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[naive pawn]

what's the type of dialogueText?

[teal viper]

That would imply that your ide is not configured correctly.

[naive pawn]

ah wait missed some context

[sharp ridge]

TMP_Text

[naive pawn]

yeah sounds like a missing configuration thing

try regenerating project files, perhaps

[sharp ridge]

Due to me working on GitHub in Unity 6 I have been deleting the library very frequently maybe that's what gave the problem? Like, I've been working on this project for like a week and a half and it never gave me the problem until today

[naive pawn]

huh? you shouldn't be resetting the library frequently

vcs doesn't change that

vcs shouldn't care about the library outright - it should be in the .gitignore

[sharp ridge]

Oh true, fully forgot to do that

[naive pawn]

make sure you have the proper unity .gitignore set, and check if you've committed anything you shouldntve

have you been resetting the library while unity's still open?

[sharp ridge]

Nope, i always close beforehand

[naive pawn]

alright, that's.. good, relatively

resetting the library is an editor debug kind of thing, definitely not something you'd be doing regularly

have you tried regenerating project files?

this is unrelated to the library, it is about the sln files i believe

[sharp ridge]

Not sure what this means...

[naive pawn]

it's a button in the external tools page in preferences iirc

might be in project settings. probably not?

[sharp ridge]

Okay I will check it

[teal viper]

In preferences

[sharp ridge]

Seems to have fixed the issue!! Thanks!! I will definetely add the library to .gitignore, no clue how I forgot about it

[grave frost]

Sorry I didn't see this till now.

Repeatedly getting items from a dictionary who's key is System.Type. Happens a handful of times per second.

[naive pawn]

no, use the premade gitignore for unity projects

it's not just the library that should be ignored

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore

[sharp ridge]

Didn't know this was a thing

Thats so nice

[naive pawn]

add stuff like .DS_Store or *.thumb if needed, but this is the base you should use

there are a ton of premade .gitignores

there's a prompt to add one if you create a repo in github or github desktop, too

[sharp ridge]

I will have it in mind for the next project I work on thanks!

[grave frost]

You might also want to add lighting data to git ignore specifically, especially if your scenes are large. Do this BEFORE tracking the file if you chose to. (You might do this because you dont want to pay for LFS storage but your individual files are too large for git)

[sonic dome]

i cant find the error script

why is this happening

[floral garden]

as said, go in edit and search the missing script on all gameobject

[sonic dome]

thanks

why does this happen

and yes i do init it

okay so its cuz it hasnt Instancitated yet

but how do i make sure it is and only then sub

[urban iron]

I had error like this this friday i cleared it by making void public and calling it in the if statement in update maybe that could help

[sonic dome]

i just used a coroutine until it wasnt null then used it

seems to work

[urban iron]

Oh ok

[sonic dome]

how do i istall this?

[naive pawn]

install the module from the unity hub

[graceful fractal]

I would please ask for a bit of advice on how to do a system like this.

I am doing a simple system where I have a bunch of individual tiles that have there own functionality when the player steps on them.

The trigger isn't important here.

What I need help with is the following:

Each individual tile is intended to override this function and add their own functionality in them, however I would like the function to retain these If Statements (Yes, I will be converting it to a switch case soon).

Is there a way to only inject a line of code where that comment is?

instead of overriding the entire function?

[hallow acorn]

can someone tell me why my chunks are spawning only somewhere old chunks already are and not where its empty? https://paste.ofcode.org/jt3MkVaAuZSQ4VnMshjHYd

[grand snow]

easy, you keep this functionality in the base class and have another function that you overide that is called at this point.

[slender nymph]

Call some other method there that your tiles are expected to override instead

[graceful fractal]

That is...

fuck, why didn't I think of that

thank you

[sour fulcrum]

Just food for thought, might be worth considering if you want that tileIsTriggered event to fire after the inheriting call or not

you might want it before but worth double checking

[graceful fractal]

How do you mean? May I kindly ask you to elaborate please.

[sour fulcrum]

I don't know the context surrounding your game but eg. if some outside party is listening to a specific tile's tileIsTriggered event, would you want that tiles OnPlayerTrigger() code to run before or after that outside party receives the event invoke

if the Tiles response to the player trigger happening potentially changes the state of the tile, you might want that to happen before outside parties recieve notice that something happened

[graceful fractal]

I think I should name it better, but that even is simply there for all VFX systems that are attached to the tile to listen to and know when to play.

[sour fulcrum]

fair, though that could also lead to some good examples !

random example being like maybe it was a ground type tile, player walks in, some inherited logic causes it to change to a water type tile

perhaps the vfx code should be firing after that change

etc.

you know what your code needs to be doing though 😄

[graceful fractal]

mhm, but I genuinely appreciate the advice

thank you

IF i may ask another thing, should I avoid using Coroutines or is it fine

Said VFX i have coded as this, and I am slightly bothered that I have a function that starts a coroutine.

I'm trying to think if there is not a way I can make the function work as an Async, but so far DOTween has not been co-operative in this regard

Is there a better way of doing this or is this fine?

[grand snow]

coroutines or async will achieve the same goal so probably fine

unless you use async already i wouldnt start now as you will surely encounter problems

[sour fulcrum]

Plus your being a smarty pants and seperating the logic into a single function so not a huge pain to mess around with it later if you have to 🙂

[graceful fractal]

at my previous job, one of the senior devs told me to avoid using Coroutines because they create performance issues

ever since then I have been hesitant to use coroutines and I only discovered async recently, so I am not sure to what extent they are similiar

[naive pawn]

they're all more work, really

if you overuse them, sure, it can cause issues

but that's true for anything

[graceful fractal]

that is true

[fast relic]

you can use a sequence instead

[iron mango]

I am instantiating Gameobjects with meshcolliders. Is there a way to check if the collider of object 2 overrides the collider of object 1 and then move object 2 away from object 1 untill their colliders don't overlap anymore?

[fast relic]

you can get both of their bounding boxes with Collider.bounds and then check if they intersect with Bounds.Intersects

[grand snow]

An easy way may be to use the collder extents and centers to then work out how far one or both should move to no longer touch

[shadow iron]

so I created like a "planet" (rlly rn just a big sphere) in blender with a relativly small tunnle in it, however when i try to add a collider to it in unity it doesnt add anything, how cna I fix this? (I can send the blender asset if its needed or rlly anything, also im not sure if this is the cforrect channel or not)

[iron mango]

What type of collider are you adding?

[shadow iron]

mesh collider, and the convex is set to false

[iron mango]

And like are you only adding that to the parent only?

[shadow iron]

I think maybe its cuz its too big? if so how do I make it do it in sections or smth

[shadow iron]

Im adding it only to the sphere object cuz blender added a camera and light source so I unpacked it and deleted the camera and light and then added that to the ssphere

[iron mango]

Show hierarchy

[fast relic]

-# why not just delete them in blender

[shadow iron]

cuz i forgot lol

[shadow iron]

this si the screen rn

everything other then the sphere object is otherstuff thats unimportant rlly

[iron mango]

I forgot this was programming..

Ask #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[feral moon]

I have problems with climbing on objects

Here you can see that I stand for some time on one side, and then go to the other - he teleports to the previous side.

Method: https://hastebin.com/share/ohuwikerot.kotlin

[sour fulcrum]

that is a lot of commenting

and a lot of this. 🤔

[feral moon]

The main problem for me is here:

case ParkourType.LiftUp: if (percentageTime < ParkourMovement.parkourAnimationVitalPercentagePoint) { transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(startPosition, obstacleVitalHeightPoint, Mathf.InverseLerp(0, ParkourMovement.parkourAnimationVitalPercentagePoint, percentageTime)); } else { if (ParkourMovement.enableRootMotion == true && percentageTime >= ParkourMovement.enableRootMotionPercentage) this.ABCEntity.animator.applyRootMotion = true; else transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(obstacleVitalHeightPoint, obstacleHeightPoint, Mathf.InverseLerp(ParkourMovement.parkourAnimationVitalPercentagePoint, ParkourMovement.enableRootMotion ? ParkourMovement.enableRootMotionPercentage : 100, percentageTime)); }

[sonic dome]

        foreach (Transform child in parent.transform)
        {
            Destroy(child.gameObject);
        }

is this how i delete all the children of a parent?

[naive pawn]

sure, that works

[languid pagoda]

that is 100% chatgpt code

[red igloo]

Like this? || sorry for the late reply xd||

[naive pawn]

sure

you might be detecting the ground right after you jump, depending on how large the radius and distance are

[red igloo]

This is what happens

[earnest oak]

hey yall does anyone know the game megabonk im a developer with years of expierence but i cant seem to get a similiar look anyone know how they achieve it?

[red igloo]

Its not that large where it would cause that problem. Well in the console its telling me that hasJumped is false but when I jump it isn't true.

[naive pawn]

add a log for when you jump/set hasJumped true. see if there are "hasJumped false" logs after you jump

[languid pagoda]

whys your unity blue

[naive pawn]

playmode tint is customizable

[languid pagoda]

interesting

[red igloo]

Its only true for a split second.

[red igloo]

Edit → Preferences → Colors → under General Playmode Tint

[hard tapir]

I made a shield fall down, if a player touches it the shield spawns to them (ill make it the players child later) anyways I want to destroy the shield If I hit an enemy but It says that newShield doesnt exist in current context. I frankly have no clue how to fix this so help would be great! thanks

[rocky canyon]

b/c you create it inside this function

you can't access it anywhere but that function. (local variable)

if u want to access it elsewhere make it a class variable instead

[hard tapir]

so I need to set it at the stat and then Instantiate(newShield, ......)?

[rocky canyon]

{newShield = instantiate;}```

[naive pawn]

to be pedantic, within that scope rather than that function

[rocky canyon]

ya, that ^

but the variable outside the functions.. like u do any other variable

[hard tapir]

got it

[rocky canyon]

👍

[hard tapir]

what does this line mean?:
{GameObject newShield = instantiate;}

[naive pawn]

wherever you have Type name, that is a declaration
a variable only exists within its declared scope - to simplify, basically {} creates a scope

[rocky canyon]

GameObject newSheild; {newShield = instantiate;} just shorthand showing that the variable isn't within the {}s

[hard tapir]

ohh

[rocky canyon]

^ yea

[naive pawn]

so if you want to access a variable in different scopes, the variable's declaration has to be higher than or equal to those scopes

[hard tapir]

ohh

ty u both!

[rocky canyon]

good luck 🍀

[hard tapir]

much appreciated

[next birch]

hi, i have a weird issue with my 3d animations:

i made a player model and imported it to my scene. to add animations later on, i exported them without the model but with the same armature. i made a player avatar from my model. everything worked fine. now i imported new animations with the same armature again. but for some reason, the new ones break the animator. unity somehow does not see the new ones as humanoid animations even tho i have the exact same import settings as on the other armature with previous animations

[red igloo]

I think the issue might be my ground check triggering immediately after jumping, detecting the ground for 1-2 extra frames and resetting it right away.

[naive pawn]

that is exactly what i said

also what nav said

[red igloo]

how can I fix it? shall I add a small delay after jump before allowing isGrounded to become true again.

[naive pawn]

sure, or make the ground check more accurate

[rocky canyon]

like a groundCheck buffer

if(hit) lastGroundTime = Time.time;
isGrounded = Time.time - lastGroundTime <= groundBuffer;```

may want consider making it a bit more robust..
like coyote time + jump buffering

would give a smoother feel and more stable/predictable jumps

[iron mango]

Bounds: Center: (0.00, 0.00, 0.00), Extents: (0.00, 0.00, 0.00) | name: object(Clone)
SECOND Bounds: Center: (0.00, 1.98, -5.42), Extents: (0.00, 0.00, 0.00) | name: object(Clone)1

                if (bounds.Intersects(boundsNew))
                {
                    Debug.Log("NEW BOUNDS INTERSECTS WITH PREVIOUS ROOM");
                }

I get this issue but maybe I am doing something wrong..

It doesn't log so meaning Unity is saying it doesn't intersect with the second room?

But they clearly override

Both have a mesh collider

[cosmic dagger]

you mean intersect?

[iron mango]

yes

sorry

[keen dew]

It's clearly gone wrong if the extents are zero. You can't use that anyway to check if mesh colliders intersect. See e.g. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.ComputePenetration.html

[iron mango]

So I can't use that to check if mesh colliders intersect?

[keen dew]

You can't use Collider.bounds, no

[hard tapir]

how do I send my code all pretty like that?

[slender nymph]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[iron mango]

So I should use that instead?

[keen dew]

That's why I linked it, yes

[hard tapir]

using UnityEngine;

public class playerDie : MonoBehaviour
{
    GameObject newSheild;
    [SerializeField] GameObject sheild;

    public bool sheildOn = false;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Shield" && (sheildOn == false))
        {
            Destroy(other.gameObject);
            GameObject newSheild = Instantiate(sheild, new Vector3(gameObject.transform.position.x, gameObject.transform.position.y, -  1f), Quaternion.identity);
            newSheild.transform.parent = gameObject.transform;
            sheildOn = true;
        }

        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Enemy" && (sheildOn == false))
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }

        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Enemy" && (sheildOn))
        {
            Destroy(newSheild);
            Debug.Log("destroyed");
            sheildOn = false;
        }
 
    }
}

[vital otter]

im having so much trouble with making smooth movement, and i dont know if I should send what I want to do in this channel.

[hard tapir]

exscuse my messy code, but I have a shield that I have saved to the GameObject new shield, at the end of the script im trying to destory it but it wont work, any1 knows why?

[vital otter]

show the code

[hard tapir]

using UnityEngine;

public class playerDie : MonoBehaviour
{
    GameObject newSheild;
    [SerializeField] GameObject sheild;

    public bool sheildOn = false;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Shield" && (sheildOn == false))
        {
            Destroy(other.gameObject);
            GameObject newSheild = Instantiate(sheild, new Vector3(gameObject.transform.position.x, gameObject.transform.position.y, -  1f), Quaternion.identity);
            newSheild.transform.parent = gameObject.transform;
            sheildOn = true;
        }

        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Enemy" && (sheildOn == false))
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }

        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Enemy" && (sheildOn))
        {
            Destroy(newSheild);
            Debug.Log("destroyed");
            sheildOn = false;
        }
 
    }
}

[vital otter]

well... im not sure. Maybe newShield is getting either reassigned or its not properly assigned?

[naive pawn]

sheildOn == false could just be !sheildOn btw

[keen dew]

You're making a new newSheild (sic) variable inside the OnCollisionEnter method. Remove the GameObject part from the start of the line to use the correct variable

[vital otter]

wait is the player getting destroyed when you collide with an enemy?

oh i see
discord could do with some color in the code blocks.

[slender nymph]

discord only colors keywords, it isn't analyzing the code to provide syntax highlighting for specific types of tokens like an actual IDE would. that would just be silly tbh

[vital otter]

useful though

[hard tapir]

omg ur a life saver

ive been trying for like an hour

[vital otter]

maybe a discord bot to edit messages could do that?
I heard that format can have coloured text?

[hard tapir]

oh ty idrk the c# syntax just yet so this is very helpfull

[slender nymph]

a bot likely wouldn't be able to add color to code blocks because code blocks just print what is literally there and don't do extra formatting based on tags/markdown/etc

at best a bot could create an embed on its own messages that would have correct syntax highlighting for all tokens, but then the code would have to be posted more than once (since the bot is then reposting it) and it would just be clutter

[vital otter]

but then it could delete the old message?

[slender nymph]

whoops there goes the context that was included with the code

[vital otter]

it could add all context before and after. Maybe it repastes the message and in a code block it formats it.

[slender nymph]

whoops now you can't ping the user directly using the reply feature.
it's very unlikely that anything like what you are describing currently exists or even if it did it's unlikely to be added. if you want to make suggestions for things to be added to the server though, post it in #1161868835423526933

[naive pawn]

there is an ansi thing actually

but yeah, context gone

[vital otter]

does anyone know how to make smooth movement?

[naive pawn]

that's quite a vague question

[slender nymph]

there are plenty of ways, and a lot of it depends on context

[vital otter]

well, i want the player to follow the cursor on the x axis. It has to accelerate towards and decelerate before the target so it stop directly on top of it. It also needs to have a velocity so it has to slow down to change directions.

oh, and acceleration and moveSpeed are also needed
moveSpeed is the max speed of the player

[slender nymph]

It has to accelerate towards and decelerate before the target so it stop directly on top of it
sounds like you want a smooth damp

[vital otter]

i have no idea how to use smoothdamp at all :/

[slender nymph]

good thing google exists so you can find out!

[vital otter]

so is smoothTime the acceleration or the inverse of the acceleration?

[slender nymph]

what does the documentation say

[vital otter]

smoothTime Approximately the time it will take to reach the target. A smaller value will reach the target faster.

but what does it mean?

[edgy sinew]

Huge topic here yeah. Of course

It means, lower values reach the target faster. That's it

[slender nymph]

it means that "smoothTime" is approximately how long it will take to reach the target position

[vital otter]

i could try using it
but if its completely broken well... yeah

[slender nymph]

well if it ends up completely broken, it will be entirely because of how you set up your code. and of course you won't know until you try it. so either go try it, or if you are expecting to be spoonfed the code here you can go somewhere else where that nonsense is tolerated

[vital otter]

so what part of smoothdamp controls the acceleration?

[rich adder]

that's literally part of development process

[vital otter]

and how do i fit the acceleration variable into it?

[rich adder]

You pass it in

[naive pawn]

you don't

you can't set the acceleration

you get high acceleration if you have move a large distance in a small amount of time

[edgy sinew]

There's no "acceleration", in the sense that "increasing the acceleration makes it approach faster"
You set the "approach time" - obviously less time means faster approach

[vital otter]

which means faster acceleration?

[naive pawn]

you shouldn't be caring about acceleration with smoothdamp

[slender nymph]

acceleration is the change in velocity divided by the change in time. use that knowledge to determine the acceleration based on the other factors you pass in, like the time and velocity

[naive pawn]

though, the acceleration isn't constant

[vital otter]

wow, the velocity is approaching zero really quickly
not a good look imo

[naive pawn]

i'd guess the velocity follows a parabola

so the acceleration would be linear

jerk would be constant

[vital otter]

itll have to do i guess
ill make the player rotate to match the direction

I've done the code

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -velocity.x);```

[thorn holly]

Snap crackle and pop would be zero

lol

[naive pawn]

yeah

[hallow acorn]

can someone tell me why my chunks are spawning on each other and not where its empty? https://paste.ofcode.org/jt3MkVaAuZSQ4VnMshjHYd

[winged ridge]

Look at the last method, you tell it to spawn chunks on the position, but don't mention offsets

[hallow acorn]

so + Math.FloorToInt(transform.position / width) essentially?

[winged ridge]

How big are your chunks

[hallow acorn]

32 units on x and z

[winged ridge]

So you'd need to offset position based on this concept.
FloorToInt rounds a number to a integer value.
You'd want to set your offsets on xyz for spawning chunks at your width and height values

[languid pagoda]

do asset bundles have to be created in by the project they''re loaded in?

[hallow acorn]

i dont get it

what do i have to offst it doesnt make sense in my head

[winged ridge]

If we take a vector value of 0,0,0 and add an offset to the y by 1, it would be 0,1,0
Your code repeatedly spawns chunks at the same position which. You haven't got it calculating the offset and spawning a chunk there. As your doing X,0,Z for your values you'd want
X+offset,0,Z+offest

[hallow acorn]

okay i got that but how do i get the offset?

[edgy sinew]

⭐ hi guys, is anyone familiar with when to use Vector.Slerp over Vector.Lerp ?

Context
I've switched my camera rotation smoothing to use Quaternion.Slerp instead of SmoothDamp-ing the targetYaw & targetPitch individually. Which feels, amazingly better

🤔 Now, I've switched my camera follow to use Vector.Slerp and it feels... different.** Is that just, funky & wrong application of Vector3.Slerp?**
(inb4 WrongLerp, I'm using the 1 - Mathf.Exp trick from UnityHowHuh)

[winged ridge]

Generally, one way to do it is to take in your offset as a variable for your method. Or you could use your width and height variables

[hallow acorn]

wdym?

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector3.Slerp.html

The difference between this and linear interpolation (aka, "lerp") is that the vectors are treated as directions rather than points in space.

[winged ridge]

At this moment if you are struggling to apply offset, I'd have a look into how vectors work and how the Instantiate works.
But to put a brief example
pos = new Vector3(X+offset, 0, z+offset) etc
It will set your position to the X value plus your offset, and your z plus your offset (if the offsets are equal you'll get diagonal placement)

[edgy sinew]

Well yeah I read that. I figured I'd ask you guys for guidance, before I just A/B my entire game code to find out for myself.

[naive pawn]

slerp stands for spherical lerp. it follows an arc on the surface of an imaginary sphere, keeping the magnitude the same, as opposed to a straight line as lerp would

[hallow acorn]

i know but what is offset

[edgy sinew]

Yep. read that

[slender nymph]

do you think it makes more sense to treat the camera's position as a point in space or as a direction?

[edgy sinew]

I'd think, a point in space. So, not a Slerp.

But, it seems to feel fine with Slerp 🤷‍♂️ can't really tell if it's better or worse than Lerp

[naive pawn]

it's different. it has a different use

it's not better or worse in general

it might be better or worse for specific cases if you don't actually want the behavior that slerp gives

[edgy sinew]

I see. But ... "Most games" use _ ?

[naive pawn]

I've switched my camera follow to use Vector.Slerp
are you referring to rotation or position here?

[naive pawn]

the correct one for each task

[edgy sinew]

Position, rotation i switched to .Slerp instead of smoothing targetYaw and targetPitch individually (amazingly better)

[edgy sinew]

That's what im trying to learn yes 🤣 when to use which one

[naive pawn]

so does the camera position stay on the surface of an imaginary sphere centered on its parent's position?

no? then slerp is not what you want

[slender nymph]

we've already pointed out that lerp would be more appropriate for changing a position and slerp would be used for changing a direction. what more are you expecting here then?

[edgy sinew]

I'm thankful!! I love the way we dance around the answer here.

[naive pawn]

that is the answer

[edgy sinew]

In a "you already know the answer bro" kinda way

[slender nymph]

you're the one dancing around the answers we've literally provided

[naive pawn]

..because we just told you?

[edgy sinew]

I meant, thanks for confirming guys. I had a feeling Slerp wasn't right for position smoothing

[naive pawn]

if you're asking for confirmation, say so

[edgy sinew]

Will do!! Copy that

[naive pawn]

it just looked like you were asking the same question without applying any of the info we just gave

[slender nymph]

in that case you should probably get your idioms straight, because to "dance around" something means to intentionally avoid it which was the opposite of what we were doing by providing you the information

[edgy sinew]

Is that just, funky & wrong application of Vector3.Slerp?

kinda literally did ask for confirmation in initial post Ngl 🤷‍♂️

[naive pawn]

that's.. just a normal question

if your intent is that you have an assumption and you want to confirm it, you gotta make that clearer

we aren't psychic

[edgy sinew]

Oh got it! my bad

[calm agate]

yo im new to coding, like very new and im using unity, im trying to make a vr horror game, like big scaryn if you guys know that

and i need help lol, im hoprrible

i can pay if needed

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel that will teach you enough to know what you are doing. and the pathways on the unity learn site are a good place to learn the engine

!learn

[radiant void]

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[calm agate]

Thanks! does it coast money

cost

[slender nymph]

why not look and find out?

[errant knot]

You guys made this out like this is impossible

Value type = method(value type)
???

You can easily update the value of a value type variable by passing the variable by a method and assigning the result to itself, dont see what the problem is

As a noob coming here to see what advice you guys have, you guys way overcomplicated a simple topic

[stray fog]

Hi,
I am implementing a full body controller and I'm nearly there. Right now having an issue where the camera is bobbing due to animation and tilting as the animation affects the head. How do I achieve a camera that is stable and moves smoothly with the head when I look down or up e.g.
https://gist.github.com/Alwandy/6583c0a3a4a8466a37341c6391d71c5b

The camera is a child of head bone yes

[earnest oak]

why is my cinemachine camera y axes looping

[rocky canyon]

what do you mean by looping? what components are u using?

[solar hill]

youre going to need some kind of view stabilization

or rather some kind of decoupled look implementation

in fact im pretty sure final ik has something that can let you accomplish this pretty easily

[rocky canyon]

yup, i agree.. key is to decouple ur camera..
use the head to have a target for the camera to track in LateUpdate() or something...

Code -> rotates Camera or Camera Holder
Camera or Camera Holder -> tracks "Camera or Head Target"

[rich adder]

looping?

[earnest oak]

yes

like when moving camera y axes up up i go to the bottom rig

[rich adder]

you're gonna have to show the setup #🎥┃cinemachine

unless its code related then share that

[desert temple]

Odd question. I have several rotating objects in a scene, that can be rotated with a mouse. Each object has a circlecollider2d childed to them in an empty object. In the testing bar on the inspect, is a box collider2d that has a specific script on it, which checks to see if each circlecollider2d in question from each object, is present. From there, it is meant to activate the You Win panel, but unfortunately it is not doing that. Nor is it activating even the debugs put in to check.

Does anyone have any idea of what might be the issue?

using UnityEngine.UI;

public class TripleColliderTrigger2D : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Colliders to Check")]
    [SerializeField] private Collider2D colliderA;
    [SerializeField] private Collider2D colliderB;
    [SerializeField] private Collider2D colliderC;

    [Header("UI Panel to Activate")]
    [SerializeField] private GameObject targetPanel;

    private Collider2D thisCollider;

    void Awake()
    {
        thisCollider = GetComponent<Collider2D>();
        if (targetPanel != null)
            targetPanel.SetActive(false); // Hide it at start
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (thisCollider == null || colliderA == null || colliderB == null || colliderC == null)
            return;

        bool aTouch = thisCollider.IsTouching(colliderA);
        bool bTouch = thisCollider.IsTouching(colliderB);
        bool cTouch = thisCollider.IsTouching(colliderC);

        if (aTouch && bTouch && cTouch)
        {
            if (targetPanel != null && !targetPanel.activeSelf)
            {
                targetPanel.SetActive(true);
                Debug.Log(" All three colliders are touching � panel activated!");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            if (targetPanel != null && targetPanel.activeSelf)
            {
                targetPanel.SetActive(false);
                Debug.Log(" Not all colliders touching � panel deactivated.");
            }
        }
    }
}```

[stray fog]

oooh, I need to utilize LookAtIK more then, since it follows headTarget for its head / spine rotation

[desert temple]

Everything tells me it should work, but it isn't.

[stray fog]

So basically use the LookAtIK headtarget gotcha!

[solar hill]

do you mean you can look all the way around?

if so thats normally you just need to clamp the look.

[violet shoal]

hey hey hey i just joined bcz i needed help on unity urgently for a game jam that i have to complete the game for today and ive run into an extremely weird issue and id really appreciate if someone can help me, i typically code myself and use tutorials but today i had to resort to AI to but ive been going in circles and ive gotten nowhere, is anyone available

[solar hill]

you can just tell us whats wrong

so we can help you

[violet shoal]

im probably doing something stupid but i have been up for 2 days working on this as its my first game so bare w me at my noob-ness

ok so

my player transform isnt updating in the script

like i move my player around

and in my script in the update function, ive used my players transform to do other stuff

however after the game runs initially, the player transform never changes

even tho this is the update function

not start or awake

[solar hill]

ok we are going to need a bit more context, send us the script youre having the issue with

[radiant void]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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[violet shoal]

'''cs
private void Update()
{
if (player == null || animator == null || rb == null) return;

playerPosition = player.transform.position - transform.position;
Debug.Log(playerPosition);

// Face the player
if (playerPosition.magnitude < 5f)
{
    if (playerPosition.x > 0 && transform.localScale.x < 0)
    {
        facing = 1;
        transform.localScale = new Vector3(Mathf.Abs(transform.localScale.x), transform.localScale.y, transform.localScale.z);
    }
    else if (playerPosition.x < 0 && transform.localScale.x > 0)
    {
        facing = -1;
        transform.localScale = new Vector3(-Mathf.Abs(transform.localScale.x), transform.localScale.y, transform.localScale.z);
    }

    // Check if player is within attack range
    bool isInAttackRange = playerPosition.magnitude < 3f && Mathf.Abs(playerPosition.y) < 2f;

    // Update attack animation state
    if (isInAttackRange && Time.time >= lastAttackTime + attackCooldown)
    {
        if (!animator.GetBool("attack"))
        {
            rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
            animator.SetFloat("horizontal", 0);
            animator.SetFloat("vertical", 0);
            animator.SetBool("attack", true);
            StartCoroutine(ManageAttackHitbox());
        }
    }
    
}

}
'''

ok that didnt work

wait

[solar hill]

please look at the bot message

i sent it for a reason...

[violet shoal]

private void Update()
{
    if (player == null || animator == null || rb == null) return;

    playerPosition = player.transform.position - transform.position;
    Debug.Log(playerPosition);

    // Face the player
    if (playerPosition.magnitude < 5f)
    {
        if (playerPosition.x > 0 && transform.localScale.x < 0)
        {
            facing = 1;
            transform.localScale = new Vector3(Mathf.Abs(transform.localScale.x), transform.localScale.y, transform.localScale.z);
        }
        else if (playerPosition.x < 0 && transform.localScale.x > 0)
        {
            facing = -1;
            transform.localScale = new Vector3(-Mathf.Abs(transform.localScale.x), transform.localScale.y, transform.localScale.z);
        }

        // Check if player is within attack range
        bool isInAttackRange = playerPosition.magnitude < 3f && Mathf.Abs(playerPosition.y) < 2f;

        // Update attack animation state
        if (isInAttackRange && Time.time >= lastAttackTime + attackCooldown)
        {
            if (!animator.GetBool("attack"))
            {
                rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
                animator.SetFloat("horizontal", 0);
                animator.SetFloat("vertical", 0);
                animator.SetBool("attack", true);
                StartCoroutine(ManageAttackHitbox());
            }
        }
        
    }
    
}

[solar hill]

those arent hyphens

okay so whats not working here?

which part in particular

[violet shoal]

yeah i saw 😭 i used the apostrophes or wtv they are but they didnt work so i copy pasted from the bot msg instead

[solar hill]

okay disregard that, tell me what part of the update isnt running at all?

[violet shoal]

the player transform isnt updating so nothing else is running, the first lines where we calculate player position, no matter where i move it prints the same position every time in the console so i know its not updating every frame

[solar hill]

ok now its inside an if statement, have you debugged and ensured that your player, animation and rb isnt null?

[sour fulcrum]

Kinda concerning that ai is using .this so much, I tend to only see that when decompiling compiled c# :/

[solar hill]

also i dont think its good to have a return if statement that early inside your update function...

[violet shoal]

yes bcz when i move the enemy closer to the player manually, the other stuff that requires them to be close works, animations, rigidbody, etc, also no errors printed on console

[solar hill]

im not talking about errors

[sour fulcrum]

That’s very common

[solar hill]

actually you are right

idk why i said that lol

i guess i thought it was all one nested if statement?

its just a single check at the start of the update

[violet shoal]

ive tried without that as well, i first did it all mysellf, all these null checks were added by ai to debug when i finally gave up and asked it

[solar hill]

but it might also be the problem here, make sure you add a debug line for that if statement to check on all 3 conditions

[languid pagoda]

the sample code he provided probably had this. in it, it will follow your coding "style" but the fact nearly every line is commented is a dead giveaway

[solar hill]

also perfect grammar and em dashes in comment blocks

typically indicates its code written by ai

[rich adder]

fixing broken ai code should not part of this channel

[violet shoal]

except when i move the enemy close manually b4 running, everything works as intended but only with the transform at the beginning of the game

[sour fulcrum]

Might be nice in theory to force it to be a thread that must use a tag/label indicating that

[violet shoal]

yeah ik i mentioned that, ive been at this all day i gave up at some point and went to ai, it was no help either, then i came here

[solar hill]

we werent talking about you

[solar hill]

anyways i have no clue honestly, when something breaks for me like that i shower it in a shit ton of debug lines to see what stops where

especially when you have a lot of if statements.

[violet shoal]

i know for sure that the player transform isnt updating, what i dont know is why, it is supposed to update, right? when we move?

im questioning everything atp

[solar hill]

maybe your player variable is being missassigned?

[winged ridge]

If your debug outputs player position that's a start
What's your scale got to do with it?
And have you tried getting the local position for your player rather than global, ie parent/child relation

[solar hill]

oh yeah if your player is also a child of something im pretty sure its transforms wont change if you only move the parent.

nvm youre calling world position.

[violet shoal]

i assigned it the prefab in the inspector, is that ok? i redid it a few times too

[violet shoal]

its not a child of anything

[violet shoal]

wdym

[solar hill]

im pretty sure thats your problem

assigning it from the prefab

i think 🤔

maybe just use a simple findgameobjectwithtag in the start function

and keep your player prefab in the scene

[violet shoal]

ok

[winged ridge]

or use a this.gameObject

[solar hill]

im pretty sure altough i could be wrong, since you are using the player prefab from the project as the reference youre never actually changing its transforms or anything as the player present in the scene itself is a seperate instance.

[violet shoal]

u were right

[solar hill]

i think i need to be more confident in my coding skills lol

[violet shoal]

thank u so fucking much i was gonna cry very soon

[ancient lotus]

Hi all, I just installed Unity, and I can't seem to get any code snippets and no keywords are highlighted or acknowledges at all by vs22, it is so weird, the unity workload is installed, I restarted my pc and all, and still the same

[rich adder]

recheck all the steps in

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[rich adder]

if you verified all those, you can try closing VS, regen project files then open script from unity again wait for VS to load

if its still not working, check Solution Explorer in VS. if the assembly / sln is not loaded , then you can right click it and do "Reload with Dependencies"

[ancient lotus]

is it supposed to look like this on vs?

[rich adder]

no

[ancient lotus]

Yeah I assumed as much

[rich adder]

its supposed to show the assembly

right click it and do Reload with Dependencies, if it doesn't let you , you probably missed a step somewhere

[ancient lotus]

Oh now its fine

I see, I think it happened cause I didn't have the Unity workload installed the very first time I opened it in vs right?

Thank you sir

[rough granite]

is there anyway to make my SOs not save when their data is changed in the project cause having to reset it all after a test is annoying

[winged ridge]

Make a script that you can run from in editor to reset them all

[cosmic dagger]

Uhh, this is what we were telling you to do. To give the method a return value . . .

[rich adder]

thats why you dont normally use them as mutable data...

[rough granite]

uh my bad

[rich adder]

if you want mutable data that resets make a poco

[rough granite]

well i dont plan to redo all this again :/

[rough granite]

wait so people mainly just use them to read data?

[rich adder]

yes mainly they are used as "Templates"

copy the values into another object like a POCO and you can modify as you heart desires

if you change 1 scriptable object data it changes it for any other instances using that SO

think of it as a static class almost

[stray fog]

https://discordapp.com/channels/489222168727519232/497874004401586176/1429550409281699962

So back to this,

I did something like this in playerController

https://gist.github.com/Alwandy/ef4c75f438a63f862d1a55dca9263d51

in playerCamera
https://gist.github.com/Alwandy/230b36eb6f61bc6ef973aa68c45fa2ef

But yeah there's few issues now, feels very jittery and a spring effect movement on top of that the camera is not stabilizing.

Anchor is a child of head, while camera is just attached to player game object

[rough granite]

oh im sure i can* do that :/

[rich adder]

use links for code. we dont need giant wall of text 👍

[sour fulcrum]

In that case if you don’t want to juggle poco classes and/or a whole redesign there is the slightly unsuggested kinda suggested route of instantiating new scriptableobjects at runtime using a “template” one as reference eg.

SO myInstancedSo = SO.Instansiate(myTemplateSo)

[rich adder]

why not ?

[rough granite]

would i do this inside the SO or the class using it?

[rough granite]

"can" miss type 🤣

[sour fulcrum]

Could be either depending on context and preference, the idea here would be treating them like prefabs and making instances of them. Ideally you should use poco classes for this for various reasons but instancing so’s is a flawed yet viable route aswell

[rich adder]

you can instantiate them as well sure, but depends on use cases it may or may not be the fit

know the options, limits and all that. make a formed decision

[rough granite]

could you be kind enough to share how 😅

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ScriptableObject.CreateInstance.html

[sour fulcrum]

Instansiate is probably preferred since you can provide another scriptableobject for a full copy

[rich adder]

oh wait you can do SO.Instantiate like IAmBatby said

Im used to Create Instance when I need to make custom objects in unity editor from files like CSVs :

force of habit

[sour fulcrum]

I spent like 8 months using create instance and manually copying over properties so my trauma makes me prone to correcting it

i did not know i could just instansiate

[rich adder]

ya TIL

[rough granite]

so just shove a vvv in the SO (SkillTree)?

public void Awake()
{
   SkillTree Instance = SkillTree.Instantiate(this);
}

[sour fulcrum]

Thats not how you would use prefabs is it

[rough granite]

no 😔

[rich adder]

forgot that Instantiate comes from Object class and SOs are Object 🙃

[rich adder]

that should technically clone it no ?

[rough granite]

it didn't work :/

[sour fulcrum]

Yeah but running that in the so’s awake does nothing

[fierce shuttle]

Oh wow, I always used a serializer to copy the data from a SO, but I normally set mine up with the poco as a property of the SO

[sour fulcrum]

making an instance of that so doesn’t magically replace any reference to the template with that instance

[rough granite]

but shoving SkillTree = ScriptableObject.Instantiate(SkillTree); in the start of the class using it worked

[rough granite]

i think?

[rich adder]

wait SOs have "Start" ?

[fierce shuttle]

They have "OnEnable"

[sour fulcrum]

the class using it, not the class itself

[rich adder]

ohh right thought they were doing it in the so itself

[sour fulcrum]

Though ScriptableObject.Awake and .OnEnable is a cursed rabbit hole

[rich adder]

yea

[sour fulcrum]

I tend to maybe do something like this, but be warned this is very jank pseudo phone code

MySo : SO

MySo ReferenceSO get; private set;

bool IsInstance => ReferenceSO != null;

static MySo CreateInstance(MySo reference)

MySo instance = SO.Instansiate(reference)
instance.ReferenceSO = reference
return (instance)

then you can do just like

MySo instance = MySO.CreateInstance(mySoTemplate)

Having the reference that was used to make the instance accessible from the instance can be nice in situations where you need to compare them

[languid pagoda]

Do you use il2cpp?

[sour fulcrum]

No, why?

[languid pagoda]

Because for whatever reason which is beyond my knowlege il2cpp generates significantly more complex code due to the use of static variables, enough to potentially lead to a ton of overhead if your'e using static variables all over your game

you can read more about it here. https://www.jacksondunstan.com/articles/3916

[grand snow]

I presume there are good reasons for this but it does look weird I admit

no 1 that is, no 2 seems weird a f

[sour fulcrum]

I don’t ever intend to use il2cpp when I can make that choice for modding benefits so not sure

[grand snow]

well you can use mono for platforms that allow it

[teal viper]

This is kinda backwards thinking.
You should worry about performance first, rather than C++ code complexity. C# would have a lot of overhead not visible in code, since it's managed jit language. Perhaps the c++ complexity is due to necessity to preserve similar functionality. And it might still be faster.
Sure, it might lose to code written in C++ from scratch, but that's not what you're comparing to here.

[hallow bobcat]

guys its been 9 years

[languid pagoda]

The code its executing is complex enough that overusing statics all over your game could cause il2cpp to result in a net loss.

[hallow bobcat]

I've tried to use unity for 9 years and each year I just come back, try a unity tutorial and give up

I've tried it since I was 9 years old 😢

[rich adder]

this is a code channel..

[hallow bobcat]

oh yea

I like C#

[rich adder]

cool.

if you want casual chit chat use

!cs

[radiant void]

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[rich adder]

this isnt place

[hallow bobcat]

mb I am in the wrong channel
Edit: found it

[teal viper]

Is that based on benchmarks and tests, or just a guess? A lot of such code is easily optimized out by the compiler, so I really doubt C++ would lose.

[rich adder]

again, this isnt a casual talk server no matter the channel

[languid pagoda]

There is a do while loop that just hangs the main thread until the runtime is initialized everytime a method using a static variable is called. this isn''t just some trivial code executing going on.

{
        // This macro expands to this:
        //   do {
        //     if((klass)->has_cctor && !(klass)->cctor_finished)
        //       il2cpp::vm::Runtime::ClassInit ((klass));
        //   } while (0)
        // This happens every time you call the function
        IL2CPP_RUNTIME_CLASS_INIT(CircleFunctions_t532702825_il2cpp_TypeInfo_var);
 
        // Access Pi
        float L_0 = ((CircleFunctions_t532702825_StaticFields*)CircleFunctions_t532702825_il2cpp_TypeInfo_var->static_fields)->get_Pi_0();
 
        // Actually do the work
        float L_1 = ___radius0;
        float L_2 = ___radius0;
        return ((float)((float)((float)((float)L_0*(float)L_1))*(float)L_2));

all of that just goes away when the variable isn't static

extern "C"  float CircleFunctionsConst_Area_m2838794717 (Il2CppObject * __this /* static, unused */, float ___radius0, const MethodInfo* method)
{
    {
        float L_0 = ___radius0;
        float L_1 = ___radius0;
        return ((float)((float)((float)((float)(3.14f)*(float)L_0))*(float)L_1));
    }
}

[teal viper]

Yes, and what I'm telling you that C#(or rather IL) is very likely to have something similar.

You're not comparing apples to apples here. You should compare the IL code to C++.

[grand snow]

I trust unity did a good enough job with il2cpp ill sleep at night

the generated cpp has to include what the CLR does so ofc it wont be as we expect

[languid pagoda]

no ones saying they didn't what I am saying is if you plaster singletons all over your game like a lot of people here like to advise its coming with its impacts if you use il2cpp it may generate more overhead than you're realizing

[grand snow]

I avoid them anyway (singletons) but we can use the profiler to detect such issues

[teal viper]

It might generate more cpp overhead compared to a project written entirely in C++, that lacks C#/dotnet features. Not compared to the C# unity code.

[chrome pond]

how would i code a method to make a button that will just load the next scene in the build? and i mean like withut naming it, i just want it to go to whatever the next level is

[sour fulcrum]

More than you’re realising != enough to be problematic

[rich adder]

https://www.google.com/search?q=load+next+scene+unity

[chrome pond]

thank you!

[feral moon]

Somebody can help me about this?

[sour fulcrum]

Did AI assist with that code?

[feral moon]

I tried through AI - it seems yes, but I would also like to contact here

[sour fulcrum]

Most people here are uncomfortable assisting with AI code because in theory the goal here is to assist people in making better code rather than just “fixing” it

[feral moon]

that's why I'm here

[chrome pond]

it worked great, thank you!

[thorn holly]

try coding it yourself, youll have an easier time debugging it

cause youll know whats going on in the code yk

[rugged beacon]

for highlight object is it usually add/remove mesh material, change mesh material shader or swap mesh material?

[tough lagoon]

Those are common solutions for sure.

Especially in the vr space

[willow iron]

is SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync still a thing? its in the docuimentation but its not recognized by unity, even when using UnityEngine.SceneManagment

[winged ridge]

I use it

[tough lagoon]

Yeah that isnt going anywhere anytime soon

[feral moon]

so I'm here because I don't quite understand how to write it 0_o

[thorn holly]

Start simple, break down the climbing mechanic you want to make into smaller, specific steps

[feral moon]

Do you think I didn't do this?

[thorn holly]

Well then what issue did you run into that made you turn to ai to write your code?

[winged ridge]

Less attitude, ask questions. You don't know how to write what exactly, guide me through your process

[feral moon]

I think I showed it on video 0_о

[thorn holly]

Except that code was ai generated

I meant the issue that made you give up on making your own code and turn to ai

[winged ridge]

Unless I'm mistaken, and correct me if I'm wrong their issue is part of lacking the understanding on the coding part. Which is okay, that's why we help

[thorn holly]

I know, I’m trying to get them to write their own code instead of trying to debug the ai one

[feral moon]

I have an object that I want to climb. if I stand next to him on one side for about 10 seconds and move to the other side, he will teleport me back to the other side

[feral moon]

what code?

[winged ridge]

Okay and what is your current understanding of C#

[thorn holly]

The code you posted with the video

That was ai generated right?

[feral moon]

wait, so you want to say that now AI is a useless waste of time, incapable of helping a person?

[thorn holly]

No, but it’s not very productive to use ai to generate your code because then you won’t know how to debug it

[feral moon]

how do you know what it is?

[thorn holly]

What what is?

[feral moon]

what does this mean? I asked for help

[feral moon]

How do you know that AI did this?

[sour fulcrum]

It’s very obvious when ai code is used directly

[feral moon]

not all

[thorn holly]

You literally said it was ai generated

[sour fulcrum]

It’s more useless than helpful yeah, especially for beginners

[feral moon]

if you ask AI, he can help. Well, speaking of methods, the package developer helped me with this

[thorn holly]

Then why are you asking here if your ai is supposedly going to fix it?

[sour fulcrum]

(I don’t think a package developer has been mentioned before has it)

[feral moon]

Let me explain again: the code was originally made by the developer. I couldn’t find a solution to the problem and decided to turn to AI. he told me a way, but I'm not sure how correct it is, and that's why I'm here

[feral moon]

what's the difference? the package that belongs to the developer can be remade

[narrow pulsar]

is application.quit typically what ppl use to quit their games

cuz im testing it in editor

[winged ridge]

Okay so you're not the main developer, we got somewhere. Okay so in principle look at Vectors, transform and coroutines

[narrow pulsar]

im not sure if its actually quitting

[sour fulcrum]

Context helps people understand the situation

[narrow pulsar]

cuz it still acts as if the games being played

[winged ridge]

It's what I use and so far no issue

But it only works once built

[feral moon]

do you propose to stagnate and study c#? this is very unproductive from the point of view of creating a project. Why can’t you do and study?

[winged ridge]

You can, it's the best way to learn

[thorn holly]

Yes, I’d think that learning the language a game engine uses is a good way to use said game engine

[sour fulcrum]

Like every single developer before the invention of generative ai yes

[ivory bobcat]

It likely isn't for the Editor. Pretty sure if you search for application quit in this channel you'll see what people have done as a work around for the editor.

[thorn holly]

You can’t go off of packages and ai alone

[thorn holly]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[thorn holly]

There’s some great resources for learning unity here

[feral moon]

Amazing!

[thorn holly]

😊good luck with your learning!

[feral moon]

Well then I propose to tell Elon Musk to fuck off and say that the AI is complete shit

[narrow pulsar]

as long as the quitting actually works im fine i just thought it didnt work cuz it was in editor

AI is buns i agree

learned codependancy

[sour fulcrum]

Yup, elon musk is a lying gross piece of garbage

[thorn holly]

Ai is a great tool, but not for making unity code

[thorn holly]

Anyway moral of the story is I’d start by learning c# and the basics of unity first, then making smaller projects and working your way up

[feral moon]

I just asked for help based on the code, because I know what the problem is in the code. But nevertheless, they just slipped me "!learn" so that I could go and study happy.

learning a language is a big time commitment. first we get junior, then senior, and so on (I don’t understand the hierarchy of programmers)

and now, after about 50-60 years, instead of finishing the project and asking for help from an auxiliary robot that was specially invented for consultations, we get a great programmer who certainly knows how to stop teleporting a character during parkour 🫡

God bless our programmers. there are so few of them, they are so missing... fuck your AI? YES! This is evil, this is a follower of heresy

[thorn holly]

<@&502884371011731486>

[feral moon]

and for what then? Play role-playing games related to porn? Really?

[thorn holly]

Idk, but not unity code

[feral moon]

You know what? it's a waste of time

[winged ridge]

Not the place and discussion to have here

[thorn holly]

I’m not going to fix the ai code you don’t understand

And neither is anyone else

[thorn holly]

Not really, you can make games like flappy bird mere hours into learning unity

Just keep building your skill level and you’ll get there eventually

[willow iron]

anyway asking this again because that other guy drowned it out

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
public class SceneManager : MonoBehaviour
{
     public void Die()
     {
          SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("Die");
     }
}

for some reason, SceneManagement is "not required by the code" and LoadSceneAsync can not be resolved. weird since im only like 6 lines in. Any help here?

[winged ridge]

Is ("Die") your scene name?

And if so, is it added to your build list

[willow iron]

yup and yup, just double checked to make sure

[winged ridge]

okay just checking, I tend to prefer using int values and order everything manually than use string reference (personal preference), ill have a look at my code quickly and get back to you asap

Example snippet of code I have that uses loadsceneAsync

    {
        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
        Fader fader = FindAnyObjectByType<Fader>();
        yield return fader.FadeOut(3f);
        yield return SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(sceneBuildIndex, LoadSceneMode.Single);
        yield return fader.FadeIn(2f);
        GetCurrentScene();
        Debug.Log(currentSceneIndex);
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }

[sour fulcrum]

~~Unsafe use of that fader reference ~~

[winged ridge]

not the point, but Fader is static, and the whole thing is an object thats not destroyed

[willow iron]

started digging a little deeper, neither LoadSceneAsync nor GetActiveScene are recognized

[winged ridge]

im in 6.1...unless they changed that in 6.2?

[willow iron]

the exact error message in unity is
Assets/SceneManager.cs(7,24): error CS0117: 'SceneManager' does not contain a definition for 'LoadSceneAsync'

[winged ridge]

ah thats why, you named your script SceneManager

Change its name to something like SceneLoader

i missed that originally, but yes SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync is a built in unity method

[willow iron]

[winged ridge]

ah dont worry, we have all been there

[loud remnant]

what is harder to code
unturned like inventory system
project zomboid like inventory system

[jolly cloud]

Hi, I have Two character prefab and in each character prefab, I have a rope attach point. what I want is make the rope with physics and connect these characters. Any one have idea for how to create a rope with physics.

[teal viper]

By using joints. There are plenty of tutorials on this.

[mint flicker]

hey can anyone recommend a good unity 2D enemy tutorial i need one that allows the enemy to chase and then go back to patroling

[fierce shuttle]

"harder" would be dependent on your experience with the engine and your knowledge of C#, as well as the specific features of either system your trying to replicate - imo both are going to be difficult if you have never made a inventory system before, and both seem similar enough in design and function that it may be good to start with breaking down the parts of either system your trying to replicate then approach each of those parts

[fierce shuttle]

A common approach to this might be using a FSM (Finite State Machine), that can be applied to 2D as well, the FSM would let your enemy be in one specific state depending on conditions, and once in that state you can handle what the enemy should do - you could try searching up "unity c# fsm tutorial" and im sure youll find lots of playlists and blogs you can use as a reference (if you choose to take this approach)

[mint flicker]

ohh will do

[loud remnant]

i expected a 2 word answer

[fierce shuttle]

Fair enough, im not sure a 2 word answer would provide you much context to do anything with, but in short "both are hard"

[teal viper]

"Both hard". Here, 2 words.

[loud remnant]

much bette

thank u

[loud quest]

Hey everyone,

I’m not very familiar with Unity and I’m running into a problem when I launch my game. Normally, my mouse cursor should control the camera, but instead it stays outside the game window — like I’m still in edit mode.

If anyone has any idea what might be causing this, feel free to DM me! I can share my screen if that helps.

It’s a game my friends made in Unity, and I worked on some of the assets and integrated FMOD middleware. I wanted to get back into it, but right now I can’t even play. Any ideas?

[regal isle]

could someone please show me a screenshot of the UI of Unity where to map the OnClickEvent() to the buttons?

I can code.

I don't know a single thing about Unity though...

and I'm learning off of YT like how coders learn coding from Hidnus YTs coding tutorials

and my patience is running out honestly

I'll figure it out eventually

but I'd appreciate help

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/manual/images/UI_ButtonInspector.png This?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/manual/script-Button.html

[regal isle]

thank you

[grand snow]

You can add an event subscription to On Click there or do it in code

[safe root]

I need help with figuring out how to make my collider stop rotating on the Y axis to that it's fully level with the floor no matter where the player looks. I'm not sure what to look up to find video and was wondering can either teach or show me a good video.

[grand snow]

you can freeze rotation on your rigidbody but this sounds like its a player controller.
But if you are rotating your player based on input then this wont help.

[scarlet pasture]

hey do this Discord have a "collaboration" channel, i want devolop a smallGame with somone. i didnt finde the Cannel so i asked here

[wintry quarry]

!collab

[radiant void]

:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on Discord.
Please, use Discussions to promote yourself as job-seeking, advertise commercial job offers, or look for non-commercial projects to participate in:
• ** Collaboration & Jobs**

[scarlet pasture]

Thank u!

[safe root]

It's following the players camera , I just need it not to rotate on the Y-axis when it follows it cause I just need to orbit around the player with the camera is at fixed distants

[grand snow]

can you share some screenshots or a screen recording of this behaviour?

It really sounds like your code that is causing this rotation because as I said, we can lock rotation on a rigidbody

[safe root]

I am but I am not using a ridge body for this as it's only needed to push stuff along

[grand snow]

!code sharing time then

[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.

[safe root]

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

[grand snow]

okay so you are copying the world Y rotation to some other transform

this should work fine for what you describe. Are you getting the rotation axis confused?

[safe root]

No, not no more. It was just a fixed that did a little second ago and I go them confused. it's just issue now where the box is going up above my head. and I want it to stay at the orbit away from the player. Not going above the head

[grand snow]

yea i just dont understand what you want. A drawn picture or screenshot or something to illustrate would help

Is this some third person orbiting camera?

[safe root]

So instead of collider going above or below the player, I want to stay at fixed distant from the player like how it starts

[grand snow]

Right so no rotation is needed but correct positioning.

Using the correct terms to describe an issue helps a lot.

You can position this object by projecting forward using the cameras forward vector.
e.g. boxTransform.position = camera.transform.position + camera.transform.forward * 2.5f;

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform-forward.html

[safe root]

My apologies, it was that at first but I found the fix and it was the problem you describe. I had gotten the axis mixed up, I should have made it clearer. This was the next problem after that and I was sure how to have it stay

[safe root]

When you say boxTransform.position, you mean the object itself right?

[grand snow]

You box collider game object transform

The take away is that we can use the provided normalised forward vector to move an object to be a fixed distance in front of a Transform.

[safe root]

Thank you

[earnest oak]

how do i switch my game from urp to built in rendering i used to be able to do it but it changed

[rocky canyon]

remove the URP Render Pipeline Asset from the projects "Graphics and Quality" settings.. and then manually change all the materials to use the "Standard" shader 🫠

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/Manual/srp-setting-render-pipeline-asset.html

[earnest oak]

thanks alot that was my problem only changed it in Graphics settings

[rocky canyon]

URP not doing it for ya?

[earnest oak]

nah man not really has some bugs and overall for a retro style im more happy with built in

[rocky canyon]

probably builds better/ easier to run on all kinds of hardware too

[earnest oak]

yea and vertex shaders are better on built in do you use urp or built in

[rocky canyon]

i've swapped to URP for a while now..

working on swapping to the new input system next..

gotta stay ahead of the times 🤓

[earnest oak]

yea

[rocky canyon]

nothing wrong with built-in tho

most of my simple examples and prototypes are built-in

no need for URP for something as simple as an example

[hot wadi]

When should I use Addressables to load a scene?

[rocky canyon]

until they actually KO the entire Built-in pipeline

then i guess we're all moving to render pipelines 🤣

[earnest oak]

yea 🤣

till then ill be safe tho

[rocky canyon]

when u need to optimize performance and memory by loading on demand... managing large number of scenes.. or enabling dynamic content updates

[edgy cloak]

am i doing something wrong that the little scene transition isnt working?

im following a tutorial but something seems to be going wrong and stopping it from working

either that or its because the tutorial is outdated

[rocky canyon]

you'll have to elaborate a bit

[edgy cloak]

but would it really become outdated in 2 years?

uh-

[rocky canyon]

no.

10 yr old tutorials still work with the current code-base

the nly issue with old tutorials is menus moving around.. and specific functions being replaced.. like rb.velocity becoming rb.linearVelocity <- but even unity will take care of that kinda stuff when it compiles

[edgy cloak]

i dont even understand what that means....

[rocky canyon]

u dont understand what no means?

[edgy cloak]

i meant the rb velocity thing

[rocky canyon]

the rest really isn't important

[edgy cloak]

i see

[rocky canyon]

just gave an example of what types of things change..

you'll need to give more specifics.. tho... we cant really guess what the transition is. or even means

[edgy cloak]

uh- anyways

https://youtu.be/DX7HyN7oJjE?t=229
im following this tutorial. Script is in the main camera (even though i dont understand why)
I have the canvas and a button to lead me to my script,

but with the on click stuff, the menu is a little different from what hte video shows

[rocky canyon]

and why its not working

is it because ur dragging in the script into the button?

and not a gameobject with that script attached

^ those are two very different things.. and u the first doesn't work

[edgy cloak]

i was following along with the tutorial, just about 1 for 1???

[rocky canyon]

so u dragged the Main Camera (w/ the script) into the slot on the button?

if thats the case it should show any public methods in that script

if thats not the issue u need to specify..

[edgy cloak]

this is what its showing for me.

[rocky canyon]

where is TestGround?

did u drag that from the Scene?

or the Project Window?

[edgy cloak]

a game object with the script attached.... do i need to make another game object for this?

.... the script is attached to my camera

do i have to drag my camera into the thing?

[wintry quarry]

If you want to assign that function from the camera object, yea

[edgy cloak]

no i dont know why its attached to the camera i just did what the tutorial did

......... the tutorial vid didnt explain this at all 💀

[wintry quarry]

Maybe it's not a good tutorial then

[manic hatch]

hello

i have issue

[rocky canyon]

its probably attached to the camera b/c the tutorial maker knows you'll have ur camera in the scene

and wont make the mistake of dragging the script into the slot and not the gameobject...

ur dragging the wrong thing into the slot..

[edgy cloak]

i now feel incredibly dumb.

[rocky canyon]

🗒️ when you drag the script from the project window it wont work..
you must drag a gameobject w/ the script already attached to it.. (maybe ur camera 😉 )

[rocky canyon]

nah bro.. this is a problem alot of beginners make..

even I made that mistake 😅

[edgy cloak]

makes me wonder why its like this tho tbh

[rocky canyon]

but now u know 🙂

[edgy cloak]

until i inevitably forget because goldfish memory

[rocky canyon]

b/c the script has to be in the scene (to function)

[edgy cloak]

ah

[rocky canyon]

unless its a Static script or something (but you'll learn about that later on)

[wintry quarry]

It's part of the basics of object oriented programming pretty much. You need an object on which to call the function

[rocky canyon]

^ OOP bb 🤤

object based..

[rocky canyon]

what was funny is when u sent the video it was timestamped exactly where it shows the guy drag in the Camera object 🤣

[manic hatch]

Hello, I’m a beginner. I saw a tutorial on YouTube and I’m trying to use a car controller on a model, but I don’t know why the wheels pop out when I start driving. I’ve tried rotating the wheel hubs and fiddling with the colliders

[rocky canyon]

good luck.. don't pull ur hair out.. keep calm and carry on 🤪

[rocky canyon]

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

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

☝️

[wintry quarry]

Looks like the 3D models for your wheels aren't oriented properly

[thorn holly]

It looks like the wheels are rotating along the wrong axis

[thorn holly]

Or that

[rocky canyon]

@manic hatch check out #💻┃code-beginner message that second link... it's Unity's WheelCollider walk-thru/ tutorial

take ur time and check out the steps it takes..

compare to urs.. and also maybe check out the wheel's pivot/orientation in ur 3D software...

b/c its possible what Praet has said..

Wheel Colliders are a Pain in the Ass..
my least favorite Unity component ever

[naive pawn]

heh, don't jinx it

[rocky canyon]

i wish unity had a primitive wheel ..
could make the process much more intuitive..

[hot wadi]

So to my understanding, if I include all my scenes in build, it will increase the build size and time
But how does that actually work? Does it create copies of referenced asset data in the scenes or something else?

[edgy cloak]

got another bad tutorial that im gonna need some help on. Im followin this one for a basic HP system. Its got text on UI, but it doesnt show me how i get there.

So this will be my question. How do i get a number from a script and have it show as a text element on a canvas?

[thorn holly]

You can set the text directly from code by accessing the text component

[edgy cloak]

meaning?

i dont know how to do a lot in unity cus im brute forcing this stuff for a tutorial and not giving myself time to learn or experiment

[thorn holly]

Ur using text mesh pro right

[edgy cloak]

yes

[rocky canyon]

build size = how big ur game file is..
load time = how long it takes to start or load a scene
Scenes in Build Settings:

• Included in the game file.
• Not loaded until you call them.
• Bigger build size, same startup speed.
  Addressables:
• Not included in the main game file.
• Downloaded or loaded only when needed.
• Smaller build, faster startup.
  ** Using too many Addressables can increase load when fetching them, so balance it — don’t make everything Addressable.

[scarlet pasture]

Hey guys!
I'm working on a 2D Metroidvania-style combat system and I want to make it modular and easy to extend.

Right now, my idea is:
– Play the attack animation (Light / Heavy)
– Use animation events or triggers to enable a hitbox
– Deal damage to the opponent when the hitbox overlaps

Do you think that’s a good and scalable approach?
Or is there a better way to handle combat timing and damage in 2D (Unity)?

I’m mainly looking for the best structure for modular attacks (so I can later add combos, cancels, etc.).

[thorn holly]

So in your script you can say something like

TMP_text tmp = tmpObject.GetComponent<TMP_text>();
tmp.text = “whatever you want”;

[rocky canyon]

using TMPro; // include the using statement for TextMeshPro

public class Boot : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TMP_Text bootText; // assign in Inspector

    public void SetBootText(string msg)
    {
        // set it's text property
        bootText.text = msg;
    }
}```

```cs
// if its something other than a String you need to convert it to a string when setting
SetBootText(score.ToString());```

[edgy cloak]

what if i wanted it to be something dynamic like a health bar or smth?

it starts at 100 but gets either chipped down or increased from healing.

like i want it to dynamically show the HP in the top left corner or smth with how it changes

[rocky canyon]

whenever u take damage or get health you
update the player's health variable.. and then Update the UI right afterwards

[thorn holly]

A good way to do this is by making a setter method for your player health

[rocky canyon]

using TMPro;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerUI : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TMP_Text hpText;
    public int health = 100; 

    public void TakeDamage(int dmg)
    {
        health -= dmg; // update player
        UpdateHPText(); // update screen
    }

    public void Heal(int amt)
    {
        health += amt; // update player
        UpdateHPText(); // update screen
    }

    void UpdateHPText()
    {
        hpText.text = "HP: " + health.ToString(); // or
        //hpText.text = "$HP: {health}";
    }
}```

[rocky canyon]

very true.. this guy is total beginner tho..
just making use of hard references for now

[thorn holly]

Fair enough

[rocky canyon]

Later you can replace this with a proper health system that sends events to the UI instead of directly referencing it.

but just for kicks

public class PlayerUI : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TMP_Text hpText; // assign in Inspector

    private int _health = 100;
    public int Health
    {
        get { return _health; }          // read value
        set                           // when value changes
        {
            _health = value;
            UpdateHPText();             // update display
        }
    }

    void UpdateHPText()
    {
        hpText.text = "HP: " + _health;
    }
}``` this is what they're talkin about..
with code like this just by *setting* the `Health` variable it'll update the main variable.. and call `UpdateHPText()` at teh same time..

🔑 is to only update the UI when it needs to be updated..
"sure you can have the UI updating every frame but its not very good structuring"

you'll only want to update it when it changes..
no reason to change 99 to 99 but there is a reason to change 99 to 98

may want to consider using a single script to update all your UI with different functions...

UIManager.UpdateHealth();
UIManager.UpdateShield();
UIManager.UpdateInventory(); so on and so on

[edgy cloak]

i feel like i just got smacked in the head by a brick while trying to understand this

[rocky canyon]

yea, i think u just need to Marinate in some fundamentals !learn

[thorn holly]

Ok we can take it slow then, do you understand how we’re changing the text?

[rocky canyon]

u got this noodle. i'll be ur wingman

[fast relic]

I'll just be watching silently

[thorn holly]

I have to go soon you might have to take over lol

[rocky canyon]

all gucci

[slender nymph]

just FYI, the new bot only likes commands at the beginning of the message

[rocky canyon]

i was wondering

i just thought inline commands were broken

[edgy cloak]

i hardly understand code on a good day, ontop of that i more or less am doing a last minute assignment crunch for thursday

kinda lacking on time to marinate in code knowledge sadly

[hot wadi]

I found some document and it says this about direct references: "When your application runs on the target device, Unity loads the entire asset file into memory before loading a scene."
I suppose it means all the direct references will live in the memory when a scene is loaded, even if they are not instantiated?

[thorn holly]

That’s ok, like I said we can take it slow

So there’s basically 3 steps to changing the players health:

1. setting the health variable
2. Changing the text that displays the health
3. Updating the UI so that we can see the text change

Does that make sense?

[grand snow]

Well everything in a scene will be created when the scene is loaded so makes total sense that all the required assets are loaded into memory.

[edgy cloak]

Yes. Logic is simple enough.

[regal isle]

let's assume this is my MainMenu Scene.
I wish to hook my On Click () event to the ImageStartButton which is an Image Object in the Canvas.

I added a child button Object to it on the right panel.

[thorn holly]

Ok so for the first step, the text mesh pro object has a component called TMP_text which has a text property that holds whatever the text displays

[regal isle]

let's assume I already have a working C# script that does all the functionality

there is No Function there

[thorn holly]

What you want is to assign that text property to the players health

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/unity-events/incorrect-assignment

[thorn holly]

Does that make sense?

[regal isle]

thanks

@edgy cloak low key competing with me here

for the same project

with the same YT tutorial video

🫡

[edgy cloak]

kekw

nah tutorials can just be applied in a lot of places

[edgy cloak]

i think so yes. though i wonder where to assign it

[scarlet pasture]

?.

[rocky canyon]

im not 💯 sure of anything more than what ive already said..
i just know the concept of Addressables.. i haven't ever actually used them unfortunately

[grand snow]

Addressable scenes should act the same as normal scenes in terms of how they are opened

[thorn holly]

Perfect, so the way you’d do that is retrieving a reference to that TMP_text component, then assigning the text property. To do that, you can do something like this:

[SerializeField]
TMP_text healthText;

Then, you can assign the TMP_text component to healthText in the inspector so that healthText becomes a reference to that component

[grand snow]

But with addressables we can have direct asset reference or indirect meaning no asset dep is made

[thorn holly]

Does that make sense?

[loud remnant]

i love how my text editor automatically includes using statements

like i access text in textmeshpro then it adds it by itself

[fast relic]

i mean yeah that's something id expect of most ides

[loud remnant]

cuz yes i dont want to memorize all of the assembly references or what ever they are called

[fast relic]

but also just make sure it doesn't add an incorrect using statement haha

-# also assembly references are a different thing

[edgy cloak]

should i uh, should i be working along as you say this?

also should we be doing this in a thread to avoid message backlog?

[loud remnant]

if it does im bringing out my secret weapon (asking chatgpt what assembly reference im missing)

[loud remnant]

oh

kachow

[thorn holly]

Yeah good idea

[fast relic]

or you can just look at the using directive..

[loud remnant]

no im lazy

auto add using statements go brrrrrr

[thorn holly]

I do have to go though, @rocky canyon can you make the thread

[fast relic]

it's literally easier than asking chatgpt to fix it

[loud remnant]

im also dumb

[regal isle]

I think I finally got the hang of it how to map the buttons

thanks to all

[fast relic]

im not saying don't use auto add using statements im saying make sure they're the ones you want

[loud remnant]

yes yes

[fast relic]

usually it's pretty easy to tell tbh

[loud remnant]

damn 😭

[hot wadi]

Yeah, I was looking for a way to dynamically update my assets seasonally. I'm afraid I would do something wrong so I force myself to understand it

[rocky canyon]

ya, that does sound like a use-case tho

when i think addressables i instantly think DLC... and since my projects aren't actually that big i never had a need to figure them out

[thorn holly]

That looks good to me

[scarlet pasture]

Thanks bro

[rocky canyon]

if its just seasonally tho.. and you know you're already planning on using seasonal stuff.. you could just include all the assets.. and have a flag that toggles between them depending on the date

[scarlet pasture]

for answering

[scarlet pasture]

yeah i will do it this way, i just wanted to make sure that my way would be okay. i thought about "maybe somone does know better and have some experiecne". but again Thank u!

[grand snow]

Yea you will want to look at addressables then. I should warn you that asset bundles (and addressables) assets cannot ref things outside meaning you can get asset duplication. (e.g. addressable asset -> Resources is an invalid ref)
learn more: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.addressables@2.7/manual/AddressableAssetsOverview.html

[thorn holly]

Well I don’t have the most experience but that’s a pretty modular approach yeah

[loud remnant]

so lazy infact in my latest game i made the upgrade button functionality inside the spawn manager script instead of making a different script

[fast relic]

like tell me, do you want Debug from UnityEngine or System.Diagnostics

[loud remnant]

i dont know

[fast relic]

well just logically

if you think about it

[loud remnant]

unity engine

[hot wadi]

I see. All dependencies must reside in a group in the bundle then?

[fast relic]

yeah

and that is the one you need

it's really not that hard

[fast relic]

.. sure? but why

[loud remnant]

[loud remnant]

i dont know

i mean

dont we have the mindset of

if it works dont touch it

and i really wanted to finish the project in 3 days

i had fun making it

i had fun coding too actually

[fast relic]

sometimes but jd advise against it

[loud remnant]

definitely didnt crash out over player movement script

[naive pawn]

that is.. somewhat of a joke, man

[loud remnant]

maybe

project i was working on wasnt taken seriously

js a 3 day code and pray

somehow did workout

10 browser plays and 4 downloads on itch.io 🗣️ 🔥

[naive pawn]

then sure, but you gotta move away from that mindset if you want to learn and progress to making more complex things

[loud remnant]

like i said
the project wasnt taken seriously
next project would be taken mindfully

btw what game should i make cuz i have no idea

[naive pawn]

i know what you said. i'm talking about your mindset in general.

sure, you completed the project

but you gotta learn from it too

if you keep that mindset, you won't be able to effectively be mindful in the next project

sure, don't touch it if you don't want to.
but at least think about it

[loud remnant]

only thing different from it and my 6 prototypes is the SceneManager method
which i did learn
and button functionality

[loud remnant]

i know
unity isnt my first game engine

[fast relic]

maybe you can also learn about namespaces!

[loud remnant]

what

[grand snow]

No they just need to be addressable too. If not the asset is automatically added to the same bundle. There are analysis tools in addressables to help find and solve this. Ask in #📦┃addressables if you need help later.

[fast relic]

-# namespaces are the thing you include in your using directives

[loud remnant]

NO

[fast relic]

you can even make your own

[loud remnant]

lemme guess
smth like
using WeaponScript;

[hot wadi]

Oh right thanks. I didn't see that channel lol

[naive pawn]

you wouldn't be doing that to a script, no

[fast relic]

well not really

using is for namespaces, not scripts

a namespace is a collection of scripts

[loud remnant]

[naive pawn]

a namespace is a collection of types, to be pedantic

you can have multiple namespaces in a single script

[fast relic]

well yes but let's not say too many fancy words

[loud remnant]

yes please

english is my 2nd language

[naive pawn]

sure, but let's also not give misinformation

[fast relic]

ugh fine

[naive pawn]

could say namespaces hold classes/structs/interfaces/enums

[fast relic]

-# let my midnight brain be okay

[loud remnant]

they are speaking mozart

[naive pawn]

it's kinda disappointing unity treats component classes and scripts as synonyms tbh - so this isn't really your fault

[fast relic]

nah i know the difference im just sleepy

[naive pawn]

nah i mean in terms of like, ideal communication with beginners

[loud remnant]

communication with noobs

[tender mirage]

just wanted to ask about this error. Writting a private or protected class is pointless right? especially with grabbers like monobehavior since nothing can have access to it

Elements defined in a namespace cannot be explicitly declared as private, protected, protected internal, or private protected

[naive pawn]

it's not pointless, it's invalid, in the case of top-level classes

inner classes can be private/protected/internal/etc, and that could make sense

[rocky canyon]

am i trippin? whats wrong

🤔

[naive pawn]

is the error also shown in unity?

(save and refresh first ofc)

[rocky canyon]

no oddly enough

[naive pawn]

sounds like either lagging lsp or non-configured

try restarting the lsp i suppose

[rocky canyon]

lol

its yankin my chain this morning

[rocky canyon]

ur a genius

🤦‍♂️ 🤪 not a clue bro

[slender nymph]

just vs code doing vs code things

[naive pawn]

hmm, can't seem to find the command for the .net lsp. i guess reloading the window would also work

there is a language server, another command references it...

[rocky canyon]

i think it may correspond to my internet connection 👀 altho thats just speculation

[earnest oak]

switching to built in is like one of the best choices ive made

[edgy sinew]

built in? render pipeline?

[earnest oak]

yes

[slender nymph]

well that's not code related

[manic hatch]

@rocky canyon Thank you T-T I did it!

it is working like intended!

[polar dust]

for the most part, private is often redundant.

private float _foo;
float _bar;```
both properties are private

Im sure theres some situations where its important to write private, but its probably more down to a convention of some organisation where they want the code to have a specific style

[tender mirage]

i always write private

ahh

coding style

got it

[polar dust]

It could be good to use private when youre starting out writing code, as youre explicitly telling future you that something is or isnt private. That way you cant read code and accidentally assume X is public

[sullen epoch]

I have a question, in plain C# constructors inside of classes are important... what about MonoBehaviour? since unity handles creation of new instances of the class when its assigned to a gameobject do they still serve a purpose?

[polar dust]

MonoBehaviour classes dont support constructors, but if you had the constructor in this class Foo, its redundant as it wont ever get called

public class Foo {
    public Foo(){}
}```

[hexed terrace]

I've been using Unity for ~12 yrs and still type private. From habbit, previous jobs and find it easier to read, no need to ever use that microbrainthought to work out something is private

[polar acorn]

MonoBehaviours cannot have constructors

[polar dust]

Foo thing = new Foo();```Will produce an identical result whether you had a plain constructor or not

[polar acorn]

Well, to be more precise, they can have them, but calling them won't actually create anything since they can only exist on GameObjects

[polar dust]

At times it can feel a little frustrating that you cant use a constructor with them

[polar acorn]

You can just create a function called something like Init() and call it after adding the component

[polar dust]

Yeah thats what I typically do. But each time I think "man it would be convenient if I could just use a constructor"

[sullen epoch]

Yeah i thought so, as the only documentation i could find was for C# base classes. Thanks for the clarification

[slender nymph]

just fyi, but neither of those are properties. they are both fields

[polar dust]

dang it, I dont think I'll ever not get names of things correct 😆

for simplicity, ill just refer to everything as "stuff and things"

[sullen epoch]

i know this didn't relate to me but is it too much to ask to explain the difference, ironically that very topical for me atm 😅

[edgy sinew]

⭐ hi all. Project runs better in Editor than exported MacOS .app?
Nothing seems off in the Build settings. I have this code in Awake()

Screen.SetResolution(Display.main.systemWidth / 2, Display.main.systemHeight / 2, Screen.fullScreen, Screen.currentResolution.refreshRate);

Furthermore - in Editor game can run at 300-500 FPS uncapped, or VSync very stable (computer's fans don't turn on, no game lag either.)

[slender nymph]

fields are variables defined as part of the object. properties are syntactic sugar for get and set methods that look like variables
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/properties

[grand snow]

Is this because in editor your game window is small? Make a debug build and profile it!

[edgy sinew]

Display.main.systemWidth / 2, Display.main.systemHeight / 2
I was running the game higher than this resolution, in Editor

[grand snow]

then the profiler and frame debugger are next

[red igloo]

I have been stuck on this for a while and can't seem to figure it out. If I want to make it so when you hold the space bar you jump higher and when you tap it the jump height is reduced to a certain value how would I do it? would I just make another if statement with wasreleasedthisframe instead and add >
rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * smallJumpHeight, ForceMode.Impulse); Any ideas?

[edgy sinew]

I think beyond the initial "small jump" impulse, the 'added jump height by holding button longer' would not make sense with impulse 🤔
I'd think it's preferred to use ForceMode.Force which is applied steadily?

[wide aspen]

I made this same mistake in my first 2d platformer using the Impusle, I had to do all kinds of crazy math to do a second impulse in order to sort of cancel out the initial impulse to cut the jump height it was a headache so I think just adding a force is better.

[edgy sinew]

Essentially you can just keep adding force, until some 'maximum jump height added' is reached (probably counting how many times the force is added in FixedUpdate)

[scarlet pasture]

Hey

[earnest oak]

hey

wsp?

[edgy sinew]

Hey

[scarlet pasture]

using UnityEngine;

public class CombatSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("References")]
    [SerializeField] private AnimationHandler animationHandlerScriptRef;
    [SerializeField] private bool useAttackScript = true; 
    [Header("Light Attack Settings")]
    [SerializeField] private Collider2D LightAttackTrigger;
    [SerializeField] private KeyCode LightAttackKey = KeyCode.Mouse0;
    [SerializeField] private float LightAttackCooldown = 1f;
    private Coroutine LightAttackCoroutine = null; 

    [Header("Debug")]
    [SerializeField] private bool isCurrentlyLightAttack = false;

    void Awake()
    {
        if (animationHandlerScriptRef == null) animationHandlerScriptRef = this.GetComponentInChildren<AnimationHandler>(); 
    }
    void Update()
    {
        if (useAttackScript == false && animationHandlerScriptRef != null) return;
        ReadAttackInputs(); 
        
        if(isCurrentlyLightAttack && LightAttackCoroutine == null)
        {
            LightAttackCoroutine = StartCoroutine(LightAttackCooldown_Coroutine()); 
        }
    }

    private void ReadAttackInputs()
    {
        if (isCurrentlyLightAttack == true) return;
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(LightAttackKey))
        {
            isCurrentlyLightAttack = true;
            Debug.Log("isCurrentlyLightAttack" + isCurrentlyLightAttack + "!");
            //TO:DO Angirffs Animation abspielen. 
        }
    }

    private System.Collections.IEnumerator LightAttackCooldown_Coroutine()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(LightAttackCooldown);
        isCurrentlyLightAttack = false;
        LightAttackCoroutine = null;
    }
}
``` I want to make my first Combat Script, i want to ask is this way i do Good? and i also want to use Combo Attacks, can i do

[earnest oak]

are u asking me?

[scarlet pasture]

somthing like is 85% of the Coroutine Cooldown Done and the play pressing the Button again do a antoher Attack?

[scarlet pasture]

Im asking everony bro

i need every help

[earnest oak]

yo thats actually really clean for a first combat script i like how you handled cooldowns and states pretty simple and solid if you wanna add combos you can just track combo steps and reset them after a short time like press timing based chaining its a good base to build on

[edgy sinew]

It's gonna be much easier to do this with a state machine

[scarlet pasture]

what is that?

[edgy sinew]

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html

[earnest oak]

you could clean it up a bit by separating input and attack logic so the combat system only handles attacks and another script handles inputs tho

[edgy sinew]

Save yourself now, your code is brutal to read currently bro

[scarlet pasture]

ahhh i saw that in a Unity forum

u right

i forget it

[earnest oak]

let him find out on his own

[scarlet pasture]

i mean what would be better? State Machine or Coded?

[earnest oak]

jk but i mean his script isnt awful

[scarlet pasture]

wait is Enum a State Machine?=

i used Enums for my Enemy

like Walking, Attack etc

[edgy sinew]

Yeah. Hierarchical state machines are a little cooler, and take advantage of Polymorphism

[scarlet pasture]

Polymprphsim

[earnest oak]

how long of a dev are u

sorry if my english isnt that good

[scarlet pasture]

im not a dev, im just a hobby coder

[earnest oak]

oh alr

[scarlet pasture]

Hahaah look at my

[scarlet pasture]

im to bad to call myself Dev, i respectet that Title Extremly

[earnest oak]

thats crazy

[scarlet pasture]

nahh fr

so, what exactlly would u change on my Script?=

i coded Attack Scripts 2 or 3 time but im scared at Combos, i code evertyme (in the future) and saw that everthing messed up. I think i cant really handle the "Timers"

and Coding? like a along time but never really a lot

just maybe 1 week than a huge break and then again 3 Days

etc

[edgy sinew]

With a state machine it looks something like this.

float timeInState;
void LightAttack_OnEnter() {
    timeInState = 0.0f;
}
void LightAttack_EveryFrame() {
    timeInState += Time.deltaTime;
    // do whatever cool stuff you want
    if (timeInState > 0.85f * timeLightAttack && comboButton.pressed) 
    {
      // switch states
    }
}

[scarlet pasture]

helllll hnahhhhh

this looks like hell

okay no its actually looking alr

so its better to use a Costum timer? and not Coroutines?

[edgy sinew]

You can use either. I haven't heard that Coroutines have much advantage to manually keeping track of time.

@scarlet pasture the point is, every state has 4 important methods. And with that you can have more control over what exactly is happening in your game 🗿

OnEnter
OnExit
EveryFrame
HasNextState

Super easy to keep time, allow certain things to happen at certain times, prevent certain things from happening, etc.
Trust me it's really fun and pleasant. you won't miss hard-coded if/else logic

[meager flume]

hi can somone help me with somthing

i small issue but i am new i dont know

[edgy sinew]

don't ask just to ask
always post the details up front when someone sees it they can answer

[meager flume]

i have loop floor here

[scarlet pasture]

I will test it know, I’m gonna rewrite this small code and use u method

[meager flume]

but i am getting this line

[meager flume]

men i will really apprecite it i like trying for hour to remove this line

[red igloo]

I tried using forcemode.force but my player can barely jump.

[meager flume]

last option was here

[red igloo]

does the jump height value need to be much higher?

[edgy sinew]

Just multiply the force until it starts to have an effect yeah

[meager flume]

@edgy sinew

[edgy sinew]

This is not a "one person helps" server, you post your question and whoever knows will answer it. If it gets lost post again

[wide aspen]

are those 2 seperate sprites or just one big long one?

[edgy sinew]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/18ennd0/does_anyone_know_whats_causing_this_weird_green/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9VmFspXNI

Are you using Pixel Perfect camera?
There's also some crazy '1 pixel padding' trick people are saying fixes this kind of issue.

[red igloo]

ahh alr, it works now this is what I did → rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpHeight * 2, ForceMode.Force);
how would I make it so when you tap the space bar the jump height is small? would the setup be the same for that?

[meager flume]

one when i chnage the draw mode to tiled and the width this start showing the ground is loop

[meager flume]

this is somthing else

[wide aspen]

check the sprite editor maybe you have an extra transparent line of pixels at the end or start?