💻┃code-beginner

[rocky canyon]

makes sense, roger 📻

void OnAppQuit() {
    isQuitting = true;
}``` ya, such as

[naive pawn]

may as well use a lambda since you wouldn't have to unsubscribe in that scenario

[rocky canyon]

 Application.quitting += () => IsQuitting = true;```

💪 (i think) lol

[naive pawn]

yeah i was basically just debating between that and the separate message

[rocky canyon]

i love syntax sugar..

[naive pawn]

i don't remember why i used the message, i don't think there's any practical difference (in this case where it's just for checking exiting playmode)

[rocky canyon]

i try to stay away from things that look good.. but make me second glance.. or think too much

[slender nymph]

you would if you were subscribing to this event when testing in the editor and you have domain reload disabled

[rocky canyon]

edge-cases!! Ftw

[naive pawn]

ah, i haven't touched on disabling domain reload so i didn't even consider that lol

[rocky canyon]

boxfriends comment was met with "you're already thinking like a pro" 😊

[naive pawn]

well i mean... in something like js it's not even syntax sugar, it's just a normal feature lol

i should probably look into the domain reload thing

[rocky canyon]

bool myBool => testBool();```

this is about as fancy as i get

[naive pawn]

is domain reload required after a recompile, regardless of that setting?

[slender nymph]

yeah

that setting only affects the domain reload for entering play mode

[naive pawn]

gotcha

[hollow surge]

Where I can learn much things to get better in Programming in Unity? I'm looking for very good tutorials becasue I watched a lot of tutorials and 99% of them are about things I already know like: Variables, GameObjects, Colliders, Collision Detections, ScriptableObjects, Tags, AI, etc.

[slender nymph]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[hollow surge]

Is there any clear and good documentation?

!documentation

[slender nymph]

!docs

[eternal falcon]

Documentation

Get the most out of Unity Editor by accessing our documentation!

💻 API

📖 Manual

[hollow surge]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer

Is this tutorial good?

I only want learn programming

[slender nymph]

yes, the pathways are a good place to learn how to use the engine

[hollow surge]

I already know how to navigate in Engine

I know how to make Animations, Cutscenes, just the everything in interface

[hollow surge]

Thanks for help, you are insanely good person

[slender nymph]

!code 👇

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

[rocky canyon]

quick rundown: @brave idol says that his GameManager gets destroyed as soon as he starts the game

DontDestroyOnLoad(this); may need to be changed to DontDestroyOnLoad(this.gameObject);

i kinda figured the gameobject would also remain if u DDOL the component its attached to.. but just to be certain u could change it real quick

[brave idol]

alright will try that

[green copper]

With this structure, will it be fine going forward if I attach the Rigidbody2D to the Hull component? The hull script will contain the movement type information and code, and I'm not sure if I'll need to make it feel the information to the root, or if it'll be fine to let the Hull object hold the sprite and necessary colliders

I think it'll be fine with my current understanding but I don't want to learn that some property of collisions will make everything harder in a few hours or days

[slender nymph]

if the rigidbody is on Hull then only hull will be affected by physics. you need the rigidbody on the root object if you want it all to move as one piece with physics

[green copper]

Understood, thank you!

[muted sapphire]

In a third person 2D birds view RPG, should one make every room its own scene?

Or should you instead write some room switcher

[frail hawk]

probably a better idea to just switch to different locations within the same scene

[muted sapphire]

Oh wait

thats actually much simpler

just move the camera

[frail hawk]

yep

[muted sapphire]

also allows for far more freedom

means i can make bigger rooms and make the camera track to a certain limit

thank you

[mossy jasper]

Insane player movement

[rocky canyon]

seems about average of what u'd see while building a controller.

[muted sapphire]

looking good

[strong shoal]

if (_timeLeft > 0 && useAction.IsPressed())
{
_rb.AddForce(0, 1.5f, 0, ForceMode.Acceleration);
_timeLeft -= Time.deltaTime;
_particleSystem.Play();
}
if (!useAction.IsPressed())
{
_particleSystem.Stop();
}

can someone tell me why its not working???

[polar acorn]

You're going to have to be more specific about what "not working" means

Also, !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[strong shoal]

its not playing

private void Update()
{
if (_playerScript.IsGrounded && _timeLeft <= 2.5f)
{
_timeLeft += Time.deltaTime * 2;
}

    if (_timeLeft > 0 && useAction.IsPressed())
    {
        _rb.AddForce(0, 1.5f, 0, ForceMode.Acceleration);
        _timeLeft -= Time.deltaTime;
        _particleSystem.Play();
    }
    if (!useAction.IsPressed())
    {
        _particleSystem.Stop();
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Are you ever letting go of the useAction button

[strong shoal]

yes

[wintry quarry]

you're playing the particle system every frame

that will reset it

every frame

[strong shoal]

i tried doing it it didnt work

[polar acorn]

It stops when you release the button

[wintry quarry]

"tried not doing it" is really vague

[strong shoal]

yes

[wintry quarry]

there are many ways to write incorrect code. I wouldn't be surprised if you found two of them

[polar acorn]

How did you actually do it in that case

[strong shoal]

i mean i tried

[wintry quarry]

maybe you didn't do it properly

[strong shoal]

private void Update()
{
if (_playerScript.IsGrounded && _timeLeft <= 2.5f)
{
_timeLeft += Time.deltaTime * 2;
}

    if (_timeLeft > 0 && useAction.IsPressed())
    {
        _rb.AddForce(0, 1.5f, 0, ForceMode.Acceleration);
        _timeLeft -= Time.deltaTime;
        if (!_particleSystem.isPlaying)
        {
            _particleSystem.Play();
        }
    }
    if (!useAction.IsPressed() && _particleSystem.isPlaying)
    {
        _particleSystem.Stop();
    }
}

thats how i did it

[wintry quarry]

Start using Debug.Log

and make sure thre's no errors in console too

[polar acorn]

Okay, next step is to log when you start playing and log when you stop. Also please read the !code thing

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[strong shoal]

there arent

[strong shoal]

i tried it

before

[polar acorn]

and what were the results

[green copper]

why would the presence of a boxcollider2d on an object affect the amount addTorque has on it?

I fixed my bug where one nearly identical vehicle had a completely different turn rate, but I have zero idea why that would be the case

[polar acorn]

Colliding with something

[strong shoal]

that it is

wait so its a problem with the particles

[green copper]

the one without a collider turned slower and there was nothing on the field to collide with, I haven't gotten to that part yet

[polar acorn]

If it's logging "Play" when you expect it to, and it's logging "Stop" when you expect it to, then the code is working

[wintry quarry]

The shape of the object affects its moment of inertia

Like real objects

And the colliders define the shape

[green copper]

Ohhhh so the one with a collider had more inertia, which meant the drag force affected it less

[strong shoal]

OHHHH IM STUPID ASS HELL

the position of the particles was above the player

im sry for wasting ur time

thx for help

[wintry quarry]

Not precisely inertia. _moment of inertia _ which is sort of a rotational equivalent

https://youtu.be/lNx0yPdl960?si=q7kTcaM9I395BuR0

[simple hawk]

I made this script for my enemy to deal dmg to my player's health, but the health variable isn't decreasing

[polar acorn]

Did you try logging Health.currentHealth instead of just the word "hit"

[naive pawn]

and is damage set

[simple hawk]

yea, but the health variable on the player isn't decreasing

[simple hawk]

just tried that, didn' really change anything

[late badger]

Did you reference the health variable?

[cosmic dagger]

What GameObject is Health attached to?

[late badger]

Like did u put the script into that slot

[polar acorn]

It wasn't supposed to change anything it was supposed to show you something

What did it print

[simple hawk]

the Player

[simple hawk]

Health.currentHealth

[simple hawk]

ye

[polar acorn]

Yes, what does it print

[naive pawn]

and did it go down

[simple hawk]

wait, no, I could only put the Player prefab into the slot

[naive pawn]

you were supposed to print the variable, not as a string

[naive pawn]

cool so it's decreasing the health of the prefab, not of the actual player

drag the actual player into the slot

or is this a prefab where you can't do that?

[polar acorn]

you were supposed to log the value, not the words

[simple hawk]

I'm not sure how to do that

[polar acorn]

You just log the variable

not a string

[simple hawk]

alright, gimme a sec

[simple hawk]

both the enemy and player are prefabs, won't let me do player normally

[naive pawn]

are you instantiating the enemy at runtime?

[naive pawn]

so it is going down - the issue is that it's a different counter than the one you're expecting, since you assigned the prefab

[polar acorn]

Yes, we've established now that you're changing the CurrentHealth of the prefab

[simple hawk]

ohhh, I see

[naive pawn]

@simple hawk answer this

[simple hawk]

I think? this is the code I used for it

[indigo notch]

instantiating means to create a copy of a gameObject right?

[polar acorn]

You'll need to set the Health variable on the object you instantiate. Instantiate returns a reference to the object it creates

[naive pawn]

ok, make a Health field on the spawner and have it give that to the enemy when you instantiate it

though there are some.. other problems with the code

[polar acorn]

Better idea: If this thing collides with the player, why not just get the Health component of the thing you hit

[rich adder]

instantiating is creating a new object, in specific to Unity Instantiate method it clones and creates a new copy

[naive pawn]

you're starting a coroutine every frame, and thus it will always be spawning
just use a single coroutine from Start or something and do a loop

[indigo notch]

ohh

[simple hawk]

I am extremely noob at coding, I'm planning to actually learn (from the start) what everything actually means, so what's a loop?

[polar acorn]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/branches-and-loops

[simple hawk]

thnx

[simple hawk]

I'm confused, do you mean get the player's health component? that's the only thing that has health

[polar acorn]

Get the Health component from the object that gets hit. The thing you're checking the tag of

[late badger]

It's best to start learning C# basics before jumping into Unity, I did the opposite and it was very difficult to wrap my head around it.

[simple hawk]

agreed, I'm understanding just now how confusing it all is, planning to start learning after college ends

wait, I might be stupid, could this be why the code isn't working?

[naive pawn]

what do you mean by "this" exactly

[simple hawk]

should've highlighted, I'm referring to the part at the bottom

[naive pawn]

you aren't even setting currentHealth here

[simple hawk]

could that be it?

[polar acorn]

Well, it's public so it's set in the inspector

[polar acorn]

What about it

[naive pawn]

according to your above code, you're using a trigger
that message won't even run - as evidenced by the lack of a log

[ivory bobcat]

Which part and how so? What's it doing or not doing that it isn't?

[ashen arch]

public int currentHealth = 3;

[simple hawk]

I thought maybe the two scripts would conflict with each other

[naive pawn]

yeah, but in all likelyhood it should be set to maxHealth on Start

[naive pawn]

this doesn't change anything

[polar acorn]

In what way?

This object has a function that runs when this object collides with a solid object. The other script you showed has a function that runs when that object collides with a non-solid object

[ivory bobcat]

If you aren't getting any messages in the console it could be due to a variety of things. First off, is a collision really happening? Are the two objects pushing each other etc. Second, does the other object have the tag "zombie" (case sensitive)? Third, well this should've been first but I'm too busy/lazy to edit this, are you certain this is a 2d environment or 3d (both use their own physics system)?

[simple hawk]

ok, I might be incredibly stupid if this is the case: but, since the enemy's dmg script damages the prefab's health variable.. could the problem be that the prefab doesn't have a 2D collider?

[polar acorn]

Are you expecting this thing to collide with an object that doesn't exist

[naive pawn]

the problem is that the enemy's dmg script damages the prefab's health variable

[ivory bobcat]

Have two objects in the scene. Both must have 2d colliders (non-trigger). One must have a rigidbody. Put the damage script on the object with the rigidbody component. The object without the rigidbody component should be tagged "zombie".

[simple hawk]

I managed to fix it by making the player's collider not a trigger, not sure what that did exactly, but now it can't attack

[naive pawn]

are you on a 5 minute deadline or something

[polar acorn]

This is now causing the function on health to run

[naive pawn]

you should probably step back and do a proper unity tutorial instead of guessing and checking everything

[simple hawk]

true, I think I'm just going to get this feature working (or not) and then just focus on doing actual tutorials

[naive pawn]

do it in the other order

it'll be much easier

[simple hawk]

yea, ur probs right, I'm going to leave it here, set up the itch page and focus on tutorials

thnx for the help guys, and sorry for the trouble

[naive pawn]

you don't have to put it entirely down

[orchid swallow]

Hi , how to fix rb.velocity //(-velocity-) is dashed out and only have linearlyvelocity and angularvelocity for 2D

[naive pawn]

just- figure out what you're doing instead of doing random stuff until it works

[naive pawn]

velocity was replaced by linearVelocity in unity 6

[polar acorn]

use one of those

[simple hawk]

I do want to make a main menu, but besides that, I'm probs going to leave it and focus on tutorials, to prevent future headaches

[orchid swallow]

So the default Unity.engine is using Linearvelocity now?

[polar acorn]

yes

[slender nymph]

it's the same thing, just a rename to make it clearer what it is for

[orchid swallow]

Thanks

[orchid swallow]

why the inerted sprite went missing when play?

[polar acorn]

Probably because something in code is changing it

[orchid swallow]

havnt add script yet

[polar acorn]

Animator could also change it

[orchid swallow]

yes the animator cause it

[pearl current]

Hey guys, this is my first time making a top down 2d roguelike and i'm running into a rotation issue with my polygon collider.

From these 2 images you can see that it starts out positioned right in front of the character, but after moving in a direction, my calculation is supposed to rotate the z value according to the users last input. However, when i rotate the parent objects z value to say 90 degrees, it throws my collider far away from my character. Does anyone know how I might be able to fix this to have it stay right in front of the character after rotating?

Here's the code snippet that makes the calculation as well:

{
    Vector2 moveDirection = Vector2.zero;

    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) moveDirection.y += 1;
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S)) moveDirection.y -= 1;
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)) moveDirection.x += 1;
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) moveDirection.x -= 1;

    if (moveDirection != Vector2.zero)
    {
        moveDirection.Normalize();
        transform.Translate(moveDirection * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        animator.SetBool("isMoving", true);
        lastMoveDirection = moveDirection;

        Vector3 aim = Vector3.left * lastMoveDirection.x + Vector3.down * lastMoveDirection.y;
        Aim.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.forward, aim);
    }
    else
    {
        animator.SetBool("isMoving", false);
    }
}```

[plain raptor]

Im getting an error that says "Can't add script behaviour 'Player'. The script needs to derive from MonoBehaviour!" but the internet says this script should work; whats wrong with it?

using UnityEngine;

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
private Vector3 direction

public float gravity = -9.8f;

}

[sour fulcrum]

where is that error being said

[plain raptor]

when I try to add the script to the inspector window it comes up with the error message

[sour fulcrum]

is that script saved

[plain raptor]

looks like it yeah

I rarely use my pc so I might just be an idiot tho

[rich adder]

right click the script in Project view -> Reimport

actually nvm

your script didn't save/compile cause you have compile errors

ermm ```cs
private Vector3 direction

public float gravity = -9.8f;```

look at console window you most likely have the error there since your IDE might not be configured

[acoustic belfry]

hey, in a 2d plataform space how i can make a npc detect my player pos but with "lag". I mean, for now my rifle enemies know where the player pos is and shoot at it, very good. But now for the bosses and such, maybe a railcannon, i want it to know where the player was once, not where it is right now, so the player can dodge it

this is how i can detect the player

 {
     distancia = objetivo.position.x - transform.position.x;
     distanciaAbsoluta = Mathf.Abs(distancia);
 }```
this is how i can shoot at it
```protected void dispararBalas(GameObject balas, Transform balasPos, float firingspeed, float bulletspeed, float angulo)
{
        GameObject nuevoProyectil = Instantiate(balas, balasPos.position, Quaternion.identity);
        Vector3 direccion = (objetivo.position - balasPos.position).normalized;
        Rigidbody2D rb = nuevoProyectil.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        Vector3 direccionAngulo = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, angulo) * direccion;
        if (rb != null)
        {
            rb.linearVelocity = direccionAngulo * bulletspeed;
        }
}```

[rich adder]

store the vector3 position , clear it with a new one after a certain amount of delay

[acoustic belfry]

... how?

sorry for my noobness ;-;

[rich adder]

wdym "how" ?
certainly by now you know how to store some info ?

use a variable

[acoustic belfry]

ahh, you mean that

idk i thought store was another thing

you mean putting the player pos inside a value

and use that value

[rich adder]

yes thats one way to store info for later usage

[acoustic belfry]

oooooooh ofc, in a non-updating way

[rich adder]

how often you update is. up to you

[acoustic belfry]

so it only has what it readed that time

thanks :3

[rich adder]

also can be done based on distance moved by player etc

[acoustic belfry]

huh

[pearl current]

hey nav, how good are you with rotating colliders...

[rich adder]

what does that even mean?

https://dontasktoask.com

[rich adder]

yeah like Vector2.Distance or something

[pearl current]

here

[rich adder]

from this view is hard to tell where the origins even are, the scene view with gizmos showing much more useful than a gameview

[pearl current]

1 sec

[rich adder]

change it from Center mode to Pivot real quick

screenshot again after

[pearl current]

kks

this is for the aim object:

[rich adder]

what about Aim ?

ok yea thats wayyy off lol

[pearl current]

wtf

how'd it even do that???

[rich adder]

Center mode strikes again

because when you use Center mode you're not seeing the true origin point so you may be further than shown when you moved it around

[pearl current]

so how do i go about aligning the 2 objects?

move melee to aim?

[rich adder]

just reset the transform on AIm

and adjust from there

might need to reset pos the melee thing too.
btw shouldn't that be a trigger?

[pearl current]

you're probably right, and yes it should be but for early testing purposes i left it on to make sure it was there

[rich adder]

huh..where is the gizmo for player at compared to its sprite

[pearl current]

you're right there again... i just didn't implement it in the code...

[rich adder]

the code might be okay, its always best to fix these gizmos / pivots first to make sure the rotation will be accurate

[pearl current]

you're a LIFESAVER! i adjusted the 2 objects and now it works perfectly

tysm i was stuck all day <3

[rich adder]

[pearl current]

also should i stick to developing in pivot mode?

i'm new to game development with a coding background and want to know best practices going forward

[rich adder]

yeah I rarely find use in Center mode unless you're rotating a group of objects together around a point in Scene view

Kinda weird for unity putting that as default as it messes people up a lot if you're not aware of it in the beginning, esp in code where transform.position doesnt match for example

[pearl current]

DUDE IK

i was bug fixing all day

and this shit didn't make aaaany sense to me

bashing my head into a wall

[rich adder]

haha yeah it used to trip me up to in the beginning for position

[pearl current]

do you have any sources that has more of these useful tips for new developers other than youtube or stack overflow?

[rich adder]

we used to have a #unitytips channel which sadly got closed down..it had cool little tricks but yeah most things are trial and error, maybe some in the !docs or sometimes YT vids will do a compiled list of " x useful things to know in unity"

[eternal falcon]

Documentation

Get the most out of Unity Editor by accessing our documentation!

💻 API

📖 Manual

[rich adder]

some favorite channels that had good content were official Unity channel, Jason Weiman, LLamma academy
and some stuff on !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[pearl current]

noted! tysm

[past yarrow]

Hey,
For some reason I have a stack overflow and I don't understand why 🤔 Does anyone know why please ?
Code : https://paste.mod.gg/axkjjlvsorml/0

(Once I click on a mine, I want to reveal where all the mines were before restarting the game 5 sec later.)

[eternal needle]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/debug-stackoverflow?tabs=windows
read on what a stack overflow is. i dont see why its listing line 87 specifically but it does also say line 82 which is when you load the current scene again. you should use the debugger here to see whats exactly happening

[wintry quarry]

You need to scroll down in that stack trace to see where the infinite recursion is happening.

[sharp bloom]

Oh shit, I finally got this kind of bug

The 32-bit maximum value XD

[umbral bough]

Hi, I am trying to use the localization package and can't figure out how to listen for changes from a function.
I got this:

private void HandleNameTMPChanged()
{
    if (_nameLocalizeStringEvent)
        _nameLocalizeStringEvent.OnUpdateString.RemoveListener(UpdateNameText);
    _nameLocalizeStringEvent =
        _nameTMP?.gameObject.GetOrAddComponent<LocalizeStringEvent>();
    if (_nameLocalizeStringEvent)
        _nameLocalizeStringEvent.OnUpdateString.AddListener(UpdateNameText);

    Debug.Log(_nameLocalizeStringEvent);
}

And Debug.Log shows that it's not null, however, I don't see my method added in the inspector nor does it execute.
What is going on?

[sour fulcrum]

just a heads up that you shouldn't use ? to null check unity objects, it has inconsistent results due to reasons

[umbral bough]

Ok, my bad, I think that the event listener is added but I don't know how to trigger the change when I edit the component like this:

_nameLocalizeStringEvent.StringReference = ItemManager.SelectedItem?.LocalizedString;
_nameLocalizeStringEvent.RefreshString();

This sometimes works, it's very inconsistent tho.

[eternal needle]

when you add a listener, it doesnt populate in this list you see in inspector

the docs seem to have a decently thorough example
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.5/api/UnityEngine.Localization.Components.LocalizeStringEvent.html

[umbral bough]

I debug logged so I know for a fact LocalizedString is not null here and this gets executed when it should

They appear to be using the .RefreshString method, that's what I am doing aswell, am I missing something?

I added this Debug.Log() right above the refresh and I can see it being called, however, the name just doesn't update:
Debug.Log(_nameLocalizeStringEvent.StringReference);

I am honestly beyond confused :/

[umbral bough]

if anyone is able to help, please @ me, thanks in advance!

ok, I genuinely have 0 clue what happened but it seems to be fixed out of nowhere, I literally just walked away from my pc and it's working now 😭

and it's not working again, I just give up at this point, again, if someone could happen to have a clue as to what's going on please @ me, I would highly appreciate it :/

Last message, I hope, I think I figured it out.
You gotta do it like this:

_nameLocalizeStringEvent.StringReference
                        .SetReference(ls.TableReference, ls.TableEntryReference);
ls.RefreshString();
_nameLocalizeStringEvent.RefreshString();

You can't use _nameLocalizeStringEvent.StringReference = ls; instead of SetReference.
This is so odd, especially considering the fact the setter for StringReference is public, but whatever.
Hopefully it stays at this and I never encounter this issue again...

[unique quartz]

I'm making these rabbits move by themselves with simple ai, but their idle animations dive into this, then dive back up to normal when they run. Disabling root motion stopped them from diving down, but it altered their movement and made them slow

i will also add they float in game mode but don't in scene mode

[rocky turtle]

Can someone teach me c# in unity?

[sour fulcrum]

That isn’t really something people can do for free

[unique quartz]

maybe watch some youtube tutorials?

[burnt vapor]

See the pinned post, there are plenty of tutorials.

I highly suggest you learn C# basics before touching Unity in any way.

[pulsar helm]

I don't necessarily agree, Unity is especially a good starting point for using C# in my opinion (and even more if the end goal is to master Unity).

[burnt vapor]

It really depends on your experience but the majority of people getting into C# and Unity have no prior experience with programming. You really shoot yourself in the foot by combining them, especially given Unity's horrible implementation of C#

Especially since they ask for both C# basics and Unity, you really should get used to the syntax first. That's also why the pinned post has the Intro to C# link

Long term it's faster and less frustrating than taking them both at the same time

[pulsar helm]

Oh okay, yeah if there is absolutely no prior programming experience maybe it's questionnable as you say

I still believe that if you have a correct approach, you may begin with Unity to learn C#, I think you can to pretty simple things with it, like if you have an input, you just move a transform, or even play with forces with rigidbodies pretty intuitively (well at first not really, but you learn fast).

[sour fulcrum]

I'm kind of suprised the pin doesn't include any interactive beginner tutorials

the microsoft beginner guide is super extensive but it's quite offputting for a complete beginner imo

[pulsar helm]

Also I'm curious, @burnt vapor why do you think Unity implements the C# language horribly?

[sour fulcrum]

i'd also be curious if the answer contains alternative solutions

[burnt vapor]

Various conventions and hacks to make the language work is enough reason to put it to the side and learn C# the right way

Bugs with constructors in Unity, bugs with any type of null-coalescing or null-conditional operators that work in an unintended way on game objects in comparison to comparing to null directly

[charred spoke]

I wish unity just expose a way to use c++

Then we won’t have to jump interop hoops

[burnt vapor]

It's years and years of bad ideas and the fact they supported UnityScript or whatever it was called which just made it worse

[sour fulcrum]

how would you solve the constructor support?

i don't think those two make it a "horrible" implementation

[burnt vapor]

I don't solve it, Unity should have made it work from the start

[sour fulcrum]

how

what is the proposed behaviour

[burnt vapor]

You don't find it horrible that a very normal C# implementation doesn't work in Unity?

[pulsar helm]

Fair point for the null-related thing, but at the same time, i understand the design

[burnt vapor]

Do you know what issue constructors have in Unity?

[sour fulcrum]

I know MonoBehaviours are designed to completely avoid them because of there fundemental design

[burnt vapor]

It really isn't. Overriding null on gameobjects to indicate they are destroyed. Why did they choose to do this over a normal property?

[sour fulcrum]

wont a majority of checks be (if object == null || object.IsDestroyed) then

[burnt vapor]

object?.IsDestroyed? Not sure what you mean

[pulsar helm]

I guess it's a way to reduce verbosity? But I get that it's not really great because this object itself is not null and can hide the real memory management

[pulsar helm]

oh fair

[burnt vapor]

Overriding null is horrible, you don't expect it to check if something is destroyed. You expect the reference to be gone

[sour fulcrum]

for 90% of people they do not care about that difference and the other 10% are nerds who know whats going on entirely

whats wrong with constructors

[pulsar helm]

You must use the Instantiate function instead, maybe this is because some requirement about unity can't fit in the constructor in some way? I don't have the knowledge for this

[burnt vapor]

They can be called multiple times due to the way they work with Monobehaviours

[sour fulcrum]

Would you prefer another function getting run immediately on creation regardless of active state?

to be honest it would feel a little weird of monobehaviour constructors worked period

[burnt vapor]

Why would this be weird?

[pulsar helm]

I think that in the end, they made this design choice (null overriding) because of clarity.
Imagine having object?.IsDestroyed called to check if the object exists: it makes perfect sense alright, but it can be tricky for beginners to understand that it's not about a object being destroyed, but its mere existence at all.

So I understand why they chose to keep it "simple" by just having object == null which is more likely to be understand as "we have a valid object" than object?.IsDestroyed

[sour fulcrum]

Enforcing the gameobject would feel very out of place in how constructors should work, no?

Curious what a preferable solution would be using c# constructors and enforcing the design descision that all monobehaviours must exist in the context of a gameobject

[pulsar helm]

Yeah having the reference just be removed would be really useful, but maybe they can't do that because of some internal requirement we don't know?

[nimble apex]

i want to enable preview features in my project so i can use some functions that i cant use before

which file should i modify?

[teal viper]

What kind of preview features? And what makes you think that modifying the cs project is gonna help with that?

[nimble apex]

in C#14 theres a new features called extension method?

but it needs to "enable preview features"

and when i google how to enable it, i saw some article saying modify the csproj helps, maybe i will look into it more lol

[teal viper]

Unity only supports C# 9 according to the docs.
And csproj are only used for intellisense. Modifying these files might help in the ide, but the code wouldn't compile anyway.

[nimble apex]

ty 👍

[runic lance]

extension methods are supported just fine though

[pulsar helm]

Are you talking about making a static method with an argument, but the first argument can be considered as the object to call the function on?
like :

// In some .cs file
static class ExtensionThing
{
  public static void DoSomething(this YourObjectType yourObject)
  {
    // Do something with yourObject
  }
}

// Somewhere in your project
// ..
  YourObjectType instanceOfObject = new();
  instanceOfObject.DoSomething(); // Allowed because the ExtensionThing class is STATIC, and the function has the first parameter marked as "THIS".
  ExtensionThing.DoSomething(instanceOfObject); // Also allowed, since it's the default behaviour
// ..

in that case, it is supported

[teal viper]

Ah, extension methods are not C# 14 though

[pulsar helm]

More on this article, a certain syntax is indeed only for C#14, but you don't really need it.

[nimble apex]

now this is a code from someone

that "extension" is a new thing right?

[pulsar helm]

Yes this syntax is only for C#14 or newer

but you can basically do the same with the "old" syntax, which is what I send as code above

[nimble apex]

nice i gonna try it , ty 👍

[burnt vapor]

AFAIK Unity overwrites anything done in the csproj so the answer is that you can't

You might be able to add a Directory.Build.props file to your project and place it in there. It will take effect over all csproj files and Unity won't modify it

Considering how ancient Unity's langversion is it would still be nice to have if you can at least bump it to 13

[vocal wharf]

So I made a spherical planet and I want my player to walk on the planet while staying aligned and always upright relative to the center of the sphere. I already made simple gravity using rb.AddForce() but I still need a way to always have the player perpendicular to the sphere's surface. I looked on youtube but the only tutorial I found basically just told me to download his code and didn't show how it worked. Any help is appreciated!

the gravity script is on the planet and it references the player rigidbody. In case that matters
edit: here's the gravity script since it might be helpful

public class Gravity : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody[] rigidBodies;
    public GameObject planet;
    private Vector3 gravityDirection;
    public float gravityStrength = 1f;
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        foreach (Rigidbody rb in rigidBodies)
        {
            gravityDirection = rb.transform.position - planet.transform.position;
            rb.AddForce(gravityDirection * -gravityStrength);
        }
        
    }
}

[ruby python]

Hi all,

So, I'm having a weird raycast issue and can't seem to see what's going wrong.

I'm generating a world in a tile pattern and need to add a spawn point to each 'chunk'. Everything is working, but the raycast I have on the spawnPoint object is 'missing' the terrain collider (It's hits it, but the hit.point y axis is very wrong, it's way lower than it should be). My layer mask etc. is all correctly assigned, and the terrain collider does work because I can walk around on the islands (manually moving of the character to test)

So, I'm a little bit baffled.

The debug is spitting out a hit.point position as 0, 3.27f, 0, which given the hit point is actually around 200 is confusing.

Here is the full script.....

https://hastebin.com/share/ifomumatah.csharp

and here's just the SpawnPointGeneration part.

GameObject newSpawnPoint = new GameObject();
newSpawnPoint.name = newIsland.name + " Spawn Point";
newSpawnPoint.transform.parent = newIsland.transform;
newSpawnPoint.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0, 500, 0);

RaycastHit hit;
Vector3 raycastOrigin = new Vector3(newSpawnPoint.transform.position.x, newSpawnPoint.transform.position.y, newSpawnPoint.transform.position.z);
if (Physics.Raycast(raycastOrigin, newSpawnPoint.transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.down), out hit, Mathf.Infinity, layerMask))
{
    Debug.Log("Hit Ground @ "+hit.point);
    newSpawnPoint.transform.position = new Vector3(hit.point.x+0.5f, hit.point.y+1, hit.point.z+0.5f);
}
else
{
    Debug.Log("Did Not hit Ground");
}
dataManager.spawnPoints.Add(newSpawnPoint);

Anybody see or have any ideas as to what's happening? Cause I just can't see it 😕

[nimble apex]

after messing with it, i give up, if old version still able to do what i wanted then i will let it go

[burnt vapor]

Try the props file I mentioned

[nimble apex]

u need a plugin called csprojmodifier to import .props file and a csc.rsp file under asset folder right?

[burnt vapor]

Huh

I assume it just works out of the box, unless Unity doesn't allow for this

[nimble apex]

if that plugin is not necessary i can try it again👍

when i google it , the article said i should install csprojmodifier and import .props files from there

but if u install that plugin , it will have conflict with unuty.test-runner , i havent used that so idk what that is

[past yarrow]

@eternal needle

[faint agate]

Hey guys, so I have a script that tells me when a button is selected or deselected. Let me say I'm using keyboard navigation so keep that in mind. I also have a system where if the player doesn't meet the KhronsAmount, the button will be locked(thisButton.interactable = false;).

My problem is that when I'm CURRENTLY on the button and want to lock the button so the player cant press it, the keyboard navigation stops working. I checked and its deselecting the button but somehow its still selected.

If I lock the button while on another button, its fine. I want to also be able to lock it when currently on it.
https://pastecode.io/s/rn7shapg

[eternal needle]

do you still have a question here after reading the stack trace? it should be pretty clear as to whats happening

[past yarrow]

Yup as I still don't understand how to fix it

is it because I didn't clear the Coroutine first before creating a new one ?

[naive pawn]

you have infinite recursion between OnTileClicked, OnGameOver, and RevealTile

[eternal needle]

when you look at the stack trace it tells you exactly whats happening. first thing to note you subscribe to the action (this isnt an event)
OnTileClickedEvent += OnTileClicked
in OnTileClicked you call neighbour.RevealTile();. In RevealTile() you invoke the action GameManager.OnTileClickedEvent?.Invoke(this);. Repeat

[polar acorn]

Go in reverse from the top of your stack trace down. Whats line 82 of GameManager.cs? What's line 101? What's line 144 of Tile.cs?

[naive pawn]

when you click on a mine, you game over.
when you game over, you click on all tiles, meaning you click on a mine

[eternal needle]

actually i got the order wrong since OnGameOver is the one calling RevealTile as well, which invokes the event too

so this is like double infinite recursion

[past yarrow]

So do I remove the event invoking in "RevealTile()" ?

[eternal needle]

thats for you to decide on how to fix this. im looking at this error purely from the code. i dont know how your OnTileClicked or RevealTile function needs to work
no matter what you do, you just have to remove this infinite chain of methods calling each other

maybe that means RevealTile shouldnt invoke the action. Maybe GameManagers OnTileClicked shouldnt reveal a tile under certain scenarios

the only thing I notice here is that you seemingly have this visitedNeighbours hashset which you dont use, and a tile.Visited property that never is set.
maybe you forgot to finish writing the logic for not infinitely checking over neighbour tiles. Maybe ai hallucinated if you used ai here

[nimble apex]

just curious when u do the "directory.build.prop" file u havent installed any of the plugins? just place it directly to rootpath?

[split plover]

Dumb question but do i have to rename a class in my script if i rename the script

also unrelated but should i update visual studio whenever it gives me the option to update?

[polar acorn]

As of Unity 6, no. If you're on an earlier version of Unity, yes.

As long as there's only one class in the file

[split plover]

Well good thing im using unity 6 i guess cause im probably going to be renaming scripts a lot

[still ingot]

Hi I am trying to check when my cutscene video ends. I tried using a simple example code and find myself running into an error with the CheckOver function I made, and the loopPointReached? Any suggestions as to what could be wrong?

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Video;

public class VideoPlayer : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    VideoPlayer video;

    void Start() { 
        video.loopPointReached += CheckOver; 
    }

    void CheckOver(VideoPlayer vp)
    {
        print("Video Is Over");
    }
}

[split plover]

you have to put it in update

start only happens when the script is made if im correct, update happens every frame

idk if thats the only issue but thats the only thing that i would personally know

[solar arch]

i have a custom class that i want to assign to GameObjects in the inspector (using a [SerializeField]). I'm assuming this is possible i just don't know how to actually put the data in. My custom class has the tag [System.Serializable], so i just need to work out how to put the data into here -- "Price" should take my custom class. If you need more info please ask

[nimble apex]

at the end i gonna make my own extension method like this

[eternal needle]

Read the error. You dont need to add in update as the other person said because that's not how event subscriptions work

[split plover]

i didn't even know they were using event subscriptions or what an event subscription is 👍

but wait how would it work if its in start and not update

atleast from what i know that code would never work unless its in update

[eternal needle]

Maybe use a scriptable object? What are you trying to solve here.
With your current setup, any serializable fields under your custom class will show already on the component. You dont drag anything in

[vocal wharf]

Sorry to interrupt the convo but some help here would be amazing. Thanks. #💻┃code-beginner message

[eternal needle]

Read up on events and it'll be clear. Its hard to answer without just explaining the entirety of what an event or delegate is

[split plover]

ok

[polar acorn]

Because it's a subscription to an event. Putting it in update would break things horribly

because every frame it'd add another copy of the function to that event

[split plover]

idk what an event is thats the problem

😭

[polar acorn]

Your issue is that this class is named VideoPlayer. And it doesn't have any events named loopPointReached

[polar acorn]

Then look it up

[split plover]

someone already told me to

i was trying to read on it but you pinged me

[eternal needle]

Its built in from what I can see on the docs

[polar acorn]

There is a built in class named VideoPlayer, but that's not the one they're using here

They're using this one

[eternal needle]

You would need some way for these planets to tell your characters what planet its even on, or what direction "down" is now. The logic of aligning to the planets surface is the same as if you were just on a flat surface, except you just change the direction of your physics cast

[vocal wharf]

It's a single planet that the player will be on the entire game, which hopefully makes things easier

[eternal needle]

Its the same thing still, the player needs to just know what direction down is

They can calculate that by having a reference to the planet they're on

[split plover]

okay ik this is dumb but google doesn't understand my question, does < check if something is under the second value or above the second value

[vocal wharf]

I tried this bit of code

rb.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(rb.rotation, targetRotation, 100);```
 from an old Sebastian Lague video but my player kept spazzing out and spinning wildly so not sure what was going on there

[modest dust]

Did you have basic math at school?

[eternal needle]

The quaternion multiplication looks backwards there

[split plover]

yes obviously but i genuinly don't remember cause genuinly who uses them bro 😭

[ruby python]

< is Less Than (search 'boolean operators')

[split plover]

thank you 😭

[vocal wharf]

which part?

[eternal needle]

the only part there where you multiply two quaternions. i think it should be
rb.rotation * Quaternion.FromToRotation(rigidBodyVector, gravityVector)

[polar acorn]

The alligator eats the bigger number

[split plover]

erm actually i was told it was a crocodile

[ruby python]

LMAO. I was literally just about to type that's how I was taught at school

[vocal wharf]

C# doesn't care about the commutative property of multiplication?

[pulsar helm]

Yup good job looks nice

[eternal needle]

who says? math is a math thing, not a c# thing. the order matters for quaternions

[vocal wharf]

oh interesting

[vocal wharf]

I fixed that part but my player still spins extremely fast as soon as I press play. This is the only active script in the scene. Any idea what could be wrong?

public class Gravity : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody[] rigidBodies;
    public GameObject planet;
    private Vector3 gravityVector;
    private Vector3 rigidBodyVector;
    public float gravityStrength = 1f;
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        foreach (Rigidbody rb in rigidBodies)
        {
            gravityVector = (rb.transform.position - planet.transform.position).normalized;
            rigidBodyVector = (rb.transform.eulerAngles).normalized;
            rb.AddForce(gravityVector * -gravityStrength);
            Quaternion targetRotation = rb.rotation * Quaternion.FromToRotation(rigidBodyVector, gravityVector);
            rb.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(rb.rotation, targetRotation, 100);
        }
        
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Well, you're passing a value of 100 to the Slerp, which means it's way more than 1.0 which means you could just replace that line with rb.rotation = targetRotation

[vocal wharf]

hmm ok

[eternal needle]

thats definitely interesting if that was directly from a Sebastian Lague video, i have doubts about that being the final code he wrote.
though maybe you also want to do this logic on the player directly? otherwise everything with a rb is going to try and align itself like this

[vocal wharf]

I tried 0.5 but it gives the same result

[eternal needle]

because you're not using Slerp as it should be used, you cant just plug in random values

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.Slerp.html

[vocal wharf]

sebastian had 50 as the last arguement of slerp but other than that it's the same

keep in mind this was an 11 year old tutorial

[polar acorn]

Can you link it

50 has never been a valid third parameter for slerp

[vocal wharf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHeQ8Hr92P4

he shows the Quaternion.Slerp part at 10:28

[runic lance]

he's multiplying by Time.deltaTime, which is usually a very small value

[vocal wharf]

ah

I had everything in FixedUpdate so I figured I shouldn't put that

[rich adder]

even that is technically wrong to do but should work ok
https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[polar acorn]

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 189
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2025-06-19

[vocal wharf]

lemme switch to the Update method and see what happens

[eternal needle]

you dont need to swap to Update though

[rich adder]

Time.deltaTime in FixedUpdate turns it into Time.fixedDeltaTime

[polar acorn]

You would still want to use FixedDeltaTime to get the value in seconds each time step takes

It still isn't the best way to do this, in a more modern tutorial he'd be using RotateTowards

[vocal wharf]

and it still spins lol

[polar acorn]

But Slerp's third parameter is a percentile value for how much of the way between the first two parameters you want. 0 means first parameter. 1 means second. 0.5 means halfway between the two

[vocal wharf]

looks like I need to go back to the drawing board

[past yarrow]

Problem solved 🤔 Thanks 🙏

• I don't have the stack overflow anymore and all the mines reveal correctly but right now I have this error that appeared once (the second try it didn't appear, third try it appears again when I clicked on a mine)
• also my game revealing neighbors that are 0 and their surroundings don't work anymore as you can see with those empty revealed tiles 🤔
  https://paste.mod.gg/lqldofmnpdos/0

[polar acorn]

You should probably pick one of the Unity servers and stick to it so you don't end up getting multiple people doing the same answers since they're not seeing each other's messages

[vocal wharf]

I tried to redo it with RotateTowards just by memory from other projects but I must be overlooking something simple because my player still spins in place and changing the max angle in the RotateTowards argument just changes how fast it spins. I'm very sorry but I can't think of what could be wrong.

foreach (Rigidbody rb in rigidBodies)
{
    gravityVector = (rb.transform.position - planet.transform.position).normalized;
    rigidBodyVector = (rb.transform.eulerAngles).normalized;
    rb.AddForce(gravityVector * -gravityStrength);
    Quaternion currentRotation = rb.transform.rotation;
    Quaternion targetRotation = rb.rotation * Quaternion.FromToRotation(rigidBodyVector, gravityVector);
    rb.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(currentRotation, targetRotation, 1);
}

[polar acorn]

Try using Debug.DrawRay to see what direction your gravityVector and rigidBodyVector are pointing

[vocal wharf]

hmm the gravityVector and rigidBodyVector rays appear to both be pointing the same direction as each other at all times and every few seconds the rays jump to another rotation randomly

sorry nvm

[polar acorn]

So that sounds like a problem. gravityVector is obviously supposed to be pointing in the direction of gravity, but what's rigidBodyVector supposed to represent?

[vocal wharf]

accidently put rigidbodyvector as both rays 🤦‍♂️

my apologies

ok the gravityvector ray is constantly pointing at the center of the planet which is good

[vocal wharf]

well I have it set to rigidBodyVector = (rb.transform.eulerAngles).normalized; and it's supposed to represent the direction the player is facing so I can rotate the player and get the rigidbodyvector to be in the same direction as the gravity vector

all to get the player to always face feet down on the sphere

[polar acorn]

So, it's a direction vector, why are you trying to get it from an orientation?

Those aren't the same thing

[vocal wharf]

lol uh that's not good I didn't notice

[polar acorn]

Consider an object with euler angles of 0, 180, 0, that's going to be facing backwards, but the normalized value of that is 0, 1, 0 which is straight up

If you want the direction the object is facing, use transform.forward

[sharp bloom]

        var listEvents = events.GetType().GetFields(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public);
        foreach (var x in listEvents)
        {
            Debug.Log(x.FieldType.ToString());
            if (x.FieldType == typeof(System.Action))
            {
                GameEvents.TryAdd(x.Name, (System.Action)x.GetValue(x));
            }

Why does this array come up empty? If put something like string instead of System.Action, it does find them

[vocal wharf]

do I need to normalize that?

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-forward.html

[vocal wharf]

oh it's already normalized got it

[polar acorn]

Probably doesn't have any fields of type System.Action then

[sharp bloom]

Ye but it does though

[polar acorn]

What do the logs say?

[sharp bloom]

Just this with my current code

To verify it even runs

[rich adder]

here type says x.FieldType is System.String ?

[vocal wharf]

how do I figure out what to put as the max angle for Quaternion.RotateTowards()?

Now the player vector is pointing out the front of the body (it's a cube) but the whole player character is still spazzing out

[polar acorn]

How much do you want it to rotate in one frame

[sharp bloom]

Oh nevermind I'm supposed to use GetEvents() instead of GetFields()

[polar acorn]

Okay, so does it ever print System.Action?

You're printing the type of every field

[sharp bloom]

I don't know what I'm even doing here, just messing around

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.RotateTowards.html

[vocal wharf]

I want it to rotate fairly quickly but lemme try a few numbers rq

[naive pawn]

was it perhaps an action with params

[still ingot]

I'm still running into the same issue when I put it in update. I did also try making the loopPointReaced var into a Action<VideoPlayer> variable but didn't work?

[polar acorn]

Do not put it in update. Read the other people's responses to your post, this is further from correct

Go back to what you had before, then read my other reply to you

Your video variable, what thing are you trying to reference with that? What object?

[split plover]

the guy said put it in start

and he's smarter so

yeah

[quick monolith]

I made transition between three animation. The problem is character stucks at jumping anim when transition goes from run to jump. Whenever, I stop instead switch to idle staying on jump anim.

https://hastebin.com/share/oyivosiqux.csharp

its a bit complicated

[naive pawn]

you're probably still "running" when you run and jump, so the transition won't be taken since you're requiring it to be isRunning == false

also, #🏃┃animation for future reference

[vocal wharf]

This is what I have now. Idk if you can see in this video but the green debug ray is the gravity vector and the red debug ray is the player vector (ik, poor color choice). It's still not correctly rotating itself upright and I have no idea why.

here is the current code again:

foreach (Rigidbody rb in rigidBodies)
{
    gravityVector = (rb.transform.position - planet.transform.position).normalized;
    rigidBodyVector = rb.transform.up;
    Debug.DrawRay(rb.transform.position, gravityVector, Color.green);
    Debug.DrawRay(rb.transform.position, rigidBodyVector, Color.red);
    rb.AddForce(gravityVector * -gravityStrength);
    Quaternion currentRotation = rb.transform.rotation;
    Quaternion targetRotation = rb.rotation * Quaternion.FromToRotation(rigidBodyVector, gravityVector);
    rb.transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(currentRotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
}

rotationSpeed is currently set to 5

[mossy jasper]

Goofy ahh rigid bodys😭🙏

[rich adder]

2025 people using their phones to record a computer monitor instead of video screen capture

[mossy jasper]

I was lazy

And my mic is kinda trash

[rich adder]

yeah yea nothing new in this generation

what does mic have anything to do with screen recording a video lol

[mossy jasper]

Oh yeah right

[rich adder]

also pressing 1 Key in OBS is hardly any more work than hitting recording on a phone lol strange times

I think microsoft even has their own crap with WinKey + G to record

[frail hawk]

yes

game bar

[mossy jasper]

how do i get in bro

[frail hawk]

well as the error says

[rich adder]

man windows is weird as hell

what does that even mean

[frail hawk]

save your project somewhere else, dont use system folders

[rich adder]

Windows is case sensitive ?

[mossy jasper]

ok

[frail hawk]

yeah i see that error for the first time

[mossy jasper]

but fr tho, windows weird as hell

[slender nymph]

not by default. this is because of something they've changed theirself

[rich adder]

ahh that makes sense

[slender nymph]

it can also be set per-directory so they probably just need to make the project somewhere else, likely where ever the rest of their projects are would work

[naive pawn]

isn't it based on the file system, rather than the operating system

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity

[vocal wharf]

I'm completely stuck so if someone could help me that would be nice. For context I want to make my player to constantly rotate to stay upright (perpendicular to the sphere's surface).

[frail hawk]

not completely sure but this might be helpful for you https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Quaternion.FromToRotation.html @vocal wharf

i remember i made something similar to what you have but i am not sure if it was this method i used, been a very long time

[vocal wharf]

I read the doc already but I have no idea what could be wrong

[rocky canyon]

the new snipping tool even has recording now, even prompts u when u press PrntScreen 🙌

[rich adder]

the only positive thing out of 11 it seems lol

[void shell]

Ladies and gentlemen what the heck

I just created the project and it gave me an error

[slender nymph]

https://screenshot.help

[void shell]

this is a new project, almost blank. i just created 2 sprites

i'm running unity hub in arch linux

everytime i click to run, i get that "errors need to be fixed before compiling" message, but there's nothing on the console, absolutely nothing

[rocky canyon]

yea, thats b/c the console wont work.. b/c the game wont even go into playmode

u have to fix "compile" errors before you'll get runtime errors

[rocky canyon]

can you show the project window w/ all the files in it?

[void shell]

there's only a default scene and a input map, nothing else

[rocky canyon]

if its a completely empty project i'd try to make a new one..

u shoudnt have compile errors in an empty project 🤔

try a different template maybe

[void shell]

it's the BIRP 2D default in unity 6 LTS, btw

[slender nymph]

it might have something to do with the fact you're running it on an unsupported distro, who knows what could possibly have gone wrong during installation

[void shell]

guess it can be that too

i have already used unity on this distro before without errors, it should be something with the version or smt

anyway, i'm gonna try to create a new project and see what happens

[rocky canyon]

ya i thinking its installation / ur pc setup and not an actual unity problem

2D Birp opens fine in unity6 LTS just checked for ya

[rich adder]

also try earlier version of unity

[void shell]

yup

[rich adder]

could be a mix of not official supported distro + newer version not ported properly for linux in general

[rocky canyon]

true true..

[void shell]

damn, it's taking a life to create a new projectr

need to get an ssd asap

[rocky canyon]

it'll help marginally.. new projects just take a while

[rich adder]

mechanical are only good for long time storage

[rocky canyon]

after the first start-up sequential ones will be much quicker

[void shell]

i got like 4 HDDs i just found by the house 3 years ago

[rocky canyon]

💪 u can never have too many HDDs

HDDs are more reliable imo than SSDs

[rich adder]

os dependent too
my 2014 macbook would create in 30 secs
on my windows machine ssd nvme + ryzen 7 would take at least 2-3 mins

[rocky canyon]

ive had more SSDs die on me than i can count

[rich adder]

just need at least 1 ssd 😛

I have a HDD 5400 rpms that still runs GTA5 lol

[void shell]

smt about 500gb should be fine

[void shell]

i managed to run Resident Evil 4 remake without SSDs XD

[rocky canyon]

haha 500 gig is "warm-up"

[rich adder]

basically OS and apps you work with often that use disk

[rich adder]

laughs in Adobe cache

[void shell]

guess my SSD will be only for windows and unity, linux is fine on HDD

[rocky canyon]

ohhh nooo.. my heavy drive is getting on up there

[void shell]

i have windows 11 + arch linux dual booted on my PC, but while arch takes 2min to boot, windows takes like 15

[void shell]

12 FRICKIN TB???

[rocky canyon]

gotta have that space 🤪

asset hoarder <--

[void shell]

what are you trynna store? the sins of the humankind? damn

[rocky canyon]

just unity projects bro 😄

[rich adder]

yeah SteamOS is my main priority so i use linux
handhelds are definitive proof that the same hardware you get better performance and battery life with a linux based machine instead of windows 11 ARM version no less. win

they just need a bigger marketshare so these dam big techs would actually shift priority

[void shell]

i'd like if unity gave more support to linux. i mean, it exists, but isnt the same thing

i got a game i'm making on godot but recently i wanted to do it multiplayer, so i'm getting it into unity, (godot's multiplayer didnt cooked enough)

i have 3 years xp on unity but after some trauma i quitted game dev and i'm getting back rn

i feel dumb because i forgot too much stuff about C# 😄

[rich adder]

ehh its normal to forget if you don't do it daily or close to that

[rocky canyon]

thats why theres google, unity docs, and stackoverflow 😉

[rich adder]

ya a quick lookup it comes back anyway, its usually not totally forgotten

[rocky canyon]

if u cant find ur solution by using those 3.. it probably isn't possible..
we'll have to learn more about physics first

[rich adder]

the microsoft docs for c# is pretty decent

[rocky canyon]

is it more common to have a scene-manager its own component?
or have the game-manager be in charge of that as well?

im torn 🪚

[rich adder]

I got managers everywhere so I prefer the former

[rocky canyon]

just lives alongside the gamemanager?

which i assume is like in control of the game-state

[rich adder]

yeah my game manager manages the other managers typically they react with events

[rocky canyon]

ahh fudge!! brb pc is crashing out

[rich adder]

I basically use this pattern I guess
https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/mediator

[void shell]

what the heck

[rocky canyon]

ill look after restart 🧡 thxx

[void shell]

good luck

[rich adder]

leak eating ram ? 😮

[rocky canyon]

ya, i figured 16gig would be way enough

[rich adder]

oh 16gb..damm

[rocky canyon]

ive only got 3 projects open

[void shell]

bro wtf

[rocky canyon]

but thats actually a smaller number than ususally so yea something is leaking

[void shell]

WHAT

[rich adder]

running 3 unitys now is more hefty then 3 2019/2020 unitys

[void shell]

bro's trying to fry an egg on the CPU

[rich adder]

[void shell]

meh, i'm not gonna complain, i got an i3-3240, a RX550 and 12gb ram DDR3

the most expensive thing in my setup is my 180hz monitor i guess

don't even know how unity runs on that potato

[rich adder]

i've seen worse to be considered a potato

someone using onboard gpu for example and 8gb ram

[rocky canyon]

i bet its that "pro" project, since it was basically an asset dump for the better of 2 years

[void shell]

thats cause you never saw my laptop

[rocky canyon]

ive seen people with local cursor lag..

that still used unity..

thats commitment

[void shell]

it's an galaxy book go (4gb ram, snapdragon7c gen 2 ARM)

[rich adder]

just realized we should probably make a thread or sum going offtopic from code

[void shell]

FOR REAL

[rocky canyon]

how come ive never heard of a mediator pattern 🤔

its actually probably something ive used or seen used and didnt know it had a name

[rich adder]

tbh most of these patterns I was doing without knowing a name to it

[gleaming haven]

hey i just stumbled upon unity, can anyone recommend a good yt tutorial playlist to get started with? i only found really old ones

[void shell]

you guys wanna make a thread on #💻┃unity-talk?

[rich adder]

check pins

[void shell]

i STRONGLY recommend "Code Monkey"

[rich adder]

eh I think for a beginner code monkey is a bit much

[void shell]

meh, fr

[rich adder]

his code is confusing as hell sometimes and you yell at the screen "WHY"

also the cringe earlier videos where he uses his own UTILS you have to download from his sketchy site lol

[void shell]

i started with "Crie Seus Jogos" that is a brazilian channel yk? the guy talk to you like he is teaching a dog, impossible to not learn

[rich adder]

I started with earlier vids of Jason Wiemann they were pretty solid

[rocky canyon]

if he ever decides to edit out his Mechanical keyboard rather than emphasize it i'll consider watching his coding stuff

until then i'll just check out his Monthly asset list/review vids

[rocky canyon]

ya, jason weimann was who i gravitated to... him and sebastian lague

actually tbh, those were the only two household names i used to learn almost everything i needed to know..

[rich adder]

yah those are the good OGs
seb is more of devlog now so he doesnt always show the complete code but gives nice inspirations

[rocky canyon]

ahh yea i do use this design pattern.. well i'l be darn knee slaps

[rich adder]

yeah its pretty common once you see it in action. The real world analogy for it is perfect

that + observer pattern (just events lol)

[rocky canyon]

but mine is a level above the game manager..

so it'll get its info from teh game manager to know whether or not to call functions in the game manager..

which at first kinda put me off from using it

but im sure theres another little workflow trick i dont know about to remedy that.. or make it make more sense i just havent discovered it yet

[rich adder]

what exactly is supposed to do with it ?

[rocky canyon]

also its kinda how i got my "References" object set up

the actual manager was getting too big and knowing about too many things

so i subdivided the data type stuff

[rich adder]

also i don't typically make 1 giant mediator for many things (or you're back to GM monoliths), I more or so categorize them, also a bit of chain of responsibility parts

[sour fulcrum]

semi offtopic but this reminds me how much i wish we had built in readonly fields because some of these i wish i could view but not depend on inspector drag and drop injection for

[rich adder]

Debug Mode 😛

[slender nymph]

it's pretty easy to just write your own ReadOnly attribute and property drawer

[sour fulcrum]

i knowwww

but like

tell unity that 😛

[rich adder]

Unity is just lazy esp if there are assets for it

[rocky canyon]

i used to use naughty attributes so i had alot more read-only fields and stuff

[rich adder]

imagine how easy it would be for unity to make something like Naughty or Odin

[rocky canyon]

but something about it broke my frame rate a while back and i couldn't save the project

so since then i wont install naughty

i just write my own attributes

like these cute little icons 😊

[sour fulcrum]

serialize a dictionary or lay off staff
unity: 🤔

[rich adder]

" how else would we bring in these new AI features "

priorities mannn

[idle grove]

heya, i have a ''random'' question!

using public variables for ''universal'' things, such as object speed and such, is a bad idea right, so it is usually private, and at max a [serialized field], but what if i want certain objects to have these variables tempered with? like buffs, debuffs n such.

would doing a private generic variable (private float moveSpeed; for example) for every entity that has it.
but then doing a public specific variable (public float playerMoveSpeed; for example) and then set playerMoveSpeed = moveSpeed;
would it work? cuz that way i can change this public variable to for example:

playerMoveSpeed = moveSpeed * SpeedBoost

using another script, would that work? is that dumb? is that unstable?

[rich adder]

create a method that interacts with those variables, and/or use structs for example to group data

[sour fulcrum]

so the real kinda answer for this is c# properties but in general the idea is you want a public facing way to try and set the value, and let that function decide if the incoming value is ok to be used

the issue with public fields directly is any random stranger and give it any random value

your fine having a stranger do it but you need to check if the value is ok

[rich adder]

yeah public fields can really trip your future self or another person working on it

[idle grove]

im still a super beginner so i dont have the knowledge baggage to know better ways, im sorry for that, i will take a look into learning those things to see if i comprehend it tho!, this was the way i thought about based on what i know (super super beginner)

[idle grove]

yeah, thats why i thought making the base speed, base attack n such, be private, would somewhat help

[sour fulcrum]

yeah no stress, you know what functions are right?

[rich adder]

properties / functions generally the best way so you can put things like notifications of values changed and stuff like that

[rocky canyon]

i use an SO with all my player data (default values).. and then it'll read em and assign em all to a local version of that variable.. (those i can modify as i wish all i want in the inspector, runtime or w/e) when the game restarts my default values are still intact

if i want to keep a modified value or something ill just jot it down

[idle grove]

maybe superficially, i understand it as ''block of data that does a certain task'' but it may be too broad to serve as an answer, or even be straight up wrong

[sour fulcrum]

your not wrong in thats what they do but a function in the context of programming conversations is literally just a

void MyFunction()
{
stuffs
}

[idle grove]

yeah, learned that doing a function to flip the character on the X axis, in that case, void Flip()

[rich adder]

functions and methods are generally interchangeable but functions are usually the "doing something" that function on their own, methods are associated with objects

[idle grove]

just so i get it as a direct answer, was the thing i described wrong?, or just not optimal/has a specific problem?

i couldnt find it when i tried searching about this method

[rocky canyon]

        int currentHealth;
        public int Health
        {
            get => currentHealth;
            set
            {
                // Clamp value between 0 and maxHealth
                currentHealth = Mathf.Clamp(value, 0, maxHealth);

                // Check for death
                if (currentHealth == 0)
                    Debug.Log("💀 Player Died");
            }
        }

        public void Damage(int amount)
        {
            Health -= amount;
        }

        public void Heal(int amount)
        {
            Health += amount;
        }```

so whats a property do? is it a function?

[sour fulcrum]

probably dont need to hit the property off the bat

[rich adder]

there is no built in method for flip, for example you'd code that in yourself

they do have a flip bool on sprite renderer and such, but the method usually something you write

[rocky canyon]

i just lookin around for some use-cases that make me stop and refactor my code b/c i can't go without properties a minute longer 😅

[idle grove]

property i still didnt learned, im sorry, what i can imagine is that it ''reads'' functions/manages them in some way? like add a property to adress X and Y functions in some way ? but at this point id be guessing

[rocky canyon]

b/c ngl, ive neglected them for a long time now

[idle grove]

yeh, thats what i meant! im sorry, i wrote the function

[sour fulcrum]

    public class MyClass : MonoBehaviour
    {
        [SerializeField] private int currentHealth;
        [SerializeField] private int maxHealth;

        public int GetCurrentHealth()
        {
            return (currentHealth);
        }

        public void SetCurrentHealth(int newHealthValue)
        {
            if (newHealthValue > 0 && newHealthValue < maxHealth)
                currentHealth = newHealthValue;
        }
    }

@idle grove so this is a very basic example of what you would ideally want to do instead of having the field be public directly

don't worry about using properties specifically for now they are just a convient way to merge functions and fields, ignore them

[idle grove]

thats what i meant with learning it, i learned how to do a function, and named it flip, to use on the player movement

[sour fulcrum]

the idea with this code is that you can control what the value can actually be set to when strangers try to tamper with it

[rich adder]

slap a OnHealthChanged Action<int> and you're golden
this way if others want to react when it changes its easy to do

[polar acorn]

A Property is a way to use a pair of functions as if it were a variable. You define a function that runs when you get the variable, and one that runs when you set the variable. It runs the setter when it's before a = and the getter when it's not

[sour fulcrum]

Or as nav said previously, you also get to know when it does get tampared with, in case you need to run code in reaction to the change

[idle grove]

im slowly getting it

thanks people

i still have to get more of the basics to fully get it, but atleast it doesnt feel like magic

[sour fulcrum]

idk if this is a psycho comparison but imagine that

a public field is like a gold bar teleporting into a bank vault

a public function is like someone actually walking into the vault and putting the bar in there

[rich adder]

so if you did
public int Health {get; private set;}
can only be read from outside but not allowed set from outside..

[rocky canyon]

the way i think of it now is
you can use OnValidate() method to check if a variable ur entering into the inspector is a valid one..
but that only works in edit mode..
you can use a property to check if a variable either you entered or a script tried to set is a valid one..
and that works at Runtime

and.. theres all kinda cool things u can do with the getter and the setter.. making one public one private.. as nav just said and so on

[sour fulcrum]

[field: SerializeField] public thingo myVar {get; private set; } is my bread and butter 😄

[rich adder]

im crazy but I always give it a private field / backing field

[rocky canyon]

never looked back 🤣

[idle grove]

asking for pure curiosity, this is from what type of project that you're doing ?

[sour fulcrum]

that will be a little nicer in c# 14 eventually

[rich adder]

public int Value => myValue;
[SerializeField] private int myValue; //or no serializefiled sometimes```

[rocky canyon]

its just a first person controller

[idle grove]

oh ok

[sour fulcrum]

public string Message
{
    get;
    set => field = value ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(value));
}

14 lets you do this 😄

[rocky canyon]

i like using headers and stuff to keep me organized

and easy to see things at a glance

if all ur values start at 0 u cant mess any of them up 🫠

[naive pawn]

i feel like this overestimates one's ability

[rocky canyon]

lol true

i have tons of backups of this guy

[rich adder]

using structs for this is annoying in unity we cannot assign default values..this is the shit that irks about old C#

[rocky canyon]

on scratch paper, in screenshots, everywhere

lol

[rocky canyon]

u can create a new one w/ defaults cant u?

[rich adder]

You can put it in a method but old c# didnt allow assign default value to initializer like you can in class so you do start with all 0s / default values

public struct Data{
public int speed = 10; // unity cries
}```

[naive pawn]

i mean you can do something like this though, no?

public X x = new("default");

[Serializable] public struct X { public X(string n) { this.n = n; } public string n; }

[rocky canyon]

oh ya, i just do all the logic in one class

got my structure at the bottom and the default ones at the top

[rich adder]

ya. i supposes you can use the constructor ? found it annoying that you need to assign all fields by default lol

[naive pawn]

ah. you can do spawn's thing with the bracket init though

[sour fulcrum]

assign all these values immediately without using functions or i will KILL MYSELF

[rocky canyon]

i think i may be borderline dyslexic

that was sooo hard for me to read

[naive pawn]

my codegolf blood is showing

[rocky canyon]

i wish i could read it better

[naive pawn]

i tend to just... ignore the existance of newlines when doing small tests like that yeah lmao

[rich adder]

yeah took a couple passes to read lol

[rocky canyon]

i love army acronyms and i wish i could code using more acroynms 😈

[naive pawn]

hey aren't colliders supposed to use green lines

[rocky canyon]

typically yea

[naive pawn]

so my monitor just decided to pull an optical illusion on me i suppose
the boxcolliders i had looked like they had green horizontal lines and white vertical lines

zoomed screenshot/other monitor showed consistent green

[obtuse basin]

nah ur just hallucinating

happens sometimes

[sour fulcrum]

any chance you have two gizmos lines drawing the same place and the load order sometimes flickers?

[naive pawn]

no, i think it (gpu/monitor, idk) decided the line was too thin and actually did just make it white

[sour fulcrum]

honestly so valid

[naive pawn]

oh wait this is the code channel. whoops.

[wise cairn]

ok so guys i read this C# crash course, do you think that's enough tp start making basic games or should i do more

[naive pawn]

that's not a very answerable question

• depends on what you mean by "basic"
• make sure you also understand it, not just that you read it
• you'll also need to learn unity apis and messages
• you'll also need to learn how to use the unity editor, how to work with gameobjects, and how to manage the assets
• you won't remember all of it, make sure you can find what you need if you have to go back to check

that being said - sure, you can start making stuff, but don't do "learning" and "making" as separate steps
learn as you go too, via tutorials, via guides, via docs, etc

[wise cairn]

ok got it

where can i find resources for learning unity stuff

[rotund hull]

I am trying to make a crafting interface in my survival game and used a scroll view for it. But when you select the scroll bar with your mouse and use it you can controll it with w and s, how can i remove this

[eager elm]

try setting Navigation on the ScrollBars to None

[rotund hull]

that worked, thanks

[mossy jasper]

does anyone else experience this bug?

[short hazel]

Use GetAxisRaw instead, as GetAxis smoothes out your inputs from 0 to 1 and back

The effect is that, because you normalize the vector made for these inputs, it'll keep going until your inputs are both exactly 0, which takes a second or so with GetAxis

[mossy jasper]

thanks

[mossy jasper]

it didnt work...

[twin pivot]

!code pls

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
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.

[short hazel]

You still need to normalize the vector in order to go the same speed diagonally, idk why you removed that part

[vocal wharf]

I'm still having problems with my game 🤦‍♂️. I want my player to be constantly upright relative to the sphere so that the feet are on the sphere no matter the position on the sphere. I've gone through so many tutorials and docs and this is what I have so far. The player is locked to what seems like global "uprightness" if that's a word. It's not rotating with the curve of the sphere, only staying vertical. Even after rotating the player using the editor during play mode, it just snaps back upright. I've used debug raycasts for the different vectors and gravity is pointing at the center of the sphere as it should but the player vector is locked upright. Any help is appreciated.

public class Gravity : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody[] rigidBodies;
    public GameObject planet;
    private Vector3 gravityVector;
    private Vector3 rigidBodyVector;
    public float gravityStrength = 1f;
    public float rotationSpeed = 10f;
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        foreach (Rigidbody rb in rigidBodies)
        {
            gravityVector = (rb.transform.position - planet.transform.position).normalized;
            rigidBodyVector = rb.transform.up;
            Debug.DrawRay(rb.transform.position, gravityVector, Color.green);
            Debug.DrawRay(rb.transform.position, rigidBodyVector, Color.blue);
            rb.AddForce(gravityVector * -gravityStrength);
            Quaternion currentRotation = transform.rotation;
            Quaternion targetRotation = rb.rotation * Quaternion.FromToRotation(rigidBodyVector, gravityVector);
            rb.transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(currentRotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        }
    }
}

[mossy jasper]

    {
        float moveX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); //A / D movement or left / right
        float moveZ = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"); // W / S movement or Up / Down

        Vector3 move = new Vector3(moveX, 0f, moveZ).normalized * moveSpeed;

        //move the player
        Vector3 velocity = new Vector3(move.x, rb.linearVelocity.y, move.z);
        rb.linearVelocity = velocity;
    }
}

[twin pivot]

How about having a rectangle in the sphere that faces the player and having the players rotation be the rectangles rotation

[vocal wharf]

I mean that kinda defeats the purpose because if I can get a rectangle to face my player then I can get my player to face the sphere

[hollow slate]

you get it to work?

[mossy jasper]

im making a flying script instead

[twin pivot]

why are interfaces stored in the transform of a GameObject?

[slender nymph]

what do you mean by that?

[twin pivot]

for example when you get a class from a gameObject you do gameObject.GetComponent<MyClass>(); but for interfaces you do gameObject.transform.GetComponent<IMyInterface>();

[slender nymph]

interfaces are not "stored" anywhere. and using GetComponent to find a component with a specific interface works exactly the same as finding a specific component class

[sour fulcrum]

(it's not stored period as you mentioned but in the context of how the question is phrased it is "stored" on the component that implements it)

[twin pivot]

oh so it's just gameObject.GetComponent<IMyInterface>();?

[sour fulcrum]

oh yeah the transform getcomponent just is a quality of life pointer to that iirc

since the transform <-> gameobject relationship is mandatory there's a couple functions that are provided in both

[slender nymph]

GameObject and Component both have a GetComponent method that works pretty much exactly the same. which is why you don't ever need to specifically access an object's gameObject or transform property to call GetComponent, you can call GetComponent directly on that object (assuming the object in question is a GameObject or Component)

[twin pivot]

Thanks for the help (kinda just excited with how easy interfaces make things happen)

[sour fulcrum]

oh yeah interfaces can be really nice

since you can try and get just that seperate chunk of functionality without caring about whatever else is there

[twin pivot]

regret skimming over it last time, would've made things so much easier

[sour fulcrum]

just makes using them now more rewarding 😄

they can be easy to over-use in some cases though but just takes abit of practice to figure out when and when not to use em

interfaces with constrained generics can get psycho fast lol

[twin pivot]

how do you even read that? I have enough problems with nested code lol

[sour fulcrum]

i poke at it until the red goes away

[twin pivot]

absolute nightmare fuel

[solemn arrow]

I have no idea where else to ask this, but for some reason the origin point for my player is wayyyy off in the distance from where its supposed to be due to the UI being parented under the player, issue is that I need the origin point to be proper since im trying to get the camera to look at something

so is there a way I can fix this? I'm trying to use Quaternion.LookRotation since it allows me to use Lerping

[slender nymph]

make sure your tool handle is set to Pivot not Center so it shows on the actual origin point of the object selected and doesn't approximate a center based on the object and its children

[solemn arrow]

Ah that fixed it very quickly, thanks

well in the editor I mean

there is definitely an issue with my code, but im not quite sure what 🤔

[slender nymph]

well for starters you are lerping incorrectly
https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

see this to understand how lerp is supposed to work: https://unity.huh.how/lerp/overview

you are also using LookRotation almost entirely incorrectly
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Quaternion.LookRotation.html
it expects a direction as the first parameter not a position, and you are passing Vector3.forward as the up direction

[solemn arrow]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I thought it worked as a way of retrieving a rotational value, so i was using it in substitution to Transform.LookAt

since I needed to smooth the camera's rotation rather than having it immediately snap

[slender nymph]

no, if you just want the target's forward direction then use target.transform.forward.
otherwise direction is (endPosition - startPosition)

[solemn arrow]

Thanks! that fixed it

[digital haven]

Question. I want to use other models since mixamo isn’t letting me install non in place models I need.

Where can I get something similar that will work just as well?

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[acoustic belfry]

hey, for make a cast for detect the floor, wich shape is best in 2d, a square or a circle?

[frosty hound]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[acoustic belfry]

i forgot, thanks

[mossy jasper]

can someone help me with this strange bug?

[frosty hound]

Pause the game whenit happens and select one of those bricks. Where is located in your hierarchy, is it a child of something like the player/camera?

[mossy jasper]

yeah, most of the bricks are linked to the player, so how to ffix?

[frosty hound]

Don't put them as a child of the player? I mean, that would be the obvious answer here.

You clearly succeeded in doing that with half your bricks already.

[past yarrow]

Anyone please ☝️
I fixed t he error, right now the only issue left is those surrounding 0 tiles that don't reveal themselves 😬

[mossy jasper]

it was accident

[frosty hound]

So select the bricks, drag them out of your player in the hierarchy.

[mossy jasper]

ok

[wise cairn]

ok so guys i'm making a super simple platformer to learn unity because i haven't really used it before

and i'm trying to add a script for player movement and i have absolutely no idea what to do

i assume i need to learn some unity code things?

[frosty hound]

Well, yes, Unity isn't going to do it for you.

You can start with the !learn tutorials.

[eternal falcon]

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[wise cairn]

thank you

[unique quartz]

I'm making these rabbits move by themselves with simple ai, but their idle animations dive into this, then dive back up to normal when they run. Disabling root motion stopped them from diving down, but it altered their movement and made them slow

i will also add they float in game mode but don't in scene mode

[burnt vapor]

This is a code channel

If you think the issue is related to !code, please share it

[eternal falcon]

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[unique quartz]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.AI;

public class AI_Movement : MonoBehaviour
{

    Animator animator;

    public float moveSpeed = 0.2f;

    Vector3 stopPosition;

    float walkTime;
    public float walkCounter;
    float waitTime;
    public float waitCounter;

    int WalkDirection;

    public bool isWalking;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();

        //So that all the prefabs don't move/stop at the same time
        walkTime = Random.Range(3, 6);
        waitTime = Random.Range(5, 7);


        waitCounter = waitTime;
        walkCounter = walkTime;

        ChooseDirection();
    }

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

            animator.SetBool("isRunning", true);

            walkCounter -= Time.deltaTime;

            switch (WalkDirection)
            {
                case 0:
                    transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, 0f);
                    transform.position += transform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
                    break;
                case 1:
                    transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 90, 0f);
                    transform.position += transform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
                    break;
                case 2:
                    transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, -90, 0f);
                    transform.position += transform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
                    break;
                case 3:
                    transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 180, 0f);
                    transform.position += transform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
                    break;
            }

            if (walkCounter <= 0)
            {
                stopPosition = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
                isWalking = false;
                //stop movement
                transform.position = stopPosition;
                animator.SetBool("isRunning", false);
                //reset the waitCounter
                waitCounter = waitTime;
            }


        }
        else
        {

            waitCounter -= Time.deltaTime;

            if (waitCounter <= 0)
            {
                ChooseDirection();
            }
        }
    }


    public void ChooseDirection()
    {
        WalkDirection = Random.Range(0, 4);

        isWalking = true;
        walkCounter = walkTime;
    }
}```

[unique quartz]

i dont know if it's my code or something else, i'm asking in here just in case but if it's not code related i'll ask in another channel too

i fixed it by freezing x and y rotation

[vocal wharf]

I've been stuck on this problem for days so any help would be nice. I'm trying to get all rigidbodies in the array to stand upright relative to the curve of the sphere (planet) and rotate to be perpendicular to the sphere no matter their position on the sphere. I've read all kinds of docs and tutorials and I feel like this should work but it permanantly locks the rigidbody (player) to global vertical and it doesn't even let me rotate the player on its Y axis (basically making so I can't turn side to side). Any ideas what's wrong?

public class Gravity : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody[] rigidBodies;
    public GameObject planet;
    private Vector3 gravityVector;
    private Vector3 rigidBodyVector;
    public float gravityStrength = 1f;
    public float rotationSpeed = 10f;
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        foreach (Rigidbody rb in rigidBodies)
        {
            gravityVector = (rb.transform.position - planet.transform.position).normalized;
            rigidBodyVector = rb.transform.up;
            Debug.DrawRay(rb.transform.position, gravityVector, Color.green);
            Debug.DrawRay(rb.transform.position, rigidBodyVector, Color.blue);
            rb.AddForce(gravityVector * -gravityStrength);
            Quaternion currentRotation = transform.rotation;
            Quaternion targetRotation = rb.rotation * Quaternion.FromToRotation(rigidBodyVector, gravityVector);
            rb.transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(currentRotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        }
    }
}

this is the gravity/rotation script that's on the planet object

[wintry quarry]

first off:

Quaternion currentRotation = transform.rotation;```
This is confusing. Why are you using the planet's rotation as the "current" rotation

shouldn't that just be rb.rotation?

[vocal wharf]

oh shoot yes thanks for pointing that out

I missed that

[wintry quarry]

This also looks backwards:

gravityVector = (rb.transform.position - planet.transform.position).normalized;```
As you would expect gravity to point at the center of the planet, not the other way around, although you appear to be adjusting for that in your other code with the -gravityStrength

[vocal wharf]

hmm ok

[vocal wharf]

ok I fixed those things and now the player aligns to the sphere but the player object is still spazzing out and can't be rotated by the movement script

here's the player movement script in case that's helpful https://hastebin.com/share/satokuhezi.csharp

[wintry quarry]

I mean yeah you have two different scripts trying to control the rotation of the object

they are going to conflict

Also this code:

transform.Rotate(transform.rotation.x, mouseX * mouseXSens * Time.deltaTime, transform.rotation.z);```

is very very wrong

[vocal wharf]

oh?

[wintry quarry]

This is what you want:

transform.Rotate(0, mouseX * mouseXSens0, 0);```

[vocal wharf]

hmm ok

[naive pawn]

transform.rotation is a quaternion, you don't want to access individual members

[wintry quarry]

1. Tiem.deltaTime should not be used with mouse input
2. transform.Rotate is relative, you would not put the current rotation in there
3. .rotation is a quaternion yeah

[sour vessel]

Guys do you think Chat GPT is right about this one? My concern is, linear velocity should be towards Y axis. I'm so beginner at game development and coding so maybe I horribly missed something
Here's the script im using:

using UnityEngine

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehavoir
{

        [SerializeField] private float speed;
[SerializeField] private float jumpHeight;
[SerializeField] private float dashSpeed;

private Rigidbody2D body;

private  void Awake()

{

body = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

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private void Update()

Float horizontalInput Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");

body. LinearVelocity = new Vector2(horizontalInput speed, body. LinearVelocity.y);

// making the player flip when moving Lef-Right

if (horizontalInput > 0.01F)

transform. localScale = new Vector3(6.5f, 1.25f, 0.5f);

else if (horizontalInput < -0.014)

transform.localScale = new Vector3(-0.5f, 1.25f, 0.5f);

// Jumping Input

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode. Space))

body. LinearVelocity = new Vector2(body. LinearVelocity.y, jumpHeight);

// Crouching Input

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S))

else

transform. localScale = new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f);

transform.localScale new Vector3(0.5f, 1.25f, 0.5f);

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.5))

else

GameObject.Find("Player").GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color = new Color(1, 0.64765a8f, 0);

GameObject.Find("Player").GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color = new Color(8.88856554, 8.8962266, 0);

// Dashing Input

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode. LeftShift)) body. LinearVelocity= new Vector2(bedy. LinearVelocity.x, dashSpeed);```

[wintry quarry]

there were many things wrong with that

[naive pawn]

Chat GPT is right
yeah just don't put those 2 words in the same sentence

also https://screenshot.help

[wintry quarry]

Yes ChatGPT is correct

in this case

you can also just do body.velocityY = jumpHeight;

[naive pawn]

chatgpt is not fully correct

[wintry quarry]

although jumpHeight is an innacurate name for what that variable is doing

[sour vessel]

I cant open discord on pc now
Long story

[naive pawn]

linearVelocity is not from visual scripting, it is the new name for velocity

[naive pawn]

discord has a web version.

[wintry quarry]

oh yeah I didn't notice that part

[naive pawn]

also yeah that code is... frankly horrendous

there's so many errors

[wintry quarry]

there's no way it compiles

[sour vessel]

I know about the "linearVelocity" part

[naive pawn]

incorrect syntax, misspelt props, incorrect casing, invalid identifiers

[sour vessel]

How?

[wintry quarry]

setting y velocity to 5 doesn't mean you will reach a height of 5

[sour vessel]

It's the force

Right?

[wintry quarry]

It's not a force

it's the velocity you are setting

it means you will start moving upwards at 5 meters per second. You will then follow a parabolic curve eventually landing back on the ground.

[naive pawn]

it's more of an impulse that doesn't care about mass

[wintry quarry]

the height you reach will not be 5 meters

Note:
The result of applying a force is to change the velocity of an object

you are doing the same thing a force does, but skipping actually using a force

[vocal wharf]

surely it's possible to get this game idea to work though right?

[wintry quarry]

of course

everything is possible

[vocal wharf]

I just don't know where to start

[sour vessel]

Dude i just looked this word up and i found out it means "speed" or something like that
Im not native english speaker btw

[naive pawn]

velocity is a speed with a direction

[sour vessel]

Ooooh alright

I know about it but only in my language

[sour vessel]

Actually there're so much problems with this scripts but let's just focus on jumping for now

[naive pawn]

a starting velocity of 5 with a gravity of 10 will reach a height of 1.25

[naive pawn]

you can't. you have to fix the script before you can do anything

[sour vessel]

What i meant with problems I meant gameplay problems like the script itself has no errors

[naive pawn]

did you retype the script

ah well that makes sense since you said you didn't have discord on pc

yeah don't do that, ever

[sour vessel]

Any typo in the script is actually google lens fault not mine

[naive pawn]

it is your fault by using google lens lmao

you created 21 errors by doing that

just copy and paste the script

don't retype code or errors when sharing them, period

[sour vessel]

Ye I will absolutely my ethernet issue is solved

Anyways there's something I wanna understand

1-"linearVelocity.y" needs to be changed to "... .x" cool but shouldnt it be the Y axis? Like you're jumping vertically through the Y axis

[naive pawn]

you want to change the y axis, you want to preserve the x axis

[wintry quarry]

the first part of the vector is the x velocity

you are creating a number here, which will be the new velocity of the object:
(x, y)
what you want is:
(current x velocity, new jumpy y velocity)

what you had before was:
(current y velocity, new jumpy y velocity)
Which makes no sense and now you're making the object move sideways at the speed it was moving up/down at.

[sour vessel]

Alright i got it now

Gonna test it then im gonna go back here to ask about the other issues
I need someone patient

[naive pawn]

take a screen recording, not a recording of a screen

[sour vessel]

Wait

I can use usb to transfer file

Sht mb wait a min

[frail hawk]

i don´t know what is more annoying, the recording of the screen with a mobile phone or that the screen is upside down

[sour vessel]

When i hold the space button the player FLIIIIES

[naive pawn]

use mp4 so it embeds on discord

[naive pawn]

presumably because you're using GetKey so you set the vertical velocity every frame space is held down

use GetKeyDown to trigger only on the frame it's pressed

[sour vessel]

Alriiiight

Now i have problem with crouching

When i press S the player gets slightly above the ground then drops down

[sour vessel]

Here's the script

[naive pawn]

that's not an acceptible form

copy and paste your code, don't use google lens

[sour vessel]

I completely forgot I can transfer files from phone to pc via usb

[naive pawn]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[strong shoal]

public class EnterCommand : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private TextMeshProUGUI commandField;
private Dictionary<string, Action> _commands;

private void Start()
{
    _commands = new Dictionary<string, Action>()
    {
        { "test", Test }
    };
}

public void CommandEntered()
{
    String command = commandField.text.Trim().ToLower();
    
    if (_commands.ContainsKey(command))
    {
        _commands[command].Invoke();
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.Log($"There`s no command named: {command}");
    }
}

private void Test()
{
    Debug.Log("test");
}

}

can someone tell me why its displaying that there is no command names test

[slender nymph]

is commandField perhaps part of a TMP InputField? if so this might be the u200b character causing issues

[strong shoal]

yes

ohhh

that would make sense

[slender nymph]

refer to the TMP_InputField directly not the TMP_Text it modifies

https://unity.huh.how/parsing#textmesh-pro-input-fields

[strong shoal]

ITS WORKING

UR THE BEST

THX A LOT

[chilly prism]

guys i need help with the canvas gameobject

how do i get rid of these white lines

[naive pawn]

ok, what's the issue

[rocky canyon]

thats at the very bottom left corner of ur screen

ull only see the edge of that number

[naive pawn]

in the scene view or the gameview?

[chilly prism]

both

[cosmic quail]

thats ur screen, u dont want to get rid of it

[rocky canyon]

i usually Hide the canvas components

[chilly prism]

how

[naive pawn]

the line is also in the game view?

[chilly prism]

yes

[naive pawn]

any suspicion at all what it could be from?

[rocky canyon]

ya thats the canvas

[slender nymph]

note that gizmos like the canvas bounds are only ever shown in the editor. it should also not even be possible to see that in the game view considering it would be bordering the screen

[rocky canyon]

can u even hide that? i never knew u could

[slender nymph]

that small rectangle is your camera. the big one is the canvas because it is a screen space overlay canvas

[rocky canyon]

same here

[chilly prism]

okay so how do i get rid of those two lines or atleast how do i hide them

[slender nymph]

you don't need to