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[north kiln]

I don't understand how any ambiguity could exist now. What's the first compiler error (the top one) that shows in Unity?

[old bolt]

Assets\Scripts\PlayerControls.cs(1179,19): error CS0102: The type 'PlayerControls' already contains a definition for 'PlayerActions'

[north kiln]

So you also have a script called PlayerControls?

You're really gonna have to start coming up with new names lol

[old bolt]

No wait

I have a script playerController,PlayerControls(made by input system) and PlayerLocomotionInput

[north kiln]

Is Assets\Scripts\PlayerControls.cs the one that's generated by the input system?

[old bolt]

Yes

Wait

it made another Playercontrols.cs in the asset folder

[north kiln]

Delete the one that's out of date

[old bolt]

Assets\Scripts\PlayerLocomotionInput.cs(15,9): error CS0120: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'PlayerControls.PlayerActions.Enable()'

Assets\Scripts\PlayerLocomotionInput.cs(16,18): error CS0572: 'PlayerActions': cannot reference a type through an expression; try 'PlayerControls.PlayerActions' instead

Assets\Scripts\PlayerLocomotionInput.cs(16,9): error CS0120: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'PlayerControls.PlayerActions.SetCallbacks(PlayerControls.IPlayerActions)'

Assets\Scripts\PlayerLocomotionInput.cs(21,18): error CS0572: 'PlayerActions': cannot reference a type through an expression; try 'PlayerControls.PlayerActions' instead

Assets\Scripts\PlayerLocomotionInput.cs(21,9): error CS0120: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'PlayerControls.PlayerActions.Disable()'

Assets\Scripts\PlayerLocomotionInput.cs(22,18): error CS0572: 'PlayerActions': cannot reference a type through an expression; try 'PlayerControls.PlayerActions' instead

Assets\Scripts\PlayerLocomotionInput.cs(22,9): error CS0120: An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'PlayerControls.PlayerActions.RemoveCallbacks(PlayerControls.IPlayerActions)'

We back at only 8 xD

[rich adder]

I think you need :
PlayerControls controls = new() controls.Enable()
nvm just saw you did that in link

[north kiln]

Do you have an action map named PlayerActions?

[old bolt]

Player

your a genuis xD

[north kiln]

glad it's sorted 👍

[old bolt]

Thank you!

[grand dome]

Anyone know how to make the scroll wheel keybind more responsive, it takes a full revolution of my scroll wheel for it to register the keybind has happened

[west radish]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Input-mouseScrollDelta.html this is how I detect scrolling, it's instantaneous with it

I haven't made use of scrolling with the new input system yet, but it should be the exact same equivalent in that

[swift crag]

How are you reading scroll input?

[buoyant finch]

https://paste.ofcode.org/JKEKFxSCCLpwL6xd5NYXgP hello so in my code I have added collisions and want so that upon every key press the walk animation iterates through its frames even when colliding so currently it works for the first 2 frames but then it doesn't switch to the 3rd and 4th frames upon colliding

[teal viper]

Debug your code. Add logs or step through it with a debugger.

[buoyant finch]

I debugged and found that this works only one time

    if (keyPressTimer >= animationFrameRate)
    {
        Debug.Log("Player can't move, animation updating.");
        keyPressTimer = 0f; // Reset the timer
        currentFrame = (currentFrame + 1) % currentFrames.Length; // Iterate the frame
        spriteRenderer.sprite = currentFrames[currentFrame]; // Set the new sprite
    }

    keyPressMode = false;
    keyPressTimer = 0f;
}

[upper tide]

Is there a way in general that i can avoid creating new functions for events to subscribe to

If possible I'd really like it if I could subscribe them all to a single ProcessButton

[dire meteor]

Hey anyone having issues where you assign buttons or objects in inspector but it still shows errors that they are not assigned? Idk wtf is going on

[upper tide]

and then sort the functionality out by if statements rather than being drowned in function statements

[slender nymph]

individual methods, while more verbose in the code, are going to be better performance-wise because you won't need to go through a long chain of if/else to determine what code to run. and if they each do something entirely different then there is even less reason for it all to be inside of one master method

[upper tide]

aye aye

I was hesitant to choose one or the other, but glad to hear that doing this sort of thing also works!

Thank you

[teal viper]

Debug it further. If it doesn't execute, then the condition is false. Meaning the keyPressTimer is not iterated. So debug the code related to that.

[feral moon]

Hey! So, I’m trying to figure out how to set things up in Unity. I want to make it so that when I click a button on an keyboard, a component gets turned on. And then, if that component is already there, I want it to turn off instead. How can I make that happen? Any tips?

If I uncheck the box, it remains visible. This happens in the actual game.

[keen owl]

Create an instance of the component and call the .enabled method on it via code in your on click events and set the status there

[cosmic dagger]

If the component is turned on, then it is already there. By that logic, your second statement will always be true . . .

[teal viper]

What others said + "remains visible" doesn't make any sense in this context.

[cosmic dagger]

☝️ This is also true. If you uncheck the box, you will be disabling the component. This will stop all Update methods from running; that's it . . .

[feral moon]

Well, he's supposed to become invisible... And - he is visible 😦

[teal viper]

What is "visible"? What is supposed to be visible/invisible?

And where?

Visible in the inspector?

[feral moon]

One second please...

[cosmic dagger]

At least you're giving us more information. We didn't know anything about the object changing from visible to invisible. You are disabling a component called Trackable. Does this component enable and disable the object?

[feral moon]

I'm talking about the blue marker.

[teal viper]

Why should it be visible/invisible when you disable the script? Scripts don't render objects in the scene. Normally.

[cosmic dagger]

How are we supposed to know that? 🤔 You have to give details like this at the beginning . . .

[feral moon]

Do you know how a compass works in games? Marking an object is its main job.

[keen owl]

If you want that disabled, you don’t disable the component but rather the instance of that object via the code

[teal viper]

In unity, you have components that are responsible for visuals of the object, like SpriteRenderer, MeshRenderer, ui Image, etc... So if you want them to stop rendering, you need to disable them, not your scripts.

Unless your script has extra logic responsible for rendering(or controlling the components related to rendering)

Basically, go and !learn the basics:

[eternal falcon]

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[cosmic dagger]

I'm saying that you didn't mention anything about the object being a compass or a specific object—for that matter. You just said, "Click a button on an[sic] keyboard, a component gets turned on. " That's all I'm saying . . .

[cosmic dagger]

If you want to prevent an object from rendering, you need to disable its renderer. If it's a UI object, you can disable the Image component or use a CanvasGroup component and manipulate the alpha property . . .

[feral moon]

YES! This is idea! I'll try to change this

[keen owl]

Disabling the object entirely also works but any code running on it won’t run so either do that or disable the renderers on it

[sleek flare]

Is it possible to add a instanced script to a gameobject? (Create a script, do some edits to it, then attach it to an object)

[slender nymph]

no, but why not just add the component then do the modifications to it immediately after calling AddComponent?

or you could just instantiate an entire gameobject (with the desired component on it) and set it as a child of that object

[sleek flare]

Cause I was wanting to pass a argument to the constructor of the script, which you can't do with addcomponent.

[slender nymph]

you can't do that anyway because invoking a MonoBehaviour's constructor does not create the MonoBehaviour on the native engine side so it won't correctly act like a component

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-errors/monobehaviournew

[cosmic dagger]

MonoBehaviours do not have constructors; only C# classes . . .

[north kiln]

They do have constructors, you just shouldn't use it yourself, and there's rarely a reason to declare one

[sleek flare]

Ah

[cosmic dagger]

true, i was tryna scare them away from it. they're called multiple times in the editor and during runtime. it's crazy . . .

[keen owl]

isn't the Awake method similar to a constructor in unity's lifecycle?

[slender nymph]

sort of, yes. it can kind of be treated like a parameterless constructor. although you actually can define a parameterless ctor that will actually be called (though you would typically use Awake unless you had a legitimate reason to need to use the ctor)

[keen owl]

makes sense, I never actually written a constructor and thought about it which got me wondering about it, thanks for explaining that

[buoyant finch]

hello so my tilemap for solid objects has a composite collider with polygons but in some places polygons are not generated and my player doesn't collide with them pls help

[cyan pasture]

Hi! What do Unity attributes like [SerializeField] mean? Can someone list the most common ones and explain them? Thx 😁

[grand snow]

makes private fields be "serialized" and editable in the inspector

[buoyant finch]

[SerializeField] means declaring some bool float or other things in your script if set to private they aren't editable in editor but can be changed in script and if public can be changed by both

[cyan pasture]

Okay, thank you. Are there any other popular ones?

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/unity-attributes.html

[cyan pasture]

Thx

[verbal dome]

Worth mentioning that serialiation doesn't just mean it's editable, it also means the value is saved and will persist. Non serialized values will use the default values when loaded

[grand snow]

you can edit it and that is saved in the scene or prefab or asset

[molten dock]

id like my my mouse to stop when it hits colliders, so i need to make an "in game mouse", how do i do that?

[feral moon]

https://hastebin.com/share/bixowekuda.csharp
https://hastebin.com/share/atacikebus.csharp
https://hastebin.com/share/urujepudaq.csharp

I need help... How to make the distance text false when focused=true for the object?

[verbal dome]

You could use a rigidbody and move it towards the world cursor position with velocity.
What I would do though, is to do a physics query (like SphereCast/CircleCast) from the previous cursor pos to the current one.
If the path is blocked, move the in-game cursor to the hit position. Otherwise move the in-game cursor to the actual world position.

[molten dock]

why would u do it like that instead

[verbal dome]

The second approach would allow instant movement. First approach uses velocity so it might not be instant.
Depends what you want of course.

[molten dock]

okay thank you

[feral moon]

Somebody can help me please, 3 hours I fight with this

[tiny wind]

Hellloo, my enemy's projewctlie only goes on one direction, anyone know whats wrong?
heres the script

private void RangedAttack()
{
    cooldownTimer = 0;
    darkballs[FindFireball()].transform.position = darkpoint.position;
    darkballs[FindFireball()].GetComponent<EnemyProj>().ActivateProjectile();
}

and this is ActivateProjectile

public void ActivateProjectile()
{
    hit = false;
    lifetime = 0;
    gameObject.SetActive(true);
    coll.enabled = true;
}

[echo ruin]

Are those the only scripts?

[tiny wind]

no, theyre just the ones that are responsible for activating the projectile

[echo ruin]

Then what is responsible for the movement of the projectile?

[tiny wind]

oh wait yeah, here

private void Update()
{
    if (hit) return;
    float movementSpeed = speed * Time.deltaTime;
    transform.Translate(movementSpeed, 0, 0);

    lifetime += Time.deltaTime;
    if (lifetime > resetTime)
        gameObject.SetActive(false);
}

forgot abt this one

[echo ruin]

transform.Translate() is a Vector3 method. The first parameter is the X direction, and since speed is likely a positive number, you'll travel in a positive direction on the X axes

So you'd have to have something check whether you're facing left or right

So if you're facing left, you just reverse the X value

Which you can simply do by adding - before movementSpeed

transform.Translate(-movementSpeed, 0, 0);

Like so

[tiny wind]

alright, ill try that, thanks

[echo ruin]

Assuming the Update() is the code for the projectile, of course

[grand snow]

movementSpeed * (left ? -1f : 1f)

[tiny wind]

is there a seperate Input thing for a mouse pad?

wait is it called a mouse pad?

[verbal dome]

trackpad?

I think mouse pad is what you rest your mouse on

[tiny wind]

yeah that

[tiny wind]

yeah not that

[sleek flare]

Quick question, I can't find anything about this on the docs, but when I was messing with WaitForSeconds, vscode suggested WaitForSecondsUnit as well, which I can't find anywhere in the docs, and I tried looking it up and couldn't find anything. Does anyone know what that is used for?

[verbal dome]

That's not a built in thing

[naive pawn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.visualscripting@1.9/api/Unity.VisualScripting.WaitForSecondsUnit.html
possibly this?

[verbal dome]

If it exists then it's from one of your scripts or packages

[naive pawn]

this is most likely not what you want

i just googled WaitForSecondsUnit lmao

[verbal dome]

Weird that wasn't on my first google result page for WaitForSecondsUnit

[naive pawn]

[sleek flare]

That didn't show for me either, but cool, thank you

[verbal dome]

Checked 5 pages and still won't show up 🤔

[naive pawn]

have you tried adding quotes

[verbal dome]

Doesn't help

Ohh it auto corrects it to "waitforseconds unity" automatically 🤦‍♂️But doesn't change the text field

[naive pawn]

if you aren't using visual scripting and you work alone/no one else is using it, i'd recommend just uninstalling it so you don't get those irrelevant suggestions

[sleek flare]

I'll double check if anything references it in any way, and remove it if not, thanks

[naive pawn]

could try searching for the visual scripting namespace throughout your codebase
you most likely won't be using it without knowing about it

[sleek flare]

Alright, also probably a really dumb question, does a while loop finish the current loop if the variable its running against is changed? ie

bool run = true;
int x = 0;
while(run) {
  p("1");
  p("2");
  if(x == 10) run = false;
  p("3");
  p("4");
  x++;
}

public void p(string s) {
  Debug.Log(s);
}

Or does it cut immediately?

[naive pawn]

i mean. you have all that written out,

[feral moon]

can you help me please with this, guys? 😦

[naive pawn]

you can try in like c# online stuff

[sleek flare]

... I didn't want to try it in my project, as it's semi broken... And forgot that online compilers were a thing XD oops

[naive pawn]

but the current loop runs until completion. while doesn't know what variable it has, it just has a condition that it checks at the end and goes back to the start

[sleek flare]

Thanks

[naive pawn]

while is just shorthand for if goto

all control flow statements can be decomposed to if+goto, frankly
so if you understand that, you can figure out how any control flow statement works

(disclaimer: you should not use goto.)

[buoyant finch]

hello so my tilemap for solid objects has a composite collider with polygons but in some places polygons are not generated and my player doesn't collide with them pls help

[naive pawn]

that's a lot of code for a very short prompt. can you be more specific as to what parts are relevant here?

[feral moon]

I think protected override void HighlightLogic in ImageIcon.cs
Focused in Trackable.cs
And... public override void UpdateDistance in ImageIcon.cs

[naive pawn]

you didn't show ImageIcon
wow im blind sorry one sec

[sleek flare]

Does anyone know a online c# compiler that supports unityengine code?

[naive pawn]

that would just be unity online

you could copy the relevant types/methods in directly

or write dummy placeholders with appropriate signatures

[naive pawn]

what do you mean by "make the distance text false" here?

[feral moon]

Oops... I mean TextMeshProUGUI distanceText=false

[naive pawn]

TextMeshProUGUI is not bool

you can't do that

that doesn't even make sense, what are you trying to achieve by doing that?

[feral moon]

What should I do then?

[naive pawn]

i have no idea what you're trying to do

[feral moon]

is it possible to make a textmeshprogui bool function?

[naive pawn]

that doesn't make sense

what are you trying to achieve as the end goal here?

[burnt vapor]

Are you asking for enabling/disabling it? Setting a boolean value makes no sense here

[naive pawn]

sounds like you're stuck in an https://xyproblem.info here

[burnt vapor]

Components always have an enabled field if that's what you want

[feral moon]

just hide this TMP text

[burnt vapor]

So enabled field

[feral moon]

when the protected override void HighlightLogic is in effect

[naive pawn]

Behaviours, not Components

[burnt vapor]

Or SetActive is also something you might want to check

[feral moon]

I want to make it so that when HighlightLogic logic is running, then distancetext becomes invisible.

[feral moon]

I tried... No working...

[burnt vapor]

What code did you use here?

[feral moon]

Maybe you can help me with this?

[feral moon]

When I'm using SetActive false is distancetext?

[naive pawn]

show the actual code you used

[feral moon]

https://hastebin.com/share/atacikebus.csharp

[sleek flare]

I'm trying to make a timer for a incremental game that will update the timer when the time is upgraded on it's own, will this work?
(Sorry for all the code questions, the class is still a complete mess as I'm not done creating everything needed inside ^^;)

public int x;
public float time;
public void Init(string[] args) {
    x = 0;
    time = 1;
    StartCoroutine(Tick(time, true));
}
    
public IEnumerator Tick(float time, bool run) {
    while(run) {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
        Console.WriteLine("Waiting: " + time);
        if(x == 10) UpdateTick(run);
        x = x + 1;
    }
}
    
public void UpdateTick(bool run) {
    run = false;
    time = 0.5;
    StartCoroutine(Tick(time, true));
}

[burnt vapor]

Can you try logging what visible and/or state gives as a value here?

They should be false

This way you can verify the code is reached and valid
https://unity.huh.how/debugging/logging/how-to

[naive pawn]

where's UpdateDistance called

[feral moon]

About this?

[burnt vapor]

Put a log message in them and see what the boolean's value is

[burnt vapor]

I don't see why this would not work. Did you try it?

There are better ways, but a coroutine generally gets the job done

[naive pawn]

run is local to Tick/UpdateTick. the assignment in UpdateTick does not affect the while in Tick.

you have an infinite loop.

[sleek flare]

Crap. Thank you, and Fuse, how would you do it then?

And the class is full of errors as I'm implementing too many things at once, so can't test it without removing a lot of half finished things ^^; Sorry

[naive pawn]

do you need to do something each time interval? if not, why not just wait 10 * time

[burnt vapor]

If this is supposed to be a timer that runs a certain amount of time, you could just keep a "target timestamp" variable and have an Update method check Time.time until it passed that timestamp. When that happened, call UpdateTick or whatever would invoke the behaviour after a timer and update the timestamp

The documentaiton of Time.time has a very good example

[naive pawn]

also x seems very weird there. it's never reset back to less than 10

so the if will only ever run once

i'd probably just opt for a for there instead of a while

oh also Console.WriteLine wouldn't work in unity.

[feral moon]

What should I do?

[naive pawn]

public IEnumerator Tick(float time, int cycles) {
  for (int i = 0; i < cycles; i++) {
    Debug.Log($"Waiting: {time} ({i})");
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
    // do per-tick thing
  }
  UpdateTick();
}

honestly UpdateTick might not even be necessary, you could just handle it all in a single loop

[sleek flare]

It's cause it was edited to work without context from the class.

Basically it's the game loop. This timer updates any changed strings, checks if things can be unlocked, does passive energy generation, handles updating the cost of the item when its bought.

[naive pawn]

wrong person lmao

[burnt vapor]

Ugh, this is why threads exist

public class Example : MonoBehaviour
{
    private float _nextTick = 0.0f;
    private float _interval = 5.0f;
  
    void Awake()
    {
        _nextTick = Time.time + _interval;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Time.time > _nextTick)
        {
            _nextTick = Time.time + _interval;

            // Put your logic here
        }
    }
}

Here's a basic example of how you can use Time.time here
@sleek flare

Preferably you would split this from the monobehaviour

[naive pawn]

a lot of stuff doesn't make sense without context. if you remove stuff, at least leave some comments so we know it's doing something lmao

[burnt vapor]

The convenient thing about this is also that you're not hard tied to an interval. If for some reason you want some sort of cooldown, you could just decrement the value of _nextTick instead of extra steps to get it working

And also, if you had to tie a visual indication of the time left, you can just get the difference _nextTick - Time.time and use the result in some progress bar for example

And lastly, if it matters to you, this is very multiplayer friendly since you just need to inform users of the next timestamp in most cases

[sleek flare]

It's unfinished, but heres the entire class. There are some references outside the class, but mostly its just actual objects assignments to variables.
https://pastebin.com/dHawze5S

[burnt vapor]

See the message I posted below them. I also linked a site explaining how to log values. You need to make sure the method is reached at all, and the boolean you pass truly set it to false

[sleek flare]

I will warn you I'm not too good, but I can generally bullshit my way through things ^^;

The timer basically just manages how often the different strings showing you information are updated, and how often you gain energy (by delay)

[naive pawn]

Round(((5*(tier+1))*((tier+1)*1.2)))
this could definitely be simplified

it's equivalent to (tier+1)*(tier+1)*6

or Mathf.Pow(tier+1, 2)*6

[sleek flare]

Yeah, it probably can be ^^; I was trying to make it exponentally grow, without it getting out of control ^^; This is what it was outputting in a older project

I'll try using the ones you suggest

[naive pawn]

i just reduced the expression you had

you have way too many parens there lol

[sleek flare]

Yeah

[naive pawn]

btw, exponential and quadratic are different

what you have there is quadratic

you might want to try something like Math.Pow(1.5, tier), for example (for exponential)

[sleek flare]

That's what I meant.. I think? I think I didn't do that one cause it grew out of control too quickly

[naive pawn]

if in doubt, try it on desmos first lol

[sleek flare]

Fair!

[naive pawn]

yeah exponential goes quite fast

exponential is a^x for some real a>1
quadratic is x^2

(of course with constants and lesser terms as desired)

[buoyant finch]

hello so my tilemap for solid objects has a composite collider with polygons but in some places polygons are not generated and my player doesn't collide with them pls help

[frigid sequoia]

Is there a way to like make that the logs just show the the last print for a source?

In like, not collapse all that are the same, cause they are showing updated data, I just wanna see just the most recent one

[rocky canyon]

    public static void ClearLogConsole()
    {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        System.Reflection.Assembly assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(UnityEditor.SceneView));
        System.Type type = assembly.GetType("UnityEditor.LogEntries");
        System.Reflection.MethodInfo method = type.GetMethod("Clear",System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public);
        method.Invoke(null,null);
#endif
    }```
```cs
ClearLogConsole();
Debug.Log("NewInformation);```

[swift crag]

I'm not aware of a way to remove just some items from the log

You may want to use OnGUI to display a value in the game view instead

[rocky canyon]

yea, me neither.. i wasnt even sure u could clear the console at all..

[swift crag]

If you want to display a variety of things, you can do something like this

[rocky canyon]

but someone figured it out.. and i had to try it for myself. but reflection..

https://discussions.unity.com/t/clear-console-through-code-in-development-build/87213/6
lol..

• but now its this
• oh they changed it to this
• in the newest versions this..
• etc

[swift crag]

public class DebugDisplay { 
  public event System.Action DrawDebug;

  void OnGUI() {
    GUILayout.BeginVertical();
    DrawDebug?.Invoke();
    GUILayout.EndVertical();
  }
}

Subscribe to DrawDebug and run more GUILayout methods in the subscribed methods

e.g. GUILayout.Label("Here is my value: " + value);

[rocky canyon]

now imma remove it b/c i dont like code messing with the unity editor assembs

[frigid sequoia]

Well, it would be amazingly usefull for a log like this

[rocky canyon]

that'd still show a nice countdown in the very lower left corner

[swift crag]

I created an IDebug interface that requires an IEnumerable<IDebug> method

the debug manager draws a checkbox every time you yield an IDebug and keeps track of which ones are enabled

[rocky canyon]

$"> {this.gameobject} is trying to attack from {Vector3.Distance..}; needs {stats.attackRange}"
why aren't u using string interpolation btw?

[rocky canyon]

this is neat.. i bet ur project is chockd full of nice utilities

i always see u mention them here and there

I plan on making another custom attrib today..
[DebugValue] private float ValueToWatch;
it'd make it read-only w/ a highlight in the inspector 🙂 🤞

[swift crag]

another useful bit:

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

namespace Pursuit.Singletons.Prefabs
{
    public class DebugDrawer : SingletonPrefab<DebugDrawer>
    {
        private readonly List<Action> actionList = new();
        private int lastFrame = -1;

        private void OnDrawGizmos()
        {
            foreach (Action action in actionList) action.Invoke();
        }

        [Conditional("UNITY_EDITOR")]
        public void RequestAction(Action action)
        {
            if (Time.frameCount != lastFrame)
            {
                actionList.Clear();
                lastFrame = Time.frameCount;
            }

            actionList.Add(action);
        }
    }
}

[rocky canyon]

or maybe a little icon next to it.. havent thought it all the way thru yet

[swift crag]

I used this while debugging a very nasty sub-frame problem

I was using something before it got updated, so I was off by a frame

I needed to be able to view the position of something at several points during the frame

so I couldn't just display it in OnDrawGizmos

[rocky canyon]

is this basically a in scene Toast type thing?

[frigid sequoia]

Well, I am getting this, and it's not as usefull as it could

[rocky canyon]

i've already shown u how u could clear the console b4 each log

[swift crag]

nah, it just delays drawing normal gizmos

[rocky canyon]

and fen gave alternatives too

[swift crag]

i do want to add a toast system

Something is creating script errors!

[rocky canyon]

thats been on my to-do list for so long

positioning is my main issue..

i can do it.. but it takes so much trial and error lol

[swift crag]

vertical layout group

[rocky canyon]

oh, i have an in-game one that uses a layout group..
but im talkin more of just a simple Debug type toast system. that would popup from the bottom..
stay a bit and then disappear

[swift crag]

tick "use child scale" to let them transition in and out too

[rocky canyon]

i'll see what i can't manage, i do feel like today should be an editor day 🙂

[buoyant finch]

hello so basically in my tilemap some tiles do not have polygons in composite collider 2d pls help someone

[rocky canyon]

you can manually add to or edit those colliders right?

[buoyant finch]

you can specify/edit the offsets manually too but it doesn't work they aren't generated

[rocky canyon]

ah, ok.. thats what i wasn't sure of..

can u show us a screenshot?

what is it ur generating? side/scroller?

[buoyant finch]

ye sure

[buoyant finch]

see that here I can walk through some tiles ignore that machine but can you see the player going through the boundaries cause no polygons were generated

[rocky canyon]

thats odd..

[buoyant finch]

yeah

[rocky canyon]

im curious.. can u quickly put the player beneath those bottom colliders and see if u can walk thru them the other direction?

[buoyant finch]

what?

[rocky canyon]

nvm..

do all the walls have the same Z position?

[buoyant finch]

yup as they all are part of same tilemap

[rocky canyon]

makes me wonder if the colliders on the bottom are inside out

if that makes sense..

[buoyant finch]

no see in that video the player can move both ways through them

[buoyant finch]

this one

[forest zodiac]

Any idea why my char isgrounded when on default unity plane with the whatisground layer but when on a cube created using probuilder isgrounded always returns false?

[rocky canyon]

does the probuilder cube have the same layer as the plane?

[forest zodiac]

yup

[rocky canyon]

my first two guesses would be..

• make sure the probuilder cube has a collider
• check the scales of the cube make sure its not weird. or inverted or something

then some follow ups would be.. does this issue happen with other probuilder shapes?

are there any errors in the console or anything that may be breaking the logic?

i use raycasts for my ground-check and it seems to be working fine with probuilder.. let me test again to make sur

[forest zodiac]

this is the cube

the console has no errors, let me try creating another probuilder shape real quick

[rocky canyon]

ya, probuilder cube seems to be detected by raycasts just fine

[rocky canyon]

im way outside my wheel-house w/ inputs but could u just use two different canvas objects?

[forest zodiac]

created another cube, same results but then i tried creating a custom shape and it worked as intended

[rocky canyon]

are u stretching the cube down into a plane?

might have something to do with the scaling, as i previously thought.. but then again im just spitballing

if it works for a plane, and works for some other shape, i think we can assume its not the logic..

[forest zodiac]

i do stretch it but not enough to be a plane i would say

[rocky canyon]

what happens if u toggle "Convex" on the collider?

[forest zodiac]

same results

[ashen frigate]

i made them both to be the child of the player input manager
https://paste.ofcode.org/EA4cdndipEqGgay5D7ytQS

[rocky canyon]

hmmm 🤔 i'd have to think/research a bit myself. im clueless as of now sorr

[rocky canyon]

hey, i just had an idea.. since its just a cube.. use a "BoxCollider" on it

instead of its default MeshCollider

ps. || learn blender, you won't regret it ||

[forest zodiac]

same results :/ that being said theres something i forgot to mention, if i move around im able to jump because for some reason in a few frames the isGrounded variable is set to true and quickly becomes false again so with good enough timing i can do a jump, if i stay still then it just remains false forever. Also heres the script in case it can help solve the issue https://paste.ofcode.org/GYj2M8KGkwnh99NPjg8vpp

[rocky canyon]

ahhh, that Does sound like logic problems

0.01f

[forest zodiac]

i just dont understand how it being a cube changes the outcome of the ray

[rocky canyon]

i think u should use more of a margin here

i use .2f

.01 sounds ridiculously small imo.. its probably just getting inconsistencies

[forest zodiac]

alright, let me try

same outcome, the reason why i changed it to begin with was to prevent a second jump before the capsule touched the ground

[rocky canyon]

ya, but i dont think .01 would be enough..
especially if ur using something like a CharacterController..

like here, when u start the game.. it sorta hovers a bit.. gotta compensate for that.. either w/ a longer raycast or a smaller Skin thickness

that being said.. if ur having issues w/ the raycast i would either

• use gizmo's to visualize ur raycast so ur not just doing guesswork.. or
• use alternatives such as SphereCast, Overlapsphere, CheckSphere, etc

theres soo many different ways to do ground checks i couldn't even think of em all

[forest zodiac]

yea ill try the gizmos, was looking for a way to visualize it but couldnt quite get there until i saw your code snippet

[rocky canyon]

a raycast is probably the least Accurate imo

[forest zodiac]

what would you recommend instead

[rocky canyon]

b/c theres times when u'd need to compensate. like on a slope for example.. u'd need to cast farther than u would if u were standing flat

i like to use raycasts.. but i use an Array of them.. making a circle around the bottom of the player

i see lots of ppl using OverlapSphere tho

[rocky canyon]

is this a CC or a RB?

[forest zodiac]

im afraid im not cool enough to know what those stand for 😔

[rocky canyon]

rigidbody or character controller

[forest zodiac]

rigidbody

[rocky canyon]

the reason i asked is because a character controller comes w/ a built-in groundcheck already

[forest zodiac]

oh, interesting

[rocky canyon]

Rigibodies are more powerful but harder to work w/

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131?srsltid=AfmBOootOYuHIkdsqnE7PhLFvZ4zGUrTRFqoRYJuPqdLmU5GA-EFdZbz

a kinematic rigidbody imo is the best of the best

i used this one while i was learning.. that way i could focus on other things..

just mentioning.. not suggesting u use a third-party one if u really wanna build ur own..

but a Controller is a very important step.. and they take time to get right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxCVHBMdTWo&t=36s heres a decent video that kinda goes over different methods

then u can figure out which one u want.. and search up better sources

[forest zodiac]

thanks for letting me know, ill check it out and then decide from there

[rocky canyon]

good luck mate.. come back if u still struggling afterwards

[rocky canyon]

https://medium.com/ironequal/unity-character-controller-vs-rigidbody-a1e243591483
one last resource.. heres a guide that tells u what each mean Rigidbody or CharacterController.. they both come with pro's and cons

[forest zodiac]

awesome, thanks 👍

[timber tide]

CC is pretty bad ;)

kinematic rigidbody if you want custom physics without being bound to a single collider type

The selling point on that site is that it does decent climb detection for stairs, but the sloping is half-arsed

[rocky canyon]

yessir..

always need fine-tuning those slopes

[timber tide]

I just hate the capsule collider as a character body because it will slowly creep off ledges

[rocky canyon]

lol.. funny u say that.. that was the most challenging thing I did..

i now have logic that kinda shoves u off the side when u get too close to it

LedgeSlip.cs

[timber tide]

lol yeah im bias on that. I mean it's done for you with CC but if you wanted a bit more control just do rigidbody kinematic

CC is meant to provide some template to use for custom physics, but even the template itself isn't always the behaviour you want

[rocky canyon]

facts.. I use this one..

purchased it before the KCC was as popular as it is now

i dont even remember seeing the KCC until way after

[timber tide]

it really should have a set of behaviours for things like slopes and stuff like moving platforms if it wants any sort of identity

[rocky canyon]

i dont understand why they havent done something like this for the CC yet

slopes
a better groundcheck
and moving platforms would make it much more approachable

[timber tide]

Probably just expect people to use KCC, but I feel like they should change all the Unity templates over to using it instead

[ripe shard]

Explaining KCC is not as easy. And the example controller is just that, an example.

[rocky canyon]

ya, i always try to explain "if u just want a controller to focus on other things" when i suggest it

its definitely not for the faint of heart.. pretty involved when u peep at the code 😄

[timber tide]

The CC examples I feel are just as verbose as KCC

but there isn't really a general abstracted version of KCC so you may need to decouple some of the logic

[lament harness]

hi im trying to drag a sprite in and it keeps trying to save a new animation for some reason

what am i doing wrong

[rapid laurel]

Anyone knows how to make a character jump? in 2d i made this code but it doesnt work

public Rigidbody2D rbd;
public float force;
void Start()
{
    
}

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)) { 
        rbd.AddForce(Vector2.up * force, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
    }
}

}

[rich adder]

didyou put script on gameobject ?

also !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[rocky canyon]

might wanna use another key to test ur jump..

everytime u try to jump ur gonna unfocus the game-window

[rapid laurel]

yess

[rich adder]

o ya why tf is it Escape lol

[rapid laurel]

ok ill tryy

oh waitt

im stupid

thougth it was space

HAHAHA

thanks guys

[rocky canyon]

u tripppin me out lmao

[lament harness]

how do i drag and drop a sprite without it trying to make a new animation

[rocky canyon]

u click the little arrow to open up the sprite sheet..

select (1) of those and drag it in

or just create empty gameobject -> add a sprite renderer and add the sprite to that

[lament harness]

is this only in new version cus why can the guy im following just drag and drop the whole thing in

[rocky canyon]

if its a single sprite.. u can do it that way

if its a sprite sheet w/ multiple sprites.. it assumes ur trying to make an animation w/ all of them

[lament harness]

maybe this guy cut it up

for us

to use

o nvm

nvm idk

[rocky canyon]

when u select something check the inspector..

one says "Sprite" one says "Texture2D"

[lament harness]

ye

[crisp moon]

whats a good way to come up with a game ideas as a beginner?

[rich adder]

try to mash 2 already existing games/mechanic together , stuff like that maybe

[rocky canyon]

just start building stuff.. find the fun... then iterate on that

[rich adder]

eg , what happens if you add guns to a game like flappy bird , besides pipes maybe add turrets and stuff you can shoot around

[crisp moon]

that reminds me of a game dougdoug made where he adds a gun to snake. you all probably dont know who im talking about... anyways some how my brain now wants to make a zombie type shooter game.

[rich adder]

oh yeah that sounds good too. zombie games are always fun (to me at least)

[crisp moon]

i could add levels and other stuff i suppose.

[ashen frigate]

can i get help ?

[rich adder]

maybe?

[ashen frigate]

could you help me fix it ?

@rich adder

[rich adder]

I'm still new to new InputSystem, not even sure what to look for lol
my virtual cursors were always virtualCursor.position = mouseWorldPos

[ashen frigate]

im tying to do double cursor for 2 controlers

so they could pick 2 bottons in the same time

[rich adder]

where is the instantiating part

[ashen frigate]

instantiating?

what do you mean by instantiating

[rich adder]

idk how are the cursors spawning ?

[ashen frigate]

im using player input manager

with triger input its spawn a clone prefab

[rich adder]

no idea sorry, I don't know enough about InputSystem yet to know how virtual cursors work

[ashen frigate]

tnx anyway

[echo kite]

https://pastebin.com/Wi566wSE

[echo kite]

@naive pawn

[rapid laurel]

how do i move a canvas?, my rect transform have everything blocked

[rich adder]

You don't

[naive pawn]

right, so start debugging
check if shootingDirection is consistent, if not, check if the ray in CalculateDirectionAndSpread is correct

[forest zodiac]

@rocky canyon i checked out more about the different ways to implement movement in unity and ended up choosing a dynamic rigidbody, i ended up fixing the previous bug and now the groundchecks are flawless, thanks for the guidance 👍

[rocky canyon]

np.. good luck on ur journey 🙂

[grave rain]

Are you familiar with how to add a breakpoint and all that good stuff?

[echo kite]

no

[grave rain]

You click on the left hand side of the numbers in VS, and it adds a red circle

this makes it into a break point

This means when you press play, and Unity hits that line of code, it will stop the game and it should show yout he state of said code

During that time, you can also right click your variable and add it to a "Watchlist" - and when you do add it to a watchlist, you'll see it in your Watchlist directory

what you're looking for here is to see if your enum, ShootingMode is always the sameShootingMode

Now - if you don't feel like doing all that, you can also put in a Debug.Log($"My Enum mode is {ShootingMode}");

[grave rain]

That is not where you put a line of code in a class.

[grand snow]

Haha shouldn't have said that

[grave rain]

That is a basic C# programming 101 know-how

[grave rain]

Yeah I'm starting to think Sani is a troll.

[echo kite]

i have never done debugging

[grave rain]

Knowing where you write a line of C# code in an existing script is not part of Debugging

[grand snow]

Here ya go
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/managed-code-debugging.html

[echo kite]

thats where u write code

[grave rain]

C# has a structure to it. Do you know it?

[echo kite]

i never needed it

[naive pawn]

you don't write statements outside of classes in c#

[grave rain]

I'm sure you didn't since you are used to Roblox. but Unity is not Roblox. You DO need to know C# if you intend to use Unity

well - intend to use it without trouble anyway

[echo kite]

i told u i never needed it

in unity

[naive pawn]

you need it now

[grave rain]

How many games have you made with Unity??

[unreal sluice]

Why you guys be so hostile, teach him

[echo kite]

1 and this

[naive pawn]

buddy you gotta stop being overconfident

[unreal sluice]

💀

[grave rain]

We're trying. But he's saying he doesn't need to learn Unity Learn or anything because he knows Unity VERY well. But then he doesn't actually know it and it's making it hard.

He basically needs to 100% hand holding

[naive pawn]

your stubbornness to learn is gonna get you nowhere

[grave rain]

yep

[grave rain]

alright well - anybody working with Unity in the long run will require C#. There's no way around it. Unless you hire a programmer of course.

But if you intend to do it yourself, you're going to need to learn it. That's where UnityLearn will come in

[echo kite]

i know that it needs c#

i learn c#

[grave rain]

Yes. And you need to learn C# and how to use it

[grave rain]

Okay go learn it

[echo kite]

by the time i do that u will leave

[naive pawn]

it really doesn't take long

it just takes effort and willingness

[grave rain]

heh. Well you don't learn C# in a single day. And also - that's just how Discord works.

That's why I am strongly encouraging you to go to Unity Learn. It's always there. So no matter who is on the server or not, you'll have a resource.

[echo kite]

i dont need unity learn

[naive pawn]

you do

everyone here has gone through it

it's a great resource

[grave rain]

So your plan is to just have us answer every question and fix every problem for you?

[dusky bough]

i am new to making 3d games, and i cant get my movent system working, can someone help?

[echo kite]

i encounter those rarely

[naive pawn]

buddy, we're not gonna cater to every tiny question when you lack basic knowledge

you misidentified gameobjects just earlier

go do fundamentals

if not to learn, to at least communciate effectively

[echo kite]

wym

[naive pawn]

you said you had multiple "same" gameobjects when you clearly did not

[echo kite]

copied

cloned is same

[naive pawn]

they are not the same game object

they are instantiated from the same one, but they aren't themselves, the same gameobject

that's simply just a misunderstanding you have

[grave rain]

yeah sani look - at this point I can't help you because you don't want to actualyl listen to our advice.

I will help you when you go through the lessons on Unity Learn. OR - I will help you if you pay me money to tutor you one on one (which I doubt you want to pay).

So at this point I'll wish you good luck, since you're too stubborn to actually learn

[echo kite]

they have exact same mesh and stuff it didnt make any sense to me use layered collision at that situation

when i did it it didnt work

[naive pawn]

I don't mean to belittle you, I'm trying to make you realize something here.
You've consistently showed a lack of understanding of some fundamentals.
Your lack of knowledge of those fundamentals causes problems in you communicating issues to us, and us communciating solutions to you.

You simply don't know as much as you think you know. You're way too overconfident.

[dusky bough]

can someone pls help with my movement system, i am very new with 3d games

[echo kite]

i understood what those were

[naive pawn]

clearly not, when you refused to use them

You've denied various very useful resources. If you're not willing to accept our help, we can't help you.

that's all.

[echo kite]

when

[naive pawn]

#💻┃unity-talk message

and the various denial of physics layers because they were the same object

[naive pawn]

!ask

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

we can't help you if we don't know what your specific problem is

[echo kite]

hes not gonna find anything on google search and understand it

also how do i fix my problem

[dusky bough]

i dont have time now, gtg, but can reach out to you when i know?

[naive pawn]

just ask here

[dusky bough]

ok

[rocky canyon]

feel free.. meet us half way and we're all willin to help

[naive pawn]

you have not debugged the values i told you to debug

[echo kite]

where do i write that code

Debug.Log($"My Enum mode is {ShootingMode}");

[naive pawn]

• where it's used
• that's not the value i told you to debug

[echo kite]

u never told me what to debug

only him

[naive pawn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[echo kite]

and how do i check that

[naive pawn]

log them right after you calculate them

[echo kite]

in command window?

how do i do it

[echo kite]

was i supposed to put it in command window

[grave rain]

No it has nothing to do with command

[echo kite]

then where?

[grave rain]

You have to go back and learn the basics of C# before you can continue your endeavor

[naive pawn]

in your code. Debug.Log is a function

[echo kite]

i dont think that it even mentions debugging

[naive pawn]

because debugging is a skill, a programming concept, not a c# concept

[echo kite]

then how am i supposed to know it

[grave rain]

well - I'm telling you to write a single line of code, and you don't know where any lines of code should go becuase you don't know the C# structure to a class

[grave rain]

You go to Unity Learn

[naive pawn]

where do you put code

if you understood c# structure, you should be able to answer that

[naive pawn]

let me be more specific; where do you put statements

[echo kite]

idk

where do i

[grave rain]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer

this unity learn is specific to the C# side

[severe onyx]

Folks, does anyone have any idea why sometimes a game object isn't properly destroyed via Destroy(gameObject)

[echo kite]

can u not answer normally

[grave rain]

someties it's because I was referencing the wrong gameobject to destroy

[naive pawn]

inside methods, properties, lambdas, constructors, and static blocks
now which one of those do you have in your code

[severe onyx]

It seems really random. I was calling the function to do this within an animation clip originally so I thought that was just unreliable

[grave rain]

I will note give you the exact answer, because there's too much you don't know. If you want me to literally do the code for you, you'd have to pay me.

otherwise, go through the tutorials here. These are specific to C# (not all of Unity) https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer

[naive pawn]

you gotta be more specific than that
if you called it correctly on the right object from the main thread it should Just Work™️ as it's supposed to

[echo kite]

couldnt u say that from start

[severe onyx]

This function lives on the GameObject that's to be destroyed itself

[night mural]

are you running into the delay? from the docs:

The object obj is destroyed immediately after the current Update loop, or t seconds from now if a time is specified. If obj is a Component, this method removes the component from the GameObject and destroys it. If obj is a GameObject, it destroys the GameObject, all its components and all transform children of the GameObject. Actual object destruction is always delayed until after the current Update loop, but is always done before rendering.

your object will still exist immeidately after calling Destroy() until the end of the frame

[severe onyx]

Interesting

[grave rain]

you might require a this.gameObject to help point it to the proper object in question. You also have to make sure you're not destroyign the component

[night mural]

you can use DestroyImmediate if you need to do it immediately

[severe onyx]

I mean it already works 95% of the time

[echo kite]

but what do i write to debug it

[severe onyx]

I'll have some food and then revisit the code to test some fixes

[naive pawn]

if you knew c# you wouldve known already

[swift crag]

If A checks B every frame and B destroys itself at some point, the results will depend on execution order

if A does the check after B calls Destroy on itself, then it'll see B as still existing

[echo kite]

i thought u were asking different thing

[severe onyx]

B checks on B in its FixedUpdate

[swift crag]

(even though B already called Destroy on itself)

Ah, fixed updates do not line up with frames

Unity runs the FixedUpdate messages zero or more times at the start of the frame, before Update

[severe onyx]

Changing it to just Update was the first thing I was gonna try

But I still don't understand how it's causing the object to be around forever

[echo kite]

what do i write to debug

[static estuary]

There are 3 debug genders:
Debug.Log("this is some text. hi!"); Debug.LogWarning("this message has the warning icon"); Debug.LogError("something broke in your game. here is a red error.");

[echo kite]

i dont even know what im debugging

[static estuary]

what are u building?

[echo kite]

and what do i write that in

[static estuary]

I see

[echo kite]

it shoots backwards when i go backwards

[naive pawn]

to debug some variable a, you log the value of that variable around where the use site is

[static estuary]

there's many things that could cause that.

[naive pawn]

ive told you what variables to debug

[static estuary]

yes for example Debug.Log("The value is" + a);

with a being your variable

[naive pawn]

prefer interpolated strings over concatenation

[static estuary]

.tostring?

[naive pawn]

$"text {variable} more text {other variable}" etc

.ToString is called stringification

[static estuary]

Oh ok, sorry I'm not familiar with it

[whole ivy]

can someone help me with something?

[grave rain]

ask your question

[echo kite]

Debug.Log("The value is" + shooting direction);?

[whole ivy]

How would I get the variable isPressed from a script in gameobject ButtonU from a script inside the player?

[grave rain]

New Unity Input system?

[whole ivy]

wym

[static estuary]

variables with spaces arent accepted. check your variable in your script and then you'll be ready to go 🙂

[grave rain]

there are two unity input sytsems - We'd have to know which one you're using. If you're using 2.0 you probably had to go through some package hijinx and a restart of Unty

[whole ivy]

i dont think im using the new one

prob the old one

[static estuary]

@echo kite I can't rly see what part of the weapon is causing the shoot direction problem

[echo kite]

i dont think i have shootingDirection in variables tho

[echo kite]

thats why im asking

[grave rain]

Okay so what I think you're doing - you hover over a button. Press down - adn you want to confirm if the mouse button was indeed pressed? or youw ant to confirm WHICH UI button you pressed

[echo kite]

i thought bullet hit another one and it ricocheted but i couldnt fix it using collision groups

[static estuary]

sorry, ask someone else because I don't know how to fix. I've seen the script

what if you comment out the recoil parts of your script?

`IEnumerator ShootGun()
{
//DetermineRecoil();
StartCoroutine(MuzzleFlash());

    yield return new WaitForSeconds(fireRate);
    _canShoot = true;
}`

Just to see what happens

[ashen frigate]

why its black
https://prnt.sc/Yr3VOJPOhRdH

[naive pawn]

isn't white full alpha

can you click that color inspector

[whole ivy]

the button already works and it has a variaable named isPressed that says if it is pressed or not, but i do not know how to reference that variable in my player script (to make it move with the buttons as well as wasd)

[ashen frigate]

color inspector ?

it was red amoment ago

[grave rain]

okay silly question - why does your Player script need to know if the button was pressed?

[naive pawn]

@ashen frigate not a code question, let's continue in #💻┃unity-talk (just realized now, sorry.)

[ashen frigate]

ohh sry

[whole ivy]

so that it can move the player properly

[grave rain]

ahh so it's a UI that you click, and if it clicks, it tells the player to move up or down or left?

[whole ivy]

that is what i was hoping, i already ahve the player script written that works with wasd, so i was hoping i could just access the bool from the ui button

[grave rain]

there's a coupel ways to do this, but simplest is this

[grave rain]

In the UI inspector, add your player to the OnClick slot. Then tell it to fire a "move up" function in the funtion drop-down

[whole ivy]

thanks ill try that

[grave rain]

also - as you learn to code, you're going to learn about singleton's. It's not bad to have a GameManager as a singleton in the future, though many might disagree.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, no problem. You'll get there soion

[whole ivy]

how would i find the function in the dropdown?

[astral falcon]

you drag the script on it or select the script class name

[whole ivy]

i think i found it

[grave rain]

so that dropdown only works with functions that are public. Make sure your function to move forward is public

[astral falcon]

yep

[spiral narwhal]

It seems to be a Unity API error, right?

It refers to this code

        public static T[] LoadAll(string label)
        {
            T[] res = null;
            Addressables.LoadAssetsAsync<T>(label, null).Completed += handle =>
            {
                if (handle.Status == AsyncOperationStatus.Succeeded) res = handle.Result.ToArray();
                Debug.LogError($"Could not load '{typeof(T)}'. Do the references exist?");
            };
            return res;
        }

[whole ivy]

I tried to make the function work, but wasd applies the moveInput variable, and my button doesn't. How can I make my button function work with the moveInput variable?

[grave rain]

what's the script you're using to make wasd work? Paste it into a code paste bin

[whole ivy]

oops dyno

[whole ivy]

https://pastebin.com/6PLY5N6K

that is the update function that moves it

[grave rain]

Ahh right now it's programmed to only work with your keyboard. if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))

[whole ivy]

yeah, but right now i just want to start with making the up button work

public void MoveUp()
    {
        playerAnim.Play("playerWalkD");
        direction = 0;
    }

this function works but it doesnt move the player (i need to set the moveinput)

[astral falcon]

But the moveinput probably gets overridden by your inputs?

so no matter what you do with your button, update will override it

[whole ivy]

Moveinput is created by my inputs

and modified by my inputs

i was thinking if i could set moveinput with the button

[grave rain]

I'm trying to think about the best way to do it, but you really only gave me part of the script. Is this the entire player script?

[whole ivy]

no but that is the movement part of it

[grave rain]

Let me see all of it

[whole ivy]

https://pastebin.com/D8nCjBKt

[astral falcon]

if you want to detach it from inputs but move it by buttons, you can just create a method that sets movement vectors and then decrease them on update or whatever you want your game to behave like

[grave rain]

Okay a couple thing.s Do put not these in your Update

            rb2d.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints2D.None;
            rb2d.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezeRotation;

You should put these in your Start method. Fidn them once and done. Right now you have them repeatedly looking for the same things over and over again when it should be a once and done

Same thing for your moveInput, etc

find them once and be done

[whole ivy]

Alright, I put those in my start method

[grave rain]

and in your Move() you probably want to set your moveInput.y to 1, and that SHOULD drive it upwards.

however, that will only ever move it up

[whole ivy]

it seems that the function only happens when the button is released, but it needs to happen repeatedly while the button is pressed

[grave rain]

okay well , you can maken five public void functions, one for each movement, and then one for StopMoving. In those functions, you'll assign your move inputs accordingly. moveInput.y =1, or -1. etc.

I also realized I might ahve guided you wrong (my pardons). You do want to get your GetAxisRaw fucntions in Update, because we want to check every frame from movement. So you'll put this back in Update()

Vector2.zero;

        // Check keyboard input
        if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") != 0)
        {
            moveInput.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        }
        if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical") != 0)
        {
            moveInput.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        

Again, sorry about that...
Recommend you use moveInput.Normalize() to keep the movement normalized

[grave rain]

Here's a reworking. I was pretty quick about it, so as you look through it pay attention. https://pastebin.com/j7pDUu0M See if this makes sense and helps

[whole ivy]

With that script, the button doesn't work. I have the button working, but I don't stop moving in that direction. Additionally, it only happens after I release holding the button instead of when it is pressed down.

[grave rain]

I see. I'll have to think about it 🤔

[mystic lark]

Is there a way i can find out what direction/point im looking at? like when im shoothing that i shoot in the derction the player is looking

[slender nymph]

is this 2d or 3d

[mystic lark]

3d

[slender nymph]

presumably the direction the player is looking at is the camera's forward direction so you can just use that

[mystic lark]

yea thanks and woud that be the point im looking at or just a direction lik z x

[grave rain]

Okay you can try something like this script: https://hastebin.skyra.pw/iwijiruder.csharp

In this case, you will add it to your UI button. You will tell it what direction that button is supposed to correspond too - whehter it's left, right down, etc. When the button is pressed, it will use the enum int to tell your player the direction is 0, or 2, or whatever.

[mystic lark]

cuz what if my camera is looking bettwen x & z?

[slender nymph]

that would be the direction it is looking

[mystic lark]

ill try it thanks

[grave rain]

You will update your player script to have a public function with an input parameter of int. And in theory this SHOULD send a signal from yoru btuton to your player to move left or right, etc

[whole ivy]

Alr, ty for the help.

[grave rain]

Hope it works!

[vocal wing]

can someone explain me why I can't move with this code in a 2D object?

public class PlayerMovement2D : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody2D Movement_For_Game;
    public float moveSpeed = 6f;

    private Vector2 movement;

    void Update()
    {

        movement.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        movement.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {

        Vector2 velocity = new Vector2(movement.x * moveSpeed, Movement_For_Game.velocity.y); // Somente altera o eixo X
        Movement_For_Game.velocity = velocity;
    }
}```

[slender nymph]

any errors in the console?

[vocal wing]

nop

[slender nymph]

is the component actually attached to an object in the scene

[vocal wing]

actually when I used debug.log it said that it moved but in the screen it was the same

[vocal wing]

yes

[slender nymph]

show the rigidbody

[vocal wing]

this?

[naive pawn]

it's not simulated

you probably accidentally unticked that box

[vocal wing]

ty

that's true ty so much

[late abyss]

Guess who finally got their audio source problems fixed with their flappy bird game?

[unreal sluice]

how do i fix my objects pivot? Or is it about pivot, whenever i call Transform.position its offset and adding box collider is offset too even tho its centered to 0,0,0

[rich adder]

not a code question

also you should show the hierarchy when showing such screenshots

[unreal sluice]

Well i dont see any other channel that could fit for this question

[cerulean badger]

Does the learn website from unity have 2D tutorials? I've searched quite a bit but only found 3D stuff

[rich adder]

did you read the channel descriptions ?

[rich adder]

yes

almost everything 3D translates to 2D the same, Unity is a 3d Engine

all that changes is the physics api, and the difference is simply adding 2D at end eg (Rigidbody vs Rigidbody2D)

[cerulean badger]

Ok then, ty

[ashen frigate]

how can i fix it so it will highlight the button ?|
https://paste.ofcode.org/34vz9Zd5NRThSG7G2hkvmCt

[rocky canyon]

is the mouse graphic blocking it..

[ashen frigate]

mouse grahic ?

[rocky canyon]

the sprite.

[ashen frigate]

the raycast target is off

on the img

https://prnt.sc/ZVSAnIrS8eXH

[rocky canyon]

oh, well that was my guess.. hmm

is the actual mouse position the same as the glove cursor..

couldnt u keep it visible during the development of it

[ashen frigate]

anchor is top left

[rocky canyon]

just for sanity sake.. lol i couldnt think of anything

[ashen frigate]

couldnt u keep it visible during the development of it what do you mean like how ?

[lament harness]

Can someone tell me why this doesnt work, Im trying to make it play a jump animation when space is pressed and its not touching the ground layer

     if (value.isPressed && myCapsuleCollider.IsTouchingLayers(LayerMask.GetMask("Ground")))
     {
         myrigidbody.linearVelocity += new Vector2(0f, jumpSpeed);
         myAnimator.SetBool("isJumping", !myCapsuleCollider.IsTouchingLayers(LayerMask.GetMask("Ground")));```

[rich adder]

start by putting logs

[lament harness]

debug log?

[rich adder]

yup

[lament harness]

ye i did it and its printing

[rich adder]

where did you put it

[lament harness]

at the end

[rich adder]

the end ?

[lament harness]

behind
myAnimator.SetBool("isJumping", !myCapsuleCollider.IsTouchingLayers(LayerMask.GetMask("Ground")))

[rich adder]

I meant log something useful

[lament harness]

idk what to do

[rich adder]

log for example !myCapsuleCollider.IsTouchingLayers(LayerMask.GetMask("Ground") in sepearte var

[rich adder]

verify that the conditions which you have placed are being fulfilled or what you expect them to be

[lament harness]

ok i made a variable
bool isGrounded;

and put it in debug.log( isGrounded = myCapsuleCollider.IsTouchingLayers(LayerMask.GetMask("Ground")))

its returning true every time i press jump for some reason

[rich adder]

I would rewrite this groundcheck with a proper physics query

you want your player grounded if its face or chest touches side of a wall ?

[lament harness]

no only when its feet are on the floor

its like 2d platformer

[rich adder]

yes but do you know what IsTouchingLayers does?

[lament harness]

doesnt it just return true if its touching the layer i specified?

[rich adder]

it should, but it doesn't care if its feet or some other part

[lament harness]

yeah i know what u mean

its just the collider

but why does it only return true when i press space

[rich adder]

does it jump?

[lament harness]

yeah

[rich adder]

is it not touching ground layers mid air

[lament harness]

i only set my platform tile map to the layer "ground" so i dont think so

[rich adder]

so shouldn't it be true ?

[lament harness]

wdym

[rich adder]

if myCapsuleCollider not touching ground, is true

if it entered the jump then IsTouchingLayers = true. then it becomes false according to you

[lament harness]

i thought it would return false whenever i jumped since its not touching the layer anymore

[lament harness]

oh

u saying istouchinglayer returns true if its not touching the ground?

[rich adder]

yeah you wrote ! NOT

[lament harness]

i thought they meant the same thing

[rich adder]

NOT false is true

[lament harness]

ye

that was written in the bool part of the animation

so when its false and ur not touching the floor

u play the anim so it changes it to true using !

right

[grave rain]

I hate it when I troll myself with things like that

[rich adder]

IsTouchingLayers becomes false but you wrote ! so its sending the Animator a true bool

[lament harness]

yes isnt that what i want

though

because i want the jump animation to start playing when im not touching the floor

but it just never plays ever

[west radish]

From: https://github.com/robatwilliams/decent-code?tab=readme-ov-file#naming-things

Use positive names for Booleans, and avoid negation within the name. Negative names cause double negatives, which make expressions harder to grasp (consider enabled: true vs. disabled: false). Using the word "not" has the same issue.

[rich adder]

how did you setup the actual transitions

[lament harness]

wait

[rich adder]

no i mean the inspector Idle to Jump

[lament harness]

maybe

its because of the exit time

or transition

duration

[rich adder]

if you don't show how can we know

ow ow ow

[lament harness]

sorry i was changing it

let me try

nvm still doeesnt work

[rich adder]

what about Jump to Idle ?

[rich adder]

no exit time?

anyway keep animator window open, select your object with the animator during playmode, see whats happening in the transitions / parameters for animator

[lament harness]

yea ive been looking at this

it never even transitions to jumping

[rich adder]

what about the bool?

[lament harness]

the checkmark beside the parameter isJumping doesnt get ticked

[rich adder]

at all ? sometimes its really quick

make sure you have the correct animator referenced

[lament harness]

not at all even when i set my jump height to like 100 and stay in the air for ages it doesnt trigger

[lament harness]

what does this mean

oh

[rich adder]

myAnimator how do you assign it

[lament harness]

Animator myAnimator
and
myAnimator = GetComponent<Animator>();

[rich adder]

ok so the script is on the same object that has this animator you shown?

[lament harness]

yeah because i have a run and idle animation aswell

which work fine

[rich adder]

alr most likely its that jank property, I never used it so no idea if its just going true or not

but you said log said true

[lament harness]

only when i pressed space yeah

[rich adder]

just use a raycast maybe? lol

[rich adder]

you can debug the value over multiple frames maybe to see whats happening

you should store values anyway

[lament harness]

im just gonna mvoe on from this , i just tried to implement jump anim for fun when watching a tutorial and he didnt do it

[rich adder]

btw did you try putting the exit time on return from Jump to Idle

[lament harness]

im ngl i have no idea what exit time does

but it did have exit time before i changed it

[rich adder]

it waits the clip to finish playing before transitioning to the next state

[lament harness]

i turned it to 0.3 seconds for jump to idle i dont think it did anything

cus it never even goes to

jump

i can make it jump if i change some conditions so i think its something wrong with my true and falses

if i change myAnimator.SetBool("isJumping", !myCapsuleCollider.IsTouchingLayers(LayerMask.GetMask("Ground")));

and remove the !, it never stops jumping

[rich adder]

that means then its touching layers

or the bool stayed true

[lament harness]

but how

[lament harness]

yea

[rich adder]

idk but Id read this maybe its important..

It is important to understand that checking if colliders are touching or not is performed against the last physics system update i.e. the state of touching colliders at that time. If you have just added a new Collider2D or have moved a Collider2D but a physics update has not yet taken place then the colliders will not be shown as touching. The touching state is identical to that indicated by the physics collision or trigger callbacks.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider2D.IsTouchingLayers.html

[lament harness]

i think it just stays true

[rich adder]

btw why not just make the jump a trigger instead of bool

[lament harness]

thats y i was confused why it kept returning true whenever i pressed space

[lament harness]

wdym

[rich adder]

if you use a trigger you don't even need a bool

anim.SetTrigger("Jump")

[lament harness]

ive never used that

[rich adder]

bool is useful if you have Falling / or different animation while in air not grounded

[lament harness]

oh

[rich adder]

usually jump is a one time thing

mine typically go
Jump => Falling => Landed

Falling is only isGrounded = false

once it goes to true it plays landed animation / state

[lament harness]

i was planning to make double jump cus there was a double jump animation

[rich adder]

thats fine but still

I would use a better grounded check method

[lament harness]

ok

ill try follow a tut online bc i dotn know any other ground check methods

[rich adder]

are you doing 2D or 3D?

[lament harness]

2d

platformer

[rich adder]

the most common ones are usually Raycast and such

[lament harness]

ok ill see what that is

[rich adder]

imagine a laser that can hit colliders

Vector3 origin = transform.position + offset;
isGrounded = Physics2D.Raycast(origin , Vector2.down, dist, layers))

[lament harness]

i just watched a video on blackthornprod

he uses

[rich adder]

yeah overlap circle is good actually

[lament harness]

this guy didnt even explain tho

[ruby steppe]

I JUST WANT THE DARN CAMERA TO FOLLOW THE MOUSE AND ITS GIVING ME AN ERROR 😭😭😭

[rich adder]

better fits a capsule

[rich adder]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[slender nymph]

also !code
https://screenshot.help
and https://unity.huh.how/mouse-input-and-deltatime

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[rich adder]

@ruby steppe you got some homework todo ✍️

[ruby steppe]

B-but.. where is the error

[slender nymph]

configure your IDE before you can get help

[keen owl]

Just curious, why lock the cursor position if you want it to follow the cursor?

[slender nymph]

it's first person view code, they want to rotate the camera by moving the mouse. they just worded it poorly

[ruby steppe]

Someone help me out 😔

[keen owl]

Do what they requested

[slender nymph]

have you configured your IDE yet? that is a requirement to receive help here

#854851968446365696

[ruby steppe]

I will see myself out to download my IDE
😶

[slender nymph]

you have an IDE downloaded, you need to configure it

[rich adder]

You already have IDE

[slender nymph]

keep the reaction image spam out of here

[frosty hound]

@ruby steppe You can stop now

[ruby steppe]

What did i do ☹️

[frosty hound]

There are no memes allowed here. Thanks.

[visual linden]

I think you just need to brush up on the rules. They're very strict on those here.

[ruby steppe]

I gotta be an intellectual being?? 😔

Jk i am but i suck at csharp..

[visual linden]

Sadly, thats rule #17

[rich adder]

You need to be able to just follow instructions

[ruby steppe]

I know java and python

[visual linden]

Lets be realistic here

[slender nymph]

if you know java then surely you know how to solve a null reference exception. unless of course you "know" java by having just written Hello World

[keen owl]

This is a dev server specifically for unity and a little of C#, so anything outside that scope probably goes against their rules. Also, java is pretty transferable to C# I heard

[ruby steppe]

But unity script? Im cooked, fried, boiled, sautéed, reverse seared etc..

[timber tide]

Java is 100% transferable

better yet, forget Java entirely

c# is just better

[visual linden]

I think our default response to someone not having read the rules (because let's be real, who does), should be to let them known they're breaking the rules and gently incourage them to have another look at them.

[void thicket]

But can you make 2 + 2 to 5 in C#

There was Java cursed code that can do it

[rich adder]

Unity is nothing more than an API. The c# is normal Microsoft Java

[keen owl]

I think java is only better for android but C# overall better

[slender nymph]

public static class Sum
{
  public static int Add(int a, int b) => 5;
}

Sum.Add(2,2);

ez

[rich adder]

You mean kotlin lol @keen owl

[slender nymph]

and yes, i know this isn't the same thing lol

[keen owl]

Yes and java too

[ruby steppe]

Im not built for coding 😔 time to keep studying math 😔

[keen owl]

Kotlin is more modern ig, so yeah

[slender nymph]

can you quit the nonsense spamming and go configure your IDE

[ruby steppe]

How 🤔

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

Links to instructions

[ruby steppe]

Alr yall leaving the server now

See ya

[swift crag]

i remember doing this once

[rapid nexus]

Hey guys, got a dumb question. When I use get axis to get the input it doesnt set the value to 1, instead it gradually increases from 0. This leads my character to take a second before stopping. I dont remember this being a problem before, any ideas?

[slender nymph]

GetAxis includes input smoothing, if you want values that are just -1,0,1 for digital input then use GetAxisRaw

[rapid nexus]

This proble has been killing me, thank you!

[buoyant finch]

hello so my tilemap for solid objects has a composite collider with polygons but in some places polygons are not generated and my player doesn't collide with them pls help

[wintry quarry]

The polygons generated are based on the physics shapes for the different tile sprites

you can edit a sprite's physics shape in the sprite editor.

[buoyant finch]

I know and all of my tiles have physics shape still they aren't shown like no polygons

[buoyant finch]

Ik

[quartz plinth]

Hey guys can somebody help me with some coding? you see my player jumps off the first one, but i made the collider extra big. You can see the I land on the platform and then my player wont jump. Probably a problem with my ground check right? im not so proficient, so if anybody has a quick idea, or can give me a Debug,Log Object Grounded code, I would appreciate it so much!

[wintry quarry]

yes almost definitely a problem with your ground check. Sounds like you don't need our help!

[slender nymph]

see #854851968446365696 for what to include when asking for help

[quartz plinth]

XD IK

[keen owl]

Are you using layers to determine what objects to jump from?

[frigid sequoia]

Is that lane something I can make? Like it would break the for each loop iteration or the whole method?

[slender nymph]

break exits out of the loop, it does not return from the method. are you certain you don't want a continue there instead to just skip to the next iteration of the loop?

[frigid sequoia]

I want it to not count itself if it appears on the list

Cause it's basically setting their aggro focus

[slender nymph]

right, but surely you don't want to stop the loop completely

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, so continue skips just one iteration rigth?

[slender nymph]

continue goes directly to the next iteration of the loop

break exits the loop

[frigid sequoia]

Great, still this is returning itself anyways, which.... shouldn't if I am breaking the loop early????

[slender nymph]

show how you have determined that

[frigid sequoia]

How have I determined what?

That's pretty much the whole relevant code

[slender nymph]

that it is returning itself despite breaking the loop. how have you determined that is what is happening

[frigid sequoia]

Cause it is literally the only possible method that can return a non-enemy target

[slender nymph]

again, how have you determined this

do not make assumptions. verify what is actually happening

[frigid sequoia]

This is the only way to set an ally target, like there is no other

[slender nymph]

how have you determined that CalculateClosestEntity is returning itself

[frigid sequoia]

Cause it shows in the inspector??

[slender nymph]

how about instead of relying on what you see in the inspector, you add some logs with some useful information to confirm what is happening

because with your current code, it cannot return its own gameobject, that is not possible because the variable would be null at that point if there's nothing else in the list

[drifting cosmos]

is there a best encryption algorithm

[north kiln]

Everything is completely context dependent

and in gamedev, there's very little reason to encrypt anything

[wintry quarry]

For what

[drifting cosmos]

like for saving data

[wintry quarry]

Encryption algorithms have little to do with saving data.

[drifting cosmos]

like save the data file and encrypt it

so people dont know

[north kiln]

Why would you want that

[drifting cosmos]

so you cant just edit the file where youre saving data

[north kiln]

that's not a reason, that's your end goal restated

[drifting cosmos]

wdym?

[north kiln]

why don't you want people editing the save file

[drifting cosmos]

im not making an offline game where nothing matters

[north kiln]

Then why would you save anything that mattered on the user's machine

[wintry quarry]

If it's an online game, the custody and veracity of your data should be the responsibility of your servers, not the client device

[drifting cosmos]

well you save it on both

im verifying with lambda

[wintry quarry]

There's no encryption scheme that will prevent your players from accessing and modifying data local to their hardware. Rely on something else to prevent cheating.

[drifting cosmos]

thats why im verifying with lambda serverless functions

but i still need it for other parts of the game

[wintry quarry]

So then what's the encryption for

[drifting cosmos]

well i have an offline part of the game

and i dont want it on a server so im doing some lambda checks but things like position i dont want to have to check every second because its expensive

encryption will make it harder not prevent

[charred spoke]

What you are saying doesn’t make sense to me

[wintry quarry]

At some point the actions or data or whatever of the player need to go back to the server

and if they don't, they don't matter as far as cheating prevention goes.

[drifting cosmos]

its serverless though

[keen owl]

You can try the advanced encryption standard library while using an IL2CPP build for further obfuscation, though i’m not sure if AES will give you what you’re looking for

[drifting cosmos]

i just dont get how certain encryption is better for certain things

[wintry quarry]

You're saying serverless because you're using Amazon Lambda. That doesn't mean it's serverless. It just means you're not manually managing server machines

[drifting cosmos]

yeah but the game isnt online its single player the lambda is just some verification

thats what i mean

[keen owl]

You wanted encryption. It depends where you will save the data, and wherever that is, you’d implement an encryption method there

[wintry quarry]

Then why do you care about cheating

Do we care if people cheat in solitaire?

[drifting cosmos]

i mean one part of the game is single player

[wintry quarry]

Cheating is a problem because it ruins the enjoyment of other players. If there are no other players who's enjoyment is ruined, it's not a problem

[drifting cosmos]

its still online its just a part thats not multiplayer

[wintry quarry]

You're contradicting yourself

[frosty hound]

Ultimately, you can't prevent it. So this circle of "it's multiplayer but not" is going to be never ending.

[drifting cosmos]

im not trying to prevent it entirely

[frosty hound]

If you have a portion of your game that isn't multiplayer, it still has to have an internet connection to access the data on the server to prevent modification.

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't really matter what encryption algorithm you use because if your game is able to decrypt it to do gameplay functionality, you must be providing the encryption key. Which means any halfway knowledgable player with Cheat Engine is going to get the key and decrypt the data themselves and do whatever they'd like.

So your game better just not trust any data coming from a client if you want to prevent cheating.

[drifting cosmos]

but you dont need to run a server

[wintry quarry]

I think you're hung up on the technicality of the word "server" here

we're just talking about whatever computing resources you have under your control that operate the cloud portions of the game

If that's some "serverless" AWS Lambdas or something, so be it

the point stands

[drifting cosmos]

i mean theres no server like you would need for say 2 players

[echo ruin]

So one of the players is hosting the multiplayer session?

[drifting cosmos]

well like could you change the key ever so often

[wintry quarry]

How would that help

the key goes to the client

the client has the key

Someone will write a script very quickly that uses whatever the current encryption key is, they won't hardcode it

[drifting cosmos]

well if you cant decrypt a common algorithm the first time it takes time to crack then you can change it like the first time you implemented it right?

its not like encryption is completely useless right

[wintry quarry]

When you have the encryption key, you can decrypt whatever you want, very quickly

[drifting cosmos]

but games do use it though right

[wintry quarry]

Very few games encrypt save files

And any online game worth its salt is not relying on client-side encryption for anti-cheat

[echo ruin]

Most online games will save data on their own servers. Typically they’ll only save superficial things like keybinds on the users PC

[drifting cosmos]

well i know its not a complete solution but i didnt know it was completely useless

[drifting cosmos]

im saving the data so it will load faster plus less writes and reads

its not a big deal though