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[alpine bronze]

i wanted to use integers but I cant with Time.deltaTime

im just fucking around with unity but I know C#

[sour fulcrum]

you can cast

[umbral bough]

it really depends on the result you actually want

[alpine bronze]

i just want the more time passes by the higher the score goes up

[umbral bough]

there are floor, ceil, round, explicit casts etc.

[umbral bough]

ok, and there are infinite ways to implement that, why not send the code that's causing issues

and looking at the Math.Round function, it seems to be capable of returning floats etc., I didn't read the docs fully tho, I just skimmed through
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.math.round?view=net-10.0

Mathf is unity's math library, Math is c#
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.html

[alpine bronze]

I found Mathf.FloorToInt(); that worked

[umbral bough]

You can use either, mathf is just more common

[umbral bough]

do you know what that function does tho?

[sour fulcrum]

If the number ends in .5 so it is halfway between two integers, one of which is even and the other odd, the even number is returned.
Mathf.Round is a tiny bit weird tho

[umbral bough]

yes, it's different to rounding numbers in regular math

you can easily make your own implementation tho

[verbal dome]

Rounding the deltaTime directly isn't a great idea btw

Even if you multiply it first

It can become super inconsistent, for example at a high framerate the deltaTime could always be rounded to 0

[umbral bough]

I have a feeling he is not rounding the delta itself but the total stored value displayed in the ui, based on this message.
I could be mistaken tho, it's why I asked for code instead of just describing the problem.

Why can't I access UnityEngine.XRModule?
The package is installed, as seen in picture 1.
According to docs, I should be able to use it:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UnityEngine.XRModule.html
But as seen in pic 2, it's not accessible :/

[sour fulcrum]

thats not where you would use that in the code

[verbal dome]

The module name is not the same as the namespace name

For example

[alpine bronze]

the problem was that I forgot to store it in a variable 🤣

classic

[umbral bough]

Sorry, my bad when I was making this script.
I tried using it within a function in another place and it didn't work.

[umbral bough]

Oh, well that was quite confusing in the docs, as well as the message in the deprecation warning :/

[verbal dome]

XR is an API/namespace in XRModule, I can see how that can be confusing though

[umbral bough]

Yeah, it makes sense now.
However, the deprecation warning is really poorly written.
I've been going through docs and I am having a hard time finding a replacement for the GetNativePrt() method.
It'd be nice if something's getting deprecated to at least leave the name of the replacement function, similar to how it's done with rb's linearVelocity etc.

This is all the additional context I have for it, I don't know p much anything about vr development so that makes it even more difficult for me to find the appropriate replacement function :/

[sour fulcrum]

it is very difficult to read these screenshots ngl

[umbral bough]

get { return XRDevice.GetNativePtr() != System.IntPtr.Zero; }

That's what I'm trying to update to the latest api

This is the warning:
Assets/steamvr_unity_plugin/Assets/SteamVR/Scripts/SteamVR.cs(131,17): warning CS0618: 'XRDevice' is obsolete: 'UnityEngine.VRModule is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use the APIs in the UnityEngine.XRModule instead'

As you can see, deprecation warning gives you nothing other than the package you are supposed to use.

[verbal dome]

From what I can tell, that looks like a null check basically

So I would start by looking at what is the main replacement for XRDevice and see if it's something you can null check/has something similiar

(Or simply a way to check if an XR device exists)

[umbral bough]

Yeah, I've been trying to look for that, but from what I can tell, there is no way to just get the device and check if it's null.
Closest I've gotten is the following:

get { return UnityEngine.XR.InputDevices.GetDeviceAtXRNode(XRNode.Head) != null; }

However, that's just me taking a wild guess, and XRNode.Head just seemed like the right choice as I am assuming that's the main part of the vr set.
But I am not gonna play smart, will just leave this as a comment on the PR and see what devs have to say about it.
Thanks a lot for taking your time and pointing me in the right direction!

[verbal dome]

Maybe this
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/XR.XRInputSubsystem.TryGetInputDevices.html

[umbral bough]

Yeah, that could be that I guess.
I also ran into these 2:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UnityEngine.XRModule.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/XR.XRNode.html

[crimson laurel]

What would be the equivalent of a 'module script' in unity?

e.g. a script with functions that can be called by any other script after it requires them (or whatever method that I should be using instead)

I can tell unity is far different from lua, but since that was pretty core to making stuff on roblox I'm just wondering what I should do to segment core stuff like hitboxes into one script that any other can use

[verbal dome]

Perhaps you want a static class?

Or static methods in general

It's common if you need some utility methods that can be called from anywhere without needing an instance of the class

[crimson laurel]

yeah maybe, I'll try'em

[sour fulcrum]

the more specific you can get with the example the more specific we can try and explain the equivilent

[verbal dome]

Yep, 'module script' is a bit ambiguous but

a script with functions that can be called by any other script
Really just sounds like statics or singleton

[crimson laurel]

since both players and enemies would need to create hitboxes, naturally youre gonna want 1 script that can handle hitboxes

[sour fulcrum]

sure

so you'd write 1 script that can handle hitboxes

what's the issue unity wise from there in your mind currently

[crimson laurel]

nothing, just wondering what exactly I should use for it

which is why I asked

[sour fulcrum]

well based on the more specific example static stuff probably is not the answer

a "module" script is just a script really

it's as module as you design it to be

[verbal dome]

A MonoBehaviour component script to be more precise

That crossed my mind first but i thought it's too obvious

[inland crystal]

Sorry this reply is a little late, but one important difference is that System.Math tends to deal with doubles, while UnityEngine.Mathf uses single precision floats (thats why the 'f' is in the name). For that reason it could potentially be more performant if you're doing a ton of calculations per frame.

[topaz hatch]

I don't know if this is a beginner question, but do any devs have tips on how to make sure yield return new WaitForSeconds() counts consistently on WebGL?

As in, if in my IEnumerator function has the script wait 3 seconds in-engine, it will also do that on WebGL regardless of GPU load/computer specs? Or is that just unavoidable?

[wintry quarry]

WaitForSeconds will not count "consistently" on any platform.

It will always be subject to wherever your frames land on the timeline

Can you explain what you're trying to do and we can discuss whether WaitForSeconds is an appropriate tool for doing it?

[sour fulcrum]

try turning this on

might be related to the problem but needs more context

[wintry quarry]

Just to explain how it works - if you do WaitForSeconds(3) it will resume on the next frame after 3 seconds have elapsed This may be 3.01 seconds or 3.056 seconds etc...

[topaz hatch]

In the scene I'm working on, there is a character walking around and looking at things. There is an item that when clicked on, will trigger an end sequence where the following happens:

• Character moves towards a specific spot.
• Character then looks at the item you clicked.
• If your dialogue box is open, close it.
• Character yaps about the story.
• Sequence ends and it loads in the next scene.

I put in some wait times at the start (the clickable item also has things to read so I want the player to be able to read it.) and in between dialogue.

[wintry quarry]

That doesn't sound like something that needs precise timing exactly

[topaz hatch]

I'm making a new build to post, but when testing it out on WebGL, it seemed to take a lot longer for seconds to go by than when I tested it in-engine. Maybe it was just a fluke on my end. So I'm going to make a new build and see if the problem comes up again.

[wintry quarry]

The difference in timing should be no more than the duration of your slowest frame

if it's longer than that, something else is going on.

if your framerate is really slow it could be perceptible

but I'm talking like 10fps or worse

[topaz hatch]

Not that I noticed at the time. I did find an error in my code regarding locally calling and assigning something to a variable so maybe it was just the game soft crashing and I mistook that as a time delay in my IEnumerators script

[lethal gull]

Why aren’t you testing it again?

[topaz hatch]

I am. I'm making a new build right now

[alpine bronze]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, makes a lot of sense thanks

[topaz hatch]

I'll do that too!

[bitter pine]

ok, so i have 2 step sounds and when i walk i want them to play with 0.5 seconds in between each step, it needs to go one after the other though, any ideas? ive tried messing around with coroutines and while loops but i cant seem to figure it out, i may just be dumb tho

[sour fulcrum]

show what you've tried

[bitter pine]

{
    float num = 0;
    if (num == 0)
    {
        num = 1;
        Footsteps[1].PlayOneShot(Footsteps[1].clip);
    }
    else if (num == 1)
    {
        num = 0;
        Footsteps[0].PlayOneShot(Footsteps[0].clip);
        Delay(0.5f);
    }
}

IEnumerator Delay(float delay)
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
}```

it will call the function if your moving

ive also tried doing it in the ienumerator function itself

wait i think i forgot to use start coroutine

[sour fulcrum]

thats 1 thing

but keep in mind

[topaz hatch]

Okay, it worked! (but now my decals are missing???? I'm so tired dog)

[sour fulcrum]

only yield things are actually going to stop a function in place until it "yields"
those only work in IEnumator functions (and other async related things)
those only work when run with startcoroutine

all three need to be true

[bitter pine]

ah

i normally dont forget to use start coroutine but ig i forgo

[sour fulcrum]

and in that snippet you posted it still wont work if playsteps is not also a running coroutine

[topaz hatch]

I don't know why this is the case.

[sour fulcrum]

since your starting that delay but nothing cares about it

dunno about the decal stuff

cute game

[topaz hatch]

I'll ask around. I'll hold off on posting until your done helping Davey. I'm cutting in to the chatter

[polar acorn]

Check the different Quality Levels in your URP asset, one or more quality levels might be missing the decal render feature

[topaz hatch]

That's in the projects tab right? I'll go check

[timber tide]

WebGL and decals a little wonky, but yeah try the URP renderer asset

[shell sorrel]

WebGl ahs a lot of weirdness going on

[naive pawn]

you have the right idea with the logic flow, but it isn't set up correctly at all

• PlaySteps doesn't have anything that would make it wait. the yield in Delay makes Delay wait, not PlaySteps (and only if used as a coroutine)
• every time you call PlaySteps, you create a new variable num that starts at 0. that'll happen every time you call PlaySteps
  you'll want to have some loop that's aware of time (aka in a coroutine or in an Update message) with some persistent state (a variable that's in a higher scope than a single sound effect)

[shell sorrel]

iirc it does not like the dbuffer ones

[bitter pine]

ah forgot to mention i got it working

[topaz hatch]

I'm struggling to find the relevant settings for decals

It's so confusing man

[polar acorn]

Should be in settings, you can change which detail level the different builds have, and then there should be references to the URP Assets used by each

[topaz hatch]

Project Settings?

[polar acorn]

I think so, should be under the "Graphics" section

[naive pawn]

hmm, is this code related

i haven't exactly been following but it kinda seems not?

[polar acorn]

It was. It's sort of evolved

[topaz hatch]

I can move the convo to the appropriate channel

[polar acorn]

Yeah might be good to move this decal issue to #1390346776804069396

[naive pawn]

ah that makes sense, i was kinda lost lol

[polar acorn]

Ship-of-Theseus'd into a rendering problem after the code issues were fixed

[naive pawn]

complaint of theseus

[carmine oasis]

hey guys

where can I get help ?

[timber tide]

#💻┃code-beginner

[carmine oasis]

yes ?

I am having problem with InputSystem

[timber tide]

#🖱️┃input-system

[carmine oasis]

can u help me ther e

[pearl isle]

hello! I was wondering if anyone could help me with a collision issue in Unity 2D? (at least im pretty sure its a collision issue)

[naive pawn]

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[naive pawn]

can't help without info 😉

[pearl isle]

ah alright my bad!

[ivory bobcat]

The last two suggestions are what to focus on

[pearl isle]

so I have this collision box with IsTriggered activated (idk if thats the right word), on the same layer as my character, yet for some reason the player does not activate it. Ive also added the beginning of my script; I only get the first debug.log, the second one doesn't show. (keep in mind im relatively new to the world of coding haha)

[naive pawn]

IsTriggered activated (idk if thats the right word)
there's no fixed word for that, so "activated" is ok - though "active" is also a specific thing in unity, so you might want to consider alternatives. you could just say it's a trigger in this case

(also yeah, is trigger, not is triggered)

[pearl isle]

ah alright thank you!

[naive pawn]

do either have a rigidbody

[wintry quarry]

You need specific conditions in the scene to be true for triggers to work. Such as at least one object (the moving one, preferably) having a RB, both having colliders, etc.

[pearl isle]

my player character has an RB, and they both have colliders

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-matrix-2d

[wintry quarry]

show their inspectors

[sour fulcrum]

If you mean IsTrigger then as it’s a bool the appropriate/common terms would be enabled & disabled

[naive pawn]

also, put a Debuglog at the top of the message to see if it's being called, outside of any logic

[pearl isle]

first one is the non-moving object (the orange shape in the original image i sent) and the second is the player character

[fervent lagoon]

I’m new here and I was just checking, is there any reason a specific bar of starter code wouldn’t want to interact as it should normally when opening through 6000.3f1 of unity and visual studios 2026 as the coder

[naive pawn]

that's not much info to go off of

[fervent lagoon]

Yeah I get that lmao

[naive pawn]

what do you mean by "a specific bar", "starter code", and what interaction are you referring to

[visual linden]

You might need to configure your IDE in Preferences, and check that you have the correct package installed (Visual Studio Editor)

[fervent lagoon]

I haven’t inputted any code and I’m just staring at the first thing you have when you pull an empty script from unity, but the words aren’t colored or doing anything like the walkthrough I’m following has it

[naive pawn]

oh that's a much better description

that means your ide is unconfigured

[fervent lagoon]

Yeah it is, I’ve had that suggestion

[naive pawn]

!ide

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[fervent lagoon]

Hmmm I’ll look into it more through this, thanks!

[pearl isle]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[naive pawn]

@pearl isle do this

[pearl isle]

above the void awake?

[naive pawn]

no, in the OnTriggerEnter2D, the thing you're having issues with

[pearl isle]

only the first debug log shows

the tutobase awake called

[cosmic quail]

is Destroy(gameObject) also being called perhaps?

[pearl isle]

That could be it, im thinking. Im gonna comment it and see what happens

[tiny solar]

Hello, I'm trying to add some optional buttons for my 2D web game to make it playable in mobile. I want to detect the buttons being clicked down and released propery. But I could not find a way to check whether the button is being pressed. Buttons defult come with the condition OnClick. Is there a deferent library or any other in built way to ditect whether buttons are being clicked down or atleast a way to find when they are released?

[slender nymph]

look into the Input System's On-screen Controls

[pearl isle]

well what do you know, that worked! unfortunately now the box gets called every time my player passes through it, but id like it to only be called one time and then destroyed forever.

[cosmic quail]

call destroy after the player collides with it then 👍

[pearl isle]

yess thank you!

[tiny solar]

Can this be managed by the IPointerDownHandler? Is it as efficient as the On-Screen Controls for stuff like player movement buttons?

[slender nymph]

as for "as efficient", you'd have to profile it to find out

[tiny solar]

Ok, Thank you

[slender nymph]

here's a quick little hint at the "efficiency" part of your question though, you can look at the actual code for the on-screen controls related components to find out how they actually work, it is available not only in the package files but also on github to view

[pliant dome]

I wish I could make a hexagonal prism collider for the player

Can I make custom shaped colliders for the player?

[neat briar]

hello dude what's up

[pliant dome]

Hi?

[neat briar]

how s your day going today dude

[polar acorn]

Could do a mesh collider, but usually for the player you want a simple shape, since it's gonna be interacting with a lot of objects speed is a priority

[polar acorn]

This isn't a social server

[neat briar]

sorry for that

[pliant dome]

Im aware but a hexagonal prism would be soooo convient

Lemme try the meshg collider rq

[neat briar]

actually I am also graphic designer with 6year experience in this field and I have my own website

[polar acorn]

Remember that you can have a mesh collider that is different than the mesh that's rendered

[polar acorn]

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[polar acorn]

If you're looking for work, go there

[neat briar]

okay but I can make it just tell me what are you looking for if you need so okay got it

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[west jetty]

Hey is anyone facing the issue of not able to see the camera border in unity 6

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[neat briar]

okay got it

[west jetty]

Anyoneee

[naive pawn]

doesn't sound like a code question

[naive pawn]

please do not pester random people for help

[west jetty]

oh this one is for code only

[lone sable]

I updated Unity to 2022.3.62f3 due to the security issue, and now some code that I had working is no longer working. (Surprise...)

Specifically, I have aimAction.action.Disable(); to disable aiming controls. (Used in tutorials and a few other locations.). This goes for all my other input blockers.

I checked and I am making the call to it, however its still providing updates. Any ideas why this might be happening?

[west jetty]

I have been trying to find it for hours in google chatgpt and discussions ; everywhere it just says that toggle on gizmos; and there is no option of gizmos

[naive pawn]

how are you receiving input? a playerinput, polling actions, etc?

[lone sable]

Player Input using the new System.

To add to this, remapping controls also seems to be broken since updating...

[naive pawn]

how are you retreiving aimAction?

[lone sable]

public InputActionReference aimAction; Set in editor.

[naive pawn]

that will be disconnected from the actions used by PlayerInput

so, this shouldntve worked before hand

[lone sable]

Well, it did.

[naive pawn]

PlayerInput creates its own instance of the InputActionsAsset, if you modify the actions or whatever from the source asset it won't affect the instance that PlayerInput uses

[lone sable]

So then whats the simple fix? This isn't really something I'd like to re-write being this deep into the project. And again, it worked before this on 2022.3.43f1

And seeing as how I use this a fair bit over my entire project, I'm deff not looking forward to it.

[naive pawn]

to be honest, i think either you're mistaken about something, or it was working due to a bug (that was fixed)
playerinput just doesn't propagate changes from its asset, since it instantiates its own copy

how ive done it (in the case of rebinding controls) is that i use an InputActionReference to specify in the editor which action to target, but i get the corresponding action from the active player input to modify that instead (or sync the changes back to the playerinput)

[lone sable]

I mean, seeing as how again, I've been using this method for a fairly long time now, I don't see how "I could be mistaken" from something working to not working.

[naive pawn]

oh i don't mean that, i shouldve been more specific, mb
what i meant there is that there might be some other fact that made it work, and it's not just a playerinput propagating changes to its source asset

i don't really know what that might be, and to be clear i'm not trying to blame you - that's just the possibilities i see given what i know

[naive pawn]

    public InputActionReference actionReference;
    InputAction action => actionReference.action;
    InputAction playerAction => playerInput.actions.FindAction(action.id);
    void SyncOverride() {
        string overridePath = action.bindings[bindingIndex].overridePath;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(overridePath)) {
            playerAction.ApplyBindingOverride(bindingIndex, overridePath);
        } else {
            playerAction.RemoveBindingOverride(bindingIndex);
        }
    }
```this for example

[naive pawn]

(though of course i might be misremembering something, i haven't worked with this stuff for a while)

hmm yeah maybe that's the case

action.actionMap.asset.Disable();

it does copy the asset. i don't know why i wrote the code there like that, i wouldn't expect that Disable to propagate

    private void CopyActionAssetAndApplyBindingOverrides()
    {
        InputActionAsset inputActionAsset = m_Actions;
        m_Actions = Object.Instantiate(m_Actions);
//                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        /* copy binding overrides */
    }

or maybe the actionmaps inside aren't deeply cloned. that's a bit too deep than what i have time for, sorry.
maybe try #🖱️┃input-system

[lone sable]

I'll just have to move everything over to playerInput.actions.FindAction(aimAction.action.id).Enable(); I guess.

Just bothers me that I've been using this for well over 2 years now, and being forced to update due to a security issue basically breaks everything.

[heavy basalt]

hello, im wondering if its possible for the direction of a moving platform on a spline to be reversed if the player's camera transform is facing in the opposite direction of the movement?

[naive pawn]

split that down into separate parts

you described it, so it's possible (unless you're using a system that doesn't support that, but you didn't specify)

[heavy basalt]

im not sure if its a system issue. I haven't done custom spline movement like this before so its all a bit new to me at the moment, and sort of what seems to be going wrong too. so right now im calculating the dot product of the forward transform of the platform and the forward transform of my player camera (attached to the player as a 3rd person free cam). it is successfully computing the dot product but the movement isn't changing as I hope. the player is also parented to the boat so that the player doesn't slip off with the movement. I'm handling this in my update() function. the player also doesn't use rigidbodies, its the third person character controller from the unity asset store for context

if im still slipping up on the explanation, do tell

    {
        Floater floater = boat.GetComponent<Floater>();
       
        Vector3 boatForward = boat.transform.forward;
        boatForward.y = 0;
        Vector3 cameraForward = floater.cameraTransform.forward;
        cameraForward.y = 0;

        float dot = Vector3.Dot(boatForward.normalized, cameraForward.normalized);
        Debug.Log("Dot product: " + dot);
        float angle = Mathf.Acos(dot) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;     
        if(dot > 0)
        {
            
        }
        else if(dot < 0)
        {
            
           
        }

        
    } ```

this is sort of what i'm doing

[naive pawn]

but the movement isn't changing as I hope
well, you don't seem to have anything that would do that?

[heavy basalt]

sorry, I tried this: ``` void Update()
{
Floater floater = boat.GetComponent<Floater>();

    Vector3 boatForward = boat.transform.forward;
    boatForward.y = 0;
    Vector3 cameraForward = floater.cameraTransform.forward;
    cameraForward.y = 0;

    float dot = Vector3.Dot(boatForward.normalized, cameraForward.normalized);
    Debug.Log("Dot product: " + dot);
    float angle = Mathf.Acos(dot) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;     
    if(dot > 0)
    {
        //t += Time.deltaTime * speed;
        dist += speed * Time.deltaTime;
    }
    else if(dot < 0)
    {
        //t -= Time.deltaTime * speed;  
        dist -= speed * Time.deltaTime;   
    }
   // t = Mathf.Clamp01(t);
    dist = Mathf.Clamp(dist, 0f, length); 
    float t = dist/length; 
    transform.position = splineAnim.Container.EvaluatePosition(t);
} ```

[naive pawn]

is the boat rotating at all?

(in other methods)

[heavy basalt]

no, it doesn't rotate at all

[naive pawn]

and it points in the direction of travel?

[heavy basalt]

right now on play, its completely static in its starting position

[naive pawn]

try adding some logs to see what's going on

[verbal dome]

That code looks fine to me 🤔 Is the dot product log printing what you expect?

And is speed non-zero

[heavy basalt]

the dot product log is printing what I expect and speed is set to 2, which was working before

[naive pawn]

try logging the dist, this will narrow down the issue

[heavy basalt]

i don't necessarily need to rotate the platform also, the reverse movement based on camera transform is mimicking ping pong

[median hatch]

stupid question but is the object static

[heavy basalt]

or thats how I would like for it to behave

[median hatch]

can happen

[verbal dome]

What is this script attached to?

[heavy basalt]

i checked just now, its not static

[naive pawn]

@heavy basalt see if this value is updated as expected

[heavy basalt]

its attached to a child object of the boat, handling the trigger

[heavy basalt]

ok will report back

[verbal dome]

And that is the object you want to move?

[heavy basalt]

the parent object, the boat (platform attached to the spline)

[verbal dome]

But you are modifying transform.position which is the child's transform, right

[heavy basalt]

yeah I think I might be doing that

now that you've said it

[heavy basalt]

@naive pawn I checked the distance for when the dot is > 0 and < 0and its a really low number, like between 00.0015 - 00.0072

[naive pawn]

you're probably just gonna have to debug more to figure out what exactly is going on

(if the issue wasn't just that you were moving the wrong object)

[pliant dome]

I have both a box collider and a capsule collider in my player. In a OnCollision method when colliding with whatever I tagged ground. Could I assign specific colliders for when it collides with the ground?

I only want the box collider to have the property of being grounded

but I still need the capsule collider there to collide with stuff

[naive pawn]

you could have the colliders have separate layer overrides, or you could separate them out to different objects

[cloud agate]

    {
        float posx = (mapList.entry[index].x1 + mapList.entry[index].x2) / 2f;
        float posy = (mapList.entry[index].y1 + mapList.entry[index].y2) / 2f;
        Vector2 position = new Vector2(posx, posy);
        Debug.Log("Spawned a marker in: " + position);
        GameObject markerInstance = Instantiate(marker, position, Quaternion.identity);
    }

I have this code for spawning markers in the middle of rectangles on my HUD. for some reason it spawns them wrong though

[chrome apex]

!code

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[solar hill]

wrong how?

[naive pawn]

if the capsule shouldn't collide with the ground at all for example (assuming the box is the collision of the character as a whole) you would have the capsule as a child or with layer overrides to not hit the ground
@pliant dome

[solar hill]

whats the expected result and whats the actual result

[chrome apex]

I don't understand this. When I add this line:

bramble.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, (Random.Range(0f, 360f)), 0f);

The rotation doesn't work. It rotates on a random axis it seems like. When I rotate it manually in scene view, it works perfectly. How is that possible?

[pliant dome]

Ohh okay so barely sorta like a compund collider

Well how its set up with the child

I mean

[solar hill]

does this object have a parent?

does the parent have any non 0,0,0 rotations?

[chrome apex]

OK for reference;

void InstantiateBrambles()
    {
        Vector3 pos = new Vector3(0f, 0f, startOffset);

        for (int i = 0; i < 5f; i++)
            {
            int rand = Random.Range(0, 2);
            GameObject bramble = Instantiate(Brambles[rand]);
            bramble.transform.SetParent(gameObject.transform);
            bramble.transform.localPosition = pos;
            bramble.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, (Random.Range(0f, 360f)), 0f);
            pos += new Vector3(0f, 0f, nextOffset);
        }

It should be noted when I rotate in world space, I get the same kind of weird behavior

[verbal dome]

Does it have a rigidbody, an animator, or any other scripts/components that could be modifying its transform?

[solar hill]

so if you do just transform.rotation instead of localRotation the issue still happens?

[chrome apex]

nope

[chrome apex]

yep. Seems impossible, yea?

[solar hill]

also side note ive never seen a for loop use a float

at least in this context

when you are just incrementing i

[naive pawn]

that probably shouldn't be there but it doesn't change the behaviour

[chrome apex]

I understand what you're saying but that part works

[solar hill]

ik ik i was just pointing it out

has "side note" lost all its meaning already 😔

[chrome apex]

I will quickly take a pic of how they look vs how they look if I don't apply rotation

[solar hill]

anyways can you try "bramble.transform.localEulerAngles"

if you havent

[naive pawn]

yeah im commenting on the sidenote in support of it

[chrome apex]

here, wrong one

[naive pawn]

is the parent rotated?

[cloud agate]

forgot one line in the bottom

markerInstance.transform.SetParent(MapHUD.transform, false);

And this is how it instantiates

the debug log gives the correct pos

[chrome apex]

here is default

[verbal dome]

What is wrong about this though

[solar hill]

could be something to do with anchoring.

[verbal dome]

Oh, your object/its mesh just isn't oriented properly

[chrome apex]

as you can see, in the first image, the selected bramble is offset by only 8 degrees

[solar hill]

yeah but notice they all share the same X rotation

[verbal dome]

Notice how it's at -90 X degrees at the resting pose

[solar hill]

try

bramble.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(-90f, (Random.Range(0f, 360f)), 0f);

they are actually all rotating correctly on the y axis

[chrome apex]

Ok but what's the difference here? It's 0 on those axes

[solar hill]

the mesh itself

it might have an incorrect up axis set up or something

[verbal dome]

Idk what you mean, the object in your second screenshot is at -90 x

Did you make the mesh in blender?

[chrome apex]

ok so it's correct at 0, 0, 0 but wildly incorrect at 0, 1, 0 rotation? Gotcha

[solar hill]

whatdo you mean 0,0,0

the second screenshot has x at -90

thats not 0,0,0

thats -90,0,0

[chrome apex]

oooooh

I'm stupid

I didn't even see that

yes, obvious blender problem

my brain is small

thanks anyway tho

[solar hill]

also please "fix" that for loop

youre wasting perfectly good bytes of memory for that float

[naive pawn]

floats are as wide as ints

you're actually wasting a few cycles converting the lhs int into a float as part of promotion, smh

[solar hill]

honest to god

i couldnt actually think of it

embarassing considering i just had a midterm regarding exactly memory types 😔

[pliant dome]

My capsule collider is too ingrained with how it changes in size whenever I airdash in the enum so changing the the capsule collider to be its own child is gonna be so hard omg

Im so cooked

[naive pawn]

C does weird things to you

[chrome apex]

friendship ended with float, int is now my best friend

[solar hill]

always use Bytes for for loops /s

[pliant dome]

why is the interactions between ledges and the collider and the raycast so absurdly difficult? Its just esentially a platformer thing

[naive pawn]

i mean, it depends on how you're going about it too

were you the person asking about detecting ledges vs walls

[pliant dome]

Yeah but that was a while back. I solve one issue then a new crops up. I know thats coding in a nutshell but its ALWAYS about the ledge

About how I slide down the ledge cuz of capsule collider or the boxcast causing issues with how big or small it is or just anything!

[naive pawn]

i was gonna ask yeah, wouldn't raycasts/overlap checks be easier than collision checks for your purposes

[cloud agate]

I realized that the issue is that I record the mouse position wrong. Or the game itself does
public Vector2 MousePosVector()
{
Vector2 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
return mousePos;
}

This changes based on how big or small the window size in the editor is

Is there a universal way to get a proper mouse position (how far the mouse is from the center)?

I even get negative values for mouse position from this

[naive pawn]

make sure to read docs

[pliant dome]

Using raycast only never solved any of the issues I was facing

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like your design for your approach to this hasn't been fully / well throught through

[verbal dome]

What issues?

(Have you tried circlecasts/spherecasts?)

[naive pawn]

The current mouse position in pixel coordinates.

The bottom-left of the screen or window is at (0, 0). The top-right of the screen or window is at (Screen.width, Screen.height).

When running in windowed mode with an unconfined cursor, position values smaller than 0 or greater than the screen dimensions (Screen.width,Screen.height) indicate that the mouse cursor is outside of the game window.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input-mousePosition.html

this means it's in screen space. you can use Camera.ScreenToViewportPoint or similar methods to convert this into viewport space

[wintry quarry]

proper mouse position (how far the mouse is from the center)
This is not the usual definition of mouse position

What are you trying to achieve here exactly?

[pliant dome]

I can assure you I have and it wasnt gonna solve them anyways

[naive pawn]

if im remembering correctly, it's pretty much the exact region you want to check for collision, no?

[lone sable]

So much for LTS... Really glad thats a thing.

I'm now trying to disable all input actions.

foreach (var item in playerInput.currentActionMap) {
   item.Disable();
}

This works, however, UI navigation is still allowed.. even though its included in the action map list... Why?

[naive pawn]

make the wall and ground all a uniform "terrain" layer

if you cast down and hit, grounded
if you cast, i guess in the direction you're facing (projected to the horizontal plane) and hit, you're facing a ledge

[cloud agate]

Trying to record where the user clicks, and if the user clicks within a country (rectangle) it creates a marker in the middle of it #💻┃code-beginner message

[naive pawn]

is UI navigation done through the player input? i wouldn't expect it to be

[lone sable]

It appears to reference the exact same Input Action System...

Again.. All of this previously worked. For something that's supposed to be LTS it clearly isn't...

[naive pawn]

Input Action System
not sure what you mean by that, that's not a thing

not sure what you mean by the LTS thing either. LTS doesn't mean stable

it's supposed to be stable, but that's not exactly what the goal of it is

[pliant dome]

I wouldve solved this specific problem with dashing into the ledge with having the capsule collider be wider then the box collider at the bottom

but since you cant assign specific colliders in a OnCollision Script I couldnt do this

[naive pawn]

you can separate them out into separate children, so you can do that

but you should not

it sounds like you're really overcomplicating this

you need to step back and think about your design before making it more complex to solve a specific issue

[pliant dome]

But if I make it more simple nothing gets accomplished

[verbal dome]

Are we talking 2D or 3D here btw?

[pliant dome]

3D

[pliant dome]

I have. Thats how it started first

[naive pawn]

i'm not telling you to make it simpler, i'm telling you to reconsider your direction to potentially end up with something that achieves your goals but is easier to work with and maintain and tweak

[verbal dome]

It's also possible to see which collider was hit from the contact point that you can get with Collision.GetContacts

Without having a separate child

Just FYI

[pliant dome]

It wpuldve been simpler if I could just make my own shapes for the collider Im using for the player

But I cant

[naive pawn]

oh damn, forgot that was a thing

[naive pawn]

you can though...?

but no, that does not sound like it'd make it simpler

[pliant dome]

A capsule is close but the fact that the ends are round causes issues for me

[verbal dome]

Are we using a solid (non trigger) collider to detect ledges here? 🤔

[naive pawn]

i feel like you just want to complain rather than find a solution at this point

[verbal dome]

I'd usually go with a physics query, or a trigger collider at least

[solar hill]

i also might be imagining things but didnt we already discuss this exact problem before?

[naive pawn]

yes

[solar hill]

and the solution was also "simplify" it

[naive pawn]

hmm i don't remember how it ended 🤷

[pliant dome]

Simplifying it would be reverting back to a point where I would just encounter the same issues though

[solar hill]

not really, theres a difference between simplify it and just using an earlier version

[naive pawn]

...so you're just discarding the idea because you think it won't work, or...?

[solar hill]

you still need a solution youre just going to have to have a different approach

time sunk fallacy or whatever, sometimes its easier to start fresh

[pliant dome]

Like the collider thing. If I decide "okay lets keep it as a casule and only a capsule. All the issues would still be present

[solar hill]

you have version control (i hope) so nothing is ever truly lost when you experiment

[verbal dome]

Mind pointing out some of the issues?

Cause otherwise this is just a pointless rant

[naive pawn]

but you've now removed the issue of having to deal with 2 colliders, for example

also didn't you want to use a boxcollider or something

[solar hill]

it would be easier if you had a list of issues specifically caused by using a capsule collider

a lot of your issues might be interconnected enough that a singular implementation could solve them

[pliant dome]

Are you able to vc? I really wanna just show it cuz it be soooo sooo much easier to show then to explain the exact one issue which it isnt just one issue

[solar hill]

theres no vc in this server

[pliant dome]

Oh then call just a sec?

[verbal dome]

Better just make a thread

[pliant dome]

damn

[verbal dome]

Video + explanation can go a long way

[naive pawn]

you'd be sending all your thoughts into the ether, impossible to check after the fact, for yourself or for others

if you did this #💻┃code-beginner message, and had your character as a boxcollider, what would the issues be

[solar hill]

you can also just take your time

[naive pawn]

i'm trying to help here but i can't if you just deflect that it'd have the same issues as before, when i don't even know what the issues you had before were

[solar hill]

you dont have to list all the problems in like a second lol

record a video and write up something from 1. to n.

[molten dock]

u guys know any tips or guides on avoiding build only bugs

[naive pawn]

the only way to not have bugs at all is not have any code

[wintry quarry]

Why do that manually? You can do that with either a UI element or a collider

[verbal dome]

Make a development build and debug it

[naive pawn]

learn well-known patterns and where/when to use them, use available tooling to your advantage - these can help reduce risk of bugs
but they're kinda inevitable, we can't see the future
you'll get better at identifying bug-prone code (antipatterns), or fixing bugs as you get more experience

[verbal dome]

Unless you mean build errors

[alpine bronze]

Hey what are good sources to learn all the unity specific methods, properties etc for someone who already has a solid C# background?

Or is the documentation that good 🤣

[timber tide]

clicking the (?) on the component on the editor

usually just get the methods, but sometimes an overview

[naive pawn]

the documentation is sufficient

[naive pawn]

you would not want to learn all of them lmao, there's so many

[timber tide]

if you are into shaders though I would marathon through the shader graph docs and all nodes specifically, also Daniel Ilett has a nice resource for that

[crimson laurel]

how do you put multiple different types of values in a dictionary/array? (e.g. ints and strings in 1)

got a hitbox system working, but passing all these different variables for the properties of the hitbox is obviously not that great

I want to pass a dictionary/array through the parameters which contain the information, but since stuff like what shape the hitbox should be would be a string, I can't pass it alongside other stuff

    Dictionary<string, int> amounts = new()
    {
        ["hitboxSize"] = vector2 stuff,
        ["hitboxShape"] = "Square",
    };

[slender nymph]

you don't. why does this need to be a Dictionary and not just some custom class or struct that holds the data?

[crimson laurel]

it doesn't, I'm just wondering what the method would be

[wintry quarry]

you'd make a struct or class

[crimson laurel]

mk

[wintry quarry]

For example:

enum HitboxShape {
  Square,
  Circle,
  Capsule,
}

class Hitbox {
  Vector2 size;
  HitboxShape shape;
}```

definitely avoid strings for data wherever possible.

[crimson laurel]

gotcha

[loud spear]

i am trying to make a multiplayer pvp pve project and now im strugeling with damage comunication. Is it smart to make a server gameobject wich handels all the damage and says to the objects on the clientside that they take damage?

[wintry quarry]

#1390346492019212368

[crimson laurel]

types cant be passed through parameters apparently

though if you know a better method for storing the stats of attacks and such in one place instead of the script where it's used, that'd be neat cause I'm mostly just working off what I know from workin with LUA

[naive pawn]

yes, because parameters need to be values
consider generics, though not sure what you're trying to go for here

something like CreateHitbox definitely seems like it'd want to have some data, not just a type

[crimson laurel]

neither am I lmao

as I said I'm just doing what I know from lua which clearly aint gonna work out

[naive pawn]

the statement you wrote just.. doesn't make sense

what does CreateHitbox take

[crimson laurel]

I dunno man, I'm tried what they said would work

[naive pawn]

this is definitely not what one might say would work

[ivory bobcat]

Mayeb you're misunderstanding something? The error states that you're trying to pass a type as an argument.

[crimson laurel]

you can lowkey just ignore what I wrote and tell me what I should actually be doing

[naive pawn]

i don't know what you're trying to do

what does CreateHitbox take

[edgy sinew]

what is the ultimate goal here?

[crimson laurel]

I want it to take a group of values

eg. the size, location, owner of the hitbox, etc

[naive pawn]

cool, so attahcHitboxInfo is not a group of values

it is the shape of a group of values - a template, a blueprint, whatever analogy you're familiar with

doesn't lua have this concept too

[crimson laurel]

I dunno man

[naive pawn]

yeah lua has classes too

[crimson laurel]

unity doesnt have regular tables so

well atleast C# doesnt

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show us Player?

How to post code:

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[crimson laurel]

I know

[naive pawn]

any strictly-typed statically-typed language doesn't

[crimson laurel]

again

[naive pawn]

but even so - you understand the difference between classes and their instances, right?

lua has this distinction

[edgy sinew]

The var keyword in Unity (C#) is used for implicitly typed local variables, where the compiler automatically determines the variable's type based on the value it's assigned.

[naive pawn]

attackHitboxInfo isn't a table there, it's table, the constructor

[crimson laurel]

I'd rather you just fill me in on what I should actually be doing to make a single script handle hitbox creation

[naive pawn]

anonymous types and shapeless types aren't the same

[naive pawn]

mate, you're missing a core concept. you aren't going to get far without it

[crimson laurel]

instead of trying to make comparisons to lua when I'm in the dark on the C# side

[naive pawn]

...which is why i'm trying to give analogies to lua...

[edgy sinew]

Dictionary<Key - probably an int is best depends how you will access, Value - literally any struct or class of your own creation> ???

[crimson laurel]

ok I appreciate you tryna help but ill just

[ivory bobcat]

Instead of passing the type like int, pass the actual instance instead like level (a variable of type int(

[naive pawn]

not what they're going for

[crimson laurel]

keep goin and find another way

thanks

[naive pawn]

@crimson laurel

whoops didn't mean to do that

[ivory bobcat]

In your case, you'd pass an instance of your struct etc

[naive pawn]

@crimson laurel if you've used classes in lua, this is a concept you're already aware of, and you just need to apply it here.
if not, you'll have to learn this concept. see the beginner c# resources pinned here

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean? Why would you pass a type as a parameter? What are you trying to do?

I feel you're just missing the basics of using types, parameters, classes, structs, and methods in C# here.

[undone wave]

dunno if this is more fitting here or in #🏃┃animation but
i made a bunch of rigs for the player character in different angles and set them up so that they have the same sprites/bones/etc
now in Editor Mode, I can just change the Prefab using the dropdown in the Inspector, but how do I do that during runtime, and more specifically, through code?

i did find a 'swap prefab' function in the docs, and it seems to have been deprecated

[deep depot]

hey can anybody hop in vc and help me out with some unity issues

[undone wave]

would the best alternative perhaps be destroying and instantiating prefabs whenever the direction changes?

[snow raven]

Hey all

I've seen so many ways of doing the ground check for a 2d platformer now a days, what's the most up to date and recommended by the community?

I'm also going to have wall jumps

Ray casting, OnCollisionEnter2D, contactFilter2D

It seems that the recommended one, by a unity dev is contactFilter2d? https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/PhysicsExamples2D/blob/d957391d0a2b70225ffdcaede90f40d679df5d1e/Assets/Scripts/SceneSpecific/Miscellaneous/SimpleGroundedController.cs#L17

Thanks 🙂

[keen dew]

There is no recommended method. You can use whatever you want and that fits the rest of the game's structure

[snow raven]

I went with contact filter 🙂 Seems to work fine for what I need

[livid anchor]

Hey folks, I have a problem with maths...
I have a drone moving in top-down view on X,Z.
I would like to make the drone tilt slightly in the direction it is moving. Like moving left (X = -1) => Tilt left 30°

How do I code that ? With a smooth tilt animation on top of it :/

[midnight plover]

How are you moving the drone? You could get the velocity by math if not using physics orjust get the velocity and according to it remap the desired rotation based on the direction

[livid anchor]

I'm just adding a force in the direction pointed by the inputs

[midnight plover]

then you should get the rigidbodies velocity and use that

[livid anchor]

Ok so I map the inclination on the velocity, nice way to have the animation of the tilt.
But where I have a hard time is defining the angle of the tilt depending on the direction

[midnight plover]

Did you log your velocitys axis and check if you could use that already?

[livid anchor]

I'm a pure beginner, I don't know crap about what You're talking about 🙂

[midnight plover]

what words dont you understand of what I suggested and where does google fail in reseraching those terms 😉 First thing to learn, read the unity docs about topics you dont know. If its still not clear, just come back and ask 🙂 The velocity is the directional vector of your current rigidbodies positional change: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-linearVelocity.html

If you move with adding forces, it will change the velocity according to the physical calculations

[livid anchor]

I'll read that and check if I can work with it

DroneBody.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(droneTilt.z, droneTilt.y, droneTilt.x * -1); ```

Seems like this is as simple as that 🙂

[midnight plover]

just be careful with changing the rotation directly, as it will ignore physics for that frame it acts like its teleporting to the new rotated values. If you are only rotating the visuals tho, that would be fine

[livid anchor]

Yes I have an empty object as my player and the drone body as a child.
Thus I tilt the child which is only a visual

[naive pawn]

no 👇

!ask

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[final sluice]

I need a direction on what I should do. Im making a strategy game with castles and walls. Im trying to make an Enemy AI that will priotize breaking the castle but if there is no path, it will break down its closest wall. How do I do this ?

[naive pawn]

break down the behaviour into simple parts and then figure out how to implement those simple parts
might be pathfinding, finding the wall, breaking the wall for example. how you split it up exactly depends on what you have already

[trail crest]

Easiest way would probably be to use the NavMesh and have the walls act as Nav Mesh Obstacles. If the enemy can pathfind to the target, all is good. If it can't, just use something like a Raycast towards the target to get the wall in front of them or use Vector3.Distance to find the distance of every wall, then get the closest one either to the player or to the target

[ivory breach]

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[real thunder]

lil question, Random.value is 0 1 inclusive right?
so
if I use Random.value <= chance it would return true if chance is 0 and value is 0

if I use Random.value < chance it would return false if chance is 1 and value is 1

do I trim 1 or 0 away or something for checking random chances?

[iron wind]

Yes it's 0 to 1 inclusive. Whether you use < 0.5 or <= 0.5 makes practically no difference.

[night raptor]

It should be inclusive yes, but does it matter is what we should ask?

[iron wind]

for reference there's about 1 billion numbers that a float can represent in 0 < x < 1 range

[real thunder]

yeah whatever

[night raptor]

You can always make a loop and count how often you get exactly 1 or 0, not very often is the answer I'm sure

[real thunder]

I just assumed that to check if a crit chance worked out or something I meant to do Random.value <= chance
but after decent amount of time I realized that it won't work I expect it to work on if chance is 0 and random value returned is 0

and I can't fix it by replacing <= with < either

so I have to specify I don't want 0 or 1

right?

what's the easierst way to check a chance

[final sluice]

I have this image, I want to make it into a jpg image with the white corners all got cut out, is there a way to do such thing ?

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask

[keen dew]

You don't need to check the random value if the chance is 0 or 1. if(chance > 0 && Random.value <= chance) for example

[real thunder]

oh makes sense, thanks

[keen dew]

Doesn't sound like a Unity question but jpg can't have transparency so you can't have a jpg image that wouldn't have any color in some parts

[final sluice]

so I should convert it into a png ? how should I do it ?

[keen dew]

With any image editing software

[hexed terrace]

this is a code channel

[final sluice]

yeah ok sorry I will bring this question over 2d-tools

[austere dove]

Using GIMP you can easy add an alpha. Then yes PNG export

[rocky canyon]

Photopea if u want an online workflow

[hexed terrace]

the conversation was moved to the correct channel, let's not drag up an off topic chat 🙂

[tulip vortex]

hello ! I have a problem, I'm trying to get the position of a part of a model but all of the local positions 0,0,0
I searched a little but didn't find anything useful, or didn't understand what was said

[wintry quarry]

Can you elaborate more on what you mean by this and what code you tried?

[tulip vortex]

I have a board, with a lot of tiles, all of those tiles are at position 0,0,0
I tried drawing a sphere gizmos at the position of one of my tile and it drew it at the center of my board
I understood that there was local positions and world positions but I'm using transform.position and if I understood correctly it should return the world position of the object

also when I debug.log my tile position with transform.position it gives me the correct (I suppose) world position

[keen dew]

If transform.position is correct but the gizmo is not in the right place then the problem is how you place the gizmo

[tulip vortex]

I place it at the transform.position of the tile
Also the rest of my code breaks because it seems to take incorrect positions

[keen dew]

You'll have to show the code if you want someone to tell what's wrong with it

[tulip vortex]

oh sure sorry !

void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        if (currentTile != null)
        {
            Gizmos.color = Color.red;
            Gizmos.DrawSphere(currentTile.transform.position, 1f);
        }
    }

here is the gizmos code

[keen dew]

And if you log the position how did you confirm that it's correct and different from where the gizmo goes?

[tulip vortex]

because the gizmos position is at my board's position and the logged position isn't the board's position

but I might have an idea of what's causing the problem

I told my friend I was receiving his assets 90 degress on the side and he told me to check that box

So i'm curious, does this mess with everything ?

because looking further at the logged position, it's completely outside the board, in fact it's under the board around where it would have been if the board was 90

ok I don't know I'm lost ._.

[high mauve]

hey i need help with a project i want to steer a plane using gyroscopic input of android device how can i do it i searched the forum but i couldn't find any thing use full

[wintry quarry]

What part are you struggling with exactly?
Reading the input?
Rotating the object?
Something else?

[high mauve]

well i cant understand what kind of output will it give like using gyroscope will it give me input in x,y,z chage and i yes how can i use it to steer the plane
is it possible to move the plane using a vector force as i dont want to do all the friction and drag things

[wintry quarry]

Have you looked at the documentation?

You probably want to use the Attitude sensor if available, not the gyroscope exactly

It depends exactly what you're going for

[high mauve]

ok thanks will do

[rocky canyon]

w/e the output you can probably normalize it 0 -> 1 or -1 -> 1

and apply that to ur movement

[undone terrace]

Help Why doesn't this come up?

And yes I downloaded it with Visual Studio Code installer

but it just doesnt come up

"C#" doesnt come up either

[swift crag]

this looks like Visual Studio, not Visual Studio Code

they are two completely unrelated editors (thank you, Microsoft!)

[swift crag]

i'm pretty sure this doesn't fix the 90 degree rotation that you get when going from Blender -> Unity

i'm unclear on what it actually does, actually

[tulip vortex]

well the preview of the model is correct now and when placing it the rotation is 0,0,0

[tulip vortex]

alright well we're 2

[swift crag]

That’s what I expected it to do, haha

Maybe I just haven’t noticed because I always use the “apply transforms” option in Blender’s FBX exporter

When two systems disagree about which direction each axis points, you have to rotate the model to compensate

To “bake” that conversion would be to change the mesh itself, instead of just giving the entire object a default rotation

So that makes sense

[rocky canyon]

but yea, that doesn't look like (your image)..
looks like instead

if so... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/gamedev/unity/get-started/getting-started-with-visual-studio-tools-for-unity?pivots=windows its in ur "Workloads" if ur looking for the development environment

[pliant dome]

Okay so I took a few steps back and now Im just trying to figure out how to properly detect when Im not touching the ground using boxcast because when I jump for like a frame or 2 Im grounded even when Im not supposed to which messes with alot of stuff

I made the box cast super short and this still didnt fix the issue

[naive wigeon]

are there any good resources to create a building system similar to valheims? Code monkeys isnt quite what im looking for and I cant seem to find many resources about modular snapping/rotation online

[left sail]

Hello, I'm here to ask for help with my vehicle which only does Tanger and drift. I've tried modifying it with all the scripts from YouTube, but nothing works; it hasn't changed for an hour.

I spent all day on a tiny bug like this, and I still haven't fixed it. If anyone knows about vehicles...

[dusk jay]

quick question i have my player inside this gameObject just to be able to move freely since without the GameObject my player would be fixed in 0, 0, 0 now i wonder how do i share a variable from GameObject to PlayerSprite, can someone explain to me how to do it?

[lyric igloo]

using UnityEngine;

public class movement : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 40f;

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
    float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("vertical");
    float moveAmount = new Vector2 (horizontal, vertical).magnitude;

    Vector3 movement = new Vector3(horizontal, vertical, 0f) * speed * Time.deltaTime;
    transform.position += movement;
}

}
that code is goona work?

[dusk jay]

test it

[lyric igloo]

i did its teling me this ArgumentException: Input Axis vertical is not setup.
To change the input settings use: Edit -> Project Settings... -> Input Manager
UnityEngine.Internal.InputUnsafeUtility.GetAxisRaw (System.String axisName) (at <f4e06d84f805445ca5ae28cb191715cf>:0)
UnityEngine.Input.GetAxisRaw (System.String axisName) (at <f4e06d84f805445ca5ae28cb191715cf>:0)
movement.Update () (at Assets/movement.cs:14)

thats the input mangar somthing worng?

[swift crag]

"vertical" is not "Vertical" 😉

[lyric igloo]

wym?

[gloomy heart]

case sensitive

[dusk jay]

u have this: float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("vertical");
u need this: float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

[lyric igloo]

oh never mind thanks its fixed

[dusk jay]

quick question i have my player inside this gameObject just to be able to move freely since without the GameObject my player would be fixed in 0, 0, 0 now i wonder how do i share a variable from GameObject to PlayerSprite, can someone explain to me how to do it?

[left sail]

help thnk ^^

[swift crag]

sounds like you should read about https://unity.huh.how/references/serialized-references !

specifically https://unity.huh.how/references/serializing-component-references

[dusk jay]

thx that should do

[swift crag]

A component on GameObject can store a reference to a component on PlayerSprite

or vice-versa

you can then access the public fields of that component

[dusk jay]

i know about the logic i just didnt know how to do it in Unity specificly as i have coded in other languages and engines

[swift crag]

also, if you're wondering why you had to do this: I'm guessing you have an Animator on PlayerSprite (and it's trying to set the position of the player)

and yeah, this is the correct way to handle that

parent it to another object that moves around

[dusk jay]

thx

[somber ivy]

Hello:)

I'd like to ask if anyone know

what this

Screen position out of view frustum (screen pos 601.000000, 395.000000, 0.000000) (Camera rect 0 0 1059 494)

UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

mean

😭 😭

[frail hawk]

thank god

[dusk jay]

that scares me

[frail hawk]

the bot is doing a great job

[deep depot]

hey does anybody have a second to vc about some unity questions

[frail hawk]

better ask here so more people might help you

[deep depot]

here as in this subchat?

[frail hawk]

depends on your questions if code related yes

[deep depot]

yes, i cant get my capsule (player) to bind to a controller. my code may be bad

[naive pawn]

like i mentioned before,

!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

[naive pawn]

you're gonna have to give some more detail than that

what do you mean by "bind", and what do you mean by "controller" here?

[deep depot]

well, ill put this out there i have NO idea what im doing. ive just started learning all of this in the past 3 days. so i had gemini write me a character movement script that is supposed to be binded to WASD. I link the "character conntroller" to that script component and i get an error. i was hoping someone could look at my code and tell me whats wrong with it as i dont even know what to look for.'

[frail hawk]

the answer is easy, do not use ai as a beginner

learn c#

[frosty hound]

At the very least, you need to share the error.

[deep depot]

i dont know where to start leearning tho. im not really good with youtube tutorials. and every other person ive contacted has just say use AI

[frosty hound]

But mainly, you should actually do a tutorial on character movement so you're doing the thing yourself.

[frosty hound]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[frosty hound]

Unity has an entire series on learning the engine and basic coding. Including on how to make things move.

[deep depot]

UnityConnectWebRequestException: Token Exchange failed due a failure with the web request.
UnityEditor.Connect.TokenExchange.VerifyTokenExchangeResponse (UnityEngine.Networking.UnityWebRequest exchangeRequest) (at <653e87cf2eee46cba35f0658f2b1887c>:0)
UnityEditor.Connect.TokenExchange.TokenExchangeRequestAsync (UnityEditor.Connect.TokenExchangeRequest tokenExchangeRequest, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at <653e87cf2eee46cba35f0658f2b1887c>:0)
UnityEditor.Connect.TokenExchange.GetServiceTokenAsync (System.String genesisToken, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at <653e87cf2eee46cba35f0658f2b1887c>:0)
UnityEditor.Connect.ServiceToken.GetServiceTokenAsync (System.String genesisToken, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken) (at <653e87cf2eee46cba35f0658f2b1887c>:0)
UnityEditor.Connect.UnityConnect.RequestNewServiceToken () (at <653e87cf2eee46cba35f0658f2b1887c>:0)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__7_0 (System.Object state) (at <1eb9db207454431c84a47bcd81e79c37>:0)

[frosty hound]

That has nothing to do with your code, that's something to do with the editor.

[deep depot]

oh lord

[frosty hound]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/unityconnectwebrequestexception-token-exchange-failed-due-a-failure-with-the-web-request/1674368

You can use Google (I know, in the world of AI this is a scary thing), to search the exact error up and see what people are saying about it. You're not going to be the only one who would have had it.

[deep depot]

do i just paste my error in to the search engine

[frosty hound]

Have you never used Google before?

[deep depot]

i just didnt know if i out the whole thing or if just a piece of it will do

[frosty hound]

You type something in it and it'll find similar results. So something like UnityConnectWebRequestException: Token Exchange failed due a failure with the web request. would be enough to get something back.

[undone terrace]

I downloaded the Game Development with Unity thing. But nothing comes up when I write something ( like it doesnt recommend things ).

ANd since I'm new I would like Visual Studio to show me recommend script

But I'm gonna download Visual Studio ig

[deep depot]

ive heard anti gravity is nice alternative to visual studio

[undone terrace]

I'm not using knockoffs

[frosty hound]

Nor should you, as they don't work with Unity's auto completion.

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[undone terrace]

Well I have visual studio

[frosty hound]

This has the guides for setting up VS or VSCode with Unity. If you install VS through the Unity Hub, it'll auto configure.

[undone terrace]

the pink one

[undone terrace]

Look, I just want have to get the Unity Script Recommendations on Visual Studio. But I don't know how, because it's not in the extensiosn and I also added it at the download.

[naive pawn]

right, that's what the configuration instructions are for

[frosty hound]

Look, just follow the IDE Configuration instructions.

[naive pawn]

also vs is usually referred to as purple, i don't think ive heard anyone refer it to pink. that's a first for me lol

[undone terrace]

I did this

but it changed literally nothing

[frosty hound]

That was all the steps in the configuration guide?

Just installing that module?

[undone terrace]

"

Select Modify or Install to complete the installation."

It tells me literally

nothing

about my goal.

[frosty hound]

You installed the module?

[undone terrace]

These things have nothing to do with the Unity thing

Download the Visual Studio installer, or open it if already installed.

Select Install, or Modify if Visual Studio is already installed.

Select the Workloads tab, then select the Game development with Unity workload.

If Unity isn't already installed, select Unity Hub under Optional.

[undone terrace]

Yes.

And it still doesn't recommend me anything

no script

no nothing

[frosty hound]

And you decided to stop reading after that point?

[undone terrace]

In the Unity Editor, select the Edit > Preferences menu.

On the left, select the External Tools tab.

I did this.

I watched 4 tutorials on it

The rest is about how to set up Unity

Now VS with Unity

But it's not different with the blue one

[frosty hound]

Okay and in your opinion, those steps don't matter?

[undone terrace]

VS has nothing to do with Unity directly,

If it says "How to set up unity"

and another thing says

"How to set up unity with VS"

[frosty hound]

Okay, sure. Good luck. 👍

[undone terrace]

I only read the second thing.

Alr. Tell me what this has to do with VS?:

Open the Unity Hub, which was installed during the Visual Studio Tools for Unity installation.

On the left of the Unity Hub window, select the Installs tab.

Select the Add button.

In the Add Unity Version window, select a version of Unity to install.

Select Next to continue the installation.

In the Add modules to your install step, select Done.

One single thing?

I downloaded Unity Hub 1 year ago.

Exactly.

Nothing.

Maybe, just maybe you could help next time. Telling somebody to read things they already read, which have nothing to do with VS does not help.

I am not sure if you even read the article.

[polar acorn]

You should actually do all of the steps instead of just picking the ones that look relevant and ignoring the rest

In order

[undone terrace]

As I said.

What does this have to do with VS?

Open the Unity Hub, which was installed during the Visual Studio Tools for Unity installation.

On the left of the Unity Hub window, select the Installs tab.

Select the Add button.

In the Add Unity Version window, select a version of Unity to install.

Select Next to continue the installation.

In the Add modules to your install step, select Done.

"If .... you're read to set up Unity". Guess what. I set up unity 1 year ago.

So it's not actually needed to read "How to set up unity".

But "Configure Unity to use Visual Studio" is very interesting.

So I read that.

[fickle plume]

@undone terrace Stop spamming the channel and follow instructions

[undone terrace]

I followed the instructions. I watched 3 tutorials. Nobody could help. Now I ask for help and they tell me to follow instructions?

[polar acorn]

Because the instructions have worked for everyone who's actually done them

[naive pawn]

have you set the external tools

[frosty hound]

Like, let's use a bit of critical thinking. If you have installed Unity, then obviously you can skip that part to the Configure Unity to use Visual Studio that follows. This article, from microsoft, is an all encompassing article for setting up both VS and Unity and then configuring them to work together.

[undone terrace]

Yes.

[polar acorn]

use a bit of critical thinking
They haven't been allowed to teach that in schools since the bush administration

[undone terrace]

Why should I skip "Configure Unity to use Visual Studio"?

[polar acorn]

Why would you skip that

[undone terrace]

Yes IDK

That's what I'm asking

[frosty hound]

You wouldn't. Reading comprehension is clearly something you're struggling with. Skip to the Configure Unity to use Visual Studio part.

[naive pawn]

he's saying to skip to that part

[undone terrace]

I will not paste this again, because Iwill get banned.

I will explain myself one last time.

[frosty hound]

Honestly, this article has less words in it than you've posted here arguing lol.

[undone terrace]

1 Year Ago I downloaded Unity.

[frosty hound]

Great

[undone terrace]

2 Articles: How to download Unity. How to download VS.

[frosty hound]

Sound perfect

[undone terrace]

Why should I read "How to download Unity"?

[frosty hound]

You shoulnd't, nobody is askin you to.

[naive pawn]

no-one is telling you to

[polar acorn]

Why would you skip it when the thing you were replying to specifically told you to do it

[frosty hound]

It's baffling that you're hung up on that fact.

[undone terrace]

Because, I set Unity up ( 1 year ago). After I was told you I read it ( you can notice because I pasted it above ). I asked where the specific point was, which could help me.

[undone terrace]

Yet nobody asnwered me to this question.

[polar acorn]

And you were answered

[undone terrace]

Where?

[polar acorn]

You were given exactly what to do

[frosty hound]

Alright, this is going in circles lol. Make a thread if you want to continue this, please.

[polar acorn]

I literally just posted a screenshot

read it

[undone terrace]

I am repeating myself. I READ THE ARTICLE

THE ARTICLE COULDNT HELP

NOW IM ASKING FOR HELP

That's what Humans are for.

I watched 3 tutorials, READ THE ARTICLE, and I don't know what to do?

[polar acorn]

And humans wrote that article

which tells you what to do

and when you asked for clarification of if you can skip a thing

[undone terrace]

This Channel is COMPLETLY USELESS, if everybody just says "Read an article".

[polar acorn]

you were told to

[undone terrace]

I READ THE ARTICLE

[polar acorn]

and then you invented a different thing that you thought you were told to do

[naive pawn]

do you want us to just repeat the same steps in the article one at a time

like, those are the steps to do it

what exactly are you expecting us to do?

[undone terrace]

I'd like to know, why My Unity is not able to recommend me scripts.

I sended you photos

I can give more information

I was answered to read the article.

[naive pawn]

that would be because it's not configured

[undone terrace]

I read the article.

[frosty hound]

You can do so in the thread

[polar acorn]

Install VS, install the module, set the editor in options, install the package

donezo

[frosty hound]

Make a thread, show your screenshots of your set.

[undone terrace]

Oh really? That's why I told you 100x times I CONFIGURED IT.

[undone terrace]

Alr wait.

[polar acorn]

If it were configured, you'd have code suggestions

[undone terrace]

And exactly THIS IS THE PROBLEM.

You got it!

[naive pawn]

i don't doubt that you've tried to configure it before. obviously, something has gone wrong. we aren't trying to find blame here

[frosty hound]

If you're not going to make a thread, then stop using this channel.

[undone terrace]

I am going to make a thread if you stop replying to my messages

[frosty hound]

You're just going to get muted, so either make the thread or don't.

[naive pawn]

jesus it's not that hard

[frosty hound]

Baffling

[naive pawn]

configuring VS

here you go

[idle agate]

hi

[undone terrace]

Thank you

[naive pawn]

you could have done that yourself, but sure

[idle agate]

if all these idiots can do it

why cant i

!docs

[radiant void]

Documentation

Get the most out of Unity Editor by accessing our documentation!

💻 API

📖 Manual

[idle agate]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[idle agate]

!install

[radiant void]

When Unity fails to install checklist

• Make sure you have enough space including on C: drive.
• Check that it's not being blocked by antivirus/security programs.
• Look through the logs for a real reason why the setup fails they are pinned [here](#💻┃unity-talk message).

If you still have issues, perform a clean install in another location:

• Install the Hub and Unity in a non-system drive or a clean new folder in the root of C: drive.
• Failing that use the recovery Refresh option or reinstall OS entirely then repeat the previous step.

[frosty hound]

You can stop spamming the bot commands, thanks.

[idle agate]

☠️

[tiny gulch]

Hello! I have an issue where I load a scene, but when I try loading it again it does not work.
ex. I have a Main Menu where I can click a button to open another scene where I can choose what ship to use. Although if I go back to the menu I cannot load the ship selection scene. I am very new to unity so plz help :]

[slender nymph]

you're gonna need to provide more info, like what happens when you try and the relevant code

[tiny gulch]

is there somewhere I can upload screenshots and code?

[slender nymph]

!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.

[naive pawn]

screenshots you can just send here, but be wary of sending too many lest you get timed out lol

[tiny gulch]

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

am I supposed to unload a scene? I am fumbling in the dark here
I could share my screen if possible

in a vc or something

[frosty hound]

If you just load another scene, it'll unloading any existing ones.

[tiny gulch]

well, then I am unsure why it does not work. Supposed to be able to switch between menus, but I cannot 😐

[frosty hound]

Put Debug.Logs where you think things should be happening to verify the code is actually being called.

[naive pawn]

could you be more specific with "it doesn't work"?

is it erroring, just not doing anything, or doing something unexpected?

[tiny gulch]

not doing anything

[naive pawn]

go through what osteel said

[tiny gulch]

could it be cause the references on the buttons disappear when I load another scene?

the object with the script has dontdestroyonload

[slender nymph]

yes, that would be exactly why

[tiny gulch]

ty, I will test

ok wow I'm dumb xD

ty for the help 😄

[sour palm]

Hay I'm having constant issues with my ledge grabbing script, from what I can deduse is that the SphereCast I have just dose not work but I have no idea why.

This has been going on for days now and I'm at my witts end.

[wintry quarry]

What debugging steps have you taken?

Spherecasts don't just "not work"

[sour palm]

I put in some debug.logs to see what is activating and the Spherecasts just never turns on.

[wintry quarry]

You're going to need to show details

[polar acorn]

Spherecasts do not detect things that start inside the sphere

[wintry quarry]

"just never turns on" is not helpful

[polar acorn]

The sphere needs to actually hit them during its movement

[sour palm]

Yes but it's just not detecting anything.

[polar acorn]

What is the radius, length, and layer mask your passing to the cast?

And when are you calling the function

[sour palm]

I'm calling the function in the update. I don't think I have a radius but I do have a length of 3 and the layer mask is WhatisLedge.

[keen dew]

Why is it a spherecast at all if it doesn't have a radius

[polar acorn]

If it doesn't have a radius then it can't hit anything

[edgy sinew]

Is this where .OverlapSphere comes into play? (I'm reading online that's one of the main differences.)
(Sorry late reply )

[crisp quest]

guys i want to know by which angle my object is thrown in the air (it's in projectile motions)

i was thinking about making a system in which an arc appear on the path of my thrown object

[placid jewel]

Can you get its velocity vector as it is thrown, and find the angle of that from horizontal?

[fast zodiac]

I have 2 objects in 2D objectA and objectB
I want objectB to always look at objectA I mean rotate its z towards objectA's position.
how can I do this?

[placid jewel]

Try this https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.LookAt.html

[slender nymph]

Transform.LookAt points the Z axis at another object which is not ideal in 2d.
all that needs to be done here is set the transform.up or transform.right (depending on the direction it faces at rest) to the direction between the objects which is just (endPosition - startPosition).normalized (although you don't actually need to normalize it here since those properties are normalized automatically)

[placid jewel]

Yeah, you're right, forgot about that

[fast zodiac]

let me try this, I'm a new Unity and in programming too.

red one toggles between two x positions
then black always face towards red object and lerp to that position.

[frosty yarrow]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
public class Gun : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform raycastPos;
public Transform cam;
float distance = 2f;
public Rigidbody player_rb;
public Transform player;
float force = 7f;
bool looking_at_ground;
void Update()
{
Ray ray = new Ray(cam.position, cam.forward);
Vector3 origin = raycastPos.position;
Vector3 direction = cam.forward;
RaycastHit hit;
Debug.DrawRay(origin, direction * distance, Color.red);

    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit , distance))
    {
        if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Ground"))
        {
            looking_at_ground = true;
        }
        else
        {
            looking_at_ground = false;
        }
    }
}

void OnFire(InputValue val)
{
    if (val.isPressed && looking_at_ground)
    {
        player_rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * force, ForceMode.Impulse);
    }
}

}
you cansome tell me why the there is no force

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[slender nymph]

log the values you are checking and compare them to what you expect them to be

[frosty yarrow]

bro i just want to addforce not pos

[slender nymph]

huh? i am telling you to debug your conditions mate

[frosty yarrow]

i did and it is normal

[slender nymph]

wdym "it is normal" what is normal, and what does "normal" mean in this context

[frosty yarrow]

oh wait a min

[frosty yarrow]

thei nput system of the FIre is not working so that si the problem but it is the same name as in the input manager

[slender nymph]

and what object is this component attached to? and does that object have a PlayerInput component on it? because that is what is sending the OnFire message

[frosty yarrow]

omg i forgot to add it 😂

[crisp quest]

i know its initial velocity ,(i want to make something like grenade throwing mechanism where we can see that red arc to throw my nade )

[tired python]

i am having a problem picking the right rigidbody2D types and setting the right colliders with triggers.

this looks like a nightmare tbh, any ideas as to what i can do to resolve such kinds of issues?

[midnight plover]

What is the actual issue?

[tired python]

I have four rigidbodies in total:-
-> The Dragon Garbage: Has a Box Collider placed on it,so that when any unit is placed on it , it blasts it away, destroying the unit.
-> The Unit: Has two colliders (circle and box), I want box to detect collision with Garbage, and i want circle collider to detect collision with enemies (to know whether an enemy is in range or not, if it is, then it shoots bullets at said enemy)
-> Enemies: Has a Polygon Collider
-> Path: Has a Collider on it. (If a unit is to be placed on the path, it detects collision and destroys the unit)

[midnight plover]

My first thoughts are. You could use something like a spherecast instead of relying on ontriggerenter or whatever to detect enemies. You can use the physics matrix to separate layers of collision detection in your settings too.

[tired python]

How does setting the physics matrix help?

Also, what's a spherecast?

[cosmic dagger]

Place objects on specific layers. Use OverlapXXX methods or XXXCast methods to check for collisions (filter them based on layers). Or you can use triggers and check for specific components on the collided objects. That's it . . .

[tired python]

"Or you can use triggers and check for specific components on the collided objects", doesn't the object produce a collision if any of the colliders attached to it, collides with another collider? that doesn't rly check which collider it collided with...

[cosmic dagger]

You should look at the docs/manual on what the Layer Collision Matrix is . . .

[placid jewel]

get the angle of motion

[tired python]

this one i presume

[real thunder]

out of curiosity, what for does KeyCode.None exists?

[tired python]

i guess i will just need to check out how other peeps do it then

[cosmic dagger]

You check which object collided inside of the trigger method. That's typical and pretty much how unity trigger and collision methods work. I'd look at a tutorial on trigger/collision methods . . .

[midnight plover]

Unbind key bindings?

[tired python]

that's not what i said, what i meant was that, if an object has two colliders on it, then whenever one of them has a collision, the OnTrigger event will be triggered no matter what(given they both have trigger enabled). it's not like, i can set it such that it would happen iff one of those colliders detects the error

[cosmic dagger]

Each separate collider should have its own GameObject. Each of those GameObjects will have their own script. Each script will filter and check for a specific component, layer, etc. That is how each of them—the colliders—will detect only what they need . . .

[tired python]

💀

i just attached the colliders onto the actual gameObjects themselves

[placid jewel]

You can just make an empty child object and put the collider + script on it, for each collider on the object

[tired python]

exactly what i was thinking

ima cooked

[cosmic dagger]

That's fine, but if a GameObject needs more than one collider, place any other colliders on an empty child GameObject . . .

[livid anchor]

Hey folks I would like a bit of help with a singleton issue.

I have my game manager as a singleton, I create an instance of the GM on the awake method and I use it for scoring/UI management. But also for a boolean stating if the game has been paused.

When I start the game it doesn't seem to have any issue, but if I start a new game (reload the scene), one of my script attempting to access the boolean cause an error.

I have no idea why

Seems like it only make the error once per script (73 times) and then stop making errors

[cosmic dagger]

Does the GameObject with the singleton already exist in the scene that is reloaded?

Or is it initially in a different scene?

[keen dew]

It's for storing keycodes to variables. For example here "not set" would be KeyCode.None. That way you don't need a separate check for if the keybinding is set or not

[livid anchor]

I reload the same scene. The GameManager already exist but I destroy the instance when I reload to avoid weird interactions.

[north pier]

Ok, this might not be a beginner question, but I was unsure of which channel to ask in. Is it possible to subscribe to the same events that OnTriggerEnter and OnTriggerExit methods use?

[sour fulcrum]

it is not

[north pier]

Ok, thank you. I will just have to make a script just handling that then.

[torn mango]

hi guys i need a professional opinion

is this an ok way to do animation transition?

it looks real messy to me

[keen dew]

This is a code channel. Ask in #🏃┃animation

[torn mango]

ok got it sorry

[sour cape]

is there anythign special u need to do to get mesh lod working in unity 6.2, i cant see it working

[hexed terrace]

this is a code channel, are you doing something code related with that? If not #🔀┃art-asset-workflow seems the better channel

[short gust]

kinda basic question, but I'm not quite sure about management of coroutines and if I understand it fully

if I call StartCoroutine, then cache the resulted routine into a field and after some time call StopCoroutine on that routine reference: will another StartCoroutine call with the cached routine will create a new instance of the coroutine (and so create garbage on every start of the routine) or it will reuse the same instance of the coroutine object every time (so no garbage on every start)?

[frosty hound]

It creates a new one

[wintry quarry]

another StartCoroutine call with the cached routine
You can't call StartCoroutine on the same IEnumerator that waas already used elsewhere.

Actually maybe you can but it's a bad idea, it will get iterated twice as fast

you want to make a new one each time

You cannot restart a coroutine

[frosty hound]

What you can cache the yield instructions though, if you want to save performance.

[short gust]

oh, thanks!

[wintry quarry]

tldr there's no way to avoid creating garbage when starting a coroutine.

[stone lake]

does anyone know any good tutorials for making a substantial 3D platformer?

when I say substantial I mean like what 20+ hours of work total?

[polar acorn]

20 hours of work on a platformer is like, doodle jump

[stone lake]

oh

I mean

[sour fulcrum]

when i hear substantial that sounds more like couple years

[stone lake]

im thinking like

it takes a while to do

1month - 2months

[sour fulcrum]

there's not many tutorials like that period

[stone lake]

okay good point

im just

trying to complete a school project

and

i need something

it cant just be over in like 5 hours tho

[polar acorn]

Probably better to do something simple then improve it

[polar dust]

School projects probably shouldn't really be substantial, simple is better

[polar acorn]

than setting out to do something big

[stone lake]

oh they want it to be like 1-2 months of work

i say school project but its an official examination board

[sour fulcrum]

make something simple then make it really simple and really good

[stone lake]

i can't really program tho...

thats why I need a tutorial

and if youre wondering why I don't just learn

its because I have nowhere NEAR enough time

im not just being lazy I promise

[sour fulcrum]

no your being lazy

respectfully

[stone lake]

sigh

[sour fulcrum]

that's enough time to make somethign simple

you got this

[stone lake]

it cant be simple 😭

it needs to be 2 months of work

thats the problem

[sour fulcrum]

learning is 2 months of work

[stone lake]

exactly

thats the problem

[sour fulcrum]

no

[stone lake]

i will have learnt

[sour fulcrum]

thats the solution

[stone lake]

and will have no project

[sour fulcrum]

you learn by making the project..

[polar dust]

You learn by doing

[stone lake]

but then I need a tutorial right?

where can I find that...

[sour fulcrum]

have you tried searching?

[stone lake]

idm learning if it ends up with a finished product

[stone lake]

ya

theyre all super short

platformer wise

[sour fulcrum]

not for tutorials on how to make a full finished game

on how to program

[polar dust]

Surely the people who have given this task, can provide resources for learning

[stone lake]

nope

theyre not allowed to help

its an exam board

i shouldnt have called it a school project

its a non exam assessment sent by a national examining body

[polar dust]

They can't help you make the project itself
Providing resources isn't the same as them making it for you

[stiff birch]

You can look for not so specific tutorials, learn, and then try to apply your new knowledge to what you actually want, experiment, fail, retry then finally succeed. Even if the result is not as shiny as Mario 64, the learning process is here and you have a thing.

[stone lake]

oh, well in that case no they didnt provide any resources

[polar dust]

You need to relay your issues to them, see what guidance or advice they give you

[stone lake]

okay let me show you what it is i actually need to do

https://www.ocr.org.uk/images/170844-specification-accredited-a-level-gce-computer-science-h446.pdf page 19 onwards

[sour fulcrum]

(if you have no programming experience and need this done in 1-2 months i'd suggest making something in 2d and not 3d)

[stone lake]

this is oversimplified

hold on

i need to do all of this with the project

[stiff birch]

I didn't suggest any 3d. I suggest learn minimal stuff (make a character jump, interact with an item, spawn enemies, whatever) and try to expand.

[stone lake]

i cant go in to a tutorial blind if idk if it will work out

or im putting the entire subject at risk

[stone lake]

(i already did this once actually im trying to fix it now)

i tried doing a project in unreal 5 and it failed miserably

[sour fulcrum]

this requires you to code

you need to learn how to code

[stone lake]

so now im dedicating myself to unironically, no joke at all spending the next week pulling non stop all nighters to fix it

[stone lake]

i cant 😭

look

i live in the uk right

[sour fulcrum]

then you will fail

[stone lake]

this is how much code im expected to know:

[stone lake]

naw everyone just uses tutorials.... hence why im here!

basically nobody in my class knows how to code

[sour fulcrum]

to learn how to code

[stone lake]

...they just follow tutorials

[sour fulcrum]

follow those tutorials then

[stone lake]

(none of them are really learning, they just dont know how)

[stone lake]

i cant make the same project as them

[stiff birch]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[sour fulcrum]

is this a post high school thing

[stone lake]

https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/260952-pseudocode-guide.pdf

[stone lake]

no

but i need it if i want to go to uni

[polar dust]

For your sake, you have to tell your teacher about the problems your facing. Only they know what they can and cannot provide you, and I'm sure they'd rather you have the ability to begin working

[stone lake]

i have 😭

im like

5 months into this

i already made a project

tried to learn

i watched tutorials

messed up

and now i am absolutely screwed beyond imagination

i have like 2 months to catch up and finish development

when other people have already finished their entire project

[sour fulcrum]

To be completely honest homie we can't help you here