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[polar acorn]

But I guess it's the only non-forum programming channel any more

[sharp solar]

yeah i really hate forums

[earnest wind]

oh thats gpu shader

[sharp solar]

if u need forum answers you go to a forum website lol

[rich ice]

#1390346827005431951 does technically have a general thread ( #1390355039272439868 ).

[wintry quarry]

Nope. Awake and OnEnable do

[naive pawn]

gotcha

[sharp solar]

is vscode better than studio for unity stuff

[naive pawn]

no, nothing is really objectively better than anything else in this space

[sharp solar]

is it subjectively better

[naive pawn]

...you do know what subjective means, right

[sharp solar]

yeah it means im asking you lol

[sour fulcrum]

(most people use studio)

[sharp solar]

i heard vscode has that one good HLSL plugin that makes it tolerable

[naive pawn]

i can't even use vs lmao

i only barely have an opinion between vs and vsc

[teal viper]

Vs also has an hlsl extension

[sharp mirage]

yo does having no material also work

or do i have to assign a material to the rb and give it no friction

[rich ice]

-# think you replied to the wrong message btw

[sharp mirage]

i did but its just to ping him

[naive pawn]

i have no idea what you're talking about

[sharp mirage]

remember u told me bout the rigid body stuff

[naive pawn]

not particularly

[sharp mirage]

yo am i tweaking wtf

[polar acorn]

For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

[foggy yoke]

I'm trying to change my sprite's color, but the function is not being called. I have the Player Input component attached, and everything is set to the right setting(i've checked a 100 times, im pretty sure everything is correct but i could be wrong)
This is my function:

public void ChangeColor(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (context.performed)
        {
            if (renderer == null)
                renderer = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();

            Debug.Log("Changing color");

            currentColorIndex = (currentColorIndex + 1) % colors.Length;
            renderer.color = colors[currentColorIndex];
        }
    }```

[rich adder]

put log outside if statement

[foggy yoke]

It works now, thank you.. 😅

[rich adder]

ohhh so everything else got called too ?

[foggy yoke]

yep

but why does it work without the context.performed?

[rich adder]

I usually use events so for me works fine with that, perhaps print/log the state thats in when that function runs to see what extact state context is in

[foggy yoke]

i know, the action had a "Hold" interaction thingy.

[rich adder]

Debug.Log(context.phase) see whats happening

[foggy yoke]

it says "Performed"

[rich adder]

interesting..wonder why its not in the if statement

is it normal that intellisense stops working inside #ifconditional compilation ?
Is there any way to keep working on the code with color/intellisense without having to always comment out the conditional ? a bit annoying to work with like this

[polar acorn]

I usually write the code first, then wrap it in the conditional compilation

[rich adder]

yeah I fear thats what I have to keep doing, google doesn't seem to have any answers on this..
just annoying going back to the file to add stuff having to comment it out then put it back

first world issues 🥲

[sour fulcrum]

Half a question for my own behalf and half a suggestion, at that point would an assemblydefinition be preferable?

[rich adder]

I would assume if you have a LOT of libraries / scripts and don't want to always having them Reload every tiny change you make to unrelated assemblies

its also puts you in to compartmentalization mode

[sour fulcrum]

No i meant for your thing

you could scope that monoscript to only android builds right?

[naive pawn]

what ide? this doesn't happen for me

[rich adder]

VSCode

[naive pawn]

oh yeah, you're vsc on mac right?

[rich adder]

I think so but dont have enough experience with it to know for sure, but its only 1 script anyawy

[naive pawn]

yeah this doesn't happen for me, for both defines that exist and don't

[sour fulcrum]

eg. for my little package my editor scripts are in a editor assembly definition so their all in the context of being in editor

[naive pawn]

oh wait hold on, i was testing with smaller regions

[rich adder]

interesting, I might need to revist this.. these are just build processor scripts

[naive pawn]

i tried doing the entire file and intellisense did break

[rich adder]

yeah mine wraps the whole code

[sour fulcrum]

Yeah could totally be overkill for your usecase, Just might be a more intentional route Unity wise (or not who knows 😄)

[naive pawn]

ah i think i found it?

if the define doesn't exist, then that code basically doesn't exist, so intellisense isn't provided

[rich adder]

asmdef might work here if I just put the Platform to IOS only. / Android . Ill look into it again

[rich adder]

oh so its like code doesn't even exist until its IOS per se?

[naive pawn]

something like that, yeah

since that is indeed kinda what #if/#endif does

[rich adder]

bummer.. Luckly these files wont be touched much just curious if it was normal that it does this to intellisense in case i use others like if Unity_Editor

[naive pawn]

i imagine it'd break to have something like this if unincluded(?) regions were processed

class C {
  #if A
  public K<T> k;
  #else
  public K k;
  #endif
}

[rich adder]

hmm makes sense that only works if its UNITY_EDITOR, otherwise its as if it wasnt there

[sour fulcrum]

can you just combine them then?

like if android || editor

[naive pawn]

i mean, it looks like it should be && if anything, which would similarly not work

not sure though

i didn't find any matching settings for "symbol" or "region" unfortunately

[rich adder]

yea..idk..good ol // will do for now lol

[hallow acorn]

does someone know what can cause moving a 2d sprite feel stuttery? im using rb.velocity to move it if that helps

[frail hawk]

any code to provide?

also make sure it is not the camera

[hallow acorn]

private void Move()
{
    if(Mathf.Abs(playerControls.Land.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>().x) > 0.1f)
    {
    rb.linearVelocityX = Mathf.Lerp(rb.linearVelocityX, playerControls.Land.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>().x * maxSpeed, acceleration * 100 * Time.deltaTime * Time.deltaTime);
    }
    else
    rb.linearVelocityX = Mathf.Lerp(rb.linearVelocityX, 0, deceleration * 100 * Time.deltaTime * Time.deltaTime);
}```
camera is not connected in any way, this is my move function which is the only part of my code that should be relevant. could it be because of Mathf.Lerp?

[frail hawk]

test it out without the lerp

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[hallow acorn]

i dont think thats the problem

[hallow acorn]

still stuttery :(

[slender nymph]

it may not be the current issue, but it is an issue nonetheless

[frail hawk]

do you have small gaps on the ground? might want to use smoother collider on the player

[hallow acorn]

but atleast i know i do thinks wrong that arent really related to my main problem as it always is haha

[hallow acorn]

in the air, havent implemented gravity yet

[slender nymph]

but you do seem worried about stuttering which is a result of that "differences across frame rates"

[sand marten]

guys i need a little help making a APK of my game

[hallow acorn]

and im stuttering at 500 frames as i only have like 3 sprites in my test scene

[slender nymph]

Don't Ask To Ask
also #📱┃mobile

[sand marten]

oh okay

[slender nymph]

okay, but my point is you do seem to be worried about it stuttering so your whole "gotcha" moment with that screenshot is moot because using lerp incorrectly can lead to further stuttering

anyway, we need more context for the current issue

[hallow acorn]

still that obviously isnt the root of the problem as its still stuttering without using lerp

[hallow acorn]

can you clarify what you need exactly?

[slender nymph]

jesus christ are you just here to argue or to get help? i have already conceded that it is not the cause of the current issue. i was merely pointing out that it would cause further issues.

i'm done attempting to help here. so good luck.

[frail hawk]

can you please explain what you are doing on the first if statement and why you have it there

[hallow acorn]

im checking if the player is moving or rather slowing down so i can apply acceleration when im speeding up and deceleration when im slowing down as these are 2 different values

[rich adder]

you shouldnt be using Time.deltaTime on rigidbodies

[slender nymph]

it's being used in the incorrect lerp, not on the velocity itself

[hallow acorn]

i thought you were done?

[rich adder]

oh true thought they said they removed lerp

[slender nymph]

oh fuck off, i was responding to someone else

[hallow acorn]

i did to test where the cause lies but i still used deltatime there

[rich adder]

yea using it in the lerp itself okay/needed , it was still used wrong though . You don't multiply it with a constant, the number has to increase each frame/step

[rich adder]

can you show a video

stutterring can be many things, might help to see whats actually going on

[hallow acorn]

i think im going insane it magically fixed it self

i cant do this anymore

[rich adder]

there are so many things that can make it stutter

also you should always show your code in context, we didnt even know how Move was called

ideally rigidbody move calls should be done in FixedUpdate (unless its an Impulse mode)

[hallow acorn]

called it with Update and FixedUpdate, at the moment its in fixed update but it seemed like it worked the same

yea thanks for helping i think im heading to sleep. cant wait until i open unity tomorrow and 100 errors appear out of nowhere

[rich adder]

it seem so but once the framerate start switching up you will notice it will move different

[hallow acorn]

yea youre probably right

[rich adder]

one moves by framerate and another moves with set time

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/Manual/TimeFrameManagement.html

[crisp bolt]

hello, I'm writing a basic character controller script and look script using the new action input, I move the player based on the camera's X axis movement and for some reason whenever I move the character itself the camera will start drifting on the x-axis. is there an obvious reason for this? I can provide my code if needed.

[obtuse knoll]

👀 👉 👈 I'm trying coding but everything I look at looks like a random mix of words...

[polar acorn]

So does English

[obtuse knoll]

where are people pulling all these random words from

👀 Can i get a finger in the direction where someone can teach basic coding that will help me in unity projects?

[polar acorn]

The documentation mostly

[eternal falcon]

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[rough granite]

Is someone using this bot on a the other end? Swear i also saw it say something about blender even though no one did the ! Thingy

[polar acorn]

The bot message still stays if you delete your message after the fact

[rough granite]

So there's a stinker deleting their messages, Is this you?

[polar acorn]

I don't know if cleaning up a message purely intended just to summon a bot message is a "stinker"

[limber flower]

working on an old project and i have no idea what the + 0.2f could be for, any ideas?

[polar acorn]

It adds 0.2 to that number

[limber flower]

obviously, i mean what purpose could it serve

[polar acorn]

Well, which parameter of raycast is that?

[limber flower]

i do not know

like i said old project i have a very loose idea as to what anything is for

[polar acorn]

So, how about checking the documentation and seeing what parameter that is?

[hexed nymph]

Yoooo Im making a button that when you click on it changes its function but for some reason it doesn't work

[slender nymph]

be more specific than "doesn't work" and show what you tried

[hexed nymph]

    void Start()
    {
        but = GetComponent<Button>(); //this works
        but.onClick.AddListener(JoinPlayer); //this doesn't
    }```

[polar acorn]

You're still going to have to be more specific than "doesn't work"

[hexed nymph]

When I click to test the game, the script gets the button component (that has no listeners) and then I try to add some but the game ignores that

[polar acorn]

How are you determining it isn't

[hexed nymph]

    {
        if (PlayersHelper.playerCountHELP >= 2) //this is when you click on the button
        {
            but.onClick.RemoveListener(JoinPlayer); //but still the game doesn't recognize this command
            but.onClick.AddListener(DeletePlayer); // this too
        }
        else
        {
            but.onClick.AddListener(JoinPlayer); // this too
            but.onClick.RemoveListener(DeletePlayer); // this too
        }```

[polar acorn]

What do you mean by "doesn't recognize this command"

Add listeners in Update is not a good idea by the way

[hexed nymph]

this is when I start the game but it ignores the 2nd line on the Start function

[hexed nymph]

(the one that says "this doesn't"

[polar acorn]

For one, you have an error in your console you should address.
For two, runtime added listeners aren't going to show up in the inspector

[hexed nymph]

The game ignores that part of the code

[polar acorn]

Again, how do you know

[hexed nymph]

because when I click on it doesn't do what I want

[ivory bobcat]

Just for clarity, a runtime error can cause all sorts of things to go wrong.
If it's a compiler error, you won't be running the latest up-to-date of the application.

[ivory bobcat]

What's the actual issue btw? Is there an error?

[polar acorn]

So what makes you sure the issue is that these lines aren't running or that the functions simply do not do what you expect? You haven't shown what any of these functions do, or what the error you're getting is

[hexed nymph]

what I want is switch the "joinplayer" to "deleteplayer" but when I do it the game keeps the "joinplayer" function and ignores the line of code that removes the "joinplayer" and the line that adds the "deleteplayer"

[polar acorn]

So, it does have JoinPlayer? That would mean the one in Start works

[ivory bobcat]

I'm pretty sure the code isn't ignored. Instead you've likely got an error or the behavior simply isn't what you're expecting.

[hexed nymph]

this is the error, but unity let me start the game anyways

[polar acorn]

Okay, that one is ignorable, you can clear that and it should stay gone for a while

How about using some debug logs to see what code is running and when

[hexed nymph]

I did

    {
        if (whoAreYou == "P2")
        {
            Debug.Log(whoAreYou + " has joined!");
            playHelp.playerCount = 2;
            PlayersHelper.playerCountHELP = 2;
            p2text.text = whoAreYou;
            but.onClick.RemoveListener(JoinPlayer);
            but.onClick.AddListener(DeletePlayer);
        }```

the debug works

[ivory bobcat]

Show the logs?

[hexed nymph]

everything here works, except the last 2 lines

[polar acorn]

If you get the debug log, those lines are running

[hexed nymph]

this code is what the button does when you click on it

[polar acorn]

How about instead of these tiny piecemeal windows into what's happening, you just post the full !code

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[hexed nymph]

I knowww but the last two doesn't, like in the inspector does not show the "deleteplayer" on the button

instead shows "joinplayer"

[polar acorn]

The inspector does not show runtime added callbacks to a button

[hexed nymph]

Ohhhh but the game still does the "joinplayer" function instead of the "deleteplayer"

[polar acorn]

Show the full code. It's pointless to keep up this game of 20 questions until then

[hexed nymph]

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

[polar acorn]

Do not add listeners in Update. It's going to add a copy of the function every frame

And try putting a log outside the if statements

see if the functions are called

[hexed nymph]

okok

[polar acorn]

If the idea is simply to make the function toggle every time you hit it, why not just have one function and read a boolean in it, then toggle the boolean when you want to swap?

[hexed nymph]

I actually did that but it give me a bug on the game that I tried to solve it everyway possible and doing this solved it

[polar acorn]

And this apparently didn't solve it either so maybe don't make things infinitely more complicated for no gain

[hexed nymph]

bruh it worked now

thanksss

[polar acorn]

Still, consider not doing this callback swapping and just use a boolean instead

[hexed nymph]

I think the problem was that I thought that the inspector will show the changes lol

[hexed nymph]

Yeahhh but that didn't work either but I'll try it next time

thanks anyways!

[polar acorn]

So maybe try solving the problem instead of rewriting the entire system to be slower and harder to get working

[woeful scaffold]

its been like almost a week and now im able to code an interaction system by mself finally 🙏

[sour fulcrum]

thats a big step! congrats

[woeful scaffold]

thxx, ill def need help with scriptableobjects tho as i want to have a pickup system

[limber flower]

im having an issue where my character has the "in air" tag no matter what, and when i fiddle with the values to try and correct that, it has the grounded effect when its way above the ground, any ideas?

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

[twin pivot]

maybe a floating point error?

[wintry quarry]

When you say "tag" do you just mean your grounded bool is true/false?

[limber flower]

yes that

[limber flower]

what would i do about that

[twin pivot]

when using == to compare floats use Mathf.Approximately

but personally i just try to avoid using floats as much as possible

[wintry quarry]

Presumably your Raycast parameters are just not tuned correctly

A good way to debug this is to use Debug.DrawRay/Line to visualize your Raycast

Then you can actually see in the scene where it is and why it's not giving you the expected results.

[limber flower]

That will be very helpful yes

Can't test that right now but I'll do that when I get back

[woeful scaffold]

im trying to figure out how to create a hotbar with working slots + scriptableobject holder

this is SO HARD

my brain just shuts off

does any1 have any good place to go to, to better understand the structure of it?

[twin pivot]

how about getting a so with an array of objectsand have the hotbar as some sort of holder

[woeful scaffold]

What i did so far is making an Item[] array to hold item type

 {
     public Transform hand;
     public Item[] slots;
     public int currentSelectedIndex = -1;
     private GameObject currentEquippedItem;

     void Start()
     {

     }

     void Update()
     {
         for (int i = 0; i < slots.Length; i++)
         {
             if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha1 + i))
             {
                 EquipItemAtIndex(i);
             }
         }
     }

     public void EquipItemAtIndex(int index)
     {
         if (index < 0 || index >= slots.Length) return;

         if (slots[index] != null)
         {
             Destroy(currentEquippedItem);

         }
     }
 }```

this is how far ive come in 20-30 minutes without chatgpt and its breaking my brain

[ivory bobcat]

Try Googling a few tutorials. This should be quite popular as a topic so I would expect there to be some tutorials on it.

[true knoll]

I'm making a 2d shader to change a noise texture to water, but after I add the material with a shader to the image with the noise, masking no longer works... I have very limited knowledge with shaders and am slowly going insane. Any fixes anybody knows of?

[teal viper]

You'll need to implement the masking functionality in your shader.

[true knoll]

How do I do that?

[frigid sequoia]

I would usually just make this a subclase wihtout asking but considering it seems I may be overusing it... should I create a subclase for specific the gear slot for weapon and off-hand that use a slighty different logic or do I just work it out on the same class?

[frigid sequoia]

There is a specific channel for shaders, but as I far as I know, that should work without any extra work

Are u sure u are using the right layers???

[true knoll]

It works when I dont have the shader/material on

[limber flower]

how do i use this, is it a line of code i put in my script or just something i can turn on in unity?

[frigid sequoia]

This is mine working with no issues. I dunno

[wintry quarry]

It's a line of code yes, look it up in the docs

You can also turn on the physics query visualizations

That's a thing that exists too

[faint osprey]

need a lil help im adding an edge collider at runtime how would i make it ignore all layers other than the 'enemy' layer

[wintry quarry]

Put it in a layer that you set up to ignore the layers you want

[faint osprey]

u can set up layers to ignore others?

[wintry quarry]

Of course

Physics 2d project settings

[faint osprey]

so like that

[pallid heron]

if I have a static variable, is there any way at all to set that using the inspector? I want to have a static ScriptableObject but I'd rather not load it in during Awake if possible

[teal viper]

Sample the mask texture in your shader and discard the pixel depending on the value.

Though, I'm not 100% sure. If unity uses stencil buffer for masks, you might need to specify stencil test value.

[limber flower]

i truned on the options that im pretty sure are supposed to make me see ray casts, but i dont see the ray in scene or game view, how do i fix that?

[sour fulcrum]

I've commonly had scriptableobjects be stored on a major singleton that i can always count on existing then use a static property to access it statically, eg.

public class ContentManifestCollection : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializeField] private PlayerManifest playerManifest;
    [SerializeField] private CardManifest cardManifest;
    [SerializeField] private BiomeManifest biomeManifest;
    [SerializeField] private ScriptableColorPresetManifest colorManifest;
    [SerializeField] private SpriteManifest spriteManifest;

    public static ContentManifestCollection Contents => ContentManager.Instance.ContentCollection;

    public static PlayerManifest Players => Contents.playerManifest;
    public static CardManifest Cards => Contents.cardManifest;
    public static BiomeManifest Biomes => Contents.biomeManifest;
    public static ScriptableColorPresetManifest Colors => Contents.colorManifest;
    public static SpriteManifest Sprites => Contents.spriteManifest;
}

[frigid sequoia]

If I have something like this, is there not a way to assign to that slot, each its own gameObject? Do I have to go one for one?

Cause that's something that wastes me a lot of time considering how often I do it lol

[marsh canyon]

Is there a special type of raycast or reference to use for the camera?

I want to make a script that tries to see if there are any objects between the player and camera.... and if there is... then turn the mesh renderer off of that object until it no longer touches the raycast

[sour fulcrum]

correct, but if your doing it often enough it might be a sign your workflow might need some prefabs or something

[frigid sequoia]

You can quite literally just get the camera world possitio as an origin for a raycast lol

But there is also a specific method depending of what you are doing

[frigid sequoia]

What do you mean? I am supposed to do single button first and then copy it over and over?

First I make sure the UI actually shows as I want to before making it work

[marsh canyon]

a specific method? can you elaborate on that?

cause I don't think simply just one raycast would work for this.... could be wrong but I haven't really used raycasts for many things before

[frigid sequoia]

For what you are seeking you probably just want to use :

As the origin of the raycast

[marsh canyon]

so what, just do a simple normal raycast with that position as point A to point B being the player to determine the distance?

[limber flower]

private void Update()
{
    grounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, playerHeight * 0.5f + 0.2f, whatIsGround);

    MyInput();

    if (grounded)
        rb.linearDamping = groundDrag;
    else
        rb.linearDamping = airDrag;
}

[sour fulcrum]

@frigid sequoia you might want to re-read their question

or actually not sure how its phrased

[rough granite]

are you trying to shoot just one raycast out or a lot?

[limber flower]

how can i convert my code (top) into something that uses the below function

[sour fulcrum]

oh i misread it, apologies

[rough granite]

what is the code down below meant to be used for?

[sour fulcrum]

@marsh canyon you probably want a boxcastall

[frigid sequoia]

Making meshes do what you want can be as hard as you want it to be. The base is raycast from camera to player, if it hits something, trigger the hide effect

[limber flower]

its just an example of Mathf.Approxmately

[frigid sequoia]

You probably want to get all the targets in the way tho, not only the first one

[rough granite]

i see that but what do you need it for

[limber flower]

im trying to see if an error im getting is caused by a floating point error. and someone reccomended using Mathf.Approximately, i just want to know how to impliment that function in the lines of code i sent

[frigid sequoia]

Floating point error does not occur when you are using a margin as big as 0.2 lol

[limber flower]

idk someone reccomended it

[rough granite]

ok well from what the documentation says all it does it output a boolean value depending on if 2 floats are similar (ie 1.00001 and 1.0) not sure this is what you need

[limber flower]

i see

[rough granite]

use some debug.log's to find errors

though it depends on what's happening cant' do much without such info

[limber flower]

ok so the boolean "readyToJump" becomes true very inconsistently

which is supposed to be activated when a raycast that points directly down crosses a "whaIsGround" layer

[rough granite]

i'd say change the 0.2f to a public / [SerializeField] float so you change it in the inspector cause i think the problem is it's too close to the player so any height makes it no touch the ground

eg
[SerializeField] float GroundCheckDistance = 0.1f;

[limber flower]

well if i could see the ray i would know whats happening

but i cant figure out how to enable physics debug

[rough granite]

just use OnDrawGizmos()

eg
private void OnDrawGizmos()
{
Gizmos.DrawRay(transform.position, -transform.up * GroundCheckDistance);
}

though i don't think these have a range limit

might be wrong

[limber flower]

is that to fix the problem overall, or make the ray visible

[rough granite]

that'd just make a visable ray when in scene view

[limber flower]

do you know why this isnt working?

[rough granite]

as i said before the problem is your Physics.Raycast isn't long enough so when you go on an incline it doesn't reach

which i why i recommended changing the 0.2f to a public float with a name instead of a magic variable

[limber flower]

it doesnt reach the ground on flat ground consistently

[rough granite]

right so increase it

[limber flower]

ive increased it to twice the player height and it didnt work, and decreased it to really short and it worked, i just want the visualization so i know whats happening when i change things

[rough granite]

wait this script is a component of the same one that would have your player collider yes? though if that LayerMask is set properly it shouldn't matter

[rough granite]

never used this so not sure

[limber flower]

its from the same one in this link

[rough granite]

not to nitpick at something else but using a box collider for a player isn't recommended

[limber flower]

whys that?

i just did it that way because i know thats what they use in tf2

[rough granite]

if you try to go up a ramp it'll be a corner pushing on a angled wall, normally you should use a capsule

[wary sonnet]

what was the cmd to trigger the docs bot here ?

[north kiln]

!docs

[eternal falcon]

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[north kiln]

The commands are listed in id:guide > Start Here

[wary sonnet]

nice thanks

[limber flower]

i see, i will do that then

[rough granite]

also we can't see if the grounded bool is active or not in the inspector add a public or [SerializeField] before it

same with readyToJump

hard to tell for which one isn't working when neither show in the inspector

[limber flower]

so readyToJump is working fine, but grounded turns on and off constantly if i make any movement, even camera movement

[rough granite]

could it be the collision detection?

on the rigidbody, i've never used continuous since it's never really worked for me

[frigid sequoia]

Mmmm, I don't find anything missing, does it not point it out?

[rough granite]

always stuck to discrete

[limber flower]

when i switched to capsule colider just now it makes the character shake violently when it bumps into anything

freeze rotation for x and z is on

[rough granite]

nah best it'll do is this where the script used to be

[frigid sequoia]

I love when scripts just dissapear when I rename them lol

[rough granite]

wait so when you do increase the value it works or does it still do the off and on thing?

[limber flower]

increasing player height (adjusts how far the ray should be) it still is on and off but its off more often, which should be the opposite of what it does

and decreasing playerHeight makes it almost always off but occasionally on for seemingly no reason

[rough granite]

i doubt this'll work but what if you try -transform.up

instead of Vector3.down

[limber flower]

functions identically

grounded seems to be tied to camera movement for some reason

[rough granite]

why though :/

[limber flower]

thats the question

[rough granite]

what if you turn off interpolation on the rigidbody?

[limber flower]

all that did was make the grounded bool true less often

[rough granite]

and the continuous what if you try discrete?

[limber flower]

i changed that back when you said to and didnt notice anything different

[rough granite]

ahh alright

[limber flower]

actually thats not true

it doesnt wobble anymore

[rough granite]

ok so what i though Continuous is meant for fast moving things

[limber flower]

but collisions still affect the camera which isnt good

[rough granite]

which the player i doubt is meant to be

[rough granite]

does the camera have a collider?

[limber flower]

it does not

but its tied to the player which does

camera holder contains the camera, and gets teleported to camera pos

[rough granite]

teleported?

[limber flower]

its position gets set to the object camera pos when the game is running

camera holder controls up and down motion and camera holder is just attached to the player which is turns left and right

[rough granite]

right, could the camera being in the same object thats getting moved/teleported be the issue?

[limber flower]

well the player character shouldnt get rotated when it runs into a colider anyways

[rough granite]

that's normally why i turn all three rotations off on the rigidbody

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, so here is a extremely weird question, like, if I am filtering gear... ah what do I do with the stuff that is being filtered? I like just.... hide it?

[limber flower]

i guess if its a capsule you dont need y right

[frigid sequoia]

So let say I have this and I want to JUST show weapons, do I still keep all the rest on scene but just like dissabled?

[rough granite]

pretty sure the constraints are just for physics based things and if you handle rotation through transform it wouldn't be physics based so the 3 rotations would be freely affected by outside collisions

[limber flower]

oh ok

[rough granite]

if setting the objects to inactive makes only the weapons fill the other spots then what's the harm?

[limber flower]

as i learn more about unity i realize that i definitely picked the wrong tutorial to learn movement and camera controls

[rough granite]

well preferences of every person does have it's affects

[frigid sequoia]

That it can lead to eventually to like scene with A LOT of dissabled objects, it's that ok?

Shouldn't I keep it cleaner?

[rough granite]

what's the reason for only wanting to show weapons?

[limber flower]

100% of my learning of unity has been fixing all the things that are bad that i got from that tutorial

[frigid sequoia]

So you click on a slot and it just shows whatever is relevant to equip on that specific slot, the rest is hidden

An auto filter basically

[rough granite]

i see is there a lot of items to where it'd be more worth it to delete and spawn the new items versus just showing and hiding them? cause it's actually recommended to keep objects hidden in a "pool"| and just show them over spawning them in cause spawning a lot of Objects will have frame spikes

[frigid sequoia]

I have no freaking clue what would be more efficient honestly

I have to keep track to all that is in the inventory forever anyways

[limber flower]

what i would do is have an invisible inventory , and when you open the ui inventory it just shows you what things from your invisible inventory that fit the filter

[frigid sequoia]

So keep making and unmaking it seems kinda dumb

[sour fulcrum]

Just do it however you want tbh. The best way is gonna be stuff your not interested in rn anyway

[rough granite]

see you get it, heck there's much more advanced stuff that devs spend ages working on where all it is, is hiding and showing objects that arent in use instead of spawning new ones

[limber flower]

ok i genuinely dont know how this code works, because even when the player height is set to zero, which should make the ray that checks if the character is grounded very short, i can still occasionally jump

[frigid sequoia]

Maybe you should check the code for jumping instead of the check of the one that check if you are grounded

Anyways you should send a debug that tells you when you are grounded

[rough granite]

again as i've said just put a public before the 2 bools

[limber flower]

i did

i can see when grounded is true

and nothing i do to the values that grounded supposedly uses to calculate if the character is grounded changes how grounded works

[rough granite]

alright well besides the raycast this is your jump code, where the readyToJump restricts your jumping to once every 0.25 seconds at minimum

[limber flower]

yes

and that works exactly as intended

[frigid sequoia]

You are probably too focused on the values when probably the error is not on the numbers but in the logic

Are you 100% of the time grounded while not jumping?

[limber flower]

no

wait do you mean grounded as in touching ground, or grounded as in the boolean

[rough granite]

could you record a video of this or something

[limber flower]

sure

[frigid sequoia]

I mean the boolean obviously

[limber flower]

oh ok then yes i can always jump when the boolean grounded is true

[frigid sequoia]

I didn't ask that.....

I ask if you are always grounded when you are not jumping

[limber flower]

sorry tired

[rough granite]

don't blame you it's 1am for me and i got work at 7 (in 6 hours) 😭

[limber flower]

it is not always true when im not jumping, but it is always not true when i am way above the ground

if im only a meter or so off the ground it is sometimes true and sometimes not

im trying to send that video

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, then the bool is doing weird stuff, and it has nothing to do with the numbers

Would be way easier to see with the Debug.DrawLine but....

If you are totally still it's always true?

[teal viper]

And log whenever a value is assigned to it

It could be a faulty ground detection logic

[limber flower]

no im saying it is not always true when im not jumping

[frigid sequoia]

I mean TOTALLY still

[limber flower]

ohok

[frigid sequoia]

Sometimes walking can change the result

[limber flower]

so if im perfectly still the value doesnt change, if i walk around or look around the value rapidly switches

again trying to send that video

[frigid sequoia]

Depeding it the ground is not even, something gets in between the raycast or you just have the raycast on the wrong object and it's shooting to infinity cause of animation

[limber flower]

its just a perfectly flat box

sorry its so short its very hard to keep it below 50mb

[teal viper]

Absolutely nothing is clear from that video.
Anywas, you should debug properly.

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I got it clear still

[rough granite]

could you send an updated paste bin of the code cause it looks like the raycast/grounded bool only returned true after the camera was facing nearly horizontal, though it was hard to tell cause 60% of the video was loading

[frigid sequoia]

Note how the rotation in Y is changing while u move?

Yeah, you are sending the raycast to random places

Not the ground

The rotation and scale of your root player should NEVER change

[limber flower]

!code

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[limber flower]

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

[rough granite]

ehh i have the rotation on my player objects move but i also handle my raycasts differently

[frigid sequoia]

It should always rotate inside a parent item that does not

[limber flower]

isnt y where its facing? so if its pointing down it wouldnt be affected by the y axis

[frigid sequoia]

Cause then it does weird stuff

[rough granite]

i wish to know who gave the tutorial so i can give them a piece of my mind this code hurts me 😭

[limber flower]

i will find it

https://youtu.be/qQLvcS9FxnY?si=Tw-Y3elaXP4s5RW9

[rough granite]

you're using a character controller?

[limber flower]

the version in the pastebin is significantly modified from the one in the youtube video

[limber flower]

am i?

[rough granite]

idk thats what the tutorial told you to use

[limber flower]

i havent watched it since march

[rough granite]

never used one so i have no input on it

[limber flower]

what makes it a character controller instead of not that

[rough granite]

character controller is a script built in unity that does some extra things

[acoustic belfry]

Hi, i was analizing my melee attacks for, the player AND the enemy, (method is similar) for the animation events/update, yet i stumbled with the issue that, if is locked in one frame is too....odd, and if i put it for a lot of frames, it damages per frame wich is not the idea, so, how i can make my method of melee only trigger, when has already been triggered?

    {
        Vector2 MacheteRange = new Vector2(attackRange, attackRange);
        Collider2D hitEnemy = Physics2D.OverlapBox(meleePos.transform.position, MacheteRange, 0f, victim);
        if (hitEnemy != null)
        {
            if (hitEnemy.TryGetComponent(out ValeriaController enemy))
            {
                enemy.TakeDamage(meleeDamage);
            }
        }
    }```

[limber flower]

what is the alternative

[limber flower]

oh this is not the video i dont think

maybe it is

[rough granite]

well the problem with it is it sucks for slopes and doesn't use physics but it does have a built in ground detection that i think just uses collisions and not raycasts

[limber flower]

im just going to go to sleep and see if i can figure this out in the morning

[rough granite]

ay i get sleep yippee

[eternal needle]

Im not sure how you have it setup but it sounds like you put an animation event per frame. it'd make more sense if you had a "start attack" and "end attack" event. Then use either update, fixedupdate, or a coroutine to call this function.
All you need to do though is just check if the enemy was damaged before, store the damaged ones in a list. Everytime you start a new attack, clear the list

[acoustic belfry]

im more worried rn abt the enemy ones, yet, how the return works?

i think i MIGHT be cooking?

just

what if i did this

    {
        if (ValeriaHasBeenhit) return;
        Vector2 MacheteRange = new Vector2(attackRange, attackRange);
        Collider2D hitEnemy = Physics2D.OverlapBox(meleePos.transform.position, MacheteRange, 0f, victim);
        if (hitEnemy != null)
        {
            if (hitEnemy.TryGetComponent(out ValeriaController enemy))
            {
                enemy.TakeDamage(meleeDamage);
                valeriaHasBeenHit = true;
            }
        }
    }```

what if i did this

and then

{
    ValeriaHasBeenHit = false;
}```

another event with this

it is a bad idea?

[eternal needle]

now you have a melee attack that can hit at most one enemy. if thats what you want, sure

[acoustic belfry]

it hits the player

but i mean, the way i hit all my enemies is similar

cuz all my enemies share the same base

with the same health value

i just hit that script

and substract that value, until they die

atleast have worked till now

but now im wondering if is a good idea

[eternal needle]

it doesnt matter what it hits, ideally you wouldnt have different logic between the player and enemy in terms of how a melee hit works. The logic is the exact same, the only difference could be like checking what layer its on, or searching for a specific component, or reading a component value to know what "team" its on

[acoustic belfry]

it would just be

    {
        if (DemonHaveBeenHit) return;
        Vector2 MacheteRange = new Vector2(attackRange, attackRange);
        Collider2D hitEnemy = Physics2D.OverlapBox(meleePos.transform.position, MacheteRange, 0f, victim);
        if (hitEnemy != null)
        {
            if (hitEnemy.TryGetComponent(out EnemyBase enemy))
            {
                enemy.TakeDamage(meleeDamage);
                DemonHaveBeenHit = true;
            }
        }
    }```

[acoustic belfry]

yeah exactly, thats what i do

...just slighty more complex

but my issue is

this, bool, return, thing. It is good?

[eternal needle]

so then if your player has the same logic, you suddenly can hit only one enemy

[eternal needle]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[acoustic belfry]

but i mean, my enemies use the same base

to wich it gets hurt

the hurt area is on the base

and the player detects the base

[acoustic belfry]

in theory all enemies use the same, so it would be like...one...enemy?...

so yes?

[eternal needle]

i have no clue what this means either. it doesnt matter what it using this function. you just have to know that whichever character is attacking via this method can only hit one target per attack

[acoustic belfry]

oh, holup, one?

i mean

[acoustic belfry]

why, exactly? thats what i dont follow

i thought were about the script name thing

but now, you may be refering to another thing

wich...i can't see

i mean, you mean, i use this method, and i touch 3 guys, three inherite from the same fella

what would happen?

[eternal needle]

follow the logic line by line, follow it 3 times if you need. lets say some event calls your code to start performing melee attacks for X frames. first it resets so ValeriaHasBeenHit = false happens.
next meleeAttack is called. Lets just assume Physics2D.OverlapBox finds a Collider2D (this method also only returns one collider). You damage the target, valeriaHasBeenHit is set to true.
For all the next frames meleeAttack is called, ValeriaHasBeenhit is true, so you return.

[acoustic belfry]

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, so the thing is, i should make the bool thing, work, on the Target, not on the attacker

makes sense

[eternal needle]

no, then an enemy can only be hit once. I never said to do this either

[acoustic belfry]

i want it to be hit once

until the method reset damage is set

mmm, it should better use a timer

yeah, a timer

[eternal needle]

Or just do it properly like i initially suggested and have a list of enemies that were already damaged

[acoustic belfry]

is...is actually..very simple, just check if the attack is melee, do the bool thing, and put a timer, if the timer goes zero, the bool returns to false and can keep get it ass kicked

oh right

the issue is...i dont know how

[eternal needle]

one change you likely need to make is using the 2nd declaration of OverlapBox so you can have a list of enemies to hit during a single check. https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapBox.html

google how to make a list in c#. then how to add to a list. then how to check if something is in a list

[acoustic belfry]

ok

well, thanks

[acoustic belfry]

JUST, for know, why this method is less likely than the list one? just asking

[frigid sequoia]

Can I like.... add a item to an ordered list on a specific possition instead of recalculating the whole sorting?

Like let's say inventory is ordered by descending item rarity. And I want to add an item I know the rarity of, can I not just tell the List to place it within the items of the same rarity as it comes in?

Like, sort this only item in particular and forget the rest of the list?

[eternal needle]

use the SortedList class

[frigid sequoia]

But that, like... has to be sorted still right?

Like, I can sort it by a bunch of values but I have to call it right?

[eternal needle]

if you want the items sorted then its gonna have to be sorted. Doing it yourself will likely just be worse compared to using built ins

there are data structures specifically for keeping objects sorted as they are inserted. you dont want to manually sort the list everytime

[frigid sequoia]

So if I do this, if I add an item with the same gearRarity it automatically gets sorted between the rest of the same rarity?

Like I would still have to call the list to sort it by gearRarity anyways right???

I mean, I can always do a list of lists and have a list of each rarity

[eternal needle]

it would yes but you would need to implement a custom comparer on InventoryItem. Also you wouldnt be able to add the same item, if the comparer returns 0 then it'd probably error as well.
Maybe you could get away with just using List.Insert(index, item) to insert items at a specific position. You would just need to search through and compare the rarities.
Or realistically if the list is small enough you could sort it every time a value is inserted. Just implement a custom comparer on InventoryItem

[acoustic belfry]

btw, what diferences are of using a List and a HashSet?

i mean cuz investigating i stumbled with some ppl discussing abt it

[eternal needle]

you might just want to google the differences though truthfully I wouldnt worry about a hashset unless you really have performance concerns.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/runtime-libraries/system-collections-generic-hashset{t}

the main thing you'd want to know is that it cant have duplicate elements, like a dictionary. you'd really have to be using a large list, a lot per frame, to ever notice a difference in performance between the two also

[acoustic belfry]

btw, this is how it should be?

{
    Vector2 MacheteRange = new Vector2(attackRange, attackRange);
    Collider2D[] hitEnemy = Physics2D.OverlapBoxAll(meleePos.position, MacheteRange, 0f, victim);

    foreach (Collider2D hit in hitEnemy)
    {
        if (hit != null && !alreadyHit.Contains(hit))
        {
            if (hit.TryGetComponent(out EnemyBase enemy))
            {
                enemy.TakeDamage(meleeDamage);
                alreadyHit.Add(hit);
            }
        }
    }
}```

[acoustic belfry]

makes sense

i mean, for what i saw, in theory this analizes the list, then analizes each fella on it, and checks if has the hit

or atleast thats what i think i did

[eternal needle]

logic looks fine at first glance. you could optimize by using OverlapBox still and the 2nd declaration
public static int OverlapBox(Vector2 point, Vector2 size, float angle, ContactFilter2D contactFilter, List<Collider2D> results);
though if you dont understand it, i wouldnt lose hair over trying to change it before testing your current setup.

oops I pasted the 3rd declaration, didnt realize the physics 2d has one that takes a list and one that takes an array. The 3D physics overlap functions only take arrays 🤔

[frigid sequoia]

I quite literally just was checking that

Hashset better for searching specific items very fast. List better for iterating over all the items

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah the list is basically an "endless" inventory, so yeah, it's meant to be big

Searching for a specific index to insert it manually seems like even more costly in resources tbh.

I think Imma go for a list of lists, seems reasonable

[acoustic belfry]

makes sense

[eternal needle]

a dictionary of lists would be a bit easier to associate Rarity to List

[frigid sequoia]

Mmmm, not really much different than to just get the rairty straight from the gear.gearRarity

Any advantage to using a dictinoray there?

[eternal needle]

you're likely going to be looking up the list by its rarity, to know which list to insert items to. it just seems to make more sense with what your goal is

[frigid sequoia]

I guess, but can also just add them in order so I know which is which without the need of an fixed index lol

[eternal needle]

🤔 this would force you to have a fixed index per list. Think about it like this: when this class receives an item, how do you know which list to put it inside the List<List<Item>>. You need to correlate this rarity with the index
Or just use a Dictionary<Rarity, List<Item>> myDict; and do myDict[item.rarity] to get the list

[frigid sequoia]

My AddItem method would pass the whole item, then the rarity would be checked, being an enum that basically can be used as index for the list of lists, then I just add the incomming item to the relevant list which is the one with matching Index on the list of lists

[sacred lake]

Just out of curiosity but in order to do what are you sorting your items by rarity?

[frigid sequoia]

So the thing you are likely to want to equip (aka, the better items show first)

[eternal needle]

So you want to go from Rarity to Index, so you know which list to access. Or... just use a dictionary and skip the needless step

[frigid sequoia]

There is not even a step, there, like... an enum is already a index

[sacred lake]

Can you elaborate?

[frigid sequoia]

Ah... the ideal would be that inventory holds all the items that you can equip, once you click a slot, it shows everything that can go in that slot, ordered by rarity, you can them click to swap it with whatever you have equiped right now

There is not much to it, really

[eternal needle]

an enum is an enum, not an "index". it can be converted to int sure but you need to explicitly do so. anything that wants to access this list will need to do so

[iron wing]

how do i shorten a variable name?
at the moment, I have this:

var FOV = CinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView;

but wont initializing it as "var" and then modifying FOV modify the variable indirectly? so i'd just be changing a copy?

[eternal needle]

you either make a property or a method which sets the value for you

yes right now you'd just be changing FOV, a float, which wont affect the lens field of view

[drowsy flare]

Can I change the size of a sprite in pixels?
(Something like transform.localScale.inpixels = )

Realized it doesn't need to be in pixels, I just want to change the width and height to a fixed one, like 1F, 1F

[ivory bobcat]

I'm still not sure what you're asking.

[mystic hatch]

Can somebody help me with this? I am new to coding and this code was working normal and now it keeps giving me this error. I didn't change anything. I have no idea whats going on.

[silk night]

You can always get the size of a sprite relative to the viewport and then calculate the scale based on that

[ivory bobcat]

What's a PickupDetector?

[silk night]

There does not seem to be a class called PickupDetector

[ivory bobcat]

Unity is suggesting that "it isn't a thing".

[mystic hatch]

It's for detecting objects to pickup. I just don't know why it suddenly stopped working.

[drowsy flare]

That works for me, but how 😮

[ivory bobcat]

Can you prove that it's something that actually exists and not something Unity thinks you've made up?
At this point it believes you do not have anything called PickupDetector.

[iron wing]

hi, sorry i've never heard of this before. could you provide like documentation or give an example perchance?

[mystic hatch]

I have a video of it working.

[ivory bobcat]

Show where you've defined PickupDetector. Working or not working doesn't really matter. It's saying that you're trying to use the type PickupDetector but it doesn't know what that is.

[mystic hatch]

Ohhh i see.

[eternal needle]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/properties a property would essentially be a way for you to get or set CinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView .
it'd be the same as creating a method void SetFov(float ...) and float GetFov()

[wooden hill]

I guess maybe what you want..? not sure

UpdateFov(ref float fov){
   fov = whatever; // fov here will "refer" to whatever you passed in and will update that variable outside of this function if you assign something to it
}

UpdateFov(ref CinemachineCamera.Lens.FieldOfView); // the ref will allow the function to change this variable on the camera

note: it wont work on properties

[rough sluice]

Do someone know that why nothing is happening when I click any button?:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class MainMenuController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void OnStartClicked()
    {
        Debug.Log("Start button clicked!");
        SceneManager.LoadScene("GameScene");
    }

    public void OnNothingClicked()
    {
        Debug.Log("Nothing button clicked!");
    }

    public void OnExitClicked()
    {
        Debug.Log("Exit button clicked!");
        Application.Quit();
    }
}

[wooden hill]

you're not in playmode.
also console not open
(just annoying cause we wanna see console not an unrelated project view)

and i think you don't have an eventsystem

rightclick in hierarchy and add an event system

[rough sluice]

I have tried doing that but nothing got printed in console when I clicked buttons in play mode

[rough sluice]

On what?

[wooden hill]

what do you not understand?

"oh what" isn't descriptive

[rough sluice]

Oh sorry i mean "On what?"

[wooden hill]

the left of your scene window

look at it's tab what is it called

Hierarchy

where you modify your scene

just like how you make a new cube or a new button. rightclick inside there and create an eventsystem

[eternal needle]

theres no reason to use ref there, they already know what variable they want to update

[past yarrow]

Why do we normalize inputDirection 2 times please ?

[faint sentinel]

(In the video when im on: Left - Showing normal jump; Right - if i try dashing vertically, using "Y")

Im trying to implement a simple dash mechanic but when i try dashing vertically or diagonally i get floaty, as if ive jumped,
And no matter what i do i cant get it too work.

[frail hawk]

i think you dont need to normalize the input on line 192

[naive pawn]

is it not your code?

normalization is idempotent

[naive pawn]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[past yarrow]

No, it's from the FirstPersonCharacter from Starter Assets

[naive pawn]

oh inputDirection is reassigned to a non-normalized vector in the if statement

[past yarrow]

yeah but normalized again 🤔

[naive pawn]

yeah, because it should be normalized...?

it's the first assignment that's unnecessary (and arguably a mistake - if the input is near zero you get a magnitude of 1)

[past yarrow]

makes sense, thanks 👍

[errant zenith]

hey

would anyone mind giving me a help over vc? I am getting a bug with the camera

[slender nymph]

you are incredibly unlikely to get someone willing to help you privately. just !ask your question

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[soft creek]

Hi, how i can do for this nav mesh agent don't go trought the walls?

[silk night]

You should set up your nav mesh to set areas that are blocked by a wall as non-walkable

[verbal dome]

It kinda does seem to avoid walls but the agent radius is smaller than the graphics of the character so part of it clips through the walls

[red igloo]

I had a break for 2 months and I've started again. I'm going to use the new input system using input action references (What I got so far https://paste.ofcode.org/JYGMuMHR5sxnBZTDw84ums) . In the image shown I would like to know how I could convert that into the new input system cause right now that's using the old input system. Help would be appreciated.

[median hatch]

is there any way of not having hiccupts when doing loadscene async

[naive pawn]

perhaps #🖱️┃input-system

[median hatch]

there are tutorials for that

[naive pawn]

what do you mean by "hiccups" exactly?

[sour fulcrum]

Is it the loading of the scene thats hiccuping or the initialize of the scene after its loaded

[naive pawn]

seems like you've already gotten currentInput, that would be like Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxis("Vertical"))

though, you could simplify this down with some math. now that you have a vector, you can normalize or clamp it so you don't get faster diagonal movement.

[median hatch]

loading of the scene

i divided my city into chunks

and whenever i enter a new area i want to unload the previous one

each area has entities and collectables and stuff

but yea the spikes are a bit crazy right now

[red igloo]

Would this be fine? well it works

[naive pawn]

sure

[red igloo]

Since im going to be adding controller support how can I make it so when your on controller and you slightly move the stick to move I want the player to move slowly

[median hatch]

your code already does that

next what you can do is add a blend tree

[naive pawn]

use ClampMagnitude instead of normalization

[red igloo]

what like currentinput.ClampMagnitude ?

[naive pawn]

no, it's static
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector3.ClampMagnitude.html

[polar acorn]

Yeah, the difference is, ClampMagnitude prevents it from going over 1 magnitude, while normalize will set it to 1 magnitude

[naive pawn]

there's also a Vector2 version

[polar acorn]

If it's less than 1, ClampMagnitude won't affect it

[naive pawn]

🤨 your horizontal axis goes back and forth?

[sharp solar]

because transform.right and transform.left introduce a square movement structure but they want to clamp the players movement speed by magnitude

[silk night]

he is not reapplying it to the same vector, he is doing it to his input, so it shouldnt go back and forth

[sharp solar]

if you were to move right and forward you would walk faster than just moving forward if you werent to normalise it

[naive pawn]

that's.. not even close to what i'm talking about

[silk night]

and why would his horizontal axis go back and forth then? 😄

[naive pawn]

both in the original inputmanager code and the current inputsystem code, the horizontal/x axis is used to go forwards and backwards

[rocky canyon]

whats "back and forth" in this context?

[rocky canyon]

• and - ?

[round bobcat]

How do I start with creating a video game?

[naive pawn]

!learn

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[silk night]

!learn

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[rocky canyon]

check the pins

[sharp solar]

come up with something you want to make and figure out how to get there

[silk night]

ahh, now I understand 😄

[sharp solar]

most important thing is to not try and aimlessly learn stuff because you wont get anywhere

[rocky canyon]

^ if u have questions or get confused just ask

goals r guud

[round bobcat]

ok thanks bro <3

[rocky canyon]

pfft.. thats my day in a nutshell 🤣

[red igloo]

I got it working! Vector2 input = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(currentInput, 1f);

[sharp solar]

whats the difference between vector2 and float2 fellas

[silk night]

More utility functions on vector2

[naive pawn]

Vector2 is from UnityEngine, float2 is from Unity.Mathematics

[frail hawk]

very well explained

[naive pawn]

they're from different systems

[sharp solar]

is a buffer just a line of bits

[naive pawn]

no, "buffer" is a really broad term

[sharp solar]

shader buffer then

in unity

sorry

computebuffer i mean

[naive pawn]

a buffer at its core is just a chunk of data you can read and write into
more specific buffers will have more specific data and perhaps more specific constraints

[prime tartan]

how can i rotate my plane which has forward x velocity in 2d to 45 and -45 angle based on if my mouse if at top or at down

[frail hawk]

you asked 5 questions at the same time mate

[sharp solar]

i recommend asking the question 1 part at a time

yea like what murado said

[prime tartan]

wdym

[naive pawn]

what does "if at top or at down" even mean

[naive pawn]

we have no idea what you're asking

[sharp solar]

assuming they mean top of screen = fly 45 degrees up, bottom of screen = fly 45 degrees down

and linear fading

[prime tartan]

i want to rotate my plane 45 to -45 degrees on x based on mouse y at top or bottom of the screen

[naive pawn]

does this have anything to do with velocity?

[prime tartan]

if at top -45 bottom 45

like i want a rotation of that type so that the degree of rotation is where my plane would move forward

not directly related

[naive pawn]

break the task down into sections

• get the mouse position in viewport space
• map that to angles
• apply the angles to the plane

[prime tartan]

ok

now what functions do i use

to co-relate them

[frail hawk]

the heck

[naive pawn]

don't spoonfeed please

[sharp solar]

im just saying this is a fairly simple task and chat gpt could probably explain the entire thing to you

[silk night]

do not use chatgpt unless you are already familiar with unity, it will give you wrong info you cant identify

[frail hawk]

the code had a few mistakes, it wasnt even rotating on x

[silk night]

That is now your task to find out, we cant do your work for you

[naive pawn]

• mouse position is given in screenspace, you can use ScreenToViewportPoint to turn that into viewport space
• there's a ton of ways to do the mapping (mostly math)
• there's a ton of ways to apply rotations (probably Quaternion.Euler)

also do clamping if you want to ignore the mouse being outside the viewport

[silk night]

Oh thats why you downvoted my answer, I totally forgot about that function and wouldve done that calculation thats provided here manually 😄

[sharp solar]

youre not supposed to copy chat gpt code lol

[naive pawn]

then why did you do it?

[frail hawk]

haha

[silk night]

Treat chatgpt as if you have a 50% chance it flat out lies to you and if you dont think you could identify the lies, dont use it yet to help you out

[naive pawn]

50% is generous lol

[silk night]

copilot is actually doing a fair job at completing thoughts though, chatgpt is mostly hallucinating when it comes to unity 😄

[errant zenith]

im gonna try my best.

I am using a function to change the pivot of the camera, but it doesnt work properly. there are three objects: small arc, medium arc and big arc. Whenever I click on the medium arc it works, but the other two are inverted.

forsome reason

[naive pawn]

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[prime tartan]

i can get the x position using Input.Horizontal in a var and change the rotation using quaternion euler but am just asking what math function could get me to co-relate them if am asking too much sry but i have tried for like an hour cant find the fuction and chatgpt script isnt working

[naive pawn]

Input.Horizontal isn't a thing
if you mean the axis, well, that'd be delta, not the absolute position

[silk night]

what do you mean with co-relating?

[naive pawn]

also you'd want the y position

[prime tartan]

input.getaxis bro

[sharp solar]

programmers dont like AI
what a surprise
the idea behind asking chat gpt stuff is it gives you terminology and concepts to further ask about instead of getting someone to tediously walk you through how to make a plane fly for your game (like you are doing now)
it's a great tool as long as youre able to use your brain

[naive pawn]

that gives you deltaPosition, not absolute position

[prime tartan]

wait fr?

[naive pawn]

you're missing the point

[prime tartan]

i thought input.getaxis could do

[polar acorn]

Input.GetAxis gets you the value of that input axis at that frame

[prime tartan]

oo

[polar acorn]

Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") will give you whatever value along the input's X-axis it's at right now, from -1 to 1

[naive pawn]

genAI is a tool that's really easy to misuse if you don't know what you're doing
beginners, by definition, don't know what they're doing
using faulty resources and handholdy chatbots is only a hinderance for learning

i don't care if you use AI

[prime tartan]

ops bro

i forgot that i wrote horizontal

[naive pawn]

just don't push it on beginners and don't come crying when it doesn't work

[prime tartan]

ik thats wrong but wasnt there a MouseY input too?

[silk night]

Vertical

[naive pawn]

yeah, that's delta position, isn't it

[naive pawn]

no this is a different thing

[prime tartan]

now whats a delta bro 💀 what have i been doing the whole time

[sharp solar]

delta is the difference between 2 numbers

[polar acorn]

Yes, that gives you how much the mouse has moved this frame in the up/down direction

[sharp solar]

math concept

[prime tartan]

then input.mouseposition.y?

gemini told

[sharp solar]

delta can quite literally be interpreted as "difference"

[naive pawn]

aight buddy just stop with that bs

start using google and docs instead of that

[prime tartan]

i searched on google

thats the first result showed

rn

so i asked

[naive pawn]

yeah because google is pushing their ai

click the linked source or scroll down to actual docs where there are primary sources

[sharp solar]

@naive pawn i see your point bro but i promise you its cause this guy is funny

[naive pawn]

what are you talking about

[prime tartan]

me?

[naive pawn]

no

[prime tartan]

bro i am not experienced even to a bit

[silk night]

that gives you an absolute value in pixels, use the function Chris gave you before to get that into 0-1 range

[prime tartan]

thats like my 2nd project in unity

ok

[frail hawk]

!learn

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[frail hawk]

ai won´t take you anywhere rn

[sharp solar]

is it more common to set public variables in scene editor or get script to find stuff in scene at runtime

[naive pawn]

"variables" is an insanely broad ask

[sharp solar]

cant lie i kinda hate dragging objects into public variables

it annoys me

[sharp solar]

variables

[silk night]

fill everything you can in inspector, if stuff is spawned at runtime you can search it later

[hexed terrace]

Those are called 'fields'.

Fields should pretty much never be public. SerliazeField private fields to display them in the inspector.

[naive pawn]

those are serialized variables
there are several other uses of variables where your question doesn't even make sense

just do what works for you

the recommendation is to use SerializeField'd fields but at a beginner level it doesn't really matter imo

[frail hawk]

and don´t call your script Random

[polar acorn]

If you can set a field in the inspector, you probably should set it in the inspector. Every other method of assigning a variable has an overhead cost, but assigning it in the editor is free, it just gets created with those values already set

[hexed terrace]

no reason not to learn good practices early

[sharp solar]

youre asking too much

[naive pawn]

it introduces some complexity (what's an attribute? how do i expose public stuff then? how do properties work?), imo for an absolute beginner they have other things to worry about

[naive pawn]

not really, there's already 2 other things called Random, you'll be confusing yourself

[sharp solar]

actually though where the hell do i rename the component

its been bothering me

[polar acorn]

In the file

[sharp solar]

ignore the folder they are in for a sec, the script is not called random, that was the original name

ive reloaded this project like 5 times now and the component name doesnt update

[naive pawn]

the file isn't called random, but the component is

you have a class Random : MonoBehaviour in there

[sharp solar]

ahhhh

cheers

i didnt realise the class was called that lol, 100% see the issue now

[naive pawn]

kind of an unfortunate naming thing

the class and file are separate entities, but "script" can refer to either depending on context

(only in unity/this kind of context though afaik, normally we don't call classes as scripts)

[near junco]

Hello
I've been struggling a bit with Enums, I tried to search for answer but never got one that worked for me so I'm trying here hope this is the right channel

I have a scriptable object, that old an enum where the value can be selected in the inspector
in another scripts I'm trying to get this "selected value" to, then, start a switch statement depending on said "selected value" (integer)

I can't find a way to solve this, am I missing some basic understanding of enum ?

[sharp solar]

we dont have native class support in luau so this is all new to me

[sour fulcrum]

Or serialized get, private set auto properties 😄

[frail hawk]

just trying to help you so you don´t get confused later that is why i said that you should be careful with the naming. quick tip: if you rename your class inside your IDE unity will also rename the file inside unity (at least with vs2022)

[naive pawn]

solve.. what exactly? you didn't actually say what the issue is lol

[sharp solar]

thank you for bringing that up btw

[naive pawn]

field-serialized get, private set public auto properties
gotta make it longer

[sour fulcrum]

trueing

[sharp solar]

does monobehaviour tell unity that this is the class we want this component script to be

[hexed terrace]

is that exposing the field to the inspector?

[silk night]

unity just looks for all classes that inherit from MonoBehaviour to make them available

[polar acorn]

It is making yur IrSeekerRendererBehaviour an extension of MonoBehaviour, which is itself an extension of Component

[near junco]

I don't know how to resume it better
I just don't know how to get a selected value from an enum, that's my problem

[sharp solar]

oh so class : class is an inheritance thing?

[frail hawk]

yep

[grand snow]

Same as any field, you read it from the instance

[sharp solar]

epic

[polar acorn]

Further reading: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/object-oriented/inheritance

[sour fulcrum]

Ye

[field: SerializeField] MyType MyName { get; private set; } will serialize the backings

[hexed terrace]

do you still not need public there to expose the property to other classes?

[field: SerializeField] public MyType MyName { get; private set; }

[naive pawn]

yeah

but like, you don't always do that

[hexed terrace]

well yeah, only if you want it exposed

[polar acorn]

A private property with no implemented getter or setter seems like it should just be a field, honestly

[sour fulcrum]

could be protected 😄

[naive pawn]

or internal 😏

[polar acorn]

Yeah, protected makes sense. Private, specifically, doesn't make sense

[sharp solar]

what is an assembly when it comes to this internal keyword stuff

is that sort of like the stack of classes

[naive pawn]

it's basically just a group of files that form a self-contained unit

don't worry about it at this stage

[polar acorn]

In Unity, it's files all contained by a single Assembly Definition
https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/Manual/ScriptCompilationAssemblyDefinitionFiles.html

[near junco]

What I don't understand is that Enums seem to be Types
which doesn't allow me to get value from the enum when I'm trying to pass it to a variable in another scripts
Then how do I get the value of my enum If I can't pass it into another variable ?

[grand snow]

You first declare your new enum type, then you need a instance of the enum:

public enum MyCoolEnum
{
 A, B, C
}

public class CoolObj : ScriptableObject
{
  public MyCoolEnum coolEnum;
}

read more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/enum

[polar acorn]

They are types. You make a variable of the enum's type and you can set that variable to one of that Enum's values

[naive pawn]

it sounds like you're conflating the type vs a value of the given type?
consider like, int
0 is of type int, but you don't really get 0 from the int, you just, get the 0

an enum type is just a set of names for a set of ints

[polar acorn]

Yeah, you make a variable of type int with a value of 0. You don't make a variable of type 0

[red igloo]

Is this how you do a boxcast? just wanted to know if I did it right and it does work.

[naive pawn]

no errors, so yeah?

might not do what you want it to do if you pass args in the wrong order

this kind of question is what docs are for

[polar acorn]

Check the docs. If those are the values you want to pass to those parameters, then it's probably good
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics.BoxCast.html

[naive pawn]

probably shouldn't hardcode boxSize though

[rough granite]

What's the point in putting field: before SerializeField?

[polar acorn]

Allows you to set it in the editor

[rough granite]

Yeah but you dont need field for that

[polar acorn]

yes you do

[naive pawn]

properties aren't fields

[rough granite]

Then what do you mean by set it

[polar acorn]

...set it

[naive pawn]

the field: means to apply the attribute to the automatic backing field

[polar acorn]

Change the value to a thing

By setting I mean setting

[rough granite]

Sorry are you saying that the get makes you unable to see it in the editor without the field?

[polar acorn]

You cannot set a propery in the inspector without [field: SerializeField], even if it's public

[rough granite]

Huh

[burnt flare]

for this kind of terrain how should I proceed to reduce lag ?

[naive pawn]

+                  public Type field;              // works
+        [SerializeField] Type field;              // works
-                  public Type prop { get; set; }  // doesn't work
-        [SerializeField] Type prop { get; set; }  // doesn't work
+ [field: SerializeField] Type prop { get; set; }  // works

(please don't format your code like this, i'm just doing it to compare)

[rough granite]

Ahh no wonder i was confused never tried to make a { get } be seen in the inspector

[naive pawn]

it's called a property

[rough granite]

Sure sure

[naive pawn]

a getter is a specific component of a property

[wooden hill]

wait what's the difference between the last two even? what does adding field: do the other one doesn't?

[naive pawn]

it makes it work

SerializeField works on fields

field: before the annotation means to apply the annotation to the backing field
without it, the annotation is applied to the property

[polar acorn]

It applies SerializeField to the backing field of the property instead of to the property itself.

[naive pawn]

without automatic backing fields, it'd look something like this

[SerializeField] Type m_Field;
Type prop { get => m_Field; set => m_Field = value; }

but with an automatic backing field, you can't see the supposed m_Field, so that's what the field keyword does

the field keyword also works in the accessors, but not in unity's version of c#, iirc?

[wooden hill]

i see.. yeah

is the serializedfield of the autoprop then named (in inspector for example) the same as the prop?

[naive pawn]

probably?

[grand snow]

Be smarter with how you render this many meshes. Thats a crazy amount of batches. are these all mesh renderers or are you using draw indirect?

[naive pawn]

props are just methods that act like fields, if you cause an error in them the stacktrace shows a get_name/set_name method, so i guess the field would be something along those lines

[wooden hill]

good enough thx for the explanations both of you

[night raptor]

The batch count is high sure, but the saved by batching count is crazy. Are all of those blocks separate objects or something?

[burnt flare]

yeah im asking how can I be smarter, they are all mesh renderers and individual prefabs

I wanna achieve this

[grand snow]

yea thats a very bad way to do this. You need to use something like draw indirect to cheaply draw your cubes or at least enable gpu instancing on the materials.

You probably need to use chunks like minecraft to better manage collision and the mesh drawing

[burnt flare]

I thought unity did instancing automaticly

didnt know there was another layer of optimisation

[polar acorn]

Instancing helps, but it's not a silver bullet

[grand snow]

yea its not good enough for this many meshes

[night raptor]

Should look up how minecraft does it

[burnt flare]

so the idea would be to make cut the terrain by chunks and merge them as one mesh

[polar acorn]

Despite what Minecraft's aesthetic might make you think, a fully voxelized terrain made of cubes is stupidly difficult and incredibly performance intensive

[grand snow]

yea its one method, it helps with collision and culling but how the chunk itself needs to avoid a gameobject + mesh renderer per block.

[burnt flare]

ill look into minecraft but I think its harder to achieve

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Graphics.RenderMeshInstanced.html and https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Graphics.RenderMeshIndirect.html exist to let you draw many instances of a mesh with instancing data and avoid extra overhead from many go instances

open a thread in #1390346827005431951 to ask more

[plucky tinsel]

why does this set all line renderer positions to the exact same position ?

[grand snow]

I bet your i / samples is int/int

[plucky tinsel]

damn it, not again

thank you

[grand snow]

haha yea its a common issue that trips me up still

[sharp mirage]

anyone know why im getting this? the issue has to do with the wall touch part

[polar acorn]

Something on the line the error is on is null, but you're trying to do something with it anyway

[sharp mirage]

its the wall touch part

which is a raycast hit 2d

[polar acorn]

If this is the line the error is on, either playerAttributes, WallTouched, or WallTouched.WallTouch is null

[sharp mirage]

its defo either wall touched or walltouched.walltouch

[polar acorn]

So use some debug logs and find out which

[sharp mirage]

when i do find out which is null what do i do from there

[polar acorn]

Make it not be null

[sharp mirage]

how

sry if that sounds dumb

[polar acorn]

or check for it being null before you try to use a property of it

[polar acorn]

If it is supposed to sometimes be null: Check that it's not null before you try to use it.
If it is not supposed to sometimes be null: Give it a value

[sharp mirage]

ok

[near junco]

Yeah no I already knew that I just explained my problem like an idiot sorry
I know enum is the type, what I wanted to say is that I can't find a way to access the data of my enum variable cause VS Code keep telling me that my enum variable is a type, which is not valid in the current context

I'm just trying to get the selected value of my scriptable object instance , like I have a toolClass scriptable Object, which contain a ToolType enum, and in an other script I want to get the enum result of the Scriptable Object instance Sword (_itemReference) which inherit from toolClass

but I don't know how to do it
the solution that gave rob5300 don't seem to do the job since I want the value of the enum to be set by the scriptable object instance when user select the setting in the inspector,

maybe what I'm trying to do is not for what enum is and I'm just lacking basic understanding on how to achive my goal

[polar acorn]

Your switch statement would be a variable of type ToolType

not the ToolType enum itself

[naive pawn]

right you're still conflating the type and a value of said type

right now you're basically doing switch (int), that doesn't make any sense

wait hold on

the enum is ToolClass.ToolType...?

or what

what's the variable you're trying to read here

[polar acorn]

Looks like _itemReference is a variable of type ToolClass, and ToolClass contains an enum named ToolType

You wouldn't switch on the type, you'd want your ToolClass to have a variable of type ToolType

[naive pawn]

you can reference inner types through an instance?

[polar acorn]

The enum can be defined anywhere

[polar acorn]

No, that's why it's an error

[naive pawn]

oh, ofc. i assumed the error was just about it being a type

[polar acorn]

It's probably got multiple errors. I don't know which one would take "priority" over the other

[naive pawn]

@near junco answer this please

[polar acorn]

and I don't know if the compiler can show multiple errors on the same token

[near junco]

the enum is ToolType
_itemReference is just the Scriptable Object (of type ToolClass)

[naive pawn]

that doesn't answer my question

[polar acorn]

Okay, what variable do you want to check the value of?

[slender nymph]

what variable in the ToolClass class is of type ToolType that you are trying to read for the switch

[naive pawn]

ToolClass seems to have a serialized field of type ToolType. what's that field called

something like toolType?

[near junco]

I think i'm dumb

I keep trying to access the wrong stuff

[naive pawn]

no, you're inexperienced

we can't fix dumb, but we can definitely help fix inexperienced

[near junco]

I already declared my enum and I forgot about it

[polar acorn]

Yep, so you want to switch on toolType, not ToolType

[naive pawn]

(btw, convention is to name enum members as PascalCase as well)

[near junco]

I'm sorry I wasted your time this was such a small problem from me

[near junco]

yeah some people a long time ago taught me to always do the naming by starting with lowercase to avoid errors I never questioned it

but VS Code keep telling me to do Uppercase, it takes time to kill old habit

[wooden hill]

you'll get used to it eventually don't have to excuse yourself here

[naive pawn]

oh nah this was much more pleasant than.. other convos

[naive pawn]

some things are camelCase and some are PascalCase by convention, maybe you misremembered and generalized that advice

[wooden hill]

it's a convention, you are not required to do it (at least in your own hobby projects) BUT since everyone tries to adhere to these it makes it easier for everyone to read and just feel smooth ya know?

[naive pawn]

the most important thing in style is to stay self-consistent

[grand snow]

the worst naming convention is m_ 🤮

[wooden hill]

can't check rn but when you set enums in inspector are they saved as int?

[naive pawn]

yeah

serialized according to the backing value

[wooden hill]

oh so you cant insert any infront

[naive pawn]

just gotta move everything else over

[wooden hill]

now where do i know that from

[grand snow]

unity do it. old programs also do shit like b_ or i_

we have modern ide's so we dont need to name things like this anymore

Unreal still do it with their class names like AActor 😐

[wooden hill]

oh

[polar acorn]

that always read to me like people who make their discord names start with a ! so they show up first

[wooden hill]

i think android/google had mVariableName

probably thought of that

[grand snow]

xxXhunterXxx

[wooden hill]

https://github.com/android/fit-samples/blob/master/BasicSensorsApiKotlin/app/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/fit/samples/common/logger/LogWrapper.java#L27

[wooden hill]

i hate that class name

it should be AnActor

🙂

[naive pawn]

you could specify backing values so the others don't move, fwiw

probably not a great idea, but doable

[polar acorn]

My brain always reads it like "Aaaaaaaa! ctor"

[wooden hill]

yeah i see.. can be easily avoided

[wooden hill]

mine thinks of A-Aron (key & peele)

[subtle wyvern]

there are in this server channel for helping like i publish a post and then you triyng to help me
sorry about the english

[frail hawk]

yes you can create a thread

[subtle wyvern]

how?

[naive pawn]

if you need help, first step is to !ask

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.
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[proper cloud]

Hello people,

I am trying to drag a UI image:

    public void OnPointerDown(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
    {
        dragStart = getMousePosition();
    }
    public void OnPointerMove(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
    {
        if(dragStart != Vector3.zero)
        {
            Vector3 mousePos = getMousePosition();
            if (isDragging)
            {
                transform.position = mousePos;
            }
            else if (dragStartDistance <= Vector3.Distance(dragStart, mousePos))
            {
                isDragging = true;
            }
        }
    }

Dragging too fast unfortunately causes the mouse to loose the ui-image, which stops the "OnPointerMove" from getting called.
any solutions to this, or am I forced to move the drag-logic into an Update method?

Setting the position directly should be as fast as it gets, and unfortunately trying to snap the transform back in the "OnPointerExit" didnt fix the issue.

Thanks for any help!

[grand snow]

use the drag events instead of trying to do it yourself

[proper cloud]

Wow, changing from IPointerDown/move/up to these IBeginDragHandler, IEndDragHandler, IDragHandler
Did the trick, thanks!!

[grand snow]

yay

[past yarrow]

100% agree

[hybrid wagon]

I cant get proper highlighting to work in .compute and .hlsl files

it works fine in .cs files

i checked the settings, error highlighting and squiggles are on for both

it just looks like this

better than plaintext but not that much better

[slow idol]

when i instantiate a clone of an object, it no longer collides with anything

[hybrid wagon]

send a screenshot of the inspector of the cloned object

[slow idol]

it looks the exact same as the original object

[hybrid wagon]

including the rigidbody and collider components?

[slow idol]

yes

[hybrid wagon]

send a picture

[slow idol]

wait no hang on

[eager elm]

If I have three events, OnMovedLeft, OnMovedRight and OnMoved and I want to invoke OnMoved every time one of the others got called, is there a fancy way to "link" them?

[hybrid wagon]

var OnMovedLeft(...) {
OnMoved();
}

[eternal needle]

subscribe invoking OnMoved to the other ones

[eager elm]

ah damn didn't know that works

I thought I can do OnMovedLeft += OnMoved;
but that doesn't seem to work, although it gives no errors

I guess it just adds any subscribers from one event to the other

[eternal needle]

you just need to invoke the event, OnMovedLeft += () => OnMoved?.Invoke()

right now yea you are adding the events, and i suspect OnMoved has nothing subscribed to it at that point

[slow idol]

it seems like it's not transferring a variable

the clone doesn't have the same layermask

[sour fulcrum]

🤔

Not saying your wrong but doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that can happen afaik

[slow idol]

well

i have an exact clone

and this ((layers & (1 << otherCollider.gameObject.layer)) != 0)

works for the original

but not for the clone

[sour fulcrum]

Not to nitpick your troubleshooting but your assuming the layermasks are different when so far what you've seemingly confirmed is that they inconsistently pass that condition

You should directly log both's layermask values in order to confirm said assumption

[slow idol]

yeah, the last debug log returns false

[sour fulcrum]

no as in

Debug.Log("Original LayerMask Is: " + gameObject.GetComponent<Projectile>().GetLayerMask())
Debug.Log("Clone LayerMask Is: " + clone.GetComponent<Projectile>().GetLayerMask())

[slow idol]

it just prints "LayerMask"

[polar acorn]

Add .value

It'll give you the layer mask as an int, but you can at least see if they're equal

[slow idol]

im actually gonna fucking lose it, i broke it in a different way

[sour fulcrum]

😄

[sour fulcrum]

Just in general make sure to directly test/log the thing your troubleshooting so you don't invest in a false assumption

this debug log here is unideal because who knows what layers is, your assuming the clone is wrong because this failed rather than directly checking

[slow idol]

they're different

why tf

bruh are we fr

[polar acorn]

What does GetLayerMask() do?

Where is it getting that data from?

[slow idol]

simplest function possible

[polar acorn]

Okay, so what sets layers? It's private, where does it get set to anything?

[slow idol]

big function called Set()

[polar acorn]

Which is called when?