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jolly moat
fast relic
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you can look at what the heaviest files in the repo are tho and see if they need to be included

jolly moat
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good idea

maiden drum
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That's the closest i've been my entire career to a perfect byte (255 insertions)

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fast relic
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but they'd usually be game assets which probably do need to be in there

swift crag
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The Library is the main thing that you need to ignore

fast relic
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yeah

swift crag
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It's enormous and it stores tons of stuff like imported asset artifacts and compiled shaders

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I wish that .gitignore ignored the mono_crash files

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I keep forgetting to add that myself

fast relic
swift crag
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...huh, and that got merged in 2 years ago

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i must not have noticed that they added it, haha

fast relic
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maybe haha

swift crag
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oh, i was just thinking about it because I cleaned up some crash files; that made me remember how they used to not be ignored by that file

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close enough!

blissful fable
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Hi guys, I'm new, and I'm really confused
When I click "Player" in the hierachy, it says that it's position is X=25. However, when I click on the player in the scene, or click on SF_Character_Farmer, it says X=0. And even if I press F on both, they both bring me to the same exact position in space (X=0). How can the two of these have different X coordinates? What is the X coordinate of Player even referring to at this point?

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grand snow
wintry quarry
blissful fable
blissful fable
naive pawn
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there should be a box in the top left of scene view that says "pivot" or "center"

grand snow
blissful fable
blissful fable
naive pawn
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oh yeah, it's disabled

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no clue how to enable it

blissful fable
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Oh, found it :)

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Ok it's on pivot
No idea what that does, but thanks

blissful fable
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Did I get that right?

grand snow
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try to use the correct terms moving forward but yes a local position 0,0,0 indicates no change vs the parent pos

blissful fable
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Sweet, thank you :)

blissful fable
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Does it have a position just so that children will automatically spawn at the parent's position?

grand snow
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All gameobjects have a Transform that states its position, rotation and scale

swift crag
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The inspector displays the local transform of the object: its position, rotation, and scale relative to its parent

blissful fable
grand snow
# blissful fable Huh, I see

perhaps you should revisit the basics if that confuses you
you can clearly see this by selecting any gameobject in your scene...

swift crag
blissful fable
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And yes, I noticed the discrepancy, I was just wondering why it existed

swift crag
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(the overlay menu is opened with `, btw)

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lowercase tilde

finite anchor
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i need help making a "pdr shader graph

swift crag
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that's probably "PBR"

finite anchor
swift crag
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that sounds like an older tutorial; i'm pretty sure it's just called a Lit Shader Graph now

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the exact names depend on the render pipeline you are using

finite anchor
blissful fable
thorn holly
blissful fable
marsh tusk
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i need help im trying to set up the unity auto correct/intellisense but no matter what i do nothing works

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wintry quarry
marsh tusk
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like some youtube guide

glad shore
wintry quarry
radiant voidBOT
wintry quarry
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follow the official guide

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not youtube

tired python
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do you guys have repos for a 2d tower defense game?

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i wanna look at how to structure stuff

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25 .cs scripts i am cooked

copper jasper
wicked cairn
tired python
copper jasper
tired python
copper jasper
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for the mouse pos?

tired python
# copper jasper for the mouse pos?

the camera jittery thing is being caused because of issues related to frame rate. if i am not mistaken, your game will run in a different weird manner if you were to play it on something which produces less or higher fps

copper jasper
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I capped it at 60 fps with vsync

tired python
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doesn't matter, your code doesn't know abt that

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try to uncap it and see for yourself then (it is a prediction by me though, i can be wrong)

copper jasper
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uncapped is lwk better tbh

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theres less delay

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but still jitter

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what should i use delta time on tho

tired python
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hell if i know. it's related to movement, so whenever you change your positiong, or walk, or rotate, you need to account for it. i don't rly know how you would, but it's needed

tired python
# wicked cairn light work

how do you guys go about it? do you try to read each and every line of code and try to understand it or smth? this will be my first time doing smth like this that's why

wicked cairn
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You dont need someone elses source. You need to learn the lego pieces

tired python
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i am pretty sure that if i went this way, later on, once i have done like a significant part of the code, because it's so mismanaged, adding stuff layer by layer is gonna become a very big problem

wicked cairn
languid pagoda
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@copper jasper that isn't your problem

wicked cairn
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Everyone structures things differently. So if you use theirs then youll have to not only learn how the code works but learn their method and figure out where everything is

tired python
wicked cairn
tired python
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aight then, i guess diving headfirst into the trench it is then!

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wish me luck

languid pagoda
tired python
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not random, this guy mentioned it. he has helped me before too...

tired python
slender nymph
# tired python

just fyi, that link is saying the opposite of what you suggested. do not use deltaTime with mouse input

tired python
coral patio
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Hey guys, weird question. Is there a way to "attach" levels to each other? We have a linear 3D game, all new devs, but quickly noticed we aint even half and FPS start to drop with all the objects in there. So we wanted to only load stuff which is in view of the player (which is usually 2-3 levels around them). Or is there a better method, preferably having everything in 1 big world, but loading and unloading when the player could potentially see it?

rugged beacon
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anyway i can pass in the animation curve inside a job? in a normal monobehaviour game

wintry quarry
prisma fable
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Guys, please help something is driving me NUTS!
Here's my code attached to a UI Gameobject on a screenspaceCamera Canvas
`using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class UIEvents : MonoBehaviour, IDragHandler, IEndDragHandler, IBeginDragHandler
{
private Vector3 offset;
public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData data)
{
var mousePos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(data.position.x,
data.position.y,
Camera.main.nearClipPlane));
offset = mousePos - transform.position;
offset.z = 0f;
}

public void OnDrag(PointerEventData data)
{
    var mousePos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(data.position.x, 
        data.position.y, 
        Camera.main.nearClipPlane));
    mousePos.z = 0f;
    transform.position = mousePos + offset;
}

public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData data)
{
    Vector3 resetz = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, 0f);
    transform.position = resetz;
}

}`

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and here's the result

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Why is the z pos going crazy like that????? Like I do everything i can to set it to 0...

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Also if someone can help me undersatnd why the offset is inverted, I'd be grateful 🙂

wintry quarry
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only in OnEndDrag are you really doing anything that sets the z position properly, and in that case you're using transform.position which is in world space

tough lagoon
coral patio
wintry quarry
coral patio
wintry quarry
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you may also want to think about a floating origin system.

tough lagoon
coral patio
prisma fable
wintry quarry
coral patio
wintry quarry
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that will get you pretty far as a starting point

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and you can tweak it later

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just make sure each level isn't too large

tough lagoon
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Yeah that's what id do

coral patio
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Thanks so much guys!

tough lagoon
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As a tip, you can open additive scenes all at once in the editor to work on them

coral patio
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Oh how

tough lagoon
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You can right click on a second scend and open it additively in the inspector

coral patio
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wtf we were manually lining up between 2 scenes driving us into madness

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thank you so much LOL

tough lagoon
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Thr downside though is when you close the scene it'll reset that section. So some incremental logic to store the states usually needed

coral patio
tough lagoon
prisma fable
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I fixed the offset as well, was just iunverted so instead of + offset I did - offset

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Thanks for your help 👋

coral patio
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We had singletons for the script side for inventory which did work fine along multiple scenes

tough lagoon
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And anything further than X from you gets disabled or pooled in the main control scene.

coral patio
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Oh okay makes sense, yeah kinda need to re-structure a bit but makes sense

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Thats stuff you only notice once you come up to a certain size where it causes performance issues and its hard to figure out all the new terms as well. I come from programming background but its completely unrelated to gamedev, so this helps a lot. Thanks so much!

tough lagoon
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Yeah its just an easy way to manage additive geometry without needing to load a ton of prefabs. Plus prefabs stay in memory where scene loading doesnt

sour fulcrum
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And seperates responsibilities of the scenes

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eg. if you have a dedicated level designer working on these level scenes, it removes the responsibility of them ensuring those kinds of core system prefabs are setup correctly (and possibility that they are not)

coral patio
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One last questions since all of you do have way more experience. We are thinking about integrating water. Whats the best way for that to move forward? Use unitys water system, or just add planes with textures/shaders and effects while in water?

sour fulcrum
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imo best way to move forward is just planes

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if you need better later you can do that later

shell sorrel
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complexity of it depends on needs too

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like game i am working on the camera cant go under water so a good enough just using a plane

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well tis more like a bunch of pizza slices and not a plane to better frustrum cull

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and so i can change the density as it gets far away

coral patio
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Cheers thanks so much guys, helped me a lot

prisma fable
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Hey guys, me again... Having trouble with the OnPointerEnter event trigger on UI...

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I have this red bar set with OnPointerEnter event component linked to a "toggle" function inside the script of the book Im dragging

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basically everytime i pass through that area I want the book to "close" (if anyone remembers papers,please they will see what I'm trying to do)

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The problem is that the event trigger is kind of unreliable

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Is there a way to fix this, or can you think of another way I should do this without this event trigger?

north kiln
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Either do it differently or extend the trigger to be boxes that take up the entire side of the screen not just a small area that you can skip over or go around

prisma fable
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Yeah the going around is not a problem right now, I will "box it" after. I just had issues with area covering because I'm still dragging it over the area it was glitching.
I just realised I could put colliders on UI, I migh try that

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welp, interestingly, it's almost the exact same behaviour with colliders....

prisma fable
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[Solved] using colliders and onEnter/onExit it works. Maybe my code for checking the "toggle" was too slow. Separating the functions made it work perfectly

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umbral pond
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using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody2D rb;
    PlayerInput playerInput;
    Vector2 moveInput;
    public float speedX;
    public int facing = 1;
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    void Update()
    { 
        Flip(); 
    }

    public void FixedUpdate()
    {
        float targetSpeed = moveInput.x * speedX;
        rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(targetSpeed, rb.linearVelocity.y);
    }
    public void OnMove(InputValue value)
    {
        moveInput = value.Get<Vector2>();
    }
    void Flip()
    {
        if (moveInput.x > 0.1f)
        {
            facing = 1;
        }
        else if (moveInput.x < -0.1f)
        { 
            facing = -1; 
        }
        transform.localScale = new Vector3(facing, 1, 1); 
    }
     


}```
Why my character cant move
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north kiln
umbral pond
north kiln
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It says No Function, so it's not

umbral pond
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how can solve this

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north kiln
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Also it looks like the Move event passes a CallbackContext, not an InputValue

high mauve
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sorry coudnt reply sunner due to uni i am still stuck at that part

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is there any one that can help?

keen dew
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You still need to show your code

high mauve
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but how

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here a screen shot if it helps

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trying to use variable of collectibles from compass

placid jewel
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What exactly happens when you try it? What error do you get?

high mauve
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at first the error was that IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Compass.Start () (at Assets/Scripts/Compass.cs:15)
but now its not even printing any thing

wet snow
placid jewel
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Are you sure that the length of the arrays checks out? If it's not printing anything it could be because collectibles.RandX.length >= collectibles.count is returning false

keen dew
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What do you expect to happen? The code doesn't do anything visible even if it works

wet snow
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at the start of the compass you must make a new collectible

high mauve
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what i want to do is use the coordinates of collectibles to calculate there position based on the player position and use that in the compass

high mauve
placid jewel
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That's probably not the issue

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Unless you haven't assigned the script reference in the editor

high mauve
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have assigned the refferance in the inspector

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wet snow
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yes thats what i am thinking rn

wet snow
keen dew
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It doesn't throw a null reference error so the reference is ok.

keen dew
high mauve
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well on run it should print 10 output in the console(positions) but there are nun

keen dew
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There's nothing in the code that would print anything

high mauve
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what how i remember adding the debug.log

placid jewel
# high mauve here a screen shot if it helps

I currently don't exactly know what's meant to happen that isn't, since like Nitku said it won't print anything anyway, so what you could do is put:
Debug.Log() with some message above the DataBank() call on line 19, and Debug.Log(i) inside the for loop of the databank function. That way you can see what it's doing better, and then figure out if it's working or not

high mauve
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ok let me try that

placid jewel
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I think that might be your issue (just a hunch)

wet snow
keen dew
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Yeah I also think not having anything that would print to the console might cause nothing being printed to the console atwhatcost

high mauve
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so after adding debug.log it giving
System.Int32[]
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
Compass:DataBank () (at Assets/Scripts/Compass.cs:32)
Compass:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Compass.cs:19)

placid jewel
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What does the code look like now?

wet snow
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foreach( int n in xpos){log(n)} it should have something like this

placid jewel
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Also you can copy your code files and put them inside ``` (triple backticks) for viewing purposes

high mauve
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sorry a typo in debug.log its fine now

placid jewel
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Does anyone know how it might be possible to use a mesh (that's just a 2d plane that changes shape) as a sprite mask for a 2d project? This is why I came here originally lol but have gotten sidetracked

high mauve
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Unity:

The built-in SpriteMask component is designed for static sprites or animated sprite sequences. It does not directly accept a dynamic mesh as its source asset.
If the mesh deformation is simple (just movement, rotation, scaling), you can use a regular SpriteMask component and parent it to your deforming object.
For true vertex manipulation (the shape changing), the shader or stencil buffer methods described above are necessary.

found this online

placid jewel
high mauve
placid jewel
high mauve
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ita not a link but the genrated info at the top of the page so cant link but send you the complete info

runic hedge
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Hello! Is there a way to rewind the object position on collision with something? Like move the object in the location it has 5 seconds ago?

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This is the code that I am having, what can I write to get the 5 second ago location instead the origin location?

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fast relic
placid jewel
# runic hedge Hello! Is there a way to rewind the object position on collision with something?...

I don't believe there's a built in way to do that, but you could try using IEnumerators with WaitForSeconds:
return yield new WaitForSeconds(float time)
to store the data? You could do something like:

void Update(){
StartCoroutine(previousPosition());
}

IEnumerator previousPosition(){
//store whatever value you need to here
yield return new WaitForSeconds(5.0f);
//update the 5s ago value to the value stored here
}

This isn't exact code, there's probably mistakes, but it might be helpful as a start?

naive pawn
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you should not be starting coroutines every Update

undone holly
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why isint this working? I'm watching a tutorial but it was made 3 years ago and velocity has changed since then. It should be velocity, but theres no more so i just use linearvelocity, but it just doesnt work. I also changed the "Input System Package (New) → Both". please help

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naive pawn
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what do you mean by "doesn't work", exactly?

undone holly
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well theres a bird that should fly up

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it just falls down

placid jewel
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Have you assigned the bird in the editor?

undone holly
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not sure

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how can I check?

placid jewel
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If you're not sure, you probably haven't done it.
Click on the object that has the script, and look for the script in the Inspector. You should see a field with the same name as your variable, which you need to drag the bird gameobject from the Hierarchy to the field. If you have already done it, it will look like this, otherwise it will say "none".

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naive pawn
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it sounds like you haven't been following the tutorial closely, or you may be missing some steps after this

undone holly
placid jewel
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This is the Hierarchy field (example from my current unity window)

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undone holly
tender mirage
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i have no clue why my fuelpercentage stays at exactly 1 and doesn't change at all?

private IEnumerator DrainFuel()
{
    isDrainFuel = true;

    

    fuelPercentage = playerFuel / playerMFuel;

    FuelBar.fillAmount = fuelPercentage;
fast relic
placid jewel
tender mirage
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ooh wait i forgot to put it in a while loop below.

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so sorry.

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🤦‍♂️

undone holly
naive pawn
placid jewel
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Yeah I would recommend finding a different tutorial for now if the one you've got doesn't explain things like that, at least until you have a strong grasp of the editor and how things tend to work

restive mason
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Hey, in a MaterialPropertyBlock, how can i set an enum value?

tough lagoon
grand snow
novel harness
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Is there a way to make any object follow player on X axis only? I saw some threads online but I cant seem to make them work, and they seem outdated.

keen dew
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object.transform.position = new Vector3(player.transform.position.x, object.transform.position.y, object.transform.position.z);

novel harness
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Ah wait- my bad- what I meant is- follow player as in. The mouse- I explained it horribly- my english is a lackluster-

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Following mouse OF player in X axis only*

keen dew
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Most tutorials show how to follow the mouse on both X and Y axis. You do that but leave out the part that changes the Y axis

novel harness
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ooop okey okey

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Oooh these are all. In old input system I think but I somehow can figure maybe

umbral pond
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 {
     if (jumpPressed && isGrounded)
     {
         rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(rb.linearVelocity.x, jumpForce);
         jumpPressed = false;
         jumpReleased = false;
     }
     if (jumpReleased)
     {
         if (rb.linearVelocity.y > 0)
         {
             rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(rb.linearVelocity.x, rb.linearVelocity.y * jumpCutMult);
         }
         jumpReleased = false;
     }



 }
 
 void CheckGrounded()
 {
     isGrounded=Physics2D.OverlapCircle(groundCheck.position,groundCheckRadius,groundLayer);
 }
 void ApplyVariableGravity()
 {
     if (rb.linearVelocity.y < -0.1f)
     {
         rb.gravityScale = fallGravity;
     }
     else if (rb.linearVelocity.y > 0.1f)
     {
         rb.gravityScale = jumpGravity;
     }
     else
     {
         rb.gravityScale=normalGravity;
     }
 }``` 
ill send second part
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{
    if (inputValue.isPressed)
    {
        jumpPressed = true;
        jumpReleased = false;
    }
    else
    {
       jumpReleased = true;
    }

}```
``` [Header("Movement")]
 public float speed;
 public float jumpForce;
 public float jumpCutMult = .5f;
 public float normalGravity;
 public float jumpGravity;
 public float fallGravity;


 public int facingDirection = 1;

 [Header("Ground Check")]
 public Transform groundCheck;
 public float groundCheckRadius;
 public LayerMask groundLayer;
 bool isGrounded;

 //inputs
 private Vector2 moveInput;
 private bool jumpPressed;
 private bool jumpReleased;```
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sooo jumping was working till i added some gravity settings to make it better now i cant jump thats parts about jumping in my script anyone knows solution?

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also i did make rb's gravity scale equal to normalGravity at void start

thorn holly
umbral pond
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alright

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sorry i didnt use debug log before shouldnt i see it in console

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if (jumpPressed && isGrounded)
{
Debug.Log("yes");
i added this in jumpPressed && isGrounded

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is Debug.Log wrong code?

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OHHH

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I didnt called handle jump in fixed update

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i guess thats the mistake just noticed it when log didnt work

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@thorn holly thanks it'll probably solve it :D

thorn holly
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lol

umbral pond
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it solved it

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lol

thorn holly
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That’s how you debug!

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Good job

wicked venture
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does .Equals() compare between 2 strings?

night raptor
wicked venture
night raptor
# wicked venture yee thats whati was confused about XD ty

So "whatever".Equals("whatever") and "whatever" == "whatever" do the same thing, the equality operator (==) is probably cleaner. In general, you need to be bit careful when comparing objects in C# with the equality operator (==), but for strings specifically it has been taken care of. The equality operator compares the equality of the contents of two objects only when the operator is overloaded by the class which it is for strings. For other classes and structs you need to check whether they do before comparing them directly. For the Vector3 struct for example, you can see at the bottom of the documentation page that it indeed defines the equality operator which even has it's own documentation page https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector3.html and the equality page https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector3-operator_eq.html. For some unity classes the equality may be overridden but bit more complicated so using the documentation is a great way to find out how it works

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wicked venture
night raptor
wicked venture
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interesting

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is there a reason for that?

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ok i kind of understand now

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not 100% but i get the general idea

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yee its explained i see yeah

queen adder
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yo guys im downloading stuff from visual studio community but idk what to download exactly

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theres just so many options

night raptor
# wicked venture is there a reason for that?

It is mostly due to floating point inaccuracy. You can see how for Vector3s, the Equals method actually compares for strict equality. For example new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f).Equals(new Vector3(1f, 1f, 1f) * 0.5f) may return false, because it is possible that 1f * 0.5f returns 0.499999999 or something like that. Probably doesn't happen here but there are some famous examples where you expect certain calculation to return exact value but it will bit ever so slightly off. That is why in general comparing two floats with == isn't a great idea

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queen adder
queen adder
night raptor
# queen adder hey

don't ping random people. Someone will help if they know, I don't for this specific issue

wicked venture
queen adder
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i meant this im not sure if yk now

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theres just alot and im a beginner

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i wanna make my game both on pc and mobile

hot wadi
queen adder
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i have unity tho

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im downloading the lts stuff from the installs

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long term supported

hot wadi
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Then u don't have to manually reinstall VS

night raptor
# wicked venture thats interesting af never knew about this stuff before

Something you get used to over time. One example that I found, for me running this Console.WriteLine(1f / 10f * 0.3f); prints 0.030000001 which would not be equal to 0.03 as we expect. In unity you can always use Mathf.Approximately to compare two floats to know whether they are "approximately" equal

queen adder
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thats the thing

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the install editor

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yep not the installs its the install editor

wicked venture
night raptor
queen adder
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moshades brodie

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ill show u the other options

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what im thinking is there might be useful ones but at the same times useless ones

hot wadi
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Is the calculation of CharacterController.height and CapsuleCollider.height different?
The example in the document of CapsuleCast() indicates that the height of CharacterController is measured from one center to another
But I have to modify it so it measures from one end to another instead when I use Capsule

Vector3 p2 = p1 + Vector3.up * (_collider.height - _collider.radius * 2 - _groundOffset);```
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queen adder
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look

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so C+++ and C# are 2 diff scripting languages?

hot wadi
# queen adder

I really don't know what are u trying to do here. U got everything needed to do Unity scripting.
If it's other kind of project that u need help with, we really can't

hot wadi
queen adder
queen adder
hot wadi
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.NET is also unrelated to Unity

queen adder
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so like i wanna make a gta 5 like fame yk

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can u help me with picking the options?

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im gonna be using C# if itll do everything a game dev needs like debugging

hot wadi
lost maple
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Hi
is there any way to asses which function is more perfomant?
I have 2 methods that do essentialy the same, but in two different ways, i just want to know which of them preferable

wicked venture
queen adder
silk night
#

like not the physical one but c# comes with a "Stopwatch" class

grand snow
#

can also use profiler markers to utilize the profiler

hallow acorn
#

hey does anybody know what would be the urp equivilent of OnPostRender?

wintry quarry
grand snow
#

^ Use the events in RenderPipelineManager

#

These are c# events so read up on those if that confuse you

hallow acorn
#

bro what

#

i dont understand a single thing

wintry quarry
#

Did you click the link?

hallow acorn
#

yes

wintry quarry
#

Did you follow the link for RenderPipelineManager

#

it's telling you directly what to do

hallow acorn
#

yes and im more confused than before

wintry quarry
#

Why

#

what's confusing you

hallow acorn
#

i dont get these events

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like at all

wintry quarry
#

What about them is confusing you

grand snow
wintry quarry
#

since OnPostRender is for a single camera

#

Is this a matter of "I don't know how delegates/events work in C#", or something else @hallow acorn ?

grand snow
#

end context should be for the whole frame, end camera could by at some random time during the frame

hallow acorn
wintry quarry
#

Yeah but OnPostRender is for a single camera

grand snow
#

oh right, good point 🤔

#

regardless, both doc pages have example code

wintry quarry
#

from a practical standpoint unless there are multiple cameras they're probably going to be effectively the same. Depending on the use case

hallow acorn
#

should have chosen painting or sth like that i create a project and an hour later im stuck on something where the solution is requiring a degree .01% of humanity has aquired

wintry quarry
#

it spells out pretty clearly how and where to code this

hallow acorn
#

yeah but i dont understand a thing

wintry quarry
#

which thing

hallow acorn
#

everything

wintry quarry
#

Then go to !learn

#

and start with the basics

#

!learn

radiant voidBOT
wintry quarry
#

You're trying to run before you learn to crawl

#

if you don't understand anything at all

grand snow
hallow acorn
grand snow
#

Gotcha. So you want to make a post processing effect? URP/HDRP have a better system for making these

hallow acorn
#

the guy from the tutorial isnt

grand snow
hallow acorn
#

yeah its from 2019

grand snow
#

You do NOT want to try to re create the old way that some post processing worked where it used the camera post render events.

hallow acorn
#

oh

grand snow
#

even back then that was kinda shit vs the post processing stack

hallow acorn
#

its nearly the only tutorial i found on this thoughb what should i do

#

dont say quit i already thought of that

grand snow
#

What it does for the shader should be applicable still as those concepts are basically always the same

#

but now we can also do full screen shaders in shader graph which you may find easier

hallow acorn
#

even less experience with shader graph than c#💔

grand snow
#

shaders are different to normal code anyway

hallow acorn
#

i think im gonna quit for now and play some zelda or sth. gotta chill today i think

swift crag
#

vrchat has damaged my brain

edgy sinew
#

Moved to other channel.

hexed terrace
high mauve
#

i need help i want to make a FPP camera but if i attach it to the head it start bobbing with the animation and does not rotate freely of the body

swift crag
#

I do exactly that -- but I rotate the camera in LateUpdate, after animation has applied

#

The camera still moves around with the player's head, but it doesn't get rotated

#

that's very close to how your vision works in real life

#

it feels pretty good

high mauve
#

but i want it to move with the mouse inut rather than the animation

brave robin
# high mauve but i want it to move with the mouse inut rather than the animation

My suggestion is to not attach it to a body part that will move independently. Attach it to the base or pivot, or something else in the character that is going to be centered. Then offset it accordingly from that.
You can also use the Position Constraint and Rotation Constraint components, these give you similar behaviour but more control over what axis it can move and rotate on. Like if you want to tilt the character forward but never want the camera to tilt, you can lock out the X axis so it will never tilt that way, for example

#

Those components also don't require you to parent the camera to the model, and in fact work best if the camera is not parented at all

high mauve
#

currently the camera is in the hierarchy as player(parent to the 3d model and the collider of player) objects child with the parent set as player in inspector and i have placed it inside the player head but thats where the issue start as i control the horizontal and vertivcal movement using mouse with a simplae script atached to the message

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wintry quarry
#

(and yes I know a certain well known YT tutorial has it there, it's an error)

high mauve
#

ok let me try after removing it

wintry quarry
#

You will need to adjust your RotationSpeed variable down to compensate

high mauve
#

ok done thanks for the heads up

rough granite
wintry quarry
rough granite
#

Dont think i've watched a single of his coding tutorials oddly enough.
Edit: for both brackey's & code monkey's

wintry quarry
#

Probably because I'm an old man, but I don't find videos to be an effective format for a tutorial.

rough granite
gritty blaze
#

Hey im new to game development i just know some python how to start learning unity ?

wintry quarry
radiant voidBOT
gritty blaze
# wintry quarry !learn

There are many vedios in yt which one should I watch all of them doing in different versions

wintry quarry
#

My recommendation is following the pathways on Unity Learn

#

not picking random YT tutorials.

If you want to make a specific game that calls for something you don't know how to do, that is when it may make sense to seek out YT tutorials

rough granite
gritty blaze
#

Yah thank u i will learn and possibly create my own game in future

modern crescent
#

Hey I was wondering should I start on learning Unity while I'm I'm learning Art? Or is both very hard to do together?

keen dew
#

Not sure how they'd interfere with each other? It's mostly a matter of time available

timber tide
#

there's a lot to grasp when importing your 3D/2D art into game engines as you'll have to hook them with the engine tools. So if you are interested in games and putting your art into them then you should start learning how the process works as sticking to a single environment isn't enough

#

Usually larger studios though have a middle-man that does it for you though, but still good to understand how it works so you can communicate better

#

Cleaning up models, removing bones (IKs, ect), orientation from the environment to another coordinate system

edgy sinew
#

What would be correct then, Slerp? With the infamous "WrongLerp" corrected t param

wintry quarry
#

Lerp is suppsoed to be (start, end, T)

#

not (current, end, smallValue)

edgy sinew
#

(Correct if wrong) 🤷‍♂️

wintry quarry
#

I honestly don't know what that is

#

Kinda sounds like we're talking about two different effects here

polar acorn
#

I believe it's a way to misuse Lerp for damping in a way that actually does reach the destination instead of just getting infinitessimally close

wintry quarry
#

there's the "smoothed movement" effect and then there's actual linear interpolation

#

What's the decay term though, and does it change over time?

edgy sinew
# wintry quarry What's the `decay` term though, and does it change over time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSNQuFEDOyQ
https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

YouTube
Freya Holmér
Lerp smoothing is broken

a journey through decay and delta time (I had to learn differential equations for this oh boy)

Slides: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105228270 for my patreon supporters 💞
The slides are much nicer in person!! like, the AV team on site had me lower the refresh rate on my laptop because we couldn't get it to work otherwise, and on top of that,...

▶ Play video
🤔 Unity, Huh, How?
Wrong-lerp

Applying lerp so that it produces smooth, imperfect movement towards a target value.

slender nymph
#

it's still not exactly correct, it's just less wrong

edgy sinew
swift crag
wintry quarry
#

yeah that's a totally different effect than a regular linear interpolation.

swift crag
#

people do often want exponential smoothing; they just think that that's called "lerping" :p

wintry quarry
#

I think the real crime here maybe is just all the "doing everything in one line" of it all

swift crag
#

and the method above gives similar results to the naïve lerp(a,b,dt) method

#

it's just consistent as the timestep varies

cerulean bear
#

would using this on my platformer character and running it every time it has a collision (it has a lot) be computationally expensive?

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{
    if (collision == null) return;
    if (collision.gameObject == pipe_1)
    {
        transform.position = pipe_2.transform.position + new Vector3(0, teleportOffset, 0);
    }
    else if (collision.gameObject == pipe_2)
    {
        transform.position = pipe_1.transform.position + new Vector3(0, teleportOffset, 0);
    }
    else { return; }
}```
swift crag
#

Looks fine to me. Note that the collision parameter will never be null

#

Now, this might have problems if you want to have more than one set of teleporters

#

it also requires you to have references to the two pipe objects

obsidian kestrel
#

Hello

cerulean bear
languid gyro
#

i Made a Basic Code
Something Like This

image.png
plain lantern
cerulean bear
slender nymph
radiant voidBOT
eternal needle
cerulean bear
#

ok ty, so something like this should be good

 private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
 {
     if (collision.gameObject == pipe_1)
     {
         transform.position = pipe_2.transform.position + new Vector3(0, teleportOffset, 0);
     }
     else if (collision.gameObject == pipe_2)
     {
         transform.position = pipe_1.transform.position + new Vector3(0, teleportOffset, 0);
     }
     else { return; }
 }```
undone hedge
#

how do i code movement in 3d

#

i know how to code it in 2d but i dont know how to in 3d

eternal needle
cerulean bear
#

ok

cerulean bear
undone hedge
#

im using rigid body

#

apologies if i was unclear i meant Vector3

cerulean bear
#

its same as 2d but with a third dimension

#

ig

wintry quarry
polar acorn
cerulean bear
wintry quarry
#

what if you want a third pipe, or a one-way pipe, or many pipes in the scene

undone hedge
#

i dont know the directions for Vector 3

polar acorn
#

Vector3.up

wintry quarry
#

x, y, and z

polar acorn
#

A little weird to be using X for up, but you do you

undone hedge
#

im just using X to stand in for a number

wintry quarry
#

3D is the same, just with a third dimension

#

up, left, right, and down still exist
but now there's also forward and back

polar acorn
undone hedge
#

how do i stop my character jumping if it is midair

polar acorn
#

Check if they're on the ground before you jump

wintry quarry
#

basiaclly any tutorial will include a grounded check of some kind

undone hedge
#

ok thanks ill look into how to do that

narrow pulsar
#

Is there a way to make it so that a song is playing in the background without any audio playing via script

#

i want to make it so that theres a song in the background that has diffrent parts to it that play when the player gets access

#

to certain things

#

so like precussion obtained and that portion of the song gets to play

copper jasper
narrow pulsar
#

ty ty

sour fulcrum
#

To any question like that the answer is going to be yes, for a more specific answer you need to think about how specifically you want this kind of mechanic to work logically, then think about what code/unity wise you don't understand that you would need to know to implement that and ask us that kind of thing

#

Not Unity but Antichamber does something similar to that which is really cool, where different stems of ambient tracks we're scattered across the rooms, so depending on what room your in changed what ambient track was playing based on the rooms around you

narrow pulsar
#

thank you for that

#

ill check out antichamber to see if its what im looking for

languid gyro
slender nymph
#

that is not the only step

languid gyro
#

oh

#

is it in the package manager?

slender nymph
#

follow all of the steps in the guide that the bot linked. and pay attention to any errors vs code may produce

languid gyro
#

ok

grave frost
#

is there a reason I can't load this sprite when it says it's in resources?

image.png
#

is there any way to load that sprite without a reference in the inspector?

slender nymph
#

show how you tried

wintry quarry
grave frost
wintry quarry
#

It would be:

Sprite knobSprite = Resources.Load("unity_builtin_extra/Knob");``` for this
sour fulcrum
#

Out of curiosity, where did you learn to use Resources?

wintry quarry
#

From the documenation

grave frost
#

it's null

wintry quarry
#

and how you checked if it was null

grave frost
#

because in the inspector the sprite is not assigned, so it's null.

sour fulcrum
# wintry quarry From the documenation

Was asking them, in case any tutorials are suggesting them. Personally something like a ScriptableObject feels abit better to use than Resources nowadays

wintry quarry
grave frost
#

because I'm setting a spriterenderer's sprite to that sprite??

slender nymph
wintry quarry
grave frost
wintry quarry
#

so that would explain why

slender nymph
grave frost
#

bro yall trippin

# 
        private void CreateDebugObject(Vector2 pos)
        {
            var mat = new Material(Shader.Find("Universal Render Pipeline/2D/Sprite-Lit-Default"));

            var obj = new GameObject($"{pos}");
            obj.transform.position = pos;

            obj.transform.localScale = Vector3.one * (Bounds.size.x / Resolution);
            var sprite = obj.AddComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
            sprite.material = mat;
            sprite.sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite>("unity_builtin_extra/Knob");
            sprite.sortingLayerName = "Debug";
            sprite.sortingOrder = 1;
        }
#

idk why it's confusing when I say i'm setting a spriterenderer's sprite to that loaded sprite

wintry quarry
#

Because we've seen hundreds of people come through here and claim their code does one thing but it doesn't

#

trust but verify

#

no need to take it personally

#

Anyway Idk I guess maybe you can't access unity builtins through Resources.Load

grave frost
#

ok I understand sorry. Haven't finished my morning coffee yet so I guess i'm irritable 😭

#

dang ok

#

it's misleading when it says Resources in the path name

sour fulcrum
#

Not to ask you a question that avoids your problem but why do you want to use Resources for this?

grave frost
#

when I posted my method I kind of lied a little haha. It's tagged with [Conditional("UNITY_EDITOR")], but it definitely is running because I can see the objects being created and this is literally the only place objects are created.

I just dont want a reference in the inspector because it's debug stuff only and will be stripped on build, and i don't want to put the conditional copmilation directives in my code cus it makes it look ugly.

slender nymph
sour fulcrum
#

oh neat

#

if its for debugging might also be worth seeing if you prefer to just draw it on the screen directly with GUI.DrawTexture() or etc.

grave frost
grave frost
sour fulcrum
#

that might want the file extension too

slender nymph
modern crescent
slender nymph
#

!learn

radiant voidBOT
slender nymph
#

start with the pathways on the learn site ☝️

tired python
#

i have been thinking about how i can go about plotting the path enemies should take for a tower defense game. I thought of having a vector store a vector of coordinates which correspond to successive points on the path (which i find out by using my mouse and harcoding it into the array itself). Is there a better way to go about it? perhaps, some mechanism through which the same result can be achieved but it's calculated by the computer instead of hardcoding it?

#

if there's an algorithm for it, i would be able to use it for other maps too

wintry quarry
#

It's as simple as running Djikstra's algorithm and recording the next node on the shortest path for every node

#

You could use a distance field too

#

both are explained in that link

tired python
#

problem with djikstra's algo would be that it would find the most optimal path, i don't want that, i want the enemies to be in the middle

wintry quarry
#

Or something else

#

Either way it can be done with the distance field and then a custom pathfinding algorithm on the distance field that doesn't always pick the smallest distance next.

tired python
wintry quarry
wintry quarry
#

Look into the Splines package and/or the SpriteShape package.

#

those will let you freehand draw paths and it's pretty trivial to get your enemies to follow them

tired python
#

Splines are paths made up of control points called knots. Segments connect knots to other knots. You can place knots onto the surface of objects or align them to the grid

#

i could do that...but i will have to do it manually in that case

wintry quarry
#

yeah i maybe misunderstood what you meant. If you want to manually draw paths Splines are the way to go

#

maybe I'm not understanding what kind of workflow you're looking for here

#

Are you saying you want to just provide for example that image above and have it auto generate a spline?

tired python
#

i think...i might be able to do it using two pointers

wintry quarry
#

That's definitely a lot trickier

tired python
#

i know...i don't really wanna take the ez way out...

wintry quarry
#

Depending on how many levels you actually have I would probably just make the splines manually

tired python
#

creating an algo by yourself gives a lot of pleasure xD

tired python
novel sail
#

This'll probably sound stupid but I'm having an issue where I'm trying to get my player to take contact damage when the player comes into contact with the enemy. The health and everything else works and the player has a rigidbody and a box collider2d while the enemy has just a circle collider2d set to trigger. My player's rigidbody is set to dynamic if that matters. Anyways for the compareTag, there isn't any spelling errors and all spelling is correct. Heres the Health Script that includes the TakeDamage function.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerResourceManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int maxHealth = 100;
    public int currentHealth;
    public int flyingEnemyDamage = 20;

    public HealthBar healthBar;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        currentHealth = maxHealth;
        healthBar.SetMaxHealth(maxHealth);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F))
        {
            TakeDamage(20);
        }
    }

    void TakeDamage(int damage)
    {
        currentHealth -= damage;

        healthBar.SetHealth(currentHealth);
    }
    
    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("FlyingEnemy"))
        {
            Debug.Log("Hit");
            TakeDamage(flyingEnemyDamage);
        }
    }
}

In the scene and game view when the 2 gameobjects overlap it doesn't even trigger the debug.log. I've also tried it with OnCollisionEnter2D and I've checked out the documentation. It's so wack because the enemy has a ontriggerenter2d and it takes damage to my projectile 929621958017044500. Also to note the tag is set up on the enemy

sour fulcrum
#

Have you put a debug log in the collision enter but outside of the tag check

novel sail
#

Like without the if and just debug.log?

sour fulcrum
#

Before or after the if

#

Just not in it

novel sail
#

Both ways doesn't work. So its a problem with it not being called

#

Also, idk why it put OnCollisionEnter2D in the paste, I'm trying to use OnTriggerEnter2D. However both ones dont work notlikethis

#

There we go changed it

cosmic dagger
novel sail
#

kk 1 sec

cosmic dagger
# novel sail

The BoxCollider2D component is not set to IsTrigger . . .

#

It has to be a trigger collider in order to receive trigger events . . .

#

If the script were on the flying enemy, this would work because that GameObject's CircleCollider2D is set to IsTrigger . . .

novel sail
#

Ohhh okay so if I want the player to trigger it, the player gameobject would have to be set to trigger?

cosmic dagger
#

That's one way to do it. You can make a separate script for the enemy, and have it check the player tag . . .

novel sail
#

How would I change the health value on my player if I ran it on the flying enemy's script just out of curiosity

fast relic
cosmic dagger
novel sail
#

That makes alot more sense haha, I may have thought you could only reference variables XD

#

Thank you deer

cosmic dagger
novel sail
#

Okay doing that now bearjam

cosmic dagger
#

Use the second version from the link, not the first one . . .

novel sail
#

Bet, I'm on that one rn

mighty bane
#

👋

I have question, that i cannot fix myself.

I've started Unity like 2-3 Day ago, and i think im doing good progression here.
I know very well about coding in other Languages, C++ it my first time, but it feel similar to my knowledge.

I having isseus, with scaling objects. My models looks like this:

  • ShelfModel (Empty) (1,1,1 Scale)
    • Small_Shelf (Model one), (2,2,0.1 Scale)
    • ItemHolder (Empty) (1,1,1 Scale)
      • Here where Apple will land

And then for now, i have example an Apple as Sphere, Scale 0.2,0.2,0.2

If i try to add via Code:

public void AddItem(GameObject itemPrefab, int itemSize)
    {
        int totalItems = capacity / itemSize;
        int itemIndex = currentLoad / itemSize;

        if (currentLoad + itemSize > capacity)
            return;

        currentLoad += itemSize;

        int rows = maxRows;
        int columns = Mathf.CeilToInt((float)totalItems / rows);

        int row = itemIndex / columns;
        int col = itemIndex % columns;

        Vector3 pos = spawnOrigin.position + new Vector3(col * spacing, 0, row * spacing);
        GameObject newItem = Instantiate(itemPrefab, pos, Quaternion.identity);
        newItem.transform.SetParent(spawnOrigin, worldPositionStays: true);

        placedItems.Add(newItem);
    }

It keep resetting to 1,1,1 scale, due worldPositionStays: True, i assume.
But if i set it to false, the position is somewhere else than rather at Shelf, and the scale is still at 1,1,1. 🙁

I kinda don't want to hardcoding like set scale to 0.2, in cases there is other products that has different scale. 😥

fast relic
#

instead of using SetParent

mighty bane
#

Thanks, i just realized i made a big mistake, i've chaged the scale of apple only in Hirearchy, and the Models inside Project, is still at 1,1,1 🤦‍♂️

lavish cedar
#

Hiii

#

I have a problem

placid jewel
cosmic dagger
paper delta
#

ive been working hard

#

and

#

im almost finally

#

done with the tut

image.png
hot wadi
paper delta
placid jewel
hot wadi
#

They just wanted to announce completion

#

Socializing is weird

placid jewel
#

Fair enough

deft nymph
keen dew
#

im sure the code is flawless

night raptor
#

Let me guess: you multiplied Input.GetAxis("Mouse X/Y") by Time.deltaTime right? This makes the code not flawless, flawed one might even say. When you lock the framerate, it will be smooth but if you let it vary, it will not be smooth. This issue is specific to mouse axes, keyboard inputs should be multiplied by deltaTime. From documentation:

If the axis is mapped to the mouse, the value is different and will not be in the range of -1...1. Instead it'll be the current mouse delta multiplied by the axis sensitivity. [...] This is frame-rate independent; you do not need to be concerned about varying frame-rates when using this value.

#

I can also guess why you think your code is flawless, you copied it from a certain youtube video which in itself is flawed and even explains it totally wrong (and haven't bothered even commenting on it on the description or elsewhere making a lot of beginners making this mistake)

hot wadi
#

The code, in fact, was not flawless

#

Compile-error-free, perhaps

night raptor
#

Oh, and fun fact, that same youtuber who we shall not name also have their "save & load" tutorial up which is conveniently sponsored by VPN and the tutorial uses the ever insecure BinaryFormatter. No mentions of the issues there either 😅. That tutorial especially should have been removed long long ago, there's no way they don't know of the issues either

rugged beacon
#

whenever i call renderer.material it will always create a new cloned shared material and assign it to the renderer?
and how different it act when i set material with render.material = mat2 vs render.sharedmaterial = mat2?

rugged beacon
#

when i create a new animatoroverride controller like this
animatorOverride = new AnimatorOverrideController(Animator.runtimeAnimatorController);
does this still exist when the gameobject destroy like the material ?

teal viper
rugged beacon
#

i can call the set .sharedmaterial no problem idk

#

theres even a method call SetSharedMaterial() for renderer

midnight plover
# 
It is not recommended to modify materials returned by sharedMaterial. If you want to modify the material of a renderer use material instead.
rugged beacon
#

ok skip using that then

midnight plover
#

But thats just for changing the material values, as you will basically change the material properties in editor for example.

teal viper
fast relic
rugged beacon
#

whenever i call .material, it will search the whole game if it used anywhere before cloning and assign it right?

midnight plover
teal viper
fast relic
teal viper
rugged beacon
teal viper
#

Yes.

rugged beacon
#

damn 3d is a pain in ass

teal viper
#

2d is the same🤷‍♂️

midnight plover
rugged beacon
midnight plover
#

for that object

fast relic
midnight plover
teal viper
rugged beacon
#

so normally when you change color of a 3d object you usually change color or emission of the object right or is there other ways i dont have to managed materials leaking? this human object contain like 10 renderers for each parts, changing the entire body require me to instance each part and change indivually?

teal viper
midnight plover
#

Oh and also the Note of the Renderer.material is quite important

Note:
This function automatically instantiates the materials and makes them unique to this renderer. It is your responsibility to destroy the materials when the game object is being destroyed. Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets also destroys the materials but it is usually only called when loading a new level.
rugged beacon
rugged beacon
#

seems material has this but new animator() not

midnight plover
teal viper
rugged beacon
#

animator controller are asset too ? is it not

teal viper
#

Yes.

frigid sequoia
#

What kind of error is this? Can I not modify the size of an instantiated prefab????

image.png
teal viper
#

You can confirm by checking the base class

midnight plover
fast relic
teal viper
fast relic
#

looks like you're modifying the prefab itself not the instance of it

rugged beacon
#

im spawning unit in, changing color on hit

frigid sequoia
#

Mmmm, shouldn't be the case, let me recheck all that

midnight plover
#

You could also just pool your material variants once and assign them as you wanted to sharedMaterial.

rugged beacon
#

i just wanted to change color abit then back for a single unit, and started to see stuff leaking also wanted to change shader and stuff down the lline, 3d is pain 🥀

midnight plover
#

It has nothing to do with it being 3d 😄

#

you either use .material and change the color as you like or you use sharedMaterial and change the assets color for all instances using it.

#

You could also use a sharedMaterial with a noise texture altering your colors dependent on the position of each unit and what not. But if you just want to change the color, use material. Whats your issue currently then with this approach? You are talking about "leaking"

rugged beacon
#

every .material is a leaking risk rn and 2d just change the color on the sprite renderer and its good. i know the problem is just material stuff not 3d itself but that the way do it for 3d

midnight plover
#

wondering, what a spriterenderer is doing under the hood 😉

rugged beacon
#

idk but i dont have to manually clean it

frigid sequoia
#

Yeah, this is actually the prefab, but wtf? How am I doing this? cause it is actually being animated while still being an not instantiated prefab

midnight plover
teal viper
midnight plover
#

oh yeh, propertyblocks work too, but not on all platforms (just fyi)

teal viper
rugged beacon
#

now the human object contain 10 renderers also differ outfits render too and all can be change individually idk and then different shader and stuff add to it

teal viper
midnight plover
#

Ah wait, outdated information, my bad

#

Did not touch the property blocks since the first visionOS project anymore 😆 So they are supported since a year or so already.

teal viper
#

I don't think there's anything low level about property blocks. It's pure engine level feature. Any graphics api should be suitable.

#

Unless it's fixed function pipeline or something

midnight plover
#

yeh, but polyspatial is converting unity stuff to MaterialX/RealityKit, which I guess why it was not supported from start, because Unity had to keep up with implementing it 🙂

rugged beacon
teal viper
#

I haven't had a chance to use it in the built-in RP, and I would definitely not use it in URP/HDRP

rugged beacon
#

oh yea this still change the shared material if not create new one for this object

midnight plover
#

you gotta question yourself, if you constantly are creating new materials or just for each unit once. If you do not create multiple waves of units and keep on doing this in the same level, you can just use .material

tender mirage
#

I'm trying to get the tilebase id of a individual tile but although a consistent number this method doesn't give me a nice number to track the data table

does anyone know how i could properly get a tiles id or how to store data inside of a tile to use for things like digging speed?

//Get tileData
private void GetTileData(string Direction)
{
    //Get vector int pos
    Vector3Int playerPosInt = tilemap.WorldToCell(transform.position);

    int tileID;

    if (Direction == "Down")
    {


        TileBase tile = tilemap.GetTile(playerPosInt + Vector3Int.down);

        //Get id of tile
        tileID = tile.GetInstanceID();

        print(tileID);

        //Destroy tile for now
        tilemap.SetTile(playerPosInt + Vector3Int.down, null);
    }





}
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keen dew
#

What do you consider a nice number? ...other than the obvious

tender mirage
#

i'm basically planning on adding tileparamaters

heres a showcase tables

//Tilename
private string[] tileName =
{
    "testTile", //ID0
    "Dirt", //ID1
    "Grass", //ID2
    "Stone", //ID3
    "Copper", //ID4

};

   

//Digtime
private float[] digTime =
{
    20f,  //ID0 
    1f,   //ID1
    1f,   //ID2
    1.5f, //ID3
    1.5f, //ID4


};
#

depending on the grabbed id of the tile, i'll simply apply the tileID variable into the tileName[tileID] and digTime[tileID]

keen dew
#

Use a dictionary

tender mirage
#

I want to learn that. although i also wanna properly grab the tiles id

#

and have that sorted.

keen dew
#

You are properly grabbing the id. They're not neatly numbered from zero upwards, that's just how it is.

grand snow
#

why are you using instance id? that is going to change and not ever be consistent

tender mirage
#

i was trying to learn what it was.

#

so i wrote it down, and got garbage numbers

grand snow
keen dew
#

ID is not the same as index

tender mirage
#

yeah, perhaps my best bet is to get the tilebase from the tile and get its name from there?

keen dew
#

I haven't worked with tiles but surely there's a better way to store this information in the tiles themselves

tender mirage
#

and get the last letter from its name which is the id

keen dew
#

That's the worst idea so far

tender mirage
#

but adding properties to tiles

#

as they spawn

#

must be the way

grand snow
#

You can extend Tile so that could be used to add new information 🤔

tender mirage
#

Are dictionaries best for data tables btw? i've neveer touched it before.

keen dew
#

They're one option when the key you use to access them isn't ordered

#

ordered as an integer starting from 0 that is

grand snow
#

well c# doesnt have ordered/unordered versions so Dictionary is the only option

tender mirage
#

i see. it seems pretty important considering data tables are quite common.

midnight plover
grand snow
#

If you want to have some type of key that is able to retrieve a value with decent speed you use Dictionary

reef bramble
#

quick question, I know dotween is good for small animations to make an UI feel more alive for example. Would it be possible to make like all animations using dotween? For example a swing animation for a sword or something? if yes would yall recommend it?

grand snow
#

Its not always applicable, If you have a fixed sized 2d grid (e.g. 10x10) then you would use an array instead still.

tender mirage
grand snow
midnight plover
midnight plover
grand snow
#

a real database is different

#

thats when you use something like sqlite

midnight plover
#

Thats why I was asking, cause I was not sure, if (s)he really means dict/arrays etc. or something to actually handle data of different types with dependencies or what not

keen dew
#

Pretty sure they meant collections and just used a wrong term

cloud agate
#

Can somebody help me with something? How can you make an object that has two scripts that inherit from the same class work properly?

midnight plover
cloud agate
#

I have a script that scans for 3 things: if player interacted with something, if player looked at something and if player looked away from something

cloud agate
tender mirage
#

yeah, not data tables, more like value tables?

grand snow
#

Its a map

tender mirage
#

what's the best word for this?

keen dew
#

Collections

tender mirage
#

collections.

#

right

midnight plover
cloud agate
#

I have three virtual methods: OnLookAt, OnInteract and OnLookAway

Two scripts that inherit that, SeePrompt and PickUpItem. The first overrides OnLookAt and OnLookAway to create and remove a message on the HUD, and the other override OnInteract to pick up an object

#

If I put either one of them above the other in the hierarchy of the object, the other doesn't function

midnight plover
#

And does not function comes from what part of code!?

cloud agate
#

One of the scripts doesn't work if it's the one below the other. both of them are subclasses of the same class "Interactable"

#

It doesn't do anything in the game

#

I don't know what part of the code fails

visual pond
#

maybe you havent connected it in the unity editor

#

if all code can make a debug log

cloud agate
#

I don't know if it's more of a fundamental thing that makes this happen, all I know is that the hierarchy is what changes it

cloud agate
visual pond
#

oof

cloud agate
#

If i put pickupitem above showinteractiontext, that works instead

visual pond
#

maybe do a debug.log on your code and use instantiate to activate it and if does show everything works fine if it doesnt look closer?

#

im new too lmao

cloud agate
#

I've decided to just throw them in the same script, just thought that if I had them seperate I wouldn't have to write the same thing in more scripts

midnight plover
#

!code

radiant voidBOT
midnight plover
#

But it makes sense, because it is getting the first it can find of (out Interactable interactable)

cloud agate
#

can I post it here with three dots?

visual pond
#

ofc

cloud agate
# 
    {
        if (playerCamera == null) return;
        Ray ray = new Ray(playerCamera.transform.position, playerCamera.transform.forward);
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hitInfo, interactRange))
        {
            if (hitInfo.collider.TryGetComponent(out Interactable interactable))
            {
                Debug.Log($"Hit {hitInfo.collider.name} with component type {interactable.GetType()}");
                if (currentInteractable == null)
                    Debug.Log("No current interactable yet");
                else
                    Debug.Log($"currently looking at {currentInteractable.name}");
                if (interactable != currentInteractable)
                {
                    currentInteractable?.OnLookAway();
                    currentInteractable = interactable;
                    currentInteractable.OnLookAt();
                }

                if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
                {
                    currentInteractable.Interact();
                }

                return;
            }
        }

        // If no valid target or moved away
        if (currentInteractable != null)
        {
            currentInteractable.OnLookAway();
            currentInteractable = null;
        }
    }```
visual pond
#

i wont be able to help lmao

midnight plover
#

Ah wait, that is getting the component of your collider. where is currentInteractable set?

#

If you want to fire all scripts, you gotta search for more components. GetComponents, not Component and iterate through all scripts

cloud agate
#

if (hitInfo.collider.TryGetComponent(out Interactable interactable))

midnight plover
#

Okay. But yeh, the issue is, that you are only getting one component, not all

cloud agate
#

aight, just thought it kind of worked properly before because I only used one child class for each object for Interact

#

thanks a lot for the help

warm sapphire
#

Hey ! I'm developing a City Builder and i'm on the camera now :
I don’t know why, but when I move the mouse on the game, the camera turns, but the camera is supposed to turned only with the middleclick pressed ! can you help me ?
The code : https://paste.ofcode.org/yY8RDxzCExeeCcDTSZ4EuP

wintry quarry
#

Oh wait I see it now

#

Use Debug.Log to see when the middle click variable is getting updated and to what value

warm sapphire
#

ok thanks

warm sapphire
#

I realy don't know where it comes from

lone ember
#

Hey everyone, I need a bit of help with Visual Studio Code.
I’m coding in C#, but I’ve got this annoying autocomplete issue.

For example, when I start typing void and then type s for Start, VS Code suggests Start, but when I press Tab, instead of completing it properly, it writes:
void private void Start()

So it repeats the full method signature instead of just completing what I started.
The same thing happens with Debug.Log — if I type Debug.L and hit Tab, it becomes:
Debug.Debug.Log()

Basically, autocomplete doesn’t complete, it duplicates my input.
Does anyone know how to fix this issue or what’s causing it?

wintry quarry
balmy vortex
#

is there an easy way of finding a specific child of a game object? kinda like GameObject.find except only for children

fast relic
slender nymph
#

yeah, transform.Find would do it. but ideally you wouldn't need to search for a child and could instead just assign the object you want/need in the inspector. searching can be slow depending on the number of objects it has to search through

fast relic
#

yeah for sure

wintry quarry
keen dew
#

There's very little reason to Find a child because the parent should easily have a direct reference to the child. Unlike with unrelated objects (prefabs trying to reference scene objects etc)

balmy vortex
ivory basalt
slender nymph
tender mirage
#

I'm trying to store data in my tile but a dictionary only takes 2 arguements.

I want to store the each tiles, ID, name, digDuration and etc

public class TileData : MonoBehaviour
{
    //List
    public List<TileBase> tileBase;

    //Dictionary
    public Dictionary<int, string, float> tileData = new Dictionary<int, string, float>();




    private void Awake()
    {
        //Get list
        tileBase = new List<TileBase>(Resources.LoadAll<TileBase>("Tilebases"));

        
    }


    private void Start()
    {

        tileData.Add(0, "TestTile");
        tileData.Add(1, "Dirt");
        tileData.Add(2, "Grass");
        tileData.Add(3, "Stone");
        tileData.Add(4, "Copper");

        //print each item
        foreach (var item in tileData)
        {
            print(item);
        }

        print(tileData[0]);
    }

}
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slender nymph
#

use a struct or class that holds the data you need to store and use that in your dictionary as the value

keen dew
#

It's unclear what data you're trying to save

#

shouldn't you just have a normal field like material that's dirt or grass or whatever

tender mirage
#

We talked about this earlier, you don't have to make the same joke...

keen dew
#

I said that you should store the tile data on each individual tile, it wasn't a joke

#

This looks like you're back at storing all tile data in one object again?

tender mirage
#

honestly, i'm just speechless. i think i'll just try to see if i can come up with anything.

keen dew
#

#💻┃code-beginner message Make a new component like this:

public class MyCustomTile : TileBase
{
    public string material = "Dirt";
}

Then use this class to create your tiles. Then all your tiles have a material field that you can access. (This is just an example, preferably the material would be an enum)

tender mirage
#

Wait, is that a child class?

#

Since it's MyCustomTile : TileBase

rough granite
keen dew
tender mirage
#

I'll have a look. thanks for the help.

frigid sequoia
#

This rectTransform in code would be something like.... "rectTransform.AnchoredPosition = Vector.zero;"??

image.png
#

How do it make it go into stretch mode?

#

I am isntantiating it from code but it defaults to the corner one

drifting badge
#

Hi, I'm making an AI for a 2D game for the NPCs. These NPCs will have several states; if there are enemies nearby, the fear state is activated and a scared animation will be displayed. The problem I'm having is that it gets stuck in a loop because I have this code in the update using a switch statement, and I only want this animation to run once, stopping at the last frame of the animation

#

The looptime of the animation is desactivated

whole osprey
#

With your setup, it sounds like you are probably using the Any node in the controller.

If so, you could get more explicit and set it up to only allow the fear state to activate from certain other states.

You can also change your state scripts to have entry and exit transitions to states so each does their entry stage and then won't send the same triggers after that.

Some ideas anyway based on what you wrote.

drifting badge
balmy vortex
#

does anybody maybe know what could cause my second player here to get stuck in the ground like this?

#

I've tried just manually unstucking it in my player movement code as you can see but it just doesnt work for some reason

whole osprey
# drifting badge ``` case State.Scared: rb.linearVelocity = Vector2.zero; anim.SetTr...

Look at how your controller is set up. You can watch the controller while the game is playing and see that the trigger will just fire with every update.

If it was set up to only be able to go to the scared state from certain other states, this wouldn't happen.

Alternatively, you can use booleans instead of triggers probably, but then you have to be sure to manage the booleans in code when you leave the state, etc.

drifting badge
#

In my case, I have the animation set to "any state" because the NPC can change to the scared state from any animation, which in my case only includes walking and idle animations, and then from the scared animation I have transitions to the rest of the animations

grand snow
#

Verify this and then confirm that input is being read correctly

balmy vortex
#

or like wdym?

whole osprey
grand snow
#

you can also just move it out and see if that resolves the issue

#

make full use of the fact that you can view and modify the game still during play mode

balmy vortex
balmy vortex
#

if you mean like with some movement input none of those seem to work

grand snow
#

you know when you select a gameobject with a collider it shows the gizmo?

#

do that for this stuck player and 👀 SEE IF ITS IN THE GROUND OR NOT

#

What matters here is checking the player collider vs the ground collider

#

if your player position is in the center of this collider than your attempted fix wont work

balmy vortex
#

idk what I'm supposed to be seeing

grand snow
# balmy vortex <:atwhatcost:1068114091987718204>

you can see the collider is in the ground so that is why its stuck and cannot move
you should then next check how you spawn this and make sure it wont do this again (perhaps they need to be spawned +0.5 y up?)

balmy vortex
grand snow
# balmy vortex ok I am confused now

Well that looks like your input is doing nothing because its stuck in the air (because isKinematic is true for some reason).
Did you mean to leave it as kinematic?

balmy vortex
#

oh wtf

#

wait but like the player prefab doesn't even have it enabled

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grand snow
#

well im just informing you based on the video

#

so go investigate the spawn logic i guess

slender nymph
#

note that networked rigidbodies on the client side are kinematic because the host controls the physics

balmy vortex
#

the working player body also has kinematic ticked for some reason but still works fine

grand snow
#

Something could have changed that if its not that clients player? I cant tell 🤷‍♂️

#

giving them useful names would help so you know which player is "yours"

slender nymph
#

unless they are viewing the components as the host and not as a connected client then they will see all of the rigidbodies as kinematic because they will only be dynamic on the host

#

this is yet another reason that networking is not a beginner topic

grand snow
#

aha makes sense. been ages since i touched networking in unity.
Isnt this using that multi client thing though, I have no idea how that works

slender nymph
#

it does appear that they are using multiplayer play mode, however the view that the hierarchy is showing for is the one they are connecting as client with

balmy vortex
balmy vortex
scarlet pasture
#

hey, im programmed the next attack for my Boss, a Fall Attack

#

the problem i have is that i want that he moves to the palyer but only on the X Axis, how can i accive this?

slender nymph
#

presumably you have some way of managing it's target position. so just do that as you would normally, but substitute the X axis on that position to be the same as the player's

tired python
#

how can i search for a certain pixel colour based on where my mouse is pointing at?

slender nymph
#

can you be more specific about what it is, exactly, that you are trying to achieve?

tired python
#

so there's a map which has a road on it. I want to be able to map my units to move along that road. i can map out diff points on the road and use them to make enemies go along that path, but, i wanna try making a code, to find out what those points should be along which enemies move themselves. to do that, i will need to know the exact colour of the path itself. and for that, i need to know it's colour

slender nymph
#

why do you need a specific pixel's color for any of that? surely whatever is managing these points can also store data about those points

grand snow
#

Yea you probably do not want to check the pixels of some texture like this

tired python
#

then what would be a better way to go about it?

#

I want to just provide for example the image of a path and have it auto generate a spline

grand snow
#

you mention a path that is already mapped out with points but then somehow the texture is relevent?

#

share some screenshots if you can

tired python
#

suppose i gave this to the computer. i want it to find out what path an enemy can take.

image.png
edgy sinew
#

omg day 3 of this one

#

Does it need to happen dynamically at runtime? Will the path change?

tired python
frosty hound
#

Are you drawing it at runtime or importing as an image?

grand snow
#

You can perhaps figure out where the center parts of this path by sampling and producing a result based on filled/unfilled pixels around it.
After that I don't know how a nice spline could be placed 🤔

tired python
tired python
edgy sinew
grand snow
#

hopefully that is clear to you

frosty hound
#

Presumably they want an easy way to draw them outside and import them as new levels

tired python
tired python
grand snow
#

id just hand make the path spline...

tired python
#

i tried googling stuff but it just dindn't help

tired python
edgy sinew
#

You could make a script that takes the image as an input, returns a list of waypoints as the output 🤷‍♂️

grand snow
#

yea just make a script that does the thing! soo helpful

frosty hound
#

I can imagine some approach to this, but you'd have to have some general rules, like a way to define the start and the direction of the start. That could be done with using a different colour even.

tired python
#

the start would have to be manually inserted by me though

grand snow
#

Using what I mentioned before, we can hopefully find the "center" and then if we know the start/end we can find our way along.
Perhaps the initial sampling can be used to make a flow field so we can easily move along the center?

frosty hound
#

You can use a different colour for that.

#

And you'll know the direction because you can sample the adjacent pixels to find the green.

tired python
frosty hound
#

And then based on the angle between the next and preivous pixel, you can draw an imaginary line across until you reach a not-green pixel and then get the mid point between those (half distance). Rinse repeat lol

tired python
frosty hound
#

This will break in a lot of edge cases I imagine, like overlapping tracks

tired python
frosty hound
#

You'd read the texture itself and read each pixel

grand snow
#

Yea this is tricky. Im thinking if the path can be reduced to the thinnest required first then it will be easier to produce a path of points from start to end.

#

But understanding textures, pixels and how to read and work with them is required knowledge

tired python
swift crag
tired python
swift crag
#

Recovering a path from the sprite itself sounds like a lot of work

swift crag
polar acorn
#

If the image isn't runtime generated then there's no reason to generate the path at runtime

tender onyx
#

Hey y'all...
Wanting to add a craft / skill tree kinda setup to my game. You can pickup random power-ups and I'm wanting to be able to exchange 2/3 of them for a new random item. I would need something "LIKE" a crafting system; but without any recipes. My values (how many do you have?) are stored as ints. Any ideas? Don't feel like make 200 recipes for a random result... TIA

keen dew
#

What determines which items are possible to get from the exchange? If you always get a random item then all you need is remove the spent ones and pick a random new one

swift crag
#

if there is no relationship between inputs and outputs, then it's trivial, yeah

#

if you want to get related powerups, maybe you can give each powerup a few attributes (e.g. how much of a "damage" or a "defense" powerup it is)

#

and then use that to affect the odds of getting a certain output

#

two damage powerups would craft into another damage powerup

red igloo
#

I want to add this feature where when the player goes into the first sphere he teleports to the other one and if he goes into the other one he will teleport to where he was before. The script I have teleports me to the second portal but how would I make it so when you enter the second portal you go teleport to the first one. should I have 2 tags?

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slender nymph
#

each portal should have a reference to its destination transform so that it can be used as needed. then you won't need two tags, it would just be the one. though ideally you'd handle the actual check on the portals themselves so that the player object doesn't have to care about checking if it is colliding with a portal

frail hawk
#

i´d use a SerilaizeField wherey ou can individually put the position you want to teleport, you can use this script for any onf these speheres. same as boxfriend suggested

trail fog
#

yoo

sour fulcrum
#

In general it's almost always better to use monobehaviours in place of tags because you can check for them the exact same way, have multiple of them on a given gameobject and if the thing does have the behaviour, you can get a reference to it for further logic and info

indigo thorn
#

Hello, I'm following the Collectible tutorial here: https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials/unit/programming-essentials/tutorial/collect-the-collectible?version=6.0
I've double checked everything a couple of times and I can't make it work, the onTriggerEnter method is not triggered, even though the collectible with the script has its collider set to Is Trigger and the player car has a Rigidbody.
private void onTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
Debug.Log("Trigger entered!");

    // Add logic for when the player collects the item
    Destroy(gameObject);
}

The script is working fine for the previous part of the tutorial about rotating the collectible by the way.
I'm just following the tutorial step by step and can't figure out why the enter event doesn't trigger, please help 🙂

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sour fulcrum
#

c# is case sensitive

red igloo
sour fulcrum
#

Yeah so in general, instead of putting tags on objects you'd put scripts instead

indigo thorn
red igloo
sour fulcrum
#

That's the best part about this, that is completely up to you

#

checking for a component is the same functionality as checking for a tag, but from there you can do anything you want with that information

red igloo
#

Ohhh shit never knew you could do that.

sour fulcrum
#

for example in this case, that teleporter script could take in a serialized reference to the transform the player should be teleported to

#

ill give you a code snippet this time for a practical example 😛



class Teleporter : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform teleportTarget;
}

(in your player script or whatevs)

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    if (other.TryGetComponent(out Teleporter teleporter))
        transform.position = teleporter.teleportTarget.position;
}
red igloo
sour fulcrum
#

Well in this example, are these portals actually paired with eachother?

For this one you don't actually need to have any information that makes these connected, both could just be seperate teleporters that happen to point towards the other

#

first teleporter targets second teleporter's transform
second teleporter targets first teleporters transform

wintry quarry
#

There should be no numbered variables

red igloo
#

Like this?

teleportTarget.transform.position = teleportTarget2.transform.position;
teleportTarget2.transform.position = teleportTarget.transform.position;

wintry quarry
#

You might run into an issue with it rapidly teleporting back and forth, but that can be solved next when you get to it

warm gull
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(2d question) Hey folks, I've gone ahead and made a bunch of basic polygon shapes. The player starts as a triangle, and when I hit a powerup sprite that will have a trigger on it, I want the player to be upgraded to the next polygon up.

So I'm putting a script on the player gameobject, that has an OnColliderEnter2D. I've added a public serializedfield called "basicShapes". Back in the inspector, I added elements 0 through 7 and added each sprite, in order.

So, within the OnColliderEnter2D function, how would you handle the switching of the sprite of the player gameObject? Since I added the polygons in order, is there an easy way to set the Sprite in the Sprite Renderer to go up and down this list?

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this is it so far

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public class PointUP : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] public Sprite[] basicShapes;
[SerializeField] private Sprite newSprite;

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    
}

}

wintry quarry
warm gull
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okay! i'll try that

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thank you

wintry quarry
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(you'll have to call LevelUp in OnCollisionEnter2D btw)

warm gull
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okay

wintry quarry
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if you want it to loop around back to 0 then a quick/easy way to write that is:

currentSprite = (currentSprite + 1 ) % sprites.Length;```
warm gull
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Perfect, it changed to the next sprite up when colliding with the ground. I disabled that by adding a condition that looks for a specific tag. Now I'll create the actual powerup itself with that tag

sour fulcrum
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tags succ

warm gull
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i think i half understand. can you explain how this would be implemented in my use case? I'm just a little overwhelmed right now

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current code:

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public class PointUP : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] public Sprite[] basicShapes;
[SerializeField] private SpriteRenderer newSprite;
private int currentSprite = 0;

void AddPoint()
{
    currentSprite += 1;
    newSprite.sprite = basicShapes[currentSprite];
}
private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("PointPowerUp"))
    {
        AddPoint();
    }
}

}

sour fulcrum
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Yeah if your trying to do something new right now do not feel obligated to pick this up aswell, tags suck but they are not an actual problem here

warm gull
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i'd like to try out what you're saying so that I can avoid headaches

sour fulcrum
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I don't fully have the context for your game so this might be slightly off but for example,

Creating a MonoBehaviour component script

class PowerUpUnlock : MonoBehaviour
{

}

Using it for identification the same way you would identify a tag

    if (collision.TryGetComponent(out PowerUpUnlock powerUp))
        //Here you can either do the exact same logic as you would with a tag check, or actually look at the powerUp on the colliding object to check it for data, run code on it etc.
warm gull
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okay, and this component script would go with the player object or the powerup object?

sour fulcrum
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The kinda idea is you don't need to do anything in the PowerUpUnlock script right now if you don't want to, but checking for that component does the exact same thing checking for a tag does, but lets you have multiple "tags" on an object and lets you do extra stuff later

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on the powerup object

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TryGetComponent(out PowerUpUnlock powerUp might look abit scary if your new to that, it's just a cleaner way to do something like

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    PowerUpUnlock powerUp = collision.GetComponent<PowerUpUnlock>(); //Tries to get a reference to a PowerUpUnlock component attached to the collision object (if one exists)
    if (powerUp != null) // If the collision does have that component
        //Do stuff
}
warm gull
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hmm im not sure if I understand

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what don't you like about tags?

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i think what's messing me up here is wrapping my head around what objects are containing what scripts. So the playerobject has my collision checking-sprite replacing script, and this new script you're giving me still goes on the powerup and not the player?

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i can screen share on a call if you're able to do so

sour fulcrum
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Issues with tags:
-They are string based so your IDE won't tell you if you spelled it wrong when referencing it in code
-You can only have 1 tag per GameObject
-Using a component at minimum gives you the same functionality as checking for a tag, but gives you the potential to do extra stuff if you want later because you can reference the stuff in the component

warm gull
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i see

sour fulcrum
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The idea here is to just attach a component on a object anytime you would put a tag on one (hence putting it on the powerup object)

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Checking for component rather than checking for tag

warm gull
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I see, so this script on the power up doesn't really contain much other than exist for the purpose of being identified by the player's script?

sour fulcrum
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It could contain more, but it doesn't have to no

warm gull
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gotcha! i'll try this out

grand snow
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e.g. could be the power type and have custom data like duration or bonus statsa

warm gull
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hmm it doesn't seem to work. Not sure if my error was in the script or if i messed up something with the trigger detector. Perhaps i should use the tag method to verify i set up the trigger correctly to rule that out

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and then once i know the trigger is working i can use this method you've given me

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is that logical

grand snow
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that doesnt solve the issue does it?

sour fulcrum
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Feel free to show code/screenshots

grand snow
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!code

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languid pagoda
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any idea how I would go about making a flat terrain fade off into the ocean programmatically? like calculating the height falling off, this doesn't have to look super realistic.

warm gull
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here is whats on the powerup itself

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here is whats on the player

grand snow
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share code as text via the websites linked above

warm gull
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'''cs
public class PointUP : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] public Sprite[] basicShapes;
[SerializeField] private SpriteRenderer newSprite;
private int currentSprite = 0;

void AddPoint()
{
    currentSprite += 1;
    newSprite.sprite = basicShapes[currentSprite];
}
private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    if (collision.gameObject.TryGetComponent(out PointUPIdentifier increasePoint))
    {
        AddPoint();
    }
}

}
'''

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oh wait like actually use the website