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[wintry quarry]

The only thing rotating were Vectors and directions of X and Z Coordinates
What does this mean?

So what? 300 lines is not long

If you don't share the full script it's just a wild guessing game as to what's going on

it could be anything

[foggy crypt]

I'm moving my projectile with Vector3.forward
When I tried to implement rotating with LookAt and RotateTowards - the projectile was moving in the different direction, but the model was not rotating at all.
That's the issue

[vocal quiver]

Alr here it is https://paste.mod.gg/kqxdkozoerum/0 I will say tho I did narrow the issue down to the IEnumerator function basically I want my pistolarms to rotate down (to show a reload transition) wait there a bit for reload duration and then go back up but for some reason I reload twice and (I go down and up and then again instead of going just down and just up)

[wintry quarry]

I'm moving my projectile with Vector3.forward
This doesn't make sense. Vector3.forward is just a vector, not a way to move anything.

When I tried to implement rotating with LookAt and RotateTowards - the projectile was moving in the different direction, but the model was not rotating at all.
Sounds like you are using Translate and you are simply rotating the wrong object

You will need to share more details about your code and how your hiearchy is set up

[foggy crypt]

Bro I just said I was using Transform.Translate in the previous message. You are the one who is not seeing sense.

[wintry quarry]

You have code in HandleAiming that is trying to rotate the object at the same time as the reload animation

they will fight with each other

[wintry quarry]

The rest of the message is the important part

especially:

You will need to share more details about your code and how your hiearchy is set up

[vocal quiver]

damn u were actually right thanks dude

[wintry quarry]

That's why I asked for the whole script 🙏

[vocal quiver]

thx bruh never question the pro i guess

[eager scarab]

I followed a tutorial to make a movement system, then another to make a turning system, the problem is that the movement is global not local, so when i turn it isnt moving correctly.

Is there any fixes to this?

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float speed = 5f;
    [SerializeField] private float jumpHeight = 2f;
    [SerializeField] private float gravity = -9.8f;

    private CharacterController controller;
    private Vector2 moveInput;
    private Vector3 velocity;
    public Vector2 turn;

    void Start()
    {
        controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    public void OnMove(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        moveInput = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    }

    public void OnJump(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (context.performed && controller.isGrounded) 
        {
            velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2f * gravity);
        }
    }


    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 move = new Vector3(moveInput.x, 0, moveInput.y);
        controller.Move(move * speed * Time.deltaTime);

        velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        controller.Move(velocity*Time.deltaTime);

        turn.x += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X");
        turn.y += Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y");
        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(-turn.y, turn.x, 0);
    }
}

[rich adder]

!code 👇 use the links

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[eager scarab]

i was doing that

forgor a `

[rich adder]

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[vocal quiver]

no he saying like u gotta go on one of the sites and then make a new file the site will give u a link

also misclick i didnt meant to react btw 💀

[eager scarab]

why though, would it not be easier to just post it

or is it just to stop walls of text

[rich adder]

its for making it easier to read, its a pain to read giant wall of text on discord especially on mobile

we have the system for a reason..make it easier for others to help

anyway the move there is wrong, you're using input values as move direction which will give a world coordinate.
Also Move() should not be called twice in the same method

[gray anchor]

Hello all. So, I am following a Unity tutorial on how to make a 2D platformer. It has been going great, tbh, and I am almost done, but I have encountered a problem here.

So, I have a script for Player Movement that has a part about turning your sprite around when you go left or right. In the tutorial we just added a speed trail sort of effect when you get a speed boost.

The problem is, I notice the transform.localscale here is setting the scale of my particle effect system to 5, because I early on set the scale for my player to 5 (The Particle System is a Child of the Player right now).

So the problem basically is -> When I am sped up and turn left, my particle effect trail suddenly gets 5 times larger, and stays that way. How can I stop this?

[rich adder]

classic mistake of scaling the Root of the player rather than just the graphics/visuals, they should be seperate gameobjects first of al

[gray anchor]

Yeah it was a mistake I made early on. And have been compensating for it since lol

[rich adder]

put the graphics/visuals on a child object of player and keep the root at 1,1,1 for player. Then you can scale the Graphics child to any scale you want without it affecting other children of player and rotations if scaled non-uniform

[eager scarab]

btw is there anything i can do to make the current player movement local instead of global that isnt rewriting the whole thing

[gray anchor]

I am not exactly sure how to go about that

[rich adder]

wdym how? which part of it are you confused about, i pretty much explained the process lol

[gray anchor]

'Put the graphics/visuals on a child object of player' - I don't know what this means, or how to do it. Is the only way to set my scale for my player back to 1,1,1?

[eager elm]

like so:

[rich adder]

yea

oh wops different person did that

lol

[hallow acorn]

hey im working on this "inventory system" which basicly consists of 5 slots. picking items up until the inv is full works great, also animations work with it. sadly i just dont know where to start with implementing a scroll feature where you can select the items from your hotbar as it now just uses the last item picked up for its functionality and animations. heres the code i use for this: https://paste.ofcode.org/xX3HiJhjpmhwrzCLv9GHQD, https://paste.ofcode.org/CpjGq39Fwn4zeLxhVNNeZB, https://paste.ofcode.org/346D7WDUp2ne9xGd9Zdt5Vc

[wintry quarry]

Just make an int variable to track which object is currently selected and base everything off that

[sharp solar]

is c# considered easier than c and c++ ? cause that is the experience i am having so far, or is it just because unity does a lot of the work for you

[hallow acorn]

im pretty sure it is yea. atleast easier than c++ cant really talk about c

[sharp solar]

i tried learning c++ few months ago absolutely hopeless

[hallow acorn]

some of my friends tried it but they also gave up pretty quickly

i personally like c# as it shares a lot with java which is a language im relatively used to

[sharp solar]

c# also feels pretty similar to luau to me

only thing i dont like is putting ; at the end of every line

[hallow acorn]

i like that actually

dont really like that at python

but theres a lot of other weird things going on with python syntax so...

[sharp solar]

i do not like python very much

lua with none of the good stuff it feels like

can you tell i like lua

[hallow acorn]

as mentioned before not really my language but i can understand why you would prefer it over some other languages

[sharp solar]

what kind of syntax is this

[night mural]

that's an 'attribute' https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/advanced-topics/reflection-and-attributes/

[sharp solar]

thank you

even though variables default to private, is it still convention to write private before every declaration of a private variable?

or personal choice

[wintry quarry]

Personal choice

[night mural]

I used to be on the side of 'don't include superfluous information' but when you end up switching between languages with different defaults, it's nice to have things always be explicit

[willow iron]

i have an array. i know you can use array.min to find the minimum value. how can i find the ** location** of the minimum value in the array?

[thorn holly]

Just loop through the array n check

[cosmic dagger]

There is an array method that will search for the index based on the value . . .

[wintry quarry]

I definitely recommend the lost art of "write a for loop"

[thorn holly]

Less efficient

Must optimize

[gray anchor]

I have an enemy and a player set up and for some reason, when I jump on top of the enemy, I take damage, but I take no damage if it is above me, or touches me from the side. Any ideas?

[rich adder]

show code + setups in scene

guessing game would get us nowhere for a while

by setup I mean show triggers / colliders etc

[sand heath]

Impossible to say without more context

[eager scarab]

could anyone tell me how i can make controller.Move(move * speed * Time.deltaTime) work on local position, controller is a charactercontroller and move is a vector3 that has the move direction on it

[sand heath]

just parent whatever has the controller to a root object

[wintry quarry]

Convert the vectors to local vectors with methods on the Transform.

And back, as needed

[eager scarab]

idk how to do that, would i be able to find it online

[wintry quarry]

Of course

[sharp solar]

how do i avoid the yandere dev if elseif elseif elseif thing

[rich ice]

in the og yandere dev thing, that can just be shortened with a single operator or a for loop.

afaik though, it completely depends on the scenario

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to show a specific example

[acoustic belfry]

coroutines cost when just exist, or when are used?

[whole crane]

is there a reason why my gameobjectlocalizer is empty?

[vital helm]

how do you make appearing bulletholes texture in a wall?

[wooden hill]

decals?

[teal viper]

If it's not called/referenced anywhere, it's not included in the program binary.

[vital helm]

thank you, i was gonna use a plane with a texture before you said that

[acoustic belfry]

i mean

i have a player that if performs a combo, it does a coroutine

the coroutine lags whenever it exists, or only lags when i do the combo?

[teal viper]

It doesn't lag. It consumes processing resources. Only when it's executed.

When you call StartCoroutine and as long as it didn't complete.

[acoustic belfry]

but isn't processing resources lagging?

i mean, if the pc's slow

or is just very rare to cause it to lag?

like the radiation of a banana

[teal viper]

No. If you uses that definition, then it's fair to say that your whole program/game is lagging, since it's using processing resources

[acoustic belfry]

no i mean, not using processing resources, i meant, abusing of processing resources
like a lot of coroutines corouting (?

[teal viper]

The conventional definition of lag is a spike in performance that. Causes discomfort to the player.

A lot of any kind of running code would cause lag, yes. It's not unique to coroutines.

[acoustic belfry]

oh

interesting

i mean, cuz i been told coroutines have a cost

i mean, what's the danger of using coroutines?

or i can make coroutines as i want?

[wooden hill]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/coroutines.html

the "note" answers it but also the rest is important

[teal viper]

Everything has a cost. There are no dangers if you apply common sense to coroutines same as to the rest of your code.
There is some overhead for a coroutine, but it's normally negligible, so you can consider it the same as running that code in Update.

It's more about the contents of the coroutine, rather than the coroutine itself.

[acoustic belfry]

Oh, got it

Well, now i feel better, thanks

[wicked fiber]

Can anyone help, I'm trying to make my enemy move in it's current direction.

rb.MovePosition(transform.position + (transform.forward * (MoveSpeed * -1) * Time.deltaTime));

This is my current code

[rich ice]

btw, im pretty sure you can do -MoveSpeed instead of MoveSpeed * -1

also that code looks fine to me so far, are you having any particular issue?

[tiny lotus]

hi im a complete beginner but when i try to add a controller to this it gives me this error does anyone know why thanks

[eager spindle]

You have two assets with same GUID

How did you copy the SampleScene scene?

You should only copy files from within the unity editor

[tiny lotus]

im not sure

how do i see which asset i copied

[void shell]

someone knows how to fix this weird glitch while making a 3D tilemap?

[cosmic dagger]

Not a code question, but they look like they're overlapping . . .

[void shell]

fr, wrong chat

but anyway, they overlap because they got rounded corners that "escape" the single tile, so, when it's hollow on the side of the tile, it's corners get visible

but i just found a way to do it, nvm

thank you 🙂

[sharp bloom]

Why does my UI buttons lose reference to the "LanguageManager" after reloading the scene? I have set it up as DontDestroyOnLoad but that didn't help.

I have this on the object

private void Awake()
{
    if (Instance == null && Instance != this)
    {
        Instance = this;
        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
    }
    else
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

I assume it's because the LanguageManager is now a copy, instead of the original object, but I don't know how to fix it

[slender nymph]

is there a reason this object need to be preserved when reloading the scene? if not, then don't use DDOL and it should work just fine

[sharp bloom]

I think we need that object to persist, because it acts as a "global" variable for every single UI element to localize their texts

Maybe there's a smarter way to do it

Basically every single text element has some script like LocalizedText that is just a simple switch based on LanguageManager.Instance.currentLanguage

[slender nymph]

why not use something like unity's localization package? also it sounds like you've probably hard coded the strings so why does that even need to be an instance method rather than just a static method?

[sharp bloom]

Too late to change it to something smarter, but probably it doesn't even need to inherit from MonoBehavior now that I think about it

[eternal needle]

You could probably just use a scriptable object if there's data that needs to be written in inspector. At a certain point youd just be remaking what the localization package already does.

[sharp bloom]

I think this was a bit of XY question...I have done a quick hack to fix this. The OnClick event now fires a custom event.

public class LanguageButton : MonoBehaviour
{

    public static event System.Action<Language> OnLanguageButtonHit;
    public Language language;

    public void ChangeLanguage()
    {
        OnLanguageButtonHit?.Invoke(language);
    }
}

[umbral bough]

Hi, I am making an audio manager and was wondering if there's a way to apply filters in the correct order?
Afaik, the order matters.
So I was wondering if it's possible to reorder the components instead of destroying/adding them each time the audio plays(audio manager can change at runtime so I'd have to refresh each play).
Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[umbral bough]

I am also open to alternative suggestions, this just seemed like the most logical thing tho.

[rich ice]

probably a question for #🔊┃audio

[umbral bough]

I would say this is more of a code question as I am asking how to code it, will send in #🔊┃audio if needed tho.

[toxic cove]

https://paste.mod.gg/wywkqtamryaa/0
I made this script for an object that would do something if a ray hits a object that has the tag Gun but it wont get it and I tried this in another game I had and it worked fine. Im not sure if its the object but I think it since the object that did work had 1 part while the other had a part with many children in it.

[teal viper]

!code

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[teal viper]

Do you see "click" printing in the console?

[toxic cove]

Yes

I also added a log so if it did see the tag gun it will say it but it doesnt and I have confirmed multiple times it has the Gun Tag

[teal viper]

Add a log inside the deepest if block

And print the name and tag of the hit object outside that if block.

And share a screenshot of the object that is supposedly hit.

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of the whole object inspector.

The hit object doesn't have a tag according to that log.

[toxic cove]

I might have a missing

component

[teal viper]

I don't see a collider. This is not getting hit.

[toxic cove]

what collider should I add

[teal viper]

Any collider that you like(as long as it's a 3d collider)

You probably want it to match the shape of the object.

[toxic cove]

I tried a mesh but still wouldnt do it so I tried a box collider and it works

[teal viper]

A mesh collider needs a mesh assigned obviously

[toxic cove]

theres lots of meshes.

[teal viper]

Well one mesh collider can only have one mesh.

But if a box is good enough, you should use it.

[toxic cove]

do I just add multiple? lol

[teal viper]

You can, but it's also a good way to kill your game performance

[toxic cove]

What would you do?

[teal viper]

Should use mesh colliders scarcely

[teal viper]

Use a simple collider if it is good enough

Collisions don't need to be 100% accurate.

Usually

[toxic cove]

I might just use one mesh collider for the grip of the gun, itd make sense

[teal viper]

Note also that mesh colliders(non convex) can't be moved.

So if it's a moving object, you have to use convex, but ideally, simple shape.

[umbral bough]

bump

[wicked fiber]

does anybody know why this script isn't moving the enemy?

rb.MovePosition(transform.position + (MoveSpeed * Time.deltaTime * transform.forward));

(sorry ">:3c")

[valid violet]

you need to put it in update and use if key pressed to move

[wicked fiber]

ok thanks

[polar acorn]

Where is that code in the script

What function is it in

[wicked fiber]

void update()

[polar acorn]

Is that how you spelled it in the code

[valid violet]

void Update() should be or FixedUpdate

[wicked fiber]

ok

[wicked fiber]

yes

[polar acorn]

Then that is your problem

Unity does not have a update message. Capitalization matters.

[wicked fiber]

oh, I though you were talking about the rb.MovePoition script

sry the update one is in caps

[valid violet]

You can just google the MovePosition method and you will be redirected to the example of use

[wicked fiber]

ok

thank you both

[umbral bough]

bump

[rich adder]

can you explain this a bit more

[umbral bough]

I add audio filters to the object with a source from a script.
I was wondering if there's a way to reorder these filters when they change or if I have to delete+add them each time for them to match the order defined in the list.

[rich adder]

ohh so like filters are components ?

[umbral bough]

yes

[rich adder]

maybe an editor only script ? I don't think there is a way to do so otherwise

[umbral bough]

I see, thanks!

[rich adder]

found this https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/ComponentUtility.bindings.cs
use at your own risk lol

[umbral bough]

Thanks, seems like an editor only thing tho, not what I need.

Ig the filters are just poorly designed atm, afaik they discontinued them for some reason and expect you to have an audio mixer for each source that should sound different, average unity stuff really.

[rich adder]

yea the closest thing Ig you gotta do Destroy and Add at runtime

[rich adder]

never messed with it much so I suppose so, I thought the mixer had their own thing with an array or something you could reorder.. sucks..

[umbral bough]

ye mixer does, this is applying to object with sources directly tho

but yeah, thanks for poitning the editor thing out, might come in useful at some point

[naive pawn]

i did find a few threads mentioning this used in an extension fyi

[restive kettle]

guys what random.randomRange do diff than range?

[frail hawk]

can you explain please

[restive kettle]

like normally i use Random.range(1,10) as example to get random number but i noticed function called RandomRange

[wispy finch]

There is no RandomRange function in the Unity API

[restive kettle]

idk

[wispy finch]

It's obsolete

so I guess, yes it exists but yeah

[frail hawk]

see on the right side what is says

[restive kettle]

kinda the same as random

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Random.Range.html

Ah I came in late you already knew about that one

[frail hawk]

read again what it says

[restive kettle]

+1 overload?

kinda the same as range dunno

[polar acorn]

Yeah, RandomRange was the old way to call it, it's been replaced with .Range

[restive kettle]

oh thanks <3

[wispy finch]

no, not that. First of all, any functions that are deprecated or obsolete are not to be used, secondly the +1 overload only means that the same exact function exists with different parameters, in this case floats instead of integers.

Functions such as "Instantiate()" can have several overloads, given the variety of parameters

[frail hawk]

what a random post

[hushed hinge]

oh

[thin lotus]

how do I call a method that is in another script

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[still ingot]

Hi I'm trying to create an interactable water and I was following this unity tutorial I found online. For some I get an error for custom editor is there a namespace i am missing ?

this is the tutorial https://youtu.be/TbGEKpdsmCI

[keen dew]

What does the error message say

[keen dew]

You have to fix the errors from the top first

Show the entire !code 👇 if you need help with it

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[still ingot]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;
using UnityEditor.Experimental;
using UnityEditor.UIElements;

[RequireComponent(typeof(MeshFilter), typeof(MeshRenderer), typeof(EdgeCollider2D))]
[RequireComponent(typeof(WaterTriggerHandle))]
public class InteractableWater : MonoBehaviour
{

}


[CustomEditor(typeof(InteractableWater))]
public class InteractableWaterEditor : Editor
{

}

[sudden fox]

Hey guys im new here. Any advice on how to get your hand on learning material for noobs?

im familiar with programming but not unity itself

[modest dust]

!learn + materials pinned in this channel

[eternal falcon]

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[still ingot]

I provided the code

[frail hawk]

you will have to use a seperate script for the customEditor i guess

[ivory bobcat]

Show us the console window from the Unity Editor

[thin lotus]

so I have a big array of coordinates that I need an object to follow, each line has an X coordinate, and I want it to go to the first line on the first frame, second line on the second frame, etc. how do I go about doing this?

[frail hawk]

what type is you array?

[thin lotus]

float

[frail hawk]

i am assuming yout got a 2d envoirement there

we need to know that actually since we cna use MoveTowards or something similar

[thin lotus]

yeah its 2d

[frail hawk]

so what you could do is to have a int for the current element. everytime you reach the array element you raise this int and use Vector2.MoveTowards.

[thin lotus]

honestly right now im having trouble with putting the values in the array

[frail hawk]

 if (Vector2.Distance(yourArray[curr], transform.position) < dist)
        {
            curr++;
            if (curr = yourArray.Length)
            {
                curr = 0;
            }
        }
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, yourArray[curr], Time.deltaTime * speed);
``` *pseude code

[thin lotus]

oh wait i had to change it to a double

[frail hawk]

i´d say use a list or Array of Vector2 instead

[thin lotus]

I have to seperate lists for x and y though

arrays i mean

[frail hawk]

why not just use a pair of x and y (Vector2)

[thin lotus]

basically it stems from a list (not array) that i had that would record the x position of the player every frame, then I put the values of the list into the array, and i did the same for Y

[still ingot]

I think it may have something to do with thins?

here is what it currently looks like

[frail hawk]

it is UnityEditor only without the dot

and we alreasy said, you have to seperate the CustomEditor script and the MonoBehaviour @still ingot

[modest dust]

Wrap anything Editor-related in #if UNITY_EDITOR or make a separate script file for editor code in an Editor folder

[modest dust]

And what exactly are you trying to accomplish with this? Why do you record X and Y separately? Why are you putting the elements from a list into an array?

[jaunty axle]

why my camera is really zoomed out

[valid violet]

because you use FreeAspect chose the screen size

[jaunty axle]

where

[valid violet]

below the Game Dispaly1 FreeAspect, and set the Ortographic size to make it closer

[jaunty axle]

i mean my camera zoomed out when i add 2d camer

[valid violet]

You mean change perspective to Orthographic?

[jaunty axle]

maybe but when i change the Orthographic size still like this

[valid violet]

Try to check MainCamera maybe it is avtive one

[jaunty axle]

the main camera when h change anything doesn't display in the game

i want too look like this

[valid violet]

You delete cinemachine camera but your MainCamera is alive so looks like it is active one select it in hyerarchy and change settings

[jaunty axle]

Orthographic size property works fine but i want to change the y axis

[valid violet]

the Y axis will be the axis of your screen resolution select resolution here

currently u have free aspect

[jaunty axle]

i don't know what i do but it's work 😂 😂

Thanks for helping me to try solve this problem.

[rugged beacon]

im new to meshes trying to understand tmp mesh animation
textInfo is a TMP_TextInfo
what these 2 lines do? is it get material of that one character then storing all 4 vertices of that character into var vertices ? and why also has to go through the material to get it ?

int materialIndex = textInfo.characterInfo[i].materialReferenceIndex;
vertices = textInfo.meshInfo[materialIndex].vertices;

[daring sentinel]

Hello, I was wondering if async and await have an equivalent to WaitUntil in coroutines.

Pretty much for the timelines in my game I'm having them be managed by coroutines, but the character animations are going to be separate with async functions as I don't need them to be managed frame by frame, and I heard that coroutines can get really messy if you don't need them.

[valid violet]

UniTask use both features of Async and Coroutines

[daring sentinel]

UniTask?

only just heard of that now

So instead of using coroutines and async, I should just use UniTask?

[ripe shard]

its a good idea to use unitask, it allows you to glue together coroutines, async/await, dotween, unity/c# events, observables/reactive, promises, channels and a bunch of other things to do whatever fits the problem at hand best

[daring sentinel]

Fairs, what I have at the moment is that my timelines and progress bars are controlled by coroutines, and I was thinking of having NPC animations be Async. So I should just switch it all to unitask then?

I haven't built the game yet, I've just been figuring out how to do the individual features first, so that I can put it all together

[ripe shard]

it might be a good idea to get a good understanding of "asynchronous" logic flow and various ways to implement them before jumping onto async/await

there is a lot of potential for confusion when not quite having a correct mental model of async, coroutines are so primitive and easy to understand that you cant do much wrong with them, unitask however has a lot of features

[daring sentinel]

Ah ok, I might as well understand async separately first then, before jumping into unitask? I can always refactor it later anyway

I did watch some tutorials earlier and have some form of understanding, like I could just have a boolean within an async where if it's true, yield on another task, before returning to the other async?

[daring sentinel]

Yeah Coroutines are piss easy, so useful tho

[grand snow]

Using UniTask's provided delay/yield functions should make it act just like a coroutine but you do have to handle "cancellation" yourself (or use the cancellationToken arguments for Delay/Yield)

[formal tide]

Guys do u recommend cinemachine to make camera follow object or should i code camera position

Idk which one is efficient for a game

[rich ice]

#🎥┃cinemachine

[royal citrus]

I'm working on a replay system and I'm trying to figure out how to store times. I want to ask if I can reliably count physics frames as key frames for input

[rich adder]

whats wrong with Update

[royal citrus]

Inconsistency across devices

[rich adder]

huh?

[royal citrus]

I had planned to do something like this

int framesPassed 
void FixedUpdate(){framesPassed++;}

and every time I store an input, I store that value with it

Update is fps reliant I guess

[rich adder]

Time.deltaTime comes in

[teal viper]

You might skip some input if you do that though.

[rich adder]

have you seen this before ? its really good https://youtu.be/Bb8Rdivmx8U

[royal citrus]

No, I'll watch it

[rich adder]

yeah his videos are usually on point, might be worth taking a look for inspiration / idea on the process

[sudden fox]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[sharp solar]

https://youtu.be/Bb8Rdivmx8U?si=x10doOwQkoozXHcW&t=232

what did he do there

how do you make a custom object like that

[ivory bobcat]

I've got no audio so couldn't hear any instructions if presented from the video but it would seem he created a script and made it inherit Scriptable Object. With the attribute above the class, he was able to create a Scriptable Object instance like how SOs are meant to be used.

tldr he created a scriptable object and scriptable instances
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/class-ScriptableObject.html

[sharp solar]

ahh alright

and while unity is running are all assets stored in memory? or does it have a smart system to know when to store stuff

im guessing videos for eg aren't stored in memory until they are spawned in game or manually pre loaded

[ivory bobcat]

Which assets?

[sharp solar]

these

[ivory bobcat]

Which ones? Game objects that aren't in the scene are likely prefabs.

[ivory bobcat]

I see folders. You can access these locations using Window's Explorer and whatnot as well

[sharp solar]

well just as an example in a script if i spawned a prefab ingame would there be a wait time while it loads from disk onto memory to then have it ingame?

[sour fulcrum]

Directly: Via build settings scene registry and anything inside /Assets/Resources/
Indirectly: Any asset that is referenced in any direct asset

For scene stuff Unity will load related indirect references when the earliest direct reference that uses them is loaded. Unloading depends on a few things

[ivory bobcat]

There probably would be but it'd likely be mediocre and nothing to worry about. What were mostly concerned about with data are when they're collected by the Garbage Collector. This can take some time.

[sharp solar]

right so if a script has a prefab referenced and that script is a component of a game object currently in the scene, the prefab is loaded onto memory as well yea?

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not entirely certain.

[sour fulcrum]

Nitpicking your wording, instance of script rather than script

[sharp solar]

an instance of script

[sour fulcrum]

That prefab is not loaded because in that scenario that’s a reference to a instance of a prefab and not a reference to the prefab asset

[sharp solar]

but if it was a reference to the prefab asset

it would load

[sour fulcrum]

Yes

[ivory bobcat]

The assets are instances (in a sort of way) that aren't in the scene iirc

[sharp solar]

what happens if i spawn an instance of script with a whole bunch of assets referenced, and it can't load them all onto memory by the time that script wants to spawn one in

[sour fulcrum]

Their in a hidden secret scene yes 😄

[ivory bobcat]

References are cheap

[sour fulcrum]

If you can access that instance of script those assets would already be in memory

[ivory bobcat]

Values are more of a concern but they aren't really anything either

[sharp solar]

right...

[sharp solar]

is there actually a hidden scene where everything is preloaded?

[sour fulcrum]

Ye

[sharp solar]

damn

[sour fulcrum]

HideAndDontSave

[sharp solar]

best solutions are the simplest

[sour fulcrum]

Yup

It’s just automatically secretly in the build settings registry

[sharp solar]

what are values sorry

[sour fulcrum]

Though things only get put in there when the related direct reference loads

[sharp solar]

oh

im not concerned about memory usage here

more about like loading times and stuff

talking to @ivory bobcat btw

[sharp solar]

ive just realised a problem with my questioning

to have references you would need an instance of script, which means when you spawn in a script it's not gonna have those references

and whatever method u use to get a asset on disk referenced in a script is probably where loading times are right?

[sour fulcrum]

Thats one of the reasons I was nitpicking 😛

[sharp solar]

yes

[sour fulcrum]

Which is either

A. scene loading
B. Initially when it loads from /Resources/
C. Adressables/AssetBundle related
DEFGHIETC. Niche stuff like explicit texture, model, audio importing etc.

Usually scene

And usually it’s the heavier stuff inside these like textures and audio

[ashen pier]

Where can i find a good youtube tutorial? i've been through the inbuilt 2d one and idk where to go from here

[sharp solar]

youtube

[sharp solar]

i would say if u been through a whole tutorial already youre ready to start messing around in unity

you know your 4 Fs

[ashen pier]

4 Fs?

[sharp solar]

yea

F around and find out

[ashen pier]

that's 2 Fs

[sharp solar]

good i was testing you

[ashen pier]

i can do maths 👍

[sharp solar]

actually though if you want to progress you must start reading documentation it will teach you everything

[ashen pier]

do i haveto

[stuck field]

Can also go to !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[sharp solar]

just come up with something you want to make, start from the start, and by the end you'll know what you have to know to make it

i want to make a pill walk around, first i look up how to move the pill, how to make the pill stand up, how to make the pill jump, maybe along the way i'll learn how to make a camera, boom, i know more than i did before

[ashen pier]

all in documentation?

[stuck field]

I think making it stand should be the first step 😭

[sharp solar]

forums and documentation and youtube

[sharp solar]

probably lol

[ivory bobcat]

Look.. just find a good tutorial that goes completely through the game development life cycle. After finishing the tutorial, hopefully you'll have the skills to design, create and release your game.

[ashen pier]

im guessing there's an extensive supply of info lol

[ivory bobcat]

Thereafter, you would mainly lookup videos or document on how to do specific tasks that would make your game the way you'd like to make it.

[sharp solar]

@ashen pier i can give u 1 advice

[ashen pier]

yeah

[sharp solar]

dont quit, making games is the most addicting thing you will ever do in your life

once you get there

[ashen pier]

ok cool haha

im super into storytelling and puzzles as well which is cool

should help

[sharp solar]

yes

[naive pawn]

fighting fleeing feeding mating?

or fight flight freeze fawn

damn there's a few of these

[sharp solar]

forget it

[ashen pier]

it's so hard to talk here like every 2nd thing i say is blocked because it's "out of context"

[teal viper]

Then don't say stuff that is out of context. This is not a friendly social chat.

[sharp solar]

mr serious over here

[ashen pier]

anyway moving on

the documentation will help with C#, but how can i learn more about the actual engine and stuff?

[sharp solar]

ok so for eg i want to know about game objects

i go onto google i look up "unity game objects"

[teal viper]

The manual.

[sharp solar]

and it gives me this https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/GameObject.html

[teal viper]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/GameObjects.html

[rich ice]

they are right though. this server is more of an alternative to the unity forums as opposed to your average discord server

[sand heath]

You're looking at the script reference, you want the manual

[sharp solar]

its a button on the script reference my bad

[ashen pier]

following through a tutorial, it says to import a new asset but when i right-click that option doesn't appear.

[rich ice]

you should just be able to directly drag the file into the project. not sure why the option isn't there though, might be a mac thing.

[ashen pier]

probably lol

[ashen pier]

do sprite files need to be a specific type like .png or can they be stuff like .jpeg and .webp?

[rich ice]

wasn't actually sure myself but according to the docs
unity supports these files types:
.bmp
.exr
.gif
.hdr
.iff
.jpeg
.jpg
.pct
.pic
.pict
.png
.psd
.tga
.tif
.tiff

for textures

[nova cradle]

f1 f2 f3 f4?

[rich ice]

oh weird, it's in a slightly different spot

[ashen pier]

huh. guess i'm blind

[sharp solar]

same spot for me

[rich ice]

same here it seems like lol

[sharp solar]

might be a unity version thing

[rich ice]

yeah maybe

[ashen pier]

interesting

how does one reorder assets?

[rich ice]

that's the neat part, you dont

im pretty sure it's just sorted in alphebetical order by default

from there you can just sort your files into folders

[ashen pier]

sure ok

is there a way to make the text/ui bigger?

it says there's no program to open scripts, did i miss something when installing?

[ivory bobcat]

Have you installed your ide yet?

[ashen pier]

what's that

[ivory bobcat]

Your application to write scripts with

[ashen pier]

i have Visual Studio code

is there a better one?

[ivory bobcat]

The two free common choices are Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code

[ashen pier]

yeah i'm on mac so regular VS isn'tsupported

[ivory bobcat]

Next you would need to configure your !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[ivory bobcat]

Yours would be the blue one VSC

[ashen pier]

why does unity need an external IDE? is there any reason why it can't have its own one?

[ivory bobcat]

It used to have Mono Develop but that's not a thing anymore
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonoDevelop

You simply need to configure your favorite ide (limited to a few choices) to work with Unity and you'll be all set

[ashen pier]

idk which is my favourite since i've never used one but i'll go with VSC

C# looks a lot like java

[ivory bobcat]

Some say it's the hybrid child of C++ and Java

They're all part of the C family language so they're look similar in syntax

[ashen pier]

good to know

[ivory bobcat]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-family_programming_languages

[ashen pier]

The tutorial says a list should show up here when i write the dot

[ivory bobcat]

Did you properly configure your ide? There's quite a few more steps than just installing.

[ashen pier]

i think so?

i'll take a look again in more detail

[ivory bobcat]

Step 3

[ashen pier]

this everything?

[ivory bobcat]

I suggest installing the Unity extension like instructed before step 3.

[ivory bobcat]

What's that warning symbol with the Unity extension?

[ashen pier]

says one of its dependencies is disabled

they're all enabled though

[ivory bobcat]

Do you've got any other errors in VSC? (usually in the bottom right)

Sometimes folks forget to install the .Net SDK

[ashen pier]

not that i can see

[ivory bobcat]

Close the ide and double click a script from within the Unity Editor

[ashen pier]

i reinstalled them and got this

what's an SDK, exactly?

[ivory bobcat]

You need it. Try clicking the Get the SDK button

[ashen pier]

alright

its downloading

ok ive got it

but still no list?

[ivory bobcat]

You may need to reboot the ide

Close VSC and double click on a script from within the Unity Editor (scripting folder etc)

[ashen pier]

still no list

[ivory bobcat]

Are there any more errors in VSC? Can you take a screenshot of the ide open?

[ashen pier]

do i need to be signed in?

[ivory bobcat]

Click on the file tab (you're currently in the extensions tab)

[ivory bobcat]

No, you don't need to be signed in

[ashen pier]

just redacted my name lol

[ivory bobcat]

Looks like you're all set

Lists are a part of the system collections name space. You ought to be able to import the namespace after typing the text.

[ashen pier]

this is what the tutorial shows

[ivory bobcat]

What does yours show?

[ashen pier]

nothing

[naive pawn]

your !ide is not 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

[ashen pier]

i just went through and made sure it was configured, idk what's happening now.

i've got all these and the SDK installed.

[naive pawn]

have you tried restarting your ide

and monitor the output window for any errors

[ashen pier]

yes

[ivory bobcat]

What they're likely seeing right now: #💻┃code-beginner message
Looks like they've installed the extensions: #💻┃code-beginner message
And last, we had just gone over installing dot net sdk: #💻┃code-beginner message
I'm unsure about what's done on the Unity Editor side or if they're perhaps in the older version of the Unity Editor where VSC has an obsolete/deprecated package of VSC or whatnot (has not been verified)
Or perhaps they just need to reboot the PC (guessing dot net system pathing for Mac might need this)

[ashen pier]

i can try to restart my mac maybe

didn't work

idk what to do 😭

[teal viper]

Did you follow all the setup steps?

Including installing the required package.

[ivory bobcat]

Have you installed the package from the Unity Editor?
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity#_set-up-unity

[ashen pier]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[ashen pier]

it says "open windows, packages." where do i navigate to there?

[ivory bobcat]

In the Unity Editor, up top, there should be a Window menu

[ashen pier]

here?

It doesn't have anything that says packages in that window tab

[teal viper]

window

[ashen pier]

ok i had to jump through some hoops but i found it

it's 2.0.23 which is above the 2.0.20 which you need

[teal viper]

Did you set the ide in external tools?

[ashen pier]

i'm trying to find that

[teal viper]

So basically, you didn't follow half of the config steps...😅

[ivory bobcat]

To open the Preferences window, go to Edit > Preferences (macOS: Unity > Settings) in the main menu.

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/Preferences.html

[ashen pier]

ok cool

that wasn't listed in the config process though

ok so the visual studio package is updated properly, VS code is the external editor, everything's enabled properly.

still doesn't work.

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show us your packages Window? (Unity Editor)

[ashen pier]

i'll try reloading the IDE first and foremost though

oh my god that worked

[rugged beacon]

im new to meshes trying to understand tmp mesh animation
textInfo is a TMP_TextInfo
what these 2 lines do? is it get material of that one character then storing all 4 vertices of that character into var vertices ? and why it has to go through the material to get mesh's vertices ?

int materialIndex = textInfo.characterInfo[i].materialReferenceIndex;
vertices = textInfo.meshInfo[materialIndex].vertices;

[ashen pier]

In VSC is there a shortcut to properly indent and reorder your code?

in a java software i used ages ago CTRL + I would do that

[ivory bobcat]

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/keybindings#_keyboard-shortcuts-reference

[ashen pier]

thanks 👍

what would cause this error?

[eternal needle]

did you read the error

[ashen pier]

idk what it means 😭

i literally just started unity like 4 hours ago

[eternal needle]

you have code that is trying to use the old input system, through the UnityEngine.Input class. By default the new input system is selected under the player settings.

[sharp solar]

damn they cant both work at same time?

[eternal needle]

if you want to use the old input system, change the setting to either use the old one or both

[ashen pier]

i'm following a 2 year old tutorial lol

[eternal needle]

you'll find a lot of tutorials that use the old system even though the new one is several years old. its just much quicker for a content creator whos only goal is to publish slop to showcase with Input.GetKey...(whatever key) rather than trying to teach beginners the entire new input system
the new input system has a decent learning curve compared to the old one at least

[rugged beacon]

anyone knows? i cant find any .meshInfo[int] on the doc and they description of them are all blanks

[grand snow]

To do tmp mesh animation you are meant to modify the mesh as its made via the events they provide:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/api/TMPro.TMP_Text.html#TMPro_TMP_Text_OnPreRenderText

I've used this in the past to do a text reveal anim for example

[rugged beacon]

yes it used onprerender event its from this gist https://gist.github.com/CharlieHess/ce73f71aac61fcbe47b692beb6d54490

my question is from line 60

[grand snow]

This? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/api/TMPro.TMP_MeshInfo.html

[rugged beacon]

TMP_MeshInfo(Mesh mesh, int size) idk

the .meshInfo[int] thing idk where its come from and why it has to go through material to get the text mesh's vertices

[grand snow]

Hmm yea this operator is not on the doc page

Cant find this in the actual code but I presume its geting the vertex list for that material as each will have their own mesh (and there for verts + indicies)

usually its 1 material and 1 mesh but if you have sprites or other tag things it will then be multiple

[rugged beacon]

does each character in the whole text have a different matterial

[grand snow]

No

unless you use tags to change it specifically

a font + the settings will be 1 material

[rugged beacon]

i might not know what im saying i hvent touch meshes before
like internal stuff, like they make each character different with different material, so they just reference each cahracter through its unique material ?

[grand snow]

it draws the correct character because the mesh triangles are given the correct uvs

if the font has multiple textures it may then use multiple materials

[rugged beacon]

idk whats uv fr
i think i should just accept the way it is for now

[grand snow]

you should. Uvs are a core concept for how meshes and materials work so you should read up on that before trying to do mesh manipulation

[rugged beacon]

so get the text character vertices through the materialindex for now

[grand snow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapping

[rugged beacon]

dang

uv just llooks like will take a while

[grand snow]

You don't need to touch them but useful to know what they do

[ashen pier]

the new one seems needlessly complex lol

[rugged beacon]

yeah i seen they go together frequent but by the time i got it, this conversation would be long forgotten fr

[grim geyser]

UV is just 0,0 in the bottom left, 1,1 in the upper right, and that determines what part of the texture will be applied to the face.

fonts are just shapes

like a cutout sprite

[ashen pier]

also where's the player settings to change the input to the old version?

[grim geyser]

edit->project settings->player

[ashen pier]

thanks

is it better to learn the new one? i don't really see the appeal since i don't think i'm gonna be porting to console or mobile

but idk what it does really 🤷‍♂️

[naive pawn]

depends on your definition of "better"

it takes time, but imo it gives you a lot more flexibility - easier to manage and modify once you get the hang of it, and even if you're only targetting pc, you can support controllers easily with it

[rugged beacon]

when does the old input better than the new one? like is there a scenario the new just cant do it ?

[naive pawn]

no, but for example if you're just bodging to test something, the old system requires less setup

and there is the time and effort cost of learning the input system to start with

[rugged beacon]

i have been just auto using new because its entirely event driven and doesnt cluster the Update()

[naive pawn]

its entirely event driven
no, it supports polling

input system is really flexible

which kinda contributes to the learning curve tbh

[queen adder]

Hey guys I currently have a mouse look script that lets the player look round it works fine but when for instance my mouse is ontop the player it becomes confused on where to look and gets very jittery

[frigid sequoia]

Not clossing these with the "break" should be fine right? Cause the break would be unreacheable anyways right?

[wintry quarry]

Just add a condition for a minimum distance from the player before rotating

The jitter makes sense, imagine trying to look at your own head

[wintry quarry]

Correct

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe have an if statement that prevents you from looking if your mouse is too close

[queen adder]

I thought of that but I thought it was dumb 😂

Thanks guys

[rich ice]

when in doubt:

[hot wadi]

Do I always have to manually chance my variables in my prefabs menu?
I changed them in my code but they do not update in the prefabs at all

[eager elm]

You have to change them in the inspector. If you wan't to change them via code you have to make them private.

[teal viper]

*non serialized to be precise

[hot wadi]

What about protected member?

[eager elm]

works too, as long as you don't have [SerializeField] attribute

[hot wadi]

What does it mean Serialized?

[eager elm]

basically that it can be saved by the editor

[next haven]

yall
if i have a class that inherits from another
lets say Class B inherits from Class A
if Class B overrides a void from Class A
and i call the void in Class A from WITHIN Class A
does it use the overriden version, or the Class A original one?

[eager elm]

I think you should try getting used to changing the variables in the inspector though. It makes it easier to adjust any values. Also, if you have two different apples you won't be able to give them two different Spawn Chances.

[eager elm]

the overridden one

[hot wadi]

I guess so. I'm just more familiar with the IDE

If I keep switching Windows, I often forget what part of code I'm working on

Time to buy a new monitor

[grand snow]

If the overwritten function is virtual it will call the override for that instance.
If you instead hide in the sub class this will not work.

more info about hiding: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/new-modifier

[next haven]

is virtual 👍 ty

[tidal tide]

Just use breakpoints to make note of where you were on the IDE if it supports it , but if you want a second monitor go for it

[strong wren]

@stuck yacht Don't crosspost.

[stuck yacht]

okay i am extremely sorry i am new so i think its acceptable ? my apologies @strong wren

[vestal cosmos]

Does anyone recommend any beginner unity tutorials

Or anything I should look at to learn

[frail hawk]

check the pinned messages 📌

[vestal cosmos]

In this channel?

[worthy jolt]

Hello Unity, Im using the FPS template and Im trying to access a monobehavior in my namespace but it wont see it. Any help?
in WorldspaceHealthBar.cs

[frail hawk]

yes and additionally !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[vestal cosmos]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[vestal cosmos]

Thanks bro

[frail hawk]

is the Script IceBergGames on the same gameObject this script is?

[stuck yacht]

hello
i am new with unity and i was facing a problem .
anyone can u please help me ?

gradlew.bat not found error ads mediation build failed

[frail hawk]

#📱┃mobile

[naive pawn]

what's the error? that the namespace isn't found?
have you made sure that the spelling and capitalization, etc are correct?

[worthy jolt]

Yes its all correct.

HellEnemy is in IcebergGames namespace, WorldspaceHealthBar is in fps.game namespace

[frail hawk]

you need to use the scriptname.

[worthy jolt]

HellEnemy is inherited from BaseEnemy also in my namespace

[naive pawn]

are you using asmdefs or anything like that

also could you show the declaration of BaseEnemy

[naive pawn]

you are misunderstanding the issue.

[worthy jolt]

I am not using asmdefs

[naive pawn]

could you show the error? just as a sanity check to make sure we're looking for the right thing

[naive pawn]

no, the error message

[naive pawn]

do you get the same message in the unity console?

[naive pawn]

and BaseEnemy.cs is in Assets, right?

[cunning narwhal]

What exactly is going on specifically with the (Choice)_rng syntax? Choice is an enum here but it's not clear to me what the parentheses are doing here, is it casting?

[wintry quarry]

It's a typecast

[naive pawn]

yes, it's a cast

[wintry quarry]

Casting int to Choice

[cunning narwhal]

Thanks much!

[naive pawn]

welp, i'm out of debugging steps i can think of, sorry.

[cunning narwhal]

I've been out of the programming world for more than a few years and sometimes silly stuff like this comes up and I'm like oh duh

Like riding a bike with words

[ancient oak]

why does unity not let me referance a script in a prefab?

[naive pawn]

can you be more specific

[polar acorn]

If you mean referencing a scene object from a prefab, it's because that scene object only exists while that scene is loaded, but the prefab can be anywhere

[ancient oak]

I want to make a list of cords of gameobjects but instead of each prefab thats spawns having the same list i want a gameobject that just holds the list in its own script and then all spawned gameobjects with the first script can talk with that script to get info or write info to that 1 list

[naive pawn]

instead of each prefab thats spawns having the same list
they don't, do they..?

[ancient oak]

wonderful

[ancient oak]

I have a script that checks the surrounding cords -1,0,-1 to 1,0,1 and uses bool isBlocked = Physics.CheckBox(spawnPos, halfExtents, Quaternion.identity, layerMask); and then if false is returned it spawns a prefab at the cords but even though there is nothing at the cords its always blocked by the object running the script.
if anyone can help I can share full script

[frail hawk]

if you want to exclude your own collider you can use a layermask

[ancient oak]

it already uses a special layermask for the objects to prevent overlapping with other objects

[frail hawk]

can you explain please what you mean by its always blocked by the object running the script.

[naive pawn]

if you have a grid system you could probably just store the grid?

[ancient oak]

its a simple world gen system that has 1 starter block thats 1x1x1 at 0,0,0 and its a prefab also so on start it gets the current vector3 position of the object the script is in and + and - to check all areas around it on the x and z axis to see if a new block with the same function can be spawned but each position returns that is was blocked by the original block

void TrySpawnAtPosition(Vector3 spawnPos)
    {
        int layerMask = LayerMask.GetMask("objects");
        bool isBlocked = Physics.CheckBox(spawnPos, halfExtents, Quaternion.identity, layerMask);

        if (!isBlocked)
        {
            spawner(spawnPos);
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log($"Blocked at {spawnPos}");
        }
    }

[summer stump]

what if instead of int layerMask you did LayerMask layerMask? (I know layermask occupies an int value, but it may help)

Also, You may want to do a breakpoint at the isBlocked line and see if the debug gives info on what is returned

Lastly, can you show the hierarchy of the prefab you DON'T want to block? Does it have children that are perhaps in the 'objects' layer by accident?

Last thought, make sure the checkbox is slightly smaller than the grid area to avoid overlapping into the next grid

[frail hawk]

i would also highy recommend you assign the layermask via inspector instead what you got there right now.
[SerializeField] LayerMask lm;

[ancient oak]

void spawner(Vector3 pos)
    {
        float frequency = 0.3f;
        float noiseValue = Mathf.PerlinNoise(pos.x * frequency, pos.z * frequency);

        if (noiseValue < 0.3f)
        {
            Instantiate(water, pos, Quaternion.identity);
        }
        else
        {
            Instantiate(grass, pos, Quaternion.identity);
        }
    }

new prefabs are not children of the old

[naive pawn]

yeah you instantiated without specifying a parent so there's no parent

[ancient oak]

i changed the he to 0.2f instead of 0.5f and now it works but is very hard on the pc

[ancient oak]

ill remember to use this in the future projects

[weak cedar]

Couldn’t find anywhere better to post in

[wooden hill]

go to buildapc discord

[robust kelp]

should i be applying time.deltatime to gravity with character controller when it makes jump heights inconsistent which is something i dont want? and is time.deltatime really that necessary when handling movement?

[naive pawn]

deltatime is necessary for handling time consistently

if it's making something inconsistent, you may be using it wrong

[wintry quarry]

If you're doing movement in Update it's not really possible to have perfect consistency. That's why the physics engine uses a fixed timestep. It should be pretty close though. But if you need perfect consistency you will need to use FixedUpdate and I wouldn't recommend CC.

[robust kelp]

you were both right i used deltatime twice somewhere bruh but i managed to make jump height consistent till about 0.001 so its alright thanks

[lucid narwhal]

Hello! I'm using ecs and for my game, I have a Main scene for main menu and Game scene for the actual game. Game scene has a subscene named Subscene with a Prefab that contains GhostAuthoringComponent. I initially have Game scene unloaded and Main scene loads this scene. When Game scene loads, the Subscene is marked as closed and NumLoadedPrefabs is 0 even though the Prefab looks to be baked. Does anyone know if the subscene being closed is the problem?

[rich adder]

#1062393052863414313

[topaz chasm]

how to flip colliders like mirror i have a animation that use flip to change rotation ı want to flip collider too(collider is frame by frame)

[rich adder]

there is no flip option

invert the size maybe?

[topaz chasm]

for animatons there is a flip option so i use it but when it comes the colliders i dont know what to do

should i separate the right and left animations and add colliders them?

the problem is i dont want to ruin the script and wanna learn if its possible

[wicked cairn]

Then copy paste the script somewhere as a backup. You could even do that to your entire game project

[topaz chasm]

ty for info,do you have an idea to move colliders with flipped animation?

[proper needle]

so my text has this background thing for some reason

i tried like 10 different fonts

and none of them worked

so i made my own font

and that didn't work either

[rich adder]

this isn't a code question

[proper needle]

alr

so where would i put it

like which channel

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk .
n did you try searching Google? Pretty sure I've seen a solution about this before

[proper needle]

yeah

i did everything i saw on a forum

[queen adder]

Hi guys, I'm a beginner in C# programming, I wanted to know if it's a good idea to study pure C# separately from Unity, since I've been told it's different, I also wanted to know if it's a good idea to study Cybersecurity to protect my game

[brave robin]

It's not terribly different. Also unless you're making an online game with a massive network architecture I don't see the point of studying network security. And if you are making a game of that scope, you wouldn't be asking here.

[eternal needle]

unity uses c#, it is not a different language. it is just an older version along with the unity API.
You dont need to give a single thought about protecting your game for a very long time. You could study cybersecurity all you want but it wont matter if you dont know how to make a game/arent making a competitive online game

[queen adder]

my game is offline, and if pure C# isn't that different from Unity's then I will start studying C# on my own, because I've been having trouble understanding certain things that seem easy, but since I'm not yet very familiar with Unity I end up not understanding C# very well, thank you for your time

[queen adder]

I understand, I was somewhat worried about having to learn cybersecurity because I was told it's useful to protect the game from attacks, but I thought I needed it even for offline games, thank you for the help.

[full reef]

Hi there, i am kinda new, i don't know if this is the correct chat to send my problem, but i have this problem with game objects, i don't really know what this is and if is with gameobjects, or light graphics or something, and sometimes it happends in game and sometimes in the editor, if anyone knows whats the cause for this i appreciate the help ( see the final part of the video)

[teal viper]

Possibly an issue with your GPU or drivers.

Are there any errors/warnings in the unity console log?

[reef dune]

hi guys, does anyone has experience using XR simulator in Unity? im new to all of this and i'm having some trouble with a project that uses the XR Interaction Toolkit . Could really use some help, Thanks in advance!

[teal viper]

#🤯┃augmented-reality or #🥽┃virtual-reality

[acoustic belfry]

hey for jumping what should be the best aproach, using linearVelocity or Addforce? a video speaking about enchancing the gameplay said addforce, but it makes my movement feel weird, but it may just be i coded it wrong

[eternal needle]

both can achieve the same thing. In most cases you'd want to either completely control the rb through its linear velocity or through addForce

[acoustic belfry]

but i mean, wich is better?

i used addforce and linearvelocity for the side movement, addforce felt better, yet for up movement im not sure

[eternal needle]

neither is better, they both can do the exact same thing. If you're getting different results with them, then you're likely using one wrong

[acoustic belfry]

oh, i didnt knew that, thanks

[gentle merlin]

is there a mistake in the way iam calling botAI = gameObject.AddComponent<Bot AI2>(); in this code?

private void Awake()
    {
        Instance = this;

        Text modeStatusText = GameObject.FindWithTag("AIText").GetComponent<Text>();

        botAI = gameObject.AddComponent<BotAI2>();

        print("start");

        // Store the camera's default state when the game starts
        if (Camera.main != null)
        {
            if (originalCameraPosition == null)
            {
                originalCameraPosition = Camera.main.transform.position;
            }
            if (originalCameraRotation == null)
            {
                originalCameraRotation = Camera.main.transform.rotation;
            }
        }

        uiManager = FindObjectOfType<UIController>();

       
    }

the way i have it set up in my hiearchy is that the object this code is in spawns at the start of the game. There is a BotAI2 in the hiearchy as a component of another object.

it was working unitil a second ago, iam not sure if i made a change here or eleswhere

[summer stump]

<@&502884371011731486>

[north kiln]

!softban 1389566191286353933 bot spam

[eternal falcon]

markbrian0676 was softbanned.

[summer stump]

botAI is of type BotAI2, right?
And how (specifically) is it not working now? Any error messages?

[gentle merlin]

iam just calling it botAI but there is only one file called BotAI2, the error iam getting is later on NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object Game+<AITurnCoroutine>d__56.MoveNext () (at Assets/Assests/Scripts/Game.cs:634)
which corresponds here

private IEnumerator AITurnCoroutine()
    {
        
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);

        botAI.MakeBestMove();
    }

the main thing is that its supposed to add the BotAI2 when it the object Game.cs is in spawns so that the bot can play against you

[summer stump]

Is the object with BotAI2 attached instantiated before this object? if not, then of course it would be null in awake

Wait... misread

[gentle merlin]

the object which has BotAI2 is already on the scene

I ran this and got nothing printed

botAI = gameObject.AddComponent<BotAI2>();
        if (botAI == null)
        {
            print("null bot ai");
        }

[summer stump]

Then I am confused, you are ADDING BotAI2 there

[gentle merlin]

yes iam adding it to a different object than the one its already in the scene with. so 2 object would have the same script, one started with it another got it after spawning

[summer stump]

What line is Game.cs:634

[gentle merlin]

private IEnumerator AITurnCoroutine()
    {
        
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);

        botAI.MakeBestMove();
    }

[summer stump]

I assume it is botAI.MakeBestMove();
Can you show the rest of the error stack?

If there is more

[gentle merlin]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Game+<AITurnCoroutine>d__56.MoveNext () (at Assets/Assests/Scripts/Game.cs:638)
UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine.InvokeMoveNext (System.Collections.IEnumerator enumerator, System.IntPtr returnValueAddress) (at <2c271b216ff84328b73d1d7f2333e7ab>:0)

i added a print line to debug thats why the position changed

[summer stump]

Ok, is the awake from here #💻┃code-beginner message in the Game script?

[gentle merlin]

yes

[summer stump]

Do you know how to use breakpoints? I would put a breakpoint on the error line

[gentle merlin]

i think i know how to set one up but not to much on how to use it

[summer stump]

Because it seems like something is removing the reference between awake and this line running

[summer stump]

When it hits the breakpoint, you can hover over your code and see the values there

[gentle merlin]

put it on line 638?

[summer stump]

Yeah

SOMETHING is doing botAi = somewhere else, is my assumption, and that is setting it null

Or perhaps there is a second object with the Game script, which is having issues (perhaps due to being a singleton pattern?)

[gentle merlin]

it shows up as null at that line

BotAI2

[summer stump]

Ok yeah, something is setting it after Awake.

[summer stump]

botAi is what would be null (and should be checked). BotAI2 is a type

[gentle merlin]

would it matter that non of the prints are being set off here?

public void Awake()
    {
        Instance = this;

        Text modeStatusText = GameObject.FindWithTag("AIText").GetComponent<Text>();

        botAI = gameObject.AddComponent<BotAI2>();
        if (botAI == null)
        {
            print("null bot ai");
        }
        else
        {
            print("wtf");
        }

        print("start");

        // Store the camera's default state when the game starts
        if (Camera.main != null)
        {
            if (originalCameraPosition == null)
            {
                originalCameraPosition = Camera.main.transform.position;
            }
            if (originalCameraRotation == null)
            {
                originalCameraRotation = Camera.main.transform.rotation;
            }
        }

        uiManager = FindObjectOfType<UIController>();

       
    }

[summer stump]

Not even start?

[gentle merlin]

yeah sorry thats what i mean

[gentle merlin]

nope, not a single one gets set off

[summer stump]

Alright! Then Game is not running

is it on an object when the game starts?

[rich adder]

welcome back lol

[summer stump]

Hey bro! haha

[frigid sequoia]

This is kinda stupid to ask, but is there any noticeable difference between using "else" here or not? Should I try to avoid the else on these types of "return" methods?

[gentle merlin]

which is weird because other functions in the script are being used fine

[summer stump]

I prefer the way you have it. It shouldn't be any different

[rich adder]

I usually dont. there is no difference though if you're going to do return like that

[summer stump]

Can you show the object with Game attached in Unity? Perhaps it is deactivated?

Only Awake, Start, Update (and other unity methods) won't run when deactivated

Other methods will still work

[gentle merlin]

its a prefab that gets spawned in. but looking at it, its deactivated on the object after it spawns

[summer stump]

Make sure the tickbox is active on the prefab

[frigid sequoia]

Oki doki, I just thought that maybe the else implied some kind of addiotional logic on the if loop or something lol

[gentle merlin]

it is on the prefab

let me see if when i play in the online mode the script is also deactivated

[rich adder]

its preference at that point..and if statements are not loops lol

[summer stump]

Also check the code where it is spawned in. However, if it is deactivated there, it SHOULD still run awake... not sure
Gtg, bedtime for my daughter. I'll check back in a couple hours though. Best of luck! You're on the right track for figuring out the issue. The line of code itself looks fine.

[gentle merlin]

Alright, thanks for the help!

[gentle merlin]

I was able to fix it by adding this gameInstance.GetComponent<Game>().AttachBotAI2(); to another script, and in Game making a function AttachBotAI2 where i just attach it

[cosmic dagger]

<@&502884371011731486>

[north kiln]

!softban 1263132919463936032 bot spam

[eternal falcon]

salah_dka was softbanned.

[icy harbor]

Im new to unity anyone one know the best way to learn c# coding and unity

[north kiln]

There are resources pinned to this channel

[royal citrus]

Can I build a compute shader library or something? I don't wanna have to copy and paste all my funcs every time I make a new compute shader

[glad ibex]

Is there a way to force unity editor to serialize a tuple?

[wintry quarry]

Why not just make a class or struct?

[glad ibex]

It aint a problem until I have like 20 structs, but still thanks

[daring sentinel]

No thanks, I actually go outside

[velvet dawn]

so i was messing around with directional lightings, and i ran into some issue where can i ask for help?

[eager mesa]

hi everyone, i was try to make a simple little UI wiht textmesh pro but this happened...

i did import TMP basics and even extras

the error still stuck even after i deleted the text and canvas

[wintry quarry]

#1390346776804069396 I suppose?

[velvet dawn]

ah perfect thanks

[restive kettle]

guys is there anyway to stop unity from compiling everthing like when i do a comments it compile and its litrly annoying

[wintry quarry]

yes, turn off auto refresh in the asset pipeline settings

but then you have to manually refresh

[daring sentinel]

Also, I was wondering if I could get some opinions on my current approach to my game:

• I was thinking of having the timeline controlled by coroutines in a script, where it switches between the two depending on whether an input has been done by the player.

• Using async/await for switching the animations.

All I was thinking of doing with async/await, was to react to unity event and ensure that the correct animation state is playing during the game. I have everything else pretty much done with coroutines - progress bars, dialogue option select (although I was thinking of doing this with async as well).

Considering all I am doing with async is this, and I can do it with coroutines anyway, am I better off for just getting it sorted with coroutines first, then if I can see if I can refactor it with async/await?

It's for a uni dissertation on a conversion course masters for context, I know my supervisor stresses MVP but polish surely helps right?

[modest dust]

Sure, you can turn off auto refresh (Preferences -> Asset Pipeline -> Auto Refresh), but that requires you to manually refresh (Ctrl + R). Personally I would keep it enabled (because if you change something and want to see that change you have to refresh anyways) and just not switch between the IDE and Unity every 3 seconds, but it's up to your preferences

[grand snow]

Async functions can replace coroutines and should if you want to await other async things. Make sure to use Awaitable or UniTask (third party) instead of Task.

You do have to think about cancellation though yourself

[daring sentinel]

That's one of the things I'm trying to wrap my head around yeah, like how do the cancellations tokens work, like I get that you initialise them globally but do you then access it in separate async functions, to stop awaiting on tasks once they're finished?

Pretty much all I would want to await for is changing to the appropriate animation and when there is a dialogue option menu, wait until the player has selected an option. Then once again change the state on the animator, if that makes sense.

Like I imagine how you could do this with just coroutines, but trying to wrap my head around it for async

[grand snow]

A cancellation token source produces tokens. The tokens are structs and link to the token source. Once the token source is cancelled, the tokens will report this too.
You check the token for cancellation in your async code to stop execution. UniTask Delay functions can take a token arg to stop early for example

[daring sentinel]

I really appreciate the feedback btw, I'm just a little confused.

[grand snow]

You can also use Task completion source to be able to await something like a button press. Unitask has their own version of this

[daring sentinel]

So is task completion source like WaitUntil() in coroutines then?

[grand snow]

I can give examples of these things if that helps, I use async and these things very often

await UniTask.WaitUntil(() => myFlag);
this will check the delegate each update and not complete until it returns true

[daring sentinel]

Oh sick so it's kinda like coroutines but instead of frame-by-frame it's more state based?

[grand snow]

UniTaskCompletionSource completionSource = new();

button.onClick.AddListener(() => completionSource.TrySetResult());

await completionSource.Task;

This will await the button press event without checking some value each update/fixed update.

No, WaitUntil is just the same as doing:

while(!myFlag)
{
   yield return null;
}

or

while(!myFlag)
{
   await UniTask.Yield();
}

These are not ideal as they are "checking" some state all the time which is wasteful

you can read the task completion source docs to learn more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.taskcompletionsource-1?view=net-9.0

[daring sentinel]

Ah ok, sorry I'm just having trouble wrapping my head around it.

[grand snow]

It is a bit confusing. async Task/UniTask/Awaitable represent some thing that will complete at some later point in time

//Make new completion source
UniTaskCompletionSource completionSource = new();
//Subscribe to our button click event so it can "complete" the task when clicked
button.onClick.AddListener(() => completionSource.TrySetResult());
//Await the button click via the task in the completion source
await completionSource.Task;

Debug.Log("Button has been clicked!");

Perhaps we should move to a thread in #1390346827005431951 to discuss further

[daring sentinel]

Yeah probably, thanks so much though

[grand snow]

@daring sentinel I forgot I had written a demo with UniTask that shows how cancellation tokens can be used: https://gist.github.com/rob5300/5b449ee3c35795d2b8dc10261e285f7c

[daring sentinel]

Oh cool, thanks man, just making a thread now if it's cool.

[static breach]

am i just dumb rn? i have a prefab with a camera on it, and a script on another gameobject, i want to attach the camera to the script but when i put the prefab in the hierachy and drag the camera from there and then delete it from the hierachy again the camera gets removed from the cameramanager aswell. is there any solution for that?

i cant have 2 inspectors, can i?

when i lock the inspector from the gamemanager i cant drag that script on that element

do i need to hardcode it so the camera gets attached by script?

[digital topaz]

I'm really struggling with this localization stuff.
I've had things working in the editor for awhile but now when I'm trying to build it, I'm not getting any of the translations.
I've been messing around with the AddressableGroups because things were faded and I thought maybe they were getting stripped out.
I've created a new group for my localization tables, but if I move the locales there the project can't find them and I get NULL locale errors., and if I leave them as default they're grey and I assume they're getting stripped out on build.
I've already deleted all addressables, Library cache recreated everything and still can't get it to work....
Any advice would be appreciated.

[grand snow]

Greyed out? You mean sub assets like when you make a folder addressable? Those are fine

[quick pollen]

well yea, obviously?

if you set a reference to an object and then delete the referenced object, the reference dies too

[digital topaz]

Yeah like this

[grand snow]

Is the group set to be included in builds? Ask further addressable questions in #📦┃addressables

[sharp wyvern]

I would suggest you make the camera that is now part of a prefab- it's OWN prefab. then you can add it to either; the prefab with the camera on it, and/OR the scene object you were dragging it to.

[static breach]

thanks. i got it working now

[naive pawn]

!collab

[eternal falcon]

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[naive pawn]

please remove your post

[queen adder]

Anyone got experience making offscreen enemy indicators

[slender nymph]

still Don't Ask To Ask

[naive pawn]

don't crosspost, you were already told to just ask

[queen adder]

Me?

Didn’t know

[worthy jolt]

Has anybody ever heard of an issue where the collision will slowly sink away then be there when the enemy moves? Im using the FPS template and the aimer and the projectiles dont hit after some time. But I can use the aimer to watch the collision slowly sink. I know the collider component is still in place. Its a very strange bug I cant find.

[naive pawn]

the collision sinking?

[worthy jolt]

In the 12 years i've been using Unity I have never seen anything like this. It's blowing my mind.

[naive pawn]

a collision is an event that happens at a specific point in time, it can't really change position over time

[sharp jay]

Unless the values are exceeding floating point precision

[worthy jolt]

I know. But it is. Something strange is happening.

[frail hawk]

collision sinking sounds really weird

[slender nymph]

provide actual details about what is happening

[quick pollen]

for the spherecast documentation

do I select the stuff I want to ignore, or the stuff I DONT want to ignore?

like check the ones I want to ignore, or check the ones I dont want to ignore?

[sharp jay]

Read the text

you select the ones you want to hit

[quick pollen]

ahh, got it

ty

[sharp jay]

on/off switch innit

[quick pollen]

its a bit weirdly worded

[quick pollen]

yeah, but I thought maybe it works like, check the ones you want to ignore

uncheck the ones you want to check

[sharp jay]

everything in programming is the positive

if you remember that, you're good

[naive pawn]

masks are typically always the filter of what to keep - especially in this case, where the underlying implementation is a bitmask

[quick pollen]

also wtf

[naive pawn]

you're looking at the wrong overload

legPos.transform.position isn't a Ray, is it

[quick pollen]

ah

theres so many ways to fill it

i dont want an out

[sharp jay]

that lets you get the reference of the thing you hit

[worthy jolt]

1. Collision there. (red reticle) Capsule in place. 2 Collision gone (white reticle) Capsule still in place. You can follow it with the reticle downward and it will turn red, white until is disappears under the ground.

But the capsule always remains in place.

[naive pawn]

public static bool SphereCast(Vector3 origin, float radius, Vector3 direction, out RaycastHit hitInfo, float maxDistance?, int layerMask?, QueryTriggerInteraction queryTriggerInteraction?);
public static bool SphereCast(Ray ray, float radius, float maxDistance?, int layerMask?, QueryTriggerInteraction queryTriggerInteraction?);
public static bool SphereCast(Ray ray, float radius, out RaycastHit hitInfo, float maxDistance?, int layerMask?, QueryTriggerInteraction queryTriggerInteraction?);
```there's 1 signature without an `out`, you can use that one

but you need a ray

if you want to ignore the hitInfo, you can use a discard, out _

[quick pollen]

that works, ill just build a quick ray ig

[naive pawn]

so it's not actually a collision, but what, a raycast?

[worthy jolt]

Yes

PlayerWeaponsManager.cs

[sharp jay]

Log what you're hitting. the object name

[naive pawn]

have you tried debugging the raycast to see if it's going where it should?

[worthy jolt]

The drawline is always in place.

[naive pawn]

why not raycast with a layermask and not have to check for a Health at all

[quick pollen]

        Ray ray = new Ray(legPos.transform.position, Vector3.down);
        grounded = Physics.SphereCast(ray, 1f, 1, groundMask);```
appareantly this doesnt work

[naive pawn]

define "doesn't work"

[quick pollen]

it turns grounded true for one frame when I land

never after that

legpos is a transform positioned at the leg of the character

overall i dont get why I need a direction, a radius, and a max distance for a fucking sphere

[worthy jolt]

This is Unitys code

[naive pawn]

when you land you might be slightly clipping into the ground, making you slightly closer to the ground than when standing on the ground
try debugging to check if your sphere is actually reaching

[naive pawn]

because it's a sphere cast

it's shooting a sphere in a direction and seeing what it hits

[quick pollen]

ig i should be using an overlapsphere?

[naive pawn]

sure, if that fits more with what you need

aren't you using a CC though?

[quick pollen]

well i want to check if im on the ground or not

[naive pawn]

doesn't that come with a grounded thing?

[quick pollen]

yes indeed

[naive pawn]

provided there's gravity

[quick pollen]

but it has weird behaviour

it checks if the controller collided on the ground every time you call move

which for some reason just makes it turn on and off randomly

even if you are completely idle

[worthy jolt]

BTW

[quick pollen]

technically theres no gravity when im using root motion

so i cant really use that implementation

[naive pawn]

rip

[quick pollen]

grounded = Physics.OverlapSphere(legPos.position, .2f, groundMask).Count() > 0;
eh, this works

[naive pawn]

you should probably use the nonalloc version if you're going to be doing this frequently just to check for the ground

[worthy jolt]

Same result.

[quick pollen]

id need to allocate memory for the collider array somewhere else then

also now comes the hard part

making it so I can move in the air

[naive pawn]

yeah, but you only really need a 1-element array

[quick pollen]

I want to use a different type of movement for being in the air

....which I already have

but it jitters really hard and turns off gravity in the air

oh shit i figured it out

this is what was happening lol

i was overriding it with root motion by accident

i just made it... not do that

also @naive pawn uve been a huge help. again. thank you so much!

[cosmic charm]

for some reason my OnMouseDown function is not working

[frosty hound]

Use !code please.

[eternal falcon]

Posting 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.

[cosmic charm]

oh sorry

using UnityEngine;

public class Gem : MonoBehaviour
{
    //[HideInInspector]
    public Vector2Int posIndex;
    //[HideInInspector]
    public Board board;

    private Vector2 firstTouchPos;
    private Vector2 finalTouchPos;

    private bool mousePressed;
    private float swipeAngle;

    private Gem otherGem;

    void Start()
    {

    }


    void Update()
    {
        if (mousePressed && Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0))
        {
            mousePressed = false;

            finalTouchPos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
            CalculateAngle();
        }
    }

    public void SetupGem(Vector2Int pos, Board board)
    {
        posIndex = pos;
        this.board = board;
    }

    private void OnMouseDown()
    {
        firstTouchPos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        Debug.Log("Mouse Down at: " + firstTouchPos);
        mousePressed = true;
    }

    private void CalculateAngle()
    {
        Vector2 swipeDirection = finalTouchPos - firstTouchPos;
        swipeAngle = Mathf.Atan2(swipeDirection.y, swipeDirection.x) * 180 / Mathf.PI; // Convert radians to degrees

        Debug.Log("Swipe Angle: " + swipeAngle);
        if(Vector3.Distance(firstTouchPos, finalTouchPos) > 0.5f)
        {
        MovePieces();
        }
    }

    private void MovePieces()
    {
        if (swipeAngle < 45 && swipeAngle > -45)
        {
            otherGem = board.allGems[posIndex.x + 1, posIndex.y];
            otherGem.posIndex.x--;
            posIndex.x++;
        }
    }
}

[frail hawk]

does your gameObject have a collideR?

[cosmic charm]

yes

BoxCollider2D

[frail hawk]

so you can´t see the "Mouse Down at:" message right

[cosmic charm]

no

Debug.Log("Mouse on : " + name);

I added this line now

I'm pressing on the Game window

but nothing is showing in console

[frail hawk]

could be that another collider is blocking your objects

[maiden basin]

can i post in here if the scripts are quite long or should I do it another way?

[slender nymph]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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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
```
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[maiden basin]

ty 🙂

[cosmic charm]

how so?

[worthy jolt]

I found it. Its the rigidbody. Removed it and its all okay now. No more sinking.

[cosmic charm]

only the gem has a collider

[frail hawk]

then i am out of ideas mate.

[cosmic charm]

is it a problem with Unity 6 or something?

[frail hawk]

nope surely not

[maiden basin]

So I have an issue that I've been trying to solve for a few days.

My player has unity's built in character controller component and I'm using this script to handle player movement etc.. https://paste.mod.gg/ogxykbvdijxq/1 I'm happy with how this is all working

I also have a robot that floats around the player when stationary, and follows the player when moving. This is the player follow script https://paste.mod.gg/ogxykbvdijxq/0 this is also working fine

The issue I'm having is getting the floating robot to have proper collisions with the walls and floor etc.. of my map. The map is made up of modular pieces with mesh colliders.

I understand it wont work because of no collider and rigid body, so I have tried to add those components and change the script, and I've had (very little) success. I can get the robot to follow like this but it only will once the player stops moving, and even then it moves incredibly slowly (1 unit a second ish) I know it's because of how these 2 scripts inherantly interact with each other, but I'm scared of breaking what I've got so far. Can anyone help please?

[cosmic charm]

I fixed it apparently it was in unity 6.2 for the input handling system it's set as new Inpt system, and it doesn't support OnMouseDown

Thank you for your help <3

[vestal cosmos]

Does anybody have any advice on getting better at coding cause I feel when I watch tutorials I don't actually learn much and feel more like I'm copying the tutorial and not learning

[summer stump]

Do a tutorial and follow along. Then try to redo the SAME project from what you remember, without following along. Then try to add a single SMALL feature to it. Repeat

I also recommend making small projects for single ideas, like making a bouncy movement script, and making a cannon, things like that

[vestal cosmos]

K so like if it shows me how to make a game where you collect coins do it then do it myself but add parkour or something

[summer stump]

Parkour is kind of a large and involved feature, so I would start smaller. Like make an explosion happen when you collect a coin, or an animation

[vestal cosmos]

K I get you

Also you know how sometimes in script a word has a capital in it but others don't what's the reason why

[summer stump]

That is just to help your recognize how a type or variable is set up. Often people do capitals for public variables and lowercase for private. There are many conventions (for example, some do an underscore for private variables _myInt), it's just important that you keep things consistent.
Here is what microsoft recommends:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/identifier-names

[vestal cosmos]

So it sorta doesn't matter as long as you don't do it randomly

[summer stump]

Basically. But I would find an actual convention and use that. That way it will be easier for if you want help. Just don't go TOO random I mean.

[vestal cosmos]

K thanks for the help

[pulsar tapir]

What is the best option to learn C# Unity?

[naive pawn]

see pinned resources and !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[zenith gale]

if i use the ECS package that Unity has, is there anything special i have to do other than setting up my actual Data and Methods for it?

[wintry quarry]

If you use ECS you have to build the whole game with systems, entities, and components

[swift elbow]

why is the remove component button at the very bottom instead of where it should normally be?

it's in its normal position with different components

[swift elbow]

actually, this seems to be the case with light components only. any ideas why this is?

[zenith gale]

yeah that's fine but there's nothing special other than that right? Like the frame of the ECS is there i just gatta fill up the "buckets" so to speak?

[wintry quarry]

I'm honestly not really sure what you're asking

[zenith gale]

So i was like making an ECS already then I found out that Unity has an ECS package

they uses interfaces to turn the structs into components and i didn't know any of that part of it i was simply on like stage 1, learn programming and learn ecs stuff

so i just wanna make sure that when i start working with the unity stuff there isn't some other details i need to know about... also i never knew programming could be so fun like this either....

---

ive learned so much and actually sat for like 16 to 20 hours a day over the past 4 or 5 days just talking to AI and learning the general fundamentals of the stuff or w/e... and it's honestly been way more fun learning programming this way and the introduction to Methods has been way simpler, I know C# is nicer than C++ and C or w/e but im telling yah like CS50 making you do the Mario double pyramid didn't teach me anything

---

When i first started learning they made everything so sound so complex bro and then i watched a video and talked to chatGPT a bit about stuff... then i just started plugging away with IDs and Tags literally turning my wannabe-game design notes into actual data by just creating lists

There's so much more and I have like 8 notepad++ docs where i keep going through the learning process and organizing my Data, renaming the conventions, all these different things ooh oohh... like so much more... Oohh Oohh i learned about the Namespacing convention not because I needed a header file which i will need... but because I wanted to make my Data calls simpler like... Im taking a break though for today because over the next few days is going to be more learning and i really really really wanna have my IDs and Tags organized and set in their own Namespaces or w/e

as a meme i made a joke i was gunna call the game "War of the Enumerators"

[gusty folio]

I want to get the current Scene of my game using scene = UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex; where scene is an int. I have this line of code in update but when i run the game, scene isnt being assigned a value

My game is at scene number 3 (based on build)

but the variable scene displays 0

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log is your friend

log which scene is active, log the build Index etc.

If that code is actually running, the variable is definitely being assigned

[gusty folio]

lemme check

the entire script is just not running

despite being enabled

[wintry quarry]

Then you haven't attached it to an active GameObject in the scene

or you did something else silly