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[rich adder]

last element is list.count - 1

[scarlet shuttle]

So this is an error waiting to happen

[rich adder]

it always stays under .count so it should be ok

[scarlet shuttle]

It’s removing elements mid loop, it could try to remove at -1, it’s not ok

[rich adder]

if the script pretty much does the unintended thats a diff story

[north kiln]

No it's not

No.

i-- returns i and then subtracts 1 from it

[scarlet shuttle]

Ahhhh, that’s unintuitive

[north kiln]

--i returns i - 1 and subtracts

[lean basin]

oh that's cool. Is there a place where I can read about it? I don't know how to come up with a keyword for it.

[north kiln]

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

[rich adder]

yeah sorry never seen that before lol

[lean basin]

hmm I should learn to make C# project so I could test code without waiting for unity to load

[rich adder]

smort

[north kiln]

You can also use something like dotnetfiddle.net

[rich adder]

use C# console apps, they are fast

or yea online compiler is good enough but very basic IDE

[scarlet shuttle]

I assume enemies.Count is updated each loop then in the condition, so it stays within new limits without indexing something not there

[north kiln]

It would generally be better to use a reverse for loop

As then you don't have to do anything special with the indices

You can write them easily by autocompleting forr

[scarlet shuttle]

I’m very python minded so this entire situation hurts my soul

[rich adder]

ya that code caught me offguard lol

[north kiln]

Removing from the end of a list is cheaper than the front, so it'll be more performant too

[rich adder]

also only for loop can do this, foreach loop cannot because the collection becomes Immutable

(you get met with error in trying to do so)

[scarlet shuttle]

Why would that be faster? If it’s removing at the index wouldn’t it be the same speed cause you are providing the exact point

[grand snow]

all elements after get "moved" up

[scarlet shuttle]

Ahhhh

[grand snow]

so removing from the end first ends up being quicker

[scarlet shuttle]

Ok makes sense

[eager spindle]

yikes I thought they'd just move the pointer to the second element

[north kiln]

What pointer?
If you remove the second element then there'd be a gap in the array. It needs to be continuous

[chrome apex]

I am looking up a variable from an instantiated prefab to an object in scene.

The variable changes but I can only ever get the initial value, even if I find the object and component in Update().

Why?

[languid spire]

not a code question. #🖱️┃input-system

[rich adder]

probably because you misunderstand how value types work

[north kiln]

Presumably you're not looking at the objects you think you are

[eager spindle]

you might be referencing the prefab not the object you created

[chrome apex]

but I'm getting the value initially, just not when it changes

[rich adder]

show code

[chrome apex]

I'm finding FROM the prefab an object in the scene, so it shouldn't be an issue

spawner = GameObject.Find("Spawn Manager");
spawnManager = spawner.GetComponent<SpawnManagerX>();
// Set enemy direction towards player goal and move there
Vector3 lookDirection = (playerGoal.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
enemyRb.AddForce(lookDirection * spawnManager.enemySpeed * Time.deltaTime);

this is what I moved to update

[astral falcon]

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[eager spindle]

{SerializeField] GameObject p_bullet;
void Start() {
  var bullet = Instantiate(p_bullet);
}

p_bullet gives the initial value.
bullet gives current value

[chrome apex]

sorry for formatting, I will learn

enemySpeed is the float that I can only get the initial value of even though I moved it to update

[eager spindle]

you may also have 2 spawn managers in your scene

[chrome apex]

nope

[eager spindle]

this is a problem with using GameObject.Find, it may pick the wrong spawnmanager

[rich adder]

and you tested that Update is running with logs?

[eager spindle]

you'll need to learn how to debug your code, and check that you're referencing the correct spawn manager.

[rich adder]

and which value are we looking

this is hella wrong * Time.deltaTime

you don't use that inside AddForce
that will make your rigidbody crawl without boosting its speed to ridiculous numbers

[chrome apex]

we are looking at enemySPeed

[eager spindle]

AddForce already takes into account (Time.fixedDeltaTime)

[rich adder]

physics steps is already fixed time

[chrome apex]

since I don't know how to format 😄

[eager spindle]

You need not include it in

[chrome apex]

you are right, shouldn't use delta time for physics

I knew that but forgot

[languid spire]

then learn how

[rich adder]

screenshots are not friendly to people who use screenreaders or blind :\

[languid spire]

or to copy/paste solutions

[chrome apex]

Ok I will sorry

I am proficient in playmaker and can make a game fully without help, but code still confuses me

I am learning

[rich adder]

Debug.Log($" enemySpeed: {spawnManager.enemyspeed} ");

[languid spire]

what has that to do with following simple bot instructions? !code

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[chrome apex]

Wasn't a reference to formatting, just this code problem

[chrome apex]

Ok one sec

[chrome apex]

When I add that, I get this error:

Error CS1061 'SpawnManagerX' does not contain a definition for 'enemyspeed' and no accessible extension method 'enemyspeed' accepting a first argument of type 'SpawnManagerX' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) Assembly-CSharp C:\Users\pc\My project (4)\Assets\Challenge 4\Scripts\EnemyX.cs 31 Active

[eager spindle]

spelling mistake

variables are case sensitive

[rich adder]

dont blindly copy

it was example

[chrome apex]

whoops

[eager spindle]

you'll want to learn c# first before delving into scripting

[burnt vapor]

Just Unity in general

[eager spindle]

the user has done visual scripting in unity before

[rich adder]

ya basic c# will d o you wonders

[chrome apex]

hey

it worked all this time

but in the public field of the prefab, it just showed the initial value

[rich adder]

you probably never saved before

[chrome apex]

I thought it was supposed to be shown in the public field when it changes

[rich adder]

you mean in the inspector ? yes you should be able to look there for changes

not on the prefab , the instance of the prefab

[chrome apex]

yea it doesn't show on the instance of the prefab

when I pause and select a prefab in the scene, doesn't show

but debug log shows it works correctly

[rich adder]

screenshot the instance in the scene with its inspector showing

[chrome apex]

compare debug.log with the inspector field

oh no

I'm showing the wrong variable

ffs

[rich adder]

well the speed you see there is float speed

thats not being touched

[chrome apex]

goddamn

so I should instaed do speed = spawnManager.enemySpeed

and it should show

[rich adder]

did you want to do speed = spawnmanager.enemySpeed

[chrome apex]

yea yea

I got it now

yea ofc it works now

I hate it when it's stupid mistakes

rather than complicated mistakes 😄

[rich adder]

soon enough you'll get those too 😮
those are harder to undo!

[chrome apex]

so all this time the issue was I was looking at the wrong float, it worked at the start

[scarlet shuttle]

Hard, but more fun, until it stops being fun and starts being pain

[tiny wind]

 public void Attack3()
 {
     anim.SetTrigger("attack 3");
     cooldownTimer = 0;
     if (Input.GetMouseButton(2))
     {
         slashes[0].transform.position = slashPoint.position;
         slashes[0].GetComponent<Projectile>().SetDirection(Mathf.Sign(transform.localScale.x));
     }

 }

Hii, how do I add a delay to the if statement?

[rich adder]

3 ways
Time.time
Time.deltaTime
Coroutine

or ig Async delay but ehh

[chrome apex]

yeah I have good familiarity with unity, I've done shaders, animations, modeling, textures and everything else including programming with Playmaker

just confused by c# still

[tiny wind]

ight, ill look into those, thx

[rich adder]

basic update timercs float time = 0; private void Update(){ time += Time.deltaTime; if(time >= maxTime){ //do something time = 0; } }

[night raptor]

time -= maxTime I would do, not a big difference though

[rich adder]

ah yeah that also hehe

[scarlet shuttle]

Why that instead of just resetting it to 0?

[rich adder]

preference

[night raptor]

Well, it will discard the part that's more than maxTime and each repetition will become that much longer

[rich adder]

interesting

[night raptor]

There's also a case where maxTime is smaller than .deltaTime in which case the difference may be huge. if you do time -= maxTime, the time will keep increasing until the game speeds up enough to take care of all of those (likely never). If this is a concern, one should use a loop where while (time >= maxTime) time -= maxTime; to immediately take care of them all

[scarlet shuttle]

Yeah fair, although seems to me like they’re making something like a combo so they probably would want it at 0, instead of a constantly running a timer they run it once when first attacking

[tiny wind]

yeah Im making a combo

[night raptor]

I'm unsure what combo refers to in this case

[noble forum]

Hi, I'm creating a tarot Chess game. I'm on the brink of starting a multiplayer. I have already decided on Peer to Peer as it's my first commercial product, and I don't have the money for servers in case my game would get around 400 active players. (I saw that on many sites more than 100 is paid).
So, it seems so complicated and hard to follow, and such things really effect my passion.
So, how do I even begin this?
I would like to understand the topic, but I'm also struggling with time, as I need to program around half of the gameplay as a side project in 3 months.
Any advice?

[rich adder]

how do you know its actually going to be 400 active ?

[scarlet shuttle]

Like in fighting games, punch after just punching does a second type of punch

[languid spire]

Simple. Dont.
P2P is very difficult to implement and the vast majority of users will not be able to do so

[noble forum]

Just a random number, but I don't want to worry if my game exceeds my expectations in few months/years

[tiny wind]

its an attack combo, each swing activates depending on which mouse button I press, I need the delay cause the flying slash starts at the same time as the third slash

[noble forum]

But I want to have multiplayer, and I can't settle on paid servers. Is there a third option?

[rich adder]

would be easier to then just start with the smaller tier / cheap monthly actives then upgrade as you see increase, by then you should be earning no ?

[languid spire]

No. But the major server providers have a free tier which you could use as a relay server

[rich adder]

if you aren't earning with 99+ active users to cover basic server costs then idk. ID think a better strategy

[tiny wind]

the slash spawnpoint being that far is because of a seperate problem i sent in animations

[scarlet shuttle]

||also only slashing one direction||

[chrome apex]

For future reference, do I need to find the game object in reference or just get the component (script)

[sage peak]

Hey guys, I dont know where to adress this so ill just do it here. I worked on this game for weeks, and I saved it yesterday and clsoed it, now I open it and this is what I see, what do I do?

[tiny wind]

yeaha, that was the porblem, the spawn point being that far was for clarity

[rich adder]

I think you're confusing the term references with the inspector somehow
eg. making a reference vs assigning the reference a value are different,

[astral falcon]

no repo setup to revert the file to an older version and see, if that was the issue? backup the file before reverting

[noble forum]

I'm currently a student, with little income, and I simply don't want to worry about the game all the time. I don't have much experience, and the game would mostly get money on skins. I'm not sure of my competence here lol. Will they sell? What if they stop? And thousand other 'What ifs'

P2P seemed as a solution so I don't have to worry about the game so much

[chrome apex]

Alright so if I wanna get a changing variable from another game object, do I only get tue script component in update or do I also need find game object in update

[scarlet shuttle]

If you get the component once it will be up to date any time you grab a value from it, it’s just a question of if the object or component still exists

[rich adder]

I mean, servers cost money and so unless your players are willing to open their ports to host games, you need a better strategy there.
You might be over estimating your active traffic, the free teirs might just do.. by time you get more player, you should be able to cover cost. If not again, you need a better monetization strategy

[languid spire]

if only it were that simple, the vast majority of home ISP will not allow opening ports to incomming connections which is a requirement of P2P

[sage peak]

How do I revert it?

[timber tide]

This is why WebRTC is the new magic transport layer everyone uses

[rich adder]

oh thats weird, I never had an issue. I'm in US. I had time warner and then fios
Btw it was years ago though maybe things changed, I use different provider and no longer open ports anyway

[astral falcon]

Do you have version control setup?

[sage peak]

uhhh I dont think so

[chrome apex]

So I find the object in start and get component in update?

Or do you mean both in start?

[sage peak]

I dont know what that is 🤷

[noble forum]

Well, I plan to release paid story mode, and later release it on mobile that will have ads in some places. I don't know, I'm guess I'm too uncertain here lol.
I have what I believe is a great and fun idea and wanted to it in the beat possible way and also not worry about it all the time. But I'll look at paid servers once again

[languid spire]

even WebRTC requires a server to establish the initial connection

[timber tide]

true, you can use like some minimal relay server though like MQTT

pennies for a server

[scarlet shuttle]

You can get both in start, but you should check in update if it still exists, because if you at some point delete the object it will error if you try to use the component

[rich adder]

yeah, it sounds like you have confidence in it which is very good, so yeah don't let that be the only importance, many great games were ruined with bad monetizations / financial planning, had a few failed things myself and you learn from them. Just something to keep in mind, the business side of it will be just as important

[lavish kernel]

Is there a better way to early-exit from a coroutine (inside the coroutine) than a goto? It's not particularly cumbersome but not particularly elegant either.

[rich adder]

yield break

[lavish kernel]

ohhh that's right thank you.

[rich adder]

a coroutine is just enumeration loop

[lavish kernel]

Yeah I don't use enumerators much, I always forget about yield break, appreciate it

[noble forum]

Well, the only thing that I worry about is making the story mode directly 'paid', as it may piss off some of the players

[astral falcon]

You def. should get familiar with whatever version control, probably git to start off. But that does not help you yet anymore. Your file might be corrupted. Try copying it, moving it, maybe move the meta file and let unity regenerate it. Restart your machine

[burnt vapor]

Git should be one of the absolute first things you set up in a project

Any type of version control is a massive help. Not just against corruption but also bug fixing and/or just generally testing stuff and being able to revert whatever you applied

[chrome apex]

If not null? Ok thanks

[scarlet shuttle]

Does a component evaluate to null if it was deleted? I think so but now I’m doubting myself

[tiny wind]

its saying, this? it doesnt worrk

[rich adder]

of course not, you blindly copied it lol
its just an example, you have to adapt the variables properly

do basic c#

[tiny wind]

oh right

[lavish kernel]

yerp, even components pending destruction should evaluate to null iirc

[rich adder]

also why did you do cooldownTimer -= 0

[scarlet shuttle]

Cool, ty

[tiny wind]

typo

[scarlet shuttle]

Yep, just make sure it’s not null

[lavish kernel]

If it is still buggy, maybe try using DestroyImmediate() I may have been wrong about the pending destruction thing, they aren't technically destroyed until the next frame.

[scarlet shuttle]

Are you trying to continue the combo after the timer or just to line up the animation? If it’s just to line up you might just want to use coroutines

[tiny wind]

just to line up the anim

[scarlet shuttle]

You should probably just use a coroutine then, less logic to keep track of and you sleep a specific amount of seconds then do the attack

Actually does unity have animation events? As in trigger an event at a specific frame, If so that’s probably the better option

[sharp abyss]

https://pastebin.com/HPePvkJj grab script
https://pastebin.com/UFaeAgpD lever script
https://pastebin.com/aeE4Gcf0 trapdoor script
the balance script I didnt include just have rigidbody2D.Moverotation()

problem is the lever going back and changing its limits.I cant pull it by grabbing but can push it with my body.

[sage peak]

If this information is helpful, there are different scenes on this project, and they work properly

[sharp abyss]

this may also help

[tiny wind]

ngl, I have no idea how to do that yet, and I cant find how to use coroutines

[scarlet shuttle]

Neither do I, but if you want to go the coroutine route, https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StartCoroutine.html

[obsidian plaza]

someone corrected me and apparently destroying something destroys is at the end of the frame and not the next frame

[charred spoke]

Yes

[lavish kernel]

I personally find the animation events kind of cumbersome and annoying to work with, but there are a lot of tutorials if you look up "Unity Animation Events" on youtube. Might work well for you. You will need to get an understanding of events (specifically Unity Events) if you want to use them well.

[obsidian plaza]

so instead of doing yield return null in a coroutine maybe you can wait for the end of the frame but im not sure if even that is enough

i kinda dont know many of the processing order of things but u can try it

[obsidian plaza]

i use animation events to play sfx in my animations and to tell my code when an animation is finished

not sure what ur problem is cause i havent read that much but animation events are super useful

and coroutines are really easy to do the basics so you could figure that out in a couple minutes too

[lavish kernel]

You may find this resource helpful, I come back to this all the time
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/execution-order.html

It doesn't have everything but it does clear up some ordering problems

[scarlet shuttle]

Just checked but don’t see anything about it, what’s the timing on event execution? Surely it’s not instant, like if you trigger an event in update when would scripts detect it being triggered

[lavish kernel]

What events are you talking about? Animation events are in the upper section.

otherwise event listeners are invoked in order immediately after calling the Invoke method

[scarlet shuttle]

Didn’t realize there are different types of events

[scarlet shuttle]

Yeah that, didn’t think it would be immediate

[lavish kernel]

They're all kind of essentially the same thing under the hood, but Unity calls the Invoke method itself automatically for some components, which is why I asked.

[scarlet shuttle]

Yeah that’s basically what I figured

[obsidian plaza]

whats the issue again

how its kinda getting stuck when u pull it?

[sharp abyss]

i dont know

I think its because of my grab script that adds a joint and then removes

[sharp abyss]

maybe its limits are changing, no its not as I can see in inspector

[normal glacier]

Is there a chat here to talk about random stuff

[obsidian plaza]

random unity stuff or random stuff

cause dont think theres an offtopic

[normal glacier]

Random unity stuff

[obsidian plaza]

#💻┃unity-talk

[normal glacier]

Thx

I j want to share my progress in game dev xD

[frosty hound]

You can make a #1180170818983051344 for that.

[slate haven]

    {
        if (!IsGrounded())  //make the player fall down
        {
            
            velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
            transform.Translate(0, velocity.y * Time.fixedDeltaTime, 0);
        }

        else if (IsGrounded()) //make the player jump with force without gravity
        {
            
            transform.Translate(0, velocity.y * Time.fixedDeltaTime, 0);
        }

     
    }```

I am using this to jump the player but it falls beneath the ground when it comes down with the velocity. I am using raycast in groundcheck

[dawn hedge]

Anyone know why i can't pick this mesh up, but i can pick up the cube?
(I am incredibly new btw)

[cosmic dagger]

when posting !code, use paste sites or format small code blocks. use http://streamable.com or save as mp4 to post videos . . .

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[dawn hedge]

oh crap, sorry 😅
<div style="position:relative; width:100%; height:0px; padding-bottom:56.250%"><iframe allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen height="100%" src="https://streamable.com/e/fyz9y9?" width="100%" style="border:none; width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden;"></iframe></div>

[cosmic dagger]

on line 52, a reference variable is null (is not assigned or does not exist) . . .

make sure it is assigned before using it . . .

[dawn hedge]

I followed a tutorial. So i'm not sure how i do that

[cosmic dagger]

wait, do you know what a refernce variable is?

[dawn hedge]

nope

i started yesterday

[cosmic dagger]

did you follow or learn beginner C#? that very important when trying to code . . .

[normal glacier]

a reference variable is a variable that references something right

[dawn hedge]

i didnt. but a reference variable, is that like this?

[normal glacier]

They seem more like public variables, cus they reference actual values rather than an object

[normal glacier]

Is there a script that you should be using here? if so, drag it there

[cosmic dagger]

typically, a variable reference is a class or an interface . . .

[burnt vapor]

Pls share the full code and not tiny chunks

[cosmic dagger]

to make it easier. there is only one variable on line 52, so that has to be the reference variable . . .

[burnt vapor]

So many screenshots and I have no clue where CurrentObjectRigidBody comes from

[dawn hedge]

Like in the script one?

[normal glacier]

yes

[normal glacier]

and share us the full script please

[dawn hedge]

!code

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[cosmic dagger]

also, one of your scripts is missing . . .

[cosmic dagger]

the answer lies here . . .

[dawn hedge]

https://paste.mod.gg/urepwejsamzg/0

[burnt vapor]

if(CurrentObjectRigidBody) does not do what you think it does

-if(CurrentObjectRigidBody)
+if(CurrentObjectRigidBody != null)

This is probably what you intend

[dawn hedge]

i just followed a tutorial, i have no idea what i am doing

[burnt vapor]

Then you either use a very shit tutorial or you made a mistake there

You have explicitly compare against null. Your current if-statement doesn't do that

If you fix this, it seems to assign CurrentObjectRigidBody in the else-statement and fix the issue

This has to be done on both line 28 and 60

[cosmic dagger]

when following a tutorial, make sure you understand each line of code before proceeding to the next line. it doesn't make sense to continue a tutorial if you don't know what you are doing . . .

[dawn hedge]

so put if(CurrentObjectRigidBody != null) on line 28 and 60?

[burnt vapor]

This code makes no sense in general

What is happening here?

You definitely miss something here

And line 52 has the actual exception

Same if-statement must be added, maybe?

[obsidian plaza]

are you not getting errors for these?

look at ur red squigglies

[burnt vapor]

There's nothing wrong with the syntax

[obsidian plaza]

i meant the CurrentObjectRigidbody thing

[dawn hedge]

Should i send the tutorial i followed?

Maybe i should make a new script.

[slate haven]

Anyone can help me a bit?

[cosmic dagger]

hmmm, i believe (CurrentObjectRigidBody) will implicitly check for if it exist and if it's null . . .

[obsidian plaza]

you shouldnt manually change the transform for this kind of thing afaik

[slate haven]

then what?

[obsidian plaza]

gravity is already a thing on rigidbodies

why arent u using that

[slate haven]

Because its a kinematic body

You cannot use that

[lavish kernel]

kinematic bodies won't check for collisions

[burnt vapor]

On second thought it probably does

[slate haven]

Raycast does

[burnt vapor]

But stuff like that is such a weird check to do

[slate haven]

Raycast detects the ground check

[burnt vapor]

Just specify null explicitly. Now it's a question if does what you think it does you see

[slate haven]

thats working

but i need something that snaps my player back to the ground

[slate haven]

if it falls below it

[burnt vapor]

But the issue is probably that something misses when they enter the block scope here

@dawn hedge you should check that

You are probably missing an if-statement there

On line 50

[dawn hedge]

lemme rewatch the tut rq

[burnt vapor]

You have null checks in the script which prevent this, except for this one

[lavish kernel]

I see, I misunderstood your script at first. That block of code looks fine but there are a number of potential problems with the ground check code. Also, you'll run into problems when the character has to move laterally.

1- Make sure the ray won't hit the backfaces of your character's collider
2- Make sure velocity isn't building up while you're grounded
3- Make sure the raycast is emitting from the right spot, in the right direction (use Debug.DrawRay for that)
4- Make sure the raycast isn't starting from the surface of the ground collider, it won't return hits with a distance of 0

[obsidian plaza]

yea as u said it will probably go past the floor and only then will the raycast detect it so getting something to snap your player back is another question. Which im not sure of but its just a weird way to do it in general

[normal glacier]

a tip for making your game development learning more fluid is to learn how to code. I'm a total newbie with C# and Unity but I learned how to code in other language before

[slate haven]

Wait I fixed that with the below code

    {
        // Ground Check
        isGrounded = IsGrounded();

        if(velocity.y < 0f && isGrounded)
        {
            velocity.y = 0f;
        } 
       
    }```

[normal glacier]

and c# has been way easier to learn than I thought, easier than C for mexD

[slate haven]

my broski, I have a game where i need to have the player isKinematic = true. With that I cannot use the default gravity to make player jump

[obsidian plaza]

yea i figured from what u said

just doesnt explain why

[slate haven]

Because I require physics forces to be detected properly on my player

and its kinematic so the movement happens smoothly

[lavish kernel]

hol up

else if (IsGrounded()) //make the player jump with force without gravity
{
    transform.Translate(0, velocity.y * Time.fixedDeltaTime, 0); // if the character has a negative velocity, it will clip through the ground during this step
}

[obsidian plaza]

thats why he wants to snap the player back

[slate haven]

@lavish kernel this fixed

[slate haven]

yes

[lavish kernel]

Ah, in that case you need the hit.distance value from the raycasting code, you can figure out the rest based on what you've showed lol

[slate haven]

i tried that but it didnt work out,. what worked out for me is I set the velocity = 0 if its negative

[lavish kernel]

Well your velocity's y component can't be negative if you're on the ground. the hit distance is key here. You've got it broski

[slate haven]

yeah

Thanks everyone

[lavish kernel]

(I don't know your use case but you may also be able to make a copy of your character's collider that's kinematic and doesn't collide with your player, as a workaround to your player collision problem. Then your character itself can be a non-kinematic body)

[slate haven]

yeah didnt think of it... But im sure this works as well

[cosmic dagger]

Yeah, I had to fix this for my extension methods. I have IsDestroyed use a boolean check on a unity object to specify a check for destruction (if an object exists), and IsUnityNull to use object.ReferenceEquals() to check if it is assigned (is null) . . .

[arctic flame]

How should I start learning unity?

[obsidian plaza]

learn c# basics then !learn

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[slate haven]

Hi Folks, I am facing an issue when my player is jumping (In Air on the moment), it is unable to move. While on the ground it moves as expected. Now I am using RigidBody.MovePosition() to move it horizontally, and transform.Translate() to move it vertically (Jump and making it fall down with a custom gravity).

Here's the code for your reference: https://pastecode.io/s/8hns6wbh
Suspected Lines: Line No. 68 for movement, and 123 for jumping

[cosmic dagger]

manipulating the transform does not use the physics engine. you can't do that if you're using physics to move your object . . .

[slate haven]

What can i do?

[west radish]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddForce.html

[slate haven]

Nope, my body is kinematic

[cosmic dagger]

you can assign the velocity or use AddForce with Impulse ForceMode . . .

i suggest assigning the velocity because your custom gravity code should affect/use your velocity instead of transform . . .

basically, use MovePosition for movement and set velocity for falling and jumping . . .

[willow shoal]

where add 1f? i need this script after time

public GameObject Beginer;

public void whenButtonClicked()
{    
        if (Beginer.activeInHierarchy == true)
        {
            Beginer.SetActive(false);
        }

        else
        {
            Beginer.SetActive(false);
        } 
}

"after click"

[slate haven]

    {
        // Apply gravity if not grounded manually when kinematic
        if (!isGrounded)
        {
            velocity.y += PlayerGravity() * Time.deltaTime;
        }
        else if (velocity.y < 0f) // Prevents "bouncing" after landing
        {
            velocity.y = 0f;
        }

        // Update position based on velocity (for vertical movement)
        Vector3 newPosition = rb.position + new Vector3(movement.x * moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime, velocity.y * Time.fixedDeltaTime, 0f);
        rb.MovePosition(newPosition);
    }```

This Works but again it makes my object fall under the ground @cosmic dagger

[cosmic dagger]

just remember not to override rigidbody.velocity.x and rigidbody.velocity.z when assigning the gravity/jumping . . .

[night raptor]

In 3D, MovePosition is no better than setting rb.position directly (for non-kinematic bodies). I would highly recommend using .velocity instead

[cosmic dagger]

i don't understand? you deactivate the Beginer GameObject if the condition is true or false . . .

[burnt vapor]

1f is not valid anywhere in this script. Please be more clear in what you're trying to do.

[willow shoal]

i just need after 1 second set active false

[cosmic dagger]

use a Coroutine. look at tutorials for how to use . . .

[burnt vapor]

https://unity.huh.how/coroutines

Eh, nevermind. This page just lists error handling

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/coroutines.html

[night raptor]

@cosmic dagger Well, it does interpolation for smoother visuals but otherwise no better

[cosmic dagger]

they are different:
MovePosition is for continuous movement and it takes interpolation into account for smooth movement

Rigidbody.position teleports the object using the physics engine to avoid recalculating the position of all collider objects in the hierarchy . . .

[verbal dome]

In 3D though, MovePosition doesn't respect collisions

In 2D, MovePosition actually changes the velocity

[night raptor]

That's what I mean, it looks smoother but doesn't make difference physics wise

[cosmic dagger]

yes, you have to code your own collision system to detect obstacles. that is a con for using a kinematic rigidbody . . .

[verbal dome]

If you intend to use a kinematic body then you are expected to do your own collision checks (such as CapsulaCast/Rigidbody.SweepTest)

[slate haven]

I see

[slate haven]

this

[night raptor]

I see, for kinematic (edited) bodies, using MovePosition is good

I thought they were going for the velocities and forces path

[cosmic dagger]

no problem; they were already using the kinematic approach. i just suggested a fix for applying gravity and jumping to fit what they were using . . .

[frail wind]

guy i been switching from visual studio to visual studio code. i install every extension for C# but some reason the type that detect error doesn't do it job, like you see on the image, i typing random but it say there no error. i mean i still can program normally but not seeing where the error is, was annoying. can anyone know how to fix this?

[burnt vapor]

You should follow the steps to configure your !ide 👇

[cosmic dagger]

!ide

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[cosmic dagger]

double whammy . . .

[vocal blaze]

hi - can someone help, doesn't work up Force private void AttackPlayer()
{
//Make sure enemy doesn't move
agent.SetDestination(transform.position);

transform.LookAt(player);

if (!alreadyAttacked)
{
    ///Attack code here
    Rigidbody rb = Instantiate(projectile, transform.position, Quaternion.identity).GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    rb.AddForce(transform.forward * 32f, ForceMode.Impulse);
    rb.AddForce(transform.up * 20f, ForceMode.Impulse);
    ///End of attack code

    alreadyAttacked = true;
    Invoke(nameof(ResetAttack), timeBetweenAttaks);
}

}

[leaden pasture]

Have you tried debugging the function &/or the if statement within it?

[vocal blaze]

no, i do it like in video show, and my projectile when created just fall down

[leaden pasture]

What happens if you try giving it a much larger force? Try multiplying it by 320 or 3200 instead to check the force is being applied

Also use debugs

[vocal blaze]

ok i will try

[swift crag]

what does "doesn't work" mean?

Is the function doing absolutely nothing?

Is it even running? Log something to check that

[vocal blaze]

no, in video projectile shoot from enemy in diagonally, but in my case its start from enemy center and like magnet fall down

forward force work well, up force - not

like that

but in scripts should be like that

[swift crag]

the AddForce calls look fine to me. I guess I would try larger numbers to see if anything changes, as Tye suggested

[vocal blaze]

i change up force from 8 to 100 and now its ok but shoot back)))

forward force was 32 when i up it to 64 he shoot forward but with the same problems from beggining)

[swift crag]

It's possible that the projectile is colliding with the enemy

Especially given that you're instantiating it at transform.position

[vocal blaze]

you are genius)))) i forgot to delete box collider from glasses))))

[swift crag]

ah, that'll do it

[vocal blaze]

that was))))

[rancid tinsel]

I'm about to sit down to make a start on a UI system for a project. I need to include different SOLID principles, as well as design patterns. I'm really struggling with the latter and where to fit which ones, could someone recommend some for me? It's going to be a simple system - shows the score, current theme (word game), will have pop ups when the player gains points (like a "+1" pop up underneath the score text), and will show the count down timer.

It will also have animations, but I don't think it makes sense to not use Unity's animation system

So far I've basically just got Singleton and Factory (these two I understand) but I don't know what else to use? It seems to me like most other ones are niche usecases

[west radish]

Dont use some design pattern just for the sake of using a design pattern

[swift crag]

You shouldn't be trying to "catch em all"

When you encounter a problem that a particular design pattern can solve, you use it

[rancid tinsel]

I know, but that's what the project requires unfortunately - same goes for SOLID.

I also don't think it makes sense

[swift crag]

okay, so this is academic

[rancid tinsel]

Yes. To be more clear the uni project requires SOLID principles and design patterns to be showcased in a few word "mini"games. Maybe I'm just not thinking outside the box enough in terms of the ideas?

[floral wren]

Just use MVP or MVC for your UI. (Not something you would do in practice though)

You can also use the strategy pattern for something stupid like having two different behavior for the score.

And potentially the Observer-Observable pattern for the communication between your system.

Also, Flyweight pattern is pretty easy to implement. Just use a ScriptableObject somewhere that is used twice.

https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/flyweight
https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/observer
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/mvc-design-pattern/
https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/strategy

[rancid tinsel]

Thank you! I'll take a look

Am I correct in understanding that MVP would usually be used in software as opposed to games?

[floral wren]

Yes, even then you usually more modern framework that utilize MVVM instead.

In Unity, specifically, the V and C mostly merge together.

Having a difference between the UI and the Logic of the game is common though.

[rancid tinsel]

So would it be essentially just separating UI elements from the actual logic?

[floral wren]

Yeah, without really having something in between.

[rancid tinsel]

I think there was another pattern somewhere... mediator maybe? that acts as a middle man or something like that

maybe I could fit that in there as well

[floral wren]

Yeah, never really used it explictly honestly.

It simply is natural to have object that are central.

[rancid tinsel]

Ok I'll dive in and try to use those, thanks a lot!

[floral wren]

By example, I usually have a [Start/Home/Pause/...]View Monobehaviour that encapsulate the UI. That would be a mediator

[swift crag]

A fun demo would be to completely delete the UI and have your game keep running (just...without anything visibly happening)

[untold shore]

Hey, need some help real quick with coding. Currently, I have issues regarding the DealerHandValue not changing the actual value of the Dealer's hand. Currently, it always says 0, even when DealerNewHandValue has the correct value - it won't change the Dealer's hand.
Here's the main code that is having issues:

    public void DealerCardValueChangeCelestialBond()
    {
        Debug.Log("DealerCelestialBondReset");
        foreach (Transform child in Dealerhand.transform)
        {
            Destroy(child.gameObject);
        }
        dealerHandManager.GetComponent<DealerHandManager>().dealerCardsInHand.Clear();
        Debug.Log("Clear Value");
        Dealerhand.GetComponent<DealerCardValue>().DealerhandValue = 0;
        Debug.Log("ClearValue: " + DealerhandValue);
        DealerhandValue = SpecialCardObject.GetComponent<SpecialCardScript>().DealerNewHandValue;
        Debug.Log("PostClear DealerHandValue: " + DealerhandValue);
    }
}```
DealerNewHandValue always works, it is ONLY DealerhandValue. I don't really know why. Any ideas?

[grand snow]

firstly why soo many get components

second im not sure i understand the issue as i dont see the connection between these hand values

[untold shore]

Sorry, I really don't know how else to do it 😅 How would you do it? Just save it to a variable?

[grand snow]

Im guessing you didnt serialize the objects as the script type but as GameObject

best to go change that to start because GetComponent() isnt free and ofc if you accidently have more than 1 of that component on an object it gets the first.

[SerializeField]
MySuperAwesomeComponent comp;

[untold shore]

Wait so how would you call that? Would you put in the gameobject inside that SerializeField? Or is it jus the script?

[grand snow]

yes? if you drag the game object to it then it will become the component (if on said game object) OR you can drag the component itself there

not as hard as you think it is

[untold shore]

That...makes more sense. Let me try that real quick.

[grand snow]

Seems to be common thing people dont seem to know about and im not sure why 🤔
Some shit asset store stuff i have seen have never serialized components...

[untold shore]

But also, how do you think its not connected? I was thinking it would connect with this line:

        DealerhandValue = SpecialCardObject.GetComponent<SpecialCardScript>().DealerNewHandValue;

[grand snow]

there is too little information to understand the problem...
This confuses me for example, you set a field with the same name elsewhere then log the value on THIS component?

Dealerhand.GetComponent<DealerCardValue>().DealerhandValue = 0;
Debug.Log("ClearValue: " + DealerhandValue);

[untold shore]

That was me just being dumb 😅was just moving the script to figure out where it could work, didn’t remove it. Just did, thanks for catching that.

Basically for the confusion part, it's a little weird. Here is the script attempting to get the value from SpecialCardObject:

DealerhandValue = SpecialCardObject.GetComponent<SpecialCardScript>().DealerNewHandValue;

Which accesses this:

 DealerNewHandValue = handManager.GetComponent<HandManager>().handValue;
        Debug.Log("DealerNewHandValue: "+ DealerNewHandValue + " PlayerHandValue: " + handManager.GetComponent<HandManager>().handValue);
        BetManager.GetComponent<BetManager>().ResetCurrentHandCelestialBond();
        Debug.Log("ResetHandCelestialBond");
        Dealerhand.GetComponent<DealerCardValue>().DealerCardValueChangeCelestialBond();
        Debug.Log("DealerNewHand Value: " + DealerNewHandValue + " DealerHandValue " + Dealerhand.GetComponent<DealerCardValue>().DealerhandValue);

Horrible coding, I know, going to fix it with what you said. Basically, it saves the player's card value, then saves it for the DealerNewHandValue, then resets the player's hand. Then resets dealer's hand, but with the new card value

[grand snow]

removing all those GetComponents() will make it a lot easier to read 🙏

or get em once in the function

[swift crag]

are all of these variables GameObjects...?

you can reference the component type instead

[grand snow]

dw already told em

[untold shore]

Yeah, fixing it right now

Code to change DealerHandValue:

       DealerhandValue = SpecialCardObject.DealerNewHandValue;
       
   }```
The connecting thing:
```` public void CelestialBond()
   {
       //Swap hands with other player
       DealerNewHandValue = handManager.handValue;
       Debug.Log("DealerNewHandValue: "+ DealerNewHandValue + " PlayerHandValue: " + handManager.handValue);
       BetManager.ResetCurrentHandCelestialBond();
       Debug.Log("ResetHandCelestialBond");
       Dealerhand.DealerCardValueChangeCelestialBond();
       Debug.Log("DealerNewHand Value: " + DealerNewHandValue + " DealerHandValue " + Dealerhand.DealerhandValue);
   }```
Here we go. Heading to class right now. Just @ me, Ill look at the messages in a second! Thanks.

[white girder]

I tried creating an elevator but when I step on everything but Player obj falls into the void. Player/camera setup is from a youtube tutorial.
Player: rigidbody, Player obj: mesh + collider, orientation: empty game object, Camera Holder: transforms position based on Orientation, Camera: Camera.
Only the Player obj with the collider mesh is being parented to the platform. how do I fix this so everything moves with the lift? https://paste.mod.gg/acuzdovzvurr/0 code being used by the lift

[wintry quarry]

Well your code is pretty explicitly setting the parent of the object with the collider

Since that's a child of the main player object, well you see the result

You could change it to grab the root instead or the parent of the object with the Collider, or use GetComponentInParent<Rigidbody> to find the object with the Rigidbody and then parent that object instead

You would also need to change your Rigidbody to be kinematic for example though

Otherwise it won't play well with this

Another option is to make the lift an actual physical object with its own Rigidbody instead of doing this parenting thing

[white girder]

this probably sounds the easiest, thanks

[torpid igloo]

How can i "select" a button by using code? i searched the documentation and googled it but couldnt find anything.

[swift crag]

You want to use SetSelectedGameObject, on the event system component

EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(whatever)

note that you don't select a Selectable -- go figure

note that google will often give you old docs from when the UI components weren't in their own package

e.g. https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.EventSystem.SetSelectedGameObject.html

mostly still accurate, just annoying

[torpid igloo]

ty

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/index.html

This is the new package documentation

[torpid igloo]

wdym something that isnt a Selectable? arent all buttons selectables?

[swift crag]

Yes, Button is a kind of Selectable

You can make your own custom selectables too

I've done that for my settings menus

[livid grail]

Why does my null check fail?

foreach (Buttons _button in buttonHolder)
{
    _button.button[0].SetActive(false);
    if (_button.button[1] !=null)
      _button.button[1].SetActive(true);
}

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by "fail"?

[livid grail]

Index was outside the bounds of array, sorry I should have clarified that clearer

[torpid igloo]

How can I add something to the On Click () thing through code? like running a function

[wintry quarry]

_button.button is presumably an array or list and you're accessing [0] and/or [1] which are outside the bounds of that array or list.

Literally nothing to do with the null check

[languid spire]

that is one cursed foreach

[wintry quarry]

myThing.onClick.AddListener```

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Button-onClick.html

oohh. too slow

[torpid igloo]

tysm

[untold shore]

Hey, for some reason it's giving me a null object reference debug log. This is a new thing for me (not the reference, just the hand.handValue). What do I do? It's flagging for this:

    [SerializeField] public CardValuesScript hand;
     public int handValue = 0;
     public int cardCount;
    

     public List<GameObject> cardsInHand = new List<GameObject>(); //Hold list of card objects in our hand

    public void Update()
    {
        handValue = hand.handValue;
    }

[wintry quarry]

which line is line 28?

[naive pawn]

fyi [SerializeField] + public is redundant

[untold shore]

handValue = hand.handValue

[wintry quarry]

Then hand is null

pretty straightforward

[untold shore]

How do I make it work then? Whenever I was talking to other people they were saying I should do component based so I dont have to do GetComponent(). Should I just keep it a gameobject?

[wintry quarry]

I have no idea what you mean by that question

you make it work by assigning a value to hand so it's not null

[naive pawn]

there's nothing wrong with this code

hand is either getting unset or destroyed

[wintry quarry]

Or... the instance of the script pictured in the inspector your screenshot is not the one that is throwing the exception you see in the console. It's a different instance.

[rich adder]

at some point hand is not assigned, make it not do that. or if you make it null on purpose put a null check

[naive pawn]

or that yes

[wintry quarry]

Also definitely not getting destroyed - that would be a MissingReferenceException. Or in this case no exception at all.

[naive pawn]

in this case no exception at all
how come?

[wintry quarry]

Simply accessing a field on your script doesn't trigger any of the built-in Unity checks that result in MRE

If you accessed a unity property like .transform it would

[untold shore]

This is what I have for the hand - Handposition is an object. Is it because it's not a gameobject?

[wintry quarry]

The instance of the script pictured in your screenshot is not the one that is throwing the exception you see in the console. It's a different instance.

Is it because it's not a gameobject?
Get your mind off whatever track this is, it's not relevant

[naive pawn]

wouldn't dereferencing it (hand.handValue) cause an error if hand was destoryed though?

[wintry quarry]

no, since it's just a simple field access and Unity has no way to intercept that

[naive pawn]

ah right yeah

[rich adder]

dont you get a "such and such was destroyed but you're still trying to access it"
or is that just transforms..

[untold shore]

Whenever I click it though, it goes to hand.handValue? Weird. Trying to figure out what's calling it

[wintry quarry]

When you click what

Search your scene for HandManagers

you probably have more than one

[naive pawn]

well yes that's the stacktrace does

[wintry quarry]

t: HandManager``` in the hierarchy search bar

[untold shore]

I just have this one, which is the one that i showed you

[wintry quarry]

ok then yeah your code is setting the hand to null at some point

or there's an instance of HandManager that is being spawned at runtime

[rich adder]

Debug.Log(hand, this) check when it goes null maybe? (must go above/before you try to access it)

[untold shore]

How? thats so weird. Ugh, never had this happen before, sorry if I seem rude (I dont mean to be.)

[wintry quarry]

How what

hand = null;

is one way

or hand = somethingThatResultsInNull;

Showing your code would be a good start if you want effective help

(the full script)

[untold shore]

https://paste.ofcode.org/zsbV56Fhg5svA7DzgBjc8J Here you go - thanks for offering to help though

[wintry quarry]

when does the error happen exactly?

Is it right away or when you spawn a card

[untold shore]

As soon as Update() is called

[naive pawn]

right from when you play the scene?

[untold shore]

Yes

[wintry quarry]

Are you sure there's only ONE HandManager component on that object?

[untold shore]

Okay, now it's magically not doing it on HandManager? Ugh, so weird. I don't know what fixed it. Checking for any empty things rn...

[cosmic quail]

i dont see you assign hand anywhere?

[rich adder]

unity goblins

[languid spire]

it's in the inspector

[cosmic quail]

oh

why is it both [SerializeField] and public?

[rich adder]

maybe copied from somewhere

[queen adder]

hello everyone

[untold shore]

I didn't know it would make it public, still very new

[cosmic quail]

serializefield is added to private variables to make them show in the inspector

without having to make them public

[rich adder]

unless they need to be accessed from somewhere else, you should try to keep them as private

[queen adder]

did someone had error: CS0246 before??

[wintry quarry]

[SeiralizeField] doesn't make things public
It makes them serialized

[queen adder]

i have it in my code and i dont know what to do

[rich adder]

we dont know codes, you have to show error message

[wintry quarry]

use English words we are not computers. I'm sure many people have had it.

[queen adder]

okay wait

i will sen

send

smthing like this

[wintry quarry]

yes you used something in your code that doesn't exist

or you're missing a using statement

[queen adder]

and i dont know what of those 🙂

[wintry quarry]

on line 19 of player_movement.cs

[rich adder]

(are you missing a using directive ??? )

[queen adder]

yea let me see

[wintry quarry]

It's simple - you can't use types in C# that don't exist

[rich adder]

is that part of InputSystem..oh issa struct

[wintry quarry]

like if you wrote:

Bagel b;``` that would be an error if you never defined a type named `Bagel`

that's your error

but with PlayerActions

[queen adder]

i mean i added these and now when i am deleting something with 'PlayerActions' i have more errors ughhh

[wintry quarry]

Yes if you start pulling code out at random it's likely to cause more errors

It's better if you try to understand

[rich adder]

you could tried to just fix it by using IDE quick actions, see if it finds namespace it belongs to

[queen adder]

i try but im shit at this

ugh

this is hard

[wintry quarry]

yes programming is hard

I recommend following this stuff to get a grasp of the basics first:

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

[rich adder]

new InputSystem is also not very beginner friendly..you jumped into a shark tank right away..

[wintry quarry]

Right now you're working with basically 0 knowledge of what you're doing

[queen adder]

thanks i will see

[queen adder]

oh i just wanted to do 2D game but i think i need to start frome basics

[wintry quarry]

Yes

everyone needs to start from basics

2D games and 3D games are equally complex

[tepid tide]

Hey, i am searching how to do a script for a shotgun just like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMrBfGi5Res
Someone can help?
Please

[rich adder]

also check out the paths https://learn.unity.com/pathways
they mix in a bit of both c# and unity components
essentials path is fixed..yippy

[queen adder]

tysm

[rich adder]

what do you want to know exactly, there is a few steps involved there

generally you can loop through a certain number and create a ray / bullet per each with slight offsets

[tepid tide]

i am a beginer i just want to know how to do something like that

[rich adder]

well there is a lot of code to know, you might also benefit from unity learn website

[cosmic quail]

there are a bunch of gun tutorials on youtube

[rich adder]

but will be just copying and pasting

not learning

[tepid tide]

I tried this one but it gives me a error

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqNW08Tac0Y&t=398s

[cosmic quail]

you can learn by doing tbh

[rich adder]

yeah but some basic knowledge is needed, like how to properly type the syntax and basic c#

[cosmic quail]

unless you dont even know the basics of unity yeah

[cosmic quail]

i guess you copied the code wrong

[rich adder]

ide is at least configured..

half way there

[tepid tide]

dont really know what is happening

[rich adder]

yes you blindly copied without knowing you have to actually create types beore using them

[cosmic quail]

time to drop this and go to !learn first

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

also a compare tag and get component, tutorial is shit

they never heard of TryGetComponenot or caching the component as a specific check ?

316k views tho.

[mystic lark]

What is the comand for destroying a game object

[queen adder]

like in game or in hierarchy??

[rich adder]

you could easily google that

like fr fr. dont be lazy

[mystic lark]

ik lol but it this usualy faster than just getting a fhole page that i have to read

[queen adder]

like i mean informatics are lazy but that much?? damn

idk how to say it

lmao

[mystic lark]

pretty much

[rich adder]

its called "researching" it helps you learn.

[wheat escarp]

ChatGPT at least

[queen adder]

ChatGPT is also good

[mystic lark]

Thats even slower

[queen adder]

so you wanna wait 5 mins till someone respond??

ok

[mystic lark]

BUt anyway see i got another pesrson to gogle it for me and i got my answer in less than 30 sec

[astral falcon]

That attitude will stomp down your learning curve to a flat line 😄

[wheat escarp]

it will give you a short answer

[queen adder]

wow nice lazy guy

[rich adder]

next time people wont be so nice..

[languid spire]

it will also get you blocked by most of the people who could help you. bye

[rich adder]

true

[mystic lark]

ik i ussualy learn everthing i just wanted the comand lmao chill guys

[queen adder]

but you could just google it dude😭

[astral falcon]

you can believe that for yourself. And what steve said also fits for me 😄

[queen adder]

@mystic lark the 1. rule in #854851968446365696 is: "Search the internet for your question!"

lmao

[mystic lark]

yes ik leave it alone i wont do it again i get it

[queen adder]

ok gl with code

[queen adder]

how i do this code block??

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[verbal dome]

Wrap it in ``

Oh that part yeah

[queen adder]

ohh i see tysm

[verbal dome]

Read the bot message for proper fornatting

[meager needle]

is there any way to make a health bar linked to an enemies health if i'm using two different scripts or sohuld i just put them in the same one ? 😓

[wintry quarry]

of course

[rich adder]

default is always gonna be yes , most of the time

[meager needle]

im lowkey cooked i've been stuck on this for 40 minutes and im mad lost 😓

[wintry quarry]

Have the two scripts communicate with each other. That's the basics of how most things in most games work.

[meager needle]

i think?? i've done that , the enemies taking damage and dying but it isn't shown on the health bar which is a bit unfortunate

[wintry quarry]

you'd have to share your code and what's going wrong etc if you want more specific help

[meager needle]

no probs

ill do that quickly

!code

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[meager needle]

https://paste.mod.gg/mdjljhygdewk/0

[wintry quarry]

you don't put ``` if you're using a paste site

[meager needle]

oh

oops

LOL

sorry

[wintry quarry]

also you commented out the class declaration?

and that second link is just the blank pastebin link

[meager needle]

oops

[meager needle]

did i

[meager needle]

oh oops

it isnt commented for real 🙏

lemme just

copy and paste it fully

[wintry quarry]

Just copy and paste the whole thing yes lol

[meager needle]

https://paste.mod.gg/mdezbhwomlam/0

this should work

[naive pawn]

are TakeDamage and Heal being called at all?

[wintry quarry]

Ok it's really confusing what's going on here

which script is supposed to do what here?

What is the role of each script?

And which object(s) are they on

[meager needle]

enemyhealth is for the enemy to take damage and do the sprite anims

on the Enemy object

[wintry quarry]

The fact there are two variables that seemingly represent the current amount of health you have:
public float healthAmount = 100f;
public float currentHealth;
This is very problematic

[naive pawn]

ok that just seems like manage health 1 and manage health 2

[wintry quarry]

you need to have one source of truth

[meager needle]

and the Health1 is on a HealthManager object (i was told to put it on there)
and is supposed to be reflecting the damage onto health bar

[naive pawn]

don't forget public float health;

[meager needle]

no i was thinking of that and getting rid of it

did i put too many variables 😓

[wintry quarry]

Yeah it's super unclear which one of these variabels actually determines what the current health is

[meager needle]

that do the same thing

[wintry quarry]

yes

[naive pawn]

you might want to consider health and maxHealth instead

[meager needle]

okaydokes

[naive pawn]

those are the typical terms used in games

[wintry quarry]

I would expect:

• One script on the enemy that actually manages the enemy's health situation
• One script on the UI that handles displaying the health from the first one in the UI

that's it

[meager needle]

okaydokes

[wintry quarry]

And name the scripts clearly like:
EnemyHealth and HealthBarUIHandler or something

[meager needle]

alrighty alright

thank you

[wintry quarry]

Health1 is very vague and doesn't telll us what this thing is supposed to do

[meager needle]

okaydokes

ill change them up

so i should remove a variable and make one variable i'll use through both scripts?

[wintry quarry]

Yes, the scirpt that actually manages the enemy's health should be the only one with a variable that represents how much health the enemy has.

the other script can read that information from the health managing script as needed

[meager needle]

okaypokes so the health managing one shouldnt actually interact with the health other than displaying it ?

[wintry quarry]

One super simple example:

public class EnemyHealth : MonoBehaviour {
    public float Health { get; private set; }

    public void TakeDamage(float damage)
    {
        Health -= damage; // minus  the damage from healthamount
        Health = Mathf.Clamp(healthAmount, 0, 100); // check healthamount is within valid range
    }

    public void Heal(float healingAmount)
    {
        Health += healingAmount; // Add healing amount to healthAmount
        Health  = Mathf.Clamp(healthAmount, 0, 100); // Ensure healthAmount is within valid range
    }
}

public class HealthBarHandler : MonoBehaviour {
    public Image HealthBar;
    public EnemyHealth enemyHealth;

    void Update() {
      HealthBar.fillAmount = enemyHealth.Health / 100f;
    }
}```

[wintry quarry]

it shouldn't care or know about the health bar at all

[wintry quarry]

This isn't exactly what I would do but it's very simple and will work

[meager needle]

okaydokez ill try my best and if it comes to it i'll use that one

thank u very much :)

[mystic lark]

is there a way i can stop the timer ?

[vestal matrix]

So somebody at some point recommended me to Newtonsoft to write classes to json as savedata
I'm having an issue where I have this class:

// Put here all the flags you need for the story
public enum EventFlag
{
    TestVar_HasCrossedPlane,
    TestVar_HasInteracted,
    HasLighter,
    HasLantern,
    HasSeed,
    HasCrayon,
    HasWateringCan,
    MuseumEntered,
    MuseumExited,
    IntroDialogueEnded,
    GodDialogueEnded,
    ManDialogueEnded,
    TreeDialogueEnded,
    NakedDialogueEnded,
    PowerDialogueEnded,
    ReturnDialogueEnded,
    SeedDialogueEnded,
    SelfDialogueEnded,
    EndDialogueEnded


}

public class EventFlags
{
    private List<bool> events = new List<bool>();

    public EventFlags()
    {
        
        for (int i = 0; i < System.Enum.GetValues(typeof(EventFlag)).Length; i++)
        {
            events.Add(false);
        }
    }

    public EventFlags(EventFlags eventFlags)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < eventFlags.events.Count; i++)
        {
            events.Add(eventFlags.events[i]);
        }
    }

    [Other methods...]
}

And when I try to serialize it like this: JsonConvert.SerializeObject(flags)
I just get {}

Does newtonsoft not support lists?

[obsidian plaza]

pause it?

[mystic lark]

yea thast what i mean is there a way?

[naive pawn]

yeah just stop counting

[obsidian plaza]

u would need to remove it from update

put it in its own function

[slender nymph]

i'm pretty sure that private fields are not serialized by default and you need to slap a JsonProperty attribute on it

[naive pawn]

you wouldn't have to, no.

[vestal matrix]

DAMN yeah that was it

[mystic lark]

and how would i do that?

[obsidian plaza]

true but i would

[obsidian plaza]

hes joke

[naive pawn]

im not

[obsidian plaza]

brutha

[naive pawn]

add a conditional or something to make it not count when you don't want it to count

[mystic lark]

i was thinkinng of something like that but i think i found i way

[vestal matrix]

Thank you so much

[wintry quarry]

Have you heard of if statements?

[true owl]

is there anything to replace drag in the new version of unity?

[wintry quarry]

Drag still exists in the new version of Unity

[true owl]

i want an acceleration, deceleration time for my character

oh

[slender nymph]

did you look at the docs and/or read the error that said the drag property was obsolete?

[true owl]

it's not in the rigidbody anymore

[wintry quarry]

Yes it is

linearDrag

[slender nymph]

linearDamping in the latest versions actually

[wintry quarry]

Oh sorry yeah

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-linearDamping.html

[true owl]

i see linear damping

[wintry quarry]

yes it's the same thing

damping is a better name for what it actually always was

it never behaved like real life drag

[true owl]

does the linear drag work if you're on the ground? I feel like it doesn't do anything

[wintry quarry]

it works everywhere all the time

[slender nymph]

linear drag is applied all the time. it's friction that is only applied when contacting other colliders

[true owl]

that's strange

i put my linear damping to 0 but my character still stops when i let go

so its the friction i need to adjust?

[wintry quarry]

sounds like a problem with your code, or yes it's friction

[true owl]

im dont evne have it coded, just using the sliders

[slender nymph]

wdym just using the sliders? aren't you setting the velocity of the object directly?

that would obviously not behave the way you are attempting to make it behave

[wintry quarry]

which sliders are we talking about

[true owl]

linear damping

[wintry quarry]

You have code that moves the object

that's the code I'm talking about

But yeah this is probably a friction thing

[slender nymph]

it's also 100% the issue if they still have the code they showed a couple days ago where they are just setting the x velocity to the state of their digital input with no smoothing

[tawny grove]

i cant i remove this tile from the pallete? i accidently added it and the shift click thing isnt working

[languid spire]

not a code question

[true owl]

i'm sorry but can you explain why this is a problem

[slender nymph]

you're assigning the velocity directly, including when your input is 0. so when you have no input you set the x velocity to 0 which means there is no drag or friction affecting it at all. if you want forces to act upon the object then consider moving it via AddForce or just don't assign to the velocity when there is 0 input so that forces like drag and friction will slow it down

[true owl]

ah

i did ```
void Move()
{
if (!isDashing)
{

        /* if player is on ground or rail, have holding diagonally affect the same as just horizontally 
            otherwise just use the x input that comes in normally */
        float adjustedMoveInput = isGrounded || isOnRail ? (moveInput.x == 0 ? 0 : (moveInput.x > 0 ? 1 : -1)) : moveInput.x;
        rb.AddForce(new Vector2(moveInput.x * playerSpeed, rb.linearVelocity.y));
        Debug.Log(moveInput.x);
        // rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(adjustedMoveInput * playerSpeed, rb.linearVelocity.y);
    }

    animator.SetBool("isRunning", true);
}

ignore the adjustedMoveInput it's not being used

[mystic lark]

i am trying to delete all clones at once with button press but its showing me this error, but its perfectly fine deleting in the OnTrigger. I tried searching but i cant to find the solution

the script is attached to the clones

[slender nymph]

you're calling that method on a prefab

[vocal wing]

when i change the first f nothing special happens just moves vertical normally but when i move second one my object disapears someone know why?

[tawny grove]

hello, I am unsure why this happened, but seemingly all of my scripts can no longer be found by unity. I am still able to access and edit them, but they can no longer be attached to objects. This isnt a script name issue as it is happening with even new and old scripts that were working before. any help would be appreciated.

[slender nymph]

1. make sure this is not in Update otherwise you are adding way more force than necessary
2. log the velocity and input to make sure you are understanding what is actually happening

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/script-loading-issues

[slender nymph]

you nee to start by getting your !IDE configured 👇

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

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[tawny grove]

I have tried these for the most part. There are compile errors but i cannot resolve them as editing the scripts do nothing, reimporting didnt seem to work nor restarting. this isnt just one script so the rest dont really apply

[slender nymph]

screenshot your entire console window

[true owl]

I put it in FixedUpdate()

[tawny grove]

i was renaming some stuff which is what originally caused that error to happen, but because my edits no longer apply, i cannot resolve them

[slender nymph]

well it seems the issue is just in your RoomSpawner and HallSpawn script trying to access something called structures in your RoomTempelate script. and provided you actually save your code, your edits will apply. you just have to fix all of the issues so it can compile

[tawny grove]

that script is currently completly commented out as an attempt to see if it would stop atleast those errors from applying (i know that it would cause other errors, but i wanted to test to see if these ones would stop showing up)

[slender nymph]

prove it

[slender nymph]

notice how that is an entirely different file than the one the error is complaining about

[true owl]

so when would you want to manually set the rb.linearVelocity vs using rb.addForce

[tawny grove]

this is the script that is trying to access room template.

[slender nymph]

that is neither RoomSpawner nor HallSpawn

please actually pay attention to your errors (and also the responses you receive in discord), you may find that the issues are actually pointed to exactly

[tawny grove]

jesus christ dude you are so aggresive

and no, that did not resolve the issue, i will ask someone else

[edgy tangle]

He's right though. You need to learn how to actually interpret errors.

[slender nymph]

you may want to look up the definition of aggressive, as that was definitely not it. but if you want to throw a fit because i'm not spoonfeeding you the answer and instead telling you where you should look, then i'll just not help you further. and yes this is the aggressive bit

[tawny grove]

what a dick head

[slender nymph]

i'd bet if you were to actually show the two files that are mentioned in the errors we'd find you didn't fix them at all

[rich ice]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[tawny grove]

both of those files were also commented out btw, but again, ill take the issue somewhere else

[grand snow]

you need to actually fix the real issue, if you comment out a whole file the class def is gone.... so another error is probably going to show up instead.

if you can see a small bit of code that when commented out will resolve all compiler errors then thats an okay temp solution

[sharp abyss]

can someone take a look

[swift crag]

unsurprisingly, deleting a class will cause great confusion for every other part of your code that was using that class

(solution: delete those too!)

[grand snow]

at that point, delete the whole project and start over

[slender nymph]

hardcore programming: start over from the beginning each time you cause a compile error

[rich ice]

rougelite programming: restart the whole project each time you cause a compile error

[swift crag]

(see also: fuckit.js)

[normal glacier]

I thought that learning C# would be hard because I only knew js but it seems quite easy so far

[normal glacier]

Are you coding flappy bird

[mystic lark]

yes lol

[naive pawn]

well, same family of languages, and knowing programming in general does help as well

[normal glacier]

By what it seems you need to reference the gameObject you wanna destroy. It would be better to store them in an array like so

TheComponent[] theComponent = FindObjectsOfType<nameOfTheClassOfTheObjectsYouWannaDestroy>();

And then perform a for loop to destroy them one by one

[mystic lark]

thanks vm ill doo it

[cosmic dagger]

What objects do you need in a collection? I would add the objects to a list when they are instantiated (or activated on scene load). Then you can just reverse iterate the list and destroy them . . .

[normal glacier]

I started to code c# and unity this sunday so idk😭

[mystic lark]

same lol

[swift crag]

you only need to do reverse iteration if you are removing them from the list as you go, mind you

I'd just do

foreach (var whatever in stuff) {
  Something(whatever);
}

stuff.Clear();

[edgy tangle]

I usually also just add a continue guard clause against null

but yeah

foreach (var whatever in stuff) {
  if (!whatever) continue;

  Something(whatever);
}

stuff.Clear();

[winter creek]

Hi , how can i do these class like that please and what is the name of that ( Scriptable Object ? something else ?)

[slender nymph]

that is a scriptable object

[rich ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-ScriptableObject.html

[normal glacier]

Are those checkboxes public bool variables?

[slender nymph]

they may not necessarily be public though, they can be private with a SerializeField attribute to expose them to the inspector

[normal glacier]

Thx

[true owl]

is there a way to use rb.linearVelocity = ...
and still keep linear drag

or do i HAVE to use rb.addForce

i still cant figure out why my player can't move back with rb.AddForce, only forward

[slender nymph]

it depends on how/when you want the drag to apply. you can either compute it yourself and just apply the velocity manually, or if you only want the drag to apply when you've released the button then do what i told you earlier

[slender nymph]

show what you tried as well as your debugging attempts

[true owl]

sure 1 sec

[slender nymph]

make sure to show the full !code using a bin site 👇

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[true owl]

https://paste.mod.gg/eqzkmghwtytl/0

I tried using rb.AddForce

but it only goes right, left should work but it doesnt

also when I dont add a friction object to the player he cant move at all

when I do that issue occurs like i stated above

[winter creek]

Ok but i would like have same the left screen, why mine is like a normal class ?

[slender nymph]

why are you still doing this (moveInput.x == 0 ? 0 : (moveInput.x > 0 ? 1 : -1)) : moveInput.x;

[true owl]

i tried the Mathf.sign like you said but

it didn't work

even though it should

[slender nymph]

ah yes "didn't work" how descriptive

[cosmic dagger]

@mystic lark As someone who learned C# along with Unity and no prior programming knowledge, I found it to be relatively easy (the basics), but it solely depends on your discipline and willingness to learn

If you don't have that, it's very difficult as there is no time frame or estimate for how long it takes. Motivation doesn't help as it only inspires you to work, not actually do it . . .

[true owl]

i mean i have no idea how to describe it like the player just wouldn't move properly

even if i just use moveInput.x it doesn't make a difference

the same issue occurs

[slender nymph]

well if you can't describe it then nobody can help you 🤷‍♂️

[true owl]

so I don't think it's that

[slender nymph]

anyway, i told you earlier to log your input and velocity so you can get a better understanding of what is happening. so you've gone and removed your log for the input and are now only logging the velocity

[true owl]

I logged my input before and it was outputting properly

1,-1,0

[slender nymph]

log them both at the same time, that's the whole fucking point of doing so

[rich ice]

it says in the docs. but, right click the project window and create a new one

[true owl]

sure

[rich ice]

usually i'd send an example but i dont have any scriptable objects in my current project

[true owl]

not really sure what this is supposed to do

it's just a really small value

[edgy tangle]

The left is an instanced asset of the ScriptableObject. The right is the script.

[true owl]

for the velocity

[slender nymph]

and what is the value of playerSpeed

[edgy tangle]

To make an instance, in your project explorer, right click -> Create -> (the CreateAssetMenu parameters you defined in your class)

[cosmic dagger]

You need to use CreateAssetMenu on the class and create an instance of that ScriptableObject in your project folder . . .

[normal glacier]

Well, I'm too hooked on this stuff

[swift crag]

On the left is an instance of a scriptable object type. It's probably an asset, much like a Material or a Prefab.

On the right is the script asset that defines a scriptable object type.

[normal glacier]

I coded flappy bird, next game will be mario

[true owl]

30

always

[mystic lark]

i know i didnt start just this week i started with the basics like 3 moths ago and didnt realy tuch unity unitll i understood somewhat the basics then i tried making a really simple 2D pong game without tutorial, and i made it with liltle help. now im making flapy bird also without tuorial and as little help as possiblle but i still dont understand stuff so i ask here for help or serch on the topic i am intersted and lean it and people give me some answers and i learn off that

[slender nymph]

that's pretty high. do you also have an insane drag value?

maybe super high mass too?

[true owl]

my lin damping is set to 0.92 and the auto mass is 0.82

[winter creek]

Thank you guys

[slender nymph]

well something's not adding up then because that *should *be resulting in way too fast speeds

[true owl]

right

im not sure i'll figure it out

it's definitely this addForce thing

[slender nymph]

show me your current log

[normal glacier]

Can I 2d pixel art inside unity

[winter creek]

What is the best ways for make Singletons ? i see several way to do.
In this video the guy put a [DefaultExecutionOrder (-10)] 🤔 https://youtu.be/Ol9yM21OvG0?si=RZESZEVAWO2wnE0W&t=95

[slender nymph]

the default execution order is a hack to prevent issues with accessing the singleton in Awake in other objects.

[winter creek]

you recommand to do like that ?

[slender nymph]

no, i recommend not fucking with the script execution order if you can avoid it (you can). either initialize the singleton earlier than Awake, don't access it in Awake or OnEnable on other objects, or lazy load it.
here's my implementation of the singleton pattern that initializes before Awake (not that i ever actually access it in Awake on other objects anyway), and also lazy loads it if an instance doesn't exist
https://github.com/boxfriend/Utils/blob/master/com.boxfriend.utils/Runtime/Utils/SingletonBehaviour.cs

[cosmic dagger]

Don't do it; don't do it, I tell you . . .

[winter creek]

Ok thank you

[slender nymph]

note that the implementation you showed was perfectly fine otherwise, and even can be fine if you aren't messing with the script execution order much else either. i just personally find that having to modify the script execution order to prevent errors caused by my own code is hacky

[west radish]

That class is the code needed for the scriptable object to be created from, it's not a scriptable object itself. What you have to do is right click in the assets folder, and in the dropdown menu you should see a "scriptable objects" option which will let you make the scriptable object itself

[thorn iron]

I wish to create ingredient in my restaurant game.
But I don't know how to approach the data structure of the ingredient, whether it's a class, a structure or scriptable object.
The main points of ingredient are :

• the ingredient has read only datas, and no methods.
• a new ingredient can be created on unity editor
• on unity editor, all Mono behaviour which properties contain an ingredient can be manually allocated an custom ingredient that I have created previously

[wintry quarry]

ScriptableObject is probably a good fit

[pure drift]

!code

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[pure drift]

does anybody know why my masterVolume method doesnt work properly i attached it to my slider but when i drag my slider my audio for my music and sound effects turns off https://paste.ofcode.org/34e3xZPcEqz5vEWsuS3KkXE

[rich adder]

why is it *= and not just =

[pure drift]

i want it to be a percentage

[pure drift]

so lets say if master is at 0.5 and sfx is at 0.5 multiply those you get 0.25 which is technically correct

[rich adder]

did you debug the values or look in the inspector , what are the values set to ?

[pure drift]

the values are between 0 and 1

[west radish]

But if it gets called multiple times it'll get multiplied to be smaller every time

1, 0.5, .25, .125

[rich adder]

sounds like thats why it goes so quiet right away

[pure drift]

ohh so how could i make it so that it doesnt reduce like that

[rich adder]

have you looked into unity audiomixer it has a master slider already

[pure drift]

the way that my thing is set up is so that it doesnt have to deal with all of that like dealing with audio mixers and making it so that you have to expose paramaters

[rich adder]

idk what "all that" means

[rich adder]

how do you want the values to go down exactly ?

if you want the percentage idk why you can't just use the values as is

0-1 I look at as percentage

[pure drift]

i kinda want it to be so that it is like where if the sfx is 0.5 but the master is 1 it stays the same if that makes sense

[west radish]

private float masterVol = 0.5f;
private float sfxVol = 0.33f;

void SetVolume(float volume) {
 master.volume = masterVol * volume;
sfx.volume = sfxVol * volume
} ``` on my phone so excuse the poor writing

[rich adder]

like the master scales to 0.5 and you want sfx to be .25

ye was going to write similiar thing

sfxSource.volume = sfxVolume * masterVolume;
musicSource.volume = musicVolume * masterVolume;

[swift crag]

this makes your life easier, not harder...

[rich adder]

idk I just use audio mixer 🤷‍♂️

why rewrite already similiar system

[pure drift]

thank you i will try to implement this

[cosmic dagger]

You need to store the master volume in a variable and multiply all the other volumes by it when you set the master volume and when you set the other volumes . . .

[swift crag]

(Also, while you're setting up the audio mixer, switch from "linear" to "squared" to get a volume slider that actually sounds linear)

unless it was "SquareRoot"; been a hot minute

and I'm using FMOD now so I removed my AudioMixer configurations

[cosmic dagger]

@pure drift The problem is when you set the SFX or music volume, it doesn't take into account the master volume . . .

[pure drift]

im not sure how the code works i was wondering if you could explain it to me please

[edgy tangle]

You’re making your life harder by not just using the built-in audio mixer system

[cosmic dagger]

I'm unsure why you're not using the audio mixer, it easily does all of this for you. If you connect/link your SFX and music volume mixers to the master audio mixer, it automatically scales the volume when the master volume is changed. You can even set up separate filters for each mixer . . .

[pure drift]

ohh intresting ill keep that in mind

[acoustic meadow]

whats the best way to lear C# When i have almost never touched it before and dont know what 99.9% of stuff do in there and where should i but the stuff jk and watching tutorials is kinda slow and im probrably not gonna learn much from videos

[slender nymph]

start with the beginner c# courses pinned in this channel

[acoustic meadow]

thanks!

its gonna be hard because i dont even understand what some words mean :D

english is not my main language haha

[slender nymph]

do the intro to c# course on the microsoft site and set it to your preferred language

[cosmic dagger]

here you go! have at it . . .

[acoustic meadow]

Thanks you guys are real helpful!

[slender nymph]

i like those rb whitaker tutorials linked first, but his book is so much better

[cosmic dagger]

that's how i learned C#. i googled, went to his site, and read his tutorials. then i did the unity beginner and intermediate scripting tutorials; that was it. everything else was learned when i needed or found out about it . . .

[hasty dragon]

what does awake() do\

i meant why use start if theres awake

[rich adder]

because they are different

[cosmic dagger]

see, now there's a good question to ask . . .

[slender nymph]

because they happen at different points in the object's lifecycle

[rich adder]

awake => initializations etc
start => reference access etc.

[cosmic dagger]

Awake is called before Start. Awake is called on disabled GameObjects, and Start is called when a GameObject first becomes active . . .

[slender nymph]

Awake and OnEnable are called immediately when an object is instantiated. Start is called later, which could be the same frame or the next frame. the only guarantee is that it will be called before any Update is.
typically you would use Awake for self-initialization and Start for reaching out to other objects

[hasty dragon]

i see

[rich adder]

pretty sure awake not called until gameobject is active , it does call if disabled script

ok yeah making sure I wasn't crazy

Awake is called even if the script is a disabled component of an active GameObject.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Awake.html

[cosmic dagger]

yeah, this is what i was referring to to. i should've been more precise . . .

[rich adder]

Oh okay! I was just about to go through all my scripts lol I could've sworn I read not long ago, I was having weird issues with awake not firing, didn't realize it was component can b disabled not gameobject 😅

apparently public methods called from other scripts do fire on disabled GO, so opted for a public Init() instead

[cosmic dagger]

well that makes sense. so long as you have a reference, you can access and call methods on any GameObject. being active only affects the Unity lifetime methods . . .

[rich adder]

hah yeah assumed wrong that somehow unity was doing something special that might prevent that and maybe only setactive was something different but realize now its untouched

[cosmic dagger]

yep, a lot of my scripts have an Init method for setting them up. i just can't decide being using Init or Initialize. i have both and i need to figure out which one to stick with . . .

probably because i have Deinit and Deinitialize as well . . .

[rich adder]

Yea feels much better controlling the events with init method, thats good idea should also have something to do that, maybe Disassemble lol

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[cosmic dagger]

i make my scripts pretty different from what is standard. i have a brain/controller script with the Update methods. all other scripts on this GameObject have an OnUpdate or OnUpdateXXX method. the brain references all the scripts and calls OnUpdate for them in their Update

when enabled or disabled, the brain adds/removes itself to the correct Update list on an UpdateDispatcher MonoBehaviour. this list holds all active GameObjects and iterates the list in its Update method

this allows me to separate and test systems or mechanics by simply enabling or disabling them to isolate an individual script . . .

[rich adder]

ohh this is pretty interesting, seems like a good way to keep things flexible. Reminds me of something similar but used a custom tick for ingame time thing. I'm still experimenting trying to find a good system, still so much I'd like to learn in unity, but yeah also depends on the project requirements I suppose :p

[cosmic dagger]

very true. there are different patterns that can work. i'm deciding (or was until i forgot about it) to allow the child scripts (of the brain/controller) to search for the brain script and add themselves to an event. then, the brain would invoke this event in their Update method giving me the same functionality, but without needing to manually add a reference to each child script that is a part of the brain

i'd miss out on having control of the call order, but i can dynamically attach and remove each child-like functionality from the brain . . .

[rich adder]

Yeah events are pretty nice, could maybe static event it ? Idk if its a good pattern but for me it works. I usually do that for registering / unregister OnEnable and OnDisable, this way the main script doesn't care about registering specific instances (I used to use arrays to loop through) it only receives that when child does some event it care about if any

[verbal dome]

@acoustic belfry What you call "voids" are actually methods/functions

[acoustic belfry]

Hi, how i can make that when an object interact with another, it activate the other objects methods

[verbal dome]

(from unity-talk)

[acoustic belfry]

oh, thanks

[rich adder]

void is just a return type for a method/function
void aka dont return anything

[acoustic belfry]

i mean cuz i know how to make it interact...i guess

[acoustic belfry]

ah, makes sense

thats why the name

[verbal dome]

This example is still relevant ```cs
if(collision.transform.TryGetComponent(out PlayerComponent player))
{
player.DoThing();
}

DoThing is a method. You call the method with the ()

[acoustic belfry]

also, btw i have to get circle collider trigger on? Cuz i did a lot of other scrips (not made by me, just copy pasting tutorials, thats why im in here now, for make it from scratch) and none of them worked

now i have it turned on btw

[acoustic belfry]

ooh, nice

also, is there a way to modify the value of the state?

[verbal dome]

Use triggers if you don't want actual physical interaction but need to detect when things overlap

[acoustic belfry]

like, i make the player do thing, and also, i add a value, like, damage

[rich adder]

what is a state

[acoustic belfry]

my bad

method

[rich adder]

you can modify anything as long as its public

[verbal dome]

Non-triggers are for actually colliding with things

[acoustic belfry]

is just i came from GzDoom and everything is called a state, QwQ

[rich adder]

You can call methods, you cant modify them at runtime

[acoustic belfry]

mmm...
then what i should do?

[rich adder]

what does method do?

[acoustic belfry]

cuz what im seeking to do...and that i thought it would be easier for me QwQ but im dumb
Is,
Proyectile touches Player, player loses points on the int value health depending on the proyectile

[rich adder]

pass specific values into it, change the state

[acoustic belfry]

and try to make it the most "by me" and simple possible

cuz obviously is better to know what you wrote than just copy pasting

[acoustic belfry]

it technically takes points from the health value

depending technically on the proyectile

[rich adder]

store projectile damage amount in the projectile script, when you access the health component you can pass whatever value you want to subtract damage

[verbal dome]

You can add a TakeDamage (you can name it whatever you want) method to the player. It could take an integer/float value as a damage parameter

[polar acorn]

So you'd make a function on the player that loses health, then call that function in on collision or on trigger

[acoustic belfry]

i mean, i know what to do, my issue is, how to write it

[rich adder]

with code

[acoustic belfry]

thats technically always my issue with this kind of stuff

[verbal dome]

Tbh since you didn't know what void means or what methods are called, I feel like you have skipped the basics

Of C#

[rich adder]

yeah that is part of the reason its diffcult to write it

you have to know the basics of c#

[polar acorn]

On collision and on trigger give you the object you collided with as a parameter. Get the player component from it and call the function on it

[rich adder]

unity has an API function for each thing you need, just need to know how to read that api (knowing c# basics)

also Osmal literally wrote the code example for you
#💻┃code-beginner message

[acoustic belfry]

oh, right

well, thanks

[cosmic gorge]

vsc not recognizing PlayerMovement as a component???