💻┃code-beginner

[naive pawn]

consider having the "interact" and "holdinteract" as separate things

[patent wedge]

why? it only needs to hold a boolean.

[naive pawn]

those are 2 separate functionalities

"detect button press" vs "detect button press, keep track of held progress, check if it's full"

[patent wedge]

the actual interacting doesn't happen in the interface.

[naive pawn]

...ok?

[polar acorn]

Why does your interactable interface even care how the input happens? That sounds like something that should be on your behavior. The interface just needs to have an end point, the thing that you call when an interact happens

[rich adder]

IInteract, IHoldInteract
how hard is that?

[polar acorn]

Or, make your interface have two methods: OnInteractStart and OnInteractEnd.

Then, you call both on every interactable. Ones that are press just look for start and have an empty end method

[patent wedge]

so i have to do another getcomponent check which one is not null then run an interact that is the same?

[polar acorn]

Ones that work on hold actually do both

[naive pawn]

if trygetcomponent interact {
interact
} elseif trygetcomponent holdinteract {
holdinteract
}

[patent wedge]

i agree i don't need seperate interfaces it'll just confuse things.

[rich adder]

if (interactable is IInteract)
//reg interact
else if (interactable is IHeldInteract)
//held interact

[patent wedge]

but this is going way off topic i just wanted to know how to have an overridable / un-required boolean in my interface.

[rich adder]

..you're going against the whole design of an interfaces

[naive pawn]

massive xyproblem

@patent wedge go give https://xyproblem.info a read

[polar acorn]

class Handgun : IInteractable
{
  void OnStartInteract(){
    DoShoot();
  }
  void OnEndInteract() {}
}

class Flamethrower : IInteractable
{
  void OnStartInteract(){
    StartFire();
  }
  void OnEndInteract(){
    StopFire();
  }
}

Boom. One interface

two interaction styles

[polar acorn]

This can not be done

Stop wanting that

Interfaces, by design, do not have optional methods. The thing you're doing is making one with a default implementation. Everything that implements that interface still has that function

[rich adder]

"its a contract / an obligation" for those classes to implement those..

it guarantees those methods exists.

[patent wedge]

oh ok. but i don't want an onpress and on release. i want them to just have the player hold the button then it'll fire the method. which rn is handled by my interactor script that checks whether the object i'm interacting with has the boolean TakesTime set to true.

i'm fine if i can't.

[naive pawn]

starting to feel this is overcomplicated ngl

why couldn't you just have an interactable component instead of an interface
(potentially separate interactable and holdinteractable too)

then use a unityevent or something to link that to the actual behaviour

[rich adder]

if there is already and interactor with bool doing what you want, whats this conversion about interfaces again ?

[patent wedge]

yeah in hindsight i think you're right.

[patent wedge]

i just wanted scripts that don't take time not to require public bool TakesTime { get; set; }

[rich adder]

you're skirting around the question, why not just keep it an interactor component , why convert it to an interface?

[primal trench]

let's say i have a base abstract class, gun, and a class which inherits from that, shotgun. if i later on want like, a double barrel shotgun, it'd be dumb to make a whole nother inherited class, no? is there a better way?

[rich adder]

personally I think you should checkout SO (scriptable objects) and rethink how you handle weapon data

[polar acorn]

Then you wouldn't put that on an interface

Interfaces are the solution to the problem of "I don't know what class this is, I don't know what this class does, but I can guarantee, enforced by the compiler, that it has functions with these names and method signatures"

Optional things do not exist in interfaces

It cannot be done

[patent wedge]

ok.

[primal trench]

i thought about it but abs classes allow me to use anny shooting logic

[polar acorn]

So would ScriptableObjects

They can have functions too. They just shouldn't store state (due to inconsistencies with how they save things in the editor vs gameplay)

[rich adder]

it will be so much easier you can create almost unlimited weapon types just by changing a few common stats and creating a new SOs.
if some weapons shoot but "feel different" it just changing the stats..instead of having a clutter of classes

and you can still have some inheritance where needed

[primal trench]

wdym by states, like enums...?

[slow blaze]

Hey guys how do I make the line from the linerenderer component follow its gameObject parent?
I'm drawing it using this

if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
                {
                    points.Add(new Point(virtualKeyPosition.x, -virtualKeyPosition.y, strokeId));

                    currentGestureLineRenderer.positionCount = ++vertexCount;
                    currentGestureLineRenderer.useWorldSpace = true;
                    currentGestureLineRenderer.SetPosition(vertexCount - 1, Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(virtualKeyPosition.x, virtualKeyPosition.y, 10)));
                }```

which draws fine and correctly on screen but the drawing fails to follow its parent.

[rich adder]

like if your weapon has modifiable runtime stats that change, you wouldn't change it on the SO itself

[polar acorn]

Basically, unless you know what you're doing, you wouldn't change variables on ScriptableObjects to avoid confusing yourself. But they can still have functions that do things

[primal trench]

alr

time to restart the weapon system TwT

[rich adder]

its good to just lay out all the options before delving deep. Weapons system can range from simple to very complex

good idea to take your time seeing what you got to work with
Interfaces, Abstracts and SO can all work together, or separate to create good weapon system

[wispy wraith]

hi guys just as a reminder how do you paste code on the server?

[rich adder]

!code 👇

hmm dyno asleep?

[slow blaze]

well that was underwhelming

!code

dyno indeed hit the hay

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

holy laggin hell

[slow blaze]

!ping

oh yeah brother is gone

[rich adder]

anyway in case that dont work its also in #🌱┃start-here

[slow blaze]

setting useWorldSpace to false makes it follow the parent, but draws in the wrong place (probably because it translates the virtualKeyPosition relative to the parent's position)
Hmm maybe I should subtract the parent's world position from the virtualKeyPosition

that didnt do it boo womp

[gloomy lichen]

hi why does my vs code wont show intellisense tooltip even after downloading unity extension on vs code and modifying my packet manager as well as external tools in unity?

[hexed terrace]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[hexed terrace]

follow the above guide

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code#if-you-are-experiencing-issues

[gloomy lichen]

ive done all of that before, i forgot to mention im on macOS

[grand snow]

Make sure your unity preferences has Vs code set as the external editor too

[gloomy lichen]

i have all of that done already. When I type "Debug." or "transform." it doesnt recognizes it and intellisense doesnt show up either.

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

also you have an Error (red box) if you Press should bring you to the Issue in output window. Most likely SDK missing

[naive pawn]

have you installed the dotnet sdk and then restarted the ide

[rich adder]

and you dont need to check all this off, they just create clutter.. you only usually need the first top 2

[gloomy lichen]

yes

[rich adder]

confirm that run dotnet --list-sdks in terminal

[gloomy lichen]

i restarted my system it works now

[glacial plume]

Could someone tell me why I cant access it? I have it already installed from registry

[rich adder]

thats no longer the namespace in 3.0

iirc its Unity.CIinemachine

yup its that
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.0/manual/CinemachineUpgradeFrom2.html

[glacial plume]

ty vm

@rich adder do you have an actual good beginner guide on unity game dev recommendation?

[naive pawn]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[patent wedge]

hey i'm can't figure out how to check where the player is looking a A, B, C i am currently using a very hacky method but even that doesn't work.

float Pos1 = (1Pos.position - PlayerPos).normalized.y;
        float Pos2 = (2Pos.position - PlayerPos).normalized.y;
        float Pos3 = (3Pos.position - PlayerPos).normalized.y;

        float dir = transform.rotation.eulerAngles.normalized.y;
        
        int val = 0;
        if (Pos2 - dir < Pos1 - dir)
        {
            val = 1;
        }
        else if (Pos3 - dir < Pos2 - dir)
        {
            val = 2;
        }
``` i really want a better method but i just can't think of it (also does anyone know how to shift lines to the left i know in vscode its Ctrl+{ )

[naive pawn]

also does anyone know how to shift lines to the left
in discord?

[patent wedge]

yes. or can you not?

[polar acorn]

Delete the tabs

[hexed terrace]

Juste delete the blank space at the front of the line..

[patent wedge]

ok. i just thought there might be a better method

[hexed terrace]

there is not - it's not a fully fledged text editor, indentation isn't something you'd expect

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Dot.html
The Dot Product of two direction vectors is their "sameness". It's 1 when they point the same way, 0 when they're perpendicular, -1 when they're opposite.

So, get the directyion the player is looking in, and the directions you want to compare it to, and see which one has the highests dot product

(or the one above some threshold like 0.9 or something)

[naive pawn]

disclaimer: 1/-1 will represent parallelism/antiparallelism only if the inputs are normalized

[polar acorn]

Right, the key word being two direction vectors, meaning a normalized direction vector, not euler angles or anything with a magnitude

[patent wedge]

so...

Vector3 Pos1 = (1Pos.position - PlayerPos).normalized;
Vector3 Pos2 = (2Pos.position - PlayerPos).normalized;
Vector3 Pos3 = (3Pos.position - PlayerPos).normalized;

Vector3 dir = Player.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.normalized;

int val = 0;
if (Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos2) > Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos1))
{
    val = 1;
}
else if (Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos3) > Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos2))
{
    val = 2;
}
``` (btw there is a better method by selecting everything and shift+tab)

[naive pawn]

(whoops mb, didn't see that word)

[naive pawn]

middleclick drag to select a region

[naive pawn]

eulerAngles are not a direction vector

[polar acorn]

Still important to point out the intention behind the words "direction vector"

[naive pawn]

you'd want Player.transform.forward

[patent wedge]

should forward be normalized?

[polar acorn]

It is normalized

[patent wedge]

no.

[naive pawn]

why do you think it isn't normalized

[polar acorn]

It is

[naive pawn]

Transform.forward
Returns a normalized vector representing the blue axis of the transform in world space.

[patent wedge]

oh. cool.

[naive pawn]

what did you mean by this lmao

[umbral bough]

bump

[patent wedge]

i meant that i didn't put .normalized in front.

[patent wedge]

oh, i just re-read it i thought he said is it normalized.

[patent wedge]

int val = 0;
if (Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos2) > Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos1))
{
    val = 1;
}
if (Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos3) > Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos2))
{
    val = 2;
}
``` its never 2?

[polar acorn]

Try logging those values and see if the dot towards Pos3 is ever greater than the one for Pos2

[patent wedge]

sorry i meant it's never 1 sry. i will log the dots.

[patent wedge]

well seemingly the one at the bottom will always override the last one?

[polar acorn]

Well, yeah. If you change a variable to something then change it to something else, that's the new value of the variable

[patent wedge]

yeah i know that but i mean the bottom one will always be true for some reason besides when its closer to pos1 rather then pos2?

[polar acorn]

Well, the bottom one checks if Pos3 is closer than Pos2

If that condition is true, it sets val to 2

[patent wedge]

yes, but pos2 should be closer in my scenario but it isn't.

[polar acorn]

What do the logs say are the values of Pos3 and Pos2?

[patent wedge]

dot1: 1.003048dot2: 1.081255, i think there's some things that need normalizing...

[polar acorn]

Yeah dots shouldn't be over 1 if both inputs are normalized

But also this is dot1 and dot2

I asked for dot2 and dot3 since those are the conditions of your if statement

[patent wedge]

sorry this Is dot2 and dot3. inconveniently dot1 and dot2 sorry.

[polar acorn]

How about for clarity:

float dot1 = Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos1);
float dot2 = Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos2);
float dot3 = Vector3.Dot(dir, Pos3);
Debug.Log($"Dot1: {dot1}, Dot2: {dot2}, Dot3: {dot3}");

And then you can use the dotX variables in your if statements as well

[patent wedge]

it works! just needed to normalize the Pos1,Pos2,Pos3 stuff.

[sly vortex]

Where's the best place to learn C#?

[cosmic dagger]

Just check the pinned messages and start from their. No one source will have everything (except the C# documentation) . . .

[honest iron]

how to see int[,] in the inspector?

[wintry quarry]

on the job

[wintry quarry]

Unity cannot directly serialize multidimensional arrays or jagged arrays

what you can do is something like this:

[Serializable]
public class MyIntCollection {
  public int[] data;
}

public MyIntCollection[] allData;

[red igloo]

I have this issue where when I switch issue before the player changes it stops the movement which I don't want how can I fix this? https://paste.ofcode.org/CKBqU4kk2RD92kHGcnbhNC

[wintry quarry]

store the Rigidbody's velocity in a variable and then apply it to the newly created object

The code will be simpler and easier to understand if you:

• Use Rigidbody for the variable types instead of GameObject
• Give the variables better names like "mainPrefab" instead of "mainPlayer"

[sly vortex]

On the job doesn't help when you are the one training yourself lol.

[wintry quarry]

sure but it's definitely the best place to learn 😛

[rich adder]

Microsoft Learn site, Coursera , codecamp, w3Schools etc.

[red igloo]

If I remove the gameobject and replace them with rigidbodies and if I try to destroy them won't it ony destroy the rigidbody?

[cosmic dagger]

Change the code to access the gameObject so it's destroyed and not just the Rigidbody component . . .

[short condor]

IM BACK

Yay

[rich adder]

congratulations

[tiny crag]

why is SpawnEnemy() being run constantly?

[short condor]

@tiny crag you have to somehow not make it run constantly

[rich adder]

why not just use Time.time
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-time.html

also don't post code with screenshots

[red igloo]

Thanks! that was way simpler that I thought. https://paste.ofcode.org/34UfHjCtNXLKW4RBEbKTw8X

[tiny crag]

its still running constantly

[rich adder]

what do you want it to do then ?

[tiny crag]

yes the idea is that the timer is supposed to reset when spawnenemy() has been run

[tiny crag]

to be triggered every 2 seconds

but also for the trigger to happen 0.05 faster every time its triggered

[cosmic dagger]

Then reset the timer inside the method. This ensures it's always reset when it's called . . .

[tiny crag]

the method is being run inside all the clones that are currently active in the scene

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[tiny crag]

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

[short condor]

This is not right

[rich adder]

why did you change it back, if its supposed to keep speeding up just keep it how it was with
Timer += Time.deltaTime;

[tiny crag]

ok

[rich adder]

Interval = 2f / gameSpeed;
Timer += Time.deltaTime;
if (Timer >= Interval){
  SpawnEnemy();
  enemyScript.movement();
  Timer = 0f;
  gameSpeed += 0.05f;
  foreach (EnemyScript.fullPosition enemyposition in enemyPositions){
    Debug.Log(enemyposition.x);
    Debug.Log(enemyposition.y); }
}```

[tiny crag]

ima try it

[tiny crag]

still running SpawnEnemy constantly :(

[short condor]

Your doing something wrong then

[tiny crag]

yes and im trying to figure out what exactly

[rich adder]

add this Interval = 2f / gameSpeed; in if statement *

[tiny crag]

its there in the code

[cosmic dagger]

Huh, that's confusing because you call it inside of Update and Timer is a class member. Why would it be on a different script?

[rich adder]

I meant move it inside if statement

Timer = 0f;
gameSpeed += 0.05f;
Interval = 2f / gameSpeed;```

[tiny crag]

same effect

no result

[short condor]

Nah man your doing SOMETHING WRONG THOUGH

[rich adder]

Debug the values and see whats going on. chances are might be something else

[tiny crag]

because i want the movement and spawning to be synced in the game, i need a game manager to run the script for spawning and movement

[tiny crag]

no wait hol up a sec

@cosmic dagger @rich adder omg all i needed to do was as randomunityinvader said and just reset the timer inside the method

idk why it doesnt work in the update method but it is what it is

[short condor]

Finally he did it

[tiny crag]

@cosmic dagger sorry i got the movement method inside the prefabs mixed up with the SpawnEnemy method im tired :)

[tiny crag]

hey man thanks for telling me i did something wrong it really helped!!! 🤗

[rich adder]

timer stays > interval on the next frame

[short condor]

No problem

I'll help you whenever you need it

[tiny crag]

ill make sure to ping you whenever i run into an issue

[tiny crag]

i dont understand are you saying that its better to reset the timer in the action that is being taken by whatever is triggered when the timer reaches the interval?

[rich adder]

seems like it runs a couple frames more before resetting

[tiny crag]

yea

thanks for helping out btw

[rich adder]

order of event issue I think, I believe if you did

SpawnEnemy();
enemyScript.movement();
Timer -= Interval;  
gameSpeed += 0.05f;
Interval = 2f / gameSpeed;```
it should work fine

either way as long as its solved lol

[frosty hound]

Just letting you know that the next non-useful thing you post here will be your ban, seeing as you just came off a 12 week mute for spamming.

[fiery stone]

hello, trying unity for the first time, following a quite old but good tutorial for player movement, heres my code:
https://pastes.io/unity-player-movement

but even though the movement works great, i cant jump 🤔

[tiny crag]

yee haha

[rich adder]

put Log inside ```cs
if (Input.GetKey(jumpKey) && canJump && grounded)

if its not called, then one of those conditions isn't true

[fiery stone]

it is indeed not called 🤔

[polar acorn]

I was wondering why this whole exchange seemed familiar

[fiery stone]

after removing && canJump, it now works, but its very akward

lemme record a clip

[short condor]

How do I say a useful thing

[fiery stone]

anyone?

[rich adder]

so then make sure canJump is true

[fiery stone]

i can just remove that, idrk what it does, but jumping is incredibly wierd

[rich adder]

I dont see anywhere where canJump starts true..

removing it is not the solution..

[fiery stone]

i go up and basically glide in the air for some seconds

do i just change the air multiplier?

[rich adder]

what?

[fiery stone]

but it works :O

[slow blaze]

oh

[rich adder]

it "works" as in breaks somethinig else

all you need to do is make sure canJump starts true

[fiery stone]

ill do that when the jump becomes a jump and not a glider

[rich adder]

alright your project, do what you want lol

i offered you the solution but you seem fixed on removing something that was put in place for a reason

[slow blaze]

what does canJump do here when grounded is put

[fiery stone]

i added it back and set it to true in the beginning

[slow blaze]

I guess multiJump

[fiery stone]

ask the tutorial dud

[rich adder]

the whole point of it is for a "cooldown" so you dont jump right after jumping

[fiery stone]

the glider thingy is prob because you fall so slowly

but why is that

[slow blaze]

Oh yeah that works too

[slow blaze]

You can tweak the gravity on your object

if you use a Char Controller change your motion equation if you're using a rigid body increase downward velocity (or force depending on what you're using)

[rich adder]

mass does not change how fast it will fall

calling AddForce in multiple places is probably causing the issue in air

if you want something to fall faster you multiply the gravity by multiplier

rb.AddForce(Physics.gravity * forceFalling

[fiery stone]

wdym?

[tiny crag]

im having yet another issue, i want the object running the code to keep the current value of spawnSide for the duration of its existence, which is why i try defining it in Start(). But that value isnt saved for the method called movement(). Why is that?

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

[rich adder]

what are you confused on?

[fiery stone]

"you multiply the gravity by multiplier", like i apply extra gravity after the rb already has?

[rich adder]

first what are you trying to do exactly. Can you show the issue?

[fiery stone]

vc? so i can screenshare

[rich adder]

make a video and post it, there is no VC channel here

[fiery stone]

dm vc?

[rich adder]

too much of a commitment , I don't do private srry

[fiery stone]

nw, ill just make a video

[rich adder]

how did you make sure Start is running before movement()

[fiery stone]

here, i fall too slowly and in my opinion to linearly

[tiny crag]

they are being run simultaneously, maybe thats the issue. Should i define it in awake()?

[rich adder]

sure you can try that first

[fiery stone]

@rich adder

[rich adder]

what about when not pressing movement keys

[fiery stone]

wdym?

like when i dont press WASD?

[polar acorn]

This looks like something is setting your Y velocity to 0 every frame

[rich adder]

also that linearDamping is pretty high

[fiery stone]

if its not that high i go zoom at like 50m/s

[fiery stone]

nothing is settings the velocity, only applying forces tho

[polar acorn]

Show !code

[rich adder]

well technically JUMP is

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[rich adder]

horrid site but here they posted it
https://pastes.io/unity-player-movement

[fiery stone]

lemme paste the updated code

[rich adder]

unless somehow Jump keeps running, its probably the damping imo

[fiery stone]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/bujirayolu.csharp

[polar acorn]

Put a log in Jump()

[fiery stone]

yeah... it logs when i jump, as expected?

[polar acorn]

Okay, and it's not spamming when you're floating down to the ground?

Then it's the damping

[fiery stone]

but when i lower the damping it only changes x and z damping, not y

[rich adder]

disable the script , keep the same damping. if it falls the same its the damping

pretty sure ..damping doesnt just pick XZ on its own..

[fiery stone]

its apparantly the damping, but when setting the damping to 0 it still falls really slowly, and when reenabling the script, when moving in the air my speed spikes up to over 100

[rich adder]

wdym..if you put it to 0 and still fell slowly , what makes you say it is indeed the damping?

[fiery stone]

nvm it just felt real slow when compared to how fast you move, just lowering the movement speed fixed it

thanks for the help guys

ill be back later

because now ill try to implement sliding

[hallow acorn]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/fezuqesopu.pgsql bro im gonna start tweaking im working on this for hours but i cant figure out what causes the problem. i have this character that should choose a random point to move to, but if its hungry (searchFood = true) it should first check if theres food near it, if yes it should move there, if not, it should search a random point again and move there instead. at first when it was hungry, it wouldnt move at all. ive got it to work a little bit, but as soon as a berry is in its range its getting mentally unstable or sh as it moves in a zigzag randomly. but if theres no berry in sight it just works. im getting more and more mentally unstable the more i try to fix this, so im pretty sure i wont find the issue myself, thank you in advance

[rich adder]

debugging is how we solve issues

this is code is all over the place, many moving parts. Debug each one to see where it goes wrong

also seems way to overcomplicated for what you seem to want to do

[hallow acorn]

how would you do it?

[rich adder]

for starters probably trim down some of the repitions in code

[hallow acorn]

are there some specific examples where?

[rich adder]

I wouldn't worry about that now.. First find the root cause of the issue, place logs and figure out what the code is actually doing and is everything what you expect

[hallow acorn]

okay i try

[hallow acorn]

ok i logged basicly every line of code and it seems like the code checking if the target is reached never gets called so the velocity is never set to zero. meaning the direction changes and i think thats causing the zigzag. i really dont know why the target is never reached though. cant be because of a collider as the berry´s collider is set to trigger

[rich adder]

are you talking about the part of Vector2.Distance ?

[hallow acorn]

yes exactly

if (Vector2.Distance(target, currentPosition) <= 0.2f)
{
    rb.linearVelocity = Vector2.zero;

    timeBetweenMoving -= Time.deltaTime;

    if (timeBetweenMoving <= 0)
    {
        targetX = Random.Range(transform.position.x - sightRadius, transform.position.x + sightRadius);
        targetY = Random.Range(transform.position.y - sightRadius, transform.position.y + sightRadius);

        timeBetweenMoving = Random.Range(-defaultTimeBetweenMoving / 3, defaultTimeBetweenMoving / 3) + defaultTimeBetweenMoving;
    }

}```

[rich adder]

make the distance a variable and debug it, see what values are doing
also isn't zig zagging meaning changing the target pos constantly, I dont think I see anywhere where you only search target if one was not set?

[pseudo sorrel]

Hello, Is anyone familiar with Photon sdk's and how they work??

[rich adder]

probably people on the photon server
should be pinned in #archived-networking

[hallow acorn]

what do you mean?

[rich adder]

which part

[hallow acorn]

"also isn't zig zagging meaning changing the target pos constantly, I dont think I see anywhere where you only search target if one was not set? "

[rich adder]

do you have multiple berries? is it finding one , then finds another , then another ?

[hallow acorn]

oh yeah that might be really possible

should i disable every berry except one for testing?

[rich adder]

try that first sure

[pseudo sorrel]

Ty

[hallow acorn]

man testing something random is really difficult if theres only 1 wanted outcame wait

[rich adder]

wdym "only 1 wanted outcame wait "

[hallow acorn]

the only outcome that delivers info is one where the berry is in its range. but baiting it to the berry is not easy

huh

thats weird

[rich adder]

how does it normally move to berry

[hallow acorn]

it should move randomly until it has a berry in a certain radius. its really primitive i know

[rich adder]

oh okay. I just didn't know that was your mechanic

[hallow acorn]

np

weirdly it just walked over the berry but completely ignored it

[rich adder]

and no zig zag ?

[hallow acorn]

no. just walking over the only thing able to keep it alive

0 survival instincts

[rich adder]

its only as smart as what you code it to be.. most likely something wrong in the code

I would use a switch statement here for a very basic state management, so you can see what happening with their " current thinking" too

[hallow acorn]

bro that theres something wrong in the code is the only thing i know rn 😭

[hallow acorn]

yeah thats actually a good idea

i think im just gonna scrap the whole project i dont want to see this little guy anymore

[rich adder]

Idle, Wandering, SeekingFood
etc.

you dont have to scrap the entire project, but perhaps make a simpler part / project where you only test the wander system / food seek

[hallow acorn]

imposter syndrome kicking in right now🙏

[rich adder]

thats what I usually do when Im stuck

[rich adder]

make a separate project for the mechanic you are struggling with this simplifies just concentrating on that 1 part, no assets , nothin

[hallow acorn]

funny thing i have 2 classes in this project, one that doesnt work as we know by now and one thats basicly almost empty

this project is basicly empty

[rich adder]

thats a good thing. Means you know the limits
better than having the Dunning-Kruger Effect

[rich adder]

then perhaps you overcomplicated the code too soon.

[hallow acorn]

got humbled by my own projects a lot haha

[rich adder]

this is 2D project right ?

[hallow acorn]

yea

why?

[rich adder]

just curious, so you're not using pathfinding right ? just randomly moving top down or something in random dir ?

[hallow acorn]

yes. wanted to do pathfinding but got humbled very fast by a mystical algorithm called A*. scraped it and went for a (how i thought) a simpler solution

man was i wrong

[polar acorn]

Ah, the "Speedrunning why everyone just uses the algorithm" solution

[rich adder]

you can still achieve the random pathing, just use A* project to simplify it or use the custom Navmesh by h8man

[polar acorn]

I think it's a CGP Grey quote that "Any solution that 'seems reasonable' and 'is easy to implement' is universally a colossal failure, the albatross of which will shackle all future developments in the field for decades"

[rich adder]

now thats a quote

[hallow acorn]

ik i will probably do something with that in the future when i have time to look into it a bit more as i want to understand how it works a bit

[hallow acorn]

fr

[rich adder]

hmmm..lemme see If I can cook a quick example

[hallow acorn]

isnt that the hexagons are the bestagons guy?

[polar acorn]

yes

[polar acorn]

It was about airplane boarding systems

[hallow acorn]

ohh i saw that vid

couldnt remember that quote tho

[proper needle]

i havent been on unity for a while so does anyone know what this is

[rich adder]

what is "this"

[hallow acorn]

a defaut c# class?

[proper needle]

void start and void update dont work

[rich adder]

well yeah those are part of MB

if you don't call them, they wont be called

[proper needle]

no i tried to add them bc they werent there

[proper needle]

whats that

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.html

[proper needle]

thanks

[rich adder]

when making a new script make sure you make it a MonoBehaviour script
(if you want to use those method / put script on gameobject)

[proper needle]

do i just replace void start with monobehaviour.start

if not what do i do

oh nevermind

[rich adder]

nah. start over and make new MB script like I said

[proper needle]

is this right

im assuming it is

[hallow acorn]

try it

[rich adder]

yes

[proper needle]

alr imma test it

it works thanks

[hallow acorn]

is subtracting 1/50 from a value in FixedUpdate the same as subtracting Time.deltaTime in Update?

[slender nymph]

assuming you haven't changed the rate that fixed update is called it theoretically is. but also, why not just subtract Time.deltaTime?

[hallow acorn]

for example if i need a timer in a method that should be called in fixedUpdate or are there better solutions?

[slender nymph]

the better solution would be to use Time.deltaTime

[hallow acorn]

didnt evenn know you can change the rate

[hallow acorn]

in fixedUpdate?

[slender nymph]

yes. did you know that there is documentation for things like Time.deltaTime that tell you how they behave?

[hallow acorn]

ok sory ill use documentation next time

[hallow acorn]

thats crazy work for half an hour if you ask me thats pretty cool

especially considering i took 3 hours to make something twice as complicated work half as good

[rich adder]

not even, i just booted it up. took a few mins

[hallow acorn]

thats crazy

[rich adder]

in due time you will probably do the same. Just takes time
https://paste.mod.gg/mmohwphdbiey/0
probably mistakes somewhere but for a 2 min script should get the point across

[hallow acorn]

if (foodTarget == null) is this so it doest change the target as lon as it exists so it doesnt zigzag with multiple possible targets?

[rich adder]

yes that is so it doesnt keep running Overlap when it has a target to go to

when you reach the destination with V2.Distance you can eat the food and set it to Null

perhaps this simplified version can steer you in the right direction

ofc it would be also better to make a simple state machine with enum like mentioned earlier

[hallow acorn]

youre pretty good at what you are doing

thank you so much btw youre a lifesaver

[rich adder]

its all relative, I get imposter syndrome every day lol

[hallow acorn]

only time i dont get it is in school because even tho you might not believe it in programming class i get asked for help more often then the teacher

[rich adder]

I don't doubt it.. everyone has different knowledge / skills, so just knowing more in certain aspects just means you have experienced it more

[hallow acorn]

yea

[rich adder]

ask me anything procedural and I go into fetus position and rotate in circles on the floor

[hallow acorn]

ngl thats so relatable tho

[primal trench]

how do i get alpha with .dds files? it shows transparency in my file browser but it's gone when in unity and there's no alpah options in the import bit

[grand snow]

Didn't even know it had any support for em

[rich adder]

are you working with a mod ? whats the benefit to dds format

[primal trench]

no but im planning to make modibility easy, and also dds is directly with the gpu which makes it much much faster and it has built-in mipmap generation

[rich adder]

ohh I see..thought things like DXT compression took care some of that, but Ig idk enough about it so i'll take your word

[primal trench]

im not an expert i just know a few things TwT i did fallout 4 modding awhile back

[rich adder]

was about to say i only knew about dds cause of fallout :p

basically gpu compatible bytes vs metadata contained or something..

[grand snow]

Unity already does this stuff for you that's the point of an engine.

You provide a normal image and it handles the format and mip gen based on settings you configure

[rich adder]

was about to say saw option to generate mip in import texture

[grand snow]

Pretty sure even source engine had mip gen it's nothing new

[primal trench]

whatever is there a way to use alpha with .dds?

[grand snow]

Check the docs for what textures unity supports. I'm going to presume no

DDS isn't even listed so I doubt it will work
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/ImportingTextures.html

[languid pagoda]

uh i shut down unity shut down my pc. and now none of my game audio works. Any suggestions?

there is sound int he editor I can manually play the script from the assets folder in the editor but its like none of my audio is actually playing now and I cannot figure out why

audiosource.Play is being called if i disable the audiosource it will throw warnings in the console

[frosty hound]

Check your game view isn't on mute, there's a button at the top.

Nevermind, don't crosspost please.

[elder osprey]

Hey, I'm trying to learn how to make Inverse Kinematics. I'm trying to make logic that moves the head point to where the player clicks, and its flying away so fast it breaks int limit. This is my code: https://hastebin.com/share/onifetozip.csharp

[short condor]

Is boocean a real thing or am I just making up nonsense

[frosty hound]

Nonsense

[eternal needle]

did you add logs to see why this may be happening? also consider just looking into unitys premade IK and animation rigging

[elder osprey]

Premade IK hasent been updated since 2022 and I have a specific use for it

[eternal needle]

well then still add logs or use the debugger and see exactly what these values are, you'll very quickly see why your object is flying away fast. unless you plan to move via physics, you dont need fixed update there. you'd also want to multiply by Time.deltaTime when adding to the position there

[broken sail]

when I lerp a rotation how can I keep it from going all the way around?

I'd like the right to be the same as the left and not have that little flick (or left same as right, both are pretty good as long as it is consistent)

[wintry quarry]

I honestly don't see anything in this video that is clearly a rotation

[broken sail]

the trail obscures it a bit, let me make it more clear hold on

you can see the sword flicking a full 360 on the right but not the left

[polar acorn]

This was already answered last time you were here

[wintry quarry]

you'd have to show the code

but it sounds like maybe you're lerping euler angles instead of using the appropriate function for rotation interpolation which is slerp

[broken sail]

Trident.transform.eulerAngles = Vector3.Lerp(Trident.transform.eulerAngles, new Vector3(0, 0, 0), 0.3f);
yup that's it

so do I slerp rotation instead of lerping eulerangles?

[wintry quarry]

Yeah lerping eulerangles is a recipe for this kind of thing.

You can use Quaternion.Slerp instead

Trident.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(Trident.transform.rotation, Quaternion.identity, 0.3f);

although this is also framerate dependent but that's a whole separate issue.

[broken sail]

yup, works now

[sudden prairie]

No one answered it yet ⬆️

[wintry quarry]

you should not be rotating a Rigidbody via the Transform

most likely the body is just settling back to the stable orientation as you try to rotate it

it's also not clear exactly where this function is running

[thorn yoke]

hello beautiful people i need help making this door and door window open in sync. its from the abandoned asylum free pack on the unity store if that makes any difference

[fiery stone]

guys i have a problem

the character controller tutorial i was following

doesnt implement sliding

only crouching

[teal viper]

Parent the window to the door

[thorn yoke]

i actually just did that im completely new to this this is all my first day in unity

its somewhat similar to ue5 which is what im use to but i heard the pathing and ai stuff is way better here so here i am

[teal viper]

I'd recommend going over the learning paths on Unity !learn then. Before diving into actual real projects.

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[teal viper]

Or read through the manual.

[thorn yoke]

i will absolutely do this once i figure out how to get the textures on some pinkage i got going on.

[high mauve]

hi

i need help with terrain generation so i am trying to build a map that generate infinitely and has trees and every thing with a road on which we can drive i tried the unity documentation but under terrain section there wasn't any thing about that can some one help

[fickle plume]

@high mauve Don't cross-post. If you have a code question then post the code you have problem with.

[high mauve]

i dint have a code , and what is this about cross-post isnt this a beginner chat?

[fickle plume]

Choose a one relevant channel to !ask a full question.

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

[high mauve]

ok thankyou

[low goblet]

when trying to reference my inputs with

[SerializeField] private InputActions _inputActions;

nothing pops up, and I have to reference individual refs such as

[SerializeField] private InputActionReference _zoomInput;

is this intended?

[fickle plume]

What is InputActions?
Make sure you have !IDE properly configured.

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
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• :question: Other/None

[low goblet]

It's just my custom inputs with the input event system, my IDE is working fine and intellisense/debugging all works perfectly fine

[fickle plume]

Make sure your custom class is [System.Serializable]

[low goblet]

Still can't get it to show up in the interface for some reason after doing that, InputActions is just from the unity generated class

turns out setting the default value to something non null seemed to serialize it

[fickle plume]

Might not have been saved previously. Project needs to recompile for serialization to update. Saving triggers it unless overridden.

[low goblet]

appreciate the help

[glossy vigil]

im new to unity, just bought a template for an incremental game im trying to create i imported it into my project but idk how to set it up/ make it run liek its advertise like despite me adding it idk where to put it for the thing to run

like i have it here

but i dont know how to actually put it to display so then i can mess around with the settings

[rancid tinsel]

Does anyone have a resource on how achievements (10 kills in smoke etc) are done in a clean, modular way? It's something that's been picking at my brain lately and I can't picture how it might be done

Not necessarily a C# resource just in general, or a source-code example from industry maybe?

[keen dew]

Assets come with documentation and example scenes

[glossy vigil]

What’s a scenes canvas

[hexed terrace]

It's for -> #📲┃ui-ux

[glossy vigil]

How can I access it

[hexed terrace]

This is a channel for code questions.
This server is not for help with bought assets.

Read the docs that came with the asset.
Contact the publisher of the asset for help.

Do tutorials on !learn 👇 so you know what you're doing

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[glossy vigil]

I try dragging it in the scene but it doesn’t work

[burnt trout]

check the read me .txt might show you the steps

[glossy vigil]

it says this

but i try draging the button on the scene

and nothing happens

i try dragging it here

do i need like a specific scenes for these to run

[keen dew]

There isn't anything to "run". They are UI elements. You'll have to first learn how to do UI in Unity before using this asset

[glossy vigil]

wait

so this asset project

is just GUI elements

not a functionablre GUI?

[keen dew]

🥳

[glossy vigil]

fuckign hell

just got famoosed

[sleek light]

does anyone know how to read and work with values from light probes?

[eager elm]

Similar how Steam does it.
Have a 'Stat' class that tracks the kills.
An 'StatAchievement' class that checks a specific Stat
Your Units should have events for dying, killing, etc. that the Stat (or another intermediary) class can listen to.
Then a AchievementDisplay class that displays any earned achievements (if Steam is not running)

[rancid tinsel]

The issue is if you have a bunch of obscure achievements (kill 10 enemies underwater, drive a car 10km, click on the logo 100 times etc), you end up hard-coding everything into that Stat class. For just kills it's pretty simple, but I probably shouldn't write a separate system for each achievement type right? Unless I misunderstand

This might actually be the best/only approach, but you never know

[grand snow]

why do you want to sample light probe data?

There does seem to be some data we can access but I think its only for loaded scenes
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LightProbes.html

[sleek light]

@grand snowim trying to make a stealth system where the players lighting is compared to the lighting of the wall behind the player (from the enemies perspective), and i read somewhere that light probes could be used for that kind of stuff but I'm open for better alternatives if there are any

[river bone]

was testing out this model and noticed that a bit of his hair comes out when jumping. Would there be any quick way of editing the model in unity or will it be a go back to blender and rerig the model type of thing?

Edit: never mind, just fixed it

[grand snow]

you probably want your own storage of this data so it can be accessed easier. You can read the lighting data assets in editor to build this data ahead of time (e.g. bake light then update your lighting data)
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LightingDataAsset.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Lightmapping.html

This would be editor only automation to prepare the data

[sleek light]

@grand snow I'm sorry, I'm very, very new to all of that. Could you explain that to me like I'm an idiot?

[grand snow]

Make new component that stores a grid of light data. You can read the lightmap data, parse it and write the new light data to your component in editor.
We can modify assets, prefabs and scenes outside of play mode with code which lets us do cool stuff and automations like this.

You can get the probes for a scene with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LightProbes.GetSharedLightProbesForScene.html
You then need to get the baked probes, sample the lighting and based on that figure out brightness for that position.
It may be a bit advanced but is most likely the way this would need to be done. Access the light probes and sampling colour would be required either way.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LightProbes-bakedProbes.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.SphericalHarmonicsL2.Evaluate.html

[trim quarry]

for some reason game build size keeps being more than 100 mbs, theres any reason on this?

all the assets that i inserted to the game is mirror

also it has a few amount of assets like textures and meshes

overall it shouldnt be more than 100 mbs

[primal trench]

how do i make it so if the player presses like, A and S at the same time it chooses one of the two instead of just stopping the player's movememt

[naive pawn]

do you mean like, A and D

depends on how you're processing input

[primal trench]

liike, if you press two opposite values, a and d, or w and s, (was a typo) it canceles

but i want it to choose w or s if both are pressed

[naive pawn]

yeah that's usually the intended behavior, and how you change it depends on how you're processing input

[grand snow]

Check the build log for a list of included assets and their size

and figure out from there whats taking up lots of space!

[primal trench]

I'm using an input map, a player input component, and a script which the component invokes callbackcontext onyo

[onyx blaze]

I'm trying to compare these strings (Line 168), but the code never enters inside the "If"

As example, I'm trying to compare "romantic" with "romantic"
But I don't know where I mistake :/

That's my Debug.Log

[naive pawn]

set "which side wins" in the composite binding

[naive pawn]

try logging their lengths, perhaps there's an invisible character you don't know about

[onyx blaze]

Ahhh
How can I adjust it?
When I set to write in the debug log, show the exactly string

[naive pawn]

well romantic should be 8 so seems like the first one has extra chars

where's that string from, and perhaps try logging out each char to see what said invisible chars are

i forget how you'd do the latter

[wintry quarry]

This whole string comparison game is lipstick on a pig.
Stop using strings for this in the first place, unless you can guarantee you're sourcing them from a one single place. Use an enum instead.

[onyx blaze]

I'm not sure if I understood :/

[hexed terrace]

Do not use strings to compare
Use and compare enums

[acoustic belfry]

Im trying to make the rigidbodies stay on a plataform

Doesnt work they just keep falling

public class movablePlataformBase : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody2D rb; // Platform's Rigidbody2D

    private void Awake()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }
    void OnCollisionStay2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        Rigidbody2D otherRb = collision.rigidbody;
        if (otherRb != null && otherRb.bodyType == RigidbodyType2D.Dynamic)
        {
            // Apply platform velocity to the object
            otherRb.linearVelocity += rb.linearVelocity;
        }
    }
}```

I mean

The plataform moves without them

[grand snow]

I think without them touching and there being high friction they often wont

[acoustic belfry]

Huh?

[grand snow]

adding velocity like you are wont really help because you keep adding the platforms velocity which will keep building up

[acoustic belfry]

Oh

Idk this was just a sketch

[grand snow]

why share it then 😐

[acoustic belfry]

Cuz is the only code i had in hand

[grand snow]

You can try translating the other rb by how much the platform moved or ensuring the velocity of the other rb does not drop below the platforms velocity

[naive pawn]

the latter wouldn't allow you to go backwards relative to the platform

[primal trench]

where?

[grand snow]

hmm thats true. maybe physics materials is the easy way then

[acoustic belfry]

O h

[grand snow]

my other idea is adding force needed to move the other rb along with the platform

[acoustic belfry]

Physics materiales?

[grand snow]

yea try one with high friction on the platform

[naive pawn]

in the inputactionsasset

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/class-PhysicsMaterial.html

[acoustic belfry]

Oh

But the player has 0 friction

[naive pawn]

isn't parenting the usual recommendation? does that not work for rigidbodies?

[grand snow]

static can be set differently

[naive pawn]

you could set a different combine type to force it for this interaction, but then that'd also introduce side friction

[acoustic belfry]

Huh?

[acoustic belfry]

What do you mean?

[grand snow]

check the doc page, there is dynamic and static friction as well as the combine mode

[acoustic belfry]

Im getting sligjty Lost, sorry ;-;

Ok

[grand snow]

perhaps high static friction + max friction combine mode on the platform will do it

actually put both high 😆

[naive pawn]

i feel like if you set only static high it could make walking forwards go backwards lol

[acoustic belfry]

How i can acess to dynamic friction?

I mean

[grand snow]

these are options on a physics material asset

[acoustic belfry]

Separately the frictions

[grand snow]

did you try making one even??

make one, slap it on, try out shit

[primal trench]

can't find it

[acoustic belfry]

Doesnt appear

I already made a material (thats why the player has zero friction)

Theres only..friction

And bounciness

And the combines

[grand snow]

fuck is this 2d?

[acoustic belfry]

Yes

It is

[grand snow]

dang yea i forgot that has less options avaliable. try it anyway

[acoustic belfry]

Sorry i put the 3D one in hiatus cuz i discovered i would struggle with level design

[acoustic belfry]

But try what exactly. I cant modify dynamic and static separately

[grand snow]

doesnt exist for 2d physics 🙁

they are seperate physics libs so we dont get the same stuff

[acoustic belfry]

O o f

Then what i should do?

[frosty hound]

This was already mentioned yesterday. Take the velocity of the platform and append it to the velocity you're planning on moving the character, this frame.

What you're doing now is having the platform control the velocity of the player, which is backwards.

[acoustic belfry]

I try it

Oooh

I mean

Im doing it that way cuz it must also checks enemies

Maybe objects

So it would look odd if some objects worked and others fell

[frosty hound]

And those objects should have controllers which handle this, not the other way around. Platforms are dumb objects, they should not have authority over anything other than their own movements.

[acoustic belfry]

Makes sense

[primal trench]

i cant find any setting related to which side wins

[rocky canyon]

platform be like: "imma platform doing my thing.. up n down, whatnot"
thing thats controlling the player movement: "ohh, hey platform, now i know ur a platform gimme ur up n down whatnot and ill go ahead and (add)apply that to the movemnt code we already got going on"

[acoustic belfry]

So in theory
When calculates if is standing on top of something or not, should check if has component movableBoi, if it is, should plus it velocity with thr plataform's velocity, right?

[frosty hound]

Yes, which is what was said yesterday

[rocky canyon]

like u on an airplane... if u walkin down the aisle.. ur moving a certain velocity.. and the planes moving a certain velocity... and from a bystander ur actually moving with both added

[acoustic belfry]

I did it. Didnt worked

What i did wrong?

[acoustic belfry]

Holup

Let me send the code

[rocky canyon]

same concept can be applied to all kinds of movement, momentum stuffs especially

knockback, so on and so on

[patent wedge]

how do i exit out of an if statement and go to the bottom else?

[acoustic belfry]

Holup

[sour fulcrum]

redesign the code 😄

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃unity-talk message i also mentioned it.. velocity of platform + velocity of player

[grand snow]

you dont

either if or else gets executed. If you want both you need a second if

[rocky canyon]

make a function that does the else stuff and call it at the end of the if

and also in the else at that point

[grand snow]

eh you can probably have a bool to control this logic being executed

[acoustic belfry]

Like this?

  {
      RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.CircleCast(transform.position, groundcolliderradius, Vector2.down, groundcolliderdistance, groundlayer);

      // Check if the hit object has the movablePlataformBase component
      movablePlataformBase platform = hit.collider.GetComponent<movablePlataformBase>();

      if (platform != null)
      {
          // Add the platform's linear velocity to your own rigidbody
          if (rb2D != null) // Make sure you have a reference to your rigidbody
          {
              rb2D.linearVelocity += platform.rb.linearVelocity;
          }
      }
  }```

[rocky canyon]

really not the same thing tho yea

[acoustic belfry]

I dont know what went wrong

I mean

The player doesnt stay with this neither

[rocky canyon]

is the code running? have u debugged and made sure u getting values?

[frosty hound]

1. Are you even getting to this code? You haven't debugged that.

2. Are your platforms actually using physics based movement?

These are basic things you should know to do by now. At some point, this handholding needs to be upgraded into critical thinking.

[naive pawn]

on the composite, not its parts
the one that says 2D Vector

[acoustic belfry]

I mean, it would be weird if didnt ran

[rocky canyon]

debugging especially.. it should immediately be the first and always go to.. come with the facts! 📖 👨‍⚖️ lol

[frosty hound]

Alright, good luck then.

[primal trench]

yeah, seems it's only avaible for axis1d, split movement into movex and movey

[acoustic belfry]

All debugs work

[naive pawn]

ah right, yeah that makes sense.

[rocky canyon]

so the linearVelocity of ur player rigidbody has the extra platform velocity? do the numbers add up?
if soo it is working.

[naive pawn]

@primal trench why exactly do you want that behavior though? like i mentioned, it's usually the normal behavior that pressing both sides yields no movement

[rocky canyon]

if not.. what else would it be maybe try a multiplier to multiply the force of the platform and see if it just takes more effort to move ur rigidbody around

[acoustic belfry]

Mmm, idk

Only the debugs are triggered

[primal trench]

feels better gameplay-wise

[acoustic belfry]

......

It coould be part of the issue, if the plataforms arent moving actually?

A huge empty gameobject moves

It has plataforms inside

....yeah

[rocky canyon]

a "platform" should be the actual rigidbody object w/ a collider

or a collider within it children

[acoustic belfry]

It has a rigidbody

[rocky canyon]

b/c the raycast detects the collider
the rigidbody gives u the velocity

[acoustic belfry]

Just ...that doesnt move

[hexed terrace]

you have to move it by physics

[rocky canyon]

well if nothing is moving then ur player isnt gonna be moving

[acoustic belfry]

The parent moves with physics

[hexed terrace]

🤔

[acoustic belfry]

The childrens are it "decorations"

The thing is this

Big empty game object, has a rigidbody and a boxcolliser on the bottom for move, inside of it, are kinematic boxes

Its like a walking mountain

[hexed terrace]

This sounds like you're confused, the visual doesn't matter.

the "platform" is all the components made up to make it.

[acoustic belfry]

The plataform is a children

The plataform doesnt even moce

The parent moves

And by so, the plataforms follows it

Do that affects smt?

[rocky canyon]

the collider gets detected by the raycast
its hunting for movablePlataformBase
and im assuming it has a rigidbody
that means in theory all of these pieces need to be on the same gameobject for your script/setup to work from what it looks like (bare minimum the collider and the plateformbase script)

and just for a pro-tip u should be probably workin on this in isolation since ur having trouble with it..
forget the elaborate parent/many platform deals u got going on. and make a super simple platform..
test ur code with that.. if u can see and know how it works before hand it makes troubleshooting more complex situations make sense as u know what ur looking for.. and what the conditions made it

[hexed terrace]

The parent is still part of the platform.

[acoustic belfry]

Oh

Well, i guess makes sense

Is just i thought it wouldnt be that complex

[primal trench]

    {
        Vector3 Speed = new Vector3(MoveInput.x * CurrentSpeed, 0f, MoveInput.y * CurrentSpeed);
        Speed = transform.rotation * Speed;

        CharController.SimpleMove(Speed);
    }```
why can't the player move in the air

[rocky canyon]

it is relatively simple.. like i said start simple and then graduate to more complex..
also (in my honest opinion) it helps do things like expose the rigidbody in the inspector like i did here.. so that i 💯 know
when its getting velocity from the rigidbody.. (inside hte platform code its just using simple Lerping and the rb.MovePosition())

and as u can see after getting it working thats just step one.. as theres already 1 bug i found in my own implementation where when the platform moves downwards it loses contact with the rigidbody.. probably some drag/dampening things i would need to consider to continue

[tidal kiln]

void HandleMovement()
{
Vector3 Speed = new Vector3(MoveInput.x * CurrentSpeed, MoveInput.y * CurrentSpeed, 0f);
Speed = transform.rotation * Speed;

    CharController.Move(Speed);
}

this is a simple fix, flying a character takes much more than that @primal trench

[primal trench]

ohhh no i meant move in the air as in like

you can adjust while in the air

[tidal kiln]

adjust what?

[frosty hound]

There is nothing in your code that suggests you cannot.

[tidal kiln]

meaning you can move slightly while in the air on the x and z axis?

[frosty hound]

The only assumption here is that your HandleMovement isn't being called while in the air, for whatever reason. Maybe you're only calling it when you've detected the player is on the ground.

[trim quarry]

where i can check the log?

its in the build?

[polar acorn]

When do you call HandleMovement

[primal trench]

update

[grand snow]

!logs

[eternal falcon]

📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[polar acorn]

Unconditionally?

[primal trench]

yes

[tidal kiln]

is the HandleMovement() inside of any if statement?

[primal trench]

but when u press wasd while in the air

nothing happens

[polar acorn]

Then you can move in the air.

If it's called in Update uncondtionally, and nothing else is moving the character, this will work in the air

Maybe you should share !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[trim quarry]

ok thanks

[primal trench]

[RequireComponent(typeof(CharacterController))]
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Movement Speeds")]
    [ReadOnlyInspect] public float CurrentSpeed;
    [SerializeField] public float WalkSpeed = 3.0f;
    [SerializeField] public float SprintSpeed = 6.0f;
    
    public enum MovementState
    {
        Walking,
        Sprinting
    }

    [ReadOnlyInspect] public MovementState State;

    [Header("Look")]
    [SerializeField] float MouseSensitivity;
    [SerializeField] float VerticalClamp = 80.0f;

    [Header("Input")]
    [ReadOnlyInspect] public Vector2 MoveInput;
    [ReadOnlyInspect] public Vector2 LookInput;

    private float VerticalRotation;
    private CharacterController CharController;

    [Header("References")]
    public Transform CameraRoot;

    private void Start()
    {
        CharController = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        StateMachine();
        HandleMovement();
        HandleLook();
    }

    void StateMachine()
    {
        switch (State)
        {
            case MovementState.Walking:
                CurrentSpeed = Mathf.Lerp(CurrentSpeed, WalkSpeed, Time.deltaTime * 5); break;
            case MovementState.Sprinting:
                CurrentSpeed = Mathf.Lerp(CurrentSpeed, SprintSpeed, Time.deltaTime * 5); break;
        }
    }
    void HandleMovement()
    {
        Vector3 Speed = new Vector3(MoveInput.x * CurrentSpeed, 0f, MoveInput.y * CurrentSpeed);
        Speed = transform.rotation * Speed;

        CharController.SimpleMove(Speed);
    }

    void HandleLook()
    {
        float MouseXRotation = LookInput.x * MouseSensitivity;
        transform.Rotate(0, MouseXRotation, 0);

        VerticalRotation -= LookInput.y * MouseSensitivity;
        VerticalRotation = Mathf.Clamp(VerticalRotation, -VerticalClamp, VerticalClamp);

        CameraRoot.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(VerticalRotation, 0, 0);
    }
}

[frosty hound]

Log your CurrentSpeed in your HandleMovement function and see what it is when you're in the air.

[primal trench]

it's 3

[frosty hound]

But also why are you multiplying your calculated speed with the rotation of the object? What's the purpose of that?

[polar acorn]

Also nothing here seems to be changing MoveInput so where are you reading input?

[primal trench]

seperate input script so it's not connected to this specific movement stuff

[primal trench]

move in the direction the player is facing

[polar acorn]

Try logging it. Log Speed before you call move

[frosty hound]

And also the actual MoveInput to see if it's actually a value. We don't know how that is being passed in, or when, or what other potential ways you might be modifying it before it's sent.

[primal trench]

it's exactly what i'd expect

[polar acorn]

Okay but what actually is it when you're in the air

[primal trench]

depends on what buttons you press speed is a vector 3

[polar acorn]

So give some examples. The point was to see the vectors, not the magnitude

Hold forward and show what it prints then

[primal trench]

here are a few

[tidal kiln]

while in the air?

[primal trench]

yes

the player just...isn't moving

[tidal kiln]

maybe something outside of this script is preventing from moving the player

is the character (in the air) moving slowly or not at all

[polar acorn]

I'm pretty sure SimpleMove works fine in the air, it just replaces the y value with gravity. Just as a sanity check, replace it with .Move. You will no longer fall but you can at least try to see if you can move while ungrounded

[primal trench]

correct

[polar acorn]

Correct as in it works now? Or correct as in it didn't change anything?

[primal trench]

no like, if i do move it does remove gravty but you can move when ungrounded

[primal trench]

not at alll

[marsh mountain]

Do you have ground check?

or ground layer?

[primal trench]

nopethere's no ifs

[marsh mountain]

I can't get unity ThirdPersonFollow component on cinemachine to work straight over the shoulder.

[polar acorn]

Okay, so you can move mid-air with normal .Move, but not .SimpleMove?

[primal trench]

yes

[polar acorn]

Then I guess you'll need to handle gravity manually and use .Move

[primal trench]

how would I do that?

[polar acorn]

Keep track of your vertical speed separately, use that for the y value of your movement vector you pass to .Move. Subtract some gravity value from it every frame, and when you're grounded reset it to some small downward force like -0.1 so you can remain in contact with the ground

[rocky canyon]

        // Vertical movement (Y)
        float vertical = currentVelocity.y;

        if (controller.isGrounded && vertical < 0f)
            vertical = groundedGravity; // Stick to ground
        else
            vertical += gravity * Time.deltaTime; // Apply gravity

        // Combine horizontal + vertical and move
        currentVelocity = new Vector3(horizontal.x, vertical, horizontal.z);
        controller.Move(currentVelocity * Time.deltaTime);```

yup, you just take the movement u already have and tack on a gravity value before sending it to `Move`
something like this works to keep u pretty grounded

[primal trench]

isn't there built-in gravity?

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

[simple prism]

If I define a vertex shader that defines some input parameters that a mesh doesn't provide (like taking TEXCOORD1 but the mesh only having 1 uv channel), what happens if I use that shader to render the mesh?

[trim quarry]

what a sigma

[polar acorn]

It'll be treated as either all 0s or all 1s. I don't remember which, but you can usually check it by just having that value map onto a color or something

[trim quarry]

how do i solve this

[rich adder]

whats there to solve. What am I looking at after being blinded

use words

[trim quarry]

so after building the project, suddenly its size got more than 100 mbs, ive looked to build logs and saw this

it just added 100 mbs from no where

i dont remember the engine itself weight like that

is it depending on build profiles?

[inland flame]

Should I use visual scripting or learn c#

[rich adder]

learn c#

[inland flame]

I have experiences in visual but it's easier than unity but harder than scratch

[inland flame]

tutorials or docs?

[rich adder]

both

[trim quarry]

both

[inland flame]

I tried roll a ball thing but

Got stuck in coding

[trim quarry]

theres tons of ways to learn

[inland flame]

And I don't want to use godot because I hate the node system

[polar acorn]

100mb is tiny for a unity game

[trim quarry]

the what

[rich adder]

it takes time. these are your best bet for C# first
Microsoft Learn site, Coursera , codecamp, w3Schools

[trim quarry]

the first build had 40 mbs weight

[inland flame]

Where exactly can I find one that actually teaches me something, not just type and here is your script

[neon forum]

Can someone remind me what the order of awake, initialize, and start is? And isn't there a 4th thing?

[inland flame]

Okay

[trim quarry]

but it got more than 100 mbs later

[inland flame]

Thanks

[rich adder]

take it slowly , most of the concepts are the same no matter what you do VS or C#.
variables, methods etc.

[inland flame]

I know basics like variabled

[rich adder]

when you get more comfortable then you look into more specific unity API functions and concepts

[inland flame]

Because I have experience

I made a 2d game where you killed terrorists

[rich adder]

good so that can only benefit you further knowing these

[inland flame]

With visual scripting

[cosmic dagger]

Event function execution order . . .

[inland flame]

If terrorist touches you-> -1 from "health" variable

[trim quarry]

so theres no way to lighten the build?

[rich adder]

its the same things, except you're writing it

[inland flame]

Cool

I'll save that

[rich adder]

which causes less mess tbh

if you want to learn the components unity has you can play with their VS as well , while you learn the c# too.

[inland flame]

Thank you 🖤 🖤 🖤

[naive pawn]

what initialize thing are you talking about

[neon forum]

RandomUnityInvader answer it all good

[inland flame]

Learning both?

[neon forum]

just needed to find something post init

[inland flame]

Is that a feature?

[zenith cypress]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.project-auditor@1.0/manual/build-view-reference.html you can use this to get a better idea of your project size (puts the size on each asset in the build tab) @trim quarry

[rich adder]

its a feature if you make it such lol

[naive pawn]

yeah but init isn't a thing built-in in unity so not sure where you're getting that from

[trim quarry]

ok ill see thanks

[simple prism]

It sounds like maybe you should familiarize with general programming without Unity first?

[rich adder]

You can consider "Awake" their initializer for MB but otherwise you have none @neon forum

[inland flame]

How can i

The programming level I am currently at is print hello world

[naive pawn]

(they did include awake already so 🤷)

[inland flame]

Which is python

[naive pawn]

@inland flame perhaps give this a read

(in general) there's 3 major parts to programming:

• Language - The syntax, structure, and paradigm of each language
• Library - The interfaces and utilities that each environment or toolset provides
• Logic - The algorithms to do work at runtime

Logic is almost completely transferrable between each language and environment, you just have to learn the specific Language and Library that you're using
Language is also shared quite a bit between languages

of course, learning 1 part at a time is easier than learning everything at once, which is why tools like scratch or code.org are popular as coding courses for beginners, especially kids, because it only focuses on the Logic aspect

[simple prism]

Then you really should learn C# first. Don't worry about anything Unity-specific. You feel that way because Unity tutorials probably assume that you already know how to program

[inland flame]

The weird thing is, I used to program on game engines nobody even knew

So there was a scene system, scenes were parts of game (like menu, shop menu, game itself , death menu etc) now I take a look at unity godot etc they use scenes for objects too

I don't exactly get that, everything is different

which is hard for me

[simple prism]

Did you use visual scripting then?

[inland flame]

Yes

[rich adder]

everything is pretty much a container..
Scenes are containers for gameobjects
gameobjects are containers for components.
etc.

[inland flame]

Like when adding a game object, they make a scene for that first

[simple prism]

Then you are basically trying to learn unity and C# at the same time which can be overwhelming

[tidal kiln]

if you are actually planning to stay and keep learning unity game developement, you need to learn c#, it will take time, but if you just want to make something quick use visual scripting

[inland flame]

I actually did learn godot and unity, I can understand them better now but coding is still hard

[rocky canyon]

SceneManagement and the BuildIndex (where u add all ur scenes for ur game to build) would be the "Scene System"

[inland flame]

The whole point is me to learn c# and make games

If I use visual scripting

It will be boring after some time and I will regret because I don't learn c#

[tidal kiln]

visual scripting is usually good for small scale projects

[simple prism]

VS will be a complete mess and harder to understand than code after a while

[rich adder]

it just gets real messy once you start doing anything complicated that usually only takes 50ish lines

[inland flame]

I start off small like that terrorist game, then add featured until it becomes 50 megabytes

[tidal kiln]

anything bigger and more complex, you will start seeing weaknesses, and the nodes will get a lot more complex very quickly

[tidal kiln]

this is not the case with programming

[inland flame]

Unity was easier than godot for me

[thorn kiln]

So, I dunno if my idea is correct. I wanna have so if my player collides with the weak spot, it destroys the enemy. I'm just kinda piercing together other bits of code that are similar though, so I dunno exactly how to accomplish it.

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Weak Point"))
        {
            Destroy(Enemy.gameObject);
        }
    }```

[rich adder]

have you tried it ? seems fine

[tidal kiln]

You are comparing a tag to a name

[rich adder]

also yeah actually Tag != Gameobject names

[inland flame]

So should I use unity or not

[rich adder]

actually why do you have a reference to a specific Enemy Object ?
you should be using other.gameObject for the one you hit

[tidal kiln]

every game engine has weaknesse and strengths

but unity is good too

[inland flame]

Yeah

Godot was bad for me because of node system

I want to add a city map, the nodes make it impossible for me to edit normally

Too complicated

[tidal kiln]

Don't go with unreal engine as a beginner by the way, unity would be good

[rich adder]

yeah one thing I disliked about godot was the nodes
very confusing imo

[inland flame]

tried it too

[tidal kiln]

Godot is also a good choice but again, every game engine has strengths and weaknesses

[inland flame]

does this mean I can't make GTA 7sadblob

Also my laptop has i3

I'm scared that after some time it will start to lag and crash

[tidal kiln]

so you can't even run GTA V 😅

[inland flame]

not even 4

wait

Yeah

I finished 4 in i3 it was fine but not 5 ;P

It was 10 fps

[tidal kiln]

how in the world did you complete GTA IV with just 10 fps

[inland flame]

30

With fps drops

[tidal kiln]

oh ok

[inland flame]

The best game I could do was a dark themed game where you had to pick up crystals, I couldn't code picking up system and I stole the movement system

But you had a flashlight

Which was a child of player

big achievement

[thorn kiln]

Oh Im very aware that what I'm doing is wrong, I just don't know what to do that's right. The tutorials I've had until now are along these lines, but they directly delete the thing they collide with. I'm not sure how to destroy something else.

[rich adder]

what do you want to destroy instead ?

[glossy vigil]

guys so i bught something like a template game, that the guy is able to run in like web version and he sent me a folder with scripts. how can i put these in a new empty project and make it run

[naive pawn]

did you read the file that is named READ ME

[thorn kiln]

The enemy that the weak point is a child of

[rich adder]

you mean from WeakPoint to Enemy ? just do
other.transform.parent.gameObject
Its a bit weak but should work here
in an ideal situation you could make the reference to enemy directly on a component placed on weakpoint trigger

[glossy vigil]

its nothing there

just some bs

i assume he only sent me the code

and not

the sprites right

like not the full game just the coding behind

[frosty hound]

How would we know, you're the one with the files. If there are only scripts in that folder labelled Scripts, then you would probably be assuming correctly.

[thorn kiln]

Yep, that worked. Are oyu able to explain why it uses transform to reference that?

[rich adder]

parent is a property found in transform property

[rocky canyon]

b/c other is a collider.. collider doesn't have a .parent variable..
it's Transform does however

[thorn kiln]

Hmmmm, okay

That's gonna be hard to remember for me

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-parent.html

[gloomy bison]

i'd say open a google doc and take notes on stuff you learn. it helped for me

[rocky canyon]

the point that u assumed its gona be hard to remember is a better reason to jot it down

[rich adder]

yes taking notes is also good.. also you need to use it often to remembe rit

[thorn kiln]

Repetition is the mother of learning

[rocky canyon]

ur just grabbing the main Transform of the gameobject in order to access parent, child, etc, everything #💻┃code-beginner message thats on the doc page

[thorn kiln]

So what was the thing nav said about in an ideal situation you could make the reference to enemy directly on a component placed on weakpoint trigger ?

[rich adder]

So basically you would put a component that has a reference to the Enemy
then you can access it as a field / property

in case your trigger is buried down the heirarchy and doing transform.parent might not always yield the wanted transform

so it would look like if(other.TryGetComponent(out EnemyHurtTrigger trigger)){ Destroy(trigger.Enemy.gameObject)
EnemyHurtTrigger would just have
public Enemy Enemy // assigned in inspector

[rocky canyon]

^ yea.. the component u end up grabbin from the trigger/collision
would also have a reference to it's specific Enemy

[polar acorn]

Put a script on the object that you collide with, then that script knows what object it's supposed to destroy

[thorn kiln]

Hmm, I understand bits and pieces of what's being said

[rich adder]

thats a step lol.
which part you're mainly confused on?

[thorn kiln]

So, make a script, put it on WeakPoint
Write something like public GameObject enemyPrefab; at the start of the script
Drag the enemy prefab into it in the inspector
Is that right so far?

[naive pawn]

not the prefab, no

you want to know about the specific enemy, not the prefab it's from

[thorn kiln]

What do I drag into the inspector then?

[rich adder]

the parent you want to destroy

[thorn kiln]

Well my enemies are prefabs though?

[rich adder]

yes so you would make this in the prefab so it works for all enemies spawned from it

[thorn kiln]

Ah, I think I understand

[rich adder]

its just a quicker/safer way to reach the parent, or any objects you want
traversing through transform can be "weak" if the hierarchy changes you're shit outta luck.

[polar acorn]

Do they actually exist in the game when it is running?

[thorn kiln]

Double click the prefab to bring it up in the "blueprint looking room" and then drag the enemy parent from that heirarchy into the inspector

[naive pawn]

they are not, they are prefab instances

the prefab is basically a blueprint for the enemy

you can't use it directly

you Instantiate it to create an actual enemy from the blueprint, called an instance (hence the function name)

[thorn kiln]

Yes, that

[grim wave]

Hi, I'm trying to program a basic movement system into my game using the new input system, but I'm currently stuck with trying to figure out the code for sprinting and crouching. I plan to do a class callback in the Update function, but I have yet to figure out the actual code to put in the if function. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[rich adder]

move expects a v3

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

which direction you want it to go?

[grim wave]

oh, I want the sprint to just go forward

[rich adder]

so you could use transform.forward for example

but if you want a sprint like thing, I would maybe use a Coroutine and call it while thats goin on

[thorn kiln]

So what's this bit about?
if(other.TryGetComponent(out EnemyHurtTrigger trigger)){Destroy(trigger.Enemy.gameObject)
I assume that's going in the script attatched to the weak point. Is that gonna be using an ontriggerenter?

[grim wave]

oh yea that's true

I have to brush up on coroutines though, its been a hot minute since I've touched that

[naive pawn]

this would be on the player (though tbh it feels like it would be easier to do on the weakpoint)

it checks if the other object has an EnemyHurtTrigger, and if it does, to get its .Enemy.gameObject and destroy it

[rich adder]

oh wait misread that

[naive pawn]

it's your code lmao

[rich adder]

check the docs, its pretty easy way to get some timed events.. You can ofc also use plain old timers in Update

[rich adder]

thought I read EnemyHurtTrigger should go on Player . My brain is fried today mb lol

[thorn kiln]

If you put it on player, what would be the point of putting a script on weakpoint just to reference it's parent (enemy)?

[rich adder]

the player just looks for the EnemyHurtTrigger (component on child / trigger)
from there up to you if you destroy it from player like you have it now, or create a function that does it directly on trigger script

[thorn kiln]

Hmm, back to being confused

[rich adder]

which part ?

[naive pawn]

now it's not the "parent"

like, that's not how it's defined

[primal trench]

how would i push a character controlleer to the ground?

[polar acorn]

You put a script on the object that you interact with in OnTriggerEnter. Then that script can do whatever the hell it wants with that information

So, you've now made a more robust system that can work for more than just "Destroy this object's parent"

[naive pawn]

now it's just, the enemy that the weakpoint belongs to
could be the direct parent, could be something else

point is, it's managed by a serialized reference now, so it's more flexible
the player doesn't have to assume that it'll be the direct parent
@thorn kiln

[thorn kiln]

A few.
I'm confused about what code to put in what script and how to reference things in each

[rich adder]

two scripts.
One on the player for detecting OnTriggerEnter
and another on the WeakPoint Trigger

If you have a script on WeakPoint you don't need to do .CompareTag anymore. The component already tells you what it is, and you can use that to do something with

[thorn kiln]

I was about to say "So I'm not putting any actual code in the EnemyHurt script that's attatched to WeakPoint at all?", but then Chris said the code would be easier to do on WeakPoint?

[devout socket]

I also could use a little help in this thread here:
https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1407920726580793385

[thorn kiln]

Okay, this is the end result of juryrigging everything people here said to me, and it works, though I can't say I fully understand it.

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.TryGetComponent(out EnemyHurt trigger))
        {
            Debug.Log("Collided with weak point");
            Destroy(trigger.enemyPrefab.gameObject);
        }
    }```

[rich adder]

enemyPrefab as a name is misleading

prefabs dont exist at runtime, they become regular gameobjects

[thorn kiln]

Just what the tutorials always ask me to write

[rich adder]

prefab in the name implies something you will spawn as a copy

its already an instance, just call it enemy or whatever

[thorn kiln]

Well, reguardless, I'm trying to understand the if statement

[rich adder]

checks if other has a Component EnemyHurt plain and simple

if it does, stores the result as trigger

[thorn kiln]

So "other" I assume just means any other object besides the one the script is on
TryGetComponent is telling it to look for a component of the object it collided with?
It's looking for the script "EnemyHurt"?
I don't know what out is or what trigger means in this context

[naive pawn]

it's just the name

Type name is a declaration

[rich adder]

no other is the Collider that OnTriggerEnter returns

[wintry quarry]

See how you have Collider other in the parameter list? That is defining a variable called other. other is just the name of that variable.

[thorn kiln]

Okay, I kinda get that then. In the JS course I did the tutorials would always have you give stuff a filler parameter too, like "x"

[wintry quarry]

not sure what you mean by "filler parameter"

it's a parameter, with a name.

[thorn kiln]

Just that it's a thing that needs a parameter so any name is fine

[rich adder]

you have declare types in a statically typed language

[Type] [name]

[wintry quarry]

Well typically you want to give your parameter a descriptive and meaningful name, but yes according to the compiler the name can be anything

[rich adder]

the name can be anything ya
just a name. You can literally call it asjhdjaskh and it will still work..

just who would remember that lol. you wanna be descriptive

[thorn kiln]

Well it's more an observation that it doesn't even make you type it, it just auto-completes to other

[rich adder]

thats the way unity setup the Code Snippets

[tacit prism]

using the sprint toggle i made causes my player to teleport, rather than increasing his movement speed
i set it to

{
    playerMoveSpd = playerRunSpd;
}
else
{ 
    playerMoveSpd = playerWalkSpd;
}

[thorn kiln]

Anyway, why is it out EnemyHurt trigger instead of something like how GetComponent works just typing "EnemyHurt"? What does out and trigger do here?

[tacit prism]

it worked when i did my 3d project but not when applied here

[rich adder]

the same concepts here, except the result is coming from out because the function TryGetComponent already returns a value bool so you can't have 2 return values
trigger is just a name of the EnemyHurt found, stored in that name / variable (same thing, name can be anything here)
the bool is because TryGet returns true if it found the component you want, otherwise it just skips the if block

[naive pawn]

show how you're moving the player

[tacit prism]

wdym, im using a + d if you mean keybinds, but i didnt specifically set them up

[naive pawn]

the code

[rich adder]

if(TryGetComponent(out MyComponent myComponent)) myComponent.DoStuff
//is same
MyComponent myComponent = GetComponent<MyComponent>();
if(myComponent != null) myComponent.DoStuff ```

you should at some point learn about `out` its very powerful keyword / tool

[tacit prism]

i put the code in the video but alright

using UnityEngine;
public class PlayerWalk : MonoBehaviour
{

    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float playerMoveSpd;
    public float playerWalkSpd = 2;
    public float playerRunSpd = 4;
    private float moveHorizontal;



    void Start()
    {
            rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftShift))
        {
            playerMoveSpd = playerRunSpd;
        }
        else
        {
            playerMoveSpd = playerWalkSpd;
        }

    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        MovePlayer();
    }


    void MovePlayer()
    {
        Vector2 movement = (transform.right * moveHorizontal).normalized;
        Vector2 targetVelocity = movement * playerMoveSpd;

        Vector2 velocity = rb.linearVelocity;
        velocity.x = targetVelocity.x;
        rb.linearVelocity = velocity;

    }
}

[naive pawn]

i put the code in the video but alright
yeah that's not an adequate way to share code

[tacit prism]

idk what jetbrains is, i closed the project, and when i reopened it was there, im lowkey confused

[naive pawn]

it's the company that makes a lot of ides like rider, intellij, webstorm, clion

not sure why it's there tho

[tacit prism]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rich adder]

ide (Code Editor) probably thought you were trying to use a class from it

it does that sometimes

[tacit prism]

silly VS, whimsy little guy

[naive pawn]

perhaps try setting interpolation

[tacit prism]

i know what an ide is 😭

[rich adder]

just being explicit, some dont 😛 it is code beginner after all

You might want to give this some easing / interpolation if you want a smooth sprint

[tacit prism]

true lmao, im learning c# from the microsoft thingy, but also trying to apply stuff i learn along the way

[tacit prism]

ill try it out and report back

after like an hour of figuring it out

[rich adder]

also does turning Interpolation on rigidbody itself help a little ?

[tacit prism]

still teleportin </3

[rich adder]

something like Mathf.MoveTowards can possibly help smoothing those values

[tacit prism]

i really dont know if i efficiently set up the movement, as im basing this off of a piece of code for 3d movement i studied

[rich adder]

looks okay to me..btw you can also do
rb.linearVelocityX = for 2d rigidbodies https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-linearVelocityX.html

[tacit prism]

[thorn kiln]

Okay, trigger is just a random name then, got it. I still don't get out though? Not something I've come across until now

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/method-parameters#out-parameter-modifier

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/out

dang 🦥

[thorn kiln]

I find documentation so hard to read

[slender nymph]

probably should make an effort to get used to it considering reading docs is like 90% of programming

[thorn kiln]

It becomes kind of an endless dive because every page uses other words that I also don't know

[rich adder]

the microsoft one is surprisingly good

[thorn kiln]

Or just lays it all out in a very technical way so it read like jargon

[rich adder]

TLDR Simplified af
Functions return a value. They cannot return 2
you can use out as a way to get extra return values from the function

[frail hawk]

sounds ok