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[zinc tundra]

idk why i get so much issues w it

[languid pagoda]

whell they could disable the character controller component before they upload it to the asset store...

[rocky canyon]

b/c it helps to know the basics before jumping into the water...

even teh most basic scripts involve lot of game-dev magic..
1 misspelling can break a whole game

plus it helps to know the structure...
what parts make up that object..
(this is one of the problems occuring right now)

[zinc tundra]

i mean how copying a yt tutorial cant work

[slow blaze]

what is this lmao

[winged ridge]

public override void

[slender nymph]

are you actually inheriting from a class that has a virtual/abstract method called OnStateExit?

[winged ridge]

And the OnStateExit has to come from an inherited class, of which contains that method to be overridden etc

[slender nymph]

this is unnecessary

it's convention to put the modifiers in that order but not necessary

[slow blaze]

oh yeah I forgor to inherit

thanks

[winged ridge]

Fair game, I just know I've had errors based on wrong order of the modifiers, switched two around and it worked

[slender nymph]

sounds more like you put the return type before an access modifier

[winged ridge]

knowing me...sounds likely lol, I have too much going on, so probably missed that

[zinc tundra]

i fixed it

the problem was the physics settings was set to none

[gusty stone]

Hello,
I am making a 3D beat 'em up with light attacks and heavy attacks.
what is the best way to handle damage done by the Player?

[rocky canyon]

two variables similar function Damage(variable1);

altho doesn a single swing destroy every little piece anywhay?

health -= variable;

if health < maxHealth -> destroy()

[mint imp]

I've looked all over for help but have had no luck
How can i shoot a "ring" of projectiles around and outwards from my enemy.
It needs to be variable dependant on how many projectiles i want but still evenly spread out in a circle

//for (int i = 0; i < amountOfProjectiles; i++)

?? somehow get a direction for each bullet

Instantiate bullet at enemies position, with new custom rotation.

I imagine it has something to do with dividing 360/ amountOfProjectiles
Then converting that into radians or something but im not sure how to do that...

[winged ridge]

Mathf.deg2Rad() double check spelling, but it converts degrees to radians for you

[slender nymph]

there is no need for radians here, not even sure why you'd think there is. but 360 / number of projectiles would get you the angle you need between them (might need to subtract one from the count for the proper angle), then you can get the direction using a for loop, that angle you previously calculated, and Quaternion.AngleAxis

[mint imp]

Like i said I'm not sure how to do it. How would i use Quaternion.AngleAxis in this case?
Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle,position)?

[random lodge]

I need some math help for a Unity script (that I want to create). Not sure how to math this. I have two floats that can be between scaleSizeMin=0.4f and scaleSizeMax=3.0f. I use a Random.Range to pick a # between those. I want to set Rigidbody mass depending on that # chosen so we increase mass between say +1 - 4. How would I do that? (I know how to set mass itself).

[slender nymph]

you wouldn't use a position as the second parameter, did you look at the docs for it?

[grand snow]

I was following till the end, whats so complex about adding a number to mass?

[random lodge]

smh.

[grand snow]

perhaps it needs explaining a different way

[mint imp]

Yes just now
Its not working how i would expect

[slender nymph]

show what you actually tried

[random lodge]

The mass would be increased depending on the randomized number and the range itself. Look at it like 0.4f - 3.0f and 3.0f is 100% of the range. The mass would be increased depending on a percentage of that range. So if our scale increase 25% we increase mass by 25%.

[slender nymph]

inverse lerp between those values, then use the returned value as the multiplier to increase your mass by

but also why not just use a number from 0 to 1 at that point if you aren't even using those values directly?

[grand snow]

Yea i was confused by this, what is the point of doing a random value between this other range to then not need it in that range 😐

[random lodge]

Well I'm using those values directly to increase the sprite size

[slender nymph]

why are you still using a position for the second argument for AngleAxis?

[grand snow]

Right, well a random value from 0-1 is easier to work with, can be used to inc mass easier
then with a normal lerp you can do the other range

[slender nymph]

you're also using a value called "angleIncrement" but then not incrementing it

[mint imp]

Im not sure what else is supposed to go there

[slender nymph]

if only the docs said

[random lodge]

Meaning if I use 0-1, I kind of automatically know the percentage?

Got ya

[grand snow]

Yea it makes more sense to do it that way round instead of requiring an inverse lerp

[random lodge]

Yea I see what you mean now

[grand snow]

0-1 number range ❤️

[random lodge]

Also could maybe move the decimal over and use it for size hmmm

[mint imp]

The doc uses Vector3.up but it just says to use a position

[slender nymph]

it absolutely does not say to use a position

[mint imp]

Regardless using Vector3.Up wasnt working anyways

[slender nymph]

well you need to use the axis you want the rotation to be around, not just some random guess

[random lodge]

thinks out loud so if my random is 0.35 I can move the decimal over, get 3.5 and increase the size by 3.5. If I get .85 and that's too high I can just set a limit. Nice. Cool.

that works

right on I like it lol

[mint imp]

Okay im just not sure what it means by that.
I want to rotate on the Z axis? so Vector3.Forward?

[grand snow]

a value from 0-1 can be used with Mathf.Lerp() to select a value in a custom range
and then can also be used directly with mass via mass += mass * rand to increase it by 0%-100%

[slender nymph]

yes, if you want to rotate around the Z axis you would use Vector3.forward as the axis of rotation for that method

[mint imp]

Okay thank you that method is really what i needed, thank you so much

Got it working

[errant osprey]

Hi All, I'm trying to learn Unity and am making a really simple VR scene where when you touch a block it explodes. I can make the block explode if it's touched with anything else other than the player's hand which is the one thing I want to trigger the explosion. I've tried adding a rigid body and collider sphere to the OVRRightHandVisual & OVRRightControllerVisual and added a cube that I verified triggers the explosion of the block to the hand/controller visuals. Neither method will trigger the blocks. I've tried updating the code on the block for OnTriggerEnter and OnCollisionEnter and neither works if it's the player, but works ok if its the floor plane or another block, etc. Is there something special you have to do to make the player interaction work?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[winged ridge]

are you checking against player game object using the tag system?
allocate the player game Object the tag "Player" its built-in, then in your code check against it example OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) { if (other.tag == "Player") etc... }

[slender nymph]

don't use string equality for tag checks, use the CompareTag method. Not only is it marginally faster (and can be made a little better using a TagHandle) but more importantly it throws a relevant error when a tag doesn't exist (like if you've misspelled it) instead of just failing silently

[errant osprey]

Yeah, I've tried tags, but it's like the hand physics just never do anything. They always go through the block. Like if I grab a static block that has a rigid body it triggers the explosion, but if it's just the controller, it goes through the block.

[slender nymph]

make sure you go through that link i sent, it will walk you through everything you need to check to make sure physics messages work

[stoic summit]

Hey, I tried to program a wave function collapse algorithm without a tutorial. I've got everything done except socket rotations, and it works great. Would anyone be willing to review my code? Just looking for ways I can improve, or anything incredibly stupid I might be doing. It's across these three scripts:
https://pastebin.com/1WA1ws0w - Grid Generator
https://pastebin.com/1TgW9VXu - Grid Cell
https://pastebin.com/ane5e6fG - Prefabs

[slender nymph]

you've already got a thread in #1390355039272439868 , there's no need to crosspost the question to here as well. just bump the thread if it hasn't gotten attention

[stoic summit]

my bad, how do I bump a thread?

I'm dense as fuck

[slender nymph]

sending a message in it will bump it up to the top of the list

[stoic summit]

wise thanks bro

[nimble apex]

vector math

Vector3 displacement = cameraTransform.right * input.x + cameraTransform.forward * input.y;
displacement.y = 0;
displacement.Normalize();```

is this equal to

```cs
new Vector3(right.x * input.x + forward.x * input.y ,0,right.z * input.x + forward.z * input.y).normalized;```

im trying to compress them into single line

[slender nymph]

why. there is pretty much 0 benefit to doing that, it makes the code harder to read and harder to debug

[nimble apex]

ok i will stop then 👍

i just want to save as much loc as possible

[slender nymph]

you can also use TransformDirection instead of manually doing the math and it will be even clearer what the code is supposed to do

[nimble apex]

nice

[slender nymph]

there is literally no benefit to that, always prefer readable code to "clever" code

[nimble apex]

oh its new function for unity 6?

[slender nymph]

no TransformDirection has existed for years, it's even in the Unity 5 docs

just turn your input into a Vector3 then pass that to TransformDirection and it will return the correct world space direction

[nimble apex]

ty👍

[elfin isle]

helloooo i have quite a problem on my hands

im trying to make a pause menu, and have made several before using this exact method b ut for some reason, it just doesent work? when I press escape, the pause menu turns on, right? though, the time scale, the camera, and the cursor script are all not doing what the code is telling it to,

the only things working ist eh UI turning on and off, the cursor stuff, and the "paused" bool. why are these things not working? i feel like ive tried everything and feel ver stupid

[slender nymph]

any errors in the console?

[elfin isle]

yes and no? I mean that as in uh, these few errors pop up once and awhile but not specifically when im messing with pause menus tuff

i also have no idea what they mean

[winged ridge]

I know those errors.. unity ones, just restart the editor

[elfin isle]

i tried that but will be happy to try again! one sec

[slender nymph]

those all appear to be editor errors so you can typically ignore them.
add some logs to your code to make sure it's running as you would expect it to

[winged ridge]

also, is it a typo or intentional that what appears to be camera is spelt wrong?

[elfin isle]

i didnt think to add the logs because i can already visually see that the UI is working as intended jjust not the stuff around it

[elfin isle]

yeah lol sorry, thats intentional

[slender nymph]

should always verify your assumptions, things that you don't expect could be happening

[elfin isle]

where should i add logs then?

[slender nymph]

inside your if statements and also anywhere that code is running that you think shouldn't be. and make sure you are printing useful info like the value of any properties you are changing or relying on rather than generic messages like "this runs"

[winged ridge]

youd hate my debug.logs lol a lot of mine are along the lines of "This works" or "This should work but doesnt" but I do understand them and what aspects dont work from the error report 😛 just funny you mentioned it

[elfin isle]

i added logs with the if statement and yeah, it says that its working as intended but its not, the scripts are stuck on enabled and the timescale isnt moving

something i found a bit ago while testing though is that, the script can turn stuff on. but, it cannot turn stuff off. say i manually disable the script and then i hit resume, it turns the script back on??

[winged ridge]

thats a very depends situation..lets say you have a box, and you have a script attached to it, and the script disables the box.. it disables the script too (so it cant be re-enabled) if however you have a script attached to another gameObject, that disables a component in the box (using same example) it can re-enable it

[elfin isle]

im not disabling its own script lol, its the pause menu script disabling the palyer script so that it cant move while paused

[slender nymph]

you can put logs in OnEnable and OnDisable and see the stack trace for what is enabling/disabling something

[winged ridge]

I may have made that mistake once or twice lol, I had to check why my code didnt run and it basically deleted the wrong object...deleting itself so thats how i learnt that error

[elfin isle]

yeah i tried that earlier and it didnt help much but i can try again

could you show me how to write it cause i forgot copletely

[slender nymph]

you just said you added logs, so surely you know how to write a log, yes?

[ivory bobcat]

Just to eliminate known Editor behaviors that may conflict with your setup, have you tried changing the button to something other than the escape key?

[elfin isle]

i'll try that

[ivory bobcat]

Escape causes the Editor to lose focus which may behave in a way you're not immediately expecting.

[elfin isle]

and my man- i kjnow how to write a log i forgot how to write that specific log

[slender nymph]

it's not a specific log? it's just a log inside of OnEnable and/or OnDisable . . .

[winged ridge]

in the OnEnable just type Debug.Log("OnEnable Method Called"); etc

if it doesnt appear, it didnt work

[elfin isle]

well yeah, i know that i just didnt konw what me meant by seeing the stack trace

[slender nymph]

then ask that instead. that's not even part of the code, that's what you see in the editor

[elfin isle]

oh my god that worked

wait- then how come ive never gotten that bug in all the other projects ive made? ive always done it the same way

[slender nymph]

the editor losing focus should not have resulted in the behavior you described

if any of the code in the if statement was executed and there were no errors then all of it would have been

[elfin isle]

idk what to tell you man

tahts why i was confused too

[ivory bobcat]

The loss of focus will only apply to launching the application from the Editor so it'll be fine to use the escape key in your actual builds-release.

[elfin isle]

thank you guys so much

i was freaking out cause i have a game jam due in 2 hours lmao

[winged ridge]

I usually keybind pause to p or tab.. just out of habit I find it nicer

[untold shore]

Hey! Having some trouble at the moment with some raycasts. Im still new to using them - this is actually my first time with them.
Anyway, whenever I am attempting to find a wall on either side of the player for a Wall Jumping mechanic. Basically, if a player is near a wall, it will output "rightWall = true" or "leftWall = true"; however, when the player jumps, it will always say leftWall = true, which messes up the rest of the code. Here is the snippet that checks for walls:

    {
        rightWall = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, playerObjectOrentation.right, out rightWallHit, wallCheckDistance, whatisWall);
        leftWall = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, -playerObjectOrentation.right, out leftWallHit, wallCheckDistance, whatisWall);
    }

And here is the full code: https://paste.ofcode.org/8SVReqU6mweFkUjWGjXTja
Any idea why this is happening? Thank you! (If you respond, please @ me. Thanks!)

[winged ridge]

Am i safe to assume 3D?

[hardy maple]

I think we’re gonna need the code for jumping.

[untold shore]

Gotcha. Im using the Unity 3d Starter Kit, let me put the script into a paste of code real quick.

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show the logs? How are you verifying this?

[untold shore]

Itll show on the unity inspector whenever I jump, no matter what I set the wallCheckDistance to. I can video that if you want

[winged ridge]

code for jumping, checking the ground, and using the new Input System

[ivory bobcat]

== and ||

Unless you're really intending on assigning left wall and using a bitwise OR operation

[hardy maple]

This is a shot in the dark, but it might be good to console out the name of the objects that the raycasts hit. If I was going to guess, there’s some collider that’s either enabled only for jumping or is changing shape during jumping, and is messing with your raycast

[untold shore]

https://paste.ofcode.org/Z6PRyPpcumuTKKR4URi3Ys
The paste of code for that main jumping

[proper bobcat]

Is assignment inside the parenthesis valid?

[ivory bobcat]

Sure but not certain about the compound bitwise OR

[untold shore]

I dont know what bitwise means, but def was going for an or function. Guessing its || then?

Fixed it, but its still giving me that leftwall hit.

[ivory bobcat]

Did you save the script?

[hardy maple]

Did you fix the == also?

[winged ridge]

use the code I sent you, it will do ground check, create the Ground layer mask, allocate it in script using
public LayerMask groundLayerMask; allocate this in inspector, the variables can be changed to suit your wishes

[hardy maple]

If you assign leftWall equal to true it’s not hard to imagine why your getting the result you are getting

[untold shore]

It was most likely both the == and ||, but this fixed it. Thank you so much!

[slender nymph]

the = was the cause of the actual issue. the | just forced it to check both sides even if the left side evaluated to true. || will short circuit which means it will not evaluate the right side if the left side evaluates to true

[untold shore]

Oh ok! Noted. Will use || then, since I dont want it to worry about both sides if a player is close enough to one already. Thank yall so much

[elfin isle]

im abckk agaaiinnn, and im not sure if this is the right channel but when i build my game it gets flagged as a trojan because of scripts- anyway to fix this?

[slender nymph]

it gets flagged as a trojan? that definitely doesn't seem right. can you show exactly what it says?

[winged ridge]

i have had this issue before but was in Python, it was a windows anti virus issue, you have to whitelist the application

unless im mistaken the error would be "win32 trojan"

[elfin isle]

this is what happened when my friends tried to download it for a playtest

[slender nymph]

what did you actually put in the zip file

[elfin isle]

the game..?

the build for the game

[slender nymph]

be specific

[elfin isle]

wdym be specific

the build that unity creates when you press "BUILD"

[slender nymph]

let's pretend that i cannot see your computer or project at all and that this is a beginner channel where people very frequently do things incorrectly. thinking that way, read my question again and try answering it one more time, being specific. using screenshots if you have to.

[elfin isle]

idk what more you want me to say

[slender nymph]

that is exactly what i wanted you to say

[elfin isle]

those are just normal build files-

[slender nymph]

so other than including the DoNotShip folder, it's correct. so unless you have some third party assets that are doing shady shit in there, it's a false positive

[winged ridge]

I mean... We can test it, dm me the folder

[slender nymph]

take that to DMs entirely if you do so as it is against server rules and any risk you take there is 100% on you

[elfin isle]

[winged ridge]

yes, do directly in dms not this server

[winged ridge]

I have a couple laptops I can test it on, it will be fine

Can confirm there's something wrong in the file, it won't even download, only anti virus I have is Microsoft's, doing a scan now, if you have any 3rd party scripts in your app, you may want to read through and delete them

[elfin isle]

i dont have any other third party scripts no

[winged ridge]

Then it's a conundrum, I'm running on a special network that's not connected to any device but my own laptop. It's a personal WiFi, so when Google stopped it, Microsoft also did, recommend re reading your program and ensure nothing gathers system data or reads anything from system

[elfin isle]

how do i check that?

[winged ridge]

I'll DM you

Follow up @slender nymph just in case anyone else wanted to know, it was seemingly couple lines of script that were wrong, deleted them and they worked

[cunning bramble]

hi guys :)

[frail tapir]

Hi all, is there any specific channel for modding unity games?

[cunning bramble]

Good Morning pepole i am look for an good Unity coding basics tutorial does any one have a good tutorial?

[slender nymph]

modding discussions are not permitted in this server #📖┃code-of-conduct

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel and the pathways on the unity learn site are a good place to learn the engine

!learn

[radiant void]

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[cunning bramble]

ahh okay thank you

Have an nice day :)

[mighty peak]

Is that for me?🙂

If yes so yes im talking about ui buttons and need to make them for movement controller

[naive pawn]

yeah there are existing components for that

there's also an onscreen joystick

[vivid kestrel]

hey i want to make animation which engine should i use

for begiiner

for cutscenes

[rich adder]

you don't need an entire engine to make animations..
also this is a coding channel

[vivid kestrel]

but i am making game in unity

[mighty peak]

Please reply me next time because i didn't know if you responded or not🙂

[mighty peak]

So I just need to make buttons now left right up and at the end i need when button get down and up for that to make it like hold click and when leave button you understand me i think so how should i do it in same script?

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[limber turtle]

if i want to make a hitscan weapon wider than a typical raycast, what methods do i need to use? if someone could point me in the right direction with this i should be all good

i'm thinking something like the charged revolver in ultrakill

or railgun

[keen dew]

Spherecast (3d) or circlecast (2d)

[limber turtle]

that would make sense actually

are there any ways to display those visually, like Debug.DrawRay does for raycasts?

[naive pawn]

could do 2 offset drawrays

[keen dew]

Not out of the box but there are assets for it, or drawing the outlines with a bunch of rays is usually good enough

[limber turtle]

alright

feeling a bit lazy for now and i can do graphics stuff later so i might stick with a drawline between the start and end

is there a way for me to make it return more than one collider, or go infinitely?

[ivory bobcat]

Pretty sure vertx had some visual debugger
#💻┃code-beginner message

[keen dew]

SphereCastAll and CircleCastAll

[limber turtle]

thank you very much

i'll add a raycast at the start to check for where the shot hits a surface, then do a CircleCastAll for enemies between the start and the end

[rugged beacon]

im trying to read a text that should come with the game
i attempted this, then found out that unity apis can only be used on mainthread?
Task.Run(() => Resources.LoadAsync<TextAsset>
i suppose i can switch to traditional file io but idk if resource folder destination exist after build
how can read the text without blocking the game ?

[keen dew]

[SerializeField] private TextAsset file; and drag in the file as usual. The contents are in file.text

[rugged beacon]

no, i need to load the level datas, it created alot, i want to load specific one

[keen dew]

Serialize an array, put all of them there, read from the array

[naive pawn]

this kinda sounds like an xyproblem

[sour fulcrum]

The levels are just in a text file?

[naive pawn]

https://xyproblem.info

[rugged beacon]

yes json

there level_0 ,1,2,3,4,...

[rugged beacon]

i want to load the text file that should come with the game, without blocking the game ?

[sour fulcrum]

I could be mistaken but in your initial comment your using a pretty generic file handling function when unity has some more tailor made json parsing utils

just a quick google on async json parsing unity has some interesting results

[rugged beacon]

json from util? but i still have to access and read that entire text file right ?

[keen dew]

So do you have one file or multiple? If you have "the file" then why can't you treat it as a normal asset like everything else?

[rugged beacon]

alot

maybe cant count

[sour fulcrum]

wanting to load them from a arbitrary file explorer location seems like a reasonable request in general though

[keen dew]

So when you said "the text file that should come with the game" you meant "the text fileS" as in multiple?

[rugged beacon]

yea i think thats sound right

[keen dew]

And if you have multiple why can't you do this

[rugged beacon]

and choose specific one

i dont think thats a good solution, anyone feel thats way?
do i just keep 500 text file on that array?

i want to only load wat i need

[sour fulcrum]

i agree that that doesnt sound ideal

[keen dew]

Unless the files take up several megabytes, the simplest solution is the best

[rugged beacon]

hmm i thought this problem is common
i guess i can throw it a loading screen let it freeze a few sec for now

[grand snow]

If needed you can get the text/bytes from the asset first on the main thread and then parse on another (e.g using json.net)

but if efficiency is important then json should be replaced

[rugged beacon]

do addresable help?

[grand snow]

just an alternate way to load the assets. I dont know if that forces main thread usage

or use streaming assets to load the files with non unity file io

[rugged beacon]

alr sound like there still a lot to try

[timber tide]

i've done addressable loading in webgl which works meaning it is single threaded loading unless there's more options I've not really fooled too much with

[grand snow]

well that could do some alternate time sliced loading specially for webgl but i guess its quick to try to use the addressable api on another thread

[rugged beacon]

gonna be a few days for me fr need to see guides never touched addresable

[grand snow]

I've used it a lot so ask in #📦┃addressables if you need help. It uses asset bundles so this means asset dependencies can be duplicated in some situations. Read the docs carefully

[limber turtle]

when using a raycast to find all objects between two points, is there an easy way to have the returned list ordered by distance or will i have to do a bubble sort on the returned list?

[keen dew]

You have to sort it yourself but you don't need to implement your own sorting algorithm, Array.Sort is much faster than bubble sort

or List.Sort

[limber turtle]

oh alright

how do i sort it by distance if all the objects are RaycastHit2D

or should i not be doing that

the unity docs says Array.Sort() is javascript only but i don't know if it's outdated

[keen dew]

result.Sort((RaycastHit2D a, RaycastHit2D b) => a.distance.CompareTo(b.distance)); (untested)

You're looking at some ancient version's documentation. In any case collection sort is pure C#

[blissful jungle]

Hello

[queen adder]

[Conditional("UNITY_SERVER")]
private void StartServer()
{
    networkManager.ServerManager.StartConnection();
}

Where can I find a list of all the conditional strings I can use?

[blissful jungle]

Is moving platforms hard

[silk night]

the conditional strings are defines in the build settings

[silk night]

depends entirely on your game and what platforms are involved

[queen adder]

Here?

[silk night]

Player settings -> other settings -> script compilation

[blissful jungle]

Just a square that can move and its a game where you climp up a giant tunnel because im new nothing to special

[queen adder]

ah

thanks

[silk night]

unity defines some for version, and if you are in editor aswell
You can find info here: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/platform-dependent-compilation.html

[silk night]

Oh "platforms" usually refers to pc, ps4, mobile 😄 i was confused

[silk night]

That sounds like !learn would be the right resource for you

uhh i think the bot is lazy

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[silk night]

<@&502884371011731486> crypto scam i assume, they didnt even manage to link the images right

[mighty peak]

?🙂

[blissful jungle]

Is transform what i should use

In the code

[silk night]

if you want jumping mechanics rigidbody/playercontroler is what you are looking for

[silk night]

Can you reformulate that question a bit clearer? No offense but I think I had a stroke while reading that 😄

[blissful jungle]

So how do i move gameobjects im confuse

[silk night]

You should really look at the learn link above, that is basic unity knowledge and that page teaches it to you

[blissful jungle]

Ok

[mighty peak]

Aaaa What didn't you understand?

[mighty peak]

Are you a cat?🦔

[silk night]

Honestly i cant make sense of that sentence 😄

[mighty peak]

I mean, what did you not understand from the question in the previous message?

[blissful jungle]

Yes

[midnight plover]

punctuation is a blessing...

[silk night]

The whole question is just a scramble of words that dont make sense

[mighty peak]

Umm wait

Now you know the ui buttons to make the character move right?

Right &left &up 🙂

[mighty peak]

So no?

I'm tired of explaining this. You can go back to my last messages, I think.

[silk night]

You mean a the built in onscreen joystick?

[mighty peak]

No just button like ⬅️➡️⬆️

[silk night]

Well make your own, put buttons on the screen and map them to a script

There is no built-in solution for that

[mighty peak]

Yes im asking about how can i make get button down and up for specific button in same script

[silk night]

You can map each button to a different method in the same script

[mighty peak]

Do you have an example?

[midnight plover]

This is a coding channel and not about how to setup a UI, just to remind you

[mighty peak]

Im not asking for build code

Just ask for example for make status for each Buttons in same script

Almost nothing else about it.

[midnight plover]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Button-onClick.html

[mighty peak]

Onclick

Just one click

I've seen almost all of these things.

So no comment

[midnight plover]

Start typing full sentences with ponctuation, so people know what you want

[mighty peak]

Bro im really dont know what should i write else i think all understood what i mean really 🙂

[midnight plover]

well, you have been told otherwise just some minutes ago

[mighty peak]

But he understood at the end

And when I asked before, he didn't tell me that he didn't understand, but I asked for an example of how this is done, and I haven't received one yet. So..

[midnight plover]

your attitude is one of a kind. Im stepping out as well as the person did before for good reason. I gave you the solution for mapping to a button via script. Now its up to you to do your job.

[mighty peak]

Ummm you send me onclick and its will make character Either move once or continue moving until something happens, and in both cases I will need to place a command if the button is get up so

Hope you understand

[midnight plover]

yeh, welcome to how to use unity documentation. Get on the button class and read the documentation what other options there are, that could help you.

If you dont start to get the habit of reading documentation at all, you gonna have a hard time in the future

[mighty peak]

Didn't find what i need i think so thats why im asking

[midnight plover]

And what did you search for?

[mighty peak]

All told me yes you can buy no one send something 🙂

[mighty peak]

Onpointerup&down

But do script for Each button individually

[midnight plover]

Im out

[mighty peak]

And wait for other one

[midnight plover]

And that is your biggest issue, you keep waiting for others to do your job

[mighty peak]

I think stack overflow will help

[mighty peak]

When someone get issue and he doesn't know how to solve it he should ask right?

And i didn't find anything else so thats why im asking now

So if anyone else knows how I'm supposed to do this I'm waiting to hear back.

[frosty hound]

Going forward, if you're going to occupy this channel as much as you do currently, please start using threads. Thanks.

[limber turtle]

i just tried this, it seems promising but i'm getting an error message:
"Cannot convert lambda expression to type 'Array' because it is not a delegate type"

i'm not good with lambda expressions so i don't really know what to do here

sorry for taking a while, i had a lesson to go to

[hollow zenith]

Hey, is there any point is assembly definitions if 2 of my scripts need to talk to each other?
Afaik Assemblies are meant to be 1 way right?

Do I need to look into ways of fixing my scripts that will only work 1 way or create a manager class that would let them talk to each other?

[keen dew]

Try Array.Sort(result, (RaycastHit2D a, RaycastHit2D b) => a.distance.CompareTo(b.distance));

[limber turtle]

should i replace array with the name of the array? i would have thought that would be what you mean by result

sorry for my incompetence

[keen dew]

No, replace result with the name of the array. It's a static method

[limber turtle]

oh

now it's saying the name 'Array' does not exist in the current context

do i replace it with Type[]

(obviously not verbatim)

[keen dew]

Array with capital A

[limber turtle]

yeah i forgot to mention that

i did that

[keen dew]

add using System; at the top

[limber turtle]

oh yeah i should do that

thank you very much

i believe it works now

[zinc tundra]

hello! Anyone have idea how to fix this "item scratch bug"?

[polar acorn]

"item scratch"?

[keen dew]

stretch I assume

when the item is parented on picking it up, make sure all of the parents have uniform scale

[zinc tundra]

stretch* am sorry

[slow blaze]

private void PlayExplosionEffect(meleeEnemies enemy)
{
Instantiate(explosion, enemy.gameObject.transform);
}

I tried using this to spawn an explosion gameobject with an animator to play an vfx on an enemy

but nothing is spawning? what could be issue?

I see the object in the hierachry but no visual

[naive pawn]

check the object, see if it has all the necessary renderers and they're all enabled and have assets set etc

[polar acorn]

Happens when you rotate a parent object of something that has non-uniform scale

[zinc tundra]

ye looks like that the issue, how do I fix that?

[polar acorn]

In general, don't use non-uniform scaled objects.

If you need a rectangle, model a rectangle instead of stretching a cube

[zinc tundra]

I modelled it in blender, its my own

imported into unity, added a rigidbody and box collider on it and thats it

[keen dew]

If you didn't change its scale in Unity then it doesn't have non-uniform scale

[zinc tundra]

i did

[keen dew]

well don't do that

change the scale in Blender

[zinc tundra]

w8 i try it with another object

well, it does the same

[polar acorn]

Do you know what we mean when we say "non-uniform scale"

[zinc tundra]

yep

[keen dew]

What's the scale of the object?

[zinc tundra]

100x100x100

basicly

[keen dew]

What does "basicly" mean? Is it or is it not that?

[zinc tundra]

it is, from every perspective

[keen dew]

What are these values in its inspector

[winged ridge]

Lol hilarious bug, looks almost as though it's transforming it's size based on your input and movement

[keen dew]

And what's the scale of the parent?

[strange jackal]

I just want to confirm my understanding, trees and other objects place in the terrain cannot be interacted with like chopping them down, correct?

[silk night]

if its a vfx either set play on awake to true or reference the particlesystem and execute .Play() on it

[zinc tundra]

parent?

[keen dew]

When you pick up the object, you parent it to another object. What's the scale of that object?

[zinc tundra]

oh

its

1/1/1

that could be the issue?

[keen dew]

It's uniform so not the issue. Are you sure you parent it to the capsule and not the camera?

[polar acorn]

Does the object become a child of that capsule? Or does it become a child of hold position which seems more like what you would be doing

[keen dew]

Show a new screenshot while playing after you've picked it up

[polar acorn]

If it doesn't become a child of holdPosition you should honestly consider renaming that object

[zinc tundra]

now you say, i check them

[winged ridge]

Easiest solution, upload your code, it may well be an issue there rather than anything else

[zinc tundra]

there u go

commented literally everything cuz i finished last night plus ai helped abit

[keen dew]

heldObjRb.transform.parent = holdPos.transform; //parent object to holdposition

[zinc tundra]

i think ya found the issue

[queen adder]

Why is it that when I reload the scene, the ui buttons stop working?

[zinc tundra]

after deleting the line, its fixed but the item isnt like infront of me

[keen dew]

The code is not the problem.

[queen adder]

I made sure to only reference to objects that are static and are in DontDestroyOnLoad

[keen dew]

Put that line back and check that:

• holdPosition has uniform scale
• Camera has uniform scale
• CameraParent has uniform scale
• FirstPersonController has uniform scale

[zinc tundra]

the first person controller was like 1/2.3/1

now everything works

after setting it to 1/1/1, but now my character is too small

[keen dew]

Took 40 minutes to get to where we started

[zinc tundra]

am on the ground

[winged ridge]

welcome to coding lol

[zinc tundra]

ye, drop your paypal

[keen dew]

well make the character bigger

you have to change the positions now that the scale has been fixed

[winged ridge]

if you want to change tranform of an object independent of its parent use the .localPosition and localScale etc

[polar acorn]

Are the buttons themselves in DDOL?

[queen adder]

Yes

[polar acorn]

The issue is rotating an object with a skewed parent. That's not something that can be solved in code

[zinc tundra]

so now i dont change uniform scale

but how do i make it taller without the gravity making it small again?

[polar acorn]

Can you show the inspector for the button

[polar acorn]

This is first person right? Just make the camera higher off the ground

Maybe change the size of colliders if necessary

[keen dew]

You can change the capsule's scale to whatever you want if it doesn't have any children

[winged ridge]

Can you double check your Event System doesnt get deleted

[zinc tundra]

works, hellyea

[queen adder]

What event system>

[zinc tundra]

now i have to figure out how to do the playercamera to now see the capsule and its shadows

[queen adder]

oh this

[winged ridge]

When you add a Canvas, it automatically adds EventSystem in your Hierarchy, this handles UI Input calls, when you refresh, in your hierarchy, where it says Sample Scene make it show all items and check to see if its deleted or not by mistake

[queen adder]

it's not in DontDestroyOnLoad

It doesn't get deleted when the scene reloads but it's probably not the same one?

I'm not sure

Can I make it a child of the UI gameobject?

[silk night]

As long as you have one eventsystem active its fine

[winged ridge]

sure

[queen adder]

Well

Nothing changed

Buttons still only work before I reload the scene

[winged ridge]

okay, so that possible issue seems eliminated, have you checked that all the scripts are attached after the reload happens and they dont get deleted from the gameObject in the process

[queen adder]

But wouldn't I still see the hover effect?

I don't even see that when I hover over the button

 public void RejoinServer()
 {
     string currentSceneName = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name;
     SceneManager.LoadScene(currentSceneName);
 }

Is this how you're supposed to reload a scene?

[winged ridge]

I dont see why youd want to stop and restart the client...

[queen adder]

I shouln't have included that, it's unrelated

[winged ridge]

!code

hm one second

[queen adder]

I figured it out

It was the fact that the Cursor was set to Locked mode

In the editor it can be in locked mode and you can still see the mouse sometimes

And in that state the UI doesn't work

[winged ridge]

well that works lol, either way one other way of using the Load scene is LoadSceneAsync which I was going to show but forgot the formatting command for code

[zinc tundra]

thanks alot for the help btw

[vernal thorn]

Seemingly random it sometimes instantly dissapears instead of fading out (the "if health" is in another part of the script ive just put it out for this text)

if (health <= 0)
{
    c = sr.color;
    InvokeRepeating("FadeOut", 0, 0.01f);
    Invoke("Destroying", 1);
}

 private void FadeOut()
 {   
     transparency -= 2;
     transparency = Mathf.Clamp(transparency, 0, 255);

     c.a = transparency / 255f;
     sr.color = c;
 }

  private void Destroying()
  {
      Destroy(gameObject);
  }

[winged ridge]

Have you tried calling your Invoke("Destroying", 1) from within the FadeOut() method

[vernal thorn]

no but how would i do that

[eager elm]

There is nothing preventing the FadeOut() method from being invoked multiple times. If your check for health <= 0 happens in Update than every frame you call InvokeRepeating(). Better to use a Coroutine

[vernal thorn]

im checking the health in a a seperate method thats only being called if the health gets decreased

so the fadeout only gets called once

[winged ridge]

c#
private IEnumerator FadeOut(){
transparency -= 2;
c.a = transparency / 255f;
sr.color = c;
yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f); // Change the 2f to a suitable
}

[eager elm]

What if two objects hit this one in the same frame? Wouldn't that call the TakeDamage() method or whatever it is called twice? I recommend you add a bool 'isDead' that gets turned to true once the health drops below 0 for the first time.

[vernal thorn]

i havent thought about that thanks

[winged ridge]

also dont forget the clamp line..I forgot to add it, but general gist of a coroutine

[vernal thorn]

yeah, thank you!

[eager elm]

also make sure you disable colliders and stuff like that for the one second between being killed and despawning. Or alternatively, disable the object instantly and spawn a "dummy object" at the same position that fades out.

[vernal thorn]

already have done that ive made the rigidbody static and destroyed the collider

[polar acorn]

Destroy already has a second parameter for how long to wait before destroying. You don't need to use invoke to delay it

[naive pawn]

why not make this a loop

[vernal thorn]

ive done now

 private IEnumerator FadeOut()
 {
     for (int i = 0; i < 125; i++)
     {
         transparency -= 2;
         transparency = Mathf.Clamp(transparency, 0, 255);

         c.a = transparency / 255f;
         sr.color = c;
         yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.01f);
     }

     Destroy(gameObject);
 }

[naive pawn]

since it's a float, you could make that really smooth

to have it update every frame

[vernal thorn]

I dont need it very smooth for my purpose tho

but still thanks

[winged ridge]

I mean, I used his code alone, but theres a few ways to do it, ill include how I did it
Also how did you get that cute box for the code

[naive pawn]

float elapsedTime = 0;
while (elapsedTime < TIME) {
  elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;
  c.a = Mathf.InverseLerp(0, TIME, elapsedTime);
  yield return null;
}

this is a very handy pattern that you should get accustomed to

[vernal thorn]

use ` 3 times at the start and 3 at the end

[naive pawn]

this also lets you specify the duration it takes

[naive pawn]

!code

[radiant void]

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]

see the lower section

[vernal thorn]

makes sense tysm :D

[winged ridge]

    public IEnumerator FadeOut(float time)
    {
        while (canvasGroup.alpha < 1f)
        {
            canvasGroup.alpha += Time.deltaTime / time;
            yield return null;
        }
    }

    public IEnumerator FadeIn(float time)
    {
        while (canvasGroup.alpha > 0)
        {
            canvasGroup.alpha -= Time.deltaTime / time;
            yield return null;
        }
    }

[vernal thorn]

wrong thing

[naive pawn]

just be aware that the WaitForSeconds isn't perfect, it waits equal to or greater than the listed time

[vernal thorn]

` not '

[winged ridge]

lol azerty keyboard

now be careful, the canvasGroup cannot go past 0 or 1, but sometimes the variables can, so clamp values and do checks, any comparison against a float variable can pose issues of precision

[naive pawn]

any comparison against a float variable can pose issues of precision
not necessarily - it's equality checks in particular that may have issues

[vernal thorn]

I found out the error it was also another script not just this 🥀

[slow blaze]

it's like a gameobject with a canvas renderer on it

also StateBehavior.OnStateExit() Does it execute on the last frame of the current state, or when the state is actually exitted?

[winged ridge]

If it helps any, I designed an entire system for dialogue and questing, rewrote it from about 10 scripts down to about half... And had that many errors I just put on pause, the code works it was just the reformatting everything and setting the variables again (from scriptable objects to entirely code)

[vernal thorn]

no the error was that it tped the object at the wrong time sometimes thats why it was invsible 🥀 i was stuck so long and it was just an bool i checked wrong

[umbral bough]

Hey, I was wondering if there's a way to make this curve be linear or sm by default, kinda like what unity usually does by default in the inspector:

public AnimationCurve Curve;

Since this is a struct, I tried this:

public CameraAnimationSettings(float duration = 0, EasingType easing = EasingType.Linear)
{
    Duration = duration;
    Easing = easing;
    Curve = new(new Keyframe[] { new(0, 1), new(1, 1) });
}

But it sadly didn't work, it gave me a (1, 1) (1, 1) curve.
Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[umbral bough]

Thanks.
And I just assign it in the ctor, right?

[naive pawn]

you would assign it on the field

[umbral bough]

I am positive you can't assign to fields in structs, am I mistaken?

[slow blaze]

hey I'm trying to destroy an Object once this state has cycled through itself once, I thought this would be work but the OnStateEnter works but OnStateExit doesnt, I thought it would be called ont he end frame of that animation?

[naive pawn]

oh yeah no you're right (at least with the version unity has)

[umbral bough]

I mean, I can just switch to a class, no big deal in this case

[naive pawn]

that's the mechanism for default values afaik, so.. im lost

[naive pawn]

not really a code question, but wouldn't OnStateExit be called when the state actually.. exits, not when it's done

perhaps add a transition to End with exit time 1

[slow blaze]

that works, thanks!

[slow blaze]

why does it spawn one with Z=0 , and the rest Z= 180 lmao

[polar acorn]

Because Quaternion is a four-dimensional complex space number and the values you've given it are absolute nonsense

If you ever find yourself modifying the individual values of a quaternion, don't.

[slow blaze]

oh I always assumed they were the rotations

[naive pawn]

well, they are, but not in a format you'll understand unless you're a mathematician

they aren't euler angles

valid quaternions are normalized as well

[slow blaze]

fair

I'll use Quaternion.Euler then

[grand snow]

Yea that constructs a Quaternion from Euler angles which is much easier for most of us to understand

[polar acorn]

They are, but they're in Magical Wizard Numbers that have nothing to do with degrees or the normal axes of euclidian space

[junior vapor]

I updated from 2022.2 to 6 (Yes I know) and my tileset won't show, anyone has pointers?

like, I get the outline, but not the tiles themselves

[fickle plume]

Make sure you are using correct renderer and matching shaders

[junior vapor]

how can I check this?

[fickle plume]

You can create a new scene and compare against default components

[junior vapor]

Oh, I got it now, and it works just fine, thanks!

[balmy vortex]

are there any easier ways to make an object move based on the players position? cuz the code I'm using rn is really clunky even if it's just covering the X axis

the code in question btw --> https://paste.mod.gg/tvqhmxmgtlpt/0

[rich adder]

holy shit you're doing a Find of the player every frame and Rigidbody Get?
why not cache those in awake once and reuse them

anyway, did you try just moving the transform itself and see if same thing happen? if it doesn't then it could be rigidbody or like interpolation issue

[balmy vortex]

wdym there are no issues

[rich adder]

Personally I would use a better solution for an enemy, if they're meant to move around the map I would combine A* / Navmesh agent with a bit of strategy to move it from point to point (if its within range of player then you could do a local strafe)

[balmy vortex]

I'm just asking if there's a more efficient way of doing it

the code technically "works" fine

[rich adder]

I mean it looks choppy between movement

[keen dew]

It's doing kind of the reverse of what would be natural. The closer it gets, the faster it goes. Usually it would do the opposite

Now it speeds up and suddenly stops when it reaches the player which causes the choppiness

You could try something like this:

float distance = PlayerBody.transform.position.x - transform.position.x;
rb.linearVelocity.x = distance * speed;

which would make it slow down when it gets closer

(I don't remember if you can change velocity.x directly)

[rich adder]

var vel = rb.linearVelocity
vel.y = distance * speed;
rb.linearVelocity = vel

[keen dew]

yeah that

[rich adder]

Ridibody2D has rb.linearVelocityX and Y dunno why we dont have it for 3D shakes fist

[slender nymph]

to be fair, all that does is new Vector2(value, rb.velocity.y), can easily create an extension method to do the same for 3d RB

[rich adder]

tru tru..
it would just take unity like no time to implement an extra property when they added linearVelocity but who knows why they didn't

[mild furnace]

Any vscode users getting auto-generated 'GlobalUsings' files?
Its throwing a bunch of errors for me for one specific script, and there are no changes on my .git aside from the obj.meta that keeps reappearing
Not sure what extension is causing this

Seems like a recent update thing

[rich adder]

I use VSC but never seen such an issue :\

[mild furnace]

This is so annoying :(

[rich adder]

are you sure it VSC causing it ?

you tried just flushing all cache? delete the Library folder and all that already?

[mild furnace]

Yeah, seems to be the case

[keen dew]

Still waiting for them to remove camera and rigidbody etc properties from MonoBehaviour. Apparently that would be a major breaking change but renaming velocity to linearVelocity isn't

[mild furnace]

I also have this project on my laptop that doesnt have vsc installed, and the editor has no issues

[rich adder]

lmao exactly

[mild furnace]

Might do a clean reinstall of vscode

[rich adder]

ohh thats strange.. did you add any extra extensions that would cause such a thing

[mild furnace]

Nah but i've noticed it has been gradually adding extensions on its own

Intellisense is different, autocomplete has changed, its annoying

All I want is the C# tools to see references to everything

[rich adder]

really ?
my autocomplete (intellicode) hasnt been working for a while.. just intellisense

maybe its the new c# update? now Im scared to update it lol

[mild furnace]

Yeah it keeps suggesting things based on patterns instead of if they exist, methods, objects, etc

[rich adder]

ohh...hmm I would check your extensions, doesn't sounds standard

[mild furnace]

gonna clean reinstall yeah

[rich adder]

weird...I have intellicode but seriously it worked like once I think half a year ago.. it havent wokred since..

[glacial berry]

Can someone please tell me how to make a slide mechanic using unity's visual scripting

[polar acorn]

Don't crosspost

[glacial berry]

mb

[silver fern]

#1390346878394040320 probably?

[glacial berry]

i did

[glacial berry]

nobody gives darn about visual scripting though

[silver fern]

try code scripting

[polar acorn]

That's the trap of visual scripting. It seems easier, but when you hit a wall, anyone with the skills to actually help are just using real code

[rich adder]

mostly designers

[glacial berry]

my monkey brain can't learn or just keep info that i learn to use it

[rich adder]

you learned how to write words / english

its the same exact thing

[silver fern]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[silver fern]

try this

[polar acorn]

All the hard parts of programming are still there in Visual Scripting. If you can use that, you can learn code

The syntax isn't the hard part

[rich adder]

once you learn the syntax, its just like writing a pargraph / sentence

[rocky canyon]

IDE will basically be ur spell-checker in real-time

just need to know how to structure the words

[rich adder]

instead of a bunch of arrows going all over the place.. the code has benefit of hiding your spaghetti visualy at least xD

[rocky canyon]

virtual spaghetti

[rich adder]

ma spaget!

[silver fern]

mom's spaghetti

[cunning rapids]

There must be a better implementation for slowing down the player when he charges up a weapon (in this case, a sniper-like weapon). Please help

PlayerMovement has a few blocks of code responsible for that

This is in the Update method (weapons is a list of all the weapon game objects):
https://pastebin.com/G4XN75d0
Those are the methods in the PlayerMovement script:
https://pastebin.com/ec4Lku4e
And this is the Sniper script:
https://pastebin.com/GPtknJQG

[rich adder]

code is heavy.. moms spaghetti

[glacial berry]

my brain sees code and thinks nah it's too complicated

[rich adder]

whats calling SlowDown

[rocky canyon]

its pretty simple
u use a speed variable for ur movement

u adjust that speed variable depending on which weapon is equipt before using it int he movement

speedVariable = 10 if no weapon;
speedVariable = 5 if big weapon;
Move(direction * speedVariable);

[cunning rapids]

Whatever weapon you're holding doesn't change your speed. What matters is the state (is charging up, is not, etc)

[rocky canyon]

oh.. well same thing can apply to that too

[rich adder]

appearances can be deceiving...believe me...I used Game Maker for a long time because code "scared me" but I jumped into unity and learned c# ... it was not that hard lol

[rocky canyon]

if in this state speed = this;

if in that state speed = that;

[warm tree]

Is there a way to reduce a boxcollider2D from the top instead of it being reduced from both below and the top? I'm asking that because when I crouch, my character doesn't go from IdleState to CrouchState for example, but from IdleState to AircrouchState to CrouchState, since it's briefly in the air (because of the raycasts that detects the ground) before the offset takes effect.

[glacial berry]

so where should i start

[rocky canyon]

Move(direction * speed);

[rocky canyon]

little trick.. use the rect-tool

[rich adder]

basic c# stuff you know..syntax, writing variables etc..
once you start getting those then worry about Unitys API stuff like components and Monobehaviors

[rich adder]

its a giant puzzle you dont slap all the pieces at once and expect a picture.. You build it piece by piece

[glacial berry]

also here's how far i got with v.s

[rocky canyon]

that may not work for 2D tho...

[rich adder]

dont do colliders already have their own gizmos?

[rocky canyon]

just in case u can click the Edit button in the inspector and do the same ^

[rocky canyon]

☝️ yeap mb

[silver fern]

try this maybe https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer

[rocky canyon]

u can also do it manually by hand in the Size and Center/Pivot slots in the inspector

[glacial berry]

so where do i start like what website to learn from

[rich adder]

do a bit of both.. microsoft site + unity learn

unity learn kinda expects you to know a bit of basic c# last time I checked maybe they changed it?

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw

[silver fern]

the one I linked starts from 0 knowledge it says

[rich adder]

there is also
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/csharp-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners/

[rocky canyon]

i did crash course like this ^ to understand the basics... and then i just jumped off the deep end

[rich adder]

for Unity

for example it gives you this

but doesnt explain about how to structure code, variables , ddata types etc

[glacial berry]

something just like this is complicated for me

[rocky canyon]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float horizontalInput; // Stores input from left/right (A-D or Arrow Keys)

    void Update()
    {
        // Capture horizontal axis input every frame
        horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    }
}```

[rich adder]

because there are multiple pieces, but if you break it down (knowing the syntax)
it looks less intimidating

[silver fern]

there's also https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/foundational-c-sharp-with-microsoft/

[rocky canyon]

it doesn't make sense until u start trying to work with it urself..

[glacial berry]

i don't even know what you just typed

[rocky canyon]

u can look at it all day and it doesn't do u any good until u start trying to do it urself

[polar acorn]

Okay, but, like, why?

You already know the concepts of functions and variables from visual scripting

This is just that

Code isn't magic, each word means something

[glacial berry]

ik variables but not functions is that like nodes?

[rich adder]

its literally
psuedo code then turned into real code

[rocky canyon]

PlayerController.cs is the script <- goes on a gameObject
public float horizontalInput <- is just a variable of type (Float) that stores a value..
Update() <- a built-in unity function that runs once every frame
soo every frame
the code sets horizontalInput to whatever ur computer is grabbing from the Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") which is just ur W/S and Up and Down arrows (traditionally)

[rich adder]

again from what i linked
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/csharp-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners/defining-and-calling-methods

[polar acorn]

You already know the concepts behind the words. If a French person points at a grapefruit and says "Pamplemousse", you can discern that what they've just said is the word that means "Grapefruit"

[polar acorn]

Surely Visual Scripting has some concept of "Update"

How do you get something to run every frame in Visual Scripting

[rocky canyon]

functions are just a set or block of instructions

has a name like MyFunction()

[glacial berry]

on update event

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/event-functions.html
In Code, you can specify those functions and put stuff in them. Unity runs those functions on every script that has them in the scene

[polar acorn]

So, you know how to set a variable, and you know how to make something run in Update. That's literally all this block of code is doing.

[rocky canyon]

good to start small like that..

[rich adder]

and importantly, in a couple lines instead of a bunch of blocks and arrows going all over the place

[rocky canyon]

maybe make two numbers add up and display itself in the console 💪

[rich adder]

the basic c# projects, calculator is always a good start to get the basics

[naive pawn]

holy shit i don't know any of you

the blue is so unfamiliar

[rocky canyon]

float a = 1;
float b = 2;
float result;

void Start() // <-- another Unity function runs when the game Starts
{
      MyAddFunction(); // <-- call the function below
}
void MyAddFunction()
{
       result = a + b;
       Debug.log(result); // <-- prints it to the console window
}```

[glacial berry]

no?

[rich adder]

seriously I miss the purple already 🙁

[rocky canyon]

StrangerDanger!

[rich adder]

wasnt like Unity employee badge this blue?

[silver fern]

why is it blue now anyway

[rocky canyon]

ya but they upgraded to Gradients 😉

[naive pawn]

i haven't been around long enough to know

shit i derailed the convo

[rocky canyon]

they changed the color of the Asset Publisher role

thats all

[silver fern]

damn

[polar acorn]

Why no?

[rich adder]

Add(double a, double b) 😉

[rocky canyon]

edgy

[rich adder]

a float based calculator scares me

[rocky canyon]

he'll swap it for int im sure of it

[rich adder]

aww shit..division will break it 🙁

[rocky canyon]

part of the learning process 💪

[rich adder]

fr..why is 3/2 = 1 🙁

[glacial berry]

how would i come to the conclusion of them saying grapefruit? like if a Japanese person came up to a car and said これを見たらあなたはバカだ i woundn't think they are saying これを見たらあなたはバカだ

[rocky canyon]

ur procrastinating already

[rich adder]

well the whole "points at a grapefruit " you can deduce it visually at least

[glacial berry]

indeed i am

[polar acorn]

You know if you are utterly incapable of discerning meaning from context you probably shouldn't do game development

[rocky canyon]

points at orange
"look its orange" 🟠

2 factoids 1 statement

[unique sigil]

Hello everyone! I'm having some trouble working with the Addressables package, I'm running VRChat Creator Companion with VRChat SDK 3.7.6.

These are the errors I'm getting:

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.scriptablebuildpipeline@1.21.23\Editor\Tasks\CalculateAssetDependencyData.cs(126,30): error CS0117: 'ExtensionMethods' does not contain a definition for 'ExtractCommonCacheData'

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.scriptablebuildpipeline@1.21.23\Editor\Tasks\CalculateSceneDependencyData.cs(89,30): error CS0117: 'ExtensionMethods' does not contain a definition for 'ExtractCommonCacheData'

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.scriptablebuildpipeline@1.21.23\Editor\Tasks\CalculateCustomDependencyData.cs(91,30): error CS0117: 'ExtensionMethods' does not contain a definition for 'ExtractCommonCacheData'

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.scriptablebuildpipeline@1.21.23\Editor\Tasks\CalculateSceneDependencyData.cs(157,82): error CS0117: 'ExtensionMethods' does not contain a definition for 'FilterReferencedObjectIDs'

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.scriptablebuildpipeline@1.21.23\Editor\Tasks\CalculateSceneDependencyData.cs(198,67): error CS0117: 'ExtensionMethods' does not contain a definition for 'FilterReferencedObjectIDs'

Do you guys know anything I could do in order to fix it?

[rich adder]

!vrchat

[radiant void]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[rocky canyon]

you could try the ole
Shutdown Unity
Delete the Library folder
Re-open Unity

[glacial berry]

im going to actually try to learn this and will get back to yall when i Inevitably quit or when i need some motivational words

[grand snow]

The funny thing is in Japanese context is very important in speech 😅

[unique sigil]

Welp I guess that I'll go there, but I came in here since Addressables is not a package used for making VRChat avatars

Thanks for the info tho o/

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

take your time, and dont rage at yourself if you're not picking it up right away, the initial burn is much quicker but it rewards you later to that feeling of " wow was it always this easy ..wtf"

[rocky canyon]

best we got.. unless its something specific to the VR packages and stuff

which VRChat would know more about

[rocky canyon]

ahh, the ole' im a dumbass moment

[unique sigil]

Yup it must be it since they removed these calls in newer SBP

You guys have a great day alright? :)

[rich adder]

seriously in game maker I did everything with drag and drop because I thought GML(game maker language) was too hard...then I learn something (arguably) harder and suddenly I felt so silly..lol

[mild furnace]

Alright did a fresh install and it has only these extensions.
Still getting weird auto-generated globalusings files

[rocky canyon]

i just cringe at complete drag and drop work-flows

should script u something that tells u the "Distance" in miles/km that ur mouse travels to do a specific project

[rich adder]

it was basically components / nodes like scratch you can attach to "gameobjects"

you just typed in numbers, timers and all that were just premade "components"

I started as artist mainly, code was very intimidating at the time

[rocky canyon]

did it come with the puzzle piece tabs to keep u from dragging things that dont belong?

[rich adder]

sadly no and had to learn the hard way haha

[rocky canyon]

fun fact.. the outward bits of a puzzle piece are called "tabs" sometimes called knobs
and the inward bits of a puzzle piece are called "blanks" sometimes called holes

i love trying to find fun words and descriptors to use in my scripts, im on TX -> RX system right now..
but Tabs -> Blanks could work..

[rich adder]

basically I felt familiar with Game Maker because I learned on Klik & Play ❤️

[rocky canyon]

Game Maker is the paid asset/plugin for Unity right?

Bolt/ VS etc

[rich adder]

noo Game Maker was a game engine

[rocky canyon]

ohh

im confusing it with Playmaker i guess

[rich adder]

well still is but now its more "modern"

[rocky canyon]

ohh yea!! its got that whole WinForms feeling

like powerpoint for game-dev 😄

[rich adder]

ops it was small

[glacial berry]

first to three in process of elimination reg scripting won

[rocky canyon]

yup, if thats how u make decisions.. Visual scripting is probably best

[glacial berry]

its process of elimination

[rich adder]

regardless the concepts are pretty much the same

components too..A Rigidbody is a rigibody no matter if Visual or Code

[rocky canyon]

Best out of three
Mine says u should keep visually scripting as well

using UnityEngine;

public class DecisionMaker : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string Option1;
    public string Option2;

    [Header("Decision")]
    public string Decision;

    [ContextMenu("Make Decision")]
    void MakeDecision()
    {
        if(Random.Range(0,2) == 0)
        {
            Decision = Option1;
        }
        else
        {
            Decision = Option2;
        }
    }
}

[sour fulcrum]

The biggest Unity game of the year so far is heavily reliant on visual scripting, it has it’s place

[rocky canyon]

except my version i can create artificial biases 😈

[rich adder]

bool shouldIDoVisualScripting = Random.value >= 0.5f

or put the odds in the favor of code bool shouldIDoVisualScripting = Random.value < 0.2f

[rocky canyon]

    public float Bias = 0.5f;

        if(Random.value < Bias)
        { ...

[swift elbow]

which one?

[sour fulcrum]

Silksong

[swift elbow]

oh i had no idea that was even made with unity

[sour fulcrum]

😛

Silksong and Hk use a ton of Playmaker for enemy ai and general level design logic afaik

[rich adder]

huh..where is that mentioned?

[sour fulcrum]

i be poking at places

But theyve talked about playmaker use in hk in the past

[rich adder]

naughty naughty 😆

[cosmic quail]

people think the only unity games are the bad ones with "made with unity" at the start 😔

[rich adder]

mostly the idiots who think every game is made with like unreal

[mild furnace]

Okay every time I try to open vscode through a specific file it generates all this stuff, in this case, i opened Billboard.cs
Its definitely the c# extension doing it because it says "restoring Billboard.cs" in bottom right

Something is also causing vscode to lag everything else out, trying to disable ai features

[rich adder]

this is a .net project not unity tho?

[mild furnace]

This is the same project ive been working on since 2021 with no changes

[rich adder]

ohh.. why is there a .net 10 core folder?

[mild furnace]

No idea, it appears after the corner dialogue says "restoring <filename>" when extensions start up

fresh install, only these 4

[rich adder]

weird.. could it be your .csproj /sln in your project are messed up or something ?

[mild furnace]

maybe

[rich adder]

have you tried other projects / blank ones? is it just this?

[mild furnace]

I'm not using any special dependencies, just this

[rich adder]

weird..no idea what those folders are .. mine just shows /Assets and the Solution Explorer

[mild furnace]

yeah it generates inside of whatever folder my script is

[rich adder]

weird..

you tried another project?

[mild furnace]

nah gonna do that now

I hate when updates break things

[naive pawn]

(there's a word for it btw, "regression")

[mild furnace]

Its happening in other projects too :/

Still happening, lags the hell out of my pc

[rich adder]

well shit...maybe clean install VSC? I have no idea what it could be

[mild furnace]

Yeah thats what I did,
this only happens after installing latest extensions, folllowed these instructions https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity

[rich adder]

which version ? I'm on 1.1.3

says latest release is actually August 22

[mild furnace]

taking a look at extension settings

[rich adder]

hmmm I guess thats when you last updated it, but update came out in august

[mild furnace]

Had no issues last week

[rich adder]

so rollback to 1.1.2 ?

[rocky canyon]

whoa im behind

[mild furnace]

What are you on?

[rocky canyon]

umm okay

it says im on 1.1.04

[rich adder]

thats the Unity extension not VSC version btw

[rocky canyon]

ohh thats what u mentioning

[rich adder]

Im trusting that OP says updating the Unity extension started problems lol

[rocky canyon]

yea im good

[mild furnace]

Haha yeah, made no progress today due to this

[rich adder]

yeah thats the latest

[rocky canyon]

i did have a never-ending loading bar yesterday

made my entire pc laggy... but a restart fixed it

[rich adder]

I uninstall as soon as any traces of Github Pilot are mentioned

[rocky canyon]

ohh it was Intellisense

where it says "Projects" bar was going insane yesterday

[rich adder]

yeah intellisense gotten a bit slower lately

I think they added something that caused a slower startup...

reminds me VS days

[rocky canyon]

lol

i tend to try to keep it open all the time

[rich adder]

yeah once it gets going is non issue. I usually got 4 different Unity / C# projects open

[mild furnace]

What do your external tools settings look like?

I unchecked embedded and local packages to see if that would fix, no change

[rich adder]

ahhh

i always have these two

[rich adder]

did you delete the old csproj and .sln and try hit Regen?

[mild furnace]

trying now

[rich adder]

one time i had to do that when I renamed my project / folder

[mild furnace]

The project did change names earlier this year

[rich adder]

even when project was a Visual Studio project it was all weird..so I just deleted and refreshed

[rich adder]

worth a shot..there could be lingering sln/csproj from old name causing ambiguity or something

[cunning rapids]

Took me a while, is this a good implementation?

in Update in PlayerMovement

            var weapon = activeWeapon.currentWeapon;
            if (weapon != null && weapon.releasedButton && weapon.isCharging)
            { 
                SlowDown(0.3f);
            }

activeWeapon is referencing the weapon switch script

public SwitchWeapons activeWeapon;

currentWeapon is a property in the weapon switching script

    public Sniper currentWeapon
    {
        get
        {
            if (weapons == null || weapons.Count == 0) return null;
            var weapon = weapons[selectedWeapon];
            return weapon != null ? weapon.GetComponent<Sniper>() : null;
        }
    }

It still feels like spaghetti

Although it's a thousand times cleaner too

[rich adder]

there could be some possible issues

selectedWeapon index must be accurate .
repeated GetComponent calls when you could just cache it

[cunning rapids]

How to implement memoization in here?

It's a property

Not all objects hold the Sniper component

[rich adder]

maybe only do it if the index changed from last time

also not sure I would put any movement control in a weapons / weapon switching script

doesnt scale well. I would use an event and listen for those in a separate script that controls the player move speeds

weapon should not care about the player, what if you want to add a weapon to other entities? or want to only affect specific movement (player has a buff that removes slowdown for charge etc..)

[mild furnace]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/bin-and-obj-folder-auto-generated-everytime-new-file-is-created-in-vs-code/1683504/3

Problem solved

[rich adder]

[mild furnace]

rips off beginner-programmer disguise and dives into pile of empty monster cans

[rich adder]

ah so it was C# Devkit not unitys..interesting..

[mild furnace]

Its 2:41pm, I can now get started for the day

[random lodge]

On what I was talking about earlier in #unity-talk I've seen these examples all over the Internet that don't appear to work anymore (maybe Unity changed over the years and it's no longer possible). They claim you can call a method in another gameobject this way.

[polar acorn]

...you can

that still works fine

That's completely allowed

You were specifically asking for solutions that didn't involve dragging in references

[random lodge]

They are saying in these examples that it doesn't.

[polar acorn]

That what doesn't

[random lodge]

That you only need this code and nothing else is involved

[polar acorn]

That was never the case

[grand snow]

thats a big fat lie wtf 😐

[polar acorn]

At any point in Unity's history

You would have needed to drag an object into the inspector to do this in literal Unity 1.0

You have to tell it which ScriptB you want to call DoSomething() on

[rich adder]

maybe some type of reflection or Broadcast Message ?

Animation event is a wierd one, if you don't select the same animation from specific animator it doesn't let you use a dropdown and you have type a string for method

[random lodge]

What would cause a type mismatch when you attempt to drag another gameobject that has the script attached using that example above?

[rich adder]

putting a scene component in a prefab

[random lodge]

Does the object you drag into that field have to be a prefab?

[rich adder]

you can have prefabs or not in scene component, not opposite

they are assets and can only contain other assets

[winged ridge]

Are you using scriptable objects by any chance?

[random lodge]

I just have an object with a sprite sitting off screen to attach things to (currently "ScoreHandler" script). And tried to drag that over.

[slender nymph]

prefabs cannot reference objects in the scene because objects in the scene only exist while the scene is loaded but prefabs basically always exist. you can't have quantum references

so prefabs can only reference things in themselves or other assets. scene objects can reference anything in the scene as well as assets

if you need something to already have a reference to a scene object when it is instantiated from a prefab then you'd pass the reference when the object is instantiated
https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[random lodge]

When I decided to create scripts that wouldn't actually be "seen" (on an object) I just placed a sprite off screen to attach scripts to so I can use the scripts

[polar acorn]

If it's never going to be seen why does it have a sprite

[slender nymph]

you do know that a component can be on a gameobject that doesn't have a renderer, right?

[polar acorn]

you can just put components on objects

they don't have to have any sort of visuals

[random lodge]

It's just kind of a visual reference to what that object is used for (currently a folder)

[rich adder]

hell if you really want visuals put the included icon, at least it lets you put proper visual and not something that then you have to hide offscreen

thats why these exist

[random lodge]

Wasn't sure how else to use the scripts because they didn't need to be on anything in-game that was spawned or might get destroyed

[polar acorn]

Just put them on an empty object

[rich adder]

^ if its a monobehaviour then its a component and needs to be on a gameobject to run.

[winged ridge]

A game object consists of a transform at minimum, digiholic is correct, an empty game object is great for manager type scripts

[dense goblet]

quick question, in the junior programmer course, this script is brung up.

" Instantiate(obstaclePrefab, spawnPosition, obstaclePrefab.transform.rotation);"
so can I use this same idea to get the same rotation, and position as the original prefab?

[rich adder]

yes you can use the original prefabs transform values

[winged ridge]

Quaternion.identity is also an option

[slender nymph]

and to add on to this, if it doesn't need to be a component (i.e doesn't need Update messages) then it could just be a scriptable object instead. or even a poco constructed by some other monobehaviour

[polar acorn]

If you want to use the values from the prefab, simply don't include them in the function

if they're not provided, it will use the prefab's values

[dense goblet]

Im assuming Quaternion is the prefab in question?

[dense goblet]

tyty

[rich adder]

Quaternion.identity just means no rotation

[winged ridge]

Quaternion is a type of rotation calculation, but it takes on the base rotation of your prefab

[dense goblet]

Oh thanks for telling me thats sick

[polar acorn]

Quaternion is the type that unity uses to store orientations. It's the type that transform.rotation returns

[slender nymph]

and before you try it, don't confuse the axes of a Quaternion with euler angles (angles in degrees) because they aren't and should not be used that way. you can however construct a Quaternion out of euler angles using Quaternion.Euler

[rich adder]

^^ almost always work with Eulers for your sanity

if you want to know how quaternions work.. you're gonna have an easier time learning how to become a surgeon and do open heart surgery

[dense goblet]

honestly, before I try it I'll have to remember how to spell it ;-;

[slender nymph]

good thing you have your IDE configured so that you get intellisense and autocomplete, right?

[rich adder]

ah yes apparently intellisense is case sensitive and always puts the Unity.Math ones first

[slender nymph]

i mean, why wouldn't the IDE assume you are trying to use Mathematics.quaternion if you start typing with a lowercase letter? That's literally the more accurate suggestion based on what was typed

[rich adder]

oh yeah for sure its just something to be aware I guess, but they both work interchangeably anyway right

[slender nymph]

they do cast to and from each other, but the methods work differently

for example quaternion.Euler expects radians, but Quaternion.Euler expects degrees

[winged ridge]

I was working through and rewriting all those methods but put on hold trying to work out how to calculate root values of numbers

[rich adder]

ohh shit..radians..my old mistress

[rich adder]

Math / Mathf class?

aka "do this complex ass math for me "

[winged ridge]

Yeah, wanted to make a giant unified one that also included engineering and physics calculations as well as the entire Math and Mathf methods

The engineering aspect made me laugh.. there were 3 different methods that boil down to a = b / c

[rich adder]

all I know was the spline class made it akward working with cause its all Unity.Math shit

I guess it makes sense in a way since splines do have lots of math forumals

[winged ridge]

I decided to create a vector4 which included the variable time

[rich adder]

had the "pleasure" of working with float3s instead :p

mathematics library is like "vector who?"

[winged ridge]

I have no issues rewriting their entire maths library to do what I want, just sad they pushed us away from HLSL scripting

[rich adder]

wait don't the new shaders still use HLSL ? or am I confusing it with something else

[winged ridge]

So they are pushing more towards using Script graph, and writing HDRP and URP shaders became more of a hassle as there seems to be less instructions available. Their goto shader guru (great guy, Chris) mainly focuses on shader graph too

[random lodge]

Alright so I have a script "ScoreHandler". I attach that script to an object in the heirarchy which is placed in the scene off the edge of the camera. On another object there is a script "LifeHandler" and I write "Public ScoreHandler scoreHandler" in that script which creates the field. I attempt to attach the other object with ScoreHandler script attached and that gives me the mismatch. Still pretty lost to why.

[rugged beacon]

i trying to invoke a ondestroy on a gameobject without a script on it
collider.GetCancellationTokenOnDestroy().Register(() =>
{
Registry.Remove(collider);
});

is this ok?

[slender nymph]

you're doing this on the object in the scene, and not in the default references section of the script asset, right?

[random lodge]

Well, I'm opening a prefab (enemy) and attaching it. Might be why. Not sure.

[rich adder]

oh I thought shadergraph was just a high level graph that still made the code behind hlsl.. i dont know enough about shaders

[slender nymph]

that method does not appear to be one built into unity, so consult the documentation for whatever asset it comes from to see if that is acceptable

[polar acorn]

We have literally said multiple times that prefabs cannot reference objects in the scene. Your previous question literally said they were both in the scene

[slender nymph]

remember that whole conversation about how prefabs cannot reference scene objects?

[rich adder]

whats "Registry.Remove"

[winged ridge]

You can access the code, but I want to "From scratch" it

[polar acorn]

Prefabs cannot reference objects in the scene

[random lodge]

Yea I was confused about that

[rich adder]

ohhhhh I see..

[polar acorn]

What's the confusion?
"Is this object a prefab?" Yes -> "This object cannot reference an object in the scene"

[rich adder]

its literally a text file in your assets folder, it has no idea about scene components

[rugged beacon]

its a static dictionary in a static class
dont ahve to worry about it

[rugged beacon]

it called to the destroycancelToken live on the behaviour

[random lodge]

Hmm, not sure how else to "log kills" then

[slender nymph]

hey remember how i provided a link that explains how you can pass a reference to an object when it is spawned from a prefab? perhaps give that a read

or look into events

[slender nymph]

you should rethink using whatever translation service spat that sentence out

[rugged beacon]

i want to avoid attach script on that object
i can reference to it but i do object.Ondestroy() from outisde ?

ehhh i think this will do

[slender nymph]

can you not just have whatever destroys the object remove it from the static dictionary?

[sour fulcrum]

When editing Prefab assets you can only reference things that exist in the context/“scope” of that prefab asset. Instances of this prefab can reference other things in scene or do stuff via code.

Imagine you are creating a microwave that will be sold at stores. The power cord can reference the body of the microwave but you obviously can’t know what the power cord is going to be plugged into, but when someone buys your microwave and plugs it into their kitchen wall they obviously can connect the two

[rugged beacon]

should have post full context i suppose, im trying to make clickable object

public static class ObjectClickRegistry
{
    public static Dictionary<Collider2D, Action> Registry { get; private set; } = new();

    public static void Register(Collider2D collider, Action action)
    {
        Registry[collider] = action;

        collider.GetCancellationTokenOnDestroy().Register(() =>
        {
            Registry.Remove(collider);
        });
    }

    public static void Unregister(Collider2D collider)
    {
        Registry.Remove(collider);
    }
}

[rich adder]

if the object is clickable why doesnt it just have a component on it?

[rugged beacon]

yea a collider

[rich adder]

myb I mean like your own component

[sour fulcrum]

What’s in charge of providing that action?

[rich adder]

seems like 1 script would avoid having to do the entire song and dance around

[random lodge]

So basically if I dragged that prefab into the scene its instance would allow it, but not any prefab that isn't instantiated yet

[rich adder]

yes because its an Instance / gameobject not just a blueprint (prefab)

[slender nymph]

reread this series of messages: #💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

If you dragged the prefab into the scene, you would be able to set the variable on that scene object. The prefab would still not have the value set

[random lodge]

Yea I got it it was confusing to me at first

[rich adder]

if you try to apply scene references on scene instance to the original prefab it wont let you

[sour fulcrum]

If you think of prefabs as kinda boxed appliances like my example comparison the usage of them should start to click when using them

[random lodge]

gotcha thanks

[sour fulcrum]

Btw nitpicking but no null checking here so there’s some nre potential

[rich adder]

A prefab can have other assets in it just fine, Sounds, Other Prefabs, Sprites etc

[rugged beacon]

alr but this is fine right ?

[sour fulcrum]

Not saying yes or no to that, nav’s questions/thoughts seem solid, just wanted to point that out

[rugged beacon]

i just trying to seperate out the logic

but ijust realize that this can be hard to debug later, with these action

[rich adder]

the logic from what? what problem do you want to solve where is necessary to not keep it simple with a Method / Event called in OnDestroy of the object you want

[rugged beacon]

i was thinking if i have to make everry object a clickable object, the logic now tied to that script and not the one relate. kinda thing

[rich adder]

I mean you can still approach it where it just acts as child invoker then parent / manager does whatever

[rich adder]

also it was never answered?
#💻┃code-beginner message
the thing that destroys it already has that reference why doesn't it just tell "Hey Manager I Destroyed this, remove it from Collection"

[rugged beacon]

rn if the obj is destroy, the dictionary still hold something there like a null or smt idk right? it will keep growing non stop
but im scraping this out rn cause i want to debug easier

[rich adder]

correct Destroying an object in any collection does not remove it

[rugged beacon]

yea so i intent to remove on destroy

[rich adder]

yes we understand that part, what seems unclear is why you cannot tell whats destroying to tell the manager of them to remove it from collection

like

Destroy(clickableThing.gameObject)
OnClickableDestroy?.Invoke(clickablething)```
// on manager
```cs
void OnClickableDestroyed(Clickable clickable)
myDict.Remove(clickable)```

[rugged beacon]

what if the destroy not through that Destroy()? like changing scene, go back and forth kinda thing

[rich adder]

like which way though, Destroy always gets called between scene changes
(unless its DDOL ofc)

[rugged beacon]

yea but rn have to called
Destroy(...) right ?

[rich adder]

so put the event in OnDestroy

and let event live on the Clickable component

[rugged beacon]

put it on the script on the object ?

[rich adder]

for scene changes Destroy unless you do it in like a scene switch method

[slender nymph]

we really don't have the full context for what all you are doing here so it's impossible to give the best suggestion. like why is this dictionary static in the first place

[rich adder]

^ also true.. goes back to the question, what are you trying to solve here exactly.. whats the end goal here

[rugged beacon]

click object

[slender nymph]

that is not an answer to the question

[rich adder]

thats pretty vague though..

that part we know, its gonna be a clickable object..

whats the setup, what is it for (i swear if you say clicable ima throw a brick at you), whats destroying it, we don't know these things as we are not in your head or git collab lol

[rugged beacon]

idk how to explain but it does quite a few
maybe can be very long and just go through the entire project fr
i scraping this out rn tho. so i think we can rest rn

[earnest wind]

hey, is the use of this safe?

[RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod(RuntimeInitializeLoadType.SubsystemRegistration)]

it just makes the function work when scene loads

but it kinda looks scary lol

[rich adder]

You cannot solve a problem which yourself cannot explain so you need to rethink the setup probably

[rugged beacon]

alr bet

[rich adder]

what is scary lol

[slender nymph]

if you just want it to run before the scene loads you don't need to use the SubsystemRegistration you can use BeforeSceneLoad. SubsystemRegistration might be too early for whatever it is you are doing

[earnest wind]

ah just reseting some variables

yeah thanks

after scene load is fine too

[slender nymph]

give this a read to see when you might want your method to run
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/RuntimeInitializeLoadType.html
basically from bottom to top is the order they happen in

[earnest wind]

thanks

[earnest wind]

is there any way to do it after Start?

[slender nymph]

at that point why not just call a method from Start?

[earnest wind]

it is static so if it will do it more than once it wont work

[slender nymph]

call the method from one object in Start?

[earnest wind]

i think im just complicating things

[sour fulcrum]

Also worth noting some specifics about this aren’t documented (iirc if you load scenes in a function using this attribute functions using that attribute will also be fired for that additional scene)

[earnest wind]

wait a second, i need to remake this whole thing, its not worth it

[slender nymph]

why do you need to reset variables after Start anyway? shouldn't whatever objects using those variables be able to initialize them theirself?

[rich adder]

this is almost always the case 😆

[earnest wind]

im trying to optimise some scripts

but i dont want to make it with a helper script

[slender nymph]

that's incredibly vague

[earnest wind]

so that the gameobjects wont need to search one another for the player

so that only one script from all of the scripts will be chosen to search, and then will give to each

[slender nymph]

sounds like you want an event instead

[earnest wind]

and the others will just wait until they are given