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[raw fiber]

its a code where when i click on a button a sound comes up but now i fixed the error. And i want to repeat the sound when i click i can only click once and when i click the sound doesent play anymore how to make it infinite

[verbal dome]

Does it play once?

[raw fiber]

i can click once and it play and when i click it again it doesnt play anymore

but i dont want a loop

hello can someone please help?

[rich adder]

did you check the console window ?

[raw fiber]

no error

[scarlet aspen]

Where do I find the IDE set up for Unity?

[raw fiber]

this comes up

[hexed terrace]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[scarlet aspen]

ty

[rich adder]

unrelated

show your AudioSource settings

[slender nymph]

just because you are mad that i told you to learn the basics of c# does not mean you need to ping me justifying why you are asking a question every single time you do so.

[raw fiber]

@rich adder

[rich adder]

are you sure the button presses /clicks is playing it at all? Cause you got Play On Awake you must be hearing that

[tacit vigil]

i made an infinite loop on start, how can unity from executing?

[frosty hound]

You're going to have to kill the process in task manager.

[tacit vigil]

unfortunate, would've been nice for a kill option

[frosty hound]

[naive pawn]

i mean, isn't that the kill option

[void notch]

Haha, why not create a program to kill the executable? 😄

[tacit vigil]

*kill option that doesn't make me reopen the whole project 🙃

[raw fiber]

yes because the sound i comeing one time

[rich adder]

its infinite. The program doesnt know it needs to be killed since its stil " processing"

it will keep eating RAM until crash

[raw fiber]

@rich adder but if i click the button again after the one time it doesnt work

[rich adder]

from the click or Play On Awake

[verbal dome]

But does it play when you click it or at the start of the scene

[rich adder]

put a Debug.Log insde PlaySound

see if thats being called

[tacit vigil]

Follow up, is there any way to debug the infinite loop? considering it seems like i don't have access to the console while it's "processing"

[raw fiber]

when i put a debug log i get a error

but i think i did it wrong

im new

[median hatch]

show code

[rich adder]

look at all the places you are using a while loop or infinite for loop, or recursive method

[median hatch]

Debug.Log

()

and put the rest inside brackets

dont you have intellisense

[rich adder]

Log is a method

not a property

[median hatch]

yes

i put the brackets underneath

typign at the speed of light

[rich adder]

why are you putting the add listener there

[median hatch]

has its consequences

[rich adder]

also why is it in start

[verbal dome]

You could use a debugger and you can also check the log files if theres anything useful printed out

[rich adder]

wait.. just think for a moment stop doing random things

[median hatch]

too much sugar

[rich adder]

Put the log where I told you to put it
inside PlaySound

[slender nymph]

if you attach your debugger to unity you can use the Break All button to pause execution while the loop is happening then check what is happening on the main thread to see what is causing your infinite loop

[polar acorn]

Debug breakpoint, or engineer an exit condition like counting loops and quitting early if it gets too high.

But it should be fairly clear what's infinite, look for while loops you added recently

[raw fiber]

guys can someone say now what the problem is that i can only play it once

[rich adder]

if you refuse to debug , no one is gonna help

[raw fiber]

idk how

tut?

[rich adder]

i told you how

[verbal dome]

@raw fiber

[rich adder]

again, we need to see if PlaySound is being called at all

[hexed terrace]

clicksound is probably null

[polar acorn]

What is supposed to play it

[rich adder]

Put Debug.Log inside PlaySound function, to see how many times that method is being called

[verbal dome]

They said "i can click once and it play" but it's probably just the play on awake

[raw fiber]

at the start omg bro

[verbal dome]

? You said it plays when you click

And now you say a different thing

Like it's somehow obvious

[raw fiber]

yes omg i was so stupid

but i now put it in update

[hexed terrace]

...why

[median hatch]

good job

[rich adder]

instruction arent your thing

[median hatch]

takes time

[raw fiber]

ok but how can i do it now?

[rich adder]

you test if PlaySound is being called at all

put log inside of it before the if statement

idk its not that complicated of an instruction is it?

[raw fiber]

log? you mean debug.log?

[rich adder]

thats what I been saying yes..

[polar acorn]

No, he means Yule Log, the christmas delicacy and/or the actual fireplace log that it's based off of (apparently it's not just a cake! I learned something today)

[verbal dome]

🪵

[rich adder]

Debug.Log("Hello, this is being called", gameObject)

untick collapse in Console window

[tacit vigil]

thanks everyone!

[raw fiber]

where do i need to put it inside the if statement or what?

[hexed terrace]

do both.. put 2 logs in..

[rich adder]

pay attention plz

[median hatch]

dude at this point you gotta google

[rich adder]

google what?

"how to place a log before if statement" ?

[median hatch]

yes

[raw fiber]

where guys?

[median hatch]

you see what i mean

[raw fiber]

im so confused rn

[rich adder]

you just made it worse

somehow

[raw fiber]

im so sorry

[median hatch]

no worries man we all started the same way

[slender nymph]

this is why you were instructed to learn the basics

[rich adder]

Before if statements means it goes ABOVE

[raw fiber]

bro boxfriend

[rich adder]

code runs from top to bottom

[median hatch]

just please learn the basics

[raw fiber]

please just say it to me

[median hatch]

ich kann es auch in Deutsch sagen

Debug.Log Mann

[raw fiber]

just give me the line of code empty but in right order and everything

[median hatch]

einfach Debug.Log

[rich adder]

we need Neon Signs too I'm thinking

[raw fiber]

bro wo über if oder bei if

[rich adder]

english only server

[polar acorn]

If it gets this conversation over with, German is fine

[median hatch]

exactly

[raw fiber]

bro where above oder at if

[rich adder]

I gave you the exact line of code.. what more do you want

do you want me to hold your mouse for you too

[median hatch]

in deinem If statement schreib Debug.Log("played")

[raw fiber]

welche zeile

ahh omg i got it

[median hatch]

ich weiss nicht, ich kann sie nicht sehen

LETS GOOOOO

german >>>

[raw fiber]

what is supposed to come in side debug.log

[rich adder]

this in english only server, keep it so

[median hatch]

dude omfg

read what i said

[raw fiber]

i get cs0104

[rich adder]

it doesnt matter at this point in time what the hell is inside the message of the Log. the importance here is that it prints..

[median hatch]

Debug.Log("played");

literally copy paste what i wrote

ctrl c ctrl v

[rich adder]

error codes are for computers

show what u wrote

after this go through the basics or you're gonna burn al your help cards here believe it

[median hatch]

wtf

[polar acorn]

I know the problems solved already I just needed to find a comically large picture of an arrow

[rich adder]

Okay seems its grabbing the incorrect Debug class

[polar acorn]

took me a bit

[rich adder]

worth

[raw fiber]

what is the right debug class?

[rich adder]

the one inside UnityEngine namespace

[raw fiber]

i only get a green one

[rich adder]

you should remove the one that has Debug from System.Diagnostic

[polar acorn]

If you have using System in the top of your file (or anything inside of system) remove it

[raw fiber]

yes i have it

[median hatch]

DELETE IT

[polar acorn]

It begins again

[raw fiber]

omg finaly no error

[rich adder]

yes things go smooth if you pay attention to instructions

[raw fiber]

same thing

[rich adder]

same thing what?

[raw fiber]

only playes once

[rich adder]

that isnt what the logs are for..

logs dont fix code..

they are used to Debug it

[raw fiber]

then say me what does

please

[rich adder]

is it printing in the console when you press button

[raw fiber]

i dot wanna script today anymore

[rich adder]

and just for good measure send what you wrote

[raw fiber]

this is a mobile game button

[polar acorn]

The entire point of the debug log was as a tool for seeing what the code is doing. This is an information gathering step

[raw fiber]

nothing is showing up

[polar acorn]

Now you can see when the function is called

[rich adder]

then the button isnt working

[polar acorn]

If you get no logs, then the function isn't running

[raw fiber]

only

[polar acorn]

Which is, itself, information

[rich adder]

assuming you put the log before the if

if you dont see other logs then the button is not working

[polar acorn]

If you don't get the log you just put in, then you're never calling the function

[rich adder]

typically, either something is covering it OR you dont have an event system

[polar acorn]

So it's not running at all

[median hatch]

can you show your button inspector + code?

[raw fiber]

nothing running

[rich adder]

show where you put the log

[median hatch]

he probably didnt add a listener to the button

[frosty hound]

@raw fiber Please make a thread, you're spamming this channel with your noise at this point.

[raw fiber]

sorry

[hexed terrace]

he has

[raw fiber]

what?

[polar acorn]

Oh my fucking god it's still not before the if

I don't have a higher resolution arrow image to point to the instructions again

[rich adder]

oof

they are using a SpriteRenderer..

and no canvas

and no event system

this borked

[raw fiber]

can someone please give a tut

[median hatch]

please basics

[frosty hound]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

look one up

[median hatch]

www.youtube.com

[polar acorn]

https://www.sesamestreet.org/

[raw fiber]

🖕

[median hatch]

LMAO

[raw fiber]

bro on youtube there are only tuts for movement on mobile

[hexed terrace]

imbicile

[frosty hound]

@raw fiber If your next message isn't making a thread, you will be muted.

And if your persistence on not learning, and expecting people to solve all your issues continues, you will be muted.

[raw fiber]

@frosty hound buddy this was no question this was a thing

[frosty hound]

!mute 986696803208532078 1d You can return tomorrow.

[eternal falcon]

snail_thunder was muted.

[hidden fossil]

is this a place to ask for help?

[polar acorn]

Sure, if it's related to beginner coding concepts in Unity

[hidden fossil]

ok i need help im getting this really werid bug

for some reason

[polar acorn]

Otherwise, #🔎┃find-a-channel for one more relevant if it's not

[hidden fossil]

idk if has to do with coding or not

but its like when i click play and go to my game menu and click on level 1, the enemies in the inspector and waves just all disappear

but then when i exit play mode they just all go back

[polar acorn]

Well, everything should go back to normal when you exit play mode, any changes to anything during play mode get reverted

[hidden fossil]

no its not that

its like i put it there when im in exited play mode

but then when i play and click on level 1

they just all disappear

like i use the same script for level 2

and for some reason they are stilll there for level 2

but they just disappear in level 1

[polar acorn]

Well, first off, are you getting any errors in the console

[hidden fossil]

lemme check

nope no errors

like it shows this in the inspector when im not playing

but then when i play it just becomes this

[hexed terrace]

something is probably setting that list empty / creating a new one in code

[hidden fossil]

no

if i like play the game from level 1

its there

but when i play the game from the game menu and click on level 1

it just disappears

[rich adder]

they probably are two different instances?

[hidden fossil]

yea but

i did the same for level 2

and i played level 2 from the game menu

its there

but its just not there for level 1?

[hexed terrace]

something is telling it to do that, find out what has a reference to it

[hidden fossil]

in the scripts?

[rich adder]

yea

[hexed terrace]

!code

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[cosmic dagger]

Use a paste site to post your !code . . .

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[hexed terrace]

delete this and post properly

[hidden fossil]

can i just upload file?

[hexed terrace]

no

can you just do what's expected?

[hidden fossil]

yea

do i just paste it on there?

[cosmic dagger]

Read the bot message we both posted. It tells you exactly what to do . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Yes; you paste the code, save it, and post the link for us . . .

[rich adder]

you're supposed to SAVE IT then get the generated link

not send us the root of the website..

[hidden fossil]

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

[queen adder]

i cant get my object to move, using a rigidbody and it wont work correctly. It has a rigidbody attached and im using rb.addforce and its not showing any actual errors but the object wont move.

[rich adder]

show inspector , show console , show code

[queen adder]

public Rigidbody rb;

void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.AddForce(transform.forward * 20f);
    }

[rich adder]

okay, and the other things ?

[hidden fossil]

is my problem fixed yet/

[cosmic dagger]

In the inspector, is the rb variable assigned?

[queen adder]

yeah

[hexed terrace]

only you know if it's still happening

[hidden fossil]

still happening

[hexed terrace]

so, not fixed

the code you shared doesn't show anything

[cosmic dagger]

There's no way for us to know if you fixed it or not . . .

[hidden fossil]

so uhh what now?

[cosmic dagger]

Did you change any of the rigidbody settings?

[rich adder]

why is the inspector different

[hexed terrace]

record a video and show the issue happening. Make sure to include the hierarchy and inspector in the recording, do not crop anything out

[queen adder]

does he think someone else is gonna fix it for him-

[queen adder]

turned gravity off and set it to interpolate and continuous

but i also tried it w the default stuff just incase that was the issue

[queen adder]

oh yeah i have some other variables in it that im not doing anything with rn

[rich adder]

is the rigidody on the same object as this script?

[rich adder]

mp4 for Discord embed

[queen adder]

yep

[verbal dome]

Does the object have an animator?

[hidden fossil]

how do i do an mp4?

[rich adder]

Kinematic 😂

no shit its not moving

[queen adder]

dont think so

[rich adder]

Kinematic = no physics

AddForce will not work

[queen adder]

OH

i uh

[rich adder]

something you should've probably mentioned when they asked " if you changed anything on RB" lol

[hidden fossil]

wait so

how do i do an mp4?

[hexed terrace]

Either use something that records an mp4 or use https://handbrake.fr/ to convert

[queen adder]

it was on network rigidbody so i didnt think to but in hindsight yeah

welp

learning curves

[rich adder]

online converter or there is option in OBS

forgot where

[hexed terrace]

or shareX to record straight to mp4

quicker /easier than setting up OBS

[rich adder]

ShareX is good too

[queen adder]

lmao just turned kinematic off and saw it go past at mach speeds awesome that fixed it

[rich adder]

thats because in Multiplayer uses kinematic bodies for clients to simulate the physics

[queen adder]

ohhh

[rich adder]

also probably not a good idea to do Multiplayer if you dont know the unity basics yet 😆

[queen adder]

see i didnt realise that and was just looking at my player prefab and doing the same stuff w the logic of "this is how i do it"

[queen adder]

probably 😅

[rich adder]

yaa..its gonna get quite complex, quickly lol

start with a simpler thing, work your way up

[hidden fossil]

alright

[queen adder]

noted, thanks 😁

[hexed terrace]

Is something destroying the Levelmanager GameObject and instantiating it on scene load?

[rich adder]

LevelManager is a prefab, are you creating a new instance maybe and deleting old one?

[hidden fossil]

i did the same for level 2 and it works

[rich adder]

jinx!

[rich adder]

by "the same" wdym

[hexed terrace]

irrelevant, something in this scene could still be doing it.. but not doing it in scene 2

[hidden fossil]

i used the same scripts and setup

[hexed terrace]

So.. it's a yes/ no question.. and if you're not sure, you need to check and confirm

[rich adder]

we dont know for sure what is different because we havent seen the entire setup

[hexed terrace]

A list won't become empty on its own, SOMETHING you've done/setup has to be interacting with the component or the game object

[hidden fossil]

maybe?

so what would i need to double check?

[rich adder]

first start by showing us this

how you set that up

[hidden fossil]

like the script?

[rich adder]

sure whatever handles LevelManager prefab

[hidden fossil]

so like a picture?

[eternal falcon]

No

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

[rich adder]

whats Spawns LevelManager

also doesnt seem EnemySpawner is part of the original prefab

[hidden fossil]

oh the levelmanager script?

[hexed terrace]

we do not know if levelmanager class spawns itself.

[hidden fossil]

it spawns itself

just not the wave setting

but it spawns everything else

[rich adder]

yeah but if its creating it with a blank EnemySpawner, we dont know your setup lol you're the one that should know, you made it

[hidden fossil]

nah

i followed an online tutorial

and just modified the game by myself a little bit

[rich adder]

well whatever you touched broke it then 🤷‍♂️

if you dont know your own setup its going to be difficult fixing

[hidden fossil]

so right now were looking for if the level 1 enemyspawner is loading?

[rich adder]

you would check if something might be finding / Spawning LevelManager and deleting the old one for some reason

[rancid tinsel]

control + shift + F in VS and check for "LevelManager"

right?

[cosmic dagger]

Haha, I just saw that. If you want to use a kinematic rigidbody, you have to use the MovePosition method . . .

[rancid tinsel]

if we are talking singletons though I would assume that you have a spare level manager in Level 1 scene, but not in Level 2 scene @hidden fossil

[cosmic dagger]

Check which scenes have a level manager . . .

[hidden fossil]

ok

[hidden fossil]

i dont have a spare level manager anywhere

[rancid tinsel]

can you show us your LevelManager script?

!code

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[hidden fossil]

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

[rancid tinsel]

ok just to double check, because you are using a static instance so its quite likely

type LevelManager in here in all scenes to make 100% sure you dont have another one

[rich adder]

is there something that spawns LevelManager?

[rancid tinsel]

^ that too

but that one is harder to find

[rich adder]

LevelManager is also missing the singleton cleanup so that might not be the one deleting the copy (if one existed)

[rancid tinsel]

yeah, the way he has it I think will overwrite the instance whenever there is a new one

[hidden fossil]

anything else?

[rich adder]

yeah when you access the Instance it will grab the new one

[hidden fossil]

so is that the problem?

[rancid tinsel]

not 100% but likely

try this https://paste.mod.gg/fgyyaikcpuwv/0

if you want to read up on what this is in more detail ill get you a resource real quick

https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/, be careful though as singletons come with some major downsides, especially if overused so try not to rely on the pattern too much

[rich adder]

Destroy(this); much better to just destroy the entire GameObject instead of the component Destroy(gameObject);

[rancid tinsel]

i was going to say "what if you have another script attached" but then again when would that ever happen with a singleton where you want two

so I think you're right

[hidden fossil]

the code u sent me is giving thousands of bugs

[rich adder]

ya there could be otherscripts on that object ( i know mine does)
that uses that singleton as SerializeField since its on same object anyway

[rancid tinsel]

could you show the errors? what bugs are happening?

oh wait

whoops

change Instance to main

[hidden fossil]

oh yea thats the problem

[rancid tinsel]

you usually want to name it Instance though from what I understand, seems to be standard practice

but its really semantics

[hidden fossil]

alright all fixed ima test it now

[rich adder]

outta nowhere unity uses Singleton for NGO Network manager

[rancid tinsel]

is there actually a case where you wouldn't want to Destroy just the singleton though?

[hidden fossil]

nope still not working

[rancid tinsel]

so what is not working exactly just to confirm

[hidden fossil]

so like when i play level 1 from level 1 scene

[rich adder]

No idea. I just destroy the entire object lol

[hidden fossil]

it shows that the wave setting is all set and enemies are there

but when i play level 1 from the game menu

the wave setting and enemies just all disappear and spawns nothing

[rancid tinsel]

wait sorry typo, i meant where you wouldnt want to destroy the whole object

in practice i mean

[hidden fossil]

like the inspector is even empty for the wave setting

[rancid tinsel]

since you prob wouldnt couple a singleton to a non-single instance class

[hidden fossil]

but when i exit play mode and go to inspector it just all comes back

[rancid tinsel]

do you have a level manager in the menu scene?

[hidden fossil]

no

[rich adder]

no idea, but basically you're getting a very minimal amount of allocation back from cleanup since you don't have an extra thing loaded for no reason

[hidden fossil]

i need a level manager in the menu scene?

[rich adder]

such a tiny amount in the grand scheme its a non-issue

[rancid tinsel]

im not sure, can you show where you use the level manager

like other scripts where you do LevelManager.main...

[graceful jasper]

if i have a object with a dependency on a component in a child object, should i get the component in Awake() or Start()

[rancid tinsel]

i dont see anything that would cause the issue here. so what happens is that you load into the scene, and the level manager's references are gone?

could you show the inspector for it both in edit mode and play mode?

[hidden fossil]

from like the game menu scene play?

[rancid tinsel]

yeah so you said its there and then its gone

so show me before and after

[hidden fossil]

before i play level 1

[rancid tinsel]

and this is in the level 1 scene right?

[hidden fossil]

after

[rancid tinsel]

are you sure this is the same one? i dont see build manager in the first screen shot

[slender nymph]

are you spawning a prefab? because from the looks of it you have made changes to the one in the scene but not saved those changes to the prefab

[hidden fossil]

its below it

like everything else in levelmanager is there except for the wave settings when i play

[rancid tinsel]

i dont think he is... but i could be wrong? seems he has set LevelManagers in the scenes

oh were prob looking in the wrong place

show the EnemySpawner class

[hidden fossil]

script or inspector?

[rancid tinsel]

script pls

[hidden fossil]

!code

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[hidden fossil]

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

wait i got an idea on how to fix this

since it works on level 2 but not on level 1

can i just duplicate level 2 scene and delete level 1 scene?

and change it?

[rancid tinsel]

that should prob work

but i wouldnt delete the original scene

[hidden fossil]

should i try it?

[rancid tinsel]

just rename it to something else for the time being

you could

[hidden fossil]

ok

delete level 1?

[rancid tinsel]

no just rename it

you may still need it

[hidden fossil]

ok

yea, i did made level 3 by duplicating level 2 and it works

but level 1 still doesnt owrk

so im guessing delete level 1?

[glacial forge]

Im having some issue with the IDragHandler interface. if anyone could help me out

I have included event systems, I'm inheriting all 3 of the interfaces IBeginDragHandler, IDragHandler, IEndDragHandler

but yet all 3 of these functions dont log anything, so therefor I assume are never called

public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    Debug.Log("drag start");
    velocity = 0f; // Stop momentum
}

public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    Debug.Log("draging");
    SelectedIndex -= eventData.delta.x * dragSensitivity; 
}

public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    Debug.Log("drag end");
    velocity = -eventData.delta.x * dragSensitivity * 10f; 
}

[hidden fossil]

any rigid body used?

[glacial forge]

for some more context this is a script on an empty gameobject inside a panel. I got it to work for a second but then it stopped

[glacial forge]

is on drag for rigid bodys only?

[hidden fossil]

no

if u used rigidbody i think u would have to write velocity to linearvelocity

i think btw im not sure

[glacial forge]

yeah the issue is im not even getting the debug.log

the other code im fairly certain works, but is just never triggering

[hidden fossil]

so ur problem is it is not interfering?

like the code isnt working?

[glacial forge]

the functiuon is never called

debug.log never prints

[hidden fossil]

does the object have a collider?

[sour fulcrum]

there's a couple channels that could be the most appropriate spot for this question so apologies but regarding like displaying 2d tiles, That's generally down from top left to bottom right correct?

[glacial forge]

yes

[glacial forge]

it didnt but adding one didnt change anything

[sour fulcrum]

feels weird doing it for the first time because in regards to setting position i gotta use positive x but negative y so it made me question reality aha

[glacial forge]

wait i might be miss remembering since my game is a digging game so I wanted it to go down. I think it is bottom left to top right

yeah its a standard cord system and you are starting at 0,0. the direction you chose to populate is up to you.

for example I populate my world like this:

Vector3Int[] vector3Ints = new Vector3Int[width * mapChunkSize];
for (int y = 0; y < mapChunkSize; y++)
    for (int x = -width / 2; x < width / 2; x++)
        vector3Ints[y*width+x + (width / 2)] = new Vector3Int(x, -y, 0);

world.ClearAllTiles();
world.SetTiles(vector3Ints, mapData.tileArr);

where world is a tileMap, and mapData.tileArr is just a 1d array of tiles
that makes 0,0 the top center and it populates downwards

[waxen aurora]

how can I change the object reference of this specific binding via code?

[rich adder]

its probably a struct in Playable Director

[waxen aurora]

I only found this

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Playables.PlayableDirector.SetGenericBinding.html

[rich adder]

thats probably it

to swap

[waxen aurora]

but with key does it mean the previous object or what

"The source object in the PlayableBinding"

[rich adder]

its the Key

so its used to find it

probably checks the extact ref / type

[waxen aurora]

mhhh

so what if its null?

I hoped to do something simple like this (code as screen so you can see the error)

[covert raft]

System.RuntimeType.InvokeMember (System.String name, System.Reflection.BindingFlags bindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object target, System.Object[] providedArgs, System.Reflection.ParameterModifier[] modifiers, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture, System.String[] namedParams) (at <191a1970a53948f9819ac1d2e4f5c72e>:0)
UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine.InvokeMember (System.Object behaviour, System.String name, System.Object variable) (at <84f0d810adef4e6c8deab33e4ae93f7c>:0)
UnityEngine.InputSystem.LowLevel.<>c__DisplayClass7_0:<set_onUpdate>b__0(NativeInputUpdateType, NativeInputEventBuffer*)
UnityEngineInternal.Input.NativeInputSystem:NotifyUpdate(NativeInputUpdateType, IntPtr)  

what does this error message mean?

[polar acorn]

Something's trying to call MeleeAttack.OnMelee but it doesn't exist

Since it's an Invoke or a Coroutine with a string parameter, there is no stacktrace

Well, no useful stack trace

One of the main reasons not to use those

[rich adder]

For key?

[wintry quarry]

You hooked up your OnMelee in PlayerInput or some other part of the Input System incorrectly

[covert raft]

okay so rn im using a triangle as a temporary trigger to deal damage but its very incosistent anyways to make it better?

but it works when i move the hitbox around more

[idle charm]

how do i make a day/night cycle for my game?

[rich adder]

Search up online, this topic has been asked to death

[deft igloo]

Hello

So uh...

I have Heard is recommended to check some courses online to learn some programming

But how can i know if a course is good or not before buying it?

[frosty hound]

Read reviews? 🙆

[polar acorn]

Don't pay for online courses. All that info is likely available for free

[frosty hound]

But in this day, you don't need to buy courses. Everything you need to learn is free.

[deft igloo]

Mostly asking because i would like to have a base to start with

I know everything is available in the internet but there is so much that idk what to do or try first

[frosty hound]

You're overthinking it. There are pinned resources in this channel you can start with.

[deft igloo]

Okay i can check that out

Also i see the page is mainly in English but are these explanations also available in any other language?

[frosty hound]

No idea

[covert raft]

idk why but i gotta move my cursor to register the hit and idk why that is

[wintry quarry]

register what hit? Context?

[covert raft]

well the melee hit i got my hitbox and the first hit registers but if i keep it at the same position it doesnt register the second damage hit

[wintry quarry]

You would have to explain how you're doing things right now

and show your code

[covert raft]

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

public class PlayerCombat : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Melee;          
    public float atkDuration = 0.5f;  
    public float damage = 10f;       

    private bool isAttacking = false;
    private float atkTimer = 0f;
    private InputAction meleeAction;
    private HashSet<Collider2D> hitEnemies = new HashSet<Collider2D>(); 

    private void Awake()
    {
        meleeAction = GetComponent<PlayerInput>().actions["Melee"];
        if (Melee == null) Debug.LogError("⚠️ Melee GameObject is not assigned!");
        Melee.SetActive(false); 
    }

    private void OnEnable() => meleeAction.performed += _ => StartAttack();
    private void OnDisable() => meleeAction.performed -= _ => StartAttack();

    private void Update()
    {
        if (isAttacking) HandleAttack();
    }

    private void StartAttack()
    {
        if (!isAttacking)
        {
            Melee.SetActive(true); 
            isAttacking = true;
            atkTimer = 0f;
            hitEnemies.Clear(); 
        }
    }

    private void HandleAttack()
    {
        atkTimer += Time.deltaTime;
        if (atkTimer >= atkDuration)
        {
            isAttacking = false;
            Melee.SetActive(false); 
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {
        
        if (isAttacking && other.CompareTag("Enemy") && !hitEnemies.Contains(other))
        {
            Enemy enemy = other.GetComponent<Enemy>();
            if (enemy != null)
            {
                enemy.TakeDamage(damage);  
                hitEnemies.Add(other);     
            }
        }
    }
}

thats the hitdetection and attack code

[wintry quarry]

activating a collider for an attack is super awkward

just use a direct physics query

[covert raft]

and how do i do that im like very new to this

[wintry quarry]

e..g Physics2D.OverlapXXX or Physics2D.XXXCast

[covert raft]

only on the player or also on the enemy?

[wintry quarry]

whover is attacking would use a physics query to detect hostile characters to hit.

[covert raft]

ill look into it tomorrow too tired rn

[pine crater]

I'm attempting to transform a mesh which is in the shape of a toothbrush but I think it still has the original mesh of the square I placed the sprite onto, because when I get the length and width of the sprite, they are equal. How can I fix this?

[small dagger]

Why does my input map keep getting lost? Kind of a minor thing because I just need to re-apply it, but for some reason, th Input map here just keeps going "missing" and I have to re-add it

[wintry quarry]

is your code destroying it?

[small dagger]

No, all my code is doing is referencing the messages it sends

[wintry quarry]

it still has the original mesh of the square
Huh? What square? What are we talking about?
I placed the sprite onto
Are we talking about meshes or sprites here?

Can you share more context?

[wintry quarry]

missing means it was destroyed

What did you assign it to?

[small dagger]

these are the only two scripts making any use of input, when I re-add it and play the game, everything is fine, it seems like if I keep the editor open for a while (like working on something else) it for some reason removes it?

[pine crater]

Well when I made the PNG I imported it into my Sprites folder. I made a square in the workspace and then put the sprite onto the little black bar in the inspector (sorry I'm new to unity I don't know the words for some things), so I have the toothbrush PNG in the game. I want to be able to click on the screen and the toothbrush moves to where I clicked, I got it working but it always landed in the middle of the toothbrush which isn't what I wanted, so I said okay all I have to do is get the length of the toothbrush, halve it, turn it into a vector, and take it away from my mouse position. This is not working. The length of the toothbrush seems to not correct and when I tried to incorporate a width, it is the same as the length

[wintry quarry]

but what did you assign it to

[pine crater]

I can post my code here if you want

[small dagger]

what do you mena?

[wintry quarry]

I made a square in the workspace and then put the sprite onto the little black bar in the inspector
What's a workspace? What black bar in the inspector? The inspector of what?

I got it working but it always landed in the middle of the toothbrush which isn't what I wanted, so I said okay all I have to do is get the length of the toothbrush, halve it, turn it into a vector, and take it away from my mouse position. This is not working. The length of the toothbrush seems to not correct and when I tried to incorporate a width, it is the same as the length
Sounds like you actually want to just change the pivot of the sprite, which you can do from the sprite editor. Access the sprite editor by selecting your image file and selcting sprite editor at the top

[wintry quarry]

This field

which actions asset did you assign it to?

[small dagger]

Oh, I hjave a custom mapping I made

[wintry quarry]

And where is that? is it in any special folder or anything

[small dagger]

Just in an Input folder under the generic Assets folder Unity starts with

I wonder if maybe I just accidentally assigned it to the player in the map instead of the player prefab, who knows, if it happens again I will come back and worry about it...

[pine crater]

I'm a blender veteran that's why I'm getting confused over meshes and stuff I don't get how unity does things

I could technically divide them by 4 and it would look alright but it's for my coursework I have to explain my code as I go along and I can't really say "it looked okay"

[wintry quarry]

You didn't show the part of the code that actually positions the object so it's not clear how that works

but I don't understand why you're doing all this bounds stuff

[pine crater]

Because I want the object to go to the mouse when I click but I don't want it to be centered at the mouse

[wintry quarry]

Ok so like I said above:

Sounds like you actually want to just change the pivot of the sprite, which you can do from the sprite editor. Access the sprite editor by selecting your image file and selecting sprite editor at the top

[pine crater]

I want it to be offset by its length

[wintry quarry]

changing the pivot would be the easiest way

[pine crater]

Idk what that means

[wintry quarry]

I gave specific instructions on how to change the pivot.

The pivot is where the actual position of the object is

such that when you do transform.position = somePosition the pivot of the sprite will go exactly to somePosition

[wintry quarry]

Also please when sharing code here please don't use screenshots. !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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// Your code here
```
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[pine crater]

Apologies

I'm tryna find it rn

[wintry quarry]

The sprite is definitely not "still a square"

the bounds of the SpriteRenderer will be based on the sprite import settings

specifically the boundaries of the sprite as represented in the sprite editor, and whether your mesh mode is set to Tight or Full Rect

[pine crater]

I can't find the sprite editor

I've got my image selected

[wintry quarry]

should be a button in the inspector

like this

(although that's a pretty outdated screenshot it should be similar)

[pine crater]

Oh yes I see it

Okay Pivot is on centre right now so I change it to wherever I want my mouse to land?

Where I want it to land when I click my mouse*

[wintry quarry]

change it to the part of the brush you want to overlap with the mouse cursor

yeah

[pine crater]

Okay thank you brother

[wintry quarry]

also remember to take out the bounds calculation offset stuff from the code

[pine crater]

Of course 👍

[jolly moat]

I'm in Unity, what's the best way to reinstaniate a UI slider after a scene reload? I have a Manager object that I drag the sliders onto for my script's public variables and they work on the first play. But If I trigger a Scene reload, the sliders won't reinstantiate for my Manager object's script. I have this in the Awake() method of my Manager's script: healthSlider = GameObject.FindWithTag("HealthSlider")?.GetComponent<Slider>();

Can I not do this with UI elements like I would a regular gameObject?

[wintry quarry]

What makes you say that? That code is working perfectly fine

your problem is that Awake only runs once per object

So it's not going to run again when you load a new scene

basically it's odd for this "manager" to have references to other objects in the scene when it's apparently a DDOL object

and those other things are not

that's a design that isn't going to work

Some options are:

• Make the manager not DDOL.
• Make the UI stuff also DDOL
• Make the UI elements register themselves with the manager when they are created (in their OnEnable)
• Switch the dependency - make the UI elements listen to an event to update themselves instead of the manager referencing them and updating them

[unkempt hound]

Is this how VS Code Community looks?

[wintry quarry]

That's Visual Studio not VSCode

[unkempt hound]

Ah!

So I'm guessing I should switch to Visual Studio for C++

[pine crater]

I was gonna use VSCode but one of my friends told me not to because apparently it doesn't autofill

[unkempt hound]

I just use extensions

[jolly moat]

Make the UI stuff also DDOL
This sounds like it's the easiest, but which do you like best?

[wintry quarry]

That doesn't sound the easiest to me at all.

I would personally do one of the last two suggestions most likely

but I don't know the specific details here

so it's hard to say

the first is also a strong contender

The first is definitely the easiest, but it depends on what else this "manager" does and why it needs to be DDOL in the first place

[unkempt hound]

Getting VS rn

Finna ditch VS Code altogther

[jolly moat]

I suspect I made too many managers. I started off with just 1 scene "Gameplay". I made a StatsManager as a singleton instance to handle player's current and max health, magic (sliders). Then I made a "Title" scene and a GameManager to handle when Game Over is reached and scene transfers. I thought maybe the GameManager should take over all managerial responsibilities. Thoughts?

The only reason to DDOL any managers was initially to reset the current values of the health and magic sliders. Then GameManager seemed like it also needed DDOL to handle scene transfers

[wintry quarry]

For game state data I generally have one manager that holds all of the game state.

As for the UI it should definitely be observing the game data, not the other way around

the observer pattern is something to look into

[jolly moat]

who is the broadcaster of the event the UI should be subscribing to?

[wintry quarry]

whatever manages the data that's changing

i.e.:

something happens in the game (player gets hit?) -> the new player HP is set on the data manager. -> Data manager fires an event -> The UI receives the event broadcast and updates itself

[cedar prairie]

why does my velocity.magnitude go this low?

[slender nymph]

that's basically 0

[cedar prairie]

this is when the player is litreally isnt moving

[wintry quarry]

Turns out it's moving just really slowly

but yeah that's basically 0

[cedar prairie]

can i floor it?

[wintry quarry]

if you want

[cedar prairie]

whats the thing for that again haha

[wintry quarry]

if (rb.velocity.magnitude < someThreshold) rb.velocity = Vector3.zero;

[jolly moat]

Thanks for the advice! I'll try refactoring my code some more with this in mind

[slender nymph]

not really necessary to floor it, that is literally 0.0000002 meters per second so after a few minutes it may have moved a barely noticable amount

[cedar prairie]

dont worry i gott it i just needed to look at it like it was floored so i can fuck about with it easier

bless you all

its cause the way i was doing code would take a second to deactivate cause it wasnt technically 0 so ill just floor it

easy peasy

[slender nymph]

ah, sounds like you may have been doing float equality when you should pretty much never do that. there's the Mathf.Approximately method to handle comparing floats, it checks if the difference between them is less than Mathf.Epsilon

[slate roost]

hey I realized a really noob mistake I made in a script a long time ago and its giving me a headache now
if (velocity.y < 0)

I'm using this as a check to see if my player is moving in the downward direction, but its inconsisten because... floating point values
I.E. the float is sometimes 0... and sometimes 0.0000000000003

whats a better, consistent way to check this?

[slender nymph]

tbf neither of those numbers is less than 0

if you want to know if your object is actually moving downward then you need to check if its velocity is below a lower threshold, because just because it is less than 0 does not mean it is low enough to actually be moving

[slate roost]

er, yea, you're right that was a poor example

well the problem more specifically, is this
float directionY = Mathf.Sign(velocity.y);
this is returning -1 and 1 alternating rapidly, because when velocity.y should be 0, it sometimes is very slightly negative instead, so it makes directionY -1 when it should be 1

[slender nymph]

right so read my previous message

[slate roost]

so something like this?
float directionY = velocity.y < -0.0001f? -1:1;

[surreal minnow]

I am writing a shader to create a texture. I have seen people make the camera output the texture on the screen. So the screen renders the texture in its resolution. Does anyone know how to do this?

I think by putting a render texture as the cameras Output Texture but it just says "Display 1 No cameras rendering" so hm

[teal viper]

You need a camera to render to the screen as well.

I don't know if a screen space canvas counts or not. Probably not.

So you'll need 2 cameras

[surreal minnow]

Ah nvm. I did it wrong. But Graphics.Blit() does not work in URP anyways

[hidden fossil]

guys i just have like a quick question about visual code studios

how do you implement that IDE where like for example if you type in the keyword f it gives you the option float and a bunch of other options?

[slender nymph]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[hidden fossil]

which one do i download

oh nvm

how do i enable this?

[slender nymph]

why? did you bother following the actual instructions for configuring vs code? or did you just go and search "IDE" in the extensions?

[hidden fossil]

i went on one and it said u could just install one from the visual studio

[slender nymph]

huh?

[hidden fossil]

oh wait nvm i forgot enable it in the unity

[eternal needle]

maybe take more than 2 seconds to actually read the page..

you arent even using visual studio

[slender nymph]

where did any instructions tell you to download the platformio extension?

[teal viper]

An ide is an integrated development environment. Visual studio is an ide. visual studio code is sort of an ide(not really, but can be equivalent). You don't "install ide in an ide". That doesn't make sense

[hidden fossil]

ok i should prob uninstall jetbrain rider

[teal viper]

Rider is also an ide.

[hidden fossil]

yea i put that as my preference but for some reason its n ot opening any scripts

and im trying to open the app but its not opening

guess it prob has a malware

yea idk why i put it as my external tools and its not opening any scripts the app isnt even opening when i double click onit

[teal viper]

I've never used rider, so can't say for sure, but if it doesn't open, when you launch it via the exe, then it probably didn't install correctly

[hidden fossil]

it said finish installing

but now it doesnt work?

its 1.4 gigabytes and the app says 1.4 gigabytes

ok im uninstalling it it is taking up too much storage and its not working

[teal viper]

Why would you even go for Rider if you're a beginner?

[cosmic gorge]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[cosmic gorge]

void FixedUpdate()
    {
        playerInput = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
        rb.velocity = playerInput.normalized * moveSpeed;

        if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") < 0)
        {
            rb.transform.localScale = new Vector3(1, 1, 1);
        }
        else if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") > 0)
        {
            rb.transform.localScale = new Vector3(-1, 1, 1);
        }

        if(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal", "Vertical") > 0)
        {
            dust.Play();
        }
        else if()
        {
            dust.Pause();
        }
    }
}

how do i make it to where if my player is not moving, my dust particles dont show up, and when he is moving, they do show up?? i'll post more reference rn

[eternal needle]

did you read the error? GetAxisRaw doesn't take 2 strings. you also have a vector already that contains both horizontal and vertical input

[cosmic gorge]

i did but i didn't know what it meant

[eternal needle]

and your other else if() isnt valid c#, i recommend going over c# basics really so you arent struggling with both c# and unity at the same time

[cosmic gorge]

and i looked at the documentation and it still didnt make sense to me

[eternal needle]

the errors are just standard c#. there are pins in the channel for intro to c#
for your immediate problem, you could probably just compare the vector to Vector2.zero. if its the zero vector, pause the dust. else play the dust

you dont need to read the Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") everytime as well. its already stored in playerInput

[cosmic gorge]

Vector2.zero would just mean that the player is not moving left or right, yeah??

[cosmic gorge]

i solved that part ty

[eternal needle]

Vector2.zero is just (0, 0). you'd be comparing the input to (0, 0)

[cosmic gorge]

oh yeah i remember now

[eternal needle]

theres nothing specific to if its actually moving or not, since it could be moving against a wall

[frigid sequoia]

Is this statement ok, or I am doing some forbidden math stuff? lol

[eternal needle]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.int32.minvalue?view=net-9.0
don't really know what you're trying to do with that but there is a min and max value const already

[frigid sequoia]

I want to do a loop on a list to get the lowest value on it, so the default min is... infinite

But health works on int, Math.Infinite is float

[eternal needle]

there is a min and max value const
you don't need to do anything float related if you want an int

int.MaxValue

[frigid sequoia]

So what's the difference?

[eternal needle]

the difference is you want an int. so just grab the int instead of doing it through a float

[celest flax]

I'm having an issue. When loading a scene, I'm trying to move the player to a specific point, but there is something in the project that moves the player back to where it was before. I've been scouring all relevant scripts but am unable to find what causes it. Does anyone know anything that might help me locate the problem?

[teal viper]

Start from listing the components/scripts that are relevant to the player movement

[charred spoke]

Bet that the character controller is responsible for that

[topaz mortar]

I'm using this to play sound effects (sword slash for example), but (obviously) it keep creating new gameobjects that are never removed, what's the proper way to handle this?

audioSource.PlayOneShot(audioClip);```

Do I just have a GO in my scene to which I always add AudioSource components? Then destroy/remove the component when the sound is done?
Or do I just delete the GO every time?

Or should I be creating this GO & component just once and then only call PlayOneShot when a sound needs to be played?

[cosmic dagger]

Just reuse the same GameObject with an AudioSource; no need to keep creating a new one to add the component . . .

[astral falcon]

I used to have a soundmanager that spawns audisources, if needed and removes them when done. But only, if a certain amount of clips playing at the same time was hit. So imagine one source for weapons for example. And you play from there, but if its playing and you want to add another sound, spawn one temporary audiosource. Depends on your setup. If you know, you got two weapon sounds always, then keep 2 audiosource components alive and add a third for rare cases that gets removed or pooled

[topaz mortar]

Yeah seems to work just fine, even with multiple sounds at the same time.
The tutorial I followed for this must have been really bad 😅

[charred spoke]

So bad that it should be removed from the internet

[topaz mortar]

https://youtu.be/QL29aTa7J5Q?si=vV5T7oswZ9lJQC20&t=164

6 years old though

and maybe he goes on to fix the issues, didn't watch the rest lol

[astral falcon]

Why would you share it tho 😄 if its bad 😆

[charred spoke]

Jesus I did not expect code monkey to produce such garbage

[astral falcon]

I just scrubbed through, looks like he is fixing it at some point later

[charred spoke]

I recommend this guy I have yet to see a bad tut from him https://youtu.be/BgpqoRFCNOs?si=9fhybHVMyd1W7pee

[astral falcon]

Nah he does not 😄 keeps on creating gameobjects for every sound

[topaz mortar]

cool, I'll check him out sometime

[charred spoke]

This is right up there with multiplying mouse pos with deltaTime

The amount of garbage tutorials out there is staggering

[cosmic dagger]

PlayOneShot is great for quick, short sounds. It plays the audio clip even if another sound is currently playing. You'll only have issues (sound cut off) if you repeatedly call it over and over . . .

[topaz mortar]

If I ever need more complex sounds I have the video Uri linked 🙂

for now this works fine

[astral falcon]

Imagine, youtube tutorial creators do a quality review with other devs before posting 😱 😆

[scenic charm]

gm guys. I know nothing about coding or developing a mobile game but I want to learn. can anyone suggest me a guide? I just want to be able to create mobile games?

[astral falcon]

!learn and go through the pathways there. There also might be some specific for mobile, but first of all, you gotta learn how to develop in general and use Unity in that case

[eternal falcon]

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[topaz mortar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQMytORBmM&t=445s

[astral falcon]

Be aware, its 2 years old and things can change.

[topaz mortar]

It explains more how to learn instead of going in depth on unity

[astral falcon]

It was more of a general advice than specific to the content of that video 🙂 If you hop on an older video or documentation and dont know how to handle deprecated stuff, you can easily get frustrated, so watchout for the timestamp on tutorials 🙂

[sour fulcrum]

Doesn't help that Unity provides this evil built in function

    public static void PlayClipAtPoint(AudioClip clip, Vector3 position, [UnityEngine.Internal.DefaultValue("1.0F")] float volume)
    {
        GameObject gameObject = new GameObject("One shot audio");
        gameObject.transform.position = position;
        AudioSource audioSource = (AudioSource)gameObject.AddComponent(typeof(AudioSource));
        audioSource.clip = clip;
        audioSource.spatialBlend = 1f;
        audioSource.volume = volume;
        audioSource.Play();
        Object.Destroy(gameObject, clip.length * ((Time.timeScale < 0.01f) ? 0.01f : Time.timeScale));
    }

[astral falcon]

That actually makes sense, because you want to play it at a specific spatial point, so you need to have a transform to drive your spatialblending, I guess

[sour fulcrum]

yeah but the creating and destruction for a single clip is awful

[teal viper]

If you have some spare frame time budget, why not

[astral falcon]

you cant handle it another way than having a gameobject at that point wher eyou want your sound to happen. Of course would make sense to be able to pass in a already existing gameobject too, but if not, that method makes sense

[sour fulcrum]

I mean yeah you should have a gameobject and audio source where you wanna play it

[sour fulcrum]

i guess but seems like abit of a trap to be offered offically

[scenic charm]

thanks mate

[teal viper]

True.
Though to be honest they mention it in the docs, so it's a trap for people that don't read docs.😈

[rugged beacon]

i just looking more into scriptable object, is singleton outdated by this now ?

[eternal needle]

To be fair also, they have a lot of functions that we all generally advise not to use. Like the .find ones
They cant really code it another way

[eternal needle]

A singleton and a scriptable object solve entirely different problems

[astral falcon]

SOs are actual asset files that can live outside of runtime scope

[potent nymph]

I don't know which channel is most appropriate for this question, but I'm wondering why the size of my webGL build is so large, even after compressing most of the user assets (textures, sounds, etc)

this is an uncompressed build, but even the brotli build is 16 mb. Many people online have gotten their game down to 5mb or less

[polar dust]

Also a singleton is a design pattern related to C# in general, whereas a SO is just a thing Unity created. It's not really possible for unity to make something in C# become obsolete

[teal viper]

The rest is probably the engine binary. Might be able to reduce it by disabling some engine features and removing packages.🤔
But 16 mb is pretty low tbh.

[potent nymph]

Oh, I see

[bitter spruce]

I have this weird bug, i have like a particle.Play() in my script. But it only plays when i click something in the hierarchy it dosent mae sense, does anyone know a fix?

[teal viper]

Add logs/breakpoints to confirm your assumption.

[polar dust]

A singleton just gives you a static reference to an class instance, making it convenient to access a game object from anywhere. Good use case might be for a player character if you want an enemy script to reference the player.

SO is like a configuration, so if 5 classes share the same SO, they'll all be reading the same values

[bitter spruce]

i have a debug.log in the part where the particle.play() is

its running

somehow only when i click on the hierarchy then it starts playing. Like i have to interact first then the particle really plays

[rough lynx]

We all love singletons but clearly not as much as you

[polar dust]

I have love hate for them

[rough lynx]

Lmao

[polar dust]

They're very helpful and I use them often

[teal viper]

Can you write full messages?
I don't understand if the logs do print all the time, but the particles don't play, or the logs don't print either.

[bitter spruce]

The debuglog is in the same if statement as the particle.play. But somehow only my log runs.

BUT when i interact with the hierarchy, my particle then stats playing (displaying)

[rough lynx]

Maybe your particle isn't play on awake? I vaguely remember that being a tickbox

Haven't used the particle system in a while

[polar dust]

It's just that in some cases when needing a class to be static from the start, there's no need to make it a singleton, making it public static class Foo {} is all that's needed

Especially for classes that don't need to be MonoBehavior

[rough lynx]

I'm addicted to polymorphism and static classes just don't provide that

[bitter spruce]

its play on awake too

[teal viper]

Does that happen during play mode?

[polar dust]

mhmm, it's all down to a case by case situation

[rough lynx]

I'm not being rude don't get me wrong this is incredibly informative but are you explaining this to anyone in particular lol?

Yeh

[bitter spruce]

its a playmode problem, sorry i didnt clarify

[polar dust]

I was saying my negative view to them, as you said I dislike singletons

[bitter spruce]

this problem dosent make sense to me

[polar dust]

I have just woken up so apologies 😂

[rough lynx]

Oh right

Lol all good

[rough lynx]

That really is quite bizarre

[teal viper]

Do you have the game view window/tab open?

And active

[bitter spruce]

yes my scene and game is side by side

[teal viper]

Hmm... Sounds like a bug. Hard to say anything without seeing your setup.

[bitter spruce]

i also think its a bug.

ill try find another way around it

thank you for your help

[teal viper]

Might want to fill a bug report and/or post on the forums.

[bitter spruce]

i cant send you the gameplay too because its for a company

[bitter spruce]

alrigt

thank you man

[void notch]

Have a look here on some more techniques to get your game to just a few MB: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/icq2yw/how_to_optimize_unity_webgl_builds_from_230mb_to/

[eternal falcon]

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[cloud walrus]

Guys need help fixing this bug

[polar acorn]

Seems like your code is continually moving it into the ground

[cloud walrus]

nope not into the ground i'm moving it towards the player

but somehow it keeps bugging

[polar acorn]

How are you moving it

[cloud walrus]

I'll show you the code

[robust harness]

Is your player an empty gameobject which has all the other stuff as its children? (Playermodel...)

[quasi cradle]

heya guys, im a bit lost. hoping somone can help me without being too much of a nag

trying my hand at unity again after a many year hiadus (for context im a developer in mainly powershell and python so not a beginner there)
basically a complete beginner here but trying to 'just do some stuff' approach with some road blocks.

im trying to setup a third person aim camera for a basic scene at the moment, seen cinemachine used so trying to implement that but im struggling with probably a simply step.

i cant figure out how to setup a script for attaching camera movement and player movement to the player, the guides ive found are using depreciated cinemachine and aren't helpful.
Basically i want to create a variable to see x/y of mouse and transpose that onto player and camera rotation. Not sure if theres a doco or something i could be looking into as a few solutions iv'e found don't seem to work

[frosty hound]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-character-controllers-urp-267961

You can check out Unity's own sample for a character controller outfitted with a camera as well.

Cinemachine went through a bit of an overhaul with 3.0, so old tutorials will be slightly outdated when it comes to getting/modify properties on a virtual camera. The update was to make it easier to get those values by using the standard GetComponent to access them.

[steady flame]

I have a problem with my game, i used the tutorial for the pause Menu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgZTVEUqgo) and when I press esc it works fine, but the buttons dont work, I think some day I made some kind of a pause menu but i dont know where can someone help me find it and eliminate it?

[astral falcon]

I guess most of the people will watch the tutorial, so you should show your code and tell what "buttons dont work" means. Do you log anything to know, whast going on? How do you pause the game? etc etc

[steady flame]

So all buttons dont work, i resume the game if i press escape again but i dont want that, the console doesnt say anything

except some other warnings which doesnt have anything to do with the menu

[rocky canyon]

search for functions that would be related to a pause menu in the IDE... Pause().. UnPause() or w/e

then u'll know the script MyPauseMenu.cs or w/e then u can search in the Hiearchy to find what gameobject that is attached to..

[steady flame]

thanks

[rocky canyon]

sounds like it may be pausing by setting timescale to 0.. then ur updates will freeze and u wont be able to detect any other kind of input

[steady flame]

oh ok i search for that now

[rocky canyon]

if u followed along with the script ur logic should be pretty similar to theirs i guess ^

[steady flame]

I copied the script

still doesnt work

[rocky canyon]

so u should see this in ur hierarchy?

[steady flame]

yes

whoops

[rocky canyon]

so whas the issue. u want the buttons to work while paused?

[steady flame]

yes

but the cursor everytime i click disappears

[rocky canyon]

find ur EventSytem in ur project

[steady flame]

yes

got it

[rocky canyon]

aye.. soo ur using the oldschool input system? not the new one

[steady flame]

there is a new one

[rocky canyon]

there is

but unless u want to go on a learning spree i'd stick w/ what u got

[steady flame]

okay

so how do I fix my issue?

[rocky canyon]

im reading..

[steady flame]

oh ok

[rocky canyon]

its one of those threads where its like:
well, it could be this..
or it could be this..
or perhaps its this..

[steady flame]

hm okey

[rocky canyon]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/pause-menu-buttons-not-working-and-mouse-locking-for-no-reason/813871

sounds similar to ur issue

https://discussions.unity.com/t/pause-menu-buttons-not-clickable/251123

[steady flame]

I use this script for movement i think its somewhere in there the issue but there is nothing with escape or game pause or similar things

[rocky canyon]

could very well be causing issue w/ cursor

say ur controller locks the cursor (hides it or w/e)

and ur pause menu tries to also change it.

could be conflicting

[steady flame]

oh i think it hides it maybe let me look it up

[rocky canyon]

👍

i just recently moved all my cursor logic into its own script

so both my controlller and my menu systems ask it to change it

instead of changing it itself

[steady flame]

okey

[rocky canyon]

ya, mine was like that too.. once i wanted to "make the cursor visible" with the pause menu

they'd try to fight each other

[steady flame]

and the fps movement script wins i assume?

[rocky canyon]

it might be that ur cursor is still locked to the center

when u hit esc.. the mouse breaks out of the window.. (but this isnt the same as being focused)

if u click back into the window and u hadn't unlocked it.. it snaps right back to the center

[steady flame]

it isnt i can move it around until i press lmb

[rocky canyon]

(if its centered it makes it hard to click anything else)

[coarse magnet]

public class healingitem : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject detonate;
    private void Update()
    {
        Debug.Log("just work you fucking moron");
    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag.Equals("player"))
        {
            Destroy(detonate);
        }
    }
}

my object doesn't disappear when it collides with the player

oh

i forgot the debug message

[steady flame]

i press escape then i can move the cursor around without an issue

before I made the pause menu with the tutorial i could press escape and the game paused and the cursor was visable forgot to say that

[rocky canyon]

yes but thats only because ur unfocusing the window

[steady flame]

wdym?

[rocky canyon]

ur moving around the editor at that point.. not around the game view..

[steady flame]

oh ok

[rocky canyon]

unless u Unlock it.. via code.. when u click back into the game window it'll get Locked again

heres an example

[steady flame]

oh ok i understand

[rocky canyon]

i think ur character or something else is grabbing it and locking it

not giving it a chance to be able to navigate around ur buttons

u see all my Debugs in the corner?

thats how i helped build out my system..

its nice to know what ur mousePosition actually is..

[steady flame]

doesnt work

[rocky canyon]

u can debug.log it in an update() or something... when ur cursor gets grabbed and locked it'll spit out 0,0

[steady flame]

oh ok

[rocky canyon]

well thats not how u do it anyway lol

[steady flame]

how?

[steady flame]

still doesnt work

is there a difference when i let unity build the project?

and then try

[rocky canyon]

    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)) // When Escape is pressed
    {
        if (Cursor.lockState == CursorLockMode.Locked)
        {
            // Unlock the cursor and make it visible
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
            Cursor.visible = true;
        }
        else
        {
            // Lock the cursor and hide it
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
            Cursor.visible = false;
        }
    }```

would: when u press esc... if the cursor lockstate is locked we unlock it
if the cursor lockstate isn't locked we lock it

[steady flame]

do I put it in the fps movement script or the pause menu script?

[rocky canyon]

so like a toggle

anywhere u want in any update loop

[steady flame]

that sounds logical

[rocky canyon]

but probably need to keep it simple.. if u put it in ur controller..

dont accidently add something else to the main menu..

[steady flame]

this is fps movement

[rocky canyon]

and vice versa.. the best thing imo is to have a gamemanager controllnig this type of thing

that way when anything wants to lock or unlock it has to go thru the game manager

that way it isnt taking over control itself. and maybe breaking other things

ur IDE doesn't seem to be configured either.. btw..

!ide

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[rocky canyon]

this should have errored out

[steady flame]

okey so the fps movement?

[gray orbit]

Hello, I think I am missing something fundamental here but:

I have created a test folder in unity that lives at Assets/Scripts/Tests and have a bunch of public classes I want to access defined in Assets/Scripts. I'm having trouble getting my test script to reference those classes as they are not defined in the context while I'm running my script. Can someone help explain to me what is going on with the scope and context here when I run tests through Unity TestRunner?

[rocky canyon]

hold up, i broke my own system trying to figure out urs lol

[steady flame]

doesnt work

[steady flame]

oh

[rocky canyon]

can u !code share ur movement script and ur pause script..

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[rocky canyon]

you're not gonna sort it out by changing one thng w/o changing the other thing

they'll need to work together

[steady flame]

!code share

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[rocky canyon]

or both of em use some other script to toggle and manage the cursor as i said earlier

[steady flame]

!code share

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[rocky canyon]

use a paste-bin service.. (all those links under the largecode block section of the bot message)

[steady flame]

oh ok

[rocky canyon]

thats y it keeps responding to u

just paste in ur script.. hit the save button and it'll generate a new url u can copy and paste here.

keeeps the channel clean

[steady flame]

ok ok

https://paste.ofcode.org/eJvexjcha943iiHdjCNscE

https://paste.ofcode.org/dwCRAZ3hs7eVyBGcR7mwJS

should I also send you the other scripts I use?

[rocky canyon]

aight give me a second i have an idea that might work.. (using a Manager type script that both the pause menu and the controller can reference)

when they need to unlock or lock the cursor they tell it to do it instead..

[steady flame]

okey sounds good

[rocky canyon]

☕ break tho

[steady flame]

sure

I still need to grab breakfast

[rocky canyon]

too much head flexing

brain starting to hurt already cant remember which project i just fkcd up

ill start a thread and ping u when i return cool/

[steady flame]

yeapo sure

[rocky canyon]

aight im back

[rocky canyon]

and.. mines still broken for some reason mines getting instantly locked and hidden 😅 and i can't find it in my own code..
-# standby

[limber flower]

Destroy(gameObject); is not working, but its rotating fine

[wintry quarry]

That code is probably just not running at all

Which means you didn't set up the scene properly for OnTriggerEnter

[limber flower]

what does that mean

[wintry quarry]

It means certain conditions need to exist in the scene for that to run, and those conditions are not present

[limber flower]

im doing the beginner tutorial and ive re read all the steps to check if i missed anyhting

[wintry quarry]

You must have missed something

Feel free to show how your objects are set up if you want a second set of eyes

[grand snow]

inb4 is trigger is false

[limber flower]

let me know if i need to send a more zoomed in screenshot to see better

[wintry quarry]

Neither of your colliders is a trigger

[limber flower]

how do i fix that

oh nvm

thgank you

[wintry quarry]

Check the box to... Yeah

[limber flower]

appreciate it

[steady flame]

did you find a solution

[rocky canyon]

yea hangon.. im making a package out of it

its easier to just show u the entire example and let u work out the issues in ur own system

[steady flame]

ok

can we maybe go in a call later so its easier to communicate

if it still doesnt work

[potent nymph]

I actually saw that video before posting my question
But it's strange—I created an empty Unity 6 project with URP and made a WebGL build with default settings (Brotli compression), and it's 10.7 mb. How on earth did people get their builds under 5 mb? Even the reddit video promises under 5 mb

[rocky canyon]

u should be able to figure it out.. if not u can ask here.. shouldn't be anything that needs a call..

plus im at work right now 😈

[rocky canyon]

📎 👇

[rocky canyon]

check that package out.. ^ should have everything set-up for you to look around and see how its all working together... key point is:

• anything that wants to mess w/ the cursors (hide it, unlock it, lock it, etc) is done by calling the MasterMouse singleton...
  that way theres only 1 script in charge of it.. you don't want multiple scripts fighting telling it to do something, let's say there's one script trying to lock it.. but then theres another script (that maybe you don't know about) thats going right behind it trying to unlock it... it gets really confusing really quickly if u have it happening in multiple places

and please note.. that i didn't mess with the time in my example.. its just dealing w/ the cursor..

i had to create a new scene.. b/c i did break my old scene (still trying to fix it)..
its b/c i have that same issue as well.. i got multiple things all trying to control the cursor 😭

can't remember exactly where tho lol

[strong wren]

URP is larger out of the box https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest. Empty projects also aren't necessarily minimal.

Are you aiming for instant game platforms or do you have some other pressure to get super small build sizes?

Let's move this to #🌐┃web

[rocky canyon]

and something else you may want to know is use the EventSystem component to your advantage
if you expand it in the inspector in Playmode.. it'll give you lots of information...

in this example you can see.. (when i click into the game and its "unpaused" the numbers don't change) thats b/c its locked.. when i press the Tab key.. or w/e is set up to pause and unpause you can notice that all of a sudden the values start changing quickly.. (thats when we're not locked) and the cursor is actively moving around the UI/scene

and Debug.Log()s if ur not using those while ur learning, then ur doing it wrong 😛
you want to give urself as much information as possible when learning... and you need to get ur IDE configured correctly b4 someone else calls you out on it.. alot of people wont even help you until you do..

you snitched on yourself here: #💻┃code-beginner message b/c that code should be underlined in red since its not correct..

[rocky canyon]

also added my own in the MasterMouse script that you can spectate there as well.. you can see it acts the same

and the last tip i can give you b4 i gotta get back to work..

Consider using an alternative key that you don't use very often to test your pause system.. example, I chose 'Tab' in my test scene that I sent you.```

[verbal dome]

Show a video of the issue and also your joint settings

[rocky canyon]

   void Start()
    {
        head_up = false;
        jump_trigger = false;
        use_trigger = false;
        jump_has_ended = true;
        head_2_target_lerp_val = 0F;
        head_2_target_lerp_min = 0.15F;
        head_2_target_lerp_max = 0.65F;

        // from here
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked; //Mauszeiger im Fenster einsperren
        Cursor.visible = false; //Mauszeiger unsichtbar
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape)) // When Escape is pressed
        {
            if (Cursor.lockState == CursorLockMode.Locked)
            {
            // Unlock the cursor and make it visible
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
            Cursor.visible = true;
            }
            else
            {
            // Lock the cursor and hide it
            Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
            Cursor.visible = false;
            }
            // to here
    }``` @steady flame  and this is odd.. in ur character controller..
you have this logic in the Start() method.. Start() only runs for 1 frame.... theres no way that it's gonna detect ur Input there anyway... But this logic can be removed from teh character controller anyway..

you can instead have a reference to ur controller in the PauseSystem script.. and when it gets paused you can set a bool in the controller called `canMove` or something 

like `characterController.canMove = false;` while its paused and
`.canMove = true;` once u unpause.. and then the character controller can just do its movement if the bool is true..

if the legs are whats causing the issue.. start w/ that

if its not enough you'll be asked to provide more 👍

best of luck Finn, eugen.. 🍀 work calls 👋

lots of active ragdoll projects around lately

[verbal dome]

You probably want to adjust the axis of the leg joints

The setup looks weird though

Why is everything free

Is that a leg joint?

[vital shadow]

hey guys....so im thinking of making an npc which is ai based....meaning it learns from its actions by using machine learning and ai algorithms...i cant think of a way to start making it....can someone help me??

[inner bane]

it wasnt supposed to?

[verbal dome]

Well normally you'd at least lock the positions instead of just using limits for the position

Did you follow a tutorial?

I knew it was AI code, didn't want to assume just yet

[inner bane]

lol

so I just lock the positions? the X axis or all?

[verbal dome]

That's not the main issue

[inner bane]

oh mb

[verbal dome]

The joint axis direction is

Adjust the Axis so that it rotates around the correct axis

Currently it is 1, 0, 0, which seems to be wrong

[inner bane]

thanks a lot!

[tribal wave]

can someone explain to me in very simple terms what instantiating is? i looked around and i didnt understand any of the explanations