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[rocky canyon]

Vector2 attackOrigin = machetepos.transform.position;
Vector2 directionToHit = (attackOrigin - hitEnemy.transform.position).normalized;

this is something like praetor was mentioning

excuse my crappy drawing.. but u can just use the positions and subtract to get the direction.. and then just flip it

[green copper]

Would it be better to turn the whole gameobject, or have the wheel be a child of a wheelAnchor game object that doesn't turn?

Also, how could I allow the player to click any point along the wheel, instead of having the "handle" or "top" teleport around to under the mouse? My initial attempt at solving the problem did that, where I used some variation of lookAt

[hollow dawn]

Are there any improvement's that I could do in my script? just want some else's feedback.
https://paste.ofcode.org/365LXWDxXa8gDffPf9Pd64k

[acoustic belfry]

huh, interesting

[rocky canyon]

but yea praetors idea is better i think as the math is simple

[celest ore]

whats the context?

[rocky canyon]

when u collider u know the obj.. soo u can just sub its pos

[acoustic belfry]

so i just have to get the position of the bullet or the player, minus the pos of the enemy, and then put it negative?

[wintry quarry]

when the player first clicks you basically set the current rotation as the point from which you are measuring. I don't have time to put an example together right now

[rocky canyon]

nooo.. u have to subtract here from there.. or there from here..

[acoustic belfry]

...how?

[rocky canyon]

here from there will get a direction opposite

transform.position - thattransfrom.position?

[acoustic belfry]

ah yeah, thats what i said, i just forgot to write it

so is
get player or proyectile pos
minus enemy pos
negative

[rocky canyon]

then normalize it if u want to use it to multiply any forces or w/e

#💻┃code-beginner message

[hollow dawn]

I'm making a first person game, that script is my fps controller, just want some feedback e.g. - if I'm doing things correctly, what I should change, you should do this instead of that etc.

[rocky canyon]

character controllers are known the best by their owners tbh.. u have more experience in it than anyone else..

[acoustic belfry]

but my question now is, how i can get the player and the proyectile pos from the enemy?

[rocky canyon]

why would u need the player?

[green copper]

I think I understand
I could set the current rotation of the game object to be under the grab point, and handle the rotation of the sprite and the actual "output" direction seperately?

[acoustic belfry]

my bad
the machete and the proyectile pos

like
how i can make it get the Position of the Specific proyectile (prefab) that hit it?

[rocky canyon]

what u mean..

looks to me ur scripts have the references to each other

[acoustic belfry]

i know how to reference the enemy from the bullets, but not the bullets from the enemy

HOLUP

u mean, also make the position of the proyectile a value, wich i also sent to the enemy

like the damage value, but is the position of the proyectile

[rocky canyon]

if u have a reference to a script u can just use it like enemy.gameObject.transform.position

[wintry quarry]

sure, or have it pass in the direction already

[rocky canyon]

this is wat basic subtraction looks like.. its not perfect (depending on the collider shape) but its pretty close..

[acoustic belfry]

huh, makes sense

well thanks :3
i will test if it works

[grand snow]

all components have transform as a property so you dont have to go to gameObject firstly

[cold cove]

how do I make difrent idols based on where my character is facing

[grand snow]

blend tree

[wintry quarry]

idols?

[grand snow]

i presume they mean "idle"

[chrome wadi]

different idols animations

[wintry quarry]

ah, idle yeah

[chrome wadi]

idles

[wintry quarry]

idol is like a statue you worship

[chrome wadi]

blend tree is the way to go

[wintry quarry]

indeed, blend trees. #🏃┃animation question

[cold cove]

yeah

[cold cove]

why is it not recognizing serializedfield???

[wintry quarry]

becasue that's not how it's spelled

[cold cove]

why not now

[wintry quarry]

Becasuse your IDE isn't configured

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[cold cove]

still not working

[rich adder]

show that its configured then

[cold cove]

one question I dont think this is the reason but where are unity prefrences

[rich adder]

if you dont see this down here, your vsc is not configured

[rich adder]

something you could've easily googled yourself

its also part of the steps in VSC

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity#_set-vs-code-as-unitys-external-editor

which makes me suspicious when you claimed
"still not working" did you even click the setup steps at all..

[cold cove]

why isnt this working

[rich adder]

because you aren't following the steps

[cold cove]

its not showing visual studio

[rich adder]

then you did not configure it

[cold cove]

for external tools do I need to browse it?

[rich adder]

no

it shows you exactly the version of VSC you have

if configured properly

[cold cove]

I did everything its till not working

[high mauve]

hey can some one help me

[rich adder]

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[eternal falcon]

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[high mauve]

i am making a game for my uni project but my 3D models start to rotate on collision

while x and z rotation are blocked in rigitbody

cant find any thing

still confused

[rich adder]

show

this is a code channel btw

[high mauve]

how to show i have a git repo should i send a link?

which channel is correct

[wintry quarry]

well which axis are they rotating on?

[rich adder]

I meant show the components like the rigidbody constraints / eg the problem

[high mauve]

the model is rotating in y axis

[wintry quarry]

well you haven't constrained the y axis

so of course it can rotate on the y axis

[high mauve]

but it will not jump then

[wintry quarry]

huh

rotation and position constraints are separate

[rich adder]

why would you rotate with jump?

[wintry quarry]

freeze y rotation to make it not rotate on the y axis

this won't affect position

[high mauve]

ok

thankyou

really thank you

it was irritating me really

[manic dawn]

@rich adder do you free?

[high mauve]

that do you mean?

oh sorry you were asking nav

my bad

[normal mango]

hello yall, got a problem with event systems here. line 92 here is supposed to stop the method when i click on ui, but when i select an UI input field in my game with a clickable game object behind it, the logic executes and doesnt stop the method. whats the solution to this?
https://paste.mod.gg/wlautbrzgdbg/0

[rich adder]

what?

also don't randomly tag someone into your questions #📖┃code-of-conduct

[manic dawn]

kk

do you have information about 2d games?

[rich adder]

in what sense, what about them?

[manic dawn]

i just had a problem about chracter moving

these my first time on unity and my teachers just joined me to the gamejam

i must do that

[rich adder]

put a breakpoint, are you certain that if statement is hit ?

[rich adder]

you have to ask a specific question + show the setup like code. otherwise no one can help anything

[manic dawn]

if u can come private chat i can show with share screen

[rich adder]

no, you can use screenshots here just fine.

[manic dawn]

i dont know my wrong

why?

[rich adder]

because private chat requires more commitment to a problem than I feel like devoting to lol

You can post here, others can chime in and help

[manic dawn]

nope thanks for help

[rich adder]

goodluck then

[cosmic dagger]

Post screenshots of your editor if we need to see Inspector values and post any related !code using links from the bot . . .

[eternal falcon]

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[frail wagon]

Hello i have imported a bundle of assets i have already done the “Render Pipeline converter” except that the water uses a shader and not the URP. how can i use the shader that the person has used because for now my water is pink. ? thanks

[rich adder]

this is a code channel .

Custom shaders cannot be converted automatically

You need to find out whats the equivalent functions from BiRP shader and convert it yourself or find another one compatible with the render pipeline you are using

[frail wagon]

Sorry

[cold cove]

how do I make the wand spright flip ?(why is my code not working)
ising UnityEngine;

public class WandController : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform player; // Reference to player
public float distanceFromPlayer = 1.5f; // How far the wand stays from the player

private float horizontal;
void Update()
{
    FollowMouse();
    horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
}
private bool isFacingRight = true;
void FollowMouse()
{
    if (player == null) return; // Prevent errors if the player is missing

    // Get mouse position in world space
    Vector3 mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
    mousePosition.z = 0f; // Ensure it's in 2D space

    // Find position between player and mouse
    Vector3 direction = (mousePosition - player.position).normalized;
    Vector3 wandPosition = player.position + direction * distanceFromPlayer;

    // Move wand to the calculated position
    transform.position = wandPosition;

    // Rotate the wand to face the mouse
    float angle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.y, direction.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, angle);
}
  private void Flip()
{
    if (isFacingRight && horizontal < 0f || !isFacingRight && horizontal > 0f)
    {
        isFacingRight = !isFacingRight;
        Vector3 localScale = transform.localScale;
        localScale.x *= -1f;
        transform.localScale = localScale;
    }
}

}

[rich adder]

use links for code 👇

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[cold cove]

oh ok will do next time

[rich adder]

or how about make it properly legible so you can get help better?

[cold cove]

okay

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

here you go

[rich adder]

and so what is the question

[cold cove]

the wand sprite isnt flipping

[rich adder]

where do you call Flip

[wintry quarry]

(they don't)

[acoustic belfry]

i dont know what i did wrong...but the shards aren't shoot, they just fall off
Enemy:

if (health <= 0)
{
    GameObject RifleRotoFragments = Instantiate(RifleRoto, proyectilposition.position, Quaternion.identity);
    Vector3 direccionFragmentos = (transform.position - attackposition.position).normalized;
    Rigidbody2D rb = RifleRotoFragments.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    if (rb != null)
    {
        rb.linearVelocity = direccionFragments * 10;
    }```

proyectile:
```cs
 private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
 {
     if (collision.transform.TryGetComponent(out EnemyBase enemy))
     {
         enemy.TakeDamage(riflebulletdamage, 1, transform);
         Destroy(gameObject);
     }
 }```

[rich adder]

how did you verify each function is called

[acoustic belfry]

player's melee:

private void MeleeAttack()
 {
     // Cast a ray to detect if an enemy is in range

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



     // If an enemy is detected, deal damage
     if (hitEnemy != null)
     {
         if (hitEnemy.TryGetComponent(out EnemyBase enemy))
         {
             enemy.TakeDamage(meleeDamage, 0, machetepos.transform);
         }
     }```

[acoustic belfry]

what you mean?

[wintry quarry]

Start using Debug.Log to debug your code. You come here with lots of questions that can be fixed through simple debugging

[cold cove]

oh

[rich adder]

Part of fixing a problem is to narrow down to where the issue is.. You can't do that if you don't verify your code is doing what you expect it to do. Logging the values, breakpoints etc. these are tools developer use to narrow down those unexpected values

[cold cove]

wait how do I call it

Meant to say when

[wintry quarry]

Where di you get the code from?

did you not write it yourself?

[rich adder]

this looks "AI" generated sadly

[wintry quarry]

If you wrote it you would have had some idea when you would call it

[acoustic belfry]

but i mean, in theory it should work, cuz literally in the same part where it damages and the corpse falls, its the same that should make it yeet

the only place i have to look is if it has a rigidbody...wich i added, but i will check anyways

[rich adder]

you're not in the theory business, you're in the exact science business. You need to test and verify those assumptions

[cold cove]

I know when but kinda hard to make it into be well ferwell I am gona try finding a solution

[acoustic belfry]

holup, i think i found the issue, but not the awnser

it cheks if the object has a rigidbody, wich it doesnt, why?, cuz is a collection

[rich adder]

finding the issue is part of fixing the problem

[acoustic belfry]

are all the shards of the enemy put inside a gameobject, all of the objects have a rigidbody but the collection
but my question is...How do i make the enemy interact with the children's rigidbodies instead of the gameobject rigidbody

[rich adder]

Get / Interact with Component in Child Unity

[acoustic belfry]

ok

[noble forum]

anyone wanna try out my game its only 7mb i need feedback

[rich adder]

#1180170818983051344

read the pinned post as well how to post

[noble forum]

do u think i should use itch.io or unity play which ones better

[rich adder]

both work fine, as long as they are those legitamate ones with some media, you should b ok

[noble forum]

ill probably use itch.io then, and to be sure nobody can somehow like acces my files and "steal" my game and claim its theirs right

[rich adder]

webgl sure, anything that is an exe can be decompiled and reused ( this is pretty advanced to do, not likely they are interesting in your game though not for nothin..)

[cold cove]

guys why is my dash going down instead of left and right?

private void dash()
{
horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
Vector2 movement = new Vector3(horizontal, 0f) * 100f;
rb.linearVelocit
}

In udpate its constantly checking for button pressed

and acording to it calling the function

nvm I am stupid

[polar dust]

without adding layers of obfuscation to your project, anyone who is dedicated enough, will be able to decompile the project. be mindful of that for sure, but its not something id personally worry about

the odds of somebody wanting to go through that effort, unless youve got something incredibly unique and one of a kind, is quite low

besides, if you proved in court that somebody profited off stolen code, there will only be one thing on my mind

🤑

[eternal needle]

Nitpicking a bit here although my opinion is the same. Obfuscation isnt security, people can decompile it and do whatever they want if its on their system. Assets will be taken but such is life.
There are also tons of clones of games, and it's not so easy to go after them. I dont know what smaller companies do but I doubt most caught cases go to court. It's probably reported on the websites which it was uploaded and that's all

[polar dust]

yeah, obfuscation is a speed bump, i wonder whether its the case anymore, but i know in the past its been completely possible to decompile a project in its entirety to open in engine. id like to hope 6.0 makes it far more difficult at the least

[cold cove]

how can I determen the way my character is facing making a 2D game?

[polar dust]

i think you'd want transform.forward

[cold cove]

what does it return?

[rich adder]

transform.forward would not be it

[polar dust]

when your character walks around, and you select their gameobject, does the gizmo arrow change direction?

[polar dust]

if the blue arrow points forwards, would that not be transform.forward?

[cold cove]

what would be it?

[rich adder]

it is but in 2D that would be considered "depth"

[cold cove]

could transform.localScale.x work?

[polar dust]

oooh youre right!

[rich adder]

Unity 2D would be tranform.right = left/right transform.up /updown

[polar dust]

brain fart 😆 been a long day

[rich adder]

are you doing side to side? because "which direction is pretty vague"

[rich adder]

ok yes but what do you want to do with the direction?

because most of the time you're the one determine which way is what

[cold cove]

making a blink

[rich adder]

a blink? idk what that is

[cold cove]

like a quick dash but a teleport

where you can go through objects

its curently working but only in right

[rich adder]

well right now transform.right is technically forward

depends how you flip the player

[cold cove]

yeah right is forward

[rich adder]

if you only flip the sprite, you are technically still facing "right"

[cold cove]

but how can I use thath in a if statment

[rich adder]

again, you should show how you currently "flip" the player or determine left and right

[cold cove]

okay

wawit I have an idea

I gota try

I fixed it

[rich adder]

here is a basic one

Vector2 direction = transform.right;
if (direction.x > 0){
    // Facing right
}
else if (direction.x < 0){
    // Facing left
}```

[cold cove]

used transform.localScale.x > 0

[rich adder]

sure scale can work too

its much easier if you make a boolean

[cold cove]

I g

but this works and I will not touch it dont wana acidently mess it up

[rich adder]

nothing hard about..
bool facingRight
facingRight = transform.localScale.x > 0

if you need to do more logic based on facing direction typing transform.localScale.x > 0 every time is creating more work

[cold cove]

This is my blink method for some reason the trail isnt appearing

https://paste.mod.gg/zrboikvhqovx/1

this is how I defined it

[SerializeField] private TrailRenderer tr;

[slender nymph]

there is effectively 0 time between when you set the trail renderer to emitting to when you set it to not emitting. and the only line of code that runs in between those two lines is you setting the position. the trail renderer does nothing in that time

[cold cove]

still I just need a line in betwen the starting and dthe ending positoin

also how could I fix it

[jolly moat]

How can I get an enemy’s sprite renderer to pulse red once per hit? I know how to make something pulse indefinitely using the Update() and Pingpong() methods. I’m not sure how to do it for just one pulse though. Any tips?

[eternal needle]

is your question just about how you'd run it when getting hit is a one time thing? you could still use update and some sort of timer, or just a coroutine.

[tulip relic]

Every frame, lerp the color of the sprite towards white. When the enemy is damaged, set the color to red. Is that the look you'd want?

[jolly moat]

I was planning on changing the spriterenderer’s color gradually between two color values. When the player hits, enemy goes from normal color to red back to normal, end color change there until hit again

[eternal needle]

that was understood, my question is whats stopping you from writing this? A coroutine or update is fine here. In update you just use a timer and can use that timer to check if it needs to be updating.

[tulip relic]

You could store the time of getting hit and the period of the Pingpong(). In Update(), if Time.time() is greater than the time of getting hit plus the period, set the color to white, otherwise, set it to Pingpong of Time.time() - period.

I prefer the look of instantly turning red and fading back, though.

[proper plank]

is there a nice way to get coroutines not to lag

working on a grid streaming system and every time i need to load a new grid, it lags

if i added yield return null after every single line it actually works great but that's definitely awful practice 😭

apologies if this is vague i can give more info if needed lol

[ember tangle]

I'm having some issues with AddForce() being a bit inconsistent.

Force is added here, in a function only called in FixedUpdate():

{
    if(active) rigidbody2D.AddForce(this.transform.up * attack.projectileSpeed, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
}```

when a projectile is spawned, attack.projectile speed is set to a scriptable object variable
``` public void SetProjectile(Entity origin, Vector3 target, Attack attack)
 {

     active = true;

     this.attack = attack;
     this.gameObject.tag = origin.gameObject.tag; // used for making projectile not collide with entity that fired it
     spriteRenderer.sprite = attack.projectileSprite;

     transform.position = origin.gameObject.transform.position;

     direction = target - transform.position;
     transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, direction);
     transform.Translate(Vector3.up * (origin.type.size * 0.6f)); //creates projectile slightly in front of entity
 
 }```

force is removed here once the projectile hits a wall.:

public void Halt()
{
this.rigidbody2D.linearVelocity = Vector3.zero;
this.rigidbody2D.angularVelocity = 0f;
}```

for some reason, every 20 or so times that a projectile is activated, that projectile moves extremely fast until reset.

[frosty hound]

A coroutine has nothing to do with your lag. It has everything to do what with what you're doing inside it that is causing the lag.

[proper plank]

yeahhh that's what i was thinking it was gonna be

it's not even super intensive though like it still runs fast, but just slow enough to cause a slight hitch when going over grid boundaries

isn't the whole point of coroutines for it to be "async" in a sense though?

[frosty hound]

It's not multithreaded if that's what you mean

[proper plank]

think i've got a misunderstanding of coroutines then

initially i thought they were like separate threads that do work without touching the main "get everything done for update in frame" task

i think my issue is stemming from the coroutine trying to load everything in one frame, so it halts to finish that process

would make sense why adding yield return null to every line made it a lot smoother LOL

[rich adder]

its not "async" although it mimics similiar functionality

[proper plank]

i see

[rich adder]

the magic of it lets you spread code over frames instead of doing it at once

[proper plank]

i think what im tryna get at is that i just need something that can lazy load the grid in however much time it takes to load, bc all this stuff happens out of the view so it doesn't need to happen totally instantly

like idc how long it takes to load, i just want it to do it, not worrying about how many frames it takes

[rich adder]

yes you can use AsyncOperation to for example create a loading bar / screen

although if you need it to be it can be a multithread with jobs or just a plain Async/Awaitable func

Only thing Unity cares about is not calling most of its API out of the main thread

[proper plank]

so what would be the best course of action for my case

might be a bit of an issue with the api thing bc im creating a bunch of textures and meshes

[rich adder]

depends how you load/generate your grid

[proper plank]

im loading everything from a rom, and reconstructing the textures and meshes the first time a grid needs to load

[rich adder]

yeah but like for example? System.IO ? LoadResource methods etc.
some of those have async variants

can also docs async Awaitable VeryLongOperation(){ //do some work await Task.Delay(5000);//simluate a long running operation //done OnSomethingDone?.Invoke(whatever); }

[proper plank]

even with that it still hitches though

must be the fact that even though it's async or in a coroutine, the unity api calls just take too long

[rich adder]

depends what you're doing & what methods are you calling

if you're calling main thread stuff async will probably not change much

[proper plank]

guess i've just gotta go in and optimize my model creation process then

appreciate the help on helping me track this down

[rich adder]

okie. np . If you share more of the code we could take a look where it can be improved maybe

[proper plank]

yeah sure, one sec

it's still a PoC, so apologies if it's kinda bad lol

these are the only relevant files iirc, folderPath is empty in this case bc im not static-ly saving assets to the project, was originally for editor import use

[rich adder]

unless its the unpacking slowing down most of this shouldnt be so bad using it in a coroutine or even async with the OnInitialized static function launching all the prep

not sure where you got this from lol private async void Update()

[proper plank]

lol i forgot i left that there

[rich adder]

afaik the only entry async method unity has is Awake

[proper plank]

i mean you can just make it async and it still works

but obv it doesnt fix anything

[rich adder]

don't think Unity calls it as async though

just Awake afaik

[sour fulcrum]

whatever you cooking here looks sick and might be something i've def thought about messing around with doing but just a heads up that showing this might not necessarily be ideal aha 😅

[proper plank]

yeah you right

[waxen adder]

Let's say I have some UI elements on a canvas. They can process mouse events. However, I would like it so that if the elements are processing mouse events, anything "behind" the ui, like clickable objects in the gameplay world, won't also process mouse events. Any general ideas?

[zenith cypress]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.EventSystem.IsPointerOverGameObject.html (you can use this check to block your world interactions)

[teal viper]

I usually have a UI manager that I can query about whether the pointer is over ui or not. Inside it, it could be querying the event system.

[waxen adder]

Ah ok, I'm doing something similar (but a little bit more barbaric compared to what you're doing). I'm basically firing off an event every time the UI has the pointer over it, and non-ui scripts can process that event. Leads to a lot more work compared to what you have though, so I'm gonna go change that XD

[hidden marten]

i tried to make my own wallrunning script on top of my player movement script. i want to stop the wallrun when i press space bar. but for some reason, sometimes when i press space bar the function is not called. can anyone take a look and help me out please?

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[hidden marten]

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

[teal viper]

The issue is probably querying the input in fixed update. Fixed update doesn't necessarily run every frame. So you could be skipping frames where input happens.

[hidden marten]

i switched put the state() function in update now. the thing is exitingwallrun bool turns from false to true earlier than 2 seconds sometimes, even though i invoked it for 2 seconds

[teal viper]

Well, it wouldn't be 2 sec exactly. It should be 2 or more though. Not less.

[hidden marten]

huh?

sorry i am a bit slow

[teal viper]

It would get executed on a frame when the time is >= 2. And there's no guarantee that frame would start exactly on the 2nd second.

[hidden marten]

yeah, but my problem is that the function is executed less than two seconds

[teal viper]

Yeah. That's technically not possible. Are you sure you're not just misinterpreting the results?

You can log during the invoke and inside the invoked method and compare the log timestamps.

[hidden marten]

i log every time the exitingwallrun bool is changed.. it sometimes turns from true to false in like half a second

[teal viper]

Make sure you're not calling it more often than expected.
And make your logs more verbose. It's not clear what exactly is "True"/"False" and where this is printed. Add more text to make it clear.

[hidden marten]

the function is called only once
how do i make my logs more verbose? the only thing im logging is exitingwallrun bool btw

[teal viper]

Log text.
"On Invoke called" or something

"on method invoked"

[hidden marten]

how do i use a log text? documentation is down i think sorry

[teal viper]

Debug log takes a string:
Debug.Log("text");

And you can also use string interpolation: $"text {variable}"

[hidden marten]

oh okay lemme try that out

[hidden marten]

but before that why does this happen though

this is the exitingwallrun bool btw

[teal viper]

It doesn't. It's likely one invoked earlier.

[hidden marten]

that doesnt explain the second false return on the end though

[teal viper]

You're likely misinterpreting the logs. It's easy to get mistaken with so many

Especially considering they don't provide any details

It's also possible that you're calling the method somewhere else as well

[hidden marten]

i am a 100% sure i am not, you can see in the code yourself

[hidden marten]

hmm true

[hidden marten]

i brainstormed for a long time, i couldn't figure out anything. any help will be appreciated

[willow shoal]

    private Image _backgroundImage = null;
    private Image _controllerImage = null;

    [Header("Configuration")]
    [SerializeField] private bool _rightAnchorPoint = false;
    [SerializeField] private bool _topAnchorPoint = false;

    [Header("Generated Information")]
    [SerializeField] private Vector2 _virtualInput = Vector2.zero;

    [Header("Settings")]
    [SerializeField, Range(2f, 4f)] private float _controllerRange = 2.7f;


    public float HorizontalInput => _virtualInput.x;
    public float VerticalInput => _virtualInput.y;
    public Vector2 VirtualInput => _virtualInput;

    public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        if (RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(_backgroundImage.rectTransform,
            eventData.position, eventData.pressEventCamera, out Vector2 outLocalPoint))
        {
            CalculateVirtualInput(in outLocalPoint);
            UpdateControllerPosition();
        }
    }

    public void OnPointerDown(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        OnDrag(eventData);
    }

    public void OnPointerUp(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        _virtualInput = Vector2.zero;
        _controllerImage.rectTransform.anchoredPosition = Vector2.zero;
    }


    private void Awake()
    {
        _backgroundImage = GetComponent<Image>();
        _controllerImage = transform.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Image>();
    }

    void CalculateVirtualInput(in Vector2 localPoint)
    {
        Vector2 inputVector;
        Vector2 inputVectorClamped;

        inputVector.x = localPoint.x / _backgroundImage.rectTransform.sizeDelta.x;
        inputVector.y = localPoint.y / _backgroundImage.rectTransform.sizeDelta.y;
        inputVectorClamped.x = inputVector.x * 2 + 1 * (_rightAnchorPoint ? 1 : -1);
        inputVectorClamped.y = inputVector.y * 2 + 1 * (_topAnchorPoint ? 1 : -1);
        _virtualInput = inputVectorClamped.magnitude > 1.0f ? inputVectorClamped.normalized : inputVectorClamped;
    }

   void UpdateControllerPosition()
    {
        Vector2 controllerPosition;

        controllerPosition.x = _virtualInput.x * (_backgroundImage.rectTransform.sizeDelta.x / _controllerRange);
        controllerPosition.y = _virtualInput.y * (_backgroundImage.rectTransform.sizeDelta.y / _controllerRange);
        _controllerImage.rectTransform.anchoredPosition = controllerPosition;
    }

}

hi quick question... I want to change the camera joystick to turn the other way because when I turn left the camera turns right and I know that I just have to change some code

i need change one line of code for fix but i dont know which line of code change

[gentle bone]

when one side of the controller is "+1" and the other side is "-1" ... you probably just need to reverse them .. i think you will find your answer

[willow shoal]

i will check wait

nope :/ its not working

i found this script on github and i testing how it work

[gentle bone]

thats what i was thinking.. just copy & pasting without understanding doesnt help you in any way..

[willow shoal]

yeah

i will try my self fix it

up and down work well but left and right works the other way around

i find and learn how this script work

[gentle bone]

horizontal (x) is left and right.. vertical (y) is up and down.. maybe that helps

[teal viper]

I don't remember if you can invoke a method with parameters, but if you can, I recommend passing something in. Like a counter or timestamp or something. And print that inside the method

[hidden marten]

you cant apparently 😔

[teal viper]

Then perhaps avoid Invoke entirely. Use a coroutine.

[hidden marten]

okay i found the issue, when i invoke the function, the function is getting called for 2 seconds straight. eery frame for the entire two seconds, the bool is set to false.

how do i change it so that the invoke method calls the function only once

[teal viper]

Just invoke it once. You're probably invoking it more than once every frame

[teal viper]

This condition is being true for several frames. If you don't want it to keep invoking, make sure that the condition in the if statement is false after invoking once.

        if (state != "wallrunning" && exitingWallrun) 
        {
            Invoke(nameof(ExitWallrun), 2f);
            
        }

[hidden marten]

oooohhhhhh. any idea how i can do that without over complicating it?

[teal viper]

Honestly, it sounds like you're trying to implement a state machine, but doing it wrong.

I'd recommend looking at some state machine tutorials.

[hidden marten]

alright. thanks a lot!

[scarlet aspen]

why api scripting reference and package docks websites don't work?

[teal viper]

Someone spilled coffee on the servers

[delicate portal]

If I have a class which is subscribed to an event, then the scene changes, then gets back to the original scene, why does the listener not work? Should I unsubscribe then resubscribe?

[hexed terrace]

The instance of the component that did the subscribing was destroyed.
Loading the scene again is giving you a different instance.

[sour fulcrum]

if you unload a scene and load the same scene again those objects are not the same objects

they start out the same but they are not the same

[delicate portal]

Sure, so the solution is to unsubscribe on scene unloading and then resubscribe when it comes back

Right?

[sour fulcrum]

That would probably be ideal practice yeah, although it's worth noting that in practice in this case you shouldn't need to unsubscribe i don't think

Just mentioning in regards to logic still good to do

[delicate portal]

Yeah because the event is fired from an object which doesnt get destroyed on scene changes

Thats why I'm wondering why it doesn't work.
Currently I have a returning input which if you press a button, it holds "Back" function which disables the UI in front, and enables the previous one. If the scene changes, and we come back to the original one, this doesn't work, the returning feature doesn't do anything.

[hexed terrace]

always unsubscribe

[hexed terrace]

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[delicate portal]

Does Start resubscribe when a scene changes?

Or should I use OnEnable and OnDisable?

[hexed terrace]

start only runs once per instance

[sharp abyss]

Anybody knows how can I make my 3D active ragdolls arm follow my cursor like in game half sword. I dont have bones. I have 2 parted arms(upper and lower) with configurable joints.

[verbal dome]

Is the ragdoll replicating another animated character?

[sharp abyss]

Yes the legs follow for walk but arms are free right now

[verbal dome]

Make the arms work and use some arm IK on the animator that it's replicating

Setting up proper active ragdolls is a massive pain though, just so you know.

Here's some helpful code for setting the target rotation https://gist.github.com/mstevenson/7b85893e8caf5ca034e6

[hollow dawn]

@swift elbow > https://paste.ofcode.org/HJ68CfcdXCCqc6ZWQwHV8H

[swift elbow]

oh duh. i forgot youre using rigidbody so this approach wont work. mb

[hollow dawn]

BRUH! what should I do then?

[swift elbow]

        float newHeight = isCrouching ? standingHeight : crouchHeight;

        capsule.height = newHeight;

        float heightDifference = previousHeight - newHeight;
        Vector3 positionAdjustment = new Vector3(0, heightDifference / 2f, 0);

        rb.MovePosition(rb.position - positionAdjustment);

        isCrouching = !isCrouching;```

no need to panic lol. i think something like this should work

dont forget to create an isCrouching bool

[hollow dawn]

Thank you so much this is very good, one question though how can I make it smoother when crouching and standing back up?

[swift elbow]

you should look into lerping. its fairly simple

[vernal thorn]

How too "spawn" a specific tile from a tilemap? context i have a json that specifies tiles for a world (2d) like this:

"tiles": [
        {
            "x": -5,
            "y": 0,
            "ID": "1"
        },
        {
            "x": -4,
            "y": 0,
            "ID": "2"
        },
        ...
    ]
}

and i want that for example ID 1 = grass ID 2 = dirt

[rocky canyon]

u'd run a function that uses a switch statement or something or.. u can just have ur list or collection 1:1 so they match up

[vernal thorn]

oh thanks

[rocky canyon]

u know how to read from json right?

[vernal thorn]

ye i already did that

[rocky canyon]

ahh cool so yea a switch statement or imo it'd be cleaner just to have a colllection list or array w/ the tiles corresponding to the numbers

so ID 2 would = Collection[2] etc..

then u could just do MyTiles[IDVariable];

[vernal thorn]

thank you for the information!

[rocky canyon]

tilemap.SetTile(position, tilesByID[tile.ID]);```

[queen adder]

hey could somebody help me understand how to debug the problem i'm facing? have a web development background and i started learning unity off a youtube tutorial today. it's a 2d top-down project and i have the animations working but my character's in the same spot. it's switching between the different walk sprites but it won't actually move around the screen if that makes sense

[cosmic quail]

you need code to move things around

[queen adder]

i do have vscode open but it doesn't help that this is my introduction to c#

i understand that though

[rocky canyon]

animation is just animation

u need to move the object with code

or use root motion <-- look that up

[queen adder]

i understand this but i don't know how to debug what's going on since this is my introduction to both unity and c#

[rocky canyon]

Debug.Log();

[queen adder]

i followed the tutorial but i must've missed something

[rocky canyon]

("The message u want to log");

[queen adder]

no error pops up or anything

[rocky canyon]

or.. (theVariable)

then ur code isnt running

or ur debug is somewhere it isnt getting reached

[cosmic quail]

did you put the script on your object in the scene?

[queen adder]

yeah i have a player movement script

[cosmic quail]

show the script and show where you put it in the scene

[rocky canyon]

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[queen adder]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class playerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{

    [SerializeField] private float movespeed = 5f;
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private Vector2 moveInput;
    private Animator animator;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        rb.linearVelocity = moveInput * movespeed;
    }

    public void Move(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        animator.SetBool("isWalking", true);

        if (context.canceled) {
            animator.SetBool("isWalking", false);
            animator.SetFloat("LastInputX", moveInput.x);
            animator.SetFloat("LastInputY", moveInput.y);
        }

        moveInput = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        animator.SetFloat("InputX", moveInput.x);
        animator.SetFloat("InputY", moveInput.y);
    }

}

[polar acorn]

In update, log moveInput and see if it changes as you move your joystick around

Or keyboard buttons

[vernal thorn]

THANK YOU SO MUCH it finnaly works :D

[steady leaf]

Me and my friend are trying to use Unity Version Control to collaborate. I invited him as a User to my project and he cannot create a new branch using the Unity DevOps Version Control app. Could someone help me how to give him proper permissions so he can create his own branch?

[queen adder]

it's logging the movement just fine afaik

[polar acorn]

Okay, so it should be setting the rigidbody velocity. Your scene looks pretty empty, are you sure it's not actually moving? If your camera is set to follow the player directly it might not even be possible to see movement

[cold cove]

Why is the blink not geting canceled on touching a block?
here is the code for player movment https://paste.mod.gg/daslcnojqafe/1

[rich adder]

why would it

[cold cove]

its not even detecting collisions why?

[rich adder]

how do you know

OnCollisionEnter/OnCollisionExit are not 2D physics methods

[cold cove]

oh

what would be a 2D equivilent

[rich adder]

take a wild guess lol

[queen adder]

i haven't gotten into cameras yet as i'm very early into this tutorial series. from what i can see the example in the video shows the character moving around the scene even though it's as empty as mine

would linking the video help?

[cold cove]

Idk

oh

[rich adder]

most of the 2d stuf you literally just append 2D to it

[cold cove]

oh ok thanks

[viscid girder]

Unity is asking me to choose a template, do i have to do this, nothing that i want to follow to start making my game says anything about templates?

[rich adder]

well you need to use at very least the blank one, which. is Core

mainly the choice to consider is URP vs HDRP

or BiRP (although this is being phased out)

[viscid girder]

ok ill research the differences

thanks 🙂

[queen adder]

any help on this

[green copper]

if I have a large 2d environment, no player character just the camera as an overseer, how can I get a smooth movement between rooms?

I have camera anchors for each room, and I can make it move between them, but I'd like to be able to make the camera movement smooth and crisp, where it quickly swooshes from one point to the next without stopping or starting instantly but also not just sliding_stone_block.mp3

[zinc charm]

I have a resource bar that's continiously draining, multiplied by deltaTime. I also have an event that broadcasts the resource amount in Update(). I initially thought updating the event would be slower performance wise so added a timer to update the event every second, is this right?
I tried to use the profiler but I am not sure which metrics I want to look at for this.

[rich adder]

are you asking if broadcasting an event in update is fine ?

[zinc charm]

yes

I think it is just a pointer updated in the system but I am not sure if there are other performance handicaps

[rich adder]

yeah you should fine

[shadow kettle]

in the programming pathway course, in the plane programming part, the plane starts rotating on its own when it touches the wall, how do i fix that?

[rich adder]

probably locking the constraints..which plane programming part?

[shadow kettle]

thank you so much!! it worked :D

[white lagoon]

how do i make a variable name use another variable's value to make that name

as in I want to create a variable called "Level (variable)"

or is that not possible

[naive pawn]

it isn't possible, those happen at different types

[cosmic quail]

why do you need this?

[naive pawn]

why do you want to do so?

[white lagoon]

i want to create a variable called level"variable dependent on stage"completed

[naive pawn]

why do you want that variable though?

[white lagoon]

so i can check if it's true to check if the player unlocked a stage

another question, is a global variable persistent between scenes

[runic lance]

what would be a global variable?

[white lagoon]

static public

[runic lance]

most likely what you want is just a collection storing the ids of the completed stages

[naive pawn]

that doesn't make sense

[runic lance]

that would be persistent between scenes, yes

[naive pawn]

c# doesn't really have "globals"

[naive pawn]

do you mean like, multiple of these variables, or what?

[white lagoon]

yes, each with a different number depending on the current stage number

[naive pawn]

if you ever end up with numbered variables, you most likely want some kind of collection instead

are your levels sequential?

[white lagoon]

yes they are

[naive pawn]

so why not just have a single variable that tracks how many levels have been completed

[rare elm]

trying to learn unity lingo. when people talk about a character controller, is that the interface with the joystick, the behavioral control for the rig, both, or more

[frosty hound]

It's the entirety of everything involved with making a gameplay character.

[rare elm]

even the art and network?

[frosty hound]

If it's involved with making the character, yes

[rare elm]

alright. thanks

[naive pawn]

there is also a specific component called CharacterController

[hot palm]

Quick question, can I have default references of arrays? As they are of non-changeable length, I thought it would be possible, but they aren't displayed in the inspector

[rich adder]

wdym " default references of arrays"

[hot palm]

Just like I have a default reference to this mixer, could I have a default reference to a list/array of AudioClips?

[rich adder]

you mean [SerializeField] private AudioClip[] clips ?

you should be able to since they are assets and not scene objects

[hot palm]

Ah I guess I just made them public but didnt serialize the field

[rich adder]

public is already serialized

[hot palm]

Then it didnt work

[rich adder]

you made them field not property right?

[hot palm]

let me try your version

[rich adder]

yea looks fine

[hot palm]

Dont appear

Whereas mixer does appear

Quick check, I just did AudioClip instead of AudioClip[] and I did see the AudioClip there

[rich adder]

oh thats strange.. let me try it on my end. maybe its true which would be odd..

I think maybe because Unity Initializes an array when it is attached as a component

[hot palm]

Hmm let me try list

[rich adder]

I wonder if it works if you added new()

[hot palm]

Let me try

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private AudioClip[] clips = new()

[hot palm]

Ah he doesnt like that

Dont see the new() List either

Lets see what happens with this

private AudioClip[] clips = new AudioClip[1];

[rich adder]

ya sorry you need fixed size for array

[hot palm]

ah doesnt work

Still wont appear

Google wont tell me either

[rich adder]

thats balls

[hot palm]

Glitch in the matrix

[rich adder]

def something to do with the Editor drawing

[hot palm]

Using Unity 6000.0.36f1

Ah so it should work but for some godforsaken reason it wont? :D

let me restart editor

[rich adder]

I just tried it

its not that

[hot palm]

Ah okay

[rich adder]

i think for arrays unity does something different so it needs an instance

you can make a simple workaround though if you want to still do that

put your array inside a ScriptableObject then make a field for that, it should work

[noble needle]

hey guys can someone help

[hot palm]

Hmm alright. To fight the root of the problem: How would I have a collection of AudioClips, and in my script I access them

// Play sound
AudioClip newShootSound;
do
{
    newShootSound = EnemySoundManag.Instance.ShootSounds[UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, EnemySoundManag.Instance.ShootSounds.Length)];
} while (newShootSound == shootSound);
shootSound = newShootSound;

AudioManag.Instance.PlayAnySoundFromList(VolumeType.SFX, clip: newShootSound, volume: 0.2f);

It's annoying to have to have a Singleton thats holding all the audio data but hey, I could (un)load the data individually per level then I guess

[noble needle]

I have this slider in the scene but when I switch to the game it doesn't show up 😦

[rich adder]

if its an audiomanager why not

[hot palm]

Well basically instead of adding my sounds to each enemy I thought how about I have one class as a collection for all sounds, and I dynamically access them there

[rich adder]

this isn't a coding question #📲┃ui-ux has pinned guide on how to properly anchor

[noble needle]

oh ok

[rich adder]

seems reasonable. I mix both

some objects have their own sound component on them

[hot palm]

Oh yeah, for music I do that (with a custom looper class but still)

Hm I guess I'll just do it like this. Not as manageable as I had planned but it's still alright I guess, will keep a prefab and add it to each scene ig

[rich adder]

the reason I like not storing on the enemy per se, is if you have an event thats all you need to "listen" to

[hot palm]

Yeah

[rich adder]

like if enemy Jumps, why not just access that from a dictionary.

the enemy only cares about OnJumped?.Invoke()
the rest reacts to it

[hot palm]

Could make "blue enemy" inherit from a "enemy" class with that event action but this works for me

[hot palm]

Alright, thanks for your help!

[hollow dawn]

There's a bug in unity 6 that I completely forgot about

Where would I report it?

[rich adder]

something magical happens if you google that same exact thought

[hollow dawn]

Do I sense a sprinkle of sarcasm...

[rich adder]

only a sprinkle?

🤯

[hollow dawn]

chill no need to embarrass me 🙏

[rich adder]

I'm not lol I've seen it all here almost, some people legitimately forget there is a search engine now days

[hollow dawn]

just jk lol ❤👍

If you wanted to know what the bug was the listen button doesn't work because in one of the scripts they spelt Search wrong it says > Seach instead

[rich adder]

that would be pretty funny if they did

[hollow dawn]

They did indeed.

It happened to me I check and it was right there "Seach"

put a r in there an it was fixed

[naive pawn]

hasn't this been reported already

[hollow dawn]

clearly not as its still not fixed lol

[naive pawn]

that's not what that means, no

[hot palm]

Are you on the latest ver? xD

[hollow dawn]

Unity 6 yes

[naive pawn]

even if it hasn't been fixed, if it's already been reported, you reporting it again will just be noise

go find the original report and boost it

[hot palm]

I mean the latest 6 version

[rich adder]

if its already in the tracker yes you should vote it up

[hot palm]

45

[rich adder]

although fixes like this aren't pushed right away

[hot palm]

Coroutines waiting for next frame with yield return null is Time.timescale independant, right?

[hollow dawn]

mines 42

[slender nymph]

also note that it is not the editor version that matters, but rather the input system package version

[rich adder]

the unity version wont matter if its Input System it probably gets updated in the package

jinx

[hot palm]

Good call

lmao

Ur both right, I feel double stupid now :')

[slender nymph]

correct, timescale does not affect frame time, it only affects the value reported by deltaTime and fixedDeltaTime

[hot palm]

Good to know! Is there a reason to use yield return null or would yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame(); have the same effect?

[rich adder]

WaitForEndOfFrame(); has tiny extra allocation but its the same thing no?

[naive pawn]

they don't do the same thing

[slender nymph]

they do not have the same effect, WaitForEndOfFrame is evaluated at a different part of the frame

[hot palm]

So the default syntax for waiting a frame is to yield return null?

[naive pawn]

yes

[hot palm]

OH wow

[green copper]

If I'm trying to create a main game manager node to hold a bunch of random important information related to overall stats and supplies and such

Would it be better practice to

-shove everything into one script on one object

-multiple scripts on one object

-object has children with categories, like
main > gunnery > scriptThatHandles Gun > artilleryGunAzimuth
main > supply > scriptThatHandlesStorage > medkitsInStorage

[hot palm]

I would personally say what serves you best as a single dev or what is the most readable as multiple devs. Always keep it in scope, scale and to your knowledge (dont implement 100 completely new features, just because it is said they are good on a project with no scope in that area whatsoever)

[hot palm]

Basically step away from visual studio and build a readable graph just like this

[naive pawn]

draw.io is a great for that, and it's free

powerpoint is also viable

don't need anything fancy

[hot palm]

paint.net is my personal favorite for simple stuff. It's free (on the official page, not the microsoft version) and has a lot of cool tools which paint or paint3D are missing out

[green copper]

I'll give that a shot, didn't think to pre-map my logic out like that

did something similar for my screen layout WIP

[noble needle]

how can I make a slider slidable with the mouse?

[hot palm]

I think it's as important as a gdd to map out code before diving into coding

[rich adder]

slider is already slidable with mouse..

[green copper]

yeah, that makes sense
I've done some pretty complex things in a few languages for school and for my first job, but this is my first time being the one MAKING the design specs instead of just following them

[noble needle]

when I click/drag it it doesn't move 😦

[rich adder]

do you have event system in the scene?

also this isnt' a code question

[noble needle]

oh mb

[noble needle]

yes

[keen cargo]

If it doesn't move then something is either keeping it that value, or you might have an ui element blocking it

Like an invisible panel or something

[rich adder]

inspect the Event System in playmode when you click something, see what it is

[noble needle]

ohhhh

these 2 are different things?

also why is my camera so zoomed in

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk

[naive pawn]

allllright let's go to #💻┃unity-talk @noble needle

[rich adder]

@noble needle
https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials

[cold cove]

why is my game crashing from this?
https://paste.mod.gg/iictofkzqzgv/0

[slender nymph]

define "crashing" here, because there's nothing in this code that would generally cause anything to "crash"

[cold cove]

the entire editor just stops working

Idk why

[slender nymph]

then it's some other code

[cold cove]

when I try shoting

It works when I dont do this it is this

[slender nymph]

when I try shoting
so then maybe show the code for that

[polar acorn]

Nothing here involves shooting

[slender nymph]

also it is against server rules to not disclose AI generated code 😉

[cold cove]

this is the code

spawning

its not Ai I promise

I spent 30 minutes trying to get it work

it spawns the bullet and gives it velocity or am I stupid?

[polar acorn]

Where does it spawn the bullet

[cold cove]

GameObject newObject=Instantiate(objectToSpawn, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);

[bright osprey]

think you may have pasted the wrong class mate

[zenith cypress]

Yep

[polar acorn]

There is nothing of the sort in the code you've posted

[cold cove]

oh I might have posted the wrong code my bad

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

[slender nymph]

there it is, you have an infinite loop

[polar acorn]

Your while loop can never end

[cold cove]

how if they are slowly coming closer

[polar acorn]

Nothing in the loop changes any of the values in the condition

[cold cove]

oh I am stupid

wait I am gona try dixing it

[naive pawn]

i don't that should be in a while loop anyways

you're using deltaTime, so it seems like you want it to move over several frames

[polar acorn]

Putting "MoveTowards" in a while loop also doesn't make sense. If you want the object to go towards the destination in a single frame, just set the position

[naive pawn]

the while loop will make it happen in a single frame

[polar acorn]

It'll do the same thing

[cold cove]

not a single frame

[polar acorn]

Yes a single frame

It's in update

[cold cove]

do I need a seprate function?

[polar acorn]

The definition of a frame is how long it takes for every objects update functions to finish

Everything done in update will, by definition, take 1 frame to do

[naive pawn]

the while makes it do MoveTowards multiple times
and it's within a single Update call, so it's happening in a single frame

you might want an if instead?

[cold cove]

Do I need a IEnumerator function if I wan it to slowly be moving twoards the location

[polar acorn]

Or do it over multiple updates with a timer variable

Either one works

[naive pawn]

just this

you only need to change the while to if

[cold cove]

Its not moving at all

it just spawns and thath is it

oh I got too litle range I g

[drowsy field]

ive got something i wanna correct with the unity input plugin when it comes to inputs that trigger every frame
because my mouse left click function only triggers once when the mouse is clicked, instead of me wanting it to trigger every frame

(me trying to make an automatic weapon but it ends up just firing once)

[cold cove]

still not moving

why????

[polar acorn]

What does the current code look like

[cold cove]

changed while to if

[drowsy field]

(setup for the input)

[polar acorn]

What calls HandleFire

[polar acorn]

Is it still in your input check? That's going to run exactly one time when you click.

[drowsy field]

just the input addon

[cold cove]

I got most of the things out of the press left click it says this Assets\shoot.cs(21,54): error CS0103: The name 'newObject' does not exist in the current context

I get why but dont know what to do about it

[polar acorn]

So that's only calling it on started, which is when it goes from 0 to a non-zero value, and won't start again until it returns to 0

[drowsy field]

also occurs for the "performed" phase too

[polar acorn]

Question: why is the script that's spawning the bullet the one that's responsible for moving it? Wouldn't it make more sense for the bullet to move itself?

[drowsy field]

i set it to started to see if it would fix (my movement is called this way, manages to work fine, but the mouse click just doesnt wanna happen every frame)

gonna try to see if putting it into the update function will fix something

[cold cove]

well I dont know I am stupid I g

[drowsy field]

yeah it's because it wasnt in the update function

now it's working fine

[acoustic sequoia]

hey everyone, what is the best practice to make a visable "visual only" grid for players to refference. 2d games usually have a visual grid that looks like very thin string-like lines.

how should i approach this? I was thinking about using the line tool but it seems like overkill. any suggestions?

[sour fulcrum]

Might be good to check out https://bgolus.medium.com/the-best-darn-grid-shader-yet-727f9278b9d8

[acoustic sequoia]

this seems like overkill as well. my game camera never moves and it's top down 2D. i just need visual lines to appear just like the unity editor lines and they need to snap to the same unity grid

[cold cove]

I am getting a bunch of erors for unknown reasons

[sour fulcrum]

Can probably just make a small repeating texture then

[acoustic sequoia]

ummm.. i want to be able to make edits to the grid on the fly for debugging... I'm thinking i want to do something similar to a debugdraw line tool... can't i just use something like that and just simply draw 1 pixel lines?

[rich adder]

linerenderer

[cold cove]

I have to where my bullets destroy how can I make the original one not do this I kinda need it its a refrence for everything else spawning

if u need further explanation I can send code

[rich adder]

make the original one not do this ?

which original

[cold cove]

how do I do thath

[rich adder]

isnt clear what you're asking here

[cold cove]

I will send you the code for the bullets

https://paste.mod.gg/rtddxcpkkpxr/0]

[rich adder]

so what do you want to do?

[cold cove]

well how can I make the original bullet thath my weapon is refrencing not disapear

is this posible

[rich adder]

are you cloning the original?

[cold cove]

yes

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

this is the weapon code

[rich adder]

objectToSpawn isn't being touched though

its just cloning it

[cold cove]

yeah

and it gets destroyed by the bullet code

[rich adder]

you should be referencing a prefab

not a scene object

[cold cove]

can you explain it or should I gogle it

first time I hear of a prefab

[rich adder]

ideally

drag the bullet in the Project folder, now its a prefab. Remove it from the scene and drag n drop THE BLUE in project folder to the Gameobject field on Weapon

[cold cove]

ok I get it

[rich adder]

Prefabs are templates to objects
I get 500 error but here https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Prefabs.html

[cold cove]

thanks

its agin not working : (

[rich adder]

show what you did

[cold cove]

its getting destroyed

[rich adder]

why didnt you remove this one

[cold cove]

whivh one

[rich adder]

did you read this part

[cold cove]

didnt know I was suposed to my bad

My tracking isnt working

I am gona cry

the bulets arent going the corect way

for

some reason

when I am on one platform its normal on the next one its glitching

[rich adder]

idk but this doesnt seem like should be in the bullet in update
mousePosition=Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);

as it always changes..

[cold cove]

I dont know where to put it

it dosent work when in start

[rich adder]

just pass the direction directly from the shoot

[cold cove]

how?

[rich adder]

var spawnedBullet = Instantiate(objectToSpawn, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
spawnedBullet .GetComponent<bulet>().Shoot(passDirectionHere)

make a new method for Shoot

the shoot script should be the one tracking the mouse

[cold cove]

what is this I am getting mind blown

[rich adder]

this all basic c# stuff mentioned earlier you should probably do.

also you probably don't want to directly move the transform if you plan on using collisions

[cold cove]

future me problem

wait but why am I calling the shoot method agin

[rich adder]

so you can pass values from shoot to your bullet.. there is no reason bullet should be doing any of that

[cold cove]

oh okay

[eternal needle]

it surely will be if you dont understand the code you're writing

[mental rock]

Hi, I'm having an issue trying to make a following camera on my 2D game look decent. Currently, it follows the player successfully; it even has a little smoothing to it so its not locked perfectly onto the player while in motion. Unfortunately, while in motion, the player sprite looks horrendous. It appears to jitter in place.

The sprite I'm using is only 12x32 pixels, which I assume is one of (if not the) reason why this issue is happening. If it is, what should I do? Should I actually make the sprite much larger and then scale it down in the editor?

[cold cove]

why am I having this error
Assets\Scripte\shoot.cs(16,39): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'bullet' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[naive pawn]

so it's pixelart?

[naive pawn]

have you done all the pixelart asset stuff, and are you using a pixelperfect camera?

[mental rock]

Yeah, this little guy right here. As I'm expecting discord's embed to show, it is very small.

[polar acorn]

What is bullet

[naive pawn]

you tried to use something that doesn't exist

[cold cove]

how bullet is the object containg the bulet scipt

[naive pawn]

it's an object?

you tried to use it as a type

it doesn't exist as a type

[cold cove]

I am confused how can I corect this?

[mental rock]

I did try using a pixel perfect camera but it looked even worse, maybe I had settings for it wrong, but it was too staggered. I'm wanting a normal, smooth camera for this pixel platformer demo I'm working on. Do you want me to try record a video of the issue I'm referring to?

(also I'm not sure what you mean by the pixelart asset stuff)

Is it an FAQ I overlooked

[naive pawn]

what are you trying to do? i see you have a prefab named Bullet. are you trying to assign the prefab onto a script?

[hexed nymph]

Yoooo, how do I pause only some elements of the game?

public void Pausar()
{
if (GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("PauseThings"))
{
Time.timeScale = 1f;
}
else
{
Time.timeScale = 0f;
}
IntroAnim();
}

[naive pawn]

filter to point, compression to none, and set pixels per unit appropriately

[cold cove]

I wana acses the sript of the bullet I spawned

[polar acorn]

Show the code where the error is

[cold cove]

the script is also called bulet

[naive pawn]

ok, what is it called

[hexed nymph]

I though this help but it didnpt

[naive pawn]

Time.timeScale applies to everything

[mental rock]

First two are already done - how do I determine what the appropriate pixel per unit is?

[polar acorn]

You will need to create a Boolean that these scripts can read from. If that bool is true, skip any code you don't want to run while paused

[cold cove]

I am trying to give it the mouse position previously found

[naive pawn]

either:

• make your own system to handle pausing, where you set a variable and the stuff that should be paused checks for that to stop running
• make the stuff that shouldn't be paused, use unscaled time instead. but that'll make it not respond to anything else that affects timescale as well

[cold cove]

this is the code
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
Vector2 mousePosition=Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
var spawnedBullet = Instantiate(objectToSpawn, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
spawnedBullet .GetComponent<bullet>().bulet(mousePosition);
}

[polar acorn]

Do you have a class named bullet

[naive pawn]

define what a "unit" is in your game
maybe a tile width or something

your player is 16x32, so maybe ppu would be 16 or 32 depending on if your player should be 1 or 2 units tall

[cold cove]

nope

its a prefab

not a class

[naive pawn]

what component are you trying to get there

[polar acorn]

Then why are you trying to get a script named bullet if you have none

[cold cove]

I have a script bulet inside the prefab bullet

[naive pawn]

where are you updating your camera position?

[naive pawn]

ok so it's named bulet
but you're trying to get a script named bullet

see the issue here?

[rich adder]

🥹

even my example had the wrong spelling but correct class

[polar acorn]

Okay but what does that matter? You're trying to get a component named bullet

[naive pawn]

anyways since you want to access that component, you should use that component as the type for your prefab instead of GameObject or Transform or whatever you have it as now
then you can get the component directly back from Instantiate instead of having to go through GetComponent

[cold cove]

So I swap the first to bulet and the second I gota make a oublic vector?

[naive pawn]

what first and what second here?

we've been talking about a single thing

[cold cove]

<bulet>().Mouseposition(The mouse position vector I found)

[cold cove]

Is this corecct

[naive pawn]

does your script have that function?

[cold cove]

no it dosent I gota change it

[mental rock]

It's in its own script attached to the camera, it was originally in the LateUpdate() method which had its own horrendous-looking jitter to it, so I changed it to FixedUpdate(). While that does look much better, its clear that there is some issue with the pixels of the sprite when the player moves.

[cold cove]

can I just move this one wariable from here to bullets code

[naive pawn]

it should be in LateUpdate

if it's in FixedUpdate it might not be moving every frame

[mental rock]

Yeah it was but it looked even worse than FixedUpdate()

it caused the player sprite to jitter back and forth and blur while doing so

[naive pawn]

(or multiple times each frame, if that's inconsistent then it'll step weirdly)

[rich adder]

track the mousePosition in the Update of shooting , and only use that postion/direction when you spawn the bullet and pass it as shown

no need to track mouse in every bullet spawned, that was the point of that btw

[cold cove]

I am stupid for programing

lol

[rich adder]

you're just trying to Run before learning how to crawl

[cold cove]

It gives me an eror

: (

[mental rock]

Update: It seems the cause of the horrific blur while using LateUpdate() is due to the smoothing effect I've put on the camera. Is it not possible to have parity between LateUpdate() and a slight, smooth "lag" to the camera while maintaining visual quality?

[cold cove]

nvm I am just confused asf

[mental rock]

Without the smoothing effect it looks completely fine but it would be a big shame to have to drop it

[rich adder]

confused about what?

[cold cove]

what is this

it isnt working for some reason

[rich adder]

we're talking riddles here, you have to be specific

we don't have eyes on your pc

[cold cove]

I know

why this aint working

[rich adder]

because you have a compile error

also why is your IDE not configured

I thought you did that

[cold cove]

why do I have one

I did its omething else

[naive pawn]

because you made a mistake

[naive pawn]

it's definitely not configured

[rich adder]

because you copied my example verbatim including a variable that doesn't exist?

[naive pawn]

there'd be a lot more green if it were configured

[rich adder]

and underlined red that Shoot() function

not even using the same capitlization...lord

and why does the one in bulet return an int

this just goes from worse to horrible the more i look

[cold cove]

I know

[rich adder]

a while loop 😬

[cold cove]

I am stupid asf I tried it a bunch of stuff

this last stuff is just despration

[rich adder]

yeah this isn't a guessing thing

you have to be exact with this..this like exact math/science you're dealing with

throwing random stuff at the wall won't work

[cold cove]

swap the while for an if and make it a void function

better?

[rich adder]

thats like 2% of the bigger problem

if is wrong, why put an if there?

if all you're doing is tracking how far it went from your shoot pos then track that in update

mousePosition/targetPos should be a field that gets its value from Shoot Method

[cold cove]

oh so method is just to get position

[rich adder]

the method is just to get value from another script

so you dont have 200 bullets track the mouse

[cold cove]

oh okay so I figured it out thanks

[rich adder]

Vector2.MoveTowards ignores whats between just fyi

your bullet would phase through obstacles/walls

[cold cove]

I will do on colison later

[rich adder]

OnCollision doesn't help

[cold cove]

just one question its saying something something protection level

[rich adder]

transform literally teleports, its not good collision

[cold cove]

on collision2D destroy

[rich adder]

screenshot the error otherwise we can't help

[cold cove]

just move tworwards?

[rich adder]

you made shoot() private

of course it cant be accessed from other scripts

this is partially why a configured IDE is important so you can catch these before hitting save and going into unity..

and the rules #📖┃code-of-conduct or #854851968446365696 forgot which
we shouldnt have to tell you multiple times

wait we literally had it working..
https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1358142843629207622
or did you lie?

[cold cove]

I didnt

thath is the thing

Idk I gota sleep

[rich adder]

🤔

[frail heath]

Tried to make a jumping and walking animation, Walking works but I cant jump anymore: (

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

this is the code

[rich adder]

did you verify the isGrounded condition is met ?

also Animator might be taking control of the transform? idk

[wintry quarry]

if(Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && !isGrounded)```
Looks like you have it set to only be able to jump if you're already NOT grounded

which doesn't seem right to me

[frail heath]

I see what should I change

[wintry quarry]

especially since then you're doing isGrounded = false inside that

[wintry quarry]

what do you think? When should you be able to jump?
When you're grounded?
Or when you're not grounded?

[frail heath]

when im grounded

[wintry quarry]

so make the code reflect that

[rich adder]

! means NOT remember

[frail heath]

oh righttt

[rich adder]

you probably just wanted to keep it for animator.SetBool("isJumping", !isGrounded);

but not when on ground to jump

[wintry quarry]

Secondarily:

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        isGrounded = true;```
This isn't the most robust grounded check, you may run into problems in the future with this

[rich adder]

look into Raycast and alike

maybe boxcast so its wider.. ? depends on you want the shape to be ideally to match bottom half of your collider

[frail heath]

I see thank you very much! this is my first platformer trying top learn as much as possible

[grand snow]

"MonoBehaviour" is what you want to make

[viscid girder]

oh just fingured it out 😭

thanks though :)))

[grand snow]

👍

[livid arch]

does this make sense? im coming from python so im not sure if this is how it works, it says == isnt valid

 if (GameObject.GetComponent.Collider.OnCollisionEnter(Collision)) == True;
            {
                 playerBody_Ragdoll.AddForce(Vector3.up * playerJumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
            }```

[rich adder]

this is hella wrong

also you should configure your IDE

saw your ide was def not configured

[livid arch]

ide?

[rich adder]

yeah your code editor

VSCode

[livid arch]

i mean i kinda just installed it and got it working lol

[rich adder]

its not working correctly

it should've underlined all that

[livid arch]

i think theres a unity debugger extension

[rich adder]

nope not configured

it would not show the entire path

colors are off

and at the bottom it would say Project: Assembly-CSharp

[acoustic sequoia]

can someone help me this something i never thought would be so difficult lol
I'm trying to draw a rectangle on a grid with mouse dragging.

It's working.. but it's inverted when im dragging in a negative direction.
so i want to flip the start and end positions of the mouse drag if it's moving in a negitive direction.. how to do this seems really difficulkt.

[rich adder]

which i bet doesnt

[wintry quarry]

after you get your IDE configured go look at code examples for collision detection, this is way off

[livid arch]

alright

[rich adder]

here is what to look for

[livid arch]

how do i do so?

[wintry quarry]

!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

[rich adder]

if you verified all the steps above in the link

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code#if-you-are-experiencing-issues

[livid arch]

ah ok

[livid arch]

im on linux so i need to find a different one

[rich adder]

I use Mint, the instructions are exactly the same

as long as you didnt install them using some type of self-contained install such as Flatpak

[livid arch]

ah thats why it didnt work? i had to install snap

[rich adder]

its possible. From my experience those usually create self-contained installs and have a hard time connecting to other applications

its always best to use apt get when possible or .deb (if you're ubuntu,debain mint etc.)

.rpm for fedora and such
https://code.visualstudio.com/download

also one of the important steps is having the .NET SDK and the Unity Package Visual Studio Editor package

[verbal dome]

Get the minimum and maximum X and Y coordinates of the start and end vectors

For example cs Vector2 min = new Vector2(Mathf.Min(start.x, end.x), Mathf.Min(start.y, end.y)); Vector2 max = new Vector2(Mathf.Max(start.x, end.x), Mathf.Max(start.y, end.y);

Oh I just learned that Vector2.Min/Max exists too, so you can also do: cs Vector2 min = Vector2.Min(start, end); Vector2 max = Vector2.Max(start, end);

[livid arch]

how do i get it to find my vs code? i cant select it using the browse option as it isnt an executable from what i know

[livid arch]

something like this?

[wintry quarry]

You have an error - probably because you put a semicolon at the end of that first line improperly

[livid arch]

nah its this

[verbal dome]

Just remove that semicolon

[livid arch]

oh

it changes the error

[verbal dome]

You put it inside another method, don't do that

void Method()
{
  void LocalMethod()
  {
    
  }
}```

[wintry quarry]

that's not an error it's a warning, but it's an important one

[livid arch]

why not?

[verbal dome]

Unity won't find it that way

[livid arch]

i move a subset of the movement script inside the movement

ah,

[wintry quarry]

OnCollisionEnter is a totally separate thing it's not part of your movement function

it needs to be its own function

[livid arch]

is this not right? i feel real dumb rn

[wintry quarry]

now you put it outside the class

it needs to go inside the class, not in any other functions

// You put it here. Bad.
void FunctionWrong() {

}

class MyClass {
  void Function1() {

  }

  void Function2() {

  }
}```

[livid arch]

it was this extra bracket at the top

[wintry quarry]

yes you have to be careful with your brackets, they are what define the boundaries of the various code elements (classes, methods/functions, if statements, etc)

[livid arch]

ya

im guessing it cant find my playerRagdoll_body? (using screenshots cause i feel like knowing the code lines are important)

[wintry quarry]

playerBody_Ragdoll is null, yes. You need to make sure you've assigned it a value before you use it.

It's not about "it can't find it". It doesn't try to find anything automatically. You have to give your reference variables a value either by assigning them in code or in the inspector.

[livid arch]

a value? but its an object, do i give it a str or set it to true lol

[wintry quarry]

No.

Like I said

assign it in the inspector

or in your code to whatever type of value it is

"an object" is kinda meaningless. Everything in C# is an object

do you mean GameObject?

I think it's a Rigidbody most likely based on the context here, not a GameObject

The most straightforward way to assign values to your references in Unity is through the inspector. I would stick with that for now.

[livid arch]

ohhh, yea its a rigidbody

well, its a rig i wanna put on a rigidbody

rigid body is more of the collision

i forget i cant "attach" scripts like in godot they need to reference the object specifically i think

oh i set it to private? maybe if i make it public

[wintry quarry]

if you make it public or if you mark it with [SerializeField] then you can assign it in the inspector

[livid arch]

ohhh i get it now

neat,

[wintry quarry]

perfect

[livid arch]

can i export a procedural texture from blender to unity?

[teal viper]

If you bake it, sure.

[livid arch]

aww,,, i was hoping i could just export in its base format

[teal viper]

There is nothing to export. "A procedural texture" would just be some shader code running and generating at runtime.

And you can't export shaders between blender and unity(or any other programs really).

[livid arch]

then ig id have to remake it

[lilac fractal]

I downloaded an asset pack that has both tiles and objects. The tiles were fine and I managed to put them into a TileMap, but the objects are all different sizes

Is there an easy way to get these into unique sprites?

And then once I have them in unique sprites, what's the way to use them as such? Do I just layer them on top?

[rich adder]

not a code question

set the image to Multiple and slice it

https://christopherhilton88.medium.com/how-to-slice-up-a-spritesheet-in-unity-7caf262acad8

[lilac fractal]

ah fair point

yeah that was my first attempt but since they're different sizes it slices them up poorly

[rich adder]

use autoslice and it tries its best then you need readjusting, the link I sent addresses that

[bronze thunder]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm feeling real stupid. I'm using unity 6 with Visual Studio 2022 on Windows, and it seems like when I edit a script, it updates in the display window in unity, but I have to close the editor then launch it again to get it to update the behavior when I press play. is this intended? Or is there something im likely doing wrong?

[verbal dome]

Perhaps you have "auto refresh" disabled in the preferences?

You need to turn it on or manually refresh withi Ctrl + R

[bronze thunder]

Ah seems like auto refresh was off. Thanks!

[thorn holly]

So I made a pretty basic chunk loading system that feels unnecessary to run on the main thread…I check if the player moves to a different chunk in update, and if they did, calls a method to delete far away chunks and make new ones. Should I make chunk drawing method async/await? run on a different thread? What’s the best move here

[teal viper]

It depends what it involves. If you can afford to move it to a background thread it would be a good idea to do

Alternatively make it async on the main thread.

[thorn holly]

So I’m not entirely sure how to do that in unity I’ve read some stuff about unity not being thread safe