💻┃code-beginner

[tired python]

that ends up changing the shape of the spline...

[swift crag]

Get them oriented correctly first, then rotate things as needed

[tired python]

is there a way to do that without having to tinker with the values?

[swift crag]

You want them to look like this in the 2D view

Select all of the knots at once and then give them a rotation of :

0, 0, 270

That will get them oriented reasonably. You can then adjust the handles.

[dreamy lance]

how do i do the code block thin in discord ?

[swift crag]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[swift crag]

```cs
like so
```

[swift crag]

note that my Bezier mode is "Continuous" here

which is probably what you want

the "Broken" mode allows for the handles to be positioned arbitrarily

[dreamy lance]

public class GoblinUnit : EnemyUnitParent
{
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Awake()
    {
        maxHealth = 2;
        currnetHealth = maxHealth;
    }

   

}

using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyUnitParent : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float maxHealth;
    public float currnetHealth;
    public float attackSpeed;
    public float attackDamage;
    public float moveSpeed;
    public float resistance;


    public void Death()
    {
        if (currnetHealth <= 0)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
    public void TakeDamage()
    {
       if (Input.GetKey("t"))
        {
            currnetHealth -= 1;
            Debug.Log(currnetHealth);
            Death();
            
        }
    }
    public void Attack()
    {

    }


    void Update()
    {
        TakeDamage();
        
    }

}

any idea as to why my enemy isnt dieing when i hit "T"... im stuggling... to me the logic makes sence
if i put the death in update it insta kils them tho

[swift crag]

I'm not sure if GetKey accepts a lowcase letter like that

Try using KeyCode.T instead of a string

[solar hill]

i think it does

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

nvm, it should be capital T

[swift crag]

the KeyCode enum avoids the ambiguity

[desert loom]

It's not exactly code, but has anyone worked with VFX graph and Shader Graph together? Im having trouble making my VFX Tile properly. Even though its showing up in all the previews as it should

[swift crag]

ask about this #✨┃vfx-and-particles !

(and show an example of the problem)

[desert loom]

Thank you!

[swift crag]

(if you want to go the extra mile, export a .unitypackage with your VFX graph and shader graph assets)

[dreamy lance]

ok i think i may have fixed the not deing when i tell them to but they still die on enters anyone know why

[verbal berry]

anyone know how to get svg files to import into a project to e used as a sprite?

[wintry quarry]

Rasterize them directly and import the resulting image or use https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.vectorgraphics@3.0/manual/index.html

[verbal berry]

in pm it says i have vectorgraphics installed is that what i need

[wintry quarry]

yes

[verbal berry]

any idea why it doesnt work then?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by it doesn't work?

How are you expecting it to work and what's happening instead?

[verbal berry]

i assumed youd need to assign the svg to a game object before using it yet that still doesnt work

[wintry quarry]

That's really vague

svg files are asset files

unity creates assets from asset files - in this case it will create textures from them

you can use those textures or sprites in SpriteRenderers or other renderering components

[verbal berry]

alright

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to show exactly how you tried to do it and I can point out what you might be doing wrong

[verbal berry]

in the inspector i should set the generated asset tyupe to texture 2d im assuming

[wintry quarry]

Not if you want to use it with a sprite renderer

How do you want to use it?

In a SpriteRenderer?
As an albedo texture in a material?
In the UI?

[verbal berry]

in a sprite renderer yes i just want to be able to use it as a sprites texture not for a material or anything

[swift crag]

okay, so you need the importer to produce Sprite assets

[wintry quarry]

I think you probably don't actually have the vector graphis c package installed

if it's not showing you sprite as an import option

In the package manager do "Add package by name" under the + sign and enter com.unity.vectorgraphics

Then you should see all these options

[verbal berry]

i have that in my built in pm and it says its installed

com.unity.modules.vectorgraphics

[wintry quarry]

that's not the same

do what I wrote above

that module only gives you ui toolkit and texture2d capabilities

you need this one for sprites

About this package

For Unity 6.3 and later, this package works on top of the built-in Vector Graphics module to provide additional import types:

Sprite Import: Import SVG files as Unity Sprites for use with Sprite Renderer.
uGUI Import: Import SVG files as UI Images for Unity's uGUI system.

[verbal berry]

tysm man

are all packages installed through unity safe i can see this one is just for future use

[solar hill]

what do you mean by safe?

[verbal berry]

as in could have malware in

or are they all official

[solar hill]

The Registry packages are official

[verbal berry]

nice

[wintry quarry]

if it's through the unity registry it's official.

If you're installing from a github url or a third party registry, you should be careful to only use trusted sources

[verbal berry]

alright thanks for the help

[cunning bramble]

Hey Guys!
Could someone Rate my Script that makes an Inventory :)
https://paste.myst.rs/clone/7k1yfnkc

[oak remnant]

Hello, how do you make a Monster fly and attack smoothly, like in hollow spirit, can i post a video to explain what i need?

[frail hawk]

go ahead

@oak remnant

but i doubt anyone will give you the working code for that

you might want to ask for something particular instead

[oak remnant]

i dont want to know the working code, but to know if they have any idea how to do it, in the sense of what command to use, not exactly the exact algorythme but some clue maybe i dunno

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

it is the way the flying monster moves around smoothly

[golden canopy]

guys im so confused with the new input system

i cant understand a single video for touch controls

[hexed terrace]

#🖱️┃input-system

[fossil axle]

where should i go to ask for help with optimization? i have a script that causes a massive use of memory and im trying to fix it

[sour fulcrum]

Here is fine

[eternal needle]

If you think its above a beginner difficulty, then probably make a post in code general. Also use/show the profiler to see whats exactly causing memory issues

[fossil axle]

whats the profiler; where do i find it?

[eternal needle]

Google unity profiler, I dont remember where it is exactly tbh. I haven't opened unity in some time

[wintry quarry]

share your code in a code channel

if it's obvious, someone will tell you what's wrong

if it's not obvious, someone will show you how to use the profiler

[vapid egret]

Hello everyone. Can someone explain the difference between world direction and local directin?

[ivory bobcat]

Depends on context but normally in Unity, local would be relative to the parent whereas world would be not.

[vapid egret]

ty

[wintry quarry]

I like to think of it like this:
World directions are things like "north, west, east, south"
Local directions are things like "in front of me, behind me, to my left, to my right"

[vapid egret]

So if I want a sprint to go false bool isSprinting if the player moves back I should be using local direction, correct? is it possible to do the same with global direction?

[ivory bobcat]

Do you've got any parenting? What's the situation that would call for needing to differentiate between the two in your case?

If the object isn't a child of anything, moving relative to world or local would produce the same result.

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by "back"?

[wintry quarry]

This isn't true exactly. Most movement stuff is in relation to the object's own rotation.

[vapid egret]

Yeah I'm seeing that now that I'm trying it. I guess I should get the player's input to cancel sprinting

[wintry quarry]

It's not clear to me exactly what you are trying to do

We don't even know what kind of game this is exactly so it's hard to visualize anything you're talking about

[vapid egret]

Action RPG. Third Person Camera with first person controls. Rotation is restricted to Look(mouse delta / right stick). Movement is WASD and left stick. holding sprint will increase the player character's speed. I want sprint to cancel if the player moves backward (S / left stick down).

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like you already have the answer - this is something you just look at the input for

[fresh fern]

Hey, i am having a bit of trouble, so i figured i should ask (maybe wrong channel, not sure): how do they make it in pixel art games so that all the characters flip around seamlessly? I am trying to make one and the pivot points are just messed up, if i set them in the middle, when i use flipX on the characters they look SO weird

Almost like they are taking a step backwards

[spare mountain]

make sure your sprite is centered
flipX flips around the center of the sprite

but yes, wrong channel

[fresh fern]

Oh

Thought it should be fixed with code

[spare mountain]

ehh I wouldn't fix it with code

[slender nymph]

you can manually adjust the pivot point in the sprite editor

[fresh fern]

Because setting all
These pivots manually

…

[fresh fern]

I have thousands of animations and characters tho

[slender nymph]

ideally you would create/slice your sprites in such a way that their pivot is automatically in the center.
this is really on you if you didn't do that in the first place

[spare mountain]

i.e. adding empty space so the middle pixel is your pivot

[fresh fern]

How do i do that?

[spare mountain]

depends on your software

[fresh fern]

Sorry guys, i am a beginner

My assets are from asset stores

[spare mountain]

ah

weird that they didn't set them up nicely then

[fresh fern]

So is there anything i can do?

[spare mountain]

manually fix it

[fresh fern]

How

[spare mountain]

depends on your program

but you can just do it in the sprite editor

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message
or edit the actual textures with whatever your preferred raster image editor is

[fresh fern]

Aha. I have libresprite

[spare mountain]

then that would mean expanding the canvas until the middle pixel is your pivot

probably more effort than just doing it in the sprite editor

[fresh fern]

Yeah but more precision

I suppose

[spare mountain]

not really but ok

[elfin pike]

no idea, why it console logged twice with one input, but strange error shows up.

[fresh fern]

i desperately need help. i have a tilemap, which by default uses the sprite lit material, but i used to see screen tearing in play mode. i switched to a material i manually created, and the screen tearing was gone, so i thought i was finally free to continue development in my game, but when i tried making a build, the screen tearing is still there and it is even worse. i have tried everything from different materials to pixel perfect camera to deleting and recreating my tilemap, to a combination aof all the above, to using chatgpt, to i dont know i have lost track. please help me

[elfin pike]

Tearing between tiles?

[fresh fern]

yes

mostly horizontal but also vertical sometimes

grey lines you know

[elfin pike]

its rendered taking next pixel from tilemap (commonly its white). Look up SpriteAtlas

[fresh fern]

i cant say i understand what you just said, but i will look up "sprite atlas"

[elfin pike]

im suprised you didnt find it with google. its first thing to pop up about your topic

[fresh fern]

i made a sprite atlas, tearing is still there

in the build i mean

play mode still works alright

[elfin pike]

did you try maximize in playmode?

[fresh fern]

no

wait]

lemme try

i did now

no tearing

it is only exclusively in the build

oh god i have spent so much time on this project if it just gets trashed because of that i am going to literally crash out

please someone help me how do i remove screen/ tilemap tearing

[sour fulcrum]

Where is this from

[elfin pike]

source? trust me bro. Chatbot. Dont judge, they are good way to search in internet.

[fresh fern]

thank you lemme try that

all of that was already set up

[sour fulcrum]

Posting ai responses without saying its ai is against the rules afaik and in general discouraged here

[elfin pike]

@fresh fern how it looks? lines or delayed pixel movment?

[fresh fern]

it is grey lines

[fresh fern]

most of them horizontal

some vertical

the sprite atlas did nothing

and i tried all of its settings

[elfin pike]

but i think its must have in 2D games

[fresh fern]

what do you mean

[elfin pike]

i Hope @sour fulcrum this isnt against rules

@fresh fern https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/screen-tearing-occurs-when-running-standalone-build-in-fullscreen-mode

[sour fulcrum]

That’s a different problem i believe

[fresh fern]

i dont know if it is, but it didnt help me

[elfin pike]

give screenshot for people to understand issue better

[fresh fern]

okay i will later, i have an idea for something to try first

[elfin pike]

Maybe, im assigning function to inputaction incorrectly? Changed naming to be easier understand.for (int i = 0; i < _List.Count; i++) { int index = i; _InputActionRef[i].action.performed += ctx => _Function(index); }

OnDestroy i unassign function from input action, but doesnt unassigns, getting errors

[naive pawn]

sounds like you're indexing _InputActionRef out of bounds

why are you looping over _List but using _InputActionRef

[naive pawn]

assuming the error is actually from that code, since you didn't specify any line numbers

[elfin pike]

on start of class assigning to Referenced inputs function with index. buttons from 1 to 0.

[naive pawn]

hm wait the stacktrace seems to be from inputsystem.. i don't think i can help much past basic debugging as im not at my desk right now

[naive pawn]

i have no idea what you mean by this

keep in mind that i'm not looking over your shoulder and i'm not psychic, i have no info about your project, code patterns, or this specific script outside of the small snippets you've shown

[elfin pike]

i think, issue is with editor firing 1 function on 1 call 3times. 1 out of 3 times.

    {
        Debug.Log($"Index: {index}");

        //For setting selectedIndex to clicked slot.
        BlockSlot selectedObject = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.GetComponent<BlockSlot>();
        if(selectedObject)
        {
            selectedSlotIndex = LoadoutList.FindIndex(slot => slot == selectedObject);
        }
        else return;

        LoadoutList[selectedSlotIndex].SetRune(blockTypesOrder[index]); //127 line
        selectedSlotIndex = (++selectedSlotIndex) % LoadoutList.Count;

        //Sets selected slot
        if (eventSystem != null)
        {
            var baseEventData = new BaseEventData(eventSystem);
            eventSystem.SetSelectedGameObject(LoadoutList[selectedSlotIndex].gameObject, baseEventData);
        }
    }```

    {
        for (int i = 0; i < blockTypesOrder.Count; i++)
        {
            int index = i; // For input function not referencing the loop variable
            runeSlotInputs[i].action.Enable();
            runeSlotInputs[i].action.performed += ctx => HandleRuneSlotInput(index); //76 line
        }
    }```

[ivory bobcat]

Can you give a summary of what the issue is?

Is it the argument out of range error that you had before? #💻┃code-beginner message

[elfin pike]

yes, and also i tried to remove function onDestroy, but it didnt remove on scene load. Summary: Range error, even if list is constantly 10 size. Doesnt unbind on destroy. on 1 button press function is called 3 times (no error, error, no error)

[ivory bobcat]

I'm going to assume that it not removing on destroy is a guess. You can verify by logging something on destroy to see if it's occuring.

If the error is with cs LoadoutList[selectedSlotIndex].SetRune(blockTypesOrder[index]); //127 linethen likely the selectedSlotIndex value is invalid. Log the value and the size of the load out list.

[elfin pike]

just did and it called on destroy. for (int i = 0; i < blockTypesOrder.Count; i++) { runeSlotInputs[i].action.performed -= ctx => HandleRuneSlotInput(0); }

[ivory bobcat]

So destroy is functionally correct.

What the error is stating is that selectedSlotIndex isn't a valid index for the LoadoutList collection.

You need to verify the value and the collection size.

[elfin pike]

so before it debugs valid index it becomes invalid?

[ivory bobcat]

No. The value isn't ever valid.

Log the value

[naive pawn]

this is incorrect

[ivory bobcat]

Log the collection size.

[naive pawn]

you can't unsubscribe a lambda used directly like that

it's not "the same delegate", so nothing is being unsubscribed

[ivory bobcat]

You need to unsubscribe the instance.

[naive pawn]

usually you would have a method that you can easily subscribe/unsubscribe instead

[elfin pike]

i subscribed incorrectly?

[naive pawn]

you subscribed in a way that makes unsubscribing properly impossible

[ivory bobcat]

If you cache the lambda with a field, you can subscribe and unsubscribe using the field.

[elfin pike]

is there better way to subscribe to inputaction.

[ivory bobcat]

What do you mean? How you had it initially would be perfectly fine if you aren't planning to unsubscribe

[naive pawn]

the ways me and dalphat just described

[elfin pike]

but im planning to unsub, because class will be destroyed

[naive pawn]

#💻┃code-beginner message or #💻┃code-beginner message

[ivory bobcat]

If you're planning to unsubscribe, you'll have to reference the instance to unsubscribe.

[naive pawn]

if you don't understand, just say so instead of ignoring the answer

[elfin pike]

i dont konw how to save reference.

[naive pawn]

it's just assigning some field to the value you want to keep

same as if you were to save an integer value across methods, you would assign to an int field

i have no idea what you mean by that last part

[elfin pike]

what field type i would need

[naive pawn]

try hovering the thing you're subscribing to 😉

it'll tell you the type

though since you have multiple inputactions you'd also have to save multiple actions, probably with a list/array

[elfin pike]

im brain dead or i dont understand this part.

[naive pawn]

in your ide, hover over the word performed in ...action.performed += ...

it'll tell you what the type is

[elfin pike]

it says Action<InputAction.CallbackContext>. but when you try to save to that field variable says "cant covert to void"

[ivory bobcat]

Probably Action<InputAction.CallbackContext>

[naive pawn]

what exactly is the code that's giving that error?

[elfin pike]

if i guess, i cant do this Action<InputAction.CallbackContext> _action = runeSlotInputs[i].action.performed += ctx => HandleRuneSlotInput(index);

[naive pawn]

you aren't saving the event listener there, you seem to be trying to save the entire act of subscription

(you also would not be doing this all as one statement, you would need this to be a field, not a local variable)

[ivory bobcat]

Action<InputAction.CallbackContext> _action;``````cs
_action = ctx => HandleRuneSlotInput(index);
runeSlotInputs[i].action.performed += _action;//Subscribe
runeSlotInputs[i].action.performed -= _action;//Unsubscribe```

[naive pawn]

int attack = /* ... */;
int bonus;
``````cs
bonus = /* ... */;
attack += bonus;

// later
attack -= bonus; // same value as when you did `+=`

[ivory bobcat]

The breakdown...
HandleRuneSlotInput(index) is simply a function from this instance that you're wrapping in a lambda.
A lambda generally looks like (/* parameter */) => {/* statements */} where the parameter type does not need to be define - lambdas.
You're expecting a parameter of type InputAction.CallbackContext. The parameter name ctx implies it's the callback context that the Unity input system provides. In your case you aren't doing anything with ctx. The funciton is expected to have a return type of void so you'd want to use the delegate Action instead of Func. You'd cache the instance of the lambda (an anonymous function) with a field and subscribe the instance (using the field). When you need to unsubscribe, you'll use that instance stored in the field to unsubscribe. What you had initially was the creation of new lambda instances when subscribing and unsubscribing. They were two different instances. The second instance wasn't found so nothing was removed. @elfin pike

[elfin pike]

What are common use cases of lambda. I always used it to shorten and not use {}. Also for actions from input manager

[naive pawn]

for delegates that are immediately used

they're just another way to make delegates

[tender mirage]

I'm actually using them right now. They make certain code alot more convenient.

[naive pawn]

ah, deferred evaluation like in WaitWhile/WaitUntil or in pooling too

as well as callbacks

[tender mirage]

Oh right, like.

bool myBool = false;


yield return new WaitUntil(() => myBool); 

I use that all the time. It's very nice.

[elfin pike]

First time see delegates. Thanks for another. Maybe, one day I'll find use for it. Sometimes find game changers like composite class, event channels

[tender mirage]

delegates can also store function parameters. It's pretty dope.

[naive pawn]

you're already using them, Action is a delegate type

[real carbon]

is this safe? or should I just remove it

[naive pawn]

this is a unity bug, update your editor

[gloomy bison]

so quick question about this;
if i have a project in a bugged version, would i lose anything by upgrading?

[subtle mulch]

nope

[pliant oyster]

I'm trying to make a pong game, but when the ball touches the enemy paddle, it gets stuck in place instead of reversing its x velocity. It also doesn't bounce off the walls. Here is my code:

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        // For the walls, reflect Y velocity
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Wall"))
        {
            rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(rb.linearVelocity.x, -rb.linearVelocity.y);
        }

        // For paddles, reflect X velocity, add some vertical deflection, and increase level if the ball hits the player paddle
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Paddle"))
        {
            float yDiff = transform.position.y - collision.transform.position.y; // Difference in Y position between ball and paddle
            float bounceAngle = yDiff / collision.collider.bounds.size.y; // Normalize offset
            
            float currentSpeed = rb.linearVelocity.magnitude; // Get the current speed
            Vector2 dir = new Vector2(-rb.linearVelocity.x, rb.linearVelocity.y + bounceAngle);
            rb.linearVelocity = dir.normalized * currentSpeed; // Use current speed, not base speed
        
            if (collision.gameObject.name == "PlayerPaddle")
            {
                GlobalVariables.Instance.Level++;
            }
        }
    }

[keen dew]

I'm guessing that the physics engine already reverses the velocity, and then your code reverses it back

If you want to make your own collision system you shouldn't be using the physics engine at all, or at least only use triggers. And if you just want to make a pong game, just let the physics engine handle the collisions

[elfin pike]

I can use multiple functions with delegate by only inputing function parameters once?

[pliant oyster]

I don't really understand. I commented out the lines that change the ball velocity (basically only leaving the Lever increase) and it still gets stuck on the enemy paddle.
I'm thinking, could it be that the physics engine stops the ball dead before my script hits, and then, because the ball velocity is 0, it just stays at 0?

[keen dew]

Why do you need a script at all? The physics engine will bounce the ball automatically

[pliant oyster]

Because I have other stuff in my Ball script

[naive pawn]

for a patch version, generally no, but it's always to have backups or vcs for the case where something gets messed up

[naive pawn]

a delegate basically is a function, just as a value
you can use it however you might use another method

[keen dew]

What does that have to do with anything

[pliant oyster]

You asked why I have a script at all. I have a script because I need it to do things, like resetting the ball to the middle, or launching it.

[keen dew]

Obviously I wasn't suggesting that you should throw out all your code. I meant the part that messes with the physics

[pliant oyster]

Oh that, I assumed that I'd have to do that, because usually when hitting a wall your motion stops, as it does with everything commented out.

My collision code is this right now:

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        // For the walls, reflect Y velocity
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Wall"))
        {
            //rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(rb.linearVelocity.x, -rb.linearVelocity.y);
        }

        // For paddles, reflect X velocity, add some vertical deflection, and increase level if the ball hits the player paddle
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Paddle"))
        {
            //float yDiff = transform.position.y - collision.transform.position.y; // Difference in Y position between ball and paddle
            //float bounceAngle = yDiff / collision.collider.bounds.size.y; // Normalize offset
            //
            //float currentSpeed = rb.linearVelocity.magnitude; // Get the current speed
            //Vector2 dir = new Vector2(-rb.linearVelocity.x, rb.linearVelocity.y + bounceAngle);
            //rb.linearVelocity = dir.normalized * currentSpeed; // Use current speed, not base speed
        
            if (collision.gameObject.name == "PlayerPaddle")
            {
                GlobalVariables.Instance.Level++;
            }
        }
    }
```As you can see, I commented the physics changing stuff out, but the ball just stops all X movement when it hits the paddle.

I'm going to try re-enabling the commented out lines, and removing the Kinematic rigidbody from the paddle.

[keen dew]

That's not going to help

Either you have code somewhere else that affects the ball, or the physics setup is wrong

Possibly setting the ball velocity every frame

[deft hornet]

I am completely new to unity what should I start with

[rich adder]

Check pins

[deft hornet]

What?

[rich adder]

You asked in a coding channel so it's the assumption that you want to learn code . Check the pins in the channel?

[inner needle]

hi

[deft hornet]

Ohh pins in discord

I tought you guys would help

[rich adder]

Additionally they have pathways on https://learn.unity.com

[inner needle]

in which channel we can post for people to connect with?

[rich adder]

None

[verbal dome]

We help with specific issues

[inner needle]

:/ so it's not a community?

[deft hornet]

Like i wanted to know how to start

[rich adder]

It's a community for helping with specific unity editor issues

[verbal dome]

Right, see the pins.

[inner needle]

ok then which server we can connect with people to build game dev groups?

[rich adder]

Probably a general gamedev discord server ?

[inner needle]

Does unity have any other home server?

[rich adder]

There are non official ones floating around , dunno which

[inner needle]

very strange unity doesn't have their community connect channels

ok nvm

[rich adder]

There is a collabs area on the forums. That's about it.

!collab

[radiant void]

:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

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[gloomy bison]

Will do. Thank you

[elfin pike]

Is there book or website with words I should know?

[rich adder]

!docs

[radiant void]

Documentation

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[elfin pike]

Giving unity documentation doesn't help

[tulip herald]

What did you need then?

[naive pawn]

are you looking for a glossary?

i don't think unity has an official one

oh no way

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/Glossary.html

[elfin pike]

Yes. Why in unity variable type is called field?

[sour fulcrum]

It’s not

variables declared in a class are referred to as fields

[manic juniper]

field and variable are kinda different, not only in unity but in c# in general.

field is declared in the class and a variable is declared somewhere in class' methods

[manic juniper]

the field can be used anywhere in this class, but local variables declared in a method can only be accessed from this exact method

[manic juniper]

"target" itself is a field, not variable

the line "public Transform target" is a declaration of the field, but not the field itself

[sour fulcrum]

Its both a field and variable

[sour fulcrum]

You are correct on this though but was trying to just get the point across that field is just kinda contextual

[cosmic dagger]

target is a field, which is a type of variable . . .

[elfin pike]

You make it more confusing

[cosmic dagger]

the truth usually is (joking) . . .

[cosmic dagger]

it's really not though. a field is a type of variable that belongs to the class or struct, that's all . . .

[naive pawn]

a variable holds a value.
a field is a variable that lives in a class (or other type)
a local variable is a variable that lives in a method (or a narrower scope) (it's "local" to that scope)

[cosmic dagger]

basically, the main difference is the scope the variable was created in . . .

[elfin pike]

Not logical. i would class can have methods and fields. Fields contain stack or heap. Method can also have them.

[grand snow]

sorry what

a struct that is stack allocated may then have fields in the stack too

[naive pawn]

class can have methods and fields.
this is correct, these are collectively called members (along with some other stuff)
Fields contain stack or heap
this makes zero sense.
Method can also have them.
"fields" inside methods are called locals.

[cosmic dagger]

huh? fields don't contain stack or heap, but a field can be stored on the stack or heap depending on where the field is located . . .

[grand snow]

this is also now not beginner stuff

[polar acorn]

A field is a variable that belongs to a class. As opposed to a local variable that belongs to a scope

[cosmic dagger]

no, i would consider this beginner as it's the first thing they should learn about variables . . .

[manic juniper]

all fields are variables, not all variables are fields...

basically

[grand snow]

No a beginner learning c# does not need to know about the stack or heap

[naive pawn]

right, they brought that up themselves, the main topic was trying to explain what the difference between fields and locals was

[polar acorn]

Yeah I don't even know where those came from. No one was mentioning them

[manic juniper]

he better know

[naive pawn]

eventually, yes. but there are more important things for a beginner.

information overload is not conducive to learning

[cosmic dagger]

• value types are stored on the stack
  Pro-Tip: value types are stored on the heap if they belong to a reference type (array, class, struct, etc.)

• reference types are stored on the heap (the actual object)
  Pro-Tip: the variable holding the reference can be stored on the stack (local) or heap (field of an object)

personally, i never knew this was intermediate or advanced learning. i thought it was a part of learning about variables and what types there are (which is one of the first things you learn, imo) . . .

[naive pawn]

it's advanced knowledge of a beginner topic imo. implementation details that can be abstracted away at the beginner level

[grand snow]

It matters more in c/ cpp where we need to care and think about how we are allocating objects

[cosmic dagger]

damn, realizing my training was harsh. why master?

[grand snow]

in a managed language its not as important

[naive pawn]

yeah stack vs heap alloc is almost never mentioned in eg js or python in the context of learning to use the language (for comparison)

implementation detail that's interesting for nerds and important for optimization but you'll get a lot more knowledge leading up to that by the time it becomes important

[cosmic dagger]

you mean just for a beginner, right, not in general?

[grand snow]

yea in c and cpp you kinda do need to learn about that up front. In c# you could never learn and do just fine

[elfin pike]

You have to. If you do Array1 = Array2 it then Array1 === Array2. They would be same, because they reference types

[naive pawn]

comparing equal is not becuase they're reference types

if you do num1 = num2 then num1 == num2 too

[polar acorn]

What does this have to do with stacks or heaps?

[grand snow]

🤦‍♂️

[polar acorn]

I don't think that you really need to worry about any of that in a garbage-collected language like C#. You don't need to allocate any memory, so you don't really have to care about how that memory is managed.

[grand snow]

but muh bragging rights!

[elfin pike]

You can't pass value with reference type variables. You would pass only reference.

[naive pawn]

the value is the reference

it's still passing by value

[grand snow]

ref would like a word

[naive pawn]

passing by reference is a different concept (see ref/out, or c++ &)

[manic juniper]

all of this started from fields and local variables...

[polar acorn]

Okay, but, like, what does that have to do with stacks and heaps? It just seems like your spitting out a bunch of non sequiturs that have nothing to do with the previous statements

We can move on to another question once we've adequately solved the last one

[manic juniper]

value types are stored in stack and ref types are stored in heap

[naive pawn]

i think we could drop this tbh. i'm not sure it's going to be of much use

[naive pawn]

this is incorrect

see previous explanation above #💻┃code-beginner message

[manic juniper]

yea i mean there are some exception for that

[naive pawn]

values of value types are stored entirely inline, whether that's in the stack or in the heap.
values of reference types are stored as a reference (inline) to some object in the heap.

[polar acorn]

Basically, you won't need to care about how the data is stored in C#. You just need to know if it's a reference or value type, and if you need it to be the other one, you have ways of doing that

[elfin pike]

What about fields? How people explained inside field we have field and field type?

[cosmic dagger]

a field is a variable that belongs to an object, and yes, a field is associated with a type . . .

though, I don't understand what you mean by, "inside field we have field" . . .

[elfin pike]

That I also don't understand.

[naive pawn]

you said it...

a field declaration has the field name and the field type, are you thinking of that

[elfin pike]

Yes, I think guys got confused by trying to explain

In any other language Its called global variable, because all functions in class can use it

[naive pawn]

no, this is not the same as a global

globals are in the global scope

fields are in class scope

c# doesn't have globals

compare: c, c++, js, and python have both globals and fields. they are separate concepts

[elfin pike]

So global > field > local

[grand snow]

Scope doesn't end there but it's the major ones

[elfin pike]

What can be higher then global?

[naive pawn]

global is the highest scope

[grand snow]

I mean the other way. You can have local functions, lambdas and even start new scope within any but that's not as useful in c#

[high shoal]

quick qeustion: how do i remove the paths in visual scripting? the white ones

[naive pawn]

you don't, those are what direct the flow of your code

removing the paths just means the code doesn't run

[high shoal]

i dident mean to connect it to "on start"

[naive pawn]

ah, wait, did you just.. mean that

yeah ok i assumed you meant visually remove them... that's on me, i need to go to bed lmao

probably some right-click action

ask in #1390346878394040320, they'd know how to work with visual scripting

you could also probably just google this though

[white zinc]

Does anyone know why I get this error for this script? InvalidOperationException: 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. UnityEngine.Internal.InputUnsafeUtility.GetAxis (System.String axisName) (at <5d83d7fd54814220974154076485b684>:0) UnityEngine.Input.GetAxis (System.String axisName) (at <5d83d7fd54814220974154076485b684>:0) CameraControllerFPS.Update () (at Assets/movement/Movement.cs:15)

public class CameraControllerFPS : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float sensitivity = 2f;
    private float xRotation = 0f;
    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensitivity;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivity;

        xRotation -= mouseY;
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);

        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);
        transform.parent.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);
    }
}```

[solar hill]

The error message pretty much tells you exactly why and where you can go and fix it

Switch input handling to use both.

[gaunt mason]

You can either use both, or start using newer active Input System, I prefer the newer but it's a little less intuitive in setting up

[ivory bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.8/manual/Installation.html

You can find the corresponding setting in Edit > Project Settings > Player > Other Settings > Active Input Handling. If you change this setting you must restart the Editor for it to take effect.

[golden canopy]

guys is there a better way to achieve this?

 if (cameraFinger != null)
        {
            Vector2 delta = cameraFinger.currentTouch.delta;
            cameraInput = delta * sensitivity;
        }

[grand snow]

got some more context for us?

reading touch/mouse delta is normal for getting input for this frame

[golden canopy]

srry, so whenever im using the touchdelta using the enhanced touch it does this, worked fine when i was using input actions but i couldnt get the "camera finger" thru the input actions now im confused

[grand snow]

You need to share how you use the input to then rotate the camera.
An input action with mouse and touch delta should work fine.

[golden canopy]

its basically just a fancy way to adding the delta to the camera rotation, its being called in late update

[grand snow]

This also looks fine but I think the "window space" for delta is a bit shit

nvm that should then equate to screen space. Id try to use an input action instead of enhanced touch and see if its better. Im going to try to find what I did when I used enhanced touch last...

Dang I was using Touch.activeTouches[0].screenPosition

[prisma shard]

If an experienced coder is familiar with the game RuneScape can u please DM me. I have a few questions

[golden canopy]

damn was it working?

[grand snow]

Yea but this was for having a graphic follow the touch position hence use of screen position from the active touch (with enhanced touch on)

[golden canopy]

i see

i tried the input action again, its definitely the enhanced touch

i looked into the official documentary a bit as annoying as it is i couldnt find an alternative with only the input system

because i wanna identify the finger too

[grand snow]

If you want only some area of the screen to do this camera movement you can use the IPointer events in UI to read mouse/touch input

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.IDragHandler.html

using a configured input action is better than doing direct device data reading (and enhanced touch is there really to half replicate old input stuff)

[golden canopy]

not really id have the ui changing but even if i set the drag area below all ui its still going to cause issues with gamepad support etc

[grand snow]

Then 1 action for both should be best

[golden canopy]

id still need to constantly use the joystick to move lol

[grand snow]

another action for that

*mapping sorry

you can map touch delta and gamepad input

then read as vector2

[solar hill]

If you have coding questions you should just ask here

but Runescape is also not a unity game

if you want to know how to recreate anything from Runescape in unity you should also ask here

[prisma shard]

Ok well I guess I can ask a few of the questions here. In RuneScape there is a tick system that I believe is when the server registers game data of events happening. I think all video games are tick systems but RuneScape is known for its big 0.6 second delay. Question, does implementing this in a DnD combat system which is not turn based have any utility for single player games? From my surface knowledge I thought the tick system existed in RuneScape because of hardware constraints and being a multiplayer game. If this tick system would be useless for modern DND real time games. What system should replace it

[grand snow]

You can either process events as the occur or queue up things to handle at some fixed timestep but unless you have a very good reason to do this (such as a server) then dont bother

[solar hill]

You really dont need a custom tick rate for a game that isnt multiplayer

i cant really think of any productive reason for one

tickrates for multiplayer games are basically just how frequently is the server getting all the client sided information and vice versa

to put it simply

[grand snow]

yea exactly, we can already tell pretty well how much time passed since the last frame so we can keep things consistent time wise

[prisma shard]

Isn't the body of the player desynced from their actual coordinates? Like it's all animation interpolation or something. I think that's because of the tick system and I am not sure how different the DND combat system would feel if it was too responsive I guess? It's just kind of hard to imagine what it would look like in a different game genre

[grand snow]

are you thinking of physics interpolation?

Anyway if you were doing some turn based system you would still process input right away and handle things by the time they take

I think you are chasing some idea for no good reason

[solar hill]

Runescape and Wow use tab targetting, which is sort of close to a mix of real time and turn based combat, but that was born out of nescessity, action rpg mmos werent a thing back in the day.

For an actual turn based combat system, you dont need tick rates of any kind

[prisma shard]

Perhaps I shouldn't have said DnD. It's just RuneScape is technically a DND combat system. I am not exactly sure how the registry of data for far away fog of war units works (perhaps they don't spawn at all before the player can see them). But I feel if u wanted an authentic RuneScape feeling game u would not want a continuously fast updating tons of data immediately because it would be unnecessary and a waste of CPU resources that u would want for a big map game with many units. If all units have some sort of like minimum 0.6 second attack timer. I am not sure what is lost not just having the game "click absolute time" over the entire game

[solar hill]

I think you are still missunderstanding both the nature of tick rates, what runescape does and why, and what we are telling you...

Youre confusing multiple different unrelated things here

[grand snow]

Its true that processing a bunch of things each frame (on the main thread) would be slow but threading, jobs and entities can be used to solve this.
An easier method would be also to stagger when updates happen (some one frame, others the next)

[eager beacon]

whats the best way to learn how to program overall as a COMPLETE beginner

[solar hill]

check the pins here

[austere kraken]

Anyone check out my code of parts disamble

[solar hill]

!code

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[inland lark]

if i have building sim type game and i need to make like 50 exteriors and interiors, whats the best way to organize things as far triggers collisions etc from going outside to inside

[rich adder]

organize? in what sense... this is a very open ended question

[eternal needle]

they do have a ton of units loaded at once, i think there was an update where they stopped updating certain units if no one was around (which caused its own bugs). But they generally dont spawn/despawn much. Dead npcs are sent to (0,0), not destroyed or anything, which also came with its own bugs. Object pooling would be the term for doing this in unity. Other than the 0.6 second tick rate, the stuff you're describing don't actually correlate to a "RuneScape feeling game".

Though you're wasting efforts even trying to compare your game to runescape. If there's a feature you want to recreate, ask about it specifically. Just thinking about implementing a tick system because another game has it will get you no where. Their fundamental systems like the ticks and queue had crazy bugs that have existed for years, you really don't want to copy it anyways

[eternal jacinth]

Yo wsg gangs

[elfin pike]

Is there way to see class used memory and performance? I know it's not beginner's topic

[queen adder]

What the hell?? Why isn't it filling out the field?

I'm trying to fill out an InputActionReference in my player prefab using unity's new input system.

public InputActionReference move;

[queen adder]

Apparently it's a problem specifically with version 1.16.0 and 1.17.0 of the input system. Switching to 1.18 fixed it but now apparently the signature of the package is invalid

[eternal needle]

!collab

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[chrome sable]

how strongly baked into Unity / C# ecosystem is the PascalCase naming convention? I am going crazy without my snake_case variable names 🙁

[queen adder]

very

[chrome sable]

🥹

[queen adder]

You'll get used to them, and then your code will be more readable for everyone so don't feel bad about leaving snake_case behind

[chrome sable]

its just unfortunate because i really hate camel case lol

but yes, it is what it is

[eternal needle]

you practically aren't going to see snake case outside of python and constant variables in certain languages

its a good thing to leave behind

[chrome sable]

the lower case feels much easier on the eyes to me

but i guess it's easier to just go with a language's conventions or its an upstream battle =\

[nocturne kayak]

hello guys I wanna know can you only call this One time?
interface IInteractable { public void Interact(); } I wrote this a second time to make a second function in an other script but this apparently makes an error

[ivory bobcat]

Show where and how you've written it the second time.

[nocturne kayak]

are there still website to paste the script like blaze bin this website is down

[nocturne kayak]

First image is the second implementation and the second one is the first one (The error should be in the first script.

[ivory bobcat]

You've already defined that interface in your project. Remove one of the two.

It's available project wide.

[nocturne kayak]

ohh okay

[nocturne kayak]

thanks

[pseudo barn]

Hey everyone,
I'm going through a difficult time through my life but since I'm doing a bit better now I'm trying to finally get into codding
I already follow the very basic tutorial to learn how unity work and I was able to start a small project by my self, asking chat gtp how I could improve my code or how I could do this or that (telling him how I would do it first so he doesn't just do all the work for me)
Thing is I'm pretty sure chat gtp isn't the best way to learn programing and I was wondering if there are other ai out there made for programing that could direct me or answer my question better than him

Thank you for your answer or redding my question ^^

(I know there is tutorial for everything out there, but the sheer amount of them and finding the right one for the right situation is a bit intimidating for me and for the stage of my recovery that I'm going through rn, Someone already told me I should look for those instead and I plan on doing too hopefully since they should be better than ai, but I can't really manage to do it rn ^^;)

[sour fulcrum]

No one here is going to recommend you any ai

[nocturne kayak]

Oh yeah i have no idea why i wanna implement a second Interaction this is just dumb 😂

i'am thinking too hard i dont know 😭

[tired python]

i like your color scheme

[nocturne kayak]

its an extension its called Doki Theme

[tired python]

vscode?

[nocturne kayak]

visual studio 2022 but it might exist

[tender mirage]

I really gotta reinstall visual studio 2022 But i suppose 2026 is less buggy nowadays with unity.

[tired python]

[nocturne kayak]

oh is 2026 like 2022?

[tired python]

i stopped using vs cus it took too much processing power

[nocturne kayak]

I can understand lol

[tender mirage]

It's pretty much the same but more buggy for unity. 2022 is a much smoother experience.

[nocturne kayak]

Oh alright i might give it a try in a few month then

[tender mirage]

Maybe not a bad idea. It's certainly getting better over here. Worst of the bugs are gone but you still can't see errors half of the time

it's pretty annoying.

[nocturne kayak]

Oh you cant see errors ?

[tender mirage]

Yeah. Sometimes it just decides to not signal errors. You gotta reopen the script and all.

tedious process.

[tired python]

What I want:-

• Based on the mouse position, I want the Forward Vector of the Spaceship to rotate towards the Mouse Position
• In this scenario (acute angle), the spaceship should rotate clockwise
• In a scenario (obtuse angle), the spaceship should rotate counterclockwise

I want to know how it would be possible for me to find out:-

• Forward Vector
• Angular Velocity required to rotate the spaceship (I have done a few calculations and I don't think finding this will be much of a problem if I have the Forward Vector)

[grand snow]

For 2d rotation we can make use of Atan2 https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Mathf.Atan2.html
You can use this to get a target rotation and use RotateTowards to slowly rotate the ship towards this new rotation.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Quaternion.RotateTowards.html

If needed can give an example of how to use it

[tired python]

sure

suppose Mouse Position is mouse_pos and spaceship position is spaceship_pos

[nocturne kayak]

i think

[tired python]

0 at the top seems wack lol

[grand snow]

Vector3 dir = mouse_pos - transform.position;
float zRot = Mathf.Atan2(dir.y, dir.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, zRot + 90f);

@tired python This shows us getting a directional vector from the object to the mouse position (presuming this is world space too)
Then we figure out the z rotation and make a quaternion!

You can then use rotate towards to keep rotating to wards the latest target rotation

[nocturne kayak]

in unity a character will have a rotation of 0 when the player is pointing forward

[grand snow]

Oh and this example presumes that X+ is forward (hence the +90 correction)

[tired python]

this did not make sense to me

[grand snow]

Its based on which direction your ship points with 0,0,0 rotation

If it looks right (which is positive X) then we need to add 90 degrees to the calculated rotation to correct it

[tired python]

O_O

[grand snow]

wha?

Im confused what are you trying to convey to me?

I have used Atan2 many times to impement similar "rotate thing to look at mouse" behaviour

Please use words instead to tell me what you dont understand or if you think I miss understand your desired behaviour

[tired python]

wait, i will explain what i understood

oh wait

i messed up

it is Vector3 dir = mouse_pos - transform.position;
not Vector3 dir = mouse_pos - forwardvector.position;

[grand snow]

The current forward vector is not important. If we get the target rotation using the previous example and use Quaternion.RotateTowards() to keep rotating to it each Update then we get it to work

We need a direction from the object to the mouse world pos

And just incase, unity provide a function to get an angle between 2 vectors https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector2.Angle.html

[tired python]

i don't have forward vector 😭

[grand snow]

Then why not try what I suggested? Its what I would do to keep rotating an object to look at the mouse

Transform has properties for up and right so you do have options for a "forward" direction in 2D

[tired python]

i can't seem to get a grasp of the last step

[tired python]

is the up supposed to be normalised?

[grand snow]

Quaternion target;

private void Update()
{
  transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, target, 90f * Time.deltaTime);
}

[grand snow]

Yes. Also i forgot to add a normalise for the "transform to mouse" direction too (which is needed)

[tired python]

wait then none of this is needed?

i can just use var angleToRotate = Vector2.SignedAngle(transform.up, mouse_pos);

[grand snow]

I am soo confused what you understand or dont rn

suggestion: read the doc pages on these things

if you did not open the links i sent earlier then that explains this

[tired python]

i did open the links before and I do know that that euler rotation is supposed to add absolute rotations to the object (spaceship)

[grand snow]

Euler is an alternate easier way to represent rotations

Quaternion is what is used for rotation. You can get and set rotation in world or local space.

RotateTowards() is a helper function that returns a rotation that has slightly moved from one rotation to another by some max amount so it makes it easy to keep rotating towards some goal rotation.

Its similar to Vector3.MoveTowards() which helps moving towards a goal position by some max delta

[tired python]

wait a second. the zrot just finds out whether i need to rotate clock wise and anticlockwise, whereas the 90f is just supposed to be some magnitude which can be used to increase the rate of this rotation?

i can't be this stubid

[grand snow]

zRot + 90f if the sprite looks right
zRot if the spirte looks up

zRot is angle in degrees

Mathf.Atan2(dir.y, dir.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg
Atan2 returns an angle in radians so we need to convert it to degrees

[lethal gull]

hello, I'm using a simple throwing script which basically uses MainCamera.transform.forward as a direction but the object gets thrown towards the transform.up forwhatever reason https://paste.ofcode.org/LTnbNfhxxzXPigkSzbQSCN

[lethal gull]

you may think reading this script I have only upwardForce but no I have 0 throwUpwardForce and I have a throwForce

[tired python]

managed to make it work. had to use gpt, but what it suggested was very similar to what you said. rly sorry that i kinda wasted your time

[sour adder]

Where is throwUpwardForce set, and why would you want to have it?

[lethal gull]

it's set in the forceToAdd, it multiplies the transform.up so I can eventually have a little upwardforce but here in this case it's set to 0, so that shouldn't be an issue anyway

[sour adder]

Then it must be the if-statement?

[grand snow]

Well I guess it was able to respond quickly to whatever you asked but yea the main parts used would be good to understand.
Do try to check the unity docs closely as their examples are good

[tired python]

got it

[lethal gull]

if it's set to 0, it will not matter anyway bruh

it will be equal to 0 and do nothing

[ivory bobcat]

When you copy code from a tutorial or the internet, you can be certain that your result will likely match their result - the final result. With AI generated code, there is no certainty. The result is simply generated. If there are mistakes, the AI will not be able to find the solution without curation. There are no promises with AI. The final result is non-existent. The generated result can be wrong. The solution can be wrong. It becomes a really deep rabbit hole of frustration. If you aren't comfortable with scripting but want to make games, your best bet is to look for assets in the asset store (free, paid ect) and find tutorials on how to implement simple mechanics/features that you absolutely need. If you aren't building the entire system yourself, keep the mechanics simple and few. Unity has been around for a long time. There are plenty of fancy ready made assets out there. Integration will be your limiting factor. You might not get exactly what you'd want but with enough iterations (games made) you'll become more familiar with what's acceptable and what you may have to learn or pay to acquire. Reminder that game development consists of more than just programming - there's going to be some compromising on quality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle

"Good, fast, cheap. Choose two."

[tired python]

this is what the guy had been writing all this while damn

[sour adder]

forceDirection is set in two places and it is not 0 if the throw is upwards.

[nocturne kayak]

Hey guys uhh there is something that i really dont understand so i just want to change a value from another script and its just doing something weird, so why the hell am i getting those types of result , the second script is in an object that get duplicated over and over but how can it show a value of 0???

[ivory bobcat]

Did you want the value to be the same for every duplicate?

[nocturne kayak]

Yes , so i'am really confused about the 0

[ivory bobcat]

Where do you assign player info?

[nocturne kayak]

In an empty object and i drag it in the duplicated gameObject

[ivory bobcat]

Normally you'd want to assign player info when you spawn each duplicate object so that they share the same player info:cs var something = Instantiate(...); something.playerInfo = playerInfo;

Can you show how you're instantiating the object

[nocturne kayak]

sure

[ivory bobcat]

Which object did you drag in? Was it a prefab object?

[nocturne kayak]

Its an empty object just so the script start

[lethal gull]

man, are you sure you understand my code? the forceDirection obviously isn't zero, I have a throwForce positive but the transform.up is 0

[nocturne kayak]

here is my script to instantiate

oh so it is a prefab

[naive pawn]

have you debugged if the if is passing (and changing the forceDirection?)
have you debugged the final forceDirection and forceToAdd?

[nocturne kayak]

but it mean that each time that i instantiate it would take the script from 0 ?

[ivory bobcat]

Replace your print line with this: cs Debug.Log($"Banna : {banana}", this);Run the application by pressing play. Pause the game (not stop) after some 0's appear. Click on the console log once and observe the scene/asset-folder for an object that will become highlighted yellow.

[nocturne kayak]

noo

[nocturne kayak]

I didn't know you could do that, it's interesting.

and you found my problem i guess😭

[ivory bobcat]

Was it the prefab asset that was being highlighted yellow?

[nocturne kayak]

i had 2 script that would play the same script

[ivory bobcat]

Ah, okay.

[nocturne kayak]

no

i'am so mad at me its not the first time it happen and i passed like 2 hour trying to find the issue 😭

i hope it wont happena again lol

[lethal gull]

yes I have, the forceDirection is upwards

[nocturne kayak]

tysm tho !

[sour adder]

Why would transform.up be 0?

[naive pawn]

it would not

[lethal gull]

BECAUSE I'M MULTIPLYING IT BY ZERO

[naive pawn]

that does not make transform.up be 0

[lethal gull]

huh?

[lethal gull]

how ?

[naive pawn]

transform.up is just a normalized direction vector

multiplying by 0 results in a zero vector

it doesn't change transform.up

[lethal gull]

exavtly what I meant

[naive pawn]

i think you have the right idea but you're phrasing it extremely confusingly

[lethal gull]

multiplyijg it by zero applies zero force towards the axis

[naive pawn]

if works
is this log from inside the if?

[mint swift]

Hello, when i am working with cinemachine i am getting something wrong it pissed me off, like when using the third person aim camera it's just not rotating and i am trying to add pan tilt it just rotates around it self and not like beside the player so it will get that aiming style.
Any idea?

[lethal gull]

yes

[naive pawn]

so forceDirection isn't the camera's forward direction then

it's whatever (hit.point - attackPoint).normalized is

[lethal gull]

yes, but the ray's direction is cam.forward, so whatever the hit is, it should be something in face of the player and the forceDirection would be something sent forward, no?

[waxen sequoia]

Hello i made an animation for Fire and Idle in Idle the weapon keeps flashing around anyoe knows why

[naive pawn]

you aren't getting the direction from cam.position to hit.point, are you

[naive pawn]

this is the code channel, that doesn't sound like a code issue unless you're doing the flashing from code

but also, you need to provide much more info than that

[lethal gull]

attackPos almost is the same as the cam position

[naive pawn]

we aren't psychic

[naive pawn]

ok, validate that then

log out hit.point, log out attackPoint.position, log out forceDirection

[waxen sequoia]

Thank You in wich Channel should i ask

[naive pawn]

the relevant channel

[waxen sequoia]

thx

[naive pawn]

you've already posted in #💻┃unity-talk so just stick to that, don't crosspost
if you actually provide more info, where we'd be able to help, then you may be redirected if necessary

[lethal gull]

I've debugged all of them, the issue is the hit transform I think, it's weird but it looks like the hit is the throwObject itself

[lethal gull]

the if is to make sure the direction will be the center but I think I'll just remove it and use the cam.transform.forward only, the issue looks too complex

[sour adder]

So, it was the if-statement.

[lethal gull]

yes, but I kinda needed it though

I feel like I'm the only one having these weird issues everytime

[naive pawn]

so add a layermask

or make it start outside the throw object

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[naive pawn]

no, you just need to get better at debugging

[noble sleet]

oh , sorry

[lethal gull]

but how would it fix the issue? if it hits the throwObject(whatever object) using as a direction the cam.forward and then calculating the normalized direction, it should have still been thrown forward and not upwards

[lethal gull]

real, but I've debugged everything as you told me, and we haven't found the issue

[naive pawn]

the layermask would make it not hit the throw object

if the throw object is on a different layer from whatever you want it to hit of course

[naive pawn]

we have though...

[pseudo barn]

Thank you for your more details answer I appreciate it, have a good afternoon ^^

[naive pawn]

it's that your raycast was hitting an object you didn't want it to hit

[lethal gull]

yes, that's why I said (whatever object), the direction will be the same, won't it?

[naive pawn]

i have no idea what you're asking

[lethal gull]

Oh yeaaa wait, I'm dumb lol

maybe the throwPosition is a bit more elevated than the cam position so yea I should just exclude it from the layers

[lethal gull]

I mean, if it hit the throwObject using cam.transform.forward, the normalized direction shouldn't have been upwards

[naive pawn]

but it wasn't using cam.transform.forward

oh whoops misread

why wouldn't it be upwards

[lethal gull]

it was, the raycast

[lethal gull]

because the hit would be forward, then the direction would be forward too

[naive pawn]

no it wouldn't

[lethal gull]

why?

[naive pawn]

the raycast direction (cam.forward) and the direction from attackPoint to the hit are not related at all

[true flame]

So basically i am creating a simple script so when the player hits the enemy, the player resets back to their spawn point. However, when the player does touch the enemy, it doesnt do anything at all.

[lethal gull]

thank you so much

[keen dew]

Show the inspectors for the player and the enemy

[naive pawn]

do debugging. is the message being called? if it is, is the if passing?

[true flame]

this is the player

this is the enemy

[keen dew]

Where's the SpawnPoint component?

[true flame]

so the Spawnpoint is here, so hopefully when the player hits the enemy, it should go to this spawn point

[keen dew]

That's the gameobject. Where did you attach the SpawnPoint script?

[true flame]

to the player

[keen dew]

Ok well show it

[sour fulcrum]

then the player is the spawnpoint

thats just a gameobject named SpawnPoint, it doesn't do anything

[true flame]

so it does work on a normal sphere but not the actual Enemy? Is it because it is a prefab?

[keen dew]

no

Go through the debugging steps here: https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[true flame]

okay okay

[foggy yoke]

how can I switch controls between two gameobjects that both have the player input component?

[grand snow]

enable/disable controls being read and used and also move the camera over
If using cinemachine that is easy

[foggy yoke]

Thanks

[grand snow]

If you read input in update you can use the enabled property of your component

[foggy yoke]

I don't but I've got an idea

[grand snow]

If using events or something else then it can check the enabled state or some other field/property. Nothing complex really

[foggy yoke]

So you're saying that I should just disable the Player input component?

[grand snow]

yea that should work, or your functions that respond to input can check a bool to either do stuff or stop early

check the playerinput doc page for more info

[foggy yoke]

Thanks!

[torpid vault]

hello, I am currently trying to implement networking into my 2d fighting game but there seems to be a problem regarding knockback. I use server authoritative movement and the knockback only works if player 1 attacks player 2. If player 2 attacks player 1, there is a small chance of knockback being applied but generally nothing happens.

[rich adder]

in a normal setup the client players are kinematic rigidbodies

[torpid vault]

I tried changing it from dynamic to kinematic rigidbody but i still have the same problem

should i send the script?

[rich adder]

that wasnt at all the point.. the server is automatically making dynamics to kinematic.. Do you know the difference between kinematic and dynamic ?

[torpid vault]

not really

[rich adder]

should probably learn about that before even getting into networking, you can't just Apply Force from another RB to another if they are kinematic, they are not affcted by external forces

server is the only ones who process the dynamic collisions to keep things somewhat consistent across clients

physics isn't exactly trivial thing to get correct on net

make a thread in #1390346492019212368 if you want but imo, you need to learn more about these things before implementing physics in a netgame

[torpid vault]

alright, thanks

[vernal ledge]

is there a tool for testing edgecases

for multiplayer games specifically

[elfin pike]

Can I use VS code debugger for unity?

[naive pawn]

haven't tried it myself, but ive heard of people doing so, so pretty sure you can, yeah

[grand snow]

vs, vs code and rider have working debuggers for unity.
Unity will ask to re compile code in debug mode first time

[elfin pike]

I'm person who puts debug.log

[grand snow]

Then congrats on advancing to real debugging

[foggy yoke]

i set up the blend tree and the parameters like how Game Code Library showed. Here's my script. Why is it getting stuck, and how can I fix it?

[naive pawn]

...ok... do you have a question

[foggy yoke]

oh wait sorry i forgot

[verbal dome]

What's the speed set to in the Jumping state?

[foggy yoke]

you mean the thresholds?

[verbal dome]

Nah when you have the state selected but i saw it's 1 in the video actually

[naive pawn]

your transition from Any State has "Can Transition To Self" enabled, so it's continuously restarting the jumping state

this is a code channel btw. for issues like this in the future, ask in #🏃┃animation

[foggy yoke]

my bad

[inland lark]

I’m building a city/building sim in Unity with around 50 buildings, each having an exterior in the main world and a separate interior.

What’s the best way to organize transitions between exterior ↔ interior at scale?

Specifically:
– How should I structure triggers and colliders for doors?
– Should interiors be separate scenes or prefabs loaded additively?
– What’s a clean way to manage building IDs so I’m not writing custom logic for every building?

I’m trying to avoid creating 50 unique scripts or messy scene setups. Looking for a scalable architecture approach.

[naive pawn]

should there be a loading seam when entering/exiting a building?

[subtle mulch]

yeah the interior should prob be a separate scene

so the gpu doesn't try to render useless stuff

[sour fulcrum]

While that’s not technically incorrect that’s not really why you would make that decision

You don’t need separate scenes to avoid redundant rendering

[grand snow]

Its possible to dynamically load in the interior content and unload it later

This is easier when using addressables but can still be done other ways

[inland lark]

ok i was reading about addressables but im still trying to wrap my head around it, ill keep studying

[tired python]

am i braindead, or is this what you asked me to do

i swear, the damn ducks they are teleporting across the z axis as if they are on crack

is there a way to create a new spline in 2d, without any z component

What I want:-

• To use only 2D colliders for particle collision detection.

Problem I am facing:-

• The enemies which move across the spline are supposed to have their transform's z component as 0, instead, the z component keeps on changing continuously. Due to this, the 2d collision does not work as intended

[grand snow]

I remember you asking about some duck thing ages ago

[tired python]

yes

wait, that was yesterday

oh wait, yeah, prolly, i am still working on the same game rn

[wintry quarry]

This is not a code question.

#1390346776804069396

[nimble heath]

oh ok sorry, my bad

[prisma shard]

I have some questions. How do I know what I should be making myself and what I should be using asset packs for? Like I cannot think of a reason why I would ever make my own RTS camera since a camera is a camera. The thought of programming complicated things I didn't need to scares me. Are there some kind of "asset packs" for scripting, perhaps slightly complicated sim economies based on resource collection and then expenditure on various things. I feel like this might have to be tied to the particular registry data system ur using so not sure how that would work. Perhaps the scripts come as a set time/registra data pack that has a sim economy built on top? I mean these are the essential kind of questions for me right now

[wintry quarry]

I cannot think of a reason why I would ever make my own RTS camera since a camera is a camera
Except that... not every RTS game has the same camera behavior. Almost every game has some unique things in it or unique feel etc. \

perhaps slightly complicated sim economies based on resource collection and then expenditure on various things
Yes an economy simulation would certainly be something bespoke to your game you would write yourself

[solar hill]

Theres also rarely any "complete game asset packs"

[wintry quarry]

Even when you have "asset packs" or libraries, you will almost always be writing custom code to "glue" those things into your own game systems

[solar hill]

Yeah you still need to understand how those systems work at the end of the day

you cant avoid that

[wintry quarry]

Anything that claims to be a "complete game pack" is lying to you and is basically useless

unless the game you're making is just an asset flip reskin of an existing game that you have the project for , you're going to be writing your own custom code

[prisma shard]

Yea I was looking at it more like patchwork. Having at least an RTS camera and pre built grid and unit moving setup would be huge to expand on

[grand snow]

You would probably want a full turn based system instead

[prisma shard]

U mean like a civ end turn button

[grand snow]

No I think the parts you describe wont exist separately as you expect.
Unity already had grid components. Cinemachine is very versatile and moving units isn't super hard when you have a grid node system

For a beginner id then just suggest a larger pre made system if you want to go that route

[prisma shard]

Can't find anything like that beside maybe like topdown engine. But not even sure if that's something I'd even have use for. I must be looking in the wrong place. Is this all on itch io or private websites or something. Cinemachine I found and seems to be a cutscene maker but I don't think my game idea would even have cutscenes

[solar hill]

that is not what cinemachine is...

[ivory bobcat]

The regular camera is bare bones. Cinemachine is a very robust camera. Same applies with the old Text vs Text Mesh Pro and old vs new Input system etc https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.1/manual/index.html
They're acceptable tools.. but lack certain QoL features.

[prisma shard]

I wish something in the tutorial said this stuff. I found cinemachine is even already in unity tools so I guess u can drag and drop it as a unity cam replacement. Do u have any tutorial videos that aren't the useless

Like a general unity tutorial that is actually good and can show me pre built starting systems etc

[radiant void]

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[ivory bobcat]

I'm not on a workstation right now. Your best bet is to check the official Unity Learn. Select what you want and need but make certain to go over the basic intro setup-description for any of the tutorial groups you're going to use.

[grand snow]

Its very well featured, it provides many ways to introduce advanced camera movement/framing and more

[prisma shard]

750 hour sheesh. This is really offtopic but do u guys think getting into this stuff is a bad use of my time? I am suppose to be looking for a new job after being laid off but Im technically not in a hurry or at risk of losing my living arrangement. I was trying to do a simple thing in Godot using my knowledge of Python but now it's all spiraled into an almost aching demand to make a particular game I want. Im not sure if it's a bad idea

I guess it would be a less pressing issue if I knew c# already or was familiar with unity

[solar hill]

I dont think game development is ever a waste of time as a hobby

just dont go into it expecting much success, because it is quite rare

Financially every other job in the development field is probably a safer bet, but otherwise its really fun and you get to learn a lot.

[prisma shard]

Yea websites and stuff is where the developers are right? Tbh I was kind of shocked seeing how unreal engine discord only had 40k members. It felt like barely anyone even tries to make video games

[wintry quarry]

not "websites" haha, SAAS mainly

[grand snow]

It would take months to gain the knowledge needed to be hireable in this field. Just do it as a hobby

[prisma shard]

I mean I have enough money saved to be unemployed for like 3 years. Just not sure

[grand snow]

Then if you want take a little bit of time to learn and experiment and make something to have on your portfolio

[sour fulcrum]

Industry is currently insanely competitive

[sour fulcrum]

Honestly years depending on region

[grand snow]

Yea, I am lucky to have like 5+ experience professionally

Once you get the first job its easier but before that you can only rely on education or a strong portfolio

[sour fulcrum]

yups

[solar hill]

Im still waiting to see one of those "common" remote work game-dev jobs every single person keeps asking about here 🙃

[sour fulcrum]

I started working with Unity in 2019 and still looking for first position (not to scare anyone off)

[grand snow]

I think i started with 4.5

[solar hill]

I havent even tried my luck professionally tbh, still in college but even with a degree i feel as if im better off just building up the portfolio first

[sour fulcrum]

Most places do not care about your degree at all

[prisma shard]

I'm surprised this field is even competitive. The truly fun parts of video games seem only a niche small part of the development

[solar hill]

this field is competitive because of recent mass lay offs and an oversaturation of developers

basically you have 1000 people for every 1 position

[sour fulcrum]

There are an abundance of people deeply passionate about every single aspect of development

[solar hill]

So companies will naturally gravitate towards the people who already worked in the industry and have experience

[grand snow]

Then I have some tips. Make sure to learn source control like git and have some projects on github.
Make sure you know all major areas, dont ignore things like UI (UGUI and/or UITK) or particles or material set up.

If you want to do a dev/programmer position then do prep for the dumb coding questions you will get too

[sour fulcrum]

And just general way the world is going lol

[solar hill]

Yeah this isnt even all too game development specific

the job market is rough

[sour fulcrum]

portfolio review channel would be nice here

[solar hill]

Dont worry, some rich ceo just got a 3.2 million dollar pay package for laying off 40 people

so all is better in the world in the long run

[prisma shard]

Lmao u guys are making me feel like I should be programming a nuclear sub radar system instead or something. Much less competition I would guess

[solar hill]

If you wanna develop games

you should

we are just telling you that financial success is seldom achieved

so go in it with the expectation to have fun developing and learning, and not that it might make you a lot of money

something like 70% of all games released on steam last year made less than 100 bucks iirc

they didnt even recoup the 100$ deposit lol

[prisma shard]

Lol wtf there's no way that's even possible

[visual junco]

I feel like the statistics that show game development success is rare are flawed. A lot of games hit success because they're actually fun, polished, and unique. Literally every game I've played that isn't is full of major issues, and they shouldn't be counted in stats that say "this has the same chance of success as ___"

[grand snow]

Ill point out that unity is very widly used in mobile games and those cover many genres

[solar hill]

That should put the sheer volume of game developers making games in perspective

[solar hill]

Success is only really defined by sales

[grand snow]

Good ideas and good execution = monayy

[solar hill]

doesnt matter if your game is like the greatest game of all time

if it doesnt make money

its not successful

[visual junco]

Yeah the quality & gameplay leads to that

[sour fulcrum]

And marketing

[solar hill]

you would be surprised lol

[prisma shard]

Maybe I should just make a game stealing an American IP and release it on the China market instant brand name product

[solar hill]

Ive seen some absouletely garbage top the steam charts, while ive seen actual masterpieces get less than 100 players

[visual junco]

Often times when people consider a game very good in gameplay, to me it just looks extremely complex which is probably why it didn't make it

[sour fulcrum]

Means those games probably aren’t all that garbage

[visual junco]

Schedule 1 is very simple but extremely successful

[solar hill]

You would think

But no....

[sour fulcrum]

your game can be super shit if it hits the right gameplay spot

[prisma shard]

Flappy bird. What a disgrace to human ingenuity

[sour fulcrum]

eg. Only Up

[solar hill]

its more so accumulative hype that gets them where they are, they make the money

and then off to the next big thing

[sour fulcrum]

Nothing wrong with flappy bird

[solar hill]

that guy is not only still a multi millionaire, he also cemented himself as a gaming cultural icon for decades

[prisma shard]

That was like the #1 app store game that was 1 week in game development

[sour fulcrum]

Ok

[solar hill]

Yeah thats a good thing... for a developer

Minput maxput

[sour fulcrum]

It’s a cool little game

[solar hill]

It was unique and addicting

its success was deserved

[sour fulcrum]

unique is a bit strong but yeah

[solar hill]

Would rather more games like flappy bird than the current direction mobile gaming is going in

[sour fulcrum]

Some of the stuff featured on Apple Arcade is cool

[ivory bobcat]

Marketing, influencers etc. Certain games like Mega Bonk perhaps got lucky or were strategically aligned with media and blew up in popularity (although mainly momentarily)
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/vampire-survivors-like-megabonk-makes-megabucks-selling-a-million-copies-in-2-weeks-and-currently-has-more-daily-players-than-borderlands-4-on-steam-ill-be-eating-spaghetti-with-extra-sauce-tonight/

[solar hill]

there are sleeper gems for sure

but the more popular games are straight garbage

[visual junco]

Yeah current mobile games are terrible but have very simple and understandable gameplay, which is why they thrive especially with the target audience

[solar hill]

Mega Bonk didnt really get "lucky", it helps when a well known online personality is behind a game

its free marketing

its also generally received as a fun game

[prisma shard]

What is modern mobile like I don't play those games. I'm guessing gone are the days of subway surface. I thought that one was very good

Subway surfer

[wintry quarry]

I'm pretty sure subway surfer is still very popular

[solar hill]

gambling™

[wintry quarry]

But yeah don't bother trying to make a mass market free to play mobile game, if you want to make any money

that field is wayy too saturated

especially if it's a skinner box

[solar hill]

I will explode every game with gacha mechanics with my mind

[ivory bobcat]

Tbh... if you can get someone popular to play it, I'm pretty sure you'll get tons of their audience to play/hear-of it 😉

[prisma shard]

Yes I imagine the current method of game advertising is tricking some streamer into playing their game

[solar hill]

Not tricking

just a shit ton of money

[visual junco]

I'd say a good way to make money is creating simple games (Quality, environment) but with great replayability and unique gameplay
gorilla tag & schedule 1 are prime examples of non-complex games, but they're so simple it's basically impossible to not understand, and I don't see the games ever not reaching success

[solar hill]

I think we are going a bit off topic here atp

[visual junco]

and marketing it well like getting streamers/gamers to play your game, and having good social media reach

oh wait this is coding chat

lol

[prisma shard]

Made me lol out loud

[polar acorn]

A good way to make money is to write accounting software. If you want to make money making a video game is the worst thing to do with programming skills.

Make games because you want to make games. You might be successful, but probably won't. This isn't a get rich quick scheme.

[silk night]

As a mobile dev in a company currently marketing a free to play game, you need money to make money, without atleast monthly 10k in advertising + once 10k for sampling usergroups you can't even really start to advertise and 100% ROI is usually only reached >30d in, so you dont get enough money back quick enough to reinvest, so expect to have atleast 4x that in the bank account to start off

[spare summit]

Does anyone know of a solution that could fix this kind of bug?
Basically wats happening in the video is that you can put the boxes into one another and when doing so the script thinks your inside a wall so it stops the movement script. I made it like this to prevent weird glitchy movements inside the walls but in doing so it made the boxes glitch out if they went inside eachother like in the video. I've tried implementing systems where if the box collides with something it'll go back to its last known position but I can't seem to get it to work so hopefully someone here can help me with this ty.

[hexed terrace]

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[hexed terrace]

What do you want to happen when the boxes collide?

[spare summit]

I just want them to not glitch inside eachother

[hexed terrace]

it's not glitching

so you want them to collide?

[spare summit]

and the way my movement script is setup the movement system stops working becuase their inside eachother

I jus don't want them to go through eachother. I want them to act like walls

[hexed terrace]

yes, so.. collide with each other

[spare summit]

ye

[hexed terrace]

do they have colliders?

[spare summit]

ye

[hexed terrace]

and rigidbodies?

[spare summit]

ye

[hexed terrace]

looks like you're moving via transform anyway, so it doesn't matter

[spare summit]

ye plus the movement has a animation type movement which is prob the main issue with y they glitch into eachother

its not an actual animation its an IEnumerator

private IEnumerator MovePlayer(Vector3 direction)
{
    if (CheckForCollision(direction))
    {
        yield break;
    }

    isMoving = true;

    AudioSource audio = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
    if (audio != null && moveCrate != null)
    {
        audio.outputAudioMixerGroup = sfxMixerGroup;
        audio.clip = moveCrate;
        audio.PlayOneShot(moveCrate);
    }

    float elapsedTime = 0;

    origPos = transform.position;
    targetPos = origPos + direction;

    while (elapsedTime < timeToMove)
    {
        transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(origPos, targetPos, (elapsedTime / timeToMove));
        elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;
        yield return null;
    }

    transform.position = targetPos;

    isMoving = false;
}

[hexed terrace]

can you share code the proper way, using a paste site like the bot msg you've read told you to

however you check for walls , do the same for crates

[spare summit]

i used the last link

cause the others didn't work

[solar hill]

you didnt use anything you just send a .txt

this is not the proper way to share code here

[spare summit]

thats wat the last website did when I put the code in

[hexed terrace]

no, you just uploaded a txt file

the same as the first time with your op

[solar hill]

https://paste.myst.rs/lmpgxh36

[spare summit]

this is the website I used and put my code in. Clicked create paste it did stuff then I clicked copy

[hexed terrace]

now copy the url...

[solar hill]

.... so you copied your code... pasted it, then copied it again and pasted it here

what do you think that did....

[spare summit]

😅

mb

https://paste.myst.rs/p9tvq69w

does that work?

[hexed terrace]

you can test that and see for yourself it does ;p

[spare summit]

I'm not rly used to sharing large scripts so mb

[hexed terrace]

you need to debug as to why the crateTag isn't being caught

[spare summit]

Well I believe the reason is to why they get glitched into eachother is that they both are moving but once the movement starts it can't be cancelled and so they end up inside eachother and that triggers the collision detection and so that ends up disabling the movement altogether

[hexed terrace]

do not "believe" something, test and confirm ..

you go into MovePlayer coroutine -> check collision -> if wall, movement ends

That is also what should be happening for the crate, but it's not .. debug it and find out why.

also check the crates are tagged correctly (case matters; crate != Crate)

[spare summit]

heres my debug

but ye pretty much its the movement animation thingy

[hexed terrace]

that's not very useful is it

[spare summit]

XD

[hexed terrace]

log out the tags

[native willow]

Alrighty, Im here.

[subtle mulch]

k, now which errors?

[native willow]

FPS Controller

[subtle mulch]

we are NOT there with you+

we need the errors you are getting

[solar hill]

We need to know the Errors in question

[subtle mulch]

send us a screenshot if you need to

else we can't help

[native willow]

Ok gimme a min ima do somthin first.

[grand snow]

Lets not encourage screenshots of text

[hexed terrace]

Haha, good luck everyone. May your phsycic powers be of use

[subtle mulch]

XD

[grand snow]

😆

[white zinc]

@versed cove ```using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class MovingNewInputSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
public float mouseSensitivity = 1f;

private float xRotation = 0f;
private float yRotation = 0f;

void Start()
{
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    Cursor.visible = false;

    Vector3 angles = transform.eulerAngles;
    xRotation = angles.x;
    yRotation = angles.y;
}

void Update()
{
    Vector2 mouseDelta = Vector2.zero;
    if (Mouse.current != null)
    {
        mouseDelta = Mouse.current.delta.ReadValue();
    }

    float mouseX = mouseDelta.x * mouseSensitivity;
    float mouseY = mouseDelta.y * mouseSensitivity;

    yRotation += mouseX;
    xRotation -= mouseY;
    xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);

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

}

[native willow]

Perhaps i should copy it or smth. But, what about Project Settings of Player?

[subtle mulch]

this is not about you...

this is another convo entirely

pls tell us your errors

[native willow]

Just wait a min

[hexed terrace]

you're clamping the x rot .. why?

[subtle mulch]

well, so you don't do a 360° rotation

[grand snow]

Its better to rotate your "player" on y and the camera on x

[subtle mulch]

that too

[white zinc]

I only have a camera

[grand snow]

this should work fine then tbh

just be wary of getting the initial rotation like that as it will be in the 0-360 range

ive had funky bullshit thanks to that (as yes its much easier to work in -180 > 180 when doing such mouse input)

[hexed terrace]

@naive pawn

[naive pawn]

oh god the convo's crossposted

and im trying to have a convo with sidia, this is not viable on mobile lmao hold on

[silk night]

solve this first and ping me when you are done with that 😄

im busy for another 5 min anyways

[naive pawn]

ah welp i suspected mousedelta * deltatime, nice to not see that for a change i guess

[silk night]

Just as a quick thing, if you are doing any calculations that move stuff or anything in update, always factor in Time.deltaTime

[silk night]

uhh wait, am i getting this wrong here? xD

[naive pawn]

things in update should be in units of x per frame

[white zinc]

I heard I shouldnt do that

[naive pawn]

when you have eg speed, that's in units of x per second
multiplying by deltatime turns that into x per frame
but mouse delta is already in x per frame

[silk night]

ah right, mouse delta will adjust anyways if you have constant mouse speed, right, yeah wrong thought there

[spare summit]

so ye pretty much I've come to the conclusion that its the weird animation effect I have with the boxes. Which I kinda already suspected and i don't rly know how to debug for it aka jus knowing that its the animation. But heres a video of me doing the bug rly easily which its jus me holding down the s and w key and they glitch into eachother

also it gets fixed if i un tick the freeze position x and y but then I get another bug which makes the crates go off the grid and may end up breaking the game more

ik its kinda hard to see in the video but thats basically what happens, the boxes going off the grid

[hexed terrace]

you talk about "animation", but there's nothing in the shared code using that word, so.. clear that up

[spare summit]

ye I jus say animation because the way the boxes move is in my mind an animation but of course its not and i jus don't know wat else to call it. Maybe jus like a movement effect ig

[hexed terrace]

..movement 😄

then you're not confusing terms, as unity has animation and an animation component, etc.

[spare summit]

yee

[naive pawn]

what's the current issue? the boxes moving into the same cell/tile?

[spare summit]

lowk a solution I have in mind for the bug I have is that if ur boxes do get stuck it jus auto resets the level but thats not rly ideal but I'm just not that advanced in code to think of something else

[hexed terrace]

ah, damn.. I removed vscode from my mac because it's too old to run it. Was going to tidy up your code

[naive pawn]

you can keep using previous versions and just turn off autoupdate

(i had a 2012 mac running mojave because i didn't feel like using catalina that i used up to 2 years ago)

[hexed terrace]

I cba with that, I don't use my mac for any dev

[spare summit]

pretty much. They get stuck inside eachother and when that happens my movement script disables the boxes movement script so they can no longer move

[hexed terrace]

your collision check for walls and crates is at the same time and is BEFORE the movement. I think you're wrong in your assumption at the issue.

[naive pawn]

yeah it seems like they're just moving to the same "empty" cell at the same time

[subtle mulch]

you should calculate the final position of the previous move

and use that to calculate the collision of the new move

[naive pawn]

is that not what they're currently doing...

that's... an interesting way make a "grid", i guess

[spare summit]

ngl if I did check for collisions before moving, it wouldn't rly do anything since the collision check is on the crate thats moving so by the time the crate begins moving it will detect the box thats in the detection zone and it wouldn't cancel the movement so they get stuck

[naive pawn]

what should happen? should one crate enter the cell arbitrarily, or should both cancel, or something else?

you could probably make them detect collision with each other and kinda "bounce back" pretty easily, if that's what you want

[spare summit]

one crate goes into the cell while the other stays in its position and doesn't move

[hexed terrace]

The first thing you do in the MovePlayer coroutine is to call the CheckForCollision

⁨```cs
private IEnumerator MovePlayer(Vector3 direction)
{
if (CheckForCollision(direction))
{
yield break;
}

[spare summit]

thats kinda wat it was like when I first had the script but then changed it cause they would get put off the grid cells I wanted them to be on

[naive pawn]

one solution i see would be to have a levelmanager that maintains a dict over Vector2Ints for what tiles are occupied, and when crates move they would "claim" the tile they're moving to. you would need a stronger notion of tiles though

[naive pawn]

then you didn't implement it well while keeping grid cells in mind

[spare summit]

I already had that.

private IEnumerator MovePlayer(Vector3 direction)
{
    if (CheckForCollision(direction))
    {
        Debug.Log("Movement blocked due to collision in direction: " + direction);
        yield break;
    }

    isMoving = true;

    AudioSource audio = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
    if (audio != null && moveCrate != null)
    {
        audio.outputAudioMixerGroup = sfxMixerGroup;
        audio.clip = moveCrate;
        audio.PlayOneShot(moveCrate);
    }

    float elapsedTime = 0;

    origPos = transform.position;
    targetPos = origPos + direction;

    while (elapsedTime < timeToMove)
    {
        transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(origPos, targetPos, (elapsedTime / timeToMove));
        elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;
        yield return null;
    }

    transform.position = targetPos;

    isMoving = false;
}

[hexed terrace]

already had what..?

[spare summit]

if (CheckForCollision(direction))
{
yield break;
}

[subtle mulch]

check for collision is done on the crate that is still on the previous "grid" space, no?

if you do it fast i mean

[hexed terrace]

I know.. I'm telling you that it's done before movement and you said it isn't.

[naive pawn]

you could have a "cancel" flag that when set makes MovePlayer move back to origPos which you've already set

[spare summit]

ah mb

[hexed terrace]

which is why I said that is what you are doing, and didn't word it as a suggestion.

[naive pawn]

heyyy wait these crates have a collider and potentially also an rb? you shouldn't be moving via the transform then

[spare summit]

ahh ok

[spare summit]

ye they have both

[hexed terrace]

You're using raycasts for detection, rb can be removed, just have one on your bullets

[naive pawn]

then you should be moving via the rb, not the transform

[spare summit]

normally the x and y are frozen but I have them unfozzen for testing

[naive pawn]

you should still use the rb to move the colliders, otherwise they get recreated in the physics scene every time you move

[hexed terrace]

Yeah, ok fair enough, especially when you couple that with all the GetComponents happening all the time in this code

Really wanna make sure to have that AudioSource

[spare summit]

ngl I'm so confused XD... So if I use rb as the movement it would fix the issue?

instead of transform

[hexed terrace]

That one single change will not necessarily be the only thing required

But a step towards it

[naive pawn]

i don't think this would fix the issue at hand, i don't think it would change anything related to the issue at hand

but it would be more correct and more reliable and easier to work with

[naive pawn]

eg if you wanted to make this, this would rely on collisions between crates, and it most likely just would not work correctly at all if the colliders were desynced.

[spare summit]

how would I even implement rb as movement instead of transform?

[naive pawn]

the current code would map closest to MovePosition on kinematic rbs

(though, that wouldn't have collision between crates)

[native willow]

I've got some errors

[subtle mulch]

well

it tells you exactly what is going on

[naive pawn]

that's not your code...

why would you paste in someone else's code that's specific to their game