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[high summit]

Only issue is, My raycast only works if I get very close to the monster from the front

but from the back i can be the correct distance of interactrange

Kinda confusing

I'll double check it's collider

[slender nymph]

you should give this a read https://unity.huh.how/coroutines/waiting

or wait, i guess you are setting hashappened to false in the coroutine? it's not exactly very clear with these screenshots of code

[high summit]

&& !hashappened)

On the second if

[slender nymph]

yeah that's just checking it's value not setting it, not sure if you actually read what i said

[alpine summit]

is there a shortcut to getting a list of the four orthogonal directions? I'm imagining something like Vector2Int.orthogonal() that returns a List<Vector2Int>, but I'm not sure whether this exists and can't find it

[high summit]

I set the value to true futher down

hashappened = true;

So it only runs if it hasnt happened yet

[slender nymph]

please read what i said

[high summit]

I did, it's working so i'm unsure why you're referencing that that's all

[slender nymph]

so where do you set it to false again? or do you only want this to happen one time ever?

[high summit]

Yeah it's a one time jumpscare

Issue I'm having now with the raycast (sigh) is the range of 30 works fine from behind, But i have to walk about 3 grids infront of it for it to trigger it's facing front

And there is nothing in the way of it so i'm a little confused

[slender nymph]

confirm your assumptions, log what is detected by the raycast

[high summit]

https://streamable.com/086fpq

Loud audio warning

This is whats happening, Seems it's only detecting when I look at the top of the box collider which is very weird

[high summit]

yeah it's just grabbing objects behind it

Until I look at the head I believe

Wait will children inherit the tag of a parent?

Oh that's likely the issue then i'll double check

I think I figured it out lol

I'm looking through this door way from the inside

I think the mesh renderer is blocking the ray

So it's actually hitting the open space of the door

[slender nymph]

unless it has a collider then no it isn't

[high summit]

It has a mesh collider

I'll toggle that off and test

[slender nymph]

have you actually confirmed that is what is being hit?

like have you actually logged what is hit

[high summit]

I'm abit confused on the log line I need

Debug.Log(hitInfo);

just returns 'object'

[slender nymph]

so print the info in that object?

[high summit]

So like Debug.Log(hitInfo.collider.name);

[slender nymph]

sure, but you can add more than just a single piece of data to a log

[high summit]

Oh my god I'm hitting the invisible box trigger that actually spawns the mob behind you when you walk in

[slender nymph]

for example you could do this: Debug.Log($"Raycast hit {hitInfo.collider} with tag {hitInfo.collider.tag}", hitInfo.collider);
this will print the name and tag of the object as well as highlight the relevant object when you click it

[high summit]

I didnt think a ray would hit this?

[slender nymph]

see this is why you need to verify your assumptions. you probably want a layermask on the raycast so it only hits specific layers (like actual obstacles)

[high summit]

There isn't any jumping in this game so i'll just drop it to footheight as it's impossible to 'look through it' at that height

But I appriciate you helping me debug ALOT

I'll defo be doing more debugging when running into issues like this

[high summit]

I also found this! QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore) which apparently fixes the issue

[eternal needle]

what result are you actually trying to get here? "a list of the four orthogonal directions" doesn't make sense

[alpine summit]

I was just wondering whether there was a shortcut that evaluates to {Vector2Int.up, Vector2Int.right, Vector2Int.down, Vector2Int.left} so I can easily iterate over it

but if there isn't, it's not a big deal to just create a variable containing this list

[wintry quarry]

Nope, make one yourself

you could write an iterator if you want

[eternal needle]

yea there isn't one. just a note those arent orthogonal

[queen adder]

Can someone help me as I'm just learning how to heal because my player doesn't respond to my keys when I want to move him

[wintry quarry]

public IEnumerable<Vector2Int> AllDirections() {
  yield return Vector2Int.up;
  yield return Vector2Int.left;
  yield return Vector2Int.down;
  yield return Vector2Int.right;
}```

this is a fun way

but a static array works too

[grand snow]

good god burn it with fire

[open apex]

In this code right here, "return dst;" is written to "return the results". However ☝️ 🤓 as this method already calculates the results, what's the point of using "return"? Is it because it returns the result back to the method? Wouldn't the method already calculate and have the result: ☝️ 🤓

(serious question btw)

[polar acorn]

You know how you have float dst = on the line you call that function

That is because the function returns a value

If it didn't return the value, there's zero point in running the function at all because it wouldn't actually do anything

You'd compute a number then immediately volleyball spike it directly into the dumpster when the function ends

[open apex]

😍

" Is it because it returns the result back to the method" so is this kind of the answer?

Just tryign to make sure I understand what you are saying

[polar acorn]

If your function returns void, it can't be on the right side of an =

[open apex]

yes?

[polar acorn]

If it returns a value, you can use it anywhere that would expect that type

So, this function returns a float, so you can use a function call anywhere that expects a float

For example, you could use this function as a parameter in a new Vector3, or even as one of the parameters to another execution of this function

[wintry quarry]

It returns the result back to the caller yes.

[open apex]

So here, can you get the location of a player (vector3) and the location of another players vector3 and paste it there instead of needing to paste numbers? would that work (I am just talking about the raw idea not the details)

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what you're asking here but this function takes four floats as parameters. You can get those floats however you like

[wintry quarry]

literal values and variables/properties/methods/etc can be used interchangeably, as long as they have the same type. So as long as whatever you plug in is a float, you can put anything you want in there. Be it 5 or transform.position.y or myRigidbody.velocity.magnitude it will ahappily accept anything that is a float or can be coerced into a float

[open apex]

😍 so yes

[wintry quarry]

the only thing your method requires is that the expression you pass in is a float

it can be literally anything that resolves to a float type

fun note - because your method returns float, it too can be used as a parameter that expects a float.

[open apex]

Why am I getting this error? What am I doing wrong?

[wintry quarry]

The method has no return statement

but you specified it as returning a float

[open apex]

so like this?

[wintry quarry]

Do you need it to return something?

it doesn't look like the caller is using or expecting it to return anything

Although it's also not doing anything right now

so it depends what you're trying to actualyl do here

[open apex]

I'm like a caveman trying to invent fire

LMAO

[wintry quarry]

are you wanting the function to change the values of the variables from Update?

you would either have to return that data, or use ref params

[open apex]

I'm trying to get input from the user of x and y, these inputs will be used to change the size of a cube

[open apex]

would this work?

[wintry quarry]

no

it wouldn't even compile

[open apex]

😭

[wintry quarry]

The simplest thing to do here would be to use Vector2

because a function can only return one value

[open apex]

👨🪵 🔥

[wintry quarry]

but a Vector2 is two floats wrapped up in one

Wait it also looks like you're not even using your parameters really

I'm actually really confused about what your code is supposed to be doing

[open apex]

LMAOOO

[wintry quarry]

are you trying to SET the scale of the cube, or GET it?

[open apex]

set the scale

[wintry quarry]

Also why are you using Console.ReadLine?

This is not a console application

this is a Unity game

[open apex]

😎

[wintry quarry]

you can't use Console.ReadLine

[open apex]

how do I get input

[wintry quarry]

what kind of input

[open apex]

from console

numbers

[wintry quarry]

you don't

How would the user enter anything into the "console"

it's a 3D application, not a command line app

[open apex]

oh my goooood

[open apex]

I will complete this some other time than

😭

if you wanted to code such thing

how would you have done it

[wintry quarry]

I'm trying to figure out what the "thing" you want to code is still

maybe you want to display some text inputs on screen and let the user input stuff there?

[open apex]

Get a cube

[wintry quarry]

Then resize the cube to match?

[open apex]

and be able to change it's scale

[wintry quarry]

based on what though

[open apex]

through user input

[wintry quarry]

what kind of input

[open apex]

integers

numbers

[wintry quarry]

from where?

[open apex]

wdum?

[wintry quarry]

from their mind?

[open apex]

I thought of getting it from the console

[wintry quarry]

Typed into an input field in the screen?

[open apex]

I will have to create some UI

[wintry quarry]

yes so you would get it from UI

not from the console

[open apex]

I thought of it as if it's a console program

[wintry quarry]

it isn't a console program

i would make sliders TBh

text input would be clunky

[open apex]

Does this part of the code make sense for you? + would it work?

I know it wouldn't

but just this part

does it make sense?

[wintry quarry]

basically something like:

public Slider xSlider;
public Slider ySlider;
public Transform theCube;

void Update() {
  Vector3 scale = new(xSlider.value, ySlider.value, 1);
  theCube.localScale = scale;
}```

this is what I would do

[wintry quarry]

there's no reason to have two separate variables here

Just directly reference the Transform

[wintry quarry]

this is what I would do

[open apex]

anyways imma go back to what I was doing

Thanks for the help

[wintry quarry]

you should definitely continue trying to learn how functions work though - that's valuable knowledge

[open apex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw

going through this

[rotund crown]

bonk, i tried to get a horizontal direction, and rotate it 90 degrees

it always seems to be almost the same direction though

did i do a mistake?

do i need to normalize it?

[teal viper]

Add logs

[rotund crown]

i havent debugged much in unity yet, how do i do that?

oh i figured it out

i forgot that this object is off in narnia

[flint tendon]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float moveSpeed = 5f;
    public Rigidbody2D RigidBody;
    public Weapon weapon;

    Vector2 moveDirection;
    Vector2 mousePosition;

    void Update()
    {
        // Get input for movement
        float moveX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float moveY = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        // Get mouse position
        mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);

        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            // Fire the weapon
            weapon.Fire();
        }

        moveDirection = new Vector2(moveX, moveY).normalized;
        mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if (moveDirection != Vector2.zero)
        {
            RigidBody.linearVelocity = new Vector2(moveDirection.x * moveSpeed, moveDirection.y * moveSpeed);
        }
        else
        {
            RigidBody.linearVelocity = Vector2.zero; // Stop the player when there's no input
        }

        Vector2 lookDirection = mousePosition - RigidBody.position;
        float aimAngle = Mathf.Atan2(lookDirection.y, lookDirection.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg - 90f;
        RigidBody.rotation = aimAngle;
        // Rotate the player to face the mouse position
    }
}

hey so whenever i let go of my wasd keys to move the player they keep moving for a couple of seconds after, any help?

[verbal dome]

GetAxis has some smoothing by default. Use GetAxisRaw to skip that, or modify the gravity/sensitivity settings of the axis in the input manager

@flint tendon

[flint tendon]

legend thank you

[foggy spade]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class FollowShip : MonoBehaviour
{   public Transform player;
    [SerializeField] private float MousePosY;
    [SerializeField]private float MousePosX;
    [SerializeField] private float LimitRotationX;
    [SerializeField] private float LimitRotationY;
    // 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()
    {   
        Vector3 MousePos = Input.mousePosition;
        MousePosX = MousePos.x;
        MousePosY = MousePos.y;
        LimitRotationY = Mathf.Clamp(-MousePosY, -80,80);
        LimitRotationX = Mathf.Clamp(MousePosX, 300,-300);
        transform.position = player.position + new Vector3(0,1,-2);
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(LimitRotationY, LimitRotationX,0);
    }
}
``` when i look left and right it snaps to each side any way to fix this

[foggy spade]

nevermind i fixed it!

[past laurel]

I'm an Adressable noob, have been stuck on this problem for a while

https://discussions.unity.com/t/unity-cant-find-any-assets-under-label/1641614

[tepid idol]

I'm trying to make an expandable menu. When I click on it (as shown in the gif), it doesn't expand, it does this weird thing. I'm not sure exactly if it's something wrong in the code or something wrong I'm doing in Unity. I've followed two YT tutorials and still got the same results.

This is how I'm trying to get it to look when it expands

[echo ruin]

Looks like they “expand” inside the button itself

Did the tutorial use some kind of component that offsets the buttons from each other, or offset their location in thr code?

[tepid idol]

I know I'm supposed to use DOTween Package. It wasn't super clear if it used some kind of component that offsets the buttons from each other or offsets their location in the code since there was just music playing and no actual speaking. I can send the code if it helps

[echo ruin]

It might

[tepid idol]

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[tepid idol]

https://paste.mod.gg/mzlivgqgvsiy/0 - https://paste.mod.gg/nghapxcvfomk/0

[echo ruin]

You can send these to me in DMs, and I can take a look at it when I’m done with work, if somebody else hasn’t already responded by then

[tepid idol]

I was able to fix it, thank you. I ended up just recreating the images and adding the button component and that fixed it. I guess I did it incorrectly the first time.

Now I need to figure out why the buttons are like this when I load in. Edit: Fixed

[karmic badger]

hey guys
Can you help me create first person player movement for mobile with unity's new input system?
I have asked in input-system channel also.

[naive pawn]

don't crosspost please

[echo ruin]

Very cool!

[harsh haven]

Yo im cooked

I just tried to make a audio fader

And its so bad it causes unity to tweak out and no longer is able to be clicked on but keeps running

and i can't even force close it in taskmanager cause taskmanager doesn't recognize it as a application running

It might be because

oid FadeSong(int newSong, int old)
    {
        Debug.Log("fade");
        float timeToFade = 0.25f;
        float timeElapsed = 0f;

        while (timeElapsed < timeToFade)
        {
            if (old == 0)
            {
                song1.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0.1f, 0, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                if (newSong == 1)
                {
                    song2.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0, 0.1f, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                }
                if (newSong == 2)
                {
                    song3.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0, 0.1f, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                }
            }
            if (old == 1)
            {
                song2.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0.1f, 0, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                if (newSong == 0)
                {
                    song1.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0, 0.1f, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                }
                if (newSong == 2)
                {
                    song3.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0, 0.1f, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                }
            }
            if (old == 2)
            {
                song3.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0.1f, 0, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                if (newSong == 0)
                {
                    song1.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0, 0.1f, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                }
                if (newSong == 1)
                {
                    song2.volume = Mathf.Lerp(0, 0.1f, timeElapsed / timeToFade);
                }
            }
            timeElapsed = Time.deltaTime;
        }
        if (old == 0)
        {
            song1.Stop();
        }
        if (old == 1)
        {
            song2.Stop();
        }
        if (old == 2)
        {
            song3.Stop();
        }

    }

Is it because im trying to use Mathf.Lerp over a certain time

without using IEnumerator

Does that kill me

[swift elbow]

this is your culprit
while (timeElapsed < timeToFade)

also how are either of your variables ever supposed to change on their own?

[harsh haven]

you mean Timetfade and elapsed?

I have ```cp
timeElapsed = Time.deltaTime;

To deal with that while loop no?

@swift elbow

[swift elbow]

ah i missed that

but you have no yield

[harsh haven]

Cause its not an ienumerator

[swift elbow]

the while loop never stops

[harsh haven]

can you explain this a little more

[swift elbow]

yes

[harsh haven]

Cause i thought this line would stop the while loop

[swift elbow]

its not just that

you need to yield to exit the loop

[harsh haven]

cause once it gets to that, timeElapsed is no longer smaller than timeTofade

what is yield?

[swift elbow]

it's what allows the loop to stop running

[swift elbow]

that won't on it's own

[harsh haven]

why not?

[north kiln]

The contents of a while loop is the only thing running until the condition is met. It's important understand this means no other code is running, not even the code that updates input or renders the game.

[harsh haven]

i used a while loop in a different area of my code that does stop naturally without a yiled

yield

[north kiln]

So time won't advance because your code is the only thing occurring

[harsh haven]

hmm okay

so Time.DeltaTime stops?

[north kiln]

If it's in an Update loop then it's called every frame, so just use an if statement

the Update loop is the loop, no need to nest another one in it

[harsh haven]

while (newSong == n)
            {
                newSong = Random.Range(0,3);
            }

This is in the update loop

and succesfully stops

[north kiln]

Sure, because its condition can end

[harsh haven]

However what was above was its own method for fading tracks

yea but in the method, Time.DelteTime is stopping?

[north kiln]

it's condition relies on something within the loop

[naive pawn]

don't forget that Update is already a loop

[harsh haven]

Yea but the code i sent at first isn't in the update loop

its just a different method for fadingtracks

[naive pawn]

and it isn't called every Update?

if not, and it isn't from a coroutine, then it isn't going to do anything over time

[harsh haven]

Nah, its called every 5 seconds for testing purposes

[naive pawn]

so you do already have a loop

ah wait you mean it should do an entire fade every 5 seconds right

ok well, it needs to be able to do something over multiple frames
that would involve being in Update or a coroutine
otherwise you'd be doing the whole thing within a single frame, and that's not much of a fade, is it

[harsh haven]

yea makes sense

[median hatch]

what in the hell am i looking at

[harsh haven]

yo chillll im new 😭

[median hatch]

no worries man xD

try learning about for loops

gonna save you a lot of time

[naive pawn]

ah yeah in regards to that; whenever you have symmetric x1, x2 etc, it should be in some other structure

[chrome shadow]

why are my code components greyed out?

[teal viper]

Are there errors/warnings in the console or the inspector?

[chrome shadow]

Yeah turns out i messed some code up

[fast relic]

is there a way to make Awaitable.WaitForSecondsAsync() ignore timescale (can't divie by timescale because it needs to be 0)?
can't seem to find anything about it online

[brave compass]

Seems like an oversight from Unity to not include a WaitForSecondsRealtimeAsync.

[fast relic]

are there any workarounds that don't include committing programming war crimes

[brave compass]

You can do is write your own async function that uses Awaitable.NextFrameAsync in a while loop until enough real time has passed.

[slender nymph]

couldn't you await Task.Delay in that case?

[fast relic]

Task.Delay() doesn't work on web builds

straight up just doesn't

[slender nymph]

you should specify that you're using web next time then if you don't want solutions that won't work for the platform you are building for

[fast relic]

i'd preferably like solutions that work for all platforms

[slender nymph]

well your only option then is what MentallyStable suggested and just loop until that time has passed

[brave compass]

This should work.

public static async Awaitable WaitForSecondsRealtimeAsync(float seconds, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
{
    float targetTime = Time.realtimeSinceStartup + seconds;

    while (targetTime > Time.realtimeSinceStartup)
    {
        await Awaitable.NextFrameAsync(cancellationToken);
    }
}

[fast relic]

i see

[twin sky]

hey i got a problem, I feel like it's very simple but i'm missing something, i basically have a button, and on this button i added a script called "HouseInfo.cs" which looks like this :

public class HouseInfo : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void OnMouseDown()
    {
        Debug.Log("inventory");
    }
}

and whenever i click on the button, it doesn't print inventory somehow ?
may someone help me on this problem please ?

[brave compass]

OnMouseDown is called when game objects with colliders are clicked. And the colliders can't be triggers, unless Physics.queriesHitTriggers is true.

[wintry quarry]

That's not correct for a button

You should be using IPointerClickHandler or just use the on click event on the button component itself

[twin sky]

my Button is a prefab, and when i'm putting the script in his components it doesn't work aswell

@brave compass what do you recommend doing pls

[brave compass]

PraetorBlue's answer is what I would answer. OnMouseDown is not the right event to use when using UI buttons.

[twin sky]

so I need to have a Graphic Raycaster on the canvas if i'm using IPointerClickHandler ?

i just saw that on the doc

[brave compass]

I think one is always added by default when you create a Canvas.

[jolly stag]

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is quite the right place to ask for help with this but I'm trying to follow the unity coding tutorials and am on unit 4, I've just imported the tutorial assessts but they're all coming up pink? I think it's something to do with a rendering issue but when trying to swap the render I have no other options than what I'm using now. Thank you for any help

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=V_EGF1M3fgY

[jolly stag]

Unfortunately none of these worked for me, I don't have any of the options listed that they select on my edit tab or window tab

[keen dew]

Your project needs to use the same render pipeline as the tutorial. Check what the tutorial uses and create a new project with that render pipeline, or convert the current one

[rocky canyon]

oh mb the convertor only works for basic materials

i see here this is a custom material/broken material

its not likely gonna be easily convertable.. (you'll most likely have to try to chagne the shader to something that will work..) or recreate that shader somehow like in shadergraph

if u want it to just be not pink u can probably just use on of the basic Lit shaders

either under Standard> or Universal Rende> if ur using urp

[rocky canyon]

ah true.. ^ try to stick with the same renderer.. it'd just be less hassle in the long run

[jolly stag]

I've managed to find out where I went wrong.... I had a old version of unity from 2020 being used instead of 6.1 😮‍💨
Thank you all for your help, I have learned quite a bit about rendering pipelines and the like and will keep it in mind if I ever independently work on a game :)

[rocky canyon]

soo much more to learn about em if im being honest..

lots of things it includes heh

[jolly stag]

Seems to be the way of all things unity, never ending rabbit holes!

[rocky canyon]

hehe.. u got the idea 👍

[humble fjord]

6.1 ain’t all that. i recently reverted

[rocky canyon]

nothing wrong with it considering its the latest version and wrinkles will slowly be ironed out..
but yea comparing the newest version with an older more stable version doesn't necessarily mean its bad

[keen dew]

It's perfectly fine for following along a beginner tutorial

[rocky canyon]

ppl have unwarranted hate for 6+ for some reason 😅

#1 issue ive seen isn't b/c of the editor itself but b/c they defaulted to the new input system for Unity6 and almost every beginner tutorial uses the old

[lost hamlet]

The old system sucks IMO

Like, it's bare bones

[rocky canyon]

does the job.. but yea new system has lots of cool little perks

rebinding and multiple devices are why its worthy imo

much easier to do that stuff

and i guess action/event based inputs are better than polling inputs in general

[lost hamlet]

I remember making a rebinding system with the old input system

Lost the original code

But i remember suffering to make it work

[rocky canyon]

i could 💯 imagine

[rare basin]

If I have started a coroutine and the mono behaviour was destroyed, is the coroutine stopped aswell?

[naive pawn]

yes, the coroutine kinda runs on the component

[rare basin]

Are you 100% sure?

[naive pawn]

Coroutines are also stopped when the MonoBehaviour is destroyed or if the GameObject the MonoBehaviour is attached to is disabled.
MonoBehaviour.StartCoroutine

[rare basin]

Thanks

[naive pawn]

this is also quite easily testable if you don't believe it

[rich adder]

send the current code with the listed methods below 👇 and also explain what supposed to happen instead.

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[polar acorn]

What is the actual question, I just see a mouse circling a skeleton

[echo stone]

The enemy is walking around a certain patrol area and when it sees our player, it shoots, but when it sees the player, instead of breaking the loop, it makes a patrol movement and shoots when it comes in its way.

[polar acorn]

So, the issue that it's going back to a patrol right after attacking? What are you expecting it to do instead

[echo stone]

Hitting the player kind of breaks the patrol

Don't stop following the player

[polar acorn]

In order to know what "breaks the patrol" means, you are going to have to say what you expect it to be doing instead

[polar acorn]

It certainly looks like it does, considering it turns around and goes the other way

[echo stone]

yep

[rich adder]

yeah what ? you just contradicted the issue you listed lol

[echo stone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d002CljR-KU&t=15s

I did it according to this video

[echo stone]

what

[rich adder]

You just said the Patrol breaks and follows player, but it looks its still Patrolling..

[echo stone]

patrol is not broken i guess the translation is wrong

Let me explain again

The skeleton walks around a certain patrol point and if a player comes in front of it, it shoots, but when the player moves away, it continues to walk between patrol points instead of following the player.

[rich adder]

well yes you worded it wrong the first time then

yes because
"Hitting the player kind of breaks the patrol
Don't stop following the player" is confusing if it showing it actually DOES NOT follow player

so you want to actually STOP the patroll and follow the player

[echo stone]

sorry

yess

[rich adder]

now we need to see the code as was asked...#💻┃code-beginner message

[echo stone]

I'm throwing the code

[rich adder]

also is the video you sent do the behavior you want or is just something you trying to add yourself ?

read the** 📃 Large Code Blocks** section plz

[echo stone]

sorry https://paste.mod.gg

[echo stone]

wait a minute

[rich adder]

you have to hit save before sending the link, so it generates the link

copy code, paste it on the site, hit save send link.

[echo stone]

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

[echo stone]

add myself

https://paste.mod.gg/sddvfcvmuqcc/0 attack script

[rich adder]

is this the only script ? certainly there is something more where is the player detection part

oh nvm..

[rich adder]

this will require you to do quite a bit of work for the conversion, is there really no Follow part of the video series ?

[echo stone]

https://github.com/nickbota/Unity-Platformer-Episode-10/tree/main/Assets all code here

[rich adder]

first thing would be communicating to the move script that now instead of rightEdge/leftEdge you need to replace it with a target

[digital haven]

Trying to get character to slow down and stop moving. I can use W to get them moving but it takes forever to do so, and I have to move the blend tree bar which it should juse be controlled via pressing the W key, and releasing to stop.

Can someone help? I've been working on this all morning and its so annoying

Like even taking my finger off the w key it still moves which Is not good

[echo stone]

:/ I have a competition tomorrow, I don't know if I will make it

[slender nymph]

you need to start by getting your !IDE configured 👇 (then properly format your code)

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[rich adder]

well it would be possible but sounds like you don't know much about code this will be difficult to pull if in a day.. There is lots to unpack here

[echo stone]

Yes, I don't know much, I'm new.

[rich adder]

it may seem like "oh just switch it to this" but that does require a bit of base knowledge, mainly referencing and a basic state or even statemachine perhaps

first would be making such a boolean like IsFollowingPlayerTarget or something, then you would use that to change the patrol behavior.. Or use a condition when player is detected to just switch the Patrol move script to a Follow Player script which you can code seeprate to make it a bit easier

[echo stone]

Actually this system is not a big problem for this skeleton but since I did not have time I copied it instead of a separate intelligence and made it a boss by only changing the appearance, so the boss works with problems.

[rich adder]

idk what " boss works with problems." means in this context

problems is pretty vague

[echo stone]

send video wait

[digital haven]

I followed the guide but I couldn't find the common7/IDE or any
Folder for visual studio just the .Exe

[rich adder]

you realize you have VSCode and not Visual Studio right?

[echo stone]

Everything is the same except the animations.

[slender nymph]

well not only did you follow the wrong guide considering you are using vs code and not visual studio, but that part of the guide is usually unnecessary

[rich adder]

If you need to link the exe manually you did something wrong in the setup, a properly followed setup would show the IDE in the dropdown

[digital haven]

No I didnt. I am just learning still and only been doing it for a week now

[digital haven]

Okay then I need to install visual studio?

[slender nymph]

did you not notice that the logo icon did not match the one you were using when another one did?

[slender nymph]

if you want to follow the guide for visual studio, then yes you'll need to install visual studio.

[rich adder]

should look like this when properly configured

Notice it will show the VSC version and the VIsual Studio Editor pakcage "enabled" then you can see all your Unity classes etc.

[digital haven]

Not really

[slender nymph]

you should try paying attention to what you are doing/reading then

[rich adder]

why not look up how to do a 2D sidescroller follow player type of meachanic and switch out the script from patrol move to follow player when player is detected ? this will probably be the most straight forward way you can do this

this way you dont have to worry about a statemachine or anything just yet

[digital haven]

Alright well my bad

[echo stone]

I searched for many resources but couldn't find any, I don't think I have much time to make it from scratch right now.

[rich adder]

This is something i find hard to believe, i been through thousands of resources and they do indeed show this

idk where you got that "couldnt find any" from

[echo stone]

I searched for a YouTube video but when I tried it was broken

I don't have much knowledge so I guess I won't be able to solve the problem.

[rich adder]

tbh this is how they say "skill issue"

its most likely the video was fine and you just copied / followed it wrong due to lack of knowledge of what you're copying in the first place

[round mirage]

hello i am currently moving my player with transform.Translate
Is it better to use FixedUpdate or Update ?

[echo stone]

I don't think so

[rich adder]

eh if you want collisions to work properly, you should not use Translate in the first place

[naive pawn]

Update, since you wouldn't have any interpolation

but generally there are better options than transform.Translate

[round mirage]

i know but it will be a mobile game without rigidbody so i think i will be ok (and every collision will stop the game 🙂 )

[round mirage]

ty

[rich adder]

how do you plan on detecting collision to on obstacle in the first place anyway ?

those usually require 1 rigidbody

[round mirage]

OnCollisionEnter()

[rich adder]

see message #💻┃code-beginner message

[round mirage]

ohh

[rich adder]

You would get a more accurate result if you use Rigidbody on player then move with .linearVelocity in FixedUpdate

[open apex]

Trying to scale a cube with some input and a method. What's gone wrong here?

[round mirage]

i never understand how to make it properly with rigidbody (with addforce if i remember correctly) There is always something who dont make my playerMove smooth

like the mouvement is ok but when i jump he is too slow or something like that

[frail hawk]

then you are not doing it right my buddy

[rich adder]

with .linearVelocity you get a closer result to Translate because it ignores mass and acceleration/friction

unlike AddForce's default mode

[round mirage]

Oh ok i will look at this

[grand snow]

You should convert the input field text... Not the field itself
And use the Parse() method instead

[rich adder]

TryParse to cover all weirdness

[open apex]

😍

I get this error when running the code

last version of the code

[rich adder]

doesnt the TMP field have some weird extra character ?

been a while since I used it

[open apex]

I'm using input legacy

not tmp

[rich adder]

ohh right Im blind mb

[open apex]

I don't understand what the error means

[rich adder]

bwt If you use TMP_InputField the component can actually use Regex / Set the field mode to only accept numbers

[rich adder]

you should do Debug.Log(input.text) and see what is actually getting in that function

also i would do TryParse

 bool success = int.TryParse(myValue, out number);
         if (success)
         {
            Debug.Log($"Converted '{myValue}' to {number}.");
         }
         else
         {
            Debug.Log($"Attempted conversion of '{myValue ?? "<null>"}' failed.");
         }```

[open apex]

it works 😍

[polar acorn]

Whatever you have in the input field isn't a number

[open apex]

but still don't understand the error

[open apex]

Changed from empty string to a "1" and it fixed it

[open apex]

Thanks

[polar acorn]

Because "" is not a number

[open apex]

I tried to use tmp input field but didn't know what it was called

[open apex]

I can't believe it was that simple

[rich adder]

you can prevent player from passing in any letters just incase

[open apex]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/1371292775575720026/image.png?ex=6823442b&is=6821f2ab&hm=9886782feefdb8821f4b9b7643b2d131a575db77e5f95330b560ee7af0ad9b96&

[rich adder]

otheriwse you need to gracefully handle those edge cases

[polar acorn]

You still need to check for empty string though. Blank is a valid entry for an input field with this set but still isn't a number

[open apex]

This is the mess I created yesterday trying to do the same thing

[polar acorn]

What's the error say

[rich adder]

yea your code is very brittle right now @open apex
any wrong input and everything breaks

[polar acorn]

Oh wait it's not an error

You underlined that in red yourself

Sorry, on mobile

[round mirage]

i spent so much time trying to find how to make my player move with addForce and the solution was only LinearVelocity 💀

[open apex]

I gave praetorblue so much headeache for this yesterday 😭

[rich adder]

well different methods used for different purposes 😛

[open apex]

sent him this and he was bamboozled

[rich adder]

also Console.ReadLine doesn't work in Unity lol there is no Console to read input from

[open apex]

yeah 😔

that was me yesterday

I can feel the evolution

[digital haven]

Okay I have the right version with visual studio 2022 but I still am having issue with the code itself. Its like the character continues to move even when I take the finger off the W key when they should be stopping

[open apex]

from caveman to the stone age

[rich adder]

wdym "the right version with visual studio 2022"
can you show its configured then cause now you switched IDE

do note a configured IDE is required before you get help here thats why its usually best to take care of that first

[digital haven]

I set it to be configured for game development in unity added it to unity from the external tools.

[rich adder]

the word "show" is very important here

[digital haven]

Show where exactly?

[rich adder]

show the IDE is configured?

a screenshot?

[rich adder]

okay this show partially what was asked sure, what about the IDE itself, does it say Assembly-CSharp

[rocky canyon]

see: 👇

[rich adder]

that arrow chef kiss

[rich adder]

quick hint , if you click that Yellow BroomSweep icon to properly cleanup / format the code

the indents look wonky and hard to read

[rocky canyon]

^-- <insert crazy arrow>

i just Ctrl + A, C, V

didnt even know that was down ther 😄

[digital haven]

Yeah it still didn't work the character model keeps moving even after letting go
Of W

[rich adder]

well yeah this wont magically fix any bad code / logic but at least its configured properly

[digital haven]

Lmao I am
Following a guide to figure this out.

[rich adder]

Can you like give a quick rundown / recap of the original problem

[rocky canyon]

Its like the character continues to move even when I take the finger off the W key when they should be stopping

what makes you believe this? can u show the code that supports that statement?

[digital haven]

Essentially the character is supposed to move progressively accelerate on the velocity of the blend tree from walk to run by pressing W.

When I let go of W it should progressively decelerate and stop

[rich adder]

deceleration is a positive value , how is velocity supposed to go down or am i missing something ?

[rocky canyon]

whats =+ ?

[rich adder]

oh shit just noticed that lol

hows that not underlined red ?

[rocky canyon]

+= and =+

[rocky canyon]

thats why i genuinely asked what it was

lo

[open apex]

Hi, confused regarding what the 0 here does?

[rocky canyon]

u might want to expose ur velocity variable in the inspector

just to take a gander at the values u have

[slender nymph]

it does "being a 0"

[cosmic quail]

cuz it's seeing it as velocity = +Time.deltaTime i guess?

[rocky canyon]

it makes it a Vector3... by putting a zero in the Y place..

Vector3 (x,y,z)

[rich adder]

Ohhh weird.. I never seen =+ before I suppose yea

[zenith cypress]

Turns into a 0 + X operation

[rocky canyon]

ya me neither lol.. learn something new everyda

[open apex]

so what's the point of "vertical"? that is what I am confused about, horizontal is x and vertical is y

[open apex]

ohh I understand now

[rocky canyon]

vertical in the input terms is forward and backwards on the joysticks or W and S on the keyboard..

[open apex]

nvm

[rocky canyon]

( or arrows)

yea..

[open apex]

isn't vertical for y though?

[rocky canyon]

W and S be forward and backwards.. hence being applied to the Z

[open apex]

WHy are they making use of it for z?

[rocky canyon]

depends on what ur using it for..

[rich adder]

because thats back and forward in 3d

[rocky canyon]

most of the time the SPACE bar is Y

like vertical / Jump

but also.. depends

[open apex]

oww

okkkkk

[slender nymph]

"Vertical" is an input axis that maps to W/S and Up/Down arrows. it has nothing to do with X Y and Z, it's just an input axis named vertical

[open apex]

thank you 🙂

[rocky canyon]

u can put the values anywhere u'd want in the vector

so it applies to ur game

[open apex]

I know..?

[slender nymph]

according to your question you didn't know

[rocky canyon]

• 0, Vertical, Horizontal
• Horizontal, 0, Vertical
• Vertical, 0, Horizontal
• Horizontal, Vertical, 0
• Vertical, Horizontal, 0
• 0, Horizontal, Vertical etc

[rich adder]

its the default name Unity has given it in the Input Manager

[rocky canyon]

i tried to get em all

[rich adder]

you could've called it "FlourBruth" in Input manager in Unity project settings and it would work the same as its mapped to specific keys there

[open apex]

can you theoratically add movement to the player without use of AddForce? as in
keyPressedDown = x axis + 0.1 every 1 second

[rocky canyon]

yes.. u can set velocity directly..

CC's have a Move() function that takes a vector3..

u can do it in there as well.. (input * speed * time.deltatime) for ex

[open apex]

sorry for being uneducated but what is cc?

[rocky canyon]

character controller

[rich adder]

all those functions do is basically move the transforms after it did the physics movement

[rocky canyon]

its a unity component that makes building a character controller easier

[rich adder]

if you moved transform directly its basically teleport and you skip through walls / collider and anything physics related

[open apex]

so it's already in place we can just make use of it instead of writing it ourselves?

[digital haven]

This is the other persons code and this is mine

[rocky canyon]

yea.. u still have to write code for it.. but all the necessities are there..

[open apex]

thanks guys

[rich adder]

Character Controller is a component from the original PhysX (physics engine) , unity has just adapt it for use in their API

[rocky canyon]

continue on ur journey 🫡

so far so good

yea see

this makes sense to me

+= for go..
-= for slow..

[rich adder]

yes notice the very big difference in operators lol

[rocky canyon]

what u have is odd lol

[digital haven]

Its odd?

[rich adder]

if you were to use += still for deceleration, you need deceleration constant to be a - number

but -= is more straight forward

[rocky canyon]

in the context yes..
like the code says and like we've said..
its -= and u =+ which i'd never seen b4.. had to have someone chime in to even know what it was.. but if ur trying to copy the code from the tutorial 1:1 what you have is odd yes.. and incorrect

velocity += acceleration;

velocity += deacceleration;```

[digital haven]

So that += can cause it to not respond to the deceleration of velocity?

[rocky canyon]

look at ur code brother

[polar acorn]

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 185
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2025-05-12

[rich adder]

omg "code literally did not exist"

[rocky canyon]

those bottom two values are slow as molassis lol

[digital haven]

Okay well its now:

velocity = - Time.deltaTime * deceleration now)

And it still didnt work

[rocky canyon]

still wrong..

[rich adder]

omg..bruh..

[grand snow]

🤦‍♂️

[rich adder]

operator dislexia

[rocky canyon]

u either use a += and a negative value for deacceleration

or u use -= with a Positive value for deacceleration

[polar acorn]

"Equals negative x" and "minus-equals x" are not the same thing. You literally have the answer in front of you, look at the tutorial

[rocky canyon]

📌 and really important note here: += is not the same as =+ and -= is not the same as =-

the tutorial has it correct..

just gotta manage to carbon copy it over to ur side somehow

[round mirage]

Hello again 😉 so i used linearVelocity but its weird because when i put contraints on the x and y position ( my player move on the Z axis) it will work only if i uncheck the Y contraints and also my player get slower when he is on the middle of the map and when i go to the maximum position ( on the Z axis) he will not stop and idk why because it was working when i was using transform.translate 🥲

{
    private float lineLimit;
    public float speed;
    private Rigidbody rb;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        rb = gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        Debug.Log(Screen.currentResolution.width);
        lineLimit = Screen.currentResolution.width / 2;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
       if(Input.touchCount > 0)
       {
        Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0);
        if(touch.position.x > lineLimit  && gameObject.transform.position.z < 4.7f)
        {
            rb.linearVelocity= new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, speed);
        }
        else if (touch.position.x < lineLimit && gameObject.transform.position.z > -4.7f)
        {
           rb.linearVelocity= new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, -speed); 
        }
       }
       else
        {
            rb.linearVelocity = Vector3.zero;
        }
    }
}```

[polar acorn]

I can't quite follow what your issue is but your code will only stop the object when you are not touching the screen. Until you release, it's going to keep going

[digital haven]

I edited it but it still isn't working

[rocky canyon]

the velocity is indeed working tho

[polar acorn]

It seems to be working just fine, the value is increasing while you hold the button and decreasing when you're not

[rocky canyon]

i see it 👀

[polar acorn]

What are you expecting to happen that isn't?

[rocky canyon]

blendtree <- i believe

[polar acorn]

Looks like the blend tree's threshold is 1, so it would need to actually reach that value to change

[rich adder]

you literlly have no IDLE pose ?

what to do when speed is 0 ? what animation is supposed to go to for stopping

[digital haven]

I do have a idle pose but it didn't say to add it to the tutorial

[rich adder]

could you send the tutorial rq

[digital haven]

Yes https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rGyoStfgQ&t=308s

[polar acorn]

Yeah, this does explain how to use a blend tree, but, again, what's the thing you're expecting to happen that isn't?

[open apex]

Is this basically this?

[digital haven]

It should show the character being able to accelerate presses W and lets go of W decelerates.

Unless I'm missing something

[polar acorn]

Transform based movement is teleportation. It will move the character but it's not going to respect any sort of physics or colliders

[polar acorn]

Your blend tree settings look like they're set to go from 1-2, in your video you stopped it at around 0.3

[open apex]

yes I have been told that, but is this correct?

[polar acorn]

Run the code and see

You can check to see if it's doing what you want

[digital haven]

Its just strange his moved so fluidly, while mine takes a long time to start accelerating. Also the character starts to stop accelerating around 1 in velocity and stutters @polar acorn

[rich adder]

You are controlling the wrong value here..

[round mirage]

like i have to change linear velocity and velocity in the same time ??

[rich adder]

the Blend tree value is "Blend" but you are controlling "velocity" they are different parameters

[polar acorn]

Show the settings of your blend tree, it's cut off in your video

[polar acorn]

I don't know why you sent a video instead of a screenshot and then didn't even show your blend tree settings in the video

[rich adder]

this is not even close to the oirignal video..

you added transitions when you can do it all in the Blend tree

Your blend tree is "Blend" parameter, yet ur controlling transitions with "velocity"

considering you messed a -= with =+ you seem to have a" copying exactly as is " issue lol

then wonder why it dont work right :]

[digital haven]

That is fair, I'm still learning how to do all this

[rich adder]

its all very confusing at first sure, the video is showing you exactly how to set it up though.. you added some extra stuff on your own, before you try things on your own you have to understand what each thing does

[polar acorn]

The video goes into deep detail about all those boxes. So, right now, your animation will blend between Walking and Running whenever the parameter Blend is between 1 and 2

Now, is the parameter Blend ever between 1 and 2?

[round mirage]

Hello 🙂 i solved my problem with contraints but my program who block the player when he go too far still dont work

    {
       if(Input.touchCount > 0)
       {
        Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0);
        if(touch.position.x > lineLimit  && gameObject.transform.position.z < 4.7f)
        {
            rb.linearVelocity= new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, speed);
        }
        else if (touch.position.x < lineLimit && gameObject.transform.position.z > -4.7f)
        {
           rb.linearVelocity= new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, -speed); 
        }
       }
       else
        {
            rb.linearVelocity = new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, 0);
        }
    }```

[rich adder]

"who block the player when he go too far" sorry what ?

[digital haven]

Using 1 for walking and 2 for running the character is just nudging now

[round mirage]

gameObject.transform.position.z < 4.7f

[rich adder]

ohhh you want to clamp his movement

[round mirage]

yes

😅

[rich adder]

I'm on a mobile rq so can't analyze the whole thing but first make sure your conditions / values are what you expected them to be.. Use Debug.Logs also you might need to clamp a seperate variable

[round mirage]

yes it was working before i changed transform.translate to rb.linearVelocity

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what you mean by this. A blend tree will mix between two animations based on a parameter. If your parameter named Blend is between 1 and 2, it will mix between your Walking and Running clips.

[round mirage]

is it due to fixedUpdate ??

[polar acorn]

So, what is Blend? Is it between 1 and 2?

[rich adder]

it should technically work similar, i still wouldnt grab input of touch in FixedUpdate and keep it in Update , only rb movement should generally be in FixedUpdate
like rb.velocuty = or addforce

[digital haven]

this is what i mean

[polar acorn]

Blend is always 0, which is not between 1 and 2

So it will always be playing the Walking animation

If the value is less than your first threshold, it will play 100% of the first clip. If it's higher than the last threshold, it will play the second animation. If it's in between, it will blend.

The tutorial is very clear on all this, if you actually listen to what it has to say instead of finding code to copy paste out of it

[digital haven]

I have been rewatching these videos to understand it

[polar acorn]

It's legitimately one of the best explanations of how a blend tree works on the entirety of the internet

[digital haven]

Alright I'll rewatch the video.

[polar acorn]

So, knowing now what all these boxes mean, what are you expecting to happen that isn't? Because it seems like it's doing exactly what should be expected

[digital haven]

The walking should accelerate to running more easily. It feels like its stuck in walking

[polar acorn]

Well, yes. Because your blend tree is set to transition from walking to running as your parameter Blend goes from 1 to 2. You can look at the value and see that it remains firmly rooted at 0

0, being less than 1, will play only the Walking animation

[digital haven]

I thought you said blend is always 0?

[polar acorn]

It is, and I just repeated that one second ago

You can look at the value and see that it remains firmly rooted at 0

Your blend tree will transition between Walking and Running depending on the value of the parameter you've chosen, Blend. If Blend is less than the threshold of Walking, it will play Walking. If it is greater than the threshold of Running, it will play Running. If it is in between them, it will play a proportional mix of the two (so, halfway between the thresholds means halfway between the two animations)

Knowing this information, look at the values you have selected for the parameter and the thresholds. Do they make sense

What parameter and thresholds do you actually want to use

[round mirage]

does something who execute like an update but before update exist ?

[polar acorn]

Chances are, if you need this, you're doing something wrong

[digital haven]

I wanna blend those togrher but I don't understand what numbers I need to do that now. I'm a bit confused on that part, but I understand the rest I think.

[round mirage]

when all the code is in fixedUpdate it wont clamp my player and if i put in update it will clamp only if i stop pressing the key so if i hold my key my player wont stop 🥲

public class playerMove : MonoBehaviour
{
    private float lineLimit;
    public float speed;
    private Rigidbody rb;
    bool right = false;
    bool left = false;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        rb = gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        Debug.Log(Screen.currentResolution.width);
        lineLimit = Screen.currentResolution.width / 2;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
       if(Input.touchCount > 0)
       {
        Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0);
        if(touch.position.x > lineLimit  && gameObject.transform.position.z < 4.7f)
        {
           right = true;
        }
        else if (touch.position.x < lineLimit && gameObject.transform.position.z > -4.7f)
        {
           left = true;
        }
       }
    }
    
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
       if(Input.touchCount > 0)
       {
        Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0);
        if(right)
        {
            rb.linearVelocity= new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, speed);
            right = false;
        }
        else if (left)
        {
           rb.linearVelocity= new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, -speed); 
           left = false;
        }
       }
       else
        {
            rb.linearVelocity = new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, 0);
        }
    }
}

[polar acorn]

I just explained what the numbers mean.

You have parameters in your animator. They're just variables you can set in code.
The box at the top of the blend tree is which parameter you want to read.
The threshold values determine which clip is played based on that parameter.
Less than the first threshold = play the first clip entirely
More than the second threshold = play the second clip entirely
In between = blend the two animations

[polar acorn]

Velocity remains at whatever you last set it at until you change it or some other force slows it down. The only thing in your code that will ever change velocity to 0 is when Input.touchCount is 0. Nothing else will ever stop it

If you want it to stop when it's at a specific position, you will need to tell it to do so

Simply "not changing the velocity" does not stop the object. You have to set it to 0

[open apex]

Does this make it so it respects physics and colliders (adding rigid body)

[digital haven]

Okay I figured it out

[polar acorn]

This one will exert forces, but by directly manipulating the position instead of using velocity or forces, it won't respond to any. For example, getting hit by a fast moving box going the other way isn't going to actually move it, it's going to set it's position to the new location. This can be a desired outcome, and is commonly used for Kinematic Character Controllers.

[open apex]

Would this be ideal for 2d smooth player movement (or not)?

[polar acorn]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

What's "ideal" for movement is going to be entirely up to you

There isn't one "best" way to do movement

[open apex]

ideal for me is smooth movement

player stops moving when the getkeydown a,b,c has stopped

[polar acorn]

What's "smooth movement" is going to be entirely up to you

[eager mesa]

Hello everyone!
I'm currently trying to the cop car ai's less...messy? Honestly i just want him to spawn in paralel to the road (in this case it would be 270 on the Y axis)
Here's the code if you'd like to have a look: https://paste.mod.gg/qetzkovooluv/0

I don't mind if the cop car throws himself out of the road once in a while but every time right after spawning is definetly not ideal.

I tried forcing its spawn angle, limiting its turning angle and turning speed but nothing quite fixed it.

[rich adder]

don't crosspost

[polar acorn]

Do you have Cinemachine installed

[rich adder]

[apparently](#archived-code-general message) , probably best continue the one in #archived-code-general ig

[polar acorn]

!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.

[echo cradle]

hello, i'm trying to refactor my code from this

{
    void Interact();
    bool CanInteract();
}

to this

using System.Collections;

public interface Interactable
{
    IEnumerator Interact();

    bool CanInteract();
} ```

but the use of yield returns seems to break my logic, so im just trying to wrap my head around best practices for a IEnumerator interface

```cs using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class Chest : MonoBehaviour, Interactable
{

    public bool isOpened { get; private set; }
    public string ChestID { get; private set; }

    public GameObject itemPrefab;
    public Sprite openedSprite;

    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        ChestID ??= GlobalUtilities.GenerateUniqueID(gameObject);
    }

    public bool CanInteract()
    {
        return !isOpened;
    }

    public IEnumerator Interact()
    {
        if (!CanInteract()) yield break;
        OpenChest();
    }
    private IEnumerator OpenChest()
    {
        SetOpened(true);
        if (itemPrefab)
        {
            GameObject chestItem;
           yield return chestItem = Instantiate(itemPrefab, transform.position + Vector3.down, Quaternion.identity);
        }
    }
    public void SetOpened(bool opened)
    {

        if (isOpened=opened)
        {
            GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sprite = openedSprite;
        }
    }
} ```

[polar acorn]

No idea what that yield return is trying to do

[echo cradle]

ya finally figured out teh key it wanted

[polar acorn]

that doesn't really make any sense

[echo cradle]

im just trying to get a generic interface, so that when i say add quests or chocies its flexable

[polar acorn]

What are you actually trying to do with those IEnumerators

[echo cradle]

im just trying to get a generic interface, so that when i say add quests or chocies its flexable

[polar acorn]

So... what are you trying to do with the IEnumerators

Why are they not just functions that return void like your original interface

[echo cradle]

make a dialog system, make an encounter system, make an interactable system, make a party syste, make an inventory system, make traps, make cutscenes, maybe make a shop?

[polar acorn]

Okay, but, why are they IEnumerators

[echo cradle]

... because i want an interface that can go though the elements of the various different collections i have?

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you intend to use them as an iterator to build up a collection? Not a Coroutine?

[echo cradle]

i'll have coroutines too, its just im trying to refactor what i have to make it more robust, should i have been using a coroutine in the code i gave?

[polar acorn]

If you intend to use it as a coroutine, you need to run it with StartCoroutine. If you intend for it to build up a collection, you would yield return one individual element of the collection

And then do .MoveNext() on the IEnumerator to get the next thing in the collection

These are pretty different use cases, highly unlikely that you'll ever be doing both with the same interface

[echo cradle]

and startcoroutine needs a return type?

[polar acorn]

StartCoroutine returns Coroutine

[echo cradle]

    {
        if (!CanInteract()) yield break;
        StartCoroutine(OpenChest());
    }
    private void OpenChest()
    {
        SetOpened(true);
        if (itemPrefab)
        {
            GameObject chestItem = Instantiate(itemPrefab, transform.position + Vector3.down, Quaternion.identity);
        }
    }

right so this doesnt cut it

[polar acorn]

You need to pass an IEnumerator to the coroutine

Before you were calling it like a normal method but it was an IEnumerator.
Now you're calling it like an IEnumerator but it's a normal method

[echo cradle]

right

    {
        if (!CanInteract()) yield break;
        StartCoroutine(OpenChest());
    }
    private IEnumerator OpenChest()
    {
        SetOpened(true);
        if (itemPrefab)
        {
            GameObject chestItem;
            yield return chestItem = Instantiate(itemPrefab, transform.position + Vector3.down, Quaternion.identity);
        }
    } ```

but i still cant open the chest

[polar acorn]

For a coroutine, that yield return doesn't really make sense

In a coroutine, the yield return is basically the "Wait condition"

default being yield return null which will resume next frame

[echo cradle]

ya its not working still, how would i structure a coroutine to Instantiate an itemPrefab and flip a sprite to open?

[polar acorn]

Why would that need to be a Coroutine? What are you waiting for in it?

[echo cradle]

because otherwise i'm making two different interactables and isn't the point of this is i only need one?

[polar acorn]

I'm still not sure why these return IEnumerator. What were you trying to do that couldn't be done with a normal method?

[echo cradle]

its a matter of putting everything under the same interactable interface

[wintry quarry]

What does that have to do with coroutines?

[polar acorn]

And what are you intending to do that would require an IEnumerator

[echo cradle]

they're a part of IEnumerable?

[wintry quarry]

But what does that have to do with your interface

[echo cradle]

move, display text, pull up an invetory item for a relavent fight?

[polar acorn]

Okay, and what are you intending to do that would require an IEnumerator?

[echo cradle]

i'm trying to refactor my code

[polar acorn]

Let me rephrase this:

What do you think returning IEnumerator does?

[wintry quarry]

This line:

yield return chestItem = Instantiate(itemPrefab, transform.position + Vector3.down, Quaternion.identity);```
Is showing me that you are probably confused about how coroutines work. Because it's pointless for this to be a coroutine and it's pointless to `yield return` this object

[echo cradle]

an interface that allows you to iterate the elements of a collection ?

[polar acorn]

Right, so why are you making something an iterator? What is the point of doing so? Where are you actually using any of the features of IEnumerator

What is the purpose of this function? What do you want it to do?

[echo cradle]

ok let me ask you this, would you make a pokemon game in unity withOUT Ienumerator?>

k wrong person

[polar acorn]

Yes, easily

[echo cradle]

oh

so your quests

your inventory

[polar acorn]

You could probably use coroutines somewhere

[echo cradle]

your SCRPTABLE OBJECTS?

[polar acorn]

What do any of those have to do with IEnumerator?

I really don't think you fully understand what this return type means

You seem to be dead set on returning it and have provided no reasons to do so

Why do you desperately need to be able to do foreach(var x in OpenChest()) somewhere?

[wintry quarry]

that's a really weird question

that's like saying "Would you make a house without torx screws?"

Maybe?

[echo cradle]

THATS WHAT IM TYRYIN TO REFACTs

[polar acorn]

So, you want to iterate over this function in a foreach? Why?

[echo cradle]

no i am tryin to move AWAY from taht

[polar acorn]

Then why the hell are you making your functions IEnumerators

Either they're Coroutines or iterators in a foreach

that's what IEnumerator does

and you don't wanna foreach them, and you don't have any wait conditions

so what is the point

[echo cradle]

the point, is i am trying to make a game, this game will have a bunch of interactables that will do EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF. and you are telling me, once again, taht everything i am trying to do beyond basic fucking if statments is wrong and this si not the way to do it

[naive pawn]

jesus christ chill

[echo cradle]

have you conisdreed, foir opne fuckiing second that peopl,e come here to fiugure out how to do thigns RIGHT?

[polar acorn]

So, without just stating the definition of IEnumerator, what problem are you expecting this to solve? In terms of actual game interactions and normal english words, what are you intending IEnumerator to do

[polar acorn]

I told you how to do it right, and that there seems to be no reason to use IEnumerators and you've fought me every step along the way

and can't explain why it has to be one

[echo cradle]

i dont know how muc more basic you want me to get then i want to make unicorn overlord

[polar acorn]

The solution is: Don't return IEnumerator. You aren't doing anything that needs to return IEnumerator

So don't

It's a tool that does not apply to the things you say you're trying to do

so there is no point to do it

[naive pawn]

ok so if you don't understand it, don't use it randomly hoping it'll stick

[echo cradle]

so then mr expert wehat IS the point of Ienumerator?

[polar acorn]

I'm asking you, what problem are you trying to solve with IEnumerator, because none of the things you've described are things that would warrant it

[polar acorn]

I told you, to make it so you can iterate over a function, or as a coroutine

Both of which you have said you don't want or don't need

[echo cradle]

read my chat again i WANT coroutines

[polar acorn]

Then what is the wait condition you want for your function

[echo cradle]

the rest, yes i am trying to figure out and notjhig that has been said HERTE has been helpful

[polar acorn]

What is your function waiting for

[echo cradle]

for the chest to open and the item to spawn

[wintry quarry]

but your code isn't doing any waiting

it will all happen instantly

[polar acorn]

Does that actually take any time?

Spawning an object does not take time

Changing a sprite does not take time

They're all synchronous

So, why is it a coroutine

[naive pawn]

wasn't this to allow waiting, since it's in an interface

not to require waiting

[polar acorn]

You don't just change code for no reason, you identify a problem, and do something that gives a solution. Right now, you don't seem to have a problem

[wintry quarry]

We still haven't seen this interface

[naive pawn]

you haven't?

[wintry quarry]

And that doesn't explain why OpenChest needs to be a coroutine

[polar acorn]

We have, it was at the top of the monolithic post they made at the start:

public interface Interactable
{
    IEnumerator Interact();
    bool CanInteract();
} 

[wintry quarry]

Ok well I didn't see it till now, no

[echo cradle]

becasue my singalton dialog manager uses this

[polar acorn]

Uses what

[echo cradle]

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

[naive pawn]

so im confused what the disagreement is here

[wintry quarry]

at some point in the chain of code you'd want to actually yield return some kind of actual YieldInstruction

[polar acorn]

Yes, this contains many coroutines.

These coroutines properly have wait conditions

[wintry quarry]

I think demonicArbitror just hasn't managed to ask the actual question they want the answer to here - which is probably something like "How do I make this coroutine happen over multiple frames and some period of real time?"

[polar acorn]

So, what does that have to do with this interface?

[echo cradle]

interfaces have DIALOGH TEXT?

[polar acorn]

I have been trying to ask them what they actually want to do but I keep getting "YoU cAnT mAkE a GaMe WiThOuT iEnUmErAtOrS"

[polar acorn]

What?

[naive pawn]

so right now you have 2 detached coroutines, that's unnecessary
you could choose to either centralize it, and have Interact be the only coroutine or have both be coroutines where Interact yields OpenChest, or not, and have OpenChest be the only coroutine

which you choose depends on where you need the control over the coroutine
suppose you need to stop the coroutine, would that be from the thing calling Interact or the thing defining OpenChest?

[echo cradle]

actually i was just asking about refactoring from a void to an ienumerator becasue i wanted to tie all my syustems together

[polar acorn]

Are you trying to start a coroutine from the function this Interface defines?

[echo cradle]

but nnonoooo Im DOiing It WRong

[naive pawn]

ok well "refactoring" a return type doesn't really make sense..?

[polar acorn]

and you haven't explained why

this isn't a "refactor" kind of thing

[echo cradle]

do i need to define REFACTORING to you?>

[polar acorn]

this is a "radical change in functionality" thing

[sour fulcrum]

this comment here explicitly says you want to move away from ienumatiors but now your saying your asking about moving to them?

[naive pawn]

no, we all know what it is
refactoring is making a code yield the same result with a different process
this is not that

[polar acorn]

Not however you mean it, because completely upending the functionality of your interface to make an iterator you don't want to iterate through isn't what I'd call refactoring

[echo cradle]

then what IS it because it lookms liek that to me

[naive pawn]

you want to make a synchronous system, asynchronous? that's not refactoring

[polar acorn]

Which is why I am 100% sure you have no idea what an IEnumerator is

[naive pawn]

that explicitly changes the behaviour

[echo cradle]

greatr you figure out why im in thbsi fucoiing discord

[polar acorn]

Which is why I continously ask what it is you're trying to accomplish

[echo cradle]

and i have siad

what i am tryting to acomppish

[polar acorn]

because this solution does not solve the problems you have stated

So I'm confused why you're insisting on doing it

[naive pawn]

no, using IEnumerators is not a meaningful goal

https://xyproblem.info

[polar acorn]

"Hey man, why are you standing in the snow in your underwear with a pickaxe in your hand?"
"I'm trying to bake a cake"

[naive pawn]

do you have a reason, one that would be apparent in the resulting behaviour, to use coroutines? think about that

[polar acorn]

The thing you've said you want to do does not follow from the thing you're trying to do to do it

[echo cradle]

"hey man im trying to refactor this code tom amek a better game" shits words in my mouth

[wintry quarry]

Are you actually here for help, or for an argument?

[naive pawn]

ok, so making everything a coroutine doesn't automatically achieve that, see link above

[polar acorn]

Why are you trying to change your perfectly functional interface into an iterator

What is the point of iterating this function

What goal is it intending to accomplish

An IEnumerator is not "Better code" that is a goal in and of itself

[echo cradle]

help would be nice but @polar acorn cant seem to check his ego

[naive pawn]

then ignore him, you still have plenty of questions to answer

[polar acorn]

This isn't an ego problem, I solved your goddamn question an hour ago

[naive pawn]

@echo cradle go give this a read

[polar acorn]

The answer is: "Fucking don't"

[naive pawn]

think about what you're trying to achieve with making everything a coroutine

[polar acorn]

There's no reason to make these functions IEnumerators

[sour fulcrum]

no man your being shockingly rude and childish in general

[echo cradle]

my goal, is get an inventory system, a collsion system, an ineractable system, a dialog system, and game all wrking together

[naive pawn]

and are they working together?

[echo cradle]

why do you think im here?

[polar acorn]

Okay, cool. Your original interface does that just fine

What is the problem with it

What does making it an iterator actually do to move towards that goal

[naive pawn]

good, then you've found an issue!

that's not equivalent to "i want to make everything a coroutine"

go dig into why exactly stuff doesn't work together

[teal viper]

Then maybe describe the actual problem.

[naive pawn]

again, go read about X/Y problem

[echo cradle]

once i've stopped fighting with @polar acorn , maybe

[naive pawn]

then just stop fighting

noone's forcing you into the ring

[polar acorn]

I have been begging you to describe the problem and you just fucking won't

[naive pawn]

if you don't like the interaction, block him and answer everyone else's questions

[echo cradle]

ive been descripbing it in a bounch of differente ways, none of them seem to work, much like my code

[naive pawn]

if you keep insisting on fighting with digiholic, then it really does seem that you just want a fight

[polar acorn]

And I've told you none of what you've described requires anything to return IEnumerator. So just, don't do that

[echo cradle]

at this point its more of a problem with the 'your doing it all wrong' attitude thats pissig me off

[naive pawn]

then ignore it
you have actual issues to solve, don't you?

the block button exists for a reason

use it

so we can all move on

[echo cradle]

the block button blocks possiblilites

[naive pawn]

i mean, it doesn't actually fully block, so not really

[polar acorn]

Is your code doing what you want?

If no, then I'd say you are doing it wrong and I'm trying to explain how to do it right but you won't fucking tell anyone what you want to do so no one can help

[naive pawn]

but you seem like you don't want their input anyways lol

so what's the holdup

[echo cradle]

... you HAVE heard of growing right?

[polar acorn]

Buddy are you drunk

[naive pawn]

yeah no clue where you're trying to pull this but it isn't going to be productive lmao

[echo cradle]

right, i was clearly in a X/Y situation as whoever outlined

[polar acorn]

What are you even talking about

[echo cradle]

no i have fury

[naive pawn]

get that checked

[echo cradle]

lol

why?

[naive pawn]

it's not gonna make you more productive

and honestly, it's gonna make everyone else not want to help you

[echo cradle]

hmm anger does give motivation,m it jsut lacks focus

[naive pawn]

then get the focus lmao

you pointed out the issue

[polar acorn]

Which is why I tried to get you out of it by asking what the fuck you were trying to accomplish with IEnumerator. Literally my first fucking question was an attempt to ask your problem instead of your proposed solution

[teal viper]

So basically, you have interactions that need to wait for some time(for an animation or something to complete) and you decided that you need coroutines everywhere for that?

[naive pawn]

anyways, are you gonna ask about your actual issue now
rather than stepping aside and trying to make everything a coroutine, seemingly for the sake of it?

[echo cradle]

or at least a 'standard approach' to the various different systems i want to implement

[naive pawn]

your systems aren't working together, so find out why

[naive pawn]

...a standard approach in.. game design in general? yeah that's not really a thing

[echo cradle]

right what im trying to say is i want one interactable button, and for it to access all these different systems though one common interface?

was that better?

[naive pawn]

sure, didn't you already have that though

[teal viper]

In C# the standard way to do this is async. This allows you to make methods that would wait for something or execute something in the background. But there are many other ways to do it, like callbacks for example.

[naive pawn]

what was the issue with the old system?

[polar acorn]

Okay, and why does your initial interface not already do that, but the new one does?

How does your "refactor" actually work towards solving that problem?

[echo cradle]

because i want to weave in things like the dialog system and other animation based systems, so doesnt my 'interact' need to be an ienumerator for that or else ill be using multiple different interfaces?

[teal viper]

What makes you think that it needs to be an ienumerator?

[echo cradle]

because the dialog system is and i get compiler errors otherwise?

[teal viper]

Provide one specific reason with code example where it has to be an ienumerator.

[polar acorn]

A function does not need to be an IEnumerator to start a coroutine

[polar acorn]

How about you show the actual error

Because you can 1000% call any of the coroutines in dialog manager without needing to be an IEnumerator

And it seems like you messed up the syntax and assumed that meant you had to basically turn your entire project into coroutines instead of trying to solve the original problem

Which is literally what the XY problem is

[echo cradle]

heres an old project with the old input manager, it got the interactable from the opposing collider, i dont know if it HAS to be an ienumerator but this is just what i ended up doing https://paste.mod.gg/sxxjhtririys/0

[echo cradle]

as for teh actual error my codes a mess after trying to refactor it today

[teal viper]

Version control

[sour fulcrum]

Not to be that guy but not sure how keen the server is on messing with pokemon fangame projects, might fall under modding type territory

[echo cradle]

one man show, but ya for days liek this it would be nice, w/e its like 4 scripts

[sour fulcrum]

most solo devs still use version control

[teal viper]

Doesn't matter. It's to keep your changes organized and backed up.

[polar dust]

Do you know what "refactor" means?

[north merlin]

How to play a anim from its beginning every time. Here is what I use but it doesnt restart it if it is already playing hitEffectAnim.Play("effect");

[echo cradle]

yes i faield to refactor, happy now?

[echo cradle]

he asked for an exampel that was teh one on hand

[polar dust]

you keep using the word, I'm only wondering what you think it means

[echo cradle]

Refactoring is the process of improving the internal structure of existing software code without altering its external behavior or functionality. because i got in a fight with someone's ego today it failed. any more questions?

[sour fulcrum]

Thats really just not a productive attitude to have man

respectfully

[echo cradle]

my 'productive day' went out the window as soon as i had to ask for help here

[sour fulcrum]

If your not in a productive mindset it's going to be very hard for anyone to help you regardless of your personal perception of their ego

[polar dust]

going back and reading, it appears like you were offered a lot of people's time to try and help you

[sour fulcrum]

It just comes off as very combative

[teal viper]

There's no reason whatsoever for the Interact method to be a coroutine. It doesn't do anything at all here.

[polar acorn]

And to think it could have been productive if you had just actually provided context the first time when asked, and believed people when they said it didn't need to be an IEnumerator

You, in fact, already had the working code all along

[echo cradle]

i mean isn't a requirement of refactoring means you already HAVE working code?

[polar acorn]

Yeah, and it also means not changing the functionality of it into one that does not for no benefit

[echo cradle]

right, it was jsut like that there because everything was an ienumerator in that example. im just looking for a clean way to implement an interface taht is scaleable to my wims

[polar acorn]

What you started with was perfectly scaleable

[echo cradle]

then lets hope tomorrow my questions are something different.

[polar dust]

id suggest trying to plan the question, figure out the best way to explain your goals and what you have

It'll be the most productive way for anyone to help you

[echo cradle]

thought i did today burt clearly, i need to look into it

[polar dust]

its a skill that takes time to develop!

[teal viper]

I assume that the reason this is a coroutine is because some of the interactions are actually doing something over time.
In this case, I'd have a whole interaction queue system on a character that can keep track of current interaction/s and update it correctly. Instead of just making the interact method a coroutine.

[polar dust]

I'll sometimes draft questions in notepad, write all the details out, and then I think if there's a better way to phrase what I've got

[echo cradle]

yes that's why its like that, but in my current project i haven't have any animations yet. i was just trying to get everything set up. sorry i jumped the gun on ienuerable

[echo cradle]

ok actually thanks becasue my next questiojn was handling multple ineractables in range

[teal viper]

A project I'm working on now had something called actions queue. There are different actions in the game, like sleeping, sitting, opening doors, crafting, moving items between inventories, etc... And the characters are controlled by ai mainly so they need to be able to queue many of this actions in order or parallel. Which is why there is a state machine on each character that handles queueing, executing, updating, finishing actions. All of this is done via the update, so no coroutines involved. This is the simplest setup you can have without complications.

Some actions would execute immediately, some wait for an animation to complete. This is all handled during the action update.

And interactable objects just provide the character with the required action. They don't handle the logic of the action(though some actions might call on some of the object's API).

[sour fulcrum]

What type is Action in that implementation?

[teal viper]

They all extend an abstract plain class CharacterAction.

[sour fulcrum]

Heard, whats your method of providing them an update loop?

[teal viper]

They are updated from the mentioned state machine on each character.

From character update loop

[sour fulcrum]

Ah nice

[north merlin]

bumping this so it's seen.

[teal viper]

What are you trying to play? Is it a state in the animator?

[cosmic dagger]

So, the state machine holds a reference (or is passed a reference) to the current action, and within its Update the state machine executes the current action's Update?

[teal viper]

I guess state machine is not entirely correct way to describe it. It's a class that has a queue of actions. Basically in encapsulates the logic of queueing and updating actions. The character just calls enqueue and update methods on it. The "state machine" checks if there's a current action, updates it and handles finishing it. If there's no current action it dequeues the next action assigns it as the current action and repeats.

The character class itself only holds that state machine reference. As well as a planner object reference. The planner generates several actions and passes them to the character for it to enqueue and execute them. The code is still a bit sloppy, but it took me several iterations to get here, so I'll just keep it as is for now.

[still trail]

I'm not sure if this is where I ask but I need help. I have a tile moving script, except my character would slightly move and offset their path when I try to collect an item, I'm guessing it has something to do with the Rigidbody on the item, does anyone know a fix?

[wintry quarry]

What is the desired behavior?

And what do you mean by "tile moving script" and "offset their path"

whose path?

[cosmic dagger]

Nah, that's pretty cool. It's always nice to see how others implement or build a system/mechanic . . .

[still trail]

The players path

[wintry quarry]

Presuumably your player is colliding with the item

So make the items use trigger colliders instead maybe? Hard to say as you have given very little detail here.

[still trail]

When the player collides with the object, it's meant to go into the inventory, just as it goes in and deletes itself, if slightly pushes the player off of the middle of the tile

It's 2d btw

[cosmic dagger]

They just explained above how you can fix the issue . . .

[wintry quarry]

yep, refer back to #💻┃code-beginner message

[still trail]

I'll give it a try, but I'm pretty sure it didn't work originally

Yea, it won't go in the inventory now

[wintry quarry]

I mean, trigger colliders work in general, so it would have been a problem with your implementation. if you have a question about a specific implementation not working feel free to share the details of what you tried, including code and how you set the scene up.

i.e. did you actually switch to OnTriggerEnter2D instead of OnCollisionEnter2D?

[still trail]

Oh

[cosmic dagger]

A trigger collider does not physically collide with the object. It's a trigger zone. You need to change how the object's collide with each other since you are using a trigger collider instead of a regular collider . . .

[rotund crown]

I'm applying a texture to a plane, and i want to use alpha clipping to remove the white
i set the material to cut out mode, but no matter what i set the alpha cutoff slider to, it doesnt remove the white

am i misunderstanding something?

[wintry quarry]

alpha cutoff clips pixels with low alpha

not white pixels

[north kiln]

Make sure your texture has an alpha channel and is configured correctly in the importer

[rotund crown]

hm, i couldnt find any info on internet on how to propelry configure the texture

[wintry quarry]

You want "alpha is transparency" checked

Also the image needs to actually have those transparent pixels

[rotund crown]

hm, in the tutorial i was following, they had a texture with a white background

does it need to be a texture with a transparent background? (but then what's the point of turning the transparent part of a texture transparent?

[wintry quarry]

I have no idea what I'm looking at but yes it needs to be transparent

[rotund crown]

leaf texture with a white background

[north kiln]

White background is meaningless

pointless and actively harmful in some cases

[rotund crown]

what's the purpose of alpha clipping then?
is it to prevent a square shaped texture with transparency from say casting a square shadow?

[wintry quarry]

Again alpha cutoff for cutout shader only works with the alpha channel

[wintry quarry]

it clips the transparent fragments entirely

and yes it affects shadows

[north kiln]

It lets the material be opaque and write to the depth buffer to properly sort with other objects, while also having transparency defined by the texture

[wintry quarry]

yeah sorting with transparent shaders is often a nightmare

[rotund crown]

mmkay, time to photoshop then woo

[rotund crown]

oo yea ive seen games make mistakes in that

[wintry quarry]

it's entirely possible to write a cutout shader that cuts out white pixels instead of alpha

but it seems weird

also in this case wouldn't it cut out the white numbers on the dart board?

[rotund crown]

yeup, but i'm mostly just practicing
in this case this texture is temporary and just for prototyping

hm well now it looks like this

[wintry quarry]

What's the original image look like

[wintry quarry]

If you set it to Point filter, does it mostly fix it?

(though it may add other artifacts, I just want to see something)

[rotund crown]

got crispier but no

[wintry quarry]

that feels like some kind of weird sampling error 🤔

What if you disable compression?

[rotund crown]

no visible change

[north kiln]

You just need to change the alpha clipping threshold

It's not a weird sampling error

it's just flood fill transparency, bleed, whatever you want to call it

[rotund crown]

alpha cutoff right?

no visible change regardless of value