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[naive pawn]

is it used on some actual renderer

[sour fulcrum]

Is it used by any renderers

[alpine dew]

yes it's on a mesh

[naive pawn]

your user menu controller isn't rendering the material, is it

[alpine dew]

it shouldn't be

[naive pawn]

it isn't, hence the question

[sour fulcrum]

two things

Have you tried just setting .color?

Have you debug logg the value of the material color before and after you set it?

[naive pawn]

if you modify a score but never put it in the UI it'll never show up - we're basically asking if you've passed it along to the UI

[alpine dew]

I have not. Last time I tried something like this with changing a BaseMap texture it took effect in editor time too, which I feel is almost certainly not good practice

[alpine dew]

I can do that

[sour fulcrum]

That is how modifying assets works, it’s not necessarily bad practice but it can have consequences if your not aware of what your doing

[alpine dew]

I see

[sour fulcrum]

Same thing as modifying scriptableobjects, prefabs etc.

[queen vale]

I definitely have more to learn but this worked as I meant to describe

public class Test : MonoBehaviour
{

    int _number;

    private void Start()
    {
        _number = 1;
        int _thing = _number;

        Debug.Log(_number);

        _thing -= 1;
        Debug.Log(_number);
        Debug.Log(_thing);
    }
}

[naive pawn]

right, these are value types, they fundamentally work differently from reference types

conceptually, reference-typed values have an identity, value-typed values do not, hence the difference in behavior here.

[alpine dew]

I swear I looked this up just before getting into it but am I wrong about Awake? Does it not execute even when the object is inactive?

[naive pawn]

it doesn't execute when the object is inactive, yes

[alpine dew]

well therein lies the problem I'm sure

[sour fulcrum]

what does the word awake mean to you 😛

[alpine dew]

one of these methods I've been trying was the right one

[naive pawn]

ngl i do wish there was like, an OnLoaded thing though

[sour fulcrum]

true

[alpine dew]

well the way the documentation described it, it made it seem like Awake happens "before the game starts" as in like whenever the script instance is first created

and I thought that's why OnEnable was its own thing

[sour fulcrum]

Awake only runs once per instance, onenable runs any time it goes from disabled to enabled

[naive pawn]

OnEnable can happen multiple times whereas Awake will only happen once

[alpine dew]

So I most likely just need to run this in a function on an active object

[sour fulcrum]

well no

[naive pawn]

also Awake works on activeInHierarchy whereas OnEnable works on activeInHierarchy && enabled

[sour fulcrum]

You need to run the function period

[alpine dew]

ah right

[queen vale]

🥲 The more I say the less I know

[sour fulcrum]

It be like that

[naive pawn]

i couldve probably phrased this clearer

Awake works on the gameobject level but OnEnable works on the component level, i guess?

[alpine dew]

I knew something wasn't adding up when I tried to debug log the steps and nothing was output

[sour fulcrum]

Thats why we log asap

[alpine dew]

Thanks you all

[rancid tinsel]

does anyone know why VS isn't throwing a fit over this?

it normally does

[queen vale]

if ==

[rancid tinsel]

I know, I'm curious as to why the first screenshot isn't underlined though

and why it works and compiles

[night raptor]

is quest a boolean?

[rancid tinsel]

no its a scriptable object

AI is saying that means it treats that if as a null check... which makes no sense to me

[night raptor]

oh right, but that evaluates to boolean as all unity objects afaik

Let me explain

[rancid tinsel]

I think I get it kind of

but I've never seen it as an expression

[night raptor]

it still probably doesn't do what you want

[naive pawn]

because sometimes it's valid, but in the case you got an error, it isn't valid

[night raptor]

any assignment in C# also returns the new value. someFloatVariable = 2.0f for example returns 2.0, similarly quest = pinnedQuest returns pinnedQuest which unity evaluates as boolean expression

[naive pawn]

to be pedantic, unity defines that as implicitly convertible to boolean, which c# evaluates

[night raptor]

Why unity Objects (which ScriptableObjects are too) can be evaluated as booleans, here's the reason https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object-operator_Object.html

Probably used the the incorrect terminology, mb

[naive pawn]

in languages with more built-in boolean coersion this is a more common mistake and/or idiom, like in c/c++ or js

[rancid tinsel]

Yeah in hindsight it makes sense, but it's definitely a mistake

So if you boil it down, it's basically just "if (pinnedQuest != null)" right?

[midnight plover]

that looks so wrong 😄

ScriptableObject whatEv = null;

if (whatEv = new ScriptableObject())
    return;

[naive pawn]

it also assigns quest

[rancid tinsel]

yeah lol

[rancid tinsel]

oh yeah you're right

[naive pawn]

so it's more like if ((quest = pinnedQuest) != null)

[rancid tinsel]

for the sake of the if statement the quest doesn't matter but yeah important to keep in mind

[naive pawn]

i guess this idiom wouldn't be used in c# at all since c# already has the try/out idiom

not like it's used much in other languages since it's hard to read lol

[errant breach]

Hello !
Small question about the Invoke, when i put other value as "1" for timeBeforeSpawn, it does not work. Like "Activated()" is never called at all !

Do you have any idea why ? Thank you guys ! The "timeForSpawn" is a parameter

And here, only the first 3 are spawned

[ivory bobcat]

Show the logs (uncollapsed)

Place a log before invoke and see if it even makes it there

[brave token]

I think you should ping him because i feel like he didn't see your message

[errant breach]

Ahah i did

im looking on the documentation about "log"

But yeah don't hesitate to ping me 👍

I understood my error 😅
I thought that "120" was "120 frame" and so "2 seconds"

but it's actually 120 seconds

so the error is fixed, thanks 👍

[broken bough]

Hey I need to get some opinions on this character controller, anything to note on this.
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
[Tooltip("Forward/back speed (units/sec).")]
public float speed = 1.89f;

[Tooltip("Turn speed (degree/sec).")]
public float rotationSpeed = 89.0f;

private Rigidbody rb;

private void Start ()
{ 
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    if (rb == null) Debug.LogWarning("PlayerController needs a Rigidbody.");
}

private void FixedUpdate()
{
Vector2 moveInput = Vector2.zero;

// Foreward/backward for the player
if (Keyboard.current.wKey.isPressed || Keyboard.current.upArrowKey.isPressed) moveInput.y = 1f;
if (Keyboard.current.sKey.isPressed || Keyboard.current.downArrowKey.isPressed) moveInput.y = -1f;

    // Left/right (rotation) for the player
    if (Keyboard.current.aKey.isPressed || Keyboard.current.leftArrowKey.isPressed) moveInput.x = -1f;
    if (Keyboard.current.dKey.isPressed || Keyboard.current.rightArrowKey.isPressed) moveInput.x = 1f;

    // Move is facing direction for our player
    Vector3 movement = transform.forward * moveInput.y * speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
rb.MovePosition(rb.position + movement);

// Y-axis rotation  (invert when going backwards.) For the Y Axis rotation of our player
float turnDirection = moveInput.x;
if (moveInput.y < 0)
    turnDirection = -turnDirection;

float turn = turnDirection * rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
Quaternion turnRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, turn, 0f);
rb.MoveRotation(rb.rotation * turnRotation);
}

}

[midnight plover]

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[broken bough]

That's what I'm trying to do.

[midnight plover]

Clearly you did not. you neither used a paste website nor did you use the ` pattern to paste it here.

[broken bough]

Hold on, I think I did but it just didn't show it.

I used one of the sites to do this.

[midnight plover]

then you have to paste the link here, not the code...

[broken bough]

OK I'll send the link

https://paste.myst.rs/f6t88dc8

I actually tried to follow the instructions of a character controller for my game, and actually tried to write it all down myself.

[midnight plover]

I mean, there is not much happening right now. But one thing you should change is your input detection happening in fixed update. Physicsi in fixed, but input in update

Do you got specific questions about it?

[broken bough]

I'm trying to make a Resident Evil 2 remake-type game. Would there need to be any changes to the character controller for this to happen?

[keen dew]

MovePosition and MoveRotation should only be used with kinematic rigidbodies, which I assume the player is not. It should use forces or set the velocity instead

and checking individual keys kinda defeats the point of using the new input system

[naive pawn]

you could use composite axes here to handle the inputs more cleanly yeah

[midnight plover]

Imagening playing with a controller instead of keyboard. So yeh, you should tie into the inpt system correctly with actions performed and input schemes to cover those scenarious

[broken bough]

Ok, thanks, I'll try to input those into the new input system. Lol, I kind of sound cheesy with that line.

[naive pawn]

this is fine for isPressed checks.

[midnight plover]

yeh, but not recommended especially when not knowing the difference. So why not get into the habit of putting inputs in update upfront

[naive pawn]

fair enough

[dawn vale]

Good evening, I need help with a transition. I'm making a small walking simulator game. My question is about the transition between scenes.
In scene 1, the player is in a forest and enters a church (scene 2).
From scene 2, when the player opens the door to exit, he finds himself directly in another forest (scene 3). Is there a way to make the transition between scenes 2 and 3 happen without "teleporting" the player into scene 3? What I mean is, is there a way to load scene 3 IN scene 2 (or vice versa) so that everything looks clean?

[naive pawn]

might be additive scene loading you're after?

[wintry quarry]

yep, async additive scene loading

[dawn vale]

im new to unity so i was just tring thing

[wintry quarry]

While you're in scene 1 (maybe when you get near the church) you can start asynchronously and addtively loading scene 2.
Once inside, you can async and additively start loading scene 3. You can meanwhile start asynchronously unloading scene 1

(assuming the player cannot go back to scene 1)

[dawn vale]

okay thanks, I'll try and let you know

[prisma shard]

I am officially moving in the direction of getting to advanced C# and wondering if I should stop or not. My current career feels unstable and I think it's time to move on. I find myself liking learning about programming and every 6 hour study session goes by in a breeze and I feel I'm acquiring things fast. But I'm worried that programming will soon be an obsolete skill. Like learning the mechanical engine of a 1940s car. I feel like AI is advancing too fast to really know what industries it will take over and what will be safe. Only best educated guesses like nurses likely being more safe than data analysts. Problem is I have not found one of those "safe" careers that seem interesting yet. Thoughts? Also please don't do cope answers like "Ai still makes script errors, it's safe". It seems like a super short sighted opinion and definitely not something to base a career off of. But also in such modern times, does it even make sense to plan at all......

Not sure if this is the right room for the question

[hexed terrace]

If you enjoy it, never stop.
Programming will never go away, but it will continue to evolve. Very few people these days know how to do low level programming.

[swift crag]

given that you're describing literally any counterargument as "cope answers", I think you've already made up your mind

[prisma shard]

If "not yet" is the only counter argument then yea I guess it falls under my definition of a cope answer.

[prisma shard]

Thanks for your opinion. I thought c# was a high level language though

[hexed terrace]

.. yes it is..

[naive pawn]

ai isn't going to replace actual skill, if people stop actually practicing then AI just would stop improving from lack of original training data

[hexed terrace]

I suppose that last bit required too much extra thought to understand.

It used to be that there was only low level programming, then came the next languages and now there are less people who know low level.. programming evolved

[real thunder]

I don't know what "real programming" is but doing things in unity I am just describing the behaviour what I want most of the time instead
I think it's called scripting
That's basically the same as telling LLM what you want isn't it?

there was that joke that AI would replace programmers at the point where people who they work for would know what they want

[wintry quarry]

The actual typing of the code part was never the bottleneck in software engineering

Well

maybe it was in the punchcard days

[naive pawn]

there was a time that our modern "computers" replaced the job of "computers". math skills aren't any less useful today.

[prisma shard]

Interesting thought. But models can be curated/fine tuned so I imagine there will be a few programming brainiacs out there that assure program AI doesn't start being dimished into slop from being too abstracted from the original intention written code

[real thunder]

well, they are less valued

[naive pawn]

not sure where you're getting that from

[real thunder]

to think of it maybe not, maybe it's now needed for more complex things

[hexed terrace]

maths skills are less valued? wtf? lol

unity coding isn't scripting either btw

[real thunder]

by needed and valued I mean money you get from just doing that

[naive pawn]

you still get money doing math

[hexed terrace]

I'll go tell my account he's charging too much

[real thunder]

I mean being able to do calculations now is less useful because u can use apps for that

[naive pawn]

lol no

[solar hill]

U mean a calculator?

[real thunder]

like that

[naive pawn]

thinking is faster than writing and reading into a physical device

[hexed terrace]

The abacus really gutted the maths industry

[solar hill]

I was about to say lol

The abacus has been around for milenia

[real thunder]

there is also that thing that
accounting apps

[hexed terrace]

and see how that destroyed accounting, definitely a dead industry these days!

[polar acorn]

Do you think "good at math" means you can just do rote computations of basic math problems?

[naive pawn]

the point is problem solving, not just raw numbers

[real thunder]

I meant something like that starting this

[naive pawn]

calculator can't save you if you can't even figure out which numbers to use

[real thunder]

I am saying that it's "less valued" not like obsolete

[naive pawn]

and we're telling you it isn't

maybe you value it less

[polar acorn]

You're going to need strong mber theory. The ability to fully internalize spatial geometry. Intuit units and conversions, come up with elegant equations to solve practical problems

[real thunder]

you get less money out of same math? I assume that

[naive pawn]

that comparison doesn't really make sense

[polar acorn]

Math is not solving equations.

You're on a computer. The device literally named for doing these things

[real thunder]

there is a good chance we talk about different things

[polar acorn]

Game development is going to require a lot of high-level mathematical concepts

the kinds where the test says "You can use a calculator, computer, and open-book" and then you end up using none of them because they literally do not help you solve the problems

[real thunder]

like if you could get money from doing annoying job of calculating stuff
less valued now because you can use a device now you should learn something else, more
that still wrong?

[errant breach]

Hello, so i have a very weird issue that suddenly, some prefab of mine seems to be very stretched. I have to put the "scale" value to "0.02 1 1" to fix it but until now everything only ad (1, 1, 1), the root, the folder, the subfolder...

So that's new. Is this a common issue ? And do you know how i can fix it please ? Thanks !

⚠️ NOTHING and i've verified inside the "OrangeDragon" folder have a different scale from "(1, 1, 1)"

[swift crag]

Check its parent objects!

your 'lossy scale' is the product of your own scale, plus the scales (and rotations) of all of your parents

[polar acorn]

"Annoying calculating stuff" hasn't been the actual problem to solve in nearly a hundred years

[swift crag]

Notably, if you dragged this prefab directly into the hierarchy, its local scale will be untouched (so it'll stay at [1,1,1])

[wintry quarry]

what kind of renderer is it? And yeah check the parent objects all the way up the line

[swift crag]

it won't rescale itself, even if its parent has some wacky scale

[errant breach]

Stupid damn triggers !
This was the issue, thank you !!

[swift crag]

I try to avoid parenting objects to anything with a non-uniform scale

It causes headaches

So instead I might do this

• Checkpoint
  • Trigger (non uniform scale)
  • Whatever (has a renderer on it)

[swift crag]

if you wanna see something wild, rotate the OrangeDragon object

it'll skew and deform

[real thunder]

wdym
there were people doing that?

now people do more high level calculations where low level stuff is obsolete, something like that I am trying to say

those folks with slide rules

[polar acorn]

We've had devices that can handle the rote computation of tasks for a very long time. "Computer" used to be a job rather than a device, and was usually done by low-skill laborers because it was just plugging numbers into devices that did math that were a lot more annoying to use, but just as effective.

[real thunder]

that I didn't knew how it works
I thought they were ugh
mathing?
Idk

[mental raptor]

Idk if i am dumb but i am trying to make the cam follow a cube right, Its giving me this error. Code aswell

[wintry quarry]

you need to assign the player variable in the inspector

like it says

[mental raptor]

wdym

[wintry quarry]

do you know what the inspector is?

[mental raptor]

Yes

[wintry quarry]

so open it for the object with your script on it

and assign the player variable there

[mental raptor]

Add the FollowPlayer code onto the cube

[wintry quarry]

what?

You already have the script on your camera, right?

[mental raptor]

Yea

sorry i am really new

[wintry quarry]

so select your camera

look at the inspector

and assign the player variable there

Right now it probably says "None (Transform)"

you need to assign the player object in that field so it knows what to follow

[mental raptor]

YTea

YO

LETS F###ING GO

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[brave token]

how do i fix this issue in the essential pathway? it was fine till the publishing part

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[rancid tinsel]

!ide

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[rancid tinsel]

@dense basin

[slender nymph]

inb4 they tel you to shut up because that's what they were telling everyone who was attempting to help with that yesterday
also they were muted earlier

[rancid tinsel]

Eh maybe, I've been translating with Claude into Turkish which seems to help.

Crazy what you can do nowadays lol

[brave token]

this was in unity but i found a work-around

[rough granite]

message wasnt for you ~_~

[brave token]

it definetly looks like it was for me

or am i missing something

[naive pawn]

there's a ping right under the bot message

[rough granite]

they pinged who it was for right under and if you check the persons chat history they had just that problem (ide not being configured)

[naive pawn]

and a lot of times people will also just run bot commands for themselves

[rough granite]

this too

[brave token]

i didn't see the pinged guy having a problem

i'm having a problem with opening this one specific door even though it works fine for the other doors

[slender nymph]

use mp4 to embed the video in discord

[brave token]

dang it

[brave token]

mp4 now

[slender nymph]

instead of wiggling your mouse around, you should describe the problem with your words, and share the relevant code correctly

[brave token]

so i use this one script the essential pathway provided me and for some reason, that ONE door won't open

even though the trigger box is in the correct place, the script and the box collider is correctly placed

no nvm i forgot the animator

sorry

[uncut kayak]

Does anyone have any Resources on how to make Tilesets I can interact With?
Like if I press a Button while My Player RigidBody is over a specific Tile set it changes it into something else?

[brave token]

could you be more specific? are you making a 2d or a 3d game? why do you want to add this?

[rich adder]

since tiles aren't gameobjects you need to work off their coordinate / position in the tilemap

[uncut kayak]

Yeah 2D

[brave token]

finally completed the essential pathway

[wintry quarry]

Look at the Tilemap API:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.html

These will be of interest:
WorldToCell
CellToWorld
GetTile
SetTile

[rancid tinsel]

!code

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[swift crag]

learning to use these will make your life much easier

i tried to do the position math myself for a bit

and then i realized that i don't have to!

[brave token]

can someone tell me the best way to learn how to make fps games?

[wintry quarry]

Practice

Start with tutorials

make sure you understand the concepts and code

[brave token]

yeah but i was asking if you guys have recommended tutorials that i can watch

[solar hill]

!learn

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[errant breach]

Hello, im trying to return a list, but it doesn't work. Unity tell me that "Convert Loot into Loot" which i don't really understand..

My goal is to give my enemies a wide variety of possible things to drop on death with each having a % of drop, and return a list that will say "drop all of them !"

Thank for those willing to help

[sour fulcrum]

in the future instead of screenshots share via

!code

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[sour fulcrum]

these two Type's are not the same

[errant breach]

Ah, it's pretty self explanatory then. Thank you ! Both errors got fixed !

[sour fulcrum]

yes, as the function was expecting to return a list of loot 😄

[errant breach]

Obviously... I gotta need some sleep 😅

Have a great day/night ! :)

[sour fulcrum]

one second if you dont mind @errant breach

What is that return in the first loop intended for?

[errant breach]

That's what im wondering too 😅 does it look like a mistake ?

[sour fulcrum]

It does indeed 😄
Are you not the one who wrote it? 😛

[errant breach]

Im actually looking at a tutorial to make a lootTable, but i want my enemies to be able to drop multiple things instead of one (like in the tutorial).
The man in the video told to "add that return if you want to make a list of items to drop" so i did it without actually understanding why xd

I know, following tutorials blindly is not the good way to go but.. I gotta learn !

[rough granite]

tf it mean by "if lucky" is there just a chance that the code says no i dont want to execute this
-# oh wait this aint your code so you probably wouldn't know

[errant breach]

You made me laught anyway 👍

[rough granite]

hmm discord having some problems (forgive me for talking about non code)

[errant breach]

I dont.

💥📏

[rough granite]

if you plan to drop the whole loot table (after the chance) why make a new list instead of just returning possibleItems?

[sour fulcrum]

Right ok, couple things to say

Firstly, return ends the function (by returning something), as in if that return runs that function is done. this means with that current code your never going to get anything more than 1 loot in that returned list (since you return after adding)

Secondly, that randomly rolled number is being used for every check in your lootList loop, you probably want to roll that per item right?

Thirdly and this isn't a problem or related to problems but just a random tip, in your InstantiateLoot() function, if you have the prefab via a reference to a component (which you do here via your reference to Loot) you can get a reference to the instansiated component directly, eg.

GameObject myInstance = Instansiate(myPrefab);
Loot myLootInstance = myInstance.GetComponent<Loot>();

can just be

Loot myLootInstance = Instansiate(myPrefab);

[sharp ridge]

Hi! So I don't know why but I am trying to make an area in my secene that detects the player and reduces their health but I can't seem to make the area detect collisions. Does anyone know why that could be? 1. First picture is area 2, Second picutre is the player 3. picture is the code

[errant breach]

That's right, i could do that 👍

and i will !

[errant breach]

WOA ! That is a very productive return, thank you for that !

You know what ? I'll stop Unity today, made to much code and i feel like i can't even think anymore (im struggling just to find my words 😅)

Tommorow i'll work on it and i will check everything you said ! Again, thank you, and have a great day / night ! :D

[grand snow]

Appears like it should work at first glance.
Btw its bad design to modify the player health so directly outside the PlayerData class

[grand snow]

OH you arent using the 2D function thats why its not working!
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-messages-2d

[sharp ridge]

OHHHHH

Yeah, omg, i was breaking my head for like 15 minutes

Thankss

[grand snow]

but my comment about design still stands

your player health should be read only and you should use a function to apply damage

[sharp ridge]

yeah no fair enough, normally I would do another class that modifies it but I just kind of dont want to do it rn, is for a level design project for class and the programming is not a focus

But thank you though

[sharp ridge]

Well function

[grand snow]

No your PlayerData class would have the function to modify health

It should "own" and manage it

[sour fulcrum]

also thats a unsafe assignment/assumption on the getcomponent, you should use a trygetcomponent eg.

if (other.TryGetComponent(out PlayerData result))
{
  playerData = result;
  StartCoroutine();
}

[sharp ridge]

ohhh I totally hadn't thought about this, true

Thanks! I will have it in mind

[sour fulcrum]

and not to hit you with another one but you probably wanna set damageCoroutine to the coroutine your running, right?

[sharp ridge]

oh huh? I kind of forget how coroutines work

[sour fulcrum]

StartCoroutine() returns a Coroutine. your StopDamage() function won't work because you never assign a Coroutine to damageCoroutine

[verbal dome]

I think if(damageCoroutine != null) is not a good way to check if a coroutine is running anyway. It may have ended but that reference would not magically become null

If you add a damageCoroutine = null when stopping it then it makes sense

(But yeah none of this matters if you never assign to it, as Batby said above)

[errant breach]

Hello, how can i configure VIsual studio Community Edition 2026 so that the compiler show the error ? Thank you !

[grand snow]

!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)
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[faint agate]

Hello im going to try explain this best I can.
I have a script on a weapon that drags another object(an orb) along the x and y axis only, the orb has a tag CanDrag.
I added SmoothDamp which delays the drag when I want no delay
The problem im having is the orb is not being dragged smoothly. I dont want smoothdamp since it causes lag and even with it low, theres still bounce or jitter. I want to drag the orb without it bouncing or jittering left and right
I am so lost any help is appreciated!

https://pastecode.dev/s/70pajo0n

[faint agate]

little context, the orb is the purple circle. Im in unity 3D. I want to drag it to the red(finish line).

[naive pawn]

are you using physics?

it seems like you are

in which case, you should not be modifying the transform, as that causes physics desyncs - you would move with forces instead

[faint agate]

That makes sense, how would I go about moving it with forces if im dragging it? If you dont mind

[keen dew]

I mean if you don't want to use SmoothDamp then just... don't use it? Replace it with Vector3 newPosition = targetPosition; instead

Seems like collision checks are done manually so pure physics based movement might be unnecessary

[livid anchor]

Hey folks, I have a question related to fbx usage.
I had a code to create a sort of blinking effect that worked on my capsule by enabling and disabling the mesh renderer, but when I changed the model for a fbx (from kenney), I had the issue that there is no mesh renderers. The prefab is just a transform and I have no idea how I can have the effect I wanted now

[errant breach]

Hello everyone,

I've created a loot system, and im being hit with errors i don't understand.
Here how it work : I give a list of possible drops to an enemy. When he dies, some items get added to a list, and then instantiated (dropped)

But when my enemy dies and play :

GetComponent<LootBag>().InstantiateLoot(transform.position);

Im getting hitted with the error :

ArgumentException: GetComponent requires that the requested component 'Loot' derives from MonoBehaviour or Component or is an interface.

But it IS a MonoBehaviour right ? So, if anyone can help, i would be glad.
Thank you !

And, by the way, the print return :

System.Collections.Generic.List 1[Loot]

So i guess i did something wrong..

[keen dew]

!code as text, not screenshots

[radiant void]

Posting code

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[keen dew]

but Loot is not MonoBehaviour, it's a ScriptableObject

You have to GetComponent the component that has a reference to the loot scriptableobject

[errant breach]

Aah, i see, with something like :

GetComponent<LootBag>().InstantiateLoot(transform.position);
In that case ?

[keen dew]

I don't know what you're trying to do exactly but uh, maybe?

[errant breach]

Holy jesus bad idea

[keen dew]

Well if you literally put that in then yes what did you expect it to do

[errant breach]

So essentially, i create a list with all the object that will drop.
it work by giving every ressources a % percentage, and then taking a random value between 0 and 100. If the value is good then the ressource get added to the droplist

And then, i want to instantiate every ressources that got in the list. By taking the "Loot Object" (which is a GameObject)

Buuuut im struggling to 😅

For the code, here is it :

https://paste.ofcode.org/37jWgNwFbQrtfLU9sqPT5EN

[keen dew]

Ok, but you already instantiate the prefab with Instantiate(droppedItemPrefab) What is the line after that supposed to do?

[midnight plover]

I guess, the LootPrefab is like a wrapper to instantiate and feed it with the data of the SO to then spawn the actual object. But you might have one unnecessary layer here, as you can just grab your info from your list and directly instantiate the item_shoot in this case. Unless your wrapper object needs to manage the loaded asset in a specific way

[errant breach]

It does look like a mistake of mine...

[errant breach]

Im going to be straight because i don't to lose your time, i have no idea what "LootPrefab" is supposed to be. I just followed a tutorial for a 2d game while is 3d and tried to make it compatible. LootPrefab look like a random GameObject with nothing particular on it so i dont understand anything

[midnight plover]

blindly following a tutorial might not be the best approach here. But since the system is not super complex, you can now take your time, reread and rethink the setup and see, what makes sense for you or not.

[errant breach]

Okay i did understand : in the tutorial, "LootPrefab" is a placeholder for an image, so i don't even need it here

[errant breach]

Yes, you are right, but we only have 2 days left and still a lot to do, so im using a lot of tutorials to gain time..
I will try, but exceptionnally, if the error is obvious i would be glad if you can give me some minutes to find it and, if i don't manage to do it, to tell me what's wrong. 👍

[midnight plover]

I mean, the solution to your initial problem is written up there, right? Dont instantiate that unneeded lootprefab, instantite your prefab from your scriptable object.

[errant breach]

Yes, it is. So as it is a list, i need to get the GameObject inside the scriptable object LootObject...
But now, im blocked because i don't know how to access the right scriptable object in my list.. 😅...

So here's what i've done. Am i in the good path ?

Or maybe i need a GetComponent..

[keen dew]

item is already the ScriptableObject. Then you can access the lootObject field normally: item.lootObject

[errant breach]

I really lack some logic

[keen dew]

what the

Instantiate(item.lootObject);

[errant breach]

Yes i added it 😅 just wanted to show how far i went

It does work now ! Thank you guys for the help :) !

[livid anchor]

I have a weird issue... I have a serialized field array, with some values in it, but when I start the game, the array becomes empty... I do not empty it in code mind you

[midnight plover]

how about adding some code here

[livid anchor]

I resolved my issue. I just deleted the array values in the inspector and re-added them and it works now. Weird

Now I have an issue with items in lists that I want to remove but they aren't removed.... issue is I destroy them so it crashes

foreach (SegmentController segment in _instanciatedSegments)
{
    segment.transform.position += Vector3.back * Time.deltaTime * _speed;

    if (segment.transform.position.z < _destroyPositionZ)
    {
        _instanciatedSegments.Remove(segment);
        Destroy(segment.gameObject);
        AddNewSegment();
    }
}

Apparently the item I want to remove stays in the list

[keen dew]

#1390346776804069396

[gaunt walrus]

Ok, thanks I’ll move my post.

[midnight plover]

You are probably getting the error of changing the list while accessing it?

[livid anchor]

I think I'll leave it for tomorrow, I've been working for 5 hours straight and I'm hella hungry

[brave token]

!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]

hey guys, what's System.Collections ?

[subtle mulch]

it's a namespace

why?

[brave token]

i'm watching a tutorial for first person movement and his script is using System.Collections and System.Collections.Generic

[subtle mulch]

those are 2 namespaces

[brave token]

he didn't explain it and reddit is useless nowadays

[subtle mulch]

before watching that tutorial i would suggest you watch a C# language tutorial

[brave token]

i know c#

[subtle mulch]

or well a lesson

[naive pawn]

have you tried google

[subtle mulch]

you don't

if you don't know what namespaces are, then you don't know enough of C#

[brave token]

the top results were confusing

[naive pawn]

that's the only result on the first page to me. idk why google's been doing that...

but yeah that's already a pretty adequate summary right there

[brave token]

i just want to know what purpose does system.collections serve

[subtle mulch]

it's a namespace

it contains more classes inside it

[naive pawn]

System.Collections and System.Collections.Generic are in the monobehaviour script template. it's not necessarily used in the tutorial script.

maybe it was removed in a later template? i haven't really used unity 6 so i wouldn't know

[subtle mulch]

maybe the tutorial was using Lists?

[ivory bobcat]

It's a part of dotnet that gives you access to collections (implied through naming convention - example: List)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections?view=net-10.0

[brave token]

yeah the tutorial created it and it automatically popped up

[naive pawn]

or maybe the tutorial was just using a version of unity that had those namespaces in the default script template

occam's razor, man

[brave token]

i wonder why they were using it but then removed it

[naive pawn]

a lot of scripts won't need to use them

[errant breach]

Hello guys ! Im trying to make a Powerup move toward the player...

• The print print("tentative d'aller vers le joueur"); is executed, so all the condition are meant !
• But the gameObject doesn't even move at all !

The Powerup has one transform and one gameObject:
MyTransform is placed in the editor. All the prefab have one (i've checked)
PlayerGameObject is took with a playerGameObject = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
It work, because it found it.

Do someone have an idea of why it doesn't work ? Thank you guys !

[keen dew]

!code 👈 😠 👇

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[errant breach]

Oh alright 😅 sorry

[keen dew]

1. the parameters are the wrong way around, you're making it move from the player towards its current position
2. you have to call MoveTowards every frame, not just once

[errant breach]

https://paste.ofcode.org/aU6eMkKBACbSyDkgdsCbmA

[keen dew]

Seeing the whole thing, it is called every frame but it's moving to the wrong direction and too fast. Try this:

myTransform.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(myTransform.position, playerGameObject.transform.position, 3 * Time.deltaTime);

also should be Update instead of FixedUpdate

[errant breach]

You find all the problem thank you ! Completly forgot about deltaTime.
And thank for the suggestion, but wont Update.. Update everything at a unreasonnable speed ? That's what i understood..

[naive pawn]

not if you use deltaTime correctly

[errant breach]

But like all the script will be executed a crazy amount of time per second is that right ?

Like the script that check if they are dead, ...

[keen dew]

Yes, but computers are also crazy fast so it doesn't matter

And you shouldn't be constantly checking if something is dead, only when something happens that might cause them to die (e.g. taking damage)

[errant breach]

I tried but my player can like shoot 10 bullets at the same time so my ennemies where dying 10 times 😅

[keen dew]

You did it wrong then

[errant breach]

On trigger enter
Remove health
if health < 0
kill (set "Died" to true and run an animation)

😅

[naive pawn]

this happens regardless

[errant breach]

But i do trust you when you tell me that i made it worng

[austere crypt]

using Spell.ECS.Component;
using Unity.Burst;
using Unity.Collections;
using Unity.Entities;
using Unity.Mathematics;
using Unity.Transforms;
namespace Spell.ECS.Systems
{
    [BurstCompile]
    public partial struct ProjectileSpawnSystem : ISystem
    {
        public void OnUpdate(ref SystemState state)
        {
            
            var ecbSingleton = SystemAPI.GetSingleton<BeginSimulationEntityCommandBufferSystem.Singleton>();
            var ecb = ecbSingleton.CreateCommandBuffer(state.WorldUnmanaged);
            
            foreach (var (request, entity)
                in SystemAPI.Query<RefRO<ProjectileSpawnRequest>>()
                    .WithEntityAccess())
            {
                Entity projectile = ecb.CreateEntity();

                ecb.AddComponent(projectile, new LocalTransform
                {
                    Position = request.ValueRO.Position,
                    Rotation = quaternion.identity,
                    Scale = 1f
                });
                
                ecb.Instantiate(projectile);
            }
        }
    }
}

using Common.Singleton;
using Spell.ECS.Component;
using Unity.Entities;
using UnityEngine;

namespace Spell.ECS
{
    public class ProjectileManagerECS : RegulatorSingleton<ProjectileManagerECS>
    {

        public EntityManager entityManager;

        protected override void Awake()
        {
            base.Awake();
            this.entityManager = World.DefaultGameObjectInjectionWorld.EntityManager;
        }

        public void SpawnProjectile(SpellContext context)
        {
            if (!context.ShouldSpawnProjectile)
                return;
        
            Entity requestEntity = instance.entityManager.CreateEntity(
                typeof(ProjectileSpawnRequest));

            this.entityManager.SetComponentData(requestEntity,
                context.SpawnRequest);
        }
    }
}

why entity not spawning in world?

[wintry quarry]

#1062393052863414313

[lofty vault]

Can I ask about DOTween here? I'm trying to use DoShake but its 1.0 default strength is too much and any strength value under 0.5 doesn't perform the shake at all.

[elder canyon]

Does anybody seem to have the problem of references breaking while doing a checkout from one branch to another branch (GIT) in Unity?

I had this issue on some of my projects. I had this experimental branch, where I made so much progress and was curious to see how the old main branch was and I switched. This broke so many references and introduced a lot of bugs, which was hard to solve.

[naive pawn]

references are stored in scene/asset files and their sources are stored in meta files (as a rule of thumb), make sure you're keeping them consistent

moving meta files around along with their corresponding assets

[elder canyon]

I also track the metafiles as well

This feels very scary. Like moving from the latest commit to a very old commit 10-20 nodes back and breaking it all.

Is there a solution for this?
Maybe worktrees could help?

[naive pawn]

well you'd have to first figure out where the mismatches came from

[strong wren]

Are you looking through what changes are happening?

[elder canyon]

I don't think I'm getting mismatches.
The references in Unity seems to break(most of the public fields) and even if I fix I got few errors, which I don't remember.

[strong wren]

Are you seeing unexpected ID changes happening in diffs?

[elder canyon]

I don't understand what ID changes is.

I'll open up the project again, and lyk

[strong wren]

Long number changes in your commits. Some of them have "ID" on the same line.

[brave token]

hey, i'm making a movement script but this error pops up while visual studio says there is no problem

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
PlayerInput+OnFootActions.Enable () (at Assets/Input/PlayerInput.cs:1310)
InputManager.OnEnable () (at Assets/Scripts/InputManager.cs:28)

[tawny sandal]

why does my sprite go through the floor sometimes and the hitboxes glitch? what can i do to fix it (the hitboxes of the sprite and floor are correct, and yes i tagged to floor if you want to ask that)

[frail hawk]

you should use physics based movement instead of translate

[tawny sandal]

how?

[frail hawk]

that is up to you, you are using linearvelocity there for your jump mechanism. you could use same for moving the player too

[tawny sandal]

okay ill figure it out ig thanks

[rich adder]

onenable is running before you doing = new() on start

you should probably use Awake or OnEnable itself

[verbal dome]

Haven't really used it but maybe the object has something else modifying the ttansform/fighting with it? What scripts does it have, animator, rigidbody?

[tawny sandal]

with this script, i use lineair velocity but when im in the air and i move left or right i basicly dont have any gravity down anymore and i also cant jump when im moving left or right, i also dont want the movement to fade out, just stop instantly

[rich adder]

you're overriding gravity

[tawny sandal]

how

[rich adder]

actually yea only apply it to X as osmal said

[verbal dome]

Character rigidbody movement is actually tricky but try using linearVelocityX to only modify x vel

The first two linearVelocity = lines change the Y velocity to zero too

[verbal dome]

Sort of right

[tawny sandal]

what should i do with the y velocity then?

[verbal dome]

Keep the previous y velocity by not touching it

[tawny sandal]

im confused i dont know what to do anymore

[verbal dome]

You have three lines that modify linearVelocity
The first two should be modifying linearVelocityX (left right)
The third one should modifiy linearVelocityY (up down)

And instead of Vector2.left you need to use a single float -1 etc.

[rich adder]

2Drigidbody lets you individually change X or Y

[tawny sandal]

i fixed it but i dont want to have to hold w to jump just want to press it, but when i use getkey the glitch appears and when i do getkeydown it doesnt but i have to hold it

[frail hawk]

how does the new code look like?

i´d use addforce for the jumping, it makes most sense

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D.AddForce.html

[rich adder]

you did none of the changes suggested

also don't use screenshots for code

[tawny sandal]

wait i changed it what

why did it change back

i accedently did ctrl z

whoops

it still phases through the floor and i still drag to the right or left after i released 🙁

not in the air anymore tho

[rich adder]

when you let go you have nothing resetting linearVelocity

thats why its often better to just capture GetAxis("Horizontal") and pass that directly to linearVelocityX

without GetKey/LeftRight

[tawny sandal]

im basicly back to the start cuz you said getaxis (did raw cuz better for my thing) but it still phases through the ground and i dont know how to fix it:
void Update()
{
float input = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
movement.x = input * speed *Time.deltaTime;
transform.Translate(movement);

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) && jumpcount > 0)
{
    myRigidbody.linearVelocityY = jumpForce;
    jumpcount -= 1;
}

}

[rich adder]

no one said to use translate tho

you can just apply it to velocityX

without the deltaTime

[tawny sandal]

idk what to do else and i had to make it move

i mean i dont know how the code looks like

[rich adder]

take a moment to think about what to type in

[tawny sandal]

today is my 1 day anniversiry of learning c#

i have NO clue on what to do

[charred monolith]

ask freaking chatgpt

no front

:/

[tawny sandal]

what is front

[rich adder]

no

[charred monolith]

😠

[rich adder]

perhaps learn and start simpler then

[charred monolith]

yes

[rich adder]

don't suggest stupid things in a beginner coding channel

[charred monolith]

chatgpt helped me so freakin much

[tawny sandal]

i watched 1 vid about flappy bird coding and it practicly got me here

[tawny sandal]

it overcomplicates stuff for no reason

[polar acorn]

Do not suggest people do things that will make their life significantly harder

[charred monolith]

give me a reason why its stupid

[rich adder]

thats not how we learn

[tawny sandal]

also flags things that arent wrong

[rich adder]

the book is too long

[tawny sandal]

but how do we

[charred monolith]

only on other ai models bud on chatgpt its not. perhaps u can tell the ai to make it short

[charred monolith]

ai is not a book?

[polar acorn]

Surprise, the AI shill can't read

[tawny sandal]

ok just tell me how to not phase through the ground guys

[rich adder]

you start small..

[tawny sandal]

and maybe on how i do learn how to code

[charred monolith]

ai helped me more than unity tutorials. like i use ai and a german unity learning book

[polar acorn]

Usually, by reading up on the concepts and putting them together in experimental ways instead of just copying code from a tutorial

[midnight tree]

To think and learn as programmer you must practice as programmer, not search easy ways.

[rich adder]

besides the code being wrong you haven't even shown the actual setup you have

translate is the first thing to not use because it literally teleports and ignores all colliders so thats first

[tawny sandal]

but how do i do it then?

[rich adder]

you don't just get to a solution right away

[polar acorn]

You'll want to use physics to move, which will respect colliders

[rich adder]

as said you use the rigidbody methods.

[rich adder]

that helps nothing

[tawny sandal]

look how happy he is

[rich adder]

cant even see the colliders n shit

[tawny sandal]

one above is is trigger and bottom is with colision

ts the floor btw

[rich adder]

why do you have a trigger

at all

[tawny sandal]

to reset jumps

[rich adder]

why do you need a trigger on the floor for that..

[queen adder]

Hello! I'm experienced with code but am new to game development, what are some general important steps/information that I need to know starting out to make my first game?

[rich adder]

it will not scale well at all

[polar acorn]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[tawny sandal]

i dont know i did it and it worked and im not touching it

[rich adder]

ok then do it your way

best of luck

[tawny sandal]

bro just tell me how to not make stuff phase through other stuff

[queen adder]

Is that a command I can run?

[tawny sandal]

like 20 people told me to use somehting else but i dont know how to use the thing

[polar acorn]

Maybe you shouldn't use the collider type that lets things phase through it

[tawny sandal]

i have 1 for trigger and 1 for colision...

when i double jump there isnt a frame to touch the ground so it just phases right through the ground

[lofty vault]

I figured it out. The function has 2 bool parameters with default values and I thought I was setting one of them but in fact I was setting the other which caysed that behaviour. Thanks for the reply!

[rich adder]

did you click the link ?

[midnight tree]

Use Rigidbody instead?

[tawny sandal]

i fixed it with ai cuz you guys dont want to help

[queen adder]

Oh it just appeared for me

[tawny sandal]

now it actually functions 100% like i want

nav youre a bit annoying

[sour fulcrum]

come back when your older please and thanks

the multiple people spending an hour talking to you for free clearly are here to help you

don't blame them because your struggling

[rich adder]

who wants to hear "tell me how" every fucking sentence

shit gets annoying

let "AI" solve whatever, don't come back with broken AI code because you have no idea what kind of abomination it generated & 0 understanding on any of it

[solar hill]

looks like* they found exactly who

AI

because critical thinking is now irrelevant

[tawny sandal]

i put off for using ai for it for like 15 minutes to wait help all i got is "figure it out and think"(for my FINAL problem, not the other 2 that did get helped by people)

[rich adder]

sad but true. People want shortcut to knowledge and it does the opposite effect

[solar hill]

their fault

not our concern

[tawny sandal]

i dont copy and move on i actually try to learn the code that i got before moving on

[rich adder]

ah just like you learned the method of rigidbody we been saying to use for the past hour?

yes a true learner

[tawny sandal]

yes but the final problem yall didnt help

and yes i did use ridgidbody for the problem

i had to make a new vector 2 and i didnt know how to

or atleast thats what worked

[sour fulcrum]

if this is your first day of c# this conversation is the equivilent of learning french by picking up a french book and asking people what a word on a random page means

you need to actually consume educational resources made for beginners to learn what your actually doing

c# is a whole language that you have to learn, like how you learn english and/or your native language as a kid

[rich adder]

nowhere did you need doing that with what we suggested but you keep thinking that

[tawny sandal]

yea i know but i suck at learning only so i try to actually make it fun but that makes it sometimes hard so i ask for help, sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt

[rich adder]

do as you wish, no one is stopping you. As I said we don't help with AI code, when you get stuck again cause you have no idea what the code even does then what

[solar hill]

you suck at learning so you choose to use ai

[sour fulcrum]

i don't think this is a productive comment

[solar hill]

I think it is

[tawny sandal]

no you guys didnt help me so i used ai

[solar hill]

But i also highly doubt you suck at learning

more so you dont have the patience for it

[tawny sandal]

yes

[solar hill]

thats a seperate issue

[tawny sandal]

i have had zero patience for my whole life

it fucking sucks

[rich adder]

why are you doing something that requires tons of patience

makes no sense

[sour fulcrum]

you probably can't make games until you resolve that

[rich adder]

you can't shortcut your way to knowledge no matter how much the AI sloppers tell you

[tawny sandal]

its something im born with? just let me have fun

[rich adder]

experience comes with learning and patience at doing it until it works by your own practice

[sour fulcrum]

no one is born with it

[solar hill]

ive never heard of "impatience" as a medical condition

[tawny sandal]

ive never had patience tho

[solar hill]

its entirely enviromental, and something you have to work on yourself

patience isnt a quantifiable thing

[tawny sandal]

im not saying its a medical condition

i just say ive never really had a lot of it

[sour fulcrum]

you weren't taught to have patience

[tawny sandal]

hows that my fault

[solar hill]

As harsh as it sounds, its a symptom of immaturity

[sour fulcrum]

who said it was

[tawny sandal]

the reason i suck at patience cuz when i was younger i was smart and could learn a lot in 1 day

now i cnat

and have to get used to it

[sour fulcrum]

you gotta start to teach yourself patience

[solar hill]

You have litterally the perfect place to start

[tawny sandal]

in my point of life where i am right now thats not a priority thats in my mind at all

[solar hill]

you were given the opprotunity to do

[tawny sandal]

trust me i dont

[midnight tree]

🍿

[sour fulcrum]

thats fine, just probably stay away from this channel then

[solar hill]

what do you hope to accomplish in game dev without patience

you know what

i dont much care

[tawny sandal]

im not a game dev

[rich adder]

eh no need to steer this into offtopic land, let them cook , until the next thing breaks then they realize you can't shortcut through experience and knowledge and give up cause "me no patience" yada yada

[tawny sandal]

im having fun and messing around

[sour fulcrum]

all good

just mess around elsewhere

[tawny sandal]

coding is fun tho

[solar hill]

Im sure it is, its not fun trying to help people who dont want to be helped

[sour fulcrum]

not our problem

[tawny sandal]

i want to be

[rich adder]

coding requires patience.
if you have none, especially to learn. Find another place

[solar hill]

you havent shown it

[tawny sandal]

i just dont like it when i dont know how to do something and people say figure it out

[solar hill]

did that really happen

or were you just impatient

[tawny sandal]

yes

it happened

[rich adder]

too fucking bad you don't like when are told to "learn more" before doing more..

[sour fulcrum]

only person who said it was you lmao

[rich adder]

be a grown up about it and actually take the advice where we all been there but we actually put some effort into starting from building basic knowledge

[midnight tree]

Guys, 3 vs 1
Not fair

Can you calm down?

[solar hill]

Thank you for the input Norman

is this why you chose to send a popcorn emoji earlier, so you could high horse us?

[verbal dome]

Nah Norman has a point, dogpiling on someone is not cool. Yall are making the same points

[solar hill]

this is a conversation, if anyone doesnt want to be a part of it, they can leave.

[tawny sandal]

i said i did know how to do it btw

[rich adder]

yes exactly.. code is precise

[hexed terrace]

probably best for all to just drop it and move on to something else

[rich adder]

nothing wrong with taking a moment to think what to type if that offends you too bad..

butyeah whatever im movin on.

[tawny sandal]

thats like asking a child on how to make a rocket

he doesnt know how

[sour fulcrum]

then the child shouldn't make a rocket

[rich adder]

hence the suggestions to learn chemestry before doing so ?

[tawny sandal]

you know what i mean bro

[rich adder]

you don't just start mixing shit and cause an explosion or poison yourself... you learn what each thing does

[midnight tree]

That had another meaning. If you think so, go ahead

[tawny sandal]

let me give a better example

if a child is learning how to talk

you cant say "just talk"

you gotta learn how

[solar hill]

It had the meaning that you found the conversation interesting before you decided to act supercilious

But besides, i think this conversation has lost all its value, ages ago

[tawny sandal]

true

[rich adder]

this is a moot point, either take the advice or don't

[tawny sandal]

nav is just being an asshole and some mfs are siding with him

i had 3 problems

people thought about 2

and those worked

the third one nav became an absolute asshole

iambatby you count as 1 of the simps btw

norman and osmal are the actualy people that know how to help

[verbal dome]

osman and normal

[waxen adder]

What extension is needed for visual studio (not code) for intellisense, auto-complete, etc.

[verbal dome]

!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)

[rich adder]

none
You need Unity Workload in the VS Installer.
no extensions though

[sour fulcrum]

normal osman is the green goblin guy right

[verbal dome]

Lol close enough

[tawny sandal]

nav you could have said either how or the line on how to do it and explain it so i can learn it, that would have helped

same with iambatby

[solar hill]

Oh my lord

drop it already

[tawny sandal]

im just making a point bro

[polar acorn]

Laides you're both pretty can we move on

[tawny sandal]

im a man

[waxen adder]

If everything is working correctly for intellisense and such, should I expect something like "using UnityEngine.[stuff]" to autocomplete?

[solar hill]

The libraries?

[waxen adder]

Yeah

[solar hill]

Is it not?

[twin pivot]

You should get suggestions when you are writing code

[waxen adder]

Not at the moment, but I'm handling the installation process rn

[potent portal]

i do not know why i am getting this error, i can clear it and the game runs fine. should i be worried? it started when i created a script.

[solar hill]

Its en editor error i think

you should be fine those happen sometimes

[tawny sandal]

if you guys want me to learn code, how do i genuinely learn it? i dont know how cuz no one told me

[solar hill]

check the pins here for some resources

[twin pivot]

!learn

[rich adder]

look at the pins

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[potent portal]

ah okay

[polar acorn]

Try restarting Unity, looks like the editor is having a rough day

[tawny sandal]

thx

[solar hill]

The pathways are for more unity oriented stuff

if you want to learn coding directly

theres a couple of resources pinned in this channel

[potent portal]

okay thanks. i swear my computer has been making Unity bug out recently. it would take an hour to load a project once and it wouldnt even load after that

[rich adder]

the learn lessons assumes you already have some C# knowledge

[potent portal]

ended up reinstalling the whole enigine 😔

[solar hill]

Did you update the editor recently?

[twin pivot]

That is probably the smarter thing to do

[potent portal]

well probably 2 weeks ago

[verbal dome]

What unity version are you on?

[potent portal]

6000.0.68f1

[verbal dome]

Could try a newer one

(I also wanted to know what version to avoid myself)

[rich adder]

6.0.33f still rock solid 😆

[verbal dome]

Resetting editor layout and rebuilding library can work for these unity issues

[verbal dome]

Yeah, I use that, no major issues here

[verbal dome]

Wait is that 6000.3.3f or no

[twin pivot]

Besides tmp sending a few errors once or twice havent encountered any issues on 6.3

[potent portal]

is there a "proper" way to upgrade the engine or do i have to just delete the old version, install a new version and then open my project in that new one?

[verbal dome]

I feel like TMP is always a bit buggy

[twin pivot]

Theres a dropdown to swap versions i believe

[rich adder]

no 6.0

[potent portal]

oh! thanks for telling me about that

[rich adder]

6.3 is not on my radar any time soon

I dont need that AI crap

[sour fulcrum]

use version control, only delete old version once you've confirmed you've safely upgraded

[twin pivot]

They added ai to 6.3??

[potent portal]

whats version control? 😭

[naive pawn]

don't delete the old version yet lol, make sure you have the new one up and running first

[rich adder]

yea. not sure if its a package or built in but I aint touchin it

[solar hill]

a way to back up your project for one

[sour fulcrum]

its still package exclusive iirc

[potent portal]

ah, my friend just said to use github for that

[solar hill]

yes

that is it

github hosts git repos

[twin pivot]

As long as its not forced idc

[solar hill]

a git repo is a form of version control

[potent portal]

ah okay got it

[verbal dome]

The editor has this AI button even if you don't have it installed ✨ 🚀

[naive pawn]

version control software (vcs) is software to manage multiple versions of your code
versions in this case being different versions in both time and space
in time, as you develop, you have access to previous versions
in space, as you develop separate features, or multiple people work concurrently, you can merge your work together

[twin pivot]

Welp looks like im downgrading versions

[potent portal]

wow that sounds nice

i should set it up

[solar hill]

youre not missing out on much with 6.3 tbh

[potent portal]

why is ai in everything now 😭

[solar hill]

the bubble is yet to burst

[verbal dome]

It's obviously gross but not a whole reason to avoid the newer versions IMO :p

[sour fulcrum]

money

[rich adder]

shareholders / investors

[naive pawn]

here's an example of the shenanigans you can get up to with vcs (4 people working concurrently)

[potent portal]

thats so stupid 😔

what do they even see in AI

[solar hill]

will somebody think of the board chairmen

[naive pawn]

investor money

[verbal dome]

Really looks like a metro/subway map

[solar hill]

money

[sour fulcrum]

we can only pray the people responsible lose their jobs 🙏

[solar hill]

what kind of GUI is that?

[potent portal]

have they not been on the internet in the past year ??

[sour fulcrum]

doesnt matter, money

[naive pawn]

that's from the official vscode extension
a less cropped screenshot would dox so not showing that 😅

[solar hill]

oh really? I always had the extension but i never once looked at it lol

what is it just a replacement for github desktop then?

[solar hill]

you just doxxed yourself

silly

[naive pawn]

ive never really considered github desktop at all. i used it to start but once i realized how bad it is with stashes i ditched it for all but partial staging, and then i ditched it fully after learning add -p

it's another graphical git interface

but i still use the cli a lot

[solar hill]

ive been meaning to switch to cli fully

[rich adder]

cost cutting, not having to pay humans to do work and think its a catch all solution to everything.
Usualy crap

[naive pawn]

that's a pseudonym, but some of the other commits in that other example are under real names

[twin pivot]

Ah everyone run! chris codes in java

[naive pawn]

did you go to my github lmao

[potent portal]

then we would have a bunch of unemployed people

[rich adder]

now you're getting it

[twin pivot]

I have way too much time on my hands

[potent portal]

why cant we just limit AI to be funny chatbots again and not all this crap

[sour fulcrum]

money

[rich adder]

people require benefits, money, sleep, food etc.. machines you know work for free basically

[potent portal]

so what the future is just all machines?

[sour fulcrum]

who knows

[rich adder]

aside from power consumption but thats passed onto regular power consumers anyway

[twin pivot]

Hopefully openai dies in 2027

[naive pawn]

2026, you mean

[waxen adder]

Was about to say that XD

[twin pivot]

They have enough funding for this year but not 2027

[potent portal]

why is this happening when its my turn to be an adult 😭 🙏 hopefully the bubble bursts by then

[naive pawn]

there's always a chance to get sued into the ground, however little

[solar hill]

openai, owned by a guy named Alt-Man. Kojima you did it again.

[twin pivot]

The job market is fucked and ai is somehow half the reason

[rich adder]

maybe yours or next generation will be the next john connors

[naive pawn]

(fyi it's pretty easy to get into other languages. the first language is by far the hardest)

[rich adder]

isnt java just lesser version of c# 😂

[twin pivot]

Yea i know i just wanted to hate on java

[sour fulcrum]

though c# in particular has a lot of really nice conveniences

still shocked gdscript doesn't have multi dimensional arrays, i figured that was standard

[grand snow]

haha nice catch

[queen adder]

What are some good kinds of questions to ask here? Should I do some research on a problem before presenting it here, or is it ok to ask first and get a better understanding that way?

[twin pivot]

First try google and then come here

[rich adder]

yes

Should I do some research on a problem before presenting it here,

[queen adder]

Ok thanks!

[rich adder]

most questions, especially ones asked here have been discussed before you will find all sorts of info

[queen adder]

Oh ok I'll keep that in mind

[twin pivot]

I like using the discord search bar for similar issues before asking

[naive pawn]

ime a little less clear cut.
c# has structs, properties, operator overloading, tuples, nice tools/QoL, but java does also have some stuff c# lacks, like enum members, anonymous classes (specifically with inheritance), method references

don't really know what you're missing until you try to use it and it just doesn't exist lmao

[naive pawn]

it is a pretty (relatively) complex thing once you think about it, isn't it

[rich adder]

I honestly wanted to pick it up for the sake of Android and do specific things that frameworks like MAUI still don't cover yet
but then Kotlin is there and thats another hurdle so I said F it then

[sour fulcrum]

yeahh. i was trying to help someone with a little tile based thing and they we're a complete beginner and showing them a 2d array vs the idea of an array that holds arrays is such a big gap in teaching

[naive pawn]

stride moment

[twin pivot]

I mean technically its just an array thats holding a bunch of arrays, no?

[naive pawn]

there's more to it than that

some languages distinguish between arrays of arrays and multidimensional arrays

[grand snow]

An array of arrays is not ideal in c# anyway (array of pointers)

but i think this starts to go past beginner stuff

[verbal dome]

1D array treated as 2D array with index conversions = 👑

[waxen adder]

Figured out my intellisense issue. In the solution explorer for visual studio (not code), the c# assemblies were marked as unloaded. Handled that.

[naive pawn]

this might be clearer in c land

// array of arrays
int row1[3] = { ... };
int row2[3] = { ... };
int row3[3] = { ... };
int* matrix[3] = { row1, row2, row3 };
// ^ this is an array of pointers

// multidimensional array
int matrix[3][3] = { { ... }, { ... }, { ... } };
//  ^ this is 9 consequtive integers. when subscripting the first dimension, you have to multiply by 12 (4 * 3, sizeof(int) * stride)

[twin pivot]

Never understood the difference between beginner and advanced here tbh, im over here asking what i thought would be a conplicated logic issue and then I see some other dude with a script i barely understand

[waxen adder]

Something tells me beginner is more frequented, so even advanced topics get asked here in hopes of getting them answered sooner

[grand snow]

Programming is like that sometimes but getting over that initial hurdle is the important first step

[solar hill]

I think people just dont like using the forum channels

[twin pivot]

Just a lot more efficient then?

[naive pawn]

well at the L1 caching level sure, i guess

and subject to compiler optimization, probably

but that's not really the point

multidimensional arrays are more complex in their memory representation

[twin pivot]

How is that more advantageous?

[naive pawn]

memory is stored more compact, and stored as it's used

and also an array of arrays has potential to have null pointers

with a multidimensional array it's just the one pointer

[twin pivot]

So higher efficiency with less moving parts in a nutshell

[naive pawn]

less work for the user (of the language), more work for the developer (of the language)

[grand snow]

cpu like to grab big portions of ram to put into cache, cpu un happy when it have to keep going to ram 🙁

cache fast cpu like only using cache so it can go zoom zoom

cpu like making one big shopping trip instead of many

ill stop now

[errant breach]

Hello, after working in group, a sudden error appeared :

KeyNotFoundException: The given key '22' was not present in the dictionary. System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary2[TKey,TValue].get_Item (TKey key) (at <73ac12a12f9a4ebca156b41ddce95fbe>:0)`

The thing is that.. I didn't coded anything that uses "Dictionary" !
The error came from "TMP_Font Asset" which is something default i think...?

So.. If anyone know what could be the problem, i would be glad ! Is this a common unity error ? Thanks !

The error get send every seconds sadfully..

[verbal dome]

It's an error in the TextMeshPro code, not your fault
E: Well if it's your fault then the TMP error handling is still bad

[grand snow]

I feel like ive seen this before on this server. It may be due to a duplicate font with the same name

[verbal dome]

Lol^

[errant breach]

Ah :'(

[verbal dome]

Have you found the font asset that causes it?

[errant breach]

Maybe when my friend pushed his version (Unity version control) it might have broke something

[grand snow]

Yea its certainly possible someone made a change to trigger this bug

[errant breach]

We only use the default one

[grand snow]

Whats that other one

You can try re baking its texture?

[errant breach]

I think reinstalling TMP properly might be a great idea
But i don't know how to do it without destroying everything

[errant breach]

I don't know, after testing it, he's completly broken

The upper one is the "FallBack"

And it got me the error. Okay, that's definitly the one

[grand snow]

That shouldnt be needed unless someone else thought they were smart duplicating it and changing its mode to dynamic

Id remove the duplicate and keep the main one. If you need that one can be changed to dynamic to gain new characters as its used

[sour fulcrum]

i haven't used unity's version control, can you not look at the changes in the push and see what tmp related was touched?

[errant breach]

I deleted it, thank 👍 hope it'll fix

[errant breach]

Im new to it too 😅

[grand snow]

make sure you update the tmp settings fallback font list now

[errant breach]

Alright 👍 thanks

[teal glade]

can anyone help me, im fairly new to coding and trying to make a low poly buisness game like schedule 1 but cant seem to figure out how to get it all started, also if there is any easier apps for a low poly game please let me know

[errant breach]

Hello, there is something i don't understand...
My player's bullet take the player's PlayerSpeed parameter. From the GameObject Player. But for some reason, the bullet only take the parameter from the Prefab Player, not the active player in the scene...

Here's the code of the PlayerProjectile

public PlayerShoot player;

    void Start()
    {
        // Get the player's values
        transform.Rotate(0, 1 * Time.deltaTime, 0);
        projectileSpeed = player.projectileSpeed;
        projectileDamage = player.projectileDamage;
        lifeSpan = player.projectileLifeSpan;
        print(player.projectileSpeed + player.projectileDamage + player.projectileLifeSpan);

        Invoke(nameof(DestroySelf), lifeSpan);
    }

If someone know why instead of taking the parameter of the active player, my bullet take the one from the prefab, it would greatly help. Thank you ! :)

[wintry quarry]

Well how are you assigning player? Looks like you assigned it to the prefab

so naturally it comes from the prefab

[errant breach]

I did ! But it will cause issue if i don't ? I always thought it was the good way to do !

[wintry quarry]

It's a good way to do things if you want a reference to a prefab, sure

[errant breach]

like if i give the active player and then change scene and put a new player... 🤔

[wintry quarry]

Since this is likely a projectile you're instantiating at runtime, you will need to pass the reference to the runtime player object at runtime after you create it.

e.g, in the script that spawns projectiles, something like this:

public class Player : MonoBehaviour {
  public Projectile projectilePrefab;

  void Shoow() {
    Projectile spawnedProjectile = Instantiate(projectilePrefab, ...);
    spawnedProjectile.player = this;
  }
}```

[teal glade]

are there any easier apps that i can use to make a low poly buisness themed game like schedule 1

[rich adder]

this is code channel..

[errant breach]

Alright, thank you for the explanations !

[chrome shadow]

how do i control cinemachine virtual camera distance with scroll wheel? i want to zoom in and out

[wintry quarry]

it depends which ocmponent you're using for the position of it

whatever that component is, modify its follow distance in your code

[chrome shadow]

i want to modify camera distance (the bottom value)

[rich adder]

reference the component and find it through the properties
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.10/api/Cinemachine.Cinemachine3rdPersonFollow.html#Cinemachine_Cinemachine3rdPersonFollow_CameraDistance

[faint agate]

I was trying yesterday but still a little lost, Hello im going to try explain this best I can.
I have a script on a weapon that drags another object(an orb) along the x and y axis only, the orb has a tag CanDrag.
I added SmoothDamp which delays the drag when I want no delay
The problem im having is the orb is not being dragged smoothly. I dont want smoothdamp since it causes lag and even with it low, theres still bounce or jitter. I want to drag the orb without it bouncing or jittering left and right. I think raycast is the problem since I tried with force before this script im sending unless I did it wrong. I also think this since my other weapon raycast are jittery
I am so lost any help is appreciated!

https://pastecode.dev/s/70pajo0n

little context, the orb is the purple circle. Im in unity 3D. I want to drag it to the red(finish line).

[wintry quarry]

does the object have a Rigidbody?

[faint agate]

yes but doesnt need one, Ill go with wtvr fixes the jitter

[wintry quarry]

if it doesn't need one definitely remove it

[faint agate]

okay

[wintry quarry]

You should never move a Rigidbody by modifying the Transform like this

[faint agate]

okay but I really think its my raycast or camera. I did a debug and the raycast was super jittery over small movement unless its always like that

[wintry quarry]

raycasts themselves are not "jittery" and cannot be "jittery"

collider positions do not update except during the physics update though

so if you're expecting to move an object and then have raycasts immediately see that movement within the same frame, that won't work

but the raycast isn't really relevant to the regular jittery movement right?

That's just for detecting walls?

[faint agate]

okay

[wintry quarry]

definitely start by removing the SmoothDamp and just get it working with e.g. MoveTowards to start

e.g.

        Vector3 newPosition = Vector3.MoveTowards(
            currentObject.transform.position,
            targetPosition,
            Time.deltaTime * speed
        );```

[faint agate]

im just trying to move the orb in 3d on the x and y axis. when I drag it down slowly it goes left and right really fast

[faint agate]

ill try this out

[faint agate]

dragging this down slow it bounces left and right reallyyy fast

i cant figure out why though

[ivory bobcat]

If the position is changing on the x axis while you're simply dragging dowwn on the y axis, you've likely got something else adjusting it's position

[faint agate]

https://pastecode.dev/s/y7uc8hlh

heres the script if youd like to take a look. its the only script moving it

[teal viper]

Add pigs outputting the position change and all the factors that contributed to it.

Then you'll see exactly where it went wrong.

[ivory bobcat]

!collab

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[faint agate]

what are pigs

[spare mountain]

just put print statements

[faint agate]

how would that work with the drag im a little confused

[teal viper]

Autocomplete... It was supposed to be logs..

[modern lodge]

still having trouble figuring this out. commented out some stuff i had tried in the past that either errored out or just didnt give the results i wanted.

i also was suggested to use a script to dump component names using scriptable objects but binding.propertyName is just a string...

[spare mountain]

what are you trying to do?

[modern lodge]

im trying to get a list of all the possible values of binding.propertyName so that my script to copy those individual keyframes, also copies those /modifies them appropriately

[sour fulcrum]

probably more suited for #↕️┃editor-extensions

[modern lodge]

can do

[faint agate]

its this
Vector3 newPosition = Vector3.MoveTowards(
currentObject.transform.position,
targetPosition,
Time.deltaTime * speed
);
when I drag it on the y axis it bounces left and right and when I drag it on the x axis it bounces again

i tried smooth damp which fixed some things but made others worse

[teal viper]

It's not "this". It's target position. Log it and every factor that is related to its calculation.

[faint agate]

Plane plane = new Plane(Vector3.forward, currentObject.transform.position);
Ray ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);

    if (plane.Raycast(ray, out float distance)) {
        Vector3 point = ray.GetPoint(distance);
        targetPosition = point + offset;
    }

this is the only things its connected to.

[sour fulcrum]

those aren't logs

[faint agate]

okay
targetPosition = point + offset;
Debug.Log(targetPosition);
i did this and as I drag down the x goes back and forth

[sour fulcrum]

thats one thing, have you logged

currentObject.transform.position
targetPosition
newPosition
point
targetPosition

the idea here is seeing which part of the process is giving you trouble

[teal viper]

Also actually add text to your logs to make sure you know what variable you're looking at.

[faint agate]

got you

its the raycast. the DrawRay is bouncing

[wintry quarry]

i mean are you excluding the ball itself from all these raycasts?

[faint agate]

i asked if thats what it was yesterday but someone told me no unless something is effecting the raycast

i thought that the ball might be messing with it

let me see

the raycast is smooth and fine but the sphere bounces and freaks out/bounces when I turn the speed up in
Time.deltaTime * speed

[rich adder]

does ball have collider?

[faint agate]

yes

but not a rigidbody

[rich adder]

then its affecting the raycast

[teal viper]

Also, moving physical objects should have rigidbodies.

Also, you shouldn't mix CharacterControllers with rigidbodies/colliders.

Oh, I guess you're not using CC...

[faint agate]

i logged and put text, the x is changing on all of them

Debug.Log(("target position") + targetPosition);
Debug.Log(("point") + point);
Debug.Log(("current position") + currentObject.transform.position);
i did this

[faint agate]

your right, now im trying to understand how i mean

[rich adder]

I told you why.. it has a collider so it keeps hitting it and trying to move to itself?

use layermask

[faint agate]

i do have a candrag tag on the obj(sphere) im dragging

[faint agate]

would that work better than tags

[sour fulcrum]

imagine your shooting a gun at someone holding a shield

your tagging the shield

instead with layers you could outright ignore it's existence

[rich adder]

only trying to drag it? you don't even need the raycast the whole time just when you need to pick up

[faint agate]

i switched it to layer but still bounces.
I also use the raycast to check if crosshair is on sphere itself

[faint agate]

this did help me understand layers better thank you

thank you for everyones help ima get some sleep and work on it again tmrw before I fry my brain lol

[rich adder]

you probably want to keep the sphere at the same height, make sure you're not putting Z into account

[coarse karma]

Hello !

We are working at two on a project, and this windows recently hopened. I dont want to lose what i've done, my collegue just added one enemy on the scene or something, could someone help me what i need to do in order not to loose all i've done ? Thank you and have a great day !

[midnight plover]

I would backup the file of your scene first. than you can try to use that merge that Unity /plastic suggests. It might just be alright and add the object as well as your changes. Do you see any of your changes being written into the destination column?

[teal viper]

But generally, just don't work on the same scene/asset at the same time.

[midnight plover]

You can workaround that with at least using some prefabs so one can work on their prefab while someone else can work on another without breaking the "Main" scene

[brisk edge]

You are trying to merge two branches that have modified the same file. To resolve the merge conflict decide on which lines to keep, by unchecking the other ones. Then save & exit and continue with your merge.

[languid nova]

Hi! I'm having trouble with layers and raycasting

I have multiple objects I want to be able to click on (the brown cubes) and one object I want to ignore so that I can click on the squares behind it (the yellow rectancle)

I've tried setting the yellow rectangle layer to "Ignore Raycast" but that didn't work

I still can't click on the brown cubes behind it

The cubes all have this script that uses "OnMouseDown", but I've read online that it should still ignore objects with the "Ignore Raycast" Layer

[queen vale]

If I'm correct (usually not), you've just set that box collider to forcibly include interactions with objects on the ignore raycast layer, regardless of the physics settings for the layer the gameobject itself is set to.

Instead look at the layer of the gameobject itself, above the transform component.

[languid nova]

oh

you're right actually, that was the issue

thanks a lot!

[night raptor]

@languid nova Besides the question but note that OnMouseDown only works for the old input system (which you then probably use), for maximum flexibility I prefer doing the same using a custom raycast. I don't know what you are doing but regardless all of those blocks having their own script sounds bit much especially if you are going to have a lot of them. Even them being separate game objects is a lot of objects to renderer. For more optimized approach, you could look into the way minecraft and similar games render blocks and modify them

[elfin pike]

I have scriptableObjects with ids. is there way to generate them unique?

[silk night]

look at Guid

[languid nova]

Yeah I know that I am kinda brute forcing everything but this is just a quick prototype, not an actual game

[elfin pike]

is there function, which is called only on create?

[silk night]

On create of a scriptableobject?

You can use OnValidate and check if the ID field is empty

its executed whenever data is changed, but you just generate a new one if the field is empty

[elfin pike]

works thanks

[naive pawn]

couldn't you just use this https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.GetInstanceID.html

i think that's persistent for assets? not 100% sure though

[silk night]

Yeah that should also be usable, its persistent as its used to save references, but I wasnt sure if he wants multiple IDs like in a list or just one ID for the scriptable object so I suggested Guid

[elfin pike]

but you cant getInstanceId from scriptableObject

[naive pawn]

why not?

[elfin pike]

it worked, dumb mistake by me

[silk night]

Overy Object has that method

and basically everything in unity derives from that 😄

[elfin pike]

accidentaly didnt wrote "()"

[queen vale]

I'd like to see the script before making any guesses. - Though that may not be relevant....... it's odd that it's only in the build

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[naive pawn]

shouldn't have deltaTime on mouse delta, btw.

it's already per-frame

that's also a lot of wrong-lerp fyi

not seeing any issues that would affect jumping though

[queen vale]

Mmm could be unrelated but i find it interesting that in the editor you were always moving laterally when you jump, but in build you're not.

[real thunder]

Just checking in in case there is a more elegant solution
Is there a better way to determine if an enemy within melee attack distance height wise (3d) than to subtract half-heights from height difference?
like on pic magnitueds of a red vector minus blue ones
And then check if it's longer than allowed distance

[queen vale]

Does this still occur if you're constantly moving forward/etc throughout the jump, in build?

[subtle mulch]

send the script maybe

[queen vale]

they did

[subtle mulch]

oh

where

ah found

why are you doing your own gravity physics btw

[lyric vortex]

i got the script from the asset store and then modified a bit, it just came that way

[subtle mulch]

try to remove the gravity stuff

the char controller should already handle it by itself

[real thunder]

it only does that if you move it using a method which does it

SimpleMove vs Move

iirc if you want it to jump you have to emulate gravity

[naive pawn]

you're supposed to, if you're using CC.Move

[subtle mulch]

ah

i'm using ECS and Netcode for entities that does it all by itself

lol

[naive pawn]

it's pretty unclear what logic you're describing here exactly
could you not just use physics queries or bounds intersection checks

[night raptor]

Must depend what information you have easily available. In case you have the min and max coordinates, you could do a 1D intersection test https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2008/08/15/intersection-of-1d-segments. Maybe that way it would be easy to also set up a limited range of coordinates the weapon can reach height-wise, I assume in your case those boxes are the player and the enemy, you might want to limit the range to something much more specific for the weapon specifically and see if the weapon intersects with the enemy

Sure, might be an XY issue, physics queries are probably the more common way to do that whole intersection testing

[real thunder]

what can I do with physics?

[wintry quarry]

queries

[real thunder]

I do that check to determine if an enemy should attack or not

[queen vale]

o.O

[naive pawn]

could shoot a raycast and see how far it hits

or use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider.ClosestPoint.html for a manual version i guess

[real thunder]

from where and to where
results would differ depending on height differences

[wintry quarry]

use OverlapBox or BoxCast

[radiant sentinel]

hey can anyone help me, im very new and am doing the 2d game kit tutorial, have done most of it with no issue but im stuck on the box problem ive done what it says and it just wont squash the enemy its supposed to

[wintry quarry]

most of us have no idea what "the box problem" is so you're going to need to provide us details, code, etc.

[wintry quarry]

keep going

[radiant sentinel]

https://learn.unity.com/course/2d-game-kit/tutorial/2d-game-kit-walkthrough?version=2017.3

step 7

[real thunder]

isn't it considerably more expensive?

[wintry quarry]

no

[wintry quarry]

ok but.. what part about it isn't working exactly? Show us what you tried and what's happening

[radiant sentinel]

it lands on the enemy and he takes it like a champ

[naive pawn]

2ns vs 1ns is a 100% difference but not meaningfully more expensive for most usecases

[radiant sentinel]

i even changed the dmg from 1 to t10

[naive pawn]

don't worry about perf at this stage. focus on what makes sense

[radiant sentinel]

nothing

[wintry quarry]

Did you follow all the steps in the tutorial? Show us

[radiant sentinel]

yeah