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[naive pawn]

so you might be able to fix by just updating to latest 2022.3

(unfortunately my project is a few months old and has version pinned)

[magic pagoda]

Ill give it a try, thanks!

[earnest wind]

i want to know something, if ther ewould be something like a lot of bools, how would i go on to globably make them public/private when in need for example?

i understand changing each one, but is there some c# thing i dont know?

[naive pawn]

Not reproducible with: 2022.3.61f1
but.. that's the one i'm on.. what...?

well they said they couldn't reproduce on mac silicon either.. and it is pretty transient, so...

[magic pagoda]

not reproducable with?

[naive pawn]

it means they didn't find the issue on that version (meaning it was introduced in a later version)

[magic pagoda]

sorry Im really tired rn and I may not get a few things ahah--

[polar acorn]

Just try to use them and if it says that it's inaccessible let the IDE auto complete change it

[magic pagoda]

ohh

[naive pawn]

but i mean.. this issue is transient so maybe it just didn't happen....

peak cope rn lmao

[earnest wind]

huh???

no im saying like

[magic pagoda]

it would be funny if that was true though. like, an "FU in particular" moment since Im a single patch beyond that

[naive pawn]

you would generally use properties for exposing those

[earnest wind]

being able to make the private/public

[naive pawn]

yeah it was found in .62

[earnest wind]

is there any docs for that

[naive pawn]

look up "c# properties" and find the result from microsoft

also, if you want to change multiple lines, most ides support multicursor

try looking that up for your specific ide

[polar acorn]

You already have them private. If you end up trying to use them elsewhere, your IDE can make them public for you

[earnest wind]

nono thats not what i mean, i mean something like going into a "debug" mode, and when u do that then all of these fields are shown

(shown in editor via serialize field ig)

[polar acorn]

[SerializeField]

[magic pagoda]

@naive pawn

welp.

[naive pawn]

oh

[magic pagoda]

why unity...

[naive pawn]

you can just use debug mode in the inspector for that

so you don't have to actually serialize them

[magic pagoda]

why must you do this to me... uhh idk 2023 time probably

[naive pawn]

2023 is alpha/beta only, the public release of 2023 is 6

[magic pagoda]

ah

soooo should I upgrade or downgrade-

[west sonnet]

I have an object that has a script on it that references several objects in my scene. Whenever that object is added to my scene, I have to manually drag and down the references via the inspector. This is a problem as I want to instantiate the object. Is there a way for me to have it so that I don't have to manually add the references each time?

[naive pawn]

if it's the same objects that only exist in that one place, you could use singletons

or you could receive the Reset message to initially set the reference with like, Find or something

[west sonnet]

Yes, but some of them are also references to other scripts on other gameobjects

[naive pawn]

probably not Find

[naive pawn]

not sure why that prevents them from being singletons

[west sonnet]

I want the player to be able to change weapons but instantiated different weapon prefabs. Would Singletons work for something like that?

Like, the player finds the gun on the floor, picks it up and equips it

[naive pawn]

could probably use SOs for that

[west sonnet]

What are SOs?

[naive pawn]

scriptable objects

have the pickup define what weapon it is

[west sonnet]

Okay, interesting idea. I've never used Scriptable objects before. Trying to learning how they work

So, say I had a weapon slot on my player, I could use a Scriptable Object to define what weapon it is, and it's features when it's picked up

[low path]

Theyre basically inspector viewable/editable objects whose life isn’t tied to the execution instance. Like a prefab without a gameobject. So they kind of just store data for you and can be viewed / edited in the inspector.

[west sonnet]

How could I use them to help me achieve what I want?

[low path]

Have a class of weapontype that inherits from scriptableobject

Then you can make a bunch of those, give them names and data and whatever

And they define your weapon types

[spring skiff]

A variable name, straight from hell:

TextComponent_FromInputField[Parameter_AreYouSureDelete_WarningPanelSCRIPT.SHAREVAR_WelcherDeleteButtonVonDennGanzenSaveslotsWurdeBetaetigt].text = ""; //UI 

its long and the only part that is colored are these "" symbols.

[polar acorn]

Shortest German Word Award:

[spring skiff]

Do you understand it?

[polar acorn]

No I just know that German has very long words

I don't even actually know if that's German

but it kinda looks like it. I suppose it could be Dutch?

[spring skiff]

It actually is.
My "special" and weird methode to name variables in Germlish.

[west sonnet]

Is it possible to define where an object is located in space using scriptable objects?

I have muzzle flash that I want to always be on the tips of my guns but the guns are different sizes

[polar acorn]

SOs don't have positions. Ideally, your muzzle flash would be at the position of a specific child object that is part of each gun prefab

The SOs probably wouldn't have anything to do with it

[west sonnet]

Can I load in a prefab using SOs?

[naive pawn]

sure

but the main point of the SO i'm referring to in this case is to store data

[polar acorn]

Yeah, your SO could reference the prefabs just fine and your object could get the reference from there

[west sonnet]

So if I understood correctly, I'm making an SO which I can then use to define each weapon, then they can be called from a script?

[tiny crag]

digiholic i tried to understand what to do with the information i got earlier regarding the prefab existing before the manager object

i couldnt

so i took a break

[hushed granite]

may someone help me pls?
i got this issue in my console after a long time scripting my npc dialogue system, but the thing is, before i start making this the whole player movement script was working perfectly and the body type is Dynamic so there is no reason to that happen

[tiny crag]

i cant establish a connection between the prefab and the manager SO in start() {

[polar acorn]

What is Player.cs line 61?

[hushed granite]

void OnMove()
{
rig.MovePosition(rig.position + direction * speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
}

[polar acorn]

Add this line right above the MovePosition:

if (rig.bodyType == RigidbodyType2D.Static) Debug.Log($"GameObject {rig.gameObject.name} has a Static Rigidbody!");

Then run it again and look at the log right above that warning

[polar acorn]

So, at the time this runs, Props has a Static Rigidbody

[west sonnet]

How can I apply a Scriptable Object to a gameobject?

So the player picks up a weapoon, how can I change the values in my Player_weapon script to make the game behave differently?

[polar acorn]

You'd create a variable of that SO's type and drag in the asset file you've created

And then you can access that SO's data from that reference

[west sonnet]

Do you mean make a variable of the SO script or .asset file?

[polar acorn]

Make a variable of the SO's type

and then drag in the .asset file into it

[hushed granite]

props is a game obj with a tile palette to place some structure on the map, so isnt it supposed to be static?

[polar acorn]

If it's supposed to be static, you probably shouldn't be calling MovePosition on it

[hushed granite]

the player mov script was not even supposed to do something with them

[west sonnet]

I'm not sure what you mean by SO's type

[hushed granite]

its not

[polar acorn]

public class __________ : ScriptableObject

[polar acorn]

It is though

that's what the log was for

You put it right before you called MovePosition on rig, and logged the name of rig.

That turned out to be Props

So, you're calling MovePosition on Props

[west sonnet]

Can I rename my .asset file or will that create issues?

[polar acorn]

You can call it whatever you want

[west sonnet]

Since I'll have a different .asset file for each weapon, I'd like to name them after each weapon

[polar acorn]

It's still the same type

[west sonnet]

When trying to assign a MeshFilter to my SO asset file, it says "Type Mismatch"

[low path]

Didn’t some guy make all his variables out of scriptable objects so they could be assigned in the inspector? I think there’s a talk about that.

[polar acorn]

Assets cannot reference objects in the scene

[naive pawn]

that's terrifying

[grand snow]

No that shows up when the old value is incompatible with the current field type

e.g. Changing GameObject to Texture2D

[hushed granite]

i just checked and i had the player script in the props gameobj

tysm

[naive pawn]

that also shows up with a scene object in a prefab

[polar acorn]

It also shows up if you try to drag a scene reference into an asset

[grand snow]

huh well thats not a good description is it

[polar acorn]

It's somewhat recent that it does that I believe. It used to just silently fail

[grand snow]

Doesnt it usually just do nothing or change to None?

[polar acorn]

It used to do nothing

[grand snow]

Im stuck on 2022 so perhaps i've never seen the new way 😆

[polar acorn]

But now it shows "Type Mismatch"

[west sonnet]

Is it possible to load a prefab from an SO?

[polar acorn]

Sure, Assets can reference other Assets just fine

[low path]

It was an interesting idea…. Instead of doing some coding shenanigans to hook up variables to ui, you could just drag and drop the SO into a UI element

[polar acorn]

Just not scene objects

[west sonnet]

How can I reference a prefab in script?

[low path]

It’s a gameobject

[polar acorn]

It was a GDC thing, they used SOs to store "global" data for a game session. It's a pretty old one though

[low path]

And you need to make it public or serialized it. And then drop it in in the inspector

[polar acorn]

Make a variable of the type you want from the prefab and drag it in

Any component on the root object of the prefab is fair game

it'll still spawn the whole prefab

[grand snow]

Today in my ted talk i'm going to show how I horribly over complicated my game for no reasonable benefit

[polar acorn]

By "pretty old" I mean, like, predating UGUI old

So you didn't have access to things like UnityEvents and other things that could actually do this reasonably

[grand snow]

you can easily make do without unity events with alternate design

but i get those without experience may not be able to implement such things

[polar acorn]

This was a time when UI needed to be done with 100% code

[grand snow]

There were third party solutions back then, I started using unity pre ugui

[polar acorn]

Being able to assign anything in the inspector for the UI required such roundabout solutions

[grand snow]

hm well i make do without using unity event subs in the inspector for my UI

[low path]

Was it really that old of a talk I don’t even remember…

[west sonnet]

Okay so let's say my player picks up a weapon, how do I change the values on the script on my player to those that are defined in my scriptable object?

[low path]

I think you need a basic unity lesson

[naive pawn]

you generally would not, you'd just use the values the SO provides

[west sonnet]

I know I can reference the scriptable object in my player script (I think), but what about when I pick up a different weapon?

[naive pawn]

you would reassign the SO reference

[west sonnet]

But how do I input those values into the script?

[naive pawn]

you don't

[low path]

Like just asking a bunch of questions here is gonna be less efficient than trying to build something that forces you to learn the basic knowledge

[west sonnet]

I'm trying to build 😭

[polar acorn]

You'd have whatever object represents that pickup reference an SO asset that holds the data about what weapon that is

[low path]

I kind of feel like SOs are intermediate knowledge that at least require the basics to be understood first

[rotund root]

why's the button not working only on this scene? I copied the prefab on all the other scenes and they all work normally
https://streamable.com/29zvei

[nimble apex]

the difficult part is not setting up SO , is to have a container object , a structure that can utilize SO

[rough granite]

Could you share the !code

[eternal falcon]

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[rotund root]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
public class ChangeScene : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void MoveToScene(int sceneID)
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneID);
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

Is the button not reacting at all to your mouse? Like no color transition etc?

Can you show the inspector for the event system in the not working scene?

[rough granite]

This isn't that hard? Or at least wasn't for me when switching from public instance classes to SO's

[nimble apex]

the whole workflow is easy to intermediate i believe

[rough granite]

Also sorry not to judge but you're swapping scenes for settings?

[polar acorn]

One of the following most likely:

1. Blocked by something invisible
2. No Graphics Raycaster on the canvas
3. No raycast target graphic on the button

[rough granite]

Yeah i think i would agree someone that's got no clue how OOP works would struggle.

[rotund root]

no reacting at all & inspector of the event system
i'm swapping scenes to show that the same prefab is working on other scenes

[wintry quarry]

What's this base input script

[nimble apex]

before i learnt SO , i tend to make monster objects one prefab by one prefab , setting up all stats , meshes , materials one by one

but after i learnt SO , i will make only one prefab as container , and a lot of SO to carry each monsters data

[rotund root]

idk it's there when i click create scene, it's there for all other scenes

[polar acorn]

See what shows up in that window at the bottom under "Selected" when you hover over the button

[wintry quarry]

Can you check if the input module in the other scenes on the event system is the same?

[nimble apex]

and then on init() , i will extract the data and apply to the object

[rotund root]

thanks guys, turns out it's just the text box covering it

(idk why it works on other scene normally but it is what it is i guess)

[barren river]

hi

[remote vault]

hey dude

could someone explain this issue im quite confused

[polar acorn]

Here you can see a list of every method and property available on the GameObject type.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.html

As you can see, there's nothing named text on it

[remote vault]

alr thanks dude

[cunning bramble]

yo guys i am new here on this discord and i dont find and Helping channel so i have an question

[rich adder]

!ask 👇

[eternal falcon]

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[cunning bramble]

Okay thank you

[devout socket]

Pardon me, I have a question
I have a player controlled by a character controller; I want to implement inertia into their movement (so that, when the player changes movement direction, they keep going in the same direction they were going, decelerate while their direction changes, then accelerate normally)
I have already implemented acceleration/deceleration with C#; how can I implement movement changing inertia of the type I described? (Preferably without using a Rigidbody component, as I hear that using one of those with a character controller causes them to conflict with each other or something)

[polar acorn]

You're right that they conflict, but since it seems like you want some physics-based movement you should probably use a Rigidbody instead of a CharacterController

[devout socket]

Perhaps you're right
Before I switch, though, do Rigidbodies support features like stepping up onto short surfaces and not rolling down slopes below a certain angle?

[polar acorn]

No, so I guess you'll need to decide if you'd rather deal with manually handling stairs or manually computing intertia

Since you can't really get anything that does both

[rocky canyon]

u just keep up with ur momentum.. when u release the input it takes the last velocity and lerps it to 0

my CC has momentum + sliding i can show u some code if ur interested in how i did it

[devout socket]

Yes, that would be helpful

[rocky canyon]

k gimme 1 sec

[floral garden]

!code

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[rocky canyon]

alrighty.. so im sure ur aware ur only supposed to use the Move() function of the CC once per frame...

soo what ends up happening is you construct a finalVelocity and put that into the move function..

meanwhile ur modifying that finalVelocity all the time..

if ur putting inputs into it.. it calculates that.. adds it to it it..

if ur not using the inputs it takes the last velocity it has and lerps it down to 0 by a smoothing or dampening value

for mine is basically 3 vectors (a grounded vector, a airbourne vector and the jump)

the reason theres 3 is because i have different dampening values for each.. (say ur grounded ur momentum stops pretty quickly.. but if ur in the air.. its alot slower) this allows me to kinda change directions in the air.. or slow down my forward velocity if i overjump or something

[rocky canyon]

https://paste.myst.rs/zlgc4ni7

basically i have Lerps (which are wrong to be honest) i should probably end up using MoveTowards() -> 0 instead

but when im not giving it input its constantly taking the Vector i last had and slowly moving it towards 0

same for being in the air..

those two vectors are just added together and given to the Move() function of the CC

soo i can control them individually..

you can watch the vectors in the inspector.. and see how its working.. (while im giving it input its basically my movement speed..) but as soon as i release the keys.. it goes from where it was when i released -> to 0

[devout socket]

I think I get what you're saying, but if I do, then I noticed a problem
If your code "constantly tak[es] the vector [you] last had and slowly mov[es] it towards 0" when "[you're] not giving it input", then it wouldn't help with my problem - I want to make it so that, when I change direction immediately after going in another direction, the momentum carries the player in the old direction before slowly changing to the new one, making the movement less "snappy" and more realistic; if your code only lerps the velocity towards zero when not inputting direction, then it's functionally identical to the working deceleration code I already made

[rocky canyon]

i get what ur saying.. but that can be changed to work out...

right now my airbourne vectors and stuff does that

if im running forward and i jump.. and i instantly press backwards.. my input first has to cancel out all that forward momentum.. b4 beginning to move in teh backwards direction

airVector = Vector3.Lerp(
    airVector,                  // ← your *existing* momentum
    airVector + airControlVector, // ← new input stacked on top
    characterSettings.airControlStrength * Time.deltaTime
);```

airVector That’s your previous frame’s momentum.

Every update, you don’t throw it away — you start from it.

[devout socket]

By "momentum" here, we mean velocity?

[rocky canyon]

yes velocity..

see when im dampening it ^ im actually creating a new vector for the new input.. and adding that onto the old vector

and then when i become grounded i zero it back out to zero to start over again

like here

this allows me to have a jump that i can control but not entirely.. i dont want it to instantly snap the other direction.. u must overcome the old vector first...

that said... my code isnt perfect.. i just figured it'd give u some hints or tips on how to do urs...

[devout socket]

Thank you
Let me try implementing that

[rocky canyon]

good luck friend 🍀

im actually gonna try to clean up my code a bit as well.. now that i have it open and ready

but its basically all about caching vectors. inputs.. keeping what u need discarding what u dont.. and combining pieces to get ur Final end vector

[pliant coyote]

Hello everyone, I am trying to create a spell that spawns a boulder that rolls and does damage in the battle scene. When I just put the prefab in the overworld it rolls just fine, althought when I try to use it as an ability its not rolling and giving me an error
*** BOULDER START: Initialize() never called, using defaults. ***
UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning (object)
BoulderProjectile/<WaitForInitialization>d__43:MoveNext () (at Assets/BoulderProjectile.cs:219)
UnityEngine.SetupCoroutine:InvokeMoveNext (System.Collections.IEnumerator,intptr)

is this something that someone may be able to help me with in here?

[polar acorn]

This appears to be a custom message you've written into your script. Look at where you're printing it, and check what the conditions are that caused it to print

[rich adder]

probably copied without knowing what its doing

[rocky canyon]

its def a Debug log you wrote 😉

[pliant coyote]

I am using claude to write the script am I cooked?

[rocky canyon]

lol.. well-done

[pliant coyote]

its worked fine for everything else actually, just not able to fix this issue 🙁

damn clanker

[polar acorn]

Yes

[rocky canyon]

ya, you'll have that...

the more complex u get the more confused it gets

[polar acorn]

You should actually know what the code you're putting in your project actually does

[rocky canyon]

when the skynet transition happens it'll be getting guys to code in trojans and viruses into their own codebase

[pliant coyote]

Haha I hear you, this is a side project ive been working on. I have tried to learn coding and still not at that level yet.

[rocky canyon]

i got an idea.. ask Claude wtf it did..

give it the code.. the error.. and tell it what we just told u

see how it responds 😄

[rocky canyon]

just takes time.. and trial and error

[rich adder]

small steps, build the knowledge up. All it takes it time and commitment

[pliant coyote]

I have 30 times literally for 5 hours, asked chat gpt, asked grok

[sour fulcrum]

the lesson here is you wasted 5 hours eating slop

[rocky canyon]

then yea ur probably cooked... u might can pretend u didnt use AI and have someone help u debug it properly..

[sour fulcrum]

that 5 hours could have been spent actually learning

[rocky canyon]

but AI has a way of completely fubar'in itself 😅

[pliant coyote]

Hey at least I was being honest lol

Didn't realize it was frowned upon

[rocky canyon]

true..

its not really frowned upon as a tool.

but once u start using it as a tutor.. and not knowing how to troubleshoot what it tells u

ur indeed cookin urself

[sour fulcrum]

its absolutely frowned upon as a tool

[pliant coyote]

I have fixed alot of issues myself, just this one I haven't figured out yet

[primal trench]

how do i access this? in code

[rocky canyon]

meh.. i disagree but each their own

[sour fulcrum]

it's literally banned as a way of giving people help here in this server

[rich adder]

myButton.OnClick.AddListener

[rocky canyon]

you press the + (chose the script/gamebobject) and use Public Functions

[pliant coyote]

helping for ai created script is banned?

[rocky canyon]

or add listeners ye

[primal trench]

thanks!!!!

[sour fulcrum]

helping via providing ai generated solutions

but asking for help with ai generated code often is met with tumblweeds as people are pretty uninterested in helping fix code you dont understand

[rocky canyon]

no its not.. if ur willy nilly copying and pasting yes... but again as a TOOL.. if u validate and confirm its results

[sour fulcrum]

this is not true

[rich adder]

its a waste of everyones time to debug AI generated code if you don't even know the basics though
every solution/explanation would be lost in translation

[rocky canyon]

theres nothing wrong with using it.. ive seen vertex say the same.. (if u post w/o knowing its true.. or confirming it actually works.. yea thats bad)

[sour fulcrum]

people constantly use ai without confirming how it works

that is how people use it

are you passively or actively ignorant of that fact

[pliant coyote]

I apologize, did not mean to open a can of worms, just needed some assistance

[rocky canyon]

im just pointing out a blanket ban saying yea AI is completely banned.. is passively or actively being ignorant as well

[sour fulcrum]

the solution is you really just need to learn tbh

no shade

[rocky canyon]

no shade indeed.. i dont disagree with that

[sour fulcrum]

ai usage like that will just rot your educational growth

[rocky canyon]

lol.. ur good 👍

[rich adder]

who knows where it even copied that LogWarning and why it never told you it might fail and how

apparently it expected an Initialized() method to run but never did , whatever that means

[rocky canyon]

can u show the code? im kinda curious on what it actually wrote

[pliant coyote]

Just curious, is my whole game just going to be shit because I use claude? or is there any hope whatsoever?

[rocky canyon]

start trying to understand what it is ur writing now

[rich adder]

there hope if you slowly ditch the ai slop

[polar acorn]

Writing code is easy.
Reading code to figure out how to fix a bug you didn't write is significantly harder.

[rich adder]

its a steeper curve in the beginning but after a while you're literally writing mostly the same code, just used differently

[polar acorn]

By AI Generating code you've essentially ensured you'll spend 10x as long trying to fix it than it would have taken to just write it correct in the first place

[pliant coyote]

I have been using AI to explain it if that helps

[sour fulcrum]

It doesn’t tbh

[polar acorn]

If it was capable of explaining it it wouldn't have made the problems in the first place

[rich adder]

it will be like using a calculator to always do 5 x 5 but eventually you forget how to even do such a simple thing in your head

[polar acorn]

Next time ask it how may b's are in "blueberry"

[solemn bobcat]

Not "ensured," but yeah, the odds are quite high.

[rocky canyon]

lmao.. is that still a thing?

[polar acorn]

It is now even more confident there are 3.

[rocky canyon]

epic 🔥

[rich adder]

bluebbery

problem solved

[sour fulcrum]

The good news is if you genuinely did spend 5 hours trying to bruteforce ai generation that's probably a good sign that you can shift that effort into real troubleshooting and programming

[rocky canyon]

how many bs are in blueberry

logical 😅

[pliant coyote]

Yes I am on version 33 of the script

[pliant coyote]

I wake up at 5:30 to work on project before work

[rocky canyon]

lol.. someone manually had to go in there and change it 💯

[sour fulcrum]

I have faith you can skill up friend 🙏

[rocky canyon]

thats what i try to do..

[rich adder]

hit up c# courses like the gym. at least an hour a day you'll be making good progress

[rocky canyon]

after work im just burnt out

[rocky canyon]

some of those phone apps are pretty cool at teaching the basics

[pliant coyote]

I have 4 kids we just had our 4th just no time after work have a small break right now

[rocky canyon]

u can learn about strings while taking a big sh*t

[rocky canyon]

lol.. lord help you 🙂

im an uncle.. thats good enuff for me

[polar acorn]

Entirely possible. This went viral about 2 weeks ago so they had time to probably hard-code in a fix for this specific question.
https://bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3lvtxbtexg226

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I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

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Bluesky · Aug 8, 2025, 12:03 AM

[sour fulcrum]

beginners trying to understand why passing a string isn't based on reference but also they can be null

[rocky canyon]

wow.. all the way up to gpt5 eh

BBlueberry

[pliant coyote]

I have designed every aspect of the game, just trying to code the structure now

similiar to pokemon in a sense

[rocky canyon]

some people have the exact opposite problem

they can code really well.. but structuring a good game-flow is harder

[sour fulcrum]

Not to throw out any doubt at all but just worth noting a lot of design tends to drastically change once you can actually play it

It's why a lot of prototypes tend to not have everything designed from the start

[pliant coyote]

I understand, the core battle system is fun for me at least, different than pokemon

[rocky canyon]

ya, i come up with game ideas all the time... but even when i try to keep them super simple (down to 1 or 2 pieces, only a couple of mechanics) once u start fleshing out the entirety of the game.. u get into balancing.. and thats where i fall off the deep end

[pliant coyote]

better with unity editor now at least

[sour fulcrum]

Playtesting will confirm or deny that 😄

[pliant coyote]

I don't disagree at least i am trying

[sour fulcrum]

Absolutely

[rocky canyon]

the fact that ur here.. and listening to real people is a step forward 😉

[pliant coyote]

yes, agree!

[rocky canyon]

and always try to keep things in bite-sizes

even if u know how the full mechanic/system is gonna work

its best to do a little and test Thouroughly

and then do a little more.. and build up pieces u know work

[rich adder]

you mean byte sized?
ok..ill see myself out now

[rocky canyon]

much easier to debug an issue that happens that way

[rocky canyon]

badum tissssssssss

[pliant coyote]

Thats exactly what I am doing, the other abilities work great I have made so far, just this one having a little issue

[rocky canyon]

thats actually good to hear

atleast ur not like "i built this big ass system that consists of 12 classes and now the entire game doenst work"

[pliant coyote]

I test everything when I implement it and also test to ensure everything else is working

[rocky canyon]

happens more often than i care to see

[rich adder]

btw can you show the code , just curious what exactly it was even trying to do anyway

[rocky canyon]

true.. use a paste bin and share what u have

[rocky canyon]

no ones gonna wanna sort thru a bunch of AI garbage.. but if it isnt too bad.. or something simple someone can help point u in the right direction

[sour fulcrum]

mr president another ai generated invoke has hit the channel

[pliant coyote]

at least tell me what to tell it not to do so I can learn

[sour fulcrum]

we can tell you how to write things better, please don't ask us to teach you how to slop better 😛

[pliant coyote]

I can take it I am thick skinned so will continue trying until it works

[rocky canyon]

explain everything to me along the way tends to help weed out really dumb things.. but yea

[sour fulcrum]

Also like unironically once you get comfortable programming it's just gonna be faster than constantly rerolling ai shit

[pliant coyote]

Probably lol, I will work on some courses as well

[patent hazel]

Will i move slower when my cameraObjects forward is to the ground? since there are ground colliders, my character cant go in y while grounded but if i look downwards, my total magnitude of moving vector wont change but since i cant move in y axis, that means i will only move on z axis and it will be lesser than if i were to look in z axis ( might be hard to understand since i couldn't word it properly sorry)
movementDirection = (cameraObject.forward * inputManager.verticalInput) + (cameraObject.right * inputManager.horizontalInput);
movementDirection.Normalize();
movementDirection = movementDirection * moveSpeed;

[remote vault]

hello community

[rocky canyon]

from what little i see i would say
why not create a Prefab of a rigidbody that u could use (with the values set up already)

and instantiate the rigidbody gameobject instead of Adding a Rigidbody.. and trying to configure it all in script

so u could have a different prefab set up for each kind of rb ur going for

[pliant coyote]

That is exactly what I thought was happening lol

[remote vault]

im working on this beginner course and for some reason the ai nav mesh agent just stops following the player after it reaches a certain distance in the players range

[pliant coyote]

I have the boulder prefab made with the projectible component and rigid body set up on it

[rocky canyon]

im just speculating.. but it seems like the Awake setup all that jazz seems too much

[pliant coyote]

Thank you! I will go back to work on that

[rocky canyon]

u could just have prefabs set up for different Variants of the boulder instead

[remote vault]

do you think it would be something in the code or through unity?

cause it was working perfectly and then after i added this new part of code it just started acting different

[pliant coyote]

I will show you a little preview of one of the monsters

[rocky canyon]

also dont be scared to use Debug.Logs() in ur code..

[rocky canyon]

after u write them urself..

[pliant coyote]

ai slop all around

[rich adder]

how should we know . we're not mind readers, without showing anything related to setup what context can we go on ..

[rocky canyon]

// do something in code
Debug.Log("I did something in code");

// else do something else in code
Debug.Log("I did something else in code");

float myFloat;
Debug.Log($"My float should be: {myFLoat}");```

[pliant coyote]

Appreciate it

[rocky canyon]

^ if u work like that as a beginner it really helps

esp when something breaks or acts like it shouldnt

[remote vault]

idk just based on context mb let me go into further detail

[rocky canyon]

u can kinda catch it along the way while watching the console window

[remote vault]

ok so this is both for the code and on unity

ive tried asking chatgpt but its telling me run this debug script and when i paste it comes out with 7 errors

maybe should i try debugging?

[rocky canyon]

u should 100 percent try debugging like "All" of the time

[rich adder]

that should always be the first step..

[remote vault]

i dont even know how to debug in this scenario

[rocky canyon]

regardless if its working as u suspect or not lol

[rich adder]

what did you add that broke it

[remote vault]

bro i started like 3 days ago chillax

this piece hold on

[rocky canyon]

seemed pretty chill statement to me

[pliant coyote]

If you are making a spawn boulder and roll x amount ability projectile, how many lines of code should that take?

[remote vault]

its code for the player

[remote vault]

how do i do this

[rich adder]

nothing here should be affecting the navmesh agent, it probably stops entire playmode if you have an error

[remote vault]

what do you recommend i should do?

[rich adder]

did you check the console window when it stops ?

[rocky canyon]

not sure exactly what u mean.. but u can spawn things using their script as a reference...

    public BoulderScript boulderPrefab1;
    public BoulderScript boulderPrefab2;
    public RollXScript rollXPrefab;

    void Start()
    {
        BoulderScript myInstantiatedBoulder = Instantiate(boulderPrefab1, transform.position, transform.rotation);
        myInstantatedBoulder.certainValue = 10;

        RollXScript myInstantiatedRollX = Instantiate(rollXPrefab, transform.position, transform.rotation);
        myInstantiatedRollX.certainValue = 10;```

[remote vault]

sorry i dont know what that means could you explain?

[rocky canyon]

so i could instantiate boulderPrefab and immediately afterwards i could access it to change any values from it i needed to

[rich adder]

which part ? Do you know what the Console Window is ?

[pliant coyote]

Got it!

[remote vault]

no not really

[sour fulcrum]

how ever long it needs

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/Console.html

[remote vault]

ok 1 second

ok i have it opened its saying this but i feel like its irrelevant from my issue no?

[rocky canyon]

instantiation in Unity is one line, and setting values after spawn is another 1–3 lines.. it all depends on what all u need to set up determined by whats dynamic on the prefab.. and whether the default values need changed at all

thats y i was saying.. if ur code only spawning a few different types it'd be easier and more scaleable to just have a handful of different prefabs already set up the way they should be..

then they'd be little need to change things around after the Instantiation.. but guy was right. its just however long it needs to be

[pliant coyote]

Makes sense thank you

[sour fulcrum]

errors are always relevant

[rich adder]

that'll do it

[sour fulcrum]

if im driving down the highway and a car crash is infront of my lane the car crash is absolutely relevant to me

[remote vault]

💔

[rich adder]

how do you know they are irrelevant and whats wat, you only seen 4 out of 999+

[remote vault]

theyre all the same message

[rich adder]

select it and check the stack trace

[rocky canyon]

1. ur script probably should check if things are null before u try to use them...

2. don't try to change values or call methods on things that have already been destroyed (therefor becoming a null reference)

[grand snow]

no 2 is not always correct blah blah fake null

[limber stone]

Hello, sorry to disturb but I have been having an issue in a 2d platformer game that I am working on where every time the player interacts with a collision, their position will be slightly different. I already vaguely know what could be causing this but I do not know how to stop it. The x axis glitch happens because I used Input.getAxis instead of Input.getAxisRaw making it so that the player moves and stops at varying speeds and possibly providing slight lag??? And the y axis glitch comes from my velocity calculations which probably is because of time.deltatime making it stop at a different location every time I think?? May I please request some help with fixing this behavior so that it always stops moving at the exact same location?

[rich adder]

I would not be using Translate for any of this..

[earnest wind]

rb.AddForce(new Vector3(0, FlightThrust, 0), ForceMode.Impulse);

Should something like this be situated in FixedUpdate or Update????

[rich adder]

Update if its impulse is fine

[earnest wind]

i remember something that already was multiplied by delta time but cant remember

[limber stone]

I should probably add this, I do not want to use rigidbodies for this script

[earnest wind]

what wouldnt be fine? velocity change?

[rich adder]

anything that moves over a series of frames

[limber stone]

Oh, I forgot to add it as well, this is all in fixed update

[rocky canyon]

actually reminds me of one edge-case i cant really recall. but im sure it had something to do with lists, for loops (collections) of some sort.. and if u destroy during a forloop you should instead liek collect all the things that need destroyed and destroy them all at the end of the loop.. but im having trouble remember the specificities of htat

googled it a bit and i think something along the lines of "Deferred Destruction"
unsafe to modify a collection as its iterating... instead of

   Destroy(enemy); //or
   enemies.Remove(enemy)```
```cs
foreach (GameObject enemy in enemies)
{
    if (enemy.GetComponent<Health>().IsDead)
    {
        toRemove.Add(enemy);
    }
}

foreach (GameObject dead in toRemove)
{
    enemies.Remove(dead);
    Destroy(dead);
}```

[earnest wind]

wait im gonna search the docs and come back if i dont understand, one sec

[rich adder]

defacto is always in FixedUpdate. If its a 1 time frame thing like impulse (think like a jump) then yea Update is fine since it only happens once

[earnest wind]

honeslty no idea what the difference is

[earnest wind]

no its not its a jetpack

[earnest wind]

too small cant read that image

ok

ah so it should be in fixed update

[limber stone]

thanks for the help but as I mentioned previously, I don't believe I will be applying any of this to my project unless there is absolutely no other way of stopping this. It's a personal thing where I just don't want to rely on rigidbodies for my movement systems, I rather just make one from scratch instead since I feel like I would learn more transferable skills by doing so.

[rocky canyon]

love that bg music 😄 so calming

one simple way i think ive seen is to use raycasts or something to cast to where you'll be the next frame and if its within a wall or a collision u do something else..

[limber stone]

a friend got me to play that with them while coding...

[sour fulcrum]

Any chance your getting confused between rigidbodies and character controllers? Unless your studying some fairly heavy programming/non game dev programming/math stuff i don't see a reason why you'd wanna avoid rigidbodies

[rocky canyon]

can i move here -> yes -> keep going
-> no -> do something else

[grand snow]

"ill implement my own physics simulation!"

[rocky canyon]

💯 hell ya..

im working on translation / collisions atm myself

i saw this really cool video about how some games just project velocity along walls and stuff and take the total length of the vctor and just redirect you until its used up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6Q7dUz2uk

this is it.. collide and slide

[limber stone]

yeah!

I saw that a bit earlier and I should definitely implement that but I wasn't sure if that would completely fix the issue

[sour fulcrum]

Not sure why that comment got deleted

[limber stone]

wrong reply

[sour fulcrum]

Just a word of advice you can take or leave it

I would strongly suggest getting this prototype working with rigidbodies in a "complete" state then swapping to your own implementation after the fact.

[limber stone]

actually right reply and I panicked

[limber stone]

alright

I'll try that in that case

[sour fulcrum]

It's probably gonna make life a lot easier for you since you will have the majority of the game functional and can slowly swap out chunks from that point

[limber stone]

maybe I could just use rigidibodies for moving the player but the gravity system can stay

[rich adder]

always ask yourself , do you want to make a game / some functional to get going or spent months rewriting whats basically done for you just to "learn" it and possibly come up with something worse

[rocky canyon]

should i "reinvent the wheel, this time"

or wait til later 😈

[limber stone]

procrastination at its finest

[rocky canyon]

lol... they should make medicine for that

[rich adder]

oblong wheels

[limber stone]

Alright then

Thanks everyone!

[rich adder]

lmao yes! forgot about this

[rocky canyon]

perfect analogy when i go to build character controllers

still gotta work in the bouncy, spring raycast CC soon

[rich adder]

aw fry go poof

[limber stone]

just wondering, when would you use transform.translate in code?

[rich adder]

very simple movements that don't need to be physically accurate

[limber stone]

alright

[patent hazel]

Can you please help me understand why we use local for the second one and also why not use local for the first one
rotation = Vector3.zero;
rotation.y = lookAngle; // rotation around y axis
targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotation); // Quaternion.Euler(0,lookAngle,0)
transform.rotation = targetRotation; // transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0,lookAngle,0)

rotation = Vector3.zero;
rotation.x = pivotAngle;
targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotation); // Quaternion.Euler(pivotAngle, 0, 0)
cameraPivot.localRotation = targetRotation

[rich adder]

like animations, tweening is okay usually

[rocky canyon]

i use it for environmental stuff... gears rotating, hydraulics flexing and retracting, tumbleweeds rolling away

but yea things that dont need physics

[limber stone]

understood

[rocky canyon]

like the train in GTA5

[limber stone]

is there any benefit for using the character controller instead of rigidbodies?

[rocky canyon]

its gonna train itself across the map no matter what gets in the way 🤣

[rocky canyon]

u have total control..

[rich adder]

yes you get a kinematic controller out the box with collider detection out the box, easier to work with

[patent hazel]

stairs

[rocky canyon]

it comes with stairs built in

[rich adder]

Rigidbody are usually dynamic, hard to work with / control.
Kinematic is good to start a controller with but you need to make your own collider detections with something like rb.SweepTest

[rocky canyon]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131?srsltid=AfmBOoo0n4Op6H6BWdXAzBlhXo87rgsMWMIShTNZvh1BABHYb1is8alW heres a solid physics based cc

[limber stone]

noted

thanks once again!

[rocky canyon]

i use it to learn from

[limber stone]

I think I will depart now with this wealth of knowledge

[rocky canyon]

🍀

[limber stone]

oh my gosh, it's almost 1am

[rocky canyon]

day is young lol

[limber stone]

suppose so

[rich adder]

I think the guy that made this turned it free because they got hired from unity now they make charactter controller for ECS

[rocky canyon]

wouldnt doubt it.. super solid implementation

albeit a bit complex

but i cant make a simple kinematic cc so more power to em

[rich adder]

I'm sure it took years of revisions haha if they got hired to make something as complex for ECS

[sour fulcrum]

I modified this package for a 3d platformer prototype where you could pass in functions that return velocity in order for the abilities to have a cool easy way to influence movement

was really fun to play with

[rocky canyon]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/released-character-movement-fundamentals-a-rigidbody-based-character-controller/749112

[rich adder]

its very well documented too

[rocky canyon]

this is a close second... (i had it when it was paid asset)

ya, any CC that allows me to create simple Knockback and influencing forces is a win in my book

pretty straightforward to make basic movements any way u go..
but external forces acting upon them is a total different scenario imo

[rich adder]

One thing I could never get right on CC was Elevators Up / Down

platform moves and creates weird studder

[sour fulcrum]

yeah that kind of stuff is roughhh

then add some multiplayer in the mix too and

[rocky canyon]

ya, i tend to make it a cutscene type situation

make an orbital cam attached to the elevator for the duration of the ride

[sour fulcrum]

i dont know if not implementing the mechanic counts as a solution 😛

[rocky canyon]

lol

i mean u got a point

[rich adder]

I seen some games they seem to switch controller to a non-jumping thing, probably one thats "glued" to surface of elevator

[rocky canyon]

ya, that'd work too gravity/jump be the big issue

its also much easier to code a CC to go down an elevator than up an elevator

[rich adder]

I tried using a kinematic platform and even with syncTransforms the CC just couldnt catch up properly

[rocky canyon]

make a trigger flip the world and have the elevator go down to get up lol

[rocky canyon]

i've only ever used Kinematics for elevators.. gotta pay for that feature pretty much 🤣

[sour fulcrum]

i wasn't a big fan of how this one does it tbh, it is flexible in implementation but it kinda didn't feel that way

[rocky canyon]

ive gotten my CC to work on a swaying pirate ship pretty convincingly but it was a slow sway

[sour fulcrum]

I think ideally I like the idea of just directly using transform parenting in some way or form

[rocky canyon]

if it were too much it'd still jitter. just found a sweet spot where it didnt.. but yea thast just avoiding the problem still lol

[sour fulcrum]

even if i maybe use a dummy object and a parent constraint or smth

[rocky canyon]

i agree.. the manual is a godsend.. just apply forces to the Motor

[rich adder]

thats pretty much how I do it, CC enters platform with trigger then it parents CC to platform
when player leaves trigger it unparents from elevator platform

[rocky canyon]

but i had 1on1 help via his discord.. so wasn't too hard to figure it out

[rocky canyon]

thats how the Pirate ship functioned too

[sour fulcrum]

this can be abit more of a pain in networked environments

[rocky canyon]

there was a bit of a transition problem when u jumped out of the collider as the ship was swaying

a harsh snap but its a good thing i abandoned that project..

all is well lmao

[primal trench]

why is this error-ing

it's set in the inspector

for the class

[sour fulcrum]

DialogueText is null or DialogueText does not have a textmeshpro component

[cosmic dagger]

A reference object is null on line 59 . . .

[sour fulcrum]

Or that array is null

[rich adder]

yeah true parenting was not fun to figur out on netcode

[cosmic dagger]

Check each reference on that line and you'll find the culprit . . .

[sour fulcrum]

Thats why I think ParentConstraints might be a handy middleman

[primal trench]

i know that it's not the array, it has a textmeshpro, I'll check if it's null

[sour fulcrum]

Are you sure it is what you think it is

[sour fulcrum]

and is that the component throwing an error?

[cosmic dagger]

We don't have the code, so we can't tell what is on that line . . . 🤷‍♀️

[rocky canyon]

if u had a reference wouldnt it just be ActorText.text =

why the GetComponent

[primal trench]

it's a reference to the gameobject, i need the textmeshpro component

[sour fulcrum]

no?

[rocky canyon]

why not use a public refernce to the TMPro instead?

[primal trench]

oh! did a few tests, the gameobject isn't null, the component is

[rocky canyon]

aye!

[cosmic dagger]

If you're dragging the GameObject then use the component instead . . .

[primal trench]

i dont know why...it's here

[cosmic dagger]

No need to go from the GameObject to the Component . . .

[primal trench]

i need the gameobject itslef for other bits of the code

[rocky canyon]

public TMP_Text ActorText

if u have the TMP u can just go ActorText.gameObject <-- then u have a direct reference to the text.. and u can still access the gameobject from it

[sour fulcrum]

Ideally you might want a new component on that then

[cosmic dagger]

A Component always has access to its GameObject; there's no reason for a GameObject field . . .

[sour fulcrum]

this is a dumb way to do that

[rocky canyon]

okiedokie.. its still a way tho.. im just talkin in examples

[cosmic dagger]

What do you mean? This is the better way to do it (if you need access to the GameObject) . . .

[rocky canyon]

he just tell me that sht all the time.. lol

theres a reason i have to unfold his comments

[sour fulcrum]

I guess it depends on what they exactly mean by other reasons but if that object has more jobs to do than just the text imo it should be it's own component that manges those jobs

[cosmic dagger]

😆

[rocky canyon]

anywho.. if it is stupid.. and u want to use GetComponent..
atleast use the GetComponent off the gameobject and cache it in Start or Awake or something

[primal trench]

did that, it worked!

[rocky canyon]

so u can have the reference to the TMP later on in the code w/o having to call GetComponent everytime u wanna change the text

[primal trench]

also, been working on a dialogue scripting lang for my game, thoughts? is this the right channel for this

[ACTOR]"This is test text for UDM v.0.1!"
{1}"Option 1"
>[ACTOR]"You picked option 1!"
###
{2}"Option 2"
>[ACTOR]"You picked option 1!"
###
{3}"Option 3"
>[ACTOR]"You picked option 1!"
###
{4}"Option 4"
>[ACTOR]"You picked option 1!"
###
{5}"Jump to start!"
^TITLE```

i have all the processing done (the image :))

[sour fulcrum]

probablyyy more suited to unity-talk or maybe even a thread in code-gen just based on vibes

Curious on how this works though, i haven't done dialog stuff before, feels a little boilerplately off the bat but might be my ignorance

[white girder]

Seeing an array store dialogues reminds me of this video https://youtu.be/jDB49s7Naww?t=757 goes over how to store dialogue

[primal trench]

uhhhh a thread might be better but also might be buried

[primal trench]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1407885336171905104 i can answer questions abt it on there

[devout socket]

I was unable to find a way to implement your solution (regarding character controller movement inertia/momentum)
Could we talk about this over DMs or something? I get the feeling this is going to be a long and difficult process and I don't want to monopolize this thread

[naive pawn]

you could always make your own thread here

DMs are not a very good way of getting help, community servers exist for a reason

[rocky canyon]

☝️ and ya, it was trial and error for me when i was doing it.. its was basically me breaking up the vectors so i could watch the inspector and debug and see what was going on..

i would suggest googling it.. i remember looking around quite a while to figure out exactly what it was i was going to need to do.. and how it applied to the basic movement i already had.. (this was before AI) but the ai overview basically explains it pretty well.. and theres tutorials, unity threads, and whatnot further on down the page

i started with just 1 axis at a time.. (forward and backwards) once i had that figured out i applied it to the other axis..
then it was about whether i was grounded or i wasnt grounded.. then i applied it to that.. (but not all at once)

I get the feeling this is going to be a long and difficult process
it definitely was not a fast or simple addition so yea might be worthy of a thread and to post up some basics of ur codebase ur starting with

[devout socket]

Character Controller - How to keep momentum of previous movement when changing direction?

[patent hazel]

i dont see edit details am i just blind or does it not exist

[polar acorn]

This appears to be a guide for using the Terrain Tools package. Do you have that package installed?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.terrain-tools@4.0/manual/index.html

[fading lynx]

I'm not sure where the best place to post this but I'm trying to find a solution. I've recently downloaded Game creator 2 and Have installed on both in progress projects and new and I can never get the program to run correctly. most of the time I get an error: error CS0006: Metadata file 'Library/PackageCache/com.unity.collab-proxy@2.9.1/Lib/Editor/PlasticSCM/log4netPlastic.dll' could not be found
error CS0006: Metadata file 'Library/PackageCache/com.unity.collab-proxy@2.9.1/Lib/Editor/PlasticSCM/Unity.Plastic.Antlr3.Runtime.dll' could not be found
error CS0006: Metadata file 'Library/PackageCache/com.unity.collab-proxy@2.9.1/Lib/Editor/PlasticSCM/Unity.Plastic.Newtonsoft.Json.dll' could not be found
error CS0006: Metadata file 'Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ext.nunit@2.0.3/net35/unity-custom/nunit.framework.dll' could not be found

[patent hazel]

i do

[hexed terrace]

#⛰️┃terrain-3d

[patent hazel]

oh sorry i couldn't see that channel

[gaunt raptor]

question: i have 1 map let's say the player can explore the map all they want but when they interact with some npc it will trigger an event like a mission or spawn horde of zombie, should i reuse the scene and depend on the save file to keep track to what player already done or make a separate scene with the same map just to make the player do the mission, or is there a better aproach?

[low copper]

@gaunt raptor : General advice is to try to reduce/reuse code as much as possible. I would assume reusing a scene would be the best approach but its impossible to know without more info.

I have a silly compile error I can't figure out. This code

        if (controller.stage == 1)
        {
            float[] floatArray = { .8f, .6f, .5f, .4f, .8f, .4f, .2f, .1f, 0f, .1f, .2f, .4f, .8f, .6f, .4f, .4f, .6f, .8f, .6f, .4f, .7f, .8f, .9f, .8f, .6f, .4f, .3f, .2f, .25f, .2f, .25f, .2f, .15f, .1f, 1.5f, 2f, 2.5f, 4f, 5f, 6f };
        }
        else
        {
            float[] floatArray = { .8f, .6f, .5f, .4f, .8f, .4f, .2f, .1f, 0f, .1f, .2f, .4f, .8f, .6f, .4f, .4f, .6f, .8f, .6f, .4f, .7f, .8f, .9f, .8f, .6f, .4f, .3f, .2f, .25f, .2f, .25f, .2f, .15f, .1f, 1.5f, 2f, 2.5f, 4f, 5f, 6f };
        }

        if (startTime >= 0f)
        {
            int floatIndex = (int)Math.Floor((value * 40));
            float currentValue = floatArray[floatIndex];

Produces the error : The name 'floatArray' does not exist in the current context. I don't understand why

[wintry quarry]

becasue of the {}\

the scope of a variable is defined by the brackets]

you defined it in one scope and you're trying to use it in another

declare the variable outside of those scopes then you can use it.

[silk night]

the data seems to be the same in both anyways 😄

and if you have a data array like that you might want to ask yourself if you cant use a mathematical function to calculate the values instead 😄

[low copper]

Haha..it is, I haven't built the second stage yet. Are you guys referring to the {} when declaring the array? Sorry I don't get it.

[silk night]

(or use an AnimationCurve)

[low copper]

No math...its just random data

[sour fulcrum]

you can automate the randomness 😄

[silk night]

i assume its animation easing data?

[low copper]

No, its a value assigned to UI Slider

To trigger an glitch effect

So...I don't understand the {}...

[silk night]

oh yeah, then you might want to randomly generate some numbers 😄

[low copper]

I need it to be in the same place every time

[silk night]

if () {
  INSIDE SCOPE
}

OUTSIDE SCOPE

anything you declare in the inside scope is only available between the {}

you can access stuff from outside in the inside scope, not the other way around

[low copper]

Oh...those brackets...so how do I do if statements in this case then?

[silk night]

you declare the variable above

and then just write a value inside of the if

[low copper]

ah ok

[wintry quarry]

you did:

if (true) {
  int x = 5;
} else {
  int x = 4;
}

Debug.Log(x);```
You need to do:
```cs
int x;
if (true) {
  x = 5;
} else {
  x = 4;
}

Debug.Log(x);```

[grand snow]

bool success;

if(thing)
{
  success = true;
}

Debug.Log($"{success}");

[silk night]

or you can do var floatArray = controller.stage == 1 ? data1 : data2;

but given the length of your data i wont advise that 😄

[grand snow]

perhaps too complex for someone who doesnt get scope

[silk night]

agreed

[low copper]

Thanks for explaining. Makes a lot of sense. I understand scope...I just didn't realize it was limited by if statements. Definitely beginner mistake of course

[wintry quarry]

it's the {} not the if

[silk night]

i mean you can even create a scope without if

[wintry quarry]

{ } defines the scope

[silk night]

you can just randomly do { in code and open an inner scope 😄

[low copper]

ah ok. I'll do more reading on scope. My bad

glad you guys clarified. Thank you.

[slow blaze]

Are there better alternatives for remote version control for unity than github?

[naive pawn]

"better" is subjective

[naive pawn]

github isn't really remote version control - do you mean hosting?

there are indeed alternatives

gitlab, bitbucket
you can just search up "github alternatives" to get a list

[wintry quarry]

Maybe start with explaining what issues you have with GitHub?

[covert sinew]

I have a few questions.

So, for items, I'm having items in my game generate a unique int ID, instead of using class comparisons to check if an item is a clone or not.

What are some good things I should know, going forwards? I know Int Comparisons are faster than String Comparisons, which is why I went with just generating a really big random number, but stuff like how big that number should be, post-processing to ensure I don't generate IDs that alredy exist, ect ect, I'm having more trouble finding info on.

I also saw some people using Unity's GUIDs, but for things that inherited from Object, which my items do not.

[wintry quarry]

You can make your own GUIDs

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.guid.newguid?view=net-9.0

There are two main approaches:

• Have some central coordinator that uses a monotonically increasing ID number to ensure no duplicates
• Use GUIDs

[light mica]

Sup i'm a newcomer tryna get into C# but i need some help with the script building itself

Look at the update part (it's an example of the problem i'm running into)

i don't understand what's happening

[wintry quarry]

because this private is INVALID inside there

you cannot write private inside a method/function

[light mica]

should it be public?

[wintry quarry]

no

neither of those are valid inside a function

[light mica]

oh ok

the thing is i'm tryna create a basic movement mechanic for the player

[wintry quarry]

ok - there is no reason you need to write private or public inside a method to write any code whatsoever

that is never valid C#

[light mica]

yea i see it now, thanks a bunch man!

[hexed terrace]

private/ public (others you'll learn about later) are called 'access modifiers' - they can't go inside a method

[sour fulcrum]

One thing worth mentioning about guids is you still need to ensure copy pasting/duplicating assets using a generated guid refresh their value

[covert sinew]

If you instantiate an object from JSON that has a GUID, will new GUIDs created afterwards respect the existence of the "created" one, or does the system governing GUIDs only generate unique IDs from ones that were created using the method?

In the context of using a save/load system, specifically

[sour fulcrum]

Afaik new guids don’t respect anything they are just statistically reliably unlikely to collide naturally

[covert sinew]

Aaaaah

Thank you very much.

[sour fulcrum]

But if your explicitly copying data you gotta watch out 😅

[covert sinew]

Yeah, I've got that part handled, My inventory system has a thing where it checks against existing entries and can force duplicates to regenerate their ID

[sour fulcrum]

I did this for the first time like a week ago lol

[rough sluice]

Do someone know that why camera moves when I drag joystick to near bottom left corner?:
https://streamable.com/o827rv

[naive pawn]

!code

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[rough sluice]

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

[rough granite]

I assume the camera is meant to move when you drag on the screen yeah, if so this should be self explanatory.

[hexed terrace]

it looks like it's jumping to an odd position when the joystick is in a certain place

[rough sluice]

No, I don't want my codes to move camera by dragging joystick

[red igloo]

How can I make the turning to another direction faster?

[hexed terrace]

insta change the velocity

[polar acorn]

1. Set velocity instead of adding force, or,
2. Add more force

[rough sluice]

I want my codes to let players rotate camera in horizonal directions by dragging in empty space on screen but somehow my codes are also moving camera by dragging joystick but this is only happening for some area of joystick draggable range. This is happening in Joystick range's bottom left corner area

[rough granite]

I was asking if dragging anywhere on the screen made it move

[rough sluice]

yes, camera can be rotated horizontally by dragging on screen's empty space

But it should not rotate by dragging joystick in bottom left corner

[hexed terrace]

are you checking for the touch to be on the joystick? And if so, do not move camera

[fading lynx]

I'm getting this error on all my projects now even when I start a fresh one. error CS0006: Metadata file 'Library/PackageCache/com.unity.collab-proxy@2.9.1/Lib/Editor/PlasticSCM/log4netPlastic.dll' could not be found
error CS0006: Metadata file 'Library/PackageCache/com.unity.collab-proxy@2.9.1/Lib/Editor/PlasticSCM/Unity.Plastic.Antlr3.Runtime.dll' could not be found
error CS0006: Metadata file 'Library/PackageCache/com.unity.collab-proxy@2.9.1/Lib/Editor/PlasticSCM/Unity.Plastic.Newtonsoft.Json.dll' could not be found

anyone know a solution, I've deleted the PackageCache several times but doesn't seem to work.

[wintry quarry]

#1390346492019212368

[tacit prism]

im trying to set up sprinting for my character, but im getting these 3 errors, and im having trouble understanding the issue. I initially followed a tutorial that taught me to set up movement, so i tried to use the same logic to add sprinting but its giving me issues

[keen dew]

Either you have two Updates in this class, or two classes called Player

the other errors are just basic typos

[tacit prism]

so should i put the sprint into this section instead of it having its own unique

[keen dew]

Yes, you can only have one Update method per class. You can add as much code as you want there

[tacit prism]

alright thank you

[tacit prism]

YES it worked tysm

now i just need to find out how to make sprint not cancellable midair

[pliant coyote]

I did get the boulder sdript working, i simplified it a ton and just used the components on the prefab instead of trying to reset them

[toxic crypt]

Guys unity cloud service got any API to get ip address upon authentication? 🤔

[light mica]

Hey can anyone help me understand why is my code not showing results? (sum advice could help me out as well)

[hollow spruce]

my character keep stucking here what should i do ?

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by "showing results"? What kind of results are you expecting to see?

Also !code

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[wintry quarry]

I will say your line 11 is wrong. You're probably getting NullReferenceException in the console right?

Line 11 needs to be controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>(); right now you're not assigning the variable.

[light mica]

From what i understood by watching a video bout the move function i tried to use it to create a simple character movement system

[wintry quarry]

you shouldn't ignore errors in the console. Make sure your console window is always visible

[light mica]

So i should've referenced the controller

[wintry quarry]

I'm explaining what you need to do, yes. Your code currently on line 11 does nothing.

[light mica]

yea i'm still tryna get used to unity's interface

[wintry quarry]

refer back to other code examples to see how to use GetComponent properly.

[light mica]

I'ma fix it rq, thx once again dude

🙏

[toxic crypt]

Show inspector too maybe 🤔

[wintry quarry]

nothing in the inspector here will matter

the error is clear from the code alone

Well I guess you're right we'll see if the components are on the same object

[toxic crypt]

I think he trying to access the object but he didn't use the correct sytax to get the controller

[wintry quarry]

yes I already explained that above

[toxic crypt]

Yeah 🫶

Also try to post code directly in discord, so it can be copied and modified easily

[timid ferry]

Im sorry because this is probably a really basic question. Basically in my game you can create towers and then when you click on the towers it opens an upgrade menu but I cant figure out how to pass information from the specific turret that was clicked on to the menu.

[wintry quarry]

Have the code that opens the menu do it

[timid ferry]

ok but how

[wintry quarry]

hard to say without seeing your existing code

presumably as a method parameter

[timid ferry]

ok

I think the issue is I cant figure out what type it hould be

[wintry quarry]

How should we know without knowing your project? Presumably your Tower class

or whatever you use to represent a tower in game

[toxic crypt]

Built in button script will have option to trigger a specific code

[timid ferry]

ok

[toxic crypt]

Go to the bottom of the button inspector

There is onclick tab

Attach ur script there

And on right side drop down

U'll see which module to trigger on click

This is best if u r doing it from ui n buttons

But if u r doing on 3d space

Then i think best is ray cast

🤔

[wintry quarry]

I'm assuming they already figured that part out

[light mica]

Hey guys coming back to disturb y'all cuz idk how but i managed to get rid of the scene "shortcut" i could say

does someone know how to make it re-appear?

[wintry quarry]

Wdym by scene shortcut

[light mica]

In the top middle of the screen just sided with "game"

[wintry quarry]

Right click the game tab and go to Add tab -> Scene

Or go into Window -> General -> Scene

[light mica]

oh damn, it was THAT simple, thx once again

[wintry quarry]

Also not a code q

#💻┃unity-talk

[light mica]

ight mb

thx anyways

[rough granite]

If you are trying to share code use one of these.

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[plush zealot]

ty couldnt remember which website to use

I'm getting an unreachable code detected error code on every "break;" line in the switch case :/
https://hastebin.com/share/secakaloci.csharp

[rough granite]

That's cause you have a return right before each one

[plush zealot]

oh should it just be after the entire switch case

or do you not even need breaks if you return out of the method?

[rough granite]

Im not sure I've hardly used switch cases, you can try though

[plush zealot]

alright ty

[rough granite]

Though does this need to even be a return type? Arent you setting the pageSprite in the functon?

[plush zealot]

technically not, but in this case a different script makes use of it returning something

also yes, you can just return out of a switch case instead of doing "break;"

compiler is at least not giving me any errors lol

[rich adder]

you don't need Break if you're returning , hence the error

[plush zealot]

yeah figured

[rich adder]

btw you can also do a switch expression

public TMPro.TMP_SpriteAsset LoadPageSprite()
{
    return element switch
    {
        "fire" => fireSprite,
        "water" => waterSprite,
        "earth" => earthSprite,
        "wind" => windSprite,
        "lightning" => lightningSprite,
        "dark" => darkSprite,
        "light" => lightSprite,
        _ => null
    };
}```

[hollow spruce]

how can i get rid of this line ???

[rich adder]

use pixel perfect.
also not a code question #💻┃unity-talk | #🖼️┃2d-tools

[hollow spruce]

mb

but what is pixel perfect ?

[rich adder]

its a component, look it up

[hollow spruce]

alright ty

[plush zealot]

oh wait that's so much cleaner

[rich adder]

yea imo its cleaner if all you need to do is return based on value

[rough granite]

this doesn't do the setting that the other did does it?

[rich adder]

not sure what you mean with "the setting"

you mean the =

assigning value is redundant if you're returning a value

[rough granite]

the pageSprite = fireSprite; part

[rich adder]

ya thats redundant
if they need to they can just do
pageSprite = LoadPageSprite()

doing pageSprite = in each case unnecessary repetition

[spiral oak]

Some peole here should get paid

[zealous talon]

hi can someone help me? i'm making a moving platform and my goal is to let the player move with the platform, basically the player should move with the platform without clicking anything. a lot of tutorial basically puts the player as a child of the platform, buy when i do that the player makes "jerky" movement, i think he becomes a child but it's position doesnt change thew way it should. what could be the problem? the movement of the player is in another script and it is done with a rigid body

[rich adder]

post code using links

[zealous talon]

https://paste.myst.rs/f9w1usxq

[rough granite]

yes

[rich adder]

are you using rigidbody to move player?

[zealous talon]

yes

[rich adder]

you should probably look up the method for that, parenting afaik Only works with CC.
I gotta rememeber how I did it but basically you need to add the platform velocity to the player velocity

also you should be using a Kinematic on the platform itself too and move it via MovePosition instead of transform, that should also help sync the two

[zealous talon]

yeah i don't have he rigidbody on the platform only the colliders

[topaz chasm]

can ı share my code im beginner i have a problem with state machine thing

[rich adder]

dont ask to ask

[zealous talon]

just noted that i had on collision exit in the script but it doenst matter

[topaz chasm]

https://paste.myst.rs/t2kt39y0

[zealous talon]

what do you mean by that? i saw a comment on a blog that said
"I’m assuming that your player script is overriding the player’s position, which will cancel out any movement coming from the platform. You will need to adjust your player script to take into account if you are currently on a platform."

it is something like that?

[topaz chasm]

didnt write in english fully

[zealous talon]

the fact is that i think the position is changing by parenting but in a very small way

[topaz chasm]

but the problem is after the attack ı cant get the idle parameter ıts just goes walking animation with idle timers

[rich adder]

dynamic rigidbodies arent meant to move via parenting

[zealous talon]

https://paste.myst.rs/x3d5ym8k this is my controller if it can help

[zealous talon]

mh

[topaz chasm]

nav can you help me too after luketto's finish?

[zealous talon]

and what should i do?

[rich adder]

help how ? you have to show the code + describe whats happening vs what you expect to happen

[rich adder]

try the suggestions I sent

[topaz chasm]

https://paste.myst.rs/t2kt39y0

the problem is after the attack

ı cant go the idle animation

it just goes walking with idle timers

[rough granite]

why are we spamming the link?

[topaz chasm]

its works fine until go back to state normal

[zealous talon]

so should i add a rigidbody on the platform too?

[rich adder]

thats another step yes, but the main thing here you need to get the velocity of the platform and add it to the player

[zealous talon]

okok

i tried something like that but it didnt work

i had on my controller something like
Vector3 targetVelocity = moveDirection * moveSpeed * speedMultiplier;

targetVelocity += new Vector3(externalVelocity.x, 0, externalVelocity.z);
targetVelocity.y = rb.velocity.y;
rb.velocity = targetVelocity;

where external velocity was the platform velocity

[rich adder]

nah you need the difference in motion

actually on my old project I did
moveInput.x * movingStats.MoveSpeed + movingTile.MoveVelocity.x
so it should work

but if you use kinematic on the moving platform which is what is usually done you need previousPos - currentPos and use that

[zealous talon]

ok i did something like that

on the platform's script i added velocity

currentVelocity = (transform.position - lastPosition) / Time.deltaTime;
lastPosition = transform.position;

and i added an externalVelocity on the controller script

Vector3 targetVelocity = moveDirection * moveSpeed * speedMultiplier;

    targetVelocity += new Vector3(externalVelocity.x, 0, externalVelocity.z);
    targetVelocity.y = rb.velocity.y;
    rb.velocity = targetVelocity;

and simply OnTriggerCollider in the platform script i get the controller component and put externalVelocity as the platformVelocity

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
if (other.gameObject == Player)
{
PlayerController playerController = Player.GetComponent<PlayerController>();
playerController.externalVelocity = currentVelocity;
}
}

private void OnTriggerExit(Collision other) 
{
    if (other.gameObject == Player)
    {
        PlayerController playerController = Player.GetComponent<PlayerController>();
        playerController.externalVelocity = Vector3.zero;  
    }
}

should it be ok?

[polar acorn]

!code

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[rich adder]

did you try it ? does it work?

Kinematic will probably give you less (if any) jitters

[rich adder]

wdym "ı cant get the idle parameter ıts just goes walking animation with idle timers"

maybe show a video as well? that can help

[topaz chasm]

https://paste.myst.rs/hp46rbd8

in this code

in case great

i cant work with if part

its just go else and ı dont want it

[zealous talon]

no 😢

idk bc i put a print in OnTriggerEnter and it enter in the function so it should modify the externalVelocity

but idk

[topaz chasm]

same with normal too

[rich adder]

so whats happening instead?

[topaz chasm]

after the attack ı cant reset the "bekle2" bool ı think

nav do you have an idea?

cant ı just pick a state while in a coroutine?

[rich adder]

can you make a video show whats happening

[topaz chasm]

ok

[zealous talon]

nothing the player stays on the platform but he doenst move

also the externalVelocity is modified so idk because he remains stopped on the platform

[topaz chasm]

ı dont know if its the correct place to share a video but

everything is bugged lol

[zealous talon]

emirrk i feel you .....

[topaz chasm]

and it always happening at 1 am

to stress me

😭

[polar acorn]

So is whatever this state is the one that it's supposed to be in at that point?

[topaz chasm]

walking

it should go walking and idle but

it just go walking

and wait in idle times

[polar acorn]

So, what is the condition from this state to idle?

[topaz chasm]

walking false

idle true

the problem is ı cant see the idle

it waits with just walking parameter bcs

the if statement in great and normal case

doesnt work

[polar acorn]

This section, right?

if(anlık == durum.normal)
        {
            Debug.Log("durum normal2");
            animator.SetBool("yürü", false);
            animator.SetBool("idle", true);
        }

[topaz chasm]

this actually

i tested with debuglogs

and this goes else

[polar acorn]

Then bekle2 is false

[topaz chasm]

but ıt should be true as ı see

[polar acorn]

Try logging it

then instead of "should be"s you can get "actually is"s

[topaz chasm]

yes ıt goes false but

oh

can coroutines interrupted by update method?

this place is sus

[polar acorn]

Coroutines are intentionally designed to be "interrupted" by the update method

That's what makes them "co"

[topaz chasm]

makes sense

so bekle2 goes false here and gets interrupted by update and gets false maybe

[polar acorn]

They run until they hit a yield, then wait for their turn, and everything else continues to run in the meantime

[topaz chasm]

but without this

"bekle" coroutine will work multiple times

[eager elm]

are you sure there is only a maximum of 1 instances of the coroutine running at a given time?

[polar acorn]

All of your coroutines can work at the same time as each other. This code is a mess to make sense of since I don't understand any of the language, but it seems like your problem stems from your coroutines all happening simultaneously and fighting over the animator parameters

It seems to me like you should be handling the timing of animations in the animations, using Exit Time instead of parameters and possibly using Animation Events

[topaz chasm]

the problem is a parameter (which is control) goes false bcs its get cuts by update and when the coroutine cant finish it cant be go true again

[remote sparrow]

im currently making a movement script but whenever the player goes left it speed only goes to in between 0 and -0.99 it the speed cant go under -1 so i cant move left can someone please help?

[rough granite]

!code please

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[remote sparrow]

i sent it is it not showing up?

[rough granite]

you sent a .txt file not one of the links

[polar acorn]

Use a paste site

so people don't need to download a file

[remote sparrow]

oh alr hold on

[topaz chasm]

is there a way to see how many coroutines work in the same time

[polar acorn]

All

There's nothing preventing any number of coroutines running simultaneously

[rough granite]

assume there is an infinite amount unless you only call a specific amount

[polar acorn]

If you run the line StartCoroutine it will start a coroutine

[topaz chasm]

alr

[remote sparrow]

i cant get pastebin to work u know any other websites like that?

[rough granite]

the other 3

[polar acorn]

The link you were sent has like 4

pick one of those

[remote sparrow]

oh

https://paste.myst.rs/echx4wlx

[errant valley]

hi im new here which channel to get help

[rough granite]

depends on what for

but #🌱┃start-here

and #📖┃code-of-conduct

[polar acorn]

And what was the problem again?

[remote sparrow]

im currently making a movement script but whenever the player goes left it speed only goes to in between 0 and -0.99 it the speed cant go under -1 so i cant move left can someone please help?

[rough granite]

if (mathf.Abs(NegativeValue) == 1)

passes it would make NegativeValue positive after right?

[polar acorn]

It would return the absolute value of the number you pass it

[rough granite]

so for example
int horizontal = -1;
if (Mathf.Abs(horizontal) > 0.01f)
{
Console.Write(horizontal);
}
would horizontal log +1 or -1

[polar acorn]

-1

ints are value types

[rough granite]

ok wasn't certain since i have seen it change data a few times with other stuff in if statements and thought that was where their problem was

[polar acorn]

Mathf.Abs operates exclusively on value types. It can't change the variables you pass it because those variables aren't references

[rough granite]

you call horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); twice in Update();

[remote sparrow]

ohh thank you

[rough granite]

sorry that wasn't it i just noticed that

[polar acorn]

Extraneous, but it won't affect anything

[topaz chasm]

what can ı do with animation events?

[polar acorn]

Still, worth getting rid of

[rough granite]

no i just meant seen it happen with other calls that happened in if statements

[polar acorn]

Call a function at a specific point in an animation clip

[remote sparrow]

oh yea ur right it dident fix it but still a good catch

[topaz chasm]

like screen shake?

got it

[polar acorn]

Yes, the code in the if statement does actually run, so if the thing in there changes data, then it would change that data

[rough granite]

why are we using this? Mathf.MoveTowards(rb.velocity.x, targetX, accelRate * Time.fixedDeltaTime); when it's going in rb.Velocity right after

[polar acorn]

To move the X Velocity closer to targetX with a per-iteration limit

[topaz chasm]

also can ı see the circle in the overlapcircle?

[rough granite]

fair though why does a player controller have a target :?

[remote sparrow]

it was 12:30 when i was making it ok

[rough granite]

oh nvm just never seen someone handle movement like this

[polar acorn]

Not by default, but you can grab packages that let you:
https://github.com/vertxxyz/Vertx.Debugging

[rough granite]

is this made by the Mod Vertx?

[topaz chasm]

tysm

[remote sparrow]

i dont know its diffrent form all the other ones ive made but it was pretty fun so i decedied not to mess with it

[polar acorn]

Why not? It seems like a way to handle acceleration/deceleration in a more granular, if less physically accurate, way

[polar acorn]

yes

[remote sparrow]

do you know what might be causeing the problem?

[polar acorn]

I don't fully know what the problem is, actually.

[rough granite]

fair i miss understood what it meant by target when you mentioned it and thought it was going after an object :/

[patent hazel]

any advice to what to do about this? its annoying when it plays falling animation on such places

[polar acorn]

Like, what is the actual problem that's occurring in terms of what is happening in the game?

Like, it can't move left?

[remote sparrow]

ill send you a video hold on

[polar acorn]

That would be great actually

[rich adder]

add to the player the velocity on sloped

[polar acorn]

How are you currently playing the fall animation? What's doing the actual ground checking?

[patent hazel]

its character controller so i dont check it

it does it for me

[rich adder]

when you go fast on CC and its sloped, it "skips" and ungrounds itself

there is a fix for that

[polar acorn]

So you'll probably need to either write your own raycast to detect when you're grounded, or do a ProjectOnPlane for your movement so you move down the slope instead of just forward + gravity

[polar acorn]

Encode the video as .mp4 and it will embed

[patent hazel]

going slow actually works, i tested it now

but how would i say make speed something else when on a slope, how do i detect im on a slope

[remote sparrow]

here i just made an unlisted yt vid https://youtu.be/uekstg0ukoI

[rich adder]

raycast down and check the angle / normal

going slow just skips the problem overall but its bandaid

[patent hazel]

so ill do playerPosition.y = hitpoint.y ? if not grounded

im not really good with raycast but i hope i can manage

[polar acorn]

Try logging some values, right after your MoveTowards, add this:

Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name} X Velocity {rb.velocity.x} -> {newX}, Target Velocity {targetX}, Accel Rate {accelRate}");

[eager elm]

Add some debugs, is horizontal the value you expect? What about targetX etc.

[polar acorn]

See what happens when you try to move left

[remote sparrow]

the horizontal value when i hold a or left key is -1 like its supposed to be

[rough granite]

and the rest of the debug logs?

[remote sparrow]

gimme a min

[rough granite]

could the player also be moving down while left? feels like it's having friction with the ground.

[eager elm]

maybe it's just really windy

[rich adder]

that will feel terrible

[patent hazel]

what about not instantly but in 0. something seconds

[polar acorn]

I would say instead of just passing your vector directly to Move, if you're grounded, use ProjectOnPlane.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.ProjectOnPlane.html

So, raycast down, get the normal of the RaycastHit
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RaycastHit-normal.html

And pass that to ProjectOnPlane, then pass the result of that to .Move

[remote sparrow]

this is what i get when i move left Player X Velocity -0.3272377 -> -0.7972376, Target Velocity -16.6, Accel Rate 23.5
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)

[rough granite]

and if you moved right?

[polar acorn]

Okay, and does it trend closer to -16.6 as you go?

[remote sparrow]

no but i think i got it

[rich adder]

check this
https://youtu.be/PEHtceu7FBw
but yeah project also work, its similiar

[remote sparrow]

so mt gravity scale is 3 but i set it to one and now you can move left but your still moving noticibly slower then the right movement

[rough granite]

then you didn't get it :/

[patent hazel]

it will be great if i can understand this slope problem, my number 1 problem right now 😄 thanks im watching now

[rough granite]

also im sure you could change this if (Mathf.Abs(horizontal) > 0.01f) to if (horizontal != 0)

[zealous talon]

hey nav sorry do you have the project with player on the moving platform?