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[deft loom]

ok ty ❤️

[narrow spoke]

I am instantiating shop buttons at runtime using Instantiate.
Icon, subtitle and price are set correctly, but the title (TextMeshProUGUI) is empty in the instantiated object, even though:

the title text is assigned correctly in the prefab

the TextMeshProUGUI reference is set in the script

titleText.text = title; is called

debug logs confirm the text value is being set

The title shows correctly in the prefab, but not in the instantiated clone.
I am using LayoutGroup / ContentSizeFitter in the UI hierarchy.

Why is the TextMeshPro text not rendered or invisible after instantiating the prefab, even though the value is set?

[solar hill]

is the title text already in the scene?

and are you setting a reference at runtime or by assigning a prefab

[narrow spoke]

i found the misstake Insade of my Data where i store the diffrent buttons the can atteched i missed out giiving it a title waht cursed to have no title even when i was targeting a other title

[narrow spoke]

But now i am facing a new issue the first buttan cant be clicked and bought and secned is possible

[eager needle]

Hey Guys, trying to achieve some sort of enemy attack here. The attack would be. laser coming out of the eye of my 2D enemy. so I atttached a linerenderer component and through code I am trying to make it appear when the player is at the right distance. because the laser stay attached to the eye of the enemy and go forward. But now I have an issue. again on Vector direction. I have my spawnLaser empty that is properly rotation (left arrow going left). but when I start to define the index 1 of the linerenderer it's going in the wrong direction.

[frail hawk]

is your lr not a child object of your player, it should rotate with him

[eager needle]

its a component attached to the ennemi. if it help. here is the function

    void ShootLaser()
    {
        float laserLength = 5f;
        Vector2 startPos = laserOrigin.transform.position;
        Vector2 endPos = startPos + Vector2.right * laserLength;

        laser.enabled = true;
        laser.SetPosition(0,startPos);
        laser.SetPosition(1,endPos);
            

The Vector2.right is probably the culprit. I am trying to get the direction of the red arrow

[frail hawk]

transform.right

[eager needle]

tried that but then I have an issue because the transform is a vector 3

so I am trying to add a vector 2 to a vector 3, it doesn't work

[naive pawn]

you can cast one to the other

[eager needle]

and based on the comment here it's in world space

[naive pawn]

the issue isn't because you can't do the operation, but because there's 2 things it could be and it's ambiguous

either you could convert the vector2 into a vector3 and then add them, or vice versa

so you need to explicitly cast to specify one

[naive pawn]

it's a direction vector in worldspace, yes. this is the one you want, if im understanding your goal correctly

[eager needle]

it's not because I rotated 180degrees

the laser spawn position.

but maybe I am wrong on the concept here 😄

[naive pawn]

how is it turning around?

just flipping the sprite, or rotating/scaling the gameobject?

[eager needle]

I changed the vector 2 to vector 3 and put transform.right.

[frail hawk]

and just enable and disable the gameobject ,you dont have to draw it at runtime, when inspecting your code i dont see anything that you are chaning there

[eager needle]

here is the line renderer

it's going in worldspace to the right

[naive pawn]

@eager needle answer this

[eager needle]

I could.

is it a good practice to have a character looking right by default?

[frail hawk]

yes

[eager needle]

I draw this turkey myself. but haven't thought about that

[naive pawn]

it sounds like your gameobject's "right" and your sprites visual "right" aren't the same

[frail hawk]

if you dont rotate the player but only flip the sprite you wont get the result you want

[naive pawn]

though, you could probably just use the laserOrigin's "right" to fix this for now. you should consider getting a more consistent system in the future though

[past yarrow]

Hey,
Is it possible to get the key of the found value (dictionary) please ?

[eager needle]

I flip the character sprite. so it's good. but really what do you mean ? to always have the same orientation on everything.

[frail hawk]

it is easy, you are only visually flipping your sprite. you have to rotate it

[slender nymph]

seems like you might be using your dictionary backwards if you are trying to get a key from the value

[past yarrow]

I'm using it like this

[slender nymph]

that doesn't show how you are using the dictionary, that is simply how you are defined it.
where you are using it is where you actually use the variable. you know, like this place where you are trying to get a key from a value even though values are not unique so more than one key could have the same value. there is no built in way to get a key from a value because that's not how dictionaries are supposed to be used

[past yarrow]

For now the code above in the double for loop is the only place I'm using it in

[slender nymph]

right so you are using it backwards

[naive pawn]

why are you trying to get a enum member from a color anyways

and why do you have [SerializeField] on that? you can't serialize a Dictionary

[slender nymph]

yeah this whole setup seems odd

[past yarrow]

I'm building a CLUE (CLUEDO) game and I'm using an image where each square is a pixel and each pixel has a color and when I retrieve a color from a pixel, depending on that color I can build my level design (So it's like a Level Editor) and I can assign a tile if it's a room (the enums) or a corridor, etc... and also some colors are player(s) spawn position.

I can serialize the dictionary with Odin plugin

[naive pawn]

yeah so why not just store the data in the tiles

using colors just sounds like a more obscure version of magic strings to me

[past yarrow]

I'm but doing that 1 by 1 is painful knowing that I have other datas to add to each tile, so painting a level like this an process that image to spawn the tiles and give it data seems less painful

[naive pawn]

you don't have to configure every tile individually, no?

can't you basically use tiles as prefabs

[slender nymph]

how are you creating these maps in the first place? because if you're using something that uses actual tiles then you can just put the relevant data into the tiles you are using instead of attempting to do it "1 by 1"

[past yarrow]

you mean the image or the level in Unity ?

[slender nymph]

the image you just showed, how/where is it created

[past yarrow]

Aseprite

[slender nymph]

but why? that's objectively harder than just using a tilemap in unity or even Tiled since you're just using a bunch of squares

[past yarrow]

I can't use a tilemap as my game will be 3D

[slender nymph]

i didn't say "use a tilemap for the in-game map"

[past yarrow]

then I'm not sure to understand 🤔

[slender nymph]

i am referring only to this map mockup that you use to generate the actual map

you can create the mockup using a tilemap and then generate the actual map from that in the editor. and you can embed data in the tiles so that you aren't relying on sampling pixels to get their color

[past yarrow]

I had no clue that it was possible and don't know how to do that, do you have a tutorial please ?

[slender nymph]

which part of that are you unsure about

[past yarrow]

like how to use a tilemap and mainly how to make each tile have data 🤔

[slender nymph]

how to use a tilemap
unity learn should theoretically have a tutorial about that, but even if it doesn't the manual documentation can teach you about it
how to make each tile have data
inherit from TileBase and put whatever fields you want on it. Congrats, you have your own type of tile with configurable data, then just create the instances of the tiles you would like for mocking your map and throw those into a tile palette

[dusky beacon]

hiii i need help

i made a movement script but it keeps telling me this

[grand snow]

!input

[radiant void]

How to Set Input

To set Active Input Handling, go to:
Project Settings > Player > Active Input Handling

• Input Manager (Old): Use the original Input settings.
• Input System Package (New): Uses the new input system package.
• Both: Use both systems.

[grand snow]

read the info above and the error message (that explains it too)

Input class is old input

[dusky beacon]

where r projest settings

[rich adder]

Something you can easily Google no?

[grand snow]

Thats something you hopefully learn on day 0

[dusky beacon]

yeah im new new

i can 3d model but i wanna make a game

[grand snow]

!learn

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[crude zephyr]

Hello

[dusky beacon]

I DID IT

[supple phoenix]

Hello , if im trying to make 2D Rig should i make the rig in blender or unity.

[grand snow]

unity so you can use the unity 2d rig features

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@14.0/manual/SkinningEditor.html

[supple phoenix]

ty

[floral garden]

hi, i have a question on how to make an effect of haze in 2D and i have not idea how to make it. I haven't find any tuto on it or don't know where to find it

[normal mango]

I'm currently working with UI elements and figuring how to drag them around. I'm noticing that I can't change the rect transform position during runtime, so do I have to be manipulating the pivot instead?

[floral garden]

do you mean moving them like windows ?

[normal mango]

windows?

[floral garden]

like app window

[normal mango]

nah, just prefabs

[floral garden]

what do you mean prefabs ?

[normal mango]

using the mouse position to drag them around

[floral garden]

in the folder ?

[normal mango]

its an instantiated prefab in the scene and im trying to move them around with the mouse via code during runtime

[floral garden]

i think you can

[normal mango]

i literally cant

[floral garden]

have you watched this ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb2oua3FjZg

something like that you want to do ?

[normal mango]

i havent yet, ill check it out

[floral garden]

okk

[normal mango]

already doing what he has, and still not working

let me send the code

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

the final debug outputs the accurate new local position, but the actual object doesnt move, nor has its position values changed despite the console stating otherwise

[floral garden]

it is just a game object ? only with a rect transform ?

[normal mango]

rect transform and the scripts, but the other script shouldnt be affecting anything

[floral garden]

i think i am still to new to help debug it.

have you try to enable debug mode in the inspector to see if you get the right canvas and transform ?

otherwise another having more experience can help you haha

I am reitering my question if someone missed it.
how to make an effect of haze in 2D and i have not idea how to make it. I haven't find any tuto on it or don't know where to find it

[normal mango]

found the issue, it was infact the other script interfering lol

[dusky beacon]

does anyone have a WASD scrollable first to third person movement in unity??

script

ive been struggling to make one

[rich adder]

combine the first and third person controllers by unity

No one is gonna have a specific script for these things you need to learn building yourself

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-character-controllers-urp-267961

[dusky beacon]

thank you

[rain solar]

is there such thing as an algorithm that can be run on a marching cubes generated mesh to reduce vertices on flat faces?

[fathom horizon]

Yeah there is 👍

What you’re looking for is generally called mesh simplification / decimation, and it works well on marching-cubes meshes, especially for flat areas.

[fair shore]

I have a test code testing raycast in ui gameobjects that looks like this

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;
            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit) && hit.collider == this)
            {
                Debug.Log("the gameobject" + this.gameObject.name + "have been hit");
            }
        }
    } ``` but the raycast did not work on the ui gameobjects, why? (the ui gameobject is not a button)

[fathom horizon]

inbox me

[naive pawn]

well, does the object in question have a collider? that's what the physics raycast is trying to hit

i don't think you'd want that though

[slender nymph]

why are you using a physics raycast instead of just doing this #💻┃code-beginner message

[fair shore]

How to use eventtrigger component for ui gameobjects?

[slender nymph]

put an EventTrigger component on the object and it becomes fairly obvious

[fair shore]

ok thanks.

[tired python]

I want to add a range showing mechanism wherein if I click on a tower in a tower defense game, I will be able to see the range of the tower in a circle . I want it to be such that, in the future I will be able to increase and decrease the size of the area based on upgrades and stuff.

I figured that I could just change the scale of a sprite attached to it, is there a better way?

[wintry dew]

is there an easy way to match collider bounds with a non-uniformly scaled gameobject

because when i scale for example a cylinder in the x direction the collider takes up much more space than is visually shown

[wicked cairn]

Have you tried using multiple cubes, or a mesh collider (create a object to the shape you want and add mesh collider to form that shape)

[wintry dew]

well the issue is i want the collider to match the visual mesh continuously at runtime

[wicked cairn]

Is there something wrong with using a mesh collider?

[sinful zinc]

how do u create a new material preset for a tmp text

in unity 6

[modern meteor]

what are the fundamentals that I should learn first in unity

I had experience with python before

[teal viper]

!learn

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[teal viper]

Beginner pathways.

[elfin birch]

Hi

[frail hawk]

sounds like a nice solution, you could also use a decal projector or particle system. i like particle system more, it just looks much better visually

many people avoid using them but once you learn the basics of the particle system you will love them

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[real thunder]

I need a mob to decide what to do next and transition into new animator state after his attack animation ends (that mob have it's FSM running in Update outside of animator)
I only see two options:

A) I create Attack state transitions into all possible states (what a mess)
then I read a callback I get from OnStateExit to change it's internal FSM state

B) Attack state have no transitions out of it
then I get a callback from OnStateUpdate if stateInfo.normalizedTime == 1 and through code do a Animator.CrossFade inside internal FSM

So my questions:
Are there other better options? What is the way you d prefer?

Won't option B add one frame delay comapred to option A because of if I get it right A would instantly switch animation when it can and B would have to wait one frame? Can that be noticable? Can it be worked around?
If I think of it it can be worked around by tuning Crossfade normalizedTransitionTime and if it's too long outright doing Animator.Play for next animation

[past yarrow]

Switching the keys and values throws me this error 🤔

[loud yarrow]

try remove attribute [SeralizedField] on dictionary

[sour fulcrum]

That shouldn’t change anything iirc

[past yarrow]

Commented that part, it works, uncommented it and it still works, wtf is going 🤔

[undone wave]

regarding Audio.PlayScheduled(), is there a specific recommended number of minimum time from now to the scheduled time, or is it mostly dependent on lag, etc?

for example, setting PlayScheduled to play at the curret time obviously causes latency, and setting it to play approx. 1 second later makes it fine, but would there be an 'ideal' minimum wait time, if i wanted to play the audio as fast as possible?

(experimentally obtained values are also fine, if someone has already tested this before)

[past yarrow]

Why doesn't my dictionnary show properly in the inspector ? Like why does it display "None" and it attributes the color of the attic to it and why there are only 9 elements instead of 10 ? 🤔 Like I just added None and Corridor to the enum and it messed everything up 🤦‍♂️

[grand snow]

Odin is what gives support to serialize dictionaries

[grand snow]

Perhaps you need to reset the component to update the dictionary to the new default state

[past yarrow]

Thanks, yeah removing GameManager and putting it back fixes the issue, so is the issue a Unity bug or an Odin bug ?

[grand snow]

Its normal

[grand snow]

Unity serializes the state strait away. What you have defined in the class its only the "default".
Are you sure this needs to be serializable then? You can use [ShowInInspector, ReadOnly] so you can just see it

[past yarrow]

if I use those, does my dictionary still show up in the inspector as Unity doesn't support that by default if I understood correctly ?

[grand snow]

Yes because those attributes are from Odin
go read their docs

[past yarrow]

Nice, thank you 👍

[frosty hound]

Not a coding question. Uses coding channel. 🤷‍♂️

You can remove packages from the package manager.

[wintry dew]

oh wow thanks i had no idea mesh colliders automatically changed their bounds when scaled even when the mesh is a sphere

or a cylinder

[swift crag]

The collider uses the Transform of whatever object it's attached to

so if both the MeshRenderer and the MeshCollider are:

• on the same object
• using the same mesh

then they will match

In fact, they do a better job of matching the mesh than other collider types. If a parent transform has a non-uniform scale and you rotate the child object, the child gets skewed

but primitive colliders are not allowed to be skewed

(the entire point is that they are very easy to think about; they can't start bending and warping)

[stone oar]

how to prevent navmesh from generating inside enclosed meshes? like cubes for example. and merging/masking meshes won't work because im using blockbench for building levels.

[wintry dew]

yeah mesh colliders are more intensive for this reason im assuming

[swift crag]

They’re less efficient, and they’re also a bit less reliable

[swift crag]

@zenith cypress you were just talking about this issue

[swift crag]

Non-convex mesh colliders don’t really have an inside. They’re thin.

[wintry dew]

that makes sense because you cant garuntee a volume if vertices go into the volume

[swift crag]

mesh colliders are allowed to have holes, intersecting faces, etc.

so there's no coherent way to define "inside" at all

[zenith cypress]

Ah yeah that's the thing I solved for my Trenchbroom imports

[swift crag]

it's remarkably annoying!

[stone oar]

mobs in minecraft dont spawn inside blocks as far as i know, and i doubt unity is weaker than java 15 years ago

[swift crag]

iirc you defined a set of "known-good" points and tried to navigate to them from every navmesh triangle

[swift crag]

apples and oranges :p

minecraft just cares about the block under the mob that's trying to spawn

[stone oar]

¯\(ツ)/¯

[stone oar]

so i should just discard the idea of using navmesh for spawn points

sob..

[swift crag]

one thing you can do is test if the mob can reach the player before you try to spawn it

just query the navmesh and see if it finds a path

this could get expensive if you want to try to spawn many mobs, though

[zenith cypress]

That also can give false positives

[stone oar]

i love unity

[swift crag]

computer hard

[stone oar]

i do, thats the main reason i switched over to unity xd

[zenith cypress]

A lot of paths result in a "partial" result, which can be from "can probably reach you through this gap" to "can't actually reach you because this property is too generalized"

I can probably show what mine does, although it will contain my game-specific stuff but you can probably see what it does and understand an approach that works for you.

[stone oar]

thought "well a real game engine would definitely allow me to spawn 1 quadrillion enemies at the same time "

[stone oar]

i honestly just want to understand how to overcome this issue

my main idea is to allow random enemy spawn locations inside of a room

[zenith cypress]

That's what my game does too yeah

[stone oar]

i have yet to determine whether i want to store rooms as disabled objects or load them all at once (probably first one)

though the code rn just instantiates new prefabs which i learnt is perfomance heavy. ah yeah perfomance, a nightmare on its own

[zenith cypress]

https://nombin.dev/oo653k4jqnpec57vwyhmzsml this is what mine does for the interior exclusion. Should be straightforward to follow from StartRebuild.

[stone oar]

[stone oar]

not sure what im looking at

[zenith cypress]

Interior/invalid location exclusion

[stone oar]

well thanks for sharing it

based on the channel we are in - you can assume that i won't be able to use it nor understand how it works

so ig ill just try raycasting upwards to see if there is a ceiling in place and deal with that

[solar hill]

you should take the time to read through it, it should be pretty obvious what they are doing even to a beginner

[stone oar]

i took 40 minutes

[solar hill]

from what i see they build the NavMesh twice.
First to get all triangles then it tests which ones are unreachable from valid points (doors, spawns, anchors)

and then overlays those with an "unwalkable" mesh before rebuilding effectively carving out isolated areas.

its a pretty nifty way of doing it

[stone oar]

you can select triangles generated by navmesh?

but they are not selectable in editor

[solar hill]

they are doing it through code.

its all in the code like i said

its pretty understandable you just have to read through it carefully

they use a for loop to test the triangles

[stone oar]

i might read

but i wont understand

skill issue on my part, like i said

i barely understand what any of the methods used do because i never used them

[solar hill]

the unity api is public, you can always look them up

its a good way to learn

analyzing other peoples code and understanding how it works

[stone oar]

after you explained how it works, the code became less convoluted

its easier when i know what it should do, otherwise - it just looks like magic to me

[slender nymph]

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[naive pawn]

<@&502884371011731486> scam/spam

[solar hill]

these are bots

they also post about their artstations and what not

[zenith cypress]

Was out for a bit due to work, but yeah true, I should have put a description with the link at least. Hopefully their help put you on the right path though :)

[stone oar]

there are plenty of missing and unknown functions that c# doesnt recognize but im trying

[solar hill]

can you clarify?

what do you mean missing and or unknown?

[stone oar]

GetComponentsInChildren<InfoAnchorPoint> with DoorRefs() function

as an example

[slim solar]

I saw you have prebuilt rooms, you can just use uhh anti-navmeshes (forgot the name)

Little zones you place to prevent navmesh from generating there

[solar hill]

and whats wrong with it? getComponentsInChildren is a function...

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.GetComponentsInChildren.html

[slim solar]

I had the same issue and just plopped those zones around, worked perfectly

[stone oar]

oh i tried that - obstacles just get ignored

maybe i dont know how to put them correctly

[slender nymph]

they seem to be misunderstanding what the actual issue is. seems like the issue is the type being used, not the method. because the type is presumably from a package or other code from the same project

[slim solar]

No its navmesh modifier

Obstacle just reduces the chance agents will use that area, like a fire or a box they climb

Modifier will prevent navmesh

[stone oar]

yeah i do plan to work with pre-built rooms, since trying to go for an actual generation is a bit out of my skill level

[slim solar]

Yeah, keep it simple for now, try navmesh modifier and adjust the values on it if needed

[tired python]

you can make a circle using particle system? i didn't know abt that

[stone oar]

like im having issues with this xD and its "beginner" level, im feeling quite bad because of it

[slender nymph]

either way though, this is meant to be an example of how to do what they want, and not a drop in solution

[frail hawk]

yes of course

[stone oar]

yep

[slender nymph]

so you understand that it is purely an example of the logic you should use, yet you're still trying to use it as a drop in solution?

[zenith cypress]

Yeah it was an example of how to do it for rooms that are more "dynamic" (for my case they are made in Trenchbroom with zero unity authoring hence the need for it to work)

[stone oar]

i understand the concept but its a bit out of my scope unfortunately. maybe in the future ill have enough experience to actually make something like that

[zenith cypress]

If you are able to just author stuff on top of your rooms in the editor, then you probably don't need it and can just place your own blockers around (just requires more manual labor)

[stone oar]

no? im trying to understand how it works.

[slender nymph]

then read through the logic that is actually there, and ignore the stuff that calls methods on types you don't have because that is likely not related to the logic you need

[slim solar]

Just do this and be done in 5 min

[slender nymph]

it is against server rules to answer questions with unverified ai generated content

[hot wadi]

Well they could have just copy and modify the font to make it look like man-made. The real problem here is double checking

[stone oar]

ai hallucinates most of the time

[slim solar]

Err its a very simple thing lol. Let me rephrase

Add navmesh modifier component to any mesh/zone and set it to override. Rebuild navmesh. Done

I just didnt remember the correct naming

[stone oar]

me, when my room is just one model:

[solar hill]

you do realize theres a big difference between what they want to do and what you are suggesting?

ask your ai it might tell you 😉

[slim solar]

Add it the same way you added the navmesh. Its literally just a zone with a component

[slim solar]

Yeah the same problem i had with navmesh generating inside solid meshes

I dont understand why everyone is acting like this extremely basic feature doesnt exist or is an ai hallucination?

[stone oar]

life, if unity prefabs allowed storing navmesh:

[slim solar]

They allow storing the overrides

Anyway i solved this very easily in multiple game releases, so goodluck with the overengineering I guess.

[stone oar]

that can work

[blissful stratus]

how can i make the player squeeze when moving?

[solar hill]

didnt you already ask this?

and i asked you to clarify

and you said nothing

[blissful stratus]

ahh really i forgot sorry

[swift crag]

explain what you're trying to do! we don't know what "squeeze when moving" means

[solar hill]

bro forgot

[blissful stratus]

i meant like when dashing the player squeezes to add more game feel

[solar hill]

so yes squash and stretch

but we need more context

is this a 3d project or 2d?

[blissful stratus]

2d platformer game

[solar hill]

so im assuming your character is a sprite?

i would use tweening for that

[blissful stratus]

what is tweening?

[solar hill]

lets you animate certain values at runtime through code

for you that means you get to animate your characters scale

to make them stretch

[blissful stratus]

oh you mean the asset

[solar hill]

tweening is just a general concept.

there are many libraries you can use for it

the most popular one being dotween

but theres also leantween

[swift crag]

Libraries like DOTween make it really easy to do these kinds of effects.

When you dash, you'll briefly change the scale of your character

[blissful stratus]

if i scaled the x or y value it might break my character logic

[swift crag]

consider setting up your character like this

• Player <-- the collider and other scripts
  • Visual <-- the SpriteRenderer

this lets you move/rotate/scale the visual without affecting anything else

[mild reef]

how would I make this check all of the objects in the array all together instead of one at a time. it seems like the else statement is just changing the bool back immediately for each one of the game objects.

[ivory bobcat]

It would check every object in the array, one at a time.

[teal viper]

You can fix this by setting the bool to true before the loop, then on first active self, set it to false and break.

[teal viper]

You can use linq as you were doing before, but it does the same thing behind the scenes + a small mountain of overhead.

[ivory bobcat]

If this is in update, there isn't anything that would change the state of the if-statement. The same thing would happen every frame.

[mild reef]

just trying to make it so the else isnt just instantly covering it up by something else in the array

[mild reef]

you mean like swapping their places?\

[ivory bobcat]

Are you not able to show more code?

!code

[radiant void]

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[teal viper]

No. Read my message again.

[slender nymph]

!IDE 👇 you need to get your IDE configured

[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)
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[teal viper]

You don't need else at all here.

[ivory bobcat]

This is very likely an x/y problem where you're getting a behavior that isn't wanted because of something else.

[teal viper]

No, it's clearly a logic issue. They want to set the bool to true if any of the objects in the array are inactive.

[mild reef]

yes

[teal viper]

But yeah, configure your ide as well if you need further help.

[mild reef]

but then how does it turn back off....

[polar acorn]

This is only going to care about the last object in the list

Whatever the last object is, that's what gun.shootingbuttonenabled is

[mild reef]

well yeah.... thats why I asked for help

[polar acorn]

So what do you want to happen

[mild reef]

as I said up here, id like to check them all at once

all together I mean

[polar acorn]

There is no "all at once" in programming. Code runs one line at a time. You'll need to rephrase your thinking. What should it be by default, and under what conditions should that change?

[wintry dew]

anybody know a simple way to draw a rectangle to the screen with given vertices in screen coordinates or something analogous with world coordinate projections?

[mild reef]

thats why I had the else, with the idea that at the end of checking everything it would change based on that. not sure how to go about that

[polar acorn]

else runs if the previous if did not

[mild reef]

any suggestions on what I could do to do it at the end of the whole array?

[polar acorn]

Pick a default state, then look for whatever condition makes it be the other, and check for that

"gun.shootingbuttonenabled should be true unless _____" or "gun.shootingbuttonenabled should be false unless _____"

fill in the blank, then check for that

[teal viper]

You set it to false if the condition is right.

[mild reef]

so if I just did an if statement right below with the opposite it should work? just another obj.activeself == true

[teal viper]

bool = true
Loop
{
 if condition is right
 {
   bool = false
   break out of the loop
 } 
}

[mild reef]

ah ok

[polar acorn]

Code runs, one line at a time, top to bottom. Whatever the last thing you set it to is what it is

So, pick one to start at, and only change it if you need to

[mild reef]

but I do need to change it

[teal viper]

They were using LINQ .All before, but incorrectly, so I assume they meant something like linq that checks a collection in one line of code.

[polar acorn]

Under what conditions do you need to change it

[ivory bobcat]

What exactly are you trying to do?

Are you wanting the state to be true if any of the objects were not active?

[mild reef]

I tried swapping it just for the sake of it. I want the state to be false if any of the objects are active

[polar acorn]

So, set it to true, then, if any of the objects are active, set it to false

You don't re-set it back to true ever

Just once at the start

and set it to false if it should be false

[mild reef]

i meannn this wont work tho right

same thing?

[ivory bobcat]

shoot = true
foreach ...
    if ...
        ... = false
        break;```

[teal viper]

Obviously the break needs to be in the if block

[mild reef]

hahaha mb

[polar acorn]

Think through that in your head. Step through it, line by line.

Let's say you have a list containing, in order, an inactive object, an active one, then an inactive one

What does your code do in that case?

[floral garden]

couldn't we break without the bool at start ?

what the issue? how to find the first active object in the list ? ( maybe i missed something)

[mild reef]

this

this is my sloppy solution. ill lyk when it breaks guys. thanks for the help

[floral garden]

why this much space ?

[mild reef]

ive been avoiding arrays for 4 years so this all really helps

[mild reef]

they are shy

[ivory bobcat]

You would check every object, one at a time. The behavior you're aciuring isn't due to the first part.

[polar acorn]

Please just step through this. Line by line. Think it through one at a time.

[mild reef]

bro it works

[polar acorn]

No, you just havent encountered a situation that breaks it yet

[mild reef]

so it works

bandaid fix

[floral garden]

no

[teal viper]

This is a pretty messy solution. I literally gave you the pseudocode that solves the issue neatly...

Why didn't you just implement it?

[floral garden]

it work for only a specifique stuation

[mild reef]

didnt really understand

[polar acorn]

Do you have any idea what this code is doing

[mild reef]

yes

[polar acorn]

Then tell us

What does this code do

[mild reef]

but it works because I wont ever have two objects turning off and on with that script involved

[floral garden]

what ?

[teal viper]

Then ask, goddammit.
Ignoring everything you don't understand in life is gonna get you into a lot of trouble...

[polar acorn]

I've explained this concept multiple times already
#💻┃code-beginner message

[mild reef]

it goes through the array and checks if an object is active. depending on the result of each object, itll save the object into consideration for later to wait for it to be false technically

[polar acorn]

No

It will store the first active object

Then, if that active object is inactive it'll set the bool to false

An active object of course cannot be inactive

So what is the point of checking if the object you just confirmed is active is inactive

[mild reef]

still doesnt really help me, it makes sense but it doesnt to me.

[polar acorn]

How about you fill in the blank

And then it will make sense

Either blank

One of them will be easier than the other but both work

[mild reef]

but isnt that the whole point of this script and the loop?

are you suggesting I make it true before the loop in the update?

[floral garden]

there a 2 ways to do it

[polar acorn]

Considering that at this point like six people have told you exactly that, yes

Or the opposite, whatever's easier

[floral garden]

i like give answer but if that person don't understand it is better he find the anwser himself

What i get is you have a gun , with a list of gameobject (for what , idk)
each update (not the best idea but well)
you check if you have an actif object in the list, if yes then you can't shoot but otherwise, you can shoot ?

[mild reef]

just like this?

[polar acorn]

Set it one way. Do the loop. If you find a condition that means it should be the other way, change it

[floral garden]

yes

[ivory bobcat]

Where's the break?

[floral garden]

oh miss the break

[polar acorn]

At this point it doesn't matter let them do extra loops it's at least better than whatever the fuck that last attempt was

[mild reef]

lol

[floral garden]

but the ideas is same

[mild reef]

same thing yeah?

mmm thanks guys, makes sense now

[floral garden]

you have a lot of ways doing it, some faster, other more easly to understand but slwoer etc

[slender nymph]

break will not make the code after the loop not run, in fact it will immediately go to that code. so that // turn gun on bit is what will run immediately after the // turn gun off part

[floral garden]

oh yeah my bad i write it to fast

haha

turn gun on should be upper

[mild reef]

so the break would start it over before it turned the gun back on?

and not work is what hes saying

[slender nymph]

what? that is not what i said at all. break doesn't start anything over

[polar acorn]

Break ends the current loop

[floral garden]

break = stop the loop

[mild reef]

so it wouldnt run whats below it in the update?

[polar acorn]

Break ends the loop. That is it

That is all it does

[slender nymph]

it would, which is what i was saying. break only affects the loop and literally nothing else

[floral garden]

like the words mean , your loop is a list of function doing almost the same thing then you break in middle

[polar acorn]

It ends the for each

[ivory bobcat]

Break would stop the loop.

It doesn't do anything else

[mild reef]

I see

[floral garden]

easier haha (but all type of loop like while, for, for each etc)

btw, switch for you is a loop or not ?

for me it a loop but maybe it isn't

[slender nymph]

you do realize that they were referring to this specific situation, right? they weren't saying that break only works with a foreach loop

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/statements/jump-statements#the-break-statement

The break statement terminates the closest enclosing iteration statement (that is, for, foreach, while, or do loop) or switch statement.

[floral garden]

yeah but we never know if for him , it work only for an foreach

[wintry dew]

Does anyone know how i can perhaps project a sphere in world coordinates onto screen space coordinates

[ivory bobcat]

Converting world to screen point: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Camera.WorldToScreenPoint.html
Spherecast (assuming you're simply wanting a physics cast): https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics.SphereCast.html

[wintry dew]

oh i mean like get from a sphere in world space to having a circle in screen space with a center and radius and stuff

[mild reef]

also ive been trying to set it up, I just downloaded a more recent version of visual studio and its connected under prefrences in unity but now my variables arent suggesting. I also made sure to have the unity game development thing on visual studio too. not sure whats missing

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio#if-you-are-experiencing-issues

[mild reef]

thanks

[narrow spoke]

Hey 🙂 I just wanted to make a Panel but it takes opver everything, why? and how can i fix it

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel. also, with it being a UI object, it lives on the canvas which is why it appears gigantic in the scene view, but normal size in the game.

read the documentation pinned in #📲┃ui-ux to learn how the canvas and UI work

[wintry dew]

Is there any easy way to detect if a world space object is within some screen space bounds?

Google has currently been failing me for a half hour now...

[rich adder]

the answers are there

break down the problem further so you can find more

[narrow spoke]

hmm i read it but i still ahve the iussue woith my file maybe u can help oout?

[slender nymph]

it generally helps to actually explain what your issue is

and in the right channel

[ivory bobcat]

You'll need to describe what specifically you're needing help with.

[rich adder]

ahh the classic I have issue plz help, proceeds not to describe the issue

[narrow spoke]

I imported a big map image (1920×1080) directly into the scene. Now when I add UI (Canvas/Text), everything feels off scale-wise.
The map is already scaled down a lot, and if I scale it more, the aspect ratios start breaking.

What’s the right way to handle this?
Should I resize the map via PPU instead of transform scale, or is this more of a camera / canvas setup issue?

[slender nymph]

this is a "you didn't actually read and understand the information about how the canvas works" issue

[narrow spoke]

Sry 🙂

[teal viper]

You need to better explain what you think is wrong. But in the right channel. #📲┃ui-ux if it's ui related or #💻┃unity-talk if it's not(if the issue is with a map that is using a sprite renderer for example).

[mild reef]

I've got a question on this. It does work. But I've confused myself. Why doesn't it just always read that the shooting button is enabled? Because if it goes down the lines of code wouldn't it set it to true again before making it false?

Like does it keep on changing it every 0.00001th of a second. I'm just trying to understand it more

Since every update its made true

[teal viper]

It sets it to true and then either keeps it true(if the condition is not met) or set to false until the next frame if the condition in the loop is true.

[mild reef]

So what your saying is that the "set to true" part of it doesn't actually go through until the end of the update or frame?

[teal viper]

No, it applies immediately, but it doesn't matter. Because if the condition is met, then false is assigned immediately after that.

[mild reef]

Mmmm ok

But then if it starts over again wouldn't it be 50/50?

[ivory bobcat]

Assuming your code is relative to what's been discussed before, it is set to true prior to testing then set to false if any objects were active that frame.

[teal viper]

There's no randomness. When it enters update, it's always the value that was set in the last frame.

[ivory bobcat]

How does it currently look btw

[mild reef]

It looks good. It does work. I just keep on trying to understand it. Like I get that it works like that. But I also just think it would be split 50/50 true and false. Simply because I have something always saying it's true on that update, but then something checking on that same update and changing it right after. But if it's changed that quick, wouldn't it also be changed back to true just as quick?

Just trying to make it make sense

For now it works and all I can say is "it's just unity" it's not wrong. But the timing doesn't make sense

[slender nymph]

keep in mind that nothing else is happening between the variable being set to true and it being set to false, but pretty much the rest of your game is happening outside of that update method

so basically it's true for "no time at all" on frames that it should be false, and will remain false until the next frame so the remainder of the frame it is still false. then the next frame, the exact same thing happens. until a frame where the loop never sets it to false

[mild reef]

Interesting

Definitely trippy

[ivory bobcat]

So.. think of it this way..
Before Update is ran, let's assume the bool is false. The first line would set it to true because we're wanting the default behavior set it to be true. Then, if and only if any object were active would we instead want it to be false before the end of the Update method. Your final result would be the state of the bool at the end of the Update method

[teal viper]

Nothing trippy here. You pc executes code line by line. No code at all runs while this script update is executed(let's ignore threads for now) . So for the rest of the game, it's either the value before it's update or after.

[mild reef]

So is nothing updated until the "end" of the update? Which would still be super small anyways

[teal viper]

Yes.

[mild reef]

Ah ok that makes sense

Thanks yall

[slender nymph]

that's still not quite it. the variable is changing. as has been said before.
but nothing else is checking the variable during this time because only one component is updated at a time

[ivory bobcat]

The confusion might be with the assumption that others are accessing and using the variable whilst it's changing. They likely aren't as nothing is running in parallel unless you've got multi threaded lines of code operating somewhere.

[polar acorn]

Only one line of code is ever running at a time. There are no lines of code between setting it to true and setting it to false that use the value. So, nothing will ever read the value as true before it has the chance to get set to false.

[mild reef]

There that's it that makes sense

[ivory bobcat]

The entire Update method has to finish before anything or anyone else can do anything (rendering to the screen, physics etc)

[mild reef]

Mmm ok

[prime goblet]

hello, i'm having a bit of trouble with my raycasts as they dont seem to be detecting stuff properly
this is what i've tried:

    void Start() {
        data = rock.GetComponent<RockTypeLinker>().data;
        
        rocks.Add(rock);
        
        for (var i = 0; i < data.iterations; i++) {
            currentRocks = new List<GameObject>(rocks);

            foreach (var useRock in currentRocks) {
                var testUnityIgnore = false;
                // right x
                if (!Physics.Raycast(useRock.transform.position, useRock.transform.right, out var hit, 1f)) {
                    var newRock = Instantiate(rock);
                    newRock.transform.position = new Vector3(useRock.transform.position.x + useRock.transform.localScale.x, useRock.transform.position.y, useRock.transform.position.z);
                    rocks.Add(newRock);
                }
            }
        }
    }

basically what i want to happen is
iteration one: no cube detected so it creates one
iteration two: cube deteced, no cube is created
...

but what's happening is:
iteration one: no cube detected so it creates one
iteration two: no cube detected so it creates one
...

I've tested in other scripts and the cubes can detect each other just fine.

this is the result (looks expected) but actually there's cubes inside cubes

[tired python]

when I drag a unit, since the unit has two colliders one it's parent gameobject and child gameobject, I end up dragging the gameobject when my mouse is on the child collider. I want it o be such that I only drag it when it's on the parents collider.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class UnitRelocatorScript : MonoBehaviour, IDragHandler
{
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    Vector3 mouse_pos;
    private Collider2D _collider;

    void Start()
    {
        _collider = this.GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        mouse_pos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Mouse.current.position.value);
    }

    public void OnClick()
    {
        Debug.Log("Object was clicked.");
    }

    public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {        
        //6 = tower layer
        if (_collider == eventData.pointerDrag.gameObject.GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>())
        {
            gameObject.transform.position = new Vector3(mouse_pos.x, mouse_pos.y, 0);
            Debug.Log("Object is being dragged.");            
        }
    }
}

[ivory bobcat]

Try drawing the raycast

[prime goblet]

i have tried 1 sec ill get the screenshot

[ivory bobcat]

It might not be where you're thinking it is, how long you're thinking it is or something else

[jolly jackal]

hello, i'm having a bit of trouble with my raycasts as they dont seem to be detecting stuff properly
this is what i've tried:

    void Start() {
        data = rock.GetComponent<RockTypeLinker>().data;
        
        rocks.Add(rock);
        
        for (var i = 0; i < data.iterations; i++) {
            currentRocks = new List<GameObject>(rocks);

            foreach (var useRock in currentRocks) {
                var testUnityIgnore = false;
                // right x
                if (!Physics.Raycast(useRock.transform.position, useRock.transform.right, out var hit, 1f)) {
                    var newRock = Instantiate(rock);
                    newRock.transform.position = new Vector3(useRock.transform.position.x + useRock.transform.localScale.x, useRock.transform.position.y, useRock.transform.position.z);
                    rocks.Add(newRock);
                }
            }
        }
    }

basically what i want to happen is
iteration one: no cube detected so it creates one
iteration two: cube deteced, no cube is created
...

but what's happening is:
iteration one: no cube detected so it creates one
iteration two: no cube detected so it creates one
...

I've tested in other scripts and the cubes can detect each other just fine.

[prime goblet]

you just pasted my thing?

[prime goblet]

it seems to be in the right position and going in the right direction

when I print the value of hit (assuming not null) it prints nothing

so the raycast specifically in this script detects nothing

but when run from another script it detects just fine

[ivory bobcat]

Is it going far enough?

[prime goblet]

i tried with no limit and a really big limit, still didnt work

[ivory bobcat]

The max distance seems to be one relative to your code

[prime goblet]

the scale of my cube is 0.5,0.5,0.5 so 1f isn't short

especially since they're next to each other

but i have tried with no maxDistance and a really big maxDistance

made no difference

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show the raycast debug drawn?

[patent vault]

hello guyz

[ivory bobcat]

Do the objects have colliders?

[prime goblet]

there's a raycast going through every cube (and the raycast is being fired in each cube too)

[prime goblet]

they all haev box colliders and rigidbodies (kinematic)

and i tested in another script it seems to have nothing to do with them being kinematic or anything wrong with their colliders

[ivory bobcat]

So.. how many rocks do you start with? Is this Start method in every rock?

[prime goblet]

1 rock

this start method is not in every rock

it's in a seperate gameobject

[ivory bobcat]

What is currentRocks?

[prime goblet]

to prevent it from adding to the list it's currently iterating through i created a second list that isnt affected at the same time

whole snippet

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class RockExpansion : MonoBehaviour {
    [SerializeField] private GameObject rock;
    private RockObject data;

    private List<GameObject> rocks;
    private List<GameObject> currentRocks;

    private void Awake() {
        rocks = new List<GameObject>();
    }

    void Start() {
        data = rock.GetComponent<RockTypeLinker>().data;
        
        rocks.Add(rock);
        
        // create rocks whenever it cant detect something is there with a raycast
        for (var i = 0; i < data.iterations; i++) {
            currentRocks = new List<GameObject>(rocks);

            foreach (var useRock in currentRocks) {
                var testUnityIgnore = false;
                // right x
                if (!Physics.Raycast(useRock.transform.position, useRock.transform.right, out var hit, 1f)) {
                    var newRock = Instantiate(rock);
                    newRock.transform.position = new Vector3(useRock.transform.position.x + useRock.transform.localScale.x, useRock.transform.position.y, useRock.transform.position.z);
                    rocks.Add(newRock);
                }
                
                // left -x
                
                // front z
                
                // back -z
                
                // top y
            }
        }
    }

    private void OnDrawGizmos() {
        Gizmos.color = new Color(0,0,255);
        foreach (var roc in rocks) {
            Gizmos.DrawRay(roc.transform.position, rock.transform.right);
        }
    }
}

[ivory bobcat]

How are you creating more rocks after the first?

[prime goblet]

in the raycast part

                if (!Physics.Raycast(useRock.transform.position, useRock.transform.right, out var hit, 1f)) {
                    var newRock = Instantiate(rock);
                    newRock.transform.position = new Vector3(useRock.transform.position.x + useRock.transform.localScale.x, useRock.transform.position.y, useRock.transform.position.z);
                    rocks.Add(newRock);
                }

that's where my issue lies

it's creating cubes even if something is already there

[ivory bobcat]

But that would stop after the first.

How are you continuing to create more rocks (assuming this script isn't on the rock object)

[prime goblet]

in that same code there's a for loop and a foreach loop.

the for loop, i want it to run 3 times so that there's a good amoutn of cubes
the foreach loop is to create cubes around it (but i havent added that yet) so instead of hard tracking locations and positions and cubes im only making sure nothing's there and thne just going for creaintg it

this is the first part but it seems to be failing

[ivory bobcat]

You've said that you start with a single rock and that the rocks are not running this code. My assumption is that there isn't anything wrong with the above but that whatever (some manager) is the issue.

[prime goblet]

i dont see how something would be wrong with the manager

it's an empty gameobject at 0,0,0 with that script on i

and at no point have i accessed the raw transform without it being either rock or useRock

[ivory bobcat]

If you're doing this all instantaneously, the colliders will not have been updated until a sync has occurred

[prime goblet]

i see, it probably is instantaneous

[ivory bobcat]

Thus each and every ray cast would not detect any object where an object might be

You can use a physics sync after creating the rock if you're wanting this all to occur instantaneously

[prime goblet]

alright, i'll check that out

thank you!

if that fails i'll just add a manual delay

that did fix it

[ivory bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics.SyncTransforms.html There's some cost (just a warning)

[prime goblet]

alright

thanks

[tired python]

if anyone can help?

[prime goblet]

it's dragging both the parent and the child when you drag the child?

on what object is this script?

if it's on the parent then your gameObject.transform stuff will affect the parent

[tired python]

parent

[prime goblet]

try putting it on the child or accessing the child's gameObejct instead

[ivory bobcat]

Could probably check if the clicked or dragged object has any parents

[prime goblet]

you could also check what pointerDrag actually is

[tired python]

the gameObject is this:

• Parent:
  • Has collider and if mouse is dragged, while on this collider, parent should move.
• Child:
  • Has collider on it and should not be moved when mouse is dragged while on this collider.

i have attached this script to the parent

[prime goblet]

this part will only run on the parent

gameObject.transform.position = new Vector3(mouse_pos.x, mouse_pos.y, 0);

because gameObject like that just accesses the gameObject that the script is on

you should instead be running the pointerDrag.transform.position or something like that

[tired python]

i want to move both the parent and the child at the same time

[prime goblet]

isn't that what you have?

[prime goblet]

with this when you move the child it only moves the child but when you move the parent it moves both

[tired python]

no more like, i want this to happen

[prime goblet]

so the child is not supposed to be draggable?

[tired python]

but its not happenning, instead, when i click and drag on the child collider, the whole thing gets dragged (parent and the child)

[prime goblet]

Yes the reason the whole thing gets dragged is because you're accessing the whole thing

[tired python]

what you suggested won't help then, cus it ends up moving the child only, not the parent or am i misunderstanding something?

[ivory bobcat]

So... you need to clarify something.. are you just wanting to parent to move without the child or?

[tired python]

if i click and drag on parent collider, the parent and child move, if i click on the child collider, nothing moves

[prime goblet]

nothing moves?

that was never stated before

before you said everything moved

unless that's the outcome you want?

[tired python]

yes

[prime goblet]

oh

dragging the child should not move anything?

[tired python]

but everything moves right now, doesn't matter which collider i am dragging

[prime goblet]

oh okay

[tired python]

[prime goblet]

can you check which object pointerDrag is?

[prime goblet]

no like

in code

Debug.Log(eventData.pointerDrag)

i would imagine your function looking like this

public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{        
    //6 = tower layer
    if (_collider == eventData.pointerDrag.gameObject.GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>())
    {
        Debug.Log(eventData.pointerDrag.gameObject);
        if (eventData.pointerPressRaycast.gameObject != gameObject) { return; } // if the object IS NOT the parent (which is the object with the script) then do NOT drag
        gameObject.transform.position = new Vector3(mouse_pos.x, mouse_pos.y, 0);
        Debug.Log("Object is being dragged.");            
    }
}

[tired python]

sry its taking a lot of time potato pc

[prime goblet]

haha take your time

also i think part of the issue could be the parent's hitbox being above the child's

based on your image

[tired python]

its on the parent

[prime goblet]

both have hitboxes?

if the parent covers the child then the child cant be dragged, ooonly the parent

[tired python]

more like, its inside the child's hitbox

[prime goblet]

is the child the big one or the small one

[tired python]

big

[prime goblet]

okay

then ignore that should eb fine

[tired python]

Pointer drag is on Droplet(Clone) (UnitRelocatorScript) object.
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
UnitRelocatorScript:Start () (at Assets/Scripts/Unit Relocation/UnitRelocatorScript.cs:13)

it is on the parent, not the child i guess

[prime goblet]

when you tried dragging on the child did it show Droplet (Clone)

[tired python]

yes

[prime goblet]

that must mean your child's collider is covering the parent's collider

[tired python]

yes

[prime goblet]

maybe try going innto 3d view and move your child back behind it on the z axis

[tired python]

wait no

[prime goblet]

if the bigger collider is on top of the smaller collider and preventing the smaller collider from being pressed then maybe try move the bigger collider back on the z axis

[tired python]

that's not the problem

[prime goblet]

oh

[prime goblet]

oh right htat wanst hte issue

mb

[tired python]

ya

visuals always help

[prime goblet]

true

okay so when you printed it it acknowledged that you were dragging the parent?

even when you tried dragging the child?

[tired python]

wait

yes

[prime goblet]

okay

[tired python]

i could just make the BoxCollider2D a child and then put the script on that child

[prime goblet]

maybe try

im honestly not sure though, sorry

[tired python]

it's kinda working, the unit does get dragged the correct way at first, but the moment i try to drag it a second time, the event doesn't even get called

gamebar recording it dumb so there's a vertical offset, so even though i know i am clicking on the object, it appears as if i ain't clicking on the object

something i noticed was that in the Scene, if i change the collider a bit, then the next time i try to drag it on the game screen it does get dragged but then it becomes undraggable unless i change the collider in the game scene again

kill me pls, these bugs are so bloody hard to notice

i don't even know why i got the idea that the box colliders being on the same z axis somehow broke the thing, but apparently it's what was happening

the hell man?

[cosmic dagger]

you can't use the null-conditional operator (?.) with Unity objects . . .

[past yarrow]

Is it possible to have a single material that has a Color parameter that I can change through code and without having that same material applied to other GameObjects also change their color ?

By that I mean if it's possible to create a single material and I need to spawn alot of tiles and each tile will have different color, so modifying the color of a certain tile shouldn't change the colors of the other tiles and without me having to create 1 material per color that I want to use.

[prime goblet]

yes you can access the renderer's color property

it's Renderer.material.color

[past yarrow]

tried this but it doesn't work 😕

[prime goblet]

can you record or show what hpapens when you try to use this?

[hot wadi]

Is it because it does not work with Unity’s fake-null when objects are destroyed?

[prime goblet]

there might also be .SetColor() on that material (material.SetColor(pixelColor))

[past yarrow]

oh wait, it kinda work but it's messed up because the default color of my material is red, I need to switch that for white

[prime goblet]

ah okay

[past yarrow]

Let's go, thanks 👍

[prime goblet]

nice!

[past yarrow]

Why does it tell me it's redundant check ? 🤔

[sour fulcrum]

What makes you think it's not

[hot wadi]

Without the check or not, the field will still get the given value

[polar acorn]

Why do you need to check it before setting it

What is the difference between this code and one that doesn't have it

[past yarrow]

just to not repeat the assignement if the value is already the same ? 🤔

[polar acorn]

Why would that matter

The variable is that value either way

There is not a single difference between the code with the if and without

[past yarrow]

micro-optimization I guess 😄 Does that optimize something or it changes nothing ? 😄

[polar acorn]

Optimizing what?

[past yarrow]

assignation of value

[hot wadi]

No

[polar acorn]

You can't get any faster than zero time

[past yarrow]

no way assignation takes 0 time 😮

[polar acorn]

All it does is assign a name to a point in memory. The name is the same, the pointer is the same

Why would that take any time?

[past yarrow]

well each action a computer does technically take some time (milliseconds or microseconds but it's still time), isn't it ? Like lookin for that point in memory then assigning a name to it can't be free of time, isn't it ?

[polar acorn]

And an if statement somehow doesn't?

[hot wadi]

U are worrying about something that probably takes trillion or more of them at the same time to start affecting the system

[past yarrow]

yeah it does; that was my next question : which one would consume more time between an assignation and an if statement ? 😄

[past yarrow]

I agree, it's more out of curiosity and taking good practices 😛

[zenith cypress]

If anything the comparison is slower since you now need some redundant ldarg instructions to do the comparison (even in release mode so the compiler doesn't optimize it it seems). But for this is doesn't really matter, only thing that does is the takeaway of why it isn't needed in this case.

[polar acorn]

The answer is who cares. This level of optimization would be overkill on a 1960s punch card computer the size of an apartment

[charred bear]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Program : MonoBehaviour
{
publicTransform vehicleTransform;
Vector3 dir;

private void Update()
{
    dir.Z = vehicleTransform.eulerAngles.y;
    transform.localEulerAngles = dir;
}

}

would this work for a magnetic fluid compass inside an aircraft cockpit?

if the compass is just a cylinder with a compass texture and its origin faces front

also how would i go about writing a script for textmeshpro to read the title of an mp3 file playing through an in-game media player

[eternal needle]

Did you try it and did it work? If so then the answer is yes. If not, the answer is no

[charred bear]

mb i'm away from my unity-runnable computer so i just thought if anyone's ever worked on a compass they might be able to assert whether it looks right

[eternal needle]

Its not a good idea usually to read the euler angles from an object because its stored as a quaternion. When converted to euler angles, it can be many different values but all of them could still lead to the same rotation.
If it works in your case, good. Ideally you would swap away from reading the euler angles in some way

[charred bear]

alright thank you

what other kinds of angle conversions are there?

just because eulers seemed like the match for aviation related orientation

[eternal needle]

Theres a few ways to construct a quaternion which you can see from the docs, but really if the car doesn't rotate on the x or z axis then this might be safe to use

[charred bear]

it's an airplane so it does rotate...

or as far as i understand is able to rotate on all axes

[eternal needle]

then maybe you'd want to construct a quaternion based on the forward direction of the plane. Really im not sure what the intent is here or why you set the localEulerAngles so it's hard to give a complete answer

[charred bear]

i guess i did that very wrong

hold on let me show you a picture of the kind of compass

it spins on one axis in relation to how much the aircraft deviates from the north on a Z axis (aka aircraft heading)

there's an in-game heading indicator already but it isn't analogue like this one

i should've probably thought about checking the kind of angles it uses before i left home...

[eternal needle]

first thing id think of would be using the forward direction of the plane, set Y to 0 because you dont care if its pointed up or down right?
Compare that vector to like vector3.forward to get the angle to set the Z value of this object

[charred bear]

I was waiting for you to respond I found out the game I’m making this for does use eulers for orientation

Would I still change my code how you suggested?

[eternal needle]

your game doesnt use eulers for rotation, its always stored as quaternion no matter what

[charred bear]

Well at least it’s understood as eulers by the indicator? I’m not sure how it’s possible

[keen dew]

It's not a good idea to ask code questions when you don't have access to the project. But basically to keep the compass always pointing north this should do it:

Vector3 direction = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(north, aircraft.transform.up);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(direction, aircraft.transform.up);

where north is the direction where you want it to point in world coordinates (e.g. Vector3.forward) and aircraft is a reference to the airplane object

[charred bear]

Sorry I just want to get ahead during winter break😔
But thank you for the help

[eternal needle]

the indicator is just a texture on a model

you can think of it using euler angles, you can set it using euler angles, its stored as a quaternion

[charred bear]

Oh okay

So even if the math will use eulers no matter what I want it to reference the quaternions instead

[keen dew]

It doesn't matter what you use, Unity will end up using quaternions anyway

the conversion is automatic

[charred bear]

Ohhhhh

[eternal needle]

yea but the problem is really just trying to read the euler angles because its stored not as euler

you can fully keep track of everything using eulers stored as your own values, thats no problem

[charred bear]

This just gets more confusing

I guess I’ll have to watch a video for how eulers work in unity and maybe read up on linear algebra

[eternal needle]

id just start with this

[charred bear]

I’ll give it another try tomorrrow then

Thank you

[wild cove]

Hey i've been trying to figure out how to run an if statement once in Unity and im just really confused how to stop the if statement after it runs once, because everytime I play test, when the player activates the function to spawn a new level it spawns infinite levels and crashes.

[ivory bobcat]

An if statement would only occur once. You're probably calling that line of code more often than once somehow.

[blissful mulch]

could anyone explain how i can get a normal map to work or whatever its called? The thing that makes a material look more 3d

[sour fulcrum]

semicolon on the if statement + it's seemingly due to the bool you are checking

your using whats called a local variable, it exists exclusively in the context of when that function runs

and it's not doing anything either

like so your 100% clear these 4 lines (plus the bracket) are the only things doing anything

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe you can instead describe what's occurring in the scene and how the object relates to the scene

[wild cove]

pretty much, for that script at least

and I dont think it could be due to anything else

[wild cove]

Let me take a video recording it rq

[frail hawk]

OnTriggerEnter is only being called once when you enter the trigger, you you must be doing something wrong there. also make sure you check fof the right gameobject inbside the OnTriggerEnter
if (other.CompareTage("something"))

[ivory bobcat]

A video isn't necessary.

That trigger message is occurring multiple times. You've got to figure out why

[sour fulcrum]

(or ideally check for a component 😄)

[wild cove]

Yo i just realised I made a stupid mistake and I didn't mean to put it in the on tirgger enter script

I gotta fix that rq

[frail hawk]

allright then if you want that code inside the Update you would simply use your "hasRun" boolean in the if statement too

so the condition is only met when your bool is false

[wild cove]

Ok, so when I go ahead of a specific area on the map it makes it place an infinite amount of clones into the project and crashes the game, I am trying to figure out how to make the method only run once like flicking a lever you cant flip back on and off a ton.

[ivory bobcat]

Btw, this is the coding channel. You should probably move your message to #💻┃unity-talk or some other more appropriate channel to acquire proper support from the community #🔎┃find-a-channel

[ivory bobcat]

So, the trigger enter message only occurs once (on initial trigger entered). Are you teleporting the player? Are they being teleported back immediately? Something like this would crash the Editor.

[wild cove]

I'm trying to make a simple infinite runner and if the player walks a small distance from a cube in the starting level it creates a new level, but my mistake is that I can't find a way to tell it to stop the if statement. It just keeps running the statement over and over because the condition is always met. The player doesn't teleport at all, it's just infinite levels are being created way too fast, and I need a way to stop the if statement from activating (even when the condition is met) once it runs once.

[frail hawk]

and i already told you how to do that

[wild cove]

Im sorry im really a beginner and im confused

I need to reread everything again

[sour fulcrum]

because the condition is always met.
You've kind of figured it out on your own here tbh!

Your not doing any code that would make it ever stop meeting that condition

[frail hawk]

if ( condition1 && !hasRun)
{
some code;
hasRun = true;
}

[wild cove]

how do I make a code that stops it from meeting the condition

[sour fulcrum]

If statements! You already have 1 there

[wild cove]

Ok so now what do I do with hasrun, ik I have to make an if statement that makes it stop running but im not fluent in C# and I don't know what will stop/negate the first if statement

[sour fulcrum]

you can check for multiple conditions by either nesting, eg.

if (thing)
{
if (otherThing)
{}
}

or you can do like

if ((firstThing) && (secondThing))
{
}

[ivory bobcat]

That's a misunderstanding. The if statement in that method only runs once. If you're wanting to reuse that trigger method you'll need to think about how to ignore or change the behavior (delegates etc)

[sour fulcrum]

Are you sure that's what they are running into here

[frail hawk]

he already mentionjed that he put the code accidentaslly into the OnTriggerEnter

he wants it in the Update

[sour fulcrum]

you were the first and only(?) person to bring up Update unless im missing something

[ivory bobcat]

Don't recall update being mentioned

[sour fulcrum]

i think homie is just new to if statements..

[wild cove]

Naw it was in OnTriggerEnter, it is in update now

[frail hawk]

here Dalphat #💻┃code-beginner message

[sour fulcrum]

not in ontriggerenter does not mean in update

🤔

[frail hawk]

well it is the only place that makes sense if you lok at his code

he is making a runner game

[wild cove]

yeah sorry, i shouldve specified where I was going to put it

thats mb

[frail hawk]

so we have already provided you with all the code you need, please scroll up and read again

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming they've got an infinite runner where they're loading/cycling new tracks as they reach a certain point on the road. Where I'm assuming their character may be triggering the enter method repeatedly somehow

[wild cove]

alr

[frail hawk]

yes but in the #🖱️┃input-system channel @stark helm

[ivory bobcat]

Are you referring to just debugging if an action has occurred?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.4/manual/Debugging.html

[wild cove]

yeah but how do i stop or negate the code, would I do something like

if (hasrun == true)
{
//some code that would negate the first function somehow (I don't know any things that do that)
}

[frail hawk]

just scroll up and read the code

#💻┃code-beginner message

[ivory bobcat]

We're not entirely certain. Polling is least preferred if you're able to resolve the event when it's occurred instead

[ivory bobcat]

The video would be fine for illustrating what your issue is now since we're uncertain what's going on (no in game images, hierarchy, inspector data, other scripts, etc)

[wild cove]

Sorry my internet cut out

Im trying to send the video rn

Sorry for it being short, I don't have nitro so I don't want to run the risk of it not posting, but the main problem is still the infinite levels but for some weird reason the script isn't registering the mole as a game object or something.

[ivory bobcat]

Mp4 or some other video format that's discord safe is preferred

[wild cove]

oh mb

[wild cove]

And Murado if your still here Idk if im dumb or what but I still don't know how to negate the script, what you told me showed me how to create something that could hold code that would negate the script, but idk any ways to actually negate the script with code

[ancient nimbus]

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour

this is the public class

and i put it here

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour

private Rigidbody rb;

[ivory bobcat]

How to post code

!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.

[ancient nimbus]

   void OnMove (InputValue movementValue)
   {
   Vector2 movementVector = movementValue.Get<Vector2>();
    movementX = movementVector.x; 
    movementY = movementVector.y; 
   }



public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour

    private Rigidbody rb; 
    private float movementX;
    private float movementY;


    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent <Rigidbody>(); 
    }


   private void FixedUpdate() 
   {
    Vector3 movement = new Vector3 (movementX, 0.0f, movementY);
    rb.AddForce(movement);
    rb.AddForce(movementVector); 
   }```

[ivory bobcat]

You're missing curly braces for your class

Hopefully that isn't exactly how the script looks

[ancient nimbus]

{ those?

oh nice it fixed it thanks

[ivory bobcat]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[ancient nimbus]

thats what i'm using

[frail hawk]

ok this is looking better, now change the bool to private, i am assuming you are overriding it in the inspector. and get rid of the if statement with the return

[ivory bobcat]

You should probably go through the basic unity learn scripting tutorial

[ancient nimbus]

i am

is rolling ball the basic thing or no

[wild cove]

arlight i did all that, thanks for pointing that out, forgot it was public.

[ivory bobcat]

They've got quite a few basics I don't recall off the top of my mind

[ancient nimbus]

oh ok

[wild cove]

What should I do next, how do I actually negate the if statement once it runs once.

[frail hawk]

you are already doing it correctly. please send the code as text so we might see how it looks now

[wild cove]

'''cs

using UnityEngine;

public class LevelSpawner : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject CurrentLevel;
public GameObject[] LevelPrefabs;
public GameObject Mole;
private bool hasRun;
// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if (Mole.transform.position.x + 5 > CurrentLevel.transform.position.x && !hasRun) ;
    {
        int LevelIndex = Random.Range(0, LevelPrefabs.Length);
        Vector3 SpawnPos = new Vector3(CurrentLevel.transform.position.x + 25, CurrentLevel.transform.position.y, CurrentLevel.transform.position.z);
        Instantiate(LevelPrefabs[LevelIndex], SpawnPos, LevelPrefabs[LevelIndex].transform.rotation);
        hasRun = true;
    };

}

}
'''

[frail hawk]

this looks ok now for now, at least it should only run once

could it be that you have this script on your prefabs? because everytime you spawn a prefab then it runs this

[wild cove]

yeah I have this script on my prefabs

[frail hawk]

there you have it

[wild cove]

but also something else is entirely wrong

because for some reason the starting level wont pick up a game object I set as a mole as a mole

[frail hawk]

it shouldn´t be on your prefabs it doesnt make sense

[wild cove]

(as a game object)

oh

alr

[frail hawk]

you need that LevelManager one time only in your scene

[wild cove]

yeah but if i dont apply it to the other scripts it will only spawn one level, because the next level needs to create another level at a specific distance away from the level it spawned from

[modern meteor]

how do I move my character towards the direction im facing

[frail hawk]

transform.forward is the direction you want

[ivory bobcat]

2d or 3d? Physics or no physics?

[modern meteor]

3d

[modern meteor]

physics

[modern meteor]

what if I want to move right while in the direction im facing

[ivory bobcat]

Rigid body add force direction multiplied by some scalar value

[wild cove]

i gotta hop off cause I need to get sleep, but I'll be back on at probably 2 pm PST, I'm still confused on a bit of stuff, but thank you for all of your help

and thanks everyone else for their help

I progressed and actually learned a lot from this

[frail hawk]

you can move wherever you want, you simply need to use your transforms vector instead world space, transform.forward and transform.right for example

[modern meteor]

alright thanks

[kindred temple]

When I'm using Instantiate do the components sometimes not exist until a moment after the Instantiate method is used?

I'm getting a weird NPE which sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't happen relating to a component on an instantiated object (the component is already present on the prefab), even though the object is definitely instantiated before the component is retrieved and checked

[frail hawk]

nre?

or explain what you mean with npe

[kindred temple]

Oh yeah NRE sorry

[frail hawk]

do you have some code to share, what you are describing should not be possible actually

[kindred temple]

Ah never mind, turns out I forgot a check to ensure the code should be executed (and when that check is false a different object is instantiated, not the one with the component)

[willow iron]

so i want to calculate the shortest distance between one point to another. The problem is that these points are located in a maze with several paths. Every single path in the maze pre calculates how long it is. Im thinking that i should calculate every single possible path between one point to another, and then grab the path with the shortest distance. In order to calculate every possible path, I am thinking that i choose a direction, go down it, and then go down every path at the end of that path, avoiding duplicates. If i keep doing this, eventually i will reach the goal (its a pacman style maze, no dead ends). What would be the best way to do this? This feels a little above my scope.

[twin pivot]

Navmesh probably

[willow iron]

2d game, dont believe that functions unfortunately

[keen dew]

This is just basic pathfinding. There are literally thousands of resources for this. Google for "Unity 2d pathfinding"

[willow iron]

yeah there is no 2d navmesh built in, and all of the extensions would require completely reworking the foundation ive set up
https://dev.to/christinec_dev/i-made-a-simple-2d-pathfinding-navigation-tool-for-unity-j9k
ill just use this then and start fron scratch i guess

[frosty hound]

There is a GitHub for a 2D navmesh, it works the same as the the built in one aside from the setup to mark things as obstacles in 2D.

https://github.com/h8man/NavMeshPlus

[red rover]

I was just recommended by the formatter to simplify values[values.Length - 1] to values[^1], introducing me to the "index operator," where the number is the distance from the length of the array so, index 8 in a length 10 array is ^2 for example.
Seems simple enough, but are there other places where this operator is used like this?

[rich adder]

probably anything that can use an index

just means the index counted from end

[red rover]

Interesting, thanks

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/member-access-operators#range-operator-

there is also .. , this page has more

[red rover]

Oooh

I also found this cool example from the doc page for ^

string[] lastTwo = words[^2..^0];

[rich adder]

yaa there is a bit you can do, but I think most of this is c# > 8
so if you're working with older unity or making code/assets compatible with older unity versions it wouldn't work

[red rover]

I see, thankfully I'm on 6.3 so I'm good on that front 😎

[fast zodiac]

does anybody knows how can I get rid of these suggestions. I know these are usefull but currently I'm learning Unity and I don't need them. How can I turn them OFF?

and I'm using VS code

[real thunder]

those are not suggestions

those are useful info, you don't want to hide them

[red rover]

Bro i've been coding for like 5 years without them you can totally hide them if you want to

[red rover]

let me look it up for u

[rich adder]

You can hide them but why would you ? its useful info..

[red rover]

It's a preference thing.

[real thunder]

well okay people may want to hide them, I allow that 😄

[red rover]

Go to vs code settings and search "codelens"

I've always had it disabled and haven't had an issue

[fast zodiac]

yes I know these are useful but currently I don't need then, I'm currently learning Unity C# and these are just bothering me. I'll enable them when once I'm ready

[real thunder]

honestly I don't remember a sinlge time where the amount of references helped me, unless it's 0 which means I have forgot something

[red rover]

Personally I just see it as a lot of visual noise, and makes it more cumbersome to go up and down the code quickly.

[rich adder]

probably more useful if you have lots of public methods / cross-script referencing

or a monolith

[fast zodiac]

thanks problem solved

[red rover]

You can always just right click to see references if it's needed

[real thunder]

doesnt seem to work on those two for me

[red rover]

Do you mean the codelens setting isn't working for you?

[real thunder]

I mean... right, I mean I failed to find one for this

those I found and where is the other

[red rover]

I see

[naive pawn]

you can disable codelens altogether or you can disable specific extensions from providing codelens info
the ones you're still seeing are from unity's extension, you've only disabled the c# codelens

unity's codelens can be configured from this, which you can find by searching codelens and selecting unity in the extensions dropdown

you could also disable codelens altogether if you'd like, it's Editor: Code Lens

[real thunder]

now my code looks so lonely 😢

[sly shard]

Reverse it

[past yarrow]

Hey, why does this code not set the TileTypefield in my Tile script to the value corresponding to the pixelColor key picked from the dictionary please ? all the tiles are set to EN_TileType.None 🤔

[swift crag]

Did you mean to check if the new type is not NONE?

Your code currently checks if the current type is NONE and does nothing in that case

[past yarrow]

Yes, because those are empty spots, so I don't have a Tile spawned there hence I can't set the TileType field as the gameObject isn't spawned there

[swift crag]

but if all of your tiles start out with a type of NONE, then the set accessor of TileType will do nothing

[keen dew]

How are you planning to set the initial type of the tile?

[past yarrow]

why is that ?

[swift crag]

because you told it to do that

[naive pawn]

oh god, you're still basing it on colors?

[swift crag]

eh, that's not a major problem

[past yarrow]

That's what I'm trying to do from Line 78 to Line 81, like I spawn a tile (if it's not a transparent pixel) then assign to it the right enum type depending on the color key

[past yarrow]

yes

[naive pawn]

just feels like quite a yikes that would easily lead to desyncs and bugs, due to your changes not being easily immediately applied
just drawing with tiles in unity would be more configurable and easier to manage, no?

[keen dew]

Yes but the initial value of tileType is EN_TileType.NONE. And the setter says that if the tileType is EN_TileType.NONE then do nothing. So nothing happens.

[ivory bobcat]

But in the Setter for the property you're telling it to do nothing if it's already set to None

[past yarrow]

so I should remove that if statement ?

[ivory bobcat]

Depends on what you're trying to do. Surely you've placed it there in the first place for some purpose.

[swift crag]

What is the meaning of the NONE tile type?

It appears to have two meanings right now:

• A tile that hasn't been set yet
• A tile that cannot ever be set, because it's an empty space in the grid

[naive pawn]

please do not crosspost. that is definitely not a code question

[tight lantern]

ok

[swift crag]

this would be an #🔀┃art-asset-workflow question

[slender nymph]

why are you now going from image to tiles? the whole point of the discussion the other day was to remove the image step entirely and build your mock up of your map using tiles because you can just embed the relevant data directly into the tiles so you don't have to rely on images you've created externally to create your map design

[swift crag]

i see

[past yarrow]

it does both

[swift crag]

that workflow sounds significantly nicer

notably, you can create your own tile classes, which lets you store whatever data you want in them

this also completely removes the problem of having "uninitialized tiles"

and other weird in-between states

[past yarrow]

When you talked about tilemaps and having data embedded in it, I thought you literally had data embedded in the tilemap but in your explaination it's a class called "Tile", so it's what I have currently, just instead of using a tilemap to retrieve the data I use an image

[naive pawn]

that just.. defeats the purpose

[slender nymph]

I thought you literally had data embedded in the tilemap
that is exactly what i meant. like i told you, you can inherit from TileBase to create your own tiles that have whatever data you want on them and use those tiles to literally draw your map with on a tilemap

[naive pawn]

you can cut the image, with its lack of metadata and in-editor modification, completely out of the equation

[swift crag]

you'd also be able to use the Tilemap system to position, query, and display the tiles

[past yarrow]

but uninitialized tiles are there only for a single step in the code (i.e when the tile gets spawned) then it's being attributed a value other than NONE 🤔

[swift crag]

Yes, and you code says to not change the tile type if the current type is NONE

So nothing happens

[naive pawn]

what's tileType set to in tilePrefab

[swift crag]

my point here, though, is that it's icky to have these "invalid states" in the first place

[past yarrow]

thanks, it fixed the issue 👍

[past yarrow]

depends on the retrieved pixel color from the image, tileType gets attributed the right enum value

[swift crag]

that was not Chris's question

the question was what the default value of tileType was

(and since the default value was clearly NONE, your code didn't work)

[naive pawn]

this is incorrect

[swift crag]

but, again, I must reiterate:

• you have two incompatible meanings for NONE here, which is already a major problem:
  • a tile that doesn't exist (somehow?)
  • a tile that you haven't initialized yet
• this entire scheme doesn't make sense; just use tilemaps

[naive pawn]

you're setting to the instantiated Tiles, i asked about the tilePrefab

[past yarrow]

Oh yeah, by default all spawned prefabs get attributed NONE by default, then I switch it to the right enum just after

[naive pawn]

with this setter?

which doesn't do anything if it's currently NONE

... man, please just share code properly in the future

[past yarrow]

Yeah I removed that if statement as yeah it didn't make sense and now it works

[naive pawn]

!screenshots

[radiant void]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[naive pawn]

i believe ive told you this many times before

[past yarrow]

the code is this now :

//Tile.cs
using System.Collections.Generic;
using _Game.Scripts.Enums;
using Sirenix.OdinInspector;
using UnityEngine;

public class Tile : SerializedMonoBehaviour
{
    
    [SerializeField]
    private Dictionary<EN_Direction, Tile> neighbours = new();

    [SerializeField]
    private EN_TileType tileType;
    public EN_TileType TileType {
        get => tileType;
        set => tileType = value;
    }
}

[naive pawn]

-# why even have the manual accessors lol

[past yarrow]

the not initiliazed part is temporary, in the sense that it's the case only when I spawn the prefab then the next instruction I set it. Why I still have None, is because I need it in the 2D grid that would hold the data itself about the board as I need it to attribute neighbours in my Tile.cs class, so seeing that the tile next to me is NONE would tell me that it's a transparent pixel, so I can't use it.

[past yarrow]

true, go for an auto-property ?

[naive pawn]

sure

but really, stop relying on images and pixels

it's such a fragile system

you're duplicating data in the code you showed

[past yarrow]

alright I will try to do the tilemap thing but I have no clue how

[naive pawn]

"single source of truth" is a good rule of thumb for a reason

[naive pawn]

boxfriend gave you a pretty good explanation last time, but you seem to have thrown that out the window and made your own assumptions

[verbal swift]

How stupid am I for trying to make a movement shooter while being absolutely terrible at physics

[solar hill]

do you have a question

[naive pawn]

those are kinda unrelated

[solar hill]

well

i wouldnt say they are completely unrelated

[naive pawn]

physics is far from the most important aspect

[solar hill]

its not important but a lot of good controllers do custom physics for certain aspects

so theres an element to it

[verbal swift]

There is alot of physics in momentum forces n stuff

[solar hill]

i just dont see how this is important to this channel or what your question is Zone.

[verbal swift]

So true kuzmo I am so humbly sorry for dare speaking in your code beginner channel about my challenges with trying to make a physics based system while being bad at physics

[naive pawn]

if you focus on those, sure. but on an overview, on a broad topic? imo, not that necessary to have going in. very useful, but not absolutely crucial. you can learn it along the way anyways, like everything else

[solar hill]

what

this is a help channel, if you want help you have to actually ask a question

[naive pawn]

mate, this is a space for discussion and help, not for ranting

if you need help with something, you're free to ask, but we aren't psychic, we won't know until you ask lol

[solar hill]

people are really desperate for a gen chat here fr

[turbid nebula]

Hi guys i am new

[bronze thunder]

not sure where to ask for this, but I can't find reference for the List type. The most helpful thing I could find was this forum topic which is itself now defunct. Is the scripting API reference for List accessible somewhere?

[naive pawn]

List isn't something from unity, you won't find unity docs for it

[keen dew]

Google for "C# list". It's not a Unity concept.

[bronze thunder]

ah ok, thanks

[naive pawn]

you can hover over types in you ide to see what namespace they're from. anything under System is a c# thing, anything under Unity/UnityEngine/UnityEditor is a unity thing

[keen dew]

Also there's a direct link to the C# List documentation in the thread in the screenshot

[bronze thunder]

the thread doesn't even open for me, though maybe thats on my end

[shell sorrel]

just search C# list

first result should be the one

[bronze thunder]

oh I see the discussions is the new forums, I saw it didnt load and vaguely remembered an article about the forums shutting down so I thought it was defunct

[shell sorrel]

like mentioned above only some things are provided by unity the rest of it is part of the C#/.net standard library

[wintry dew]

I have no idea why the gui of the serialized lists in every object are behaving like this, but sometimes randomly i get about 50 unity errors that a bunch of code outside of my scripts, like the actual engine code, is causing errors

not even during runtime either

[slender nymph]

you need to update to a newer patch. that bug was fixed a couple months ago

[wintry dew]

do i have to install a new version of unity?

[slender nymph]

that is how updating to a new editor version works, yes. but you don't need a completely different version, just the same version with a newer patch

[wintry dew]

alright

[remote spade]

Hi yall, someone knows how can i get a bool from another script file, like i have a bool in the player script file and i have to get it in the wall script file too

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[remote spade]

Thx

[tired python]

i have been giving particle systems a try but, I can't seem to be able to get the hang of it. Any tips?

[wild cove]

!code

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