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[thorn kiln]

I'm not using a material to do the bouncing

[balmy vortex]

hey so like I have this basic enemy AI that jumps when it "sees" an obstacle but for some reason it keeps getting stuck on walls when moving into them unlike my player

any ideas as to why? here's my code for context --> https://paste.mod.gg/ndkwguekgxix/0

[slender nymph]

then you need to adjust your code so it is less bouncy

[thorn kiln]

I'll try, but it looks weird if it's not bouncy enough

[keen dew]

You don't have anything that would stop that from happening. It jumps if it detects the wall in time but if it's already close to the obstacle (or the obstacle is too high) it just keeps jumping against it

[balmy vortex]

well ya but it shouldn't be able to wall hug like that in the first place no?

cuz like the player body just glides against it and goes up without getting stuck in the wall

[keen dew]

The enemy moves forward by changing the transform directly and jumps by changing the velocity. Those aren't compatible

[rocky canyon]

another thing i just thought of is having the drop being slow-motion and then lerping into fullspeed. this would make that first bounce be less dramatic

(you could probably do that by modifying the rigidbodies drag/damp values
not sur it fits for you project just an idea

[static terrace]

I saw the Platformer Learning Template had the current state, like Grounded, or Flying, etc. How to get that? like to know if the player is grounded and can jump again

[edgy sinew]

Can you be more specific? There are lots of ways to achieve that functionality

[static terrace]

Like I want to let the player jump on click, but now he can jump even mid-air, but I want him to only jump if only grounded

[thorn kiln]

Probably bools, right?

[static terrace]

Yes?

[edgy sinew]

Are you asking, how does the computer know?

[static terrace]

No, How to implement it, to know if it's grounded or not

[edgy sinew]

Did you read the code included? Maybe it's straightforward

[polar acorn]

Usually a raycast or some other physics query to see if there's ground below the player

[static terrace]

I will go check the Platformer then

[thorn kiln]

Or even more simply just if you press the jump button

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

public class BallSpawner : MonoBehaviour
{

    public GameObject ball;
    private float mouseZCoordinate = 7.62f;

    private Vector3 BallPosition()
    {
        Vector3 mousePoint = Input.mousePosition;
        mousePoint.z = mouseZCoordinate;
        return Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePoint);
    }

    void OnMouseDown()
    {
        Instantiate(ball, BallPosition(), ball.transform.rotation);
    }
}```Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? My intent is to click and spawn a ball, but it's not doing anything at all

[polar acorn]

Does this object have a Collider on it?

[thorn kiln]

Yep

[polar acorn]

Is there anything in front of it that also has a collider?

[thorn kiln]

Nope

[polar acorn]

Can you show a screenshot of your scene view with this object selected?

[thorn kiln]

Oh, wait, I thought you meant the prefab Im trying to instantiate

I just made an empty spawn manager for the script

[polar acorn]

So does this object have a Collider on it

[thorn kiln]

I figured it'd just let me click anywhere

Nope

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnMouseDown.html

[static terrace]

I checked The Platformer but its logic is different.

[edgy sinew]

3D or 2D?

[static terrace]

2D

[polar acorn]

Different than what

[static terrace]

I want to make my Sprite Jump on Click, and I want it to only jump while grounded (standing on a collider)

[edgy sinew]

"Ultimate 2D Character Controller"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHSWG05byEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWTzMsmdx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcw6nuc2uaU

Some videos offer the full source code for free. So you can see how it works too

[thorn kiln]

Ah, i see. MouseDown requires a collider. Is that true in all cases? No way to just make the screen the collider?

[polar acorn]

If you don't care what object you are clicking on, why use the function that detects when this specific object is clicked on

[grand snow]

yea you would think thats the reason to use this

[thorn kiln]

Well i just wanna click above the plinko machine

I could make a section above the machine obviously, but if I wanna let them click anywhere to spawn a ball, that's a different story

[polar acorn]

Well, you're already getting the mouse position, why do you need to click on a specific object to start it?

[thorn kiln]

Hmm, so i guess I could put it in update with an if statement instead of using mousedown then?

[edgy sinew]

Isn't mousedown effectively an Event already? Or am I mistaken.

[thorn kiln]

I'm still new, so i have no idea 😂

[edgy sinew]

playerInput.Controls.Jump.started += attemptJump;
You've seen this before right

[thorn kiln]

No?

[edgy sinew]

Okay then nvm ignore what I said. (I'm not sure how you're capturing the input)

With the new input system, it's basically set up to work well with Event-style code architecture

[thorn kiln]

Okay, got it working now, though the position it spawns in is very off

That's my bad though, easy fix

Well, thought it was, guess not

Now I just make a tower of balls

I guess I need to make the z-axis relative to the camera

Not sure how to figure that out beyond just guessing

[queen adder]

Hey so I'm trying to do different things whether the game is built for windows or for a linux dedicated server, or is in the unity editor(which should behave like a windows build), and the microsoft docs said that conditionals are the best way to do this, but it doesn't seem to be working out for me.

[Conditional("CLIENT")]
public void StartClient()
{
    networkManager.TransportManager.Transport.SetPort(wslPort);
    networkManager.TransportManager.Transport.SetClientAddress(wslHostAddress);
    if (!networkManager.ClientManager.StartConnection())
    {
        Debug.LogError("Starting Client failed");
    }
   
}

    [Conditional("SERVER")]
    public void StartServer()
    {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        networkManager.TransportManager.Transport.SetPort(wslPort);
        networkManager.TransportManager.Transport.SetClientAddress(wslHostAddress);
        networkManager.ClientManager.StartConnection();

#else
        networkManager.TransportManager.Transport.SetPort(wslPort);
        networkManager.TransportManager.Transport.SetClientAddress(wslHostAddress);
        networkManager.ServerManager.StartConnection();
#endif
    }

When I launch the game in the unity editor, the conditional is still in server mode because that's the last thing I built. I could switch platform to windows manually, but that takes 20 - 30 seconds

[grand snow]

then change back the symbol list in player settings?

[queen adder]

Also I don't like these preprocessor directives because visual studio completely greys them out

[queen adder]

I don't understand

[wintry quarry]

windows/server/client etc are orthogonal to the if #UNITY_EDITOR thing

[grand snow]

Yea because its showing you if the code is currently included or not

[queen adder]

But in the editor I am always in Server mode

Because it switches to that mode when I build for a dedicated server

[grand snow]

then the player settings symbol list must have been modified if it remains this way after

[grand snow]

the one for the current platform you are on is what affects the editor

so swap platform

[queen adder]

I don't want to

It takes too long

It takes 30 seconds

In a way, I'm sort of forced to use both conditionals and the preprocessor directive

[grand snow]

well if you want to use these symbols there is no way around it

[queen adder]

There is no way to differentiate only with conditionals whether I am in the editor or not

[grand snow]

well you would need UNITY_EDITOR || SERVER or somethin

[queen adder]

You can do that?

[Conditional("CLIENT" || "UNITY_EDITOR")]
Like this?

[grand snow]

no idea if that attribute can but elsewhere you can

I guess you can try but use [Conditional("CLIENT || UNITY_EDITOR")]

[queen adder]

nope

the string has to be one word otherwise you get that error

[queen adder]

And this isn't allowed either

[grand snow]

ah then i guess its shit 😆

ive never used it, only traditional conditional compilation

[queen adder]

You mean the preprocessor directives?

[grand snow]

#if UNITY_EDITOR || UNITY_IOS

[queen adder]

[Conditional("UNITY_EDITOR"),Conditional("CLIENT")] Apparently or is like this

although I don't think UNITY_EDITOR is valid

i'll try it though

[grand snow]

It is, unity provide many https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/scripting-symbol-reference.html

[eager crow]

Hi, I just wanted to double check that my draw gizmos circle would be the exact same size as my actual circlecast. Here is my code for both. Will these be the same size?
RaycastHit2D[] raycastHit = Physics2D.CircleCastAll(transform.position, explosionRadius, Vector2.zero, 0);

Gizmos.DrawSphere(transform.position, explosionRadius);

[polar acorn]

Your cast's direction is zero. It's never going to detect anything because it's not going anywhere

[slender nymph]

pro tip: use an OverlapCircle instead of a CircleCast if you don't need to actually cast the shape

but otherwise, yes, that should be the same size

[eager crow]

Well the cast should just be in one spot. So what should I change it to?

[eager crow]

What do you mean by not needing to 'cast' the shape?

this is for an explosion that will damage the player

[polar acorn]

Then don't use a cast

[slender nymph]

a CircleCast moves a circle in a specified direction for the specified distance. that is literally what the cast is.

[polar acorn]

A circle cast fires a circle in a given direction to see what it hits.

Think of it like a mathematical tennis ball cannon

[eager crow]

Yea I saw that in the description of it but I thought that if I just gave it a direction of 0 it would just not move and work normally

in the one spot it was cast at

[slender nymph]

just use an overlapcircle . . .

[polar acorn]

If it doesn't move, then it can't hit anything

Because it only detects things it moves into

There's a separate physics query for detecting if things overlap a stationary circle

[eager crow]

OK that is good to know thank you, I will try out the overlapcircle you were talking about

[eager crow]

is that the overlapcircle?

[slender nymph]

that would better be answered in a thread in #1157336089242112090 because it's really about the state of the industry and not about code (which is what this channel is for)

[normal copper]

Ok cool, I'll move the post there. Thanks 🙂

[wooden shard]

if I update text on a canvas does it redraw the entire canvas?

[grand snow]

yes

well the whole canvas is made dirty and is recalculated

You can use canvas within canvases to reduce how much is rebuilt

but dont go to far with it or you will wrek batching and other optimisations

[wooden shard]

what if I have worldspace canvases on 3d models that are children of a canvas

[grand snow]

erm wut

if its just canvas > text then yea that canvas will just rebuild its own text

[polar acorn]

Every change on a canvas causes that entire canvas to repaint

A canvas can't be partially redrawn

If anything changes, everything changes

If there's multiple canvases, only the ones that are actually changed have to repaint

[wooden shard]

cool thanks

[grand snow]

read more here about using multiple canvases for optimisation
If you just have 2 text objects in this canvas then there is no benefit here

https://unity.com/how-to/unity-ui-optimization-tips#split-up-your-canvases

but as stated, any change in the canvas will rebuild it all

[wooden shard]

thanks

[thorn kiln]

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

public class Counter : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text CounterText;

    private int Count = 0;

    private void Start()
    {
        Count = 0;
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        Count += 1;
        CounterText.text = "Count : " + Count;
    }
}
```This is the code that came with my exercise, it was originally just for 1 box, I've made 5 boxes, now it's being... weird. But I can't figure out what it's actually doing. The scores seem to increase and decease randomly.

[rich adder]

you have 5 copies of this script ?

[polar acorn]

How many Counter objects do you have, and how many CounterTexts?

[thorn kiln]

5 objects with the script on it

[rich adder]

yeah you don't wanna do that.. you should only keep the trigger increase part and communicate it to a single score tracking script

[thorn kiln]

Beh, more work

The random pathway exercise is annoying

[rich adder]

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        scoreScript.IncreaseScore(1);
    }```

[polar acorn]

And how many text objects

[thorn kiln]

One

[polar acorn]

So you got five guys all steering the car at once and you wonder why it's not driving straight?

[thorn kiln]

I wonder many things

[polar acorn]

Each one of these is writing it's Count variable to the text object. The last one you touch is the one it gets set to

[thorn kiln]

Especially this late at night

[polar acorn]

If one of them has a count of 4 and then you touch one with a count of 7, it's gonna write 7. Then you go back to the first one, it increments to 5 and writes 5

[thorn kiln]

Gotcha

[vital otter]

trying to use code to change the brightness of the image component of a button but it isnt working
does the button component override this somehow?

[silk night]

only on state changes (hover, pressed, ...)

but you can just set it to not do any state style changes

[thorn kiln]

Well, it's by no means perfect, since balls can get caught on the edges of the boxes, but it's good enough for this boring project

I could add a final score popup and a restart button, but frankly, I wanna move on to more fun tasks

[rich adder]

You would need a ColorBlock

[vital otter]

wait can this be used to make a sprite pulse white?

[rich adder]

a regular spriterenderer ?

[vital otter]

yeah

or do i have to use that trick with changing materials?

[rich adder]

iirc 2d sprite you need to setup the shader a certain way to make it full white, the sprite renderer just changes tint

[river kettle]

public class FloorScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform roofTransform;
    public Transform playerTransform;
    public Vector3 offset;

    private Vector3 pos;

    private void Update()
    {
        transform.position = pos + offset;
        pos.y = Mathf.Max(playerTransform.position.y, pos.y);
        pos.x = playerTransform.position.x;
        pos.z = playerTransform.position.z;
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        other.gameObject.transform.position = roofTransform.position;
    }
}```
could i please have some help with my code im just trying to move the player from the bottom to the top without moving both the bottom and the top up a large amount I need some way of locking the position for a bit but im not very comfortable using coroutines yet and i cant really think of another way

[rich adder]

can you explain a bit more ?

[river kettle]

give me a sec ill record a video of the issue

[rich adder]

sounds like you need some type of timer ? btw you don't really need coroutines for that but they are pretty simple

[river kettle]

i think so im just not sure how to do it without making a mess

[rich adder]

couldn't you just update y if the Y goes negative instead of positive

if(playerTransform.y > pos.y){
        pos.y = playerTransform.position.y;}

[river kettle]

maybeeee i think let me give it a try that would work for the floor but not the roof but then instead of having the roof as a separate object i could probably just send the player up from the floor

oh no it woulndnt work because of the stairs the floor will pass that barrier naturally

[rich adder]

the roof would need to be fixed

whats the end goal here, I'm still a little confused maybe there is an easier setup

[river kettle]

im jusat trying to create a section that loops itself the player is meant to move up the stairs that generate and they disappear beneath them and its the players goal to figure out how to get out of the never ending staircase

its a bit slapped together but its a game jam what can you do

but because it never ends the borders cant just be stagnant

your code gave me an idea though

[river kettle]

a hour later and its working thanks for the help

[solar hinge]

im tryna learn untiy but idk what to do first

should i focus on like

c# or jump straight into coding in unity

[gentle trellis]

learning c# first helps a lot if you don't have any coding experience

[solar hinge]

where do I go about doing this?

[gentle trellis]

but you can go straight into unity and learn how to make player move and so on like I did

[gentle trellis]

there's lot of tutorial online, I watch codemonkey's tutorial on youtube

[solar hinge]

ok sounds good thanks

[rich adder]

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

also more pinned

[solar hinge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReR6Z9rK-o&list=PLzDRvYVwl53t2GGC4rV_AmH7vSvSqjVmz&index=9

do u mean this?

[versed light]

any one familair with this error:

Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Can't find file \\.\pipe\unity-ilpp-196e9b8a703e784f256f2cf717996356 at Unity.ILPP.Trigger.TriggerApp.WaitForFileExists(String, TimeSpan) + 0x166 at Unity.ILPP.Trigger.TriggerApp.CreateClient(Arguments) + 0x23 at Unity.ILPP.Trigger.TriggerApp.<ProcessArgumentsAsync>d__1.MoveNext() + 0x706

unity freezes every time for like 10 minutes until this error finally pops up and it unfreezes

[cosmic dagger]

That's weird. What action were you doing when this occured?

[versed light]

when ever i do mesh generation stuff

cant seem to fix the problem

has been working for weeks too

[cosmic dagger]

Hmm, did you try rebuilding your Library folder?

Maybe it's code-related, as I see ILPP. A process (related to mesh generation) is supposed to start, but did not, is my guess . . .

[versed light]

oh i finally got a code related error after it stopped freezing

ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length must be >= 0
Parameter name: length
Unity.Collections.NativeArray`1[T].CheckAllocateArguments (System.Int32 length, Unity.Collections.Allocator allocator) (at <c80b42b80a6b4f929e8a04e392676541>:0)

error points to this:

#if UNITY_EDITOR
                Assert.IsTrue(combinedCount > -1, "Combined count is < 0");
#endif
                var i32 = !isDst16 ? new NativeArray<int>(combinedCount, Allocator.TempJob) : new(0, Allocator.TempJob);
                var i16 = isDst16 ? new NativeArray<ushort>(combinedCount, Allocator.TempJob) : new(0, Allocator.TempJob);

ok interesting after a major hang it now throws on the assertion thats - odd

main thing that confuses me if why it takes 4+ minutes to run the code before i get the assertion thrown

[gaunt yacht]

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[versed light]

i fixed it but its a weird unity quirk

if you use [ContextMenu] to call a function, and some where in your code you throw an exception (in my case unity assertion) but any assertion seems to do it, it will hang the editor for over 5 minutes before it finally ends and gives an output

no idea why

i tried adding a try catch but it still hangs

[willow iron]

if i try to get a random.range between 0 and 0 that shouldn't throw an error right? dont see why it would

[left cypress]

Just did it
Didnt throw an error for me 🤷

just resulted in 0

cause well..

ofc it would lol

[cosmic dagger]

That is a very distinctive way to receive a bug, but good to know . . .

[cosmic dagger]

You're just limiting the result you can achieve to only one value . . .

[rich temple]

hey everyone is this the place to get advice

I'm stuck right now. I have my main project, and i have a minigame built in another scene, i want to display this minigame through a UI raw image in my main scene's canvas, i tried additive loading but that really didn't work out, and besides its a rather simple game so as a beginner i don't think i'd be able to handle building a save data container myself so i resorted to duplicating the whole minigame into my main scene in a container, basically i get my script to activate this container, and through culling masks and the render texture the minigame gets displayed

here's where the problem starts

the minigame is a space invaders type game right so its pixel art, it has a 640x360 resolution, and my main game is 4K

i can't scale the minigame display up without messing up its resolution ( every sprite there is set to Point (no filter) even my render texture is) and the minigame itself ends up messing up my main 4K scene's resolution

is this happening because i haven't set up URP and i just use the post processing package or can this be solved with code

this game is in 2d if that helps

[left cypress]

Can you not scale the UI Raw image instead of using width/height?

(im also beginner so i dont know all too much 😅 )

[rich temple]

haha thats alright

scaling it messes up the displays resolution

both in recttransform and just regular transform

[left cypress]

Can you share a screenshot of what your scene currently looks like?
Im having a hard time visualizing whats going on from the description

Only If you want to ofc 😅

[rich temple]

yeah absolutely

but its gonna take a while i had to delete the whole thing and start over from a backup

[rich temple]

check it out

it drops my actual game's resolution and doesn't even look good on its own, its blurry

[left cypress]

And how are you getting that to the Raw UI Image?

[rich temple]

you use a render texture to do that

assign it to both the camera and the raw image

voila

[left cypress]

I figured
hmm

What specifically goes wrong when scaling the Raw Image UI on the canvas?

[rich temple]

imagine if i set my sprite displays to bilinear

instead of point no filter

i get that kind of display, it gets super blurry

and it makes my entire scene pixellated

[left cypress]

Ive replicated that kind of a setup and im not getting any sort of Blurryness

is your canvas in overlay?

and set to constant pixel size?

Heres another thing
Does both your render texture, and the raw ui image have the width and height set to 640 x 360

[rich temple]

yessir

[rich temple]

in overlay it doesnt work actually

which is weird as hell

[left cypress]

What mode is it in?

[rich temple]

camera

i reverted back to my backup again so i'm gonna give it another try

[rich temple]

i never considered this though

[left cypress]

Would you consider streaming what your doing?
to see if i can spot anything?

if your able to ofc
Cause im perplexed ngl

Oh theres no voice channels in this server
why would there be
that'd be too convenient lmao

[timber tide]

Remember it's a texture so if you're scaling it up but capturing at a lower res it's not going to look precise

[rich temple]

lmao ikr

[rich temple]

is there another way i can get it to look exactly the same as it does in my other scene where i built the minigame

[left cypress]

Ive replicated the 640x360, to 4k raw image thing
And my results are working

So either youve done something
or ive done something

im also in an isolated environemnt

all i have

is those things

and no other functionality

[rich temple]

what exactly did you do?

[timber tide]

Usually I just render at the greater res then downsize it, unless that's what you're doing. If you're working with pixels though may want to use a pixel perfect camera>?

you're always subject to a resize alg cause when you do capture the texture it's already rasterized

[left cypress]

as far as the information ive gotten
The exact thing as you

[rich temple]

i actually dont have one. i have the package but i didnt think it necessary to set one up since all i have is 4-5 sprites

maybe if it has a pixel perfect camera it would actually read as a pixel resolution to be rescaled freely instead of just a really, really small display

[rich temple]

damn im one unfortunate bastard lmfao

[left cypress]

Camera to render texture to ui image
Both rawimageui and render texture on 640x360

And canvas size 3180x2160
Rendering out to my Original camera

Where i can scale the ui image as much as i want

can you send screen shot of camera + rendertexture + ui image?

[rich temple]

this is on rect transform right

the texture size

hold on im gonna try again from scratch and send the screencap

[left cypress]

No
Theres two different spots
the UI Image

which is rect transform

and when you click the render texture

in the inspector theres another Width x Height

which is the size of the texture itself

(which also affects the size/dimensions of the camera if its linked to the texture)

[timber tide]

Image component also has a property to keep the aspect ratio so make sure that's ticked

[left cypress]

Oh heres a question
Are you using a raw image or image?

[rich temple]

got it, trying again

[rich temple]

raw image

i could go for an image or a panel this time?

idk if it makes a difference

[left cypress]

Image i just found out only uses sprites

so that wont work

just do raw image

[timber tide]

Ah yeah strange wonder why rawimage doesnt have those properties

does have SetNativeSize method but not on the inspector

[left cypress]

I mean, Im wondering why it isnt working for them when It worked out of box for me

new cameras by default arent orthographic?

idk

Cameras by defualt are at 0,0,0
And arent pushed back by -10 on the Z Axis?

im just spitballing

[timber tide]

Oh, reading it again it seems like they have post-processing on? You can disable it on the second camera, but the first camera will probably apply any PP to the texture as well

So you'll have to filter it out usually by rendering it separately, which then questions using rendertextures at all

Or, you use a third camera to render it lol

[rich temple]

oh yeah i do have post processing on for both cameras

the smaller camera's volume affects my main cam too

even though i've made sure to seperate them with culling flags and layers

both ortographic btw

[left cypress]

Could you send a picture of the inspector view of the elements?
Rendertexture, Raw image, camera, and canvas?

[rich temple]

yeah sure thing, in order; raw image (in my main canvas, the one i use for the mini display), render texture, minigame camera, main scene camera

they're both named main camera they're not the same cam on the last 4 screenshots

i have them on different layers and their culling masks don't render eachother

i dont have URP, i've been talking to gemini and it said i should have it on

[timber tide]

Culling layers way not work completely correct for some pp effects unfortunately. Things like bloom I've notice that it'll still affect part of each rendering.

[rich temple]

but its failed me so much at this point i wanted to get some real human eyes on this before trying it out

[left cypress]

so does it look fine when at normal scale

[rich temple]

could this also be an explanation for why the display lowers my main scene's rez

[rich temple]

nah it sucks lol

on my seperate scene it looks just fine

the problems start when i try displaying it in my main one

(not additive loading, i literally copy pasted it)

and on the editor view the volume i had for the mini scene is applied on my main one, in runtime i dont see it though

this is fucked lmao

[left cypress]

On the seperate not main camera take away the 'MainCamera' tag
I dunno if that would affect anything but like

worth a shot?

[rich temple]

sure why not

[left cypress]

can i see canvas inspector view?

[rich temple]

i cant tell if it worked, when i zoom in the main scenes rez still seems fucked but when zoomed out, seems to be better! no improvements on the minigame display itself tho

[rich temple]

my main canvas or the minigame's

[timber tide]

Can you just disable all the PP and check it

Looks like you some dithering effect going on

scanlines stuff

[rich temple]

yeah some barrel blur and chromatic abberation

scanlines arent part of the pp though

its just an overlay i made in photoshop and it has a coroutine attached to it that makes it jitter

[timber tide]

Ah, alright

[left cypress]

Both, why not

[rich temple]

disabled it to try it out but sadly no luck there either

[rich temple]

sure thing

mini canvas

my actual canvas

[left cypress]

What does your Rendertexture preview look like?

does it show correctly?

[rich temple]

actually not really

that white box to the left is supposed to be part of my UI

doesnt render correctly in the preview

in the actual display it shows but its displaced

[left cypress]

I guess it would help if the unity i was on was also built in render

[timber tide]

Yeah it's been a minute since I've touched it, but if the texture idea doesn't work you can look into camera stacking and try making it as an overlay of the rendering

[left cypress]

In your arcade camera

try setting W and H to 0

then back to 1

My camera doesnt seem to change dimensions to match my render texture

until i do so

[rich temple]

oh you set up your URP?

[left cypress]

I did
I just moved to built in

[left cypress]

and encountered this

[rich temple]

maybe because im not on it its why my whole setup is scuffed

[left cypress]

Try this

[rich temple]

wym?

[rich temple]

gonna

[left cypress]

Oki 👍

[rich temple]

made it dissapear hahahaha

maybe i should setup URP after all

[left cypress]

did you set it back to 1 | 1

[rich temple]

because you did the same setup and didnt have any issues

yessir

[left cypress]

Im not having any issues on built in either 😅

apart from that one

[rich temple]

then i'm fucked hahahahah

[timber tide]

Basically it renders the scene after the primary rendering instead of capturing the second rendering and putting it into your first

[rich temple]

i wouldn't have you walk me through the entire process are there any tutorials on this?

[timber tide]

probably? It's called camera stacking

[rich temple]

aight, i said that cuz its too much to ask lmao

look at the video's name

im upgrading to URP, whatever the hell that entails

[timber tide]

lol, yeah it does exist in built-in but a lot of info has been updated for URP

[rich temple]

also check this out

this is what made me think eventually

maybe if i have 2 of these, i could assign each to my different cameras

rn they keep overriding each other

this happened even when i tried to load it addiively when it was still on a different scene

also thank you guys for trying to help @left cypress @timber tide

[left cypress]

Of course
Im just confused why its not working

when by all means it should be

[rich temple]

yeah man, story of my life hahahaha

i called over a gamedev buddy of mine he's gonna take a look at my project in a few hours

there's probably some sort of setting i did that's messing something up

and since idk what it is i can't show it here

i'll let y'all know what we find cuz this is messed up lmao

[balmy vortex]

so do I just like use rb.linearvelocity on both of them?

bcs idk how to do that on the movement code bcs idk how to plug the rotation of the enemy into a vector3

[keen dew]

transform.forward is the "rotation of the enemy" as a Vector3. You already use it in the current code to move the enemy forward, it's exactly the same with velocity

But you should probably use AddForce instead of setting the velocity directly

[vital otter]

so i had this problem where i couldnt change the button's colors, so someone else suggested colorblocks
it still isnt working for me. am I doing something wrong?
the buttons are using animations

brightness = Mathf.Cos((Time.time - startTime)) / 4 + 0.75f;
cb.normalColor = new Color(brightness, brightness, brightness);

[vital otter]

yep its because they are anim buttons

[hardy wing]

true

[keen onyx]

hey i have a problem with my code or firebase ? my game wouldn't load what i have done after closing it it reset the game and firebase only update first time after instelling it if i close it open it everything i did reset and fire base wouldn't update anymore with stuff i do

how and where should i share my codes?

[worn bay]

Why did the engine dump me these errors while building, meanwhile it already worked for like very long ago without issues??

//...
                onRightClick.Invoke();
        }
    }

#if UNITY_EDITOR
    [CustomEditor(typeof(RightClickButton), true)]
    [CanEditMultipleObjects]
    public class RightClickButtonInspector : ButtonEditor {
        public override void OnInspectorGUI(){
            base.OnInspectorGUI();
            serializedObject.Update();
     
            EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(serializedObject.FindProperty("onRightClick"));
        
            serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
        }
    }
#endif

It's already under UNITY_EDITOR ifdef

[limber turtle]

i'm trying to make code for a flying enemy that tries to track the player's position to shoot them from a distance but i'm not really sure how the y movement should work for it, or how to make it avoid trying to shoot you through a wall; is this a question for here or should i go somewhere else?

i have it connected to my script for basic movement which essentially just lets the object move left or right based on the input direction

the circle is the object i'm doing this for

i have it set to move towards the player when too far, and away from the player when too close

right i'm thinking that some of this could be personal preference

but i still might need help with pathfinding

[balmy vortex]

hey so like is there some way of making my enemy prefab model frictionless or something? bcs rn it just keeps getting stuck on walls

my enemy movement code if it matters at all --> https://paste.mod.gg/otacebvbdeum/0

[slender nymph]

you can make an object frictionless by giving it a physics material that has no friction

you may also want to consider actual pathfinding options instead of what you have if you want it to actually path around obstacles instead of just face planting into them when they are in the direct path to the target

[limber turtle]

that's a good shout

i'll consider that for smarter enemies that need to actually find the player instead of just charging at them, so most likely the circle in question

what are your tips for it?

[slender nymph]

that was not directed at you, but i guess it applies too 🤷‍♂️

[limber turtle]

oh

well if it helps it helps

[balmy vortex]

well like what?

[slender nymph]

well unity has navmesh built in so you could use that. a simple google search can tell you that and even give other options

[keen onyx]

hey i have a problem with my code or firebase ? my game wouldn't load what i have done after closing it it reset the game and firebase only update first time after instelling it if i close it open it everything i did reset and fire base wouldn't update anymore with stuff i do
how and where should i share my codes?

[slender nymph]

!code

[radiant void]

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[keen onyx]

@slender nymph thanks : https://paste.mod.gg/jkvihunrybyg/0

[polar acorn]

You also need to wrap the using statements as well

[stoic summit]

https://pastecode.io/s/ri0q47c9

hey, I'm trying to set an objects position to the position of a vertex in a mesh. They're under two seperate parent heirarchies

I'm taking the vertex out of it's meshes local space, into world space, and then converting it into the target objects local space, then moving the target object to those coordinates

but it goes to the complete wrong spot every time

if I move an unparented object to the vertex world space, it's in the right spot, so I think I may be misusing inversetransform point? not entirely sure but would appreciate some advice

[slender nymph]

you're assigning its world space position property to the local position. either assign to its localPosition instead or don't convert the position to local space

[polar acorn]

If you have the world position of the vertex, you don't need to do any more conversions. Just set the object's .position to that

[stoic summit]

I'll try both of those real quick and get back to you

[polar acorn]

If you have to do any parent swapping after that make sure to use the worldPositionStays parameter of SetParent

[stoic summit]

this resulted in this, white cube is where it's meant to end up

[fallen hinge]

Hello someone can help me
I'm making a 2D snake game and I have an issue with the movement. Somehow if I press the right arrow -> up arrow -> right arrow then the snake teleports diagonal

[stoic summit]

this is also way off

[rocky canyon]

last time i did a snake thing i had to implement an Input queue to act upon.. since it worked in steps i didn't want it moving multiple positions during a single step

so if i pressed up, left, up in quick succession it would wait for each step to go up, then left, then up again.. versus what ur describing when it jumps

[fallen hinge]

and how can i implement an input queue?

[rocky canyon]

Input Buffer** edit: well i think its both things combined that i did a queue and a buffer

is another name for it

[cosmic dagger]

When you press an input, add it to a list of inputs. The snake will use the most recent input to move, and then remove it from the list . . .

[fallen hinge]

oh now i understand thanks for the help

[grand snow]

Use the queue class! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.queue-1?view=net-9.0

optimised for FIFO (first in, first out) yes i corrected it

[rocky canyon]

lol.. 🫠

[grand snow]

me brain failed

[cosmic dagger]

haha . . .

[cosmic dagger]

**System **
A damage system with damage modifiers and resistance tables that mitigate the damage to yield a final result

Context
Every attack has a damage type (physical, magic, or effect) sent along with a DamageInfo struct. I have a Dragon Fist attack that does fire damage; it passes the damage type DT_Fire SO

Question
Since the attack is a physical move (punch), should I pass the physical damage type and the fire damage type? Should I allow attacks to pass/have more than one damage type?

[fallen hinge]

I found the problem source if I comment this line out the the snake is working fine, but i don't know how to solve the rotation then

[cosmic dagger]

I'm asking because then I need to formulate what percentage of the attack is physical and/or fire-based. I could apply the damage as physical and still pass the fire damage type to check against shields/resistances, but if I did, would the shields/resistances mitigate the entire damage or the percentage of the attack that is fire-based (using the first option)?

[teal viper]

That's a design question. Which one do you want to have? Make the damage of attacks compound of different types where each would get their our resistance and such calculations? Or make attacks only have one type so that only that type calculations are involved?
It's something only you can answer.

[naive pawn]

damage type and elemental type seem like separate things?

seems like you'd want to know about both - and each attack would have both

[cosmic dagger]

I wasn't sure if the code would be any helpful, but it does seem more like a design aspect. I'm just building the system to create it; I'm not making a specific game, which is why I have this dilemma . . .

[edgy sinew]

diagram moment 🫡

[cosmic dagger]

I was curious because I started to think if that's how other games did theirs. Magic/elemental damage are damage types . . .

[teal viper]

Well, what system are you taking inspiration from? If it's d&d for example, you should probably have compound attack types both with separate and combined calculations depending on the stats.

Some simpler games in terms of combat, like terraria(I think), usually have one type for the whole attack making the calculations simpler.

[cosmic dagger]

I guess I'm at the point that I'll have to change the damage pipeline and how I check for the damage types if I add multiple (which isn't the worse), but I'd need to figure out how to determine what percentage of the attack is one damage type versus the other . . .

[naive pawn]

consider if you want to distinguish physical fire (eg, dragon fist) vs magic fire (eg, fireball)
then consider if that makes sense for all "types" of attacks

[edgy sinew]

UnitAttacking.fire_damage_dealt * UnitReceiving.fire_damage_resistance aint it this simple ? then just add 'em ...

[teal viper]

I'd have an Attack class or struct with a list or dictionary of damage types involved.

[cosmic dagger]

This is what I have now . . .

[hardy wing]

why is MonoBehaviour.camera even a thing? 🧐

[naive pawn]

(terraria doesn't have attack types - just weapon types used for calculating the outgoing damage, but there's only a single defense stat)

[teal viper]

Then it should be pretty simple. The percentages can be recalculate or calculated each time you get them(if you expect them to be dynamic)
Misread the reply.

[naive pawn]

it basically isn't

it used to be a thing

[teal viper]

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure you had different damage types, no?

[naive pawn]

it's obsolete and not available in builds, afaik?

[naive pawn]

no (i edited my message to clarify)

[hardy wing]

phenomenal...

[teal viper]

I see. Haven't played in a while so got it mixed.

[hardy wing]

why is there even a discrepancy between editor and build

[naive pawn]

the obsolete field is kept so you get a nice error message if you're transferring over old code to a new editor version

same thing with the linearVelocity/linearDamping change

[cosmic dagger]

Haha. Exactly, what I was going to change, but my issue is the percentage part. I will post a damage flow visual; gimme a sec . . .

[hardy wing]

id much rather have a breaking change at some point

[teal viper]

Going to sleep now, but will have a look in the morning.

[edgy sinew]

Overcomplicate polymorphism in 3 easy steps

[rocky canyon]

Random() asking instead of answering 👀 did i wake up into the twilight zone

[red igloo]

I want the player speed to slowly build up to a certain value so he doesn't move off quickly. I want a realistic feel to it. Should I use Mathf.Lerp for this?

[rocky canyon]

a few options for ya

[red igloo]

which would you recommend for what I am doing?

[rocky canyon]

the spring wouldn't cause of overshooting

but the other 3 would be fine

MoveTowards() is always my favorite

since its a->b w/ no gradual slow down at the end

[red igloo]

alright thanks, I'll look into move towards 🫂

[rocky canyon]

  // Increase currentSpeed toward maxSpeed smoothly
    currentSpeed = Mathf.MoveTowards(
        currentSpeed,     // current value
        maxSpeed,         // target value
        acceleration * Time.deltaTime // how much to change this frame
    );

    Debug.Log(currentSpeed);```

[rocky canyon]

altho u can just use += and clamp it

currentSpeed += acceleration * Time.deltaTime;
currentSpeed = Mathf.Min(currentSpeed, maxSpeed);```

[naive pawn]

yeah i imagine they'd remove it eventually but i have no clue when that'll be

[sonic harbor]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[hardy wing]

alright thanks

[eternal aspen]

Hello everyone, I am trying to get the position of an element on a list using a script on the prefab of the items on the list. Basically I want the elements on the list to know what number element they are on the list. Is there a way to achieve this?

I tried: IndexOf(this.gameObject);
but it doesn't seem to be working.

P.S. I explained this the best I could. Sorry if it is confusing.

[naive pawn]

it's pretty confusing yeah. perhaps give some examples/names

[rocky canyon]

you'd just need a reference to the list..
it might make more sense to have a "Manager" type script that returns the index when given the object

[naive pawn]

it kinda sounds like you have a prefab instance but you're trying to find its position in a list of prefabs?

[rocky canyon]

ya, thast what im gathering too.. the "prefab" wanting to know its position in the list

[edgy sinew]

legend status good content bro 💯 ⭐

[rocky canyon]

public class Item : MonoBehaviour
{
    private int index;

    public void SetIndex(int i)
    {
        index = i;
        Debug.Log($"{name} is at index {index}");
    }
}``` you *could* give the prefab a script that keeps up with its own index..

when u add it to the list call the method ^ and assign it

 item.SetIndex(i);
 items.Add(item);```

[rocky canyon]

i just be happen to working w/ all the various types of "smoothing"

just happened to have it at hand 🙂

[naive pawn]

hmm kinda seems excessive given the little context given

[rocky canyon]

next gotta add some custom curves

[edgy sinew]

I'm approaching that point right now, where I'm thinking to add some TrackingMethod variables etc to try out diff things at runtime

Curves are so good... I only worry that using real math is faster

[naive pawn]

it could be added to the "main" component of the prefab instead

or if it's not going to be used frequently, imo it's just not needed

[rocky canyon]

im just guessing what the use-case is.. but i'll revise or expand when we get more deets 🙂

[edgy sinew]

Like sin waves and such

[rocky canyon]

Mathf.PingPong

[naive pawn]

i get that but i just feel like it's guessing too specific for too little details lol

[cosmic dagger]

Sure, I'll tag you in the post . . .

[rocky canyon]

I don't even have a use-case for it yet.. i spend way too much time just goofin 😅

ADHD on full display..

• "what did u do today?"
• "just dragging a cube around, ya know"

[ornate kraken]

What "thing" am I missing that would cause Intellisense to not work in VS2022 as my IDE for script editing? I tried entering in a basic:

void Update()
{
    transform.Rotate(0, 1, 0);
}

It works, but IntelliSense doesn't populate or give me hints.

[naive pawn]

!vs

[radiant void]

Visual Studio guide

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

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

[queen adder]

if (isQuitting)
 {
     if (isEditor)
         UnityEditor.EditorApplication.isPlaying = false;```
Is something messed up with my vs setup?
`Assets\Scripts\CustomFishnetManager.cs(158,25): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'EditorApplication' does not exist in the namespace 'UnityEditor' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
`

[naive pawn]

are you getting that when building or something?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/building/editor-assemblies

[naive pawn]

doing editor stuff in non-editor scripts needs conditional compilation, not conditional statements

[hardy wing]

Is there a way to determine how many units an orthographic camera records? I'm trying to code my own gizmo drawer for the camera component since the normal camera gizmo is not always visible (only when selected) so I kinda struggle where to find the info I need. The size in camera.rect only returns (1, 1) for some reason.

[fading cipher]

Question as I’m struggling atm with my jump mechanics.

I’m making a player script, where my player only jumps and slides (endless runner).

I got the sliding to work quite fast.
But jumping is bothersome.

As I am using rigid body, I guess I should utilise add force to make my character jump.

But being new, how should I tackle that my player only should be able to jump once.

I’d need to check when and if my rb is grounded, and if it is, jump. And if it’s not, activate gravity? Any tips on how to tackle this?

[slender quiver]

I posted thsi in the rendering thread, but I was hoping to figur eit out rather quickly - I switched to HDRP, and now when I add a new UI panel, it seems to influence the lighting in the scene. How can I disable this? Pics show the scene with the Image component of the panel disabled and not

[ornate kraken]

Thanks. I went through this list and the only thing I did'nt have was Visual Studio Editor package, but Intellisense still doesn't work. Is it because it's missing the .csproj files or .sln file?

[cosmic dagger]

@edgy sinew@teal viper Here is the damage flow diagram. If I pass the physical damage type, it will reduce the total damage from the physical shield. What I'm struggling with is if I apply separate damage types for each kind of attack, do I affect the entire damage value (like in the diagram), or create a separate struct that holds a damage type and value, then run each struct through the damage pipeline and combine them for the final damage output . . .

[rocky canyon]

try restarting first and opening the script thru Unity

[hardy wing]

Thanks, the gizmo drawer I described didnt have the conditionals

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Camera-orthographicSize.html

The height of the viewing volume is (orthographicSize * 2). Unity calculates the width of the viewing volume using orthographicSize and the camera's aspect.

[rocky canyon]

should see the Solution in the Explorer

[hardy wing]

Ah, didnt know where to look, thanks.

        var xSize = orthographicSize * 2;
        var ySize = orthographicSize * aspect;
        var size = new Vector2(xSize, ySize);

This should work then.

[naive pawn]

you don't have a * 2 for the ySize there

could use xSize * aspect

(also, x and y are swapped - so it'd be xSize = ySize * aspect)

[ornate kraken]

Thanks. Was able to get it to work by specifying VS2022 in the Preferences. I didn't realize just doing file association doesn't do the csproj files.

[slender nymph]

would the * 2 for the width be accurate? i thought it was literally just orthoSize * aspectRatio (where aspectRatio is just Screen.width / Screen.height)

[hardy wing]

Huh the description said width = ortho * 2 and height = ortho * aspect?

[hardy wing]

uhh yeah reversed

[slender nymph]

oh looks like it should be doubled as well. 1920x1080 would come out as 8.88x10 otherwise

[hardy wing]

yeah i just checked in editor

dont understand the docs then

but turns out youre correct there

[naive pawn]

it's calculated from orthosize and aspect, but it's not saying it's just multiplying those 2 together

[naive pawn]

you're correct on the aspect ratio, but orthosize is half height, so orthosize * aspect is half width

[slender nymph]

yeah i see that in the description now lol. i've left a comment using the developer notes extension that it should also be doubled when calculating the width. just wish that the line that shows exactly how height is calculated also mentioned the same for the width since at first glance it seems to imply it's just orthosize * aspect

[slender quiver]

Anyone have any idea on the HDRP lighting issue I posted?

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[slender quiver]

I understanad, Ive posted it in rendering, but I was hoping to figure it out rathe quickly. Thread channels are notoriously slow a lot of the time

[slender nymph]

don't cross post

[slender quiver]

DM me if you can help, thats all im asking

[naive pawn]

if rendering people were active, they'd be there. you aren't getting help any faster by asking here

we're clueless on rendering stuff lmao

[slender quiver]

you never know

but i get it

[naive pawn]

we do know

do not crosspost and do not solicit DMs please

[slender quiver]

I only asked to avoid further contaminating this channel

[slender nymph]

you're also just dirtying another channel possibly preventing someone else's on-topic issue from being seen when you crosspost your issue to unrelated channels

[naive pawn]

you already contaminated lmao

[slender quiver]

sigh

[naive pawn]

there's a reason crossposting is discouraged, mate

[slender quiver]

To be fair, I waited for a lull to ask again, trying to be respectful about it while still hoping someone active right nwo might know. Ill refrrain from it in the future, but cut me a little slack lol 🙂

[naive pawn]

that's ok, there's a first for everything

[slender nymph]

modding discussions are not permitted here. you'd have to ask in the game's community for help with modding it
#📖┃code-of-conduct

[thorn magnet]

ah okay my bad ill try to talk to them directly

thank you bye 🫡

[red igloo]

I made the player speed slowly build up to certain value but when I move the player moves very slowly instead of going to the value

[naive pawn]

you need to actually update currentSpeed

[naive pawn]

@red igloo check the code sample you were given earlier

although for something like that you might want to change the velocity, rather than the speed

using Vector2/3.MoveTowards

with what you have, you could turn around instantly once you're already at speed

[red igloo]

hmm your right. What I am trying to go for is realistic movement where when you move from being idle the speed should slowly build up from 0f > 10f. If trying to go backwards/direction the built up speed should decrease then increase since your moving to a different direction. Should I change the velocity instead?

[naive pawn]

yes

[fallen hinge]

Can someone help my snake doesn't see any collider what could be the problem? It has rigidbody2d and a boxcollider2d and wall aso have a collider and the apples too.

[slender nymph]

wdym by "doesn't see any collider"

[fallen hinge]

dosen't senses the collider

[slender nymph]

in what way

[polar acorn]

How are you moving it

[rocky canyon]

well can u share the code

in before : translation

[grand snow]

!code

[radiant void]

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[grand snow]

delete and try again

[fallen hinge]

sorry im new here

[rocky canyon]

so yea.. ur moving it via a method that won't respect physics +/or collisions

transform.position = is basically teleporting it every frame and not actually moving it

you need to move it via Physics to get collisions via Physics

[fallen hinge]

thank you

[rocky canyon]

good luck 🍀

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D.html

check the public methods to find one that would work for ur usecase

MovePosition() for example

[fallen hinge]

now it works thanks for the help

[fair scarab]

does anyone here use playmaker?

[slender nymph]

presumably the people at the playmaker forums have. also don't crosspost

[eternal aspen]

So the best way for me to explain is that it’s simulating a hand of cards. I have a card prefab that goes into a list on the a hand manager game object. I want the card to know what index number it is in the list is I can activate the properties of it being selected. (Glow outline, enlarged size, etc)

[eternal aspen]

Does this make it more clear?

[naive pawn]

so it's a list of prefabs, but you're trying to use an instantiated gameobject to findIndex in the list?

[eternal aspen]

Yeah. Instances of the card make up the list. And I want a script that’s on the prefab to recognize what index number itself is.

I have the script that’s on the card prefab referencing the list already but I don’t know how to get each instance of the card to hold a variable of what its own index on the list is.

[naive pawn]

huh? you said yes but then you contradicted that..?

is it a list of prefabs or list of instantiated scene objects

[eternal aspen]

Sorry I misread your message. It’s a list of instantiated scene objects

[eternal aspen]

My bad lol

[naive pawn]

what type is it?

GameObject or a component it's using?

[modern parrot]

hi,

can anyone help in Debugging a logic in my code
i need to submit this project but there is some minor bug logical issue which is causing the app to not perform well

[eternal aspen]

It’s a GameObject

[naive pawn]

ok, how exactly is the IndexOf not working?

[eternal aspen]

What I tried was doing is int index =
handCards.IndexOf(this.GameObject)

[naive pawn]

it would need to be this.gameObject

or just gameObject

[eternal aspen]

I wouldn't have specify which list I am referencing?

I just got home so I can actually send my exact line of code

[cosmic dagger]

If you have a problem, post the issue, the relevant code, any errors, the intended behaviour, and what is happening instead . . .

[eternal aspen]

handmanager is the script which contains the list. cardsInHand is the name of the list.

[naive pawn]

that should be fine then

you still haven't said how exactly it didn't work

[eternal aspen]

the int cardElement equals 0 for all instances.

[willow iron]

how can i make it so that a 2d image is always facing the camera in a 3d setting? i know in godot it was a toggle on the image itself

[naive pawn]

it's called billboarding, try googling that term

[grand snow]

Not sure what this card hand stuff is about but does the card itself have access to the cards list?

I detect code smell

[eternal aspen]

yes so the cards list is on the HandManager script. The card itself refrences that.

[grand snow]

that is not good design

[eternal aspen]

what do you reccomend?

[grand snow]

A card should just do stuff for itself and the card manager manages this list of many cards

But I get that for beginners its hard to follow such guidelines without prior experience with OO programming

[eternal aspen]

So I am trying to make the card recognize what index it is on the list so it knows if its the currently selected card.

You think that kind of stuff should be handled all in the cardmanager?

[grand snow]

When ive done this in the past, the manager refreshes the state of card instances

e.g. card is clicked, calls event, manager updates selected card, updates cards to refresh their state, done

This way a card doesnt need to find out itself and depend on the card manager

[eternal aspen]

I think I am catching on. So the cardmanger handles everything in terms of figuring out what card is selected and then changes the state of the specific instance accordingly?

[grand snow]

Yes and that should simplify things a lot.

But up to you if you want to refactor things

[eternal aspen]

No that makes total sense. I am going to redo this a bit. Thanks for clearing it up for me.

[grand snow]

made up example using an event

public class CardView : MonoBehaviour
{
    public event Action<int> OnClick;

    public int CardId { get; private set; }
    public bool Interactable { get; set; }

    public void Init(int cardId)
    {
        CardId = cardId;
        SetSprite(cardId); //Update sprite or somethin
    }

    public void Refresh(bool selected)
    {
        //Refresh state
    }
}

Btw when we do stuff like this, it means a view like this can be re used easily as it no longer depends on the manager to function (e.g some menu or other UI that wants to show a card)

[rich adder]

transform.LookAt(camera.position)
exclude up/down
targetPos = camera.position
targetPos.y = transform.position.y
transform.LookAt(targetPos)

[eternal aspen]

Awesome! I’ll definitely come back if things go wrong while I try to rework this.(they probably will)

[teal viper]

Don't know if it's still relevant, but yeah, you pretty much need to pass every damage component through this pipeline then combine before subtracting the character hp.

In DnD(or rather neverwinter nights that I've been replaying recently), there are resistances(percentage based) and absorptations(flat based) reductions and each of them can be applied to a certain element/damage type or all of them, so it had a certain flow where these are applied in order and the final damage is applied all at once after the calculations.

[weak trail]

Hello guys so im a complete beginner and i want to learn to code strictly for unity and game development

should i learn python first or C#?

im saying python just for general knowledge but all i really want is master c# for game dev

[winged ridge]

Then don't bother with python, start with C# if that's your intended path. Recommend unity learn for it

[weak trail]

Got Yeah i was starting some lessons for python but realized maybe i should just focus on C#

[cosmic dagger]

Okay, I have a SO_ResistanceTable attached to every entity. [Type] is for a single SO_DamageType like DT_Blunt, DT_Ice, DT_Stun, etc. [Category] is for entire groups of damage types, like CT_Physical, which includes DT_Blunt, DT_Pierce, and DT_Slash

If I pass separate DamageEntry structs with their own SO_DamageType and damage value, then I need to determine where in the damage pipeline to recombine them

The 2nd pick is the complete Damage Resolution flowchart. The right side is the Damage Pipeline. I guess I can add them together after the {Apply Resistance Modifiers} stage . . .

[weak trail]

Because i was going to use python to learn things like General knowledge that can be applied between various languages

[cosmic dagger]

If all you want is to master C# for game dev, then you have your answer . . .

[winged ridge]

The concepts carry over for sure. But if you want to code in C# learn the same thing in C#, if after you are comfortable with that, you can focus on something else

[weak trail]

Yeah i think il work on all the unity tutorials they offer

I guess the key is to Learn C# By applying it building projects and also mastering the engine at the same time

[winged ridge]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[weak trail]

preciated

[weak trail]

are all tutorials for 3d? thats what it seems

[winged ridge]

No there are some 2d tutorials

[cosmic dagger]

Nope, they cover both . . .

[winged ridge]

The tanks project you can do through unity is 2d and is highly rated it seems amongst people who teach unity

[weak trail]

yeah thats what im gonna do

[plush cedar]

guys, i need help

i need to finish a game in less than 5 hours

and i need scripts for player attacks, enemy ai, and hp for the main character and enemy to die

yall can help me?

[cosmic dagger]

Good luck, my friend . . . 🫡

[winged ridge]

There's not a chance everyone's doing your work for you... Why less than 5hrs

[weak trail]

print("Ur cooked bro")

[plush cedar]

i was asking if you have any good materials, and 5 hours because that is the time limit that i have for this, it was suposed to be a 3 person project, where all three work on code for it, and im here as the only one to do the code, and my friend who will do graphic design and music

[plush cedar]

deep fried

[weak trail]

i thought it was a gamejam

[plush cedar]

something from school

[weak trail]

bro why does everybody has game dev school projects while my school doesnt do anything lmao

[plush cedar]

know any good 2d tutorials?

[weak trail]

make the tank unity tutorial

[plush cedar]

i have been waiting for something like this for some time, just for it to end up as a team thing with less then 24h to do somethinf

and i preety much have no team

just my friend who is right now trying to understand how to animate a sprite using bone structures or something

[winged ridge]

So in logic: if you break it down to its components your player attacking and enemy taking damage isn't hard to do quickly. The ai however is what takes its time. You'd need to work out what type of AI, whether state machine, fixed code IE simple enemy goes left, down one, goes right, down one etc
The AI aspect would take the longest time. Plus is it in a 2d or 3d, the code is different

[plush cedar]

its a 2d platformer, i wanted it to be so when the player is close to the enemy, the enemy attacks

[teal viper]

I guess so. Though, your system already feels quite complicated without it. And you already have some separation around the shields. So perhaps there's no need to split it any further and just determine the dominant damage type for each attack?
This is really more of a design/balancing question.

[cosmic dagger]

You're probably right. Using one type for the entire attack could be fine. I'm just trying to make the system open and modular. I wasn't sure if separating the attacks made more sense from a design perspective
You'd be surprised. The setup/code for it is simple. The damage pipeline runs on the Health component, specifically in a single method. When an attack occurs, it searches for the IDamageable component, creates the DamageInfo struct, and passes it to the TryApplyDamage method (where everything happens) . . .

[winged ridge]

I recommend you leave

[teal viper]

I think it's gonna be pretty difficult to implement a generic combat system. Unless it's something like a visual scripting tool, you're gotta define the logic somewhere.

[winged ridge]

<@&502884371011731486> ∆ think we have a situation

[teal viper]

What's your problem? No one is gonna help you with that attitude

[frosty hound]

!ban save 1103819965498404866 as requested

[winged ridge]

Thank you 🙂 can't stand ignorant language like they were using

[cosmic dagger]

I just don't get it. Why waste your time doing that just to get banned? Never understood the sentiment . . .

[radiant void]

<:error:1413114584763596884> Punishment not executed

[radiant void]

<:error:1413114584763596884> Punishment not executed

[winged ridge]

Attention, trying to belittle others, lack of self discipline and respect.. list goes on

[teal viper]

Probably not used to servers where rules are enforced.

[winged ridge]

Well, it's done, so what was the question asked?

[teal viper]

Something about what platform to use for an fps game... Whatever that means.

[winged ridge]

Ah, well personally if they mean Windows/mac etc.. more sales the better... If 2d/3d then it's fps.. would be odd in 2d, if Unity/unreal .. both have their merits and weaknesses

[plush cedar]

well then seing as my guy just realised he was trying to make me use a animation thingy that suports only 2018, yall think we can pull out a storymode esque thing in 4 or so hours?

[winged ridge]

I mean, you could do that in PowerPoint... But as long as you have the assets, time, willpower and desire you can do anything

[cosmic dagger]

So far, the only thing I do manually is add the SO_ResistanceTable asset to the list of damage modifiers on the Health component. When equipment is attached to the player, any modifiers on it are added to the runtime list and removed in kind. The modifiers are automatically sorted when added. This one does not have a resistance table . . .

[winged ridge]

I'm not a fan of that minimum value... Be careful with that

[teal viper]

Yeah, but I mean your pipeline basically defines the involved calculations their order and what they are applied to and when. These kind of things are often tailored to each game at least in combat centric rpg games.

[cosmic dagger]

Oh, I see what you mean. Then this will have to become the one and true way for all of you to use, lol . . .

[winged ridge]

Don't know how you've implemented the code but why don't you do it based on a method that takes in damage type, so you'd have it take the health minus damage amount (* or / by the modifier)

[cosmic dagger]

That's just an old default value I haven't changed yet . . .

[weak trail]

hello iwas doing the tank tutorial in unity and my assets are pink

[winged ridge]

You need to update materials to the relevant material type assuming you are in URP

[weak trail]

tried converting and everything and it doest work

[weak trail]

im on universal 3d

[winged ridge]

Okay just signaling it for you in case

[winged ridge]

Try creating a new material, add the textures to the correct part and drag n drop onto the model

[slender nymph]

i'm curious why you have a default value of -2^128

[winged ridge]

Did you sit and calculate that

[cosmic dagger]

I believe it was set to the minimum float value as the default value . . .

[slender nymph]

nah, googled "what number has 38 zeros" and eventually found 2^128 is 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

[winged ridge]

Well... Thank you Google lol, I was hoping you didn't sit and do the maths, even I didn't bother lol and I have no life

[slender nymph]

ah yeah, that makes sense. i'm actually surprised that floats MinValue is actually that big

[winged ridge]

Just wait until you see uLong etc

[slender nymph]

(big meaning its absolute value is enormous, not big as in a high value)

[weak trail]

when making the game objects its showing as a moon

[slender nymph]

eh, ulong is only 64 bits so isn't as big as that. although the new Uint128 is exactly as big as that

[weak trail]

even tho its on standard

my unity is so cooked

[winged ridge]

Wait uLong is only that small? I thought it was designed to be a beast lol

[shell sorrel]

ulong is just 64bit int no sign

[slender nymph]

it's still only a 64 bit struct, yeah. It can just go double as high as long since it's unsigned so gets that one extra bit

this is (so far) the biggest int we can get (without using something like BigInt) which goes to that 2^128 number I posted before

[winged ridge]

Well you learn something new every day, now I want to find a use for it lol

[slender nymph]

it's also not even available in unity yet since it's .net 7+

[winged ridge]

Oi unity get on it, I want to break it lol

[shell sorrel]

really if you need more then 64 bit, feel your are best to think about your design

or use bigint

[winged ridge]

Id just want to see if it was possible to break it somehow, likely using several things that can combine together (ie borderlands weapon system) just on major scale

[slender nymph]

Here's a little fun fact about Uint128: It is practically impossible to loop that many times. Even if an entire iteration of a loop took only a single clock cycle, using a 4GHz CPU it would take 2.7x10^21 years to complete the entire loop

[shell sorrel]

also each one of them takes 16 bytes to store

[winged ridge]

On SSD? Or we talking RAM

[slender nymph]

128 bits is 16 bytes. so that is how much memory it takes to store one

[shell sorrel]

in either

[winged ridge]

Id have to do maths, I'm upgrading to 128gb ram... But I'm sure I could persuade someone to help lol

[eager stratus]

Is there an easier way to return a transform's euler rotation as a negative number other than the longform way of simply subtracting 360 manually?

[slender nymph]

is there a reason you are attempting to do that?
I ask because it sounds like an XY Problem on account of it being typically a bad idea to read from the euler angles interpreted from the quaternion

[eager stratus]

//Calculate overhead
float targetHeightAngle = Mathf.Clamp(transform.eulerAngles.x + inputDelta.y, -89, 89);

[slender nymph]

that's not really telling me much, but if i had to guess you are maybe clamping the rotation for a camera or something? so you should absolutely be tracking the change in angle manually and clamp that instead of adding/subtracting from the eulerAngles x axis

[eager stratus]

Well, you're right. It is for camera controls

[slender nymph]

basically this:

private float xAxis;

private void SomeMethod()
{
  xAxis += inputThatChangesRotation;
  xAxis = Mathf.Clamp(xAxis, min, max);
  //the use xAxis where ever you were using the previous value before
}

[eager stratus]

That was something I was doing before because I wasn't entirely sure what I wanted to do with the camera, but now it seems like it would just be an unnecessary variable

[slender nymph]

i mean, if you want to do it the more complicated way that offers literally no benefit at all and may even end up with things breaking in unexpected ways, then you don't have to use that. but this is the simplest way to go about it

[cosmic dagger]

The SO_DamageType is used as an enum and passed to the TryApplyDamage method. The damage type is passed to every modifier in the damage modifier list. It's used if the modifier needs it

For example, if the player has a Fire Shield, a shield modifier will be on the list. It takes the passed damage type and checks against the damage type(s) the shield absorbs. If it matches, the shield will absorb X amount of damage

Resistance modifiers are the same; instead, they reduce the damage by X% . . .

[winged ridge]

So in theory you have along the lines of TryApplyDamage(int dam, DamageType t) then if statements checking if t is equal to the shields type etc?

[brisk ibex]

I'm just skill issued but how do you guys put up with unity crashing the entire editor every time you make a script mistake in play mode? Surely there is some setting to run stuff in a seperate thread?

I'm tried of infinite loops crashing my entire editor on mac and having to force kill and restart the application just to reset. The feedback loop is really long rn 😭

[eternal needle]

an infinite loop is not a crash. the solution really is just to stop writing infinite loops

not sure if you can do it on mac but the usual advice i see is to hook up the VS debugger and force stop the code from running

[brisk ibex]

yeah I've been using the vsc debugger for now

bit annoying though because I prefer to edit in vim

works ig 👍

[cosmic dagger]

Somewhat similar, but a DamageInfo struct is passed to provide more information

public struct DamageInfo
{
    public SO_DamageType Type;
    public float Amount;
    public Vector3 Point;
    public Vector3 Normal;
    public GameObject Source;
    public GameObject Instigator;
    public bool IsCritical;
}

public bool TryApplyDamage(in DamageInfo info, out DamageReport report)
{
    var requested = info.Amount;
    var applied = requested;
    var context = new DamageContext(this, info);

    applied = CheckInvulnerability(applied);
    applied = ResolveDamage(applied, context, _runtimeMods);
    applied = ClampDamage(applied);
    
    var killed = CheckDeath(applied);
    var hasDamage = ApplyDamage(applied);
    
    CreateDamageReport(info, out report, killed, applied, requested);
    RaiseDamagedEvent(report);
    
    return hasDamage;
}```
`ResolveDamage` loops through the list of damage modifiers and passes the `SO_DamageType` via the `DamageContext` created above
```cs
private float ResolveDamage(
    float damage, 
    DamageContext context, 
    IReadOnlyList<IRuntimeDamageModifier> modifiers)
{
    for (var i = 0; i < modifiers.Count; ++i)
    {
        damage = modifiers[i].Modify(context, damage);
        
        if (damage <= 0) break;
    }

    return damage;
}```
Here is an example of the `Modify` method from one of the damage modifiers, the Shield Modifier . . .
```cs
public override float Modify(in DamageContext context, float damage)
{
    if (!ShouldAbsorb(context.DamageInfo.Type)) return damage;
    if (Current <= 0f) return damage;
    
    var shieldAbsorbed = Mathf.Min(damage, Current);
    Current -= shieldAbsorbed;

    return damage - shieldAbsorbed;
}```

[winged ridge]

Why are you returning damage - shieldAbsorbed if you could return current -= shieldAbsorbed

[cosmic dagger]

Because Current is the shield's health. Shields have their own health (how much they can absorb). If a Fire Shield absorbs 50% (Config.Maximum set to 0.5 in the editor) of the player's HP at a value of 100, then Current = 50

public override void Bind(in T config)
{
    base.Bind(config);
    Current = GetMaxShield();
}

protected float GetMaxShield()
{
    if (Owner.TryGetComponent<Health>(out var health))
        return health.Max * Config.Maximum;
    
    return 0f;
}```
The amount the shield absorbs is subtracted from its current value (until it reaches 0). That same amount is removed from the damage because it was absorbed . . .

[winged ridge]

Perhaps I'm reading it wrong but it almost seems like your damage two times there.
So your logic at the end states if your current is less than or equal to 0 return damage (shield is null/empty)! That's fine, then it checks for your variable (float I'd assume) of how much your shieldAbsorbed then set that by finding a minimum value between damage and it's current health , then you deduct the shields health by the amount it absorbed and it's current (example) current -= 5f; then return damage to the character minus the amount the shield absorbed as well. If the shield is greater than 0 and the damage does not exceed, the shield should surely absorb the attack... Meaning reverse the logic of current -= shieldAbsorbed

[cosmic dagger]

I can't say I've had this issue. Don't write infinite loops. If it's happening that much, then using Vim isn't working for you. Pro-tip: use a counter to break the loop when it reaches a specific number . . .

[winged ridge]

I may be totally misreading your logic but I read it as though player gets hit and takes plus the shield takes damage as well

[brisk ibex]

If it's happening that much, then using Vim isn't working for you
That makes no sense but ok.

I have logical skill issues not editor ones 😂

yeah I'm well aware of bounded loops

[winged ridge]

Then find your infinite loop and put in an exit condition
Example
(while counter <10) Do code and add 1 to counter

[brisk ibex]

It's more in terms of data structures and remembering struct vs class semantics, I'm sometimes not cloning things where I need to and they end having multiple refs which leads to logical errors. I'm not overly familar with c# so I keep foot gunning myself

[brisk ibex]

yeah I've read the nasa thing at one point

• a million other style guides

[winged ridge]

The way I remember it is in terms of Genus, and human body
Struct defines a human body
A class is the genus

struct Human{
int legs;
}
Etc

[cosmic dagger]

It's a simple misread of the logic. I'll break it down . . .

public override float Modify(in DamageContext context, float damage)

Current = 50 // Public property (member) of the class
damage  = 25 // Passed in argument

if (Current <= 0f) return damage;
// 50 <= 0f. Current is not empty

var shieldAbsorbed = Mathf.Min(damage, Current);
// shieldAbsorb = Mathf.Min(25, 50) = 25 (This is the minimum/lowest value of the two)

Current -= shieldAbsorbed;
// Current = 50 - 25 = 25

return damage - shieldAbsorbed;
// Return 25 - 25 = 0

// The shield absorbed the attack```

[winged ridge]

ah right okay yes, I misread it lol i was reading it as damage to player not incoming damage

[cosmic dagger]

Yeah, it's the incoming damage this modifier will mitigate and pass-through (if any damage leaks) . . .

Seeing this, I need to change Current to Capacity. That fits better than the shield having a health value . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Some editors will flag the problem if they know the value will never become true (in a while loop) or meet the condition (in a for loop). I believe Vim is a text editor and doesn't have such functionality. That's why I mentioned it . . .

[winged ridge]

If It was as I read I was thinking huh that seems backwards thinking, but no you're right if it's incoming lol

[cosmic dagger]

All of the damage modifiers override the Modify method based on what they do. The classes are small and very short. It makes adding and maintaining them simple . . .

[queen wren]

Can someone tell me why I can't catch the double click?

private void OnClick(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
{
    double pressDuration = context.duration;
    double timeSinceLastClick = 0.0;
    if (lastClickTime > 0.0) // Controlliamo di non essere al primo click in assoluto
    {
        timeSinceLastClick = context.time - lastClickTime;
    }
    lastClickTime = context.time;

    // Stampa i valori per il debug
    Debug.Log($"Durata Pressione: {pressDuration:F4} secondi");
    Debug.Log($"Tempo da ultimo click: {timeSinceLastClick:F4} secondi");


    bool isMultiTap = context.interaction is MultiTapInteraction;
    Debug.Log($"DoubleClick: {isMultiTap}");
}```

The action is subscribed as performed inputActions.Player.Click.performed += OnClick;
but the Debug.Log($"DoubleClick: {isMultiTap}"); is always false 😕

solved the problem by creating a copy of the Click group and naming it DoubleClick.. sounds redundant, but it works ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[drowsy flare]

When I create a regular Monobehaviour class and add something like this:
[SerializeField] private Color combatColor;
I get a nice color edit field to what ever GameObject I attach the script to.

Is it possible to make this edit field appear for a public static class?

I mean it's possible to declare [SerializeField] private static Color combatColor; but can I edit it somewhere from the gui? I guess not, since it's not instantiated, but in that case, is there some way to go around it?

[left cypress]

There is a way technicallyy
But probably not all too useful

You'd be able to change the value while the game is running

but when it stops, it'll go back to its default value

[cosmic dagger]

Unity can't display static variables from the editor because the field belongs to the class, not an instance . . .

[drowsy flare]

I had a feeling of that, thanks

Or well, a feeling in that direction, not so elegantly explained as you just did

[cosmic dagger]

You can create a custom editor that will display it, but that more work . . .

[left cypress]

Thats what i did
RE: this

[drowsy flare]

I guess I could create an initializer class for it, that I instantiate?

But then it would kind of lose it's purpose

[azure pike]

how to calculate thrust(add force at position with force mode) to weight ratio for rigidbody2d?

[cosmic dagger]

The easy solution is to create a ScriptableObject with the variable, then reference that ScriptableObject in the component where you want to use it . . .

If you make the SO a Singleton, then you wouldn't need to assign a reference to it on your script . . .

[drowsy flare]

Oh this should have been obvious to me, thanks again for explaining

ScriptableSingleton<T0> 😍

[eternal needle]

Is there a reason you need this static? Tbh if its only the color you need, id first create the color I want in editor (make a new temp variable if needed), copy the values, then write them in code for this static variable.
Creating a scriptable object works here but feels kinda moot if its purely for this one color

[cosmic dagger]

You want to check if the thrust is greater than the object's weight, so it will move?

[azure pike]

solved

by on fixed update

[cosmic dagger]

Haha. Yes, it is very important to use FixedUpdate when working with physics . . .

[azure pike]

thx for tips

[drowsy flare]

That's more or less what I've done already. But I don't really fancy having colours etc hard coded, this is why I'm trying to switch over

[normal copper]

I'm trying to figure out how to debug this kind of error. I see there's a null ref exception, but I can't really figure out where to look in order to get a better understanding of what I might have missed to refer to

[keen dew]

It's an editor bug. If it doesn't cause any issues you can ignore it. Or update the editor.

[normal copper]

Alright, thanks 🙂

[broken bloom]

Hi, I'm trying to make a jumping script but for some reason if im walking forward and jumping, if i look down my jumps are very short and if i look up my jumps are really tall? I can't figure out what could be causing this, and I'm not sure whether it's my camera movement code (it's a third person project with a combat and normal camera) or my player movement script- sorry if this is all bad unity etiquette or something of the sort ^^ https://paste.mod.gg/fvufqjwsecrz/0

i think the link has both codes i wasnt sure if i had to send 2 seperate links

[keen dew]

If the orientation object rotates up/down with the camera then moving forward will add upwards or downwards velocity to the jump

[broken bloom]

i set the orientation.up of the camera input direction and the player movement direction to be 0 though, and my jumping code only adds a specific jump force upwards- sorry im not exactly sure how the moving forwards adds velocity to the jump if its always set to (in my case) 4f

[keen dew]

After you've jumped and you move forward in the air, if your camera (and the orientation object) is pointing up then moveDir will point upwards and add more height to the jump. And the reverse if the camera is pointing down

[broken bloom]

ohhh i see!! thank you, I set moveDir.y to 0 and that fixed it! I thought setting the orientation.up to 0 would do the same thing but i suppose it doesnt

thank you again though

[keen dew]

The code doesn't set orientation.up, multiplying it by 0 and adding to moveDir does nothing

[drowsy wave]

i have questions im trying to do a game like miramind but in 3d and im straing whit the plaweres gui and their model but still i think i need help

[frosty hound]

!ask questions then?

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[drowsy wave]

!ask how do i made like a gui simple but a gui whit the thing so the player can chose their aprece and their name , etc

[frosty hound]

Unity has a whole UI system, two infact. In your beginner case, you would use the traditional UGUI.

[drowsy wave]

how do i use it?

[frosty hound]

How do you want me to answer that in any meaningful way?

Find a tutorial, search YouTube, Google, etc.

[hard tapir]

Ive made this simple 2d moving system but it has 2 problems: 1. you cant go up and sideways at the same time, 2. if you go up and then sideways you lose all of your up momentum. can someone help me fix this?:

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) && (inAir == false) && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D))
{
GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().linearVelocity = new Vector2(moveSpeed, jumpForce);
}

  if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) && (inAir == false) && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A))
  {
      GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().linearVelocity = new Vector2(-1 * moveSpeed, jumpForce);
  }

  if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) && (inAir == false))  
  {
      GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().linearVelocity = new Vector2(0, jumpForce);
  }

  if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D))
  {
      GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().linearVelocity = new Vector2(moveSpeed, 0);

  }
  if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A))
  {
      GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().linearVelocity = new Vector2(-1f*moveSpeed, 0);
  }

its in update

[grand snow]

You are setting velocity to a specific value so the last if statement will be what happens
This is also a very shit way to do input

You should be reading input as a vector2 or read horizontal + vertical and make a vec2
Then you use that vector2 to change velocity

Lastly, lots of repeated GetComponent() s is bad and you should get the component 1 time and use a reference to the component

[hard tapir]

ohh like add the vector2 to the already existing one so it keeps the momentum?

[grand snow]

let me write an example instead

Vector2 input = move.ReadValue<Vector2>(); //New input system
input.Normalize();
rigidbody.linearVelocity = input * moveSpeed;

[hard tapir]

thanks!

[grand snow]

guide for new input system if you want to swap to this instead
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.14/manual/QuickStartGuide.html

otherwise you want to use GetAxis twice

[hard tapir]

thank you man

[nocturne shell]

!ask Hello, I've been struggling to get ragdolls to work on these models, I've already tried checking if it's a orientation or joint issue, but can't quite figure out what could be causing this behaviour where in the first frame the ragdoll is on it starts all twisted, I'm using an already set up ragdoll that i know works so it's not a project wide issue, any1 has an idea what could be going wrong? it seems to be only a initial state problem since it untwists into the expected shape

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[gaunt yacht]

How do I run my code and play my game I built on visual studios

Because it’s not launching

[hexed terrace]

press the 'play' button in the editor.
or
build it, and run the exe.

you perhaps want to do the basic tutorials on !learn 👇

!learn

[radiant void]

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[gaunt yacht]

I did all that

Keeps giving me errors

I tried debugging

[hexed terrace]

so, read them, research them and fix them

[gaunt yacht]

Trying

[gaunt yacht]

What u mean build it

Sorry I am new at this

First game I ever made

[hexed terrace]

Ignore that - fix your errors. Your initial question was vague and didn't convey the actual issue.

[gaunt yacht]

Will do but visual studios is still good to use

[hexed terrace]

It's Visual Stuido (no S on the end). and.. of course it's good to use..

[gaunt yacht]

Awesome

[gaunt yacht]

Sorry I am like half a sleep because I stayed up all night making this game

[vestal thunder]

hi there i was wondering if anyone knew how to create a code door

[hexed terrace]

!ask

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[hallow acorn]

hey how would i get the direction my camera is facing? is vector3.forward including its rotation?

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform-forward.html

[hallow acorn]

oh makes sense thank you!

[lunar coral]

I'm trying to teleport my player from one scene to another scene's position, what I did is I made a script for the player calling DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject); in the Start() function and I then made another script that loads the second scene I want the player to get sent to, and then sets the player's position to a specified Vector3 position, but I face 2 issues: 1: it's laggy, I can see the transition and it's not smooth, I'd like it to be faster and smooth, 2: the position the player gets sent to is wrong, I took the transform of a gameObject that's in the second scene and set the Vector3 to this transform.position and the player isn't getting teleported to this position

[river sandal]

Should I use visual studio or visual studio code for Unity? I dont want to set up visual studio code and I heard visual studio takes forever to load up.

[grand snow]

both have pros and cons but VS is more reliable

[valid zodiac]

Hello i’m start and i can help for the level design

I don’t start the level design un 3D

[river sandal]

How so

[grand snow]

code questions only in this channel

[valid zodiac]

I ok sorry

I sorry

I leave

[grand snow]

well vs has exited for way longer and is not made with electron

[river sandal]

I see

Thanks

[naive pawn]

we don't allow collab posts here, sorry

[floral garden]

!code

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[naive pawn]

hey btw those links are available here #🌱┃start-here message
so you don't have to summon the bot every time

[floral garden]

oh

thx

i doesn't know

[cunning rapids]

Guys, if you have several movement modifiers from different sources, is such a system good?

Player movement script has a dictionary of all the movement modifiers it experiences (maybe through subscribing other events, to keep things decoupled)

Yet, the only one you actually apply is the "priority", which can be determined through a criterion (eg, something that slows you down the most)

If you need multiples or stacking of modifiers, some modifiers can identify themselves as ones that can add on to the priority modifier
I haven't heard of that specific implementation before
Thoughts?

[upper shard]

Can anyone help me understand variable assignment in unity, i had a code with a bug and I fixed it by using .copy(), But i still dont understand how values are assigned, reffred or set to a variable. any general short rule to keep in mind for this?

[naive pawn]

this isn't a unity concept, it's a c# concept
there are 2 kinds of types - value types and reference types
for reference types, when assigning, you're actually just assigning a reference to the object somewhere else in memory
there's further reading in the pins

[cosmic dagger]

Kind of hard to follow. You'd have to explain or show what these movement modifiers are . . .

[left cypress]

Im curious, when would it be beneficial to use a class library/dll over just the C# files in the assets folder?

The only case i can think of is frequently re-used code across projects.
Faster compilation time maybe?
Or are dlls pretty much only ever used in like.. api scenearios?

Ive gone through the process and Im just trying to think why anyone would go through the effort

[grand snow]

packages are the way to go for your own code but distributing a dll is good to ensure it can be modified as easily

and well any other existing lib thats not made for unity may be distrubuted as a dll

[tender dagger]

!code

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[oblique ridge]

should i look for a general cs degree or a game dev one?

idk if i want to be the programmer/gameplay engineer

i just like making game worlds etc

[winged ridge]

Depends what your end goal is. If you want to go into the field of game dev then that's your route... Else if you want data analytics etc then computer sciences, two different paths and likely won't be similar teaching

[cosmic dagger]

This sounds like game dev, no?

[digital knot]

can someone help me pls? i'm getting duped script errors and i've checked through the files twice. i don't know what's happening.

[cosmic dagger]

Do you have classes with the same name?

[wintry quarry]

you either have a duplixcate file or you defined that stuff more than once in the same file

maybe you made your own FirstPersonLook script and this one is from the Mini FIrst Person Controller asset or package?

[cosmic dagger]

A class name and a file name are two separate things. Make sure to check both . . .

[wintry quarry]

Anyway just search your IDE for "FirstPersonLook"

[digital knot]

im new to unity i dont really know what some of this stuff means

[wintry quarry]

what are you confused about

specifically

[digital knot]

classes and stuff that that other guy said

[wintry quarry]

A class is the thing you define when you write public class SoAndSo

everything inside the {} is part of the class

[digital knot]

ok

[wintry quarry]

Which "stuff" are you confused about that the other guy said specifically?

[digital knot]

nothing else

i can send the script if you want to try to analyze it

[wintry quarry]

basically you have either:
Written more than one Update method within your FirstPersonLook class
OR
You have more than one file in your project that is defining a class called FirstPersonLook

[wintry quarry]

I mentioned the most effective way to find the problem here

[digital knot]

what is IDE

[wintry quarry]

most likely your issue is you have two files defining the same class so sending the script won't help that much

[wintry quarry]

The program you use to write code in, such as Visual Studio

[digital knot]

i checked and there is only 1 class per thingy

[wintry quarry]

wdym by that

[digital knot]

no dupes

using UnityEngine;

public class FirstPersonLook : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField]
Transform character;
public float sensitivity = 2;
public float smoothing = 1.5f;

Vector2 velocity;
Vector2 frameVelocity;

void Reset()
{
    // Get the character from the FirstPersonMovement in parents.
    character = GetComponentInParent<FirstPersonMovement>().transform;
}

void Start()
{
    // Lock the mouse cursor to the game screen.
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
}

void Update()
{
    // Get smooth velocity.
    Vector2 mouseDelta = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y"));
    Vector2 rawFrameVelocity = Vector2.Scale(mouseDelta, Vector2.one * sensitivity);
    frameVelocity = Vector2.Lerp(frameVelocity, rawFrameVelocity, 1 / smoothing);
    velocity += frameVelocity;
    velocity.y = Mathf.Clamp(velocity.y, -90, 90);

    // Rotate camera up-down and controller left-right from velocity.
    transform.localRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-velocity.y, Vector3.right);
    character.localRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(velocity.x, Vector3.up);
}

}

[wintry quarry]

Yes but this doesn't tell us that there are not other files in your project defining the same class

which file did you just share here

Is this the one inside Assets/Mini First Person Controller/Scripts/FirstPersonLook.cs?

[digital knot]

yeah

[wintry quarry]

then you have another copy of that script in your project somewhere

or at least, another .cs file containing that class definition

Again, you should search for FirstPersonLook in your IDE

and it will show you where you have written that

[digital knot]

i dont know how to search ide

[wintry quarry]

which IDE are you using

[digital knot]

idk

[wintry quarry]

what are you using to write code

[digital knot]

visual studio

[wintry quarry]

THen you are using VIsual Studio

So search in Visual Studio for it

Here's how to search in Visual Studio: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/visual-studio-search?view=vs-2022

[eager stratus]

Really common issue, but what do I do about this wall sticking? I can't make the player or the blocks frictionless without running into other issues (Like the character just starts slipping on the ground) and creating a separate collider on the character with a frictionless material also runs into weird issues. What other solutions are there?

[wintry quarry]

Either a frictionless material or fix your character controller code so you can't do air influence

or so you can't do air influence while you're touching a wall

which you can detect with capsulecast

e.g.

if (!TheresAWallInDirection(direction)) {
  // move in the direction
}```

[digital knot]

i searched it and it says in 3 but its not saying anything about it when i click

[wintry quarry]

Click on the files thing

[digital knot]

its just one

[eager stratus]

I think I remember an approach like this being done with this video. That sound about right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6Q7dUz2uk

[wintry quarry]

Not sure - can you tell me at what timestamp it's discussed?

[eager stratus]

The concept in general is trying to make a character slide along a surface normal in the air

At least that's what I remember

Or slide along a surface normal in general

[wintry quarry]

it's not clear what he's doing with the resulting vector but yeah manually redirecting the velocity vector parellel to the wall instead of into it should work

[digital knot]

that's it

[wintry quarry]

actually maybe types will give you a better result

it may point you to a different file with the type defined

or text search (x)

[wintry quarry]

doesn't the "in 3" thing mean it's in 3 files?

[digital knot]

idk

[wintry quarry]

oh nvm it's saying "line 3"

[digital knot]

oh

[wintry quarry]

Do you have a lot of files in your project?

[digital knot]

not much, i just created it yesterday

[wintry quarry]

try deleting the Library folder in your project root and see if it fixes anything. Also are there any other errors in the console?

[digital knot]

no other errors

[wintry quarry]

something is weird. If you restart Unity does it persist?

[digital knot]

yep

[dusty seal]

Does anyone know how to make a grappling hook mechanic where when i look at something and hold a key it brings me towards it?

ive tried many times however nothing seems to work

[frosty hound]

None of these worked?
https://www.google.com/search?q=unity+grapple+hook&oq=unity+grapple+hook

Some of these are swinging, which is even more complex. Once you have the ability to shoot it at something (which is half the work), then going towards that point is much easier since it's a straight line.

[dusty seal]

no because all of them require a rigid body on the player capsule which the starter assets dont use. As a result they dont work or the physics just bug out

[frosty hound]

Right, which you mentioned in your initial question.

Shooting the gun has nothing to do with using a rb or cc, get that part down first then worry about moving after?

[dusty seal]

ive gotten the gun down and everything multiple times. What the problem is, is that the swing stuff doesnt work with my character so what I am attempting to do is make it pull myself towards the part. The problem is that the character glitches out and the only difference I see with those videos is that I dont use a rb. The physics those code uses glitch out my character control.

ive gotten in to pull me towards an object but whenever i look down my character levitates

[carmine summit]

how does the character controller move? just using .Translate?

[dusty seal]

im not to sure. Im suing the starter assest in the unity asset store. I can check

[winged ridge]

Don't forget, mass and gravity affect trajectory. If you pull something towards you, you'd have to counteract it's gravity and mass. If you are pulled towards something same concept.

[carmine summit]

i think the deal is

if this doesn't use a rigidbody then the character controller is probably controlling position directly

which means the object doesn't really work as a physics object and if you try to use it as one strange things happen

[dusty seal]

is there any way to work around this or should I just restart and code the character control from scratch? I have done a lot of changes like adding wall hops, double jumping, and sliding

[carmine summit]

you can absolutely work around this

it's probably going to mean scripting the grappling hook yourself to some extent, though

[dusty seal]

what the code does at the moment is uses a ray cast to find any objects with a certain tag. Then pulls the player towards it

by effecting the position of the capsule

[carmine summit]

what do you mean by "when you look down the character levitates"

[dusty seal]

i can send a clip

i just start levitating

[winged ridge]

You do tell the movement to stop once it gets to the point right?