💻┃code-beginner

[hidden fossil]

cuz its not suppose to spam the console with that debug log

[winged ridge]

On principle nothing wrong with it. The connection to exit isn't required you could reroute them back to the idle. But that's the animator component not the State Machine

[hidden fossil]

well

i dont what to do rn

wait

could it be because of this?

[hardy wing]

im also not sure if this should look like this

[winged ridge]

Editor issue, just restart the editor

[fallen cosmos]

Which version of Unity are you on?

6000.2.5f1?

[hardy wing]

yas

[winged ridge]

That second issue is caused by the first set of red errors, if you look it's a GUI issue where it specifies it can't draw text

[fallen cosmos]

This also started to happen to me after I updated yesterday from the previous "Supported" one

So I am not alone I guess

[hardy wing]

will do

[winged ridge]

I'm still only using 6000.1.2f1

[hardy wing]

be glad

[winged ridge]

I have no reason to go further, I don't need UnityAI

[fallen cosmos]

This issue is persistent even with restarts btw, just checked

[hidden fossil]

im still stuck

its still not acckig

[hardy wing]

yeah i noticed!!

fun times

[winged ridge]

Okay, hadd to check, contact the Unity support team with some screenshots, its a issue where it wont draw the GUI properly, likely something to do with scripts having an issue loading and or refreshing

[hardy wing]

[hidden fossil]

can someone plz help me the skeleton still wont attack

[winged ridge]

Ignoring the awful purple overlay... the issue states there is a method called GetName being called twice and a dictionary having a duplicate Key, it may well be a double script...

[winged ridge]

You have no attack logic in your attack state, I told you, it goes straight to idle

[hidden fossil]

oh did i skip a part of the tutorial

i didnt see it put in attack logic

brb

[winged ridge]

you have to actively tell it "okay now you go to attack state, the state does xyz" etc

[hardy wing]

do you use UI Toolkit?

[fallen cosmos]

Yes

[hardy wing]

if so, detach your UI document, start game, attach UI document, start game again

solved it for me

[hardy wing]

the purple overlay is intentionally awful

so i always know when i'm in play mode

and dont try to do shit in editor while i'm in play mode

[fallen cosmos]

I got >30 UI states and each of them got their own separate UI document

[hardy wing]

i wouldnt wanna be you rn

[winged ridge]

I figured, just hard to read lol
I have mine identical in both Editor and Play and 9/10 i often rewrite scripts forgetting im in play

[hardy wing]

you could maybe make a scriptableobject that configures your uidocument though

[winged ridge]

you can select them all and remove them all at same time

[hardy wing]

or possibly make a preset

[fallen cosmos]

They are all prefabbed into separate GOs

[winged ridge]

Good luck

[hardy wing]

like here

[hardy wing]

cant you prefab your entire UI doc

[winged ridge]

Generally what I do is
1 prefab then I child prefab and just change the master
So example I have
Master_Item prefab
then for each item I would do
Child_Item_Fish etc

[fallen cosmos]

I dont want to get into the details, but this was done to support mod overriding from asset bundles

[hardy wing]

[fallen cosmos]

This is the reason why I had to go this route

[winged ridge]

Im sure there must be a better way to do it...

[fallen cosmos]

Like submitting a bug report and hoping it will get fixed soon

Thats what I am doing rn

[winged ridge]

yes, lol offload

[hardy wing]

now i'm actually curious how supporting mod overrides from asset bundles works

[fallen cosmos]

Coz as I have mentioned, this started happening with a single incremental update that I did yesterday

[winged ridge]

with >30 UI documents obviously

[fallen cosmos]

From 6000.2.4f1 to 6000.2.5f1

[fallen cosmos]

I remade a virtual filesystem akin to Source engine which allows overriding by same asset paths

This forces me to split UI states into separate filesystem entries (prefabs) for them to be individually overridable by mods that want to do so

[hardy wing]

ah, that somewhat makes sense

thanks for the insight

[fallen cosmos]

If I had a single monolith UI prefab this would make it impossible for 2 mods to change something in the hierarchy of the UI

Since they will be clashing for the same asset to override

[hardy wing]

oh so only 1 mod could override your UI

[winged ridge]

unless you did the leapfrog using temp variables

[fallen cosmos]

In my case - its 1 mod per each part of UI

[hardy wing]

what if the monolith prefab had all the virtual paths?

[fallen cosmos]

One mod can override a console, another settings menu, another main menu, etc

[fallen cosmos]

Pretty much how I am handling this

See that square?

That does not display an entry count

[winged ridge]

without seeing the ccode...I couldnt much help potentially optimise it

[fallen cosmos]

Thats where those errors are comming from

[fallen cosmos]

I wasnt really asking for help, I was just explaining the though process for splitting everything into dedicated prefabs with unique documents per each part

[hardy wing]

glad to see i'm not the only one naming my UI script... UI...

[winged ridge]

talking of optimising, I need to double check some code

[winged ridge]

UIManager for a name?

[hardy wing]

well i just felt a bit uncreative

[fallen cosmos]

Adding Manager sometimes feels overly verbose

[hardy wing]

UI or UIManager doesnt change much

[winged ridge]

Im just thinking less risk of giving a name thats already been used

[hardy wing]

it is what it is

[fallen cosmos]

💀

[hardy wing]

better

[fallen cosmos]

Readding all states back to the list helped, all errors are gone 🥳

[hardy wing]

glad if i can help even though you guys are all doing so much greater or more interesting stuff than me 😄

[vital otter]

what is this and why does this keep appearing on startup?

[winged ridge]

Don't put yourself down, every step is something. Focus on your projects and learning and you'll do great things I'm sure

[hardy wing]

thanks

my biggest problem is not that i don't have the coding skills, more that i do the things i do for the sake of doing it and not with an actual goal in mind

right now i'm porting my bezier curve visualizer from godot so that's a start i guess

[winged ridge]

I have no issues spending time with you going through everything, I started coding about 4 years ago, I bought books, courses, taught myself, and practiced many languages. All while holding down a job, trust me, you have the skills required and the desire, that's what's important

[hardy wing]

well my game dev projects always go like this:

1. enthusiastic in cloning a game i really like
2. get stuck on movement
3. drop
4. repeat in 4 months
   

but this time i have the goal in mind to not overcomplicate things, especially in terms of visuals, and just focus on mechanics, then take care of the rest later

[winged ridge]

I mean, I can throw together a few basic movement scripts for you based on the popular movement methods if you'd like, but in general if you get stuck on one aspect move onto another and circle back

[hardy wing]

that might help in future projects but for now i think i'll just focus on getting movement going and not spending 7000 hours on the """perfect""" movement

[winged ridge]

Jank first, Refinement at the end

• Get Ideas
• Plan out a general concept
• work on simple mechanics
• create test environments
• design better mechanics etc
• design better environments
• bug fixes
  etc

Only times you pause for bug fixing is if it literally blocks you moving forward, if its a "I dont like this but I can move past and circle back" do so

[steep sedge]

hi. any ideas why this Physics.OverlapSphere returns 2 colliders when there's only 1 collider in scene?

[winged ridge]

Floor collider and the collider for the other capsule maybe?

[steep sedge]

they are in different layers, does that cause any problems?

[winged ridge]

if it is recognising "Collider" it will check for any and all colliders, regardless of layer usually

[hardy wing]

uhh i dont think it should look like this

public class LineRendererInitializer : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private Color[] _colors;
    [SerializeField] private float _width;

    private void Awake()
    {
        for (var i = 0; i < _colors.Length; i++)
        {
            var color = _colors[i];
            var child = transform.GetChild(i);
            var lr = child.GetComponent<LineRenderer>();

            var startColor = new GradientColorKey(color, 0.0f);
            var endColor = new GradientColorKey(color, 1.0f);
            var colorKeys = new[] { startColor, endColor };

            lr.colorGradient.colorKeys = colorKeys;
            lr.widthCurve.keys = new[] { new Keyframe(0.0f, _width) };
        }
    }
}

shouldnt this work?

[winged ridge]

Let me check my line renderer

        lineRenderer.material = new Material(Shader.Find("Unlit/Color"));
        lineRenderer.material.color = colour;

I have a material attached based on the standard unlit color material

[steep sedge]

thanks. but the Debug.Log($"Hit {hitCollider.name} with close attack."); says the collider name is "Player" . theres only 1 Player object in the scene which im really confused

[hardy wing]

ah right

i forgor the material

[winged ridge]

Is the script on more than one object?

[hardy wing]

very cool, 6000.2.5f1

[steep sedge]

it is, but i changed the layermask of that on ther objects

[winged ridge]

disable the script on the other object and retest

[steep sedge]

still not right

[winged ridge]

Outside of the method finding 2 colliders
these are the usual suspects:

• Double script being called
• flaw in logic
• Method being called 2 times etc

I assume the sword has a collider attached, the sword that is attached to the player with a collider... Try disabling the sword

[rough grotto]

is there a google document for a 2d game guide where it tells you animation simple code and stuff, if not I want to make one of my own for a school project

[winged ridge]

and a quick circle back to this...You are not doing any layer checks in your code that I can see, you are doing Collider check

[winged ridge]

Best bet look at UnityDocs

[rough grotto]

I want to make one thats just 2d games and simple compnents and code, nothing else

[steep sedge]

wait isnt the third parameter of Physics.OverlapSphere for the layermask?

[winged ridge]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation//Manual/Unity2D.html

[winged ridge]

Theres a few, but for now, disable sword. As far as im aware the layermask in that is an optional variable

[rough grotto]

this is the only thing out here, because I wanna make my own simpler verson for a school project

[hardy wing]

cool

now it happens even when i dont even have an UI document

[winged ridge]

That is the best thing out there for Unity2D as its them themselves. But why dont you have a read, get the idea and do your own for your project

[rough grotto]

Thanks imma do that

[steep sedge]

nope it still returns 2 colliders

[rough grotto]

btw there any legal concerns with making your own document, wont be coppying online but could there be issues

[hardy wing]

@fallen cosmos what version did your stuff work on again?

[winged ridge]

As long as it is your own words, and you are not planning on selling a document and or claiming to be the original source, since its for educational use there shouldnt be any issues

[rough grotto]

Thanks

[hardy wing]

the thing is

not even the width applies

[winged ridge]

But that is a good point ill raise. Anyone who wants to publish anything, few things to remember
If its not your own work/Asset, get written confirmation by the original creator and/or prove without doubt you have attempted on multiple occasions, to contact said person before you go forwards with selling it in your product

[winged ridge]

is the colour fixed at least for now

[hardy wing]

no

its all white

which is the default color

            lr.colorGradient = new Gradient();
            lr.colorGradient.colorKeys = colorKeys;
            
            lr.widthCurve = new AnimationCurve(widthCurve);
            lr.material = _material;

ah

with this it works

[oak gazelle]

Does Destroying a game object that includes a particle system cause this error for some reason

Invalid memory pointer was detected in ThreadsafeLinearAllocator::Deallocate!

[rocky canyon]

just make sure ur colors have alpha

all of these are set to 0 in the Alpha / Transparency slot

u can tell by the Black bar underneath...

[hardy wing]

hello?

apparently cant send my image

ah now

ah right because "uhh" is blacklisted on this server

wanted to send the image with "uhh" as text

yeah found the issue with color

man this 6000.2.5f1 bug is obnoxious

[winged ridge]

welcome to bug fixing, where you solve one and a hundred more pop up in its place

[oak gazelle]

Do I need to stop particles before destroying their parent?

[winged ridge]

if it helps any.. I noticed an issue with my quest system, and thought meh instead of 10 scripts I'll redo it in 4, and got over 20 bugs

[hardy wing]

it's more fighting with engine than fighting with bugs which makes it kinda annoying

[hardy wing]

fuck it, i'll use your solution by setting material color

i dont know why setting colorKeys on a LR doesnt seem to work

[winged ridge]

Foreach loop through the keys, and foreach loop through the colours you want and then take the ones you want and tell each one which colour it is to be

[hardy wing]

well i just set lr.colorKeys which should be fine?

[winged ridge]

Or since it's an array,a nested for loop works too

[edgy sinew]

Guys, would you recommend any 3rd person camera follow-target smoothing techniques?

[winged ridge]

Cinemachine has some built in you can use

[edgy sinew]

I’ve done it with Vector3.Lerp and a curve (distance vs max Lerp)

[edgy sinew]

It does not work for my setup.

[slender nymph]

just use cinemachine

[edgy sinew]

I am using Cinemachine. But it is not configured to use it. And I didn’t like it

I’ve tried Vector2.SmoothDamp (x-z position, y is instant or separately lagged)

[winged ridge]

Remember, camera updates are LateUpdate

[edgy sinew]

Is that necessary if I manually call cam.UpdateStuff()
After the other every frame stuff

I have Cinemachine on manual update too

Is that bad for getting an even frame rate? 😅

[winged ridge]

Highly recommended unless you can change how unity handles the frames per second and order the methods get called

[edgy sinew]

I see. But, I have every Update manually bro yeah

[ripe shard]

cinemachine gives you perfectly smooth camera motion, to get the same level of smoothness you need to grind out many edge cases yourself.

[edgy sinew]

I use the De Occluder but I’m on Hard Look At

[ripe shard]

if you mess with cinemachine internals in the wrong places, you will ofc break that smoothness

[edgy sinew]

So calling .ManualUpdate every frame isn’t essentially what Cinemachine does?

[ripe shard]

you can look at the code to see what it does exactly. the update logic is fairly complicated

[winged ridge]

In effect 1 FPS is 1 frame of action in a second, the second it gets from your computers internal clock. So if it's running at a 60 FPS it is doing 60 frames of an action within a second, so between 1sec and 2sec it will have had to divide 1 by 60 to allocate a frame per. Then send the data back to the program for an update.. mess up your maths in 1 part and it's all gone

[summer wren]

How to do in my game so if a player is wearing a hat, the hair won't show except for coming out of bottom of hat?
Should I draw separately top_hair and bottom_hair sprites and then disable top hair when wearing hat?

[winged ridge]

Sounds best, even better if you have a sprite that is 'part bald' with hair on the bits not covered by a hat so it appears to stick out

[summer wren]

Yeah sprite is bare to begin with. I'll do the top hair and bottom hair thing. Nice

[hardy wing]

isnt it closed source

or is it one of the few cases where you can actually see whats going on

[winged ridge]

You can always look, can't edit if I remember

[ripe shard]

pretty much everything in unity thats not part of the core engine is open source

its all in your /Packages or /PackagesCache folder

cinemachine is fully open source and documented in code.

[hardy wing]

    private void DrawHelperLines(float t)
    {
        var positions = _points.Select(p => p.position).ToList();

        for (int i = 0; i < (_points.Count - 1); i++)
        {
            int n = _points.Count - i;

            var lr = _lineRenderers[i];
            lr.positionCount = n;

            for (int j = 0; j < n - 1; j++)
            {
                DrawLine(j, lr, positions[j], positions[j + 1]);
            }

            for (int j = 0; j < n - 1; j++)
            {
                positions[j] = Lerp(positions[j], positions[j + 1], t);
            }
        }
    }

    private Vector3 LerpBezier(Transform[] points, float t)
    {
        var positions = points.Select(p => p.position).ToList();

        for (int i = 0; i < _points.Count; i++)
        {
            int n = _points.Count - i;

            var lr = _lineRenderers[i];
            lr.positionCount = n;

            for (int j = 0; j < n - 1; j++)
            {
                DrawLine(j, lr, positions[j], positions[j + 1]);
            }

            for (int j = 0; j < n - 1; j++)
            {
                positions[j] = Lerp(positions[j], positions[j + 1], t);
            }
        }

        return positions[0];
    }

How do I get rid off code duplication here ahhhhh 😩

[ripe shard]

make a function

[hardy wing]

extracting what?

[ripe shard]

the bits that are duplicates

[hardy wing]

I've already gotten this far brother

I wouldn't ask if the solution was apparent to me

[ripe shard]

nobody can help you if you can't see the duplication

[polar acorn]

It looks like the only difference is whether you use _points or an array passed in as points, so just get rid of the first one entirely and call LerpBezier(_points, t)

[hardy wing]

why answering then

[hardy wing]

ah i just noticed

the code is wrong

LerpBezier is actually not drawing, just calcing

[winged ridge]

in effect, the entire for loop seems to be a dupe, you can extract that as a method and call it

[hardy wing]

yeah the problem is

it's effectively the same code except in one case i need to call DrawLine a few times

maybe i can re-code it into manipulating the array

and then i repeat the array manipulation

[hardy wing]

    private void StepBezier(Vector3[] positions, int from, int to, float t)
    {
        for (int i = from; i < to - 1; i++)
        {
            positions[i] = Lerp(positions[i], positions[i + 1], t);
        }
    }```
turns out life can be so easy ![OMEGALUL](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/822280725729640450.webp?size=128 "OMEGALUL")

[winged ridge]

code usually works out that way, sometimes theres easier paths than ones we make.. hence why I spend so long trying to find the most efficient

Just something, if you are thinking you may want to do a call to this method from another script, look at making it public (not required if its internal only)

[shell sorrel]

best to just make it work and readable first, no point trying to go for perf till its regnozined as needed

[edgy sinew]

So I discovered the Editor has a checkbox “VSync (Game view only)”

Now it says 60 FPS even if I do Application targetFrameRate = -1
Cinemachine update mode didn’t have an effect. I’m still getting dropped frames in any case.
Maybe it’s a Unity 6.2 thing. I’ll try in Unity 6.0 LTS and report back another time.

I meant like an Editor Game view issue. I’ll try building project too!

[hardy wing]

and deriving the other code from this was also rather easy

    public static Vector3 GetBezieredValue(Vector3[] positions, float t)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < positions.Length; i++)
        {
            StepBezier(positions, 0, positions.Length - i, t);
        }

        return positions[0];
    }

[winged ridge]

Honestly, I can spend a couple months on a mechanic, writing scripts, testing, ensuring it works with the other components I have already etc

[chilly vigil]

why is my unity codeword vector3 not appearing on vs 2019

[winged ridge]

are you using the using statement? Did you capitalize the V

[chilly vigil]

yeah i am but unity is not reconizing it under vs 2019

[cosmic dagger]

I feel like I just did that (though it was on-and-off, primarily at random). I can finally say I've finished today . . .

[winged ridge]

Its okay, im working on audio and getting annoyed that for some reason my value on slider when 0 sets the volume back to normal instead of silent lol

[cosmic dagger]

Ouch, that's definitely not intended. I'd check where it's assigned or track any events/listeners when the value is changed . . .

[slender nymph]

are you using the log formula to calculate the decibels? if so, your slider should bottom out at 0.0001

[winged ridge]

Mathf.Log10("stringHere", value) * 20

the slider bottoms at 0 and then decibles go back to 0 and carries on lol

if it helps any Mixer Group is being used

[teal viper]

You need to configure your ide.
!ide

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[slender nymph]

here is an explanation for why your slider should have a minimum of 0.0001 rather than 0 https://stackoverflow.com/a/68100286

then you can just round the display so the user sees 0 but the math will actually be right

[winged ridge]

The user wont see actual values, but graphical representation, the slider at 0.0001 I shall test against now

yep that was it, thank you folks.

and by visual representation
this is what I meant

[cosmic dagger]

It's usually the log formula . . .

[winged ridge]

it works for now, refinement can come later, I will note that though

[winged ridge]

Made the change, yes that is better, thank you..if i didnt change it the code would have annoyed me

[cursive sinew]

Hi, I haven't coded anything in my project yet, but pressing play will freeze the game for a few seconds every single time.

Even when I stop the play before the freeze happens, the editor does the few second freeze, and this loading pop-up comes up saying something "unity synchronization execute tasks."

How can I figure out what's causing this? I'm assuming it's from an asset I imported but I don't know how to find where because the console doesn't really indicate anything to me that would be an infinite loop or something

[winged ridge]

How many assets did you import at one single time?

[cursive sinew]

Quite a lot 😅 Would the best way be to disable them one at a time to see which is causing it?

[winged ridge]

For now...yes

[cursive sinew]

Gotcha, ty! 😔

[winged ridge]

Generally import assets 1 by 1 ensuring they don't break anything..

[willow iron]

I have two identical statments

        if (!locker && releasekey)
        {
            move.movementEnabled = false;
            transform.position = LockerGameobect.GetComponent<Locker>().enterPoint.position;
            transform.rotation = LockerGameobect.GetComponent<Locker>().enterPoint.rotation;
            locker = true;
        } else if (locker && releasekey)
        {
            move.movementEnabled = true;
            transform.position = LockerGameobect.GetComponent<Locker>().exitPoint.position;
            transform.rotation = LockerGameobect.GetComponent<Locker>().exitPoint.rotation;
            locker = false;
        }

The first if statement works perfectly, teleporting the player to enterpoint and disabling there movement
but the second if statement does not teleport tehm to the exit point. The if statement goes through. i know this because the player movement is unlocked and the locker bool is set to true, but the transform is not changed, they are just dropped where they are

(i may go to sleep and re ask this in the morning but if you have any suggestions they would be appreciated!)

[ivory bobcat]

Try logging some data to see if the second if statement is true:cs Debug.Log($"Locked: {locker} | Release Key: {releasekey}", this);

[orchid harness]

hey everyone total noob to unity here, i was following a guide to making a script for a player char, and unity is not having it but the code at least to me should work am i wrong?

[verbal dome]

You should configure your visual studio so you get error highlighting etc.

!vs

[radiant void]

Visual Studio guide

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

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[verbal dome]

The error is caused by the semicolon at the end of your if-statement

So the compiler thinks it is an empty statement

[orchid harness]

i was reading something on that as well, so how can i go about fixing it? cuz if i remove the semicolon it also does get upset

cuz im assuming changing else to like else if wont do anything since there is no other if statments to look for right?

[verbal dome]

Start with this

[orchid harness]

will do thank you, im sure ill be back in a bit xD

[orchid harness]

alright so i looked into it i found the error with a bit of help since i had a semicolon at the end of line 13 and my small sleepy brain slapped that on the end like a dumdum, but i do appreciate the help and the addition to vs it will definitely help me not make such small mistakes

[hardy wing]

ha, already better i rolled my project back to 6000.2.4f1 until the UI problem gets fixed

[digital stone]

how can i make dynamic collision boxes and destroy them after a point of time , need it for attacks , will overlay the animations later on top of it

[lament halo]

Okay.... My prof didn't approve of 2D animation game, they wanted 3D but I don't think my laptop can handle development like that

I've searched up and saw the term low poly, how does that work?

[midnight plover]

What are you actually struggling with?

[digital stone]

how can i make dynamic collision boxes and destroy them after a point of time , need it for attacks , will overlay th

[lament halo]

And are there videos showing how to make them?

[digital stone]

cant find a tutoriual for that , just did the basics for now

i have

only

done the input system basics for movement and jump

[eternal needle]

This is a coding channel, you can also Google to find topics related to low poly in unity very easily

[midnight plover]

Low poly just means, a mesh has a low poly count resulting in that specific visual style. There are tons of free assets even in the asset store to paly around with in low poly, and what bawsi said. #💻┃unity-talk might be a better place to ask this stuff in the future

[digital stone]

@lament halo this

[midnight plover]

you might want to think about what you need and then google for those topics. Get rid of the habit to find exactly that one tutorial covering exactly that one thing you want to achieve.

[digital stone]

fair enough let me check the docs for hit detection and temporary collision boxes that die after a few frames

how do i access the downloaded documentation

[midnight plover]

you might want to think about, what "temporary collision boxes, that die" covers in terms of mechanics/components. You need a gameobject to be created, it needs to have a collider of some point, oyu have to check the collision being dynamic or static, you need to check on the events that get fired to be able to detect collisions and react to them.

[digital stone]

ok

but how do i access the downloaded documentation lol 0-0

[midnight plover]

Did you download this? https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/OfflineDocumentation.html

[digital stone]

@midnight plover i mean that

[digital stone]

yes 0-0 , from the unity hub applicatiosn

[midnight plover]

Never worked with the offline version. you can locate it when you click in unityhub on installs and three dots and reveal in finder/explorer. There should be some contents/documentation folder. I am not on windows, so dunno

[hardy wing]

3D objects are meshes. Meshes are mostly just vertices that are connected via edges that make up faces. Low Poly basically means less vertices, less edges and less faces. You can look it up and see how it looks. It's basically looks a bit more edgey and simplistic instead of round and detailed.

[verbal dome]

You don't necessarily need a separate gameobject for the hit checks, you can use physics queries such as Physics2D.BoxCast/OverlapBox/CircleCast/CapsuleCast/Raycast etc.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics2D.html

These are not objects - they are just methods you call to check for colliders in a specific area

[digital stone]

Ohh thanks man , I was pretty much

Making my hair fall from the confusion

[hardy wing]

since i couldnt figure out how to make it work with non-UI elements i just detected whatever i click with a regular cam to worldspace raycast

[grand snow]

It should just work. event system + raycaster + matching collider and use of IPointer interfaces

make sure the layer mask was not changed on the physics raycaster

[pallid forum]

quick question, not really about scripting itself.
How do game devs scale game objects in unity 2D??
I try to search and search and it just showing about Ui instead.

[grand snow]

You can alter scale on Transform, did you mean something else?

initial sprite size is based on the pixels per unit value configured for the sprite/spritesheet asset

[pallid forum]

I mean like.. scale with the screen resolution.

[grand snow]

Oh well thats based on the camera orthographic size

the size of gameobjects dont change, just the size of the area the camera shows

[pallid forum]

so I have to adjust the camera's size based on the device's resolution?

[grand snow]

ortho size should be consistent for height always regardless of resolution

width will show/hide stuff. You can use cinemachine to have a camera auto size to fit some objects

[pallid forum]

Alright, thanks. I'll search up about it.

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/get-started.html

[fallen cosmos]

I am currently talking to a unity rep about this

Hopefully this will get fixed

[hardy wing]

what is a unity rep?

representative i suppose?

[fallen cosmos]

ye

I went though with proper filing of this yesterday and now we are trying to narrow down the cause

[hardy wing]

is there a form or something or how can you get in contact with somewhat urgent things?

[fallen cosmos]

I just used this thingy

[hardy wing]

the exception pops up if you attach IDE to unity so maybe you can figure out the cause that way

[grand snow]

you can report a bug via that or if you have enterprise then you can use premium support

If its an engine bug though making a bug report is the way to go to get it looked at and fixed

[hardy wing]

so you have premium support if you were able to get in personal contact?

[grand snow]

no

if you have the license you get that

[hardy wing]

oh nvm you're not withaust

[fallen cosmos]

When you are troubleshooting a bug you get a person appointed to you to triage your issue

That is who you are talking to

[hardy wing]

oh thats cool

[hexed terrace]

its not garuanteed theyll be responsive

[fallen cosmos]

My issue got picked up in 7 hrs

So I am fine with those response times :D

[midnight plover]

Yeh, they are usually quite fast. Depends on the problem too I guess

[hardy wing]

anyways, this is what i figured myself but i was too lazy to look into the specifics

plus the entire UI code would just overwhelm me anyways so probably better that way

[hardy wing]

well this problem in particular is probably just annoying

not sure if it's in the way of anything

for now just looks annoying

[hollow palm]

Does Unity have a feature to disable or at least give a warning by console to user who try to override MonoBehavior functions like Start(), Awake(), Update(), etc in child class?

public class Parent : MonoBehavior
{
  private void Awake()
  {
    // Do some stuff
  }
}

public class Child : Parent
{
  private void Awake()
  {
    // This actually overrides stuff that Awake() does in parent class
    // I dont want this happen
  }
}

[naive pawn]

you could make it public/protected

(and optionally, explicitly sealed)

[eager elm]

If it is protected in the parent class you get a warning (with most IDEs)

[hollow palm]

sealed is only available when its defined as override isnt it? Those monobehavior functions are not

that was told by my IDE

[naive pawn]

no

it's probably saying that sealed is unnecessary when it's not overriding a virtual member?

ah, no, you're right

the SO answer i was referencing was slightly vague on that, mb.

[hollow palm]

no worries

[naive pawn]

you don't need sealed, if it were allowed it'd just make the behavior explicit

[hollow palm]

so its not possible then?

[naive pawn]

just make it accessible to the subclass

probably just protected would be fine

[hollow palm]

yea amazing, protected defines the warning console, this is not quite I looking for since you cant custom the log, but at least it will tell the users that Awake is currently used by parent

ty sir

[hollow palm]

ty sir

[hardy wing]

if you make it virtual your IDE should tell you that you are hiding methods from base class

making it virtual also allows you to call base version from derived version

[wintry quarry]

Make it virtual and do proper overrides

If it's virtual you'll get an error if you don't explicitly override it

[hardy wing]

dont think it errors?

it just warns iirc

because it thinks you're doing private new void Awake() implicitly

at least thats what i recall

[wintry quarry]

nope it gives an actual error: https://dotnetfiddle.net/EJRhXL

[hardy wing]

Ah that's amazing to hear 🥳

[hallow acorn]

hey, i wanna look into procedural dungeon generation in unity, for example with a wave function collapse algorithm, and im wondering what the best way to do that would be. every room as about 50+ props in it and a grid with the floor tiles and im not really sure if its optimal if i have an individual grid/tilemap for every room in the dungeon. is this actually the best way or do you guys have an idea how i should do it? thanks in advance

[wintry quarry]

really depends how your game works

for example is every "room" like its own scene where the player can't see other rooms (like in Hades?)

or something else?

[hallow acorn]

yeah more or less. but i feel like switching scenes every 30 sec or so isnt a very good solution or?

[wintry quarry]

I'm just talking about mechanics here for the moment, not implementation

basically it sounds like the overall "world map" of rooms should be separate from how you store the actual contents of the rooms

[hallow acorn]

pretty early screenshot of a bunch of assets i drew mashed together but i can imagine having a short fade out fadein effect when switching to the next room would work really good actually.

i think it would fit the game

[wintry quarry]

also are the rooms themselves randomly generated (like the contents)? Or just the arrangement of the rooms in the dungeon?

[hallow acorn]

no i really dont plan to get in that deep maybe randomize size/position/rotation of some assets to add variation but i really want it based on like "presets". i feel like it would be more controllable too

[wintry quarry]

then yeah each room should basically be a prefab or prefab variant

and you can have an algorithm that just generates a dungeon from your library of available rooms

but you don't need to actually instantiate the prefabs until the player walks into the room

[hallow acorn]

ok thank you! so ill basicly delete the room from the scene when im out and move on to the next during the transition right?

[tranquil canopy]

hey lads,
im working on unity6 2D project and i want have bloom/glow effect on specific object not all the objects in the scene
i have tried (2 camera solution, shader solution) but still i cant get
thank you in advance

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[wintry quarry]

Bloom is a full screen effect.

The way to have it only affect certain objects is to make only those objects brighter than your bloom threshold

The only other options are:

• writing a custom bloom psotproccesor using a stencil shader or something
• rendering the different objects on different cameras

Also #1390346776804069396

[edgy sinew]

There's some more interesting stuff going on in the DoNonFixedUpdate but it doesn't really seem complicated. Just a few if statements handling different camera modes

Far as I can tell, unless you have multiple cameras or some desire for FixedUpdate(), simply calling myCamBrain.ManualUpdate() seems to be equivalent to Smart Update or Late Update 🤷‍♂️

[formal wharf]

using UnityEngine;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class CarController : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created


    [SerializeField]
    public enum Axel
    {
        Front,
        Rear
    }
    public struct Wheel
    {
        public GameObject wheelModel;
        public WheelCollider wheelCollider;
        public Axel axel;
    }

    public float maxAcceleration = 30.0f;
    public float brakeAcceleration = 50.0f;

    public List<Wheel> wheels;

    float moveInput;
}

Why does the wheels list and Axel not show up in unity editor?

[naive pawn]

Wheel needs to be marked Serializable, and Axel won't show up anyways, it'll just be the type of any given wheel's axel

(btw, it's spelt Axle)

[formal wharf]

oh right thanks

[polar acorn]

But what if the game is about figure skating

[nimble apex]

enum wont show up on editor, it was enum "variables"

it shouldnt show up

this is enum

enum Fruit { Apple, Orange ....etc}```

after u declared the class, u will do something like
```cs
Fruit fruit; // = Fruit.Apple```

this is called enum variable

[slender nymph]

just fyi, it's an enum not a class

the only "enum class" is System.Enum which is not actually an enum

[oak gazelle]

Am I able to destroy a gameobject that has a nested particle system within it?

I seem to be getting an error when I do it

I keep getting this error right here

Invalid memory pointer was detected in ThreadsafeLinearAllocator::Deallocate!

[grand snow]

should be fine so something weird has happened

[oak gazelle]

Is this to my problem?

[grand snow]

was there a stack with that error? If not its probably some internal unity error.

[oak gazelle]

Yes,

Invalid memory pointer was detected in ThreadsafeLinearAllocator::Deallocate! 0x00007ffa24f0341e (Unity) StackWalker::ShowCallstack 0x00007ffa24f12d29 (Unity) PlatformStacktrace::GetStacktrace 0x00007ffa261835ce (Unity) Stacktrace::GetStacktrace 0x00007ffa267599cf (Unity) DebugStringToFile 0x00007ffa24690fc4 (Unity) ThreadsafeLinearAllocator<0>::Deallocate 0x00007ffa24693bc1 (Unity) ThreadsafeLinearAllocator<1>::TryDeallocate 0x00007ffa246a31f2 (Unity) MemoryManager::TryDeallocateWithLabel 0x00007ffa246a4c03 (Unity) free_alloc_internal 0x00007ffa2567604f (Unity) ParticleSystem::DeleteClearedFences 0x00007ffa269febe9 (Unity) ParticleSystemGeometryJob::EndFrameCallback 0x00007ffa267e36e2 (Unity) GfxDeviceWorker::RunCommand 0x00007ffa267ed19c (Unity) GfxDeviceWorker::RunExt 0x00007ffa267ed2cf (Unity) GfxDeviceWorker::RunGfxDeviceWorker 0x00007ffa24c28e0e (Unity) Thread::RunThreadWrapper 0x00007ffafe1ee8d7 (KERNEL32) BaseThreadInitThunk 0x00007ffafef28d9c (ntdll) RtlUserThreadStart

[hazy tiger]

hi, so i followed a tutorial on how to add jumping and this is the code

it checks if the groundcheck box under the player is touching anything with the ground layer

thing is it doesnt work with the tilemap im using

regular 2d sprites work

and i have no idea where to start fixing

[wintry quarry]

you need whichever object(s) have the collider(s) to have a layer in your layermask

with a tilemap that'd be the TilemapCollider/CompositeCollider2D

btw your else if seems wrong - I would guess that's something you want to do only while you're in the air already. But right now it's only happening when grounded, where it's pointless

[hazy tiger]

no its supposed to work when grounded

[wintry quarry]

it's also weird when the veloicty is negative - it'll slow your fall

[oak gazelle]

I'm also getting a ton of these

Internal: JobTempAlloc has allocations that are more than the maximum lifespan of 4 frames old - this is not allowed and likely a leak

[hazy tiger]

so i cant just set the grid's layer to ground and call it a day?

[wintry quarry]

again as I said what matters will be the object with the Collider2D

you need to find whichever object that is and make sure the layer is correct

[hazy tiger]

yeah its correct

but it wont work

[wintry quarry]

show screenshots

[hazy tiger]

one sec

[wintry quarry]

1. What groundLayer is set to
2. the objects with the colliders

[hazy tiger]

these right?

[wintry quarry]

what compoinents are on the Grid object?

[hazy tiger]

just these

[wintry quarry]

looks fine, there's no reason your OverlapBox call wouldn't work with that

perhaps you're doing it in the wrong position or something

[hazy tiger]

idk bruh

i threw in a regular 2d sprite square and set its layer to the specific one

it worked on that square

but not this grid

the tutorial i followed was made in 2023 so maybe some updates changed something?

[wintry quarry]

show where your ground check is

[wintry quarry]

nah

[hazy tiger]

that small rectangle under is the groundcheck

[wintry quarry]

wait you are using a negative value for the size

[wintry quarry]

here - you're doing -.1 for the y sizew

I don't think that's valid

[hazy tiger]

it worked

WHY DID I HAVE IT NEGATIVE

i need to reconsider my life choices

thank you though

[fickle plume]

@hazy tiger No off-topic images, please

[hazy tiger]

[pliant coyote]

Good Morning,

Anyone have any tips for movement similiar to warcraft 3 movement? any articles to read?

[wintry quarry]

similar how? Like the point and click part?

[pliant coyote]

I have all of that part figured out, but the smoothness of warcraft 3, and the pathfinding is very hard, right now if there is a tiny bit of space between two monsters, the character will pathfind through the space and push them apart

really want to get it smoother too in terms of movement and attack

[oak gazelle]

I am currently using a particle system for my fireball prefab. It's a projectile. I am creating a new instance of the prefab on every shot of the projectile. Could this be causing the memory leak?

If I just spam fireballs?

[wintry quarry]

"Smoothness" often comes down to high quality animations and transitions

[pliant coyote]

right now I am just using place holders, its the movement of them that are weird

[edgy sinew]

Sounds like the path finding needs to have some width? To prevent that

[wintry quarry]

if you never destroy them and/or if you keep a reference to them all forever, it can yes.

[pliant coyote]

I will try that

[edgy sinew]

If it's not built in, maybe there's some SphereCast stuff to do or... I'm not 100% sure

[wintry quarry]

hjow are you doing the pathfinding? NavMesh handles this kind of thing automatically

[edgy sinew]

Could be really expensive to detect that 'pathway too thin' kind of situation

[oak gazelle]

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        Debug.Log(collision.transform.root);
        Debug.Log(owner);
        if (targetHit)
        {
            return;
        }
        if(collision.transform.root == owner)
        {
            return;
        }
        else
        {
            targetHit = true;
        }
        if (gameObject == null)
        {
            return;
        }

        if (collision.gameObject.GetComponent<BasicEnemey>() != null)
        {
            BasicEnemey enemey = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<BasicEnemey>();
            enemey.TakeDamage(damage);
        }
        if (collision.gameObject.GetComponent<PlayerMotor
            >() != null)
        {
            PlayerMotor player = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<PlayerMotor>();
            player.DamagePlayer(damage);
        }

        ContactPoint contact = collision.contacts[0];
        //Instantiate(particleEffect , contact.point, Quaternion.identity);
        DestroySelf();
        
        

    }

I am destroying them when they collide with something. When I remove the particles it seems like everything works smoother but with the particles everything starts to go crazy

[wintry quarry]

and if they never collide with anything?

and do you ever destroy the particle object?

[oak gazelle]

yes

 void Update()
 {
     if(Vector3.Distance(startPos, transform.position) > maxDistance)
     {
         //Instantiate(particleEffect, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
         DestroySelf();
     }
 }

The game started using 8gb of memory, I honestly got no clue what's happening

[wintry quarry]

using Update for this is going to be pretty heavy. You could just do Destroy(this.gameObject, <some amount of seconds here) in Start

and they'll automatically get destroyed after that number of seconds

[oak gazelle]

Makes sense, I'll implement that

Each of these projectiles have it's own rigidbody and colliders

If I spam a bunch at once could that possibly break the game?

[wintry quarry]

i mean everything has limits

it really depends on how much "a bunch" is and your hardware

[grand snow]

Many thousands? Entities starts to be a good idea or a single manager to update them all

[wintry quarry]

if you spawn 50,000 at once, that's going to be a problem

[oak gazelle]

I'm definitely not doing that much

I'd say there definitely isn't more than 20 that exist at a time since they are also getting destroyed

[wintry quarry]

up to a few hundred is usually fine, depending on your target platform

might be rough on mobile but fine on PC

[wintry quarry]

that's not a problem

[oak gazelle]

man I honestly might just be better of restarting at this point

[wintry quarry]

you can use the memory profiler to see what's using memory

[cursive sinew]

Hi, from this problem, I tried to disable things in my hierarchy to try and figure out what might be causing it. I even ended up disabling everything in my hierarchy and the freeze is still happening.. is there another way I should be disabling my assets to find what might be causing this issue? Or maybe it's an external problem or my hardware causing it?

[oak gazelle]

@wintry quarry

It doesn't actually tell me what it is. The section that keeps going up is the untracked

[wintry quarry]

which version of Unity are you using?

[oak gazelle]

6000.2.5

I encounter same issues with 6000.2.3

[oak gazelle]

I've also gotten this

Invalid memory pointer was detected in ThreadsafeLinearAllocator::Deallocate! 0x00007ffa24f0341e (Unity) StackWalker::ShowCallstack 0x00007ffa24f12d29 (Unity) PlatformStacktrace::GetStacktrace 0x00007ffa261835ce (Unity) Stacktrace::GetStacktrace 0x00007ffa267599cf (Unity) DebugStringToFile 0x00007ffa24690fc4 (Unity) ThreadsafeLinearAllocator<0>::Deallocate 0x00007ffa24693bc1 (Unity) ThreadsafeLinearAllocator<1>::TryDeallocate 0x00007ffa246a31f2 (Unity) MemoryManager::TryDeallocateWithLabel 0x00007ffa246a4c03 (Unity) free_alloc_internal 0x00007ffa2567604f (Unity) ParticleSystem::DeleteClearedFences 0x00007ffa269febe9 (Unity) ParticleSystemGeometryJob::EndFrameCallback 0x00007ffa267e36e2 (Unity) GfxDeviceWorker::RunCommand 0x00007ffa267ed19c (Unity) GfxDeviceWorker::RunExt 0x00007ffa267ed2cf (Unity) GfxDeviceWorker::RunGfxDeviceWorker 0x00007ffa24c28e0e (Unity) Thread::RunThreadWrapper 0x00007ffafe1ee8d7 (KERNEL32) BaseThreadInitThunk 0x00007ffafef28d9c (ntdll) RtlUserThreadStart

[wintry quarry]

yeah i don't think this is directly related to your fireballs etc

Are you using any plugins/assets?

[oak gazelle]

It's definitely related to the particles in the fireball

and yeah

[wintry quarry]

hmm maybe a bug in the particle system then

what components are on the particle system prefab

[oak gazelle]

Could be, I'm pretty lost

RigidBody, Sphere Collider

and I have a projectile script

[wintry quarry]

on the particles?

[oak gazelle]

its on the parent that holds the particles

[wintry quarry]

the particles have Rigidbody and collider?

Cna you show all the components that are on the partticles object and its children?

[oak gazelle]

I don't have any components on the fireball particle thing itself

It's using a material that uses a shader

[wintry quarry]

there's no ParticleSystem component anywhere?

[oak gazelle]

oh yeah hold on

sorry do you mean like what I have enabled within the particle system?

[wintry quarry]

I just want to know which components you're using

[oak gazelle]

This is the prefab, and the sphere and flare are the exact same except different sizing

These are the components on the prefab

[vital vault]

how can i lock mouse pointer in 0 0 so mouseX or mouseY will output movement since last frame?

[slender nymph]

how are you actually checking the input? because with the most common ways that is the default behavior

[wintry quarry]

Lock the cursor

but uh - yeah it already does that

[vital vault]

how do i do that

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/CursorLockMode.html

[slender nymph]

but note that locking the cursor has nothing to do with whether the way you query your input is a delta from the previous frame

[wintry quarry]

Indeed, but it's an answer to the first part of the sentence

[amber salmon]

Any good recourses to learn unity?

[slender nymph]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[vital vault]

Already

[wintry quarry]

already what

[vital vault]

and i want for mouseX and mouseY to become 0 at the end of each frame

[vital vault]

alr locked

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[wintry quarry]

what are mouseX and mouseY?

Are those your own custom variables?

If so, then to make them 0 you would assign them to 0 yourself

mouseX = 0;

or simply don't make them member variables at all

[vital vault]

axises

[wintry quarry]

then your question makes no sense

[vital vault]

i mean

it reports mouse pos

[slender nymph]

show the code

[vital vault]

so i want to teleport mouse to 0 0 each frame after i read it

[slender nymph]

show the code

[wintry quarry]

mouse position comes from Input.mousePosition
Mouse delta comes from the Mouse X and Mouse Y axes

show your code indeed

[vital vault]

a small correction fixed that

yeah im really dumb

[dense eagle]

hi

everyone

[tall heart]

anyone know how to make it so the animation plays fully and i cant play the animation again during it: IEnumerator Shoot()
{
canShoot = false;
animator.Play("M1911_Shoot", -1, 0f);

yield return new WaitForSeconds(animator.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo(0)[0].clip.length);

canShoot = true;

}

[rich adder]

https://nohello.net

[rich adder]

imo much easier to use Animation Event or Statemachine Behaviour

[dense eagle]

can someone help me? i am absolutely new at this of unity and an error in the app doesnt me create nothing

[rich adder]

!ask

[tall heart]

the thing is i dont know what they are or do

[radiant void]

: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

[rich adder]

thats when you usually research https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/script-AnimationWindowEvent.html

[dense eagle]

i am 15 and i just want to become a programmer

[dense eagle]

perdon oe hago lo mejor que puedo

[rich adder]

english only server

[dense eagle]

ok ok, sorry

so this is the error

when i download unity editor this appears

[rich adder]

this error is not related to Coding question

#💻┃unity-talk

most likely you have a permission issue going on with Hub and your pc

check logs to confirm

[dense eagle]

im sorry

i just join to the server looking for an answer

[fickle plume]

!install - Install into non-system folder, see the checklist. And ask general questions in #💻┃unity-talk next time.

[radiant void]

When Unity fails to install checklist

• Make sure you have enough space including on C: drive.
• Check that it's not being blocked by antivirus/security programs.
• Look through the logs for a real reason why the setup fails they are pinned [here](#💻┃unity-talk message).

If you still have issues, perform a clean install in another location:

• Install the Hub and Unity in a non-system drive or a clean new folder in the root of C: drive.
• Failing that use the recovery Refresh option or reinstall OS entirely then repeat the previous step.

[dense goblet]

Im trying to call an outside script with a variable, is it possible to do something similar to what Im attempting here? ```using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class DungeonSpawners : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private BoxCollider2D spawnerArea;
public string spawnerName;
[SerializeField] private SpawnManager spawnManager;
// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
spawnerArea = GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>();
spawnManager = GetComponent<SpawnManager>();
}

// Update is called once per frame
private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{
    Debug.Log("Entered");
    spawnerArea.enabled = false;
    spawnManager.SpawnManagerProper(spawnerName);
}

}

error: ```No overload for method 'SpawnManagerProper' takes 1 arguments```

[rich adder]

"call an outside script" ?

what does that even mean

scripts don't get called... methods do

[dense goblet]

Im trying to activate a function in a different script while bringing over a varible

[polar acorn]

Seems like SpawnManager doesn't have a function named SpawnManagerProper that takes 1 argument

[dense goblet]

thank you

[rich adder]

so do that?

[polar acorn]

The errors say these things, you can just read em

[dense goblet]

I know, I just needed someone to phrase it differently for it to click

[grand snow]

yea it makes more sense when you know about method overloading

(you can use the same name with different args/return type)

hm? I was just explaining the language feature

[hardy wing]

How would I approach making my own canvas-like component, so a component that I can interact with and make it draw lines, arcs, circles. Whatever it needs. It shall be a generic component since I am doing multiple mathematical projects and plan to use it in all of them. An idea I had was using a LineRenderer but that wouldn't work with discontinuous lines. Say I a canvas where I am able to draw multiple non-connected lines. A solution would be multiple LineRenderer's but then I'd just be spamming Hierarchy with 7000 Line Renderer's which I don't expect to be very performant.

[hardy wing]

And no, a UI component is not an option. I want this to be happening in world space like LineRenderer's are too.

[eternal needle]

have you tried it to see how many line renderers the game will handle? otherwise your other options here wouldnt be so beginner friendly. you would be drawing these manually if the built in components dont work for your case.

[hardy wing]

I am just starting to think about it conceptually, so I have not tried the first variant, no.

What other options are there? I don't mind to make deep dives and reading up more complicated topics. But what are they anyways?

What do you mean by drawing manually? How do I draw manually? Are you talking about shaders? Render textures? Other options I don't have in mind?

[rich adder]

you can look into Geometry shader or GL library?

[eternal needle]

you should first try it before jumping to solutions you might not even need. The solutions depends what you need exactly too. Havent used the GL api before but I know it should be pretty easy to draw 1 pixel lines with it

[rocky canyon]

start jotting them down in a notepad or a post-it note on ur wall lol 🙂
you'll come across most typical errors during a project
im sure you're familiar with some of them such as the Null Reference Exceptions but heres a little cheatsheet of Typical Unity Console Errors

• NullReferenceException → Using something that’s null (not assigned).
• Type Mismatch / Cannot Convert → Wrong data type (e.g., float into an int).
• Index Out of Range → Accessed a list/array slot that doesn’t exist.
• No Overload for Method → Called a method with the wrong number/type of arguments.
• Name does not exist → Misspelled variable/method or used it out of scope.
• MissingReferenceException → Object was destroyed but code still tries to use it.

thats all i can think of off-hand that most people run into.. I'll add to it as i think of more

[raw shore]

am I stupid or why doesnt any tutorial about movement work, I tried for unity6 and didnt worked so now I try for unity 2022 LTS and I have some bugs

[rich adder]

copying things you dont understand leads into poor setup / broken

[slender nymph]

be more specific about what is going wrong

[rocky canyon]

they all work but its probably ur Input

if ur Active Input Handling is set to New and ur trying to use the old Input. class

[raw shore]

ik I need to actually learn but I am going insane I just want a stupid movement :(((

[rocky canyon]

for example u wouldnt receive inputs... Debugging the values of those variables would let u know

[raw shore]

and ik about the new input

with actions and all that stuff

right now I am watching for camera looking

[rocky canyon]

ok cool.. just checking cuz when i first installed 6+ it was defaulted to New and none of my older scripts would work

[hardy wing]

yeah, still a good thing i'd say

although i'm not sure why unity resets the setting when migrating projects

[rocky canyon]

yessir... took me a while to embrace but im finally using it

[hardy wing]

or did you just use scripts from older projects in a fresh project?

[rocky canyon]

i just changed the Version in the Hub and re-opened my old project

for w/e reason it didn't keep the Active Input setting

[hardy wing]

yeah then ^

[raw shore]

can I swear is the server (not to someone but to a problem)

[rocky canyon]

hell no.

[raw shore]

I mean you used hell

[rocky canyon]

i didn't fucking either 👀

[rocky canyon]

lol. u can say whatever you want to say..

[raw shore]

k so u can but not explicit

[rocky canyon]

just don't be cussing other people 😄

[raw shore]

cuz WTF is this

[ivory bobcat]

Movement isn't stupid tbf
Especially "good movement"

[raw shore]

😭

[rocky canyon]

that would be a falling rigidbody that doesn't have its Constraints locked on the X and Z

guessing

[raw shore]

you mean position no ?

[ivory bobcat]

Your capsule fell on its side. Maybe you've forgotten to apply a step from the tutorial.

[raw shore]

I putted now freeze position

[rich adder]

why would you freeze position..

[raw shore]

idk man I really dont know

I want a tutorial for true noobs

[rich adder]

if its rotating forward with AddForce then you lock the rotation

[raw shore]

50% are too fast

and other wants you to know a part

[raw shore]

still same

[ivory bobcat]

It shouldn't be if you've frozened the x and z rotations.

[raw shore]

does anyone have a good tutorial ?

[slender nymph]

!learn

[raw shore]

that explains slow

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[raw shore]

I tried to look and I will say no for now

I dont have the time for that

[slender nymph]

then you're only going to find shit tutorials that you don't understand

[raw shore]

ohhh bad

[rocky canyon]

here for example

[raw shore]

I mean is an improvement

is moving

[edgy sinew]

godot color theme in unity

[raw shore]

nope Unity pathway theme

I watched that part and I can say the colors are stupid

harder to see text

[cursive sinew]

Hi, I've been having this issue where Unity completely freezes for 5 seconds after I press play, even after I stop and resume the editor. There's no console messages for it and the only information I've gotten is this window that only shows if I stop the play before the freeze happens.

I've tried reimporting the entire project's library and also tried deleting absolutely everything in the scene, but the error still happens.

Does anyone have any ideas what I can check next to find out what's causing this problem? I haven't coded anything.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/1419551763140444361/image.png?ex=68d2d4da&is=68d1835a&hm=603becd12e6e358ee4ba7e1322077b70f7f001398e980d55850b9b9e2326db51

[boreal cloak]

can i ask for help with unity hub here or is it in a different chat

[rocky canyon]

its great that Unity lets u change practically everything

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃unity-talk

[rich adder]

considering it says code channel. no

[raw shore]

so back to the subject how to I make the camera work

[rocky canyon]

whats not working about it?

[raw shore]

I am not in player

but I can look

[rocky canyon]

well drop the camera inside the player

and the position it where it need to be 🤔

[polar acorn]

What is supposed to be making it do that

[edgy sinew]

third person perspective right? player in center, or off to side like in shooters?

[raw shore]

it has a cameraHolder

[raw shore]

FPS

[ivory bobcat]

Have you tried looking up the issue with a search engine (Google)? Maybe provide extra info. Some folks have found that it's to do with some code they've written. Try an empty project/scene etc
https://discussions.unity.com/t/editor-stuck-at-unitysynchronization-executetasks/250083

[raw shore]

I made it kinda KINDA work still weird but better

[rocky canyon]

step by step 😉

[raw shore]

k so on full screen it works

I still have to problems

first is it good if when mouse is moved up the camera to look down ?

and the sensitivity is big but I can change that

[ivory bobcat]

Subjective. Some games have an option to invert the behavior.

[raw shore]

what is better

[ivory bobcat]

yes

[raw shore]

and one more problem the character is looking up when I press start

is it ok or ?

[ivory bobcat]

Your mouse had gone up to click the play button within the Editor. It'll likely not be an issue with the build release. You could always opt for delaying input or entering the application from the title scene etc.

[raw shore]

it doesnt happen anymore cuz it takes a while to start and I put in center

but ow do I make when the player is moving mouse up to look up

right now mouse up means look down

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerCam : MonoBehaviour
{
public float sensX;
public float sensY;

public Transform orientation;

float xRotation;
float yRotation;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    Cursor.visible = false;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    float mouseX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * sensX;
    float mouseY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * sensY;

    yRotation += mouseX;

    xRotation += mouseY;

    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);

    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0);
    orientation.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);
}

}
this is the script

[polar acorn]

Take whatever code is making it do that and flip it

[slender nymph]

!code
also https://unity.huh.how/mouse-input-and-deltatime

[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.

[raw shore]

k so now no more Time.deltaTime

nope it is worst now no more sensitivity now without it

[slender nymph]

please read all of the information presented to you instead of seeing one thing and making that change with no other changes

[polar acorn]

Did you look at the page that was linked

It's literally in a big box with a yellow warning sign on it

I don't know how it could have been made more easy to spot

[raw shore]

I know that I need to reduce

I made it 30 from 170 and it was a lot

too fast

[slender nymph]

vertx probably needs to add subway surfers gameplay to the sidebar for anyone to actually pay attention to it

[slender nymph]

your sensitivity should be closer to 1

[raw shore]

is still kinda fast but WAY better

I will try 0.5

0.7 is best

so now how do invert the look up down

[slender nymph]

think about how you are currently handling rotating up/down. then using basic math, how could you reverse that

[raw shore]

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0);
orientation.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);

this is what I have

for rotation

[slender nymph]

that is not the entirety of it

[raw shore]

ik

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerCam : MonoBehaviour
{
public float sensX;
public float sensY;

public Transform orientation;

float xRotation;
float yRotation;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    Cursor.visible = false;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    float mouseX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * sensX;
    float mouseY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * sensY;

    yRotation += mouseX;

    xRotation += mouseY;

    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);

    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0);
    orientation.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);
}

}

[slender nymph]

here's a little hint for you: that last message was a hint that you need to look before those lines you sent

also again share code correctly

!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.

[raw shore]

oh so that was the command

I forgot it thanks

[slender nymph]

it's been less than 10 minutes since i last used it for you

[raw shore]

oh sorry :(((

[edgy sinew]

so you want the up/down to be inverted

[raw shore]

yes

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[edgy sinew]

I'd have a variable to turn that on/off... right? some users won't want / need it

public float y_invert = -1.0f; usually how i do it

Then, in one of your parts.... Multiple by that

xRotation += mouseY * y_invert;

[raw shore]

I dont want to hear math right now I had 2 hours at school that burned my braincells

[edgy sinew]

... Brother we're flipping the value...

[slender nymph]

then you don't want to hear the answer right now

[edgy sinew]

If it's not that one, multiply it to the other one

[rich adder]

spoiler alert... math is part of everything..especially gamedev

[raw shore]

ik :(((

[edgy sinew]

Trust me, sooner than later, get very literal about what the computer is doing

[slender nymph]

if you're just here to get spoonfed answers, then kindly fuck off. if you want to actually learn what you are doing, then you need to actually engage with the information presented to you.

[raw shore]

finally it worked thanks for all guys

[edgy sinew]

Cheers bro, for homework assignment flip the left/right too 😉

[raw shore]

ik but my brain is burned after school

[edgy sinew]

Late nights, we are all burning our brains man

[raw shore]

I had 7 hours 😭

[edgy sinew]

You just get used to it, get addicted to it

[rocky canyon]

well, take a break ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[slender nymph]

that's a personal problem. don't make it everyone else's problem. we're not here to babysit you

[edgy sinew]

How cracked do you wanna be? Drawing diagrams of Update Loops and stuff?

[raw shore]

I try to make 8-10 learn

[edgy sinew]

Matrix math?

[raw shore]

and 9-11 implement

9-11 PM

[rocky canyon]

👀 my first year was like 4-5 hrs learning and then the rest of the day implementing.. 1 hr doesn't seem like enough tbh

[raw shore]

I did it I putted - at a multiply

[raw shore]

I have school

[edgy sinew]

Yes. You could set up public float x_invert = 1.0f; the same way we did the y_invert

[raw shore]

and the dumb schedule of goig at 13

[rocky canyon]

lol.. i have job and family.. gotta do what u gotta do

[raw shore]

I like more to go to school from 8

[raw shore]

cool

[edgy sinew]

I think what everyone's trying to say, is to develop the skill to break things down and understand them at a more simple level

[rocky canyon]

good luck guy

[raw shore]

I putted -

[raw shore]

thanks

[slender nymph]

i mean, that's certainly one way to do it. alternatively you could have changed your += to -=

[raw shore]

so right now I am 15 so I wont go into making games like schedule one but like small games

[raw shore]

oh yeah that too

k so now movement I need to go into

[edgy sinew]

for example in this case it would be "every frame, the computer adds the difference in mouse position, and moves the camera accordingly"
hence the solution is
"every frame, invert the mouse Y delta value so that up instead goes down"

[raw shore]

after that a collectable pizza with task up

or enemy AI

with the idle chase shoot

so better to do the simpler one

[edgy sinew]

Jason Weimann git-amend

They have videos on those things. And they're usually pretty solid in the strategies they use

[raw shore]

and after both of them menu and only need to think about a more complex idea for the game jam

its in 17 days so I want to prepare

[edgy sinew]

oh yeah the horror game? thing

[raw shore]

yes

[edgy sinew]

anyway going off-topic here. Wish u luck, make sure to check out those YouTube channels because they'll probably answer 90% of what you need

[raw shore]

subscribed to them

so I wont need to search again the names

[hardy wing]

what part

[cursive sinew]

Thanks for the response! Yeah, I saw that result, but I assumed it wasn't something to do with code since I haven't written any yet and it still occurs in brand new scenes with nothing placed. I'm also unsure how to debug where the freeze would be happening since the console doesn't have any information - is there a way I can check what code is being ran on play? Because I do have a bunch of assets imported

[misty dagger]

Hey all, new to Unity.

I’ve recently started learning Unity since the weekend; I’ve started the Unity learn pathways (essentials & junior programmer). I am kinda picking things up but often find myself overwhelmed by the amount I’ve got to learn.

Realistically, where can we somewhat expect to be after the junior programmer course Unity offers for free?

[winged ridge]

Great question
So the junior pathway offers you chances to learn the principles of the engine, combine it with the creative core, you will have the basic understanding to make games such as railway surfer, if you do some of their other courses, Tanks a top down 2D strategy game. It also allows you the chance to experience and decide which path of game dev you want to focus on, letting you understand the things you may need to research going forwards.
It does however at the moment miss out on certain aspects of C# programming, but I'm sure there are plans

[misty dagger]

Do you know the best places/ creators to learn C# from?

[winged ridge]

Outside of paying
YouTube or W3Schools

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel

[rich adder]

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

[cursive sinew]

Ok, I think via profiler I found that the hanging is being caused by GC.Alloc, so I'll try and find out how to work with that, thanks 🙏

[misty dagger]

legends, thank you!

[silent obsidian]

I have two Input System action maps: one for gameplay and one for UI. Both maps have a left click action. Is there a built in way to ensure that clicking on a UI element only triggers the UI action map and not the gameplay action map?

[rocky canyon]

    private void OnLeftClick(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        if (EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
            return;

        // the gameplay logic/input
     }```
you can use the Event System to gatekeep the logic
https://discussions.unity.com/t/ispointerovergameobject-inputaction-callback/946169/5

EventSystem's .IsPointerOverGameObject()

[rich adder]

You can also Disable / Enable actionmaps
input.Player.Disable()
input.UI.Enabled()

[twilit echo]

hey anyone know why my unity does this?

i just recently reinstalled and it just did this

[rocky canyon]

if the UI ur talkin about is like a Menu or something that u toggle then u can just disable the Game Input when its open #💻┃code-beginner message like nav said

but if its something like an overlay thats always on the screen u can check the event system and use a bool or something to early return

[rocky canyon]

usually a graphics-card driver issue

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk
try updating your gpu drivers?

[twilit echo]

alright thanks

[twilit echo]

my bad i didnt notice that channel

thanks tho

[rocky canyon]

another thing could be DX11 / 12 issue.. sometimes changing that API will fix it.. but i've never seen that in the Hub only in the actual Editor

[rich adder]

its built on Electron right?

[twilit echo]

whats that?

directx?

[rocky canyon]

its this but like i said.. only ever seen that affect the Editor and not the hub

[rich adder]

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/4380 their image looks the same

[twilit echo]

alright thanks man

[rocky canyon]

the hub? lol no clue.. you probably know more about that than i

if so, TIL 🙂

[rich adder]

I knew it was built on JS just not sure whic framework

[silent obsidian]

work wonders, thanks!

[twilit echo]

thanks!

wait whats the fix cause i cant find it on here

[rich adder]

oh i just meant this not the fix

[twilit echo]

ohhhh

alr

[rich adder]

do you have an nvidia gpu

[twilit echo]

yep

i just updated it too

so its not a driver issue most likely

this has been happening with vs code too for a while

[rocky canyon]

psychedelic 🫠

[rich adder]

meltinnn

[rich adder]

are you on win?

coincidentally vscode also a electron app

[rocky canyon]

lol.. the evidence is mounting

[twilit echo]

yeap

[rocky canyon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unity/comments/10s2kkz/weird_graphical_glitch_in_unity_hub_any_ideas/

lol

[twilit echo]

i genuinely thought i had malware or something

for the first while

[twilit echo]

oh hey thanks

ill do that right now

[rocky canyon]

check out that entire thread.. also google unity and vscode visually glitching

and also i just noticed we're in code channel.. take it over to #💻┃unity-talk if u need to keep troubleshooting

[twilit echo]

alrighty

[hardy wing]

i guess this works for now

now i just need to find a way to convert virtual space into world space

[misty grotto]

can someone help me add animations to this model? i downloaded a model from unity asset store and it came with animations but they dont work when i press play, i followed every tutorial i could but it wont work

[slender nymph]

is that question code related? if so, you should consider sharing the code

[misty grotto]

No sorry.

[slender nymph]

#🔎┃find-a-channel

[urban condor]

Hi! I'm wondering if anybody could help me optimize/tidy my code? 🙂

    IEnumerator LoadSession()
    {
        audioMixer.GetFloat("Master", out float mixerVolume);
        animator.SetBool("isActive", false);
        float currentVol = 0;
        float audioFadeStep = 0.025F;

        for (float i = 0F; -79F <= i; Mathf.SmoothStep(0F, -80F, i -= audioFadeStep))
        {
            currentVol = i;
            yield return audioMixer.SetFloat("Master", currentVol);
        }

        int sceneToLoad = UnityEngine.Random.Range(1, SceneManager.sceneCountInBuildSettings);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(4);
        SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneToLoad);
    }

[polar acorn]

Is there a problem with it

[urban condor]

it's fine, i just want to learn better code practices when it comes to writing code

i posted in #🔊┃audio because i was struggling with getting the audio mixer to work in a coroutine but i got it working on my own eventually

it just didn't seem appropriate to ask the above question in that channel!

[polar acorn]

The most important practice is to not agonize over nothing. If it does what you want and there's no obvious problems then you're done

[urban condor]

i just don't want to hit potential tech debt or struggle to sight-read my code down the line because it's part of a much bigger project (i've just never worked with unity audio before now)

[polar dust]

the only thing I can maybe think is why is mixerVolume unused?

[eager elm]

Volume scales logarithmically, you should probably use Log10()

float linear = Mathf.Lerp(start, end, t);
float db = Mathf.Log10(linear) * 20f;
audioMixer.SetFloat("MasterVolume", db);

[polar dust]

overall it looks fine? if you want to save yourself any sort of future struggles, as it works, do not touch the method again until a time in the future when you need to change it

[urban condor]

thank you both!

for context i work in the games industry as a tech designer and want to pivot into gameplay engineering, so these are good things to know

why does Log10 need to be multiplied by 20 btw?

[slender nymph]

note that with that formula the min value should be 0.0001 so that it's -80, if it goes to 0 it will be negative infinity and unity will just treat it as full volume

[eager elm]

Mathf.Log10(0.0001f) equals -4
-4 * 20 = -80 (the lowest value of the audio mixer)
and that value goes closer towards 0 (full volume)

Why it is that way I don't know. (You should also start you fade in with 0.0001f since starting with 0 might cause problems)

[heady smelt]

Then for what it's worth, the only recommendation here is to add comments to your code - if you are concerned with its longevity and readability.

[urban condor]

thanks a lot for explaining all 😄

[heady smelt]

This sent me on a little bit of a quest to answer this question for myself, so I thought I would share an answer I found on Reddit:

[jayd00b writes]:

The answer to your question involves a bit of history and a bit of mathematics. The decibel was originally used to describe 10 "bels", a unit of measurement that came out of Bell Laboratories in the 1920s. While rarely used on its own, one bell is simply the base-10 logarithm of a ratio of a measured power to a reference power:

1 bel = log10(w / wRef)

Thus a decibel (deci- prefix meaning 10) is 10 times that logarithm:

1 decibel = 10 X log10(w / wRef)

So why do we use 10 X log10(w / wRef) for power ratios and 20 X log10(p / pRef) for amplitude ratios? You can look up a formal derivation, but take my word for it when I say that acoustic intensity (or power) is proportional to pressure squared.

w ~ p2

If we take our decibel equation for a power ratio and substitute in p2 for w, we get:

dB = 10 X log10( p^2 / p^Ref2 ), which using rules of exponents becomes:

dB = 10 X log10( (p / p^Ref)2 )

Using this rule of logarithms: log( A^n ) = n X log(A), we get:

dB = 2 X 10 X log10(p / p^Ref), or more simply put:

dB = 20 X log10(p / p^Ref)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Acoustics/comments/aiqdeo/comment/eeq16k5

tl;dr acoustic power is proportional to the square of the sound's pressure. Rewriting the base10 log of (x^2) gives you a 2 out, and then it's multiplied by 10 because it's literally just "deci"-bels, and so you arrive at the factor of 20.

[weak trail]

Do you guys recommend to install the latest version of unity

Or the 2022 one

[wintry quarry]

Latest

Unless you have some special reason

[weak trail]

im a complete beginner i have a project in mind

is a copy of clash royale

in simp,e terms

[heady smelt]

You should probably install the newest version of Unity 6 and then look at some of the "Learning" Projects from within Unity Hub. You'll probably want to learn how to use the AI Navigation Package at some point as well if you have that game in mind as a goal.

[edgy sinew]

Beware that Editor performance is tricky

Remember this one for later! Where the game resolution options are, there’s a VSync (Game View Only)

[weak trail]

Thank you so much for the help! Im currently downloading the latest version

[weak trail]

What do u recommend me to do

[edgy sinew]

Just keep that info in mind it’ll be helpful later

On desktop platforms, Application.targetFrameRate is unreliable. It’s in the Unity Docs

[hardy wing]

i think this is the best i can do rn

[edgy sinew]

So for easy VSync to your monitor, definitely use that check box. For built executables it can be configured in project settings or in code QualitySettings.vSyncCount = 1

[weak trail]

Do you have tips on what should i focus as im starting into devving

[edgy sinew]

Yeah I certainly do. You want to make a Clash Royale right?

We can analyze that a bit and break down what’s required

[weak trail]

Yess there was a game called jungle clash that was made with unity and it was so cool and unfortunately it got shut down but it had the features of 2018 clash royale wich is what i want to make

[edgy sinew]

The camera is uhh… Orthographic I think right? Not isometric tilted, but, no perspective either

[weak trail]

Yeah vertical

[edgy sinew]

Maybe, every character on the field has its own state?

[weak trail]

Can i add you ? Maybe u can give me some feedback if i need to

[edgy sinew]

If it’s moving, waiting, attacking.

It’s better to chat here, everyone can gain from the knowledge 🙂

[weak trail]

Bet

Yeah so

Its basically Tower defense game

[edgy sinew]

As I understand it, there’s some fundamental things to solve there

Like, how to “deploy” a new unit right

That’s gonna be Object Pooling right there. Unity has its own built in version

[weak trail]

This was made with unity

[edgy sinew]

How does each unit know what to be doing at a certain time? That could be done with State.

And there needs to be some Physics checks happening, like for proximity to other units etc

Someone else said NavMesh / AI path finding before, that’s another topic to know

Are you familiar with OOP? Composition vs Inheritance? Dependency injection? Singletons?

Scriptable Objects as shared data containers

[weak trail]

No im actually completely new into this but willing to learn i believe on the project i have in mind

[edgy sinew]

Polymorphism! Interfaces. Huge one. That’s how any enemy in the game can “take damage” from any source

That’s also usually how State works. You’ll see what I mean when you look into State Machines

The best advice I can give you, is start collecting knowledge know and keep it organized

Folders of screenshots, website bookmarks, your own writing or diagrams

Everything I just said ☝️ too

[weak trail]

Yeah i see its very complex i need to learn C# also right?

[edgy sinew]

Have you programmed in other languages?

Web Dev (JS)? Python?

[weak trail]

A little bit of python

[edgy sinew]

Okay. It’s really not bad once you get the main idea of what Unity really does

[weak trail]

Might i ask how many years u been into programming?

U seem very knowledgeable

Im gonna have to keep everything organized and learn step by step i already have the idea in mind i just need to figure how to execute it

[edgy sinew]

Probably your first few steps are…

1. Download some Kenney NL assets and get a level design going, get some character models in
2. Maybe a bit of lighting research, HDRI perhaps, or free procedural sky asset on UnityAssetStore
3. Get the models to “spawn in” probably on like a timer, or a coins system whatever (Object Pooling!)
4. Get the models to walk towards the enemy tower

A good while, but in Unity I’m under 1 year. The helpful people on here know way more than me

[weak trail]

Also gotta make elixir work wich is like every card is gonna cost a certain elixir to drop also gotta set a core of different abilities and how they affect characters like Poison that damages a bit per second in the range also air troops

There is a lot into it

[edgy sinew]

Sounds like Scriptable Objects will be valuable here. And State Machines, and Polymorphism

[weak trail]

Yes in the sense i have to make troops to deploy if theres enought elixir available if not then u cant place them , they always gotta move forward or near the enemy when its on range and theres also troops that only focus to hit the towers so they gotta ignore other cards

[edgy sinew]

It’s surprisingly straightforward to make different units do different kind of stuff.

But that’s only after you have all the necessary strategies in place.

Strategies or technically Game Dev Patterns are basically the “accepted efficient way” to get things done in some problem solving situation

Or in some cases, the value of the Coding Pattern is that it makes your code easier to work with, easier to add stuff to.

[weak trail]

Yes and since most characters have their own abilities if i set a general system of the core abilities like
-Splash Damage
-Slowdown Effect
-Stun if hit
Etc adding the cards are gonna me more easy since the effects are already coded righr?

[edgy sinew]

Yes, sharing functionality is essential when building these kinds of games

For example you have 2 enemies on the map… Goblin, and Wraith

They can both do a Splash Damage attack, but with totally different parameters

• Splash Damage Radius
• Damage Type (instant or over time)
• Damage Dealt

Instead of coding 2 different Splash Damage effects

You would have these parameters be set by the unit itself

[weak trail]

Yes that is what i was thinking setting this its gonna make it more easy to just add more cards later

[edgy sinew]

So they all use the same exact code, just configured how each character needs it.

[weak trail]

Because im just gonna copy the abilities of the clash royale cards already existing just make my own characters

I want to add also arenas Also a leaderboard badges for top placements i have a lot in mind

[wintry quarry]

You need to just write all this down and worry about one thing at a time

[edgy sinew]

Yes write all the knowledge and terms down for later. I g2g, wish you luck on this journey. Be sure to ask us here when things get confusing!

[weak trail]

Yes i have a journal where im gonna write everything down

[edgy sinew]

Tutorials are wrong sometimes but. I can recommend Jason Weimann and git-amend on YouTube

[weak trail]

Thank you so much💪🏻🫡

[wintry panther]

Not sure this is the right place for this, but when i try to open a project in unity hub, the loading screen pops up but then closes and the project doesnt open

i also tried to make a new project, but after i made it it didnt show up in the projects view

[teal viper]

Check the editor logs

!logs

[radiant void]

📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

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

Unity Hub

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

[wintry panther]

okay will do

what am i looking for exactly?

[teal viper]

Errors or messages telling what happened.

[wintry panther]

right kk

[neon glade]

Hi, so ive made an enemy that patrols an area but i wanted to make it so that they chase the player if they are seen. this is my coding but it doesnt chase the player. any tips?

[slender nymph]

https://screenshot.help

also !code 👇

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 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.

[edgy sinew]

“If they are seen” what is the detection method?

I’m only seeing that you start a Coroutine… when the program starts ?

[neon glade]

i was thinking raycast?

because i copied it based off player interaction mechanic

[edgy sinew]

So.. Where is that code? Or that isn’t written yet

[teal viper]

That's still not a valid wat to share code... Read the bot message.

[edgy sinew]

https://youtu.be/YdERlPfwUb0

This video seems to show some of that kinda stuff.

Oh I think I get it. So that Coroutine you start in... Start() - that's the patrol one right? So they start patrolling from the beginning.

Well okay good night! and good luck

[timber tide]

way too many raycasts

just need a a square then angle check

[true fulcrum]

would this be the channel to ask about help with visual scripting? :o

[naive pawn]

no, that'd be #1390346878394040320

[edgy sinew]

Yup, why I often say "tutorials get things wrong sometimes"

You suggest a square - would that be placed always at the enemy transform.forward? So it would automatically only detect things in front.

I was thinking a sphere trigger collider and the angle check. Theoretically if there's some "max detection range" the sphere collider is shaped such that, well, that works

With the front-facing square, it does eliminate the detection of things "not in view" / behind the enemy. But to enforce some max detection range I think Vector3.Distance is inevitable?

[timber tide]

Depends what you're going for, but if you have a max distance then overlapbox with uniform sides. OverlapSphere should work similarly, but a box can give you the full 180 without any extra maths, while you can get 360 with the sphere similarly, but you'd also be doing check behind the character so that may not be needed

[edgy sinew]

I once saw some project that did 1 raycast per frame, with angle shift. So it'd cover a range of let's say 45 degrees total, over 9 frames or something. 9 raycasts, 5 degree difference each frame

I wonder, if that yields better performance than overlapbox, overlapsphere, sphere trigger collider, etc

Like a, rotating looping Raycast sweep thingy.

[timber tide]

I'd still use a single raycast after doing the angle check, if it passes -> raycast to check if LOS is blocked

[edgy sinew]

Hm. Yeah right? I feel like the Physics detection is more valuable than the raycast

It's easier to decide what to do, once nearby [thing] is detected

[timber tide]

basically you get the dot product between the two then I think the cos gives you the angle? Been a second but Unity usually has methods to shortcut it

[edgy sinew]

It may be faster to do it in a math way, but yeah there's like Quaternion.AngleAxis or Vector3.SignedAngle etc

[timber tide]

Ah right SignedAngle would work

[edgy sinew]

gn 💤 🧀

[chilly vigil]

!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

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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.

[chilly vigil]

https://paste.mod.gg help me please tryinging to follow code monkey's grid system

[teal viper]

You'll need to provide more info/context and explain what issue you have exactly.

[chilly vigil]

I am trying to create an text based world system on the grid for the a* pathfinding because I have not figured out the node based a* path yet I am following code monkey a* tutorial that is my goal

[teal viper]

Still not clear what the issue is.

A proper way to describe an issue would be:

I want A to happen(the relevant code is on line xyz), but instead B happens.

Adding a screenshot or a video can be helpful too.

[chilly vigil]

The create world In Text is working somehow or I forgot a game object

[teal viper]

If it's not an actual issue but a question about implementation, you'd ask:

I want to implement a feature/mechanic/system, where xyz happens. How do I approach it?

Sharing some examples from existing games can be a helpful addition.

[true fulcrum]

thank you!!! couldnt find it in the channel directory haha

[naive pawn]

sounds like an #🔀┃art-asset-workflow or a #🖼️┃2d-tools question?

[wooden hemlock]

ok thanks!

[hardy wing]

When I want to enable scrolling, how would I go about that? Could I just set a target camera position and then lerp into it or would that not feel smooth?

No, this scrolling feature is not an UI, it is in world space.