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[placid jewel]

Nice, it sounds like you have the right idea to me

In that case best of luck!

[fluid ether]

Deprecated ? Intellisense can't find anything about LightUnitUtils
I'm genuinely lost on this man

[midnight plover]

Ahh, okay, well at least thats some information you can work with.

[fluid ether]

Regardless, that's really not helpful for me anyway, my issue isn't unit conversion 🙁

[midnight plover]

I was just wondering, if your light somehow is in a different mode than your RP or something and therefore converts the lumen values weirdly

[midnight plover]

But wait, it just says, SetIntensity is outdated. not setting intensity on the HDAddlight... directly

[fluid ether]

hdLightData.intensity is deprecated too, it says to "Use Light.intensity instead" which, afaik i think resolves to what I was doing with flashlight.intensity since flashlight really is just a Light

I think the whole HDAdditionalLightData thing has been deprecated maybe was used during the whole HDRP merge thing or idk

[placid jewel]

@fluid ether This page for HDRP: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition@17.4/manual/creating-and-editing-lights-at-runtime.html Seems to imply that you can set the intensity using light.intensity to any number, not just between 1-8 (look at the examples)

Does that break in some way when you try?

[midnight plover]

yeh, its all deprecated, my bad. I just read about the clamp happening due to exposure or other values in the RP settings

[fluid ether]

Indeed, all deprecated :/

[placid jewel]

Documentation for HDAdditionalLightData:

But HDRP says

Someone forgot to update the docs

[fluid ether]

Yeah that just resolves back to Light.intensity, which is what flashlight.intensity is doing in my code.

[fluid ether]

Does seem like it

[placid jewel]

Is there an issue with just using that then?

[midnight plover]

So this seem to work on my side. on HDRP. It has to be something on your settings

[fluid ether]

Yes it just won't set the intensity, it defaults to 600 no matter what I set it to

[fluid ether]

You spawned the Light and its parent GameObject at runtime in code ?

[midnight plover]

Nope, just set it in hierarchy. but let me copy your code actually into my project and see what I get

can you paste it quickly somewhere or tag it?

[fluid ether]

That works for me too, it's just the runtime spawn that won't set the intensity for some reason

[midnight plover]

Now I am hooked and want to test it 😄

[fluid ether]

sure, here

{
    flashlightObj = new GameObject("Flashlight");
    // Fallback to attaching the flashlight GameObject to the parent if playerCamera can't be obtained.
    if (playerCamera == null)
    {
        flashlightObj.transform.parent = transform;
        Debug.LogWarning($"{this.name} tried to attach {flashlightObj.name} to the playerCamera but it was null." +
            $"Used fallback attachment to parent transform." +
            $"This will likely cause unintended behaviors and should be fixed.");
    }
    else 
    { 
        flashlightObj.transform.parent = playerCamera.transform;
        Debug.Log($"{this.name} attached {flashlightObj.name} to {playerCamera.name}");
    }
    flashlightObj.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero;
    flashlightObj.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.identity;

    // Set up flashlight component.
    flashlight = flashlightObj.AddComponent<Light>();
    flashlight.enabled = true;
    flashlight.type = LightType.Spot;
    flashlight.lightUnit = UnityEngine.Rendering.LightUnit.Lumen;
    flashlight.intensity = 5000f;
    flashlight.spotAngle = 80f;
    flashlight.colorTemperature = 4000f;
}```

[placid jewel]

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[midnight plover]

Haha, nvm, copilot ai just created it for me

[fluid ether]

oh my bad

[midnight plover]

the issue is, that you can not set the intensity directly after setting the lightunit

[fluid ether]

no way, let me try

what the hell

why

[midnight plover]

I guess, because HDRP is recalculating all lights all the time. And therefore trying to ease out all lighting to fit PBR realistic lighting

if you just set it in update for example, it will eventually reach the lumen

[fluid ether]

i set it on the ToggleFlashlight call and it does work but this isn't something i'd expect

[twin pivot]

would the StopCoroutine on line 28 stop the coroutine started in line 20?

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

[midnight plover]

I would store the coroutine in a property to be sure, you are starting and stopping the correct one

[fluid ether]

thank you for your help, much appreciated!

[twin pivot]

how would I go about doing that?

[fluid ether]

thank you as well!

[midnight plover]

I just tried async delay the setting lumen mode and wait for a 1sec and then set intensity to 10000f and it results in something around 21k. So thats where my assumption comes from about it recalculating over time

[fluid ether]

makes sense

[midnight plover]

You are very welcome. Great learning for myself in the future 🙂

[twin pivot]

store the coordinates in a variable?

[midnight plover]

you want to stop exactly the coroutine you were starting. so you assign the method StartCoroutine(YourMethod()) to a new property and stop that property later

[midnight plover]

google and the docs are first result: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StopCoroutine.html

[twin pivot]

i already read the documentation, it just tells me to use the same parameter type but im not too sure on what it means by that

[midnight plover]

the example code does exactly what I suggested. assign to the field coroutine and later StopCoroutine(coroutine);

this way you guarantee to stop the one you started

[twin pivot]

oh i see thank you for your help

[naive pawn]

no, you're creating a new coroutine to stop.

[twin pivot]

already fixed but thanks for your help

[naive pawn]

didn't see anyone actually directly answer the question, so i answered it

[boreal violet]

Why when i click to any points, i got something like this in console:
Point 1 UV=(0.21, 0.54), click UV=(0.79, 0.46), distance=0,5789823

Activation Radius = 0.006, mesh sizes 0.1(X,Y,Z)

Points activating when i click to opposite side of plane.

Plane lies in XZ

[naive pawn]

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[naive pawn]

what are you expecting to get exactly? what's the issue?

[boreal violet]

I want create script, that should create polygons by points on mesh UV and translate it to RenderTexture, that using for overlay texture 1 to texture 2 by lerp, like
LerpA - Texture1
LerpB - Texture2
LerpT - Render texture

And if 95% of all points is activated i send OnBlue bool to material for changing texture

[naive pawn]

ok, and what's the issue?

(also, share your code appropriately as described in the "large code blocks" section above please)

[boreal violet]

Point don't activate when pressed

[naive pawn]

are you getting any errors/warnings? have you debugged to see what point in execution is reached? etc

[boreal violet]

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

[placid jewel]

When you said:

Points activating when i click to opposite side of plane.
If that's the issue, check that your mesh triangles are threaded the right way.

[boreal violet]

Yeah, Point 1 UV=(0.21, 0.54), click UV=(0.79, 0.46), distance=0,5789823

It's debug log

[naive pawn]

hm so basically opposite sides, i'm noticing they're like, 1-x of each other

sounds like something was set up inverted?

[boreal violet]

Points are pass through this code:

    private Vector3 UVToWorld(Vector2 uv)
    {
        float x = (uv.x - 0.5f) * meshSize.x + meshCenter.x;
        float z = (uv.y - 0.5f) * meshSize.z + meshCenter.z;

        Vector3 localPos = new Vector3(x, 0f, z);
        Vector3 worldPos = transform.TransformPoint(localPos);
        return worldPos;
    }

After, i get coordinates of click point and compare with each point

like distance between them <= activationRadius

[naive pawn]

btw, gizmos are editor only

[boreal violet]

Wdym?

[naive pawn]

once you build the game/project, gizmos won't show up. they're for debugging in the editor

[boreal violet]

I know

[placid jewel]

Just double checking again, are you sure the triangles are wound the correct way? Winding is explained here if you aren't sure https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/mesh-index-data.html

[boreal violet]

I've already created games, but not so hard

[placid jewel]

I had a similar issue where a mesh I was making via script was inverted due to the winding order of triangles

It is a mesh right?

[naive pawn]

are the gizmos in the expected place?

[boreal violet]

Yeah

[boreal violet]

I think, i should do this for now

[boreal violet]

I mean points issue

And then polygon

[placid jewel]

Yeah that's what I'm trying to help with

You say the points work if you click on the opposite side of the plane?

[boreal violet]

Yeah, like if i change activationRadius for 1, when i click it's all get activation true

[placid jewel]

If the triangles are wound the wrong way (*or some other mesh issue) the mesh will be upside down, which could explain why the mesh is working from the wrong way

How have you set up the mesh? Via code or via mesh object?

[boreal violet]

Just mesh object with collider

Idk what do u mean, can u explain some better your answer?

[placid jewel]

Looking at that it does seem like the mesh is the right way round so that won't be the issue

In your code, can you explain why on line 208:

private Vector3 UVToWorld(Vector2 uv)
    {
        float x = (uv.x - 0.5f) * meshSize.x + meshCenter.x;
        float z = (uv.y - 0.5f) * meshSize.z + meshCenter.z;

        Vector3 localPos = new Vector3(x, 0f, z);
        Vector3 worldPos = transform.TransformPoint(localPos);
        return worldPos;
    }```

Oops

[placid jewel]

The line in question is float z = (uv.y - 0.5f) * meshSize.z + meshCenter.z;

Why do you take uv.y into world space z coordinate exactly? I'm having trouble understanding the code itself

[boreal violet]

It's because initially mesh was in XY plane

[boreal violet]

What if i delete this method and work only with Vector2 points and get mouse click in UV?

[placid jewel]

Are you not already getting mouse click in UV? With

private bool GetMouseUV(out Vector2 uv)
    {
        uv = Vector2.zero;
        Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);

        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit))
        {
            Debug.Log($"Raycast hit: {hit.collider.name}");
            if (hit.collider.gameObject != gameObject)
            {
                Debug.Log("Hit object is not this plane");
                return false;
            }


            hitPoint = hit.point;

            uv = hit.textureCoord;
            uv.y = 1f - uv.y;
            return true;
        }

        Debug.Log("Raycast did not hit anything");
        return false;
    }

[boreal violet]

I mean do not use this part and work with point.uv in struct

public class ContourPoint
{
    public Vector2 uv;
    public bool activated;
}

[placid jewel]

Hold on

Wait never mind I thought I had spotted something but I misread it

So when you click it calculates the distance between the texture coordinate of the click position and the ContourPoints.UV value which is a Vector2

[boreal violet]

Yeah

[placid jewel]

The ContourPoints.UV value is also a texture coordinate right?

Not a world position?

I'm assuming you've manually defined each of the contourPoints[] values in the editor, with one for each point

[boreal violet]

    private Vector3 UVToWorld(Vector2 uv)
    {
        float x = (uv.x - 0.5f) * meshSize.x + meshCenter.x;
        float z = (uv.y - 0.5f) * meshSize.z + meshCenter.z;

        Vector3 localPos = new Vector3(x, 0f, z);
        Vector3 worldPos = transform.TransformPoint(localPos);
        return worldPos;
    }

I think it's world position

[boreal violet]

Yeah

[placid jewel]

If uv is a world position and clickUV is a texture coordinate (i.e. vector2 with values from 0 to 1 representing the position on a texture associated with that point) then that might be an issue?

[misty marten]

yo i just started whit unity only thing i know is control.Writiline("hi"); does anione have any tips?

[boreal violet]

It is i think

[placid jewel]

!learn

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[misty marten]

aight thanks bro

[slow mantle]

Am I daft?

[boreal violet]

Type '='

[slow mantle]

PFF.

I need to go to sleep.

[boreal violet]

XD

[placid jewel]

think it is an issue or think it is a different value? i've lost your meaning

[boreal violet]

I think it's an issue

[hollow cliff]

uhh can anyone help me w this one thing

so when a player walks into a portal and presses a button, the player turns 90 degrees towards the wall and all the gravity thing is shifted accordingly so that the player can walk on the wall as if its ground, whats the simplest way to do this?

[slow mantle]

I literally struggled long enough that I felt the need to ask a question here instead of normally figuring it out myself, oh no.

[boreal violet]

'Couze i thought it should be in one type of coords

[misty marten]

!learn

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[misty marten]

it will be somwhere

or google it up im new so idk yet

[placid jewel]

of note, it will probably be much easier to convert from the world coordinate of ContourPoints.UV to a textureCoord than the other way around

[boreal violet]

U're trying to push an array to number

[hollow cliff]

can i not have a straightforward answer? 😭

[misty marten]

no😭

[placid jewel]

No, that command is for formless questions like "How do I learn?" Any specific questions like how do I approach this we can try to help people with. If you don't know how to answer don't answer.

[hollow cliff]

i actually joined the server for this one thing so i need some help 😭

[placid jewel]

I've done a similar thing in 2d before, but it should be doable in 2d similarly (I'm assuming you are using 2d)

Waht

[hollow cliff]

yessir 2d

[boreal violet]

U mean transform point UV coord to texture coords too?

[misty marten]

daum

[placid jewel]

I meant to write 3d not 2d but if you're using 2d even easier

[hollow cliff]

ohlmaoo

[placid jewel]

What stage are you at so far? Do you have a character controller?

[frosty hound]

The "simplest" (it's not simple) is to have custom gravity that you apply to your CC. Moving through a portal simply updates the direction that gravity points.

[placid jewel]

Yeah this is where I was going to go

[misty marten]

yo @placid jewel what version of unity shoud i download?

[frosty hound]

Your CC will rotate so its feet is always pointed in the direction of the gravity vector.

[placid jewel]

But the bad news about that is that you have to make a custom character controller in order to do custom gravity usually

[slow mantle]

Wait I'm not sure if I even understand, is it sleep deprivation or do I actually just not understand arrays properly.
What am I supposed to do exactly?

[hollow cliff]

and can i do it multiple times? like if i enter another while walking on the wall, can i walk upside down? cause like 90 + 90 = 180

[frosty hound]

Why not?

[hollow cliff]

ahh okay thankss

[placid jewel]

Whichever version you want, you can research that yourself although usually the most recent LTS version. Also this is a code channel, go to #💻┃unity-talk for general questions/

[boreal violet]

Imagine you're trying to fit a fleet into a ship

[frosty hound]

It's custom gravity, you can update it whenever and however you want.

[misty marten]

thanks bro

[slow mantle]

I see.

[frosty hound]

You can even make your character walk around a sphere at that point, updating the gravity to always point towards the center of it.

[twin pivot]

any version that has the latest security patch

[boreal violet]

If u want arrays, just type [] when initialize variable

like bajaBlast[] = { 10, 20, 100};

[placid jewel]

So long as you're familiar with how velocity and acceleration work even in a vague conceptual state, then you can mess around with applying gravity in whatever direction you want

[slow mantle]

I JUST REALIZED.

I literally have done that for one of the variables I have.

[boreal violet]

[slow mantle]

I can't believe my eyes.

What the hell.

[rich adder]

it goes next to the type not the variable name.

[slow mantle]

Thanks.

[boreal violet]

Yeah?

[naive pawn]

you put it next to the variable name

[boreal violet]

Oh

[naive pawn]

(fun fact, languages cannot agree on this 🙃)

[rich adder]

yea lol

[boreal violet]

It's sooo different

[placid jewel]

So did they here though? So what's the issue?

[naive pawn]

ive done too much cpp recently, ive started writing them in the wrong place lmao

[naive pawn]

damn, array syntax as a whole too.

[rich adder]

yea cpp is weird like that

[boreal violet]

It's also so strange when learning so many cpp sublanguages

[naive pawn]

meanwhile java accepting both...

[slow mantle]

I didn't add [] when I declared the variables, but I did for one of them, though.

Yeah, galaxy brain, I know.

[placid jewel]

Ahhhhh

[slow mantle]

Only one of them deserved to be arrays.

[placid jewel]

I see now

[naive pawn]

also this is for declaring, not initialization

[vital fractal]

yeah like is it type[] var var []type var[] type []type var or type []var
i had to learn 3 out of 5 of these in languages and it does get annoying...

[hollow cliff]

yayyy okayyy, most stuff in the game is done and i was planning to add this thing for a gimmick for a single level and i had no idea how to implement so came here

[naive pawn]

var []type
who tf does this

[slow mantle]

Oops.

[boreal violet]

It's ok

[vital fractal]

go

[rich adder]

try swift it gets even weirder

[boreal violet]

I tried dart

[naive pawn]

that looks so jarring...

[boreal violet]

It's looks like py + cpp

[placid jewel]

Based whitespace ignoring programmers

[vital fractal]

oh no wait

[boreal violet]

XD

[vital fractal]

was it go

[naive pawn]

that's not what it is

[naive pawn]

it is, yeah

[vital fractal]

dang im even messing them up now

[naive pawn]

var <name> <type>, so var a [2]string

[vital fractal]

ah yeah

[boreal violet]

Guys, who to do it?

[naive pawn]

primes := [6]int{2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13}
what is thattttt

[placid jewel]

It could be in DreamBerd (though I doubt that language would stoop so low as to have arrays)

[boreal violet]

I mean this vertical line

[placid jewel]

Wait no they do

[vital fractal]

and the type of type is said like "this variable is variable as structure of type" or atleast thats how they explained it

[vital fractal]

> text here

[naive pawn]

you can right click > copy text to find out

[placid jewel]

Wait till you see DreamBerd arrays

[boreal violet]

Damn, what is it...

[vital fractal]

const var
😆

[vital fractal]

yeah thats go

classic

[boreal violet]

Oh, i got it, thx

[placid jewel]

const const const, fixed value for all users, forever

[naive pawn]

yeah i found it from the arrays example

horrifying...

[vital fractal]

that looks like javascript

[boreal violet]

In dart u have
final, const, late, late final for example

[placid jewel]

no no no, constant for all users as in anyone who ever uses the language in any unrelated script around the world

[vital fractal]

its less confusing if you just keep this explanation in mind: #💻┃code-beginner message

[naive pawn]

damn this got off track real quick, whoops

[vital fractal]

oops

i mean

[placid jewel]

Real

[vital fractal]

we are talking about code languages

so on topic

[naive pawn]

(that wouldn't make it on topic)

[boreal violet]

So, @placid jewel
I should change this

    private Vector3 UVToWorld(Vector2 uv)
    {
        float x = (uv.x - 0.5f) * meshSize.x + meshCenter.x;
        float z = (uv.y - 0.5f) * meshSize.z + meshCenter.z;

        Vector3 localPos = new Vector3(x, 0f, z);
        Vector3 worldPos = transform.TransformPoint(localPos);
        return worldPos;
    }

to this for example?

private Vector2 WorldToUV(Vector3 worldPos)
{
    Vector3 localPos = transform.InverseTransformPoint(worldPos);

    float u = (localPos.x - (meshCenter.x - meshSize.x * 0.5f)) / meshSize.x;
    float v = (localPos.z - (meshCenter.z - meshSize.z * 0.5f)) / meshSize.z;

    return new Vector2(u, v);
}

Oh no

[placid jewel]

No I don't think so

You use UVToWorld somewhere else

[boreal violet]

To this...?

private Vector2 ToUV(Vector2 localPoint)
{
    float u = (localPoint.x - (meshCenter.x - meshSize.x * 0.5f)) / meshSize.x;
    float v = (localPoint.y - (meshCenter.z - meshSize.z * 0.5f)) / meshSize.z;
    return new Vector2(u, v);
}

[boreal violet]

Just for points and mouse click earlier

[placid jewel]

You only use it in OnDrawGizmos I think?

[boreal violet]

For now

[boreal violet]

If i got u, i should change UVToWorld to Vector2 in texture coords

[rich adder]

?. doesn't work reliably on components btw
(unityengine.Object to be exact) @boreal violet

unity overrides the == operator

[placid jewel]

Yeah so since you're using it somewhere it might be best to make a new function for WorldToUv and use that in Start to convert your List<ContourPoint> contourPoints into a List of texture coordinates that you use in update instead of the original list

That's what I'd do

I see no reason to change UVToWorld at all since I don't think it's related

[boreal violet]

I tried, after this my points just go to other place

[placid jewel]

What do you mean?

[boreal violet]

Like they was at letter 'e', after Start method they go to a corner for example

[placid jewel]

Wait what have you done

[boreal violet]

Nothing for now

[placid jewel]

Did you modify WorldToUV?

[boreal violet]

No

[placid jewel]

Or UVToWorld I meant but I think you assumed that

So wait

How does UVToWorld even work

[boreal violet]

https://paste.mod.gg/xxxzqqszkerz/0
I have this code now

No changes

I think what i should do now

[placid jewel]

It takes the values from contourPoints.UV and multiplies them out by the mesh size, which would imply that contourPoints.UV were already texture coordinates

Wait tell me

How big is your mesh

[boreal violet]

.1 on each XYZ

[placid jewel]

.1? Hmm

[boreal violet]

.006 on activation Radius

[placid jewel]

I feel like the issue is from using a mixture of texture coordinates and world coordinates, and since all the world coordinates are possible texture coordinates (i.e. between 0 and 1) there are no errors thrown

But I don't know for sure

contourPoint.uv is the world coordinate of that point

[boreal violet]

Yes

Wait no

[placid jewel]

If you convert it to the texture coordinate of that point and then check the distance of it from mouse click texture coord that should work no?

[placid jewel]

No?

[boreal violet]

My code on mesh, that i use

So it's local positions?

[placid jewel]

What do you mean

[placid jewel]

What I want to know is what values are put in contourPoints.uv

[placid jewel]

And can you send a screenshot that shows the points on the mesh? (like your initial one)

[placid jewel]

Ok

Those look like texture coords to me

Since they're larger than the actual mesh size

In that case

Could the issue not be that the mosue has to click extremely close to the point in order to actually hit it?

[boreal violet]

I think no, when u change parrent size to .1 .1 .1 for example, and create child with 1 1 1, it's equal size

[placid jewel]

Wait what do you mean

Oh

I think that still works for texture coords since the mesh is square

[boreal violet]

Yeah

So, maybe compare directly point.uv?

[placid jewel]

You are doing that right?

Wait

I do think tht if the activation radius is 0.006f it's hard to get that precision

This is how close the detection range is

(The purple circle around the green dot)

You mentioned before something about if you increased the activation range to 1 it worked

What happens if you say increase it to 0.02?

[boreal violet]

In debug, it's actual size of activationRadius

[placid jewel]

Is it possible to click from the right side then?
(These are questions I ought to have really asked earlier lol)

[boreal violet]

If i change to .02:

[placid jewel]

If you click them, do they activate at that radius?

[boreal violet]

No 😛

[placid jewel]

But they do at radius 1

[placid jewel]

So one of the coordinates is translated incorrectly still

Real

[boreal violet]

It's if i change to radius 1

[placid jewel]

Can you send a screenshot of the outputs of this line (with normal radius or not, it shouldnt affect)

You gave some example values before but I'd like to see at least a few of the full values

If you know where point 1 is, can you try to click next to that one specifically and show the output for that one?

Or any index point

[boreal violet]

I clicked to point 1

Wait

What if

[placid jewel]

Point 1 being the one labelled Index 1

[boreal violet]

What if i just add 1 - mousePos

It'll invert my click position

[placid jewel]

It looks like the mouse pos is 1 - the uv coord yeah

Also, could you create a small gameobject at position (0.02, 0.054) and show me where that is?

[placid jewel]

Not parented to the mesh

Odd request but it's to check that the uv values actually line up with world values

[placid jewel]

Wait what position is your mesh actually at

[boreal violet]

-3 by z

if i change to 0 0 0

[placid jewel]

That's the mesh at 0, 0, 0?

Still with scale of .1, .1, .1

[boreal violet]

Yeah

Wait

XD

[placid jewel]

What?

[boreal violet]

Vector2 clickUV = new Vector2(1 - hit.textureCoord.x, 1 - hit.textureCoord.y);
I added this

Points get activating when i click on them

[placid jewel]

That's great

However

[boreal violet]

But new issue

No, it's 2 issues

[placid jewel]

There's a possibility it's the uv coordinates that should be 1-x and not the mouse pos (though that is mostly irrelevant and just a code cleanliness issue)

[placid jewel]

What are they?

[boreal violet]

I clicked at point with black lineup, but activated with blue too

[placid jewel]

That seems like it would be an issue with the detection radius

[boreal violet]

Also here is no polygon that should lerp two textures...

[placid jewel]

Could you move the Debug.Log($"Point {i} UV={pt.uv}, click UV={clickUV}, distance={dist}"); to inside the if (!pt.activated && dist <= activationRadius) and show me which ones activate when you click the same object?

Like this

[boreal violet]

Oh

It's not issue

Well not quite

[placid jewel]

Yeah?

[boreal violet]

The logic is that I kind of flash it and when I make a large polygon, the points that are inside the polygon are activated, forming it fully, but for some reason it doesn’t take into account neigbourhoodRadius

[placid jewel]

You only use it once (apart from declaration)

[grand snow]

Ideally you use your IDE correctly and do "find all references" for the symbol

[boreal violet]

Oh...

[grand snow]

a simple text find is not reliable

it looks like your vs code isnt setup correctly anyway

!ide

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[boreal violet]

For what is it?

[grand snow]

I can tell by the lack of syntax highlighting your vs code is not fully configured for use with unity projects

[placid jewel]

That's not VSCode

[grand snow]

ah my bad, still same issue

[placid jewel]

It's this

[boreal violet]

XD

[placid jewel]

It's not my code I'm just searching through what was shared with me

[grand snow]

thats new

ah i got confused who was "helping" and who needed help

[boreal violet]

[hushed fable]

why cant i export it to VRM? exporting it to VSF works, but when i load the VSF file into VSeeFace its not working. I have been doing this for like 5hrs 😂 💀.. I have the (.glb) 3D slime object, i just wanted to use it as an avatar where it floats.

[boreal violet]

Well.. I think i should add method for get nearest activated point for my click?

[grand snow]

!vrchat

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Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[placid jewel]

I suppose so

I'm not exactly sure how the polygon part works but you definitely aren't using the neighbor radius value in it

[grand snow]

Whats the issue? I cant locate the original message

Finding the closest vertex to some position?

[boreal violet]

XD

[boreal violet]

No

Points didn't activate when i click on it

[grand snow]

How do you detect which one is clicked and how is the state reflected in the gizmos?

[boreal violet]

    private void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        if (contourPoints == null || contourPoints.Count == 0) return;

        planeMesh = GetComponent<MeshFilter>()?.sharedMesh;
        if (planeMesh != null)
        {
            meshCenter = planeMesh.bounds.center;
            meshSize = planeMesh.bounds.size;
        }

        foreach (var pt in contourPoints)
        {
            Vector3 pos = UVToWorld(pt.uv);
            Gizmos.color = pt.activated ? Color.green : Color.red;
            Gizmos.DrawSphere(pos, activationRadius);
        }

        foreach(var pt in contourPoints)
        {
            Vector3 pos = UVToWorld(pt.uv);
            Gizmos.color = Color.yellow;
            Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(pos, neighborRadius);
        }
    }

[grand snow]

uv to world wut?

[boreal violet]

Idk what is 'Wut'... :p

[grand snow]

uv doesnt naturally translate to a vertex

I would expect a world to local position conversion for the input position, then you use local positions only (local to the mesh/Transform)

[placid jewel]

This case uses a mesh that's just a flat square with a certain size, so UVToWorld just converts the point local to that plane to a point local to the world I think

But I do agree it's better to work all in local positions

[boreal violet]

It's plane mesh

[placid jewel]

Yeah I don't know why I forgot the word for "plane" and went to "flat square" lol

I suppose it's technically accurate

[boreal violet]

Not 1st language too? XD

[grand snow]

you just assume then that a uv pos and vertex pos are the same but that is just an assumption

[placid jewel]

At any point, I'm not sure I can be of any more help and I've got to go to bed so I'll leave you in what seem to be much more capable hands for now lol, good luck with the rest 🙏

[grand snow]

anyway wheres the other code that changes activated

[placid jewel]

No it is which is the worst part, I'm just very tired

https://paste.mod.gg/xxxzqqszkerz/0 It should all be in here @grand snow

[boreal violet]

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

[placid jewel]

Or that one

[boreal violet]

It's old vers

[placid jewel]

That's updated right?

Yeah

[boreal violet]

Go sleep hero

[placid jewel]

Thank you 😩 And best of luck

[boreal violet]

[grand snow]

This is a bad idea Vector2 clickUV = hit.textureCoord;
You should just convert the hit position to local for the object and then find the closest.
Then you can just use the methods on Transform to convert

[boreal violet]

It just started work

[boreal violet]

I did it, so what do u offer?

[grand snow]

What I already said but you don't seem to care

[boreal violet]

I mean

texture coord it's not local for the object?

[grand snow]

A UV position can't be translated back to a local object position reliably

A mesh may happen to have vertex positions match up with uvs and that's just luck or a presumption

[boreal violet]

So, this is why my code doesn't generate polygon for RT?

[grand snow]

Don't know but using uvs is flawed

[cedar peak]

my charecter is phasing through edges when moving and using a jump pad im using a tilemap with comopsite collider 2d
my charecter has a sqare collider 2d

[unreal imp]

ExponentialDecay is an example or it was replaced by smth else?

[polar acorn]

It's in the link

[boreal violet]

Well.. something weird

I got this

[minor goblet]

havent used unity in like 2 years did they change scripting fully?

Apparently cant even use do manual character movement script

gotta use a feature or something

[slender nymph]

presumably you are doing something wrong then

[minor goblet]

no you have to open this to use it

otherwise it doesnt let you use it

[slender nymph]

that's not a change in scripting, nor is it an issue with "manual character movement"
this is just you not reading your errors

[minor goblet]

i did read and fix it

thats why i asked if they changed it

[slender nymph]

nothing about scripting was changed in that regard. the new input system is just the default input handler now as of 6.1

[minor goblet]

And for velocity apparently i have to use linearVelocity or something

changes every single time i type it

[slender nymph]

yes because the name of that property has changed

[minor goblet]

gotcha

But nothign else changed right

[slender nymph]

there may be other small changes that your IDE will tell you about if you try to use something that has been deprecated. so just trust your tools

and for future reference, instead of asking a vague question like "has scripting changed" you should ask about your actual issue

[slender nymph]

i am not saying you cannot ask questions. i am just saying your initial question's actual premise wasn't even what you were asking about

[minor goblet]

it was more like a discuss other than a issue

[minor goblet]

aight

i got you

[cedar peak]

is there a way to chage between 3 sprite
im tryna make a mute unmute button
rn its
unmuted + click = muted can convert it back to unmuted icon
its a toggle btw

[slender nymph]

an if statement and assigning to the .sprite property

[cedar peak]

nervs

any code less way ?

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel mate

[cedar peak]

fair enough

[slender nymph]

give #🔎┃find-a-channel a read if you want to find a channel that isn't focused on code for your questions that aren't code related

[cedar peak]

okay

[unreal imp]

AHHH exponential decay is a function

Not a feature XD

[cedar peak]

my chrecter is behaving as if its collideing with something even though theres nothin there

[slender nymph]

you're gonna need to provide more info, like relevant code and info about the scene setup

[cedar peak]

1min

https://paste.mod.gg/gybktjrvkcqy/0
https://medal.tv/games/screen-capture/clips/lsEpG8RNmruQk24R2?invite=cr-MSxvaXMsMjczNjI5NzM5

[slender nymph]

not related to the actual issue, but is this not your code, or is there some specific reason you have this part in it?

#if UNITY_2023_1_OR_NEWER
        uiManager = FindFirstObjectByType<UiManager>();
#else
        uiManager = FindObjectOfType<UiManager>();
#endif

[cedar peak]

same i have no clue why its there i havent added it i figured unity auto added it so i didnt remove it

[slender nymph]

unity would not have automatically added preprocessor directives

[cedar peak]

i do use ai occasionllay that my be the source aswell

[valid violet]

This statement works only for assets

[slender nymph]

ah, yeah AI generated code makes sense. for future reference, you are required to disclose that in this server #📖┃code-of-conduct
and i don't help with AI code so someone else will have to help you

[valid violet]

I mean assets from asset store

[cedar peak]

oh 😔 also its added by unity version controll

[slender nymph]

version control does not modify your code in any way

that was likely something added by the AI you use

[cedar peak]

okay if you say so

[rocky canyon]

make sure theres no colliders in the way if you believe its hitting something..
run ur gamewindow next to your scene view window.. and click around (or select everything w/ gizmos enabled to see if theres a collider or something) also make sure your colliders are expanded.. so they'll show in the sceneview..

also make sure your colliders are expanded.. so they'll show in the sceneview..

if its only happening in that one vertical shaft area.. perhaps test out in the open.. to confirm
if the same code works fine in one area but doesn't in a specific area... then odds are its something in that specific area.. and not in the code

[cedar peak]

it also happes on top

[rocky canyon]

check those areas.. ☝️ make sure theres nothing in the way..

• one thing we see is people will destroy or disable a gameobject (a coin pickup, or maybe a door) and they'll somehow forget to remove the collider that represents that object..
• (removing the graphics but leaving the collider)...
  ** this could be the cause or something

[cedar peak]

also when i stick to the right wall in the shaft area it lets me go up

what do expanded colliders mean

if i go to the render button and make it wireframe it shows all colliders ?

[rocky canyon]

gotta confirm is nothing actually in the scene (thats blocking) and then you can move to the next likely thing.. (which i have no idea what may be..) might be ur jump logic.. /something in ur movement.. idk.. but the first guess is just something is in the way..

    // on the the rigidbody gameobject
    void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        Debug.Log(collision.gameObject.name);
    }

if you use the https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnCollisionEnter2D.html method you can Log everything it touches in the console...

just peep 👀 the console when that happens.. and make sure its not colliding with anything...

[rocky canyon]

Negative.. Wireframe shows Meshs... but if its just a collider... it wont

[cedar peak]

thanks alot 😭
this is a previous vesion i had wich i hadnt made the level sprite and collider properly so i had redone it both the current and the collion on top are fixed thanks again

[tender mirage]

i want to put my collider mode on continous but when i do that, my onCollisionEnter2D stops working

i noticed continous completely prevents tile clipping from happening which would be really nice.

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{

    Vector2 contactPos = collision.GetContact(0).normal;


    //If velocityY is relatively high
    if (recordedMagnitude >= dangerMagnitude || recordedMagnitude <= -dangerMagnitude)
    {

        //Only hurt if hit from above or below
        if (contactPos == Vector2.down || contactPos == Vector2.up)
        {

            int damageAmount = Mathf.RoundToInt(recordedMagnitude) / 2;

            print(damageAmount);

            TakeDamage(damageAmount);


        }


    }

}

Does anyone know why continuous just stops it from functioning?

[slender nymph]

Continuous Collision Detection wouldn't stop OnCollisionEnter2D from working, in fact that mode makes the rigidbody do more/complex checks to ensure collisions happen more reliably. If OnCollisionEnter2D is not working at all then something else is likely wrong

[polar acorn]

For example, continuous collision detection could potentially be causing you to collide with a different object than you were expecting to

[slender nymph]

should absolutely add some logs outside of those if statements to figure out what is actually happening

[tender mirage]

I added a simple print at the top. which never printed out

it should've especially if something else collided.

[slender nymph]

show both colliders involved in the collision

or rather just go through this: https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/2d-physics-messages

[tender mirage]

Oh right that's relevant. tilemap collider can always be abit indifferent.

This is my tilemap collider.

[barren lantern]

when im i stay close to the edge of water and underwater i can see under water... any ideas how to solve it? i already set clippin planes to 0.01 and it still does that

[tender mirage]

Godsend.

that solved it

[slender nymph]

which part was it

[timber tide]

like the last place to ask about that problem and probably one of the hardest to solve

[forest cosmos]

Hey, got a question about Animation Trigger in code

why does this trigger not reset by itself when the condition gets set to false?

I go from jump to fall but isJumping still is active in animator.

[polar acorn]

A trigger will un-set itself once it's used for a transition.

[forest cosmos]

it goes from Jump to fall, i can see falling animation running

it has that bar below it in animator

[polar acorn]

What is the transition condition from jump to fall

[slender nymph]

presumably you are setting the trigger multiple times, including after it was used for the transition and automatically reset

[forest cosmos]

isFalling true

[forest cosmos]

ah okay, i will check this thanks

[slender nymph]

you want to only set the trigger one time to enter the Jump animation then not again until you want to enter the animation again

[forest cosmos]

ah i see,

btw any tutorials/assignments on net i can do to improve my animator logic?

I get stuck in it alot

[polar acorn]

Yeah, so, looks like it's set, which causes the animator to enter Jump, then there is at least one frame where the velocity is still above 0.1f, which sets it again.

Then, once the velocity becomes negative, it goes into Falling

[forest cosmos]

yes, looks like its triggering multiple times

[slender nymph]

yes, every frame for pretty much the entire duration of your Jump animation

[forest cosmos]

man this animator is confusing.

gets messed up so fast

made one earlier and it has like 8-9 parameters

[slender nymph]

rather than checking every frame if the velocity is above a specific threshold, why not trigger the animation when you actually add force/change velocity to perform the jump

that way you aren't setting the trigger every frame

[forest cosmos]

is it good practice to set animation direction in jump function?

when i press jump

cuz arnt we suppose to keep stuff seperate?

I currently have a UpdateAnimation funciton running in Update

[slender nymph]

there are plenty of ways you can handle this. but it all stems from that initial jump input detection which is what you want this trigger to respond to

[forest cosmos]

can you please suggest me a way to do it as a beginner theres so many ways it gets super confusing

[slender nymph]

i just did

[forest cosmos]

ah yes

thanks

[mortal jasper]

Hello i am new to C# and im here to learn more to flex to teacher and get 10 int technology class hehe

[misty marten]

yo im looking for somone to make a game whit me for now i wanan just to make a map but the idea is cool its a vr game (like gorilla tag) so if u wnat dm me

[mortal jasper]

How can i animate stuff in unity?

!Ide

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[mortal jasper]

Ah this is what it meant

I already did this

[cosmic quail]

you are breaking 3 rules at once 😭 no collab posts, crossposting the same thing in multiple channels, and posting in a code channel

[mortal jasper]

No way bruh

[misty marten]

daum🫡

[civic gust]

Hello. I have a problem using TMP and some fonts with layout groups.

I'm using two objects, parent have vertical layout + content size fitter with preferred horizontal fit, child is just a centred text. When text have some symbol combinations it breaks in to two lines.

Okay, I think I can fix that by settings text to "No wrap" mode, but I'm still curious why is this happening

[rocky canyon]

yea that wat i was going to mention.. it appears to be the default wrapping..

the symbol part is a bit confusing tho

https://discussions.unity.com/t/textmesh-pro-i-want-to-avoid-line-breaking-in-words-with-hyphens/751038

Use a non-breaking hyphen which is Unicode \u2011.
The normal hyphen is defined as a line breaking characters whereas the non-breaking hyphen is not.
- Stephan_B (Unity Staff)

-# 🔎 Line Breaking Characters

[slow mantle]

Hello. I tried making something on my own until realizing I am woefully underprepared.
I am trying to make an idle game where the production upgrades create an item, and that item is the thing that generates the main currency.

Kind of like > Arbitrary Building creates an Arbitrary Item and that Arbitrary item makes Arbitrary points.

I could do it one by one, which I would have probably succeeded in already, but I tried doing using lists and arrays and... Yeah, I'm lost. I'm not sure what to do.

I'm trying to screenshot this code but I don't even know what to show. Hm.

[slow fossil]

You can paste your code using the ``

[cosmic dagger]

Start by telling us what the main issue is (that is not working correctly) and post the code relevant to it . . .

[slow fossil]

Do you think this is a reasonable layout for a tower in a tower defence game?

Since status effects could be a big thing, I'm thinking of putting a separate script just for status effects

Blue means functions

[glad shore]

how can i make it so particles are affected by lighting

[polar acorn]

Give them a lit material

[teal elk]

private void OnValidate()
  {
         ValidateAtrributes();
  }

  public bool ValidateAtrributes()
  {
      if (DoesRequiredAttributes)
      {
          foreach (var attr in itemAttributes)
          {
              if (attr.Attribute != ItemAttribute.None || attr.BaseAttributeValue! > 0)
              {
                  return true;
              }
          }

          Debug.LogError("All attributes set to none Or Value is set to zero, atleast one attribute must be set to Str,Dex,Int");
          return false;
      }
      return true;
  }

I am trying to throw error if my item require attributes but the attributes in the array are not set properly , then I will get an error do I can fix it ,but currently despite some scriptable objects having the requirement for me to get an error, i dont get an error

[polar acorn]

Try logging something in the true cases. Log the attribute before the first one, and log that the object doesn't require one in the second. See which true its hitting when you don't expect it to be

Probably include the name as well

[teal elk]

the issue was i forgot to set DoesRequiredAttributes true for the objects

[eternal needle]

the only thing id reconsider here is how you handle the costs, using an array or list rather than "u2 cost" "u3 cost" etc.
otherwise, most of these are just words on a canvas implying features you want to add. Theres nothing particularly coding related about this

[slow fossil]

I see

[meager siren]

I'm trying to think of a way to make smooth movement and overall I am lost and Don't want to spend my entire day trying to code this :p

[fast relic]

smooth movement like one that feels good to play?

[meager siren]

yeah

[fast relic]

well there isn't really one way to do that

but there are a bunch of techniques you can search for

[meager siren]

yeah ik

I just

wanna try and figure this out myself ngl

I just want some help :p

I'm getting somewhere, but I, well. yk?

[fast relic]

you can check out some videos from gmtk like theo ne about celeste, which covers what you can actually implement to make it feel better (but not actual code itself)

[meager siren]

I'm doing the 3d tho :p

oh

you just meant techniques

ah

[fast relic]

the techniques still apply to 3d, it's just an extra dimension

[meager siren]

yeah

[fast relic]

(also, just changing the position directly like this will make it phase through walls)

[meager siren]

ah, so move the rigidbody tjem?

whilst actually using the rigidbody

[fast relic]

use the rigidbody's linearVelocity

[meager siren]

lmao idk

[meager siren]

right you can use

xyz with rb

whoops

[fast relic]

wdym? a vector?

[meager siren]

wait

how do I use the linearvelocity

[fast relic]

you just set it

[meager siren]

I know velocity is the speed of a vector

oh

[fast relic]

(also, you probably wanna be doing this in fixed update to make physics more consistent)

[meager siren]

facking

alright

wait im so screwed lmao

do I have to use *=

or just *

*=

idk why I didnt test it before asking

[fast relic]

just =

[meager siren]

oh

[fast relic]

it's just a property

[meager siren]

should my input vector be vector3?

I think so for the z direction right?

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

[fast relic]

i mean you don't wanna move vertically with wasd do you

you just wanna move on x and z

[meager siren]

yeah

so Vector3

[fast relic]

yeah

but the y of the input is the z of the velocity

[meager siren]

whaaa

makes no sense but alright

[fast relic]

well your input is a vector2

[meager siren]

rb.linearVelocity = input.z * forwardDirection * speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;

I changed it to vector 3

[fast relic]

you want its x component (a and d) to move you on the x axis and its y component (w and s) to move you on the z axis

[sour fulcrum]

look at your mouse on your desk when you move it around

[fast relic]

well, no, your input is still a vector2

[meager siren]

whaaaa

[fast relic]

you only have 2 dimensions you can move in

w & s and a & d

w & s is the y component and a & d is the x component

[meager siren]

alright

it works

wth is wrong with unitys moderation

i cant even say some words

anyways, its rotating not actually moving

[slender nymph]

you should read the message from the mod bot next time 😉

[meager siren]

i couldnt say "but"

or ":p"

[slender nymph]

and again, read the bot message next time

[meager siren]

IM SORRRYRYY

my fault

this is what I currently have, its just rotating rn

I have now paused all constraints

so thats that

but now it just doesnt move :p

[fast relic]

it probably does move, just very little

linear velocity shouldn't be multiplied by delta time, the engine does that automatically

[meager siren]

oh

yoo it works

the x is the same thing correct?

but then I've just gotta make it all even

[fast relic]

well you'd multiply it by the right direction

[meager siren]

yeah

[slender nymph]

ideally you wouldn't do multiple multiplications and would instead create a vector3 from your input and transform the direction of that

also just fyi, but transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward) is equivalent to transform.forward

[placid jewel]

if you want to create fake velocity, you can modify position by increasing it by a certain amount * time.delta time
But if you just set velocity to a vector, it would move by that vector per second by default, unrelated to the framerate (so no delta time needed)

[meager siren]

heres this btw, I dont move forward. But I guess its overriding it correct?

[slender nymph]

and yes, don't multiply your velocity by deltaTime. just use an appropriate speed value as velocity is already expressed in units per second

[fast relic]

you'd need to add them together, right now you're just overriding whatever you did for the forward direction with the rightward direction

[placid jewel]

yeah you are saying "Velocity is a certain vector in the forward direction" then immediately saying "forget that, velocity is a certain vector in the right direction"

[meager siren]

put them both in the same syntax?

but just add together

[placid jewel]

What do you mean by that

[meager siren]

same line

[fast relic]

straight up just add them together

[placid jewel]

potentially

but not necessarily

Just add them together in as many lines as you want

[fast relic]

(input.y * forwardDirection + input.x * rightDirection) * speed

[meager siren]

I'll make it cookies

since that seems better tbh

but it works

now time for camera

im guessing camera is weird

[fast relic]

rotation is weird in general

but it shouldn't be too hard

[meager siren]

do i use the quaternion.lookTorward or whatever its called

[fast relic]

i usually just do it with euler angles directly

[placid jewel]

or

Vector3 playerVelocity = (input.y * forwardDirection + input.x * rightDirection) * speed
rb.linearVelocity = playerVelocity

But this is not really necessary

[fast relic]

a bit unnecessary

[meager siren]

looks fancier and you can mention it easier later ig

WAIT

no

nvm

you can just put the variable in there, myfault

[devout dock]

Hi all. This is probably a stupid question, but what should I do if my tileset is too complicated for a Rule Tile? For example, I have some tiles that can have tiles in 8 directions, but in some directions, it has to be a specific subset of tiles

[placid jewel]

Can't you mention it later by just getting rb.linearVelocity anyway?

[meager siren]

yeah

[fast relic]

if you want it to be more readable, i'd do

Vector3 forwardInput = input.y * forwardDirection;
Vector3 rightInput = input.x * rightDirection;
Vector3 input = forwardInput + rightInput;
rb.linearVelocity = input * speed;

[meager siren]

you can

[placid jewel]

Also theoretically if you ever wanted to, say, add a slow factor, but keep track of how you would have moved unslowed (just for example) you would want to use this setup

[meager siren]

whos needs readable anyways. But how do i start out a camera in code. like camera movement

[fast relic]

well you wanna rotate the camera based on the mouse movement

[placid jewel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.html
And your preexisting knowledge of gameObject Transforms
If it's 3d and you want mouse input, https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/manual/Pointers.html might be helpful (This is the input system mouse input docs)

[meager siren]

I have this but yk. Im a slow dumbass ngl

[fast relic]

well i'd personally handle rotating the camera in its own script

[meager siren]

Oh

alright

[fast relic]

but if you don't want to you don't have to

[meager siren]

I'll listen to you

I mean like

you have the best profile in this server hands down

and your really helpful

[fast relic]

thanks haha

[placid jewel]

Seconded, mainly because dealing with rotations are annoying enough anyway to not want to have to sort through multiple unrelated sections

[meager siren]

how would you use the eulerangles

Ive never used them before

[fast relic]

well euler angles is the intuitive way of representing 3d rotation, where each x y and z angle rotates about the x y and z axes respectively

[meager siren]

yeah

so like

how do I use it yk?

im thinking that

I get Vector 2 of look InputAction

[fast relic]

well you want your camera to rotate around the x axis (which would be up and down) whenever you move your mouse vertically

[meager siren]

then assign it through there whilst using angles

[fast relic]

and around the y axis when you move it horizontally

[placid jewel]

Also, do you want your mouse/crosshair to stay in the center of your screen? (Like in most 3d games)

[meager siren]

dw I already know how to do this

this is the one thing I remember how to do

😭

[placid jewel]

You might want to consider using the .delta property as your source for the angle (if you haven't already)

[meager siren]

so like wdym

should I grab the Quaternion of the cameraholder?

I think so

or do I use transform.rotation or smth

[fast relic]

no, we're gonna be using euler angles

[meager siren]

aaaaaah

[fast relic]

(transform.rotation is the quaternion)

[meager siren]

is it just

aaaah

how do I bring up the eulerangles

[placid jewel]

transform.eulerangles right?

[fast relic]

well, because converting quaternions to euler angles can be a little inconsistent, you'd wanna make your own variable for the angle

[meager siren]

yeah

transform.eulerAngles

[placid jewel]

Also make sure you know whether to use eulerAngles or localEulerAngles based on how the objects are set up

[meager siren]

so variable = transform.eulerangles? smth like that

[fast relic]

you'd wanna keep track of them yourself

and you initialize it to transform.eulerAngles only at the start

[meager siren]

i hate rotations

[fast relic]

everybody does but it's just something you have to put up with

just make a vector3 variable

[placid jewel]

by which you mean like,
at the start you initialize it to eulerangles
then each update, you update the variable as desired
then update the rotation of the object to match the variable

[meager siren]

I make a vector3 variable to grab eulerangles correct?

[fast relic]

yeah

[fast relic]

yes, in outer scope

[meager siren]

can this leave me alone

[fast relic]

no because unity is stubborn and wants their own vectors

[meager siren]

aaah

[fast relic]

you want UnityEngine.Vector3 not System.Numerics.Vector3

[meager siren]

yeah dw I know

do I add the Vector3 variable to the transform.eulerangles?

then the input and what not or smth

or is it more complicated

[placid jewel]

add the variable to the rotation?

Don't think so

[fast relic]

you just set transform.eulerAngles to that variable

[meager siren]

OH

oh alright

[fast relic]

now, you'd wanna add your vertical mouse movement to its x component and your horizontal mouse movement to its y component

i know it's a bit confusing, but it's because x rotation is rotating around the x axis

[meager siren]

coding is confusing lmao

I'll get used to it tho

[fast relic]

here it's just rotations that are confusing haha

[meager siren]

it a bit broken

[fast relic]

how?

[meager siren]

did I do something wrong

[fast relic]

i said, you want to add your mouse's horizontal movement (the x component) to your rotation around the y axis, and your horizontal to your rotation around the x axis

[meager siren]

oh

[fast relic]

also, you shouldn't be adding your angle to eulerAngles - you should just set it directly

[meager siren]

oh

I see

[fast relic]

since transform.eulerAngles converts from and to quaternions when accessed and set, it can be inconsistent and confusing to work with directly

[placid jewel]

you want to essentially:
-read the euler angles to a variable at the start
-update your variable with whatever logic/math you need to get the right rotation
-then set euler angles to the variable

[fast relic]

yeah

[placid jewel]

It's like taking a copy to work on, since you don't want to mess up the original

[fast relic]

well no, it's like working on your own copy and then occasionally updating the target

[placid jewel]

True

It's like using github

[meager siren]

hey

[fast relic]

git

[meager siren]

if I look up, I kinda fly

[fast relic]

yeah, because you need to set your input's y component to 0

[meager siren]

its kinda funny tbh

[meager siren]

right

[placid jewel]

wait

is your movement script based on the camera's forward direction?

[meager siren]

yeah

[fast relic]

like here

Vector3 forwardInput = input.y * forwardDirection;
Vector3 rightInput = input.x * rightDirection;
Vector3 input = forwardInput + rightInput;

// set it to 0 because you can look up
input.y = 0;
rb.linearVelocity = input.normalized * speed; // needs to be normalized, because you don't want to move slower when looking up

[placid jewel]

it might be better to base it on the player object's transform.forward direction and then rotate the player according to the mouse movement

[meager siren]

oh

I was thinking that

[fast relic]

eh, not necessary

[meager siren]

but like

[fast relic]

and might be more confusing

[placid jewel]

so like

[placid jewel]

instead of this

[placid jewel]

just set (forwardDirection.y = 0)

And then normalize forwardDirection (I assume)

[fast relic]

not justforwardDirection

[fast relic]

here

[placid jewel]

doesn't right direction not have a upwards component though?

since it's perpendicular to the forward direction

it should be only along x and z no?

[fast relic]

well no?

or i might be getting confused myself

but i'd just set the sum's y to 0

and then normalize it

[meager siren]

also how di I clamp it properly

ive done this

which isn't working ofc

[fast relic]

well you're clamping your movement, not the final angle

[meager siren]

oh

like how do I clamp it then

[fast relic]

well, you clamp the x angle, not the y input

[meager siren]

well yeah

but im guessing no need to assign a variable to it

[fast relic]

wdym

you first subtract input.y from it, then you clamp the angle.x

[meager siren]

doesnt matter im a dumbass

double checking the angle.x is the y axis? because i am so confused with which is what now

[fast relic]

no, you're clamping the input.y

Mathf.Clamp() returns the value you passed in, but it can't go below the min or above the max

you're passing in the input.y, which is what you're clamping

buyt you don't wanna limit the rotation speed, rather the target rotation

[meager siren]

im lost

what do I do here then?

[fast relic]

okay, do you know what returning a value from a function is?

[meager siren]

I think

[fast relic]

let's say i want you to write a function that takes a number, multiplies it by 2 and then returns it

[meager siren]

is the 'return' thing or something else

[fast relic]

how would you do that?

[meager siren]

well

function, inside function number multiply, next line 'return'

[fast relic]

public int Double(int value) {
  // what do you put here? 
}

[meager siren]

something like that

honestly, this is like school lmao

[placid jewel]

It's not really important but I want to make sure I'm not going crazy myself lol

These are the two angles of rotation of the camera (the black arrows) and the corresponding rotation (blue arrows) of the right vector (green), I don't see how it's possible to rotate the camera in a way that the right vector doesn't stay horizontal

[fast relic]

because i'm trying to teach you, not give you the solution straight up

[meager siren]

I dont entirely understand how to use functions

[meager siren]

thats mainly what I would rather lol

[meager siren]

I know the basis

[fast relic]

oh yeah, but it still makes more sense conceptually to normalize the sum

[fast relic]

knowing how to use functions is a major part of the basics

[meager siren]

I said 'Basis' not Basics

I know how its used I just dunno how to use it

[fast relic]

that's a linear algebra term

[meager siren]

yk?

[fast relic]

well a function is just a piece of code you can reuse

[meager siren]

yeah

I know that

its callable through your script

[fast relic]

they can take arguments and return values

[meager siren]

I know you use return to return values from memory

[fast relic]

yeah

or you can use just return; to exit a function that doesn't return any value early

[meager siren]

buuut,
the "int" and "value" in the thing you sent I dunno if you meant multiplay the value

I just remembered what the int part is lmao

[fast relic]

the int is the return type and the value is one of the parameters

[meager siren]

yeah

[fast relic]

public int /* <- return type */ Double(int value /* <- parameter */) {

}

[meager siren]

public int Double(int value) {
  value *= 2;
  return value;
}

Forgot if it was *= or just *

*=

or *

wait

[fast relic]

* just gives you the value multiplied by 2, but you aren't doing anything with it

while *= sets it to that

doing value *= 2 is the same as doing value = value * 2

it's just a shorthand

[meager siren]

I forgot if you do return and then value

[meager siren]

alright

[meager siren]

you did it in python

this

that I mean

[fast relic]

return (in a function whose return type isn't void) returns the value after it

[meager siren]

oh

alright

[fast relic]

so return "Hello world"; makes the function output "Hello world"

[radiant glen]

Working on movement for my game and really want this to feel polished, the character does not move well, at all, I want the model to move with the camera smoothly, I am using a premade movement pack from the unity asset store, trying to get a VR feel from a pc game

[fast relic]

okay, now how do you use a value that some function returns?

[meager siren]

reference it from the function?

[fast relic]

outside of the function

[meager siren]

ouside of the function

yeah

[fast relic]

how do you use a function that returns something

[meager siren]

I forgot to add that

[fast relic]

int myInt = 4;
int doubledInt = // how do you use the Double() function we wrote earlier here?

[fast relic]

well the first thing would probably be adding an animation

[meager siren]

int myInt = 4;
int doubledInt = Double(value);

something like that

[fast relic]

almost

you don't have a value declared anywhere, that value we had in the function was simply the name of the parameter

which is what you use in the actual function

but you need to double myInt

[meager siren]

oh

ohhh

lmao

hold on

I forgot how to be smart lmao

int myInt = 4;
int doubledInt = Double(value = myInt);

something like that

[fast relic]

well, it'd be value: myInt

[meager siren]

ah

right

[fast relic]

but you can just do Double(myInt) - you don't need to explicitly name the arguments if you pass them in the same order

[radiant glen]

It has just an idle set right now

[meager siren]

close enough lmao

[meager siren]

alright

[fast relic]

now, let's look at a more complex example - writing your own clamp function

public int Clamp(int value, int min, int max) {
  // (...)
}

[meager siren]

oh

im screwed

[fast relic]

nah you should be fine

how would you do something like this?

[eternal needle]

you should really make a thread if you plan to just tutor someone

[meager siren]

lmao

[fierce shuttle]

What "doesnt feel polished" about it to you? What would "moving with the camera" look like to you? To me it seems that you model does move with your camera, as cookie pointed out it just doesnt play any animaitons that feel like the character is "moving" like arm swinging for example, head bobbing, etc (but thats less code related and more animation relation at that point)

[meager siren]

I have a feeling its something involving minusing or adding

[fast relic]

not necessarily, it's just branching

well, if your value is less than the min, you want it to return the min, and if it's greater than the max you want it to return the max

and otherwise the value itself

[meager siren]

right

[radiant glen]

Okay I see what you mean, it looks like it rotates with wasd when I would pefer with it was facing where I was looking, is this annimation related?

[meager siren]

I can use if statements

[fast relic]

yeah

[fast relic]

then just make it face where you're looking

shouldn't be that hard

[radiant glen]

Okay, that makes sense, when typing it sounds silly

[radiant glen]

Thanks

[fierce shuttle]

Everything in game dev sounds silly, but asking questions is how we learn

[meager siren]

public int Clamp(int value, int min, int max) {
  if (value > max)
  {
    value = max;
  }
  else if (value < min)
  {
    value = min;
  }
  return value;
}

Something like this

[fast relic]

yeah (you got the greater than sign the wrong way round tho in the second statement)

but you still need to return the value

[meager siren]

I was contemplating it ngl

[meager siren]

I forgot about that

[placid jewel]

Forgetting one crucial part, how is the value coming back out

[meager siren]

I forget things fast alright

[placid jewel]

Don't worry

[fast relic]

okay, now how do you use our fancy not-exactly-new clamp function?

[placid jewel]

Probably should make a thread by the way, it feels like this discussion is going to go on for a while longer

[fast relic]

yeah sure

[ashen trail]

why cant i move my character??

[placid jewel]

What is moveSpeed set to?

[worthy forum]

just do velocity

[meager siren]

even I know why

I think anyways

[worthy forum]

and make sure speed is set in the inspector

[meager siren]

nevermind, but it is probably speed

[placid jewel]

Can you send a screenshot of your character object's inspector widow?

[ashen trail]

speed is set

[placid jewel]

Wait

OnMove is never called no?

It's not a built in function

[meager siren]

yeah

[ashen trail]

ohh

[worthy forum]

oh yea don't know how i didn't catch that lol

[ashen trail]

so i should just call it in fixedUpdate then?

[placid jewel]

Yeah

[worthy forum]

are you you using the playerInput?

[placid jewel]

But it might be a good idea to move line 17 (velocity update) into your movement function

[worthy forum]

and is it set to event, sendmessage or broadcastMessage

[ashen trail]

okay

[ashen trail]

I searched up the new unity movement input thing and just tried using that

not sure if that answered your question

[worthy forum]

usually i just go for the "C# events" for the new input system. and i just access the InputAction directly for movement input

if you are using the new input system either you have to use the PlayerInput or manually setup the C# events

[fast relic]

(or reference the input action)

[worthy forum]

yup

but with playerInput you can reference a global and easy to edit InputMap/actionMap

you can just add the playerInput component to your object

[ashen trail]

i dont really know how input works or anything really

so i just went with this

ohh and then set playerinput to 1

and it should work

or am I tweaking?

[fast relic]

playerinput is a component

[worthy forum]

no need to set playerInput to 1. its a component

[cloud fox]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using Unity.VisualScripting.Dependencies.NCalc;
using UnityEngine;

public class playerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float playerSpeed = 5f;
    public int playerJump = 10;
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private Vector2 moveVel;
    private Transform grounded;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        grounded = GetComponentInChildren<Transform>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        moveVel = Vector2.zero;
        handleInput(KeyCode);
        moveVel = moveVel.normalized * playerSpeed;
    }
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.MovePosition(rb.position + moveVel * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
    }
    void handleInput(KeyCode key)
    {
        switch (key)
        {
            case KeyCode.A:
                moveVel = new Vector2(1 * playerSpeed, 0);
                break;
            case KeyCode.W:
                moveVel = new Vector2(-1 * playerSpeed, 0);
                break;
        }
    }
}

how do I feed my key inputs into this? I'm not even sure a switch case is necessary here either. (Also before anyone says to use getaxis I don't want to because I'd rather have more finite control over which keys are moves

[ashen trail]

okay thanks

[placid jewel]

Use Input.GetKeyDown

[fast relic]

you should really be using the new input system

[worthy forum]

new input system is quite nice. has a learning curve but it has flexibility

[cloud fox]

what new input system?

[fast relic]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.15/manual/index.html

[meager siren]

btw is there an inputaction reference for sprinting or smth? or should I just use the Keycode

[fast relic]

wdym?

[cloud fox]

can I assume this enables controller + keyboard support without manually writing out stuff for both?

[fast relic]

you just make a sprinting action and reference that

[meager siren]

oh

[fast relic]

you'd need to set the bindings for controller

[meager siren]

I should probably use my own input action map

ngl

[fast relic]

you can edit the default input actions

[meager siren]

oh

ok

[worthy forum]

iirc in unity 6 and up it by default gives you a input action map

[cloud fox]

if I did want to do it this way though for the sake of learning and understanding how could I pass a value into the function(also ignore the keycodes I fixed them)?

[fast relic]

you really shouldn't be learning an obsolete way of handling input

[placid jewel]

Especially if it's for the sake of learning, you should do your best to learn the new system, it's a bad idea to learn something that's actively being replaced

[cloud fox]

well my main thoughts were: the game is going to be a roguelike and I want to have other bindings for certain skills and this seemed like a straightforward approach