💻┃code-beginner

[wintry quarry]

like misspelling Update

[gusty folio]

game object i s active and so is the component

and update is correct

[wintry quarry]

prove it

show some screenshots and your code

[gusty folio]

just refreshed unity

gimme a sec

its the playermanager script

[wintry quarry]

1. Show your code
2. Make sure the script is not being disabled when you enter play mode

[gusty folio]

this is in playmode

[gusty folio]

added a debug.log in the update

[wintry quarry]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[wintry quarry]

Check your console for errors too

[gusty folio]

scripts running now

i think i can fix it

probably

k fixed it

two references to the same compmonent that resulted in null reference

and stopped the rest of the code from running

[rich ice]

not a code question but yeah that is weird. i've never noticed that before

[swift elbow]

yeah i reposted in #💻┃unity-talk

[sweet bough]

I dont know why, but the rotation of player doesnt really work

using UnityEngine;

public class TeleportTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform targetLocation;
    public string playerTag = "Player";
    public GameObject ObjectToActivate;
    public Transform playerObject;
    public bool invertRotation;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider player)
    {
        if (player.CompareTag(playerTag))
        {
            float cameraX = playerObject.localEulerAngles.x;
            player.transform.position = targetLocation.position;

            float targetY = targetLocation.eulerAngles.y;
            if (invertRotation)
                targetY = (targetY + 180f) % 360f;

            player.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, targetY, 0);
            playerObject.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(cameraX, 0, 0);

            if (ObjectToActivate != null)
                ObjectToActivate.SetActive(!ObjectToActivate.activeSelf);
        }
    }
}

it is 5 am so i maybe shitcoded

[gusty swallow]

my camera started jittering after i added the sprint mechanic

[rich adder]

👇

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[gusty swallow]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public CharacterController controller;

    public float speed = 12f;
    public float originalSpeed = 12f;
    public float sprintSpeed;
    public float gravity = -9.81f;
    public float jumpHeight = 3f;

    public Transform groundCheck;
    public float groundDistance = 0.4f;
    public LayerMask groundMask;

    Vector3 velocity;
    bool isGrounded;

    void Start()
    {
        sprintSpeed = speed * 1.2f;
    }
    void Update()
    {
        //Code below checks is the player isGrounded
        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask);
        //Gravity
        if (isGrounded && velocity.y < 0)
        {
            velocity.y = -2f;
        }
        

        float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        
        Vector3 move = transform.right * x + transform.forward * z;

        //Sprinting mechanic 
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
        {
            speed = sprintSpeed;
        }
        else
        {
            speed = originalSpeed;
        }
        
        //Moves the character with the character controller
        controller.Move(move * speed * Time.deltaTime);

        if (Input.GetButton("Jump") && isGrounded)
        {
            velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2 * gravity);
        }

        velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;

        controller.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);
        
    }
}

[gusty swallow]

ty

https://paste.ofcode.org/TBF6wuWCSNs4VJShitHahJ

[rough sluice]

Can we use ChatGPT instead of reading the entire documentation while working on a 3d/2d game?

[frosty hound]

Who's going to stop you?

[rough sluice]

Why? What happened?

[rich ice]

nothing, they mean there's nothing stopping you from doing that. if it works for you then go for it, just make sure to double check with the docs if something goes wrong

[rough sluice]

Ok

[kindred path]

Can someone help please, why is transform not working

[wintry quarry]

Your class isn't derived from MonoBehaviour

[kindred path]

what?

[wintry quarry]

If you don't know what that means you probably should try to follow the basic tutorials pinned in this channel

To learn how to write a script in Unity

[rough sluice]

Try doing this:public class PlayerCam : MonoBehaviour

[kindred path]

Listen. Its been 14 months since ive used Unity

[wintry quarry]

Same advice

[kindred path]

Thank you though

[sweet bough]

any ideas?

[wintry quarry]

"doesn't really work" is very vague

[sweet bough]

not really, it just doesnt invert the rotation of the player

[acoustic belfry]

hey, if i want to make a enemy spawn a couple of proyectiles in a row with delay, i should use a timer or a coroutine?

[eternal needle]

id start with a timer in most cases unless the logic is a lot simpler to write in a coroutine

[acoustic belfry]

oh! makes sense, well, thanks :3

holup, i been investigating and

what are ivokes, and why people dont use them instead of coroutines?

[eternal needle]

invoke is a string based method of calling a function. its bad because you dont want to use magic strings anywhere, and it uses reflection to call methods

theres no real need to use it

[tiny laurel]

Would it be better to handle things like bullet penetration/ricochet and tumbling on the server and replicate it off to clients? Or should I simulate this on the client and hope the server also simulates something identical?

[acoustic belfry]

oh, so i better stick with coroutines and timers instead, isnt?

[eternal needle]

it would be better yea. Invoke is just worse in every aspect

[eternal needle]

#archived-networking

[acoustic belfry]

btw, timers are better than coroutines, right?

[eternal needle]

better in a very small sense because coroutines allocate memory. this wouldnt be an issue unless you're starting a ton of coroutines. Sometimes its just way simpler to write logic as a coroutine

[acoustic belfry]

makes sense

[eternal needle]

especially if you have a lot of logic already happening in update, and this extra functionality needs to happen based on a condition, it can get messy

[hot wadi]

I tried to git push the Library folder in my project but it is said to be machine-specific and recommended to be ignored. Is it true?

[keen dew]

yes

[eternal needle]

use the unity gitignore. it will be there as an option when creating a repo on the website or desktop app

there is more than just the library you want to exclude

[hot wadi]

Wow, there are really too many to include

[burnt vapor]

Can also just get the gitignore from the general repo

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore

This one is guaranteed to be up to date

[covert obsidian]

im p sure unity is interpretting 99,999,999 in a float as 1e+08, which is just 100 million. is there a way to stop this?

[naive pawn]

unity is interpretting 99,999,999 in a float as 1e+08
no, that's how c# works with float (same for any other language using an IEEE 754 single-precision floating point number)
is there a way to stop this?
no, that's just floating-point imprecision. you could use a double for more precision, but unity might store it as a float anyways.

it's adjacent to the reason this website exists https://0.30000000000000004.com

[covert obsidian]

imma switch the > 999... to >= 1b in my code and it shouldn't be an issue anymore

thanks

[spare tiger]

guys can anyone tell me about this?? like am following code moneky tutorial and this is the error which is coming

[wintry quarry]

Open the console window and fix any compile errors you have

[pulsar tapir]

Public class NameScript : MonoBehaviour

[spare tiger]

thxx guys! i smh found the fix !!

[worldly iris]

Hey guys. Im working on some kind of 3D Endless Runner (inspired by Race the Sun). I've build a system where i move the whole world around the player and not the player himself (exept for the y Axis, things like jumping and stuff). Now I switched from a Rigidbody to a Character Controller since I don't want to use unity physics anyway and the slope movement thingy is very useful for the things I'm trying to achieve.
The only thing that bug's me is that i cant lock the x and z position like I would with an rb. Sometimes when my player touches some Obstacles he gets pushed around. I tried working around that by always moving him back to 0,0,0 but tbh, I'm not very proud of this solution.
Does anyone have an idea of how I could lock my player or knows of a way to 'fake' something like that?
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance :>

[tardy needle]

is there a way to make floats only have discrete values, for example it only changes in steps of 3 so if its value is 5.2 it snaps to 6

[naive pawn]

no, you can make that calculation yourself though

[slender nymph]

you can use unity's Snapping.Snap method to do it manually

[naive pawn]

damn i keep forgetting that's a thing

[tardy needle]

i see, thanks

[slender nymph]

you'll also want to make sure you're only using that where you plan to display the value, using it every time you change the value will mean you won't properly accumulate small changes

[royal citrus]

How do I use Graphics.DrawMeshInstancedIndirect? Currently, I'm drawing a lot of meshes by

• calculating matrices with a compute shader
• sending the data from the GPU
• using the matrices on the CPU to call Graphics.DrawMeshInstanced

[wintry quarry]

This is a great little article about it https://share.google/OITG8vEP8SsFXfShI

God I'm going to throw my phone in a river for doing this share.google nonsense 😡

[grand snow]

https://toqoz.fyi/thousands-of-meshes.html

there we go lets fix that

[royal citrus]

Thanks. Really helped me understand what was flying over my head this whole time. Just lost power so it'll take a while to implement. Since I'm planning to use shadergraph to make this work, do you know any good tutorials on making grass?

[dusty kite]

Hi guys! I'm new to unity and I've been looking for a roblox-like camera style tutorial online but couldn't find anything or the camera didn't work for me (tried using cinemachine and scripting), and wanted to ask if anyone knows a tutorial for that kind of camera or knows how to do it themselfes 🙏

[naive pawn]

could you describe what kind of behaviour you want

[rich ice]

you mean a third person camera?

[dusty kite]

yes

[dusty kite]

I want my camera to rotate by holding right mouse button, character to rotate in the direction the camera is rotating, and being able to scroll the camera closer of far from the character

[rich ice]

i think there's an example asset for that on the asset store

[dusty kite]

👀

[rich ice]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-thirdperson-updates-in-new-charactercontroller-pa-196526 found it

[dusty kite]

I'll check it out ty!

[woven crater]

hmmm i know that get component is heavy but can i use it in ray casting context? like having hovering effect by getting the script component when cast mouse on it. i know IPointerEnter but i already used it for something else and there seem like no way to make it work on specific layer

[sour fulcrum]

getcomponent is fine and usually necessary, its just usually very avoidable via caching and easy for beginners to spam in heavy loops like update

just give usage of it some thought and if you think its the right call it probably is

[woven crater]

yeah i heard it heavy but not sure how heavy its so i worry of using it abit

[sour fulcrum]

yeah people overexaggerate to drill it into beginners

[woven crater]

hah yeah i had the feeling. thank

[eternal needle]

at most, its going through a list of components on your current gameobject. you need to use it if you want to get a component on a random object. I dont know how unitys pointer logic is coded, but you can be fairly certain unity needs to do similar logic to see if any object has a component implementing IPointerEnter. Aka GetComponent<IPointerEnter>

[wise cairn]

hi so i'm trying to figure out cinemachine, i got it installed but i cant really figure out what i'm meant to do

[frosty hound]

Why did you install it then? What are you planning on using it for?

[wise cairn]

honestly idk

i just heard it's very helpful so i'm trying to get it set up

[frosty hound]

Well, if you can't communicate your need, then naturally you won't know what you're meant to do because you'd have nothing to actually look up.

"very helpful" is very vague.

In any case, there are overview videos pinned in #🎥┃cinemachine.

[blissful creek]

Newbie question here, need help with the logic for a practice scenario, in a function that updates every frame (60fps), essentially to choreograph a 1-2 punch.
So I have something like:

public void OnUpdate(float deltaTime)
{
  _countFrame++;
  if (_countFrame % 60 != 0) return;
  punchOne();

  if (_countFrame % 120 != 0) return;
  punchTwo();
}

If I’m not mistaken, punchOne occurs every second, whilst punchTwo every two seconds. How can I prevent the punchOne from occurring when punchTwo happens? I can imagine a boolean but wonder if there’s a more efficient way.

[keen dew]

If you prevent punchOne from happening when punchTwo happens, it will alter between punch one and punch two with one second pause between them. Is that what it's supposed to do?

[blissful creek]

Yeah

[cedar wing]

How can i tell my bean to always spawn to the left of the car door no matter where the car is rotated?

[keen dew]

if (_countFrame % 120 == 0) {
    punchTwo();
}
else if (_countFrame % 60 == 0) {
    punchOne();
}

[blissful creek]

Ah, simple and neat. Thanks

[eternal needle]

you should also use a timer rather than relying on frame count. you have no guarantee that this runs at 60fps

[eternal needle]

there are many ways, like you could even just have an empty gameObject be a child of this car as a spawn point. Or use something like this method https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.TransformPoint.html to go from a local position to a world position

[cedar wing]

oh yeah empty gameobject sounds goated thank you!

[blissful creek]

How can I do that? I was actually worried about framerate yea

[eternal needle]

Essentially the same way youre using the frame count, except with deltaTime

Well actually it'd be slightly different given you wouldn't want to check if it's equal to 1 second

[eternal needle]

This should be pretty close to what you're trying to do except with a timer

float timer = 0f;
int numPunches = 0;
public void OnUpdate(float deltaTime)
{
  timer += deltaTime;
  if (timer >= 1)
  {
    timer -= 1f;
    numPunches++;
    // check if numPunches is divisible by 2
    // do your punch 1 or 2
  }
}

[manic umbra]

Hey all, i need some help with transitioning to C# in unity..
for 4-5 years ive always been playing with lua in various game engines, meaning i can get a pretty nice workflow running in my head when im coding. Since lua is nothing similar to C#, i dont know where to start learning/transitioning to it. If anyone has some tips, steps, tutorials, anything helps. Thanks!

[blissful creek]

Thank you

[eternal needle]

There are beginner c# resources pinned in the channel. There are also tons of free resources out there for learning c# outside of unity. Plus !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[nimble apex]

C#
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/program-structure/

[manic umbra]

I got it, i just dont know what key areas i need to focus on

Is it the layout? or should i learn basic keywords or whatever it is

[eternal needle]

You follow a structured course and focus on what they're teaching you. Or if youre pretty good at coding in other languages, just spend some time making console apps or random features to get used to the language. Google along the way

[manic umbra]

Thats what i did to learn lua lmao

Ill try find a decent course to get

Thanks for the help

[nimble apex]

if u interested in 2D games, in my college normally we will start with two projects

angry birds or flappy birds

dont ask why its all birds

[blissful creek]

For the punches to only happen once, I imagine id have to remove timer -= -1f; and add else if (timer >= 2) and put punchTwo in the latter instead?

[eternal needle]

no you'd constantly be punching then, since timer would always be >=1. the numPunches is how you keep track if its the first or 2nd

[blissful creek]

Hmm I don’t understand how it can limit it to just one time each

[eternal needle]

did you try implementing the logic i wrote in the comments? its identical to what you're doing with the framecount. instead of checking % 120 and % 60, you check % 2 and 1

[sweet bough]

I dont know why, but the invertion of player rotation doesnt work (it teleports the player without inverting his rotation)

using UnityEngine;

public class TeleportTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform targetLocation;
    public string playerTag = "Player";
    public GameObject ObjectToActivate;
    public Transform playerObject;
    public bool invertRotation;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider player)
    {
        if (player.CompareTag(playerTag))
        {
            float cameraX = playerObject.localEulerAngles.x;
            player.transform.position = targetLocation.position;

            float targetY = targetLocation.eulerAngles.y;
            if (invertRotation)
                targetY = (targetY + 180f) % 360f;

            player.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, targetY, 0);
            playerObject.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(cameraX, 0, 0);

            if (ObjectToActivate != null)
                ObjectToActivate.SetActive(!ObjectToActivate.activeSelf);
        }
    }
}

[blissful creek]

(@eternal needle) Yeah that made sense as it would stay at timer >= 1 thus keeping them alternating.

In the other scenario where I just want them to occur once, I imagine it would be

if (timer == 2 && numPunches % 2 == 0) {
  punchTwo();
} else if (timer == 1 && numPunches % 1 == 0) {
punchOne();
}

Wait that was redundant if I just needed the timer

[eternal needle]

this isnt going to work. the timer isnt going to be exactly 1 or 2, its a float. you just need to implement logic according to the comments in the example i provided

[blissful creek]

Ah

[west sonnet]

Is recoil for guns typically done with animation or through code? Because I'm thinking for consecutive shots, the recoil force should start from where the gun is, which could be mid recoil, not from it's starting position

[rocky canyon]

both

i prefer coded animations on weapons

tweens or lerp

[eternal needle]

add logs or step through with the debugger and see what these values are. if a value doesnt align with what you think it should be, you at least have more insight as to whats not working.
also you shouldnt really be reading the eulerAngles then using that to set the rotation. the rotation is stored as a quaternion, and many different euler angles can represent one quaternion. The value might not be what you expect

[hallow sun]

what is playerObject? you might be resetting the invertion with playerObject.localRotation = ...

[sweet bough]

the player itself

[hallow sun]

then yeah, that line undoes the rotation from the previous line if player.transform and playerObject are the same object

[sweet bough]

using UnityEngine;

public class TeleportTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform targetLocation;
    public string playerTag = "Player";
    public GameObject ObjectToActivate;
    public bool invertRotation;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (!other.CompareTag(playerTag)) return;

        other.transform.position = targetLocation.position;

        Quaternion targetRot = targetLocation.rotation;
        if (invertRotation)
            targetRot = Quaternion.AngleAxis(180f, Vector3.up) * targetRot;

        other.transform.rotation = targetRot;

        if (ObjectToActivate != null)
            ObjectToActivate.SetActive(!ObjectToActivate.activeSelf);
    }
}

i tried this but it isnt working

[hallow sun]

what do you want to happen? this one is very different from the last one you sent

[sweet bough]

nvm, fixed it, input system was overriding the rotation value

thanks for help

[hallow sun]

aight as long as it works

[old vector]

I'm trying to get the angular data from the Meta Quest 2 controller, but it's not very reliable. Has anyone worked on this before?

[azure iris]

im trying to make a projectile bounce off a wall but everytime it hits said wall it goes in the wrong direction

if (linecastHit.transform.CompareTag("BounceBox") & bulletCurrentStats.currentBounce > 0)
{
  Vector2 reflect = Vector2.Reflect(bulletrb.transform.position, linecastHit.normal);
  bulletrb.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, Mathf.Atan2(reflect.y, reflect.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg);
  bulletrb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(Mathf.Cos(transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z * Mathf.Deg2Rad), Mathf.Sin(transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z * Mathf.Deg2Rad)) * bulletCurrentStats.currentSpeed;
  print("Hit" + linecastHit.transform.name + ", " + reflect + Mathf.Atan2(reflect.y, reflect.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg);
  bulletCurrentStats.currentBounce -= 1;
}

how would i fix that

[naive pawn]

i think you're supposed to reflect the velocity, not the position?

[azure iris]

that was all it was 💀

its working now, thank you

[naive pawn]

and then you can just use that to the velocity instead of using the rotation

[proper cloud]

anyone know why the camera is not following the player?

[grand snow]

probably needs a position control to make it follow as well as look

[proper cloud]

Cinemachine should do everything, but it doesnt work :/

[grand snow]

It does work and quite well when you use it properly

[proper cloud]

true

thus my problem

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/setup-follow-camera.html

They have some doc pages for common use cases ^

[frail hawk]

#🎥┃cinemachine maybe for more help

[proper cloud]

ty, this helpt me realize im just stupid, working now <3

[echo copper]

guys, help, plz

what does that mean

[naive pawn]

your MOVEMENTS script is trying to use the model variable, but you haven't set it

[echo copper]

ow ok

[naive pawn]

it's pretty much just what the error said

[echo copper]

yes, i thought the model variable is not a variable with name "model", but something different

sorry

[gleaming haven]

what is generally the best way to make the light for a flashlight? if I put the light at the flashlight itself (which is in the bottom right corner of the camera), then the light doesn't illuminate the middle of the screen, which looks weird. if i put the light in the center of the camera itself, it looks weird too because the light isn't coming from the flashlight. is there a best practice for this?

[ivory bobcat]

This is the beginner coding channel. You should perhaps ask your light question in #💻┃unity-talk
Make sure to inform them what kind of light source you're using (directional, spot etc)

[gleaming haven]

oh ty

[frigid sequoia]

I am wondering if doing a string comparison at start of a relatively spameable method is not ideal, would you call this an issue?

[grand snow]

magic strings like this arent reliable. if possible use an enum instead

[frigid sequoia]

I am in fact, just that this method is already converting the enum into a string, since it has to display it as text

[grand snow]

then the mapping for colour should still use the enum value

you can .ToString() when you actually need that

[frigid sequoia]

The enum to text is not exactly 1 to 1 conversion to the actual text I want to display

The class that instantiates this already has a switch to do the conversion to pass it as a string, should I change it to have it on this other class?

[ivory bobcat]

What kind of question are you asking? Is this in response to performance, design or? Relative to design, string comparison is not preferable. Relative to performance, it probably wouldn't matter - use the profiler.

[frigid sequoia]

Kinda both actually

Like what would be the preferred way to do this

[grand snow]

should then have a mapping that uses the enum as a key and THAT contains the display text and colour

[ivory bobcat]

So relative to design, don't use string comparison. Use the enum to compare.

[brave robin]

Alternatively, if you need more functionality or info than what an enum can do, use a scriptable object class instead

[ivory bobcat]

Almost anything but strings. Flexibility equates to undefined behavior and ambiguity.

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I just changed the place of enum conversion, I was just placing somewhere else since I was already using the namespace for it there lol

[bright zodiac]

it shouldn't matter, strings literals are interned in most gc languages

and c++

[grand snow]

you can use string interpolation to construct strings in a nicer way:
$"{initialAddenum}{value} {StatTypeToString(statType)}"

Yea c# will intern duplicate strings

[bright zodiac]

I'd go with String.Create and spans here and get 0 alloc

[ivory bobcat]

Nobody said performance was an issue...

[grand snow]

overkill much

im sure some niche situations require such measures but probably not right now 😆

[frigid sequoia]

Ah, does that matter much?

I just find it way easier to read this way

[grand snow]

personal preference, both produce a new string

Its nice when doing something like $"{numA}/{numB}"

the object automatically does ToString()

[bright zodiac]

completely different impl.. string interpolation should be faster in recent c# versions

with that in mind, it only matters once unity moves to coreClr

[royal citrus]

Does anyone know how to use Graphics.DrawMeshInstancedIndirect with shader graphs?

[wintry quarry]

This basically: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@12.0/manual/Instance-ID-Node.html

[royal citrus]

How do I get the buffer I set on my material then? I sent a list of matrix4x4 from a compute shader

[jaunty axle]

Why does the jump animation behave like that? Also, the fall animation is supposed to play when I fall, but it's not happening

[wintry quarry]

I think you need to do a workaround by writing the data to a texture instead of a g buffer

And use the sample texture 2D node

It's a little awkward

[wintry quarry]

This is a code channel

[queen adder]

Hey so I was working on a shooting enemy I want it to follow the player from a distance how do I go about it please

[digital topaz]

Seems annoying to have to commit all 3rd party assets to git, when you should just be able to check them out quickly with your project packages. :/
But now i'm trying to use github actions to build my project and it doesn't have things 😦

[rich adder]

this question is pretty vague..here is a vague answer, use a pathfinding algorithm

[queen adder]

Its a top down 2d game with basically infinite procedural generation so I don’t think it’s advisable or possible

[rich adder]

still vague.. plenty of games made with procedual generated

[queen adder]

Path finder can’t be used for an infinite world

You can’t generate a surface

[rich adder]

so you generate it at runtime

[modest dust]

Then take a finite part of the world. You said it yourself, that it would follow the player from a certain distance, so the search space is finite.

[queen adder]

Either way it’ll still be jittery because my current method is basically the same thing

I’m using a physics2d overlap circle to check

[rich adder]

check what?

[queen adder]

The enemy checks for the player with it then when it detects the player it moves to it at stops at X distance from the player but now each time the player moves again the enemy try’s to keep up chasing jittery movement

[modest dust]

Then move the enemy only if the player moves a certain distance away from the enemy, not immediately when the distance is larger than X.

[queen adder]

I’ll try that and see

[modest dust]

Or add a delay, or smooth out the movement over time.

[vague sequoia]

    {
        Vector2 WasdDelta = inputManager.WasdDelta;

        Vector3 forward = new Vector3(Orientation.forward.x, 0, Orientation.forward.z).normalized;
        Vector3 right = new Vector3(Orientation.right.x, 0, Orientation.right.z).normalized;
        Vector3 moveDir = (forward * WasdDelta.y + right * WasdDelta.x).normalized;

        float currentSpeed = walkSpeed;


        if (WhatIsGround)
        {

            if (WasdDelta.magnitude < 0.1f && moveDir == Vector3.zero)
            {
                StateMovement = MovementState.Idle;
            }
            else
            {
                StateMovement = MovementState.Walking;
            }

            if (inputManager.IsKeyDown(InputManager.InputAction.Run))
            {
                currentSpeed = runSpeed;

                StateMovement = MovementState.Running;
            }

           


            Rb.linearVelocity = moveDir * currentSpeed;
             


        }    ```What could be causing the character to not stop instantly?,From what I see, it takes a while to go to idle and not because it is not instantaneous.

[teal viper]

Idle as in stopped? Or moving at walk speed?

[vague sequoia]

If no input is received, switch to Idle and stop instantly."

[teal viper]

I don't see any logic related to this though. You still assign a walk or run speed to the linear velocity

[vague sequoia]

Sorry, the last thing I did didn't work, and in the idle part when Wasd delta doesn't receive one, its magnitude will be 0 and if that happens we force it to stop

but what happens is that instead of going from Running to idle when no input is received, this happens: first it is Running, then Walking and finally idle and it takes a few seconds before being idle (a second but it is noticeable) so it takes a while to stop

[naive pawn]

how is WasdDelta set?

[solemn grotto]

hey guys i just wanna ask what would be a simple way to make a drag system where i can just hold left click on a cube and drag it around

[rich adder]

drag it around in what way ? there are dozens of ways to do something like this

[ripe shard]

easiest is probably via EventSystem callbacks, e.g. implementing IDragHandler https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.IBeginDragHandler.html

[solemn grotto]

i was thinking a karlson type drag

[rich adder]

no idea what that is

do you have an example?

[solemn grotto]

to click and move objects around using the mouse

[verbal dome]

GetAxis has some smoothing by default, try GetAxisRaw instead or adjust the smoothing for those axes in the input manager

[vague sequoia]

ooo ok

[rich adder]

make a bool true with the rigidbody stored when picked up you can use fixedupdate to move the cube from oldPos to newPos

[solemn grotto]

ok i will try this

[royal citrus]

Is there a way to prevent Graphics.DrawProcedural and other similar functions from executing on a specific camera? I have a camera that simply renders black because of split screen.

[sharp bloom]

private IEnumerator WaveFunctionCollapse()
{   
    while (cellsToBeProcessed.Count > 0)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.01f);

        
        SortCellListByDomainCount();
        currentCell = cellsToBeProcessed[0];

        currentCell.CollapseSelf();
        currentCell.changed = true;

       
        if (currentCell.currentState == CellStateName.red)
        {
            foreach (var n in currentCell.neighbours.Values)
            {
                n.RemovePossibility(CellStateName.red);
            }
        }

        cellsToBeProcessed.Remove(currentCell);
        UpdateAllCells();
    }
}

Been working on this random map generation based on the wave function collapse method, this is sort of a dumb version of that algorithm right now. I can right now create patterns such as the image, but I only have one rule, red can't be next to red.

But for example, I would want rules such as "blue must be next to at least one other blue" . But I can't really wrap my head around it, does anyone have good examples on how this is done?

[soft knoll]

Hay

Anyone

[rich ice]

unless you have a question, most messages like "hi" or "hey" will go ignored

[undone depot]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class Interactor : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float interactDistance;
    public PlayerInput playerBinds;
    private InputAction interact;
    public Camera cam;

    [SerializeField]
    private LayerMask interactableMask;

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        interact = playerBinds.Player.Interact;
        interact.Enable();
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        interact.Disable();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (
            Physics.Raycast(
                cam.transform.position,
                cam.transform.forward,
                out RaycastHit hit,
                interactDistance,
                interactableMask
            ) && playerBinds.Player.Interact.IsPressed()
        )
        {
            Debug.Log("Interact Successful");
        }
    }
}```

Does anyone have a clue on to why the if statement in Update() would cause an Object is not set to an instance of an object error?

[keen dew]

Either cam , playerBinds, playerBinds.Player or playerBinds.Player.Interact is null

[twin pivot]

Ooooh ive worked something similar for my combat system

My solution was to make an array with 10x + y being the number the gameobject is stored in

For example if a blue tile is at (2,7) it would be myGameObject[27]

Although if you're using a 10 by 10 grid you're probably gonna have to find a different solution

[next fable]

hey guys, very beginner question but I'm not sure why my override method aren't being called - the base versions are instead?

oh, sorry if I'm interrupting haha

[twin pivot]

Heres 2 ways i think you could do it

1. You put the different colored tiles in seperate arrays and check every single one
2. You add colliders in a + shape and shoot a ray at it and check if it collides with anything (maybe add an interface to each type of tile and check for that?)

[twin pivot]

Gonna need more deets on that

[next fable]

I basically call a function like this unit.MoveTowardsWaypoint();

the base function is ``` public virtual void MoveTowardsWaypoint()
{
transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, targetPos, speed * Time.deltaTime);
if (Vector3.SqrMagnitude(targetPos - transform.position) > 0.05f)
{
RotateTowardsWaypoint(Quaternion.LookRotation(targetPos - transform.position, Vector3.up));
}

    for (int i = vehicles.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
    {
        vehicles[i].CheckLocalPosition();
        vehicles[i].vehicle.CheckCollision();
    }
}```

    {
        for (int i = vehicles.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
        {
            vehicles[i].vehicle.MoveAndRotateTowardsWaypoint();
        }
    }

the override function's like this - but in-game, the stuff in the base function's being called instead

[sour fulcrum]

is the unit the type of class that override function is on?

[nimble apex]

this is a code design question

currently i have a join request system, backend is operational and there are no problem on sending/reciving data

however, the system is driven by two UI , one big one small

1. big one can only be opened when player click on the small one, no other ways
2. either of them can only exist one, no duplications
3. there can be unlimited requests as long as the room is not filled
4. each requests should have separated timer , terminated after 10 seconds received

my question is, with this kind of design , u must store it somewhere else when u received it right? and u need to think of what to store

[next fable]

yes, so there's a base vehicle unit and a child naval unit

[nimble apex]

u think i should use ..... a model class + unscaled time?

[next fable]

they move differently, I have a vehicle state machine with a reference to a vehicle unit it's attached to

referenced like this

[nimble apex]

Dictionary <class,float>

where model class is the response , float is the unscaled time

[opaque isle]

Hello, i am a programming beginner and I would like someone to review my save/load game script

Just to give me advice, if its bad/good.

Where could I post my code snippet?

[median hatch]

weird function and variable names

no idea what Loc_Inv... is

make it more readable

apart from that seems okay

[opaque isle]

Oh yes I understand, yes i put weird variable names

[sharp bloom]

Basically I want to use it to generate random mazes

I got something working, not perfect since it generates dead-ends but we're getting there

[opaque isle]

@median hatch And one more, this is the read function. That reads the saved file

[median hatch]

this one looks a bit confusing

whatever FAB is

[keen dew]

You don't need to check if Count > 0 inside the for loops. The loops don't do anything if the count is 0

[median hatch]

personally i create classes and store data there, then simply serialize that class

then onLoad i grab the json file and store that into the same class

void OnSaveSystem(int index)
    {
        playerData.dateTime = DateTime.Now.ToString();

        string playerJson = JsonUtility.ToJson(playerData, true);
        File.WriteAllText(Application.dataPath + $"/StreamingAssets/Save{index}/PlayerData.json", playerJson);

        string weaponsJson = JsonUtility.ToJson(weaponData, true);
        File.WriteAllText(Application.dataPath + $"/StreamingAssets/Save{index}/WeaponsData.json", weaponsJson);

        string droneJson = JsonUtility.ToJson(droneData, true);
        File.WriteAllText(Application.dataPath + $"/StreamingAssets/Save{index}/DroneData.json", droneJson);
    }

dont know how standard it is but works well for me

[keen dew]

Also you can convert the keys and values directly to lists, no need to do that manually

[opaque isle]

@keen dew Is that a function or?

Becuase I use a dictionary for inventory, and dictionary cant be serialized to json

[keen dew]

Post the !code as text, I'm not going to retype it from the screenshot

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[opaque isle]

public static void SaveGameData(bool BASE_SAVE)
{
        bool dirExists = System.IO.Directory.Exists(path);
        if (!dirExists)
        {
            System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(path);
        }
        GameData gameData = new GameData();
        GameManager gameManager = GameManager.ReturnSelf();

        for (int i = 0; i < gameManager.GlobalInventoryDictionary.Count; i++)
        {
            if (gameManager.GlobalInventoryDictionary.Count > 0)
            {
                gameData.Glob_Inv_Scr.Add(gameManager.GlobalInventoryDictionary.ElementAt(i).Key);
                gameData.Glob_Inv_Int.Add(gameManager.GlobalInventoryDictionary.ElementAt(i).Value);
            }
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < gameManager.LocalInventoryDictionary.Count; i++)
        {
            if (GameManager.ReturnLocalInventory().Count > 0)
            {
                gameData.Loc_Inv_Scr.Add(gameManager.LocalInventoryDictionary.ElementAt(i).Key);
                gameData.Loc_Inv_Int.Add(gameManager.LocalInventoryDictionary.ElementAt(i).Value);
            }
        }
        if (gameManager.knownRecipes.Count > 0)
        {
            gameData.knownRecipes = gameManager.knownRecipes;
        }
    if(BASE_SAVE)
    {
        foreach(var FAB in SystemManager.GetSystemManager().fabricatorArray)
        {
            FabricatorData NEW_DATA = new FabricatorData();
            NEW_DATA.isFabricatorOperational = FAB.isFabricatorOperational;
            NEW_DATA.isWorking = FAB.isWorking;
            NEW_DATA.storedAmountOfItems = FAB.storedAmountOfItemsToFabricate;
            NEW_DATA.FAB_ID = FAB.fabricatorID;
            gameData.FAB_DATA.Add(NEW_DATA);
        }
    }

    string json = JsonUtility.ToJson(gameData);
    System.IO.File.WriteAllText(path + "/gameData.json", json);
    
}

[rugged beacon]

most object pool video i seen on youtube implement their own pooling, why is that? is unity's object pooling implementation bad

[keen dew]

gameData.Glob_Inv_Scr = new List<?>(gameManager.GlobalInventoryDictionary.Keys);
gameData.Glob_Inv_Int = new List<?>(gameManager.GlobalInventoryDictionary.Values);

And the same with Loc_Inv_*, Replace ? with the correct types

[slender nymph]

unity didn't even have a built in object pool class until 2021

[rugged beacon]

do you have any issue using it ?

[slender nymph]

no. but my point was that the reason you see so many object pool videos that implement their own is because the feature simply did not exist in most versions of the editor

[opaque isle]

Thank you

[rugged beacon]

ok thanks i will stick to unity's

[median hatch]

wont this create a shit ton of entries if he has a lot of values?

[keen dew]

I'm not sure what you mean. It creates as many entries as there are values

The end result is the same as in the original code

[median hatch]

yea ig

[thick sedge]

a bit out of context but where do the games on steam keep their saving files?

[polar acorn]

Wherever they want to

[thick sedge]

whats the common place I can search at?

[polar acorn]

There isn't one

Look up [Game] PC Save location on google and do that

They can go literally anywhere. AppData, Documents, User folder, Registry, ProgramData, all sorts of places

[thick sedge]

found it on AppData

thx

[polar acorn]

Next time, just google it. You'll find the answer in seconds

[willow iron]

i have several nested if statements. if ANY of these if statements are false, i need to do something. is there a way to do this that is neater than just including else statements after every single if?

[wintry quarry]

Bool variables

Show the code if you want more specific advice

[frosty hound]

Don't nest them, and use a bool flag to determine the results.

bool checkPassed = true;

if (condition 1)
   // Do this
else
    checkPassed = false;


if (condition 2)
   // Do that
else
    checkPassed = false;

// ---

if (!checkPassed)
  // Something failed

[gusty swallow]

why does the sprint mechanic make my camera jump sometimes

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public CharacterController controller;

    public float speed = 12f;
    public float originalSpeed = 12f;
    public float sprintSpeed;
    public float gravity = -9.81f;
    public float jumpHeight = 3f;

    public Transform groundCheck;
    public float groundDistance = 0.4f;
    public LayerMask groundMask;

    Vector3 velocity;
    bool isGrounded;

    void Start()
    {
        sprintSpeed = speed * 1.2f;
    }
    void Update()
    {
        //Code below checks is the player isGrounded
        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask);
        //Gravity
        if (isGrounded && velocity.y < 0)
        {
            velocity.y = -2f;
        }
        

        float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        
        Vector3 move = transform.right * x + transform.forward * z;

        //Sprinting mechanic 
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
        {
            speed = sprintSpeed;
        }
        else
        {
            speed = originalSpeed;
        }
        
        //Moves the character with the character controller
        controller.Move(move * speed * Time.deltaTime);

        if (Input.GetButton("Jump") && isGrounded)
        {
            velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2 * gravity);
        }

        velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;

        controller.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);
        
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

Can you explain what you mean by the camera jumping?

Also how does the camera move?

(one other issue - you should not be calling Move twice per frame. Sum the vectors and call it once)

[gusty swallow]

thank you i mean sometimes it looks like it slightly teleports also thank you for the advice

[cloud obsidian]

hi guys

i have a problem

i just downloaded unity

and guider on youtube opened script with smth like that

but when i doing all the same

it opens notepad

can someone help me with that

[gusty swallow]

Hi man all you have to do is download a code editor. I prefer Visual Studio Code looks like he is using Rider if you want to use that.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

[cloud obsidian]

Thanks

[polar acorn]

Also don't crosspost you end up getting the same answer in multiple places and wasting more of people's time

[wintry quarry]

!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

[cloud obsidian]

Thanks

[chrome apex]

Guys, I'm going through absolute hell trying to create and IK system for my fingers for grabbing terrain. It's all kinds of uneven and I've tried different methods but they all have cases where they don't work perfectly

would a finger ragdoll system be a stupid idea in this case?

but I guess I would need gravity to be applied in self space of the hand (due to rotations)

[south nexus]

hey im really struggling to on how to make top down melee combat are there any tutorials on this?

[polar acorn]

That's a vague question, break the problem down into smaller problems and find out which thing you don't know how to do

[frail crane]

any guesses on why my score isn't updating? I assigned the tmp in the editor

{
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float moveSpeed;
    Vector3 lastVelocity;
    private int score = 0;
    public TMP_Text scoreText;


    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {

        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        float randomNumX = Random.Range(-1.0f, 1.0f);
        float randomNumY = Random.Range(-1.0f, 1.0f);
        rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(randomNumX * moveSpeed, randomNumY);


    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        lastVelocity = rb.linearVelocity;
        scoreText.text = score.ToString(); 
    }
    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        Scene scene = SceneManager.GetActiveScene();
        SceneManager.LoadScene(scene.name);
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        var speed = lastVelocity.magnitude;
        var direction = Vector3.Reflect(lastVelocity.normalized, other.contacts[0].normal);
        rb.linearVelocity = direction * Mathf.Max(speed, 0f);
        moveSpeed = moveSpeed + 5;
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "paddle")
        {
            score++;
        }
    }
}

[naive pawn]

generally you should not set the text every frame, only when it changes

(also wouldn't you want to have lastVelocity updated in FixedUpdate?)

anyways i digress

have you tried debugging stuff? does the score actually change? is the tag check passing?

[frail crane]

i just checked and the score doesn't increase for some reason

[naive pawn]

either the collision message isn't being called or the condition isn't passing

[willow iron]

is there any way to make a variable visible to other scripts while not visible in the inspector for unity?

[polar acorn]

[HideInInspector] attribute

[naive pawn]

or [NonSerialized]

or make it a property

[willow iron]

👍

[naive pawn]

or make it internal instead of public

probably shouldn't do that one, but eh just throwing it out

you should figure out if you want the variable to not be in the inspector, or not be serialized as a whole

[atomic holly]

Hello
I want to create a type that will store all colliders2D of a gameobject and its childrens. So I wanted to create a struct serializable like this :

[Serializable]
public struct PlanAttributes
{
    public GameObject Plan;
    public List<Collider2D> PlanColliders;
}

But, I don't know if it is better to use a class instead of a struct. I want in awake to store in the list all colliders of the plan. What is the best approach to do that ?

[rich adder]

generally you want to use class if you have reference types in it

but really you can use both, is just that some people say and microsoft documentation, you typically would have structs only contain immutable data

[atomic holly]

What is references types and immutable data ?

[eternal needle]

A vast majority of your objects should be classes. Especially if you arent extremely familiar with coding, dont worry about structs tbh

[rich adder]

classes are reference types, as they are like pointers to data in memory, the immutable rule is broken pretty often, immutable is typically data that don't change

[frail hawk]

i don´t think you would be so conserned, to care about wheter you would use heap or stack

unless you are planning to have hundreds or thousand of these structs

[rich adder]

if you want to know more https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guidelines/choosing-between-class-and-struct

but yeah you should not be too worried and stick to class when in doubt lol this is #💻┃code-beginner anyway

[willow iron]

    {

        if (quickstart)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(3);
            returnToWander();
        }
        else
        {
            returnToWander();
        }
    }```

so i want to stop the above coroutine, but my ide states that i need to call `StopCoroutine(lostPlayer());` with an argument. does it matter what i put as the argument? i mean im stopping the coroutine so it doesn't matter

[rich adder]

StartCoroutine returns a Coroutine, use that

Coroutine myCo;
...
myCo = StartCoroutine(Whatever());
..
StopCoroutine(myCo);```

[atomic sierra]

Why does my sprite pause when I click space to jump in mid air?

Im trying to recreate flappy

but I want the sprite to jump the same amount if I click space again, so how do I stop this slight pause from happening?

I feel like its trying to negate the downward force

[slender nymph]

reset its vertical velocity to 0 before applying force when you jump

[atomic sierra]

so like rb2d.velocity = 0

or smthn

like this basically?

[frail hawk]

why don´t you just try it out

[atomic sierra]

now the sprite just slowly drifts down to the platform

[frail hawk]

read again what boxfriend said

[atomic sierra]

oh

oh now I get it.

[atomic sierra]

thank you

[atomic sierra]

and thank you lol

[frail hawk]

glad you could fix it

[ebon peak]

how to fix this

not this

this

[frail hawk]

you got errors in your code, why not post some code so we can say more

[polar acorn]

Clear the console, see what errors stick around

[low copper]

I'm a beginner and want to to explore creating a login system. Can someone give me the name of location to store authentication data within unity? I'm happy to do my own research but I just don't know the terms to look up.

[rich adder]

wdym a "login system" thats pretty vague.
You typically need a server for this, you wouldn't store this locally

[low copper]

I am referring to authenticating with a server. I'm coming from the web dev world...we have session. I don't know what unity uses.

[rich adder]

depends how you authenticate, typically you would store a token and if done properly a refresh system for such a token

[low copper]

that is exactly what I would like to do

[rich adder]

PlayerPrefs is a good location
this is also what unity uses for their auth system

[low copper]

I have the login scene/web requests all set

Ok great. I will research player prefs. Thank you so much for the link too. I will read it right away.

Can I just get a quick pointer on how to handle refreshing?

I assume that is not part of the PlayerPrefs system

[frail hawk]

not the savest way to save sensitive data like that

[rich adder]

PlayerPrefs is just a location in your computer, it has 0 to do with authentication

refresh is done like every other system does it on the web

check if token exist, check the expiration date and if you auto refresh and expired, then use a refresh token

i would not recommend making your own when premade solid solutions already exist

[ebon peak]

how to fix this guys

eroor

[low copper]

@rich adder : Thanks

[ebon peak]

errore

[rich adder]

you've been answered multiple times what to do and you promptly ignored it and now are asking the same thing in crossposting multiple channels..

[ebon peak]

no one answered me

[rich adder]

🤔

[ebon peak]

look it the time he answered me

and when i post it

and i closed dc thats why

[rich adder]

what about it ? you still ignored it and posted the same thing again

[ebon peak]

what post

[rich adder]

also what does this have to do with being in the probuilder channel

[ebon peak]

idk lol

im new is there a channel for these errores

[polar acorn]

About 14 minutes before you reposted the question

[ebon peak]

ok i closed dc

[rich adder]

you haven't even shown the actual error

[ebon peak]

how

[ebon peak]

look im new new like i dont know any thing

[rich adder]

how do you stay alive ?

[polar acorn]

So if you literally do not understand the words people are saying, how do you expect to actually get an answer

[ebon peak]

sorry but i did not understand what did u say

[polar acorn]

Clear the console. See what errors stay.

then post those errors

[ebon peak]

ty for answer

[rich adder]

stop what you're doing and start here
https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials

[ebon peak]

ty

i just stared yesterday

[rich adder]

thats fine but you are jumping too far ahead if you don't even know the basics of the editor, start with the structured courses on learn

[ebon peak]

my bad if i igored u or somthing

okie

can u help me ? pls

[rich adder]

🤦‍♂️

[ebon peak]

what now

[rich adder]

you're showing the same image with 0 new information

[naive pawn]

you aren't giving us any info to work with at all lmao

[rich adder]

whatya think?

[ebon peak]

ohhhhhhh

i just opened i this video and he said to open the demo and i will work or somthing

https://youtu.be/-PTtr3VCLOI?si=6jYTNUSp-jhfK35a

this but it gave me this error

that i showed u

[rich adder]

what good is a premade asset if you have no idea what to do in the edtior

[ebon peak]

i just what to do a third person shooter

[pulsar tapir]

How I can made for my game a exit system?

[rich adder]

so start learning the editor

[pulsar tapir]

Esc + exit

[rich adder]

a "exit system" ?

explain what that means

[gusty swallow]

I want to implement momentum based dashing into my game, can you guide me in the right direction on how to make that work? I'm also using the unity character controller.

[pulsar tapir]

I mean, if the player click a botton, the game close

Idk if i explain my self well

[gusty swallow]

thank you nav soo helpful

[polar acorn]

Character Controller is not going to be very good for "momentum". You'll need to do all the math yourself.

So, basically,
https://www.mathsisfun.com/physics/momentum.html

[gusty swallow]

I was thinking of switching, I want to make something akin of ultrakill.

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Application.Quit.html

[pulsar tapir]

Thx

[rich adder]

I mean..not sarcastically its been asked over and over and surely you can find many resources on this, its not something you can just explain in a discord message.. its literally an entire system w lots of math involved lol

[earnest wind]

guys, i need some help, how can i make the sliders here "predict" the color based on what the combination is? Something like how unity works?

i already have the shaders all set up, JUST 2 COLOR INPUTS , all i need is just to calculate the colors, how would i begin?

[naive pawn]

it's a gradient - for example on red, it's (0, G, B) to (255, G, B)

taking the current values of green and blue

[earnest wind]

ah that opened my mind lol, thanks

[gusty swallow]

why are my animations so weird?

[rich adder]

this is a code channel. also mkv does not embed in discord

#🏃┃animation

[gusty swallow]

ok thank you man

[sweet bough]

Why does my camera rotate a bit even when its rotation is 0?

using UnityEngine;

public class TeleportTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform targetLocation;
    public string playerTag = "Player";
    public GameObject ObjectToActivate;
    public bool invertRotation;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (!other.CompareTag(playerTag)) return;



        other.transform.position = targetLocation.position;

        var look = other.GetComponentInChildren<FirstPersonLook>();
        if (look != null)
        {
            float currentYaw = look.transform.eulerAngles.y;
            float newYaw = invertRotation ? currentYaw + 180f : currentYaw;
            look.SetYaw(newYaw);
        }
        else
        {
            Quaternion targetRot = other.transform.rotation;
            if (invertRotation)
            {
                targetRot = targetRot * Quaternion.Euler(0, 180f, 0);
            }
            other.transform.rotation = targetRot;
        }

        if (ObjectToActivate != null)
            ObjectToActivate.SetActive(!ObjectToActivate.activeSelf);
    }
}

[golden notch]

Should I get Altaruna or try to do my own networking thing?

[eager spindle]

Is there anything you like about altaruna in particular compared to other networking solutions?

[golden notch]

not sure, i don't know any other networking solutions

i like that it's free for most things

[wicked fiber]

does anyone know why this isnt working?

cam.transform.position.z = -10;

[rich ice]

gonna need more details. were there any error messages? is it within an if statement?
it'd help if you sent the !code

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[wicked fiber]

my error message was CS1612

but I defined the GameObject here

cam = Camera.main;

[ivory bobcat]

Take a screenshot of the console error from the Unity Editor

[wicked fiber]

Give me a sec

im not intelligent

theres some other stuff too

[ivory bobcat]

Normally you'd need to save a copy of the position (Vector3) from the property, modify it then assign it back.

For example: cs var position = cam.transform.position; position.z = -10; cam.transform.position = position;The position property returns a copy of the position Vector3 so modifying it doesn't have any effect on the actual position. In fact, it's a value only and not a variable thus why you should be getting an error about modifying a value and not a variable or something.

[wicked fiber]

ok thanks

camPOS = cam.transform.position;
camPOS = transform.position;
camPOS.z = -10;
cam.transform.position = camPOS;

Is that better?

wait nvm I got it

thanks again

[ivory bobcat]

Reminder that for better future support, it's always preferred to provide a screenshot of the console error rather than the error code. Nobody really remembers error codes and it lacks the extra details necessary to properly debug a problem without having the query more information.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/Console.html
@wicked fiber

[wicked fiber]

Yeah, I realized that after I sent it. Sorry

[unique lantern]

Who can help me solve this problem?Is this a lost map?

As a beginner, I don't know much about it. I checked the relevant documents, and there are maps in them, but I still don't know how to solve this problem. I hope to get your help

[north kiln]

There's no modding discussion allowed on this server; find a tarkov modding server and ask there

[sleek bone]

Hello, I was going through this reference https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.html and found this: (Image 1- Awake highlighted text). Here it says Awake is called when the script is enabled. However when I put it to test, so I created a test script with Awake function and disabled the script component, while the gameobject is active. Awake is getting called even when script component is disabled. (Image 2 - Unity editor, look at inspector, TestScript is disabled, and Awake being called in Console.)

Now my question is, how can Awake be called if the script component is disabled?

[wintry quarry]

You disabled it when and where?

[cosmic dagger]

When the GameObject is active, Awake is immediately called . . .

[sleek bone]

Before playing the game in Inspector

[sleek bone]

So it doesn't matter if script is enabled or disabled?

[wintry quarry]

From the docs:

Unity calls Awake on scripts derived from MonoBehaviour in the following scenarios:

The parent GameObject is active and initializes on Scene load
The parent GameObject goes from inactive to active
After initialization of a parent GameObject created with Object.Instantiate

[ivory bobcat]

Not sure why "enabled" is written in the description as it'll load without the script being enabled.
Probably something to be edited.

[wintry quarry]

Yeah it's definitely a bit vague

As is this "parent GameObject" concept

[sleek bone]

My apologies, I came here before going through Awake documentation.

[sour fulcrum]

its weird that its seperate from those 3 rules but it totally does consider script enabled afaik?

[cosmic dagger]

No, it doesn't matter if the script is enabled or not . . .

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming it's meant to be something like

Unity calls Awake when script instances are loaded
Unity calls Awake on scripts derived from MonoBehaviour in the following scenarios:
...

[cosmic dagger]

Awake is only affected by the GameObject's active state . . .

[sour fulcrum]

if thats true that doc just outright lies then lol

[cosmic dagger]

It wouldn't make sense because if you only have an Awake method, you cannot enable or disable the script, so how could it be affected by that?

[sleek bone]

Hold on, I found another one. In https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Awake.html documentation, it says (Image 1). So, can an inactive gameobject call Awake??

[sour fulcrum]

you can enable/disable scripts before they spawn or via inspector?

[ivory bobcat]

No, it explicitly states that the object must be active (which is different from a component being enabled)

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, but only if they have a Start or any Update method . . .

[cosmic dagger]

No, because it's inactive . . .

[sour fulcrum]

only for the inspector one right? you can still toggle script activity via code?

[clear juniper]

public class Test : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void Awake()
    {
        Debug.Log("Hello world");
    }
}```

the enabled flag appears when you use any one of the unity magic methods, awake included

[sour fulcrum]

You are right though, just tested it. I think that doc needs to be changed

Unity calls Awake when an enabled script instance is being loaded. is incredibly misleading

[cosmic dagger]

It does not appear for me . . .

[sour fulcrum]

its kinda like saying "fire will burn any alive person"

like yes that is true

but fire absolutely burns dead people too

[clear juniper]

on what version of unity? That's so strange

[sour fulcrum]

didnt pop for me until update

[clear juniper]

huh

[sour fulcrum]

im assuming the rules apply to start too so it only really shows up for update

[sleek bone]

Can you try on a empty gameobject?

[cosmic dagger]

It's always been like that for me. I'm currently on 2022.3 . . .

[clear juniper]

works on my machine lol

[sleek bone]

Same, i'm also on 2022.3.40

[clear juniper]

I'm on unity 6, maybe it changed then

[cosmic dagger]

No, Start will allow you to enable/disable a MonoBehaviour script . . .

[clear juniper]

I ditched 2022 as soon as 2023.1 came out

[sour fulcrum]

why are you saying gameobject

thats a dif thing?

[clear juniper]

I tried it for a game jam and the new Awaitable class was too good to live without

death to coroutines ✊

[cosmic dagger]

They are different, but I typed the wrong thing. I should've written the script (MonoBehaviour) . . .

[sleek bone]

but... but... I kinda like coroutines..🥺

[clear juniper]

async/await is the same but better in every way 🙂

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not on the latest Unity 6 but perhaps it may just be with the current latest release

Relative to the enable component checkbox and Awake

[clear juniper]

instead of

IEnumerator WaitForThing ()
{
   yield return new WaitForSeconds (1);
   Debug.Log("aaa");
}

void DoSomething ()
{
    StartCoroutine(WaitForThing);
}
```it is now
```cs
async void DoSomething ()
{
   await Awaitable.WaitForSecondsAsync(1);
   Debug.Log("aaa");
}
``` no more StartCoroutine, you don't have to be on a monobehaviour (or using a singleton runner) for everything you want to happen over time

and you can use async methods in await

and you can return values

[sour fulcrum]

re: not using monobehaviours, do all the old things that needed coroutines work for that too?

[clear juniper]

and it has cancellation token support, so you can cancel them

[ivory bobcat]

iirc coroutines are on the main thread whilst async and await are not.

[blazing junco]

Btw what would be a good channel to ask this in?

[clear juniper]

we have WaitForSecondsAsync, FixedUpdateAsync, EndOfFrameAsync (lateupdate), NextFrameAsync, then new BackgroundThreadAsync and MainThreadAsync to easily switch between threads

[clear juniper]

wrong 🙂

[sour fulcrum]

oh actually do awaitables/async auto die with monobehaviours in this comparison or do you need to manage that yourself

[clear juniper]

if you use the Awaitable class it's all on the main thread

unless you explicitly call BackgroundThreadAsync

[clear juniper]

you manage it yourself

[rich ice]

#💻┃unity-talk

[sour fulcrum]

I'd say that's a notable con but still excited to mess with that eventually

[ivory bobcat]

Ah right, this would only be true if you're starting a new task..

[north kiln]

Only if you use the specific API for doing it; which you just wouldn't do

[clear juniper]

if you're familiar with cancellation tokens it's pretty straightforward

void OnDisable ()
{
   _cancellationTokenSource.Cancel()
}

it's a little bit extra sure

but the benefits vastly outweigh that imo 😂

and coroutines are still there if you enjoy putting StartCoroutine everywhere 😉

[north kiln]

you would use the destroyCancellationToken if you already had a MonoBehaviour

[clear juniper]

oh wow I didn't even know that was there

that's excellent

yeah in that case all you need to do is cs await Awaitable.WaitForSecondsAsync (destroyCancellationToken);

(or any of the other awaitable methods)

this one feature alone made 2023/6 worth the upgrade 😂

I can't tell you how much I hated having wrapper methods that just StartCoroutine a different method, and/or a singleton to manage them for when I needed them in a static or plain C# class

[north kiln]

I can't say async/await is easy for beginners sadly, it's very easy to make mistakes that silence exceptions or leak your tasks into edit mode

[clear juniper]

tasks shouldn't leak into edit mode if you use awaitable, right?

they don't for me any more

[north kiln]

but once you get past those few things it opens up into being able to do practically anything

[clear juniper]

but yeah, that's valid

[north kiln]

I have no idea, I use UniTask

Awaitable had a bunch of weird bugs and stuff last time I touched it

[clear juniper]

I think they're ironed out now, the only thing that is missing is WaitForSecondsRealtime really (and you can work around that)

[north kiln]

I would presume it would still run across the playmode barrier

[clear juniper]

if you use Awaitable, they are correctly cancelled when leaving play mode 🙂

at least on Unity 6 and 6.1

[dim berry]

im currently using the default input axis controller for my cinemachine camera, but am running into an issue with disabling/enabling certain action maps. because im using a generated class and creating an instance of my input action asset, disabling and enabling those action maps dont end up affecting the input for my cinemachine camera. i was wondering if there was a way for my input controller to reference the input action instance. the input action instance is created in an input reader scriptable object.

[copper crest]

Hey, i know this is gonna sound REALLY Dumb but i recently got into Coding and am trying to make a Guessing Game... Can someone Help me find a Good Tutorial For How Do Input Fields Work? I Cant Find Any

[wintry quarry]

what specifically about input fields are you struggling with?

[copper crest]

Ive tried multiple times trying to get the text from the field and checking it, like a code system but it runs the debug for when its wrong, even though i write the correct Answer

[wintry quarry]

you would need to show us your code etc

and your debugging attempts

[copper crest]

Okay

Wait A Sec

[rich ice]

btw, make sure to keep this in mind
!code

[eternal falcon]

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[magic crown]

Hey i have a small problem i'm trying to make a kind of active ragdoll using configurable joint and i'm doing this

    void Update()
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < ragdollBody.Length; i++)
        {
            ragdollBody[i].targetRotation = animatedBody[i].localRotation;        
        }
    }

The way this works is the ragdoll set the target rotation to the one of the animated body
and everything work right until i rotate more than 2 axis cause then instead of matching the rotation it rotate differently.

I don't know if it's using quaternion or something else but i really need some help to make this match the rotation perfectly

[median hatch]

does anyone know when unity's summer sale is?

[magic crown]

nope and #💻┃unity-talk

[ivory bobcat]

Can you describe how it rotates differently?

[magic crown]

wait i'm gonna make a video

[magic crown]

And i have a guess why it do that but i tried so many thing and it just doesn't work, tried using euler angles tried changing the anchor which change the outcome but never go as wanted

I guess it must be using quaternion but it's such a bitch to use that i'm gonna go crazy

[ivory bobcat]

So, can you describe how it rotates differently?

[magic crown]

It's shown on the video, it rotate fine on the x axis and the z axis but once i rotate the Y axis it just turn based on the world Y if that make sens

Wait shit i found something When i turn the Y rotation it change the rotation for all of them

and i believe the configurable joint don't like that at all

[ivory bobcat]

So, I'm not able to understand the video at all. Given the code, I'm going to assume ragdoll is a list of Animator components and that you're assigning the target rotation of each Animator instance the value specified by some local rotation (likely the object you're directly moving in the scene/video). Maybe serialize two lists of quaternions/eulers and verify if the data truly matches (they likely should, minus root motion physics etc)

[magic crown]

Well that the full code

    [SerializeField] ConfigurableJoint[] ragdollBody;
    [SerializeField] Transform[] animatedBody;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < ragdollBody.Length; i++)
        {
            ragdollBody[i].targetRotation = animatedBody[i].localRotation;        
        }
    }

I'm just taking the transform of the body i want to match and the configurable joint of the ragdoll and telling it to match

And i do that for all of my body part in order

[stuck field]

Do you have the "Configured In World Space" option enabled on your joint? If not, you should use world space position, then translate it to local space of the joints transform, or you could try enabling it, and directly using position, but this would mess up if the 2 weren't in the exact same position, but it's a test you can run to figure a bit more out about the problem

[magic crown]

Wait it's not activated but i'm gonna test

[magic crown]

How could i translate it the world space position to local space of the joints transform?

[stuck field]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform.InverseTransformDirection.html

[magic crown]

thanks

[stuck field]

You'd use it on the joint transforms, just to clarify

[magic crown]

Well using in on the joint transform doesn't change anything

but i'm gonna try it on the other transform

You know what for now i'm just gonna stop all of that It's been multiple day of barely sleeping trying to get that shit out of my mind i can't anymore

need some rest

but atleast i have some clue on what's the problem so thanks a lot dude

[eager scarab]

at the start should i keep using a game engine or is it better to get a feel of the language to fully code it all and not rely on an engine (i know the basic fundamentals of coding, so understanding isnt a problem to a certain extent)

[eager spindle]

theres people in this discord that would disagree with me but I feel like its important to get a good grasp of the language first

[eager scarab]

so that means i should try make some projects off of any game engine?

just asking cause that could apply to both options

[frosty hound]

Going into any multi-disciplinary skill with the existing knowledge and experience is obviously a benefit, that's just common sense.

It's not mandatory either.

There's no should or should nots. Whether you work on an individual skill first or simultaneously doesn't really matter and is unique to each person.

[dense summit]

hi everyone- is there any one knows about web request visual scripting- this is my first part of script and I should see my backend messages in the console . but I can not see

[rich ice]

#1390346878394040320

[polar acorn]

I don't think you'd find many people here who think learning programming in any capacity wouldn't be helpful before starting Unity. Hell, even learning something like COBOL before starting Unity would help. The hardest part of programming isn't the language it's having an intuitive sense of control flow, understanding procedural logic, and how to split a task into smaller chunks, which you could learn in basically any language.

[eager spindle]

Had an argument with someone here before that said learning c# on its own before moving to unity is a waste of time since they'll be practicing their c# while working with unity anyways

big yikes

[polar acorn]

It's not necessary, but it is by no means a bad idea

[modern meteor]

wsg guys, just started using unity today, can someone teach me how it works or smth

[queen adder]

Hello! I'm new to unity, and I got into coding cause I want to be a game developer, I've tried different coding language, most recently, I use ActionScript 3.0, now I am switching to unity, my goal is to create a "gacha life like" game, a character creator/customization game, I tried a tutorial online, but failed, the asset does not switch, nor does the asset switch color like in the tutorial, do any of you know how? Or like know tutorials I can source else where besides youtube?

[modern meteor]

who reacted with google 😭😭😭

[verbal dome]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[modern meteor]

thanks

[eternal needle]

We would find the same things on Google that you would find searching for character customization tutorial. If it worked for the tutorial, then odds are you did something wrong and should look at it more carefully. Or add debugs and try to figure out where the logic is going wrong and narrow down what line isnt working as expected

[queen adder]

The problem was with the graphic, like the button asset that was provided in unity, it does not show up when I play the game 😦

[eternal needle]

Without seeing the setup its hard to say anything. If it isnt code related, then you'd want to show your setup maybe in #💻┃unity-talk and ask why this button does not show up

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I was wondering how I am supposed to rotate a game object to a specific point/angle? Is there method or something?

I am currently working on a horror game and I want to rotate a crucifix game object to a specific angle and then to stop rotating. I think you have seen that in horror games.

[naive pawn]

there are several static quaternion methods, you probably want Euler for this?

and then you can slerp towards the resulting quaternion

or perhaps smoothdampangle before the euler

a lot of ways to go about this

[sage mirage]

So, I can use quaternion.lerp() or quaternion.rotatetowards()?

Probably?

I mean in order to create this smooth rotation and then to stop.

[naive pawn]

well depends on how exactly you want it to go, smooth is pretty broad

but that's the idea, yes

(perhaps get it working before making it look good)

[wicked fiber]

does anyone know why my enemy isn't moving to the player? public class BaseEnemy : MonoBehaviour
{
public float MaxHP;
public float HP;
public float MoveSpeed;

private Rigidbody2D rb;
private GameObject player;
private Camera cam;
public float dist;

// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    cam = Camera.main;
    player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player");
    HP = MaxHP;
}

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

    if (HP <= 0)
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
    if (HP > MaxHP)
    {
        HP = MaxHP;
    }
}

void FixedUpdate()
{
    GetDist(player, gameObject);
    Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, player.transform.position, MoveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

    if (dist <= 5)
    {
        
    }
    if (dist >= 10)
    {
        transform.position += (MoveSpeed * Time.deltaTime * transform.forward);
    }
}

public void TakeDamage(float damage)
{
    HP -= damage;
}

private void GetDist(GameObject Object1, GameObject Object2)  
{
    dist = Mathf.Sqrt(Mathf.Pow(Object1.transform.position.z - Object2.transform.position.z, 2) + Mathf.Sqrt(Mathf.Pow((Object1.transform.position.x - Object2.transform.position.x), 2) + Mathf.Pow((Object1.transform.position.y - Object2.transform.position.y), 2)));
}

}

[polar acorn]

!code

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[wicked fiber]

ok gimme a sec

[naive pawn]

hey btw Vector3.Distance exists

the math.. seems to be wrong though

that MoveTowards also isn't doing anything

[wicked fiber]

Yeah, IDK why

[naive pawn]

because you aren't doing anything with it

also, you have an rb but you're trying to modify the transform

[wicked fiber]

Vector2.MoveTowards(rb.position, player.transform.position, MoveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

Is that better?

or should I move it somewhere else

[polar acorn]

You still aren't doing anything with the result

[naive pawn]

MoveTowards doesn't do any physical moving

you're just computing the value moved towards the other value

[wicked fiber]

rb.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(rb.position, player.transform.position, MoveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

oh..........

whoops

[naive pawn]

why not just use the rb

[wicked fiber]

I fixed that up there

[naive pawn]

setting position does teleportation, not great for doing physics

[naive pawn]

no, like actually utilize what the rb can do for you

you can just set a velocity pointing to the player

[wicked fiber]

Ok, thanks for the help!

[nimble apex]

i want verification on my code, simply "is this good?"

this is a join request UI that update itself using server data and epoch, with this workflow:
received join request -> 10 second wait(keep updating UI) -> timeout -> deny requests

-> calling

Init(serverEvent evt){
     ...
StartCoroutine(UpdateUI(evt.Time.AddSeconds(CommunicationConstants.JoinRequestDuration)));
}

-> function itself
    private IEnumerator UpdateUI(DateTime endTime)
    {
        while (DateTime.Now < endTime)//localtime
        {
            //updating UI

            yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
        }

        UniTask.Action(async () =>
        {
            await SendMsgToPlayer();//network action
        }).Invoke();
        
        Destroy();
    }

evt.time is server epoch , so its basically epoch + 10 seconds

[naive pawn]

don't use WaitForEndOfFrame for that

if you want to wait a frame, you can just do yield return null;, but for simple checks like that you could also condense it into WaitWhile or WaitUntil (for potentially cleaner code, depending on what you feel is clean)

[nimble apex]

ohhhh lemme try it

ty 👍

[grand snow]

UniTask.Action(async () =>
        {
            await SendMsgToPlayer();//network action
        }).Invoke();

This is pointless

[nimble apex]

looks like waitwhile is new stuff

[grand snow]

you can just not await SendMsgToPlayer()

[nimble apex]

i know if i wrote it like that its actually fire and forget, but if something bad happened unitask can catch it right?

[naive pawn]

it was added in 5.3

[grand snow]

use .Forget() to make sure exceptions are logged

MyThing().Forget();

[nimble apex]

i removed the action layer, lets hope it doesnt become too expensive lol

[grand snow]

there is no perf difference

[nimble apex]

sendMsgToPlayer().Forget();```

it become like that now

[grand snow]

the Forget ensures exceptions get logged by un awaited UniTasks

the old method probably did the exact same so dw about it

[nimble apex]

ty 👍

[nimble apex]

actually i have 30+ places doing that before lol

gonna rewrite them all

[grand snow]

yea probably best 👍

try to use async methods when working with async code too, its hard to use coroutines and async together.
Unitask does offer things to let you execute and await a coroutine. Other way around is hard

[nimble apex]

the problem is at least 70% of my unitask code is to register something that need to await into UI button events

which must return void

i do have legit tasks that send stuff over network

under unitask

[grand snow]

trival to overcome:
button.onClick.AddListener(UniTask.UnityAction(AsyncFunc));
or
button.onClick.AddListener(() => AsyncFunc().Forget());

same problem exists with coroutines so either way its easy to solve

[nimble apex]

i just gonna do forget

        accept.onClick.AddListener(() =>
        {
            CommunicationManager.Instance.SendMsgToPlayer().Forget();
            Destroy();
        });```

[grand snow]

yea thats one of the many solutions

[velvet dawn]

does anyone knows about lighting in unity here?

[frail hawk]

#1390346776804069396

[velvet dawn]

alread did , no reply 😅

[naive pawn]

you're not more likely to get a reply here

[velvet dawn]

i see

[grand snow]

UniTask delay/wait functions can be given a cancellation token as an arg

I dont understand the issue if there even is one

[nimble apex]

ok then this should be fine

[nimble apex]

private IEnumerator UpdateUI(DateTime endTime)
{
    yield return new WaitWhile(() =>
    {
        //update UI
        return DateTime.Now < endTime;
    });
    
    CommunicationManager.Instance.SendMsgToPlayer().Forget();
    Destroy();
}```

for me it does look better , ty 👍

EVERYTHING WORKED 😭

[lofty sequoia]

hmmm this could be useful for some other things too

[naive pawn]

you can also do () => DateTime.Now < endTime

[nimble apex]

yeah i just knew that lol

[bright zodiac]

why not just a regular while(DateTime.Now < endTime)?
this way there will be no capture causing by the lambda, meaning zero closures

[nimble apex]

i will optimize it with the way that chris taught me lol , should be better then

[naive pawn]

they aren't that different

[nimble apex]

im now fixing other errors

[grand snow]

something something wait for time to end in a better way

[bright zodiac]

no no, the lambda will capture the variable there.... if you're fine with closures then go for it

[hushed hinge]

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

I do have a little problem, and that is with the MuonManager like i do have it on Don'tDestroyOnLoad
But however when i start the world scene, it starts at "0/12" despite already rescued a muon object, when i got back to the stage and see that one muon object already been rescues, and when finishing the game, the muoncounter went back up to "1"

how do i that the number start at the already rescued muon objects?

[forest wolf]

I don't know what is the IDataPersistance used for, but for storing objects between zones you can use the Scriptable Object - then when you change the scene the object will keep the information.

[frail hawk]

not 100% sure but i think it is happenig because you got the DontDestroyOnLoad inside the if statement for the singleton, you might want to try it out outside

[forest wolf]

I missed that - that's also a valid point - don't destroy on load shouldn't be inside if

[hushed hinge]

well i do have it on DontDetroyOnLoad

[hushed hinge]

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

[hushed hinge]

if i remove DontDestroyOnLoad, it will still start of with "0". and the number won't go up from rescuing a muon object in the stage

[forest wolf]

No, no - slightly different. Keep the DontDestroyOnLoad but put it before your if:

// put it here
if (Instance != null)
{
// not here
}

[hushed hinge]

like this?

https://paste.mod.gg/xhjwtsgfqgdh/0
also this is for the coutner on the world scene

[bright zodiac]

they're different in many ways. the delegate passed for waitWhile there got fixed overhead for creating and invoking (call vs callvirt). also closures in general is evil as they will make copies in memory

[forest wolf]

yep :)

[hushed hinge]

but the amount of muons rescued still starts at "0"

[frail hawk]

if you want to share that value between scenes simply create a static c# class which you can access easly

[forest wolf]

Can you say what do you mean by 'starts'? Starts when you 'play' the game and each time it goes to zero, or it goes to zero when you change levels?

[hushed hinge]

when i play the game and each time when i start the game it goes to "0"

[forest wolf]

Yep, that's expected "DontDestroyOnLoad" won't help with that. It still resets the state when you 'play' the game.

You will need to use scriptable object for that

[frail hawk]

take a look at this: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.LoadSceneMode.Additive.html

[hushed hinge]

so should i create a new script or?

[forest wolf]

You need a new script that will extend ScriptableObject instead of MonoBehaviour, it needs to have a special attribute [CreateAssetMenu], then you can create an instance of it in your assets window. Then in your actual script where you count the values you need the reference to that scriptable object and you drag and drop it in the inspector. You can have a look here for a small introduction to scriptable objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxxsROBNA04

the use case is slightly different, but the main idea is shown there. The only thing is - if you want to release the game you also need to store the information and load it (in a file or player prefs)

[echo cradle]

!code

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[hushed hinge]

then after this. I am thinking on how to make the rescued images to appear on the empt yslots when selecting a stage and player. But i'll take that later and focus on designing

[chrome apex]

I have a stupid question. I know the Vector3 position my hand needs to move to.

I need to know where each finger will be before the hand reaches that position.

Can I do:

"Vector3 fingerOffsetFromHand = fingertip.position - handTarget.position;"

and then:

"Vector3 predictedFingerTipPos = newHandPos + fingerOffsetFromHand;"?

is this it?

[wintry quarry]

Assuming it's not going to rotate, then something like this:

Vector3 diff = finalHandPos - currentHandPos;
Vector3 predictedFingerPos = currentFingerPos + diff;```

if there is any rotation at all, we'll need to account for that separately

[chrome apex]

The Vector3 final hand position will have different rotations but the finger will always have the same local offset

[wintry quarry]

Is the finger a direct child of the hand?

[chrome apex]

yes

[wintry quarry]

then you would do something like this:

Vector3 fingerLocalPos = fingertip.localPosition;

// newHandPosition needs to be a world-space Vector3 position
// newHandRotation needs to be a world-space Quaternion representing the final rotation of the hand
Matrix4x4 finalHandMatrix = Matrix4x4.TRS(newHandPos, newHandRotation, handTarget.lossyScale);
Vector3 finalFingerPosition = finalHandMatrix.MultiplyPoint(fingerLocalPos);```

[sweet bough]

Why does my camera rotate a bit even when its rotation is 0?

using UnityEngine;

public class TeleportTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform targetLocation;
    public string playerTag = "Player";
    public GameObject ObjectToActivate;
    public bool invertRotation;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (!other.CompareTag(playerTag)) return;



        other.transform.position = targetLocation.position;

        var look = other.GetComponentInChildren<FirstPersonLook>();
        if (look != null)
        {
            float currentYaw = look.transform.eulerAngles.y;
            float newYaw = invertRotation ? currentYaw + 180f : currentYaw;
            look.SetYaw(newYaw);
        }
        else
        {
            Quaternion targetRot = other.transform.rotation;
            if (invertRotation)
            {
                targetRot = targetRot * Quaternion.Euler(0, 180f, 0);
            }
            other.transform.rotation = targetRot;
        }

        if (ObjectToActivate != null)
            ObjectToActivate.SetActive(!ObjectToActivate.activeSelf);
    }
}

(invert rotation is disabled)

[naive pawn]

cool, so very minor differences
perf doesn't really matter at this level, readability takes precedence

[wintry quarry]

Can you explain the nature of "rotate a bit"?

[sweet bough]

literally, i trigger the teleport and it rotates the player about 1-10 degrees

no matter if the rotation is 0 or any other number

[wintry quarry]

Doubt it has anything to do with the code you just shared then

Although it's unclear what this "FirstPersonLook" is and how it works

so it could be a problem in there

I would also really avoid dealing with euler angles in this way, it's bound to lead to sadness and pain

[chrome apex]

Thanks, I'll try that. But is the matrix necessary? Can't I offset it locally from the desired position if I rotate it away from the player?

The position will be tilted on the z, nothing else

[wintry quarry]

the matrix is the simplest way to account for rotation and position changes at once

[stiff sky]

hey, im attempting to "glue" my player mesh to a moving platform that is also slightly rotating around (ship deck), however attempts to simply parent when collision detected merely result in the player mesh rotating with the buoyancy (as in, doing frontflips) and also not keeping the same velocity as the ship while moving

one of my friends gave me this code, however its old and doesn't appear to be working

[teal viper]

What exactly isn't working? Is it compiling properly or are there errors?

[stiff sky]

compiles properly, no errors, just doesn't work. player doesn't acquire ship's velocity, which leads to them flying off the back

[teal viper]

It does look a bit shady with the cross product between position and angular velocity.
But the idea of controlling the player velocity and angular velocity relative to the ship is correct.

You just need to refine it

[wicked fiber]

What script should I use to make an rb move in it's faced direction?

[sour fulcrum]

a script that makes a rb move in a faced direction probably

you might have to be more specific

[wicked fiber]

A script to add force to an in rb. But in the direction it's facing

I'm not sure if that's just LinearVelocity though

[sour fulcrum]

what do you mean "what script should i use"

[wicked fiber]

Like, rb.AddForce

or, rb.AddLinearVelocity

something like that

[sour fulcrum]

ah ok, thats not what a script is

those are functions/methods

[wicked fiber]

whoops

I forgot, a script is the entire thing

[sour fulcrum]

addforce is probably what you want yeah, if you do a little light googling you'll find some examples/references that might help you out

[wicked fiber]

ok thanks

[faint mural]

hey guys why can't I save my script into the asset directory it says I need to, but I can't I clicked create and add but it moves me to the file explorer

[swift elbow]

where are you trying to create it?

[faint osprey]

im instantiating enmies in my game via a spawner and i want to let the spawner know when the enemy has died. Im trying to do it via actions but struggling to bind the event considering its instantiated at runtime. any help would be appreciated

[swift elbow]

the simplest approach would be to make your spawner a singleton, assuming you have one spawner

[sour fulcrum]

events can be done via code, usually preferable so! what specifically has you stuck?

[faint osprey]

normally i bind and unbind in my on enable and on disable events however because the enemies spawn at runtime thats not really possible so im struggling to find the right time to bind it

[sour fulcrum]

well you would bind it during the spawning, no?

Spawner

SpawnEnemy()
MyEnemy newEnemy = Instansiate(etc.)
newEnemy.OnDeathEvent.AddListener(OnSpawnedEnemyDeath)

eg.

[faint osprey]

that would work however where would you unbind it in case something got disabled or smth

[sour fulcrum]

When the enemy dies?

Or if the spawner dies too i suppose but depending on stuff and things less of an issue

[faint osprey]

can do im just thinking of if the spawner got disabled and the enemy dies it would fire and cause an error

[sour fulcrum]

Why would it cause an error?

[swift elbow]

i assume null ref

[swift elbow]

just add a check beforehand

[faint osprey]

can do that makes sense

[sour fulcrum]

What are we putting a check on?

[faint osprey]

if spawner is active

[sour fulcrum]

That's not really how events should be used

[swift elbow]

what's wrong with this approach?

[faint osprey]

yeah at that point i might as well just call the function from the enemy

[sour fulcrum]

if you need to explicitly check up on one of the listeners at that point the enemy would just talk to it directly

when you say the spawner is disabled, that's not a null ref. do you actually mean disabled or do you mean destroy etc.

[faint osprey]

exactly

[swift elbow]

oh i assumed that was already happening

[faint osprey]

could be either i know its unlikely but its for an assignment so they care about that kinda stuff

[sour fulcrum]

events dont care about things being disabled

very little does

[faint osprey]

im using system.action

[sour fulcrum]

system.action doesn't even know things can be disabled

it's not a c# concept, thats a unity thing

[faint osprey]

yeah but it can cause memory leaks and that if not unbinded correctly

[sour fulcrum]

Potentially yeah, but that's why I was curious on if you actually meant disable or not

because the time to unsubscribe would be whenever you destroy or disable it

[faint osprey]

yeah that makes sense i can unbind at destroy but i wont have access to the action in on disable

[sour fulcrum]

why don't you have access on disable?

[faint osprey]

cause the enemy gets instantiated at runtime

[sour fulcrum]

If your spawner is the thing that creates the enemy im sure it could do a fine job keeping track of where it's at 😄

[faint osprey]

yeah no it can but i wont be able to get the reference from the instantiation and put that in the on disable event

[sour fulcrum]

Why

[faint osprey]

well i mean if its possible i wouldnt know how to do it

{
    Vector3 randomPos = UnityEngine.Random.insideUnitCircle.normalized * 12;
    GameObject enemy = Instantiate(m_BaseEnemy, (m_Player.transform.position + randomPos), Quaternion.identity);
    EnemyHandler EH = enemy.GetComponent<EnemyHandler>();
    EH.Initialize(m_ES[difficulty]);
    EH.EnemyDead += EnemyDead;
}```

at the bottom i bind my event so how would i take that so i can unbind that in my on disable

[sour fulcrum]

eg.

private List<EnemyHandler> managedEnemies

SpawnEnemy()
managedEnemies.Add(EH)
EH.EnemyDead += OnEnemyDeath;

OnEnemyDeath(EnemyHandler EH)
managedEnemies.Remove(EH)
EH.EnemyDead -= OnEnemyDeath;

OnDestroy() //OrDisable etc.
foreach (EnemyHandler enemy in managedEnemies)
enemy.EnemyDead -= OnEnemyDeath;

bits of this can differ depending on preference and how you wanna handle stuff

[faint osprey]

yeah that works ill keep a constant reference to active enemies and not just at spawn

[faint mural]

what do you mean?

[swift elbow]

in what folder are you trying to create the script

[faint mural]

what folder should it be in?

[swift elbow]

assets folder

[faint mural]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thanks👍

[sonic arch]

so i have a gamemanager which has an array of the components

when a button is pressed a component is instantiated and added to the list

the components properties are set

ive also added for debugging purposes that when the component is instantiated and set it prints its values

however its values are unset even after being set

[naive pawn]

gonna need to see some !code

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[sonic arch]

// in the main script
void AddObject(int posX, int posY) {
    Obj o = Instantiate(ObjPrefab);
    Obj.SetPosition(posX, posY);
    objList.Add(o)
}

void Start() {
    AddObject(3, 5);
    print(objList[-1].posX);
    print(objList[-1].posY); // outputs 3 and 5 as expected
}

// in the component itself when 
void Start() {
    print(posX);
    print(posY); // outputs 0 and 0 even though it was set
}

i thought since it was a reference object I could chagne the fields and have it update elsewhere

[naive pawn]

what if you add a print right after the Instantiate, before the SetPosition

[sonic arch]

its still unset

[naive pawn]

yeah, since it's before the setposition

what i'm trying to get at is, the component Start might be running before the SetPosition?

i don't remember the flow there but i wouldn't doubt it

[hexed terrace]

I'm pretty sure you're right Chris

Obj o = Instantiate(ObjPrefab); // `Start()` will run
Obj.SetPosition(posX, posY); // this is after

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[brazen spruce]

hey, is this code related?
i want to change how the theme of the unity layout looks for me, its currently like some light gray but i want it darker

[hexed terrace]

no, obviously not code 😄

[naive pawn]

preferences > color

[hexed terrace]

preferences -> general

[naive pawn]

actually no both places don't let you customize the ui color

[hexed terrace]

general is where you swap between light/ dark theme

[brazen spruce]

ok

[naive pawn]

they said they wanted a darker dark theme

[hexed terrace]

no they didn't -> its currently like some **light **gray but i want it darker

[brazen spruce]

its already dark for some reason

where even is preferences

[naive pawn]

damn i thought light mode would be whiter. it looks so washed out lmao

[brazen spruce]

also im talking about the colors in the engine

[naive pawn]

same place it always is for your platform

[hexed terrace]

We should probably move this to #💻┃unity-talk if it's gonna need to continue

[brazen spruce]

ohh

ok

[sonic arch]

but i thought

the ohject itself

is a copy

[hexed terrace]

ok?

[sonic arch]

and that changes to it will affect like that actual object

[sonic arch]

sorry not a copy a reference

[grand snow]

No idea if your code example is correct but you do not call a function on your new instance o after Instantiate()

[hexed terrace]

Obj o = Instantiate(ObjPrefab); creates a new instance of that game object with it's own instances of the components

[naive pawn]

they do

[naive pawn]

this is correct
the thing that's going wrong is that you're checking the values before you set them

try opening the debug inspector or logging in Update

[sonic arch]

ive tried checking in update but what happens is

1. i instantiate the object
2. i set its values
3. i add it to the array

from the objects script when i access its own properties it is unset

but when i am accessing its from the array it is set

[grand snow]

then they are different instances

give each new instance a new name to help when debugging

if comfortable, use a debugger

[naive pawn]

in your current code? it's checking its own props before they are set

[sonic arch]

is that the case? if i add an object to an array is it not a reference?

[grand snow]

It is a reference

you are fucking up somewhere clearly, either the data is set not when you expect or they are difference objects

or your function used to set the data is faulty

[sonic arch]

yeah i can see
wait for testing if two instances are the same, can i just use the equality operator?

[grand snow]

yes

if not overwritten for the class it should do ReferenceEquals()

[sonic arch]

ohh okok thanks
ill test it out and see

[naive pawn]

you could also change to Debug.Log and add a context to check if the logs are coming from the same object

[sonic arch]

okay ill try that

okay so two debug messages from the same object give me one thats set and one thats unset

the call with the set value comes from the gamemamnager

the unset one is from the object itself

as in when i invoke ShowData() from the gamemaanger it works but from the object it is reset

[hexed terrace]

you need to share more !code

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[sonic arch]

in the gamemanager:

in the plant superclass

in the peashooter subclass

peashooter derives from plant

could it be that due to being inherited, its fields are reset?

[hexed terrace]

Can you just share the entire classes in one of the paste sites..

[sonic arch]

sure

https://pastebin.com/CW3uTxBm
thisd is plant.cs

https://pastebin.com/cCsqfNh6
peashooter.cs

https://pastebin.com/hAR3MSHM
level.cs

[hexed terrace]

you've been telling us names that you're not using.. so it's difficult to follow.

gamemanage = level.cs ?
ShowData() = TestPost() ?

[sonic arch]

yeah level .cs is the gamemanager
showdata is testposition

sorry i thought itd simplify it a bit

[naive pawn]

which logs are showing the value as unset?

[sonic arch]

the log that occurs in peashooter.cs
in update

[hexed terrace]

always?

[round glade]

Hello

[hexed terrace]

I'd imagine it starts off wrong, and then after singleton.plants[tile.posY, tile.posX].SetPos(tile.posX, tile.posY); changes to the right values

[sonic arch]

yeah

when the peashooter is instantiated, the first test log is correct (in level.cs, placeplant())

but every subsqeuent log is incorrect

[sonic arch]

no it different

[round glade]

Guys can you help me i am really newbie in unity

[naive pawn]

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read the bot message

don't just parrot it

[round glade]

I have some silly question

Imma send pic

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this is a code channel - only use this channel if your question is about code you are writing.

[round glade]

How fix this

[round glade]

Ok sorry

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1- Delete that from here.
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I cant find channel for it

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https://screenshot.help

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go to #💻┃unity-talk and explain what the issue is

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Thanks

[sonic arch]

yeah its still tweaking after tweaking, im fully stuck

[hidden marten]

i want to find the angle between my enemy and my player.... i have a script in enemy for that... how can i achieve it? i also want it to work when the player is higher or lower than the enemy.

        Vector3 vectorToPlayer = -(transform.position - player.position);
        angle = Vector3.SignedAngle(vectorToPlayer, transform.forward, Vector3.up);
        Debug.Log(angle);

will this work?

[naive pawn]

the angle relative to what

there's 3 points involved in an angle - a pivot and 2 endpoints

[sonic arch]

so ive tested and the plant in t he array is a copy of the plant
so they are seperate

[naive pawn]

your plant is a class, isn't it

that's a ref type, it's not gonna be a copy just from assignment

[sonic arch]

but like the plant in the array is basically a copy of the one that is actually instantiated