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[naive pawn]

make it

[frigid lark]

thats what im asking, i dont know where to start

[naive pawn]

(that was in reply to buddy)

[frigid lark]

mb

[naive pawn]

btw on that "limit diagonal running", you generally would not have to do that, just normalize or clampvelocity on the input and then limit the overall magnitude of the speed

[frigid lark]

yeah

well i cant use vector3.clampmagnitude becuase that would also affect the y axis

but yeah its a little rough around the edges ill clean it up a bit

[naive pawn]

you can clamp magnitude on the input before applying it to the rb

[frigid lark]

i know..

[naive pawn]

are you sure the loss of momentum is due to CounterMovement?

nothing there changes when you hit the ground

[frigid lark]

it might be, its hard to tell

[naive pawn]

i feel like it's just due to ground friction

[frigid lark]

because when i dont have if(grounded) return; the player accelerates so fast in air to the point where i think it just negates the halting

[frigid lark]

ill try attaching a physics material with 0 friction

[naive pawn]

that doesn't really make sense, if you had/removed that then nothing would change when you're in the air

[cunning rapids]

Btw that's what dani does too

Physics material --> 0 fric

[frigid lark]

counter movement

[frigid lark]

yeah

[naive pawn]

what about it

[frigid lark]

im realising now i forgot to do it lol

[cunning rapids]

In what way? Like it decelerates instead of abruptly stopping?

[naive pawn]

adding or removing if (grounded) return; affects the behavior on the ground. it wouldn't change the behavior in the air, assuming the grounded check was written properly

[frigid lark]

like at the start of CounterMovement() i would have if(grounded) return; then it wouldnt counter movement in air

[cunning rapids]

Lerp

[naive pawn]

that's not what that statement says

[frigid lark]

it just doesnt stop the player

wdym

[frigid lark]

it helps but its still there

[naive pawn]

@frigid lark have you read this

[frigid lark]

i missed it mb

sorry, i mean !grounded return

its been a long day man sorry

[naive pawn]

(might want to consider noting down where you left off and taking a break then)

[frigid lark]

nah its just school i havent actually been doing much gamedev today. about 30mins-1hr

maybe its the extra gravity

because if im constantly applying a downward force then its going to try and push me into the ground

and maybe thats stopping it

[naive pawn]

shouldn't affect anything with no friction

[frigid lark]

oh true

yeah didnt do anything ;-;

[naive pawn]

does the loss of momentum happen if you just comment out the CounterMovement call entirely?

[frigid lark]

checking

yeah it does

but then i slip and slide like a penguini

and increasing friction would just reintroduce the problem, would it not?

[naive pawn]

oh yeah this wasn't a solution, just a check to see if CounterMovement was the cause

and, well, clearly not

[ivory bobcat]

private float previous;```

It's implied as Time.time returns a float.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Time-time.html

[ruby python]

!code

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[ruby python]

Hi all, I'm having a bit of a brainfart.

            if (GameManager.Instance.globalDataManager.closestStargate.GetComponentInParent<GroundTileDataContainer>().groundTileBiomeData.canShowFootprints == true)
            {
                GameObject newFootstep = footprintPool.GetPooledObject();
                newFootstep.transform.position = new Vector3(
                    transform.position.x,
                    0.01f,
                    transform.position.z);

                newFootstep.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(
                    0,
                    playerGameObject.transform.rotation.y,
                    0);
                newFootstep.SetActive(true);
                Debug.Log("Should be Footprint");
                StartCoroutine(DisableFootstep(newFootstep));
            }

I'm grabbing some footprints from my pool and they're working great, except for the rotation, I can't seem to figure it out (they always enable with a Y rotation of 0. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong please? 😕

[celest depot]

Hello. Im new to Unity 6.3, and I faced this kind of problem.

error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'MaterialReferenceChanger' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

How do i fix this? I did try to find the solution through YT, Google and Grok AI, but I still don't understand.

[ivory bobcat]

playerGameObject.transform.rotation.y very likely isn't what you're wanting. That value is a quaternion value, not the euler y rotation value.

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show the console error? (stacktrace included)

[ivory bobcat]

If you want your player's rotation , you can use the euler angle value:cs newFootstep.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, playerGameObject.transform.eulerAngles.y, 0);@ruby python

[ruby python]

Ah yeah. Told ya, brainfart. lol.

[ivory bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform-eulerAngles.html

[ruby python]

Thanks:)

Yep, that fixed it. lol.

[celest depot]

internal MaterialReferenceChanger m_MaterialReferenceChanger;

    public override void OnPreRun()
    {
        m_MaterialReferenceChanger = new MaterialReferenceChanger();
    }

the very first line, but i could not find the error.

[ivory bobcat]

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

I want to see the console window to better evaluate the stack and error.

[celest depot]

wait

[ivory bobcat]

To open the Console, from Unity’s main menu go to Window > General > Console.

[ivory bobcat]

Try restarting the Unity Editor. It may be a false positive.

[celest depot]

How?

[ivory bobcat]

Close the Unity Editor application and launch the project again from the Unity Hub.

[celest depot]

You mean delete the 6.3 editor and install back?

[ivory bobcat]

No. Close the Unity Editor. Then open the project again from your Unity Hub.

[celest depot]

Ok

[boreal vine]

Hi guys I got a problem, when I run my 2D game. I think there should be way to disable unity short controls, when code running like control + p (stop running), because in my game parry is leftControl and attack "p". Thank you for help!

[celest depot]

Well, i still faced the same problem.

[midnight plover]

Close Unity, remove the package cache folder of that specific package and start the project again

[celest depot]

Wait, is there another way to deal with this?

[midnight plover]

Why would you avoid the way I suggested? its just deleting a packagecache thats being regenerated the next time you start unity

[livid anchor]

If I want an object to strafe left and right in a smooth manner, what are my options ? I'm looking at Vector3.MoveTowards but it needs to be in an update apparently. Can I do a movement by trasform outside the update ?

[midnight plover]

Update is just a loop thats being called every frame by Unitys game loop. You can do whatever you want to transform.position whenever you want, it just has to be called by someone somewhere. Update is just the convenient way to keep things "running"

[livid anchor]

What I'm trying to do is : I have the input reference action for movement (left and right arrows), I put an event on action.performed and from that I want to do a smooth movement to a fixed position, like go from x = 0 to x = 3

[midnight plover]

then you want your transform.position to "follow" your targetvector and only update the targetvector in your performed event

so to make it smooth, transform.position = vector3.lerp or whatever you want to smooth in update and in your callback method, update the actual targetvector

[livid anchor]

I think I understand. The event just set a target and the update follow it

[celest depot]

Ok

[fallen snow]

Hey, so I have a character controller. Currently, I use rigidbody's drag float to increase drag while the character is grounded. unfortunately this is causing issues with my dash feature. The dash feature is meant to set the drag do zero while dashing (which it does) but for some reason if I set grounded drag to 0 instead, the dash is much cleaner.

Basically my question is, is there a better way than creating counter force or increasing rigidbody drag while grounded to give a tighter less floaty physics based movement controller?

[scarlet hemlock]

Hi I'm trying to understand the new unity Input system I'm Following the Unity Input System in Unity 6 (2/7): Input System Scripting Video and im trying to understand something We used to use The X and Z axis for movement in vector 3 but now we use Y axis in a vector 2 from the action maps. Doesn't Y normally refer to Up in the world?

[midnight plover]

Dashing sounds to me like it should not be "dragged influenced", or? So setting it to 0 while dashing and resetting when done dashing sounds valid to me.

[midnight plover]

y axis is also up on screen position probably? Not sure, what the input tutorial is currently covering. Can you show some code?

[fallen snow]

yeah, that's what I have currently. I must have messed it up though. I see in the inspector it does set drag to 0 on the rigidbody when I dash. but dash works so much better mid air where the drag is set to 1 than on land where it's set to 8 despite the fact that drag should be set to 0 while dashing and that seems to actually be the case too. Hmm maybe it's some sort of string tension thing because I made my capsule controller hover with spring force...

[sour fulcrum]

remember all a vector2 and vector3 really are is just a little group of numbers, they can be used however they want

in this case your mouse (or joystick) goes horizontal and vertical, so in code its stored in a Vector2, which is the x and y

[scarlet hemlock]

oh so instead of using just the x and z we now use the x and y to take account of controllers?

and y refers to w and s

[midnight plover]

can you show your code eventually? Like where do you set the drag to 0 and where are you dashing?

[sour fulcrum]

pretty much yeah

what x, y and z "mean" is defined on how those values are being used in the given situation

they don't have an overarching definition that spans every usecase

[midnight plover]

commonly used: x,y = left/right, up/down (in input case)

[sour fulcrum]

eg. you might use a Vector2 to conveniently store a minimum and maximum value, which would be using x and y

purely because its nice to store them as a pair of two numbers

[fallen snow]

...Uh...I...yeah...this sucks lmao

[midnight plover]

guess you found the issue 😉

[scarlet hemlock]

ah i see thank you makes alot more sense

[livid anchor]

Hmm I have an issue... i'm trying to make strafe movements in a sort of rigid way, and I'm using fixed value for that. Like I consider my starting point to be (0,1,0) and I want to move in (3,1,0). The issue is I also want to jump so I ut a rigid body, but now my position is weird, I don't have clean values like 0 or 3

[midnight plover]

are you probably mixing up rigidbody and transform.position? If you use physics, you cant simply use transform.position, which acts like a teleportation from vectorA to vectorB

[livid anchor]

Well the game is supposed to be a kind of infinite runner. I have a character that can strafe on three "roads" and jump. I thought that transform.position to move left and right would fit. Since I need to just go from one point to the other

[midnight plover]

But when you use transform.position, you are basically skipping physics update till the next frame. so you might miss collisions and whatever rigidbody provides

[livid anchor]

That's indeed an issue

[midnight plover]

you might wanna look into Rigidbody.MovePosition

[livid anchor]

in a fixed update right ?

[midnight plover]

read the docs 😉

[livid anchor]

Now that I think about it I can see a problem arising. The character is supposed to be able to fly also... I fear the time when I'll have to deal with that and gravity

or maybe I can disable gravity when I fly?

[midnight plover]

you can disable gravity, you can set velocity directly. many ways to achieve this, depending on your game mechanics and setup

[quartz geyser]

can anyone tell me the best place to learn coding for games... like i dont want any of that 'hello world' starter bs
i want coding which will be for games mainly for 3D

[solar hill]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[livid anchor]

Ok basic movement done. I just need to make an imput buffer for more smoothness in the controls

[livid anchor]

I'm thinking about how to make an input buffer. My thought so far is to save the command the player enter, create a list of command that is limited in size (like two or three inputs at a time) and then in the update, if you're available to do an action, you pick the first entry and do that.

Am I right ?

[subtle mulch]

i don't think you need a buffer

it might create more problems that it solves

[balmy vortex]

hi would Vector3.Reflect() work for something like a projectile parry?

or is there some better way of implementing that?

[lethal meadow]

as in you block the projectile and it is reflected off the shield/block?

[balmy vortex]

ya

[lethal meadow]

no just add an acceleration vector

[pseudo jackal]

How do I set up adaptive ui, my ui is messed up for some devices, pls help

[lethal meadow]

ye

[livid anchor]

I made a simple one, it just records the last command and plays it when possible

[subtle mulch]

yeah, that's bad

[livid anchor]

Helps with the controls

[livid anchor]

How so ?

[subtle mulch]

well, let's say you are still in air

[lethal meadow]

why even have the rigidbody on there if you're not gonna ue it

[subtle mulch]

and press jump

well, then you would jump when you land even if you now don't want to

if you want to use a buffer, then maybe make the command inside expire after 1s or 0.5s

[livid anchor]

If I'm flying and hit jump it won't do anything. I would need to press "down" then during the time I'm lowering, press jump

[lethal meadow]

gotta be ragebait

[subtle mulch]

still, make the buffer expire after 1s or 0.5s

[balmy vortex]

what's actually the difference between Physics.OverlapSphere and Physics.OverlapSphereNonAlloc?

[elfin pike]

what im doing wrong. cant find. ```Action<InputAction.CallbackContext> _action;
void ActivateRuneInput()
{
_action = ctx => HandleRuneSlotInput(0);
runeSlotInputs[0].action.performed += _action;
}

void OnDestroy()
{
    runeSlotInputs[0].action.performed -= _action;
}

[subtle mulch]

we need more info...

we are not mind readers

[elfin pike]

okay. trying to sub to function with ActionRef

[subtle mulch]

maybe this helps?

tho i think it's what you are doing, hmm

are you sure the subscribe function is getting called?

[elfin pike]

1. It subs, but doesnt calls function
2. It doesnt Unsub

[subtle mulch]

are you destroying the object?

[elfin pike]

yes. im 1000% sure

[subtle mulch]

put a debug there

and check if it's getting called

[elfin pike]

i know that it gets destroyed. i have done it million timess

[subtle mulch]

bc if it subscribes, then 100% it's caling that function

[subtle mulch]

i mean, check if OnDestroy is getting called

same for the action

add another function to the subscribed ones

where it's just a debug

to check if the action is actually getting performed

[elfin pike]

Action, performed.
Function not called.
OnDestroy called

[subtle mulch]

ok that's strange

[subtle mulch]

private void OnRunePerformed(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx)
{
HandleRuneSlotInput(0);
}

void ActivateRuneInput()
{
runeSlotInputs[0].action.performed += OnRunePerformed;
}

void OnDestroy()
{
runeSlotInputs[0].action.performed -= OnRunePerformed;
}

try this

did it work?

[elfin pike]

no

[subtle mulch]

ok that's very strange

can you send the full code please

[elfin pike]

its too long to send

[subtle mulch]

send the file

[elfin pike]

[SerializeField] InputActionReference[] runeSlotInputs = new InputActionReference[10];
int selectedSlotIndex = 0;
List<BlockType> blockTypesOrder = new List<BlockType>(); // To store the order of block types
EventSystem eventSystem;
Action<InputAction.CallbackContext> _action;

void ActivateRuneInput()
{
    runeSlotInputs[0].action.performed += OnRunePerformed;
}

void OnDestroy()
{
    runeSlotInputs[0].action.performed -= OnRunePerformed;

    BlockSlot.OnSlotClicked -= HandleSlotClicked;

    if (LoadoutList == null || LoadoutList.Count == 0)
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("LoadoutList is not initialized or empty. Skipping SaveLoadoutList.");
        return;
    }

    SaveLoadoutList();
}

void HandleSlotClicked(int slotIndex)
{
    selectedSlotIndex = slotIndex;
}
    
private void OnRunePerformed(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx)
{
    HandleRuneSlotInput(0);
}

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

    Debug.Log($"Index: {index}, Selected Slot Index: {selectedSlotIndex}");
    LoadoutList[selectedSlotIndex].SetRune(blockTypesOrder[index]);
    selectedSlotIndex = (++selectedSlotIndex) % LoadoutList.Count;

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

took all related functions and variables

[subtle mulch]

did you actually enable the action?

void OnEnable()
{
if (runeSlotInputs[0]?.action != null)
{
runeSlotInputs[0].action.Enable();
runeSlotInputs[0].action.performed += OnRunePerformed;
}
BlockSlot.OnSlotClicked += HandleSlotClicked;
}

void OnDisable()
{
if (runeSlotInputs[0]?.action != null)
{
runeSlotInputs[0].action.performed -= OnRunePerformed;
runeSlotInputs[0].action.Disable();
}
BlockSlot.OnSlotClicked -= HandleSlotClicked;
}

instead of OnDestroy and your function

tho you can keep using those if you want

[elfin pike]

lol worked. now i have to make for loop to enable certain count of actions

[slender kelp]

guys can u guys help i dont understand the curly bracket thingys

[elfin pike]

so, i got stuck. private void OnRunePerformed(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx, int i) { HandleRuneSlotInput(i); }how do you give it extra values? Or i have to create for each action its own function

[subtle mulch]

wdym

[subtle mulch]

you don't do it like this

[slender kelp]

the curly brackets are really confusing

[naive pawn]

what about them don't you understand?

also braces are used in quite a few ways to mean roughly the same thing, might want to get more specific

[subtle mulch]

they are not?

[elfin pike]

python user?

[subtle mulch]

prob

[rich adder]

Is this a troll post?..

[subtle mulch]

or lua

[naive pawn]

i mean i could totally see this being about properties but not describing it well, i'm giving them the benefit of the doubt

[elfin pike]

so how are you doing it. its somthing like inventory selection

[subtle mulch]

i think you can now go back to your old method

for (int i = 0; i < runeSlotInputs.Length; i++)
{
var actionRef = runeSlotInputs[i];
if (actionRef?.action == null) continue;

    int index = i; // Capture current i
    _runeActions[i] = ctx => HandleRuneSlotInput(index);
    actionRef.action.performed += _runeActions[i];
    actionRef.action.Enable();
}

to subscribe

for (int i = 0; i < runeSlotInputs.Length; i++)
{
var actionRef = runeSlotInputs[i];
if (actionRef?.action == null || _runeActions[i] == null) continue;

    actionRef.action.performed -= _runeActions[i];
    actionRef.action.Disable();
}

to unsubscribe

[slender kelp]

nah its alr i fixed it

[subtle mulch]

what was confusing about curly brackets btw

[slender kelp]

it js made no sense about where which one would go

[subtle mulch]

huh?

{ opens a piece of code

} closes it

it's not that hard

[slender kelp]

btw where can i find designers

[subtle mulch]

wdym designers...

[slender kelp]

i js mixed them up

[slender kelp]

game asset designers

[subtle mulch]

ppl?

[slender kelp]

yes

[subtle mulch]

!collab prob

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[subtle mulch]

tho don't expect them to work for free

[slender kelp]

oh thanks

my paypal is frozen tho

[subtle mulch]

huuh, well, gl then

paypal is not the only method btw

(it's also the worst, but let's not go down that rabbit hole)

[slender kelp]

ok

[sterile sandal]

Can I get help from a good developer?

[frosty hound]

You need to ask a question first

[copper sonnet]

idk if this is the right place to ask but i need help learning how to script

[frosty hound]

There are pinned resources in this channel.

!learn is a good place to start for general Unity/coding for beginners.

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[copper sonnet]

thank you

[sour fulcrum]

this is probably a "try it and see" but if i wanna cast a ienumerable like this can i do it like this directly or do i need to make a new one and add a casted version of each element

    public void AddListener(Action<IEnumerable<T>> action)
    {
        MultiColumn.selectionChanged += (e) => action.Invoke(e as IEnumerable<T>);
    }

oh do i just pop a linq cast?

[naive pawn]

i believe so, because it's an interface, i think? and if it were a concrete type then you couldn't do this

IEnumerable<string> and IEnumerable<object> are related, but List<string> and List<object> are not - at least as far as i understand (which may well be wrong)

[sour fulcrum]

Rubber ducked myself, the code snippet doesn't work in the sense that the casted ienumerable is valid but the contents seem to be wiped

Linq's .Cast<T> just works

ty

[sour fulcrum]

I guess this is more of a c# question than Unity but is there a standard convention to mark in a DateTime (or equivalent) that a part of the date is unknown / invalid? or do i need my own solution for this

i have stuff where some things have a fully known date (eg. 05/09/2014) but also things that only have a partial (eg. ??/04/2012)

[naive pawn]

the canonical way to store datetimes are either unix or iso 8601 timestamps, so i guess you could technically use the latter but you'd have to process a lot yourself

so this probably would not be a built-in thing

[sour fulcrum]

scary words, fair enough thanks

dont mind cooking something up was just curious what the proper route was 😄 ty again

[solar hill]

there are some libraries for this you could also use

let me see if i can find the one im thinking off

[wintry quarry]

you would need to make your own data type

or use a separate "mask"

[sour fulcrum]

nahh its not that deep it's all good! thank you though

[wintry quarry]

for marking which parts are known/unknown

(which is essentially a custom data type)_

that's probably the best way tbh - the mask

[sour fulcrum]

this is on a project to learn ui toolkit so a custom data type is a good excuse to learn how to make a nice drawer for it

[worldly mural]

i made a movement script and a 1st person camera controller script, but for some reason when im moving and turning my camera at the same time, its very jittery, any ideas how to fix this?

[cosmic quail]

make sure your camera code is in lateupdate and if your character is a rigidbody make sure it has interpolation enabled

[naive pawn]

and make sure you aren't modifying the transform of an object that has an rb

[worldly mural]

i have both of those and it still is jittery

[worldly mural]

thats exactly what im doing, do i have to just remake the code?

[cosmic quail]

yes
change the linearvelocity instead

or use addforce, that works too i guess

[worldly mural]

both of those work with the new unity input system right?

[cosmic quail]

yes

[worldly mural]

alright thanks

[naive pawn]

they are completely separate from the input system

[worldly mural]

ah okay

[vagrant reef]

what is the line to switch scenes?

[wintry quarry]

Google Unity SceneManager

There's no one "line". All the methods to load scenes are in that class though

[vagrant reef]

Assets\Scripts\MenuLogicScript.cs(1,19): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'SceneManagement' does not exist in the namespace 'UnityEditor' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class MenuLogicScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }

    public void SwitchScenes()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
    }

    public void Exit()
    {
        Application.Quit();
    }
}

[slender nymph]

if the error is coming from that code then you haven't saved it after making the change from UnityEditor to UnityEngine

[vagrant reef]

I did

and the code works

that error only appears when i try to build

[slender nymph]

then you are looking in the wrong file

or you've copied everything after the first line since the error appears on line 1

[vagrant reef]

yea I had the same using UnityEngine.SceneManagement; twice

I removed it before I sent it

[slender nymph]

are you sure the first one wasn't the UnityEditor.SceneManagement line? because that one would be the exact one that was causing the error since the editor assembly doesn't exist in a build

[vagrant reef]

I dont really remember

[slender nymph]

and for future reference, do not modify the code when sending it when you are experiencing errors

[vagrant reef]

Ima save and try to build again

[polar acorn]

If you did, that would have been the error

[vagrant reef]

it works now

[polar acorn]

So, you almost certainly had both, and when you removed the "duplicate" by posting it here you actually fixed the error

[vagrant reef]

thanks yall ❤️

[vagrant reef]

yes

[sour fulcrum]

🙂

[rough sluice]

Can we get Unity documentation as PDF?

[solar hill]

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

[ruby surge]

Hello! Super noob here, how come my VS code isn't autofilling? In the tutorial for essentials, I'm on the step where we have to add the OnTriggerEnter.

When I start to Type On, that option doesn't appear.

I have C# and C# Dev Kit entension installed

[solar hill]

!ide

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[fallen mural]

can anyone help with this? for some reason my vscode randomly decided to stop showing syntax highlighting for unity and its really inconvenient (since im new and it gives you descriptions of what each field does)

ive tried regenerating project files, checking for vscode updates and reinstalling the unity extension on vscode

(if you wait a bit into the video you can see that it initially knows what to highlight then decides to not do it)

[solar hill]

check the bot message right above

[fallen mural]

I did, I tried doing those steps already

The problem doesn't fix

[ivory bobcat]

It would be nice if you can show that each setup has been properly set. Other than that Visual Studio Code mentions something about dotNet version.

[solar hill]

oh yeah its not reading your .slnx

you have to install a new .net version

[dreamy nexus]

Heyy SUPER new noob question. I'm trying to learn about different joints and I'm watching a youtube tutorial for it. In the video the guy sets up a fixed joint with one cube connecting to another one. With the fixed joint, he's able to grab and drag one of the cubes to make them both move.

When I added the fixed joint, I am not able to make the both move, but when I got to play mode I can see the cubes fixed and hovering. How is he able to make these physics active while in Scene view?

[wintry quarry]

#⚛️┃physics

[dreamy nexus]

Thank you!

[west rain]

Hey everyone. I have a homing projectile in my scene that is supposed to fly to my player

    Vector2 direction = (player.position - transform.position).normalized;
    rBody.linearVelocity  = direction * homingSpeed;

but for some reason this isn't running. What might be causing this? the gravity scale for the object is 0 as well

[teal viper]

Is this code executed at all? Add debug logs.
Byond that, make sure the rb is not kinematic.

[polar acorn]

And make sure you're not immediately overwriting the linear velocity next frame

[wintry quarry]

if the code isn't running it has nothing to do with the code itself but where you put it and whether that is running

[west rain]

rigidbody is dynamic
it has a debug log on the previous line right above it and i see it in the console

[polar acorn]

If the debug from the line before is printing, then this code is running

[west rain]

i mean yeah but they are not flying to my player 😂

[solar hill]

are they flying anywhere?

does player.position have a reference to the player?

[west rain]

nope. just sitting as they were right before their gravity is reduced to 0

player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;

yeah it has this

[solar hill]

where is the original code snippet located'

[west rain]

its in the prefab itself

its a gem collectible

[solar hill]

i meant within your code

is it in your update function?

[west rain]

in the update loop

yeah

[solar hill]

log your player.position and direction values right after the code snippet and show what the console says

[west rain]

1 sec

it shows UnityEngine.transform for player.transform

is that the issue

[solar hill]

log the values.

[west rain]

Debug.Log($"{player.transform} Going to Player");

im doing this. dont really know how to log values

[polar acorn]

Does whatever object rBody is on have any other code that changes the velocity

[solar hill]

What does it say

[west rain]

UnityEngine.transform Going to Player

[solar hill]

log player.position

[teal viper]

At this point you should inspect the projectile object at runtime and share screenshots with us to avoid playing a guessing game.

As well as print the linear velocity and tell us the value.

[polar acorn]

What is rBody

[west rain]

since the gems are spawned after start, i tried moving
player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;
this to update but it didnt help either

[teal viper]

Not a screenshot of code.

[west rain]

its rigidbody2d

assigned in parent class collectible

[polar acorn]

What is it assigned to? How is it assigned?

[teal viper]

A screenshot of the projectile inspector at runtime please...

[solar hill]

log player.position not transform

but at this point i doubt it matters

this also might be a long shot but have you confirmed your Player has the Player tag?

[west rain]

with what selected? inspector is empty at runtime cuz gems arent created yet

[west rain]

i was afraid of that as well lol. Yeah it does

[solar hill]

then open the prefab

[teal viper]

Wait until they are created, pause the game, select the object, take screenshot. Ez.

[sour fulcrum]

when the game is running you can still click things

[west rain]

changed the log to transform as well

[teal viper]

I bet the animator is the culprit.

[polar acorn]

We still don't know what rBody is referring to

[west rain]

its refering to the Rigidbody2D

[teal viper]

Also, when taking a screenshot like that, make sure rigidbody is visible too.

[polar acorn]

Which one

How is it assigned

[west rain]

ill try without animator

[west rain]

I assigned it 😂 wdym

[polar acorn]

Okay, this is what I wanted. rBody could easily have been accidentally assigned to the prefab instead of this instance which would mean you wouldn't see any changes.

[west rain]

i think it cant find the player for some reason

[solar hill]

I doubt since your log worked

[polar acorn]

If it couldn't find the player, you would be seeing errors from trying to refer to player

[solar hill]

is your Collectible script also on the gems?

[west rain]

gem is inheriting from collectible so yes

[teal viper]

Does the animator running an animation that modifies the object position?

[west rain]

only when collected but i tried without animation as well. Didnt work

[slender nymph]

when you say "without animation" do you mean you disabled the animator, removed it, or did something else?

[west rain]

removed the part with the object modification part

[slender nymph]

i don't know what you mean by that either

[polar acorn]

Change your log to this:

Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name}'s Rigidbody {rBody.gameObject.name} is moving from {transform.position} to {player.position} with a speed of {homingSpeed}");

[teal viper]

And a screenshot of the rb at runtime.

[solar hill]

it could be that since they are moving towards the ground check, they arent moving because they are actually dragging across the floors due to the colliders

since the ground check would be below their own transform point

[polar acorn]

Well, it's got at least 2500 units to cover at a speed of 5 units per second so that's gonna be a while

[slender nymph]

oh god, was everything scaled up to match the canvas size or something

[teal viper]

Some of them are close though

[solar hill]

yeah some are close

[teal viper]

It's probably other gems far away

[west rain]

yeah those are the ones that fall while gravity is activated

[solar hill]

i still like my theory 😊

[west rain]

other gems far away dont get activated

[teal viper]

I bet on kuzmo's guess.

[polar acorn]

Might be good for testing to only spawn one

[west rain]

they arent dragging across the floor cuz then they'd move when i jump

[solar hill]

fair that debunks that i guess

does changing the speed value to something massive like 500 have any effect?

[west rain]

just did and it didnt

ill replace animator with a sprite renderer and try

[teal viper]

I guess what's left is to have a look at the parent object.

[solar hill]

was about to say

does the parent object have any scripts on it?

[teal viper]

Did you not try disabling the animator yet?

[west rain]

i did

still nothing

[teal viper]

OK, then the parent. As well as bumping the speed to a high value.

[solar hill]

does the parent have any scripts?

[west rain]

it doesnt

but i think i found the issue

rigidbody is turning static for some reason

its not static at runtime or when spawned. Idk what that'd happen

[teal viper]

When does it turn static? I don't see it on the screenshot.

[west rain]

when i have the animator turned off

it didnt when i ran it this time tho. Im so lost

[teal viper]

Try making it dynamic at runtime and see if it moves.

[solar hill]

if all else fails, grab a direct serialized reference to your rigibody in the gem script

and try that

[west rain]

it somewhat worked when i reactivated the animator

the gems didnt move since they have an object transform. but they played the picked up sound. Their speed is set to 500 so i think in the update, their rbody went to the play while the sprite stayed still

[teal viper]

How did the sprite stay behind if it's on the same object?

[west rain]

i think its an update bug

[teal viper]

I really doubt that.

[solar hill]

does the parent also have a sprite renderer?

[teal viper]

That's more likely

[west rain]

no

[solar hill]

what does the parent object have

also expand your spriterenderer in the inspector and screenshot it

[west rain]

it has its own rigidbody and boxcollider

this is the sprite renderer

[solar hill]

that might almost certainly be the root of all issues here

screenshot the parents inspector

[solar hill]

what happens if you disable both on the parent

[west rain]

i think they fall straight down and come back to the player after gravity is set to 0

[solar hill]

my question is why is this even 2 gameobjects at all? I think you should remake the gem prefab imo, keep the rb and colliders only on the parent, and use the child for the sprite and animator

[west rain]

i know thats kind of a problem. I tried doing it that way. It basically has a pickup animation that also runs functions with events on the animator

[wintry quarry]

yeah you absolutely don't want a separate rigidbody on the parent and child

the rigidbody should be on the parent, and there should only be one

the collider can live on either - doesn't matter which

[west rain]

ill try changing it at this point

[wintry quarry]

Separate rigidbody == separate physics object

[west rain]

👍 thank you all for your time. I know its bad coding and practice but i didnt really know what the issue was when we began

[polar acorn]

Why do both objects have sprites and colliders? Why are they two objects?

[solar hill]

only the child has a sprite it seems, but yeah i dont see the point in 2 colliders and 2 rigidbodies

[steep sage]

can som help

[slender nymph]

!ask
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[true owl]

hey guys im having some difficult figuring out how to make this momentum system work the Y
I want it such that when a player hits a wall while sliding it retains a bit of their momentum and makes them slide, but I see the issue right now is the rb.linearVelocityY has basically infinite addition to itself. I'm not really sure how to make it return to its "default" state of having the physics control it
https://pastebin.com/LGvE4X29

[thick sedge]

hi, can I ask a question here because idk what channel to post it at?

anyways changing any value on the Global light 2D URP doesn't do anything, any suggestions?:D

[solar hill]

#1390346776804069396

[hidden fossil]

running into some issue where i dont know why but it enters isshooting bool and never turns it off

using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class Player_Bow : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private Transform launchPoint;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject arrowPrefab;
    [SerializeField] private float shootCooldown = 0.5f;
    private Player_Movement playerMovement;
    [SerializeField] private float shootTimer;
    private Animator anim;
    private Vector2 aimDirection = Vector2.right;

    private void Awake()
    {
        playerMovement = GetComponent<Player_Movement>();
        anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        shootTimer -= Time.deltaTime;

        HandleAiming();

        if (Keyboard.current.fKey.wasPressedThisFrame && shootTimer <= 0)
        {
            print("F clicked!");
            playerMovement.isShooting = true;
            anim.SetBool("isShooting", true);
        }
    }

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        anim.SetLayerWeight(0, 0);
        anim.SetLayerWeight(1, 1);
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        anim.SetLayerWeight(0, 1);
        anim.SetLayerWeight(1, 0);
    }

    private void HandleAiming()
    {
        float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

        if (horizontal != 0 || vertical != 0)
        {
            aimDirection = new Vector2(horizontal, vertical).normalized;
            anim.SetFloat("aimX", aimDirection.x);
            anim.SetFloat("aimY", aimDirection.y);
        }
    }

    public void Shoot()
    {
        if (shootTimer <= 0)
        {   
            Arrow arrow = Instantiate(arrowPrefab, launchPoint.position, Quaternion.identity).GetComponent<Arrow>();
            arrow.direction = aimDirection;
            shootTimer = shootCooldown;
            print("Fired an arrow!");
        }

        anim.SetBool("isShooting", false);
        playerMovement.isShooting = false;
    }
}```

[slender nymph]

you set it to false in the Shoot method, but where do you actually call that?

[hidden fossil]

i call it in my animation triggers

[wintry quarry]

Your video didn't show anything to do with isShooting

[solar hill]

animation event?

or what

[hidden fossil]

ye

[solar hill]

that is very backwards

[solar hill]

but why

[hidden fossil]

why what

[solar hill]

why do it this way... you can just call the shoot function when you press F

and then set the bool there

[hidden fossil]

no when i press f

it shoots right away

i want to make it shoot on a certain frame

not right away

[solar hill]

are you positive your Shoot function is getting called at all?

[hidden fossil]

yea it is

how would it be set to true if its not being called

[wintry quarry]

Debug your code with log statements

[solar hill]

because you arent setting it to true in your shoot function...

[hidden fossil]

oh

[solar hill]

i dont think your shoot function is being called at all

this is also why i recommended what i did earlier

keep the shooting mechanics under 1 function

if you need it delayed with an animation event keep that as a seperate function

then in your update just do "if (f) Shoot();"

[hidden fossil]

like this?

[solar hill]

put playerMovement.isShooting under that function as well

[hidden fossil]

oh wait

i just realized my error

my animation isnt even playing

ah

finally found the issue after 2 days

[true owl]

bump

[crimson gorge]

This intellisense thing is an insane asf mind reader/ predictor or my codes are just that simple?

[naive pawn]

it sounds like you're talking about intellicode

but probably the latter

[harsh rain]

Hi all! I'm a newcomer to DOTS and ECS and I'm running into a problem, and I was wondering if anyone here might have any advice?

Is it possible to gain read-write access to a DynamicBuffer during a parallel job without passing it in as a parameter? I have a parent entity that the job operates on, but during the logic, I need to alter a DynamicBuffer belonging to a child entity of that parent.

Unity's built-in safety systems are preventing me from using a BufferLookup with read-write permission in a parallel job to prevent multiple threads from trying to write to the buffer simultaneously, but I believe that each individual child's DynamicBuffer will only be accessed once, so unless I'm mistaken there shouldn't be a risk of that happening.

I'm unfamiliar with other ways to access a DynamicBuffer of a different entity other than a BufferLookup, and my attempts at searching and asking so far have not led me to figuring out how to remedy this or work around it. Any assistance is appreciated!

[teal viper]

Might want to ask in #1062393052863414313 . Definitely not in beginner channel.

[harsh rain]

Ah, thank you! In my sleepy state I didn't see that spot in the server! I'll go ask there.

[celest depot]

Hello guys, I tried to code a yaw movement to my object, but it kinda buggy. Can anyone detect my error? I want to code the object to do yaw movement without any problems.

[midnight plover]

!code Please paste it correctly so people can check the textbased version

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Posting code

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[naive pawn]

kinda looks like your ide isn't configured

!ide

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[forest cosmos]

Hey, my IDE just stopped working and m confused whats going on.
I have .net 8 and 9 installed. It was working fine, but today VSCode is saying this.
You must install or update .NET to run this application.
Framework: Microsoft.NETCore.App version 10.0.0

I dont have C# Dev kit

just C# and .net install in vscode

When i open VSCode, I get this error.

[naive pawn]

are your extensions and ide version all up to date?

[regal ice]

hey, i was wondering whether there is a way to modify this .lua file inside the resources.assets in the files of a game? I dont know where to ask this kind of question

i tried to open the file with unity, but it didnt work, im really unexperienced but trying to mod some parts of the game "Esports Club"

[midnight plover]

Modding is not a topic that is covered on this server and not allowed to be discussed.

[regal ice]

oh okay my fault!

[forest cosmos]

Not the IDE, but extensions yes

I installed .net 10 and its working now.

[regal ice]

do you know where I can get info though? Its not really for anything bad, I just wanna add some more characters to the game as its capped at 30

i tried to google, the game only has a chinese playerbase and sadly i dont know any chinese

[midnight plover]

Again, not the right server to ask. Google is all I would do in the same case.

[lunar axle]

how can i change Debug.Log() text color?

[rich adder]

The logs support rich text

[lunar axle]

thanks @midnight plover, i should have done that first

[lunar axle]

ye

[scenic iris]

i try to learn how .json works because i need to save and load some data on my game.

i already have the json file but i haven't figured how to add thos value to load on my code as veritable if found this i will move next part is to save values back but first i have to found how to make out load the data for json.

{
  "playerName": "David",
  "isAlive": true,
  "score": 150
}

[rich adder]

Make a transfer c# object

[scenic iris]

what do you mean by that ? you meant like game object ?

[midnight plover]

you can serialize and deserialize c# objects to your likings. So if you have a class with public float, string and int, this would convert it to a json string or convert back the json string to your class so you can use it

[rich adder]

Create a c# object that represents the data you want to grab from Json or save to it

For example you have in your case a string , a bool and a number.
So a class or struct, (object) with that data types. Then you use a utility like JsonUtility or the Json.Net to convert

[scenic iris]

so beastly like this ?

    public string playerName;
    public bool isAlive;
    public int score;

[rich adder]

Pretty much

[scenic iris]

yes but how to make this value to take the json data for example in this case player name becomes David or whatever value i have ?

[midnight plover]

That would convert to something like

{
"playerName":"yourName",
"isAlive":true,
"score":123
}

so if you wanted to change the name, you take your c# object, set the value and serialize it to json and save that string to some file on your harddrive/playerprefs/whatever you like

[scenic iris]

i already have the json file i don't know how to load this to my script.

[midnight plover]

Have you googled for the terms we gave you?

[rich adder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD7y4T4PVk0

[rocky canyon]

https://github.com/SpawnCampGames/Dbug/blob/d5c56fb53371954a5dc8afaf705d7e498acbf878/Dbug.cs
you can just use rich-text as someone mentioned.. i've made my own lil static class u can put in ur project
use using SPWN; as a namespace and just use Dbug.Log()

formattedMsg = $"<color={color}>{formattedMsg}</color>";

[lunar axle]

thats actually very useful, thanks

[rocky canyon]

very welcome... it was kind of a "just bored" project.. i didn't do much w/ it besides make some simple gizmos i can use like circles and rays and whatnot

but ur welcome to any of it that helps u out @lunar axle 🍀 happy coding

[lunar axle]

i would love to optimize it if u wanted to

like i can wrap the styles to a struct which will be cleaner

although this is already good enough

[scenic iris]

i don't really understand how json work's yet Hoever for what the say o video i check it say to i have to siralize and desiralize the object.

[rocky canyon]

Serialization and deserialization are the steps that let your code go back and forth between objects and JSON

[scenic iris]

yes it make sense i haven't understood how yet to do that yet i will check the video later.
and hopefully i will understand.

[low copper]

I just read the following statement "Stay away from OnDestroy() in general: it has too many edge cases, especially at edit time. Use OnEnable() and OnDisable() for all sub / unsub needs." Does this actually make senes as a rule of thumb? I've been using it a fair amount. I definitely track the state of my objects though.

[lunar axle]

i thought OnDestroy() calls only on its object deletion, nothing else?

[low copper]

Here is the thread [https://discussions.unity.com/t/remove-event-subscriptions-ondestroy/933194/15]. @Lam : That is how I've been using it. I'd have to go through my old code and see what problems I would have running off OnEnable/Disable. My general approach is to use Start/OnDestroy when subscribing to event actions...which is what I'm doing now

Just trying to learn best practices...I'm still very new to Unity

[scenic iris]

look i don't know what you make but some times
if you make game you have to destroy and create new game object

instead off disabled and enable but it depends on the project and the code

[lunar axle]

i think it really depends on what ur trying to achieve

[rocky canyon]

OnDisable() is called just before OnDestroy()
and OnEnable() is called before Start()

so its tomato tomato. like Lam said.. it depends on what u want to achieve

i prefer OnEnable and OnDisable.. b/c i know it'll work if im toggling the gameobject..

[low copper]

I think the "issue" is OnDestroy doesn't always run when you expect it to. In this case I'm just subscribing/unsubscribing to event actions.

[rocky canyon]

or if im destroying or instantiating

both work

[low copper]

I definitely create/destroy/enable/disable objects constantly

[rocky canyon]

😄 dont we all

[lunar axle]

when u call Destroy() it will run OnDestroy()

[rocky canyon]

Multiple Calls: OnEnable can run multiple times, whereas Start is guaranteed to run only once per object. this is basically the idea

this is the caveat u have to entertain

[lunar axle]

same to Awake()

[rocky canyon]

👍 also true.. Once per lifetime of the script instance

[lunar axle]

although i think theres a fuction call that calls even before Awake()

[rocky canyon]

this how i wrapped my head around coding in unity
i know electronics are on/off
and i knew how to change things around in teh inspector..
with those two key points i was able to pick up Unity pretty quickly

[midnight plover]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/execution-order.html

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/560/Documentation/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

[low copper]

I've never had any issues...it was just a statement I stumbled upon. Maybe i has something to do with OnDestroy running at the end of the Script lifecycle....so people assume it might run earlier than expected

[rocky canyon]

dang.. lol

[low copper]

lol

I literally had the page up too

haha

[rocky canyon]

i had to see what dude was talkin about

Reset().. yea idk about him

never used em

[scenic iris]

spiking off create objects for what i have seen some people use method call pool

but for what i understand this system only disabled and enable those instead off destroy them and re usethem if reach then number before the do why is thhat ?

[rocky canyon]

creation takes more than if it already exists

pooling systems take advantage of cycling thru gameobjects that you only need to instatiate once.. (like at the beginning of the game)

instead of destroy and creating it just toggles on and off.. keeps the garbage collection down

more performant

you typically use just enough

say u only ever want 10 bullets on screen.. u'd make a collection of just 10..

maybe 1 or 2 more just in case

[scenic iris]

yes i knew that but hear what is the problem if make poll off 100 for example when player fire and the player doesn't fire at all this 100 object pre load with out reason even if those are disabled.

[rocky canyon]

if u dont do that you'd use a dynamic system

which i think is what ur talkin about..

so u create objects when needed..

but only up to the limit.. and then u start re-using..

[lunar axle]

U can calculate how many bullets u need to instantiate first to make a pool initialy

[rocky canyon]

If player fires:

• If disabled object exists → reuse
• Else if CurrentPool < MaxPoolSize → create new → add to pool

Preloading too much is a memory/performance hit if the objects may never be used.```

its a balancing act..

as much of development is

[lunar axle]

Every fps matters

[rocky canyon]

lol.. ive been learning unity 5 years now..

i still havent sat down and started focusing on frame-rates

😬 eeek lol

[scenic iris]

what im try to mix approach it will be better why at lest for my project that have multiple weapon.

intense object if object go bigger then and haven't distory reuse the existing object else if x amount time past distory or something like that

[rocky canyon]

cap it at 60 and call it a day//

[lunar axle]

=)))) lucky u, once u enter the optimization rabbit hole ull never be the same

[rocky canyon]

im just now climbing out of the editor extension rabbit hole

dont tel me theres another one 👀

lol

i dont do well in rabbit holes

[lunar axle]

Thats a good thing, u dont go too deep

[rocky canyon]

im erratic enough as is.. i have to stay really surface level to keep my sanity intact

[rocky canyon]

/// SPΔWN[CAMPGAMES]™
/// DYNAMIC OBJECT POOL || RUNTIME
/// SCRAP (scripts-development)
/// License: CC0 SpawnCampGames Free-Use, see: LICENSE.md

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class DynamicPool : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Pool Settings")]
    public GameObject prefab;       // object to pool (bullet, enemy, etc.)
    public int maxPoolSize = 10;    // max objects to ever create

    private List<GameObject> pool = new List<GameObject>();

    /// Get an object from the pool
    public GameObject GetObject()
    {
        // Look for a disabled object to reuse
        foreach (var obj in pool)
        {
            if (!obj.activeInHierarchy)
            {
                obj.SetActive(true);
                return obj;
            }
        }

        // No disabled object found, create new if under maxPoolSize
        if (pool.Count < maxPoolSize)
        {
            GameObject newObj = Instantiate(prefab);
            pool.Add(newObj);
            return newObj;
        }

        // All objects active and reached max, return null (or handle differently)
        return null;
    }

    /// Return object to pool
    public void ReturnObject(GameObject obj)
    {
        obj.SetActive(false); // just disable it
    }
}

something like this is a dynamic (create as u need) setup

[lunar axle]

Before digging in a rabbit hole, search up for github and use what they did first

[lunar axle]

Woah u just coded ts up?

[rocky canyon]

and usage:

if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
        {
            GameObject bullet = bulletPool.GetObject();
            if (bullet != null)
            {
                // position bullet
                bullet.transform.position = firePoint.position;
                bullet.transform.rotation = firePoint.rotation;
            }
        }```

[rocky canyon]

i sit on soo many prototypes i have almost everything already 😄

jsut comes down to my organization skills and how fast i can find it 😄

thank God for indexing

[scenic iris]

so system like this exists thank this big help i goin to check this system later

[lunar axle]

Reuseable code on top

[rocky canyon]

my problem is trying to make everything re-useable

[midnight plover]

Addressables is also a good way to keep things running and reuse assetreferences

[rocky canyon]

no matter how trivial.. or if i even will re-use

its a burden

[lunar axle]

So liek prefabs?

[rocky canyon]

like DLC

[lunar axle]

Recylable code

[midnight plover]

If you use prefabs in a scene, they are loaded into memory, assetreferences can be used in inspector without adding the actual object to the scene. as the name states, its just a reference and will only load when you call it to, so no memory clutter because you packed everything into the inspector upfront

[scenic iris]

my biggest problem as game developer is although im solo development i try to make huge projects on my own and i have to do everything for code to 3D model or whatever.

[rocky canyon]

same here 😉

[lunar axle]

Thats nice

[rocky canyon]

u get better work-flows as u learn

[lunar axle]

So meaning u can also save reference for scripts?

[rocky canyon]

i work on bigger projects than i can handle as well..
but that doesn't mean u can't work on smaller projects at the same time..
i try to make things re-useable.. soo systems that are in the bigger project (that ill probably never ship) usually get packaged up and moved over to a smaller project

[lunar axle]

And other stuff other than gameobjs

[rocky canyon]

if u guys were to make a script that moves a gameobject (x amount of units every x seconds but not smoothed )
like a step animator how would u do it? with coroutines or something else

[midnight plover]

Not sure what you mean. You can reference anything that addressables support, but scripts are precompiled when building your game. so you cant add "new" scripts through addressable bundles. But yes, you can reference audio, images and what not.

[midnight plover]

I created my own coroutine manager that stores all objects that call it and handles the same animation types like position, localpos, rotation and what not, soy ou can call the manager anytime and it will smoothly takeover the previous coroutine with a new one.

[rocky canyon]

o thats neat

[midnight plover]

It basically stores all mono references that called it with the specific transform and check aginst null and what not. And in the end you just call it

this.Animate(yourTransform, Easing.AnimationType.LocalPosition, Easing.Ease.EaseInOutQuad, yourTransform.localPosition, nextPosition, duration);

for example

[lunar axle]

i dont understand what u mean by "not smooth", like u meant teleport after an amount of sec is what not smoothed means?

[midnight plover]

yeh, just change positino every nth seconds. Id do that with a simple coroutine/while loop

[lunar axle]

or u can create a new mono-behaviour script (call it Glide) that moves the object in Update()

[rocky canyon]

sounds like a plan..

[coarse ibex]

how do i destroy a gameobject through C#

[slender nymph]

what did google tell you?

[coarse ibex]

i did not ask google

[night raptor]

he might know

[slender nymph]

well there's your first problem. you're expected to make at least some attempt at researching your question before asking here because a 10 second google search can answer that easily

[celest depot]

Update: I successfully fixed my code after hours of understanding about Quaternion.Euler stuff. I did yaw and roll hahahahahaha

And i did the pitch movement too

[warm iron]

Coding in project work is sooo easy, I can just write "I abandon it after several failed attempts" instead of writing codes

[tired python]

rezero!

[rich adder]

Any kinds of development researching / reading documentation is most of the work

[rocky canyon]

# Milestone

[queen adder]

Unity is trolling me
How is it possible that these two identical world transforms are in different places? They are not children of anything

[silk night]

select center at the top left and switch it to pivot

[queen adder]

Ah

well now they look the same

[silk night]

they were always on the same spot

the handle just showed up on the center of each

instead of their origin point

[queen adder]

I know that the origin point at least for the 3d model is defined by blender. What's the center?

[silk night]

median center of all mesh vertices for 3d models i think

might also be bounds center, im not 100% sure

[naive pawn]

pretty sure it's bounds center, wouldn't average of vertices be biased to a dense part of the mesh

[verbal dome]

It uses the center of the total bounds of all colliders and renderers on the object

[verbal dome]

Use #🔀┃art-asset-workflow or something, this is a code channel.

[spare slate]

Oh okay I see

My bad

[lofty sequoia]

If I have ClassB : ClassA and call StopAllCoroutines() in ClassA, will that stop coroutines running in ClassB?

[naive pawn]

these are instance methods, not static methods

[slender nymph]

are you calling it on the instance of ClassB? if not, then no. it only affects the instance that StopAllCoroutines is called on

[polar acorn]

StopAllCoroutines will stop all coroutines on whatever instance you call it on

Coroutines don't run on classes

[lofty sequoia]

I have an instance of ClassB and I'm calling a method in ClassA that calls StopAllCoroutines, basically wondering if for some reason it wouldn't affect ClassB coroutines

[wintry quarry]

The coroutines run on the GameObject

[lofty sequoia]

Figured since B is an instance of A it should stop

[wintry quarry]

the inheritance is basically irrelevant, it's about the instance

[naive pawn]

i don't think so? pretty sure they're on Components

[wintry quarry]

it's confusing

deactivating an object stops all coroutines on the object. but the docs are saying that stopcoroutine "Stops all coroutines running on this MonoBehaviour"

[wintry quarry]

but if you're just saying you are calling an inherited method that doesn't make a difference. The ClassB instance is one instance. Calling StopAllCoroutines will stop the coroutines on it, regardless of where you wrote the line of code.

[naive pawn]

the active state of a gameobject affects all its components updating as well, is it really that weird for that to also apply to coroutines

GameObjects also have no members related to coroutines

[lofty sequoia]

Thank you, this is what I had thought as well

[wintry quarry]

the runtime doesn't really know if the StartCoroutine or StopAllCoroutines call came from B.cs or A.cs, it only knows which instance it was called on

[scenic iris]

i have found how to load values with Jason but for some reason the don't show my the string value.

this the 3 parts

JsonExample.json

{
  "playerName": "David",
  "isAlive": true,
  "score": 150
}

Data ```c
using System;

[Serializable]
public class SimpleData
{
public string playerName;
public bool isAlive;
public int score;
}

```c
using UnityEngine;
using System.IO;

public class LoadJsonExample : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string newPlayerName;

    void Start()
    {
        // Load JSON file from Resources folder
        TextAsset jsonFile = Resources.Load<TextAsset>("JsonExample");

        // Convert JSON text to class
        SimpleData data = JsonUtility.FromJson<SimpleData>(jsonFile.text);

        data.playerName = newPlayerName;

        // Now you can use the values
        Debug.Log("Name: " + data.playerName);// The don't show my the String value hear the other 2 below show correctly 
        Debug.Log("Is Alive: " + data.isAlive);
        Debug.Log("Score: " + data.score);

        // Example usage
        if (data.isAlive)
        {
            Debug.Log(data.playerName + " is alive with score " + data.score);
        }
    }
}

[keen dew]

data.playerName = newPlayerName; overwrites the value. Did you mean to have this the other way around?

[wintry quarry]

yep you're overwriting it with whatever is in the inspector

Also I love that you got Jason to work for you, he's a good fellow

[scenic iris]

yap now it's working thank you save my for a lot of trable

[potent portal]

which way is the correct way of doing the curly brackets 🙏

[midnight tree]

Which you prefer :3

[potent portal]

i honestly prefer the bottom one

[rich adder]

Allman(bottom) is traditional to c# while k&r (top) is more typical to Java or cpp

But there is no right or wrong

[midnight tree]

I use both of them for example time after time
Most of the time second one

[potent portal]

okay why the hell is "?" automodded

[rich adder]

Because it's another way to prevent spam

Why do you need to send less than a few chars message when you can edit it or react to post

[potent portal]

ah

makes sense

[midnight tree]

Actually you can do it more masochistically.

void something3() => DoSomething();

or

void something4() {DoSomething();}

But yeah, it is just a joke

||Isn't it?...||

[twin pivot]

people that code like this scares me

[potent portal]

im so confused, it has the same name how would it not be used?

[midnight tree]

Invoke(nameof(ReloadLevel), 2f);

Try it.

[potent portal]

nevermind i figured it out

it was some weird syntax error

[grand snow]

you have done something weird here the function ReloadLevel is either outside the class or the above ones are all local functions

[glad shore]

how do i get my license back?

[polar acorn]

Try signing out of the hub and signing back in again

[rich adder]

Invoke uses reflection when you type it like that

[potent portal]

Reflection?

I’m sorry I’m like really new to C# 😭

[rich adder]

Yes i will look it up by string / name at runtime. It's not really type safe doing it like this , as far as it knows you're not using it

At very least you can do nameOf keyword
Invoke(nameof(ReloadLevel)) to avoid spelling errors but still. Learn coroutine if you want delay

[potent portal]

Okay.. got it

[grand snow]

invoke is fine as a beginner but better ways exist as said above

[rich adder]

Oh didn't see Norman sent the nameof thing. Mobile network slow as hell 😆

[grand snow]

nameof() is such a good language feature

[midnight tree]

Sometimes if you don't want to start a Coroutine with the same meaning as Invoke(time) why not use it instead? Because it's impossible to catch the call or what?

[grand snow]

Async is an alternative and yes the better alternatives can be cancelled or controlled better.
plus the call stacks should be better preserved

Invoke asks the engine to invoke some function with a name at some point in the future

(thats how many unity messages work anyway, the engine directly invoking functions in the CLR)

Fun fact, unity recommend doing your own "update" calling in c# (for lots of objects) as that can be a lot faster than relying on unity to call it on many monobehaviours

there is greater cost to native-managed crossover and unity even doing the managed call native side

[vestal cosmos]

i need some help i cant open or create a project and i dont know what the problem is(forget this message it somehow fixed itself thanky you unity god)

[cosmic dagger]

I've slowly changed all my stuff to do this . . .

[grand snow]

I did a TD system thing a bit ago and I manually "ticked" them all as its a lot easier to control what happens and we gain some performance
It only starts to become nessesarry when we have say 250+ things

[sour fulcrum]

Maybe I'm tripping but I feel like that ends up kinda happens naturally once you get more comfortable with c# since you end up doing a lot more stuff outside of the update loop and more via callbacks or coroutine/async type shit

maybe im not dipping my toes in the right genres tho idk

i just seem to slowly start not having much in update

[grand snow]

If you know programming, OO and good design its more natural to not over use unity messages

I much prefer to init and control things myself because otherwise you have to do stupid shit trying to get by only with Awake/Start

[cosmic dagger]

True, it really helps once you reach a certain amount. Making a TD sounds like a fun project . . .

[sour fulcrum]

blessed genre

the td i made for a like 4 day gamejam has more sauce than some of my month long projects

[grand snow]

It was a hybrid but had things moving along a path and towers to shoot the enemies.

[cosmic dagger]

Once I started pooling objects, Init became a necessity. I think I started using a custom update when I created an object and separated each of its behaviors into its own script, and called OnUpdate from the main controller (or brain) . . .

[sour fulcrum]

It would be so nice if we could have proper constructors directly

[glad shore]

how do i get visual studio code to work with unity
ive already installed it but i cant create scripts

[frosty hound]

!ide has the guide for configuring it.

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[grand snow]

yea its dumb, Awake is not 100% reliable so manual init is the way

[sour fulcrum]

forsure

i still gotta keep tinkering with my prefered setup for ideal init with so's and prefabs

it's almost there but then trying to handle netcode for gameobjects with it just blows it all up 😄

[timber tide]

I think rider has some features to warn you to use an Init method when instantiating

there's some useful utility like forcing to use a return value

[clever path]

Is anyone able to help me with getting my crouch height/ceiling detection work? I created a forum post in code-general, been stuck on this for a couple days and I've looked at a ton of videos, forums, unity documentation. my current setup "works" but its super janky and has all kinds of issues

[rich adder]

its been 30 mins..be patient & don't crosspost

[clever path]

I'm patient, just didn't know that was a rule/etiquette my bad

[ivory bobcat]

You may want to link to any information that you had previously provided.

[sour fulcrum]

I think this is just a "i don't know math well" question, using this function to make a UIToolkit pie chart, https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UIElements.Painter2D.Arc.html

I've got a center, radius, start angle, end angle and direction, I want to get the centre of the arc i'm creating with these

[finite flower]

Okay, idk what to search to get what I want, but I know of it.
Is there a function or something (i don't remember what it's called) that pauses a script for a set amount of time/frames?
Like, I want to have a script that runs, then holds for one second, then runs.

(There might actually be a much better way to do what I'm trying to do tbh...)

[wintry quarry]

You're looking for coroutines

[finite flower]

Okay, after looking into it, I'm seeing a lot of stuff saying only to use coroutines if I need to repeat things, which is not what I'm doing. I just need to make the script hesitate before checking something.

[wintry quarry]

Incorrect

Use a coroutine for any code in which you wish to insert inline delays

Not sure what you're reading

Repeating things is done with loops, another subject entirely

You can certainly put a loop inside a coroutine but there's no requirement to do so

[finite flower]

just several forums talking about where and when to utilize coroutines because I was trying to find documentation for IEnumerators

[wintry quarry]

You will confuse yourself with that. Just look up Unity coroutines

It uses that type, and there's a technical reason why but it's not necessary to understand it to use them

[sour fulcrum]

More specifically the incorrect part here is the Only, you might also want to use coroutines in situations where you want to repeat things forsure

[finite flower]

it's using IEnumerator in the coroutines, and I'm getting an error saying that IEnumerator doesn't exist 😅

[sour fulcrum]

might be missing a using, does it have a suggested fix?

[wintry quarry]

No it's saying "are you missing a using directive"

[finite flower]

which is why I was trying to find documentation for IEnumerator

[sour fulcrum]

The issue with wanting to make a "script hesitate" is that code runs in order, if you have this logic

wait until (x happens)
thing that makes x happen

x can never happen because the code will be stuck on the wait.

Coroutines work in a way where are kinda "submitted" to Unity and every frame Unity will check up to see how it's going without interrupting the code because now it's

Start Coroutine();
Unity collects Coroutine
Unity checks Coroutine
Unity looks for condition in active coroutine (the condition being wait until x happens)
The condition replies with false
Unity carries on with it's day

[wintry quarry]

I mean it's not hard to find that, on the Microsoft c# docs

[finite flower]

Okay, I've got it working, now another probably simple question...
Is there a simple way to check if a boolean changes state?

[wintry quarry]

But if you're just looking for the namespace your IDE should be telling you automatically

[finite flower]

Yeah, that's never worked for me for some reason

[wintry quarry]

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[finite flower]

I mean, it autocompletes, but it doesn't like.. suggest code stuff?

anyways, that's not really an issue

[slender nymph]

get your IDE configured using the guide linked and it will work

[finite flower]

It's already configured

[slender nymph]

do errors get underlined in red?

[finite flower]

Is there a simple way to check if a boolean changes state?

[finite flower]

my VSC was in restricted mode, that's why it was being screwy 🤦

[hardy wing]

no 👍

there's no automatic notification system unless you set it up that way (with for example C# events)

[finite flower]

I'm having such a hard time with making my character go between walking and climbing, I feel like I need a more robust detection method or like... knowing whether the player is on the ground or trying to climb but idk

[gaunt cipher]

you ever just sit there being like why won't my event fire why won't my eve- oh.. I didn't invoke it.. I'm that dumb

[finite flower]

how do I make a coroutine just like stop? It keeps asking for a return, and if I try to make it return nothing, then it gives and error, and if I do anything else, the coroutine never even runs 😭

[sour fulcrum]

post your code

coroutines are a little weird looking when you first use em don't worry

[polar acorn]

yield break

[finite flower]

YES, I knew there was a way, but it was completely avoiding me 😭 I'll see if that works

[finite flower]

idk if this is the best way to post code, but y'all will tell me

private IEnumerator ClimbCheck()
    {

        if(!isClimbing && wallFront)
        {
            if(!climbHold)
            {
                Debug.Log("started climbing");
                climbHold = true;
                StartClimbing();
                StopCoroutine(climbCheck);
            }
            
        }

        if (!wallFront)
        {
            Debug.Log("stopped climbing, no wall");
            climbHold = false;
            StopClimbing();
            StopCoroutine(climbCheck);
        }

        if(isClimbing)
        {
            if(isGrounded)
            {
                Debug.Log("stopped climbing, hit floor");
                climbHold = true;
                StopClimbing();
                StopCoroutine(climbCheck);
            }
        }

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1.0f);
    }

[sour fulcrum]

thats fine for small snips, you can add cs after the three thingos for better formatting

same line

[finite flower]

no clue 😅

[sour fulcrum]

its fine lol

[finite flower]

it just isn't lmao 😭

[sour fulcrum]

oh you want the start of your code to be on the next line

[naive pawn]

(and the last ``` to be on a separate line as well)

[sour fulcrum]

there we go

[finite flower]

🙏 ty

[polar acorn]

Not sure what the purpose of this being a coroutine is. You only have one yield and it's at the end

[naive pawn]

that last yield return doesn't have anything after it, you're waiting to do.. nothing?

also you don't need StopCoroutine to stop the current coroutine, you can use yield break; instead

[sour fulcrum]

so yeah yield break can work
this is because what you return in a coroutine is basically you telling Unity what's the status of the coroutine,
so when you return new WaitForSeconds() your telling Unity "hey do this before checking up on me again" or break is telling Unity they can finish up with it

[finite flower]

yeah, this is what happens when I'm just told "use a coroutine" and nothing else 😮‍💨

[sour fulcrum]

learning is incremental 😄

[naive pawn]

hey, no errors, this is learning progress lol

[sour fulcrum]

You didn't ask for it but would you be interested in a little advice on a slightly "better" way to approch what that code is doing?

[polar acorn]

Coroutines will run normally until they hit a yield. Then they'll wait for whatever that condition is before resuming with the next line

[finite flower]

I was thinking that if I can pause the check for if the player is trying to climb, the code that's doing the transition between climbing and not climbing would actually work smoothly and not jitter around

[polar acorn]

So, you could run a line, wait 1 second, then run another line.

Or, you can do a yield return null which waits one frame and resumes next frame

[naive pawn]

the coroutine is in its own realm, any yields you do inside won't affect the timing of stuff outside

[finite flower]

I'm probably using the right thing, I'm just not seeing how I need to put it all together for it to work

I have all the right pieces, but no instruction manual 😅

The issue I'm having is that when the player is trying to climb, it calls for StartClimbing() and StopClimbing() at the same time until one wins out because I don't have a clean way to detect when the player is trying to climb, I can only detect when they are standing at a wall and trying to move and if they are touching the ground.

[naive pawn]

i feel like ive commented on this before

[finite flower]

SO my thought was to slow down that actual process and not call one until the other has tried to run through, and maybe that would make the transition smooth

[finite flower]

Maybe, I had it working sorta but it was just jittery

[naive pawn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

startclimbing when you actively move up, stopclimbing when you actively move down
opposite checks, so it shouldn't jitter

[finite flower]

Yeah, I'm just having a hard time trying to differentiate those states

moving up and moving down are not things that I am or idk if I even can read for

[naive pawn]

well you don't seem to be using player input in the checks in that coroutine

[sour fulcrum]

you can absolutely read this

[naive pawn]

those checks are the basis of my idea lol

[finite flower]

I mean with the way my code is set up

[naive pawn]

well, how is it set up?

[finite flower]

lots of spaghetti

[naive pawn]

that doesn't really affect what you can and can't do, just difficulty

[sour fulcrum]

straightening spaghetti is a war that can be won in many small battles

we're probably gonna have to pick a fight or two here to get what you want

[naive pawn]

-# well that sounds cursed out of context

[finite flower]

I go back on myself a lot, and I'm scared to try touching it cause it'll break what I have and will add a week of fixing just to get back where I am 😅

[sour fulcrum]

I cook code so I can avoid learning how to cook IRL

[naive pawn]

well we can't really give much guidance here without seeing your code

perhaps share the full script

!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.

[finite flower]

With Paste of Code, I just paste it in and send the link here?

[naive pawn]

yes

well you gotta hit save too

otherwise you just link the homepage

[finite flower]

https://paste.ofcode.org/UnKStVFMaRx5GbsN8rMdf7

[clever path]

Spent 2-3 days trying to fix the crouch height collision scripts, watched a ton of videos, looked at a ton of forums, and the issue was in one of the tutorials I saw they told me to scale player 2,2,2. So all my ceilingcheck scripts were failing and I thought it was some issue with centering/changing the origin of the object... changed it to 1,1,1 and reverted some changes and it works perfectly now...

[finite flower]

mentally preparing myself to be destroyed

[naive pawn]

well you have those InputActions

tbh im not sure you even need a coroutine for this

[finite flower]

I will say that I don't really use // for notes, mostly just saving code I've replaced in case I want to go back or need to see it

[finite flower]

thank god

[naive pawn]

basically just this, continuously

[finite flower]

hol up

no no, I'm doing that

I think

Yeah, I'm trying to do that with the IsClimbing and IsGrounded variables

I just don't check specifically moving up or down, just moving because I'm translating forward and backwards into up and down

[naive pawn]

but you aren't checking input

[naive pawn]

are forward and up not the same input

if (moveLike != Vector3.zero)
{
  isMoving = true;

  WallCheck();

  if (wallFront && !isClimbing)
  {
    //Debug.Log("Start Climbing");
    StartClimbing();
  }

like consider this snippet, if you walk up to the wall and then walk away, you start climbing. the direction is important here.

[finite flower]

I'm multiplying the Forwards and Backwards inputs by the direction the character is facing

otherwise the player moves strictly on X or Z coordinates

[naive pawn]

oh, going off the directions of the camera, i see

gotta see if you're walking into the wall then

[finite flower]

The camera if not climbing, the physical direction the character is facing if they are climbing

[finite flower]

tbh, idk what I'm actually using wallLookAngle here for

I can prolly get rid of it

[naive pawn]

this does not check if you're walking into the wall

this checks if you're looking at the wall

the player input is important here

[finite flower]

idk how to check that

with the way my movement is set up

cause all I know to check the movement would lock it to the worldspace X and Z, not the players forward vector

[naive pawn]

could probably split it into 2 steps

• figure out the direction from the player to the wall (or the wall's.. anti normal, i guess)
• see if you're walking approximately in that direction

the latter part could be done by getting the Angle between 2 vectors and see if it's within a range

[finite flower]

so wallLookAngle is my savior in the end lmao

[naive pawn]

oh, yeah, raycasts have normals
then yeah that seems like it'd help

[finite flower]

How do I check if the player is moving in the direction of the wall?

[naive pawn]

...i just described it

check if you're going in roughly the direction of the antinormal

(probably projected onto the XZ plane)

[finite flower]

I'm going to say a lot of choice words

I didn't even have to do allat

I literally just had to remove this

And add this

now it works exactly how I wanted and fixed literally every problem I was struggling with and was planning on fixing

[naive pawn]

ok now what if you walk up to a wall from the side

[finite flower]

doesn't start climbing until you're basically facing the wall

I can make it a little tighter, but otherwise it's kind of annoying to get that kind of angle anyways

[naive pawn]

you can face the wall with no Z movement

[finite flower]

this is the forward/backwards variable for movement

like, the direct input

basically W key or S key (not literally tho)

[naive pawn]

and you can walk up to a wall without going forwards/backwards

[finite flower]

Yes, the only way the play can climb the wall is by walking forwards into it

you can even jump off walls now, I thought I was gonna have to code that in

although I want to make the player launch backwards, but I'll have to figure that out

[midnight plover]

You apparently did, just dont know where 😉

[finite flower]

I still kinda do. I have a dismount function to get over ledges, but you can't like, leap off of walls, which is what I want.

[midnight plover]

So when jumping on a wall and hit jump again, you want to jump away from it?

[finite flower]

No, when you're climbing a wall, you press jump and you jump backwards off of the wall.

[midnight plover]

Ah, got you. So you just gotta check against the will and jump into the opposite direction

[wintry quarry]

Using a joint

And a line renderer

And the layer collision matrix

[lost briar]

thanks, will try that out right away

[hexed terrace]

this is a code channel, so.. not the right place. If you can't find a channel specific to your question, don't use a random one.. use #💻┃unity-talk

delete from here and ask in there

[craggy marsh]

Sure, thanks

[opal zodiac]

what helped yall figure out state machines? right now its been kicking my ass for a few days and i cant figure out how to properly set it up

[wintry quarry]

A full understanding of the underlying concept.

(which I learned in school)

[slender rapids]

does anyone know how I would put a texture as a floor on my 2d top down game, Im not sure about a good way to go about it. I want to have different biomes with different floors

[solar hill]

sounds to me like you should probably use a tileset for that rather than a singular texture?

[wintry quarry]

Not a code question

[sterile drum]

Hi, I'm new to Unity and I want to learn the basics of programming for a shooter game I want to make.

[frail hawk]

check the pinned messages of this channel

[crude dock]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
    PlayerInput playerInput;

    InputAction moveAction;
    InputAction lookAction;

    private Transform cameraTransform;

    public float movementSpeed = 50.0f;
    public float mouseSensitivity = 1.0f;

    private float cameraPitch = 0f;

    void Start()
    {
        playerInput = GetComponent<PlayerInput>();

        moveAction = playerInput.actions.FindAction("Move");
        lookAction = playerInput.actions.FindAction("Look");

        cameraTransform = GetComponentInChildren<Camera>().transform;

        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        Move();
        Look();
    }

    void Move()
    {
        Vector2 input = moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();

        Vector3 camForward = cameraTransform.forward;

        camForward.y = 0f;
        camForward.Normalize();

        Vector3 camRight = cameraTransform.right;

        camRight.y = 0f;
        camRight.Normalize();

        Vector3 movement = camRight * input.x + camForward * input.y;

        transform.position += movement * movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
    }

    void Look()
    {
        Vector2 look = lookAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();

        float mouseX = look.x * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
        float mouseY = look.y * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

        transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);

        cameraPitch -= mouseY;
        cameraPitch = Mathf.Clamp(cameraPitch, -80f, 80f);

        cameraTransform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(cameraPitch, 0f, 0f);
    }
}

can anybody explain to me why no matter what value i set sensitivity and move speed, they dont change in game?

[solar hill]

Are you changing the values in the inspector or the script itself?

[naive pawn]

you should not multiply mouse delta by deltaTime

it's already per-frame

[solar hill]

also yeah

keep it for movement

for mouse you can just do

float mouseX = look.x * mouseSensitivity;

[crude dock]

script

[solar hill]

thats your problem

you have public values

[naive pawn]

the values in the script are just the default

[solar hill]

the inspector is overriding them

[naive pawn]

when they're serialized, in an actual component, the serialized values take priority

[solar hill]

whatever you had in the inspector initially will always remain until you change it there

[naive pawn]

change your values in the inspector instead.

[solar hill]

you should still remove the deltaTime from the mouse look

[crude dock]

oh okay, didn't expect that, thought that they are synced

thank you!

[naive pawn]

nah that would make tweaking specific instances impossible and completely negate the point of having serialized variables

[crude dock]

ill just change them to private id rather have the code control the thingy

[wintry quarry]

that would defeat the purpose of serialized fields entirely

[naive pawn]

you should not

[naive pawn]

doing this would mean you can't tweak them easily - every single tweak would require a recompilation to apply, which might not work properly at runtime, when live tweaking helps the most

you would also not be able to tweak specific instances

get used to exposing and tweaking in the inspector, it'll make your life much easier

(it also means you can reserve the value in code for specifying the default when you create a component, making the distinction actually useful)

[crude dock]

aight, the movement speed works now, but after removing the time delta from mouse, it turns at the speed of light

[polar acorn]

You will need to adjust the numbers

But now it is not negatively affected by frame rate

[crude dock]

wait yeah nevermind sorry i forgot to change it

hehe

yeah everything works

thank you so much

[coarse harness]

Hi, I'm just starting to learn Unity and I wanted to know the most optimized way to load maps in first-person 3D games, and if possible, could you give me the names of those methods so I can do a more focused search?

[rough granite]

Sorry wdym most optimized way to load a map? Like scenes to store different areas (like the inside of a build vs the open world? Or something occlusion culling thats used to hide the mesh from being rendered when not in frame?

[timber tide]

Most optimized way is usually addressables/assetbundles if we're talking about mem management

just a quick way to load/deload all the dependencies of a level

[coarse harness]

Well, I'm not quite sure how this fits in, but to give you an idea, I intend to make a map of a closed area in the style of FNaF SOTM (where there are several places that, as you progress, you unlock and see that they connect), but my problem is that it will be poorly optimized when implemented in Unity, and I wanted to learn a method that makes visible only what is necessary.

[wintry quarry]

If you're just starting to learn Unity, this topic is way too advanced for you. It's not something to worry about right now. Learn the basics first.

Beginners worry way too much about "optimization". Get your game working first

[timber tide]

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about mem and just cache all the prefabs

and init what you need

[solar hill]

even the project you described seems awfully ambitious for a newcomer

[wintry quarry]

For now all you need to know is you can load scenes with the methods in SceneManager

and you can instantiate prefabs with Instantiate

[finite flower]

yeah, that's the problem I'm having, idk how to make it jump in the opposite direction 😅

What is used to make a list of objects? Like... I know what it is, but I cannot remember the name for the life of me.

[coarse harness]

Well, it's not that this is my first game (just my first 3D one), but I wanted to know at least the name of this method so I can research it (also because I can't afford not to worry about this since my PC isn't one of the most powerful, so it would be good to avoid things like this).

[coarse harness]

I'll see how this works.

[slender nymph]

a List?

[finite flower]

It was something with an 'A' I thought?

It might just be a list I'm thinking of, idk

[slender nymph]

do you mean an array? because that's like a list but not resizable

[solar hill]

youre thinking of arrays

[finite flower]

yes

[wintry quarry]

They might be thinking of ArrayLists even

[finite flower]

thank you, I was blanking so hard 😭

[wintry quarry]

Arrays and lists are related and similar. Lists use arrays inside. You should learn both

[finite flower]

I know, I just know for this specific application, I was needing an Array, I just couldn't remember the name

[slender nymph]

so just to confirm, you need a collection that you cannot add to at runtime? because that's why you would choose an array over a list. a list can be added to or remove items, an array is fixed size

[finite flower]

Yes, I'm using it to hold the different pages of the player's "Inventory"

and then change through them as the press "Next Page" or whatever

I am now thinking there would be an easier way to set the page than what I was initially thinking after setting up the array 🤔

Is there a good way to set the active item to the current array value? And have the others inactive?

[naive pawn]

what do you mean by "current array value"

[finite flower]

Cause my first thought is to just compare it to an integer that's changed by pressing "Next" and "Previous"

[finite flower]

like, there are 3 objects, I want to set it to Object 2 and only Object 2 is active.

[naive pawn]

well then you would set the current page to be active and the other pages to be inactive
if you remember what page you were previously on, you can set just that page to be inactive (assuming all other pages are already inactive)

if you don't want to make that assumption or if you don't want to have to remember that, you can just loop and set them all to the proper active state

it's a noop to deactivate an inactive object anyways

[finite flower]

Yes, I'm just thinking there might be an easier way than a long if statement 😅

[naive pawn]

you would not have a long if statement

[finite flower]

then idk what you're saying I can do

[naive pawn]

you can just loop and set them all to the proper active state

[finite flower]

that means nothing to me

[slender nymph]

just keep an int that corresponds to the index of the active page. then when you switch pages, you just change that int then loop through the array of pages, if index == that int, set page active, otherwise set inactive. you literally just do pages[i].gameObject.SetActive(i == activeIndex); (changing relevant variable names as necessary) assuming you are just enabling/disabling them

[finite flower]

yeah, that's what I thought, ty ty

[wintry quarry]

the more efficient way is to just track the currently active page. When you switch pages you deactivate the current one and activate the new one.

[slender nymph]

yeah but that's only really marginally more efficient and really a microoptimization if they only have a few pages anyway

[solar hill]

A bit of a structural question i guess,
Im refactoring my status effect system in my game, and the way im currently doing it is like this:

When an effect like "Burn" for example is applied, a singleton effectsmanager looks up its data in a dictionary, gets the pre cached script type for that effect and it applies it. Because the effect types are resolved and cached at startup, theres no reflection during gameplay just quick lookups and method calls.

Do you guys think this would be efficient? Or should i not use a dictionary lookup for this. It allows me to keep all effects as individual IDs hardcode in a static class.

[wintry quarry]

sounds fine

[grand snow]

does it need to be a monobehaviour?

basically you dont always have to make things a mono singleton

[solar hill]

The Singleton that maps the IDs to their respective Assets is an MB

[grand snow]

does it require mono messages or serialized variables?

Sometimes its easier or better to have a static manager or one you init and use

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

[solar hill]

Youre right

it runs once on start up anyways

[solar hill]

yeah this is perfect actually

thanks