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[silver fern]

since the one thing all the effects have in common is being an EffectObject, I was hoping I could check through that

[rich adder]

maybe you can just implement an interface

if(other.TryGetComponent(out ISomethingCoroutine routine))
routine.DoStuff()

also you don't need to StartCoroutine directly, you can just use a method inside that class (probably interface) that runs coroutine

[silver fern]

or maybe I'm doing this whole thing wrong, I have something like this ```EffectObject effect = null;

    switch (effectType)
    {
        case EffectType.Burn:
            effect = new BurnEffect();
            break;
    }```

but then I can't start the coroutine on effect

[rich adder]

ohh are these not MBs

[silver fern]

yeah

the EffectObjects are not MB, that's why I have to start the coroutine from outside

[rocky canyon]

subtle + solid

[rich adder]

ya that kinda complicates this whole thing lol also does it need to be a coroutine ?

[silver fern]

it has to deal x damage every y seconds, I used InvokeRepeating before but then people here told me to change it to coroutines

[rich adder]

true true..could potentially switch it to an Awaitable / Task async, thats easier to store probably

I mean Coroutines can be stored in Coroutine type , just need a way to Return that

[ionic zephyr]

My problem is that my interactor detects objects taking in account the layer "Interactable" but my Enemy AI detects de player throwing a Raycast and detecting if it is in layer "Occlusion" but what if I have an object that is Interactable and should have occlusion (Door)??

[naive pawn]

imo - you could just have the coroutine on the thing being damaged, just have the effect supply the info for the coroutine

[rich adder]

ya was also thinking something like this ^

[silver fern]

oh yeah

good call

I knew it was obvious

thanks

[rich adder]

well you can't have two Layers thats for sure, you'd have to possibly break it down into components or something

[tiny crag]

how do i fix my "writing cursor" looking like this in vs code

[naive pawn]

press insert

on your keyboard

[tiny crag]

insert?

[naive pawn]

might be abbreviated to "ins"

[tiny crag]

ohh thank you!!!

[naive pawn]

further reading on what it actually does, if you're interested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_key

[tiny crag]

thanks i had the "overtype" setting on

[slender quiver]

https://paste.ofcode.org/ExwDaR5nhcmV89PCdsf8Ug

I have been attempting to lock my ship turrerts from rotating towards the superstructure of the ship. I thought I had it working great, but apparently I am working relative to world space. Can anyone suggest how I might easily convert this code to be relative to the local space of the turrets?

[naive pawn]

yawPivot.eulerAngles -> yawPivot.localEulerAngles
yawPivot.rotation -> yawPivot.localRotation

[slender quiver]

thanks

i knew itd be simple

[naive pawn]

but again - you should not rely on eulerAngles to be consistent

save the state yourself

[slender quiver]

hmm, this is stuff im not good at

or understanding of

[naive pawn]

// Get current yaw angle
float currentYaw = yawPivot.eulerAngles.y;
this is not necessarily the value you set last frame

[naive pawn]

the canonical representation of a rotation is the quaternion
when you assign to eulerAngles, that's converted into a quaternion before actually being assigned as the actual rotation
when you retreive eulerAngles, that's converted from the actual rotation quaternion

that process is lossy - converting eulerAngles to a quaternion and back again won't necessarily give the same eulerAngles

Because, there is more than one way to represent any given rotation using Euler angles, the values you read back out may be quite different from the values you assigned. This can cause confusion if you are trying to gradually increment the values to produce animation.

To avoid these kinds of problems, the recommended way to work with rotations is to avoid relying on consistent results when reading .eulerAngles particularly when attempting to gradually increment a rotation to produce animation. For better ways to achieve this, see the Quaternion * operator.

[slender quiver]

right

i understand the issue with euler angles

about order mattering and usch

gimbal lock

etc

[naive pawn]

no, those are separate issues

that's not what i'm talking about here at all

[slender quiver]

so the conversion process doesnt always result in the same ordering?

why else would it be a different rotation

[naive pawn]

the conversion doesn't result in the same values

[naive pawn]

it won't

it'll be the same rotation

but it might be represented differently

so the values you're doing math on will be inconsistent

[slender quiver]

so should convert back to quaternion before applying?

[naive pawn]

no that doesn't do anything

that's already being done when you assign to eulerAngles

[slender quiver]

okay

[naive pawn]

this is the part with the issue
you should store the currentYaw yourself, instead of extracting it from the quaternion each time

[slender quiver]

okay, and eulerAngles/localEulerAngles is the function that is extracting it from the quaternion

[naive pawn]

(or turning it into a quaternion, depending on if you're getting or setting)

[slender quiver]

can you give me a sample of what storing it myself might look like?

[rich adder]

make a field

[slender quiver]

doesnt have to be relevant to my function

just something

[rich adder]

add/minus the field value

[naive pawn]

for example, if you were just yawing 90° per second, you might have something like this (analogous to your code, the bad version)

float speed = 90;

void Update() {
  float currentYaw = transform.eulerAngles.y;
  currentYaw += speed * Time.deltaTime;
  transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0, currentYaw, 0);
}
```you should instead have something like this:
```cs
float speed = 90;

float currentYaw;

void Start() {
  currentYaw = transform.eulerAngles.y;
}

void Update() {
  currentYaw += speed * Time.deltaTime;
  transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0, currentYaw, 0);
}

in the assignment line, it could also be transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, currentYaw, 0);, im pretty sure that's completely equivalent?

[slender quiver]

okay so it is better to do just get currentYaw at the start of the script instead of every frame

[silver fern]

actually, I think this doesn't work because there can be multiple coroutines in parallel, and because I need to keep a reference to each

[naive pawn]

i don't see how that's an issue

lists are a thing

[rich adder]

just to give it the currenting starting value, from there you modify it directly and assign it to the rotation.

[naive pawn]

or a dict, for mapping the effect enum to the coroutine

[slender quiver]

right

and still better to use localEulerAngles

[naive pawn]

better than what...?

[slender quiver]

because currently as my ship rotates the disallowed angles rotate relative to the ship and it gets silly

[silver fern]

yes but if I have the coroutine logic in the DamageController instead of in the EffectObject, then I can only start and stop that one coroutine

[naive pawn]

im confused what you're asking here

[slender quiver]

well for my purpose

nt better

notbetter, but correct

[naive pawn]

oh, localEulerAngles vs eulerAngles?

[rich adder]

localEulerAngles will give you the value relative to parent

[slender quiver]

to keep it relative to local space

[naive pawn]

yeah, everything about eulerAngles vs rotation also applies to localEulerAngles vs localRotation
i just used the former for simplicity

[slender quiver]

so that the turrets can still be prvented from facing the superstructure as the ship rotates

sur sure

sorry if i am being obtuse

just trying to be explicit

[naive pawn]

yeah that's fine

[silver fern]

but each effect is supposed to start its own coroutine

[neon forum]

'Cannot Apply attribute class 'RpcAttribute' because it is abstract. Does that mean I have to implement it in the code? Why the tutorial giving me so many errors

[naive pawn]

an issue that would probably be solved by this #💻┃code-beginner message

[silver fern]

I don't understand how that's supposed to work here

[rich adder]

you can start as many coroutines as you want in a class, there is no issue

[rich adder]

to track them

[naive pawn]

the entire point of coroutines is concurrency

what is the actual issue you think you have

[silver fern]

but how, I have to define the coroutine and then I can use that one coroutine I defined

how do I add coroutines on demand

[naive pawn]

you might be confusing coroutines vs the methods that create them

[naive pawn]

by.. starting them

[rich adder]

var coroutine = StartCoroutine(MyRoutine()) // hi I'm a new coroutine

[silver fern]

wait, so if I do StartCoroutine(TakePeriodicDamage(damage, effectFrequency); multiple times, each one will start a new coroutine?

[naive pawn]

yes

[silver fern]

ah ok

[naive pawn]

that's the entire point of StartCoroutine

[slender quiver]

https://paste.ofcode.org/366JjrK6yaLjNS5f6xeju2K so th is is what i am working with now

[silver fern]

I thought it would restart the same one

[naive pawn]

what has invoke taught you man 😭

[rich adder]

if you ever worked with Tasks async, its similiar concept

[naive pawn]

you aren't updating currentYaw here

[naive pawn]

also you already have this code for getting the "initial rotation"

        // Store the initial rotation when the turret is first initialized
        if (!initialRotationSet)
        {
            initialYawRotation = yawPivot.localEulerAngles.y;
            initialRotationSet = true;
        }

you should have the initial setting for the currentYaw here as well, or have them both in Start

just for convenience/ease of maintenance

[slender quiver]

oh shit

i didnt notice that shouldnt be there

that is called iniside an Initialize() function i have in the controller too

which is called from outside the controller when the object gets instantiated

    public void Initialize(ShipData.TurretMount mountData)
    {
        mountName = mountData.mountName;
        section = mountData.turretMountSection;
        minRotation = mountData.minRotation;
        maxRotation = mountData.maxRotation;

        SetupPivots();

        // Set initial rotation reference
        if (yawPivot != null)
        {
            initialYawRotation = yawPivot.eulerAngles.y;
            initialRotationSet = true;
        }

        // Auto-assign gun barrels and muzzle transforms
        FindGunBarrels();
        FindMuzzles();

        // Initialize barrel recoil components on muzzle transforms
        InitializeBarrelRecoil();
    }

[naive pawn]

you could probably have the currentYaw set here as well

[slender quiver]

sure could

[neon forum]

How do I implement RpcAttribute the unity networking tutorial doesn't cover this part

[naive pawn]

perhaps ask #1390346492019212368?

[silver fern]

I store the ongoing effects in a list of EffectObjects, what's the smartest way to store the coroutines together with them or linked with them in some way?

since the coroutines need to stop when the corresponding effect ends

[rich adder]

Dictionary <EffectObject, Coroutine>

[silver fern]

good idea, thanks

[grand snow]

why not have this be done within each EffectObject instance?

though I think I already said this like 3 times so

[silver fern]

that's what I tried but then I couldn't find a way to start the coroutines

[grand snow]

you actually only need a monobehaviour to "start" it

so you could pass a reference to your EffectObject at somepoint for it to use

e.g. your player component

[silver fern]

the different effects like BurnEffect, SlowEffect, etc all inherit from the EffectObject, and some contain coroutines. And when I try to check effect.EffectCoroutine, where effect is an EffectObject, it says EffectObject does not contain a definition for the coroutine

so my current approach is to define the coroutine in the MB and make the EffectObject supply the parameters for it

[rich adder]

I suggested earlier you can use a Interface to check if the Effect has implemented a Coroutine

[grand snow]

okay let me write a quick example to demo how this can be done

[rich adder]

shouldn't this work ?

public interface IEffectCoroutine{
    IEnumerator EffectCoroutine();
}
public class BurnEffect : EffectObject, IEffectCoroutine{
    public IEnumerator EffectCoroutine(){
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);
        Debug.Log("Burn damage tick!");
    }
}
if (effect is ICoroutineEffect coroutineEffect)
    StartCoroutine(coroutineEffect.EffectCoroutine());```

[grand snow]

public class EffectObject
{
    public void StartEffect(MonoBehaviour mono)
    {
        var coroutine = mono.StartCoroutine(DoEffect());
    }

    public IEnumerator DoEffect()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
        //do shit
    }
}

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
    private EffectObject effectObject = new();

    public void Start()
    {
        //Can do it this way
        StartCoroutine(effectObject.DoEffect());

        //Or like this
        effectObject.StartEffect(this);
    }
}

Yea all you need is to have a monobehaviour to start the coroutine. my example shows 2 ways to do this.

@silver fern

[silver fern]

I see, thanks

let me try that

seems to be working, even though it's complaining that the assignment of the coroutine variable is not necessary

[rich adder]

var coroutine is local, it doesnt do anything outside of StartEffect

if you had a field you could assign it to that, otherwise there is no use for it

[silver fern]

now I can just destroy the EffectObject to stop the coroutine?

or do I still have to make the dictionary

[rich adder]

remember the Coroutine is running on the MonoBehaviour, Player in this example

[silver fern]

ah

then I still need the dictionary anyway

[rich adder]

btw you can probably return the Coroutine directly

public Coroutine StartEffect(MonoBehaviour mono)
    {
        return mono.StartCoroutine(DoEffect());
    }

[rich adder]

if you want to keep track of them, you need store them

[silver fern]

I thought I just start it since I'm passing in the MB from the player anyway

    {
        mono.StartCoroutine(DealDamage());
    }```

actually, should I make this override a virtual function in the EffectObject or better not

I suppose I don't have to check if it exists if there's an empty virtual function

[rich adder]

if you want, personally I think the Interface is cleaner
especially if you mentioned certain derived classes wont even need Coroutine

[grand snow]

if you use the version where we start the coroutine within EffectObject then you can store the returned coroutine and stop it via that...

I presumed you would understand this by now my bad

The point of this was to demonstrate to you how you can handle this within each instance nicely 😐

[rich adder]

You can combine the two examples shown..
#💻┃code-beginner message
my example here is how you can check a derived effect even has a coroutine to run so you dont even need to clutter the parent class if not all derived have coroutine

[silver fern]

yeah my thinking was I don't have to check at all if there's an empty placeholder

I can just run it and if its empty nothing happens

[rich adder]

sure if you wanna do it that way.. its your design at the end of the day, you're the one who's going to be working on it, use what's comfortable, preference at this point.

If you come back to the code in a few months it has to make sense to you not us

[silver fern]

well apparently I can't have a virtual coroutine method so my idea doesn't work anyway

[rich adder]

you can?

[silver fern]

it says not all code paths return a value

[past yarrow]

would that doc still work today in Unity 6 ?

[silver fern]

public virtual Coroutine EffectCoroutine(MonoBehaviour mono) {}

[rich adder]

you need yield return null; inside the virtual one

[silver fern]

ah

[slender quiver]

@rich adder @naive pawn this is my new and updated version, hopefully this appears to be better according to your advice and instructions

https://paste.ofcode.org/FvKT5kxyiqyiizizkXw8VZ

[slender nymph]

note that if you want it to be a coroutine it must return IEnumerator not Coroutine. Coroutine is the object returned by the StartCoroutine method

[silver fern]

it does ``` public override Coroutine EffectCoroutine(MonoBehaviour mono)
{
return mono.StartCoroutine(DealDamage());
}

[grand snow]

Seems pointless to do this tbh

[silver fern]

why?

[grand snow]

You could just start the mono where you intend to call this...

Look at it and think

[slender nymph]

but also yield return null as nav suggested would not be the proper fix for that, you'd want to either make the method abstract (assuming the containing class is also abstract) or return default in the base virtual method (if the base doesn't actually do anything)

[silver fern]

but that's the example you gave me, and I'm returning it so I can store it like you said

[grand snow]

let me do another example so you understand what I meant

public class EffectObject
{
    private Coroutine coroutine;
    private MonoBehaviour coroutineMono;

    public void StartEffect(MonoBehaviour mono)
    {
        coroutineMono = mono;
        coroutine = mono.StartCoroutine(DoEffect());
    }

    public void StopEffect()
    {
        if (coroutineMono != null && coroutine != null)
        {
            coroutineMono.StopCoroutine(coroutine);
            coroutine = null;
            coroutineMono = null;
        }
    }

    public IEnumerator DoEffect()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
        //do shit
    }
}

[rich adder]

Is it working ?

[surreal wagon]

I have a basic movement script for a rigidbody but it's really frictionless and not snappy. I've tried to just directly set the velocity but that ends up interferring with dashing and I've also messed around with the drag but that makes the gravity act really weird. Is there anyway to make this stop sliding as much?

Vector3 velocity = (transform.forward * Input.GetAxis("Vertical") + transform.right * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")).normalized;
rb.AddForce(velocity * speed, ForceMode.Force);

[silver fern]

that's even better, thanks

[rich adder]

how was velocity interfering with dash ?

[grand snow]

Do you see now how we handle these references within each instance, making things easier?

[silver fern]

yeah, that's what I actually wanted when I started on it today but then I got lost lol

[grand snow]

as you get more knowledge and experience with OO programming it will be easier to design things better

[surreal wagon]

The Dash works by adding force but it's instantly overwritten when the movement velocity is set

    Vector3 velocity = (transform.forward * Input.GetAxis("Vertical") + transform.right * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")).normalized;
    rb.velocity = new Vector3(velocity.x * speed, rb.velocity.y, velocity.z * speed);

    //Dash
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift)&&!dashCooldown)
    {
        StartCoroutine(Dash());
    }
}
IEnumerator Dash()
{
    dashCooldown = true;
    rb.AddForce(transform.forward * speed, ForceMode.Impulse);
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(2);
    dashCooldown = false;
}

[silver fern]

learn something new every day as they say

[rich adder]

yes AddForce gets overridden but you can just add to the velocity no?

[surreal wagon]

I want the dash to be a short burst so if i did that it'd just change the speed of the character which isnt my intent

[rich adder]

you can even mix in an AnimationCurve to add the extra speed and fade it down or up

[rich adder]

no need to change the original, add the burst to it

[ivory bobcat]

You could probably just modify some offset that you would add to velocity after computing movement.

You'd need to have that offset gradually decrease to have a burst effect though

[slender quiver]

@rich adder nope, it d oesnt. took me amionute to get on and test. but now its all rotating about the Z axis, not the Y

sso the turrets are rollign over on their sides intstead of rotating lol

[surreal wagon]

Well im going to add a mechanic where you can use a shotgun to launch yourself which i feel like would be a pain to do with the rb.velocity setup. Is there anyway i could just use the addForce way without the player being so frictionless?

[rich adder]

put material with more friction on the player collider 🤷‍♂️

[rich adder]

I could take a look when i'm back, but what values is the inspector changing for it anyway?

[rich adder]

@slender quiver Okay just got back and was able to take better look at code, aside from those very sketchy limits that you need to change asap, everything else should rotate as expected on Y..

[slender quiver]

yea they were set as a test awhile back, but min/maxRotation are always set so the hardcoded fallbacks dont ge tused

[rich adder]

== is pointless on floats anyway

you're never going to get exact values unless you explicitly write them

[slender quiver]

even for a null check?

[rich adder]

no ? don't see how null is relevant here

the reason you don't for floats is they are not precise, and have "float point inaccuracy"

[grand snow]

the c# docs also mention this issue with float comparison https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.single.equals?view=net-9.0

[rich adder]

Oh nice they also mention solution

Unity has this implemented similiar with Mathf.Approximately() https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Approximately.html
but you can ofc make your own

or < >

[grand snow]

yea c# docs are amazing they often have extra remarks and things

[rich adder]

ya glad to see that microsft finally puts those, i recall the old school docs were more robotic. maybe I remember wrong from msdn

[slender quiver]

@rich adder aye i am aware - am i checking for quality against a float that isnt a null check?

i dont see it

@rich adder Ive also used Mathf.Approximately()

at times

[rich adder]

idk what you mean there tbh.. null to me has anything to do with Reference types
(unless you count nullable valuetypes)

[slender quiver]

  if (yawPivot == null)
        {
            Debug.Log($"yawPivot is null!");
            return;
        }

well yawpivot is a transform

sorry

[rich adder]

yes thats a reference type

[slender quiver]

i still dont see whre i am checking == on a float

[rich adder]

by default value types are never null

[slender quiver]

yee

[rich adder]

oh yes myb I better looked at the code you had!= which is fine there, but I meant in general just incase

!= 0 is okay but even doing it on anything else, it would probably always be true

the rest of the limit thing just seems odd

[slender quiver]

i changed it to 320f and 40f anyways

but idk why they are rotating about the Z axis now

instead of about t he Y

[rich adder]

did you look at the inspector is that really whats happening ?

[slender quiver]

i watched it happening

[rich adder]

I just tested your code for shits and gigs, aside from limits (i commented those out)
it works fine

[slender quiver]

ill double check

[rich adder]

@slender quiver

[slender quiver]

should be proper orientation

[rich adder]

this might be a hierarchy / model issue

you'd have to show the heirarchy / pivots n all that jaz

[slender quiver]

it was working before

[rich adder]

before what?

[slender quiver]

before i converted the code over

[rich adder]

YawPivot here says its rotating on Y

you have something else not properly rotated then

[slender quiver]

hmm it must be different axis in local space

[rich adder]

wdym ? the inspector is LocalSpace

[slender quiver]

for that reason

no my words are just poor

i meant that the axes arent corresponding to each other due to a rotation issue or something

[rich adder]

maybe show the scene view with gizmo on show arrows, see if the child turret matches the pivot of YawPivot

or if YawPivot makes sense on the parent

[slender quiver]

axes seem to be same

oh yea

one sec

[rich adder]

also make sure you're in Local /Pivot mode not Global

[rich adder]

ah

[slender quiver]

thats with yawpivot selected

but they all kinda face the same

[rich adder]

no shit now it makes sense why its tilting lol

[slender quiver]

yep

[rich adder]

i guess before you were rotating "wrong" on z and now that its accurate you can adjust it properly

[languid pagoda]

I wrote a custom wheel collider with pakejka tire friction. Am still pretty new to unity and c# could someone give my code a look and tell me if you spot any no no's

https://hastebin.com/share/jegufafeno.java

[eternal needle]

just skimming through, not gonna look deep into the algorithm itself and i doubt anyone would
the main thing id point out here is your magic numbers. theres a ton of numbers here which look like you'd want to configure them in editor but are just defined purely in a function. they dont have an explanation or variable describing why that number is used. Im not too familiar with the algorithm you're using, so if those are supposed to be static coefficients in the algorithm then its fine for them to not be configured in editor
the variable names like B_lat also clash with the convention you're using in other names. id suggest just finding a way to name it with camel case still
I would split up more of the logic if you want to improve readability. for example look at line 238, it calls MapRangeClamped inside a Mathf.Lerp so the line gets pretty long and this can usually make logic harder to follow

[languid pagoda]

Awesome I will give those a tweak now. As for the "magic numbers" thats kinda just the way the algorithm works. Its called the magic formula and the numbers just kinda work for "realistic" tire friction. I really appreciate the advice!

[eternal needle]

just curious, are you making this for any specific reason? there is a wheel collider but its not something i used

it seems to fit for most people

[slender quiver]

man shits so wonky with my turretsn now

[languid pagoda]

Unity wheel collider is great for simple vehicle physics but its just not very good for anything "Realistic" it wouldnt handle making cars like in gta etc. It is a watered down version of the physx wheel collider. Which isn't very good in itself.

The wheel collider I posted it good for making games that are a simcade level of car physics(think forza and gran turismo)

[rich adder]

we can't possibly know / help with this statement alone what issue might be...

its all visuals, thats an easy fix

[hallow acorn]

hey, does someone know what would be the best pathfinding solution without a grid in 2d?

[eternal needle]

pathfinding would imply you have a grid or graph. otherwise what information do you expect to use for solving what a valid path is?
you could go with using physics casts to determine if you can get around obstacles, but this isn't pathfinding and won't be usable for calculating an entire path

[hallow acorn]

oh ok ty how do modern day games often in 3d space to implement monsters move to the player?

[sour forge]

hey. i'm struggling with c# in unity, can someone help me? i need a help with my school project thanks in advance 💞

[rich adder]

that depends on the game lol
some games stil use A* / Navmesh and some use a bunch of sensors

[eternal needle]

theres tons of games and not one set way to do it. navmesh exists in 3d, so thatll be a common approach for indie devs at least

[hallow acorn]

okay thank you

[rich adder]

!ask 👇

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
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[rich adder]

particularly the last bulletin point

[sour forge]

i dont understand that, i have specific request of help

[ivory bobcat]

What kind of help?

[rich adder]

what dont you get?

❔ And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

[ivory bobcat]

Normally folks would describe what they're needing help with in specific and show the necessary details.

[rich adder]

"can someone help me" isnt useful to anyone. we already know you need help, thats why you're here

[ivory bobcat]

If you're just looking for someone to collaborate or tutor you, you can try asking on the forums but tbh you'll probably not get the help you're wanting within the specific time limit etc !collab

[sour forge]

I need some help with my school final project. I need to create a Visual Novel with C#, but I need some help with this

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[rich adder]

again, what kind of help are we talking here?

if you mean someone to write the code for you then this isn't the place, if you mean how to approach a problem with code or fixing existing issues then sure.

[swift elbow]

"ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed."

[sour forge]

I have never created a VN with C# before. I have used Python, but I can't say I've listened to many C# lessons. So, I'm talking about good support. At the very least, I want to create a prototype

[swift elbow]

then do it. nothing is stopping you

[rich adder]

"good support" is still vague lol
you can come here any time with question, that is considered support

if you are looking for project collaborators then you need to make a post on !collab 👇

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[sour forge]

okay

[sour forge]

no need to be rude btw

[rich adder]

I'm just being blunt, sorry if that comes off as rude

[ivory bobcat]

I don't think anyone has been rude though

[grand snow]

its !learn ing time

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[languid pagoda]

im show you how you ask for help in a programming discord since you seem to be oblivious to what they're saying.

Hey guys I made a custom wheel collider it works great and I am also simulating an engine. The engine has a torque curve(ie it produces different torque depending ont he RPM of the engine. That number is then multiplied by the current gears gear ratio in the gearbox script. It works great however the only way I can seem to get it work on hills is by amping up the gear ratio of first gear but then when I am back on flat ground it produces too much acceleration. Is this a problem with my curve you think?

The options I am thinking is maybe more torque at low rpms but idk

[ivory bobcat]

Could probably have another curve that would scale the value relative to the normal of the surface or something.

[languid pagoda]

I like this idea

[sour forge]

I haven't even been on the server for five minutes, what were you expecting?

[rich adder]

think in terms of the real world.
You need to go to lower gears to climb up hills and for down hills you need higher gears

[forest mirage]

just learn from document tutorial just keep moving if you struggle wee are hear to help you

[languid pagoda]

Yes but the gear ration in the transmission is always the same and I am struggling to find values of the torque curve and gear ratio that work as expected. either it works great on flat ground and I cannot get moving from a stop if on a hill , but then if I tweak values to fix that I accelerate way to fast from a stand still when on flat ground.

[sour forge]

Thanks sami

[languid pagoda]

Just make what you want to make and ask for help when you run into issues is your best bet.

[rich adder]

@sour forge btw you should look into something like INK it should similify doing a visual novel since well..it was built for them.

[languid pagoda]

I could be off base here but cant a visual novel be built with timeline?

[rich adder]

https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

You could do that too, or even combine the two.. there is no limits / set ways to do it

Ink simplifies mostly the dialogue and reacting to specific choices

[languid pagoda]

oh nice

[sour forge]

I'll check that

Creating VN with c# is bs at first point 🤦‍♀️

[rich adder]

whys that? the language is irrelevant to the project type

[languid pagoda]

its kinda a low level language for such a high level concept is what I think she means.

[rich adder]

c# is way easier than python imo

[languid pagoda]

agreed

[rich adder]

c# is not a low level language

[sour forge]

i think py is easier

[forest mirage]

its talking about 100% c#

[languid pagoda]

compared to C and stuff sure but for something as trivial as a VN c# is definitely a little bit overkill

[forest mirage]

its high level language low is binary bro

[languid pagoda]

I meant in the context of what is being made

[rich adder]

C is still high level language

in fact most c languages are

[ivory bobcat]

Could probably look into VN templates on the asset store and see how they do theirs or build upon those, if allowed. Language isn't a factor unless you're simply expressing your unfamiliarity with the language.

[sour forge]

Actually creating vn could be fun

[sour forge]

good idea! thanks a lot

[rich adder]

depends how complex you need to make it

[hallow acorn]

float targetX = Random.Range(-transform.position.x - sightRadius, transform.position.x + sightRadius);
float targetY = Random.Range(-transform.position.y - sightRadius, transform.position.y + sightRadius);
Vector2 target = new Vector2(targetX, targetY);
Vector2 direction = (target - new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y)).normalized;```
does someone know why the magnitude of the vector `direction` isnt 1? i dont really get that

[ivory bobcat]

What's the value instead?

[forest mirage]

bro you need some organizing

[hallow acorn]

depends. i feel like the longer the code runs, the wilder it gets

[hallow acorn]

how would you write it? gave my best to organize it😭

[ivory bobcat]

Those would seem to be the position and not the normalized value?

[rich adder]

you arent even showing us what line is printing these

[hallow acorn]

my fault wrong screenshot sorry

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming you're expecting 1 from the normalized direction

[forest mirage]

bro its normal i have 500 lines not organized its being a real dev

[forest mirage]

wee dont know what line is printing these

[rich adder]

at lest you sent a message that makes sense this time..

[hallow acorn]

wait

it is 1

then its something else

[rich adder]

is this like an XY problem here..

you aren't asking us about your original issue..

[modest dust]

Unrelated to the issue, but your target range seems wrong when I look at it

The first param for both X and Y

[hallow acorn]

what do you mean?

[modest dust]

I would assume you're looking for a target within sightRadius

[ivory bobcat]

You're probably wanting to use positive x and not negative x (relative to position). Same with y etc

[rich adder]

would help knowing what original problem they were trying to solve 🤷‍♂️

[ivory bobcat]

ie Initial point plus/minus some range

[hallow acorn]

ohhhhhh

that makes sense

[astral flame]

Hi people, can someone help me with my code? Watch the video first to see how bad it is.

Have you seen what's wrong with him? He does that thing where he jumps the piece instead of staying still.

[languid pagoda]

ok so i found a solution. I need to make an animation curve that slowly reduces clutch input as the RPMS of the engine increase. this will solve my issue.

[languid pagoda]

how are you moving the object currently?

and tbh I think your issue is the small snap size but that cant really be changed now can it?

are you just doing transform.position = new Vector3(mousePositionTOWolrdPos);

?

[astral flame]

With the mouse, the mouse disappears and is replaced with the object and if I press the left button, everything returns to normal.

[languid pagoda]

no i mean show the code you're using to make the object follow the cursor position

[languid pagoda]

please paste the code

also

[rich adder]

this person been here forever and still doesnt post it properly..

[languid pagoda]

I need to see the "movepiece()" method to assist

[astral flame]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[languid pagoda]

bro look at the code he posted i asked him to show where the objects being moved and he showed me code calling "MovePiece()"

[astral flame]

https://paste.ofcode.org/JmiTdXfJxMEZMPBC2tpJhj

[languid pagoda]

 // Enganchar en X
                    if (Mathf.Abs(newPos.x - col.transform.position.x) <= snapRange)
                        newPos.x = col.transform.position.x;

                    // Enganchar en Y (arriba de la pieza)
                    if (Mathf.Abs(newPos.y - col.transform.position.y) <= snapRange)
                        newPos.y = col.transform.position.y + other.sizeY;

                    // Enganchar en Z
                    if (Mathf.Abs(newPos.z - col.transform.position.z) <= snapRange)
                        newPos.z = col.transform.position.z;

This is your issue

you need to use one of unities many smoothing methods

Mathf.Lerp may help you here but setting the position like that is going to cause jittery movement like you showed.

[slow blaze]

In my game I'm drawing shapes using multiple Polygons smooshed together to give the illusion of lines
I want to check what shape the lines form after releasing the mouse, how would I go about that? I tried to think about it but I have no idea how to make that translation

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by "check what shape they form"?

Can you explain the gameplay mechanic here?

[rocky canyon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/3rkr4s/trying_to_recognize_drawn_shapes/

if u mean simple gesture stuff id imagine ud find some resource thru this thread ^

[slow blaze]

You draw a shape on the screen, based on the drawn shape an action is performed
(Square does action1, circle does action2 etc etc)

[rocky canyon]

ahh yea that'd just be detecting gestures

https://github.com/Oponn-1/Unity-Gesture-Recognizer maybe something like this?

[slow blaze]

This is precisely what I need
I found a resource a gesture recogniser $1 Unistroke Recogniser which I'm reading too to get a better idea of what I'm doing and maybe tweak a few things

[rocky canyon]

ya theres a couple on the store but most are paid.. i just added github to my search in google

[wintry quarry]

Keep in mind a gesture recognizer is a little different from optical character recognition (OCR)

You might want to look into both and understand the difference

[rocky canyon]

:TIL:

[wintry quarry]

A gesture recognizer might care about how the shape is made (e.g. did you start at the top left and end at the bottom right) whereas OCR only cares about the final shape

[rocky canyon]

ya, i imagine gesture recognition is just a continuous line... press -> release

while u could have a more complex one that takes multiple lines and makes something out of that

i myself have never done either.. sounds like a fun project..

[tacit prism]

ive tried for the last 3 days and cant figure it out
how do i import a heightmap for terrain. I put the .RAW in where it says import, but it just gives me a slightly elevated, flat terrain. Im choosing places with rivers and places with mountains. For example, this is the Himalayas

[wintry quarry]

Here's an interesting one https://github.com/ZeppelinGames/Glyph-Recognition

[rocky canyon]

ya awesome! ^ i was hunting one for a thumbnail/screenshots

[remote vault]

hey guys i was refactoring my input system and i dont know how to solve this issue, let alone what even is the issue

[rocky canyon]

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

Assets/Scripts/GameInput.cs:15
means that line 15 of that script is trying to access or modify something that isn't assigned [correctly]

it'd be like having a public MyScript myScript; and then trying to run myScript.DoSomething(); when I never assigned the variable in the inspector

[remote vault]

what do you recommend i should do?

[rocky canyon]

look at that line, see what variables/ references that ur using.. check and make sure they're assigned...
you can use Debug.Log(); to print it out in the Console to make sure they're actually there.. also the website i linked goes over it all..

i can already pretty much guess that its this... is that assigned in the inspector?

[remote vault]

yeah i assigned it

[rocky canyon]

well what else is on line 15?

it does look like from the error that somethings going on here... GetMovementVectorNormalized()

[remote vault]

sorry im just quite confused what should i do?

[rocky canyon]

!code well for starters show the code thats relevant

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[rocky canyon]

we can't know exactly whats going on at line 15

[rocky canyon]

wait a minute... in the Awake() function.. are you meaning to create a local variable (underlined in orange)
because you actually never set the one in yellow..

[remote vault]

yeah i got it fixed it was quite a silly mistake

[rocky canyon]

wouldnt you assign the yellow in Awake() instead?
like playerInputActions = new PlayerInputActions();
but to be honest im kinda lost as to how this works (the new input system)

[remote vault]

yeah thats exactly what i did thanks a lot for helping

[rocky canyon]

we finally got it 😅

(i didn't actually realize the two screenshots were code)

[pale stratus]

I'm creating a 2D action game, but should I separate the character scripts? If so, how should I separate them?(I'm using a translation)

[tacit prism]

Bump ^

[tacit prism]

As far as I’ve heard, making code more readable is always better. Organization comes in handy later on for refactoring

I don’t know too much though so I can’t help you past that.

I’ve heard people will even split character movement scripts like sprinting, jumping, and crouching outside of a general movement script so…

[teal viper]

Where do you assign the height map what does it look like? How did you create it?

Also, probably not related to coding. #⛰️┃terrain-3d

[tacit prism]

Thanks for channel

Gotten from some GitHub thing, chose an area of the world map. Rendered it. Converted from png to raw. Imported, flat

All the render sites I’ve tried render as png

I’ve tried like 6

[teal viper]

You should share more details and screenshots in the terrain channel.

[tacit prism]

I will, but as of right now it’s 1 am, didn’t notice the channel at first though, so thanks

[brisk ibex]

I keep having to switch my external editor to vscode and then regenerate csproj files for my external editor's language server then switch back, surely there is an easier way to do this?

Manually reconfiguring the settings every time I make a change that introduces a new symbol is a real pain.

[teal viper]

You should only need to configure it once normally.
Check the !ide config guide:

[eternal falcon]

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

Select one:

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[teal viper]

One thing that could theoretically cause an issue is if you have used the user installer instead of the system one. It have caused some issues for me in the past.

[potent turtle]

The only requirement for the ability te generate the csproj files is that the external editor is named code.exe. You could just make a symbolic link to your actual editor. Maybe a shortcut could work too

[brisk ibex]

Yeah outside of this 🙁

Guess I have to make a plugin or something

[potent turtle]

I just make an empty file named code and set that as my external editor then edit all my code in my IDE separately 🤷

[brisk ibex]

I use the external editor thing to open vim

so I need to have it set to an external editor

[potent turtle]

Then set it as a symlink or shortcut

[brisk ibex]

eg.

[potent turtle]

And name the symlink/shortcut to "code"

Or you're on Linux. Yeah just make a symlink named code

[rare wave]

Hope It's okay to ask here and if this is even the right place, is there anyone here with experience modding unity games willing to do a simple mod for a commission? please dm if you do or lemme know so I can dm you with the details

[potent turtle]

Or just rename your unity.sh file to code instead

[brisk ibex]

I'm on mac, are you saying that all it checks to automatically regenerate metadata is if the file name is code?

[potent turtle]

Yeah

[rare wave]

I'm willing to pay whatever price you choose or think is fitting for what I want and willing to pay in full before the work starts so you can feel safe working on it

[potent turtle]

I've not had any issues doing that

Though I also don't use the external editor setting for anything really. I just open files through my IDE instead of through Unity

[brisk ibex]

Does it need to be cap'd (Code) or something?

[potent turtle]

All lowercase

[brisk ibex]

I like being able to do both so far it's kinda handy, v new to unity (more of a general prog background than games).

[potent turtle]

It should show checkboxes or buttons or someuthing to generate the csproj files when it thinks you're using vscode

[brisk ibex]

only shows that under the specific option for VSCode for me

might be a mac thing (unity seems v odd on mac so far)

[potent turtle]

Maybe. I know it works on Windows and Linux, might be different on macOS

That would kinda suck though 😢

FWIW it's not that bad to just use Telescope in Neovim to switch files

[brisk ibex]

I use command-T it's faster 🙂

[potent turtle]

Sure, whatever file switcher 🤷

[brisk ibex]

even then do I still have to press regenerate project files all the time?

[potent turtle]

I don't think so? I've never had issues with that

[brisk ibex]

Using omnisharp?

[potent turtle]

But if it insists on using the actual VSCode exe on macOS maybe it's different for the csproj files too

[potent turtle]

Yup

[brisk ibex]

Hmmph another fun thing to debug, thank you for your help so far 🙂

The price of using a non-slow-editor-strikes-again

[potent turtle]

Hopefully it works out 😅

It always amazes me how slow VSCode and especially VS are

Though Neovim opens horrendously slowly on Windows so 🤷

Opens fine in WSL on Windows though

[brisk ibex]

So does every piece of software on that platform 😄

[potent turtle]

The Powershell startup time is abysmal 😭

Even Powershell on Linux opens instantly. It's just Windows

[nimble apex]

    private Int64 nextUpdateTimestamp = 0;
    private Int64 GetCurrentTimestamp() => DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeSeconds();

    private async UniTask Update()
    {
        if (GetCurrentTimestamp() < nextUpdateTimestamp)
        {
            await LoadData();
        }
    }```

i guess this should be fine

shouldnt be too expensive tho

[grand snow]

Who writes Int64 instead of long

But using long would imply it's ms not seconds

[nimble apex]

not used to shortform lol

[grand snow]

int64_t feels like home

[nimble apex]

lol

[grand snow]

But no performance issues to me here seeing as it's a single check then an await

[nimble apex]

ok nice

[grand snow]

Actually I realise it's a bad design because if the timestamp condition is met it may call LoadData many times

Perhaps a single UniTask.Delay to wait the time instead?

[nimble apex]

    private void Update()
    {
        if (nextUpdateTimestamp != 0 && GetCurrentTimestamp() > nextUpdateTimestamp)
        { 
            LoadData().Forget();
        }
    }

    public async UniTask LoadData()
    {
        nextUpdateTimestamp = 0;
        Debug.Log("passed");
        //server loading action (async)
    }```

[nimble apex]

ya i thought of that too

[grand snow]

Update() doesn't need to await anything

Basically the design of this is a bit naff

[nimble apex]

i dont have dedicated server to sync in game data with backend real time , so i need to find a way to actively check the data if i want to do auto update

but if its like this i think using coroutine should be fine

[grand snow]

Change Update() to a function that loops on its own then

[nimble apex]

    private void Awake()
    {
         StartCoroutine(ConstantValidation());
    }

    private IEnumerator ConstantValidation()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
            
            if (nextUpdateTimestamp != 0 && GetCurrentTimestamp() > nextUpdateTimestamp)
            { 
                LoadData().Forget();
            }
        }
    }```

[nimble apex]

when loaddata added .Forget, its just a void function

[grand snow]

Why make it a coroutine 😭

public async UniTask Loop()
{
  while(this != null)
  {
    if (nextUpdateTimestamp != 0 && GetCurrentTimestamp() > nextUpdateTimestamp)
    { 
          await LoadData();
    }

    await UniTask.Yield();
  }
}

then call it with Loop().Forget();

this way it will actually wait for data to load and then continue to check each frame

[daring sentinel]

Any idea why I am getting this exception, when the animator is still assigned on the script within the editor.

This is my code for the script:

using Cysharp.Threading.Tasks;
using UnityEngine;

public class AnimationController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator animator;
    public OptionsMenu optionsMenu;
    protected virtual void Awake()
    {
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();

        if (animator == null )
        {
            Debug.LogError("No animator attached");
        }
        GameState.decisionTime += PlayerSpeaking;
        GameState.distributeDecision += (choice) => NPCSpeakingCaller(choice);
        GameState.verdictTime += PlayerSpeaking;
       
    }

    protected void NPCSpeakingCaller(int choice)
    {
        NPCSpeaking();
    }

    public virtual void NPCSpeaking()
    {
        //Debug.Log("NPC Speaking");
        animator.ResetTrigger("Player_Speaking");
        animator.SetTrigger("NPC_Speaking");
        if (optionsMenu.IsPlayerSpeaking())
        {
            optionsMenu.TogglePlayerPanel();
        }
    }

    public void PlayerSpeaking()
    {
        animator.ResetTrigger("NPC_Speaking");
        animator.SetTrigger("Player_Speaking");
        
    }


    protected virtual void OnDisable()
    {
        GameState.decisionTime -= PlayerSpeaking;
        GameState.distributeDecision -= NPCSpeakingCaller;
        GameState.verdictTime -= PlayerSpeaking;
    }
}

This only happens when I load the next level scene, not when playing the scene individually

Also what the hell does this error mean?

It doesn't affect anything when testing it just appears

[grand snow]

It was destroyed

Or was never assigned

[daring sentinel]

Is it not assigned in the editor and the script??

Like this only happens when I transition between level scenes, not when testing the levels individually

[naive pawn]

you probably have stale event listeners

(choice) => NPCSpeakingCaller(choice)
this one was never unsubscribed

[naive pawn]

this was a very good call lmao, led straight to looking for stale event listeners

[grand snow]

Huh yea it subs a lambda which is not referenced to unsubscribe with later.
The missing ref exception is not a great name

Also you should use OnDestroy instead of disable

[daring sentinel]

Alright thanks, I'll try that, I thought for some reason that I wouldn't need the lambda on unsubscription. Just wanna skip to the write up for this dissertation haha.

[daring sentinel]

Oh ok, thanks for the heads up

How come?

[grand snow]

Yea because if it gets disabled and re enabled well your event subs are gone

[naive pawn]

wdym, it says exactly what it is

[grand snow]

Could probably have a better name imo but it's alright I guess

[naive pawn]

you can't use a lambda on unsubscription either
delegates are ref types
you should use NPCSpeakingCaller to subscribe directly

[daring sentinel]

Even if those events are passing things like integers? I thought that's why I needed the lambda

[naive pawn]

parameters don't make a difference, no

(if they're being consumed in the same order)

if you wanted to ignore them, you would use a lambda then, but then that wouldn't work for the unsubscription

i thought you'd already figured that out, given the separate NPCSpeakingCaller

[grand snow]

Action myLambda = () => DoShit();
Game.event += myLambda;
//...
Game.event -= myLambda;

How to do this properly

you need a ref to the exact "function" you subscribed with

Thats why using a method is easier

[daring sentinel]

So long as the parameters are in the same order, the lambda's are only necessary if you intend to ignore them?

[naive pawn]

or if you want to change the order, yeah

basically - if you use the method (or an action) directly, the parameter list must match exactly

if the parameter list doesn't match, you need an intermediate function to handle the disconnect (which could be a method like you have here or a lambda in rob's example)

[grand snow]

This is why I just make a method with the matching args for event subscriptions

VS will even generate it for you if you do += SomeCoolNamePlzMakeForMe; (using the 💡)

[daring sentinel]

Ok I'll sort out the event subscriptions like that then, thanks so much! It's all good as all I need to show my supervisor is just a little demo so even if I can't get it to work it's all good, but it's just nice to have it as a little bit of polish

[grand snow]

The main thing is unsubscribing will prevent your event trying to interact with "destroyed" gameobjects/components

the cheaty way is to add a if (this == null) return; to stop early if it was destroyed

[daring sentinel]

And the handling of event subscriptions is why I was getting this error?

[grand snow]

I suspect so but I cant read the stack.
Use a debugger if you are interested and you can check if this == null to see the mono instance is "destroyed"

same for the animator/any component /gameobject type

[naive pawn]

(imo you should let it fail fast to pick up bugs like this though)

[grand snow]

Yea the exception informed you of this problem ᵗʰᵃⁿᵏ ᵘ ᵉˣᶜᵉᵖᵗᶦᵒⁿ

[daring sentinel]

So from that, is it because I never made an instance of the AnimationController class?

Because I already have:

if (animator == null )
        {
            Debug.LogError("No animator attached");
        }

And the error is on about UnityEngine.animator

[grand snow]

If you have a monobehaviour on a gameobject and it has valid references its all good BUT when that gameobject is destroyed so are the components.
Our monobehaviour instance still exists because a class instance cannot just be deleted, our event sub is still called but it now will try to interact with a destroyed animator... Thats why there is an exception.

[daring sentinel]

Oh right, so is it because I am transitioning between scenes, and these scenes have different NPCs with different animators attached. It's giving me this exception? But then again it's already assigned in the editor?

[grand snow]

you are confused, your NEW scene has a NEW instance of AnimationController

[naive pawn]

the issue was never about something not being assigned

the issue is about something that's been destroyed

the previous scene had an AnimationController that subscribed to GameState.distributeDecision with a method that ultimately called NPCSpeaking and accessed animator

animator was part of that previous scene, which wouldve been unloaded, thus destroying it
but the event listener was never unsubscribed, so the stale listener persists
then when it's triggered, it tries to do stuff to that destroyed animator, that's where the error comes from

[timid pawn]

any one here know why i cant download Visual Studios on my mac? im new to game dev (it says error -10661)

[grand snow]

its not supported anymore so try something else like vs code

[timid pawn]

oh thx

can any one tell me why my IntelliSense thingy isn't working on vs code?

[naive pawn]

!ide

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[daring sentinel]

ah ok so I fixed up the event stuff I think, but I still got the exception

using Cysharp.Threading.Tasks;
using UnityEngine;

public class AnimationController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator animator;
    public OptionsMenu optionsMenu;

    protected virtual void OnEnable()
    {
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();

        if (animator == null )
        {
            Debug.LogError("No animator attached");
        }
        GameState.decisionTime += PlayerSpeaking;
        GameState.distributeDecision += NPCSpeakingCaller;
        GameState.verdictTime += PlayerSpeaking;
    }

    protected void NPCSpeakingCaller(int choice)
    {
        NPCSpeaking();
    }

    public virtual void NPCSpeaking()
    {
        //Debug.Log("NPC Speaking");
        animator.ResetTrigger("Player_Speaking");
        animator.SetTrigger("NPC_Speaking");
        if (optionsMenu.IsPlayerSpeaking())
        {
            optionsMenu.TogglePlayerPanel();
        }
    }

    public void PlayerSpeaking()
    {
        animator.ResetTrigger("NPC_Speaking");
        animator.SetTrigger("Player_Speaking");
        
    }


    protected virtual void OnDestroy()
    {
        GameState.decisionTime -= PlayerSpeaking;
        GameState.distributeDecision -= NPCSpeakingCaller;
        GameState.verdictTime -= PlayerSpeaking;
    }
}

[naive pawn]

🤨 you have subscription in OnEnable but unsubscription in OnDestroy?

[daring sentinel]

For more context, this is the class that inherits this, which is used in this scene:

using Cysharp.Threading.Tasks;
using JetBrains.Annotations;
using System;
using UnityEngine;

public class Level2Animation : AnimationController
{
    public GameState gameState;
    public Level2Timelines level2Timelines;

    protected override void OnEnable()
    {
        Level2GameState.EndOfInterruption += RecallingToTalking;
        Level2GameState.interruptionOption += PlayerSpeaking;

    }

    public override void NPCSpeaking()
    {
        base.NPCSpeaking();
        level2Timelines.UpdateTimeStamp();
    }

    public void DisclosureResponse()
    {
        if (gameState.understandingNPC)
        {
            NPCSpeaking();
        }

        else
        {
            NPCArguing();
            optionsMenu.TogglePlayerPanel();
        }

    }


    public AnimatorStateInfo GetCurrentState()
    {

        return animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0);
    }

    public void Recall()
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("Recalling");
    }

    public void NPCArguing()
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("NPC_Arguing");
    }

    public void RecallingToTalking()
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("Finished_Recalling");
    }

    public async UniTaskVoid InterruptedAnimation()
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("Player_Speaking");
        while (!GetCurrentState().IsName("Waiting"))
        {
            await UniTask.Yield();
        }
    }

    public async UniTaskVoid IdleToArguing()
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("NPC_Arguing");

        while (!GetCurrentState().IsName("Arguing"))
        {
            await UniTask.Yield();
        }
    }

    protected override void OnDestroy()
    {
        base.OnDestroy();
        Level2GameState.EndOfInterruption -= RecallingToTalking;
        Level2GameState.interruptionOption -= PlayerSpeaking;
    }
}

[naive pawn]

oh god

!code

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[naive pawn]

see the section on large code blocks

[daring sentinel]

Oh right, sorry

[naive pawn]

you aren't even doing the subscription there lol

[naive pawn]

this could be an issue

the point rob made was about, symmetry i guess? not sure what to call it

Awake and OnDestroy are analogous
OnEnable and OnDisable are analogous
use 1 set of those for the subscription and unsubscription, rather than mixing them

if you subscribe in Awake, unsubscribe in OnDestroy
if you subscribe in OnEnable, unsubscribe in OnDisable

[daring sentinel]

Oh shit I just realised I overrode without calling base lmao

[grand snow]

Yep this is what I was meaning. The setup and clean up should be done with matching events.

[daring sentinel]

@naive pawn @grand snow Thank you both so much, it works now. Can't believe I forgot to call base when overriding haha

You guys should honestly get paid with how helpful you are in this server

Idc if it comes off as me glazing you like it's krispy kreme but unity should deadass give some of you lot a piece rate.

[grand snow]

When you have used unity for many years you just learn all this stuff 😆
Glad to pass on some knowledge

[woven crater]

hi. wanna ask if using multiple material on one object is a good idea. like using one to rendering 2d character sprite then add more material to it to add vfx on top

or do i have to add all the effect logic into one shader?

[tiny crag]

idk im a beginner but maybe #💻┃unity-talk will be more helpful

[river bone]

very new to unity, any idea where I've went wrong here?

[woven crater]

adjust your collider bound on your character

[river bone]

👍

I'll give that a go

[median yew]

hi can someone help me with my multiplayer problem https://discussions.unity.com/t/big-multiplayer-problem/1680577

[hexed terrace]

Your link doesn't work. And ask in #1390346492019212368 instead of here.

[median yew]

i get no answer there and here is the working link https://discussions.unity.com/t/big-multiplayer-problem/1680577/2

[naive pawn]

that link doesn't work either

[naive pawn]

if someone is available and able to help, they will be in #1390346492019212368.
if there isn't anyone available, you won't get an answer here either

so, don't crosspost

[median yew]

ok but how do i make it public

[pulsar helm]

I need help. Does anybody know how I can access the local scale of an object? Like, from what I can understand, it isn't as simple as controling the position and rotation.

[naive pawn]

...localScale...?

what's your actual issue?

[pulsar helm]

yes

[naive pawn]

the scale of an object doesn't affect its position or rotation, it affects the position and scale of its children

[pulsar helm]

Ok, so im trying to make a health bar, my plan is to reduce the X axis scale of the bar as the hp goes down. I have tried a lot of stuff But I cant figure out how do I control the transform.scale with code.

[naive pawn]

ok yeah big https://xyproblem.info there

if it's a UI element, why not just use the built-in facilities like slider

[slender nymph]

pro tip: don't use scale or a slider for an HP bar. use an image set as a filled image and you can assign a value from 0 to 1 to manage its percentage
this also has the bonus of looking better too

[pulsar helm]

what does the slider even do, I never really used it

[pulsar helm]

ive never even heard of the concept of a "filled image" what, is it any different from a normal image?

[slender nymph]

it's an image component where its type or whatever is set to filled. you can literally test it out yourself

[pulsar helm]

Interesting, that could actually work

Thanks

[grand snow]

Yea thats what you should do instead of your initial crazy idea

[hexed terrace]

you need to assign a sprite to an image component for the option to set it as 'filled' to show

[pulsar helm]

My friend suggested it and it seemed genius at the time

[hexed terrace]

it isn't

[grand snow]

they must not know much about unity 😆

[hexed terrace]

it will look awful the smaller it gets (if it's not just a colour)

[pulsar helm]

Their fine with unity, just not the best lmao

[hexed terrace]

it's just a beginner mistake

[grand snow]

Beginners teaching beginners rip

[pulsar helm]

LMAO it is just a colour

[hexed terrace]

why's that funny?

[pulsar helm]

Cus it's the one exception

[naive pawn]

(that's.. pretty much what slider is though)

[pulsar helm]

Isn't a slider a player interaction object? Idk anything about it

[hexed terrace]

you can disbale the interaction

Using a slider for health, you want to remove some of the components/ elements that get auto added when you create it

[slow blaze]

I think vs is not recognising the dotnet sdk
I can write code and it works but I can't see references and the Using directives are "unnecessary"
Other and new projects work fine, unity ones do not

[hexed terrace]

Clipsize and reload are images set to filled, damage is a scrollbar

[naive pawn]

!ide

[slender nymph]

i mean, there are still visual differences. also a filled image doesn't have to be horizontally filled and takes less setup (since you won't have to do things like remove the handle, disable its interactivity, etc)

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[naive pawn]

ah, good point. i misremembered, slider uses sliced by default

[grand snow]

slider does work with filled too btw

[pulsar helm]

Why is the damage bar different from the rest?

[hexed terrace]

A downside to image filled is that it's hard,flat cut off,

[hexed terrace]

read the text

[pulsar helm]

Yeah I understand, you just didn't really explain WHY it's that way. Can't the damage bar also be a filled image?

[hexed terrace]

it could, but scroll bar has a built in field for setting its position.. so it's much easier to use

[pulsar helm]

I see

[naive pawn]

so you have it set like this?
size = max-min
center = (max+min)/2

the scrollbar i mean

[hexed terrace]

tweened, but pretty much yeah

Gotta normalise the values first

[slow blaze]

not exactly what I was looking for

[naive pawn]

your ide is clearly unconfigured, so that's the resource you'll have to reference

are the "other" projects where it works, using dotnet?

[pulsar helm]

How do I use a filled image. it doesnt show up at the list of components

[naive pawn]

it is an image with image type filled

the component is just called Image

[hexed terrace]

@pulsar helm ☝️

[pulsar helm]

ooh thanks

[slow blaze]

yes

creating a new dotnet project works fine, Opening old unity projects works fine

this one worked fine till this morning idk what changed

[hallow acorn]

what does Vector2 direction do in a Physics2D.CircleCast()?

[naive pawn]

it defines which direction to cast the circle in

[naive pawn]

• what happens when restarting the language server or restarting the ide?
• any errors in the output tab?
• have you tried regenerating project files in unity?

[hallow acorn]

wdym doesnt it just go from the origin into every direction on the x and y axis?

[naive pawn]

no

[polar acorn]

No, it goes in the direction you specify

[naive pawn]

you may be confusing an overlap check vs a cast check

[polar acorn]

CircleCast is not OverlapCircle.

It's more like firing a beach ball out of a cannon

[hallow acorn]

ohhhhhhh okay thank you guys

[pulsar helm]

Do I still need a seperate sprite renderer component, or just the image one?

[naive pawn]

you need to not have one

SpriteRenderers are for rendering sprites in the world
Images are for UI, in a canvas

[pulsar helm]

so how do I get it to show up?

[naive pawn]

show up where?

[pulsar helm]

on the screen, The sprite

[naive pawn]

what step are you on right now

you've added the component, right

[pulsar helm]

yes

[hexed terrace]

... the image component displays it on the UI

[pulsar helm]

and set it to filled

[naive pawn]

and how filled have you set it to be

[hexed terrace]

!learn -> do UI tutorials

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[hexed terrace]

this is now beyond the scope of this channel, it's nothing to do with code

[pulsar helm]

I only tried changing the fill origin to right

[naive pawn]

that.. doesn't answer my question
go do some tutorials

[pulsar helm]

this is what appears when you select filled, wdym by "how filled"

[naive pawn]

the fill amount

but yeah you should go do UI tutorials

[polar acorn]

If someone's asking you the amount of fill you have set to, perhaps it's the field called fill amount

[pulsar helm]

huh, yeah Im going to get some tutorials. i have no clue wtf im doing

[slow blaze]

The same problem, code works fine and is compiled and ran inside of unity. inside of the IDE there is no references though and IntelliSense is not working properly.
No all the output works fine
How do I do that again?

[hexed terrace]

When you have questions about Ui soon, use #📲┃ui-ux

[simple prism]

When setting the vertex attributes and triangles of a Mesh, does the check of whether triangles indexes out of bounds of the vertex attributes happen when any of the vertex attributes or triangles is set, or only when triangles is set?
In other words, when I am changing the lengths of multiple vertex attributes, can I always set triangles last (this corresponds the case where the check only happens when triangles is set), or do I have to set it first or last depending on whether I am shortening or lengthening the vertex attributes?

[slow blaze]

nvm

[hallow acorn]

https://paste.ofcode.org/vSZsJQyDq7k9fbYPxRwvxL does someone know why i get an NullReferenceException at line 132? thanks in advance

[polar acorn]

Because something on that line is null but you're trying to use it anyway

[hallow acorn]

yea but what could be null on that line

[wintry quarry]

OverlapCircle is returning null

Meaning it didn't find any colliders

[polar acorn]

Anything before a .

So check all of the .s and see what is the thing that's being .ed

If that thing is something that can be null, check if it's null

[hallow acorn]

oh so i would have to check if its !null? thought it returned a bool

nvm

[polar acorn]

If it returned a bool how would you call .CompareTag on it

bools do not have a CompareTag function

[hallow acorn]

so i have to check if th overlapcircle returns something, and then i check if the tag is correct?

[polar acorn]

Yes

[twilit aurora]

I am learning Unity in 3d currently,
I have gotten my camera to spin around a pivot at the centre of a sphere but I cannot get a zoom in/out function to work

        float scroll = Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel");
        zoomDistance = scroll += zoomDistance;
        zoomDistance = Mathf.Clamp(zoomDistance, MaxZoomOut, MaxZoomIn);
        cameraTransform.localPosition = new Vector3(0, 0, zoomDistance);

        // Tilt up if close
        if (zoomDistance <= -2.5f)
        {
            
        }```
This code above is the one that doesn't work (Only the actual position change doesn't work)
```    private float zoomDistance = 1f; //Starting distance of camera
    private float MaxZoomIn = 10f; //Max in
    private float MaxZoomOut = -10f; //Max out```
These are the floats I am using ☝️ 

Can someone please help because I haven't found any online solutions that work?

[naive pawn]

zoomDistance = scroll += zoomDistance;
this seems a bit off.

but have you tried debugging what you're getting zoomDistance as?

do you see the position changing in the inspector?

are you getting any errors?

[twilit aurora]

I have debug to see that the "scroll" float changes along with the zoomDistance,
Only the movement doesn't work 🤷‍♂️

[wise cairn]

hey guys so i'm trying to make a game with my friend and we're using unity version control, how do i make packages sync?

[frosty hound]

There is a manifest.json in the Packages folder which list your packages and versions.

[twilit aurora]

Ah, I retried it multiple times and after "zoomDistance = scroll += zoomDistance;" nothing is logged,
Before that, it is fine

As I scroll up, it slightly breaks (I think) I am new to Unity to I am not sure

[naive pawn]

what value are you logging?

[twilit aurora]

"zoomDistance"

[naive pawn]

that's not really broken, the value is still increasing

[naive pawn]

so what about this?

[twilit aurora]

Nope, nothing moves in the camera, does it have to do with it being a child of an object?

I have a pivot at the centre of the sphere and the camera rotates based on where the pivot is

[naive pawn]

that's not what i asked

[polar acorn]

What value are you logging, and which object is cameraTransform?

[naive pawn]

check in the inspector of the thing you're trying to move, see if the value in there changes

[twilit aurora]

Yeah, nothing changed?
Only the rotation works.
Sorry I just don't understand 😅

[twilit aurora]

public Transform cameraTransform:
This is the main camera
I am logging zoomDistance which is a float (should be the starting position of the camera as well)

[wise cairn]

got it, any idea why the packages aren't getting installed on my friend's side?

[naive pawn]

show the inspector of the component that has this code

[naive pawn]

what's telling you that?

[wise cairn]

none of them are installed on his side

he showed me his screen

[naive pawn]

ok, and what did it show

what exactly is saying that the packages aren't installed

[twilit aurora]

Ahhh!
Sorry
The pivot has the code

[wise cairn]

like he showed me his package manager

[naive pawn]

camera transform isn't set.

you shouldve gotten errors, this

and after "zoomDistance = scroll += zoomDistance;" nothing is logged,
wouldve been a hint to that

[naive pawn]

...and it showed...?

[twilit aurora]

Ah sorry
Thanks for the help :)

[naive pawn]

we need info to actually help you

[wise cairn]

the packages that should've been installed had the button say "install" rather than "remove" or something

[naive pawn]

is the package.json checked in

(is it added to vcs)

[wise cairn]

package.json?

[polar acorn]

Let's change the log so it's got more info. Add this log after you set the local position:

Debug.Log($"{cameraTransform.gameObject.name} is at local position {cameraTransform.localPosition}, world position {cameraTransform.position}. Zoom Distance is {zoomDistance}");

[naive pawn]

whoops sorry, the manifest.json
i'm used to that name 😅

[wise cairn]

oh ok

yeah it is

[naive pawn]

has unity done the refreshing assets library thing

you should just have your friend ask here instead of playing this game of telephone

[wise cairn]

alright

[sleek gazelle]

Hey, I have a problem, I switched one of my unity projects to another laptop and now when I run it I get an error telling me that PlayGamesPlatform (part of the googleplaygames plugin v0.11.1) does not exist in the current context when running PlayGamesPlatform.Activate();, I am running using using GooglePlayGames; so I don't really see where the problem comes from

The platform went back to Windows from what I can see, idk why, I'm gonna try to switch

That fixed it

[languid pagoda]

So you mean to tell me unity has their own version control and the package from package manager are not synced by default? Oof

[polar acorn]

The manifest.json file tells unity which versions of your installed packages to install specifically so everyone working on the same project can ensure they have the same versions

[trim quarry]

do i need to use rigid body for character controller?

[slender nymph]

no, ideally you wouldn't be using those two components on the same object at all

[trim quarry]

also im flying up

tried to use YSpeed float thing

that most of the videos telling to do that

[slender nymph]

you need to provide actual details

[polar acorn]

You're probably going to have to share !code because "YSpeed float thing" doesn't really help at all

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[trim quarry]

ok wait

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if (gameObject != null)
        {
            jumpcooldown = !(Time.time >= last_jump_tick);

            YSpeed += Physics.gravity.y * Time.deltaTime;

            if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
            {
                YSpeed = -0.5f;
                onground = false;
            }

            if (charController.isGrounded)
            {
                YSpeed = -0.5f;
                onground = true;

                float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
                float vertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

                MoveDirection = new Vector3(horizontal, 0, vertical);
                MoveDirection.Normalize();
                float MoveMagnitude = MoveDirection.magnitude;
                MoveMagnitude = Mathf.Clamp01(MoveMagnitude);

                charController.SimpleMove(MoveDirection * MoveMagnitude);

                if (CameraObject != null)
                {
                    Vector3 CameraForward = CameraObject.transform.forward * vertical;
                    Vector3 CameraRight = CameraObject.transform.right * horizontal;

                    Vector3 CameraLookMove = (CameraForward + CameraRight).normalized;

                    MoveDirection = SetVectorZeroY(CameraLookMove);
                    MoveDirection.Normalize();
                }

                if (jumpcooldown == false && Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
                {
                    YSpeed = 20f;
                    onground = false;

                    last_jump_tick = Time.time + .3f;
                }

                Vector3 Movement = MoveDirection * MoveMagnitude;
                Movement.y = YSpeed;
                charController.Move(Movement * Time.deltaTime);
            }
        }
    }```

the movement lines

[polar acorn]

Don't call multiple CharacterController Moves in the same frame, and probably don't mix SimpleMove and Move

Build up a vector containing all of the movement you want this frame, and call .Move at the end with that combined vector

[trim quarry]

ok

wait

ill feedback later

maybe its because of charcontroller and rigidbody is in the same gameobject?

[naive pawn]

that's definitely not right

they will fight for control

have rigidbody or charcontroller, not both

[trim quarry]

but having only the charcontroller making my capsule frozen

[polar acorn]

As was directly told to you already, you cannot have both on the same object

[naive pawn]

also this should be in Update

[trim quarry]

ok

[daring sentinel]

Any idea why the list still has an element in it, after restarting the scene? Even though I clearly use List.Clear() in the script that it's established in both in awake and ?

    public List<string> sceneFlags;

     protected virtual void Awake()
    {
        decisionNum = 0;
        timesStared = 0;
        timesAverted = 0;

        if(sceneFlags != null){
            sceneFlags.Clear();
        }

{...}

    protected virtual void OnDestroy()
    {
        Debug.Log("Scene end");
        Debug.Log(sceneFlags.Count);
        sceneFlags.Clear();
        optionsMenu.optionSelected -= relayDecision;
        metreManager.GazeWinCondition -= SetGazeCondition;
        metreManager.TriggerInterruption -= relayInterruption;
        gazeDetector.GazeDetected -= setGazeValues;
        metreManager.EnergyDepleted -= EndGame;
    }

protected IEnumerator StareAndAversion()
{
    while (!sceneOver)
    {
        if (gameState.sceneFlags.Count > 0 ) { Debug.Log("metres paused");
            Debug.Log("pause flags active: " + gameState.sceneFlags.Count);
            Debug.Log(gameState.sceneFlags[0]);
            yield return new WaitUntil(() => gameState.sceneFlags.Count <= 0); }
{...}

}

 protected IEnumerator GazeGaugeMetre()
{
    while (gazeGauge.fillAmount < 1f && !sceneOver)
    {   
        if (gameState.sceneFlags.Count > 0) { yield return new WaitUntil(() => gameState.sceneFlags.Count <= 0);}

What happens is that coroutines like this freeze after restarting the scene#

[polar acorn]

If sceneOver is false, but gameState.sceneFlags.Count is less than or equal to zero, that coroutine will be an infinite loop

unless you have another yield statement in that {...} you cut out

[hallow acorn]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/curagutowa.csharp hey can someone tell me why my character stops movig affter it oves a few times? the problem most likely lies in the look for food function. thanks in advance

[daring sentinel]

Here's the rest of the class, cut it to save on characters:

protected IEnumerator StareAndAversion()
{
    while (!sceneOver)
    {
        if (gameState.sceneFlags.Count > 0 ) { Debug.Log("metres paused");
            Debug.Log("pause flags active: " + gameState.sceneFlags.Count);
            Debug.Log(gameState.sceneFlags[0]);
            yield return new WaitUntil(() => gameState.sceneFlags.Count <= 0); }

       {...}
        yield return null;
    }
}

protected IEnumerator GazeGaugeMetre()
{
    while (gazeGauge.fillAmount < 1f && !sceneOver)
    {   
        if (gameState.sceneFlags.Count > 0) { yield return new WaitUntil(() => gameState.sceneFlags.Count <= 0);}

       {...}
        yield return null;
    }
    if (gazeGauge.fillAmount >= 1f)
    {
        GazeWinCondition?.Invoke();
    }
}
protected void ResetBars()
{
    staringScale.fillAmount = 0f;
    aversionMetre.fillAmount = 0f;
}

protected virtual IEnumerator energyMetre()
{
    while (energyBar.fillAmount > 0f)
    {
        switch (gazeStatus)
        {
            case GazeStatus.maintainedOnTarget:
                energyDrainRate = 3f;
                break;

            case GazeStatus.maintainedNearMiss:
                energyDrainRate = 2f;
                break;

            default:
                energyDrainRate = 1.0f;
                break;
        }

        energyBar.fillAmount = Mathf.Clamp01(energyBar.fillAmount -= energyDrainRate * (Time.deltaTime / totalEnergyTime));
        yield return null;
    }
    EnergyDepleted?.Invoke();
    StopAllMetres();
}

void StartMetres()
{
    StartCoroutine(energyMetre());
    StartCoroutine(StareAndAversion());
    StartCoroutine(GazeGaugeMetre());
}


protected enum GazeStatus
{
    OffTarget,
    maintainedNearMiss,
    maintainedOnTarget,
}

void StopAllMetres()
{
    sceneOver = true;
    StopAllCoroutines();
    
}

How is it infinite if it's a WaitUntil then is opposite to what is inside the if brackets?

[eternal needle]

!code

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[polar acorn]

Instead of cutting things out, share it via !code so you don't leave out vital information

[eternal falcon]

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[daring sentinel]

https://paste.ofcode.org/35KxSEHE8JrfdSYBYWjE7MQ

My b soz

[polar acorn]

Well, there's two places you set the velocity. Try logging after those so you can see which ones are firing. If it's not moving, either the thing that sets the velocity to something isn't running, or the one that sets it to zero is running

[eternal needle]

add logs and see for yourself why it is not moving, theres a lot of logic here that you should be able to narrow down rather than saying its "most likely" in the food function. There should be no guessing here, use logs to find out where the actual problem is
Also please for all thats holy, cache the Physics2D.OverlapCircle(transform.position, sightRadius) that you do 3 times in LookForFood. you only need to do it once

[polar acorn]

Okay, so it does have a yield return null outside the condition, so that's fine. What, specifically, is the problem you're running into?

[hallow acorn]

Collider2D col = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(transform.position, sightRadius);

if (searchFood && col != null)
{
    if(col.CompareTag("food"))
    {
        berry = col.gameObject;

        if (!berry.GetComponent<growBerry>().gotEaten)
        {
            target = berry.transform.position;
        }
    }
}```
better?

[polar acorn]

Significantly.

[hallow acorn]

fixed it. idk whhy but i fixed it

[daring sentinel]

I restart the scene and then even though I clearly use List.Clear(), it acts like there's still a string in the list. I'm using LoadSceneMode.single to reload the scene as well for more context. How the coroutines work is that they're based on these two boolean values from another class that get fired when the player hovers their mouse over a specified area. At first when restarting the list is empty, but then when hovering again, it now says there's 1 element in the list and locks my coroutines. I really don't get it:

Here's the class that fires an event based on mousehover that passes those two booleans:

https://paste.ofcode.org/KccaPPd6vKFsccRSzvQAPm

[rich adder]

Collider2D col = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(transform.position, sightRadius);
        if (!searchFood || col == null) return;
        
        if (col.TryGetComponent(out growBerry berry))
        {
            if (berry.gotEaten) return;
            target = berry.transform.position;
        }

[polar acorn]

Which list is the one you're clearing? Are any of these components on a DontDestroyOnLoad object?

[hallow acorn]

what is this dark magic

[hallow acorn]

nvm

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.TryGetComponent.html

[rich adder]

same thing, just simplified

[daring sentinel]

This one in my Game State class, level 2 game state is the child class inheriting it.

When I restart, at first it's empty again, but then when I hover over that area to fire the event that passes those two booleans, it now says there's a string in the list, in the editor

I think I might have figured it out now, turns out I never unsubbed from an event that causes one of the specified strings to be added to the list

Just tested it twice, yeah it was to do with events. Still thanks for the help tho @polar acorn

[trim quarry]

im still having the issues with character controller

it just floating

it cant move

oh i just fixed it

[pulsar helm]

Hello, Does anybody here know how unity calculates scale based on position. Im trying to determine the edge points of a box from one another.

[polar acorn]

You probably want to use Bounds for that.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Bounds.html

I believe most renderers and colliders have a .bounds property

[pulsar helm]

also I dont know if it matters for this, but Im on 2d unity. Does that matter much?

[polar acorn]

Should still work
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider2D-bounds.html

[pulsar helm]

ok, I'l trust you

ok I might be dumb, but the documentaion barely explains how to use it, Is it through code or do I need a specific component for it to work?

[polar acorn]

You would use the Bounds to get the center and extents in any given direction

Then you could use that point for doing your math

[polar acorn]

You know that one Austin Powers bit where they're very slowly driving a steam roller at a guard and he just stands in the way screaming for like five full minutes instead of getting out of the way?

Sometimes when you're coding you're that guard.

[toxic cove]

anyone know how to get unity 5.3.3f1 working 😭

[polar acorn]

I'd say probably don't

[glass ivy]

the hack comment was 4 month ago...

[polar acorn]

Very long time not getting out of the way

[glass ivy]

install windows 7

[toxic cove]

This cant possibly work right

[glass ivy]

right, but it'll make a good story

[ashen sorrel]

I need help PLEASE

first project

[chilly copper]

how do i share my project

[wintry quarry]

in what context? With who?

[chilly copper]

my friend

[wintry quarry]

Version control (either Git or Unity Version Control)

[wintry quarry]

for developing it with you, or for testing it?

if the former, version control

if the latter, make a build and share that

[chilly copper]

yes developing

but it does not show up for him

i have him added to everything

[wintry quarry]

what doesn't show up for him

what did you add him to

[chilly copper]

the project

the org

[wintry quarry]

You could have started your question like "I'm using Unity version control to share my project with my friend, but he can't see it even though he's added to the org"

[chilly copper]

oh mb

[wintry quarry]

show some screenshots of what you did?

[chilly copper]

ok

gimme a sec

[chilly copper]

here ya go

[wintry quarry]

ok have you actually made a repo for it in version control though?

[chilly copper]

how would i see that

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity.com/ugs/en-us/manual/devops/manual/navigate-repositories

you would know if you had

[chilly copper]

yes

i have

so what could be the problem

[chilly copper]

i really need help

[wintry quarry]

where is your friend looking? Is he signed in properly?

[chilly copper]

he is on the unity hun

hub

and yes he is

@wintry quarry

[tame relic]

How would I make a web request in a custom editor window

[wintry quarry]

UnityWebRequest and EditorCoroutines probably? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.editorcoroutines@1.0/api/Unity.EditorCoroutines.Editor.EditorCoroutineUtility.html#Unity_EditorCoroutines_Editor_EditorCoroutineUtility_StartCoroutine_System_Collections_IEnumerator_System_Object_

[umbral bough]

Hey, I'm trying to get started with the gtk.
Making the ui seems pretty easy but I can't find any resources, other than the 2 attached samples, on writing the backend.
Can somebody recommend a good source for understanding that?
I am looking to make a tool that functions in a similar way to the shader graph, several nodes with math operations going down into a single node(the final float result).
Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[neon glade]

anyone active rn

so ive made a 'guard' type enemy so they have a spotlight with a range of 10, and i want it so that if the player is seen within the radius the enemy changes direction

[hollow slate]

if the enemy is inside the physical light?

if you have a fixed light-cone, you could model a mesh in blender and use OnTriggerEnter for certain layers, and then use RayCasts to check if the object is actually visible from the light.

if you're in 2D you can use the Polygon-collider, to make one without blender.

if you're okay with losing some performance you could also do a non-alloc box/spherecast every FixedUpdate and then use maths to find out if the object is within the cone.

plenty of ways.

[sudden prairie]

Hello mates, I'm trying to tilt this rocket by pressing left-arrow and right-arrow keys from keyboard. Here is the rotation script I used for it: -

    {
        float rotationInput = rotation.ReadValue<float>();
        Debug.Log("Here is your rotation: " + rotationInput);
        if (rotationInput < 0)
        {
            transform.Rotate(Vector3.forward * rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        }
        if (rotationInput > 0)
        {
            transform.Rotate(-Vector3.forward * rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        }
    }```
And ofc I added the namespace InputSystem.
Also, I tried `Debug.Log("Here is your rotation: " + rotationInput);` and it perfectly prints out -1 (by pressing left-arrow key) and 1(by pressing right-arrow key) on console.

PROBLEM: This rocket isn't giving even a slightest tilt after all this. idk why.

[river pulsar]

Does anyone know how to learn Unity engine professionally?

@hollow slate

[rich ice]

dont @ random people to try and get an answer. just wait for someone to reply

[rich ice]

!learn

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[hexed terrace]

this is a code channel (hence the name), delete your post from here and ask in #📲┃ui-ux after doing some tutorials on !learn 👇

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[snow flint]

sorry channel was hidden. no need to be passive aggressive

[hexed terrace]

no need to choose a random channel because you can't see a specific one - use id:browse or #💻┃unity-talk

[snow flint]

🤣

[naive pawn]

what "passive aggressive" are you seeing...

[hexed terrace]

the (hence the name) - though when I typed it I was thinking it in a more haha tone, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[pulsar helm]

Is it possible to give a line renderer collision?

[naive pawn]

did you try googling?
seems to give quite a few results

[pulsar helm]

matey im just asking for help😢

[naive pawn]

yeah and im saying that google is a great place to start for a broad question like that

[verbal dome]

What are you trying to do?

Do the positions of the line change?

[pulsar helm]

im trying to make a closed box, and the line renderer is the outlines of the box.

[verbal dome]

Why not just use a box collider

[pulsar helm]

Well, the line itself isn't an object, so the collider would just be wherever the line renderer object is. Also, the box changes size at times and so do the lines.

[hexed terrace]

box colliders can change size

could use quads (though that's just using a really thin box collider) instead, which would allow you to have the colliding bounds "grow" with the line renderer

[umbral bough]

bump

[light frost]

hello there friends

I need some help with a project, I created a simple cube in a plane just to test some theories i saw

but for certain i have misplaced some line of code

i mean, let me pass the code here

there is the code and video of the bug, anyone knows how to fix this behavior?

[naive pawn]

use !code to share code properly

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[naive pawn]

and use mp4 to have the video embed in discord

[patent wedge]

i have a basic interface but for some reason the override doesn't work?

public interface SimpleInterface
{
    void DoSomething() {}
}

public class SimpleScript : MonoBehaviour, SimpleInterface
{
    public override void DoSomething()
    {
        Debug.Log("worked");
    }
}

[naive pawn]

that void DoSomething() {} needs to be void DoSomething();

[light frost]

oh ok

[patent wedge]

still says no suitable method found to override.

[light frost]

like this?

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

[patent wedge]

i followed a post about doing this and i don't see what i'm doing different https://discussions.unity.com/t/override-interface-member/5281/2.

[naive pawn]

you aren't actually inheriting the SimpleInterface

[naive pawn]

@light frost also do this

[light frost]

yes, i will

one moment

[patent wedge]

it still can't find it.

[naive pawn]

show your current code

[light frost]

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

like this?

[naive pawn]

ah wait @patent wedge you don't need override on interface impls

override is for methods marked abstract or virtual

[patent wedge]

i know you don't, but i what i want is a interface base where the scripts don't need that DoSomething() {} inside.

[patent wedge]

and how come doing overide here https://discussions.unity.com/t/override-interface-member/5281/2 works but mine doesn't?

[naive pawn]

Using classes it should look roughly like this:
they never said it's exactly like that

[naive pawn]

so you want defaulted methods?

(why not just use a base class though)

[naive pawn]

so you have both a character controller and a rigidbody?

[polar acorn]

Then it sounds like you don't want an interface 🤔

[light frost]

shouldn't? I don't know, first time actually trying to use the controller + inputsystem

[naive pawn]

they're gonna fight for control, you can't have that

[light frost]

oh ok

[naive pawn]

choose either a rigidbody+collider, or character controller

[light frost]

right, thank you

[polar acorn]

CharacterController and Rigidbody are two different methods for doing the same thing, so having both makes them fight it out and causes problems for both

[patent wedge]

because with a base class i can't have extra stuff like networkbehaviour.

[naive pawn]

isn't that a class

you could just have your base already extend networkbehaviour

or are you trying to get multiple inheritance?

[patent wedge]

well some need mono and some need network which is possible with a interface but not a class.

[naive pawn]

so you want multiple inheritance?

[patent wedge]

yes.

[polar acorn]

You can make the base class extend network behavior, then anything that extends that would also be a network behavior

[patent wedge]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

Then this seems like an architecture failure. Why do you need such different kinds of things to share a parent type?

[teal viper]

Doesn't network behavior inherit from MonoBehaviour?

[patent wedge]

because some scripts will need DoSomething(); while others will need DoSomethingElse();

[teal viper]

Thats 2 different methods. Not sure how that's related to inheritance.

[light frost]

before i bug the game again, Cinemachine and the MainCamera also have this kind of behaviour?

[naive pawn]

maincamera is just a name

and a tag i guess

it doesn't really have behaviour

[light frost]

yes, it has a component called camera, i dont know if conflicts or something like this

[naive pawn]

cinemachine depends on camera

it controls the camera, rather than fighting with it over control of something else

(rigidbody and cc would fight over control of transform)

[light frost]

ok, thank you

[patent wedge]

ok i have just realized that interface types aren't forced to have the methods if there written like public void DoSomething() {} instead of public void DoSomething(); but i don't know what the boolean equivalent is.

[polar acorn]

That sounds like two different interfaces then

[patent wedge]

that doesn't answer my question.

[naive pawn]

what boolean equivalent are you talking about

[polar acorn]

It does actually - the thing you're trying to do doesn't work because it shouldn't. You're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

https://xyproblem.info/

[slender nymph]

what you've just stumbled across is called Default Interface Methods, yes they allow you to declare the body of a method directly in the interface but that should not be used just so you don't have to implement an interface's method. the entire point of an interface is that the members declared on it are accessible. Split it up into multiple interfaces if you want only partial functionality on some things

[patent wedge]

basically how do i have a boolean in my interface that doesn't have to be in scripts that reference it.

[slender nymph]

what do you need that for

[naive pawn]

that's pretty irrelevant to default methods

[polar acorn]

Interfaces cannot have fields

[naive pawn]

that sounds like an x/y problem

[patent wedge]

...yes they can.

[polar acorn]

No, they can't

[slender nymph]

no they cannot

[patent wedge]

if you public bool Bool { get; set; } that works for me

[slender nymph]

that's not a field

[polar acorn]

That's not a field

[rich adder]

thats a property mate

" fancy methods "

[naive pawn]

well, they can have static or const fields
but not instance fields

so that doesn't really help you

[patent wedge]

i never said it was a field. i just need it to not be required in my scipts.

[naive pawn]

this seems like a nightmare of an architecture

[slender nymph]

you have yet to explain why you need this

[naive pawn]

you should probably plan out some stuff about what you're trying to achieve with this

[polar acorn]

You still haven't said why you need "the thing that forces your scripts to have these methods" to somehow not need your scripts to have these methods

This literally is not what interfaced are for

[patent wedge]

ok i have a basic interactable interface that can used for buttons etc. it has a field that tells it if the player needs to hold the interact button or not aka the boolean.

[naive pawn]

ok, that sounds like it's doing too much