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[inland pecan]

nvm

[naive pawn]

you'd want to set the min to -50 then, not the max

[grand snow]

yes well said, otherwise the newly gained euler angles are 0-360 which are harder to clamp without extra effort

[lethal gull]

        direction.y = 0f;
        float angle = Vector3.SignedAngle(listener.forward, direction, Vector3.up);
        float pan = Mathf.Clamp(angle / 90f, -1f, 1f);
        directionSourceTwo.panStereo = pan;``` hi, I'm trying to get where the target is compared to the listener and make the stereo value based on that, I really didn't know how to do this so I found this on google but it doesn't work, how could I fix this?

[grand snow]

I wanted to try myself so here is a complete solution:

using UnityEngine;

public class AudioPan2D : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    AudioSource audioSource;

    [SerializeField]
    Transform target;

    [SerializeField]
    float panRangeMax;

    private void Update()
    {
        Vector2 dir = target.position - transform.position;
        float distance = dir.magnitude;
        dir.Normalize();
        audioSource.panStereo = Vector2.Dot(Vector2.left, dir) * Mathf.Clamp01(distance / panRangeMax);
    }

    private void OnDrawGizmosSelected()
    {
        Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(transform.position, panRangeMax);
    }
}

I realised it needed a range where it slowly pans vs an instant jump so thats in there too

[echo copper]

guys, how can i change an order in layer of textmeshpro?

[grand snow]

ugui or normal tmp?

[echo copper]

well, ui -> Text - TextMeshPro

[grand snow]

So UGUI. Draw order is the same as all UGUI graphics, based on hierachy order

So moving the game object up/down the hierachy changes this.
If you need to force it to draw on top of things you can use a canvas with override sort order BUT this is not a good solution for many objects.

[echo copper]

oh, well. every object in menu is on canvas. i guess it's not good...

[grand snow]

Each canvas seperates its children for rendering so using too many prevents batching optimisation

Usually you just need the 1 canvas and maybe a few sub ones for large "popups" or menus

[echo copper]

i get it. well, idk why but tmp doesn't show up in game window. only in scene window

[grand snow]

Toggle 2d mode in the scene view and check if the text has some crazy Z position

[echo copper]

0 z

idk what can i do

[hexed terrace]

move to #📲┃ui-ux and post (non-cropped) screenshots of the issue and setup

[willow bear]

can someone help me with my code?

[hexed terrace]

!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.

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[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I was wondering what the WorldPositionStays does in SetParent() method? What I mean is whats the difference between false and true because I cant understand the difference and I read the documentation about it. I just want visual example.

[grand snow]

If true the current world position is maintained while changing the parent transform
If false, the current local position is kept meaning the world position could change

Transforms actually only store local position and that is relative to its parent

[sage mirage]

I have to actually see what is happening I cant understand

Let me see on my project

because I have some doors and I want my open and close audio sources to be attached to them as childs

I did it and it works

I just want to understand what is going on with world position stays exactly

[cosmic cradle]

The short version of it is, "do you want to your object to teleport to the thing you're parenting to, or not"?

[keen cobalt]

can someone help me why my menu is colliding with this and doing this when ive made a build to test it

[keen dew]

Here's a visual example: Let's say there's a ball in box A. The ball is the child of the box. You then use SetParent to make the ball a child of box B. If WorldPositionStays is true, the ball changes parent but stays inside box A. If WorldPositionStays is false, it moves inside box B.

[keen cobalt]

its meant to look like

[grand snow]

Are you using anchors correctly?

[keen cobalt]

i think so

[grand snow]

Sorry my explanation did not suffice but understanding how local positions are relative to their parent is critical and should make this very clear

[sage mirage]

Wow ben 10

[grand snow]

fyi the unity inspector always shows local position for transforms

[grand snow]

wow that tells me fuck all
go read this: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html#anchors

[sage mirage]

I dont understand what it does when tru and what when false

I know what relative to its parent means

like visually

what it does

I have to check it out on my own

give me a minute otherwise I cant figure out

[grand snow]

true: unity please change my local position after changing parent to keep my current world position

false: just change parent and THATS IT

[keen cobalt]

what would be a good achor for it cuz im struggling ive done it before but idk @grand snow

[grand snow]

The point is to place them where you want the rect transform to "follow" as well as how to resize
I recommend changing your game window resolution to 16:9 or 1080p and then correct your UI layout

You would be better reading the full documentation unity has on UI layout

[keen cobalt]

i am but im confused lol

[grand snow]

Change your scale mode to "scale with screen size" and put 1920x1080 as the reference and things should work a lot better
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/script-CanvasScaler.html

[sage mirage]

so when its true the childrent of the parent stays at the exact position that he was before being a children right and if its false then it doesn't stay and it goes relative to its parent leaving its original position behind right?

Thats the logic of WorldPositionStays?

[grand snow]

By "exact position" being their world position then correct

[sage mirage]

Yes its world like where it was in world before being a child

[grand snow]

Yes

Extra work is needed to maintain that world position when changing a transforms parent

[sage mirage]

It says keep the child game object at its original world position as before being a child and if false then just attach it straighforward to the parent game object so the child game object abandons its original world position and change relative to its parent thats what I understand.

[grand snow]

You have it backwards. A transform actually only stores local position and local rotation

So changing a transforms parent without doing anything else would likely mean its world position would move

So to wrap this up. Keep world position restores the transforms world pos after changing parent

[sage mirage]

what I understand is when true the child object keeps its old original position, if its false the child is going to have the same coordinates as its parent object. Just tell me is it right?

[grand snow]

fuck it yes

i sense a miss understanding but close enough

just test yourself if you need to see stuff move

[sage mirage]

Ok I think I can undestand what WorldPositionStays does right now.

I just wanted to really get into the logic

And basically its what the name of the parameter says World Position Stays so if its true keep the origin position of the child object

[keen cobalt]

should this effect it

[sage mirage]

I mean yes it makes sense

[keen cobalt]

cuz its a different scene

[sage mirage]

What re you making the next Ben 10 game XD?

for Ps2 or Ps5 exclusively?

I remember playing ps2 ben 10

Alien Force if I remember

[keen cobalt]

no im making it cuz i want one but im confuesed why unity is doing that to that scene n shit

[sage mirage]

Just note me down I will be playing it

I am a fan of Ben

[keen cobalt]

@grand snow how do i fix this one

[keen cobalt]

@sage mirage do u know how to fix this

[grand snow]

yea pinging random people will get them to help

Your camera needs to have a skybox or solid colour background

[sage mirage]

Wanna join call really quick?

[keen cobalt]

i dont really like talking to ppl on call

@sage mirage soz

but u can tell me here

@grand snow this happens when its solid

[sage mirage]

I am not a maniac or serial killer but I prefer call because its better you can share me your screen

YOu can even see who I am XD

[lethal gull]

thank you so much for helping me, this just doesn't work though, it just works once at the beginning and then it keeps having the same stereo i think

[keen cobalt]

ik ik

i just dont like to in general

[sage mirage]

ok provide more context then

It would be really nice if you could record your screen using OBS

[keen cobalt]

lemme record a thing one sec

[sage mirage]

and show exactly what is going on

[grand snow]

I was trying it out it works for me just fine. The pan is updated each frame after all.

[lethal gull]

I added your script to the enemy, put the player as target, the maxstereorange to 10 and the footstepsAudioSource into the audiosource field, and the sound isn't getting emitted from where the enemy is compared to the player

[keen cobalt]

gonna make a new build then i will

[grand snow]

The "target" is the audio listener such as your player or main camera

[keen cobalt]

fixed it some how

[grand snow]

The audio source still needs to be placed where it physically is in 2d space

[lethal gull]

exactly, it's updated but I think the logic is wrong, because sometimes when the enemy is on the right, the stereo is negative...

[lethal gull]

yes

[lethal gull]

it's at the enemy position, childed to the enemy and its spatial blend is 2D

[grand snow]

It's meant to work this way... It's -1 to 1

[lethal gull]

yea but when the enemy is on the right, it should be positive and the other way around when on the left

[lethal gull]

if you want, I can send you a video

[grand snow]

I think the logic is fine

No audio but what I hear is what i expect

When the source is to the right of my camera it pans to the right

[solar hill]

I thought their project was a 3d game no would that not affect certain things

[grand snow]

In 3d we just use what unity provides

[lethal gull]

OH YEA, that's why you put in a maxpandistance, you're in 2D game, in my case, what I wanted is the pan to be 1 if the audiosource is on the listener's right and vice versa, not with distances or anything

[lethal gull]

how?

[grand snow]

Put spatial blend to 3d

[solar hill]

spatial blending works until the actual volume of whatever you have is so great it straight up overrides any sort of spatial blending

[grand snow]

Then it works like real life

[solar hill]

if this is the same issue they had yesterday

[grand snow]

Oh right so the normal 3d blending is not desired?

[solar hill]

yeah

[grand snow]

I honestly presumed this was for 2d based on the request haha

[solar hill]

i recognized it as the same problem they had yesterday, i so remembered it was indeed 3d

[grand snow]

Are the 3d sound settings not sufficient to solve this either?

[solar hill]

they said they tried them and it didnt work

[grand snow]

User error?

[solar hill]

i think this would be a lot more productive of a conversation if @lethal gull you created a large message explaining the issue, what you tried, what you are trying right now, and what you want accomplished

in #🔊┃audio

[lethal gull]

this doesn't work, the sound provenance still is kinda global and further you are from the audiosource, the less u hear it so this just doesn't work at all$

[grand snow]

The solution to this in 3d is more complex as it's based on camera rotation

[elfin pike]

Im stuck with one issue. I have ScriptableObjects, each has its own id. I have to get object by id

[lethal gull]

it is

[solar hill]

also the stereo panning approach will leave a lot of ambiguity with front and back positions

[lethal gull]

alright, bet

[lethal gull]

yea... that's why I really don't know how to do it, I've never really used those Vector3s and math functions tbh

[elfin pike]

I hate when my problem gets burried by complex problem

[rich adder]

buried how ?

[elfin pike]

its when you msg and doesnt get spotted, because its squashed between other msgs

[rich adder]

how do you know it doesn't get spotted its been less than 10 mins.. people do use scroll you know..

if you're so worried thats why thread exist too.
anyhow, which id are you talking about , the asset itself ? what do you need to do ?
this smells like an xyproblem?

[elfin pike]

i have my own id made with GUID

[rich adder]

ok but thats vague.. what do you need to do ?
you stored a GUID on your SO and you want to grab the GUID or wat

its hard to know what your intentions are if you don't explain them lol

you want to grab the SO with your own GUID, but is this a runtime search? editor ?

[elfin pike]

I have folder with SO and IDs. i have to get SO using ID

[rich adder]

there are a myriad of ways of doing something, the best suggestion comes in when you explain the problem clearer

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

the most brute force way is probably not the best but you can scan the folder until you find the ID you're looking for with basic loop

[elfin pike]

i had same idea, but it sound like very bad approach

[rich adder]

IO can be slow though.. is it not possible to just store the references in a script already or wat?

are you doing this during runtime or in the editor ?

[elfin pike]

i should create class, which stores in dictionary ref and id? can i add or remove if SO is created or removed?

[rich adder]

dictionary could work sure, you still need to initially add them

maybe you could put them into another SO

You could probably automate the process

[elfin pike]

Anybody here have worked with IDs?

[grand snow]

Ofcourse

how else do we refer to things in a reliable way?

Numerical or string guid/name based ids are what i go with

[elfin pike]

teach me the way

[rich adder]

yesterday I learned about Hash128 if you need some extra speed above storing string / lookup
Dictionary<Hash128, MyThing>
instead of
Dictionary<string, MyThing>

[grand snow]

If a human is assigning ids then id just leave this job to Dictionary

If i were to configure items with scriptable objects or json id use string based id names

If you load them all into a dictionary then you will find out quickly about duplicate ids (presuming you use .Add())

[elfin pike]

making using GUID, which is made on validation

[grand snow]

scriptable object or something else?

because OnValidate does not sound like the place

If you are generating this id in code i would use a numerical id instead

If you know all other ids you can pick the max + 1

[elfin pike]

I have LevelData as SO. i store them in folder. and have to get one of them

using IDs, because im referencing in json file

[grand snow]

Yea then what i said above is what I think

[elfin pike]

so dictionary is best optionn?

[grand snow]

Two things to consider:
The id type
Fast lookup using id

[cosmic cradle]

Hash128 isn't serializable. Is there some alternative to strings that can be serialized by Unity?

[grand snow]

byte array

you can use the serialization callback interface to perform the conversion

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

@cosmic cradle

[elfin pike]

what are the options?

[grand snow]

Numerical types should be best because they can be hashed quickly or be used as is.
a long guid may not be as fast but are easier to use if you want to generate a unique one without extra effort

Id not worry about it too much unless you experience bad performance

[elfin pike]

you also use dictionary?

[grand snow]

Oh yes all the time

You really only have 3 choices for id to object lookup:

• loop and compare till you find it
• use a dictionary
• some custom solution thats probably slower

[rich adder]

as collection grows dictionary/hashset usually always faster

[elfin pike]

its class with dictionary? or you add something extra?

[grand snow]

Dictionary<uint, Item> items bam

whatever stores your data after loading can keep them in a dictionary

[elfin pike]

Maybe i should create SO for this purpose

[grand snow]

the data source doesnt matter i guess in this conversation. You can easily parse json.
Though that is an extra step that takes time BUT your data can be updated without a new build

[rich adder]

can you nnot crosspost this

not a coding question at all.. if you lookup replace unity armature you will find plenty of videos on this

[keen cobalt]

ive tried man thats why im looking for help

[rich adder]

then ask about where you got stuck instead, if you're not willing to put effort into your own problem how will people help you ?

[keen cobalt]

i have put effort in it thats why im looking for help jeez no need to be rude

[rich adder]

I mean asking someone to do it for you is not putting the effort.. I'm just being blunt

literally put the model in, generate the humanoid armature avatar and put it as child .. use the avatar in the animator

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unity+replace+character+model
so many results..

[keen cobalt]

no need to put it so rudely man i was just seeing if someone was willing to help

[grand snow]

You are asking for someone to just do shit for you

[keen cobalt]

no im not i said help

[elfin pike]

but you cant save reference in json

[keen cobalt]

i didnt say full on do it

[grand snow]

Correct so you would use ids again here too!

[elfin pike]

instanceId also wouldnt work

[grand snow]

Yea... your own custom ids... Did you just forget the whole conversation??

[keen cobalt]

ok stop being so rude

[grand snow]

Anyway Ive done this for years, json configuration with ids do as you will

[rich adder]

are you like 12 ?

[keen cobalt]

no

i just asked for help man relax

[cinder schooner]

lol

[rich adder]

alright this is going in circles.. you're in the wrong channel anyway..
#🔀┃art-asset-workflow at best..
and you got your answers

this is for coding , you're not asking a coding question

wow look at that even the official unity channel has the How to do this..
https://youtu.be/4QuPlKzdq14?t=452

[elfin pike]

i have another question, which probably multiple people want to know. Is there way to make updates to game. Okay, my game is small and people dont mind downloading game multiple times, but if its bigger

[solar hill]

this is really something you have to handle with the place youre distributing your game

and not much to do within unity

[rich adder]

unless you are using addressables/assetbundle you need to replace the entire game

so you can with some stuff specifically but in most cases you have to replace

[foggy yoke]

i'm trying to get the binding index for my "Spell" action with playerInput.actions.FindAction("Spell").GetBindingIndex() (I checked and the name matches), but it's getting the binding index of my "Move" action. I tried to get both the spell and move actions' index, and it returned the same int, 0. What should I do? csharp int shootSpellActionEventIndex = playerInput.actions.FindAction("Spell").GetBindingIndex(); int moveActionEventIndex = playerInput.actions.FindAction("Move").GetBindingIndex();

[wintry quarry]

What are you trying to accomplish? Why do you want the binding index?

You're not passing in any path or group, so of course it's going to give you 0

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.19/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionRebindingExtensions.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputActionRebindingExtensions_GetBindingIndex_UnityEngine_InputSystem_InputAction_System_String_System_String_

Returns

The first binding on the action matching the given group and/or path or -1 if no binding on the action matches.

[foggy yoke]

I'm trying to add a listener to the action, I'm using Unity Events

[wintry quarry]

Since you provided no parameters it will just map with the first binding

[wintry quarry]

then you are barking up the wrong tree entirely

why are you looking at bindings?

playerInput.actions.FindAction("Spell").performed += SpellListener;

[foggy yoke]

i searched for how to do this exactly and they said that

[wintry quarry]

IDK what you searched or what you were rreading but that's very incorrect

you must be misunderstanding something

[foggy yoke]

well it must be then

thank you!

[wintry quarry]

To add a listener you subscribe to one of the events

performed, canceled, or started

[foggy yoke]

even tho if it is a unity event?

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.19/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.html#events

[wintry quarry]

If you're using Unity Events you don't need to do any of this in code at all

you set it up in the inspector

on the PlayerInput component

[rich adder]

UnityEvent is for inspector

you can sub to it but thats defeat the point

[wintry quarry]

Don't forget to pres the little arrow/carrot next to "Events" in the inspector to expand that section

then you can assign your listeners there

[foggy yoke]

i know, but i want it to remain assigned even when the scene switches

that's why I want to assign it via code

[wintry quarry]

That has nothing to do with assigning in code vs the inspector

Is the PlayerInput component on a different object than the script that you want to listen to the events?

[foggy yoke]

yes

it is

[wintry quarry]

well

don't do that

[foggy yoke]

but I have to

[wintry quarry]

you don't have to

you can add a layer of indirection

Anyway if you want to use UnityEvents that goes against that whole idea

So either:

• Switch away from UnityEvents
  or
• Subscribe in code

[foggy yoke]

thank you!

[rich adder]

generate the C# class you can have inputs where you want and skips Player component entirely

[wintry quarry]

that has other issues though

then you have to manage your own instance and it can get tricky with rebinding etc

definitely a viable option if you're prepared to do that

[rich adder]

yea true

[wintry quarry]

Also tricky if there's local multiplayer...

[rich adder]

I try not to do it often but, there is also InputActionReference for scripts that only care for specific keys and you don't have to manage your own input class but yea has its own drawbacks

its an SO so never breaks between scenes

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I see that GameObject class has 3 different FindGameObject with tag methods. First one is FindWithTag and the second one is FindGameObjectWithTag I mean whats the difference? Also the third one is the one that stores the object references on an array but tell me specifically about these 2 methods

[wintry quarry]

FindGameObjectWithTag is deprecated

[wintry quarry]

Check the docs for the remaining two:

GameObject docs

[sage mirage]

Oh and I was thinking of it haha they dont write it and I was wondering

[potent portal]

im so confused, why is it giving an error yet it works completely fine??

[wintry quarry]

the difference is just plural vs not plural

[wintry quarry]

regenerate project files

[rich adder]

You should opt for components instead of tags.

[wintry quarry]

[Deprecated]

[potent portal]

and how do i do that? 😅

[sage mirage]

I mean Yes but this is for the other method

[sage mirage]

They don't write it on all methods that are deprecated

[naive pawn]

project settings > external tools > regenerate project files

[potent portal]

thanks!

[naive pawn]

you should be able to use the search bar as well

[wintry quarry]

It's preferences not project settings

[naive pawn]

ah whoops

yeah that makes sense

[sage mirage]

So, what is going to happen if I am going to use FindGameObjectsWithTag()?

[wintry quarry]

the Unity police will arrest you

[naive pawn]

deprecated doesn't mean broken

[rich adder]

Isn't TMPro old ?

[wintry quarry]

yeah

[sage mirage]

I mean what deprecated does and is?

[potent portal]

wait it is?

[sage mirage]

I think deprecated is out dated

[rich adder]

I thought textmeshpro was now part of unity namespace

[wintry quarry]

it means they're removing it from the API and it won't exist in future versions

[sage mirage]

maybe

[naive pawn]

consider googling that

[wintry quarry]

it is

[sage mirage]

They no longer support probably

[wintry quarry]

Yeah did you install the assert store version or something?

[potent portal]

no?

[wintry quarry]

What verison of Unity are you on @potent portal

[potent portal]

6000.0.68f1

[naive pawn]

not exactly

[wintry quarry]

yeah you're doing something weird/wrong

[potent portal]

i am following a course from last year so idk

[naive pawn]

there it is

wait no last year isn't very old

[wintry quarry]

how did you install textmeshpro? It should be in the project by default

[naive tapir]

Does anyone know how I can get this to fully overwrite the old file instead of just, adding onto it?

[naive pawn]

oh god it's 2026 already

[sage mirage]

So tell me bro

[potent portal]

the screen that appears to install it?

[sage mirage]

What is it

What is deprecated?

[wintry quarry]

what screen 🤔

[sage mirage]

deprecated means old

So I just translate it

[rich adder]

it works but eventually wont

replaced with something new

[naive pawn]

that would be append mode, you can specify overwrite mode in the constructor for the streamwriter according to docs

[potent portal]

the TMP Importer window

[naive tapir]

I'll look into that, thanks!

[naive pawn]

wait you already have that

[naive tapir]

Ye that was the confusing part, I figured I may of applied it wrong

[naive pawn]

@naive tapir you seem to already be specifying overwrite mode. are you sure you're looking at the right file/output? try debugging the finalFile value that you're writing

[sage mirage]

One says that its not about support and @rich adder says its about support. What is deprecated?

[potent portal]

regenerating the project files helped!

[rich adder]

wdym suport?
I'm saying deprecated still works until it wont
usually a replacement is already there

[naive pawn]

deprecated means it's not recommended for use, and it won't be fixed (if issues arise) and will be removed eventually.

it does not mean it's currently unsupported nor currently broken.

[naive tapir]

I have it to where it prints it, the file saves normal the first time, it's only when I try overwriting it that this happens.

[sage mirage]

No @naive pawn said its not about support before and you are saying its about support

[sage mirage]

here

[naive pawn]

@sage mirage please learn to google. it's a crucial skill. these explain adequately

[rich adder]

yeah means they dont actively work on that method anymore

hence " you should switch to yada yada"

[naive pawn]

you're misunderstanding us both

[sage mirage]

What to switch?

[rich adder]

can you not shitpost ty.

[naive pawn]

the thing that's deprecated

[sage mirage]

No Unity is the problem here

[rich adder]

they usually give you the alternative right in the deprecated message

[sage mirage]

They write deprecated in some methods and on some others they dont

XD

[naive pawn]

because some methods are deprecated and some are not

wtf are you on about

[sage mirage]

FindGameObjectWithTag()

its not deprecated

because it doesn

[naive pawn]

ok?

[rich adder]

right so that mean you can use it fine?

[sage mirage]

What I wanted to say is what s the difference between find with tag and find game object with tag

[rich adder]

rigidbody.velocity deprecated
rigidbody.linearVelocity the new method

[wintry quarry]

the name

[rich adder]

FindWithTag is shorter? who knows..

[sage mirage]

It says retrieves the first active game object with tag

in docw

docs

I dont see the FindGameObjectWithTag on docs

XD

[rich adder]

yeah its always been that way

[sage mirage]

Why I can use it and it isn't in the docs

I mean what

[naive pawn]

this is one of the parts of deprecation

it's not going to be maintained

that includes docs

[sage mirage]

Its not deprecated bro

No

[rich adder]

its been missing in the docs ever since I've used unity tbh

[sage mirage]

There is no deprecated somewhere written

wait maybe its hiding

[naive pawn]

ah, ok, i was thinking of the find of type thing

guess it just isn't documented then

[rich adder]

yeah its been that way at least from 2017 from what i recall

[sage mirage]

so I can just use find with tag

and thats it

[naive pawn]

that.. isn't particularly strange, especially when there's a well-documented alias

[rich adder]

yes its the same thing

shit this goes back to 2013..https://discussions.unity.com/t/difference-between-gameobject-findgameobjectwithtag-tag-tag-and-gameobject-findwithtag-tag-tag/68305

[slender nymph]

They are actually just the same thing, FindWithTag just calls FindGameObjectWithTag

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime%2FExport%2FScripting%2FGameObject.bindings.cs#L203

[rich adder]

good to know.
haven't used a tag since 2019

aside from the weird implementations that still exist in some unity components, looking at you cinemachine..

[cosmic dagger]

Yep, it just calls the original version. The problem was the original is too similar to the plural version FindGameObjectWithTag and FindGameObjectsWithTag, which returned an array. FindWithTag is easier to type and differentiate with FindGameObjectsWithTag . . .

[rich adder]

yeah makes sense being explicit is good

https://nohello.net

[toxic ledge]

Dam mb i didint kown

[rich adder]

no worries, its cheeky humor page explaining why hello generally get ignored.

[toxic ledge]

Can you maybe help me?

[solar hill]

👇

[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.
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[rich adder]

as page also says

Just ask the question! 😫

[toxic ledge]

Well maybe yoh ware busy so thats why i asked

[rich adder]

If i'm here , I aint that busy xD
plus plenty of people here willing to help

[toxic ledge]

Well is just becas im doing the unity totrial for collect the collectible and i did how they explain but i cant and it olso shows me this error

[rich adder]

holy squint city
https://screenshot.help/

read the error message it usually tells you exactly whats wrong

make sure you followed the tutorial exactly

[toxic ledge]

It ses there is no rigid body but when i add one the cylinder and cube kinda fall of

[toxic ledge]

I did

[rich adder]

it probably goes on the entire robot and you might've coded it wrong / put script wrong spot

show the script

[toxic ledge]

Collectible or player?

[rich adder]

probably both but mainly whatever script is throwing that error

[naive pawn]

if you wait for the other person to be free and then that person waits for you to be free then you're never getting help
just ask, if we aren't free then we just won't be in the channel lol

[rich adder]

where else am i supposed to go whenever i procastinate on my own projects xD

[toxic ledge]

Idk if is from this tho im still hella new to codeing and all lol

[cosmic dagger]

!code

[radiant void]

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[toxic ledge]

Ok i feel emberesed now -//-

[naive pawn]

everyone has a first, all good

-# better this than being stubborn/arrogant tbh

[toxic ledge]

do i like just post the link or what then..

[rich adder]

paste code in one of the links, save and send generated link

[toxic ledge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/9y37jsKJBC4v3XmRJXPCgf

[solar hill]

feels like a simple fix no? do you have a rigidbody on your cylinder?

[rich adder]

you most likely had this print in the console
Debug.LogWarning("PlayerController needs a Rigidbody.");
but hidden by the massive amounts of NullRef

the script probaly goes on the parent on the cylinder

• a rigidbody

[toxic ledge]

wana see what happens if i add one?

[rich adder]

you can see the warning did print so you are indeed missing rigidbody

[rich adder]

the script + rigidbody probably goes on the parent on the cylinder

RobotVacuum

[toxic ledge]

i think the scrip is on the robovacum and same for the rigidbody

let me try to put the cripst agin on it ig

[rich adder]

then you have a copy of it somewhere then

[toxic ledge]

huh?

[rich adder]

i mean takes a few seconds to double check but if you have PlayerController nd rigidbody already on RobotVacuum you have an unintended extra PlayerController script somewhere

[toxic ledge]

Well the scrip is not on the cupe

Cube

[rich adder]

cube? no one mentioned cube

[toxic ledge]

No i mean at frist i tought i put the script on the cube

[rich adder]

do you have the PlayerController and Rigidbody on the RobotVacumm

[toxic ledge]

But i didint

[toxic ledge]

I did and the pink cube just keeps falling

But when i remove the rigidbode it work olmost normali

[rich adder]

because you dont need rigidbody on pink cube why you put it there

[toxic ledge]

I mean on the cylinder

The pink cube dosent have it

[rich adder]

You don't need it there either, it has to be on the parent

so it moves both + cam

its even on the tutorial

the cube / cylinder is just a visual

they don't need anything

unity script nullguards, is just a little wonky but the setup is correct

[toxic ledge]

But the error ses the cylinder dosent have a rigid body

[toxic ledge]

Well is the one that they told me to copy paste

[rich adder]

can you show me the inspector for Cylinder

[rich adder]

brother..

why do you have rigidbody and the script on the cylinder

[toxic ledge]

1 sec il show you

[rich adder]

the Cylinder is only for visuals / collider (in this case)

[rich adder]

You havePlayerController on the the Cylinder...

twice

You don't need the script there at all

nowhere on the tutorial it says to do that

not sure where the miscommunication breaks down here lol I been saying it forever

[rich adder]

the entire RobotVacuum is the Player

the prefab

so when they say to put it on the Player, they mean the ROOT. Nowhere does it say anything about putting it on the Cylinder / child object

[toxic ledge]

Maybe when i drag it the scrip it got putted there idk TvT

[rocky slate]

hello

[toxic ledge]

Hi

[rich adder]

lol very unlikely

[rocky slate]

anyone can teach me about active ragdolls?

like physics n shit

[rich adder]

theres plenty of resources online on this.

[toxic ledge]

You think to much of me im dumb as briks

[rocky slate]

like youtube?

tbh i needa learn scripting first

[rich adder]

start a bit smaller, or take your time on the lesson theres a lot to unpack

[rocky slate]

cause ik nothing

[rich adder]

then you should start there first, active ragdoll requires a decent knowledge on how to counter forces with rigidbody

!learn

[radiant void]

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[rich adder]

pathways ^

[toxic ledge]

Idk aready cus i suck ahh at codeing is aready a strugal

[rocky slate]

thanks

mod this guy?!?!

holy

[rich adder]

yes but you only get better when you keep practicing

we all started there at some point or another

[toxic ledge]

Idk but is stress full plus ik il do dumb things like this -//-

[rich adder]

ehh we all make those lol as long as you learn from them

the coding isnt really the main focus of this lesson, copy and pasting the code isnt the way to learn coding

you can copy and paste but you should at least try to understand what each line does

this aint the tutorial for that, better resources for coding are Pinned here

[toxic ledge]

Idk how tho TvT

You can ask me half of what i did idk what to sey

[rich adder]

if you only do something once you're not going to learn much

repetition is key

[toxic ledge]

Trust me ik tho i feel so dumb.

Idk how to explain it

Dhiw hiw i maneg to broke someting agin

How i am so down bad that i cant even do as a video ses

[rich adder]

don't rush through it, watch it a couple of times before doing it yourself

have a little self confidence, putting yourself down isnt a good start

[toxic ledge]

Well i have very low self estime so idk TvT

[dapper field]

I'm trying to implement a save-load system into my game, and jsonutility just doesnt like me i guess?

I don't know what's going on. The actual file has the correct number, but then .FromJson just decides it's actually zero

[grand snow]

JSON utility is a bit shit btw

You are better of using json.net

Then you are not constrained to unitys serialisation rules

You probably already have the unity json.net package in your project!

[dapper field]

Out of sheer curiousity, what serialization rule could possibly be doing this? It's saving correctly, and I made the thing just public float power. Gonna admit I'm copying a tutorial essentially word for word, so I also wanna know if I messed something up somewhere else that might mess me up in that too

[verbal dome]

Did you mark it [Serializable]?

The SaveData class

[grand snow]

Yes things such as this

[grand snow]

And what about that other class?

[verbal dome]

Pretty simple thing to do, wouldn't call JSONUtility "shit" for that

It's super fast too

C++ based

But yeah for more customization you'd want to use a different package

[grand snow]

And yet I will always pick Json.net

[grand snow]

Looks okay so double check you are reading the correct file text

[toxic ledge]

Man i think i give up

[dapper field]

I'm using a helper method to get me the file, so the save and load functions should be pointing to the same place I think

[grand snow]

Use a debugger to verify the process

[dapper field]

And I'm getting the number when it reads the text, it's when i convert from json that it decides it's zero

[dapper field]

brb pulling up google on what that is lo

[dapper field]

i think i'm doing that with the debug.logs. Or did I misunderstand?

[verbal dome]

How was the save file created?

[grand snow]

That works but debugging let's you over see the whole process in more detail

[dapper field]

The save made it when I first ran it without it created

[rich adder]

using debugger is invaluable tool
https://unity.com/how-to/debugging-with-microsoft-visual-studio-code#debugging-using-vs-code
https://unity.com/how-to/debugging-with-microsoft-visual-studio-2022

[dapper field]

its under appdata\locallow\defaultcompany\gamename
whenever I hit save again it still works

[gleaming haven]

[SerializeField] private Light lamp;

why do I get a "Type mismatch" when I drag a PointLight object into this script?

[verbal dome]

Are you dragging a scene object onto a prefab?

[rich adder]

you're dragging into a prefab ?

[gleaming haven]

no, I have this script on a cube, and I want it to get like a reference to a pointlight

so I can enable or disable it

[verbal dome]

So this cube is in the scene and not a prefab?

Maybe show a video

[gleaming haven]

I have a cube in a scene
cube -> has this script with the SerializeField
a PointLight object -> also in the scene, and I want to drag this into the SerializeField of the cube

[verbal dome]

And the field immediately says "Type mismatch" after you drag it?

[gleaming haven]

yup

is this an incorrect datatype?

[verbal dome]

Did you change the type in the script recently?

[verbal dome]

If it lets you drag it in then it should be the correct type

But changing a field's type might make unity bug out a bit in some situations

Try renaming the field or somtehing

[gleaming haven]

I got it
what a stupid mistake
I had a script that was called "Light", so it had the same type and this is why it gave me a mismatch

[verbal dome]

But why would it let you drag it in 🤔

[gleaming haven]

it didn't let me previously, now it does

it's working now

[verbal dome]

Ah I thought it was letting you drag it in

[gleaming haven]

now I got a working lightswitch 👍

[toxic ledge]

is this script good? https://paste.ofcode.org/qeKE9AumBCLuEPLkefPaLW

[solar hill]

good in what way

[verbal dome]

That onTriggerEnter is cursed

-It should be capitalized OnTriggerEnter
-It should take a Collider parameter, not Collectible
-You are destroying yourself, not the other object

[toxic ledge]

Like made cus when i run it it dosent destail the thing so i wanted to ask if i did something rong

[solar hill]

your ide is probably not set up correctly

[toxic ledge]

Then what shud i do?

[solar hill]

!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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• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[toxic ledge]

Im useing visual studio code

Is that a badthing?

[solar hill]

look at the bot message

please

[naive pawn]

then click the link that says visual studio code

(vs stands for visual studio)

[solar hill]

calc is short for

[toxic ledge]

I did it and the scrip still dosent work

[rich adder]

well yeah because you're using the wrong method hence the suggestion to have a properly configured IDE

it will tell you why your onTriggerEnter method does not do anything

[toxic ledge]

Idk i did exacly whst they sed and it still auto fill the same

[rich adder]

doubt it

show its configured

if you start typing onTrigger even wrong capitalized the IDE will suggest the right one

[naive pawn]

ah yes, the ai intellicode

i'd recommend not using that

[rich adder]

that seems to be some weird intellicode

if you press Tab does actually put the lowercase one ?

[toxic ledge]

my head hurts

[dapper field]

Tried json.net. The exact same thing happens.
Also I can't figure out how the debugger is supposed to help me here, so now I feel like I'm just back at square zero

[rich adder]

yeah thats borked

just disable it

[naive pawn]

this is what you should be seeing

this is intellisense

[rich adder]

or lowercase

[toxic ledge]

idk how

[grand snow]

Its to check the data you read from disk and then send to be parsed.
If a value is not read im going to presume the field names dont match and you somehow missed this

so be extra sure the data in json actually matches the type you are deserialising into

[naive pawn]

settings > search "intellicode" > uncheck the checkbox

[rich adder]

i think you can just search disable AI

or yeah maybe its a seperate setting for intellicode

havent checked in a while

[naive pawn]

i think that would be too broad

[rich adder]

idk i got this

[naive pawn]

ah i thought you mean googling

[rich adder]

oh yeah should've clarified in VSCode settings

[naive pawn]

i remember intellicode existing before that. does that also apply to intellicode?

i guess so, there's no separate intellicode. mb

[rich adder]

I think they deprecated the extension cause it was broken

barely worked

they merged it all into github copilot iirc

[naive pawn]

oh they rebranded it to inline suggest

[toxic ledge]

now i hage none

[rich adder]

you have an error there, its probably important

so you dont have unity connected at all

[naive pawn]

you might notve configured your ide properly

[toxic ledge]

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code

this page also gives you the If you are experiencing issues

very useful.
restarting pc is very important step after getting .net SDK

[toxic ledge]

il try it but my heads feels like it will explode

[naive pawn]

do you mean restarting vscode

you shouldn't have to restart your pc afaik

[rich adder]

nah PC

[naive pawn]

odd

[rich adder]

I did it recently on a new machine and it worked but kept spewing .net errors even tho dotnet command worked

[naive pawn]

oh is this with the external sdk

you only need to restart vscode if you use the .net install tool iirc

[rich adder]

ohh ok never used install tool and the installer for the unity extension always fails

restart fixed it.. probably PATH issues

tho in cmd it would work but vscode kept saying dotnet not recognized 🤷‍♂️
it was weird cause intellisense itself started working

[toxic ledge]

So i shud delte the studio code editor?

[rich adder]

no not at all..nowhere does it say that..

[toxic ledge]

Idk man im fr tierd and im feeling like im bother the chat somehow

[rich adder]

take a break

its easy

come back to it with fresh mind

[naive pawn]

this is a help channel, we're here to help

if we weren't free (or.. being productive ) we wouldn't be here

[toxic ledge]

If i take a il stop cus is 21 here

[naive pawn]

but yes do take breaks

rest is important

[toxic ledge]

Idk is just my brain that ses im bothering

[rich adder]

well mind never makes sense tired 😛

[naive pawn]

when i'm procrastinating my source of dopamine is either helping people or scrolling youtube shorts and i prefer the former

[rich adder]

I made the dumbest bugs when coding till 5AM no breaks

next day was like " why would i do this.." fixed it in 2 mins

[naive pawn]

-# i say as i'm scrolling yt shorts right now...

[toxic ledge]

Idk i atarted at like 10 am whit 2 breaks ig

[twin pivot]

Devs going thru 50 different side quests just to avoid adding to the main system be like

[rich adder]

no lie

[dapper field]

I tried deserializing directly into the struct that SaveData has as a field, and it worked.
What's confusing me now is the tutorial I'm following deserializes (using JsonUtility) directly into the SaveData struct, and that automatically assigns the values of the inner struct.

His code:

    public static void Load()
    {
        string saveContent = File.ReadAllText(SaveFileName());
        _saveData = JsonUtility.FromJson<SaveData>(saveContent);
        HandleLoadData();
    }

    private static void HandleLoadData()
    {
        GameManager.Instance.Player.Load(_saveData.PlayerData);
    }

My code:

    public static void Load()
    {
        string saveContent = File.ReadAllText(SaveFileName());
        _saveData.PistolData = JsonUtility.FromJson<PistolSaveData>(saveContent);
        HandleLoadData();
    }

    private static void HandleLoadData()
    {
        GameManager.Instance.Pistol.Load(_saveData.PistolData);
    }
}

Our structs are the same (just different names), so I don't see why I can't do exactly what he's doing. If I can figure out why I can't, I'd rather not have to handle every different object's save data individually in the Load() method

[toxic ledge]

I dont wana stop cus soon is school and i berly neard how to somehow use sound laights and textures

[grand snow]

The type you give to de serialize has to match. Meaning the json needs to be an object that contains the same field names

Json.net can however de serialize into a List/Array directly if your json was [1,2,3]

[rich adder]

the computer / project isnt going anywhere lol

[toxic ledge]

But my adhd barin will

[dapper field]

so is what I'm serializing not the struct that is the field? (The format looks like {"name":value,"name2":value}

[grand snow]

I dont know because you never showed example json

[twin pivot]

My guy go sleep and try tomorrow i can barely understand what ur saying

[naive pawn]

you can't just call me out like that bro

[toxic ledge]

1 sec let me drink my 3th coffe

[dapper field]

what do i need to show u

[grand snow]

json as text and classes as text

[twin pivot]

Dw im also on here to avoid adding more content

[grand snow]

I will ignore you if you send images of text

[toxic ledge]

What i meant is that i dont wana stop becas school starts soon and i didint learn enything for unity

[rich adder]

how will learning tired help

[twin pivot]

When learning code the first curve is usually the most difficult so its understandable if you take more than a day

[toxic ledge]

Dw i have coffe

[dapper field]

(i'm sorry everyone else for the text walls)

[twin pivot]

Might want to use a code service

[toxic ledge]

is this what im supose to have?

[twin pivot]

That looks good

[rich adder]

yes thats part of it

did you look at rest in link

[dapper field]

also if anything in other stuff matters lmk
I don't think it should but I'm not certain

[grand snow]

This json needs to be deserialized as PistolSaveData because thats the object def it matches

[toxic ledge]

what link

brb i make 4th coffe

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[grand snow]

This would be de serializable as SaveData:

{
    "PistolData": {
        "gravity": 2.0,
        "power": 10.0,
        "mass": 1.0,
        "roundsPerSecond": 2.0,
        "magazine": 8.0
    }
}

[dapper field]

I'm following this tutorial
https://youtu.be/1mf730eb5Wo?si=clcji5JNowGaFc5g
From around 4 minutes is where it's relevant
he uses the same save syntax as I do, but he gets it as something he can deserialize as SaveData

[grand snow]

doesnt matter i wont even watch it

What i have said is true

[dapper field]

oh i just skipped ahead like 30 seconds and it does look like that
..now why is mine not doing that i have no idea

oh

i found it

[grand snow]

I hope now you can see how data can be de serialized from json into an object instance and just recognise where you fucked up

[dapper field]

i had an extra .pistoldata

[grand snow]

there ya go

[dapper field]

im gonna go bang my head against a wall now see you in 4 hours when i'm no longer unconscious
or not idk

tysm

[toxic ledge]

Well from there i got those 2

Let me wash my face maybe that will help me

[queen adder]

making my first unity game with barely any experience..trying to get my mouse cursor to lock in the middle and be hidden but getting this error:

[naive pawn]

well, do you have the proper using directive?

Cursor is defined in UnityEngine

ah goddammit

[naive pawn]

please do not crosspost.

[queen adder]

yeah my fault, sorry

[naive pawn]

could you show your code, and where are you getting the error from?

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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[queen adder]

using UnityEngine;

public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour
{

    public float sensitivity = 2f;
    public float xRotation = 0f;

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

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

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

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

and for no apparent reason its working now?!! im so sorry 🤦‍♂️

[solar hill]

Did you save the script 🧐

[naive pawn]

probably forgot to save/recompile before

[queen adder]

yeah i did i tried a few different iterations lol

eh whatever, something worked. thanks for helping anyways haha

[solar hill]

maybe it didnt recompile properly

sometimes it happens

[toxic ledge]

hello im back

and somehow i think i broke the scipt editor even more

[verbal dome]

You should ask actual questions if you need help

Telling us that something is broken without details just wastes our time

[toxic ledge]

how can i fixe my scrip editor?

like when i type it dosen out filss etc etc

[verbal dome]

Follow the link you were given

[toxic ledge]

i did

[verbal dome]

So you completed all steps?

Usually people say they do but they actually didnt

[toxic ledge]

i dowloded them

i put them

idk if i did it corectly tho

if someone kowns im all ears

[rich adder]

well if you followed all the steps in the link there should be no issues

and https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code#if-you-are-experiencing-issues

[verbal dome]

Did you do the "If you are experiencing issues" steps...?

[toxic ledge]

1 sec ima try restarting laptop

[verbal dome]

(So you did not follow the steps)

[toxic ledge]

now i did

man still dosnet work what did i do rong

do i need this?

[solar hill]

A configured IDE?

absouletely

[toxic ledge]

this i mean

it didint send for some reson

[slender nymph]

yes you need that. what do you see in the output tab of vs code

[toxic ledge]

still nothing

fuuuu

[slender nymph]

show it

[slender nymph]

show the output tab, which you said you see nothing in

[toxic ledge]

idk what is that even

maybe cus im not fluent in english

[slender nymph]

it's the tab in vs code literally labeled "output"

[toxic ledge]

this?

[slender nymph]

in vs code
is that a screenshot of vs code?

[toxic ledge]

this?

[verbal dome]

Yes but go to View -> Output

In the top bar

[rich adder]

so you didn't install the .net sdk as it said on the page

[verbal dome]

Right so did you install .NET SDK or not

Jfc

Stop saying you did all the steps

If you didn't

[toxic ledge]

bro i thought i did TvT

[rich adder]

literally the only reason to restart the pc

[toxic ledge]

sorry..

there i think i did it

[rich adder]

install .net sdk , restart PC. There isn't much to it should work right away

[toxic ledge]

thats what im checking rn

bad new it dosent give me what i need

[verbal dome]

Where are you typing that?

It only works inside a MonoBehaviour class

[rich adder]

yes please dont crop screenshots too much

your brackets look somewhat fucked

[toxic ledge]

yep

so what shud i do.

[rich adder]

show what the file looks like and where you typing this ?

[verbal dome]

public class qwerqwerqwerqwerqwre : MonoBehaviour
{
// Type here
}```

[solar hill]

suboptimal class name

[solar hill]

dude why are you cropping your screenshots so much...

just show us the code

[toxic ledge]

i can berly think

[solar hill]

post the script, we dont care what it litterally looks like inside of the project

we need to see the script itself

[naive pawn]

go rest bro

[toxic ledge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/ZxgbM4rVEtcCgNgwFTqb7t

[naive pawn]

1 hour of work when you're well-rested is more productive than 5 when you're tired and barely conscious

[verbal dome]

You are missing a } so it doesn't know how to handle it

Every { needs a }

[toxic ledge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/XUxeD6bChK2Km26SmQMRt

[solar hill]

ok and does it autocomplete now?

[toxic ledge]

no

[rich adder]

you just showed us it did

[naive pawn]

have you installed the .net sdk

[solar hill]

are you positive, and i mean absouletely positive, you were following the steps for vs code, and not visual studio?

[rich adder]

you just put it in the wrong part

[toxic ledge]

yes

[solar hill]

also this, your now deleted screenshot actually showed some autocompletion

[naive pawn]

-# was it text or member autocomplete...

[rich adder]

yes it was configured at least from quick flashed screenshot that appeared, if intellisense is not showing its odd cause it showed before

[naive pawn]

dude really just needs to sleep

[verbal dome]

@toxic ledge It ONLY shows when you are typing it

[toxic ledge]

i am ;/

[naive pawn]

or if you manually trigger it with ctrl+space

[verbal dome]

Well it didn't look like that in your screenshot

[naive pawn]

yeah that does look configured

try ctrl+space

[toxic ledge]

no suggestions se

[solar hill]

did you perhaps disable something in the settings for vs code?

or adjust anything

[verbal dome]

They did have some intellicode stuff going on and people suggested to turn it off

So maybe

[toxic ledge]

only thing i did was i but visual code at preferens or whatever

[naive pawn]

this is gonna be so dumb if they disabled intellisense from me telling them to disable intellicode

[solar hill]

i have a feeling its almost certainly this

[rich adder]

lol

[naive pawn]

dude you are not being coherent

you need to sleep

[solar hill]

because fuck normal naming conventions

[naive pawn]

microsoft 🚬

[toxic ledge]

im not what?

[rich adder]

it did show OnInitialized attribute earlier in intellisense

[solar hill]

cant wait for vs code to introduce inteliJay their new ai assistant

that wont confuse anyone

[solar hill]

did you disable intellisense or intellicode earlier?

[toxic ledge]

yes cus i think chris or nev told me

[solar hill]

that was not a yes or no question

[naive pawn]

which one?

[solar hill]

inb4 both

[naive pawn]

there is no intellicode option - i was mistaken, it was rebranded into a different thing

so if you think you disabled intellicode, you probably actually disabled intellisense

[solar hill]

wait what lol

can you no longer disable it?

[rich adder]

intellicode is deprecated on VSCode as an extension

only suggestions that appeared were from Github Copilot

which is now baked into VSC (sadly)

[toxic ledge]

nop

i checked

[grand snow]

thanks microslop /s

[naive pawn]

@toxic ledge go into your settings and filter for modified options. see if you've disabled intellisense

[toxic ledge]

only think was ai disabel

[naive pawn]

this is not what we're talking about at all

[naive pawn]

you can, it's just under a different name (inline suggestions)

[toxic ledge]

it outofild but not the the small window

[naive pawn]

no clue what you're talking about at this point

are we back to intellicode

holy shit dude go sleep

you are not in any shape to do debugging right now

[toxic ledge]

when i look for it show me only 2 options

maybe i shud just leave the server im to dumb for this

[naive pawn]

no, you should sleep

you are too tired for this

[toxic ledge]

but if i dont do it it will bug me all night

[naive pawn]

you're not able to think or communicate clearly right now

you can rest and come back to do this in 10 minutes, or fight through the tiredness for 4 hours. your choice

[toxic ledge]

i just need a 5th cofee maybe

[naive pawn]

no, you need sleep

stop hurting yourself

if you keep at it you'll just burn out

[toxic ledge]

trust me frend i hate my self so i dont mind

[naive pawn]

do you want to make games or not

[toxic ledge]

i do.

[naive pawn]

you will not be able to if you don't rest

go rest

we cannot help you if you refuse to help yourself first

[daring sentinel]

Dude are you trying to have a heart attack? Take a break bro

[toxic ledge]

i did like a week ago

[naive pawn]

breaks are daily or hourly, not monthly

[daring sentinel]

Yeah they're mandatory, during breaks is when stuff starts to actually click

[toxic ledge]

i dont refuse it yall are super nice and cool i just idk i dont wana make yall think im a guiter or dumb cus aready i feel like im bothering..

[naive pawn]

you won't be able to make anything if you don't take care of yourself. going to rest, taking a break, is not time away from the project. it is time for you to prepare for the project

[naive pawn]

you not resting is refusing help

[daring sentinel]

Nah, tbh you're only really dumb or bothering anyone if you're like that toonsouls guy who uses AI for everything

but fr please just take a break

[naive pawn]

to be blunt, in the hopes this'll convince you, trying to help you in this sleep-derived state is more of a bother than just seeing you again half a day later

we can't really help you in this state.

being sleep-deprived itself makes it harder to decide to go rest. so take this chance to let us tell you to go rest. this is a step in solving your issue

[toxic ledge]

fine is just that i ryly want to learn sum that i like find cool

[naive pawn]

and right now you're too tired to learn

learning is good

forcing yourself to "learn" when you're not able to learn is not good

go rest and come back when your mind is refreshed

[twin pivot]

Jesus christ is this guy still awake

[toxic ledge]

yep

[twin pivot]

Dude go to sleep and try tomorrow

[toxic ledge]

fine.

just cus i ryly like chris hes nice

or she

[naive pawn]

will you go sleep for me, then

[toxic ledge]

or them

[toxic ledge]

ye

gn

[vast matrix]

How would I make something happen (for example a door opening) when the player is within a certain distance if they press a certain button? Something like OnTriggerEnter but instead of it only happening when the Player enters the trigger it happens only if they are inside the trigger?

oh I just found out about OnTriggerStay

[feral mango]

Yo how do u use version control

[slender nymph]

!vc if you want to use unity's version control see the guide linked below. if you want something else, then google how to use git

[radiant void]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[cosmic dagger]

if they enter the trigger, then they are inside. when they exit the trigger, they are outside of it. you can use those as well instead of constantly checking on OnTriggerStay . . .

[vast matrix]

Im not understanding how to create randomly spawning items. If someone could please help me understand how to do this it would be greatly appreciated.

[cosmic dagger]

what have you tried?

[vast matrix]

I've tried object pooling and instantiate, but it's not giving me the result that I want.

[solar hill]

I dont think object pooling is really related to what you want to do

How are you deciding which item to spawn, and how are you spawning them?

show us your code

[radiant void]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
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[cosmic dagger]

well both of those are for spawning an object. do you have anything for the randomization?

to grab a random item, you need a collection: list, array, etc., of items, then choose a random number (based on the length of the collection), then use that random number as the index of the item to spawn . . .

[vast matrix]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Pool;
public class PotionSpawner : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private Transform[] spawnPoints;
    [SerializeField] private float timeBetweenSpawns;
    private float timeSinceLastSpawn;

    [SerializeField] private Item_Interact Items;
    private IObjectPool<Item_Interact> ItemPool;

    private void Awake()
    {
        ItemPool = new ObjectPool<Item_Interact>(CreateItem);
    }

    private Item_Interact CreateItem() 
    {
        Item_Interact item = Instantiate(Items);
        item.SetPool(ItemPool);
        return item;
    }

    private void Start()
    {
        
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (Time.time > timeSinceLastSpawn)
        {
            // Spawn Items
            ItemPool.Get();
            timeSinceLastSpawn = Time.time + timeBetweenSpawns;
        }
    }``` This is the current code im using.

Currently I'm just trying to spawn a singular item then Ill change it into an array

[solar hill]

right, but where is your actual spawning logic?

[dawn wave]

I have something like entityStats.primary.strength.finalValue = entityStats.primary.strength.baseValue + entityStats.primary.strength.bonusValue;. It would of been tedious to write that for every single possible stat and I wanted to practice using reflection and succeeded in iterating through my EntityStats script, getting its # of fields of a specific type, accessing the nested values within a type ofStat within those specific types, and doing the final = base + bonus; logic. I'm new to C# and wanted to ask if reflection is a "common" way to do something like this or should I of done something else? Maybe a List of Stat objects to foreach() the same final=base+bonus?"

[sour fulcrum]

Reflection is not common period

Can’t give full answer to your question rn but just mentioning that

[verbal dome]

Code generation is one alternative, and I guess property bags

That goes more into advanced territory though

[verbal dome]

How many of these variables does EntityStats have?

Using multi cursor editing in your IDE might make it less painful to do manually

[dawn wave]

EntityStats.cs has 3 types called "Stat_Primary/Secondary/Resources" and within those three, each have "Stat" fields of varying amounts. "Stat" has a base/bonus/final value float

[verbal dome]

Another way is to have the stats as key-value pairs in a dictionary, iterate over it and add the values together

[dawn wave]

I'll check that out and practice it, thanks. So is reflection something I should probably forget about since there is probably always a more intuitive way to do something I'm trying to implement?

[verbal dome]

In a way reflection is usually the "last resort"

It is known for being slow but you can always do the reflection in a loading screen and cache the results

So not totally off limits

Maybe try different approaches and see what works for you

Reflection also has some compatibility issues if you make an IL2CPP build, not sure what tho

[dawn wave]

Yeah it was 8 lines but I'm aware of the overhead that reflection entails. I'm always interested in finding out other ways to do the same thing, especially if it's less lines

[verbal dome]

Oh wait I misread a bit. I was assuming you need to add two different stats together

But you are just calculating the finalValue from baseValue + bonusValue

Definitely use a List<Stat> for that

[dawn wave]

haha okay

[elfin pike]

i made struct and i need it be nullable so i placed after ?, but now cant access values

[verbal dome]

Wdym exactly

Can't access values?

Show the code + error

[elfin pike]

'StatsData?' does not contain a definition for 'timeElapsed' and no accessible extension method 'timeElapsed' accepting a first argument of type 'StatsData?' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[verbal dome]

You need to get the value from it

if HasValue -> use Value

[elfin pike]

dont understand what you mean?

[verbal dome]

StatsData? stats = // whatever

if(stats.HasValue)
{
  stats.Value.timeElapsed = // whatever
}```

[silent cipher]

loook

[verbal dome]

Needs more crabs

[silent cipher]

well i dont cnow hoew to add crabs here

actually itahts my biggest problem

does someone knows how to hide hiererchy cause i dont need it at all

[verbal dome]

You can close any window if you right click its name > Close tab

[silent cipher]

thanx

[crystal hollow]

using UnityEngine;

public class See : MonoBehaviour
{
// breaking boxes

privat string Tag = "_cardbox";
privat GameObject pl = player;
privat float power = 8f;
privat GemaObject fl = floor;
privat string Tag = "Object1" ;


void Update()
{
    if (Tag("_cardbox") => power, Collision.collision(Tag("Object1"), fl))
        Destroy(Tag("_cardbox"))
        else
            return;
            //If the box falls or hits another object or obstacle, it breaks.
}

}

How can I improve or what should I study to improve this code?

[rocky slate]

can anyone send me the best coding learning video / web page

[frail hawk]

is that ai generated?

[verbal dome]

What's up with the privat stuff?

[frail hawk]

also you have typo private GemaObject should be GameObject

[verbal dome]

Most of that doesn't make sense

[sour fulcrum]

making code that compiles

[rocky slate]

xdd

[verbal dome]

 if (Tag("_cardbox") => power, Collision.collision(Tag("Object1"), fl))
            Destroy(Tag("_cardbox"))```
🤔

I feel like this is from a completely different engine/language

[keen dew]

Trolling?

[verbal dome]

Pretty sure privat is swedish and not C#

[frail hawk]

the term best can not be answered easily but this might be a good start

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

[rocky slate]

cheers

[crystal hollow]

What?

[sour fulcrum]

the code you made is nonsense

it does not work

its like if my sentence was typed like this

typed sentence if was its like this my

[frail hawk]

to me it looks like writing code and praying that it works

[naive pawn]

i mean like, just try pasting that code in and see how many errors you get

i count 15

i don't think you should look to "improve" that code. that kinda implies it works to begin with

before improving, you need to get something that works first

[crystal hollow]

Okay 😅, then what resources should I study and where should I get information from?

[frail hawk]

first tell us what IDE you are using and if you have intellisense on because it really looks like you wrote this inside notepad

[crystal hollow]

Vsc

Yes, there is no auto-complete option for what can be entered, and C# kit doesn't apply since I'm in Russia and I don't use a VPN. Maybe I should download a different IDE?

[frail hawk]

vsc is fine but you need to configure it

!IDE

[radiant void]

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Select one:

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[frail hawk]

but i dont understand the part why C# kit is not being applied

[silent cipher]

actually thats great but...

[toxic ledge]

Hello

[fresh oar]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[distant saddle]

hey guys , i would like my character to not die on the spike and instead approximately follow the arrow when i press the right button in this situation , is there a name for this situation ? how would you do it ? i was thinking of shrinking the hitbox but it feel like a "solve a problem , create ten more" solution .

[sour fulcrum]

Remove the first two spikes 😄

[distant saddle]

i was thinking about that , but my character has a lot of horizontal speed (my game need that) so it can take the spikes after that. And it feels like putting plaster on a wooden leg.

[frail hawk]

give the 2 spikes a different tag

if you are wokring with tags to determine the collision

[sour fulcrum]

Respectfully i think that’s not a great idea