💻┃code-beginner

[edgy sinew]

Well the item is SetParent to player's hand. Then these rotation/position offset applied

[rocky canyon]

do it.. (use localRotation to compensate for children)

[edgy sinew]

What do you mean by that?

[rocky canyon]

transform.rotation is global..

[edgy sinew]

Oh like that. Yeah i'm using localPosition already

[rocky canyon]

and localRotation?

[edgy sinew]

Doesn't seem like I have to reset the globals to 0,0,0

Yeh

[rocky canyon]

still need more context

[edgy sinew]

.. Huh lol

[rocky canyon]

u havent said what the actual problem was

[naive pawn]

you're basically asking for pivot logic, right?

[edgy sinew]

No

I'm asking if there's a chill way to configure these for each of my items

[rocky canyon]

(set initial position + rotation per object)

[edgy sinew]

Probably to just position it by hand in scene view, save the values?

[naive pawn]

just.. make the origin an pivot in your prefab or whatever, so you can just parent that and not have to worry about it at all

[naive pawn]

sooooo pivot logic

[edgy sinew]

Okay so, the invisible child game object idea

[naive pawn]

no, as a parent.

[edgy sinew]

Oh you mean, the item has an empty parent that's adjusted

Essentially changing the pivot point / origin

Rather than "applying some offset" after equip to player hand

[naive pawn]

imagine you have, let's say the hand, in a neutral position around the prefab's origin
you would then position your meshes/sprites/whatever based on that origin, which is based on the neutral hand position

and that positioning can be done with child objects if necessary (if you can't set the pivot for meshes or something. idk how 3d works)

[edgy sinew]

Thanks! I might try that if just "manually place it nicely & record the values" takes too long

[naive pawn]

this is manually place it nicely and then let unity record the values

[edgy sinew]

[SerializeField] Quaternion is not fun ... There's only 3 numbers but it's not euler angles

yeah like if you change the X value the other 2 start changing ...

That kind of thing. It's like computed on the spot, so weird

[naive pawn]

oh yeah no that's normal

what's weird is that it's 3 values

quaternions have 4

[edgy sinew]

I assume so, since they're hiding the 4th

ye

Idk why it's like that, it's like misleading to look like it's euler angles

Wait I could just have the entire Transform serialized maybe?

ANyway. Thanks for the help

[naive pawn]

it does show 4 values for me

[naive pawn]

no that would serialize a reference

a Transform is pos/rot/scale but also parent and children

[naive pawn]

that's very odd

what version are you on?

[edgy sinew]

6.0 .58f2

[naive pawn]

im on 2022, so might be something that changed in 6

[edgy sinew]

ah. yeah lol Bruh

[naive pawn]

i mean you shouldn't edit quaternion internals anyways, so if you want to serialize a rotation it should probably be in eulerangles anyways

[edgy sinew]

yeah i only avoided that route since it showed up with 3 values 🤷‍♂️ misleading

gonna try "Copy > Position" and rotation see where i get with that

[naive pawn]

ok imma just be blunt

why are you asking here if you aren't gonna take our advice lmao

there's a reason why "pivot" has its own name

it's useful

[edgy sinew]

knowledge

[naive pawn]

the alternate routes you're suggesting are just, more work

[edgy sinew]

I'm not ecstatic about having invisible child game objects either

[naive pawn]

how's that useful if you're just going to discard it all

[naive pawn]

cool, then don't do it because it's only giving you more work 😆

[edgy sinew]

maybe next project or next version I'll need it

maybe I'll need it in 10 minutes after i realize the way im trying is too much hassle

[naive pawn]

or you could actually apply the knowledge now and see a nice, clean workflow

[edgy sinew]

Your explanation is not that clear

[naive pawn]

yeah so you're going to trial & error anyways, what's the point of us taking time to give advice then 😂

[naive pawn]

then ask for clarification

i cannot read your mind

[cosmic dagger]

Just came to say, "don't mess with an actual Quaternion value" . . .

[edgy sinew]

I don't really understand what to do.

[naive pawn]

create a gameobject
put your "item" as a child

[edgy sinew]

So my item, I give it a parent empty game object, and then I can freely adjust the item gameobject, effectively changing the "pivot"

Is that it?

[naive pawn]

yes

so you do understand then 😂

[edgy sinew]

Okay thanks. I'll give it a shot like i said.
I'm not ecstatic about that method because it changes the structure

Now I may have to do FindComponentInChildren or whatever, or go up and down the hierarchy manually

Thanks so much, I appreciate your help & this is definitely a great solution. in Blender we can just change the pivot point so, this is the Unity workaround eh

[naive pawn]

for both of those, you generally just shouldn't do that and should have serialized references instead

[naive pawn]

well, for sprites, you can do that.
i'm not sure if you can for meshes or other 3d stuff, since i don't work with that

you might be able to, try googling around.

[edgy sinew]

yeah you can of course

in Blender, but not in Unity. hence the "parent game object" hack 🫡

I wish they'd leave the Unity AI stuff alone and give us better Blender integration

[naive pawn]

i'm talking about changing it in unity...

[edgy sinew]

You can do that?

I thought it's Blender only, just like applying scale or rotation etc

Or you're referring to the "empty parent game object" hack that lets us fake the pivot point edit

[naive pawn]

no, i'm saying i don't know if you can

[edgy sinew]

yeah i dont think you can. same way you can't "apply" scale or rotation, once it's an FBX that's all baked

[naive pawn]

a quick google seems to suggest that the answer is not easily, but the forum post i checked was also slightly old

apparently someone made an editor script to do so

[edgy sinew]

That's wild. I wonder how that's even possible

It must be very low-level, like C++ itself or. Idk how you'd gain access to that internal FBX data

[naive pawn]

low-level, like C++ itself
that has nothing to do with it lol

it's all just data in the file

any programming language can modify files

[edgy sinew]

I meant that i doubt the Scripting API has anything built in for that

[naive pawn]

or maybe that editor script isn't doing that, and is instead applying something after-the-fact, but it still doesn't really matter

[naive pawn]

if it didn't, then it wouldn't be possible

[edgy sinew]

It would, in C++ ..

Many packages on the asset store do raw C++

[naive pawn]

no, not how stuff works

[edgy sinew]

Ok bro

[naive pawn]

for perf, maybe, sure
that doesn't affect what stuff is available

[edgy sinew]

Good to hear, so then?

[naive pawn]

maybe you get access to public methods without c# bindings for whatever reason, but i doubt there's a ton of those

[edgy sinew]

Yeah it's... it's hacky

Basically re building what Blender does in Unity lol

[naive pawn]

you can modify the mesh pivot in blender
you can use the editor script to modify it in unity
you can use a parent gameobject to make an artificial pivot in unity

[edgy sinew]

do u know anything about getting more data from a Gamepad 🥹
my controller has Motion Controls (can see them just fine in Dolphin emulator)
but nothing in Unity's input debugger or elsewhere

I found some stuff online, I think it's actually not that hard to do. But I can't find anywhere how to see all available data of the Gamepad

gyroX = ds4.GetChildControl<ButtonControl>("gyro X 13");
This line of code works for my Gamepad, but other ones like "gyro Y 14" throw an error. I just need the internal labels of the Gamepad

[naive pawn]

please don't ping specific people for new questions
a new question would just be a new convo

perhaps ask in #🖱️┃input-system

[edgy sinew]

Mb thought it was chill like that. Sorry

[naive pawn]

me answering your previous question doesn't guarantee i can help with a different, unrelated question, so it doesn't really make sense to ping me for that

[naive pawn]

they displaced every vertex
https://web.archive.org/web/20140208164731/http://solvethesystem.wordpress.com/setpivot

[edgy sinew]

All that to save 3 mouse clicks in Blender

Mental

[rocky canyon]

soo.. i just ran into using static ... ; thats pretty neat..

using static Spawn.Helper; FunctionA();```
instead of  `Spawn.Helper.FunctionA();` or even 
```cs
using Spawn; Helper.FunctionA();```
not sure i know how it works exactly.. are there any "gotchas" with this approach? or should it even be done vs the normal approach of using namespace and coding `Class.Function`?

[naive pawn]

it basically just adds that class as a namespace/scope (java also has this with import static)

[rich adder]

imo they are more handy when you got some type of nested type

[rocky canyon]

ohh ok

wow.. u learn something new everyday

[naive pawn]

as usual with including namespaces, the main concern would probably be naming conflicts

[rocky canyon]

cool, i like it

[naive pawn]

using static to get SomeClass.SomeMethod -> write a new CurrentClass.SomeMethod -> stuff breaks because the old calls now point to a different method

[edgy sinew]

Think you might've been right, seeming like there's no easier method than the empty parent object pivot point hack 🥲

[fervent bramble]

can someone help me with my game I just finsihed doing my animation transitions from idle to walking to running etc and the way i triger them with will bool paramiters and i want a player controller that allows me to link those animation so when i walk the walking animation plays etc

[rich adder]

what are you asking here ?

[solar hill]

youre asking for a locomotion set up?

theres a thousand youtube videos showing how to do it, its pretty simple

[fervent bramble]

i am asing for a way to link my animations to a movemnt controler also i ddon't know what controler to use

[rocky canyon]

🤤 lol

[rich adder]

usually a blend tree can make it easier so you can link the player movement speed to a float you control blend tree with for Idle, Move Run

[solar hill]

i personally used this playlist to get started with animations
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwyUzJb_FNeTQwyGujWRLqnfKpV-cj-eO&si=SCp507E23sOEx_X5

[fervent bramble]

this sounds like giberish expain in dumb dumb terms please

[solar hill]

is that chromatic abberation on your editors text 🧐

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/class-BlendTree.html

you can use this and link the player move speed in the code to control which animation plays
something like animator.SetFloat("MoveSpeed", character.MoveSpeed)

[fervent bramble]

thanks

[edgy sinew]

Better yet, find a video called Escaping Unity Animator Hell …

[edgy sinew]

You can switch animations in code with CrossFadeInFixedTime. No more spiderman web

[rich adder]

ehh if you have few animations its fine

[naive pawn]

i mean you could just use print at that point lol

[rocky canyon]

lol true

[rich adder]

but yeah if you start creating a huge nest you should probably do it programmatically

[edgy sinew]

Any game worth making has more than a few animations

[naive pawn]

flappy bird

[solar hill]

just do everything procedurally 🤑

[rich adder]

games like SupertHot etc.. very succesful game, barely any animation

[naive pawn]

yeah no i don't get the spiderweb thing

ill probably get it at some point, but that just hasn't happened for me

[rich adder]

I think a game with most animation was in a GDC it was Firewatch and they also used animator, albeit very clever and "organized"

[rocky canyon]

this is kinda facepalm moment tho.. lol
ive made my own static debug classes and always tried to do clever stuff like
call the class D and then the functions would be called bug() or ebug()
so i could do D.ebug.Log("Custom stuff");
and now im freaking realizing i coulda just done something easier w/ this using static declaration 😅 gotta laugh at meself

[solar hill]

idk why people dislike the animator so much

[edgy sinew]

Idk, combined with a state machine and some AnimationCurves, i'm fully in love with CrossFadeInFixedTime

[rocky canyon]

so does UI eccentric games like Papers Please
masters of the tween

[solar hill]

i guess coming from unreal being to do anything in a blueprint esque system is more ideal for me

[edgy sinew]

Oh yeah i hate blueprints. prefer to do things in code

[cosmic quail]

blueprints suck though

[edgy sinew]

everyone has their preferred cup of tea

[rocky canyon]

funny i find it the other way around lol

[solar hill]

altough when i was working on this i absouletely had to use animancer (i think) because there was about 30 different transitions at play https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1390716509638098995/1400201207318057082/drifterclipawesome_1.mp4?ex=68ec03fe&is=68eab27e&hm=97fb874624b6d2e7431619fe442ecc6f9126bf14d07fd467da93d19a0334a290&

[edgy sinew]

audience cheer

[solar hill]

i dont mind doing things in code most of the time but if i get to use blueprints oh boy im gonna use em

[rocky canyon]

theres visual scripting for unity ykno

[solar hill]

yeah i know i tried it

didnt like it

[rocky canyon]

ahh ok

[solar hill]

i get my daily taste of blueprints with the animator lol

[rocky canyon]

😈 lol

[naive pawn]

btw, this is the code channel

[edgy sinew]

man let us vibe

when someone comes with an actual question we'll lock in

🥺

[naive pawn]

this convo was about animation from the start though

[solar hill]

it was about answering a question

that had to do with animation

[naive pawn]

a question about animation

[fickle plume]

There's no off-topic here. Read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[edgy sinew]

hopefully it's answered by now

[naive pawn]

so.. this channel isn't the right place for it

[solar hill]

guess you can tell that to the original person who asked the question lmao

[fervent bramble]

ya i think so. I think i understand now

[rich adder]

true games like that are doing really cool tweens.

[fervent bramble]

"InvalidOperationException: You are trying to read Input using the UnityEngine.Input class, but you have switched active Input handling to Input System package in Player Settings.
UnityEngine.Internal.InputUnsafeUtility.GetKeyString (System.String name) (at <203eea2e137a4ed1b7efeba5ef6d9400>:0)
UnityEngine.Input.GetKey (System.String name) (at <203eea2e137a4ed1b7efeba5ef6d9400>:0)
AnimationStateController.Update () (at Assets/AnimationStateController.cs:16)"

when trying to do

"if (Input.GetKey("w"))
{
animator.SetBool("walking", true);
}"

in the void update function

[rich adder]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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[rich adder]

also read the message

[fervent bramble]

ok

[naive pawn]

!input

[radiant void]

How to Set Input

To set Active Input Handling, go to:
Project Settings > Player > Active Input Handling

• Input Manager (Old): Use the original Input settings.
• Input System Package (New): Uses the new input system package.
• Both: Use both systems.

[rich adder]

oh there is command for that? niceee

[spring oak]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class baseHealth : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int totalHealthValue;
    public int chestHealthValue;
    public int houseHealthValue;
    public int waterfallHealthValue;
    public TMP_Text totalHealthText;
    public TMP_Text chestHealthText;
    public TMP_Text houseHealthText;
    public TMP_Text waterfallHealthText;
    public GameObject gameOverScreen;

    void Start()
    {
        totalHealthValue = 750;
        chestHealthValue = 250;
        houseHealthValue = 250;
        waterfallHealthValue = 250;
    }

    void GameOver()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(2);
    }
    void Update()
    {
        totalHealthValue = chestHealthValue + houseHealthValue + waterfallHealthValue;
        totalHealthText.text = totalHealthValue.ToString();
        chestHealthText.text = chestHealthValue.ToString() + "/250";
        houseHealthText.text = houseHealthValue.ToString() + "/250";
        waterfallHealthText.text = waterfallHealthValue.ToString() + "/250";
        if (chestHealthValue <= 0)
        {
            chestHealthValue = 0;
        }
        if (houseHealthValue <= 0)
        {
            houseHealthValue = 0;
        }
        if (waterfallHealthValue <= 0)
        {
            waterfallHealthValue = 0;
        }
        if (totalHealthValue <= 0)
            {
                GameOver();
            }
    }
}```

why do the enemies still go towards the destroyed bases :/

pls assist me

[fervent bramble]

uhh where is project setting sorry

[solar hill]

under the edit tab

top left

[fervent bramble]

thanks'

[rich adder]

use links for large code instead a wall of text

[rich adder]

things you can easily google btw

[fervent bramble]

my bad

[rich adder]

make it a habit to research

[spring oak]

links?

[rich adder]

mhm see #💻┃code-beginner message

[naive pawn]

gonna need some context
we aren't psychic

[spring oak]

ill remember that @rich adder

[rich adder]

or just don't make it difficult for people to help you now?

this is literally a pain in the ass to look on mobile

[spring oak]

ok ok

[solar hill]

telltale character ass response

[spring oak]

let me reformat ts

[solar hill]

jk

anyways yeah we need more context

to actually help you

[naive pawn]

fym, this is a pain in the ass to look at on pc too

[spring oak]

i was just looking for someone willing to help

not an immediate answer

[solar hill]

we are the ones who are willing to help but we need context

[spring oak]

so i was gonna provide context when someone responded

[naive pawn]

yeah no, not how this works

[solar hill]

youre allowed to do it right away

[naive pawn]

we beg you, just provide all the info right away

[rich adder]

you should open your question with everything ready right away

[spring oak]

didn't realize there were a lot of people who wanna help

[naive pawn]

so we don't have to play this game of telephone

[spring oak]

ok

[rich adder]

if they have to play detective, they will most likely walk away or not respond

[spring oak]

give me a min rq

[naive pawn]

and this is why you should provide all the info straight up

[spring oak]

do i just give the blazebin link to my thing

[edgy sinew]

yeah the “anyone can help me?” is like a daily thing I see

[spring oak]

mb bro 😔

[edgy sinew]

no ur good ive done it before too

[naive pawn]

there's always a first, we don't judge

but if it keeps happening, we'll start judging 👁️ 👁️

[edgy sinew]

it can be tough waiting on replies so. we get it

[naive pawn]

yeah, along with context on what exactly it should do and how it's going wrong

[solar hill]

to be fair, it does show a lot of character in effectively not wanting to immediately dump your issues on everyone without seeing if anyone wants to help first but its also unfortunate that its simply not the way discord or most online forums work

and i dont mean unfortunate in a bad way

its very efficient lol

[naive pawn]

it is definitely unfortunate that the efficient ideal and the presumed moral ideal don't align
but imo once you get used to the efficient ideal, it's so hard to go back to the moral ideal lmao

[edgy sinew]

Are you checking if the base is destroyed? before the enemy switches to following it

[spring oak]

https://paste.mod.gg/basic/viewer/zusqvyuyuaqb/1
basically its a 2D tower defense game, and my enemy units switch directions to go towards different bases. It uses a tilemap system, so there is a tile with the tag "crossroad" that tells the enemies which way to go. Normally, it makes them go in a random direction (left, down, or right), but it's supposed to check if a base is destroyed and make it exclude that direction from the options. I don't know why it isn't working though.

[cosmic dagger]

You provide context at the beginning. Without it, no one will/can help becasue they dont have enough info . . .

[spring oak]

specifically in the ChangeDirection method

i have an itch.io page for it but it isn't fully updated so lmk if you want me to update it so you can see it

i probably just messed up a math check thing :/

[solar hill]

i think your changedirection() is failing because its overlapping random logic without actually excluding destroyed bases, so enemies can still pick the invalid directions without choosing from the active ones

[spring oak]

oh

[solar hill]

im not sure though i could be wrong which i frequently am

so uh wait and see what the others say

[spring oak]

kk

i change 1 number and unity takes 40 seconds to reload domain

ts pmo

[solar hill]

ok looking at it again

youre going to have to build a list of valid directions first and then randomly pick from those valid options

[spring oak]

alright

[floral garden]

Anyone has experience with ink dialogue ?

[rich adder]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[grand snow]

I think i last looked at ink like 7+ years ago so probably no

[edgy sinew]

holy state machine moment

[merry thunder]

hello
i am very new in this unity game dev platform
doing my first project and i stuck at a point of animation
can anyone help me a bit

[solar hill]

incredible

https://dontasktoask.com/

[edgy sinew]

please

@merry thunder send the details we gotchu

[rich adder]

so you ignored the bot message and just went ahead of doing the same thing by crossposting

[merry thunder]

i did't ignore it
i was trying it from yesterday night but its not working

[solar hill]

i dont want to be rude here but i do notice how bot messages seem to be some sort of blindspot for a lot of people

not exclusively to this server

and i have no clue what causes it

[rich adder]

yeah people with reading comprehension issue and attention span of an ant

[merry thunder]

i tried to add a animated character at the last panel when the game ends and shows the winner/loser
the animation is working showing in animator and animation panel but the animation is not visible in the panel but other than that is visible

[rich adder]

is this a code question or what, I don't even understand where the question is

[floral garden]

Is it a layer priority problem ? Maybe it is behind a panel that hides it ?

[merry thunder]

i myself is not sure where did it go wrong

[floral garden]

Who know how should i make include of my ink dialogue file ? (I mean) for a small projet is fine but if we have a lot of dialogue should i juste make some independent dialogue alone and make a big included file for dialogue that need sharing info ?

[edgy sinew]

We’re gonna need way more details, screenshots etc

[keen dew]

Generally all Ink content should be in just one story that includes everything

[edgy sinew]

“Playing an animation on a character” is a simple question, but this is clearly more

[merry thunder]

where can i send them like screenshot

[edgy sinew]

People send pictures in here all the time

If it’s code use triple backtick or one of the pasting websites

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

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[rich adder]

this is a code channel

[edgy sinew]

If his problem isn’t in code we’ll go elsewhere

[floral garden]

https://paste.mod.gg/tjiudlkvffch/2

[rich adder]

its a mystery at this point

[floral garden]

I made it but those include , should i juste make main story -> include all other dialogue => doing jump between dialogue from the main

If so , how should i attribute dialogue to npc ?

[keen dew]

Yes. Except jump between dialogue by starting the story directly from knots

[floral garden]

How should i start directly from knot ?

Because before i just drop the file ink generate from the ink file directly from the inspector

(The json)

[keen dew]

https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/RunningYourInk.md#jumping-to-a-particular-scene

[floral garden]

Ohhhh

😭

I read the document but doesn’t het everything

[keen dew]

There's a dedicated Ink server, you know. This is only tangentially related to Unity

[floral garden]

Oh thx i will go find it then

[merry thunder]

i have added 4 codes to the blaze bin how to share it

[floral garden]

Save

Then past the url

I get the same issue before lmao

[merry thunder]

https://paste.mod.gg/ofyyrgdevddt/3

previously i was stuck at showing the player stats at the end screen
now at this

[crimson canopy]

hey, is there a way to get whatever script is attached to a gameobject, regardless of the name?
for example, i would normally get a script via myObject.GetComponent<scriptName>()
but lets say i want to get whatever the first script attached to an object is, is that possible?

[merry thunder]

i think its possible i guess, by adding a script in assets then drag it to the inspector in the gameobject

[rich adder]

use an interface to look for specific types, why any scripts? whats the usecase
(it is possible but usually there is a better way)

[tough lagoon]

The quickest would probably be
...GetComponents<MonoBehaviour>()

[rich adder]

Moni

[tough lagoon]

😄

[crimson canopy]

was just curious but i am assuming there's a better way
i just have a bunch of different objects that i want to all have the same bool attached to them (like a status effect basically), and i want outside forces to be able to turn the bool on and off regardless of what script its in

[tough lagoon]

Thats also pretty common with just good old inheritance

I.e. everything derives from Bob. And you use overrides to change the behavior when needed

[crimson canopy]

hm ok, whats a good resource for how best to take advantage of inheritance

[cosmic dagger]

You can create a separate script and attach it to all GameObjects that you want to have this status effect, or place the variable on a base class that other classes inherit (inheritance), or create an Interface with a bool property, then implement the bool property on a class attached to the GameObject . . .

[crimson canopy]

was thinking of doing the first option, sounds the simplest

[grand snow]

This is why understanding programming and OO concepts is useful

trying to learn programming alongside unity means you probably wont know about this stuff

[cosmic dagger]

The first option is nice because I would add every GameObject with this script to a runtime collection when spawned. That way, you can iterate and access all of them from one place . . .

[merry thunder]

@floral garden bro if you check the code i pasted and understand why its not working pls let me know
it's 3 am now and i can't focus on that anymore good night
if you need anything else to understand it ask me
thanks

[floral garden]

Goodnight to you , i will check it in 2 days because i am very busy next day

[merry thunder]

sure

thanks bro

[grand snow]

🤔 hmmm

(this is why beginners shouldnt rely on other beginners for help)

[merry thunder]

you can check it also if its possible and tell me where it go wrong

[grand snow]

I started looking but 1 big jumbo script is hard to read though

your UI should not be mixed in with your gameplay logic

[floral garden]

Btw is it a better way to split my player stats machine or should i just put it in a file?

[grand snow]

what is a stat machine

[floral garden]

Fsm

[grand snow]

hmm nope no idea

[floral garden]

Like how unity work

How to said. Instead of doing one file where you manage everything, you split it into multiple class each manage one thing. Like idle, walk, run , death

Unity is more complex but see it as awake start update fixedupdate etc

[rich adder]

those are not even close related to state machine

[floral garden]

Isn’t it how it work on unity?

[rich adder]

those events are not state machine, the closest state machine built in unity is Animator

[grand snow]

I cant follow what you mean but its always best to have a class perform one task. You may be confused about what state machines are.

Start/Update/Awake are message functions for MonoBehaviours and thats it.

[forest notch]

hi, i wanted to change the terrain color, and the editor also got orange, and its working with every color, what the hell is that? 😭

[rich adder]

not a code question #💻┃unity-talk

[forest notch]

oh, sorry

Terrain.activeTerrain.materialTemplate.color = Color.green;

[rich adder]

looks like playmode tint is on

[forest notch]

but this is a code

xd

[grand snow]

we would have known if provided in your message

[grand snow]

anyway setting a materials main colour wont do much unless the shader on the material uses a color to do something.

[floral garden]

Well, i may miss some vocabulary haha

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/execution-order.html
but from it i must mixed fsm with message

[rich adder]

you're better off making a terrain shader and do terrain properly

unity terrain finally leds you make shadergraph terrain shaders

[grand snow]

I still have no idea what you mean by fsm but all this diagram tells you is the order in which things get called during a single frame

[floral garden]

Yes and i mixed it with the fsm xd

[rich adder]

these are just functions called at specific times

[floral garden]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine

[merry thunder]

so is there any way to check where its not working or whats wrong ?

[floral garden]

Just a state you can change when you need. Other than using a lot of If or switch

[rich adder]

a fsm can be done with a simple enum too.. the concept of it is basic

[grand snow]

dw i know what they are 😆

[floral garden]

Yes

With enum is some called fake fsm (my teacher said)

[rich adder]

fake fsm lol

if you're in a state you're in a state, sometimes you don't care about OnEnterState events and such

[grand snow]

if you provided better direction then maybe but i dont fancy reading that all to understand myself
Like i said, one jumbo class with too many things mixed together is hard to understand and parse

[merry thunder]

yes thats true

[grand snow]

Soo many teachers have such outdated views its worrying

[floral garden]

Well, it will overload your class not ?

[rich adder]

idk what you mean tbh

you dont always have to abstract everything

..some of the biggest games have been made with simple switch and enum

[floral garden]

It is only a method

[rich adder]

not sure what you mean "it is only a method"

[floral garden]

To replace a big switch or if else

[rich adder]

depends on the game.. you can also split it

switch can handle lots of cases with ease though, generally speaking is preferable over chain of if else

[floral garden]

I never said it can’t

I have not exemple rn

[rich adder]

ik, I get what you mean though...
I just meant sometimes its easier to have that than a complex abstraction for a FSM.. so call it "fake fsm" is kinda strange lol

[floral garden]

Oh i see this what the teacher answer me

[grand snow]

and in games we often prefer speed over some over engineered solution with needless layers

[floral garden]

Oh?

[rich adder]

just mention something like Vice City / Gta3

[floral garden]

I have done some game but still beginner

[floral garden]

[rich adder]

the quickest example that came to mind cause i looked at their source code A LOT

"fake fsm" all over the place, very succesful product . Straight to the point code

[floral garden]

Is it in C ++ or c# ? Or both

[rich adder]

c++

[rich adder]

https://github.com/Hezkore/hez-gta-re3/blob/master/src/peds/PedAI.cpp#L79
one of many examples of switch

[floral garden]

O-o?! Damn

A lot of case

Maybe i should read some unity game source code

(If there are)

[rich adder]

you would need a special account for that

its closed source publicly

[sour fulcrum]

Not much legally exists for comparable projects to gta

[floral garden]

Not gta but other type of game so i can learn from them

[sour fulcrum]

hence why i said comparable

[rich adder]

if you're lucky you find the source codes people do reverse engineer

the original repo got DMCA'd though so someone else reposted

[sour fulcrum]

most people don't reverse engineer unity games because usually they don't have to

[floral garden]

Nah i prefer source code people want share other than stealing

[rich adder]

You can peek for curiosity / learning

something like dotPeek works

but yeah I cannot say much more cause I'll get kicked

[floral garden]

Ok

Thx

[eternal needle]

theres no real point to even going through source code unless you're interested in a very specific feature. code in your singleplayer games does not need to be complex

[sharp mango]

I'm going absolutely insane

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Tilemaps;

public class WorldManager : Utilities.Singleton<WorldManager>
{

    [SerializeField] private List<GameObject> pathObjects;
    [SerializeField] private Tilemap tilemap;
    List<Path> paths;
    private List<Path> pathsWithEnemies;

    //Initialize the Direction array array
    void Start()
    {
        InitPaths();
    }

    void Update()
    {

    }

    void AnchorPoints()
    {

    }
    void GetDirectionFromPath(int pathID, int currentIndex)
    {
        //return paths[pathID].tileList
    }
    void InitPaths()
    {
        int x = 0;
        foreach (GameObject pathObject in pathObjects)
        {
            paths[x].GeneratePath(pathObject, tilemap);//
            x++;
        }
    }
    void UpdateEnemiesOnPath(Path path)
    {

    }
}

for some reason, adding a serializeField to the list here makes it so unity starts having a spasm, failing to display things in the inspector, and giving like 10 different errors

I have absolutely no clue why it's doing this? I'd swear I used this method already in another project to add elements to a list from the editor

(referring to the serializeField in pathObjects)

[rich adder]

!code 📃** Large 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.

[floral garden]

Unity 6?

Maybe it can’t be serialized

[rich adder]

if you're on the latest its "normal" its a known bug

[sharp mango]

yeah I'm on 6 due to decisions that I did not get a say in

[sharp mango]

then how do I make a list of objects that I can assign from the editor without unity having a seizure?

[rich adder]

GameObject is definitely serializable...

[rich adder]

revert back to the version without the bug

[sharp mango]

I'm on 6000.0.58f2 specifically

[floral garden]

Yeah stupid answer as if it can’t be serialized it would be just skipped xd

[rich adder]

maybe try 59f2 ?

always keep a repo commit before doing these upgrades

[sharp mango]

the previous version of the project was also unity 6, but apparently it had a security vulnerability and we were forced to upgrade

[rich adder]

yes serializing is mainly only when it writes to the file

[rich adder]

yeah but only relative to when you actually need to release it, by then unity will have already patched it

besides you can use their patching tool for binaries and work fine with the editor with "security issue"

[sharp mango]

I'm downloading 59f2 to check if it's still there

[floral garden]

It will block the issue ?

[eternal needle]

how would this work in the first place, List<Path> paths; is not initialized so paths[x] is always going to fail
unless you're referring to unity editor errors, those you should make a bug report for

[floral garden]

Or bypass

[rich adder]

the tool will patch the UnityEngine.dll specifically

[floral garden]

Oh i see

[rich adder]

so really changing editor in a haste is a panic move

[sharp mango]

the idea is having a list that you add things to on the editor, but when adding serializefield to pathObjects the editor itself starts giving errors and fails to display inspector text even

(The rest will be worked out later for now I just need this damn list to work)

[eternal needle]

the displaying editor text error is known at least. I remember someone mentioning a fix with fonts but i never looked deep into that.
either way your current code would still always error

paths is not initialized

[rich adder]

oh yeah you wil def catch a NRE for Path list

[floral garden]

Nre?

[rich adder]

the display thing hopefuly is fixed in 59f2

[sharp mango]

yeah I know that, I just haven't gotten to it cause I need to get the list going to do anything anyway

[rich adder]

Null Reference Exception

a list must be initialized otherwise it will throw when try to access

public / serializefield in unity will serialize them in inspector so it will initialize them for you

[floral garden]

Oh also, how is the correct syntax for initialization ?
List<gameobject> list = new() or
New List<gameobject>() ?

[sharp mango]

it's New List<gameobject>() no?

[floral garden]

I don’t know, people always write it both side but only new() is fine

Btw Both is correct

[rich adder]

unnecessary repetitions 😛

[sharp mango]

huh

I always do list = new list <T>()

[floral garden]

That xhat i thought 😩

[rich adder]

but also makes your code compatible with older C# versions

[floral garden]

Ahhh

[eternal needle]

your IDE probably has a few messages telling you that it can be simplified into just new()

unless you use var everywhere

[floral garden]

Yes

For me

[rich adder]

If you write an asset or something and someone is running older unity version with c# 8 or less it wont be happy

[floral garden]

My teacher said : if you use var , use it only if necessary xd

[sharp mango]

(you are allowed to use var? at all?)

[rich adder]

not as fields / props / return values, but as local vars

[floral garden]

Sometime not but the compilator can manage find the correct

Like var value = 1

[rich adder]

use var is good when you know the type is explicit enough

[floral garden]

Var = int or size_t or other depend what you are giving

[rich adder]

if its vague and you only know through IDE it could be a problem

[rich adder]

var something = 4; // we know for sure its an int or at least a number
var somethingElse = MyUnknownFunction() ; // wth is this?

[floral garden]

Reel

[rich adder]

but good naming can also fix the second example
CalculateHealth() probably returns a number . etc

[floral garden]

Moral : var is good but use it in parcimonie

[sharp mango]

Well clearly it's a delegate of... some kind

clearly some kinda code at least

[floral garden]

[rich adder]

[twilit ocean]

Trying to logically think about how to develop a simple health system, any feedback on what I should probably not do?

A separate script that can be attached to any GameObject entity as long as it has a dedicated Hurtbox collider set as child, and give it health/damage/death interactions.

It will look for a child with the name "HurtBox" and set it to be a trigger for health decreasing.
Within it there will be the damage data of everything in the game listed.

It will also change the health data based on what object it's attached to.

I might separate health calculation and damage calculation into 2 different scripts once I'm more knowledgeable in the topic (since damage will have some specifics and might become complex).```
 I also thought of allocating all the game damage values, types, ETC in a different file but I'm not sure how that would work.

[rich adder]

the first idea is fine, the hurtbox thing is pretty smelly code imo

the health component should not care about any triggers / colliders

[twilit ocean]

But then how would I register that the object got "Hit" and update the health accordingly?

[rich adder]

it should have a method you can use to modify health and all that responsibility

it only cares about changing the values and keeping track, it should not care HOW it got those

make another component for trigger damages

so you can have other means of affecting health not just using triggers only

say you make a TriggerHurt component, it only cares to tell a Health if one exists, "Hey I got hurt subtract 10 hp" etc.

[twilit ocean]

hmm but then wouldn't I have to make a way for the damage script to communicate directly with the health script? How would that work? I'm not sure how to make 2 scripts communicate with each other.

[rich adder]

easy, you reference it .
if its a "DamageScript" or alike.. you already know its most likely going to be affecting some type of "health" component

you create a field of Health and assign it , if its not null you communicate to it

this way you can create other triggers or functions that talk to Health, what if you have healing potions / trigger areas and so on

tight coupling should be used sparsely, no reason health should need a triggercollider to function

[grand snow]

Ill point out that its probably a bad idea to have specific components for "health" and "damage"

there comes a point where we have gone too specific and it makes things harder

[twilit ocean]

Supposedly, if we have an object called Player and 2 scripts, script1 and script2 attached to it.

An interaction just happened with Player, but only script1 detected it.

If script1 detected something that happened to Player, but it needs to report it to script2, how would he do that in Unity?

[rich adder]

I suppose more of opion thing, have always worked with sepearated Health and HurtTriggers and alike for ages , been working fine

why should my health care about triggers and physics?

[rich adder]

You find the specific Player at runtime in the Hurt trigger and check if got the Health component, you're only modified its health components

you dont even need to check Player usually anyway, like

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other){
if(other.TryGetComponent(out Health health))
health.Remove(10);```

[twilit ocean]

To some extent I get what you mean, but at the same time I want to have some degree of specificity in that part because the thing I plan to make will handle damage as many different things, it will probably get long and complex and the least things in my way the better. I don't plan to make specific scripts to things that don't need attention.

[grand snow]

These seem like things that shouldnt be related anyway. Some object that can "take damage" can do that via some interface or common type. Then whatever you want can use this generalisation

I just read this and imagined 1 tiny ass monobehaviour with 1 float/int for health and thats it. That would be kinda silly.

[rich adder]

I tried interface for IHealth but end up always having to implement the same crap for over many MBs and makes no sense than 1 component for health

[twilit ocean]

component?

[sharp mango]

okay upgrading to 59f fixed it what a headache

[rich adder]

oh nah mine has also UnityEvent and Action for ; OnHealthModified, OnHealthDepleted etc.

this way i can do other things in other scripts that care about health

[rich adder]

good to know that version is the fix..

they should've done a proper check before releasing 58f2 in such a haste

[grand snow]

But then these other objects will closely depend on this script and then we think "why did we separate this in the first place?"
Abstractions should exist for a good reason.

[rich adder]

thats true in some cases, It always comes down to the same stuff anyway

[eternal needle]

its possible they just didnt know. some issues dont appear on every device. They couldnt recreate an issue i reported (someone else here asked about it) about weirdness when serializing a char

[rich adder]

I know but odd honestly but feels like lately the QA has gone way down

[sour fulcrum]

The objective problems with Unity we get in here have significantly raised 6.2+

[eternal needle]

yea fair, i did have issues very quickly in 6.2.1. An int going to large values crashed my editor lol

i mean i accidentally kept multiplying the value with itself but still, you'd expect it to not crash

[rich adder]

:tinfoilhat moment but the big push for AI "enabled" editors is the same reason microsoft is getting rid of local accounts for w11. Who knows what more tracking they want to do while you develop for their training

the tag should read "Supported but Broken"

"Recommended" misleading newcomers to the AI enabled bs by default

[winged ridge]

Nobody forces you to use 1 unity, 2 ai
I haven't once used UnityAI and told them as much myself, I don't plan on doing. But I understand how it may be helpful to others. Unity have just had potential security issues highlighted so that I'd hope.. is their main concern

[latent vapor]

📒┃

sorry mis click

[sour fulcrum]

If you work for a studio that uses Unity you are forced to use Unity

If you are building for certain platforms as an indie you are practically forced to used Unity

Unity has a dominating presence in the Industry.

2, As a developer we can choose not to use the AI features but the focus on these AI features is time, budget and effort not being put into other areas

[winged ridge]

Godot
Unity
Unreal engine
RpgMaker

And they do have multiple teams focusing on multiple projects within unity, pretty standard industry practice.

[sour fulcrum]

For 3D (and most genres) RPGMaker is completely unviable

There are many reasons why Godot and Unreal are either flatout unviable or would cost too much time to be viable

[sour fulcrum]

And some are getting way more love than others

[winged ridge]

At the moment perhaps, but security is a big issue at the moment so I'd rather unity focus on that than minor annoying bugs such as their (already reported) GUI bug for the editor. Security over visuals any day.
As for AI.. hundreds of companies are focusing on it as it's 'Flavour of the month' meaning it will have its time and pass

[sour fulcrum]

The lack of quality control is highlighted in this specific instance but is not exclusive to it

While I hope it’s a flavour of a month type thing it’s still something that’s actively happening

[winged ridge]

Unity on average have 5,000 staff. This Discord alone has over 120,000 members, if every person reported an issue and they all had to be tested, even if you allocated every member of staff to testing and reporting back on bugs/problem fixing. Realistically where do you, think this may end up

[sour fulcrum]

Not particularly interested in engaging with such an unreasonable hypothetical

[winged ridge]

Explain why it's unreasonable? You are the one demanding they focus on QA.. yes some of it's dropped but within a year they let go of roughly 2,700 staff, reported financial losses and had some internal issues

[sour fulcrum]

Because it’s nowhere near the scale of 120,000 unique bug reports

[sour fulcrum]

Personally this is an explanation, not a justification

[winged ridge]

This discussion could go on far too long, if you wish make a thread we will discuss in that, otherwise. All I ask is be considerate of the staff already working hard to provide to us Unity engine as it is, flaws included

[twilit ocean]

Why on earth would I ever want to overload a method instead of just using discernably different signatures? Are there practical uses for them?

[tacit prism]

i know this might sounds stupid but in unity uh...

is there any way to make the icons and lettering in my project bin slightly larger

Like view percent from 100-110 or something

cant find anything for it :(

[rich adder]

wdym ? overloading is different signatures, same method name

[twilit ocean]

I understand that, I didn't meant it in a literal sense.

I just don't understand how can something like that be pratical.

[rich adder]

its convenient

different levels of control for the same function

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject-ctor.html
(easy example)
a simple GameObject myObj = new() // i just want to spawn a gameobject
or
GameObject myObj = new("Player") // i want to spawn a gameobject with name Player

etc.

[eternal needle]

if you google the same question you asked, or even just "why overload methods c#", there are tons of resources out there. the first case you see like adding numbers with different types would make it pretty clear

[winged ridge]

You can zoom them in it changes from list format to icons etc

[rich adder]

if you mean the font size itself not really, unless in the os
maybe check preferences
not really a code question btw

[twilit ocean]

I don't understand it much, but I think my brain just needs some times to digest it.

[twilit ocean]

Yeahh I'm sure, but often online articles explain things in such complex ways and I can't really talk back to them to dive further.

Here's GPT glazing the world's dumbest question.

[mossy wind]

Ya'll know whats wrong wit this code??

using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class EventTriggers : MonoBehaviour
{

    public GameObject dialoguePanel;
    public float delay = 2.5f;

    public IEnumerator ShowDialogue(float delay)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        dialoguePanel.SetActive(true);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        dialoguePanel.SetActive(false);
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            StartCoroutine(ShowDialogue(delay));
        }
    }
}```

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ i dont care to see what AI says. I said google for a reason. if you have questions about what online articles say, then ask about that

[eternal needle]

you have to tell us, its your code. What do you expect this code to do, that its not currently doing

[twilit ocean]

I just found it funny that it was giving such praise for a question I knew was probably not wise at all, nothing past that.

I search for both articles and ask AI assistants before iterating here not to waste people's time.

[cosmic dagger]

What you stated is exactly what overloading is . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Care to provide any context?

I left my mind-reading cap in the other room . . .

[mossy wind]

basically i was trying to make the code to activate a panel when it was touched... but it just won't show it. i have tried checking the tag, or maybe it was missing a reference but it still persist...

[cosmic dagger]

Did you check/test that it was touched? Is that what the trigger is for?

[rich adder]

the ultimate gaslighting machine

[mossy wind]

yes... it detects a collision with the player on the console when i debug it using the Debug.Log

[cosmic dagger]

If so, place a log inside of the trigger method to check if it appears . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Ok, so the log was placed inside the if CompareTag statement and it appeared?

[mossy wind]

yes, it detects the player.

[rugged beacon]

is this 2d or 3d

[cosmic dagger]

Then move to the coroutine. Place a log at the top to check that it runs . . .

[mossy wind]

wait guys... i think i figured it out, something was wrong with the collider. thanks for the help tho, appreciate it.

[mossy wind]

3d

[cosmic dagger]

But you said the trigger method worked, which indicates the collider is fine . . .

[mossy wind]

"when it works, don't touch it"

[tacit prism]

what does this error mean? having a hard time translating it. I notice its about my middle button input returning null but

worried i might have messed up my input system somehow

:(

the other 2 errors are about the input giving them a null reference and not being able to use it

[rich adder]

maybe you have to call .Enable()

[tacit prism]

i really dont understand as it was working completely fine, i have videos of it working perfectly, but now it stopped once I updated my targeting requirements (in which period i "accidentally" put Control.IPlayerActions in a seperate script because i was playing around and fiddling with shit)

even more it really shouldnt be feeding a null to my target script since, as far as i understand the operand, the ? shouldnt be returning if it comes up null

[rich adder]

whats the entire stacktrace say

[tacit prism]

Ive been told about how deep the inputsystem package goes into the project, in those exact words, so i dont know what it implies

i dont know how to pull up the entire thing, im still fairly new to unity (as per my question about font size earlier) so all i have is the console

To be honest i looked up what that was an saw a lot of console text

[winged ridge]

So the first error in your console says that you have a variable that has not been assigned, this may be a gameObject for example
The third error relates to the first

The second error relates to your input which is probably not finding the middle mouse button (Mouse Button 3)

[tacit prism]

do i have to rebuild my middlemouse input?

i mean its not that hard to just delete and do it again

[tacit prism]

to be fair i just got off work and am dead tired, very likely i typed something i dont think i shouldve

ill look over it in the morning but leaving the night with an error makes me not happy :(

[winged ridge]

Comment out the code that leaves the error, if it doesn't throw any error on recompile save and call it for the night. Prevents the editor wanting to load in safe mode next time

[tacit prism]

Well shit, already turned my pc off

Now I’ll have a fun surprise tomorrow morning

At least I know this for future issues

[winged ridge]

Safe mode is just there to let you fix a bug incase it breaks a system... Honestly it's more annoying lol, but it should be okay don't worry

[tacit prism]

Thanks

[slender nymph]

runtime exceptions will not cause the editor to enter safe mode so there is no need to comment any of that code out.
also the middle error isn't directly related to your middle mouse input, it's something that is called in response to that action's performed event being invoked

presumably the first exception is the cause of the second

[tacit prism]

Yeah just thought about that too

My inputsystem can’t be playing wrong right now since literally all of my other inputs were fine, why would only the middlemouse one get hammered out of nowhere

I’ll have to look around my targeting script in the morning, should have done anything tonight as I was half asleep anyhow

Not saying it’s impossible but

[rain solar]

how do i program manifold dual contouring? there are zero public implementation on the internet

[teal viper]

There are quite a few open source projects on github. Just need to adapt them to C#/unity.

[rain solar]

i cant find a single one, can you point me towards one

[teal viper]

A simple google query: manifold dual contouring github
https://github.com/dominikwodniok/dualmc
https://github.com/proton2/Manifold-dual-contouring-Java

There's even unity:
https://github.com/Tuntenfisch/Voxels

[rain solar]

the first one isnt MDC, the second one is built refencing broken code

third also isnd MDC

[teal viper]

broken code..?

Beyond that, I guess your best approach is to read the paper, understand it and implement yourself.🤷‍♂️

[rain solar]

yeah the java implementation references https://github.com/Lin20/isosurface which doesnt implement a solver

if u read the QEF solver code it brute forces it with rotation matrices, causing it to take like 6 seconds to generate a tiny mesh

[teal viper]

Well, you're kinda getting into niche/specialized knowledge/skill territory at this point. I doubt anyone on this server would be able to help with that. Or at least, definitely not in the beginner channel.
I'd recommend starting a tread in #1390346827005431951 and maybe someone knowledgeable in the topic could help.

[rain solar]

is this just a rare algorithm? surely people need isosurfaces

[teal viper]

Most people use simple marching cubes . I've never seen anyone trying to implement anything more complex.

[rain solar]

cant do corners 🙁

anyways ill keep trying, thanks

[teal viper]

Why not?🤔

[rain solar]

its just a limitation of marching cubes

[teal viper]

Pretty sure marching cubes can handle coreners just fine.

[rain solar]

unable to do corners

[rain solar]

nah

if u try to make marching "cubes" generate a cube, it simply cannot

[teal viper]

Corners

[rain solar]

thats not a cube nor are those corners

[teal viper]

I guess what you're trying to say is 90 degree corners

[rain solar]

yeah

[teal viper]

Ok, but you can get pretty close to it.

[rain solar]

not without going super high res and killing performance for what should be a 12 triangle shape

[rugged mirage]

I've been stuck on this but I've been trying the (now not new) input system in unity and I have movement for my player set up but I can't figure out how to make the player move on a local scale with it since I have the camera rotate the player and would like movement to adjust with rotation and I'm starting to think that this is not a thing you can't do with the input system.

[teal viper]

Indeed. You wouldn't be able to do it with 12 triangles. You can still get it basically unnoticeable to the naked eye without "killing performance". Just need the face to be very close the cube face.
Also, if you're only dealing with cubes, matching cubes is probably not the right algorithm at all. Something simpler that generates cube-like meshes would be enough.

[rain solar]

i have the high res marching cubes implemented rn and the corners are very noticably buggy

[teal viper]

Then perhaps it's just a bug in your implementation.🤷‍♂️

[rain solar]

its a known limitation of the algorithm

[teal viper]

Ok. Anyways, if you need help on that specific algorithm, I'd recommend starting a thread in #1390346827005431951

[teal viper]

Maybe provide some more details on the issue. What's the expected behavior and what actually happens. As well as sharing some relevant code.

[rotund root]

(i know there is a paste as value but it's still too slow)

[old zealot]

Sa

[warped sparrow]

hi

[naive pawn]

hi, this isn't a social space https://nohello.net
if you have a question, feel free to ask

[median valve]

i need some help with a tutorial ive been doing

[north kiln]

Just ask your question

[median valve]

can i upload screenshots

[sullen epoch]

I've got a question, i was researching LINQ and saw people generally advising against using it as it allocates memory and fills unity's garbage collector. but there arguments were all targeted towards using it on a per frame basis. so it it generally fine to use outside or regularly repeating logic or on start?

[fickle plume]

Not all operations create garbage and it's usually not that big of a concern. But more of a concern is impacting code readability when using it.

[sullen epoch]

im creating a personal "Guidebook" because writing things down yourself and doing your own research is one of the bet ways to commit to memeory.
at the moment my topics of focus are

1. Vectors, angles and Trigg
2. Mathf Fundamentals
3. LINQ - although i'm back to the drawing board on that one
4. order of execution
5. object oriented and data driven architecture
6. state machines
7. asynchronous programming.

any other essential topics i should research?

[rocky canyon]

nailed it

[naive pawn]

!ask

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

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[ripe shard]

8. ways to identify topics that keep me from going past my current limitations

Asking a online community what’s important without context will yield generic, cluttered non-helpful answers that miss your actual needs.

[sullen epoch]

I can respect that, but that’s actually why I asked — while every project has its own foundation, there are still core principles that help you structure things properly from the start. Those constants are what I’m trying to get a better understanding of.

[ripe shard]

That is true but there is very little that can be said about this which isn’t overly generalized

also, your and everyone‘s opinions on that evolve with experience and you probably wouldn’t fully appreciate certain recommendations without a lot of details and lived experience that produced it.

Not saying everything needs to be reinvented, just that some things can’t really be taught by passing compact information

the key thing to figure out (imo) is: ways to collaborate effectively with others in complex projects. Everything else is a component of that ultimate skill. Code is a complication in that, which you need to minimize. So when looking at code subjects: ask yourself how the thing makes collaboration easier/harder. from that you find additional topics to explore. If it doesn’t help with collab, you can flag it as unimportant. Caveat: “getting stuff done/working” is part of collaboration, but the complexity is in “keep it working, with minimal effort, when 1000s of other things are also going on” (integration).

[rocky canyon]

from what i've seen you've already got a really good grip on what u need to do 💪

and it'll evolve as u go.. so i'd just hit it

[void bluff]

Hello!
I just started using unity, with no basis, and as you can probably guess I'm having a hard time with coding.
So I watched a yt tutorial on how to make player movements and camera look (1st person).
Everything works fine, except for the 1st person look. The camera follow rlly well my mouse movement, however it feels not smooth at all. If someone has an answer to my issue, please help me

here is my code too :

[keen dew]

How do you call ProcessLook?

[void bluff]

Honestly I don't really understand it, I just copied that script from youtube, I tried to understand it but it's too difficult for me, if you want I can send you the InputManager script

[keen dew]

Sure. 👇

!code

[radiant void]

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[grand snow]

haha what did i just see

[void bluff]

ahah I'm discovering it's taking a bit of time for my little brain

// using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
public class InputManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    private PlayerInput playerInput;
    private PlayerInput.OnFootActions onFoot;

    private PlayerMotor motor;
    private PlayerLook look;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Awake()
    {
        playerInput = new PlayerInput();
        onFoot = playerInput.OnFoot;

        motor = GetComponent<PlayerMotor>();
        look = GetComponent<PlayerLook>();

        onFoot.Jump.performed += ctx => motor.Jump();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        //tell the playermotor to move using the value from our movement action.
        look.ProcessLook(onFoot.Look.ReadValue<Vector2>());
    }

    private void LateUpdate()
    {
        motor.ProcessMove(onFoot.Movement.ReadValue<Vector2>());
    }

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        onFoot.Enable();
    }
    
    private void OnDisable()
    {
        onFoot.Disable();
    }
}

[keen dew]

It should be Update instead of FixedUpdate

[void bluff]

alright let me change it

[void bluff]

oh wow it fixed it, thanks a lot. Also, do you mind explaining whats the difference between Update and FixedUpdate?

[keen dew]

Update runs every frame, FixedUpdate runs at a fixed time interval (50 times/second by default). That's why the movement looked jagged because it moved the camera less often than the framerate

[void bluff]

I get it, thanks a lot!

[keen dew]

Also mouse input shouldn't be multiplied by deltatime

[void bluff]

Oh really? How should I change it?

[keen dew]

Well remove the part that multiplies by deltatime

[void bluff]

Alright

[void bluff]

wich line ?

[keen dew]

I mean remove the part that multiplies by deltatime on both lines

and then you have to change the sensitivity down to about 1

[void bluff]

Oh yeah I was saying "that is fast"

Yes it is so much better thanks.

Also I want to hide my cursor while playing, do you think this is a good way?

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class CursorScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Use this for initialization
    void Start()
    {
        //Set Cursor to not be visible
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }
}```

[keen dew]

sure

[void bluff]

alright I'll try it, thanks again

[rocky canyon]

ever heard of a singleton?
I use one for my Cursor management..
it gets kinda jank when u have more than 1 script trying to change the cursor settings
sooo i make 1 Cursor Manager.. that all scripts use to toggle the state of it

[void bluff]

Not really, I'm completely new so I have no idea how it works

[grand snow]

a whole singleton for hiding the cursor? overkill imo

[rocky canyon]

no.. everything..
hidden, locked, confined
custom cursor tracking, offset, gfx switching all that jazz

like a CursorManager

and it keeps all the cursor mechanics in a single place

[lunar narwhal]

EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(object)
Hello, I just upgraded my unity project to Unity 6. Previously, When a menu opened up in my game, I would use the above line of code to select a UI element. Then the player could navigate the menu using a contorller. "EventSystem.current" seems to have been renamed to just "Event.current." I am struggling to find a way to select a ui element now though as "SetSelectedGameObject()" seems to be a thing of the past. Does anyone know how to do this in unity 6?

[wintry quarry]

It was not renamed

EventSystem is correct

[formal swan]

Hi, do any of u know how to connect a button click that leads to a ui with a camera pan? I have been trying to search for tutorials that can do both, like if I open this menu, the camera zooms in on the character. But there hasn't been anything like that

[grand snow]

well the button click would trigger some animation or code that moves a camera of your choice

cinemachine can make things like this easier

[formal swan]

I made a button with an on click () prompt, that sets my ui gameobject active when pressed. I also have a camera manager script for using cinemachine

I just don't know how to combine them

[grand snow]

then you are already half way there. Enable some virtual camera and configure the anim time and mode for ANY > that camera

E.g. serialize a reference to the virtual camera and enable it when the button is pressed

[formal swan]

oh that's good then! How can I do that? Is it through the script?

[grand snow]

yea...

first try just enabling a virtual camera (in the function called by the button) placed where you want the pan to go to and give it a high priority number

the virtual camera should be disabled initially

If that still confuses you then re learn about virtual cameras in cinemachine

[hexed jungle]

hi I use code: Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, directions[i], Color.red);
but I don't see those lines
I use Gizmos but it doesn't help

[formal swan]

Hm I do have the priority switch set up, should I type the button on click() in the enable field?

[wintry quarry]

Where are you looking to see them?
Which object is this script attached to?
What is directions[i] resolving to? (debug it)

And is the code even running?

[hexed jungle]

private void CheckForPlayer()
{
CalculateDirections();

for (int i = 0; i < directions.Length; i++)
{
    Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, directions[i], Color.red);
}

}
private void CalculateDirections()
{
directions[0] = transform.right * range;
directions[1] = -transform.right * range;
directions[2] = transform.up * range;
directions[3] = -transform.up * range;
}

I'm looking in "Game" like in tutorial

[wintry quarry]

when do you call CheckForPlayer?

[hexed jungle]

public class Spikehead : EnemyDamage
{
[SerializeField] private float speed;
[SerializeField] private float range;
[SerializeField] private float checkDelay;
private float checkTimer;
private Vector3 destination;

private bool attacking;

private Vector3[] directions = new Vector3[4];

private void Update()
{
    if (attacking)
    transform.Translate((destination - transform.position).normalized * 10 * Time.deltaTime);
    else
    {
        checkDelay = Time.deltaTime;
        if (checkTimer > checkDelay)
        {
            CheckForPlayer();
        }
    }
}
private void CheckForPlayer()
{
    CalculateDirections();

    for (int i = 0; i < directions.Length; i++)
    {
        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, directions[i], Color.red);
    }

}
private void CalculateDirections()
{
    directions[0] = transform.right * range;
    directions[1] = -transform.right * range;
    directions[2] = transform.up * range;
    directions[3] = -transform.up * range;
}

}
this is my code for this

[wintry quarry]

checkTimer is always going to be 0 so your if (checkTimer > checkDelay) is never going to happen

use Debug.Log in the future tomake sure your code is running as expected

[naive pawn]

!code

[radiant void]

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[grand snow]

Perhaps you didn't fully understand how priority works. the highest priority virtual camera that is enabled is what gets used by cinemachine.
Therefore we can disable and enable one with a high priority number to control when that "takes over".
e.g.

[SerializeField]
CinemachineCamera panCam;

[SerializeField]
Button button;

private void Start()
{
  panCam.enabled = false;
  button.onClick.AddListener(() => panCam.enabled = true);
}

[wintry quarry]

why did that work for you!??

[hexed jungle]

thanks

[near finch]

hey can someone help me with a unity problem :)

im using unity 2d

[formal swan]

hmm I think that's what I was trying to do, I tried this method using the Input.System. Then I realised too late that the input mentioned there can't include the button I already made on there. How can I edit my script to use ur template?

[grand snow]

Sorry did you mean some input key/controller button and not a UI button?

[formal swan]

Well yea... I might have gotten it confused since I thought the inputs could include UI buttons, it sounded like the same category

[umbral pond]

hi im new to coding i was watching some tutorials for 2D but problem is its in old input system should i also learn old input system is it easy to convert its coding to new system or should i start from learning new input system and ignore old tutorials

[formal swan]

So I'm kinda stuck atm, Im not sure how to follow up from here, might have to rework my script. I'll try it the way u scripted ur example

[grand snow]

nah ui buttons are fully seperate. Input system is for physical input devices (mouse, keyboard, controller, touch screen)

[formal swan]

aw man, thought mouse included sth like click buttons ToT

[grand snow]

left and right click? ofcourse it does

[stoic dagger]

Wsp

[umbral pond]

im good

how about you

[stoic dagger]

I’m good tho

Guy’s

[umbral pond]

should i learn old input system im beginner

or ignore old tutorials

[grand snow]

go with the new one because you will need to learn about it at some point

[umbral pond]

aight

thanks

[near finch]

hey guys im new to unity! im using unity 2d to create a side scrolling game - quite simple but im stuck as the player just falls through the tilemap... i have followed some tutorials and nothing is being resolved. All the solutions say 'check composite collider' but there is not an option to do this...i have followed the tutorials exactly how they are supposed to be as well

[umbral pond]

do you guys know any resource or video to study new input system 2D ?

[cosmic quail]

does the player have a collider

[near finch]

yes

box collider 2d

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.15/manual/QuickStartGuide.html the official docs!

[umbral pond]

thx

[grand snow]

lets get you out of tutorial hell early

[cosmic quail]

make sure isTrigger is not checked
and does the tilemap also have a collider?

[near finch]

yeh the tilempa has a collider, is trigger is also not checked

[cosmic quail]

is it a TilemapCollider2D?

[near finch]

yepp

[cosmic quail]

and then did you add a composite collider 2d too? like all the tutorials are saying

[near finch]

yep

[umbral pond]

can you send ss with player components and groudn components

[cosmic quail]

and on the tilemap collider, you checked "used by composite"?

[near finch]

you see it doesnt give me an option to do that

[cosmic quail]

can you show it?

[rugged mirage]

(I just got here so I don't really know the proper format to share code)

But I have a action input variable that reads the player WASD input in respects to a 3D space and is read as a vector3 in the script

[SerializeField] InputAction playerControls;
...
void Update()
moveDirection = playerControls.ReadValue<Vector3>();

Then in the fixed update I have a playercontroller (previously referenced in script use the playercontroller.Move() funtion

void fixedUpdate()
playerController.Move(moveDirection * playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

Then I have a basic camera movement function for the player

mouseX += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * sensitivity;
mouseY -= Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * sensitivity;

mouseY = Mathf.Clamp(mouseY, -60, 60);

playerCamera.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(mouseY, mouseX, playerCamera.transform.localRotation.z);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x, mouseX, transform.rotation.z);

The end goal here is to have the player's movement direction adjust with the way they are facing (as you see in many first person game) but I can't figure out how to stop the player from moving around based on world scale and have them move around based on local scale.

[near finch]

i tired setting composite operation to none

[grand snow]

you can rotate the input vector using the players world rotation
also i am curious why you are using the new and old input systems together

[cosmic quail]

what's the Grid component for? haven't seen that before.

[near finch]

I think it was there by default

[formal swan]

Ok so I've tried to replace my current codes to match the template, but I'm not sure how to go on from here

[grand snow]

dont just mindlessly copy it... You didnt even clarify what kind of button you meant...

The point of the example was to illustrate how we can enable/disable the cinemachine camera in code

and my example used a UGUI (ui) button

[formal swan]

Sorry, I thought it fits cuz I do have a UI button set up

The button I want is from an image I set up in the canvas, how can I clarify that?

[grand snow]

cool then that is a UI button. You confused me with talk of the input system

[grand snow]

correct your spelling and it should then work

[formal swan]

yea I confused myself too lol

[grand snow]

also images of code suck, send code as text or use a !code site

[radiant void]

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[formal swan]

Ok let me give it a try 👍

[rugged mirage]

well I am learning the new input system and i struggled to get it to work with the mouse so I put it off and then decided to try again with WASD and it worked out pretty well so I am probably going to go back and quickly modify the code with the new input system (also rotating around world space doesn't work)

[cosmic quail]

just set the composite operation to something and it should work

they removed that "used by composite" thing because its not needed

[grand snow]

it does work:

Vector2 input = move.ReadValue<Vector2>();

Vector3 rotatedInput = transform.rotation * new Vector3(input.x, 0f, input.y);

[near finch]

i tried them all. its not working :,)

[rugged mirage]

Well I tried this and landed at the same result where the player just moves in 4 direction in world space regardless of how the player is facing (you can see this with the static position arrows while the playercamera is facing a different direction)

[grand snow]

you can use your cameras rotation instead then.
The point is that we rotate the input vector using some Quaternion so its oriented correctly.
If your "player" never gets rotated then dont use its rotation for this process.

Ideally you rotate your player on Y and rotate your camera on X (only for both)

THEN this should work much better

[fervent bramble]

Can someone help me I want to make a first person game but use this free model i found on the asset store called banana man https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/banana-man-196830 and give him movement and eyes. I tried using the free offical unity first person controller prefab and replacing the character but that doesn't work please i need some help

[rugged mirage]

Well the player does rotate with the camera (sorry for not carrifying that) its just that it keeps forcing the player to move around the world space with the .Move() function of the playercontroller (this is the same for linearvelocity with rigidbodies) and I think I just need to move the player based around its local position/rotation

[grand snow]

unity doesnt use nuget so

[grand snow]

Oh well you can use functions in Transform to go from a local to world direction vector if you need world space:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.TransformVector.html

[sudden cypress]

Is new input system easier than old

[subtle hinge]

https://github.com/fatoastcatbruh/Script

Really need some help fixing something. Im making a multiplayer card game about diseases. I need to update a bool in the enemys BodyUI script from the player who plays the card "HC()". Right now the player playing the card doesnt have access to the other players BodyUI script for some reason. Pls help thanks 🙂

[fervent bramble]

Can someone help me I want to make a first person game but use this free model i found on the asset store called banana man https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/banana-man-196830 and give him movement and eyes. I tried using the free offical unity first person controller prefab and replacing the character but that doesn't work please i need some help

Can i get some help with my game

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, and it's the preferred. Best to watch tutorials on how to setup. Will save you time in the long run . . .

[solar hill]

we are going to need a lot more context

[fervent bramble]

wdym

[stoic dagger]

Guys I just need a help.

[solar hill]

We need to know more about your setup

how your handling certain things

exactly whats not working etc.

[cosmic dagger]

Don't ask to ask, just ask . . .

[sudden cypress]

Is it different to code than say using vertical and horizontal to move

[stoic dagger]

How to change the brown grid colour into other colour can you give me some guidelines thanks.

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, you access the controls/values differently, but once set up, it's easy to configure and use across all of your scripts . . .

[fervent bramble]

I don't know how to give my player movemnt and really can't code so i am asking if anyone has a video or an asset the allows me to eaisly give a humanoid such as this https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/banana-man-196830 to be controlled by the player and have a camera in the first person perspective

[sudden cypress]

Hmm ill look into it for next project thanks

[solar hill]

theres no drag and drop solution for what you are asking

not without understanding a couple of nuanced things

you are best off watching seperate tutorials for player controllers and animator implementation

[stoic dagger]

?Huh

[fervent bramble]

do you have any recomendations

[solar hill]

for the animator i can recommend this series:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwyUzJb_FNeTQwyGujWRLqnfKpV-cj-eO&si=CvNJ8VnEjayeuQY-

as for the controller theres a million tutorials out there

[rotund needle]

necesito ayuda

[stoic dagger]

Guy’s I already send it out can someone give me some advice

[stoic dagger]

Over here

Check the refer over here.

[rotund needle]

ayuda

[solar hill]

Edit ---> Preferences ---> Colors

[stoic dagger]

Where is the Edit?

[rotund needle]

como ago para que funcione el sistema de puntos de recolecion

[stoic dagger]

I couldn’t find it.

[edgy sinew]

Program menu, next to File

[solar hill]

most people here wont be able to help you if they dont understand you

[edgy sinew]

Like top of your screen literally of the window bar

[cosmic dagger]

Uhh, in the toolbar . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Sorry, this is an english server. Most people won't be able to help if it's in another language . . .

[rotund needle]

How do I make a points system?

I tried to make a system but it works for me

[cosmic dagger]

Oh, that's a broad question . . .

[stoic dagger]

I couldn’t find it

Where’s the toolbar or the means edit

[edgy sinew]

To collect the trash bags on the map?
YouTube “Unity coin collect” should be fine …

[cosmic dagger]

Easiest answer is to create a class that stores points. When an event happens (where the player gains points), add X amount of points to the total points . . .

[edgy sinew]

Go to the recent picture sent from the other guy. Look at the top of screen. Top left. “Edit”

[cosmic dagger]

What have you tried?

[cosmic dagger]

It's the menu area for the editor. The same place where you save the file . . .

[tawdry valley]

Hi, how can i make Don't starve camera rotation in unity 2d?

[solar hill]

now when you say camera rotation do you just mean a camera you can rotate every 45 degrees

or do you mean like a system that automatically updates sprites relative to the cameras position

so everything appears to be consistently facing the same direction relative to the camera

[tawdry valley]

actually i am still learning game dev so which one would work well?

[wintry quarry]

they would both work

[solar hill]

well the first one can be done within one script

[wintry quarry]

this is a question of how you want your game to work

[solar hill]

but the second one is a crazy amount of effort to get right

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1390716509638098995/1400201207318057082/drifterclipawesome_1.mp4?ex=68ecacbe&is=68eb5b3e&hm=8ec6298b2f2d028589633ac82aecd259374107f52e0dce1d7ba3391437f4f1ed&

i did something pretty much exactly like that

[stoic dagger]

I find the edit

[solar hill]

its gonna involve a lot of animation states and transitions so youre pretty much gonna have to handle most of the animation updates through code for example

i used animancer

[tawdry valley]

this looks really good. You just rotating the camera?

[solar hill]

yeah the camera rotates at fixed 45 degree angles

[solar hill]

smoothed it out so it looks seamless

[stoic dagger]

Which one

[solar hill]

but the sprites on the characters dynamically updates

so it appears as if they are always facing the same direction regardless of cameras rotation

[keen summit]

guys i'm having some trouble with my camera and i cant seem to figure out why, so as shown in the image below i got a player prefab which has a camera which follows the view of the FP camera (from cinemachine). now im trying to make it mutliplayer but everytime a client joins the game, my camera object gets his live camera (the camera it follows) set to the newly joint client, how do i fix this?

[solar hill]

it also requires an 8 directional sprite set up*

that means for every animation you have you gotta have 8 more like it.

[umbral pond]

hi i need help with input actions 2D

[tawdry valley]

Thanks a lot

[solar hill]

does the camera actually exist in the scene outside of the prefab?

[wintry quarry]

You should destroy/disable any cameras and cinemachine cameras that are not for the local player

or - only add them for the local player

[keen summit]

yeah if the host spawns or a client spawns their respective camera gets created

[keen summit]

hmm ok i can try to look into that

[wintry quarry]

do you understand why? Your issue is simple

you're making a camera for the other players

and the camera is working

so that's what you see

[umbral pond]

im trying to do basic movement script adapted to new input system idk which functions to choose

[wintry quarry]

you would need to make functions to handle the input

make them

then select them

[keen summit]

yeah i understand why, but im just very new to networking so i just have no idea on how to code that but ill figure that out now. thx!

[wintry quarry]

pretty simple. Something like cs if (!isLocalPlayer) DestroyCameras();

(translate that to however your network framework does things)

[tawdry valley]

I deleted default inputaction file and create a new one. But i am receiving this warnings. How can i fix it?

[umbral pond]

i cant find functios from my script selection

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.15/manual/QuickStartGuide.html i referenced from here while writing script is there something i did wrong?

[wintry quarry]

because you didn't write any. But your code looks like it's just directly polling the input data in Update so there's no need to be assigning anything in the inspector anyway, assuming you actually hooked up the moveAction reference

[wintry quarry]

Check your UI input module

[umbral pond]

alright

ill try if it works

[wintry quarry]

looks like it's trying to read from an action asset that doesn't have the standard UI action map.

[wintry quarry]

Actually since you're using InputSystem.actions there is no reason you should also have the PlayerInput component on your player at all. Remove it

[umbral pond]

yo it actually works

[tawdry valley]

where is it ? 🙂

[wintry quarry]

On the EventSystem object

[umbral pond]

alright thank you

[keen summit]

but the problem is that the host's camera lerps towards the position of the client's camera (not the actual camera, just the cinemachine camera). so if i would just destroy all cameras it would still lerp towards that cinemachine camera, so should i just destroy the new cinemachine camera then?

[tawdry valley]

it's a new project and i dont have eventsystem object

[umbral pond]

also i have a question

[wintry quarry]

Reread what I wrote:

You should destroy/disable any cameras and cinemachine cameras that are not for the local player

[wintry quarry]

yes you do

[umbral pond]

does someone knows how to variable jump height with new input system coding

[wintry quarry]

because that's what's giving the error

check your scene hierarchy

[umbral pond]

or is there any resource or video i can check

[wintry quarry]

it's no different from how you would with the old input system.

once you get the input data, the code is the same

[tawdry valley]

i just created a canvas and eventsystem appeared. Thanks

[umbral pond]

i dont know old input one too so if i watch tutorial on old input variable jump height can i use it on new one too?

[wintry quarry]

do yoiu have multiple scenes or something? What objects are in your scene?

[edgy sinew]

Yeah you’d have to use the 3 provided context types, started performed canceled

[wintry quarry]

the logic is the same, you just need to apply it using input data you get from the new system

[edgy sinew]

The main idea is you have to know “how long the button is held”

[wintry quarry]

no he wouldn't

[tawdry valley]

it's completely a new 2d project. there is only a few objects in scene

[wintry quarry]

not the way he is doing it

[edgy sinew]

Okay, no he wouldnt

[wintry quarry]

when and where did you see that error

[tawdry valley]

i deleted default inputaction file and created my own

[edgy sinew]

YouTube “unity variable jump height” pick the newest & shiniest looking videos

[umbral pond]

aight

[wintry quarry]

but that error only comes from the UI Input module

so it would only happen if you have one

[tawdry valley]

i didn't understand 😄 i just created a canvas and eventsystem object appeared. And i remove inputsystem component on eventststem. Everything works now

[wintry quarry]

your UI won't be interactable without the input module

[tawdry valley]

i will add again when i need it. still learning game dev 🙂 Thanks a lot

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

   // Jump
if (jumpAction.action.triggered && groundedPlayer){
  playerVelocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2.0f * gravityValue);
}```

[umbral pond]

yooo

can i use this on new system

[rich adder]

literally the whole point of why I sent that line.. That is the new input system

[umbral pond]

Thank you

[rich adder]

thats just one of many ways it can be done

[umbral pond]

and

im not sure but i should add this interaction for jump right?

[rich adder]

don't you have it already ? the default Action Map asset already comes with FIre, Jump, Move etc.

[wintry quarry]

you don't need any interaction. Delete it

[umbral pond]

i made new action map asset

[umbral pond]

alright

[wintry quarry]

there's a default interaction that's just fine for your needs

[umbral pond]

i dont have something named gravityValue "float gravityValue = 3f;" would this be enough

i set my player's gravity to 3

also i dont PlayerVelocity but its just rb.linearvelocity right?

[rich adder]

yes becuase it was an example for the input itself, if you're using rigidbody you would need to assign the y value of linearVelocity for the jump or use Impulse

[umbral pond]

alright

what about gravity value

[rich adder]

thats not important if you're using rigidbody already multiplied by Gravity if its on

[umbral pond]

should i just remove it then

"gravityValue" part

[rich adder]

its very simple
either do
rb.linearVelocity = new (move.x * speed, rb.linearVelocity.y)
//Jump
rb.AddForce( Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse)
or
rb.linearVelocity = new (rb.linearVelocity.x, jumpForce)

[umbral pond]

aight

can i ping you if i get an error

[rich adder]

You can post here and someone or me would likely see it, as long as you provide all proper context

[umbral pond]

alright

thanks for help

'InputAction' does not contain a definition for 'action' and no accessible extension method 'action' accepting a first argument of type 'InputAction' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) im getting this error for this "if (jumpAction.action.triggered && isGrounded)" i hope translation is true

@rich adder

[rich adder]

well if you looked at the docs I sent, jumpAction is defined as InputActionReference which you probably did not declare it as that

public InputActionReference jumpAction; // expects Button

[umbral pond]

ill check it

[rich adder]

ActionReference lets you drag n drop actions from the ActionMap directly

[stoic dagger]

How to change under the grid colour ?

Those grey colour how to change it?

[rich adder]

not a code question #💻┃unity-talk
if you're talking about the Gray part of the skybox, you need to assign your own skybox called "procedural skybox" and then you change those tints

[umbral pond]

is CharacterController component only for 3D?

[rich adder]

yes

[stoic dagger]

So I have to create another platform?

And than delete this project to refer a new project

[rich adder]

what do you mean another platform ?

[stoic dagger]

Like open a new procedural skybox

[rich adder]

no you create a new material and assign it that shader

[stoic dagger]

How to do that

[rich adder]

then you assign that material in the Skybox field of the Lighting tab

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/skyboxes-using.html

[stoic dagger]

Fair enough thanks btw

[umbral pond]

i created 2D physics material made friction and bounciness to 0 wanted to add it to Player/BoxCollider2D/Material but i cant add it

oh its not 2D

mb

[fervent bramble]

Do yall have any recomendations for how to learn c# or whatever the f unity uses cuz i can follow tutorials only to an extent and they all sound like giberish to me

[rich adder]

check resources pinned here

!learn too

[radiant void]

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[fervent bramble]

thanks

[rich adder]

also something like this before tackling unity is a good idea
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/csharp-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners/

these are the building blocks to most of everything you will be doing

[fervent bramble]

ok thanks

[rich adder]

Unity has its own API (functions and patterns) but harder to understand if you dont already distinguish between the two early on

[fervent bramble]

ok

!code

[radiant void]

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[fervent bramble]

https://paste.mod.gg/civofmelllor/0 Error "Assets\Adam O'Keefe\FinalCharacterControler\Scripts\PlayerLocomotionInput.cs(6,72): error CS0426: The type name 'IPlayerLocomotionActions' does not exist in the type 'PlayerControls'"

[rich adder]

.. you're new to coding you should not be messing with premade code especially you don't understand

[fervent bramble]

I am following this tutorial https://youtu.be/muAzcpAg3lg?t=752

[wintry quarry]

your input action asset doesn't have an action map named "PlayerLocomotion"

[fervent bramble]

oh it is named PlayerLocomotionMap

[rich adder]

why even ask for how to learn c# then jump immediately to something this complex lol

[wintry quarry]

You need to go back to around 6:20 in the video and make sure you do everything the same as the tutorial

[wintry quarry]

He wrote IPlayerLocomotionMapActions here