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[radiant void]

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[earnest lion]

thanks

[naive pawn]

(or !vs for vs specifically)

[earnest lion]

!vs

[radiant void]

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[earnest lion]

ive been trying a lot of shiz and im still not getting it so lets hope this guide will help

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio#configuring-visual-studio
this has troubleshooting steps if it isn't working

[naive pawn]

they are the same links, this one just shows only vs instructions

[slender nymph]

wtf why did the preview embed go away when i added context to the link, i didn't even wrap it in <>

[earnest lion]

thanks ill save it for after this

[slender nymph]

it contains the same instructions as the microsoft link (in fact it links to those instructions), but then also lists useful troubleshooting steps

[earnest lion]

awesomesauce

[naive pawn]

https://shouldiblamecaching.com

[languid pagoda]

Regardless of legality you should be doing the right thing and allowing people to decline this.

[sage wyvern]

i need help, i've been working on a 3rd person lock on system for my soulslike but i can't find any way to do it. if i use the sample scene from cinemachine it destroy my camera angle and if i search a tutorial they use a random package that i can't find

[languid pagoda]

can you send a video of what you're trying to achieve? im not familiar with the souls games

[balmy vortex]

is there a way to look for the nearest object with a certain tag?

[sage wyvern]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4y0JbvyIVJw

[languid pagoda]

if the objects have a collider you can do with physics.overlapsphere

that will get all objects within a radius then you can iterate through them and filter them by tag/distance

[balmy vortex]

well how do I get the distance from each one?

[languid pagoda]

Vector3.Distance(positionaA, positionB);

[balmy vortex]

👍

[sage wyvern]

you understand what i mean?

[languid pagoda]

Yes but like honestly thats kinda a lot to discuss in a discord post but the basic gist would be

Detect when button to lock on is pressed
Get nearby enemies
Determine which one you want to lock onto , you can use the dot product to discard the ones not within the cameras view then the closest one from the remaining is probably the one you want to lock onto.
In your camera script you are going to want to to set the cameras foward vector so its always facing the target you're locked onto.

Is there a specific part you're stuck on?

[sage wyvern]

yes, i know i would have to use a button and stuff and that i would have the change the look at of the camera but i don't know how to detect the enemy

[languid pagoda]

like detect which enemy the one to lock onto?

[sage wyvern]

yes

[languid pagoda]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics.OverlapSphere.html

Fire this off at the players position, set the radius to the max distance you want a player to be able to lock onto an enemy

then that will return a list of items within that range

you can use layers to filter them out by enemy only

[sage wyvern]

alr

[languid pagoda]

then you can use
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector3.Dot.html
and distance checking to determine which one you want

[languid pagoda]

Vector3 dot can be used to determine if a gameobject is within the cameras view frustrum

not a coding question tbh

[edgy cape]

ok

[sage wyvern]

so, i will have to first code the system to detect it but i don't understand the distance checking because imagine if you we're looking at one which is in front of you and one behind you is closer and you look at that one, then what?

[languid pagoda]

That is what Vector3.Dot is for

Vector3 playerForward = player.transform.forward;
Vector3 directionToEnemy =  (enemy.position - player.transform.position).normalized;
float dotProduct = Vector3.Dot(playerForward, directionToEnemy);
if (dotProduct > 0)
{
      //front
}
else
{
      //back or sides
}

[sage wyvern]

i understand half

[languid pagoda]

ok what do you not understand?

[sage wyvern]

lemme use it first, i just don't know what'll happen if i add that, 😭, i'm pretty new so yeah

this is my current movement rn, will it work with this tho?

[languid pagoda]

yes

[rocky canyon]

you assign playerForward as the player's forward direction
you set directionToEnemy as enemyPosition - playersPosition (this gets the direction towards the thing)
you normalize it.. and then you use Vector3.Dot to get the dotProduct using (those 2 variables)
by checking the ~~angle ~~ result you'll know if its in front of or behind

[rocky canyon]

@sage wyvern ☝️

[sage wyvern]

alr, imma try to set it up

[trail hatch]

I just placed a sphere and applied a script from a youtube video but it shows me an error:
You are trying to read input using the UnityEngine.Input, but you have switched...
This message is a bit long. Any help?

[rocky canyon]

debug any of the values u need to in order to understand the steps its taking

[shell sorrel]

just to remove confusion it does not output a angle, just a -1 to 1 value

[trail hatch]

That's my error...\

[rocky canyon]

yesh yesh ^ -1 to 1.. and u use the conditional on that 👍

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/input/input-system/input-handling

[languid pagoda]

ive said it before and I will say it again. The old input system needs to be removed.

[charred monolith]

Is it possible to make only the Rotation kinematic? that means the Gameobject can move with physic but not the rotation

[naive pawn]

(to be pedantic) -1 to 1 if the input vectors are normalized

[languid pagoda]

freeze rotation

[charred monolith]

i cant bc it also has to move per script but without physic

[languid pagoda]

you can still move it without phyics if you check those boxes. This is on the rigidbody component

[charred monolith]

oh ok thanks. i thought it doesnt work on a navmeshagent

[languid pagoda]

you mentioned absolutely nothing about navmesh agents my guy.

i have no idea if that will work on them

[charred monolith]

it works

[rocky canyon]

another typical setup i've seen is rotating a seperate gameobject.. and then using it's direction to have the rigidbody move relative to that instead.. thats how those "sphere" car controllers work https://x.com/i/status/1107783904784715788

ur car obj(graphics) is tracking the sphere,, u rotate the car,(gfx), then the sphere goes in the direction the car is facing.. (relying on its vector) to move relative to it

Kenney (@KenneyNL)

How the arcade-like car controller was made; big sphere rolling around, car model just copies position. Raycast down to find ground normal for car. Sphere gets force based on car model direction. Tilt/wheel turning/etc. all lerps. #gamedev #unitytips

X · Mar 18, 2019, 11:20 PM

[naive pawn]

that's hilarious

[earnest lion]

does this look properly highlighted?

[rich adder]

yes

[earnest lion]

ok great

but still im not getting any suggestions when im typing

[rich adder]

ok then make sure you redo the steps to double verify

[earnest lion]

yeah i did everything just now

re did

everything is updated i even got the new visual studio community version

.net is intalled

all extesnions

[rich adder]

visual studio community has nothing to do with VSCode

actually normally the path should start from Assets

[hexed terrace]

your screenshot is of visual studio code

[earnest lion]

well, i still did it

[naive pawn]

no, Random is not highlighted as a class

[earnest lion]

ill try that

[naive pawn]

you did the steps for vs community, in vscode?

[rich adder]

yeah the color threw me off a bit, I'm so used my theme from regular colors

[hexed terrace]

!vscode

[radiant void]

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[naive pawn]

shouldn't it be project root, actually

not assets

[slender nymph]

❓
that wasn't a suggestion so i'm not sure what you're going to "try" from that message
but go through this information: https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code

[rich adder]

idk mine starts at Assets then project name for some reason lol

[earnest lion]

both

oh i read that wrong

no

[naive pawn]

that would be a folder inside the project name?

look at the actual explorer view instead of breadcrumbs probably

[rich adder]

oh wait I had a folder inside there for some reason myb. My brain aint woken yet

ya Assets is always root for me

[earnest lion]

he sait should so i interpreted that as one

[naive pawn]

should be like this - top level as the project root, then assets/library/projectsettings/.git as folders inside that

[naive pawn]

it's not the root

breadcrumbs start inside the project, they don't include the opened folder

[rocky canyon]

When’s the best time to load core game systems (player, audio, UI, managers) in Unity? Im going for smooth transitions with no stutter whatsoever like you'd see either between or during splash → menu → cinematic, or splash → cinematic → menu. Should I load everything at boot, or progressively spawn systems during each scene load? If you spawn systems in a scene, how do you handle passing necessary references to a GameManager or core logic? How do you usually structure this for smooth startup?

[rich adder]

I look at solution explorer so I know for sure

[naive pawn]

but that's not actually what folder you have open. that's what solution you have open

[earnest lion]

oh yeah i did that already

[rich adder]

yeah in FIle Explorer its the entire project

[naive pawn]

and actually, above Assembly-CSharp, doesn't it show the project name anyways

[slender nymph]

you went through all of that information? including the troubleshooting steps for when it isn't working (you know, like now)

[naive pawn]

yeah, so that would be having the entire project open in vscode

the workspace is for the entire project folder

[earnest lion]

either im stupid and im not seeing it or what ur linking is like 5 steps

[rich adder]

oh ok ya got confused cause normally I look at Solution Explorer to know my devkit has loaded / breadcrumb shows Asssets/ScriptName/Function or Field

[naive pawn]

i thought breadcrumbs were just using syntax, never looked at them before stuff was loaded. that's cool to know

[rocky canyon]

is there one way better than the other 👀 ❔

[naive pawn]

i wait for the colors to load

[rocky canyon]

ohh i guess u dont get clutter from non-scripting stuff

[naive pawn]

or i leave my mouse hovering on something from unity and once it shows docs it's loaded

[rich adder]

Solution explorer shows it loaded the solution, and also hides assets unrelated to scripts

[hexed terrace]

I don't even have the solution explore open

[rocky canyon]

i notice its not showing any audio folders or anything

[slender nymph]

i mean, there's certainly more than 5 steps overall on that page. so maybe try and read it in its entirety

[rich adder]

yeah not very useful for Unity, but for regular .net projects is where I right click it to add Nuget packages or other project references

[naive pawn]

i honestly just found out about solution explorer. i don't do purely c# and it(or equivalent) just isn't part of my workflow for anything else lol

[earnest lion]

yeah as i said, i have

[slender nymph]

you've clearly missed something

[earnest lion]

5 was an exaggeration

[naive pawn]

have you installed .net with the .net install tool extension, waited for it to complete, and then restarted vscode

[rich adder]

if you have all the extensions and plugins, try also doing a External Tools page Regen Project files

[rocky canyon]

or nuke ur cache and sln files from earlier

[earnest lion]

yessir

[languid pagoda]

I mean to fully answer this question would depend a ton on the design of your project but are we talking about monobehaviors? when you say core game systems?

[rocky canyon]

game manager, audiomanager, menu canvas's cameras, ppfx, etc

[earnest lion]

its there

[naive pawn]

@earnest lion also make sure you've opened the right folder - your project root, not your scripts folder

[languid pagoda]

Why not just leave all that in the scene at build time then load it with LoadSceneAsync?

[rich adder]

you have 7 problems.
might wanna check those

[rocky canyon]

DDOL and singleton junk

[naive pawn]

which would be the 7 spellcheck messages probably?

[rich adder]

Ohh yea maybe, I think i got mine disabled

[naive pawn]

i can't find a good reason to have them on lmao

[rocky canyon]

yea, im going to async + additively load in my player and scenes and things
im just asking what the standard was.. and do people instantiate things rather than have them just there and enable

[earnest lion]

in the vscode explorer or like file explorer on windows lol

[naive pawn]

in vscode

[rocky canyon]

im thinking of breaking things up into more scenes this time around.. like having a scene thats just my cinemachine rigs and stuff, a scene thats just audio, etc and loading them up

but never done that b4.. ive always loaded everything in as soon as the savesystem reads its data

im having to completely remake my bootstrapper and scenemanagement stuff

[languid pagoda]

The way I have my game set up. I have one scene that holds all the scripts and any objects that are spawned during gameplay. no visible objects. I load that scene when the player enters the game and then I have my actual map split up into multiple scenes and they're loaded and unloaded based on the players position.

[earnest lion]

lol who wouldve thought that this was the issue

[rocky canyon]

ahh okay so you have (2) scenes loaded at once... atleast.. (gameplay stuff) and (level stuff)

[earnest lion]

youre massive bro and i hope you get a bountiful harvest next year

[rocky canyon]

my last build had atleast 3 loaded in at all times.. (game stuff), (the menu system), and the (environment) just brainstorming a bit while i sit at this crossroad

[earnest lion]

its beautiful

[slender nymph]

hey remember when you said you tried everything on that page i linked? let's not lie in the future 😉

[rocky canyon]

woopwoop 🥳

[earnest lion]

you were right lol

[naive pawn]

us, when we mentioned this like, 20 minutes ago?

[rich adder]

holy shit default theme has access modifiers as green 😵‍💫

[naive pawn]

i don't think so?

[earnest lion]

boxfriend said that wasnt a sugestion so i shouldnt try lol\

[naive pawn]

keywords are in blue unless they're control flow which are purple, usually

[rich adder]

weird

[earnest lion]

its not

[slender nymph]

it is.

Open the project from Unity's Assets > Open C# Project menu.
would have solved the issue

[naive pawn]

so either tokenization issues (lag) or just a custom theme/color is my guess

[rich adder]

lol nice site

[naive pawn]

(to be clear i did see that in the screenshot, im just commenting on what i usually see for default)

[languid pagoda]

well more like 10, 1 for the code and gameplay stuff the other 9 are just the chunks of the actual gameworld that are relevant to the players position in a 3x3 grid

[rich adder]

oh okay just checking, I haven't used default theme in a couple of years now lol
i just know fields and props were both lightBlue and it threw me off like crazy cause made everything look like localVars (if coming from VS)

[languid pagoda]

honestly i dont see an issue with this kind of set up is there a reason you're trying to split it up more?

[naive pawn]

huh, are they not like that in vs?

i haven't used vs in ages

i mean.. neither have you

[rich adder]

fields are white, and props are bolded white afaik

[naive pawn]

but i didn't use vs much lol

[naive pawn]

huh, interesting. i think white is only for symbols in vscode default

(monokai..? am i remembering that right?)

oh man do i seriously remember it all

[rich adder]

I use this now, so not sure
https://vscodethemes.com/e/BeardedBear.beardedtheme/bearded-theme-black-and-amethyst-soft

[languid pagoda]

You on linux?

[naive pawn]

no, but still *nix (mac)

[rich adder]

Unix gang

[languid pagoda]

I mean makes sense then

[rich adder]

VS for Mac was a shit show ngl.. it was a Xamarin app lol

[languid pagoda]

vs on windows is pretty awesome

[rich adder]

well its a native app..also been around since 90s lol

[limber turtle]

can someone tell me what this is all about? i can't tell the source of the issue from reading this and i don't know what the expression in question does

[languid pagoda]

i ignore these types of errors if they aren't causing issues lol

probably being caused by some custom editor ui code tho

[limber turtle]

i don't have any of that, i got rid of the a* pathfinding project i had

[slender nymph]

it wasn't just a Xamarin app, it was literally Xamarin Studio but just rebranded to Visual Studio for Mac

[naive pawn]

white - standalone symbols
orange - strings
light green - numerics
navy blue - non-control-flow keywords
purple - control flow keywords & pragmas & module systems
yellow - callables
blue - constant variables
light blue - non-constant variables & documentation annotations
green - namespaces & custom types
dark green - comments
orange red - regex

damn.
not sure how i feel about remembering that

[rich adder]

ohh thats worse than I thought lol

[rocky canyon]

yoink

[glad shore]

How can i make some good interior lighting using HDRP

[naive pawn]

probably a #1390346776804069396 question?

[rich adder]

ohh this is pretty nice

its like mine but improved

[rocky canyon]

i just created a empty project and named it the most random thing ever...
and looking thru that plug-in theres one w/ the exact same name 👀

the ide wants me to use these colors.

[haughty lion]

Where is "Drag"?

[rich adder]

damping - linear

[haughty lion]

Thanks

[charred monolith]

The components gets removed, even though it doesnt get hit by a bullet. i want the component to be removed if it get hits by bullet but it gets removed at start.
https://paste.mod.gg/mrdqbobmoubj/0

is it bc of the speed or sum?

also how do i make my prefab in a created folder so my prefab actaully isnt there

[slender nymph]

the only condition you are checking is that whatever assigned to Bullet is not destroyed

[charred monolith]

wdym

[rich adder]

its doing it on ANY type of collision

[slender nymph]

if (Bullet.gameObject) all this does is check that Bullet.gameObject is not destroyed.

it doesn't check if the thing it is currently colliding with is a bullet. it only checks that whatever is assigned to that Bullet variable still exists

[charred monolith]

ohhh i think i get it. how do i call it then

[slender nymph]

you would typically check the colliding object for a specific tag or component

[rich adder]

why does that enemyAI have a Bullet field for anyway?

[charred monolith]

its a prototoype for fun

[slender nymph]

that doesn't explain why the enemy ai has a field for a Bullet

[rich adder]

still doesn't make sense lol unless you're shooting a prefab or something

[charred monolith]

i didnt wanted to use comparetag

[rich adder]

I guess you wanted to check if its hitting a bullet you would check Bullet or whatever you named your bullet script / type, you would not check a specific bullet unless you somehow recycle

[slender nymph]

well unless you only ever have the one bullet in your game, then you will have to

[charred monolith]

should be one special bullet

[rotund crater]

I'm trying to get this Render Texture to display my player but even though my camera has it as the output texture, and the culling mask isn't hiding anything, it's just displaying an empty screen.

[rich adder]

show setup

provide screenshots

[charred monolith]

oh wait now i get it

[charred monolith]

yea imma change that

[charred monolith]

cuz like... its not the same bullet. only for 1st

[rich adder]

yes it would never be the same bullet (assuming you're shooting from player or something)

[haughty lion]

When is it better to use BoxCast and when RayCast?

I mean RayCast is sufficiently enough for many tasks in Unity

[slender nymph]

well one is box shaped and one is an infinitely thin line. so you use one or the other when you need either a box or an infinitely thin line

[polar acorn]

When you need a raycast but thicc

[rich adder]

Single Line vs Box, you be the judge

[charred monolith]

is there a way to get a prefab out of a created folder? per script?

[rocky canyon]

when u end up with 4 raycasts pointing in the same direction u might as well switch to a boxcast 😉

[rich adder]

this makes no sense

wdym "Get a Prefab"

[polar acorn]

Unless you need the differences in their distances to determine angles 🤓

[rocky canyon]

truedat

[haughty lion]

I would comprehend if it had some sort of condition in which "collider of an intersecting object has to fit the box", but otherwise

I mean you can use Raycast literally everywhere, be it looking for disguised player or so on

[rocky canyon]

could use it for lots of things.. melee attacks just first thing pops into mind

[haughty lion]

As well that ray in raycast is visible than boxcast

[rich adder]

Raycast and Boxcast do the same thing, except boxcast is literally a shape of a box

[rotund crater]

Idk if I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how render textures work or I'm missing something

[haughty lion]

I know it bro but, just curious of what tasks could be used for that

[haughty lion]

Could you share a little bit what do you mean 😅

[rocky canyon]

like for a melee attack, like a sword swing...

[rich adder]

is the priority set correctly and are the objects infront of the camera?

[rocky canyon]

you could Box cast forward.. in the general shape of ur swing..

that way more of the enemy collider makes contact

[rich adder]

that comes down to the specific usecases lol

if you only need a line use a line if you need a bigger shape use box

[rocky canyon]

but that could also be a trigger.. box cast canbe shot way out tho

could use it as a groundcheck too

[sage wyvern]

I need help, i'm trying to make this game and i'm trying to code different things but everytime i look at the things i coded i think what have i done and if i ask help it mostly looks like they are talking chinese

[rocky canyon]

woudl take up more room than the single raycast most ppl get started with

[haughty lion]

Why would you use a cast for sword swing 😄

[rocky canyon]

u can control how far u cast them..

[rotund crater]

The objects are infront of the camera. How does priority change anything with this? Right now the camera I'm using for the texture is set to the same priority as the main camera

[rich adder]

to make it accurate

[haughty lion]

Like I think ye if sword swing requires a player in front of you in a certain distance

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[warped meteor]

oh sorry

where should I ask then

[slender nymph]

#🔎┃find-a-channel

[sage wyvern]

I need help, i'm trying to make this game and i'm trying to code different things but everytime i look at the things i coded i think what have i done and if i ask help it mostly looks like they are talking chinese.
how can i code and understand what i am doing

[rich adder]

I mean you got the camera at z of 0, what about the objects you plan on viewing with camera

[haughty lion]

Accurate, like to just swing? does that mean to check if sword touched a person in front of a player?

[rich adder]

you cast with the sword animation so it has the correct direction

[slender nymph]

it sounds like you need to start simpler with your learning materials. or just find better ones that aren't just assuming you'll copy/paste but actually teach you why you would use something and what it does.
the pathways on the unity learn site will go over the absolute basics in a structured manner that should help you understand what you are doing as you build upon the concepts you've already learned

[rocky canyon]

i not sure why u lookin for a reason to discredit a boxcast? lol

either u need to use one or u dont..

fun fact.. theres lots of other shapes u cast too

[sage wyvern]

but what if i wanna learn while creating a game since it'll keep me going

[rotund crater]

All 0

[rich adder]

well then there is your problem

your objects are not infront of the camera

[rotund crater]

Dang what do I do

[rich adder]

move the camera back , say -10 on the Z

[slender nymph]

then you're going to run into the exact issue you're running into now

[rotund crater]

Does the render refresh immediately?

[sage wyvern]

😭

[slender nymph]

and the junior programmer pathway will have you working on a personal project anyway

[rich adder]

yes

your objects must be between these two

[rotund crater]

Ah I see

[rotund crater]

we might still have a problem

[rich adder]

the camera is parented to something else. make sure that also has proper position?

oh thats the hammer thing ? it should be working

that FOV looks sus tho

[rotund crater]

Yes its the hammer thing

FOV is extremely messed up idk

[rich adder]

its like really zoomed in

[slender nymph]

the fact that it's a perspective camera with 2d sprites is concerning. this should be orthographic unless you have a specific reason it's a perspective

[rotund crater]

well the default is this

do I change the clipping planes instead

[rich adder]

first change it to orthographic

[rotund crater]

done

[haughty lion]

guys what is the new DistanceResult class to return?

in Physics2D

[rotund crater]

That is better

Still doesnt render

[rich adder]

why is the far clipping plane 3
your distance is 10 units
you can just leave it at like 100 or something

[haughty lion]

the name *

[slender nymph]

Size 1.66
something isn't adding up here, that camera is clearly more than 3.3 units tall

[sage wyvern]

@slender nymph can you send me the link of the unity learn site

[slender nymph]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[sage wyvern]

thx

[rich adder]

open the camera preview in the overlay menu

[rain solar]

if im storing loaded chunks in an oct tree, do i have to do a big expensive traversal when i want to determine which chunks can be unloaded after the player moves away?

[rich adder]

the eye with camera icon @rotund crater

[polar acorn]

Maybe go into 3D view and see where your camera is actually pointing

See what's in the box

[rotund crater]

Oh how do I do that

[rich adder]

make sure you select the correct camera in the dropdown

[polar acorn]

Click the little "2D" button near the top right of your scene view, then rotate the camera

[rotund crater]

Its the right one

I have MainCamrea, FollowCamera, and Camera
Camera is the one im trying to render

what

Its slightly in front

It's not letting me change the Z axis

[polar acorn]

Do you have code that is moving the camera

[rotund crater]

I dont but is it because it's a child of the sprite?

[polar acorn]

If it's a child of the sprite then the position in the inspector is where it is relative to the parent

As the parent moves, the camera will remain at that relative position from it

[rotund crater]

It was

I moved it out

and its rendering now

[rain solar]

if im storing loaded chunks in an oct tree, do i have to do a big expensive traversal when i want to determine which chunks on the edge of render radius can be unloaded after the player moves away?

[rotund crater]

thank you guys I can now look my beautiful boy in his eyes

[rich adder]

terror

[rich adder]

probably more of a #1390346827005431951 than a beginner question

[rain solar]

im beginner

ill post over there 🙂

[rich adder]

the question itself is not a beginner question 😅 I think..

[true pine]

well that's unsettling
nice art though

[true pine]

...what??????

one of my objects is breaking the editor UI and throwing these errors

45 at once by the looks of it

[rich adder]

this is a known issue

[true pine]

so what do I do

[rich adder]

use a unity version thats not busted

[true pine]

and what version would that be

[rich adder]

afaik anyone before these newer version

stick to LTS if you're not sure (though I think the latest LTS also has a bug)

[true pine]

just this top one right

I'll assume that's it

seems to be taking a while

😭 my internet is so ass

[past sentinel]

What would be a good method to start working on a rimworld-style base builder? I'm wanting to learn more Unity 2d but i dont know where to start with the tile making half.

[visual pond]

what am i doing wrong the jump doesnt work but the debug shows

[rich adder]

most likely overriding velocity somewhere

[visual pond]

wdym?

[frosty hound]

Or your jumpForce value is 0, or not high enough to actually counter the gravity.

[visual pond]

jumpforce is at 10000

[hot wadi]

Show the whole code

[visual pond]

do i copy and paste

here

public bool isplayer;
public float speed;

[SerializeField] public float jumpForce;

Rigidbody2D rb;
public Vector2 movement;
// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
    {
        //jump here then new vector2 x is 0 and y is jumpforce force mode 2d impulse basically 1 time use 
        rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        Debug.Log("jump");
    } 

    if (isplayer)
    {
        //named movement x and y then getting input from horizontal and vertical axis
        movement.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        movement.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
    }
    //getting rigidbody component and setting linear velocity to new vector2 movement x and y times speed aka movement
    
    rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(movement.x * speed, movement.y * speed);
}

}

this basically

[rich adder]

rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(movement.x * speed, movement.y * speed); this should be
rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(movement.x * speed, rb.linearVelocity.y );

or 2d has X directly you can change

rb.linearVelocityX

[hot wadi]

U are directly setting the vertical velocity

[visual pond]

wdym

[hot wadi]

It can override the jump action

[visual pond]

oh

i see now

rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(movement.x * speed, movement.y * speed); this thing?

[hot wadi]

Yes, movement.y for specific

[visual pond]

ngl i did that because uh autocorrect of vs code

[rich adder]

probably CustomTiles / Scriptable tiles with some rule tiles

[rich adder]

You're using code you never learned so you won't understand much that way.

if this is sidescroll move thing , why even capture Y

[past sentinel]

are tehre any good tutorals that can help get me started?

[visual pond]

no its me basically trying to do movement on a 2d game

without outside help

[rich adder]

I'm sure you can find some if you look those up

!learn has the basics then specifics you look up on docs or google

[radiant void]

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[visual pond]

like making a flappy bird game with all the files and scripts being easy?

[past sentinel]

im wanting to makea rimworld style game so its msotly the system of how to make the map area started is my issue

[rich adder]

if you want to do it without "outside help" you should at least consult documentation

[visual pond]

yeah i need to that next time

[visual pond]

roguelike?

[past sentinel]

no not roguelike a 2d base building game

like rimworld

[visual pond]

oh so like terraria

[rich adder]

although this is more of a logic thing.. if you think about linearVelocity you're overwriting any sorts of Y force you applied to rigidbody because its been overwritten in the next physics tick by whatever movement.y * speed was

[visual pond]

wwell like some

imma go see what the hell linear velocity and normal velocity dfference is

[rich adder]

there is no "normal velocity"

[visual pond]

i mean

velocity.2

[rich adder]

its either linear or angular

[visual pond]

oh well the default without saying linear

[rich adder]

the default is linear

it used to be just called .velocity in older versions

but they wanted to be more explicit

[past sentinel]

no not fully top down where theres largely NPCs doing the building and you layout where you want thigns built. thats my end gole but im habing issue with starting it

[visual pond]

oh

[past sentinel]

the only tutoral i found was 9 years ago and seems kinda outdated

[visual pond]

kinda outdated is a understatement

[rich adder]

most things work the same aside from few api changes in naming

practically and logic wise its still relevant knowledge

[visual pond]

so like an automation type game

[rich adder]

this might be too big of a scope if you're starting out

[hot wadi]

Or u can consult chatgpt

[past sentinel]

Ive never really like using AI

[rich adder]

smart

[past sentinel]

and something like this seems outide the scope for it

[rich adder]

don't

just a glorified search engine that gives false impressions of the truth most of the times.. horrible in the hands of beginners

[past sentinel]

and ive bene using unity for a few years now and i know a fair bit of C# but its mostly how to get started that im having issues with

[hot wadi]

Well u should start to becuz it’s useful. I’m not saying u let it generate code for u. Just to see what the typical workflow is

[visual pond]

you make game object

then uh

[rich adder]

don't make such suggestions, on this server especially

"AI" is not a good tool

[hot wadi]

Ok u do u

[past sentinel]

ive used AI a few times a while abck for simple things. while its good at simple thing sit wont be good at this at all. thats why im asking for help here

[rich adder]

Exaclty if you want to learn wrong thats on you but don't make those suggestions here because this is a coding channel and its meant to learn properly

[hot wadi]

If u can’t find resource anywhere or just outdated stuff, u can keep wasting time

[rich adder]

also against server rules / overall thought on the matter

[visual pond]

hey do yall have any clue on how to make a dash

[rich adder]

get better at researching, thats half the job of development,
use critical thinking instead of mind numbing wrong answers

you're wasting time going back to fix shit code that "AI" spouted

[past sentinel]

like player dash? lots of ways. easiest way is to just add a force

[visual pond]

yeah but i want it to be if your moving in this direction and hit this key you dash for 5 pixels or smth

[past sentinel]

is it 2d or 3d?

[visual pond]

2d

[hot wadi]

I’m not saying that u should use AI to write code thou? It’s a search engine.

Whatever

[rich adder]

you said use it to learn , which is wrong.. I mentioning code because exactly how they will try to use it

[visual pond]

oh yeah why is 6000.2.6f2 always package failure

[rich adder]

it will feed you misinformation that you cannot verify yourself because you're trusting a machine to get it right , it wasn't designed to

[hot wadi]

How they do it is their choice, I’m not making decision for them

[rich adder]

mental gymnastics, you given a bad advice.. I'm just explaining why you should not do it on this server..

do whatever you want else where

[hot wadi]

And u can find misinfo anywhere. At least u can take that info then find ppl to verify it instead of waiting indefinitely for answer without progress

The engine only takes answer that are already given out on the Internet

[rich adder]

no? because when you researching the answer you consult multiple sources that come from actual people.. and you gain insight on trying to breakdown the problem further..

[hot wadi]

Then AI is just another source from them then? Imagine blaming a tool that u don’t even know how to use properly

[rich adder]

anyway im not here to argue the validity of ai all day with you, just telling you no place for it here as advice..

if you want to be in a echo chamber for it here #1352599815770341479

[past sentinel]

well anyone know what this style of game is actually called because that might help me with searching

[visual pond]

probably somewhere close to resource management

[rich adder]

research a specific problem, a "style of game" video is usually some clickbait or a series of videos locking you in a speific way someone is doing their own thing

if you want to know how to dash or something like that, break down what you need to know..
Probably a Timer
probably a way to tell you're in "dashing mode"
and so on

you will find easier results because its generic enough to get to the solution, then you combine those and get the final mechanic

[past sentinel]

m right. I guess ill just need to try and see how i can make a tile palcing system the player can control

[rich adder]

so what you will need to know
like i mentioned earlier,
Tilemap , How to move tile on tilemap with mouse/keyboard whatever
unity Grid component,
how to to create a tile on tilemap
how to use ScriptableTiles
how to use rule tiles
etc

much easier than "how to make game system like xyz" and get some very niche or specific series some dude did 7 years ago

[edgy sinew]

Hi all, what is your recommendation to temporarily ignore collisions between some 2 objects in scene?
Is simply changing the “Exclude Layers” as needed OK?

[rich adder]

there is also Physics.IgnoreCollision or Physics.IgnoreLayerCollision

"old-school"

the one on collider is fairly new system afaik

[edgy sinew]

Oh dude. Legend mode thank you looks perfect

Unity back at it being convenient. I did not a expect 2-object collision ignore to be built in

[rich adder]

yeah those functions are pretty handy especially with timers and stuff.. they also have a Layer-Based matrix in the editor but its more global

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/LayerBasedCollision.html

[edgy sinew]

When you say timers you dont mean C# specifically right

Just the idea of, at different times diff behaviors

[rich adder]

right, I mean a regular like wait 3 seconds then activate collision again or something

[glad shore]

for some reason it keeps auto playing at the first frame

[rich adder]

probably because its the Default starting state

also not a code question

why do you have both animator and animation

[glad shore]

idfk how to do ts 😔
ima go watch a tut
but thx for the help

[rich adder]

Delete the Animation component is not needed (afaik is outdated)
make a new empty state in animator, set as default state
put a transition condition for the Open , use a bool for example with animator.SetBool

[glad shore]

this was very helpful ngl, appreciate it✌️

[versed light]

does batching break if meshes have different uvs but all the rest of the geometry is the same like verts,tris and indices

[teal viper]

What kind of batching?

[versed light]

where unity batches like meshes to reduce draw calls

[teal viper]

There are many batching types. Static, dynamic, Srp, gpu instancing. Which one are we talking about?

[versed light]

instancing in this case

[teal viper]

Anyways, in your case you're dealing with separate meshes(it doesn't matter that they contain some duplicate data). So whether they would be batched or not, depends on the ability of the batcher to batch draws with different meshes. All aside from gpu instancing can do that.

[versed light]

since i want instances of the same mesh but world space uvs

[teal viper]

So, no, you can't use gpu instancing.

They're not the same meshes.

[versed light]

ill have to use a shader to get around it then

[teal viper]

Sharing some of the data doesn't make them the same mesh. Only if they're exactly the same asset(a reference to the same mesh asset), they are.

[versed light]

fair enough but if i calc uvs in frag shader they should be seen as same instance then right?

[teal viper]

Yes.

[maiden drum]

can anyone help me with urp?

            struct Attributes
            {
                // The positionOS variable contains the vertex positions in object
                // space.
                float4 positionOS   : POSITION;
            };

            struct Varyings
            {
                // The positions in this struct must have the SV_POSITION semantic.
                float4 positionHCS  : SV_POSITION;
            };

            // The vertex shader definition with properties defined in the Varyings
            // structure. The type of the vert function must match the type (struct)
            // that it returns.
            Varyings vert(Attributes IN)
            {
                // Declaring the output object (OUT) with the Varyings struct.
                Varyings OUT;
                // The TransformObjectToHClip function transforms vertex positions
                // from object space to homogenous clip space.
                OUT.positionHCS = TransformObjectToHClip(IN.positionOS.xyz);
                // Returning the output.
                return OUT;
            }

            // The fragment shader definition.
            half4 frag(Varyings IN) : SV_Target
            {
                float2 uv = GetNormalizedScreenSpaceUV(IN.positionHCS.xy);
                return float4(uv.y, 0, 0, 1);
            }
            ENDHLSL

as i understand it, GetNormalizedScreenSpaceUV should return the uv in screen space, however uv.y is always the same (i'm getting full red everywhere)

[teal viper]

BTW, for next time this is a question for #1390346776804069396

[versed light]

true it is now i know i need to use a shader get around it

[teal viper]

Same for you. #1390346776804069396

[haughty lion]

Hi guys

Right now I'm facing a problem in which fireball isn't moving towards NPC, could you please tell me why?

[eternal needle]

add logs and see exactly whats happening. Like is the code running? Is the result of Vector2.MoveTowards what you expect?

you also should post code following the guidelines

[haughty lion]

Okayy

[radiant void]

Posting code

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[haughty lion]

Yess, object is running

Tried to log it

The problem is in Vector2 movetowards, it might be there

[haughty lion]

Okay

[keen dew]

The first line of Update always sets the fireball back to its initial position

[haughty lion]

It's not a fireball

It's its position

Not position*

[eternal needle]

theres definitely some weirdness with this whole FireballPoint and Fireball object, considering these seem like entirely different objects from the video. debugging further will show you why its not moving
to me it seems like you're always setting the point based on an object that isnt moving

[haughty lion]

It's just a supporter to add fireball in a particular position in OnAttack

[haughty lion]

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

[keen dew]

Ok, but it's the same thing you're trying to move on the next line

[haughty lion]

FireballPoint is used like any joint modifier in Inspector, it is used to keep the initial advention of a fireball in + 1f (X POS) from Player's position.

Meanwhile, Fireball is the object

[keen dew]

Nothing in the code tries to move Fireball

[haughty lion]

But, partly I feel that you're right

[haughty lion]

Vector2.MoveTowards?????

[keen dew]

Yes, you apply MoveTowards to FireballPoint. Not Fireball.

[haughty lion]

Thank you

Hey guys

Could you tell me please why isn't the object disappearing?

[keen dew]

It never gets that close to the target. The distance is calculated between the centers of the objects

[haughty lion]

Is it better to calculate it with Physics2D.Distance then?

[haughty lion]

Thanks 👍

[keen dew]

Since they both seem to have colliders the object should be removed on an OnCollisionEnter2d event

[haughty lion]

Ohh, okay!

Thanks

That looks vivid and cool! How have you made changing map? Did you make it by code or were they already initial, patterned maps?

[elder canyon]

100% Code with a single 5x1 Wall Prefab. I used DFS (Depth First Search) to create the maze. Essentially it can make mazes of any size and shape, I just constrained it to 5x5.

[haughty lion]

That's really cool bro!

[elder canyon]

Thanks!

[eternal needle]

this is a channel for code help, #1180170818983051344 or #🏆┃daily-win is for these kind of posts

[elder canyon]

Oops, I'll make sure to post them there, from now on.

[haughty lion]

Guys, how can I make the collision of two objects without OnCollisionEnter2D?

is it better to make it by Physics2D.Distance?

Just because parental-object (Player) on which the script is attached is destroying NPC while they're in collision

But the point that it has to occur so with fireball

If I don't put a fireball as a child object or attach the script into it, it doesn't work somewhy

[midnight plover]

I the heck dont know what you are trying to say here. Can you rephrase that probably. What do you expect to happen and what is happening?

[hot wadi]

OnCollisionEnter() is called by the rigidbody that it’s attached to. I assume u want the fireball to destroy enemy on contact, but your script is only tracking collison between the “players” with “NPCs”, not the fireball with “NPCs”. U can simply attach a script with OnCollisionEnter() to the fireball, give it a kinematic rigidbody.

[sour adder]

MoveTowards won't work well the way you are using it, it makes it slow down more the closer it gets.

[keen dew]

It's fine the way it is (other than that physics objects should move by using forces/velocity instead.) You're confusing it with lerp

[sour adder]

Aha, ok.

[sage mirage]

@haughty lion You know the best thing you can instead of asking all the time for help, is to translate your code int pseudo code to understand what your code does, use AI as a tool to provide you the logic you want to create do not use AI for copy pasting without understanding what your code does thats really horrible. Just look at your code at the beginning try reasoning it and you will figure it out check inspector, maybey you forgot something there in a component maybe a value or something. Look at Unity Docs as well for things like what Physics2D.Distance does etc etc. Check a tutorial of the functionality you want to create. It's horrible I know even professionals have issues and sometimes struggle its all part of the development process.

Maybe ask your teacher on college if you are in Games Programming Class for example I am just saying

[sour fulcrum]

Please don't suggest people use AI

[midnight plover]

Nothing wrong with iusing it as a tool, especially as he described how to and not to blindly believe in autogenerated code and know, how to handle the outputs you get.

[sour fulcrum]

Plenty of things wrong with using it as a tool

it can outright lie to people

beginners cannot correctly identify when AI is giving them garbage

[midnight plover]

Well, and not every coder can identify, if their code is garbage too...

[sour fulcrum]

Ok, people shouldn't suggest garbage code either

[naive pawn]

it's fine to use it as a tool. but it's way too easy for a beginner to accidentally use it more than that

[eternal needle]

Hows that relate to a beginner not having experience to know if AI is giving them good advice

[midnight plover]

As said, you should know, what the code, you are getting does. Thats how to use it as a tool. If a beginner blindly takes everything without undersatnding it, its a user problem to me, not the problem of AI per se

[sour fulcrum]

you should know
They are beginners babygirl please

[nimble pasture]

I have a question related to nodes and animated shader graphs, is this a proper channel for that?

[naive pawn]

no, probably #1390346776804069396?

[nimble pasture]

thank you ! Have a nice day.

[eternal needle]

Ok so the beginner should learn how to correctly research, in order to verify what the code does.
In which case they can just look at the docs and skip the needless middleman

Either way its not a good idea to suggest beginners to use AI in here ever

[midnight plover]

Alrighty, we do not agree, which is fine. But if thats the channels conduct, I of course align with it and do not suggest it in here 🙂

[eternal needle]

Beginners dont read this whole conversation about it. They see the suggestion, think they are immune to getting fed misinformation, and continue to use it

[sour fulcrum]

its not a rules thing it's a please don't suggest people do things that make them worse at programming

we kinda want the opposite here

[eternal needle]

There is also #1352599815770341479 because we simply have had this conversation too many times

[high mauve]

hey i needed some suggestion i am a computer science student in uni and i know basics of programing like operator and loops etc i want to learn c# i have some exp with c++ and c where should i start c# as its confusing due to c# and the unity c# being diffrent . help?

[grand snow]

Unity c# is not a thing, there is the unity api

the c# version we have is a bit older but its still normal c# so learning c# will help

[high mauve]

unity c# means the C# sscripting done with the unity engine rather than the system library used normaly in c#

[grand snow]

Perhaps learning the basics first then going into some unity learning material is best.

the .net library is still usable, e.g. DateTime, List

!learn

[radiant void]

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[high mauve]

from where can you suggest some sources i am currently studying from C# 12 in a Nutshell The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

[grand snow]

that should be fine but unity uses c# 9 so some nice newer features are not compatible

your IDE will inform you though if thats the case

[high mauve]

ok do you have some yt tutorials for c# and OOPs

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/csharp-compiler.html

I don't but there are resources pinned in this channel

[high mauve]

ok. thankyou

hey can i add you as friend ?

@grand snow

[grand snow]

no. you should ask questions here for anyone to answer

[high mauve]

ok

🥹

[eternal needle]

Since you have experience with c and c++, id really just dive into making random features as a learning process. Look up the syntax as you get stuck with the differences between languages

[high mauve]

ok i tried that to and wrote code for a calc as it was listed as beginner online

[hot wadi]

Oh I miss pointers in C++

[eternal needle]

That'll really be the best way to learn. Im not saying to avoid tutorials but you'd probably be wasting time if videos are telling you what an int or array is

[high mauve]

alright i also skip that parts i want to learn advance topics such as OOPs, stack, queue, tree etc data struct

[grand snow]

those are general topics not confined to one language

[high mauve]

but may have syntx specific to C#

[hot wadi]

The concept is the same for all languages. Thou implementation is slightly different. Should they already teach u in uni?

[eternal needle]

Those really arent advanced topics either. I find that OOP is barely a topic either, its just something you do when using these languages
Yea c# may have implementations for some of these but the syntax is just going to be a matter of calling a method on an object. Not much to learn there either if you know what a stack/queue is for example

[high mauve]

i want to learn there implementations in c# also my uni didnot teached me OOPs as the prof came in the last week and speed run the subject in one week with 2 hrs continuous lect. each day

[hot wadi]

Lol

[high mauve]

@eternal needle i am having problem with the under standin of OOPs consepts such as class object encapsulation etc

[hot wadi]

Anyway, u can learn the concept in any language. I started with C++ too. When u are familiar, u can start doing C# project to get used to the syntax

[eternal needle]

Well c++ has both classes and objects. Encapsulation is just a concept which you can read up on online. It really just comes down to access modifiers like private/protected/public and not letting everything access everything

[high mauve]

alright then i will start with the concept then small projects in c# then unity scripting right?

[eternal needle]

Lookup topics as you go. It feels like you just need to keep at it rather than having one specific trouble
Usually I suggest to go with c# outside unity first yes. If youre confident with understanding how classes work then it'd probably be fine to go right into unity.

[high mauve]

ok thankyou for the help @eternal needle @hot wadi

[hot wadi]

By the way, u don’t need to understand it right away. Polymorphism and abstraction are complicated even for experienced devs. They only start showing their use as a project grows.

[balmy vortex]

does anyone know why my orbs here move so fast when they're further away from their target and why they stop moving once they reached the first target position instead of updating it and continuing to chase after the enemy?

my code for context --> https://paste.mod.gg/cpyzaeeqixlf/0

they're supposed to move at a constant rate towards the enemy but ya

[hexed terrace]

You need to log out all your various conditions and see where it stops. Perhaps toucheSomething becomes true, but the thing isn't getting destroyed. Or getNearestEnemy fails to find an enemy - etc, etc

[sage mirage]

I didn't say copy pasting, why you change my words?

[sour fulcrum]

I didn't say copy pasting, as noted in the comment you replied to

[sage mirage]

Dont know if its bad or not but AI is now part of our daily life we as devs have to use it as a tool to help us in development process

[sour fulcrum]

AI is not now party of our daily life, maybe yours. please dont assume

[north kiln]

it's not a part of my life

[balmy vortex]

what

[midnight plover]

dont necro the conversation here. go to the discussion channel as suggested to me too 🙂

[sage mirage]

I wont say anything else but last thing I am going to say if its not a part of your daily life, you do something wrong nowadays because prompt engineering is the most valuable skill today for all devs

[hot wadi]

Forgot to mention, this is a good resource to learn anything programming-related
https://www.w3schools.com/

Did not expect an AI bro around here

[sage mirage]

I don’t understand why some people disagree with me about AI tools that are genuinely helping developers improve their workflow and much more. Believe it or not, we all have to agree that using AI isn’t dangerous. It’s like the Web, we had Google before, now we have something new. Why to be afraid of technological evolution?

[fickle plume]

This is the opposite of

I wont say anything else

If you want to continue on topic use #1352599815770341479 don't spam here

[sage mirage]

Yes but you are challenging me with emotes. Ok XD

[fickle plume]

Just negating the BS beginners do not need to hear.

[swift elbow]

AI is only helping experienced developers, it is trash for beginners. dont recommend it to beginners

[hot wadi]

Imagine googling blue waffle. Truly a terrifying example of tool gone wrong

[fickle plume]

Will start muting

[sage mirage]

This guy started no?

He replied to me

[fickle plume]

They are stating facts, you have your AI thread

[sage mirage]

@swift elbow If you want to talk come to #1352599815770341479

[strong tendon]

Hey guys ! I would appreciate If any of you could help me to understand the profiler in my topic (https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1425026078212362320) 💪

[winter flicker]

does anyone know if it's possible to blur a UIDocument made with the ui builder?

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I was wondering how is it possible to create supported languages for my game. I will search it on youtube and check some tutorials but also want to hear what you have to say about it.

I think there will be buttons for each language

and lets assume the player will click one of the buttons the event will be triggered and the language must change the UI text elements of my game

I have heard something about JSON but not sure what it is exactly and how to use it within Unity.

[wintry quarry]

Use the Localization package, that's what it's for. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.5/manual/index.html

[hexed terrace]

ask in #🧰┃ui-toolkit

[tough lagoon]

In case you end up needing it:
https://github.com/pnarimani/RTLTMPro

Unity has been "planning" full RTL support for text mesh pro like 8 years. Not sure if they ever actually did it.

[grand snow]

I thought tmp already had support for this

[tough lagoon]

Im not sure tbh, hopefully. But with everything being UIToolkit (which does, finally, claim RTL and world space) it probably isnt as imortant anymore.

(I also could just be wrong, we moved to unreal a while back)

[lunar coral]

hi,I've watched this tutorial on how to make a state machine and I've built my state machine, the only problem i he doesn't explain how to use it:https://youtu.be/qsIiFsddGV4?si=kOf8kgGRKiVDRUsD

[rich adder]

you should probably start with a simple implementation of FSM first, this way you can understand why the code you copied is a certain way

if you scroll to around 9 min it tells you how to create a statemachine for a specific object, eg "PlayerStateMachine" etc. You have to inherit the abstract class it made
PlayerStateMachine : StateManager <PlayerStateMachine.PlayerState>
{ public enum PlayerState { Idle, Walk, Run } } etc.

now your player is in "Idle"

etc .

[lunar coral]

yes

Actually you're right,It's my first time working with FSM,so I should start with a simple one first, but the thing is I've understood everything, the only thing I don't know is how I could animate characters or GameObjects for each states the efficient way and this if I'm right isn't explained

[hot wadi]

Unity's animator is already a kind of state machine

It's recommended to animate that way. And save your custom FSM for other stuff like game states and AI

[lunar coral]

yes but I've heard it's more organized to use a coded one, to change states and such things

[lunar coral]

if I want enemy ais for a horror game, with different states animations, it's better to use the animator imediately?

[cosmic quail]

can't you just animate through code via the custom FSM?

[naive pawn]

this is a code channel, ask in #💻┃unity-talk

[steel lantern]

oh dang.. I thought I was in unity talk. Sorry

[dapper flare]

what's a great way to make simple rooms for my game in unity

[eternal needle]

Come up with a definition for what a simple room is, then make it.

[polar acorn]

Cube

[dapper flare]

ok

[rich adder]

3d - probuilder
2d - tilemap

[hexed terrace]

these posts aren't allowed on here. You want !collab

!collab

[radiant void]

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[dapper flare]

thank you so very much

[supple crescent]

Guys is the course Junnior Programmer un Unity Learn a good way to learn the program? I ask this since the version of the course is 2020.3

[hexed terrace]

yes, it's fine

[rich adder]

its good to get a baseline understanding of unitys API / concepts with some coding.. You will still need to have c# knowledge to go with it.. Traditional c# courses will go a long way to help you. eg https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/csharp-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners/

[supple crescent]

Theres no way all of this is free

[rich adder]

incredible right ? when I wanted to start they still only had books you had to buy 😛

[supple crescent]

Well thank you

[rain solar]

is there any iso surface extraction algorithm better than dual contouring?

[hot wadi]

I guess if the animations are simple enough, u can manage them in your own state machine.
In the case of using Animator Controller, u are technically keeping 2 separate state machines: 1 for logic and 1 for animations. There should be a slight overhead, but if it’s within the scope, I think it’s fine since it keeps the code more manageable

[bronze garden]

I have literally just started a new 3d project, all ive done is make a bean and have started a movement script and im getting this error

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

[grand snow]

Not your fault then if you aren't running a job

[wooden hemlock]

Hey guys, I want to make a 2D game with a character where each body part is replaceable and you can mix it up. Let's say like an Orc where one of his arms is human, one of his legs is elven or whatever and you can randomize it. I don't need to rig it yet. What is the easiest way to do this?

I've been looking up tutorials but I'm so confused and overwhelmed now. Some people are saying some of the tutorials are outdated, I'm always missing something or something isn't working

[polar acorn]

Unity had to force a bad update out before it had enough time in the oven to fix a vulnerability and it's come with a ton of random errors like this. You'll just need to ignore it until they come out with another patch

[nimble crystal]

Hello everyone, I am currently working on a 2d top down zombie game. For zombie behavior im checking every frame if the ray casted from each zombie hits the player or not, if it does then i call the Chase() method. But there is 1 issue, in the game there r going to be hundreds of zombies and casting a ray from each zombie every frame might not be a good idea, then I thought I can check if the player is within a certain range I will only then cast the rays OR i can add colliders to each zombies set as triggers, if the player triggers it the ray casting will continue. Idk what method to go with or there is a better way than both of them. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thank u!

[wintry quarry]

You've been looking up tutorials for what? Generally you won't find a tutorial to do the exact thing you want to do, though this is kind of similar to "weapon" systems. Overall what you're describing is a complex system that will have many moving parts, and the "best"/"easiest" way to do this is going to depend heavily on how your particular game works and your particular requirements for this system

[rich adder]

you'd have to use profiler to know for sure, cause if you have that many enemies, all of them will be running a distance check, which may or may not be worse than physics queries to find a player near them..

raycasts are fairly cheap, you can usually run hundreds of them without a huge impact, its when you get in the thousands you should worry more

if you have thousands of enemies raycasts are probably least of your problems at that point, rendering and other logic can also be a factor

[wooden hemlock]

I've been looking up tutorials for 2D character rigging, Sprite Swapping etc but it's either missing some instructions, I can't follow it 1:1, people say its outdated or I'm messing up something myself. I just want to make something like this where the parts of the character can be different and easily changeable like on the screenshots. Don't need to be rigged.

This tutorial I watched seems ok but people say its outdated + the example .psb that's been given to test with isn't using those exact sprites but some ugly stick ones and it's a bit hard to follow. (I'm a complete beginner 😄 )

[nimble crystal]

Got it! Thanks for the answer!

[wintry quarry]

I mean for this it's pretty simple, just a separate SpriteRenderer that you attach as a child object to the hand

If you mean the whole "attachable weapon system" including all the different attributes of the weapons or any other part of the system, that's all more complicated

Basically all the different body parts and weapons can just be separate SpriteRenderers

that will be the easiest/simplest approach here

you would have a base underlying skeleton for the character that doesn't change

[wooden hemlock]

And this isn't something I can really look for a tutorial that I can follow in detail? Since its kinda specific or what

[teal elk]

I'm working on an inventory grid system in Unity and having trouble with coordinate conversion in my GetSlotIndexFromPosition method. When I click on the grid slots, I'm getting negative grid coordinates like (-4, 1), (-3, 0) instead of the expected positive values like (0, 0), (1, 0), etc. The issue seems to be related to how I'm converting the local coordinates from RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle() to grid coordinates. I struggle with math's in general, so I'm unsure what I am doing wrong here.

  {
     ///coords -= (Vector2)transform.position;
      Vector2Int gridCoords = new Vector2Int(
     Mathf.FloorToInt(coords.x / (slotCellSize + slotPadding)),
     Mathf.FloorToInt(coords.y / (slotCellSize + slotPadding))
      );
      int index = gridCoords.x + gridCoords.y * gridSize.x;
      print(gridCoords);
      return 0;

  }

  public void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData eventData)
  {
    RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(
          transform as RectTransform,
          eventData.position,
          eventData.pressEventCamera,
          out Vector2 localPoint
      );
      GetSlotIndexFromPosition(localPoint);
  }```

[brave robin]

Are you using a grid layout group component to sort your inventory slots in the UI?

And are rows and/or columns a fixed count, or completely flexible?

[teal elk]

Yes, I'm using a GridLayoutGroup component to arrange my inventory slots. I have it set up with and it's fixed column count:

    {
        gridLayout = GetComponent<GridLayoutGroup>();
        gridLayout.constraint = GridLayoutGroup.Constraint.FixedColumnCount;
        gridLayout.cellSize = new Vector2(slotCellSize, slotCellSize);
        gridLayout.spacing = new Vector2(slotPadding, slotPadding);
    }```

[brave robin]

So this may not be what you want to do, but what I did avoided having to do any math when an inventory slot was clicked on. When the inventory was refreshed I iterated over all the children in the layout group to grab the slots, and add them to a list. The inventory button in its onclick would run a method on a script to tell the inventory that it was clicked, with a reference to itself. The inventory would get notified, and knows that if the 7th slot is clicked, and the column count is 5, then it must be the 2nd column and 2nd row slot, for example

[teal elk]

i'm making a tetris based in an inventory like Resident Evil

[brave robin]

Ohhh, so items have different shapes. Yeah, sorry, my method won't help you there

Though if you are getting negative values it might be because canvas coordinates start at -(x/2) and go to x/2, rather than 0 to x

So if canvas width is 1920, the far left is -960 and not 0

[teal elk]

thank you for this information, I fixed it with this

adjustedCoords.x += rectTransform.rect.width * 0.5f; 
adjustedCoords.y = rectTransform.rect.height * 0.5f - coords.y; ```

[glad shore]

how can i make a material not stretch when scaled on a object

[rich adder]

triplanar shader

if you are trying to build a map or something with Unitys primitives , it would be easier to use probuilder as it already does the non-stretching by default cause you're not messing with scale but with extrusion

[grand snow]

the old scale a cube method doesnt go far

[glad shore]

this worked for me, using shader graphs

[languid pagoda]

how should I handle user created UI? I can implement whatever in the scripting language but I dont really know of an option that fits my needs. Only know of two solutions. 1) Use built in UI, users can go in unity and create a ui and use my supplied mod tools to build it to an asset bundle then load it at runtime via the scripting language(assembly script through webassembly) only issue is this does not work with unities event system smoothly. I am fairly certain it wouldn't even be possible to have the event system fire off a method in the scripting language. So my second thought was use CEF instead, but it tanks fps with all of the overhead it has.

Are there any other options?

[umbral hound]

Why is my head bob still moving even when I'm idle? https://pastebin.com/ZprEk7Wv

[languid pagoda]

(movementVector.x != 0f || movementVector.y != 0f))

because that is almost never going to be exactly 0

[umbral hound]

oh okay

so omit that

[languid pagoda]

no

[umbral hound]

Okay...

[umbral hound]

So what do I do?

[languid pagoda]

get the absolute value of movementVector.x and movementVector.y this will convert it to a positive number in the event it is negative

then

[umbral hound]

Oh okay

[languid pagoda]

for example
if (magnitude > 0f && (absoluteX > 0.25f || absoluteY > 0.25f))

use that insteads of the line I sent

0.25f can probably be much lower

id assign it to a variable you can tweak in the inspector

[umbral hound]

Okay this doesn't work

public void Update(float magnitude, float speed)
{
    Vector2 movementVector = PlayerInput.Instance.Input.Player.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    Vector3 vector;
    if (magnitude > 0f && (Mathf.Abs(movementVector.x) > 0.25f || Mathf.Abs(movementVector.y) > 0.25f))
    {
        vector = DOHeadBob(magnitude + speed);
    }
    else
    {
        vector = Vector3.Lerp(m_CameraContainer.localPosition, m_OriginalCameraPosition, 0.2f);
    }
    m_CameraContainer.localPosition = vector;
    m_CurrentCameraPosition = m_CameraContainer.localPosition;
}

It still fluctuates current camera position

[languid pagoda]

when stopped?

[umbral hound]

yes

[languid pagoda]

than that means magnitudes is greater than zero and the absolute value of movementVector.x or movement vector.y is greater than 0.25

[polar acorn]

Use logs in your conditions to see if it's evaluating to true when you don't expect it, or if the issue is that your math isn't giving you the results you expect

[cerulean bear]

is this how you make an enum most efficient

public enum BackgroundType
{
    Coastal_City = 0<<1,
    Port = 1<<2,
    Night_City = 2<<3,
}

[umbral hound]

It could be in my player movement, I only normalized my vector2 magnitude if it is greater than 1

[polar acorn]

Do you know what << does?

[cerulean bear]

no i just saw something like this somewhere but I think it shifts bits so it would be 1 2 4 right

[polar acorn]

It is bit shift. So what are you expecting 2 << 3 to be giving you

[languid pagoda]

debug the value of each of the variables you're comparing in the if statement

[polar acorn]

Hint: 2 in binary is 0000 0010

[languid pagoda]

IM just curious what you mean by making enums more efficient like?

[cerulean bear]

00001000``` which is 8

[polar acorn]

"Making enums more efficient" as in "Creating Enums in a more efficient manner" rather than "Causing enums to become more efficient"

[languid pagoda]

oh the answer to the question is literally dont use bit shifting in enums

[polar acorn]

If you have 0000 0010 and you shift it to the left three times, how do you expect to end up with a number that only has it moved over twice

[polar acorn]

It's perfectly fine as long as you actually use the right numbers

[cerulean bear]

so instead 16 ig, also is this better than to avoid confusion

public enum BackgroundType
{
    Coastal_City = 1,
    Port = 2,
    Night_City = 4,
}```

[grave bluff]

Isn’t enums just integers represented by word constants

[polar acorn]

Yes, and those ints can be used as bit flags with some math

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/runtime-libraries/system-flagsattribute

[grave bluff]

Oh that’s fun thanks for this

[polar acorn]

You want numbers that consist of a 1 in exactly one position in the binary number

So, since 1 in binary is... 1, it's easiest to start there and shift it however many you need

[cerulean bear]

ohh so like 0<<1, 1<<1, 2<<1, 3<<1 just direct counting

[polar acorn]

It's [number] << [amount to shift by]

So 3 << 1 would be 0000 0110

[cerulean bear]

oh ok

[languid pagoda]

Just because im curious why does night city have to be 4 instead of 3?

[cerulean bear]

i was trying to go 1 2 4 8

[polar acorn]

Because 3 in binary is 0011 which contains two 1s

So, you can't use bit masking to combine values

Because that would make Night City be the same number as Coastal City AND Port

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks

[cerulean bear]

do I need to go like [Flags] at the beginning and then BackgroundType: short and then do all the stuff

[languid pagoda]

yes but im tryhing to find out what his reasoning is to not just use an enum like this

public enum BackgroundType
{
    Coastal_City,
    Port,
    Night_City,
}

oh

you're using flags

[polar acorn]

You would need it to be marked with [Flags] in order for Unity to be able to let you select multiple in the inspector

(also some internal compiler thingies to make it take up less memory)

[cerulean bear]

so this right

[System.Flags]
public enum BackgroundType: short
{
    Coastal_City = 1<<0,
    Port = 1<<1,
    Night_City = 1<<2,
}```

[polar acorn]

That would work. The : short is there as a memory optimization if you've got 16 or fewer values

[cerulean bear]

oh ok ty

[polar acorn]

The default bit size of an int is 32. Shorts are 16 bit, chars are 8

(I don't actually know if you can make char enums in C#, I haven't checked)

[slender nymph]

just note that unity doesn't like to serialize enums that aren't backed by int32

[cerulean bear]

ty

[polar acorn]

I didn't actually know that. Good to know for the future

[slender nymph]

oh actually it should serialize the enum as long as it is 32 bits or shorter. so don't make an enum backed by a long and it should be fine

[cerulean bear]

just started a project and getting all these weird errors

[polar acorn]

Unity's fault

You can ignore them for now and wait for a patch

[cerulean bear]

should i restart it I have almost no progress yet

[polar acorn]

It's with the new updates they pushed out to fix the vulnerability. It was a rush job and there's still problems with it

So just ignore it and wait for more updates

[cerulean bear]

alr ty

[random lodge]

Glad I didn't update then

[true pine]

how do I fix this?
the material is projected on a quad but idk how to adjust it's rotation to point outward from the surface it's on

[rugged beacon]

ignore x or z rotation but consider using decal for this case instead

[true pine]

how do decals work exactly

[rugged beacon]

its a sticker to the surface, you can look how to use it on some tutorial

[polar acorn]

You ever use Sprays in a game like Counter-Strike or Team Fortress?

[true pine]

tf2, yes, I get the concept but how do I use them

[polar acorn]

Depends on your render pipeline, but if it's URP, this might help:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/renderer-feature-decal.html

[true pine]

gotcha

[glad shore]

how do i stop animation from looping

[polar acorn]

Uncheck the loop box on it

[polar acorn]

Why the thumbs down. That's literally what you do

[polar acorn]

That's the Animator.

You disable looping on a specific animation

[glad shore]

gng where

[grand snow]

double click DoorOpen in the Motion field to go to the animation itself

[glad shore]

Motion field?

OHH

[polar acorn]

The animation

Not the Animator. Not a state in the Animator. But an Animation file.

[glad shore]

the problem is resolved

[tacit prism]

my MainCameraTransform is resulting null despite using it in my test state for movement

if you need more information ill gladly give it

[fast relic]

does your camera have the main camera tag?

[tacit prism]

uh i uh uhm

gives me "forgot to put thermal paste" vibes rn.

[fast relic]

lmao

everyone has dumb moments sometimes

[cerulean bear]

How to do ragdoll physics with HingeJoint2D mine just stays in one piece

[rich adder]

How can anyone possible answer this accurately if you don't provide the setup and other information

[stray wave]

Guys I’m a Roblox developer I’d say late intermediate with lua wanting to learn unity, who would y’all recommend I watch to learn?

[eternal needle]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[stray wave]

appreciate ya

[umbral hound]

So I debugged the magnitude, speed, and X and Y values. The only thing is the speed staying at 0.4

The others go to 0 once I stop moving

[tacit prism]

trying to find a way to establish a single input for targetting and un-targetting enemies, and im trying to do it inside my inputreader, but i feel as though this certainly wont work. Will i have to work this out later inside the targetting state

i know for certain this wont work so im kinda just wondering where i should go with this to make it work

[polar acorn]

Not sure what's the point of the two if statements. If the first one is true, it'll end immediately. If the first one is false, so will the second

Ah, I think I see what you're getting at. Remember that a full function will always run to completion, it doesn't "pause" when you return.

You'll need to store a Boolean value and check that before doing one of the two actions, then flip the boolean

[tacit prism]

bollocks, more thinking

[ivory bobcat]

If you're trying to flip the behavior with every execution maybe use a bool as an indicator or change the target with a reference variable.cs if(!context.performed) return; Target?.Invoke(); if(Target == TargetEvent) Target = CancelTargetEvent; else Target = TargetEvent;

[tacit prism]

Yes! Got work in the morning though so I won’t be able to touch it until tomorrow night, pray I remember lol

Thank yall very much

[random lodge]

paste the reply as a comment for later lol

[frigid sequoia]

So why is that I am catching hovering over "Gear" and "UIGearSlots" but not "DropTableItems"? These two are basically the same layout. Am I missing something?

[ivory bobcat]

Try logging what the item is

Given said code, I'm assuming you're asking why the second case in the switch statement isn't occurring.

Else it's likely an XY problem where the information (code) provided probably isn't directly the problem.

[frigid sequoia]

Apparantly another raycast target sprite was above it, weird, cause it was way smaller than the target box, but it's solved now

[sour fulcrum]

absolutely nothing sus here

[naive pawn]

this is the code channel, perhaps #1179447338188673034

[gaunt cipher]

hey guys why is playerprefs bad?

[hexed terrace]

They're not "bad" bad.. they have a purpose, and that purpose is not saving a game state. They're easily edited and only support like 4? types.

Use them for saving game settings, not game state/ progress

[hallow relic]

name = input('ENTER YOUR NAME: ')
age = int(input('ENTER YOUR AGE: '))

if age > 13:
print('YOU ARE ELIGIBLE')
else:
print('YOU ARE TOO SMART TO JOIN')

print(f"HI {name}, YOU ARE {age} YEAR OLD. MOST WELCOME TO JOIN!")

[hallow relic]

How's this code? Can anyone upgrade

[silk night]

How is this related to unity?

[deft nymph]

Bruh is this python XD

[lavish magnet]

My character shoots a barrel, best way to make the barrel break apart on impact or chip away as each shot hits, doesnt have to break where hsot hits

[silk night]

Pre-split the barrel in blender (there are plugins for that) and make each broken part its own physics object, when it should break off enable physics simulation for that part

There is also some nice destruction systems on the asset store, coding that from scratch is a challenge that exceeds what we can teach you here

[lavish magnet]

So 2 renders one is fully rendered barrel non splilt when its destroyed i instantiate the seperate barrel pieces and apply physics? This sounds like it works

[lavish magnet]

What kind?

[silk night]

if you only want 2 states, yes
you can also make a barrel out of lets say 20 pieces and activate physics on 3 of them each time you hit the barrel so it slowly chips away

[lavish magnet]

wait i forgot, i think ive tried this in the past, when i have a barrel that is pre split in blender and in unit ypost physics, it very obvviously looks chopped like theirs cracks, ii think its a blender issue actually but idk

[silk night]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/fracturing-destruction-9411?srsltid=AfmBOoqGkUsroXFyTcB0Z8kZHXolAbUoO6fDRnYzL2excDZdWFCS74lC
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/fracturing-destruction-tool-307711
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/mesh-demolisher-288927

Just look for destruction in the store

[lavish magnet]

Thanks g

[tender mirage]

Hey there. i'm trying to destroy a single unit tile, but i can't get it to work.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Tilemaps;

public class TileScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Tilemap Tilem;

    private void Start()
    {
        Tilem = GetComponent<Tilemap>();
    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        float PosX = collision.transform.position.x;
        float PosY = collision.transform.position.y;
        float PosZ = collision.transform.position.z;

        int IntPosX = Mathf.FloorToInt(PosX);
        int IntPosY = Mathf.FloorToInt(PosY);
        int IntPosZ = Mathf.FloorToInt(PosZ);

        Vector3Int Position = new Vector3Int(IntPosX, IntPosY, IntPosZ);

        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Ball"))
        {
            

            //Destroy appropriate tile at position
            Tilem.SetTile(Position, null);


        }


    }
}

[sullen epoch]

Your Collider gets world position, but i don't think tile-maps use world position.
maybe this will help?
https://discussions.unity.com/t/tilemap-worldtocell-not-returning-correct-position/896153

[tender mirage]

... You're absolutely correct.

trying out cellToWorld. gotta use it correctly

        float PosX = collision.transform.position.x;
        float PosY = collision.transform.position.y;
        float PosZ = collision.transform.position.z;

        int IntPosX = Mathf.FloorToInt(PosX);
        int IntPosY = Mathf.FloorToInt(PosY);
        int IntPosZ = Mathf.FloorToInt(PosZ);

        Vector3Int Position = new Vector3Int(IntPosX, IntPosY, IntPosZ);

        Vector3Int CellPosition = Tilem.CellToWorld(Position.ConvertTo("Vector3");

        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Ball"))
        {
            print("Position" + Position);

            //Destroy appropriate tile at position
            Tilem.SetTile(Position, null);


        }

[hallow relic]

Idk , maybe to add a sign in process of a game or app

[hallow relic]

Yeh i am a beginner

[silk night]

No, this isnt a free code review service for your homework

[twin pivot]

then why are you asking this here and not the python server

[tender mirage]

Wait until somebody starts posting assembly here.

😂

[sullen epoch]

AnimationClip target = angle switch
        {
            >= 337.5f or < 22.5f => walkRight,
            >= 22.5f and < 67.5f => walkUpRight,
            >= 67.5f and < 112.5f => walkUp,
            >= 112.5f and < 157.5f => walkUpLeft,
            >= 157.5f and < 202.5f => walkLeft,
            >= 202.5f and < 247.5f => walkDownLeft,
            >= 247.5f and < 292.5f => walkDown,
            >= 292.5f and < 337.5f => walkDownRight,
            _ => idleClip
        };```

i'm studying this switch case because I've never seen one so simplified before. what i want to know is if all switch cases can be simplified like this, or if it only works because its working with a single return and input value

[silk night]

Single input, return can be a specific type or void

[rocky canyon]

i believe its called a Switch expression
a single expression that returns a value, that is why it works so elegantly there..

if u had much more logic you'd resort to the classic switch statement

i think its relatively new..

[sullen epoch]

thanks! i found some documentation on it but i'm not sure how would it handle multiple return types?
with it being assigned to an AnimatioClip Variable

[rocky canyon]

anytime i see simple keywords or conjunctions like that I have to go check if it works in unity (what version of c# it is) an all that lol

i believe u can use var to do multiple return types

but dont get me lying edit: i was lying.. has to be a single return type

[rocky canyon]

it couldn't

[sullen epoch]

yeah, seems like that's when standard switch case is needed

i suppose you could use var to return multiple data types at once, but each case would still need a return for all of the data types

[rocky canyon]

nah i dont think the var thing i mentioned would work.. i believe ud get a compile error im just not sure exactly what it would be

you could however us a struct w/ multiple types..

[silk night]

yes you can also voluntarily grab a cactus, sounds like more fun than that 😄

[rocky canyon]

and have the switch just assign the things it needs

[grand snow]

That switch expression is because all branches return the same type yes

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/functional/pattern-matching#relational-patterns

Though for selecting an animation id not go with such a hard coded approach myself

[sullen epoch]

i'm open to suggestions, i prefer not use use Unity's animation controller when animation blending isnt needed

[rocky canyon]

    public struct DesiredColor
    {
        public Color color;
        public string hex;
    }

    DesiredColor GetDesiredColor(string mood)
    {
        DesiredColor data = new();
        switch (mood)
        {
            case "Happy":
                data.color = Color.yellow; // only assign color
                break;

            case "Angry":
                data.hex = "#FF0000";      // only assign hex
                break;
        }
        return data;
    }

having a struct u could technically "return" different types just by reading the struct afterwards...
(you'd technically be returning the same type of container.. but u could chose what parts of it were assigned)

[grand snow]

If each animation is shown for a 45 deg area, you can convert from a rotation to an int index and select the animation that way.
Then its as simple as making a list/array with them in clockwise order.

[rocky canyon]

very true, my 8direction sprite system worked like that..
i used a blendtree with my thresholds being 0 - 7 (ints) and a blendtree to shift thru them

[sullen epoch]

so use a basic array to store my animations, presumably clockwise order and use an index based off the angle?
so angle = Mathf.Floor((angle / 45 ) % )?

or somthing similar

[sacred cradle]

i had a question if i put a collider on a game object but the player horse is kinematic can i do the physics collision through coding? so it behaves like a normal collision

[midnight plover]

Not sure, what you mean. So you have a collider object, lets say a wall and you got player with a horse and want to collide with that wall? But your player is being moved by transform.position?

oh wait, the horse is non kinematic, so it should use physics

[sacred cradle]

its kinematic

and yes its moved by transform.position

[midnight plover]

I am not sure you can fire the physics check outside of the already present physics loop. if you bypass it with transform.position (which is wrong in the first place), then you bypass it. The only thing you could do is predict if its going to collide I guess

is there any reason, you are not using Rigidbody.MovePosition?

[sacred cradle]

well i tried to use it yesterday i did spend 2 hours for it but the whole project is based on transform.position and when i use rb.moveposition the control becames weird

[midnight plover]

Sounds to me, like you gotta make a decision here. Use physics or not. If you want to, you need to comply with the physics system and therefore move the rigidbodies correctly. Otherwise you are always just teleporting and ignoring physics leading to glitching through walls or what not.

[sacred cradle]

hmm i think i can detect collision in script but idk how will i code it so it works like a collision

[sacred cradle]

also there is another problem when i make it non kinematic and use rb.moveposition then horse fights with collider for a while and the go through it

[midnight plover]

you gonna end up rewriting a physics system, if you want to manually detect "collision".

[midnight plover]

fights with what collider?

[sacred cradle]

fights with wall collider

[midnight plover]

So you are trying to moveposition it behind the wall and at some point it will go through? are you using the moveposition at the right place?

[sacred cradle]

hmm when i decrease the horse speed it works fine but when i increase the speed it fights with wall collider and slowly pullthrough it

[midnight plover]

Are you using moveposition in update?

[sacred cradle]

fixedupdate

[midnight plover]

Hm, than that should not happen. What type of collider is the wall?

[sacred cradle]

mesh collider and its a fence

but when i create a simple box collider just for testing it pullthroughs it too

but when i decrease speed it works at least

[hot wadi]

Collision check via OnCollisionEnter() still valid as long as 2 colliders touch each other.
Rigidbody types only change how physics affects the bodies

If the movement gets weird, it’s probably your control logic

[sacred cradle]

but if i bypass the unity physics can i make a short physics system for that collision or it will be much complicated

[sacred cradle]

so i have to rewrite the whole control method?

[hot wadi]

You can, but why do u need to do that?

[hot wadi]

Show us the code and we can help u debug it

[sullen epoch]

question, inside your Rigidbody is collision detection mode set to discrete or continuous?

[naive pawn]

this is not quite accurate. dynamic rigidbodies are what drive collision/physics, one of the colliders needs to have an attached dynamic rigidbody in order to detect the collision

[naive pawn]

you should not use moveposition with dynamic rbs, moveposition does not obey collisions

[naive pawn]

you should never modify pos/rot via transform when you have an rb
the rb will try to control the transform, if you try to modify it then you'll be fighting the rb

[sacred cradle]

continous

[naive pawn]

the sensible/valid options here are:
no rb, move with transform.position - no collision detection
kinematic rb, move with Move/MovePosition - potential collision detection with other dynamic rbs, but won't obey collisions automatically
dynamic rb, move with AddForce or linearVelocity - detects and obeys collision

[sacred cradle]

i was experimenting and i think i found that AddForce is the one which works with it

thanks for the help i will try it and will let you know?

[sullen epoch]

can i ask why you opted to go kenetic?

[naive pawn]

(note - kinetic and kinematic aren't the same)

[sullen epoch]

i completely misread 😅

i always thought it was called kinetic

[hot wadi]

I use dynamic but without gravity in one of my games. I move it by transform.Translate() and it seems fine for now

[naive pawn]

yeah you really should not do that, can cause desyncs and physics scene rebuilds

[midnight plover]

Just read a thread which sums it up quite good. MovePosition can be used to move things out of the way while you are moving. Its not meant to be used for movement restrictions like a wall, because you can move through it at some point as you just experienced with higher speeds.

[naive pawn]

MovePosition can be used to move things out of the way while you are moving.
for kinematic rbs, yeah
i feel like it could have some weird effects with dynamic rbs and depenetration

it's a pretty common mistake to use MovePosition with dynamic rbs

[tacit prism]

I think i understand what your putting here, and hopefully i mish mashed it right

basically if the target event is already targetting, it will turn target into the cancel event
otherwise, it will turn target into the target event

so that even if its null for the cancel event it will still change to the target event?

and then invoke

I havent gotten to the point where i can debug this but thanks for the help anyhow! gotta go to work now

i doubt this is an efficient way of doing it, but that’s what refactoring is for anyhow, plus im just practicing with statemachines at the moment so its fine if it doesn’t work perfectly

[elder canyon]

If I'm gonna have multiple characters that I can possess and control. Like a dog, human and a drone. Do I need PlayerInput component for all of them?

[tacit prism]

Oh speaking on this ^

If I have several levels, I can seperate the levels into scenes correct? And then just drop the prefab player into the level? I haven’t worked on saving shit yet, so I don’t know anything about what carries over if you use a prefab outside of attached objects but it sounds about right

[grand snow]

a prefab of your player character in each scene works but to persist data you need to transfer a reference to it or put it elsewhere
A prefab wont help there (e.g. player level, health, xp)

The beginner friendly way is some singleton to aid in retaining this data accross many scenes

[tacit prism]

I thought so, thanks :)

[grand snow]

If you have everything in some class then you can just re assign the reference on the new player object after the scene has loaded.
Otherwise yea a singleton is easier for beginner programmers

[tacit prism]

Will have to look into them, but after my study on state machines

[naive pawn]

if you're using playerinput on each gameobject separately, then yeah
you could design it differently to not have that though
perhaps ask in #🖱️┃input-system if you want to design differently

[still ingot]

Hi I have been getting this error for a while and it says I am missing a reference for TextMeshProGUI but I already have references for it?

[grand snow]

does the code compile in the editor? or is the same error happening there too

[still ingot]

It's working fine in the editor im testing it out right now??

[grand snow]

then its probably an issue with the visual studio sln generation. you can try regenerating it in preference > external tools (there is a button)

unity handles compilation so if its okay there its good

[supple crescent]

Is this video a good way to start learning C# for unity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QUgvfuKvWU

[eternal needle]

, its unlikely anyone here watched this whole 8 hour video to be able to answer this for you. if someone did recently, then they are also a beginner
there are resources pinned in the channel also

[neon verge]

guys is this a good way to move my player left right up and down

private void Update()
    {
        moveAmount = moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        Vector2 normalizedInput = moveAmount != Vector2.zero ? moveAmount.normalized : Vector2.zero;
        currentVel = Vector2.SmoothDamp(currentVel, normalizedInput, ref velocityRef, accelTime);
        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(currentVel.x, currentVel.y, 0f) * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        transform.position += movement;
    }```

[odd remnant]

I'm making a first-person game that allows players to click and hold to pick up and move rag-doll physics objects. Can someone validate my thinking here:

• The FirstPersonController will convert inputs into game actions (tracking whether the player is actively holding an object).
• But who should be responsible for updating the object's transform values in space? The FirstPersonController? Or the object itself? (By checking to see if it's being held, and updating its position accordingly)

[neon verge]

it seems like there should be a simpler way

[wintry quarry]

Could be FirstPersonController or you could make a separate script specifically for the grabbing/holding logic.

tracking whether the player is actively holding an object
This should be in the same script as the grabbing/holding logic

Usually FirstPersonController sounds like a script that would just be handling player movement

seems like responsibility creep to have it handle other things too like grab/hold stuff

Also if it's a Ragdoll physics object, you should almost certainly not be doing this by modifying the Transform directly

[odd remnant]

Yeah, I've been wondering about that. Because there's a two-directional relationship here. The object is grabbable (because it has the GrabbableObject script on it). And it can only be grabbed by a single player - which means the object itself needs to know if it's being grabbed.

Similarly, the player can only grab objects if they aren't currently grabbing any other object. So the player needs to know that they're actively grabbing an object.

[odd remnant]

I'm noticing that, too. TBH I'm not sure if ragdoll was the right term. I want players to be able to pick up an object by selecting a point on it, and the object "hangs" from that point. I'm in early coding of the feature right now, but I can tell that when the object interacts with its environment, it's going craaaaazy in ways that don't adhere to physics.

[wintry quarry]

And it can only be grabbed by a single player - which means the object itself needs to know if it's being grabbed.
This can be handled by a very simple/lightweight script either on the object or some centralized "grab manager" that handles registering objects to players.

I want players to be able to pick up an object by selecting a point on it, and the object "hangs" from that point.
Typically done using a Kinematic Rigidbody and a HingeJoint

[odd remnant]

Perfect. I'll look into these.

I have a "GrabbleObject" script on the object itself. But it sounds like a GrabManager might adhere to my architectural principles so far.

[wintry quarry]

i.e. you make an invisible kinematic rigidbdy at the "hold point", attach the grabbed object to the invisible object via the HingeJoint. And to move the kinematic RB you use Rigidbody.MovePosition in FixedUpdate

but yeah having scripts on both objects (the grabbee and the grabber) is a pretty common pattern. Like "Grabber" and "Grabbable"

[odd remnant]

That was going to be my next question 😁

Pedantically - would the script that manages the grabbing be called "Grabber" or GrabManager? Is there a general deliniation between a Manager and non-Manager script?

[hot wadi]

Typically manager is DontDestroyOnLoad. But it's just a name

[odd remnant]

Ok, thanks!

[wintry quarry]

Grabber I was imagining as something on the player object that handles grabbing grabbables and moving them around. Assuming there's multiple players, each one would have a Grabber, so there would be multiple Grabbers in the scene.

GrabManager I was imagining as a singleton in the scene handling keeping track of which objects are being grabbed currently by which players that Grabbers could use to make sure they're not grabbing an object that another Grabber has grabbed.

[odd remnant]

Ah. And that's in addition to the GrabbableObject script that defines whether an object is grabbable or not? (And passes info about the object itself)

[wintry quarry]

yes, Grabbable would be a script on the objects you can grab. Grabber would look for these objects when trying to grab things.

[odd remnant]

Interesting. I'll think about the Grab Manager. I'd assumed that the Grabber could simply check whether the GrabbleObject was grabbed or not, and that would be sufficient.

I'm not sure I understand the need for a GrabManager - though if I were to guess, it's a bit easier (or more performant?) to reference a single Manager, rather than checking multiple objects in a scene?

[wintry quarry]

you could do it that way, definitely

if the GrabbableObject keeps track of the Grabber that is currently grabbing it

[odd remnant]

Right, absolutely.

[tender mirage]

hey there, i'm trying to erase specific tiles from the tilemap that have touched a specific tile

    private void Update()
    {


        if (Mouse.current.rightButton.wasPressedThisFrame)
        {


            //Randomize tile
            int RandomTile = Random.Range(0, Tiles.Length);

            Tilem.SetTile(Tilem.WorldToCell(Position), Tiles[RandomTile]);
        }


        if (Keyboard.current.rightArrowKey.wasPressedThisFrame)
        {
            Position.x += 1;
        }
        if (Keyboard.current.leftArrowKey.wasPressedThisFrame)
        {
            Position.x -= 1;
        }
        if (Keyboard.current.upArrowKey.wasPressedThisFrame)
        {
            Position.y += 0.25f;
        }
        if (Keyboard.current.downArrowKey.wasPressedThisFrame)
        {
            Position.y -= 0.25f;
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {


        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Ball"))
        {
            Tilem.SetTile(Tilem.WorldToCell(collision.transform.position + Vector3.right), null);
            Tilem.SetTile(Tilem.WorldToCell(collision.transform.position + Vector3.left), null);
            Tilem.SetTile(Tilem.WorldToCell(collision.transform.position + Vector3.up), null);
            Tilem.SetTile(Tilem.WorldToCell(collision.transform.position + Vector3.down), null);
            
        }

    }

But the tiles aren't deleting vertically as the world to cell position doesn't align with my rectangle shaped tiles

[wintry quarry]

I don't understand what this OnCollisionEnter is supposed to be doing

[tender mirage]

Basically when a ball hits these colored tiles, they're suppose to be destroyed

[wintry quarry]

which object is this script on?

[tender mirage]

it's on the tilemap

game object.

[wintry quarry]

Have you done any debugging here?

i.e. have you checked what position is being calculated by Tilem.WorldToCell(collision.transform.position + Vector3.left) etc?

it also looks like you're trying to set the tile on all the cells around the ball but not where the ball actually is

I think it would also be more accurate to use collision.GetContact(0).point instead of the position of the ball

And if you want to calculate the tile that the ball actually hit you normally would offset that position using the collision normal by half of a tile width as well

[tender mirage]

i see. It gets abit overwhelming getting to know the whole tilesystem for the first time. i just learnt about the tilemap basics today.

[wintry quarry]

so something like:

Vector2 hitPoint = collision.GetContact(0).point;
Vector2 normal = collision.GetContact(0).normal;
Vector2 hitTilePosition = hitPoint - normal * Tilem.cellCize.x // or y for up/down;

Vector3Int hitTileCoordinate = TileM.WorldToCell(hitTilePosition);```

[tender mirage]

Curious. i normally use contacts[0].normal.

Is GetContact the same? it looks functionally similiar

[wintry quarry]

GetContact is more efficient for one-off access

if you do collision.contacts it allocates a brand new array every time which will need to be garbage collected

[floral garden]

hi i have a question