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[midnight plover]

You want to enable the scroll wheel to control your cameras forward Position to Zoom? Could it be rephrased to this?

[hardy wing]

It's a 2D scene so just up and down

[midnight plover]

Ah, so you want to move your camera on y-axis?

[hardy wing]

Ya

[midnight plover]

What did you try so far?

[shell sorrel]

can get the scroll delta add it to the camera position

if its not smooth enough can do a vector3.smoothdamp

[hardy wing]

I didnt. I just asked for conceptual ideas of implementations.

[slender vapor]

anyone know why this keep appearing when i try to install the unity editor?

[hardy wing]

And calcing target position by number of scrolls and lerping to that was my approach

Since I didnt try it out as I'm not in the engine rn I just wanted to get feedback if there are better ways in terms of feel.

[midnight plover]

#💻┃unity-talk might be the better place to ask

[edgy sinew]

I can recommend Vector2.SmoothDamp or Mathf.SmoothDamp if only 1 value is needed

[slender vapor]

ok ty

[rugged beacon]

i have a Locale locale and locale.code or .locale came up nothing ?

[naive pawn]

make sure you assigned that

[rugged beacon]

asigned? drag drop?

its a class property i dont see how it would change but im reference one rn

[naive pawn]

make sure you assigned the locale itself

[edgy sinew]

Hello guys, can you help me clarify the different routes to have shared Events? I'll start below and please help me fill out the list / correct where I'm wrong. Or suggest something better if it's not on here, please

1. Event on MonoBehaviour (to share elsewhere, you would need a direct ref to the MB.)
2. Static Event, static class (this... Always exists? Between scenes, it retains, I think.)
3. Event on a Singleton (kinda same as above but requires instantiation for example a "Singletons" GameObject in the Scene that holds all the Singleton scripts)
4. Scriptable Object Events (just need ref to the SO itself, pretty simple drag & drop)

[naive pawn]

what do you mean by "shared" exactly? shared listeners/shared event for the type?

[edgy sinew]

Well, ease of access, subscription, to some Event. For example so multiple GameObjects in the scene can react, or the UI, etc.

I'm tempted to just do Static Class & Static Events, but I'm aware that Scriptable Object Events have some advantages over that. But, I don't really know what they are! 🤷‍♂️

[shell sorrel]

i tend to just lean on static events, though no need to also make a static class for it

[edgy sinew]

Why not a static class? Do you instantiate the class then? Where / when?

[shell sorrel]

well i define the events on the things that would invoke the event

if things care about exactly which instance did so, i will just pass that as the first arg on the event

[edgy sinew]

So... It's basically the MonoBehaviour method I described above

[grand snow]

a static event field is different to a static class (where you cannot make an instance of the class)

[edgy sinew]

You need a reference to that specific MonoBehaviour, to work with the Event

[shell sorrel]

you do not

[edgy sinew]

Oh because the Event is static?

[shell sorrel]

only need the type to access a static event

[edgy sinew]

So you would do ClassName.MyStaticEvent

Because no instance of the class is required, for the static things to exist

Ahh okay pretty cool. That's not so bad

[grand snow]

public class Item : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static event Action<Item> OnItemCollected;

    public event Action OnCollect; //per instance

[edgy sinew]

What do we gain going the Scriptable Object route?

As I understand, unless we were to do a lookup on Awake by like uhh searching Resources folder or whatever, basically we need [SerializeField] myEventSO anywhere we want to react to the Event

And we drag & drop the SO itself before runtime

[grand snow]

the scriptable object way is worse as unity may make a new instance and really confuse things

[edgy sinew]

Wdym by make a new instance? Wouldn't that only happen with ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<MyScriptableObject>();

[shell sorrel]

Static keep it simple, no worries about timing or finding the instance on sub

Easy to invoke

[grand snow]

no if the asset is loaded there is not guarantee its the same instance if the asset was "unloaded"

[edgy sinew]

I've never seen an SO duplicate itself. Not sure what loaded / unloaded means but, I'll keep an eye out

I'll research more about the benefits of SO Events and report back

[brave compass]

Unity can unload and reload scriptable objects between scene loads if nothing is referencing them, so the non-serialized fields in it, like events, can get cleared.
But I'm pretty sure if you have a subscription you haven't removed, that will count as a reference and it will keep the same instance.

[grand snow]

I dont know if an event on the scriptable object not being null is something that is checked

Its handled like an asset after all

[edgy sinew]

Oh, gosh. Well I dont need my scriptable objects re loaded, darn!

Wait so… if I have a GameObject with a MonoBehaviour, in 2 different scenes, with same SOs plugged in

Then it won’t be reloaded right because there’s always a reference

[brave compass]

Maybe... I can't find a source that proves it one way or the other. Behavior in editor and build can differ as well.

[edgy sinew]

Thanks for the knowledge! I’ll probably go with Static Events until there’s some reason I need the other methods.

[echo ruin]

Not that it bothers me too much, but does anyone have any idea why public Sprite[] overlayTiles; ends up looking like this? https://puu.sh/KBe0J/3c6e94d5b1.png

[brave compass]

I don't see a p oblem

[shell sorrel]

strange, can not repro that

custom editor stuff going on around it?

[echo ruin]

https://puu.sh/KBe1o/30725f9605.png

No clue. Maybe it will correct itself on reset. I just found it odd

[brave compass]

Is it the v character? What if you try adding another one in the name, overlayOverlayTiles?

[echo ruin]

https://puu.sh/KBe1S/45db64e14b.png https://puu.sh/KBe1X/9b533d28aa.png

Seems like it just doesn't like that 'v'

[brave compass]

I feel like I've seen strange issues like this come from misbehaving custom editor stuff. Some editors modify the built-in GUIStyles without reverting.

If Unity restart fixes it, it might just be that.

[naive pawn]

this is most likely a UI glitch, last time i got it it affected fonts rather than characters

so like, it wouldn't show v at all, not just that position

[shell sorrel]

what version?

[echo ruin]

I just changed it back to overlayTiles and now it seems to work fine.
Strange..

[naive pawn]

schrodinger's issue

[edgy sinew]

Hi guys, is this problematic to create a new instance of an InputActions in Awake? Like when it comes to, scene reloads specifically I guess.

        QualitySettings.vSyncCount = 1;
        // Application.targetFrameRate = -1;
        playerInput = new PlayerInput();
    }```

I suppose, since the player's input will be relevant the entire game, maybe it should be Static? Perhaps even a Static class not just the member variable.

[shell sorrel]

its fine doing it in awake

[naive pawn]

PlayerInput the component? 🤨

is it just a generated class named that

[edgy sinew]

No that's the name generate class yes

[naive pawn]

ah lmao

[edgy sinew]

I keep doing that oops

[shell sorrel]

new UI system has code gen for your actions and action maps

[naive pawn]

i'm aware

[shell sorrel]

you can access them either by refs or via this type it creates

[edgy sinew]

So it's like, deleted & re created on a new Scene load?

[naive pawn]

is it always called this?

[edgy sinew]

Seems a little weird. Shouldn't I prefer Static in this case?

[shell sorrel]

it really does not matter, and there are reasons and usecases to have multiple instances of it at times

[edgy sinew]

Ohh yeah like to support split screen Co-op right?

[shell sorrel]

other reasons too, depending on how controls are setup for different parts of a game

[edgy sinew]

I have it set up so an InputReader.cs just captures the input. It's on all other scripts to use that input, however is needed

[shell sorrel]

so if you want to handle thigns that way i would just make InputReader DontDestroyOnLoad

[edgy sinew]

Sorry, can you clarify what exactly happens on scene reload with the Awake() instantiation?

[shell sorrel]

so it survives scene reloads

[edgy sinew]

Oh okay. So that prevents Awake() from like, duplicating the PlayerInput instance? When a new scene opens

(Sorry I'm really clueless on this topic)

[shell sorrel]

yes, since calling DontDestroyOnLoad would put it in its own scene that never unloads or gets loaded again

[edgy sinew]

But without DontDestroyOnLoad,

does Unity auto destroy the previous scene's PlayerInput instance?

[shell sorrel]

it would be tied to the lifetime events of the scene its in

since if the scene onloading the objects you create it in wouldbe gone so it would be gone

[edgy sinew]

Okay so. Unity would be deleting the previous scene's instance and then creating a new one in Awake() of the new scene

got it! Thank you

[limpid cloak]

is it possible or adviseable to use both rigidbody and charactercontroller? i want a controllable gameobject to be more responsive than rb addforce would provide, but i would like to make events where the object is subjected to physics

[naive pawn]

no and no

they will fight for control over the transform

you could have both at separate times if you have specific cutscenes with physics in mind i guess? but you can't use them at the same time, no

[shell sorrel]

character controller is kinda rubbish anyways i would use something like KCC then in your logic for it define how to react to your physics events

[naive pawn]

more responsive than rb addforce
you can also control the velocity yourself, btw.

[limpid cloak]

i was thinking more like, a somewhat believable pushback from an explosion, for example

[limpid cloak]

definitely true, i just saw that charactercontroller is just less bothersome. i'll test around with both

[edgy sinew]

here's my findings bro

1. Rigidbody non-Kinematic
   Have to use AddForce and AddTorque to maintain Interpolation (welcome PID controllers unless you want slippery movement & overshoot)
   Fully in the Physics system, applying and receiving forces
2. Rigidbody Kinematic
   Have to use MovePosition and MoveRotation to maintain interpolation
   Only applies forces to Physics objects, does not receive
3. Character Controller
   Easiest to use, for natural Physics interactions you can add a bit of code, but it's tricky because you have to determine where to inflict or receive force.

[Range(0.0f, 800.0f)]
    public float rbCollisionPush = 4.0f;
    void OnControllerColliderHit(ControllerColliderHit collision) {
        if (collision.rigidbody == null) return;
        Debug.Log("Collided with rigid body");
        // TODO look at Collision Normals to determine which direction to push object instead of just using characterVelocity
        // Or use CharacterController collision flags to determine if top, middle, or bottom of the capsule was hit - might yield more basic results
        collision.rigidbody.AddForce(characterTotalVelocityVec3 * rbCollisionPush, ForceMode.Impulse);
    }

Here's some basic code that applies a force, from the CC, to a Rigidbody when it's hit.

There's way more to do here, like perhaps take into consideration the Normal of the collision that happened, or less complex "which part of the Character Controller" was hit. See image below

[eternal needle]

Its really not suggested to spoonfeed stuff, especially when its not asked for. This code isnt particularly good either.

[limpid cloak]

i'll try both with rbs and not since frankly i'm mostly exploring what CAN be done. what i do know is that 3d math is terrifying

[eternal needle]

The 3d math isnt hard at all, unity has functions implemented to do most of the actual hard math. At most you just need to understand what a function does

[edgy sinew]

"basic code" yes

[eternal needle]

Ok ill be blunt then. Its bad code, doesnt matter if you call it basic. It shows practices that shouldn't be used

[naive pawn]

the "non-kinematic" is called dynamic btw. there's also a static mode in 2d

[edgy sinew]

If you're going to try non-Kinematic, which will both apply and receive forces from all Physics objects,
Make sure to look into PID controllers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roxhVW3KeRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3K6FUgrgXw
https://vazgriz.com/621/pid-controllers/

[naive pawn]

also, dynamic rbs can use velocity, not just forces

[edgy sinew]

Directly modifying .linearVelocity ?

[edgy sinew]

What's so bad about it? It applies a force to a Rigidbody when collided, based on the Player's current velocity.

I said there's more to do, like check the collisionFlags or collision Normal. Etc

[naive pawn]

on point 2

Only applies forces to Physics objects, does not receive
importantly, it does not detect collisions. you still need dynamic rbs to detect the actual collision

[limpid cloak]

first of all i'm going to at least sketch out the action i want, and i'll try to make it happen with either impulse force or with kinematics. thank you all for the advice

[edgy sinew]

I've read that directly modifying .linearVelocity is funky. But some controllers out there, that work great, even switch between Kinematic and non-Kinematic modes.

[naive pawn]

isn't the CC frame-bound, not fixed-timestep-bound?
using AddForce with ForceMode.Force would be incorrect there if that's the case

the Time.deltaTime is also incorrect regardless

[naive pawn]

how is it funky? it's what the RB does.

[edgy sinew]

Thank you for the knowledge. So it would be an Impulse or .VelocityChange then, with no Time.deltaTime in there

[naive pawn]

probably Impulse if you want to have the effect of pushing

[polar acorn]

It's funky as in it won't be realistic, because things in real life don't just become moving all in one go

But setting velocity on a rigidbody does exactly what you expect it does. You're just most likely not expecting realism if you're doing it

[naive pawn]

it could be realistic if you have that in mind

[edgy sinew]

In most cases you should not modify the velocity directly, as this can result in unrealistic behaviour - use AddForce instead Do not set the linear velocity of an object every physics step, this will lead to unrealistic physics simulation. A typical usage is where you would change the velocity is when jumping in a first person shooter, because you want an immediate change in velocity.

[naive pawn]

it can also be unrealistic but play better (if you have that in mind)

[naive pawn]

unrealistic behaviour as in unrealistically high acceleration

[polar acorn]

Again, it is unrealistic, but if you want to set the velocity, chances are you want unrealistic

[naive pawn]

hell, you could have a moving platform that you want at a set velocity

you would be setting the velocity then, easiest option

it wouldn't be realistic

but that's just not an issue

[rich adder]

cause things like Mass and friction are ignored..which you may not want for "Reaslitic" physics

[eternal needle]

you have a magic number 500.0f, then Time.deltaTime used to counteract the magic number which is equally wrong and both can be excluded. and yea as Chris said, this wouldn't be a Force, more likely an Impulse.
it doesnt matter if you say theres more to do, i was always referring to this specific example being bad. It's really just a bad idea to randomly spoonfeed walls of text that no one asked for. it's especially worse when its not correct which is often the case when beginners try to spoonfeed each other with what they've learned in their limited time

theres nothing wrong with directly setting the linear velocity, you can achieve the same result as AddForce

[naive pawn]

yeah imma be honest/blunt here.. i get that you're trying to help, but when you are also a beginner, sometimes that just harms instead

[fair kettle]

I just opened a fresh project that was given to me by my professor and it is showing these errors without having done anything. Any clues?

[polar acorn]

Seems like your URP installation is either out of date, corrupted, or missing. Go into the package manager and re download it

[naive pawn]

i'd guess a library reset could be in order as well

[edgy sinew]

Really? I've had terrible results doing that before 😐

I'll go ahead and clean up that code block a bit. Sorry, I'll be more careful

Okay I fixed all the things. no magic number, no Forcemode.Force, no Time.deltaTime

[eternal needle]

you would typically just add to the linear velocity and it would function fine. Most games dont really have the players bouncing around as a result of objects hitting them, so you dont need accurate physics

[naive pawn]

most of my projects use linearVelocity for player control.

[eternal needle]

the default forcemode is Force, you would want to specify Impulse directly

[edgy sinew]

It still interpolates?

Or do you do your own interpolation.

[naive pawn]

if you have interpolation settings set, yes

that's the point of the interpolation setting

[edgy sinew]

I thought that it works with AddForce and AddTorque only.

[naive pawn]

AddForce just changes the velocity

[edgy sinew]

... 🥺

I can't even find anything online on that specifically. Really, setting .linearVelocity directly maintains interpolation of a dynamic RB?

I'm gonna try it out, hope you're not pranking me

[limpid cloak]

is linearvelocity new? some old-ish tutorials ive come across use just velocity

[edgy sinew]

But you still need AddTorque for rotation.

Right?

[naive pawn]

yeah it was renamed in unity 6

it does the same thing

[naive pawn]

there is also angularVelocity

that's how AddTorque works under the hood

[naive pawn]

nothing about it would break interpolation
interpolation is for the simulation of the RB, not for interpolating forces specifically

[eternal needle]

if you arent aiming for physics interaction as a result of the player rb turning, you dont need torque or angular velocity at all either. Could just directly set the rotation on the rigidbody

[umbral hound]

can someone help me?

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using DG.Tweening;
using Sirenix.OdinInspector;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerDeathManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [TitleGroup("<< Fade In >>")]
    [PropertyTooltip("The duration in seconds for the screen to fade in")]
    public float m_FadeInDuration = 2f;
    
    [TitleGroup("<< Fade In >>")]
    [PropertyTooltip("The ease setting for the fade in tween")]
    public Ease m_FadeInEase;
    
    [TitleGroup("<< Fade Out >>")]
    [PropertyTooltip("The duration in seconds for the screen to fade out")]
    public float m_FadeOutDuration;
    
    [TitleGroup("<< Fade Out >>")]
    [PropertyTooltip("The duration in seconds for the fade out tween")]
    public Ease m_FadeOutTween;
    
    public List<KillZone> m_KillZones = new List<KillZone>();

    private void Awake()
    {
        AddListeners();
    }

    private void AddListeners()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < m_KillZones.Count; i++)
        {
            m_KillZones[i].OnEnter += HandleKillZoneOnEnter;
        }
    }

    private void RemoveListeners()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < m_KillZones.Count; i++)
        {
            m_KillZones[i].OnEnter -= HandleKillZoneOnEnter;
        }
    }

    private void HandleKillZoneOnEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        (sender as KillZone).OnEnter -= HandleKillZoneOnEnter;
        Debug.Log("Kill Zone :: Player died");
        ASingleton<ScreenBlockerController>.Instance.ShowScreenBlocker(m_FadeInDuration, m_FadeInEase, () =>
        {
            ASingleton<PlayerController>.Instance.transform.position = ASingleton<GameManager>.Instance.m_RespawnPoint.position;
            ASingleton<ScreenBlockerController>.Instance.HideScreenBlocker(m_FadeOutDuration, m_FadeOutTween);
        });
        (sender as KillZone).OnEnter += HandleKillZoneOnEnter;
    }
}

[naive pawn]

what do you need help with

[umbral hound]

Now, my player does SOMETIMES respawn at the respawn point but not always

and I know my logic is triggering because the screen blocker still shows and hides

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log("Kill Zone :: Player died"); are you seeing this log?

[umbral hound]

I am

[naive pawn]

what's with the desubscription and immediate resubscription

[umbral hound]

Like I said, I KNOW the logic triggers

it just doesn't set the player position always

[umbral hound]

Well so that when I die, the system knows to resubscribe to it so it will do it again

[wintry quarry]

put a log right before the line that sets the player's position

[naive pawn]

why not just.. not do the entire thing

[wintry quarry]

why not just leave the subscription alone?

[naive pawn]

don't desubscribe and then don't resubscribe

[umbral hound]

Oh I saw people doing that in other games. By not doing that, wouldn't that be a violation of some code practice?

[naive pawn]

what would it be violating

-# tip: don't blindly follow, dip deeper to find out why

[umbral hound]

Idk what I'm talking about

[naive pawn]

i would guess that maybe it was in a coroutine or similar, and the resubscription was only done after the respawn sequence

[slender nymph]

the only reason you should unsub immediately before subbing is if your code may have already subscribed somehow but you are unsure and you also want it to only be subscribed once

in this case it seems pointless as you can just leave it subscribed

[umbral hound]

Okay so I have taken out the resubscription and unsubscribe, and I put a log above the position reset, that DOES log but it doesn't reset

[naive pawn]

have you tried logging where it's trying to respawn the player?

the name of the respawn point for example

[umbral hound]

I'll try this

[slender nymph]

that action you pass to the ShowScreenBlocker method isn't perhaps being invoked on another thread, right?

[umbral hound]

I hope not, I'll send the logic

using System;
using DG.Tweening;
using Sirenix.OdinInspector;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ScreenBlockerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [TitleGroup("<< Screen Blocker Options >>")]
    [SerializeField]
    private CanvasGroup m_CanvasGroup;

    private void Awake()
    {
        m_CanvasGroup.alpha = 0f;
    }

    public void ShowScreenBlocker(float duration, Ease ease, TweenCallback onComplete = null)
    {
        m_CanvasGroup.DOFade(1f, duration).SetEase(ease).onComplete += onComplete;
    }

    public void HideScreenBlocker(float duration, Ease ease, TweenCallback onComplete = null)
    {
        m_CanvasGroup.DOFade(0f, duration).SetEase(ease).onComplete += onComplete;
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

what components arew on the player? how does it move?

[umbral hound]

Okay so I DID log the respawn position, even when it doesn't reset the player's position there, it DOES log it as a vector3

[slender nymph]

if it has a CharacterController you need to be sure to disable that when you teleport it

[umbral hound]

OH

Okay

That might be in

it

[umbral hound]

THANK YOU!!!!!

[rich adder]

you can edit messages btw :p

[umbral hound]

I know, didn't think to

[naive pawn]

you can press up (arrow keys) to quickedit the last message

or use sed if you're into that

[rich adder]

what is "sed" ?

[naive pawn]

it's a command line tool short for __s__tream __ed__itor, there's one commonly known expression usually in the form s/a/b/ where a is replaced by b in the input text
you can use a basic version of that form in discord (the real one uses regex, i believe discord just does text replacement? haven't tested)
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html

[rich adder]

ohh nicee. TIL

[thorn kiln]

So, I'm having a bit of an issue. When my character jumps on a crate, it's supposed to instantiate a bone powerup in it's space and then destroy the crate, but it's only doing it sometimes, most of the time it just doesn't make instantiate the bone. This is the code I'm using.

        if (other.TryGetComponent(out CrateWeakPoint crateTrigger))
        {
            Instantiate(powerupPrefab, crateTrigger.transform.position, crateTrigger.transform.rotation);
            Destroy(crateTrigger.crate.gameObject);
            var velocity = playerRb.linearVelocity;
            velocity.y = 0;
            playerRb.linearVelocity = velocity;
            playerRb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
        }```

If it never did it, I'd say the code is totally broken, but the fact it does it sometimes is... weird

[wintry quarry]

where and when does the code run?

[rich adder]

how are you doing detections?

[thorn kiln]

OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)

[wintry quarry]

hoenstly i think you're probably just immediately colliding with the bone after it spawns

add Debug.Log to the code for the bone pickup and the crate collision

[thorn kiln]

Hmm, hadn't considered that

[wintry quarry]

i bet they're both running

[wintry quarry]

In fact if you freeze freame here...

you can see the bone is there for one frame

(at 9 seconds in the video)

[thorn kiln]

Yeah, I just tried running into a enemy right after jumping on an "empty" crate and it destroyed them, so I'm picking up the bone

Frustrating

That needs to not happen

[wintry quarry]

one approach would be to basically enable the bone's collider only after a certain amount of time has passed

[thorn kiln]

Nghhhh, that's a bit much for my skill level

I could probably do it, but it'd be messy

[wintry quarry]

you can use DOTween for it

[thorn kiln]

See, I don't even know what that is

[wintry quarry]

or just a coroutine

[wintry quarry]

oh sorry i mixed you up wiht the personabove who was using DOTween

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StartCoroutine.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/Coroutines.html

this will help you create a timer you can run once, or however many times you need it

[thorn kiln]

Yeah, I know about coroutines and timers, a little. It's how I'm doing the powerup.

[rich adder]

ohh thats good 🙂

[thorn kiln]

Thye're a little messy. I still need to sort out my powerups code so that picking up a new powerup resets the timer.

[rich adder]

wdym? messy in what way?

[thorn kiln]

Spread out around the script

[rich adder]

I mean you don't need to all cram it in the same script lol make a component just dedicated to enabling the collider

[thorn kiln]

Makes it difficult for me to keep track in my head what's going on and where

[rich adder]

try to avoid Monoliths for this reason

A Component per feature/responsibility usually keeps things nice and neat

so like you can make it modular where this component just runs the timer and does something after, you can plug a UnityEvent or something so it can be used for other things to run on timer ends

public UnityEvent OnTimerEnd;
IEnumerator MyTimedAction(){
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(timer); //changed in inspector
        OnTimerEnd.Invoke();// run something after its done -- assigned in inspector
    }```

overkill but can be used for timers so you dont have to create it in a bunch of scripts

[slender nymph]

in a similar vein you can do something like this as well #💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

yeah tbh I prefer through code this way ^^

but if you want UnityEvent can be easy so you dont want to deal with Sub and Unsub yourself
things like .enabled can be toggled through inspector / unity event

[thorn kiln]

Just trying to figure out where I should put everything. Things need to be in the scene to do stuff, and currently the code to generate the powerup is on my playercontroller, just because all the stuff that happens when I collide with things has been easier to organize from there.

[slender nymph]

generating powerups shouldn't be the responsibility of the PlayerController. you need to try and separate things out into different objects/components otherwise debugging is going to end up being an absolute nightmare

[rich adder]

scanning a file that has 500 lines that do different things aint fun...been there..done that...fuck all that..

[thorn kiln]

I know, I started making this prototype a while ago though and copying things from the pathway, which seems to be sub-optimal but functional in pretty much everything it teaches you

[rich adder]

yeah they're meant more to get the concepts down

clean code comes later on usually , but its good to start early so later on you dont tell yourself "I shouldve done this other way cause now this is a mess to debug"

https://unity.com/resources/create-code-c-sharp-style-guide-e-book

[thorn kiln]

So I should just make the box collider off by default and then use a coroutine to turn it on after like, 1 second

[rich adder]

simplest way yea

cute quote in that pdf

CODE IS LIKE HUMOR . IF YOU
HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT, IT ’S BAD
– Cory House, software architect and author

[earnest wind]

hey guys, is there any way to tell if someone is focused on a slider in ui?

i know the way to do it for input field on tmp but slider doesnt have a .isFocused property

[rich adder]

not reliably iirc.
maybe Selected object from event system but even that I found gives weird result sometimes

[earnest wind]

ah okay thanks, even without it im fine, just wanted to know if there is

couldnt find anything on internet

[rich adder]

wouldve been too hard to just give us OnFocus and OnLoseFocus events ffs.

[earnest wind]

thats exactly what im going to do, kinda of

[thorn kiln]

Hmm, that's hard to figure out how to do that from the playercontroller script.I gotta turn on the collider for the powerup I just instantiated from inside a coroutine.

[slender nymph]

check its currentSelectionState to see if it is Selected

[rich adder]

why not have the script already on the spawned object that activates itself in IEnumerator Start()

[thorn kiln]

Eh, true. I was thinking I don't have any scripts on my powerup, but looks like I do

[rich adder]

you could technically also do it from the spawner, you just need to spawn it as Collider or do a get component on the instance spawned, but having just a script for activation should not be too heavy

[thorn kiln]

I'm just averse to having so many scripts, because I know I'm gonna forget where everything is. Also, if I start referencing stuff in a bunch of them I'm gonna end up creating a lot of interdependency and stuffs more liable to break.

Already feels like I have too many

[rich adder]

you should not be worrying about the quanitity , because again.. you dont want monoliths

monoliths dont scale well in the long run

[wintry quarry]

That's very few. Maybe invest in organization for the scripts though instead of dumping them all in a single folder

[thorn kiln]

It's not a big enough project that I need to worry about that

[wintry quarry]

Well I mean if you end up with a lot of scripts, which you seemed worried about

[thorn kiln]

Im literally just finishing off the "personal project" the programmer pathway has you start then never finish

[rich adder]

also having a script on the spawned object that manages itself solves a problem of "interdependency"

[slender nymph]

I'm gonna forget where everything is
this is going to become even more of a problem as you try and cram as much as possible into things where they don't belong.

Which do you think is more intuitive:
You have an issue with your powerups spawning in the wrong place.
Does it make more sense to look inside PlayerController.cs or would it make more sense to look into PowerupSpawner.cs

[polar acorn]

Okay but where are the other three hundred

[rich adder]

ya fr

[thorn kiln]

Eugh, collider enabler works, now I'm realizing the powerup spawns too high

That's a pain to fix

[slender nymph]

damn am i a psychic

[thorn kiln]

That's not an issue with where I'm arranging my code, just where I'm telling it to spawn

Which is at the crates position

[slender nymph]

yes, but that was the hypothetical example i used

[thorn kiln]

Well you saw a video of my game and the code I was using, so it's not exactly the prophetic

[slender nymph]

you're taking a joke way too seriously

[earnest wind]

not wanna brag but i have like 1800 scripts

how i manage them

is just make a folder for scripts in every scene folder

and then u have the general one which is scripts that can be seen in more than 1 scene and so on

once scene has so many scripts that i had to make categories inside based on what they are used in

but yeah, right now it wont be a proble

[thorn kiln]

Yeah, with a one scene game, not a big issue

[earnest wind]

and even if it becomes, its not hard to get rid of it

[earnest wind]

are you sarcastic trying to say that your game is one scene so its a big problem?

[thorn kiln]

No, I just said the opposite?

[grand snow]

I just use logical folder names and asm defs

If on a team then ideally things are organised in a way that suits the project so people can locate things easily

[spiral oracle]

god tier programming

[rich adder]

if its just "Data" does it need to be a monobehaviour

[spiral oracle]

yes I'm probably just bad at naming things

I couldn't make Square a monobehavior class

so I had to make a separate one for what I wanted to do

and I just named it that because the square's name is data technically

[rich adder]

gotcha.. I usually use MB when I need components but for data itself usually its a SO or Struct / Poco

[spiral oracle]

like in the Square script I'm writing to the variable squareName in an instance of the SquareData class and then another script reads from it

[spiral oracle]

mhm I see

gtg

[plush bronze]

Hi! I just joined Unity for the first time and wanted to see if making games is actually fun and it is! I made this with just google (no AI) and with some skills I had, does anyone want to tell me tips n tricks for starting?

[rich adder]

#1180170818983051344

[thorn kiln]

Is there a way to destroy a particle effect after it's finished playing? I can't just instantiate and destroy on the next line cause it'll never finish playing

[rich adder]

set the stop action to Destroy

[thorn kiln]

Oh, that's... immensely easier than what I was thinking

[thorn kiln]

I guess it makes sense it would be made easy in the game engine

[rich adder]

mhm. callback one is also very usful to run additional logic with it

[thorn kiln]

What does callback do?

[grand snow]

Too bad its a message and not an event

[rich adder]

true its a weird workflow but its best we got :\

[grand snow]

(the particle system stop callback) https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnParticleSystemStopped.html

thankfully newer stuff uses events like it should have from day 1

[rich adder]

VFX graph?

[grand snow]

i just mean unity features in general

[rich adder]

ohhh true

[grand snow]

I guess it was done this way to work in js + boo too
but since those were ditched things can be designed for c# properly

[dense goblet]

just need quick help, Im trying to make a if statement that looks for the first value in a list, Im assuming its something like "Listname[1]" or something?

[shell sorrel]

define looks for

also first is index 0

[dense goblet]

the if statement would search for the value of (for example) the first listed item

[shell sorrel]

ok but are you looking to see if it has a first element or looking to see if that value is a certain value?

like something like if (list[0] == "MyString") {

[dense goblet]

I think I tried something like that? let me try again and see the error, prolly some weird intilization error tbh

Parameter name: index
System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T].get_Item (System.Int32 index) (at <59bd7c40c082431db25e1e728ab62789>:0)
GameManager.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/GameManager.cs:25)

heres my script here ```using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using static UnityEditor.Progress;

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject Enemy;
public GameObject GameManagerObject;
public List<int> randomRoomOrder;
// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
List<int> randomRoomOrder = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4};
randomRoomOrder = randomRoomOrder.OrderBy(i => Random.value).ToList();
Debug.Log("randomRoomOrder: " + string.Join(", ", randomRoomOrder));
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    //randomNumber = Random.Range(0, 4);
    Debug.Log(randomRoomOrder[0]);






    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.O))
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);
    }
}

}```

am I not making the list properly?

[ivory bobcat]

What line is 25?

[shell sorrel]

you are redefining randomRoomOrder

[shell sorrel]

in start you have a type name infront of it, which is creating a new randomRoomOrder just in your start method

instead of using the field randomRoomOrder

so the one you are accessing in Update is not the same one, and its never been initialized

[dense goblet]

I understand

[ivory bobcat]

You've created a new randomRoomOrder

List<int> randomRoomOrder = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4};

[dense goblet]

so I should be able to refrence it like other values?

when I try that I get a The name 'randomRoomOrder' does not exist in the current context so I assume not

[shell sorrel]

in start remove the List<int> part

[dense goblet]

what should I replace it with, should it be an int?

[shell sorrel]

with nothing

just needs to be this randomRoomOrder = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4};

you already declared randomRoomOrder above in the class

because you incuded the type again, that cuased it to redeclare it in the scope of start

instead of just writing to the one that exists already

[dense goblet]

I understand now, thank you so much

settled on this actually ```using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using static UnityEditor.Progress;

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject Enemy;
public GameObject GameManagerObject;
public List<int> randomRoomOrder = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4 };
// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
//List<int> randomRoomOrder = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4};
randomRoomOrder = randomRoomOrder.OrderBy(i => Random.value).ToList();
Debug.Log("randomRoomOrder: " + string.Join(", ", randomRoomOrder));
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    Debug.Log(randomRoomOrder[0]);
    





    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.O))
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);
    }
}

}

just make it in the begining like that instead of in start since it can't access it in start

[shell sorrel]

you can access it in start just fine

but because you had the type name infront of it, you just created a new thing with the same name that only start can see

instead of putting your new list into the existing randomRoomOrder field on the object

lines that start with a type or var declare a new variable in the current scope, which can shadow other things with the same names from outer scopes

[thorn kiln]

So, until now, the only way I've been shown how to handle main menu and game over screens is to add a bunch of conditions to if statements to stop the game doing things while these are active, but I know that can't possibly be the most efficient way to do it, especially once your game has a lot more than like, 3 things happening, going and adding if statements with "&& isGameOver" to everything would be incredibly inefficient

[ivory bobcat]

So was there a question?

[thorn kiln]

I guess what's another way to stop the game for main menu or game over screens?

[shell sorrel]

are better ways, but if you mean " incredibly inefficient" performance wise do not worry about that, its a rounding error worst case perf wise

[ivory bobcat]

Well, regardless you'll have to have some sort of condition for scenes to change. If you're referring to polling from update or an event system, the later would be more advance, clean, complicated etc

[thorn kiln]

Nah I just mean coding-wise. Adding a ton of if-statements to your code doesnt seem like a professional way to handle it.

[ivory bobcat]

No one will ever see it.

[shell sorrel]

so how most would do it would be breaking there game into states or phases

and triggering stuff like the UI to change via events

[thorn kiln]

Well no, but usually when it comes to something like this, there's usually a way to make it so you don't have to repeat something throughout your code to make it work

[ivory bobcat]

I'd just do something like this
#💻┃code-beginner message

[thorn kiln]

Hmm, when I use private GameObject player; my enemies follow me wherever I go on the map, but if I use public GameObject player; they only move to my initial position

[shell sorrel]

look into what else changed

also how does player get set?

if its private and you are not using [SerializeField] its no longer set in the inspector if that was your intent

[thorn kiln]

Eh, it's too late at night for my brain to worry about it right now actually

I'll just change it back for now

I'll try and muster some brain power and figure out how to stop my enemy moving when gameover is true (or to only move when gameover is false)

[shell sorrel]

disable the component that moves enemies when gameover becomes try

or check if its true in its update and return early

[thorn kiln]

Yeah, Im trying to check if it's true, I'm just having trouble referencing it

In my OnCollisionEnter, it's as easy as player.gameOver = true;, but in update, it won't let me reference it

[shell sorrel]

i would not consider gameOver to really be a property of the player

would have some sort of game state manager that keeps track of that, which is easy for things to reference

[thorn kiln]

Well in my game, it currently is, so don't worry too much about that

[shell sorrel]

maybe even as a singleton

[ivory bobcat]

You're probably accessing it elsewhere and changing the target. GameObject is a reference type (not a value type that would only be copied) so it's very unlikely that changing the accessor without anything else had create the problem.

[grave frost]

anyone know what this new transform handle struct is in unity 6.3? Work towards DOTS and Mono union?

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/TransformHandle.html

[echo ruin]

I get an IndexOutOfRangeException by picking the spriteRenderer.sprite = overlayTiles[0]; and I'm wondering if it's because None (Sprite) is not a valid sprite?

spriteRenderer.sprite = overlayTiles[0];

Never mind. I had just accidentally added the script to the object twice, so one array was empty

[hardy wing]

Not a good reason to use a bad implementation. Not saying what Josh talked about is bad but if there are easy improvements that don't decrease your code's quality, then why not do it?

[hardy wing]

I personally like to split the projects where I have a typical "player" you can control into the movement component and separate it from the component that actually gives the inputs. Now the input component can raise some C# events that the movement component can then hook into. That way you can simply stop raising events when you pressed Escape for example.

[eternal needle]

with most things, . is it an improvement if the game runs the exact same? that depends on more context. I'm sure we could find "easy improvements" in every beginners code here but theres a certain point where it's unreasonable to do. Sometimes it just isn't work spending the day "improving" something when you could be working on new features

[hardy wing]

I think there comes the difference between me and people actually getting shit done

But you're probably right

[wintry panther]

im making a 2ds platformer endless runner, but my player rigidbody keeps getting stuck on the ground objects at the seams between each ground object. i tried to use a composite collider but still the player gets stuck after a while

maybe it has to do with my sprites im using?

maybe i should try using tiles over prefab objects for the ground?

im spawning in the ground objects 1f units beside each other with the right pixel per unit for the ground sprite. shouldnt they combine into one collider?

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not certain I understand what you're getting at. There isn't anything inherently bad about using conditional branches.

[teal viper]

There's no such feature. Colliders wouldn't automatically combine into one.

What collider are you using for the character? Shapes with smooth edges, like a capsule shouldn't stuck on collider seams/edges.

[ivory bobcat]

Info: I recall the individual trying to resolve some edge case with physics (unity box2d)
#💻┃code-beginner message

Where they're wanting to use a composite collider with tiles

Unfortunately I don't have too much knowledge with this

[hardy wing]

I was just saying my opinion in the general case. If something is bad or if something is better it's nice to hear about other options. Not more to it. Also not specifically related to Josh's case.

[willow iron]

So I have this movement script

void Update(){
if (movementEnabled == true)
        {
            HandleMovement();
            HandleRotation();
        }
}

void HandleMovement()
    {
        float vertical = Input.GetAxis(horizontalMoveInput) * walkspeed;
        float horizontal = Input.GetAxis(verticalMoveInput)  * walkspeed;
        
        Vector3 speed = new Vector3(horizontal, 0, vertical);
        speed = transform.rotation * speed;
        controller.SimpleMove(speed);
    }```
Now i have a seperate script to simulate entering and exiting a locker

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

The code works fine... 50 pecent of the time
im assuming its something strange with character controller that i dont know about since ive never used it before
any suggestions?

[ivory bobcat]

You might want to describe the working and non working behaviors

[willow iron]

Working behavior: the capsule teleports in front of the rectangle and falls to the ground
non-working behaviors: the capsule teleports outside of the rectangle, then very quickly back into the rectangle and falls to the ground

[frosty hound]

Where are you setting releasekey to false?

If it's carrying over the next frame, it will trigger the locker again.

[willow iron]

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
        {
            LockerInteract();
            releasekey = false;
        }

        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.E))
        {
            releasekey = true;
        }

yeah i still dont know how input works in unity so i have this hacky method of doing it

[ivory bobcat]

If you're using the Unity character controller component are you properly addressing the synchronization of the Transform component? ie disabling/enabling the component or sync transform etc
https://unity.huh.how/character-controller/teleportation

[willow iron]

ill get to implementing that and see if it works

[frosty hound]

You're only setting releasekey to false when the player presses the key though?

[wintry panther]

I'm using a box collider 2d for both the player and the ground objects

maybe i shouldnt use the physics system?

i just want the player to run to the right automatically forever, with new ground objects sapwning infront

[frosty hound]

Characters typically use capsule or sphere colliders, not box, for that very reason of hitting seams.

[wintry panther]

and have 3 mechanics. jumping, sliding under objects, and fliping the gravity

i tried using the circle collider but the player bounces very slightly when hitting a seam

is there no way to stop the bounce?

[frosty hound]

Make sure your general scale of things isn't very tiny, which is a common issue with using sprites.

[wintry panther]

my pixel per unit is 16

[frosty hound]

Yes, but if the scale of things shrunk down? What is that compared to a default cube which is 1 unit big?

[willow iron]

yup, that fixed the problem. Thank you!

[wintry panther]

i placed a cube in the scene and looks like the player is the same size

so using a circle collider 2d is the best option?

[frosty hound]

Yes

Are these sections you're spawning in premade? Can you not prebake the composite colliders into them?

[wintry panther]

i have a ground prefab im spawning in with code

sec let me clean up the code

okay im calling this everytime a new ground object is made:

{
    //print("test");
    CompositeCollider2D composite = GetComponent<CompositeCollider2D>();
    composite.GenerateGeometry();
    //composite.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().sharedMaterial = `new PhysicsMaterial2D { friction = 0.1f, bounciness = 0 }; // Reduce sticking
}```

so basically grabbing the composite collider and generating the geometry

code is messy right now since im just trying to get it to work

[frosty hound]

And your character is using a ridigbody? What detection mode is it set to?

[wintry panther]

discrete

not sure if the composite collider is actually updating

[wintry panther]

ah it works now! i forgot to set the box collider of the ground object to merge for the composite operation

[chilly vigil]

But I have a Godot version that has all the files. It is only the unity version that I deleted of my game by pressing crt d on my keyboard ⌨️ I thought it would duplicate it.

[lethal shuttle]

Looking for help in setting up an isometric depth sorting system for drawing sprites in front/behind walls

I've tried a couple of methods and wasn't able to figure anything out

[past ivy]

hello everyone, someone please tell how to share a project made in Unity with other developers !?

[lethal shuttle]

github is a good way to share projects

you should be able to find lots of information on how to set up a github repository

[past ivy]

for editing the project as a team !

[raven zephyr]

who can help me make a game

[eternal needle]

yes thats what git and github can help you do

[eternal needle]

!collab

[radiant void]

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We do not accept job or collab posts on Discord.
Please, use Discussions to promote yourself as job-seeking, advertise commercial job offers, or look for non-commercial projects to participate in:
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[past ivy]

then what is the unity control version for ?

[eternal needle]

unity version control is another form of version control. git is version control. you dont have to use UVC or git specifically, you just need to use one

[lethal shuttle]

so this is my current debugging- the yellow tile wall visualizes walls that should be drawn behind the player. the green visualizers show walls that should be drawn in front of the player

I am having trouble with manipulating the order in layer property for the player and the walls

[past ivy]

so please help me in using and setting up UVC !

[eternal needle]

i dont use UVC, most people here dont. no matter which one you choose, first consult google

[past ivy]

my teammate added me as a user but I'm not able to see anything of the project

[teal viper]

Did they upload/push the project/changes to the remote repository?

And did you pull them to your local environment?

[past ivy]

I'm able to access the project through the option " Add From Repository " but after opening the project in editor nothing is showing !

[teal viper]

Then they(your teammate) probably didn't upload their changes correctly.

[teal viper]

Also, I'd recommend using the standalone gui client instead of the editor plugin. You can then share some screenshots that would make it easier for us to help you.

[past ivy]

don't know enough about unity and plug-in thingsnow , cuz we are totally beginners 🥹

[teal viper]

Then you should put some minimal effort into learning this. There are plenty of tutorials online as well as the unity documentation/Manual.
We can't help you if you don't understand what we're talking about.

[misty nymph]

Hi! I'm currently going through the Creative Core tutorials (https://learn.unity.com/pathway/creative-core), it's great! Still I like to envision "my game" alongside it, which is a Civilization clone in its essence (hex-grid, 3d, procedurally generated). I'd love to have one thing clarified though: In an attempt years past I worked with planes which had ~50x50 hex tiles on them and I used texture splatting to merge the tile types (grass, sand, ...) with each other. Later I'd add bump mapping and other fancy effects to it. My question is: Does this vision sit right? Is that how things are done? Or should I e.g. use DOTS to or some other fancy batching & instancing technology I haven't learnt yet to draw each hex separately?
Having that cleared up would help throughout the tutorial: How to bake lighting, which systems to use, do I need tesselation, etc.

[sage wyvern]

I need help, idk how to make a lock on system with cinemachine and i can't find any up to date videos which can help me.

[cobalt sierra]

There's a lock on sample in the cinemachine samples if im not mistaken

[thorn kiln]

I'm having an issue. When my enemy collides with my player, if the player has a powerup, it's supposed to destroy them, which it does do, but if they don't have a powerup it's supposed to set gameover to true, which it doesn't do. So I'm a little confused why only half the if-statement is working.

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.TryGetComponent(out PlayerController player))
        {
            if (player.hasPowerup == true)
            {
                Destroy(gameObject);
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("You are ded.");
                gameOver = true;
            }
        }
    }```

Hmm, wait, no ,thats not true

It's setting the clone to gameover but that's not changing anything in the game

[midnight plover]

Guess you figured it out 😉

[thorn kiln]

I guess I should reconfigure things and put gameover in the scene manager. I guess the issue is that clones don't work for this?

[midnight plover]

You are mixing several states here. CollisionEnter is happening on another object, if I understand you calling player via trygetcomponent. SO you are setting gameOver on your object where the collision method is happening. What is that object?

And who or what should react to gameOver being true? How are you accessing it?

You might read about events and have one source of truth for your game, so you know what your actual state and not letting several objects handle the state 🙂

[thorn kiln]

It should stop my players movement

    void Update()
    {
        if (!enemyScript.gameOver)
        {
            MovePlayer();
        }
        ConstrainPlayerPosition();
    }```

[midnight plover]

Where is "enemyScript" coming from and is "gameOver" static or just a public value?

[grand snow]

why is this gameover var on the enemy?

[thorn kiln]

I couldn't tell ya

[grand snow]

ideally you would do something like player.Die() and then let the player object control its state

[plush bronze]

can anyone help me with collisions?

[grand snow]

bleh i meant to write game over var 😆
Perhaps this is why its not working?

[naive pawn]

we'll need more info about your specific question
https://dontasktoask.com

[grand snow]

The better design would be:

• enemy collides with player
• enemy tells player to take some damage/die

[midnight plover]

just to clarify, enemyScript is just one instance of your class in your scene. If you have mulitple enemies, they all hold their own state of gameOver unless you are making a static value out of it. But that would be counterintuitive because the gameOver state is aglobal game state, not an enemy one

[naive pawn]

btw, you don't need the == true.

[thorn kiln]

Yeah, accurate

I'll end up doing that occasionally because I'm just writing it out how I'm thinking it in my head

[plush bronze]

lol okay, so I have a player script and all that works fine, but I made the player a capsule (bean) and the collisions are really off...
how can I fix that?

[midnight plover]

Do not conceptualize your logic while writing it 😄 That will give you at least a big pile of yummy pasta, but no well structured code 😄

[naive pawn]

how exactly are they "off"? we aren't psychic, you're gonna have to be more descriptive

are you using a rigidbody/character controller? how are you moving the player?

[plush bronze]

that's the movement script if you are wondering:

// Forward
        if (keyboard.wKey.isPressed)
            rigidBody.transform.Translate(0, 0, MovementSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        // Backward
        if (keyboard.sKey.isPressed)
            rigidBody.transform.Translate(0, 0, -MovementSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        // Left
        if (keyboard.aKey.isPressed)
            rigidBody.transform.Translate(-MovementSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0);
        // Right
        if (keyboard.dKey.isPressed)
            rigidBody.transform.Translate(MovementSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0);

and I am using a RigidBody

[midnight plover]

You could go to basic pen and paper and just write down what entities you are going to have in your game. from there, you can easily branch out and add objects that listen or react to states of global events and values

[naive pawn]

if you have a rigidbody, why aren't you using it

you're fighting the rigidbody over control of the transform

[grand snow]

its a bad idea to use keys directly like this

[plush bronze]

I am? I started yesterday with a little CS in my head

[pastel iron]

Try using the CharacterController component and use the Move() method in that component.

[grand snow]

you arent, you are just moving the gameobjects position which bypasses physics

[hexed terrace]

this is not using the rigidbody to move

[plush bronze]

ahh I see, so how would I do that? since I did AddForce but that made the character go really fast

[naive pawn]

this is bad advice, given that they already have a rigidbody

[naive pawn]

lower the force you added then

[plush bronze]

but AddForce() will add more and more force no?

[grand snow]

you set drag correctly on the rigidbody

[naive pawn]

and there is linear damping and friction that will reduce it

[plush bronze]

is there a way to max that?

[naive pawn]

you would not want to max that

[plush bronze]

ahh I see I did play around with em..

[plush bronze]

got it

[naive pawn]

there is also an option of setting the velocity

make sure you're working in FixedUpdate if you do AddForce with continuous forces as well

[plush bronze]

oh? that would be better then no?

[naive pawn]

not "better", just different

[plush bronze]

got it got it, I just tried fixed update with the new InputSystem and it worked... 20% if I spammed it and with Update it worked perfectly

[naive pawn]

yeah inputs are frame-bound

[plush bronze]

alrighty, so:

Movement in FixedUpdate
Input in Update
and not change position but the velocity?

[grand snow]

You also want to change your input to be vector2 which you read with ReadValue<Vector2>()

[naive pawn]

sure, that could work (one of many ways)

[plush bronze]

that One Method almost made me rage becasue I did:

mouse.delta and not mouse.delta.ReadValue()
like why do I need to read the value?

[thorn kiln]

Okay, I jury-rigged it, it's working now, enemies and players stop when they collide and gameover is now true

[naive pawn]

because it's an InputAction, it's part of the system

[plush bronze]

basically to optimize it?

and when I wanna use it Ill read it?

[naive pawn]

not optimization, no. it's to make a coherent/consistent system

[grand snow]

example from something i did recently

//Movement
Vector3 input = inputs.gameplay.move.ReadValue<Vector2>();

//Change speed
input *= MoveSpeed / Time.fixedDeltaTime;

//Make local
input = rigidBody.rotation * new Vector3(input.x, 0f, input.y);

rigidBody.AddForce(input, ForceMode.Force);

[plush bronze]

ahh got it

[naive pawn]

why the / Time.fixedDeltaTime

[plush bronze]

inputs? is that using the new InputSystem?

[grand snow]

yes, i used the option where it generates a class for you with your input actions

[plush bronze]

ooh that's sick

[grand snow]

this is done in fixed update and i guess i wanted to keep my old values 😆

[naive pawn]

that's not what my concern was about

but i see it's being used as an acceleration now rather than a deltaPosition

[grand snow]

it was something i did ages ago that i recently changed a tad to use force instead of velocity so I just fudged it a bit
nothing important anyway was just for fun

[naive pawn]

(does that even make sense with /deltaTime though)

i guess it does, kinda...

[grand snow]

I probably tried it, stuff seemed to work and that was that 😆

[naive pawn]

i think it does work, im just having a hard time figuring out the values lol

[balmy vortex]

hey so like I have an enemy in my project that I want to move towards the player but I'm not sure how to actually get the angle it needs to move in

everything else is pretty easy but ya

[teal viper]

Think in direction vectors, not angles.

[balmy vortex]

wdym

[grand snow]

if the enemy and player are on the same "plane" (a flat floor) we just need a direction from the enemy to player

[teal viper]

You're gonna need a vector to move the object, not an angle.

[grand snow]

Vector3 direction = enemyPos - playerPos;
direction.Normalize();

[teal viper]

If you don't know what vectors are, you need to learn them NOW!

You're not allowed to work your game until then.

[balmy vortex]

wow

[grand snow]

That's right the game police will get ya

[naive pawn]

or as a one-liner, (enemyPos - playerPos).normalized

(but also should be playerPos - enemyPos if you want the direction from the enemy to the player)

[grand snow]

Yes my bad I did it backwards.
It's targetPos - myPos @balmy vortex

[naive pawn]

always get caught up on that myself lol 😆

[balmy vortex]

player position - enemy position = angle from enemy to player

ya?

[naive pawn]

not an angle, but a direction vector (once normalized)

[balmy vortex]

oki

[naive pawn]

you have the right idea, but it's important to make these distinctions, because they mean very different things mathematically

[grand snow]

We can produce a rotation from a vector3 but that is an additional step

[naive pawn]

(you should learn vector math on its own though, fwiw - once you internalize it, it lets you understand what you're doing a lot more)

[balmy vortex]

out of pure curiosity how does this work btw?
like how do you get an angle from 2 positions

[naive pawn]

imagine position vectors as arrows pointing from the origin to some point in space
the length of that arrow along each axis is the size of that dimension in the vector

geometrically, adding vectors looks like putting the vectors together, "tip to tail"
negating a vector looks like reversing the arrow
thus subtracting a vector, say a - b looks like reversing b and then adding that to a, tip to tail
that ends up being equivalent to an arrow pointing from b to a

you could also view it as changing the origin - a - b is asking "what is a, relative to b?"
like 5 - 3 -> 2, you could view it as 5 is to 3 what 2 is to 0 (0 being the "origin")

this will probably make a lot more sense if you understand vector math itself

[thorn kiln]

Why do I not have LoadScene showing up?

[grand snow]

Did you make your own class with this name?

[thorn kiln]

Possibly? Yes, I did

[gusty stone]

Hi,
Why does it appear as "Not Connected" and "UNKNOW" even though my device is connected?
I am new to VR and it would be nice if someone could help me.

[grand snow]

VS makes it easy to navigate to the class definition so you can do that in future to see what's happening

[umbral hound]

Can anyone tell me why m_MoveDirection.y flickers between values? I can see it in the inspector https://pastebin.com/nG0ayqCX

Please ping me

[thorn kiln]

Okay, renamed things, works now

[sage wyvern]

really, i haven't found it, do you know where it is

[cobalt sierra]

It's in the samples. Package Manager > In Project > Cinemachine > Samples.
It's also stated in the documentation: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/samples-tutorials.html

[sage wyvern]

alr thx

[naive pawn]

what's it flickering between?

[umbral hound]

0 and -3

Oh, got it, I know exactly what's causing it

this right here

private void GetMovement(Transform transform)
{
    if (m_CharacterController.enabled)
    {
        Vector3 vector = transform.right * m_MovementInput.x + transform.forward * m_MovementInput.y;
        m_MovementDirection.x = vector.x;
        m_MovementDirection.z = vector.z;
        // Insert sliding here
        m_MovementDirection = m_MovementDirection.normalized * CurrentSpeed;
        if (m_CharacterController.isGrounded)
        {
            if (m_GravityPower < -1f)
                m_GravityPower = -1f;
        }
        else
        {
            m_GravityPower -= m_Gravity;
        }
        m_MovementDirection.y = m_GravityPower;
        CollisionFlags collisionFlags = m_CharacterController.Move(m_MovementDirection * Time.deltaTime);
        if (m_GravityPower < 0f)
            m_GravityPower = 0f;
    }
}

if (m_GravityPower < 0f)
  m_GravityPower = 0f;

[naive pawn]

is m_GravityPower also flickering? (use the debug inspector)

[umbral hound]

Why I wonder why

No

[naive pawn]

not m_Gravity, mind you

[umbral hound]

Just m_MovementDirection.y

oh yes

GravityPower is in debug going from 0 to -3

[naive pawn]

it seems like you keep applying gravity and then stopping

what's with the m_GravityPower <= 0f anyways? that's a normal situation, but you're resetting down velocity there

[umbral hound]

Okay I changed it ```cs
private void GetMovement(Transform transform)
{
if (m_CharacterController.enabled)
{
Vector3 vector = transform.right * m_MovementInput.x + transform.forward * m_MovementInput.y;
m_MovementDirection.x = vector.x;
m_MovementDirection.z = vector.z;
// Insert sliding here
m_MovementDirection = m_MovementDirection.normalized * CurrentSpeed;
if (m_CharacterController.isGrounded)
{

        }
        else
        {
            m_GravityPower -= m_Gravity;
        }
        m_MovementDirection.y = m_GravityPower;
        Debug.Log($"Y Gravity: {m_GravityPower}");
        CollisionFlags collisionFlags = m_CharacterController.Move(m_MovementDirection * Time.deltaTime);
        if (m_GravityPower < 0f)
            m_GravityPower = 0f;
    }
}

[naive pawn]

also note that Physics.gravity is acceleration, so you need a deltaTime here

m_GravityPower += Physics.gravity.y * m_Gravity;

[umbral hound]

But it's still doing the same thing

yeah I tried but

it doesn't let my player jump properly

[naive pawn]

you would have to increase the m_Gravity to compensate, i believe

[naive pawn]

the character controller is only "grounded" if it was pushed into the ground

you need to apply gravity even when it's grounded

[umbral hound]

Okay, but when I do that, and when I jump, it's more of a snap then snap back more than a jump

Okay

So what do I do about that? Like code wise

[naive pawn]

you're still resetting gravity every frame here

if (m_GravityPower < 0f)
    m_GravityPower = 0f;

[naive pawn]

you apply gravity when it's grounded, like you had in the code you sent originally

[umbral hound]

Oh so I just do this, just without the last if

private void GetMovement(Transform transform)
{
    if (m_CharacterController.enabled)
    {
        Vector3 vector = transform.right * m_MovementInput.x + transform.forward * m_MovementInput.y;
        m_MovementDirection.x = vector.x;
        m_MovementDirection.z = vector.z;
        // Insert sliding here
        m_MovementDirection = m_MovementDirection.normalized * CurrentSpeed;
        if (m_CharacterController.isGrounded)
        {
            
        }
        else
        {
            m_GravityPower += Physics.gravity.y * m_Gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        }
        m_MovementDirection.y = m_GravityPower;
        Debug.Log($"Y Gravity: {m_GravityPower}");
        CollisionFlags collisionFlags = m_CharacterController.Move(m_MovementDirection * Time.deltaTime);
        if (m_GravityPower < 0f)
            m_GravityPower = 0f;
    }
}

Whenever my player jumps though he just kinda suspends in mid air, he doesn't go down. And the gravity power doesn't go down either, just kinda fluctuates

OKAY

GOT IT

Thanks @naive pawn

wait

no, my player doesn't move now?

Okay had to take out the normalization, thanks

[naive pawn]

huh? you should have normalization

[umbral hound]

Well without it, I slow down

No idea why but I am like super slow

I found out normally I'm able to move around, but after I jump, it slows stuff down

Can anyone PLEASE help me? When I jump, my movement halves https://pastebin.com/uKZFqaXD

Please ping ne

[teal viper]

Why is a method that does not return anything called "GetSomething"..?

[shell sorrel]

you have 2 things calling Move that could be happenign in the same frame overwriting what the previous has done

you also end up normalzing the movementDirection even when you are adding your jump direction to it

which means the movement on the xz plane would be less

[static terrace]

I made something in Unity. And I made the same thing in Java and without using an engine and it was way smoother, like it was both pixel art and the Java game seemed way smoother. I firstly thought that Unity is like this. But then I noticed that X values change the position a lot. Like 1 is a huge jump upwards, and in Java 100 is not even a lot. Is this a reason? When it's falling using my own and Unity's physics, my own is smoother

[grand snow]

the position shown in the unity inspector (and logged) has reduced precision to make it easier to read

there should be no issue unless your positions are super big or are doing something else bad with physics

[static terrace]

I am using RigidBody2D

I didn't change anything in the RigidBody

Or is it just FPS in unity is lower?

Note: Both games were run on an Android (Android Module)

[grand snow]

You need to share more info for us to help. You can consider using interpolation, increasing the physics step frequency in the project and only applying force in FixedUpdate().
The game fps is not linked to physics processing frequency

[static terrace]

Okay I will try looking into the values that I could change in the RigidBody 2D

Thanks!

[tiny dagger]

hello haveing some issues with navmesh any help is appreicated

[hexed terrace]

!ask

[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

[tiny dagger]

ive done this

ive even tried codeing my own ai

[hexed terrace]

Read all the bullet points, not just the first one.

[tiny dagger]

i have im confused what your saying i have looked online ive looked a videos i looked at manuals so on

[hexed terrace]

ok, what does the very last bullet point in the bot msg tell you to do? The one with ❔

[tiny dagger]

okay thankyou now i understand

[charred monolith]

guys when do i use mathf.PI

[keen dew]

Whenever you want

[charred monolith]

i meant how do i use PI then

[keen dew]

That question doesn't make much sense. It's pi, it's used for calculating circumference and area of circles among other things. You don't need to plan beforehand when to use it. If you ever happen to need it you know it's there

[charred monolith]

this question makes sense. with that i mean how do i use PI to move a car based to a wheel speed. but idk. thats why i wnat to know

[polar acorn]

Whenever you need Pi

[keen dew]

Then why didn't you ask that

[polar acorn]

Do you know what Pi is

[charred monolith]

no but i only know thats based with a circle and has a special number with alot of decimal places

[teal viper]

Time to learn math then

[charred monolith]

or someone just tell me how i use it. thats 5min

[polar acorn]

Then first you're going to need to learn some basic geometry

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry-home/cc-geometry-circles

[charred monolith]

in Germany we learn it more later

[keen dew]

That's not how it works. It's not like a hammer that has one way to use. It's like asking "The car has 4 wheels, someone just tell me when to use 4 and how to use 4 to move the car"

If you want to calculate how to move a car based on how fast the wheels are spinning ask that (with details) and maybe pi is part of it, or maybe not

[bright hull]

As you can understand, the object that I pick, doesn't move smooth, I couldn't find a solution can someone help?

[slender nymph]

please share your code. nobody wants to scrub through a video trying to decipher what your code is doing

[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.

[eager elm]

showing your code in video format is a new one 😄

[bright hull]

Sorry, I don't know that "code block" thing.

[bright hull]

Sure.

[rich adder]

first time ?

[rich adder]

also you outta show the actual rigidbody inspector / settings

MovePosition is mainly meant for kinematics btw

[eager elm]

Go to a website linked above, like https://paste.mod.gg/ paste your code -> hit save -> send link here

[bright hull]

PickUp Code:

https://paste.mod.gg/upmupoczdxnj/1

ObjectGrab Code:

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

[bright hull]

Done.

[bright hull]

Object (Cube)'s rigidbody

[rich adder]

have you tried switching it to kinematic on pickup ?

[bright hull]

NOpe.

How to do that? I'm a bit newbie.

[rich adder]

on pickup try doing objectRigidbody.isKinematic = true;

[polar acorn]

Sadly, it is not. Not even close to new

[bright hull]

Yea I tried now but now, when game begins it stays at air.

Doesnt fall.

[polar acorn]

At least this one was a screen recording and not a cell phone video

[slender nymph]

worst way i've seen to date is showing code in a gif

[bright hull]

Oh

Now it worked.

[rich adder]

I meant only on pickup.. right now it looks like Gravity is trying to fight whatever forced moveposition you're doing

movePosition is mainly used on kinematics according to the docshttps://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.MovePosition.html

[bright hull]

I forgot to disable kinematic on beginning. I did it and worked. Thanks for helping!

[rich adder]

its smooth now ?

[bright hull]

It is.

[final oxide]

Hello! I have this project where arrows are being shot and sticking to walls and objects using a raycast at the tip of the arrow. I have this inconsistency where the arrow sometimes goes through the wall and the raycast doesn't detect anything because the arrow is going too fast. I have set the arrow's rb detection mode to continuous and the wall doesn't have a rb so I kept every setting as is.

I've thought of starting the raycast at the tail of the arrow so I can make it bigger and let it have more time to detect but I am not sure if that's a good idea in the long term. I've done a bit of research and I was wondering, is the Job System something that would help me fix this? I saw people are using it to detect collisions for bullet hell type games but in my scenario I only have a single arrow being shot every 2 seconds so it isn't as frequent.

[wintry quarry]

you should show your code

in genral if you're using raycasts for collision detection the collision detection mode on the rb is irrelevant

[final oxide]

Thats my update function in my arrow script :
https://paste.ofcode.org/39GtrXmNRCqvQwCANnHpdEX

[wintry quarry]

show the full script, but already there's a huge problem

you're using this arbitrary constant of 1.75 as the distance

[final oxide]

I was just messing around to see if setting it longer worked

[wintry quarry]

show the full script so we can see how the arrow moves

[final oxide]

https://paste.ofcode.org/7L75ufiUEhGpAvYFiRRBJk

Im simply adding a force aligning it with my crosshair

[wintry quarry]

this isn't the full scirpt.

it's not clear what startingPos is, for example

but basically I would expect something like this:

// FixedUpdate for physics, not Update
void FixedUpdate() {
  if (Physics.Raycast(rb.position, rb.rotation * Vector3.forward, out RaycastHit hit, rb.velocity * Time.fixedDeltaTime, layersToHit)) {
    // handle collision
  }
}```

[final oxide]

Sorry Its handled in two different scripts so I tried putting the parts that are related to shooting the arrow

[wintry quarry]

I just wanted to see the full script of the arrow

or btoh

[oblique ridge]

sooo, unity doesn't automatically setup visual studio to work together by default?

[slender nymph]

!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

[rich adder]

not really

[wintry quarry]

it does if you install it from Unity Hub

[oblique ridge]

didn't have these options until i manually went to the package manager and downloaded the visual studio editor pkg

[rich adder]

Unity cannot assume you will be using Visual Studio if you're on an OS that doesnt use VS

[slender nymph]

visual studio editor package is installed by default, are you certain you didn't remove it yourself?

[rich adder]

but yeah the hub installs VS with the proper workloads but you still need to select it and stuff

[oblique ridge]

yup 100% certain, i'm going through some tutorials and my IDE wasn't autocompleting anything that's why i looked through

[rich adder]

the top one is the proper one, the one you selected looks like you done through Browse..

[oblique ridge]

oh it vanished now lol

it's because i used browse to add the devenv.exe manually

but of course only manually downloading the package worked

[rich adder]

you just need to try Regen Project Files and open script from unity, then check VS make sure it loaaded

[oblique ridge]

but everything works now

[rocky canyon]

aye did the finally remove the old one?

cant seem to find it anymore.. it used to show alng side

if they did.. and they default to the one that works for both thats awesome!

[full axle]

I need some help I don’t understand number 2 or number 8

[wintry quarry]

what part don't you understand

[slender nymph]

https://screenshot.help
also you need to be more specific about what you are not understanding

[full axle]

Collisions with pickups and projectiles

[full axle]

Okay

[rich adder]

and they were never heard from again..

[feral sapphire]

How can I apply "on click" changes to a prefab? I cant select a empty object (manager) to the prefab. and I also tried putting the prefab onto the Hierachy and added it to that one and then clicked "overrides - apply all" but it changes nothing. as seen in the picture there is differences there, but the left one will never update no matter what I do. it updates if I changes the color but not the "on click"

[rich adder]

most likely because its a scene component you're trying to apply to a prefab? that wont work

[feral sapphire]

yea but I cant apply it from within the prefab itself (not in scene)

[grand snow]

are you in a prefab stage? (when you open the prefab to edit)

[rich adder]

are the scripts on the prefab though ?

[feral sapphire]

thats the thing, I cant apply the scripts onto the prefab

[grand snow]

If those 2 unity event subs will not apply then they surely point to SCENE instance objects

[rich adder]

if the scripts live on the prefab you can apply it to the original prefab , if the scripts live in the scene you can only apply them to Instances of prefabs not the originals

[grand snow]

The instances of BreadAppears and Scriptmanager specifically

[full axle]

Idk he just left me 🙁

[feral sapphire]

so having a prefab to spawn individual things in the scene is pointless then?

[slender nymph]

you never actually provided an answer to the question

[grand snow]

A prefab can only refer to other assets or components within itself

This is why the changes will not apply as they are not able to be stored in a prefab asset

[full axle]

^ i did respond to the question

[polar acorn]

That's literally what it is for

[rich adder]

thats pretty vague

[slender nymph]

and yet, you were also told to be specific which that certainly is not

[rich adder]

you have to explain whats happening vs what you expect to happen for starters

[polar acorn]

You seem to have accidentally hit enter before typing out the rest of your question. Common mistake, you can Shift+Enter to make a new line without submitting

[summer wren]

Is it common to become frustrated over coding and Unity Editor? Lol.
Sometimes I become super annoyed and have to keep going until it is fixed.

[feral sapphire]

okay but im trying to add the scripts content (hit in this case) to the actual prefab, so whenever the prefab spawns onto the scene, I can click it. but considering I cant add things to the prefab it seems pretty pointless lol

[polar acorn]

You can never click on a prefab

[rich adder]

some times? idk thats like common to be sitting in traffic yelling at the windshield for the bad drivers causing it

[grand snow]

we are going in circles my man

[polar acorn]

Prefabs don't exist in the scene

So adding an on click to it won't matter

[summer wren]

That's funny.

[polar acorn]

You need to add an on click to the instance you create from it

[feral sapphire]

right,. but the prefab is "spawning" the object. and those object doesnt have the scripts on

[full axle]

What’s happening is I don’t know how to add a collision to an object or projectiles

[naive pawn]

prefabs.. don't really do anything
other things can clone prefabs, if that's what you're thinking of?

[polar acorn]

So set the value you want on the one you just spawned after making it

[summer wren]

I think that maybe sometimes it is better to take more frequent breaks.

[slender nymph]

did you start by googling how to do that?

[rich adder]

put a collider on it and you get collisions. simple as that

(i mean thats if you move it via physics ofc)

[naive pawn]

<pedantic>you would also need a dynamic rigidbody for collisions</pedantic>

[feral sapphire]

So I have to set that specifically within the script itself?

[polar acorn]

Whatever script spawns the instance can set whatever values you need it to have

[full axle]

I’m not allowed to lol

[full axle]

Like a box collider?

[rich adder]

very much so.. your brain needs time to "cool off"
coming to a problem you been stuck on you will then solve it in like a few minutes cause your brain is sub-consciously working it out while you focus on other things

[slender nymph]

yeah i sincerely doubt that

[rich adder]

the shape is irrelevant, as long it has collider and you move rigidbody with it

[naive pawn]

you aren't allowed to research information, but you're allowed to ask internet strangers for help?

[slender nymph]

also googling your issue is the first step for getting help here
#🌱┃start-here

[full axle]

You can doubt what you want im in the class you’re not

[full axle]

Yess

[polar acorn]

If google isn't allowed, having us write the code for you definitely isn't allowed

[full axle]

I’m not asking you to write it for you

[polar acorn]

Maybe go back into the lesson

[grand snow]

I made cool drawing to explain

[rich adder]

damm i need those art skills

[slender nymph]

then what are you expecting to get here if you don't even understand what you are doing? how could we possibly provide the answer to you if you cannot even use google to get a grasp on the concepts?

[naive pawn]

what part of the class is saying that

[rich adder]

what kinda class teaches coding shit and not allow googling issues..sounds terrible teacher

[naive pawn]

the internet is a massive resource

[polar acorn]

If this is some kind of test then us answering would be cheating. Ask your teacher.

[naive pawn]

way better than us, usually - because we got a lot of our info from the internet too

[full axle]

Because you could tell me

[full axle]

Wdym the teacher said that

[naive pawn]

so you want us to google, and then copy the answer for you, so you don't have to use google yourself?

[slender nymph]

so you don't want us to do the work for you, you just want us to do the work for you?

[naive pawn]

so if the teacher wants you to figure it out yourself, then we can't help you

[rich adder]

thats not how development works

the whole point is for you to learn how to figure this stuff out

[feral sapphire]

I see. but yea ive no clue how prefab works more than its a "object" i can spawn onto the scene with the same informations each time. I always have to work around it, by making a ton of the same objects and make them "setactive" false and true xD.

[rich adder]

problem solving is like 90% of this field

[naive pawn]

real talk - you gotta learn to help yourself. using google is the most basic form of finding information in this day and age

[rich adder]

if you dont learn how to problem solve, what you even doing

[full axle]

Something similar to that maybe not just give me the answers but try to explain it if you can

[full axle]

I mean explain it without just writing the code out for me

[grand snow]

A prefab being an asset spawned into any scene is why there are limitations. It has no way to know or refer to something that may possibly exist in some scene that may be loaded. That is why the reference is not possible in a prefab asset.
anyway refer to my cool picture above if that helps 😄

[full axle]

The teacher said I could ask people but not use Google

[polar acorn]

A prefab is a gameobject that exists in a file, not in the scene. Instantiate clones an object, wherever it is, and puts a new copy of it in the scene

[slender nymph]

and yet, how are you going to implement it if, by your own admission, you are struggling with understanding c# and you don't understand what you are doing?

[full axle]

You’re going in circles bro

[polar acorn]

If you literally do not know what a collider is you need to re-do the lesson

[rich adder]

maybe I can become a teacher too.. how are these quacks teaching...

[polar acorn]

This is kind of a fundamental gap in knowledge

[slender nymph]

i'm literally not, you're just avoiding answering so it seems like i am because i'm still asking the same thing

[polar acorn]

Bold of you to take the word of someone trying to get us to do their homework for them at their word of what the teacher said

[feral sapphire]

yea and thats how my "objects" spawns, via Instantiate

[summer wren]

Thanks. May I show you what I have created?

[polar acorn]

Instantiate returns a reference to the object it just made. You can set variables on that

[naive pawn]

@full axle if you're missing the basics, we can't practically help you.
you need a certain foundation to be able to understand and apply the answers we give
if you want us to just give you an answer and then blindly copy it without learning, you won't be able to apply the knowledge forwards and you'll still need help in the future for similarly simple tasks

[feral sapphire]

but it only spawns as it is, with a random range on the screen. but has no variables attached to it, which I thought I could do via prefab xd

[polar acorn]

If it has "no variables attached to it" what are you trying to change

[grand snow]

do i need to draw another cool picture?

[rich adder]

very true lol

[feral sapphire]

now it suddenly "works"

[rich adder]

they have channels for showing off work like #1180170818983051344

[feral sapphire]

it has the variables now once spawned in

[dark spear]

Hello, I have this problem. The character will only move horizontally with the A and D keys. However, the direction it is facing is not forward, it automatically rotates itself. How can I fix this?

[rich adder]

show us the code

oof.. this is visual scripting.. #1390346878394040320

[dark spear]

I didn't do it with code, I used script graph

Do I need to write to this channel?

[rocky canyon]

no visual scripting channel

[feral sapphire]

xD im just stoopid to understand probably xD

[dark spear]

okey thanks

[grand snow]

Its easy to first think "its right there, why cant i reference it!" but when we understand more what a prefab and scene does it makes more sense.

[feral sapphire]

but now my things spawn in with the correct "onclick" actions, but now I just have to figure out why its not "doing anything" :D.

I noticed once I was refering to the object, I forgot to select my manager and locate tht reference

Im sure everyone here can tell me whats wrong in this script. I cant see the "you hit 1 bread" or the "hits" increasing once hitting the bread that spawns. im sure you would be like.. ah no this is so outdated...

[naive pawn]

!code

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[naive pawn]

my eyes..

[feral sapphire]

get urself some glases, it helps. promise

[naive pawn]

sunglasses, maybe

[polar acorn]

What calls StandardHit

[feral sapphire]

its the "onclick" action on the actualt spawned object

[rich adder]

brother.. you gonna be blind if you keep coding like this..lol

[polar acorn]

Have you confirmed the function is actually being called

[feral sapphire]

like with aa debug log?

[polar acorn]

That'd be one way, yes

[feral sapphire]

caant even use that somehow lol

[naive pawn]

what's the error?

[feral sapphire]

ive glasses, im fine xd

[naive pawn]

we're joking about the lightmode

[naive pawn]

remove the using System.Diagnostics; at the top of your file

pay attention to your suggestions, make sure you're importing the right thing

(on that note, you also shouldn't need the UnityEngine. on the quaternion where you instantiate)

[feral sapphire]

I didnt even import that one myself so no ide where it came from, maybe from another "solution"

[naive pawn]

you selected it when autocomplete suggested it

[rich adder]

sometimes the IDE will put that in
I think it grabs the one with System.Diagnostic first cause S comes before U so gets suggested before UnityEngine one

[feral sapphire]

not being called. considering its not even saying anything in the console from the debug log

[naive pawn]

cool, then check where it's supposed to be called from

[polar acorn]

So then that would be the problem, not any of this code. If it's not even being called then nothing in the function matters

[rich adder]

this is a code channel

#📲┃ui-ux

[worn bay]

I'm not good at navigating here so excuse myself :')

[rich adder]

you good

[feral sapphire]

dunno where else it would be called, could it be because the reference is a different "object type" than my other buttons hence to why its not "pressing" ?

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what any of that means.

[feral sapphire]

for example if ur in a 3d map you cant select 2d objects or so etc xd

[dreamy scarab]

hi

im guessing that i have a beginers question

[feral sapphire]

nvm, I cant make a object from the canvas into a prefab as it just turns it all invsibile xD.

[naive pawn]

!ask https://dontasktoask.com

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[rich adder]

you can...

[polar acorn]

Did you spawn it back onto a canvas

[rich adder]

the prefab usually puts it in a canvas so it can be previewed

[dreamy scarab]

there is a right way to do that?

[feral sapphire]

i post pretty much anything into the canvas

[naive pawn]

do what exactly?

[polar acorn]

Do what

[dreamy scarab]

i have a custom class that saves 2 min max sliders to create a rect on the screen

[rich adder]

you only need canvas for UI

[dreamy scarab]

i couldnt find a direct way to set the rect data from a min max slider than creating another rect with that info then replacing things

[feral sapphire]

but how else am I suppose to see the objects? the canvas shows whats on the screen xD

[naive pawn]

you don't really need the refRect? you could just do a little math

[rich adder]

which objects are you talking about? 3D / 2D objects in the world need a camera

[polar acorn]

The canvas is for UI. If it's not UI, you shouldn't be using UI renderers for it

[dreamy scarab]

i can, but first i had to convert the values.

[naive pawn]

or you could also just do balao.rect = Rect.MinMaxRect(...) directly

[naive pawn]

you aren't converting anything there

[dreamy scarab]

i know, i didnt do the corrections yet

[feral sapphire]

well the first one (the one I aked about before and got it to work) was a 2d sprite on the camera, while the ones on the who turn invisible as a prefab are raw images from canvas xd

[rich adder]

sprite renderer (its just a quad) should only be viewed with camera
Image and other UI needs a canvas yes

[polar acorn]

RawImage is a UI component. UI objects need to be on a canvas to be visible

[dreamy scarab]

i just tryed :/ it dont allow me to move recttransform.rect directly

[naive pawn]

oh yeah, it is readonly. i didn't notice that note in the docs, mb

[feral sapphire]

yes, and thats what I tried first, but when I make it into a prefab its just invisible once I put it on the canvas aagain (from prefab)

[dreamy scarab]

nah

[naive pawn]

you can just do some math then if you don't want the refRect

[polar acorn]

Is it actually spawned in as a child of the canvas

[rich adder]

can you show what you're making into a prefab so we know if it even was a RECT transform and actually viewable in canvas

[polar acorn]

Just a screenshot of the full unity window with this invisible object selected

[feral sapphire]

yes its a child of the canvas

[polar acorn]

Let's just go with a full Unity screenshot of this

[dreamy scarab]

i dont have a problem using a "copy" from a created rect... i just needed to know if there is a better way

i can do the math to create the rect

i just dont wanna to that😅

[feral sapphire]

of the canvas?

[dreamy scarab]

it was a pain in the ass to create the preview on node correctly to convert again i guess it would be the same

[polar acorn]

Of the whole unity window, with this object selected, and where it's supposed to be visible

[polar acorn]

Can't you do balao.rect.Set(data.balao_Horizontal.x, ...)

[dreamy scarab]

i cant directly... the values from the class comes from a 2 min max sliders

one to vertical value, other to horizontal value

[full axle]

Yeah that’s what I’ve been doing in class that’s why I’m here

[feral sapphire]

oh. so when I put it into the "scene" its invisible, but when I put the prefab under canvas section then it shows up correctly. I thought it was under canvas the whole time

[naive pawn]

you can though? width is just xMax - xMin, which you clearly have

[dreamy scarab]

i know

the problem cames when i have to convert from the preview i made

so, let me elaborate a little

[naive pawn]

yeah we do not have any context on what you're doing

[polar acorn]

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work in the context of your screenshot. Do you get an error trying it?

[feral sapphire]

now it works

[polar acorn]

The .rect = might not work if balao is a property instead of a variable

but the .Set should work fine

[naive pawn]

yeah RectTransform documents that rect is readonly from a script

[polar acorn]

Had a feeling that was the case, otherwise why would the Set function exist at all

[dreamy scarab]

i made a custom node system to make a dialogue system.

currently i made a way to make a preview to replace character position and size...
then i realized that i fucked with the popup-dialogue ballon.

then i had to make a preview editor to the ballon as well...

the character is a vector2 for position and a float for size...
i tryed the same form the rect ballon but one of my coworkers asked to do the size of the ballons with sliders...

with 4 sliders was a lot strange to modify the it. so i changed to a min max slider...

then we got here

the pink square ****

currently im re drawing the preview/editor to the game

[feral sapphire]

how do I make so it spawn under the canvas as a child and not as a "object" below canvas (not on the canvas) ?

[polar acorn]

Check the documentation for Instantiate and see how you might make it spawn as a child of something

[slender nymph]

the Instantiate method has an overload that allows you to specify a parent object

[feral sapphire]

okay

[summer wren]

I know this is more UI issue and willing to write a script for it if need be.
How to have the TMP Input Field follow the text of the user rather than it cutting out through the objects boundaries? (It isn't set as "Trunicate")
The code will be easy. Just don't want to have to create a script for a little thing if it can be done in Editor.

[hexed terrace]

so should have asked in #📲┃ui-ux 😉

sounds like you want the inputfield to change size, growing with the length of the input text.. look into the layoutgroups, layout element, content size fitter

[summer wren]

I know. I did earlier hehe.
Just cannot move on until it is fixed. Sorry xD
Cheers. I tried with horizontal preferred size CSF on the Text object.
It is very possible that it's the layout group parent object of the input field?

[hexed terrace]

that last sentence is not understandable

to carry on, move over to #📲┃ui-ux

[kind skiff]

I am trying to use unity ecs but based on the tutorial that I am watching it asks me to add game object entity into my gameobject which will convert the monobehaviors into the components of an entity

I'm not sure whether it is version problem or I did the setup wrong

But for some reason I can't find the GameObjectEntity thing

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@0.1/api/Unity.Entities.GameObjectEntity.html

[rich adder]

probably better off asking in #1062393052863414313

[kind skiff]

Okie dokes

[summer wren]

Can we ask about NodeJS here? Not about coding help, but a question about something.

[grand snow]

is it unity related? i presume not

[summer wren]

It can relate to it but yeah not a part of it. All good.

[edgy sinew]

Gotchu as Chris said f*** off to the Node server, stat! DM me bro. We can talk React after too
(it's a joke he didnt say that)

[naive pawn]

you could ask in the official node server, nodeiflux
vanity invite nodejs

[naive pawn]

(fyi - dm support is generally inferior to community support, communities exist so many people can see the question and also vet each other's answers)

[edgy sinew]

Hey guys, what is your #1 technique to achieve smooth camera rotation? ⭐
I've tried smoothing lookStickX and lookStickY like with Mathf.SmoothDamp, independently. And I've tried combining them to use Vector2.SmoothDamp too

I haven't tried doing any curve.Evaluate() yet but, maybe that'll be better.

Oh darn maybe the Unity inputactions asset can do smoothing in the pre-processors.

[craggy monolith]

hey everyone! i made a cool app for Quest 3 that i’ll opensource soon. looking for help with some coding and design! tried to make a ReadyPlayerOne \ Dr Strange reality portal
if you want early access to the APK + Realtime Video2Video model, drop an emoji and i’ll DM you

[naive pawn]

isn't there a Quaternion.SmoothDamp function? apparently not

[naive pawn]

we don't allow advertisements here, sorry
if this is a unity project, feel free to make a #1180170818983051344

[feral sapphire]

I have another question, Now that I manage to get my object to spawn correctly, under a parent and such, how do I make them "dissapear" once clicked? I cant simply ".setActive(false)" because they are from within a prefab and not a specific object per say. I can only stop them from further spawning but the ones who have appeared will always stay and not get deleted. how can I solve that?

[craggy monolith]

where do i ask for help w/ this project so? dev-logs?

[edgy sinew]

camFollow.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(targetYaw, targetPitch, 0.0f);
Gotcha so, instead of this, I could use nevermind, Quaternion.SmoothDamp doesn't exist

[polar acorn]

Call setActive on the one you want to disappear

[feral sapphire]

but they are clones, I want the clones to disappear

[naive pawn]

for specific questions, you could ask in a relevant channel, but we don't allow collab seeking posts here

!collab

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[polar acorn]

...then deactivate the clones

[naive pawn]

make sure to check #📖┃code-of-conduct as well, seems like you haven't

[polar acorn]

as I said, call it on the objects you want to deactivate

[feral sapphire]

yea i get that, but I cant see the clones til the game starts as it spawns in aafter some time. when I deactive the "reference" of the clones, it deactives that one but not the "clones" who already has spawned

[edgy sinew]

Well, I can just Quaternion.Slerp() towards the desired rotation. I know it's funky to use Time.deltaTime together with that but, it feels so good Tbh.
my Player rotation works that way, because .RotateTowards felt janky/choppy

[polar acorn]

If you call SetActive(false) on an object it will deactivate that object. If you want it to deactivate a different object, call it on that one instead

[naive pawn]

you mean with wronglerp?

[edgy sinew]

it's the wrong lerp to use?

[naive pawn]

no, i mean a wrong usage of lerp

[edgy sinew]

oh, yeah exactly

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp this thing

[feral sapphire]

im asking whats the correct way to make a spawnable object to be disabled (dissapear), I just stated that the SetActive one doesnt work

[polar acorn]

Why not

That's how you disable an object

If you call it on the object you want to disable, it'll disable it

[feral sapphire]

because each clone gets a new name so I cant simply just "select one"

[naive pawn]

the name is irrelevant

[polar acorn]

What do names have to do with it

[naive pawn]

you need references to each one anyways if you want to manage them later

[feral sapphire]

how else am i gonna know what to disable lol

[polar acorn]

How do you know which one you want to disable

[naive pawn]

not with names. you generally should never rely on names