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frail hawk
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please stop cross posting and reposting your messages

kind charm
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Thanks

kind charm
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You Said just to do it like, light work no reaction

frail hawk
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well tehn ask something we might be able to help you with

solar hill
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we can help you with challenges and troubles you face while making the game

kind charm
solar hill
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have you made any game ever before?

night raptor
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learn to do some coding perhaps?

solar hill
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if not you start with learning

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!learn

radiant voidBOT
kind charm
frail hawk
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i looked at the game you posted, it is not that hard to make it.

solar hill
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righ above your message.

kind charm
frail hawk
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start with learning programming and after that get familiar with unity and you are good to go

kind charm
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Its my fav game on crazygames

polar acorn
kind charm
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But a starting tip? Should i follow a guide/tutorial or should i be like, hmm. I wanna add this ”how to add unity ad api to a prize button”

solar hill
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heres a good starting tip

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go to unity learn and actually start.

kind charm
wild quartz
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yo is this a good place to ask about a whole mechanic I want to implement?

night raptor
# kind charm If you would do it, how long?

An hour, a month, a year. "Something like this" is quite broad of a statement. The game seems to be multiplayer which can add quite bit of complexity to the game. Even though the game mechanics can look simple, you can use as much time as you want designing new levels for the game for example

night raptor
wild quartz
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hmm I'll use general then ig lol

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thanks

kind charm
solar hill
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im stupid nvm @wild quartz ignore that ping lol

wild quartz
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alright lol

solar hill
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that "beginner" doesnt mean much

wild quartz
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yeah I thought of that

twin pivot
wild quartz
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then...

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I came up with cool mechanic for a game and was thinking about 2 ways to do it but I'm just starting with something like this so idk which would be better

basically 3D vintage suitcase as inventory. I want it so when a player throws it:

  1. it slightly bounces off the ground and fully opens with now active inventory slots
  2. when a player picks it up the suitcase closes and returns to hand

now what I thought:

  1. make 2 separate 3D models (body and lid) and using transform on the hinges
  2. in hand showing prefab and player throwing invisible object that plays an animation of the whole proces (don't even know if I can do it like that) then spawning the case

if someone can help me I'd be glad to learn something 🙏
and if you got something better lmk!

twin pivot
night raptor
solar hill
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try both

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you lose nothing except a tiny bit of time

kind charm
twin pivot
kind charm
night raptor
twin pivot
night raptor
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The choice of channel (between those) isn't really a big deal. #1390346827005431951 is also great for bigger issues due to how it organizes to threads or whatever they are called

kind charm
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Like How to make the game i wanna do

solar hill
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you should probably start with the unity learning pathways

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i dunno if anyone suggested that

polar acorn
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There's even a cool bot command that brings up a link

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!learn

radiant voidBOT
solar hill
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wow

kind charm
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:(

night raptor
# kind charm Would I learn following a tutorial?

You will learn something pretty much whatever you do with unity but the dedicated learn resources are meant for learning the basics fast. If you just wanna make a game, wibe coding is honestly maybe the fastest way but whether you learn much of anything with it is a whole another question

kind charm
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!learn

radiant voidBOT
kind charm
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What version should I use?

carmine geyser
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hello, does anyone have a good article or content on how to approach inventory/items system? Im trying to understand how would i have a system of ingame objects / hand objects, instances, properties etc, but every content that i found on yt is just basic and actually pretty bad implementation of those systems

rough granite
prime goblet
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I believe that’s 6.3

kind charm
prime goblet
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What?

kind charm
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I though so only

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I currently have 2022.3

prime goblet
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it’s the most current version so if you’re learning then it will be most applicable

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If you dislike unity then you shouldn’t use it

rough granite
kind charm
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So, the latest LTS version?

prime goblet
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yes

remote lynx
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why is it hated?

rough granite
prime goblet
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I think they’re mixing it up with general dislike for the company itself

kind charm
kind charm
prime goblet
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you should

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they will likely fix it eventually but if you’re learning use the latest

kind charm
prime goblet
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yes

kind charm
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Its only supported til December 2027

prime goblet
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dude

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do you wanna use unity or no

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we recommend the latest because the latest is what unity learn is using

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you can always update it for free

kind charm
prime goblet
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backups, and it’s nothing that’s unfixable

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additionally most people just stick with the same version for their projects until it’s done

hexed terrace
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The latest 6.0 version is the best, 6.3 is new and not as stable.

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But if you're just starting out and learning, it doesn't really matter. It's much better to use the same version as the tutorial you're following - so you don't have to deal with things changing/ moving on top of following the tut

polar acorn
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Really, it doesn't matter. You're almost certainly not going to ship your learning project. Literally just click the "add version" button on the hub and throw a dart at the wall

kind charm
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Me rn: sadblob

polar acorn
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You're spending more time fretting about "doing things the right way" than you'd actually lose if you end up doing things the wrong way.

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This, too, is a form of procrastination

kind charm
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Okay

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I choose

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6.3 LTS.

polar acorn
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Just start doing stuff. Pick a version, pick a guide, and just get on it

hexed terrace
kind charm
kind charm
polar acorn
kind charm
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Then Junior Programmer

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And also, thank you.

twin pivot
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When i updated my project it just broke ui elements and i had to restart from scratch

prime goblet
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I didn’t say it can’t happen

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if you lost any progress/data that’s on you for not setting up version control

warm iris
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can someone tell me whats the difference between these two?

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except for that the lossy is read only

polar acorn
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localScale is the scale of the object relative to its parent. lossyScale is the world scale of the object, which is mostly an approximation

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due to math shenanigans

warm iris
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what does it mean relative to its parent?

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when would it be else

polar acorn
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Relative to its parent versus relative to the world

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Just like localPosition and position or localRotation and rotation. It's just that due to how scale is computed, the global scale isn't quite as accurate

warm iris
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im a beginner

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all tutorials only used position

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thats what I use all the time

polar acorn
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Imagine you have a cube at position 10, 0, 0. That cube has a child object that is a sphere, and in the inspector you set its position to 0, 10, 0.

This means that relative to the cube, it's at position 0, 10, 0, but relative to the world it's at 10, 10, 0

warm iris
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oh ok thanks that makes sense

polar acorn
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Likewise for scale. A cube with a scale of 10, 10, 10 that has a child sphere with a size of 1, 2, 1 has a localScale of 1, 2, 1 and a lossyScale of 10, 20, 10

rough granite
warm iris
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but I just wasnt sure waht local and relative means in this example

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when I was making games in roblox studio, if something was local that had a completely different meaning

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thats why I was confused, but now I understand

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I try to use the docs when I will find my answer there

rough granite
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im curious what example's there are where relative doesnt mean in relation to something else (the something else in this being the parent object)

warm iris
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I understood the relative part, just the name was confusing me

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cuz in roblox if somethign is local, it only happens on the player's screen, for example u can spawn a cube that only this player sees and not everyone, thats local

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and thats why the name local here confused me

rough granite
warm iris
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im Polish

rough granite
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fair fair i can see how it would get confusing then gl with your coding 😅

warm iris
small osprey
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Why my code does't work?
Private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
If (collision.gameObject.tag == "coin")
{
Destroy(collision.gameObject);
}

small osprey
polar acorn
small osprey
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He dont detect none collision

rough granite
small osprey
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Yes

polar acorn
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The three commandments of OnCollisionEnter2D:

  1. Thou Shalt have a 2D Collider on each object
  2. Thou Shalt not tick isTrigger on either of them
  3. Thou Shalt be moving at least one of them with a Rigidbody2D
small osprey
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One of then need a rigidbody2D to work?

rough granite
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well yes -_- how you gonna make use of the physics interaction without a physics component

small osprey
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I will try here xd

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The "coin" just fallen to the void

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Its work now

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Thx for the help

spice shadow
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does anyone know how to fix this? Keeps my editor busy for minutes, ultimately crashing unity. Seems to be related to the AI Package. Unity 6000.3.2f1

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"com.unity.ai.assistant": "1.0.0-pre.12",
"com.unity.ai.generators": "1.0.0-pre.20",
"com.unity.ai.inference": "2.4.1",

teal viper
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Try removing or updating the packages.

frosty yarrow
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use if

spice shadow
earnest wind
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public static IEnumerator RestartPlayCorountine()
    {
        Scene additiveScene = SceneManager.GetSceneByName("Cart-Custom");
        if (additiveScene.IsValid())
        {
            AsyncOperation asyncUnload = SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync(additiveScene);
            while (!asyncUnload.isDone)
            {
                yield return null;
            }
        }

        AsyncOperation asyncLoad = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("Cart-Custom", LoadSceneMode.Additive);
        while (!asyncLoad.isDone)
        {
            yield return null;
        }
    }
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why does this remove the scene ✅ - which is what it is supposed to do, but then it just stops and doesnt load the scene on asyncLoad?

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il add some debugging later but its so weird tbh

ripe hatch
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Hi guys

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Where can i find it

slender nymph
molten otter
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my understanding is ReadValue<bool> would return true if the jump button was pressed right?

slender nymph
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that's basically the same as Input.GetKey and Input.GetKeyDown, the latter only returning true on the frame that it was first pressed

molten otter
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ok gotcha, so for jumping I think I'd want ReadValue so the player can just hold the space bar

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there's also WasPressedThisDynamicUpdate() but from reading the docs it seems to be more advanced stuff?

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If the update mode is set to ProcessEventsInDynamicUpdate, this method will behave exactly like WasPressedThisFrame().
and ProcessEventsInDynamicUpdate seems to be the default mode anyways

naive pawn
swift quarry
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does anyone have a fairly simple movement script they can show me or send me so that i can see how you set yours up? i havent been able to find a tutorial that either doesnt have issues like spinning when running into a corner of wall or feels horrible. i also want to practice using the new input system only

teal viper
edgy sinew
naive pawn
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no

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the pressPoint is the point (in space) of actuation where it's considered pressed vs released, this matters for analog inputs

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it's a cutoff/threshold

edgy sinew
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Oh like 0, 0.5, 1.0?

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Sorry, if it’s a complex topic I’ll just do some research UnityChanThumbsUp

naive pawn
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it's not very complex

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you could probably just google it

ivory bobcat
naive pawn
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i am not

edgy sinew
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I’m not fully sure what to Google based on the wording you’ve used. It’s okay though

naive pawn
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pressPoint is a specific term, a variable name

edgy sinew
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Whoa. That’s really cool. So for example a GamePad right trigger that has range of values 0 to 1.0, rather than “on” and “off” like cheaper ones.

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Thanks for the knowledge UnityChanThumbsUp

naive pawn
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or if you're holding it down and release pressure a little bit as you do something else, it might register 0.9, but that shouldn't count as a release, so you can't check == 1

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there's also this diagram in inputsystem docs

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sour palm
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hay so what I'm looking to do is set my raycast to take a gameobject and then import it into a script.

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I'm just really looking for the type of method I would use for such a thing.

sour palm
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I probably explained it poorly. What I'm trying to do is have the Raycast see a specific type of Game Object then take that game object and put it in a Game Object holder in a script.

frosty hound
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You can use layermasks so that the raycast only hits against objects on that layer.

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If you can't use layer masks for whatever reason, you can use the RaycastAll option to get everything in the ray's path and then filter them by something like a specific component that only objects you care about, have.

sour palm
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Unless I'm just over complicating things for myself lol.

frosty hound
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Sounds like you are

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You can't just "target" GameObjects, they're all the same. You need a way to identify/filter them out from each other, which is what layers or components do. If neither of those options work, then you might have to rethink how you're handling edge grabbing>

lilac coral
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hi the server doest have a tab for my question so

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im following a tutorial in the tutorial it looks like this

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but for me looks like this

midnight tree
# lilac coral

Do 2 clicks on tab "Project".
Doesn't work? -> Press 3 points -> Add Tab -> Scene

Screenshot_2026-01-13_at_08.39.11.png
midnight tree
keen dew
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Double click the Project tab

lilac coral
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TYSM

lilac coral
sour palm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72b4P3AztH4 this is the tutorial I've been fallowing.

YouTube
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Full LEDGE CLIMBING SYSTEM in 11 MINUTES - Unity Tutorial

Full LEDGE CLIMBING SYSTEM in 11 MINUTES - Unity Tutorial
In this tutorial, I'm going to follow up on my other climbing tutorial and show you everything you need to know about coding a full ledge climbing ability, including grabbing and holding onto ledges as well as jumping off of them in any direction.

If this tutorial has helped you in any w...

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midnight plover
sour palm
midnight plover
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also, please provide code this way

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!code

radiant voidBOT
limpid thistle
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Im building for android and i want the binding mode of my camera to be lock to target, but when i try and build, the camera behaves as it is on lock to target on assign, which is the complete opposite of the behaviour im looking for, why is that?

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It works fine when i play in the editor btw...

boreal sonnet
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can anyone tell me how can i solve it?

Screenshot_2026-01-13_180554.png
hexed terrace
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You should be giving it a different gameobject to clone, it can't clone itself

boreal sonnet
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and how do i do it?

hexed terrace
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by typing in the name of the actual gameobject you want to clone, and making sure it is assigned a value

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do you already have a var declared for this elsewhere?

boreal sonnet
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no

hexed terrace
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you need one

boreal sonnet
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not one game gameobject .this is an obstacles and i just need a bounceeffect that i have already given to playercontroller

naive pawn
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what are you trying to do here

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why do you need to instantiate something upon collision

slim rampart
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uhh so I just started with unity and I have no idea how to program on it, where do I start....,...,

boreal sonnet
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the same explosioneffect when an obstacle bounce or make contact with any gameObject

solar hill
radiant voidBOT
slim rampart
edgy sinew
# sour palm Hay I'm at my wits end here I've done everything can but I just am full stuck on...

Which part of it doesn’t work?
The detection of a ledge? Turning off the Rigidbody gravity? Freezing the position of Rigidbody so it “stays on the ledge”?
You can use Debug.Log to verify that certain parts of the code are actually reached, or beyond that the details of what’s actually happening there.
This tutorial is 3 years old, is it maybe using an older version of Unity and some bits of the code may need to change slightly? UnityChanHuh

boreal sonnet
boreal sonnet
verbal dome
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You probably want to reference a prefab and instantiate that?

solar hill
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You cant say var object = instantiate(object)

You need a reference to the thing you are trying to instantiate

boreal sonnet
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i did

solar hill
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So you should have a reference to your prefab and assign it in the inspector and then instantiate that prefab

hexed terrace
solar hill
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Properly

radiant voidBOT
boreal sonnet
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that effect is an prefab already.

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wait

hexed terrace
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that is not sharing it properly

solar hill
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People really are allergic to bot messages istg

edgy sinew
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Look into object pooling soon enough too. Pretty easy in Unity
The idea is to have 50-100 or whatever number of stuff ready-to-activate before runtime,
So during gameplay you aren’t Instantiating stuff causing additional lag UnityChanThumbsUp

hexed terrace
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You've got a field and a local var with the same name. The local var will take priority. Change the name of one of them.

solar hill
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They have the same exact name

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Change the name of the one in the function

boreal sonnet
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ok

solar hill
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Call it BounceEffectInstance or something

hexed terrace
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you need to change it in 2 places

solar hill
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In the destroy too

naive pawn
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-# or you could use this. to get around the shadowing. but you should rename for clarity anyways

boreal sonnet
atomic crag
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isnt there a variation of Physics.CheckSphere() that reutrns the colliders detected? im not finding anything in the documentation that actually gives me the colliders

verbal dome
atomic crag
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ah thank you so much, i knew it was somewhere but i didnt know what it was called feel kinda dumb now

verbal dome
warm iris
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hey guys is there a way to make the snake move smoothly?

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for example like in the google snake, the one which shows up after you searh snake on google

naive pawn
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!ide

radiant voidBOT
warm iris
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it is configured

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I use vs code not only for unity

naive pawn
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doesn't look like it

warm iris
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whats wrong here?

naive pawn
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classes and methods there aren't highlighted properly

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it's not proof, but it's a pretty reliable hint

warm iris
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oh wait

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maybe cuz

naive pawn
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are you getting proper intellisense?

warm iris
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I didnt open the project

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I just opened vs code and sent the script

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so someone can answer while ill be eating lunch lol

naive pawn
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anyways, for future reference:

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!code

radiant voidBOT
naive pawn
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and to answer your question, to make it smoother, spread the motion out over time

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instead of jumping forward every so often, move it towards the next tile consistently

warm iris
verbal dome
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Is it a classic snake (over multiple tiles) or a single object?

naive pawn
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it's not forbidden, but it's just a common courtesy

warm iris
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and it needs to move by just 1

verbal dome
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Sounds like you want to implement custom interpolation

warm iris
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something like lerping

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idk what is there possible in unity

naive pawn
warm iris
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also yeah I opened it throguh unity and it works see

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thats why it wasnt highlighted

naive pawn
verbal dome
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If it's a grid game, i wouldn't store the position directly in transform.position

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Instead have some integer grid coordinates

naive pawn
verbal dome
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Otherwise you might shift off the grid over time when floating point errors accumulate

warm iris
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dw I dont write any code with unity not open

naive pawn
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it also does make it easier for us to read (though text would be even easier)

warm iris
warm iris
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I should write a function for that?

naive pawn
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no clue what you mean by that

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if you want a function for that, sure?

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i'm describing an example of design that would make this easier to implement

warm iris
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that I should make a function that moves it for example 0.2 every 0.1s or even less to make it smooth

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but isnt there a function for that which already exists?

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I would be surprised if it didnt

naive pawn
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you mean like, movetowards?

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those are just math

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there isn't anything made specifically for this thing, no. that wouldn't make sense

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what i'm describing would be to move it every frame, but i guess making it more frequent would also technically be "smoother"
smoothness is kind of a vague description

warm iris
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isnt this exactly whatI need?

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movetowards

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also whats the difference between these 3

naive pawn
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if that's the behavior you want, sure

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movetowards is literally just a bit of math made more convenient

warm iris
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yeah it is

naive pawn
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it's not the only way to get the same behavior either

warm iris
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movetowards seems like exactly what I need

naive pawn
# warm iris isnt this exactly whatI need?

a function that moves it for example 0.2 every 0.1s or even less
they wrote that themselves, it's the Update function. it just happens to utilize the math in MoveTowards

there's no function to "move it by x every 0.1s", that's very specific. that's your job, to build up from simpler pieces

warm iris
verbal dome
warm iris
naive pawn
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thinkies yknow if you wanted to keep the speed consistent you would have to also keep the overflow and apply it to the next tile, and then it'd also make it impossible to play at high speed+low framerate

(definitely not relevant here yet, just following my own train of thought)

verbal dome
warm iris
naive pawn
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ngl i'd expect that too from an unconfigured ide

true flame
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How would you create a first person camera? I am fairly new but just struggling to make one fully functional.

warm iris
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but im a beginner

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I barely know anything

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so im not sure

true flame
warm iris
rough granite
true flame
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Okay. Give me a sec.

rough granite
true flame
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which camera will it be?

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warm iris
twin pivot
true flame
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oh okay

rough granite
naive pawn
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not familiar with cinemachine myself, but just reading through the options, wouldn't it be freelook

twin pivot
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freelook seems to be more of a third person camera

kind charm
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!learn

radiant voidBOT
kind charm
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if i only want to do 2d games, should i skip 3D essentials, or will that make me jump over a step later on in the series?

verbal swift
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I just used a normal cinemachine camera for my first person controller

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You 100% can just use a normal camera and have it follow ur player through script it just causes very minor jitter

twin pivot
kind charm
icy bear
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Ok... Grid placement systems with SYNTY assets are killing me, I cant tell you how many hours I have spent trying to get this working -- Does anyone know of any good resources that they would recommend for a 3d grid placement system for walls, objects, etc?

whole willow
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Not truly a beginner but I'll ask here anyway since I'm not sure if this is worth creating an entire thread over, but does it make sense to invest a few story points into creating some unit tests for a deterministic grid-based level editor? I'm kinda going crazy after I accidentally broke another system of it and had to scramble to fix both the old (and now broken) and the new feature. This could've been potentially avoided if I had some tests that told me that my MR for this new feature broke something and told me what the issue was.
But I've also been told in the beginning that unit testing isn't really an industry standard in game development due to how many systems are involved and you can't account for everything, but does that also apply for something as "straight-forward" and deterministic as level editors?

charred spoke
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If you can unit test it you should

low copper
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I'm building an AR scene that I want to do multiple things. For example, in one version it will be click and collect game, in another it will be simple shooter etc etc. Can I get a sanity check on how people normally structure this code. The easiest I think is to have a base AR scene, and then I load in the specific version additively. The only other option I can think of is to load in all the versions and then have a primary script choose which to use. This seems more complicate/worse performance. Any thoughts?

kind charm
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should i switch to unity 6 or stay at 6.3 while doing junior programmer?

visual linden
kind charm
visual linden
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( That said, unit testing IS good, but it's a team effort - You probably shouldn't be writing unit tests just for yourself )

whole willow
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well I am working on this mostly solo with just a bit of help here and there from friends. Unit tests were just heavily pushed in college and I thought it'd be a good idea to implement so I wouldn't have to keep a checklist of things to manually test each time.

visual linden
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In that case it does sound like a nice opportunity to add unit tests and make testing a bit easier

whole willow
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I gotta refactor a lot of my logic anyway, so the idea would've been to put as much as possible into plain C# classes, write regular tests for those and once all of those pass I'd have monobehavior tests that run at runtime, with the same steps being taken each time.

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I don't have any right now, but I plan on having a random level generator later on as well, and I'd just seed it. That should cover the vast majority of situations so I can test future MRs via the pipeline rather than having to once again be embarrassed during a live demo, plus it might also help me find other bugs I'm not yet aware of.

visual linden
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It's worth keeping in mind that unit testing error prone and fragile code just means you'll have your test failing a lot of the time, which is great for avoiding pushing breaking changes to production; But it's equally important to look at how you could refactor your code in a way that reduces the chance of it breaking from change.

kind charm
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In the Junior Programming course. Will I learn 2D too? Or only 3D?

whole willow
# visual linden It's worth keeping in mind that unit testing error prone and fragile code just m...

I thought I'd just test the refactor like I did all code changes so far (by just manually testing whatever it is I'm currently changing) but test all affected systems this time (like testing undo/redo at the same time as save/load as it uses the same serialization system). Once they're out of MonoBehaviors I'll write unit tests for the refactored code in those plain C# classes that actually make sense. I'll write as many unit tests as I deem necessary for each feature, with the goal being getting as close as possible to 100% code coverage for my editor classes. I also thought about writing some tests that specifically test for known bugs that have both been fixed and are known to exist still (which would of course fail right now).

runic lance
visual linden
whole willow
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I did TDD for non-game dev/unity projects (even though at some point the laziness got to me), so I think it's a good idea. Guess my tutor just didn't want me testing physics stuff in Unity, which was probably why he recommended against it back then.

whole willow
runic lance
runic lance
whole willow
#

đŸ€” My uni provided me with a runner environment for my Ruby project, but I won't have that luxury with my game. Can I theoretically host one on my own computer that runs whenever I'm updating a MR since, well, I'm pretty much the only actual dev outside of a few LOC here and there where I got some help from my buddies? My PC would be running anyway, so

whole willow
visual linden
kind charm
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and, this will take 12 weeks+?

naive pawn
#

it'll take as long as you take with it. it's not gonna be the same fixed amount for everyone

naive pawn
kind charm
runic lance
whole willow
#

Oh absolutely, I'll be making sure to prevent that from happening. Not just gonna let AI generate tests for me until they pass and then be done with it.
I wanna make sure to test the desired results and not just whatever the code currently does (which is why I wanna write unit tests for features rather than each function)

#

and I guess also have tests that test for previously existing bugs so they won't reappear... Man, it'll be great to just instantly know that previously existing offset bugs won't reappear. I'll take some time next month after my exams to write some unit tests then. Thanks @runic lance and @visual linden!

red igloo
verbal swift
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Probably not the best solution but its a solution

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Lineardamping is what causes the drag

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The higher the damping the more movespeed youll need but it worked for me

red igloo
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I know but that way is not the best.

red igloo
tired bolt
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guys how do i fix these?

image.png
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i have 26 bugs like that

polar acorn
#

Don't crosspost. Pick a channel and stick to it

tame juniper
#

im making a simple block stacking game, and i have a prefab block and want to put a face sprite on it, a simple sprite renderer and want to be able to use different faces randomly, i have 6 sprites of the face but dont know how to pick it randomly

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naive pawn
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break that into separate pieces. referencing the faces, choosing a random one, and then applying it to the spriterenderer

tame juniper
#

wdym by break into seperate peices?

naive pawn
#

break the problem down into smaller, simpler, easier tasks

tame juniper
#

okie thanks, i will let you know soon if i can do it 😄

tame juniper
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it worked!!

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open stratus
#

Hi all
When i have a lot of agents and sent them to same target the problem is they all want to reach same point so these reach first block other agents how solve that ?

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I know maybe random offset useful but i am looking for another way

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Any idea ?

ivory bobcat
# open stratus Any idea ?

The internet suggests

Switch on the NavMeshAgent when your agent needs to walk from A to B. Switch off the NavMeshAgent, when it is standing around for a while and switch the NavMeshObstacle on instead. This will improve the avoidance significantly. Make sure NavMeshAgent and NavMeshObstacle are never active at the same time, as this would indeed not work
which partly makes sense. I'm uncertain of the expense though.
https://discussions.unity.com/t/official-way-to-make-agents-avoid-each-other/739021

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Where you'd recalculate somewhere in between with the others who will certainly not be able to get to the wanted destination.

open stratus
#

That video will explain some parameters that help to agents avoid each other but my problem is different because all of them goes to same point chnaging Priority or radios will not help

swift crag
#

Agents will try to avoid each other, but they assume that they'll still be able to reach the destination

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Hence why they all bunch up and constantly try to push forward

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notably, a NavMeshObstacle that's set to carve the NavMesh will create an actual hole in the mesh

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which agents will properly path around (or use to decide that the destination is unreachable)

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but you probably don't want to be cutting lots of holes in the mesh as the agents pile up

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I think randomizing the destination is necessary here. If you issue commands to many agents at once, you can calculate a reasonable radius

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(basically the square root of the number of agents)

sour palm
open stratus
swift crag
#

You'd use UnityEngine.Random.insideUnitCircle to get random points inside of a circle

swift crag
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this makes the other agents ignore them

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so they won't try to avoid the agents that have reached the destination

open stratus
#

I will try that thanks mate

charred spoke
# open stratus I will try that thanks mate

I think this lecture will prove helpful to you https://youtu.be/hE5tWF-Ou2k?si=ycU2nD0s-69RL5DH

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edgy sinew
# sour palm the ledge detection.

There’s a variety of things that could be wrong. I assume you set up the Box Collider on the ledges properly, perhaps look into the other available settings there.
Layer masks can be tricky to set up

swift crag
#

it's easiest if you just add a LayerMask field to your class so that you can configure it in the inspector

errant vault
#

yo i need help to program can somone help me. call me plz?

rocky canyon
#

you'll get more help if you have a specific question or need help w/ a certain thing..
broad "help me/ tutor me" requests likely to be ignored

solar hill
#

cant think of anything less efficient than diagnosing an issue through a call rather than text

swift crag
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screaming and hitting myself with a bat (i am trying to debug a graphics issue)

solar hill
errant vault
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i want help with my caracters walking

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it dosent work

solar hill
#

okay well thats a start

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we need actual info here

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other than "it doesnt work"

#

what specifically doesnt work

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what are you trying to accomplish

swift crag
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are you following a tutorial right now?

errant vault
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no

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and it cant walk or move the camera

solar hill
#

be detailed

errant vault
#

i click play but when i try to move the camera or walk i does not work btw i used a model for the codings

solar hill
radiant voidBOT
solar hill
#

are you getting any errors?

errant vault
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probably not

solar hill
#

share the code

#

check the message above

errant vault
#

this it

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btw i gtg

solar hill
#

you just shared the links to the code pasting sites

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you did not actually share your own code

errant vault
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i dont know how to do it

solar hill
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take your movement code

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copy it

errant vault
#

ok

solar hill
#

and copy the link

errant vault
#

public class FirstPersonLook : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField]
Transform character;
public float sensitivity = 2;
public float smoothing = 1.5f;

Vector2 velocity;
Vector2 frameVelocity;


void Reset()
{
    // Get the character from the FirstPersonMovement in parents.
    character = GetComponentInParent<FirstPersonMovement>().transform;
}

void Start()
{
    // Lock the mouse cursor to the game screen.
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
}

void Update()
{
    // Get smooth velocity.
    Vector2 mouseDelta = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y"));
    Vector2 rawFrameVelocity = Vector2.Scale(mouseDelta, Vector2.one * sensitivity);
    frameVelocity = Vector2.Lerp(frameVelocity, rawFrameVelocity, 1 / smoothing);
    velocity += frameVelocity;
    velocity.y = Mathf.Clamp(velocity.y, -90, 90);

    // Rotate camera up-down and controller left-right from velocity.
    transform.localRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-velocity.y, Vector3.right);
    character.localRotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(velocity.x, Vector3.up);
}

}

solar hill
#

i even gave you a simple step by step

#

this is also very clearly AI generated code leading me to believe that no amount of wisdom here will mean much towards fixing your issue

errant vault
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i used model i am new to coding:)

solar hill
errant vault
#

ahaaaaa

solar hill
#

also not a lot of people here are going to waste time helping fix code written by AI because its a pretty pointless endeavor, if you wanna use AI you should understand its going to make mistakes pretty often, and we arent a code clean up crew for a hallucination machine

errant vault
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but it is to hard

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how am i else going to do it

grand snow
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i learnt coding without llms, you can too!

solar hill
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its hard because youre not actually trying to learn

errant vault
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yes i am

solar hill
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if you want to actually learn

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ditch the ai

errant vault
#

i sat for i hr trying to code but i don,t understand

grand snow
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Then you need better resources to teach you

solar hill
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did you watch a tutorial of some kind

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or a course

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or anything

errant vault
#

ye

solar hill
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well you need to watch a lot more

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hell i would even say forget about unity for now and learn the basics of c#

errant vault
#

they speak too much in the tutorials

solar hill
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thats the point...

errant vault
#

what

grand snow
solar hill
# errant vault what

if they are speaking they are probably telling you stuff you should know/learn.

#

ai wont get you quick results

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it wont get you any kind of results

errant vault
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no they speak too fast

solar hill
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slow it down

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rewind if you have to

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its not a race

errant vault
#

ik

solar hill
#

for some people learning takes time

errant vault
#

i tried scratch

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it easy

grand snow
#

Scratch is actually quite good as a way to understand common concepts

errant vault
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i understandet it

grand snow
#

Then try to follow a beginner c# course like the one i sent above or a unity learn course

#

!learn

radiant voidBOT
errant vault
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gtg

solar hill
#

i have a feeling nothing new was learned today

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literally

worn niche
#

does anyone know, How to keep an object affected by the APV so the light probs on a scene swithc? Because it just looks like this.

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harsh tartan
#

how can I make it so that beautiful pink stick (player object) stand on the white playform (plane)

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polar acorn
harsh tartan
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oh yezz

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let me see

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Character Controller?

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whats the best to learn

charred spoke
worn niche
# harsh tartan how can I make it so that beautiful pink stick (player object) stand on the whit...

It depends what your goal is, the most common use cases are to use a Rigidbody or a Character Controller. Quick (AI) summary:

Rigidbody: Realistic interactions with the environment; handles gravity and collisions automatically. Movement can feel "floaty" or "slippery"; can get stuck on tiny floor cracks unless you use a "Frictionless" Physics Material.

Character Controller: easy to handle stairs and slopes. Does not naturally get pushed by explosions or wind; requires you to write your own gravity code

I can't give much information about Character Controller I dont use it

solar hill
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i thought it had some issues that were never changed

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or am i thinking of another one

charred spoke
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It’s perfect the way it is

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You don’t need to support perfection

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Also the code is available it’s not it’s a obfuscated dll

harsh tartan
#

I use rigidBody and thats my cube (to test if i can go thrue objects) and it says i enter but how can I keep from going thrue?

image.png image.png image.png
solar hill
harsh tartan
#

the player object or the cube

solar hill
#

whatever you are moving.

harsh tartan
#

with a player ovement script

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worn niche
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does it fall through the ground?

solar hill
#

what does the code that makes the player move look like

harsh tartan
harsh tartan
solar hill
#

are you doing transform.position?

solar hill
worn niche
#

does the floor and the cube has an collider?

harsh tartan
# solar hill are you doing transform.position?

to check if player is on ground.

using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("References")]
    public Rigidbody rb; 
    [Header("Movement Settings")]
    public float moveSpeed = 5f;
    public float jumpForce = 5f;

    [Header("Input Settings")]
    public InputActionReference move;
    public InputActionReference jump;

    private Vector2 _moveInput;
    private bool _jumpPressed;

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        move.action.Enable();
        if (jump != null)
            jump.action.Enable();
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        move.action.Disable();
        if (jump != null)
            jump.action.Disable();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        _moveInput = move.action.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        if (jump != null)
            _jumpPressed = jump.action.triggered;
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        bool isGrounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, 1.1f);

        Vector3 moveDir = new Vector3(_moveInput.x, 0f, _moveInput.y);
        Vector3 newPosition = rb.position + moveDir * (moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        rb.MovePosition(newPosition);

        if (_jumpPressed && isGrounded)
        {
            rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
        }
    }
}
harsh tartan
ashen isle
#

Hello hello whats wrong with my coroutine 🙏🙏

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harsh tartan
solar hill
#

how is your player meant to stay on the ground if it cant collide with the ground

solar hill
radiant voidBOT
harsh tartan
#

I mean the cube thats also flying need to stop me, thats how im testing collosion ATM.

polar acorn
wicked cairn
ashen isle
wicked cairn
earnest wind
polar acorn
polar acorn
earnest wind
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ah give me 2 seconds, i was supposed to do that today but just thought maybe someone knows 🙏

wicked cairn
ashen isle
worn niche
harsh tartan
#

okay?

#

(jump not working im thinking because gravity isnt on?)

worn niche
#

Right here: ```cs
bool isGrounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, 1.1f);

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you need to add a Layermask to prevent this from happening

harsh tartan
#

okay, is there like a good place where you can learn all those stuff? like 1 youtuber with alot of updated content? instead of watching 600 videos all doing it other ways, older versions etc etc

#

paid or not paid

solar hill
radiant voidBOT
solar hill
#

right 'ere

earnest wind
# polar acorn Well what did the debugging you added show? 
public static IEnumerator RestartPlayCorountine()
    {
        Scene additiveScene = SceneManager.GetSceneByName("Cart-Custom");
        if (additiveScene.IsValid())
        {
            Debug.LogError("A");
            AsyncOperation asyncUnload = SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync(additiveScene);
            while (!asyncUnload.isDone)
            {
                Debug.Log("AA");
                yield return null;
            }
        }
        Debug.Log("B");
        AsyncOperation asyncLoad = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("Cart-Custom", LoadSceneMode.Additive);
        while (!asyncLoad.isDone)
        {
            Debug.Log("BB");
            yield return null;
        }
    }
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it doesnt go beyond AA, but it stops at 1

ashen isle
earnest wind
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so is it because there is no scene???

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but that object that loads is in a different scene

ashen isle
#

I attached the script to an empty game object called “transition manager”

harsh tartan
polar acorn
radiant voidBOT
solar hill
earnest wind
ashen isle
polar acorn
wicked cairn
worn niche
# harsh tartan okay, is there like a good place where you can learn all those stuff? like 1 you...

So @Brackeys is a is mostly a good source, the videos are a bit old, but still great to learn.#

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polar acorn
#

Because when a scene is unloaded, all of the objects in it are destroyed

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and when the object is destroyed, all coroutines stop

earnest wind
earnest wind
polar acorn
#

Where are you calling StartCoroutine from

earnest wind
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thank you

worn niche
# harsh tartan okay, is there like a good place where you can learn all those stuff? like 1 you...

Also https://www.youtube.com/@CodeMonkeyUnity/videos CodeMonkey got a lot of good Tutorials

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polar acorn
#

The IEnumerator is not the coroutine. It's the thing that the coroutine runs

earnest wind
polar acorn
#

You'd need to run the coroutine on something that doesn't get unloaded, like a DDOL

earnest wind
#

make a call to just a void and then that void calls coroutine? from that same script

ashen isle
earnest wind
#

yeah ddol would work, thank you

worn niche
harsh tartan
#

sure :)

warm iris
#

what should I put here to make the speed 0.5s?

image.png
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or just any time I want

grand snow
worn niche
# harsh tartan sure :) 
    [SerializeField] private float JumpForce = 5f;
    [SerializeField] private LayerMask GroundLayer;

    [SerializeField] private float SphereCastSize = .8f;
    [SerializeField] private float GroundCheckDistance = 1.1f;

    private InputSystem_Actions inputActions;

    
    void Update(){
        if(inputActions.Player.Jump.WasPressedThisFrame() && isGrounded)
        {
            Debug.Log("Jump");
            Jump();
        }
    }
    
    bool isGrounded(){
        if(Physics.SphereCast(transform.position, SphereCastSize, -transform.up, GroundCheckDistance, GroundLayer, queryTriggerInteraction: QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore))
        {
          return true;
        }
        else
        {
          return false;
        }
    }

    void Jump()
    {
        rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * JumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
    }

hope I didn't forgot anything.
To explain a bit:

  • [SerializeField] makes private variables(float, bool, int, ...) visible in the inspector
  • "InputSystem_Actions" this is for the unity inpu tsystem (need to set it up first, doesnt take long)
  • "SphereCast" instead of a RayCast(line) I cast a sphere which just has a wider detection range
  • "queryTriggerInteraction: QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore" If you have a trigger, the Ray will not detect it

Any questions?

warm iris
harsh tartan
#

thanks

#

Will work more tomorrow

grand snow
# warm iris its just 1

then do 1 * Time.deltaTime or Time.deltaTime to have it move at 1 unit per second.
MoveTowards works by you specifying the max distance it should move towards the target

warm iris
#

Time.deltaTime is not it

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its like 0.01 / s

grand snow
polar acorn
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Not a time it takes to get there

#

If you did Time.deltaTime that would mean you're moving at 1 unit per second

warm iris
#

its closer to 1 unit / min

#

than 1 unit / s

polar acorn
warm iris
#

yeah

warm iris
polar acorn
warm iris
polar acorn
#

You're calling it every time moveTimer has reached moveCooldown

warm iris
#

oh

polar acorn
#

At which point, it moves one frame towards the target until the next cooldown

warm iris
#

yeah youre right lol

polar acorn
#

It's moving at 1 unit per second, but you're calling the movement once every moveCooldown seconds

molten otter
#

any tutorials or articles on making a camera in DOTS/ECS?

#

a camera that follows an entity, or a first person camera specifically

#

I looked in #1062393052863414313 and all I found where a few vague sentences but nothing in depth, and youtube only has outdated stuff it seems

swift crag
#

afaik you just use a regular GameObject camera

#

you just need to pull data out of the Entities world

#

I haven't worked with Entities in a hot minute, so I don't recall the specifics.

true pasture
#

Logged back onto my computer and my main scene is completely gone and getting weird error messages. I am using version control so that should save the scenes too. Would errors like this stop the scene from loading?

image.png image.png
#

hoping its just this. anyone else getting issues?

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true pasture
#

fixed by syncing my time on computer. Nevermind

solar hill
#

also how is this a code question

true pasture
#

compiler errors is why I came here.. but yeah it was actually not code related

hallow sun
#

Hey guys any tips on avoiding an object consuming a click meant for its child? (2D)
For the longest time i didnt know why sometimes the food from the food spawner couldn't be picked up, turns out it works fine if i turn off the spawner's collider so I'm just gonna hard-code so it shuts off on spawn and turns back on OnTransformChildrenChanged, any cleaner solutions?

teal viper
#

How do you have your "on click" implemented?

hallow sun
#

2DRaycast with ScreenToWorldPoint that i got from a drag tutorial

#

i guess without 3d there's no top-bottom priority?

slender nymph
#

ideally you should be using an OverlapPoint rather than a Raycast considering you don't need to check a direction, you just need to check the point the mouse cursor is at
but you can use OverlapPointAll, then test each overlapped collider for a specific component type or interface to find the right object to call your method on

hallow sun
#

hmm but then the issue remains since the spawner is also something that you interact with

slender nymph
#

then you'll need to determine how you want to prioritize the objects, and as you're looping through what was found by the physics query you check if they have the relevant component, then check priority, and just keep track of only the one object with the current highest priority, then after the loop you call your desired method on that object

cyan wind
#

does anyone know where I should look for basic movement code

molten otter
#

anyone know a way to see documentation for methods directly in vscode?
like it would be great to hover over a method and see the documentation for it right there in the editor

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willow mantle
#

heyyy
could someone help
everytime i try to integrate camera follow code my player just flies away 😭

teal viper
#

!ide

radiant voidBOT
molten otter
#

the docs for each method are all there in the unity website so it would be nice if there was a plugin to embed it into the editor view

teal viper
molten otter
#

yeah for that example and others there aren't any

image.png
#

and for others there are, and those show up correctly when you hover over the method

image.png
#

it's inconsistent really

upper pebble
#

How would I enforce a cap on player acceleration?

cosmic dagger
upper pebble
#

It started to morph into a "if it works, don't touch it"

willow mantle
keen dew
#

Without seeing the code? No

willow mantle
#

everytime i run the code it just flings my player to the left

#

how do i fix it tho
i tried a bunch of things but it either flings my player to the left or camera just doesnt follow the player

naive pawn
#

that is the z position, and it's correct

naive pawn
#

also, seems like your ide is not configured

#

!ide

radiant voidBOT
willow mantle
naive pawn
#

that's not at all what i said

#

either the issue isn't what you said it is, or this isn't the relevant code

#

check which one it is, work from there

willow mantle
#

😭
okie the code is relevant tho
ill check the issue again

naive pawn
#

try checking the player's position from the inspector when the supposed "fling" happens

#

is the player actually getting flung left, or is the camera being flung right

burnt vapor
# willow mantle

Regardless of your issue, you need to configure your editor first like Chris said. We're not able to properly help you until then.

#

See the bot message for steps to configuring your editor

willow mantle
willow mantle
#

i thought it was configured

naive pawn
#

well somehow it's picking up the unity field/message/script, but not doing any syntax highlighting nor picking up the namespaces as used. never seen that before

willow mantle
#

lmao im new to this UnityChanOkay

#

whats really throwing me off is the camerafollow shudnt be touching the player physics so why is this code flinging my player 😭

#

ide configured i just had to restart cause of an update

naive pawn
boreal sonnet
#

why can't i publish the game . i already installed the module for web what else I need to publish ?

Screenshot_2026-01-14_153706.png
#

anyone?

willow mantle
vagrant vine
#

I'm coming from Godot and am missing its Autoload system a lot, where I used to have manager scenes such as AudioManager, that had all the audio stream player nodes for different samples and a single AudioManager class script as the 'brains'. Since each autoload is global, I was able to e.g. AudioManager.playerDied.play() from anywhere in the code base. I suspect there's no way to do this in Unity without more overhead but that's a tradeoff I've accepted.

Could you recommend a similar pattern where I can approximate this in Unity?

naive pawn
#

the player y isnt being modified here, there's something else causing that

#

the x of the camera changing, well, that's kinda what this code is supposed to do

boreal sonnet
naive pawn
naive pawn
willow mantle
# naive pawn which one is the issue

both of them 😭 the code works normally without the camerafollow script
when i tried to make a script so the camera would follow the player everything fell apart

naive pawn
#

if the player's position is changing, it's unrelated to this. is it just perhaps that the player has an RB with gravity, and you don't have a floor?

#

try checking in scene view to get a clearer picture of what's going on

willow mantle
naive pawn
#

that's definitely not the case.

willow mantle
naive pawn
#

the camera or the player

#

you aren't giving much info to work with here, and you're starting to contradict yourself

willow mantle
#

i js started tho so it isnt much 💔 js tryna work out the codes rn

hexed terrace
# willow mantle

Your player should not be a child of your camera.

Your code moves the camera with the player.
A parent moves its children with it when it moves.

Your camera moves, so your player moves with the camera, so your camera moves again to move with the player.. rinse and repeat to inifinity

willow mantle
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made me think that i couldnt change it

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now its working ❀ thx @naive pawn @hexed terrace

hexed terrace
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edits made at runtime aren't saved in editor

willow mantle
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got frustrated and didnt notice lol

hexed terrace
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it's something that should have been checked, because after you looked at your code you can see it doesn't maniuplate the position of the player - it only gets values from it

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Just pointing that out for learning purposes, so next time you've got an issue you can troubleshoot better

willow mantle
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gotcha i did think abt that but i thought i checked the parent son thing (im new to unity) so thats y i was lost

vagrant vine
naive pawn
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usually in a persistent additive scene or DDOL

vagrant vine
sour fulcrum
vagrant vine
# sour fulcrum The former is just Unity deciding not to implement a specific solution for Singl...

For the transform 'anomaly' - for lack of a better word or my ignorance of some reason - I am genuinely curious what the pros of it might be. I can see 3 immediate cons with it:

  • In code, transforms being able to be used in place of a GO reference is a bit confusing to me
  • Empty GO having a Transform doesn't agree with 'empty' conceptually. Also, logically some things just don't exist in 2D/3D space such stuff you want to attach purely logical scripts into such as managers
  • Though probably insignificant, it's still wasted data stored in the scene tree, and maybe to process
#

Don't get me wrong though, there are some very powerful things that Unity has (this was what brought me into Unity). And e.g. Godot has its own share of major API limitations too. But I love its relative architectural purity. Oh well.

sour fulcrum
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First one might just be confusion yeah, since the game object having a transform assumption is always true gameobjects just have a reference to their transform and vis versa for convenience

Other two are correct but don’t end up really mattering too much

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Without any position, rotation, scale changes or parental hierarchy changes all a transform does is store a couple vector 3’s and a few other minor things, doesn’t do anything unless asked

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At large scales you can either look into doing more stuff with regular non unity c# classes or unity’s newer alternative to game objects #1062393052863414313

jolly wave
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Hello everyone I'm trying to figure out why my clicks on buttons using the unity ui toolkit in combination with the input system aren't working

This code runs when I toggle the menu

            // Manage cursor lock state and trigger input action map switching
            if (_isOpen)
            {
                Instance.InputActions.Player.Disable();
                Instance.InputActions.UI.Enable();
                UnityEngine.Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
                UnityEngine.Cursor.visible = true;
            }
            else
            {
                Instance.InputActions.Player.Enable();
                Instance.InputActions.UI.Disable();
                UnityEngine.Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
                UnityEngine.Cursor.visible = false;
            }

In my awake method of the same class I have also registered a callback to a close button that doesn't work

            _closeButton.RegisterCallback<ClickEvent>(_ => {
                Debug.Log("[UpgradeMenuController] CloseButton clicked.");
                ToggleMenu();
            });

I've attached a few pictures to help with the diagnosing. I also don't see any exceptions/warnings in the console :/

EDIT: It was the sorting order notlikethis

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vagrant vine
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will be interesting to see how the DOTS experience is compared to Flecs. Flecs is has a really ergonomic API IMO, but I was a bit scared with the crashes that happen when e.g. you forgot to register a component.

naive pawn
# vagrant vine For the transform 'anomaly' - for lack of a better word or my ignorance of some ...

for the first point, it's not really an issue tbh. you'd reference whichever one you're using
in the case of eg serialized fields to reference GOs/prefabs, you usually wouldn't be using either one - you'd use the component that you actually need instead, one that "represents" that object. if you specifically need just the transform, you'd reference the transform. if you specifically just need the GO, you'd reference the GO

vagrant vine
gentle trellis
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I had just imported materials from a project to another but it looks like this now how do I fix it?

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jolly wave
gentle trellis
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thankss

red igloo
timber tide
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If you're using forces then it's between the velocity, mass, and linear dampening

red igloo
timber tide
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sorry I mean the force value applied and force mode. But if you want to override physics simulation in the air for more air control then setting velocity is an idea.

native flame
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What's the best way to rotate a gameobject around an axis (while avoiding gimbal lock)? I've been using Quaternion.RotateTowards alongside Vector3.ProjectOnPlane but its giving some unwanted behaviour

timber tide
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I usually use that

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combine it with slerp

red igloo
timber tide
red igloo
native flame
native flame
timber tide
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With 0 mass I feel like it should work fine

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or using acceleration mode

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could try some small values of impulse forces

red igloo
timber tide
red igloo
warm iris
# 
private void Update()
    {
        if (gameActive)
        {
            plrInput = move.action.ReadValue<Vector2>();
            SetMoveDir(plrInput);

            CheckIfOutOfBounds(snakeTransform, bg);

            Vector2 targetPos = new Vector2(snakeTransform.position.x + moveDir.x, snakeTransform.position.y + moveDir.y);
            Debug.Log(Vector2.MoveTowards(snakeTransform.position, targetPos, 1 / moveCooldown * Time.deltaTime));
            snakeTransform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(snakeTransform.position, targetPos, 1 / moveCooldown * Time.deltaTime);

            moveTimer += Time.deltaTime;
            if (moveTimer >= moveCooldown)
            {
                moveTimer -= moveCooldown;
                moveDir = nextMoveDir;
                snakeTransform.up = moveDir;

                Vector2 pos = snakeTransform.position;
                pos.x = Mathf.Round(pos.x);
                pos.y = Mathf.Round(pos.y);
                snakeTransform.position = pos;
            }
        }
    }
``` how can I reduce the delay between player clicking some key to rotate and rotating? Currently I've made it that player can only rotate when he has travelled 1 unit
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my current moveDelay is 0.1s but the delay is still noticable

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I was thinking of making the delay 0.05 and adding moving the snake by 0.5 instead of 1 but adding a variable which lets you do that only 2nd time the moveDelay has ended

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Is this a good solution?

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heres also a ss version of the code if someone prefers that

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verbal dome
warm iris
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I still want the snake to move the same speed

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and player be able to rotate only when snake has moved 1 unit

solar hill
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so yeah you need some way to queue the rotations so if the player presses right but that 0.1s hasnt happened yet it will make the snake turn right when it does

verbal dome
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Where/how do you set the value of nextMoveDir?

solar hill
warm iris
warm iris
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its just that the delay is really annoying when being close to edge

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because very often if you click while being close to the edge, you often die because of the delay

verbal dome
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I think you should not interpolate from current to next position, but from previous to current position instead

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(I also think that this should be using integers for the actual logic and floats for visuals but i already pointed that out earlier)

warm iris
verbal dome
# warm iris sorry, what does that mean cuz I dont understand?

This line interpolates your snake from current position to the next position
snakeTransform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(snakeTransform.position, targetPos, 1 / moveCooldown * Time.deltaTime);
You should do it from the previous position to the current position instead

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Anyway, the proper way to design this is to use Vector2Int (or similiar) for the coordinates because it is strictly grid-based

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And then use Vector2 and MoveTowards for the moving visual snake object (sprite renderer, mesh renderer or such)

warm iris
#

why would that be better?

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To me it doesnt make sense

verbal dome
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Is this a traditional snake game?

warm iris
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yeah

verbal dome
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Floats are not precise, ints are. You use ints when dealing with grid-based games like this

warm iris
#

ok but then I wont be able to move the snake smoothly

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doesnt movetowards require floats?

verbal dome
warm iris
#

oh sorry forgot about that lol

verbal dome
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It's often important to separate your game LOGIC (what actually happens) from your game VISUALS (what things look like)

warm iris
#

but if I need to use the float anyways, wont it be stupid to have both?

verbal dome
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No, it's different

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You can have the logic happen with ints which is more robust and then just have the visual snake object follow that with floats/Vector2

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Or you can do it your way which clearly doesn't work

warm iris
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so in my case which variables should I make into ints?

verbal dome
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You'd have something like Vector2Int gridPosition which would be the snake's position on the grid

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And your grid would be some sort of array

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Surely the internet is full of snake programming tutorials?

warm iris
#

I only ask here to improve my code or ask if some functions which I need exist

verbal dome
verbal dome
#

You can probably look at snake made in python and get the idea

#

Good way to learn how grids/arrays/2D arrays work in games

warm iris
#

ok thanks

noble rover
#

Hey so im trying to make a dungeon and wondering what's the best and simplest way to hide walls/objects in camera view using a orthopgraic top down camera?

solar hill
noble rover
solar hill
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have all the walls that can block the camera on a special layer

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and hide them if the raycast hits them

noble rover
eternal needle
solar hill
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ignore the clipping planes

noble rover
eternal needle
#

you would use the raycast (likely RaycastAll) to know which objects are directly between the camera and player. From there, you use your own logic to hide the walls. the raycast is just to provide you information

timber tide
#

yeah raycast is ideal

eternal needle
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the transparency isn't recommended if it's a complex shape though as you will see it render in a very strange way within itself

timber tide
#

I would look into how to make a dissolve shader though for opaque geometry so you can have some smooth dissolve effect over just disabling but that's just fluff you can add in later

noble rover
eternal needle
noble rover
eternal needle
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im not that good at shaders either but when i dabbled some time back with a dither effect, it didn't take long at all to find a tutorial. the first result on google should be fine

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if someones publishing a shader tutorial, odds are it works at least

noble rover
timber tide
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you can do is fully with shadering by changing clipping planes on the specific renderings or by using stencils but easier to figure it out with raycasts if you're not that versed in shaders

solar hill
#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmLIy62Gsnk

YouTube
LlamAcademy
Fade Objects with C# and the Standard URP Shaders | Unity Tutorial

Learn how you can easily fade out objects that are using the standard URP shaders that obstruct view to the player using C# code!

In this tutorial you'll see how to determine which material properties to adjust for the standard URP shaders:
⚫ Universal Render Pipeline/Lit
⚫ Universal Render Pipeline/Complex Lit
⚫ Universal Render Pipeline...

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eternal needle
# noble rover I fyou could find a good tutorial that would be greatly appreciated unsure exact...

i havent looked at tutorials in a long time, nor have the time to really go through it right now. Id break this into two steps since u dont seem familiar with raycasts at all

  1. learn to use raycasts to get every object directly between the camera and player
  2. learn how to make an object invisible. that could be anything like disabling the renderer, changing the alpha on the material, or using a shader for a dither effect.
    step 2 is entirely independent of step 1
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you just need to consider what you want it to look like. Like with what Mao said about a smooth disolve effect
The only thing i feel important to point out is what i said about complex shapes being weird when using transparent mode

timber tide
slate badge
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I have this problem where my button, when its instantiated, it cant refer to the game manager gameobject when its spawned. When i press the button, it gives me the error "object reference not set to instance blah blah". But i found the problem or well the solution which is to drag the gamemanager gameobject into the slot again and it works.

so how do i make it where, when the button is spawned, the object the "onclick()" references is the one in the scene, and not the gamemanager prefab?

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naive pawn
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the button being an asset/prefab?

red igloo
#

I am using forcemode.Accelaration if I want it to have a max speed would I do this →

{
    rb.linearVelocity = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(rb.linearVelocity, accelMaxSpeed);
} ```
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Alright got everything working!

naive pawn
iron cobalt
#

Question regarding interactable NPCs
Is it more common/better to put a trigger on the player itself and have it fire when it comes in contact with the NPCs collider, or have a trigger on every single NPC?

frail hawk
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what exactly will the npc do when player hits

iron cobalt
frail hawk
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yeah then it is better to keep that in one place, assuming the other components/scripts are on the npc

iron cobalt
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Alrighty, thanks so much!

spare summit
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anyone know of a way to make a npc path following system and that npc won't follow the path unless the player clicks on a ui button. This is for a 2d game

grand snow
#

The concept of "do thing only when a button is pressed" is fundamental.

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Its not too hard to setup a button to do a thing (button -> ui -> npc)

spare summit
#

with scripting

grand snow
spare summit
#

ty

tulip herald
#

!code

radiant voidBOT
iron cobalt
tulip herald
#

This might be a stupid ahhhhhh question

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But is there a way to overload Action / Events like you can with methods

grand snow
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using event ensures external classes can only += and -=

tulip herald
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hmmm yes vtables (no idea what that is)

grand snow
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otherwise with a delegate type field anyone can re assign the value and invoke it

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Its basically how virtual methods work in the first place
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_method_table

Virtual method table

In computer programming, a virtual method table (VMT), virtual function table, virtual call table, dispatch table, vtable, or vftable is a mechanism used in a programming language to support dynamic dispatch (or run-time method binding).
Whenever a class defines a virtual function (or method), most compilers add a hidden member variable to the c...

tulip herald
#

Good to know ill do some research about that

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Thank you bro

lofty sequoia
#

Why can't I use System.Media in a new Unity project?

grand snow
#

You probably dont want to (its windows only)
Otherwise you have to make a file to make unity link to other libs

lofty sequoia
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Thank you, it defaulted to .NET Standard instead of Framework

grand snow
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Ah i forgot about that. Anyway you probably do not need to touch that namespace

red igloo
#

would I get the rigidbody's linearvelocity.y ?

night raptor
#

sorry, I wrote positive and negative the wrong way around at first

red igloo
night raptor
red igloo
night raptor
# red igloo a variable

Whatever that value is, I don't see how that if statement would only be run at the climax. Why would that inequality not be satisfied immediately when the player starts the jump?

red igloo
polar acorn
#

How about instead of just logging a pointless word, you log the actual values you're checking? See what the y velocity is and the velYHeight

night raptor
#

If I'm not missing something very obvious, I'm not seeing a world where that script would detect the climax correctly

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The velocity should be at it's highest at the start of the jump, not at the climax (the velocity should be 0 at the climax)

red igloo
night raptor
chrome apex
#

!code

radiant voidBOT
chrome apex
# 
if (!grabbed)
        {
            while (Vector3.Distance(IkTarget.position, hit.point) > 0.05f || Quaternion.Angle(IkTarget.rotation, targetRotation) > 1f)
            {
                IkTarget.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(IkTarget.position, hit.point, moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
                IkTarget.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(IkTarget.rotation, targetRotation, rotatespeed * Time.deltaTime);
                yield return null;
            }
            IkTarget.SetParent(null);
            grabbed = true;
            while (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, IkTarget.position) < 3f /* || Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, IkTarget.rotation) < 90f*/)
            {
                /*Vector3 euler = IkTarget.eulerAngles;
                euler.z = transform.eulerAngles.y;
                IkTarget.eulerAngles = euler;*/
                IkTarget.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(IkTarget.rotation.x, transform.rotation.y, IkTarget.rotation.z);
                yield return null;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            while (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, IkTarget.position) < 1.2f /* || Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, IkTarget.rotation) < 90f*/)
            {
                /*Vector3 euler = IkTarget.eulerAngles;
                euler.z = transform.eulerAngles.y;
                IkTarget.eulerAngles = euler;*/
                IkTarget.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(IkTarget.rotation.x, transform.rotation.y, IkTarget.rotation.z);
                yield return null;
            }
            grabbed = false;
        }

I am losing my mind. Why does this not work? It worked. Then I reverted scene changes and now it doesn't work. Why would that be the case?

I duplicated the second while and commented out some stuff for debugging, but the second (or third) while never happens

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or, to be more precise, the ikTarget never rotates

night raptor
# red igloo Sorry I am just confused at this point lol. so the velocity.y is 0 at climax wou...

The idea I described earlier:

float lastFrameVel;

void FixedUpdate()
{
    if (lastFrameVel >= 0f && linearVelocity.y < 0f && playerNotTouchingGround)
    {
        print("Climax");
    }
    lastFrameVel = linearVelocity.y;
}

linearVelocity.y < 0f && playerNotTouchingGround alone could be enough without the last frame velocity taken into account, but in that case you would be getting climax printed the whole way down (each frame the player is falling) which may or may not be what you want, I wouldn't know

zealous vault
#

How do I find all usages of a particular script in a project via the Editor?

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grand snow
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search ref:"Assets/Scripts/FooBar.cs" with the asset path

zealous vault
#

I'm stuck with an older version of unity for reasons out of my control

grand snow
#

then try doing that in new search (ctrl K)

zealous vault
#

0 results

#

The script I'm looking for is probably in a prefab rather than the scene itself

grand snow
grand snow
zealous vault
#

On a similar topic, how do I filter for a component in the object properties panel?

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grand snow
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inspector has no searching ability

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hierachy does for component types

polar acorn
#

Minimize all the stuff that isn't that until you find it

zealous vault
#

Ahaha, thanks everyone.

#

Well, thanks rob5300 that is

grand snow
zealous vault
upper pebble
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Forgot to add this

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polar acorn
upper pebble
polar acorn
#

What possible reason do you have for a do-while loop

upper pebble
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But I'm mostly messing around to see what works because most tutorials suck

teal viper
polar acorn
#

Do you even know what a do-while loop does

upper pebble
upper pebble
polar acorn
upper pebble
cosmic dagger
polar acorn
teal viper
upper pebble
#

Y'all underestimate the randomness and lack of knowledge that a beginner programmer has

teal viper
#

You should really try following a tutorial.

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And learning from it.

polar acorn
#

Loops run to completion. It will keep doing the body of the loop until the condition evaluates to false

upper pebble
polar acorn
#

If you subtract 0.5 from a number over and over until it equals 0, the end result is the number becomes 0

#

Literally nothing else in the entire universe can happen until that number hits 0

#

So, it's identical to just doing = 0

upper pebble
polar acorn
#

with an if statement

upper pebble
#

I am getting the feeling that my code is like nails on a chalkboard

teal viper
upper pebble
polar acorn
#

If the tutorial is already in your skill level then why would you do it

#

If you already know it why learn

teal viper
upper pebble
upper pebble
teal viper
upper pebble
grizzled lotus
#

I have a problem with the UI toolkit, but im not sure if this is the right place to ask about it. could someone point me in the right direction?

polar acorn
polar acorn
teal viper
upper pebble
grizzled lotus
upper pebble
#

And I'd rather work on my own code to figure out how things work rather than sticking myself into tutorial hell

polar acorn
teal viper
polar acorn
#

And, again, every tutorial should be out of your league. Everything you learn, ever, in any discipline is by definition "out of your skill level". What would be the point of learning something you already know

teal viper
#

You need to proactively research. Not just ask random people.

#

If you can't do that, go back to tutorials or courses.

upper pebble
#

Y'all are insufferable. All you constantly do is assume I haven't been doing things rather than asking in the first place. YES I have been looking at the manual. YES I have been looking at tutorials and learning from them. AND YESSSS I have been doing research. I ask people questions because it helps me get a better understanding and it helps with problems I don't understand or can't identify through googling. If you're so opposed to answering questions that newer programmers have because they don't know, THEN DON'T HELP PEOPLE IN THE CHANNEL SPECIFICALLY FOR THEM.

polar acorn
#

Most beginners don't openly state "I'm not going to use tutorials, you figure this shit out for me"

upper pebble
polar acorn
#

If you want help, you should be receptive to, you know, receiving help

timber anchor
teal viper
upper pebble
upper pebble
teal viper
polar acorn
#

I gave you the answer. I even explained why what you were doing was wrong. You want a reacharound too before I've sufficiently "helped" to your liking, sir?

teal viper
#

Miss the theory and you're a monkey with a keyboard. Skip pracitve and you're not developing these neural connections making it click.

upper pebble
polar acorn
#

The "obvious answers" being "look up what a do-while loop does before trying to use them"?

#

I don't think that's an unreasonable ask

teal viper
upper pebble
# polar acorn The "obvious answers" being "look up what a do-while loop does before trying to ...

The information I got from how to use do-loops was from the unity tutorial one of YOU sent me. So sure, my fault for misinterpreting and learning from it. That is the ONLY good and helpful info I have gotten from this argument. Everything else has been the same non-descript "go look at a tutorial" or "look it up". What's ironic about that is you don't even bother asking or assuming the person has done that. You jump to the conclusion that the person asking the question is a helpless little rat who needs to be redirected to the manual for the 50th time.

upper pebble
polar acorn
teal viper
polar acorn
#

And no, I don't think this code was from a unity tutorial

upper pebble
polar acorn
#

Which would almost certainly have explained how loops work