about this?

A Transform is a location and rotation, correct?

And scale*^

I think I figured it out,

cameraPos.position = orientation.position + Vector3.up / 2f;```

(Decided to make it 0.5 and not 1)

[low raven]

Hey Chat

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[quick pollen]

why does the unity documentation create 2 object pools for a single type?

its just so difficult to understand what is going on

all I want is object pooling for projectiles

[verbal dome]

That doesn't create two pools. It's an if-else

[quick pollen]

the first 2 lines

theres 2 IObjectPool<ParticleSystem>s being defined

one of them is private other one is public

[verbal dome]

The second one, Pool is just a property that has a getter for the private field m_Pool

The idea here is that it doesn't create m_Pool until it is actually needed

[quick pollen]

what if you just make m_Pool public?

I want to create it during loading, not during gameplay

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Pool;

public class ObjectPoolingProjectiles : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] GameObject bullet;
    public IObjectPool<GameObject> m_Pool;
    public static ObjectPoolingProjectiles Instance;
    private void Awake() {
        m_Pool = new ObjectPool<GameObject>(CreatePooledItem,
        OnTakeFromPool, OnReturnedToPool,
        OnDestroyPoolObject, true, 20, 30);
        Instance = this;
    }
    GameObject CreatePooledItem()
    {
        GameObject go = Instantiate(bullet);
        go.GetComponent<BasicBullet>().pool = m_Pool;
        return go;
    }

    void OnReturnedToPool(GameObject projectile)
    {
        projectile.gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }

    void OnTakeFromPool(GameObject projectile)
    {
        projectile.gameObject.SetActive(true);
    }

    void OnDestroyPoolObject(GameObject projectile)
    {
        Destroy(projectile.gameObject);
    }
}```

this is what I have currently

[verbal dome]

You can do that, it's just not "clean code" or whatever

[quick pollen]

its not a big snippet so I won't put it on hatebin

right now, the problem is that all this does is instantiate projectiles whenever I fire

it doesnt instantiate them all at once and then activate/deactivate them

[verbal dome]

Does it not instantiate 20 objects when you initialize it? That's what you are passing into the defaultCapacity argument in the constructor

[quick pollen]

nope

I call GameObject proj = ObjectPoolingProjectiles.Instance.m_Pool.Get(); to fire

[verbal dome]

Ok apparently it just sets the capacity of the list

[quick pollen]

am I meant to create a loop?

[verbal dome]

I guess you can just call Get and Release in a loop, yeah

[quick pollen]

so if I call Release and then try to use Get again, it works properly

but the first projectiles that you fire get instantiated when you fire

    GameObject[] gos;
    private void Awake() {
        m_Pool = new ObjectPool<GameObject>(CreatePooledItem,
        OnTakeFromPool, OnReturnedToPool,
        OnDestroyPoolObject, true, 20, 30);
        Instance = this;
        for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++){
            gos[i] = m_Pool.Get();
        }
    }
    private void Start(){
        foreach(GameObject go in gos){
            m_Pool.Release(go);
        }
    }```

[quick pollen]

I tried doing something like this but it didnt work

i dont even get why I have to do this manually

i dont think this worked like this before

it feels like it completely ignores the whole capacity thing

[verbal dome]

👆

As in, List<T>.Capacity or similiar

[quick pollen]

but it didnt work like this before?

then what does maxSize set?

[languid spire]

that's not going to work, your gos array is null

[quick pollen]

yeah I figured

not sure how to fix it tho

doing new() doesnt do anything

[languid spire]

new GameObject[20];
basic C# knowledge

[quick pollen]

it does it, alright

but I still get this error

    void OnReturnedToPool(GameObject projectile)
    {
        projectile.gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }```

says that projectile is null

[languid spire]

yes you have created a pool but there is nothing instantiated in it. So it is full of nulls

[verbal dome]

The max amount of objects in the pool. Excess objects will be destroyed on return:

[verbal dome]

What fills it with null? Shouldn't calling Get call CreatePooledItem and therefore instantiate?

[languid spire]

of course not

[verbal dome]

How does it work then? 🤔

[languid spire]

the createpooleditem callback needs to do the instantiation

[quick pollen]

no, there is

    private void Awake() {
        gos = new GameObject[100];
        m_Pool = new ObjectPool<GameObject>(CreatePooledItem,
        OnTakeFromPool, OnReturnedToPool,
        OnDestroyPoolObject, true, 20, 50);
        Instance = this;
        for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
            gos[i] = m_Pool.Get();
    }
    private void Start() {
        foreach(GameObject go in gos){
            m_Pool.Release(go);
        }
    }```

[languid spire]

show your CreatePoolItem code

[quick pollen]

wdym

    GameObject CreatePooledItem()
    {
        GameObject newPooledObject = Instantiate(bullet);
        newPooledObject.GetComponent<BasicBullet>().pool = m_Pool;
        return newPooledObject;
    }```

[languid spire]

and have you debugged any of this?

[verbal dome]

And when does createdpooleditem get called?

[quick pollen]

I'm not sure what to debug.

the nullreference happens once when the game boots, thats it

[languid spire]

so work it back, you are trying to release a null object, therefore your array has null objects, therefore your create is probably failing

[languid spire]

when a new object is required, point is you need to instantiate in Create. Create does not automatically do it for you as you implied

[verbal dome]

Alfy already showed that CreatePooledItem instantiates it

[quick pollen]

but appareantly CreatePooledItem only gets called when there's no items in the pool and you call Pool.Get()

[languid spire]

Ah, I hadn't scrolled that far back

[quick pollen]

which shouldnt be the way it works

it should instantiate 20 objects on scene load

[verbal dome]

Where does it say that it should

[quick pollen]

and instantiate more if I'm trying to Get from the pool when theres no free objects

[quick pollen]

I remember it working that way

I used this before

[verbal dome]

(I mean, to me, intuitively it would make sense if it automatically instantiated the min amount)

[quick pollen]

but now it just doesnt

[quick pollen]

yeah, exactly what I'm saying

maybe I remember wrong, but thats how I remember it working

ill just try

            if(go != null)
                m_Pool.Release(go);```

although I have an idea

I feel like it happens because I click on the play button

and clicking is how you fire

so maybe you try to fire before the items are loaded in?

no that cant be it...?

[verbal dome]

You can use Ctrl + P to enter playmode too

You can also check if m_Pool is null and debug.log it

[quick pollen]

nope, still causes error

[quick pollen]

this fixed it

kinda cheaty but yeah

[languid spire]

that did not 'fix' anything, it just hides the error in your logic

[quick pollen]

well, it no longer tries to release nothing

[verbal dome]

Are you still initializing it in Awake, and calling Release in Start?

[quick pollen]

i mean, it tries, but it cant

[quick pollen]

yes

[verbal dome]

So this is in Start

[quick pollen]

yes

lemme get a hatebin

[languid spire]

which should not be happening in the first place. you are addressing symptoms instead of the actual problem

[quick pollen]

https://pastebin.com/9TxcGiGn

[verbal dome]

        for(int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
            gos[i] = m_Pool.Get();```

vs

        gos = new GameObject[100];```

Do you see the mistake?

[languid spire]

hmm, #💻┃code-beginner message

[quick pollen]

honestly, no

[languid spire]

you are creating an array of 100 objects but only filling the first 20 of that with something, the other 80 will be null

[quick pollen]

yeah, setting it to 20 works

[quick pollen]

yes, but then why do I only get a single nullref? shouldnt I be getting 80?

[languid spire]

no, null ref will abort the code

you seriously need to learn some c# basics

[quick pollen]

other times I get like 60 nullref errors per second

[languid spire]

probably called in Update

[quick pollen]

I know these, I just havent coded in long

my bad

I mean, I coded, but in c++, which is completely different

[languid spire]

yeah, C++ will not help much with basic C#

[tough plinth]

Hey everyone!
Just got a quick question related to script-writing.

So there is a task that asks to to code an object to move in a specific direction.

But in Unity course there were 2 different types of writing Movement script:

Which one is better to use?

Why are they up to using 2nd option over 1st, if these scripts almost the same and do the same job?

[languid spire]

they do exactly the same thing

and, both are wrong

[verbal dome]

From the source code. Translate(x, y, z) just calls Translate(vector)

[tough plinth]

What's exactly is wrong?

[verbal dome]

The first Translate in your code includes a float multiplication, the second one does a vector multiplication so there's a micro difference

[languid spire]

they both move the car in world space forward, you probably want to move the car in the forward of the car itself

[tough plinth]

1. works with numbers
2. works with Vector's object?

[verbal dome]

Are you doing this course? https://learn.unity.com/project/unit-1-driving-simulation

[tough plinth]

Yeah

[verbal dome]

They are just different overloads (versions) of the same method. They do the same thing. It's just split into two overloads for convenience

I gotta say though, that particular Unity learn lesson is bad, it teaches you to move a rigidbody with transform, which is incorrect

It will lead to oddities in the physics, like missed collisions and glitching

[tough plinth]

Well, I knew that

So, I assume it's a good course to get into unity, but you need to re-learn some of the aspects that they taught?

[signal pollen]

Hello! I would like a little help. I am trying to make a simple mini-game where you place little blocks on an isometric map to prevent floods. I am following the "Junior Programming Pathway" course and am doing the "lab project as recommended. I am having a little struggle trying to make a grid system

(Concept art that I make quickly in pixel art, but I want to build it in 3D)

[west radish]

Another thing is its generally better practise to do any sort of calculation outside of the method itself.

Vector3 foo;
transform.Translate(foo);```
Reason why that matters is say you want to change how you calculate `foo`, you can just alter the line for that Vector3 and you never have to worry about touching the Translate method again

[signal pollen]

I want to be able to make a 3D-storage where the positions, data and other information of blocks are stored, can be edited in the Unity Editor mode and in game as well. And then Exported later if possible as a spreadsheet

[tough plinth]

In course I heard that it's called a "hard-coded number"? And making variables makes it easier to change values

[verbal dome]

You can use an array for the grid

A C# array

[signal pollen]

Is there a good tutorial I ccan follow to do so?

I scraped together a bunch of information from other (non tutorial, and actually "minecraft clone" tyoe) YT vid and made some progress but I think I need to scrap it.

I made this using Unity's in built system, but the collision system isn't what I want, unfortunately. I don't understand it and I dont know how to read for neighbouring blocks

[verbal dome]

It could be a 3 dimensional array of your custom type. Each item in the array would store info about the cell that it refers to

[tough plinth]

And also a small question:

You can define variables only in functions such as Start() and Update ()?

You can't define them before Start()?

[verbal dome]

How much experience do you have in coding/unity though?

This is not the simplest beginner project tbh

[signal pollen]

I have basic experience with coding, and I started Unity on Wednesday

[verbal dome]

Those are field initializers and they can't reference each other

Unless the other field is static/const i guess

[signal pollen]

In a bigger context question, I am learning Unity for a Uni project where I need the 3D-positional data to be exported (Hopefully in real time)

But one step at a time

[tough plinth]

Alr, ty

[signal pollen]

Mini-projects to learn, y'know?

[signal pollen]

Is is comparatively difficult?

Also, I know I should probably start from scratch

Should I try making a different mini-game first?

[verbal dome]

Probably

[signal pollen]

Damn

[verbal dome]

If you can't begin to think how to implement the 3D array, it's likely too early for that

[signal pollen]

I don't know really how to start

[quick pollen]

btw, if I do this, do I need to do new()?
public List<IObjectPool<GameObject>> m_Pool;

[verbal dome]

The water simulation part would be pretty complex too

For a beginner

[signal pollen]

Maybe I should start with a car that moves from one place to another

[languid spire]

yes, Unity will not be able to serialize that

[signal pollen]

Oh the water sim will be simple as like "Check i neighbour block is "air", if so, flow into it"

[quick pollen]

so something like public List<IObjectPool<GameObject>> m_Pool = new List<IObjectPool<GameObject>>();?

[languid spire]

exactly like

[quick pollen]

I basically want to make it so I can have different object pools for different projectiles

[verbal dome]

Okay so the water in a cell never decreases? Only expands to neighboring cells?

[signal pollen]

But I think I will put this complex project on hold and try a "move a car from one town to another over pre-built iso metric plane"

[quick pollen]

so if I want to add a new projectile type, I just add a new prefab to pool

[signal pollen]

Yup, minecraft physics

[signal pollen]

As shown in the concept art, the water just flows into neighbour blocks

[verbal dome]

Btw you can just do ... = new();
Unless you are on some ancient version

[signal pollen]

But for now I think, on your recommendation, I will put this project on hold and make a simpler one.

Just drive from point A to B over Terrain, using the 3D collision blocks given in Unity

Just to continue down the Junior Programming course

[quick pollen]

ah okay so here it works
for arrays it didnt cuz i needed to set the size

[west radish]

Some theory that might give you some ideas.
If you created an array like this, int[,] someArray; , what you have is a 2D array.

Say that blue is where your player is, and red is the wall. Its easy enough to find the tile to the players left, by doing [X-1, Y]

[quick pollen]

what if I want to do

        for(int i = 0; i < bullets.Count; i++){
            m_Pool[i] = new ObjectPool<GameObject>(CreatePooledItem,
            OnTakeFromPool, OnReturnedToPool,
            OnDestroyPoolObject, true, 20, 50);
        }```?

[signal pollen]

Yeah, conceptually, I understand that. I just dont know how to code it/ implement it

[signal pollen]

Thank you though

[quick pollen]

so every pool has its own projectile

how can I differentiate?

[verbal dome]

Create a separate pool for each and have them use a different prefab

[quick pollen]

thats what I'm trying, but I dont want to create new scripts for every single new projectile

like how can I tell them which prefab to use?

[verbal dome]

You'd obviously use the same script

Add a new component of this script's type for each bullet type

Or you can put it all into one script, up to you

[quick pollen]

I have no way of telling the function which projectile to use

[quick pollen]

that sounds kinda cheaty

thats my issue

[verbal dome]

Then put the pool into its own class, non monobehaviour

[quick pollen]

I basically want a list of pools, and to be able to access any of the pools by just using a number

[verbal dome]

And have the one monobehaviour hold a list of those classes

[signal pollen]

Anyway, thank you for the recommendations and advice. I feel like if I wasn't told that it is above my skill-level I would have kept banging my head against this wall.

[languid spire]

so you need to figure out a way to get i into the method as a parameter. Anonymous functions are your friend here

[verbal dome]

That would work too

[ivory bobcat]

What are the errors?

[quick pollen]

if its non-mono, then I can't use stuff like Instantiate for the CreatePooledItems

[quick pollen]

i dont know what those are

[verbal dome]

Instantiate is static

You can call it from anywhere

UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate or GameObject.Instantiate etc.

[quick pollen]

oh really

alright

[languid spire]

I keep telling you to learn, at some point you are actually going to do it

[quick pollen]

and then I just create a list of classes?

[verbal dome]

In a monobehaviour you can just do Instantiate because this is already a UnityEngine.Object so it has Instantiate as a member

[west radish]

int width = 5;
int height = 3;
int[,] someArray = new int[width, height];

for(int x = 0; x < width; x++)
{
  for(int y = 0; y < height; y++)
  {
    someArray[x, y] = 0;
  }
}```really simple way would be like this, though how to get it working alongside the unity tilemaps I couldnt say

[quick pollen]

well what are they?

[languid spire]

go read the docs

[quick pollen]

this makes like no sense

System.Linq.Expressions.Expression<Func<int, int>> e = x => x * x;

[verbal dome]

People sometimes give you keywords to search instead of explaining something that has been alreaedy explained online thoroughly

[ivory bobcat]

Have the implementation of instantiation be handled by what's referenced?

[quick pollen]

this is appareantly an anonymous function but ive no clue how to comprehend it

[signal pollen]

Thank you, I will note that. But I want to just get a smaller/simpler game from what I learnt in the course first before I continue to entrench myself in the same concept continually

[languid spire]

so you spent all of 30 seconds to try and learn a new concept? What do you expect? Instant comprehension?

[quick pollen]

no, but it's difficult for me to understand a new concept without being able to apply it

or being able to see how it works

but it literally shows one extremely rudimentary example, and then an extremely complicated one

the rudimentary one isnt enough to understand anything, and the complicated one is too much to be able to take anything out of

[languid spire]

have you ever used Coroutines in Unity?

[quick pollen]

I have

[languid spire]

have you used a yield Wait statement ?

[quick pollen]

even those ones were explained quite weirdly until I implemented it myself and it just worked

[quick pollen]

yes

[languid spire]

ok, so you have used an anonymous function

[west radish]

my understanding is its basically a very shorthand way of writing

int someMethod(int val) {
  return val * val;
}```

[languid spire]

yield return new WaitUntil(() => isDone);

[quick pollen]

from what I could gather I need an Action<> lambda expression

or statement lambda

[languid spire]

correct

[west radish]

I'd also add using System.Linq.Expressions; to the top of the file, it will shorten how long the line needs to be

[languid spire]

do not need Linq for this

[west radish]

true

[quick pollen]

i was about to say, it works without

[echo sand]

any idea how i can fix this? idk understand what it means, my item is a scriptableObject

[west radish]

though it is in the original line so its interesting how it got there

[languid spire]

what is line 21 of Container

[west radish]

Honestly im not sure why the Expressions part is in the original line either

[echo sand]

called by this

[languid spire]

So, Inventory is null

[west radish]

public T[] InitializeMap<T>(Func<int, int, T> factory) any time I've used Func before and it only ever needs using System;

[quick pollen]

so I have this

actually these

so inside the Instantiate, I want to be able to set what projectile to use

[echo sand]

oh ur right ty

[quick pollen]

would I need to call create inside of CreatePooledItem?

[languid spire]

wrong place, you need the lambda here

new ObjectPool<GameObject>(CreatePooledItem,
            OnTakeFromPool, OnReturnedToPool,
            OnDestroyPoolObject, true, 20, 50);

in place of the CreatePooledItem

[verbal dome]

You need a Func<GameObject>, not action

Func allows a return type, Action only takes inputs

[quick pollen]

oh, I see

[languid spire]

he does not need a Func at all

[quick pollen]

something like this?

[languid spire]

all he needs is a lambda to capture i and pass it to a method

[quick pollen]

oh

wait I'm confused now

[languid spire]

no

[verbal dome]

Yeah nevermind the Func part

[quick pollen]

but which method would I need to pass it to?

I cant pass it to the CreatePooledItem method

[verbal dome]

You can if you use a lambda and add an int parameter to CreatePooledItem

[quick pollen]

I can't add any parameters to CreatePooledItem

[verbal dome]

Why do you say that?

[languid spire]

look, your CreatePooledItem will not take a parameter as you currently have it
So, you modify CreatePooledItem to take an int parameter
But, this makes the signature required by Objectpool invalid
So you use a lambda to correct the signature

[quick pollen]

it requires a System.Func

not an action

[verbal dome]

You are missing the lambda part

[verbal dome]

CreatePooledItem works as a Func<GameObject> here, because it returns a GameObject

[quick pollen]

wouldnt I need a Func then, not an Action?

[verbal dome]

I just said that createpooleditem is your Func

You need to use a lambda expression to call it with the i as an argument

[quick pollen]

hold on

[quick pollen]

right now I have this

would I need CreatePooledItem to call the Lambda?

im sorry im being really slow right now

[verbal dome]

You don't need the action

[quick pollen]

then....?

[languid spire]

look, this is so simple

        m_Pool[i] = new ObjectPool<GameObject>(() =>
        {
            int x = i;
            return CreatePooledItem(x);
        },
        OnTakeFromPool, OnReturnedToPool,
        OnDestroyPoolObject, true, 20, 50);
...
    GameObject CreatePooledItem(int i)
    {
        GameObject newPooledObject = Instantiate(bullets[i]);
        return newPooledObject;
    }

[quick pollen]

what is the ...?

[slate haven]

I am making a grid system, the catch is, i dont have a pre-defined width and height with me. I have a plane, and i want all the tiles to be fit upon it (consider chessboard). I have total amount of tiles I want to fit upon a plane of some size. I tried using renderer.bounds.size but it gives huge amount of value which i cannot use as height/width. Please help me out here!

[languid spire]

commment to illustrate other code

[verbal dome]

(Deleted my reply since it had the variable capture problem)

[naive pawn]

3d plane...?

[slate haven]

yes, its a match based game made in 3D

[naive pawn]

"made in 3d" doesn't make everything else 3d

planes in 3d are by definition 2d

[slate haven]

@naive pawn

[naive pawn]

seems pretty 2d to me

[slate haven]

yeah

but still same question

[verbal dome]

🤔

[naive pawn]

you have a total width/height, and a tile count?

[verbal dome]

It's a 3D concept too

[quick pollen]

oh

[naive pawn]

just divide them

[slate haven]

Nope, I just have the tile count

[quick pollen]

yeah I think I get it

[naive pawn]

it's a 3d concept, not a 3d object

[slate haven]

How do I calculate the width and height

I want 120 blocks to be spawned upon that plane, equally aligned

[verbal dome]

Unity even has a default Plane 3D object so not sure what you mean

[naive pawn]

well you have 3 variables (tile count, tile height, total height) (in each direction/dimension)
you can't determine the others with just 1, you have to define 2