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[rocky canyon]

after u get input (which i imagine in ur update) and normalize it and then u use that method -> then send it over to ur movement fuctions

[tacit prism]

im a dumbass mb, forgot this shitter existed already

[rocky canyon]

so after all that..

and after u normalize it but before u use it to multiply w/ ur speed modifier

[grand snow]

Instead try to understand what pro builder can do and see if you can instead modify the points of a probuilder poly shape at runtime to create a shape as you desire for your set of points.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@6.0/api/UnityEngine.ProBuilder.PolyShape.html

If you make a poly shape in editor and see how that works I hope it will make more sense to you

[rocky canyon]

after this line

editwait ... ignore what i said.. that should already be moving u the correct way
b/c ur already multiplying each axis w/ the local one...

[hallow acorn]

ok sir 🫡

[tacit prism]

[rocky canyon]

if this script is on the player object its working fine..
b/c in the video ur rotating the camera around the player
the players direction never changes..

if u select the character (movement script object) and watch its transform it'll show u its orientation.. thats the transform.forward and transform.right that ur multiplying the input by...

if u wanted it to move the direction ur camera is facing instead.. u'd multiply ur inputs w/ the cams direction/axis cameras.transform.forward and .right

[tacit prism]

if upsets me you rebuilt what took me 3 days

[rocky canyon]

ive been working on CC's for bout 4 years now 😄

i have quite a few already in different stages.. just ready to help

[tacit prism]

well thats nice, thanks, ill try to get this working better, even if itll take the next 3 horus

i will say i was pressing w for all examples though

:(

this is what i get for trying to learn through tutorials after spending only 1 week on microsofts c# thing

[rocky canyon]

CCs have alot to do with math.. (basic stuff like geometry)
knowing the Vectors.. the Directions (the relation between Local/World) magnitudes / normalization.. why we do that.. then its multiplication and addition usually

https://gamemath.com/book/

the camera / rotation work is usually a bit more complicated (still pretty easy tho)

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131 this a banger of an asset that could help u get jump-started altho i do prefer building the character controller myself (atleast what i can)

[tacit prism]

i found out whats wrong with it actually!

just messed around, seems the player is being SNAPPED and forced to face the "true north direction"

as seen by this

[rocky canyon]

oh yea, thats much better example..
def messed up.. (how are you rotating?) im having a hard time figuring out how the movement and rotation is supposed to be working.. also share ur !code in case someone does know

[eternal falcon]

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[tacit prism]

https://paste.mod.gg/diintunuizhg/0 rotation with a script centered around the free look cam, set it up after our conversation to try to see if i could just brute force the issue ( i couldnt )

https://paste.mod.gg/vgukujkjpssj/0 my movement scripts i tried to make on my own after watching a bunch of 5-6 year old videos

[rocky canyon]

brute force the computer to do what i want 😈

[tacit prism]

i wish it worked like that...

[hallow acorn]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/usazezezeb.csharp can someone tell me why i get an IndexOutOfRangeException on line 25?

[rocky canyon]

ya, soo..is ur rotation script also trying to rotate the same object the freelook camera is controlling? to me it looks like theres some code fighting back and forth.. (the jittering)

[tacit prism]

very much so :(

i was following a video for the rotation script and its like almost 4 years old

so i really didnt know what was going on

i dont want to have to watch videos, but theres so much on the documentation, and probably a decent chunk of it ill never use, so i want to find out what i am going to use

and how to

[tacit prism]

i only made it after the fact though. my character wont stop moving in one direction
its like the character was made on a 2d game like vampire survivors, W is up, A is Left, etc. absolutes that never change.
i ant my w to send the player forward based on the position they are facing, not the camera

god this field is so hard

[tacit prism]

screw it im remaking my entire movement script again, this time around the cinemachine camera...somehow

[sour fulcrum]

What isn’t working

[forest mirage]

nah i fix it i get some coffee
its because i tell print the number not i tell him to print number 0 (c# is counting from 0 to ...) soo i fix it

everyone you need coffee

[frosty wren]

When you get this error in inspector, is there any way to know what script it was looking for? I tried looking through git differences, but everything is in IDs and not names

[teal viper]

There might be info in the Metadata file. Should be the script type in addition to id somewhere

[tacit prism]

(Fixed it btw, set up a mathf and converted it to degrees, and then applied it to the camera rotation and player)

[vestal anvil]

what is the difference between NavMeshAgent.NextPosition and NavMeshAgent.Destination? i see that they both output the same thing,they both set the next point where the agent goes so what is the difference?

there is also NavMeshAgent.path that can still be used to set a path

[naive pawn]

docs seem to suggest that destination is where it's trying to go and nextPosition is where it's trying to move to (to get to the destination)

[rotund root]

why is this button not working? 🐒

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class Help_Off_Button : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject HelpPanel;
    private void Click()
    {
      HelpPanel.SetActive(false);
    }
}

it's responding to my click (i can see it blink when i click it) but it's not doing anything

[grand snow]

hmm perhaps because you didnt actually pick the function it should call

@rotund root ^

[rotund root]

ohhh

[grand snow]

you can subscribe to the event in code or do it via the UI like this (but you need to pick the function from the dropdown list)

[silk night]

adding to this, you can also target the gameobject you want to disable and execute set active with the checkbox set to false

no code needed then 😄

[glossy vigil]

hey guys im new to unity

would anyone mind hopping in a call with me

i have some questions

[grand snow]

!ask

[eternal falcon]

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[grand snow]

ask questions in a channel in text instead of expecting someone to be your tutor

[hallow acorn]

@grand snow @rocky canyon yesterday at 3 am i came up with a solution for my mesh problem if you remember. Forgot to tell you guys about it though as i was craving either sleep or immense amounts of coffee. What if i create a triangle fin by making a triangle with vert indexes i, i+1 and the coordinates 0,0,0? Like a triangle fin as used in circles. Obviously wont work well with to complicated shapes but after making 2 triangles before i almost passed out of tiredness It looked like it could work. I tried making a normal 3x3 grid first by making 4 imaginary points in the middle but i was afraid of it glitching when squished to much as these points werent moving with the others, rather they stay around the geometric middle with an offset. So i thought id merge those 4 center points into a single one in the center. Topology wise probably nof optimal but simple and hopefully enough to get it colored.

Im not sure if i was dreaming or if this really happened but ill look into it later today

[grand snow]

NGL I hardly understand what you mean but an video/screenshots would help.
Triangle fans are used to produce shapes and re use of verts is always a good idea. That's why triangles are defined as vert indexes.

Perhaps consider opening a thread to continue this in #1390346827005431951

[hallow acorn]

Im on my phone but ill grab a paper to explain what i mean more clear

[grand snow]

No rush

[hallow acorn]

@grand snow I hope this makes it a bit more clear. The imaginary point is stored on the last slot of the array i think that could cause a bit of confusion

So in a for loop a triangle is essentially i, i+1, imaginary point

[grand snow]

Ah right yes that's a good plan. Make sure you generate uvs too as you generate it.

[hallow acorn]

How do i do dat?

[grand snow]

If it starts as a square then you can easily figure out the uv coordinates. Bottom left is 0,0 and top right is 1,1

[hallow acorn]

Oh thats really easy actually thank you. Ill look into it in the evening

[grand snow]

Yea with a shape like this you can easily define it. Open a thread in #1390346827005431951 to continue with this topic in future

[hallow acorn]

Thread is open

[silver lance]

yo chat

iam new to unity

[balmy vortex]

hey so like how do you actually make UI bars for ints like player health, mana etc?

[hexed terrace]

Don't cross post. You've been given the information you need to be able to do it - you now just need to go and learn on your own with that information.

[balmy vortex]

what

[hexed terrace]

I see now you deleted your other msg, so haven't crossposted... but you've been given the info you need to be able to do it.

It's also an extremely common thing, so you'll find lots of tutorials online

[silver lance]

help me bro

[frosty hound]

You need to !ask questions to get help, here.

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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[silver lance]

okayy

[silver lance]

how do i actually use unity

[hexed terrace]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[silver lance]

like iam abiginner

[frosty hound]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[fiery stone]

alright now im really confused
https://www.codedump.xyz/csharp/aLGb_Plli_PGg5hK

it worked amazingly, but after adding the cooldown (not the timer), even after the isDashing is false, it still slowed me down until the cooldown was finished. Like the cooldown itself, which is really weird because it shouldnt affect speed at all, let me record an example of it happening

and yes, this happens even if i set the CurrentCooldown manually without dashing

if you want more specific numbers averrage speed goes from 5-6 to 2-3. If i set it so the cooldown is 0 (so ti sets the cooldown to 0 when dashing) it doesnt happen, so its somehow tied to CurrentCooldown being above 0

[silver fern]

what exactly did you add?

[fiery stone]

the cooldown

its in the codedump

everything named cooldown

nothing else

[silver fern]

does it work properly again if you remove it

it would be easier if you kept your code formatting consistent

its kind of a mess

[silver fern]

so the slowdown is caused by the part that involves the DashSlowdown variable?

[acoustic belfry]

hey, is this aproach for stay on the plataform too much? It works like a charm, but im not sure if is too overly complex or smt, or just straight up a bad idea

{
    // Check if there's a platform below using OverlapCircle :P
    Collider2D collider = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(transform.position, groundcolliderradius, groundlayer);

    if (collider != null && collider.TryGetComponent<movablePlataformBase>(out var platformBase))
    {
        Transform platform = platformBase.transform;

        // If she stepped on a new platform
        if (currentPlatform != platform)
        {
            currentPlatform = platform;
            platformOffset = rb2D.position - (Vector2)platform.position;
            lastPlatformPos = platform.position;
        }

        // Move the player within the platform
        rb2D.position += (Vector2)(platform.position - lastPlatformPos);
        lastPlatformPos = platform.position;
    }
    else
    {
        currentPlatform = null;
    }```

[silver fern]

as long as it works there is no issue

it might be more precise to use a raycast instead of overlap

[patent wedge]

I know that you can do int = somebool ? True : false. But is there an equivalent with somebool ? Function() : do nothing?

[keen dew]

if(somebool) Function();

[burnt vapor]

Apart from just making a normal if-statement you could make a no-op delegate. So : () => {}

Or return null, and I'm fairly sure you can do delegateVar?.Invoke()

But tbh this is so obscure that I don't even remember

[fiery stone]

idk, the thing is even after the isDashing varaible is set back to false (aka normal slowdown is applied) its still really slow

[fiery stone]

i code a tiny bit everyday so it becomes one, also im new to C# so i dont have an identity yet so its kind of a mess but most of it will probably be slowly rewritten in the future so for now it works

[fiery stone]

yeah no even after setting the dash drag to the same as normal speed drag it still slows me down

[marble pendant]

Hello, i am very new to using unity, can someone please suggest a video,website,tutorial for understanding unity's new input system(i find the old input system very easy but want to learn the new one)

[burnt vapor]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[marble pendant]

Thank you!

[silver fern]

well you've got to know which part of the code is responspible for speeding up and slowing down the character

[fiery stone]

yeah, but the only thing which slows down the player is the dash slowdown which only applies if isDashing is true which its not

[silver fern]

first check if it still happens if you remove dashslowdown or set it to 0

[fiery stone]

it does not

like i said in the original message

[silver fern]

            yVelocity *= 1 - MovementDrag * Time.deltaTime;```
doesnt this also cause slowdown

[fiery stone]

yeah, but its not affected by the cooldown

[silver fern]

does it still happen if you remove that part?

[fiery stone]

remove what?

[silver fern]

the part that I just posted

[fiery stone]

you want me to remove that part that moves the player to see if it moves the player faster?

[silver fern]

no only the part that applies slowdown

[fiery stone]

changing dashslowdown doesnt affect it at all, unless if you set it to 0 because then it wont lose enough velocity to stop the dash

[silver fern]

but what about 1 - movementdrag * deltatime

since thats the part of the code thats executed if isDashing is false

[fiery stone]

thats the part that slows the player down

[silver fern]

which is the issue

[fiery stone]

so you dont, yk, fly off the screen the second you press w

[fiery stone]

no, it works perfectly, unless CurrentDashCooldown is more than 0

but the cooldown doesnt affect movement except not being able to dash

thats the weird part

[silver fern]

I'm noticing that you're multiplying your movement verctor with deltatime twice, is that on purpose?

[fiery stone]

i am?

oh

[fiery stone]

removing that resulted in this:

[silver fern]

what did you remove exactly

[fiery stone]

the * time.deltatime at the movement drag and dash slowdown

[silver fern]

what's the value of the movement vector right before you change position?

[fiery stone]

lemme debug.log that

[fiery stone]

(Infinity, 0.00)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:111)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

transform.position assign attempt for 'Player' is not valid. Input position is { Infinity, 0.000000, 0.000000 }.
UnityEngine.Transform:set_position (UnityEngine.Vector3)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:112)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

(-Infinity, 0.00)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:111)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

transform.position assign attempt for 'Player' is not valid. Input position is { -Infinity, 0.000000, 0.000000 }.
UnityEngine.Transform:set_position (UnityEngine.Vector3)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:112)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

(Infinity, 0.00)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:111)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

transform.position assign attempt for 'Player' is not valid. Input position is { Infinity, 0.000000, 0.000000 }.
UnityEngine.Transform:set_position (UnityEngine.Vector3)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:112)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

[silver fern]

then go back and check the involved variables to see where the infinity is coming from

that shouldnt happen

I do see that you're mixing floats and ints a lot, maybe its a rounding error because of that somewhere

nvm

[fiery stone]

yeah thats the keyboard inputs

[fiery stone]

heres some logs:

Xinput: 1 | Yinput: 0
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:105)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

Xvel Before Drag: -Infinity | Yvel before drag: 0
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:106)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

(Infinity, 0.00)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:113)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

transform.position assign attempt for 'Player' is not valid. Input position is { Infinity, 0.000000, 0.000000 }.
UnityEngine.Transform:set_position (UnityEngine.Vector3)
PlayerController:HandleMovement () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:114)
PlayerController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player/PlayerController.cs:42)

so acceleration must be infinity?

[silver fern]

xvel before drag is

[fiery stone]

or negative infinity

[polar acorn]

Unexpected Infinities usually means division by zero or at least division by something close enough to zero to count

[fiery stone]

no division :O

https://www.codedump.xyz/csharp/aLGzLZIOKYMELMi8

[silver fern]

you have divisions, but they're written as multiplications

[fiery stone]

.. so division by zero would be multiplication by what?

0? but multplication by 0 is 0, not infinity?

[silver fern]

where is xvel before drag exactly

[fiery stone]

xVelocity += xInput * MovementAcceleration;

then i log that

[silver fern]

so if acceleration is 0.15 then the issue is from xinput

[fiery stone]

but xInput is 1

as shown in the logs

[silver fern]

1f

[polar acorn]

I wonder if it's compounding multiplication by something less than 1? If that thing gets smaller and smaller every time eventually you'll run out of floats and unity will decide it's infinity. What are the values of MovementAcceleration and MovementDrag at the time you're getting Infinities?

[fiery stone]

theyre always acc = .15 and drag = 5

[silver fern]

whats xvelocity before that?

we are seeing xVelocity += 1f * 0.15 = infinity

[polar acorn]

Multiplication by 1/0. Which can't exist normally but remember we're in floating point land where "close enough" can count

[fiery stone]

well i guess infinity

[silver fern]

try setting a default value for velocity

[fiery stone]

i set it to .4, its spiraled out to infinity in like 2ms

its weird this only started happening when we stopped multiplying by deltatime 🤔

[silver fern]

its got to be some sort of rounding error

[silver fern]

try setting it to 1

[fiery stone]

1f or 1

[silver fern]

1f

[polar acorn]

Some number is compounding when it's not supposed to be. I might just need to step through this in a debugger to find out what

[fiery stone]

ight

[fiery stone]

you can do that if it would help

[polar acorn]

Doesn't actually matter as long as the thing you're storing it in is a float

[silver fern]

I think for this we want to be as precise and explicit as possible

just in case

[polar acorn]

It might take me a bit, I'm about to head to work where I will probably be able to investigate in more detail. If this isn't solved in like an hour I'll look into it, because I don't really see anything obviously wrong at a glance

One thing to consider - try making a test scene that contains only this script and as little as possible to actually test it. Make sure it's not some other script futzing with those public values

[fiery stone]

heres some logs from the first milliseconds of the program with start xvel of 1
https://www.codedump.xyz/less/aLG1kzpmbmhs7mYw

[silver fern]

oh yeah, is any other script affecting any of these variables?

[fiery stone]

nothing is touching it, the only thing that is changed across scripts is playerhealth

[fiery stone]

⬆️

[polar acorn]

Okay that definitely looks like compounding multiplication. Somewhere in there xvel is multiplying by negative itself

[fiery stone]

(which is an entire other script)

[fiery stone]

oh wait maybe the drag application

thats multiplyiing itself by itself * -4

[silver fern]

that seems about right

the factor is about -4

[polar acorn]

Ah, right, your math is expecting a value less than one and I just realized you said your drag was Five, not Point Five.

Your drag is expected to be a value less than 1 in your math

[silver fern]

ah yep thats it

[polar acorn]

It's like, a drag percentage. The closer to 1 the faster it damps

[silver fern]

thats the issue right there

both the original issue and this one

[fiery stone]

yeah just realized that

but the original problem is still there

the CurrentDashCooldown is still messing with the speed

[fiery stone]

well its not the original issue

[polar acorn]

In what way? I could see the actual dash causing trouble but the cooldown stuff all seems unrelated

[fiery stone]

yeah, ik that, thats why ive been spending 3 hours trying to figure it out

it applies even when i articially set the CurrentDashCooldown to something greater than 0

without dashing at all

lemme show

[silver fern]

the only part with slowdown of the code thats reached when isDashing is false is the part involving the drag

[fiery stone]

Normal movement

When i set cooldown manually without starting a dash

[polar acorn]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be noticing different here actually

[fiery stone]

notice when i turn around / start moving the other direction

[silver fern]

the character moves slower while dash cooldown is more than 0

[fiery stone]

bad one

better

comparison side by side

[silver fern]

just to make sure, does it still happen if you set default for isDashing to false

[fiery stone]

it is false, at least the inspector says so

[silver fern]

set a default value and try just in case theres a bug in the inspector or something

[fiery stone]

yeah, after defaulting it to false it does behave the same

[silver fern]

aha

and drag is < 1 now?

[fiery stone]

yep

[silver fern]

and the velocities are as they should be when it happens?

[fiery stone]

lemme check

[stuck current]

What’s the most effective way to smoothly make object with body slide down walls that has a lot of force agianst a wall?

[silver fern]

lerp?

[stuck current]

Wdym?

[fiery stone]

yeah, they roughly are, cant consistently test it but yeah

[fiery stone]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Lerp.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Lerp.html

[flat sphinx]

cant translate
the relatoin between the two is defined as a/b=c implying a=b*c (example: 10/2=5, 2*5=10)
if you try that with b=0 everything breaks (10/0=x, but no number exists that multiplied with 0 gives you 10, alternatively 0/0=x, then x can be any number you want (property not shown with any other number, even 1))

[silver fern]

if its not the part with the drag, the only other part that it could be that I can see is this

can you check its not doing this?

[stuck current]

What value would I lerp

[fiery stone]

i dont see how that would do anything as im not pressing space

[flat sphinx]

do remember, division by zero isnt "it gives you infinity", its "its undefined"

[fiery stone]

yeah

[fiery stone]

lemme log that

[silver fern]

the velocity probably

[flat sphinx]

because most rules we have governing math just dont apply for it

even something like limits if converging on 0 give you different results based on where you're approaching from

if you're approaching from a positive number, it gives you infinity
if from the NEGATIVES, it gives you NEGATIVE infinity

[acoustic belfry]

what must be done for make the raycast to slowly follow the player instead of straight up hit it?

protected void laser(Transform laserPos, LayerMask victim, float laserDamage)
    {
        {
            Vector3 targetPosition = objetivo.position; // objetivo is the player
            targetPosition.z = 0;
            Vector3 shootDirection = (targetPosition - laserPos.position).normalized;

            RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(laserPos.position, shootDirection, Mathf.Infinity, victim);

            if (hit)
            {
                Debug.Log("Enemy hit: " + hit.collider.name);
                ValeriaController player = hit.transform.GetComponent<ValeriaController>();
                if (player != null)
                {
                    // Apply damage
                    player.TakeDamage(30);  // Adjust damage as needed
                }

                // Optional: visualize the attack
                lineRenderer.SetPosition(0, laserPos.position);
                lineRenderer.SetPosition(1, hit.point);
            }
            else
            {
                // Missed, draw a line in that direction anyway
                lineRenderer.SetPosition(0, laserPos.position);
                lineRenderer.SetPosition(1, laserPos.position + shootDirection * 100);
            }
        }
    }```

[fiery stone]

yeah no its not called if i dont actually dash

[silver fern]

well i'm stumped, my usual approach in these cases is to print variables at every step to make sure everything is as it should be, and to remove parts one by one until I find the one thats causing the problem

[shell sorrel]

what do you mena by slowly follow

they are always instant

[acoustic belfry]

i mean following it

mm, i mean, like a laser

if is instant, it will look and feel bad an be an instakill

[shell sorrel]

think you need to break the problem down more

like figure out would be a case of having something turn to aim at the player over time

[silver fern]

then its not actually a laser so treat it like a bullet

[flat sphinx]

i assume he means lerp the laser ala star wars

[silver fern]

lol

[shell sorrel]

if its that then i would just use a projectile

[flat sphinx]

thanks deno you're very useful and necessary

dyno
wahtevre

[fiery stone]

@polar acorn may you run it through your debugger later

[acoustic belfry]

Holup

[fiery stone]

i can send you the entire project if you want

[acoustic belfry]

Thats a great idea

Wait

Theres an issue

I mean

If i did a proyectile and a line following it, it wouldnt have inf distance or it will?

[silver fern]

why would it

[acoustic belfry]

I mean

Like.......

James Bond's lasers?....

[silver fern]

send me the project too I wanna check

[fiery stone]

alrighty

[silver fern]

try it

[acoustic belfry]

The proyectiles idea?

[silver fern]

yes

[acoustic belfry]

But wait

Using proyectiles wouldnt make that anything in the line to get hit, just what the proyectile hitted

Or you mean
Not just the line but the raycast be on the proyectiles position aswell?

It may work

I will test it

[fiery stone]

i just did

[shell sorrel]

like i mentioned please describe what you mean, like should the laster take time to reach its target

or is the tracking of the laser taking time, so its always behind a moving target

2 very different things

[polar acorn]

But if the projectile is the laser how is that any different

[acoustic belfry]

In theory it should.

[acoustic belfry]

Visuals?

Idk

I just want a laser attack, and an instantaneus laser wouldnt do it

[shell sorrel]

ok but you are not answering much about how that should play out

[polar acorn]

So make a projectile that looks like a laser

[shell sorrel]

since there are a few approaches and people cant help without knowing which one

[cosmic dagger]

You want it to travel like Star Wars? Pew, pew . . .

[acoustic belfry]

Wut

[shell sorrel]

like a star wars one is just a projectile

[acoustic belfry]

No, not that laser

Like James Bond

Is s raycast

That moves slow

[polar acorn]

That seems like a star wars laser to me

[acoustic belfry]

Like it should hit where the player were

Not was

[silver fern]

he wants a laser that gets longer slowly

I think

[acoustic belfry]

No

I think im messing thing up

I want a raycast that shots where the player were

I mean

[cosmic dagger]

A raycast doesn't move slow. It's instant . . .

You just described a Star Wars laser . . .

[acoustic belfry]

I want the distance instantaneus

[polar acorn]

A raycast instantaneously detects a line between two points

[acoustic belfry]

But arent star was lasers just long goowing bullets?

[slow blaze]

How do I get the mouse position local to a specific parent

[hexed terrace]

'tisn't lasers in SW, it's "bolts of super-heated plasma or energised gas" 🤓

[polar acorn]

Yeah that kinda sounds like what you're describing

[acoustic belfry]

No

I want the distance to be instaneus

I want the angle

To be slow

[cosmic dagger]

Angle? 🤔

[acoustic belfry]

Like if you pointed with a laser not to a potato, but you rotated your hand slowly to the potato

[silver fern]

movement of the ray

[polar acorn]

Okay, so multiple raycasts

[acoustic belfry]

Wat

[polar acorn]

With a delay between each

[shell sorrel]

Lerp to the target rotation over time

[polar acorn]

So you'd do a raycast and then after a frame do another raycast at a different angle

[acoustic belfry]

Ah, yeah, i think

Its on update btw

This raycast thing

So yeah

[polar acorn]

A raycast is instantaneous, you can't "move" a raycast, you just make a new one

[silver fern]

I think applying rotation to the raycast is probably better

[acoustic belfry]

Makes sense

[shell sorrel]

You raycast each frame in a new direction

[acoustic belfry]

I want the raycast to hit where the player was then

[shell sorrel]

They direction is moving overtime to the direction of the target

[acoustic belfry]

Yes i know that, it updates

Is just that i explained myself wrong

But now i think i know how to fix it

Tho i dobt know how to write it

I mean

I need a raycast that hits whenever the player was

So it would follow it

If we make a lot constantly

[elder hearth]

Guys, how do you make it so your camera doesnt move up/down/left/right with your mouse with the slightest tap? Would you just make it so only after a certain value it starts moving or is there a different way of doing it?

[shell sorrel]

Lerp it's raycast direction between the last one and the player location so it turns over time

[acoustic belfry]

Oh! Thanks

[elder hearth]

also sens doesnt affect this as much as i would like

[hexed terrace]

that just sounds like your sens is too low

[scarlet skiff]

how can u get a list of all the children of a gameobject? i only see get child or get child by index

[rocky canyon]

for loop thru them all

[polar acorn]

You can actually loop over transform as if it were a list. Kind of a weird way to do it and I wish they'd just make a GetChildren() function because no one would even think to look for that.

foreach(Transform child in parent.transform)

[rocky canyon]

[cosmic dagger]

Looop over the transform of the GameObject . . .

[scarlet skiff]

oh thanks

[slow blaze]

How can I get the position of the MouseCursor relative to a parent
like it's always (x = 3 , y = 1, z = 5) relative to the parent even though it's moving to the world

well no z ig

[polar acorn]

You can convert a point from world space to local space using InverseTransformPoint:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.InverseTransformPoint.html

[calm ice]

hi! im learning C# and unity, can someone tell me what's the best place to start ?(also sorry if my english is bad, its not my first language)

[hexed terrace]

See the pinned msgs and also 👇 !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[polar acorn]

I have dropped your code into a fresh project and come to the conclusion that this is either psychosomatic or framerate-related and there is no difference.

I made three objects at different starting points. One of them had the script you provided as-is. One of them has the script you provided, but with its current dash cooldown set to 999999. One of them had a modified copy of that script with everything related to dashing and cooldowns removed.

All three moved completely identically. They were in perfect sync at all times until I dashed, at which point, the two that had dashes still did their dash and remained synced with each other.

[silver fern]

I did actually find one issue

possible issue anyway

[fiery stone]

what would that be?

[fiery stone]

but my code is framerate independant

i think

[silver fern]

add a check like that to keep your values from going into unnecessary ranges

[fiery stone]

alright

[polar acorn]

It would still visually look different, even if the overall results are the same movement speed

[silver fern]

but yeah I made the velocities public and the values were the same with or without cooldown

[fiery stone]

yeah but the like turning speed is whats different

[polar acorn]

I ran it with and without dashes and everything remained synced

[fiery stone]

thats wierd

[silver fern]

make xvel and yvel public and observe the values as you move and as you stop moving

[fiery stone]

oh well

if its just something on my end its probably just me seeing things

[fiery stone]

huh

also

moving on

[polar acorn]

Top is unmodified.
Middle is given a dash cooldown as shown in the video.
Bottom is custom script with no dashing whatsoever

[fiery stone]

how do you do smooth turning towards another object

like a player seeking projectile

[silver fern]

smooth how

[fiery stone]

not turn instantly and always face it, but turn at a constant speed towards it

[silver fern]

lerp

[fiery stone]

ofc

[fiery stone]

but what would t be

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.LerpAngle.html

like in this?

where its just Time.time?

[polar acorn]

The percent of the way between the start and end points

[fiery stone]

yeah i know that, but in my context, what would it be

[silver fern]

deltatime

[fiery stone]

alright

wait

[polar acorn]

You'd probably want it to slowly increase from 0 to 1 over time

https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/

[silver fern]

you can multiply time with speed to change the how fast it turns

[slow blaze]

well how can I use a transform function on the mouse cursor position? I store the mouse's position in a Vector3 virutalKeyPosition how can I turn make it local to specific parent?

I can't call the function properly I think I'm missing something

[polar acorn]

If the mouse's position is in world space, you'd pass it to an object's InverseTransformPoint to get its position relative to that object

[silver fern]

I think you mean th4n0id

[slow blaze]

so
transform.InverseTrasnformPoint(virtualKeyPosition);
would get me the Object's position relative to the cursor or the other way around?

[fiery stone]

yeah but that moves towards a static angle, not a moving object

[polar acorn]

I did, I don't know how I misclicked that

[polar acorn]

That would return a Vector representing the virtualKeyPosition in this object's local space.

So if it were 10 units directly above this object, it'd return 0, 10, 0

Even if that virtualKeyPosition is actually at something like 120, 44, 318

[silver fern]

you can just update the angle

[fiery stone]

ig, i think too low level, im not used to game engines, making everything about collision, coordinates n stuff actually not hell

[silver fern]

maybe quaternion lerp is useful

depending on what exactly youre doing

[fiery stone]

making an object target the player and move towards the player, i was thinking turning towards the player and then just moving forwards

[silver fern]

then recalculate the angle when it changes and lerp to that

[tiny crag]

Why is spawnSide 0 in the method?
https://paste.mod.gg/cfylurutlvko/0

[polar acorn]

Presumably because it's set to 0

[languid pagoda]

How do racing games handle their ai? Like are they just simulating input to get the cars to move toward waypoints and using raycasts to avoid ramming other vehicles?

[tiny crag]

but its defined in awake()?

right?

[silver fern]

there are all kinds of ways of doing it

[languid pagoda]

Such as?

[silver fern]

did you check?

[polar acorn]

Are you sure that's running and that it's set to something other than 0?

[tiny crag]

yes, in the awake method spawnSide is the intended number

[tiny crag]

yes it writes out the intended number in the console

but not when its supposed to write in the console from the method

the movement method

[polar acorn]

And are you sure it's the same instance of this script in both cases?

What calls movement?

[tiny crag]

another SO

[tiny crag]

yes they spawn once every 2 seconds

and the two messages are different

in the console

[polar acorn]

An SO?

How is an SO calling a function on a component?

How is it referencing the one in the scene?

[silver fern]

for example, you could properly simulate the whole race for every car, or you can use a simplified representation in memory, or you can just not do anything when the ai cars are offscreen and periodically put them behind the player

there are many ways

[tiny crag]

the gamemanager has access to the problematic object via script

heres that code: https://paste.mod.gg/ydoilwnglpcp/0

i forgot to comment that the method is being called on row 88

[polar acorn]

Okay so it's not an SO, it's another component.

So, you're calling movement on enemyScript. What is that set to?

[tiny crag]

isnt SO scriptable object?

[silver fern]

components are parts of objects

[tiny crag]

also what does "set to" mean? isnt the method supposed to run when its called

isnt it that simple?

[polar acorn]

Yes, it is. Which is why I assumed it was one, because you said it was. But it isn't.

[polar acorn]

I mean what is that variable set to. What did you assign that variable to

[tiny crag]

i think ive misunderstood what scriptable objects are

[tiny crag]

as in what it is supposed to do? or what defines it?

[polar acorn]

As in what is the variable enemyScript set to

[polar acorn]

Probably.

[tiny crag]

enemyScript is a type of EnemyScript which is another class

in which movement() is supposed to run

[polar acorn]

And what is that variable set to

[tiny crag]

im sorry but i really dont understand could you give a brief example

[polar acorn]

I mean

what is the value

that you set the variable enemyScript to

I cannot make this easier

Variables are containers that hold value

what is the value this container holds

[tiny crag]

i did this: [SerializeField] EnemyScript enemyScript;

and then i dragged in the enemy prefab code

[polar acorn]

AND THEN WHAT DID YOU SET IT TO

[polar acorn]

Finally

So you're calling movement on the prefab

The prefab that never exists in the scene

and never has Awake run on it

[tiny crag]

but it prints out the intended number in the console through the awake() function????????

[polar acorn]

yes, the ones you spawn do

but they never get movement called on them

[tiny crag]

they do print out 0

as in that they were not assigned a value

but the movement method is being run

[polar acorn]

You are calling movement on the prefab.
Prefabs do not exist in the scene. So they do not ever run Awake

You are spawning copies of the prefab.
These copies do exist in the scene, so they do run Awake.
But nothing ever calls movement on them.

[tiny crag]

so youre saying that there is one object that runs movement everytime movement is being called, and that only awake is being run on the copies?

[polar acorn]

I am saying exactly what I am saying.

You have a prefab in your project files that you are calling movement on. This object will never run Awake.
Anything cloned from that prefab will run Awake, but nothing is ever calling movement on them.

[tiny crag]

how do i then make it so that only clones exist and that they each run awake and movement?

[polar acorn]

You would need to call movement on the objects that actually exist in the world. Not the prefab.

[slow blaze]

_virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer = player.trasnform.InverseTransformPoint(Input.MousePosition);
                if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
                {
                    points.Add(new Point(_virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer.x, -_virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer.y,strokeId));
                    currentGestureLineRenderer.positionCount = ++vertexCount;
                    currentGestureLineRenderer.useWorldSpace = false;
                    Vector3 drawPoint = 
Camera.main.ScreenToViewportPoint( new Vector3(_virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer.x,_virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer.y, 10));
                    currentGestureLineRenderer.SetPosition(vertexCount - 1, drawPoint);```
I don't get what's wrong with this trying to draw using a lineRenderer based on Mouse's position relative to the player, the drawing of the lineRenderer is supposed to move with the player and not be disturbed by movement up and down or anything.

and I dunno why discord ruined the code like that lol

[tiny crag]

so its impossible to run a system where movement is being called on continously spawning prefabs?

Or wait

would it work if i didnt do serializefield

and if i tried to define enemyScript via code?

then the movement method should connect to all gameobjects that have the class EnemyScript in them right?

[polar acorn]

You can, you just need to call movement on those objects you spawn

Not the prefab

[tiny crag]

yes im just wondering is this a solution?

is it an idea worth of pursuit?

[polar acorn]

I don't know what solution you're proposing

[silver fern]

I'm not sure I understand it correctly but I would say no

do what digiholic said

[tiny crag]

look i understand that the movement method is only being run on the prefab, thats what digiholic has told me so far

what im after is a solution

[polar acorn]

Call it on the objects that you spawn. The ones that actually exist.

[tiny crag]

yes im trying to figure out how i can do that

[polar acorn]

Instantiate returns a reference to the object it spawns

[silver fern]

objecttype variablename = prefab.Instantiate()

[tiny crag]

My idea for a solution is to define enemyScript like this

EnemyScript enemyScript;

void Awake()
{
enemyScript = GameObject.Find("Enemy").GetComponent<EnemyScript>();
}

would this not reach every object that spawns with that code file in it?

[silver fern]

then you can variablename.movement()

[slow blaze]

objectType obj = Instantiate(prefab, pos, rotation);
obj.movementFunction();```
would be kind of a way to go

[slow blaze]

yeah

[polar acorn]

This would find an object named Enemy

You can just check what these functions do by the way, you can look them up

[tiny crag]

so it would not find every object named Enemy

[silver fern]

yes

[slow blaze]

Just one

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.Find.html

You don't need to do any finding

[silver fern]

abandon this idea

[polar acorn]

you have the references

Instantiate returns the references to the objects it makes

Use them.

[tiny crag]

ill look into this idea

all ive learned about instantiate so far is that it spawns things, not that i can send signals to these spawned objects

but thx everyone

[shell sorrel]

it gives you the reference to the thing it spawns

with that reference you can get anything on the object and do what ever you want with it

most people would create a list to hold references to all enemies you spawned then you have access to all of them

[slow blaze]

does
LineRenderer.SetPosition(index, position);
can it work on Local Positions?

LineRenderer.SetPosition(vertex-1, new Vector3(0,1,0));
Can this be (0,1,0) be a position relative to a parent or does it have to be world position?

[frail hawk]

try it out

[slow blaze]

well I did

and it's world position as far as I can gather

[shell sorrel]

there is a toggle on it

to use worldSpace or local space

just turn off use world space in the inspector

[slow blaze]

oh

so now position will take the localSpace of the parent of the gameObject or do i have to pass something in?

[shell sorrel]

works with the same values

the toggle effects both poitns added in code and ones added in the inspector

[slow blaze]

I mean like,
if the LineRenderer's gameObject is not a child, it will also use world space?

[shell sorrel]

not sure what you mean by that

but the points in a line renderer work in world space or local space to the line renderer object

via that toggle

if you need anything more specific then that like putting something in local space of a other object that is not the one the renderer is on then i would just use world space and get familar with the TransformPoint and InverseTransformPoint methods on transform

[slow blaze]

yeah I got you I just misunderstood something

[slow blaze]

_virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer = player.transform.InverseTransformPoint(Input.mousePosition);
Transform tmpGesture = Instantiate(gestureOnScreenPrefab, player.transform, worldPositionStays:false) as Transform;
points.Add(new Point(_virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer.x, -_virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer.y, strokeId));
currentGestureLineRenderer.positionCount = ++vertexCount;
currentGestureLineRenderer.SetPosition(vertexCount - 1, _virtualKeyPositionLocalToPlayer);```
So this is the script I'm trying to use to draw a gesture with my mouse that moves with the player on screen but doesn't get jagged or disrupted from the player's movement

has a problem where it draws yes, follows the player, but the scale is horribly off and it doesn't draw on the mouse position

[shell sorrel]

ok so first things first

your camera

perspective or ortho?

[slow blaze]

Ortho

the camera follows the player everywhere with a little offset

[shell sorrel]

so jsut converting mouse position with the players transform does not make a whole lot of sense

[slow blaze]

I thought that would return the mouse's position relative to the player's transform?

[shell sorrel]

no because mouse position is in screen space

[silver fern]

you need Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePosition)

[slow blaze]

Oh yeah lemme try that rq

[shell sorrel]

that method also only works for ortho cameras since it gets a point on the camers near plane

[silver fern]

you may want to set your mouse position z coordinate to Camera.main.nearClipPlane

[shell sorrel]

yeah can just make it a tiny number

or make it a control so you can decide how projected out from the camera the point should be

[slow blaze]

yeah it works thanks guys

[patent wedge]

i know it's network related but i don't want to make an entire thread just to ask how to convert networkvariable<bool> to a proper bool?

[shell sorrel]

networkVar.Value

[slender nymph]

Just FYI, the networking channel has a general thread for short questions like that
https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1392142304772358215

[junior ivy]

I have a 2D tile based game. Every tile has collision, material and some properties.
If my game has 200x200 visible tiles, am I supposed to create 40000 game objects?

[hallow acorn]

have you heard of tilemaps before?

[junior ivy]

yes but I instantly ignored them after I realized they are not scalable

what if I want to have 200x200 visible tiles but 20000x20000 tile map

[hallow acorn]

i want to see you make a tilemap this big this would take forever

[junior ivy]

doesn't matter, maybe I want much more, like 100k x 100k

[hallow acorn]

i think i still dont get what you mean. tilemaps are basicly infinite only depends on how much you "draw" onto it

[junior ivy]

every tutorial I watched said something different, built-in tile maps are not infinite

[hallow acorn]

whatever then do it with 40000 gameobjects

tilemaps are the solution that everyone uses because it works for anyone

[junior ivy]

it's not whatever, if you say they are scalable, maybe I watched crap tutorials

generally 95% of unity videos are soooo useless

[hallow acorn]

thats a fact tho

[rocky canyon]

good luck w/ a 100k² tilemap

ud def want some type of chunking / procedural streaming

Fun fact: games like Stardew Valley, Terraria, or Factorio have millions of tiles but only a fraction are ever instantiated as actual objects in the scene at once.

[junior ivy]

I absolutely don't care what others do. I just want ot know if I can scale built-in tile maps

[hallow acorn]

may i ask what you need a tilemap this big for?

[rocky canyon]

then you do care.. else why ask and just do ur own thing

a tilemap like that is gonna tank performance.

[junior ivy]

you are not "others", I do care what you think

[rocky canyon]

ahh soo "others" as in non-game-devs

can you explain a bit by what u mean by "scale" when ur refering to tilemaps?

[flat sphinx]

200^2 tiles visible at once?

[rocky canyon]

lol.. at that point they'd be 2-3 pixels across 😄

[flat sphinx]

if no, dont instantiate them all at once, if yes, you're probably doing something wrong

game dev 101 is not instantiating the entire map all at once

[rocky canyon]

200,000 x 200,000 grid incoming

lets see how long it takes to generate

[flat sphinx]

you'd need to ask someone smarter than me in how to do that tho
the only solutuions i know are rawdogs

[hallow acorn]

can we get an audio of your pc?

[junior ivy]

you miss the whole point of what I want
instead of asking something important you ask about amount of rendered tiles or map size
that's why I said 200x200 or 100k x 100k to show you that numbers doesn't matter

if I said that I have 10x10 visible tiles and 100x100 map, you would start to intruducing some f*cking crap solutions I've seen 100 times already on youtube

[flat sphinx]

you didnt exactly clarify on what you want

[junior ivy]

I will do doc research about these built-in tile maps, maybe they aren't that bad as I thought

[flat sphinx]

and the solution does depend on your scale

[rocky canyon]

It crashed 🤣

[hallow acorn]

oh i hope you didnt have any unchanged saves🙏

what are your specs tho?

[rocky canyon]

pretty dang high.. lol

[flat sphinx]

if its a small map (64x64 or whatever) just instantiate everything at once
if its larger, store the type of tile in some list array whatever and init when entering your viewport
if its infinte then generate on the fly

[hallow acorn]

maybe they work for nasa

[glass ivy]

Claude ❤️

[rocky canyon]

nah, we're good i was 96% sure it was gonna crash 🤣

[flat sphinx]

why do you want them sorted by distance anyways
just store their refs and compare distance when you actually need them

[hallow acorn]

those specs arent even that crazy im running a 2070 super and ryzen 5 5600x

[rocky canyon]

ya, true.. i like to believe my strength is endless 😆

[hallow acorn]

me to rn im fighting to get every fps possible with shaders

[rocky canyon]

the 12 gig of Vram is a decent flex imo

the rest is meh

[hallow acorn]

yeah thats pretty good actually. my flex are 32gb ram

[midnight pumice]

i need help with the unity microphone class (idk if this is the right channel, i cant find a programming help channel)

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃code-beginner

#1390346827005431951

yes this is a programming channel u can ask questions in.

yes the microphone class would be included..
!ask

whats the 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.
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[midnight pumice]

im initializing a microphone like this but for some reason it is recording much faster than i specify. it seems like the audio clip is created with the parameters here but the mic doesn't follow these parameters at all.

Microphone.Start(NetworkingUDPMicrophoneName, true, 1, 24000);

because the mic doesn't follow these parameters the receiving clients aren't reading the data fast enough or reading it correctly

[glass ivy]

prioritization by distance

frequency of update > when nearby player

[flat sphinx]

how many entries do you expect in that sorted list

if its less than uhh half a thousand? just sort on the fly

(number pulled out of my ass)

[midnight pumice]

if anyone knows any solutions to finding the actual parameters like sample rate and channel count please let me know as unity has no accurate way of pulling this off of the audioclip the microphone creates

[flat sphinx]

distance isnt really something you can easily re-sort

[hallow acorn]

hey i have a softbody made up of points connected with spring joints, but if i change the rotation for example, its like the springs loose all their tension. is there something i can do about this?

[midnight pumice]

i think i solved it, the unity mic forces mono audio so there is no pulling the channel count but to get sample rate i just compare my target rate to what the mic actually can handle and then i manually resample.

Microphone.GetDeviceCaps(NetworkingUDPMicrophoneName, out int MinSampleRate, out int MaxSampleRate);

[rich adder]

#⚛️┃physics

[hallow acorn]

ty

[glass ivy]

doesn't matter, the point was Claude saucy language 😄

[flat sphinx]

fair

[glass ivy]

context is unity pathfinder, that underspecced blackbox is a nightmare

[flat sphinx]

i once got deepseek to say something summarizing to "this is absolutely insane but if you do this you'll be forever revered by [community]. godspeed."

lemme dig it up hol on

[balmy vortex]

why does the value of the additional gravity here not matter past a certain point? and also how do I stop the upwards momentum the player has after jumping when trying to fast fall?

[errant valley]

I want to implement a system where the player hits a tree with a rock, the tree loses HP and is destroyed at 0, how can I handle this with boxcollider?

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("Hit");
        boxCollider.enabled = true;
    }
    else
    {
        boxCollider.enabled = false;
    }
}

[eternal needle]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[eternal needle]

the above message for you too

you also shouldnt use a box collider there if its just supposed to be a 1 frame check, just use one of the physics methods like OverlapBox

[balmy vortex]

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

[eternal needle]

using addForce and setting the linearVelocity directly elsewhere probably isn't helping here, i would change this to just use add fastFallGravity to the linearVelocity instead.
also you dont need to GetComponent, you're already storing and using the rb in other parts of your code

as for stopping the upward momentum, you could just directly set the linear velocity so the player starts falling immediately like you do with the jump already. It might look very sudden to the user though

[balmy vortex]

ty king

[lethal meadow]

claude is shit

its better than most AIs but thats not saying much

[hallow acorn]

hey i got a softbody system i made and it also has background color made by creating a mesh of the individual points of the softbody. when the object is rotated even before hitting play, the mesh doesnt really want to cooperate and it looks like as if it rotates with the object, but twice the amount. what can i do about this? heres what it looks like and the code i use for making the mesh (which also isnt perfect) https://hastebin.skyra.pw/jiketohula.csharp

[silver fern]

how do you rotate it

[hallow acorn]

transform in inspector

[grand snow]

how is the mesh updated?

[glass ivy]

true! they're impressively bad but when you don't want to deal with shit syntax, they can work

[hallow acorn]

what do you mean exactly?

private void Update()
{
    CreateShape();
    mesh.Clear();
    mesh.vertices = verts;

    if(tris != previousTris)
    {
        mesh.triangles = tris;
        previousTris = tris;
    }
    mesh.RecalculateBounds();
    mesh.uv = uv;
}```thats the update function if it helps

[grand snow]

you cant compare arrays like that btw thats just a reference comparison

[hallow acorn]

how should i compare them instead? but that isnt the solution right?

[grand snow]

as long as the mesh origin matches the other objects origin and vert positions are local it should update correctly

but to compare array contents you can loop and compare both

[hallow acorn]

i appreciate your words magic man but i dont understand a thing

[hallow acorn]

okay

[lethal meadow]

why do you need to check each frame it worked?

[grand snow]

use a for loop to compare each item in each array, if all match you know the arrays contain the same data, else not!

[hallow acorn]

for(int i = 0; i < tris.Length; i++)
{
    if (tris[i] != previousTris[i])
    {
        mesh.triangles = tris;
        previousTris = tris;
    }
}``` like this?

[grand snow]

erm no

int[] a = {1,2,3};
int[] b = {4,5,6};

bool areSame = true;
for(int i = 0; i < a.Length; i++)
{
    if(a[i] != b[i])
    {
        areSame = false;
        break;
    }
}

if(areSame)
{
    //Do shit
}

[hallow acorn]

for(int i = 0; i < tris.Length; i++)
{
    if (tris[i] != previousTris[i])
    {
        trisUpdated = true;
        break;
    }
}
if(trisUpdated)
{
    mesh.triangles = tris;
    previousTris = tris;
}```like this?

forgot including trisUpdated is a local variable being false by default

[ivory bobcat]

Something seems off with lines 32 and 33 where they're using verts[i] instead of verts[i+1]. When i is 0 they would be using default value. Uncertain of the intentions as you're also assigning verts[0] to Vector3.zero on line 35 shortly after.

Did you perhaps want to use i+1 for lines 32 and 33 as well or ...

[hallow acorn]

line 32 is more of a relic forgot to delete that. the vector2 vert is used for nothing

[hallow acorn]

perhaps im not sure. i dont know how to test if the uvs are correct

[ivory bobcat]

Just for clarity, the math operation with verts[i].x + 1 / 2 would have the 0 be added to the x component - no work is done (physics pun). @hallow acorn

If you're wanting to add 0.5f every time, you'll need either value 1 or 2 to be 1f or 2f.

If you're wanting to divide after adding one, you'll need to use parenthesis (verts[i].x + 1f) / 2f.

[hallow acorn]

oh thank you

[stuck current]

Please help me, I’m using a invisible player object to handle movement but I want another hovering over it to serve as the display and be posilhed. This mesh can be pushed to the floor but I have no idea where to start

I’m in 2d btw

[silver fern]

what

[grand snow]

wat

[ivory bobcat]

This is the beginner coding channel, if the issue is directly related to code you'll need to post more context (!code)
Else try one of the other channels id:browse

[eternal falcon]

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[grand snow]

order of operations is a thing

[hallow acorn]

yeah idk what i was doing there

while i did improve a lot of things about my code i still dont have the solution to my original problem though

[silver fern]

did you check the first thing rob told you

about object origins and positions

[hallow acorn]

didnt get it but i fixed it right now

[silver fern]

what was it

[hallow acorn]

just had to change line 34 from verts[i+1] = points[i].position - transform.position;
to verts[i+1] = points[i].localPosition;

[rich adder]

Can you better explain ? I only understood half of that..

[wintry quarry]

You can use SequenceEquals from Linq

[hallow acorn]

fixed it

[stuck current]

I’m using a spring joint rn It’s looking good

[echo ravine]

idk if this is begginer, but I am
I am using Mathf.PerlinNoise and I noticed that it rarely reaches the edges(mind it is 2d side viwe, so I only need a 1D perlin noise, using 2d for seeding purposes)

int layerYPerlinDelta = 2;
for (int x = 0; x < 70; x++)
{
    int perlinSample = Mathf.RoundToInt((2 * layerYPerlinDelta + 1) * (Mathf.PerlinNoise(perlinScale * x, perlinSeed) - 0.5f));
    //below is +layerYPerlinDelta and not +layerYPerlinDelta+1, since it's a float function
    perlinSample = Mathf.Clamp(perlinSample, -layerYPerlinDelta, +layerYPerlinDelta);
    Debug.Log(perlinSample);
    //(i'm not actually debug logging, but it works)
}

If the distribution was uniform, this would give me a pretty decent world terrain
But it rarely hits 2 or -2(i never saw it hit -2)
ChatGPT suggested i raise it to some exponent, which is a pretty god idea, but is the problem with perlin noise or my code(i think my code is fine)

[frigid iron]

public class SpawnSteak : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject steak;
    public GameObject cookedSteak;
    private GameObject spawnedInstance;
    public AudioSource soundPlayer;
    public AudioSource soundPlayer2;
    public float timeBegin = 5f;
    void DestroyObject(){
        Destroy(spawnedInstance);
        soundPlayer.Stop();
        Instantiate(cookedSteak);
        soundPlayer2.Play();
    }
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    public void OnMouseDown(){
        spawnedInstance = Instantiate(steak);
        soundPlayer.Play();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (spawnedInstance != null){
            Invoke("DestroyObject", 5f);
            //CancelInvoke("DestroyObject");

        }
    }
}

This code is meant to instantiate an object, destroy it after 5 seconds, and instantiate a new one. But after five seconds, it keeps instantiating multiple clones of the new object, how do I make the invoke method only perform the action once?

[rocky canyon]

    public void OnMouseDown(){
        spawnedInstance = Instantiate(steak);
        soundPlayer.Play();
        //Invoke("DestroyObject");
    }``` why not call it at the end of this?

[frigid iron]

Okay, let me try that

[rocky canyon]

option 2 use a coroutine

[silver fern]

cant you just check for a state

[frigid iron]

The first suggestion worked, thank youu

[rocky canyon]

perlin noise itself avoids extremes by design
to have extremes more often remap (power/curve) or layer noises together

im not 💯 sure about that first part but the 2nd part sounds like it could be helpful
edit: mb i ment to reply to @echo ravine

[silver fern]

or use a different kind of noise

[rocky canyon]

its b/c u were checking in update if the thing was assigned.. (which it would be for quite a few frames)

so it just spammed the Invoke over and over until it was eventually gone.. by calling it at the end of the OnMouse method ur ensuring its only gonna run once.. just as its instantiated once

[frigid iron]

Ohh, I understand now, thanks so much

[rocky canyon]

srry bout the rogue ping.. meant to ping enegaga

im not sure what different noises available are..https://eev.ee/blog/2016/05/29/perlin-noise/ heres where that screenshot came from tho..

explains perlin pretty well

[silver fern]

there are quite a few solutions for different kinds of noises and noise generators online, here are a couple https://www.ronja-tutorials.com/noise.html

[rocky canyon]

oh dang..

ya im just realizing theres soooo many different types of noise

[compact sundial]

why is my potion not being set active? I am creating it during runtime so instantiating it

public void SpawnSmallManaPotionPrefabForPlayer()
    {
        if (hasSmallManaPotion == false)
        {
            Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
            smallManaPotionClone = Instantiate(smallManaPotionPrefab, rightHandOffsetObjectTransform);
            smallManaPotionClone.transform.rotation = rotation;
            smallManaPotionClone.transform.position = rightHandOffsetObjectTransform.transform.position;
            hasSmallManaPotion = true;
            hasDrinkable = true;
            smallManaPotionClone.SetActive(false);
        }
        

    }
    public void RecoverManaFromSmallPotion()
    {
        if (hasSmallManaPotion == true && hasDrinkable == true)
        {
            smallManaPotionClone.SetActive(true);
            hasSmallManaPotion = false;
            extendedCharacterController.currentMana = Mathf.Min(extendedCharacterController.currentMana + 30, extendedCharacterController.currentMaximumMana);
            

        }
    }

[eager elm]

You tell us. Use Debug.Log("Some Message") to figure out which line isn't being run.

[rigid pike]

i will be making a game where money can reach above googol (10¹⁰⁰). I searched how to store that and found "BigInteger". Is that a good way to do the money calculations or should i do it different way?

[rocky canyon]

logs are the solution in this case ^ log each method, each if statement, and jst see

[silver fern]

yeah go with that

[rocky canyon]

not a clue.. but looks like something i'd try

[silver fern]

if you dont actually need exact precision you can also fake it

[rocky canyon]

^ this.. could use a big multiplier..

[echo ravine]

thanks!
I was wondering if it was my bad
I think i am going to keep with perlin and accept that, since it's not a big problem, i''l just increase the limits and wither cramp or not do anything

[compact sundial]

lol I found the problem, I have it set to if I have a below the maximum amount of mana, the function will be run but if it is full then it wont run so basically it was a human error

[silver fern]

classic pebkac

[rocky canyon]

its human error almost 99.9% of the time 😅

[compact sundial]

u know what I mean tho

it wasnt a code error

[rocky canyon]

logic error

always helps to debug everything
odds are you'll be like "wait, where is.. x,y,z?"

[compact sundial]

sort of, I just had full mana when I tried to activate the Recover function

cuz I forgot to use up some mana before trying it

[summer wren]

If I set InputFields line type to multi line and give it a ContentSizeFitter with vertical preferred size, the text jumps up a little when I click enter for new line
It is set to top left anchor

[wintry quarry]

#📲┃ui-ux and be sure to include a question

[subtle bronze]

is there any way to use python with unity without spending money for an asset? it's what im used to using because im just a hobbiest and cs is atrocious

[rich adder]

no

[subtle bronze]

fml

[sour fulcrum]

Once you get used to it c# is great

[eternal needle]

you arent gonna get far if the first thing you want to do is fight the system you're learning. Theres an intro to c# resource pinned in the channel

[shell sorrel]

if you already got a grasp on python, learning a other langauge will be no big deal

[tiny crag]

how do i access the code of an instantiated object

i have methods that i want to access in instantiated prefabs

[keen dew]

Didn't people spend almost an hour yesterday to go through this

SomeComponent clone = Instantiate(prefab).GetComponent<SomeComponent>();
clone.SomeMethod();

[tiny crag]

they explained what was wrong, then i tried to look into the idea for the solution they proposed but i could barely process what i was reading in the unity api

[frail hawk]

all you need to do is to cache the GameObject or any of its components, as Nitku showed, you are caching the Component here, if you would the whole GameObject so you can acces all of it you could simply do
GameObject instantiatedGo = Instantiate(.....);

then acces its components by doing instantiatedGo.GetComponent<SomeComponent>();

[naive pawn]

this is not very good

well, it's fine, but it could be better

for something like that you should have prefab be typed as the component directly

makes it foolproof @tiny crag ^

(cc @frail hawk)

[tiny crag]

there are a lot of things i dont understand in your replies, what would be the best way to learn more?

because i think this project is beyond me at this point

[frail hawk]

then you will have to start small and learn the c# basics

[tiny crag]

i watched two tutorial series on c# in unity, but i didnt finnish them because at that point i didnt understand what they were talking about

so i decided to try and make a simple game to reinforce what i had learned so far

what i wanted to make was a game where the player was a cube avoiding other cubes coming from the edges of the screen

it worked but the spawning and movement between all the objects were not synced, an idea i tried to realize by making a new project and changing the code

i think im gonna do the tank game tutorial made by unity for now and maybe come back to this project in the future but thanks a lot for trying to help me!!!

[frail hawk]

if you are not experienced in programming i would recommend you learn some basic c# instead of unity c#

[grand snow]

Yea c# and programming in general should be learnt and understood on its own if a total beginner

[tiny crag]

i have made projects in python, whereof the most advanced one was a poker bot that typed out probabilities and made decisions for poker

i also made a simple game in pygame

[grand snow]

Then it should hopefully make sense how we spawn new objects and can get components of those instances

[tiny crag]

the idea of accessing components is entirely new to me

so is coding with classes

[grand snow]

Its nothing crazy. You know what a gameobject is and components are right? You can add your own "scripts" to gameobjects but these scripts are also components.

Well when we spawn in a copy of a prefab we want to get those NEW components and do stuff with them, thats what GetComponent() is for.

[tiny crag]

maybe then its not the concepts but the code that i dont understand

[grand snow]

GameObject myCoolPrefab = Resources.Load("MyCoolPrefab");
GameObject spawnedObject = Instantiate(myCoolPrefab);
Light light = spawnedObject.GetComponent<Light>();

1. Load prefab from resources folder
2. Spawn copy of prefab in our scene
3. Get reference to Light component from our new copy

[tiny crag]

thank you, this made it very simple!

[grand snow]

we can use a serialized reference of a prefab instead which is often preferred

[SerializeField]
GameObject myCoolPrefab;

[tiny crag]

yes but i did run into an issue when i used this on a prefab
apparently the prefab already existed but not the gameObject with the code that i was trying to apply to the prefab though a serialized reference

but thanks a lot rob5300

[grand snow]

well yea if you try to modify the prefab asset instead then you will be confused

so make sure to not do that and name things well so its obvious whats the "prefab asset" and whats the created instances in scene

[tiny crag]

yes i will

[rigid swallow]

what is the point of creating a private variable to then create a public variable referencing the private one?

[grand snow]

It's read-only but we can also do this with auto properties

[rigid swallow]

oh like a getter and setter?

[distant aurora]

that way you can only publicly red the variable, can't modify it from outside

[rigid swallow]

alr thank you

[primal tree]

I'm currently getting the following error -

Internal: JobTempAlloc has allocations that are more than the maximum lifespan of 4 frames old - this is not allowed and likely a leak
I've set Unity to output JobTempMemoryLeakValidation, but I'm a bit lost as to where the error is. Can anybody help me out here?

[tiny crag]

i think #💻┃unity-talk might have answers

[primal tree]

Thank you! I'll repost there.

[versed fjord]

when I hit a breakpoint in Unity with vscode, the entire vscode is not visible for my mouse in Linux and Windows

what kind of crap is this man

I am not able to continue execution or do literally anything. I have to kill Unityand restart again until I hit another breakpoint.

same with Unity window, also not visible for mouse

[junior ivy]

how to dump a class to the console in unity?

there is a God tier function in php called dd which prints everything

example:

class A
{
    public string $str = "aaaa";
    private int $i = 123;

    public function __construct(public B $b = new B()) {}
}

class B
{
    public string $bField = "bbbb";
}

dd(new A());

result:

Now I need something like this in unity. Debug.Log is nothing near dd

[keen dew]

C# is a compiled language so it's not quite as simple. Use the IDE's debugger to inspect objects

There are also lots of other options on Google, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/360277/what-is-the-best-way-to-dump-entire-objects-to-a-log-in-c

[rocky canyon]

not sure about the formatting that u want
but couldnt u do something like

        [SerializeField] private string scriptFileName = "ScriptDumper.cs";


        [ContextMenu("Dump Script")]
        private void DumpScript()
        {
            string path = Path.Combine(Application.dataPath, scriptFileName);
            if (!File.Exists(path))
            {
                Debug.LogError("Script file not found: " + path);
                return;
            }

            string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(path);
            for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++)
            {
                Debug.Log($"{i + 1:000}: {lines[i]}");
            }
        }
    }```

[keen dew]

I'm pretty sure they want to see the current values of object fields and properties, not the class source code

[balmy vortex]

well I mean like doing it like this just makes the player fall so fast they clip through the ground

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

setting the vector 3 to smth rly low like -1 doesn't help either

[rocky canyon]

ohhhh... ya thats a bit too much for my pea-brain

[rocky canyon]

simple fix would be to change ur collision detection to Continuous

could try making the ground collider a bit bigger (use a cube as the collider rather the plane)

also use ur ground-check as an advantage...

if not grounded -> do the gravity fast fall or w/e
if is grounded -> keep the gravity a concrete value.. like -9

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

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

[red igloo]

I have this issue where when I am not grounded the player speed is very fast. to fix this should I reduce input, and boost the down force a bit? or Apply a different force when in the air? I see so many people talking about different methods but don't know which one to choose.

Script: https://paste.ofcode.org/Vh8qzd39PF3xvBUeVS3w2Q

[rocky canyon]

people usually change out the drag/ dampening values

[red igloo]

If I increase the drag the player slowly falls when in the air

[rocky canyon]

depending on air or ground

ground = smaller value (because of friction helping out)
air = bigger value (to simulate air drag)

[rocky canyon]

u can also adjust the gravity while airbourne

so the lateral movements are nerfed but u adjust the gravity to work w/ those new values

[red igloo]

Should I use a physics material?

[rocky canyon]

i actually do it that way for my controller..

air has its own values

ground has differ values

[rocky canyon]

physics materials could work if u change em out

[keen dew]

If you've already found different solutions then try them out and pick the one that works for you. That's why there are so many of them because it depends on the game which one works the best

[rocky canyon]

^ theres no real one solution fits all type of deal

unity's gravity is kinda floaty imo anyways

i use strong gravity forces

[balmy vortex]

what's groundedGravity supposed to be here?

[rocky canyon]

groundedGravity is the concrete value

it stays the same... like -9 , -9, -9 all the time

the Simulated gravity is when im airborne.. its compounded

[hallow acorn]

hey i was wondering if there is a way to make a gameobject through code that exists after leaving playmode would be really usefull, thanks in advance

[red igloo]

wdym by friction? if my grounded values are low I'm just sliding around.

[rocky canyon]

-9 -9 = -18 -9 = -27 so on

[rocky canyon]

i dont use friction (only for certain occasions)
its normally just drag / dampening for my controls

its just a trial and error game..

you have ur logic.. (either u stick to that logic or adapt it)
but w/e you do ur values will need to be fine-tuned to that logic

if u change the logic.. u then need again to change and tune the values of the rigidbody/friction/code values etc to make it work

mine wont be the same as urs.. urs wont be the same as someone elses..

[rich adder]

there are a few ways you could potentially do this, but what are you trying to do ? maybe there is a better solution

[hallow acorn]

still at my mfing softbodys haha. trying to generate them threw code as i think its less time consuming than indiviudally connnecting a lot of points with each other by hand

[rocky canyon]

heres ur options

• seperate ground / air movement and values
• adjust drag/ dampening (by state)
• custom gravity (forces stronger when airborne)
• hybrid approach (air input reduced, air drag a bit higher, gravity slightly boosted
  (makes jumps snappy, reduces mid-air "Ice-skating"

it most likely will be a hybrid of those... (depending on whats good enough for ur controller)

[rich adder]

you don't need to run Playmode to create gameobjects btw

[rocky canyon]

helps to start with some normal feeling values.. and then tune them very slowly.. (just minor increments)

[hallow acorn]

can i run the code beforehand or wdym?

[rocky canyon]

you absolutely can..

[hallow acorn]

HOW???

[rocky canyon]

watch this

in this example ^ im using the ContextMenu

[hallow acorn]

this is so fucking cool i didnt know you could do that

[rich adder]

yes things like Context Menu, Execute in Editor/Always, plugging into the InitializeOnLoad etc.

[rocky canyon]

editor scripting is a rabbithole tho..

dont fall in 🤣

[rocky canyon]

lol. its a game-changer when u dont need to press play and wait 10 seconds or so just to build out something.. that u need to test just to back out and try again

u can make the code create this object under a parent container.. and just delete that container and try again insteed

[rocky canyon]

you can also make ur own Menu to call/run code

[hallow acorn]

ill definitely try this thats so cool

[rocky canyon]

i'd def try to introduce it into ur work-flow somehow

[hallow acorn]

hey if i want to makee an array of coordinates (in 2D) for individual points, how can i do that through code for example if i want to make a square with 16 points, how can i distribute the 16 points evenly and place those points on the square? idk if its clear what im trying to say but i hope so

[rocky canyon]

bunch of math 😅

division mainly

[hallow acorn]

probably dividing the perimeter of the shape by the number of points to distribute them evenly but i have no idea how to go on with the rest of it

[rocky canyon]

yup something like that..
you'd probably want to figure out how many rows / columns u'd need
get the corner somehow.. and then space out that number of items

im bad at those kind of setups. soo thats bout all i got to give 😅

[teal viper]

x * y = totalPoints

Then it's just simple math.

[neon forum]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[rocky canyon]

1. Pick how many points you want total (example: 16).

2. Pick how big the square is (example: width = 10, height = 10).

3. Figure out how many points should go on each side of the square.
   (take totalPoints ÷ 4).

4. Write down the four corners of the square.

5. For each side of the square:
     - Start at one corner, end at the next corner.
     - Evenly space the points between those two corners.
       (search term: "linear interpolation between two points")

6. Collect all the points into a list or array.
``` @hallow acorn **edit**- *wait!, this is just for a perimeter
```fix
1. Pick how many points you want total (example: 16).

2. Decide if you want them arranged as a grid 
   (example: 4 × 4 points).

3. Pick how big the square is (width/height).

4. Figure out the spacing between each row and column.
   (square size ÷ (gridCount - 1)).

5. For each row (y-axis):
     For each column (x-axis):
         Place a point at (x, y) position.

6. Collect all these points into a list or array.
``` ^ this would include the fill

[hallow acorn]

dont need fill only an "outline" of points but thank you very much!

[rocky canyon]

it'd basically be the same as making a 2D grid (since its a square Exactly the same) w/ nested loops

[rocky canyon]

ahh then ya the top method would be great

[hallow acorn]

thanks. ill grab some food and then ill look after how i implement that in code!

[rocky canyon]

then u'd have ur list or array to pull the points from (w/ the index)

[neon forum]

I have a slight UI issue, when I click the card in the right most panel(available cards), it adds a new instance of a card prefab to the middle.
The deck list is saved and stored and is accurate when it comes to how many times I clicked the test card.
The issue is the UI does not reflect this accurately, ex I clicked 14 cards the decklist has 14 instances but the UI only displays 11. Another issue is that when the refresh is ran, the cards sometimes appear in the wrong order(There should be enough space for 3 across, but it skips the third slot and jumps to slot 4 for some reason. It also just flat out removes a card when the logic should be add card.
Code: https://paste.mod.gg/ytojakcfidjt/0
first screenshot is 3 cards in current deck, second is when the fifth card is added.

[rocky canyon]

*   *   *   *
*           *
*           *
*   *   *   *
``` 🍀 goodluck

[empty pulsar]

What’s the best way to learn

I’m getting a book about it

[naive pawn]

there are resources pinned

[empty pulsar]

Oh ok thx

[neon forum]

should I post this in UI-ux instead? i feel like it's a coding issue and the ui can't keep up

[halcyon lion]

if I am completely new to coding and the Unity software should I install 6.2 or is there a better version to get started with?

[cosmic quail]

no reason to start with an older version

and check out !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[keen dew]

Use the same version that the course or tutorial you're following uses

[halcyon lion]

I'm on the learn tab but it said to choose a version so I was unsure thanks for clearing that up

[halcyon lion]

now that I have done the unity hub and editor tutorials what should I do next? should I look up c# tutorials or more unity ones?

[cosmic quail]

you can keep doing the tutorials in unity learn i guess

[halcyon lion]

at what point should I start learning the code?

[cosmic quail]

doesn't unity learn teach code as well? i haven't used it myself but i've heard that it's a great resource to learn but if it doesnt then you can check the pins, there are a bunch of c# tutorials there so you should probably do those right away

[rich adder]

It doesn't teach c# fundamentals

[halcyon lion]

wait do the learn tutorials go from foundation to beginner?

[cosmic quail]

okay then i'd check out the pins and learn the basics of c# right now

[rich adder]

The old ones kinda did https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2vGYjWbI0S9-X2Q021GUtolTqbUBB9B&si=WwGsv3KosQX9_CYw

And

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2vGYjWbI0S8YpPPKKvXZayCjkKj4bUP&si=yCrsm_VfR1fWaORu

[neon forum]

following up on this, is this something I should use wait functions on?

[languid pagoda]

this is just an error in your code

the ui can definitely keep up

I have an advanced vehicle telementary running in a physics substep system and am updating the ui 100 times every fixed update

[neon forum]

okay, then why is it specifically always erroring out on the 5th object?

[languid pagoda]

no clue you haven't showed us any code or how you have your canvas set up in the scene.

oh wait you did show us code

[neon forum]

I did

lol

[languid pagoda]

let me go look my bad

so its skipping the 3rd slot and filling in slot 4, how is the 3rd slot being filled in the second screenshot? is it just adding the next card there instead next time you draw?

[neon forum]

so basically clicks one and two work perfectly fine

on click 3, the slot that SHOULD be where the card goes is skipped

if

[]

is to represent the card

its like [1]. [2]. [skipped]
[3]

but then when I click it the 5th time it ends up like this:
[1] [2] [5]
[3] [4]

[neon forum]

yes

[languid pagoda]

show me the specific code where you are assigning what slot it goes to

[neon forum]

I don't assign slots specifically, I just add it to a list and then the code instantiates a card prefab:

 public void addCard(Card obj)
    {
        
        var found =  availableCards.Find(card => card.cardName == obj.cardName);
        Debug.Log($"[DeckEditorUI Found card: {found.cardName}");
        selectedDeck.Add(found);
        GameObject btn = Instantiate(cardButtonPrefab, selectedDeckPanel);
        btn.GetComponent<CardUI>().SetupForDeckList(found);
        btn.GetComponent<CardUI>().OnClick += removeCard;
        btn.GetComponent<CardUI>().OnPointerHover += displayCard;
        Debug.Log($"Current Deck Size: {selectedDeck.Count}");
        refreshdecklistDisplay();

    }

[remote tundra]

hey guys..i am a beginnr (REALLY BEGINNER) in C# and i have been struggling with basic player movement in unity 6.2 (the player is not moving no matter what i do) if someone is willing to help for free..DM me or just let me know

[languid pagoda]

Screenshot the heigharchy before and after the slot is skipped

[neon forum]

the heirarchy?

[naive pawn]

!ask

[eternal falcon]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

[neon forum]

like the parent/childs?

[languid pagoda]

seems like you're just adding it as a child without enforcing any sort of order and expecting it to work

[naive pawn]

no-one's gonna be willing to help without knowing what you actually need lol

[neon forum]

I thought the content size filter/grid layout would solve it, but I'll scvreen shot

[languid pagoda]

It will if you got every set up right

but honestly I wouldn't suggest doing it that way

[remote tundra]

!ask hey guys..i am a beginnr (REALLY BEGINNER) in C# and i have been struggling with basic player movement in unity 6.2 (the player is not moving no matter what i do) if someone is willing to help for free..DM me or just let me know

[neon forum]

this is before

[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

[neon forum]

here is after

[remote tundra]

that was embarrassing

[rich adder]

put some effort into asking your question and you may get some help

no DMs

[remote tundra]

i already got some in texturing

[remote tundra]

i ask for it not str8 DM with no permission

[rich adder]

You cannot Destroy a Transform component... they are essentials to gameobjects working properly, you delete the gameobject

[hallow acorn]

just noticed lol thank you

[languid pagoda]

From what im seeing your code should work and you dont have anything funky going on with the heigharchy id look at your canvas/grid settings next

[naive pawn]

that doesn't change anything

[languid pagoda]

brother I think you need higher IQ before you attempt game dev

post your code

tell us the problem you're having

[remote tundra]

lemme just

[naive pawn]

before we continue, you have read #🌱┃start-here, right

specifically #🌱┃start-here message

[hallow acorn]

@rich adder attached .gameObject after the child transform, my parent deleted itself with it

[neon forum]

this is my current setup for the panel itself

[remote tundra]

teh whole thing isnt working

[naive pawn]

1. post !code properly

[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.

[naive pawn]

2. describe what isn't working
   if it was working you wouldn't be here 😉 you gotta be more specific than that

[neon forum]

could the content size filter + grid layout group be clashing?

I have a feeling that could be it

[naive pawn]

are you getting errors or warnings?
is something not responding?
is something responding, but not in the way you want it to?

[rich adder]

show the line of code
doing .gameObject should not delete the parent if you properly referenced the child

[hallow acorn]

[ContextMenu("Reset")]
private void DeleteChilds()
{
    for(int i = 0; i < gameObject.transform.childCount; i++)
    DestroyImmediate(gameObject.transform.GetChild(0).parent.gameObject);
}```

[remote tundra]

im not getting any errors..its just taht the whole code is not working properly..the player is not moving like its supposed to

[hallow acorn]

wait.

[naive pawn]

on the same object? don't think they should
usually there'll be warnings telling you if they conflict

[hallow acorn]

i did not put the .parent there

[languid pagoda]

honestly yes but I will not be much help in troubleshooting that I have not used that much at all if ever.

[naive pawn]

i wonder why the parent is getting deleted lol

[hallow acorn]

Bro intellisense hates me😭

i did NOT put that there i swear😭🙏

[neon forum]

hmmm well I'm glad it wasn't a code issue

however I'm a scrub when it comes to UI

[rich adder]

I mean ur doing GetChild(0).parent.gameObject

[hallow acorn]

@rich adder

[naive pawn]

you'll have to ask #📲┃ui-ux if it's an issue with that

[naive pawn]

intellisense doesn't insert extra tokens, it just completes the token you're currently writing
you sure it wasn't intellicode?

[neon forum]

yeah, I'll move there now, thank you all for the help!

[hallow acorn]

maybe i dont know. ill just write my code in windows editor now

[languid pagoda]

its ok the other day i spent like 45 minutes debugging why my audio stopped working randomly after restarting my pc only to find out later that the game view has a mute button that unity decided to enable all on its own.

[naive pawn]

no don't do that

ides exist for a reason

[hallow acorn]

that hurts

[languid pagoda]

just double check the code its suggesting before you press tab

its right a lot but its wrong often

[hallow acorn]

also, why is this not deleting all children? cs [ContextMenu("Reset")] private void DeleteChilds() { for(int i = 0; i < gameObject.transform.childCount; i++) DestroyImmediate(gameObject.transform.GetChild(0).gameObject); }

[naive pawn]

ok yeah no that's intellicode not intellisense

[rich adder]

ur not passing i?

did you even write this

[hallow acorn]

yes

i dont know if im proud about that or not tho

[naive pawn]

this is basically the issue of modifying lists while iterating through them

[rich adder]

ya also you need to do this in reverse

[hallow acorn]

why?

[naive pawn]

or just change the condition

[rich adder]

because of index it will skip the next element

[naive pawn]

imagine you have 4 children
first iteration, i = 0, 0 < 4, delete one, now childcount 3
second iteration, i = 1, 1 < 3, delete one, now childcount 2
third iteration, i = 2, 2 ≥ 2, so loop exits

you end up deleting 2 children

[hallow acorn]

okay

[rich adder]

the next item will have the current index

[naive pawn]

you don't need a for loop for this at all

you can just use a while (transform.childCount > 0) if you're just removing the first element

(also yeah, gameObject.transform is unnecessary, you can just use transform)

[hallow acorn]

oh true

[naive pawn]

(well, technically not for this since it's not actually using the index)