💻┃code-beginner

[grand snow]

You can also use different layers and make the battle stuff only draw with some other camera

If player data is kept elsewhere then it would be safe to let the player object be destroyed and remade later

[lapis sentinel]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://developers.meta.com/horizon/downloads/package/meta-voice-sdk/&ved=2ahUKEwimtMaT-oKNAxX9R2wGHbo6C-sQFnoECBsQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw1oSzzmsDzxbbJWpHGtiYlS

ok im struggling to understand and use this package. The issue is Meta doccumentation is only in oculus SDK while im working on using Meta XR SDK both are different but provide the same feature and value. i cant use oculus because i dont have the gear that utilize it. Soo im struggling to find the directory name and namespace associated with the directory

[wintry quarry]

it's linked on that page:> https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/meta-voice-sdk-immersive-voice-commands-264555

still not sure what you mean by "directory" though

do you mean "package"?

[lapis sentinel]

yeah

package

the using part in every unity c#

😅

[naive pawn]

that's a namespace

[wintry quarry]

nope those are namespaces

not packages

[grand snow]

c# basics time i think

[naive pawn]

packages can define namespaces

[lapis sentinel]

pls doo im confused right now

[hexed terrace]

why you asking a non-code question in a code channel? 😄

[slender nymph]

not a code question. but double click your canvas to focus it, it's likely a screen space overlay so it won't be positioned in world space

[grand snow]

using a name space lets you do:

using UnityEngine;

Debug.Log("foo"):

Otherwise you can do UnityEngine.Debug.Log("bar");

[slender nymph]

or is this question actually about the lighting and not the lack of canvas visible in scene view? 🤔 (even still, it's not a code question)

[grand snow]

🌩️

#archived-lighting <--

[hexed terrace]

#archived-lighting

delete the question from here too - so you don't get told off for cross posting

[lapis sentinel]

using Meta.WitAi;

public Wit AppResponder;

so if i write like this ,what does the Wit stand for?

[slender nymph]

that would be a type. if you don't know what types are, then stop what you are doing and start with the beginner courses pinned in this channel.

[torn verge]

oooooo might do that then

[grand snow]

You can also just do SetActive(false)

many ways to hide something or restrict what a camera can see

[twin pivot]

im trying to use Mathf.Lerp to have a npc follow the player in a vector 2 format but im not sure on how id use the time parameter

would i just slowly increase the time by 0.1 until the npc reaches the destination and then reset it to 0?

[rich adder]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/

[polar acorn]

It's the percentage between the two given values you want it to be

[twin pivot]

thank you

[slender nymph]

it would probably be more appropriate to use MoveTowards rather than Lerp for that

[teal viper]

Also, if you do end up using lerp, you should probably do Vector2.Lerp and not the Math one.

[keen cargo]

hey yall, back again with another code logic question

so I have three scripts:
GameManager, which has references for the monster and player
RoomManager, which has a reference to a Room object - this generates a random room for the player and monster to teleport to
Room, which stores 3 transform values - 2 for the player and monster's teleport locations

currently, RoomManager has the Teleport() function, which teleports the player and the monster between rooms, however it needs a reference to the player and monster (which it doesn't right now)

I had an idea of maybe moving this function to GameManager, since it'd probably make more sense there - however then i'd need to reference the Room object from RoomManager, which I feel makes the object call quite verbose

This is the script I have in RoomManager right now, note that player and monster aren't referenced, so this is non-functional at the moment

public void Teleport(GameObject player, GameObject monster)
{
    SaveOffset(player, monster);    
    playerRb.MovePosition(currentRoom.playerSpawn.position);
        
    float distance = offset.magnitude;
    float monsterSpeed = monster.GetComponent<Monster>().speed;
    float waitTime = distance / monsterSpeed;
    StartCoroutine(DelayingMonsterTeleport(monster, currentRoom.monsterSpawn.position, waitTime));
}

specifically at the Coroutine with currentRoom, I think the call would extend to something like RoomManager.instance.currentRoom.monsterSpawn.position

would there be a better approach than this? Perhaps using observer pattern again?

[wintry quarry]

what causes the teleportation to happen

[keen cargo]

Teleportation is currently called from the RoomManager script

the flow goes like:

player enters a door -> gamemanager says "ok, roommanager can you teleport them, and then generate a room for them as well" -> roommanager generates a room, calls teleport

public void TriggerEvent(Type trigger)
{
    switch (trigger)
    {
        case Type.Die:
            monster.KillPlayer();
            player.Die();
            break;
        case Type.StartLevel:
            monster.StartMonster();
            // Roommanager.instance.generateRoom();
            //generateRoom(false);
            break;
        case Type.NextLevel:
            //generateRoom(true);
            break;
        case Type.PreviousLevel:
            //generateRoom(false);
            break;
        case Type.ResetLevel:
            player.ResetPlayer();
            //restartRoom();
            break;
        case Type.WinGame:
            SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
            break;
}

This is part of the gamemanager

I'd be okay with referencing the player and monster again, just to keep Teleport in RoomManager, but just wanted to ask if there's probably a better way to do this

[twin pivot]

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

the conditions arent getting triggered for some reason

[polar acorn]

How about logging both values and the distance between them, and seeing if they're what you expect?

[twin pivot]

i just did that actually

looks like the coroutine is just not getting triggered for some reason

wait no it is

[rich adder]

why did you put a constant value for third param?

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector2.MoveTowards.html

[twin pivot]

i thought it was the max distance it could stray away from the position it was going to

[rich adder]

also ur not assigning that v3 movetowards return value to anything

[twin pivot]

oh i see

[twin pivot]

im guessing i misunderstood its role?

[rich adder]

I think max delta is fine to be constant actually but ig needs time.deltaTime to keep it so

[twin pivot]

this is what i ended up with but it doesnt seem to be working
https://paste.mod.gg/pquanijzcqpz/0

[rich adder]

did Debug.Log print ?

[twin pivot]

yes

[rich adder]

how many times? multiple times?

[twin pivot]

ignore the last error, its supposed to be there

[rich adder]

I can't tell how many times .. 0.4 seems wrong as start tho no?

[twin pivot]

once, but i think i know what i did wrong now

i start the coroutine using a script in the copy of the text box

and that gets killed

[rich adder]

huh this moving code is in a textbox script?

btw you probably want some type of a star here or third party 2d navmesh. this will take the most direct route ignoring walls or water

[twin pivot]

the moving code is in the npc manager script but i am starting the coroutine in a textbox script

[twin pivot]

is there a manual for this I can look at? (this is my second game on unity)

[rich adder]

There are pre-made solutions. Like the a* project by aaron berg or https://github.com/h8man/NavMeshPlus

[olive axle]

Does anyone have a good guide on making hud elements? I just want to see a number while moving?

[nimble apex]

i dont know whether im overdoing this, or got some unnecessary steps

currently i have a setup to initialize my "player" gameobject using SO, my game is pure idle + farming + social game, as i said
so theres no battles, my characters dont even need "attributes"

its guaranteed that 1 character will only have 1 dedicated animation set

and because each characters will have different hierachy like these + skinned mesh renderer

i will need to make prefab to each of them, otherwise its too difficult to use SO to swap/populate every components/materials/textures

my question is, do SO really needed here

i already needed a prefab for each of the characters anyway.....

one of the possible benefits, i think its multiplayer, if i stored prefab under a SO

because in my game, im allowing multiple players to choose same characters

i think its still usable

i will have different skin(avatar/forms) of characters, which is swapping out meshes , and maybe animation sets

[hollow trout]

is it bad practice to have public static bool for player states such as inAttackAnimation and isRolling even if its for a player script and there is only one player?

[nimble apex]

so at the end it might be

- ID
- original character prefab
- List: possible skins
- List: possible animation controllers```

[sour fulcrum]

Why do you want them to be static?

[hollow trout]

easier to implement multiple states and easier to modify

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-textmesh-pro

[twin pivot]

tmp(text mesh pro) is the absolute king when working with ui

[wet pivot]

Hello again yall 😅

[naive pawn]

why would that be different from nonstatic fields?

[naive pawn]

https://nohello.net , just open with your question

[wet pivot]

I disagree with this sentiment

[naive pawn]

it just causes more noise, you can always put pleasantries in your actual question message

[wet pivot]

Seeing some weird behavior from my code...

Vector3 wallNormal = wallRight ? rightWallHit.normal : leftWallHit.normal; Vector3 wallForward = Vector3.Cross(wallNormal, transform.up); rb.AddForce(wallForward * wallRunForce, ForceMode.Force); Debug.DrawRay(pm.transform.position, wallForward * 500, Color.green, 10f);

the wallForward vector works for applying force to my character, but it is not working for the draw ray

[naive pawn]

wdym by "not working"? is it not showing up, or is it showing up in the wrong place?

[wet pivot]

I'm hoping to use this vector to rotate my character in the direction of the wall forward, but that's not working either.

Does not show up at all, character doesn't rotate either when I do this
playerObject.forward = Vector3.Slerp(playerObject.forward, wallForward, Time.deltaTime * 10f);

[naive pawn]

this in Update?

[wet pivot]

it's 3 levels down in nested functions but the top level function is running in update

[hollow trout]

scriptname.property for all states to set/get

[naive pawn]

i feel like you'd be better off with a singleton for that

[naive pawn]

have you tried logging all the relevant values?

[wet pivot]

ah its returning 0,0,0

[olive axle]

Forgot to say thanks. This guide helped a lot

[naive pawn]

!collab, and don't crosspost

[eternal falcon]

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[green karma]

Guys I tried downloading visual studio 6 but Microsoft Visual Studio community 2022 is giving a error "Download Failed: Validation Failed"
I tried searching online and it said to run unity with administrator but it didn't work. Also tried installing manually but it won't download and stays at 0-kbs

[teal viper]

What visual studio 6??

And VS 2022 giving download failed errors??

[naive pawn]

not a code issue, #💻┃unity-talk

[nimble apex]

u guys think it is forgivable to do such thing in a scriptable object🤣

    [field: SerializeField] public List<int> VariantIndex { get; private set; }
    [field: SerializeField] public List<Material> OtherMaterial { get; private set; }

    //use this instead of the key/value list
    public Dictionary<int, Material> MaterialVariations()
    {
        Dictionary<int , Material> temp = new();
        
        for (int i = 0; i < VariantIndex.Count; i++)
        {
            temp.Add(VariantIndex[i],OtherMaterial[i]);
        }
        
        return temp;
    }```

it worked tho...... welp desperate moments with desperate measures

[grand snow]

you should give the dictionary a start capacity as you know how big it will be
and there is no guarantee this wont fail on creation if you put duplicate "keys"

anyway plenty of "serializable dictionaries" exist online

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.dictionary-2.-ctor?view=net-9.0#system-collections-generic-dictionary-2-ctor(system-int32)

int count = VariantIndex.Count < OtherMaterial.Count ? VariantIndex.Count : OtherMaterial.Count;
Dictionary<int, Material> temp = new Dictionary<int, Material>(count);
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
    temp.Add(VariantIndex[i],OtherMaterial[i]);
return temp;```

[nimble apex]

ty i will look at this first

[naive pawn]

you should at least use a list of structs to guarantee that keys and values match up (and so they're beside each other)

or just go for the serializeddictionary plugin

[faint tulip]

what should i do if i want my character to face a certain direction when it spawns on a location>??

i rotate its position in the scene but it keeps facing north than what i put him in the scene

[wooden star]

Ive wrote this code to make the camera follow the player but it does not follow the player and the camera falls indefinetly on the z axis

[naive pawn]

well how are you doing the spawning? do the rotation there, rather than in the scene

[nimble apex]

ty guys 👍 at the end i made up my minds and use a plugin lol

im not doing any tests or exams in class, im making games, so i gonna use what asset stores already have

[naive pawn]

you're setting targetPosition as your own position instead of target's position

also for future reference, !code

[eternal falcon]

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[wooden star]

how do i fix that

[naive pawn]

use target's position instead of your own position

[wooden star]

nvm

i fixed it

[naive pawn]

yeah it's really straightforward

[wooden star]

i didnt think it would work but it did

im not very familiar with the syntax

[naive pawn]

then check out beginner c# resources in

[faint tulip]

ohhh thank you

[wooden star]

where can I learn through videos because i strugle to learn through reading

[naive pawn]

don't have any recommendations, in general text articles will be easier to skim through, backtrack, or search content

[frigid sequoia]

Can I make an int property have a range of it only having numbers from 0-8 or do I need an enum for that? Cause feels kinda silly using an enum for actual numbers lol

[slender nymph]

You can put the range attribute on its backing field if you mean for the inspector. if you want to clamp it to that range in the actual code, then just clamp it in the setter

[frigid sequoia]

It would be better if it always remains within the range, since it's basically an id than can never go beyond 8, but I guess the range attribute would do

[slender nymph]

then clamp it in the setter like i said

but use the range attribute too so that the backing field is restricted to that range for the inspector

if clamping via the setter, I would personally log a warning if an attempt to set it outside of that range occurs

[frigid sequoia]

Shouldn't be the case that I try to change it in runtime, I think

[slender nymph]

sure, but just in case you do the warning would be useful

[cosmic dagger]

You still need to clamp it because the Range attribute only affects the inspector value, not when set in code . . .

[frigid sequoia]

It should be never set in code, I am just REALLY having a headache on how to implement what I am doing, since you have 8 commands (with ids 1-8). These are on a list that is never touched, but then I have another list for active commands, player can add a command to this list, and it would add the lowest id number avaliable to the list, but they can also remove ANY at any time from the list, basically letting to an unorganized list where you could have like 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6 and the items having a different a Index on the list than id is fucking my mind lol

[slender nymph]

at this point it is really starting to sound like an enum might be more appropriate. if these "ids" are supposed to represent specific commands then it really should be an enum. that's what enums are, ints with labels

[tulip nexus]

i know that this isnt the right channel but i cant find one fitting for my question, would it be possible to change the tilling value for all new materials? so instead of 1 its 0.3

so when a new material is created in any way it has 0.3 by 0.3 on by default

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel.
#🔎┃find-a-channel

[kindred iron]

Why doesnt it work? here is the code:

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int money;

    [SerializeField] private AudioSource audioSource;
    private Animator animator;

    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

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

    public void Click()
    {
        money++;
        animator.Play("SlimeClickAnimation");
        Debug.Log("Clicked");
        if (audioSource.isPlaying == false)
        {
            audioSource.Play();
        }
    }
}

[slender nymph]

have you confirmed the button actually works?

[kindred iron]

wdym

[slender nymph]

i mean exactly what i said

[kindred iron]

it should work

[slender nymph]

have you done literally anything at all to confirm it does

[polar acorn]

Is the button responding to the mouse, like changing colors on click or anything

[kindred iron]

no it doesnt, but why? it should work

[polar acorn]

Do you have an event system in your scene

[slender nymph]

well with your current setup it wouldn't change colors on click because it has no target graphic

[kindred iron]

no

[polar acorn]

Ah, right, good call. That would also mean nothing that's a raycast target either

[kindred iron]

should i make like collider 2d

[polar acorn]

So, add one, and set the target graphic for your button to the image you want to actually click on

[kindred iron]

how can i add?

oh its component

ok i added

[polar acorn]

Create -> UI -> Event system

[kindred iron]

i added then?

what does even event system

[polar acorn]

It allows you to click on UI elements

[kindred iron]

but it still doesnt work

[polar acorn]

Did you do the second step

[kindred iron]

but normally we can click

[polar acorn]

And assign a target graphic to the button

[polar acorn]

Not without an event system you cant

[kindred iron]

i did

[polar acorn]

It gets created when you first create any UI object, so don't delete it

[kindred iron]

oh

[slender nymph]

your button is also not on a canvas

[polar acorn]

Yes now you have an event system. Did you set a target graphic in the button yet

[kindred iron]

oh yeah u are right

[kindred iron]

i sent a photo

i guess i did

[polar acorn]

Where? The only screenshot of your button shows it not set

[slender nymph]

wait why is the event system component attached to the button?

there is just so much wrong here

and none of it is code related

[kindred iron]

where should i attach it then?

[slender nymph]

you should do what digi suggested and create it separately from the Create menu

[polar acorn]

It should be an object that gets created when you first add any UI elements. But also since you don't seem to have made any that's why you don't have it. They would also come with a canvas

[kindred iron]

when i add that, it automaticly adds the event system to the slimeclick gameobject

[kindred iron]

also, do i have to create a Canvas first of all?

[polar acorn]

No, it doesn't

[kindred iron]

it does

[polar acorn]

Did you remove the ones from the object before attempting to add a new one?

[kindred iron]

ok, i deleted the event system from the game object which is called SlimeClick

now it does

[polar acorn]

Assuming you want to use any UI elements at all, they must be on a canvas yes

You can only have one event system. It won't create one if it already exists in the scene

[frigid sequoia]

Probably, maybe I should label them with leters

[slender nymph]

or you use descriptive names in an enum instead of cryptic letters and numbers

[frigid sequoia]

There is nothing to be descriptive there, they can be many different things

The idea is that the player can make these do and look whatever they want to, so... it's not like I can give them a name that makes sense

[slender nymph]

in that case you need to actually be descriptive about wtf you are trying to accomplish so that a proper solution can be suggested because at this point it is impossible to tell what the actual fuck you are doing since you refuse to actually describe it

[frigid sequoia]

Well, picture this: right side UI shows a list of commands, you can add up to 8, these commands have different things you can do and you are meant to be able to change how they look (picture them sorta like WoW macros). You can add them 1 by 1 (it would automatically add the lowest id that is not yet active as the last one on the list and UI). You can remove any of them at any time. This right UI is the part where you configure what these do, but you actually have to use them on the bottom UI.

Bottom UI would have to update to the order of the right UI, so if you have a list of Ids 2, 6, 4 on the right, the buttons showing on the bottom should be those corresponding to those commands and be on that same order. The Id reference must hold what the heck those specific commands are meant to do.

And to make this even more confusing, I am also adding like extra funcions to the commands that basically is a list of commands inside a command that would be executed on that order alongside it (they use the same script, but are tagged as id 0, so you can know they are not the main ones). So for example if the command says "Move X to Y", you can have 2 functions inside of it also saying "Move Y to Z" and "Attack Z" and it would be executed on that order with a single buttom press.

That's the idea, how to make that work is still to solve for me lol

[floral wren]

Are you doing for runtime purpose or edition purpose ?

[slender nymph]

it sounds like all you need is two arrays, you don't need this ambiguous "id" variable. when something changes in the "right side UI" you just update both arrays

[frigid sequoia]

Runtime

[frigid sequoia]

Aren't arrays unordered?

[slender nymph]

what? no, arrays are fixed size and are "ordered" in the way you specify since you put things into specific indices

[kindred iron]

Why does the animation just play 1 time?

public void Click()
{
    money++;
    animator.Play("SlimeClickAnimation");
    
    if (audioSource.isPlaying == false)
    {
        audioSource.Play();
    }
}

[sharp bloom]

Is this a bad practice?

// "piece" script
    void LateUpdate()
    {
        gm.gameGrid.gameHexes[currentPosition].setPieceOnHex(this);
    }

// "tile" script 
void Update()
    {
        pieceOnHex = null;
    }

I want to track which "pieces" are on which tiles. This way each of my tiles update instantly to "null" whenever there are no piece on it.
But somehow this feels a bit...hacky?

[floral wren]

You could implement a MVVM layer to bind your data reducing the needs to manually keep your UI refreshed. (Making it trivial to sync multiple UI as well)

[wintry quarry]

hoiw many times do you expect it to play?

[wintry quarry]

yes this is a bad practice

[kindred iron]

when i click

[wintry quarry]

Set it when the piece goes on the hex. and remove it when it is removed. No need to do something every frame.

[wintry quarry]

Start debugging your code. Add Debug.Log there to make sure the code is running when you expect.

[frigid sequoia]

A what?????

[kindred iron]

its running, the slime does increase

[sharp bloom]

But I wonder how can I track that. I don't want to use any physics based solution like OnCollisionExit, etc.

[wintry quarry]

Why would you need physics?
You would do it when you're setting currentPosition

[floral wren]

https://www.google.com/search?q=mvvm&oq=mvvm&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIKCAUQLhiABBjlBDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBBzc5OWowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[pastel dome]

https://paste.ofcode.org/MPkDFK7AELcJnWhMm4YsS

why does it always say its null

i put the slider in the box

[slender nymph]

what is "it" in this context

[wintry quarry]

why does what say what is null?

[pastel dome]

it is the debug console

[wintry quarry]

what is?

show us

[frigid sequoia]

That's... not really saying much, just giving it a presumptuous name...

[slender nymph]

if only there were links in the search results that explain the architecture and how it works

[wintry quarry]

you're looking at the wrong object

as the log says, it's the object called "Idle" where it's not assigned.

[pastel dome]

so make it look in children?

[wintry quarry]

huh?

[pastel dome]

oh

[slender nymph]

i'm just curious why you put the gameobject's name in your log if you didn't plan on actually looking at that part of the log

[floral wren]

I wont teach you what it is, I simply named something that could be really useful so you can interest yourself to it.

[pastel dome]

i didnt realize it cus i was working on gettting the spider working not the dummy

its a soft lock system that id s targets

[frigid sequoia]

As far as I have read this is basically what I am already trying to do?

[sharp bloom]

It's being also set up in Update() as

currentPosition = gm.gameGrid.gameGrid.WorldToCell(transform.position);

Not sure how can I do that without running that every frame

[frigid sequoia]

Like it's just a type of workflow

[pastel dome]

im not much of a coder just trying to get this working for my class

[wintry quarry]

there is no reason to do that in update. Where do you change the position?

[sharp bloom]

Currently nowhere, I just tested it by manually dragging the gameobjects

[wintry quarry]

You should basically do this:

public void SetPosition(Vector3Int newPosition) {
  var oldPosition = currentPosition;
  gm.gameGrid.gameHexes[oldPosition].setPieceOnHex(null); // set old position to null - we're removing ourselves
  currentPosition = newPosition;
  gm.gameGrid.gameHexes[currentPosition].setPieceOnHex(this); // assign ourselves to the new position
  // move physically

  transform.position = gm.gameGrid.gameGrid.CellToWorld(transform.newPosition);
}```

Then you only move by calling SetPosition

now everything works

[sharp bloom]

Ah that should work, ty

[tribal fulcrum]

hello, i need help with this project. im making a plinko game rn and i want an animation to play when the ball hits a peg. currently the peg and animation arent connected to each other and idk how to go about this

[wintry quarry]

what kind of animation? On what object?

[rich adder]

Uhhh Is this like a bug or something? 🤔

i tried both .text = and .SetText restarted unity.. same result

[naive pawn]

i mean if not in your own code, maybe the canvas isn't rerendering or smth? idk, try #📲┃ui-ux

[rich adder]

also what is going on with that null ref on clicking the text lol i have no idea

[rich adder]

ohh okay I will try there ig.. thought something is going on with code cause my Connected text works fine

was thinking also might had to do with something with Events / Async

[naive pawn]

🤔 the repeated clicking on the text input xxxx was trying to resubmit, right? what if you disable and reenable it?

[rich adder]

no there is no logic on the clicking thats why its sus that is doing that.. the only interaction is pressing enter in the TMP Input field that sumbits the text to a server, then server responds fine as seen in the inspector but the canvas wont react until I touch the inspector and modify the text again..

here is code for context

  private string messages;
    void OnEnable()
    {
        inputText.onSubmit.AddListener(InputTextSubmit);
        gameHubController.OnConnected += OnConnected;
        gameHubController.OnMessageReceive += OnMessageReceive;
        connectedText.text = "disconnected";
    }
    private void OnMessageReceive(string msg)
    {
        messages += msg;
        messages += Environment.NewLine;
        messagesText.SetText(messages);
    }```

[naive pawn]

i mean clicking in the inspector

was it just clicking or did you press enter?

[rich adder]

oh I did not press enter at all

[naive pawn]

oh

https://discussions.unity.com/t/textmeshpro-settext-method-doesnt-set-text-properly/779079/4
anyways seems like .text = is the.. "correct" way?

[rich adder]

I tried both

I used SetText cause .text wasn't working thinking maybe was event issue but no, it works fine for the connectedText

[naive pawn]

maybe need to mark something dirty

[naive pawn]

when is OnMessageReceived called? is it perhaps not on the main thread?

[rich adder]

yeah thats what I was thinking tbh..I am using async for that

[lost haven]

Simple question. Im trying to get input for My game. Input needs to switch camera 1 to 2 after pressing a certain key. Whats The simplest code for that

[rich adder]

 protected async Awaitable InitHubAsync()
    {
        HubConnect();

        // Handle incoming messages
        hubConnection.On
        <string, string>("ReceiveMessage", (user, message) =>
        {
            var mesg = $"user: {user} \n message: {message}";
            Debug.Log(mesg);
            OnMessageReceive?.Invoke(mesg);
        });

        try
        {
            await hubConnection.StartAsync();
            isConnected = true;
            OnConnected?.Invoke(isConnected);
            Debug.Log("Connected..");
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Debug.Log($"Connection error: {ex.Message}");
        }
    }```

[naive pawn]

seems like you can check for that
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26452609/find-out-if-im-on-the-unity-thread

idk about async stuff, can't help with that, sorry lol

[rich adder]

This is the only thing thats different so I'm gonna take your suggestion this is probably to do with threads, its weird cause it told me that Debug.Log can't be called on non-main thread..until i used Awaitable (it used to be Task)

[naive pawn]

if the thread thing turns out to be the issue, you could probably just move messagesText = messages; to Update

[ripe shard]

CinemachineCamera camA;
CinemachineCamera camB;
bool isB;
private void Update() {
  if (Keyboard.current.spaceKey.wasPressedThisFrame){
    isB = !isB
    camB.Priority = isB ? 1 : 0;
    camA.Priority = isB ? 0 : 1;
  }
}

[naive pawn]

could make it "simpler"

CinemachineCamera camA;
CinemachineCamera camB;
private void Update() {
  if (Keyboard.current.spaceKey.wasPressedThisFrame){
    camA.Priority = camA.Priority == 0 ? 1 : 0;
    camB.Priority = camA.Priority == 0 ? 1 : 0;
  }
}

[lost haven]

Is that simpliest?

[naive pawn]

probably not

[lost haven]

I mean for me it seems like a simple as frick thing to do

[ripe shard]

simplest is meaningless, use the one you understand

[naive pawn]

but really "simple" can mean a lot of things yeah

[ripe shard]

also this is just the code, it makes assumptions about the scene config

[lost haven]

Yeah i know, for me The code im thinking would Be just like "If you press this The camera changes and If you press it again The camera would change to original"

But im just a newbie so : D

[ripe shard]

i think the correct pattern here is to capture the notion of this toggle state in a variable and apply it to whatever you want that does the switching

any trickery that eliminates this dedicated variable is, in my book, less simple, harder to understand and more prone to breaking.

[rich adder]

so you nudged me in the right direction it seems

[naive pawn]

my personal definition of "simple" is short ```cs
CinemachineCamera a,b;void Update(){if(Keyboard.current.spaceKey.wasPressedThisFrame)b.Priority=1-(a.Priority=1-a.Priority);}

[ripe shard]

a code golfers definition

[marble pollen]

I have this game that I'm making for an assignment due tonight (i procrastinated too hard whoops) - Its a top down 2D tile-based movement game where you can push around some crates, activate switches with those crates to open gates, step on portals and teleport to them later, and pick up items which increase the total moves you have per level. I have all of those things except the crates working properly and i would hugely appreciate some help with it. Right now, I have them being pushed just fine but I would like to only allow one to be pushed at a time, which I am seriously struggling to implement. I have a really screwed up movement system but I dont have time to make a better one and I'm kind of freaking out about it

[rich adder]

gotta show setup + !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[marble pollen]

for eample, the walls, rather than having physical colliders, have triggers which interact with the player's hitbox which is + shaped. These triggers prevent the player from making a move into a wall. For the crates, I move them around using normal colliders but am trying to make them do basically the same thing as the walls. To try and achieve this, I've made 4 child objects for each crate which also sit around it in a + shape so it knows which direction things are in, and i'm trying to make it so that when it triggers against another crate AND the player object on the opposite side it prevents the player from moving towards the crate and therefore pushing more than one

its jacked up

[marble pollen]

will do

https://paste.ofcode.org/3bX9b7cMyVYKZpfSgCuFSWd

there's the player movement script

https://paste.ofcode.org/qFGkKstnzbY53pm5geURcc

thats the main crate controller

https://paste.ofcode.org/mnXNQZ74gm69YApbSDPzHH

and thats an example of one of the crate children (this one is on the right side, so theres 3 more for the 3 other sides)

its a really messed up setup but like I said I do not feel like I have the time to make a better one since I still have to do level design and some menus

[rich adder]

could you make video of the problem?
Also what exactly is the reason to make walls triggers

[marble pollen]

I made the walls triggers because I'm using a tile based movement system so i didnt want the player to be able to move towards them and then be off-center

in hindsight i understand this was dumb but i dont have the time to fix it

[rich adder]

off center ?

[marble pollen]

yeah it's a tile based movement thing so I dont want the player to be off of the center of the tile

[rich adder]

I dont see how trigger vs not would change any of that

[marble pollen]

the trigger is preventing the player from making a move towards the wall in the first place rather than having them bounce off the wall and then not be in the center of the tile

[rich adder]

ohh rigidbody collision you mean

[marble pollen]

yeah

in any case the walls work fine so janky system or not im not worried about that

[rich adder]

but now you have the same problem to solve with moving boxes

[marble pollen]

what I'm trying to do is make it so when triggers attached to the crates detect a crate on one side of it and a player on the other side, it basically tells the player that theres a wall there so it cant move into that tile

essentially preventing the player from making a move to push multiple crates

when its just a single crate the pushing mechanics work fine and the crates also detect walls just fine

this is literally my second time making anything in unity so everything is like weird LMAO im sorry

[rich adder]

might need to look into using the other box to push the box infront of it

[noble needle]

hey guys, do I need to run the AddEventListener only once if I want some functino to be run when some event happens?

[rich adder]

AddListener is used to subscribe / listen to an event

[noble needle]

nvm I just realised something, oops

[paper sable]

hey, im making a player movement script and for some reason whenever i start jumping while moving around, if i stop pressing the WASD keys but still hold the jump key, my rigidbody continues to move in the direction i was going initially, kinda like a bunny hop. does anyone know why this might happen? this is the code that handles jumping. the HandleJumping method is being called in FixedUpdate

private void Awake()
{
        input = new InputActions();

        input.Player.Jump.performed += ctx => isJumping = true;
        input.Player.Jump.canceled += ctx => isJumping = false;

        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        rb.freezeRotation = true;

        ResetJump();
}
private void HandleJumping()
{
        if (isJumping && readyToJump && grounded)
        {
            readyToJump = false;

            rb.velocity = new Vector3(rb.velocity.x, 0f, rb.velocity.z);
            rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);

            Invoke(nameof(ResetJump), jumpCooldown);
        }
}
private void ResetJump()
{
        readyToJump = true;
}

[rich adder]

bunny hop implies to me you keep jumping, are you also constantly jumping ?

the best way for you to solve it is to breakdown the steps you will need to verify and debug it

examples, which values are what you expect them to be vs not

[high summit]

howdy! i'm trying to figure out why this is firing

the int value of "Score" is 1

[slender nymph]

only that first line is actually in the if statement's scope

[rich adder]

because the rest are not in the {}

[high summit]

Wait really?

[slender nymph]

yes, this is c# where white space does not denote scope

[high summit]

I'm new to c

[rich adder]

without {} if statement only counts whats directly after it

[slender nymph]

it's also not c, it's c#

[high summit]

Yeah my bad

So i need likee

1 sec

[slender nymph]

as nav has pointed out twice now you need curly brackets

[high summit]

Like this?

Thanks btw 🙂

[paper sable]

yes, im constantly jumping. all of the values seem to be fine and my ground check works as it should

[high summit]

Also working on a flickering flashlight script, I know i'll need a loop, I'm using an IEumerator currently, Is this a bad way to add a delay?

this obviously isnt a loop yet

[rich adder]

not a bad way but overkill

this will only happen once btw

[high summit]

I did something like this on a static light in my scene is this better?

[rich adder]

Time.deltaTime usually works fine

[high summit]

tyty 🙂

[rich adder]

hm define "fine" lol cause the end result seems anything but that..

also would try testing it in a build just incase its not an editor thing

back when , I recall un focusing the game window by accident would cause that key not to release

[paper sable]

well my move input vector values are 0, 0 so the keys cant still be pressed

whenever i stop pressing wasd but keep holding space, the velocity remains the same but slowly goes to 0 on the x and z values

[rich adder]

do you move using AddForce or .velocity ?

[paper sable]

AddForce

[rich adder]

btw I found a script I made a while ago a more "randomized" pattern using intensity, if you're interested into that as well

private IEnumerator Flicker()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < lights.Length; i++)
            {
                float flicker = Mathf.PerlinNoise(Time.time * flickerSpeed, 0);
                float intensity = Mathf.Lerp(minIntensity, maxIntensity, flicker);
                lightMesh.material = intensity < maxIntensity / 2 ? lightOffMa : lightOnMa
                lights[i].intensity = intensity;
            }
            yield return null;
        }
    }``` 
made a few years back so its not cleanest but might come in handy
(you can probably ignore the material part unless you want to do that as well to "swap textures"

[rich adder]

but thats why it keeps moving no? (moving slowing cause of deceleration)

[elfin isle]

https://paste.mod.gg/lzgjeirrszsx/0 APOLOGIES FOR MY MESSY ASS CODE

so basically, i have a fish swimming down a stream, and it is supposed to fall when it gets to a certain point (line 76), i have tried what i think is everything at this point and ive even used debugs, and my code should be running but it isnt. could anyone help?

[paper sable]

yeah, it makes sense now that i think of it, but how could i stop this deceleration and just stop the player instantly when they stop moving while jumping?

[high summit]

This is weird

[rich adder]

its probably another copy of script somewhere with all those unassigned

[high summit]

Ooh i'll have a dig

[rich adder]

you can search the hierarchy with t:DoorLogic

[high summit]

Yep I found it instantly! Thanks, That's a nice thing to have learnt and I guess happens alot more than people expect

[rich adder]

its pretty common yea lol

[high summit]

Also forgetting to hit 'stop' and editing while in playmode has tripped me up a few times now

[elfin isle]

i think i had a similar thing happen to me a day or two ago lmao

[rich adder]

You could prob opt for using .velocity instead of addforce?

[rich adder]

helps to have a PlayMode Tint color

should've been default tbh

[grand snow]

I make my tint more red for that reason

[elfin isle]

btw, ive been working on this for like 2 hours and i cant find the problem @. @

[rich adder]

its pretty messy to scan through all this, are you checking the logs?

..use debugger is probably less of a pain to go back n forth adding lines instead of just breakpoints

[elfin isle]

yeah, and basically what the logs are telling me is that the code should be running, im getting the debug but its not moving any differently

[rich adder]

always verify the values we expect are actually the values that are happenig

[elfin isle]

i did that too but i can check again rq

[rich adder]

dont just log the "code should be running" log specific things

[elfin isle]

wdym?

[rich adder]

just cause the function might be running doesn't mean the values are what you expect them to be

[elfin isle]

thats a good point

[rich adder]

thats why youd normally log whats in that function etc.

string myName= "bob" ;
void MyName(){
Debug.Log(myName)
vs
Debug.Log("its running")

[paper sable]

i've tried that when first deciding of how to move the player but i didnt really like that it starts and stops moving instantly, i like the way it slowly starts moving and slows down with AddForce

[rich adder]

i mean technically you can code acceleration / deceleration logic yourself too

its fairly easy esp with Animation Curves / MoveTowards and such

[high summit]

Am i allowed to share a janky preview of how my games coming along here?

[rich adder]

best for #1180170818983051344

[high summit]

Sweet thanks!

[elfin isle]

so the y value is in fact what im seeing, and its j ust not going up or down, even though im telling it to change the line before the debug

[high summit]

When you dont know how to UV map properly or use the correct shader so you just place walls connected at this size everywhere (pain)

[verbal dome]

Try a triplanar shader/material

[high summit]

I remember rea

[verbal dome]

Doesn't need UVs

[rich adder]

which line is that? you logged the actual Y value as well ?

[high summit]

I was about to type that

[elfin isle]

yeah, 77 & 78

[high summit]

I looked online but wasnt sure what/where to get one or how to install it

[verbal dome]

What renderpipeline are you on? The default Lit shader probably has it. Set UV mode to triplanar in the material settings

[high summit]

I'm on URP/lit

[rich adder]

you did Debug.Log( $"y value {y} " ); ?

[paper sable]

i feel like that would a too complicated fix for this, i guess i'll have to do some more research and find out what the problem is and just code acceleration and deceleration myself if i dont find anything helpful

[elfin isle]

just debug.log(y)

[rich adder]

and it was moving ?

[high summit]

on each individual material?

[rich adder]

so many magic numbers here my brain is exploding lol

would also log Fish.transform.position and see whats happening there
eg like before 77 and 78

[verbal dome]

I don't really know URP, but looks like it doesn't have it actually
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/lit-shader.html

[high summit]

Yeah I dont think it does, I did look a little last night

[verbal dome]

You gonna have to

[elfin isle]

im so mad at myself i found the problem

i wasnt updating "num" at the right spot

[high summit]

I'm almost done with my first game so i'll just leave it how I have it currently, It's a pain to work with but i'll look into triplanar next game lol

[elfin isle]

that simple replacement took two hours

[rich adder]

hey at least you narrowed the problem

[rich adder]

it be like that fr

[frigid sequoia]

Can I make an UI element no be part of the EvemtSystem?

Cause entities have a canvas in world space over them but they don't ever need to be interacted

[slender nymph]

Untick the raycast target on the graphic objects

[neat sluice]

when i try and run some code for the camera to follow i get hit with the same error can i get help with what it means? (ill get it real quick)

where my cursor is at is line 21 sorry i forgot to screenshot the numbers too

[naive pawn]

you've configured your project to use the new input system, but you're trying to use the old input system

[neat sluice]

ohhh okay, how would i switch to the new input system?

[naive pawn]

there's a lot of ways to do that, try googling for some

[neat sluice]

okay thanks

[analog pivot]

I made a (possibly) simple menu with buttons based on races and classes of a game I like that sets stats based on race. I can get the race to set the class availability list and make stats appear (although someone said my method seems too hardcoded???)

How can I get it so its like “if race/class combo then these religions are available and these stats are adjusted by class”

Im sorry if I cant explain better but I really am that newbie at code

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/831230543227519047/1244506529965543524/My_project_-_Char_Create_-_Windows_Mac_Linux_-_Unity_2022.3.12f1__DX12__2024-05-26_23-11-11.mp4?ex=68164346&is=6814f1c6&hm=ad975dd903e8f8314496f37b3873d99f81c849050a7a658722b41c3916b0bbf9&

I made this almost a year ago but I had some real life and so its been on back burner and now it feels like I don’t even remember how I made this

And Ive tried to understand code but its like impossible to clikc

[high summit]

made a png with some text for my horror game in photoshop dragged it in as a sprite renderer (i assume thats the correct way) and it kinda.. glows from far away?

Is that due to the shader?

[rich adder]

glow sounds like its from Bloom / Post Processing

[high summit]

Ah color was set to 'white' instead of black

I think that was it

We good

[rich adder]

btw I would not use a sprite renderer for this.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/renderer-feature-decal.html

[analog pivot]

Is my question too complex? Im sorry if Im not wording it well

[rich adder]

not sure what exactly you're asking?

sounds like a simple math thing

[analog pivot]

Yea but when I try to do “add total” it doesnt work. I can try to look at the code when I get home but again Im not sure how to explain

[rich adder]

well without us looking at the code to precisely see what you're doing we can't offer much

[azure dust]

Hello guys,i am beginner and learning from Unity pathway (https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer/unit/sound-and-effects/tutorial/lesson-3-3-don-t-just-stand-there-1?version=6).
I have problem with animation when player falls down and its change from falling (Death_01) to laying on ground (Dead_01), player wil start runing again. Thats mean that fell animation wont continue and will restart to running. I follow all instructions from tutorials/pathway.

[high summit]

Making a horror game is slowly making me feel insane lmao

[rich adder]

whoever wrote that must not be in such a hurry

also not really a code question

[high summit]

Tryna find a font 😦

and yeah you right

[rich adder]

https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=110

[rich adder]

you have to show the code and the setup is the same, otherwise we can't tell much from this only

[azure dust]

Here is screenshot that animation Dead_01 is enabled, but player started runing after adnimation time set to "full". I will show you code of player animation.

[rich adder]

which part of the lesson shows how to setup . cause honestly dont feel like going through the entire thing lol

[azure dust]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    private Rigidbody playerRB;
    public float jumpForce = 10f;
    public float gravityModifier = 2f;
    public bool isOnGround = true;
    public bool gameOver = false;
    private Animator playerAnimator;
    void Start()
    {
        playerRB = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        Physics.gravity *= gravityModifier;
        playerAnimator = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isOnGround && !gameOver)
        {
            playerRB.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
            isOnGround = false;
            playerAnimator.SetTrigger("Jump_trig");
        }
    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        if(collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Ground"))
        {

            isOnGround = true;
        } else if(collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Obstacle"))
        {
            gameOver = true;
            Debug.Log("Game Over!");
            playerAnimator.SetBool("Death_b", true);
            playerAnimator.SetInteger("DeathType_int", 1);
        }
    }
}
``` Here is entire PlayerControll.cs script.

Lesson 3.3
https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer/unit/sound-and-effects/tutorial/lesson-3-3-don-t-just-stand-there-1?version=6

[rich adder]

what about the transitions?

the inspector for them

[azure dust]

transitions is default, didn't change anything. I will show you.

[rich adder]

Alive to Death1 ?

[azure dust]

Death to dead

Here is Alive to Death_1

[rich adder]

so after death is starts running again, when exactly?

[azure dust]

Yes, when Death_1 change to Dead_1 it normal, but after Dead_1 ends it start running again

Dead_01 is like this

An player still runing

[rich adder]

are you sure the correct animation ?

so many layers on that animator it throws me off

[azure dust]

I followed instuctions from video, only if i miss something somewhere. But i am sure that i have same and i chechek couple times

Here is how it looks when i run.

Only way to try fix this is by replacing animation with new one, the original one and check again

[rich adder]

check the same thing but with the BODY layer selected...but to me also looks like the Dead01 has wrong animation clip

[spiral oracle]

idk how to fix this, the error message is "Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.Vector2' to 'float' " and rb is a RigidBody2D

could someone help me here please?

movespeed is a float

[rich adder]

angularVelocity is rotation not movement

[azure dust]

Here is with BODY selected.

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-angularVelocity.html as the error is telling you, angularVelocity is the float. you cant convert the vector you're trying to assign to a float

[spiral oracle]

oh ok thanks lol

[rich adder]

linearVelocity is what ur looking for. Also you should remove Time.deltaTime from the calculation for rigidbody

[spiral oracle]

I meant to use rp.velocity

[spiral oracle]

ok

thanks

I'll make those changes

[azure dust]

Also Running animation that is deafult is still runing behing even when falling animation is running

And its never stops

[rich adder]

wdym by this?

[azure dust]

when falling animation starts, Run_static is still working.

I reseted all animations settings and still didn't fix

This is what i talk about.

[rich adder]

where is supposed go from there ? did you check the transition is correct

[azure dust]

From running to jumping when press spacebar, that is working fine, but main problem is with Dead_01 animation. Run_static is deafult state

[obsidian holly]

im back again, i think my game just needs someones expert eyes because whatever i do/change regardless if I did it or chatgpt does it (which i cannot look at chatgpt rn hate it), doesnt seem to be playable when putting it into like itch.io or anything free 😭 (but playable when i run it ofc) if anyone’s free and can help me, ill send ss and everything your way… i just seriously need help

[analog pivot]

so now im home this is the kind of code im using currently for the following as i showed above https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/831230543227519047/1244506529965543524/My_project_-_Char_Create_-_Windows_Mac_Linux_-_Unity_2022.3.12f1__DX12__2024-05-26_23-11-11.mp4?ex=68164346&is=6814f1c6&hm=ad975dd903e8f8314496f37b3873d99f81c849050a7a658722b41c3916b0bbf9&

what i cant do is make the class side button disable religions or adjust the base stats based on the selected combination

[azure dust]

@rich adder sorry for tag. Thank you for helping and i am sorry that i waste your time. I fixed the problem by reinstalling all animations.

[analog pivot]

i also tried to do a less 'hardcoded" way of setting stats but... doesnt work

[neat sluice]

does anyone know a good place to learn code along with the unity learning hub?

google has failed me this time unfortunately

[teal viper]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[twin pivot]

The unity manual ranks second for me

With youtube coming in last since most people just copy and paste and not learn what a certain line of code

[neat sluice]

ye, when i use youtube tho i usually break the code im given down and use little comments to say what they do

but ye have to do the coding to learn the coding :<

im slowly learning my inputs now tho

[twin pivot]

Another tip is to look at the unity manual for the lines of code used

Slows you down a lot at first but helps later down the line

[neat sluice]

theres a unity manual?

[twin pivot]

Yup

Search it up on google

[neat sluice]

alr im downloading it rn

[neat sluice]

thanks tho i did not know that

[twin pivot]

Ur getting it from the official site right?

[teal viper]

You don't need to download it. It's available online

[sour fulcrum]

I can't get away with an override like this in interfaces right

public interface SubInterface
{
    public abstract SubBehaviour Get();
}

public interface SubInterface<T> : SubInterface where T : SubBehaviour
{
    public override SubBehaviour Get() => GetBehaviour();
    public abstract T GetBehaviour();
}

[cosmic dagger]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[neat sluice]

yes

[analog pivot]

#💻┃code-beginner message

i know Im very unknowledged on this but any help understandin

[twin pivot]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[twin pivot]

But also why not make a int list and store the values in there?

[analog pivot]

I can try. Never done it before

[twin pivot]

:[

[analog pivot]

Fair enough

[mossy jasper]

I need help on my code

[north kiln]

You need to start by configuring your !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

[north kiln]

Then once you can see your errors and have autocomplete you can match every brace up appropriately

[mossy jasper]

it says "No problems found, and plus, i configured my visual studio to unity

[rich adder]

its not configured, we can tell

if it was configured what you saw in unity console would show in IDE

[mossy jasper]

dam

well, ok, i will configure my ide now...

i read the page and i think my ide is configured

[rich adder]

this is like the last step, there are several others before it

[mossy jasper]

oh

[rich adder]

if its not underlining red in the editor then its not configured

[mossy jasper]

ok

yeaaa, i kinda need some help on IDE

[rich adder]

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

[mossy jasper]

i checked for updates and visual studio is up to date

[rich adder]

that has nothing to do with it

from link sent, and do each one and it will work

[echo cradle]

sorry to populate this with another collision troubleshooting issue but I'm trying to learn the new input system and got lost on how to properly code my setup. so i discovered rule tiles and wanted to make a system like this, i'm going for pixel perfect movement but the players box collider keeps passing though walls.

player controller code https://paste.mod.gg/qgalmowxmcqx/0

[naive pawn]

you have an rb but you aren't using it. rb controls the transform, so you shouldn't control the transform yourself - that leads to conflicts
use rb.addforce or velocity to let the rb respect collisions

[echo cradle]

so teh Physics2D.OverlapCircle is no good now?

[naive pawn]

well that kind of check could probably let you clip through corners in an edge case (or perhaps a corner case 😆)

but yeah if you have an rb why not use that

[echo cradle]

its the box collider im interested in using, and changing it to the the boxes transform didn't change anything so i guess its in the colCheck....?

[naive pawn]

also you aren't giving any layermask to the overlap circle so that could hit yourself

[naive pawn]

no clue what you mean by any of that

[echo cradle]

my box collider keeps passing though walls

[naive pawn]

what did you mean by "changing it to the boxes transform"?

[echo cradle]

you said i shoudlnt control teh trasnform myself, so i updated it

[naive pawn]

if the box collider is on the same component then it's the same transform

[echo cradle]

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

so then its a problem with the colCheck function?

[naive pawn]

you don't need the colCheck function

[echo cradle]

then how do i check for walls?

[naive pawn]

you don't have to

the rb will detect and respect collisions on its own if you use velocity or addforce

[echo cradle]

but im going for pixel perfect movement, like they'll stop on the center of a tile when i release the key?

[naive pawn]

that isn't pixel perfect that's moving on a grid

are you having diagonal movement with this?

[echo cradle]

nha

input controller took care of that

[naive pawn]

ok so you don't want physics-based movement, why use rbs then lol

[echo cradle]

mostly i jsut want the box collider?

[naive pawn]

then just use that

[echo cradle]

it passes though my walls

[naive pawn]

that isn't solved by arbitrarily adding an rb and then ignoring its existence

[echo cradle]

fine ill remove the rb

[naive pawn]

btw what's with putting it in FixedUpdate, why not just put that in the playerinput message

[echo cradle]

nope, still passes though twalls

because if i did that i would have to press the button EVERY tile

[naive pawn]

this also feels suspicious, but we can get back to this later

[naive pawn]

hmm i might just be forgetting how value types work lol. anyways could still be in Update, since it's about input

[naive pawn]

yeah of course it would be, you haven't changed anything meaningful at this point

do your walls have colliders?

[echo cradle]

yes

[naive pawn]

ok so start debugging - try logging out what the overlap circle returns, try logging out that position and see if that's right

[echo cradle]

im logging the dir vector but i dont know how thats helpful

its true on floor, false on walls, except when i go up

if i raise the radius on the overlap circle i cant move down

[naive pawn]

make sure you have the right physics shape for your walls

[echo cradle]

i do

[rocky wyvern]

Why are you doing all this complicated input logic instead of just using a pixel perfect camera

Is it actually important that your character snaps to a grid

If you absolutely must do that

Then just let physics and rb handle all collision

Trust me coding collision yourself isn’t worth it

You can still snap the player to a grid when you stop moving even if you allow rb to handle physics

There’s nothing stopping that from working

[echo cradle]

because this 'complicated logic' was the bare minimum to code movement 10 years ago?

i was tryign to sort out how to use teh new input system and for some reason my collision code just isn't working for the top

how will a pixel perfect camera fix this? this sint about the camera its about the walls and my gird

[rocky wyvern]

what

how is that relevant

[rocky wyvern]

why do you need your player to actually have their in game position be on the grid

[echo cradle]

because i'm going for a rpg type gameplay, with events and interactables and i just wanted the old school pixel perfect feel?

[trail heart]

The idea with pixel perfect camera is that it also snaps all the sprites, so even if the true position of objects is not on a grid it doesn't perceptually make a difference
This means the physics and collision could be handled by rigidbodies
Alternatively, if you're overriding transform position in your script, you're also overriding rigidbody physics entirely so you need to code your own physics, whatever that requires in your case

[echo cradle]

so scrap this and start again with a 'pixel perfect camera' tut? can i still use rule tiles with it or no?

[trail heart]

Neither method is exactly better, though using Unity's physics and pixel perfect component is less work but harder to get exact results with

[trail heart]

Rule tiles are fine, not related to physics or anything
You'd have to choose whether you want to design and tune your physics and pixels by hand, or rely on pixel perfect camera and rigidbody physics instead

[echo cradle]

i apparently CANT tue these by hand

[trail heart]

Meaning?

[echo cradle]

my player still passes though walls when going up

no idea why

[trail heart]

As far as I can tell you're still a bit in between systems
If you do your collision detection manually, set your rigidbody to kinematic or remove it entirely
Then start troubleshooting all parts of your system, mainly does the overlap detect the wall correctly
It seems like it would not, if your character is not allowed to move if it does

(If you do use a rigidbody for your character, you are meant to use rigidbody class methods for moving it, so Rigidbody2D.position or Rigidbody2D.MovePosition instead of Transform.position
This shouldn't affect functionality, but to my knowledge improves accuracy and performance because rigidbodies are meant to be responsible for their own movement)

[rancid quail]

Hey! my pathfinding seems to not work properly, the agent's never pick the shortest path, instead they pick a random one

what can i do to make them always take the shortest path?

[karmic sparrow]

hello regarding optimization in a scene this big with lots of stuff in it my current optimization is to have data reading of each stage puck to be in a singleton and once read from db just pass it to each puck but its still kinda slow any more optimizations that can be done? it takes about a 1sec to 1.5 to fully load

[swift elbow]

#🤖┃ai-navigation is the best place to ask. you'll likely need to provide more detail on your setup and/or code

[inland latch]

EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'F:\Uni Work\Computing project\Computing project VR Unity Project\Library\PackageCache\com.unity.xr.management' -> 'F:\Uni Work\Computing project\Computing project VR Unity Project\Library\PackageCache\.del--21412-uGbm5poMmWEt'
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallUpdateFunctions ()```
anyone know why any package i try to install fails with this error

actually some work, and i managed to install xrpluginmanagement forcefully by installing something that had it as a dependency, but most others still fail?

now unities forzen and has tried installing this one thing about 20 times

itll load, disappear, freeze a little, then pop back up again

[inland latch]

ok so, anytime i open project settings unity maxes out my ram and freezes

[inland latch]

it's fine everywhere else and lag has never been an issue before in unity

so i don't think it's my pc not being good enough

i've also got this error

The file might be corrupt or have a missing Variant parent or nested Prefabs. See details below.
Errors:
    Nested Prefab problem. Missing Nested Prefab Asset: 'XR Origin (XR Rig) (Missing Prefab with guid: d6878e1999eb4b44a9f5a263af86c185)'
    Nested Prefab problem. Missing Nested Prefab Asset: 'Hand Menu With Button Activation (Missing Prefab with guid: e2698219e3231e94c8765d49b9dd5cff)'

boy do i love when everything just breaks at once out of the blue and nothing seems to fix it

the package installing issue seems to have fixed itself but i still can't open project settings without unity dying and running 0.1fps, and im still getting an import error on a prefab

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[inland latch]

where would i go for these issues

[slender nymph]

#🔎┃find-a-channel

[inland latch]

there's no general unity help channel though

[slender nymph]

then you didn't bother reading that

[inland latch]

i did

it says go to

"browse channels"

which is just the list of all channels and i still dont see one for unity help

[slender nymph]

try reading more than just the first sentence you see

[inland latch]

brother i read it all there's no unity help channel

[slender nymph]

you don't need to lie, it's clear you did not read past the very first sentence in that channel.

also you remember how in grade school your teachers would tell you to read all of the instructions before beginning a test or whatever? yeah, this is why

[inland latch]

nowhere in there

does it say where to go for general unity help

[slender nymph]

copy and paste the second sentence in the channel i linked.

[inland latch]

it says to use find a channel

i wouldn't count general questions and unity help as the same but ok

[slender nymph]

mate, general question that belong in this server are unity help questions because this server is a unity server. also nowhere in that does it specifically say "general questions" or "unity help"

[tulip nexus]

i'm trying to make a editor script that sets the tilling for all new materials that have a texture located in assets/textures/surfaces to 0.3 x 0.3, can som1 tell me what i'm doing wrong, it does not return any errors

using UnityEditor;
using System.IO;


public class SurfaceTextureTiller : MonoBehaviour
{
    static void OnPostprocessAllAssets(
        string[] importedAssets,
        string[] deletedAssets,
        string[] movedAssets,
        string[] movedFromAssetPaths)
    {
        foreach (string path in importedAssets)
        {
            if (path.EndsWith(".mat", System.StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            {
                Material mat = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Material>(path);

                if (mat == null) continue;
                Texture mainTex = mat.mainTexture;
                if (mainTex != null)
                {
                    string texPath = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(mainTex);
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(texPath) &&
                        texPath.Replace("\\", "/").ToLower().StartsWith("Assets/Textures/surfaces"))
                    {
                        mat.mainTextureScale = new Vector2(0.3f, 0.3f);
                        EditorUtility.SetDirty(mat);
                        AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}```

[wintry quarry]

is the code even running?

what's calling this function?

[tulip nexus]

i put it in the editor folder i thought unity would pick up the OnPostprocessAllAssets method and run it from there

[wintry quarry]

Your script is a MonoBehaviour not an AssetPostprocessor

See the code example here https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.OnPostprocessAllAssets.html

[tulip nexus]

ok so after changing the monobehaviour thing to assetpostprocessor the string array lit up and it runs but it still doesnt seem to change the tilling

[rich adder]

#🤖┃ai-navigation

[high summit]

howdy!

So in my game you pick up this clipboard and you can read it

It's a game object

but I need it to not be affected by light?

As you can see it uh.. Is clearly unreadable lol

[rich adder]

put a world canvas on it

[high summit]

Oh I see i'll give that a shot thanks

What exactly is a 'world canvas'

I see normal cavas

Oh world space

gotcha

Oh wait you said 'on it'

not put it in one

[rich adder]

yes like world canvas is child of clipboard

[rich adder]

yea

[high summit]

Wont that make only the text ignore light?

Not the clipboard itself

[rich adder]

wdym ? you want the entire material of clipboard not to be affected by light

uhh if thats the case you'd have to use Unlit material

its going to look pretty out of place, if you want that look though should be ok

[high summit]

My shader settings are locked for the individual pieces of the board I was gonna try that

on mesh renderer

[rich adder]

You'd have to duplicate the material or extract it from mesh to modify them

[rocky canyon]

^ nothing stopping u from using a lit material on the text right?

cant u do that?

[high summit]

Wont that look bizzare..

[rocky canyon]

iono.. thast how regular ink works

[high summit]

in a dark room with bright glowing text on a dimly lit piece of paper

[rocky canyon]

noo i meant lit the text would also be dim

if therse no light

[high summit]

Hmm you mighr be right

[thick spoke]

yo, for some reason when i bake, its not showing me what i baked? any ideas? i am using navmesh surface, and also i am tryna make a cube follow it, for some reason it isnt, i am guessing.

[high summit]

In this case its probably more realistic to pick this up and have to walk into light to read it

Fits more with the horror vibe I guess

[rich adder]

line 16 has nothing to do with baking navmesh

either target or agent is null, or both

[rocky canyon]

yup

[rich adder]

most likely you put Robot on another gameobject where the fields are empty. Or its an old error you never cleared

[rich adder]

lol we got the same clipboard model

[high summit]

Yeah haha it fits perfectly

[rich adder]

btw if you want to make ur light a bit more realistic, you can use light cookies
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Cookies-introduction.html
https://youtu.be/Z4pO4IpH0xU?si=PehGjpW5M0qn_ioA

[thick spoke]

i see

[rocky canyon]

make sure u dont have clues on the paper that u cant read..

[thick spoke]

i will recheck, many thanks

[rocky canyon]

like if ur flashlight runs out of battery and u cant read the next clue or something.. (softlocked)

[rich adder]

if you want to search for it in the heirarchy you can write t:Robot

it will show all objects with that component

[rich adder]

what about magic lights that Reveal special Ink 😏 ?

[rocky canyon]

that works too 😉

National Treasure-esque

Lemon Juice and Blacklights

[rich adder]

and that clue will lead to another clue. dont you see ? treasure is a myth

[queen adder]

using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody))]
public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public float moveSpeed;
public float rotationSpeed;

private Rigidbody rb;
private float moveInput;
private float rotationInput;

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

void Update()
{
    // Inverted vertical input so W = forward
    moveInput = -Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

    // Left/right rotation input (A/D or Left/Right)
    rotationInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
}

void FixedUpdate()
{
    // Move forward/backward
    Vector3 move = transform.forward * moveInput * moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
    rb.MovePosition(rb.position + move);

    // Rotate left/right
    float rotation = rotationInput * rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
    Quaternion turn = Quaternion.Euler(0f, rotation, 0f);
    rb.MoveRotation(rb.rotation * turn);
}

}

How can i modify this code in order make my tank to can't reach high hills

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[high summit]

So this clipboard spawns in my face so i can read it

It has a box collider and so do all other objects

but i can put it through walls etc

Nvm just moved it as close to the camera as possible and made it scaled down

[slender nymph]

why not make it UI instead of a world space object?

also this is a code channel

[high summit]

I considered that but the way it attaches to the camera gives it that subtle sway movement which looks really good

[grand snow]

This is when you fudge the render order (to be after most opaque but pre transparent) + ignore depth or use a second camera to render it later.

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@10.1/manual/urp-renderer-feature.html

ofc camera stacking is the easiest but then sadly you wont get Shadows from the world
Oh and sadly if one uses Deferred rendering , doesn't allow camera stacking :\

[near thicket]

What's the best way to make a 2d interface in a 3d game? Should I just create some flat gameobjects and place them right in front of the camera?

[wintry quarry]

Unity has UI packages

UGUI (the standard) or UI Toolkit (the latest and greatest but still not totally feature complete maybe)

[near thicket]

Which of the two should I pick?

[wintry quarry]

UGUI is the easiest to get started with as a beginner

[near thicket]

I'm just hoping to do some sorta basic GUI stuff eg a panel with 3d models that you can drag into a building space

[wintry quarry]

If the 3d models need to be dynamic/animated, it's a little more complex

if you just need images of them, you can create those images ahead of time and import htem as regular sprites to be used in the UI

[near thicket]

That'd be useful, is that possible with UGUI though?

[wintry quarry]

yes

The way works is basically using a second camera to render to a RenderTexture, then using a RawImage component in the UI to display the texture that the camera rendered

[near thicket]

alright thanks

[wintry quarry]

Alternatively if it needn't be interactive you can use a VideoPlayer

[high summit]

I have a question regarding cavases and issues with them, Can't find a correct place to ask, any help?

[slender nymph]

#📲┃ui-ux
and Don't Ask To Ask

also use #🔎┃find-a-channel if you need to locate a channel to ask a question in

[azure forum]

Thank you for the help on my script guys

[rocky canyon]

no worries.. thats why we're here

[naive pawn]

(see what spawncamp linked about posting your code)

[rocky canyon]

https://scriptbin.xyz/ heres a good one <- soup

[azure forum]

Does that workN https://paste.mod.gg/tdvdpimkyhjx/0

[rocky canyon]

yup

[azure forum]

Learning a bunch of stuff here haha, thanks a lot everyone

Ans such a fast response, you guys are awesome

[naive pawn]

i'm not seeing any debug logs there

[rocky canyon]

depends on how hard we're procrastinating on our own projects 😉

[naive pawn]

-# <- has unity open and hasn't touched it in a few days

[azure forum]

Even without having debug logs I should have something show up in the console, right?

[naive pawn]

no?

stuff doesn't magically happen, something has to cause it to happen

the console automatically shows errors and warnings, and probably a few specific logs, but anything else has to go through Debug

[azure forum]

Where should I add debug then? And more importantly, how? 🙂

[visual ginkgo]

hi guys, i just installed unity and i'm following a course video on youtube. everything good until my new first script. i got this error, can someone help me? i would appreciate it a lot :(((

[azure forum]

Understood. It showed absolutely nothing since day one though, that's why I'm a bit confused

[naive pawn]

well then there wasn't anything to show lol

[naive pawn]

• where it's relevant, aka where the issue might be. debugging doesn't solve issues, but it lets you narrow down where they come from and what might be the cause
• you can use Debug.Log, and pass in a string, which would be the message of the log - use an interpolated string, like $"string content {variable}" which lets you peek into the program and see values. the "string content" part could be used to label where the log is from or what value you're logging

[azure forum]

FYI here's the hierarchy window and the inspector for my sprite child

[naive pawn]

hmm real quick, since we didn't actually mention this - in the animator window, when you run, does isRunning show up as true, or does it just stay false?

[azure forum]

I had this in my code at one point but removed it: // Récupère l’objet enfant "Sprite" (doit exister dans la hiérarchie)
spriteTransform = transform.Find("Sprite");
if (spriteTransform == null)
{
Debug.LogError("⚠️ L'objet enfant 'Sprite' est introuvable !");
return;
}

    animator = spriteTransform.GetComponent<Animator>();
    if (animator == null)
    {
        Debug.LogError("⚠️ Aucun Animator trouvé sur l'objet 'Sprite' !");

[rocky canyon]

as i was learning i used them EVERYWHERE every function, everyloop, every condtion, every gameobject and value.. probably too much tbh but u sure get lots of information

[naive pawn]

those are indeed logs, but those would trigger only if you didn't have a sprite child/animator

[rocky canyon]

• where it's relevant, aka where the issue might be. debugging doesn't solve issues, but it lets you narrow down where they come from and what might be the cause
• you can use Debug.Log, and pass in a string, which would be the message of the log - use an interpolated string, like $"string content {variable}" which lets you peek into the program and see values. the "string content" part could be used to label where the log is from or what value you're logging
  string interpolation is a game-changer

[naive pawn]

also for future reference, small snippets should be formatted like the latter half here:
!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[azure forum]

When I run, it stays on idle:

[naive pawn]

ok, that's not what i asked though
does the isRunning parameter ever change when you run?

[rocky canyon]

small code blocks ^ like dis

[azure forum]

And just to make sure I get it, are you talking about this?

[naive pawn]

yes

[rocky canyon]

that is the animators parameter yup

thats this

[azure forum]

When I run, nothing happens animation wise, it stays on idle. I think I set up the isrunning properly and I'm using the exact same name as the one I have in my code

is this checkbox supposed to do anything?

[naive pawn]

you aren't answering my question... does the isRunning parameter stay unchecked?

[naive pawn]

it shows the value of the parameter (and lets you set it manually for the initial value or for testing)

[azure forum]

yes it says unchecked

[rocky canyon]

  if (animator != null)
  {
      Debug.Log("Animator was found");
      animator.SetBool("isRunning", direction.magnitude > 0.1f);
      
      Debug.Log($"We just set the animator's isRunning boolean to: {direction.magnitude > 0.1f}");
  }            

[naive pawn]

yep ☝️ basic debug in this case

[rocky canyon]

give urself as much information as u think u need that will help figure out little bugs and errors in ur code

[naive pawn]

though you'd probably also want to debug direction (and perhaps its magnitude to avoid having to calculate that yourself)

[rocky canyon]

true.. i was hoping they had a variable for those

its own boolean..

same for the isRunning boolean..
i tend to use 1 for the script.. and then use that one to just set it directly for the animators..

[azure forum]

I added the small code you gave me in the script and still nothing in the console window

[rocky canyon]

nu uh..

u put it here in the fixedupdate??

if none of the code runs.. that means that that condition never evaluates as true

[azure forum]

Here is the updated code: https://paste.mod.gg/yehjrsvntzro/1

[rocky canyon]

that means this MUST be null then

[azure forum]

Oh wait can we co-edit the code on that website? 😮 that would be awesome if it worked

[rocky canyon]

put an else statement on the end of it

[keen dew]

Now you do have an error and you still have error messages disabled in the console

[rocky canyon]

  if (animator != null)
  {
      Debug.Log("Animator was found");
      animator.SetBool("isRunning", direction.magnitude > 0.1f);
      
      Debug.Log($"We just set the animator's isRunning boolean to: {direction.magnitude > 0.1f}");
  }
  else
  {
      Debug.Log("This is the only other thing that could be happening");
  }     

[rocky canyon]

ya i thought i seen that too but couldnt tell for sure or not

[naive pawn]

the error message should have some info

[azure forum]

wait guys it works!!!!

[rocky canyon]

animator is null and still trying to be accessed

[azure forum]

Oh my god I don't know why

[rocky canyon]

thats not a good place to be at teh end of a debugging session 👀

lol

[azure forum]

I re-applied the script to Player and I now have my run animation. Absolutely no idea why, I tried that a few times before...

[rocky canyon]

well, glad we could help <question mark> 👍

[naive pawn]

that sounds like an unsaved script

[rocky canyon]

yuppers

[azure forum]

And I can see the logs!!!

[rocky canyon]

Hawt Dogg! slaps knee

[naive pawn]

that's a lotta errors

[naive pawn]

@azure forum

[rocky canyon]

yup he was gatekeeping the rest of the errors with broken code

now that its not broken anymore the flood-gates are open

[azure forum]

Might've been yes, do I need to re-apply it to the game object every single time though? Or I just ctrl S?

[rocky canyon]

ctrl + S in the IDE

and then when u tab to the Editor it should RECOMPILE

on its own

[azure forum]

Alright understood 😮

That's so awesome to see it working, thank you guys

[rocky canyon]

this thing ^ should pop up even if briefly

if not u'd want to manually Refresh Ctrl + R in the editor

[azure forum]

I'll try flipping the sprite to the left with the script I found earlier, I'm confident it'll work now... hopefully

[naive pawn]

still should fix this btw
notice the "error" symbol (red octagon with !) is highlighted, that means they're hidden

[rocky canyon]

best as a beginner to isolate things as u work

try it on a simple non-player object first

get it working.. then move it to ur player..

that way atleast if it doesnt work on the player.. u knew it did before hand.

[azure forum]

wow 😮 seems like there were a lot of errors indeed

[rocky canyon]

kind of a way to pre-debug

[rocky canyon]

either that or its the same error being loggged multiple times

[azure forum]

Will do! Thanks for the tips!

[rocky canyon]

nothing wrong with using basic cubes and empty gameobjects to write some code 👍

[azure forum]

I started with that but I didn't learn the code per say, I just found bits and pieces online that I put together. Time learn C# then haha

[rocky canyon]

also. heres a tip.. u can Collapse identical debug logs.. that way they dont flood ur console..

it'll just add a number to the far right.. showing how many of those logs exist

with this button here

[azure forum]

ohhh that's great! Much easier to go through indeed

[naive pawn]

yeah, stop using chatgpt and use real resources lol
see c# resources in pinned message, and unity resources in 👇

[eternal falcon]

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[rocky canyon]

ChatGPT is better as an assistant than a tutor

[azure forum]

I started the online course (learned editor essentials) but I wanted to try my hand at something in the meantime, to keep things entertaining

Anyway I'm really glad I could find a solution, and you guys helped me understand how it all works a lot better. I'll be sure to post here if I have other issues, thank you so so much!

[rocky canyon]

ya, as long as ur taking steps forwards and not backwards you do you mate 👍

[dry cloak]

Is this the rightspot to ask about coding issues?

its very beginner stuff

[rocky canyon]

as long as they aren't intermeddiate or advanced yea

[naive pawn]

"code" and "beginner", seems about right

[dry cloak]

Im making a sliding mechanic in my game, and I used this line of code:

playerObj = new Vector3 (playerObj.localScale.x, slideYScale, playerObj.localScale.z);

and i have an error saaying: Cannot Implicitly convert type 'InityEngine.Vector3 to 'unityEngine.Transform

I am very new to this, and havent seen it before

[naive pawn]

for future reference, post formatted !code:

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[naive pawn]

and also, don't retype error messages. copy them. you may lost important detail when copying.

anyways, seems like you've declared playerObj as a Transform, but you're trying to assign a Vector3 to it - that's what the error means.
"I want a UnityEngine.Transform, but you gave me a UnityEngine.Vector3. I don't know how to convert this."

[dry cloak]

mhm

[naive pawn]

(backticks, the key beside 1 on a qwerty keyboard)

[dry cloak]

so i just need to use transform instead of Vecotr 3?

[naive pawn]

no, you can't construct a transform

[dry cloak]

playerObj = new Vector3 (playerObj.localScale.x, slideYScale, playerObj.localScale.z);

Error (active) CS0029 Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.Vector3' to 'UnityEngine.Transform' Assembly-CSharp

[naive pawn]

what exactly are you trying to do with that code?

[naive pawn]

(only need the error message, fyi; the part between CS0029 and Assembly-CSharp)

[dry cloak]

from what the tutorial im watching explained it, it is shrinking the player, to a certain height, as its a slide, and then i add another line of code apling down force so im not floating in the air

[naive pawn]

so you're trying to modify the scale?

[dry cloak]

yes

[naive pawn]

so in that case, well... you'd have to assign to the scale, rather than the entire transform

(look at your tutorial closer)

[dry cloak]

from the video

[naive pawn]

compare that to your code

[dry cloak]

oh my lord

ty

im a little slow in the head

[naive pawn]

eh it happens lol

you'll get better at identifying that with experience

[dry cloak]

So i want to be able to jump while sliding, to be able to jump, i must be grounded, and ready to jump

When I'm sliding, grounded is not true

this is what sets grounded to be true
grounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position + Vector3.up * 0.1f, Vector3.down, playerHeight / 2, WhatIsGround);

and this is my sliding movemnt ``` Vector3 inputDirection = orientation.forward * verticalInput + orientation.right * horizontalInput;

rb.AddForce(inputDirection.normalized * slideforce, ForceMode.Force);

slideTimer += Time.deltaTime;

if (slideTimer <= 0)
StopSlide( );

how would i be able to make myself grounded when on the ground?

[tulip stag]

I cant figure out what the bug in my code is, or if the code is even in this snippet here. 😵‍💫 When this function is called, everything seems to be working fine except that ageInHumanYears always outputs 0. ageInDays works fine and so does ageInYears. The input for days is 8766. Can anyone spot any bugs I'm missing?

public static void SetAgeFromDays(Character target, int days)
{
    target.ageInDays = days;
    target.ageInYears = Mathf.RoundToInt(days / 365.25f);
    if (target.ageInYears < target.ageOfAdulthood)
    {
        float percentage = (float)target.ageInYears / target.ageOfAdulthood;
        target.ageInHumanYears = Mathf.RoundToInt(percentage * SimulationManager.Instance.ageOfAdulthood);
    }
    else
    {
        float postAdultYears = target.ageInYears - target.ageOfAdulthood;
        float simulatedPostAdultSpan = target.ageExpectancy - target.ageOfAdulthood;

        float percentage = (float)postAdultYears / simulatedPostAdultSpan;

        int simPostAdultSpan = SimulationManager.Instance.ageExpectancy - SimulationManager.Instance.ageOfAdulthood;
        target.ageInHumanYears = SimulationManager.Instance.ageOfAdulthood + Mathf.RoundToInt(percentage * simPostAdultSpan);
    }

    SetLifestate(target);
}```

[keen dew]

Log all the values that are used to calculate it. If any of them seem incorrect, log all the values that are used to calculate that value and so on until you find the problem

[eternal needle]

I would step through with the debugger to see all the values here, line by line. This is usually the advice you'll get when asking about a bunch of math in a row.

[tulip stag]

Bet 🫡

[jovial yacht]

hi guys

i have a problem with my camera

I put the Far Clipping Planes on 40

[cosmic quail]

is that a problem?

[near thicket]

I beg to differ. LLMs are pretty good at explaining some things to me that I don't understand

[jovial yacht]

When I move far enough away and stare at an object, it starts to disappear, and that's fine, but when, not seeing an object in front of me because I'm too far away, I get the idea of ​​turning the camera to one side, I realize that I can still see it, and that's a problem.

[tulip stag]

Wahoooo it's working now!

Thanks yall

The calculation was based in years but two of the variables were using days. For some reason that made it output 0. Thanks for the tips on how to spot the broken variables >:)

While we're here, I've been gettin this Assertion failed on expression: 'IsInSyncWithParentSerializedObject()' UnityEditor.RetainedMode:UpdateSchedulers () ever since I attached the debugger. Should I worry?

[grand snow]

You said you solved your issue but you can use TimeSpan to do time calculations easily (often ill advised to do it manually as you ignore stuff such as leap years and other things)

And if you ever need a real date time later if done manually you can easily produce invalid dates (e.g. manually changing the year +1 instead of adding 1 year)

[tulip stag]

I am using 365.25 for my variables, but I'll looking this up later!! Maybe it could save me some of my headache lol

[naive pawn]

this seems wrong in general? you raycast half the player's height but you start slightly above the player's midpoint (assuming your collider is centered)

did you miswrite a sign?

[naive pawn]

don't crosspost

[grand snow]

Doesn't matter, still a bad idea and its incorrect as we use leap years.

C# has great date and timespan objects so use them!

[dry cloak]

idk then. didnt know its wrong in general cuz it works fine when not sliding 🤷

[lapis thorn]

So like, im just starting Unity and C#. I am just wondering how would someone make a item skin system. I have the basic idea on how it works but how does a game remember. Does anyone know if there is a documention i could read?

[tulip stag]

I'm not really dealing with dates though ,,, this is a simple age int in my Character class. Days are being tracked with an int starting at 1 since we're not using real world dates, this is for a simulation

[naive pawn]

maybe you just set your playerheight too high, idk.
try changing the + Vector3.up * ... to a minus

[tulip stag]

But still, I'll take a look at this! Maybe I'm being stupid and these objects can help me out just the same

[naive pawn]

why not just ignore leapyears altogether then

[tulip stag]

🤷‍♀️

[dry cloak]

the ground check is not longer true when i set it to a minus

[tulip stag]

Could go either way. Will hardly affect the results. I guess it feels nicer? 😭

[grand snow]

Then i guess you can take the simplified approach if it never needs to be real dates

[jovial yacht]

sorry

[grand snow]

Use a debugger, step through with the arg that causes the bad output and you will surely see what goes wrong 🦾 @tulip stag

and shouldnt you floor for your days to years check?

[naive pawn]

can you show how you're using grounded?

[naive pawn]

it makes it much simpler to deal with

[dry cloak]

    public float playerHeight;
    public LayerMask WhatIsGround;
    public bool grounded;

  void Update()
  {
      grounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position + Vector3.up * 0.1f, Vector3.down, playerHeight / 2, WhatIsGround);

      MyInput();
      SpeedControl();

      rb.linearDamping = grounded ? groundDrag : 0f;

      // Handle jumping
      if (Input.GetKey(jumpKey) && readyToJump && grounded)
      {
          readyToJump = false;
          Jump();
          Invoke(nameof(ResetJump), jumpCooldown);
      }
  }

The header is not right next to the Void update

i promise my code isnt that ugly

[dry cloak]

so i moved some stuff around, and fixed the locations of things, but now grounded doesnt check what so ever

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

[strong wren]

Are you sure playerHeight is big enough? Might want to draw the ray with Debug.DrawRay/DrawLine

[dry cloak]

        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, Vector3.down * (playerHeight * 0.5f + 0.2f), rayColor);```

i tried using this but no raycast apeard

and what is wierd, is when i drag the player up the groundcheck activates

so i draged orieantation up which is where things are linked to

and now i can jump, but that doesnt fix my original problem of groundcheck not being true when sliding

[waxen adder]

"Sliding" do you mean like on a ramp? Sounds like it's because the ground check doesn't quite reach into the ground in that scenario

[dry cloak]

just in general. i hit C and i get a speed boots, and my charecter size gets smaller

imgaine like ultrikill sliding

[waxen adder]

Oh interesting, maybe it's because of the character size part

Can't say for certain, just kinda spitballing possible problem areas

[dry cloak]

would you like the sliding script?

[waxen adder]

Let me see the ground checking stuff first

[dry cloak]

this is my move script

i should proppably add some explinations for future help

and there is some left over chat gpt notes i gotta reomve too lol

[waxen adder]

grounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, playerHeight * 0.5f + 0.2f, WhatIsGround);

Looking here right now. I don't quite remember, what is the 3rd parameter for?

Is that raycast length?

[dry cloak]

yes

[waxen adder]

Gotcha

[dry cloak]

it takes the hight of the player and halfs it

[waxen adder]

That really makes me think shrinking char size might do something

[queen adder]

can you guys listen to a begginer please?
My tank script doesn t work, because when i move backwards, it switches d with a and a with d. Forward is ok.

Here is the code : https://paste.myst.rs/en0k8alx

Here is how the gizmos are in local view:

[waxen adder]

Cause then the raycast is smaller in length

Depends on what happens to them. Can you show an image of the guy sliding?

[dry cloak]

Im still on bean stage sadly

i have the camera as a seperate entiy and its position is linked to oriantation to avoid jitter and lag

[waxen adder]

Interesting. My thought was, it was shrunk, but maybe floating or something

But that's not what happens here

How thick is the floor?

Actually that wouldn't matter nvm

[dry cloak]

ill link my slide script for you too

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

[waxen adder]

Try drawing a gizmo line that illustrates the raycast

[dry cloak]

like this? ```private void OnDrawGizmosSelected()
{
if (!Application.isPlaying) return;

Gizmos.color = grounded ? Color.green : Color.red;
Vector3 rayOrigin = transform.position;
float rayLength = playerHeight * 0.5f + 0.2f;

Gizmos.DrawLine(rayOrigin, rayOrigin + Vector3.down * rayLength);

}```

[near thicket]

How would I go about making a machine assembling bay? What I have in mind specifically is an area where players are able to take different game objects(each part will have specific attachment nodes).
I'm specifically asking about how I would get around making different gameobjects clip together, or detect which part is connected to what, etc

[waxen adder]

Yeah something like that

[dry cloak]

nothing is drawn

[waxen adder]

Even when standing?

[dry cloak]

yep

[waxen adder]

Also keep in mind with that function i'm pretty sure you need the object selected in the scene

[dry cloak]

it is

[near thicket]

I could have each gameobject object have a dictionary/list of open nodes and their positions, but beyond that I'm not 100% sure how I could actually take that data and move/rotate gameobjects accordingly.

[waxen adder]

Ok, for testing purposes, slap a debug.log before the early return. Make sure it's actually getting called

[dry cloak]

    {
        Debug.Log("OnDrawGizmosSelected called");

        if (!Application.isPlaying) return;

        Gizmos.color = grounded ? Color.green : Color.red;
        Vector3 rayOrigin = transform.position;
        float rayLength = playerHeight * 0.5f + 0.2f;

        Gizmos.DrawLine(rayOrigin, rayOrigin + Vector3.down * rayLength);
    }

like this?

[waxen adder]

ye

Now see when/if the message pops up

[dry cloak]

nothing

[waxen adder]

At all?

Even when selected?

[dry cloak]

yep

wtf

[waxen adder]

Welp, there's our major problem eh? XD

[dry cloak]

yep

[waxen adder]

Doesn't seem to be getting called

[dry cloak]

but i can stilll jump?

[waxen adder]

Lemme see, there's a gizmo function I like using. One sec

WAIT

I don't think your gizmos are toggled on

[dry cloak]

how do i do that?

[waxen adder]

I'll show you, one sec

[dry cloak]

also i took some vids of what it looks like from my end

[waxen adder]

The orb thing on the right