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[wintry quarry]

What's going through the gameobject?

[honest iron]

the player

[wintry quarry]

Ok so another GameObject

[honest iron]

1sec

[steep rose]

show us the collider configuration

[wintry quarry]

you would have to explain what the player is and how it is configured and how it moves

and how you configured the MeshCollider as well

basically show us the two objects you're expecting to collide

[steep rose]

inspector

[wintry quarry]

this kind of screenshot isn't that useful

[honest iron]

on gimme a min i'll

[wintry quarry]

show the whole editor including the inspector

it also seems like that thing has at least 3 different colliders

[honest iron]

ok, i want to add to my enemy collider the cover his body without blocking the "empty" spaces under it, if i use mesh collider the player can go through the enemy and if i use box collider im blocking those "empty" areas

[wintry quarry]

ok major issue here

you're using a CharacterController

CharacterControlller cannot use any additional/extra colliders

you get the capsule that is the CC, and that's it

if you want a differently shaped collider you generally will want to use a Rigidbody-based controller or roll your own kinematic controller.

[honest iron]

the cc is on the player, i want the shaped collider on the enemy

[wintry quarry]

your player has an extra Capsule Collider on it

you can't do that

[honest iron]

im using that Capsule Collider for trigger

[honest haven]

So i was having a issue with unity detecting a controller when nothing was connected but it did print out and empty string. so i added this script to it so if its empty assume its not a connected controller. it works bt just wanted to check if it would stop 3rd part controllers or the code is no good. https://paste.ofcode.org/teXjuThBxP2gPv8RH7RigA

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/ios-detect-game-controllers.html this is the one i modified as it would show somthing is connect but empty

[subtle hedge]

i'm sorry but i told you the purpose

to see keep the player fixed to the ground and rotate him acording to the surface of the ground

[polar acorn]

Yeah, but it's casting where the player currently is, and then you move them

wouldn't it make more sense to raycast where they're going to be and then setting the rotation and position there?

[subtle hedge]

Well

i'm trying to keep the player fixated to the ground and not fall, and the ground is a cillindar and i need the player to be able to go 180 around it

[faint osprey]

how would u add a collider to a line renderer

[polar acorn]

You'd take the current position, add the forward and horizontal offsets, then raycast down. If it doesn't hit anything, you're on an edge and cancel the movement. If it does, move the player to that location and modify their rotation to the normal

[subtle hedge]

so, move the player first. Then cast the ray and fix the player to the surface ?

[polar acorn]

Compute where the player would be if they were on a flat surface, raycast down from there, and if it hits, move the player there

[subtle hedge]

that's the ground

a cilinder

and it gotta go around it

[polar acorn]

yes I am aware

[eternal needle]

have you tried googling for this?
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/LineRenderer.BakeMesh.html

[subtle hedge]

So, i move the player in the first half of the code, then i adjust the rotaiton and the position of the player based on the surface ?

[polar acorn]

You compute where the player would be if the movement were on a flat surface, then raycast down from that position. If it hits something, you move the player to the location and normal of the hit point

[subtle hedge]

let me try and i'll get back to you

[pure drift]

when i press the delete key assets dont remove from the scene does anybody know why that is

[mystic ferry]

Is it possible to hide vertices that are weighted to a certain bone?

[subtle hedge]

float vertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * walkigSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

transform.position += new Vector3(horizontal , 0, vertical);

Ray ray = new Ray(transform.position, -transform.up);
if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit, Mathf.Infinity, treeLayer))
{
    if(hit.collider == null)
    {

    }
}```am i on the right path ?

[rocky canyon]

right click make sure ur shortcut is indeed, Del

[polar acorn]

Compute, then raycast, then move

[rocky canyon]

a shader possibly?

no clue just a guess

[polar acorn]

And make sure you use the object's local down vector, not world down

[subtle hedge]

so i put the raycast first ?

[polar acorn]

Calculate where the player would be, raycast from there, in the player's down direction

Then see if it hits

[grand stone]

hi

[subtle hedge]

i'm confused on the calculate the player's position

should i put it on a vector ?

[polar acorn]

Current position plus some offset

However much you want to move by

[subtle hedge]

transform.positon += hit.point ?

or offset ?

[grand stone]

I need some help with my hands to work in FPS Game, i have a script https://paste.mod.gg/jbqhcvlzzsoz/0 which basically makes the hands 2 bone ik constraint locked on to a grip of a weapon they pick up, although it seems to get attached, the IK doesnt work. sorry if its the wrong channel, i couldnt see any animation help

[subtle hedge]

but i awlays should hit would't it ?

[polar acorn]

Unless you're walking off the flat edge

[subtle hedge]

there are no flast edges

[subtle hedge]

ok, i can't find a solution

can't really wrap my head around it

[subtle hedge]

i tried to do in the way you told and didn't quite get the result

float vertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * walkingSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

movementPos = new Vector3(horizontal, 0, vertical);

Ray ray = new Ray(transform.position, -transform.up);
if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit, Mathf.Infinity, treeLayer))
{
    if(hit.collider != null)
    {
        fixedPos += transform.position + movementPos + hit.point;

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(transform.up, hit.normal) * transform.rotation;
    }
}

transform.position += fixedPos;```

that's with what i came int

[polar acorn]

You're still raycasting from the object's current position, and with world down

Do you understand the parameters you are passing to Ray

[subtle hedge]

Vector3.down*

[polar acorn]

So, quick question: When you're not holding any directions, what do you expect movementPos would be?

[subtle hedge]

if i'm not holding any direction it would be 0, 0, 0 right ?

so it's basically not hiting anything

[polar acorn]

Correct. Do you want your ray to start at approximately 0,0,0?

[subtle hedge]

nope, i want it to start at the current position of the player

so i should insert the current position of the player at the start ?

[polar acorn]

So you probably want to not use the raw input vector as the origin of your ray.

Perhaps you should be adding some sort of offset to the player's position to get the origin

[subtle hedge]

like this ?

[polar acorn]

There you go. Now use the object's local down vector (or negative up, I suppose) instead of Vector3.down

[subtle hedge]

alright, let's move on to the raycast

is any issue there ?

[polar acorn]

the entire fixedPos computation makes no sense

[subtle hedge]

so, i'mm adding the point where i want it to be fixed there

[polar acorn]

That also doesn't make sense

Think through the numbers

hit.point is the world position the line hits an object

[subtle hedge]

so i should get the direction of it ?

or should i add it to the movementPos instead ?

[wicked pulsar]

Sorry, I scrolled up and saw that your conversation goes on for a while. What is this supposed to be doing?

[polar acorn]

When all is said and done, where do you want the player to end up

[subtle hedge]

on the ground

but it's flying up

[polar acorn]

What is a value in code that represents a world position that would be on the ground?

Maybe somewhere that hits a collider of a solid object?

[subtle hedge]

i think it's hit.point in this context

[polar acorn]

So you probably want to move the player there

[wintry quarry]

Adding a position to a position is not a good idea

[polar acorn]

Work through the numbers. They actually have meaning

[wintry quarry]

It's rapidly going towards infinity

[polar acorn]

What is the value of MovementPos? What happens when you add the world position of the target location to it?

If I'm at "100 miles north of Scranton" and I add "101 miles north of Scranton" then how far away would I be from Scranton?

[subtle hedge]

at the start the movementPos is the position of the player

and the ray is drawn from there

[polar acorn]

Yes, and then what happens when you add the world position you want to go to, to the world position of the player

[subtle hedge]

IT DOUBLES

and it causes not the movement i want

didn't quite got the result i was hoping for

it should be able to move around the cilinder

and not go throught it

[faint osprey]

im trying to add a collider to my line renderer and it wont work

[ripe shard]

you can't add a collider to a line renderer "just like that". you would need to make a custom script that keeps it aligned with the line, if the collider is on the same gameobject, you'll have trouble achieving that,.

[polar acorn]

You're going to have to be more specific

[faint osprey]

so i have a script that makes a line renderer create segements betweena start and end point and i want to add a collider to the rope

[polar acorn]

Okay and what did you do that "didn't work"

and in what way did it not work

[faint osprey]

i tried to add a mesh collider to it and it didnt do anything

[wicked pulsar]

I noticed that once your raycast finds a hit, you check to see if a collider exists. Under what condition does your raycast find a target, but there is no collider?

[polar acorn]

Pretty sure you were linked to the function you'd need to use to add a mesh collider to a line renderer

did you use it

[safe root]

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[eternal falcon]

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[safe root]

I'm trying to have a enemy be able to rotate towards the player but since I don't lock the rotation it ends up falling over. Is there a way to have it rotate but be able to stand straight up without it falling over

https://paste.ofcode.org/gYKBhKNTmQPkgA5MKMjWJr

Yes I know I need to remove some stuff from my code btw

[wicked pulsar]

Probably, the problem is that the rigidbody is allowed to fall over in the physics simulation, which has nothing to do with your script.

[safe root]

I know and that's what I want. I want to know if there a way to make so the rotation doesn't do that

[wicked pulsar]

Check the rigidbody component and restrict it from freely rotating on any axis you don't want.

[safe root]

The rotation allows the character to move around when shot. Is there a way I can leave it?

[wicked pulsar]

You want it to be able to fall over on some axes when shot, but you don't want to normally allow movement on those axes when not shot?

[safe root]

Is there a way to active and deactive those axis?

[wicked pulsar]

Well, you have some options depending on what you need:

1. Restrict rotations until the unit is shot -> like a ragdoll on death
2. Don't restrict anything, but have a script "correct" the object to a more upright position each frame, to simulate a "standing up" force.

If you want the object to tilt over a bit under some circomstances, you'll have to add a force to move it upright so your bullets have something to fight against.

[safe root]

Well I want them to fly back each time they are shot. So maybe it deactives on shot, they get flung back but then get quick put back up. In which the axis are enbale again?

[wicked pulsar]

You could do that. You'll have to handle enabling and disabling rotation restrictions on the rigidbody in your code.

[obtuse ether]

just wanted to ask if i was doing this code right because my high school mind is melting rn trying to understand raycasts lmao

what im trying to do is to make a raycast that goes diagonally down to see if theres a gap

and if the raycast doesnt hit anything then just jump

but my brain doesn't want to brain and refuses to understand how all these raycast functions work

[polar acorn]

First parameter, origin. Second parameter, direction. Returns a RaycastHit2D

[obtuse ether]

alr

so im pretty sure i did the first parameter right

[wintry quarry]

there is no z direction in 2D.

[obtuse ether]

but im not sure how to make it a certain direction so i just guessed with the Vector3(0, 0, 135)

[wintry quarry]

so that direction makes no sense

[safe root]

Mhm, I am now just trying to think on how to have it so after a certain time on the ground, it'll active the restrication back on

[obtuse ether]

yeah alr lol

[wintry quarry]

did you learn vectors

[polar acorn]

You would pass in the direction you want

[obtuse ether]

i just started learning about unity so maybe idk

deadass

[polar acorn]

Right now, this is 135 units into the Z direction, which, since it's a direction means it's length will be treated as 1, so it's 0, 0, 1

which is into the screen

[wintry quarry]

vectors are a math concept

[obtuse ether]

oh

[obtuse ether]

yeah i thought itd work because when you rotate a 2d object u rotate it by its Z axis

but ig not

[polar acorn]

Yes, you rotate it around the Z axis. Imagine a line going straight into the screen, then spinning it like a foosball bar

that makes your 2D object spin

[obtuse ether]

ohhhh

so how do i change the direction of the raycast

im trying my best to understand this youtube video but im still not 100% sure about what im doing

[polar acorn]

Again, first parameter origin. Second parameter direction.

Line starts at transform.position and goes to the right

[wicked pulsar]

Yeah, this part of your implementation depends on your specific needs.

[obtuse ether]

im not sure what kind of thing id have to type for that tho

[polar acorn]

You'd type in your origin, then your direction

[obtuse ether]

cuz i want it to be diagonal

[polar acorn]

Diagonal in which directions

[obtuse ether]

right down

[polar acorn]

So make a vector that is right and down in equal amounts

[obtuse ether]

so like 1, 1?

[polar acorn]

[obtuse ether]

yippe

[polar acorn]

Figure out which directions are which

[obtuse ether]

yep

1,-1

x 1 to make it go forwards

-1 y to go down

is this raycast hit check correct though?

[wintry quarry]

that correctly checks if anything was hit by the raycast yes.

[obtuse ether]

so if it doesnt hit anything it just jumps

oh OOP

[wintry quarry]

oh sorry

[obtuse ether]

how do i check if it didnt

[wintry quarry]

it's the opposite yeah

[polar acorn]

Inverted. Checks if nothing was hit

[wintry quarry]

you have it right

[obtuse ether]

oh okay phew

[wintry quarry]

I missed the !

[obtuse ether]

okay ty a lot for the help lol

gonna check and pray this works lmao

i just realized i was using AddForceX not Y 💀

[wintry quarry]

I didn't even realize they have AddForceX and Y now

[obtuse ether]

lol

[wintry quarry]

back in my day we had to craft our own Vector2s

[obtuse ether]

anyways i think i did something wrong because its not really jumping over the gap

[wintry quarry]

well if that screenshot from the vidfeo is any indication you seem to be doing this only in Start

which doesn't make a whole lot of sense

[obtuse ether]

im doing it in void update

[wicked pulsar]

Woah. I'm not sure if I like knowing that those exist... I wonder if they just wrap creating new vectors anyway.

[wintry quarry]

should ideally be FixedUpdate for doing physics

[obtuse ether]

alright

[wintry quarry]

that's absolutely what they do yes

[obtuse ether]

changed update to fixedupdate and it kinda funked out the movement so i think im gonna leave the original movement code in update

yeah the raycast isnt doing anything and idk why

put in a debug.log if it doesnt hit anything

and even when its falling into the void it doesnt do anything

[wintry quarry]

it's cnot clear what the scene actually looks like and what's going on

also how the object is moving in the first place

[wicked pulsar]

whyyy

[obtuse ether]

What it looks like atm

[wintry quarry]

which object am I supposed to be looking at?

[obtuse ether]

The red thing

trying to make it follow the player

and also jump over ledges

[wintry quarry]

you're not adding enough force to make it fly

[obtuse ether]

asked abt how to make that work yesterday and they said use raycasts to check

[wintry quarry]

it's also not clear what the rest of the code making it move does, which is impoirtant

[obtuse ether]

alr

this is the whole code for the red enemy atm

i mean script

[wintry quarry]

and what did you assign to JumpForce in the inspector?

[obtuse ether]

idk if i should add comments

[obtuse ether]

500

[wintry quarry]

and is JUMP printing? How many times it it printing?

I think it's very likely your raycast is simply hitting the enemy itself

since you're not using a layermask or anything

[obtuse ether]

i just wanted to check if it wasnt hitting anything

[wintry quarry]

right and?

[obtuse ether]

yk that would explain it

[wintry quarry]

Did it print or not

[obtuse ether]

it didnt lol

[wintry quarry]

if it didn't print then yeah the code isn't running

likely for that reason

[obtuse ether]

how do layer masks work lol

yk i can prolly google it lol

[wintry quarry]

public LayerMask myLayermask;

then set it up in the inspector

and use it in the raycast (in the correct place)

it will decide which layers are considered for the raycast

anything NOT in the layermask will be ignored entirely.

[obtuse ether]

where is the correct place?

[wintry quarry]

look at the documentation or your IDE to see

where the layermask param goes

[obtuse ether]

alr

o its right after distance

so just RaycastHit2D raycastHit2D = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, new Vector2(1, -1), 2, myLayermask);

[wintry quarry]

yeah

[obtuse ether]

alr

[obtuse ether]

ohhh

so if i use the layer ground in myLayerMask

will it only try to detect that layer

[wintry quarry]

then the raycast will only see things with the ground layer

[obtuse ether]

and then ignore the enemy since its a different layer??

[wintry quarry]

yes

[obtuse ether]

okay lol

[obtuse ether]

it works now thanks a lot!

i now understand raycasts in 2d yippee

very cool

i can use this in future projects ig

500 jump strength was a bit much 💀

After some new ground checks + checks to see if you’re being chased it will now jump across ledges very cool

prolly gonna make 3 basic enemy types for my first level which 1: dont jump + dont chase, 2: chase but no jump, and 3: jump + chase

[ebon sapphire]

I have two scripts, one for my pause screen and one for my player movement. However, I cant seem to figure out how to reference the pause system in my player movement script. I have two Pastebins so you all can see my current code:

PauseSystem.cs - https://pastebin.com/btZyZNeX
playerMovement.cs - https://pastebin.com/NzqN7jV9

[sour fulcrum]

A lot of people have their pause feature in a GameManager that uses a “Singleton” pattern

[rocky canyon]

[SerializeField] PauseSystem myPauseSystem; //assign in inspector
if(myPauseSystem.isPaused){
   //example
}```

https://unity.huh.how/references

[ebon sapphire]

tysm!

[safe root]

So I have problem with this code and having the enemy shooting away from the player not to mention not looking in the right direction either. I'm not sure why this is happening, I know i'm missing something just what is it?

https://paste.ofcode.org/gYKBhKNTmQPkgA5MKMjWJr

[rocky canyon]

try flipping the subtraction..

this - that -> that - this

[timber tide]

Double check that the gun placement is actually pointing in the forward direction

[safe root]

How do I know which is forward?

[rocky canyon]

that too.. to me it looks like its transform.right axis is facing the cam

unity is a Z forward engine.

blue = Z

[safe root]

Then it was facing backwards then and now it facing forwards

[timber tide]

make a sphere mesh, child it to the character, and change the position to z = 1

[rocky canyon]

as long as u have Local selected, youll be able to just kno

[safe root]

I got it now, it was just facing the wrong direction

[safe root]

So I have this problem with the bullet from the weapon just going through the enemy for a few bullets before fixing itself. Is it a setting that could be causing this?

[mossy dock]

@safe root Hey! So I started scripting about 2 days ago, sorry I can't help you but I pinged you since your the most recent online, is there a chance you know how to make other objects connect to another object? Like I make a script in another game object and I want the script to say "Make the door play this open animation"?

[timber tide]

rigidbody has a few settings for detection directly on the body so play around with those

[mossy dock]

Alright thanks 😄

[safe root]

You can call a bool from that script make it true. Then call that into the other script which will set it to work

Bad at explaining, but if you can show me the script I can show it better

[mossy dock]

Ohh, alright thanks! I Just don't fully understand lol

[safe root]

These ones?

[mossy dock]

no more like I spawn in a new gameobject, and theres another gameobject that can be anywhere like "mushroom" in a platformer game 2K miles away, I can make like "if the player presses f then the mushroom will die" even if it wasnt in the mushroom game object, it was in an empty one

[safe root]

I was talking to the other dude about my problem

[mossy dock]

also , reason I'm going here not tutorials I came across a tutorial that said "If you try to learn programming through tutorials, it will pass right over your head."

He said "Learn the absoulute basics then try to make a game with those."

So maybe you can try smth like that too! Maybe.
If you want

[timber tide]

tutorials are fine

[safe root]

All depends how you lean

[timber tide]

there's so many things about game dev you're not going to naturally figure it out that easily

[safe root]

I learn best by trying, see if I can search up the problem and fix it. If not ask more experted people

[mossy dock]

WHY CANT I SAY HM, its banned?!?!!

[safe root]

I guess so

[mossy dock]

alr well thx for the help guys

time to

remake celeste

[safe root]

Have fun

[mossy dock]

Ik how to make a player move and how to collision with other objects now, so I just need to google up a little things on google for mechanics and I should be able to 😄

[mossy dock]

u too

[mossy dock]

okay guys maybe I was wrong

[topaz mortar]

tutorials are great for absolute beginners who do not yet know how unity works and what it's features are
once you're familiar with unity and it's basic features, you learn best by trying things yourself
that can be in the form of fully watching a tutorial, then trying to replicate it by yourself and look things up when you don't remember
but if you just blindly copy/paste from tutorials while doing stuff, you'll never actually learn how any of it works, or at least MUCH slower than if you would try to do it yourself

[safe root]

Does anyone got a image or sort for having a enemy move away from the player? Cause for some reason the enemy would just teleport to a fixed distant

https://paste.ofcode.org/54QnB4ya58GVHYyuq7y99h

[keen dew]

It's because you're setting its position to a fixed distance (or actually a direction which doesn't make much sense)
Try rb.MovePosition(transform.position + oppositeDirection.normalized * Speed * Time.deltaTime);

[safe root]

That works but the moment feels a bit glitchy. Sometime freaking out for no reason

[visual linden]

Make sure you call the function in FixedUpdate

[safe root]

I have two problems now, the enemy is very glitchy and the enemy will just go straight through the floor

[safe root]

Let me do that

Thank you, that fixed both problems

[tall abyss]

Hello I’m new to making worlds, I need help to get beer pong to work and pool tables

I was wonder if someone here could help me edit some pool tables and beer pong

[visual linden]

If it's not a coding related question (this is #💻┃code-beginner ), I suggest checking out #🔎┃find-a-channel to see if you can't find one better suited for your question ✨

[topaz mortar]

Alright 🤯 I have the following set up:
Weapon inherits from EquippableItem, which inherits from Item
WeaponSO inherits from EquippableItemSO, which inherits from ItemSO

Item has a reference to it's ItemSO
How do I turn that reference into a WeaponSO on Weapon?

public WeaponSO weaponSO => itemSO as WeaponSO;?

[honest iron]

hey, for NPCs do i make a script for every npc or one script for all?

[swift elbow]

usually you'd make one script for each type of NPC

not each individual NPC

[honest iron]

'type' like merchents, blacksmiths, etc..?

[swift elbow]

yeah exactly

[honest iron]

so if i have npcs that only talks i can make 1 script and use if (or switch ) for text

[sour fulcrum]

keep in mind 1 script != 1 usage of that script

[rich ice]

sounds like a good use-case for polymorphism

[honest iron]

thanks 🙂

gatta prec inherited

i haven't used it for awhile

[sour fulcrum]

feel free to ask questions if you get stuck

[celest ore]

Folks I want to make an auto-saving system, When Player unlocks a gameobject (Unlocking here means it sets the inactive gameobject as active) with some action , how do I collect and save the unlocked gameobjects and store them?

[teal viper]

You usually don't save/store gameObjects. Instead give them IDs and save/load the IDs instead. When the IDs are loaded, activate the corresponding objects

[celest ore]

what should be the ID? Like integers?

[teal viper]

Anything you want. Usually an integer(or several), but can also be a string.

[celest ore]

I already have enums for the unlockables, can i use them instead

[teal viper]

Sure

[celest ore]

Okay thanks for the idea!

[queen adder]

Hi, i have a question about the Liskov substitution principle, I think the doc I m reading is misleading me.
A code must be bulletproof from using base class instead of subclass, or from using subclass instead of base class, in the first place ? Or it doesnt matter and your app must work with any class in a derived class tree

[celest ore]

it means that ur superclass is such that any kind of subclass which inherits from it works so perfect that it doesnt damage the code functionality, the purpose of that superclass remains intact

Its like you have 4 children, but those 4 children are damn good that they can replace you without affecting your purpose and work

Basically if someone looks at one of your children, they think its you

[queen adder]

I ask the question, the doc might be wrong, because it states that "derived class must be substitutable for their base class" but you add functionnality in your subclass, by using parent class you easily get a NonImplementedException

Or am i wrong

[celest ore]

This means that if you have code that works with the base class, it should also work if you replace it with any of its derived classes.

[queen adder]

What you say makes sense, subclasses must achieve everthing that parent class does

[queen adder]

Is it not the contrary ? I mean, what the doc states

[celest ore]

If using a subclass instead of the base class causes unexpected behavior, you are violating LSP.
If a base class method is overridden in a way that breaks expectations, LSP is also violated

[queen adder]

That I understood

[celest ore]

It says unnecessary complexity right?

Or the 1st line you're reffering?

[queen adder]

Yes, first sentence

[celest ore]

Its given correct

What Im saying and whats written both are the same thing

[queen adder]

If my code uses a super rare tropical fish for something, it should be able to consider using a fish in the exact same spot in the logic ?

[celest ore]

1. A base class should always be usable instead of a subclass? (Incorrect interpretation)
2. A subclass should always be usable instead of a base class? (Correct interpretation)

[queen adder]

Ok

[celest ore]

I think you got confused in this

[queen adder]

I read A base class should always be usable instead of a subclass

But it doesnt make sense

I understand A subclass should always be usable instead of a base class

[celest ore]

Yeah

the second one

[queen adder]

So it is me not understanding english properly

[celest ore]

probably lol

[queen adder]

User error as always

[celest ore]

haha

no issues

happens

[queen adder]

Thank you

[celest ore]

Np

[mossy dock]

Guys please help 😦 I just spent like 50 mins on different tutorials finding a gun script that shoots bullets (ik in the script it doesnt tell the gun to shoot bullets, the problem is the gun isnt doing what IT IS supposed to do, go to cursor rotation)

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[mossy dock]

oh I thought !code did the notepad thing but better /:

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[mossy dock]

E HOW I MAKE DYNO BOT STOP

[mossy dock]

ok good I js gotta reply to ppl ig anyways pls scroll up I need help 😦

[burnt vapor]

The bot stops when you stop feeding it commands

It also gave good advice on sharing the code because your current code is not being formatted

[mossy dock]

well okay, uploading it to scriptbin so other ppl can help then ig

Im so confused I havent gotten any sleep 😭

Im just trying to make "super mega kewl platformer top down slime color battle gun omega"

[burnt vapor]

Begin by properly sharing the code

And perhaps sleeping

[mossy dock]

Tried to make a gun that rotated around the player based on the direction of cursor, but terribly failed...

[silent valley]

You aren't going to receive help if you don't share the code properly

[burnt vapor]

Again, please use a paste site or proper code blocks so the code is formatted correctly 🫴 #💻┃code-beginner message

It's the little things that greatly help a question

[mossy dock]

idk how to do a paste site but okay

Ill try to figure it out

[burnt vapor]

Did you read the bot message?

[mossy dock]

here goes another 2 hour of tutorials

[silent valley]

paste code into it, save. share the link. super easy

[burnt vapor]

The bot message is formatted in a way even a 5 year old can understand it

[mossy dock]

https://scriptbin.xyz/mepevihana.cpp

Tried to make a gun that rotated around the player based on the direction of cursor, but terribly failed...

oh, that was easy

[hexed terrace]

First off, there's a much easier way to get the main camera. All you have to do is Camera.main

it would also be good for you to record a video to show what is happening - "terribly failed" isn't very descriptive of the issue

[mossy dock]

oh sorry, issue is the gun isnt actually rotating, its sticking with the player but it isn't actually doing what It's supposed to, also thx camera.main might fix it.

I only have 2 days of experience

[honest iron]

i've added EquipmentHolder to a prefab, but when i try to reach the Equipment within the EquipmentHolder im getting null

private void DropItem()
{
    Equipments weapon = Equipments.Weapons[Random.Range(0, 6)];
    Equipment equipment = new Equipment(weapon.EquipmentID, weapon.EquipmentType, weapon.EquipmentImage, weapon.EquipmentName, weapon.EquipmentBaseAttack, weapon.EquipmentBaseDefense, weapon.EquipmentBaseHP, weapon.EquipmentBaseMP, weapon.EquipmentEffects, 0, false);
    GameObject weaponPrefab = Resources.Load<GameObject>("Prefabs/Weapons/" + weapon.EquipmentID);

    SphereCollider sphereCollider = weaponPrefab.AddComponent<SphereCollider>();
    sphereCollider.radius = 2f;
    sphereCollider.isTrigger = true;

    EquipmentHolder holder = weaponPrefab.AddComponent<EquipmentHolder>();
    holder.Equipment = equipment;

    Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 90);

    weaponPrefab.tag = "Drop";

    Instantiate(weaponPrefab, transform.position, rotation);
}

    private void PickupItem()
    {
        if (droppedItem != null)
        {
            EquipmentHolder equipmentHolder = droppedItem.GetComponent<EquipmentHolder>();
            AddEquipmentToInventory(equipmentHolder.Equipment);
            Destroy(droppedItem);
            screenText.text = "";
            droppedItem = null;
        }
    }

[hexed terrace]

which line is null

[honest iron]

Equipment is the null

AddEquipmentToInventory(equipmentHolder.Equipment);

[hexed terrace]

so droppedItem doesn't have an EquipmentHolder on it

oh , no sorry

[honest iron]

lol

[hexed terrace]

at this point, .Equipment is null.. have you checked the inspector at this point (at runtime) and confirmed it's assigned?

also add a debug log above it to see..

Debug.Log($"equipment is null: {equipmentHolder.Equipment == null}", equipmentHolder.gameObject);
AddEquipmentToInven...```

[honest iron]

the EquipmentHolder is assigned,

[hexed terrace]

that log will be clickable and ping the gameobjec it's talking about

[hexed terrace]

this does not show that Equipment is assgiend. What you have there is just the class itself

[hexed terrace]

You click that, and it'll ping the EquipmentHolder.cs file in the project window

[honest iron]

1 sec checking

[hexed terrace]

that public field is not visible in the inspector screenshot

[honest iron]

i think because its a class

[hexed terrace]

Equipment is a class?

[honest iron]

a script(object)

[hexed terrace]

script/class same thing - interchangable, I'm just trying to confirm by "its a class" You mean 'Equipment'

[honest iron]

yes

[hexed terrace]

if it's not a MonoBehaviour, put the serializeable attribude above the class declaration

[System.Serializable]
public class Equipment {}```

this will allow it to show in the inspector

[hexed terrace]

there you go, it's not assigned like you think it is

[honest iron]

oh that worked

thanks 🙂

[System.Serializable] btw whats?

[hexed terrace]

It's called an attribute. This particular attribute does this ☝️

there's more to serialization.. which may be a factor here

I'm not sure if it being non-serialized would mean it wouldn't copy over when you Instantiate from the code built prefab

[boreal umbra]

How can I write code in Unity to trigger when an object touches a second object?

[verbal dome]

Typically with OnCollisionEnter or OnTriggerEnter, or the 2D version of those

[boreal umbra]

Is it right?

[cosmic dagger]

What's happens when you test it?

[boreal umbra]

No error but dont work

[cosmic dagger]

OK, that's a start. Do any of the objects have colliders?

[polar acorn]

!screenshots

[eternal falcon]

No

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

[cosmic dagger]

Ckeck this out: Collider interactions, and look at OnCollision events link . . .

[boreal umbra]

ok thanks

[verbal dome]

Depending on an object's name is not very robust. Usually instantiated objects have a "(Clone)" added to the name anyway so it wouldn't work with those

It's better to check if the collided object has a certain Component or Tag

TryGetComponent and CompareTag

[native thorn]

Are tags / component checks faster or slower than strings

[wintry quarry]

tags are strings

[queen adder]

I want to create a rope between two characters that can increase & decrease it's length. I used HingeJoints2D.
If I spawn in new Rope Parts, they get hooked to the next joint, but they rotation is completely off.

So the Rope sticks together, but doesn't look like a rope anymore.

Do I missing something here?
How to spawn the RopeParts with the right rotation.

Everything falls apart as soon as I start moving

public class RopeManager : MonoBehaviour
{

    public RopePart[] ropeParts;
    
    public RopePart ropePrefab;


    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Tab)){
            AddRopePart();
        }
    }


    public void AddRopePart() {
        HingeJoint2D ropeMiddleJoint = ropeParts[(int)ropeParts.Length/2].GetComponent<HingeJoint2D>();
        RopePart newRopePart = Instantiate(ropePrefab,ropeMiddleJoint.GetComponent<RopePart>().NextSpawnPoint.position, Quaternion.identity,gameObject.transform);       
        HingeJoint2D newHinge = newRopePart.GetComponent<HingeJoint2D>();
        newHinge.connectedBody = ropeMiddleJoint.connectedBody;
        ropeMiddleJoint.connectedBody = newRopePart.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }
}

[native thorn]

right sorry, should have been specific, as apposed to object variables

Having a public object variable string is essentially identical to using tags?

[wintry quarry]

no

there is no short/simple answer here to "faster or slower"

it depends

using tags can mean a bunch of different things

[burnt vapor]

We need an !itdepends command in here

[ripe shard]

https://wiki.c2.com/?ItDepends

[calm badge]

hey guys, idk i made a 3d model from blender and then export it to glb. i wanna put it to kotlin using sceneview. my 3d model doesn't load but others do? why is that

[burnt vapor]

Nah, it would make the bot show this

Also got it in the C# server

[naive pawn]

well there is the taghandle thing in unity6

[queen adder]

What should i google if i want to create a dynamic area in between other gameobjects. Like a lasso, how to check was inside ?

[ripe shard]

create a poly-line from the lasso's path, check self intersection of that poly-line, then triangulate the enclosed path-cycles, check whether any object is inside any of the triangles . It gets more complicated if the enclosed area is concave or the path can cross multiple times. (algorithms via google)

[hexed crow]

i wish i had a better way to ask this, but why does this not work??

[queen adder]

Thank you! i will look into that!

[charred spoke]

transform not Transform

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs0120

[polar acorn]

Transform is a class, which does not have a static function localRotation.
transform is a field, which is a reference to an instance of type Transform, which does have a non-static function localRotation

[hexed crow]

that doesn’t fix anything

[naive pawn]

show your current code and error

[ripe shard]

did you look at the link? is it even a monobehaviour?

[hexed crow]

i’m sorry i’m extremely new to coding i don’t understand what that means

[polar acorn]

It most certainly does. It might expose a new error now that it can actually compile this one

So what is the error currently

[hexed crow]

this

[polar acorn]

Okay so your script is not a MonoBehaviour. If you created it in Unity you would have had to manually remove the : MonoBehaviour , so, don't do that.

Leave that there, it's important

[ripe shard]

have you done any C# course? If not, it might speed you along tremendously doing one. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp

[hexed crow]

i never removed any mono behavior thing?

[polar acorn]

Maybe show the full !code

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[hexed crow]

`using UnityEngine;

public class MouseMovmentScript
{

public float mouseSensitivity = 100f;

float xRotation = 0f;
float yRotation = 0f;

public float topClamp = 90f;
public float bottomClamp = 90f;

void Start()
{
    //Locking the cursor to the middle of the screen while making it invisible
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
}


void Update()
{
    //Mouse inputs
    float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
    float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

    xRotation -= mouseY;

    yRotation -= mouseX;

    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, topClamp, bottomClamp);
    
    transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0f);

}

}`

[polar acorn]

Yeah, so you removed the : MonoBehaviour that unity puts in a class by default. Don't do that.

Create a new empty script and compare what is there with what you have here

And see the difference

[hexed crow]

i guess i did, i don’t even remember deleting it lol

[hexed crow]

when i do it’s just
{

}

[polar acorn]

Then somehow you've deleted your script templates. I don't even know where to find them so I have no idea how you deleted them

You're creating these scripts in Unity, right?

[hexed crow]

i literally have no idea how that would of ever happened

[hexed crow]

yes

[frank rivet]

https://github.com/brihernandez/MouseFlight

Litterally the flight sim installed from github gives this stupid jitteryness. I implemented this same flight sim into my game and its very much the same structure and stuff and yet the jitter problem is still there. it kind of started after I reloaded the prject.

[hexed crow]

i like just clicked on “create empty c# script”

[polar acorn]

Well that would be why it's an empty C# script. Create a MonoBehaviour instead

[hexed crow]

ooohh

sorry i’m new to unity

i’m level designer so i’m used to opening a program and already having everything done for you lol

if that makes sense

[polar acorn]

It does, but you've somehow gone out of your way to pick the option where it isn't

I don't even know where the "empty C# script" option is, I can't even find it on my end

[hexed crow]

this is what it looks like for me

maybe my version is different for some reason or whatever

[slender nymph]

Notice how MonoBehaviour Script is separate from that and still an option

[silent valley]

Taught me something new. Didn't even see that was a thing xD

[hexed crow]

as i said, i'm new, i saw "C#" and it was thing i recognized so i picked that one

[cosmic dagger]

I have the same options, but they're custom editor scripts I created. Kind of cool if they do that by default now . . .

[hexed terrace]

I always choose the Empty C# Scipt now, all that's missing is : MonoBehaviour and comes with no extra fluff that gets deleted anyway

[hexed terrace]

it's new in Unity 6

[polar acorn]

Ah, that'd make sense. I haven't upgraded this project to 6 yet

[violet shoal]

Hello, are there any common reasons for builds to show up as viruses for other people when they download it?
i've been building for a while and suddenly without changing anything, when i send my build to others their browsers detect it as a virus and block the download

[terse niche]

guys, what's wrong with my code?

[naive pawn]

configure your !ide

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[naive pawn]

it'll highlight errors

[terse niche]

how?

[naive pawn]

see the bot message

[polar acorn]

Not sure what that has to do with what you were asked to do

[terse niche]

sorry wrong channel lol

[terse niche]

which link should I click?

[polar acorn]

Which one do you have

[terse niche]

I have unity and atom for script

[polar acorn]

Then you should switch to an actual IDE, pick one that's actually on the list and follow the instructions for that one

[terse niche]

okay, thanks !

[subtle hedge]

Hello, i have a problem with the player stopping half way the cilinder while i need it to be able to go 180 around it and i don't have any idea why it happends

[subtle hedge]

The raycast will stop hitting the cilinder at some point

even if it's close to it

i debuged the ray and it's always pointing downwards

[west radish]

youve got Private void which should be private void

[obtuse pebble]

I have a Prefab gameobject attached to a canvas. It has a script that is supposed to write "OnPointerDown" in the debug console. However, the gameobject does not register when I press it. The prefab is an empty gameobject with text and a sprite attached as children. It still does not register when I attach the script to the sprite child instead. What am I doing wrong?

The canvas is set to screen space - camera, and the camera has a physics 2D raycaster.

[wintry quarry]

your object doesn't have a Graphic component
there's nothing to raycast against.

[bold plover]

I'm not quite getting the desired behavior for my player rotation handling near the bottom of this script. The debug console still shows some residual player rotation for a short while even when there is no player input. I'd like their currentSteerAmount to drop to zero when there is no input. I'm doing this so holding a turn in one direction has ramp up but then if for whatever reason you turn the other way it feels more responsive.
https://hastebin.com/share/xamugokitu.csharp

[wintry quarry]

it needs an Image or something

[bold plover]

Let me know if I can clarify better.

[wintry quarry]

Input.GetAxis has some built in "smoothing" behavior

use GetAxisRaw if you don't want that

[obtuse pebble]

Thanks for the response! But there is still no debug message even when I attach the script to the sprite child of the prefab gameobject. The child has a Sprite Renderer component.

[bold plover]

BLESS YOU

[wintry quarry]

does your canvas have a GraphicRaycaster?

Is the event system all in order?

[obtuse pebble]

Yes it does, and as far as I can tell, the event system is in order.

[wintry quarry]

wait sorry

why does your UI object have SpriteRenderer

that's not correct

UI should be using the Image component

SpriteRenderer is not a Graphic

and it's not for UI

[obtuse pebble]

Omg marry me! Thank you so much, I have been scratching my head for the last 90 minutes

[frigid sequoia]

Why have I been looking at this for a while and have the feeling I can simplify it but I can't tell how?

[eternal needle]

else if? assuming isCombatTimeRunning cant change in that method call

[dry igloo]

I would change the second if to an else if, but otherwise, without refactoring other thing, you're very fine like that

[short hazel]

else if (isDead) yep

[frigid sequoia]

Either if it's dead or the time is paused the Update should stop

So I don't think I can use the else if

[dry igloo]

do you mean that both conditions you showed could happen at the same time ?

[frigid sequoia]

The entity could be dead and the time could be paused at the same time, yeah

[eternal needle]

of course you can. the only difference in logic is if the case i mentioned above
"isCombatTimeRunning cant change in that method call"

[frigid sequoia]

It's Update

[eternal needle]

doesnt matter, thats not what im referring to

[errant flame]

im following a crappy bird tutorial, for some reason, when i build the game, the UI gets misplaced (top left score gets cut), inside unity I have these scaling settings and from the "game screen", the game looks alright in all resolutions, what could be wrong and how do i fix it?

im brand new to unity

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html#anchors

[dry igloo]

no I meant, if combat time is running AND if the character is dead, do you want to runskilltimer THEN stop update ?

If so, two ifs are fine, otherwise use else if

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I want to

[dry igloo]

ok then your code is fine

[frigid sequoia]

This is like league where your skills still count their cd timer while you are dead

[frigid sequoia]

If u didn't touch anything, u probably have the anchors right but have the text on the default mode of line up to the left, make it centered

[dry igloo]

your code doesn't do that 😅

If time is running, the cooldown will be decrease, otherwise or if the character is dead, it will stop being decreased

But to come back to your first issue : no you can't simplify it right now. best you could do is create a function to get the result of combattimerunnin || isDead, but it would serve basically no purpose

if your logic is 5 lines long and works as intended, you're very good to go

[frigid sequoia]

No, it will be decreased anyways, the stopUpdate check happens later on in the line

[errant flame]

hmm im gonna try to figure it out from the docs since im not understanding, i'll be back if i dont get out of it

[frigid sequoia]

Basically is to stop the Update of the subclass

I should have definitely given a whole different script for when a character is dead I think

[crimson pike]

context: object pool. want to give the pooled objects a timeout. Better to use coroutine or just a timed invoke? (there can be 100+ in the pool)

[wintry quarry]

Yes, have one person stand over the other's shoulder or use discord

otherwise - you should use git or other version control to collaborate

[errant flame]

nope still not getting it sorry. I have anchor to the center

what else do I need?

[polar acorn]

So now these values are how many pixels away from the center you want this to be

[wintry quarry]

#📲┃ui-ux

[errant flame]

tyty

[eternal needle]

id avoid invoke as much as you can. you could use a coroutine or just manually keep track in update. it really doesnt matter which you do. I'd just try to make sure you aren't coding this per every class and maybe have this functionality in a base class

[crimson pike]

its a reusable class i made UnitPool, and it uses a queue of classes implementing IPoolable

[crimson pike]

i'm hesitant to make it kick off 100s of coroutines, but idk what kinda limits there are or how heavy that'd be

[wintry quarry]

similar to other VC. You make change sets, commit them, then pull them from theo ther pc

[crimson pike]

the coroutines would just be waiting for (timeout) seconds and then force returning the object to it's owner ObjectPool

[eternal needle]

you could just start off by doing it in update. if this code is in one place, its quite literally 30 seconds to swap it from a coroutine to update

[crimson pike]

mostly just there as a precaution so nothing hangs outside of the pool forever

yeah true.

[eternal needle]

id only really worry if you were using Invoke. if you use update or a coroutine and have performance issues, those performance issues are due to the amount of (likely moving) objects. not because of some timer

[crimson pike]

aye

[eternal needle]

i highly suggest just looking into git rather than unity's version control. you dont need an integrated version control, and git is used in every other branch of computer science. it's way more useful if you were to learn it

[errant flame]

I-m using deltTime, from the documentation I read that its the time from last frame. So in this case, would the position be independent from the frame rate? since faster frames mean smaller updates?

transform.position += Vector3.left * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

However in practice, the speed dramatically jumps in the build

even the gravitational acceleration increases, which I have not coded myself but implemented with RigidBody2D, what could be wrong?

[wintry quarry]

you would have to show your full code

this isn't enough context

yes Time.deltaTime is used to compensate for frame timing differences

it lets you convert a per-frame quantity to per-second

[errant flame]

What's the best way to share the full file?

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[errant flame]

But you wouldn't see the rigid body implementations etc?

Since that's done through the editor

[naive pawn]

would help if you could show more context

[wintry quarry]

you can share that as well as screenshots

but if you're using a Rigidbody, that code is completely wrong

[errant flame]

That's for the pipes sec

I'm gonna share

https://pastebin.com/XcUq8Lva this is bird code
https://pastebin.com/NXaZdfgM this is the pipe mover code
in image rigid body of bird

The issue: everything in the game seems to speed up, including the falling speed of the bird and the speed of the pipes

[wintry quarry]

as I mentioned above, you are mixing up Rigidbody motion with directly modifying the Transform

you should pick one or the other, not both

doing both causes issues

[errant flame]

I see, so tl dr I should never use Physics from the editor if im affecting movement in code?

[wintry quarry]

no idea what you mean by "use physics from the editor"

if you're using a Rigidbody you should move the Rigidbody via appropriate physical methods in your code

you should not move the object via teh Transform

[errant flame]

im slightly confused im not using transform for the bird

but for the pipes

the pipes are not rigid bodies

[wintry quarry]

what was the issue again

[errant flame]

everything speeds up randomly after build

[wintry quarry]

it shouldn't

make sure you saved your code

[errant flame]

its like theres 2 modes

it alternates between full speed

and normal speed

[wintry quarry]

also are you sure things are actually speeding up? Sometimes people perceive a speedup when the game resolution is larger

[errant flame]

yes

[wintry quarry]

show a video or something?

[errant flame]

weirdly enough having amd in game overlay on top fixes the speed up

i will film with my phone, since the recording prevents the bug xd

[wintry quarry]

if your game is actually haveing framerate issues, that can cause the simulation to slow down

if you are exceeding the max timestep

[errant flame]

As you can see it randomly slows down to what should be the correct speed after the first death

And then speeds up again randomly

[wintry quarry]

maybe your code is changing Time.timeScale somewhere?

what's in LogicScript

[errant flame]

https://pastebin.com/HZWpJ5W7

[wintry quarry]

Any other scripts in the project?

[errant flame]

theres a pipe spawner and a collision detection for the score

[wintry quarry]

can you show them?

[errant flame]

pipe spawner https://pastebin.com/YcN2m5B4
collision https://pastebin.com/HwYVdU4L

[wintry quarry]

yeah i don't see anything in here that should do any of this

[errant flame]

there are no other scripts

[wintry quarry]

only thing I can think of is a framerate issue kicking us past the max timestep but that seems unlikely

or a hardware issue of some kind 😬

maybe some weird GPU setting or something

[errant flame]

maybe

amd is famous for weird drivers

ok I found the issue

its this gpu setting

[wintry quarry]

Oh wow I was not very confident saying that

That's crazy

[errant flame]

i can make a short video xd

[wintry quarry]

I believe you

[errant flame]

should i bug report this to unity or what?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[errant flame]

ok cool, i'll look into it tmr, gonna hit the bed soon

ty for the help

In theory it's an fps unlocker but prob does weird stuff behind the scenes

[strong wren]

It's more of a v sync alternative. I guess I could see a path to delta time getting confused if Unity is trying to measure frame delivery, but it seems odd that it would end up being reported like this.

[worthy prairie]

hi

[hallow rock]

Hey man. I need some help.

[polar acorn]

Don't ping people you're not in a conversation with

[worthy prairie]

i am working on my own 2d game and want to do a really simple thing but cant figured it neither can chat
i have a gameobject (inside canvas and horizontal layout group) in it i have another game object (its child) which i want to place inside the bounds of its parent randomly. But i am just confusing myself with the coordinate system or idk, when i try to get the height of the parent i always get 100 or 0 both of which are wrong. I will greatly appreciate any help or advice how should i tackle this issue
thanks

[polar acorn]

You probably want sizeDelta
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/RectTransform-sizeDelta.html

[worthy prairie]

thanks will look at it

Vector2 parentSize = parentRect.sizeDelta;

Debug.Log(parentSize);

this will print: "(491.43, 0.00)" and parent height is clearly not 0 its just broken idk what to do man

[hallow rock]

Dont know how to fix this crap.

[polar acorn]

1. https://screenshot.help/
2. Find whatever broken script is still attached to an object and remove it

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector for the parentRect object

[polar acorn]

So, its height is driven by a layout group. When are you logging the height? You might be getting it before the layout has had time to resize it

[worthy prairie]

its set before runtime

i fix it

[polar acorn]

And the layout group my re set it when you start up, it might be 0 on Awake until the layout group runs Start

[worthy prairie]

but have no idea why did it work 😄

in the parent object of the parent i unchecked control child size height

[fleet venture]

Is it possible to write unit tests for Monobehavior scripts? I see there is some unity test framework but does it allow that?

[rich adder]

You can unit test something in monobehavior sure

You still need a poco iirc

Poco class runs function in MB to unit test

[ripe matrix]

hello, does camera.worldtoscreenpoint have a distance limit?

[tribal fulcrum]

can someone help me fix this error if possible please

[slender nymph]

that's not quite how you create a new instance of an array

[grand snow]

is this some homework or somethin cus those comments seem sus

[tribal fulcrum]

it is my homework yeah

i googled it and i figured out my error though

[ivory bobcat]

Is this Unity related?

[slender nymph]

Assembly-CSharp
seems like it

also coupled with the fact that they can't use newer c# features

[pine narwhal]

Why is my player going into the ground when it is moving?

[polar acorn]

https://screenshot.help/

[pine narwhal]

components of the player

everything was working properly until i merged it with the main branch

[wintry quarry]

the animator probably

is moving the renderer into the ground

and/or one of your sprites pivots is just off

(which is the same thing)

[pine narwhal]

do I have to fix the pivot points in the sprite editor manually for every sprite I used?

[wintry quarry]

maybe? I don't know what your art pipeline is

normally it's a spritesheet that is aligned properly from the get go

[pine narwhal]

tbh i don't know what to tell you since Im very new to 2d game dev but could you look at this and tell me what has happened?

is this what you mean by the rendering being moved when changing pivots?

[wintry quarry]

I didn't say anything about changing pivots

YOu need to look at your sprites in the sprite editor

and make sure their pivots make sense

[pine narwhal]

I just centered them all back to what they were originally

[forest summit]

if i want to get the velocity of an object right before it collides with something, should i use the contact point with the GetPointVelocity function or will that return the velocity after the collision happened?

[forest summit]

*the contact point of the thrown object

[tribal fulcrum]

guys can a string be capitalized

[polar acorn]

no it's illegal if you use a capital letter the secret police will take you away

[tribal fulcrum]

oh ok

[glacial forge]

Hello, I am making a underground 2d game. its essentially just a game where you are constantly digging down. I was wondering what is the best way to populate a tile map on level load? There are 3 ways of doing it that i thought of.

Generating the entire map, then only rendering what is near you.
Generating the entire map and just loading it all at once
Generating chunks as you get near them.

Im not sure what exactly is best practice, im basically brand new to game development ( i know the basics of unity and am very practiced in c# just never made a game). The tiles themselves are very simple and the only data they hold is their sprite then probably a indicator of what kind of resource they are (probably just held in the tile name). The levels themselves can be 1000x10,000 roughly if i had to guess, but i havent flushed that out so I cant say for sure.

any help/useful resources we be appreciated

[wintry quarry]

Tilemap already handles the "rendering only what's near you" thing

you can start with #1 and switch to #3 later

[glacial forge]

thought so but again not super practiced so was just shooting from the hip

[tribal fulcrum]

can someone help me with the bottom method

i dont remember how to have them add up every time

[rich adder]

!code
(thanks for flashbang btw)

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[wintry quarry]

what does "have them add up" mean

[tribal fulcrum]

i have to return the sum of the entire array basically

by iterating through each number in it and adding them

[wintry quarry]

so make a variable and add to it

but why is your return type int[]?

Don't you want to just return a single number?

[tribal fulcrum]

whoops

[rich adder]

int counter;
for(etc.
counter += number[i]

[glacial forge]

there is also just array.Sum()

[wintry quarry]

or foreach (var num in array) sum += num;

[tribal fulcrum]

ok i think this is more like what i learned

[sour fulcrum]

(true but given the type of code they are at probably better to do the more simple route for now)

[tribal fulcrum]

im sure theres plenty of ways to write it though

[rich adder]

true. its always good to learn how to do these without "special methods" first

[glacial forge]

fair. learning linq is a great way to get faster at coding for future reference

[sour fulcrum]

Plenty of tricks yeah. If your new doing it the more expicit cave-man style Praetor suggested will help you get more comfortable with the language

[rich adder]

faster != always better

[glacial forge]

thats y i said future reference. good foundation is best

[slender nymph]

considering this is their homework, i doubt that their teacher wants them using linq just yet

[glacial forge]

lol

[sour fulcrum]

flex on em

[wintry quarry]

maybe you should be using your Add method you wrote too lol

for homework's sake

[glacial forge]

just checking to see if this is a reasonable way to do this. Right now I have a gameobject with a script attached that on startup makes a tile map object and just loops through and places tiles. (ill make it threaded in the future with a task list).

could also have the tile map be separate and just pass that in via a serialized object. again not sure what is best practice

[slender nymph]

ill make it threaded in the future with a task list
you can't touch the unity api on other threads

[glacial forge]

good to know

I could make the array of objects with threads and pass them back into the tile array (in the case that the tiles were large objects)

in this case i wont worry about it though

[glacial forge]

just for clarification this means you jsut cant touch objects that appear in the editor with other threads correct?

[slender nymph]

that means that most of the unity api is not accessible off of the main thread

[glacial forge]

ok yeah so background processing is fine, just bring it back to main thread before you try to apply it. got it

[rich adder]

If you use Awaitable you can switch up which thread it happens on

[glacial forge]

cool

[rotund bolt]

oh my god

that did not format the way i thought it was going to

maybe this is better?

[sour fulcrum]

only 1 for single lines, 3 for blocks

[rotund bolt]

hello, i have these two classes that work together to move my character around in unity. it currently works as intended but i am following a tutorial and they dont really explain "why" it works.

I see that the Update() method happens every frame, which initializes inputVector with the GetMovementVectorNormalized() method every time Update() is called. It then gets a little fuzzy to me as I examine what happens inside of GetMovementVectorNormalized()
.
I see inside that GetMovementVectorNormalized() it initializes a Vector2 object called inputVector and then (somehow?) assigns the values of inputVectors y and x variables to key presses such as W,A,S,D with the if statement if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W) ).

My question is this: Does the line if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) automatically just wait for a keystroke to happen? If the Update() method is happening every frame, and if if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) is
getting ran every frame as well, why does it not break when I dont press a keystroke?

[rotund bolt]

there we go, thank you!

[lilac valley]

I have always had a doubt in Unity. I come from Roblox Studio, and when we reference objects, we do: workspace.something.something, but in Unity, I do not know very well which is the correct way to reference GameObjects/Components, I usually do it by creating a field of the type of component I want to access, but in the case I do not know which component I want or I get it while the game is running (after a certain action for example), how would I do to reference an object correctly? Could someone help me with this? I'm kinda lost

I know about the GetComponent and GameObject.Find thingys, but i feel they are not the best way

[wintry quarry]

It simply returns true on frames when it's pressed and false on other frames

It doesn't wait for anything

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] when possible
GetComponent for runtime grabs

Find is the worst

[lilac valley]

What I mean is that if, for example, I have a script in another gameobject, and I want to get the player (that is, another gameobject), would I always need to create a field for that?

coming from Roblox Studio makes me very confused about this in Unity 💀 🙏

[rotund bolt]

you guys are heroes, no idea why you help us for free like this but its so much appreciated

[rich adder]

you create a field when you want to store the reference throughout

if you only need it once you dont need to make a field

depends how you want to grab the component, normally physics query, collision etc.

[lilac valley]

hmm, okay

thank you

sorry for the stupid question, but its kinda confusing 💀

[sour fulcrum]

people who can help only got there by being helped 😄. It's also a good way to practice your own knowledge

[rich adder]

its normal in the beginning no worries.
Check this also has some useful info for each
https://unity.huh.how/references

[lilac valley]

tysm 🙏

[sour fulcrum]

It's totally normal to be confused.

In the way c# is designed (and maybe how roblox does it?) all references need to be set in code because the language wasn't designed with some nice looking editor in mind. w/ Unity and the Unity Editor the ability to "expose" (via serializing) certain fields where we can drag and drop references ourselves is kind of black magic in regards to how the language works and is a nice and convenient luxury

fields are just a box/container for a value so you can either set what that value is via code or via the unity editor

[lilac valley]

yea, I started unity around 2 weeks ago, I'm really loving it, but i always wondered how people would do that, but I got a better idea now

[tribal fulcrum]

is there any way i can zoom out on visual studios

so i can take a screenshot of my code

[wintry quarry]

Use a paste site

!code

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[tribal fulcrum]

oh okay thats pretty nifty

[sour fulcrum]

Also, while GameObject.Find is almost always gross, stuff like GetComponent, FindObjectsOfType and FindObjectsByTag all have completely acceptable usecases, but they do take "some" work that can almost always be avoided when using more than once by just saving the work that was done the first time. eg.

PlayerManager : MonoBehaviour
    public void HealAllPlayers()
        foreach (Player player in Object.FindObjectsOfType<Player>)
            player.health = 100;

is bad because your doing the work of searching for all the players every time

PlayerManager : MonoBehaviour
    List<Player> allPlayers;

    private void Awake() //happens once when the PlayerManager initializes
        allPlayers = Object.FindObjectsOfType<Player>().ToList();

    public void HealAllPlayers()
        foreach (Player player in allPlayers)
            player.health = 100;

doing the work once and "caching" the results by storing them where they can be accessed later is better because then you only look for them once

[lilac valley]

gotcha, tysm

[hallow rock]

What’s going on here?

[wintry quarry]

you have a component on a GameObject in your scene or in a prefab that is broken

i.e. it's a script that no longer exists or something

[hallow rock]

Ooh, how can this be fixed?

[wintry quarry]

remove the broken components

[hallow rock]

thank you so much.

[frank rivet]

bump

[wintry quarry]

You either:

• didn't enable interpolation on your Rigidbody
• Are moving your camera at the wrong cadence
• are breaking Rigidbody interpolation with some code that directly modfified the Transform

[frank rivet]

Well interpolation is on, should I give the 3 code files that control the planes?

maybe I should

!code

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[zinc zenith]

Sorry to do this to you guys but where should I start. I've been wanting to learn game development for a while and have tried several times but never had dedication to do it. I plan to learn C# then eventually move on to C++ but I just don't know where to begin. I've watched a few videos but ultimately none of them helped. I scrambled around Unity for 5 minutes yet I couldn't find where to begin and what to do, so is there some other game engine that supports C# that I can use?

[frank rivet]

planecontroller: https://paste.mod.gg/wblrwihcmgpa/0

Hud.cs

//
// Copyright (c) Brian Hernandez. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for details.
//

using UnityEngine;

namespace MFlight.Demo
{
    public class Hud : MonoBehaviour
    {
        [Header("Components")]
        [SerializeField] private MouseFlightController mouseFlight = null;

        [Header("HUD Elements")]
        [SerializeField] private RectTransform boresight = null;
        [SerializeField] private RectTransform mousePos = null;

        private Camera playerCam = null;

        private void Awake()
        {
            if (mouseFlight == null)
                Debug.LogError(name + ": Hud - Mouse Flight Controller not assigned!");

            playerCam = mouseFlight.GetComponentInChildren<Camera>();

            if (playerCam == null)
                Debug.LogError(name + ": Hud - No camera found on assigned Mouse Flight Controller!");
        }

        private void Update()
        {
            if (mouseFlight == null || playerCam == null)
                return;

            UpdateGraphics(mouseFlight);
        }

        private void UpdateGraphics(MouseFlightController controller)
        {
            if (boresight != null)
            {
                boresight.position = playerCam.WorldToScreenPoint(controller.BoresightPos);
                boresight.gameObject.SetActive(boresight.position.z > 1f);
            }

            if (mousePos != null)
            {
                mousePos.position = playerCam.WorldToScreenPoint(controller.MouseAimPos);
                mousePos.gameObject.SetActive(mousePos.position.z > 1f);
            }
        }

        public void SetReferenceMouseFlight(MouseFlightController controller)
        {
            mouseFlight = controller;
        }
    }
}```

main core

[eternal needle]

just start with c# basics, not sure if you're aware but you dont use c++ in unity. unity has its own learn course too
!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[zinc zenith]

Alright, thanks! And yeah, I'm aware that Unity doesnt support C++ :)

[wintry quarry]

how does the camera work

[native thorn]

Unity is the easiest one with the most documentation tbh

[obtuse ether]

trying to use DG.Tweening to make a smooth hp decrease but sometimes when taking dm + dying to an enemy i get this error message

tried to fix it by making the HP script that used tweening a function

and then only updating it when taking damage

[obtuse ether]

and even checking if the game object that its trying to change is null like the error says

[ivory bobcat]

Where/when are you destroying the image/object?

I'm assuming from the coroutine die cooldown

[obtuse ether]

yeah

it reloads the level scene which is what is ig destroying the image/object

[ivory bobcat]

So.. which variable would they be referring to? It should be a reference to an image object

[obtuse ether]

im guessing the healthbar

[void thicket]

LoadScene and everything destroyed

[obtuse ether]

yeah

[ivory bobcat]

Perhaps consider stopping the tween if possible before loading a new scene?

[void thicket]

There's autokill option iirc

[obtuse ether]

hm how would i stop the tween tho

o yeah lmao

[void thicket]

SetLink

[obtuse ether]

huh

[ivory bobcat]

The first few links on Google yield something similar to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1dooi5t/dotween_best_practice_for_killing_a_tweensequence/

[void thicket]

autokill was something related to pooling, SetLink is probably what you finding

[obtuse ether]

yeah im just trying to figure out how im supposed to use it by trying to find it in the documentation

yep figured out how to use .setlink and it worked thx a lot

[native thorn]

Is a coroutine typically more or less efficient than setting up a simple timer to fire off

[teal viper]

If there is a difference, it's negligible. Though, it depends on how you're using it.

Don't think of performance. Think of readability, extendability and debuggability.

Implementation can be adjusted later.

[native thorn]

Alright thanks, I think I get too hung up on performance at such an early stage

[queen adder]

Yeah those small things would only matter if you have like hundreds of instances running all at once

[timber tide]

coroutines make a little amount of garbage, but there's always alternatives like pooling them, or using UniTask which have some similar features of pre-allocating them

and another alternative is just make a manager system where gameobjects can subscribe to

[charred spoke]

To answer your question typically yes a coroutine would be less efficient than a simple timer

[sour fulcrum]

hard to be super definitive without context, no?

[safe root]

So i'm having issues with one of my enemy dashes towards the player but when it does. It tilts a tad bit forwards and I belive that was causes that werid effect that sends my character flying. But I can't figure out what causing that

https://paste.ofcode.org/BrDcZuLwSsJ7jYhTAEfVSD

[naive pawn]

a coroutine is managed, work is being done for you, and it's more than you might do yourself if you made a barebones timer

[sour fulcrum]

hard to tell if it's more without context? surely in some scenarios it's worth considering the tradeoff of what that "barebones" timer would be (eg. having that update loop even running on that class)

[fleet venture]

I don’t rly have an poco tho

I only have mb classes

But I need to write unit tests it’s a requirement

[native thorn]

I don't really need definitive responses just practical ones

If they're close enough to be irrelevant that's good news ahaha

[sour fulcrum]

(hence why i asked that :P)

[keen dew]

Do you want it to stop tilting forward? Or is that intended?

[safe root]

Stop tilting forwards

[keen dew]

It's tilting because its position is higher than the player's position, so it looks downwards

[honest iron]

for some reason only my HP bar updating, im only able to set them

 playerHP = playerMaxHP;
 playerMP = playerMaxMP;
 SetPlayerEXPToLevelUp();

 playerHPBar.maxValue = playerMaxHP;
 UpdatePlayerHPBar();

 playerMPBar.maxValue = playerMaxMP;
 UpdatePlayerMPBar();

 playerEXPBar.maxValue = playerExpToLevelUp;
 UpdatePlayerEXPBar();

 public void UpdatePlayerHPBar()
 {
     playerHPBar.value = playerHP;
     playerBarsTexts[0].text = playerMaxHP + "/" + playerHP;
 }

 public void UpdatePlayerMPBar()
 {
     playerMPBar.value = playerMP;
     playerBarsTexts[1].text = playerMaxMP + "/" + playerMP;
 }

 public void UpdatePlayerEXPBar()
 {
     playerEXPBar.value = playerExp;
     playerBarsTexts[2].text = playerExpToLevelUp + "/" + playerExp;
     print("EXP:" + playerExpToLevelUp + "/:" + playerExp);
 }

[teal viper]

Add more logs.

And make sure you don't have errors in the console

[safe root]

Yeah, that makes a lot more sense. How would I have it look towards the player but not down at the player?

[keen dew]

Try this to keep it level:

Vector3 flatPosition = new Vector3(transform.position.x, 0, transform.position.z);
Vector3 playerFlatPosition = new Vector3(player.transform.position.x, 0, player.transform.position.z);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation(playerFlatPosition - flatPosition), rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

Unrelated but see also https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[safe root]

What's this for?

[keen dew]

You're doing Slerp wrong

[safe root]

Ah, I see. I'll to do study these then. Thank you

[frank rivet]

theres a camera rig that follows the object`s position. the camera rotates about the pivot(which is the plane) to look at mouse aim

[verbal karma]

spotlight.pointLightInnerAngle = 45f;
spotlight.pointLightOuterAngle = 45f;

why doesnt this change the Light2D spotlight angle? im positive the reference is valid

[verbal dome]

Are you on URP/HDRP?

[verbal karma]

URP

[verbal dome]

In HDRP at least you need to change it via the additive light data component instead

See if URP has a similiar component it adds to lights

Oh wait, you said Light2D

[verbal karma]

the component itself works, I just cant set the angle within a script, it just refuses to update

indeed

[honest iron]

        foreach (Skill skill in Skills[i])
        {
            GameObject skillObject = new GameObject();
            skillObject.name = skill.skillName + " Skill";
            Image skillImage = skillObject.AddComponent<Image>();
            skillImage.sprite = skill.skillImage;
            skillObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().SetParent(skillsTabs[i].transform);
            skillObject.SetActive(true);
            skillObject.AddComponent<SkillHolder>().Skill = skill;
            Button skillButton = skillObject.AddComponent<Button>();

            skillButton.onClick.AddListener(() =>
            {
                selectedSkill = skillObject.GetComponent<SkillHolder>().Skill;
                skillName.text = selectedSkill.skillName;
                skillLevel.text = "Skill Level : " + selectedSkill.skillMaxLevel + "/" + selectedSkill.skillLevel;
                skillDescription.text = selectedSkill.SkillDescription;
            });
        }
}

the images are too small, how to make them them fit

[naive pawn]

not really a code question? might want to make a horizontal layout group

[honest iron]

ok thanx

[valid vine]

i have just got some issues in c#. i want to make a simple script for a 3d object to move and i tried to make it in 2 hours and it dosent work😭 . can someone explain whats wrong?: transform.position += new Vector3(0, 0, 5f) * Time.deltaTime;

[hexed terrace]

share your !code properly ( 👇 ) , and not just a single snippet like that

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[hexed terrace]

and maybe look at one of the thousands of tutorials for movement that are available online!

[knotty fable]

hello

newbie here just starting c#

[burnt vapor]

Not that I don't believe you but how do you figure that?

[astral falcon]

I guess just by coroutines being part of the whole unity cycle and therefore having a little overhead over simple "native" timers?

[burnt vapor]

I would say that is actually better because a timer might need an additional thread or won't work directly in the same Unity "cycle"

I would not know though, I mostly ask because I am interested in what the better approach would be

[astral falcon]

Unity has to handle all those coroutines, even when coming from native IENumerable stuff, that might be the overhead. But as said, just guessing here with short reading about whats happening under the hood

[grand snow]

I presume unity will check the yield each update anyway to see if its done so probably no better

[hot harbor]

Is there a way to serialize a Tuple?

To be more specific I want to assign a transform for each weapon item, which results in

Tuple<Transform[], Weapon[]> thing

Which does not get serialized

[grand snow]

nah make your own class with these 2 fields and mark it as serializable

[cosmic dagger]

Use a struct or a class instead . . .

[hot harbor]

The goal is to assign a transform for each specific weapon and I want them to be a one-to-one relation instead of relying on array index

the problem is my Weapon is a scriptableObject and I'm not sure if private variables behave normally

[cosmic dagger]

I like using an index though since grabbing it from the collection is O1, it's easier and smaller to store an int . . .

[hot harbor]

Thanks

I'll stick to indices for now I guess

[grand snow]

well this will be arrays of references so such a benefit is minimal

[sour fulcrum]

offtopic it seems a little interesting that your weapons are paired with just regular transforms rather than a more direct way of correlating that data

i've just never seen something like that before

[hot harbor]

It's because I wanted the locations to not be linked directly to the weapon so I could swap the positions around without attaching the location to the SO

[sour fulcrum]

ah fair. i've usually done that by having some small component on the transform that communicates w/ whatever is managing this but i could totally see that approach

[grand snow]

so you want to associate data with a weapon but not "attach" it to a weapon? wut

[hot harbor]

Always nice to hear other people's implementations :D thanks for sharing

[sour fulcrum]

the weapon are so assets so don't wanna retain any runtime data

[hot harbor]

put more elegantly than I could

[grand snow]

Better to have some runtime object and keep the "weapon data" seperate

[hot harbor]

I do

[grand snow]

but only using some index to link the data seems flimsy

[sour fulcrum]

or be even more cursed and start making self-referencing runtime sos

[hot harbor]

a prefab of a turret keeps both the transform positions of the weapons and the weapon's configurations(scriptableObject)

Like this

[sour fulcrum]

oh yeah the exact example i was thinking about when mentioning my approach previously was for a turret setup like this haha

[grand snow]

yea id not do this but have a class/struct to hold this data

[sour fulcrum]

a serialized dictionary can also be nice for cleaning up the inspector for those

[hot harbor]

that's bsaically what I wanted to do with the Tuple!

Dictionary sounds much more expensive to initialize than a Tuple though

[sour fulcrum]

i haven't gotten further and/or paid enough to pay for all my various tech debt crimes so i can't confirm or deny that

I've had a great experience using ayellowpaper's SerializableDictionary project on the asset store though

[cosmic dagger]

It's basically the same. Your Tuple is similar to a Key/Value pair, which is what a dictionary uses . . .. . .

[hot harbor]

thanks

[solemn python]

any android dev here? How can I disable these adaptive performence logs?

[rich adder]

yup. You need that for test on MB

[fleet venture]

ye i got it figured out with a tutorial

i just had to create a shit ton of interfaces and wrappers

[scarlet skiff]

There is a layer called player. It's the player's layer. There is a layer called ground. It's a layer for the ground. I have items with colliders. I want this collider that the items have to act as a normal collider when it touches the ground. But when it touches the player, I want it to act as a trigger collider. I was thinking maybe to create an item layer and then have it ignore the player layer, but then that wouldn't even trigger the isTrigger collider. So what would be the best approach?

Basically, it can collide with the ground, it has gravity and once the gravity drags it down to to touch the ground, it stays there, but the player should be able to walk through the item, while still being able to detect its there.

How do i approach this?

[timber tide]

Should be able to just make a child object with a trigger collider

[polar acorn]

Two colliders. Parent object on Item layer with solid collider. Make a child object that is not on the Item layer that has a trigger. Set Player and Item layers to ignore each other in physics settings.

[scarlet skiff]

so the item has its own layer which ignores collision with player laye,r but has a child that doesnt have the item layer, and that child has the trigger collider?

[polar acorn]

yes

[timber tide]

Triggers are fine, but non-triggers would become composite

[scarlet skiff]

just to be clear when you mean ignore each other in physics settings you mean by utilizing layers, right? or it there some otherway that doesnt need the creation of a layer for this sole purpose?

[polar acorn]

Do note that this would necessitate a Rigidbody on your player character, since putting two rigidbodies on the same object is going to cause problems. But that's most likely the case already

[polar acorn]

Yes, in the layer settings. You can specify an individual pair of colliders to ignore each other in code, but doing that for every item would actually be fairly expensive, and if you can spare the layer you should do that instead

[scarlet skiff]

yes player already had rb

okay thanks

[timber tide]

You can actually exclude colliders from the rb directly from the component if not the matrix setting

but probably worth it to do it globally if you've multiples

[deft ridge]

How do you trigger particle effects using animation animation events? I have a Slash effect prefab that I want to time to an attack animation, and I want to be able to set the location rotation and scale for each animation's slash effect

[timber tide]

If you know how to add events, you make a script with methods specifically to be called by those events

Usually you can send in parameters with the events, so give it the position where it is in the animation, move the particle system there, then Play() the system

or, attach the system locally to the bone of where the particle system should be played and just Play() it

[deft ridge]

alright, thanks!

[ripe matrix]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using TMPro;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class CombatUI : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject enemyUIPrefab; 
    public Camera mainCamera;      
    public Canvas canvas;             

    private Dictionary<GameObject, RectTransform> enemyUIMap = new Dictionary<GameObject, RectTransform>();

    void Update()
    {
        GameObject[] allEnemies = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Player");

        foreach (GameObject enemy in allEnemies)
        {
            if (enemy == gameObject) continue;

            if (!enemyUIMap.ContainsKey(enemy))
            {
                GameObject uiElementPrefab = Instantiate(enemyUIPrefab, canvas.transform);

                Debug.Log($"Instantiated UI for {enemy.name}");

                enemyUIMap[enemy] = uiElementPrefab.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
            }

            RectTransform enemyUI = enemyUIMap[enemy]; 
            Vector3 screenPos = mainCamera.WorldToScreenPoint(enemy.transform.position);

            if (screenPos.z > 0)
            {
                enemyUI.gameObject.SetActive(true);
                enemyUI.position = screenPos; 
                Debug.Log("updated ui position");
            }
            else
            {
                enemyUI.gameObject.SetActive(false);
                Debug.Log("UI is hidden");
            }

        }

        List<GameObject> enemiesToRemove = new List<GameObject>();

        foreach (var entry in enemyUIMap)
        {
            if (entry.Key == null)
            {
                enemiesToRemove.Add(entry.Key);
            }
        }

        foreach (GameObject enemy in enemiesToRemove)
        {
            Destroy(enemyUIMap[enemy].gameObject);
            enemyUIMap.Remove(enemy);
        }
    }

}

Above here, i have a script to display a crosshair over other players. However, when the players are too far away, it doesnt work?

I can't seem to find any issues

[bright zodiac]

dont use the old Tuple, use ValueTuple instead.
you can do the same but much cooler like this :

(Transform[] transforms, Weapon[] weapons) thing = default;

but yeah they will never allow us to serialize Tupple/ValueTupple for a good reason

imagine if some dumbo coders do this

(int, float, (float, int, (string, string))) a;

now imagine how they'd serialize that 😂

[proper yacht]

How should character move within new input system? I've set invoke events in behavior and wrote this method:

        private void OnMove(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx)
        {
            Vector2 _movement = ctx.ReadValue<Vector2>();
            _characterController.Move(new Vector3(_movement.x, 0, _movement.y) * _speed * Time.deltaTime);
        }

Character is moving by 1 value and only when I press (I'm using Value in action type but it works so idk)

As I've read it should be in Update but a couple of weeks ago when I started learning Unity it worked without it

I'm not full of confidence about the best solution in this situation

[rich adder]

you want to only read values in OnMove

move the actual CC in update

make _movement not local

[small dagger]

Is it possible to reference a specific file type in code? For example, I want a serializedfield variable that can hold OGG files

[rich adder]

ogg are just AudioClip files

[small dagger]

gotcha

is there a way I can see what data type these imported assets and stuff would be?

[polar acorn]

Unity doesn't deal in file types, they deal with Asset types. File types can tell Unity which kind of asset it is, but multiple file types can map to the same type of asset

For example, png and jpg both become Textures

[small dagger]

gotcha, makes sense

[polar acorn]

(Or Sprites depending on your project settings)

[small dagger]

Is there a way I can see what asset type something is in the editor? I have it selected but can't seem to see it in the inspector

[proper yacht]

ReadValue should be in update method?

[polar acorn]

No, Move should be in update

[polar acorn]

you'd click on it and see what the inspector says

[small dagger]

actually disregard this, I see the asset type in the name in parentheses

[rare elm]

hello. i'm trying to use a sprite sheet i bought on unity store. i have two problems, both of which are probably pretty simple

1. i've been using auto-trim to get the sprites out of it, but these sprites move around on the canvas when they "jump," and auto-trim effectively removes that. they are gridded. can i just specify math to place them?

2. i've been making animators by dragging things onto the scene, because i don't know what i'm doing. the problem is, this time that produces bad results, because i get the entire sheet, which contains multiple characters, in a single animator. is there a way for me to specify what sub-range to use?

i guess i could just cut the sprite sheet apart but these seem like things i ought to know either way

[proper yacht]

Thanks now I got it and it works well

[boreal umbra]

Can I give coordinates after vector2?

[naive pawn]

needs more context

absolutely no clue what you're talking about there

[cosmic dagger]

You can search, "how to use a sprite sheet in unity," as there are tons of tutorials to help and give you insights on this topic. For help with animators, checkout #🏃┃animation

[rich adder]

wat?

[boreal umbra]

For example, let the ball jump 1 unit up and 1 unit to the left.

[naive pawn]

they are gridded.
then don't use autotrim
can i just specify math to place them?
yes, that's what the grid options are for

not a code question