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[wintry quarry]

Only in projects where you want to use the PlayerInput component and you want that component to use the same actions asset that is set there

[rotund tiger]

alr thanks, is there a tutorial i can watch to install this

[rocky canyon]

install it via the website...
once you have you can click "Open in Unity"
it'll launch the package manager and already be navigated to the asset..
click Install -> follow prompts..
open Demo scene

[wintry quarry]

you install it the same way you install any unity package. from the package manager

[marsh vale]

alright,

so the one unity provides is like just a basic moveset for yourself

if they made you change it to none whats the point of them not having it preset to none in the first place

[rocky canyon]

its there so you have a nice starting base-line..
its pretty generic and can fit lots of games right out the gate..
you also have the option to not even use the new input system..
but its there if u need..

[polar acorn]

They didn't make you change it

The fact that your tutorial predates the switch made you change it

If you were using a different tutorial, you wouldn't have had to

[marsh vale]

no im not watching the same thing i was just watching a video regarding unitys new input system

his was already set the none and he just made a whole new inputset for himself

[polar acorn]

The Input System provides tons of ways to go about the same result, not everything is going to be used by every game

[marsh vale]

ic

[rocky canyon]

thats probably just so he can step thru the process, explain things a bit more.. and not just rely on people knowing what they're doing

and yea.. theres sooo many ways to use the new input system 😅 its a bit overwhelming

[marsh vale]

it is

[rocky canyon]

it'll get easier the more u use it

[marsh vale]

im gonna try making a 3rd person dude move around tmrw

and see if i can use the input system correctly

[rocky canyon]

you'll also find ways that you like doing inputs and ways you dont.. if u experiment enough

unity just gives u hella options..

and even more 👀 .. lol i haven't even gotten around to using the Input Module.. or the Player Input component

[marsh vale]

did the asset yall sent earlier already have a input system

the 3rd person one

if it does i think id rather try making one from scratch

and just use a bean

[marsh vale]

ill just make one myself i suppose

[rocky canyon]

thats what the StarterAssets.inputactions is

both assets have the inputsystem and action mapsincluded

[jolly mist]

is there a way to play an animation based off of a number going from 0 to 1 like in a blend tree?

[rotund tiger]

this first person thing does not work bro

i dragged nestedparentunpack into scene and deleted ui joystick thing and added floor but still nothing

[rocky canyon]

wouldn't see why not

[night mural]

you can set the .normalizedTime of an Animation

[jolly mist]

that might help. I'll try that and if not make a post in the code general forum thing

[night mural]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/AnimationState-normalizedTime.html

[rocky canyon]

use this one ^

or open the Demo scene and rob that one..

but yea, even the nested one works TLDR: it does too, bro

even if it is sorta all off-center

[lime sigil]

i have a editor plugin and in it there's a button using GUILayout.Button
i don't know how to load a texture from it's package folder tho

doesn't seem to work with relative paths Assets is not ProjectName/Assets but ProjectName/Packages/mypackage/Assets

 if (
    GUILayout.Button(
        image: AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Texture>(
            "../Assets/Discord-Symbol-White.png"
        )
    )
)
{
    Application.OpenURL("https://discord.com/invite/********");
}

why would the image not load without error?

[rocky canyon]

try removing the prefixing ..

Packages/mypackage/Assets/Discord-Symbol-White.png

[lime sigil]

that's what's making it relative or at least it's what i would think so coming from python, the thing is i tried that as well

for the second option i don't think i can use that as it could easlily break if the user adds it to the assets instead of the packages

[rocky canyon]

the reason why u dont get error is b/c it just returns null.

[lime sigil]

ah oops, i thought the button would throw an error if the texture passed to it was null

[rocky canyon]

just a silent kinda whoopsie 😄

i remember from doing my editor windows. and sometimes it'd just not draw a texture at all..

would break all my formatting and everything.. but no error.. no whitespace with a little X.. nothing to let u know lol

[tacit snow]

i updated my project to unity 6 and cinemachine 3 and now i have some problems:
StarterAssetsDeployMenu.cs(6,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Cinemachine' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
how do i fix that? thanks!

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/CinemachineUpgradeFrom2.html

[tacit snow]

first step not working

[slender nymph]

regenerate project files

also you can get rid of the line directly above that one if you also remove the first line. you aren't using anything from the System namespace anyway and removing that line will make the using alias for the Object type redundant

[tacit snow]

how do i do that?

[slender nymph]

in the external tools options in Preferences

in unity

[tacit snow]

let me check

[tacit snow]

wich one i select?

[slender nymph]

the Regenerate project files button

[tacit snow]

i press it and nothing happens

[slender nymph]

nothing visible happens. restart your code editor and that error should be gone. you'll still need to fix any other errors

[tacit snow]

still not working

what should i do @slender nymph ¿

[slender nymph]

ah, so this isn't even in your own code. this is in an asset. the asset likely uses an asmdef and would probably need the reference to cinemachine's assembly

[tacit snow]

its FEEL asset, any idea?

[slender nymph]

the asset likely uses an asmdef and would probably need the reference to cinemachine's assembly

[tacit snow]

idk how to do that

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/cus-asmdef.html

[tacit snow]

okay i will se

thanks

[slender nymph]

actually this would likely be more useful: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/assembly-definitions-referencing.html

[sick arrow]

hello

[rich ice]

howdy.
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If you have a Unity question, feel free to !ask

[eternal falcon]

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[heavy magnet]

it doesnt work

[rich adder]

whats happening now ? this looks a little sketch

[nova kite]

Anyone knows why when i press play the gun aims at the camera instead of staying to the right, been stuck on this for hours

it should follow the mouse while rotating on the z axis which it does but it rotates it 90 degrees on the y axis and snaps it towards the camera

[wintry quarry]

Because you're setting the rotation to a rotation that points at the camera

In the first screenshot you have it rotated -90 degrees on the Y axis.

Your code then sets the y rotation to 0, pointing it at the camera

Rather than explicitly setting an Euler rotation like that, why not just do like cs transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(direction);

[nova kite]

i tried changing this line to this:
transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, -90f, angle + 90f + rotationOffset);

[nova kite]

i will try that too

[wintry quarry]

Euler angles are cancer, just throw them out imo

[timber tide]

Say no to eulers

[spring viper]

hi

im new

[short condor]

Does anyone know programming, it's for this game called mindshow it's abandoned but it would be cool if YOU could make a whole new server, because the servers shut down

[spring viper]

hmmm what do u need

[short condor]

A new server for mindshow

[spring viper]

lemi search for ut game

is it popular

failing

or sm?

[short condor]

It used to be popular but now it's shut down

[spring viper]

mindshow.com?

this

[nova kite]

omg it worked!! this is so much better too because it changes directions for right and left sides thank you!!

[polar acorn]

This isn't the place for that

And if you want to make a custom server, you can always pick up some books and do it yourself

[nova kite]

3 damn hours im never using Euler's again😭

[short condor]

It's on steam

But you won't see it

[spring viper]

wait i jsut got this new pc ion got steam yet

[short condor]

K tell me when you get it

[spring viper]

this?

[short condor]

Yes

[spring viper]

WELL THAT LOOKES COOL

[timber tide]

they're fine with two axis, but they create problems if you're rotating around more than one axis

[spring viper]

lookes like it had a community

[short condor]

Could you try to get and then make a new server

It could maybe bring the game back

[mild lake]

i want to paint a map in a top down unity game, for instance, a grass path with a dirt road going through it. what's a good way to do this? i don't like how angular the tile map is

[spring viper]

did u buy the game?

[rich ice]

can you guys take this to DMs. this is very off-topic

[spring viper]

mb

[timber tide]

You've the option of just using a texture across a large quad

paint it in some 3D program like blender

[mild lake]

the texture would be massive

[timber tide]

Actually any painting software cause the uvs arent hard to map anyway

[mild lake]

i specialize in 3d first so it wouldn't be hard, but i don't think the method would work

[timber tide]

well, if you're painting something big then you do a splatmap which is basically a small precision texture that maps your real texture when generating the mesh

[polar acorn]

How much are you paying

[rough granite]

fr we wouldn't even make revenue from the game selling if it did get revived and take back off

[obtuse knoll]

have you guys created pseudo code for what you want to happen in a game?

[teal viper]

Sometimes.
I sometimes start with a mix of pseudo code and natural language explanations of the implementation in comments.

[nova kite]

if i need to pass a reference to a component to a prefab that gets instantiated how would i do that?

i need a reference to the player's transform

and it wont let me assign it in the inspector since it's a prefab

[rich adder]

instantiate returns the instantiated object , you can do a simple DI through method to pass it

the spawner usually is already in the scene , should already have the reference to the scene component you want

[nova kite]

what is DI?😅

[rich adder]

[serializefield] SomeComponent someComp;
void Spawn(){
var obj = Instantiate(prefab)
obj.SetSomeComponent(someComp)```

[rich adder]

Dependency Injection

[nova kite]

oh no it's a gun that instantiate a bullet on mouse down, and when it hits something i want the player to teleport to that location

but i need the player's transform so i can change it to the colission location

but the bullet is a prefab

[rich adder]

make the bullet reference the player so when it hits you can teleport it from bullet or subscribe to that event from player to bullet so bullet doesnt care about player

[nova kite]

ooo ill try that thank you

[rich ice]

i usually dont although it's more of a personal preference thing. if im really knee deep in spaghetti then i'll take a moment to step back and write some pseudo code. worst case scenario i'll even make a flow chart

[nova kite]

it worked! i got player = GameObject.Find("Player").transform; on start

[sour fulcrum]

nope

pretty much do not use Find ever

if you need help with what nav was explaining feel free to ask

[nova kite]

oh wait is that not what he meant by making a reference to the player?

[sour fulcrum]

it was not no

[nova kite]

then i need more context😅

[rich adder]

what is spawning the bullets? that should already have reference to the player most likely

[sour fulcrum]

Your correct in that is a way to get a reference but Find is really bad since it looks through every single gameobject loaded looking for a matching name which is awful for performance, doing stuff via strings/names is also unideal since it's easy to mess up

Ideally you would have your player referenced somewhere via a [SerializeField] public inspector reference, either directly on the Spawner or on something the spawner can access

[nova kite]

the gun, these are all the references it has

[nova kite]

so basically i need to reference the player through the gun because the gun can also recieve the bullet as reference?

[rich adder]

isnt the gun part of the player ?

[nova kite]

it's a child of it in the hierarchy

[rich adder]

alr so just make a field for it

then on spawn bullet you pass the player

[nova kite]

hmm but all the teleport logic is on a seperate script🥲 like i made a script for the gun a script for the red bullet and a script for the blue bullet, the gun only spawns them while all the bullet logic is in their respective script

i have it set up so it calls a teleport function onDestroy

so when the blue bullet gets destroyed it will teleport the player

unless you are able to use scripts in other scripts maybe

ill have to watch a video on that

[sour fulcrum]

give me a sec im writing up a nice response for you 😄

In general with these kinds of problems t's more-so thinking about the chain of command here, I like to reference how a business or even like a supermarket/costco type place might operate

The Bullet's job is to teleport the Player when it hits something.
In order for the Bullet to do it's job, it needs to speak to the Player
The Bullet is managed (I say managed as in like a supermarket like job) by the Gun that shot it
The Gun's job is to shoot Bullet's when the Player asks it to shoot
The Gun is managed by the Player that's wielding it

There-for if the Bullet needs to talk to the Player, It should ask the Gun so it goes up the chain of command.

In practice I would suggest the Gun's having a reference to the Player wielding them, and the Bullet's having a reference to the Gun shooting them. This can partially be done via just [SerializeField] references but you can also set up your code to communicate this like

(Now I'll preface this code isn't perfect and some people will probably suggest doing slightly different things once your comfortable with it but for now it's fine)

Here's a quick example of what you could do

public class ExamplePlayer : MonoBehaviour
{
    public ExampleGun CurrentGun;

    public void EquipGun(ExampleGun newlySelectedGun)
    {
        CurrentGun = newlySelectedGun;
        CurrentGun.OnEquipped(this);
    }
}

public class ExampleGun : MonoBehaviour
{
    public ExamplePlayer Player;

    public ExampleBullet BulletPrefab;

    public void OnEquipped(ExamplePlayer owner)
    {
        Player = owner;
    }

    public void ShootBullet()
    {
        ExampleBullet bullet = Instantiate(BulletPrefab);
        bullet.SetOwner(this);
    }
}

public class ExampleBullet : MonoBehaviour
{
    public ExampleGun Gun;

    public void SetOwner(ExampleGun gun)
    {
        Gun = gun;
    }

    public void OnHitWallDoTheTelportThing()
    {
        Gun.Player.etc
    }
}

@nova kite let me know if you need anything elaborated

[nova kite]

wowww that's so cool! and thank you for putting it in perspective with that analogy that makes it so much clearer, so bascially you make a function that set's the data you need and call that function from the "manager" passing it the data that's so clever

[sour fulcrum]

More or less yeah, it's very unspecific to this example so you can apply the idea of kinda going up and down the chain to a majority of code/systems 😄

[nova kite]

that's sick thank you so much i will try it now

[nova kite]

it works🥹

thank you!

[little olive]

heyo, decided to transfer from unity version control to github, and im not very familiar with the process. i downloaded github desktop, and made a repository. then i cut all my project files to the repository folder, and when i try to commit i get this. Any tips on how to move forward ? is the recommended git lfs the way to go ? am i doing something wrong ? any tips would be appreciated : )

[slender nymph]

1. Make sure you're using the unity .gitignore
2. Set up git lfs

[little olive]

yep, i did use unity gitignore. so i am guessing it is the way to go with git lfs

thanks : )

[nova kite]

Vector3.Dot breaks my brain i should've listened in math lessons😭

[naive pawn]

it's just the sum of component wise multiplication

it can represent how much the vectors align

[nova kite]

i'm trying to pass it the normal from a collision point and compare it to a vector3.up from example to see which direction i should offset the player after a teleport to prevent clipping with solids

[nova kite]

yes but it does something with cosine i read and for it to click in my brain i need to understand the math XD

i wish there was a visual representation of it haha

ohhh i found the formula it's actually pretty straight forward
Vector3.Dot(A, B) = (A.x * B.x) + (A.y * B.y) + (A.z * B.z)

[eternal needle]

There literally are if you Google dot product visualization

[nova kite]

omg there is! xd thank you!

[naive pawn]

"damn there should be X" -> there probably is X, go google it

[naive pawn]

this is.. what i just said lol

the other representation is a.b = ||a|| ||b|| cosθ

[fierce shuttle]

Sadly some assets like textures, audio files and models can be large, if you CAN find ways of not having to push those and can store them some other way then that could help, otherwise as boxfriend mentioned, LFS is usually how you would handle that, though AFAIK even that has limited space for those kinds of files (for free anyway)

[little olive]

yeah, currently treading thru the mud rn.. reminded me why i hated git in the first place 😭 i swear id never use git if i didn't have to... and yeah, git lfs has a 5 gb limit afaik, but i think i managed it with lfs track in git bash and should be good for now

[fierce shuttle]

Git does take time to learn, and a lot of trial and error for sure, im sure youll get used to it and maybe even enjoy using it in the future, the nice thing is you can learn its features "as you need it" instead of trying to understand everything all at once

[timber tide]

even with git lfs I believe you still need to follow the 100 mb file rule

also don't push like 10gbs at once, chop it up

[little olive]

yeah i get that, i mean, git wouldn't be popular if it was actually bad. i just never disliked learning a similar topic more than git lol

[little olive]

i dont think so ? yet, im still workin thru it

ill update my revelations

[timber tide]

There is some limitation I know for sure cause if I do try to cram everything in a single commit it'll drop it

[frigid sequoia]

This has kept happening btw, not really sure if I should worry about it, but doesn't seem to prevent anything from working anyways, so dunno

[timber tide]

How are you removing the element? In an editor script or something like OnValidate?

[naive pawn]

sounds like the post limit thing, a client side option
apparently that's only applicable to HTTP/1.0 connections

[frigid sequoia]

I am removing it directly on runtime

Like on a method that sorts the inventory and what is being equipped

[timber tide]

SerializedProperty is more of an editor thing to draw those properties on the editor so it's either Unity being Unity or you're somehow modifying the non-runtime instance as you run the game.

There's one other scenario I can think of and is editing the prefab instance at the runtime, which shouldnt affect the editor instance but potentially can throw some fake warnings like that

[little olive]

yep, i tried twice to push, and its giving a "remote disconnected, check internet" error.. im guessing its the size limit but like gahh damnnnn

[frigid sequoia]

I don't think anything of that is being done, no

Like this is the kind of list I am modifying, but I don't think I am doing anything weird like that tbh

[timber tide]

And you're sure you're instantiating the prefab and not editing the prefab instance you referenced?

[frigid sequoia]

I am not using any prefab on this logic, yet

This is meant to run on InventoryItems as prefab, but as of now, I am only testing it with on scene items

So.... I don't know how I could even be doing that

[timber tide]

If it's already on the scene then it would be a unique instance so that wouldn't be a problem

so I'm going to go with Unity is just being Unity and reset the editor.

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, like this was happening last night too, so, that why I am asking again

I surely must be doing something weird

[eternal needle]

are you able to replicate a minimal test case where this happens? this is where i try to start. for example, replicate that same structure with SortedList<GearRarity, List<int>> and 2 lists to try to see if you can get the same error. It's more likely a unity bug tbh

[frigid sequoia]

Mmmm, I mean, the specific case is kinda complex tbh, I'll have a hard time replicating it

Like it's like referencing a item inside a different item and kinda adding and removing itmes from a bunch of list simultanenously, so....

Could it have anything to do with deactivating the gameObject?

[eternal needle]

thats why you make a minimal test case. to avoid all the complex logic that could be completely unrelated to your setup. Start with a SortedList<GearRarity, List<int>> and do similar operations adding to the list and see what exactly causes it. If you have no clue what line of code causes it, you need to figure that out

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, I did that, I was implementing the very basic stuff first and seemed to work

[eternal needle]

then add more to your minimal test case until you can replicate the bug

it could be a unity bug related to how you're using the lists. it could be due to the gameObject being inactive. The way you remove uncertainty here is by testing. You dont just stare at the code to fix things
If you feel you cant fix it and theres nothing strange you're doing, then submit a bug report

[frigid sequoia]

Mmmm, yeah, I have a hard time even replicating it now, like it happens SOMETIMES

Like for no apparent reason

I'll keep note of when exactly happens when it shows

[eternal needle]

even for a bug report you typically wouldnt want to wait for them to fix it though. if you're on a old unity version too then maybe it was already fixed in a later version

I do see some similar posts online related to your error but most just link to a unity bug tracker at the end, fixing stuff in the 2021/2022 version

[frigid sequoia]

I think I am on the 22 currently actually

So it should be fixed if that's like the same thing

[nova kite]

I'm really bad with math😭😭

dk how i passed calc 2

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, so how tf, is passing me variable not assigned on the console when I can call it's name on awake, I know it's there and I am checking the freaking inspector and it is indeeda assigned???

[sour fulcrum]

without code and/or pics no one can help

[sour fulcrum]

is that the inspector of the one throwing

[frigid sequoia]

I was checking if it I was just coincidentally using one that was not assigned

But it happens on everyone even tho they are all assigned

[sour fulcrum]

when is this code running

[twilit glen]

Can someone help me?
so my unity wont download versions and I don't know why and it happens with every version.

[frigid sequoia]

On click, basically, it's a button

[sour fulcrum]

debug pause when the selectedicon is null and look in the inspector

[twilit glen]

Are there any tickets I can get this sorted out in the server?

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, ah, wait, I think it's cause I tried to change what method was called with the button with the multiselect, and it's trying to call a method from a different one

Mmmm, letting apart that setting it manually is kinda annoying, that still should work I think

[twilit glen]

Can someone please help me??? @frigid sequoia?

[sour fulcrum]

christ

its been 2 minutes

ask in #💻┃unity-talk

[twilit glen]

fine

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, it keeps returning it null, although it is assigned on the time it's being called

Ok, so this is what I am calling with the button. That print does show without miss ref

At this point it calls it a missing ref

[ivory bobcat]

What line throws the nre?

[frigid sequoia]

This does nothing at all with that parameter, and checked that it is still showing on the inspector, even after the call

[frigid sequoia]

The last one on the second image

[ivory bobcat]

So selected icon was null?

[frigid sequoia]

It was null there, but on the print that looks for its parent seems to be alright

[sour fulcrum]

does the SETSELECTEDSLOT change anythhing?

[frigid sequoia]

It's a gameObject btw, not sure if that's relevant

[frigid sequoia]

Should do nothing with the icon other than call the rest of icons to not show

[ivory bobcat]

The print whatever likely isn't related to this referenced variable that's throwing null. You need to figure out when you're assigning the variable and how it isn't being assigned a valid reference

[frigid sequoia]

But not change the reference at all

[sour fulcrum]

it shouldn't but does it

log before and after

[frigid sequoia]

The variable is assigned on the editor and it's shotting missing ref when I am not removing it at any point

[sour fulcrum]

this statement cannot be true

[frigid sequoia]

After the what? The null reference?

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I know lol

[eternal needle]

am i seeing this wrong ? it seems like for NRE in the print you are using the transform parent while the rest of the code seems to not use it.

The parent might be null

[ivory bobcat]

You very likely are removing or destroying it at some point.

You need to comply with the error and figure out when/where you're removing/destroying it.

[frigid sequoia]

No, no, the parent is to tell them apart cause they all have the same child name. I am just trying to check if the object is not null with that call

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah but like... It's not being removed? Like, it's there. How?

[ivory bobcat]

It's likely referring to a different instance

When your inspector doesn't match the error, it likely is referring to different instances (or race conditions).

[frigid sequoia]

Mmmm, makes sense, but there is no other instance that could be created that I know of

[sour fulcrum]

your debugging, your too smart to rely on a "that i know of" 😛

[frigid sequoia]

Can I get like the id of the object to be 100% sure?

[eternal needle]

you should use Debug.Log instead, it lets you send a 2nd parameter for the unity object to highlight. when you press the log in console, it will highlight which game object sent this log

Debug.Log(..., this);

[ivory bobcat]

Before the error line.. log this: cs Debug.Log($"Click this message prior to the error message to highlight the object yellow.", this);

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, so that's just like an overcharge of Debug.Log?

Is that a thing?

That's very usefull

[ivory bobcat]

Basic debugging 101.

[frigid sequoia]

I was just seding prints with the names lol

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html
yes an overload, not overcharge

[ivory bobcat]

Which object is highlighted yellow?

Check the inspector for that object and figure out why the field was null when the line had executed.

[frigid sequoia]

OOOOH, I see, it was actually happening on the second loop where it just dissables all other icons throught an event

There was an old version of the script I missed to delete lost between objects

[sour fulcrum]

remember

making mistakes: natural
making assumptions: sinful

😄

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, that thing of the Debug is very usefull, thxs

[nova kite]

i forgot about the physics materials and spent 7 hours creating a whole bounce method oh my god💀

i learned a lot at least😭 trying to debug why it slides up the wall when i shoot it at a 90 degrees angle i saw on google someone mentioning the bounce material and i felt so dumb hahahah

[heavy magnet]

hii can someone help me? i dont know how to make my character "rotate"

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody))]
public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float walkSpeed = 3f;
    public float runSpeed = 6f;
    public float blendSpeed = 5f; // for smooth interpolation

    Rigidbody rb;
    Animator anim;

    Vector3 input;
    float targetSpeed = 0f;
    float currentSpeed = 0f;

    void Awake()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        input = new Vector3(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")).normalized;

        // Determine target speed
        if (input.magnitude > 0f)
            targetSpeed = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) ? runSpeed : walkSpeed;
        else
            targetSpeed = 0f;

        // Smooth blend between speeds
        currentSpeed = Mathf.Lerp(currentSpeed, targetSpeed, blendSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

        // Update Animator parameter
        float speedNorm = currentSpeed / runSpeed; // normalized 0 to 1
        anim.SetFloat("Speed", speedNorm);
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Vector3 movement = input * currentSpeed;
        rb.MovePosition(rb.position + movement * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
    }
}```

[eager spindle]

Hmm are you going for a first person or third person mode?

[heavy magnet]

third person mode

[ivory bobcat]

Have you tried ? There ought to be some sort of tutorial that can help you with your particular type game.

[heavy magnet]

yes

[ivory bobcat]

Did they not work for you?

[heavy magnet]

no

[ivory bobcat]

How so? Where did you get stuck?

[eager spindle]

A third person controller requires a good amount of setting up that it makes it hard to teach it to you over discord. you should look at a tutorial for making a third person controller.

[heavy magnet]

it just says "error"

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe you ought to show the error?

[heavy magnet]

okayy

wait

[ivory bobcat]

So do you see what it says after the colon(:)?

[heavy magnet]

it gives me differents error for every scripts

[heavy magnet]

yes

[ivory bobcat]

You'd fix the first error in the console window from top to bottom if possible

[heavy magnet]

how?

[ivory bobcat]

So do you see why it's upset with that line?

member names cannot be the same as their enclosing type

[ivory bobcat]

Meaning the name of a member in the class cannot be the same as the name of the class.

[heavy magnet]

okayy

using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody))]
public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public float walkSpeed = 3f;
public float runSpeed = 6f;
public float blendSpeed = 5f; // for smooth interpolation

Rigidbody rb;
Animator anim;

Vector3 input;
float targetSpeed = 0f;
float currentSpeed = 0f;

void Awake()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
}

void Update()
{
    input = new Vector3(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")).normalized;

    // Determine target speed
    if (input.magnitude > 0f)
        targetSpeed = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) ? runSpeed : walkSpeed;
    else
        targetSpeed = 0f;

    // Smooth blend between speeds
    currentSpeed = Mathf.Lerp(currentSpeed, targetSpeed, blendSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

    // Update Animator parameter
    float speedNorm = currentSpeed / runSpeed; // normalized 0 to 1
    anim.SetFloat("Speed", speedNorm);
}

void FixedUpdate()
{
    Vector3 movement = input * currentSpeed;
    rb.MovePosition(rb.position + movement * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
}

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour {
public float forceAmount = 10f;
private Rigidbody rb;

void Start() {
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}

void FixedUpdate() {
    float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
    Vector3 force = new Vector3(x, 0f, z) * forceAmount;
    rb.AddForce(force);
}

}

}

[heavy magnet]

so what do i change?(im stupid)

[ivory bobcat]

Well... look at the error again and see what the name of the script and line is first: (error shown here) #💻┃code-beginner message

|| Character script. Line 47. Character 18.||

How to post !code btw so folks can properly help you ought. I won't be here much longer.

[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.

[ivory bobcat]

Anything more than a couple of lines should be posted using the Large Code Blocks instruction rather than the inline with respects to others and the server channel.

[heavy magnet]

mhm ok thank u

so do I delete it?

[ivory bobcat]

Folks will need to see the character script to properly be able to help you.
The player movement script above isn't where the error is present.

[heavy magnet]

i deleted it but theres another error

ok im tired my character doesnt need to rotate

[nova kite]

question to everyone on here, where did you learn level design? not the actual sprites but like coming up with the ideas for the level

this is the hardest part XD

[fickle plume]

This is a code channel. Create a thread in #💻┃unity-talk if you want to discuss that.

@rough sluice This is a code channel, and don't cross-post, please.

[rough sluice]

Ok, I will take care next time. Do I post that in ui-ux channel?

[fickle plume]

You've already posted it

[rough sluice]

Yes, I was just confirminng

[river pulsar]

Hi
Now I used unreal engine

[river pulsar]

I meant to say goodbye because I was using Unity now I'm using Unreal Engine

[hexed terrace]

it's not an airport, your departure does not need announcing - no one cares

[dim minnow]

You're not forced to use just one tool either. I can use multiple engines as the need arises.

[wanton socket]

Not completeley programming related, but I have a shader that can be used to fade an object out that should be used by every entity (for example, when spawning I want entities to fade in)

It has an albedo texture, metallic texture, etc as inputs to basically act like a normal material
However, setting these in the editor changes all objects that use the material

As far as I know my 2 options are to duplicate the material or to create a script to assign the material properties at runtime
My 2 questions are which option is better, and if it's possible for this script to also run once in the editor so I can see how my entities look without having to enter play mode

Thanks

[tacit snow]

hey, i recently updated my project from unity 2022 to unity 6 and Cinemachine 2 to 3, and my third person asset (from unity asset store) is giving an error. In the documentation of cinemachine, they said that you have to change "using Cinemachine" to "using Unity.Cinemachine". But as you can see, it doesnt work. Do you have any idea to fix that issue? This is the link of the asset : https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-thirdperson-updates-in-new-charactercontroller-pa-196526 . Thanks!

[hexed terrace]

Delete the asset from your PC (c:/users/<user>/appdata/roaming/unity/assetstore-5.x/<publisher>/<asset>) and then redownload it.

Assuming you haven't already downloaded this asset with Unity 6, the version you already have on your PC is from pre-Unity 6 and not the package for Unity 6. Hopefully doing this just has the asset setup correctly

[tacit snow]

okay im gonna try it, thanks

[tacit snow]

i tried installing this version: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-character-controllers-urp-267961#reviews
and now it works

[hexed terrace]

that's a different asset

[tacit snow]

but now it works xd

any idea why this looks like that?

with that horizontal line

[hexed terrace]

you'll have an idea why it does that if you put your cursor over it and read the tooltip

[tacit snow]

it says to chane "CinemachineVirtualCamera " to "CinemachineCamera" but idk if that will give an error or someting else

[naive pawn]

why not just
ctrl+z is always a thing

[dim minnow]

Cinemachine 3 doesn't call them virtual cameras. That's why it's telling you that.

https://unity.com/blog/engine-platform/see-whats-new-with-cinemachine-3

[tacit snow]

i think i will let it just "CinemachineVirtualCamera" instead of change aaaaalllll of the declarations

is not giving any error so...

😄

[wanton socket]

You can refactor to just change all occurences

[dim minnow]

I mean you can do that but then you should probably be on Cinemachine 2.

[wanton socket]

Probably better to do than use a deprecated definition that may later introduce issues

[tacit snow]

let try it

hope it doesnt break all the project xd

[hexed terrace]

you should be using version control ..

[wanton socket]

Quick bump

[teal viper]

You would need to duplicate the material via code as well(or rather, it would be done automatically if you access the material property). So there's no going around it.

[tacit snow]

30gb project, my git is tired

i have a copy safe so chill

[sour fulcrum]

Can potentially use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/MaterialPropertyBlock.html ?

[wanton socket]

Oh right, I see
From a disk space perspective I'm not too bothered (I'm deploying to WebGL) but for performance reasons is it essentially the same to just duplicate my material in the assets menu?

[iron wing]

essentially i want to add a developer console to my game and intialize any variables everytime my game runs from any scene.
i thought the method OnRuntimeMethodLoad() would work fine. and it does, for my variables. however, i cant actually instansiate anything in that method since it is static. what should i be doing instead?

[wanton socket]

Would also add some extra customisability to certain materials, but most materials just need standard PBR maps so I'm just curious

[teal viper]

Yes. Using a material property block might be better. But I'm not very accustomed to them, so can't say what pitfalls await you if you use them.

[wanton socket]

Oh right, I saw this is usable as well
I saw an example of how to do this at runtime but is it possible to have this in the editor as well so I can preview how my game looks?

[sour fulcrum]

short answer not really no

that sounds more like you'd want a shader

[wanton socket]

I used shadergraph to make the fade material, which essentially just adds some alpha and changes the alpha clip threshold with accordance to a "_Fade" parameter

[teal viper]

I mean it should work with an editor script

[wanton socket]

Is that the right approach?

[teal viper]

The material property block I mean

[sour fulcrum]

oh you might actually want a material variant here

i haven't used em so idk

[wanton socket]

Right let me search how that works

Oh yeah this looks perfect, tysm

It does essentially say this is the right way to inherit from a base material and alter certain properties

[sour fulcrum]

i do be forgetting they exist lol

[rough sluice]

Can someone tell me that why "Player" object is not moving when holding moving buttons?:

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerConntrolsFunctioning : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 5f;
    private bool moveLeft, moveRight, moveUp, moveDown;

    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 movement = Vector3.zero;

        if (moveLeft) movement.x -= 1;
        if (moveRight) movement.x += 1;
        if (moveUp) movement.y += 1;
        if (moveDown) movement.y -= 1;

        transform.Translate(movement.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime);
    }
    public void OnLeftButtonDown() => moveLeft = true;
    public void OnLeftButtonUp() => moveLeft = false;

    public void OnRightButtonDown() => moveRight = true;
    public void OnRightButtonUp() => moveRight = false;

    public void OnUpButtonDown() => moveUp = true;
    public void OnUpButtonUp() => moveUp = false;

    public void OnDownButtonDown() => moveDown = true;
    public void OnDownButtonUp() => moveDown = false;
}

[frail hawk]

not the best way to handle the movement

did you make this or find it somewhere

[rough sluice]

Found it because currently I am new and trying to learn

[frail hawk]

can someone confirm that this is bad practise?

[hexed terrace]

I'd never do it this way

[rough sluice]

So what should I do?

[naive pawn]

the bools are the same thing as having numbered variables

[hexed terrace]

are those even magic methods that work?

[naive pawn]

just use a merged structure, specifically a vector2 in this case

[rough sluice]

ok

[naive pawn]

(i would guess the buttons are hooked up with unity events)

oh wait that wouldn't work with the release

welp 🤷

[hexed terrace]

That might be partly why it's not working.. nothing is calling those methods? 😄

[frail hawk]

take a look at the new input system and implement that instead

#🖱️┃input-system if you have any questions.

[rough sluice]

Ok

[hexed terrace]

shader questions go in #1390346776804069396 - pls delete and post there

(and actually say what's wrong)

[brave tapir]

Thanks

[drowsy flare]

How can I check if an object reference is None?

[keen dew]

== null

[drowsy flare]

Hmm that's what I've been trying

It appears this is not null, even though it doesn't reference an object

[keen dew]

Either you're doing something wrong or checking the wrong object

[drowsy flare]

Hmm, okay thanks

[rough granite]

Is this a transform or a vector3 cause vectors can't be null they go to 0

[naive pawn]

it is a FightPosition (or perhaps fightPosition) as indicated by the type in the parens

[rough granite]

No clue wtf a Fight Position is

[naive pawn]

it's a custom type

it is specific to their project or perhaps some asset used in the project

[rough granite]

Fair

[sharp abyss]

How Can I build a drag limb system like in mount your friends?

The problem is that I couldnt think how can I solve the drag and I can only select the front point others cannot be selected as you can see while I hover.I want to stick and move in walls with that mechanic.

https://paste.ofcode.org/KNicVHJwR8Bp8cVEmZ69Gr

https://paste.ofcode.org/f6d8pEiBXtTmnCfnYkZCV9

[zealous ridge]

Could someone here actually teach me how to make something nice or atleast working in unity right now I'm being just fed answer and I don't know what the stuff even means

[naive pawn]

there are plenty of resources online for that

along with unity !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[naive pawn]

learning kinda starts with you though
if you don't understand something, start googling or asking, instead of just accepting it blindly

[zealous ridge]

Problem with like tutorials and unity learn is if I need to know more about something it isn't gonna answer me it's only teaching what it has or smth like that

And it's very hard for me to learn like that for some reason I just need someone to actually teach me or have someone that I can ask questions while reading let's say Unity learn

[runic lance]

well, if you need to know more about something then you should research it
Unity Learn will provide you the basics to start, it's up to you to continue
you can always ask questions here in the Discord server, having a private tutor is a different thing though

[zealous ridge]

Do Unity 6.1 and Unity 6.0 Have a big difference?

[hexed terrace]

not that much .. also this is a code channel, not a general chat about Unity -> #💻┃unity-talk

[zealous ridge]

I'm trying to learn about how to code in unity and similar stuff but I use Unity 6.1 and my tutorial is in 6.0 so I do think it's more relevant to code than just talk.

[hexed terrace]

"zero" difference in code between the two

You'd be better using the same version as the tutorial you're following. 6.0 is also LTS, which means it is long term support, 6.1 is going to lose support at some point this year when 6.2 comes out

[tacit snow]

Hey guys, im following this tutorial series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGxXQzE5Vu8&t=463s
and using this asset: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-character-controllers-urp-267961
The problem is that the second player (the one in the right) is controlled by gamepad but it takes the camera of the first player (keyboard and mouse) to move. Its quite hard to explain but with this asset, the player moves with the camera, depending where do you look you move in the direction. Im doing exactly the same as the tutorial ones, but it doesnt work correctly, any idea to solve that? thanks!

[drowsy flare]

Yep this 🙂

[drowsy flare]

Got it working now, thanks for the support

[polar acorn]

We're all still text on a screen. What difference does it make if you read it here or in the documentation?

[drowsy flare]

A fightPosition is an object which can contain a player who's fighting. It's for creating formations. And yes, it's custom 🙂

[keen acorn]

Hey guys, I'm just a bit confused about rotation, I have this line on an Update loop, but it seems to be setting the rotation rather than constantly rotating the object
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, transform.rotation.z + rotationSpeed);

I'll multiply rotationSpeed by Time.deltaTime, don't worry

[naive pawn]

transform.rotation is a Quaternion

[red igloo]

I have this issue where when I press R twice it enables the ball controller script which I don't want any ideas why its doing this? https://paste.ofcode.org/Ptt85JJMwdvgcVQCEJb4jC

[naive pawn]

unless you have a degree in math you probably don't want to access quaternion components

it seems like you were looking for eulerRotation.z

or whatever the name is i forget what exactly

[keen dew]

Use transform.Rotate instead of calculating the rotation yourself

[keen acorn]

Oh thank you

[keen acorn]

Yeah, probably

[tacit snow]

can some1 take a look of this pls?

[keen acorn]

Do you have a camera object?

oh my bad

lemme read

[tacit snow]

i send the video

[keen acorn]

Okay so, you have two players. Player1 moves with keyboard and mouse while Player2 moves with the gamepad. The problem is that Player2 is using Player1's camera?

[tacit snow]

yes

is using his camera to move

[keen acorn]

Hold on, I'm actually not sure if I understand the problem

[brazen cedar]

does any on know how to do athenication in unity like liogin/ Sign up

[keen acorn]

On the video it seems pretty normal?

Could you describe it a bit more detailedly?

[tacit snow]

in my video you can see that the player2 moves when i move the player1 camera

i mean moves in that direction

[keen acorn]

oh

[tacit snow]

import the asset

and try it

you will understand what happens

[keen acorn]

oh it actually physically moves when you just move your mouse?

[tacit snow]

yes

i mean

i can move it withou moving the mouse

and the joystick moves the camera

but the direction to moves depends in the mouse (camera of player1)

[keen acorn]

oooh

Okay so

The camera rotation of Player1 influences the direction (though not the camera!) of Player2

[tacit snow]

ye

[tacit snow]

look first video

and check when i move the camera of player1( left) the player2 rotates while moving

and if i move the camera of player2, it ignores it

[keen acorn]

I think, maybe check the ThirdPersonController script

there must be some place where the direction of the player is influenced by the direction of the camera

there is probably something wrong with that

[tacit snow]

yes

but this is the default script from unity xd

and i thinks its the asset they use in the video

so there is no sense

I FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!

i just assigned the camera by serializablefield

not finding the main camera object bc we have 2 main cameras

[keen acorn]

lmao nice

[granite dagger]

Can anyone tell me if i should learn C# in general first or learn it directly with unity? (Code Monkey's channel)

[keen acorn]

ooh

[keen acorn]

I personally would say it's better to learn fundamental computer science

Because then, every tutorial feels easier

and more understandable

[granite dagger]

i thought learning by doing would be best

[keen acorn]

I personally would recommend the CS50 course, which is free on EdX and features problem sets for you to solve

[keen acorn]

Depends on the person, I'd say

Actually doing stuff can be very very good at teaching you things, and that's why I love game jams

But you can't just join a painting competition to learn how to hold your brush

You might learn new styles or new techniques, but if you don't even know how to make a stroke on the canvas, then it might not be for you just yet

Does that make sense?

[granite dagger]

👍 thx for the help, lemme check what's CS50

[keen acorn]

Awesome, I'm glad to have helped you

[eternal needle]

you would be learning by doing either way, you would just be doing c# first. Theres resources pinned in the channel

[red igloo]

Does anyone have any idea's why this is happening? I can't seem to figure it out

[keen acorn]

What does pressing R do?

[red igloo]

to switch camera's

[teal viper]

Presumably, because R is bound to this action: switcherAction.action.WasPerformedThisFrame()

[red igloo]

I know that my issue is when I change cameras to the cube and I press R really quickly it disables the cubecontroller like in the video shown

[keen acorn]

Well, lazy solution might be to not let the R do anything until the camera is fully switched?

I'm not too sure how your project works

[teal viper]

That's the opposite of what you said in the original message.
Anyways, pressing the key toggles between enabled and disabled state, so it makes sense.

To understand more, add logs or breakpoints.

[red igloo]

what if I add a check in SetMainCameraActive(true) to only enable BallController if it was the active object meaning only if the camera is currently following the ball.

I'm going to try this to see if it stops the issue

[hexed terrace]

I'm scrolled up, but I don't if see the correct term has been said .eulerAngles

[red igloo]

It worked!

[fringe plover]

i dont get how does multiplying float by Vector3 works

[hexed terrace]

somewhere that you don't see, it'll probably automatically do x * float, y * float, z * float - which would be tedious to have to type out every time

[tacit snow]

finally it works, thanks to all of that ppl that helped me! Apreciate your time!

[night raptor]

Overloaded operator, looks like this:

public static Vector3 operator*(float d, Vector3 a) { return new Vector3(a.x * d, a.y * d, a.z * d); }

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Math/Vector3.cs

[fringe plover]

oh thank you

[night raptor]

The scripting api also includes the operator overloads https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector3-operator_multiply.html

Note that there are two overloads, one for each direction to allow both float * Vector3 and Vector3 * float

[tacit snow]

i upgrated cinemachine 2 to 3 and now gives this error:
Can someone told me what i have to put there? thanks

[polar acorn]

What's the IDE say?

[polar acorn]

Well there you go

[tacit snow]

so i put Cinemachinecamera right?

[polar acorn]

The CinemachineFreeLook component no longer exists. It's part of CinemachineCamera now

[tacit snow]

okay fine thanks

and do you know how to change the vertical sens?

[polar acorn]

Sounds like you want to change something related to one of the input axes. Which component on the object might you look at for information about an input axis

[tacit snow]

idk, im new using CM3 and idk how to change the velocity of the Vertical Axes

i know i can change the accel time there but idk how to change the speed

[polar acorn]

Check the Input Actions you have defined for these inputs

[red igloo]

I was wondering how I can make it so when I change to the cube and I leave the zone the isinsidetrigger should be false. any ideas? PlayerSwitcher script = https://paste.ofcode.org/UJ2BFfSJCJmnXYXx8RkHuQ
Ontriggerscript = https://paste.ofcode.org/s8fa9jaASHAfKGY5ubb34F

[polar acorn]

Looks like the log in your OnTriggerExit isn't running which means one of those two conditions isn't being met. Maybe try logging before the if statements to see what those values are

[red igloo]

Wait im dumb I just placed the isinsidetrigger outside of the ifcamremove statement now it works

[sharp mirage]

got it to work now, dw ty for the help

one more question tho, i installed the cinemachine package and followed a guide

all the guides seem to have some virtual camera component where u can drag an object onto the follow section

but i think those guides are a bit outdated cuz they had a cinemachine version 2

and rn its 3.14

[oak idol]

How do I include logic inside of a UI Document that would be a part of it and belong to that specific instance of UI Document when I place it somewhere even if there are multiple instances of it in the same document. This logic should be able to call events and affect UI Document

[wise pulsar]

Does anyone know why this is happening?

• I created a ImportPreset (First Image)
• I set in as the default importer and set the filter (Second Image)
• I deleted the files I had imported before. And imported the files again.
• Every file is correctly configured in the inspector, and correctly sliced in the Sprite Editor. But every Slice has the same name as the sprite that was used in the ImportPreset. (Image 3 and 4)

[fast fern]

How do you implement a switch, where it takes input as cases? (quick event related stuff)

I be throwing it at Update and its all spaghetti

[naive pawn]

gonna need some more context, what are you trying to achieve with the switch/case?

[naive pawn]

not a code question, #💻┃unity-talk or #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[drowsy flare]

Is there a line of code to pause the game for debugging purposes? Similar to clicking the pause button in the unity editor?

[rough granite]

Time.TimeScale = 0; i think

[naive pawn]

no, that's not very similar

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Debug.Break.html is apparently a thing

[naive pawn]

also timeScale was the right casing

[drowsy flare]

Yeah timeScale was correct, but it works awesome, thanks @rough granite

[rough granite]

Fair i guess it only stops a few stuff huh

[naive pawn]

timeScale does not prevent updating. it just factors into deltaTimeand fixedDeltaTime every frame/tick

you are still updating every frame (which isn't great if you want to actually freeze stuff to check values)

if you want to actually pause, that's an editor/debug thing

also of course,timeScale does not affect unscaledDeltaTime/unscaledTime

and it messes with whatever other stuff you might be using timeScale for

[drowsy flare]

Got any tips on how to do this from code?

[naive pawn]

yeah, google gave this

[drowsy flare]

wow, now this is exactly what I was after, thanks a lot

[naive pawn]

i assume it acts like a breakpoint rather than pausing, but a much closer effect than setting time scale

(though i haven't used breakpoints, maybe they just work via pausing lol)

[wooden hill]

Can't you debug and put breakpoints in your ide?

[drowsy flare]

I need to debug variables set at an exact time, so Debug.Break(); works exactly like I need it to

[naive pawn]

breakpoints would also work for the same purpose

[drowsy flare]

I'll look it up, thanks

[fast fern]

nvm I don't seem to understand the process yet 🫠

[naive pawn]

what are you trying to achieve in general?

[fast fern]

I'm trying to make a "input the correct arrow key"

basically go through a few rounds of input left or right arrow, and score tells you how well you did

my attempt so far

(yes switch cases isn't my only problem lol)

[tired nebula]

Hur går man in i servern

[naive pawn]

this is an english-only server

[naive pawn]

yeah switch cases probably won't really help you here

[fast fern]

ooooof

[naive pawn]

think about the logic flow

[fast fern]

what's the best approach for this?

[naive pawn]

there's no best

might be something like this (spoilered in case you want to figure it out first)
||quicktimeevent(correct, time): while (elapsedTime < time) if input correct [correct answer] else if input other [incorrect answer] [timeout](where the [correct answer]/[incorrect answer] might return, so they wouldn't hit the timeout branch, or you could have extra logic to make sure timeout doesn't happen after one of the others as it breaks)||

[crystal rain]

Can someone help me learn to use unity and visual studio code

[frail hawk]

we can help you with your questions

[crystal rain]

Ok

I just got the app and don’t know how to use it

[naive pawn]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[drowsy flare]

Once you read up a bit and start using it, there are very skilled people here who can help you when you run into trouble

[rich adder]

revert to 2.x or read the changes from 2.x to 3.x
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.0/manual/CinemachineUpgradeFrom2.html

[crystal rain]

Thanks

[fast fern]

(sorry had to go somewhere real quick when you posted this )

I have not learnt this yet, I was think if statements will be enough, but inputs are still a tricky one to work with, buttons maybe would've been easier
I'll learn this quick time event thing

Thanks ✨ 🙏

[trail rapids]

can anyone help?, im trying to make a cloud system using a particle system

for a cloud sprite i have

but i have no idea how to make the cloud sprite the particles

so i can move it across the screen

[frail hawk]

how is that a coding question?

[trail rapids]

oh yeah mb

is ther anoyjer channel for help ?

[little olive]

#✨┃vfx-and-particles

[crystal rain]

Is there a code system built into unity

[polar acorn]

Define "built into unity"

And, actually, also define "Code system"

[crystal rain]

Do you have to install something completely different to put code into the game or can you code the game in unity

[strong wren]

Unity doesn't ship with an embedded code editor (though it offers to install Visual Studio by default), but handles building the code itself.

[crystal rain]

Oh

Alright

[cerulean bear]

I'm trying to read from arduino serial port any idea why this isnt working

using UnityEngine;
using System.IO.Ports;
using System.Collections;

public class SerialLatestLine : MonoBehaviour
{
    SerialPort serialPort;
    public string portName = "COM4";
    public int baudRate = 19200;
    string receivedString;

    void Start()
    {
        serialPort = new SerialPort(portName, baudRate);
        serialPort.Open();
        //serialPort.ReadTimeout = 50;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        receivedString = serialPort.ReadLine();
        Debug.Log("Received: " + receivedString);
    }

    /*void OnApplicationQuit()
    {
        if (serialPort != null && serialPort.IsOpen)
        {
            serialPort.Close();
        }
    }*/
}

arduino script if anyone's intersted:

#include <Arduino.h>

const int trigPin = 9;
const int echoPin = 10;
const int buttonPin = 2;

void setup() {
  pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(echoPin, INPUT);
  pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT_PULLUP);
  Serial.begin(19200);
  }

void loop() {
  if (digitalRead(buttonPin) == LOW) {
    long duration, distance;

    // Send trigger pulse
    digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);
    delayMicroseconds(2);
    digitalWrite(trigPin, HIGH);
    delayMicroseconds(10);
    digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);

    // Read echo
    duration = pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH);
    distance = duration * 0.034 / 2;

    // Send to PC
    Serial.println(distance);

    delay(200);
  }
}

[daring heath]

how would i add text to an existing TMPro object? for example, i want it to keep the text that's already there and just add an exclamation mark

[polar acorn]

You can add strings with +, but you need to add it to a string. Right now you're adding "!" to nothing

[daring heath]

yeee i know this is wrong, how do i access the string data that the object is currently holding?

[polar acorn]

.text

[coral crater]

I'm really scratching my head here. I know I'm not providing a lot of context here and I apologise, but I'll figure it out on my own if it's not obvious to anyone else. but can anyone see why this wouldn't ever execute past "yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);". everything up until that is executing, and then it stops at the yield check, and never resumes. nothing is externally deleting the object this script is on or anything like that either

    {
        int previewBoxesActive = peoplePage.transform.childCount;

        for (int i = 0; i < previewBoxesActive; i++)
        {
            Destroy(peoplePage.transform.GetChild(i).gameObject);
        }

        journalManager.tabAnimationPlaying = true;

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1); 

        Debug.Log("peoplemanager finished");
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }```

[polar acorn]

Is the object that is running this coroutine ever disabled, or do you ever change Time.timeScale

[daring heath]

so itemsHUDText.text = itemsHUDText.text + "!";?

[polar acorn]

[daring heath]

it's code i can't explicitly test rn

is there a way to check if a tmpro text already contains a specific character?

[polar acorn]

.Contains

[coral crater]

nope, timescale is 1 and the object is never disabled. I'm stumped. I've changed the yield return back to

yield return new WaitUntil (() => journalManager.tabAnimationPlaying = false);

as it is intended to be and this still just won't ever trigger, even though I can see visibly that it has not turned off

[crystal rain]

What does any of this mean

[daring heath]

thank youuu

[crystal rain]

Huh this makes no sence

I don’t understand it

[polar acorn]

Put it back to the WaitForSeconds, add this line right before it:

Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name} is starting a pause. Timescale is {Time.timeScale}", this);

Also add this to that script:

void OnDisable(){
  Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name} is being disabled.", this);
}

(If the script already has an OnDisable function, instead add that log to it instead of making a new one)

[coral crater]

thanks v much for the help on this, this debug appears and then nothing else

[polar acorn]

When you click on it, it should highlight an object in the hierarchy. Does it?

[coral crater]

nah, it doesn't, but none of my debug messages do that. it just opens up the script in visualstudio

[slender nymph]

Single click not double

[polar acorn]

Click on it once, it should highlight something because I added the , this as the second parameter

[coral crater]

ah right, didn't realise adding 'this' would do that. it doesn't highlight it, no

[polar acorn]

If nothing highlights, then the object printing that log does not exist in the scene

Which would be the reason the yield isn't working

[slender nymph]

Where is the coroutine actually being started from?

[coral crater]

actually, it does highlight the object. my apologies, I just didn't realise it only seems to do it on the first click

[coral crater]

if the object that the coroutine is being started on is deleted, does that kill the coroutine then?

well, suspend it

[slender nymph]

Yes, whatever MonoBehaviour you call StartCoroutine on will be the one it's lifetime is attached to

[rocky canyon]

you'll have to click off it (refocus) for it to highlight again..

[coral crater]

o h my go DDDDDDDDDDDDDD well now I know why it isn't working 😭

[rocky canyon]

yup, monobehaviour is required to run the routine...
its the one that calls it as box mentioned

[coral crater]

the object that starts it is being killed right here

[polar acorn]

Then why did you specifically say you weren't

[coral crater]

thank you all very much for the help and learning moment @slender nymph @polar acorn @rocky canyon

[coral crater]

the script isn't on the object that's being deleted, what's being deleted is the object that calls this coroutine, externally

[rocky canyon]

👍 i just noticed ur doing embedded work..
PlatformIO in VSCode is the IDE i use for that.. (easier for me to toggle back and forth from each type of project)

just my personal opinion tho

[coral crater]

I'll check it out, thanks!

all working

[rich adder]

try using

serialPort.DtrEnable = true;
serialPort.RtsEnable = true; ```

you might also need to set read/write timeout

[cerulean bear]

should I just put it in setup

[rich adder]

in start

where you create a new SerialPort object

[cerulean bear]

btw idrk how this stuff works I kinda just got the timeout from chatgpt

any idea how to implement that?

[rich adder]

its just the ms time when it will timeout with data read/write . Always best to check the documentation it explains it a bit more and some examples
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.ports.serialport.readtimeout?view=net-9.0-pp

[cerulean bear]

also my project glitched out and it no longer enters run mode (loads infinitely) should I delete the library file and try again

[rich adder]

if you mean when you press play it freeze its probably some infinite loop happening

[cerulean bear]

here is my new code and I'm continuosly getting an operator timeout error

using UnityEngine;
using System.IO.Ports;
using System.Collections;

public class SerialLatestLine : MonoBehaviour
{
    SerialPort serialPort;
    public string portName = "COM4";
    public int baudRate = 9600;
    string receivedString;

    void Start()
    {
        serialPort = new SerialPort(portName, baudRate);
        serialPort.DtrEnable = true;
        serialPort.RtsEnable = true;
        serialPort.Open();
        serialPort.ReadTimeout = 500;
        serialPort.WriteTimeout = 500;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        receivedString = serialPort.ReadLine();
        Debug.Log("Received: " + receivedString);
    }

    /*void OnApplicationQuit()
    {
        if (serialPort != null && serialPort.IsOpen)
        {
            serialPort.Close();
        }
    }*/
}

error:

TimeoutException: The operation has timed out.
System.IO.Ports.WinSerialStream.Read (System.Byte[] buffer, System.Int32 offset, System.Int32 count) (at <ccc5c248f714451b8d635b2be267cc2e>:0)
System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.read_byte () (at <ccc5c248f714451b8d635b2be267cc2e>:0)
System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.ReadTo (System.String value) (at <ccc5c248f714451b8d635b2be267cc2e>:0)
System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.ReadLine () (at <ccc5c248f714451b8d635b2be267cc2e>:0)
(wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.ReadLine()
SerialLatestLine.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/SerialLatestLine.cs:24)

[crystal rain]

What is this????

I see your useing C#

I think

[cerulean bear]

oh nvm that was on me for not starting the serial logger thx for your time @rich adder

[cerulean bear]

yes

[cerulean bear]

your solution worked

[rich adder]

is working now ? btw you should add some extra check

[crystal rain]

Can I get a bit of help some time you look like your good at coding

[cerulean bear]

yeah its good. one final thing when I'm not inputting something I keep getting the timeout exception logged but everything works should I put it in a try statement and catch the error

[cerulean bear]

I can try but I'm not bery good @rich adder is much better

[rich adder]

you should probably be checking if there is data to read first
if(serialPort.bytesToRead > 0) or something like that

[crystal rain]

I just need help getting started

[cerulean bear]

so maybe if(serialport.BytesToRead)

[cerulean bear]

oh ok thx

[cerulean bear]

I can try ig

are you fully new

[rich adder]

👇 !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[rich adder]

check the pins as well

[cerulean bear]

I recommend the junior programmer pathway

[rich adder]

this isn't a server for tutoring

[crystal rain]

I don’t even know how to use the console

[rich adder]

thats what learning is for

[cerulean bear]

it teaches you everything in this one https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer

[crystal rain]

I am not at my computer

And I need to be on it to start the corse

[rich adder]

okay so what do you want. Do it when you get to a computer

[crystal rain]

You didn’t have to be mean

🥲

😂

[rich adder]

and you don't have to be obnoxiously spamming the channel 🙂

[crystal rain]

I am not, I just need a little help

[rich adder]

please read the #📖┃code-of-conduct and don't be posting reaction images. Mods wont appreciate that as well

[queen adder]

Hey so um I'm kinda losing my mind atm over this...
When I load into a scene it for some reason is in the state that it was when I switched off it
Is there a way to reset it?

So
Scene 1 > Scene 2 > Scene 1 again but it is as it was left off before switching to scene 2

[polar acorn]

If you're not at a computer to do Unity Learn then you definitely aren't at a computer to be using Unity.

[crystal rain]

Also this channel is called code beginner

[polar acorn]

So, learn it when you are

[crystal rain]

I am not on unity

[rich adder]

mhm exactly. so when you have an actual coding question, you may post, accordingly following the server rules

[queen adder]

Anyone?

I tried unloading it with UnloadSceneAsync

But it doesn't do anything

        SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync("SampleScene");
        SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu", LoadSceneMode.Single);```

[rich adder]

wdym "is in the state that it was when I switched off it"

[polar acorn]

Now that shouldn't be happening unless you're using additive scene loading, or you've put all your data into ScriptableObjects or Prefabs to store all your data

[queen adder]

its just as i left it

it doesnt revert to its original state

[rich adder]

are you loading them through code or just double clicking

[queen adder]

code

[polar acorn]

Can you take a screenshot of your Unity editor after loading the scene for the second time? Whole window, and with the console visible

[queen adder]

why?

[polar acorn]

So I can check a whole bunch of stuff at once

[queen adder]

it doesnt show anything about it thats the thing

[polar acorn]

Faster than asking for a screenshot of the console and the hierarchy and the inspector and all of the things individually

Showing nothing of interest also means that it eliminates possibilities as well

A null result is still a result

[polar acorn]

This isn't what I asked for

[queen adder]

the console is just flooded with errors

[rough granite]

love when people just ignore your help when they are the ones that ask for it 🤣

[queen adder]

its all just irrelevant errors

[polar acorn]

This still isn't what I asked for

Although it is part of it I guess

[rough granite]

errors are still errors and should be fixed they affect everything wether you want them to or not

[queen adder]

I cant show the editor

[polar acorn]

why

[rich adder]

they can still be relevant depending where code is called

[queen adder]

they are caused because of this scene thing

for some reason all the gameobjects in my game manager get deleted

when i open the scene for a second time

[rich adder]

you realize we don't know your exact setup this is why ALL context is relevant ?

not mind readers..

[rough granite]

you are giving the bare minimum for help (minna)

[queen adder]

I just need to know how to properly unload a scene/load a brand new scene

Google hasnt helped

[wintry quarry]

What did Google say?

[rich adder]

unloading a scene is only relevant if they are being loaded Additive

[queen adder]

pretty much what nav just said

[rich adder]

when you do LoadScene they automatically unload previous scene

[queen adder]

thats the thing, it doesnt

[rough granite]

this would do just that scenes shouldn't save unless you got all of it in DontDestroyOnLoad

[polar acorn]

So, show the whole window after loading the scene

[queen adder]

and i dont understand why

[polar acorn]

So we can check

[wintry quarry]

What isn't getting unloaded?

[polar acorn]

I don't know what is or is not relevant. Even if I find nothing, that eliminates possibilities and therefore makes debugging easier

so send a screenshot

[queen adder]

some random points i instanciate

[rich adder]

the only scenes that don't get unloaded by design is DontDestoyOnLoad and anything in it

[wintry quarry]

What are "points" exactly?

[queen adder]

just spheres

glowing spheres

[wintry quarry]

With... Scripts?

[queen adder]

ill check if they are somehow instanciated in donotdestroyonload

[worn nymph]

does the read/write flag in import settings cause any overhead if I call UploadMeshData after making changes? Like does just having the option of mesh data on the cpu cause overhead?

[queen adder]

no just glowing spheres

[rough granite]

why are you so secretive

[polar acorn]

Or.... you could provide the screenshot which would show if anything's in DDOL

[rough granite]

we aren't here to steal your game

[polar acorn]

There is a bit of overhead if it's read/write enabled because it needs to keep it somewhere accessible. If the engine knows it's never going to change, it can cache the data and not have to go check for changes periodically. It's not a huge drain, but it's worth keeping disabled unless you need it

[bright zodiac]

Most structs used for math in unity are partial structs. In this case, make another partial struct called Vector3 in a separate file (in the same asm) then add this in it ofcourse you need to adjust it, the float here just an example

public static Vector3 operator *(float a, Vector3 b) => new Vector3(a * b.x, a * b.y, a * b.z);

[queen adder]

okay yeah their parent is in donotdestroyonload

for some reason

oh its a static instance

[polar acorn]

Cool something I would have spotted immediately if you had provided the screenshot when I asked for it like 20 minutes ago

[worn nymph]

is there any way to basically make some changes once at the start and then treat it like read/write is off? I need to dynamically adjust some UVs but I dont want read/write for most gameobjects in the scene for obvious reasons.

[polar acorn]

Nah, by then it's too late. It's related to where in the build the asset goes. It's not a huge drain, if you have to edit it then you have to edit it

[rich adder]

a static instance and DDOL aren't necessarily related.. something ends up in DDOL if you explicitly tell it to in code

[polar acorn]

Or Instantiate it with a DDOL object as a parent, which seems to be what happened

[queen adder]

uh I haven't...

ill check if someone else has since its a collab project

[rich adder]

its easy to find.. search all scripts that have method DontDestoyOnLoad

[queen adder]

okay yeah i give up

this is after i load back into the scene

Gameobjects are missing for no reason

[polar acorn]

GameRoot is in DDOL. Anything instantiated with that as the parent are going to be in DDOL as well

[rough granite]

is this script in the GameRoot?

[queen adder]

yes

[polar acorn]

Now try it again but spell "Destroy" correctly

[rough granite]

well than that's why you need to re-reference any variables like the player if that script is moved from one scene to another and that other object isn't

[queen adder]

yeah but i dont want it to be in dontdestroyonload

and i dont understand why it is

[rough granite]

can you share every component that the GameRoot has and the scripts for them (if they aren't a unity component)?

[queen adder]

the only components with scripts in it are just cameras that have this by default

ambianceplayer is just an audiosource

[polar acorn]

Are you using any scripts that are sub-classes of something other than MonoBehaviour? Those parent classes might call DDOL and it wouldn't actually be in your code base

[queen adder]

nope just monobehavior

[rough granite]

is the GameRoot there before runtime or is it called on runtime?

[queen adder]

its just in the scene

a gameobject with the script in it

[rich adder]

did you search entire solution / project btw instead of 1 file

oh dam discord just updated lol there is more..

[rough granite]

If you change the search to be the whole solution instead of just the active document does this change?

[queen adder]

how do i

oh nvm

[rough granite]

Not delete, Destroy

[queen adder]

oh

i did find something

[rich adder]

that certainly is a DDOL

[queen adder]

yep

i love collab projects!!! so fun!!!

esp when the other person uses chatgpt for all their code

thank you

ive been trying to fix this for so many hours

wasnt really supposed to share anything because weird uni regulations but

whatever

[rough granite]

ah makes more sense just gotta hope your uni doesn't stalk these servers

[queen adder]

They probably don't

Hopefully

ty again tho

[inland gazelle]

Hi! I hope this is the right place to ask for help

im trying to build a very simpel shooter game as a final project and navmeshes dont want to cooperate

[rich adder]

in what sense ? also this is a coding channel

[inland gazelle]

I thought since theres coding involved it would be ok

keep getting this error, even though I though i set everything correcetly

[rich adder]

seems your agent isn't on a navmesh

[inland gazelle]

the block in question has a navmesh agent component, and i see the blue nav mesh

and the block is intersecting the blue navmesh

[rich adder]

show the exact setup with screenshots

[inland gazelle]

(if there is a better channel, please let me know

[rough granite]

does the block has a navmesh agent component?

[inland gazelle]

yes,!

I have the agent size here (its a 'titan', so large)

this here is the actual scene

[polar acorn]

Are you sure you're calling SetDestination on the object in the scene, and not a prefab?

[rich adder]

before calling SetDestination, can you see if the agent snaps onto the surface

[inland gazelle]

(playerpos is specficically the position of the player's rigidbody)

[inland gazelle]

Don't think so, it just kinda floats to the ground due to gravity

[rich adder]

are you mixing rigidbody and navmesh agent 🤔

[inland gazelle]

(apologizes for the rampant restore ups)

[valid hearth]

how do yall learn script cuz the youtube tutorials do not help

[inland gazelle]

well, the destination is set to the position of a rigidbody, yeah. is there something else i should do?

[rich adder]

you have to learn the basics and build your knowledge up

[rough granite]

i learnt from a single class (well a school semester) on java :)

[rich adder]

Im not talking about the destination, I'm talking about the agent thats meant to move

[wooden hill]

try !learn and always experiment on your own, not just blindly follow tutorials
might wanna look into learning just c# too

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[inland gazelle]

it does have both... where would I have mixed it up?

[rich adder]

generally you should not mix these two.. unless it was frozen / kinematic

[inland gazelle]

i see, well i removed it and it does not snap by any means

[rough granite]

no???

[rich adder]

ones trying to use physics while the other is snappin onto a plane

[rough granite]

fair :/

[rich adder]

yeah they are two components fighting for moving the transform, not a good result comes out of it (unless you're frozen constraints / kinematic)

[rough granite]

might be cause im using a 2d rigidbody but for my use case it seems to run fine

[rich adder]

you're mixing 2D rb with a 3d navmesh ?

[rough granite]

yup through an asset i found awhile back on github

[inland gazelle]

oh this is new; i tried baking again and now it treats the guy as terrain?

[rich adder]

you have to put the enemy layer out of the included layers of baking for navmesh surface

[inland gazelle]

h-how do i do that?

[rich adder]

if its top down probably not noticeable because of depth. 2D rigidbodies are stuck on a specific X/Y plane they dont move back / forward

[inland gazelle]

im assuming im going into areas and making a new thing here?

[rich adder]

no on the navmesh surface itself there is the ObjectCollection section, you exclude the enemy layer there. you have to put enemies in a specific Layer on the gameobject

[rough granite]

yeah it's a top down space game where the enemies are "floaty" so the physics is wanted and works as intended

[rich adder]

I mean its bruteforcing it lol cause if its not locked its still sketch

[inland gazelle]

i dont see that option, maybe its a newer thign? im ysing 2022 unity

[rich adder]

do you have a navmesh surface component ?

[inland gazelle]

i see this stuff

[rough granite]

do you see where it says include layers here

[rich adder]

oof this is the old method

[rough granite]

change that to not have the enemy layer, no?

[inland gazelle]

haha yeah, sorry. my prof said auto -10% if we dont use his version

[inland gazelle]

where?

[rich adder]

hmm you should still download the AI package so you can get the proper components and get rid of the global bake

[rough granite]

do you not have a navigation surface? never used version 2022

[inland gazelle]

I went window ai navigation

then just went over and hit bake

when it opened up a tab next to the inspector

[rich adder]

thats the old global bake they retired

[rough granite]

odd way to do it, i would do what nav said

[rich adder]

its under Object in that case / the dropdown in the navigation static of the gameobject

[inland gazelle]

ahh yes i see it

so I do need to add another layer under Areas?

but then what number do I put? I dont get that whole system the tutorial made it sound easy....

[rich adder]

I say you should just get the AI package instead of using the old bake
and use navigation surface component

[inland gazelle]

(btw, if it helps, i can vc anywhere

[rich adder]

add package by namecom.unity.ai.navigation unless it shows up in PM already

[inland gazelle]

cause regardless of the bake it still doesnt believe that tgeres ab active agent on the nav mesh

which there is so i dont get that

[inland gazelle]

ok, new question (easier i hope)

i made this titan into a prefab, and I want it to always track the player, but i cant drop the player into the variable when its a prefab

it says Player None but I cant drop the player in the scene in there

[rich adder]

if you have an object that spawns the prefab in the scene you can have that hold the reference to the player then pass the reference that way through a method

or its acceptable to do it with FindFirstObjectOfType and find player component in awake, though not as clean as above suggestion

[inland gazelle]

but if im just dragging them into the scene myself, then i just assign the player to all of them individually?

yeah ok ill just do it individually

im too tired to make this work tbh LMAO

[rich adder]

You could do that sure if they are already in the scene but you cannot assign scene components to a prefab itself

once they are plopped into a scene they are technically an Instance of that prefab already

[inland gazelle]

gooot it

[rich adder]

that doesnt mean you can't mass select them and assign them at once , less tedious at least

[inland gazelle]

oh! perfect!

[obsidian kite]

I just switched from pc renderer in urp to mobile renderer since im porting my game to mobile, but i have one problem: my baked shadows now have terrible quality, like worse than realtime shadows. I tried to change numerous settings, but nothing made them better :( please help

[rich adder]

#1390346776804069396

this is a coding channel..

[obsidian kite]

alr sorry

[sick arrow]

is anyone good at terrain

[rich adder]

this is a coding channel..

#⛰️┃terrain-3d

[sick arrow]

ya i posted something in #⛰️┃terrain-3d but no one has responded to me

[rich adder]

ok then don't crosspost..especially in a channel that has 0 relation to terrain..

asking about a specific asset no less

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[naive plank]

SteamFriends.ActivateGameOverlay("Friends");, anyone got an idea why it opens the steam overlay AND the friends window of the steam application, using steamworks

[inland gazelle]

hi im trying to get a UI button to work?

but the function doesnt pop up ont he button menu

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show the object that had the menu script that you've referenced there?

[inland gazelle]

uhh idk? i just added the menu script as a component to the button

[ivory bobcat]

You need to drag the object in the scene with the menu component into that runtime only selection field

[inland gazelle]

I think i got it

let me test

ok it works but now i need scene switching heop

LMFAO my correction for 'help' was blocked

[rich adder]

just edit the message instead of sending just 1 message to add a correction

[inland gazelle]

fair enough

im getting this

[rich adder]

do as it says

error is pretty descriptive on how to fix it

[ivory bobcat]

Check with the instruction given in the error.

[naive plank]

You need to add it in the scene build scene heirarchy

[inland gazelle]

oh is that it? i thought that only worked if you were ctually building it

[inland gazelle]

damn my teacher did not explain this well

ok ok got it now

thanks, ill prob be back

[naive plank]

Okey, I need advice, I have a SceneFade object, an image used for fading the screen when game is started, I cant put I network identity on it since when returning to main menu, the object will be disabled. I also need the sevrer to call clientrpc to fade all connected users screen. How should I do

[rich adder]

your Visual Studio does not look configured here..

[inland gazelle]

oh yeah i kept forgetting to do that

[rich adder]

get oon it , its pretty useful when coding and will avoid most typo issues

also helps locate functions, properties and components/classes

[rich adder]

why would UI ever be a network item 🤔

UI is local client thing

[naive plank]

Yes, it's solely for syncing the fading of the screen when host starts the game. I really dont have an idea how do to it otherwise lol

a custom packet with a fade trigger?

[rich adder]

make the server do an RPC to tell all clients to fade their screen in

[sour fulcrum]

the host starting the game is a networked thing

things that aren't networked can react to that happening

because it will happen for everyone

[rich adder]

literally the whole point of ClientRPCs

"Hey guys, do this"

[sour fulcrum]

a majority of stuff in games does not have to be directly networked if they are built in a way where each client does the exact same thing the exact same way, which usually is chaining off more generic networked stuff

[drowsy flare]

Can I use Dynamic rigidbody2d to block sprites from moving through each other (works now), but not doing the physics like pushing each other around?

[naive plank]

yeah, its just the only classes inheriting from NetworkBehaviour is the player objects them self right now. Figured it's a little ugly to put it in those scripts

[rich adder]

for that yea..it be silly to have a UI fade image be a NetworkBehaviour

[sour fulcrum]

Ideally you'd probably have some gamemanager/scenemanager esque networkbehaviour as a singleton that has an event that fires when your loading a new scene (a network "synced" event). then your ui stuff can justl isten to that

the event invoke is synced therefore anything running off it is synced

[naive plank]

That would be a decent option

[sour fulcrum]

you'll wanna do that kinda thing like everywhere

[naive plank]

Though I think it might still cause the same problem for me, unless it's dont destroy on load

[rich adder]

how are you moving them ? maybe make sure they have enough mass

[sour fulcrum]

For scene related stuff i'd strongly suggest having some "globalmanager" esque thing thats DDOL or in a similar scene yeah

its not bad practice or anything

[naive plank]

So you'd suggest a dont destroy on load SceneManager object?

[sour fulcrum]

Semi personal preference but yeah I tend to have a GlobalManager or GameManager networkbehaviour singleton that lives in DDOL that handles broad stuff like scene management then something like a RoundManager (or GameManager if i used GlobalManager naming previously) for managing a given level or session

[naive plank]

Yeah, GameSession, that's something a was thinking of implementing for managing session-wide stuff, like money or thing like that

[sour fulcrum]

one thing to note regarding this kinda advice is what you do want explicitly saved/synced in NetworkBehaviours and NetworkVariables are things you'd want synced when someone joins a ongoing session, if that makes sense

since the big benefit to networkobjects/behavours/variables is by default they auto-sync/create for people joining

[naive plank]

yeah, that Im aware of, I'm still fairly new to networking, but I have some understanding of the basic concepts

I named my script to SceneManager, got billions of errors lol, forgot it was already the name of the built in lol

[inland gazelle]

hey, whats the easiest way to get a method from one file into another file?

I just want something to go to the menu upon death and midnight is rapidly approachin

[rich adder]

references
https://unity.huh.how/references

Serialized usually the preferred way when possible

[sour fulcrum]

This is a common misconception for beginners but in programming you don't communicate between "files" or "scripts", you communicate between "instances" of them.

if you need to ask your neighbour for spare sugar you would be walking to the house that's built next door, not the paper blueprint of the house

[naive plank]

you could put a static reference to the script "Instance", thats how I access them easily

[rich adder]

thats not always a good thing to do

static is misused a lot because of it

[naive plank]

How you mean?

[inland gazelle]

GOT IT WOO

[rich adder]

other than singletons, there is a lot of misuse of static because they don't know how to properly DI between objects

[inland gazelle]

now i hvae an hour and 30 mins to get a pause menu and then im done with this semester

[rich adder]

which way did you do it ?