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[chilly prism]

but they show up when i am playing the game

[slender nymph]

prove it

[rocky canyon]

then u have the gizmos enabled in the game-view

[rocky canyon]

never seen it tho

[chilly prism]

the game is running and i can see them

[slender nymph]

you've messed something up with your canvas then since that would not be the position of either of those objects in game view if it were a screen space overlay canvas

show the actual canvas component

[chilly prism]

ok

[strong shoal]

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

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

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

    commandField.text = "";
}

private void GiveMoney()
{
    String[] parameters = command.Split(' ');
    FindFirstObjectByType<PlayerScript>().Money += Convert.ToInt16(parameters[2]);
}

} does someone know why its not detecting the command???

[slender nymph]

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[slender nymph]

so this is a screen space overlay canvas. which means what you are seeing in game view is either something else or a unity bug. if that isn't a different object then restart the editor

[chilly prism]

is there something wrong with it?

hmmmm ok

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[chilly prism]

i restarted the editor but i can still see them

[slender nymph]

did you bother confirming you were actually looking at the right object inspector first?

[chilly prism]

yes

it's the canvas

[rocky canyon]

this was the gizmo button i was mentioning just in case.. couldnt actually tell by ur screenshot

[slender nymph]

even with gizmos enabled that shouldn't appear in the position they've shown

[rocky canyon]

not that thats what it is. b/c as box said ya ^

that

something screwy going on

[chilly prism]

ooo

[chilly prism]

when i pressed that button the lines disappeared thank you!

[slender nymph]

that's just hiding the issue, not actually fixing it

[rocky canyon]

theres two different buttons for each window

game view and scene view

ya true..

unless that number is actually a world-space object

it doesnt make sense

but i think it may not actually be part of the canvas

[slender nymph]

the corner of a screenspace overlay canvas wouldn't be in the center of the screen in game view though

[rocky canyon]

ya true.. this is what i was expecting to see

[rocky canyon]

can u show ur number object in the hiearchy

[chilly prism]

i am basically making flappy bird but he has a gun

[rocky canyon]

just to humor us

[chilly prism]

number object?

[rocky canyon]

the 0

[chilly prism]

here's the hiearchy

[rocky canyon]

its inside the canvas tho?

ahh yea that is weird

[slender nymph]

expand the folded objects

[chilly prism]

ok

[rocky canyon]

can u show the Text (Legacy) selection in the inspector?

[chilly prism]

ok

what do i do if i want the text to be behind the pipe

[rocky canyon]

you'd probably need to use a world space canvas for the number (and then that type of canvas does align in ur camera like normal objects)...

you'd then just change the sorting layer so its behind the pipes

or just move it behind it.

[chilly prism]

when i changed it to world space the "0" got removed

now what

[rocky canyon]

it just moved..

select it and press F while hovering the scene view

it'll focus on where it is

[chilly prism]

where 🙏 🙏🙏🙏

[rocky canyon]

you'll have to position it wherever ur pipes and gamefield is

[chilly prism]

it's not showing up on game view

[digital haven]

hey i got things going again, but i keep getting a error here with both phrases: CharacterControls

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using UnityEngine.Windows;

public class characterMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
//variable to store character animator component
Animator animator;
//variable to store optimized setter/getter IDs
int isWalkingHash;
int isRunningHash;

PlayerInput input;

// variables to track movement and input state
Vector2 currentMovement;
bool movementPressed;
bool runPressed;

void Awake()
{
    input = new PlayerInput();

    input.actions.CharacterControls.performed += ctx =>
    {
        currentMovement = ctx.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        movementPressed = currentMovement.x != 0 || currentMovement.y != 0;
    };
    input.CharacterControls.Run.performed += ctx => runPressed = ctx.ReadValueAsButton();
}

void Start()
{
    //set the animator reference
    animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
    //set the ID references
    isWalkingHash = Animator.StringToHash("iswalking");
    isRunningHash = Animator.StringToHash("isRunning");
}

void Update()
{
    HandleMovement();
}

void HandleMovement()
{
    
    bool isRunning = animator.GetBool(isRunningHash);
    bool isWalking = animator.GetBool(isWalkingHash);

    if (movementPressed && !isWalking)
    {
        animator.SetBool(isWalkingHash, true);
    }

    if (!movementPressed && isWalking)
    {
        animator.SetBool(isWalkingHash, false);
    }
    if ((movementPressed && runPressed) && !isRunning){ 
    {
        animator.SetBool(isWalkingHash, true);
    }
         if ((movementPressed && runPressed) && !isRunning){ 
    {
        animator.SetBool(isWalkingHash, false);
    }
}

void OnEnable()
{
    input.actions.Enable();
}

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

}

is there a way to fix this so i can make my model to move around using a controller? I have been on this for a day now and i am stuck

[rocky canyon]

ur game is way down here..

from the image that means in this view its WAY WAY WAY on the top right corner OFF the screen

b/c screenspace canvases work differently than worldspace canvases

a screenspace canvas is always that BIG square off to the side.. (ur game camera doesnt actual render it.. it gets renderered on top of wat the camera sees)

while a worldspace canvas does matter b/c the camera must be looking at it..

if u adjust ur game-view you'll notice that the bounds of the UI Canvas adjusts with it (if its set to scale correctly)... again having nothing really to do with the actual game stuff and the camera-view

[digital haven]

Like i keep getting this error and i dont know why. I am following a tutorial to the letter:

[rocky canyon]

those errors are related to the input system.. its looking for actions u havent set up... or not named the same

in the tutorial he should have a section where he sets those up

[chilly prism]

oh ok

[digital haven]

I’m not sure which ones they would be referring to is.

[rocky canyon]

it'd be something like that ^ this is a screenshot of the default ones that come in some of the unity projects but im not sure if they're using those

or they made their own or modified them a bit

[rocky canyon]

im sure its in there tho.. ofc the inputs aren't really the main focus if ur doing animation..
you can use the old input system.. Input.GetKeyDown type stuff just as easily..

[wintry quarry]

looks like you didn't follow the tutorial

[rocky canyon]

capitalization usually is important when scripting 😉

just saying

[digital haven]

my bad then

[rocky canyon]

im not 💯 thats the problem..

but if ur following a tutorial. and ur not naming things the exact same as the tutorial it'll not work the same

unless u keep track of what u renamed.. and when they use their version.. u swap out and use ur renamed version..

[digital haven]

Well I thought I was naming it correctly, but yeah I’m still getting a error in my code even after changing it to Character Controls

[digital haven]

What else can I check?

[chilly prism]

does anyone why this might be happening

[wintry quarry]

what, the spinning?

It's because you didn't constrain the rotation on your Rigidbody2d

but also - shouldnt the player be dying when you collide anyway?

[chilly prism]

no

counts to 9

then resets to 1

and doesn't add to the score anymore

[digital haven]

So can no one help?

[chilly prism]

i am stil following the tutorial

[wintry quarry]

my guess it's it's actually trying to display 10, 11, 12 but you made the text object too small so there's no room to show the second digit

[chilly prism]

ah ok

[wintry quarry]

Actually yes confirmed

you can see in the inspector that is happening

[chilly prism]

thx

you were right

[digital haven]

this is what i get in the debug menu

[wintry quarry]

pretty sure this is all because you didn't capitalize stuff correctly

the tutorial is adding extra confusing by naming their input actions asset "PlayerInput", which conflicts with the name of a common componnent from the INputSystem itself

but you seem to have named yours "player input" or "playerinput" instead of PlayerInput

In fact this is happening which is 😵‍💫

anyway - do you have an IDE which is properly showing you errors and making autocomplete suggestions?

Because it seems like you probably don't

[digital haven]

I don’t believe so

[rocky canyon]

depending on how beginner u are it may actually be better to just restart

[digital haven]

I don’t wanna restart

[wintry quarry]

you need to configure your ide

!ide

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[rocky canyon]

well get ready to experience game-dev first hand 💪 😅

[chilly prism]

why doesn't this work

[rocky canyon]

hover it and read what it says

[wintry quarry]

You should start by mousing over the error to see what the problem is

[wintry quarry]

but if this is for the problem above with the text sizing

I don't understand why you are doing this

this is not needed

you needn't change anything in the code

just make the text object larger

[chilly prism]

i wanna center it because when it goes over 10 it just looks bad

[digital haven]

It should be the latest version of visual studio code 2022

[wintry quarry]

Is that a question?

[chilly prism]

i wanna change it's x position

[digital haven]

Yes?

[wintry quarry]

you just need to change the alignment settings on it

you don't need to do anything in code

[wintry quarry]

I don't understand what you are asking

[digital haven]

I’m just not understanding what you are asking

[wintry quarry]

I wasn't asking, I was telling you to configure your IDE

[chilly prism]

to center it when it's less than 10 the x postition has to be 85

[wintry quarry]

just change the alignment settings

make it centered

[wintry quarry]

or make it larger^

[rocky canyon]

also.. pro-tip.. when ur designing UI type out the MAX amount of characters u expect to have

[digital haven]

like right here? i thought this was fine

[rocky canyon]

and then design THAT to fit

[wintry quarry]

you need to follow the full instructions in the link I sent. That menu is only one part of it

[chilly prism]

how

[wintry quarry]

With the buttons I showed you above

[chilly prism]

oh wait

ooo

thx

[chilly prism]

i sound so stupid omg

[rocky canyon]

everytime ur like.. well. dang i dont know how to do that..
take a step back.. look around ur environment..
and then if u cant figure it out carry on with ur question 😅

best way to learn imo is just fiddling with stuff

Ctrl+Z is my partner in crime...

• what does this button do.. <Ohh crap>
• Ctrl+Z, welp now I know... lol

[wild peak]

If there wasnt undo world would be hard mode

[digital haven]

but it already is updated?

[wintry quarry]

there are more steps, keep going through all of them

[digital haven]

But I don’t see anything else I can do? I already checked everywhere in the package manager, it wouldn’t let me check in the help > check for updates.

[wintry quarry]

did you do this whole part??

[digital haven]

Yes I did that a while ago

[wintry quarry]

and you still don't get errors and autocomplete in VS?

Can you showe a screenshot of your VS window?

[digital haven]

Yes

[wintry quarry]

looks like it's working fine

[digital haven]

Yes but I keep getting that error and it won’t let me use it

[wintry quarry]

but yeah your code is using the PlayerInput component class

not your generated C# class

Like I mentioned above you're getting confused because of how the tutorial stupidly named things

[digital haven]

Okay then what can I do?

Yes i am

[wintry quarry]

go look at the generated C# class file

[wintry quarry]

The one at the path you set here

wait

also

[digital haven]

The Player Input?

[wintry quarry]

why are you doing input.actions.CharacterControls?

There's no way the tutorial is doing that

the tutorial almost certainly has input.CharacterControls

(which will also not work if you're not using the generated class)

[wintry quarry]

yeah scroll down to where it actually defines the class

[digital haven]

Sorry where would that be exactly?

[wintry quarry]

where it says public class <class name here>

[digital haven]

He didn’t edit this file so I assumed that I wasn’t supposed to edit it

[wintry quarry]

you aren't supposd to edit it

I'm just showing you why what you did is wrong

and why it's not working

[wintry quarry]

See how theis class is named Playerinput?

And your code is using PlayerInput

notice the differently capitalized i?

you are trying to use the wrong thing in your other code, partially because you named your actions asset differently from the tutorial

which lead to this class being named differently

[rocky canyon]

snowball effect

[wintry quarry]

With the added confusion of the fact that PlayerInput is a built in component in the Input System

So this is partially the tutorial's fault for naming things poorly, and partially your fault for not following the tutorial precisely

[digital haven]

So wait in the character Movement document I need to change to Player input for all of the Player Inputs?

[wintry quarry]

Why not just go back

and change the name of your actions asset

so it's the same as the tutorial

[rocky canyon]

anywhere the code references it it must be referenced the correct way..

ur either changing everything to match what u made..

or ur changing what u made to match everything else

hence why i said earlier it might be better to start over.. b/c
it actually might be quicker in all honesty lol

[digital haven]

I don’t wanna start over tho

[rocky canyon]

u dont have to retype every script.. just change the parts that need it

i meant basically going back to the start and seeing where u went wrong.. remedying it one step at a time

[digital haven]

So wait is that why CharacterControls is having issues or a part of it?

[rocky canyon]

as said u can just chagne the input stuff to what it needs to be.. regenerate ur class or however they do in the tutorial.. and then u could go and change ur focus to the console.. see what errors u have after having the correct input system set up

[wintry quarry]

Again, it's having issues because you used the wrong name

fix that, and it will work

[rocky canyon]

ya, anything with input is gonna be messed up for now

[digital haven]

Okay where do I fix it in the code.

[wintry quarry]

you don't fix it in the code

fix the name of your input actions asset

[rocky canyon]

make the input work w/ the code lol ^

[wintry quarry]

so that it's the same as the tutorial

[wintry quarry]

this thing

this is what you need to rename

make it so it is named the same as what the tutorial named it

[digital haven]

Okay it’s named as the tutorial but it’s still getting errors

[wintry quarry]

show what you did and what errors you are getting

also which tutorial is this?

[digital haven]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IurqiqduMVQ&t=614s

[wintry quarry]

yeah notice they have input.CharacterControls not input.actions.CharacterControls

also - this tutorial kinda sucks

[digital haven]

Right yes I changed that

[wintry quarry]

they are not following C# naming conventions

[digital haven]

I see

[wintry quarry]

and they uselessly did using UnityEngine.InputSystem - notice it's greyed out because they're not actually using that

it's just adding to the confusion

and makes me think further they don't know what they're doing

[digital haven]

I’ve been going through this these tutorials for like 2 months now

And no one ever said anything about it before when I posted here

[wintry quarry]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[digital haven]

Okay here is the vid I made for the naming conventions

I’m not sure what to do now. I just wanted this to be a few fixes and get my character moving

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you still have input.actions in the code which is not correct

and is not in the tutorial

[digital haven]

What about Run and performed?

[wintry quarry]

what about them?

[digital haven]

I removed actions, but I’m still getting errors

[wintry quarry]

what errors

I can't see your screen

I can't see what errors you have if you don't show them

[wintry quarry]

the top one you did not copy the tutorial code correctly

The bottom one you will need to actually tell me what the error is

because this is just a screenshot of a squiggly red line

oh look

from your screenshot above

[wintry quarry]

once again a problem that you didn't name things the same as the tutorial

The tutorial named it Run, you named yours run

[grand snow]

Things are case sensitive! visual studio should have given you suggestions as you typed so you can avoid mistakes

[digital haven]

im getting this error now in a seperate C# script

[wintry quarry]

yeah because now you have the issue that this PlayerInput variable is actually SUPPOSED to be the UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput type

[digital haven]

It can, I don’t know how helpful they are

I see so what can I do?

[wintry quarry]

Also it's C# not C+

[grand snow]

they are very helpful to me

[wintry quarry]

Wlel you could change the type of this one variable to explicitly be UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput

but it's weirtd that you even have this code here

[digital haven]

Where exactly?

[wintry quarry]

it seems like you're mixing up code from two different tutorials probably?

[wintry quarry]

where you define the variable, naturally

that's where you declare the type

[digital haven]

Possibly, I did a lot of stuff before this

I don’t understand why it’s attaching to that third person controller

[wintry quarry]

Basically your project is in a weird state - you have multiple scripts doing completely different workflows for handling input

[digital haven]

Okay where is that variable that is defined?

[wintry quarry]

How should I know

it's wherever you define this variable

higher up in this script, presumably

[grand snow]

Looks like its the unity third person controller and it appears to have been pre set up with movement input so I can only presume its been broken by the action changes

[wintry quarry]

Yes at the top there is where you declared the variable

well it's broken because the type here is PlayerInput which again is ambiguous between your generated class name and the built in component

since the generated class lives in the global namespace it's just always picking that

Are you even using this script anymore?

[grand snow]

Oh good spot. I was checking the actual type: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.14/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_PlayerInput_currentControlScheme

[wintry quarry]

Didn't you write a different script for controlling the character?

If you're not using this script anymore you should just delete it

otherwise - you can change that variable to use the UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput class explicitly

[digital haven]

I am not using it anymore because I remember now. It’s apart of a little game I made using a keyboard. I had to double check so maybe just deleting it would be better.

[wintry quarry]

If you're not using it, deleting it will be simpler than fixing the errors

[chilly vigil]

how do i use the locked function in unity

[rocky canyon]

which one? theres dozens of locks..

[tawdry axle]

Hey everyone. I've been working on this arcade game and I'm having trouble getting the 2D navmesh to work for the enemy AI. Right now when I hit play the enemy switches to the wrong plane and isn't visible by the player

I've tried rotating the surface to XY in the navigation surface component and then baking it but that hasnt worked

[rocky canyon]

why not rotate the pizza slice as a child object

• Agent < move this
  • Gfx < rotate this to align towards camera

[lilac cape]

Does anyone by chance have a code example of using the new input system to interact with an object?

[grand badger]

On phone right now, but the official docs have you covered on this!

[fossil plaza]

yo can someone teach me how c# works

im an idiot and cant understand tutorials

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[fossil plaza]

im too dumb to look at that lol

[cosmic dagger]

Then you're going to have a hard time doing anything . . .

[fossil plaza]

Confirmed i know

[lusty viper]

If you can't understand tutorials then I dunno how someone would be able to teach you lol

[polar acorn]

Then why would you understand it if we say it

We're also just text on a screen you know

[fossil plaza]

Questions

[polar acorn]

Yes we answer those. You have actually ask some first though

[brisk granite]

i was looking into OnParticleTrigger and was a bit confused by the documentation. is it supposed to be the OnTriggerEnter variation of OnParticleCollision? if so, it would be possible to use OnParticleTrigger to inflict damage on enemies/mobs, right?

[ruby python]

Early morning math issues. lol.

I need to remap values of 0 to areaHeight, to 0 to 90 (ie 0 to 2000 to 0 - 90) but my brain is failing. Any help please? 🫣

[sour fulcrum]

inverselerp then lerp?

[grim flower]

coming back from developing after a few years. is there a new way to do rb.drag?

[sharp abyss]

it corrects when you try to in visual studio I think

[grim flower]

Created a script for player movement. I am getting a lot of visual stuttering. Any clue what the issue might be?
Code:

public class playerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    InputAction moveAction;
    InputAction jumpAction;

    [SerializeField] private Rigidbody rb;
    [SerializeField] private BoxCollider bc;

    [SerializeField] private float movementSense = 3.33f;
    [SerializeField] private float lookSense = 1f;

    private Vector3 force;

    private void Start()
    {
        // Find the references to the "Move" and "Jump" actions
        moveAction = InputSystem.actions.FindAction("Move");
        jumpAction = InputSystem.actions.FindAction("Jump");

        rb.linearDamping = 10f;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        Vector2 moveValue = moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        force = new Vector3(moveValue.x, 0f, moveValue.y);
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if (jumpAction.IsPressed() && isGrounded())
        {
            rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * 5f, ForceMode.Impulse);
            Debug.Log("jumped");
        }

        rb.AddRelativeForce(force * movementSense, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
    }

    private bool isGrounded()
    {
        return Physics.Raycast(transform.position + Vector3.up, Vector3.down, 1f);
    }
}

[keen dew]

newValue = oldValue / areaHeight * 90;

if oldValue and areaHeight are ints then you need to cast to float first

[ruby python]

Thank you, silly brain failing me on a saturday morning. lol.

[chilly prism]

help my play again button isn't working

[frail hawk]

is the button click triggered? use a debug

[chilly prism]

yes

idk tbh

[chilly prism]

i still need help

[frail hawk]

if you don´t know the button is working use a debug log inside the Restart Method

narrow down your problem

[chilly prism]

how

how do i check if the button is pressed or not

using Debug.Log

[frail hawk]

!learn, you lack basic unity knowledge

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[teal viper]

If it logs, then it works. If it doesn't log, then it doesn't work.

[chilly prism]

yeah but how do i check

like what's the code

[teal viper]

Check what?

Debug log

Check docs for the proper signature

[chilly prism]

if (button == clicked) { Debug.log("clicked")}

[teal viper]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[teal viper]

That's not gonna compile.

And no, you don't need an if statement

[chilly prism]

then what do i write

[teal viper]

You just need to put the log in the button method

#💻┃code-beginner message

[chilly prism]

ooooh

wait imma try smth and come back

will this work?

[ruby python]

More math brain failure.....

Would somebody be willing to take a look at this If declaration and see if I'm doing it right?

values are between 0 and 90 and I'm checking if my newLatitudeMin/newLatitudeMax variables fall within the min/max range. And also doing the negative (0 to -90)

                    if (rule.Latitude.Max < newLatitudeMax && rule.Latitude.Max > newLatitudeMin
                        ||
                        -rule.Latitude.Max > -newLatitudeMax && -rule.Latitude.Max < newLatitudeMin
                        )

[chilly prism]

i made this editor and runtime so i can press it while the game is paused

but when i press it it doesn't show up on the Console

[stuck field]

In that case, the button isn't being pressed

[chilly prism]

i am pretty sure i am pressing it

lmb

am i supposed to right click it or smth

[stuck field]

Does it change color to what you have defined?

[frail hawk]

pressing and being triggered are different things

[chilly prism]

i didn't define a color for it when being pressed

why is my button not buttoning

[stuck field]

Question, probably stupid, but is the script the one on the object, or the one you have in your assets?

If you even have one on the object that is

[teal viper]

I don't think canvas UI works in the editor(outside play)

Test in play mode.

[naive pawn]

btw that's an if statement, declarations are different things

[ruby python]

Yeah I know, just couldn't think of the word. lol.

[naive pawn]

what exactly is the intention?

what's the input, which are constants

(if they're nonnegative, why check for negatives?)

[ruby python]

If the 'new' min and max value are between the min/max values of rule.latitude >> Do things

I have xml data that I'm reading in to a scriptable object, and the min/max values in the rules are between 0 & 90, so I also need to check for the negative to properly assign latitude values in both the northern and southern 'hemispheres' of my game world.

[naive pawn]

and the "new min/max" can be negative?

are you supposed to be using rule.Latitude.Min in some of those spots?

[ruby python]

Oh wait, hang on. I just realised that it's totally wrong. lol.

newMin and newMax are 'converted' from the 0-90 value in the rule.LatitudeMin/Max to the world values (currently set temporarily to 4096, so if rule.LatitudeMax is 90, newLatitudeMax is 4096) so I'm using completely the wrong things in the if statement. lol.

For context I'm using this.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/procedural-terrain-painter-188357

And this script is hooking into it and generating the layers and rules (that govern the splatmaps), but it doesn't have a rule for latitude, so this is just a simple if statement to check the latitude from the xml that I have and simple turning of the other 'rule' layers (height and slope).

                <Rule>
                    <Layer Material="Snow"/>
                    <Height Min="0.0" Max="1.0"/>
                    <Latitude Min="80" Max="90"/>
                    <Slope Min="0" Max="30"/>
                </Rule>

Example of a rule in the xml

[chilly prism]

the one on the object

[ruby python]

My brain hurts. lol.

Sort of thinking out loud atm.

But I need to make an if statement that enables my terrainLayer rules between the values of rule.Latitude.Min and rule.Latitude.Max, otherwise disable them.

[chilly prism]

why is my button not working

[stuck field]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[chilly prism]

still doesn't work

can i screen share with one of you

[teal viper]

No.
But go over the steps in this page:
https://unity.huh.how/ugui/input-issues

[chilly prism]

i'll send a video then

did someone figure out what's wrong

[stuck field]

It's very clearly not being pressed, pressed color is a darker shade, but the button never changes, and by what I see, you need to go over the steps here: https://unity.huh.how/ugui/input-issues

There is a reason it isn't detecting it, and it can be found at that link (At least from my view)

[ruby python]

It's not being interacted with at all, it's not changing colour when you rollover. How big are your other UI elements?

[frail hawk]

can you disable the Image componenet on your Play Again gameObject and try it again?

[chilly prism]

so how do i press it? i keep left clicking it

[stuck field]

Head to: https://unity.huh.how/ugui/input-issues

Read it, and check it all

You can also try what the others said if that doesn't work, but I suspect it's something that is on that page

[chilly prism]

none of them are touching the button

i tried disabling the image and that still didn't work

[ruby python]

Check you container object (game over screen)

[wild peak]

do u have event system in hierarchy

[chilly prism]

no

it appeared before but i deleted it

[wild peak]

then add it thats why it doesnt work

[stuck field]

Exactly what they would've added if they didn't ignore me 😭

[ruby python]

LMAO. Missed that one myself.

[chilly prism]

how do i add it

[frail hawk]

well you need the event system..

[stuck field]

Please listen, click the blue text: https://unity.huh.how/ugui/input-issues

[wild peak]

add game object UI/Event system

[chilly prism]

😭 🙏

literally the first thing on the website 😭 🙏

[ruby python]

Not trying to be a dick, but

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[stuck field]

Should've listened

[chilly prism]

thx it works now

♥️

[ruby python]

dammit. lol.

[frail hawk]

it should not be possible to remove the event system but some things are weird in unity

[ruby python]

Yeah tbh, I've always thought that it should kinda be something that's there in the background anyway

[chilly prism]

how do i get that score number behind the pipes

[stuck field]

Set its sorting layer to one below the pipes sorting layer (I think)

[frail hawk]

you can simply change their hierarchy order

[chilly prism]

fr?

imma try that

doesn't work

i also tried doing this, but it still doesn't work

[frail hawk]

in the hierarchy, you simply move them up and down( if you have seperate gameobjects)

[chilly prism]

the pipe isn't in the heirarchy, it spawns after you open the game

it is a prefab that spawns when you play the game

[frail hawk]

i see

you could use world space for your ui and play with the z

[chilly prism]

tried doing that but everything falls crumbling down (not literally)

do i just make the z value in the negatives?

[chilly prism]

also doesn't work

[ivory bobcat]

Is it a 2d object? Show the inspector property for the pipe object

[chilly prism]

ok

[ivory bobcat]

There ought to be something more than that.. without a renderer there wouldn't be anything drawn to the scene..

[chilly prism]

it is a prefab

[ivory bobcat]

Doesn't matter

[chilly prism]

the renderer is on the children

[ivory bobcat]

Show us the child then

[ivory bobcat]

In the renderer component. There should be some sorting order value. I'm on mobile and it's quite difficult to see.

[stuck field]

Order in layer

Set it to 1 if you want that object in front of all the objects with order in layer to be 0 (I think)

[chilly prism]

ok

[ivory bobcat]

The canvas renderer would have one too. Try modifying the value to be different from the canvas' value.

[chilly prism]

doesn't work

[stuck field]

Gotta be more descriptive, did it do anything? if so, what did it do?

"Doesn't work" is too vague for us to determine why it didn't work, if it did nothing, then it's probably the wrong option/other objects aren't a lower value than what you set

[chilly prism]

the text is still in front

[stuck field]

And what is the texts order in layer value?

[chilly prism]

i made a new layer and called it pipe

[stuck field]

Might be why it doesn't work

It's the renderer order within the sorting layer

[ivory bobcat]

Show us the canvas' inspector

[stuck field]

Changing it means it's 1 in the pipe sorting layer, not 1 in the UI sorting layer

[stuck field]

Should be fine, sort order is 0

And I'm pretty sure that's just the order the canvases render but I might be wrong

[ivory bobcat]

Change render mode from overlay to camera world

[chilly prism]

then?

[stuck field]

It's flappy bird, doing that would make it be a bit wacky

I believe it's meant to be world space, not pixel space (camera space)

[chilly prism]

yoo

it works now thx

[stuck field]

Make sure the game still functions as intended just in case

[chilly prism]

i put the camera in the "render camera"

and made the z axis of the text -1

now it's behind the pipes

[slender nymph]

note that using a world space canvas is what was suggested when you asked about this yesterday

[chilly prism]

yea but i used a screen space camera instead

[frail hawk]

and here: #💻┃code-beginner message

[chilly prism]

please excuse me guys if i sound stupid or do stupid stuff i am a beginner after all

🙏 🙏 🙏

[stuck field]

I would just recommend listening to people, you ignored me earlier despite having the solution (and dlitch too), and now it seems you also ignored these others as well 😭

[chilly prism]

i basically did that but with screen space camera

[slender nymph]

instead of just throwing a bunch of shit at the wall and seeing what sticks, you should take the advice you've been given multiple times and go through the pathways on the unity !learn site to actually learn what you are doing

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[chilly prism]

but i hate reading

[frail hawk]

btw the learn site is down ( for me at least in germany)

[chilly prism]

i like trying stuff until it works

[sharp abyss]

https://paste.ofcode.org/fg6Tq96XjePH6TtbZT58pH

How can I prevent it from creating overlapping walls or make it create walls every 2 unit because they are 2 units wide.

[slender nymph]

then you're going to fail

[stuck field]

Well you gotta do things you hate sometimes

[frail hawk]

anyone else having problems to see the learn site

[stuck field]

Nope, mine seems to be working just fine

[slender nymph]

nope, it's working for me. try clearing cache

[frail hawk]

tried

[stuck field]

Strange, maybe swap browsers?

[naive pawn]

what's the issue

[frail hawk]

it is down

[naive pawn]

that can mean a lot of things

the NX Finished probe/domain thing?

a cloudflare 522?

a 404?

an hsts error?

[frail hawk]

!oh no you broke the internet

lol

[naive pawn]

i ask because if it's a 404 then it might just be a bad redirect rather than it actually being down

[naive pawn]

and there's /de in the url?

yeah, thats the bad redirect

[frail hawk]

yeah it mus be somehthing with the redirection to the de

[naive pawn]

it's trying to redirect for localization but localization doesn't use that slug

[frail hawk]

well it used to work , i am only asking because someon else told me they cant see the page also from germany

[naive pawn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[slender nymph]

remove the /de from the url then when the page loads scroll all the way down and select your preferred language

[naive pawn]

last i remember, the issue was learn.unity.com/ redirecting to learn.unity.com/de

[frail hawk]

it auto redirects to the de and no way to avoid it

[naive pawn]

@frail hawk

does that workaround work

[frail hawk]

allright

[slender nymph]

should probably submit a support ticket about that to ensure that unity is aware this is happening then

[frail hawk]

let us wait a little bit., might be some temp problem

[naive pawn]

it isn't

as evidenced by the message i linked to being 5 days old

[frail hawk]

oh now i read the previous messages, you are right

[small wyvern]

Hey so, i am a beginner. I wanted to do a 2d Top down based game (like pokemon).Right now i try to figure out how to make a scene swich in unity. So i can interact with an NPC or get another Trigger wich starts a TurnBased battle. What do i need to look up for this or are they any videos. Dont found much related to this.

[ruby python]

Could anyone explain this to me please, as it seems like a very bizarre thing.

This is how the SO's get created.

Slope layerSlope = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<Slope>();

[slender nymph]

the method expects a Type object as the first parameter, not a type. you can get the Type object for a specific type using typeof

[cosmic dagger]

You need to insert Slope as a Type object, not the type itself . . .

[slender nymph]

but also you should ideally be using the generic overload rather than that one anyway

[ruby python]

Right okay, it's just for editor useage, as on second run the SO's break everything. lol.

[sharp abyss]

can someone take a look?

[teal viper]

You'll need to modify the code so that it places the walls every 2 units... If you did write that code it should be very easy for you.🤷‍♂️

[sharp abyss]

I didnt completely write it myself

Took some parts from examples and modified it.

[teal viper]

Ok, then you'll need to read and understand how it works.

[sharp abyss]

I will try

But what can solve that?

I tried removing walls that collide with more than 1 wall but that didnt do anything

[sour fulcrum]

Code does what it’s told. Either you don’t know how to tell it something or you don’t know how to obtain what that something is via code

You gotta figure out which of those is your current problem

[teal viper]

Having a quick look at the code, you create positions for each wall and add them to a list. You'll just need to modify the logic that calculates these positions.

[idle grove]

im sorry for bothering yall, but is there something im supposed to do to not have my bottom function grayed out? in the tutorial im following it is working fine, but when i tried, even fixing some errors i did find, the editor dont even aknowledge errors or anything, the collision function just doesnt work

im sorry if its a stupid question

[naive pawn]

you misspelt it

it's OnCollisionStay2D

[idle grove]

ooh

[inner crane]

what are these icon called? - Texture2D icon = EditorGUIUtility.IconContent("sv_label_x").image as Texture2D; for the bigger ones but i need the dots

[idle grove]

thanks!

i thought it would notify me for commiting such a blatant error, i need to be more aware

[cosmic dagger]

Try asking in #↕️┃editor-extensions. They'll know more . . .

[inner crane]

mhm alright ty

[umbral bough]

Hi, I am trying to store references to my input actions in the inspector so they don't have to be initialized every time the game runs but this resets every time I reload the scene
https://hastebin.com/share/cavifoyija.csharp

Am I doing something wrong or is this just a limitation of the input system?

Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[rocky canyon]

use InputActionReferences?

[kindred halo]

Please set the PATH to a dotnet host that matches the architecture x64. An incorrect architecture will cause instability for the extension ms-dotnettools.csharp.

should I be worried about this?
I'm getting this in vscode ever since I installed C# extension

[rocky canyon]

did u install the correct one? did u install the 32 bit version on accident?

[kindred halo]

Installed from vscode
they showed me the version for the sdk

[rocky canyon]

well i dont know a whole lot bout the .net sdks and stuff but the error would lead me to believe its the wrong versioning

[frail hawk]

it did not throw any error because it could be just a void you declared that is named OnColisionStay2d witht he given parameters

[idle grove]

yeh, i understood it after thinking about it, itssomething i have to be very aware of

[kindred iron]

Guys There is a button animation which is at a button and whenever the player hover the button an animation plays but when the player clicks to the button before the buttonhover animation is finished stays the button big cuz the anim couldnt finish itself. What should i do?

[rocky canyon]

if click -> snap to final size

[kindred iron]

is there any shorter or better tactic?

[rocky canyon]

or change around the logic so the animation finishes regardless

[kindred iron]

well ty

[storm frigate]

why does mine onclick function doesnt work

[slender nymph]

You need to get your !IDE configured 👇

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[storm frigate]

i already configured it

[slender nymph]

it was not configured in the screenshot you sent

if you are certain you have actually followed all of the instructions, then go through these steps to figure out what you overlooked https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code#if-you-are-experiencing-issues

[storm frigate]

i did everything i need to do

[frail hawk]

do you have a collider on your gameObject and is this script on your desired gameobject to detect the OnMouseDown?

and as boxfriends said, it is crucial to have your IDE working properply along with intellisense

[slender nymph]

in fact, it is a requirement to have it configured to get help here

[frail hawk]

yeah i already pointed it out

[slender nymph]

you should read that too 😉

[frail hawk]

i did and this is why i answered

[hallow acorn]

hey i want to make a bush in my 2d topdown game where you can click on the bush to collect berries from it. how can i check the mouse position and if it overlaps the collider of the bush?

[frail hawk]

you could use the OnMouseDown on your sprite

[hallow acorn]

how does that work?

[frail hawk]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnMouseDown.html

[hallow acorn]

oh ty this looks unexpectedly easy

[frail hawk]

make sure to put a 2d collider on your sprite if you haven´t yet

[hallow acorn]

yeah i should also be able to combine it with a trigger circle collider around my player for limiting the reach right?

[frail hawk]

doesn´t sound like the best approach but you could simply check distance between both objects with this https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector2.Distance.html

really many ways to do that, it is up to you

[hallow acorn]

ty for the help

[frail hawk]

i am glad i could help

[slate heath]

Is there a way to make for certain cells in a tilemap have some tag or something reconocible by code?

[slate heath]

For example here, how can I make to detect that the cell is sand and not grass?

[wintry quarry]

You can read which tile it is from the Tilemap

With GetTile

[slate heath]

Yeah, but then I would hava a list with all the tiles that are grass

wouldn't that be expensive?

There should be another way

[wintry quarry]

How many different grass tiles do you have?

No it wouldn't be very expensive, you could just have a dictionary of the tile to the type or to a list of tags

Dictionary lookups are essentially free

[red brook]

do not ever worry about performance unless you are creating a specific game that aims to really hit the performance limit or already experiencing sharp fps drop

[proper compass]

I need help, with my Movement/Locomotion, I have it so when you hit your controller trigger that hand gets ancorder and you can rotate your body around your hand (0 like gravity not to strong)
How would i make it so i can hold trigger puch or and let go of the tigger and i kindda jump on ait? I have tried this but i go in the wrong direction etc.

[wintry quarry]

Wat

[rich adder]

can you show the setup / explain better what you are trying to do ?

[rich adder]

You can have custom Tiles btw and only check its type , they are similiar to scriptable objects that they can contain fields/variables
eg
if(tilemap.GetTile<BoardTile>().TileType == TileType.Sand)
etc

public class BoardTile : Tile  {
public TileType TileType;
}```

[slate heath]

That sounds interesting

I’ll check that

Thanks

[rich adder]

don't forget you need
[CreateAssetMenu] to create a new tiletype

[pearl current]

Hey guys, how do I make an enemy attack only once per swing in Unity?

I have a skeleton that chases the player and flashes a hitbox when close to attack. But right now, it deals damage multiple times per swing (based on frame rate). How can I make it only hit the player once per attack?

Here's the attack sequence code I currently have:

private void HandleAttack()
{
    animator.SetBool("isAttacking", true);
    attackTimer -= Time.deltaTime;

    if (attackTimer <= 0)
    {
        Attack();
        attackTimer = 0.78f;
        animator.SetBool("isAttacking", false);
    }
}

private void Attack()
{
    StartCoroutine(FlashAttackHitbox());
}

private IEnumerator FlashAttackHitbox()
{
    canDamage = true;
    attackCollider.enabled = true;

    yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f); // short hit window

    attackCollider.enabled = false;
    canDamage = false;
}

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
{
    if (canDamage)
    {
        canDamage = false;
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            PlayerHealth playerHealth = other.GetComponent<PlayerHealth>();
            if (playerHealth != null)
            {
                playerHealth.TakeDamage(attackDamage);
                Debug.Log("Player hit by skeleton.");
            }
        }
    }
}```

[rich adder]

probably should consider starting the coroutiune if can damage

you might have multiple coroutines running

nothing here should be dependent on framerate afaik

but coroutines can be overlapped without checks there is no limit to how man times you can run them

[pearl current]

would i put the if statement within the flashattackhitbox function or within the attack funciton you think?

[rich adder]

up to you .. maybe you can even do

attackTimer <= 0 && canDamage```

or actually yeah put it before StartCorutine

if(!canDamage) return;
StartCoroutine(

[pearl current]

it was still causing multiple hits after implementing your change but changing the "yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);" value from 0.1f to 0.01f worked!

[rich adder]

hmm that sounds like it might be covering a bigger logic issue though, the time is shorter sure but why is called multiple times is the main concern

[pearl current]

very true... idk why it's being called multiple times 😵

[rich adder]

yeah , put some logs and see where its being called multiple times

[pearl current]

oop, forgot to say thank you nav!

[prime goblet]

how can i access the Image from a script?
public Image promptBacking;
the hierarchy wont accept it

[rich adder]

thats the way to do it..
wdym "the hierarchy wont accept it"

[prime goblet]

it's in the scene too

and it doesnt do anything when i drag it into the slot

[rich adder]

which namespace did you use for it

[prime goblet]

using UnityEngine.UI;

namespace?

the script has no namespace

unless oyu mean that

[rich adder]

using statements use namespaces yes

[prime goblet]

ah alright

[rich adder]

is the script on an actual gameobject ?

[prime goblet]

yes

it's an Empty

[rich adder]

in the scene ? and is Image in the scene too

[prime goblet]

Yes

backing is the image, ladderpromptspace is where the script is defined

[rich adder]

what happens when you drag the Backing object in the ladderPromptSpace image field

[prime goblet]

nothing

the thing under the cursor just goes back to the hierarchy

and i restarted unity

[rocky canyon]

hover ur Image reference make sure its the UnityEngine.UI. one

[rich adder]

I guess we will never know

[rocky canyon]

screenshots were too cryptic anyway

[past yarrow]

Hey,

Why the attribute InspectorName() doesn't work for my variables MINES_AMOUNT, GRID_WIDTH and GRID_HEIGHT please ?

[teal viper]

This seems to be for enum value names. Not field names.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/InspectorNameAttribute.html

[past yarrow]

oh ok, is there an equivalent but for fields please ?

[teal viper]

Not that I know. You could do it via a custom editor/property drawer.
But to be honest, I'd just name your fields properly. Is there any reason for them to be named like that?

[past yarrow]

Because that's how usually I name constants, thought I think in Unity it doesn't like to Serialize consts 😬

[wintry quarry]

You'd need to write a custom editor or use a plugin like Odin

[wintry quarry]

Those aren't constants

[teal viper]

These are not constants though.

[past yarrow]

I have Odin, let me install it for this project

[past yarrow]

they were at first then I had an issue and had to remove the const keyword, let me try again to see if I can reproduce the issue 👍

[teal viper]

If it's regarding serialization, then you can't serialize constants. That's the whole point of them - they remain constant.

[past yarrow]

but where do I set its initial value ?

[teal viper]

In code

[past yarrow]

argh

so I can't make them "const" because I need to see them in inspector but at the same time I don't want to be able to change them through code, so I guess I have to go for readOnly ?

even with readonly it complains 😦

[teal viper]

You could have a getter property pointing to the serialized field.

[past yarrow]

mhhh

[teal viper]

Though, you will need to remember only to use the property.

[past yarrow]

yeah 😬

Well I won't make it const nor readonly, and will make it lower case to see it displayed properly in inspector

Wait, how does FormerlySerializedAs() work ?

There's only 1 parameter being oldName so how does it get the new name that I want 🤔

[teal viper]

The new name is the actual name that you change.

[past yarrow]

change where ? 🤔

[teal viper]

In code..

If you change the name of a field but want to preserve the previously serialized value, you use that attribute and put the old name as the argument.

[past yarrow]

wait, so if it displays still as MINES_AMOUNT instead of Mines Amount, I'm really confused

[teal viper]

Then there's no point in using that attribute

[past yarrow]

oh ok

[teal viper]

What did you change?

Why are you trying to use that attribute?

[past yarrow]

to keep MINES_AMOUNT in code but displays Mines Amount in Inspector

[teal viper]

I don't think that's how it works.

[past yarrow]

oh ok 👍

[trim lintel]

Im having some trouble making a project, every time I try to make one using the 2D (built in render pipeline) or Universal 2D, it gives me the "Failed to decompress", Am I missing something, thanks in advance

[teal viper]

Failed to decompress what? Where do you see that? Does that actually affect your project in any way?

[trim lintel]

The 2D template

[teal viper]

That only answers one of my questions

[trim lintel]

oh sorry, i have to recreate it real quick

After this happens, it doesn't allow me to use the project at all

[teal viper]

It's likely a corrupt editor installation.

Try reinstalling the edior and pay attention to any issues/errors in the process.

[sour fulcrum]

What happens if I use previously serialisedfield attribute while still also having that previous field existing? Does it deserialize to both?

[wintry quarry]

No idea, try it and let us know

Maybe an error

Nothing good certainly

[sour fulcrum]

Will do later today 😄

It’s not something I wanna do but it’s an established released api thing so I’m very restricted on options

[proper compass]

I need help, with my Movement/Locomotion, I have it so when you hit your controller trigger that hand gets ancorder and you can rotate your body around your hand (0 like gravity not to strong)
How would i make it so i can hold trigger puch or and let go of the tigger and i kindda jump on ait? I have tried this but i go in the wrong direction etc.

[past yarrow]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 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.

[past yarrow]

Guys I struggle making my grid generate in the center, how can I do that please ?
Like depending on the FOV of the Camera, the grid size, etc... the grid isn't in the middle of the screen, big grids have their right side outside of the visible part, so I can't press those tiles there making the game unfinishable 😬

What's the best approach to make it adapt to the screen size and be in the middle of the screen please.

Here's my code : https://paste.mod.gg/ujggasskdyjt/0

[trim lintel]

that seems to have worked, thank you

[storm frigate]

how do i fix it

[ivory bobcat]

According to the server rules, you need to configure your !ide
Other than that, Media isn't part of the System namespace

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[teal viper]

Is this unity related? If yes, then why not just use a unity player?

Is there any reason you need to use that api?

[storm frigate]

yes

i just forgot about this player

[chilly prism]

how do i make the background music stop when the game over screen appears

[teal viper]

Call Stop on the audio source component🤷‍♂️

[chilly prism]

how

[stuck field]

Exactly how dlich stated it, I really do recommend going through the pathways at !learn as we've told you many times, it'll help a lot (I get you dislike reading, but it'll help a lot)

[eternal falcon]

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[stuck field]

Just call Stop the same way you call Play

But I really do recommend heading to learn, give it a shot at least

[stuck field]

Yeah I really do think you need to go to the learning pathways

[chilly prism]

🙏

i tried making a stopbackground music function but idk how to use it

doesnt work

[sour adder]

You need to put (); at the end there.

[chilly prism]

Thx

[teal viper]

You need to learn C# basics.

[chilly prism]

i already did, i just got confused here

i know how to write a function and use it i just got confused for a second

but you're right i still need to learn a lot of stuff

[teal viper]

Then you should know that it's called a method, not a function in C#.

[chilly prism]

i got confused again, i learnt python first

i thought they were called the same in both languages

[sour adder]

Stopping a sound abruptly may introduce audible popping/clicking... you can fade out the volume before stopping, but that's more advanced. If you don't hear anything it may be fine.

[teal viper]

No they were not. You need to go through the C# basics properly.

[chilly prism]

Thank you for helping me! 🙏

I will go over the basics again!

[thorny swan]

can somebody help me? im in the rollaball tutorial and i wrote the script exactly as it shows to move the ball yet when I press play it shows all compiler errors...

[teal viper]

ALL compiler errors? What all compiler errors?

[thorny swan]

all compiler errors have to be fixed before you can enter

@teal viper

[teal viper]

Well Does it show you the errors?

[stuck field]

Check console

[teal viper]

Did you not look at the console?

[thorny swan]

idk im a beginner

[stuck field]

You should learn how the unity interface works before getting into the programming part

[cloud skiff]

Damn why are people blasting here wtf

Relax

[thorny swan]

it shows this

[teal viper]

Then !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[thorny swan]

bro its from a tutorial im learning

yet i have that error

wdym

who makes a game about blue balls in his spare time

[teal viper]

Ok, read the errors. The first one is pretty much self explanatory.

TIP: case(upper/lower) matters in C#.

[thorny swan]

ill revise it again

[teal viper]

Go back to the tutorial and compare your code.

[thorny swan]

yep

[proper compass]

I need help, with my Movement/Locomotion, I have it so when you hit your controller trigger that hand gets ancorder and you can rotate your body around your hand (0 like gravity not to strong)
How would i make it so i can hold trigger puch or and let go of the tigger and i kindda jump on ait? I have tried this but i go in the wrong direction etc.

[thorny swan]

hell yeah now i have blue balls

[frail crane]

guys, I am trying to make a pong game but I can't get the movement to be how I want it. I want it to be so when the player presses a button and keeps pressing it the paddles move up or down as long as the button is pressed, BUT I also want them to stop the moment players takes their hands off. I tried velocity, transform and stuff, but the paddles only move once or keep moving due to velocity or force. I hope I could be clear. I would appreciate any help

[twin pivot]

if ur using old input system store the input.getaxis value in a variable and have a script that checks it

sorry massive migraine laptop lights hurt

[fast fern]

What do I do if my application works on my device, but does some functions do not work on another user's device
basically its just, click button and things are supposed to move and make next page button active, but it does not work for my friend

is this code related btw? or this problem varies?

[twin pivot]

try deleting and posting this to #💻┃unity-talk

[frail crane]

i would rather use the new one but lemme give it a try thank you

[twin pivot]

use new one in that case

this method of approaching it is just held together by hopes and dreams

[chilly prism]

why does this happen

i am trying to make a main menu button and this is the script but it doesn't work idk why

[wintry quarry]

It's just LoadScene("Menu")

GetSceneByName only works with scenes that are already loaded

[chilly prism]

YOOO

THX IT WORKED

you're goated fr

[past yarrow]

Anyone please ? 🙂 ☝️

[naive pawn]

sounds like a #📲┃ui-ux thing - make sure you've set your anchors and pivots correctly to keep the board centered

[past yarrow]

Both on the Tile should be set to centered ? what about the construction of the grid itself ?

I'm moving to #📲┃ui-ux

[cinder void]

Hi, im trying to make a game using cinemachine follow camera, i'm trying to fit two "rooms" in a single scene where the player can transition from one room to another using a trigger. However, i'm having problems because the cinemachine confiner only accepts one collider, i decided to try switching the confiner in code, but it seems that while the cinemachine camera DID move when changing rooms, the main camera itself doesn't, am i doing something wrong and is there a better approach than this? Thanks in advance

[wintry quarry]

put one cinemachine camera in each room and switch which one is active by enabling/disabling them or by setting priority. You won't need to mess with confiners or colliders etc in code.

[signal nest]

hiii,
so basically I tried installing unity but I have no clue what I'm doing. The tutorial I tried to follow used code that I don't think works in unity 6; I have been trying to figure out how to take player inputs but it all just isn't making sense to me, and I'm certain I keep finding different ways to do things. I know how OOP and C# work, but I'm at a loss when it comes to using it with unity. Can someone please explain how to take player inputs and why it works? Also, how do you link, like, code to assets?

[wintry quarry]

If you're doing a tutorial you should use the same Unity version as the tutorial to avoid confusion

[signal nest]

ig that makes sense... shoudve thought of that

[lusty viper]

does a function refer to something else specific in that case? I usually use them interchangeably in other languages but not sure about c#

I use field and attribute interchangeably too in other languages but I know attributes are something different in c#

[naive pawn]

i mean they are still functions, just not free functions

afaik methods are just a subset of functions
functions are either methods or free functions

[lusty viper]

free functions being functions not associated with a class? Can you even do that in C#?

Would be awesome if so

[naive pawn]

not really

i guess maybe you could consider delegates/local functions as "free", but maybe that should just be called a separate type of function

[lusty viper]

Gotcha

Yeah that's kinda how I've been doin functional stuff, not really local but I just have a class with only static pure methods

[nimble apex]

native C# question, is iparsable supported by unity?

i want to make a generic getter function

[slender nymph]

if you'd look at the documentation page for it you'd see it is only available in .net 7 and above

[hallow acorn]

hey im trying to make a clickable bush where you can harvest berrys when clicking in a certain range to it but i get a nullReferenceException on line 17. could anyone explain why this could be happening?

using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

public class BushManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float pickUpRange;
    [SerializeField] private float growTime;

    private bool berriesReady = true;

    void PickUp()
    {
    }

    private void OnMouseDown()
    {
        float distanceX = transform.position.x - GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform.position.x;
        float distanceY = transform.position.y - GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform.position.y;

        float distance = Mathf.Sqrt(distanceX * distanceX + distanceY * distanceY);

        if (gameObject.GetComponentInChildren<Transform>().CompareTag("Berry") && distance <= pickUpRange && berriesReady)
        {

        }
    }

    private void Grow()
    {

    }
}

[naive pawn]

which one is line 17

also use some variables

don't do FindGameObjectWithTag twice lol

also are you working in 2d or 3d?

[hallow acorn]

float distanceX = transform.position.x - GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform.position.x;

[hallow acorn]

2d

[polar acorn]

Then the Find is failing.

Don't use Find. Make a variable and drag your reference in

[naive pawn]

and then you can do Vector2.Distance(transform.position - player.transform.position) instead of doing the hypot yourself

[hallow acorn]

ok i why is it failing tho?

[naive pawn]

there's no gameobject with that tag, presumably

gameObject.GetComponentInChildren<Transform>().CompareTag("Berry")
this also doesn't really make sense.

[hallow acorn]

it is i have the tag on my player

[hallow acorn]

why?

[naive pawn]

it'll just get the current transform

[naive pawn]

and does the player exist in the scene at the time the function was called?

[hallow acorn]

yes

[naive pawn]

show its inspector

[polar acorn]

Because there is nothing in the scene with that tag

[hallow acorn]

oh shit i was 100% sure i added the tag my bad

[polar acorn]

You still shouldn't be using FindGameObjectWithTag

[naive pawn]

yeah, they're pretty fragile

[polar acorn]

And especially not twice

[hallow acorn]

ok ill try to avoid it

[naive pawn]

just use a reference, possibly a serialized one, or perhaps a singleton or a physics query if there's gonna be a ton of these

[naive pawn]

anyways about this
are you trying to check if a child object exists, or what exactly?

[hallow acorn]

i want to get the child which is an overlayed texture which should be deactivated when picking up the berries and activated when they grow. havent implemented that yet tho

[naive pawn]

use a serialized reference for that

CompareTag wouldn't work and GetComponentInChildren<Transform> wouldn't get the right component anyways

[hallow acorn]

serialized reference?

[naive pawn]

a public or [SerializeField] field that you drag the relevant object into

[hallow acorn]

ahh ok never heard the serialized before sry

[sterile radish]

hi, im currently trying to make a dialogue system similar to that of undertale. i already have it working so that it displays text whenever you interact with a character through a list of strings. how would i go on about adding dialogue choices to this system?

[lusty viper]

Maybe you could make it a list of structs instead of just strings - you could define a struct like

public struct Dialogue
{
  public string message;
  public string[] choices;
}

Then if choices is empty, you know it's a normal message without dialogue choices, otherwise if choices has stuff in it, then you display those as choices!

(nice pfp btw)

[sterile radish]

sorry im a bit confused, would the choices array be the name of possible choices or would it contain the actual dialogue the character would speak given the choice? (p.s, thank you ^ ^ i love radiohead)

[pallid nymph]

Back when I was more active in another discord server, whenever dialogues were mentioned, people would suggest looking into Ink and Yarn (Spinner?). Those are pre-made dialogue systems that integrate with Unity.

[sterile radish]

oh, okay i'll check those out thank you

[lusty viper]

I think it's good to try your own though just as a good way to learn!

[lusty viper]

Good question! I was thinking more like it would just show the two different options, but now that you mention it they would need to result in different dialogue branches

So maybe it would be better to model it as sort of like a linked list

I.e.

public struct Dialogue
{
  public string message;
  public Dialogue[] choices;
}

[rocky canyon]

i agree, structured practice.. best way to find out what u need more practie with is just trying

[naive pawn]

(this would be a tree, not a linked list)

[lusty viper]

True my bad lol

You get the idea

[naive pawn]

i mean a linkedlist is just a unary tree...

[lusty viper]

True!

[rocky canyon]

i keep reading LinkedIn

[sterile radish]

okay, i'll try this approach out. thank you!

[naive pawn]

hard to navigate and consumes a lot of resources? sounds about right

[rocky canyon]

lol

[rocky canyon]

unary?

[naive pawn]

1-ary

like a unary operator -x +x !x ~x

[rocky canyon]

ahh that what i thought makin sure

1ary - binary - trinary

[naive pawn]

ternary, but yeah

(ternary operator!)

[rocky canyon]

lol 🫡 til

[naive pawn]

-# imma take this oppurtunity to mention for no particular reason that ts has a quaternary operator

[lusty viper]

huh what's the quaternary? can't find any hits on google lol

[naive pawn]

quaternary would be 4 operands, it's A extends B ? C : D

[eternal needle]

the struct there is definitely not needed (and doesnt have any justification behind it). I would define this as a scriptable object.
this lets you also drag in choices in inspector. itll be a lot easier down the road

[naive pawn]

no-one calls it that (it's referred to as a "conditional type"), but it's just a neat bit of technical trivia i keep around

[lusty viper]

Ah yeah, idk I would have thought that's just a composition of the conditional and extends

Like I guess you could have a 5-ary just by doing A ? B ? C : D : E

[naive pawn]

i mean it is the intent but:

• there isn't any other check to use with a conditional
• extends can't be used on its own in a type, it's only for conditionals (and constraints/inheritance, but that's a different context)
• most AST parsers parse the entire thing as a quaternary operator, rather than a conditional with an extends clause as the condition
  • you can't put parens on the condition

[rocky canyon]

wizard stuff, got it

[naive pawn]

A ? B ? C : D : E does decompose into A ? (B ? C : D) : E though, so it's really just 2 ternary operators used together
you can't separate any part of the conditional type

[lusty viper]

Oh got it, right I forgot this is separate from the other uses of extends

Ugh I love the ts type system

[naive pawn]

ikr 😄

[lapis parrot]

it's saying "the name 'playerdamage' does not exist in the current context" i don't see what's wrong please help private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other) { if (other.tag == "Player"){ other.GetComponent<PlayerController>().DamageTaken(playerdamage); Debug.Log("Player Hit"); } } // this is on one script public void DamageTaken(float playerdamage){ PlayerHealth -= playerdamage; if (PlayerHealth <=0f){ Debug.Log("Player Dead"); } }// this is on the other Please help

[naive pawn]

well then it doesn't exist

[lapis parrot]

huh

how

[naive pawn]

that's what the error says

[lapis parrot]

yeah but how does it not exist

[naive pawn]

first off, where is the error showing up

[lapis parrot]

in this line other.GetComponent<PlayerController>().DamageTaken(playerdamage);

i have no clue in the universe why

[naive pawn]

maybe because it doesn't exist?

like the error said lol

if you think it exists, where did you define it

[lapis parrot]

i feel like i defined it in this line public void DamageTaken(float playerdamage){

[rocky canyon]

well do u have a variable called This ^

these are two different things

[lapis parrot]

wait what

how

[naive pawn]

that's not in this context though

[rocky canyon]

this is an INPUT

u can put any variable u want in there ^

[lusty viper]

What you defined there was a parameter - in the context you're using it where you're getting the error, it's basically like you're saying you have a variable called playerdamage that you're passing into DamageTaken

[rocky canyon]

and it'll get ASSIGNED to playerdamage (the one u made in the function float..)

[lapis parrot]

ohhhhhhhh🗣️

[naive pawn]

DamageTaken(float playerdamage) means playerdamage exists in the context of DamageTaken (and its class)
the error is in the context of OnTriggerEnter2D and its class
the error says that playerdamage doesn't exist there

[rocky canyon]

    float anyNumber;

    void CallDamageFunction()
    {
        Damage(anyNumber);
    }

    public void Damage(float playerDamage)
    {
        health -= playerDamage;
    }```

ya, playerDamage is a basically a local variable to the Damage() function

it doesn't exist outside of it

[lapis parrot]

wait

so would DamageTaken be anyNumber

[rocky canyon]

in this example when it runs yes

Damage(10f); would work also

[lapis parrot]

well when i run it there's no errors but the player doesnt take damage

[rocky canyon]

basically these are teh same.. (whatever u call the function with becomes that local variable (w/e u named it)

but this has zero to do with the naming of anything

u can pass in any variable.. any value.. as long as its a

[rocky canyon]

theres no value here

[naive pawn]

do some debugging, see where the code reaches and doesn't reach

[rocky canyon]

so if u copied and pasted exactly

it wont

its basically 0 unless u define it as being something else

float anyNumber = 10f; <-- if u declared it like this.. and then called Damage(anyNumber)

[lapis parrot]

oh so would anyNumber == 10f work i'm so confused about numbers in coding

[rocky canyon]

it'd delete 10 from health

[rocky canyon]

well == is a comparison.. not an assignment

[lapis parrot]

oh fr?

[rocky canyon]

buy anyNumber = 10f; would

or u can assign it before using it

[naive pawn]

or you can have it serialized so you can modify it in the inspector so you don't have to recompile every time you change the value

[rocky canyon]

    float anyNumber;

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            // pressing space sets number to 10 and calls function
            anyNumber = 10f;
            Damage(anyNumber);
        }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Return))
        {
            // pressing enter sets number to 20 and calls function
            anyNumber = 20f;
            Damage(anyNumber);
        }
    }```

heres a decent example

[rocky canyon]

too

[lapis parrot]

so something like [SerializeField] float anyNumber?

[rocky canyon]

; at the end but yea

[naive pawn]

and name it better lol

[lapis parrot]

the thing is is that i'm trying to get an enemy to damage the player

and it's still not working 😭 i am extremely confused

[naive pawn]

show your current !code

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[rocky canyon]

youll need to DEBUG

like chris mentioned

1. check if the function is being called
2. check if the values are expected
3. etc

but yea show ur code so far : #💻┃code-beginner message

[rocky canyon]

i gotta start being more creative with my examples that way we can get some crazy code later on in the day >8)

[lapis parrot]

https://paste.mod.gg/mpjwejgdmsbq/1

[rocky canyon]

ohh jeez

[lapis parrot]

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

[rocky canyon]

ur IDE should look like its having a rager..

with red and yellow squiglies everywhere

[lapis parrot]

wth is ide

[rocky canyon]

the thing u code in

ahh nvm its fine

ur brackets are all just bunched up at the end

lol

that threw me off

[lapis parrot]

triple brackets ftw

[rocky canyon]

yea

but structured lol

both links are the same code?

[lapis parrot]

wait what

oh it is

there's 2 tabs tho

sorry

[naive pawn]

brackets

[rocky canyon]

ohh i see now

[rocky canyon]

can you show the console after u expect the code to run?

which logs do u get and which logs do u dont get?

[lapis parrot]

well i expect to see "Player Hit" in the debug logs

but there is nothing

[naive pawn]

add a log outside of the if statement

[lapis parrot]

a tumbleweed goes across

[naive pawn]

as the first thing the method does

[rocky canyon]

u should get rid of htis function

and that variable..

no reason to have that in the player code

[naive pawn]

i suspect the tag isn't matching

[rocky canyon]

^ yea its probably a collision issue

[lapis parrot]

hold up let me check the tags

[rocky canyon]

if (other.tag == "Player") and an alternative for this is just if(other.CompareTag("Player"))

and OnTrigger only works with Triggers

if ur Player or w/e ur touching for damage isnt a trigger (which i wouldnt see why it would be) that function isnt gonna run either

[lapis parrot]

wait isnt it oncollisionenter

[rocky canyon]

OnCollision...2D for contact yes

triggers are like invsible colliders ud use for a pressure plate/ doorway entrance/ lava pit