💻┃code-beginner

[subtle mulch]

second, to check why, you have to debug

i would start with checking the conditions for the IFs

[granite elk]

isnt it the same thing as before?

i mean, the && does the same thing, no?

[subtle mulch]

not really

because, after the first time it runs, grabJoint will then not be null

so the if will go to the else statement

and start applying force to the object that is now attached to the joint

while, with the edit i did, if the distance is close enough to be attached, it will always go in that case (and then check if a joint needs to be created)

[granite elk]

This is hard... to learn i use ai, and ai told me to make this code (obviously i didnt copy + paste, i can explain all the things that are there), and many times makes wrong things, do you recommend something else to learn Unity or am i just using it wrong?

[subtle mulch]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[subtle mulch]

tho that code should work

but i would check the distance calculation

that is probably what is wrong there

bc the object gets attracted

but it doesn't get merged

so check the distance

[zenith temple]

can someone help me with this string?

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
private Rigidbody2D rb;
private float walkSpeed = 1;

private float xAxis;
// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
Rigidbody2D = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
}

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

void GetInputs()
{
xAxis = GetInputs.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
}

private void Move()
{
rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(walkSpeed * xAxis, rb.linearVelocity.y);
}
}

[subtle mulch]

i would print the distance to Debug.Log and check what is the min distance it can reach, and then use that value

[granite elk]

Yeah I tought that too, but if in the future I want to make different size object it will be a problem, i think

[subtle mulch]

i think distance will check between the center of the objects

the way you are doing

so maybe get the length or width, cut it in half and sum it to half the width of the magnet

and then maybe add a + 0.1 to that

and use it as the min distance to merge

[naive pawn]

!code

[radiant void]

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[naive pawn]

and what's the issue, don't wait for us to read your mind

[zenith temple]

i tried to boot it up but it says: Assets\PlayerController.cs(25,13): error CS0119: 'PlayerController.GetInputs()' is a method, which is not valid in the given context

[granite elk]

But where and how?

[subtle mulch]

in the magnet code

you could ask ai maybe, or look it up on YT

[granite elk]

Ok thanks

[subtle mulch]

i don't even see that line there

[zenith temple]

exactly

[cosmic quail]

xAxis = GetInputs.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");

what is GetInputs

[subtle mulch]

did you save the script?

[subtle mulch]

oh it's there

[gloomy charm]

Finished the getting started with unity tenplate

[solar hill]

{
    xAxis = GetInputs.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
}```

🧐

[zenith temple]

i turned autosave on

[subtle mulch]

i think he is using the wrong method

lol

[solar hill]

youre calling a method within itself

[subtle mulch]

not even

it's not calling a method

it is missing ()

and it also returns void

[solar hill]

im so confused as to what this code is supposed to do ngl

this seems like an overcomplicated way to make a simple input system using legacy input

[zenith temple]

movements for a metroivania i'm making

[subtle mulch]

just use the new input system first of all

second, that function is completely wrong

[gloomy charm]

I'm confident enough to make my own thing

[errant breach]

Hello ! So im trying to make the following system :

• i can give to a GameObject "Sphere" the amount of child (called "Muzzle") i want (1, 2, 100...)

When i run the a function "Shoot" in the "Sphere", all of the "Sphere"'s child (the muzzle) run a fonction.

So im trying to understand the getChild function but it doesnt work. Without having to give the Cube all muzzle as a gameObject, how can i make so that all the Cube's child called "Muzzle" (or with the same tag) can run the same function ? Thanks !!

[naive pawn]

you could iterate over all the children of a transform by iterating the transform

[zenith temple]

okay now the error is fixed but it says this now:

Assets\PlayerController.cs(11,21): error CS0118: 'Rigidbody2D' is a type but is used like a variable

[subtle mulch]

yeah well

it tells you exactly the reason

[errant breach]

That's a great idea ! Do i have to do it with FindObjectbyType ?

[subtle mulch]

change this to rb

[naive pawn]

that's not what i said to do, is it...

you could use that if you want specific components though

[zenith temple]

how do i fix it?

[subtle mulch]

change it to rb...

[zenith temple]

so i have to add rb at the end?

[errant breach]

Hmm, i only want to run a function (Sphere > Muzzle > Shoot())

[subtle mulch]

no

change Rigidbody2D to rb

[errant breach]

but i guess it is proper (and more useful) to learn how to do it properly now ?

[subtle mulch]

you cannot assign a value to a type

[naive pawn]

and how would you get that function if you don't have the component that defines it

[zenith temple]

which one? there's like two of them

[naive pawn]

the one that's highlighted as an error. is your ide configured?

[subtle mulch]

in that line, the start...

[errant breach]

Right, that's the question. I don't really know how to make a loop that get a new muzzle (muzzle1, muzzle2, ...) everytime and then execute a function 😅

[naive pawn]

i just told you 2 ways

ah, the other one was incomplete.

[errant breach]

You did and you are right, the thing is that i don't know how to write it on C# 😅
(iterating the transform without using FindObjectbyType. Even with FindObjectbyType idk how to it, actually...)

[naive pawn]

option 1: iterate over the transform to get its children (which you could getcomponent on)
option 2: use FindObject**s**ByType to get all relevant components in the children
option 3: use a serialized array/list

[naive pawn]

do you know how to write loops in general? for and foreach?

[errant breach]

I do know how to do loop ! Not for "foreach" but i guess it's easy to understand 😅

But you are right, "foreach" look way more convenient actually !

[gloomy charm]

How do i make vs code my default editor for scripts?

[subtle mulch]

why vscode btw

[rich adder]

!vscode

[radiant void]

Visual Studio Code guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[gloomy charm]

Because i always use it and it's the only thing i like to use

[soft oxide]

Edit > Preferences > External Tools

[subtle mulch]

i will still suggest you to take a look at Rider tho

[naive pawn]

make sure you've configured it, that would include setting vscode as the preferred editor in unity

if you're referring to the default in your OS, that would be done however it is done normally for your OS

[naive pawn]

@subtle mulch honestly can you stop with this
it's quite unnecessary and frankly annoying
we don't need IDE wars here when they're all perfectly capable

[gloomy charm]

No i mean for unity when opening scripts up in unity

[subtle mulch]

yeah in preferences

like Zeni said

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[midnight tree]

Wall check

[subtle mulch]

also, i would suggest you keep auto file saving off

it can give you some problems, lol

[gloomy charm]

Already set up

Didn't really need the link tbh

[subtle mulch]

you might

[gloomy charm]

Why?

[subtle mulch]

it helps with debugging

[rich adder]

you have to make sure the unity classes and functions show up

[gloomy charm]

They do

Actually i done everything in the link already

[subtle mulch]

oh for link you meant the message link, lol

i tought you meant like an extension XD

[gloomy charm]

Do i have to install dotnet with elevated priveleges?

[errant breach]

Hey, so i'm trying to understand FindGameObjectsWithTag to get my Muzzles. But the print only give me GameObject[] despite 4 elements in the scene having the tag "Muzzle", may i have done something... Wrong ? 😅

[gloomy charm]

Nope

[subtle mulch]

i think so

[naive pawn]

that's just the type of the array, as the default ToString implementation. it doesn't give any info about the contents

[gloomy charm]

Im currently updating form 6 to 10 which isn't a problem for my personal computer but when i wanna work on projects elsewhere that may be an issue

[naive pawn]

log out the length or loop to log the contents if you want to check that

[naive pawn]

shouldn't have to, no. you could even just use the .net installer tool from in vscode

[errant breach]

Ahh yes that's what i want, and then, i want to execute the shoot() function in every of them. Am i in the good way ?

[naive pawn]

you shouldn't use tags tbh, magic strings are always a candidate for subtly messing up with no feedback or logs

[gloomy charm]

I downloaded the installer from the microsoft website

[errant breach]

Okay, here we are !
But now, how can i only scan the Sphere's child instead of the entire scene ?

[naive pawn]

use Transform.FindX (on the desired Transform) instead of GameObject.FindX

[errant breach]

Ah, scary.. I should use FindGameObjectsByType as you've suggested ?

[naive pawn]

sure, or a serialized list/array

[errant breach]

Are you talking to me ?

[rich adder]

you need the latest SDK for vscode only.. other than that unity has its own version of .net you're using

but also with latest sdk you can make other / latest .net apps without unity. Like console apps etc

[naive pawn]

yes

[rich adder]

runtime/cross scnes FindGameObjectsByType or DI
compile time , serialized reference

[errant breach]

:(
'MuzzleScript' is a type, which is not valid in the given context

"FindAnyObjectBy__Type__" but "type" is not valid i don't understand 😅

[naive pawn]

right, that's not how FindAnyObjectByType works

[rich adder]

read the documentation

[naive pawn]

you can't pass types as values in c#

[errant breach]

Alright, i'll check the docuentation then !

[naive pawn]

types aren't first-class

[gloomy charm]

Ohh that was the sdk i downloaded?

[naive pawn]

it takes arguments like GetComponent

[errant breach]

or use serialized list/array as you've suggested if it's simpler ?

[rich adder]

ideally

[naive pawn]

it's not simpler nor more complex, just a different way

[errant breach]

I see, thanks for you're time ! I will try then after reading the documentation :)

[rich adder]

btw If they are in the same scene and are not spawned in, Find is overkill

searching through all object when you can easily link through inspector ya kno

[naive pawn]

(this is in the prefab so serialized could work, but also it's in a shared object so this also makes sense in a way)

[dense basin]

I couldn't save it to this shelf or add it.

[rich adder]

you still didnt configure your IDE

[dense basin]

How do I configure it? What happens when I configure it? What are the advantages?

[rich adder]

you were linked to how

[naive pawn]

you get error highlighting telling you what's wrong and sometimes how to fix it in your ide
you get meaningful intellisense (autocomplete) suggestions

[dense basin]

how do i do it

[naive pawn]

you were linked to how

!vscode

[radiant void]

Visual Studio Code guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[rich adder]

and dont crosspost

stay in one channel

tbh you're in way over your head with project type rn..

[dense basin]

does not appear

[slender nymph]

you're only looking at the packages that are in your project

[dense basin]

Where do I look then?

[slender nymph]

in the unity registry. have you never installed a package before?

hint: you clearly have considering you have cinemachine installed

[dense basin]

I'm going to install visual studio editor, man, it doesn't appear here, where can I find it?

[slender nymph]

prove that it doesn't appear there

[dense basin]

My friend, shut up, I think you can go to sleep.

[slender nymph]

i told you where to find it, you said it doesn't appear there. so prove that.

[dense basin]

ok buddy, just shut up

[slender nymph]

lmao telling people who are actively trying to help you to shut up is a good way to not get any help at all

[frail hawk]

i agree

[rich adder]

this behavior isn't tolerated here, you better straighten up. You lucky you get even this far with help

hows it make sense to be an asshole to people who even try to help you

[solar hill]

I asked this same thing 30 minutes ago

why are you bothering to help someone actively insulting you

[rich adder]

yeah I just chalk some people to "hopeless to help" and move on . Its too bad it keeps showing me new messages in chat and have to read this crap

[subtle mulch]

he did to me too XD

[errant breach]

Hey again, so i've finally managed to get all my GameObject's with the Muzzle tag.
I know this is a pretty messy way to do it but i'm too bad to understand any other way of doing it :(

void Start() { MuzzleAmount = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Muzzle"); print(MuzzleAmount.Length); }

The issue is that it look for the entire scene (as it should), but i only want my "FindGameObjectsWithTag" to look for the Sphere's child. How can i achieve this please ?

[naive pawn]

didn't i already answer this

[errant breach]

I would be ashamed if it was the case, i had to go very quick so i probably missed something.. Sorry ! I'll read the conversation !

[naive pawn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[errant breach]

Oh, you did. The reason why i didn't used it is because 'Transform' does not contain a definition for 'FindGameObjectsWithTag' and despite watching tutorials about FindGameObjectsByType i did not manage to make it work so i was lost...

Sorry for the inconvenience 👍

[naive pawn]

make sure you're using an instance and not the actual type Transform

it's an instance method

also weren't you using FindObjectsByType

hm wait hold on

[errant breach]

Following the documentation, i did this :

`public class EnemyScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public int shootAmount;
public int shootLoop;
public GameObject[] MuzzleAmount;
public Transform myTransform; // Doesnt work

// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
    MuzzleScript MuzzleAmount = (MuzzleScript)Transform.FindAnyObjectByType(typeof(MuzzleScript));
}`

Here, my goal is to store every game object that are a muzzle.
Which give me no error, but does not really work whatsoever...

[naive pawn]

ah ok, i misremembered, only Find exists as a analogue just for children

this would be GetComponentsInChildren

[grave frost]

for asking about mesh generation should I ask in #1390346827005431951 or #1390346776804069396 lol

[subtle mulch]

code general i think

[grave frost]

it's not a code question per se, but about how unity renders tris so thats why i didnt know

ill just ask in code general and see what happens ig

[subtle mulch]

it's like normal meshes in OpenGL

afaik

[grave frost]

ive never done anything with mesh gen so

[subtle mulch]

it is basically a list of vertices and indices

and the indices make triangles

[grave frost]

ah yea, i just can't find a straight answer online about what the winding order is

[subtle mulch]

CW or CCW

try both

[grave frost]

some say CW some say CCW, but in the same thread people say it's CW people say CCW isn't common when afaik it is

[subtle mulch]

and see how it comes out

[grave frost]

I would but both seem to work and I don't know how to visualize the normals, and I don't want to run into issues if using a shader that needs normals, etc.

[subtle mulch]

the order should just "flip" the triangle

[grave frost]

oh actually I can just write a shader that colors it based on the dot of the view to the normal why didnt I think of that

[subtle mulch]

on which side you can see it

[grave frost]

yea, what confuses me is that I can see it with either order lol

[subtle mulch]

try to make a cube and see

[grave frost]

I'm only on quads lmao

also im doing it in burst which is a little nasty compared to normal probably

[subtle mulch]

nah

[grave frost]

ok well I figured out both work for me since the quad I'm drawing is done with a cross product so it can face Camera.main, so CW or CCW depends on the cross product lol... question not answered but problem solved i guess

[errant breach]

Hello, i've written this code :

    {
        allChildren = new GameObject[parentObject.transform.childCount];

        for (int i = 0; i < allChildren.Length; i++)
        {
            if (parentObject.transform.GetChild(i).gameObject.tag == "Muzzle")
                allChildren[i] = parentObject.transform.GetChild(i).gameObject;
        }
    }

    public void UseMuzzle()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < allChildren.Length; i++)
        {
            if (allChildren[i] != null)
                allChildren[i].Shoot();
        }
    }```

> allChildren[i].Shoot();
Im trying to access the "Shoot" function of the Children with the "Muzzle" tag, but it does not work. How can i fix this please ?

[naive pawn]

how exactly does it "not work"?

that is not useful info

are you getting a compiler error, a runtime error, wrong behavior, no behavior?

[errant breach]

Sorry, i have the error :
'GameObject' does not contain a definition for 'Shoot' and no accessible extension method 'Shoot' accepting a first argument of type 'GameObject' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[naive pawn]

right, so you're storing gameobjects and then treating them as if they were something else

[frail hawk]

you have to use GetComponent

you cant just call a method on a transform

[naive pawn]

or.. just use GetComponentsInChildren to begin with....

@errant breach i gotta ask, why are you asking here if you're not gonna use the advice lol

[frail hawk]

did i say something wrong or why the double reaction

[naive pawn]

that's not correct, and that's not a transform

of course you can call methods on transforms?

was there meant to be another qualifier there

[frail hawk]

without using the Componeent name?

[naive pawn]

transform.GetComponent is itself a method

[errant breach]

I completly forgot due to the rush sorry 😅 i'm now using it !

[naive pawn]

you can call methods on transforms, you can't call methods that transforms don't have on transforms

and same for GameObjects which were actually used there

[errant breach]

It finally work after 5 hours...

Gif of a crying dog
It's so beautiful when it dare to work..

Thanks guys for helping beginner and be patient :) i will now try to be more careful with suggestion and be less precipitated !

[gloomy charm]

Is there a faster way to build for android? It takes up to 13 minutes to build for android.

[verbal dome]

Use #📱┃mobile This is a code channel

[sour fulcrum]

thats just not what it says it does

[brave token]

wdym

[brave token]

can anyone help me get rid of this status because it's preventing autocomplete from autocompleting unity part of the code

[slender nymph]

!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

[brave token]

thanks

[broken bough]

Hey I'm trying to make a Third Person character controller for my Survival Horror game in the style of Resident Evil 2 Remake, if anyone can help I would appreciate it, I tried looking at tutorial after tutorial and none of them work or are not in the current version.

[brave token]

if you are new to unity, learn it through the Essential Pathway

[solar hill]

Help with what specifically?

[broken bough]

Making a Third Person Character Controller in the style of the Resident Evil 2 Remake.

[solar hill]

Well for that youre really going to have to rely on tutorials or guides on how to create third person character controllers

nobody here will sit with you and guide you directly on what to do

we can help if you get stuck at any point, or have any bugs or errors you cant solve

but other than that, youre either going to have to find a suitable tutorial, or use an asset

[broken bough]

Well all the tutorial's that cover this are out of date with the current version of Unity.

[sour fulcrum]

in what way

[solar hill]

Out of date in which capacity

really the only major difference would be the input system

but thats a non issue

[broken bough]

In terms of the code and don't cover the current input system, as well as the code on how to implement that into the game.

[solar hill]

right, so it is a non issue

because A. you can just use both input systems

and B. its really simple to refactor it for the new input system

[broken bough]

Also when it did end up getting there, there was a bug.

[solar hill]

right, and thats what we are for

if you have bugs and issues in existing code, we can help you solve them

[broken bough]

When it comes to the speed and movement I set it to 5.0f and 10.0f

[solar hill]

before you continue, if its something specific

we would need to see the code first

understand what you are trying to do

what behaviours are happening etc.

[broken bough]

Give me a minute.

[solar hill]

take your time

also for sending code

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

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[solar hill]

👆 use the sites

[broken bough]

You know what I'm going to do the essentials pathway again, so that I can get it right.

[obsidian grove]

quick behaviour question: for some reason if the variable in the conditional branch node is false, the behaviour graph gets stuck like this forever. why is this?

it should just go through the false node shouldn't it?

if the variable is true it works fine

[teal viper]

Presumably stuck on the wait for any that never gets set to true.

!vs

[radiant void]

Visual Studio guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[teal viper]

Wrong one. There was a command for visual scripting I think. 🤔

[obsidian grove]

this is the behaviour package, not visual scripting (not sure how similar they are)

[teal viper]

Oh, alright. Well, might want to check their docs for what that wait node does.

[obsidian grove]

wait for any "activates its child when any parent starts this node." it's doesn't start when the parent's status is successful/true, but when the parent starts it irrespective of its status

[queen vale]

Not familiar with the visual scripting nodes so best I can say is #1390346878394040320 or what dlich is looking for.
Also your deciding and performing actions using nodes, which is visual scripting (?) I still have more to learn.

[obsidian grove]

but the branch on node gets stuck in status.waiting forever as can be seen in the screenshot

[obsidian grove]

ah ok, I'll post behaviour questions there in the future

[sour fulcrum]

i dont think that channel is what this is for

[teal viper]

Yeah, I assumed it was visual scripting, but that's different

[queen vale]

I've never done visual scripting in unity so I'm not familiar with the look of it. Figured it was Unity's visual scripting thing

My bad

[teal viper]

Never used the behavior package. Might want to Google or look through the forums.

[obsidian grove]

sadly google rarely has good results for the behaviour package, it seems a bit under-used

I've also done pretty much the exact same thing in a different BT and it works, so I'm a bit lost lol

[nocturne hawk]

is this a help channel?

[ivory bobcat]

Yes. This is the beginner coding help channel.

If it's not related to code, you can #🔎┃find-a-channel or ask in #💻┃unity-talk if you're unsure.

[scenic iris]

what is this system?

[obsidian grove]

unity behaviour

[scenic iris]

i never hired about it it's something exist only in last unity version ?

to be fer the so many unity package it's only natural i don't know shome off those.

or it's in astets store ?

[obsidian grove]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/com.unity.behavior.html

google is your friend

[scenic iris]

yap it needs unity 6 and the project I'm working now use unity 2021 or something.

probably this 1 off the reason i don't using it alose for what i have seen this spefide mostly for npc behavior if understanding correctly.

[serene forge]

hey heyy, apparently my visual studio isnt connected with unity, because it doesnt show me options to choose from :/ anyone know how I can fix that?

[ivory bobcat]

!vsc

[radiant void]

<:error:1413114584763596884> Command not found

There's no command called vsc.

[ivory bobcat]

!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

[cosmic dagger]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[serene forge]

thx thx

[ivory bobcat]

You're very likely missing a step. Check to see if you've got the Visual Studio Editor package.

[serene forge]

im literally sweating because of all those stupid tabs and windows and cookies and all that omg

[queen vale]

Another thing is to click the "Regenerate Project Files".

[serene forge]

it works noww thanks yall

[serene forge]

you are funny

[midnight tree]

**I do not understand are the async methods/tasks adapted for use in Unity? **As I know not. They seem to take more resources to summon, right? Or do I not understand anything?

For instance I use Coroutines and search an answer to my question 'cause IEnumerator is just simple and seems... not wrong and not correct used in common situations I guess? They are done for reading List, arrays and another shit in System library.

I use them as timers(sometimes not) and I think its wrong.

And yes I know about UniTask's, I want find a solution within the limits of possibilities of Unity self.

[serene forge]

guys i have a code like this:
press a = left
press w = up

press a & w = up&left ( diagonally )
but the press a & w doesnt work :/ what do I need to do?

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) == true)
{
myRigidbody.velocity = Vector2.up * 10;
}
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A) == true)
{
myRigidbody.velocity = Vector2.left * 10;
}
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) & Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A) == true)
{
myRigidbody.velocity = Vector2.left * 10;
myRigidbody.velocity = Vector2.up * 10;
}

[agile thistle]

Youre setting the velocity to those values so they overwrite each other for diagonal inputs

[serene forge]

how do I make it diagonally then :o

just & in between or is that something else

[agile thistle]

Ig for the way youre doing it now you could add the vectors together

[serene forge]

damn I'm too stupid for that, I have to learn all that first

[agile thistle]

Instead of setting it twice set it to left * 10 + up * 10

Should do it

[sour adder]

float up = 0;
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) up = 10;
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) left = 10;
//if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)) left = -10;
//if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S)) up = -10;
myRigidbody.velocity = Vector2.left * left + Vector2.up * up;

[serene forge]

like this?

hm no not work

IT WORKSSSS

woah woah woah thanks!

[serene forge]

what does float do?

[serene forge]

and how you make the message boxy?

[sour adder]

It creates a variable, so you can reduce the amount of code.

[serene forge]

ah damn I only put 2

thx thx

[serene forge]

i dont understand at all tbh

[night raptor]

If you don't know what variables do, I would highly recommend learning the very basics of C# before starting to code in unity

[serene forge]

yeaa I am trying to learn that rn

[queen vale]

Also .normalize the vector so that walking diagonally doesn't make you walk faster than just forward/sideways.

[sour adder]

Yes, that's the next step.

[night raptor]

... or just use the new input system which can do the normalization automatically and you don't need all those ifs either

And even if you want to do it that way, ClampMagnitude is probably better than .normalized

[agile thistle]

Either input system would be a step up from here but I think if they dont know what a variable is what they have is fine haha

[night raptor]

That should be the first step, if you don't know variables, start by learning those and the other basics programming stuff (variables, functions, loops and branching, basics of OOP potentially)

[midnight tree]

Anyone?

[silk night]

You have the answer right there, Unitask fixes those issues, you can ofcourse rewrite what UniTask does but you would be reinventing the wheel

Unity has Awaitable for async methods but its still miles behind UniTask

Tasks in general work... dont expect them to work with everything though

Another method would be to use Unity's job system, which can offload work, but its not in the async style

[serene forge]

I have this here:

  if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W) & Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) == true)
  {
      myRigidbody.velocity = Vector2.up * 10;
  }
  if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A) & Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) == true)
  {
      myRigidbody.velocity = Vector2.left * 10;
  }

I dont want to be able to spam it, is it possible to put 0,25 sec cooldown in it?

[sour adder]

You will be needing a new variable for that.

[serene forge]

soo float pause = 0,25 at the beginning?

[naive pawn]

it's not that simple, no

[serene forge]

:c damn

[naive pawn]

you have to write the behavior you want to achieve

(honestly that seems like poor UX though, you're basically introducing input lag)

[serene forge]

in other programming stuff I could do "pause all = 0.25" at the end of the if function, and it would pause the script for 0,25s

[naive pawn]

in coroutines? you could do something like that, sure

[serene forge]

ohy what is coroutines?

[naive pawn]

wait hold on, i mightve misunderstood

is this for debouncing movement input, or having cooldown for a specific action?

what's "space" supposed to do there

[serene forge]

w a s d is for direction and space is to activate the dash
and I want to have a cooldown so I cant dash unlimitedly

[naive pawn]

ah ok, you could have a timer variable deciding when you can dash then

there's quite a few ways to do it

[serene forge]

what is the easiest to understand? :o

my whole pc is lagging omg

[naive pawn]

a timer based on the Update loop could store the next possible dash and check the current time against that, or store the previous dash and check if the current time is past the cooldown after that
a timer based on a coroutine could use WaitForSeconds to set a boolean field

[naive pawn]

they're pretty much all the same difficulty, just different ways of doing it

[serene forge]

in my head I thought of something like:
dash as a variable = 10
and something like if I press space -> dash variable -10 & wait 0.25 -> dash variable +10

[naive pawn]

well with that you wouldn't be using a number

[serene forge]

i dont understand :o

[naive pawn]

if you just had 2 states for the variable you'd just use a boolean

the logic you described would be the third option

[serene forge]

Uhh what is a boolean

[errant breach]

Hello, im trying to make my enemies rotate toward my player but for some reason, they look at the opposite way

        {
            Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(playerGameObject.transform.position - transform.position, Vector3.up);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, 0.1f);
        }```

After many attempts, i don't understand how to fix it. Do you have any idea ? Default enemy rotation is (0, 0, 0) in game, it is (0, 174.45, 0)

[naive pawn]

it's a type that holds true or false. you should probably go learn c# basics

there are resources pinned in this channel

[naive pawn]

btw, that's wrong lerp

[naive pawn]

what camera position is this? is this in a 3d world pointing straight down

[errant breach]

Yes it is !

[naive pawn]

is the forwards direction of the enemy correct, relative to the mesh?

[errant breach]

Oh its.. Not..
But i can't fix that because it will break the animations. Can i just change the Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, 0.1f); with like a -180 somewhere so that it rotate correctly ?

[naive pawn]

you should fix that, this'll probably keep coming up lol

[errant breach]

you're right..

[naive pawn]

if the animations are self-consistent to always be backwards, you could have the mesh have a parent that faces the right direction, and the mesh is backwards in the parent

[midnight plover]

static class MessedUpValuesManager
{
  public static float wrongRotationForAnimations = 180;
}

😉 Its a joke, dont! 😄

[naive pawn]

the actual workaround would just be to negate the direction before you put it in the LookRotation

or apply another Euler rotation

[midnight plover]

If its coming from something like blender, it might also just be as easy as reexport with correct axis selection

[serene forge]

yeaaa but learning the basics is something that comes along the way

[naive pawn]

no amount of experience can compensate for the absolute fundamental knowledge.

[sharp cedar]

Hello anyone can help me ?

[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

[serene forge]

yeaa but I just want to make a tiny little minigame :o learning all the basics eventho I only need 5% takes way too long

[sharp cedar]

to whom ?

[naive pawn]

just ask

[naive pawn]

and trying to enlighten yourself to the 5% whilst refusing to actually go learn will take even longer.

like here, you didn't know about booleans until i told you

if you went ahead and worked on it without doing any research, you'd just be shooting yourself in the foot, making your own project harder

[sharp cedar]

like i am programming my own game on unity platform soo while i was renderring it out my electricity goes and and that time my rendering was not completed soo i lost my game data how cna i recover it ?

🥺

[naive pawn]

the rendering data was lost? or what exactly?

[serene forge]

yeaa but that makes it funnn c:

[naive pawn]

artificially giving yourself problems is fun? there's enough problems to solve already lmao

[sharp cedar]

i am new how can i check like my maps of my game and alot of things

[naive pawn]

us needing to help you with your own self-imposed challenges is not fun

[serene forge]

no no, I just love learning on the way yk?
with trial and error

[silk night]

your maps should be saved as a scene file

[sharp cedar]

while that process i was not using any cluade just using my hard disk for storage tho

[naive pawn]

that's cool for more advanced stuff when you already have some experience. you need fundamental knowledge in order to actually get anything useful out of trial and error.

[sharp cedar]

for programming full game

@naive pawn sir can you help me figure out thats means me alot from you

[naive pawn]

i have no idea what your question is at this point

also, this is a coding channel

[silk night]

Please dont randomly ping people

[sharp cedar]

sorry

who is help supporter here ?

[naive pawn]

anyone who passes by

[silk night]

Anybody who has time right now, there is no specific person

[serene forge]

the thing is I learnt all those programming stuff already 3 years ago, so on the way I am just refreshing yk?

[naive pawn]

...you asked what a boolean was...

[silk night]

Describe what you were doing before your power went out and then describe what you are not finding now

[serene forge]

never heard that in my life tho

[naive pawn]

so, clearly, you lack some fundamentals

at least go skim.

[serene forge]

[naive pawn]

if you've already learnt some stuff, then sure, skip over the parts you know. but at least go actually check the fundamentals.

[brave token]

can someone help me fix this issue? i litterally followed the instructions of the tutorial correctly

InvalidOperationException: You are trying to read Input using the UnityEngine.Input class, but you have switched active Input handling to Input System package in Player Settings.
UnityEngine.Internal.InputUnsafeUtility.GetButtonDown (System.String buttonName) (at <bb2309881ca84e6d8dece79bc84459be>:0)
UnityEngine.Input.GetButtonDown (System.String buttonName) (at <bb2309881ca84e6d8dece79bc84459be>:0)
PlayerController.Update () (at Assets/_Unity Essentials/Scripts/PlayerController.cs:26)

(ignore the rigidbody part)

[naive pawn]

!input

[radiant void]

How to Set Input

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

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

[brave token]

thanks

[sharp cedar]

sir are you there ?

[naive pawn]

you gotta give us some info to work with

[frosty hound]

Don't pester people please, you haven't actually asked a question.

[sharp cedar]

i want a serious help sir i am not able to find someone who can actually help me to figure out from

[subtle mulch]

if you ask the question and provide info, we might be able to help

[frosty hound]

Ask a question, or don't post. Simple as that.

[brave token]

is he the only guy who can help

[naive pawn]

no-one can help you if you don't give any info about your issue

[brave token]

just do what i did here

[polar acorn]

So ask the question and people who know it might answer.

[brave token]

what's vector2 and vector3?

[serene forge]

when my ufo bumps into a wall it starts spinning around, how do I disable that it rotates?

[polar acorn]

One has 2 numbers, the other has 3.

You can probably figure out which is which

[frosty hound]

(x,y) and (x, y, z)

[brave token]

thanks

[subtle mulch]

lock the rigidbody rotation

[sharp cedar]

soo basically i was rederring my game data in between my power gone off and due to in between shutting off my pc my data of my game was lostt

how can i recover it ?

[frosty hound]

Unless you have version control, you cannot.

[sharp cedar]

its beeen my 4-5 months ahrdwork

🥺

[subtle mulch]

4 - 5 months cannot literally go poof in 1 second

unless the whole drive got nuked

[frosty hound]

Are the files literally gone off your PC?

[sharp cedar]

yes from harddisk

30gb around

[subtle mulch]

HOW

[solar hill]

Might be a hard drive failure

[subtle mulch]

yeah but it still boots

[solar hill]

Lost sectors

[frosty hound]

Well, take it to a shop and see if they can recover anything. But otherwise, there's nothing you (or we) can do.

[sharp cedar]

no just during renderring my pc shut down

[solar hill]

It still could

Hard drives can fail incrementaly

[subtle mulch]

best bet is to take it to a shop that specializes on that

also, is it an HDD or SSD

things change there

[solar hill]

Also how do you work on a project for half a year without any version control

Or at least any local back ups

That was just a disaster waiting to happen

[subtle mulch]

i still find it strange that ONLY those files got nuked

[brave token]

this may sound obvious but have you tried recovery apps

[subtle mulch]

and not anything else

[solar hill]

Did they say that?

[sharp cedar]

it was just baked and rendering and environmentoring

that time

[solar hill]

Or you were baking lighting?

[subtle mulch]

did you lose ANY other file on the pc?

[sharp cedar]

only seen left

other things gone

[solar hill]

What

[subtle mulch]

i think he means scene

[sharp cedar]

yes

[subtle mulch]

it's the only file left there

[sharp cedar]

scene

[solar hill]

Theres no other files in the project?

[brave token]

how can you lose a whole 5 month project like that

[subtle mulch]

which other files?

[sharp cedar]

the file was of 30gb and only 7gb data left

[real thunder]

what's going on

30 gb scene?

[subtle mulch]

i find it very strange in fact

[solar hill]

Just read up its like 15 messages...

[naive pawn]

aren't scenes text files

how do you get a 30gb scene

[sharp cedar]

adjust folder

[brave token]

are they completely gone or are they corrupted? maybe check with a special app

[subtle mulch]

what is the adjust folder...

[real thunder]

yes I read and I don't understand

[solar hill]

Guys i think the entire project was 30gb

[subtle mulch]

yeah

[sharp cedar]

yea

[solar hill]

Neither do we tbf

[brave token]

he just lost 23 gb worth of game storage

for some reason

[sharp cedar]

but i dont getting you guys i just can say that during baked and renderring time my pc gonna shut

sooo what to do ?

my maps files audio files

alll gone

[subtle mulch]

take it to a repair shop or try with recovery apps

[brave token]

try to recover the files

[solar hill]

Well i think it was almost certainly a drive failure

[sharp cedar]

how ?

[solar hill]

Try some recovery programs, other than that, its a lesson learned

[subtle mulch]

only on the project files tho?

[brave token]

with an app like recuva or something

[solar hill]

They said they lost other files

[real thunder]

alright I thought for a moment it's a scene

[subtle mulch]

he just said "adjust folder"

[solar hill]

What does that even mean

[subtle mulch]

idk

but that's the other folder that it was gone

also, i never seen drives that nuke specific sectors when a power surge occurs

you could easily try to repair the filesystem tho

[brave token]

1 in a million i guess

[subtle mulch]

the thing i think happened is that the indexes to those files got nuked

and windows now does not see the files

while they are actualy still there

[brave token]

20 GB can not disapear

[sharp cedar]

it is from my disk

after power off

not before that

[brave token]

it's still there corrupted

right?

[subtle mulch]

google how to run windows filesystem scan and repair

and it will prob help

you have to make it repair all the indexes to those files

[solar hill]

You also have a bigger problem on top of everything else

Your drive might be failing

[subtle mulch]

prob not

if it is an HDD try to hear it when working in case

if you hear a clicking sound, move ALL the important data out ASAP

if it's an SSD, idk, prob check SMART

[brave token]

just backup anything to another drive

[subtle mulch]

i have 2 HDDs that i use for games and backups

while my os and dev stuff resides in 2 NVMEs

[sharp cedar]

my all unity work projects and file were saved in my hdd soo right now its not in that it almost contains of 30-40gb of materials , texture , scripts, prefab, UI, UI images, doo die sprities and more

how can i find them to re assemble ?

[subtle mulch]

i told you

google how to repair the windows filesystem and its indexes

[sharp cedar]

whats help by doing it ?

in recovering ?

[subtle mulch]

the files are 90% not gone

by doing that you might actually get them back

[brave token]

maybe some wrong 0 and 1 got changed

but that does not mean it's gone

[sharp cedar]

but sir my hdd is working fine and it have like no damange it just because of power off the pc during that process

[edgy tangle]

Basically: if you think it’s worth the money then take it to a professional to see if the data is recoverable. Otherwise just take this opportunity to reflect and learn why you should use version control

[subtle mulch]

it's NOT the hdd

pls read

it's the filesystem

[sharp cedar]

I checked in CrystalDiskInfo, both SD and HD are correct.

[subtle mulch]

well, that's a separate thing

[frosty hound]

Okay, this is beyond Unity at this point, and it's not even a #💻┃code-beginner related question.

[subtle mulch]

pls re-read what i said

[edgy tangle]

Don’t bother

[frosty hound]

@sharp cedar Make a thread in #💻┃unity-talk if you want to keep this going, thanks.

[brave token]

let us help him

[frosty hound]

And you can

[sharp cedar]

ok sure because solution not done yet

[brave token]

we are this close

[sharp cedar]

@subtle mulch buddy can you come in thread?

[subtle mulch]

yes

make one

we can all jump in the thread

[brave token]

why not screen share? that may speed up the process

[subtle mulch]

not really

[sharp cedar]

done see unity talk

[true flame]

it wont jump for some reason, could someone just have a look at this pls?

[subtle mulch]

well, maybe if you send the script

[naive pawn]

show code that should make it jump

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[polar acorn]

!screenshots

[radiant void]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[true flame]

https://paste.ofcode.org/niH4hvQ9sCVVbnF9A5PskL

[naive pawn]

you should only have 1 Move call per Update

check if the if condition is passing when you expect it to. if not, check which part is false.

[brave token]

is it fine if i replace Update with FixedUpdate?

[subtle mulch]

prob not

they do different stuff

what do you wanna put in it?

[brave token]

a collectible rotating

[subtle mulch]

if it's physics stuff, then yes it was made for it

[brave token]

nah it's just transform.Rotate

[subtle mulch]

then keep it into normal Update

[brave token]

is there a particular reason? cuz i don't want it to turn at the speed of sound when you have 300 fps

[subtle mulch]

that's why you use Time.deltaTime

[brave token]

ooooh that's why it's multiplied by that

[subtle mulch]

yep

[naive pawn]

depends on what you're using it for

[granite elk]

hello, how do i make the object i grab be more attached to the magnet? I used a fixedjoint for the object, and i cant make that the magnet will have more force because it has similiar results, and changing linear damping doesent work either

[twin pivot]

set the object as the parent maybe?

[granite elk]

no or else the object will trapass walls and be too rigid too

[twin pivot]

higher mass for magnet with added force?

[granite elk]

doesent work and makes the magnet movement really ugly and hard to control

[twin pivot]

u should probably ask the peeps in #⚛️┃physics

[brave token]

how can i make night more dark? i want the objects to appear darker when the Directional_Light faces north (already fixed skybox)

[naive pawn]

this is a code channel, try #1390346776804069396

[stark helm]

Why can't I destroy my gameobject...?

using System;
using Unity.Mathematics;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using Random = UnityEngine.Random;
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class MapTileGeneration : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Tile;
    public Material TileMaterial;
    public float ColorVariation = 3f;
    public int MapSize = 0;
    public Transform Map;

    private Transform CurrentMap = null;

    [ContextMenu("Generate Map")]

    private void GenerateMap()
    {
        if (Tile == null) return;
        CurrentMap = new GameObject().transform;

        for (int x = 0; x < MapSize; x++)
        {
            for (int z = 0; z < MapSize; z++)
            {
                float CellDiameter = 2;
                Vector3 TilePosition = new Vector3(x * CellDiameter, 0, z * CellDiameter);
                GameObject NewTile = Instantiate(Tile, TilePosition, Quaternion.Euler(-90,0,0), CurrentMap);

                NewTile.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = TileMaterial;

                float RedA = TileMaterial.color.r + Random.Range(-ColorVariation, ColorVariation);
                float GreenA = TileMaterial.color.g + Random.Range(-ColorVariation, ColorVariation);
                float BlueA = TileMaterial.color.b + Random.Range(-ColorVariation, ColorVariation);
                float AlphaA= TileMaterial.color.a;

                Color32 NewColor = new Color(RedA, GreenA, BlueA, AlphaA);

                NewTile.GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color = NewColor;

            }
        }
    }

    [ContextMenu("Destroy Map")]

    private void DestroyMap()
    {
        if (CurrentMap != null)
        {
            
            Destroy(CurrentMap.gameObject);
        }
        
    }
}

When I try to destroy CurrentMap, nothing happens

I debugged.log and it did print something so the condition is met

But it isnt getting destroyed

[naive pawn]

if you add a debug.log containing context, does it point to the gameobject you expect? also consider giving that gameobject a name so it's easier to identify

[wintry quarry]

Unless you serialize the reference to CurrentMap, you're going to lose the reference when the domain reloads.

[stark helm]

It is not null

[naive pawn]

that's not what i asked

[wintry quarry]

anything in the console window? Show it

[stark helm]

No errors there bruh

[stark helm]

I dont know what you asked

[wintry quarry]

but what is?

[queen vale]

when is GenerateMap called?

[wintry quarry]

you said you put a log - where?

[wintry quarry]

so it's probably just null then

[stark helm]

I removed it because it was printing

[wintry quarry]

but... we're in the middle of debugging

[stark helm]

No bro, it went throgh the condittion

[wintry quarry]

I think the fix here is to serialize this reference

[stark helm]

Watch the video man

[stark helm]

Guess I will try that

How tho

[wintry quarry]

make it public or add [SerializeField]

[queen vale]

I did, but the function GenerateMap is never called based on the code you provided

[wintry quarry]

it is

context menu

shown in the video

[stark helm]

I pressed the button

[queen vale]

Hard to tell, the drag click made me think 'destroy map' was selected, my bad.

[naive pawn]

i asked, if you add context to the debug.log, does it point to the right gameobject

context is the second argument

[stark helm]

I just printed the gameobject

[stark helm]

And it printed its name

[polar acorn]

You're getting an error

You've hidden errors

[stark helm]

how

[polar acorn]

This ticks up to 18 when you try

[polar acorn]

click on the thing I screenshotted

[stark helm]

OH MY

I dont know what half of those mean bruh

Ok so it tells me that materials are wrongly used

[queen vale]

ah misread initially thought you had an issue with GenerateMap not destroymap

[stark helm]

and that I should do this during play mode

[naive pawn]

well, there's your answer

[stark helm]

wait let me try in play mode

Ok it works

Thanks guys

I could not have figured this out without you

[polar acorn]

I mean, this part is pretty clear

[queen vale]

*once visible. <- coming from the guy who misreads lol

[cosmic pumice]

Any idea why setting Camera.scene does not limit the rendering to the assigned scene?

From Unity Docs "scene - If not null, the camera will only render the contents of the specified Scene."

I am creating a new scene in code, moving the camera and objects I want to render to that scene and then setting camera.scene to that scene
The camera outputs a render texture, which I display in UI

But it always renders from every scene, not just the one I am trying to limit it to

[wintry quarry]

Currently, only Scenes created by EditorSceneManager.NewPreviewScene are supported.

You didn't read the rest of the page

It's basically an editor only feature they hacked in to support the editor preview scene stuff

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Camera-scene.html

The correct way to cull things is to use layers

[cosmic pumice]

Ah yeah I should have clicked through
Sucks that its not useable outside of editor preview

I was hoping to avoid having to resort to layer masks

[wintry quarry]

That would certainly be an interesting feature to have

[cosmic pumice]

The way I usually do it is I just offset the transform root by a large number
Like 10,000

I was hoping this would be a cleaner approach 😛

[wintry quarry]

YOu can do that too but that has floating point precision issues doesn't it?

[cosmic pumice]

Not really

[wintry quarry]

at least with a super high distance like that

[cosmic pumice]

Yeah if I had like 1,000 cameras I want to render and offset them by a crazy high amount then maybe

The 10,000 was an exaggeration anyway

[safe root]

!code

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[safe root]

I'm having a problem with my object rotation not being moved. I use [[[ transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRotation, roombaRotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime); ]]] and for some reason the rotation it does is so small that it's basically not even rotating to the target. Can someone help me figure how what's going on with it?

https://paste.ofcode.org/cdbrX78wG9bwXWHzXFwNfF

[wintry quarry]

a rotate speed of 2 means "2 degrees per second" with the code you have

that means it would take 90 seconds (a full minute and a half) to fully turn around which is 180 degrees

Not only that

but you are only calling transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRotation, roombaRotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime); ONE TIME

so you are only getting one frame worth of rotation. So you'll only really rotate something like a fraction of a degree, and only once.

Then you're waiting 6 seconds and doing the movement

you need to use a loop here (with a yield return null inside it to wait one frame each time) to continue rotating each frame until it is complete

so you have two problems - your code is wrong, and your rotation speed is tiny

[cosmic pumice]

Hah! I realized I can just slice on Z axis using camera clipping planes
A lot cleaner than adding a crazy offset since I can just increment by 1

[wintry quarry]

that works if your game is 2D or can be confined to small z areas, yeah

[cosmic pumice]

Yes, which it is 🙂

[errant breach]

Hello everyone, where can i ask questions about Splines ? I cannot find documentation online so i dont know how to start my splines when StartOnAwkae is false ! Thanks

[slender nymph]

splines documentation: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.splines@2.8/api/index.html

and presumably you are referring to the SplineAnimate component, which does have a PlayOnAwake property (which you referred to as StartOnAwake) as well as the Play method

[zenith temple]

how do i make this work? private float jumpForce = 45;

[slender nymph]

make it work how? that's just a declaration of a float variable

[zenith temple]

do i need a following string to it?

[slender nymph]

wtf does that mean

[brave token]

be more specific dude

[queen vale]

You declared a variable, what people need to know is how you use it. Within update, etc.

[brave token]

if you want other classes using it, make that class a child class or set the variable to public

[zenith temple]

i don't know how to write the line for it to work fine

[slender nymph]

what does it mean to "work fine" here?

[queen vale]

context is king

[brave token]

bro explain how do you use that variable

[zenith temple]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
private Rigidbody2D rb;
private float walkSpeed = 1;

private float jumpForce = 45;

private float xAxis;

// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start() => rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

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

{
GetInputs();
Move();
}

void GetInputs()
{
xAxis = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
}

private void Move()
{
rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(walkSpeed * xAxis, rb.linearVelocity.y);
}
}

[slender nymph]

!code

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[zenith temple]

do i missed something?

[radiant void]

<:error:1413114584763596884> Command not found

There's no command called screenshot.

[slender nymph]

can you provide literally any context at all

[brave token]

i don't see jump force ANYWHERE

[queen vale]

jumpforce is never used in the aforementioned script.

[lofty sequoia]

I think he's trying to jump

but doesn't have a listener for spacebar or any up input

[wintry quarry]

What are you actually trying to do? That's where you need to start.

[zenith temple]

i'm making a metroidvania. i was making the jump code but i don't know how to write the rest

[wintry quarry]

Ok then why didn't you ask "Hi how do I make jumping work in my metroidvania"?

[zenith temple]

sorry

[brave token]

did you set up the input action map correctly

[zenith temple]

input action map? you mean input manager? then yes i did

[brave token]

it's the thing where you bind buttons in unity

not a cs script

[slender nymph]

they aren't using the input system

[brave token]

oh ok

[queen vale]

First you need to listen for the input, there are different solutions for this. Either the new input system or Input.GetKeyDown(Keycode....) etc.
Then have that trigger a function.
Said function should move the player / play an animation / etc.

[zenith temple]

how do i write it?

[wintry quarry]

if you just want someone to write it, why not look up a tutorial?

[queen vale]

if(input.getkeydown(keycode.a) { // do thing }

[zenith temple]

i did but it only wrote this single line

[wintry quarry]

no, definitely not true

[slender nymph]

unless the tutorial was just an ai overview of something, then you didn't actually pay attention tot he tutorial. there's no way an actual tutorial would only show a single variable declaration as "how to jump"

[brave token]

what kind of tutorial was it? a video or a website?

[zenith temple]

https://youtu.be/dYcf9_TdEW4?si=-0jpZLDjmV5jiY4o

this was the video

[brave token]

Part 1?

did you watch the other parts?

[wintry quarry]

There's 5 whole minutes of the viddeo in which they set up the jumping stuff. Making that variable is only at the very end of it

[zenith temple]

this video is only basic movement (walking and jumping) and camera

[brave token]

maybe he said something he forgot in the comments or the other parts

[wintry quarry]

Seeems like you didn't watcht the video

because it's all here

My suggestion, go back and watch the whole video

[zenith temple]

i'm literally watching step by step

he wrote jumpforce 45 nd then he showed it jumping

[polar acorn]

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 201
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2026-03-02

[brave token]

maybe you put the code in the wrong brackets

[wintry quarry]

Yeah and then after that he shows you how to make it work.

Keep watching lol

[subtle mulch]

most of the times, tutorials have code on GH

[polar acorn]

Yes, this is what we like to call a "demonstration"

You should try actually listening to the words instead of just vomiting the code onto your IDE

[zenith temple]

okay and? it's my first time coding. a little bit of understanding on my side instead of making fun of me

[slender nymph]

honestly, if you think that declaring a single variable and doing nothing else is enough to make it jump you should really consider learning the fundamentals of the language because you seem to be at a level of understanding below where you need to be in order to follow this tutorial

[brave token]

maybe keep your fingers off the arrow keys next time

[zenith temple]

[frosty hound]

"And then he set the oven to 400F and showed a cake. I tried it, but when I opened my oven, there was no cake inside."

I'm not sure what it is about game development, but in any other skill, following the instructions from the start just seems like the most common sense thing to do.

[queen vale]

I don't think anyone is meaning to make fun of you.
Aside from etiquette, it's moreso that you should fully inform yourself and research the topics your covering as they can be found inside of the unity forum, etc.

[fickle plume]

@zenith temple Please consider starting with https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials You'll get better understanding of the engine and basics of programming before jumping into a project.

And you'll know how to ask correct questions as well

[polar acorn]

Expanding on this, The Counter™ isn't just made up. It's an actual running tally of the number of times that's been said, mostly as a way of showing just how common it is for people to say that

Every single number is an actual person doing the same thing that I, personally, have seen in this server

[mental raptor]

Hi all!

[queen vale]

You're using a Rigidbody, so to 'Jump' would be rbody.AddForceY(jumpForce) upon input.

[zenith temple]

i fixed it but now it says this: UnassignedReferenceException: The variable GroundCheckPoint of PlayerController has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the GroundCheckPoint variable of the PlayerController script in the inspector.
UnityEngine.Object+MarshalledUnityObject.TryThrowEditorNullExceptionObject (UnityEngine.Object unityObj, System.String parameterName) (at <dc764b59c049482b93bebc78a7e33a04>:0)
UnityEngine.Bindings.ThrowHelper.ThrowNullReferenceException (System.Object obj) (at <dc764b59c049482b93bebc78a7e33a04>:0)
UnityEngine.Transform.get_position () (at <dc764b59c049482b93bebc78a7e33a04>:0)
PlayerController.Grounded () (at Assets/PlayerController.cs:43)
PlayerController.Jump () (at Assets/PlayerController.cs:57)
PlayerController.Update () (at Assets/PlayerController.cs:28)

[sour fulcrum]

have you assigned the GroundCheckPoint variable of the PlayerController script in the inspector?

[slender nymph]

You probably need to assign the GroundCheckPoint variable of the PlayerController script in the inspector.

[zenith temple]

i did

but it doesn't work

[slender nymph]

that is not the inspector, nor is it the variable you need to assign

[polar acorn]

If you did, show the inspector of your player controller

[wintry quarry]

Jsut FYI the tutorial tells you how to do this at 8 minutes 13 seconds

The key is to just follow the tutorial closely, don't skip anything

[zenith temple]

this part?

[wintry quarry]

no

the part where he assigns it in the unity editor

at 8 minutes 13 seconds

[naive pawn]

this looks like it isn't configured

yeah that's vscode isn't it. vs would have white fields

!vscode

[radiant void]

Visual Studio Code guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

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[naive pawn]

configure your ide @zenith temple 👆

[real thunder]

please check where my angular math isn't mathing
oversimplification:

  centripetal_force = getHomingVector(target);
  centripetal_force = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(force, rb.linearVelocity);
if(centripetal_force.magnitude / speed) > max_angular_velocity * Mathf.Deg2Rad)
  {
    Vector3.ClampMagnitude(centripetal_force, max_angular_velocity * speed * Mathf.Deg2Rad);
  }
rb.AddForce(centripetal_force, ForceMode.Acceleration);
rb.linearVelocity = rb.linearVelocity.normalized * speed;

turns much sharper than

Vector3 to_target = target.position - transform.position;
Quaternion target_rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(to_target);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, target_rotation, max_angular_velocity * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
rb.linearVelocity = transform.forward * speed;

while I expect that to be the other way around

if(centripetal_force.magnitude / speed) > max_angular_velocity * Mathf.Deg2Rad)
  {
    Vector3.ClampMagnitude(centripetal_force, max_angular_velocity * speed * Mathf.Deg2Rad);
  }

trying to clamp angular velocity here
should that work like that?

[queen vale]

I might need sleep, shouldn't it be centripetal_force = Vector3.Clamp etc

[errant breach]

Hello everyone !
I have a script, EnemyScript that make private AttackScript attackScript; on start.

EnemyScript & AttackScript are both on the same gameObject.
But when i try to do :

attackScript.timeSinceLastAttack += Time.deltaTime;

I get the error :

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
EnemyScript.FixedUpdate () (at Assets/_Scripts/Enemy/EnemyScript.cs:114)

Which is surprising as the link is well made... Do you have any ideas how to fix it please ? As always, thank you !

[real thunder]

yeah right, I might need sleep...

[sour fulcrum]

components don't magically fill references just because there on the same gameobject

you need to connect them via assigning in inspector or in code with getcomponent

@errant breach

[errant breach]

oh i might have misunderstood how it work then, thanks !

[polar acorn]

Where do you assign a value to attackScript

[errant breach]

just like that, hoping that "components magically fill references just because there on the same gameobject "

[solar hill]

yeah youre either going to have to manually assign it in the inspector if its a serialized field, or assign it in the code

you just created a field for attackScript, its current value is null

[real thunder]

you can also do both via assingning components on OnValidate

[sour fulcrum]

OnValidate() is not ideal for that

[real thunder]

nullcheck and then trygetcomponent

[real thunder]

what would be better?

[sour fulcrum]

public assignment or in awake

[real thunder]

if by public assigment you mean assinging that in the inspector, onValidate would do that?

noticable downsides?

[polar acorn]

Start or Awake

[real thunder]

but why

[sour fulcrum]

OnValidate() runs common-ish enough to where it's unneccasary code being run that could scale up in certain scenarios

[polar acorn]

Because OnValidate runs in the editor which can slow down your editing, and can lead to stale references for things like prefabs getting copied around

[real thunder]

I don't get the stale reference thing but I guess it make sense that OnValidate runs freuqently but... I thought it's meant for that sort of stuff

[naive pawn]

you would use Reset for doing serialized references automatically, OnValidate runs way too frequently

[real thunder]

what for is it really

[naive pawn]

validating inspector values

[errant breach]

Im also breaking my mind on such a werid error...
AttackScript tries to acces a function in EnemyScript with a parameter.

The EnemyScript is supposed to take the parameter, and use it to change the animation.

• Usually, i don't have to put the parameter as "string". I tried but it got me error "cannot find animation with that name". Do you know why it happens ?
  ⚠️ i TRIED using string !!

Not : es is the reference to EnemyScript, and it's not properly defined 👍

[polar acorn]

If you move a prefab without actually opening it, OnValidate hasn't run yet, and so that value won't update to the one on that object. If you run the game, the variable is pointing to the old component (the one on the original prefab)

[naive pawn]

like what Range/Min/Max do, but with more control

[queen vale]

Like they said it's an editor only thing

[polar acorn]

What is ATTACKLOAD?

[real thunder]

oh no

[naive pawn]

by "moving a prefab", do you mean renaming/moving the file?

[polar acorn]

Yes, in the file system

[errant breach]

Sorry, i went too fast. Here's how it work

[naive pawn]

doesn't unity watch for that and move the meta file too, so you wouldn't have to set any new references, including within the prefab?

[polar acorn]

But if it gets set in OnValidate and isn't actually serialized it won't be in the meta file

[naive pawn]

where's this defined, and where's AttackStart defined?

[polar acorn]

So then what's the problem

[naive pawn]

ahhh i thought this was in regards to a serialized field, misunderstood

[errant breach]

The issue being that i have this error..

[polar acorn]

So, then you haven't actually set those. Is that block of code you've sent in the same file?

[naive pawn]

@errant breach answer this

[errant breach]

And putting "es.<function>" give me that

[errant breach]

Hold on, please 👍

[naive pawn]

well, that's quite straightforward then

[polar acorn]

It's a constant, it doesn't belong to an instance of EnemyScript (the variable es), it belongs to the EnemyScript class itself

[real thunder]

amazing
so bad I haven't saw it on any guide or any place really

[errant breach]

This is defined in the EnemyScript.

AttackStart is defined in AttackScript

[naive pawn]

so they're separate contexts, hence the initial error

[errant breach]

Hmmm, a lot of new words for me to learn i guess 🤔

[naive pawn]

const is similar to static+readonly

[errant breach]

Alright, i understand my mistake. Thank you for explaining.

But this is really new for me... In order to execute the function with the parameter, do i need to make something like... That ? Or something completly new and different from the usual ?

[polar acorn]

IDLE belongs to the class. ChangeAnimationState is not static or const and belongs to es

[errant breach]

oooh, so i can only read it (as said by Chris) but i cannot modify it or execute it in any way ?

[naive pawn]

that's unrelated to what digi's saying

stuff that's static or const belong to the type, aka EnemyScript in this context
stuff that aren't static nor const belong to the instance ("instance members"), aka es here

[queen vale]

Could be wrong but is the enum public?

[naive pawn]

it's not an enum.

[solar hill]

it would be better if it was one for this no?

there are animation states?

[errant breach]

They are ! But i think i don't really understand the logic behind all of this

[naive pawn]

c# enums are backed by integrals, that could work for managing transitions but not for playing specific states as they're used here

[polar acorn]

IDLE is const, so it's static and readonly. It belongs to the class.
ChangeAnimationState is an instance member, and belongs to a specific instance of that script

[sour fulcrum]

consts are a little confusing if your newish to c#, so if it feels a little scary thats normal

[errant breach]

Hmmm... So in my case, what would be the proper way to make my code work so that es (EnemyScript) can change the AnimationState ?

[naive pawn]

this is one of them

[queen vale]

this is a shot in the dark but can we/I see the ChangeAnimationState function?

[errant breach]

Ahah gotta say it really give me headache x)

[naive pawn]

you're already pretty close to one working solution

[errant breach]

Sure, here it is :

    {
        // Prevent the same animation from interrupting with itself
        if (currentAnimationState == newState) return;

        // Play the animation 
        currentAnimationState = newState;
        animator.CrossFadeInFixedTime(currentAnimationState, 0.2f);
    }

[naive pawn]

yeah this was already really close to working, idk why you'd change the part that didn't have errors so it had errors

[sour fulcrum]

just learning things

[errant breach]

I FOUND IT !!!!

[errant breach]

oh

😂 Thanks !

[naive pawn]

(as explained here lol)

[errant breach]

I always overcomplicate things... So sometimes, simples things become... Very hard for me, i think that as a future developper this is something i have to work about

[sour fulcrum]

learning a whole new language is hard

[errant breach]

Or stress, maybe. ATP im developping 10 hours a day to give the game on Thursday so.. Maybe it make me take bad decisions 👍

[errant breach]

Thank to you guys, it become easier

So again

thank you 🫶

[polar acorn]

IDLE belongs to the class. The function belongs to es

[queen vale]

I try to help, I tend to not know, but the more I ask the more I learn.

[errant breach]

Ahah i do learn a lot here, which is something AI cannot replicate so im happy there's still community centered about helping :)

[sour fulcrum]

people here are happy to help anyone willing to learn and putting effort into their questions/responses

it's no biggie 😄

[errant breach]

That's a good thing, maybe one day i'll help too 💪

[grave frost]

is Awake not called after a domain reload for AlwaysExecute scripts?

whenever my code recompiles or domain reloads I need to delete and ctrl+z my object with the script on it

[naive pawn]

have you tried Start

[grave frost]

yea

only OnEnable works not start or awake

[hexed terrace]

Awake and Start only get called once at runtime, perhaps it's the same for during edit mode with that attribute too

[sour fulcrum]

i wonder if scene reloading bool plays into it?

[swift crag]

oh yeah, i'm pretty sure i ran into this recently

[grand snow]

ExecuteAlways my guy

[kindred blade]

whats the difference of saying private void or js void

[wintry quarry]

private is the default access modifier for methods, so effectively nothing

[wintry quarry]

If you want to learn more about access modifiers, read here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/access-modifiers

[rocky wyvern]

I would suggest the verbose option every time

[high mauve]

Hey I need some help

Is any one avalible

I want to detach parts of plane that collide with the ground but don't know how to do it for physics I am using rb and applying for at different position like wings tail ets but if I am to remove a wind like during crash the rb freaks out and the plane start uncontrollably spin

What should I do

[eternal needle]

You'd need to show more of your setup, like what youre doing to actually remove these objects in the first place. The hierarchy before and after would matter too
Ideally a removed piece would have its own rigidbody completely unparented from the main plane object

[high mauve]

All movement script and rb is on the aircraft game object and I am using the gasgiant airplane physics from git

[naive pawn]

https://screenshot.help

[midnight plover]

😄 random paste from old device

[alpine dew]

materialInstance = new Material(colorMaterial);
materialInstance.SetColor("_BaseColor", Color.red);

for some reason I can't manage to get a script to change the color of this material texture. On a different script I changed the texture the same way with the BaseMap property but it seems like neither _Color nor _BaseColor work for this. Any ideas?

there's no reference errors or anything

[naive pawn]

i think #1390346776804069396 may be able to answer better

[alpine dew]

thanks I'll try there

[queen vale]

Also need more context, you made a variable and assigned a value to it. As far as I know you just set a value to a variable and never applied it to the actual material/component.

Dj brewing up a correction, lmao

[errant breach]

Hello !
So i want an Enemy to collide with everything that has the "aiZone" tag.
Here's the code :

    {
        
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "aiZone")
        {
            print("collision");
            inTheGameZone = true;
        }

    }```

It doesn't work. Both `Enemy` and `aiZone` have : 
> - A RigidBody
> - A BoxCollider (Trigger ✅) (tried disabling it)

When i tried creating a random box and giving the collision script, it worked **perfectly**. 

By the way, the entire code is actually the following. For the playerProjectile it work fine so i can't explain my incomprehension. 

Do you know how i could make it work please ? Thanks !

[queen vale]

I think what you're looking for are layers.

[errant breach]

This code, that i just copy pasted, work just fine btw

[sour fulcrum]

Log outside of your if statements, does it run?

[queen vale]

You can use code and tags to determine things but if you're talking about physical interactions, bouncing off of, colliding with, etc. I'd point to layers.

[errant breach]

No it's just to determine things, no colliding 👍

[errant breach]

Let's see..

[midnight tree]

1. other.gameObject.CompareTag(tag);
2. Are you sure its trigger(collider with toggle), right?

[errant breach]

Here's the box !

[midnight tree]

Okey, and colliding object also?

[sour fulcrum]

(CompareTag is just a minor optimisation, it won’t be your problem)

[errant breach]

Here's the colliding object !

[queen vale]

Does this object have a rigibody aswell

[midnight tree]

Disable trigger by this one

Trigger detects objects with collider, not a trigger

[sour fulcrum]

triggers are collliders and afaik triggers should react to other triggers

[errant breach]

I don't understand.

if (other.gameObject.tag == "PlayerProjectile") work PERFECTLY FINE

if (other.gameObject.tag == "aiZone") is NOT DETECTED

Shooting work (damage) ✅
Level doesnt work ❌

[queen vale]

I could be wrong but from my experience, triggers do not interact or trigger other triggers.

[midnight tree]

By me the same

[errant breach]

Actually with the player projectile it work perfectly fine 😅

So that's very strange like... I dont understand

Let's see what get returned if i remove all "if" and just wait for any collision..

[queen vale]

does it...?

[errant breach]

Yes, both have a rigidBody !

[queen vale]

Are both set to IsTrigger = true?

[sour fulcrum]

Do you have any collision matrix settings changed

[errant breach]

The collision is not even detected

But the collision with everything else is (His own bullet, player's bullet, other enemies, ...)

[queen vale]

Also fr I'm wrong on the both being triggers not interacting? I had an issue recently related to that... huh, my bad.

[sour fulcrum]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-matrix-3d

[queen vale]

🥲 Ah, kinematic was my issue

[errant breach]

Oh my fcking skibidi god

[tranquil forge]

is there any api let me toggle these 2 in code

[errant breach]

i just lost 30 minutes and your time on this

[sour fulcrum]

you spent 30 minutes learning to check it next time 🫡

[errant breach]

First day we did remove collision between wall-type and enemies and i completly forgot about that 😭

[sour fulcrum]

It happens

[errant breach]

AAAAAAH you're right 😭

[sour fulcrum]

Thats why you should debug without conditions asap to see if it’s code or object setup related then work from there

[errant breach]

Hope no one in my class will see this conversation because otherwhile... I'll look dumb xd

[errant breach]

Im starting to get the "debug" logic i guess.. I completly forgot it could be external causes like that, not code. Overtime i hope ill get more independant... Thank you for your time and for the help ! guys ! :)

[queen vale]

Ah don't fret over it. I find it funny that the more I say wrong, the more it seems Batby wants to correct me lol

[errant breach]

We all learn here i guess ahah x)

[alpine dew]

sorry for the super late reply

[queen vale]

No worries but where/how are you applying the value to the object's material?

[alpine dew]

well I tried two different places. One is the Awake function in the script itself on an object in the scene

the other was in a function tied to a button

basically just creating a new instance of the material and then attempting to change the property

I would have gotten the renderer component of the object and tried to do it that way, but I'd like this material's color changed for every object that uses it

[queen vale]

I hate to be a broken record but if a person did

int _reference
int a;

Start()
{
a = _reference;
// then said
a = 2;
// _reference would still be it's original value
}

[alpine dew]

yeah I figured it was the instancing that was the issue so I tried just setting the original reference's color without making a new material instance and that doesn't work either for some reason

is it possible you need to set both the _Color and _BaseColor properties for it to take effect? I was looking in the .mat file itself and saw that when the color was changed in the inspector both of those properties reflected the change

I don't really understand the difference between them in this case

[queen vale]

Change the property itself, or the variable you made?

[sour fulcrum]

But when are you putting this material on the relevant renderer?

[alpine dew]

it should be the property itself since it's the .SetColor() method which takes a property name

[queen vale]

Batby may correct me, but if I made a Transform 'A' and A.SetPosition, I'd only be adjusting the position of A, not the actual object.

[naive pawn]

the actual object's position is the transform

[alpine dew]

I'm not really sure how to answer this. The material is on an object in the scene, and there will be more like it that use said material

[naive pawn]

@alpine dew batby is asking what you're doing with the material after you've changed the color

[sour fulcrum]

If your making a new instance of a/the material, you have to actually use that material somewhere. Otherwise it’s a random material unrelated to any renderer

If your attempting to modify a material that is actively being used by many objects, you wouldn’t be making a new instance of a material, you’d be modifying that material directly

[queen vale]

GameObject _thing;

void Start()
{
 Transform A = _thing.transform;
 A.SetPositionAndRotation(etc);
}

won't affect _thing

[naive pawn]

it will

because Transform is a reference type

that's the same as doing _thing.transform.SetEtcEtc directly

[queen vale]

You're making a variable and setting it's value equal to the other, then adjusting it...(?)

[naive pawn]

mutating it

reassignments and mutations are different things

[queen vale]

You're never applying that new value to the _thing itself(?)

[naive pawn]

well, you're applying it to _thing.transform

[alpine dew]

that's a fair point. I've gone ahead and did away with the instancing of a new version of the material. For some reason just changing the material itself doesn't seem to want to work

[naive pawn]

A and _thing.transform don't actually hold the transform. Transform is a reference type. the actual transform is somewhere on the heap, and _thing.transform/A hold references to that transform on the heap

when you do A = _thing.transform, you're just copying that reference. so when you mutate A, you're mutating that object on the heap, which is shared by _thing.transform

this is how reference types work

[sour fulcrum]

Well as said if you make a new material you’d need to make renderers use that material via code, they don’t know about it.

Changing the material directly in theory should work, if you show attempted code we can maybe help troubleshoot that

[alpine dew]

hang on I'm trying something

[queen vale]

Am I going insane? Lol, I'm also gonna try something

[alpine dew]

Is this not fine as is?

colorMaterial.SetColor("_BaseColor", Color.red);```

[naive pawn]

to be blunt, you seem to not understand how reference types work, so i'd suggest go brushing up on that

[sour fulcrum]

Seems fine in isolation

[naive pawn]

and is colorMaterial used?

[alpine dew]

yes it's what's shown in the inspector here

I feel like something weird is happening with it