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[grand snow]

Yea you can use that to say init and load data and then its all ready and in memory for use.

[solar hill]

Smart, glad i asked lol

cuts down on the 10 singleton gameobjects i already have 😭

[grand snow]

You probably already setup things somewhere on game start so that can also do various tasks
Its a good thing to learn that you dont have to have everything be a monobehaviour and a component

[finite flower]

I'm gonna admit that I spent an embarrassing amount of time rereading this to understand what it meant 😭
I figured it out, but now I feel like such an idiot 😭

[grand snow]

The power of indexes

[rough granite]

I feel like looping is inefficient if you have the index of the page you wish to open and the index to the page you wish to close

[slender nymph]

"inefficient" isn't really relevant because it's basically a non issue as I explained below that message.
Plus it ensures that everything is always in the correct state by making sure two pages cannot be activated at the same time

[rough granite]

Ah hadnt even seen the other person mention the same thing -_-

I mean yeah fair i doubt there will be too many pages so worrying about it would be silly

[finite flower]

only 3

for now, I might add more, but I doubt it

depends on what I need

[clever path]

If I only understand 40% of what Beans video (Advanced Movement Shooter Physics in 1 hour) is it too early for me to be watching this tutorial, or is this how people learn this lol

[wintry quarry]

If you only understand 40% of it you might be in over your head yes. But you can take the concepts you're not understanding and use them as starting off points for more research

[twin pivot]

The more you learn about coding the more you learn you know nothing lol

[ashen trail]

guys I get why the rotation on my character is messed up but idk how to fix it HELP!>

[brisk edge]

what are you trying to do? and is your rigidbody kinematic or dynamic?

[ashen trail]

dynamic i think

[brisk edge]

do you want to rotate your character with force (simulating physics), or just set its rotation?

[ashen trail]

set its rotation, or like a point i want the player to rotate to, then have the player rotate there

like it works ,but for example when I turn around, my left now becomes my right and my right now becomes my left

[finite flower]

I solve this by rotating an object that represents the player rather than it's actual body

but that has it's own problems

[ashen trail]

I guess I'll try that thanks

[finite flower]

oh, no, that only works if the camera is static, I have separate things that rotate the physical body too

sorry, ignore me, I'm tired 😅

[brisk edge]

I think setting the rotation based on inputs, should be done in Update not Fixed Update.
And I'd use Transform.Rotate.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform.Rotate.html
Scroll down for examples.

[ashen trail]

thanks

[coarse ibex]

How do i move an object down with an anim? or better how do i run an anim inside C#?

[naive pawn]

referring to the animator system?

for the latter you would generally use .SetTrigger or .Play

[chrome tide]

and for the animation itself, you could simply move the object's transform while recording the clip.

[coarse ibex]

how do i disable looping

if its ever on

[sour cape]

can anyone remember how u open package manager to get the samples tab?

[naive pawn]

this is a code channel, try #💻┃unity-talk

[coarse ibex]

how do i play a sound through C#

[naive pawn]

look this stuff up, man

[chrome tide]

have a reference to an audiosource an make it play an audioclip.

though it would be faster to just google it instead of waiting for someone to answer it here :P

[coarse ibex]

now its too quiet

lemme look up how to change dat

tried 100000 and its still quiet

what

[chrome tide]

audiosource volume is a 0-1 float. maybe your clip is just so quiet or you have the 3d blending configured incorrectly.

[coarse ibex]

should i send the audioclip?

[chrome tide]

just judge by yourself if it's loud enough. if it is, then it's the issue with the audiosource config.

[coarse ibex]

if im using 2D, does it work? ( audiosource )

[chrome tide]

yes

[coarse ibex]

ok

[worn nymph]

can the order of the array of material on a meshrenderer be relied on?

[coarse ibex]

pretty sure its loud enough, is this config good?

[sour fulcrum]

in what way

[chrome tide]

don't see anything wrong here.

As you said before - it's "too quiet", so i guess the audio triggers? if yes then the code isn't the problem here

[worn nymph]

is it static? is renderer.materials[0] the same as the list in the inspector suggests or not?

[sour fulcrum]

the term static does not make sense in what we are talking about but no

the inspector will show renderer.sharedMaterials iirc

I could be mistaken

[worn nymph]

well is sharedMaterials and material in the same order then?

[sour fulcrum]

they start off the same

depends if your touching them

[coarse ibex]

the audio triggers? whats that? is that the trigger that runs the sound?

[short hazel]

"triggers" as in the sound plays and you can hear it, I guess

[chrome tide]

earlier you said that the sound is too quiet - so i assume it triggers correctly (triggers e.g. activates).

i don't see anything wrong with your code so i really don't know why the audio would be so quiet judging by code logic. my only guess is that it's something with the audioclip itself or the position of the audio isn't set correctly

[coarse ibex]

i think all is setup correctly

[chrome tide]

i don't see anything wrong here either

[short hazel]

Make sure your Audio Source is close enough to your Audio Listener (on the Camera by default)

You should also post a screenshot of your AudioSource component

[coarse ibex]

i dont have an audiosource i only use it once in that scipt

[rough sluice]

Unity is showing this error: CS0246: The type or namespace name MaterialReferenceChanger could not be found after importing Sample Assets Package & Terrain Tools

I am using Built-in render pipeline

[chrome tide]

then make sure that Player.Player1.transform.position is close enough to the AudioListener, as this is the position you play the clip at

[coarse ibex]

i dont know where the audiolistener is, if its next/in the camera, i don have one bcs im modding a game

[chrome tide]

as SPR2 said, it's probably on the Camera

[coarse ibex]

and i don have one

[chrome tide]

we really have no insight in the technical aspects of the game you're modding so it's hard to help

[coarse ibex]

hollow knight

[chrome tide]

wdym you don't have one? if you didn't have it then the screen wouldn't render the scene at all

my only guess is that you could look at how hollow knight overall handles audio but as i said before we have no insight in it

[coarse ibex]

something that modifies the unity editor (WeaverCore) on play creates a temporary tk2d cam

[naive pawn]

we don't support modding here, sorry #📖┃code-of-conduct

[sour fulcrum]

we cant help with mods here, sorry

[coarse ibex]

i know

[sour fulcrum]

well you don't

because you we're asking about modding 😛

[naive pawn]

one can know and still ask

[coarse ibex]

not modding just help with audio

[naive pawn]

that's called either arrogance or ignorance, generally

[sour fulcrum]

this is one of the reasons (plural) we can't help with modding, because you don't know about the game your developing

[naive pawn]

and the issue you're describing seems to originate from not having control over your environment

[coarse ibex]

anyways nvm

[scenic iris]

i have make .json and manage load the value.
now i wand to do the opiset when press E to save this newPlayerName to Jason how can i do that ?

using UnityEngine;
using System.IO;

public class LoadJsonExample : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string newPlayerName;   // :point_left: public string editable in Inspector

    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);

        newPlayerName = data.playerName;

        // Now you can use the values
        Debug.Log("Name: " + data.playerName);
        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);
        }
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)) //save Please 
        {
   //         SimpleData data = new SimpleData();

    //        string json = JsonUtility.ToJson(data, true);
     //       File.WriteAllText(savePath, json);
        }
    }
}

[verbal dome]

What you see in the inspector is either sharedMaterials, or materials if it has instantiated materials. Materials get instantiated when you access materials for example.
Not sure why the order would ever change. Are you asking because of some issue?

[red rover]

Is there any documentation about what you can/can't do with references to prefabs in a monobehaviour?

[naive pawn]

what exactly do you have in mind? that you can't Destroy them, etc?

there's no restrictions that are specific to prefabs in monobehaviours

[red rover]

What if I access a component on the prefab? Can I change the value of variables from there? Would that persist after ending playmode?

Yeah all those questions are probably things I could've tested myself... but I was just wondering if there's documentation that would answer those questions and possibly others that arise.

[rough granite]

unity documentation is here > https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/index.html otherwise the answer would be searching for if there any

[red rover]

Yeah I'm aware of the docs website 😅 I was looking for any pages about accessing prefabs from runtime but couldn't find any

[sour fulcrum]

those changes would stay yes

[rough granite]

couldn't say much about accessing them but i do know it's possible to make them during runtime

[red rover]

Interesting, including non serialized data, as in variables that aren't shown in the inspector?

[sour fulcrum]

not as confident there but i would assume so

exiting play mode doesn't touch assets period afaik

[red rover]

I see. tysm for the answers!

[hexed terrace]

you're generally not manipulating the prefab at runtime, just an instance of it

Can you even touch the actual prefab without using Prefab Utilities.. which is editor only ?

[sour fulcrum]

in builds the concept of a specific instance being a "prefab" is just a little flag on the object that puts it in a secret scene

[sour fulcrum]

All the ones loaded are in the HideAndDontSave scene

[fervent abyss]

public static void RoleAlgorithm()
{
    if (PhotonFusionWrapper.instance.runner.IsSharedModeMasterClient)
    {
        //make a monster

        //for how many monsters
        for (int i = 0; instance.monsters.Count() < instance.monstersCount; i++)
        {
            PlayerRef player_i = PhotonFusionWrapper.instance.runner.ActivePlayers.ToArray()[Random.Range(0, PhotonFusionWrapper.instance.runner.ActivePlayers.Count())];

            NetworkPlayer tmpPlr = NetworkPlayer.GetNetworkPlayer(player_i);

            if (!tmpPlr || !tmpPlr.isReady) continue;

            if (!instance.monsters.Any(x => x == player_i))
            {
                instance.monsters.Add(player_i);
            }
        }

        foreach (var player in instance.monsters)
        {
            NetworkRoles.SetRole(player, NetworkRoles.Roles.Monster);
        }
    }
}

honestly no idea, but when i do

NetworkPlayer tmpPlr = NetworkPlayer.GetNetworkPlayer(player_i);

            if (!tmpPlr || !tmpPlr.isReady) continue;

unity just crashes 💀

this is GetNetworkPlayer

public static NetworkPlayer GetNetworkPlayer(PlayerRef player)
{
    if (PhotonFusionWrapper.GetPlayerNetworkObject(player).TryGetComponent<NetworkPlayer>(out NetworkPlayer networkPlayer))
    {
        return networkPlayer;
    }
    return null;
}

0 idea why its happening, could someone help me out?

[sour fulcrum]

#1390346492019212368

[fervent abyss]

its not about the network

[timber tide]

Well, debug what you're getting from player_i, and debug all the dot accessing chain in GetNetworkPlayer

[red rover]

I suppose I should clarify my end goal in case there's possible a much better solution.
I'm making a destructible zombie, a rigged and animated character whose limbs can change their model between damaged states and also fall off. Currently, the ragdoll and the zombie are visually identital but separate prefabs so I don't have to have the ragdoll loaded but hidden in a scene where there could be hundreds of zombie. The zombie can also become a ragdoll when it dies. When a limb falls off, my goal is to make it look at the ragdoll prefab and find the part of the ragdoll it can duplicate to have a physics limb be created in the fallen limb's place.

And where my question comes in is I want to have a data structure where I can cache that hierarchical search for limbs instead of just traversing through all the armature's gameobjects when a limb falls off.
I would probably store that data structure as a variable on the ragdoll component in the ragdoll prefab.

Very roundabout question...

[sour fulcrum]

random two cents but this feels like something you could just handcraft or cache/populate in editor somewhere, no?

[red rover]

Two cents appreciated, and you're probably right.

How would you go about that?

[timber tide]

You can use OnValidate to serialize these parts, but otherwise can just do it in awake.

[sour fulcrum]

honestly not sure which is least painful but maybe something like a dictionary like
Dictionary<string, List<GameObject>>
where the string is the bone name (using names is yucky but i assume more acceptable in rigging contexts?) and the list of prefabs to switch to that would be ordered from least to most damaged

[timber tide]

Do some hiearchy search downwards from the armature

[sour fulcrum]

or if this is stored on the prefab the key could be a direct reference to the bone object which might make things easier

[timber tide]

I mean the idea is there in your post, you just need to cache it yeah

[red rover]

Right, and where would I cache it?

[timber tide]

probably not a big issue anyway, can't expect the zombies to have thousands of limbs now

[sour fulcrum]

probably just wherever this swap is actually taking place, which i assume is somewhere enemy code related right

[timber tide]

I'd stick some script on the armature

reference it from the enemy controller

[sour fulcrum]

btw you might already be up on this, but if they are legit identical except for model and texture stuff, you might be able to just swap those references instead of swapping in the whole different gameobject

[red rover]

I think what I should do is just create a helper component to put on an empty in the scene that caches what I need on startup

If I put it on the armature or enemy there would be many duplicates of the same data

[grand snow]

If each instance has these objects already then that is not duplicate data

If however they would all point to the same external stuff, why not use a scriptable object and reference that?

[sour fulcrum]

yeah SO over empty in scene

[grand snow]

Then its just 1 reference to a shared asset that then points to many things

[red rover]

The mesh, textures, and GO hierarchy are the same, but the enemy has the enemy controller and the ragdoll has no controller and all the rigidbodies and physics joints

[timber tide]

prefab variants work too

I assume you'd have different type of body parts if you have a different zombie variant

[red rover]

If I use an SO the cached data would need to be serialized to be editable in inspector, right? If that's the case I can def just created that data type for this purpose, just wanting to clarify.

[red rover]

Yeah this is smart, is there a performance benefit over using two different prefabs?

[grand snow]

prefab variants offer no perf benefit, it just helps asset creation

[timber tide]

The benefit is that you can have some root prefabs where you provide default values or fallback onto

[grand snow]

as when built the "variant link" vanishes and both prefabs contain the same data

I remember the dark ages when we could not nest prefabs 😢

[timber tide]

zombies always have 10 parts say, but you have red zombie and green zombie where their hand limbs are different but otherwise share the same parts

[red rover]

Ok I hope this isn't all going over my head lol

Currently I have just one zombie for testing but I could totally see the benefit when I have more than just one type

[timber tide]

prefab variants and SOs are similar, just that variants are easier to load and play with in the editor and don't require you to script extend

[sour fulcrum]

this kinda thing has many levels to how well you can cook it up so land on whatever you feel

[red rover]

Yeah I was getting that impression too, wondering which approach is the most 'optimal'

I'll just need to weight the pros vs the time cost of refactoring for the different options.

[grand snow]

Scriptable objects are custom assets with serialised data. Prefabs are gameobjects with components serialised as an asset.

[timber tide]

pure data approach is a pain sometimes as if you're caching all the serialized data in it then it won't be loaded at editor time

[grand snow]

how do you mean?

I have worked with pure data configuration and as long as your system does not rely on monobehaviours you can easily load it at edit time

[timber tide]

let's consider you build your zombies using an SO blueprint, then this would be done in awake. Let's use textures for example, you wouldn't see this applied till the game is ran so you don't have that prefab to see those changes on the scene in the editor.

[sour fulcrum]

doesn't have to be done in awake

[timber tide]

Can be done in an init methods too

just saying that if you construct your objects using a blueprint like this, you don't have those assets loaded at editor time

[sour fulcrum]

unless you do

[sour fulcrum]

you yourself suggested a way to do so 😛

[timber tide]

Yeah true, you can do some additional work to serialize it like that

[red rover]

Holy moly my head is going to explode lmao

[grand snow]

Dont forget that in editor if you want to automate things and access this data you can just use AssetDatabase and load whatever you wish

[timber tide]

But full SO workflow you can basically have a single prefab and just use SOs to construct these objects

good object pooling solution

[grand snow]

Oh i like that

Spawn base prefab, pass reference to some EnemyConfig scriptable object instance to set up

[red rover]

Wait what would SO's have to do with being setup at runtime?

If I'm understanding right

[grand snow]

Scriptable objects are assets with data so something can be initialized with that as its data source

[sour fulcrum]

class ScriptableEnemy : ScriptableObject

//Where you put stuff like the limb damage prefab stuff you wanna cache

class EnemyBehaviour : MonoBehaviour

ScriptableEnemy enemyPreset; //enemies just reference this for per type info

public void Initialize(ScriptableEnemy newPreset)
  enemyPreset = newPreset;

then you could just spawn variants via differing scriptableobjects and 1 prefab, like

EnemyBehaviour newEnemy = Instansiate(enemyPrefab);
newEnemy.Initialize(whateverEnemySoYouWant);

(super rough pseudo)

[red rover]

Ok I think I did a bad job communicating my goals.
What I initially envisioned in my head, just roughly, is being able to cache like a child GO of the ragdoll's armature indexed by name.
For example, when the left bicep becomes damaged enough for the limb to fall off, I would query a data structure with "bicep.L" (the name of the bone) then I would receive the corresponding bone in the ragdoll.
This would be useful because then I could go down the chain of bones and copy the joint components that connect the bones as well as the rigidbody. So I would have the bicep and the rest of the arm of the ragdoll because that part of the enemy was damaged enough.

I just tested it and I can't reference a child of a prefab from a scriptable object, so maybe this idea won't work?

Sorry if I just threw a big curve ball to this question 😅

[sour fulcrum]

what happens when you try?

[red rover]

Just doesn't allow the assignment in the inspector, like it doesn't turn blue on hover

[grand snow]

You would need a script in the prefab that then provides "easy" access to its children

You should be able to traverse the whole prefab without instantiating it however

A serialised reference can only be to the prefab asset itself so this is expected behaviour

[red rover]

Alright, so say on the 'Ragdoll' component that's on the root of the prefab, I could have a function to query by name to get the GOs I need?

[sour fulcrum]

are you sure?

this might just be a drag and drop issue

[spare mountain]

make a helper function on an empty or something that queries the whole single prefab reference and stores its children however you want

[sour fulcrum]

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "ScriptableEnemy", menuName = "ScriptableObjects/ScriptableEnemy", order = 1)]
public class ScriptableEnemy : ScriptableObject
{
    [field: SerializeField] public GameObject Target;


    [field: SerializeField] public List<Transform> Bones { get; private set; } = new List<Transform>();


    private void OnValidate()
    {
        if (Target == null) return;
        Bones = Target.GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>().ToList();
    }
}

[grand snow]

Im like 98% sure

[sour fulcrum]

seems serialized when i opened the so up in vs code? dunno how to test fully

[grand snow]

A prefab is an asset so we are referencing the asset

You would have to test if this is true or not with editor code

the children of the prefab are not sub assets thus i think this is not possible

[grand snow]

This would never work anyway as a prefab stage (when we open a prefab to edit) is not the same as the prefab asset

[red rover]

I see

[sour fulcrum]

  Target: {fileID: 3228641908602560799, guid: 35a3ad93f07f636488be5a93440abcec, type: 3}
  <Bones>k__BackingField:
  - {fileID: 7715963414774346853, guid: 35a3ad93f07f636488be5a93440abcec, type: 3}
  - {fileID: 8041979215210558262, guid: 35a3ad93f07f636488be5a93440abcec, type: 3}

the serialized data, dunno if this confirms or denies anything

[red rover]

Perhaps we should go with the empty in scene approach?

[sour fulcrum]

yeah lines up with the fileid's in the prefab

i think my thing works ngl

[grand snow]

Hmm interesting id have to try this out myself but I think this is not something a beginner should try

[grand snow]

A scene is not ideal for things you want to load and access at runtime is it? you would have to load in the scene to get stuff from it

[spare mountain]

not if you make it don'tdestroyonload

[red rover]

I don't really plan to have the gameplay be in multiple different scenes, and if so, it would just mean I need that empty with the helper component to exist in every scene where gameplay does occur?

[grand snow]

It has to have been loaded to do that and that doesnt help then does it

[spare mountain]

well unless you're trying to spawn stuff the first frame I don't see the issue

[grand snow]

If you simply want it in the scene for easy access then thats a different story

but again is a poor solution to just using a prefab and learning how to do it properly

its really not hard to make a script to provide easy access to other objects

[spare mountain]

fair, but what in coding isn't a poor solution to an otherwise trivial problem?

[red rover]

If we go with Batby's solution all we would need is to make it a dictionary with the keys being the names of the bones and then the values being the transforms of the bones with that name.

Then as long as that data is saved in the SO then the problem is pretty much solved. I can query the bone and get it's children from the transform reference.

[sour fulcrum]

correct but also unity is shit and doesn't serialize dicts so you would either need to find a solution to that or store them serialized as a little data type then make the dict at runtime or something

[grand snow]

name to name mapping isnt bad but if you keep doing find by names at runtime it may get a little slow

[spare mountain]

not if it's an occasional query

[grand snow]

And yea to do that it would need to be done in code manually as a static dictionary

[spare mountain]

you could do a god damn linear search with no performance hit if it's just once

[sour fulcrum]

or using ayellowpaper's serialized dictionary shoutout that guy

[grand snow]

yea thats why i said "keep doing find" ffs

[spare mountain]

I said occasional, that's within your parameters

[red rover]

Does OnValidate only run on serialized fields? If so maybe I could just populate the dict with a function that runs on an editor button press?

[sour fulcrum]

honestly just chuck this bad boy in https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/serialized-dictionary-243052

[red rover]

I don't see why not 👀

Man you guys are dedicated, thank you SO much to @timber tide @sour fulcrum @grand snow @spare mountain for this gracious help, I seriously appreciate it!

I'll try the serialized dict and I'll post here if it doesn't work.

[rough sluice]

I unable to know why unity is showing CS0246 error on newly created URP projects:

[solar hill]

That doesnt exactly look newly created... does this happen before you add any scenes or assets?

[rough sluice]

Yes, that error occurs while creating new project and ask me to enter with safe mode

[wintry quarry]

upgrade all of your packages to the latest version and delete your library folder

[rough sluice]

ok

[ashen trail]

how do I fix my rotation? it only works acording to world position

[grand snow]

you can transform to local rotation via the functions on Transform

Sorry im dumb. You would transform the direction, rotate the rotation with another (Quat * Quat) or use a matrix to transform the rotation

[ashen trail]

okay

[grand snow]

but what do you actually want to do? what should the rotation be in relation too?

Transforming the look rotation input is probably easiest

[ashen trail]

right now when i try to turn right for example it will, but I cant turn right again with that same control because im already at right

if im making any sense

[grand snow]

you are moving in world space and making the transform look in that direction. Is this third person?

[ashen trail]

yah

[grand snow]

then i dont understand what you mean by "turn right"

[ashen trail]

like if I try to turn my character in the right direction it turns but then i cant move in that direction again with "d", because I have already reached right

sorry I realise how confusing my wording in I'll try to think of something better to

[grand snow]

To me this isnt a concept you can have when you press a direction and move in that only

You would have to have A+D rotate the body and W+S move forward (but local to the body)

(similar to first person where W+S go forward/back locally and mouse X rotates the body)

[ashen trail]

k I think ima just do it so my mouse movement controls the rotation

[grand snow]

Ah yea 3d third person controls are a tad different. Do you want movement to be relative to the camera?

[ashen trail]

yah

[grand snow]

In the case where camera rotation around the player does not automatically rotate the player we need to make movement input relative to the camera transform (but flattened to the 2d movement plane)

[ashen trail]

okay I'm going to try to fix the turning

[grand snow]

If you want what i described above i can try to help with this

[errant breach]

Hi ! So i recently started facing a big glitch. I have no idea how to fix it despite looking on the internet (maybe idk how to type the right keywords). I hope it is quite common and so you'll be able to help me 🙏

[naive pawn]

that's a known bug with the rotation tool having way higher sensitivity than it should

i don't remember if it was fixed

try updating to the latest patch version

[errant breach]

Sadly, i can't. I tried watching on the net but did not found anything.
Is there know solution to fix that ? I'll be very grateful..

[slender nymph]

a solution to an editor bug would be to update to a version of the editor where that bug has been patched

[solar hill]

Why cant you update though?

[errant breach]

We are doing a JAM and it will end tommorow. Im very afraid that it would create more news bugs than anything to change version 😅

[naive pawn]

patch versions are generally mostly bugfixes

and if you have vcs (you should) then you can always safely revert

[finite flower]

Hey, I'm using Quaternion.RotateTowards to rotate my player's physical body (not the actual player object), is there a way to make that rotate independent of framerate?

[naive pawn]

use Time.deltaTime in the max rotation

[finite flower]

okay, that's what I figured, but I thought it was gonna be more complicated

I've really gotta stop thinking so hard about this stuff 🤦

[naive pawn]

don't assume stuff would be more complicated than it is

you're just creating fake problems for yourself to stress over lol

[finite flower]

I will never forget the 4 hours wasted just to realize it was 4 lines that could just be removed 🤦

[grand snow]

Its a thing you want to learn early on (how to make things framerate independent)
The examples may already show this too

[finite flower]

I know how, but for some reason I keep thinking it's more complicated

[grand snow]

thankfully not!

[ashen trail]

how do I make it so my character isn't hopping around?

[naive pawn]

use mp4 instead of mkv so it embeds in discord

[ashen trail]

ok give me a sec

i sent it

[naive pawn]

are you projecting your movement onto the xz plane/normal plane?

[ashen trail]

yah

[naive pawn]

might just be that the terrain isn't flat then

perhpas show code

[ashen trail]

ok

[naive pawn]

!code

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[ashen trail]

those are both of my scripts

well not the jump script but those are the movement ones

[naive pawn]

share it properly please

but i can immediately see 2 issues

[naive pawn]

• you are not doing this, and combined with the fact that you're tilting your entire character up/down, that means you're moving upwards/downwards when you move forwards/backwards as well. usually you would have the player only yaw, and just the camera would pitch
• you're moving the transform even though you have an rb. that will cause desyncs

[ashen trail]

okay ill use the rigidbody to move and try to not tilt the player just the cam

[mild lake]

Does anyone know of any good resources on making a tik-tak-toe win checking algo?

[astral flame]

What is a tic-tac-toe game?

[mild lake]

tic tac toe* i missspelled it

[mild lake]

if you get three symbols in a row, you win

[naive pawn]

check if any given row, column, or diagonal has all same elements

there's not much to it

[astral flame]

I already know which one it is, it's just that I'm impressed to see this typical game in Unity.

[mild lake]

The not much to it is the thing i'm struggling with

[naive pawn]

well you clearly know what to do

[mild lake]

The board expands so i can't reference a static pattern

[naive pawn]

which detail of the how are you stuck on

[mild lake]

It has to be dynamic based on the starting grid tile

[naive pawn]

ah. there it is

[astral flame]

In my case, I'm making a GMod game.

[naive pawn]

what's the win condition exactly?

[mild lake]

I plan to have a different win condition in this game, but i still need to check if three or more are in a row

My goal is to have a method with a specified length that will check in horizontal and vertical angles

[naive pawn]

ok then you can basically do the same thing kinda

go through each possible line, see if there's a sequence of n in a row

[mild lake]

I understand the theory, it's the execution i'm having trouble with

[naive pawn]

what part of it exactly

[mild lake]

The pathing for each node in the sequence. Checking just one angle from the center is easy, the first loop could be the node itself, then it moves one right, and goes down one, then repeates for x length. The issue is checking all vertical angles, then all horizontal angles in a way that isn't really dumb

[naive pawn]

you could also check for opposite sides of the tile that was just placed

[grand snow]

I was thinking this, it should be possible to check around the last modified tile

[feral wyvern]

hey i need to ask and learn something

[solar hill]

ask away

[mental terrace]

When creating a player character for a 2d game, is it best practice to use -scale.x or flipX of the sprite renderer? if it makes a difference, the player will probably have a weapon pivot child, which will have the weapon sprite and muzzle child

[slender nymph]

using the flipx property on the sprite renderer does not affect the actual object, so any child objects will not rotate with the sprite

modding discussions are not permitted here. ask in the game's modding community for help

[feral wyvern]

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know.

well.. I wanted to learn

to program

[solar hill]

Was i pinged

[mental terrace]

So then I'd imagine it would be best to use -scale.x? Only thing is I'm worried this would create issues when aiming the weapon or instantiating projectiles but no idea

[feral wyvern]

I was going to ask about code, to modify something, but they told me that modding wasn't allowed, sorry.

[slender nymph]

a more reliable alternative would be to rotate the object by 180 degrees instead, that prevents issues where some things may not work correctly with negative scale

[mental terrace]

ahh cheers I will give that a go

[frosty pecan]

I have recently picked up Netcode for Entities (and Unity, I’m relatively new), and am having some trouble. I’m making a dedicated server game, which I have had a lot of trouble finding guidance for. To get the connection running, I have a ConnectionManager Singleton MonoBehavior in the scene, that has this start function:

public class ConnectionManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string address = "127.0.0.1";
    public ushort port = 7979;
    
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    private void Start()
    {
        Application.runInBackground = true;
        
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        switch (EditorMultiplayerRolesManager.ActiveMultiplayerRoleMask)
        {
            case MultiplayerRoleFlags.Client:
                StartClient();
                break;
            case MultiplayerRoleFlags.Server:
                StartServer();
                break;
            case MultiplayerRoleFlags.ClientAndServer:
                StartHost();
                break;
            default:
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException();
        }
#else
#if DEDICATED_SERVER
        StartServer();
#else
        StartClient();
#endif
#endif
    }

For my testing, I’m just running it as host becuase it means I don’t have to have as many editors open.

Here’s my StartHost code:

private void StartHost()
    {
        var server = ClientServerBootstrap.CreateServerWorld("ServerWorld");
        var client = ClientServerBootstrap.CreateClientWorld("ClientWorld");
        
        SetupWorld(server);
        
        var serverDriver = server.EntityManager.CreateEntityQuery(typeof(NetworkStreamDriver)).GetSingletonRW<NetworkStreamDriver>();
        serverDriver.ValueRW.RequireConnectionApproval = true;
        serverDriver.ValueRW.Listen(NetworkEndpoint.AnyIpv4.WithPort(port));
        
        var clientDriver = client.EntityManager.CreateEntityQuery(typeof(NetworkStreamDriver)).GetSingletonRW<NetworkStreamDriver>();
        clientDriver.ValueRW.RequireConnectionApproval = true;
        clientDriver.ValueRW.Connect(client.EntityManager, NetworkEndpoint.LoopbackIpv4.WithPort(port));
    }

    private static void SetupWorld(World newDefault)
    {
        foreach (var world in World.All)
        {
            if (world.Flags == WorldFlags.Game)
            {
                world.Dispose();
                break;
            }
        }
        
        if (World.DefaultGameObjectInjectionWorld == null)
        {
            World.DefaultGameObjectInjectionWorld = newDefault;
        }
        
        SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("EntitiesSubscene", LoadSceneMode.Additive);
    }

This does successfully make a server and client and connect them, but there are issues around the baked entities. My Entities Subscene in the editor has a “Prefabs” object that has a singleton prefabs component that houses my prefabs so I can instantiate them. When I run the game, it’s gone, along with everything else in my entities subscene.

In some tutorials, I’ve seen people say that you should load the entire scene instead of just the entities subscene, but if I do that, my game gets stuck in an infinite loop reloading itself, because when the scene is reloaded, so is the connection manager, which runs the start function, and reloads the scene again.

Am I doing something dumb with how I load the subscene? Am I approaching the dedicated server system entirely wrong? I’m not quite sure how to move forward at the moment.

sorry for the wall of text lol

been troubleshooting this for some time now, havent made much progress, thought I'd ask for help

[silk night]

Before you look how to work with netcode you should look at how to work with the entities/dots stack, this all sounds like you are missing knowledge how to work with the base stack you want to build your network layer on

otherwise you might find more success with netcode for gameobjects

[frosty pecan]

I did my research on how DOTs works, I feel comfortable with actually working with it, my problem is with actually setting up the entities subscene when there are multiple worlds

[silk night]

Then you would know that anything not baked in the subscene will not transfer over to gameplay

[frosty pecan]

well it is baked in the subscene

it even gives me the baking preview

showing that the component is there

let me grab a screenshot real quick

[silk night]

then you should find it in the entities hierarchy

everything in the subscene wanders to the entities hierarchy, i think you can find it under "windows", don't have an ecs project to verify rn

(unless it has changed since I worked with the dots stack last time)

[frosty pecan]

I should've said, Ive already checked the entity heirarchy

that's how I confirmed that this was my issue

[silk night]

why is the entities subscene there twice?

[frosty pecan]

I was trying to make a characterspawner system that would spawn in characters for players who don't have one yet, it required Prefabs for update, but it never updated

query said it wasn't there

[frosty pecan]

that's because I use the sceneManager to load the entities subscene after starting the host

let me try removing that

every tutorial I followed told me to

[silk night]

i dont think you should load the subscene additively

i am not sure about netcode for entities, never worked with that, but that looks definitely wrong 😄

[frosty pecan]

I thought so too

let me see what happens here

from my understanding

what happens is that when you dont use the automatic connection (which only works for testing)

[silk night]

whats the "all=" infront?

[silk night]

can you just look for prefabs without the all if that brings up anything?

[frosty pecan]

you have to create the client and server worlds manually, and delete the default editor world, then load the subscene to reintroduce the baked objects to the worlds you created

[silk night]

also should be any= from my understanding

because not all your components contain "prefabs"

[frosty pecan]

it does this

[silk night]

Hmm at this point it looks like this issue is better posted in #1064581837055348857 or #1390346492019212368

there will be people in either that know about the specifics of both better

[frosty pecan]

I tried posting in networking but then I realized there had been no posts for 30 days and nobody responsed to my post for quite a while, so I took it as dead, took down the post, and put it here instead

plus, since I'm pretty new, I thought itd make sense to put this in a beginner channel

I'm not a new programmer but I'm new to unity and DOTs

[silk night]

huh? networking is about 1 post each day

[frosty pecan]

maybe discord is just lying to me then-

[silk night]

your sorting maybe

[frosty pecan]

I have it sorted by date posted

I swear, everything I touch breaks

I always have the weirdest issues with tech

and I decided to make it worse by swapping to linux :P

In that case, Ill put my post back into networking and give it a couple days instead of 6 hours

[silk night]

I'd try in dots, tertle is a godsent for any dots related questions, I just dont know if he has knowhow about networking for entities

[frosty pecan]

alright, Ill try that, tysm!

😭 discord is trying to tell me it's been even longer since a post has gone in #1062393052863414313

Ima just ignore that

[silk night]

yeah people mostly use the general discussion chat in there

but its still 1+ post a day 😄

[frosty pecan]

got it

Ill try my luck in there then

thanks man

[wet heath]

Hey, was just wondering if anyone knew of any big issues related to why an IDamageable script isn't working with trigger collisions in 6.3? I could give more info if needed

[silk night]

I dont think unity includes an idamageable by default, is that your own / third party code?

[wet heath]

Just some code off a tutorial. It's worked just fine in a previous version, that being 2021.3.14f1 but with the new parameters for layer overrides on colliders, I'm guessing it has to do with those

[silk night]

I mean we can't really help with code you copied from some tutorial when we dont know the code 😄

[wet heath]

Yeah I didn't wanna fill up the chat with shit unless prompted so hang on

[solar hill]

!code

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[wet heath]

using UnityEngine;
using System;

public interface IDamageable
{

    public void TakeDamage(float damage);

}```

[silk night]

I mean that script itself does nothing yet, if you just use OnTriggerEnter to call that function the behaviour most likely hasn't changed, you should recheck the tutorial steps on the new editor version

[wet heath]

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class DamageAll : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("References")]
    public LayerMask ignoreLayerMask;
    public string excludedTag = "Untagged";
    public GunData gunData;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collision)
    {
        collision.CompareTag("Player");
        {
            Debug.Log("Touched the thing");
        }
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag(excludedTag))
        {
            return;
        }
        if (((1 << collision.gameObject.layer) & ignoreLayerMask) != 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("Touched the thing");

            PlayerHealth playerHealthComponent = collision.GetComponent<PlayerHealth>();
            IDamageable destructibleObjectComponent = collision.GetComponent<IDamageable>();
            if (playerHealthComponent != null)
            {
                playerHealthComponent.TakeDamage(gunData.damage);
            }
            if (destructibleObjectComponent != null)
            {
                destructibleObjectComponent.TakeDamage(gunData.damage);
                Debug.Log("Target took damage.");
            }
        }
    }
}```

[silk night]

that is not even valid code 🤨

[wet heath]

Do you know of any good tutorials for the newest version by chance?

[wet heath]

Wdym

[silk night]

!ide

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[silk night]

then you will see whats wrong

[wet heath]

Wait what's wrong with it

[silk night]

tutorials are good for many editor versions, unity is pretty upwards compatible, details can change but rarely so big that you cannot find it afterwards

[silk night]

follow the ide configuration and you will immediately see what is wrong

i take it back, its actually valid and runs but there should be atleast a warning displayed 😄

[wet heath]

Oh

Wait, a warning for what where?

Man why you gotta make me think I'm going crazier than I already am, lul

[silk night]

Because you will not get help here unless you have your ide configured and can spot basic errors through that 😄

[wet heath]

I have visual studios

[silk night]

i might have been too early with this, my own ide doesnt warn me 😄

[teal viper]

The extra braces(scope) around the debug log are valid, but meaningless. Other than that I can't see any issue. Though I'm reading from mobile, so I might have missed something. 🤔

[silk night]

        collision.CompareTag("Player");
        {
            Debug.Log("Touched the thing");
        }

The compare tag should be in an if

otherwise it does absolutely nothing

[teal viper]

Aah, I see.

[wet heath]

Debug logs are there just to find a clue

[teal viper]

Well, technically it's still valid code.

From the compiler perspective

[silk night]

I thought it would give a warning cause it doesnt use a return value

turns out my own ide doesnt even mark this

[teal viper]

It probably should, you're right.

It's weird that it doesn't though.

[silk night]

it does if you mark comparetag as pure

ide thinks it has sideeffects

and shuts up

[wet heath]

All-in-all, this worked perfectly in a 2021 version I had, and using this in 6.3 has it not working

[teal viper]

Well, at the very least your debug log doesn't help debug the issue, but makes it more confusing.

[silk night]

if you do the tutorial step by step again it should work again

depending on the way you updated it might have broken your layers

[wet heath]

I'm confused by what you mean, because I can see it displaying the log in the console when the objects collide

[silk night]

thats why there is no warning 😄

[silk night]

your comparetag is not used in an if

i just runs without using the output

[wet heath]

I know, but that shouldn't matter for the overall problem

[silk night]

true, but will still confuse you with wrong log outputs

as i said, just follow the tutorial again and it should fix itself

[wet heath]

I wasn't confused by the debug logs

[silk night]

i didnt say that, i said they could/"will" confuse you down the line cause you are getting wrong logs

[wet heath]

Just need to figure out the main problem

[teal viper]

Because the logs mean that that something touched something. Regardless of it's player or not. If something else in your scene(aside from the object you're debugging) has this script, then you'll get false positives.

Another issue is that you have several logs printing the same thing which would prevent you from understanding which one of the logs actually prints.

[wet heath]

It doesn't matter. I've already verified that the IDamageable script simply isn't working in the newer version

[teal viper]

What classes implement that interface?

Because if that's all you have, of course it wouldn't work.

[wet heath]

A destructible object class and a few others

[teal viper]

Well, then you'll need to debug those. See if their TakeDamage method is being called at all, and whether the logic in them is correct.

[wet heath]

I have done so

[solar hill]

Can you show us how

[wet heath]

I'll investigate this further in my own time. I'm fairly certain it's the newer version

[solar hill]

Well im on the newest version and my IDamageable interface works fine lol

[teal viper]

Unity updates breaking user code sounds like a creepypasta.

[solar hill]

Every copy of Unity is personalized

[slate nebula]

I keep getting an error for object not set to an instance of an object. I get the component and have it attached in the inspector I'm trying to access the player class data through the game manager class and it's assuming the component is on the actual game manager

[solar hill]

Can you show us the code?

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[finite flower]

So, my Unity is really starting to get sluggish and has to load with even changing tabs. All I really have at this point is my character, so I'm not too sure why it's having such a hard time. Is there something that I can look at to fix this?

[solar hill]

What are your pc specs?

[finite flower]

really good 😅

lemme get specifics

but I got it to run hefty games, and it doesn't struggle too bad

[finite flower]

old now, but I've never had a problem

[solar hill]

Your task manager show anything when running the unity editor?

[finite flower]

yeah, unity is eating most of my memory

[broken pivot]

Hello

I'm new here and

I need a tool that can debug C# games

[finite flower]

restarting the editor seemed to help... for now at least

[wintry quarry]

If you mean built games made by other people, you can't. If you mean your own project, you can use the debugger in Rider or Visual Studio

[solar hill]

Could be something, could be nothing tbh

[slate nebula]

i dont have any code errors in my actual code it just happens when the game actually attempts to play

[solar hill]

If your gamemanager doesnt have a Player class on it, then getcomponent wont do anything.

You either need a direct serialized reference or to find your Player in the scene with tags

Wait

Why does it have the Player class on it?

Your Game manager and Player game objects both have the Player class?

[slate nebula]

i was trying to simplify it by routing everything through the gameManager it seemed like the correct thing to do it all worked perfectly until to much was going on so i refectored to simplify now i m lost lol

[solar hill]

Thats not really how that works

If you want to reference your Player class on your Player gameobject in the manager you need some direct reference to that instance of said class

You cant just add the Player class to the different game object as a component, thats a completely different instance

!learn

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[slate nebula]

so do i set the reference in the player class and the use that reference in the manager

[solar hill]

No you get a reference to the Player inside of the game manager

[slate nebula]

i have a reference to the player inside the game manager on lines 7 and 8

[sour fulcrum]

thats a reference to a player

like a empty plastic box with the label "Player" on it

you have to actually put something in the box

[solar hill]

Not even empty

They did assign it a value, the player script on the gamemanager object....

[teal viper]

Decompilation isn't an allowed topic here.

[broken pivot]

Oh

Why?

[teal viper]

Well, technically, it's illegal. Or I guess against tos. So of course unity wouldn't allow such a topic on the official server.

[solar hill]

The rules explain it pretty well, read them next time

[broken pivot]

Ok

[finite flower]

Is it bad practice to stack a bunch of different functions into single scripts?
Like having Pause Menu, Inventory Menu, and NPC Interaction Menus all be in the same script?

I'm just thinking of doing it this way because they all have a lot of crossover with things needed to be filled out (variables and such), so I thought it'd make it easier, but I worry that it'll start having some noticeable detriments to performance.

[frosty hound]

Performance, unlikely. Organizing and maintaining, definitely.

If they need to share functionalities like opening up, closing, etc., then you can either have them inherit from a base Menu class, or use interfaces to assign functions.

[ornate cosmos]

If these functions all require the same variables, consider setting them as global variables and placing them in a common centralized area, such as a completely independent class. Of course, this is not mandatory, as it depends on which method you think is easier for you to understand, as everyone's thinking logic is somewhat different

It is recommended to place functions with different functionalities in different locations, which is in line with the principle of division of responsibilities

The simplest way for different classes to call each other is to store references to other classes in their own fields for future use, but this is not conducive to decoupling. Decoupling means that the direct hard coded links between different classes are minimized as much as possible (which is often necessary and very effective). Hard coding means that any data or anything is written directly in the code file, for example, var time="12:30". In this example, the soft coded method is var time=Timestampystem. GetTime()

A decoupling solution that is beneficial for beginners to understand and is very effective is the event bus. The name is not important, but it roughly means that the links between different classes are implemented by informing the event bus as much as possible, and the event bus finds each other and calls each other's functions on its own. In this way, the chaotic links between different classes are simplified into any class being only linked to the event bus and not to any other class. This becomes a very simple star structure (star structure refers to any individual being only linked to the core, while the core is connected to any individual. If an individual wants to send a signal to another individual, they can only send the signal to the core first, and the core finds the target and passes the signal over)

[finite flower]

That makes sense. For the most part, why I feel the need to keep it all in one script is because it's all menu related, so a lot of the functions are overlapping. However, I worry I'm slipping out of just menu stuff.

Initially, it was just the pause menu, then I added the inventory, and because it used the same controls and objects and needed to check what each other was doing, it made sense. Now, I'm adding the interaction stuff, specifically interacting with NPC's and the Hacking mini-game, which I want to run off the same system, but they also have overlap with menu stuff. So, I was thinking it'd be better just to make a dedicated script for interactions, since I generally want them all to function the same.

[ornate cosmos]

The core implementation idea of event bus is: a dictionary with keys as class types and values as functions, used to store various target functions, and class types are used to distinguish signal types. Here, using class types is just one implementation method.
For example, when you want to get the time in the player script, the simple approach is: var time=Timestamp system. GetTime(), while the decoupling approach is: first write "EventBus. Set<IWannaGetTime>(OnGet Time)" in the class initialization function, which means you inform the event bus that you have registered a function with the class signal type IWannaGetTime. Then, when you need to get the time, write "EventBus. Send<IWannaGetTime>()", which means you notify the event bus that you want to know the time data, and the event bus itself will find the time system and let it send the time data, so your OnGet Time function It will be automatically called by the event bus after the time system calls' EventBus. Send<IWannaGetTime>(timeDataValue) '

[ornate cosmos]

As a learning project, you can simply divide the script based on responsibilities and not worry about anything else for now

[jagged ravine]

im trying to make an airsoft game for vr, if anyone can help pls dm me.

[sinful zinc]

how can i fix an object spiralling when being rotated. i understand its because the pivot isnt in the center, but with a pivot go at 0,0,0 and the mesh at 0, -0.49, 0, when rotating the pivot the child still spirals

is my best bet using RotateAround? i am aware that i can edit the meshes pos in blender but i cant open the mesh file not sure why

[rough granite]

!collab not the place

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[pulsar marsh]

Hello, Im have an RTX 5080 (blackwell) and I starting to thinks that I can't connect Ml agent to my gpu, is there any way to use ml agent with an rtx 5xxx gpu ???

[sour fulcrum]

#1202574086115557446

[eternal needle]

Child objects are going to rotate when the parent does, if you just want to rotate the child individually then do that instead
Otherwise yea you'll just need to fix this in blender somehow.

[ornate cosmos]

seems like ur confused about the transform things, the rotation of child objects is also affected by the parent object, and the rotation values are divided into global rotation and local rotation. As you said, the rotation axis can be determined during rotation. I suggest that you take a screenshot of the structure of your object and explain how you want it to rotate, so that we can help you determine how to rotate it correctly

[shrewd dock]

Anyone here faced this issue?

https://discussions.unity.com/t/serializefield-drag-and-drop-not-working/1709881

[silk night]

you are trying to drag them to a script instead of a script instance, setting default values for a script can only be done with prefabs (things that live in your project folder, instead of a scene)
if you put that script on an object in the scene you can drag scene objects into it

[shrewd dock]

Ohhhhh, yea got it.

[sinful zinc]

I cant send a screenshot right now but i simply want it to rotate how u would expect any new object to rotate. Like creating a sphere and rotating it. its position stays the same. When i do transform.Rotate(..) it spirals, presumably because of the -0.4 on the y axis

[naive pawn]

rotations come from the pivot, so if the thing isn't "centered" on the pivot, it's going to move

[sinful zinc]

how can i center the pivot

[naive pawn]

the pivot is the actual position of the object, position stuff relative to the pivot as desired

have the mesh be at 0,0,0 if it's already centered

[sinful zinc]

it i

is

[naive pawn]

you said it wasn't, previously

[sinful zinc]

so i have a pivot parent at 0,0,0 that gets rotated, and child mesh at 0, -0.4, 0

sorry for the confusion

[naive pawn]

yeah the child isn't at 0,0,0...

[sinful zinc]

so the only way to center the pivot is for the child to be at 0,0,0 too? is there no other wa

[ornate cosmos]

Do you mean that when you rotate the parent object, the child object will both rotate and move slightly due to some coordinate offset of the child object? I think you can directly rotate the sub object

[broken pivot]

AAA

Learn how to coding is hard or not?

I have 0% knowledge of coding and i wanna learn on my mobile

[sour fulcrum]

Hard

[broken pivot]

[chrome tide]

though it depends on what programming language you pick

but there are concepts that are shared globally and some of them might be hard to pick up

[broken pivot]

And it's seems i need to learn something before start learning coding

[broken pivot]

C#

[ornate cosmos]

learn code is ez

no need talent

[rich adder]

you learn a skill like anything else

[ornate cosmos]

I started to learn programming concepts when I was in elementary school

You just need to find a simple and high-quality instructional video to help you understand what programming is, and leave the rest to time

[rich adder]

programming concepts
what does that even mean really

[ornate cosmos]

As a beginner, I suggest that you have a basic understanding of C, but not learn it(just know there is a language called C thats already enough), because most languages are similar to C. Then you can choose a simple and easy to learn language to start learning, such as C#

[ornate cosmos]

it means programming concepts

LOL

[rich adder]

thats vague. like what?

absolutely no reason to get into C, just to learn C#

[ornate cosmos]

i mean dont learn C

translation just missunderstand my meaning at the begining

[chrome tide]

• have basic understanding
• "not learn"
  ?

[ornate cosmos]

okay

If you don't know the difference, just pretend I didn't say it and learn C#

[rich adder]

You need nothing from C in C# they are different languages

[ornate cosmos]

okay

[tender mirage]

If you wanna shoot yourself in the foot. Learn c first. If you wanna shoot yourself less often in the foot. Learn c++ but when you do shoot yourself in the foot with c++ it’ll hurt alot more.

[ornate cosmos]

then skip it

Let's not pick words anymore, just remember the last sentence I said, my friend. Learn -->> C#

🙂

[rich adder]

start from the Pins in this channel, take your time. Lots of practice and thats it

don't overthink it

You don't need such high concepts in the beginning, theory is good but you can learn along the way.
Lots of compsci graduates know the big concepts but have 0 skills in coding anything worth anything. thats a fact

[ornate cosmos]

from phone, i think u will need a app to learn the basic way to code

[naive pawn]

gonna get out ol' reliable...

[ornate cosmos]

There are some programming software for teaching purposes on mobile phones, but they have very few functions and only provide basic functions. Moreover, because mobile phones are mostly based on Android or Apple environments, rather than real Windows environments, some effects may be different, and the final output of the compiler may also be different

[rich adder]

facts, Logic is probably the main thing you need. That applies across anything besides programming tbh

problem solving and all

[naive pawn]

this is going to suck tbh. coding requires a lot of symbols that a mobile keyboard just isn't great for. there'll be some editors that try to make it easier, but it's not gonna equal a proper keyboard (or even an ipad keyboard with easier access to symbols)

[cunning bramble]

Hey guys
So i have bin struggling for like a few weeks making an inventory system with Drag And Drop

I have an working inventory but only the different interactions like adding an item removing one stuff like that
Also i have an Drag and Drop Code but it is hard to connect these two mechanics any ideas or Youtube Tutorials?

[ornate cosmos]

yep, thats wut i mean before, but if think they are diff, its fine, then skip it, go to lean C#

[naive pawn]

if your goal is to learn c#, why would you learn c just for that purpose

[ornate cosmos]

i didnt say that, well, skip it

[naive pawn]

learning c can be useful. but there are more effective ways to learn

[rich adder]

any ideas or Youtube Tutorials?
start small and build your system up, you might be jumping into something way over your skill level

[ornate cosmos]

u missunderstand wut i tried to say

[naive pawn]

i mean, you did say this

I suggest that you have a basic understanding of C

[ornate cosmos]

and if u didnt get it, its fine, just skip it

[hexed terrace]

tbf .. that != learn

it's still wrong, but it doesn't mean that

[ornate cosmos]

well, i said "learn C#"

[naive pawn]

sure, but you don't need that either

[broken pivot]

What about w3school website.. is it good for learning?

[sour fulcrum]

sure

[naive pawn]

very low skill floor, very low skill ceiling. there are better resources

[rich adder]

its okay.. but the microsoft site is better tbh

[naive pawn]

like the ones in the pinned message, as you've been directed to

[rich adder]

check pins 📌

[sour fulcrum]

but also it really is like a whole new language. it's going to be tough no matter what

[cunning bramble]

I already have and i mean it is way out off my Skill level bc i never done something like that i have no Clue but i think i found an good Tutorial :D
I could show you my Code that i have rn for just the Inventory and you could rate and juge it if you would like

[rich adder]

i found an good Tutorial 😄

this is a mistake

[cunning bramble]

why?

[rich adder]

you're essentially copying someone elses system

when you build it up yourself you will know exactly how it works

[hexed terrace]

that can be a good way to learn for some people..

[ornate cosmos]

If you must make me 100% clear about what my previous sentence meant, then my basic idea is that different languages have different ecosystems, environments, grammar, and logic. But most languages share some similarities, perhaps in terms of ecology, environment, grammar, and logic. For example, both Java and C # languages can write desktop programs, and their ecosystems have certain intersections. The syntax of Java and C # is also very similar, and their logic is also very similar. They are both object-oriented OOP languages

[rich adder]

true but you could be learning a shitty way of doing it, how does a beginner know its "good"

check multiple different ones then create something of your own from there

[cunning bramble]

Yea but i am not new new in coding i understand whats happening but i have no clue how to connect those mechanics bc i never done that before

[ornate cosmos]

And as we all know, languages like Java, C++, and C # all contain concepts of variables, objects, classes, and polymorphism

[naive pawn]

i mean following a tutorial just to get your bearings isn't bad tbh.

following a tutorial blindly as gospel, that would be bad

[ornate cosmos]

C language appeared very early and has undergone many years of development. Many languages have also borrowed different parts from C language and upgraded, improved or completely different from it

[rich adder]

we splitting atoms lol all i said it check multiple sources of how they do it and build it up yourself

[ornate cosmos]

The most basic functions or concepts of C language include variables, functions, pointers, and header files

[rich adder]

this way you know how to "connect everything" cause you built it

[hexed terrace]

@maxy I think you can stop now bud

[ornate cosmos]

Variables and functions exist in many languages, so as a beginner, it is important to first understand what C language is and its basic concepts, such as variables and functions. This is a good starting point for teaching, but it does not mean learning C language. Learning C language means a deeper understanding of its operating mechanism, library files and functions, as well as various miscellaneous features or hidden techniques

[naive pawn]

@ornate cosmos what are you trying to prove here man

[rich adder]

but c# you dont have to deal with pointers..

you can but you don't have to..

[naive pawn]

you do not need to learn C variables and functions. they work differently from C# variables and functions.

[ornate cosmos]

Usually, it only takes 5-10 minutes to introduce C language, followed by a brief introduction. It is understandable for beginners to understand C language, as it allows them to learn about the differences and design ideas of different languages anytime and anywhere

[chrome tide]

stop the c rant

[naive pawn]

it is a detour that is wholly unnecessary.

[ornate cosmos]

If you still don't understand what I mean, then as I have mentioned many times before: Skip it

[naive pawn]

we're trying to stop you from giving bad advice here tbh

[rich adder]

bro I was working in a kitchen pre-2018 .. I did not learn C before learning c# to use unity..

[ornate cosmos]

nice

then skip it

[fickle plume]

@ornate cosmos Stop with chatGPT dump already

[rich adder]

so stop suggesting it lol

[ornate cosmos]

i already said it, u didnt listen it

[rich adder]

yeah this sounds like a bot dump

[ornate cosmos]

that is totally wut i type

[naive pawn]

we're listening and we think you're wrong

[ornate cosmos]

if u say so 🙂

[fickle plume]

Riiight

Next time I will start muting

[ornate cosmos]

u said i mean learn C language, but i never say learn it, if thats how u understand it, thats ur problem, not mine

just fell into the self verification trap again, skip wut i said

[rich adder]

brother, just stop.

[naive pawn]

alright then, let me be clear

it is important to first understand what C language is and its basic concepts
taking time to understand C concepts is unnecessary to learn c#, bordering on harmful.

you're deluding yourself into thinking we don't understand what you're saying.

[ornate cosmos]

yes, C # has a GC system and other advanced features to help developers develop programs. Basically, you don't have to personally touch pointers, but you can also write some code about it through unsafe. This part is what comes later

[ornate cosmos]

i already clear the meaning wut i said, so yeah

[naive pawn]

no-one was in doubt

[rich adder]

this is a unity discord. So the topic is unity, you need none of this to use Unity. Period.

[chrome tide]

but why are you forcefully keeping this conversation ??

[ornate cosmos]

someone mentioned learning programming earlier, so I brought up this point without any problem

[naive pawn]

except that it's unnecessary and misleading...

[ornate cosmos]

i didnt, i already lets skip

someone just always missunderstand my meaning

[chrome tide]

then skip and stop the rant bruh

[naive pawn]

no-one has misunderstood

[ornate cosmos]

thats annoying

[naive pawn]

the irony

[ornate cosmos]

i skiped, we can keep saying it if still misinterpret my meaning

[hexed terrace]

Maybe if everyone stopped replying to Maxy on this topic, it could stop.

[naive pawn]

lmfao at the fact they also blocked me, so apparently they're just not interested in good teaching practices lmao

[ornate cosmos]

this kind of situations often experiences such incidents LOL

[fickle plume]

!warn 1203931102432206868 Enough with the off-topic. Stop spamming the channel.

[radiant void]

@maxy_0102 warned

Reason: Enough with the off-topic. Stop spamming the channel.
Duration: Permanent

[stone oar]

hey, where can i ask a question about shader graph?

[naive pawn]

that would be #1390346776804069396

[stone oar]

thank you

[versed harness]

I'm looking for some free 3D RPG weapon asset packs that include multiple types (swords, axes, bows, etc.). Does anyone have any recommendations from the Asset Store or itch.io?

[naive pawn]

this is a code channel, and couldn't you just search around for stuff that fits your needs

[versed harness]

oh okay

sorry

[tender mirage]

Curious, are IEnumerables a type of interface?

[naive pawn]

you could look this up, docs will say
by convention, interfaces start with I

[tender mirage]

Good idea.

[broken pivot]

Ok i watched the tutorial on pins

And got new things

Frustration

And one last thing

Do you recommend watching the tutorials and then try to test what your learned on the PC

Or test while learning?

And what the first thing that you all recommend trying.. making your own test game? Or try modding games?

[fickle plume]

Start with Junior Programmer Pathway, or Essentials even if you new to the engine. It mixes practical work with examples.

[broken pivot]

I'm not only new at engines

I'm new at the entire programing

So what the first language i need to learn to make the rest easy to learn

Also if i will only use my mobile

Should i surrender ?

[midnight tree]

I'm having withdrawal symptoms because I can't post a gif on it...

[rich adder]

C# is pretty easy.
You're not gonna learn this stuff overnight, sometimes it takes years of learning. Lower your expectations a bit.
You can use mobile for learning if you at least use a bluetooth keyboard or something it will be easier, now days they have working online compilers you can use to practice

[broken pivot]

Years!!!

GG for me

[fickle plume]

You should start with https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials
It will guide you through the very basics and into programming.
A bonus to have done some pure C# course first though.

[rich adder]

what did you expect exactly ?
Maybe a few months you can get a basic app going but it depends on how much dedication / time you have

[broken pivot]

I barely speak native English
And in this case.. anything take years with people take centuries with me... Specially if it was full of math

[rich adder]

most of the math you need to know is basic elementary school stuff

the computer & language is doing the heavy lifting for you

[broken pivot]

Thank god

[fickle plume]

Courses have videos and fully written as well (usually AFAIK), with code examples attached, so everything is translatable.

[hexed terrace]

You can't run Unity on mobile.

[broken pivot]

I know

[rich adder]

they want to learn programming first which you can do on mobile

sites like w3schools have online console / compiler you can use to run code

[hexed terrace]

Just making sure, because.. ye know..

[rich adder]

ya get a used laptop or build something later if you wanna run unity

[midnight tree]

I didn't mean it, just a joke
I already 2+ years with Unity :)

[fickle plume]

Sorry, didn't see I replied to the wrong message. It was meant for Rawad55.

[broken pivot]

Yeah i saw multiple YouTube videos

Most of them agree on one thing

Python is beginner friendly

[naive pawn]

the hardest part of learning to code is the Logic, problem-solving aspect. choosing a more "beginner friendly" language doesn't change that

[rough granite]

Dare i say fuck python, ugly language

[heavy mortar]

yeah python is one of the ugliest

thats why i love C#

[ornate cosmos]

Based on the fact that you can only use your mobile phone, learning Python may be more practical for you. Of course, if you can find some good C # teaching software on your phone, then you can learn C#

The learning difficulty of Python and C # is relatively low, at least lower than that of C++

Python may not make you give up easily, because you only need to start learning directly from the form of print ("hello"), while in C #, you need to try to remember the class first, because the default template of C # has a class, followed by a static main method entrance. However, the new version of C # also supports top-level syntax support (perhaps not called that name, but it is probably like Python, where you can directly write code that can only be written in methods). In addition, methods and functions are similar. Functions in a class are called methods or behaviors, and their translations may be different

[rich adder]

this dude posts canned AI responses

[frail hawk]

or maybe he is an ai bot

we will never know

[grand snow]

"translations" yea smells like ai

[solar hill]

you can litterally ctrl-f their previous messages and see the striking difference in how its written lol

[rich adder]

don't bother it will post more canned responses and block you like they did some of us

In addition, methods and functions are similar.
dead giveaway this is ai as well

[solar hill]

methods and functions

lol

[grand snow]

C# does call them methods but function is a valid name too

[rich adder]

the "in addition, " part i meant

[ornate cosmos]

if non-native speakers are not allowed to use the translator

[solar hill]

Except its obviously not just translated but ai rewritten or written entirely by ai

[rich adder]

brother you type different than how you posting canned responses

[ornate cosmos]

and these are simple things

[solar hill]

im sure they are, is that why you used AI to write them out

[rich adder]

punctuation for one

[ornate cosmos]

okay

[hexed terrace]

can we not ..

[ornate cosmos]

i understand why u say that now

[solar hill]

Im sure you understand a lot

[ornate cosmos]

just in case, cuz in my here people always say these names

[queen adder]

top-level syntax is horrid

[versed fjord]

The internet is full of generated ai content. You cannot trust it anymore that its humanly written

[queen adder]

oh nvm

i hadn't realized

[ornate cosmos]

lol u actually believe its AI not translation

crazy

[ornate cosmos]

yep i dont use it, just metion it if wanna use it

[solar hill]

its very obviously translated with Ai

[fickle plume]

!warn 1203931102432206868 This is your last warning to stop spamming AI responses and off-topic for this channel in general. Delivering you via warnings since you are blocking moderation messages.

[radiant void]

@maxy_0102 warned

Reason: This is your last warning to stop spamming AI responses and off-topic for this channel in general. Delivering you via warnings since you are blocking moderation messages.
Duration: Permanent

[ornate cosmos]

classic white discrimination

its not my fault u guys ignorant

[solar hill]

[fickle plume]

@ornate cosmos You were told not spam off-topic. You blocked a moderator and continuing ignoring moderation, great move.
Next off-topic message from you and you are off the server.

[sharp kindle]

I wanted to write transform but it modified that automatically to TransformBlock and added that using, currently in vs code using C# for Unity Dev

[naive pawn]

if unity's transform/Transform don't show up in the autocomplete, then sounds like you have not configured your ide.

!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

[sharp kindle]

yeah i wrote transform but when i clicked spacebar it converted into TransformBlock

[main lantern]

3ede

[sharp kindle]

what?

[naive pawn]

you may want to consider disabling "Accept Suggestion On Commit Character"

[viral prism]

I made this video to show my friend so sorry if it’s not the most appropriate but i could really use some help figuring out why this is happening

I check the colliders and everything and nothing is touching the cube I have no clue what the issue is or why it’s only happening here

I put the ground layer on that red thing in the back and it’s doing the same thing 😞 I think my jumpy jump is cooked

[solar hill]

we would actually need to see your code

to help you

[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.

[slender nymph]

also "my jumpy jump is cooked" is not a good description of whatever it is you're trying to show in the video

[viral prism]

My bad

https://paste.ofcode.org/324KG4w6hanJ96HXHSZWJhs

Essentially I’m trying to fix my jump, for some reason at a very random spot around the cube it bounces like x10 the normal amount

The jump feels bad already and I want to fix that, but right now I’m just trying to figure out why it’s doing this and how to stop it

[slender nymph]

use the physics debugger to view your raycast, or draw it in the scene to view it so you can make sure it is actually at the position and direction you expect it to be

[viral prism]

Oh how do I use the physics debugger!

True

☹️ da line wrong

😞 why da line wrong

Let me see something

[slender nymph]

well it's going from transform.position which means that whatever object you have the component attached to is not at the position you expect it to be. or the mesh is positioned incorrectly. make sure your tool handle is set to Pivot rather than Center so you can see the actual position of an object when you have it selected
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/PositioningGameObjects.html#:~:text=Gizmo handle position toggles

[viral prism]

Thank you! This has been very informative

Going to work on fixing it now

Ok thank you again I fixed it and now all is well (except for the slow falling stuff but I’ll fix that later)

[solar hill]

the slow falling might be caused by unity's default gravity being low

[viral prism]

Would I have too increase the mass in order to fix that or is there a different way for me to go about it?

[verbal dome]

No, you'd either make your objects smaller or make the Physics.gravity greater

Drag/damping can also affect this

[slender nymph]

i did see in the original code that was shared that you are setting the linear drag to something specific when grounded and, presumably, the intention was to set it to something else while not grounded but you never actually do that in the code

[viral prism]

Oh dang your right I forgot to add that

If I’m being real I only added that cause I saw it in a tutorial and it made my character not slide off the map when I moved

[viral prism]

I’ll look up more on making the gravity greater since i kinda like the scale of everything so far

[viral prism]

Ok thank you all! I need to adjust a few multipliers now for the speed of when moving while in the air but the speed at which the thing comes back down is all fixed!

Appreciate it yall!

[stoic sage]

Can anyone explain to me how to make a script interact with another script

Tutorials explain it too overcomplicated

[frail hawk]

you can access the public fields and methods by simply creating a reference

[stoic sage]

But like
What does it mean to create a reference

[wintry quarry]

• get a reference to an instance of the other script you want to interact with
• call its public methods, properties or access its public variables with the . operator

[frail hawk]

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

[solar hill]

you basically introduce one script to another

[frail hawk]

use the SerializeField class for example

[solar hill]

you show one script the other exists

[wintry quarry]

There are many ways to get a reference. What does it MEAN though? It's just a way to know which particular object you're interacting with. For example if I said "go in the house", you would need to know the address of the house I'm talking about to be able to go into one, right? A reference is like the address of the particular house.

[solar hill]

i think you said it better

[stoic sage]

So i just type the same variable the public script has?

It wont take it as its own variable hopefully?

[solar hill]

no

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[grand snow]

^ go read that 📖

but its clear day 1 topics of programming were skipped

[stoic sage]

Man i have alot of terms to learn

[grand snow]

If its still confusing then id recommend learning some basic c# outside of unity

[hexed terrace]

SerializeField as an 'attribute' not a class

[naive pawn]

-# i mean, it is also a class, used as an attribute, no?

[stoic sage]

I thought serializefield is just a way to change private variables in the editor instead of in the script the entire time

[grand snow]

The attribute tells unity that a private field should be serialized (public ones are by default)

[slender nymph]

yes, serializefield allows private variables to be assigned in the inspector. ideally that is how you provide the reference to the object you are attempting to reference

[grand snow]

*other ways are available ™ *

[stoic sage]

Oh do i just basically call out the name of the script and name it like a variable

(Scriptname) (variablename);

[grand snow]

go learn properly

[stoic sage]

Thats atleast what i understood

[naive pawn]

it's the Type and then the name, sure

but yes go learn properly.

[grand snow]

int a = 5;
int b = 7;
int c = a + b;

string foo = "BAR";
Debug.Log(foo.ToLower());

[rich adder]

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

public class MyCoolScript <--- MyCoolScript is now a Type, the Type class

[rough granite]

Interestingly enough my teacher never taught me about references as he only ever used 1 class & more often than not just the main method when teaching

Had to learn it myself through just understanding

[grand snow]

You can certainly learn that all in Main() but when you go to learn OO you do need to make some classes

[rough granite]

Yeah you do learn that each thing refers to something else but i more meant how to juggle them between each other though i guess you'd need multiple classes to do this

[grand snow]

Yea you need to make a class to learn you can then use fields and functions on a class/struct instance

[boreal ingot]

wow i have a crazy math thing that is breaking my head right now. i have this beam of light that is aiming with a rotation of X -22 y 0 and z 30. and i want it to move in a similar way to simulate a disco light. but i can t find the mathematical way to do it. every attempt i make either with my logic or with copilot it just starts moving way off. here are 2 pictures so you get some persective on what line i want to move this on. any ideas?(think of the drawn line as drawn on the board!!!)

[rough granite]

crazy thought, couldn't you just use an empty GameObject and use transform.LookAt to look at this object and just have the objects move across the floor instead of worrying about rotations?

[boreal ingot]

wdym.

like a circle and make the cylinder follow it?

[rough granite]

you have new gameobject you give it some code to move around in straight lines within the bounds of the floor

you then take the light and you in update tell it to transform.LookAt that gameobject that's on the ground

[boreal ingot]

i didn t know i can do that wow you just saved me a lot of time i had my trigonometry book ready !

[rough granite]

here example of what i mentioned (ps i know i'm i shouldn't just give answers so sorry ~_~)

[rough granite]

can be written in ~5 lines of code

[south depot]

I wanted to ask if there are any people who can help me, have a problem with c# script create..

[naive pawn]

!ask

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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

[slender nymph]

!ask

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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

[slender nymph]

Oop slightly too slow lol

[rich adder]

double kill was about to be a triple

[solar hill]

bots still dont have a cooldown huh

[naive pawn]

yeah... maybe fogsight forgot about it lmao #1455286033255104552 message

[south depot]

I want to insert a script in general but when I go to scrikping and type "empty c# script" it tells me I have to download an app that supports C#, so I downloaded but Mac doesn't support this app joar have no idea what to do but it's also the first time.

[naive pawn]

the options for mac are vscode and rider

vs for mac was killed off quite a while ago

[midnight tree]

As a macbook user I recommend VScode

[rocky wyvern]

is there any method to render a ui go with images on top of others without changing hierarchy order

I mean I could child canvas but surely there's an easier way?

[wild cove]

I have a problem with my script where it won't allow me to use Collider.gameObject.CompareTag("Player"), but I need to somehow make sure the method in the if statement only runs if the collider is only the player, so that only the player can collect things for a score. Help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[rich adder]

Collider is the type

you should probably brush up a bit on basic c#

[wild cove]

wait, so the collider is type of function?

I'm a little confused, im very new to coding

[ivory bobcat]

Use the variable name; not type.

[rich adder]

no..Collider is a type the function has as a parameter

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_method_parameters.php

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider.OnTriggerEnter.html

[ivory bobcat]

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
//Relative to methods:
Accessor return-type method-name(variable-type variable-name)```

[rich adder]

I don't get it how you have it correct for the Previous tag check & Destroy but not the function you're trying to use it on

[wild cove]

Well, I thought I could use collider just like other

So a paramater is a variable for one of the colliders or things involved in the method

[rich adder]

then you want to only run this on the player that has this script ?

[rocky wyvern]

The word collider there is just telling you what the variable other is

it's a type eg. a class, enum, struct etc.

just how you declare a variable like public string _myString the word string there is the type

saying that the variable called _myString is a string

[wild cove]

Ohhhh

I get it now

[rich adder]

are you saying this collection script should only run if its a player ? do other objects have this script

[wild cove]

No other objects have the script

which is probably bad

but I need it for the score

Because if I dont have the same script for each I dont know how I would reset the score variable when the monster or enemy gets to the player

[rich adder]

yes but only player collects the coins, why does it need to check a Player tag

[rich adder]

if this is on the player do another tag check, if its enemy then reset the score or whatever

[wild cove]

Im trying to make it check a player tag so when the enemy destroys the coin it doesnt add to thte score

[rich adder]

if enemies dont have this script how would they even destroy anything in the first place

[wild cove]

Enemies do have this script

[rich adder]

why do enemies have a Gold* collection script

[wild cove]

I used improper grammar here

I meant "no, other objects have the script"

[rich adder]

enemies collect gold also ?

[wild cove]

Because I need them to reset the score variable and I don't know how to make it so a different enemy can reset the score without being in the same script with the score variable

No, they destroy it

or, i want them to

[rich adder]

so enemy touches gold and destroys it then resets player score?

[wild cove]

So the enemy touches gold and destroys it the gold just gets destroyed, if the enemy touches the player then they get destroyed

[solar hill]

You can just use a public method for this

[rich adder]

make a separate script for enemies that does that

[wild cove]

Oh, I didn't know you could reference other variables in other scripts

[rich adder]

it will simplify everything instead

[wild cove]

I have a lot to learn

[solar hill]

That... thats a pretty big part of it yes

[wild cove]

I will see if this fixes my problem, thank you.

[solar hill]

I think you need to brush up on some c# basics imo

youre lacking some essential knowledge here

[wild cove]

I know, I use those turtorials on the unity website for code beginners, and I've just been also doing projects that aren't completely guided by them because it helps me learn a lot that I don't realize through all of the guided turtorials.

[rocky wyvern]

try to fully understand every word you type if you're ever doing something you don't understand

before you can learn how to do anything you need to learn the language

and what the words mean

that would be like trying to write a novel without knowing the english language if that makes sense

[wild cove]

Yeah, ill do that, thanks for the advice.

[rough granite]

must've dont something wrong in your code, as i just tested this. in both orientations and well i got a possible result of negative for each

guess this looks easier to read

[timber tide]

Assuming rotation is z axis right

[rough granite]

Rotation is whatever axis the function Vector2.SignedAngle outputs (technically it outputs as just a float and not an actual axis so its the axis the user designates it)

But i would think so

[ivory bobcat]

Ah, 2d. An image of your data used and result might help to clarify misunderstandings.

[somber escarp]

I’m a beginner in game design and can’t get any textures to look pleasing does anyone know if there’s code I can implement or simply just settings I’m missing?

[finite flower]

This looks like mostly a lighting issue to me 🤔

[somber escarp]

I tried messing with scene lighting but it really emphases the wierd looking materials

To me it looks like js another shitty unity game scene and idk what I can change

The textures don’t really show In that ill send another Hol up

[finite flower]

It's kinda hard for me to tell with just one screenshot with poor (quality, not your ability) lighting

I think it has charm, but idk if you're going for that

[somber escarp]

Yea I’ll try that o send some more

[sour fulcrum]

(this stuff isn't code related)

[finite flower]

Is there a way to use a specific collider when calling OnCollisionEnter?

[somber escarp]

Shader code😤

[sour fulcrum]

collision layer matrix, but people tend to filter the results themselves by either checking tag or ideally checking component

[finite flower]

Batby is right that this should prolly go in #💥┃post-processing or #1390346776804069396, but as a final note, this looks like the textures are extremely low resolution. Have you made sure all the settings are correct after importing them?

[somber escarp]

Like I said I’m new to straying from actual code to visuals and have no clue on settings or anything of that nature

[solar hill]

Youre a beginner and youre making a game inspired by metro exodus?

[somber escarp]

A beginner to visuals yes code no

[finite flower]

would it be better to use a SphereCast over a Trigger Collider if I'm trying to detect for certain objects within a radius of the player?

[sour fulcrum]

better is always a weird term but a sphere cast is probably easier/simpler

[finite flower]

okay, I'm just trying to consider how fast these things are gonna pile up and how much can the game take before it starts to get sluggish 😅

[slender nymph]

also consider an overlap sphere rather than a spherecast if you just need to check a radius, no need to cast the sphere in a direction

[finite flower]

helpful, okay. The spherecast was just my first thought because I'm already using that for ground detection and wall detection.

[south depot]

thankkkss:)

[wild cove]

Hi, sorry to come back after a long time and I doubt your gonna see this, but I had to do a bunch of stuff and didn't finish fixing that problem, now that I did what you told me to do I put all the script into two different scripts, one for the drill and one for the player. But now it says there's an error, is there a way to tell the computer which public variable I'm looking for, I don't understand how to make the computer find it.

If someone else could help and knows how to fix this it would be much appreciated too.

[wintry quarry]

You're pretty clearly trying to use a variable that doesn't exist

[wild cove]

Yeah, this is my fault because I didnt provide enough context, but I have two scripts and I'm trying to access the score variable from another script.

[wintry quarry]

Then you'd need to be accessing it from a reference to an instance of the other script

You should look at code examples and instructions on how to do this

[wild cove]

I looked it up and watched a video on it and I think I understand it now.

I wasn't completely sure what my problem was in the first place

thank you.

[elfin pike]

have issue accessing Camera.main. Have 2 scenes.

1. at start loaded with camera (tag: MainCamera)
2. script which looks for Camera.main
   For some reason script cant find camera

[wintry quarry]

What issue is happening?

If Camera.main is returning null, it means there is no active camera with the MainCamera tag when you called it.

[elfin pike]

issue is that active camera has Camera.main tag

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like you are mistaken about that

Feel free to show your code, whatever errors you may be receiving, and your scene setup if you want further help

[elfin pike]

you want me to show code? okay, CameraTransform = Camera.main.Transform

[sour fulcrum]

show the camera in inspector too

actually more specifically chuck a Debug.Break(); after the line above (unless you have pause on error enabled)

and then show the camera

[wintry quarry]

The single line of code with no context isn't really very helpful, no

[elfin pike]

all code is maybe 5 lines and most of it is accesing CameraTransform

[wintry quarry]

Ok so why are you so resistant to share it? I explained above all of the things that I'd need to see if you want me to help you figure this out

You have a multiple scenes game though, so it's highly unlikely there are only 5 lines of code involved

[elfin pike]

found solution, thanks

[midnight plover]

That line already was the error my guess 😄

[finite flower]

It's late, so I'm losing my mind a bit.
For some reason, this isn't working when I have the second line of transformations.
It works perfectly without it, but I need it to be clamped between -90 and 90.

[ivory bobcat]

The errors wasn't provided but likely so as the transform property should be lowercase

[ivory bobcat]

rotation property returns a quaternion; not what you're expecting. You're likely expecting the euler value which can be acquired from the euler angles property.

[elfin pike]

Another camera was made by accident

[ivory bobcat]

But it isn't recommended to work with the interpreted value as it's merely one of the many angles the stored quaternion can be

[wintry quarry]

transform.rotation.z or y or x are never ever something you should be touching

[ivory bobcat]

It's recommended to store your own vector 3 variable (the representation of your angle) and to modify/clamp that variable. You'd then apply that to your rotation

[finite flower]

so modify a vector3 value and then put that inside Quaternion.Euler()?

[ivory bobcat]

Well.. normally folks would have a Vector3 field and apply all arithmetic/changes to that field (variable). Then do what you've suggested.

[finite flower]

yeah that

it's like 3am, I'm just doing some finally cleaning up before I crash 😅

[midnight plover]

and .Transform did not give you an issue? interesting

[finite flower]

okay, I must be dumb because this is eluding me 😭

[timber tide]

what are you trying to do with the secondary rotation set

just clamp the rotate towards so it doesn't rotate on a specific axis?

[finite flower]

I'm trying to clamp the rotation on the Y axis between -90 and 90

I tried swapping them out for Vector3, basically just copying the documentation and it still doesn't work

[naive pawn]

Vector3.RotateTowards works on direction vectors, not euler angles

[timber tide]

I would just rotate using Quaternion.AngleAxis

using some slerp

[finite flower]

this is literally copy paste from the documentation, and it's even the use case I'm wanting it for 😭

[naive pawn]

that doesn't really matter when you're using it wrong

[finite flower]

Using it wrong by doing exactly what the documentation says?

[timber tide]

oh yeah why you change to vector3 method

[naive pawn]

if i say i have an angle of 2, that could be in radians or degrees
if you had one value in radians, and another value in degrees, you would not be able to directly use them together, even though they're both floats

same thing here. you have a Vector3 direction, but that can be represented in eulerangles or as a direction vector.
RotateTowards expects and returns a direction vector, lookVector is a direction vector, but then you treat the result newVector as euler angles

you aren't calling the method incorrectly, you're utilizing the method incorrectly.

it's like you're trying to get the opposite angle of some input angle by adding 180. that doesn't work if the input is in radians

[finite flower]

okay, that's a lot of words. I was using Euler instead of LookRotation.

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform-eulerAngles.html
You had the idea with the first but you are using the transform quaternion values

[naive pawn]

your clamp doesn't work.

[finite flower]

I know

[timber tide]

problem is I feel like you run into gimbal with what you're doing

[naive pawn]

the kinds of issues you hit when not understanding units properly, huh

[finite flower]

it's returning the difference between the variables, not the raw rotation

[naive pawn]

yeah this isn't for input is it