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[acoustic belfry]

the speed was set by the enemy that shoots it

        {
            animator.Play("Base Layer.MortemRifleShooting");
            GameObject nuevoProyectil = Instantiate(proyectil, proyectilposition.position, Quaternion.identity);
            Vector3 direccion = (objetivo.position - proyectilposition.position).normalized;
            Rigidbody2D rb = nuevoProyectil.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
            if (rb != null)
            {
                rb.linearVelocity = direccion * bulletspeed;
            }

            balas--;
        }```

[rich adder]

bullet needs its own script

[acoustic belfry]

no, it has it

but it doesnt has it speeds

[rich adder]

it does in the Rigidbody

[acoustic belfry]

this is all

public class MortemRifleProyectile : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int damage = 5;

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.transform.TryGetComponent(out ValeriaController player))
        {
            player.TakeDamage(damage);
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
}```

[acoustic belfry]

so this means i have to take the rigidbody's values, and then reflects them

[rich adder]

pretty much

store it in a vector3

Vector3 rigidbodyVelocity
FixedUpdate(){
rigidbodyVelocity = rb.linearVelocity

if its a trigger though it gets a bit more complicated

because with triggers You dont really get the normal

[acoustic belfry]

with triggers you mean the
private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)?

[rich adder]

meaning the collider is a trigger yes

[acoustic belfry]

dont worry, i will use the same mechanic of harming an enemy, just that instead of damaging the proyectile (wich would be cursed) it will make the speed thing

[rich ice]

btw, make sure to put ```cs and not just ``` when posting codeblocks

[rich adder]

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collider)
    {
        if (collision.transform.TryGetComponent(out ValeriaController player))
        {
            if (player.IsParry)
            {
                var collisionPoint = collider.ClosestPoint(rb.position);
                var dir = rb.position - collisionPoint;
                rb.linearVelocity = Vector3.Reflect(rigidbodyVelocity, dir.normalized);
            }
            else
            {
                player.TakeDamage(damage);
                Destroy(gameObject);
            }
        }
    }```

[cosmic dagger]

You're checking meltdownTimer, but the value displayed is currentNumber, which is calculated after the check. Compare that variable instead . . .

[nimble apex]

once u used loadimage
https://docs.unity3d.com/530/Documentation/ScriptReference/Texture2D.LoadImage.html

can u redefine the size of the texture?

[rocky canyon]

#1253440741322133545 message finally got it worked out

until i dont 🙂 lol

i barely caught that bug

[cosmic dagger]

Hahaha . . .

[nimble apex]

        texture.LoadImage(File.ReadAllBytes(filePath), true);
        if (texture.width > 480 || texture.height > 480)
        {
            texture.Reinitialize(480, 480);
        }

        texture.name = fileName;
        
        return texture;```

i gonna force texture like this first

[acoustic belfry]

btw this is necessary to be inside the onTriggerEnter2D?

cuz my idea was to make this inside a Void

thats how my meele works, it calls a state from the enemies

[rich adder]

wat?

[acoustic belfry]

this is how my weapon works, look

[rich adder]

inside a Void

[acoustic belfry]

 {
     // Cast a ray to detect if an enemy is in range

     Vector2 MacheteRange = new Vector2(attackRange, attackRange);
     Collider2D hitEnemy = Physics2D.OverlapBox(machetepos.transform.position, MacheteRange, 0f, demons);

     // If an enemy is detected, deal damage
     if (hitEnemy != null)
     {
         if (hitEnemy.TryGetComponent(out EnemyBase enemy))
         {
             enemy.TakeDamage(meleeDamage);
         }
     }
 }```

[acoustic belfry]

a normal method

[rich adder]

OnTriggerEnter2D is also a "void" return method

[acoustic belfry]

but without needing to trigger the collision

cuz the machete and the player has the same collision

...so it would be a paradox

[acoustic belfry]

or no, i dontk now how overlaps works

[rich adder]

confused to where the bullet part comes in?

[acoustic belfry]

the idea is

the same way i make enemies go into their hurt method

i will make the proyectile go into it reflect method

public class MortemRifleProyectile : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int damage = 5;

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.transform.TryGetComponent(out ValeriaController player))
        {
            player.TakeDamage(damage);
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
    public void Parried()
    { 
      things
    }
}```

it makes sense in my brain

[rich adder]

You would still want to track the velocity of projectile rigidbody in its own class

[acoustic belfry]

i suposse

the thing is, i tried to paste it inside the method, and it showered some errors

[rich adder]

paste wat?

dont mindless copy code without understanding what its doing

You can call Parried if you use a physics query sure

the rest is similiar

[rich ice]

can you make sure to put ```cs and not just ``` when posting codeblocks

[drifting cosmos]

so if you stache a reference to a game object you have to use _spawnedObj.getcomponent().Level unless you use Unit instead of gameobject type but what if you have other classes on a game object like if you have a mage class or something would you create another of that same game object but of type that class?

[rich adder]

Unit unitPrefab;
Unit instancedUnit = Instantiate(unitPrefab);
Mage mage = instancedUnit.GetComponent<Mage>();```

maybe I misunderstood your question ?

[acoustic belfry]

btw what values are collision and rigidbodyVelocity?

[rich adder]

rigidbodyVelocity is a Vector3
collisionPoint is a Vector3 also

[drifting cosmos]

i just mean if you have a game object you store references so you dont do find i think but what if that game object has a bunch of components

[rich adder]

can you give me an example, not sure I get what ur asking

[acoustic belfry]

but i mean, how do i put them, cuz it says those values aren't set, specificly how i have to set them

using UnityEngine;

public class MortemRifleProyectile : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int damage = 5;
    public Rigidbody2D rb;


    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collider)
    {
        if (collision.transform.TryGetComponent(out ValeriaController player))
        {
            if (player.IsParry)
            {
                var collisionPoint = collider.ClosestPoint(rb.position);
                var dir = rb.position - collisionPoint;
                rb.linearVelocity = Vector3.Reflect(rigidbodyVelocity, dir.normalized);
            }
            else
            {
                player.TakeDamage(damage);
                Destroy(gameObject);
            }
        }
    }
    }```

[drifting cosmos]

like you store the references as unit a type other than gameobject so you dont have to use getcomponent but what if you have a bunch of components

[rich adder]

wdym how do you put them ?the same way you declare other variables you did
the only difference is rigidbodyVelocity goes in fixedupdate to be update by rigidbody

[rich ice]

```cs
code
```

not
```
code
```

[acoustic belfry]

what i mean is, to what i set them
also i dont understand the cs thing

[rich ice]

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[acoustic belfry]

got it

[acoustic belfry]

oh wow

[rich adder]

the only one needs to be set is rigidbodyVelocity in fixedupdate, the rest are already set on the trigger happening

[acoustic belfry]

but yeah, im pretty confused right now

[acoustic belfry]

but the thing is how

sorry im just getting confused

[rich adder]

idk wat you mean how ?

also didnt you want to do from the weapon itself now you're back to trigger?

[acoustic belfry]

i realized my plan was dumb

or not idk, i just want this to work, i didnt knew making this would be so tiring

[rich adder]

its valid

you have to pick one or the other

either put the logic in the projectile or the parrying / deflecting object

Vector3.Reflect but in 3d . I put it on the projectile itself

[rich adder]

what about them ?

[drifting cosmos]

then you can only do that for one class

[rich adder]

You can only grab 1 type return from Instantiate

but again once you have that either use a public field/property to access the other components from that script, or do a GetComponent on the instanced object like i shown above

[rocky canyon]

TryGet works well.. if thats what we're talkin bout

[acoustic belfry]

Holup.
What if i delete the proyectile, and make the player shoot a brand new proyectile with the same sprite as the enemy one?.
I did the same thing for a doom mod long ago

[rocky canyon]

public class Projectile : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        // use collision to Try to Get CharacterController2D
        if(collision.TryGetComponent<CharacterController_2D>(out CharacterController_2D characterController))
        {
            // if we're here then our Trigger found a CharacterController_2D
            Debug.Log($"We activated Trigger. Reference to CharacterController: {characterController.name}");

            // we could do something w/ our CharacterController_2D if we wanted.

            // now we destroy this gameobject
            Destroy(this.gameObject);
        }
    }
}```

[rocky canyon]

i think u shold do it however u feel like doing it..
but i would sit there and just test for a bit..
get ur collisions working correctly.. debug the values in the console window..
see what ur hitting.. what references ur grabbing.. and all that jazz

[acoustic belfry]

Makes sense

[rocky canyon]

just little OnTrigger2D test i did real quick.. but thats before i read the entire thing..
this just shows the collision via that code i sent above ^

[red cedar]

Hello, I'm creating new project but I got this error already. Does anyone know how to resolve it?

[rich adder]

restart unity

if problem persists go to package manager and remove Version Control package

[vagrant chasm]

hii im new to unity, can someone help me, why is my character is falling through the map

[burnt vapor]

Hi, it would help if you shared more about your character and how you set up collission specifically. I assume from this message alone you forgot a step with the collision and therefore it fails. Consider following the steps to debug this: https://unity.huh.how/physics/physics-issues

Specifically, check if everything has a collider and check that these can communicate with eachother. Additionally, make sure you use the correct colliders. For example, don't use 2d colliders when you work in 3d.

[rich ice]

either the floor or the player doesn't have a collider

[strange tapir]

is there a nice way to disable the physics of a game object? for example, when the player dies i want all the objects on the map to stop moving, i was thinking of using a static bool but having to check everywhere if the player is dead seems unnecesary, i was wondering if a function like gameObject.DisablePhysics(); exists..

i know Time.timeScale exists, but that will also disable the player

[naive pawn]

gameobjects don't have physics

[strange tapir]

i meant like the Update() function or something

[naive pawn]

i think timeScale would be appropriate here

[naive pawn]

that would be enabled on the component

[strange tapir]

thanks

[naive pawn]

if the player is dead, what would timeScale mess with?

[strange tapir]

it falls to the ground

[naive pawn]

i think timescale would be most appropriate here, and there's a few ways to work around that

[green badge]

I'm using this parallax script:

using UnityEngine;

public class Parallax : MonoBehaviour
{
private float length, startpos;
public GameObject cam;
public float parallaxEffect;

void Start()
{
    startpos = transform.position.x;
    length = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().bounds.size.x;
}

void FixedUpdate()
{
    float temp = (cam.transform.position.x * (1 - parallaxEffect));
    float dist = (cam.transform.position.x * parallaxEffect);

    transform.position = new Vector3(startpos + dist, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);

    if (temp > startpos + length) 
        startpos += length;
    else if (temp < startpos - length) 
        startpos -= length;
}

}

And when I start the game it makes all 3 backgrounds snap into the same position, what are the possible fixes? the images are the before and after I start the game

[strange tapir]

i guess Time.unscaledDeltaTime exists but..

[naive pawn]

• change the timescale a bit after the player dies, giving the ragdoll time to fall
• change the timescale gradually, giving an effect of time slowing down until frozen
• use unscaled time for the death animation (if it's a separate animation) (though this would make everything but the player stop moving while the ragdoll falls, that might look weird)

[naive pawn]

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[rich ice]

dont crosspost

[strange tapir]

funnily, the player has no death animation, the "animation" is just the gravity acting upont he player, the only thing that happens is that the input is disabled 😭

[green badge]

you're not even a mod or anything just doing it for the love of the game

Maybe get some shit going on in your life

[eternal needle]

<@&502884371011731486> (random insults when being told the rules)

[naive pawn]

not-mods have power to tell people how to get help appropriately, yes

[naive pawn]

rip that last option then

although you could simulate gravity under unscaled time yourself, it'd probably be a pain though

[strange tapir]

im thinking of just disabling manually

since all my :"Objects" live under Managers object

if i disable Managers i presume everything will stop too

[naive pawn]

it will not

[strange tapir]

dangit

[naive pawn]

enabled is a property of each component, it doesn't propagate to anything

you're thinking of SetActive

but that'll make everything disappear too

[frosty hound]

This is a community run server. People do not have to be mods to remind you of the rules. You've already been told not to crosspost in the past, so if you choose to continue to, you will not be allowed to post.

[naive pawn]

anyways @green badge what even is the issue with backgrounds snapping on play? do they move correctly according to parallax? do they tile correctly when you move far enough?

[green badge]

✌️

[green badge]

It's like

they do snap in front of the camera when u move out of range

But I got 3 different ones and they all go into the same position as the game starts idk if you understand what I mean

[naive pawn]

ah i see

[green badge]

I just thought of a fix

I'll do that rq

[naive pawn]

if that doesn't work, please format your code properly or use a paste site so we can actually read it

[green badge]

yea mb, thanks for the help

[strange tapir]

watch this,

it somehow worked

[naive pawn]

well sure but that's not going to be very flexible or maintainable

you'll have to make sure everything is reenabled properly, and no state broke in the meantime

maybe it works, but imo seems like a pretty fragile system

[strange tapir]

well the thing is, the only thing that can happen from this state is that you reset the game

[naive pawn]

reset as in, reload the entire thing?

[strange tapir]

yeah

[naive pawn]

there's no respawn mechanic?

[strange tapir]

reload the game scene

[strange tapir]

nope

[naive pawn]

oh i thought you meant reload the entire game, like close and reboot lmao

[strange tapir]

oh nooo

its just a 1:1 recreation of flappy bird im doing

[eternal needle]

you could just use events and subscribe to some global OnPlayerDeath event. then have the scripts disable themselves when the player dies

[naive pawn]

ah, ok. well, more power to you, but just keep in mind that this does not scale particularly well

[strange tapir]

yeah i can tell

[naive pawn]

not perf wise, it just could have a lot of hidden consequences if you have more complex systems

[strange tapir]

i might do this

[eternal needle]

in a flappy bird scenario, shouldnt you just have 1 script control the location of all pipes anyways?

then that one script can just stop moving them

[strange tapir]

i move pipes and the ground

they both have their own "Managers"

that sit under a Managers game object, i just take that Managers object and disable both of them

[vagrant chasm]

if i have something like this, should i put the component on the model, camera or the parent

[strange tapir]

animations are gonna be the death of me

apparently "Exit" doesnt stop the animation 😭

it just goes back to "entry"

[burnt vapor]

It would not matter because the collission would still trigger as far as I know

But I would assume you just put it on the parent here since that's the main component

You could even make a third child purely for the collission if you want to organize it a bit and separate collission

Your issue is probably that you use either the wrong type of collission, or the collission is set incorrectly for it to work

[vagrant chasm]

ive done this to all model

still falling 😦

[topaz mortar]

Would this calculate correctly? Or would it get stuck/throw errors when values get too large for ints?
All the variables used in the formula are ints:
return (long)(baseXp + (baseXp * MathF.Floor(level / levelIncrease)));

[naive pawn]

well it's kinematic so that's not gonna fall on its own. how are you moving your rbs?

[naive pawn]

level and levelIncrease are also ints?

[topaz mortar]

yes

[naive pawn]

you don't need that Mathf.Floor then

[topaz mortar]

what if level is 3 and levelincrease is 2?

[naive pawn]

you'd get 1

[topaz mortar]

oh k

[naive pawn]

int/int -> int

[silk night]

but its uses RoundToInt instead of floor

[naive pawn]

anyways if the result gets too large for an int, it'd overflow before you cast it to a long

[naive pawn]

no

it uses trunc

[eternal needle]

it truncates

[silk night]

oh nvm

[naive pawn]

trunc is equivalent to floor for nonnegative values

[topaz mortar]

cool 🙂

[topaz mortar]

does that mean cast all the ints to long?

[naive pawn]

so if you suspect it'll get too large for an int, just cast it to long somewhere before the calculation

or have some value already be a long

[topaz mortar]

ah just one is fine?

[naive pawn]

no, any arithmatic involving an int and a long will result in a long; the int will get promoted

[topaz mortar]

the int will be happy to hear that 🙂

[naive pawn]

you could also consider uint

[topaz mortar]

so:
return (long)baseXp + (baseXp * level / levelIncrease);

[naive pawn]

to answer your question more directly; if levelIncrease overflows to 0, you'll get a div by zero error.
anything other than that case won't error, you'll just get incorrect results.

[topaz mortar]

probably should get the 2nd baseXp, since that's the one going to get too big for int

[naive pawn]

a theoretical overflow would most likely happen in the multiplication part, so you'd want that to be handled with longs

[topaz mortar]

return baseXp + ((long)baseXp * level / levelIncrease);
It is eventually going to be too large for int, so might as well set it up right from the start not?

[eternal needle]

if any of these can get too large for ints, you should just move away from ints entirely there

its not like itll be converted correctly if the value already overflowed

[topaz mortar]

all individual values are fine as int, but the calculation result will not be

[teal viper]

Kinematic rbs don't give a damn about collisions. If you want the object to be processed by physics correctly, it needs to be non kinematic.

Or you should handle the collision manually in code.

[polar acorn]

To be more accurate - Kinematic rigidbodies exert forces, but do not respond to them

[faint osprey]

how do i read the value of the individual things like depth and horizontal

    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        playerInput.Disable();

        playerInput.Player.Movement.canceled -= Handle_Movement;
    }

    private void Handle_Movement(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        Vector2 direction = new Vector2(context.ReadValue<>)
    }```
this is what i got so far and now i dont know how to get the individual values for depth and horizontal

[wintry quarry]

You need to redo this

Remove all the bindings in the action.
Set the action type to Value and control type to Vector2.
Then add an up/left/right/down composite or whatever it's called

And add all 4 keys there

[vagrant chasm]

Oo okay

ill try

Btw how do i make an animation

Do i need blender?

[wintry quarry]

You don't need blender but blender is probably a good idea

Its tools for animating are better than Unity's

Look at mixamo too

[graceful fractal]

I have an incredibly confusing problem here.

Within this if statement, neither Log is being triggered, it is as if the entire If statement is being skipped.

However, this only happens if I click on the very first button of the list of attacks, for every single other attack, it fires through normally, and the information is updated.

What could possibly cause this?

[naive pawn]

well, what's above it?

[graceful fractal]

This is the full Update

[lone sable]

I think I might be stupid but... I'm trying to have an object follow the path of a lineRender. The problem, is that it seems to be traveling VERY slowly through it.. and I'm not really sure why that would be happening? I would figure it would be near instant.

private IEnumerator FollowPath() {
        transform.position = lineRenderer.GetPosition(0);
        Debug.Log("Duration: " + duration);

        for (int i = 0; i < lineRenderer.positionCount - 1; i++) {
            Vector3 pos = lineRenderer.GetPosition(i);
            transform.position = pos;
            yield return null;
        }
    }

[naive pawn]

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[naive pawn]

but anyways, try debugging before other conditionals

[graceful fractal]

    {
        if (state == BattleState.PlayerAttack)
        {
            if (EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject != battleMenuControlSystem.currentlySelectedGameObjectByEventSystem)
            {

                TMP_Text _textHolder = null;

                foreach (var text in battleMenuControlSystem.attackText)
                {
                    if (EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject != null && EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.TryGetComponent<Button>(out Button _button))
                    {

                        if (_button.GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>() == text && _textHolder == null)
                        {
                            _textHolder = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.GetComponentInChildren<TMP_Text>();

                        }
                    }

                }
                if (_textHolder != null)
                {
                    Debug.Log(_textHolder.text);
                    foreach (var knownAttack in playerUnit.entity.knownAttacks)
                    {
                        if (_textHolder.text == knownAttack.Base.Attackname)
                        {
                            battleMenuControlSystem.UpdateAttackDetails(knownAttack);

                        }
                    }
                } else
                {
                    Debug.Log("Textholder is null");
                }

            }





        }
    }```

[graceful fractal]

I have been for about an hour and I've been able to narrow it down to that spesific If Statement.

[polar acorn]

If none of the logs print then probably one of the first two if statements evaluates to false and skips them

[naive pawn]

ok, if you put a log before that if, does that trigger?
if not, then the entire if isn't being reached

[graceful fractal]

no... no it is not reached....

I'm actually mad at myself for not realizing that, thank you.

Today has been one of those days

[polar acorn]

Since there's a log in the if and else, if neither are printing, then it is definitely not reaching this if statement. Log the value before the if statements it is inside of to find out which isn't running

[graceful fractal]

I figured out what is causing it. Or at least I hope this is it

I fixed it

LOL it was such an easy fix after I figured out that if wasn't being reached. Thank you

So, in another script, I hap hazardly already set those values to be equal in a redundancy check, but that caused the first update to never fire, so the first button of the group would never get updated.

Cutting out that part of the redundancy check fixed it

[frank rivet]

this is my flight controller and camera script

using UnityEngine;

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Follow Settings")]
    public Transform target;
    public float mouseSensitivity = 100f;
    public float distance = 10f;
    public float height = 5f;
    public float smoothSpeed = 5f;
    public float minVerticalAngle = -80f;
    public float maxVerticalAngle = 80f;

    private float xRotation = 0f;
    private float yRotation = 0f;
    private Vector3 velocity = Vector3.zero;

    private void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }

    private void LateUpdate()
    {
        if (target == null) return;

        // Get mouse input
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

        // Apply rotation with clamping
        xRotation -= mouseY;
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, minVerticalAngle, maxVerticalAngle);
        yRotation += mouseX;

        // Calculate offset and rotation
        Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0);
        Vector3 offset = rotation * new Vector3(0, height, -distance);

        // Smoothly follow target
        Vector3 targetPosition = target.position + offset;
        transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.position, targetPosition, ref velocity, smoothSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        
        // Maintain focus on target
        transform.LookAt(target.position);
    }

    public Vector3 GetCameraCenterPoint()
    {
        return target.position + transform.forward * distance;
    }
}```

I am SOOOOO confused on how to make the plane face the center of the free cam

i just implemented the free cam and its kinda alright

but when I tried to make the aircraft turn to the center of it

it rotated without banking and using turning speed

[ripe shard]

your SmoothDamp usage is wrong, maybe review the API https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector3.SmoothDamp.html

[frank rivet]

bet

[faint osprey]

{
    public Transform playerBody;
    public float mouseSensitivity;

    public Vector2 lookInput;
    private float xRotation;

    private void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }

    private void Update()
    {

        float mouseX = lookInput.x * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
        float mouseY = lookInput.y * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

        xRotation -= mouseY;
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);
        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);

        playerBody.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);
    }
}```

i dont understand why camera movement is so jittery

[swift crag]

Do not multiply mouse input by deltaTime

mouse input is already an absolute amount of movement

unlike a thumbstick input, which is a rate of movement (and thus needs to be converted into an amount of movement by multiplying by deltaTime)

[swift crag]

The longer the frame takes, the more mouse movement can happen in one frame

When you multiply by deltaTime, you wind up making those long movements even longer

[tender crater]

can one of yall try help me in editor my games works perfectly fine but in builds i get a MethodNotFoundExeception and ive debugged alot the method is public ive made sure it doesnt get stripped i just dont know why

[wintry quarry]

share more details

[tender crater]

so my button uses a clickedOK method to delete the ui text and spawn another one for more text however when clicking on the Ok button it just says methodNotFoundExeception

and as a result my game cant be played because it wont progress until the ok button has been pressed

[swift crag]

what kind of build is this? PC/mac/linux, or Web?

how are you seeing this exception? did you make a development build?

[tender crater]

Windows Pc

yes development build

[swift crag]

is it IL2CPP or Mono?

[tender crater]

mono

[swift crag]

okay, so code stripping probably isn't the issue

can you show the exception message?

[tender crater]

just that really

nothing else

[swift crag]

er, actually, it could still be happening; i was thinkign about the wrong thing here

[swift crag]

You may need to look in the log file to see more information. I forget how much appears in the in-game console..

[tender crater]

1 second

oh yeah i made a seperate debug log aswell to see

in the log it doesnt explain much either bascially the same thing im seeing in

the ingame console

[swift crag]

well that's vague

How is the button's target assigned?

did you set it up in the inspector, or did you add a listener via script?

[tender crater]

listener

[swift crag]

okay, so you did it via script

Can you show the relevant code?

[tender crater]

public void clickedOK()
{
Debug.Log("clickedOK was called");

    if (!isActiveUI())
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("clickedOK() called but UI is not active.");
        return;
    }
    if (textIndex < texts.Count)
    {
        displayCurrentMessage();
        playOpenSound();
        return;
    }
    close();
    if (onOK != null)
    {
        VNLUtil.getInstance().doStartCoRoutine(onOK);
    }
}

[exotic jacinth]

Hey everyone! I'm experiencing an FPS drop when playing footstep and sprinting sounds. My code just picks a random AudioSource from an array and plays it, but as soon as I add footsteps, my FPS drops significantly. I've checked the profiler, and audio seems to be causing the issue. Does anyone have tips on optimizing audio playback in Unity? I'd really appreciate any help

[wintry quarry]

Can you show the profiler results you saw and your code?

[wintry quarry]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[tender crater]

public void clickedOK()
    {
        Debug.Log("clickedOK was called");

        if (!isActiveUI())
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("clickedOK() called but UI is not active.");
            return;
        }
        if (textIndex < texts.Count)
        {
            displayCurrentMessage();
            playOpenSound();
            return;
        }
        close();
        if (onOK != null)
        {
            VNLUtil.getInstance().doStartCoRoutine(onOK);
        }
    }

[wintry quarry]

can you show the inspector for your button

like - how you hooked this method up to the button

[wintry quarry]

uhhh what is this haha

none of this is standard unity stuff

How does this UI Button Message script work

And what does the inspector of the MessageUI object look like that you have there

[swift crag]

oh man that's an old inspector

[wintry quarry]

Is this like a Unity 4 or 5 thing

[tender crater]

2017

[wintry quarry]

• Why does this UI obejct have a box collider?
• What are these UI Button Message things, why not normal Button component? (that existed in 2017... right?)

[tender crater]

idk its a older project im just trynna fix em so i can release em i honestly do not know i think this was my first project

[wintry quarry]

my presumption is whatever object that you have assigned there does not have a script with that function

(the MessageUI object)

[tender crater]

I mean if it's really bad I'm willing to change it tbf

[tender crater]

if this was the case it wouldnt work in editor however it does

just in builds it doesnt

[wintry quarry]

maybe that object is being destroyed in a build or something

Can you show the inspector of that object

aalso what is the target platform you're using here? Windows?

[tender crater]

of the messageUI object?

[wintry quarry]

Yes

[tender crater]

yes windows

btw if you wondering this is what the hirenarchy looks like for it

[wintry quarry]

It probably is a code stripping problem

how did you "make sure it doesn't get stripped"?

[tender crater]

[System.Runtime.CompilerServices.MethodImpl(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.MethodImplOptions.NoInlining)]
is this not correct?

[wintry quarry]

no

Use the [Preserve] attribute

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/managed-code-stripping-preserving.html

[tender crater]

ok ill try it out

is this now correct?

[wintry quarry]

probably

[tender crater]

ok imma build now

dang it did not work

same error

[wintry quarry]

you sure it's the same method and not a different one this time?

[tender crater]

yes

[exotic jacinth]

using UnityEngine;

public class Footsteps : MonoBehaviour
{
    public AudioSource[] footsteps;
    public AudioSource[] Running;

    public void PlayFootStepAudio()
    {
        if (footsteps.Length == 0) return; // Prevent errors if no sounds are assigned

        int n = Random.Range(0, footsteps.Length);
        footsteps[n].Play(); // Play the selected footstep sound
    }

    public void PlaySprintAudio()
    {
        if (Running.Length == 0) return; // Prevent errors if no sprinting sounds are assigned

        int n = Random.Range(0, Running.Length); // Select a random sprinting sound
        Running[n].Play(); // Play the selected sprinting sound
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

looks like most of that is rendering, not audio

662ms in RenderLoop

[exotic jacinth]

so how do i fix it?

[pure drift]

!code

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```
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[pure drift]

i have this adjusted code for a weapon in my game https://paste.ofcode.org/aHrxTgB4H8E3eUKjx9Aj4g basically i want to instanitate it from my player like a bullet but im not sure how to go about it because of the target component in this script because i cant set it in the assets as i get a type mismatch

[swift crag]

You can't reference a scene object from a prefab

Whoever instantiates the prefab should give it the necessary scene references

[pure drift]

intresting thank you but if i instantiate it from the player how would it work because i reference the transform component in this script

[swift crag]

Thing instance = Instantiate(thingPrefab);
instance.foo = bar;

that kind of thing

[pure drift]

intresting thank you

[hasty tundra]

I have an object with a script running an OnTriggerEnter2D Function, and i want the trigger to count the hitbox of a child object. Is there a way to register the OnTriggerEnter of a collider not attached directly to the same object as the script?

[rich adder]

if you have a rigidbody the child should still receive triggers hits

[hasty tundra]

Theres the issue, i forgot the rigidbody 🤦‍♂️

[rich adder]

btw that null check is not needed , TryGetComponent returns true if the component is found

if(collision.gameObject.TryGetComponent(etc..){

[hasty tundra]

Yeah i noticed that (editing old code and i had no clue with trygetcomponent back then lmao

[rich adder]

If you want more precision or the child being origin of hitzone for specific things, you could use physics queries like Overlaps and Casts

[pure drift]

to my previous question i have it set up something like this how would i change it up its not making sense to me right now

[rich adder]

why is the player dealing with UI

UI should be something already inside the scene

the object in the scene should then reference the player when its spawned to track its stats to display

[pure drift]

im having a hard time using this code to launch the special powerup: https://paste.ofcode.org/aHrxTgB4H8E3eUKjx9Aj4g

from the player

[rich adder]

you haven't really explained what "hard time" means

whats preventing

[pure drift]

so i have a transform component but i cant really set that up in the prefab but i use that prefab in the player game object as seen above

[rich adder]

which transform is it ?

wdym you cant set that up

[pure drift]

because its in the hiearchy

[rich adder]

if the player prefab was placed already in the scene you can only add scene references to that player in the scene

[pure drift]

i want it as that middle circle to be the target

its its own gameobject

[rich adder]

how do you spwan it

[pure drift]

from the playerscript using instantiation

[rich adder]

you havent sent that

[pure drift]

https://paste.ofcode.org/aBbHZMq9Svv6XnmQDFwHuH

[rich adder]

so you want to pass target to the couscousInst?

[pure drift]

so basically i launch it from the player and it uses the seek to go to the middle point basically

[rich adder]

okay but that doesnt answer the question nor does it say how is the "middle point" target created

just from what I seen so far
CousCous couscousInst = Instantiate(CousCousPrefab, SpawnPoint.position, Quaternion.identity);
couscousInst.target = myTarget

other than that you need to explain more, in your mind it makes sense. To someone outside looking in you have to explain exactly what you want to do

[pure drift]

so basically the player launches this power up from the spawnpoint position (in front of the player), it uses seek to go to the middle of the screen(target gameobject) to destroy all enemies(that part is not implemented yet). what i am having a a hard time with is using the targets transform properly

[rich adder]

using the targets transform properly
in what way ?

is target already in the scene? or is it created at runtime

[pure drift]

its already in the scene its the empty gameobject in the middle and its at the bottom of the hiearchy

[rich adder]

Okay so you need to find it at runtime, or if player is in the heriarchy already like now just assign it?

btw this is pretty inefficient to do every frame..
GameObject[] enemiesArray = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("enemy");

if the player is already in the scene like you have it now, assign it from the instance in the scene then pass it that way.
Otherwise you need a tag / component you can search for at runtime

[pure drift]

im not really worried about finding the enemies right now im just trying to find a way to launch this missle from the player to reach the target

[rich adder]

alright well the answer remains the same

pass the reference on instantiation or do a search at runtime (less efficient)

[pure drift]

thank you i will look into these options

[shy orbit]

Trying to get player to rotate based on my mouse position but it wont follow my mouse, only rotates towards the position of the mouse where it was when i start the game when i move the player

[rich adder]

what have you tried

[shy orbit]

This is the code

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float playerSpeed;
    public Rigidbody2D rb;

    private Vector2 moveDirection;
    private Vector2 mousePosition;
    [SerializeField] private Camera sceneCamera;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    

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

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Move();
    }

    void ProcessInput()
    {
        float moveX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float moveY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        moveDirection = new Vector2(moveX, moveY).normalized;
        mousePosition = sceneCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
    }

    void Move()
    {
        rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(moveDirection.x * playerSpeed, moveDirection.y * playerSpeed);
        Vector2 aimDirection = mousePosition - rb.position;
        float aimAngle = Mathf.Atan2(aimDirection.y, aimDirection.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg - 90f;
        rb.rotation = aimAngle;
    }
}

[rich adder]

try
mousePosition = sceneCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
mousePosition.z = 0

[shy orbit]

"'Vector2' does not contain a definition for 'z' and no accessible extension method 'z' accepting a first argument of type 'Vector2' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

[polar acorn]

There's no Z value of a Vector2

It's got two dimensions, hence the 2

[rich adder]

oh wait it was already vector2

[polar acorn]

ScreenToWorldPoint returns a Vector3, you should store it in a Vector3

[rich adder]

mybad

[polar acorn]

Actually if you're just setting z to 0 that's fine

no need to take the middle step

[rich adder]

yeah z was already omitted

misread that..shit i need some caffeine lol

[shy orbit]

yeah idk player just rotates to the spot where mouse was at the start but wont follow mouser

wont follow mouse*

i feel like theres nothing wrong with the code but idk

[rich adder]

the aiming or the movement wont follow

[shy orbit]

so i can move the player normally with wasd, but it wont rotate and aim towards mouse

just rotates automatically to where mouse was at the beginning

where it clicked "play"

[polar acorn]

Is your camera perspective or orthographic?

[rich adder]

just curious, can. you try this rq
rb.transform.right = aimDirection

or use .up if your forward is the green arrow

[shy orbit]

orthographic

[shy orbit]

and no that didnt fix it

[rich adder]

are you sure this script is running after?

[polar acorn]

Okay so it wasn't what I thought, you shouldn't need to add an offset to the mouse position

[shy orbit]

yeah its this script thats running

[rich adder]

and it moves fine throughout ?

[shy orbit]

yeah movement is fine, its just the rotation thats wacky

[rich adder]

can you show whats happening in a video? might be better to understand problem if we can see whats goin on

[shy orbit]

sure give me a sec

nvm i found the problem

i had the script in twice somehow and one of them didnt have the camera on it

[rich adder]

you have an error

right

keep the console window docked

never hide the console

its easy to miss errors at the bottom

[shy orbit]

okay thank you for your help

i managed to spot it while rewatching the video 💀

[rich adder]

haha almost a case of rubber ducking

[smoky river]

how do i stop this from happening?

when i jump and hold right it just flings

[rich adder]

what is this ?

[smoky river]

objects

[rich adder]

what

i can barely tell what is happening

[smoky river]

the square paracetamol object is falling and spinning

how do i make it not spin

[rich adder]

please explain the full problem and what it is you tried doing to fix issue and whats not working

lock the rigidbody rotation

[smoky river]

ok gimme a sec

[smoky river]

wait do u mean like the freezing rotation thingy in the script

[rich adder]

also wtf is up with that mass..

[smoky river]

ok so rigidbody2d 1 (the square paracetamol) can jump and all that and when i put it at the edge it falls to one side thus spinning

[smoky river]

i was tryna fix it

[shy orbit]

yeah you gotta lock the z rotation

[naive pawn]

the square paracetamol?!

[shy orbit]

to stop it spinning

[smoky river]

ohh

it works now thanks

but when i hold right

it makes me stick

to the thingy

[rich adder]

welcome to physics

[shy orbit]

thats probably cause of the mass being so high

[smoky river]

i made it less

[rich adder]

nah its because ur constantly applying velocity into a collider

[shy orbit]

ah

[rich adder]

in real life that doesnt happen

[smoky river]

do i HAVE to do physics in unity

[rich adder]

you either not apply force if you have obstacles inront of you

or use the physics material trick

[smoky river]

yeah im finishing this project and never touching programming again 😭

[rich adder]

more of a physics thing than programming

[shy orbit]

oh yeah you could make the material slippy

[smoky river]

can i do that with the ray thing

[rich adder]

yup

[smoky river]

or should i do it with the box collider thingy

which one is better

[shy orbit]

if you make the material slippy it wont be getting stuck and itll just slide along

[smoky river]

can i change how slippery it is

[rich adder]

depends on usecase. physics material with no friction is the easiest

ray is the cleanest

if this is a quick project stick to no friction physics material I suppose

[smoky river]

should i do all this or should i just make the material slippy

[shy orbit]

physics material with no friction is slippy material

[rich adder]

thats up to you , like i said

if you find coding hard then physics material is the easiest
otherwise you use the rb.SweepTest or Casts

[smoky river]

so i just set the friction to 0

[shy orbit]

id just google how to make materials slippy in unity

[smoky river]

alr

[smoky river]

i find both hard

[shy orbit]

theyll explain it a lot better than i can

[smoky river]

well not HARD

but like

coding is alittle complicated and i don't wanna do anything related to the 3 main sciences

[shy orbit]

thats a lot of game development unfortunately

[smoky river]

yeah i figured

this is my LAST time touching coding

actually maybe not

cuz im taking cs as one of my classes next year so i am able to skip chem bio and physics

[shy orbit]

could always do visual scripting if writing code isnt to your liking

[rich adder]

I find it kinda funny how most cs graduates know barely any code or how to actually create a game / application

here I am with a culinary degree making games and apps lol

though you gotta give to CS there is a lot of good theory, but a lot of students have just that.. All theory and no practical real world usecase

(this isn't a slam at you btw, just general observation it reminded me of)

[rocky canyon]

criminal justice degree here!

[rich adder]

👮

or fancy shmanzy lawyer ?

[rocky canyon]

that was my intention.. but here i am 🙂

[smoky river]

were you talking about me

i never took cs

i meant next year i will have to as a resort to ditch the basic 3 sciences cuz they said minimum 1 science

[rocky canyon]

for just this year?

[rich adder]

nah I specifically said not you, but you mentioned CS and reminded me of that

[smoky river]

wdym

[rocky canyon]

this semester i mean..

[smoky river]

im taking cs next year

[rocky canyon]

i remember needing to take atleast 1 science class per semester

i was just curious how it was for u

[smoky river]

oh no im still in school

not college yet

[rocky canyon]

ohh okay.. thast where i was confused 👍

carry on 🙂

[smoky river]

for grades 11 and 12 we have an IB system and i can pick SOME subjects

AND I CAN FINALLY DITCH CHEMISTRY

AND NEVER DO IT AGAIN

[rocky canyon]

lol.. chemistry involved soo much writting i remmeber 😭

[rich adder]

damm what school. lets you do CS

[smoky river]

they said min 1 science and i can pick from chem bio phys and cs

[rich adder]

my school sucked and never offered anything even close to STEM

[rocky canyon]

phys is a great option imo

[smoky river]

we have 2 stem classes per week

like currently at my grade

[rich adder]

lucky then

[rocky canyon]

if u plan on going into game-dev i would say do both physics and cs >8)

[smoky river]

its so ass bruh the teacher barely teaches us anything 😭

[rocky canyon]

welcome to the real world

[rich adder]

thats usually the case for an underpaid teacher

[smoky river]

oh hell no i ain't doing game dev

[smoky river]

i wouldn't say my teachers at my school are underpaid

[rich adder]

most teachers are

[smoky river]

yeah but not at my school

[rich adder]

only college professors usually care about teaching cause they usually get paid big bucks
(not community college ofc)

[rocky canyon]

i found it to be different..
once i hit college it seemed like the teachers could care less..

its your money.. go to class or not.. they'd not be affected a bit

[smoky river]

what country should i go to for a college for finance or economics

[rich adder]

depends how much tuition was too

if teachers get paid big and you're not learning there are complaints usually . Take schools like havard or NYU

[rocky canyon]

USA

UK, Switzerland

[smoky river]

yeah but like each year the country gets worse bro i WANTED but im starting to rethink

😭

[rich adder]

Swiss manage rich people money

[smoky river]

is switzerland fire

[rich adder]

it is but prob almost impossible to go there as outsider

[rocky canyon]

yea, USA and UK have Wall Street/ London Access

global economics i'd go UK or Switzerland

[smoky river]

i wish i knew what that is

[frosty hound]

If you're not here for Unity development questions, please don't take it off topic.

[smoky river]

my fault gng

[rich adder]

ops yeah we got. bit carried away here

[smoky river]

guys how do i add the physics material onto my object 😭

none of the yt tutorials are telling me

[frosty hound]

Drag it onto your collider* component

[rocky canyon]

u add it to the collider

or rigidbody ^

[rich adder]

com on is that hard to do "2d physics material"

[frosty hound]

I forget now

[smoky river]

I DID I PROMSIE

[rich adder]

put it on the collider

[smoky river]

there isn't like a clear tutorial they just explain what it does

[rich adder]

make sure its physics2d mat not physics material

[rocky canyon]

it controls friction

basically

and bounciness

[rich adder]

oh com on thats rubbish

you're telling me the entire internet and you cant find, how do you think we learned..

[smoky river]

maybe.. just MAYBE i only went through 2 youtibe videos but like i have no patience unfortunately

[smoky river]

ohhh

[rich adder]

well thats a problem with todays generation

you all want things handed to you without doing some critical thinking work to put effort into

2 youtube videos isn't the entire internet. You have a search engine that gives results into other pages and articles, the info is there. you just don't search thats laziness

these are important skills even outside of coding..

now with all this GPT / "AI" crap everyone wants fed answers and not think for themselves.

[rocky canyon]

just learn by doing.. for example lets take the rigidbody material..
theres only 2 variables on it.. so u can assign it to the rigidbody.. using context clues
then can tweek those variables around to see what happens..

there.. you've already figured out what the physics material is.. where it goes.. and how it works..

never had to leave the engine 🙂

[short hazel]

Yup got that at work today. Dude wanted to convert a CSV file into another format, and historically to do it they just "ask the AI", except said AI is blocked by IT now, my man was completely lost 🤣

[rocky canyon]

ahahah!! Tiny Victories 🙂

[rich adder]

yeah its becoming pretty fdup we are letting algorithms dictate our knowledge as some absolute truth. Its a scary path

[smoky river]

pretty much

[rich adder]

so basically if LLMs went down the newer generation have no more knowledge cause who remembers fed answers when you just wanted the solution

[smoky river]

real

[zenith cypress]

I mainly use it today to find obscure api functions that I keep missing (looking at you Roslyn generators), or to make a like 300 field enum from a provided list from a website because it would take me way longer to do it by hand lol (then I validate the values afterward)

[short hazel]

my god the roslyn API

I have PTSD

[rich adder]

fair enough but you have the extensive/ experitse knowledge to recognize hallucinations

i treat GPT like a very uhhh obedient secretary lol
"I need a list of 300 names in Json format pronto! "

[zenith cypress]

The list in question was this fun page https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ClassIDReference.html

[rich adder]

oh god this makes me realize how much stuff really is inside of unity manual that I havent even touched yet

[rocky canyon]

i get that same feeling when i expand the Gizmo's panel

[zenith cypress]

Still mad it took me years to actually realize the gizmo icon pngs in the dropdown were the real toggle

They still do not look clickable

[rich adder]

yeah some UX choices in unity are rough

[primal cliff]

I'm getting this error even though I set what it is earlier in the script

this is the line causing the error

[naive pawn]

well does that gameobject have an animator?

[rich adder]

so Animator isn't found on this gameobject

[primal cliff]

yes it has the animator

[rich adder]

show

[primal cliff]

and the animator also has a controller assigned

[rich adder]

either that or you placed another of this script somewhere else

[rocky canyon]

Debug.Log(anim);

[primal cliff]

I'll check for that

the script isn't anywhere else in the scene

[rich adder]

add context so you can see whos logging it
Debug.Log(anim, this)

[rocky canyon]

ahh yes context 🙂 we all love context

[primal cliff]

where should I put that? at the error code?

[rich adder]

put it before the anim.Play line

[primal cliff]

somehow it doesn't even log

[polar acorn]

Put it before the line that throws the error

[primal cliff]

I have

[polar acorn]

If you've put it in Start, before the line that throws the error, and nothing prints then nothing in the scene has that script on it

[primal cliff]

that's not possible though, the object is there and it has the script

[naive pawn]

have you saved and recompiled

[primal cliff]

I pause it and it's still there

yeah

[polar acorn]

Show code, show console

[rich adder]

doesnt Start disable the script if there is a nullref somewhere in the start method

[rocky canyon]

place ur bets 🎰

[primal cliff]

console is just this each update, the debug.log doesn't show even if I put it in start (which I have done here)

[polar acorn]

To be fair, we don't actually know where the error is

[rich adder]

true

ah update

[primal cliff]

entire script

[rocky canyon]

no, but it'll stop executing after the null

call it before u try using anim

anim.speed

[rich adder]

I couldve sworn one time I seen when accessing something null it would disable the script (in Start)

[rocky canyon]

before that ^

[polar acorn]

If there's no long from Start, then nothing has this script

Chances are, it is logging. Did you actually scroll to the top

[primal cliff]

this does rely on another script called dialogue but no changes have been made to it

[primal cliff]

yes

it's the same all the way around

and as I have said before, an object called Dialogue has this script and it is not destroyed on starting the scene

[rich adder]

comment out anim.Play then

[rocky canyon]

if anim is null.. u break the script @ anim.speed =

[rich adder]

that log should go in Update

[polar acorn]

What is the first error in the console

[primal cliff]

okay progress

still no log but the error disappears, now I have a completely seperate one

[polar acorn]

Because anim.speed will throw an error if anim is null

and we said to put the log before the error, including the one that's scrolled off the screen

[primal cliff]

I think this is just because gamestate is from a previous scene and is dontdestroyonload

[rich adder]

so its not found that component

[polar acorn]

Then the Find fails

There's nothing in the scene named GameState

[primal cliff]

I'll try doing it from the other scene

[rich adder]

you cannot GetComponent on a null object

[rocky canyon]

progress bb

[primal cliff]

okay so no error and the debug log appears if I load it from the title screen (which goes into cutscene1)

only problem is now the dialogue box just disappears

AND NOW IT DOESN'T??

WHAT

fantastic, now it doesn't animate to show the different character faces and names

[rocky canyon]

takes money to make money

[primal cliff]

oh its because I commented it out I'm dumb

[safe root]

So I have problem with one of my enemey's just going through soild walls and not sure why this is happening

[primal cliff]

but it needs to be commented out if I don't want exception

[rocky canyon]

how are you moving the character?

transform.position =?

if its navmesh u need to exclude the walls from the surface so it bakes around it

[primal cliff]

this turned out to be the usual unity culling things and needing to put them on different layers for no reason and somehow it all works, thanks for help

[rich adder]

nobody knows anything without you showing the setup.. Think about that for a moment

we dont have crystal ball

[safe root]

Fair enough, the only idea I have to show you is this but that's all I got

As the code shouldn't affect the collision

[rocky canyon]

how are you moving it

[rocky canyon]

this is totally incorrect

if ur using translation.. as i mentioned transform.position =

it does not respect collision.. and will shove ur colliders into each other

[rich adder]

it might

[safe root]

Which would make sense but the other objects that have the same code don't do that

[rich adder]

show the code

this alone tells us its just a rigidbody

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtOcDryKv4

check this out

[rich adder]

well no shit

[rocky canyon]

do u need to borrow my crystal ball?

[rich adder]

its phasing through walls because ur teleporting and not using the rigidbody

[rich adder]

apparently it works better than mine yeah

[rocky canyon]

lmao

use a Rigidbody method to move ur character

[rich adder]

You can still use MoveTowards but yu cant use transform.position =

[rocky canyon]

one of these

[safe root]

But the question is why is it only the one and not the others?

[rocky canyon]

maybe the speed..

[rich adder]

luck

[rocky canyon]

if its moving slowly theres a chance that the collider would realize ur intersecting it. and shove it back out

if its moving too fast.. u pass the point of no return and it'd shove u out the other side

[rich adder]

you're basically teleporting without the rigidbody

the rigidbody will catchup on the next physics frame

by that time you might have already went thru the wall

[safe root]

I see, well thank you

[lofty sequoia]

is there a way to limit the scope of a FindObjectOfType to a specific scene?

[rich adder]

I thought it was scene bound

maybe the other Find methods are ig

[lofty sequoia]

you can do a FindObjectOfType with 2 scenes open (as long as they're both open) and it will find a cross scene reference

It's how you get around inspector cross scene references

[rich adder]

oh interesting... the other Finds dont do that iirc, i wonder why

FindObjectByTag for example iirc doesnt do cross scene

[rich adder]

maybe do a Scene name check?

thats dirty as hell tho

[rocky canyon]

FindObjectOfType has been deprecated

[rich adder]

if(myscenename)
FindObjectOfType

[rocky canyon]

we need to use By type now

[rich adder]

ah yea now its FindFirst

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

[rocky canyon]

then u can sort or unsort

w/e u need

[rich adder]

WAIT

Unity says thats slow...

wTf

Note: This function is very resource intensive. It's best practice to not use this function every frame and instead, in most cases, use the singleton pattern. Alternatively if you only need any instance of a matching object rather than the first one you can use the faster Object.FindAnyObjectByType

[lofty sequoia]

I figured I could parent everything in a scene to one GO, but I don't really want to modify everything in the scene

[rocky canyon]

yea, i think its fine for initialization methods tho

[rich adder]

THEN WHY DID YOU EVEN PUT THIS UNITY OR SUGGEST IT IN THE DEPERCATED API

[lofty sequoia]

because you can limit a search by gameobject children

[rocky canyon]

^ yea lots of things u can do with it

[rich adder]

why wouldnt they just put FindAnyObjectByType as primary and then offer the other as more "deep" results

silly

suggesting the more resource intensive version first is backwards imo

[naive pawn]

maybe FindObjectOfType used to get the first one so it's offering the equivalent first?

idk just guessing

[rich adder]

the warning is basically this

Note: The object that this function returns isn't guaranteed to be the same between calls, but it is always of the specified type. This function is faster than Object.FindFirstObjectByType if you don't need a specific object instance.

[rocky canyon]

i remmeber changing all mine over to the FIndFirst

i honestly havent noticed any longer load times

[rich adder]

this is basically the same traditional FindObjectOfType

FindFirstObjectByType i guess has to check the instance ids or whatever to check who was first component added?

[rich adder]

unity just says "Resource intensive" pretty vague lol

probably no big deal doing it once in Awake/method regardless

[rocky canyon]

facts

Initialization be that way

onsceneloads and stuff

[rich adder]

ya or even OnActiveSceneChanged

are you me?

[rocky canyon]

my loading screen masks any of that anyway

[rocky canyon]

sometimes

[rich adder]

I was thinking about this the other day.
I have a random generated 2D map, I want to add a loading scene but I want cheeky words on each step

[rocky canyon]

heres all those Finds running btw ^

did u catch it?.. nah still super fast

[rocky canyon]

i got u

[rich adder]

"Warming up gemlins"

etc.

[rocky canyon]

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

here ya go.. this is hte one i used.. he goes into great detail

and shows how to do random stuff while u wait

[rich adder]

this dude has good vids

[rocky canyon]

very very good

[lofty sequoia]

I found a starting point that works for my specific case. I'll be mocking up a demo with some metrics https://discussions.unity.com/t/find-gameobjects-in-specific-scene-only/163901

[rocky canyon]

easy as this @rich adder

[rich adder]

should I put the time be actual loading stuff? cause I dont have that much it will probably load too fast

[rocky canyon]

soo ur gonna cache all objects?

and then find the correct one?

[rich adder]

I was thinking to like just fake the loading to a specific time

[rocky canyon]

i have mine setup... but i use coroutines to fake it

as i dont really have enuff stuff to load to cause actual progress

[rich adder]

same

[rich adder]

my level generated 10 rooms in the beginning the rest are spawned in after

[rocky canyon]

mine just loads gameobject by gameobject

this is my level boiler plate..

as long as i keep this structure (w/ the gameobjects) the loading screen works on ever scene

😉

hes a phony! a big fat phony! 👉

[rich adder]

"wow thats amazing...wait...something isn't right"

you're just pretending

[rocky canyon]

  IEnumerator UpdateAdditiveSceneProgress()
  {
      totalSceneLoadProgress = 0f;

      for(int i = 0; i < scenesLoading.Count; i++)
      {
          while(!scenesLoading[i].isDone)
          {
              foreach(AsyncOperation operation in scenesLoading)
              {
                  totalSceneLoadProgress += operation.progress;
              }

              totalSceneLoadProgress = (totalSceneLoadProgress / scenesLoading.Count) * 100f;
              LoadingBar.fillAmount = totalSceneLoadProgress * 0.01f;
              LoadingStatus.text = "LOADING FILES"; //loading scenes

              yield return null;
          }
      }
  }

  IEnumerator UpdateSceneInitializationProgress()
  {
      while(currentSceneInitialization == null || !currentSceneInitialization.isDone)
      {
          if(currentSceneInitialization != null)
          {
              totalSceneInitializationProgress = currentSceneInitialization.totalProgress;
          }

          int sectorIndex = (int)currentSceneInitialization.currentSector;

          // Scene initialization *is done*
          float totalProgress = Mathf.Round(totalSceneInitializationProgress);
          LoadingBar.fillAmount = totalProgress * 0.01f;
          LoadingStatus.text = sectorLoadingStrings[sectorIndex];
          yield return null;
      }

      StartCoroutine(FinishSceneLoading());
  }
``` heres the meat and potatos of it

tbh its been so long since i made it.. i forget how it works

this is important.. my past self probably thought..

[rich adder]

mine generates almost Instant. So I def need a fake loading lol

[rocky canyon]

ya u do

for something like that u can probably find a decent magic number to randomize around

3 seconds or so +/- 2 more

if u wanna make that loading system it doesn't take too long

[rich adder]

ya I think maybe 5-6 seconds should do. I just feel bad punishing someone who has a fast pc compared to one with slow pc

[rocky canyon]

it does require u to use additive scene and async loading

so it may not be something for you

[rocky canyon]

Esc button override 😉

i noticed earlier that SOT lets u escape out of its intro cinematic..

[strong wren]

Could time the loading itself and then enforce the minimum time, if you must do this

[rich adder]

true.. Thats why i was thinking combining actual resource loading + some varied time

[rocky canyon]

found out about 200 hrs too late

[rich adder]

yaa this is a good idea actually

[rocky canyon]

Danny always got legit ideas when he pops in 😃

[rocky canyon]

i got code for ya to time it if u want 😉

mine takes 4 seconds for empty scene

oh i also used Actions too ^ each of those "Category" gameobjects could or could not have actions

[rich adder]

ohh yeah this is good idea

[rocky canyon]

they do various things.. like turn on lights.. make sounds.. etc

makes it nice and re-useable

[rich adder]

I need to prewarm my pooling

[rich adder]

unity poooling doesnt have an options 🥹

[rocky canyon]

i enable the world.. b/c i was trying to find things to slow down my loading bar

lmao

doesn't really do anything

the only thing ive found that actually slows it any

[rich adder]

its already in memory

[rocky canyon]

is For Loops

[rich adder]

If you did a Streamable assets I think you can Async load that to put a loading

[rocky canyon]

each container just enables a sub-container

i think i was trying to make myself feel like i had accomplished something that day

[rocky canyon]

im about 84% ready to learn about these

[rich adder]

yeah its very good if you're trying to load big files , i guess in 2d no big deal but in 3D if you want to load an entire environment later or those type of big files late its a good usecase to speed up initial load time

awesome ! feeling inspired again to continue this project now, got decent ideas from here

[rocky canyon]

i always thought they were for DLC stuff

[rich adder]

oh yea they can be also used to remotely download a file too
but thats also in the realm of Asset Bundles iirc

[smoky river]

guys i gave my wall zero friction so now my object can't stick to it. i tried giving it a little bit of friction so it can slide slowly but it doesn't work

is it because the friction is combined or?

[rich adder]

why did you give the wall 0 friction

it was supposed to be on the collider of the moving rigidbody..

[rocky canyon]

^ put it on the rigidbody ^

[smoky river]

because i don't want stuff to stick to it

[smoky river]

ohhh my fault

[rocky canyon]

ya, but then ur constantly having to add that material to everything u add

vs just the 1 player

[smoky river]

i only wanna add it to walls but i want the player to slide slowly down walls and walls only

and adding it to the player doesn't fix my problem

[rich adder]

show

[smoky river]

i can't figure out how to make it just slide slowly

[rich adder]

what you did

[rich adder]

wdym slide slowly?

[smoky river]

what specifically do you want me to show you

[rich adder]

what you setup so far

[smoky river]

likee

strafe

is that the word

like slide down the wall slowly

when holding right

on the wall

[rich adder]

then you need some type of raycasting

[rocky canyon]

u may need to manipulate the physics material w/ code

[rich adder]

or that ^

[rocky canyon]

when on ground -> this material
when against wall -> that material

[smoky river]

which one is easier

[rocky canyon]

i find it pretty simple to swap out physics materials

but its w/e

[rich adder]

you probably still need a cast to figure out when you're on wall slding down

[smoky river]

u mean like i switch the material of the player when im on the wall?

and switch it back when im on the ground?

[rich adder]

well one that uses a lower friction value

then put it back

[smoky river]

currently im trying to lower the friction of the player generally but it doesn't seem to change anything

when i put the friction > 0 is just sticks and when its 0 it just slides normally and not slowly like i need it to

how do i fix ts

[rich adder]

where are u putting the physics material

[rocky canyon]

i forgot my old math classes

whats Mean

[smoky river]

rigidbody 2d like u said

[smoky river]

isn't that just the same as average

[rich adder]

yea

[rocky canyon]

thats what im thinking.. its similar but not the same..

[smoky river]

so whats the problem with this

[rich adder]

average has different ways iirc. Mean is the typical one we know as adding all numbers and devide by that

[rocky canyon]

1, 2, 3, 3, 4 average = 2.6
the mean i think is 3

[rich adder]

or maybe something to do with the middle number

forgot tbh lol

[smoky river]

thats median

[smoky river]

i tried putting it in both boxcollider and rigidbody and noneof them worked

[rich adder]

yeah okay so average has different averaging "modes" ?

[rocky canyon]

lmao.. i have a new mission for today

[rich adder]

hmm..show the physics material on the collider and its settings

[rocky canyon]

dont add it to both the collider and the rigidbody

the rigidbody automatically covers all colliders

and the value of friction goes from 0 - 1 just so u know

.1 probably is barely noticeable

[sharp abyss]

does anybody know how can I prevent this while flipping my character?Should I just flip its head?

[rich adder]

you tried 0 ?

[rocky canyon]

not sure what ur asking?

[smoky river]

yes and it doesn't slide like i need it to

[rich adder]

ok so it is working tho
you said it dosnt affect it at all

[sharp abyss]

also because weapons check velocity to damage, when ı flip they do damage because they have velocity.

[rocky canyon]

try to make it 1 and make sure its actually working

once u know its working move to code

[smoky river]

i need it to slide slowly and when its anything above 0 all it does is stick

i meant that it doesn't change based on what i do with it

[sharp abyss]

I mean 2 characters intertwining

[rich adder]

wdym "what you do with it "

[smoky river]

like there isn't a difference in the friction as long as its above 0

[rocky canyon]

theres different Collision Detection modes..

[rich adder]

if its still sticking 0.1 try a lower value or youd have to manually code the falling by overriding the velocity

[smoky river]

0.1 is the same as 0.9 etc etc

[rocky canyon]

maybe u can use a more accurate method to detect collisions to stop it

else u might want to use a bigger overall collider

[rich adder]

0.1 isn;t the same as 0.05 or something is it

[rocky canyon]

so they cant get close enuff to each other to have their limbs twist together

you may just want to change ur gravity and be done with it 😛

[sharp abyss]

how does it work?

[rocky canyon]

    if (isWallHit && !isGrounded) // Stick to the wall
    {
        velocity.y = reallyLowGravity;
    }

[smoky river]

ok its KIND OF working now it turns out that i had to reput the physicsmaterial in the rigidbody plkace after each try idk why but now its fixed

i just need to look for the perfect value which will take some time

and im putting it on the wall only this time

[rocky canyon]

    else
    {
        velocity.y = normalGravity;
    }```

[rocky canyon]

Fine Tuning!

glad u got it figured out

[rich adder]

experiment

[sharp abyss]

I thought about adding a big box collider over the character and only making it active the second Im flipping but havent tried yet

[rich adder]

the heart of dev

[smoky river]

0.1 IS the same as 0.05 when put on the wall

[rich adder]

these dont really go on the wall but the player itself

[earnest wind]

uhm how can i make a IEnumerator run smoothly based on time.timescale?

[smoky river]

i just put it back on the player and it stopped working

so now its 0.01 but still doesn't work

[earnest wind]

i forgot sorry

[rich adder]

huh ? what are you even trying to do here

[rocky canyon]

i had a problem like this yesterday... Ienumerator wasn't fast enuff so i had to use Update loop timer..

[rich adder]

wdym "smoothly based on timescale?"

[earnest wind]

i wrote the yield return just as a placeholder, idk how to make it stop based on time.timescale

[rocky canyon]

but thats not the same issue as here..

why not use WaitForRealSeconds

or w/e that is

[rich adder]

WaitForSeconds literally is based on timescale

[rocky canyon]

scaled time

[earnest wind]

oh so i just make it 0.1f and if time.timescale = 0 it will stop?

[rich adder]

yeah its not gonna go anywhere

[earnest wind]

i mean, not run

[earnest wind]

oh

okay thanks

[rich adder]

the manual explains it better than I canhttps://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/WaitForSeconds.html

[naive pawn]

@rich adder @rocky canyon both average and mean have several meanings, but the most common meanings of both are the same, arithmatic mean µ = 𝛴𝑥/𝑁

[rocky canyon]

yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(1f);

ya, i did some researching

it seems in most cases its almost the same

[rich adder]

ya seems so what i read too

[rocky canyon]

its confusing how the material has both options tho

still trying to figure out what exactly is the differing factor

[naive pawn]

"mean" is the mathematical term and there's also geometric and harmonic mean

[naive pawn]

where did you find it?

[acoustic belfry]

hey, this should make proyectiles enter into their parry state, but they dont, what im doing wrong?

   private void MeleeAttack()
   {
       Vector2 MacheteRange = new Vector2(attackRange, attackRange);
       Collider2D hitEnemy = Physics2D.OverlapBox(machetepos.transform.position, MacheteRange, 0f, demons);
       Collider2D hitProyectile = Physics2D.OverlapBox(machetepos.transform.position, MacheteRange, 0f, proyectile);

       if (hitEnemy != null)
       {
           if (hitEnemy.TryGetComponent(out EnemyBase enemy))
           {
               enemy.TakeDamage(meleeDamage);
           }
       }
       if (hitProyectile != null)
       {
           if (hitProyectile.TryGetComponent(out MortemRifleProyectile enemy))
           {
               enemy.Parry();
           }
       }
   }```
proyectile:
```cs
using UnityEngine;

public class MortemRifleProyectile : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int damage = 5;
    public Rigidbody2D rb;
    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.transform.TryGetComponent(out ValeriaController enemy))
        {
            enemy.TakeDamage(damage);
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
    public void Parry()
    {
        Debug.Log("PARRY");
    }
}```

[rocky canyon]

Physics Material

[naive pawn]

physicsmaterialcombine only has average
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PhysicsMaterialCombine.html

[rich adder]

wall of code

[rocky canyon]

2D** mybad

[naive pawn]

oh 2d

mean there is geometric mean

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PhysicsMaterialCombine2D.Mean.html

sorry, geomtric mean

[swift crag]

what is the context here?

[rocky canyon]

ahh soo thats what it is

[swift crag]

ah, you just posted it

[rich adder]

start logging

[rocky canyon]

mmhmm

[swift crag]

Aha

[rocky canyon]

i think Chris has the solution tho..

[swift crag]

Geometric mean strikes again

[rocky canyon]

Geometric mean

[acoustic belfry]

whats logging

[rich adder]

wdym whats loggin ?

Debug.Log what else

the first step to solving any problem

[naive pawn]

deforestation, obviously

[acoustic belfry]

oh no, i already did

[rich adder]

no you only logged the Parry function

you havent logged anything useful before it gets there

[rocky canyon]

Mean algorithm used is: SquareRoot(valueA * valueB)
Average algorithm used is: (valueA + valueB) * 0.5

@swift crag @naive pawn @rich adder

[acoustic belfry]

ah, you mean to also Log the parring of the weapon?

[rich adder]

You have to log everything you added

step by step and see where its going wrong

[naive pawn]

yeah that's geometric mean and arithmetic mean respectively

[rocky canyon]

Log the line!

[rich adder]

dont just put random useless strings

[rocky canyon]

log until u get something u dont expect

[rich adder]

put the actual objects to log

[rocky canyon]

then u found the crack

[rocky canyon]

TIL 🧡 thanks for clearing that up

[acoustic belfry]

makes sense, well, thanks

[rich adder]

also gizmos you can use for those overlap

[acoustic belfry]

holup, i think it fixed...idk why tho

but it works :3

[rich adder]

void OnDrawGizmos(){
Gizmos.color = Color.yellow
Gizmos.DrawCube(machetepos.transform.position, range);
}```

[acoustic belfry]

but i already have Gizmos

    void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        Gizmos.color = Color.red;
        Vector2 MacheteRange = new Vector2(attackRange, attackRange);
        Gizmos.DrawWireCube(machetepos.transform.position, MacheteRange);
    }
}```

[rich adder]

ok so where its drawing at

if its correct pos/size in game, your layers are either wrong or something else

could also be hitProyectile.TryGetComponent(out MortemRifleProyectile enemy) is false

or the nullcheck

[acoustic belfry]

but i mean, now it works

[rich adder]

🤷‍♂️

[rocky canyon]

dont look at it for too long

[acoustic belfry]

have you managed to do something and then feel that it was actually bad?

i mean cuz the proyectiles reflect by their own, it works...idk why but feels off

nah, nvm, i like it