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[north kiln]

Cool

[crisp vortex]

anyone know how to give rigidbody a definition for addforce

[teal viper]

Might need to rephrase that question to make it clear.

[crisp vortex]

i have an error in my code for unity for a sliding mechanic called cs1061, it quotes "Rigidbody does not contain a definition for AddForce and no extension method Addforce" idk what to do not matter how much i change it, this is the code rb.Addforce(Vector3.down * 5f, ForceMode.Impulse);

[teal viper]

You'll need to share the code that throws the error.

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[teal viper]

Ah, okay. there's no Addforce method indeed

Check the docs for the correct spelling:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddForce.html

[teal viper]

Also, make sure your !ide is configured correctly(it would show you autocomplete options with the correct spelling).

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[crisp vortex]

alr thx

[sour fulcrum]

I know things deriving from UnityEngine.Object must exist inside a .cs file that matches it's class name, but its that required for things like interfaces and poco classes? (assuming i do want them serialized and shown in inspector)

[rich adder]

matching name is no longer required

[zenith cypress]

Only for unity's object types yeah. Although in newer versions, that isn't a thing anymore

[eternal needle]

i dont think that is even a requirement for unity objects on newer versions of unity. for pocos you dont need to match the name, you can even serialize it when its a class inside a class. Interfaces arent serialized

[sour fulcrum]

hello nomnom oh neat, when was that? I assume for unityobjects you still can't have multiple definitions in a single file? or is that cool now too

[rich adder]

no two Components in same file no, same with SOs

pocos and rest np

[sour fulcrum]

sad, fair enough tho

[rich adder]

imo object definition per file is neater

[sour fulcrum]

It is but I am doing absolutely cursed stuff that involves a couple files that contain exactly 1 line of code 😭

public interface IValuable<O> : IModule<O,IValuable<O>,ValueModule,ValueData> where O : class, IValuable<O> { }

just unreadable nonsense

[zenith cypress]

I often put many definitions in a file as I can't stand file hopping

[sour fulcrum]

yup, today i put this together for testing and manually defining all of these + in separate files hurt

public interface IContentBehaviour<B,S> where B : MonoBehaviour, IContentBehaviour<B,S> where S : ScriptableObject, IScriptableContent<S,B> { }
public abstract class ContentBehaviour : MonoBehaviour { }
public abstract class ContentBehaviour<B,S> : ContentBehaviour, IContentBehaviour<B,S> where B : ContentBehaviour<B,S>, IContentBehaviour<B,S> where S : ScriptableContent<S,B>, IScriptableContent<S,B> { }

public interface IScriptableContent<S,B> where S : ScriptableObject, IScriptableContent<S,B> where B : MonoBehaviour, IContentBehaviour<B,S> { }
public abstract class ScriptableContent : ScriptableObject { }
public abstract class ScriptableContent<S,B> : ScriptableContent, IScriptableContent<S,B> where S : ScriptableContent<S,B>, IScriptableContent<S,B> where B : ContentBehaviour<B,S>, IContentBehaviour<B,S> { }

public interface IModuleBehaviour<M,D> where M : MonoBehaviour, IModuleBehaviour<M,D> where D : class, IModuleData<D,M> { }
public abstract class ContentModule : MonoBehaviour { }
public abstract class ContentModule<M,D> : ContentModule, IModuleBehaviour<M,D> where M : ContentModule<M,D>, IModuleBehaviour<M,D> where D : ModuleData<D,M>, IModuleData<D,M> { }

public interface IModuleData<D,M> where D : class, IModuleData<D,M> where M : MonoBehaviour, IModuleBehaviour<M,D> { }
public class ModuleData<D,M> where D : ModuleData<D,M>, IModuleData<D,M> where M : ContentModule<M,D>, IModuleBehaviour<M,D> { }

public interface IModule<O,T,M,D> where M : MonoBehaviour, IModuleBehaviour<M,D> where D : class, IModuleData<D,M> where T : IModule<O,T,M,D> where O : class, T { }

public class ValueData : ModuleData<ValueData, ValueModule>, IModuleData<ValueData,ValueModule> { }
public class ScriptableItem : ScriptableContent<ScriptableItem,ItemBehaviour>, IValuable<ScriptableItem> { }
public class ItemBehaviour : ContentBehaviour<ItemBehaviour,ScriptableItem>, IValuable<ItemBehaviour> { }

[charred spoke]

100% cursed

[eternal needle]

id question what you really need this for but I dont think id really want to know. There are likely ways you couldve avoided this but 🤷‍♂️

unnecessarily complex code isnt a good thing

[sour fulcrum]

Oh it's absolutely likely avoidable, most of this is just a learning exercise than anything directly practical

the general gist of the intents is building a foundation for composition based content creation with a sibling-esque relationship between the behaviors and the data, as well as in a way that lets me define a lot of it in a re-usable package. A lot of this is extra ugly in an attempt to make the actual usage of it look a little cleaner even if that's not strictly ideal

[frigid sequoia]

Am I crazy? How do I set the image of an image component on the UI? Isn't like that?

[sour fulcrum]

the image component is an image

[frigid sequoia]

I am extremely confused by the difference between a UI Image and an UIElements Image

[sour fulcrum]

sprite is sprite

what type is skillIcon

[frigid sequoia]

UIE Image

[sour fulcrum]

sorry i realise now thats a confusing question

you have two skillIcon's there

what is both

[frigid sequoia]

Both are the same tbh

I just wanted to change the image of the first one to match the second one

[sour fulcrum]

skillIcon.sprite = skillReferenced.skillIcon.sprite ?

[frigid sequoia]

It's like pretty confusing calling the image of an image sprite, being that sprite is another way of rendering stuff that is different from the image component, tbh

[sour fulcrum]

I agree to an extent

but I think your issue is in the other direction

I would probably make more sense if Image was called ImageRenderer

[frigid sequoia]

Makes sense, yeah

Also, what the heck is the difference between the UIElements one and the UI one?

Are they the same?

[teal viper]

These are different ui systems in unity. UI one is using canvases. UIElements is close to html and css.

And image component makes actually makes sense as it contains the image data/settings on the canvas. It doesn't render it itself as opposed to SpriteRenderer. The canvas renderer is responsible for rendering all the canvas elements that can be rendered.

Sprite is section of a texture, it describes what part of a texture is used during rendering.

[frigid sequoia]

Then, the editor should not call that source image then

Cause it's a sprite?

I dunno, just feels confusing

[sour fulcrum]

what in your opinion makes an image not a sprite and a sprite not an image

[teal viper]

I guess so. The naming can get confusing.

[frigid sequoia]

I am just confused by how we have a sprite renderer component that requires a sprite called sprite and a Image component (not renderer), and requires a sprite but calls it "source image"

And extra show when referencing an Image pops u 3 different types of Image

But sure, it's fine

I got it

[sour fulcrum]

ye, imo Image and Sprite are pretty interchangeable words that in practice usually refer to the type of content in them and the target size

my issue with that as you said is that SpriteRenderer clearly refers to rendering a Sprite but Image in my head refers to the asset and not the component in charge of renderering them

[frigid sequoia]

Image component -> Image Renderer & Source Image -> Sprite

[sour fulcrum]

I wouldn't mind it being called source image if the component was called ImageRenderer

[teal viper]

Probably different people working on these components at different times and were not explicitly aware of the naming in the other scenario.

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, and a thing I am doing that I am not sure, matters much. If I have singleton instance to reference stuff, should I make a parameter for it and store it on the script if I am gonna reference to the Instance over and over? It's faster or doesn't matter much?

[teal viper]

What kind of parameter?

[frigid sequoia]

Like doing this rather than referencing the Instance each time I am gonna do something with the selectedEntity

I am assuming it's kinda the same, but not sure

[teal viper]

I'm still not sure what you mean by that. Referencing what exactly each time?

What's the other way you were planning to do this?

[frigid sequoia]

I am basically making a "selectedEntity" variable on the script to store it within itself and referencing that instead of the "EntitySelectSystem.Instance.selectedEntity"

[teal viper]

Ah, okay. There should be virtually no difference in terms of performance. So it's more of a readablility thing.

[sour fulcrum]

Yeah sometimes i do static getters to point towards stuff to reduce the writing eg.

public class MyImportantReference : MonoBehaviour {  }

public class MySingleton : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static MySingleton Instance;

    private MyImportantReference reference;
    public static MyImportantReference Reference => Instance.reference;
}

[frigid sequoia]

That seems kinda hard to read for my level still tho

[sour fulcrum]

is it the =>?

[frigid sequoia]

Is the referencing something to another something on the very declaration of that something, so yeah, kinda

I still get confused by list not doing snapshot values when getting referenced

[sour fulcrum]

if it helps this is functionally the same thing

public class MyImportantReference : MonoBehaviour {  }

public class MySingleton : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static MySingleton Instance;

    private MyImportantReference reference;
    
    public static MyImportantReference GetImportantReference()
    {
      return (Instance.reference);
    }
}

no stress tho

[frigid sequoia]

Does it need to be static tho?

[sour fulcrum]

doesnt need to be, but means you can do MySingleton.Reference rather than MySingleton.Instance.Reference

which seems minor but depending on the name and usage can add up in cleanness

[frigid sequoia]

It would mean that the reference cannot be changed to anything else if I am not mistaken right?

But since it's pointing to another variable that can be changed it's no issue

It's that the whole point?

[sour fulcrum]

yeah the Reference is what c# called a property just using the get part of it. it's basicially a function disguised a variable

it is just a "pointer" (i use that word humanly not programmically) to another value for convienence

[frigid sequoia]

Cool, I do try to avoid stuff that would make me read it twice whenever possible, so I don't I am think I am using that for now lol

[sour fulcrum]

ya i feel that, learn at your own pace but properties are goated

[naive pawn]

do you understand ref vs value types as a whole?
or do you already understand it but just haven't internalized it?

[frigid sequoia]

I understand it, I think

But I am on that ground where I would probably misuse them if I start using them frequently

[random nova]

my midscript has an audiosource assigned to it however when I run the game and the game creates pipeobjects the midscript just dosent have an audiosource assigned to it. there is also a screenshot of the pipe prefab.

here is my midscript : https://scriptbin.xyz/ocecuvadam.cpp

[teal viper]

Chris is not talking about the ref keyword, but about reference types and value types.

[frigid sequoia]

Yes, I understand it

[teal viper]

Share the actual prefab screenshot.

[naive pawn]

if it's the latter, it'll probably just get better with time/experience/practice, unfortunately. i don't think there's really any shortcut to internalizing a system like this

[teal viper]

If you do then I'm not sure what " if I start using them frequently" means, because you probably DO use them freequently.

[naive pawn]

where's the audiosource? in the prefab?

[frigid sequoia]

I do, but I also use a lot of others things I do not understand by just using the interfaces and scratching the surface lol

[random nova]

isnt the pipe prefab the screenshot you mean? or do you mean of every component in the prefab?

[random nova]

uhm.. I think I see the problem now

[teal viper]

Oh, it is. But I want to see the Mid object on the prefab

[teal viper]

Yeah, this

[frigid sequoia]

LIke, I have no freaking idea on how to code a shader, but I can get some nodes working. I have no freaking clue on how a List works internally, but I yet spam them like crazy lol

[naive pawn]

a list is just an array that gets replaced if it's too small

[teal viper]

It's sometimes a good idea to try and investigate things a bit deeper. Can open up new perspective and understanding of things.

[naive pawn]

do you know how references, the stack, the heap work? if you understand those it might help

[random nova]

ok sorry I was lost I forgot to add the audiosource to the prefab

it works now

[frigid sequoia]

No, and my rule of thumb is not trying to learn something I cannot apply inmediatly to something usefull, cause I am gonna take double the time to learn it and I am just going to forget it later lol

I am the type of learner that when sees something doing the something I need, everything clicks inmediatly, otherwise it's just noise.

[naive pawn]

that.. sounds like it'd stunt your progress

understanding how reference types and the stack work would be applicable to the entirety of programming

[sour fulcrum]

what if you never "need" it

[frigid sequoia]

Then it wasn't that necesary to begin with

Look, I don't even use keybind shorcuts on anything, just cause I find clicking on the thing easier to undertand

And I play freaking Starcraft lmao

[keen cargo]

I mean it's going to help you a lot to be at least aware of these things

[ivory bobcat]

Source Image is just the field name for description. The expected type is that of a Sprite.

[sour fulcrum]

forsure but modern programming languages have a ton of features that are massively helpful in productivity and readability that aren't neccasarily "neccasary"

[frigid sequoia]

That's why I ask a lot of if I am doing stuff right, cause I don't really have much to compare to

[naive pawn]

which is why you'd generally learn about what you can do, not what you have to do

[ivory bobcat]

Hmm, you aren't referencing an instance every time however you are accessing a static field that has a reference to your single instance where you're attempting to access the member (refresh rate) of that single instance.
Bypassing the instance field/property wouldn't save much time. If you'd prefer not having to access the instance property every time.. you could reference the instance in that particular scope or class and refer to that variable instead. Example:cs private EntitySelectSystem system; private void Start() => system = EntitySelectSystem.Instance;``````cs if (system.selectedEntity == null) ...

[burnt vapor]

Probably better to just make a property that points to EntitySelectSystem.Instance as this will avoid possible race conditions if more things rely on eachother in Start

Ideally this is all set up beforehand but it's a tricky topic.

[soft creek]

Hi, how i can select 1 random number in a list of numbers. For example, i want to select a number in this list [1, 8 ,98, 72, 64, 670, 4980]

[dense tide]

just get index between 0 and element length of list and get value with list[index]

 List<int> list = new List<int>() { 1, 9, 98, 72, 64, 670, 4980 };
 int index = UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, list.Count);
 int element = list[index];

i think you mean this

or shorter version:

List<int> list = new List<int>() { 1, 9, 98, 72, 64, 670, 4980 };
int element = list[UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, list.Count)];

[next spruce]

I have debug logs for each rotation that happens

but those didnt really help yet

do you have any suggestions?

[teal viper]

Can you share a video of the issue properly? mp4 and drag and drop it in the discord.

[next spruce]

Sure

The player model often overrotates and I cant seem to properly sync the rotation (of the player model) caused by the movement script trying to align the model with the terrain and the rotation caused by the script that aligns the player model with the camera rotation (so it works like a 3rd person shooters camera)

[teal viper]

This is not mp4. I would have to download the file to see it.

[next spruce]

Sorry, accident

[teal viper]

Ok, so do you know what line of code causes the rotation?

Do you see any of the logs related to rotation when the issue happens?

[next spruce]

I would have say its the script trying to align the model to the ground, but I don't actually get the debug logs for those rotations

I put debug logs into the gravity application process, which applies gravity of the model is not on the ground (based on 4 raycasting points)

and the weird rotation is caused by the gravity

[fathom condor]

Hey guys Im trying to replicate the IK Stretch from Blender but failing, probably doing it wrong but I dont know what the correct way is too bad at math. Im using the unity animation package for the IK part and this is my stretch script. Any help is much apreciated!!

'''using UnityEngine;

public class StretchyIKBone : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform start; // Root of the chain
public Transform end; // Tip of the chain
public float stretchiness = 1f; // 1 = default stretch, higher = looser

public Transform[] bonesInChain;

private float originalChainLength;
private float[] originalBoneLengths;

void Start()
{
    if (start == null || end == null || bonesInChain == null || bonesInChain.Length == 0)
        return;

    originalBoneLengths = new float[bonesInChain.Length];
    originalChainLength = 0f;

    // Calculate total original chain length by summing bone segment lengths
    for (int i = 0; i < bonesInChain.Length; i++)
    {
        Transform bone = bonesInChain[i];
        Transform child = (i < bonesInChain.Length - 1) ? bonesInChain[i + 1] : end;

        float length = Vector3.Distance(bone.position, child.position);
        originalBoneLengths[i] = length;
        originalChainLength += length;
    }
}

void LateUpdate()
{
    if (start == null || end == null || bonesInChain == null || bonesInChain.Length == 0)
        return;

    float currentDistance = Vector3.Distance(start.position, end.position);
    float stretchRatio = (currentDistance / originalChainLength) * stretchiness;

    for (int i = 0; i < bonesInChain.Length; i++)
    {
        Transform bone = bonesInChain[i];

        Vector3 scale = bone.localScale;
        scale.z = stretchRatio;
        bone.localScale = scale;
    }
}

}'''

Heres how it looks currently: https://streamable.com/yo697j

[teal viper]

1. Actually open your console and monitor the messages.
2. Make sure the console is not set to fold the messatges.
3. Remove unnecessary messages.
4. Make tour logs more informative. At the moment you are using the same message in different places.

[snow ruin]

Hey guys! I’m very rusty with unity right now and I really need some help making collectibles for my 2D game. It’s supposed to be somewhat of an endless runner where the collectibles move left along with the background to simulate movement. I’ve made prefabs of both the background and the collectibles and put the moveleft script on both of them. I also have spawner gameobjects that have scripts that are supposed to spawn them at different intervals. the collectible spawner is the one on the right. the weird part is that the background spawner/moveleft works perfectly and successfully loops the background without issue. the collectibles spawn, but they spawn in the same area and don’t move left despite having the script attached. does anyone know what the problem might be? any help is very much appreciated :D

[teal viper]

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[snow ruin]

crap mb

[fathom condor]

Sorry.. will remember that now

[next spruce]

Alright, I've made these changes, and it seems like the gravity is being applied and the players "Rotating Back" debug message is recived

Here is my current code: https://pastebin.com/Dp2gPmAG

Maybe you can see the logic flawn I can't

[soft creek]

yes, it is, but if now i want to select only 3 numbers of the list, for example 1, 9,98, how i can do yhis?

[teal viper]

That log would only print if the ray pointing directly below the object doesn't hit anything.

        if (!Physics.Raycast(
                groundCheckFront.transform.position,
                -transform.up,
                checkDist,
                groundLayer
            ))
        {
            float rotSpeed = (90f * Time.deltaTime);
            transform.Rotate(rotSpeed, 0f, 0f, Space.Self);
            Debug.Log("Rotating back to the ground ");
        }

You should draw some debug rays showing where and how far the ray is cast

[dense tide]

make it loop with for

[soft creek]

sorry, i say it bad, how i can select a random number only in 3 numbers of the list

for example in the list i want to select a random muber beetwen 1 , 9 and 98

[next spruce]

Alright, I'll get to it, I'll get back to you if I have something

[dense tide]

create new list with that 3 numbers and call Random.Range(list.Min(), list.Max())

[soft creek]

ok

[lusty star]

alright so the score updates by 1 good, but then it stays 1 when i pass more trigger blocks, whats the issue

oh wait

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[lusty star]

'''cs
using UnityEngine;

public class TriggerScore : MonoBehaviour
{
int scoreNumber = 0;
void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
scoreNumber++;
Debug.Log("oh no you triggered me " + scoreNumber);
}
}

[grand snow]

are you aware that this score number int is per instance

[lusty star]

but int is for whole numbers and float is for decimals no?

[grand snow]

You miss understand. Do you want many of these triggers to all contribute to 1 store value? Atm its per instance

[lusty star]

no no like update the variable by 1 every time i pass them

[grand snow]

Yea its doing that currently

but if you have many TriggerScore instances in your scene they all have their own score that they increase by themselves

[lusty star]

oh wait what?

i think i got it let me try something

like what you said

yeah still doesnt work

[slender nymph]

what did you try

[lusty star]

so like

i have these 3 blocks i have to pass, all with the same trigger as the middle one and the same script

[slender nymph]

what did you actually try to do to solve this when you said "let me try something"

[lusty star]

and it prints this

[lusty star]

ohhhhh, i deleted the script from 2 of the triggers

[slender nymph]

have you considered instead putting the component on whatever is going through the triggers instead? since your score variable is not static a separate version of that variable exists for each instance of the component. so if you instead put the component on the object passing through the triggers then it will only exist on that object and there will be one score variable getting updated instead of multiple separate ones

[lusty star]

OHHHH

[slender nymph]

alternatively, you could make score static so each instances shares that same variable, however that may not be ideal, especially if you don't understand what static is

[lusty star]

THATS WHAT I MISSED

let me try putting it only on the object

bruh i was so stupid how i forgot thats how it works lmao

thank you all for helping

[grand snow]

I was trying to question this but guess that didnt get across 😦

[lusty star]

yeah im still very new but explain please

[slender nymph]

explain what, exactly

[grand snow]

instance variables vs static

[lusty star]

how to share a variable between scripts

[grand snow]

many scripts modify a varible in 1 instance elsewhere (e.g. game manager)
OR use static variable

[slender nymph]

that's not quite what is actually happening with static though, it's just a simplification so you would understand what i was talking about, it doesn't "share a variable between scripts" it makes the variable not associated with a specific instance of the object.
also you need to understand the difference between "scripts" (which are just files that contain code and mean nothing within the running application) and "objects" which are instances created from classes and structs defined within the code.

[lusty star]

ok thanks

[sour furnace]

is unity muse ai worth it

[keen cargo]

no

don't use ai to generate code for you

[sour furnace]

ok but how do i make my object move forward in a direction but if it collides with another one of my game object , i want it to explode

[naive pawn]

split that into separate tasks

make it move, specify a direction, detect collision, make it explode

[sour furnace]

ok but how? i use visual scripting

[keen cargo]

ask that in the visual scripting server

[naive pawn]

you'd probably want an rb for the collision check, then you could use that same rb for the movement

[sour furnace]

where is it

[keen cargo]

#763499475641172029

[north merlin]

How to write this code in a non deprecated way. Tried but couldn't find any relevant information for an hour and unity has not updated thier docs despite it being a year now ```public void MuteSounds()
{
allSources.Clear();
AudioSource[] sources = FindObjectsOfType<AudioSource>();

foreach (AudioSource source in sources)
{
    allSources.Add(source);
}

foreach (AudioSource A in allSources)
{
    if (ContinuosSounds.Contains(A))
    {
        allSources.Remove(A);
    }
}

foreach (AudioSource A in allSources)
{
    A.Stop();
}

foreach(AudioSource A in ContinuosSounds)
{
    A.mute = true;
}

}```

Find objects is the deprecated part

[keen cargo]

if it's telling you that it's deprecated, then i'm pretty sure it also gives you the alternative in the subtext, if you hover over the warning in the IDE

[north merlin]

the alt throws an error. AS it always does with the intellisense

[naive pawn]

what's the error given?

[keen cargo]

FindObjectsByType gives you an error?

[naive pawn]

also about docs- FindObjectsByType is listed in the docs page for FindObjectsOfType

[north merlin]

it returns an object not an audio source and to try and get the audio source version causes even more errors

you can try to write it yourself. Its asinine to deal with

[rich adder]

show what you wrote

[naive pawn]

ok, are you gonna say what the errors are

[north merlin]

i just said the error

[naive pawn]

you have not

[north merlin]

it returns an object and u cant get the audio source from the object

[naive pawn]

you have said the issue, not the error message

also, like nav said; show what you wrote

[north merlin]

i deleted what i wrote

[keen cargo]

undo

[north merlin]

This conversation is straying form the original point. Who knows how to write the above code in a non deprecated way?

[rich adder]

they literally told you how and you said its grabbing the wrong thing, so show what the new thing is.. its common sense

[naive pawn]

buddy we can't fix an issue if you refuse to tell us what the exact issue is and what's causing it

you've apparently followed the steps to get the new version already; that didn't work. so now tell us how it isn't working

[rich adder]

even the IDE says it...

no issues with new function 🤷‍♂️

[unique spear]

so the triangle is pointing to the gold thingy and i want the pointer on top right to be the same rotation as the triangle but when i rotate (player), the pointer also rotates. i'd also like to mention pointer is in canvas
code for pointer:
void Update()
{
transform.rotation = pointer.transform.rotation;
}
in this case "pointer" is the triangle

[rich adder]

and what is transform.rotation supposed to be

[unique spear]

rotation of the pointer

[rich adder]

huh and what is pointer supposed to be ?

[unique spear]

the gold thing on top right

[polar acorn]

You can, easily

[rich adder]

is the white triangle child of the player ?

[unique spear]

yea

[polar acorn]

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

Exactly what the IDE says to use

[rich adder]

hmm not 100% sure but that could be affecting the rotation

[unique spear]

i want the pointer to be the same rotation as the traingle

could it be bc canva isn't rotating with player

[unique spear]

it was the issue
thanks for help @rich adder

[rich adder]

ohh how did you fix it?

[unique spear]

i added a script to the canva to rotate with player

bc ui normally stays in place and it caused the issue

If it makes sense

[rich adder]

huh..thats weird...canvas doesn't rotate afaik

[unique spear]

I think normally yes but i can change it with script

[rich adder]

oh ok cause when i tested it RQ I was able to get UI to rotate fine , I'm guessing you might have referenced the wrong object?

Vector3 mousePosWorld = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
mousePosWorld.z = 0;
var dir = (mousePosWorld - thing.position).normalized;
thing.up = dir;
uiThing.rotation = thing.rotation;```

[naive pawn]

you might want to have that rotation sync in LateUpdate to make sure it gets the rotation of the current frame rather than the previous frame

or just set it in the same script, like nav's example

[eager mesa]

hello everyone! Could someone help me with a little project im working on for school?

[naive pawn]

!ask

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.
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[naive pawn]

and don't ask to ask

[eager mesa]

Got it, so be more specific then?

[unique spear]

I mean it worked perfectly until i turned right or any direction

[eager mesa]

I'm trying to do a road controller where once the player crosses a section of the road, another one spawns in front of it.

[unique spear]

But now it works so i'll leave it alone thanks for help

[eager mesa]

I'll try to describe what my code is suposed to do:
The player spawns on top of a road which becomes "curr-road". Once the player exits that road, it becomes "prev-road" and the road that it entered becomes "curr-road" and another one infront of it spawns called "next-road" But unfortunately its a buggy mess, roads spawn on top of each other among other things.

A car, which is the player, has a box collider on its rear which is suposed to only trigger when it touches a roads box colider as well, not the whole road.

I dont know why, but i think the box collider on its rear touches a road and triggers, not just the roads own box colider

[wintry quarry]

showing the code would help.

and perhaps a video of what's happening

[eager mesa]

yeah it probably would😅

So this is whats going on.

[naive pawn]

use mp4 so it gets embedded in discord

[eager mesa]

This is the mess that is my code

[wintry quarry]

!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.

[wintry quarry]

not screenshots please

It's also completely unclear which object this script is on, or even which script this is

[eager mesa]

The code i showed is the "Road_Controller" script

im gonna send it properly now

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

[wintry quarry]

So which object is this script attached to?

[eager mesa]

it is attached to "Free Racing Car" which would be the player, ill rename it actually

[wintry quarry]

I mean one thiong you should really do is observe the car's position etc. It seems like maybe it's going flying? Probably because it's colliding with teh newly spawned road in a degenerate way.

[eager mesa]

It is driving on the ground, but something in the code is being messy. I think its because of the colliders

but its weird because the only things i have as "Is Trigger" are the box collider on the car's rear and the box colider on end of the road.

[wintry quarry]

Wait how do you even have a non-convex mesh collider on the car?

Is there a third collider there too?

[eager mesa]

the "body" of the car has a colider of its own, the collider i want to use is on the prefab itself, maybe i should just use the collider on the body?

[wintry quarry]

Two things of concern:

• Non-convex mesh colliders cannot be used with dynamic Rigidbodies (that's probably one of these errors/warnings)
• Your non-trigger colliders are ALSO going to trigger OnTriggerEnter with the road. So that's going to run at least twice. Only one of the colliders needs to be a trigger for that.

[wintry quarry]

yes you need to delete that extra collider

and you can't use the non-convex mesh collider at all for a moving object

it needs to be convex

or you need to replace it with a bunch of smaller primitive or convex colliders

[eager mesa]

ok so now i only have one colider on the whole thing which is a box colider on the body of the car:

And it is triggering events because roads still spawn although still weirdly

[wintry quarry]

So now you need to get to the bottom of that "weirdness"

I highly recommend dragging your scene view to be also visible

so you can watch the scene from scene view while it's running in game view

then you can see exactly where the roads are spawning etc.

and where the car goes

[eager mesa]

i dont quite get that, but i made the main camera see more of whats going on

[wintry quarry]

like this

make it so you can see the two side by side

then you can watch both

Just drag them by these tabs so they're side by side

[eager mesa]

Got it! But i think it works now? It ran for a while without problems, ill give it another try

It does work! But now i'll try making it so it spawns 2 roads so the player can see whats gonna be happening better.

[tight oak]

I know for a fact that this is going to be something stupid that I'm missing because I'm sleep deprived, but I want to set a fadeToNextScene boolean inside of my BlackFade script to true after the player finishes talking to an NPC

I've set it so that I have public BlackFade blackFade; at the beginning of my DialogueController, and once the player finishes talking I wrote blackFade.fadeToNextScene = true;

But it's just coming up as a null reference, I know for a fact it's probably something really dumb that I'm missing but I can't think of what it is

[wintry quarry]

Well did you actually assign the reference?

[rich adder]

then blackFade is null

[wintry quarry]

Just writing public BlackFade blackFade; creates a reference variable. You have to acutually assign that reference to something for it to be usable

either in code with the = operator, or in the inspector

[open apex]

First image, is the code for the player, if the collide with the object that has a tag called "PickUp" it will make the object dissappear. Second image, is the code of the AI (enemy) that follows the player, I tried to make it so when the enemy also touches the same object (first) it will make the object dissappear. (This is for fun purposes only), I'm not getting any errors however the code doesn't seem to work either. Does anyone have an idea why?

[open apex]

Quick question, why do you have "&&"? I mean why would you need an AND when you already have the player colliding/touching the "road"?

[eager mesa]

thats a great question!

I don't know

[rich adder]

start by debugging it

[open apex]

😭

[rich adder]

I mean how else you want to solve a problem without debug ? we all do it

You have to compare the actual result vs expected result

[open apex]

😭 (how to do that) 😭

[rich adder]

well start by testing each part of the code is doing / hitting how you expect it to. Bigger problems must be broken down into smaller to test problems

process of elimination, 1 by 1

You have lots of conditionals you have to test

also this code screams AI generated...

[open apex]

hello

I am actually trying to learn something

😭

I just copy and paste the sample

[rich adder]

Oh okay good.. at least thats one lest problem then

[open apex]

so I can come back and understand what's happening

[rich adder]

well did you learn what each part is doing then you can kinda use that to test each part

[open apex]

kinda

[rich adder]

you can start with Logs, put them inside the if conditional statements and see where its printing and where it isn;t

[open apex]

But isn't this already pretty straight forward?

    {
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("PickUp"))
        {
            // Deactivate the collided object (making it disappear).
            other.gameObject.SetActive(false);
        }
    }```

all I can do is change what's inside the if

no?

or print whatever the object is colliding into

[rich adder]

well there is nothing wrong in the code itself per se... but how do you know that function is actually running ? did you verify that

[open apex]

okkkkk

👍

makes sense

[rich adder]

the steps of the debug is to eliminate any doubts / assumptions with hard proof

[open apex]

so kinda like this?

    {
        Console.WriteLine("It's working");
    }```

and has to print something here?

[rocky canyon]

Debug.Log("It's working");

[open apex]

nvm

nvm

nvm

[rich adder]

1. Console.WriteLine doesnt work in unity

[open apex]

ok

[rocky canyon]

Print() does

but ew

[open apex]

weird af

this ain't python

[rich adder]

2. You should probably keep the code as was, but you can put Log statement BEFORE if statement and actually print what you hit too, with its tag as well

[swift elbow]

i honestly use print more than debug.log lol

[open apex]

Debug.Log("It's working and we hit: " + other.gameObject.tag);

[rich adder]

eg Debug.Log($"{other.name} has entered the trigger with tag of {other.gameobject.tag}");

[rich adder]

right

[rocky canyon]

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        // A
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("PickUp"))
        {
             // B
             // you technically can't be certain this is failing or suceeding.. without a log at (A)
        }
    }```

[open apex]

like this?

[rich adder]

sure the more details you print the better

rarely you need "RandomText" type of debugs, better to print values

[rocky canyon]

theres also string interpolation..
Debug.Log($"Like this we can log the name of {gameObject.name} without any extra plus signs and quotes.");

[open apex]

string interpolation

Is that how you call it?

[rocky canyon]

Debug.Log($"It's working and we hit: {other.gameObject.tag}";```

[rich adder]

the $ yes
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/tokens/interpolated

[rocky canyon]

debug.log beast mode

[open apex]

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        Debug.Log($"{other.name}It's working and we hit: {other.gameObject.tag}");
    }```

Nothing is being printed

it doesn't work

[rich adder]

there you go you answered yourself

[open apex]

why though?

it doesn't make sense

[rich adder]

many reasons it could

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages @open apex you can go through these steps to guide through reason it could fail

[rocky canyon]

if(bool){
Debug.Log("The bool is true");}
else{
Debug.Log("The bool is false");}```

[rocky canyon]

there was a time..

[open apex]

I think I understand what the problem is now

[rocky canyon]

nice

[open apex]

The yellow things are objects that give you a point

When the player touches them it cannot go through it

But the enemy can

[rich adder]

did you mark them as Trigger?

[rocky canyon]

yuuup, well if they're triggers the player could

and the OnTriggerEnter() function would be called

[open apex]

yes

this function works totally for the player

not the enemy

[rocky canyon]

When the player touches them it cannot go through it what do u mean by this then?

[rich adder]

the enemy most likely does not have a rigidbody

[open apex]

they collide

[rocky canyon]

is that desired?

[rich adder]

it sounds solid then..

[open apex]

then the object is set to false

[rich adder]

can you show the inspectors so we know for sure
(cubes, enemy and player)

[rocky canyon]

usually collectables dont make the player collide with them

that'd ruin my flow-state

[final forge]

Hello, I'm trying to make a basic flappy bird game without following a tutorial. Are the following things a "bad" implementation?
I make a boxcollider at the bottom of the screen that when my bird collides with it, I lose (fell off the screen), and the box collider's transform is updated with my player's coordinates so it follows me on the x axis. I want to try "object pooling", but I'm unsure of what that entails. Do I flat out disable the pipes that leave my screen? Or do I just disable their sprite renderer until they're needed again?

[rich adder]

sounds like you should not be worrying about pooling yet

thats extra complication for a beginner

[rocky canyon]

for flappy bird ur basically just positioning them on the opposite side of the screen once they go out of view

[final forge]

oh

[wintry quarry]

object pooling is basically just reusing the pipes. Disabling them when the go out the left side of the screen, enabling and repositioning them when they reappear.

Also most flappy birds don't move the player on the x axis, they move the pipes.

[final forge]

😭 oh my god

[rich adder]

most infinite games try to move the objects towards player instead of other way around, to avoid dealing with Resett of World Pos to avoid Float overflow

You get weird glitchy shit happening at really high float numbers in world

[open apex]

yeah the bird stays in place

you create the effect of "movement"

😭

[rocky canyon]

treadmill

[open apex]

I was also shocked when I first made it

lmao

[final forge]

ive been lied to

WTF

[wintry quarry]

games are all about smoke and mirrors

[open apex]

ti siento yowler

[rich adder]

carrot on a stick

[open apex]

fr

LMAO

[open apex]

I'm laughing so hard

lmao

same shit happens to me

I do something for hours

realising that, that was not meant to be done that way

[rich adder]

Secrets are My Life!.

[open apex]

is this what you guys wanted to see?

[rich adder]

yeah so the enemy does not have a rigidbody

[open apex]

yeahhhhhhhhh

[rich adder]

and the one on the cubes are kinematic, which would require at least 1 dynamic to trigger a trigger 😵‍💫

[open apex]

I kinda realised that now

[rocky canyon]

it should have one.. and the coins can do w/o

up to u tho

[rich adder]

dont put physics components on pick up items, its a waste of resources

[rocky canyon]

ill usually put RB on player/enemy and triggers for everything else

and my trigger code on the trigger asking about the rigidbody.. not the other way around..

[open apex]

so what have they done in the tutorial?

I'm kinda confused rn

[rocky canyon]

no clue..

just do whats in the tutorial for now..

[open apex]

I tried to put an rb in the enemy object

[rocky canyon]

are u following it u should know

lol

[open apex]

Spawn camp

[rocky canyon]

it'd have to be Kinematic as well

[open apex]

I'm bout to cry

[rocky canyon]

so it doesn't conflict w/ ur Navmesh Agent

[rich adder]

assuming the enemy is a navmesh agent you can put a rigidbody just to grab physics message but you need to Lock it in place with constraints

[open apex]

I'm trying to understand tbh 😭

[rocky canyon]

lol.. well where are u stuck?

[rich adder]

can you link the tutorial?

[rocky canyon]

why not reverse 1 step.. and try again slower

https://learn.unity.com/project/roll-a-ball

[open apex]

The only reason I half understand it's because I kinda used common sense

and some c# studying

https://learn.unity.com/course/roll-a-ball/tutorial/adding-ai-navigation?version=2022.3#64ecdf9fedbc2a2d3de5940c

and even in the videos

when they explain it

they don't fully explain

[rich adder]

weird I get a 404 with these links..

[rocky canyon]

broken

yea lol

[open apex]

such as: OnTriggerEnter, I don't fully understand it, it's mostly a guessing game

[open apex]

use this

[rich adder]

same thing

[open apex]

old link

[rocky canyon]

yea i got it 👍

https://learn.unity.com/course/roll-a-ball/tutorial/adding-ai-navigation?version=2022.3 guessing hes on this step

[open apex]

yes

I'm just trying to learn rather than cut corners

I can finish the tutorial

but whatever is stuck in my mind

I just try to eliminate it

What I'm trying to do rn is not a part of the tutorial

[rocky canyon]

dont stress about it..
collisions/triggers and that exact code ur working on right now

appears ALL OVER game dev

you'll get lots and lots of experience with it

[rich adder]

in order to do that you have to grasp the few requirements for the specific thing you need to do.. For example a Trigger message needs at least 1 Dynamic rigidbody between the two colliders

[open apex]

Is there some kind of tutorial that actually explains things step by step?

because this is supposed to be a "beginners tutorials"

and doesn't teach things in detail

[rich adder]

well usually start with the Pathways

Roll a Ball is kinda old i think

You are looking a video on specific things you probably wont find them,

[open apex]

Just quick question, this is how I think it works, correct if I'm wrong:
"OnTriggerEnter" is some kind of a library and "Collider" is a syntax found in that library, "other" is just what we name is, for ex; "other.name" the name of the object that it has collided into

[rich adder]

no OnTriggerEnter is just a method..

[open apex]

so just kinda do more and more programming?

[open apex]

I don't know what it's called

so I called it a library

[rich adder]

well its wrong hence the correction

you dont want to start off the gate with the wrong assumptions

[open apex]

👍

[open apex]

is it a good place to start from?

[rich adder]

A library would be PhysX , what Unity uses for Physics

[open apex]

I kinda got ChatGpt to draw a road map for me

[rocky canyon]

OnTriggerEnter OnCollisionEnter etc are built in Unity functions/methods

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/pathways

[rocky canyon]

like Update() Start() and everything like that

[open apex]

how does it look?

[rocky canyon]

it automatically gets called every physics tick

[rich adder]

idk I dismiss anything "AI"

[rocky canyon]

lol. same credibility--

[rich adder]

its usually gobbledygook

[rocky canyon]

trademarked

[open apex]

so how did you guys learn to program enemies for your games?

[rocky canyon]

ill let u know once i finish

[open apex]

LMAO

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Harrison-Ferrone/author/B07QDTKRVH?sr=8-12&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

wanted to buy a book which this guy wrote

[rich adder]

with time and experience.. also enemies range from very simple to highly complex like GOAP and Utility etc.

[open apex]

c# fundamentals

couldn't afford it

[rich adder]

mehh imo with the amount of good free resources online there is hardly a need to spend money on this stuff

[open apex]

so asked chatgpt to generate me a roadpath teaching the same things

[rocky canyon]

the most complex enemies you'll see from me are the likes of the Goomba's

from super mario bros

[rich adder]

I havent spent a dime , learned it all with whats online

[open apex]

But where am I supposed to start?

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[rich adder]

start by not thinking too deply about doing Enemy AIs and such

[rocky canyon]

heres a little list i put together @open apex

[open apex]

for example you guys told me roll a ball is not a great example

[rocky canyon]

sebastian lagues playlist really helped me get my feet off the ground

[eager mesa]

Could someone help me try figuring out what could be going on?

What i'd like to do is: When the car touches the box colider on the end of the first road, it spawns another road infront on the road infront of it and calls it "next_road"

When the player exists the next road, it's suposed to another road infront of the next_road which would be called nextnext_road.

link to the code: https://paste.mod.gg/fvsqnriitenw/0

[rich adder]

You're trying to Jump 8 steps forward when you should be taking steps back

example.. before touching Enemy AI you should probably know the differences in Trigger messages how they relate to rigidbodies etc.

[open apex]

I'm trying to understand where to start

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw&ab_channel=SebastianLague <-crash your self

[rocky canyon]

and whats the problem? can u be specific

[open apex]

Should I drop this course and start with this rn?

[rocky canyon]

they're short.. its not really a course..

it just introduces u to unity concepts, unity c#, etc

u can stop pause, branch off, discard or w/e

only u can know the best way that u learn

it talks about Triggers 😉

[open apex]

ASOIGHASDIOPHGADS

LMAO

[eager mesa]

well, first of all, roads often spawn on top of each other (you can see that a barrier spawned on the road that has a sign, thats another road spawaning on top of it) and then you can see that the road the car was in at roughly 1:10 despawned with the car below it.

[open apex]

I meaannn, I have been trying to learn player movement and every tutorial I have seen hasn't taught me jack shit and this has been the only "beginners tutorial/course" that has taught me something

[rich adder]

while its good you wanted to stray a bit from the tutorial for something new, you should hold off on that until you learned what was actually in the lesson so you can replicate it on your own without the tutorial, once you have that with time you can slowly diverge more into your own

[rich adder]

they are there to show "here is how I did it" instead of "you do this like this because xyz "

the pathways I linked also will show you step by instead of throwing you to the lions right away

[open apex]

hmmm, so after I finish this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw&ab_channel=SebastianLague, how do I know what to do ? I want to do some stuff but all that shows up is "here is how i did it"

I want to acutally learn

[rich adder]

instead of looking at "how to make player movement " you can do "Ways to move objects in Unity" or something like that

you have to get generic so you get better result

[open apex]

hmm, ok so, go basic and then go more detailed

[rich adder]

this way it will explain how each movement does what and pros and cons

[rich adder]

always

[open apex]

sometimes my brain just doesn't work

really grateful for your help guys,

I will start working on what you have sent me

[rich adder]

for example here is one of the vids I first picked up when learning as beginner
https://youtu.be/tNtOcDryKv4

I did not care about specific " PlayerMovement " I just wanted to know how to move something and I implement the rest on my own etc.

(keep in mind this vid specifically is old and not best practice , mainly hes moving in Update for a rigidbody when it should be FixedUpdate) but you get the point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyV77lN1Yl0&ab_channel=JasonWeimann(GameDev) updated a bit

[open apex]

One last question, should I go through everything you guys have sent me and then try do something? OR kind of do both (but mainly the stuff you sent me)?

[rich adder]

up to you .. IMO start with the pathways from Unity, when you are comfortable with those then move to the next thing, you are learning for now not making an entire game

[open apex]

So do everything here?

[rocky canyon]

he has a part 2 where he makes a little top down game.. but at that point theres where i branched off and started to want to make my own thing

[rich adder]

You dont have to do them all, but at very least Essentials and Junior

[rocky canyon]

then its just looking up piece by piece and then the harder part.. adapting and merging them all together

thats when the experience pays off

[open apex]

part 2 as in 2nd playlist?

[rocky canyon]

a 2nd playlist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SviIeTt2_Lc&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0ctd4dgE1F8g3uec4zKNRV0&ab_channel=SebastianLague this one

thats when you'll combine alot of the stuff he teaches in the previous playlist and puts them to work

but yea its still worth learning how to put all the pieces together even before you have ur own game in mind

[open apex]

I'm kind of trying to learn how to do mobile games rn

not just pc

[rocky canyon]

ur on ur own there

[open apex]

whatt

whatttt

[rich adder]

the genre or platform is often irreverent

its the same building blocks

[rocky canyon]

the input would differ quite a lot tho

[open apex]

exactly

that is the main problem

[rich adder]

not by much. if you properly code the abstraction

[rocky canyon]

i find mobile input fascinating.. i often like to take mobile style inputs and pair em with standalone genre's

u can come up with some pretty unique ux experiences

virtual joysticks for example.. imo havent had their true potential unlocked

[rich adder]

this is called " jumping too far ahead"

you're already thinking about mobile inputs? you dont even know how to make something move on screen lol

take the mobile part of out equation for now, just make the thing move.. where inputs come from will be irrelevant

[open apex]

Anyways here is a story for you guys: I kinda develop a few little games before and has always been into game development a bit, so I'm currently studying IT and 4/5 of our lecturers stopped teaching and just started sending us resources and videos of how to do our assignments, most of the stuff that I am able to do it's because I have done a few shit games before and have that little experience 😭 I can't believe they are sending us shit expecting us to fucking know

[rocky canyon]

maybe they're testing ur resolve..

and ur own learning habits

[open apex]

but it's unrealistic

They are sending us "here how I did it" videos

[rocky canyon]

yea im being a tad sarcastic

[rich adder]

development is a bunch of research test repeat

[open apex]

not "do xyz"

[rocky canyon]

in fact most lot of code tests dont have a set solution, its mostly about how you deal

[worn kernel]

hello! I'm trying to convert a save system tutorial from using binary formatter to Json, but I'm having difficulties loading the data back as a dictionary - it gives me this error
InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
But I don't know know how to cast it back to the dictionary properly, grateful for any pointers

[open apex]

LMAO

[rich adder]

why are you casting it to a dictionary ? you should have a helper class

[wintry quarry]

First thing to do is do GetType() on the returned object and see what it actually is

But typically you should be calling the generic version of DeserializeObject and specifying the type there

[worn kernel]

Yeah there's an Interface and savers scripts that do all the heavy lifting, this is just to read back from the list of objects with the 'saver' component. saving works fine, just loading back gives me an error

[wintry quarry]

e.g.

Dictionary<string, object> deserialized = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, object>>(json);```

if you don't give it that, it's just going to guess basically

[worn kernel]

oh I see

[open apex]

(Ok, will start off with pathways and at the same time go through with the playlist. Thanks for the help and have a good night ❤️ )

[rich adder]

goodluckk

[eager mesa]

if (firstroad.active == true)
{
firstroad.SetActive(false);
}

is this a thing?

firstroad is a gameobject

[worn kernel]

thank you|!

[wintry quarry]

you would need activeSelf or activeInHierarchy

[eager mesa]

I guess should give context, i want to check if the gameobject is active, would i use this?

[wintry quarry]

Again

one of those two

depending on the specific thing you want

activeSelf is just the checkbox on that object itself.
activeInHierarchy can be false if the object itself is active but its parent is deactivated, for example

Because deactivating an object implicitly makes its children deactivated too

feel free to read the docs for further info

[eager mesa]

thank you!

this object is just a child, so it wouldn't be a problem using activeSelf right?

[wintry quarry]

It won't be a problem if that's the thing you want to check

if you want to check overall "activeness" then it will be a problem

[eager mesa]

I'll give it a try, thanks. Also, how do you make your text look like that?

[rich adder]

use ` hi code here ` ```

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[eager mesa]

thank you very much!

I don't even know what to say about this one ngl.

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

I don't even think i'm checking what roads are active or not.

[wintry quarry]

your logs are showing that your logic is disabling two roads in short order

so there's some bad logic in the code somewhere

Also even when you have two roads ahead of the player active - the logic should only really be activating and deactivating one road at a time. It's just a matter of the distance in front of the player that you would be activating the next road

e.g. instead of starting with one active road, you start with two, and then you're still just activating one at a time, just further ahead

(and still just deactivating one at a time).

So I think your logic is faulty to begin with.

[eager mesa]

likely

but i really just dont understand what is going on in general

https://paste.mod.gg/wyksusdshnwp/0 heres the whole code if you'd like to take a look.

[wintry quarry]

Basically instead of these named variables you should use a Queue.

When you add a new road, you enqueue it

When you want to delete a road, you dequeue from the queue

it would replace all of those variables

Also instead of having these pre-spawned 10 road objects, you should just use an object pool and a prefab

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Pool.ObjectPool_1.html

[eager mesa]

Unfortunately i don't know how do that and i don't really think i have time to switch the whole system, but thank you for the sugestion.

Do you think i could still make it work as is?

[wintry quarry]

you could it's just a mess

anyway the logic is almost identical to what you had before, you just shouldn't be spawning two roads at once

only at the Start would you spawn two roads

The nice thing about using a Queue etc is the code can handle any number of visible roads at once without changing the code at all

with this one you're going to be manually copying the variables in an ever increasing chain, which the queue and object pool will just handle gracefully.

[eager mesa]

Im planning on adding a fog so the player can maybe see half of the next road when he's about to leave the current road.

What i could do is start road [0} and a first empty road which once the player passed road 0, would be deactivated and replaced by a proper road.

the first road is just a place holder in a way,

I made a workaround:

I made it so the firstroad positions itself infront of the next_road when the next_road is created that way it makes it seem like next_road was always there.

It is a workaround and doesnt really do what i had in mind, but it works from the players POV and im happy with that.

[latent tinsel]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public float moveSpeed = 2564565f;

void Update()
{
    float moveX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); // A/D or Left/Right
    float moveY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");   // W/S or Up/Down

    Vector2 move = new Vector2(moveX, moveY);
    transform.Translate(move * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
}

}
Why does the movespeed not change at all no matter what I make it?

[wintry quarry]

because you need to set it in the inspector

Also for the future:
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[latent tinsel]

Thanks

[rotund crown]

hm, can i use physics materials to make moving platforms?
my friend said they did an age ago but dont really remember the details

specifically i want a rotating platform to fling the player in the corresponding radial direction when they jump

[foggy spade]

I’m not really understanding what { get; set; } does I’m watching a tutorial and they used it like this

[charred fog]

{ get; set; } is a shorthand in C# for creating a property with both a getter and a setter.
It allows you to read and write to the value without having to write full get and set methods manually.

[foggy spade]

In what situations would I use that for?

[rich adder]

Properties have many uses:

They can validate data before allowing a change.
They can transparently expose data on a class where that data is retrieved from some other source, such as a database.
They can take an action when data is changed, such as raising an event, or changing the value of other fields.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/using-properties

[rotund crown]

bump

[naive pawn]

those 2 things seem pretty unrelated

[rotund crown]

hm yeah i think my friend did a bit of a logic leap
i assume as soon as two physics materials lose contact with eachother they will not inherit any velocity they had from contact

[fair shore]

do idraghandler work in non ui gameobjects? if yes, how to make it work in non ui gameobject?

[teal viper]

Should work. Implement the interface and make sure you have an event system with he required rwycasters.

[dense tide]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[teal viper]

It's probably gonna return screen positions though, so it might not work as you expect.

[final forge]

Hello, I'm stuck on how unity works right now. If the image attached is my inspector window, and I have the following code snippets,
how do I rewrite this to work without using SerializeField?

`public class KeyboardController : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] PlayerController player;
PlayerControls input;

InputAction move;
InputAction jump;

private void Awake()
{
   input = new PlayerControls();
}
private void OnEnable()
{
    input.Enable();
}

private void OnDisable()
{
    input.Disable();
}

void Start()
{
    move = input.FindAction("Move");
    jump = input.FindAction("Jump");
}

void Update()
{
    if (jump.IsPressed())
    {
        player.Jump();
    }
}

}`

`public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
Rigidbody2D rb;
CapsuleCollider2D capsuleCollider;
private void Awake()
{
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
capsuleCollider = GetComponent<CapsuleCollider2D>();
}
void Start()
{

}

public void Jump()
{
}

}`

[dense tide]

first of all, next time send large codes via these links please:

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[final forge]

o ok

[dense tide]

why you dont want to use [SerializeField]
you can set variables on inspector if you mark it [SerializeField] or just type public at the starting of the line

if you dont want it to be shown in inpsector and set it via code, remove [SerializeField] and find object with GameObject.FindObjectOfType<T>() or GameObject.Find()

[naive pawn]

fields are serialized if they are public or marked [SerializeField]. that's the 2 options you have.

(of course the type has to also be serializable, but that's a separate topic)

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/script-serialization-rules.html

[sour fulcrum]

(heads up that FindFirstObjectByType<T>() is preferred iirc)

[naive pawn]

(heads up that serialized references are preferred)

[delicate portal]

Hey, how can I make unity's particle system to only show one particle rotating? It always emits more than 1 even if I set it to 1 cycle

[sour fulcrum]

#✨┃vfx-and-particles

[keen dew]

Since the component is on the same object you can get a reference to it the same way you do for the rigidbody and collider in PlayerController: player = GetComponent<PlayerController>();

[dense tide]

ah, i never use it, afaik FindObjectOfType<T>() checks all referances with type T and if it finds, it breaks the loop and returns first element

so idk what's difference between them

[naive pawn]

it's deprecated, that's the difference

Obsolete: This function is obsolete, use Object.FindFirstObjectByType as a direct replacement or the faster Object.FindAnyObjectByType if any object of the specified type is acceptable.

[dense tide]

ah, alr

[final forge]

I don't not want to, I just wanted to learn alternatives, and am learning

[dense tide]

ah oke

basically, if you want to set variable on inspector without [SerializeField], you should use public

[final forge]

So is it bad that my keyboard and player controller were coupled together?

Should I have used an event based approach for that?

[naive pawn]

i mean, if you want to only allow keyboard usage, i suppose this is how you'd do it

but generally that's not a good idea

[final forge]

oh ok

[naive pawn]

then again, your KeyboardController doesn't actually have anything specific to the keyboard

so just.. rename it lol

[final forge]

ya

[final forge]

so how costly is using a coroutine versus placing an if else in the update method if I want to implement a small cooldown between jumps

[naive pawn]

not significantly different

[grand snow]

I personally do cooldowns by recording time last used but depends on the action that needs it i guess

[stuck field]

In my opinion, less about cost, more about stability, with a coroutine, if the behaviour or calling behaviour is disabled, the coroutine will stop running, in which case it might not complete and allow the cooldown to pass, it's more safe to use Time.time for cooldowns, or deltaTime but it's likely less efficient due to appending to a variable every frame rather just getting at time variable and checking the offset between the saved time and current time

[final forge]

Could you elaborate on this? What does "behavior or calling behavior" is disabled mean? Is there an easy example to consider

[stuck field]

MonoBehaviour.enabled

Any class inherited from MonoBehaviour has the property

Basically disabling the component that has the coroutine or called the coroutine

[grand snow]

If the gameobject the component is on is disabled it will also stop couroutines. Async functions do not do this as they do not rely on a mono to "run"

[glossy crystal]

Oh I see

[grand snow]

Thats why the time recording is more reliable for something the user can activate such as a jump:

const float JumpCooldown = 1f;
float lastJump = float.MinValue;

if(lastJump + JumpCooldown < Time.time)
{
    DoJump();
    lastJump = Time.time;
}

[ashen gulch]

is there a way to mess around with an image's properties (saturation) through code?

[naive pawn]

probably, but you'd maybe want to use effects/filters/shaders for that instead

[ashen gulch]

Seeing that I want 1 or 0 saturation values, would it be easier to just use custom images?

[grand snow]

Doing greyscale in a shader is super easy

If you don't care about accuracy you just add up r+g+b then /3

[alpine summit]

this is more of a C# question than unity specifically: I'd like to write a generic function that accepts number-like inputs (i.e. floats and vectors), so that operations like T-T and T*(float) are defined. Is that possible?

[glossy crystal]

If I’m going to store the state of a large tile map, how do I go about this? I’m tempted to store the interesting tiles in a dictionary, mapping coordinate to objects on interesting tiles, and then serializing the dictionary to a file. This seems like a naive solution though, does anyone have advice?

[grand snow]

Usually for grids we opt to use a 2d array but if it's too large you can split it into many

[north kiln]

No. Generic maths is a .NET 7 feature we will not have access to until Unity 7.
Your option is to write all the overloads.

[grand snow]

A dictionary with a vector2int key isn't too bad but may not be nice to save and load as you need to avoid duplicates yourself

[glossy crystal]

Hm yes ok! I’ll just stick with something similar for now I guess

[alpine summit]

thanks for the quick info

[hexed hare]

As a beginner developer, do you think a bounty hunter game is too ambitious? I want to make a game that has you talk to an NPC, it gives you a quest to kill someone, and once youve done that you get currency to buy better guns and stuff

Do you think I, with little unity experience but lots of tutorials, can pull this off?

[wintry quarry]

yes that's too ambitious

[hexed hare]

What would be a simpler way to make this? it's my dream game

[wintry quarry]

Stick to something more basic along the lines of flappy bird or doodlejump

[naive pawn]

simply, no
you'll get more experience as you practice, so it's not infeasible to work to that big goal, but it'll be much easier on yourself to practice on simple things to start, focusing on one thing at a time

[hexed hare]

Ok, thanks! Ill first learn how to make FP movement and interaction

[wintry quarry]

The reality is that if you try to make your "dream game" right away you are most likely going to fail.

That being said if you are truly dedicated it's fine to get started on it now, but you just need to know it will probably take you years to get it into a state that is actually production ready / sellable.

but yes ideally focus on learning the basics first

[hexed hare]

ill do this to begin

thanks so much!

[last owl]

I'm getting a NullReferenceException on the line bombScript.LaunchArc(bombTarget) despite Debug.Log telling me neither bombScript nor bombTarget is null. Why else would I be getting a null exception?

[naive pawn]

bombScript is likely null
unity is kinda weird with null
debug with x == null instead of just x

[glossy crystal]

For basic enemy AI, do you recommend Coroutines or some state machine (not implemented by coroutines)?

[ripe shard]

does bombScript log as "false"?

[last owl]

Both are logged as false

[ripe shard]

that means they are both invalid objects (destroyed or null)

also your variable names are confusing, an instantiated prefab is no longer a prefab and an instantiated component is not a script, a script is the c# file from which it is created.

likely your "bomb" prefab doesn't have a "Bomb" component.

[last owl]

But is the code still correct in referencing a script on the prefab called "Bomb"?

[ripe shard]

it is correct if by 'prefab' you mean 'GameObject'.

[last owl]

so is there any reason it would still come up as null?

[grand snow]

inb4 Bomb is not actually on bomb

[last owl]

I checked during runtime it is

[naive pawn]

...what?

[naive pawn]

with the == null check, correct?

[last owl]

yes

[naive pawn]

so they aren't null

what does the error actually say?

[last owl]

yeah his response confused me there thought it was the opposite haha

[naive pawn]

is the line you mentioned, the first line of the stacktrace?

[last owl]

The error is "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Bomb.LaunchArc (UnityEngine.Vector2 targetPos) (at Assets/Scripts/Bomb.cs:17)
Enemy.EnemyBombThrown () (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy.cs:120)"

[naive pawn]

ok so it's not actually in this script...

look at the line mentioned

Bomb.cs line 17, inside the function LaunchArc

[last owl]

oh yeah your right it is, double clicking it takes me to line 120 in Enemy.cs for some reason

[ripe shard]

No, checking without == null, false means invalid

[naive pawn]

it wouldn't be false

it'd be the name of the class

i told them to use == null, so that's where the boolean came from

[alpine summit]

qn: what is MonoBehaviour? If I want to write a data wrapper class, does it need to inherit this?

[naive pawn]

no

MonoBehaviour is basically any custom component

it extends Behaviour, which extends Component
any component must extend that, but Behaviour and MonoBehaviour give a bit more stuff to work with

[high summit]

Hey folks looking for a better way to do this jumpscare, Unfortunatly, isVisible is called almost constantly if the object has scene interactions, including casting shadows etc, so it's vanishing before i can even look at it

[frail hawk]

use a delay maybe

[high summit]

It will need a delay anyway but I dont think that's the actual issue

hard to explain, I'll put the delay in and see where i'm at

[ashen wind]

I'm making a game with multiple scenes and loading the character customization scene takes about 4 seconds due to all the textures. I'm fine with that so long as it loads at the beginning of the game, but it loads every time you hit the button to go to the custimization scene

is there any way to frontload this

and then keep all the stuff loaded in memory

[frail hawk]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.LoadSceneMode.Additive.html

could be what you re looking for @ashen wind

[ashen wind]

ooh that looks promising

i'll try that

[high summit]

Okay so the script is somewhat working, the isVisible only gets triggered if i'm looking in the direction of the renderer, however it doesn't account for solid walls

[verbal dome]

Use MonoBehaviour only if you need to attach the class to a gameobject directly, as a component

[alpine summit]

why is that? i.e. what does MonoBehaviour actually provide?

(I believe you, I'm just curious)

[verbal dome]

Lets you make custom components that you can attach to gameobjects

Not all classes need to be that

[alpine summit]

ah, you mean like fields that appear in the object inspector?

[verbal dome]

Nah, not fields, components

Stuff you add with the Add Component button

These components can have fields ofc though

[verbal dome]

But yeah in the inspector

[alpine summit]

so what are you saying MonoBehavior enables? The ability for a gameobject with a script attached to have components?

[verbal dome]

The MonoBehaviour is the script attached/the component

You can't directly attach a non-monobehaviour class to a gameobject

[alpine summit]

ohh I see

thanks for the info

[rigid jay]

So I'm needing some help with transforming the scale of my Capsule shape. I want it to morph into a shorter shape whenever I crouch down.

Here are some variables that may help:

I am very new, beginner to C# in unity.

[polar acorn]

So, set the scale to the value you want it to be when crouched

What value do you want it to be?

[twin pivot]

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

nothing in OnMouseUp() is triggering

[polar acorn]

Put a log outside of any conditionals and see if the function is running

[twin pivot]

i did

[polar acorn]

...and? What was the result

[rigid jay]

0.50f, but it shows an error whenever I put it.

like this?

[polar acorn]

Scale is a Vector3. It has three axes. What values do you want for each axis of the scale

[twin pivot]

like i said before

there was a Debug.Logoutside conditionals before u suggested it

[polar acorn]

Okay, usually a good idea not to remove code and then expect me to assume you had code there before.

Show the inspector of the object with this script on it

[twin pivot]

dude

[rigid jay]

I am so bad at this I am so sorry

[twin pivot]

it was there the entire time

[rigid jay]

I've been trying to study without real help and feedback.

This is my very first time with live help.

[polar acorn]

Scale is not a function. Set the scale to a vector.

[polar acorn]

Ah, fair, that's on me. On mobile the line above wrapped twice and I didn't notice the } between em

[polar acorn]

No collider

[rigid jay]

How do I do that?

[polar acorn]

new Vector3

[rigid jay]

Ooooh.

[twin pivot]

also i tried adding a collider, still didnt work

[rigid jay]

okay, so no errors. but is this correct?

[polar acorn]

"Not over the same collider it was pressed on" != "This does not require a collider"

OnMouseUp sends to the collider you are hovering over when you release the button

[polar acorn]

You've made the vector but you're not doing anything with it. You probably want to assign something to that value

[rigid jay]

hmm... hows about this?

[real grail]

is your object by any chance in ignoreRayCast Layer ?

[polar acorn]

Yes, try that out, see if those numbers are what you want

[twin pivot]

no, just the default

[rigid jay]

Thank you! I will test.

[naive pawn]

why is crouch an axis

[rigid jay]

Oh... yeah..

I forgot

[real grail]

do you have a collider2d that is check isTrigger on the object ?

Note:
for OnMouseUp

This function is called on Colliders and 2D Colliders marked as trigger when the following properties are set to true:

• For 3D physics: Physics.queriesHitTriggers

• For 2D physics: Physics2D.queriesHitTriggers

OnMouseUp can be a co-routine. Simply use the yield statement in the function. This event is sent to all scripts attached to the Collider.

[twin pivot]

this fixed it

thanks

[rigid jay]

Changed my input system (started a new project) will test.

hmm... my character won't move now...

[rocky canyon]

none of ur functions are ever called/used?

[rigid jay]

Ooooh.

So I have void Update()

then I have every other method inside of that. is that why?

[slender nymph]

declaring the methods inside of Update does not mean they are invoked anywhere. you need to actually call the method

[rigid jay]

so theres:

void Movement
void Crouching
and void JumpAction

[rigid jay]

oh okay.

How do I do that?

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel, you should start there

also unless you know why you are nesting methods inside of other methods, you really shouldn't so you can avoid potential issues

[rigid jay]

Thank you for the guidance, I will use this to continue. (the courses)

[tribal crater]

I feel like someone heare made skibidi toilet sim Hnn mmmmmn

[rigid jay]

I figured it out now. Now I know what Declaring and Calling a variable/method means.

[tepid idol]

I downloaded Simple Rewards System by Coppra Games in the assets store. The claim button and close button are linked up but neither of them work. Could it be because the button I made to open the daily rewards also closes and opens the daily rewards panel?

[round mirage]

Hello i am making my first mobile game but i am trying to find how to make input on mobile (like subway surfer so without buttons) but i only find tuto on how to make mobile input but with button on the screen

[inland temple]

I need some help

rq

[slender nymph]

!ask

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[rigid jay]

OMG I DID SOMETHING

I made it to where if I press the crouch button, it crouches and when released it goes back up

I am proud of myself.

[inland temple]

Like when i start the game my camera looks down

What do i do

[slender nymph]

your camera follows your mouse, right? and what is the first thing you typically do after clicking the play button? that's right, move your mouse in a downward motion to the game view

[inland temple]

ye i think so

how do i fix it

[slender nymph]

it's not something to "fix" because it's literally your camera following your mouse movement, you know, the thing your code makes it do. if you don't move your mouse after clicking the play button you'll see that doesn't happen

[inland temple]

Like look this is whats happening

[slender nymph]

yes, i just explained exactly why that happens.

[inland temple]

man

[slender nymph]

"guys my first person camera rotates downward when i move my mouse downward which is exactly what i want to happen but why is it happening"

[ashen arch]

what script are you using.

[slender nymph]

there's not an actual issue, they just for some reason are not understanding that upon pressing the play button their code is tracking the mouse movement to move the camera. they would see it rotate horizontally if they instead moved the mouse left or right instead of down immediately after pressing the play button

[ashen arch]

yeah, but his video shows that it starts with a snap down looking down. i don't remember experiencing that with my CameraLook.cs script

[slender nymph]

because they move the mouse down immediately after pressing the play button. that first frame has already started by the time they move the mouse down

[naive pawn]

because the mouse moves down quite a bit within the first frame

[ashen arch]

i think both of you are blind 🙂

[slender nymph]

i assure you, this is exactly what is happening.

[naive pawn]

we see what's happening. we also see the thing that's causing it to happen

[slender nymph]

they can test it themselves by doing exactly what i said before and not moving the mouse after clicking the play button

[ivory bobcat]

We'd want to see the camera orientation if they had not moved the mouse at all when clicking the play button.

[ashen arch]

@inland temple show another video

[inland temple]

i know why

its because im inside of unity cause when i exported the project it didnt happen

[ashen arch]

i see

hold on, boxfriend is typing

[inland temple]

okay

[slender nymph]

again, it's because you press play in the editor which starts the first frame and then you immediately move the mouse so naturally when that first Update happens and your code tells the camera to follow the mouse's movement from that frame, it does exactly that and moves the camera in the direction you moved your mouse during that frame, which again, started as soon as you pressed the play button

[naive pawn]

it's because you moved your mouse down

[inland temple]

cause im working on a psychological horror game

[naive pawn]

that isn't particularly relevant

[inland temple]

you work in a lighthouse and a creepy guy follows you to the lighthouse

[inland temple]

i know

[naive pawn]

ok we don't need to hear this story

[inland temple]

i know

and i dont really care

just wanted to say

[ashen arch]

julius good luck with your game!

[naive pawn]

do you want to figure out the "issue" or not lol

[inland temple]

i did

[naive pawn]

it's not because you were in the unity editor, no

[inland temple]

thanks if you are working on 1 to good luck aswell

[ashen arch]

Thanks. I'm working on a Contra-3 clone, and I recently gave up because player can get stuck in moving platform sometimes.

Uh, that didn't work

[slender nymph]

use mp4 to embed in discord. but also if this is just to show off your work, then post in #1180170818983051344

[ashen arch]

Not to show off work, it is out of courtesy that I reveal to him something.

[slender nymph]

this is also not a social-hangout server #📖┃code-of-conduct

[ashen arch]

Are we really hanging out right now? You're making this worse, I feel.

[naive pawn]

kinda polluting the channel here

this is a help channel

we don't exactly have chat here, you're free to open a thread in #1180170818983051344 or something if you want to do so

[glossy crystal]

If I have a tilemap, with say grass on it, and the player can interact with it to turn it into plain dirt, is it cheaper to render all layers and just hide the layer that’s been “dug up” (I.e. render grass on top of dirt), or is it better to just change the actual content of the tile

[slender nymph]

i would imagine that it would be cheaper to just change the tile, but you'd really have to profile it to determine any performance impact of either solution

[naive pawn]

make something that works and makes sense first before worrying about optimization

[glossy crystal]

[ashen arch]

keep layers

[naive pawn]

otherwise you'll fall into "premature optimization" and you'll end up spending more time on "optimizing" (that may or may not be relevant) than implementing stuff lol

[slender nymph]

make it work first, make it good later

[high summit]

Hey folks coming back to this now, Does anybody know if there is an easier method I'm not seeing to solve this issue, or should I just switch to raycast

[ashen arch]

I don't understand this part of your original message "looking in the direction of the renderer". It sounds like the renderer is an object, but to my understanding, the renderer is the core of unity that displays the screen.

[high summit]

A renderer as in ' a mesh renderer etc'

Attached to an object

[hexed hare]

As a beginner developer, does anyone have any cool and unique game ideas that I could practice? Like, a simple game to learn code and stuff?

[ashen arch]

Yes, I can DM you something

[hexed hare]

ok!

[keen dew]

Mesh renderer's isVisible isn't precise enough for that kind of thing. Raycasting is the usual solution

[high summit]

It would have worked perfectly but it just doesn't account for other mediums like walls in the way etc. Unfortunate

[scenic saffron]

if(Random.Range(0, 100) <= 100 - BadLawSpawnChance)

The variable is set to 25 which should mean that the if Statement is true 75% of the time and 25% its false but after testing its closer to being true 32% of the time. why??

[slender nymph]

how are you actually confirming that percentage? and more specifically, what is your sample size? because RNG like that only tends to trend to the expected percentages with very high sample sizes

[high summit]

hey folks, would anybody know why this doesn't seem to be deleting the monster when looking at it,

Range is set to 10, and i can walk inside of it

[slender nymph]

use the CompareTag method rather than string equality to check an object's tag. but also throw some logs in there to make sure that not only is your code running but you are hitting what you expect to be hitting

[scenic saffron]

it was like 10000/3250 or smth I made the text display the ratio

[high summit]

I assume thats like

if (hitInfo.collider.CompareTag("monster"))

Threw in a debug and it spat out this

[slender nymph]

well yes, now you check the tag of the hit object regardless of whether anything actually was hit

[polar acorn]

You're using hitInfo regardless of whether your Ray hit anything. You should probably put that in the if

[scenic saffron]

I think its a problem with randomness not being random

[high summit]

So I noticed the monster was flagging as invisible... I didnt have any form of collider on it lol

it seems to be fixed

[polar acorn]

Humans are notoriously bad at understanding randomness. 32 hits on a 25% chance is not that far out of the realm of possibility. Try running like a million of these

[slender nymph]

you've still not actually said how you tested this

[scenic saffron]

i ran like 10k

[high summit]

Yeah, I was trying to fetch a ray collision on an object without a collider on it (dont be like me) 🧠

[scenic saffron]

if > 75 then x + 1
else y + 1
y/x = 32.5%

[slender nymph]

christ, if you aren't going to provide the actual information then i'm just not going to help you

[polar acorn]

Okay, now run it a million times and show what it prints

[polar acorn]

Also, this should be giving you about 33%

You're comparing hits to misses not hits to total

25 is one third of 75

[scenic saffron]

ohhhhhhhhhh

yeah true mb

[high summit]

Now i'm really lost, I can't get the audiocontroller to play the sound in this location

If i put it on the after below setactive, I get cannot play a disabled audio source

Audiosource is set to 2d and full volume

No errors in console I just dont hear it

[polar acorn]

Do you get your log messages

[high summit]

Yeah

I get the before and after

so obviously an issue with this audiosource

[ivory bobcat]

Is the duration zero?

[polar acorn]

Then the sound is playing. Is your audio sources close enough to an audio listener to pick up on it? Do you have sounds enabled in your game window?

[high summit]

Yeah I can hear other sounds fine

And it's 2d sound, so should work anyway

[scenic saffron]

after 100k times it seams to approach a ratio of 24.5 consistently which is interesting but close enough for me

[high summit]

(i am stood infront of the sound source anyway)

[polar acorn]

Remember that random range is max exclusive, so 0,100 can only ever get as high as 99

[scenic saffron]

that would explain the .5%

[slender nymph]

where are you starting the coroutine

[high summit]

Logic = once you look at monster = spooky sound then 1 second later monster gone

[slender nymph]

every single frame that those if statements are true you start a new instance of the coroutine which means Play is called on the AudioSource again, each time Play is called on the audiosource the sound starts over

[high summit]

Oh wait

I see what youre saying

It's attempting to spam the play sound?

[slender nymph]

yes, but because you start it over every single frame it never actually has a chance to play it

[high summit]

I see what you mean, Trying to think of a solution

make a bool?

to say if it's happened?

[ivory bobcat]

You could cache the coroutine and only start the coroutine if not started (is null etc)

[high summit]

This seems to be functioning how I need