💻┃code-beginner

[shut swallow]

just removing it after the vfx has finished playing

[frosty hound]

You can Destroy any GameObject in your scene
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.Destroy.html

If you're using a particle system, there is also a stop property on the component which you can set to destroy so it'll handle it itself once the system is complete.

[shut swallow]

I'm using VFX graph, does unity allow manipulation of the playrate of the instantiated slash?

I have a config like this:

                (
                    vfx_slash,
                    position: castCenter,
                    rotation: slashDirectionQuaternion

                );
                Destroy(vfx_slash, 8);
                SuspendSlashes();```

[drowsy pewter]

anyone from india

[polar acorn]

Lots

[shut swallow]

I destroyed the game object, but not the clone, why?

[cosmic dagger]

Instantiate returns the cloned GameObject. you never assign the return value to a variable . . .

You destroy the prefab used to create the clone . . .

[shut swallow]

ahhh

so how should I fix it? slash = Instantiate(...) then Destroy(slash)?

[shut swallow]

how do I do that

[cosmic dagger]

Sure, checkout the docs for Instantiate. They have an example of cloning an instance . . .

[viscid needle]

can anyone tell me why my player is not available as a game object

[shut swallow]

got it, thanks

now my problem is making the particle spawn properly relative to the player

[shut swallow]

most likely your player is an empty game object

[rocky canyon]

ur in prefab mode..

its only showing the gameobjects in the prefab

[shut swallow]

lol

mb

[rocky canyon]

no worries

[viscid needle]

thank you soooo muchhhh!!!

[rocky canyon]

i meant to ping @viscid needle

[willow iron]

🤦‍♂️

[rocky canyon]

yea, u can manipulate cinemachine variables at runtime... (the way u do it varies tho) especially since the updated blue cinemachine

vs the red cinemachine

trial and error for me when i do

[willow iron]

do you know how to manipulate them? cant find anything in the documentation

[rocky canyon]

keep in mind tho.. that prefabs can't really reference things within the scene unless they are already in teh scene..
say u instantiate a prefab... unless the thing thats referenced is inside the prefab... the reference will be broken..

u need to do things like that after the instantiation..

[viscid needle]

still does not work

[rocky canyon]

say an enemy needs to know bout the player..

• spawn the enemy
• reference the enemy..
• tell it to assign the player (cuz now they both exist in the scene)

1. ur still in prefab mode
2. #💻┃code-beginner message

[viscid needle]

it works in the scene view but why not in prefab ?

[polar acorn]

Which of these objects is the player

[willow iron]

Dont know how code will fix my bullets being too fast for the engine to register, but its worth a shot i suppose

[viscid needle]

none it is a single prefab containing a healthbar

[polar acorn]

Then you cannot set it as a reference in the editor here

A prefab cannot refer to objects in scenes. You will need to set the variable after spawning this object in code

[viscid needle]

i made the player a prefab

i though that will help

[shut swallow]

        var castCameraLocation = playerCamera.transform.position;

        var castCenter = playerCamera.transform.TransformPoint(castCenterOffset);

        var vector3HalfExtents = new Vector3(1.25f, 1f, 1.25f);

        var slashDirection = castCenter - cameraTarget.position;
        var slashDirectionQuaternion = Quaternion.Euler(slashDirection);

        // spawning game object doesn't seem to align with direction
                GameObject slashvfxinstance = Instantiate
                (
                    vfx_slash, 
                    position: castCenter,
                    rotation: slashDirectionQuaternion

                );```
I'm trying to spawn the particle gameObject at the end of the white line (`Debug.DrawLine(cameraTarget.position, castCenter)`) with the direction of the particle pointing at the same direction, but somehow it doesn't work. Object is spawning in just fine, but for some reason I can't see the VFX except at certain positions at certain angles, did I instantiate incorrectly?

[polar acorn]

Do you want to refer to the player prefab, or the one in the scene that is doing things

[rocky canyon]

theres 2 main ways of doing this

• the thing u spawn has logic that "grabs" the player reference when it becomes into existence (in the scene)...
  something like this.. but be cautious of using Find methods...

the 2nd way is:

• the spawner... (that spawns the prefab).. uses its opportunity to cache the object..
  and tell it to assign the player immediately after instantiating it

#💻┃code-beginner message - #💻┃code-beginner message

you can also use somewhat of a shortcut.. and just Instantiate it using the script instead..
(it still instantiates the prefab object).. & you have the luxury of already having the reference to the script you need..
@viscid needle

[strong shoal]

one question how would i take a gameobject rotation and rotate it at a slope angle???

[rocky canyon]

use the normal of that surface and simply set its transform.up = that

[strong shoal]

not working

i have already tried it

[crimson shadow]

Hey guys! i have a problem that i dont know how to solve. I have script that handles all my inputs
onFoot.UseItem.performed += ctx => { if (!playerUI.isInventoryOpen) useSelectedItem.UseItemInHand(); };
like this, when i press lmb it calls function from another script

{
    ItemSO itemSO = inventoryManager.GetSelectedItem(false);//what item is selected
    if(itemSO == null)
    {
        Debug.Log("No item selected to use.");
        return;
    }
    ItemSO selectedItem = inventoryManager.GetSelectedItem(itemSO.isUsable);//this reduces item quantity on use
    if (selectedItem is IItemUse usableItem)
    {
        usableItem.UseItem();
    }
}```
and from scriptable object script it gets UseItem of that SO
```public void UseItem()
{
    // Implement the logic for using the seed item here
    Debug.Log("used");
}   ```
ill try to be as clear as i can, i need to check in UseItem for canPlant bool from my plantingmanager script, so if i can plant than i will use the item, but i cant get a reference in my SO to plantingmanager, if i will do it in my UseItemInHand, then every object even if its not a seed will have a check on canPlant which i dont want because i will have items other than seeds. i propably could just use old unput system and in every item use script i would wait for lmb input, but i wanna do it with new input system. I hope i was clear enough and at least someone can understand what im saying.

[rocky canyon]

theres something more going on in that code..

log ur hits..

it seems to be spamming between different hits.. (maybe when ur stuff rotates)...

u need to ignore the collider of the thing ur moving too ofc..

[strong shoal]

thats my code

[rocky canyon]

either with physics query logic things ( i forget what they're called) or a layermask

so its only hitting certain things

[strong shoal]

btw the ground is a terrain

[rocky canyon]

i think ur mixing up what normals are..
normals are perpendicular to the surface.. so for a surface thats flat.. (horizontal) the normal will be Vertical...

in ur case ur using slopeDir which is a forward vector along the slope plane... or "Parallel"

[strong shoal]

OH

I ACCIDENTALY

DID IT

SRY

[rocky canyon]

i think u can fix the code u have now with some type of normalization but im not totally sure

projections i kinda just fiddle with until i get to work. 😄

i do simple raycasts w/o the projectonplane.. so that bit was what threw me off a bit

[strong shoal]

i did it wrong

[rocky canyon]

closer tho

💪 lol

[strong shoal]

should it be hit.point???

wait

[rocky canyon]

hit.point is just the position has nothign to do with rotations /direction

[strong shoal]

i think i know now

IDKKK

[strong shoal]

idk

[polar acorn]

That wasn't a question it was a statement. I have no idea what "idk" is supposed to mean in response to this

[strong shoal]

Vector3 slopeDir = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(, hit.normal); that i dont know if the first argument should be a position or not

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector3.ProjectOnPlane.html

The direction you want to actually project

[strong shoal]

im confused

what should be the direction aka vector

when im trying to rotate the game object around the slope angle

[verbal dome]

Setting transform.up to the hit normal should work, as spawn suggested

[rocky canyon]

so ur doing something like this?

[strong shoal]

I DID IT

[verbal dome]

Maybe your raycast is hitting the object itself?

[strong shoal]

like 20 secs ago

Vector3 slopeDir = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(transform.up, hit.normal);

        transform.forward = slopeDir;

[rocky canyon]

once its rotated it should be just along the lines of rotating it along its local Y axis or w/e it is

[strong shoal]

like this

[rocky canyon]

as in its finished?

no more problems?

[strong shoal]

nope

its just floating

a little bit

like the character

but im gonna repair it

thx

[rocky canyon]

np, 🍀 good luck

[strong shoal]

i mean there is one

the model is shaking

like left and right

all of the time

[rocky canyon]

probably a situation where ur moving it one method..and rotating it another method..
or vice versa.. some kind of sync/ rigidbody jitter perhaps
some movement logic in Update()
other logic in FixedUpdate() or relying on physics calculations(just speculations)

[rapid laurel]

Can anyone help with linking Firebase to Unity? I have an InitializeFirebase() method called in Awake(), but it never seems to finish initializing. When I try to save data to the Realtime Database, it fails because Firebase is still not ready. What could be the issue?

[keen dew]

Show code

[rapid laurel]

https://pastecode.io/s/ncg54qex

savePlayerStats is used on other script when my character dies

[strong shoal]

but i have a problem i want the enemy to look at the player but transform.up = hit.normal; doesnt allow me too bc its rotating on all of the axis uk

is there a way to fix that????

[rocky canyon]

for me i typically break up my objects into "container" objects

say the Outer wrapper (root container) is rotated by one script..
and then my Inner container is rotating inside that outter container..

[strong shoal]

i was thinking about that bc the model has bones

so i am able to do it

[rocky canyon]

like for example my AA gun here

the base rotates (rotating the cannon with it).. but for the cannon rotation i rotate just teh cannon (inside the base)

[keen dew]

Which of the logs do you get?

[rocky canyon]

keeping them seperate.. its ususally the only way i can get some of the things i want to work to work

plus rotations and quaternions break my brain most times

(its also how my player camera works) my player rotates his body left and right (camera just follows) and then the camera only rotates up and down.. but u combine those together.. and u get a full 360 range in all directions

[strong shoal]

mhm

[rocky canyon]

but thats all the info i really got.. you'll have to probably share ur entire script.. type out what u want to happen.. how u want it to happen and all that stuff..

and then someone thats a wizard with rotations will step in and can tell u the correct Rotation methods to use.. (as there seems to be dozens of em)

[rapid laurel]

Debug.Log("Inicializando Firebase..."); on initializeFirebase method

the first line

[keen dew]

Looks correct to me, sorry. You might want to browse the bug reports if someone has had the same issue: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-unity-sdk/issues?q=is%3Aissue CheckAndFixDependenciesAsync

[willow iron]

what is the difference between an animatorstate and a childanimatorstate?

[verbal dome]

You won't need childanimatorstate unless you are doing editor scripting with the animator

Looks like it just references the state and its GUI position inside the state machine
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animations.ChildAnimatorState.html

[zealous garden]

I have a dodge roll animation setup for my player that uses root motion.
I have a few issues

1. The roll animation does not seem to finish fully when pressing the roll key
2. my camera does not seem to follow the player when dodge rolling ( can show relevent scripts for that)
3. the player returns to the starting roll position when the dodge roll ends

When doing the dodge roll, it doesnt seem to be moving my character controller?

[rocky canyon]

root motion will only move the object the animator is attached to... (or that it has keyframes for)
if ur CC is on that Player gameobject.. yet the animator is on the KnightPlayer child gameobject i wouldnt expect the Player to move along with it at all..

[zealous garden]

The animator is on the player game object tho

which is why im confused

[rocky canyon]

with the CC?

[zealous garden]

Yes

[rocky canyon]

last i recall CC's dont like to be moved or animated.. thats why when u teleport one of them you have to disable the CC, then teleport it transform.position = teleportPosition; .. and then re-enable it

[zealous garden]

Character controllers dont like to be moved?

[rocky canyon]

but i can't say with any certainty how it reacts with RootMotion animations

[rocky canyon]

not outside its Move() and SimpleMove() functions no

[zealous garden]

yes

thats all im using

Thats my code

The dodge functions are at the bottom

[rocky canyon]

thats an empty link

gotta save it and use the generated url

[zealous garden]

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

Mb

[rocky canyon]

what about the deltaPosition

i havent ever done root motion so idk.. u may have to force the CC to update to the rolll position

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNxEetKzc04 is the vid referenced

[zealous garden]

Hmm, but im using character controller.move, shouldnt that move it?

[rocky canyon]

ya, it'll move it however u tell it to move depending on whats inside the ()

but.. if ur animator is whats moving it.. idk

[zealous garden]

my code is exactly like that lol

weird

[zealous garden]

Could it be because my animation type is generic, not humanoid? but that wouldnt make sense because all my other animations are generic, they work 100% fine

[rocky canyon]

ya, i seen some mention of that in a thread as well

something about the avatar

[zealous garden]

Alright, so id switch the whole avatar to humanoid then right?

then the animations too

[rocky canyon]

im just looking thru threads and google searches.. cuz i dont do root motion ll

[rocky canyon]

dont get me lying ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[zealous garden]

Okay thank you so much, this has been bothering me for so long, would be amaizng to get thsi working

ChatGPT making me lose my mind...

[rocky canyon]

you can also debug ur CC position over the duration of the rolll

see if it updates at all past the point u initatiate it

[zealous garden]

Okay, well, i can clearly see it doesnt move anyway, in the viewport

[rocky canyon]

ahh.. so it stops in its tracks

[zealous garden]

Yeah

[rocky canyon]

as soon as u trigger the anim

[zealous garden]

yeah exactly

But the mesh actually moves and does the animation

[rocky canyon]

okay.. well that seems like useful information

[rocky canyon]

then the mesh snaps back to where the CC stopped?

[zealous garden]

Yes

[rocky canyon]

ahh okay.. now i got the full picture.. still no solution tho lol

are any of the clips mixed? like some being root motion and others not being root motion

ya, seems to me like ur gonna need to update the cc or the mesh. or whichever manually or theres something i dont know about with RootMotion. which is a very strong possibility

[zealous garden]

Yes, so all my other animations are non root motion, essentially only the dodge is root motion

And im enabling root motion as soon as the player rolls, then disabling it after

[rocky canyon]

ya, something about that peaks my interest..

[zealous garden]

its definately possible

because its been done before

[rocky canyon]

like if the last animation u were transitioning from is not.. root motion.. and then once the roll is complete it also transitions to a clip thats not root motion..

seems like that may matter.. but it also doesn't seem uncommon of something to do or try so im out of ideas

[rocky canyon]

ya totally

[zealous garden]

very common in soulslike games

[rocky canyon]

well im not meaning the mechanic being common.. just the method ur replicating it

also seems like it would be common

[zealous garden]

I dont think its my code thats wrong though, did you see the animator?

[rocky canyon]

unless* the souls-like also uses root motion for the simple walk -> movement

u could always run a coroutine when u dashroll.. moving the player (x distance / second or w/e) towards the stopping location..

(do it manually)

[zealous garden]

Yeah I made a dodging in place animation just in case

So ill do that as a last resort

[rocky canyon]

that would be my only solution lol

[zealous garden]

but it wouldnt look as smooth to be honest

Yeah

[rocky canyon]

yea, it might

if u took the time to tune it well enough

[zealous garden]

I want to at least TRY fix this

[rocky canyon]

but ya,there has to be ^

heh ofc ofc

[zealous garden]

Maybe I should take this into the advanced code channel

[willow iron]

it can find the root gameobject fine, but is struggling to send a message for some reason

[rocky canyon]

hey! maybe the animation finished before u get to set rootmotion back to false

so it snaps it back?

last guess.. im out of ideas 🍀

[slender nymph]

ew why are you using SendMessage? but also the error is pretty clear, you're calling GetChild and passing an index that is not between 0 and the number of children of that gameobject (or it just simply has no children)

[rocky canyon]

i was going to recommend #🏃┃animation but they're likely to send u back to a code channel once they see its a CC / Anim problem.. could possibly try general or advanced since we've discussed it a bit more thoroughly u got some good details to add

i think the non-root to root to non-root + ur code is likely the issue

[zealous garden]

Hm, not sure about that, actually have the opposite problem lol, the animation doesnt finish

[willow iron]

are there any alternatives to send message that i should know about? and I thought i was calling transform.root, i use GetChild in other scripts but not in this one. i dont know why it mentions GetChild here

[rocky canyon]

well, how about that lol

[slender nymph]

you should get a direct reference to the component you want to call a method on and just call that method instead of relying on SendMessage.
and you are looking at the wrong place for the error, look in the stack trace and you'll see where you are calling GetChild at

[zealous garden]

Yeah the delta position just returns 0,0,0

with the animator.deltaPosition

[willow iron]

ah, forgot you could do both those things

[cosmic quail]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/GameObject.GetComponent.html

[rapid laurel]

https://pastecode.io/s/rht78g61
Anyone can help again? my Firebase was not initializing because it starts before dependencies load, now i have used CehckAndFixDependenciesAsync and it gives me a null reference
reference = FirebaseDatabase.GetInstance(app).RootReference; <- NULL

[untold elk]

ok ty not pinging since its an old question

actually if my dontdestroyonload exists when im in scene and im then supposed to use onsceneloaded im assuming i make a function for the scene i open (read my question if yall havent seen it its above the reply i got that i just responded to above this comment) that registers it is opened with onsceneloaded but inside of the scene i have to go back to so it can ideally let me add a visual of like a check box for each one, and then after all four are done i can show the voting system ? should this script i make be inside the canvas for the ui i add or something else

[rapid laurel]

I think i have found my error but doesnt know how to fix it...
if I start firebase without the FirebaseApp.CheckAndFixDependenciesAsync method it starts fine but without the dependencies loaded then it does not let me upload data to the RealtimeDatabase, but if I use it and wait for them to load the method never finishes, so I understand that it does not find them or it is not loading them for some reason.
Has it happened to anyone?

[untold elk]

also in 3d worlds with unity toggles how do i move them as i do not get arrows like buttons do in unity

[timid salmon]

heyy guys! Just Trying to figure out wether ot not u can check how much force an object has after u apply it in a script

[polar acorn]

Objects don't "have" force

Force causes changes in velocity

but there's no way to go back from velocity to the amount of force used and when it was applied

[timid salmon]

can you check if the velocity meets a certain speed in a script to then do something?

[naive pawn]

why not?

it's a variable like any other

[timid salmon]

I need to check if the velocity is higer that 10 to rotate my object

How Would i acheive that in a script

[polar acorn]

With >, most likely

But velocity isn't a number, it's a vector

It has direction

[timid salmon]

Ohh

So How Would I Script That..

[naive pawn]

depends on what you actually want

[timid salmon]

something like

[naive pawn]

x velocity only? y velocity only? z velocity only? overall horizontal velocity? overall velocity?

[timid salmon]

if ( rb.velocity =< 10)

[naive pawn]

yeah that doesn't make sense - again, velocity is a vector

[polar acorn]

rb.velocity is a vector. It has a direction.

It's got X, Y, and Z components

You would need to get a numeric property of it like .x or .magnitude or something

Whichever one you want

[timid salmon]

so would it be something like if ( rb.velocity.x ?

[naive pawn]

you'd have to actually check it against something

[polar acorn]

Do you want to check the X velocity?

What value do you want to check?

[timid salmon]

Yeah!

[polar acorn]

If you want to check if the X velocity is greater than 10, that'd be a good way to do it

[timid salmon]

Great

Srry For pesturing but how would i do that..

[naive pawn]

sounds like you're missing some c# fundamentals

see the pinned resources

[timid salmon]

Yeah.. im really new

[rotund forum]

I want to give a list of "goals" to the enemies in my game (the goals determine how the enemy state machine's states function in order to reach said goal), but I'm coming across an issue where Unity does not want to serialize abstract classes. Seems like inheritance is not something you can do if you want to serialize a class.

I did start using scriptable objects and now I can have an abstract base class that the other goals inherit from (while the base class inherits from scriptable object), but there's another issue. I wanted to expose some variables in the editor in my list, but since I'm working with scriptable objects now all my goals are references to assets in my project; I can't change any variables (like patrol range or how much health they'll retreat at) in the GoalManager class's list, I have to do it on the scriptable object meaning I need slight variations in similarly functioning scriptable object "goals" if I want different enemies to, for example, patrol with slightly different parameters.

Am I making this too convoluted or is there a better way to do this? Or are scriptable objects the best option here?

Appreciate any help or feedback. Thank you.

[polar acorn]

With >

[naive pawn]

how would you deserialize an abstract class? you can't construct it

it's not the inheritance that's the issue, it's the abstract being an issue

[timid salmon]

i undersand what the less than or more than keys work yet im struggling to find wha it would actually look like in a script

[naive pawn]

see the pinned resources

[timid salmon]

where's that😭

[naive pawn]

[rocky canyon]

if(condition)
{
// execute
}``` where condition would be something like `rb.velocity.x > 10` or `rb.velocity.x > someVariable`

[polar acorn]

Well, you know how to get the number you want.
And you know how to use less than or greater than.

So what do you still need to know?

[rotund forum]

Yeah, you're right. My bad. I think my implementation of my idea is just flawed and I don't understand how I'm going to what I want yet.

[timid salmon]

Im not sure why its red?

[slender nymph]

this is why that happens: https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs1612

but also this is important because that line would be wrong anyway: https://unity.huh.how/quaternions/members

[polar acorn]

1. you can't set an individual component of a property on the same line you get it
2. Rotation is a quaternion and you very very should not be editing an individual component of it

[timid salmon]

arent quaternions 4 dimensional?

[naive pawn]

yeah, what about it?

[slender nymph]

to be a little pedantic, point 1 is only true for properties that are value types

[timid salmon]

i feel like a 4 dimentional aspects of unity would be a lil to hard for me to understand at the point im at along with my age

[naive pawn]

this isn't a unity 4d thing, this is just a math thing - quaternions are necessary to accurately represent and manipulate on 3d rotations

don't worry about understanding quaternions, just treat them as a black box. don't modify them, don't try to interpret their internal values unless you really want to get deep into the math

[timid salmon]

Okay, Thanks

[polar acorn]

Yes, which is very why you shouldn't be setting one component of it

If you're ever modifying an individual component of a quaternion, don't

[timid salmon]

Oh Okay

[naive pawn]

also iirc rotation quaternions are normalized, so modifying a component would directly make it invalid

[timid salmon]

Thanks A Bunch

ill try adding some of the stuff you guys have suggested and see if it helps me with my problem!

[plucky kernel]

I cannot figure out how to change the "front direction" of a Unity prefab and get it to work with my script. I have this "Arrow" prefab (a fork. This is a college project and we're supposed to use free assets) and put it as a child in the Vehicle object so that it's automatically in a fixed position over the car. My script works when I pass in the Arrow child object and it always faces the nearest Waypoint, except the "front" of the object is not the prongs of the fork (or whatever they're called). I asked about this problem before and the answer I received was the same as the internet. So, I put the fork in an empty GameObject and rotated what I wanted to be the "front" of the fork to match the Z axis of the GameObject. I put the GO as a child of the Vehicle and then attached it to my script instead of attaching the fork itself like I did previously. Now the fork doesn't rotate and instead moves all over the place whenever the car moves. I checked the Inspector and saw that the GameObject itself is rotating, while its child, the fork, doesn't rotate at all. The script I attached is just the Arrow rotation part. It's apart of the WaypointSpawnManager, which is a bad idea, but the project just needs to work and I need to submit it already as well. So, ignore that part, since the Arrow just needs information from the Waypoints in the list and is unaffected by the spawning script I didn't include https://hastebin.com/share/ruqolujuko.java
The second image shows the rotation of the fork. The Move Gizmos are the empty GameObject, not the fork

[polar acorn]

Is the Fork object at position 0,0,0 relative to the EmptyGOArrow?

[plucky kernel]

I'm not sure, but both objects' coordinates are different from each other

neither are at 0,0,0

[polar acorn]

You can just look in the inspector.

the values showed there are local space

is the fork at position 0,0,0?

[plucky kernel]

oh ok, then no

I see that it says it's around 18, 27, -60

how should I get it to 0,0,0 relative to the EmptyGOArrow?

I'm still very confused with how Unity works

[polar acorn]

By setting it to 0,0,0

[plucky kernel]

oh

[polar acorn]

The inspector shows the object's position relative to its parent

[plucky kernel]

that's it...oops

ohhhhhhhhhhhh

[polar acorn]

Putting it at 0,0,0 means it's at the parent's location

So when you rotate the parent, it'll spin this object about its center

[untold elk]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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[untold elk]

hi i know i was told to us OnSceneLoaded in order to verify that a scene was opened but do i do that in my script that allows me to open the scene and also how on earth does this apply in my main script that verified if each scene loaded loaded

here's the bin in which i want to apply it

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

inside the switches' cases like a code that fires that this specific scene loaded and sends back info to the other script ill code into

[plucky kernel]

omg it works, thank you so much!

[polar acorn]

OnSceneLoaded is how you'd register a function to run whenever any scene is loaded. If you just want to know that every scene was loaded, you could just make this script a DDOL singleton and set a boolean flag whenever you change scenes. Then you can do something when all of them have been visited.
https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/

[timid salmon]

i cant figure out how to do what you've guys told me so i just given up

i still thank you guys for trying but its just too frustrating

[untold elk]

should i set up the singleton inside my script that checks for when all four scenes are loaded and my bool there as well

[polar acorn]

Probably

[untold elk]

ill try that out first see what happens and report back

[slender nymph]

did you read this page https://unity.huh.how/quaternions/members

[untold elk]

wait so if i put a boolean in my inputhandler script section that opens my scenes i do inside the script checking singletons

void Start()

if(OnsceneLoaded.booleenname)
{

//run the singleton?


}
``` or is this wrong cus it also would mean the singleton loads per scene and since its a singleton it destroys itself if it runs more than once so then is the boolean made inside the singleton and i run the singleton in the script that loads my scenes?

i feel like maybe im supposed to run the boolean and define it by the singleton somehow like boolean only true when all four scenes are opened? confused i am

also i need to define my singleton how so?

[rich adder]

damm we still on this scene counting thing lol

[rich adder]

You were linked to it here #💻┃code-beginner message
you can also check out https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons gets right to the thing

[untold elk]

i read that but just realized theres more in the site lmao

his tutorial gave an example of setting a float variable to a singleton but i want to define the singleton so i can have it not show an error

[rich adder]

top one goes more in depth with explanations, usecases etc.. the second link is more straight to the point and example of use (also imo has a good outline of how to make other classes share this pattern with 1 script)

[rich adder]

what error are you getting?
& wdym "define the singleton"

[untold elk]

it says the name of my singleton can not be found

[rich adder]

this doesn't help lol
screenshot the actual error or somethin

[polar acorn]

What is ScenesAccessed

[rich adder]

also configure your IDE https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity

[untold elk]

that is supposed to be the name of the singleton is singleton always supposed to be called Singleton?

[polar acorn]

It's supposed to be the type you're trying to make a variable of

[rich adder]

no..thats not a name, that is a type. the name comes after

[polar acorn]

Right now, it's a variable of type ScenesAccessed, do you have a script named ScenesAccessed?

[rich adder]

instance = this would error because you're trying to assign EnableVote as ScenesAccessed, whatever that is..

[untold elk]

no so i would essentially name it to the script im coding it in and put the singleton name inside that public static

[polar acorn]

If you want the variable to store something of this object's type, you'd use that type

[untold elk]

enablevote is the scripts name

[rich adder]

so ScenesAccessed is some made up class?

[polar acorn]

So, if you want your variable to hold one of those, you'd use that

[rich adder]

the whole point is so you can access whatever is in EnableVote(methods, public fields etc.) through instance since its static and easy to access from other scripts

[untold elk]

ohh ok that clarifies what i call the singleton lol

[untold elk]

so should i put this singleton i made in the script i want to fire the singleton in instead since itll just fire the script with the name it uses

[rich adder]

if you made a public method inside EnableVote and its called Foo()
from another script you can call EnableVote.instance.Foo()

because its always going to hit that specific EnableVote through instance

the singleton pattern just makes it so its only 1 that exists, is just there so you can easily access it from any other scripts static makes it belong to class itself , hence no need for a field reference / link through inspector

[untold elk]

oh so it opens enablevote because its a singleton since singletons are what uses instance to call whatever is inside of it?

and ofc runs the method im using like foo

[rich adder]

singleton is a pattern, just a fancy word "make only 1 of this " ideally

[polar acorn]

A "Singleton" is just a name given to the sort of pattern of having a static variable that holds a single instance of a class

Since there is always exactly one instance of it ever, you know you can always access it

[rich adder]

would be easier to understand if you learned plain c# first lol

knowing what instances are etc.

[untold elk]

ohh ok but then when u mentioned the boolean digiholic what would i actually use that for in combo with the singleton

is that inside it?

[polar acorn]

You would give this class a variable

[untold elk]

yeah i think so lol

[polar acorn]

then you could set and check that variable in some other script

And if this object is a DontDestroyOnLoad it'll keep its variables across multiple scenes

[rich adder]

Unity kinda forces you to catapult into something like this because yeah between scenes is the easiest option believe it or not

since a DontDestroyOnLoad gameobject will be in a scene literally called DontDestroyOnLoad that does not get unloaded until you end the game/simulation

if you're making a bool in EnableVote just make sure its public, anything you must access through the singletons instance must be public (regardless of a singleton, this is a common thing to do if you want to access anything between scripts)

[rich adder]

also do configure your VSCode. Its part of the requirement here and plus it will benefit your coding..
You should be seeing suggestions like this and red underlines especially the error you currently had should've been underlined red..

[untold elk]

it says i need .dot and i already have unity installed on vs and i think i need nuget or sum likethat just notified me to be fixed as well

[rich adder]

yes you probably are missing the .NET SDK . you should install that then restart pc it should be good to go after (assuming you already got the Unity extension and C# DevKit)

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download NET sdk 9 is fine

[untold elk]

is this by micrsoft safe for dev kit https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotnettools.csdevkit so i can have net and unity work properly

[rich adder]

yes thats the correct extension . if you're confused double check these steps, esp the experiencing issues part
https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code

[cosmic charm]

My player gets stuck between tiles for some reason, and I don't know why, even my skeleton, I used capsule colidor and it didn't fix it

[wintry quarry]

Are you using a Tilemap? If so make sure you're using it with a CompositeCollider2D

[cosmic charm]

OMG

I LOVE YOU

[cosmic charm]

Thank you so much

[undone depot]

how can i update variables set in another script? the readyToAttack variable here is from a different script

[ivory bobcat]

Reference the instance of the other script-component and access the field from that instance

For example: cs public Player player; ... player.readyToAttack = false;

[undone depot]

so Player here would be the script im wanting to access?

[ivory bobcat]

Yes

[undone depot]

does the variable you change here have to be public?

[ivory bobcat]

No, unless you are needing to assign the member during runtime.

[SerializeField] private Player player;```would suffice if references can be made in the hierarchy-scene outside of runtime.

[untold elk]

with my singleton function set up how do i fix it so the red line under EnableVote.Instance.Example; goes away

            case "TedBearClick":
                Debug.Log("Loading Slide...");
                SceneManager.LoadScene("TR");
                EnableVote.Instance.Example;
                break;

[wintry quarry]

Step 1. read the error message
Step 2. resolve whatever it's complaining about.

[ivory bobcat]

you'd need to do something with Example - assuming the error isn't something else since we haven't seen it.

[untold elk]

this is the error im looking up issue debug rn

[wintry quarry]

So yeah it's terlling you the problem

you have a line of code there that does nothing

so it's not valid

[untold elk]

ohh ok

[wintry quarry]

Imagine you have a line of code that just says "Apple"

well.. why did you write that? What do you want to do with the Apple?

it needs to be either an assignment (using =), a method call (MyMethod();), an increment or decrement (++ or --) or a call to some classes' constructor (new xxx())

[untold elk]

my question is though if that is what defines a singleton occured 'Instance' and is what is undefined but is used as the way to define a singleton and should call a singleton in my code why is it that i need to define instance?

like it doesnt error in singleton code section and i thought u use instance to refer to the singleton

mg nvm i fixed it

[undone depot]

so I am assigning during runtime so i made it public
(it's to disable attacking during dialogue)
but i am getting the object reference not set to an instance of an object error

[ivory bobcat]

You likely haven't assigned anything to your player variable/field yet.

[ivory bobcat]

Show where you've assigned your public field (via Editor-Inspector or in code etc)

[ivory bobcat]

So, you've got to assign sword an instance reference before using sword

[undone depot]

alright so that's what the error said but im not really sure how to do that

[rich adder]

drag and drop the gameobject that has that component on it

[brave robin]

Since the reference variable is public, it will show up in the inspector when you click on a game object that has that script

And then do what nav said

[undone depot]

oh alright

thanks

[wintry quarry]

wat?

[sour fulcrum]

Just vibe checking because googles are suprisingly not providing a great answer,

Bounds contain checking is like dirt cheap right?

[teal viper]

"cheap" is a relative term in performance context. What are your alternatives?

[sour fulcrum]

Fair, I think it's the best option for what I'm doing but just curious if it's comparable to something like distance checking or raycasting cost wise.

With some simple caching i'd be doing 1 bounds check per update on say a dozen objects

On certain frames it would be like 20-50ish bounds check on one of those previously dozen objects

I can probably find more ways to avoid certain checks but if it's cheap enough it's probably fine. I'd profile it but for reasons i can't go into im not in an environment where that's as easy

[teal viper]

You. Could "console profile".
Aside from that, raycasts are potentially the heaviest of the mentioned. Distance check would depend on when and how you calculate it(and whether you're using squared magnitude). It could potentially be the fastest. Bounds checks are pretty fast, probably on par with a distance check(though the latter can be quite faster).

Though, again, if we're talking 50 bounds checks vs 1 raycast, it's more nuanced

A raycast could be faster depending on the context

[zenith cypress]

Yes it is cheap. Remember, AABB-anything is the driving force of games like Quake, and those ran on a piece of toast just fine.

[sour fulcrum]

hi

[sour fulcrum]

ty, this answers the question

ideally i'd do this sort of things via triggers and such but unfortunately not in the position to do so

[ivory bobcat]

Just for clarity, the Singleton pattern makes use of a static member called Instance (defined in the class) which sets a restriction for the class to be limited to a single instance and additionally allows us to access the property from anywhere we'd have access to the class-type. You'd still have to create and reference a single instance.
https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons

[wintry quarry]

pretty sure the first part of raycasts are a broadphase cast against the AABBs

so bounds checking in a sense is sort of a lower bound on the performance of a raycast

[lilac cape]

Hey all, I made a new beginner script that uses the new input system and I'm wondering if I can improve my code organization anywhere. Currently, the script just has basic actions like Move, Jump, and Look for now. Happy to take any criticism as I want to write code that doesn't make other devs yank their eyes out...
https://gist.github.com/NullSimLabs/a054fc38f3780c23c485e46f823cdd24

[teal viper]

Doesn't unity use some kind of quad tree based spatial search algorithm in this cases?

[wintry quarry]

yeah and the things partitioned by the quad tree are the AABBs

[teal viper]

Indeed, but it might be way less checks than they would do manually

[wintry quarry]

oh certainly it's not checking every AABB

[tiny musk]

hello everyone i had a problem my friend export the scene and send me to import when i import that scene that will show all line error like show all unity methord underline in redcolor but that will run correctly but this is show in visual studio community what i do but other project didnot show that what is the problem i want to know please anyone tell about this , i already take actions 1) uninstall and reinstall visual studio community , 2) regenerate file , 3) uninstall and reinstall the vs community pakage in unity . any other thing i want to change please anyone tell about this

[brave robin]

Looks like VS isn't properly setup to tie into Unity, because it doesn't recognize any of Unity's classes

[tiny musk]

ohh ok bro how to slove that

do you know

[brave robin]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[brave robin]

Pretty sure the info is in one of those links, but it's been a while since I've done it myself

[tiny musk]

ok bro thanks for your help i will try that

[spare mountain]

can I see your imports

using xyz

at the top of your file

[tiny musk]

what bro i did understand

[spare mountain]

if your problem isn't solved show me the first few lines of code you have

[tiny musk]

ok wait minute please i will send that

@spare mountain here bro

[spare mountain]

what are the errors telling you?

[tiny musk]

unity methord underlined in red color in visual studio community that is the error

[wintry quarry]

the red underline is showing you where the error is

you're supposed to actually read the errors

mouse over one to read it

also double check if the errors are also in Unity's console and not just in VS.

[spare mountain]

that would seem improbable

[tiny musk]

@wintry quarry
ok bro but i when i type the code in visual studio community that is suggest the code and when ever i use unity methord that is look like methords it only looks like text

[spare mountain]

what error is it giving you bro

[wintry quarry]

Why are you saying this instead of sharing what your errors actually say

[tiny musk]

hello everyone i had a problem my friend export the scene and send me to import when i import that scene that will show all line error like show all unity methord underline in redcolor but that will run correctly but this is show in visual studio community what i do but other project didnot show that what is the problem i want to know please anyone tell about this , i already take actions 1) uninstall and reinstall visual studio community , 2) regenerate file , 3) uninstall and reinstall the vs community pakage in unity . any other thing i want to change please anyone tell about this

[wintry quarry]

Are you a bot?

[tiny musk]

sorry my mistake you ask explain your problem so i send this again

[ivory bobcat]

Might be some language barrier tbf

[wintry quarry]

No I asked you to read one of your errors in VS and share it with us

[spare mountain]

@tiny musk what language do you speak

[tiny musk]

tamil

[spare mountain]

அது என்ன பிழைன்னு உனக்குச் சொல்லுது?

[tiny musk]

when i use unity methords like Transform and Gameobject this kind of methord there this red underline show that the issue i am facing

[wintry quarry]

When you have a red underline, put your mouse over it to see the message.

[tiny musk]

ok

[spare mountain]

whoof

[tiny musk]

system objects is not defined or imported bro

[wintry quarry]

definitely some kind of bad VS install or something

[spare mountain]

try closing and opening visual studio

[wintry quarry]

Those steps mentioned above are absolutely what I would have recommended to fix it though

So if they haven't fixed it, idk really.

[tiny musk]

@spare mountain already try so many time bro

[tiny musk]

so i try those thing so many times bro

[wintry quarry]

Which version of VS Community are you using?

[spare mountain]

"Close the visual studio. Delete the .vs folder and restart visual studio."

[tiny musk]

VS Community 2022 bro

[tiny musk]

ok i will try that now

[spare mountain]

@tiny musk try reinstalling the unity plugin too

[tiny musk]

ok bro i will try

[tiny musk]

very thanks bro it is working

[spare mountain]

yay

[toxic cove]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

public class Get : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject Gun;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    Gun.SetActive(false);
}

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

}

private void OnTriggerStay(Collider other)
{
    if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
        {
            this.gameObject.SetActive(false);
            Gun.SetActive(true);
        }
    }
}

}
Whenever I click E when my camera is pointed at the object it still wont wont Activate the one that is suppose to activate

[wintry quarry]

1 - Pointing your camera at an object won't run OnTriggerStay
2- Doing Input.GetKeyDown in a physics callback like OnTriggerStay or FixedUpdate is a bad idea. Those methods don't run every frame so you will often get skipped input
3- Get is a very confusing and vague name for a script

[toxic cove]

Oh.

[wintry quarry]

What is the intention of this script? Which object is it attached to? What's it supposed to do?

What are you trying to accomplish

[toxic cove]

It's attatched to a game object that has no parent which when your camera is on it and you click E it should Activate another game object and disable that one

[wintry quarry]

Ok well I don't see anything in the code that would do any of that.

OnTriggerStay is for physics objects that are touching each other when one has a trigger collider

nothing to do with cameras

[toxic cove]

I'm just trying to learn more but I must've ran into a terrible tutorial.

[wintry quarry]

What you're describing sounds like something you would do with a raycast

[toxic cove]

Isn't raycast like from camera to world

or something

[wintry quarry]

raycast is from wherever the hell you want to wherever the hell you want

You can write code that does anything.

[toxic cove]

I haven't really hard much of it

and I don't know how to actually make it do something in a script.

[wintry quarry]

It's not expected that you should when you're a beginner

that's why you learn

[toxic cove]

That is true. This is my 3rd or 4th day of learning so I guess.

Thank you though!

[wintry quarry]

you're at the very beginning of your journey

[toxic cove]

Got any suggestions?

[wintry quarry]

find a better tutorial 😛

[toxic cove]

How do I know which one is better?

[wintry quarry]

Find one that uses a raycast

[feral glen]

i am trying to make my character (2d) not slide down any slopes in my scene, i am using a character controller i got from online
i tried making some changes to it i.e. making my character velocity 0 when standing straight which did nothing
so what should i do now?

this is the part

[versed light]

when i add a navmesh surface why does this weird image appear at the object position

[viscid needle]

how to send you guys my code?

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[viscid needle]

thanks

this is my game setup.. my player is not taking damage at all

enemyAttackScript: https://paste.ofcode.org/kHQ2bXzj6YiuqFNykC6YsH
player Health Script: https://paste.ofcode.org/Wim2rFfSg4MA9zK6vqAAAN
health bar script: https://paste.ofcode.org/gshK4RYZDU5944VSfDe4zp
enemy Script: https://paste.ofcode.org/FcsYemAR74NPbDmGKVAbQd

pls helppp

[wintry quarry]

What debugging steps have you taken?

[viscid needle]

i tried to debug.log to check if functions are happening

[wintry quarry]

so... are they?

[viscid needle]

but the takedammage function is not bieng called i think

[wintry quarry]

What about OnTriggerStay2D

let's start there

also why do you "think"? If you used Debug.Log you should know for sure if it is or isn't.

[viscid needle]

i would know if the function was bieng called

[wintry quarry]

yes

that's the point of the logs

[viscid needle]

i added a log there well the trigger function is working
ie. it is able to detect whenever the player enters the collider

[wintry quarry]

ok, and what else do you see in the logs?

[viscid needle]

just that

[wintry quarry]

• DO you see errors?
• Do you see "Player taking damage"?

[viscid needle]

no

[wintry quarry]

ok then clearly there is an issue with your conditions in OnTriggerEnter2D

[viscid needle]

yeah i think so too

[wintry quarry]

if (other.CompareTag("Player") && Time.time >= nextAttackTime)

So keep debugging

you need to now log these things

As well as this: if (playerHealth != null)

[viscid needle]

i did not understand

[wintry quarry]

Add more logs

print out the values of those variables and expressions

then you will find out why the if statement is failing to enter and call your takeDamage function

[viscid needle]

ok ig thnks

[sharp abyss]

When my colliders are trigger, no problem but when isnt,my player just flies everywhere. I tried to exclude all layers for collision but it still did the same thing when it isnt trigger.What can I try?

[visual oasis]

is this an acceptable way to only invoke a C# event once without having to use flags:

public void Update() {
   if (player.health <= 0) {
      onPlayerDie?.Invoke();
      onPlayerDie = null;
   }
}

Alternatively with a wrapper like TriggerEventOnce(onPlayerDie);

[teal viper]

Or you can do it in wherever you're reducing the health.

[north skiff]

note i'm only like 3 months into doing unity and just a little longer with C#, but i've done coding for like 6 years, but anyways take this with a grain of salt (i just decided right now to start involving myself in this chat to help others out and in the process become better myself), but this is itself a flag if you think about it, your flag is just the null check of your event

[burnt vapor]

If you want it to invoke once, then just invoke it once and leave it alone

Use a boolean to check if it invoked, don't unassign the variable

[north skiff]

he wanted to not use flags

i.e. booleans

[burnt vapor]

Why would you do this? If the point is making sure a player doesn't emit its death multiple times, then keep a state represented by an enum to specify if a player is alive or death

You are practically omitting the issue by doing this, and it will introduce unnecessary complexity

Better to just implement the missing feature

[teal viper]

I'd invoke the event wherever the health is reduced, instead of update.

[north skiff]

i would argue it's actually a clean solution as long as you are not "expecting" to see flags in your code, it might be harder if you are collaborating with experienced Unity devs used to flags

[teal viper]

And have a flag there as well(in case objects bellow 0 health can be damaged)

[north skiff]

you are effectively using flags while omitting an extra variable

[burnt vapor]

This is anything but clean, because now your code unexpectetly removes events from the code just because one instance doesn't want it to emit multiple times.

That specific instance should better handle its use case, being that the player should only actually die once.

Only specific instances should subscribe/unsubscribe itself, it is not up to the invoking code to do this

[north skiff]

so you are saying that the event should be executed even when dead?

but then handle the "already-dead"-case in the event code?

that has to be more inefficient

[burnt vapor]

No, I am specifically saying that you should manage the player's state properly and prevent it from getting to this point in the first place

Which by itself would be more efficient

[sour fulcrum]

imo for it to even remotely clean it would have to be some class wrapping around the event, like a SingleFireEvent. I don't ever expect event refs to be null

[burnt vapor]

Player reaches 0 health, you set the state to dead, you run the event.

[north skiff]

right, i agree

[burnt vapor]

Next time the method is called, you see the player's state is dead, you end the method with no logic being invoked

[burnt vapor]

Even this is unnecessary if you just manage a state properly. There is no way to determine if the player is dead here apart from assuming he is because the events ar eno longer subscribed? That's silly

Just add a state lol

[north skiff]

i guess i just assumed that there could be weird glitches or bugs where the player may die more than once and then this solution could be a decent catch for it

but of course removing the possibility of those bugs in the first place is ofc the cleaner solution

[burnt vapor]

You can always refactor extra variables later. You can't refactor an event being unset when everything now relies on that

[burnt vapor]

So is setting a state

I'd argue it's even better because you can implement a way for it to be an atomic operation

[north skiff]

sure, i agree

[viscid needle]

!code

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[viscid needle]

hey guys can anyone pls help me
my player is not taking any damage

here is the code
playerHealth: https://paste.ofcode.org/z8sG3e8au62VQhkGCWFPYt
enemyAttack: https://paste.ofcode.org/t5tcCQvAVRbuqe936rMEUy

[teal viper]

Did you add these logs inside just to tease us? If not, then provide some info on the debugging progress.

[burnt vapor]

Seems odd, maybe just a school exercise

[viscid needle]

only the enemy is able to detect when it touches the player @teal viper

nothing else

[viscid needle]

i did not understand your point

[keen dew]

Do you know what if (other.CompareTag("Player") ) does?

[viscid needle]

.... oh

thank you so muchhhh

i am stuck with this bug since morning

[teal viper]

It would help a lot more if you were to share a screenshot of your console with the messages.

[burnt vapor]

For future reference, the debug log Damaging player! you added would not show. This would have meant that the if statement failed, suggesting the tag is incorrect. Next time you can log the current tag being returned to quickly find out it is wrong

[viscid needle]

oh sry would keep in mind from next time
for now my bug is solved thanks tho

[visual oasis]

[visual oasis]

true. i only learned about events recently, so i'm currently refactoring my code to not check everything every single frame

[visual oasis]

that is a good point

more intuitive clarity

but then

[burnt vapor]

Also very reusable. You definitely need to know a player's state later on anyway

Like movement, you can't move when dead. Stuff like that

[visual oasis]

Should I use a boolean? Or should I use an enum with two states? Or maybe a full-on state system with other things too?

[visual oasis]

oh, i just have it go lockControls = true, but maybe that's not the best way

[burnt vapor]

I generally vouch for an enum even if it's just two states, for clarity. Who knows you might also want to extend the state to allow for a spectating state, for example

[burnt vapor]

No, you're right. Ideally you would separate the logic and have the input lock using a separate system. It's just that for the sake of simplicity you might want to track the enum for now instead

Otherwise you have a lot of instances where you might have to lock or unlock the controls, risking a case where you forget it

[visual oasis]

so would this be something like

public enum LivingState {
  Alive,
  Dead,
}

[burnt vapor]

Pretty much

[visual oasis]

fair enough

and it's an enum so not exactly taking up any more memory

[burnt vapor]

You can also make a property IsAlive that checks against this if you don't want to explicitly check the num constantly

Though generally I'd just check the enum. Otherwise you might wonder in a month what IsAlive actually does as the logic is moved elsewhere

[visual oasis]

like

public bool IsAlive {
  get => livingState == LivingState.Alive;
}

is that a property

[burnt vapor]

Close

public bool IsAlive => livingState == LivingState.Alive;

This is the same thing. You don't need to explicitly specify the accessor if you just use the getter

Both work

[visual oasis]

and this prevents setting right

[naive pawn]

yes

[burnt vapor]

Yes, you can only mutate livingState when you have access to it

[naive pawn]

yes, since there's no set accessor

[visual oasis]

ok, something that's actually been on my mind for a while:
is it at all common practice to also have an IsDead as opposed to checking !IsAlive?

[burnt vapor]

Yes and as such you can specify how it's used. The individual get and set accessors can also not be added, or you can for example make them private (private set;)

[burnt vapor]

Not really

You know it's all extra code and generally complications. That's why I suggest you just check the enum unless there ar emultiple things to check

Like not just the enum here, but also another variable. Then I would put it in a property.

[visual oasis]

ah, i see

and in that case using a property could be good future-proofing too i suppose

[burnt vapor]

Also because state == LivingState.Alive is very informative and you can't really make a mistake here

[burnt vapor]

That would only be the case if IsAlive as a property ends up actually doing more than just checking this state enum

But even then I would be careful, maybe an instance that uses this property doesn't want to check another variable and strictly check the state instead. This would end up causing undefined behaviour

[naive pawn]

@visual oasis why not handle it wherever you take damage? is health public or something?

[burnt vapor]

So that's why I would still suggest to just set the variable and check that instead. ONLY use a property if you want to change the accessibillity

_livingState would be private, but you'd have a public property to access it (but not set it)

[visual oasis]

it is for the sake of HUD

[naive pawn]

is the health bar retrieving the health, rather than the player controller setting the health?

anyways that aside - how do you deal damage?

[visual oasis]

the health bar retrieves the health, yes

and...

my game's a 1D (forward and backward movement only) tower defence

so when an entity attacks, it triggers a DealDamage() function in the GameplayManager instance which then checks what's in range and deals damage to entities that are indeed in range

or if it's single-hit attacks like arrows, it checks what's closest

This doesn't use events at all, and I'll be looking at how I can refactor it to use them instead

[naive pawn]

well it doesn't have to necessarily use events

[visual oasis]

// class GameplayManager
    public void DealDamage(string entityId) {
        GameplayEntity entity = entities[entityId];
        foreach (GameplayEntity enemy in entities.Values) {
            if (enemy == null || enemy.allegiance == entity.allegiance || enemy.currentState == GameplayEntity.State.Die)
                continue;

            if (entity.IsInMeleeRange(enemy.xPos + 0.2f * enemy.direction))
                entity.MeleeHit(enemy);
        }
    }

[naive pawn]

my point is, if you put dealing damage and the death trigger together, it becomes much easier

[visual oasis]

yeah, I do now plan on doing that

[naive pawn]

you aren't actually dealing damage here though...?

where are you actually dealing damage? as in, updating the health variable

[visual oasis]

entity.MeleeHit(enemy)

    public override void MeleeHit(GameplayEntity target, float damage) {
        target.Damage(damage);
        meleeWeapon.data.PlayHit();
    }

[naive pawn]

that's still not it

[visual oasis]

    public virtual void Damage(float damage) {
        health -= damage;
    }

[naive pawn]

there we go

so each entity does manage its own health

[visual oasis]

yes

[naive pawn]

so you could just..

    public virtual void Damage(float damage) {
+       if (health <= 0) return;
        health -= damage;
+       if (health <= 0) onPlayerDie?.Invoke();
    }

instead of doing it in Update

[visual oasis]

yeah, i'll do that

[naive pawn]

this was the first thing suggested (by dlich) lmao

[visual oasis]

well, i did say

i'm also wondering how i can optimise the enemies-in-range checking system, but that's a question for another time

[naive pawn]

probably overlapshere or smth

[visual oasis]

like, a physical sphere?

it's my first time using a 3D game engine, so all my collisions are done with pure math and code rn

[naive pawn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.OverlapSphere.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapCircle.html

[visual oasis]

no collision boxes

the physics engine

is it faster though

in my mind it'd be slower because it's a whole engine vs a simple calculation in code

[naive pawn]

probably not. it's not gonna be slow enough to matter though

they're tried and tested systems

[visual oasis]

but is it faster

[naive pawn]

probably not

i mean, i guess it depends on the context/scale

your thing scales by how many enemies there are overall

using the physics system, i'd expect it to ignore very far things, but im not sure how it really works internally.
i'd expect some kind of optimization there, at least

but there probably is some overhead for the system as a whole, yeah

but we're talking on the scale of microseconds here, it's not gonna matter

[visual oasis]

hmm hmm

that means i need to add a collider to all my objects though, right?

the entities

[naive pawn]

yeah

[visual oasis]

kk

i'll def try it out then

[naive pawn]

if you had an entity prefab you would just add it to that prefab

[visual oasis]

well, i have a prefab for each entity

[naive pawn]

..each entity type?

or each actual entity?

[visual oasis]

individual

[naive pawn]

that's not right

...why?

[visual oasis]

oh i see what you mean

err entity type yeah

so farmers vs sword warriors vs spear warriors etc.

each with their own different meshes and whatnot

[naive pawn]

yeah ok that makes sense

are they just individual prefabs completely, or are they variants (with a common base)?

[visual oasis]

completely individual

[odd swift]

is anyone able to help me i got an assignment due tomorrow and i just need to figure out this one bit of code for then i can show the teacher tomrrow? anyone?

[naive pawn]

!ask

[eternal falcon]

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[naive pawn]

especially that last point - noone can help if we don't know what you need help with

[odd swift]

srry mb first time asking for help lmao

gimme a sec

[visual oasis]

what if i add the collider in code

[naive pawn]

you wouldn't be able to check if they line up

wait you said meshes right?

[visual oasis]

yuh

[naive pawn]

wouldn't you be able to just multiselect all the prefabs and add a meshcollider to all of them at once?

or i guess capsulecollider if you want a simpler view

[strong wren]

Adding components at runtime will likely be slower. I wouldn't bother with the physics engine just for distance checking if you can manage it yourself.

[naive pawn]

not sure about any possible caveats with a meshcollider vs a primitive collider - i usually work in 2d

[visual oasis]

well, the game is effectively 2D

1D really

with 3D graphics

[odd swift]

So my goal is to call a function once all the dialogue is completed that will then display a button for the player to press, the spot to which the dialogue is finished is in the first image and then i want it to enable the button

srry if that dosent make sense just tell me

[naive pawn]

the gameplay logic might be 1d, but everything else is gonna be 2d or 3d

[naive pawn]

what's the part you're having issues with?

[odd swift]

i cant find anything online about what code to put their

[burnt vapor]

Your !ide does not appear to be configured as it lacks basic syntax highlighting. Please configure it before asking for help.

[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)
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• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
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[naive pawn]

to do what, call a function?

[odd swift]

uhh vs code

[naive pawn]

ok click the button labelled vscode

[odd swift]

i already have vs code setup tho

[naive pawn]

it's not configured, follow the steps provided there

[odd swift]

im not sure myself, im just learning all this and my teacher dosent even know anything about it its stupid, but i want after the else statment that it enables the button

[odd swift]

alright will do

[naive pawn]

so you would call SetActive(true) on the gameobject you want to make active, pretty straightforward

[odd swift]

but the code is set to the dialogue box and the button is in a differnet place

[burnt vapor]

Yes, but judging from the screenshot it is not fully configured. Generally I do advice you use Jetbrains or Visual Studio as the setup is much easier there, but VSCode also works.

[odd swift]

alright

[odd swift]

btw everything in the link you sent me i already did

[naive pawn]

seems to have not worked. have you been presented with the "install .net sdk" window?

[odd swift]

not sure i downloaded unity a few months ago where can i check if thats done

[burnt vapor]

I personally am unfamiliar with VSCode. Unfortunately I can't help with that. If you use Visual Studio I could provide the steps some more

[odd swift]

srry its a bit late and i really just wana get this thing figured out

thank you tho

[naive pawn]

check the output window in vscode

it should be beside the terminal - if you don't have that open, i think the default keybind is ctrl+`

[odd swift]

here

thats what my output looks like

hold on i do get errors when i open the app

is it anything to do with this

[naive pawn]

yeah you haven't installed the .net sdk

[odd swift]

oooh

i see

leme press get the sdk

alright its installed now

[naive pawn]

now reload the window and see if it loads colors now

[odd swift]

better?

[naive pawn]

no, MonoBehaviour should be green

what does the output window say

[odd swift]

im on mac if that makes a difference

[naive pawn]

it shouldn't

on the right where it says .NET Install Tool, try changing that to c#

[odd swift]

kk

here we go

[naive pawn]

try going to unity > preferences > external tools > regenerate project files

and make sure the external script editor is set to vscode

[odd swift]

alright

this is what it has always looked like

[untold elk]

i cant find the answers to my questions but just finished my first game and singleton and bool ty everyone for helping 🙂

[odd swift]

aight ima go to bed now its like 1 am for me if u figure it out please dm me or ping me same thing with my original problem thanks for the help.

[odd swift]

wait like this?

[naive pawn]

yeah there you go

[naive pawn]

now about this - are you familiar with using the inspector to set variables at all

[odd swift]

no mind explaining please?

i apperciate your patience btw

my spelling 💀

[naive pawn]

fields that are public or marked [SerializeField] will be shown in the inspector
you can use a field typed GameObject to get the button so you can call SetActive on it

these are pretty basic unity concepts so...

[odd swift]

oh yes i have used that before but only on tutorials i dont really have a understanding of it let me give it a go

[cosmic dagger]

What question?

[shut swallow]

is there any way to call component of the prefab? I'm trying to control play state of the particle graph

[naive pawn]

if you set vfx_slash to the desired component, you get that type back from Instantiate

[untold elk]

it was from last night in regards to singletons and booleans i really just wanted anyone who helped to see that so they know it resolved itself

[shut swallow]

instance.GetComponents<VisualEffect>.playRate = 0.05f; doesn't work, how do I let it recognise I have a Visual Effect that can be manipulated?

(I passed argument GameObject instance into SuspendSlashes)

[odd swift]

working i appreciate everything

[naive pawn]

well, that's not what i said to do, is it

[shut swallow]

I'm sorry I'm not too sure how to do it in the first place lol

[naive pawn]

you can pass types other than GameObject to Instantiate, and you'll get the same type back as a reference to that component on the newly created gameobject

so you could type vfx_slash and slashvfxinstance as VisualEffect instead

(and then use slashvfxinstance.gameObject in the Destroy call)

[naive pawn]

also about this - then say so lmao, don't just ignore it

[steel wagon]

hi im pretty new to programming and tried to follow a tut for my assignment. and i cant seem to drag the script to the inspector. i dont get what class is it refering to because i already checked and it is already the same as how the tut provided

[shut swallow]

I thought I was trying something genuinely related to your suggestion lol

[naive pawn]

i'm happy to explain if you need clarification, but im not gonna preemptively explain every single thing, i don't know what you already do or don't understand

[naive pawn]

Make sure there are no compile errors and that the file name and class name match.

[steel wagon]

it matched. i already checked

[naive pawn]

and what about the other thing?

[steel wagon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdpIvye87Wo&t=531s

im stuck here at 11:40

[naive pawn]

ok... and do you have compile errors

[steel wagon]

yeah

[naive pawn]

then that's why

[cosmic dagger]

It says to ensure there are no compile errors AND that the file name and class name match. Everything in the message must be fixed to add the component . . .

[shut swallow]

oh nvm im stupid

lol

[steel wagon]

okayy i'll try to check it again

[lilac cape]

What if you copied your code from your original QuestionManager and pasted it in a new monobehavior script?

Ahh nvm, you already said there were compile errors

If you're still having issues please share code 🙂

[shut swallow]

I have a coroutine trying to listen to a variable in a singleton timestopTriggered but when I try to do yield return new WaitUntil(() => !GameManager.Instance.timestopTriggered); within the coroutine, nothing happens, why?

    {
        visualEffect.playRate = 0.05f;

        yield return new WaitUntil(() => !GameManager.Instance.timestopTriggered);

        visualEffect.playRate = 1f;
    }```

[cosmic dagger]

You need to show us the error and the code with the error so we can see what is wrong . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Does the coroutine run? Place a log before and after the yield to check . . .

[lilac cape]

You beat me to it lol ^^

[shut swallow]

not triggered, but have this error instead

context:

            {
                var hit = Physics.BoxCast(
                    center: castCenter,
                    halfExtents: vector3HalfExtents,
                    direction: slashDirection
                    );
                VisualEffect slashvfxinstance = Instantiate
                    (
                    vfx_slash,
                    position: castCenter,
                    rotation: slashDirectionQuaternion,
                    parent: root

                    );
                Destroy(slashvfxinstance.gameObject, 1);
            }
            else
            {
                var hit = Physics.BoxCast(
                    center: castCenter,
                    halfExtents: vector3HalfExtents,
                    direction: slashDirection
                );

                VisualEffect slashvfxinstance = Instantiate
                (
                    vfx_slash,
                    position: castCenter,
                    rotation: slashDirectionQuaternion

                );
                SuspendSlashes(slashvfxinstance);
                Destroy(slashvfxinstance.gameObject, 8);
                
                
            }
            ```

[keen dew]

and which line throws the error?

[naive pawn]

check the value you've set in the inspector, make sure it actually has a VisualEffect component
might have to redrag the prefab in to get the right component? don't remember how it internally works

[shut swallow]

didn't say which one, I only know that its probably instancate error (as seen in the error text)

Do I need to attach the visual effect component?

[naive pawn]

what do you mean by "attach"?

it seems you've already set the reference?

[naive pawn]

it does say though, PlayerCharacter.cs:745

[shut swallow]

nvm

thought of something stupid

[shut swallow]

                (
                    vfx_slash,
                    position: castCenter,
                    rotation: slashDirectionQuaternion

                );```specifically, in the else part of the if...else

when I instanciate it's not valid

regardless of if the code is running if or else

[keen dew]

And what type is vfx_slash?

[shut swallow]

Visual Effect

[shut swallow]

see this

[naive pawn]

try clearing the slot and dragging vfx_slash back in, i guess?

[shut swallow]

it worked lmfao

doesn't fix that the coroutine doesn't run tho

[naive pawn]

you never started it

you need to pass it to StartCoroutine

[shut swallow]

oh lol oops

[spice hollow]

any recomended site or literature to study the latest unity6 urp shader program library?

[shut swallow]

Thanks a lot, it works perfectly now

[acoustic belfry]

hey, when i update the values of the values of the code of an actor/prefab, how i can update the actor to have them as well?

[naive pawn]

what do you mean by actor exactly?

[proud flume]

Hi everyone! I’m working solo on a Unity project inspired by Black Emperor — it’s a fast-paced 2D side-view motorcycle game where the player glides up and down a winding road, trying to stay alive by keeping the bike on-screen and on-road. I've attached a video and screenshot of the code.

Core Mechanics:
The road scrolls from right to left (bike stays mostly centered).
Player can move the bike up/down and accelerate.
If the bike goes off-road, it slows down.
If it falls off the back or front of the screen (too slow or too fast), it's game over.
I'm using trigger-based detection to see if the player is on-road or off-road using tags like "Road" and "Game Over".

The Issue:
I’m using multiple modular road segments, each with a BoxCollider2D marked as Is Trigger.
I check for OnTriggerEnter2D to set bikerIsOnRoad = true and OnTriggerExit2D to flag off-road and apply slowdown + dust FX.
But when the player moves from one segment to the next, the OnTriggerExit2D from the old segment fires before OnTriggerEnter2D on the new one — so it wrongly triggers my “off-road” effect, even though they’re still on the road.
I’ve tried a buffer system (like checking for a short delay) and also using a roadContactCount to track how many road colliders the player is in. Still not quite right.
Has anyone faced this before? What’s a clean, Unity-friendly way to handle overlapping/adjacent trigger zones in a scrolling tile-style system like this?

Bonus Question:
Would you recommend designing the full road in something like Photoshop and slicing it, or building it directly in Unity using tilemaps or road segment prefabs?
My gut says Unity would be easier for adjusting difficulty and randomness later, but I’m curious how others approach this — especially for curving, procedural-ish 2D tracks.

Any advice or references welcome — thanks in advance!

[wintry quarry]

I would redesign this. Rather than the road having a collider, you should have colliders on the edges/boundaries of the road to detect when the player exits the road. THen it's very straightforward to detect when the player leaves the road.

Would you recommend designing the full road in something like Photoshop and slicing it, or building it directly in Unity using tilemaps or road segment prefabs?
You probably want to look at SpriteShape: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.spriteshape@3.0/manual/index.html

[barren pelican]

Hi everyone! I imported a Unity project from a zip file and everything works fine. Now I want to use Unity Recorder to create a 3-minute video from my scene. I'm using Unity 2022.3.5f1c1 and Unity Hub 3.3.3.

Can someone guide me on the best Recorder settings or check if I'm missing anything?
Thanks in advance! 🙏

[wintry quarry]

Not a code question

[proud flume]

I did consider this when I first started designing it - I don't know why I decided to go with the road being the collider. I guess I was hoping I could make the whole track and then just asign the whole shape as a collider but that seems to not be possible. I'll have a go at that now!

[timid salmon]

I Did It!

[timid salmon]

Made It Rotate by 15 if you press a or d

[sinful hawk]

Hey there! Not entirely sure if this is the correct place for this, but it seems like an easy enough (or should be easy enough) thing to work around.

I'm using an Event Trigger on an object I instantiate on runtime. I've checked that I have an event system running, and other Event Triggers on objects in the UI seem to be working quite well. For whatever reason though, the method I am calling here in the Event Trigger isn't getting called.

The *below screenshot is during Play mode.

Could this be some weird UI Image Layering issue? The crafting menu uses Event Triggers for when the mouse hovers over it, and I'm wondering if maybe that is getting in the way or if it's something else

Using a Debug.Log() to check if the method was called has shown me that the method just isn't getting called whatsoever

I also figured it may have been something to do with the sprite mesh, but the Image component is not using the sprite mesh, so the entire square area used by the object should be active and responsive for such a task

[wintry quarry]

What other components are on the object?

Also are you definitely doing a full click-and-release sequence while keeping the mouse over the object?

[sinful hawk]

Just the UI Image component, the Recipe script as mentioned in the Event Trigger, and the Event Trigger itself

[sinful hawk]

I'm 100% sure

[wintry quarry]

"Raycast Target" or "Blocks Raycast" is enabled on the Image?

[sinful hawk]

Raycast Target is enabled on the image

[wintry quarry]

Ok the most likely thing here then is some other object is blocking it

try disabling other UI elements in your scene until it starts working

the most likely culprits are:

• separate canvases
• any other UI that is lower in the hierarchy than this object

[sinful hawk]

I only have one canvas, and I have disabled every object outside of the parents of such object and it is still unfortunately not working

[wintry quarry]

what about the child objects of ItemTemplate(Clone)?

[sinful hawk]

Oh-- it's just a TextMeshPro obj

[wintry quarry]

Can you try disabling that?

[sinful hawk]

It won't let me for some reason while I'm paused in the game view

I will say though that it only covers beneath the ui image, so it shouldn't be getting in the way whatsoever

[wintry quarry]

Another thing to check is try pulling it out of the scrollrect/mask situation

[sinful hawk]

alright bet lets see

Yup, that did it

The event trigger is triggering when it's not a child of the containers and such

Further update: Even when setting the parent objects to the Ignore Raycast layer (which raycasts are what I'm assuming the event trigger uses), the child object-- still set to the UI layer-- is still not receiving any of my clicks, and so I cannot get the event/method to trigger

Yeah I fr cannot figure out why this is happening

I can't really afford to take it outside of the scrollrect/mask with how I'm setting this up

[lilac cape]

Is it normal to have a OnLookPerformed and OnLookCanceled for a Look action in my action map? Or should I just do something like Mouse.current.delta.x.ReadValue() in void Update? a I'm having an issue where my view keeps spinning without touching the mouse about 20-30seconds into playtime.

  // Action: Look
  [SerializeField] Transform cameraTransform;
  [SerializeField] float mouseSensitivity = 1f;
  float xRotation = 0f;
  Vector2 mouseInput;

 void OnEnable()
  {
    // Enable action map and actions
    playerInputActions.Player_OnLand.Look.performed += OnLookPerformed;
    playerInputActions.Player_OnLand.Look.canceled += OnLookCanceled;
 
    playerInputActions.Player_OnLand.Enable();
    // Lock cursor
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    Cursor.visible = false;
  }

void Update()
  {
    // Get raw look input (mouse delta)
    float mouseX = mouseInput.x * mouseSensitivity;
    float mouseY = mouseInput.y * mouseSensitivity;

    // Clamp vertical camera rotation (pitch)
    xRotation -= mouseY;
    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);

    // Apply vertical rotation to the camera
    cameraTransform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);

    // Apply horizontal rotation to the player (yaw)
    transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);

    mouseInput = Vector2.zero;
  }

 // ===[Look Input Action Callbacks]===
  void OnLookPerformed(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx)
  {
    mouseInput = ctx.ReadValue<Vector2>();
  }

  void OnLookCanceled(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx)
  {
    mouseInput = Vector2.zero;
  }

[wintry quarry]

It would be way simpler to just read it directly in update and skip the events

For continuous style inputs, this is often the case

[wintry quarry]

void Update() {
  Vector2 lookInput = playerInputActions.Player_OnLand.Look.ReadValue<Vector2>();
  // the rest of your code
}```

just one line of code instead of like 5 + variable + two functions

[lilac cape]

That's what I was starting to think but I like the structure of having a method(s) for each action😂 Is it common to not have methods for actions?

[wintry quarry]

The other option here is to set this action as a pass-through

then you only need to subscribe to performed

[lilac cape]

because the pass-through only takes continuous input and never sees a .canceled?

[wintry quarry]

Passthrough simply fires off performed for any change in the actuation of the control.
Value has a bunch of logic deciding if any given change in actuation should fire off started, canceled or performed depending on the interactions (or default interaction) on the action

[sinful hawk]

I also cannot seem to find a workaround with buttons either.

[lilac cape]

Thanks again for the Update method suggestion. Just tested things and mouse bug is gone. Now time to figure out why I can only open my interact/open my door on the door hinge. Maybe I might just cheese it and extend the colider around the child door object to see if that makes the interact box bigger

[sinful hawk]

Any more wisdom to add on to this? I'm trying to keep everything within the scrollrect, and I cannot find a workaround using Buttons, Scriptable PointerClick events, etc.

[wintry quarry]

most likely to do with the settings on the scrollrect/mask/viewport etc

[sinful hawk]

Would the Event Trigger on the Container for all of the scrolling elements possibly be interfering?

[wintry quarry]

absolutely yes

EventTrigger is unfortunately kind of a sledgehammer

It subscribes to ALL of the UI events, and then silently ignores the ones you don't have listeners for

it's less intrusive if you make a custom script with only the ones you care about, e.g. cs public class MyClickListener : MonoBehaviour, IPointerClickHandler

[lilac cape]

Actually the mouse issue is back lol. For some reason whenever I open this door and leave, the mouse starts to spin. Maybe my interact script is messing with things?:

  void Update()
  {
    Vector2 mouseInput = playerInputActions.Player_OnLand.Look.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    // Get raw look input (mouse delta)
    float mouseX = mouseInput.x * mouseSensitivity;
    float mouseY = mouseInput.y * mouseSensitivity;

    // Clamp vertical camera rotation (pitch)
    xRotation -= mouseY;
    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);

    // Apply vertical rotation to the camera
    cameraTransform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);

    // Apply horizontal rotation to the player (yaw)
    transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);
  }

  {
    // Example: Raycast from the camera to interact with objects in front of the player
    Ray ray = new Ray(cameraTransform.position, cameraTransform.forward);
    RaycastHit hit;
    float interactDistance = 3f; // Adjust as needed

    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactDistance))
    {
      // Check if the hit object has an interactable component
      var interactable = hit.collider.GetComponent<IInteractable>();
      if (interactable != null)
      {
        interactable.Interact();
      }
    }
  }```

Mouse movement issue

Even though when I standstill, the Vector2 debugging as (0.00, 0.00) but the rotation.y keeps incrementing(potentially 1unit per frame). I've tested in game-view multiple times and it seems like the rotation.y is always positively going up when it's bugging out. I'm not seeing the rotation.y decrease in value. I'm starting to think that if the Vector2 input has a x,y value greater than 90 or less than -90, it bugs out the mouse input

I think I have a fix that probably isn't the best solution. If I enable the xyz contraints on the player, the player mouse movement doesn't bug out and slowly rotate at times. So I think that means something in my physics is causing the slight turn

void FixedUpdate()
  {
    if (moveDirection != Vector3.zero)
    {
      float runSpeed = isSprinting ? MoveSpeed * sprintMultiplier : MoveSpeed;
      Vector3 direction = transform.right * moveDirection.x + transform.forward * moveDirection.z;
      Vector3 movement = direction * runSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
      rb.MovePosition(rb.position + movement);
    }
  }

[acoustic belfry]

what differences exist between
rb2D.linearVelocity and rb2D.MovePosition

[rich adder]

The latter is meant for kinematic rbs also by default ignores colliding into other walls / colliders

[lilac cape]

Is this a good idea for keeping the project organized? I have a door that I created in unity (not fancy, just using primitve shapes and basic material) and this is how I organized the animaitions, materials, and scripts. Is this a good organization strategy for objects that have an animation, material, and script?

[acoustic belfry]

So if i want to move anything with a Rigidbody2D
(Enemies, friends, etc). It must be linearvelocity

[brave robin]

Its really up to you, as long as you keep it consistent.
Some go with your style, some go with having master root folders for animation, meshes, materials, etc.

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D.html
you can use MovePositon, you can use AddForce, you can Set the velocity manually.. always multiple ways to do things

[lilac cape]

Making a door open one way is easy. Making it open both ways is a whole nother level lol

[real grail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPltQK5LlGE

[real grail]

basicly you get the player position and rotate the door based on player position.

[worldly oasis]

hi has anyone experience with VR controllers? i have bit hardtime with them as i have no idea how their inout works

[rocky gale]

Praetorblue been helping people for decades

Crazy

[worldly oasis]

i also have a problem where i cant see my raycast line for some reason i have tweiked the range a bit and also i cheecked the gizmo it is there but i cant see it

[eternal needle]

maybe #🥽┃virtual-reality for the question about vr controllers. As for the raycast, raycasts dont draw anything to screen. Are you drawing it with like gizmos? Show code if so

[worldly oasis]

ah i use debug.log Debug.DrawRay(shootPoint.position, shootPoint.forward * rayRange, Color.red, 100f);

[eternal needle]

can you show a screenshot of the game view? it should show up in the game view if the gizmos button is enabled.

or are you sure the code is running, and the position is where u think it is?

[eternal needle]

do you see it in the scene view? it should always appear there at least

[worldly oasis]

nope

wich is annoying bc in other projects i can see it using the same emthod

for some reason ihave only this problem when i use the VR built

[eternal needle]

well then the first thing id do is make sure the code is even running, maybe log the position while you're at it

then check if you see it in the scene view. you can put the game view side and scene view side by side

[lilac cape]

Am I on the right track here? I'm trying to make a door that can always open away from the player

using UnityEngine;

public class SingleDoorControl : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable
{
  private Animator animator;
  private bool isOpen = false;
  private bool openedForward = false;

  [SerializeField] private Transform playerTransform;
  [SerializeField] private Transform doorForwardReference;

  void Awake()
  {
    animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
  }

  public void Interact()
  {
    if (!isOpen)
    {
      Vector3 toPlayer = (playerTransform.position - transform.position).normalized;
      float dot = Vector3.Dot(doorForwardReference.forward, toPlayer);

      if (dot >= 0)
      {
        animator.Play("SingleDoorOpen_Backward");
        openedForward = false;
      }
      else
      {
        animator.Play("SingleDoorOpen_Forward");
        openedForward = true;
      }

      isOpen = true;
    }
    else
    {
      if (openedForward)
        animator.Play("SingleDoorClose_Forward");
      else
        animator.Play("SingleDoorClose_Backward");

      isOpen = false;
    }
  }
}

[rocky canyon]

just a glance seems ur on the right path..

either ur on this side -> positive
or that side <- neg

then just swap out the conditional as needed if u happen to get it backwards 😄

[simple hawk]

trying to make a top down shooter, but I can't figure out how to make the character shoot, the tutorials I'm finding use the legacy input system and I can't get my head around the new one

[rocky canyon]

well do u want to get ur head around the new one.. or are u just concerned bout finding a way to use the old one?

b/c u can swap.. and/or use both even its just a setting

[simple hawk]

tbh, I have no idea how to do it for either, I never actually used the input systems for myself, I've just been watching tutorials and have no idea how they work

[rocky canyon]

well its worth learning the new one..

[simple hawk]

I will, is there a resource for me to do so?

[rocky canyon]

if u dont.. or would rather wait.. u can always swap it to the new one later when u feel mor comfortable.

i use Both in the project settings so i can learn as i go

its not completely deprecated yet 😄

as for resources.. i dont really know of any off-hand.. b/c theres soo many ways to do inputs so theres soo many different resources

[lilac cape]

Aye this works. It wasn't at first because the Door Controller animator didn't update with the new animations and then some of them still had the look property enabled

[simple hawk]

also, how come people use [SerializeField] instead of Public? I get that the former doesn't let scripts access others, but why is that important?

[lilac cape]

I've only been learning unity for a little less than a month now and the new inputsystem takes a long time to understand. For basics, I believe your action would be something like:
Action: Shoot
|-> Left-Click (Action Type = button)

Then something like:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class Shooter : MonoBehaviour
{
    private PlayerInputActions inputActions;

    void Awake()
    {
        inputActions = new PlayerInputActions();


    }

    void OnEnable()
{
    playerInputActions.[YourActionMapName].Shoot.performed += OnShootPerformed;
}
    void OnDisable()
{
    playerInputActions.[YourActionMapName].Shoot.performed += OnShootPerformed;
}

    void Shoot()
    {
        Debug.Log("Bang!");
        // Add shooting logic here (instantiate bullet, play sound, etc.)
    }
}

[floral wren]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_programming)

[lilac cape]

use [SerializeField] when you want your variable to be editable within the inspector but still private. Public allows the variable to be used outside the class and should be used only be used when needed because you can only have 1 public variable with that name. So if you had a public speed variable, now you can't declare another variable with the name speed.

I wanted to make sure I added as much info as possible so I sent your question to copilot as well. Here's that response:
Why use [SerializeField] private instead of public?
Encapsulation:
Keeping fields private means only the script itself can change them. This protects your data from being accidentally changed by other scripts, which helps prevent bugs and makes your code easier to maintain.

Inspector Visibility:
[SerializeField] lets you edit the value in the Unity Inspector, just like a public field, but keeps it hidden from other scripts.

Cleaner API:
Other scripts only see what you intentionally expose (via public properties or methods), making your codebase easier to understand and use.

Best Practice:
It’s a core principle of object-oriented programming to hide internal details and only expose what’s necessary.

Summary:
[SerializeField] private gives you the best of both worlds:

Editable in the Inspector
Protected from outside scripts
Cleaner, safer code
Use public only when you want other scripts to access or modify the field directly.

[simple hawk]

that makes sense, thnx for the help

[polar acorn]

To save you from yourself

[simple hawk]

lol

[polar acorn]

If it's not supposed to be edited from another script the best way to ensure you don't do it out of lazyness is to make it impossible

[ivory bobcat]

Reminder that regardless of accessor, you're only limited to one specific name per class member.

[lilac cape]

also if you don't specifically declare the variable as private, the default access modifier is private so the variable will still be private. Same thing for methods.

private void Shoot(){}

is the same as

void Shoot(){}

[lilac cape]

Did you get your shooting working?

[simple hawk]

not really, getting a bunch of errors, not sure what they mean either

[eternal needle]

#📖┃code-of-conduct dont post AI answers. also "So if you had a public speed variable, now you can't declare another variable with the name speed." is just wrong

[lilac cape]

oh the bracket is your input action name is the name of your action map

[simple hawk]

some of this stuff, it's saying, does not exist

[lilac cape]

Hey I marked it by saying it was from copilot. And you're right, I should have said you can't have another public speed variable

[naive pawn]

most likely it can't understand your code because of the syntax issues

you have extra closing braces and the random [] in the middle of your script

the [YourActionMapName] thing isn't valid. you're supposed to put your action map name there, without the brackets

[lilac cape]

this will be the name of the input system you created then create a field (I usually do the same name as the inputsystem but with camelcase) to store an instance of your input actions

[simple hawk]

oh, I thought that was meant to be a string, like "..."

[naive pawn]

isn't that supposed to be the generated class

[lilac cape]

Correct, you're right, but should be the same name as the inputaction

Good catch

[ivory bobcat]

I think there's some miscommunication here. Regardless of accessor, you aren't allowed to have more than one variable with a specific name. cs private float speed; private float speed;//illegal

[naive pawn]

i see what you're trying to say now - "the input system you created" is really not the right way to describe it lol

[scarlet skiff]

im gonna have enemies that deal damage on attack and collision, some only via attack, some only via collision, the thing is, if i enable a hitbox that is a child of the enemy as the attack, that still just counts as one and the same type of collision as if you walked into the enemy. to distinguish between those two attacks, im thinking ill have two physics layers, one for enemy body and one for enemy attacks, for enemy body, it has ontriggerstay2d logic with a cool down, and for the hitbox, that one can be triggerenter, is this a good solution or am i wasting a physics layer here?

[naive pawn]

there are 32 available layers, that'll be fine

[scarlet skiff]

but like... is it not a slippery slope

[naive pawn]

what else are you gonna have

[scarlet skiff]

yea thats the only solution that came to mind, i mean, i could use tags but i feel like thats a little messy

[naive pawn]

you wouldn't separate fire type attacks from water type attacks, you'd have a separate, more flexible system for that

[lilac cape]

Agreed! I should have clarified more 😁

[naive pawn]

no, i mean, what other layers are you gonna have
was vague mb

[lilac cape]

Yeah the new input system somewhat clicked today for me so now I'm just dealing with saying the right lingo going forward lol

[scarlet skiff]

its might be a big project, there is a lot of concepts that i wanna add that i havent broken down to unity implementations yet, so i cant say for sure how many ill need, im careful with my use of layers, so probably not many, and considering enemies are like very central, i dont usppose two layers for them is a waste. currently i only have ground, and GroundBound layer and player layer

[naive pawn]

the technically right way would probably be "input actions asset" but "action map" "input map" "input actions" would all work - just not the entire system

[naive pawn]

think about interactions that are core to the actual world or universe of the game - those would be layers
more specific, flexible systems would be their own systems that you write yourself

[lilac cape]

Let me send you my player controlls that uses the new input system for reference. Go through each one of my actions from the variables to the methods to help you understand the flow of things. DM'd you, didn't want to "clear the chat"

[simple hawk]

thnx

[naive pawn]

regarding this specifically though - you could use layers to distinguish, but since these aren't actually different interactions, another approach would be to let the damage dealer - the projectile/enemy - handle the attacking. that way each thing knows how it deals damage, whether continuously or one-shot

[naive pawn]

can't stop you from DM'ing, but fyi, it's generally not recommended. community servers exist for a reason, so that multiple people can help or check answers

[scarlet skiff]

yea i think enemies could use two layers, its just, scary sometimes to decide stuff as a new and solo dev.

i could potentially give the attack hitbox its own script, where i can also give it different variabels that define the type of attack it is, this script can then also be attached to enemy projecttiles.

like for melee attacks, dont destroy gameobject on collision, etc

[lilac cape]

True, I was being lazy and didn't want to make a GIST of the player controls but here it is:
https://gist.github.com/NullSimLabs/a054fc38f3780c23c485e46f823cdd24

[summer forum]

helloo, quick question, i was following this brackeys tut and he did not use a refrence object like he always did but used the findobjectoftype thing because he said that when tho playerobject was reset the refrence would be lost. Then to reset the scene and the object he used this built in method that saved the refrences, now im wondering why did he use the findobjectbytype and not create a refrence object in the first place?

[grand snow]

Its hard to actually understand from your message but perhaps it was to be more beginner friendly?
Finding by type isn't too bad if done sparingly to init a scene or some object.

[wintry quarry]

He did that to make the tutorial simpler, that's all.