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[fast relic]

you need the IPointerEnterHandler and exit handler interfaces

[cosmic dagger]

Did you check OnMouseEnter in the docs to ensure how it works?

[shell sorrel]

also wtf you are the same person i pointed at the IPointerXHandlers

[dry tapir]

.< i just want the camera to scroll a little when hovering on a collissionbox. why is this so damn complicated

[shell sorrel]

like 30 mins ago

[fast relic]

it's not if you take the time to research it instead of relying on an llm

-# also we told you exactly what to use already

[dry tapir]

i guess im just going too fast.

the real issue may be i wanted to make a quick lil halloween game for my subs. I greatly underestimated the time to learn it since my deadline is the 30

sorry guys

[edgy sinew]

Break it down more…
First detect if the mouse is on the left or right …

[cosmic dagger]

Not when using OnMouseEnter. This is their old version that uses colliders . . .

[fast relic]

OnMouseEnter is the old version which iirc doesn't work with the new input system

[edgy sinew]

Guys … Is there not an absolute mouse position in Unity new input system …

[fast relic]

yes there is

[edgy sinew]

Can he not just do
if (mouse.x < 10) type thing …

[slender nymph]

did you happen to google it?

[edgy sinew]

It was rhetorical, I used absolute mouse position before and delta

[slender nymph]

this is like the worst way to detect if the mouse is over an object

[cosmic dagger]

True. It doesn't. They need to change the Active Input Handling setting to Both . . .

[edgy sinew]

He’s using AI

We want to save time here clearly

[fast relic]

or just use the recommended way

[dry tapir]

All i want is "if mouse hovering on this collider. Scroll to this side".

I know i aint that crazy for thinking this should he the simplest thing to do, right?

[fast relic]

tbf all they need is to know if the mouse is on the left / right of the screen

[cosmic dagger]

Of course, I just mentioned how they'd fix it using their version . . .

[edgy sinew]

Sorry to assume - either way.

[fast relic]

it is simple, but you shouldn't rely on ai

we already told you what to look for

[dry tapir]

My second mistake. Onr i wont commit again.

[edgy sinew]

Do you have a collider on the object that this MonoBehaviour is attached to?

[dry tapir]

I just created a colider of the size i wanted and added that script

[true pine]

real mfs don't use it at all

[edgy sinew]

As I understand, the script (MonoBehaviour component) has to be on the same object

You’re able to see your mouse go over the object right?

[fast relic]

implement the IPointerEnterHandler interface on the mono behaviour, add an EventSystem to your scene (create/ui/event system iirc) and give your camera a PhysicsRaycaster component (or the 2d version) if it's not a ui object

[dry tapir]

Well i started learning unity yeaterday so i was trying evrytging i could.

Again, my mistake for underestimating

[fast relic]

yeah, and you especially shouldn't use it when just learning

[dry tapir]

I just feel stupid.

[true pine]

we all do

[edgy sinew]

We all feel that way sometimes, more often as newbies probably

[dry tapir]

Wait. Just asking. To use this new imput system i jave to download some add on or package?

[fast relic]

it's an easy mistake to make, mistakes are opportunities to learn

[true pine]

it's part of the gamedev process to feel like a worthless emptyheaded failure

[fast relic]

if you're using unity 6 or newer, it's the default

[edgy sinew]

So… Do you have a 2D Box Collider next to the HoverDetector2D
Those r gonna be stacked up in the inspector vertically

[dry tapir]

Oh okie

[slender nymph]

*6.1 or newer

[true pine]

what's the difference anyways, why did they move to a new version

[dry tapir]

Im on 6000.2.6f2

[fast relic]

is it? i thought it was default in 6 aswell

[fast relic]

then you already have it by default

[slender nymph]

unless they changed it in a random patch, it shouldn't be.

[dry tapir]

Okay.

I probably should watch "unity for beginners" videos until i have a firm bedrock to build on.

[edgy sinew]

This is happening on the UI right?
Also why not switch to Unity 6.0 🥲

[fast relic]

the new input system is a lot more modular and scalable

[cosmic dagger]

No, they were talking about colliders . . .

[fast relic]

you can watch them, but you shouldn't rely on them, try to understand what they're doing and trying to teach you instead of mindlessly following their actions

[dry tapir]

Just to clarify
Heres the tutorial i was following lol. Yeah, old.
||https://youtu.be/2PPe2XKKjLA?si=TnrPGknRZ4SeIE2S||

[fast relic]

if you're confused or have any questions about what or why they did, you can ask here

[dry tapir]

Yea! Thats what i will be doin

Mone other reason im confused likek thisnis because i was used to wing it in renpy. Just improvize to hell

[fast relic]

I see way too many beginners blindly following tutorials and then being unable to do anything on their own

[edgy sinew]

Does he not use a Rigidbody and 2D Box collider?

[fast relic]

im still winging it, and im constantly learning new ways of winging it

[dry tapir]

Heres what i have:
Clicked to install unity installed requirements that popped up.

Thats all i have

[fast relic]

everybody is winging it you just gotta get good at hiding it

[edgy sinew]

This is the fancy stuff I think

[dry tapir]

Thats what i used to say to a friend of mine that got into renpy too lol

My expectations were unrealistically, to learn and use unity to make a game under 20 days

[fast relic]

it's definitely possible

you just need to approach it right

[dry tapir]

Im just a lil scared of trying, qnd not being able to deliver to my subs anything. Becauee i focused on this surprise halloween game instea dof my current in development game

[fast relic]

and not do it just for the end result, you need to take your time to learn

[edgy sinew]

Guys … check the tutorial person’s Unity version at the top of their window lol

[fast relic]

go for it

[dry tapir]

Not im scared and ashamed to look

[fast relic]

learning something new is always good

[dry tapir]

XXDDDD

[fast relic]

and making mistakes is how you learn

ive written plenty of horrible spaghetti that barely worked

[dry tapir]

Im humbler than when i entered the aerver so i say its progress

X3

[edgy sinew]

Does OnMouseEnter not work with Rigidbody2D anymore?
ok real funny y’all fine i’ll just find out myself eventually lol

[dry tapir]

Question. Should i watch any unity video?

Even if my game will be 2d, a 3d video will still help me?

[slender nymph]

OnMouseEnter never had anything to do with rigidbodies, it only ever cared about the collider

[edgy sinew]

Are u saying that he might just be missing a box collider …

EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject() ?

[slender nymph]

3d and 2d are very similar, most of the code related concepts will basically be the same. You should consider going through the beginner pathways on the unity learn site to really learn what you're doing though

!learn

[radiant void]

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[cosmic dagger]

Yes, the only difference is the physics engine . . .

[edgy sinew]

You should watch the channels that do things right & always find “5 months ago” kinda videos… gauge the validity yourself

[fast relic]

OnMouseEnter is for the old input system

[edgy sinew]

https://youtu.be/Y8A5z0FmmS8?si=lDsOqR_sJ4ClvQh4

@dry tapir

Exactly what Cookie was talking about, implementing those interfaces. It’s a 4 minute video u got this

Learning together!

[glad shore]

whats a quaternion ✌️

[fast relic]

it's a fancy confusing 4d maths thing that lets you rotate stuff

but all you need to know is that you can do Quaternion.Euler() to use normal xyz angles

[cosmic dagger]

Uh oh, let's not get into that . . .

[glad shore]

yeah, but i want to understand it

i want to know how it works

[fast relic]

sec

[ivory bobcat]

https://unity.huh.how/quaternions#what-are-they

What are they?

Quaternions represent rotations and orientations.

Quaternions are four dimensional, but don't be frightened—unless intending to learn their mathematical implications—this doesn't affect practical usage in Unity.

To use them you don't need to understand how they work, or what their components represent.

[glad shore]

i want to learn their mathematical implications

[fast relic]

you can check ben eater and grant sanderson's (3blue1brown) visualizing quaternions article or 3blue1brown's visualizing quaternions with stereographic projection lesson

[glad shore]

oh god..

[lean tartan]

Hello, I'd like to buy some Unity Android Game Sources, specifically fighting game (similar to these ones : Vita Fighters, Final Fighter, etc). DM me if you got.

[glad shore]

just looking at the embed im already confused

[fast relic]

and also quaternions and 3d rotation for how they're actually used for rotation

and hey, you said you wanted to understand the maths i'm giving you the maths

[glad shore]

ima just stick with Quaternion.Euler ✌️

[fast relic]

haha understandable

but they are pretty interesting if you're a maths nerd

[ivory bobcat]

Wrong channel and likely the wrong server. You can try the collab forums

[eternal needle]

You dont actually need to understand quaternion math for unity. Just learn how to use the functions unity implements for you already. You never need to do the math yourself

[ivory bobcat]

!collab

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[glad shore]

im in algebra 2, this is above me

[glad shore]

i already understood the functions pretty well, i just wanted to know what a quaternion was 😭

[fast relic]

i've sent you the resources if you want to know

it's pretty interesting, i'd recommend you at least watch the 3b1b video

[eternal needle]

I also looked into it at one point and honestly its pointless to do so for unity sake. The operations i understood and saw similarities between other math topics, but there's just no value in it, if that gives you any comfort for not knowing it

[cosmic dagger]

Exactly my point. There's no reason to understand their mathematical implementation. Just learn how to use the methods in Unity . . .

[fast relic]

for unity you don't need to understand the maths, but if you like maths it's definitely interesting to look at

[glad shore]

is this the best way to find the farthest room(GameObject) from the player?

if (_spawnedRooms.Count > 4)
        {
            GameObject _farthestRoomAway = _spawnedRooms[0];
            float dist = 0;
            float[] distances = new float[_spawnedRooms.Count];
            for (int i = 0; i < _spawnedRooms.Count; i++)
            {
                distances[i] = Vector2.Distance(_spawnedRooms[i].transform.position, _player.transform.position);
                if (distances[i]>dist)
                {
                    dist = distances[i];
                    _farthestRoomAway = _spawnedRooms[i];
                }
            }
            Destroy(_farthestRoomAway);
            _spawnedRooms.Remove(_spawnedRooms[0]);
        }

[fast relic]

it's fine but you can use the squared distance instead, for comparison it works pretty much identically

[eternal needle]

You dont need that array of distances

Just make it a float

[glad shore]

if (_spawnedRooms.Count > 4)
        {
            GameObject _farthestRoomAway = _spawnedRooms[0];
            float dist = 0;

            for (int i = 0; i < _spawnedRooms.Count; i++)
            {
                float newDist = Vector2.Distance(_spawnedRooms[i].transform.position, _player.transform.position);
                if (newDist>dist)
                {
                    dist = newDist;
                    _farthestRoomAway = _spawnedRooms[i];
                }
            }
            Destroy(_farthestRoomAway);
            _spawnedRooms.Remove(_spawnedRooms[0]);
        }

Like this?

atp i can just put it in the if statement

[sour fulcrum]

Also super tiny nitpick but even when you logically have a hardcoded value, it's still better to define that hardcoded value outside the function if the function isn't reliant on that hardcoded assumption

In practice my suggestion would be to move that > 4 to some maxAdjecentRoom field or something rather then define it as 4 there

[cosmic dagger]

Inside of the loop, store the furthest distance and compare that against the current distance. If its greater, then set the current room as the furthest . . .

[eternal needle]

On mobile so its hard to read but yea looks fine. The part where you remove the spawnedRoom[0] looks wrong though

[rugged beacon]

are your rooms connected by hallways and such? then it should be calculated with their length

[glad shore]

the room is also a hallway, a door leads to a new generation(GameObject prefab)

[edgy sinew]

Is this a dictionary no?
roomID or object, distance

Or per instance of each room?

[rugged beacon]

you should take account of the hallway length then, since hallways turn then the real distance isnt true anymore

[glad shore]

i think another factor is that the rooms "position" is right at the door but the actual objects within the prefab are away from the center of the room

[edgy sinew]

Nice work. I’ve never even heard of a Ceiling Lip

[glad shore]

word i made up ✌️

[edgy sinew]

You could solve that by calculating those positions when you create the room

[glad shore]

i could just take the floor position, and if i have multiple floor objects i can just find the midpoint

that would give me a estimated point ig

[edgy sinew]

If it can work as you like without knowing the exact vertice positions, then it’s good

I like to get extra info to work with up front

[tacit prism]

IT WORKS, LETSGO (the player pausing with the animation playing is it entering the target state, target state has no content inside of it right now though so it stays still)
thanks again @ivory bobcat

i wonder if theres a more efficient way of doing this though, i dont like that trying to use one input to confirm/cancel a state has to take up 11 lines

any ideas?

[edgy sinew]

Kinematic rigidbody?

[tacit prism]

hah your funny words dont work if i dont understand them wizard man

truthfully though no rigidbody, learning about statemachines at the moment

[edgy sinew]

You need… a toggle right?

One button, switches you to the opposite state?

[glad shore]

I need a way to stop generating rooms inside of eachother (overlapping) but i dont know how, this is what i have currently but it doesnt work as intented

_currentRoom = door.transform.parent.gameObject;
        //the room that the door that was just opened is in
        bool _generate = true;
        if (_roomsAhead > 0)
        {
            Collider[] roomsInArea = Physics.OverlapBox(door.transform.position, new Vector3(5, 2, 5), Quaternion.identity);

            foreach (Collider room in roomsInArea)
            {
                if (_currentRoom == room.transform.parent)
                {
                    _generate = false;
                }
            }
        }
        if (_generate)
        {
            GameObject _room = Instantiate(_rooms[Random.Range(0, _rooms.Length - 1)], door.transform.position - door.transform.up * 5, door.transform.rotation);
            _spawnedRooms.Add(_room);
        }

[tacit prism]

still not sure what ur asking, and i really dont want to keep throwing in images, but as far as i learned i just made an input reader, and built every action off the events subscribed in the input reader to the statemachine

[edgy sinew]

I think what was being said before is like,
You can flip a bool value every time the button “started” happens
And execute whichever function you want based on the new value if it’s true or false

[tacit prism]

oh yeah, thats happening lmao

i feel its not really efficient though, at least the way its written right now, as it takes up 11 lines

i just want to compact it, despite it not being neccesary

[ivory bobcat]

Number of lines does not equate to performance.

[tacit prism]

its gives to readability though

[glad shore]

dont forget about storage✌️

[edgy sinew]

Everyone likes their code a different way.

[ivory bobcat]

I feel that less number of lines is often less readable

[edgy sinew]

Wouldn’t you just loop through the existing rooms, and check if the new position is within the bounds?

I would think Unity has something built in for this but, you can do it yourself easily too ..

[glad shore]

"easily" 😔

[glad shore]

how would i check if its within bounds

[edgy sinew]

Typical collision check algorithm .. of course

Easier in 2D but you know the height of the rooms too right or …

[glad shore]

you see, thats where im lost.

[glad shore]

it varies

[edgy sinew]

It’s gonna be real easy if each room has all that info attached

[glad shore]

thats what i was thinking but just sounds like a whole lotta extra work 😔

[edgy sinew]

spawnedRoom.width height etc

Like 4 months ago, I did exactly what you just did

Then you know what I tried to stop asking & just assume, Oh yeah that’s the way everyone does it probably & check online

There’s a video of Half Life Alyx game where they calculate at runtime the position and rotation of each foot & such

[glad shore]

i could make a collider trigger that covers the room then check if within that area

[glad shore]

how would i even attach info like that

[edgy sinew]

First do it for XZ, width depth… then the Y would use the “height”

[glad shore]

ts is not a square 🥀

and some rooms will have very much different shapes

[edgy sinew]

Distance and minimum radius, yep

Do it spherically, make your objects fit within a certain sphere size, easy done

Or do rectangles, or do both, have a hybrid system with Polymorphism

[glad shore]

there is upstairs and downstairs so the sphere wont work

[edgy sinew]

GameObject and Component (MonoBehaviour) can be used almost the same way, except with a Component you can attach data or functions right

You can make a new Component called “RoomData.cs” … Done, easy

When you create a room you attach that to it in script, or have it on the prefab originally is better.

[glad shore]

i thought of that but tried to avoid it

[edgy sinew]

That’s simply how a GameObject has other properties.

You can have a Dictionary or Hashset if you prefer not that way

Experts, chime in?

[winged ridge]

Procedural generation? Just do it on wall basis.. you can set rules, or just do it as a square then cut out the bits you don't need replacing the bits you do as it spawns

[glad shore]

wall basis?

[edgy sinew]

Every generated room can be represented more simply yeah

Like define 3 cubes .. that’s a curve, done, close enough

Then do the basic collision algorithm I sent + Y axis

Approximation is super valuable

You’d compare one list of cube defining numbers to another, rather than one cube defining numbers

It’s a lot easier to do it with distance and minimum radius though, so. Keep that in mind

[glad shore]

ur saying is that i should have multiple "bits" of squares to see the bounds of the room

[edgy sinew]

Basically a “do not spawn other stuff here” zone defined by that data yeah.

Width height, x y z

And depth oops.

[glad shore]

im so confused rn

i think i understand kinda

[edgy sinew]

This is the simple way to avoid doing extraordinary Physics stuff

“ Axis Aligned Bounding Box (detects collision between two rectangles) “

Radius & distance is simpler if you don’t mind longer hallways

Even simpler, multiple spheres! Oooh

[glad shore]

alright so...
attach a component to each room with a list of a class that has (x,y,z,width,height) then when generating a room i just check if its within the bounds of room

[edgy sinew]

U should do multiple spheres … one list, another list, compare … So easy

distance = Vector3.Distance(sphere1, sphere2)
if distance < sphere1.radius + sphere2.radius // finding if 2 spheres overlap.

[glad shore]

you just confused me even more

ur comparing a vector 3 to a float

what

[edgy sinew]

Vector3.Distance gives u a float

[glad shore]

oh

OH

[edgy sinew]

I wrote it out more look

I tried to imply it mb so ya

Sphere is easier I would just do it that way Ngl

All u need is the xyz and radius, yeah attach the lists as a component

[glad shore]

plus i dont think squares would work because not all the rooms i have are only right angles

[edgy sinew]

Prefab easiest, u can expose lists to the Editor and do it by hand .. make a gizmo tool later if u want …

Or literally, make a bunch of spheres and write down the xyz and radius. For each “type” of room

[glad shore]

bouta do this ✌️

if it doesnt work or i have a problem, il come back to u

[edgy sinew]

Yes. Easy, and u just delete all the spheres after.
Hey ⚠️ Make sure of the world transform vs local transform stuff.

[glad shore]

and should i use Physics.OverlapSphere?

[edgy sinew]

Wait You can do absolute position to absolute position too actually jk

[edgy sinew]

No that’s for colliders and stuff this is just manually attaching data to your prefabs.

[glad shore]

then how would i check if its overlapping with the spheres

[edgy sinew]

The sphere way is easy because 2 spheres intersecting just depends on their distance and each of their radius right

[glad shore]

ahh yes, didnt think of that

[edgy sinew]

AI is stupid but it can find nice pictures and help u understand better

Shame it’s a 2D photo

[glad shore]

public class RoomData : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static float x, y, z, radius;
}

so i just calculate dist then if its > sum of radius then i dont generate

how do i make VS code stop putting these bum ah suggestions

[winged ridge]

What sort of method did you try to implement for it to auto give you that

[glad shore]

I dont know 😭 🙏

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class Sphere
{
    public float x, y, z, radius;
}
public class RoomData : MonoBehaviour
{
    public List<Sphere> _spheres = new List<Sphere>();
}

all i did was write this and it was js there 🥀

[edgy sinew]

For two spheres, to be colliding, the sum of both of their respective radii must be greater than the distance between them

[glad shore]

How do u even get a unity certificate 😲

[edgy sinew]

It’s the same thing with two dimensional circles. If the vector 2.distance

[winged ridge]

I still need the final one but >,> may wait a bit for that

[winged ridge]

Unity offer courses, can't remember the price I didn't have to worry about that. Mine was paid for.. the website has more info on it

[glad shore]

you gotta be like crazy good to get a certificate

you know to much ✌️

[glad shore]

OMG I DID THIS IN 2020

[winged ridge]

I got about 97% on the first link in my bio not sure if I still have the proof lol I'd have to find it

[glad shore]

i remember making my first car 🥹

bouta finish what i started

[visual pond]

anyone have any clue why those 2 are errors

[glad shore]

its not in a method

[wintry quarry]

Start by reading the error message, but at first glance you appear to have random code floating outside of any method

[shell sorrel]

read the error message but first one is because you got that line of code that is not in a function

[visual pond]

ok imma run the error

[wintry quarry]

Your curly braces are also seemingly not matched properly

Maybe

[shell sorrel]

or who knows since you are not showing enough code

to now how the braces are matched and whats in what scope

[visual pond]

Assets\basicmovment.cs(67,9): error CS0106: The modifier 'private' is not valid for this item

wow

well uhh

[wintry quarry]

If Dash is a local function then yeah private is not allowed there

Private is only for members of the class

[glad shore]

there is 3 brackets at the end when there should only be 2

[shell sorrel]

99% chance you messed up your braces and got a function defined in a function

show more

[visual pond]

thats void update

[wintry quarry]

We can't know that unless you share the full script

[visual pond]

void update

[wintry quarry]

Show the full !code

!code

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[visual pond]

oh

alr

[teal viper]

This is not the full code either

[wintry quarry]

Not only isn't that formatted yeah it's not the full script

[visual pond]

seriously all of it?

ok

[wintry quarry]

Yes seriously

[shell sorrel]

you are defining dash inside of your update

it needs to be its own method separate from it

[glad shore]

bro im telling u what to do

just do that and it would work 🙏

[visual pond]

oh

it all works now btw

literally just had to take out private

no i just had to take out private

[shell sorrel]

no

it will compile when you do that but it will not do what you think its doing

[visual pond]

oh

[shell sorrel]

move the brace like suggested

[ivory bobcat]

Was it intended to be a local function 🤔

[visual pond]

im just following a toturial

[rich adder]

follow it better

[ivory bobcat]

If not, do what the others have suggested. If it was supposed to be a local function, it may be fine.

[visual pond]

ye ik

[shell sorrel]

and you mis placed a brace compared to the tutorial

[glad shore]

looking at everything but the image i sent 😔

[visual pond]

my movement code is different from his

[shell sorrel]

also its not enough to just follow the tutorial you have to think about what you are doing as you do it

[visual pond]

hold on im finishing the code and testing it before trying it

yep it not showing errors

but its not working

[glad shore]

did u take my suggestion?

[visual pond]

trying

rn

[glad shore]

finally 😩

[visual pond]

it doesnt show errors

but not working

pretty sure i know the reason why

[glad shore]

if you dont know how to code, unity has courses you can take.

they teach u step by step on how to use unity

[visual pond]

i practically perma made it so X just responds to speed

i just need to know how to NOT do this

[glad shore]

https://learn.unity.com/project/beginner-gameplay-scripting

is it bad that i havnt taken any of the courses, because ive lwky been just going with the flow

[random lodge]

They just need to get someone on that terrible site design for those pages.

[winged ridge]

As far as I am aware, Unity is aware the learn site has it's issues but they have been focusing on Unity6 and getting that ready before the Unity Learn site

[hot wadi]

Learn in any way u prefer. It doesn't have to be Unity's pathway

[polar acorn]

In what way is it not working. What is it supposed to be doing and what is it doing instead?

[tacit prism]

I haven’t either

I’ve just started learning about state machine, and I don’t understand SHIT but

The more I do it the better and easier it gets. I’m still green on a decent amount, but because I’ve been playing around, and when I make mistakes I start debugging my own code, I’ve learned a LOT more than I have with courses like Microsoft’s C# or unities learn page

Granted I’m still going by a course, that explains state machines but

Playing around with the code is fun, and it’s teaching me a decent bit

[hot wadi]

That is the common way to do it. Look for common concepts and how they work, then start experimenting on them

[rare grail]

Im just loosing my sanity to why my camera shake won't work on enemy hitting the player. My theroy is that the trigger won't play well with a IEnumerator. or if and the return part isen't working well

[midnight plover]

You just expressing your feelings or wanna show code? 😉

[rare grail]

loading up unity. and il get to showing it. but a little bit of feelings aswell.

[north kiln]

!ban 775300007905198131 racism

[radiant void]

@_moonbathing_ banned

Reason: racism
Duration: Permanent

[rare grail]

https://paste.myst.rs/lw7447hc So its a alot of parts to it. but its Workingcamerashake that works when i have tested it. that needs to work with Orb projectile, i can't add it to the part where player takes damage becuse then the code gets confused and you won't take damage. and i need to add it to the enemy part aswell. i have commented out on orb the parts i have tried, tried some ideas with If. with 0 progress.

i feel that its some really small change i need to do. to make it work. becuse it's so close to just work.

[nimble apex]

Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Pointer.current.position.ReadValue());

Physics.Raycast(ray, out var hit, 20, LayerMask.GetMask("UI"));

if (hit.collider != null)
{
    hit.collider.gameObject.GetComponent<IWorldUIObject>().InvokeRaycastEvt();
}```
if i raycast UI layer, will it count on overlay UIs?

[rare grail]

🤔 il try that.

[nimble apex]

ok this is hard

[rare grail]

yeah. its on the VG part of this assigment for a reason 💀

they want a factory or builder and a enemy pool. (i just did a manger). aswell.

Im at G level and im proud of that after just having most experience in HTML/java before this. but i got that hunger of just. I can do this better

[midnight plover]

So you just expect the camera to shake from different spots in your code, right?

[rare grail]

yeah. when the enemy hits you, or when a Orb hits you.

[nimble crystal]

Hey btw u can eliminate that if statement if u use TryGetComponent instead of GetComponent
And GetComponent is expensive than TryGetComponent

[midnight plover]

And what is not working? I mean, running in update does not make sense for this at all. but you commented out parts, that should make it work. Only thing I guess, whats happening, is that you override previous shake with another shake and running two coroutines

[rare grail]

Yeah.. from the debug logs that's what the debug.log theroy is,

[midnight plover]

Is it constantly firing the shake right now or what is happening?

[rare grail]

well i have gotten the shake to work in wierder ways. its silly but just for a experiement i added it earlier in the orb code. and it made the wizard enemys shake. 🤣

[sudden pagoda]

Could it be that in the code you are calling StopAllCoroutines on update?

[rare grail]

il try that

[sudden pagoda]

not sure how this interacts if it gets called every frame like this

[rare grail]

I thought in theroy it would activate when a orb hits you. but i haven't seen the debug.log message.

so that update part isen't klicking with the orb part.

Im closer to a result. its now just screaming after object refrence.

even after i added player = player.GetComponent<Player>();

[sudden pagoda]

In the meantime, could I ask for some support here? Preferably in vc?

I started working in Unity a few days ago from a C++ and Unreal background, and while the C# scripting has been pretty easy to get used to, I'm kinda struggling to figure out how to manage object references in a maintainable way.

[rare grail]

i just needed to add the player prefab in. and now its working with damage. its still screaming for Null refrence. but if i add a if player is null. it stops working. this code is legit cursed

[sudden pagoda]

The logic is all kinda simple but I've been in a loop of deleting objects because the structure doesn't feel right for the past few days and I'm trying to break out of it

[teal viper]

Might want to provide some specific code examples with an explanation of what you don't like about them. And we might be able to provide some suggestions.

[sudden pagoda]

Sure sure, that'd work

Basically, I'm working on a small game where you have a player, that can target a select few rows. And every row will spawn a random amount of enemies over a time duration, with increasingly faster intervals over time. For this I want to set up a number of enemy spawners, that are managed by a manager that can set up the way their waves work.

But the player also needs to have access to part of the individual row data, in order to know the direction it needs to turn in and which enemies it's actually targetting

Ideally I'd just like to have a separate piece of data that holds the row data. So it holds a list of objects called rows that both the player and the row manager would be able to access data of

I tried setting up my own data structure so that I could serialize map data structures within the editor, but that kinda ended up being a hassle and doesn't feel entirely right. I could probably make a seperate object and attach the map there, then pass the reference to that object to the both of them but that also doesn't feel perfect

At this point it's not really a matter of "can I write the code" because the code doesn't really have much going for it. I'm just overcomplicating the hell out of it 💀

Don't really have any code examples, sorry for that that would've probably been easier

But it feels more like a conceptual problem than a coding problem if you get me

Oh 1 thing that is actually a coding thing

The data structure I made feels a bit awkward to use? Whenever I attach it directly to a script I can fill the list in through the inspector like normal, but if I add it in code I have to add a reference to something. I know it's because it's a mono behaviour but what would be a better way to set this up?

[rugged beacon]

if the row number is just 0 1 2 3
you can just make it a serialized array or list and get the corresponding index

[sudden pagoda]

Ah... that just works yea

For some reason I remembered something like serialized lists not working with gameobjects 💀

But ty this fixes that problem

[eternal needle]

there are serializable dictionary implementations online which lets u get rid of this list and need to manually add elements to the dictionary

[astral sentinel]

Is brackeys tutorails good for learning unity?

[eternal needle]

no, along with any similar style youtuber. you can get a basic idea for what exists, like learning about new components you've never heard of, but they are awful when it comes to learning exact details.
there is the !learn site and documentation to learn from

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[sudden pagoda]

Ahh right, good to know

[astral sentinel]

Thank you ❤️

[eternal needle]

i dont know if you need a dictionary in your case (in its current state you dont), but i dont know your plans with it. this is the one i used
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/serialized-dictionary-243052

[sudden pagoda]

Probably don't need one yet no, but I like having them a lot as a dynamic container

Thank youu

Do you know if there's any way to return things const btw? Or is that not really a thing people do with unity

[eternal needle]

return types cant be declared constant in c#, and no i dont think theres anything similar you'd really care to do in unity

its been a long time since ive used c++ so i dont fully remember the point of it there either

[sudden pagoda]

Doesn't really change much, it just makes code easier to read in the long term

But alrighty good to know

[subtle hinge]

Hey i need some help with Alteruna. I need to sync the players hands, so they can draw their own cards and see the other players cards. How do i do this? Ive tried to use RPC (line 67) but it hasn't helped, probably cause i set it up wrong.

[polar dust]

you could always make something readonly instead of const

That's returnable

[eternal needle]

return const is a specific thing in c++

its not the same as just returning a variable that is declared const or readonly

[polar dust]

They're using c++?

[sudden pagoda]

I've only really done c++ in my programming time, started unity 3 days ago or something

Still learning whatever's possible in C# and stuff and whatever can be crossreferenced seems easier

[eternal needle]

#1390346492019212368 but realistically you might just want to find a forum/server dedicated to this tool. itll be a lot easier if there is one

[hot wadi]

C# seems closer to Java than C and well optimized for OOP

[subtle hinge]

got my answer from the official discord. thanks

[hot wadi]

I did a lot of pointer in C++ but at this point I just forget them

[teal viper]

It tells the compiler that the returned object can't be modified. If you try to modify it later, there would be a compile error.
In C#, while not a compiler enforcement, you could return a value type object instead of a reference type. This would serve the same purpose - preventing unwanted modification of the returned object, however it's not entirely the same, as you return a copy basically.

In C# you'd control the mutabulity more via the type itself(by exposing getter/setters with various accessors), rather than marking the object constant in functions.

[sudden pagoda]

Ahhh makes sense makes sense

[inland thistle]

Hey, i want to print logs on screen to test in build, any idea?

o how to see debug log on builds?

[teal viper]

Connect debugger/editor console to the build, get a runtime console log plugin/asset, or write your own.
Pick one.

Pro devs use the debugger.

[grand snow]

yea enabling script debugging should be more useful but yea you can view dev build logs in editor by connecting to a build on the same network/usb (android)

[naive pawn]

c# is basically microsoft java / java is oracle c#

it's part of a larger "c family" in terms of syntax, but it's definitely its own family detached from c# in terms of ecosystem/patterns - probably the IL family, kinda mirrors the JVM family, if im not mistaken

[grand snow]

C like langs ❤️

[tidal lily]

how to code this concept game?
how to get assets out from concept art video?
help

[hexed terrace]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[hexed terrace]

Start there ☝️

[hot wadi]

First, this "concept" is called 2D soulike beat 'em up
Second, u can't get asset out from a video.
Third, don't try to ask AI to make your game

[sick jungle]

Hi guys, i'd like to ask u, did u ever used c++ in ur games?

[polar acorn]

Unity uses C#

[sick jungle]

ik about that

i just wanted to ask u, did u ever used c++

in ur games

[hexed terrace]

An odd question. If there's a reason to, some people will, the majority* won't need to.
. * certainly in a beginner channel

[sick jungle]

ok, sorry, i'm just new here

[hot wadi]

Do u have a specific problem with C++?

[grand snow]

If not relevant to unity then ask in another server

[supple crescent]

Why doesnt the crate go flying even though the truck has a higher mass than it?

Oh the videos not loading

there it is

[midnight plover]

its a coding channel #⚛️┃physics might be better if you are not doing anything fancy in code. But you can of cozurse show the code that moves the car to be sure, its correctly set up

[hot wadi]

Looks like movement logic or collider. Regardless, if it's not related to programming, go to specified channel

[hexed terrace]

It's from a tutorial, it works in the tutorial.. you've missed something. Go back over the tutorial and see what you didn't do/ did wrong.

[slow blaze]

Bloodborne if it was 2D

[slow blaze]

I used to work on a C++ library to make some starter games, like stick fight and pacman

Calling what I made stick fight is a HUGE overstatement but the idea was in heart

[cosmic dagger]

There's a C++ server. I'd ask them, as everyone there uses that programming language . . .

[edgy sinew]

Things to try

• Rigidbody "Collision Mode" can affect results
• Project Settings -> Physics > Settings > GameObject (basically every single setting can affect results.)
• Interpolation modes
• Project Settings > Time > Time Scale (now you can watch it in slo mo and see what went wrong.)

If you want to give more details we can get this solved. I'd start with the Time Scale, maybe you can see what's wrong instantly and send a new video?

You're gonna want to watch it happen from a better camera angle too. Side view perhaps or 3/4

Also please ditch the Mesh Collider they tend to yield funky results. That's basically a cube so just do a Box Collider they're reliable

[vocal orchid]

How can add and remove an element of an array of shaders?

The shaders materials of skinned render mesh

[grand snow]

you can modify the list of materials on a renderer, is that what you mean?

[vocal orchid]

Yeah

I mean it

[grand snow]

get the material array from the renderer, modify it and then re assign the modified array to the renderer.

[vocal orchid]

How?

[rich adder]

did you look at docs for Renderer

[grand snow]

Material[] materials = renderer.materials;
materials[0] = someMat;
renderer.materials = materials;

If you need to add or remove a material then make a new array of the correct size and assign this back instead.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-materials.html

[vocal orchid]

Thanks

[half notch]

Hey ! Is it possible to have a scriptable object, with an action as a variable, and have everything possible? like start a quest, or give a specific item ?

[eternal needle]

An action as a variable would be a unity event, but it'd be questionable as to what youre hooking this event up to. Assets cant reference in scene objects so this would have to reference other assets (like other scriptable objects)

[half notch]

I'm looking for a dialog system, which has choices, etc. This system works perfectly fine, i have scriptable objects for that, and I want, for example if i have a dialog with "Yes" or "No" choice, have something to happen if choice is "yes"

I tried unity event, but u right, it won't work with assets in my scene

[rich adder]

subscribe to both choices events then you can unsub when choice is made

[half notch]

Yeah but each node has a different event, and i want to pass it in the inspector the event in the scriptable object, to make some cool things

[rich adder]

you can also make a function pass in an Action or Func

[half notch]

In scriptable object ?

[rich adder]

scriptable objects are regular classes, so you can.. I'm just trying to understand what do you need in the inspector part ?

[hexed terrace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91QkppPpHI

[half notch]

I just need to get a reference to a method, for some scriptable object that i create

[half notch]

i'll check the video thanks

[hexed terrace]

First video result on google, I skimmed it.. seems informative.

[umbral pond]

hi

[rich adder]

https://nohello.net

[umbral pond]

im new to unity and most tutorials i found from old system should i just watch them or try to learn new input system

[rich adder]

learn both

[umbral pond]

which one to use in future

[rich adder]

new

[umbral pond]

thx

[rich adder]

but you should at least learn the basics of old one so you can convert / watch older tutorials

arguably actually easier to use new system cause it has so many ways to use it and customize

[umbral pond]

im trying learn basic movement scripting for now older one seemed bit easier to me

ill check it out but focus on new input system

[edgy sinew]

Definitely yes. How much help do you need... I'm free to explain it right now

[umbral pond]

im trying to learn variable jump height

on new input system

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private InputActionReference moveInputAsset
float horizontalInput
void Update() {
horizontalInput = moveInputAsset.action.ReadValue<Vector2>().x;
vs
horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")

[edgy sinew]

Do you know started performed canceled

[rich adder]

you dont even need that in the beginning , just use Polling like old sustem

[edgy sinew]

That's an easy way to do it ... You can keep track of how long the button was help, before it canceled

[umbral pond]

i did it with void Update but i saw most people doing with OnMove,OnEnable with events i stil didnt understand that mechanics

[hot wadi]

Those are PlayerInput component

[umbral pond]

i noticed i was using old input system like GetAxisRaw("Horizontal")

[edgy sinew]

    // start keeping track of time
else if (context.canceled)
    // the button was let go

[umbral pond]

then tried re write my code

[rich adder]

events are good. but if you're not familiar use polling is fine

unity has example for movement / jump

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

[umbral pond]

thanks a lot guys

oh btw

im working on 2D rn

[edgy sinew]

cool there's lots of videos on 2D

[rich adder]

inputs don't really care if its 2d or 3d, its the same things

[edgy sinew]

make sure to check the age of the video

[umbral pond]

alright

ill read that link and watch videos with unity 6 ig

thanks for help

[half notch]

The video is not what i'm looking for, I really want to have something like this :

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

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "NewDialogNode", menuName = "Dialog/Node")]
public class DialogNode : ScriptableObject
{
    public string tableId = "Dialogues";
    public string key; 

    public bool hasChoices;
    public List<DialogChoice> choices;

    public DialogNode nextNodeIfNoChoice; 
}

[System.Serializable]
public class DialogChoice
{
    public string key;                     
    public DialogNode nextNode;           
    public UnityEvent onChoiceSelected;    
}

But i can't use UnityEvent, because it won't be a reference to something in my scene

[rich adder]

sure, but old ones will work fine, its easy to convert..
also I said you can use Both inputs enabled in project for learning

[edgy sinew]

I think UnityEvent exists for Inspector drag & drop no?

regular Action are faster

[eternal needle]

you're going to have to define in code at some point what actually happens with a choice. maybe you could have the logic attached via different scriptable objects. maybe it could invoke some global event using an enum, that some in-scene manager listens to and reacts accordingly

[rich adder]

yea but you cant reference scene objects (from SOs) which is what they want to do ( think), they have to pass event programmatically

[edgy sinew]

yah im saying, dont use UnityEvent unless Inspector bs is needed

[eternal needle]

considering thats a scriptable object, they clearly want to set this up via the inspector

[edgy sinew]

i thought it wont work with UnityEvent

[rich adder]

if you make function take in a (Action/Func) you can invoke it there when choice is made

[half notch]

u mean create a method into the scriptable object ?

[eternal needle]

how do you pass in the function to be invoked, thats basically the whole question here that they're asking

[rich adder]

couldn't it just be part of their custom poco ? or in the SO itself as param of function

you'd probably still need a way to id the choice though

[half notch]

Can't I just create a virtual method in the dialog choice, and if I want a specific thing, just create a class with the output that i want with dialog choice as superclass ?

[eternal needle]

they would need to define every single possible action within that one poco then, and with some corresponding enum or mapping somehow. It works but still might as well just go with a separate scriptable object too at that point

[half notch]

Huh forget what i said, it's really not a good idea lmao

[rich adder]

true, I'm trying to visualize the layout a bit.. I'm on the train, once I get to a pc can do a quick diagram

[eternal needle]

You could, but you also need a way to choose what type of DialogChoice to add in inspector. unity doesnt give you an option to choose a base class like that so you'd need something custom there

i think your simplest way would be having a scriptable object act as an action upon the choice being selected. Drag that into DialogChoice

[half notch]

Like a scriptable object ActionEvent, with a method into it, and then call that method when the choice is selected ?

[eternal needle]

the only tricky part I see here (which exists in every suggestion above) is if you need to pass variables to this 2nd scriptable object. For example if a choice adds 5 gold to your player, you need a reference to the player

[eternal needle]

yea i wouldnt call it action event though. Maybe something like DialogChoiceAction

[half notch]

maybe with singletons with null check ?

[half notch]

True yeah

[edgy sinew]

or you could have a static ref to Player on Awake and share that between the ScriptableObjects

or per-instance reference ... maybe less efficient

[rich adder]

you could pass the Player as and object if your function can take an interface or baseclass maybe, but I guess the inspector complicates this a bit

[half notch]

But but i'll have to create differents actions, so i don't really see the system actually

[eternal needle]

the player was just an example. if you want this to work in any case, you need to imagine what other things you may need to reference as a result of a choice. Like what if a choice makes the npc talking lose gold instead? Suddenly you need a reference to that instead

[half notch]

Did u mean that i'll have only one scriptable object script called "DialogChoiceAction"? if yes i don't really know how to do two different actions

[eternal needle]

you would need to have a base class and deriving classes for this yes

[half notch]

okay i understood that part

[edgy sinew]

Polymorphism essentially?

base class, inherited classes, one per unique behaviour?

[half notch]

we can derive scriptable objects? okay i didn't know that, so the main class would have a virtual method ?

[eternal needle]

you could make it abstract unless you want the base class to specifically do something

but yea either virtual or abstract. then you can override it

[half notch]

And abstract class doesnt have create menu menu?

[eternal needle]

yea you wouldnt need it on the base class

[half notch]

Okay thanks ! I really appreciate ur help guys

[eternal needle]

this is pretty much the same thing btw. You can equally do it with this approach, the only difference is unity has the drag and drop built in for scriptable objects for you to add logic to the dialog choice.
there are also ways for you to do this with plain c# classes

though it would definitely require some editor code

[half notch]

I will go with the scriptable objects for action, i think it will be really nice, thanks guys

[eternal needle]

🤔 maybe it'd make sense if DialogChoice itself was a scriptable object instead of this new SO

yea goodluck, i dont wanna add more confusion. there is a ton of ways to do this

[half notch]

Thanks!

[half notch]

Yeah it would be a good idea

[half notch]

I obviously need to have my project, one derived class and its attached scriptable object, for each action i wanna make, no?

[eternal needle]

im a little unsure what you're asking here. every new action would be its own derived class
the suggestion of DialogChoice being a scriptable object basically just removes the need to have a method in some separate scriptable object for no reason

[half notch]

I don't really understand, the DialogChoiceAction SO will be inherited for each action i wanna make, right ? That's what I thought, so basically i need to have one SO and one script (which inherits from DialogChoiceAction) to each type of action, like for example "start a quest" can have a string (reference ID to the quest) into the script, and the method will just fires that quest with the id i put in the inspector, no ?

(sorry if it's hard to understand, i'm french so the translation is a bit hard)

[eternal needle]

for the suggestion of making DialogChoice a scriptable object, I was just imagining something like this. Then yes everytime you need a new action, you make a new class inheriting from DialogChoice. I realized afterwards that DialogChoiceAction isn't needed because it's only purpose would be to hold one method which can just exist in DialogChoice. The derived class can still add a string as needed for this quest

public abstract class DialogChoice : ScriptableObject
{
    public string key;                     
    public DialogNode nextNode;    
    public abstract void DoAction();
}

or you could make it virtual in this case if you want some default logic to happen with nextNode

[half notch]

Yeah but with that, choices without action, but with just a next node wont work, because we cant create an asset from it

[wanton osprey]

Hey so when i open a new project and make a new script and open it with vs code

it keeps giving me errors from a different project

and i want that not to happen cause it causes compiler errors with the new project

[rich adder]

which errors.

[wanton osprey]

it keeps giving me this

[rich adder]

so did you "See log for details"

[wanton osprey]

yes

it loads scripts from a different project that i dont want

even tho i deleted the other project

[rich adder]

what do you mean

[wanton osprey]

like scripts names from the other projcet are in the logs and it causes errors

cause i deleted the other one

[rich adder]

can you like show screenshots or something

[wanton osprey]

sure

it gives me this

i just dont know how to fix it

like it loads errors from different scripts

[rich adder]

those aren't different scripts of yours, but some type of error with the Language server / Extension that tries to read/detect the language or something

[wanton osprey]

so its trying to read a different programming language?

[rich adder]

not a different but probably an error trying to detect it properly or something

you'd have to give more details on your setup, which version of VSC is this ? which extensions do you have
are you getting ANY errors in Unity Editor console

[wanton osprey]

these are the extensions i have

[coral delta]

im going to forward a message from a different chat into here because it has a video explaining my problem, but I followed a tutorial for a basic player & camera movement system, and for some reason after following along with the tutorial exactly his camera is moving but mine is not. the player moves just fine and my code is copied straight from his, but the camera is completely stationary on mine and i cannot figure out why

[polar acorn]

From the video:

From yours:

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 195
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2025-10-10

[eternal needle]

the dialog choice is the asset in that example. it would just be implementations through derived classes. the next node would work fine, you still need to add logic for it to use the next node

[coral delta]

You're a lot of fun at parties, huh?

Obviously it wasn't exactly, that's why it didn't work

[polar acorn]

Most people see The Counter and have a laugh at their own expense for having missed the obvious differences. Point is, many people have said they followed a tutorial exactly and then send proof to the contrary

I guess it doesn't work to well on people with too many insecurities

[half notch]

Okay thanks !

[lime sigil]

heyo
i'm having trouble with unity 2021.3
i have dependencies that require "unity.collections" and "unity.properties"
problem is, i cannot find the package for properties
i found that it has been turned into a module yet i still cannot find what the new using statement is supposed to be

as the collections package itself is missing unity.properties as well
what would the solution be in this case, i haven't found anything online apart a vague notice about it being a module

[half notch]

Btw, the player can be easily access with the singleton directly in the SO, no?

[winged ridge]

At that point you may want to look at upgrading your version to be more up to date.. 2021 is old

[lime sigil]

i cannot, it's for a modding sdk development and it requires 2021.3.44f otherwise i would have already
i tried already and the sdk completely breaks down if i go as slightly as a few versions up

[glad shore]

@edgy sinew what should i do if the rooms overlap
should i generate a different variant of a room until it no longer overlaps?
stop it from generating completely?
remove the room its overlapping with?

[winged ridge]

Your code should have worked out they shouldn't be able to overlap, but if they do remove the room that was generated and make it regen until it's one that wont

[winged ridge]

In general modding help isn't offered here. Best bet is to cycle through the unity docs for the stuff you require, see what's said about it

[lime sigil]

it's not for modding help
it's the unity editor itself having problems, i'm developing a tool for unity 2021.3.44f, not the sdk
problem is because of the sdk compatibility, i cannot move up versions for the unity editor

the problem is with the packagemanager and using statements changes that are nowhere to be found
i can't get the unity.properties package nor does UnityEditor.Properties exist which is the suggested fix

[eternal needle]

sure, i wouldnt really recommend a singleton here but if thats what you know then might as well keep it simple. Otherwise you just need to pass the player as a parameter when calling a method on the dialogue nodes

[half notch]

Hm yeah true actually i can do this as well and pass it through parameters

[glad shore]

is there a way to convert _spawnedRooms into a list of RoomData

//_spawnedRooms.ForEach(GetComponent<RoomData>() is a error
foreach (RoomData roomData1 in _spawnedRooms.ForEach(GetComponent<RoomData>()))
        {
            
        }

its a list of GameObjects

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/GameObject.GetComponents.html

Ah, wait, you have a list of game objects and want a list of room data, not a single object with multiple room data

Where are you getting _spawnedRooms from?

[polar acorn]

There is very little reason to have public variables of type GameObject. You should make those variables the type you actually want instead

[glad shore]

i keep thinking these solutions but i always think there is a easier way, il go with what you said

nvm it was lwky easy to add

[tacit prism]

Ah yes, I love tabbing into this chat and not knowing wtf is going on

[polar acorn]

Unity code problems are getting solved?

[tacit prism]

I mean understanding them lol

By both lacking context and how green I am

[glad shore]

i have the same problem but its a list of RoomData that i need to a list of Sphere(a class i made)

[polar acorn]

Does every RoomData have a Sphere? Or vice-versa?

[glad shore]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
[System.Serializable]
public class Sphere
{
    public float radius;
    public Vector3 pos;
}
public class RoomData : MonoBehaviour
{
    public List<Sphere> _spheres = new List<Sphere>();
}

each room data has a list of spheres which im using to see if rooms are overlapping or not

[polar acorn]

So you can loop over the room data, and then loop over that room data's spheres

[glad shore]

you're right, why didnt i think of that 😔

[glad shore]

like this?

bool CheckRoomOverlap(RoomData _roomData)
    {
        foreach (Sphere _sphere in _roomData._spheres)
        {
            foreach (RoomData _spawnedRoomData in _spawnedRooms)
            {
                foreach (Sphere _spawnedRoomSphere in _spawnedRoomData._spheres)
                {
                    float _dist = Vector3.Distance(_sphere.pos, _spawnedRoomSphere.pos);
                    if (_dist > _sphere.radius + _spawnedRoomSphere.radius)
                    {
                        return false;
                    }
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

[tacit prism]

Actually had a issue yesterday

Learned by trial and error that adding a component to an empty object wouldn’t let it operate, tried making an empty target object that I could easily slot into enemy prefabs (contains both the target script and is the object the camera focuses on when locked on, amongst other things I may add)

Any way to make a game object that can be affected but not obstructive to the enemy model, like would a blank material work?

[polar acorn]

What's the point of using loops if you're going to return from the function at the very first iteration

[glad shore]

shit

[polar acorn]

Learned by trial and error that adding a component to an empty object wouldn’t let it operate
Not sure what you mean by this.

[glad shore]

i should just remove return true;

[polar acorn]

Once you put a script on an object, you have an instance of that script

[polar acorn]

Think through what you're checking for. Use words like "Any" and "All" to build up what you want to do, it'll help you figure out how to translate it

[tacit prism]

I have a component that basically reports within a radius of the player if an object is a “target” and then I put that target component on the enemy’s

I put it on an empty object, the same my cinemachine camera for tracking enemies is, however unless I put it on the actual sphere it wouldn’t register it as a target. After testing, I realized empty game objects would not count as a target in the script, only ones with “physicality” so to say

Wonder why

[glad shore]

i think i figured it out

bool CheckRoomOverlap(RoomData _roomData)
    {
        foreach (Sphere _sphere in _roomData._spheres)
        {
            foreach (RoomData _spawnedRoomData in _spawnedRooms)
            {
                foreach (Sphere _spawnedRoomSphere in _spawnedRoomData._spheres)
                {
                    float _dist = Vector3.Distance(_sphere.pos, _spawnedRoomSphere.pos);
                    if (_dist < _sphere.radius + _spawnedRoomSphere.radius)
                    {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

it would return false if every single one is far enough away, and it returns true if even 1 is overlapping

[polar acorn]

How are you checking an object within the radius

[tacit prism]

Wish I could send the code but I’m at work

It’s essentially a is target sphere collider with collision turned off obviously

I set up it to register Target target, and items with that target script would be registered as a target

Then it outputs that to my player targeting script that handles the camera movements, players lock-on movement, etc

[polar acorn]

Maybe you should ask this again when you can actually provide information

[tacit prism]

Really wish I was home to access my VS, but I might just try to make a reassslllllyy tiny game object and put it in it

[tacit prism]

Eh I was at work and it slowed down so I decided to give it a shot while I still remembered

god knows I won’t when I finally get home

[glad shore]

public void DoorOpen(GameObject door,float _tries = 0)
    {
        _currentRoom = door.transform.parent.gameObject;
        //the room that the door that was just opened is in
        RoomData _room = Instantiate(_rooms[Random.Range(0, _rooms.Length - 1)], door.transform.position - door.transform.up * 5, door.transform.rotation).GetComponent<RoomData>();
        bool _overlapping = CheckRoomOverlap(_room);
        if (_overlapping)
        {
            if (_tries < 5)
            {
                _tries += 1;
                Destroy(_room);
                DoorOpen(door, _tries);
                return;
            }
            //What do i put here?
        }
        GameObject[] _smallPrefabSpawnLoc = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("smallPrefab");
        foreach (GameObject _spawnLoc in _smallPrefabSpawnLoc)
        {
            Instantiate(_smallPrefabs[Random.Range(0, _smallPrefabs.Length - 1)], _spawnLoc.transform.position, _spawnLoc.transform.rotation);
        }
        _spawnedRooms.Add(_room);
        NextRoom();
    }

what do i do if it just overlaps no matter the variant of the room? should i just stop generation?

[polar acorn]

What do you want to happen if you call DoorOpen with 5 or more tries?

[glad shore]

thats what im asking

what should i do 🤷‍♂️

should i just stop the door from opening?

[polar acorn]

It's your design, what do you want to happen

[glad shore]

Nah but seriously how do i get rid of VS code auto putting ts in here 🙏

[grand snow]

vs does it too, type or click the wrong type? BAM using statement

should be an option though

something like "auto add namespace using statement"

[glad shore]

"There is nothing we can do" - Napoleon

[polar acorn]

My guess? Stop adding things from those namespaces

[rocky canyon]

^ lol

[grand snow]

impossible!

[polar acorn]

It'll only auto-add them if you pick them from the dropdown or paste code from a file that has them

[rocky canyon]

it does get some things wrong from time to time..
but mostly its auto-adding it for something it thought u were gonna add to the code..
maybe a misclicked autocorrect or something u deleted shortly after having in the code

the other day mine added some kind of System. namespace for Image

having one of them days i guess 🫠

[glad shore]

i keep tabbing to early then it corrects to something i didn't want, which is probably why it keeps adding these

[rocky canyon]

is it vscode or studio?

[rocky canyon]

mmhmm.. stop being so impatient! lol

[glad shore]

vs code, i stopped using studio after 2020

[rocky canyon]

🧠 smart ;D... anywho
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61811825/how-to-stop-vs-from-automatically-adding-using-directives check this out

[grand snow]

vs will always be better than vs code but both work well

[rocky canyon]

oh wait.. thats for pasting

[glad shore]

im just gonna have to suffer with these directives vs code giving me

[rocky canyon]

vscode is pretty great.. even when theres not settings for things
by using the settings.json / etc you can pretty much control everything..

[grand snow]

id like vs code more if the debugger ui wasnt soo shit

[rocky canyon]

{
    "csharp.suppressDotnetAddUsings": true
}``` should be able to just add this to ur `settings.json` file

or json { // Only show types from already imported namespaces "csharp.suggestAddImports": false }

[solar hill]

had 3 seperate bugs that just fixed themselves, or rather i changed or did something that i thought was unrelated to said issues and now they are gone

[formal swan]

Hi, Im have a problem here. I have been given an error that the type or namespace List<> cannot be found (It said I might be missing a directive or an assembly reference, which I don't rly understand. What is the problem within this script?

[solar hill]

i gotta say its not nearly as satisfying and is just making me paranoid because in hindsight if they can fix themselves they can also break themselves just as fast

[solar hill]

"caneras"

youre searching for "cameras" in your for loop

[polar acorn]

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[polar acorn]

configure your IDE and it will be able to autocomplete imports you're missing

[formal swan]

Ok how do I configure the ide?

[solar hill]

the bot message has all the info you need

press on the hyperlinks

[formal swan]

ok wait is it that link? I'll give it a try

[solar hill]

yes

[languid pagoda]

Ik this is kinda old now and your problem is solved but you might wind up with weird bugs in certain scenarios if you do not check if the _SpawnedRoomData and _roomData are the same and then skip that iteration(use continue) of the loop

[polar acorn]

Hm, if only a bot message came up after I entered that command containing several links that would explain how to do what you want it to do. But, alas, no such bot exists apparently

[solar hill]

also ~~switch to vs code ~~

wow what who said that

[formal swan]

lol sorry I didnt see it right away

[solar hill]

i firmly stand behind vs code being superior to visual studio but rider being better than both

[polar acorn]

Not for Unity

[grand snow]

good joke

visual studio walked so vs code could run

[polar acorn]

VSCode barely functions with Unity through community maintained plugins that could break at basically any time

[solar hill]

good enuf

idk i just like how lightweight it is or at least it feels like its more lightweight than visual studio

but it could just be placebo

[hexed terrace]

it is more lightweight

[eternal needle]

Visual studio taking 5 more seconds to open once per day definitely doesnt concern me

[languid pagoda]

If visual studio is lagging your PC how do you run unity?

[solar hill]

i never said its lagging my pc

[grand snow]

you must hate discord too 😆

[solar hill]

i do lol

[grand snow]

ops

[solar hill]

i stopped using discord for calls when gaming

discord even on a good rig is just a resource hog

im not an expert but it doesnt feel like its built the best

[grand snow]

electron

[solar hill]

something something electron

yeah

[languid pagoda]

what?

[grand snow]

who knew 17 instances of chrome was a bad idea for UI

[solar hill]

feels like a pretty straight forward sentence

[solar hill]

i guess my love for vscode might have been born out of my hate for discord

even though they are unrelated

i guess i just appreciate lightweight programs more even though the difference to me is minimal

[languid pagoda]

Ok let me rephrase. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "resource hog" because I definitely wouldn't say it is.

[solar hill]

like i said, im not an expert but you can tell when using discord compared to other fucking interfaces or whatever, its just too much

[hexed terrace]

I wouldn't have either, though it is using more RAM than I would have thought (880MB)

[solar hill]

yeah i just checked

its using close to 800

[languid pagoda]

yall realize everytime you open a discord channel it caches a ton of info

[glad shore]

bool CheckRoomOverlap(RoomData _roomData)
    {
        foreach (Sphere _sphere in _roomData._spheres)
        {
            foreach (RoomData _spawnedRoomData in _spawnedRooms)
            {
                foreach (Sphere _spawnedRoomSphere in _spawnedRoomData._spheres)
                {
                    float _dist = Vector3.Distance(_sphere.pos + _roomData.transform.position, _spawnedRoomSphere.pos + _spawnedRoomData.transform.position);
                    if (_dist < _sphere.radius + _spawnedRoomSphere.radius)
                    {
                        if (_spawnedRoomData != _currentRoom)
                            return true;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

This is what i have, it works for me

[hexed terrace]

strayed way off topic now

[rocky canyon]

hell of a boolean 😄

[languid pagoda]

Its going to cause bugs if _roomData is ever stored inside of _spawnedRooms when you loop through _spawnedRooms you are going to be comparing the instance of the exact same two rooms and then you''re going to return true because you're going to be comparing the distance of the same two spheres you need to add

if(_spawnedRoomData == _roomData)
{
     continue;
}

[glad shore]

wont be a problem...

[languid pagoda]

ok yeah wont be an issue.

[slow blaze]

Would ScriptableObject be a good idea to make a bunch of Equations, that a checker has to compare the user's input into?

[languid pagoda]

Why not just make it a static method at that point instead?

[mossy prairie]

Hey i was just making some code then when i wanted to change my lightning in my 3d game i couldnt change the lightnings brightness so i googled it and it should look like in the first picture but mine looks like the same but without emission anybody knows why?

[solar hill]

can you screenshot what you see?

[grand snow]

are you using urp/hdrp? if not thats why its different

[mossy prairie]

none

but how can i change it to be like in urp

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/urp/InstallURPIntoAProject.html
Be warned: Will require material upgrades and old shaders may stop working if you change render pipeline

[mossy prairie]

is there no workaround?

[grand snow]

No, changing render pipeline is a major modification hence it requiring many changes

but using the old standard renderer isnt great anymore (will never get updates again and is outdated)

[eager stratus]

The idea is supposed to be that, when the application closes, a scriptable object is intended to be called to save data in the script like so

    {
        print(saveFile.name);
        //saveFile.SaveData(cellOccupancy, playerPosition, playerBlocks);
    }```

The problem is this results in a NullReferenceException because I guess the reference to the scriptable object has been deleted already by virtue of the application closing. What I want to know is how to keep the reference around for just long enough to save everything THEN close the application

[grand snow]

the class instance still exists but reading the object name is triggering the exception (unity fake null)
if you can avoid that its okay. Otherwise swap to a non unity object class for this data storage

If saveFile is really null then you fucked up somewhere else such as never loading it in the first place

[eager stratus]

Would I test that just by saying "if (saveFile is null) { print(true); }"?

[grand snow]

first share more code and the real exception text

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[grand snow]

I should point out that using a scriptable object for something you want to save to disk later seems pointless and probably a bad idea

[glad shore]

im kind of lost.... the rooms arent generating, its something about the overlapCheck but i cant figure out why its not working
should i send the script here or somewhere else?

[grand snow]

!code for big code blocks

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[glad shore]

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

[grand snow]

using float for tries?

[glad shore]

like it matters ✌️

i dont know why rooms arent spawning 😔

[grand snow]

it really matters and proves you hardly understand whats happening

[glad shore]

it does it when on the next room so its detecting the overlap in the _currentRoom

[polar acorn]

why would you use a float when it's something you only ever increment by whole numbers

[glad shore]

i changed it

if that makes u feel better

[grand snow]

It may make things work better 😆

[grand snow]

In NextRoom() you try to find _farthestRoomAway but remove _spawnedRooms[0]) from the list right after...

so thats probably a mistake

also only using GameObject is making things harder, if you have a component then use that instead

[glad shore]

you're right

But what is the problem thats making it not generate✌️

[grand snow]

Id replace this cruddy line and then you can make sure things have positions to spawn at
GameObject[] _smallPrefabSpawnLoc = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("SmallPrefab");

Use a debugger to see whats happening

[glad shore]

i havnt used a bebugger before...

idk wym

[rich adder]

https://unity.com/how-to/debugging-with-microsoft-visual-studio-code
https://unity.com/how-to/debugging-with-microsoft-visual-studio-2022

[grand snow]

debuggers let us pause, step through and examine code execution.

visit links above to learn how

[idle robin]

hey guys, i cant save my unity project. its saying "saving prefab to immutable folder not allowed what domi do?

[teal viper]

What folder are you trying to save it in..?

[idle robin]

we fixed it, im just having problems with my yarn project and yarn script not running as a dailogue system

[half notch]

We talked about parameters but i just realize that the main class (the parent one) will have abstract method, but the parameters can change depending on what the child class is used for, so idk how to do it?

[glad shore]

its because the current room is in _spawnedRooms so it just keeps overlapping with the room its connected to

[still ingot]

Can anyone explain to me why I am getting this error? I'm following a short tutorial on basics for custom editors.

I already have the Editor folder within the Script folder. I even created an assembly reference and have rebuilt my visual studio script, but I still get the same error.

[quiet elm]

any idea why my velocity is dropping every time I hit the ground? Would this have to do with the collision on the ground removing some velocity?

[winged ridge]

That issue is nothing to do with the folder editor it is trying to inherit from a Editor class

[winged ridge]

Velocity is distance over time.. so your velocity won't be a constant value unless your direction and speed is constant. If you jump and drop there will be a small change in velocity on a certain axis, in the same way if you change direction

[quiet elm]

true, but the x and z velocity is also decreasing on the landing

[winged ridge]

It does seem to go back to it's standard before the jump though

If you look at the X value before the jump it's average is 5.9, you land it goes down then back up to the 5.9

[quiet elm]

The problem has to do with the horizontal velocity being slashed the frame the player hits the ground, not while its grounded

[winged ridge]

So you are wanting it to remain a constant?

[visual pond]

Guys whats something i can do in unity thats easy

2d wise

[winged ridge]

If you are on Unity6+ follow the Unity Tanks tutorial

[visual pond]

Got any specific video?

[winged ridge]

It's on their hub

[visual pond]

What hub

[winged ridge]

Unity hub.. the place you access the unity projects

[visual pond]

Oh jeez this is gonna take like 8 days for me to finish

Here we go ig

[winged ridge]

Game development isn't something you do in a day, it can take a long time to learn and longer to perfect. But it's a good start recommended by many. Personally not tried it yet, do keep meaning to

[sly vortex]

yes, game dev takes a very long time to master, as does everything

[tacit prism]

back to question from earlier, i want to assign my target component (image 3) to an empty object (image 1) in order for my targeter (image 2) to detect it, which will let my cinemachine camera focus on it and detect the enemy all from one easily assignable object. HOWEVER whenever i assign it to the empty object, it does not work, and doesnt detect the TargetCheck in the list (image 4, inspector, Targets list near the top)

is there a reason why my empty object wont work? is it because its assigned to a prefab? because thats not how it should work id assume

[winged ridge]

That question is best asked in the ai section

[sly vortex]

ok

Can you provide a #? I can't find

[tacit prism]

example

[solar hill]

#1202574086115557446 #🤖┃ai-navigation

[winged ridge]

Cinemachine does have a look at feature if I remember rightly

[tacit prism]

i already have everything set up so far, i just wonder why i cant throw the target component onto a empty game object i can attach to my enemy pre-fabs whenever i want

its not that hard to just put the target component on every enemy, but id rather organize it into a single piece i can use multiple times :(

[winged ridge]

There's a few ways to tackle the issue, to be fair accessing the cinemachine camera component and changing it's look at target variable (you'd have to verify it's name) is likely the quicker way

[eternal needle]

the easiest way is just to have one class sent as the parameter, which encapsulates everything that could be sent. its not the prettiest but yea it does get awkward otherwise

[tacit prism]

ill look into it. Still learing about state machines but enjoying it so far. Sankyu

[true ore]

Good Evening
Guys, I'm making a mod for a Unity Game (No, I'm not a Human) I decompiled the game using asset ripper, and now i'm a little confused because I never used Unity before
when I open scene the objects are invisible
can someone help me 😭?

[sour fulcrum]

this server doesnt help with that, sorry

[true ore]

ah ok
sorry about this

ty for the answer :]

[floral garden]

Hello, i need some about how to make animation but not classic like using animator but how to play animation like at start of a game. Character walking alone and start dialogue for the intro
I was thinking using my character and sending input in to move or call a function as auto walk like using pawn in unreal but i don’t think it the best way to. Playing an video ? Or is there better way ? I am using ink for dialogue

[teal viper]

It's called cutscenes. And the best way to implement it in unity is using the timeline package. It's exactly what it is for.

[floral garden]

Oh yes cutscene does’t came in my head this words 🥹 (search like a idiot for a week) thanks you will try it

[queen adder]

hey can any1 please hop in a vc to help me animate my sprite, i already have the frames but dont know how to implement them

I am very new to unity and programming as a whole

[sour fulcrum]

there is no vc here

[queen adder]

oh 🥀

ayyyy i got ittt

[floral garden]

There are a channel for this but not sure. Still there are 2 ways to animate sprite one is using the sprite renderer and the other is sprite library

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@4.1/manual/SLAsset.html

But both use the animator

[queen adder]

okay okay ty

[floral garden]

Oh yeah sprite renderer and sprite resolver

[eager stratus]

Trying to use the NewtonSoft Json serializer and deserializer and, while I'm having trouble properly serializing the data too, I'm having even more trouble deserializing it. I went to the file location to confirm it's actually there and that it has stuff in it (even if it's only default values when it shouldn't be), so why am I consistently getting null from this?

            Debug.Log(saveFile is null);```

[eternal needle]

Did you print out the result of that ReadAllText to actually verify its reading properly.
Also DeserializeObject allows you to provide the type so you dont need to cast it

[eager stratus]

I just did it because it was the only thing I could think of at the time, but for some reason that ended up being the problem. Changing it to
SaveFile saveFile = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<SaveFile>(File.ReadAllText(Application.persistentDataPath + "/" + name + ".json"));
seems to have fixed it for the time being.

Also the int value of the class

{
    public LevelManager.Tag[,,] cellOccupancy { get; private set; }
    //public Vector3 position { get; private set; }
    public int blockCount { get; private set; }

    public SaveFile(LevelManager.Tag[,,] cellOccupancy, Vector3 position, int blockCount)
    {
        this.cellOccupancy = cellOccupancy;
        //this.position = position;
        this.blockCount = blockCount;
    }
}```

is recording the proper amount. It's the 3d array that isn't storing values correctly. What's up with that?

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ id assume the json format is off but idk otherwise

I haven't needed to do such a thing myself but I dont believe newtonsoft would have an issue with a 3d array

Maybe it expects a jagged array instead

[eager stratus]

Actually deserializing it it seems to be fine. But if I look in the file it's just zero values as far as the eye can see

Wait. No. Apparently there are ones in there too. It's just I have to actually do a ctrl + f search for them

[maiden drum]

Does a kinematic rigidbody offer continuous collision detection when manipulating trasnform.position?

[eager stratus]

Last I checked it doesn't offer collision detection of its own AT ALL

Or at least has no default behavior for reacting to collisions

[maiden drum]

oh, then what's the correct way to implement collisions for objects moved by a script?

[eager stratus]

Usually what you would do is manipulate its linear velocity and it will handle collision detection on its own so long as it isn't kinematic

[maiden drum]

After digging a bit in the documentation, it appears that i can enable Use Full kinematic Contacts and it'll allow collisions.

Also there's rigidbody.moveposition, since i want to move according to a function over time,(for example sine) so it's easier to manipulate the position than velocity

[stuck palm]

I know there are attributes you can add to a value to give it a slider in the inspector, but is there an attribute to make like a two sided slider? kind of like the one that the light source uses?

[open apex]

Hi, a really nice guy sent me a tutorial series from youtube about c# + unity fundamentals. It were the best tutorial I had ever encountered and experienced people from this server would mostly suggest me the same playlist. I wanna go over the series again however, I cannot seem to find. Do you guys have any tutorial suggestions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw

found it

[hot wadi]

I found out about through the "How Computer Works" video. He seems to do a lot of coding overall. His game videos are quite old

[upper fable]

So how many tutorials do i need to watch

before things start click clacking in my head

[keen dew]

42

[upper fable]

;-;

[naive pawn]

no-one can really answer that for you

but also - tutorials aren't what makes stuff click

thinking is what makes stuff click

tutorials tell you how to do stuff, but you gotta do the understanding yourself

sometimes good tutorials will guide you towards the understanding, but you gotta do it yourself

[upper fable]

Yeah, i get it. Though sometimes even all the tutorials dont have exactly what i want so i have to mix them and figure out stuff for myself

However ive been stuck right now how to make my player controller detect collisions with a wall for the past 2 hours of my life

[floral garden]

This is the best way also code can be done in multiple ways.

Hmm I remember done it but character controller use only oncollisionhit

There are 2 ways to detect it, use raycast or create a sphere collider (in raycast)

[upper fable]

Or rigid bodies right? which seems to absolutely not work for me

[floral garden]

Nop

Only cc or rigidbody

Not both together

[upper fable]

Thats what i meant

i think..

[floral garden]

Your game is in 2d or 3d?

[upper fable]

3d

[floral garden]

Why do you need detect wall? If i remember well the wall block you already

[upper fable]

Well im just using the wall as an object to figure out if it even works

what im trying to do

then ill attach it to my npc and when the npc and player collide

boom jumpscare

hypothetically

[floral garden]

Oh

Im not expert but if it only that you can just create a component, if hit player, ui-> jump scares or in player hit, if hit this wall-> jumpscare

[floral garden]

You can’t use oncollisionenter

It only rigibody

Use oncollisionhit

[upper fable]

Still isnt logging anything

[floral garden]

I forget the full name let me check

OnControllerColliderHit(ControllerColliderHit hit)

[upper fable]

🥲

Its beautiful

[floral garden]

[upper fable]

Finally i can continue the Brackeys tutorial

[floral garden]

Good luck

[upper fable]

You too, may mita be with you

[violet thorn]

I just now searched if anyone else noticed this, gotta agree who in their right mind thought that some plain white background docs with barely anything readable 99% of the time is better than this

[sour fulcrum]

probably something something unification

[violet thorn]

this is some bad "upgrade" overall

[tender mirage]

does anyone know how i can check if all tiles in a tileset are equal to null?

int StartX = 0;
int EndX = 3;


for (int x = StartX; x < EndX; x += 1)
{




    if (Tilem.GetTile(new Vector3Int(x, 0)) == null)
    {

    }

    TileBase TileExist = Tilem.GetTile(new Vector3Int(x, 0, 0));

   

    
    if (TileExist == null)
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
    
}

[keen dew]

You want to destroy the gameobject only if all the tiles in that range are null?

[tender mirage]

Yeah, that's what i'm looking for.

do i need to use bounds?

[keen dew]

int StartX = 0;
int EndX = 3;
bool isAllNull = true;

for (int x = StartX; x < EndX; x += 1)
{
    if (Tilem.GetTile(new Vector3Int(x, 0)) != null)
    {
        isAllNull = false;
        break;
    }
}

if (isAllNull)
{
    Destroy(gameObject);
}

[grand snow]

not the var name id pick but logic is sound

[tender mirage]

i really, have been using too much foreach loops and ignored regular for loops. it's my first time using it.

thanks alot

[grand snow]

both can achieve the same goal but here you just needed another var to track if all things checked met some condition

[tender mirage]

is see. although i can imagine for loops being alot more relevant in the long run?

i've been trying to learn it now and it seems more complex but also more important.

it's like foreach is a more readable variant

that's there for quick work and readability

[grand snow]

foreach lets is easily itterate Enumerable objects only

otherwise for loops work for everything else when we want to loop and increment some value

[keen dew]

I'm pretty sure they get optimized into the same thing in simple cases

[grand snow]

maybe for a list/arrays but something else it wont because of how enumerations are implemented

[naive pawn]

can't you just use this
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.GetTilesRangeCount.html

[keen dew]

Yeah but you wouldn't use a for loop for those because you'd have to manually handle the iterator

[naive pawn]

i wouldn't say for/foreach are the same - i feel like that's misleading and could lead to confusion (specifically in the context of beginners)
consider like, List<T> vs Dictionary<int, T> where the dict has consecutive keys
a for vs foreach on those can give similar results but with foreach on the Dict it's mechanically quite different

[cosmic dagger]

Use for loops when you need to control the index, iterate backward, skip, or update the collection

Use foreach for forward iteration, especially over the entire collection, and if you don't need to update the collection . . .

[grand snow]

and for IEnumerable objects that can only be itterated via foreach

[cosmic dagger]

Yeah, you're stuck with that . . .

[naive pawn]

well, not necessarily. you could control the enumerator yourself

which you can do with a for or a while

[cosmic dagger]

I mainly use read-only collections for parameters, but the type depends on whether I need to access the index or Count . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, but that's not common. Most people are unaware of or unlikely to do this . . .

[naive pawn]

true, just saying it's possible

it's not super uncommon in c++ competitive programming lol, fwiw

[cosmic dagger]

Personally, I'm used to using for loops for everything. I should change them to foreach (since they were fixed a long time ago) . . .

[floral garden]

Is there better way to make save or a SO is fine ?

[naive pawn]

that's not what SOs are for

[cosmic quail]

you can't save data with scriptable objects

you need to save onto json or something

[floral garden]

Oh i thought using SO to store data

[naive pawn]

it's for storing static game data, mostly. not saves

[floral garden]

Okk

Go search to save in json then

[brazen warren]

need help nwith my new vr game

[naive pawn]

!ask

[radiant void]

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[languid pagoda]

Anyone know if there is some issues with memory corrouption when using a native plugin across two different assemblies in unity?

[grand snow]

that will depend on the native plugin itself but no there should not be an automatic issue

[languid pagoda]

sigh I hate dealing with native plugins lmao

[grand snow]

can you say what its doing or whats wrong?

if the native plugin allocated something then yea you need it to free it later

[rich adder]

yeah it is what it is, they also got a few Mermaid graphs that no longer work..
it only makes sense because they wanted a "unified" consistent thing.

The only "positive" that the packages docs has compared to the engine/native docs is at least you can link headers / anchor links

[languid pagoda]

Its not that I am passing a string from Pawnx64 scripting language, and no matter what I do I cannot seem to get it from the long* addr format it returns it to into a string c# can print to the console its either printing an empty string or it is throwing a null reference exception but when I debug nothing is null.

        public unsafe string ReadString(IntPtr amx, int length)
        {
            var str_base = AMX.amx_mem_translate(amx, cellPtr, length);

            if (str_base == null)
                return null;

            ReadOnlySpan<long> cells = new ReadOnlySpan<long>(str_base.ToPointer(), length);

            byte[] text = AMX.ByteBuffer.Rent((int)length);

            for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
            {
                text[i] = (byte)cells[i];
            }
            var str = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(text);

            return str;
        }

i''ve tried like 80 different ways to do it and I am getting the same two results null ref exception or empty string

[grand snow]

you are sure that the incoming string is char* or wchar* ? Also this is not beginner stuff so move to #1390355039272439868

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/char-wchar-t-char16-t-char32-t?view=msvc-170#remarks

[quick heart]

Does unity use JavaScript?

[naive pawn]

it used to, i think? it does not anymore

[grand snow]

many many years ago it supported boo and js

[frank moon]

hello, i'm pretty new to unity ! How do you recommand to learn c# to do my projects by myself...
Thanks !

[edgy sinew]

Unity Learn, everyone recommends.

[frank moon]

And last question, for visual scripting, is it optmized ?

[edgy sinew]

The real answer is, it depends what you want to make.

I'd avoid visual scripting beyond a Flappy Bird level of complexity 😅

[frank moon]

okay

[edgy sinew]

If you have a specific type of game you wish to make, we can lead you down the path to make it

Otherwise, it depends and different genres require different knowledge

[frank moon]

i want to make a survival/building game for now...

[edgy sinew]

Okay, like Len's Island? Or, like _ ?

First person or third person perspective? 3D right?

[frank moon]

like Valheim, etc..., 3D and third person

[edgy sinew]

Okay sounds good. Let me give you a roadmap for how to achieve that in Unity

(I'm building a third person shooter lol)

[frank moon]

oh great ! good luck for your project !

[frank moon]

thanks

[edgy sinew]

So here's the rundown of how a 3rd person game like that works

[frank moon]

ok

i don't see anything

[edgy sinew]

Dont see me typing? Hold on it's a lot.

[frank moon]

oh ok sorry

[edgy sinew]

1. State Pattern - this is crucial, Idle / Run / Jog / Crouch / Jump (states of motion), for upper body (equipped items) separate states (item equipped, no item equipped, currently picking up new item, throwing away item, etc)
   2 . Events - for things that happen less often or "broadcasting" / sharing information between multiple parts of the game. For example the Player knows its own HP but so does the UI or maybe other enemies. The new input system works on Events actually (started, canceled, performed)
2. Object Pooling - pretty easy actually, Unity has built in interface for it. This prevents Instantiate/Destroy from lagging your program out - instead 50 or 100 "of the object" are created on Awake, and then quickly re-activated or de-activated as needed. It's like having all the Lego pieces ready at the start
3. Polymorphism - hierarchical State machines work on this. For example you can loot a grenade or loot a chunk of rock, the "loot" action is the same even if the sub types are different. You'll get it when you look into interfaces / abstract keyword / override & virtual.
4. Scriptable Objects - they are a MonoBehaviour essentially but not attached to any object. Great for having multiple instances of "item stats" or "crafting requirements" etc kind of thing.

I think those 5 are a good place to start, at the least you can get movement, interaction with nearby items, maybe more done.

Cinemachine is great, make sure to get to know how it works. Framerate independence can be achieved with Time.deltaTime
If your game will be heavy on Physics interactions I can send some videos on that too or explain how I do it in my game

[cosmic dagger]

I'd say that SOs are C# classes that you can store like prefabs (assets). They're mainly for immutable data (that does not change) . . .

[edgy sinew]

@frank moon Any of this starting to make sense? I can send some videos that show these techniques in action

[edgy sinew]

Yeah so like item stats. Or any kind of "parameter data" that can be used

[frank moon]

first of all, thanks a lot !

[edgy sinew]

I've seen them used for "shared state" too

[frank moon]

i'll serach myself and ask for help again if i need it ! thanks a lot !!

[edgy sinew]

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html

Sounds good, we'll be here when you have questions

[cosmic dagger]

Shared state is the simplest and typically, the first reason people use them. Then you have data configuration for defaults. After that, it can get very granular, like an SO with a single method used to store functionality for a behavior and the flyweight pattern . . .

[edgy sinew]

If you're going the YouTube route, make sure it's not in older Unity like 2019, 2022, etc.
And be wary many channels just "get the feature done quick" with no regard to optimization or "the best method to accomplish"

[frank moon]

ok

[edgy sinew]

Player Controller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSauntZrQro
Player Controller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsSk58un8E0
Camera Obstacle Avoidance (Cinemachine has De obstruction built in too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrDgrCO22aU
Enemy Robots with State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdERlPfwUb0
Escape Animator "web" hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBkiSJ5z-hE (main idea is you can change Animator State in code with CrossFadeInFixedTime or other methods. PlayablesAPI is more advanced and can do no Animator States and can just play AnimationClips)

@frank moon here's some videos I've used and learned from
Don't worry if things go over your head, it's valuable to know what's possible in Unity before getting into an ambitious project.

[frank moon]

ok thanks

[hallow acorn]

hey i made a marching cube mesh "terrain" generator and it works (kinda) and i wanted to add some variation to it by implementing a seed to my mathf.PerlinNoise. how would i do that?

[edgy sinew]

#⛰️┃terrain-3d this channel might be better

[rocky canyon]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/mathf-perlinnoise-a-way-to-random-seed-it/586594

[hallow acorn]

thanks

[hallow acorn]

thanks ill look into it

[edgy sinew]

⭐ hi all, so I've added a custom position / rotation offset to equipped items. But I'm having such a dreadful time configuring 🥲

Any advice or method to try? I wondered if maybe having an invisible/empty child GameObject could be easier and just get the values from that.

[SerializeField] public Vector3 positionOffset;```

[rocky canyon]

is there a question hidden in there somewhere? ;D

[edgy sinew]

can you help? that's the question

[rocky canyon]

not enough context

[edgy sinew]

I should just set the position/rotation of the object in Editor and save those values 🥺