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[solemn grotto]

here

[wintry quarry]

not a super helpful video

you'll have to show how everything is set up

[solemn grotto]

what do you wanna see?

[wintry quarry]

which components (show inspectors) are on all the objects involved (the player, the ground)
Your movement code

Any code involved in the spawning or the dying

[solemn grotto]

i am so confused

i started today

[wintry quarry]

So? I didn't ask when you started, I'm asking you to provide more information so I can help you

[solemn grotto]

no i am saying

idk what that means

[wintry quarry]

I want to see the inspector window for your player object and for the ground

select those objects, take screenshots, and share them here

I would also like to see the code you have on your player for movement

[solemn grotto]

can i show on vc?

[wintry quarry]

You can show it here

[solemn grotto]

ok

[rich ice]

[solemn grotto]

jordan what you showed me i dont understand

[rich ice]

[solemn grotto]

you just showed me code stuff

[wintry quarry]

ok now.. the player, and the code?

[rich ice]

please go check !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[wintry quarry]

And the code?

[rich ice]

!screenshots

[eternal falcon]

No

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

[wintry quarry]

Can you select your player object in the scene view and show its gizmos?

Probably the CC is just underneath the terrain

Also please don't share code as a video 😭

[solemn grotto]

ok

[solemn grotto]

what

[wintry quarry]

Just select it and show the gizmos

Make sure gizmos are turned on

we want to see the green capsule

To see if it's above or below the terrain

[wintry quarry]

Whyu is there a separate capsule collider

remove that

and show the parent object

we want to see the CharacterController, not this separate capsule

CharacterController should never have extra colliders - that will cause issues

I think just having that second collider can cause your problem in the first place

[solemn grotto]

how do i make it so it wont be seperate

[wintry quarry]

not sure what you mean by that question

make it so what won't be separate

You should remove the Capsule Collider component

[solemn grotto]

ok

[solemn grotto]

that didnt do it

i removed it

it still does the same thing

[vital tartan]

Whats code for player?

[polar acorn]

Whatever you want it to be

[rich ice]

you just gotta believe

[rich ice]

are you replying to the stuff above or is that a new question lol

[vital tartan]

I mean the code controlling this thing from above problem

[rich ice]

(vencord my beloved)

[slender nymph]

is your tab key broken

[rich ice]

yup

[slender nymph]

then use spaces because holy fuck, everything at the same indentation level is near unreadable

[rich ice]

(not my code btw, just stole this from the deleted message with vencord)

[vital tartan]

Not sure but maybe problem is that charactercontroller .isGronded maybe is not true when it "should be"

[polar acorn]

CharacterController's grounded property returns true only when the previous call to .Move collided with the ground. You need to make sure that you're calling Move exactly one time per frame, and that you always have gravity at lest a little bit even when standing on the ground

[buoyant shoal]

Yo stupid question but what does that "?" mean in his code

[lethal meadow]

that's against tos 🤓

[buoyant shoal]

Bro is admitting his crime

[rich ice]

damn, im going to discord jail

[lethal meadow]

I'm pretty sure it just means it could be null

[rich ice]

anyway, off-topic

[lethal meadow]

it's like a good safety thing

[buoyant shoal]

Type of dude that would say "sigh here officer I stole that candy there, arrest me"

[lethal meadow]

anybody who actually cares is normally a loser dw abt it

[buoyant shoal]

Makes sense

[rich ice]

null-conditional operator

[slender nymph]

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

it is the ternary operator, not the null conditional operator

[west radish]

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

[buoyant shoal]

Okay I just looked it up

[rich ice]

oh wait yeah my bad. misread

[buoyant shoal]

It's basically a if else cond

[west radish]

yeah

It's very useful

[buoyant shoal]

I find it funny how I was tweaking at basic scene switching but reverse engineering stuff is like super easy

Locked in fr

[west radish]

float timer += (IsFast ? 10f : 1f) * Time.deltaTime;

[lethal meadow]

is there any benefit though

[buoyant shoal]

With?

[lethal meadow]

personally I think a full if statement improves readability

[lethal meadow]

condition ? yes : no

[west radish]

Write this as an if statement

[wintry quarry]

float rate = IsFast ? 10 : 1;
timer += rate * Time.deltaTime;```

I would do this

[buoyant shoal]

If ur too lazy to type + it's easier to make a game

[wintry quarry]

for clarity

[lethal meadow]

yeah I'd do that with the first part as an if

although still a lot I don't know

I'll try using some when I get back at my pc

been suffering trying .net maui 💔

[wintry quarry]

really I'd rather just have a float rate variable instead of an IsFast bool in the first place

And wherever you would have done IsFast = true; you just do rate = FastRate; instead

then no need for a branch at all

[west radish]

I'll go inline if it's going to be very simple and unlikely to change

[fading dune]

Is there a way to edit a color using a color wheel directly in Visual Studio?

[rich ice]

no

[wintry quarry]

Not in VS but in the Unity inspector yes.

[fading dune]

Oh, I see.

What about VS Code though?

[wintry quarry]

what about it

[fading dune]

I was wondering if that's a feature that VS Code has.

[wintry quarry]

As two of us said above, no.

[fading dune]

Right. Originally I asked about VS.

[wintry quarry]

Oh sorry, VSC vs VS

no

VSC doesn't have that

but I'm sure you could write a plugin for it or VS to add it if you really wanted.

In general VSC has the least support for Unity things of all the supported IDEs

[fading dune]

Got it.

[rich ice]

if you'd have to change a color enough times for it to be useful, then you're better off just making it a variable and doing it in the inspector

[fading dune]

I've never used VSC for Unity, only VS, that's why I was asking.

[void thicket]

Rider has this thing

[west radish]

When Ive written webgl in vscode, ive used an extension which let you set a vec3 via a colour picker

[wintry quarry]

you know I specifically looked for this and couldn't find it!

[void thicket]

It's kinda hidden but under 🔨 icon https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Coding_Assistance__Color_Assistance.html

[wintry quarry]

ah yep there it is

[static cedar]

How do u guys deal with layer (names)?
I want to put some constants somewhere but do u have some other suggestions?

[wintry quarry]

Deal with them in what sense?

I find it rare to need to refer to specific layers in my code.

If you mean for layer masks, they're best configured in the inspector, IMO

[solemn grotto]

how do i fix thisd

[wintry quarry]

As mentioned before can you show the CC gizmo in scene view?

[solemn grotto]

this?

[rich ice]

stop what you're doing and go check !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[wintry quarry]

It's quit4e clear from your earlier screenshot that the capsule object is offset by 10 units in the air

So your actual CC is definitely below the terrain
Fix the offset of the child object and move your object above the terrain

[void thicket]

Recording program that has "record started" toast is so bad

[wintry quarry]

this is the child object

[solemn grotto]

i will try lower

[wintry quarry]

show the parent object

And look at the damn inspector

your child is offset by 10 units on the y axis

[static cedar]

Aight.

[wintry quarry]

Basically you have this problem

[solemn grotto]

so if its exactly on the y axis it will work?

[wintry quarry]

Fix it by fixing the offset of the child object

to 0

[solemn grotto]

ok

all 0 right?

on the position

[wintry quarry]

Use your eyes

position the CharacterController above the world

and position the visual capsule (child) such that it lines up on the parent

Which should be 0

This is not magic, you can reason about this yourself

Also making sure this is set to Pivot will help you (in top left of the scene view)

[solemn grotto]

alright bro

[solemn grotto]

bro what is the parent

[wintry quarry]

Player is the parent
Capsule is the child

[solemn grotto]

OHHHHH

[solemn grotto]

bro player is already at 0

[wintry quarry]

Have you looked at it yet and checked where the gizmo is yet?

the green outline of the CharacterController

[wintry quarry]

Like in my screenshot

[solemn grotto]

so the parent needs to be below the child

[wintry quarry]

no?

The character controller green outline needs to be above the terrain

[solemn grotto]

oh ok

[wintry quarry]

I'm literally jsut asking you to look at the green outline and make sure it's above the terrain

and you should have the child line up with it as well

TBH there isn't a good reason for you to have a MeshRenderer on the child object either if it's a first person game but that's a separate issue.

[solemn grotto]

ok

i will make the green outline on the top

its always on the bottom but i will try

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by top and bottom

before you change anything can you just show a screenshot of the character with the gizmo visible?

[solemn grotto]

it worked

i am on the platform now

thank you so much

[wintry quarry]

Do you understand what was wrong now?

[solemn grotto]

yes

the parent wasnt on top of the platform which made me fall down

sorry for making you go through the trouble

i am gonna work on my survival game now

thanks again

[kindred pawn]

can someone tell me why this doent make the player rotate with the camera? my guy still goes forward, left, right, backward, indepentant of where the player is looking

[slender nymph]

you need to get !vscode configured

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

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please configure it using the link below:

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[kindred pawn]

i do, i have vs code and all the extensions n junk

[slender nymph]

i can clearly see it isn't fully configured in the screenshot you posted

[kindred pawn]

how so?

[slender nymph]

you don't have syntax highlighting for unity types

[dusty geode]

Check your preferences -> external tools

Set the ide to vs code there

[slender nymph]

that is not the only step and is covered by the link that was already provided to them

if they have actually gone through all of the steps in that link then they need to go through the troubleshooting steps here: https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code#if-you-are-experiencing-issues

[dusty geode]

Share your entire script

!code

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[kindred pawn]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/azififorak.csharp

thats the movement

[slender nymph]

is vs code configured yet

[kindred pawn]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/obamezuriz.pgsql
this is the mouse look around

[kindred pawn]

i went throught the vs code turtorial its all there

[slender nymph]

did you go through this #💻┃code-beginner message

because:
#854851968446365696

[kindred pawn]

I belive ive gone through this before, its all configured right acording to the vs code tutorial, and all the trouble shooting in this link does nothing

[slender nymph]

then show that vs code is configured. if you truly did follow all of the steps then it will be properly configured

[slender nymph]

okay now show vs code to show that it is actually configured

and fun fact: if nothing has changed then it is not configured still and you didn't bother following all of the troubleshooting steps

[kindred pawn]

yeah, so i swaped the orientation from the movement script from the player to the camera in the player. and now instead of not rotating with the camera, the camera ignores all mouse input and the moment you move your mouse you levatite into the sky while spinning right

I added a set gravity to true or whatever in private void start(), and that seems to fix it, even the wweird camera stuff

[runic belfry]

How do I fix this? I'm trying to unlock the player's cursor while they hold tab, I dont know what's wrong with this code snippet. there's no compiler errors but it just doesnt do anything

private void Cursorunlock()
{
    //Crouching
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Tab))
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Confined;
    if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Tab))
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
}

[drifting cosmos]

show the cursorlockmode code

[runic belfry]

oh i thought i included it, my bad.

private void Cursorunlock()
{
    //Crouching
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Tab))
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Confined;
    if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Tab))
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
}

I'm not the best with C#

void Unlockies()
{

    playerScale = transform.localScale;
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Confined;
    Cursor.visible = true;
}

I swear to god if i send the wrong code again

[slender nymph]

!code
and where are you calling these methods

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[runic belfry]

what do you mean?

in a playermovement script, if that answers it.

[slender nymph]

i mean if the method is not being called then obviously the code inside it will not execute

[runic belfry]

hold on one sec

i see now

so you're asking when cs Cursorunlock() is used in the .cs file?

[slender nymph]

yes, that is how you call the method and i am asking where it is being called

[runic belfry]

great question

[drifting cosmos]

i think unless if youre checking if its locked or unlocked everytime its not gonna do anything

[runic belfry]

should I send the script?

yeah

[drifting cosmos]

you could call a method in there and pass in locked or unlocked

[runic belfry]

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

[slender nymph]

you're not calling it anywhere.

[runic belfry]

yeah i found that out

[slender nymph]

also make sure you copied the code correctly because there is at least one compile error in here. however that may have just been due to copying it incorrectly

[runic belfry]

I accidentally deleted something imma fix that

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

I thought it wasnt being used anymore

[drifting cosmos]

im confused on how this works Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Confined;

[slender nymph]

what is confusing about it

[drifting cosmos]

im new btw

but the confined

[runic belfry]

I'm also using unity 6

[cosmic dagger]

What does the docs say?

[drifting cosmos]

what

[runic belfry]

confined means it's stuck inside the window

[drifting cosmos]

is it a built in unity function thing

[runic belfry]

I believe so

[cosmic dagger]

Did you check the Unity docs to see what it means and what it does?

[drifting cosmos]

im talking more about c#

[slender nymph]

CursorLockMode is an enum, Confined is one of the members of that enum. Cursor.lockState is a property of the static Cursor class and that property is of type CursorLockMode

[drifting cosmos]

ohh ok

[cosmic dagger]

You asked about Cursor.lockState; that is from Unity. You can google it to get information about it . . .

I asked because I thought you looked it up and were confused about its meaning, so I wanted to get/see which part of it confused you . . .

[drifting cosmos]

oh im more confused about like whats going on like id get if you were setting that to like true or an int or string or something like that

but its an enum which im still a little confused on how that works

[slender nymph]

enums are basically just named ints
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/enum

[runic belfry]

My code works now! thanks!

[cosmic dagger]

an enum is basically a named integer. I would search: "enum C#," to get information about it if you're confused. That's usually my first go-to . . .

[drifting cosmos]

yeah ive learned about them im trying to see if i understand how its used in this case

[naive pawn]

it's just that; a named integer

the name helps keep it in sync when devving, being an integer means it's lightweight and has limited values

[drifting cosmos]

ok i dont get why you use it and add the locked or confined like do you check if its CursorLockMode.Confined why wouldnt you set it to like locked or like 1 2 3 for each state

[timber tide]

Similar to how usually you can use 1 and 0 in place of true and false

oh but not in c#

lmao

[naive pawn]

giving it a name makes it much easier to read

[slender nymph]

you basically are using 1 2 or 3, it's just that those values happen to have nametags so the intent of the int is clearer

[drifting cosmos]

ok are the .locked and confined defined in the code or like is it a unity functioni

[slender nymph]

yes, those are members of the enum

[drifting cosmos]

oh i didnt even know you could have enums in enums

[slender nymph]

huh?

[drifting cosmos]

wait

i think im thinking wrong

[cosmic dagger]

You should look at a tutorial about enums first . . .

[naive pawn]

that's not what he's saying lol

[cosmic dagger]

You are confused about how they're created and used . . .

[drifting cosmos]

no i get it i had a wrong conception

[slender nymph]

this is the definition of the CursorLockMode enum: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Input/Cursor.bindings.cs#L20C1-L30C6

[drifting cosmos]

i thought you would have an enum like
enum
state
locked
confined

but you name the enum

[naive pawn]

you do

you name both the enum and its members

[slender nymph]

yes, CursorLockMode is the name of the enum

[drifting cosmos]

wouldnt it be like enum state
locked confined

[slender nymph]

None, Locked, and Confined are the memebers of the enum

[slender nymph]

i literally linked the actual definition of the CursorLockMode enum if you want to look at how it is defined in the code

[naive pawn]

no clue what you mean here tbh

[drifting cosmos]

oh so like you could do cursorlockmode = 2 and it would equal confined?

[drifting cosmos]

like you name the enum and have the members in it

[slender nymph]

if you cast the integer 2 to CursorLockMode then it would be equivalent to CursorLockMode.Confined, yes. but you don't just do CursorLockMode = 2 because that makes no sense

[naive pawn]

you could think of the enum as something like this```cs
public static class CursorLockMode
{
// Normal
public static int None = 0;
// Locked to the center of the game window
public static int Locked = 1;
// Confined to the game window
public static int Confined = 2;
}

[slender nymph]

more like public const int since they are constant

[naive pawn]

the enum members are based on integer values, but they aren't equal to the integer values

[drifting cosmos]

you just define the ints so it will work right?

[naive pawn]

(that wouldn't need static, right? im not familiar with const, and i forgot about that aspect lol 😅)

[timber tide]

you can still change None here

[drifting cosmos]

you dont store any data in enums ?

[naive pawn]

not really, no

[zenith cypress]

An enum is just a number wearing a nametag, and when you compile the game, the nametag gets lit on fire so you are left with the number.

[naive pawn]

some do, like java (though i don't know of any others) and others like c# would need a separate mapping for that

[drifting cosmos]

yeah i really didnt get the point before because i thought you did

[timber tide]

They're just identifiers, much like the naming of your class

imagine making a class and have no name to it, how do you identify it as is?

(That's default behaviour in godot)

[naive pawn]

you can also do that in c# and java, can't you (just not in unity)

[timber tide]

Seems like a terrible idea, cause then you're using directory pathing as the identifier lol

[naive pawn]

you can only do it for the entry point, so literally yes lol

anonymous main class, something like that

[neat bay]

I'm creating procedural terrain from a plane and for some reason when increasing the number of subdivisions of the plane from 7>8, I get a weird bug

8 subdivisions:

on the right of the mesh there's a weird stretched triangles that doesn't appear on any subdivisons <8

Here's the code:
https://paste.mod.gg/wwxmkkumuzcg/0

it also causes a weird lighting error but nevermind that for now

[mental hamlet]

Hey everyone, can anyone help me with properties (get and set) in Unity C#? I already know how to use them, but I'm wondering if they're really necessary. What are the use cases for properties in C# for Unity? Isn't it easier to just use a public variable instead of properties?

[slender nymph]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/737294

[cosmic dagger]

Using a public field gives everyone access (no ownership) to outside scripts to not only retrieve (get) the value, but also change (set) it. A property handles encapsulation by controlling access to the value and can be used to check or implement events for that property . . .

[mental hamlet]

thanks for the answers. But I'm still wondering why its really necessary when i can use simple vaiable declaration. sorry if im asking some dumb qn.

is it something to do with optimization?

[slender nymph]

i'd recommend reading through all of the responses on that stack overflow post i linked

[last owl]

How would I implement Random.Range to randomly select an index of an array but make it so the chance of selecting the same index twice in a row is lower than selecting a different index. I've looked up that you can put the results into a list and do a check each time to see if that number is already in the list but that is if you never want to do the same index twice whereas I simply want the chance to be very low.

[naive pawn]

just the previous index?

[last owl]

yes

[naive pawn]

it's kinda arbitrary so you'd have to do this with logic instead of any elegant structure or math

[slender nymph]

just keep the most recent selection in an int variable, if it chooses that reroll once, then if it chooses that same index again you don't reroll because now it has chosen it with a much lower chance

or look into implementing a weighted random selection. that will be more complicated and will take more work but it will give more flexibility to the system

[neat bay]

Does no one know?

i would've thought it had something with the sheer number of vertices/triangles being created but idk for sure

[last owl]

that seemed to do the trick thanks!

[eager spindle]

I have a question about the DrawQuads example on the docs
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/GL.QUADS.html

How is mat passed into the draw call here?

Also is GL.Vertex 3 a world space co-ordinate or screen space co-ordinate?

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Material.SetPass.html

[eager spindle]

Ooh

So this is part of the matrix stack?

Right now I need to draw a bunch of lines(with thickness and materials) so I wanted to use unity GL for this

I dont want to manage a pool of LineRenderers

[rare iris]

I just started unity today and am doing the 'roll a ball' tutorial I've gotten to this bit where the ball is meant to move when I click my arrow keys but it literally just doesn't work. I don't know what went wrong because I followed everything. Here's my C# script if there's any errors in that
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 10.0f;
private Rigidbody rb;

private float movementX;
private float movementY;
void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}

void onMove(InputValue movementValue)
{
    Vector2 movementVector = movementValue.Get<Vector2>();
    movementX = movementVector.x;
    movementY = movementVector.y;
}

void FixedUpdate()
{
    Vector3 movement = new Vector3(movementX, 0.0f, movementY);
    rb.AddForce(movement * speed);
}

}

[eager spindle]

I don't see anything wrong with the code so far, are there any errors that appear in the console?
You may need to check on how you set up the Input Action.

also !code

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[void thicket]

And what is calling onMove

[rugged beacon]

Im trying to procedurally generate a top down 2d dungeon, planning to hand design a few and spawn them in randomly
My approach is 1 tilemap as prefab for each room so 20 room is 20 tilemap
Want to know if there better solution ?

[naive pawn]

if you're using the inputsystem for messages, it should be OnMove, not onMove

[rare iris]

I do not know

[rare iris]

I'll try that in a couple of minutes

[rare iris]

oh my god you fixed it, thank you so much. I had no idea it was so specific.

[naive pawn]

casing matters in code

OnMove would be a separate method from onMove, and the inputsystem/unity are specifically looking from OnMove

[rare iris]

Thanks dude i'll make sure to remember this

[burnt stirrup]

hey, my camera wont rotate for some reason

like player camera, it was working fine a day ago

[verbal dome]

Depends on the matrix you push to GL

[eager spindle]

I used gl setortho

Managed to figure it out in the end

[verbal dome]

Did you end up drawing thick lines as quads?

[eager spindle]

You can set line width? For me the base line size is enough for now

I used GL.Lines

[verbal dome]

Afaik GL.Lines only supports 1 pixel line width

I just asked because you mentioned thick lines

[eager spindle]

Just saw this

What's your camera rotation code?

Any errors?

[burnt stirrup]

give me a sec opening unity

[burnt stirrup]

Nope, none at all.

[burnt stirrup]

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
//gets mouse axis
float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSens * Time.deltaTime;
float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSens * Time.deltaTime;
//Y axis rotation
xRotation -= mouseY;
xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90, 80);
transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);
//X axis rotation
playerBody.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);
}

the camera wont rotate, the playerBody will

[eager spindle]

Which part of this code controls the camera?

Also !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[burnt stirrup]

public class MouseLook : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform playerBody;
    public float mouseSens = 100f;
    float xRotation = 0f;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        //Locks mouse cursor
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        //gets mouse axis
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSens * Time.deltaTime;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSens * Time.deltaTime;
        //Y axis rotation
            xRotation -= mouseY;
            xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90, 80);
            transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);
        //X axis rotation
            playerBody.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);
    }
}

the update method controls the camera

actually the entire thing is for the camera but "playerBody.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);" and "transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);" control camera movement specifically.

[eager spindle]

Update isn't controlling the camera

[burnt stirrup]

Its for mouse movement

[eager spindle]

Did you parent camera to playerbody at some point?

[burnt stirrup]

its always been parented

[calm flame]

Hello new to unity here, why the -xRotation, is it inverted?

[burnt stirrup]

camera is a child of player

[burnt stirrup]

what?

[calm flame]

xRotation -= mouseY

[eager spindle]

Is playerBody the same as/the child of player? I'm not sure what your project looks like, make sure camera really is a child of playerBody

[burnt stirrup]

Here's the hierarchy @eager spindle

[eager spindle]

Which one is playerBody?

[burnt stirrup]

Player has the script and Player_V is the visual

[eager spindle]

Also where's the camera?

[burnt stirrup]

Player

[burnt stirrup]

ViewCamera

[eager spindle]

Do you have multiple cameras in the scene?

[burnt stirrup]

thats xRotation = xRotation - mouseY, just syntax

[burnt stirrup]

nope

[eager spindle]

Could you take a video of this?

[calm flame]

Oh okay you're only dealing with mouseY here

[burnt stirrup]

alright

@eager spindle it looks fine, but feels very floaty and unresponsive

[dusty geode]

don't multiply your mouse input by Time.deltaTime, mouse input is already frame rate independent

[burnt stirrup]

i already tried removing it. Doesnt affect a thing

[dusty geode]

I mean at the very least, your rotations should have felt sped up

and would have had to lower sensitivity

Is this just an inconsistent frame timing problem? Can you record with the stats window open?

[burnt stirrup]

ah wait

the original problem just happened

i cant move my camera at all

its due to an animation

without the animation it works fine

v without the aniamtion ^ with the animation

@dusty geode

[dusty geode]

Is your animation modifying the player rotation or the camera rotation? If so you need to remove those properties from the animation

[burnt stirrup]

yea its modifying camera rotation but i dont see why thats a problem

[dusty geode]

Its a problem because your script and the animation are modifying it so they are fighting

[burnt stirrup]

can you suggest a possible fix?

[dusty geode]

remove the camera rotation from the animation

[burnt stirrup]

ok but can i still acheive camera rotation

[dusty geode]

yes your script should be in full control of the camera rotation

[burnt stirrup]

thats not my question

[dusty geode]

What is your question?

[burnt stirrup]

currently, when the gun is shot, it triggers an animation

you say its because it rotates the cmaera

so how can i still acheive the same effect without compensating camera rotation?

[dusty geode]

You need to control the "recoil" through script or have another parent object inbetween the player and the camera which you animate instead

[burnt stirrup]

a simple playerCam.Roatate(); then?

playerCam.transform.Rotate(new Vector3(-60f, 0f, 0f));

does this work instead?

[dusty geode]

That's going to be instant, you probably want it over time.

[burnt stirrup]

yea

[dusty geode]

I would try an intermediate object between the camera and the player and apply recoil animation to that either through animation or script. I have never implemented something like this myself, so that's about the extent I can answer

I think a lot of games do this, they essentially have a root camera object which animators can mess with without affecting the scripting of the camera look rotation

[burnt stirrup]

that would be a lot of work considering i have a few animations

actually

you mean like an empty game object?

[dusty geode]

Yes so,

Player
  CameraRoot
    Camera

If I remember correctly, this GDC covers it briefly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFLu8cityA

[burnt stirrup]

i cant parent Camera to CameraRoot for some reason

ok nvm i did it

thanks, it works now

[lofty jacinth]

Yo is there a yt channel or a website from where i can learn c# for unity

[timber tide]

Do you know any c# in general? If not then don't limit yourself to only unity specifics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGD0vn-QIkg
Brackeys got some videos for general c# that he's done on the side of general Unity videos and I think they're worth a watch.

[lofty jacinth]

I just know python

[lofty jacinth]

I'll give it a shot 👍

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials
https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer
https://www.youtube.com/c/unity

[timber tide]

I scoured the videos and they are simple enough for an introduction

His videos are fine for introductions, besides a few bad apples

[dusty geode]

I honestly would recommend this, it probably covers more and is straightforward

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4LFuHwItvKbneXxSutjeyz6i1w32K6di&si=pwSN2M8noAuTzAx2

Followed by this
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4LFuHwItvKaOi-bN1E2WUVyZbuRhVokL&si=hbFH6T9qDQOETEtg

[chrome apex]

stupid question, I have the player instantiate some prefabs on the screen. I have an undo button which is supposed to destroy the last spawned object.

I added a stack and I'm popping it when undo is clicked, but I don't need a stack at all, right? Every time a new object is created, the variable is changed, so I can just simply destroy the object, right?

My stack appears to be useless.

[lofty jacinth]

I asked here cuz there were a lot of tutorials on yt n i didn't know which one to follow just to come here n each one of u recommend their own preferences 😑

[grand snow]

well if you want to be able to undo many times in a row its useful right?

[lofty jacinth]

I'm grateful but confusion still exists

[chrome apex]

Oh, you're right, I do need it then. But does that work? Like, when I destroy the game object variable, can I pop the previous one from the stack and destroy it?

[dusty geode]

What are you confused about?

[pine shell]

hi im new to unity, im trying to make a rhythm game but i could seem to make a note spawn. what do i do?

[lofty jacinth]

Which course to follow to learn c#

[rich adder]

fix it so that it spawns?

[chrome apex]

in other words, how do I reference the object from the stack, rather than my game object variable?

[grand snow]

You would try pop, if you get a value you destroy the game object.
When you spawn a new one, push it onto the stack.

[dusty geode]

I mean ultimately it's up to you, but the videos I linked are solid, I've watched them in the past

more views does not mean better

[lofty jacinth]

Tru

[chrome apex]

yes yes, but how do I actually reference the popped object, rather than the game object variable created irrespective of the stack?

[grand snow]

what? you pop and it returns the reference and you use this to destroy...

if(stack.TryPop(out GameObject ob))
{
    Destroy(ob);
}

[chrome apex]

aha

I was just using MyStack.Pop();

[grand snow]

that works but the example above prevents a failed pop in a slightly more efficient way

[chrome apex]

No but I can't reference it unless I add the out etc part, yea?

also

I'm doing if (BlockStack.Count > 0), so no need for trypop I guess

[grand snow]

well you do GameObject popped = stack.Pop() otherwise

[dusty geode]

trypop is essentially doing that behind the scene

[chrome apex]

yeah I figured

[grand snow]

its like dictionary.TryGetValue()

[chrome apex]

This worked, than you very much!

now I just gotta give the player back the money for the object 😄

[grand snow]

You are familiar with the concept of methods returning values right?
You can also google a function and check the docs for how it works https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.stack-1.pop?view=net-9.0#system-collections-generic-stack-1-pop

[chrome apex]

yes I am

but I never used a stack before

was a bit confused

[grand snow]

then the best thing is to check the docs and then you would see that you Pop() to remove AND get the top value

c# docs are great so go read it when you need to

[chrome apex]

I honestly didn't even think of that, I added Pop() and forgot that it doesn't actually delete the game object in the scene, just from the stack lol

slow witted, what can you do

[radiant glen]

I am working on a unity project with a github repo set up, I just opened my game and it is not showing up, like its gone, I dont know what happened and I have a competion for it tommorow, can someone please help me

[wintry quarry]

you probably jsut need to open your scene

hard to say what you mean by "it's not showing up"

Either the assets are there in the project folder or they aren't.

[radiant glen]

That...

Its just gone, I dont know how else to describe it

[wintry quarry]

yeah you don't have your scene open

Actually you have no assets either

[dusty geode]

there is nothing in the assets folder

[hexed terrace]

to back up Prae's point

[wintry quarry]

Yeah you either didn't actually upload them

or you didn't pull them down

[radiant glen]

Yeah I know! But I dont know why!!!

I am sorry I am totally feaking out

[wintry quarry]

Well you didn't push them up

there's nothing to freak out about but - wherever you originally made the project you need to push the assets from there

you need to commit them and push them to githuub

[radiant glen]

Okay, how can I do that?

I have everything pushed to github

[wintry quarry]

Either you didn'tm or you didn't pull it down

idk it's git basics

[dusty geode]

Show a screenshot of your github repo assets folder

[wintry quarry]

you makle a commit, and you push it

[radiant glen]

Yep did that

[wintry quarry]

go look at your repo and see if they're there on github

[wintry quarry]

Show us on github

[radiant glen]

Where is that at?

[wintry quarry]

if they're there then there's nothing to worry about, you need to actually just pull them down

[chrome apex]

@grand snow so should I make a stack for money taken away at each spawn as well for multiple undos? Don't see a simpler way.

[wintry quarry]

github.com

[wintry quarry]

looks like maybe you stashed everything?

[wintry quarry]

ok yeah the repo looks fine on github

your local is just messed up

[radiant glen]

I think I just stashed 4 changes that I didnt want to save

[wintry quarry]

you did something werid with the stash or something

[radiant glen]

Okay, how can I make it not messed up?

[wintry quarry]

look at the histroy

[wintry quarry]

either just delete and reclone the whole thing, or look at the history and see what you did

[grand snow]

You probably want a new class or struct to hold both things (game object, money and other things)
Then you can undo everything a lot easier.

[radiant glen]

I reverted "level 3" as thats when things broke

[wintry quarry]

if you look in windows explorer are your project files there?

[timber tide]

In the future, when you commit, don't push it until you check out the local changes work

[radiant glen]

Yes

[wintry quarry]

then unity editor is maybe just messed up

restart unity

[radiant glen]

Okay, that makes sense

[timber tide]

You sure you're opening the right scene?

[wintry quarry]

The asset folder in the screenshot looks totally empty

[wintry quarry]

up here

[radiant glen]

Yeah, thats what I dont get

[wintry quarry]

Other thing to double check is make sure you have the correct project folder open?

[radiant glen]

I cant open any scene

[radiant glen]

How?

[wintry quarry]

look in unity hub

at the path of the project

and make sure it's the right one

or do "show in explorer" on the assets folder in the project window

and make sure there's stuff in it

and it's the correct place

[radiant glen]

Yeah, it looks like it is

When I try to open a scene this happens by the way

[radiant glen]

Yeah all that looks good

[wintry quarry]

ok yeah something got corrupted

I would try reverting to the previous (working) commit

[radiant glen]

Okay, How can I do that

[wintry quarry]

from your Git gui

whatever that app was you were using for git

probably right click on one of the commits in the history

and see the options

[radiant glen]

Just using git-desktop

[wintry quarry]

yeah i only know how to do it in the command line

[rich adder]

you could potentially also download specific branch and start from there

[wintry quarry]

it would be like:

git checkout HEAD~1``` for example to check it out

[radiant glen]

This is when I right click

[wintry quarry]

you can do checkout commit

to move your head to that for a moment to test it

[radiant glen]

okay, I checked out the commit and nothing in the editor changed

[swift crag]

do actual scene assets exist inside Unity, though?

you can search the project window for t:scene

The paths shouldn't have changed, but...

[errant pilot]

Guys is it possible to lock my mouse cursor in the bounds of an object?

Like for instance i have a square i dont want the mouse to go out of it?

[wintry quarry]

not with the hardware mouse

if you have a virtual/software mouse cursor, sure.

[errant pilot]

i can make a custom mouse in unity?

[wintry quarry]

you can make an object that pretends to be a mouse

[errant pilot]

okok i got it thank you

[bold falcon]

i would like to ask for help, is this the right chat?

[rough lynx]

Depends what're you asking for help with?

If it's coding then yeah

[bold falcon]

so i want to make a dash in my game, but for some reason when i calculate the directional vector based on cusor location, it pushes the played a little bit below of where my cusor is

the green line is the directional vector

any idea who would that be?

[wintry quarry]

mousePos.z = cam.nearCLipPlane doesn't feel quite right

you probably want mousePos.z = transform.position.z;

or dir.z = 0; after the dir calculation line

Also how are you drawing the green line?

(not sure where the mouse is in the screenshot)

[bold falcon]

Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, normalizedDir, Color.red, 5f);

[wintry quarry]

Isn't it green?

[bold falcon]

Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, mousePos, Color.green, 5f) ;

[wintry quarry]

This doesn't seem like the right line

[bold falcon]

wrong line

[wintry quarry]

That seems ok assuming you fix the mousePos.z thing

[bold falcon]

still does it

[wintry quarry]

Is the line drawn incorrectly, or something else?

Also - is your camera set to Orthographic, or Perspective?

[bold falcon]

nope, its visible with the eye that the player isnt going in the right direction

Otho

[wintry quarry]

So the line is drawn correctly?

[bold falcon]

yes

[wintry quarry]

Then it's your player code that is wrong

[vapid locust]

In a 2d game - anyone know how would I shift my character so that it flips along a different point? In this image my character is flipping across the red line and I want it to be the green line.

[rocky canyon]

use an extra empty gameobject and flip that instead..

that way u can align ur player within that gameobject where u want the pivot

[bold falcon]

i think you have a pivot on your sprites moved

[rocky canyon]

ye.. its a sprite.. u should be able to modify the pivot in the sprite editor

[rocky canyon]

the little blue ring is the pivot.

[bold falcon]

im just a dumbass, the dashForce was Vec2 and i set y force lower than x force

but thanks

[rocky canyon]

using an extra gameobject would be like this..
you'd be flipping Visual and the Sprite is adjusted as a child as needed

[vapid locust]

I think you are right they are all off in the sprite editor.

[rocky canyon]

well its just centered per sprite i think

[bold falcon]

yep, move the blue ring to the middle of the character

[rocky canyon]

since its offset u may need to do some adjustments

[bold falcon]

or crop the sprites empty space in an editor so its fixed resolution and you will have prefect middle

[rocky canyon]

yup.. many many possibilities

[vapid locust]

so I got to do that on all frames of that image sheet? I see

[bold falcon]

yup

[rocky canyon]

thats y i made the 2nd suggestion of an empty wrapper gameobject

[vapid locust]

I was kinda thinking it was that issue, but I didnt want to go through all that trouble to fix it

[rocky canyon]

but its up to you.. and how it ends up working out 👍

[timber tide]

trim em a bit more cause that'll display a larger transparent quad (which isn't a biiiig deal in 2D but if you wanted like 3D particles it matters)

[vapid locust]

awesome, thanks guys

[rocky canyon]

find a good value and Copy-Paste..

save urself some time..

that is if they're all pretty uniform

[timber tide]

eh, looks like the running animation is a little hard to line up

gotta move the pivot for each of those frames

[rocky canyon]

🐶 Rough!

[vapid locust]

Can I just trim each one and let the center be it or I would have to adjust it manually still?

[radiant sage]

Hey guys, quick question regarding Unity:

I want to add a GameObject to the scene using code. For example spawning enemies. However I cannot access the Unity project.

Should I create a prefab in Unity and then just add the Scripts to the GameObject or should I build the object in code from the ground (e.g. by creating the entire object hierarchy)?

(Note: I am not a beginner at coding in general, since it's my job and I got over 12 years of experience. However I am not well educated about the Unity API so I am asking this in the beginner channel)

[slate helm]

question if i want to start out to make a game on unity what version of editor i should use?

[radiant sage]

why would you not use the most recent one

[slate helm]

i use the recent one but idk if it was the stable one cuz idk how unity work so i prefer to ask

im using the 6 version? which is the recent

[rich adder]

yes 6 is latest LTS

[radiant sage]

LTS means Long Term Support

So it should be stable

[rich adder]

well not always stable but at least it gets patched

[radiant sage]

should be stable

or will be

[radiant sage]

@rich adder you got any ideas

[rich adder]

yeah its polished with some minor bugs

#📖┃code-of-conduct specifically says no modding talk @radiant sage

[radiant sage]

@slate helm just release ur game and say there were some bugs you didnt know about

[radiant sage]

oh mb

fixed tho

I mean its not a modding question

[slate helm]

im a beginner so i watn to start out but was unsure

i usually would not use unity but i wanted to give it a try

[radiant sage]

When you are a beginner you should not be scared about versions

I dont think the Unity devs release garbage

[rich adder]

yes because the whole "cannot access the unity project" part

[slate helm]

the also why i didnt watn to use unity is cuz the recent thing they added but i heard they removed it so that why

[radiant sage]

I mean I just want to add a GameObject using Scripts

[rich adder]

You can by using Instantiate

or the Editor class equivalent

[radiant sage]

Well, can I create a prefab and load it as an asset using code?

I mean not really since I cannot access the dll libraries

[rich adder]

thats what instantiate does

[radiant sage]

(except in my project that is not a unity project)

[rich adder]

again we cannot help with modding questions soo

[radiant sage]

Let me rephrase it: Is it a good approach to create a prefab of an object without any scripts and add the scripts to the hierarchy later? Or is there a preferable approach?

This question seems very generalized to me and is outside of any modding context

[slate helm]

since im starting out is there a tutorial for me to learn unity?

[rich adder]

the whole point of the prefab is to already the contain the wanted components so you minimize what you have to manually add through code

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/pathways
Start here from top to Bottom

[slate helm]

thx

[radiant sage]

Docs are great. I recommend you to also look on YT videos. Those often contain good practices

[rich adder]

YT is 98% crap practices in unity context

[radiant sage]

So creating an prefab in Unity that contains AnimationController, Rigidbodies etc and then at runtime adding Scripts to the object is good practice?

[radiant sage]

I mean as a beginner that seems like a good start. as soon as he gets experience he can make up his own mind

[rich adder]

thats like the opposite of what i implied

[rich adder]

other way around, as beginner you cannot recognize bad code/ patterns

you first learn the beginning with good structured courses by unity then when you have enough experience you can watch YTs to extract the info minus the bad practices

[radiant sage]

I agree with you. But again as you get experience over time you will learn how to write good code

[radiant sage]

I fully agree with that one

[rich adder]

You gain shit experience if you're start with shit tutorials. And just like AI beginners can't distinguish shit code and pickup bad practices early

[radiant sage]

I am still unsure of what to do now :/

[radiant sage]

I mean true

I guess Udemy courses are a great start then

[rich adder]

ehh whatever waste your money on shit courses if you want. Ill stick to the Unity official resources

[radiant sage]

Nothing beats a documentation. But it took me a few years to properly understand docs (I never actually tried to learn them tho)

[rich adder]

not even a documentation thing.. unity has thousands of videos in-house material

[radiant sage]

oh right I forgot

@slate helm forget what I said. Check the Unity videos, they are a really good resource

[rich adder]

they also been bumping their Youtube again with the newest unity 6 components

[slate helm]

gotcha

i want to make like a rpg or a turn based rpg game

i do have a model but i need to rig it

[radiant sage]

mixamo does a great job of automatic rigging

If you dont want to do it

[rich adder]

its going to be at least a year or two before you can make something this complex

[slate helm]

well my model is not humanoid enough there no arm

[radiant sage]

I disagree, if he uses a cube without a 3d object that involves animation controlling he can do it in a few days

[rich adder]

an rpg in a few days

I'd love to see it

[slate helm]

i made this but the rigging is hard

[radiant sage]

I recommend you to turn down your expectations and start with something more simple

[radiant sage]

well im talking about a main fight loop only

[slate helm]

maybe not a few years depend also of the speed that you work on

[radiant sage]

not a fully fletched game

[slate helm]

exemple i can do modeling like fast i was able to make 3 weapon in the span of 45 min

[radiant sage]

I agree that a fully fletched RPG as a solo dev takes a few years

[rich adder]

mate if you never coded you wont be able to make any RPG any time soon

your expectations might be too high

[slate helm]

but since i never touched coding like in C# idk how ti work

[radiant sage]

I have to agree on that one

[radiant sage]

then you should start on something way more simple

[slate helm]

and my ADD and ADHD dont really help with the focus and attnetion span so i need to also work on that

[rich adder]

start with simpler projects first, build up your knowledge

[slate helm]

what simple for beginner?

[radiant sage]

2d platformer maybe

[rich adder]

flappy bird n such

[radiant sage]

with very simple graphics

[slate helm]

gotcha

[rich adder]

you have to learn basics like game loops and thinking in logic component, using variables etc

rpg setting has 100 times the things to know

[slate helm]

i saw there was a editor tutorial in editor thingy in the website for when you in unity but how do i activate it?

[radiant sage]

you can just visit the unity website and check the docs

they have tutorials for a variety of game types

[slate helm]

ye but i mean

[rich adder]

did you start with the essentials?

[slate helm]

ye? https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials/unit/editor-essentials/tutorial/unity-essentials-install-unity?version=6

[radiant sage]

exactly mate

[slender nymph]

if only there were a convenient link to the instructions for that, but we'll never know if that's the case because you cropped it out

[rich adder]

yeah its true

there is a link

[slate helm]

oh

im so stupid i just saw it

told ya my focus suck

sorry

[rich adder]

after you finish the 1 step (installing unity ) it gives you the assets

[slate helm]

i have unity already installed

but im so confuse

i dont see the editor tutorial

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/66c3a2a2edbc2a113924b041?uv=6 preview&pathwayId=66c4af96edbc2a1604fdfba1&missionId=66c4aac0edbc2a23228c872d#

[slate helm]

the pathway overview dont tell me

oh i was here https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/66c39b3bedbc2a1990cb94c6?pathwayId=66c4af96edbc2a1604fdfba1&missionId=66c4aac0edbc2a23228c872d#66c39b3bedbc2a1990cb94c7

sorry...

[rich adder]

you have to keep pressing completed.

thats why its a structured course

you have to do the tasks, if you did already mark them completed and move on next

[maiden relic]

if I want a simple button that is clicked to set bool true and clicked again to set false what would my configuration be through unitys input system.

[rich adder]

put the bool toggle in performed?

[rich adder]

public bool MyBool;
    private void Awake(){
        inputs = new();
    }
    private void OnEnable(){
        inputs.Enable();
        inputs.Player.MyAction.performed += OnMyAction;
    }
    private void OnMyAction(InputAction.CallbackContext context){
        MyBool = !MyBool;
    }```

[maiden relic]

Thank you, just confused with the new(er) input system. I ended up doing

{
    if (value.isPressed) 
    {
        OpenInventory = !OpenInventory;
    }
}```
and this for my inventory

void Update()
{
if (starterAssetsInputs.OpenInventory)
{
OpenInventory = true;
} else
{
OpenInventory = false;
}
InventoryCanvas.gameObject.SetActive(OpenInventory);
}

[rich adder]

yeah that works too if you use the PlayerInput components

[maiden relic]

Yea, I am working off starter assets input.

[rich adder]

btw you should mind as well take an Event approach instead of polling in update OpenInventory

[maiden relic]

yes you are right, what is the reason for that exactly? performance?

[late burrow]

how can i "set" how interface "get" gets its value

[rich adder]

public event Action<bool> OnInventoryToggled;
public void OnOpenInventory(InputValue value)
{
    if (value.isPressed) 
    {
        OpenInventory = !OpenInventory;
        OnInventoryToggled?.Invoke(OpenInventory);
    }
}```

[grand snow]

you mean how to implement an interface or are you talking about a property defined in an interface?

[late burrow]

how to setup interface at runtime

[rich adder]

skips having to poll yes performance is one of them its also cleaner most of the time without a two way connection

[maiden relic]

okay thank you

[slender nymph]

can you try being specific for once

[grand snow]

yea more info plz

[late burrow]

i have class with specific key fields, i want each have custom logic of getting the value defined on its creation

so setting interface logic before its defined

something like setting unityaction and running it later

[grand snow]

are you sure you mean interface?

[slender nymph]

since properties containing validation code require a backing field, this functionality must be defined in the classes that implement the interface. so just implement the interface and use a full property with an explicit backing field
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/properties#properties-with-backing-fields

[late burrow]

yeah property too many names there

[dawn bolt]

Why?

[late burrow]

oh so there is alternative of unityaction that can have return value

[dawn bolt]

mh

[rich adder]

like Func?

[dawn bolt]

How do I fix it?

[grand snow]

If you just have a delegate you can have it return a value. If you use event then the last subscriber value is returned to the event caller.

[solemn grotto]

anyone know how to make a gun fire

[rich ice]

raycast

[hot laurel]

i was about to say american school kids for sure knows but raycast may be better response

[wintry quarry]

Break down what "gun firing" means and do each piece individually

[solemn grotto]

ok

i will watch tutorial

[rich ice]

i highly reccomend you go check !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[void dawn]

hey can someone help me

[slender nymph]

!ask 👇

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
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[void dawn]

unity wont let me use visual studio

it says i have to re install visual studio bu i already tried that

[slender nymph]

where do you see it telling you to reinstall it

[void dawn]

it appears a error message every time i try to open a script

[slender nymph]

show it

[void dawn]

its in Portuguese

[slender nymph]

and have you tried launching the visual studio installer to resolve whatever configuration problem there is?

[void dawn]

yeah , i will try again another time just to be sure

[slender nymph]

you should try opening the visual studio installer program now to see what it actually wants you to do. the error message isn't saying you need to reinstall, it is saying that the configuration for the install is not complete

[inland cobalt]

Stupid question, how can i initialise a dictionary of monobehaviour objects?

    private Dictionary<string, ObjectPool> _pools;

this function is trying to access it

    public bool TryFindPool(string name, out ObjectPool pool) => _pools.TryGetValue(name, out pool);

However cant due to: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

When i try and do the usual = new(), it complains at me because you're not allowed to do that with monobehaviours apparently, so im not really sure what im supposed to do

Here's my whole script for context:

public class ObjectPoolManager : Singleton<ObjectPoolManager>
{
    private Dictionary<string, ObjectPool> _pools;

    public ObjectPool CreatePool(string name, GameObject prefab, uint initSize)
    {
        if(_pools.ContainsKey(name)) throw new ArgumentException($"Object pool with identifier {name} already exists");
        ObjectPool pool = new(prefab, initSize, transform);
        _pools.Add(name, pool);
        return pool;
    }

    public bool DestroyPool(string name)
    {
        if(!_pools.ContainsKey(name)) return false;
        _pools[name].Dispose();
        _pools.Remove(name);
        return true;
    }

    public ObjectPool FindPool(string name) => _pools.GetValueOrDefault(name, null);
    public bool TryFindPool(string name, out ObjectPool pool) => _pools.TryGetValue(name, out pool);
}```

[slender nymph]

you need to instantiate the dictionary with new

the Dictionary is not a MonoBehaviour so that would not cause any issues. if you are seeing anything about newing a MB then you're doing something else

[cosmic dagger]

I agree with Box. You need to initialize your Dictionary _pools. You don't do that anywhere . . .

[inland cobalt]

Oh right, that's what i was doing initially but got an error, i'll change it back and let you know the error

Oh it turns out it was due to the fact that i also had a list on my ObjectPool that i missed changing to new() as well and thought the error was coming from the same place, nevermind. Thanks!

[summer nova]

hey guys, newb here
I'm using Unity6 and using the new input system, and trying to create a 2D platform game. Very simple one, using a movement script also very basic.
Thing is, in previous versions, I used translate to move the player and addforce to jump, and now I'm using position and can't find my way to script Jump this way.
like this:

any tips?

I wrote in update something like jump = JumpAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
...but find myself lost here 😄

[rich adder]

why did you use MovePosition ?

[summer nova]

better use translate?

[rich adder]

no use the rigidbody velocity

to make a jump with this You'd have to calculate gravity on your own then apply opposite force up, plus you have to make your own collision detection

[summer nova]

in previous versions of unity i used this:
private void FixedUpdate()
{
transform.Translate(Vector2.right * Time.deltaTime * speed * horizontalInput);
}

//jump is on floor
private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    isOnFloor = true;
    animator.SetBool("jumpbool", false);

[rich adder]

this is still wrong

you never want to use Translate with rigidbodies, you mind as well teleport its the same thing

[summer nova]

yep, know that

[cosmic dagger]

This is not the correct way to move a rigidbody object . . .

[rich adder]

just change it to do
Vector2 vel = new (xInput * speed, rigidbody2d.velocity);
rigidbody2d.velocity = vel

[cosmic dagger]

Especially, placing it in FixedUpdate . . .

[rich ice]

!code

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[summer nova]

when you mean xInput, should i use MoveAction or JumpAction?

[queen adder]

How can I change the sprite of a game object with a script.

[rich adder]

var xInput = MoveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>().x

actuallyi in unity6 you can even use xInput directly without creating new v2
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-linearVelocityX.html

[rich adder]

access the spriteRenderer 's sprite property

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/SpriteRenderer-sprite.html

make a field in the inspector if you want to assign a specific sprite

[queen adder]

okay.

[west radish]

*linearVelocity

[rich adder]

yeah unity 6+ and above

[summer nova]

but for jumping you don't use addforce?

[rich adder]

yeah use addforce for jump

[summer nova]

oh, ok

I have to study that a bit more

[queen adder]

I do not understand this error. Could someone help me please?

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

public class redGreenScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public gameLogic logic;
    public SpriteRenderer spriteRenderer;
    public Sprite[] sprites;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        logic = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Logic").GetComponent<gameLogic>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (logic.isRed == true)
        {
            spriteRenderer.sprite = sprites[1];
            Debug.Log("Red");
        }
        else
        {
            spriteRenderer.sprite = sprites[0];
            Debug.Log("Red");
        }
    }
}

[rich adder]

get used to debugging a null reference exception

whatever is on line 21 is null

you cannot access something that is null because computer has no idea what to access

most likely gameLogic was not found on gameobject with tag Logic

also no need to use tags if you're looking for a script

[frigid sequoia]

Is it fine to use Math.Infinity on Raycast or it's gonna like... try to check for a lot of points and get messy?

[rich adder]

wdym a lot of points?

it only goes as far until it hits something

[frigid sequoia]

Like checking the whole line towards infinity

[west radish]

Think of a raycast like a fancy laser pointer

[rich adder]

nah it checks hit at the "tip" when something hits, it stops

[west radish]

And you can control how long the beam is

[queen adder]

My tag is correctly set up on the Game Object so I don't understand why that would be the problem.

[frigid sequoia]

But it doesn't find anything is just gonna keep checking up to infinte or what?

[rich adder]

then its a reading problem, see how it says LAYER and not Tag?

[queen adder]

It is the only way I have learnt. Is there a faster way?

[frigid sequoia]

Doesn't that take like actally forever?

[queen adder]

Sorry 🤦‍♂️

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.FindFirstObjectByType.html

[west radish]

Screenshot the red green script in the inspector

As in the one that's on a game objects

[cosmic dagger]

The Tag literally says Untagged and the Layer says Logic . . .

[rich adder]

using strings is messy anyway. forget tags

[west radish]

@rich adder it'll make sense

[rich adder]

easier to just do
logic = FindFirstObjectByType<gameLogic>(FindObjectsInactive.Include)

[rich adder]

is this object on a prefab?

[queen adder]

no

[west radish]

drag the game logic gameobject into the field in the red green script

[queen adder]

okay

[frigid sequoia]

This is gonna return true if it does find the component, right?

[timber tide]

you dont need the generic parameters as it's implied in the out

[void thicket]

You don't need == true either

[timber tide]

it returns false if the component is not found

[frigid sequoia]

I thought it returned null

[timber tide]

and out would become null, so you can actually check either

[void thicket]

It returns bool

It's not possible to return null

[cosmic dagger]

it returns bool and assigns the out parameter . . .

You either use the generic parameter or explicitly put the type . . .

TryGetComponent<DraggeablePlayer>(out draggeablePlayer)

TryGetComponent(out DraggeablePlayer draggeablePlayer)

[drifting cosmos]

is the draggeableplayer a type like how an int or a string is

[slender nymph]

yes, every class, interface, enum, etc that you define in your code is a type

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, because you have to put a type in the generic field . . .

[frigid sequoia]

So this makes sense?

[cosmic dagger]

Basically, everything is a type . . .

[slender nymph]

yes, however you don't need to access the gameObject property on the collider to call TryGetComponent since it is also defined on Component

[void thicket]

You could also chain with &&

[slender nymph]

also, just FYI but you do still have to specify a type for the variable if you are creating a local variable in place. however specifying the generic type parameter on the method call allows you to use var in place of the actual type for the out parameter

[frigid sequoia]

Ok.... so if I want to now move the object along, I cannot use Input.mousePosition raw right? I would need to use a raycast again right?

And tell it to move within the plane of the fist hit?

[void thicket]

That's up to game logic

[frigid sequoia]

I mean like this

The mouse position uses a totally different metric from the world transform isn't it?

[void thicket]

Mouse position is screen space and you can convert it to world space with ScreenPointToRay or ScreenToWorldPoint etc

You are not forced to use raycast

[shrewd gazelle]

Hey guys just wanted to ask if i have a bool variable and want to reference it in another script is all i have to do is make it public and use it from another script or are there more steps

[slender nymph]

you need to get a reference to the component that the bool is on, but as long as you do that and the bool is public you can access it
https://unity.huh.how/references

[frigid sequoia]

So in this case the ScreenToWolrdPoint would be the one I am looking for?

[void thicket]

Again that's up to game design. I don't know what you are making

[rich ice]

there are a few other different methods of doing it too (like singletons for example), although yeah that's how you'd normally do it

[obsidian granite]

Are you okay with a fixed distance from the camera to your world point? If so, you can use ScreenToWorldPoint. Do you want the location of the mouse in world space to be accurate to the depth of the objects in world space? If so, you can use ScreenPointToRay

[frigid sequoia]

It's 2D, so the Z axis is always 0

[obsidian granite]

then screen to world point would be what you're looking for

[subtle osprey]

im trying to get a score system running and its not working

[frigid sequoia]

Ya, I think this should work?

[eager spindle]

the gameobject that PPtext is on doesnt contain the component Text.

You probably added a TextMeshProUGUI to it instead.

[frigid sequoia]

But now I need a collider to detect the hit. I am now wondering... are the players meant to be colliders and the things the can collide with triggercolliders?

Cause I kinda forgot

[subtle osprey]

Oh what should I change text to then?

[frigid sequoia]

They might want to use physics for stuff like pushing them around and all that kind of stuff, so not sure

Can I apply physic force to non-rigidbodies?

[rocky canyon]

no, you'd use translation

[frigid sequoia]

I want to do stuff like... push them in or away, check if they were pushed into a wall and stuff like that

Not sure if translation is gonna work well for that

That is not.... detecting a hit somehow???

[north kiln]

How are you debugging it? (I.e. what's the updated code?)

[frigid sequoia]

With a drawLine? Like how else? I don't understand the question

This is checking for ANY non-trigger collider on the Default layer right?

I swapped the buttomdown for a just button to see it clearer

[north kiln]

I was more concerned about the print statement than the line

[wintry quarry]

This drawline is incorrect

[frigid sequoia]

The second print is just not showing, si it's not detecting anything

[wintry quarry]

DrawLine expects two position vectors

[north kiln]

You should use DrawRay instead if you're passing a position and a direction

[frigid sequoia]

What's the difference?

[north kiln]

If I tell you to move to north that's not a thing

Because north is a direction relative to a position, not a position itself

[frigid sequoia]

Welp, is doing exactly the same

Not detected

[wintry quarry]

What did you change and how

[frigid sequoia]

I just changed the DrawLine to DrawRay

So nothing should change actually

But I have no idea how that is not returning a hit

Layer is Default, has a collider and a rigidbody too

[north kiln]

Your layer is set to 0

which is not a LayerMask

https://unity.huh.how/physics-queries/layer-masks

[frigid sequoia]

It's not the default?

[frigid sequoia]

But I don't want to create a LayerMask, I want to use just any and all, like the default layer

Doesn't Raycast use that if u don't use the overload for layers?

[north kiln]

You're passing a layer into a parameter that expects a LayerMask

[frigid sequoia]

Cause I did at the start and didn't register either

Not detecting either

[rich ice]

doesn't drawRay just draw a line? i dont think it does the collision stuff too

never used it myself. im just assuming it works the same as the gizmos draw ray

[frigid sequoia]

I am drawing a line to see where the RayCast is going

Or at least that's the idea

Not sure if that is actually the case seeing the results

[rich ice]

oh kk, just realised i've missed a lot in chat. gimme a bit to catch up

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, so no fucking idea, so I am gonna close it and go to sleep and with some luck it will be just unity doing weird stuff and will work tomorrow without touching anything

Cause I think it totally should

[spark ember]

I'm working on a VR Game, and I cant seem to get the net to interact with physics

Basketball Net colliding with ball, im not sure what the code to get it doing like that is, but i need help

[rich ice]

probably a #🥽┃virtual-reality or #⚛️┃physics question

[spark ember]

ty fot letting me know

[cunning compass]

I recently started learning Unity and i am getting this error. Can someone explain to me what does it mean by "cannot be the same as their enclosing type"?

[rich adder]

your "enclosing type" is the class

its got the same name as the method

thats a no-no

[cunning compass]

Ohh

I see

so do i change the class name?

[rich adder]

try to steer away from unity taken names lol

yea

[cunning compass]

ok

tysm

[cosmic dagger]

Yeah, that's a typo. My fault for trying to remember and write the syntax in Discord. I mainly use the generic version like the GetComponent counterpart . . .

[subtle osprey]

eh? what am i doing wrong

[cosmic dagger]

What does the error message say? that would help . . .

[cosmic dagger]

and it's post to post your !code for us to see. a small snippet doesn't help that much . . .

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[cosmic dagger]

Thanks. Did you check the method from the Unity docs?

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs0176

[cosmic dagger]

It's a difference between using an instance vs accessing the type . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Oh, cool. You have this one as well. About everything is covered on here now. That's awesome!

[subtle osprey]

am i missing something or is this not the exact same thing?

OH

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, but one is red and the other is green . . .

[subtle osprey]

OH MY GOD

i didnt capitalise the g

[charred spoke]

C# is case sensitive

[cosmic dagger]

Take a closer look . . .

[subtle osprey]

i have been staring at this for 20 minutes

[cosmic dagger]

It's like using a kid to do an adult's job . . .

[blazing ice]

i will go INSANE from this data persistence project submission they did not teach this well enough

idk what the fuck i'm writing lol

might just give up and copy the code but if i do that i dont learn anything

i also havent really gotten back to coding 'normal game' stuff for the past 5 days i might start forgetting things so i really gotta start on my own personal game lol

[inland cobalt]

Hey all, is there any way i can still use Instantiate in this script without requiring it to be a monobehaviour?

public class ObjectPool : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Queue<GameObject> _pool = new();
    private GameObject _prefab;
    private Transform _parent;

    public ObjectPool(GameObject prefab, uint initSize, Transform parent)
    {
        _prefab = prefab;
        _parent = parent;
        for (int i = 0; i < initSize; i++)
        {
            GameObject instantiatedObj = Instantiate(prefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity, parent);
            instantiatedObj.SetActive(false);
            _pool.Enqueue(instantiatedObj);
        }
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        foreach(GameObject obj in _pool)
        {
            Destroy(obj);
        }

        _pool.Clear();
    }

    public GameObject DePool(Transform newTransform)
    {
        if (!_pool.TryDequeue(out GameObject obj)) obj = Instantiate(_prefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity, _parent);
        obj.transform.SetPositionAndRotation(newTransform.position, newTransform.rotation);
        obj.SetActive(true);
        return obj;
    }

    public void RePool(GameObject obj)
    {
        _pool.Enqueue(obj);
        obj.SetActive(false);
    }
}```

I'm trying to create an object pooling manager, and im creating a dictionary of these objects here:
```cs
    private Dictionary<string, ObjectPool> _pools = new();

But unity doesn't like the fact that im using new() on monobehaviours. I know i could add it as a component to the manager, but that feels like a janky solution

[inland cobalt]

So do i need to define the logic to instantiate an object within my manager rather than my individual ObjectPool then?