💻┃code-beginner

[spare thunder]

Guess something was wrong on that almost empty project

The new one is swift

[swift crag]

I saw you had some third-party packages in there. If they don't separate their code from your own (with an assembly definition), their code gets recompiled along with yours

[spare thunder]

They were small ones I though, just quality of life ones (in their own folders) But I guess so.

[swift crag]

You can test by introducing one package at a time

[slim rapids]

Hello! I'm a beginner in C# and I don't know where to start. Can anyone help me?

[halcyon moon]

why doesn't my script work?

public class PlayerClicks : MonoBehaviour
{

    public ParticleSystem ClickEffect;

    void OnMouseDown()
    {
        Debug.Log("Clicked");
    }
}

when i click nothing happens

i placed a circle with a circle 2d collider

im on 2d urp

im losing my mind to this

[polar acorn]

If you're using the new InputSystem, OnMouseDown no longer works.

[halcyon moon]

watch brackeys tutorials, its a good start.

look for "how to make a game" playlist on his channel

[halcyon moon]

ohhhh

i forgot about ts

ok thanks

[slim rapids]

thanks! i'll take a look

[halcyon moon]

but how can i revert it to the old one?

[bitter herald]

Quick question - Is it possible to make character controllers not pass through each other? When moving - my character controller can wiggle through other character controllers :/

[polar acorn]

!input

[radiant void]

How to Set Input

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

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

[halcyon moon]

good luck

best advice, don't over do it and don't expect good results early.

[halcyon moon]

thanks

[bitter herald]

I switched my characters from using rigidbodies to character controllers to be more stable, but now they can move through each other which isnt great for combat. Advice? 😄

[kindred blade]

theres most likely a way to combined these 2 if statements into one line but idk how

[rich adder]

you have to show more detail like code to move & inspector for both objs

[polar acorn]

||

[kindred blade]

where would i be adding these

[polar acorn]

It means "Or"

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators#conditional-logical-or-operator-

[polar acorn]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators#conditional-logical-or-operator-

Ah dang

double kill

[kindred blade]

lol

[rich adder]

its good you should learn these basics of csharp
on a related note, unitys GetButton and new Input system can have the same action be for both a controller / or keyboard

[halcyon moon]

yo another problem.
when i click i suppose the effect should play? but it doesn't.

public class PlayerClicks : MonoBehaviour
{

    public ParticleSystem ClickEffect;

    void OnMouseDown()
    {
        ClickEffect.Play();
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

isn't this like the easiest way to play the effect?

or is it bcs i have z axis and its 2d?

[polar acorn]

You're "Playing" a prefab.

[rich adder]

if your project using new input system. onMouseDown will not work

[polar acorn]

that doesn't actually exist in the scene

[halcyon moon]

i reverted to old

[polar acorn]

If you want to actually see it, it needs to be in the scene

[halcyon moon]

oh i need to put a prefab first?

in the scene

[rich adder]

you need to instantiate it

yes

[halcyon moon]

ok

im trying not to use and ai modules and asking you guys so i can improve abit and actually learn why im having these dumb small issues

also

is there another way i can instantiate this effect?

[rich adder]

why "another way"

[bitter herald]

Nav, I can't reply with an image for some reason but in regards to character controller passing through another character controller: I'm also doing multiple .Move within the update, not sure if that's alright?

[rich adder]

its common to instantiate an effect to play it

later on you can improve it with pooling and recycle them

[rich adder]

ok and whats the movement code look like?

[bitter herald]

lol

[rich adder]

yes dont DM me

just post it here

!code

[bitter herald]

Nah posted directly to the channel

[radiant void]

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[rich adder]

use the links

[bitter herald]

ah ok thanks

[halcyon moon]

well, i tried to put it in two different ways but still no effect.

[bitter herald]

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

[halcyon moon]

idk if im dumb or smth

[halcyon moon]

yeah ur right

[halcyon moon]

i got this effect from the asset store if it makes a difference

can i use another way to like "emission" it?

i remember there was a way to make it false and true but don't remember the whole code

[rich adder]

in what way? did you not spawn it ?

[rich adder]

does the other player have any movement code? is it a character controlled by player ?

btw you shouldnt call .Move twice, combine it into 1 call

[bitter herald]

Yeah, just combined into 1 call- still happens unfortuntaly - the other character does have movement code, but I disabled everything on that gameObject in that video except for the charactercontroller and the clipping still happens 🙁

[rich adder]

just combined into 1 call- still happens unfortuntaly
this isnt something to fix it, just something you should do in general

is this local multiplayer / same screen multiplayer or something

[bitter herald]

Apparently AI says that is a downside of using character controllers lol:
controller.Move is kinematic and discrete; fast moves (dodge bursts) can tunnel through other bodies because there’s no continuous collision.

All same scene, no multiplayer

Suggests using rigidbodies on other objects and characters

[rich adder]

are they going to be controlled at the same time or do they "take turns" ?

[bitter herald]

Same time, it's weird though because even with a simple object that is not moving but has a character controller, I can still clip through

[rich adder]

oh I was gonna say , what you could do is switch it from CC-enabled to a capsule collider when not moving

[halcyon moon]

well, i found another method to spawn it similar to mine but worked somehow.

public class PlayerClicks : MonoBehaviour
{

   [SerializeField] private ParticleSystem ClickEffect;

    private ParticleSystem ClickEffectInstance;

    void OnMouseDown()
    {
        SpawnClickEffects();
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }

    private void SpawnClickEffects()
    {
        ClickEffectInstance = Instantiate(ClickEffect, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
    }
}

the problem is the effect continues to play after the click

[rich adder]

do you have looping on ?

[halcyon moon]

i disabled "looping" and set "stop action" to destroy

[rich adder]

also how come you're destroying the object with PlayerClicks rather than the spawned particle ?

[halcyon moon]

i don't understand

[rich adder]

SpawnClickEffects();
Destroy(gameObject);```

[halcyon moon]

ummmm, so?

[rich adder]

You're destroy object with PlayerClicks?

[halcyon moon]

elaborate this info

[halcyon moon]

yup

im making a simple game about clicking on circles

smth similar to aimlab if you know it

just trying to test my skills which are none

[rich adder]

so PlayerClicks is on the object being spawned?

the naming was confusing

[halcyon moon]

player clicks is the script i assigned to the circles

its the only script there

[rich adder]

gotcha

[halcyon moon]

cool

[rich adder]

now did you modify the prefab for Effect in the project folder and reference that one

[halcyon moon]

the problem here i think is that i have clones after the circle is destroyed

clones of the effect

i need to destroy those

i think

[rich adder]

show which obj you put in the inspector for. ClickEffect

[halcyon moon]

this what you want?

[halcyon moon]

i didn't get this one

[halcyon moon]

i think yeah

[rich adder]

and it still loops ?

[halcyon moon]

yup

or the clone does

wait i gotchu

[rich adder]

how many appear in hierarchy when u spawn it

[rich adder]

hmm check if it has subemitters maybe

[halcyon moon]

where?

[rich adder]

in main module of partice

[halcyon moon]

nope

disabled

do i close and open unity?

maybe its bugged

[rich adder]

doubt

[halcyon moon]

im going crazy again

didn't work

[rich adder]

duration / time is probably too long

try shorten it

[halcyon moon]

doubt

didn't work

at this point we're trying anything to get this

[rich adder]

I mean duration can sometimes prolong it

[halcyon moon]

im looking up a guide for another way to emit this effect

maybe its smth in the code

idk

[rich adder]

pause the game when the particle Clone spawns , and inspect its properties

[halcyon moon]

didn't get any info with this

im hopin off to breath some air then coming back

sorry if i caused you troubles

[halcyon moon]

i didn't really get anything useful with this

it has the same prop. of a regular effect

[rich adder]

so you checked Loop is Off and Start/Durtation time is low there too?

[halcyon moon]

yup

[bold viper]

what about play on awake?

[rich adder]

thats how its playing in the first place

[bold viper]

so you need main looping off, main stop action destroy AND main play on awake false

[halcyon moon]

its on ON

i will disable it wait

[rich adder]

play on awake shouldnt be a problem cause looping

[halcyon moon]

it doesnt even play now

[queen adder]

hello guys i need help

[rich adder]

did you read any of the previous conversation

[halcyon moon]

yeah

[queen adder]

i cant move my character

[bold viper]

call play() explicitly

[rich adder]

not much anyone can help with without info

[bold viper]

or reinstate play on awake and ensure you've set emision to burst (1)

[rich adder]

Try making a brand new effect that You know for sure ends, make a prefab out of it and spawn that instead

[halcyon moon]

ok

[rich adder]

!code

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[rich adder]

on the previous effect by the way, did you make sure Duration and Start time were both low number? like half a second or something

[bold viper]

you've mapped your movement to the world state not the player state

[halcyon moon]

type " ` " three times before and after the script
like this

[queen adder]

oh

okay sorry

[rich adder]

best use Links

as it says for Large Code

[halcyon moon]

ye this works too

[queen adder]

so if somebody can help me change something about that

it woul be extreme helpfull

[rich adder]

post the code properly first, then you have to show the object you put this on

[queen adder]

yes

wait

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[halcyon moon]

yeah

[rich adder]

i would make my own praticle prefab first to ensure thats working fine and isolate the issue

[halcyon moon]

but yeah when i created another effect then instantiated it. it did spawn for sometime then die

so the problem is with the effect i got

soo gotta use another one ig

[rich adder]

yes most likely its that, can you show the Emission section rq

[halcyon moon]

like a vid?

[rich adder]

screenshot is fine too

[halcyon moon]

ok

you got anything with that?

[rich adder]

hmm Id try either applying the settings to the original prefab and use that instead of variant, or possibly set Emission in effect the same as the test effect you made, see if helps

[halcyon moon]

ok

yeah i would get another effect package

[rich adder]

hmm can you link this to me rq? now I'm curious to see what it could be

[rich adder]

I feel like there are just multiple things going on / spawning that might be overlooked

its probably a child object since there seems to be multiple shapes playing

[sweet mural]

Huh

yo uh

dose anyone know how to use c#

[rich adder]

maybe

try asking a specific question

[sweet mural]

ok so I’m in a dev group for a gorilla tag vr fan game and we currently need scripters

[rich adder]

well this isn't the place for that then

!collab

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[sweet mural]

oh mb

[sweet mural]

ohhhhh

sorry I’m new to this discord server

[sweet mural]

I’m confused by this

[polar acorn]

Did you try reading it

[rich adder]

whats confusing ? its easy to understand if you read it

[queen adder]

I dont know why my cylinder is not moving?
[i am just beginner btw]

[polar acorn]

What is supposed to be moving it

[ancient jungle]

can someone help me make this guy move he has a walking animation, and he just walks downwards by default but i want him to move with wasd

[rich adder]

so script that in

You're going to have to learn the basics before anything else..

[ancient jungle]

the project is due tomorrow

[rich adder]

so you didn't learn anything from it and are trying to get last minute ?

[ancient jungle]

i learned blender

[rich adder]

then how is this "due tomorrow"

no one is gonna do the work for you

[ancient jungle]

but help

i didnt know movement was that hard

probably isnt

[polar acorn]

What does your current movement script look like

[ancient jungle]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField]
private float speed = 5f;

[SerializeField]
private float mouseSensitivity = 2f;

private Vector3 moveDirection;
private float rotationY;

void Update()
{
    HandleMovement();
    HandleRotation();
}

private void HandleMovement()
{
    float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    float vertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

    moveDirection = new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized;

    transform.Translate(moveDirection * speed * Time.deltaTime);
}

private void HandleRotation()
{
    float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X");
    rotationY += mouseX * mouseSensitivity;

    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, rotationY, 0f);
}

}

[rich adder]

this looks like copied from the dude who posted before..

[ancient jungle]

ok

but without any script my character already moves

[polar acorn]

Is your Animator using Root Motion

[ancient jungle]

bc of the animation

[rich adder]

probably because root motion

[hexed terrace]

this is a code channel, not a feedback channel.. delete from here

[ancient jungle]

ok

i will tick it

[broken nest]

Hello, I'm trying to access a class from another script but it says the name of the script doesn't exist, any fix?

[rich adder]

you either have compile errors or nested it inside another class

[halcyon moon]

ok mb

[polar acorn]

What is the specific error and code that you're seeing

[broken nest]

using TMPro;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class MenuBuidler : MonoBehaviour
{
    #region Singleton
    public static MenuBuidler instance;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (instance != null)
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("more than 1 MenuBuidler");
            return;
        }
        instance = this;
    }
    #endregion

    public float currentTotalMenuLength;
    public void CreateMenuPanelButtons(ActionData[] actionData)
    {
    }
}

[System.Serializable]
public struct ActionData
{
    public string actionDescriptionFrench;
    public string actionDescriptionEnglish;
    public Sprite actionSprite;
    public UnityCustomEvent actionEvent;
}```

If I try to access MenuBuilder.instance it says the name of the script doesn't exist in the current context

I tried regenerating the project but it did nothign

[polar acorn]

Where do you define MenuBuilder?

The script you've provided is for MenuBuidler

[broken nest]

Ahaha

[rich adder]

nice

[broken nest]

thanks

[ancient jungle]

ok now there is no more animation but when i move with my mouse the cam moves with looks like im floating around

[slow blaze]

I'm manually refreshing unity but the script is not updating
any idea?

[slender nymph]

did you save the file? do you have any compile errors?

[slow blaze]

I saved the file and there are no compile errors

I'll try restarting unity

[hexed terrace]

just right mouse click the file -> reimport

[halcyon moon]

why when i click on my circle it doesn't do anything?

public class PlayerClicks : MonoBehaviour
{

    [SerializeField] private ParticleSystem ClickEffect;

    private ParticleSystem ClickEffectInstance;
    public GameObject CirclePrefab;

    void OnMouseDown()
    {
        SpawnClickEffects();
        Destroy(gameObject);
        Vector2 randomSpawnPosition = new Vector2(Random.Range(-8, 8), Random.Range(-4, 4));
        Instantiate(CirclePrefab, randomSpawnPosition, Quaternion.identity);
    }

    private void SpawnClickEffects()
    {
        ClickEffectInstance = Instantiate(ClickEffect, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
    }
}```

[bold viper]

because it hasn't picked up the script

[halcyon moon]

i put on the prefab the original circle prefab

[bold viper]

does the prefab have a collider attached?

[halcyon moon]

yup

[bold viper]

and is the new circle generated in the visible camera layer?

[halcyon moon]

but for some reason the clone have them disabled

[halcyon moon]

yup

[bold viper]

hmm interesting

check the z position of the 2nd circle

it needs to match the original

[halcyon moon]

ok

yup the same

the problem is the disabled collider and script

[bold viper]

are you using the new input suystem?

[halcyon moon]

can i hard code it?

[halcyon moon]

no

the old

[polar acorn]

Whenever a prefab has a reference to itself, it'll get updated with a reference to "itself" rather than the prefab file. You want to either spawn a different prefab, or do the spawning somewhere else, like a "CircleSpawnManager" object rather than having each circle spawn in its own replacement

[halcyon moon]

i thought of that too

will try to create another prefab

[bold viper]

and theres nothing else int he scene to desteroy the new circle wihtout it visually going

and the camera in use is unique and matches the collider so 2D for 2D ?

[halcyon moon]

i duplicated it, then named it "Circle Copy" then tried running it. the first two worked well then the third was named "Circle Copy (Clone)(Clone)

[grand snow]

If needed i recently made an example project on how to do mouse pointer events with new input system
https://github.com/rob5300/Unity-EventSystem-Events-Example

[halcyon moon]

and didn't have the script and collider enabled

[halcyon moon]

im on the old one

[polar acorn]

You'd need Circle to reference Circle Copy and Circle Copy to reference Circle

[halcyon moon]

ahhhhhhhh

mb

mb

[grand snow]

I know but moving forward you want to use the new input system

unless this is a one time thing thats it bye bye unity

[halcyon moon]

Worked well!
thanks

[halcyon moon]

will do

[dire ocean]

Hi could someone help me, im trying to create my first ever video game with a youtube tutorial in which i have to set up a script for player movement. But when i try to open it to edit it on visual studio theres nothing and i cant edit

Im french so my english might be bad sorry

[grand snow]

Visual studio is probably not set up correctly but id expect the newly made script to still open

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[grand snow]

^ follow these instructions to ensure visual studio is installed correctly

[dire ocean]

Thanks

[grand snow]

If you have visual studio set as your code editor in the unity editor when you double click a script in the asset window it should open that up in VS. Once you correct the install. Close VS then do this.

[quiet pollen]

guys what is happening

it says I need to update

does that just mean get 6.3

[polar acorn]

because you need to update

[quiet pollen]

to... 6.3?

[polar acorn]

If you want, or you can get the latest patch of 6.1

[quiet pollen]

oh ok thx

Im so happy that there is a new LTS version

[dire ocean]

If i have a 2024 version of unity and a 2022 version of visual studio could it be a problem ?

[wintry quarry]

no

[grand snow]

As long as VS has the unity tools and your project has the VS package updated it will work fine. The guide linked should explain it all.

[quiet pollen]

new 2d physics???

bet

and 3d display with 2d graphics

[halcyon moon]

how can i make it so if the player took 0.5 sec the object will be disabled and another is spawned? ```using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerClicks : MonoBehaviour
{

[SerializeField] private ParticleSystem ClickEffect;

private ParticleSystem ClickEffectInstance;
public GameObject CirclePrefab;

void OnMouseDown()
{
    SpawnClickEffects();
    Destroy(gameObject);
    Vector2 randomSpawnPosition = new Vector2(Random.Range(-8, 8), Random.Range(-4, 4));
    Instantiate(CirclePrefab, randomSpawnPosition, Quaternion.identity);
}

private void SpawnClickEffects()
{
    ClickEffectInstance = Instantiate(ClickEffect, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);

}

}```

or what args do i use

[quiet pollen]

also multiplayer template

also did they ever make multi person development easier with unity 6

Ive been trying to get it to work with my friend forever

but I havent managed

[rich adder]

template doesn't mean its any easier

[quiet pollen]

yeah

but it can help teach me stuff

[rich adder]

oh sweet child

[quiet pollen]

What

I havent tried multiplayer before

im sure it could teach me something

[rich adder]

this was never an issue with git

there is no "live" collab tho, like roblux or some shit

[quiet pollen]

yeah I know

but idk how to let them make edits on it

how do I give them access

[rich adder]

you add them as collaborator, depending where u host repo

[quiet pollen]

yeah for some reason I havent been able to get that to work in the past

[grand snow]

Yea they need permission to be able to push changes

[quiet pollen]

I honestly think its an issue on their end

[rich adder]

or lack of knowledge

[grand snow]

Hmm well its pretty simple to change so probably your fault

[quiet pollen]

I guess

idk

[grand snow]

if using github check the collaborators section for the repo and see if this user is added to the list as maintainer or admin

[quiet pollen]

oh

thats what you meant

so would they just.... download the project from github

for some reason ive only ever tried unity version control whatever

[rich adder]

pretty much, they have a copy

[quiet pollen]

oh ok

[rich adder]

unity version control always has problems

[quiet pollen]

thank you guys!

[rich adder]

learn git, and use common hosts like github

[quiet pollen]

will do

[broken nest]

Hey, I'm trying to instantiate a prefab and I get the error "Cannot instantiate objects with a parent which is persistent. New object will be created without a parent."

Any idea where that could come from?

[polar acorn]

You're trying to create a child object of a DDOL object so it's making it without a parent instead

[broken nest]

I don't think I am tho

[polar acorn]

What line is the error on

[broken nest]

panel = Instantiate(UIPrefab.instance.panelPrefab, this.transform);

[polar acorn]

And what object has this script on it

[broken nest]

public class MenuPanelButtonsDescriptions : MonoBehaviour
{
public RectTransform panel;

public void CreateMenuUI(ActionData[] actionData)
{
    panel = Instantiate(UIPrefab.instance.panelPrefab, this.transform);
}

}

The object is an instance of a prefab itself

I instantiate MenuPanelButtonsDescriptions, then call CreateMenuUI()

[grand snow]

best ask that again in a better way

[polar acorn]

Are you sure you're calling CreateMenuUI on the one in the scene?

And not the prefab?

[broken nest]

Ho that might be the mistake

[arctic ridge]

so I have finished my project, but worked on it under the name my project now I want to change it and cant figure for the life of me how, did it from the web dashboard too it still shows as my project

[rich adder]

you mean player settings?

also not a coding question

[broken nest]

That was the problem thank you

[arctic ridge]

okey police

[solar hill]

If you want help youre better off asking in the correct places, rather than getting mad when someone suggests something that should be obvious to you

[worldly mural]

hey, im trying to learn c# for game development, does anyone have any tips on how to learn and how to get started?

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/csharp-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners/

[grand snow]

Best to learn a bit outside of unity. Understanding some object oriented programming goes a long way!

id also recommend microsoft learn

[worldly mural]

okay, thanks a lot!

[uncut gulch]

hi, going to make this short, i am starting learning unity , having issue with this tutorial i made a script and applied it to the character and set the keys for the movement yet when i press play character does not move

what i am doing wrong here

[rich adder]

how , you didnt send the script

[uncut gulch]

sorry i did not want to spam this place

here this is it

[rich adder]

dont send code this way

use links

!code

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[hexed terrace]

first thing - do not have a CharacterController AND Rigidbody on .. choose one

[rich adder]

Root motion is probably overriding the movement code

[uncut gulch]

i am very new to this what you mean by characterController

[rich adder]

dont think i've seen one there

[rain solar]

when generating terrain with fractal noise how do i interpolate between noise samples? when i do linear interp the terrain looks low quality cause its just a bunch of squares and i cant use bicubic because it creates wavy terrain

[uncut gulch]

i found the issue i was trying to move in the scane window not the game window

[stone narwhal]

chat, does anyone use unity vivox ?

[rich adder]

dont ask to ask

[jovial gust]

so im making a game in unity, its a shooter game, i have leaning (q/e), sprint, crouch, prone, sliding, and i have the gun models, the crosshair, I need help making hitmarkers like bulletholes

like in siege when u shoot the wall it has a hole

[rich adder]

decal projector

[jovial gust]

wait thats smth else, rn im working on the hitmarker on an enemy, like if i hit them it will display a red dot or smth and i cant seem to get that to work

the bulletholes i js figured out

[rich adder]

oh cause you said this

like in siege when u shoot the wall it has a hole

[jovial gust]

ik that wasnt the problem

[rich adder]

anyway, for hit markers you probably want to use either a sprite above enemy if you want it world, or UI for screen

[jovial gust]

ik im selecting knob fgor the source image

and its red with alpha at 255

[rich adder]

so then whats the current problem, how about start with that

[jovial gust]

not getting the red hitmarker to display

[rich adder]

ok this is where you show how you set everything up

[jovial gust]

thats everything i have

its kind hard cus i got a lot of scripts in it already

idk if thats what u needed or not

[rich adder]

if thats what you use for making things happen , then its relevant

[jovial gust]

is there something specific ui want me to send

im new to this stuff

[rich adder]

the setup should be fairly easy..
you Invoke some type of event OnEnemyHit and something like a UI /hitmarker controller listens for it

if you need to demystify hitinfo, send that too in the event

[jovial gust]

english?>

😭

[midnight tree]

Do you check the hit ray hits someone?

[rich adder]

it is english..
You need a way to tell the script that you hit an enemy

so the script that controls hitmarker changes its color

[jovial gust]

on the bottom left earlier where player state was it had a thing where it said enemy hit

ill try and find if i can make it happebn again'

[rich adder]

before worrying about UI feedback you should probably already have that type of system setup
if you can't tell enemy was damaged whats the point of hitmarker

[fervent lagoon]

Hey if anyone wants to give me help in the input system channel tha would be great 😊

[rich adder]

don't crosspost

if someone wants to help and/or knows an answer with input they visit the channel

[fervent lagoon]

Sorry king

[stone narwhal]

Mh? I was just asking to like get an opinion because I was thinking of using it

[rich adder]

makes more sense to ask that directly , also this is a coding channel so not really related
better off asking on the forums dedicated for it

https://discussions.unity.com/c/unity-services/53

[vale robin]

using System;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class PaddleInput : MonoBehaviour
{

    [Header("Controls")]
    [SerializeField] private KeyCode keyUp = KeyCode.UpArrow;
    [SerializeField] private Button upButton;
    [SerializeField] private KeyCode keyDown = KeyCode.DownArrow;
    [SerializeField] private Button downButton;
    [SerializeField] private KeyCode keyPower = KeyCode.Space;


    // Variables
    public Vector2 input { get; private set; } = Vector2.zero;
    public event Action powerKeyPressed;

    void Update()
    {
        input = Vector2.zero;

        if (Input.GetKey(keyUp))
        {
            input = new Vector2(input.x, input.y + 1);
        }

        if (Input.GetKey(keyDown))
        {
            input = new Vector2(input.x, input.y - 1);
        }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(keyPower))
        {
            powerKeyPressed.Invoke();
        }
    }
}

Is there any way to check constantly for the direction UI buttons to be pressed so I can use them with the input?

[tropic haven]

question, i've just begun learning about how the game architecture is structured, should I divide playerMovement, playerAttack and playerJump in different scripts?

[teal viper]

Depends. Do you expect to have players that can't move or attack or jump?

What's your reasoning behind splitting it into several scripts?

[tropic haven]

to avoid interdependencies (?)

[teal viper]

You can achieve that even if all of these features are in one script.
How exactly splitting it into several scripts gonna help you?

Besides, do you really want to avoid dependency of, let's say movement and jumping? These mechanics are usually closely interconnected for obvious reasons.

[tropic haven]

yeah you're right, thanks for your answer

[wintry quarry]

Use the OnScreenControls feature of the new input system to make this easy

[vale robin]

I want to. However I am using the Input Manager because there are two players on screen and each needs different controls (this is a pong clone) and input system doesn't allow me to do that (unless I am missing something)

[naive pawn]

input system definitely does

[wintry quarry]

Input system definitely allows you to do that.

[vale robin]

Different keys in the same keyboard?

[naive pawn]

you could even do it 1:1 with how you have it in the input manager

or you could utilize the local multiplayer stuff

[wintry quarry]

for on screen controls you could bind the UI controls to different device inputs and if you use control schemes PlayerInput can use those to disambiguate between the players

or you can just have separate actions per player

either way

[naive pawn]

afaik there's only GetAxis smoothing that isn't replicated in the new inputsystem

[vale robin]

Oh, I see, I can just make actions for the two different players in the same control

Since this will be a mobile game anyways, I don't think there will be a difference then

But how do I make the players respond to different controls then?

[naive pawn]

kinda the same way you did with the input manager

have them listen for different events or check different actions

[wintry quarry]

as I mentioned using PlayerInput/PlayerInputManager or by making separate actions

[vale robin]

I see, I'll check that then, thanks

[native widget]

Hello what is the name of this in code

[rich adder]

somewhere here https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/RenderSettings.html

[native widget]

Thank you

[rain solar]

when generating terrain with fractal noise how do i interpolate between noise samples? when i do linear interp the terrain looks low quality cause its just a bunch of squares and i cant use bicubic because it creates wavy terrain

[stone heron]

this is probably past beginner, but why do you need to interpolate them at all? Why not have 1 sample per vertex?

[spare saddle]

Can I just learn visual scripting if I don't wanna learn how to code?

Is it easier?

[slender nymph]

sure, you can do whatever you want

[slender nymph]

no

[naive pawn]

you have to learn to code even with visual scripting

[livid anchor]

What are the ways I can use to make an enemy follow my player ? I'm using the linear velocity right now, using the player pos - enemy pos, but the issue is that my enemy is fast at first then becomes sluggish while closing in

[midnight plover]

You can have a threshold where it should stop and project the speed on that line. So if its below a certain distance, slow down and if its close to another distance, stop.

[livid anchor]

I would rather have a relative stable speed toward the player

[keen dew]

(player pos - enemy pos).normalized * speed

[midnight plover]

yeh, thats what I meant. keep the speed stable until hitting the threshold and below that do whatever you want. full stop, slow down. up to you and your animation

[livid anchor]

Worked like a charm, they are more threatening now

can GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>() pick also the parent transform ? because it seems like it

[midnight plover]

"Gets references to all components of type T on the same GameObject as the component specified, and any child of the GameObject."

If you get the components its an array, you can just filter out the self transform after getting them

[livid anchor]

I have a decentlooking game now. Enemies spawning alright, running toward the player, feel like a real game now

[naive pawn]

what are you trying to do? if you're just trying to get all the children you can just.. get all children

[midnight plover]

haha, true, it can be as easy as

foreach(Transform t in transform)
  Debug.Log(t.name);

[livid anchor]

Yeah ? How ?

[midnight plover]

Look up 😉

[livid anchor]

You can just iterate on a gameobject transform ?

[midnight plover]

Its basically a wrapper for GetChild(index) for all indexes within childCount

for more information, its the interface being used from c# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.ienumerable?view=net-10.0

[livid anchor]

I'll look at that later

[sour nest]

You are trying to read Input using the UnityEngine.Input class, but you have switched active Input handling to Input System package in Player Settings.
Hi i was doing the C# tutorial from Unity and when i did the code for jumping it said this

[hexed terrace]

Player settings -> other -> change input to old (I can't remember the exact name of the field)

[naive pawn]

!input

[radiant void]

How to Set Input

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

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

[sour nest]

Thanks ! will this problem be often there when i will code ?

[naive pawn]

no

this isn't related to code, this is project config

[sour nest]

okay thank you

[pseudo laurel]

hi my player sliding/drifting with any movement script after clicking play button it starts to slide how to fix that

[civic anvil]

Thank you man. It's interesting unity docs just say use the old system.

[pseudo laurel]

can anyone help plzz

it sliding without any input

[civic anvil]

check off animate physics in player's animator component

[pseudo laurel]

thank u i will try

[pseudo laurel]

no its not working bro

[naive pawn]

how are you moving the player? show the code there

!code

[radiant void]

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[pseudo laurel]

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

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public InputAction MoveAction;

public float walkSpeed = 1.0f;
public float turnSpeed = 20f;

Rigidbody m_Rigidbody;

Animator m_Animator;
Vector3 m_Movement;
Quaternion m_Rotation = Quaternion.identity;

void Start ()
{
    m_Rigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody> ();
    MoveAction.Enable();
    m_Animator = GetComponent<Animator> ();
}

void FixedUpdate ()
{
    var pos = MoveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    
    float horizontal = pos.x;
    float vertical = pos.y;

    
    
    m_Movement.Set(horizontal, 0f, vertical);
    m_Movement.Normalize ();

    bool hasHorizontalInput = !Mathf.Approximately (horizontal, 0f);
    bool hasVerticalInput = !Mathf.Approximately (vertical, 0f);    
    bool isWalking = hasHorizontalInput || hasVerticalInput;
    m_Animator.SetBool ("IsWalking", isWalking);

    Vector3 desiredForward = Vector3.RotateTowards (transform.forward, m_Movement, turnSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0f);
    m_Rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation (desiredForward);
    
    m_Rigidbody.MoveRotation (m_Rotation);
   m_Rigidbody.MovePosition(
m_Rigidbody.position + transform.forward * walkSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime

);
}
}

[naive pawn]

share it properly as described here please.

[pseudo laurel]

i added the code there too

[naive pawn]

see the "large code blocks" section

[pseudo laurel]

i added there too

[naive pawn]

you did not do it correctly

you aren't using your input to move at all

[pseudo laurel]

what i wanna do now ?

[naive pawn]

if there's no movement input, don't move

[polar acorn]

So then post it

[pseudo laurel]

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

[naive pawn]

that's much easier to read

[pseudo laurel]

u can refer this video too

[naive pawn]

pay attention to lines 47 to 49, read what it says to do

that's always walking forwards

[pseudo laurel]

ok

[naive pawn]

if there's no walk input, then you shouldn't walk

[pseudo laurel]

when i give input player walking if nothing is touched its going straight

[stiff birch]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[civic anvil]

transform.forward this gives the forward vector of the player. You should instead use the movement vector you created "m_Movement"

[queen adder]

Can somebody say why my joystick isn't working when I build it

[naive pawn]

did you read what i said at all

[naive pawn]

how exactly isn't it working? is there an error, is it not working as expected, etc?

[pseudo laurel]

bro actually everything working fine i didnt modified anything it showed up randomly

i just added cinemachine after that this happened before that it worked fine

i dont think the problem is with the code it could be something else

[queen adder]

it not working as expected

[naive pawn]

it definitely is the code. if you read and understand the lines of code i pointed out to you, then that should be understandable

[naive pawn]

what's the behavior you're getting, vs what you're expecting?

[magic crown]

Hey hell i have a small question, how could i make a class containing 3 public int so that in the inspector i can have my class with the 3 field i can write in, like a vector3

[naive pawn]

you would make a class containing 3 public int, marked [Serializable] (though you'd probably want a struct instead of a class for something like that)

[magic crown]

eah i was looking through how the vector 3 was made and i noticed it used struct and not class

litteraly at the moment i was looking into it, thanks tho ^^

[pseudo laurel]

its not my code its from unity learn series...

[magic crown]

I must be missing how struct work cause even like that it doesn't show and serializable can't be used on struct

and it is on my other script but it just doesn't show

[naive pawn]

you need [Serializable]

they can definitely be used on types

(also, that's not an array.)

[magic crown]

on the struct itself or my int?

[naive pawn]

and it's working code, but it's not doing what you need

[naive pawn]

on the struct itself

[magic crown]

Nonon i know it's just a temporary name i didn't modify yet

okay yeah it works, i thought it was needed on my int

what i'm gonna do is an array for my struct which is why it's named like that. ik it shouldn't be but just to test an idea

[naive pawn]

i'm not sure what exactly you're going for, but definitely sounds like there'd be an easier way to do that

[magic crown]

Currently doing that, and i wanted to do an array of 3 int since when i will use the mesh and assign vertex i want to see the triangles more easily this way i can display it in the editore and have a preview

This way instead of setting all the triangles in a simple array i can do that and preview things more easily.

I know i could do without but it save me a lot of time managing my voxel faces and vertex

[naive pawn]

why not just use Vector3s for that

[magic crown]

A mesh use int that represent the index of the vector3 i can't directly use the vector 3 for that

This way i just have to do that

and same for my mesh component

but instead of using drawline well i just fill out the array automatically with that

[pseudo laurel]

guys i restarted unity the bug fixed lol

[pseudo laurel]

really bro...

[magic crown]

Yeah some bug just need a restart

[magic crown]

what?

did he say something bad?

[pseudo laurel]

nah im just calling him

[naive pawn]

oh do you mean the issue is with Vector3's being floats? you could use Vector3Int for that

[pseudo laurel]

Chris ur thoughts about this?

[magic crown]

No it's not like that, if i want to assign triangles to a mesh i have to use the index for each of my vertex, like i would have to put in the triangle array 0 1 2 to connect those 3 point

[magic crown]

Here https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Mesh.html

[naive pawn]

have you read the code you're using at any point during this argument

[naive pawn]

yeah, so you need 3 ints at a time? Vector3Int gives you a nice compact UI for that in the inspector

[magic crown]

oh didn't know

well now that it's done i'm gonna use what i did, still see some nice things i could use this for atleast for next time i didn't know

[naive pawn]

struct intArray
{
    public int num1;
    public int num2;
    public int num3;
}
``````cs
struct Vector3Int
{
    public int x;
    public int y;
    public int z;
}

it's not just the fields, there is other stuff related to geometry, but you could just ignore it

[magic crown]

yeah

thanks then ^^

[random slate]

Is there something special with : in strings???

at first I needed to use Debug.Log($"First Tk: '{Temp[0]}'; Does it ends on ':'? {Temp[0][Temp[0].Length-2] == ':'} Cause it ends on: '{Temp[0][Temp[0].Length - 2]}'"); to get, if the : was the last char. (See first Screenshot). Like for every other string it would give the second last char but when there was a : as a last char, it would give the last one.

Second: There is clearly a start: in the dictionary. This is not only visible when it was added, but in the function where I use the dictionary, I check it even again, like this:

foreach (var item in JumpTable)
{
    Debug.Log('"' + item.Key + '"'); //But key is here
}
ExePos = JumpTable[Tokens[ExePos+1] + ":"]; //error here

Is there something wrong with :, that I never heard off??

[wintry quarry]

uhhhh can you show the actual code that prints that log?

also how do you know that's in the dictionary?

[random slate]

foreach (var item in JumpTable)
{
    Debug.Log('"' + item.Key + '"'); //But key is here
}
ExePos = JumpTable[Tokens[ExePos+1] + ":"]; //error here

it looks literally before using it

[wintry quarry]

What is Tokens?

is that also a dictionary?

[random slate]

Tokens is a string array

the key is "start"

or atleast in that position, I can even confrim in the editor

[wintry quarry]

I would try this:

foreach (var item in JumpTable) Debug.Log($"Key: '{item.Key}' with length {item.Key.Length}");
var keyToCheck = Tokens[ExePos+1] + ":";
Debug.Log($"Checking key: '{keyToCheck}' with length {keyToCheck.Length}");
ExePos = JumpTable[keyToCheck]; //error here```

if that doesn't tell us anything new you can resort to printing each code point individually

I would say as a general rule this kind of string manipulation and indexing seems a little sketchy

like.. putting a string with a colon as a dict key for something - why is the colon there?

[random slate]

I just tried the code again, but removed the : and it worked...

[wintry quarry]

1. The Standard Colon (ASCII)

   Symbol: :

   Unicode: U+003A

   Usage: This is the standard punctuation mark used in writing, coding, and general text input. It is what appears when you press the colon key on a standard keyboard.

2. The Ratio Symbol (Mathematical)

   Symbol: ∶

   Unicode: U+2236

   Usage: This is a distinct character specifically intended for mathematical ratios (e.g., 1∶4).

   Appearance: It looks almost identical to the standard colon, but in some fonts, it is vertically centered on the plus sign or the equal sign, rather than sitting on the text baseline.

There are two different characters that are maybe getting mixed up^

[random slate]

I tried to do a Asm Interpreter for my game

[naive pawn]

and you include the colon in the label?

[random slate]

yes, cause I couldnt remove it so I just included it, for being easier

[naive pawn]

what do you mean you couldn't remove it

[random slate]

I was lazy, and just added it in the end. Technically these are the same strings

or should be

[random slate]

Ok, this is now being printed. There is some kind of invisible character

[wintry quarry]

yeah i figured

[naive pawn]

try printing out the charcodes then

[polar acorn]

Is one of these strings being sourced from a UI Input Field by chance?

[random slate]

nope, from a file

here is the whole file: mov r0 1 start: int 1 jmp start

Technically yes, I saved the UI field to a file, but I also removed and added it via VS code again

[random slate]

Charcode 13???

Anyways, thanks for the help

[polar acorn]

Okay, so if the raw source of it was from a UI Input field, and you grabbed it from the text component, rather than the input fields .value, there's a non-printing character that doesn't get caught by Trim(). You might want to sanitize the input before saving it with this replace: .Replace("\u200B", "")

[polar acorn]

Ah, that's actually much easier than the one I thought it was. That's a carriage return, \r. "Newline" in most text formats isn't actually \n, it's \r\n. If you're separating your file on \n, it's leaving the \r behind

that one will get removed with a call to Trim(), so you can just trim the data before you put it into your dictionary

[random slate]

Thanks. I never knew this Character exsisted

[naive pawn]

newline in windows is usually \r\n/CRLF, newline in *nix is usually \n/LF

it's not really dependant on "text format"

[random slate]

Thanks

Ok, Trimming actually fixed even another Bug. Thanks

[north walrus]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1463564419857518693

Any advice?

[fast fern]

Does WaitForSeconds pause when Time.timeScale = 0?

[frail hawk]

try it out

[fast fern]

It doesn't

[naive pawn]

or read docs

[naive pawn]

mm definitely not

[fast fern]

oof

[naive pawn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/WaitForSeconds.html

[fast fern]

thx

[naive pawn]

well, it doesn't "pause", it just never completes

if you want one that doesn't use scaled time, use WaitForSecondsRealtime

[fast fern]

that didn't work for me as well

I used coroutine to wait 60 seconds and play an animation every minute, but if I pause the animation changes before its 60sec completes

[naive pawn]

that sounds unrelated

have you tried some debugging?

[fast fern]

whats that?

[naive pawn]

well, that's new

[fast fern]

I'm new 🫠

[naive pawn]

debugging is the process of investigating some specific issue to determine the cause and viable fixes

here, you could use Debug.Log to verify what code is being run

[fast fern]

ooooh

I tried a lot, just very unlucky with fixing it up

nah this my only issue so far

[swift lichen]

hiw i leran unity fast

[prime goblet]

#💻┃unity-talk, no such thing as fast

!learn

[radiant void]

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[prime goblet]

is good

[swift lichen]

ok thanks

[frail hawk]

learn c# basics

[swift lichen]

ok

[frail hawk]

then dive into unity editor and follow some easy tutorials such as flappy bird or temple run

[swift lichen]

👍

[rancid tinsel]

could someone explain var to me? It seems like bad practice that makes the code less readable at no benefit - but surely I must be wrong?

[wintry quarry]

it lets you be a little lazy and can help make refactoring easier sometimes. But sometimes it hides types and makes the code harder to read

so... it's a tradeoff

[sour fulcrum]

Lowkey I agree with that conclusion

[wintry quarry]

but like

var x = new List<Dictionary<Dog, Cat>>();``` is a little nicer than
```cs
List<Dictionary<Dog, Cat>> x = new List<Dictionary<Dog, Cat>>();```

[rancid tinsel]

I guess yeah in refactoring especially if you're changing from an float to a double etc?

[wintry quarry]

in this casse you don't lose any information but you make it more concise

[wintry quarry]

yeah exactly it lets you avoid changing variable types in multiple places sometimes

[rancid tinsel]

I agree with that example actually

[pastel cave]

it's like auto in C++ afaik. I'm not a C# guru but say you change the type of your return, then you have to change the type of every single invoke that uses that return
also saves you typing long types

[wintry quarry]

but for example:

var x = GetSomeData();``` can be bad

because just reading this it's hard to know what type x is

[sour fulcrum]

Isn’t there a shorthand for the latter since the left half is defined?

[wintry quarry]

yeah you can also do:
List<Dictionary<Dog, Cat>> x = new();

this is the "target-typed new"

[rancid tinsel]

I found out about this a few weeks ago but completely forgot the syntax lol

[harsh tartan]

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody))]
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
    public float movementSpeed = 5.0f;
    public Transform cameraTransform;  

    private Rigidbody rb;
    private Camera cam;

    void Start() {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        if (cameraTransform == null) {
            cam = Camera.main;
        }
    }

    void FixedUpdate() {
        Transform camToUse = cameraTransform ?? cam.transform;

        // Camera-relative directions (flatten Y)
        Vector3 camForward = camToUse.forward;
        camForward.y = 0;
        camForward.Normalize();

        Vector3 camRight = camToUse.right;
        camRight.y = 0;
        camRight.Normalize();

        // Input axes
        float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");  // A/D
        float vertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");      // W/S

        Vector3 movement = (camForward * vertical + camRight * horizontal).normalized * movementSpeed;

        rb.linearVelocity = new Vector3(movement.x, rb.linearVelocity.y, movement.z);

    }
}


``` Made own walking system any improvements I can make? (its following the camera where you are looking is "forward"

[pastel cave]

trying to make a split layout "WASD/arrow keys" input map and I thin I have configured it incorrectly

I have this as the map, with the Keyboard1 scheme being WASD and Keyboard2 being arrow keys
however it appears that the two are... Mutually exclusive? Or, by default PlayerInputs themselves are? auto-switch is off, both gameobjects are from the same prefab and the only difference between the two is that PlayerInput default scheme is set to Keyboard1 on one and the default scheme on the other is set to Keyboard2.

The keyboard is set as a required device on both schemes, is that the issue?

[wintry quarry]

Control schemes are tricky, especially with trying to do multiple players on one keyboard

you actually will need some custom handling for that

the input system sees the whole keyboard as one device, and each device can only be assigned to a single player

[rancid tinsel]

I'd probably just ensure cam isn't null and then use cam.transform always, rather than having two extra variables

[pastel cave]

oh god...

alright, how do I go about doing this

[wintry quarry]

You may have to manually spawn and assign the players to the device like this:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-make-multiple-player-inputs-work-using-the-same-device/1572442

[rancid tinsel]

yeah it was really weird on our group project for mobile where we were testing it with WASD movement and clicking the mobile UI for attacks/abilities - it would switch between two control schemes

[wintry quarry]

I would also probably separate the two keyboard key groups into two separate bindings

rather than separate composite parts in a single binding

[harsh tartan]

Thats a good one thanks!

And talking about this (the picture) can I better use that or is this way fine?
like whats better Input system package or just the Input manager

[rancid tinsel]

input system is better if you want the player to be able to change their controls later

I wouldn't bother if you're doing a tiny project, but if you're making a commercial one I'd recommend doing it

or one you're planning to publish rather

[harsh tartan]

Ahh, wanna make it also multiplayer but thats for later, so its better that I use input system package?

Do I need to change alot of my code or?

[rancid tinsel]

probably not - it's really just listening to click events I think, but honestly I always procrastinate/don't do it, so I'm not sure on how it works with code

[pastel cave]

Perfect, forcing the association works.

[pastel cave]

why's that?

[rancid tinsel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONlMEZs9Rgw this video might be useful

[harsh tartan]

Will check

[wintry quarry]

nice, glad it was that easy

[pastel cave]

yep. Thanks a ton!

[wintry quarry]

uh, idk i thought it would make it work better but I guess it doesn't matter

[pastel cave]

oh I see

[rancid tinsel]

How does Unity know what vector2 it is meant to read? That's really confusing to me

or does the input actions not let you have two vector2s?

[slender nymph]

it's reading whatever the current state of that action is, it can't have more than one state at the same time

[rancid tinsel]

oh wait its move.action

thats what I get for skimming through the video

thanks boxfriend

[pastel cave]

the documentation doesn't really explain what the "Respawn", "Finish", and "GameController" flags do

[harsh tartan]

What am I missing that my player goes thrue the ground?

using UnityEngine.InputSystem;


[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody))]
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
    public float movementSpeed = 5.0f;


    public Rigidbody rb;
    private Camera cam;

    private Vector3 _moveDirection;

    public InputActionReference move;

    private void Update()
    {
        _moveDirection = move.action.ReadValue<Vector3>();
    }

    void FixedUpdate() {
        rb.linearVelocity = new Vector3(_moveDirection.x * movementSpeed, rb.linearVelocity.y, _moveDirection.z * movementSpeed);
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

your player's collider is a trigger

[harsh tartan]

oh, so if u also wanna use trigger u need 2 box colliders?

and now if I play I cannot walk around only when im in the air? is it because im "stuck" in the ground?

[wintry quarry]

not sure what you mean exactly

[wintry quarry]

also not sure what you mean by this

[harsh tartan]

my player cannot move right now, but when im flying (not touching the ground) I can move around. How come?

[wintry quarry]

not sure, potentially from friction

I will say it's very weird that your Ground object has a non-kinematic Rigidbody

that actually means your ground object is going to move around when hit by other objects like the player

Almost certainly you should just remove the Rigidbody component from the ground object

assuming it's not supposed to move

[harsh tartan]

Yea did that and its fixed

Thanks for the help

[rancid tinsel]

just discovered this beauty, had no idea this was possible

I thought && was only for conditionals

[merry fiber]

Even || and <=> works

[frigid fern]

Hey so im trying to switch platforms with the 6000.3.5f1 and i dont have a switch platform button. What do i do?

[merry fiber]

Go to build settings and switch from there.

[rancid tinsel]

what on earth is <=>

[merry fiber]

Short for <=, >= and ==

[rancid tinsel]

oh lol

that makes a lot of sense

wait actually I knew that

I mean that you can use those

so why is my example so confusing

[merry fiber]

Wdym

[slender nymph]

this is a conditional, it's literally just evaluating to a bool

[rancid tinsel]

this is literally just the same as like, ready = conditionA && conditionB

[rancid tinsel]

yeah

OH

ok I get it

if I think about it as if it's an if statement

it makes a lot more sense

just condensing that made me a bit confused

[eager stratus]

So is there any reason that the display might be flickering when I mouse over the enemy instead of staying consistent? It doesn't do this with the four player characters who use functionally the same code

{
    if (conditionDisplay is not null)
    {
        print("Entering " + _statBlock.name);
        conditionDisplay.gameObject.SetActive(true);
        if (nameConditionDisplay is not null) { nameConditionDisplay.text = _statBlock.name; }
    }
}

public void OnPointerExit(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    if (conditionDisplay is not null) { conditionDisplay.gameObject.SetActive(false); }
}```

[polar acorn]

My guess is that the actual bounding box of the text is big enough that it's showing up under the mouse, so your mouse "exits" the guy and "enters" the text, which hides the text, which means the mouse can now "enter" the guy's hitbox and re-enables the text, and so on.

Make sure the Raycast Target checkbox is unchecked on your text so it doesn't block the mouse

[eager stratus]

That fixed it. Thanks

[mild citrus]

plant is supposed to be dragable but it's not working, please help

[polar acorn]

what is supposed to be making it draggable

[mild citrus]

I am following a tutorial he didn't explain I think because I added a button to it makes it clickable

[rancid tinsel]

button makes it clickable, draggable will be with interfaces I believe

[polar acorn]

Yes, buttons are clickable. What are you adding that's supposed to make it draggable?

[solar hill]

you also need to get in habit of not screenshoting code

and sending it properly

[radiant void]

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[mild citrus]

how do I make it dragable I followed the tutorial to a T he did everything the same

[polar acorn]

Show the tutorial

[mild citrus]

sorry not dragable it's just supposed to be clickable but when I click on it the script doesn't make a plant appear

@7:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pqBeZWNBbM&list=PLjzCpyRzNOe0wuF-BkXkKInluC67xG1ue&index=4

[rancid tinsel]

so the way buttons work in Unity is that they provide you with the ability to click them, but what they do once they're clicked is up to you

you need to provide the button component with a method to run when it is clicked

[polar acorn]

Nothing around 7:00 shows anything to do with buttons or clicking

[solar hill]

you should share your code.

[mild citrus]

here's the script the tutorial didn't change anything about the button

[solar hill]

istg these bot messages are like

invisible sometimes

[radiant void]

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[solar hill]

please share your code properly

[rancid tinsel]

ah wait okay you are assigning the listener to the button in code

[solar hill]

yeah we need to see your game manager script

[mild citrus]

I just realized whats wrong my left clicks arent registring debug log is coming up empty

[solar hill]

where is this being called?

what script on which gameobject

[mild citrus]

on the gamemanager empty

[solar hill]

is the gamemanager in the scene?

does it have this script on itself.

[mild citrus]

yes it's at the center and it has the script

[solar hill]

are you using the new input system or both?

[mild citrus]

both

[solar hill]

so if you click anywhere onthe screen the log doesnt show up?

[mild citrus]

yes

is there an alternate script

[solar hill]

what

[mild citrus]

is there alternate script for mouse left click

[solar hill]

i mean yeah if youre using the new input system but this should still work

add this "Debug.Log("Update running");" to the top of your update above the mouse input line

and see if it shows up in the console.

wait

your update is private?

that shit wont run.

[polar acorn]

It can run as a private. It's private by default, actually

[solar hill]

what really?

i thought they couldnt have access modifiers

[polar acorn]

If this isn't running when you click, this script isn't on anything

[solar hill]

bruh or am i misremembering

[polar acorn]

If it has no access modifier, it means "private"

[solar hill]

yeah but i thought specifically adding "private" or anything else ceases to function

i might be missremembering something

or confusing it with s&box

[polar acorn]

Nah, they can be private, public, protected, doesn't matter. They're called via reflection so it bypasses the access modifiers

[solar hill]

huh, i guess i never thought about it, i must have been confusing it with something else then

but regardless i still think the script isnt actually in the scene

so either check with that debug i gave you, or double check you have the correct script attached to your game manager

ensure you actually attached it as a component, and not a reference inside some serialized field.

[polar acorn]

Yeah if this isn't running, it's not in the scene

[mild citrus]

i figured it out I am sorry I had the grid disabled because it was invisible in the tutorial so I thought the code would activate it but it's just invisible when activated. im an idiot

[rancid tinsel]

dw it happens

and you'll spot it faster next time

[distant escarp]

hey! i have some code that generates a wavy ocean for my game but i want the waves to use the global coordinates instead of local coordinates (so the waves will sync between instances); does anybody know how i would do this? (code posted below)

is it literally as simple as replacing "local" with "global"?

[queen adder]

Heya, has anyone had the bug where it's download for the editer download for the latest verison where it's stuck on 99% Because mines sat on 99% for atleast 2 hours now

[lethal meadow]

does the water require collision with anything?

[distant escarp]

kind of, the mesh doesnt have a collision but my player interacts with it by reading the same code
otherwise, it doesnt require a collision

[lethal meadow]

the player "floats" or can interact with the water by sampling the same position height function?

but it doesnt actually need a collider component

because thats unnecessarily expensive

i'd use a subdivided flat plane with a shader that displaces the verticies

or if you really want to generate the mesh probably a compute shader

[distant escarp]

that's basically what im doing, the player moves on the waves by sampling the same position height function

[lethal meadow]

yeah you should probably use vertex displacement in the water shader then

you need to implement your height function in it though

this will be much much faster

[distant escarp]

dumb question(s): what is that, how will it help me, and how do i implement it?

[lethal meadow]

in a shader it has the fragment and vertex pass

vertex plots the actual vertices

its done per vertex

and the fragment pass is what draws the colors and is done per pixel

so in the vertex pass, you can get the vertex position and then offset it a little

this is drawn HOWEVER is just a temporary GPU value so does not technically exist

which is why you cant have colliders with it

[distant escarp]

to be clear, i already have the "collision" working (my player can move around on the waves)
im just trying to sync the waves across multiple instances

[lethal meadow]

do you have a shader for the water?

[broken nest]

    public ActionData[] actionDataSecondMenu;
    public MenuPanelButtonsDescriptions menuPanelButtonsDescriptionsPrefab;
    List<MenuPanelParent> activeMenuPanel = new List<MenuPanelParent>();
    int menuIndex =0;

    public void Start()
    {
        CreateMenuPanelButtons(actionDataBaseMenu, false);
        //currentTotalMenuLength + = 
        CreateMenuPanelButtons(actionDataSecondMenu, false);
    }

    public void CreateMenuPanelButtons(ActionData[] actionData, bool descriptionOn)
    {
        activeMenuPanel.Add(Instantiate(menuPanelButtonsDescriptionsPrefab, this.transform));
        activeMenuPanel[menuIndex].descriptionOn = descriptionOn;
        activeMenuPanel[menuIndex].CreateMenuUI(actionData);
        menuIndex++;
    }```
Hey, MenuPanelButtonsDescriptions which is instantiated inherits from MenuPanelParent. I can't access descriptionOn ( in MenuPanelButtonsDescriptions ) because I add it to a list of MenuPanelParent. Any ideas?

[distant escarp]

yes, i have a shader and a shader graph

[lethal meadow]

okay so for something like this

it samles the worldposition.xz and then inputs it into a height function (the noise block) and then uses that for the vertex .Y position

this is what you're doing on the cpu

but this is much faster and more scalable

[stone oar]

hey guys, is it possible to have different Render Scale values for different cameras? Trying to make certain elements look sharper.

[distant escarp]

i added this into my existing shader graph and it broke my waves lol

[pastel cave]

So why are gameobjects limited to only one tag?

[lethal meadow]

for the final vector

[pastel cave]

It seems like a fairly arbitrary restriction

[distant escarp]

oh wait one sec i made a tiny mistaake

[lethal meadow]

you need to put vec3(ObjectPosition.x, ObjectPosition.y + HeightValue, ObjectPosition.z)

the vertex output requires object space

you need to sample with world though

just add another Position node

[sour fulcrum]

Tags are a relatively old and primitive concept, ideally you’d probably just not use them period and instead use components like tags

[pastel cave]

Mmmm. I will keep that in mind

Is the alternative like, a component that has a static hashset or something?

[sour fulcrum]

no like literally just if it has that component

[pastel cave]

Well sure but with tags you can also get all gameobjects with a certain tag

[sour fulcrum]

Unity also has a FindObjectsOfType function 😄

[pastel cave]

That it does

[distant escarp]

where should i add the position node?

[sour fulcrum]

checking for a component at minimum is the same amount of functionality a tag offers but of course with the further ability to actually do stuff with the component reference if needed

It’s genuinely just superior

[lethal meadow]

anywhere

[pastel cave]

Yeah, seems like it
Requires a bit of setup though.

[distant escarp]

but what do i connect it to?

[lethal meadow]

the position element on the Vertex node

[distant escarp]

is it okay to reuse the existing psoition node?

[lethal meadow]

to sample the height function you need world space coords

[sour fulcrum]

If your just starting with it perhaps but if you keep it in mind from the start of the project it’s pretty chill as you don’t usually need to make/add any classes specifically just for tag checking, rather you probably just end up having components on these objects for other functionality based reasons that you can just check for

[lethal meadow]

for thhe output you need object space coords

so you need 2 nodes

[pastel cave]

I'm making pong for a college class so I doubt that it truly matters
I'm already kind of going above and beyond, I think I can forgive myself for taking a shortcut and using tags u_u

I can definitely see how Godot was influenced by unity lmao
In some ways unity has felt archaic

In others it has also felt very nice though

I do love me some components

[distant escarp]

its still not synced across separate instances and now it looks worse than before lol

[lethal meadow]

send a screenshot

[distant escarp]

of the shader graph or my waves?

[lethal meadow]

shader graph

[distant escarp]

(i can zoom in if you need me to)

[lethal meadow]

are you sure the noise scale is not wrong

try 10

[distant escarp]

just changed it and its still not synced

[lethal meadow]

alright show this one

on the left

[swift crag]

one important thing is that, in the HDRP, at least, a Position node set to "World" mode will give you a camera-relative position

i'd expect for the noise to change as you move around, in that case

[lethal meadow]

is that what absolute world is for?

[swift crag]

yeah

[lethal meadow]

are you in hdrp?

they should still sync though

not sure

[distant escarp]

no, i think im in URP

[swift crag]

the waves would rapidly change as you move and rotate, so it'd be incredibly weird to look at

[lethal meadow]

can you show what it looks like

[distant escarp]

the game, you mean?

this is two "ocean" tiles next to each other (what i want is for waves to move between the tiles, ie "synced")

[lethal meadow]

can you disable the previous script used to set the mesh each frame

and then try

[distant escarp]

when i disable the "Wave" script the water disappears completely

[lethal meadow]

well you must be doing something else because im using the exact same shader graph setup and it works

[distant escarp]

also i think your edits to my shader made my collisions not work

[lethal meadow]

yes because its a different noise function

you'd need to add your c# height function and use that instead of the simple noise

[swift crag]

Oh

I thought you meant you had problems with desync in multiplayer games, haha

[distant escarp]

lol yeah i thought someone might think that (i should have been more clear)

its a singleplayer game

[swift crag]

I'd call those "seams"

the bane of my existence

[lethal meadow]

i dont know what hes doing

im using the same setup and its working

[distant escarp]

ah, any idea how i can get rid of them?

[swift crag]

yeah, given what you've shown, the edges that touch should be computing identical values

It almost looks like the right side is an exact repeat of the left side

but it's not quite the same

[distant escarp]

before any of @lethal meadow 's suggestions, they were exact repeats of one another

[lethal meadow]

he was computing all the vertices on the cpu before

every frame

[swift crag]

oof

that'll get painful quick

This shader-based approach should be working perfectly

I've done stuff like this quite a few times

if you place both tiles in the same position, do they match?

[lethal meadow]

alright i have to go but this is my final setup this i use in my own water

[distant escarp]

i think so but its hard to tell

[lethal meadow]

dont know if you can see it but it displaces it fine

try just having the mesh you're using as a new gameobject

dont add anything else to it

[distant escarp]

unless i did this wrong, it did nothing

[swift crag]

can you export a unitypackage containing your shader graph?

I can see how it looks on my end

[distant escarp]

uhhh how do i do that?

[swift crag]

right click the asset and hit Export Package

this'll give you a .unitypackage

you can drop it into the chat

[distant escarp]

here you go, let me know if you need anything else!

(fyi, i stole my water from a youtube tutorial)

[swift crag]

looks fine over here

[distant escarp]

HUH???

[swift crag]

These are two Plane objects side-by-side

[distant escarp]

no i get it

[swift crag]

are you also using two planes?

[distant escarp]

im just confused why its not working

[solar hill]

are you planes children of something?

[distant escarp]

i think im using emptys

[swift crag]

show the inspector for one of the water objects

[swift crag]

is your Waves script still doing stuff to the mesh?

[distant escarp]

yeah but i turned it off earlier and the mesh disappeared entirely

[swift crag]

notably, my water does not look like your water

[swift crag]

that's because your object has no MeshFilter on it

I presume that the Waves script added one

that's what actually holds the mesh

delete Waves, add a MeshFilter component, and plug in the Plane mesh

(or just make a completely new Plane object)

[distant escarp]

btw, when i make a plane object and apply my shader, it syncs with other plane objects but the waves arent animated

[swift crag]

Yeah, the shader does not change over time right now

the wave height is purely a function of the world position

#💻┃code-beginner message this graph makes the waves change over time

[distant escarp]

gnarly! i tried what you said before and it looks just like the plane object i made (with no collision) should i use the empty + plane mesh filter or just create aa plane mesh?

[swift crag]

if you want a genuine mesh collider, then you're going to have to compute a mesh on the CPU

However, if you don't really need a collider, and just need to know the water height, you can do the same math

exactly recreating the Simple Noise node sounds a bit annoying...

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@17.5/manual/Simple-Noise-Node.html

in theory, you could lightly adapt this code into C#

(the Unity Mathematics library would make it particularly easy – it has types like float2; it's designed to match the types seen in HLSL)

in fact, I think this would compile with minimal changes

you'd remove the inline keywords, and then you'd replace frac with math.frac, etc.

but this still sounds a bit challenging

this would be a lot better than computing a mesh in a C# script – you'd only be doing the math for the points you care about

(e.g. where the player is)

the GPU can easily handle moving the vertices around

[boreal ingot]

i have this game that i have designed for multiplayer and i want to actually make it multiplayer. as of right now i have invested aroundf 20 hours into doing that with ai and this is the 3rd time i git hard reset because they mess up everything. honestly fuck copilot. anyways i have logic on what you should and shouldn t see as an individual player in my game which i see can work because i had a player switch mechanism in it. i want those rules to work with multiplayer. what do you recommend guys. i really am getting pissed at working 20 hours and no results

[solar hill]

you should probably make a thread in #1390346492019212368

but you havent actually asked anything.

[distant escarp]

ok, rad! thanks for the help!

[boreal ingot]

well i am asking for EVERYTHING tbh. i have no clue what the right aproach is without breaking stuff

[solar hill]

so you want to learn the basics of networking?

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[ivory dove]

hello, can someone help me with my project?

[true vector]

This may be weird but is it possible to have visual scripting and c# code assets in the same project and still working?

[solar hill]

!ask

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[rich adder]

yes

[ivory dove]

im not a dev, i have the code for a game im trying to build, but idk how to implement it and if even the code is correct

[solar hill]

youre going to have to clarify a lot more

you have the code but youre not a dev?

is this someone elses project?

[true vector]

Oh thank you! I’m working on a group project and I only know how to code with visual scripting and I was worried that I may effect the game with certain assets I may create using vs

[ivory dove]

not really, dont lash out on me, but i used an ai to create the game for me, after intensive detail, but i dont know what to do next, im trying to fully implement it and have it running to send it to my friend as a gift

[solar hill]

you kinda screwed yourself over

youre saying ai made a game for you but youve never actually ran any of the code inside of unity?

that game wont work because the ai was basically shooting blind

theres also a whole lot more set up to making a game than just writing the code itself

especially stuff you have to handle in editor

[rich adder]

yikes

[ivory dove]

i can show you the whole conversation as to what happened, for the logic, calculation etc

before writing the code itself

[solar hill]

it wont be nescessary

because i can tell you

it wont matter

[ivory dove]

🙁

[solar hill]

thats simply not how development works

especially not in unity

whatever you have wont work

[ivory dove]

how does it work if you dont mind me asking

[solar hill]

its hard to explain but the fundamentals are pretty much the same

the important thing is that you are actually working inside the editor itself

not just on the code

[ivory dove]

for the design?

[solar hill]

not just the design

the foundation of your entire game lol