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[brazen aurora]

because im looping the music

[frail hawk]

you can use PlayOneShot

audio clip wont be interrupted

[brazen aurora]

i fixed it, i was calling play in update so it was executing every frame

[brazen aurora]

also im using an audio mixer as well so as far as i know you cant assign multiple groupsto one audio source

[naive pawn]

tip: if you added a debug log or similar here #💻┃code-beginner message you wouldve seen that

[somber ivy]

hello 👋 I have got a question how could i make a similar character like a xenomorph in a game called Broforce. I was just wondering how can it crawl on a wall and ceilings?

could someone please explain?

[wintry quarry]

That's very vague

[somber ivy]

so i was thinking about instead of using gravity in rigidbody i could change linearvelocity

I was thinking about overriding linearVelocity instead of using Rigidbody gravity to get more control. Or is there a better/standard way to handle wall/ceiling crawling in Broforce?😭

[grand snow]

Gravity is just some force thats always applied so you can disable gravity for a RB and apply your own force

[somber ivy]

may i ask you how?

[grand snow]

rigidbodies have an option for using gravity. You can then just apply your own force in the direction you want each Fixed Update.
Gravity on earth is -9.18 meters a second and is what unity has configured by default too.
If you know the normal of a surface you know the direction to apply force (the opposite)

To allow movement it will require extra steps to correctly do this for the new "plane" however

You can also choose to disable gravity and just let the user move on that plane only to better control the results

[somber ivy]

aight

i see

thank you so much for you time

[wraith moon]

https://pastebin.com/vCd1UA3r
https://pastebin.com/mjqBWbAt
https://pastebin.com/tvnyMxU9
whenever i switch to another slot the visible selection doesnt dynamically change, does anyone know why?

[balmy vortex]

can I actually just swap the OnMouseEnter & OnMouseOver functions with their pointer counterparts or do I actually have to do smth else too?

sry for the late message btw

[frail hawk]

you just have to use a pyhsics raycaster and implement the Interfaces of desire

[balmy vortex]

wdym?

[frail hawk]

in your script you implement the interfaces ipointer you like

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler.html

for example if you wanted the clickhandler

in your case it would be IPointerEnterHandler

[hot wadi]

U simply inherit the interface and implement its callbacks

[frail hawk]

in the docs i sent you can see all the interfaces you want to use (on ther left)

[balmy vortex]

is there no OnMouseOver function for the ipointer?

[frail hawk]

OnMouseOver would be IPointerEnterHandler

YourScript : MonoBehaviour , IPointerEnterHandler

[hot wadi]

Wrong order

[wraith moon]

it starts off correct selecting the initial slot but when changing slots nothing happens and the first slot stays highlighted

even if its no longer selected

[balmy vortex]

so would smth like this work? https://paste.mod.gg/fqgrayuxoqxb/0

[frail hawk]

you did not implement the callback correctly

  public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
    {
       your code here
    }

[grand snow]

Yes you can replace them. An event system must be in the scene and a physics raycaster /physics 2d raycaster must be added to your camera too

Implement the interface for each event you want and use the function for each interface

It shouldn't be possible to do this wrong because you are forced to implement the functions

[frail hawk]

and VS does the job actually

if you click on the small arrow when it misses the callback

[grand snow]

Whatever ide you use will and it will cause a compile error too

[frail hawk]

true

[potent hornet]

Is there a reason why Unity VSCode sometimes randomly adds in imports I'm not using, and also is there a way to stop that because it's annoying

[rich adder]

Unity VSCode ?

[potent hornet]

I meant just VSCode

Mb

But I use it for Unity

[rich adder]

normally if you click the class in intellisense thats when namespace gets added

[grand snow]

You probably auto completed some type so the using statement was added for you

[rich adder]

never had vsc add namespaces on its own

[balmy vortex]

wat is the equivelant to OnMouseOver for this btw?

[rich adder]

OnPointerEnter/OnPointerExit

[solar hill]

what kind does it add?

[balmy vortex]

ya but doesn't that only register the first and last frame the mouse is hovering over smth?

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.IPointerEnterHandler.html

[rich adder]

there is no "OnHover" type thing

[potent hornet]

Well the most recent one I had to remove rn cuz it stopped a build was like "using Unity.PackageManager"

[rich adder]

you use those and create your own

[potent hornet]

Which I'm not making anything to use this

and I scrolled up and it's grayed out so I know I wasn't using it

[balmy vortex]

ohh yeah alright makes sense

thanks king

[grand snow]

Pointer enter and pointer exit need to be used. If you want to do things while the pointer is over the object you need to track the state and use Update/FixedUpdate @balmy vortex

[potent hornet]

And other times it'll be random

[balmy vortex]

ya I got it dw

[frail hawk]

it should highlight all the namespaces you are using and darken out the ones you are not using ion your code. at the end when you are done with the game simply remove all of those dark ones

[potent hornet]

Yeah I've just been removing them, I'll just do it at the very end or whenever it gives me build issues

[frail hawk]

sound like a nice plan

[rich adder]

its probably tucked somewhere in the preferences in c#

[red igloo]

I need help fixing this issue. I have this head bobbing script https://paste.ofcode.org/epEdxGCxPCSRYbP4K7YknP it works but when it rotates up and down and I look in a different direction it looks weird its suppose to look the same.

[frail hawk]

let us know if the accuracy is better than OnMouseOver as you had this morning

[rich adder]

you should probably seperate the bobbing and the mouse rotation object

[frail hawk]

are you sure you want that effect while idle

first time i see that in a game

[wraith moon]

https://pastebin.com/vCd1UA3r
https://pastebin.com/mjqBWbAt
https://pastebin.com/tvnyMxU9
whenever i start the game it starts off correct selecting the initial slot but when changing slots nothing happens and the first slot stays highlighted

does anyone know what im doing wrong

[red igloo]

I don't' have a mouse look script I am using cinemachine to look around.

[red igloo]

Yes, it gives a natural breathing effect I might need to adjust the value a bit.

[rich adder]

I was talking about seperating the gameobjects

[red igloo]

what game objects?

these?

[rich adder]

yeah rotating the root for look and headbob for the effect but I never used Pan Tilt for this so I have no idea

I just use the built in Cinemachine noise and create sways there

[red igloo]

Im not rotating the root, the tracking target is the target for cinemachine and the headbob script is in headbob and the tracking target is a child of headbob so the effect can work. If I separate them all the main issue is still there

[warm iris]

What is a good way to learn unity? Does anyone recommend any tutorials? ( I know coding and making games, I'm just new to unity), I'm looking for somethign that won't take long but will say everything that I need, and I won't be just copying the code but actually practicing

[prime goblet]

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[radiant void]

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[prime goblet]

you don’t have to do all of it

[iron cobalt]

Hey!
Could anyone point me towards best practice/resources for level up mechanics?
What I wanna do:
Player collects specific item -> Level Up, set of stats changes, but to specific stats, not math

Im not sure if I should just overwrite stuff like movementSpeed in my playerscript etc.

Thanks :)!

[cosmic dagger]

if the item changes specific stats, then it should hold a list of those stats and the value it adds to them . . .

[iron cobalt]

And then I just overwrite them on the playerscript? or do i make a seperate system for that
Tryna go for the cleanest setup, dont mind writing a little more code for that

[grand snow]

You can have stats configured with your item configuration and the correct stat can be retrieved using the players level.
how is it configured currently?

[iron cobalt]

Okay, that makes sense, thank you!

Not at all actually!
Wanna get some insight before I get started.

Theres 4 levels basically, and it would go smth like
0: speed = 5, drag = 1
1: speed = 12, drag = 1.5
etc
Do i just make a list of tuples in the item class and give my player a levelup method where one of the tuples is passed in?

[grand snow]

No ideally you use scriptable objects or some format of your choosing to configure data for items/weapons/stuff

Then you dynamically look up in some data structure the correct stats based on player level

[iron cobalt]

Ahhhh okayokay. Thank you so much!

[warm iris]

why is there no C# script

ok I found it but why is it so hidden

All tutorials have this option immediately

nvm this does not work

[teal viper]

Likely a different unity version.

[warm iris]

its the newest one tho? 6.3

[teal viper]

I mean different to the one in the tutorial

[warm iris]

ok, how to add a script in this version

[ivory bobcat]

It's in your image

[warm iris]

its open C# project

not script

[teal viper]

Scripting category probably.

[ivory bobcat]

Create > Scripting > ...

[warm iris]

it says it doesnt have monobehavior

[teal viper]

MonoBehaviour is just a class.

I usually create scripts via the ide anyway. I don't remember the last time I created it via the editor.

[teal viper]

What and where says that though..? You'll need to provide a bit more details on what you're doing...

[warm iris]

ive got it cuz I created empty script earlier

but thats stupid why not keep creating the script as in earlier versions

[teal viper]

Got where??

[warm iris]

now its more clicking

[warm iris]

I meant that I found it

[teal viper]

The menu just moved to its category. Nothing else changed.

[warm iris]

I fixed it

[sour fulcrum]

They made it more specific

[warm iris]

how to fix that

[sour fulcrum]

have you googled that

[warm iris]

no

[sour fulcrum]

well

[edgy sinew]

My advice, use the "Generate C# class" feature, put it somewhere nice in your Scripts folder like an "Input" sub-folder
Manually subscribe to (on Awake is the way AFAIK), or even interpret and store in variables, all the stuff you need up-front

For example I like to just have one "InputReader.cs" component (script),
And in there I have variables like Gamepad Left Stick X (float), Gamepad Right Trigger Held (boolean), etc
And wherever I need them I can just grab a reference to that InputReader instance.
Could be on a Singleton if that's how you roll

[sour fulcrum]

it's not neccasarily bad advice but i don't think that's what their problem is here

[edgy sinew]

I figured they're following some out-dated tutorial,
Just trying to hint towards the right path

[mental terrace]

Completely new to Unity so excuse my ignorance, I'm creating a game similar to Terraria for a school project, what would be the best approach to creating a weapon system? Like would I have stuff like weapon aiming, shooting and swapping on the same script or all on different scripts? As for creating the weapons I'm planning to use 4 different scriptable objects (melee, ranged, mage, summoner) to create instances of each weapon, is this a good approach?

[untold shore]

Hey - I apologize, but I still need some help regarding this. Could someone please look at this for m?

[edgy sinew]

It just sounds like a timing issue. Are you 100% sure things are happening in the order you intended?
You can use Debug.Log to confirm

[edgy sinew]

Well you will definitely need "state", i.e the state of things such as your character, which weapon is equipped, if the weapon is ready to fire, firing, reloading, etc

[untold shore]

I’m not, so I’ll check that asap

[edgy sinew]

And weapon slots, in other words attached to the character places where the weapons can be equipped.
That would connect to the inventory surely

[sour fulcrum]

If your not familiar with inheritence that's a concept you'll very much need for this kinda thing

[mental terrace]

I believe so, I know how to use stuff from one class in another

[sour fulcrum]

what do you mean by that

[edgy sinew]

Inheritance is more like "melee, ranged, mage, summoner" are all a "Weapon" type.

[solar hill]

Also im confused as to why you would need 4 scriptable objects for the weapons? In Terraria the weapons are mostly divided into
Melee and Projectiles

[sour fulcrum]

Tbh I wouldn't do that, I meant more on a case by case weapon basis

[edgy sinew]

Or depending on your architecture they can just implement some "IWeapon" interface that requires certain methods like fire, reload, etc
Likely need some kind of "IEquippable" interface too, maybe if you can equip other kinds of items too.

[mental terrace]

I mean am I right in saying that's the whole concept of inheritance? Like for example I would create a base weapon script with core stats such as damage, knockback, crit rate etc. and then each of the 4 weapon types will inherit these attributes and then have their own seperate niches.

[sour fulcrum]

even then that's really one thing code wise, just melee things that don't spawn projectiles and do contact damage and melee things that do spawn projectiles and dont do contact damage

[naive pawn]

and melee things that do both

[edgy sinew]

It's diagram time

[naive pawn]

venn diagram lmao

[mental terrace]

I'd have melee as strictly true melee

[sour fulcrum]

Correct but you'd also want to do the same idea but with functions, ideas like OnPrimaryFire, OnSecondaryFire etc.

[sour fulcrum]

does not matter in this context

[queen adder]

may someone help me, my unity wont start up, it says

Shader compiler initialization error: Failed to launch UnityShaderCompiler.exe shader compiler! C:/Program Files/Unity/Hub/Editor/6000.3.0f1/Editor/Data/Tools/UnityShaderCompiler.exe

[solar hill]

Youre on the right track but your classes need more abstraction

[queen adder]

huh

i just started unity and learning cs

[solar hill]

I was talking to the other individual.

[sour fulcrum]

And yeah as kuzmo said earlier there's no reason for you to have 4 seperate scriptableobject types for your class types, the class types don't mean much code wise, personally i'd probably have a scriptableobject that defines the name of the damage type, icon etc. like ScriptableClass and have your items have a serialized field for it so you just put in the type it is

[mental terrace]

Could you elaborate on that? Is it just the same thing? the primary and secondary fire would be defined in the base class then each subclass would inherit it and like override the behaviour

Apologies btw I'm like completely new to Unity

[sour fulcrum]

correct yeah, on potentially a per weapon basis or some middle ground between that (eg. maybe 1 inheriting script for all gem staves)

[solar hill]

Honestly you should probably have a base class that is defined as just a usable item

[edgy sinew]

or "Equippable"
which could be under "Lootable"

[sour fulcrum]

equippables in the context of terraria would be a different thing

[queen adder]

🌺 Python error
🖥️ 🔥 C error

[naive pawn]

"Useable" which would comprise "Weapon" and "Consumable" and "Block"

[solar hill]

Yeah but they all share properties

[sour fulcrum]

I mean just Item is fine

[naive pawn]

goddamnit, tip of my tongue lmao

[solar hill]

Honestly idk why i couldnt think of it either

Usable made more sense for some reason

Lol

[naive pawn]

i thought of consumable first and worked backwards to usable

[edgy sinew]

What about a trap door that u can press E to open / close...
Interactable

[sour fulcrum]

those aren't items

whole different type of content and programming

[solar hill]

Yep

[edgy sinew]

so we got
Interactable (can be interacted with)
Lootable (can be looted into inventory)
Equippable (can be equipped)
Place-able (traps, blocks?)

[solar hill]

What you have in your inventory and what is placed in the world are not the same

[sour fulcrum]

Lootable is not a thing that needs to be defined

[naive pawn]

town npcs and trapdoors/doors might be handled in similar ways in terraria actually, they have a very similar UX

[sour fulcrum]

interactable is all of them

[edgy sinew]

fair enough i can rock with that

[sour fulcrum]

equippable is just a bool and flavour text esque

[edgy sinew]

so you can just differentiate with a Boolean or something

[naive pawn]

equippables aren't interactables

well... you'd need to define what "Interactable" comprises

to me, that sounds like only stuff in the world

[edgy sinew]

Well you have to interact with an equippable or lootable item to loot it ...
Or is that not the same lol 🤷‍♂️

[solar hill]

Thats something else

[sour fulcrum]

With full respect i don't know if much of what your saying is helpful for the initial question

[naive pawn]

then everything is an interactable

[edgy sinew]

Both need to show some "press E to interact" or "press E to loot" no? Same detection behaviour

[solar hill]

No

Theres no press e to loot

[shell sorrel]

the same object to the player muight be many objects to the game

[naive pawn]

you need to make a useful distinction

[edgy sinew]

Idk in a lot of games you press E to open a "nearby" door, same way you press E to loot a "nearby" item.
But okay guys.

[shell sorrel]

like a fishing rod on the ground might be intractable, but interacting with ti just removes it and adds a item to inventory

[naive pawn]

i thought we were talking about terraria, where equippable is not a property of stuff in the world

[sour fulcrum]

we are talking about a specific game

[solar hill]

Also in terraria interactions happen through left clicking

[naive pawn]

i don't know what the original question here was

[sour fulcrum]

general terraria item code composure

[naive pawn]

oh cool, ontopic then (somehow)

[edgy sinew]

Person didn't make it clear they're making a 1-for-1 clone. But okay.
I'm just here to provide options alright.

[mental terrace]

Ehh dk just seemed most reasonable at first glance. I was planning on having melee weapons stictly melee, ranged weapons strictly bows and guns that fire a projectile, summon self explanatory, I kinda see how mage would overlap with ranged tho, main difference would just be resource usage.

[naive pawn]

i just saw "melee, ranger, mage, summoner" above and went straight to terraria

[sour fulcrum]

they did and everyone else did

[solar hill]

There is no difference between ranged and mage

[sour fulcrum]

code wise it's all really the same thing asa base

[solar hill]

Or melee and summon (whips)

[mental terrace]

yeah makes sense

[naive pawn]

or mage and summon (uses mana)

[mental terrace]

summon as in the staff that summons a minion

[naive pawn]

whips are also summoner class in terraria

[solar hill]

Still just an item with OnLeftClick function

[mental terrace]

ahh ok that makes sense

[solar hill]

That does something

[sour fulcrum]

summon staff use, melee use, placing tile, using potion etc. all derive from a base OnPrimaryUse / OnLeftClick etc. etc. behaviour

[mental terrace]

yeah I see how they all the same now 😭

[solar hill]

This is why abstraction is important

Its good youre noticing it

[true pasture]

Can i make this world space UI element appear in front a 3d object in the scene? Layers don't seem to work.

[mental terrace]

So in general is there no point having separate weapon type classes? The weapon type would effectively just be flavour text? (apart from type specific damage)

I'd also like to ask what's the best way to create weapons? Like would I create a different prefab for every single weapon? Or just have the assets with the base stats, and then haved the behaviours as a bunch of modules

[sour fulcrum]

1. Mostly yeah, there's some stuff that will come up when you calculate damage where you need to see "what" type it is but for the most part it's just a association

2. no one answer but probably a prefab for every weapon yeah, at least for someone starting out

[solar hill]

Prefab per weapon is a sound approach

[edgy sinew]

I like having a Scriptable Object that describes what the weapon does like a WeaponStats or something.
For example fire rate, or what projectile (prefab likely) it spawns if it's ranged, etc.

[mental terrace]

Yeah that's what I've got so far

[sour fulcrum]

as a freebie example for the inheritance talk, here's how you might approach handling potions.

green are virtual functions and blue are overriding functions

you can see how you could set up base functionality and have layers of inheriting classes extend ontop of it as needed

[rich adder]

You can try seeing if urp renderer feature will work.
camera stacking might also me an option but I'd probably try former first..

[mental terrace]

ahh that's very helpful thank you

[naive pawn]

i think you have green/blue swapped in the description?

[sour fulcrum]

yup

thats what i get for waking up at 3am

[mental terrace]

don't worry I gathered 😂

[rich adder]

how's this a unity code beginner question ?

[sweet meadow]

damn wrong server 😅

[cosmic dagger]

stats for what?

[sweet meadow]

srry

D&D

wrong server

[rich adder]

not fully tested but heres the result

[edgy sinew]

Whoa that's awesome. Is that all that's needed, the "Render Objects" thing? No double-camera?

[rich adder]

yes exactly its a really powerful feature if you use URP , no more camera stacks even for weapons / fps doing that

[edgy sinew]

Would there still be a way for certain objects like walls to occlude the object?

[rich adder]

I think so cause you're playing with depth

before normally you would do this via shader code / render queue, this simplifies everything a bit

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/urp/renderer-features/how-to-custom-effect-render-objects.html

[tall halo]

Quien a creado juegos poderosos

[rich adder]

english only server.

[devout sluice]

first time using unity
can anyone tell me why is the movement jittery?

[wicked cairn]

rb.linearVelocityX = Movespeed.x * speed * Time.deltaTime;
rb.linearVelocityY = jumpheight * Time.deltaTime;
```Move this to FixedUpdate, because it has to do with physics it shouldnt go in Update(). If one player has 10fps then the physics will calculate 10 times, but for another player with 60fps theyll get 60 physics updates. FixedUpdate will keep that consistant regardless

On your rigidbody settings, set Interpolation to Interpolate

there may be more reasons contributing, hopefully someone else can respond with more

[keen dew]

Don't multiply velocity by deltatime. Having it in Update is fine

[devout sluice]

Thanks
I'll try that

[rocky whale]

when I run the game the particles appear like on the left but when I just play the particles its like the right. why dont they spread like on the right ? The particles r played when the ship is moving btw

[grave frost]

Is there a way to tell if a scene is loaded OR currently loading? gameObject.scene.isLoaded is false in Awake.

[keen dew]

All Awakes run when the scene is already loaded. You have to load the scene async if you want to track the progress

[grave frost]

nah scene.isLoaded says it's true only after the objects have been enabled and awake runs before the objects have been enabled when loading a scene

[keen dew]

What do you need this for? If Awake runs then you already know what stage the loading is in

[grave frost]

Well the issue is I have some code that's not in a monobehaviour that checks some stuff with a scene struct but the scene struct doesn't say it's loaded in Awake when i call that code

[keen dew]

Then do it in OnEnable

[grave frost]

nah I can't it's false in OnEnable too, it's only true after OnEnable is called

[keen dew]

Run Start as a coroutine and delay it one frame

[grave frost]

Its true in start but its nice having the seperation of awake and start yk

yea i usually keep awake for "me" telling "others" about me and start for "others" asking about "me" if that makes sense

[keen dew]

But if you can't run the code on the frame when Awake runs then you can't really use it then

[grave frost]

yea. this monstrosity works tho but i gotta find a diff way eventually

//TODO: fix this workaround
public static bool IsSceneLoadedOrLoading(Scene scene)
{
  try
  {
    var gameObject = new GameObject();
    SceneManager.MoveGameObjectToScene(gameObject, scene);
    UnityEngine.Object.Destroy(gameObject);
    return true;
  }
  catch
  {
    return false;
  }
}

why would they make the scene api that wack

[teal viper]

Probably because you shouldn't really need to probe it from outside the entry points that unity provides you with.

[midnight plover]

Could you move the execution order of your scripts, so your onenable of the desired script is called at the right time and true before you trying to access things?

[grave frost]

i just want to check if a scene is loaded inside the entry points but not tied to monobehaviour logic :(

[teal viper]

What entry points are we talking about here?

[grave frost]

awake

[teal viper]

Then perhaps what joer said. Make it the last awake to run via execution order, then you'll be sure all other awakes are complete.

[keen dew]

When Awake runs the scene is loaded for all intents and purposes. If you want to make sure all Awakes have run then that's a separate issue (and what Start is meant for)

[grave frost]

yea i guess its just weird that scene.isLoaded is false until the last OnEnable

[midnight plover]

Makes sense to me in terms of relying on the scene to be fully loaded and accessible

[keen dew]

It's meant for monitoring the load status from outside the scene, where you're more likely to want for the gameobjects to be fully initialized before continuing. It doesn't make sense to use it inside the same scene that's loading because whenever you can do anything inside the scene it has already loaded

[sour fulcrum]

It is odd that unity doesn’t have any proper callback for when a scene is accessible but before objects are given messages

[rocky whale]

How do you stop emitted particles from rotating along with the emitter

[grave frost]

looking into it more, IsValid is the proper call. A scene that is not loaded (when accessed properly) will not return a valid scene struct, which is confusing tbh

[sour fulcrum]

There is still no callback like what i mentioned but glad you resolved the issue

[tender mirage]

Curious should i be concerned. This has been on the back of my mind. But whenever my project recompiles while i'm running it, all my coroutines stop running, could this happen if say my game was left running in the background for long enough as well?

[grand snow]

Recompile and keep playing is shit and doesnt work properly unless you do things in a dumb way.
Change your settings to recompile after playing. You need hotload plugins to do this properly

[tender mirage]

That sounds interesting. I'll have a look.

[shell sorrel]

Recompile while playing has never worked or been worth using

[bold berry]

Is this the appropriate channel to ask for help with HLSL basics in Unity URP?

[hazy crypt]

I dont think so, but I also dont actually know where you should go

Theres an old archived channel for shaders but no new one

[bold berry]

Hmmm okay

[solar hill]

Ask here

[hazy crypt]

I have a quick one

Ive just watched a tutorial where the programmer writes an if statement like this

Why no curly brackets?

[solar hill]

Dont need it for one line

[hazy crypt]

I see

But it is essentially the same right

[solar hill]

Yes

[hazy crypt]

Perfect thanks

[bold berry]

Alright- What does this syntax imply? I'm not sure what to search for.

Here's the struct for context

[solar hill]

Well im not really well versed in hlsl but the underlined line just looks like youre setting all the struct fields to 0?

I guess

[bold berry]

Oh that might well be it

I'm looking at someone else's code so I didn't write it

thanks!

[grand snow]

Ask about shaders in #1390346776804069396

Here is the wrong place

[bold berry]

Ah thanks, I couldn't find the right channel before

[carmine geyser]

hi guys, does anyone knows a good article or doc on handling Slopes with character controller? Ive been trying to make it work properly for a time now and i searched a lot of videos about it, but everything just breaks a part or sounds like bad practice, like making the jump break because of gravity forces and so on. I just want a Character to be able to stick to the slope, not bouncing on the way down

[hazy crypt]

I have always used the Brackeys video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QajrabyTJc

Never had any issues

Could you describe what you mean by bouncing? maybe finding out why that happens would be helpful

In the meantime, I need some help

I am trying to read the mouseposition difference from one frame to the next

unfortunately my variable "difference" is just coming out as 0,0,0 and im not sure why

[rough granite]

Just so you know the stuff happing in the first and second if statement happen in the same frame every time this function is called

[hazy crypt]

Yeah I was worried that might be the case

Im not sure what else I should be doing

[rough granite]

Meaning difference is equal to value - value so (0, 0, 0)
Unless they are negative

[keen dew]

The operations are the wrong way around. First calculate the difference, then set the dragOrigin to the current value

[hazy crypt]

Yeah I can see what you mean

[hazy crypt]

Ill try this

OOOO

Perfect

Thanks

Works like a dream

[elder hearth]

Hi! So this is my script and the "Sprint" action is throwing an error, more specifically " NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Player.PlayerMovement.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Player Movement.cs:29) "

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
 {
     [SerializeField] float WalkSpeed = 4.5f;
     [SerializeField] float SprintSpeed = 4.5f;
     [SerializeField] InputActionAsset inputActionAsset;
     private InputAction MoveAction, Jump, Crouch, Prone, Sprint;
     //Rigidbody rigidbody;



     void Start()
      {
         MoveAction = inputActionAsset.FindAction("Move", true);
         Jump = inputActionAsset.FindAction("Jump", true);
         Crouch = inputActionAsset.FindAction("Crouch", true);
         Prone = inputActionAsset.FindAction("Prone", true);
         Sprint = inputActionAsset.FindAction("Sprint", true);
         //rigidbody = gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
     }

     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update()
     {
         float speed;
         if (Sprint.IsPressed())
         {
             speed = SprintSpeed;
         }
         else
         {
             speed = WalkSpeed;
         } 
         Vector2 moveValue = MoveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
         Vector3 moveVector3 = new(moveValue.x, 0, moveValue.y);
         gameObject.transform.position += moveVector3 * WalkSpeed * Time.deltaTime;



     }
 }

[keen dew]

Which line is 29?

[elder hearth]

"if (Sprint.IsPressed())" is line 29

[keen dew]

Then it didn't find an action called Sprint in Start

[elder hearth]

I moved it to be below the MoveAction, and it works!

Thanks

It was there and everything but it didnt find it which is very weird

[rough granite]

Wasnt it already? Wdym

[elder hearth]

Like directly below it

[blissful stratus]

i cant figure out how to make jump

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem.XR;

public class CharacterChontroller : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] CharacterController pCon;
    [SerializeField] float speed = 6f;
    [SerializeField] float turnSmoothTime = 0.1f;
    private float jumpHeight = 1.5f;
    private float gravityValue = -9.81f;
    private bool groundedPlayer;
    private Vector3 playerVelocity;
    float turnSmoothVel;

    void Update()
    {
        groundedPlayer = pCon.isGrounded;
        if (groundedPlayer)
        {
            if (playerVelocity.y < -2f)
                playerVelocity.y = -2f;
        }


        
        float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        Vector3 dir = new Vector3(horizontal, 0 , vertical).normalized;
        if (dir.magnitude >= 1f)
        {
            float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(dir.x, dir.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVel, turnSmoothTime);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);
            pCon.Move(dir * speed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
        

        // Jump using WasPressedThisFrame()
        if (groundedPlayer && Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
        {
            playerVelocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2f * gravityValue);
        }

        // Apply gravity
        playerVelocity.y += gravityValue * Time.deltaTime;
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Is groundedPlayer ever true? Try logging where you do the jump and see if that code is ever executed

[naive pawn]

you don't see to be using playerVelocity anywhere, you aren't applying gravity

that pCon.Move shouldn't be in that conditional, you should call Move once per Update

[blissful stratus]

oh i figured it out thanks

[rough granite]

Is there any reason the Move is called before the jump action happens? Wouldn't this just make the game feel like it has extra input delay?

[tiny island]

i have this problem , unity is saying the variable is not assigned in the inspector but it's there in my inspector , anyone know what this could mean?

[polar acorn]

It means there is a Single Weapon Controller that does not have secondaryPoint assigned.

Since the one in your screenshot does have it assigned, that is not the one the error is talking about.

[tiny island]

ah yes , i love unity for putting the weapon controller on a mesh , tkx.

i didn't remenber that unity does that sometime

[polar acorn]

It doesn't

Unity doesn't just put random components on unrelated objects.

[tiny island]

might be me from 2 day ago then , anyway tkx

[warm iris]

Is old input system bad? Im a beginner following an old tutorial and should I just follow the tutorial or try to make the movement to the new system

@polar acorn maybe u can help

[verbal swift]

the old input system works fine so its probably better to just use it to learn from the tutorial

[naive pawn]

please don't ping random people for help

[verbal swift]

the new input system is "better" but much more confusing imo

[warm iris]

well I saw that he helped someone 4 mins ago

[warm iris]

what makes it better? what is the difference between the two

[verbal swift]

something something controllers im not sure tbh tried to use it and gave up

but for learning something from a tutorial your input doesnt rlly matter that much

[naive pawn]

it's not bad, that's very subjective
it's simpler and less flexible - flexibility comes with complexity
and that's what the new input system is, very flexible (very powerful) but also more complex

if you already have a tutorial using the old system, just go with that - you can worry about learning the new input system later

you should learn the new input system eventually though

[warm iris]

ok thanks

[warm iris]

does anyone know how to remove this?

these small texts are really annoying me

[naive pawn]

that's called codelens

[frail hawk]

yes it is called codelens

[naive pawn]

you can search for that in settings

you can either disable codelens entirely, or disable the unity extension from providing codelens

[warm iris]

how to disable it entirely?

I only see for this line

option

but not entirely

[grand snow]

It may be something in the VS unity tools options, it not then code lens has to be turned off entirely

[warm iris]

ok thanks I found it in unity plugin settings

[frail hawk]

it is under TextEditor > All Languages

[warm iris]

oh yeah, thanks

[frail hawk]

i have it also disabled

[warm iris]

can someone tell me is there a way to fix this game window to have rounded edges?

like I see that this is prob for performance

but if I'd like to see the actual game resolution, how can I do that?

[silk night]

you can configure your resolution freely here

[warm iris]

thanks

[silk night]

also looks like you have antialiasing disabled which creates those rough stepped edges

[frail hawk]

or the scene view is zoomed in

[silk night]

oh yeah that could be, on the right of the resolution the scale slider should be at 1 if you want to see what it would look like

[rough granite]

Configure is strong words it wont stay as the last set resolution when you build and ship the game

[silk night]

you can only configure the editor resolution there

not the build resolution

[rough granite]

But yes this is an easy in editor way to test resolutions

[warm iris]

is there still a locking layer unity option? I can't find it

[naive pawn]

this is a code channel

ask in #💻┃unity-talk

[warm iris]

ok

[onyx blaze]

Hello, happy new year, guys \o

I need a help ><

[naive pawn]

!ask

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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

[naive pawn]

and don't ask to ask

[onyx blaze]

I'm trying to use Quaternion.Euler, but are rotation around the local Transform
How can I change to rotate into Global Transform?

I'll send the code

[naive pawn]

this isn't a social space, you can include pleasantries if you want but just start with your question

[onyx blaze]

Oh, okay, sorry about it :/

I was typing the question in a new line

[naive pawn]

Quaternion.Euler just gives you some rotation. quaternions aren't inherently local or global
like, a Vector3 isn't inherently local/global, a position isn't inherently local/global
a local position is local, a global position is global

what matters is how that value is used

[naive pawn]

sure, you can do that. try not to do it in a separate message

[onyx blaze]

I'm new with Quaternions, wo, I'm confuse a bit

That's my code

newRotation are in the local axis, but I want to uses this value into global axis

[naive pawn]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[naive pawn]

please share it properly

[onyx blaze]

Ah, ok, let me adjust

[naive pawn]

(unrelated minor issue) that code is using wronglerp, this will result in framerate-dependant and asymptotic behaviour, of which the second might be an issue, and the first is definitely an issue (though probably minor)

[onyx blaze]

Done
I believe that the issue is in the line 60
The first image is the Local Axis
The second image is the Global Axis

I'm trying to rotate into the Global Axis, but I don't understand very well how to do this

https://paste.myst.rs/huyxd010

[naive pawn]

rotate into the Global Axis
what do you mean by this?

[onyx blaze]

I'll record to be easy to demonstrate

[naive pawn]

the issue here might be due to how rotations compose

i'm not super familiar with quaternion math, but iirc:
quaternions represent rotations
a * b represents rotating by b then rotating by a (or rotating b by a)
so as you multiply in those new quaternions on the right (what *= does), that looks like rotating on the global axis, and then rotating according to the original rotation of the object
transform.rotation is already global

if that's the case, you could make the new quaternions multiply in on the left instead, like newRotation = Quaternion.Euler(...) * newRotation;

[onyx blaze]

Here the video

In the first part, when rotate into Local Axis is okay, but I want to rotate into Global Axis to avoid this angle issue in the second part

[naive pawn]

what?

changing the tool setting in the scene view does not affect any behavior ingame

[onyx blaze]

Yeah, I know, was only to demonstrate what I want

[naive pawn]

that local vs global setting just changes whether the rotation gizmo in the scene view shows handles aligned the existing rotation of the object in its local space, or if the handles are aligned to world axes

[onyx blaze]

I don't know how to adjust it to Global instead Local

Because I want to use the Global Axis instead Local Axis
But I don't understand how to do this in the code :/

[naive pawn]

have you tried this

i don't think i'll be able to give any other answers past that, it's pretty late for me

in general you wouldn't be compounding quaternions anyways

[onyx blaze]

Is multiplying already by itself

[naive pawn]

the typical approach is to store the pitch/yaw, and apply a wholly new quaternion rather than modifying the existing one

[naive pawn]

a * b and b * a are not the same for quaternions - multiplication isn't commutative

[onyx blaze]

Hm...
Let me try inverse it

[naive pawn]

with this approach you can also limit the pitch so you don't get an inverted camera
i'd recommend looking into that

[onyx blaze]

Oh god!!! Awesome!!
It works perfectly!!!

Very, very thank you \o

I wouldn't imagine that works different with the calculation order

Very thank you by your help ❤️

[naive pawn]

also look into this approach, would be simpler

[naive pawn]

also consider looking into replacing/avoiding wronglerp

[onyx blaze]

I'll adjust with your tips too
Thank you by your time, bro \o

[tawny sorrel]

Greetings to you all, I'm just asking if learning to code on unity from scratch is worth it? i read #🌱┃start-here and #📑┃channel-directory and this seems most relatable to this question, im about to ask another question in a channel most related to that question.

[upper pebble]

I'm trying to make a simple left and right movement system for my game but I can't find any good tutorials on how to do it because they're all outdated. Can someone help please?

[prime goblet]

like learning to code based on no prior knowledge or what?

[tawny sorrel]

I mean i know the basics of lua such as but not limited to: Variables, functions, function scoping, tables (wasn't too strong on tables), and most likely more I can't name off the top of my head

But im mainly asking if i should dive into a brand new language

Specifically for unity

Specifically so i can make stuff for vrchat

[prime goblet]

Always good to broaden your horizons and learn multiple languages

[tawny sorrel]

Yes

[prime goblet]

since you have the basics down it’s actually quite easier than you think to get into new languages

[upper pebble]

My good sir YOU WHAT

[prime goblet]

Also

[tawny sorrel]

I have infinite potential

[prime goblet]

If you want help with vrchat specifically

!vrchat

[radiant void]

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

[tawny sorrel]

Yes ik

But its not specifically vrchat

[prime goblet]

ah

[tawny sorrel]

As it includes coding too

[prime goblet]

well yeah learning a new language is always good

[upper pebble]

I know what kind of man you are

[tawny sorrel]

I heard c's are used for many things

[tawny sorrel]

Im done wasting that potential on....yea-ing

Im gonna lock in and change the platform

[prime goblet]

c# is what unity uses yea the c’s are quite similar tho

[tawny sorrel]

Alright

Im gonna assume your a programmer without looking at any of your roles, how long have you known c# for if you know it?

[upper pebble]

Could you help me with some C# after you're done?

[prime goblet]

sure

[prime goblet]

around since 2019 but it’s a constant learning thing

[tawny sorrel]

As all things yes

Wait fuck

[grand snow]

try to not target one person on here to be your helper

[tawny sorrel]

01 15
2025
2019

[grand snow]

ask for help generally for anyone to assist with

[tawny sorrel]

Damn so 6 years

[upper pebble]

I did but nobody responded

[prime goblet]

yea pretty much lol but time spent does not matter I’m sure there’s people way smarter than me who know more in less time

regardless

[tawny sorrel]

Yes

[prime goblet]

you should learn c# if that’s what you want to do

[grand snow]

doesnt matter.
Creating movement is quite fundamental and many tutorials cover this topic

[tawny sorrel]

I just dk

I feel.... lost.

The thing is whatever i choose i wanna go all out on it

[prime goblet]

that’s a good thing you have motivation

[upper pebble]

Half of the ones I looked at either made no sense or used the old input handling thing

or in my previous case were just bad

[prime goblet]

since you have the basics down just start working on something and you’ll figure it out eventually

[tawny sorrel]

Basics of lua

[prime goblet]

Even if c# or unity isn’t your thing you’ll still gain more transferable skills

[tawny sorrel]

I have 0 knowledge on c#

[prime goblet]

All languages have the same fundamentals

[tawny sorrel]

Where would you recon I begin? I have some time now

[grand snow]

@upper pebble Unity learn courses like this use the new input system:
https://learn.unity.com/course/2d-beginner-game-sprite-flight/tutorial/set-up-your-2d-game-world?version=6.3

[tawny sorrel]

Except for malbolge 😭 that shit is just computer gibberish

[prime goblet]

Microsoft has some good ones if you want the just c# but also people recommend unity learn for both

[balmy vortex]

hi is there some way to rebind an input action to a different key in a script?

[tawny sorrel]

🙏 thank you for everything

[prime goblet]

np lol and good luck

[tawny sorrel]

Last question, do yk of any youtubers that do videos on unity?

[normal mango]

Is it possible to only allow certain functions to activate if something is true?
More specifically, I have DragHandler functions with OnBeginDrag, OnDrag, and OnEndDrag, and I only want those functions to activate if a certain boolean is true. Do I just need to add a return statement in an if statement at the beginning of each function or is there a better way to handle this?

[grand snow]

There should be a way, it supports exporting and importing action bindings at runtime

[grand snow]

yes check the bool yourself with if

[prime goblet]

brackeys I think but you’ll have to find ones that are good for you

Videos are verrrry ranged in style and structure

[tawny sorrel]

Definitely heavy on the very ranged part

[grand snow]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[tawny sorrel]

When it came to lua coding some youtubers would just confused the heckles out of me, while others it clicked instantly

[prime goblet]

yeah so you have to find what works for you

[upper pebble]

That doesn't cover what i need

[grand snow]

Id just learn c# with microsofts stuff first

[tawny sorrel]

True yes, but he may have had insight from a personal experience

[prime goblet]

me personally videos just don’t stick

But also nothing will stick unless you’re making things as well

[tawny sorrel]

Definitely this, yes

[grand snow]

This one is even more basic and will teach using input to move something https://learn.unity.com/project/roll-a-ball

[prime goblet]

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

this is good for understanding just how c# works a bit before getting into unity

I also recommend you shouldn’t make yourself finish the whole course because you may never need some stuff

if you want to then that’s good too

[tawny sorrel]

I kinda miss getting frustrated coding, spending 6hs to fix an issue that took 6 minutes to fix

[prime goblet]

still learning

You know what to do next time now

and those times probably won’t stop too

when you go onto harder concepts

[tawny sorrel]

Facts

[tawdry fox]

where do i go when i find no help in the troubleshooting pages? I'm just starting the coding essentials in the unity tutorial and am not sure what i did wrong despite watching the tutorial and re creating the code

[prime goblet]

here

you can ask questions

[tawdry fox]

so on the right are the instructions, which i do and it doesnt auto populate the " (collider other) { " part in the code, so i put it in manually and it makes the "0,rotationSpeed,0" line not function

Whats happening

[polar acorn]

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[polar acorn]

It mentions you'll only get auto complete if you have a configured development environment

If you don't you'll have to do it manually as it shows, but you really should just configure the IDE

[tawdry fox]

coolio thank you

[tawdry fox]

Besides it actually working is there another way to tell if its workin?, I believe i did it but the IDE is still not functioning, even though i have it listed as the external editor, although instead of it letting me go through the Unity editor files, it made me go through my pc files to find it. it currently is installed on unity hub as well.

[prime goblet]

maybe the package isnt installed properly?
check in the package manager for the visual studio ide package

it should be preinstalled but just check

you can search for them

[upper pebble]

Why is it saying this? I'm trying to follow a Unity tutorial and this never popped up for them and I KNOW I followed the steps correctly

Wait do I need to change the thing to rigidbody 2d or something for this?

[prime goblet]

Rigidbody not RigidBody

CapItAliSation MATTers

[upper pebble]

thx. Guess I was looking at the wrong spot

Welp it doesn't move even when fixed. Back to the drawing board

Aight I def need help with this. Is there a call I can get into to make this easier to communicate?

[prime goblet]

not really, no and the server doesnt allow soliciting dms

[upper pebble]

Who designed this place????

"Ah yes, lets keep it strictly to screenshots"

[prime goblet]

there used to be an offtopic but apparently it was too toxic so they made it more of a "professional" help space

[upper pebble]

I feel like it'd be more professional to allow for screensharing at least

[prime goblet]

regardless you'll have to share screenshots and code if you need help

[upper pebble]

How can I get this to work on a 2D space and only work left and right

Also that's wild that they don't allow people to talk in dms

[prime goblet]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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```
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[grand snow]

This is wrong too. You need to read more carefully and match capitalisation

[prime goblet]

is your IDE set up properly?

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[prime goblet]

it should be able to autocomplete tehse things

[grand snow]

haha ofc its not set up

[prime goblet]

(example)

[grand snow]

wtf is that font ew

[upper pebble]

Man idk. I had to use this software for a class I took last summer but I don't know how to switch off of it

[prime goblet]

comic mono, i have unironically been using it even though i set it as a joke

[prime goblet]

follow the instructions the bot sent

[grand snow]

^do that

[upper pebble]

I feel like a new kid who just got thrown into a professional Esports team

[tawdry fox]

so i looked and all i see is the folder packages > packages.unity.com > then big list of "com.unity.blank"i see visualscriptin@1.7.8 and "com.unity.ide.visualstudio@2.0.16" Is that what im looking for?

[prime goblet]

you're looking in the wrong place

[tawdry fox]

ah

i am lost then

[prime goblet]

click on this button (colour doesnt matter)

[tawdry fox]

got it

what next?

[prime goblet]

search to see if the visual studio editor package is installed

on the "In Project" tab

[tawdry fox]

it is not, but it is in the unity registery, i assume get it from there?

[prime goblet]

yes

odd that it's not installed

[tawdry fox]

THANK YOU HOLY MOLY

[prime goblet]

lol np

[upper pebble]

Okay I fixed the thing but it still has errors connected to RigidBody

[sly shard]

Did you like insert the rigidvody component into the slot of it in script in inspector?

[upper pebble]

I added the component using the "add component" button after clicking on the object

Wait that's not what you were asking was it

[grand snow]

you are trying to get the 3d rigidbody type

its Rigidbody2D

i doubt the unity tutorial fucked this up

[upper pebble]

Ahhh I see. That's what I was asking earlier but it got drowned out by my capitalization issues

[grand snow]

If you have a tutorial to follow then make sure everything matches, they usually share all the code as text too so you can copy things

[upper pebble]

It didn't, I just got tired of asking for the same thing but getting different results. If you scroll up, you'll see I was asking for 2D examples but you kept giving me the wrong tutorials

[grand snow]

pff sorry

the same concepts apply

go search unity learn yourself then

[sly shard]

I mean did you like reference the player rigidvody component into script? Idk this could be related to problem or maybe I’m js slow

[smoky garnet]

First time creating a game, I'm tryna make a simple topdown roguelite style game.

I've got player movement down and I want to create a weapon system, I plan to just have your standard ranged weapons (guns, bows, staffs, tomes) that fire a projectile, and then some melee weapons that swing about a pivot to attack. Sorry this is a rather broad question, but what would be the best approach to creating this weapon system? As far as I've seen weapons can be created in several different ways and it's a little overwhelming.

[upper pebble]

I did but the search engine is a little stupid or I'm searching for the wrong thing

[upper pebble]

LMAO SAME AS ME

[grand snow]

At your stage id just follow a tutorial from them from start to finish to learn some things
I sent roll a ball as its short and teaches input and moving stuff with physics (a shared concept in 3d or 2d)

[upper pebble]

yessir

I was originally trying to follow a YT tutorial but it was using the old input handler thing so I didn't realize that was a problem until much later so I had to improvise with this

[sinful zinc]

any way to make a rigidbody fall faster to the ground without changing the projects gravity

[polar acorn]

Add downward velocity

[sly shard]

I’ve tried (and failed making a couple games lol) either from losing motivation or a problem that forces me to restart project lmao (this is why you don’t use a Rigidvody movement script from 5 years ago that causes stuff to mess up (especially with procedural animations), also don’t use ai it kinda messes stuff up and makes me feel like I did nothing). don’t make the mistakes i made lol.

Let’s hope the next one I improve and actually make it okay-ish

[sinful zinc]

how

without code

[upper pebble]

Lowkey used the built-in GPT-5 thingy in VS Code just to see if it was good at all and I managed to make a far simpler and easier to read thing than it. What a waste of electricity and water lol. I barely even know how to code

[prime goblet]

you're in #💻┃code-beginner dude

[polar acorn]

Either setting velocity or using AddForce

[sinful zinc]

no i know that i cant though

[polar acorn]

why not

[sinful zinc]

is there another way in the rigidbody settings

[prime goblet]

weight? i dont think that does anything though

why are you asking for non-scripting methods in the coding channel

[sinful zinc]

where else

[prime goblet]

#💻┃unity-talk ? although i feel like you should just be using code anyways

why cant you use code?

[sly shard]

I’m like ok at coding, cause of experience, not cause I learned C# in unity for tons of time. (Like 2 years of experience but im like meh lol) I should start relearning lmao

[upper pebble]

Ye just make sure you don't use any A.I for the actual code. If it can't make a line of code better than a near-beginner programmer then it's trash

[prime goblet]

if you have a brain you're immediately better than any gpt model. gen ai is a buzzword that allows billionares to ruin the planet

[sly shard]

I can 😭 I only used ai once and that was when i was lazy and tired of trying to make animations (cause im bad at em)

procedural stuff idk

[sly shard]

Valid

Ai is js a way to ruin your project and get more regrets in life

[upper pebble]

How do i make the object move faster? It accellerates extremely slowly

[polar acorn]

Increase the force you're adding

[upper pebble]

I am sorry for what I am about to say, but how would I do that

[polar acorn]

use bigger numbers

[sly shard]

We love rv.addforce.

[upper pebble]

That's what the tutorial requested :(

[edgy sinew]

Love RB, hate PID controllers

[sly shard]

I can’t type the letter that’s meant to be after r in the thing (phone keyboard broken)

[sly shard]

Valid

[sly shard]

Lmao

[upper pebble]

I know there's a simpler and better way but my memory is way too foggy

Like I used to do this all the time but now it's just... gone

[sly shard]

ForceMode.Impulse

Is fynnt

Funny

[edgy sinew]

ForceMode.VelocityChange is a useful one

[upper pebble]

.... where would I add that? I'm guessing replace it with rb.AddForce(movement);?

[sly shard]

Never heard of it, do explain please?

[edgy sinew]

It’s on Unity docs better than i can explain.
But i recall it ignores mass

[sly shard]

Nonono you’re fine I think

[sly shard]

Ooo

Double jumps ahh

[edgy sinew]

ForceMode goes into the 2nd parameter of the AddForce function

It’s an optimal parameter default is uhh ForceMode.Force I think ?

[sly shard]

Yes

Impulse is good for like short bursts or like pushing things with gravity and stuff (I think) (so like jumping and wasd)

I don’t remember cause I didn’t code in like 5 months after I kinda accidentally destroyed my 6 montg project accidentally

Hard to bounce back. But I wanna finish one game in my lifespan

[edgy sinew]

AFAIK VelocityChange is identical to Impulse. just that it doesn’t consider mass

Unity Docs imply that in their wording “In contrast to ForceMode.Impulse . .”

[upper pebble]

I am Frankensteining code together

IT WORKS HAHAHA

IT'S ALIVVEEEEE

How do I make this monstrosity have a movement speed cap? I tried something at the bottom but it doesn't seem to do anything

[prime goblet]

if (speed < target) { essentially

is movementX your speed?

[smoky garnet]

could anyone help with this?

[upper pebble]

movementX is movement

(I have no idea)

[sly shard]

If speed > maxSpeed{
Set movement X to maxSpeed}

Could work

[teal viper]

Choose the simplest way and start working on it. Then test to see if it's satisfactory for you or not.

[sly shard]

@upper pebble

[teal viper]

You probably want velocity magnitude.

[sly shard]

This could work

[upper pebble]

I'll try it

[sly shard]

Yay

Also do you have friction? You kinda need it

[upper pebble]

Kinda. I'll show you in a little

[sly shard]

Ok

[smoky garnet]

ehh that's the thing I'm completely lost, most tutorials seem to be very specific and don't bother explaining anything, I need some level of futureproofing but I'm not really sure what would be a good approach

[teal viper]

Then take the shortest tutorial and implement it. Then work from there. You should be able to understand how it works by reading the code and reasoning about the setup in the editor.

[upper pebble]

The friction I have is essentially an instant stop lmao. If you look at the code it should be towards the bottom

[smoky garnet]

ok thank you I'll give this a go

[upper pebble]

For some reason the player still moves a bit after switching directions or stopping input and the speed cap is NOT working :(

[sly shard]

Maybe like instead, slow down the player by a small amount, ex: float friction = 0.03 and use time.delta.time to like slow over time?

I don’t remember fully lol

[upper pebble]

I have no idea how to implement that

[sly shard]

I forgot lma

Lmao

[upper pebble]

My issue is:

1. It's ignoring the code that is supposed to stop it on occasion
2. The speed isn't capped

[sly shard]

YouTube tutorial it is lol: “2D friction in unity how???”

Or smth lol

[upper pebble]

I keep accidentally pressing enter lol

[sly shard]

Speed isn’t capped?

[upper pebble]

It isn't :(

[sly shard]

O, well

Why are you using fixed update

[cosmic dagger]

If you're moving using force, you need to check the velocity and stop applying force when it reaches your maximum speed . . .

[sly shard]

True lmao I’m bad at this

[upper pebble]

Okay so I changed some values and the max speed works when I move to the right but not the left...

[upper pebble]

How would I do that

[sly shard]

So, when you move right you’re moving negative technically no?

[sly shard]

Y is max speed so low

[upper pebble]

I needed it to be obvious

[sly shard]

True

Well hmm.

Maybe like cause you’re moving backwards the velocity is becoming negative?

Idk

Lmao

I need to relearn

[upper pebble]

Ye lemme create something rq

[sly shard]

Alr

[sly shard]

@upper pebble you could use this idea?

[upper pebble]

I have no idea how to use it

[sly shard]

lol

Well

Shi idk lma

[upper pebble]

IT WORKED

[sly shard]

Actually?

IM SO COOL

[upper pebble]

YES

[sly shard]

YES I FINALLY HELPED SOMEONE

I’m so proud

Of both of us

I can’t believe I helped someone while I’m in an airport tired af lol

[upper pebble]

I just need to make it accellerate faster now

[sly shard]

Yeah

[edgy sinew]

Inheritance, interfaces.
Detection of nearby “things” (game objects or better yet prefabs, usually with colliders so that you can use the Physics system for the detection)
Logic to be able to “pick up” the nearest “thing” upon pressing a button or w/e
pick up into where? An item slot or multiple slots.
Or to the inventory

It’s all online for sure. I’d avoid “complete” tutorials and do it how you like piece by piece, step by step

[sly shard]

Yeah you do tutorials that explain a small part, then you learn from it and incorporate it into how you want to make code better

E.G: interaction colliders, ray cast, idk

[upper pebble]

I love frankensteined code

But how would I make this accelerate faster?

[prime goblet]

add larger values

where is your acceleration?

is it the movement var?

multiply that by something

[upper pebble]

I think

[teal viper]

And by the way, movement has nothing to do with speed in your setup. Your max speed logic doesn't do what you think it does.

[sly shard]

Bigger numbers always better (unless want small numbers or you get an error relating big numbers)

[upper pebble]

Explain

[sly shard]

I’m also curious

[upper pebble]

Truely am curious why there aren't any calls for this type of stuff

[edgy sinew]

Probably clamping velocity not movement? or worse acceleration?

[prime goblet]

-# how are you writing this code and not knowing how it works?

[upper pebble]

I'm balling on the courtyard that's how

[sly shard]

Brain cell loss?

[teal viper]

In your code movement is just the input/direction. The speed that your rb get is calculated from force. Normally, it would increase every frame. Speed == velocity magnitude. You've been told that several times now.

[upper pebble]

(I have no idea what it does)

[warm iris]

can someone pls help on #💻┃unity-talk ? Its a question about how to make folders in hierarchy

[upper pebble]

So I need to change it to speed rather than force

[teal viper]

Can you please avoid unrelated comments? And suggesting solutions when you clearly have no idea. You led them into misunderstanding about their code and writing incorrect logic.

[sly shard]

Sorry…

[teal viper]

There are many ways to go about it, but generally, you can check the current speed, by checking the velocity magnitude.

[upper pebble]

No they didn't? We found a solution that didn't work the way we wanted but it did help.

[upper pebble]

Some humor also goes a long way

[teal viper]

If it's above your max speed, you can avoid applying force. Though you'll have to take into account it's direction too.

If you want a simple solution, set velocity instead of applying force.

[warm iris]

hey guys waht is a still working version of FindObjectOfType?

[prime goblet]

FindObjectsByType i believe

[warm iris]

I think its only for objects

like plural

what about a single object?

[edgy sinew]

Probably that still works fine you’d just want the 0th item then

[cosmic dagger]

just check the docs of your unity version. search the Object class and look for the method(s) . . .

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.FindAnyObjectByType.html

[warm iris]

thanks

[heady matrix]

I just moved to unity and wondered if someone had some insight about parallax for 2d platformers build in a 3d space. Sorry if my question is long and vague. I am trying to make a parallax system like hollow knight/ori. Apparently, hollow knight uses Orthographic camera, which avoids distortion, object scaling, and Z-fighting. Meanwhile Ori uses perspective cameras. Seems like orthographic is the right way, but a lot more tedious, and there is no tutorials, as most youtubers prefer showing the perspective way since it is a "quick hack" to get it working in 5 minutes.
So my goal is to be able to place the objects in the editor where they appear in game, and moved from game maker for that. I know Godot has a "live preview parallax" feature that achieves that, but i am more interested in Unity, in which live preview while do-able, was more problems.
The solution that i created is "camera anchoring triggers" which makes my objects in certain trigger zones think the camera spawned at different areas. Which works, but once again tedious and far from perfect. But at least my objects in editors can be somewhat close to where they should be.
So I wondered if anyone has been doing parallax with 3d layers in editor, how you dealt with layers and sorting orders.

[prime goblet]

ortho has no depth so those "perspective hacks" that convey depth arent really hacks

iirc hollow knight silksong uses a perspective camera

[heady matrix]

Ok i had a long argument with chatGPT about that haha. According to what i've found on reddit, it is an orthographic camera. How to deal with Z-fighting with orthographic, just a small FOV and far away camera?

[prime goblet]

ortho cameras dont have FOV

FOV only applies to a perspective

generally i think it's mostly just moving assets forward and backward on the z axis

[heady matrix]

It's not an issue with orthographic, just annoying sorting orders to deal with. Basically i am using Z only to build scenes and simulate stuff like fog, parallax, etc. But with orthographic moving left/right from objects can cause some Z-fighting

unless they are like super far back on depth

[prime goblet]

move them off of the same z position then?

can you show an example maybe

[heady matrix]

I tought i could do it by making them Z = 0, Z = 0.1, etc. I don't have much of example as i haven't build much yet and can't make videos.. but on this picture the selected item is Z 0.1 but rendered in front of the Z 0. It only draw behind if i make it a full unit behind, which is too much. Also, even if i had 3 column at Z 1-2-3, they would Z-fight if i move the player/camera, left and right from them. So i guess maybe i just need a low FOV and move the camera far back?

[edgy sinew]

Whoa sick visuals bro. Is that your art?

I meant sick visuals They/Them/etc (respectfully)

[heady matrix]

thanks, yeah well it's from my game maker game, i'm just doing some test to see if i want to port to unity

[cosmic dagger]

you can avoid z-fighting. unity has 2d layers with indices to determine which layers appear in front or behind. even within those layers, you can order and group objects to appear in front or behind as well . . .

[heady matrix]

hoping to be able to do a bit more vertex displacement and better parallax in unity

[edgy sinew]

Lots of great games are made in Unity. Good to hear

[sly shard]

You’re good at art. Damn, I’m jealous

[heady matrix]

yeah i find everything much longuer to do, but i can feel the power. in game maker i am simulating a 3d camera and it's been quite a headhache

[shell sorrel]

are you using the urp 2d stuff?

there is a setting in its asset to tell it how to do sorting, might want to use a custom axis

[heady matrix]

yeah, i learned about it way too late and realized i wasn't even on latest Unity version so hard to start over, but learning shader graph right now and i love it

[shell sorrel]

also the camera i would adjust its far and near plane to not extend too far past your content

doing so greatly reduces the chances of z fighting

[heady matrix]

still looks better in game maker but theres so many post processing tutorials on unity i hope to learn more techniques

chatGPT has been REALLY insisting on using orthographic so i came to ask on discord lol

[shell sorrel]

yeah its just a learning curve to learn a new engine

[heady matrix]

(yeah i haven't learned C# yet so letting AI code for me..)

[shell sorrel]

the approach you are tarking in layering these scenes looks close to what like hollow knight does so that proves it can work very very well

like your art, its simple but carries the mood well and is easy to read

[edgy sinew]

Seriously how are you cooking up these sprites Krita?

[heady matrix]

basically spent 2 weeks coding this parallax system, while it all works right away in perspective.. but it does feel a bit weird and distorted in perspective, so honestly starting to believe orthographic is the best way on the long run

I've been doing pixel art games all my life. then i bought an ipad and fell in love with Procreate, so decided to take a shot at hand drawn animations

[shell sorrel]

just looks like good hand painted stuff with a good pallet

[heady matrix]

(photoshop great too but i like spriting in my bed lol)

honestly i kind of cheat with post processing for the color palette haha

[edgy sinew]

It's not giving "default brush" energy

[shell sorrel]

it takes more then a brush to do that, its just experience

[edgy sinew]

Then again looking closer it rly just does look like the typical "3px wide" brush
Nice cooking for real

[heady matrix]

yeah using some pencil like brush, planning to use same brush size everywhere like a comic book, and avoid blur effects, so i'm building different type parallax fog

unity sure is opening up a lot of options

[shell sorrel]

expecially if you are willing to dive deep into how render features and shaders work yeah you can do more or less what ever you want

[edgy sinew]

it's giving fancy pants adventure vibes

except yours looks better already

[heady matrix]

yeah now that i can finally make decent distortion shaders, i'm thinking of trying a more paint style and go full on Ori

fancy pants, classic 💪

[shell sorrel]

doing distortion per object, or writing the offsets to a buffer and doing the distortion in screen space after

[heady matrix]

per object, just like those shaking leaves and bushes in the wind

(looks terrible with outlines though)

[shell sorrel]

with a mask the outline could be left alone with distortion in the middle

Ori and stuff like that also has a lot of vertex position stuff going on as well to bend things as you walk past

[heady matrix]

i'm very, very beginner with shaders, but currently it's just a height mask that makes the thing shake left and right

[shell sorrel]

or shake them in wind / things that make force

[heady matrix]

yeah like when you pick up an object it all moves, super cool

(in my game it just rotates, doesn't look all that good)

[shell sorrel]

visual tricks like that are often iterated on a few times in a dev cycle

sometimes makes sense to get further along with content to see it in context

[heady matrix]

for sure, i'm basically trying to do a vertical slices, not even touching gameplay

visual prototype/reality check

before ditching 3 years of work to start over lol

[shell sorrel]

but yeah think it looks cool, and reads well, its very obvious what is forground, background and enemies

[heady matrix]

yeah my first test in unity is i build a fog/noise shader that colors the further Z objects in the color of the background, hopefully that will help with that without using blurs

[shell sorrel]

yeah that is simple in 3d, not sure how much of these things are writing to a depth buffer though in 2d i would need to play with it to know

[heady matrix]

yeah i don't know a thing about optimization.. it's not actually using the 3d though, just using Z as value for depth simulation

[sour fulcrum]

i'd imagine you probably have a fair amount of tech budget to not be super optimised on that anyway, at least when learning

[heady matrix]

Yeah unity seems a lot more optimized and powerful than what i am used to. Not as worried drawing big sprites and have big scenes

[wild cove]

Hey guys, I've ran across this confusing problem where the level manager keeps spawning levels in a completely different place then where I want them to be. But for some reason the position of the entire level tells me the level is where I want it to be, yet it definitely is not where I want it to be. I don't think it's a coding problem, but I don't know what I did wrong with it.

[wintry quarry]

you need to switch this to Pivot mode

then you'll be able to see the real positions of your objects with the position gizmo

From the inspectors i can see the positions are correct (exactly the same as each other except for +25 on the x axis)

[wild cove]

ok, thank you!

[sour fulcrum]

no modding support on this server, sorry

[merry lotus]

Anywhere where I can find that support

[sour fulcrum]

you'd have to seek that out

[merry lotus]

Wonderful.

[sour fulcrum]

offical server so gets into tos related stuff

[magic crown]

Hey small question how can i find with math or code the coordinate along an segment between two point?

[stone oar]

anyone tried using vscode on ubuntu? no matter what i do mine can't acknowledge the existence of dotnet sdk. i pinpointed the dotnet location manually in settings, i reinstalled it multiple times, i tried using omnisharp, i tried multiple other internet "solutions" but nothing works. I can trigger dotnet --info in linux terminal, but not in VScode. this is the error:

The .NET SDK cannot be located: Error running dotnet --info: Error: Command failed: dotnet --info /bin/sh: line 1: dotnet: command not found /bin/sh: line 1: dotnet: command not found . .NET debugging will not be enabled. Make sure the .NET SDK is installed and is on the path.

[magic crown]

do you know what version sdk you have?

Cause maybe your .net just is corrupted or you have to download it manually (i'm not sure which version vscode use tho)

Was vscode open while you installed .net?

[teal viper]

Linear interpolation.

[magic crown]

thx

[teal viper]

Lerp for short.

[magic crown]

thx idk why i didn't think of that

[naive pawn]

are you trying to use an existing dotnet installation? if so, try installing from vscode instead, with the .net install tool extension
command palette > .NET install tool: install .NET
and then restart vscode when it's done (check the output tab)

[teal viper]

I'd assume that you need to add the path to env variables, but I've no clue how to do it on Linux.

[stone oar]

at first i didnt even had dotnet, vscode refused to install it, so i installed it manually through the ms website

that didnt work so i tried through terminal (the flatpak iirc)

still nothing

[stone oar]

no idea either

also, probably unrelated, but unity crashed my entire system by eating all of my RAM and swap memory

idk how to profile that

[stone oar]

and where do I use that?

found it

Error : (DotnetAcquisitionFinalError)

An error occurred while installing .NET: Automated installation for the distro Freedesktop SDK is not yet supported. Please install the .NET SDK manually:

:/

okay despite the errors, thee vscode now sees my functions properly

[undone wave]

I'm currently making an undo/redo system

The problem is that whenever I undo a 'Create' command, the reference gets destroyed, and subsequent redo's cause exceptions

(if I destroy the GameObjects)

if I disable the GameObjects, garbage objects that can no longer be accessed pile up

(for example, Create Object #1 -> Undo -> Create Object #2 will cause Object #1 to be inaccessible permanently, and the object is no longer useful)

Can someone point me in the right direction?

[midnight plover]

Where are those objects hooked into, so they are still referenced? If you create it and set it as reference somewhere, you also ahve to remove that too.

[undone wave]

I somehow fixed it by creating a List<Object> that holds disabled (instead of destroying so that their references aren't destroyed) objects whose creation commands have been undone, and whenever a new command is performed (instead of undoing/redoing), destroying all the objects in the list (so they don't pile up) and clearing it

[midnight plover]

Again, if you undo the creation of the object you should also clear up all references. Otherwise, if you start adding up all objects created for lifetime, you might run into a big pile of unused but still present objects. You rather should save the command in the redo instead of the object itself.

[undone wave]

Otherwise, if you start adding up all objects created for lifetime, you might run into a big pile of unused but still present objects
i mentioned how i resolved this issue in the second part of the sentence

[midnight plover]

so if you create an object A, undo and then create another object B, object A (disabled) gets destroyed?

[undone wave]

yes

[midnight plover]

Ah, got it. I still got a bad feeling about your issue that there are still references present when undoing. If you create object A, undo, undo, redo, redo. What happens there? Because on the second undo for example, the object A gets destroyed but redoing two times should bring it back, right?

[undone wave]

no (as in object A doesn't get destroyed)

as i mentioned, object A only gets destroyed when performing a new command

undoing/redoing preserves the whole stack, and the objects are still present

[midnight plover]

Ahh, yeh, true. the new is the important word. Sounds like a solid workaround.

[midnight plover]

Just keep in mind, whenever you allow to destroy objects apart from undo/redo queues, how you would clear up those references. But if you only stick to the undo redo list, you should be fine

[undone wave]

yeah, i'm planning on only destroying objects in the aforementioned case

[real thunder]

Is changing agent.avoidancePriority GC heavy?

[teal viper]

It's just an int, so probably not allocating at all..? What makes you ask that in the first place?

[real thunder]

because the method with it shows 0.5KB at profiler

there might be other things causing that tho but it's my first suspect

[teal viper]

That's a weird suspect to pick.

You can use profiler markers to isolate separate lines/blocks of code in a method

Or just share your code

[worn veldt]

Elo, I'm working on a game similar to Prison Architect but focused around SCPs, entity interactions and events. I've gotten a rough version of the camera to work using the PlayMaker plugin, but am unsure on how to get the actual building/tile placement to work. It will be a 3D game, and I will need the tile/building system to work like this:

I will need the tiles to have multiple states and layers for different types of object on each tile, for example: all on 1 tile would be: The ground ( layer 1 ), Object ( layer 2 ) Entity/Character ( layer 3 ), utility/wiring layer ( invisible, but allows systems to function ).

I will need it so that I can easily have hundreds - thousands of tiles at once while remaining performant.

Entities will need to be able to navigate around and interact with tiles, such as walls and doors, and respond to tile states, such as if a tile is on fire.

I have tried to do this and have looked at many tutorials, and I couldn't find anything similar to what I need, so I was hoping I could ask for help here, and preferably get continued assistance throughout development of my project from someone, who preferably knows C# well. If you have any idea on how to do this, or are willing to help me make this, please let me know, but if not all good, thank you for your time and reading this :)

[teal viper]

I doubt anyone would be willing to provide "continuous assistance", but you could start a thread in #1390346827005431951 and update it over time.
As for the implementation itself, the important thing is to start and get something working. Even if it's not performant.
That being said, with the scale you described, might want to think of ECS right away.

[real thunder]

How to isolate blocks of code in a method for profiling? Trying to read docs through, can't find so far

[teal viper]

As I said, profiler markers.

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Unity.Profiling.ProfilerMarker.html

[tiny island]

is there a way to connect a object scene into a prefab script?

[teal viper]

Nope.

[real thunder]

before I do that I would ask if a delegate assignment can generate many garbage

[naive pawn]

i imagine it'd internally basically be an array-backed list of delegates, so would just potentially be that array in that case

imo just stop guessing and go check so you can just know

[teal viper]

It can generate some, yes. Not a lot.

[real thunder]

I got 128 bytes and I am curious what did it

[teal viper]

Well, we can't really help you with that without seeing the code.

[real thunder]

it's just a bit confusing

    private enum VelocityStatus { SpeedingUp, Stopped, SlowingDown };
    private VelocityStatus _velocity_status = VelocityStatus.Stopped;
    private VelocityStatus velocity_status
    {
        get
        {
            return _velocity_status;
        }
        set
        {
            if (value == VelocityStatus.Stopped)//so transition be more smooth
            {
                if (is_halting_walk_anim_on_stopping) animator.SetFloat("speedKoeff", 0);
            }
            else
            {
                animator.SetFloat("speedKoeff", max_speed * move_anim_speed_koeff);
            }
            _velocity_status = value;
        }
    }
    protected virtual void AngerEnter()
    {
        velocity_status = VelocityStatus.Stopped;
        agent.avoidancePriority = standing_agent_priority;
        agent.ResetPath();

        spotting_anger_timer = spotting_anger_cd;
        is_spotting_anger_allowed_now = false;

        doState = AngerLoop;
    }

Is that animator.SetFloat()? 🤔

doState is a void delegate yada yada

this one AngerEnter call gave 128B garbage

[teal viper]

Probably the doState assignment.

This likely creates an objects on the heap containing the state of the function to call.

Might be wrong. But it should be easy to test.

[verbal dome]

I suppose SetFloat could allocate if you use strings instead of integer parameter IDs?

[low copper]

Hey everyone. I am currently building a game using a bootloader scene that adds/removes scenes additively. In my current situation I am loading a scene, and the scene has objects that registering some scripts to my service manager. I then unload the scene later on. Then I get an error when I try to load the scene again. My service controller throws an error because the script is already registered. I can easily just do a check if it exists already and just not register it again. I can also just make it a rule to not unload scenes if I am going to use them (maybe just disable all elements) but this seems like I might forget/not the safest approach. Or I can try to do some kind of unloading system with my service manager when a scene unloads (which I'm guessing is going to be tricky). Any thoughts/ideas?

[teal viper]

Why not unregistered your script on destroy/disable?

[low copper]

So, I was guessing this was the best approach but I'm guessing that would require me tracking which scripts are loaded by which scenes. I was just not loving the added complexity of that.

[teal viper]

Why do you need to track that?

[low copper]

So my current scene loads three scripts for example, when I unload the scene how am I going to know what scripts in the service manager to remove

[teal viper]

By reference. Manager.Unregister(this).

[low copper]

Ahh...so add OnDestroy to the scripts and have it unregister in them. Then, when the scene gets unloaded the unregister will automatically run?

[teal viper]

Yep

[low copper]

Haha...yeah...that is much easier. Ok, thanks so much.

[real thunder]

yep it was the delegate assigment
now I wonder if it's an issue or not

each NPC change it's current state fairly often

ok I got questions

delegate allocate 1.2 KB?

oh right it was for 10 mobs at the same time

well I prolly going to learn to make delegates alloc free

[thick root]

Hey, is this the correct Chanel for asking about performance?

[cerulean flax]

why is this happenin that refrence script thingy is cuz i removed the script cuz i figured i want the camera to be fixed instead of following day2 in unity already having me crash out

[thick root]

The camera in itself doesn't move, no?

[cerulean flax]

i mean why is it zoomin out like that?

[wild peak]

Maybe your environment falling

[thick root]

From the camera it looks like it's not moving

Does the canvas have rigidbody or something?

[cerulean flax]

lemme check

enviroment does got rigid body

[wild peak]

remove it

[thick root]

Why does the environment need the rigidbody?

[cerulean flax]

oh damn its fixed ty guys i look up to both of you now 😭

[wild peak]

i guess accidentally or he thought he needs rigidbody for collisions

[native flame]

Could anyone clarify why the unity docs say that for a collider to trigger, one of the two gameobjects needs a rigidbody component? I've been triggering colliders with nothing but a charactercontroller till now

[cerulean flax]

yeee

i thought it need for collision and stuff

[thick root]

Character controller also counts

Rigidbodys and character controllers

[native flame]

aightie thanks

[sour fulcrum]

triggering colliders or trigger colliders

[midnight plover]

Basically rigidbodies and ccs are subscribing to the physics system. colliders are just "static" shapes in that case. Rigidbodies will turn them into "living" objects and part of the physics world.

[naive pawn]

wouldn't usage like that get interned and not do have extra allocs (besides the first)/GC pressure

(or is my understanding of interning wrong)

[thick root]

Anyone capable of reading this? Yesterday 150 fps on average but after changing some very very small code, nothing performance heavy, and now its 120 - 30 fps spikes

[real thunder]

I kinda forgot the interface but enable deep profiling open call stacks select the spike on the graph sort by time and unwrap functions figuring out what is the worst performance killer

also look for GC, idk where exactly to see how it affects peformance but too much of garbage is always bad for it

[thick root]

Okey I'll try, thx

I think learning french is easier at this point...

Ill look for a good yt vid on how to read this

[fickle plume]

@thick root no off-topic images, please

[thick root]

Is there any official Chanel for performance?

[fickle plume]

#1390346827005431951 has optimization tag

[thick root]

Okey I'll note it down for future

Btw for anyone curious about my fps issue, when laptops are not plugged in they enter into energy saving mode and loose 70fps of your build.

[fading barn]

should i use animator.setbool or animator.Play for changing animations

[wintry quarry]

both work. Depends how you set up your state machine and what you're trying to do.

Best practice is to control the state machine with parameters and transitions (SetBool, SetInt, etc..)

But you can build your own state machine in code and use Play if you want.

[fading barn]

my animations dont play sometimes

[wintry quarry]

#🏃┃animation

[balmy vortex]

hi I'm trying to add a mechanic to my game that requires two keys to function properly, was wondering if the best practice here would be to just make two keybinds for each letter and only check for one at a time or if it would be better to just rebind one singular input action every pendulum swing

[naive pawn]

rebind one singular input action every pendulum swing
that would be a fragile/stateful system

using 2 binds would probably make the most sense

[balmy vortex]

[naive pawn]

it'd also mean you would have to make your own rebinding system if you wanted to let players rebind keys.

or to take advantage of the input system's rebinding, you could have 2 separate actions that you pull bindings from, and oh look it's the first option but with an unnecessary, complex intermediate step

[normal mango]

Can anyone guess why this is crashing when Attack() is called?
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

{
    HandleHighlight();
    if (GameController.Instance.State.currentPhase == GamePhase.Battle)
    {
        Debug.Log("clicked");
        BattleManager.Instance.Attack(eventData.pointerPress);
    }

    if (GameController.Instance.State.currentPhase == GamePhase.Main1 || GameController.Instance.State.currentPhase == GamePhase.Main2)
    {
        RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(rect, eventData.position, eventData.pressEventCamera, out dragOffset);
    }
}

public class BattleManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static BattleManager Instance;
    public GameObject attacker;
    public GameObject defender;

    public void Attack(GameObject target)
    {
        Debug.Log("called");
        //if (attacker == null) attacker = target;
        //else if (defender == null) attacker = target;
    } 
}```

[naive pawn]

the stacktrace can tell you which line is the culprit

seems like it's BattleManager.Instance that's null

[normal mango]

whats the stacktrace?

[naive pawn]

it traces where the error came from, including the specific line

click on the error log in the console and it'll show the stacktrace under the error message

[normal mango]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
DraggableCard.OnPointerDown (UnityEngine.EventSystems.PointerEventData eventData) (at Assets/Scripts/DraggableCard.cs:52)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.ExecuteEvents.Execute (UnityEngine.EventSystems.IPointerDownHandler handler, UnityEngine.EventSystems.BaseEventData eventData) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@52e65280e89e/Runtime/UGUI/EventSystem/ExecuteEvents.cs:43)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.ExecuteEvents.Execute[T] (UnityEngine.GameObject target, UnityEngine.EventSystems.BaseEventData eventData, UnityEngine.EventSystems.ExecuteEvents+EventFunction`1[T1] functor) (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@52e65280e89e/Runtime/UGUI/EventSystem/ExecuteEvents.cs:272)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update() (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@52e65280e89e/Runtime/UGUI/EventSystem/EventSystem.cs:514)

[naive pawn]

right, so Attack isn't even being called

the top line is OnPointerDown, that means the error happened in that function

the :52 means line 52, so go check what line 52 is, see what could be null on that line

[normal mango]

ah found the issue, i didnt have an awake function to set the instance

thank you!

actually, im having the seperate issue where the target isnt being properly passed through attack()

[tiny island]

i'm trying to get the player position for the enemy attack direction but it's a bit off mark , is there a way to manually add or substract to a axis of the vector?

[frail hawk]

you can creat a new Vector3 and pass in the x y z

[tiny island]

tkx

[frail hawk]

would be interesting to find out where the offset comes from

[wintry quarry]

Add or subtract a vector with a value in only that axis.

[solemn cedar]

    {
        float t = 0f;
        Color c = fadeImage.color;

        while (t < fadeDuration)
        {
            t += Time.deltaTime;
            c.a = Mathf.Lerp(startAlpha, endAlpha, t / fadeDuration);
            fadeImage.color = c;
            yield return null;
        }

        c.a = endAlpha;
        fadeImage.color = c;
    }

    public void FadeOut()
    {
        StartCoroutine(FadeCoroutine(0f, 1f));
    }```

anyone know why this works in editor but not in build?? this has been annoying me for the past hour or so

[slender nymph]

add some relevant logs to find out what specifically is happening in the build

!code 👇 also see how to correctly post 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.

[solemn cedar]

alright thanks