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[flint rover]

ok so what should i put then?

[eternal needle]

Yea thats what I meant with possibly doing something more than once per frame

[rough granite]

Well idlebehaviour has a public var for attackscript just fill it out in the inspector for now

[flint rover]

it wont let me drag it in from project window so should i try put it in the game or something?

[rough granite]

You need the attackscript to bea component of an object yes

[flint rover]

then drag the object into that section?

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃code-beginner message

just add it as an Empty gameobject

if its in the scene you don't need a direct reference.. b/c its a static singleton instance..

you can call it from anywhere

[flint rover]

yeah i just tried this and it for some reason isnt working

[edgy sinew]

Okay so...
Make an empty GameObject in the scene,
Call it "Singletons" or "Shared" - something that makes it clear, this is "one instance" stuff (static)
And add as a component, the Attack_Script (aka CombatManager)

Now you see how you have public Attack_Script instance ...
In the video he has... public static CombatManager instance

The static keyword there means, the instance exists for the entire time your project is running
So you could access it, like... Attack_Script.instance

ahh shit, yeah what @rocky canyon said 👆

Does he even have to have an instance of the component in the scene to access the static .instance? 🤔

[flint rover]

does anything change that its on IDLE in the animator and not a gameobject?

[rocky canyon]

yea thats what i was saying to do ^ lol

as long as its in ur hiearchy it doesnt really matter where

if u disable the gameobject or something u no longer have access to it..

[edgy sinew]

i see. but if the class itself was static too, then the static members would exist without any component instance in-scene

[rocky canyon]

was it not a monobehaviour?

[edgy sinew]

can't have a static monobehaviour right 🤔

[rocky canyon]

ohh no its a StateMachineBehaviour.. yup i have no idea about those..
im tapping out 👐

ya i didn't notice htat

[flint rover]

since its a statemachinebehaviour do i not do the video thing you sent?

[rocky canyon]

im not sure.. thats y i removed it

[edgy sinew]

ngl im tapping out too. this is too overcomplicated, for a basic "2D character sword combo" 🤷‍♂️

[flint rover]

yeah i have no clue what im doing ive been doing unity for 2 months from nothing

[rocky canyon]

the statemachinebehaviour thing i've never used. soo i dont wanna give misleading information

[rocky canyon]

i've been learning 4 years and i've still not used that before

[edgy sinew]

yeah i think it like, directly interacts with the Animator State

[rocky canyon]

lol ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[edgy sinew]

shit that could be kinda useful .... hold on...

[flint rover]

should i just scrap the video and try find something new then?

[rocky canyon]

if ur only 2 weeks in i'd def hold off on the statemachine and behaviour tree stuff

start out with simple animator stuff.. basic enum state machines.. and directly controlling the animator w/ booleans and triggers

[rocky canyon]

yea, when i see this thing i run away with my tail between my legs

[flint rover]

yeah im just trying new things for my college course

[rocky canyon]

ya, i get that.. but even in college you want to build up to the more advanced things

[edgy sinew]

@rocky canyon wait this is kinda cool
Apparently it gives you callbacks for when Animator enters a state, exits a state, etc 🤔

[rocky canyon]

wanna be building off a solid foundation

no leaning tower of pesa's around here

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats all you my friend 😅

[flint rover]

alr ill try find another video thanks for your help and im sorry i sort of wasted your time

[rocky canyon]

nah u didn't

thats why we're here 🧡

as a beginner i just did ur basic animator setup

• use transitions to control when and how u transition and to what state
• use animator parameters to control that stuff.. (booleans, triggers, etc)

then its just animatorReference.SetBool(Run, true);

but as you get more advanced you can def look back into behaviour trees and whatnot

[rocky canyon]

ya, i learned about it not too long after learning about statemachines...
but with a statemachine you can control callbacks and whatnot via ur code-base

animator just gives u an opportunity to lessen ur work-load i guess

if ur down to learn

[edgy sinew]

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html
give this a read, if you wanna make something like Dead Cells i recommend you get a state machine going first
The basic idea is,
All states have their own version of these basic couple of functions
OnEnterState, OnExitState, DoSomethingEveryFrame, CheckIfNeedToChangeStates

[rocky canyon]

i recommend you get a state machine going first
💯 you can take what u learn by building ur own statemachine and apply it to other things

[edgy sinew]

And with that, you can ... literally do anything. jump, swim, fly, attack, combo, combo cancel, etc

@flint rover
https://youtu.be/Als_d-UIgVo

Here's a slightly less outdated video with more details.
He builds an enum-style state machine (not inheritance / hierarchical) but it shows the idea which is the gold here

[flint rover]

ok yeah great im just giving that document a read then ill watch this video and try that thank you

[edgy sinew]

Yes make sure to use an Enum - the video uses strings i think which is not as efficient
One of the first goals with state machines is to reliably track and manage basic movement states - idle, jog, jump

I would recommend to track it in OnGUI - try to avoid Debug.Log when possible, as it lags out the Editor.

// after setting up some Enum
private MyStatesEnum playerCurrentState;

void OnGUI()
{
    GUI.Label(new Rect(10, 10, 160, 20), "State: " + playerCurrentState);
}

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats what i was mentioning earlier.. start with basic state machine (enum) and work ur way up

[edgy sinew]

Once you get idle, jog, jump working solid, then you can start to add stuff like,
"if player is in idle state, and attack button pressed, switch to AttackCombo1 state"
"if player is in AttackCombo1 state, and the attack button is held down, continue into AttackCombo2 state"

etc you see the idea how they chain together
the Enum way is a little hacky but, keep in mind the 4 main State Machine functions (verbose plain English used for clarity)

OnStateEnter, OnStateExit, DoThisEveryFrame, CheckIfNeedToSwitchState

[wraith delta]

@keen dew hey, i followed another approach, created a empty object children of player and set it's position to the center of the screen by code, so i just changed the ray origin to that object 🙂 works fine with just 1 ray

it's like having a small floating robot near your with a ray hehehe

[timid quartz]

Hi there, I'm running into a problem where I have a skinned mesh renderer that's tposing in builds but works in editor. I've already tried marking the FBX as read/write enabled. Any ideas?

[rocky canyon]

#🏃┃animation 👈 ask here

[timid quartz]

I solved it actually! I had to make sure that the model was placed somewhere so Unity would include it in the build.

[swift crag]

How was the model winding up in your game in the first place, then?

It's true that assets that aren't referenced in any scenes and that aren't in a Resources folder will not be included in the built game

[grand snow]

Yea something else must have been wrong like not playing any animations on it

[timid quartz]

I was swapping out the shared mesh of a skinned mesh renderer

[umbral hound]

Can I get some advice? How do you start working on a modular system you have no idea how to make? For example, I KNOW what I want it to do. I want standalone "zones" for each level or area, that have their own game logic flow. Like triggers, interactables that subscribe to the manager to dictate what happens, but logics wise, I have no idea how to do it

Please ping me if anyone replies

[grand snow]

Don't think that works unless they have the same bone structure + bone names

[timid quartz]

it does!

it's the easiest way to do things like character creation IMO

[grand snow]

Even to me this is too vague. Got any concrete examples of what you want to be modular?

[timid quartz]

duplicate the skinned mesh renderer portions and swap out the shared mesh and shared material and presto, skinned mesh animation with swappable parts

[wintry quarry]

start by coming up with a fully concrete description of what you want to do

[grand snow]

Then they may all need to share the same avatar to share bones, i forget

[timid quartz]

you can't instantiate a skinned mesh renderer because the bone data isn't copied

[grand snow]

so then you spawn a prefab

[timid quartz]

to be clear my stuff does actually work, it was a "unity didn't package the mesh" problem which I solved

like, an asset inclusion build-time error

[umbral hound]

No I don't, but let me be more descriptive. Let's say I have made a trigger, where on trigger enter, it checks if it's active, or if the bool m_OnEnter is checked, then it checks for the player tag. Then it sets off an event handler. I want a system where you can set that trigger as a variable, then do

m_Trigger.OnEnter += SomeFunction;

Now, I know how to do that, but in terms of initializing the zone I'm in, I have no idea

[grand snow]

So you want a component to handle that work?

[umbral hound]

Let's say each area is a zone, and when you enter, it initializes all of the data for that zone. Triggers, doors, etc and what to do when they are interacted with

yes

Like I already have the logic all in my head for how that all works, but I just don't know how to write it

[grand snow]

So how about this:
PlayerTriggerEnter -> has event for when the player enters a trigger
AreaManagerBase -> base class that calls some virtual Init() func using PlayerTriggerEnter

Then you inherit from AreaManagerBase for each area class you create

[umbral hound]

But in terms how HOW that is initialized? Like do I need just some trigger that covers the entire zone, and make IDs for all the zones, and then go through all the IDs, and if that zone has that ID, initialize the zone with that ID?

That seems almost too easy

[grand snow]

Why do you need to perform setup work when a player steps inside some area?

Is this even needed?

[umbral hound]

Well that's the way they did it in Bendy and the Dark Revival

[wintry quarry]

what is a "zone"

are these rooms?

Should/could these be scenes?

[umbral hound]

A zone is a section of a game. It can be rooms, levels, etc

[wintry quarry]

that's pretty vague

you're making a specific game right

[grand snow]

If the player steps inside a room and you want a cutscene to begin and spawn a boss, id also use a trigger with some component that calls an event (and ensures it can only be called one time)

[umbral hound]

Yes

If I had to guess, I guess the manager is there to make sure that the game knows if you've already been there or not, and so if you load it, the game doesn't say "hey, they haven't been here before, deactivate everything"

Apologies, I'm bad at conveying thoughts

[grand snow]

Well we dont always have to explicitly disable things but it can be helpful sometimes
valve did this a lot in HL2, in route canal the guy you meet where you fight man hacks gets killed once you get far away enough

They have specific entities and an input/output system so it was easy to add such logic in map
We can do the same with UnityEvents

or you use custom components and Interfaces to invoke things on trigger enter

[umbral hound]

Yeah I know how to invoke things. My game was gonna feature an async save/load system so I just wanted a manager so that when I load the game save, it goes "Ohhhhh the player is on this zone" and makes sure to only initialize that portion, then when they enter another zone trigger, the next zone initializes all it's data

[grand snow]

That sounds like you want some kind of zoned loading system where things are split amongst many scenes/prefabs

Then it does make sense to have data to link these together and to know what to load in later

[umbral hound]

Oh so it is scene based, not just area based? I was assuming with how big the studio is in Bendy and the Dark Revival, every few rooms or two was one big zone

Wait yeah nvm it is area based because they made one scene for the entire studio

[slow fossil]

Hello,
I have a problem with my targeting system, where I have problems with my enemy deaths.
It just adds/removes an enemy to the kill list when something with a "canBeAttacked" tag enter it's range

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        
        if (other.CompareTag("CanBeAttacked") && !enemiesInRange.Contains(other))
        {
            enemiesInRange.Add(other);
        }
    }
    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
    {
        if (other == null) return;
        print("Something exited");
        if (other.CompareTag("CanBeAttacked") && enemiesInRange.Contains(other))
        {
            enemiesInRange.Remove(other);
        }
    }
    protected List<Collider> enemiesInRange = new List<Collider>();

Enemies in range represents the lists of all the enemies in the tower range, precisely, all the collider I detected when one of them entered of left my tower's range.

    void Attack()
    {     
        if (attackCooldown <= 0f && enemiesInRange.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (Collider col in enemiesInRange)
            {
                if (col == null) break; // Works well until you have more than one enemy
                Enemy enemy = col.GetComponent<Enemy>();
                enemy.damage(damage);
                attackCooldown = attackspeed;
                print("I attacked " + col.gameObject.name + ". Life left : " + enemy.getRemainingHealth());
                
                break;
            }
        }

    }

I use this simple "attack" function that does try in the Update, to shoot the first enemy in it's enemy list until it theoretically triggers the OnLeaveTrigger.

    public SphereCollider rangeCollider;

    public void damage(float dmg)
    {

        this.health -= dmg;
        death();
    }

    public void death()
    {
        print("Man I'm dead");
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }

However, enemies needs to die and I don't think the destroy() really triggers the OnLeave

[grand snow]

Did you forget that we can load many scenes at once?

[umbral hound]

Oh shit yeah

[grand snow]

if you want light baking to not be annoying a f then you would put things in seperate scenes

[umbral hound]

Okay so for example then, there's a room where Audrey goes in, walks under a vent, and the vent smashes open with a dead ink creature hanging down, then a PA comes on. That could be a zone I guess

[grand snow]

You would split things up in a way that makes sense (e.g separated by doors or corridors)
Ofc the old way was just to have a loading screen to unload and load the new areas but there was always some "transition" point/area

Again, in HL2 it was selected carefully and meant each map needed to duplicate the transition area

[wintry quarry]

Either:

• have enemies keep track of which zones they're in and notify those zones when they die so they can be removed from the list
• Have enemies fire an event when they die, and when they enter one of these zones add an event subscriber that removes them from the list when they die

[grand snow]

@umbral hound I keep mentioning HL2 because amazing game but even with its age it ~~was ~~IS an very important game and thankfully mapping concepts are well documented: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Level_Transitions

[worthy veldt]

i need help on how to assign field in this context

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

its a pathing assist, to point where npcs should go to move to another area

perfect timing lol, its a level transition but mine is light 2D game so I just teleport them

[wintry quarry]

Can you explain what field you're trying to assign exactly?

And what trouble you're having with doing so?

[worthy veldt]

i cant access the road, i leave comment on the code

[wintry quarry]

I only see one field in this code:
public Area[] areas;//location with road details

[worthy veldt]

sec

[wintry quarry]

you mean this?

        for (int j = 0; j < area.roads.Count; j++) //ERROR: Use of possibly unassigned field roads

[worthy veldt]

yea , how do i assign it properly with some default value ?

[wintry quarry]

I mean would a default value help you here?

It would be null and you'd get a NRE

how about:

        Area area;
        area.roads = null;
        bool found = false;
        for (int i = 0; i < areas.Length; i++)
        {
            if (areas[i].locationName == initialLocation)
            {
                area = areas[i];
                found = true;
                break;
            }
        }

        if (!found) {
           initialRoad = default;
           destinationRoad = default;
           return false;
        }
        //find the correct road element
        Road road;
        for (int j = 0; j < area.roads.Count; j++) //ERROR: Use of possibly unassigned field roads```

this is made a little more verbose/complex by the use of structs instead of classes, btw.

[clear monolith]

If anyone knows alot about fears to fathom type games, I appreciate if you write me 🙏

[wintry quarry]

if Area was a class you could:

        Area area = null;
        for (int i = 0; i < areas.Length; i++)
        {
            if (areas[i].locationName == initialLocation)
            {
                area = areas[i];
                break;
            }
        }

        if (area == null) {
           initialRoad = default;
           destinationRoad = default;
           return false;
        }
        //find the correct road element
        Road road;
        for (int j = 0; j < area.roads.Count; j++) //ERROR: Use of possibly unassigned field roads

[worthy veldt]

i tried making Road [] roads and set area.roads roads. i can go with this.

i will assign value to roads later

what i mean is i could make another areas2 array initialized with default values, then load them with areas data from inspector. but is it possible to do it as it is with additional code ?

because how many location and road will be there is known

[worthy veldt]

ill try with dictionary, i made something similar while learning dijkstra. but it'll be nice to know how to do it with struct thus i proceed with it

[amber warren]

Hi could someone possibly help me please. Im trying to make these two vr potions the when mixed together (causing the shader to change colour into a mix of the two) and poured onto a gameobject cuases the game object to change texture. this is the code i have for tyhe flask and the texture one for the object however when tryoing to mix the potions the liquid just disapears

[wintry quarry]

What kind of object is it?
How is the shader/material set up?
You seem to have two different lines of code in two different scripts changing the material to two different things?

Also:

• Have you verified the code actually runs?
• Are there any errors in the console?

[radiant void]

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[polar acorn]

Another reason to use !code instead of a ton of screenshots

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[worthy veldt]

how many is too many ? just in case..

[worthy veldt]

for (int i = 0; i < areas.Length; i++)
{
    if (areas[i].locationName == initialLocation)
    {
        if (areas[i].roads != null)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < areas[i].roads.Length; j++)
            {
                if (areas[i].roads[j].endLocation == destination)
                {
                    initialCheck = true;
                    initialRoad = areas[i].roads[j].startPosition[UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, areas[i].roads[j].startPosition.Length)];
                    destinationRoad = areas[i].roads[j].endPosition[UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, areas[i].roads[j].endPosition.Length)]; break;
                }
            }
        }
        else Debug.Log("this area has no roads"); break;
    }
    if (initialCheck) break;
}

return initialCheck;

i made it !

[unreal imp]

GUYSSSS can explain? there are too many script types, whats the use of each of them? 😅

[wintry quarry]

That's only 4 types

you only need to worry about MonoBehaviour if you're just getting started

Playables are for https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/Playables.html
MonoBehaviour is a regular component script
ScriptableObject is for making custom editor asset types

that's all

[unreal imp]

God has a special place for you on heaven ❤️

[rough granite]

Found out you can add more, not sure how much unity (the company not the game engine) likes that though nor do i know how to add other classes as a default in new projects.

[grand snow]

I dont think they care

[rugged beacon]

anyway to make raycast hit even the inside of collider ?

[rocky canyon]

Queries Hit Backfaces

[rugged beacon]

bet

i read about it it said only work on mesh collider?

[rocky canyon]

ohh.. well sounds like you might need to create some primitive's in blender or something

[amber warren]

! code

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[chrome apex]

so is there any way to avoid gimbal lock when using addTorque and 2 axis? Seems impossible

[midnight plover]

Any code to checkout?

[chrome apex]

just adding AddTorque to X and Y based on mouse axis, nothing more

[midnight plover]

I am asking for the code to find out, if your gimbal lock is coming from addtorque or your calculation what torque you set

[chrome apex]

It's made in playmaker for prototyping

It just gets a mouse x and mouse y value and places them in a vector, that's all

[midnight plover]

Does it just call AddTorque with a correct axis and rotation under the hood?

[chrome apex]

yes

the problem is if I move my mouse diagonally up and to the side, the player drifts more and more on the Z

[sour fulcrum]

do you maybe need to be using AddRelativeTorque? (vague guess not sure)

[chrome apex]

this is that. That little check that says "self" means it's relative

[midnight plover]

So its calling addrelativetorque? or addtorque with some calculation

[keen dew]

You can't do it without complicated calculations to figure out the "real" torque

[chrome apex]

that's a legit question actually, but does it make a difference in reality? Won't the same thing happen regardless? I mean I can check but....

also, my rigidbody is frozen in Z but that doesn't seem to help

[keen dew]

The issue is that when the character is tilted on one axis, you actually don't want it to rotate on the other axis but that rotation should be adjusted as well

[chrome apex]

seems to me like I will need to correct Z rotation each frame after applying torque to x and y

[midnight plover]

ah, its frozen in Z? that can lead to gimbal lock. as Nitku says, its like hard setting only two axis and therefore overriding the correct quaternion calculation for the resulting orientation

[chrome apex]

you mean to tell me it wouldn't happen if it weren't frozen? But I'm pretty sure it acts the same. I can check real quick

[chrome apex]

I didn't understand this

nope, I'm still to the side when unchecking freeze rotation

[keen dew]

Did you understand this

[midnight plover]

So what exactly is happening when you rotate over the 360 degrees? Is it flipping back

[chrome apex]

I understand the gist of that message but I don't understand how lol

[chrome apex]

imma just snap a video real quick

[keen dew]

If you add both X and Y rotation to a character it'll always also rotate on the Z

so you can't just "naively" do X and Y rotation and expect that Z will not change

[chrome apex]

yea ok fair, but what is the solution?

[keen dew]

It's not quite the same but it's somewhat similiar if you move a character horizontally and vertically at the same time, it will move diagonally even though either of the two movements are not diagonal by themselves

Don't use torque to rotate the character

If you really want to use torque, I'm sure there are articles on the internet how to do it. But there's no simple solution that you could just apply to fix it

[chrome apex]

but part of the reason I switched to a rigidbody is to get natural rotational collision 😢

I didn't have these problems with the character controller

[chrome apex]

bullshit, internet is useless and gpt is just lying as always

[sour fulcrum]

if internet is useless you are not good at interacting with it

[keen dew]

Usually characters rotate using torque only on the Y. Rotating up and down is done with the camera so that the player doesn't bonk on things when looking up and down

[chrome apex]

that's fair but my character is a diver and needs to move and rotate in 3d

[chrome apex]

possible

I found one alleged solution but it's in js and I'm too stupid

[hardy prairie]

i love using unity

[midnight plover]

!ide

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[sour fulcrum]

not much we can do with just errors, let alone errors with only half the message

[sour fulcrum]

i dont think its that

[hardy prairie]

um ok let me send the full error

Assets\Scripts\ThiefAI.cs(8,13): error CS1069: The type name 'NavMeshAgent' could not be found in the namespace 'UnityEngine.AI'. This type has been forwarded to assembly 'UnityEngine.AIModule, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' Enable the built in package 'AI' in the Package Manager window to fix this error.

idk what happened

i restarted unity editor and now i have this error

[midnight plover]

did you update unity?

[hardy prairie]

Assets\Scripts\PhysicsItem.cs(11,13): error CS1069: The type name 'Rigidbody' could not be found in the namespace 'UnityEngine'. This type has been forwarded to assembly 'UnityEngine.PhysicsModule, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' Enable the built in package 'Physics' in the Package Manager window to fix this error.

[hardy prairie]

no

i did absoulutly nothing

i just reopened unity

[midnight plover]

Is it only those four errors?

[hardy prairie]

yeah

and they wernt there before

i reopened unity i got a message saying i have compiler errors

[midnight plover]

What does your IDE say when you open those scripts?

[hardy prairie]

let me chack

[hardy prairie]

nothing

according to ide there are no errors

[midnight plover]

what happens, when you try to update those lines, just rewrite them with a space or something and save them?

[hardy prairie]

let me try

[hardy prairie]

nothing

still the same error

[hardy prairie]

when i was opening unity i got a message saying UNKNOWN HARD ERROR but i ignored it

[midnight plover]

Good point ignoring cap errors 😄 Did you backup your project?

[hardy prairie]

no

(I created the project yesterday)

[midnight plover]

Ah, id back it up and delete the library folder and see what Unity does

[hardy prairie]

imma reopen unity

but i gotta go somewhere

so when i come back i will reopen and see

what will happen

[midnight plover]

Good luck to you

[hardy prairie]

thanks you too

[indigo thorn]

Hello, I can't submit my project in Step 6 on this page:
https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer/unit/manage-scene-flow-and-data/tutorial/submission-data-persistence-in-a-new-repo?version=6.0
Tried uploading a picture or a video, but the api returns a 400 Bad Request everytime:
{errorCode: "InvalidParameter", message: "The given parameter is missing or invalid", target: "stepId"}
I can't continue the Pathway, any solution?
Edit: Asked in General as it's not really code related...

[rough granite]

How is this a code question?

[indigo thorn]

Yes sorry, I edited to mention I also asked in General, I was following the programmer Pathway that's why I came here by reflex, sorry

[sharp solar]

is c# the best language ever

[fast relic]

matter of preference

there isn't a "best language ever", really

[sour fulcrum]

but c# is pretty neat tho

[fast relic]

it is yeah, definitely one of my favourites

[rough granite]

I love c# much better than whatever java's got going on (omly other language i know)

[sour fulcrum]

i've (casually) used c#, java, python, lua, php (html, css and sql i guess), gdscript and a tiny bit of c++ and i vastly prefer c#

[sharp solar]

i like python more than assembly, i like luau more than python, and i like c# more than luau

[fast relic]

has its flaws, but it is pretty good

[sharp solar]

function overloading is absolutely sick

solves so much mess

[fast relic]

that's a pretty common feature i imagine, no?

[sharp solar]

python and luau do it with if statements which is ugly

[fast relic]

oh yeah awful

[sharp solar]

also the type system in luau doesnt really like it

[naive pawn]

it usually comes with strict typing, which is not a guarantee

[sharp solar]

i like that in c# types are like a part of the language, in luau it feels like the code and types are 2 seperate things, and types are just to help you remember what you called your methods

[naive pawn]

c/c++/c#/java have overloading, js/ts/python/lua/bash don't, for example

[fast relic]

makes sense, yeah

[rough granite]

Yeah i guess i've also used python and lua but simple stuff unlike c#

[coral patio]

Hello. Is there some default way to handle jumping colliders in 3d? as dumb as this sounds but we didn't think about it but obv when you jump your character gets a tad smaller and the visual would technically allow you to move forward but it is blocked due to the collider being full size

[slender nymph]

you could just make the collider smaller

[grand snow]

I did some porting from c# to ts/js ages ago and i had to do shit like Blah(), Blah_1(), Blah_2() cus no overloads 🙁

[coral patio]

Sometimes I am dumb indeed

[lament stone]

i need help about physics or idk why but same jumping code i used earlier doesnt work now mass and default gravity project settings are normal:
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isGrounded)
{
rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
}

[naive pawn]

are you getting errors

[lament stone]

no it just glides in air

and force is too weak

even if its 20 or above

[naive pawn]

do you have other forces acting on the rb? is the velocity being set? is the transform being modified?

[lament stone]

rb.linearVelocity = yeniHiz;
only this yeniHiz is a vector3 btw that manages w a s d controls

[naive pawn]

and how do you calculate that vector?

!code

[radiant void]

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[lament stone]

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
{
yeniHiz += transform.forward * hiz;
}
like this

S is -transform.forward *hiz; and it keeps going like that with -transform.right transform.right

[hardy prairie]

ok restarting my laptop worked and my heart litrally came in my throat because it opened a emty scene named untitled and i though i lost all my progress

but no i had to open sample scene

[slender nymph]

that's a terrible way to handle that, but also you're overwriting the Y velocity each time you use that vector3 so you're preventing your jumps from happening correctly (also preventing gravity from working)

[lament stone]

will it fix if i turn it into vector3.fwd vector3.right vector3.left vector3.back

its the same thing...

[hardy prairie]

what is yenihiz and hiz

[lament stone]

yenihiz is a vector3 0,0,0 hiz is speed

[hardy prairie]

ok i think you should use rb.addforce or maybe rb.moveposition instead of transform its super terrible

[rough granite]

No these vectors still give a value of 0 for y which would still override the gravity and jump code

[hardy prairie]

i used transfrom.translate once and my stupid controller turned into a plane with bad collision detection yeah so dont use it

[lament stone]

😄

[naive pawn]

they aren't using transform to move here. it's fine here

[naive pawn]

you need to apply the existing y velocity

[hardy prairie]

they are using transform.forward which can mess things up a little

[swift crag]

that just provides a direcetion

there is nothing inherently wrong with that

It will be slightly incorrect if the rigidbody has interpolation enabled, since the transform will be lagging behind the actual position of the rigidbody

[lament stone]

no it is not enabled

[lament stone]

how do i do it

[naive pawn]

add rb.linearVelocity.y to the velocity vector that you're applying

[hardy prairie]

unity defualt gravity is stupid you should add a downward force whenever isgrounded is false

[naive pawn]

if you're referring to a stronger down gravity, that's a separate thing.

please stop recommending random irrelevant things.

[hardy prairie]

but it should fix the gliding right?

[swift crag]

e.g.

rb.linearVelocity = horizontalVelocity + Vector3.up * rb.linearVelocity.y;

assuming that horizontalVelocity has a Y component of zero, of course

[swift crag]

no, that's happening because the rigidbody's Y velocity is constantly getting set to zero

Unity's default gravity matches real-world gravity. This will seem wrong if...

• ...you're used to, say, Roblox's default gravity (which is extremely strong)
• ...your objects are very large

[hardy prairie]

oh ok me is dumb

[swift crag]

If horizontalVelocity might have a non-zero Y component, you can discard it pretty easily

Vector3 projected = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(horizontalVelocity, Vector3.up);

This method discards the part of the vector that matches the second vector

Very useful for turning a tilted direction into a flat one

(e.g. if you move relative to the camera, and the camera is looking at a downward angle)

[lament stone]

okay tysm it fixed, idk why but i think it stopped working against the addforce and it became equal to Y force aka jump

[swift crag]

AddForce tells the rigidbody that it's being pushed, and it will react during the next physics update

However, you then immediately told it that its Y velocity should be zero

[lament stone]

i get it thanks

[hardy prairie]

guys how does transform.setparent work

[naive pawn]

like, the internals? or what it actually does?

for the latter, well.. it just sets the parent

[hardy prairie]

can i use it to parent any object with any object?

like it doesnt matter where the code is

[naive pawn]

unless it's circular, i guess

why would it matter

if it's executed on the main thread, it'll do what it says it'll do

that's.. how code works

[swift crag]

i'm not sure what you mean by "where the code is"

[hardy prairie]

i wasnt lying when i said i am dumb but i figured it out

[polar acorn]

Like this
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform.SetParent.html

[swift crag]

what were you thinking about? there might be something deeper you're unclear about that i could help with

[hardy prairie]

i am just trying to make a thief ai which basically steals item but i cant figure out a good way to make it

steal stuff like a thief

[hot wadi]

You can start with state machine and nav mesh to see how a classic AI is made in Unity

A thief would likely have a grabbing mechanic and an inventory system

[hardy prairie]

i have the ai set up

i just need to make the stealing part

[hardy prairie]

yeah no i am not making a inventory system😭 🙏

[rough granite]

Hows it a theif then...

[polar acorn]

And what does any of this have to do with the original question of SetParent

[hardy prairie]

there would be multiple thiefs each thief will only grab one item and run away with it

[hardy prairie]

to make the thief grab stuff

[hot wadi]

It's just a suggestion. Yeah, one item would not need an inventory

Just simple grab and hold

[hardy prairie]

yeah its a roguelike game where you are defending your house from like a million thiefs

and you lose once the thiefs have stole items worth over 100,000$

[compact sandal]

I'm looking a tutorial which makes a custom pass volume, but i only see global, box, sphere and convex mesh volume. Was it removed or is it just a package which im lacking?

[swift crag]

those sound like two different things entirely

can you show us what you're looking at?

[compact sandal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MklBPjPmMg
0:43

[swift crag]

and where are you seeing "global, box, sphere", etc. ?

oh, I see

can you add a Custom Pass Volume component to an existing object? the menu item may have moved

I believe Custom Pass Volumes are HDRP-specific. I only see this in a URP project.

which would explain the issue

[compact sandal]

ohhhh, that makes sense.

Do i switch to HDRP or is there a URP alternative?

[swift crag]

You should absolutely be able to do this effect in the URP. I'd ask about it in #1390346776804069396

I just don't know the exact feature you need

I'm guessing it would be a custom render pass https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@14.0/manual/renderer-features/custom-rendering-pass-workflow-in-urp.html

(the name alone sounds promising :p )

I think you just can't use the Volume system to control when a custom pass applies

I vaguely remember figuring this out for a game jam a few years ago

[compact sandal]

alright. Thanks for the help

[shadow rain]

This isnt really code but could someone tell me how to fix this like Ive tried doing the empty gameobject thing but I js dont get it

supposed to be the other way if u couldnt tell

[digital haven]

I'm working on a video game and I wanna transfer all my assets from one version to the other from a separate computer. I keep getting errors on the part where I need the character to move and handle its script when I transfer to the new version.

So I tried moving my assets to the old version and keeping the scripts the same, but it still causes me errors.

I want to know how I can transfer all the assets I've changed in my new version to my old version without ruining my scripts. Any thoughts?

Note: the new version has the patterned flooring and lighting. The old is the grey floor with the model in the middle that has all its scripts and commands set so it can move with my Xbox controller.

[rough granite]

"Fix this" tells us nothing whats wrong with it?

[shadow rain]

its upside down

ik its stupid but im thick

[rough granite]

Do you have code that affects its rotation?

[shadow rain]

its literally bc of this

but how can I fix this

the green arrow is pointing down

when I need it to point up

ik its bc of how the model was made and that

ive tried doing an empty game object but that hasnt really worked

[swift crag]

create an empty object and parent the existing object to it

you can now freely rotate the child

spin it around so that it aligns with the parent's axes

[shadow rain]

ive tried that but like due to the way my pickup script works it js doesnt let the player pick it up

im trying smth else rn tho

[edgy sinew]

sometimes to achieve the desired results, you have to move some things around

[swift crag]

then it's time to modify the system 😉

[shadow rain]

fixed it

js used a cube and disabled the mesh renderer instead of using an empty

[swift crag]

you can put a collider on the parent object, yeah

[slow viper]

Hello i am seeking help with programing problem. The problem is about saving system in unity the player will save some postion in JSON file but when i go back to main menu and back to the game the player will spawn some were else than i saved

[rough granite]

Could you share the code

[slow viper]

to dms or here

[rough granite]

Here

!code

[radiant void]

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[slow viper]

https://paste.mod.gg/zfamlvcsepgo/0 here if i have it good

[wintry quarry]

Missing the actual parts where the player data is saved/loaded here

also an explanation of which components are in which scene(s)

and are you using additive scene loading?

[slow viper]

i will send the whole code system this was just SaveManager

https://paste.mod.gg/ksiwnziyjeog/0 here

[wintry quarry]

What about:
DataHandler
PlayerMovement?

actually this is the same file you sent above

Oh I see they're all in the link

[slow viper]

Is the link ok?

[wintry quarry]

Can you answer about the scenes?

Are you transitioning between scenes here? Are you using additive scene loading?

[slow viper]

Not using Aditive and yes

[charred monolith]

Help. If the ball moves to fast, the boolean vector3.distance wont be true.
https://paste.mod.gg/tkskwpocihlp/0

[wintry quarry]

DataManager doesn't seem to be DDOL, even though you are storing a static Instance property for it.
So most likely DataManager is simply being destroyed when your scene is loaded

and then a new one is loading but all the new one does in OnEnable is subscribe to sceneLoaded

it won't actually run the code for loading the scene

[charred monolith]

shouldve minimized the obs software but i hope its still good view

[wintry quarry]

You can verify this with some basic logs

[slow viper]

i have all of the manager in one core scene that dont uloands and the object that have the datamanager have parenting object with dont destory on load

[sage token]

anyone know a good website to make UML class diagrams?

[versed stump]

draw.io supports this

[wintry quarry]

i have all of the manager in one core scene that dont uloands
You said you weren't using additive loading though?

Ok so the parent is DDOL

What debugging have you done for this?

[slow viper]

I was loging the player position where he wa standing and position what i saved to confirm that both of those position are same

the were same so i tried to log the position that he loads and this position was diffrent

[high summit]

Is there a channel where I can ask about why my light cookies are not working in unity?

Sorted, was disabled in URP settings

[stray junco]

hey guys i got a question, i want to get into programming unity but idk where to start

im trying to make something simple like a rhythm game

[swift crag]

unity provides a bunch of tutorials at !learn

was that the wrong shortcut

https://learn.unity.com

close enough

[stray junco]

ahh alr thank u so much

[swift crag]

I'd get comfortable creating basic interactions first (so, making a little platformer game will help a lot)

The main thing you need to do in a rhythm game is display notes and then decide if the player's input lined up with a note

There are a few gotchas here (e.g. what if the game freezes for a bit? the music might get out of sync)

[stray junco]

yeah thank u i had been searching for a tutorial for something like this but most of them are pretty old and look pretty bad too

[charred monolith]

i still need help with that

[swift crag]

You might need something like "coyote time" here

Coyote Time is a trick where the player is allowed to jump for a moment after falling off a platform

(modeled after our beloved Wile E. Coyote, who can float midair until he notices he should be falling)

Instead of having a boolean called canGrabBallLeft, I'd create a field called lastLeftGrabTime

If you decide the player can grab the ball, store Time.time into it

When the player tries to actually perform the grab, check if lastLeftGrabTime + 0.5f > Time.time

this would give you a half-second grace period

(oops, had the condition backwards; fixed)

[stray junco]

this is gonna sound so dumb but do u maybe have rhtyhm game tutorial thing i could learn from?

these tutorials dont seem to teach me how do anything remotely close too what i want to do

sorry

[swift crag]

I don't know of any (and I haven't made a rhythm game before)

You're going to want to get some general experience first, though

[stray junco]

well alr which one should i learn first?

theres like 50+ i see

wait nvm i found it

thank u anyways

[terse granite]

Hey, when it comes to scale of 2D or 3D objects, do you guys use absolute size or scale factor?
Any rule of thumb when to use what?

[swift crag]

I create all of my models (3D) and sprites (2D) to have the appropriate size at a scale of 1

for example, if a sprite is meant to be 1 meter tall and has a PPU (pixels per unit) value of 64, then the sprite must be 64 pixels tall

similarly, I get the scale right in Blender, rather than tweaking it after importing

I've thought about this when designing variably-sized characters

I can see some value to having everyone be equally large at a scale of 1 and then just growing or shrinking them

(rather than baking those size differences into the armatures and models in Blender)

[swift crag]

Especially if there is no obvious "correct size"

[terse granite]

So 1 "unit" = 1 meter ? Is that agnostic to what my camera or my viewport or resolution looks like?
I often would like to have metric units, but was not able to figure out what 1 m means in Unity up to know.

[swift crag]

That's the convention, yeah

Notably, if you're using 3D physics, that's the default unit scale

[terse granite]

Good to know. Ty.

[swift crag]

The only place where units have no meaningful world-size is on screen-space UI

where one unit is generally one pixel

[swift crag]

(I think 2D physics also expects this, but I'm not sure)

[rough granite]

One could assume that the 1 unit of mass for rigidbody would equate to 1 kg aswell then yeah?

[swift crag]

This is really important if you are doing pixel art

[swift crag]

Yep!

[swift crag]

Pixel art can't be freely resized without looking really janky

so you need to nail down a PPU (how many pixels takes up one unit of space in the world) as well as how big your viewport is going to be

(I mean, you can absolutely mix pixel sizes if you want...)

it's not necessarily awful, but it often is, haha

[swift crag]

if you have 100 pixels per unit and a 1000 pixel-wide screen, your camera can be exactly 10 meters wide

it can also be 5 meters wide, 3.333333 meters wide, etc.

(the Pixel Perfect camera components figure that out for you)

but this is all irrelevant if you aren't doing pixel art

[terse granite]

So not made out of water, but styrofoam, huh? 😅

[swift crag]

a one meter cube that weighs 1kg would be quite low-density, yes :p

[rough granite]

Wait lol totally right, a 1m^3 (the volume of the basic block) assuming it's water would be 1000kg

But its only 1kg in unity

[swift crag]

Unity physics often feels floaty because you've got the wrong numbers

(well, note that it doesn't model actual air resistance, so mass doesn't really matter)

rigidbodies do have drag, but this drag doesn't grow as fast as air resistance does

you can model it yourself tho

[ripe shard]

actually you can't really read physics default mass as kilograms, particularly in relation to drag/friction/restitution, this is mentioned in the docs which point towards these values having to be found iteratively/empirically, if you want to use numbers approximating reality for mass, you need to turn on all the (more expensive) phyics settings.

[rough granite]

Theres actual physics setting you can change in unity?

[ripe shard]

yes

[rough granite]

What how is it ive used unity for a year and a few months now and not heard of this :/

[ripe shard]

it wont ever be fully realistic without adding your own (complex) simulations, but it gets you closer

[ripe shard]

look for "friction type" and "solver type"

[rough granite]

Oh i gues i know of the friction (never used it though)

[ripe shard]

the "Temporal Gauss Seidel" solver is somewhat required if your objects have large mass differences.

after all PhysX is a generic collison solver and query engine, and it makes a lot of compromises to achieve that generality. Unless you truly need the native performance of the N-body collision solver, you can build a custom force simulation yourself, easily, on top of the query API. Generic collisions with restitution and friction always are complicated though.

[lunar coral]

hi, I have a problem in my game, I've an interacting system with doors and once I run the game/enter playmode, the doors open themselves, https://paste.ofcode.org/psG53awizPxGSqHdFskPWu here's the door script, I call OpenDoor() function when the player interacts with the door

the only problem is they open themselves at the beginning but after it works pretty well

[grand snow]

Is the default animator state set correctly? Oh nvm you are telling it to just play an animation by name so you may not understand those yet?

You should be using an animator variable (bool) and state transitions to control the open and close animation playing instead

also why are there loads of random new lines in the code?

[wintry quarry]

Show your animator state machine

[lunar coral]

why would I not understand this? I'm not a total beginner and yes I'm using triggers it's just an old script I've sent by mistake

[wintry quarry]

btw:

if (!open) {
}
else if (open) {
}```
Can just be:
```cs
if (open) {
}
else {
}```

[lunar coral]

https://paste.ofcode.org/KkMpNr4WZpA5EpLNYwkQsw

[grand snow]

Well what I saw made me think you were a beginner who didnt know (and this is the code beginner channel)

[wintry quarry]

Yep, still show us your animator state machine

[lunar coral]

it can be but I'm used to using this style

what does it change? 2 lines less

[grand snow]

You shouldnt use triggers but a bool

[wintry quarry]

no it's more logically correct

the else if implies there can be other states besides true or false

and may lead to coding errors like adding other else conditions

it's also less performant (negligibly)

definitely not a lines of code thing

[lunar coral]

ohhhh

[grand snow]

If you use a bool for the open state it will be easier to let the animator transition back correctly to the new state

[lunar coral]

I thought you meant the style with tghe }{

[wintry quarry]

no sorry

that was just poor formatting

[lunar coral]

tbh I wanted to make an else too, one if one else if and one else, its just a basic script

there will be another way to open the door

[wintry quarry]

but how? bool can only be true or false - only two states

Anyway - can you show us the state machine lol

[lunar coral]

there will be more conditions with &&, man,sorry but I'm sick don't overthink those please lol, else if is probably not the cause of the bug

I'm not going to compare with the bool variable only

[forest horizon]

@wintry quarry

[lunar coral]

I always post here and no, but I'm sometimes using Animator.Play(); tho

and what would the bool help with tho? I mean I know it'd be better but there are a lot of people that use Triggers for everything

this probably isn't the cause of the issue

[sour fulcrum]

Not to further detract from your root issue but worth mentioning that troubleshooting like that isn't something to take personally. People make games and people are consistently stupid and it's worth systematically identifying potential problems and ruling them out in order to reliably resolve issues

[grand snow]

You need a transition from open -> close and also close -> open that uses your bool
You want to setup exit time on the transitions to work as you desire (to either wait till the end of the animation or be allowed to transition at any time)

Now this introduces a new issue btw. If your animations are to open and close the door, you need a third animation that is either empty or static for the default state of the door

This should be the default state. This will prevent the door from playing an opening or closing anim when the game starts

[lunar coral]

....what do people have today wtf, man I'm just answering the way I answer

[lunar coral]

I've has exit time to 1 rn and okay I'm going to use a bool variable instead

[sour fulcrum]

I got no beef with you homie im just saying no one else has an issue either, asking basic questions is just a good way to solve problems. Animation stuff like this is a pain in the ass so i totally get your frustration

[lunar coral]

and for the default state, making an empty state wouldn't work?

[lunar coral]

fr

[grand snow]

It will work fine. If the default state is closed then as long as you have a transition from default -> open then the door can open and close.

Hopefully this is making sense

[lunar coral]

yess, I'm doing it rn, I hope it'll work
ty

[lunar coral]

@grand snow I've just changed it to work with a bool "open" variable, and it does the exact same thing as before

I think the entry state opens the doors, I don't know though

[grand snow]

select the object after it animates and see what the current animator state is

(in play mode)
I presume the default state or transitions are incorrect

[lunar coral]

it's the new state empty state

[grand snow]

If how the door is at the start is closed, you only need a transition to "open" that uses the bool "open"

[lunar coral]

what.???

the doors open themselves at the beginning without me interacting with them

I have a script that has a bool variable called open, I set it to false in Start() method, then in the Update() I've an if and an else condition, if (!open)
{
animator.SetBool(boolName, true);
open = true;
src.PlayOneShot(openSound);
}
else
{
animator.SetBool(boolName, false);
open = false;

        src.PlayOneShot(closeSound);
    }

[grand snow]

• animator transitions have no conditions set
• something tells the door to open on game start
• empty state has an animation assigned

Im thinking one of these

[slender nymph]

it's flipping back and forth every frame

[lunar coral]

empty state has no motion, animator transitions use the open bool parameter too, and no nothing tells the door to open, as I know,I'm sure about these

[slender nymph]

also in the first frame that Update runs you tell it to open

[lunar coral]

yes I tell it to open if the player interacts with it, but there it opens without me wanting to do so

[grand snow]

There was no use of Update() in the code sent last?

[slender nymph]

you just said that code was in Update

[lunar coral]

the OpenDoor() function gets called everytime the player interacts with the door in another script so this basically is in an Update() function

[lunar coral]

https://paste.ofcode.org/SQsEdqtwDhJK63eRDbpfuu

I changed the script too, the other one was too complex for nothing, I use has exit time set to 0.75 instead

[grand snow]

did you check if that is working correctly? Select the door to see the animator state and see what happens when you press play.

You can also add logs to know when the door is told to open (or use a debugger)

[lunar coral]

yes this works well, I'm debugging everything and there are no issues with it

[grand snow]

well something is wrong clearly and im out of ideas

[lunar coral]

yes and so am I lol...

and when I tell you there are no issues with the things you mention, I'm sure about what I'm saying,I'm not lying to you you know

[slender nymph]

have you actually verified using logs and/or breakpoints? because your assumptions could be wrong

[lunar coral]

for me, as there are no issues in the scripts, it probably comes from the entry state in the animator state but there are no animation clips assigned so its weird

[lunar coral]

yes Im using logs in the PlayerInteraction script

[slender nymph]

then show it

[lunar coral]

and in this one I'm not, but as it's some kinda short code,I didn't think it was needed

[slender nymph]

didn't think it was needed
when debugging it is almost always needed so you aren't making incorrect assumptions

[lunar coral]

https://paste.ofcode.org/3me6EMT7EkS4GEvursZ8Sd

[lunar coral]

debugging is always needed u mean?

[slender nymph]

i mean logs and/or breakpoints are always needed when debugging

[grand snow]

"What is telling my door to open?"
add a breakpoint and find out!

[slender nymph]

add logs to the OpenDoor method, ideally useful logs that provide relevant information and not just a useless string that tells you the method has been called

[lunar coral]

to be honest, I don't know what kinda logs you tell me to put, but I've just added a string log that u called useless, and what I know is the OpenDoor() isn't getting called at the beginning of the game

[slender nymph]

then congrats, it isn't this code doing it

it's most likely either some other code or your animator setup

[lunar coral]

the problem most likely comes from the entry state

[lunar coral]

yes

it's the animator setup for sure

bruh, I was so much improving, making cool things and now I can't animate a door, my brain is washed

[slender nymph]

then you need to show your actual transitions

[lunar coral]

here it is, the transitions conditions are open == true if it's towards the open state and the other way around for the other state

[slender nymph]

that does not show the transition, that shows you have selected a transition and are looking at the animator parameters

you have conveniently cropped out the actual important information which is on the right in the inspector window

[lunar coral]

conveniently???

[slender nymph]

ITT we learn about sarcasm

anyway, the only way for it to transition to open is if your animation parameter is set to true. so something is setting it true somewhere, whether that's from being true by default, or some code somewhere, that is the only way this is happening

[lunar coral]

okay sorry

[lunar coral]

as you can see here, it' s set to,false by default

and there is nothing changing it.... in any scripts

isn't it possible to be the entry state?

I know this shouldn't be it as there is no motions/animation clips

[slender nymph]

don't make assumptions.

[lunar coral]

but this is the only thing left...

[slender nymph]

if it is an empty state then it is literally impossible for it to change the value of your animation parameter. something else is doing it.

[lunar coral]

it's a project I've made 2 days ago, there are like 5 scripts max, 3 of them are for the player Controller and the 2 others are the one I showed u, and it seems to have nothing setting the bool to true...

[lunar coral]

yea

[slender nymph]

then prove it. prove that the bool is not true

[lunar coral]

okay wait

false

[forest horizon]

whenever i download the unity assistant i get these errors and it ruins the whole project i dont understand

[lunar coral]

on PlayMode

and the doors are opened

[slender nymph]

select the object that uses this controller

[lunar coral]

I am

[forest horizon]

i couldnt solve this issue

[lunar coral]

Im going to rec and show u

[slender nymph]

show that object's inspector because this isn't showing the object in any state

[lunar coral]

does it show any revelant informations? or did I crop out the actual important information again? if I did,I'm really sorry I'm trying my best

[slender nymph]

are there any components on that pivot's parent object?

[forest horizon]

@slender nymph can you check the screenshot i sent up above

[slender nymph]

don't ping people into your issues. your question is also not an issue with your code and therefore does not belong in this channel

[forest horizon]

where does it belong

[slender nymph]

keep it in #💻┃unity-talk where you were already receiving responses

[forest horizon]

well i am not receiving anything

and can you not be rude ?

[slender nymph]

point to where i was being rude

[forest horizon]

its not what you say its how you say it

whatever

[slender nymph]

i'm not going to offer empty platitudes just to soothe your ego

[forest horizon]

ego

[slender nymph]

review the #📖┃code-of-conduct

[forest horizon]

can you reread your messages and think if there was a nicer way to say the things you said?

[lunar coral]

Yes an animator only, which is the one I showed you

[slender nymph]

so the pivot object's parent also has an animator?

[lunar coral]

No, it’s just an empty gameobject that has all the doors

[slender nymph]

i am referring to the one between the "doors" and the "pivot_1" object

[lunar coral]

All the doors have a pivot Parent gameobject which has the animator component with the animator controller that I showed you and they all are the child of the doors empty gameobject

[lunar coral]

Oh yea you’re right I’ve changed it…

[slender nymph]

your hierarchy goes doors > Wood Door_1 > pivot_1. I am asking about the middle object

[lunar coral]

The one above is the whole door gameobject, which contains the pivot + frame + door

The pivot is the parent of the door as the door is the only thing that should open and close, the frame is the frame, so around the door, and both the frame and the pivot are the child of a parent gameobject which contains the whole door, and then all those door containers so the doors are the child of the doors empty gameobject

[slender nymph]

I am asking if that object has any components

Also, you have confirmed that you did not mix up your animations, right?

[lunar coral]

There is only one animator and he’s always on the pivots

[lunar coral]

It simply has a mesh renderer

[forest horizon]

i solved it thanks for nothing buddy boxfriend

[stone heron]

no need to be rude

[polar acorn]

Cool so now you know that you don't need to ping random people and demand they solve your problems for you. You can just work on it yourself.

An important lesson

[molten mantle]

indeed

[forest horizon]

the point is, i read his older messages and he is very unpolite

i did not say those things because he didnt help me

no one has to help no one

and he was already on the chat so pinging is not the problem

not against the rules

[polar acorn]

Pinging someone you're not in a conversation with is the problem

and is against the rules

[slender nymph]

#📖┃code-of-conduct
Yes it is

[slender nymph]

Note that I said animations there, not animators.

[fading dune]

Hey everyone! Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I’ll give it a shot.

I’ve been using Screen Space - Camera for my UI for a while, but I recently switched to Screen Space - Overlay. That change ended up breaking some of my mouse position logic.

From what I understand, I should now be using Input.mousePosition, which seems to work, but I’m not entirely sure if that’s the correct approach.

I also have an icon that follows the cursor with a set offset, but the offset now seems to be in pixels, so it changes depending on the screen resolution.

If anyone has some advice or resources on how to handle this properly, I’d really appreciate it!

[grand snow]

You can convert from screen to viewport position to make it consistent.
Or use screen width and height to adjust this.

[lunar coral]

Yes I didn’t mix them

Ohhh my bad I pinged you, didn’t intend to do so…

Sorry

[slender nymph]

It's only against the rules to ping people you aren't currently in conversation with

Anyway, just to confirm, this issue affects all doors with this animator+animation controller, or only this one?

[true pine]

this code looks like it'd operate perfectly fine, so why is it giving me spread that looks like the second image?

[meager steppe]

im wondering for the access control cloud code , json thing is this a valid urn ? ""Resource": "urn:ugs:cloud-code:/v1/projects//modules/","

cloud code is but i cant find about modules

[true pine]

is that

[wintry quarry]

1. What is the value of spreadOffset?
2. Are we looking at multiple shots here?
3. Are you moving the camera at all while shooting?

Also you could just do playerCamera.transform.forward no need for the viewport point thing

[true pine]

1. it says in the screenshot
2. do you mean simultaneously or over time?
3. no

[true pine]

another reason that old tutorial was a goddamn scam

[wintry quarry]

1. Where?
2. either

[true pine]

1. 4th line - Quaternion spreadRotation = Quaternion.Euler(spreadOffset.x, spreadOffset.y, 0);

[wintry quarry]

that doesn't tell me the value of spreadOffset

that tells me that your code is using the value of spreadOffset

[true pine]

oh wait

[wintry quarry]

I want to know what that value actually is

[true pine]

wait not that one the line above it

[wintry quarry]

ok what's the value of spread

[true pine]

that's the one I change between weapons, it was 10 in the screenshot

[wintry quarry]

Can you show the shooting code that uses this function?

[frigid sequoia]

Apparently neither 1 or 0 correspond to any id on the animator, even tho it has quite literally just one bool, am I missing something? How do I know the id of the parameter?

[wintry quarry]

You use the string version of the function

Or you use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animator.StringToHash.html to get the int hash

(which is what the string version of the function uses under the hood)

[frigid sequoia]

Shouldn't this work and be faster than looking for a string? Or I just don't understand this?

[wintry quarry]

You can use StringToHash to get the int

then you can use that int and it will be faster yes

The animator maps parameter names to ints with that hash function

[frigid sequoia]

But they are not ordered ints? Just random values that I don't know?

[wintry quarry]

exampkle:

int jumpParamHash;

void Start() {
  jumpParamHash = Animator.StringToHash("Jump");
}

void Jump() {
  animator.SetBool(jumpParamHash, true);
}```

[frigid sequoia]

So I pretty much do that on awake, got it

I just don't get the why

[wintry quarry]

Using a hashcode (int) value for the parameters gives you the speed of the int parameter with the stability of the string parameter names

otherwise if you rearranged the parameters suddenly your code breaks, as do parameter IDs being saved to files, sent over networks, etc

[wintry quarry]

they're neither random nor ordered.

[frigid sequoia]

If they are not ordered they feel 100% random for me tho

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, wait this is a Class level reference? Not isntance? So it searchs on all animators???

[wintry quarry]

It's neither

the hashcode function is a static function

it's just based on the string

[wintry quarry]

hashcodes are 100% stable, that's kind of the point of them

definitely not random

[frigid sequoia]

The Hascode, yes, I mean, the "Animator" part

Where is it looking for that string?

Can I not have two animators using the same string?

[wintry quarry]

it's not "looking" anywhere

it's running a hash function on the string data

[wintry quarry]

Not an issue at all

Perhaps it's time to do some reading on hash functions and their uses:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/hash-functions-and-list-types-of-hash-functions/

that's a bad primer actually

delves into jargon too quickly

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I could read that 20 times and I wouldn't get anything out of it

[wintry quarry]

maybe ask chatgpt about hash functions a bit

[frigid sequoia]

I just wanna know, here, for example, it is returning me a hash for that string; that string can be in many animators, but I am not referring any in particular, so, what is that hash code asociated with?

[wintry quarry]

the hash code is associated with the string you put in

that's all

"Play Fadeout"

[frigid sequoia]

Ooooh, now I get it

[wintry quarry]

the hash function maps strings to integers in a consistent way

[frigid sequoia]

But that's basically the same than looking for a string but with extra steps right?

[tough lagoon]

Mmm lets say you are pulling a string animation bool reference from two scripts. A hash would let you target one more specifically.

But its more like a unique identifier

[wintry quarry]

it's more performant, like you said

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, yeah, I thought it was getting a direct reference to the parameter in the animator as an int in a list

But I guess it just generates a hashcode for a particular string and you just type that isntead

But that just seems worse to me

[tough lagoon]

I would've assumed it was an int based on order, but a hash makes sense.

You could probably go your whole career without needing to use one, but i find i use them a lot more with custom asset importers etc.

[frigid sequoia]

It would have then to get the string from the hashcode, then search by string, instead of just searching by string which was the part I was trying to avoid cause that's usually kinda slow

I am confused by how so many parameters on some components have to be accesed by string search instead of having a direct path

But what do I know, I am total newbie

[timber tide]

animator is special and yes the string stuff is annoying

similarly, loading by string / path values

[wintry quarry]

you never go from hashcode back to string

the params are stored by hashcode

when you use strings it goes to the hashcode then to the param

[timber tide]

but the hash idea is probably as good as you're getting. Ideally I would like if the animator exposed the enum that was created inside of the blend tree

[tough lagoon]

I personally wouldn't worry too much about that unless you really need to zero in the performance. 95% of performance issues will come out of your rendering, physics, disk ops and things of that nature.

Sometimes the readability is more important than the small performance gain.

But it is highly valuable knowing how it works, should you find out you do need to do it at some point. Imho anyway.

[frigid sequoia]

Ideally I'd want it to store the parameters inside an ordered list and just let me pass the index directly; it would also avoid any renaming issues

[zenith cypress]

Chage the order, now your index is wrong in all usecases. Meanwhile the hash won't have that problem and is unique to that name

[frigid sequoia]

Ideally you want both, I am trying to avoid going for the "clean enough" route as much as I can cause that's just stacking shit for the long term, and if you ever have to come back it's 10 times worse

[frigid sequoia]

I feel changing the name is something you would want to do way more often than removing previous values on the list, but, yeah

You usually add more, but do not remove that many

[tough lagoon]

In some cases, but not really in this case. The request is miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Its far more valuable early on to get something playable and find the actual pain points. Otherwise you'll just perpetually optimize something with no real measurable impact.

I mean, if you are applying these changes in hundreds of animation controllers in an update loop - yes its going to be a problem. But setting a bool is probably being done once in a few seconds to a single controller.

[timber tide]

You can also add another layer and map an enum in your script to that string value, so you'll just end up modifying that value inside of the enum

but the string to hash idea is very similar and I would just do that

[rain solar]

i have a chunked world built with an oct tree and I am currently bottle necked by the traversal i do every frame to check which chunks need to be loaded. The traversal itself is already efficient but because its called every frame it drops the fps. What is the solution to this?

i could run it on a seperate thread but that requires locking the world too much and the fps drops would still be present

the traveral is for every node that intersects a given spherical area, ensures all child nodes exist down to leaf size (1 chunk). For each missing leaf chunk within the radius, it queues a ChunkRequest if it’s not already loaded or being loaded

so it does a ton of extra work because almost all chunks are already loaded but i dont know a better way

[wintry quarry]

Have you run the profiler?

[rain solar]

to find what

[wintry quarry]

to find the bottlenecks in your algorithm

[rain solar]

the bottle neck is the algorithm itself, finding microoptimizations isnt gonna help

[wintry quarry]

How do you know what is and isn't a major or micro optimization without using the profiler?

Profiling is step one of any optimization

[rain solar]

yeah ive profiled it and done the micro optimizations

[wintry quarry]

Can you show the profile?

[rain solar]

i dont have it no more

[wintry quarry]

make a new one

[rain solar]

mk

[wintry quarry]

showing the code will also be helpful of course

[rain solar]

its not in C#

i can profile it again though

[frank rover]

Why is this not working
https://paste.mod.gg/icxsnqnxjykm/0
https://paste.mod.gg/bpkmmjqkwjmt/0
https://paste.mod.gg/hzjbiwdnlcoj/0

[wintry quarry]

1. What do you mean by "not working"? What is it supposed to do that it's not doing?
2. Why do you have [SerializeField] on your "DealDammage" method and your "heal" method? Thtat doesn't do anything on methods

[frank rover]

Am I inter rupting something

[rain solar]

nah u good

[wintry quarry]

ALso 3, please don't share code as screenshots

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[frank rover]

Ok

[placid jewel]

What is the code meant to do that it's not?

[frank rover]

It is souposto deal dammage when you walk in to it but it isn't detecting that it is walking into it

I'm bad at spelling

[wintry quarry]

Why are you using Console.WriteLine(collision.gameObject.name);

For Unity you need to use Debug.Log

[frank rover]

That is what vs said to do

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like probably VS is not configured properly for Unity

Or it just gave a bad AI suggestion

that you followed

[placid jewel]

1. Are you sure the player collider object has the tag "Player"?
2. Are you sure there's an object with a trigger collider that also has the script with the OnTriggerEnter?

[wintry quarry]

The first step would be fixing your log statement

and running the game again

and seeing if it prints

if it doesn't, you've messed something up in the scene setup

[hearty vale]

It's my first time chatting here, but I just wanted to say that I took 2h to find out that my project had a problem bcs I forgot to put "=" in playerRB = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

I love programming

[wintry quarry]

(You are running the game with the Console window open, right?)

[frank rover]

yes

[wintry quarry]

Part of this is that you haven't developed effective debugging skills yet.
It's fine to make mistakes but you didn't know how to find it quickly.

[placid jewel]

@frank rover have you checked these?

[frank rover]

yes

[placid jewel]

Have you changed the line to Debug.Log? Does the debug statement execute?

[wintry quarry]

your player is missing a Rigidbody2D

A Rigidbody2D is required for OnTriggerEnter2D

[placid jewel]

it could be there and just not shown right?

[wintry quarry]

could be, sure

[frank rover]

now it prints

[wintry quarry]

i'm guessing it's not though

[hearty vale]

I got my first job as a unity developer this week and i'm having a hard time having to learn all by miself Unity, maybe that's why people shouldn't lie on the resume lol

[placid jewel]

Also canTakeDammage is set to false in the editor so DealDammage is doing nothing

[wintry quarry]

(fy it's spelled "Damage", one 'm')

[frank rover]

It works now

Thank you

[placid jewel]

No worries, also I know it's not what you were asking for but just fyi Dammage -> Damage, Ammout -> Amount (I assume) (in the heal function)

[green snow]

I'm having an issue with raycasting, the firepoint -> raycast end works fine if i'm shooting something far away but when I'm shooting up close or on the ground then there's an issue

[placid jewel]

Can you send your code? @green snow

!code

[radiant void]

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[green snow]

sec

var weaponEntity = SystemAPI.GetComponent<ProjectileWeapon>(player.ValueRO.ControlledCharacter);
                    var weaponLtw = SystemAPI.GetComponent<LocalToWorld>(weaponEntity.WeaponEntity);
                    float3 firePoint = weaponLtw.Position;

                    var cameraTransform = SystemAPI.GetComponent<LocalTransform>(player.ValueRO.ControlledCamera);
                    float3 cameraForward = MathUtilities.GetForwardFromRotation(cameraTransform.Rotation);
                    
                    var projectileEntity = ecb.CreateEntity();
                    int vfxIndex = bulletManager.Manager.Create();

                    var rayLength = 200f;
                    var rayStart = cameraTransform.Position;
                    var rayEnd = cameraTransform.Position + cameraForward * rayLength;
                    
                    var raycastInput = new RaycastInput
                    {
                        Start = rayStart,
                        End = rayEnd ,
                        Filter = CollisionFilter.Default
                    };
                    
                    PhysicsWorldSingleton physicsWorldSingleton = SystemAPI.GetSingleton<PhysicsWorldSingleton>();
                    var hits = new NativeList<RaycastHit>(Allocator.Temp);
                    physicsWorldSingleton.CastRay(raycastInput, ref hits);
                    
                    Debug.DrawRay(raycastInput.Start, raycastInput.End);
                    
                    float3 dir = math.normalizesafe(raycastInput.End - firePoint);

                    ecb.AddComponent(projectileEntity, new FirePointRaycast
                    {
                        VFXIndex = vfxIndex,
                        StartPoint = firePoint,
                        EndPoint = raycastInput.End,
                        Direction = dir,
                        Speed = 100f 
                    });

that's where i'm sending the first ray from center camera

 private void Execute([ChunkIndexInQuery] int chunkInIndex,
                RefRW<ThirdPersonPlayerFixedStepControlSystem.FirePointRaycast> ray,
                Entity entity)
            {
                float3 currentPos = ray.ValueRO.StartPoint;
                float3 newPos = currentPos + ray.ValueRO.Direction * ray.ValueRO.Speed * DeltaTime;

                bool reachedEnd = math.dot(newPos - ray.ValueRO.StartPoint, ray.ValueRO.EndPoint - ray.ValueRO.StartPoint) >=
                                  math.lengthsq(ray.ValueRO.EndPoint - ray.ValueRO.StartPoint);

                var hitList = new NativeList<RaycastHit>(Allocator.Temp);
                var input = new RaycastInput
                {
                    Start = currentPos,
                    End = newPos,
                    Filter = CollisionFilter.Default
                };

                if (PhysicsWorldSingleton.CastRay(input, ref hitList) && hitList.Length > 0)
                {
                    reachedEnd = true; 
                }

                hitList.Dispose();

                var vfxIndex = ray.ValueRO.VFXIndex;
                var vfxData = BulletManager.Datas[vfxIndex];
                vfxData.Position = newPos;
                BulletManager.Datas[vfxIndex] = vfxData;

                if (reachedEnd)
                {
                    Debug.Log("Reached End");
                    BulletManager.Kill(vfxIndex);
                    Ecb.DestroyEntity(chunkInIndex, entity);
                }
                else
                {
                    ray.ValueRW.StartPoint = newPos;
                }
            }

and i'm moving the second raycast from fire point to the center camera end raycast by the speed

float3 newPos = currentPos + ray.ValueRO.Direction * ray.ValueRO.Speed * DeltaTime;

another gif showing the ray debug in the sceneview

not sure what's the issue :/

[wintry quarry]

This is #1062393052863414313 code

really not for the beginner channel

[green snow]

ah thought i'd post here since it's mostly math related

[green snow]

fixed it, my issue was when I casted the first ray here physicsWorldSingleton.CastRay(raycastInput, ref hits); I didn't check if I hit anything so I could set what I hit to my target position

[primal steppe]

Does anyone know a way to deform a plane so that it conforms to the shape of a modified terrain in Unity?

[midnight plover]

move its vertices towards the terrain vertices or a raycast hit point position

[lunar coral]

all doors, and also sorry for the late response, I had to go to sleep as I had school

[lunar coral]

@slender nymph as I'm really clueless, I asked chatgpt and he told me the problem comes from the empty state and I should make "close" state as the entry state

well, that doesn't change anything

[naive pawn]

maybe don't use chatgpt for stuff

[lunar coral]

and what should I use

[naive pawn]

what was the issue you had?

it's sounding like an animation issue rather than a code issue, but i don't have full context

[lunar coral]

all my doors are getting opened at the beginning of the game, when I run it

[lunar coral]

yes it is for sure

all the doors have no scripts, no interactions, the only thing present is an animator

[naive pawn]

ok so why are you here

[lunar coral]

I'm going to show you my animator wait

[naive pawn]

ask in #🏃┃animation then lol

this is the code channel

[sour fulcrum]

atp they are probably preferred here

or a thread

this has some history

[lunar coral]

well, think a little, go up in the conversation, figure out why I've started the conversation here, and why would I want to continue the conversation with someone I was talking with in a different channel

[sour fulcrum]

theres extended convo from earlier

[naive pawn]

that doesn't excuse using the wrong channel, no

[lunar coral]

that kinda does if I didn't know what the issue was, and I don't think you complaining about something you don't know is code related neither

[naive pawn]

conversations with specific people don't really exist - or well, don't need to exist - in these support contexts. what matters is questions, and the questions need to be in the right place

you just said it's not code related, so this channel is the wrong place if that's the case

[naive pawn]

it does not excuse it. it can be an understandable reason, sure, but if you've narrowed it down to the point where you know what the topic of the issue actually is (or if someone has told you), and you expect prolonged discussion, you should switch to the appropriate channel

[faint osprey]

is anyone familiar with graph toolkit if so how do u set the ouput port values of a node

[tender mirage]

I'm currently working on a tile generating function which determines which type of tile is spawned and passes it to the generator function

my question was. since this script can run pretty often (everytime you dig down) it can be abit heavy. Does adding return early to it stop the rest of the code from running hence increasing performance?

//if spawned tile is dirt, don't assign anything
 if (randomTile == 1)
 {

     //Generate dirt
     GenerateTile(x, y, tileBase[1]);

     return;

 }
 else
 {
     //MinMax spawn position
     int minFt = tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].minFt;
     int maxFt = tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].maxFt;


     //Can only spawn between tiledata fts -4 because spawner is 4 tiles below - 1 for clarification
     if (ft > tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].maxFt + spawnOffsetPos - 1 && ft < tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].minFt + spawnOffsetPos)
     {

         //SpawnRate
         int spawnRateNum = Random.Range(0, tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].spawnRate);


         if (spawnRateNum == 0)
         {
             //Spawn tile
             GenerateTile(x, y, tileBase[randomTile]);

             return;
         }
         else
         {
             int emptyTileRate = Random.Range(0, 16);

             if (emptyTileRate == 0)
             {

             }
             else
             {

             }

         }

     }

[rich adder]

which return you talking about ?
it will stop whatever is underneath sure, if you worry about performance you should profile and get some numbers and compare

[tender mirage]

for some reason the script didn't properly show up but here it is. i added some early return ends when i could. is this a nessecery and good practice if i don't want rest of the script to run

//if spawned tile is dirt, don't assign anything
 if (randomTile == 1)
 {

     //Generate dirt
     GenerateTile(x, y, tileBase[1]);

     return;

 }
 else
 {
     //MinMax spawn position
     int minFt = tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].minFt;
     int maxFt = tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].maxFt;


     //Can only spawn between tiledata fts -4 because spawner is 4 tiles below - 1 for clarification
     if (ft > tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].maxFt + spawnOffsetPos - 1 && ft < tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].minFt + spawnOffsetPos)
     {

         //SpawnRate
         int spawnRateNum = Random.Range(0, tileBaseManager.dataFromTile[tileBase[randomTile]].spawnRate);


         if (spawnRateNum == 0)
         {
             //Spawn tile
             GenerateTile(x, y, tileBase[randomTile]);

             return;
         }
         else
         {
             int emptyTileRate = Random.Range(0, 16);

             if (emptyTileRate == 0)
             {

             }
             else
             {

             }

         }

     }

[rich adder]

early return has multiple benefits yes, the second one you have is kinda useless. Nothing underneath it unless you're omitting more code.

actually both are kinda pointless rn (unless you have more code outside these if)

[tender mirage]

They can run pretty often which was my concern, i had to optimize the code to make my game playable again.

but yeah i've added alittle more below the Spawnratenum

//Generate special tile
if (spawnRateNum == 0)
{
    //Spawn tile
    GenerateTile(x, y, tileBase[randomTile]);

    return;
}
//Generate dirt or empty tile
else
{
    int emptyTileRate = Random.Range(0, 16);


    if (emptyTileRate == 0)
    {

        //Generate dirt
        GenerateTile(x, y, tileBase[1]);

    }
    else
    {
        //Generate empty
        GenerateTile(x, y, null);

    }

}

if you say it''s pointless i should like you said probably

test out if theres any

difference

[rich adder]

the else is not gonna run anyway cause if spawnRateNum == 0 is true

so return just stops the rest of the entire function you have this code in

[tender mirage]

oh thanks for noticing. thats alittle oversight

i made.

[limber bolt]

hello, listen I have a raw image in the UI and I want that if I click in certain position, it make something different than if for example I click in other object

Im not sure how to do that

[rich adder]

you should not mix physics with UI elements

[rough granite]

Yeah souldn't use box colliders on ui

[rich adder]

if you want different sections to click on you can just make addtional Images as hitbox, and turn the Alpha down

[limber bolt]

Oooh I see, now that you mention it. It is possible to make that with buttons?

[rich adder]

sure you can make them buttons too

the concept is the same, you can turn down alpha so they're still clickable but see through

[limber bolt]

thanks, ill try!

[low copper]

I have a slider that is calling ChangeBitrate() as shown in the attached image. The code is as simpe as can be :

    public void ChangeEncoder(float value)
    {
        Debug.Log("Changing Encoder to: " + value);
    }

It runs on change but only passes the value 0. I have this exact script working on another element without issue. The only thing I noticed strange is for some reason it is showing an input within the "On Value Changed" editor component...I don't know why it is showing that...it is set to 0

[rich adder]

link it as a Dynamic variable

[low copper]

Sorry....I don't know what that means

[rich adder]

you should see the same function in the context menu and should say (dynamic) next to it

[slow viper]

Hello can somene pleas check my code if it si right https://paste.mod.gg/ksiwnziyjeog/0 i was trying to make working save sytem but is is not working and i dont know why when i save palyer position and go back to the menu a spawns at diffrent position than i saved

[low copper]

Ahhh...ok...I see that it appears twice in the list.

Will test now

@nav : Thanks so much that was it

[rich adder]

how you call Save

also consider putting more logs / make them in english when you request help so people can also understand what you're logging

[slow viper]

ok i will change it to englih

english

https://paste.mod.gg/kejkrtgwlmue/5 here repaired

[rich adder]

so what are the results of the logs?

ie is Load / save printing etc.

[slow viper]

Loaded postiont in fist time netering the game is Loaded player position: (-30.26, -13.17, 0.00) Current player position: (-9.39, -13.17) and saved position is Saved player position: (-9.22, -13.17, 0.00) and if i go back to menu and to the game the position is Loaded player position: (-9.22, -40.01, 0.00)

[wintry quarry]

you should turn off "Collapse" in your inspector

it makes it difficult to tell what order your logs are printed in

[slow viper]

yeah but if i turn it off the there are 2 audio liseners in you scne mesege wont stop spaming

[wintry quarry]

so get rid of one!

[slow viper]

better?

[wintry quarry]

So i'm seeing here that the saved position is always being loaded properly

The part where it's changing is after loading and before saving

so the position is being modified in the game itself or in the saving process

[slow viper]

i can send you the video how it looks in game but dicord wont let me send it if i dont have nitro so are there other ways to send it?

[true jacinth]

I am incredibly green to coding and programming any good video series to watch I want to learn and get at least decent at it?

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel and the pathways on the unity learn site are a good next step to learn how to use the engine

[nimble laurel]

Hi all, I'm trying to learn the cloud code stuff and in the last day or so I can no longer see my CloudCodeService logs in the Dashboard -> CloudCode-> Logs,
but... If I go to Projects-><ProjectName>->Theres a banner for Diagnostics(View Diagnostics)-> Then finally -> Logs. Then I can see the cloud code logs i used to see in CloudCode-> Logs...
Anyone know if this was changed or if I might've hit some weird button somewhere in the last 2 days..
I hope that made sense 🤦‍♂️

[slow viper]

cant there be error in that i am saving it in Vector 3 and not Vector 2?

[forest cosmos]

Hi.
We take input in update and use that to move using fixed update is using rigidbody.
so taking bools in update, checking in update and then reseting their values.

[midnight zealot]

@swift elbow

[forest cosmos]

Any easier way? New Input system does it well?

[swift elbow]

add a debug log inside of that method

[rough granite]

Isnt OnMouseDown only called when the mouse is over that hitbox / ui element

[swift elbow]

both input systems are fine

[swift elbow]

yes

[swift elbow]

oh the collider needs to be a trigger collider

[forest cosmos]

I mean its annoynig to reset bools after everything happens

I get jumppressed = true in update

after jump i have to reset it to false.

[midnight zealot]

@rough granite I really dont know 🙁

[swift elbow]

that is common practice

[forest cosmos]

oh okay

[swift elbow]

read the docs https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnMouseDown.html

[forest cosmos]

before i just did everything in update

[midnight zealot]

@swift elbow so you mean i should click on "IsTrigger" ?

[swift elbow]

yes

[rough granite]

Just called jumppressed = false; after the jump called is called

[swift elbow]

isnt that what they said?

[midnight zealot]

@swift elbow it does not work and nothing is printed in the console :/

[rough granite]

I mean i guess but their wording made it sound like they go in the inspector and click the box to change the value

[naive pawn]

are you using the old or new input system? OnMouseX messages only work with the old system

[rough granite]

What is with you mentioning (@) people to reply?

[naive pawn]

that is not the case.

[swift elbow]

i realized i read the AI google response that said that, not the docs 🤦‍♂️ smh my head

[forest cosmos]

i am restting it in 3 areas. thats normal ?

[rough granite]

Yeah yeah

[forest cosmos]

oh okay

thank you

[verbal dome]

In this case you can just reset it once somewhere inside the if(jumpPressed) block

No need to do it in 3 different places when it is done anyway

[forest cosmos]

Oh yes

thanks for pointing it out

[hoary ice]

hello

im stupid

[cosmic quail]

nohello.net

[spice burrow]

        {
            transform.position += Vector3.right * speed * Time.deltaTime;
        }

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
        {
            transform.position += Vector3.left * speed * Time.deltaTime;
        } ```

Anyone know how to smooth this movement a little? (as in rounding the movement by introducing a bit of acceleration (and deacceleration, havent rlly decided on how that would be implemented tho))

I'm very new.

[tender mirage]

You could look into Mathf.Lerp/Mathf.SmoothDamp

Mathf contains alot of calculative methods off the bat that you can use for alot of stuff.

[spice burrow]

Thanks a lot!!! I'll def look into that.

You sure seem like you love typing a lot.

[tender mirage]

I hehe, yeah, i was typing an example. but if that's not what you want

i can stop.

[spice burrow]

You can keep doing that, I'd love an example

[tender mirage]

Alright.

[cosmic quail]

also if you want collisions to work you're not gonna want to use transform.position for movement (if you want the player to collide with walls for example)

[spice burrow]

Ohhhh, didn't know that. I'm making a brick breaker type project and the provided code is for the little bar at the bottom that bounces the ball!

[cosmic quail]

in that case your current one might be fine

[spice burrow]

Yeah I think the best idea would be to just implement a way for the gameobject to know if it's gone too far to one side

[tender mirage]

float playerSpeedX = Mathf.SmoothDamp(playerSpeedX, playerMaxSpeedX, ref velocityX, acceleration); //this also contains more methods which aren't required but grant you even more versitility

//If that's abit too much here's a another example


//Progress repressants the value that's gonna be applied in between playerSpeedX/playerMaxSpeedX
//and progress is a 0/1 between value. if progress is 0.5f then players speed becomes 2.5f
float playerspeed = 0;
float playerMaxSpeed = 5;

float playerSpeedX = Mathf.Lerp(playerSpeedX, playerMaxSpeedX, progress)



//If you're familiar with vectors yet you can also use
//Vector3.Lerp
//Vector3.SmoothDamp

[spice burrow]

oh dang that is a whole lot

will look into it

[tender mirage]

Yeah. although you can just use rigidbody.linearVelocity which handles physic movement

for you

instead of manually moving the object

RigidBody rigidbody;


//this gives your object velocity movement
rigidbody.LinearVelocityX = 3;

//Alternatively this gives you more of a car like force that can accelerate.
rigidbpdy.AddForceX(3);

[spice burrow]

huh. alright.

reading a bit about mathf.smoothdamp now :)

[tender mirage]

Mathf.SmoothDamp is the way to go for smooth moment or variable changes. that''s an good call

[spice burrow]

alright, i kind of get how it works.

[spice burrow]

stuff like the first example do go into the update() code block, right?

stupid question

[tender mirage]

Yeah everything has a logical reasoning. to calculate movement you would have to do that constantly

every frame

[spice burrow]

i plug the playerspeed variable in place of the speed variable I had, right?

Seems logical

[tender mirage]

Not sure. that depends on what your speed variable looks like

[spice burrow]

it's just a public float right now

with a number

[tender mirage]

oh, then yeah

although probably specify if it's purpose is for x or y movement if you havn't already

[spice burrow]

You're defining the variable using the same variable you're trying to define in your example btw

I don't see how that would work??

[tender mirage]

That's how it works. I was skeptical when i first got into it as well. the first paramater repressents the current variable, that's just how it works.

you need a starting point which is your current speed and a goal which is the target speed.

[rough granite]

are you certain thats how it works.

never seen any ide accept that

especially in the same scope

[spice burrow]

mine certainly does not

[tender mirage]

well that's how i handled it and it works perfectly fine.

[rough granite]

what you have above and here are two completely different things

[spice burrow]

also why do you write "ref" in your example

[polar acorn]

The way you presented it puts the velocity setting in the same scope as the variable declaration which is not correct

[polar acorn]

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/c-sharp/ref-in-c-sharp/

[tender mirage]

it's a requirement for the SmoothDamp paramet. it makes the variable add on top of the last one, in this case with velocity

[tender mirage]

In my screenshotted code or the example i sent?

[spice burrow]

hmmm alright wait

[polar acorn]

In the example. Your screenshot is correct

[tender mirage]

i think we're just confusing him more.

[polar acorn]

that's what Magic was referring to

[tender mirage]

although i want to be called out if i'm wrong on something

so this is kinda conflicting