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[swift crag]

You can still react to the action being performed. If you bind this action to a composite of keyboard keys, the action will fire every time you press a key down.

(I'm not sure how it will be have if you press both keys at once – I believe you can decide if they "cancel out" or not, but I have never looked into that)

This would also simplify the code a fair bit.

You'd perpetually smooth-damp towards the target angle

[slender nymph]

In case anyone was curious about how this wrong lerp (a = lerp(a, b, t)) actually behaves, here is a lerp from 0 to 10 with t incrementing by .1 each iteration. T is of course the t parameter, X is correct lerp, and Y is the wrong lerp

[naive pawn]

i did make a desmos graph for it but apparently you have to have an account to save now

[swift crag]

void TurnLeft() {
  targetAngle -= 90;
}
void TurnRight() {
  targetAngle += 90
}
void Update() {
  currentAngle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(currentAngle, targetAngle, ref angleVelocity, smoothTime);
}

Very neat.

Personally, I would also throw in a slight MoveTowardsAngle so that you angle doesn't approach the target forever

currentAngle = Mathf.MoveTowardsAngle(currentAngle, targetAngle, Time.deltaTime * 10f);

e.g.

SmoothDamp never exactly reaches the target, which can be a nuisance in some situations.

[naive pawn]

this also doesn't reach the target.

this is just wronglerp

[swift crag]

oops, I meant...

good catch

(I said LerpAngle when I meant to say MoveTowardsAngle)

[rocky canyon]

wrong lerp definitely can wear sheeps skin.. lol

[swift crag]

MoveTowardsAngle moves towards the target by a specific amount.

It is often what you want instead of using Lerp with a fixed value

If you want a nice smooth-feeling rotation, use SmoothDampAngle; if you want a perfectly linear motion, use MoveTowardsAngle

[rocky canyon]

it doesn't?
i thought it did.. I must be confusing it with MoveTowards()

[swift crag]

It's a critically damped oscillator , iirc

[rocky canyon]

ahh okay

[swift crag]

it goes as fast as possible without being able to overshoot the target

[naive pawn]

the underlying code is terrifying

[swift crag]

I have learned a lot about this because I implemented second-order dynamics

IN THE ANIMATOR

[rocky canyon]

lol

[swift crag]

thank you VRChat

[naive pawn]

1D https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Math/Mathf.cs#L309
2D 😰 https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Math/Vector2.cs#L289

[swift crag]

(my animator implementation perfectly matches the reference code)

[rocky canyon]

i love that repo.. i could doom-scroll thru it all day

[naive pawn]

jesus

[rich adder]

jesus

[swift crag]

i wish we had a Quaternion smoothdamp

apparently the math is obnoxious

[swift crag]

You can perform most basic math operations entirely in the animator with blend trees and animations that animate animator parameters

[rocky canyon]

ive made a euler code-spring

sorta works like smoothdamp.. isn't too bad

[swift crag]

The only thing you can't really do is division (so I use a Motion Time state to scroll through an animation clip that has 1/dt pre-calculated)

[polar acorn]

I swear if they forced furries to cure cancer before uploading a VR Chat Avatar we'd have it solved in like two weeks max

No barrier to entry is too great

[swift crag]

yeah

VRChat has permanently damaged my understanding of Unity

I do everything in the Animator over there

I've written a large volume of editor scripts to generate weird animator controllers, individual animation clips, naked blend-tree assets (they can exist outside of an animator controller! they're just unity objects!)

[rocky canyon]

neat, i been meaning to implement that last one myself ^ 💪

[swift crag]

i feel like i'm giving that speech at the end of Blade Runner

there is no way that the creators of Mecanim could have known we were going to do this to the animator

(thank god for animated animator parameters)

you can animate animator parameters, which gives you frame-to-frame memory, the ability to do basic mathematics, both exponential and linear damping, and lots of other funny gimmicks

(including damping that's framerate-independent)

[swift crag]

this is a more-or-less direct transcription of this code:

float y_change = 0;
float yd_change = 0;

y_change += t * yd;

yd_change += t * x / k2;
yd_change += t * k3 * xd / k2;
yd_change -= t * y / k2;
yd_change -= t * t * yd / k2;
yd_change -= t * k1 * yd / k2;

y = y + y_change;
yd = yd + yd_change;

division is done by multiplying with a pre-computed inverse value

[amber kayak]

During the in-game tutorial I press build and go into the Web with my game and it says this. Ik not really code but someone help

[winged ridge]

Did you try what it says and use the build and run

[rocky zephyr]

Could anyone help me with my assignment in my game design class? I literally tried so hard to do it on my own but I’m like, so dumb and I’ve never used this before and I’m gonna fail this class lol

Ther us no ask page so I figured this would be best

[winged ridge]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[naive pawn]

!ask 👇

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
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[naive pawn]

we can't help without specific info - though keep in mine that we also can't do it for you, we'll only be able to help with specific issues that you might be encountering

[ember valley]

can someone explain to me what is .normalizing?

[keen dew]

It changes a vector's length to 1

[quartz current]

do you mean Vector3.normalized

[fast relic]

it's setting a vector (which you can basically think of as an arrow)'s length to be 1, while preserving its direction

because, let's say you want to move your player to the top right

intuitively, you might want to add a (1, 1) vector times the speed to its position

however, (due to our beloved friend pythagoras) that means the player will move faster diagonally

specifically, the square root of two times faster

[queen adder]

Quick question about general Game Development. When learning Game Development could I start of by learning C# or would I learn how unity works using the given pathway for Junior Programmer? In general I am totally lost with what I should do.

[teal viper]

Both are fine. Learning C# first can make things easier for you later though.
It also depends on whether you're planning to do solo development or in a team(as a designer or something).

[tight fossil]

would random.range still work if the first number is bigger?

[teal viper]

What do the docs say?

[kind oar]

in my game, two orbs can clash weapons and in turn would change their orbit direction

    // Collision Handling
    protected virtual void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col)
    {
        if (owner == null) return;

        // Ricochet
        Weapon otherWeapon = col.GetComponent<Weapon>();
        if (otherWeapon != null)
        {
            Rigidbody2D myOrb = owner.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
            Rigidbody2D otherOrb = otherWeapon.owner.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

            if (myOrb && otherOrb)
            {
                Vector2 dir = (myOrb.position - otherOrb.position).normalized;
                float bouncePower = 8f;

                myOrb.AddForce(dir * bouncePower, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
                otherOrb.AddForce(-dir * bouncePower, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
            }

            // Reverse orbit directions
            orbitDir *= -1f;
            otherWeapon.orbitDir *= -1f;

            Debug.Log($"{name} ricochet! orbitDir={orbitDir}, angle={angle}");

            // Flip both sprites
            if (spriteRenderer != null)
                spriteRenderer.flipX = orbitDir < 0;
            if (otherWeapon.spriteRenderer != null)
                otherWeapon.spriteRenderer.flipX = otherWeapon.orbitDir < 0;

            // Play ricochet sound
            PlaySound(ricochetSound);
            return;
        }

it goes counter clockwise for orbitDir = 1 and clockwise for -1
when debugging, every clash changes the orbit and says what the value is
however, it doesn't change the orbit it atll

but the weird thing is, if i manually change the value during runtime in the inspector, it works
honestly im just so lost on what i could do

[queen adder]

I was planning to solo development and later become a generalist by slowly learning stuff such as scripting, modeling, animation. In general I just want a place to start where I think scripting would be a good base

[kind oar]

https://gyazo.com/4a5e9da7ceec89e275b6d1ae34953b9e.gif

you can see in the console it says the orbit is changing in runtime, but its not changing at all

https://gyazo.com/32dd9da1933e37b52a772fa9420744f7.gif

and you can see here if i change it in inspector, it goes clockwise

actually let me just move this to code general

[fast relic]

i'd personally recommend learning c# first so you're not overwhelmed by learning both unity and c#

[queen adder]

What would you recommend I go as learning most general aspects(modeling, scripting, etc...)

Like C# first then?

[fast relic]

yeah i'd say c# first if you're gonna be doing any coding in unity

[paper delta]

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php

[queen adder]

Perfect Thanks.

[paper delta]

No problem i found it easy to understand but you can also do brackeys tutorials which are very great

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPV2KyIb3jR4CtEelGPsmPzlvP7ISPYzR

[queen adder]

Quick question but when using C# in unity would you do the script into unity or use something like

Visual Studio Code

[paper delta]

You create the script in unity

when you open it it opens visual studio though

which is where you script it but you have to open it through unity

[grand snow]

you can edit your code with anything as the unity editor performs the compilation

[fast relic]

usually an idea like visual studio, visual studio code or jetbrains rider

i mean yeah you could use notepad if you really wanted to

[queen adder]

So you download both but have it to where unity edits the code through visual studio?

[grand snow]

Yea you want to use a nice IDE like visual studio, visual studio code or rider

[paper delta]

you can download through unity

[grand snow]

*it can be automatically downloaded by unity hub

[queen adder]

Ah I see now

[grand snow]

lets be correct

@queen adder more info on supported IDEs and how to configure which one is used: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/scripting-ide-support.html

[paper delta]

They wont understand that

[queen adder]

I already have it all done

[paper delta]

They need to learn the basic language of C# first

[queen adder]

yep

I'm just very lost to be completely honest

[paper delta]

That website he sent is for people who have experience with C#

What it does is teach you how to use it in unity not the language

its not a tutorial

[queen adder]

St4rz mind if I were to dm you on questions about C# if I get stuck or have any questions?

[paper delta]

Im actually a beginner

I only know basics

So i wouldnt be able to help on that

[grand snow]

The topic was what program to use to edit c# so that page is relevent 😐

learning c# is a different topic

[queen adder]

I mean its better then nothing for me at the currently

[fast relic]

there's really nothing that complex there

[fast relic]

just ask them here, what's the point in dming somebody

[paper delta]

Its not a tutorial there

[queen adder]

I tried learning luau but I couldn't do what I wanted so I'm going to try other languagess

[fast relic]

?? yes it is

[grand snow]

who said it was 😆

[fast relic]

or well it's links to tutorials on how to set it up

[paper delta]

Thats how you do it in unity they have no experience with C# itself

[queen adder]

I already set it all up

just was lost on what to do next

[grand snow]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[grand snow]

its learning time!

[paper delta]

There we go!

[fast relic]

that page doesn't even talk about c# code, it's just setting up an ide

[queen adder]

Already looked but just don't know where to start

[grand snow]

If you understand the basics of the engine try a full game course: https://learn.unity.com/course/2d-beginner-game-sprite-flight

[fast relic]

just watch a few tutorials and try to make a simple project on your own, that's the best way to learn something imo

[queen adder]

Yea, that's what I thought but diving right into it just gets a little confusing at times.

[fast relic]

just take it one step at a time and don't be afraid to make mistakes and ask questions and you should be all good

[paper delta]

im actually starting to understand other peoples code

from what ive learned

Data types and Variables that i learned helped a lot

I didnt understand the math part as it makes no sense but other things are fine

and i mean stuff like Math.Sqrt

[fast relic]

that's just.. a square root

what's there not to understand about that

[paper delta]

legit only think i dont understand

not sure why

[fast relic]

what don't you understand about it?

[paper delta]

nvm i figured it out

lol

[paper delta]

i kinda feel like im learning nothing

[fast relic]

why not? what aren't you understanding

[paper delta]

well i understand everything its the website im on i feel like im learning the same thing or nothing

[grand snow]

im not fond of w3 schools myself
but if you understand everything they have then you can look at more advanced topics like design patterns, threading and optimisation

[queen adder]

What else would you use as resources other then unity if w3 school isn't the best?

[grand snow]

Something like this from microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/training/paths/get-started-c-sharp-part-1/?WT.mc_id=dotnet-35129-website
Regardless of language (e.g. c#, python, rust) you want to look at the official documentation first when looking up things

[queen adder]

Also when learning the language would you use visual studio to learn or use the scripts in Unity?

[grand snow]

well to learn the basics of c# its better to learn with general resources. Then you can move onto using c# in unity

[queen adder]

So I learn C# in visual studio then later start using Unity?

[grand snow]

visual studio is an ide, you can use any ide that supports c# to learn c#

[queen adder]

OK, perfect.

[grand snow]

I'm suggesting to learn the language basics first without unity concepts and then move on to using c# with unity.
C# was not created by unity and is used for many other things

[queen adder]

Also any advice to avoid burning out? I tend to speedrun stuff which isn't the best.

[rough granite]

As someone that learnt c# through unity i also recommend this

[fast relic]

go at your own pace and don't be afraid to make mistakes and ask questions

[polar dust]

Not every C# script you write needs to do something I relation to Unity itself.
Most of them of course will, but if you needed a class that does something with a list of float, there's nothing Unity specific going on there

[tired python]

how do i fix this

it just yeets itself out of existance

[fast relic]

some weird rigidbody thing?

[tired python]

not just that....sometimes it goes superspeed when i collide with the walls

how do you even begin to fix these?

[fast relic]

print out its linearvelocity?

[tired python]

wait

[tired python]

it's spiking up then going down

[fast relic]

when it disappears?

[tired python]

no...when it zooms

lemme show you

when i go near the boundaries, there's this acceleration....

[fast relic]

probably the rigidbody trying to resolve collisions because it's in a wall?

try rotating it with angularVelocity instead so it bumps into the wall

[tired python]

so...it pushes the ship back with the same momentum the ship is striking it with and then for a brief moment, it speeds up before the check for maximum spd happens which then lowers it down?

[fast relic]

no?

well the ship ends up inside the boundary

[tired python]

yes

[fast relic]

so the rigidbody is going all haywire trying to get it out of it

[tired python]

when you say inside, are you meaning to say that it's going inside the boundary momentarily or that it's striking the boundary

[fast relic]

here, it's overlapping it

so the rigidbody is trying to push it out because well stuck in wall is bad

[swift crag]

How are you moving the ship?

[tired python]

aight

i get you

[tired python]

mouse

[swift crag]

that's how you're getting input!

i mean how you're actually causing the ship to move

e.g. ship.transform.position += Vector3.right; or something

[tired python]

how would i go about doing that?

[fast relic]

can you show your code?

[swift crag]

I do see that the ship is orbiting around a central point

so I'm guessing that you're just rotating a transform somewhere

[swift crag]

which would, indeed, make it easy to jam the ship into a wall

[tired python]

i am moving my mouse...that's why it's rotating

[tired python]

wait a sec

[fast relic]

i see

[swift crag]

Directly rotating the transform will make it possible to shove the ship into a wall

especially when the ship is offset from the center of rotation like that

rotating causes it to move

[tired python]

i need to learn more about transforms then...

[fast relic]

i think you can just get the angle (with Vector2.SignedAngle()) and then aim its angular velocity towards there..?

[tired python]

lemme see a guide, i will get back after that

[tired python]

right now what you guys are offering as a solution is going above my head....that's why it's necessary i guess

[fast relic]

what aren't you understanding?

we're here to help you figure it out afterall

[tough lagoon]

I think you need to use less AI and just go through the free tutorials

[tired python]

tbh, i don't understand a significant part of this code.

[tired python]

it was from a free tutorial...

😭

[fast relic]

which parts? i can explain it step by step if you want

[tough lagoon]

No i mean

!learn

[radiant void]

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[tired python]

lemme figure it out

ya....it's one of the tutorials on there

correct me if i am wrong. so transform is a class which prolly stores three diff informations. the position, rotation and scale. you can access these datas using transform.position which returns a vector3 data type. and if you want to access individual elements of that vector3, you can using transform.position.x or transform.scale.y...?

[fast relic]

yes, exactly!

[tired python]

now i need to understand how the camera class works

[fast relic]

well the camera class is just that, a camera - it renders stuff to the screen

it has some helper methods though

[tired python]

ya..that's what i wanna learn abt

[fast relic]

like ScreenToWorldPoint, which takes a point on the screen and turns it into a point in the world

and the mouse position you're reading is in screen space (on the screen)

since the mouse is, well, on the screen

which is why you need to convert it

[tired python]

[fast relic]

you can look at the documentation for Camera, it is a lot but you only need a few of the methods there really

[low copper]

I have a silly question....when adding references to a SerializedField is it better to make them private or public or does not not matter. For example...

[SerializeField] private TMP_InputField inputField;

[midnight plover]

public fields are serialized by default

making them private is just to avoid other scripts from outside accessing or changing them

[fast relic]

it's typically good practice to only make something public if it has to be

[low copper]

Ok, so serializing them just means they are accessible via the editor?

[low copper]

That makes sense

[fast relic]

yeah

[low copper]

@midnight plover + @fast relic : Ok, thank you very much for explaining

[rough granite]

Side question is there any reason to declare it private vs not mentioning it since c# just defaults to private

[hot wadi]

Readability

[fast relic]

you don't have to declare it explicitly as private, but I prefer to for clarity

[rough granite]

Ah so like using an i for interfaces or an underscore (for private?), it is pointless for myself got it

[hot wadi]

It's not pointless. It's helpful when the code gets big

[fast relic]

yeah pretty much, just clarity

[rough granite]

It is pointless if i a) work alone, b) never start having an understanding of syntax in one way then changing would be pointless

[hot wadi]

U are still missing the point. Alone or in a team, once the size of the project increases, it gets harder to read and refactor it.

[junior basin]

Hi there, I was wondering if theres a way to replace a gameobject with another gameobject, like swap them out? Thanks

[hot wadi]

Naming convention is not important to the system, but it's important to programmers

[swift crag]

even in a solo project, coming back to something you wrote six months ago can be challenging ( :

[swift crag]

You can't replace all references to the old object with a new object, at least.

What are you trying to make your game do?

[junior basin]

I have an array of cells in a grid and I want to swap the sprites when I do something as the player. Suppose I could just swap out sprites but was just wondering if the other idea was feasible

[hot wadi]

If it's just the sprite and nothing else (collider for example), u should only change the sprite

[grand snow]

to swap gameobjects it would only really need you to copy over the transform parent, position, rotation and other custom bits you have (like a sprite)
Sounds like you realise it may be easier to update the sprite instead.

[swift crag]

alternatively, there should be a component on the object that has methods like

public void UnlockTile() {
  locked = false;
  spriteRenderer.sprite = openSprite;
}

that way, outside code (e.g. the player's code) does not have to know how to switch the sprite out

you just ask the tile to do something and it handles the rest

[cosmic dagger]

This helps a lot with code completion and finding specific fields of a type . . .

[junior basin]

Ah right, gotcha

cheers guys 👍

[tender onyx]

Hey y'all. Trying object pooling to help the performance of one of my games. I have a spawn manager and object pooler. When the level loads, it spawns in enemies in waves. Works great on my first level, throws this error on the next... They do still spawn, but stack and never move. Like the mesh isn't reading correctly. I know they all have it and have access to it... Any ideas? Can provide ANY code that's needed. TIA

[tender onyx]

BTW, the spawner, pooler, and all possible spawn point are on the exact Y-zero of the navmesh

[swift crag]

I believe the agent looks for a navmesh to stick to in its Awake method (or was it in Start? that's an important difference)

Are you spawning the enemies far away from the world and then teleporting them into it?

I remember having this issue in a game once – enemies were getting instantiated and then placed on a spawn point

to narrow down the cause, I would test if the bug happens:

• in level 2
• after changing a level

(those are two different things!)

[sage shoal]

how do i make wasd controls for the player

istarted yesterday btw

[keen dew]

Look up a movement tutorial for the type of game you're making

[ancient ermine]

After decompilation, the code is always missing something.

[midnight plover]

what a surprise 😄

[rich adder]

no modding/ decompiling allowed on this server btw

[ivory bobcat]

You'd fix the problem from the top of the list to the bottom. Unfortunately we cannot help you as the server doesn't support discussions on decompilation.

[ancient ermine]

I‘m just decompiling my own project.

[ancient ermine]

OK

[polar acorn]

So why not just use the actual project files

[ancient ermine]

I‘m testing my encryption strength.

I‘m also a reverse engineer.

[rich adder]

Encryption on client side code is hilarious

[polar acorn]

Attempting to stop decompilation is a losing battle. Megacorporations have thrown billions of dollars at it and failed. Best to just not let it bother you

[ancient ermine]

The most advanced encryption I've encountered so far is splitting a file into 5,000 parts, each individually encrypted with AES-128. The key is not simple bytes but dynamic, and there's an additional layer of unknown compression. I have already decrypted the outer zlib encryption before.

[sour fulcrum]

Whats the point tho

[ancient ermine]

I can‘t understand how the game is read.

[midnight plover]

But thats not a topic for this server, as mentioned before

[ancient ermine]

Well, I‘ll take a look some other place.

[earnest meteor]

does anyone have any ideas for my game

I have no ideas. it's a VR game where you run from monsters

[polar acorn]

That sounds like an idea

go with that

[earnest meteor]

i got my map but how would YOU like the player model

i mean funny or angry or normal looking

[polar acorn]

Doesn't matter what I want I'm not making it

[earnest meteor]

ik but as game devs you should listen to others and ask for advice

and thats what I do

[polar acorn]

But you should also know what you actually want

[earnest meteor]

Ik but I just want some inspiration

and idk if your advice is bad it's still advice

[polar acorn]

So, get some inspiration. Experience media. See the world. Have some life experiences to draw from

[earnest meteor]

omg bro i hate my li... wait THANKS BRO I WILL

[tender onyx]

Enemies GetComponent for the navmesh on awake. The levels are designed to be seamless, so one is physically below the other maps y axis, but the pooler / spawner is moved on the new load to make up for it. Could it be the enemy prefab itself is to far from the mesh when instantiated for the pool? Again, I can send the pooler script to show how they instantiate if need be

[nimble apex]

do we have a mathf.lerp that clamp t between -1 and 1 instead of 01?

[swift crag]

no, but you can use Mathf.LerpUnclamped and Mathf.Clamp

[hot wadi]

We can help with technical issues but game design is another story
If u want feedback for ideas, u can make a post in #1180170818983051344

[polar acorn]

Lerp it, then use that result to InverseLerp between -1 and 1

[swift crag]

I often write a "remap" function, since this comes up so often

[nimble apex]

aight, i think i know how to make it works

[swift crag]

I believe the Mathematics package also provides a remap function

[polar acorn]

(or just double it and subtract 1, but the Lerp-InverseLerp remap is useful even when the math isn't that simple)

[swift crag]

yeah, I try to avoid doing any "tricks"

they make it much more annoying to change your ranges later

[hot wadi]

Yeah, 0 - 1 is just the 'range' that u can easily modify

[polar acorn]

Yep. Tricks are fun to spot but usually more trouble than their worth

Better to be generic

[hot wadi]

Besides, math is fun until it's not

[swift crag]

i was trying to change the range on a post-processing effect on one of my VRChat avatars last night before an event

but i was too clever about it and i literally could not find where i was calculating the falloff for something

i'm going to fix that now lol

[nimble apex]

i think i got it done , ty

in fact, i didnt use any of those method, the lerp function is for this UI , u see the upper corner got bunch of buttons right? that is a scroll rect with a grid layout

what im doing is to make user able to zoom into the grid

ofc its smartphone

i already got a custom function to get the input from pinching action

private void Update()
{
    //implement zoom on grid
    float ZoomInputValue = InputManager.Instance.ZoomAction();

    BatchPlanMap.enabled = ZoomInputValue == 0;

    if (ZoomInputValue == 0)
    {
        return;
    }

    zoomValue = ZoomInputValue switch
    {
        < 0 => Mathf.Clamp01(zoomValue -= Time.deltaTime * zoomSpeed),
        > 0 => Mathf.Clamp01(zoomValue += Time.deltaTime * zoomSpeed),
        _ => zoomValue
    };

    BatchPlanMapAnchor.localScale = Vector3.one * Mathf.Lerp(shrinkThreshold, zoomThreshold, zoomValue);
}```

[torpid spindle]

hello

can anyone help me with debugging my directional attack ?

[sly vortex]

^^This guy is spamming multiple messages across multiple channels

[reef bramble]

I've been working on learning procedurally generated forests etc with structures, I've added a cave you can enter, but I want this cave to be procedurally generated on each cave you enter. But I have no idea where to start. I want to make like a random cave system, not rooms like a dungeon if its not TOO difficult.

[golden kelp]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[scarlet pasture]

hey i want to make a smart boss, how can i programm that the boss reads the behavior of the player, i want that the boss sees that the Player has lost over the half of his health

how can i give him the infomaction, can i do that on every Action the Bosses do, maybe with getComponent?

[balmy yacht]

complicado

[scarlet pasture]

u mean it is Complicated`?

[balmy yacht]

i dont speak english

[scarlet pasture]

okay

[balmy yacht]

i am from Brazil

[scarlet pasture]

maybe someone else that can help me with that

[eternal needle]

this is a code channel, theres no off topic so please dont spam if you cannot help someone

[eternal needle]

the boss simply needs a reference to the player

[scarlet pasture]

okay, so i only need to say "if the Players current healh is lower than 50" do somthing?

[eternal needle]

how you pass that reference is up to you. It could be with GetComponent if its trying to find targets in range

[devout garden]

can someone help me? I have lighting differences between the game in the editor and in the finished build. The flashlight should fade of rq wich it does in the editor but in the build the light somehow doesnt fade that quick and I can see the different lbrightness steps in the distance

[scarlet pasture]

but the data of the Player changes alot, in this case ? would it be okay do search it on Update?

[balmy yacht]

huh sorry

[eternal needle]

this is a coding channel

[devout garden]

what chnnel should I use?

[eternal needle]

Well you'd likely have some targetting logic for the boss anyways, which may find targets in range already. It all depends on your design. And the boss is going to be doing things in update to determine when to attack, or what attack to use.

[scarlet pasture]

okay nice i will try it

[eternal needle]

probably #1390346776804069396

[coral patio]

Hi everybody, I'm a bit confused and it may be really easy lol. How can I check if a position changed was finished with gravity enabled? I added moving platforms where I could add triggers based on if the position was finished and returning back and forth or ended (as those do not include gravity), but I cant do the same for my character. As example dashing forward in the air will always make him drop while in air meaning I never have an idea when the dash actually finished

[edgy sinew]

always make him drop while in air?
huh?
what is the dash supposed to do while mid-air?

[coral patio]

Sorry wrong description, its perfectly fine doing what its supposed to do, but my expected end position of the end of the dash doesn't match up with my computed value due to gravity, hence I can never check if the dash was successfully finished and set a state to the character which did work with non-gravity platforms

[edgy sinew]

I'd say, make the dash time-based or just apply some velocity impulse?

[frail hawk]

why not just temporary disable the gravity on your rb while dashing

[edgy sinew]

I just keep time for certain things, or read animation curves and control some behaviour that way

[coral patio]

Actually good point

Yeah.. Sometimes you're stuck so long in a problem you dont see the easy solution

[frail hawk]

use a simple timer and after small dela yenable it again

[coral patio]

We aint so far in animation yet

[edgy sinew]

ight then we aint copy that

[coral patio]

Cheers thanks guys!

[scarlet pasture]

hey how can i make this working fine, my boss hast two colliders and i want detect eacht of them

[slender nymph]

you'd have to loop through the array

[scarlet pasture]

ahhh thanks!!

i used linq for that, (is only one time and its clean)

for every other

begginer

[frail hawk]

why checkin for more tags? that is actually always a bad move

[scarlet pasture]

really?

what do u mean?

and why is it bad?

[frail hawk]

it has a reason why a go only have one tag

[scarlet pasture]

whitch?

wait im dumb

i only need to search for on tag wtf im doing

the Colliders have even the Same tag Wtf

🥀

[frail hawk]

i mean if it is doing what it should, go for it but i am just saying. did not want to break your gameflow

[scarlet pasture]

bro, i even dont know why i did that

i only had 2 Hours of sleep hahaha

[frail hawk]

yeah, breaks are important in development too

[scarlet pasture]

100%

hey when the Palyer collides with the Boss the Boss slides crazy on the floor

can this be fixed with this, in the forums i saw that this is not recommended

what else should i use?

[polar acorn]

I mean, that seems to be exactly what you're telling it to do

Guessing that's what the ApplyKnockback function does

[scarlet pasture]

no this code is for the Player, i he collides with enemy he shoukd get a KnockBacjk

[wintry quarry]

What do you want to happen when the player and the boss collide?
What does "slides crazy on the floor" mean?

[scarlet pasture]

like the Player Collides with the Boss, i Want => the Player gets a KnockBack. My Problem => in the Collidison between the Player and Boss the Boss also gets a Force (because of the Collision) and he slides because of this on the ground. What i want to achive => i want that if the Collision happens the Boss be on the same spot

do u understand what i mean?

[wintry quarry]

Is the boss using a dynamic rigidbody?

[scarlet pasture]

yeah

[wintry quarry]

then it's expected it will also receive an impulse from colliding with another object.

One cheeky workaround is to put a special collider just for the player on a kinematic rigidbody that's a child of the boss. Then set up the layer collisions so that the player only collides with the kinematic child instead of the main boss.

That should eliminate the boss receiving any impulses from the collisions IIRC.

[scarlet pasture]

hmm okay but what exactlly is the diffrence between the code of line i used? and could this also be achivable if i would say, "When the Player Collides with the Boss, set the Rb to Kinematic for a shot time"?

[zenith wren]

How would I make it so that I can't get output back to back while using Random.Range?

[keen dew]

Generate again until you get a number that's not the previous one. Or a bit more obscure but avoids a potential infinite loop: if you want a number between a and b, generate a number between a and b - 1 and if the result is >= previous number, add 1

[chrome apex]

which joint should I be using if I want an UPRIGHT spring? Think of it as that cat toy; a rod with a ball on top. The cat pulls it and it goes boing and flips back and forth before returning to the original posiiton

[chrome apex]

Character joint seems to work for that but I can't get it to stay upright once moved. It acts like it's been roped to a position below it. Once you move it, it stays down and to the side.

Maybe a configurable joint can do that

[wintry quarry]

No - by the time you are reacting to the collision it's too late. It already happened.

[wintry quarry]

Put all the possible results in a list and shuffle it. Then iterate over the shuffled list (like a deck of cards)

[tired python]

so, i tried thinking about what you said, and i don't think it makes sense to me. what would getting the angular diff between the two transforms even achieve?

[fast relic]

well you'd wanna sort of push it in that direction using angularVelocity (since that would respect collisions)

[tired python]

here's the thing though...if i were to push it in that direction when the collision already happens...won't it still be in a position where it's already inside the boundary? if that's the case, even if i do push it a bit more in that direction, that's not gonna change the fact that the collisions are still going haywire resulting it an unpredictable motion

or should i check for it just before it collides with the boundary

[fast relic]

well the reason that the weird acceleration happens is because the rigidbody ends up partially inside the wall, not just colliding with it

but using angularVelocity will make it just push up against the wall but not go inside it

[tired python]

wait a sec...i think there's an even better way to do this...here me out

so what i can do is, when the spaceship collides, i takes it's linearvelocity and then i just alter it's linearvelocity by the same magnitude but in the opposite direction

so it bounces off of the boundary due to reaction force

would that work?

or wait, even better

[fast relic]

I doubt it, since you're modifying the rotation directly it's not affected by physics

but you can try

[tired python]

aight i will try implementing it then

[tired python]

aight ya no, it doesn't work.

rb.angularVelocity *= 3; tried this...to increase angular velocity for a split moment and then let the force carry it out of there but ya no...this doesn't work either

[vocal quiver]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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[vocal quiver]

Hey Guys I am having trouble with my rigidbody system. Basicalyl I am trying to create a character controller based on a rigid body system. The issue is that I start flying upward when pressing S and Jump at the same time idk why please help

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

[rocky canyon]

i use a faux antenna physics script i found on unity discussions..
just spent some time making the top part have a target that influences it..
i'd be happy to package it up and send it to ya if you'd like

unless your specifically wanting physics springs instead of faux physics

[rocky canyon]

just quickly looking it seems like maybe the slope handling conflicts w/ the jump..
i'd debug if ur on a slope (true/false) or whatever and inspect that boolean as the problem occurs.. might shine some light on the situation

[tired python]

this is messed up, tried doing this even, it doesn't do a thing!

if (rb.linearVelocity.magnitude > maxspd)
{
    rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(0, 0);
}```

[fast relic]

well if it's 0 anyway then i doubt multiplying it by 3 is gonna do much

[tired python]

it's 0 when it collides?

lemme check

[fast relic]

i mean you're not making it anything

i'm telling you that you should use it instead of setting the rotation (up direction) directly

[tired python]

but i did think that this line of code uses the angular velocity it has...

or maybe i don't understand you

[fast relic]

you're setting transform.up to the direction to the mouse directly
while i'm telling you that you should use angularVelocity to rotate it while respecting collision

instead of setting transform.up

[tired python]

correct me if i am wrong. are you trying to tell me to not use the transform.up method i have been using to move the spaceship when it collides?

[fast relic]

i'm telling you not to set transform.up directly (like you did [here ](#💻┃code-beginner message) ) and instead use angularVelocity to rotate the rigidbody towards the mouse

[tired python]

ya...i misunderstood you completely before, my bad

[fast relic]

no worries! it's fine

[chrome apex]

I guess I could make a script like that but can it not be made with joints?

[rocky canyon]

im sure it can.. i personally find joints tedious to work with and i just had the script handy. that is all

[mint imp]

Soooo i was about to attempt making an "editor" just so i can build my levels for efficiently. Then i thought. Why not just use the tile grid editor.
I could zoom it out so that im not dealing with massive block tiles, then paint "zones" for my game.
Is there anything to do with tile grid systems i should know?

[cinder trout]

this

[naive pawn]

are you trying to code with opera for some reason

opera is not a code editor

[slender nymph]

1. expecting people to know to look five days into the chat history to find your actual question instead of you just reposting or linking your question again is absurd.
2. whatever "opera" is in this context, it is not a supported code editor for unity. see the supported options below

!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

[cinder trout]

iim not askiing what i should code with im asking how i switch to opera to something else

[slender nymph]

what does that even mean
"switch to opera to something else"

[fast relic]

go to preferences -> external tools

[cinder trout]

were is preferances in unity or in the project or in the files

[fast relic]

in unity

in the menu on the top left, edit -> preferences -> external tools

[slender nymph]

literally just follow the guide linked by the bot
#💻┃code-beginner message

[cinder trout]

wich link

[slender nymph]

the one for whichever IDE you plan to actually use

[cinder trout]

IDE?

[slender nymph]

you know you can google terms you don't understand, right? that's Integrated Development Environment. aka your code editor

conveniently the bot mentions three different ones which should have given you a clue as to what it meant

[cinder trout]

this An IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, is a software application that combines common developer tools into a single graphical user interface (GUI) to streamline the software development process. These tools typically include a source code editor, a debugger, and build automation tools, which helps programmers write, edit, debug, and test code more efficiently in one place

[slender nymph]

congrats, you've learned to copy and paste. no idea why you chose to do so here but good on you i guess

[lunar heart]

Hi there I'm having issues with VS and Unity and was wondering if someone could help me I already looked videos and forums online about the issue and nothing is fixing it could someone help me?

[slender nymph]

!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

[cinder trout]

dude why are u being so sarcastic about everything im just trying to ask for help ii ask what ide means u just google it thats what its for whats your problem

[naive pawn]

https://dontasktoask.com

[slender nymph]

notice how i actually answered your question in the same message i informed you that google is an option.

[naive pawn]

nobody is asking what an IDE is. we already know
we're telling you how you can find out

[cinder trout]

if u do now just say like if i asked whats the population of poland and someone nows r they just gonna say google it

[naive pawn]

yes

[cinder trout]

also what im getting from google is that its a codiing tool like id use visual studeo is that what u mean by ide

[slender nymph]

my guy, i fucking answered that already

[cinder trout]

wich part

[lunar heart]

Everytime I'm trying to use VS for unity my code doesn't work, I'm new to scripting but it seems like intelisense doesn't work and certain values and floats don't even appear functional even after typing them, people have suggested to set external script editor to VS but even that doesn't work and every other solution I've tried like dragging the code directly into VS

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[cinder trout]

can you just tell me wich link without getting pissy

[naive pawn]

which ide are you using

or, trying to use

[lunar heart]

Thank you I'm so dumb. Thank you for having patience

[cinder trout]

what do u recommend sorry ii am very new so i dont now

[slender nymph]

i answered that one too. click the one for the ide you plan to use. since nobody here can read your mind and you've not bothered telling us which you plan to use, what more do you expect?

[naive pawn]

so you don't have an IDE at all then?

jesus christ we aren't psychic

[cinder trout]

u diidnt ask till now

Anyway just recommend me a tool then i will stop talking

[slender nymph]

there are three that the bot mentions. pick one.

[naive pawn]

there is an assumption that when you say "an actual coding tool" that you already have an actual coding tool

[cinder trout]

sorry i was annoying dumb

[cinder trout]

And sorry about ignoring the thing i just thaught iit was ai replying to every thing i say have a good day and sorry

[teal viper]

Visual studio.

[slender nymph]

it's a bot message that was invoked as a direct response to a command (which is why you see !ide from a real person right before each time it has said that)

[cinder trout]

sorry thank you and later when i get the visual studio downloaded can you help me change from opera to viisual studiio or r you just gonna send me to google

[slender nymph]

that's what the bot's linked instructions are for

[naive pawn]

we're gonna send you to the instructions that someone has already written

so we don't have to repeat literally everything there

[cinder trout]

nevermind sorry god damn

[quartz current]

HI!

I'm new

[naive pawn]

hi, this is not a social space
https://nohello.net

if you have a question, feel free to ask

[quartz current]

Oh, Sorry

[lunar heart]

OMG it worked you guys are angels thank you so much, I love ya'll

[cinder trout]

If i guess correctly uu can prob say hii in uniity talk if not u prob just cant say hi

so no hi at all

[polar dust]

no hi's.

[cinder trout]

why ths is iit not a commen curtacy

[naive pawn]

yep

[slender nymph]

if only a link was provided that explains why

[naive pawn]

see the link i posted above

[cinder trout]

do you guys have links for everythingg

[rocky canyon]

majority of the channels are support channels..
it'd be like hitting up Microsoft's Support Team n sayin "hi 👋"
but if you have a question or need help then all is welcome

[slender nymph]

all of the incredibly common stuff, yeah

[rocky canyon]

links make things easier.

[cinder trout]

what other links do yawl got like I'm genuinely curious

[rocky canyon]

when they're such common topics 🙂

[polar dust]

hmm, a bot command to show all links

I doubt such a command exists

[cinder trout]

yes that would be awesome or a link to a website that just says all the links

[rocky canyon]

the pin's in each channel have most of that

[naive pawn]

https://dontasktoask.com
https://nohello.net
https://xyproblem.info
https://tryitands.ee
https://unity.huh.how +slug
https://learn.unity.com

oh, and https://shouldiblamecaching.com

[rocky canyon]

https://unity.huh.how/ +slug
i wish i knew all the slugs

[cinder trout]

Yeah but a link to all the links i think is better but i still find this funny

[rocky canyon]

bro's got em on lock

[naive pawn]

i can only remember lerp/wrong-lerp tbh

[rocky canyon]

wrong assignment is a good one

[naive pawn]

it's the only one i reference consistently

[polar dust]

whats a slug anyway

not the bug

[rocky canyon]

the id part of the url

[polar dust]

aaahhh

[naive pawn]

well, that's ambiguous lmao

[naive pawn]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Slug

we can do without the image spam, thanks

[cinder trout]

a slug is like a snail with no shell

[rocky canyon]

u better quit.. offtopic images will get u warned 🤣 i would know

[cinder trout]

iit was 2 images

[cinder trout]

ii guess thats fair

[rocky canyon]

if i post 1 more im donezo... 😭

just letting ya know lol

[cinder trout]

😢

[formal gull]

me dont know unity

how make pong

[slender nymph]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[rocky canyon]

should find quite a few tutorials about that

i think its the best game to start with

[formal gull]

this is whati got

rn

[naive pawn]

!code

[radiant void]

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[cinder trout]

ii have to aks why does your profile have like a pokemon card to it

[naive pawn]

do you have an issue, currently?

[rocky canyon]

rb.velocity is old
you need to change that to rb.linearVelocity in the newer versions of Unity

[formal gull]

paddles dont move and when a ball touched a paddle it stops moving

[rocky canyon]

thats why its underlined green in ur ide

[formal gull]

i updated my thing

thats prob why

why is o a blacklisted letter

[slender nymph]

there's no offtopic here, thanks. also what a silly question when the answer should be glaringly obvious

[rocky canyon]

its not.. any super short message will get muted

[cinder trout]

you like pokemon?

[polar dust]

clanker code

[naive pawn]

are you getting any errors

[slender nymph]

it's not, you should read what the message said next time. use full sentences

[naive pawn]

i don't think so, actually

[formal gull]

no errors it just doesnt move the paddles

[slender nymph]

show the unity console during play mode

[naive pawn]

are you using rbs on the paddles?

[rocky canyon]

^ and if you'll use the codepaste websites to paste and link us ur code we'll be able to see if theres any code that may be causing that

[formal gull]

oh wait i got this

[naive pawn]

if they have colliders, they should be moved using RBs, and you shouldn't use transform.Translate on them

ah, there it is

!input

[radiant void]

How to Set Input

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

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

[rocky canyon]

ah hah!

[slender nymph]

6.1+ strikes again

[formal gull]

i didnt check my console

[rocky canyon]

always check the console..

even better have it docked so u can see it as u test

[slender nymph]

you'll need to get used to checking it often. in fact you would ideally have it visible while you're in play mode

[formal gull]

what do i do

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rocky canyon]

and make sure to check the collapsed menus.. it may not be visible unless u open some of the sub-menus.

i think its under Other Settings

[formal gull]

i dont see it

[rocky canyon]

jeez

[slender nymph]

read the two messages directly above yours

[formal gull]

whats a collapsed menu

[rocky canyon]

same as it works in the editor everywhere

[naive pawn]

in computers* everywhere

[rocky canyon]

lol true true

[formal gull]

idk i js watch youtube and play game

so like

[rocky canyon]

learn something new everyday

[naive pawn]

youtube also has this. several games also have this

[rocky canyon]

and ur cellphone 😉

[formal gull]

o i found

[slender nymph]

consider taking a computer literacy course before attempting game development if you are not all that familiar with computers

[formal gull]

bro just wants to hate

[rocky canyon]

he also helps strangers quite often

[formal gull]

do i do both

or just old

[rocky canyon]

u can do both

[naive pawn]

or, yknow, pointing out where else you might have seen this kind of UI

[rocky canyon]

but if u plan on using one or the other u can just pick the one u intend on using

[naive pawn]

just set it to old

[rocky canyon]

most tutorials you'll find use the old Input class

Input.GetKeyDown..
Input.GetAxis.. etc

its more beginner friendly..

[slender nymph]

it's really only more beginner friendly because of the sheer number of tutorials that still use it. the input system has been updated quite a bit to be super easy to get started with. so much so that you can just add a PlayerInput component to an object and you're already 90% of the way done since it uses a default input action asset that is already set up

[swift crag]

It’s easier to do very basic things with the old input system

[rocky canyon]

i've finally prestiged.. none of my projects use the old other than basic debugging now 💪

woop woop

[swift crag]

As soon as you want to do anything more it explodes

[rocky canyon]

i use the old as a running key-logger

[formal gull]

how do i make it change directions depending on where the paddle is coming from

and also the paddles can move past the borders for some reason

[rocky canyon]

~~you'll need to clamp the x position

    public float moveSpeed = 10f;
    public float leftLimit = -8f;
    public float rightLimit = 8f;

    void Update()
    {
        float moveX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

        Vector3 pos = transform.position;
        pos.x = Mathf.Clamp(pos.x + moveX, leftLimit, rightLimit); // clamp x position
        transform.position = pos;
    }``` something similar to this~~

ignore this and use rigidbodies instead

[naive pawn]

wouldn't it be the Y position

[rocky canyon]

well depending on the orientation ya

either the x or y.. or perhaps the z... lol concept still stands lol

[naive pawn]

pong is usually horizontal, and their code does confirm that

[rocky canyon]

landscape or portrait 😉

havent played in a super long time lool

[naive pawn]

air hockey is modern pong

[rocky canyon]

may have been on the original Atari 😬

[formal gull]

where do i put this construction

[naive pawn]

wait pong and airhockey were developed almost at the same time lmao

[rocky canyon]

absolutely do not just copy and paste it..
read it.. try to understand it and implement it

[naive pawn]

also if your walls are colliders already you could just use those

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Mathf.Clamp.html

[naive pawn]

your paddles should be rigidbodies if they have colliders, and then you should be moving via the rigidbodies rather than via transfrom

[rocky canyon]

if u do this u dont even need to worry about the clamps

the walls will stop u.. just like irl 🙂 🙂

ya. nvm it absolutely shuld be rigidbodies anyway.. b/c the puck would be a rigidbody.. and interactions would make more sense that way

[formal gull]

i got like uh

a box collider

it works fine but doesnt like

move vertically

just straight back and forth

horizontally

ykwim

[naive pawn]

i do not

please finish your thought before hitting send

did you just copy spawn's code

[rocky canyon]

lol

its been deprecated 😄

are you following a tutorial or are u just "freestyling"?

or even worse ||chatgpt regurgitation||

[formal gull]

no chatgpt

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z0hKe9KaAc

maybe follow along for a while

get familiar with things

[formal gull]

i was following it

i dont think he mentioned anything for the walls

[rocky canyon]

i skimmed thru it.. it covers everything..

^ he's making borders for the game-area

[rocky canyon]

if you use rigidbodies to move the paddles they'll not go thru the colliders

[formal gull]

the balls still phasing

[rocky canyon]

phasing?

what u mean by phasing?

[formal gull]

through the

wall

[rocky canyon]

theres no rigidbody on that.

[naive pawn]

well you wouldn't need a rigidbody on it

[rocky canyon]

for the ball?

[naive pawn]

no, for the walls

or the paddles for collision, technically - you'd want the rb to move the collider

[rocky canyon]

what is this component showing?

[formal gull]

My pc crashed and I didn’t save

Ggs ig

[rocky canyon]

ooof.. good time to restart 😄

maybe try some of the others.. theres lots of choices

[formal gull]

I wanna sleep bro

It’s almost 12 already

[rocky canyon]

then do it..

[formal gull]

It’s due for a class tmr

[rocky canyon]

it never works out trying to develop when ur tired

ohh.. rip

[formal gull]

And I have to come up with some

Dumb twist or whatever

[rocky canyon]

why everyone always wait til the deadline?

[formal gull]

Bc I didn’t have my pc for 2 weeks

And I’m not running unity on a school Chromebook

[rocky canyon]

nope.. i wouldn't think so lol

how they expect people to build a project without being provided adequate tools??

[formal gull]

Help me spawncampgames

I’ll subscribe to u

Pls

[rocky canyon]

its late bro.. im about to pass out

[naive pawn]

tbh the best thing you can do is getting rest

[rocky canyon]

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

use this tutorial next.. @formal gull ☝️

BMo is legit.. 👈

[formal gull]

If ppl in my class vote my game as the best im exempt from my performance final

[rocky canyon]

and this one uses RIgidbodies and RIgidbody movement

it should help you

• has walls
• uses rigidbodies for paddle movements (won't go thru walls)
• and its short enough u can meet ur deadline 😅

good luck tho.. 🍀 i gotta bounce.. i gotta get some sleep.. I got jury duty 😩

[formal gull]

@naive pawn if i add a rigid body the paddle falls when it touches any of the walls

[naive pawn]

don't ping specific people for help please

just set gravity scale to 0 and set velocity to 0 when not moving

[formal gull]

mb

do u know if u got code for a bird from flappy bird

i wanna do smt like that

instead of w for up and s for down

if u know what i mean

[naive pawn]

you can find plenty on google or make it yourself

[formal gull]

pls

[formal gull]

i cant find it pls help me

[naive pawn]

you can't google "unity flappy bird tutorial"?

[formal gull]

i need it to work with pong

[naive pawn]

learn how it works and integrate it into your pong movement

[coral patio]

Hey, just wanted to say thanks again. Sometimes its those easy things which look confusing. The simple gravity disable literally did the trick. Thank you so much!

[dull grail]

Is there an easy way to do something like this instead of dropdown/manually making uneven ui? And also i have a question if it's possible to make buttons on press to call a method from script attached to resolution text?

[fast relic]

i mean it's possible but you're probably gonna have to do it manually

as for making them call a method from the resolution text script, ofc yeah

you just connect their event to that method

[dull grail]

Thank you, guess i should see some ui guides then

[fast relic]

shouldn't be that hard

just a simple index that you add to or subtract from

[dull grail]

Thats easy part, i meant to make ui to not look ugly, never liked to work with it :)

[fast relic]

well then i'm also in the dark, tell me when you figure it out haha

[eternal needle]

Have a list of resolutions (directly obtainable via existing api) and keep track of the current selected index. Left button subtracts from index, right button adds. Handle the case of going below 0 and above the list count

You'd have to make the UI yourself, which would be pretty easy not make "uneven" as long as they are on the same Y coordinate, with the text directly between it

[dull grail]

Didn't thought to set they y coordinate in inspector, thank you

[fierce shuttle]

You can also make the texts Rect height the same as your buttons heights then set the alignment to be somewhere in the middle - using the UI tool (T key by default) you should be able to use all the snapping and alignment features on the Canvas in your Scene window

[elder orbit]

quick question why dosent my player want to my i asigned a script to it

[fast relic]

could be many reasons

[elder orbit]

reason n 1

i dont know where to palce

well

can i sen dscrn shots?

[fast relic]

yes

[elder orbit]

then the script

part 1

part 2

[fast relic]

try restarting the editor?

[elder orbit]

wait

ok

uhh the editor the code maker

visual studio?

[fast relic]

the unity editor

[elder orbit]

Okay

ok 2nd off all it still dosent work

do i gata set up inputs?

[fast relic]

do you get any errors?

in the console

[elder orbit]

let me see

wers output

i dont see it

[fast relic]

in the console

[elder orbit]

nope

i just dont understand how hard is unity dawg 😭

[fast relic]

try pressing ctrl r?

in unity

[elder orbit]

ok

wait

unity editor istn that the editor what i showed you the first image?

[fast relic]

this is the unity editor

[elder orbit]

yeah

anyways it still dosent work the ctrl r

[fast relic]

still no errors?

[elder orbit]

hmmmmmnm

nop[e i acsidently clicked smt lol dont care about it

[fast relic]

that;s probably unrelated

you're trying to move with the game window open not the scene right

[elder orbit]

how do i fix it?

[fast relic]

i'm just making sure

here, the scene is the one you set stuff up in and game is the one you can actually play the game in

is the script's inspector still like that after the restart?

[elder orbit]

i clicked game it still dosent wrok

well

yes

[fast relic]

try removing the script and adding it again?

it should say player movement at the top and have a few fields there, not new mono behaviour script

[fast relic]

strange

[elder orbit]

oh yeah

[fast relic]

if you click on the script field it shows the correct script in the file system right?

[elder orbit]

i added the player to Prefabs folder

ScriptField?

[fast relic]

the field that says "script" next to it

in the inspector

[fast relic]

weird

did you set up your ide correctly?

[elder orbit]

id?

waht id

[fast relic]

ide

the code editor

!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

[fast relic]

might be some weirdness due to that?

[elder orbit]

yeah i got VS code

the blue one

[fast relic]

is it selected as your external editor in unity?

edit in the top bar -> preferences -> external tools

[ivory bobcat]

If none of the fields are showing, perhaps you've forgotten to save in Visual Studio Code

[elder orbit]

what but it stays the same when i exit and re open it

[fast relic]

click on external script editor and select visual studio code

[elder orbit]

done

[fast relic]

and press regenerate project files just in case

[elder orbit]

done

i clicked it 3 times

[fast relic]

now try saving in it in vscode

and actually close vscode and open it by double clicking the script in unity first

[elder orbit]

how to save

[fast relic]

ctrl + s

[fast relic]

that's good

[fast relic]

press yes, for these and other files that might be found later

[elder orbit]

then?

[fast relic]

look at the inspector now

[elder orbit]

AYY

tysm bro i luv you

well

[fast relic]

there we go

[elder orbit]

not in that way

[fast relic]

actually maybe you just didn't save the script haha

[elder orbit]

and how to save in unity

[fast relic]

vscode probably cached it somewhere but you didn't actually write it to disk

[fast relic]

also ctrl + s

in most programs that's the universal hotkey

[elder orbit]

ok

[elder orbit]

man idk it still dosent work what game should i do in 3d

[fast relic]

are you getting errors now?

[midnight plover]

!learn might be the best place to start off learning about Unity and the entire engines workflow

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[elder orbit]

eh to bad i suck soo i rage quited no unity and no dev ;-;

barely have any

space

just realized i have 100 gb

ok re instal lol

what version do i download?

[paper delta]

in reality i dont find C# to hard

after learning the basics i can kinda teach myself based off other peoples scripts

study each thing by looking up what it means

so thats how ima go off

[midnight plover]

Its just another language to learn. Things get more complicated the more you dive into specific systems. Its not about how you write the language that gets complicated but how to understand the "sentences" (code) systems introduce. For example Jobs system, async operations, threading and so on.

[paper delta]

its actually my first language

[elder orbit]

i leartn 3 engine

[midnight plover]

And yes, thats the best way to learn things. Look them up what each line is actually doing, good call

[elder orbit]

first godot

i sad gamemaker

i switched

i wanted 3d

now

unity

[midnight plover]

can you stop typing one word sentences?

[elder orbit]

what version do i download

[elder orbit]

ok sure

[paper delta]

Thanks ill make sure to do that im having a lot of fun learning C# and im starting to get a grasp of it.

[midnight plover]

whatever you need. Id say start off with the latest version 6.x

[elder orbit]

ok

[broken hull]

What is this goofy movement stuff

can anyone help me whith that\

[midnight plover]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[midnight plover]

Please show your code here, noones gonna follow that tiny inspector window 😄

[broken hull]

sure

using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using UnityEngine;


public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{

    [SerializeField] float moveSpeed = 7f;
    [SerializeField] float rotateSpeed = 1f;

    private void Update()
    {
        Vector2 inputVector = new Vector2(0, 0);

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) inputVector.y += 1;
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)) inputVector.x += 1;
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S)) inputVector.y += -1;
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) inputVector.x += -1;

        inputVector = inputVector.normalized;
        Vector3 moveDir = new Vector3(inputVector.x, 0, inputVector.y);
        transform.position += moveDir * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;


        transform.forward = Vector3.Slerp(transform.forward, moveDir, Time.deltaTime * rotateSpeed);
    }
}

[midnight plover]

Is your playervisual offset locally?

[broken hull]

erm

wdym

[midnight plover]

you have a player gameobejct and a playervisual in it as child. If the child is offset in position locally and you rotate the Player Gameobject, it will look weird

It looks like its pivoting around a not visible pivot thats not in the center of your duck visual

[broken hull]

so should i drag and drop the script in player visual

[broken hull]

yeah

[midnight plover]

I dont know, the tutorial should have told you. But I guess, yes. If the visual is only for visual representation, it sohould be at 0,0,0 position and have not the moving script. that should be on your root player. Btu thats just assumption, have not watched the tutorial

[broken hull]

oh alr

let me try applyg script of visual instead of parent

[fast relic]

no?? that's not what they're telling you

[midnight plover]

no, you want your parent to be moved around and your visual to stay at local 0,0,0

[fast relic]

where did you get that from

[broken hull]

no way

i dropped that script on visual instead of parent

and its working as expected

[midnight plover]

😄

but you did not understand the issue that you had

[fast relic]

well yes that would fix it but that's not really what you're supposed to do

not a good practice

[broken hull]

yes

someone said that logic and visuals must be separated

[fast relic]

and you should, yk, actually understand the issue

[broken hull]

but for now i am not making a big game i am just making a small game with simple mechanics so it works for me

[midnight plover]

Thats the worst way of doing things you can adapt to. Just because its not a big project, you should not start to be lazy in learning and doing it correctly. Think further into the future. If you adapt to those practices, they become a habit and you will fall back to those no matter the project size in the future

[broken hull]

i kinda get the issue which might be because of the parent of visual holder instead of rotating the visual we just rotate parent itself which messes the forward position and transform.forward could not function the way i want

[broken hull]

oh

[fast relic]

that's not why the issue happens

you can make it work just fine with the parent

but the child visual was offset from the parent's pivot

[midnight plover]

Of course, you do not have to make all scripts work in all circumstances or add testing agents or whatever to a small project. But setting up simple things like a player should be done correclty to learn from your failure and gain knowledge

[fast relic]

so it was rotating around the paren't pivot

[broken hull]

yes ik

alr

i'll try what i can do

i dont get it why the code works fine for the guy ive been watching bro

we literally wrote the same code

[fast relic]

it's not the code

[broken hull]

script

[fast relic]

still no

it's not the code that's the issue

[broken hull]

oh

[fast relic]

look at your visual's position

it's in local space relative to the parent

[broken hull]

is it related to the position and rotation of the object

[hot wadi]

Script and code are the same in this context btw

[broken hull]

lol

[fast relic]

if that's not 0, 0 then it's gonna rotate around a different point than you'd expect

[broken hull]

ohh

i get it dude

my object was already rotated by 3 degress

and position was slightly away from the parent

the code was perfectly fine

child and parents were not aligned

it works fine now

[fast relic]

yeah

[broken hull]

thank y'all for solving my issue

and sorry for wasting your precious time

i was stucked in this problem for like past 40 minutes'

[sour fulcrum]

it might help to imagine putting like a rubics cube on top of a book, then holding the book and moving around

[broken hull]

yeah

[paper delta]

im almost done with the basics then ima study off other people scripts

[rough granite]

I mean i wouldn't say perfectly fine you are using slerp for player movement which is considered incorrect

[broken hull]

for now slerp is ideal for me for rotating the player smoothy

but my teacher promised that we'll get into advanmced things and animations later

so i guess its alright

[rough granite]

right just bringing up that using any form of lerp for player movement is improper

[broken hull]

oo

idk man

i'll follow a a real blender and unity course after this tutorial

i am just getting started with unity

[fast relic]

not any form of lerp is improper, just using it that way is improper

[high mauve]

hey i am trying to access 2 arrays from one script to another and for some reason it not working can someone tell me the correct way to do do this as i think that i am doing something wrong

[paper delta]

Hey cookie what do you recommend when starting C# all the way from the beginning ive basically got most the basics done

[fast relic]

learn just the very basics (i guess you already did) and start making stuff on your own as soon as you can

[paper delta]

Do you recommend studying off other peoples scripts?

[fast relic]

i mean you can do that if you want for sure, but it can be confusing

and sometimes overwhelming

[midnight plover]

Show your code might help

[paper delta]

ikik not unity related but im moving to it for this

[midnight plover]

Depends entirely on the scripts, I would say. You can learn bad coding habits from others without knowing. But if you just want to learn about specific algorithms and so on, it can help

[fast relic]

i'd recommend learn some c# before unity it's fine

[grand snow]

Ive seen some very bad code in asset store stuff so id not study that 😆

[midnight plover]

Good call 🤣

[tired python]

@fast relic i....don't.....know.....how....to....implement....your....theory....any....better....than.....this

[hot wadi]

Well if it works, it works. Imo that is all matter for beginners. We all write bad codes at some point. Just have to learn from ur mistakes 🤷🏼‍♂️

[tired python]

i have tried stuff, i even tried to go into a github repo for doing this in vector3 but it was using too many functions for vector3....ahhhhhhhh

pls just spooonfeeed me at this point

[hot wadi]

U can study public repositories, but don't just mindlessly copy them. Understand what they are trying to do

[paper delta]

why would i copy?

[hot wadi]

Ppl do

A lot

[paper delta]

You wanna know the scripting ima be doing?

[hot wadi]

I often try to convert the idea and implement it in my own way

[tired python]

i salute you

[grand snow]

I would also add on a ClampMagnitude to stop the force getting too high but looks pretty decent otherwise.
If this is 2d mouse pos to world is fine but for other perspectives you want to utilize things like Plane.

[tired python]

it's dog i say, absolute dog...not your method but what i coded out

it's not as snappy as it was when i was doingtransform.up = direction

now the ship acts like a slowpoke trying to turn

[grand snow]

Ah so you were assigning a dir to up to rotate it immediately?

you can always rotate it strait away and still use forces to move the object towards your goal

[tired python]

yes...and that had its own problems cus when it was colliding into stuff, it somwtimes went inside the stuff and in order to get out, it would experience momentary acceleration

[grand snow]

If you can calculate the new desired rotation for the input you can use RotateTowards() to rotate to the new rot instead and faster
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.RotateTowards.html

[tired python]

this one

[fast relic]

that's sort of what i meant yeah, but direction.magnitude is always gonna be 1, since you're normalizing it so i don't really see a point in that

[tired python]

bro pls no more quaternions

i am absolutely sick of those damn things

they don't convert to vector2