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[dusk jay]

idk what they mean

but i think they arent the problem for things dissapearing are they?

[naive pawn]

they could be

errors can be a lot of things

if you don't know, then ask instead of ignoring

[dusk jay]

they were because of the sprinting code

i fixed them by removing it

[naive pawn]

doubt it

[dusk jay]

im now reopening my project

yeah no fix

[naive pawn]

yeah because that's unrelated

perhaps actually check the errors

send them here if you don't understand them

[dusk jay]

no those werent the problem i fixed the layout

now i can go back to the script

i was able to fix the problem

finally

looks like auto save wasnt saving my input so i just save manualy

[slender nymph]

but have you gotten visual studio configured

[dusk jay]

im gonna do it now

its working now

thx

[swift sierra]

Hello can anyone see what's wrong with my localization code, i'm trying with Tap {count} times but it keeps showing me the value I set in the editor and ignoring this. So I keep seeing 100 instead of 4 if I remove the value from the editor it fails straight away. withError parsing format string: Could not evaluate the selector "count" at 5

[zenith cypress]

Looks like it expects a dictionary as the arg

[naive pawn]

(iirc it can accept a lot of things)

[gloomy bison]

mb meant to delete it :(

[zenith cypress]

I think if it is keyed in the string, it needs the dictionary, but if it is indexed it needs an array? It's a tad confusing at times for sure on the specifics.

Seems like it yeah https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.0/manual/Smart/Default-Source.html

[naive pawn]

what is the 2nd screenshot here from?

[naive pawn]

it's always an array, but if you use a name it can be from a dict or (i think?) a struct using reflection

but yeah i don't think a single integer is in the options

[zenith cypress]

If you did "potato: {0}" then you could just pass in the int for the arg, but with "potato: {Count}" you need either a dictionary or an object with that named field yeah. The reflection item on the left (under sources) shows the class one

[naive pawn]

but that second screenshot seems like they have variables set up separately, so im kinda confused on that

[zenith cypress]

Can even do xml, what in tarnation

[hybrid cobalt]

Hm, how can I make 2 separate game objects to communicate with each other (like Player to UI to update health)? I would normally use Signals in Godot, and Unity has Events, but not sure if people actually use Unity Events for this.

[swift sierra]

Thanks guys, I'm still a bit confused lol but I will give that dictionary example a shot as I might just need to add that second line with "Count", Count...that cant be right either 🤔 . I think I may need to try and spend some more time in the docs

[polar acorn]

Make one of them reference the other one.
https://unity.huh.how/references

[hybrid cobalt]

Got it! Seems simple enough

[timber tide]

Unity has Unity Events which you can hook up in the editor, or c# events which you do from runtime binding

but too lazy for that and rather just direct reference when possible

usually the idea is those objects further down the hierarchy should have events to the parents if it does need to communicate back

But if communication is one-way (downward), it's proper to just direct reference if we're talking static elements

[hybrid cobalt]

Mhm, it should still be loosely coupled when using references

[hot wadi]

Events are typically one-way, no? I just think they save us from the nasty references when too many objects have to be triggered

[grand snow]

Thats the point of events, to allow anything to add a listener (or not)

the invoker of the event doesnt need to know about any listener

[gloomy bison]

hi. im trying to make a simple bus controller with wheels.
however, with no inputs the bus jumps out like so in image 1
code: https://pastebin.com/jdte5z5h
bus set-up - image 2
wheels - image 3 and 4
(the bus model is not mine if thats of importance)
if i've left any helpful information out, please let me know

(video of what the bus does)

but yeah please can i have a possible cause and possible fix for this? i'm not even sure why this is happening

[maiden totem]

I'm probably overcomplicating this to no end, but how would I check if the velocity of a rigidbody does not exceed the maximum speed in a certain direction? This is what I'm doing right now but I'm not sure if this is correct at all:

bool exceedsMaxVelocity = Vector2.Dot(playerRigidbody.linearVelocity, movementVector) / movementSpeed > 1;

playerRigidbody.linearVelocity += 
    exceedsMaxVelocity ?
    Vector3.zero :
    movementVector * (acceleration * Time.deltaTime);```

[gloomy bison]

i meant with no input. it just decides to shoot off whenever i press play

sorry, i should have specified

[maiden totem]

And in turn I want to accelerate the rigidbody in the movement direction (given by the input), up until its velocity in that direction exceeds the max speed

I hope this makes sense

I'm just trying to make a 3d rigidbody player controller that doesnt overwrite the velocity directly and doesnt add force

[hot wadi]

The only thing I find to be changing the wheel positions is the GetWorldPose method. Have u tried the code without that?

[midnight tree]

Do you have any errors in the console?

[gloomy bison]

oh that works. thanks!

[gloomy bison]

no. no errors

[eternal needle]

is there a reason for the whole "maximum speed in a certain direction" part? like would there ever actually be a case where you have an object being pushed sideways and still want it to move at full speed going forward

[gloomy bison]

quick question about dictionaries, do i not need arrays if i'm using a dictionary?
example:

private void Start()
{
    peopleAndSeats = new Dictionary<GameObject, int>();
    peopleOnBus = new GameObject[64];
    seatNumbersTaken = new int[64];
}

void AddNewPerson(GameObject passanger)
{
    int seatNum = -1; // Default val -1

    for (int i = 0; i < seatNumbersTaken.Length; i++)
    {
        if (seatNumbersTaken[i] == 0)
        {
            seatNum = i;
            peopleAndSeats.Add(passanger, seatNum);
            peopleOnBus[seatNum] = passanger;
        }
    }
}

[timber tide]

You do not need an array, but c# has a special dictionary which includes a way to iterate over it via foreach

[gloomy bison]

ahhh thank you

[timber tide]

no guarantee on ordering

[eternal needle]

it's stored in the dictionary, if theres ever a reason you need to get all the gameObjects you could iterate over it or even grab the peopleAndSeats.Keys

[gloomy bison]

tbf im not too fussed on ordering. if someone is in a seat, then it skips over it

[gloomy bison]

ahh thanks!

also does the key come first?

like the gameobject is the key

so it is

[timber tide]

you iterate by the key entry, yeah

if you want to iterate by unique values only*, you'd probably need to store those values into its own data struct

well, you iterate by kvp

[gloomy bison]

oki thanks

[timber tide]

meaning that you can come across the same value multiple times if multiple keys do point to it

[maiden totem]

i mean, the way i see it is that i want the object to preserve momentum after being pushed around and stuff
while still having a maximum speed it cannot go above without being pushed by something else

so like if the player is pushed backwards with a speed higher than their maximum, they cant accelerate backwards but can slow down forwards

how would i do that?

[eternal needle]

what you have is likely fine except the Vector2.Dot seems weird considering you're using vector3.zero later. If this is 3d then you should grab the specific values you want from the linearVelocity because otherwise I think you're comparing the xy values rather than xz which is horizontal movement.
If movement vector is always normalized then id assume this works fine. if the movement vector isn't normalized then comparing this to your movementSpeed is wrong
though still id really question if this case ever comes up in your game. Id just compare the .magnitude of the horizontal components of the linearVelocity to this movementSpeed

[maiden totem]

movementVector is just the direct value from the input system

also ohh i see yeah, it should be vector3.dot instead

[eternal needle]

you need to normalize it anyways because you're using it for adding to the velocity

well actually i dont know if its normalized already. you can double check that pretty easily by printing out the magnitude

[maiden totem]

but its already normalized no?

it is

its not 1,1 its sqrt(2),sqrt(2) when holding diagonally

so should be normalized

[eternal needle]

1/sqrt(2) or sqrt(2)/2 hopefully but yea

[maiden totem]

whatever 0.707 is i forgot 😭

okay this seems to actually work quite well! needed to tweak the max speed/acceleration and linear damping values but it feels great

[naive pawn]

yeah sqrt(2) is about 1.414

[zenith cypress]

flow launcher is great for those quick math checks

[rough granite]

Tf is flow launcher?

[zenith cypress]

https://www.flowlauncher.com (basically a quick app opener/quick actions)

[rough granite]

Oh, why

[nova grove]

I cant see my Serializedfield instances in inpector why?

[soft stone]

public class Laserbeam
{
    Vector3 pos, dir;
    Gameobject laserobj;
    LineRenderer laser;
    List<Vector3> laserIndices = new List<Vector3>();


    public LaserBeam(Vector3 pos, Vector3 dir, Material material)
    {
        this.laser = new LineRenderer();
        this.laserobj = new Gameobject();
        this.laserobj.name = "Laser beam";
        this.pos = pos;
        this.dir = dir;
        this.laser = this.laserobj.AddComponent(typeof(LineRenderer)) as LineRenderer;
        this.laser.startwidth = 0.1f;
        this.laser.endwidth = 0.1f;
        this.laser.startColor = Color.green;
        this.laser.endColor = Color.green;

        CastRay();

    }
    void CastRay(Vector3 pos, Vector3 dir, LineRenderer laser)
    {
        laserIndices.Add(pos);
    }
    void UpdateLaser()
    {
        int count = 0;
        laser.PositonCount = laserIndices.Count;
        foreach (Vector3 idx in laserIndices)
        {
            laser.Setposition(count, idx);
            count++;
        }
    }
}

I had a feeling that there's some problem when the objects / methods did not get coloured, Where could be the issue

I was following a yt tutorial on laser beams

[naive pawn]

seems like you used "C# script" instead of "monobehaviour script" - you're missing some stuff here, specifically a using and a : MonoBehaviour

as for the coloring, see below

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[timber tide]

Fix any errors, compile and reload the domain

[nova grove]

my classes are internal I think that is source of the problem @timber tide

[timber tide]

I would think it would throw any error here then, no? Unless you mean those are classes you've not serialized

[nova grove]

what should I do unity sample project works well mine does not serialize

i tried asmdef for classes still not showing in inspector

[timber tide]

Is PlayerInput here extending from monobehaviour/ScriptableObject or is it a POCO?

or just give me the class signature

[nova grove]

in sample it overrides like this I implement this to ```cs
using Player;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEditor.UIElements;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;

namespace Editor
{
[CustomEditor(typeof(PlayerTransform))]
class PlayerTransformEditor : UnityEditor.Editor
{
public override VisualElement CreateInspectorGUI()
{
var root = new VisualElement();
serializedObject.Update();
SerializedProperty property = serializedObject.GetIterator();
property.NextVisible(true);
while (property.NextVisible(false))
{
var propertyField = new PropertyField(property);
root.Add(propertyField);
}

        serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();

        return root;
    }
}

}

[timber tide]

This looks more like a custom editor script and I assume it's just not being drawn then

[polar acorn]

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[timber tide]

Exclude the whole editor drawer and just get your classes shown in the inspector without it

[nova grove]

it doesnt work

maybe Unity does not serialize fields of internal classes by default in the Inspector

[timber tide]

if the internal class is being used outside of the assembly, yeah, but I would expect some errors from either the IDE or after compiling.

[gusty bone]

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[timber tide]

unless the IDE isn't configured here

anyway, for the sake of testing just remove the internal keyword

[dim egret]

is there any way to remove the "is paused" bool on other scenes? alr so i have a scene called "game scene" and another called "pause scene" and when i press escape the pause screen overlaps the game scene and pauses it and that is when the "is paused" bool turns true, but the bool for the pause scene is set to false since it just loaded in so i wanted to know if theres any way to completely remove the "is paused" button for the pause scene without having to make a whole new script dedicated to it

like is there any way to set the bool to null (ik it prob doesnt) but like have an if statement that if the scene is called "pause scene" the bool gets rid of it

[nova grove]

thank you ❤️

[midnight tree]

Uh...
SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name and look is this scene exist in array of scenes on whom you wanna stop the game?

Maybe you meant something else but I understood it exactly like this.

[dim egret]

alright let me try to explain a little better. so i have this script that enables the "pause scene" as long as it isn't named "Game Scene" or else it will be disabled. so im wondering if theres any way to do the same with the bool

[coarse wasp]

If this isnt the right channel I can try a different place but I am having some trouble with shaders. I made an unlit shader in URP because I was following a tutorial. I realize now that unlit means no shadows which was dumb of me I should of thought of that. I do not want to have to try and write the shader again in shader graph because I frankly dont understand shader graph right now, is there an easy way to get basic shadows and lighting to work in my existing shader? I know in SRP you could have done #pragma surface surf Standard fullforwardshadows vertex:vert, but that doesn't work for URP

[dim egret]

like if its named "game scene" the bool will disappear and u can make it true or false

like the pause action being disabled if the current scene is named "game scene"

[timber tide]

#1390346776804069396 #1391720450752516147

[midnight tree]

I know only that you can make bool actually null with this line:

bool? name = null; (for example)

But I don't see any solution for your idea. I am a little bit tired today so sorry that I gave you no answer. Maybe somebody else can help you instead of me.

[slender nymph]

that's not a bool being null, that's a Nullable<bool> allowing you to assign null

[dim egret]

np :) i appreciate all the help i can possibly get :D

should i just make a separeta script for it? but it would seem pointless to

[midnight tree]

Damn. My head is already refusing to work.

[brave robin]

Do so if it will prevent you from making mistakes in the future. If it's just to remove a boolean field you'll never touch otherwise, it's probably not worth it

[dim egret]

i could send the whole script here. its not too long

[brave robin]

You could make an abstract scene change class, and then have two children: one for normal scenes, and one for the pause scene

Only the normal one can be paused and has the bool, and the other doesn't

[dim egret]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class ChangeScene : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private InputActionReference pause;
    public bool isPaused;

    private void Start()
    {
        isPaused = false;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name != "Game Scene" || pause != null)
            pause.action.Enable();
        else
            pause.action.Disable();

        if (pause.action.WasPressedThisFrame())
        {
            PauseGame("PauseScene");
        }
    }

    public void ChangeLevelScene(string changeScene)
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(changeScene);
        Debug.Log("Changed scenes");
    }

    public void QuitGame()
    {
        Application.Quit();
    }

    public void PauseGame(string _pauseScreen)
    {
        isPaused = !isPaused;

        if (isPaused && !SceneManager.GetSceneByName(_pauseScreen).isLoaded)
        {
            Time.timeScale = 0f;
            Debug.Log("Paused");
            SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(_pauseScreen, LoadSceneMode.Additive);
        }
        else if (!isPaused && SceneManager.GetSceneByName(_pauseScreen).isLoaded)
        {
            Time.timeScale = 1f;
            Debug.Log("Resumed");
            SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync(_pauseScreen);
        }
    }
}

this is my code

messy ik

but if someone actually reads trough it pls tell me what i can improve on and learn to make this easier

i think imma make an abstract class, seems alot easier than.. whatever i made lol

[slender nymph]

or just make a separate component to handle pausing. why should the component that handles changing scenes also handle the pause state of the game. they can be separate and the pause component can just call a method on the scene change one to change the scene

[dim egret]

that is true

[spiral oracle]

I need help in #🖱️┃input-system

[mild citrus]

how do i fix this error

[slender nymph]

!ide 👇 start by configuring vs code

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[dim egret]

alright so i make different scripts for changing scene and pausing. should i also make a separate script for interactable buttons? or should i make them in the pause script?

or wait no

the pause script is just for pausing

nvm

[rancid tinsel]

guys this is a little stinky, is there something else I can do that's better?

the parameters on the Action are important for a different system

[mild citrus]

I configured it but now I have new errors it doesn't say how to fix

[ivory bobcat]

The error states that you cannot use line 14 as you've currently have got it.

Maybe you meant to do something like... cs a = new A[4,5];

[timber tide]

Well, considering you've not supplied any other options, all I can suggest is refactor it all

but if this is like a small project then I wouldn't bother

[rancid tinsel]

why refactor?

[timber tide]

Well, you're asking if it's smelly and if you're not using any of the params there then that would be the answer. But, not that I've not* done similar before, but usually I keep it open-ended with passing a struct of data so even if I don't necessarily need it. It's still something that could potentially be useful later on in the project. Example: DeathInfo { KillSource, KillSourceLocation }

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/arrays#multidimensional-arrays
@mild citrus

[polar acorn]

!ide

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[slender nymph]

these two actions are actually unrelated. you need to subscribe a method or store the Action in a variable and use that variable to un/subscribe. also when writing a lambda that you don't need the parameters for you can use discards so your expression would become (_,_) => isDead = true

[rancid tinsel]

_ is a discard? what does that mean exactly?

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/functional/discards

[polar acorn]

It means "This function expects to give a parameter but I will literally never need to use it so I don't care what it gets assigned to"

[timber tide]

I usually dislike having to use them, but then I remember my input class is usually full of em

don't really care for the context most of the time

[rancid tinsel]

yeah mine is sort of like that - it passes an EntityIdentity class (who died), and DamageInfo (source, damagetype, damagenumber) that killed it - just in this case all I care about is that it died

man the C#/Unity wizards have syntax for everything

thanks a lot guys

learned something new as always 😄

[slender nymph]

just make sure you also implement the first part of my message as well otherwise you are still not actually unsubscribing 😉

[spare saddle]

Hey, I'm following a udemy tutorial on C# for Unity. I'm on a part for Input Events and what I'm trying to do is make it so when I hover my mouse over a cube game object it shows a debug saying "Over".

private void OnMouseOver()
{
Debug.Log("Over");
}

It doesn't work for whatever reason

when i hover my mouse over the cube.

[valid violet]

check if you put script on object if object have collider

[spare saddle]

Yeah it's in there.

The name of the script is InputEvents

[valid violet]

Did you run Play button to check if it is working in play mode? It should works.

[polar acorn]

OnMouseOver is part of the old input manager. If you're using the Input System, you'll need to use raycasts to determine what the mouse is over

[spare saddle]

I don't even know what a raycast is.

Well thanks for the info

[polar acorn]

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

[mild citrus]

It autocompletes and red highlighs but still not showing errors

[polar acorn]

If it's not showing your errors then it's not configured

[mild citrus]

what are you talking about I see red highlights when I purposely add erorrs to check so that means it's working

[polar acorn]

Okay, so it is underlining your errors

[mild citrus]

yes but there are no red highlights but still error in console

[polar acorn]

If it's the same errors you showed before, and they're not highlighted, then you have not configured your IDE. Follow the instructions.

[mild citrus]

forget I looked up alternatives to VS it's worthless

[polar acorn]

You aren't even using VS

[mild citrus]

whatever I was using it was worthless no one could even help me. I downloaded cursor AI and it fixed it

[polar acorn]

No one is allowed to help you until you configure your IDE. It's in the rules.

[mild citrus]

I told you countless times I configured it, i updated and nothing, cursor fixed the error in seconds

[polar acorn]

You didn't or your errors would have been underlined

[rugged beacon]

try IPointerEnter/exit

[rugged beacon]

does this really unregister? i thought this is new lambda for each register and unregister

[rancid tinsel]

someone else said a similar thing

I ended up replacing the parameters with discards, which fixes it... I think?

[rugged beacon]

idk but i believe it still a lambda you just discard the variable
you want a method or reference to it

[slender nymph]

that does not fix the fact you aren't unsubscribing

[rancid tinsel]

ah ok so I do need to pass a method to it

[timber tide]

you need to save is as a variable or make a whole new method

[rancid tinsel]

mb I thought that was a separate thing

Like that, or is it still not counted as the same thing?

[slender nymph]

that's exactly the same as before

[timber tide]

I think you do need to specify the params on the methods right

[slender nymph]

if you want to use a method then your method needs to accept the parameters the delegate passes and subscribe directly with the method, not a lambda

[rancid tinsel]

I'm confused - so what was the discard for?

[slender nymph]

for if you wanted to continue using the lambda

and you'd need to store the lambda in a variable then un/subscribe that variable instead of doing it with the lambda directly

[rancid tinsel]

wait so there is actually no way to ignore parameters from an event?

[rugged beacon]

you ignore it by not doing anything with it

[rancid tinsel]

well yes but I mean without having to pass them anywhere

I guess this doesn't really matter tho

[slender nymph]

the event is going to pass them no matter what

[cosmic dagger]

If you don't need them, don't pass them. If you need them, then pass them. You're not required to use the parameters . . .

[slender nymph]

even using the discard doesn't prevent it from passing the parameters, it just tells the compiler you don't want to actually use them

[spare saddle]

So what's the best way to learn how to code things in Unity as someone who's never coded before?

I can't seem to find any way to do it. I usually end up watching tutorials that end up being outdated

hence my previous coding problem

🙁

[astral void]

!learn

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[astral void]

probably this

[zenith cypress]

Not much will be outdated unless you are looking for a specific thing, like a Render Pipeline feature, or a very old Unity 5 tutorial

[bleak raft]

Hi,
I'm doing a very simple school project where I've made a blackjack game and now need to make it multiplayer. The game is fully functional as single player. But how to make it multiplayer confuses me with how many different solutions I see out there.
Is there by any chance anyone willing to help me?

Thank you for your time and have a good day 🙂

[astral void]

do you want it to be online multiplayer? if so, it is suddenly a very complicated project, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you already have a decent knowledge of unity and C# and are willing to learn a lot. for that, I would recommend making a post in #1390346492019212368 and ask there instead. If you want local multiplayer (not sure how that would work with blackjack) then it's far simpler.

[kindred dome]

if i have a script using InvokeRepeating to repeat a function every X seconds, what happens if i disable the gameobject that script is attached to?

does it stop repeating or does it keep going?

[sour fulcrum]

maybe not the answer you want but the best answer is to stop using invokerepeating

and use something like a coroutine which has better documentation and results online

[wintry quarry]

It stops

[kindred dome]

ive just realised a slight problem lmao

ive got an object disabling itself in a script and then that same script is to reenable it later

except its disabled so nothing happens

oop

[kindred dome]

is there a way to quickly delete all the points on a linerenderer?

[sour fulcrum]

if you set the array size to 0 iirc

[acoustic birch]

Could anyone teach me why unity allows code written like this?

CBUFFER_START (UnityPerMaterial)
    TEXTURE2D (_MainTex);
    SAMPLER (sampler_MainTex);
    float4 _MainTex_ST;
CBUFFER_END

[keen dew]

What do you mean "allows"? It's HLSL for making shaders

[astral void]

bc it's not c#? I assume that's what you're referring to

[acoustic birch]

"allows" means texture declaration is allowed in cbuffer declaration scope without error, which should be impossible

[naive pawn]

this channel is primarily for c# scripting, for shader stuff perhaps ask #1390346776804069396

[sour fulcrum]

#↕️┃editor-extensions

[meager siren]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class DoorScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform mainCamera;
    public Transform player;
    public Transform door;
    public InputActionReference interact;
    public float openSpeed;
    public float closedSpeed;
    bool opened;
    RaycastHit hit;
    Vector3 currentRotation;
    Vector3 openTargetRotation = new Vector3(0, -135, 0);
    Vector3 closedTargetRotation = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
    LayerMask layermask;

    void Start()
    {
        layermask = LayerMask.GetMask("Door");
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        currentRotation = transform.eulerAngles;
        if (Physics.Raycast(player.position, mainCamera.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, 2, layermask))
        {
            Debug.DrawRay(player.position, mainCamera.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward) * 2f, Color.yellow);
            if (interact.action.IsPressed() && !opened)
            {
                opened = true;
            }
            else if (interact.action.IsPressed() && opened)
            {
                opened = false;
            }        
        }
        if (opened)
        {
            currentRotation.y = Mathf.LerpAngle(currentRotation.y, openTargetRotation.y, openSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            transform.eulerAngles = currentRotation;
            if (transform.eulerAngles.y >= -120)
            {
                opened = false;
            }
        }
        if (!opened)
        {
            currentRotation.y = Mathf.LerpAngle(currentRotation.y, closedTargetRotation.y, closedSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            transform.eulerAngles = currentRotation;
            if (transform.eulerAngles.y <= -15)
            {
                opened = true;
            }
        }
    }
}

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[weary finch]

okay

[meager siren]

Mic was not working lmao

[sour fulcrum]

ill repost this over there

[meager siren]

I want the door to just go open, then when the eulerangle.y is -120 or less it will be able to close, and the same for the opposite its just greater -15

[naive pawn]

you generally shouldn't use eulerAngles to store state

why not just keep track of the state yourself?

ah, because it's wrong lerp

[meager siren]

wdym?

Should I be using a different lerp?

[quartz shore]

what is the bongo cat thing you have on the bottom right i want that

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[meager siren]

what you just said. Thats what it is. Bongo Cat on steam

[quartz shore]

omg ok something on steam

thank you

i will look into this

[naive pawn]

"lerp" stands for "linear interpolation"
you're using it "wrong", in that you're giving different arguments that make it not a linear interpolation. it looks nice on the surface but has inconsistent and undesirable behavior once you get into the math

it'll technically never reach the openTargetRotation

[meager siren]

so how do fix it?

Well, make it wait till its done

[naive pawn]

you just.. wouldn't use it, tbh

[meager siren]

then what would I use?

[naive pawn]

there are replacements here, but iirc they also asymtote the target (meaning mathematically they might never reach it)

but at least with that, you get consistent times

that solves one of the issues

for the asymtotic behavior, you could use an epsilon to snap

you might want to consider using a coroutine for this to make the logic much simpler

[meager siren]

coroutine?

ive already forgot about this

[naive pawn]

have you heard of those before?

[meager siren]

didnt the other guy explain that like last week?

[naive pawn]

no clue, i barely remember you

you'll have to search your message history for that lol

but coroutines basically let you have a contiguous block of code for logic that runs over time, rather than having a function called multiple times for each timestep

[meager siren]

it was when we were rude to eachother

[naive pawn]

don't remember that either.. i don't really remember people here

[meager siren]

lmao

[naive pawn]

for example, here's how you might do it with normal lerping (no smoothing)

IEnumerator Open() {
  float elapsedTime = 0;
  Vector3 rot = transform.eulerAngles;
  while (elapsedTime < openTime) {
    rot.y = Mathf.LerpAngle(closeAngle, openAngle, elapsedTime / openTime); // slerping quaternions might be something to consider too
    transform.eulerAngles = rot;
    elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;
    yield return null;
  }
  opened = true;
}

[meager siren]

I love when I cannot understand code

makes me feel epic

[naive pawn]

that's normal tbh

coroutines definitely use stuff that you might not see in other game logic

there are probably guides/explanations online you can search for

[meager siren]

I see I see

yes understood

[ivory bobcat]

You could use an animation curve in conjunction with the third parameter if you want easing or some other functional rate of change.

[naive pawn]

oh that's also an option, forgot about that

you don't get asymtotic behavior with that

[wicked galleon]

Hiya im having an issue getting my button to work. I have a button with sprites attached to it and i want to be able to press the button and have an animation play for said button, but ive looked at tutorials and such and i dont get how their buttons just work with no "onClick" or anything like that so i would like some assistance please :)

[naive pawn]

buttons have UnityEvents, you have to assign them

[wicked galleon]

how would i go about that?

[naive pawn]

look in the button component in the inspector, there's an "on click" there - that's a unityevent rather than a message

click the plus icon and assign the component you have there, and set it to call OnClick

[ivory bobcat]

Look at the example on the docs
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/UIElements.Button.html

var button = new Button { text = "Click me" };
button.clicked += OnClick;```

[wicked galleon]

which of these sections lets me call OnClick

[naive pawn]

uhhh don't think that's the right one

"On Click" kinda hints that it's the Unity UI one

[ivory bobcat]

Did you select a Button instance or prefab? The instance would have your instance members

[naive pawn]

have you added the component here #💻┃code-beginner message to a gameobject?

[ivory bobcat]

Yeah, it doesn't look right now that you've mentioned it..

[wicked galleon]

yeah, i added it to the button

[naive pawn]

what's the component called

[wicked galleon]

like in the heirarchy?

then "Dice"

[naive pawn]

no, what did you name the class lol

[naive pawn]

then you would pick the section that says Dice

[wicked galleon]

mb im confused on what a class is, im still a beginner to this 😅

[naive pawn]

it's the thing you put code in, the thing declared by class near the top of the file

[wicked galleon]

ohhhhh

well yeah "Dice"

[naive pawn]

👆

[wicked galleon]

which one of these would allow me to call the method

[naive pawn]

the one that says onclick

the name of the method you created

[sour fulcrum]

(which is private btw)

[naive pawn]

shoot, do they need to be public? ive forgotten

[sour fulcrum]

i believe so 😔

[wicked galleon]

ah, ive made it public and its on the list!

thanks guys! 👐

[real thunder]

the issue of firerate of a weapon depends on FPS really boggles me

so I made it that shooting is in a Fixed Update but I think that made cooldown quantifiable

so I have no idea how people do treat this issue in general, got any ideas?

[midnight plover]

firerate is not fps dependent per se, unless you code it that way

[real thunder]

yep, I meant basic solution with using Update and a timer of sorts

so yeah I would appreciate if anyone got an advice on how to make firerate framerate independent

[midnight plover]

what do you currently have?

[real thunder]

weird solution from my last project
player input is read at Update
shooting is at FixedUpdate on a timer
and a timer also makes into account how time steps not matching firerate and reducing time till next shot by that delta
there are bit more stuff bit it's not relevant I think

it works but I figure I might ask if there are better ways to do it

because what I did looks suspiciously overcomplicated

[sour fulcrum]

google has a lot of results when you search "unity frame independent timer"

[wintry quarry]

Sounds pretty standard to me

[real thunder]

iirc I failed to find a good solution so I made that

[wintry quarry]

My standard approach is like this #💻┃code-beginner message

If spawning projectiles it can place them at different positions based on the idea of calculating when in the intra-frame timing it should have spawned.

[real thunder]

that's like what I did but doesn't look overcomplicated, nice

[real thunder]

I thought of doing that too but that looked even more overcomplicated

well it's nice to know I am on the right path, thanks

I would assume Unity got something premade for such things but yeah

[sour fulcrum]

Unity doesn't really pre-do that kinda stuff

it's too situational for how small it is i think

[real thunder]

meanwhile they got gimmicky stuff like smoothDeltaTime

[sour fulcrum]

That’s something where there’s not too many major ways people would want to implement that

[wanton seal]

im having an issue with my code. it's supposed to draw a raycast from the camera that follows the cursor. it does move according to the cursor, but it isnt drawn from the camera, just a random point in the scene. any ideas how i could fix/debug this?

[hexed terrace]

it's being drawn from transform.position presumably that transform isn't the camera transform

change that to cam.transform.position

[wanton seal]

okay, thank you

ill try it

[hexed terrace]

when you use transform in your code, that is accessing the transform for the gameObject that this component is on.

[dusk jay]

Hi, i was hoping to see if anyone would be able to spend some minutes teaching me how to make my enemie AI on my game

[wanton seal]

tysm its working now

[hexed terrace]

Not likely, this server isn't for tutoring in such a way. You need to ask specific questions

!ask

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[dusk jay]

oh ok

thanks

[wanton seal]

okay, it draws it out from the camera, but its kind of weird

it shoots at a different angle than from what the camera is actually looking at

[hexed terrace]

did you change both transform.position to cam.transform.position ?

[wanton seal]

no, i didnt. i completely forgot about the second one haha

i fixed it though

tysm for helping

[keen cargo]

hey yall, quick rigidbody related question.

so i had this issue of a player clipping through a corner with no effort, i've tried:

• setting collision to the various amounts of Continuous collisions (continuous dynamic, continuous default, etc.)
• made the colliders thicker
• checked the physics collision settings (not that there was any point to that, the collisions WORK it's just that any corner is clippable)
• made sure that i'm moving the character using the physics commands and not something like Transform
• made sure that the physics controls are in FixedUpdate

This is the code that i ran before i tried another fix which worked out

Vector3 targetPos = rb.position + move * runSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
rb.MovePosition(targetPos)

This is the fix i did, that worked out

Vector3 targetVelocity = move * runSpeed;
rb.linearVelocity = targetVelocity;

though, i've seen many guides that still use MovePosition, am I missing something here? Because i wholeheartedly believe in using MovePosition instead, but for some reason it's just not working out for me

[keen dew]

MovePosition ignores colliders. It works in most cases because after MovePosition the physics engine detects that the player is inside a collider and pushes them out, but sometimes you get that kind of tunneling

MovePosition is mainly supposed to be used with kinematic rigidbodies only

[keen cargo]

ahhhh aha i see, also if i want the player to be pushed around (say, another player punches them to knock em around) then I don't want the player to be kinematic right?

and if i don't want the player to be kinematic, then using the linearVelocity method would be better for this case right?

[keen dew]

linearVelocity or AddForce are the safest ways to avoid that kind of edge cases, yes

If you want outside forces affect the player (punching etc) then AddForce is the easiest or you need to calculate the forces manually

[keen cargo]

yup got it, thanks

[hallow badger]

Am I the only one who is afraid to start Unity or any other game engine? Because it is important that you choose an engine that you believe in.

[wintry quarry]

Because it is important that you choose an engine that you believe in
I think you're way off base here.

You should try them all, get familiar with them all as tools, then choose the one that suits you.

[keen cargo]

You're not locked to using a single game engine for your entire life

Ofc for a single project you may need to stay on the engine for various reasons but there's nothing stopping you from using other engines

[rough granite]

Totaly should just wouldn't recommend godot their snake_case functions scared me off -_-

Well that plus their lack of proper intellisense for using c# and poor documention for c#

[grand snow]

huh yea their code docs are a lil funny

[timber tide]

snakecase is superior

[spare saddle]

Can someone explain to me like I'm 5 what a raycast is? I still don't understand.

So It's a line that points from the gameobject towards a direction to detect whatever has hit it?

[grand snow]

fire out invisible line till it hits some physics collider

you can perform a raycast from any position you want and it can go in any direction you want for the distance you want

[rough granite]

Snake_Case is awful, being forced to call functions with underscores between each word just adds to my already slow typing speed

[spare saddle]

But the game object is the origin?

[slender nymph]

it can be but doesn't have to be

you specify the origin and direction when calling the Raycast method

[spare saddle]

So what exactly would raycasts be useful for? I assume menu buttons?

[rough granite]

A many of things one common one is checking if you are grounded

[grand snow]

well ui interaction is done for us by unity

or if a gun firing some bullet hit anything

[slender nymph]

well yes, raycasts are used by the EventSystem to interact with your UI so you don't need to use them directly there, but it's also useful for things like ground checks, or just checking if a collider is in a specific direction from a specific point

[grand snow]

(often known as hit scan by players)

[spare saddle]

Oh i know what that is

[rough granite]

irrelevant but curious what would it be called for a bullet without any drop but had travel time?

[grand snow]

hmm im not sure, a physics sweep is also instant so

maybe someone else knows

[timber tide]

DbContextOptionsSqlServerExtensions
vs
Db_context_options_sql_server_extensions

I choose the one not to squint at

[grand snow]

rust uses snake case but c# already has a set standard so lets stick to that

[slender nymph]

it's typically hit scan vs projectile. and that's still projectile even if it doesn't have any physics interactions (i.e gravity). projectile really just means "object with travel time" as opposed to hit scan's "instant check if hit"

[timber tide]

I just use standard, but I get to the point where adding more than 3 variables syllables to my class names halts my progress lol

[ivory bobcat]

Coming from C, snake case reminds me of macro definitions. For me, the underscore often blends in with white space when having to look at multiple lines (50+) of declarations that have got similar names.cs foo_bar_baz qux_quux_quuz; foo_bar baz_qux_quux_quuz; foo_bar_baz_qux_quux quuz; foo bar_baz_qux_quux_quuz; foo_bar_baz_qux quux_quuz;Bad naming convention and non consistent patterns are the true villains though.

[tired python]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class mouseScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    Ray ray;
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        Vector2 mouse_pos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Mouse.current.position.value);
        ray = new Ray(mouse_pos, new Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f));
        CheckForColliders();
        Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction, Color.red);
    }
    void CheckForColliders()
    {
        Debug.Log($"{ray}");
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit))
        {
            Debug.Log(hit.collider.gameObject.name + "was hit!");
        }
    }
}

i have this script attached to main camera and i don't really understand why it's not recognising hits onto colliders

[wintry quarry]

Well you're not really showing many details here but seeing as you have a GlobalLight2D I'm going to guess you have a 2D game and you're using 2D physics?

[ivory bobcat]

What kind of colliders?

[tired python]

oh wait nvm, they don't have any collider on them, the ducks...

[wintry quarry]

But your code is doing a 3D raycast

And yeah - you will definitely need colliders. Just make sure you're using the right kind of raycasts (2d or 3d)

Also if you're trying to detect mouse clicks here I would recommend either:

• Using the event system for this instead, e.g. IPointerEnterHandler/IPointerDownHandler
• Using Physics2D.GetRayIntersection instead of Raycast

[tired python]

seems unintuitive ngl

2d is basically 3d without one dimension, since my directional vector is 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, doesn't that basically do the job?

i just wanna know whether my mouse is on a collider or not...

[wintry quarry]

no, they are two completely separate physics engines

[tired python]

O_O

[wintry quarry]

See my recommendations here: #💻┃code-beginner message

[tired python]

raycasts use physics engines...why?

[wintry quarry]

The specific raycasts you are trying to use do

you're using Physics.Raycast

that's clearly part of the physics engine

[ivory bobcat]

Unity uses Box2d for 2d physics

[grand snow]

Because its the physics engines that provide raycasting functionality. Its performed against physics colliders

[rough granite]

There is a function in Monobehaviour called OnMouseOver that does just that. Which is called when the mouse is over that object's collider or ui

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnMouseOver.html

[wintry quarry]

OnMouseOver doesn't work with the new input system

that's why I recommended IPointerEnterHandler/IPointerExitHandler

[rough granite]

Really? Didn't know though i also havent touvhed the new input system yet

[wintry quarry]

Yep, check the docs you linked:

Note: New projects created with this version of Unity are pre-configured to use a version of the Input System that doesn't support this callback. To support this callback in your project, you can change the Active Input Handling setting in Player settings to either Both or Input Manager (Old). However, doing so is not recommended as the legacy Input Manager is nearing the end of support and Input System is the recommended solution for new projects. For more information, refer to Migrating from the old Input Manager.

[tired python]

wait a second, how would you make a ray go into the screen without using the Z coordinates O_O

[wintry quarry]

Just what I wrote above

Using Physics2D.GetRayIntersection instead of Raycast

[tired python]

ohh

lemme check

[wintry quarry]

And nobody says not to use the z coordinate

you should be using Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Mouse.current.position.value) to create the ray

[tired python]

ahh shiii, now i gotta go find camera documentation instead of physics for raycast

what

am i doing it in a dumb fashion or smth? is this not how you guys get to know about methods you didn't know a type had or smth?

[wintry quarry]

Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Mouse.current.position.value);
RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.GetRayIntersection(ray, distance, layermask);```

well you said "instead of physics" so I thought you were getting confused about the fact that you need both of these things together

[tired python]

ahh ok

[tired python]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics2D.GetRayIntersection.html
so, if i am not wrong, GetRayIntersection is supposed to return some kind of an integer when it detects a hit, and then RaycastHit2D is a class which can somehow use that integer?

the documentation has nothing related to exactly what the integer is gonna be though

[wintry quarry]

SCroll down to the one that returns a RaycastHit2D. There are two different versions of the method

[cosmic dagger]

There are two methods. The first method that Returns an integer tells you what it is for. I would read it again . . .

[wintry quarry]

The documentation says exactly what the integer is for that one

yes that's the one that returns RaycastHit2D (that you just deleted)

[tired python]

sry, some sort of bug happened and the msg i wanted to upload didn't happen, that's besides the point. what is the int gonna be? there's no range nothing

[wintry quarry]

it says right there

"The number of RaycastHit2D results returned"

that version of the function is for getting multiple raycast hits

you want the one that just returns a single one

which, like I said, is there if you scroll down. You posted a screenshot of it a second ago

[tired python]

ya, i got that

[wintry quarry]

just use that one

[tired python]

i am rly dumb. what does this even mean 💀

does this mean that if it were to hit 2 or 3 colliders, it would return 2 or 3

[wintry quarry]

yes...

[grand snow]

sometimes we want to do a raycast and get the first thing hit
other times we want everything that the ray hit on its path

[wintry quarry]

If you look at the parameters there's a results parameter which is where the RaycastHit2D results actually get put into

the return value just tells you how many it put in the list

[tired python]

ya i saw that, i don't want a list though

[wintry quarry]

right so stop focusing on the list one

[grand snow]

you have options you can PICK

read the docs for more than 2 seconds

[polar acorn]

Then you wouldn't use that one

[tired python]

ok i think i got it, so... if i am not wrong, the RaycastHit2D returned has info regarding the collider it hit which i can access using its various properties

[wintry quarry]

correct

Assuming it actually hit anything

[toxic trench]

whats the state on Unity and multithreading support?

last time i checked was almost null

[teal viper]

Most unity systems make use of background threads and jobs.
As for your own code, it's up to you. You can use jobs system or any of the C# multitgreading features.
And it was like that for a while.

[grand snow]

There are more things can be done/used in unity c# jobs
And ECS has good support for using jobs

e.g. https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Jobs.IJobParallelForTransform.html

[toxic trench]

most shit isnt thread safe, i dont mind doing my own synchronization points, but unity seems to be checking and preventing to use api code on non main thread

[teal viper]

Most api is main thread bound, but it's rarely the actual bottleneck anyway. And there are reasons for it to be main thread bound. Most engines have such limitations. For example, unreal engine.

[minor quiver]

is there a chance anyone can help me with this bug? i have no idea why its happening and have been trying to fix it for about two weeks now

[hexed terrace]

read the stacktrace (the bit below this error) ... it points to the class and the line where this error is

[minor quiver]

not even sure i should be asking here so if i can ask somewhere else do tell me

[toxic trench]

any workarounds?

[teal viper]

Don't make unity api the core of your heavy processing work.

[minor quiver]

the line is the line in one onenable

and when i comment it out its the other one

[teal viper]

Do heavy calculations off the main thread and then call the necessary unity api. Or use job compatible api.

[wintry quarry]

most likely in your OnDisable you need to be doing:

var em = EventsManager.instance
if (em) {
  em.dialogueEvents.onEnterDialogue -= EnterDialogue;
}```

[hexed terrace]

Then there's no EventsManager present at the time of this code running

[wintry quarry]

As for the OnEnable - you have an execution order issue

Because your instance is probably being assigned in that class in Awake, which is running after this

[strange lintel]

need help these always appear:

MissingReferenceException: The variable m_Targets of GameObjectInspector doesn't exist anymore.
You probably need to reassign the m_Targets variable of the 'GameObjectInspector' script in the inspector. Parameter name: componentOrGameObject
UnityEngine.Object+MarshalledUnityObject.TryThrowEditorNullExceptionObject (UnityEngine.Object unityObj, System.String parameterName) (at <7b8172fcdd864e17924794813da71712>:0)
UnityEngine.Bindings.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentNullException (System.Object obj, System.String parameterName) (at <7b8172fcdd864e17924794813da71712>:0)
UnityEditor.PrefabUtility.IsPartOfVariantPrefab (UnityEngine.Object componentOrGameObject) (at <8081513dc2364383b8289d30d2169b2e>:0)
UnityEditor.GameObjectInspector.OnEnable () (at <8081513dc2364383b8289d30d2169b2e>:0)

[minor quiver]

is there any way to fix that?

i also thought it might be smth with what runs first but wasnt sure how to test it

[hexed terrace]

dont enable the gameobject with this code on before the eventmanager

[minor quiver]

what

wait ill send the event manager might help

[teal viper]

Logs or debugger + breakpoints.

[minor quiver]

this is the even manager im using

[hexed terrace]

it doesn't help

[minor quiver]

just making an instance of the dialogue events

[minor quiver]

how do i use the debugger?

[wintry quarry]

script execution order settings is one way

[grand snow]

You usually want to return early and perhaps even Destroy the duplicate instead of letting it assign to Instance too

[wintry quarry]

another way is a lazy-assigned Instance property for the singleton (but this can be slower)

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/managed-code-debugging.html

[minor quiver]

but it doesnt let the game run anyway cause i have debug.LogError

[grand snow]

Its not throwing an exception, its just logging an error

so code execution continues

if you actually threw an exception there it would return early

[minor quiver]

but the game just stops running doesnt that stop the code?

[grand snow]

sorry, why do you think the game stops running?

[minor quiver]

or rather its paused

[grand snow]

unity pausing on errors is just to aid in debugging and is an editor only feature

[minor quiver]

do you mean its a good coding principle in general?

[grand snow]

i dont know what you are on about 😆

logging text does not affect execution

[minor quiver]

me neither😂

[minor quiver]

im not just loggin text though im making my own error

[naive pawn]

that isn't an error

that is logging text in the error format

[grand snow]

Debug.LogError("I don't stop anything!");
File.Delete("C:/"); //ohh no!

[minor quiver]

sure but it works the same way in unity doesnt it

[naive pawn]

it does not

[grand snow]

logs are NOT EXCEPTIONS
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/exceptions/

^ read and learn

[naive pawn]

compare these

Debug.LogError("Error-formatted log");
Debug.Log("After LogError");
``````cs
throw new Exception("Thrown error");
Debug.Log("After throw");

[minor quiver]

no need to be mean about it dude i am new to coding in unity thats why i came to code beginner channel

[naive pawn]

i don't mean to insult or anything, but

sure but it works the same way in unity doesnt it
my man you are arguing against us

[grand snow]

i said this already so i want to get over the most important point 😐

[hexed terrace]

saying "read and learn" is not anything mean .

[grand snow]

coding is hard and confusing so reading the lang documentation is the best way to learn

[naive pawn]

you have a false assumption, and that's a pretty normal/human thing to do

what's important is that you can discard that assumption when you have reason to believe it's wrong - for example, someone more experienced tells you that the assumption is wrong #💻┃code-beginner message

[minor quiver]

thats not even what i have a problem with though...

i meant the debug log thing

[naive pawn]

what about it?

your original question does have an answer btw #💻┃code-beginner message

the singleton needs to be initialized before other stuff can use it

there are multiple ways to achieve that, carwash gave one of them

[minor quiver]

should i make my object inherit from monobehaviour then instead of making it with the even manager?

im very confused here

[naive pawn]

...huh?

which object are you referring to here

you shouldn't have anything inheriting from eventmanager

[hexed terrace]

whatever gameobject this code is on, should start disabled.
Once the eventmanager as initialized, then this gameobject should be enabled and you will not get the NRE

[minor quiver]

the dialogue events

[rocky canyon]

speaking of.. i have a system that has both scripts boot generally at the same time..
i really don't feel like changing the script execution order.. is it standard or common to use a
while statement in update and a flag to assign it when its available and then flag it as found to avoid continueing looking?

[naive pawn]

im not a pillar of gamedev, ive no way to know if that's standard/common lol

[minor quiver]

i dont

[naive pawn]

it's certainly a way to do it

[hexed terrace]

script execution order can quickly get out of hand.
having a while loop in Update sounds like a poor / lazy way to do it.

[rocky canyon]

    private void TryAssignInteract()
    {
        var inputManager = Object.FindFirstObjectByType<InputManager>();
        if (inputManager == null)
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("[InteractRaycast] No InputManager found in scene.");
            return;
        }

        var actionRef = inputManager.GetAction("Interact");
        if (actionRef != null)
            AssignInteract(actionRef);
    }``` ie

[naive pawn]

is it.. not already a MonoBehaviour?

[minor quiver]

it just doesnt inherit from anything

[naive pawn]

how's it getting, "activated" per se then?

[minor quiver]

cause im creating it in events manager

[naive pawn]

is something else calling initializing/calling methods on it?

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats why i asked.. feels a bit lazy, but i not sure of how to do it other than changin the execution order and having my inputmanager run b4 the rest

[naive pawn]

ah, i see.

[hexed terrace]

An actual manager that controls the loading and enabling of things

[rocky canyon]

yea, i guess ur right

[naive pawn]

i solve this by having my singletons in a central "System" scene, which then loads the actual main menu scene and such

[rocky canyon]

i was just being lazy lmao to be honest

i had thought of making another manager but thought i could find a cheeky way

[minor quiver]

the way im doing it is im creating an instance of my object in the events manager then with the dialogue events manager im calling a method on the dialogue event

[naive pawn]

@minor quiver ok, so DialogueEvents doesn't really matter here. what does matter is whatever class is trying to access the EventsManager.Instance, which would be.. whatever class this is #💻┃code-beginner message

[minor quiver]

but it says that i havent set a reference to it

[hexed terrace]

For apps in my last job I did it this way. Had a scene called 'Managers' which was loaded before everything that needed them

[naive pawn]

right, because it's probably getting initialized before EventsManager - what carwash mentioned

[minor quiver]

and how do i get around that?

[hexed terrace]

Share the full error, so we can see the stack

[naive pawn]

like i mentioned before, carwash gave one way to do it #💻┃code-beginner message

[minor quiver]

do you mean this?

[hexed terrace]

is this code from 'DialogueManager.cs' ?

[minor quiver]

yes but im not sure what he meant

[naive pawn]

ok, then ask instead of pretending the message doesn't exist

[minor quiver]

yea

[naive pawn]

(we aren't psychic - we won't know if you understand or don't understand if you never say anything)

[minor quiver]

i have 5 people telling me things its overwhelming

[hexed terrace]

☝️

[naive pawn]

this would be a straightforward-ish fix, but not super scalable - a more scalable (but more complex) fix would be more akin to #💻┃code-beginner message

[minor quiver]

the only thing from what you told me that i know so far is singleton

[naive pawn]

it's 2 right now - if it seems like more, this might be a good time to take a little breather

[minor quiver]

i only have one scene though will it still work the same way?

[naive pawn]

carwash elaborated here

#💻┃code-beginner message
is there any terminology or wording there you don't understand?
if/once you understand each term on its own, do you understand it as a whole? (don't worry about the code yet, just work on understanding the concepts for now)

[naive pawn]

you might be misunderstanding
the current fix carwash proposed doesn't involve other scenes

my answer to spawn's question would involve creating a new scene for the singletons - that's a separate solution

[rocky canyon]

    private IEnumerator SubscribeWhenReady()
    {
        while (TickManager.Instance == null)
            yield return null;

        fastTick = TickManager.Instance.AddTick("FastTick", 0.25f);
        slowTick = TickManager.Instance.AddTick("SlowTick", 3f);

        fastTick.AddListener(OnFastTick);
        slowTick.AddListener(OnSlowTick);
    }``` crap... i've found i do it many different places.. 
time to actually sit down and restructure my setup
-# #hooray

[rocky canyon]

working on that right now

[minor quiver]

so i enable the dialogue events manager in the events manager so im sure it loads first is that it?

or did i understand it wrong?

[naive pawn]

that would be one way to do it

[rocky canyon]

the basic understanding is there yes..

[naive pawn]

it's not the only way, but you're on the right track

[rocky canyon]

the thing ur calling methods from must be a thing before the other thing is a thing

[minor quiver]

does just enabling a disabling items in unity work in a way that helps me with this

so like can i just enable and disable it from the editor or smth?

[rocky canyon]

ya, when u enable a script its OnEnable() and Awake() run.

ohh from the editor? well thats a hacky way.. that wouldnt happen in the game

woudlnt help u in the long run

[naive pawn]

if you disable (or deactivate) stuff outside of playmode, they'll start as disabled/deactivated when you enter playmode, and then you would have some process to enable/activate them

[minor quiver]

what loads first OnEnable or Awake?

[naive pawn]

Awake first

[minor quiver]

then i shouldnt be getting the error

[naive pawn]

it's not all awakes first

[minor quiver]

cause im making the thing in awake and then calling it OnEnable

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/execution-order.html this might help you to bookmark

[hexed terrace]

Awake is only called before OnEnable within the context of a single script. If you have multiple scripts with these methods, both Awake and OnEnable can get called for one script, before both get called for another one.

Start is always called after Awake and OnEnable for all scripts

[naive pawn]

i shouldve been clearer, that's on me - Awake is before OnEnable for each gameobject

[rocky canyon]

use logs to visualize when things happen
if you put a log w/ the name of the script in the Awakes() OnEnables() etc.. u can see in the console which calls when

[naive pawn]

right now you have them on different gameobjects, so there's no guarantee that Awake on one will be called before OnEnable of another

[minor quiver]

let me try start then ill get back to you on that

[rocky canyon]

good luck 🍀

[forest wolf]

Yeah, if I have this problem usually I move the dependency to Start rather than Awake, then if I still have problem there is a script execution order you can adjust

[rocky canyon]

last resort imo

like carwash said.. it gets messy and out of hand quickly

especially if thats your go-to solution

[hexed terrace]

Using Start() to register delegates/ actions generally isn't great .. especially if you're going to be enabling/disabling the object.

[rocky canyon]

i've done it before for GameManagers and stuff.. (things that are persistent thru the whole game) nothing wrong with having them have priority in the execution order

[minor quiver]

i think start wokred but it looks weird in the code now cause im unsubscribing from it OnDisable

[minor quiver]

i am i think

[rocky canyon]

whats wrong with that? thats where i unsub from everything

[minor quiver]

how do i write code here like this btw?

[hexed terrace]

subbing in Start and unsubbing in .. well anywhere, will mean toggling the active state will result in not being subbed again after the very first time

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[minor quiver]

might be easyer than screenshots

[hexed terrace]

☝️ inline code section

[forest wolf]

Oh we are talking here about delegates? I missed that part, sorry. Then yeah it's better to do that OnDisable and unregister OnDisable to be sure you don't call the method on the inactive instances

[rocky canyon]

those are not quotation marks btw

[rocky canyon]

good point

[minor quiver]

what are they?

code test

[hexed terrace]

the tilde key.. the thing you'd use for bring up a console in games

[minor quiver]

found it

using UnityEngine;
public class DialogueManager : MonoBehaviour
{

    private bool dialoguePlaying = false;
    
    private void Start()
    {
        EventsManager.Instance.dialogueEvents.onEnterDialogue += EnterDialogue;
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        EventsManager.Instance.dialogueEvents.onEnterDialogue -= EnterDialogue;
    }

im doing this now

[rocky canyon]

aye.. look at you.. leveling up 💪

[timber tide]

Usually I just delegate from the manager on instantiation and let the manager handle it all, but delegating in start implies a singleton and I know people are iffy about that

[minor quiver]

and seems to be working i think

[hexed terrace]

are you toggling the active state of this gameobject during gameplay?

[minor quiver]

i think so yea

i both spawn and call it while playing

[hexed terrace]

if you are, then it will not work the second time you enable it

[rocky canyon]

lol.. had trouble finding the script execution order page on the docs 🤣
they changed it.. or added more documentation or im just ignorant
i remembered it being the first result.. but meh, small potatos

[minor quiver]

i dont think im disabling it before the game stops

wait let me test it

[hexed terrace]

you just said you think you are... so.. go make sure

[rocky canyon]

|| dont assume anything ||

[naive pawn]

(they aren't tildes, btw. that's ~. they're called backticks/backquotes/grave marks/grave accents)

[rocky canyon]

drunk dash

[hexed terrace]

it's (often) on the same key as the tilde.

[forest wolf]

Does this have any downsides? Because that's a simple solution I never thought about.

[rocky canyon]

so far it works..

but thats why i asked here.. b/c i was worried it wouldnt

[minor quiver]

im never exiting the dialogue cause i couldnt test it up until now with that bug so for now no problems

[rocky canyon]

it only ever subscribes.. its meant to persistent thru the entire game..

so for that use-case its fine i believe

[minor quiver]

i would like to know if you have any better ways to fix it than start()

[rocky canyon]

(1 extra if logic that it runs in Update) <- only downside i see

[minor quiver]

cause i do plan on exiting at some point

[naive pawn]

i feel like it'd be a great place for race conditions to sneak in ngl

[hexed terrace]

yes, the way I said from the very begining

[minor quiver]

i have no idea what it is though

[naive pawn]

which part exactly?

[minor quiver]

does it let me activate an object first before another

[naive pawn]

you never answered my question for clarification

[forest wolf]

So isn't the 'OnEnable' and 'OnDisable' problem only at the scene start when not all objects have yet been instantiated? In that case adjusting the execution order should fix the issue, right? Or am I missing something?

[naive pawn]

you also, like, did get it here though?
#💻┃code-beginner message

you generally shouldn't overuse SEO

[minor quiver]

as a concept but i have no idea how to code it

[minor quiver]

SEO?

[hexed terrace]

I don't understand what you don't understand. I can't get in the beginners head ..

it's simple.

EventManger is active in the scene.
DialogueManager is not active in the scene.

EventManager initialises.
Now at some point you need to have something to enable the game object with DialogueManager on.

[naive pawn]

cool, but that's already quite a bit more than "no idea what it is"

[naive pawn]

script execution order (may also refer to search engine optimization in other contexts)

[minor quiver]

if i find a way to do that ill come back to you but i have to go now thanks for the help

i have like one idea on how to do it

[hexed terrace]

In a game I'm developing I have a manager that just has a list in.
I ittirate over the list and enable the assigned gameobjects in the order

[solemn crypt]

Is there any code that allows us to improve fps ?

[minor quiver]

dont have that many objects to do that too but that helps

[hexed terrace]

having it as a list just makes it more robust because you don't need to add any more code if /when you want to add more to the list

[forest wolf]

Hmm, is there any reason for that?

[naive pawn]

to be honest, im kind of parroting advice here - i haven't had much reason to use SEO to begin with.

from my own viewpoint (take with a grain of salt, since i haven't used it) it's kind of an external thing to the rest of your codebase, and it's somewhat opaque and may break subtly if you make a mistake with it. putting dependencies in code makes it easier to visualize or modify

[cold bolt]

how to make a car climb steep slopes but at the same time it wasn't too fast, I'm just trying to make a game with an off-road vehicle?

[forest wolf]

Thanks, that makes sense! I generally try to avoid it too, but it always seemed like a 'good' emergency tool where everythign else seems a bit complex, though honestly I dind't have reason to use it for a while now either - I always find there is a way to code it.

[solemn crypt]

Any ideas as to why my fps would be tanking I’ve put out 2 demos and it seems to be an issue with the game

[hexed terrace]

You need to profile it to find out. Google -> how to use unity profiler

[solemn crypt]

Ok 👍

[solemn crypt]

Thanks

[tired python]

is this LayerMask layer = LayerMask.GetMask("Enemies"); supposed to be this or this

[grand snow]

they are not the same: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/class-TagManager.html
Sorting layers are different

[naive pawn]

also, you can serialize LayerMasks to avoid magic strings

(the resulting dropdown should make it obvious which one it's referring to 😉)

[tired python]

that's a great idea, btw what do you mean by magic strings?

seamingly unknown code which doesn't explain itself?

[naive pawn]

hardcoding strings that are specific things

specifically the "Enemies" string in this case

other examples would include animator parameter names or resource names or gameobject names

[tired python]

i thought it was self-explanatory but oh well...

[naive pawn]

they're things that would break if you made a typo or renamed something (without changing all the corresponding strings), and since they're strings instead of identifiers, IDEs can't really help check with static analysis or rename symbol refactors

similar concept is magic numbers, hardcoded numbers that mean specific things

[hybrid cobalt]

Im trying to use Unity Events to make the Player's health make the Health Bar update...but, how can I pass data through a Unity Event?

I want to pass the health_amount through the event.

[naive pawn]

unityevents have generics, so like, UnityEvent<int> for one that passes an int

[hybrid cobalt]

I tried doing this:

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float health = 10;
    public UnityEvent<float> onHealthChanged;

    void Damage()
    {
        health -= 1;
        onHealthChanged.Invoke(health);
...

But when I try to connect the signal in the inspector, it asks me to set a value:

[wintry quarry]

You need to select the function from the Dynamic Parameter list at the top

not the Static Parameter list

(in the dropdown)

[hybrid cobalt]

This right?

Yea! Now it works, thanks !

[wintry quarry]

yes

[tired python]

aight, the thing is working now. any ideas as to what i need to look into so as to create a temporary object at my mouse position when the user clicks on the unit they wanna deploy?

[wintry quarry]

1. Always have such an object there and just show/hide it
2. Use Graphics.DrawTexture or RenderMesh
3. Instantiate an object when mouse enters and destroy it when mouse off

[gloomy bison]

hi. me again.
i have a time thats supposed to count down from 5 to 0 but stop if the bus is no longer in the selected zone. imma make it so the user has to hold down the brake too later.
my issue:
the timer goes instantly from 5 to 0 as shown in the video. why is this?
code:

 private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
 {
     Debug.Log(other.name);
     if (other.CompareTag("Bus"))
     {
         Debug.Log("Boarding...");
         isIn = true;
         while (timer >= 0 && isIn)
         {
             timer -= Time.deltaTime;
             Debug.Log($"{timer} {isIn}");
         }
         if(timer <= 0)
         {
             foreach(var p in peopleInQueue)
             {
                 BusManager.SeatMe(p);
                 Debug.Log("Boarded");
             }
         }
     }
 }

[wintry quarry]

OnTriggerEnter runs exactly one time when you enter the trigger

the whole idea of having a loop in here makes no sense

your entire loop is, of course, running instantly

[gloomy bison]

oh so should i make a method for it?

[peak umbra]

Hello

Admen

[wintry quarry]

method or not is irrelevant. If you want to wait for future frames you need either a coroutine or to involve Update or FixedUpdate

[peak umbra]

Admin unity

[gloomy bison]

so if i do this in fixedUpdate, do i make it set a boolean to true or false based on when the bus enters/exits the trigger then do the loop?

[wintry quarry]

that's an option, sure, but you wouldn't use a loop explicitly in your code

FixedUpdate is implicitly in a loop

over time

[gloomy bison]

so an if statement instead of a loop?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[naive pawn]

in that case you could also just use the timer do double duty as the state too rather than a separate bool

[gloomy bison]

ahh understood. i will have a play. thanks

[gloomy bison]

ahh right

like this:

 private void FixedUpdate()
 {
     if (timer > 0)
     {
         timer -= Time.deltaTime;
         Debug.Log($"{timer} {isIn}");
     }else
     {
         foreach (var p in peopleInQueue)
         {
             BusManager.SeatMe(p);
             Debug.Log("Boarded");
         }
     }
 }

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    Debug.Log(other.name);
    if (other.CompareTag("Bus"))
    {
        Debug.Log("Boarding...");
        isIn = true;
       
    }
}

right got it. thank you!

[naive pawn]

you'd also set the timer in OnTriggerEnter

[gloomy bison]

ah yes

[tired python]

so i used spriterenderer instead of what you suggested because that's what i basically have been doing up until now but it says that if (spriteToRender.sprite != null && !(Mouse.current.leftButton.isPressed)) is referencing a null value

paste.mod.gg/ccfipdosmuyh/0

[wintry quarry]

spriteToRender may be null

In fact it's definitely null

because it's private and you never assigned it to anything

[tired python]

i mean yeah, but then that doesn't make sense as to why its popping
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object mouseScript.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/mouseScript.cs:27) this msg

[wintry quarry]

Of course it does

it's null

and you're trying to dereference it

that's precisely what a NullReferenceException is

[grand snow]

Agreed

[tired python]

didn't i do this though spriteToRender.sprite = Droplet;

[wintry quarry]

you can't do spriteToRender.ANYTHING

because spriteToRender itself is null

you have to assign that reference (spriteToRender) before you can use it

Also spriteToRender is not a good name for that variable. It's a SpriteRenderer, not a Sprite

[tired python]

aiaiaia

so, i need to go into unity and assign it the Sprite Renderer component by first setting it's modifier as [SerializedField]

[wintry quarry]

Yes that would be one way to assign the reference

[tired python]

hell yeah, i understand ur language

[grand snow]

Understanding null reference exceptions complete! ⭐

[rough granite]

Until they pop up again -_-

[grand snow]

Once you know what it really means you can better debug and fix them

[tired python]

i clicked on it

and this happened

[rough granite]

Is this intended?

[tired python]

💀 no

i wanna drag and drop those units onto the game screen

paste.mod.gg/ccfipdosmuyh/0

[rough granite]

Kinda hard to read since blazebin hates my phone and bugs out but i think the problem is you are changes the position on all 3 axis which moves it really close to the camera

[tired python]

this is the problem

[tired python]

yeah, how did you know that's what's happening without seeing the video though

[grand snow]

Experience!

[rough granite]

I read the code

[naive pawn]

if you're working in 2d you generally shouldn't touch Z positions, and work with Vector2s

[rough granite]

This too lol

[naive pawn]

the camera should usually be at Z -10

[tired python]

i could change mouse_pos to Vector2D, dunno whether that will fix it though...

[tired python]

what am i doing wrong?

[hot wadi]

Use vector2 instead

[tired python]

oh wait, i think i got it? spriteToRender.transform.position = mouse_pos;

[tired python]

did it, same thing

[hot wadi]

You are setting the mouse_pos as Vector3, which includes the z axis. Technically it moves ur object close to the screen

[rough granite]

Why does main camera have a sprite renderer?

[tired python]

the mousescript that i am currently using (which is attached to camera) requires the sprite to be made so...

i could reference to some other object in the heirarchy...

[naive pawn]

yeah no, there is some deep misunderstanding there

[rough granite]

Right you should have that sprite renderer be on the object you wish to move not the camera

Since right now when you move that sprite renderer to move position it moves the camera object as a whole there

[tired python]

ya...that's what i said, this is the problem, the transform.position moves the gameObject, in this case, it's the camera

[naive pawn]

you need some separation of concerns there

[rough granite]

The problem is less of that statement but instead that you have the sprite renderer on your camera

[naive pawn]

what is spriteToRender even for if it's just on the camera

are you just storing the sprite there for some reason

if that's the case, you could just store the sprite itself

[hot wadi]

The transform.position of any component is the transform of the game object it’s attached to

U are trying to move the camera itself

[tired python]

so...i currently have the above attached scripts working in tandem. i remember thinking that when i wanted to build a way so that the mouse could drag and drop stuff, delete tower and stuff, upgrade towers (maybe)...that i would need to attach it to something completely unrelated to the gameobjects which have sprites and other stuff on them. so i attached it to camera. Now that, the mousescript finally recognises when i click on the deploymentUI, i want it to load up the sprite which the mouse is clicking on too, that's why, i attached a sprite onto it.

now, in order for the sprite to show up at the mouse's location, i am trying to change its position...that's why i initially used transform.position, not realising that that would change the gameobject the sprite renderer is attached to

[hot wadi]

U should treat the draggable sprites as separated objects

[tired python]

shall i tell you the logic that i have in mind to spawn and destroy them?

[hot wadi]

So what I understand here is that u want a tower defense system with draggable sprites that will spawn the associated objects like towers, turrets .etc.

It’s like packing a candy. U have the wrap as the sprite, the candy inside is the associated objects. They together form a completed object. And u can easily reference connected parts in the script with prefabs and components,…

[tired python]

should...i??

[tired python]

[hot wadi]

Yeah sure, why not

I’m having a hard time trying to understand ur thinking process

[tired python]

@hot wadi

i realised, i don't need three if blocks, just two will do with a nested if-else logic

[hot wadi]

So it’s like a customized cursor

[tired python]

at the end of this, i want the cursor to just manage loading up sprites and deleting them on the game screen

[hot wadi]

Ok, what if u need different sprites for different objects? U are gonna reference them all in the camera script?

[tired python]

yeah...

is this a bad way of doing it

[hot wadi]

Then how are u gonna check what object gets to assign what sprite on the cursor?

[tired python]

what

no object assigns anything...

i check the tags, match em with a sprite, then make sprite rederer's sprite become that sprite

[naive pawn]

you could skip that second step by just having each thing provide the sprite directly

[tired python]

elaboration needed

what do you mean by each thing

[naive pawn]

the things you're clicking

instead of hardcoding each unit with a tag, have a component to supply the data

you could even have an SO that when you assign to the component it sets the spriterenderer of the button automatically too

[hot wadi]

Each object owns their own sprite. That is the right way to do it. U should not use hundreds of tags to check what sprites matches what objects

[tired python]

so just...put the sprite i clicked on, onto the sprite renderer....using the gameObject returned by raycastintersectoin?

[tired python]

here's the thing though, these two are seperate, the one of the left is a parent of the right, how would i reference the droplet in the case that my mouse hovers over the box instead of the droplet? it doesn't have the droplet sprite attached to its sprite renderer component, it has a square assigned to it

[hot wadi]

Set them on different layers and let the raycast pick the droplet’s layer only

[naive pawn]

what are you actually raycasting for? a collider, no?

[tired python]

the ray won't hit the droplet though, cus if the droplet hits the black area, the droplet ain't hit

both the box and the droplet have a collider

[naive pawn]

whatever gameobject has the collider will be responsible for providing the info via a component

[naive pawn]

why tho

that definitely doesn't need to be a thing

[tired python]

suppose box does not have a collider, then when the mouse clicks on the black area, the ray hits nothing.

[hot wadi]

I just realized that u use collider on a UI object

[tired python]

i mean...how else would i know whether the mouse is or isn't on the ui object though

[naive pawn]

why does the droplet have a collider.

[naive pawn]

graphics raycasters are also a thing

[tired python]

good question, i think its redundant tbh

[naive pawn]

that's my point

[tired python]

then how do i get a reference to the droplet though

unitOneBackGround is the square in question and UIDroplet is the droplet

unitOneBackGround doesn't have the droplet sprite attached to it

so if ray does hit it, what the RaycastHit2D references ain't the droplet sprite, it's the square sprite

[naive pawn]

make a variable to hold a reference

hold a sprite or hold a spriterenderer

pretty straightforward

[tired python]

ya but like, how do i get the reference to the droplet, not the square

[naive pawn]

have you like. never dragged components around before

make a new component as the thing managing the clicks (replacing the tag check)
that component would have a sprite/spriterenderer field (choose one)
if sprite, drag the sprite you want to use as the preview into that field
if spriterenderer, drag the child object that has that sprite into that field

[tired python]

so...i attach a new script to it, and reference the droplet into its [SerialiseField] sprite renderer

[hot wadi]

The easiest way is to have a script attached to the yellow box with a SpriteRenderer reference and the collider or however u use to make it detectable , then u can drag the Droplet reference in that box

[tired python]

on god, that's a clever way to do it

no tag checks hurray!!

[hot wadi]

Btw u have to set that reference public so other objects can get it

‘public SpriteRenderer’

[SerializeField] without access modifier only makes it ‘private’

[tired python]

yes, that makes sense

love ur pfp btw

[hot wadi]

Thanks. Just take a break after this. U might have been overwhelmed.

[tired python]

ya...just adding simple features are taking me a long time, hopefully in the future, i get faster

atleast my initial dog implementation works. now i just need to implement what you guys said

[hybrid cobalt]

I have been hearing things like "ECS", "DOTS", and "Burst".

Are these like different ways of programming in Unity? Is this relevant to a beginner?

[naive pawn]

Are these like different ways of programming in Unity?
they're different tools that affect the specifics of your code, but they don't fundamentally change the core way of interacting with unity afaik.
Is this relevant to a beginner?
no, learn the normal systems first - these will build on that knowledge

[wintry quarry]

ECS is a pretty fundamentally different way of interacting with and thinking about Unity imo.

[rough granite]

i haven't used it but have taken a few looks is it different in the way that networking / multiplayer is different for unity?

[tired python]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object mouseScript.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/mouseScript.cs:37)
so, i am currently getting this error

[rough granite]

care to share the script

[tired python]

script

[wintry quarry]

As I told you a while back, your spriteRender variable in mouseScript is null because you are never assigning it anywhere, and it's private so it cannot even be assigned in the inspector

Also why did you make your own class/script called spriteRender which is almost certainly causing you extra confusion?

[tired python]

no wait this spriteRender spriterender is the type used in the other script...

[wintry quarry]

ok why is that second one even there

that just looks there to confuse me and you and everyone

[tired python]

no

[rough granite]

right but you didn't declared it in the instance nor gave it any reference so it's null

[wintry quarry]

ok sorry, taking a closer look, my guess is you have another copy of the mouseScript script in the scene

[tired python]

so...i made another script and attached it to the box and it contains a ref to the sprite

[wintry quarry]

and you didn't assign the spriteToRender variable in that one

[wintry quarry]

why haha

[rough granite]

not this you were correct the first time

[wintry quarry]

oh no you're right

[naive pawn]

tldr #💻┃code-beginner message

[wintry quarry]

yeah and younever assigned the reference to that other script

[tired python]

cus otherwise, i was referencing sprites in the mousessccript itself

[wintry quarry]

ok well regardless, you need to properly assign this new reference now

[tired python]

wait lemme check

[wintry quarry]

you have named things so confusingly that I think I would probably hurt myself in confusion working on this

[tired python]

oh wait, i need to attach the script on the inspector and for that i need to make it public

[wintry quarry]

what you call "Attach" is actually assigning the reference

[tired python]

i thought scritps referenced other types by themselves like when you use headers and stuff

[rough granite]

no...

that'd only be the case for static classes

[tired python]

but when we do using something something, it does that right

[rough granite]

using somthing; is completely different heck those arent even classes

[slender nymph]

you should really consider going through the beginner c# courses pinned in this channel so you can get a proper understanding of the language

[tired python]

it references a header file though...am i not right

btw, it's working, thanks guys

[slender nymph]

c# doesn't use header files. that's just adding a using directive for a namespace so you don't need to fully qualify type names when using them in that scope

[naive pawn]

that's c++ lol

[grand snow]

cpp does have similar using statements but they arent always used

[tired python]

ya...i learned cpp before this that's why...

[naive pawn]

using in c# is like using namespace in c++

[grand snow]

be glad we dont have to deal with headers or forward declaration in c#

[rough granite]

i'm just glad i dont have to deal with java in c#

[grand snow]

is java that bad? its been soo many years since I last used it

[tired python]

aight, thx for the help guys. ima go do smth else, my neck is killing me

[naive pawn]

no, it's just different enough to fry all your muscle memory 🙃

tbf that's all the c-syntax languages...

[rough granite]

yes it makes me depressed whenever i have to use it in school (my computer science class is in java)

[grand snow]

i remember System.out.println and String

[rough granite]

not even the worst of it if you make a list, dictionary or anything of the sort you have to use the class names for the base data types so instead of int it's Integer, boolit's boolean. For inheritance it's extends, for interfaces it's implements

[grand snow]

oh god I didn't know that about generics/templated types ugh

[slender nymph]

C# has so many QoL features that java doesn't. java doesn't even let you define your own value types, the only value types are the primitives included with the language.
also no properties, no default parameters, no extension methods, no null coalescing, operator overloading, string interpolation

[naive pawn]

java has string interpolation now iirc

[rough granite]

i never realized how much i loved string interpolation until i was forced to spend a month working with concatenation in java

[slender nymph]

honestly the extends/implements, despite being more verbose, is a lot clearer in Java. in c# implementing an interface looks pretty much like inheriting a class even though they are different concepts

[naive pawn]

as for properties, java basically just does the methods directly

generic constraints (extends/super, ?) are actually better in java afaict

[rough granite]

last install i did was october and it didn't otherwise idk

[slender nymph]

yeah, but properties are a nice quality of life feature so you don't need to implement the methods manually. especially auto properties (which got even better in c#14 with the field keyword)

[tender mirage]

Honestly Dictionary sounds alot user friendly then, i don't know- hashmap on java.

[slender nymph]

this is also news to me, but tbf i haven't actually used java in like a decade

[naive pawn]

ok but what did you actually install? it's in java 21 (lts) if im reading this correctly

[naive pawn]

they are the same thing

[tender mirage]

Yes but the name makes sense. What does hashmap even stand for?

[naive pawn]

you also don't need to implement them manually in java. it's a common idiom, so ides can autogenerate them

[naive pawn]

it's a map that works by hashing, exactly what dictionary is
map is a synonym of dictionary - and in fact, java has an interface Map with several implementations, HashMap, LinkedHashMap, etc, with different features. much more flexible than what c# provides

[slender nymph]

it's a collection of hashed keys that map to values. Dictionary is actually less clear about what it is, hashmap is a pretty concise actual description of what it does

[tender mirage]

Oh so the hashmap name derives from a different concept that is linked to it?

[naive pawn]

map is a synonym of dictionary
map - c++, js, java
dict - c#, python

[naive pawn]

no, it's the same thing

dictionary just doesn't say it

[tender mirage]

i meant like the naming convention, hashmap and the map part if you understand those

[naive pawn]

map and dict are the same thing

[tender mirage]

hashmap becomes clearer to understand?

[grand snow]

Its weird that we have List in many languages but its vector in cpp

[naive pawn]

the hash part says how it's implemented

[naive pawn]

fun fact, java has both

also js calls lists arrays

fun times

[grand snow]

javascript is fucked anyway

[naive pawn]

they all are in different ways tbh

[grand snow]

lets just go back to having blocks of memory and pretending its an array

[tender mirage]

well that's pretty cool. I also heard they recently made something like minecraft fully open source. So minecraft modder's could have alot more freedom

[naive pawn]

none of the languages i know (which tbf isn't a lot in comparison) do generics the same way as each other
(ts, c#, java, c++, py)

[naive pawn]

oh heavens no, they'd never make a commercial product fully open source

[tender mirage]

Unless if they plan on abandoning it.

[naive pawn]

nah, corporations just hate us unfortunately

[grand snow]

No they will just stop applying obfuscation to minecraft java so the decomp will recover all naming

[tender mirage]

oh excuse me. they're just removing obfuscation's, you're right.

it's not open source.

[grand snow]

basically all managed languages have this problem, they retain soo much data you can easily decompile stuff

[tender mirage]

they're just not making it a living nightmare, after what? 15 years?

[tender mirage]

Yeah, you corrected me before i even looked it up.

[grand snow]

They probably realised there is no point because the community name mappings just got updated for new content

so guess they thought "we might as well stop doing this"

[tender mirage]

just make it open source. Why not be user friendly? It's not like this is windows or anything, it's just a game. and it already has the biggest modding community to date.

[grand snow]

Im sure they would rather you only decomp a copy you purchased

[naive pawn]

commercial product by corporation moment

[tender mirage]

corporation should be a trigger word.

[glad shore]

what would be the most simple way to add camera sway into my game?
to be more specific, whenever the player walks I want the camera to bob up and down.
I personally haven't done this before and I think it would be better to ask instead of starting blind

[wintry quarry]

probably cinemachine noise:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/cinemachine-head-bob-recommended-approach/882075

[rancid tinsel]

does anyone know of any repositories I could look at for examples of making a group-based combat system (one enemy attacks at a time, think like batman arkham etc.)? I've been trying to make one for our uni project for like a week straight now and I'm struggling like crazy and getting a bit disheartened

I'm not even sure how to describe it exactly, but an AI system where a bunch of enemies circle or move around the player and take turns attacking, rather than the standard "Walk to player -> attack"

[hidden fossil]

im having a null exception isue

!code

[radiant void]

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[hidden fossil]

https://paste.mod.gg/basic/viewer/zdnlrcfitoxy/0

code

[forest wolf]

Looks like you check if player is null or npc is null AFTER you use them so:

change this:

       bool shouldFaceRight = player.position.x > npc.position.x;

        if (player == null || npc == null)
        {
            return;
        }

to this:

if (player == null || npc == null)
{
    return;
}

bool shouldFaceRight = player.position.x > npc.position.x;

[hidden fossil]

how did that cause the error

wait is it cuz it runs from top to down

oh wait yea maybe thats why thx

[gloomy bison]

hi another question. i have a bus stop script where the gamemanager puts all the stops into a script then the person picks a random number between how long the list is and 1. is it better if i use a queue as the stops will be most likely one after the other or would a list be fine here?

public static List<GameObject> stops = new List<GameObject>();
public static Queue<GameObject> stopsQueue = new Queue<GameObject>();

out of these 2

cus atm im thinking switching to a queue although a bit of effort and time would be beneficial because i only have to dequeue instead of removing from the list which is easier

[wintry quarry]

Shuffle the list then iterate over the shuffled list

[gloomy bison]

so a queue would not be optimal here?

because i was thinking dequeue each stop then deactivate the stop script

im kinda new to the whole idea of queues so thats why im wondering

[meager siren]

Hiya, currently not at my pc and I dont want forget about this

But, does anyone of you know how fix a player stopping their movement when walking into a wall diagonally?

I think I have to use a material

Something Ive forgotten time and time again

[wintry quarry]

It wouldn't really get you anything over a list

Either way you need to shuffle the order

[wintry quarry]

It depends how your player moves

You're thinking of a Physics Material though

[meager siren]

Yeah

[meager siren]

Can I dm you it once Im back? Cause this message might be long gone tbh

Idk if I can find it

On my phone

[meager siren]

From memory im using transformDirection with linearVelocity