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[winter plover]

  IEnumerator MoveMonsterJumpscare()
    {
        JumpscareSound.Play();
        canvasGroupV.alpha = 1f;

        

        while (Vector3.Distance(Monster.transform.position, TargetEndPos.transform.position) > 0.1f)
        {

            Monster.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(Monster.transform.position, TargetEndPos.transform.position, monstermovespeed * Time.deltaTime);
            yield return null;




        }


        
        

    }

[naive pawn]

where it checks if the collider was the player
you could probably just use layers for this but that's a separate topic

still haven't gotten an answer for this though..

[winter plover]

which script?

like that whole

thing

in the trigger?

wym

[naive pawn]

the one i replied to

what object is this component on

[winter plover]

the trigger

[naive pawn]

should it not be on the canvas/vignette/whatever

so anything that needs to do the FadeOutVig doesn't need the extra script

that way it manages itself

[winter plover]

so, what are u implying i should do

[naive pawn]

i.. literally suggested it?

should it not be on the canvas/vignette/whatever

[winter plover]

ok one sec

well

time.deltatime isnt freezing anymore

and everything else is working but the fadeout again..

[naive pawn]

again, debug values, next to where you use them

check deltaTime and elapsed within the coroutine, so you can also see if the coroutine stops prematurely

[winter plover]

ok so

im as close as i can be

    IEnumerator MoveMonsterJumpscare()
    {
        JumpscareSound.Play();
        canvasGroupV.alpha = 1f;



        while (Vector3.Distance(Monster.transform.position, TargetEndPos.transform.position) > 0.1f)
        {

            Monster.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(Monster.transform.position, TargetEndPos.transform.position, monstermovespeed * Time.deltaTime);
            yield return null;
        }


        yield return StartCoroutine(FadeVig(1f, 0f, 2f));


        Destroy(Monster);
        Destroy(Trigger);

    }

ive done this

but it works

it just doesnt fade out

like it just disappears instantly

in 2 sec

[naive pawn]

i don't think you'd want to wait for the vignette to fade before destroying the trigger/monster

anyways, do some debugging then lol

[humble briar]

`using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class Touching : MonoBehaviour
{
public string scene;

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collidedwith)
{
    if (collidedwith.gameObject.tag == "Player")
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(scene);
    }
}

}
`

Does anybody know why this might not work?
The player has the Player tag and scene is set on the object

[rocky canyon]

-# testing...

[ivory bobcat]

Are you getting any errors?

[rocky canyon]

hmmm omg there might be a wall of embeds 😬

[naive pawn]

Attachments and embeds broken
• Impact: major
• Affected Components: API
Investigating (11 minutes ago)
We are investigating an issue with attachments and embeds not being rendered in the app.
from discord status

[humble briar]

oh what it just worked?? i littererally didnt change a thing??

[rocky canyon]

ahh thats what it was

[humble briar]

ah i dont think i saved

well done me

[frail hawk]

use a Debug.Log inside the if statement

[naive pawn]

rite of passage

[frail hawk]

rubber duck

[marsh bough]

hey guys idk if this is right place to ask questions as a complete freshie to game development but where should I get started? I watched some yt vids and nothing seemed to help me understand anything or how to get started. sorry if this is the wrong channel to ask in

[naive pawn]

!learn and see pinned resources

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[marsh bough]

is this how you learned and thanks

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw this one did me the best justice

[naive pawn]

that's how i started, yeah
wasn't the only resource i used though

[ivory bobcat]

This would be the beginner programming channel btw
The appropriate future channel would be #💻┃unity-talk or whichever channel would fit the category #🔎┃find-a-channel

[marsh bough]

thanks idk if ill persue this if I cant figure out anything by the end of the day

[timber tide]

No one becomes a professional in a day

[rocky canyon]

-# if ur already moving forward with that mindset then game-dev probably isnt gonna be right for you anyway

now, if u enjoy puzzles, hard work, and learning how things work.. its great

[marsh bough]

never said I wanted to be pro by the end of today

[real grail]

1. Is the Scene correctly named if you are trying to switch Scenes and the strings dont match.
2. Is this script on a player or on a object with collider ?

[rocky canyon]

as long as u stay in "pursuit" u'll be fine

[naive pawn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rocky canyon]

one of those self-fixing problems

i never get those! 😦 lol

[naive pawn]

fixes itself as soon as you ask for help

or try to show someone else the issue

[rocky canyon]

oh.. thats them 👻 issues.. no one believes they exist

[low lotus]

Should I use individual sprites (png images) or spriteatlases? I don't really get witch one to use

[frosty hound]

Functionally, they don't do anything differently. You use the sprite (either single or from the sheet) on your SpriteRenderer component.

The difference is that a sheet is considered one thing for performance consideration, and it just displays part of that sheet/texture to make it look like it's just one sprite.

So which you use is up to you. For things that are closely related to each, such as something with animations, you would use a sheet.

Tiles are also a common usecase for sheets, if they are all part of the same environment.

[low lotus]

I use non pixel art images in my games. Should I pack my 6 characters in atlas or leave then separate png files?

[polar acorn]

Whether they are pixel art is 100% irrelevant to anything

[low lotus]

So leaving them separate files won't effect performance?

Actually my game runs good on webgl in 7 years old chromebook so I guess I should not be worried 😄

[frosty hound]

It does affect performance in some way, everything does.

But if you're micro optimizing, you may as well just stop and continue doing as you're doing. There's no point stressing if it's not a problem.

[real grail]

It does affect performance but by today standard having multiple png or everything in 1 png it dosent matter honesly. We have hardware that can run that if this was 1960 then it would be diffrent story 😄

[real grail]

Also word of advice dont worry about performance at the very start of the project. Make something first and then try to fix it so it runs better.

[low lotus]

Ok, thanks! One more question. When I place my 400×400 image into a Sprite Renderer, it appears as 391×396. Why does this happen? I made all the png divisible by 4 in photoshop. Does this effect something?

I also cropped the transparent pixels around a PNG before importing it into Unity. Is it ok?

[polar acorn]

I think the second sentence explains the first

[low lotus]

My original image from photoshop. Second one what spriterender uses. it destroys the divisible by 4

Does it matter?

[grand snow]

to be able to use DXT or ETC it needs to be a pow2 size

so 512 is the closest to 400~

[low lotus]

But why does my sprite go from 400x564 to 393x550

when it's in the sprite renderer

it destroys the divisible by 4

[grand snow]

er no idea tbh

are you sure this is the same sprite?

[low lotus]

The one on the right is 393x550

And sprite renderer uses that

[glad ibex]

Whats this object called in scripting and which namespace is it?

[short hazel]

TMP_Text in namespace TMPro

[glad ibex]

Thanks!

[grand snow]

for ugui its actually TextMeshProUGUI https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/api/TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.html

[short hazel]

Works as well, the UGUI is a derived class of TMP_Text

So if you ever change to a 3d text, use the base TMP_Text

[grand snow]

if writing ugui code its very unlikelly

I do lots of ugui code so im very used to writing this

[short hazel]

Both work so whatever

[grand snow]

👍

[glad ibex]

Could someone ples help me why doesnt this attribute doesnt worky?

[timber tide]

Never heard of that one. Use [HideInInspector]

[rich adder]

are you looking for [HideInInspector] ?

[glad ibex]

Probably yes, thank you

[timber tide]

[NonSerialized] works too assuming you're not changing the value beyond the default in the inspector

[rich adder]

its part of UnityEngine.Properties
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.properties@1.0/api/Unity.Properties.DontCreatePropertyAttribute.html

[timber tide]

Ah, I'm assuming that just applies to all instances then

[rich adder]

btw much cleaner to usually use a private field and a public access property

[glad ibex]

Whats a public access property?

Like a public getter?

ima google one sec

[glad ibex]

Ah, true but I do need to use it in other files

Oh wait internal exists

Thx

[rich adder]

ohh why is it public at all

[timber tide]

public bool CurrentlyUp { get; set; } = false```
Prevents it from serializing too

[glad ibex]

Idk cuz ima a dumbass, and I need to use it from other MonoBehavs, so I thought using a hidden public would be smart

🤷

[rich adder]

private bool myBool;
public bool MyBool
{
    get { return myBool; }
}```
or 
```cs
public bool MyBool=> myBool;

this wont show in inspector and a cleaner pattern

[glad ibex]

I already made it internal, but still thanks!

[humble briar]

ok why does text mesh pro look different what did i do

[slender nymph]

what nav showed is the better option. the property can be internal as well if you actually need it to be internal instead of public. but exposing fields to other objects should almost always be done through a property

[slender nymph]

your inspector is in debug mode

also not a code question

[humble briar]

ooooh

thanks

also yeah sorry wrong channel my b gang

[glad ibex]

Do I really need to mess around with backers

meow

But alr

I can expose it in a wrapper ill soon do

Actually yeah ill do that

cuz nono wanna backing fields

[slender nymph]

can you finish a thought before sending a message instead of spamming one thought across 7 messages
#📖┃code-of-conduct

[glad ibex]

Will do

Will the standart constructor of a component run when creating a gameobject with a said constructor?

[slender nymph]

the parameterless constructor will be called, yes. but you really shouldn't be using that unless you have a good reason for why you would be. just use Awake instead for 99% of cases

[glad ibex]

Oh yeah Awake exists, I literally forgot, thanks

[shy hollow]

hey!! dont post here usually but looking for some advice regarding exporting data to text files :)

excuse the absolute mess of the code - im trying to just get it working 😭, im wondering how id go about storing these lists as a text file (to be imported / exported to other players), specifically the "listofpositions", "list of rotations" and "timestamp". Ideally these values would be read at runtime too in order to simulate a "ghost".

Lmk if any more context is needed :)

[slender nymph]

exporting data to text files
look into json serialization. unity has JsonUtility built in which can handle that data easily

[shy hollow]

yeah ive looked into JSONs - just really struggled to get them working / wrap my head around them. Documentation seems pretty complex and im not finding any solid tutorials for them. Could just be looking in the complete wrong place though

[slender nymph]

well if you need help with it then you'll need to show what you actually tried

[shy hollow]

truth be told everything ive tried has ended up in deleted code 😭 , do you know of any recourses that explain them in a more simple manner?? would be really helpful

back to google it is then, thanks anyway :)

[glad ibex]

Is there any way to Monobehaviour:Invoke() a method and give args to it?

Except storing them externally

[slender nymph]

no. if you need to delay a method call you can use a coroutine instead, the coroutine can accept an Action as a parameter and the time so you can reuse it for any method call delays

[glad ibex]

Ah, thx

[versed fjord]

Hey

[visual wraith]

Trying to increase a variable from OnCollisionEnter2D, but it keeps getting set back to its default value every time it runs

[polar acorn]

Show !code

[eternal falcon]

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[slender nymph]

show the relevant code, but if i had to guess i'd assume you're probably modifying a variable on an object being destroyed rather than keeping a single source of truth for that value

[visual wraith]

public class BirdController : MonoBehaviour
{
    private GameObject birdObject;
    private Rigidbody2D _rb2d;
    private float moveSpeed = 6f;

    private float _maxTIme = 3f;
    private float _Timer;

    public GameObject _PipePrefab;
    private Vector2 _PipeSpawnPos = new Vector2(0, 0);

    public float HighScore;
    //public float CurrentScore;
    public float score;

    public GameObject _scoreText;

    void Start()
    {
        birdObject = gameObject;
        _rb2d = birdObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

        HighScore = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("HighScore", 0f);
        //CurrentScore = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("CurrentScore", 0f);
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {

        if (_Timer > _maxTIme)
        {
            SpawnPipe();
            _Timer = 0;
        }
        _Timer += Time.deltaTime;
    }

    public void OnFlap()
    {

        _rb2d.linearVelocityY = 1 * moveSpeed;

    }

    public void SpawnPipe()
    {

        GameObject ClonedPipe = Instantiate(_PipePrefab, _PipeSpawnPos + new Vector2(15, Random.Range(-2, 2)), Quaternion.identity);
        Destroy(ClonedPipe, 8f);

    }

    void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        //if the bird hits a pipe
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Pipe")
        {
            Debug.Log("bird hit pipe");

        }

        //if the bird passes the enters a pipes border
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "PipeBorder")
        {
            Debug.Log("bird passed pipe");
            //increase current score by 1 when player passes a pipe
            score += 1;
            _scoreText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = score.ToString();
            Debug.Log(score);

            //if the current score is greater than the high score, save the current score to the high score save
            if (score >= HighScore)
            {
                PlayerPrefs.SetFloat("HighScore", score);
            }
            
        }
        
    }
}

making flappy bird

been trying all sorts of stuff but I have no Idea whats wrong

[polar acorn]

Okay and what is the thing that's happening that's not what you expect

[visual wraith]

I want the score to increase whenever the player passes through a pipes border (gap between the two pipes), however the score isnt being increased at all, everytime it runs i just see 1 in the console.

[whole osprey]

Are you accessing/changing score from another script? It's a public variable, so it's possible.

[polar acorn]

Are you getting the log bird passed pipe?

[visual wraith]

Yes

The debug logs are doing their job for sure

[polar acorn]

How about logging score?

[visual wraith]

No, only in this script is score mentioned

[visual wraith]

Logging?

As in debug log?

[polar acorn]

The gerund form of the word log

which you already seem to know the meaning of since that was my previous question

[visual wraith]

yeah Ive been logging score, and its 1 every time

[polar acorn]

How many objects is this script on

[visual wraith]

just the bird

been trying to reduce the number of scripts I make

[hallow sun]

How many times does it trigger on each Play?

[visual wraith]

just once when the player passes by a border

[polar acorn]

Try making score private. Do you get any compile errors right away?

[hallow sun]

You do know variables reset on each Play right? I think this is the issue

"Play" as in starting the game not on each trigger of the function

[wintry quarry]

Wouldn't that be a trigger collider?

Trigger colliders would be using OnTriggerEnter2D

Not OnCollisionEnter2D

[visual wraith]

Well I have the border set to IsTrigger so the player can pass through it, and with OnCollisionEnter2D on the bird it'll detect whatever it collides with, in this case the pipe border. Im using tags to tell the pipes border and the pipes themselves apart

its working pretty well besides my issue with the variable

[wintry quarry]

You need to double check that because OnCollisionEnter2D will definitely not run for a trigger

something is fishy about your story here

[visual wraith]

Just deleted an old script from the pipe border before I decided to make the logic on the bird script.

think that may have been apart of the problem

[wintry quarry]

definitely

because this code will not have been running

[whole osprey]

When you're cleaning things up, you should probably switch all of your score stuff from floats to ints. This way will work, but you'll be doing string formatting and other crap you don't need to waste time on.

[visual wraith]

Okay so I've managed to fix it by making the bird IsTrigger and swapping OnCollisionEnter2d with OnTrigger, and I think the variable was being affected by the remaining c# float score; I had on an older script.

well but now the bird doesnt collide against the pipes.

[polar acorn]

The pipes should be solid colliders

The space between them should be triggers

[whole osprey]

Bird - has rigidbody, has collider, not Is Trigger
Pipe - has collider, not Is Trigger
Pipe Pass Through - has collider, Is Trigger

Then have an OnTrigger method for passing through the pipes and an OnCollisionEnter2D method for hitting the pipes.

[visual wraith]

oh sweet lord it WORKS

yeah this is getting noted down for sure.

[verbal dome]

I'd ask in #↕️┃editor-extensions

I dont know about that attribute but sounds useful if it exists

[sour fulcrum]

fair call

i saw it somewhere randomly and found it neat

[naive pawn]

bruh i just thought i found it lol

[verbal dome]

It does use the first string field in the class as the name though

Iirc

[sour fulcrum]

yeee, just for this i dont have any

i dont mind worstcase but wouldnt mind avoiding if i can

[verbal dome]

Its a hack anyway yeah but its the only way I know apart from custom property drawers

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/InspectorNameAttribute.html

applyToCollection Makes attribute affect collections instead of their items.
this should be it, the docs do say it's for naming enums in the inspector but the doc page for that property does show it being used for an int array

ah wait, nevermind the page for that property is being used for the base class so that's probably not it

if such an attribute does exist then it does not appear in the list of attributes in the docs

[sour fulcrum]

yee :/

i appreciate the looking

[slender nymph]

are you certain it wasn't from a package/asset?

[sour fulcrum]

I think I saw that and just was yet to test it

[naive pawn]

exact thought process i had LMAO

[naive pawn]

yeah seems to be the case
also apparently this is what you get if you try to serialize an empty struct lol

[thick sedge]

we can use return; to go in situation like this

if (something == true) { do something return; }

but is there any other uses for it?

[slender nymph]

return; is used to exit early from a method that returns void, that's it

[thick sedge]

i see people say it returns a value...?

[slender nymph]

you can return an object, yes. but not by just typing return;
you need to actually specify what you return. but that wasn't your question, your question was about return;

[thick sedge]

how would i know what to ask if i don't know that thing

[slender nymph]

how would i know what you are actually asking about if you don't actually ask about that thing?

your question specifically used return; and the example included was about returning early. if you wanted to know all of the uses of the return keyword then ask that next time

[thick sedge]

never mind it

[rocky canyon]

if (!something){
return;

// else do something
}```

early returns i think are useful

[naive pawn]

can use it for guard clauses too

[twin pivot]

I'm not sure why this is giving an error

public bool Test(GameObject _enemy, int enemyWalkRange, int enemyAtkRange)
{
    for(int i = 0; i < 49; i++)
    {
        if(Mathf.Abs(Vector2.Distance(_enemy.transform.position, _tileData._tileArray[i].transform.position)) <= enemyWalkRange)//sees if enemy can walk to that position
        {
            for(int j = 0; j < _tileData._playerUsingTile.Length; j++)
            if (Mathf.Abs(Vector2.Distance(_tileData._tileArray[i].transform.position, _tileData._playerUsingTile[j])) <= enemyAtkRange)//checks if valid attack
                {
                    return true;
                }
        }
    }
}```

[slender nymph]

the first would be due to where you call this method. the second is because not all paths return a value. you only return anything in that inner if statement. what happens if that is not true?

[twin pivot]

also kinda unrelated but should i use Mathf.Approximately to avoid float problems or does Mathf.Abs already do that for me

[ivory bobcat]

If you're comparing floating point values, yes you should use the approximate function. Vector3 auto implements this when comparing Vectors.

[twin pivot]

Mathf.Abs(Vector2.Distance(_enemy.transform.position, _tileData._tileArray[i].transform.position)) is returning a value over three hundred when the 2 GameObjects are 1 away

[slender nymph]

you don't need to Abs the distance, the distance is always positive

but you should log some info to make sure you are checking the position of the correct object(s)

[pliant abyss]

So I invented a data structure I am calling a Fan -- as in a peacock fanning it's display

[twin pivot]

I just checked but that doesnt seem to be the problem

[slender nymph]

show the current code, both objects involved in the check, and how you've confirmed you are getting the position of the correct objects

[twin pivot]

(please forget i said anything)

[runic quartz]

I am trying to access the Tracking Target field through scripting by

    private Transform player;

    private void Awake() {
        player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;
        TPP_cam_settings.Target = player;
    }

and the error that i am getting is Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.Transform' to 'Unity.Cinemachine.CameraTarget

How can i set the tracking target during runtime?

[slender nymph]

the Target property is a CameraTarget

[runic quartz]

yes, this solved my case

        player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;
        TPP_cam_settings.Target = new CameraTarget{TrackingTarget = player};
    }```

[runic quartz]

Thanks for the reply. Could you explain why I had to use the {} for defining a new camera target? isnt it the same as
Vector3 targetPos = new Vector3(x, y, z)

[slender nymph]

it is not the same, that is object initialization syntax because the CameraTarget struct does not define a parameterized constructor. you could have alternatively done this:

var target = new CameraTarget();
target.TrackingTarget = player;
TPP_cam_settings.Target = target;

another option would have been to just copy the current value in the Target property, assign the TrackingTarget field on that copy, then assign the copy back to the property (assuming Target is a property and not a field. if it is a field then you could just directly assign its TrackingTarget field without making a copy)

[runic quartz]

so is this the same as creating a new instance of the Camera Target class?

[slender nymph]

yes, but it's not exactly the same as invoking a constructor with arguments

the syntax you have is basically the same as the example code I wrote, it's just done inline

[runic quartz]

yes, i see

that makes it clear. Thanks for your time

[slender nymph]

here's the docs page if you want to read more about that syntax https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/object-and-collection-initializers#object-initializers

[runic quartz]

thank you

[late burrow]

the hell json is so slow, i stored 50mb ish base64 in it and it takes like 15 seconds to parse and with string split its under second

[sour fulcrum]

50mb of text is pretty big, no?

[late burrow]

no 50mb of pcm for audioclip

i thought it turns into class like structure right away but it appears it scans through strings live time

[sour fulcrum]

i mean it is a big string at the end of the day

[eternal needle]

are you aware of how large of a file 50mb is? anyone here could've told you json would be slow on this

if you can process it directly using string.split, then it doesnt make sense why you were using json in the first place considering that wouldnt be a valid json format.

[late burrow]

because im limited to 1 string and holding it inside json would be much easier to manage than glue some base64 outside of it

[eternal needle]

limited to 1 string
an entire file can be seen as one string. this really doesnt make sense either way.
as for the rest of that sentence, really none of that makes sense either but 🤷‍♂️ we have no context as to what you're doing here as usual

[late burrow]

just i remember lot of people were saying that string split is bad and to not use it

meanwhile json is even worse

[eternal needle]

i havent seen the context of who said this or why they said it but i can firmly say you have a big misunderstanding. you cannot compare a json parser and string.split in any world.
string.split works exactly how it should. if you need to process a string and split it by a certain character every time then .Split is made for this. This takes a string and gives you an array
Json is a format and to simplify you can use it to parse a file to get structured data back. this might represent an instance of a class

you were more likely told that its bad because you shouldnt have been using strings in the first place, since we've seen you use it for pretty much every feature.

[late burrow]

possible

[eternal needle]

a json framework is doing way way more than searching for a character and creating an array based on it so yea itll be slower. if your 50mb file can simply be read by string.split, and all you need to do is store this in an array then by all means do that.
If suddenly you need to do more like process data on each line of the file, you'll notice your code will also slow down

i might be wrong here but a 50mb file should be 50 million characters.

[late burrow]

i do need to do that as well, just json is good for small things but not big, so i stick them together and later separate with split so i can still run my json

i could do everything with split but then i would clog up my ram by splitting 50mb string 10 times

[charred spoke]

Why the fuck are you working with a 50mb string in the first place

[late burrow]

eh going offtopic again

[sour fulcrum]

If I have two tri’s (two sets of 3 world space positions) is there any suggested way on checking if they intersect?

[charred spoke]

I think thats a very googleable question.

[sour fulcrum]

two be honest the results i got where either not related to my question or stackoverflow posts full of fairly math heavy responses where people disgree with eachother

i didn't do high school so maybe the math is more simple than i think but i did look around

[late burrow]

math is surely fastest solution but if you dont know it then just check if meshcolliders colliding

[sour fulcrum]

i dont have meshcolliders in this context

[charred spoke]

Well a simply solution would be to check if each point of a triangle is inside the other one. This has the literal edge case of failing if a point lies exactly on an edge of a triangle. For more precision you can implement the Separating Axis theorem

[sour fulcrum]

i see, i'll google that but i don't actually know how to do that which probably explains why im not sure how to approach it 😄

[livid anchor]

Hey folks, I'm having a small issue with the flappy bird game I'm trying to recreate. I'm using time.timeScale = 0 to stop the game on gameover, and reset position after. But for some reason the bird seems to keep momentum, so if I hit gameover on a pipe it's okay, but if I let it fall repeatedly it accelerate and it becomes unplayable

Any idea what's happening ?

[keen dew]

What you're trying to do is called "triangle-triangle intersection algorithm" so searching with that term should give results

[eternal needle]

you need more logic for what should happen during this reset, like resetting its velocity and maybe even rotation.
we dont have context as to how you're moving this object though

[livid anchor]

How do I reset velocity ?

I have a very basic :

`void Update()
{
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
{
playerMovement = Vector3.up * FORCE;
}

playerMovement.y += GRAVITY * Time.deltaTime;
transform.position += playerMovement * Time.deltaTime;

}`

[keen dew]

playerMovement.y = 0

[livid anchor]

That did the trick, it was that simple thanks

Now I can work on progressive difficulty 👍

[keen dew]

!collab (in reply to the now deleted message)

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[keen dew]

but you do need to !learn to code if you want to make a game, there's no going around that.

[eternal falcon]

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[fickle plume]

@exotic laurel ^^

[exotic laurel]

Hi, thank you, i completed the pathways for beginners, that is why i made some progress in my 'game' but i am not hidding that i use ai for coding. Anyway, thanks

[fickle plume]

Keep in mind that copy/pasting LLM answers is not learning. You need to make an effort to understand the material and apply the knowledge yourself to learn.

[exotic laurel]

I agree, that is why i participate in the unity pathways and follow some YT tutorials too! but i guess i am to excited and eager to do my own project that i cant help myself and use ai to speed things up! And now im stuck, so i guess it backfired heh. thanks again

[fickle plume]

Looking up answers in the manual you get a lot more information than getting a digested word salad.

[exotic laurel]

any particular manual you have in mind?

i appologise if i misunderstood, english is my second language

[fickle plume]

The Unity manual. The answers you get from when you use search engine.

[exotic laurel]

Thank you kind sir!

[candid garden]

Hey, I'm making a system for storing all available characters in my game and all their associated stats etc, I want to be able to access it across scenes so I can update for example if a character dies in a fight. I was looking at SO's or a list in a monobehavior attached to a instanced don't destroy on load gameobject but I was wondering what's the better approach? Or if there's a better way to do it I'd love to hear, thanks!

[sour fulcrum]

sounds fine yeah, personally as someone who probably overuses so's i'd maybe even have some sort of ScriptableManifest type thing that holds the list of characters on that so, and have it referenced in a core manager that relates to its usage

[candid garden]

Sorry could you explain what you mean by ScriptableManifest type thing?

[sour fulcrum]

basically just a SO that holds that list of SO's

suggestion more out of preference than superiority but i find the list of available characters itself also feels more like a job for an SO asset than on some prefab somewhere

[candid garden]

Sweet thanks, I'll give that a go 🙂

[full kite]

!code

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[full kite]

Hello, I got this error with nothing else and I dont know where it's from . Does someone know what did I do?
Parser Failure at line 2: Expected closing '}'

I went to see any unclosed brackets, but all of them were closed, on all the scripts, idk what to say

[hexed terrace]

you didn't ask a question, and this is a code channel.. so if it's not code related, delete from here and actually ask in #💻┃unity-talk

[quick monolith]

got it

[full kite]

do you know anything at my question carwash?

[hexed terrace]

you have a missing bracket, even though you think you don't

[full kite]

i checked every single bracket of every single script, i cant find any missing bracket

[hexed terrace]

At a guess.. your IDE isn't setup correctly to show you errors within it, and you're seeing that error in Unity console?

[full kite]

indeed

[hexed terrace]

double clicking the error will take you to the problem

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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[full kite]

aint working

[hexed terrace]

^ get your IDE setup correctly

[full kite]

it supposed to led me to problem, but it doenst

its just an error and Idont have a line, it doesnt led me anywhere

[hexed terrace]

care to share screenshots

[full kite]

double clicking is not working

[hexed terrace]

haha, I've just opened Unity and look

[full kite]

is not ledding me anywher

[hexed terrace]

ignore it

clear the console -> gone

[full kite]

indeed

its not stopping me

but its annoying me

shouldnt we report it somewhere?

[hexed terrace]

I could not care any less about it

I'm also not on the latest version of 6, so it may not be present anymore anyway and I'm not updating to find out

[full kite]

indeed, so it shouldnt disturb us?

and if so, is it a channel to report a problem like this?

idk, where some admin will look?

[hexed terrace]

in the editor help -> report bug, same as every other bug you need to report

There is no reporting issues on here, it would be a nightmare to organise and track.

[full kite]

i mean yeah, but this thing appeard to me yesterday so its something that they did recently

so it wouldnt be that hard to track

ig

and its something on the using System.Collections.Generic;

[hexed terrace]

you misunderstand what I mean by track

[full kite]

probably ))

!bug

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[winter plover]

guys help, how do i bake a navmesh

i cant find the bake tab or object tab like it says in the learn.unity site

[winter plover]

ok i found it

[winter plover]

#🏃┃animation

[pseudo ermine]

Good afternoon, I am having trouble with grabbing something via a tag. Everything else is grabbed fine, but this one thing just does not want to work. Any help is much appreciated.

[lavish plover]

Do a debug log to print this take it finds. If it's null or false, then it can't find it

[verbal dome]

Also avoid using the ?. operator with unity objects (gameobject, components, scriptableobject)

[naive pawn]

also give more details about how exactly it's not working

[pseudo ermine]

what do you recommend instead? I found the issue, it was a stupid one but one I thought I had changed. The gameobject was inside of a parent object which was false at the start and therefore it could not be found.

[naive pawn]

?. just doesn't work as you might expect with unity objects, there's no direct replacement

[clear juniper]

you have to do if (someGameObject == null) - unity doesn't override the ? operator so you can occasionally end up with the underlying C++ object being destroyed but the C# object being alive, or vice versa, can never remember which way around it is 😂

[pseudo ermine]

ah, seems to be working for my usecase so I am not going to touch it lol/

[naive pawn]

you should touch it

it's gonna cause issues later

for unity objects, == null and is null are different

you almost always want == null
but ?. uses is null

get rid of it now and either:

• let it fail-fast if this is something that should always be available (you get an error that you can see)
• handle it properly with == null if this is something that may or may not be available

[honest star]

What is console pro?

[hexed terrace]

a third party console

[sacred ingot]

hello i have made a vfx that sends a slash, now my problem is what should i do to make it usable as an ability and affect some damage if it touches an enemy for example i want to make a hit area like that image shows. if any professional in that field could guide me a little i will appreciate it

[rich adder]

use some sort of cast

[wintry quarry]

Use a physics query

[sacred ingot]

a ray cast maybe?

[rich adder]

a ray could work but might be too thin

[sacred ingot]

yeah

[thorn stone]

Does anyone know where is that? I have no idea in which channel should I ask for help so I am asking here.

[rich adder]

they have basic shapes like Spherecast, Boxcast, etc.

[thorn stone]

Alright but like what does the error mean?

[sacred ingot]

i was thinking to use a collider on the slash it self

[rich adder]

Parameters don't magically exist

[thorn stone]

I know that LastY, X is missing

But where do I add them

[wintry quarry]

it means you're trying to use an animator parameter called LastY trhat doesn't exist in your animator state machine

in the animator state machine

[slender nymph]

it's a warning not an error. and it means that your animator controller does not have those parameters

[thorn stone]

Oh alright thank you

[rich adder]

You could do that too sure, you'd need at least 1 ridigbody between the two colliders to call the function

[sacred ingot]

yeah

[rich adder]

Unity doesn't have a built in mesh type of cast for Physics class but you can also use this
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.SweepTest.html
but you mind as well just use TirggerEnter / TriggerStay anyway...

[thorn stone]

Could anyone please tell me where is in this script anything about "LastX or LastY" like wth...

I only have for X and Y

[sacred ingot]

that may work

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't. But are you sure your code has been saved/compiled recently?

[rich adder]

you still didnt configure your IDE...

[thorn stone]

😭 No way

[wintry quarry]

yep, not saved

[thorn stone]

yes I know and I am sorry

Alright warning is gone.

Thanks for help.

[slender nymph]

get it configured 👇 !IDE

[eternal falcon]

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[thorn stone]

which one

[slender nymph]

surely you can use your eyes and logical reasoning to figure out which link you need to click

[rich adder]

and they been told already few times which, but somehow have amnesia now

[viscid girder]

How does this make sense? How can my capsule of height 1.9, be at rest on the floor of (0,0,0) and have a center of (0, 0.50, 0)? Should it not be (0, 0.95, 0). For reference I am using capsuleCollider.transform.position.y

[frail hawk]

you probably want the pivot of your player at the center of the feet instead. this should be the case when you import

[viscid girder]

It is in blender, do you know if there is an import setting for this? I'll do some research on it.

Or can it be changed in unity?

[frail hawk]

looking good here but it seems like it has not been applied

[eternal needle]

i wouldnt use the collision/trigger messages here tbh. you can probably generalize the area in that 2nd screenshot to a box cast as it moves along its path. I doubt you'll have any cases where that the upper corners of the box hit a target when visually the arc didnt.
the first image maybe use a spherecast and then filter out results by checking the angle.

[sacred ingot]

i mean by the first image i just want to make an ability indicator for my ground slash, and yeah i can use a box cast for the slash but i want to damage only when the actual slash touches the person not the all the line

[eternal needle]

you would cast in small amounts as it moves, or use like OverlapBox at all times and see if anything is within it. not just once on ability cast
as for the ability indicator im not entirely sure how those can be recreated. I'd imagine its really all just a mesh and custom shader

[sacred ingot]

i have found some informations about the indicator it is just an image xd

on the canvas

[sacred ingot]

i will try that

[eternal needle]

interesting, guess that makes more sense

[sacred ingot]

i have found some tutorials in youtube if you want to check

if interested

[eternal needle]

i googled and saw a few tutorials exist but dont really have time to check it out now

thanks though

[viscid girder]

Why is my floor saying it's y position is at 0, yet when I move it down by -0.5, all game objects appear to be at the position they should be? Its like they have a different world transform???

[viscid girder]

I think the issue was in unity but I don't know how this is occuring?

[frail hawk]

nah it is something on your side. in blender your pivot point looks right.

but anyways, it seems like it is fixed now

[rotund hull]

I am making a survival game and i added the ability to mine stuff like stone, but this is happening

!code

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[rotund hull]

this is my function for mining

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

does anyone know a fix

[wintry quarry]

the best course of action here is to start debugging it

print out the hit point, print out which tile pos that's being converted to. See what's going wrong there. DOuble check your raycast as well

[rotund hull]

i did and the best thing i was able to do was add that if statement

[wintry quarry]

then you need to keep trying

I don't see any log statements in the code at all

[rotund hull]

i removed them

[wintry quarry]

you should be printing all the relevant info - and drawing things with gizmos, until you find what is off

[wintry quarry]

You should be adding logs at this point, not removing them

nobody is going to be able to just eyeball this code and tell you the issue offhand

[rotund hull]

alr

[queen adder]

how is the mining supposed to work? A raycast from the player to the mouse and it destroys whatever block is hit?

[wintry quarry]

I would expect subtracting half a grid unit in opposite direction of the normal before converting to tile coords though

not converting to tile coords and then subtracting a whole unit

[ruby python]

Hi all, would anyone know of a tutorial/guide (ideally video) for creating a quadtree for a simple plane object? All of the ones I've found and tried to follow are heavily interwined with other code etc. and I'm finding it all very confusing. 😕

[green copper]

if I'm tweaking something like the perameters of some physics objects to get a good feel, e.g. tweaking and working while running, how can I make those changes stick once the simulation stops? The best thing I've been able to figure out so far is just screenshotting the settings before I end the sim

[queen adder]

You mean playing in the editor? Or saving things in the game itself.

For in the editor, you can right click on a component tab to copy the values, then you can paste them (By right clicking again).

There are also assets that let you save multiple things in play mode, I personally don’t remember the name though

[green copper]

ah, thank you!

[onyx geyser]

when the error 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object' occures when a 2D body collides with a 2D collision object, and i'm trying to make it so a death screen appears, would it be that the interaction between the body and the object has an error or that the object to death screen has an error?

i'm not getting the debug message for when death screen is happening, so it seems like it's before that happens but after a collision happens

[slender nymph]

it means something in your code is trying to use an object that is null
https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception
without knowing what the code looks like or even where the error occurs, this is all anyone here could possibly know about your issue

[onyx geyser]

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
Debug.Log("pipe hit");
logic.gameOver();
}
(probably not enough to go off of but heres this anyways)

[naive pawn]

if that's where the error is pointing you, then logic is probably null?

might be inside gameOver, check the actual stacktrace

also see below for posting !code

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[onyx geyser]

now that i think about it, it probably is logic

aghh

when calling for a deathscreen activation, what else can i use you think?

[slender nymph]

why not just fix the error instead of trying to bypass it by doing something else?

[naive pawn]

i have no context on what your code architecture currently is, i cannot possibly answer that lmao

[slender nymph]

you've come to the conclusion that the logic variable contains 'null' so make it contain a reference to the correct object instead

[green copper]

how can I tweak the accelleration curve of an object?

I'm using addForce and a custom function to add drag, and those two combined give me an okay top speed and stopping speed, but I'd like to tweak the rate at which I reach top speed and I can't find any resources that specifically cover this

[naive pawn]

you would have to vary the amount you AddForce by according to that curve, or manage acceleration/velocity yourself altogether

[green copper]

How would I do that according to a curve? Or can you reccomend a specific tutorial for that kind of implementation of a curve?

[onyx geyser]

thank you! so it turns out i was missing a chunk of code from another script that told me that Logic was meant to look for an unattached script at the start of the game

[naive pawn]

-# do you need it to be a curve though
you'd probably achieve it with some function of acceleration over time, and sample the function at [time elapsed since started pressing run]

[onyx geyser]

that being, one i had already made for a different object that didn't exist at the beginning of the script either

actually pretty proud of myself for understanding that one

[green copper]

I probably dont need it to be a curve, I probably just need to find the right way to shove math into it...

currently testing out reducing the forward drag by a scalable number the higher the current velocity is, that might give me the control I need

[naive pawn]

perhaps check out this - https://gmtk.itch.io/platformer-toolkit

[lime idol]

Hey! I have a question - How can I learn to code in Unity without relying on memorizing every line? After watching tutorials, I try to write scripts on my own, but I keep forgetting the exact syntax or what to type

[sour fulcrum]

you gotta remember the syntax and slowly learn a lot of the function names but that doesnt mean remembering every line

[naive pawn]

you aren't supposed to memorize lines of code, you're supposed to understand them and then write your own

(in general) there's 3 major parts to programming:

• Language - The syntax, structure, and paradigm of each language
• Library - The interfaces and utilities that each environment or toolset provides
• Logic - The algorithms to do work at runtime

Logic is almost completely transferrable between each language and environment, you just have to learn the specific Language and Library that you're using
Language is also shared quite a bit between languages

of course, learning 1 part at a time is easier than learning everything at once, which is why tools like scratch or code.org are popular as coding courses for beginners, especially kids, because it only focuses on the Logic aspect

[lime idol]

Ohhh I see, this makes way more sense. I didn't know about these 3. I appreciate that 🤝

[naive pawn]

the core of "learning to code" is the logic - the language and library aspects can be looked up
there are other skills (knowing where to find info, what to search, terminology, reading docs, etc) that help with looking up syntax or method names - none of us remember everything single thing we use
but the most common parts of language/library, in this case methods, conditionals, loops, GameObject and Component methods, unity messages, those you will get better at remembering as you write more code, akin to muscle memory

[lime idol]

Gotcha, yeah. I understand now

[naive pawn]

ultimately the skills you need to practice are problem solving (the logic aspect) and finding and understanding technical information (c#/unity docs)
the rest you'll pick up along the way as you get more experience

[lime idol]

Yup, that sounds awesome. Thanks

[late burrow]

is there any good way to align animation with audioclip time or should i do it manually in code

[naive pawn]

there are several ways to achieve this, which one fits probably depends on what exactly those clips are

you could use animation events if the audio accompanies the animation, for example
or use a timeline to sequence them together
or you could trigger them both at the same time in code

[tranquil forge]

Im brand new to game development. Could someone help me with my camera system. In the game when you press WASD, the camera moves to the direction in which you turn in. Could someone give me a basic run down on what to do in my situation

i opened the language, got scared. and joined the discord server bc theres no shot im doing this all on my own

[rich adder]

realistically no one is going to be coding this for you

[tranquil forge]

i didnt ask for that. i simply wanna know a basic run down. and do it on my own

[tranquil forge]

i mean, how would i learn if i didnt do it on my own

[rich adder]

you follow a structured course like ones on !learn 👇

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

start small, build your way up to more complicated game

[tranquil forge]

uuuuugh

as much as i didnt wanna do this

[eternal needle]

this is what tutorials are for. you should also definitely learn c# basics before trying any of this. there are pins in the channel like "intro to c#"

[tranquil forge]

i have to

[tranquil forge]

listen. ive searched, and searched, and searched. ofc the only thing i wanna do isnt public information apperently

[sour fulcrum]

its very much public information

[tranquil forge]

being hyperbolic

[rich adder]

development is about breaking down larger problems into smaller ones, you might have searched too specific

[sour fulcrum]

you don't learn how to drive from your local mcdonalds to your local chemist right?

you learn how to drive

[tranquil forge]

its just. for how simple my game is, i woudnt think id have to "get my feet on the ground" type thing

[tranquil forge]

ok ok

[rich adder]

no game is simple

[tranquil forge]

shiiii ur right

im also a 1 hit wonder so. yyyeeeah

i wanna do this one thing and never do it again

[sour fulcrum]

your learning an entirely new language here that slaps your fingers with a ruler and tells you to go home if you pronounce something wrong. you gotta learn from the start

[tranquil forge]

ok ok, noted

[tranquil forge]

so why not make it my best work

[rich adder]

you want to make a game just to get rich somehow then never make one again ? sounds unrealistic

[tranquil forge]

wtf hell nah

i wanna make a passion project and call it a day

[eternal needle]

if you want to call it your best because its your only work, then sure it is technically your best. I can absolutely guarantee you will be writing some horrible code.

[sour fulcrum]

your best work is never your first thing

[tranquil forge]

work on it for a few months or smth

[tranquil forge]

well, its techically my last as well so, 50% credit

[tranquil forge]

nah dude my code is gonna be AAAAASSS

but hey my game works. sorta

yeah im not satisfied with that nvm

i mean, im willing to stay up for days on end just to get this done so i can rest knowing my idea is finally alive

[eternal needle]

if you want to realistically make a project in a few months from knowing nothing, then dont start by immediately making the foundation of your project. Go practice basic c#, learn the basics of how the engine works.
and then yes break down your problems into smaller manageable chunks. You dont google "how to move using ABCD keys". You research how to move, then research how to check for the input you want, then combine the two

[tranquil forge]

oooooh ok ok

[eternal needle]

days is nothing here. you will most likely be wasting weeks especially if you have a bad foundation of code. you'll spend more time rewriting than anything else
i say this to a lot of people. you cannot willpower your way through making a game, thats not how it works

[tranquil forge]

so even if its excessive? the breaking down part. orr does it get to a point

[tranquil forge]

ok

taking notes

and here i was thinking my little room with camera movement would be simple and easy. damn

[eternal needle]

break it down as far as you want. you'll know when its excessive if you're starting to break it down to "how to add"

[rich adder]

there are premade controllers you can plop in if you just want to move around, but you still need some basics of the editor

[tranquil forge]

im not saying i wont make games. but i just cant see myself willfully crafting something for weeks just for it to not work properly in the end

idk

its like a gamble, for my time

like if i really wanna do this who knows it just might not work at all

[rich adder]

find a hobby that you actually enjoy sinking hours into

[tranquil forge]

or i lose this spark of energy and give up all together

[tranquil forge]

oh i already do

[eternal needle]

if your only goal is a camera moving around a room then sure thats feasible, i wouldnt call it a game. If you're talking about anything with actual gameplay then change that weeks into years

especially if you dont know c#

[tranquil forge]

well, as you said break shi down. this is just the very very very basic form of my game

and then the next day. work on the walking animations type shi, and then the next. creature animations, so on and so on

im solo, and im aware of the complications that holds

[eternal needle]

then weeks isnt feasible at all

[tranquil forge]

holy shit

id give myself 8 months maximum

anything above that, why work on it

i mean, the person who made my favorite fan game deleted his 3-4 years of work in 5 hours.

well, just to fix stuff from the constant lash out form the players due to how difficult it was, but still that had to make the dev feel a certain way

hats off to those individuals but in my case. i dont see how making something so simple in mind could take possible years, it could be you dont know my standards but still

im not abt to make the newest Ray tracing software only playable through a certain graphics card, i just want a shitty fnaf 4 remake with movement and a 3D environment with my own creatures.

ive had this idea since childhood, and now that im older, making it a thing would be fire asf.

but i do have a few standards i wanna meet for myself, and how knows if i learn it and wanna add more

animation isnt too hard, ik how to do that. pretty well actually, but that isnt gonna cut the rest of the 98% of my project

my main main question (my friend asked me to ask)

if i were to make a game. camera movement, movement to doorways, and animations leading outside the doorways, creature AI,
and modeling as a solo dev with no experience, how long would you say it would take

[eternal needle]

depends on what you're trying to exactly make. obviously it wont take a full year of everyday hard work to make camera movement and characters use animations. if I had models and animations already, it's really a 1 hour setup to get something prototyped.
the difference for you is that you need to actually learn c# and unity. lets say you write some script which helps you play animations per character. In the future, you realize this script doesnt suit your needs because you hardcoded all the strings. Suddenly you got to rewrite it. Anything referencing this script might also need an update. It takes awhile because you need to learn and will likely have to redo lots.
it doesnt really matter if the overall game is silly or simple. the code has to work at the end

[tranquil forge]

from learning all the way up to finishing the DEMO not the full game

[tranquil forge]

reading this rn

[sour fulcrum]

If you don't know how to do these things how can you confidently assume how long they will take

[tranquil forge]

daaamn ok ok

[rocky canyon]

building a game is simple..

the hard part is finishing it..

and having a full game-loop

[tranquil forge]

well, someone told me to learn what i needed for my project and branch off. does that work?

[sour fulcrum]

it just isn't though

[eternal needle]

no one can answer that question for you. (my answer above also partly addresses this) but stuff like "creature AI" can mean anything. An AI could mean it follows you. An AI could means dark souls npcs or the worlds strongest chess engine.

[tranquil forge]

everything other than the game is writen down and ready to be made, i got everything other than the experience with programming that it

[sour fulcrum]

writing the stuff down is the easiest part tbh

[rocky canyon]

the last 20% takes 80% of the time

[tranquil forge]

sorry sorry i understand lmao, i just wanted a refrense point till if i DID actually finish a demo

[tranquil forge]

mhm, mhm

[tranquil forge]

thats clear as day

it really was

the thing is, the enviorment is my own ROOM, so recreating it shouldnt be that hard?..

well. i gotta make 3 more rooms.

for, for the movement.

[sour fulcrum]

do you know how to model

[tranquil forge]

yeeeah im starting to see wtf is happening

[tranquil forge]

basic understanding

asset packs

planes

...materials

i can animate a model

[sour fulcrum]

(planes are the only one out of those three that are actually modeling but fair response)

[tranquil forge]

i mean

i made a chair so

yay?.

to think ur not even close to finishing it. damn.

[rocky canyon]

what sucks about solo developing

is u have to do everything

[tranquil forge]

also noted

[rocky canyon]

by the end of it all, ur a modeller, a graphics artist, a programmer, a music engineer, and the list goes on

[tranquil forge]

ok so for me. animation, music, sound effects, i can do that, programming, and MAYBE some modeling i gotta learn

[sour fulcrum]

The real trick is that solo devving is fake and games are collaborative 😄

[tranquil forge]

i dont see modeling being too hard unless im shooting for the stars

[rocky canyon]

well thats half the battle.. i think ur in good shape 🍀

[tranquil forge]

but if i can turn a cat into a humanoid figure then thats all the modeling i need

[rocky canyon]

not soo hard.. as it is time consuming

[tranquil forge]

right right

ur aura gives me hope

[rocky canyon]

but it also depends on whether ur a perfectionist, or just wanna get something done and out the door

it could be less i suppose

[tranquil forge]

... forgot to uh, tell you that

i cant do something unless i do it right

[rocky canyon]

hell ya mate.. u got this

[tranquil forge]

i will not stand for it unless it is perfect

[sour fulcrum]

perfection sucks

[tranquil forge]

so i gotta fight that, along side my capabilities

[rocky canyon]

oh ya.. ull def have a multiplier added onto ur time-management then 😄

[tranquil forge]

NOOOOO

damn

idc atp

[rocky canyon]

try to be less perfect

especially when ur learning

[tranquil forge]

then everything will be less perfect, and no one but me will realize that when playing

and it just, urks my soul

[sour fulcrum]

perfect games don't come out

[rocky canyon]

exactly! lol

[tranquil forge]

please dont bring that to light

i dont wanna accept that rn

[rocky canyon]

if u keep at it.. you'll def adapt. and adjust ur expectations

so i wouldnt even worry about it anyway

[tranquil forge]

music already enough is a headache as a perfectionist so.. oh shit

[tranquil forge]

my expectations for rn are low, this mainly works bc anytime i do something, i do it better than i expected and just settle on that

[rocky canyon]

u make music? wanna throw me some free soundtracks 😉 hehe

[tranquil forge]

oh shi, i could. i dont really like my music a whole lot but its my music so. yeah?

[rocky canyon]

tbh i feel like music and sound design can make or break a game..

thats why i'll probably end up purchasing all that

[tranquil forge]

YES

100% AGREED

[rocky canyon]

if its a vibe.. i dont care what it looks like 😈

[tranquil forge]

Post Shift 2 wouldnt be Post Shift 2 without its sound design

[tranquil forge]

LMFAO

hold on

i got you

[rocky canyon]

oh, this is the code channel.. just noticed.

use #💻┃unity-talk or #archived-game-design if u just wanna talk about generalist (Unity) game-dev stuff

[tranquil forge]

yeeeah i added you

[tranquil forge]

beeettt

[sweet iris]

` void Start()
{
moveVector = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
}

private void FixedUpdate()
{
rb.MovePosition(moveVector * Time.deltaTime * 15);
}

public void OnMove(InputValue value)
{
//animator.SetBool("isWalking", )
Vector2 moveValue = value.Get<Vector2>();
moveVector = new Vector3(transform.position.x + moveValue.x, 0, transform.position.y + moveValue.y);
Debug.Log(moveVector.ToString());

}`

There's a few issue with my code to move my character :

• moveVector is set to 0, 0, 0 so at the start it moves my character to the origin
• the character is reset to 0, 0, 0 when releasing the movement keys, I can't figure out why, I make sure that the new moveVector contains the position of the character before adding the movement.
  -because of using the player input component I have to make the movement in different parts (what movement in OnMove and the actual movement in FixedUpdate) and it's confusing to me

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.MovePosition.html take a look at the example script and see how it differs from urs

specifically the parameter's MovePosition( ) is using in that example

[glass dagger]

so im currently trying to use a spring joint, attached to a player, to pull him towards a kenimatic object, the thing is even tho i set the min distance to 0 and max to 1, my player is like stuck and isnt getting pulled towards the object

[rocky canyon]

is it a rigidbody player?
when testing what if u were to disable the movement script.. wonder if it gets pulled in then..

[sweet iris]

i feel like that's exactly what I'm doing :/

[rocky canyon]

well it isn't

his vector has his position added into it..

urs does not

[sweet iris]

that's what I'm doing here :
moveVector = new Vector3(transform.position.x + moveValue.x, 0, transform.position.y + moveValue.y);

[rocky canyon]

does that run?

[sweet iris]

yeah but not right
https://imgur.com/yQMXrqU

[rocky canyon]

btw u dont need to ToSring() variables

Debug.Log(moveVector);
Debug.Log($"my vector is: {moveVector}"); or even string interpolation like this <-

[sweet iris]

oh okay thanks

[rocky canyon]

ya, that isnt right lol

[rocky gale]

is that temu olimar

[rocky canyon]

im not particular sure how the OnMove works.. (im guessing thats the new input system)
theres no way for me to know when and how often it actually gets updated

it may have something with how the actions are set up

no clue sorry 🍀

[sweet iris]

it's supposed to get called everytime I press a key binded to an action, and the script basically works just it sets me back to 0, 0, 0 even tho I'm storing the transform.position

moving the character is supposed to be the easy part that's so frustrating :c

[rocky canyon]

ya, see that doesn't make sense to me.. b/c the code only has u setting it to 0 in teh Start() and it only runs Once

debug the position and the inputs in ur OnMove

then check the console. make sure its logging often enough (as u expect)
and that the values are what u expect

[sweet iris]

I will, thanks

[sweet iris]

and thanks for the string interpolation method, that's nifty

[rocky canyon]

get that information and come back if u find anything.. or cant figure it out.. someone with some more knowledge of the input system + rigidbody might come around

[glass dagger]

so the player and the object im trying to attach player to both have a rigid body, and i tried disabling the movement script i have, doesnt seem to make a difference. no matter what i make the spring force it just like gets stuck, and doesnt get pulled inward

[rocky canyon]

i would try with other objects besides the player for testing purposes..

maybe smaller ones, less weight, frictionless materials, etc.. just to see whats causing the issue in general

[glass dagger]

yeah ill go give that a try, just weird ive used spring joints in the past on this character so im not rlly sure whats different

[sweet iris]

it seems like the issue is with transform.position, I don't know why tho

[slender nymph]

make sure you have no other code or components that modify the transform.position, including an Animator component with a state that modifies the position even if that state is not active. if you have a state that modifies the position then you need to make sure your animator is set to not write the defaults (or whatever that property is called)

[rocky canyon]

ohh shoot ye i forgot about animation

[sweet iris]

I'm not sure if there's something wrong

[rocky canyon]

check the animation clip of idle for example.. or walk.. see if its animating the transform

you can view them in the animation window.. what ur showin is the animator

[tranquil forge]

where can i learn how to use C#

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel

[untold shore]

Hey! Having some problems with my characters 1st person camera.
The camera is supposed to move whenever the mouse is detected to move, but it won’t register even the mouse input (if so, OnMouseMove would show in the inspector when it would be played). Note that this is horrible code- I’ve never done 3d game development before so I’m dragging my foot with this 😅 feel free to say if anything looks off on the code.
Please @ me if you respond. Thanks!
https://paste.ofcode.org/tcKZUrqV3i9FKg7rZhzL3

[tranquil forge]

Thanks

[random sand]

do all scripts just automatically run on start and do they run per frame or delta time

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/execution-order.html

[random sand]

thanks

[wintry quarry]

Per frame and delta time are the same thing

deltaTime is literally the amount of time that has elapsed since the previous frame

[random sand]

or whatever real change in time is

so high fps gets no advantage

[wintry quarry]

That's exactly the same thing

[random sand]

change in seconds

like i want something to run 60 times a second no matter frames

[eternal needle]

using deltaTime properly is how you achieve this

[eternal needle]

what are you trying to achieve? what should be running 60 times per second

[random sand]

my game script

also how should i structure project? i just put everyhthing in scene

[eternal needle]

everything running is a script in your game. usually when we see beginners say they want to run at 60 times per second, they are doing something very wrong

[random sand]

i don't know how it works, i press play and stuff starts running

[eternal needle]

sounds like you just need to experiment around and !learn. maybe look at the unity courses if you're already familiar with basic c#

[eternal falcon]

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[random sand]

will try, thanks

[random sand]

what course should i do

btw anyone have experience with a fully physics based active ragdoll? would this be a good first project?

[eternal needle]

Start from the beginning if you aren't sure, like unity essentials. if you start a course and feel you already know it all then you can skip ahead

[eternal needle]

No it is not a good first project, this is very complex to setup

[random sand]

how much physics knowledge would i need to do this

[charred spoke]

At least like 2 uni courses of physics worth

On top of being a competent coder

[random sand]

it can't be that hard

and humans do it from birth

[random sand]

thanks for help all

[teal viper]

Develop physics based active ragdolls?🤔

[sour fulcrum]

Real life has a faster cpu 😄

[eternal needle]

you should be very familiar with the engine and how objects should move. its not a question of physics knowledge unless you plan to make your own physics system or a real life simulation for a character.
an active ragdoll is a LOT to setup to get it to work properly. A lot of your game is going to be designed this physics based character, that is the point of every game that uses an active ragdoll. dont be fooled, these type of games are silly and look simple because that is the design. it is not trivial to make and they are usually made by teams

if you try to jump into this, expect to waste a few months with a character that isnt playable

[random sand]

what games have this type of system? might take a look

[random sand]

move like an active ragdoll

[eternal needle]

human fall flat, TABS. i dont remember more atm but last i remember, human fall flat had their own physics system. either way pretty much every one of my messages is saying you shouldnt be doing this yet

[random sand]

yeah probably won't try it yet

[random sand]

they look fun but it looks like they use external force to cheat and balance characters, is it possible without doing that?

[sour fulcrum]

physics in games is cheating

[random sand]

like no external force, only gravity and friction and counterbalancing center of mass

[sour fulcrum]

you would be making a physics simulation

or a very shit game, respectfully

[eternal needle]

that is how they are made, you move a rigidbody via force or by setting its velocity. what else would you expect to be doing here?
if you're looking to create a real life simulation, well then you better be a top tier engineer because this is a problem still being solved in the real world with real robots.

[random sand]

it looks like a velocity is set then the legs try to follow with ik

[sour fulcrum]

What do you want this for

[random sand]

for fun

it looks cool

[sour fulcrum]

fun making yes? like is there an actual game here or do you just want to learn

[random sand]

yeah i'm looking for a first project

[eternal needle]

a game with a true active ragdoll player wouldnt be moving the legs directly with IK either. it would still move via physics. You might use IK or animations to get a reference position for where you want each limb to be, but ultimately you have to move there using physics

[sour fulcrum]

if its your first project then just based on all the information available for people making their first project

it won't finish

or get close

[eternal needle]

if you also think you're going to be doing anything remotely close to real life physics, you wont

its all through force and painfully setting up configurable joints. This wont be fun, im telling you from experience

after you learn the basics of how the engine works, you could maybe set up a basic ragdoll through the existing tutorials but there are not many great resources on this. It will look like complete shit and not move in any way that you want it to

[random sand]

are the animations for the ragdoll premade?

[sour fulcrum]

the kinda selling point for a ragdoll is that it's not premade

[random sand]

i thought that was what the fake ragdolls did

1 animation body and 1 physics body

[eternal needle]

an animation could be premade but it doesnt matter if it is. this is the same concept as my message above for moving with IK. You dont actually move via animation. You use it to get an idea where each limb should be then move it via physics

this is not a fake ragdoll. what you're expecting to do with realistic physics (friction, gravity, counterbalancing) is never done in games

this is what i was saying is still being solved in real life

the "fake" ragdolls are when the actually move via animation. like people say your character in GTA is an active ragdoll which is wrong mostly. You only ragdoll when you lose control of the character

[random sand]

thanks for the help all anyone rec some starting resources?

[random sand]

i thought the animation did nothing

and the outside forces just pushed it

[onyx geyser]

kind of an outside 'just need these checked to see if they make sense', do these make sense, i'm taking some notes and want to know if i got them right

[eternal needle]

i could be wrong but in games like GTA, it looks moved by animation until you lose control. You can tell if for example the hand goes through a wall during a punch animation. GTA is made in a different engine so it is hard to compare, i just didn't have another example for a unity game where people claim its an active ragdoll online. I do not call this an active ragdoll myself.
In a character thats moving entirely via physics, yes the animations should not actually move the limbs. If you were to punch, the hand would stop upon hitting the wall

[sour fulcrum]

but you should ideally use camelCase when writing variables (local to a function and as a field like you are). capitals on all words is reserved for classes, functions and properties (ideally)

[onyx geyser]

understood understood

adding that to the notes so i don't forget

[random sand]

what should i start with

should i take like a course

[sour fulcrum]

theres no literal reason to do this but it makes it way easier to read code and understand what the words are

[eternal needle]

🫴 #💻┃code-beginner message

[onyx geyser]

i figured, it also makes it easier when writing, because it keeps everything consistent

at least that's what i got after i finished the flappy bird

it got to the point i was able to solve most everything on my own after awhile

also probably the DIY aderall i took

[eternal needle]

just a correction incase this wasnt a typo, it is decimal, not decibal

[onyx geyser]

i feel ashamed.

(also just wanted to show off my silly naming conventions of 'hedgehog')

(i haven't figured out the use of string yet because i haven't used it yet, so it is a dedicated Mock the eggman button)

[random sand]

script can always refer to self.transform and self.gameobject? then other stuff you need to make a variable with it and drag it in

[sour fulcrum]

A script inheriting from MonoBehaviour can because those values we’re already defined there

[eternal needle]

self is a python naming convention. in c# you could use this. but you don't need it here.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.html
this page shows what exists on a monobehaviour. those 2 are listed under Inherited Members > Properties

[ruby python]

Hey all, I'm experimenting with generating terrain chunks and I'm having a bit of an issue that I can't seem to figure out and it's really confusing.

Can anyone take a quick look at this code snippet and see why the 'newTerrainChunk' object isn't getting passed to the BuildTerrain method on the second 'loop' iteration please? I know it's going to be something really stupid that I've missed but just can't see it.

private void GenerateGrid()
{
    xOffset = 0;
    zOffset = 0;

    for (int x = 0; x < worldSize; x++)
    {
        for (int z = 0; z < worldSize; z++)
        {
            //GameObject newWorldChunk = Instantiate(chunkPrefab);

            GameObject newWorldChunk = new GameObject("Terrain Tile " + x + z);
            newWorldChunk.transform.position = new Vector3(xOffset, 0, zOffset);
            newWorldChunk.transform.parent = transform;
                
            BuildTerrain(newWorldChunk);
            
            GameManager.Instance.GetManager<DataListsManager>().terrainChunks.Add(newWorldChunk);

            zOffset += chunkSize;
        }
        zOffset = 0;
        xOffset += chunkSize;
    }
    CenterGrid();
}

void BuildTerrain(GameObject newWorldChunk)
{
    Terrain terrain = newWorldChunk.AddComponent<Terrain>();
    TerrainCollider terrainCollider = newWorldChunk.AddComponent<TerrainCollider>();
    // Everything about the terrain is actually stored in a TerrainData
    TerrainData terrainData = new TerrainData();

[naive pawn]

not seeing anything named newTerrainChunk there

[ruby python]

Sorry, newWorldChunk

My bad.

[naive pawn]

anyways you should probably just do some debugging

log some stuff before you pass it into the method

[keen dew]

What do you mean isn't getting passed? Does it throw an error? How do you know it isn't getting passed?

[ruby python]

It's okay, I think I've figured out the issue. Looks like the called method wasn't finishing before the next loop iteration. Seem to have fixed it by using coroutines.

[hidden marten]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[hidden marten]

    private void OnDrawGizmosSelected()
    {
        Gizmos.color = Color.red;
        Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(transform.position, attackRange);
        Gizmos.color = Color.yellow;
        Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(transform.position, sightRange);
    }

[hidden marten]

why doesnt this work?

[glad ibex]

Can I somehow get list of all Input Axis?

[naive pawn]

be more specific please

[polar acorn]

If you're on the old input manager, you can open the input manager in the project settings and view them

[glad ibex]

Nono, as in a script

[final kestrel]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[nimble apex]

can you redefine the path/linking of an assembly?

u see i packed all of my external plugins nicely in a folder

but some plugins cannot be put inside that folder maybe

i just dont want to take out all of them and scattered them everywhere

[rocky canyon]

I believe you can use asmdef files to link between assemblies but i dont think that fixes folder/path issues if the plugin depends on being in a specific spot or example..
outside my wheelhouse if im honest tho..

[nimble apex]

i found the issues

its a bug that exists quite long ago

https://discussions.unity.com/t/after-importing-facebook-sdk-error-the-name-listpool-does-not-exist-in-the-current-context/936194

[rocky canyon]

nice!

[nimble apex]

ofc all lies onto delete/regen library folder, but assembly links just broken after i do that

[rocky canyon]

chatgpt mentioned Symbolic links

that sounds liek a can of worms i wouldnt wanna open tho lol

[naive pawn]

symlinks are just files that act like other files

[lilac cape]

Hey all, I'm watching a youtube video about interfaces to learn more about them and thought of a question during the video. In the video, it's making an IEnemy interface for the enemies and then each enemy needs to have a Attack/Defend method in the class. The video includes making a Dragon class that has an attack/defend method but what if you have different types of dragons? Would you just make a class like normal with their own attach/Defend method or is there a better way to organize this all? Maybe inheriting the dragon class with override methods? OR, maybe use a scriptable object?

public interface IEnemy
{
    void Attack();
    void Defend();
}

public class Dragon : IEnemy
{
    public virtual void Attack() { /* Default dragon attack */ }
    public virtual void Defend() { /* Default dragon defense */ }
}

Maybe do something like this to keep things organized more? Any recommendations from personal experience?

public class FireDragon : Dragon
{
    public override void Attack()
    {
        // Fire-specific attack
    }

    public override void Defend()
    {
        // Fire-specific defend
    }
}

public class IceDragon : Dragon
{
    public override void Attack()
    {
        // Ice-specific attack
    }

    public override void Defend()
    {
        // Ice-specific defend
    }
}

[ruby python]

Hey all,

I'm trying to build a grid spawning system for my game world, but I'm struggling a bit with the maths involved.

Attached pic is the layout I'm going for (needs to be scalable)

private void GenerateGrid()
{
    xOffset = 0;
    zOffset = 0;

    for (int x = 0; x < worldSize; x++)
    {
        for (int z = 0; z < worldSize; z++)
        {
            GameObject newWorldChunk;

            if ((x % 3 == 0)  || (z % 3 == 0))
            {
                    newWorldChunk = new GameObject("Terrain Tile " + x + z);
                    newWorldChunk.transform.position = new Vector3(xOffset, 0, zOffset);
                    newWorldChunk.transform.parent = transform;
                    BuildTerrain(newWorldChunk);
            }
            else
            {
                newWorldChunk = Instantiate(flatChunkPrefab);
                newWorldChunk.name = "Terrain Tile " + x + z;
                newWorldChunk.transform.position = new Vector3(xOffset + chunkSize / 2, 0, zOffset + chunkSize / 2);
                newWorldChunk.transform.parent = transform;
            }

            GameManager.Instance.GetManager<DataListsManager>().terrainChunks.Add(newWorldChunk);

            zOffset += chunkSize;
        }
        zOffset = 0;
        xOffset += chunkSize;
    }
    CenterGrid();
}

This is the latest version of the code I have, it's very wrong (was trying to get it to spawn the first version of the terrain tile every 3rd 'slot' but didn't work. 😕

Would anyone have any ideas/directions to point me in please?

[naive pawn]

depends on how exactly the dragons differ and what's shared among different kinds, i suppose

if they don't share anything at all then the intermediate Dragon class would be wholly unnecessary for example

[naive pawn]

you want (x % 3 == 0) && (z % 3 == 0), instead of the ||

[ruby python]

Thank you (bangs head on desk) lol.

[green copper]

Does anyone have any advice for achieving something akin to "normal" physics when coding values and materials?

As an example

One object, weight 40, addforce 20, linear drag 10

And the other, weight 1, addforce 0.5, linear drag 5

Will both behave roughly the same when controlled

But if you multiply the addforce by a throttle, to add in an engine power mechanic, suddenly they behave completely differently

Any tips or guides to reccomend in this area beyond just plugging in values and trying different orders of magnitude until something works?

[twin pivot]

if you are gonna have a fixed map size you could just have a for( int i = 0; i <= myInt; i += 3)

[naive pawn]

also that yeah

[ruby python]

Aaah cool. Thanks. 🙂 Got it all sorted now 😄

Just working more on the randomisation of 'islands'

[naive pawn]

you're scaling weight and force by 40 but drag by 2?

that would make them behave differently yeah

[fickle plume]

Make sure you are using AddForce correctly and in FixedUpdate. Might want to post the code to review.

[twin pivot]

thats either gonna be easy and simple or brain numbingly annoying lol

[green copper]

I mistyped, it was roughly the same scaling

[green copper]

will do, give me a moment to trim out the movement stuff from the rest

[sour adder]

I think that it is hard. After scaling the world down by a factor of 10, I had to adjust gravity, mass, engine power and drag in a not obvious way to feel about the same. So don't forget the scale either.

[green copper]

private void FixedUpdate()
{
    updateTankDriving();
    updateDragForce();

    currentSpeed = rb.linearVelocity.magnitude;
    revFactor = currentSpeed / maxSpeed;

    currentEnginePower = Mathf.Lerp(minEnginePower, maxEnginePower, revFactor);
}

private void updateDragForce()
{
    Vector2 localVelocity = transform.InverseTransformDirection(rb.linearVelocity);

    localVelocity.x *= 1f / (1 + sidewaysDrag);
    localVelocity.y *= 1f / (1 + forwardsDrag);

    rb.linearVelocity = transform.TransformDirection(localVelocity);


}

private void updateTankDriving()
{
    if (currentSpeed >= maxSpeed)
    {
        rb.linearVelocity = rb.linearVelocity.normalized * maxSpeed;
    }
}

public void forward()
{
    rb.AddForce(transform.up * throttle * currentEnginePower);
}

public void backward()
{
    rb.AddForce(-transform.up * throttle * currentEnginePower * reverseMultiplier);
}

public void left()
{
    rb.AddTorque((0.1f * throttle * turnForce) * speedTurnFactor);
}

public void right()
{
    rb.AddTorque((-0.1f * throttle * turnForce) * speedTurnFactor);
}```

up, down, left, and right are called in the player controls manager's FixedUpdate script

I plan on using the same prefab to make player, client player, and AI tanks, so I wanted the control functions to be not intrinsicially linked

[fickle plume]

Your physics methods bound to buttons calling them, not FixedUpdate. Buttons should change values to plug into FixedUpdate, not run them directly.

[green copper]

so something like

buttonDown(W) {tank.isGoingForward = true}

buttonUp(W) {tank.isGoingForward = false}

?

[rocky canyon]

       private void Update()
        {
            throttleInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");   // get data
            turnInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        }

        private void FixedUpdate()
        {
           MoveTank(throttleInput, turnInput); // act upon the data
        }

[twin pivot]

is there a better way to write this?

if(Mathf.Round(Mathf.Abs(myGameObject1.transform.position.x - myGameobject2.transform.position.x)) <= myInt && myGameObject1.transform.position.y == myGameObject2.transform.position.y)
{
  Debug.Log("working");
}

[slender nymph]

utilize more local variables so your lines aren't 90% just chaining property accessing

[green copper]

public void setControls(float receivedThrottleControl, float receivedTurnControl)
{
    forwardControl = receivedThrottleControl;
    turnControl = receivedTurnControl;
}

private void FixedUpdate()
{
    updateTankDriving();
    updateDragForce();

    currentSpeed = rb.linearVelocity.magnitude;
    revFactor = currentSpeed / maxSpeed;

    currentEnginePower = Mathf.Lerp(minEnginePower, maxEnginePower, revFactor);
}

private void updateTankDriving()
{
    if (currentSpeed >= maxSpeed)
    {
        rb.linearVelocity = rb.linearVelocity.normalized * maxSpeed;
    }

    if (forwardControl > 0)
    {
        rb.AddForce(transform.up * throttle * currentEnginePower);
    }
    else if (forwardControl < 0)
    {
        rb.AddForce(-transform.up * throttle * currentEnginePower * reverseMultiplier);
    }

    if (turnControl != 0)
    {
        rb.AddTorque((-0.1f * throttle * turnForce) * turnControl);
    }

}

private void updateDragForce()
{
    Vector2 localVelocity = transform.InverseTransformDirection(rb.linearVelocity);

    localVelocity.x *= 1f / (1 + sidewaysDrag);
    localVelocity.y *= 1f / (1 + forwardsDrag);

    rb.linearVelocity = transform.TransformDirection(localVelocity);

}

[green copper]

how's this look?

I would have preferred the avoid the if statement making the forward control part longer, but I couldnt think of a better way to make sure I only implement the 50% power reduction in reverse

[thick spoke]

facing a lil problem, any ideas?

[rich adder]

you made person a function not a class..

doesn't make much sense what you wrote

also you don't write the variable again when you assign the value

[thick spoke]

ajh

[scenic ginkgo]

my character keeps getting stuck on the tiles

[rich adder]

not a code question

put composite mode on the collider

[scenic ginkgo]

oh

[rich adder]

public class Person
{
    public string Name;
    public int Age;
    public Person(string name, int age)
    {
        Name = name;
        Age = age;
    }
}
public class TestClass : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void TestMethod()
    {
        var person = new Person("Joe", 42);
        Debug.Log($"new person: {person.Name} age : {person.Age}");
    }
}```

[scenic ginkgo]

i have already done that tho

[rich adder]

no idea. it must not be correctly setup . can't deduce much from this screenshot alone..
best ask in #🖼️┃2d-tools or #💻┃unity-talk

rgardless this is a code channel

[scenic ginkgo]

ok thx anyway

[rich adder]

also you would need to check the "Used by Composite" option

[naive pawn]

have you set the tilemap collider to used by composite

[scenic ginkgo]

im using unity 6 they removed
used by composite

[naive pawn]

they changed it to composite operation or something
same thing, you still have to set it

[rich adder]

iirc you now need to do it on the collider itself

needs both but you select it on collider2d now ig

[scenic ginkgo]

oh it worked tyyyyy

[naive pawn]

that didn't change

it just changed from "used by composite -> true" to "composite operation -> merge"

[rich adder]

the "used by composite" i mean

yeah basically now its in an enum or whatever

[naive pawn]

it's still on the non-composite collider

[rich adder]

yeah idk I don't use 2D often lol

[untold shore]

Hey, would anyone mind taking a look at this?
It’s a camera-based issue, wondering why I’m not having any input of the mouse when I move it (it should move the camera if it had input)
Thanks

[naive pawn]

could you show your PlayerInput setup

[untold shore]

I apologize, a little confused by what you mean by this. Is it the player input editor? Or the coding or the player camera?
Sorry, I know this may be a little dumb.

[rich adder]

they are talking about the PlayerInput component on the gameobject

[untold shore]

Ohh, I have that on the player object (not on camera). Let me screenshot it real quick.

Should I add it to the camera as well?

[rich adder]

if you're using Messages mode you need on the same gameobject that has the script

[rich adder]

also I dont see OnMouseMove method there exists

i only see OnCamera

[naive pawn]

well, only for SendMessages

[untold shore]

Completely forgot it was like that. Thought it was similar to a naming scheme of functions, fixing that now. Thank you so much! Let me see if that fixes it all

[rich adder]

yeah SendMessages mode basically calling OnCamera or OnPlayerMovement then you capture inputs from there

btw don't multiply mouseInput with Time.deltaTime

only if you are using a controller

mouse input is already frame independent since you normally get the returned delta (movement since last frame)

[untold shore]

Gotcha. So remove Time.DeltaTime from these, correct?

       float MouseyCamera = PlayerCameraVector2.y * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

[rich adder]

yea if its mouseInput only yea

if it were also controller then you would add
if(controller)
input * sens * time.deltaTime
else
input *sens

[untold shore]

Thank yall! Finally getting it to work now. Yall are a huge help!!!

[silver fern]

Hi, does anyone know what kind of values ReadValue<Vector2>(); on a move action in the new input system will return?

[naive pawn]

it will return a Vector2?

[silver fern]

yeah but in what range will the values be? is it 0-1 or 0-100 or something else?

[naive pawn]

depends on what it's from

[silver fern]

I'm trying to migrate a script from the old input system to the new one and I'm not really getting it yet

[naive pawn]

it could be [0, 1], [-1, 1], {0, 1}, {-1, 0, 1} - but generally it'll be within -1 and 1

[naive pawn]

the range of values will be the same

[naive pawn]

(some things like touch or mouse data might be outside that range)

[silver fern]

the old script was using GetAxisRaw so it would be either -1, 0 or 1

and then multiplying that with speed

[naive pawn]

well no GetAxisRaw gives results in [-1, 1]

[silver fern]

ah I see

[naive pawn]

using digital inputs means you don't get the in-between values

[silver fern]

that makes sense

so I suppose I will have to write different movement methods depending on the input device being analog or digital

[naive pawn]

but yeah Vector2 could represent a lot of things, what values it can give depends on what it represents

[rich adder]

Debug.Log

[naive pawn]

well, not necessarily
a controller analog stick would still be in the range [-1, 1]

some things you'll have to though yeah, like mouse movement vs controller input

[silver fern]

interesting

ok thank you

[visual girder]

Hey im looking for some help on how to find the code window or where my code is gonna be for my character

Most tutorials say make a script folder but after that I dont know how they pull up coding window

[naive pawn]

there's no "code window", it's an entirely separate app
do you have an IDE installed?

visual studio/visual studio code/jetbrains rider

[silver fern]

is .wasPressedThisFrame the only way to check if a button (specifically the jump key) was pressed?

[ashen arch]

No

[silver fern]

should I use it or is there a better way?

[rich adder]

you can use events such as performed

wasPressedThisFrame typically used in polling instead fo events

[silver fern]

I see

[rich adder]

This method will disregard whether the action is currently enabled or disabled. It will keep returning true for the duration of the frame even if the action was subsequently disabled in the frame.

The meaning of "frame" is either the current "dynamic" update (MonoBehaviour.Update) or the current fixed update (MonoBehaviour.FixedUpdate) depending on the value of the updateMode setting.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.2/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputAction_WasPressedThisFrame

[visual girder]

nvm sorry I had a friend help me out

[ashen arch]

!paste

!code

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[ashen arch]

Here's another way: https://paste.ofcode.org/ja7w5N9M2YzHzNJsYSbrg4

and cs void OnJumpCanceled(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx) { isJumping = false; }

[silver fern]

Thanks. What exactly does jumpAction.performed += OnJumpPerformed; do?

[ashen arch]

It subscribes the 'void OnJumpPerformed()' method to that action event 'performed' You can call it whatever you want, but the event is called 'performed'

[safe socket]

Yo so im using a tilemap in a 2d game and want to rotate this thing but Idk how could someone pls tell me how pls thanks

[silver fern]

Thank you

[rich adder]

not a code question

[ashen arch]

Yup

[safe socket]

*and can it be solved using code

[rich adder]

also tiles don't get rotated, you have to put a rotated tile there.

they are not gameobjects, they don't have transform. They are just a sprite with some basic data

[silver fern]

This is giving me Object reference errors on lines 5 and 16

[ashen arch]

In the Inspector panel of Unity, click Add component, and type PlayerInput

[silver fern]

that did it, thanks!

[warped ginkgo]

Is it normal that when this code debugs like 50000 it gives off heavy lag? Around 30ms

 float minX = Mathf.FloorToInt((position.x - radius) / voxelSize) * voxelSize;
 float maxX = Mathf.CeilToInt((position.x + radius) / voxelSize) * voxelSize;
 float minY = Mathf.FloorToInt((position.y - radius) / voxelSize) * voxelSize;
 float maxY = Mathf.CeilToInt((position.y + radius) / voxelSize) * voxelSize;
 float minZ = Mathf.FloorToInt((position.z - radius) / voxelSize) * voxelSize;
 float maxZ = Mathf.CeilToInt((position.z + radius) / voxelSize) * voxelSize;

 for (float x = minX; x <= maxX; x+=voxelSize)
     for (float y = minY; y <= maxY; y+=voxelSize)
         for (float z = minZ; z <= maxZ; z += voxelSize)
         {
             Vector3 voxelPos = new Vector3(x, y, z);
             float distance = Vector3.Distance(position, voxelPos);

             if (distance > radius) continue;

             float delta = Mathf.Clamp01((distance / radius));
             updates.Add(new VoxelUpdate(voxelPos, delta, VoxelUpdate.Type.Min));
         }
 Debug.Log(updates.Count); ```

its just a loop and some random calculations basically, but still, 30ms? just for 50000 iterations?

[rich adder]

i mean also depends on the operations you're doing

Vector3.Distance can be quite expensive too

square root calc aint so cheap

[warped ginkgo]

hm
i guess so

but then its not looking good for my game...

[safe socket]

ok thanks

[warped ginkgo]

Maybe i could optimise such stuff with unity jobs or sth like that, do you think that could help (if youve heard of it)?

[rich adder]

its possible but not 100% sure also just guesstimating its square rooting, there could be more. Also you'd have to profile it in a build too and see if its same lag

[warped ginkgo]

yeah i get it, but theres generally a lot going on later with my code. The updates are getting applied and some other things happen which leads to like 120ms lag in total, which is terrible. So fixing the square rooting wont really help that much

I guess i just need a quantum computer for my project lol

[copper jasper]

Why cant I use .enabled on anything Im trying to disable a objects component

[rich adder]

wdym you cant ? whats stopping you

[rich adder]

how did you find this 120ms lag lag

[rich adder]

okay well what is the itemPreviewImage type ?

its probably not a component

[copper jasper]

its a image

[rich adder]

the type

[copper jasper]

also i tried with other objects too

e.g rigidbody

[copper jasper]

normal image

[rich adder]

rigidbodies dont have such property

[rich adder]

what is a "normal image"

[copper jasper]

like the normal image object

[night raptor]

Try to count how many times the loop is executed. You are now only counting how many times you go beyond the if. If the bounds are conputed incorrectly, you could end up with way too many iterations

[rich adder]

UnityEngine.UI.Image ?

[rich adder]

in the code...the inspector is irrelevant

[rich adder]

show the entire !code

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[rich adder]

not a screenshot

this is not the Image from UnityEngine.UI

[copper jasper]

wdym

[rich adder]

you can hover over it in IDE and you should see the original definition and which namespace is from

[rich adder]

whatever Image you put, its not from UnityEngine.UI one

hence the missing namespace

[copper jasper]

but i cant use enabled on anything

[rich adder]

only from Components that inherit Behavior

[copper jasper]

like even in my movement code

the tick thing

[rich adder]

yes I understand but thats not the Image you referenced.

that tick only exists and does anything if the Object has one of the MB methods

[untold shore]

Hey, sorry for another question in same day - having some problems with wasd and the input system.
Whenever the camera turns, the player still has the wasd (1,0) as if it was the previous direction. So if they turned west and pressed a for left, they would walk forward.
I’ve attempted to rotate my player model(the player object) as well, yet that does nothing. Here is the script for player movement and the input system.
https://paste.ofcode.org/KrKFmfzZiXa8H5zYCn7xGa
Is there any reason for this? (Please @ me if you respond, thank you so much!)

[copper jasper]

I tried to do it with a light and enabled still didnt show

nvm

im so confused

[rich adder]

on what

[copper jasper]

idk 😭 i just wanted to disable the image and get its SourceTexture to change it via script

[rich adder]

again, you can if you reference the correct Image component

UnityEngine.UI

[copper jasper]

But I get the image like this Transform hotbarSlot = hotbar.transform.Find(avalibleSlot.ToString());

how am i supposed to get the image

[rich adder]

thats a different thing entirely

we're talking about the code for Image

where did you put the code?

[copper jasper]

player

its a hotbar system

[rich adder]

no the one you sent in the discord..

[copper jasper]

ye

player

[rich adder]

lord

where did you put the code you sent on discord

did you delete the message

[copper jasper]

ye

[rich adder]

why

I'm trying to show you something and you deleted it lol

[copper jasper]

didnt want people seeing lol

using System.Collections.Generic;
using JetBrains.Rider.Unity.Editor;
using Microsoft.Unity.VisualStudio.Editor;
using UnityEngine;

public class InventoryHandler : MonoBehaviour
{
    private GameObject currentItemHeld;

    [SerializeField] private Canvas hotbar;
    [SerializeField] private int maxSlots = 1;

    private Dictionary<string, int> inventory = new Dictionary<string, int>(); // Current items in slots
    int getAvalibleSlot()
    {
        for (int i = 1; i < maxSlots; i++)
        {
            if (!inventory.ContainsValue(i))
            {
                Debug.Log("Slot " + i + " is empty");
                return i;
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("Slot " + i + " is not empty");
            }
        }

        return -1;
    }

    void addItemTooSlot(GameObject item)
    {
        int avalibleSlot = getAvalibleSlot();

        if (avalibleSlot < 0) { Debug.Log("No slots" + avalibleSlot); return; }

        inventory[item.name] = avalibleSlot;

        Debug.Log("Picked up: " + item.name + " Into slot: " + avalibleSlot);
        Debug.Log("Current slots occupied: " + inventory.Count);

        Transform hotbarSlot = hotbar.transform.Find(avalibleSlot.ToString());
        Transform itemPreview = hotbarSlot.Find("ItemPreview");
        Image itemPreviewImage = itemPreview.GetComponent<Image>();

        itemPreviewImage.enabled = false;
    }

    public void pickUp(RaycastHit itemHit)
    {
        GameObject item = itemHit.collider.gameObject;

        addItemTooSlot(item);

        Destroy(itemHit.collider.transform.gameObject); // Destroy the item cause its in ur inventory now
    }
}

[rich adder]

not to worry , it aint special..

especially broken

[copper jasper]

😭