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[woven scaffold]

so in the editor im compiling some data so its faster to search through instead of using more complicated methods. and so just for other teammembers to see that the data updates when they update it, im just serializing it in a serialized dictionary and some other wrappers as it contains instantiated data from managed references. So the solutions i know of would be either be able to input unwrapped data and have it act as if it was wrapped, or completely seperate it and do the visualization of the data in editors. which becomes even more work for me

[long pasture]

if you want something like that making the gui seperate is probably the best thing especially for scalability

[woven scaffold]

yeah, thats kinda what i was expecting as i couldnt find any answers on how to make it easier to use between wrapped and unwrapped data

[undone axle]

In case any other new people are curious. Here is how I implemented some very basic leaderboard name filtering in my unity game.

When a player submits a score to the UGS leaderboard, the Unity client sends the entered display name to a Unity Cloud Code function, which calls PurgoMalum(dot)com and returns(JSON) either the clean name or a sanitized version. Unity then validates that returned name and uses it for replay/leaderboard submission, falling back to the original trimmed name or PLAYER if moderation fails or returns something unusable.

Working great

[swift crag]

One mildly evil option would be to create a new type (call it DebugViewer) that doesn't actually do anything interesting, and then to create a custom PropertyDrawer for it

the property drawer would grab the serialized object that its property comes from and read other data from it

The less evil way would be to write a custom editor for your component type

I forget if you can ask Unity to draw the default UIToolkit editor or not

[woven scaffold]

yeah, i think i will be ending up doing a custom editor for it

[swift crag]

if not, that's mildly annoying: you'd need to manually create all of the PropertyFields yourself, and then putting your debug information at the end

[woven scaffold]

i believe the way you would do that is to get the default elements, and add it to the drawn elements instead of doing base.CreateGUI or whatever its called

if thats what you meant

[balmy vortex]

is there any way to easily find like the side of a gameobject and put another gameobject right next to it?

kinda like this except with the cubes actually aligned

[silk night]

if its just cubes, yes it is easy

if its more complex you can still use this: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider-bounds.html but its more complex to look for straight faces

[verbal dome]

Or if it's aligned to a grid, just use the grid coordinates + array

[swift crag]

raycasts would be appropriate here

a raycast gives you both the position and normal of the point you hit

the normal vector tells you which way the surface is facing

[balmy vortex]

oh well how would I actually it here though?

[swift crag]

what's the context here? are you trying to make an editor tool, or is this going to be used in-game?

[balmy vortex]

I'm just trying to procedurally generate rooms that connect to eachother, hence me needing to get the length and side of the cube (aka the room - so I can put another right next to it)

[silk night]

Are the rooms themselves procedually generated or just the layout?

If the latter you could have mulitple connection points defined per room, that can be used by other rooms

[rich adder]

connection points 💯

[ornate pelican]

how hard is it to make a 2d isometric game that like allows you to move around tall walls, climb on stairs and without causing visual artifacts like overlaping where it shouldnt be
I'm currently trying to make something like this but the stairs system is making my head burn

[silk night]

the overlap problem is easily solvable, as for the "how hard is it" in general that 100% depends on your game design

[ornate pelican]

i see, thx

[jaunty laurel]

Is there any way to generate a prefab with a specific point, thats not the origin, locked to a coordinate? For example, if I am trying to procedurally generate rooms, is there a way to get doorways to match up without doing math to find where the center should go?

[verbal dome]

Without doing math? No

I'm not a super mathy guy but learning how to use vectors and rotations (and to combine those) is super useful in game dev

[verbal dome]

Is it all aligned to a grid or are rotations involved?

[jaunty laurel]

rotations are involved

[solar hill]

Honestly i dont think the math for it would be too complex

at least for the most basic implementation

[drowsy tiger]

Its pretty simple math

[solar hill]

i guess it depends on how you handle your coordinate system

[verbal dome]

You can probably have a lot of the Transform methods (TransformPoint etc.) do most of the heavy lifting

@jaunty laurel if you give a more specific usecase we can try to suggest actual code and ideas for it

[jaunty laurel]

basically I have rooms with somewhat arbitrary door placements, different elevations, etc, but all vertical and can align with other doors, and I'm writing a script that will generate a new room connected to a random unconnected door

[verbal dome]

It would be something like newRoomPosition = sourceDoorPosition - (newRoomRotation * newRoomOffset)
where newRoomOffset is local coordinates of the "specifict point" you talked about in the original message and sourceDoorPosition is the "ccoordinate" you lock on to

[digital ridge]

those forward and up vectors are defined in world space so you need to transform them in terms of world space too. add Space.World as second parameter to Translate and Rotate should work.

[swift crag]

oh, okay, that's a very different question!

i think enderpy has a similar question here, actually

for procedurally placed rooms, I'd either:

• have a set of empty gameobjects that mark valid connection points
• do that, but also store a Bounds on the object that marks a region in which you can place connections

transform.forward is a world-space direction

it depends on the rotation of the Transform

Emeraldy's answer is correct here – Translate, by default, uses Space.Self, rather than Space.World

transform.Translate(Vector3.forward) will move you forward based on which direction the transform is pointing

transform.Translate(transform.forward) winds up "doubling up"

it converts from local to world space twice, and you get a wonky result

[rich adder]

Ohhhh u right forgot about this.. Haven't used translate in a while lol

[swift crag]

I also have basically never used it, ha

transform.Translate(transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), Space.World) and transform.Translate(Vector3.forward) are equivalent – except that I'm not sure if that should be TransformDirection or TransformVector

(the latter cares about scale)

It's probably the latter, but I couldn't tell you for sure

[rich adder]

yea I suppose transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * speed) should suffice for OP if they want to move forward based on rotation ?

[charred monolith]

idk why bur when i dont select my object where the script is, the jump dont work as expected. but if i select it, it does

[slender nymph]

show code

[verbal dome]

Show the code

[solar hill]

honestly if your jumping is somehow dependent on anything from "UnityEditor" this could happen

but like, why would that even be the case 🧐

[frail hawk]

strange

[slender nymph]

or if it's framerate dependent somehow

[verbal dome]

Yeah usually when having an inspector open changes the behaviour it's because the inspector has overhead and brings up framerate dependency issues

[swift crag]

my first guess is a framerate-dependency issue

[verbal dome]

(Or a bad custom editor)

[solar hill]

actually yeah, some volatile way of calculating the jump based on framerate where even a small change could cause shit like this to happen

[charred monolith]

ok give me a ide website rq i dont know one

[solar hill]

!code

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[solar hill]

you got 4 there 👆

[charred monolith]

3 or less. 1 is shutdown

[verbal dome]

The first 2 don't work for me 😬

[solar hill]

im still waiting for Sidias site to get added

https://share.sidia.net/ its by far the cleanest one

[verbal dome]

Link?

Hell yeah

[charred monolith]

Look i know its unoptimized code but i dont fcking know how i should do proper code with controller.move https://paste.myst.rs/9xif1vef

[naive pawn]

you should only call Move on a given CC once per frame, generally

that includes from other scripts

[verbal dome]

This is the issue:cs yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);

You should use yield return null; to wait for exactly one frame, instead of waiting for 0.1f seconds

[solar hill]

also am i missing something or does the entire coroutine not make any sense?

[verbal dome]

Looks like a "wrong-lerp" too

So theres a couple of things causing framerate dependency there

[charred monolith]

idk im just trna make a jump script

[small gyro]

I’m currently having issues with Visual Studio Code IntelliSense and I’m thinking about switching to a different IDE. I’ve heard good things about JetBrains Rider, but I’m unsure about how it compares and how the licensing works.

Does anyone have recommendations or experiences with Rider or other IDEs?

[verbal dome]

What are you saying "idk" to

[rich adder]

what issues exactly ?

[verbal dome]

Nvm this part, I misunderstood the coroutine, but the Lerp is still very wrong

[small gyro]

Just doesn't work. I downloaded the extensions required and seemed to make it worse.

[rich adder]

which extention ? you only need the Unity one and that installs the C# devkit / C#

you don't need anything else

Rider is good but its a paid Sub service
its free for non-commercial projects

[charred monolith]

what do you mean wrong lerp if i may ask?

[rich adder]

if you did the steps above this
check the bottom section
https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code#if-you-are-experiencing-issues
particularly the .NET Sdk installation part

[verbal dome]

Let me ask, how do you want the jump to behave? You have a timer of 0.1 seconds, should the player start moving downwards after that?

And instantly or gradually?

[charred monolith]

no with 0.1seconds i mean that the gravity should be up and after that, the gravity is set down to create an illusion of jumping.

[earnest raven]

Need help in changing a value of an Instantiated object:

working part (In Enemy):

        GameObject proj = Instantiate(cogProjectilePrefab, cogThrowPoint.position, rot);

        // give the projectile the enemy's target.
        Projectile projectileScript = proj.GetComponent<Projectile>();
        projectileScript.target = player;

Non-working part (In Player)

    {
        // Spawn Projectile and assign to value
        GameObject cogproj = Instantiate(tosserModeCogProj, tosserModeCogProjSpawn.position, tosserModeCogProjSpawn.rotation);

        // give the projectile a speed boost.
        Projectile projectileScript = cogproj.GetComponent<Projectile>();
        projectileScript.speed = projectileScript.speed + (projectileScript.speed * currentCharge);

    }

In projectile, the speed value is public. When the object is instantiated, it doesn't dare change the speed. And YES! -- currentCharge DOES change!

it doesn't throw errors, just doesn't do its job

[small gyro]

Yeah I have those. I tried to write GetComponent and it doesn't work. But if I disable the extensions then it starts working.

[verbal dome]

That's basically what I meant, but yeah, what if you just set the velocityY to 0 instead of doing the Lerp?

That would be a better starting point
I still don't know if you need it to instantly change from up to down though. Or if you want it to be gradual (gravity already does this)

[rich adder]

you most likely have errors in the output console of VSC
did you try typing dotnet in the Terminal tab of VSCode , do you have errors?

I linked you to a troubleshooting section, you can try those steps

[small gyro]

Yeah I'll check that out

[naive pawn]

have you triggered the "install .net" command from the .net install tool

[small gyro]

Both of you might be right. Odd that I don't have .net. I'll install it now.

[rich adder]

make sure you reboot PC after doing it

[charred monolith]

no if gravityY equals 0, i will float. but since it get called after the frame then, the jump illusion wont happen.

[charred monolith]

its also hard to simulator jump/gravity with just controller.move. i cant use physics too bc of cc

[small gyro]

I am still having the same issue. Some reason

[verbal dome]

I didn't say anything about gravity :/

[naive pawn]

if you use the "install .net" command from in vscode, it should work after just restarting vscode

[charred monolith]

then idk what u want me to answer

[verbal dome]

You haven't told us how you want it to behave

[solar hill]

im confused as to why you need a custom physics set up for this to begin with

[verbal dome]

What should happen after that 0.1 seconds

[charred monolith]

a jump

[verbal dome]

There's a jump example in the code here btw
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

[charred monolith]

u fall back down

[small gyro]

Sorry if its a stupid question but it is asking me this when I try to run it "Enter the absolute path where the nvm-windows zip file is extracted/copied to: " does it matter the path?

[naive pawn]

uhhh that doesn't seem right

why would it be installing node

[verbal dome]

That's already happening. You are adding gravity to the velocity each framecs playerVelocity.y += gravityValue * Time.deltaTime;

[charred monolith]

yea

imma fix that later

[naive pawn]

fix what

the code osmal mentioned is correct

[charred monolith]

i know and im gonna use that code later to FIX my issue

[verbal dome]

I'm still curious what the issue is

Do you want to make it less "floaty"?

[small gyro]

Do you think it has something to do with having 2 different drives? I have vscode on c and projects on d.

[charred monolith]

it doesnt behave as i wanted but sorry i cant chat now bc i eat pizza soon but thanks for helping me

[bitter pine]

how does Vector3.Dot work? im trying to get it to print it and when i go behind the object, its 0.3, when i go infront its like .35 is there a reason or am i just dumb? Vector3.Dot(direction.transform.forward.normalized, plr.transform.position.normalized); print(Vector3.Dot(direction.transform.forward.normalized, plr.transform.position.normalized));

[naive pawn]

i don't think so. could you show the command you're running that's giving that message?

[naive pawn]

the dot product used in this way takes in 2 directions

[bitter pine]

oh so should i do plr.transform.forward?

[polar acorn]

Dot Product shows "sameness of direction". Two vectors pointing the same direction will be 1. Opposite directions, -1.

[naive pawn]

plr.transform.position.normalized gets you the direction from the world origin to the player, that's completely unrelated to the object in question

you'd need to get a direction from the object to the player

[bitter pine]

OHHH, i see that makes sense now, changed it to go forward instead and it works!

[polar acorn]

So, the forward direction of direction is about 35% similar to the direction from the origin to where plr is

[naive pawn]

(footnote: if the directions are normalized)

[naive pawn]

(dot product isn't linear over angle btw)

[verbal dome]

Can you show the code you used just in case

Sounds like you might've plugged the wrong value

[bitter pine]

print(Vector3.Dot(direction.transform.forward.normalized, plr.transform.forward.normalized));

i just redid it

it works now

[naive pawn]

yeah no that's for whether the player is facing in the same direction, not whether the player is behind the object

[verbal dome]

Okay so 1st of all transform.forward is already normalized so don't need that
As Chris said, the second parameter should be (player position - self position)

[naive pawn]

presumably, when you turn to move behind the object, you turn opposite that direction direction lmao

[polar acorn]

I mostly just use it to detect the extremes

[bitter pine]

yeah but u cant interact with it when ur turned around so it should be fine

working fine

[naive pawn]

why not just use the correct calculation and save your future self the headache when the behavior slightly changes

[solar hill]

its working fine for now

[bitter pine]

whats the correct calculation?

[naive pawn]

comparing the right directions

you want to see if the player is behind the object, you would need to check the direction from the object to the player

[bitter pine]

yeah, thats what i did, no?

[verbal dome]

You need
dot(self forward, direction from self to other)

[naive pawn]

the direction from the object to the player

plr.transform.forward.normalized

no.

[verbal dome]

You used
dot(self forward, other forward)

[bitter pine]

i see, how do i get that second one?

[naive pawn]

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[bitter pine]

is it obj.position - plr.position?

[naive pawn]

the inverse

that would be the direction from the player to the object

[bitter pine]

so plr.pos - obj.pos?

[verbal dome]

ABBA rule: A -> B = B - A

[naive pawn]

(it would work if you change a few values but it wouldn't make sense and would cause future headaches)

[naive pawn]

and make sure to normalize it

[bitter pine]

actually thats really useful, thank you

[verbal dome]

(Shouldn't matter in this case)

[naive pawn]

ah, true

but good practice either way, imo

[verbal dome]

If we only care about if its negative or positive

But yeah

[naive pawn]

lest you create a tripwire for your future self

[bitter pine]

thank you guys!

[naive pawn]

another way to think of it - A - B is basically asking what A is in relation to B
3 - 1 = 2 - from the position of 1, 3 is 2 away
so A - B gets the vector from B to A (and normalizing that gets you a direction)

[bitter pine]

if im making a dot a var should i make it a float or a vector3?

[naive pawn]

hover over the method 😉

[bitter pine]

ah i see

thanks

[naive pawn]

(or yknow, check what the definition of the dot product is)

[bitter pine]

can i like convert a float to an int?

kinda like rounding it and such

so -0.6 would become -1

[naive pawn]

there's multiple ways, depends on what behavior you want exactly

if you just want to check direction, you could just check < 0 or > 0 though, no need to convert

[bitter pine]

im not really bothered, it just makes my brain happy for some reason

[naive pawn]

if you're referring to the "there's multiple ways", then you should be bothered
-0.6 would become 0 if you choose the wrong method for your usecase

[bitter pine]

yeah that was my planned method, i just wanted it to be 1 or -1 for some reason, if its annoying to go about then theres no point lol

dw bout it

[naive pawn]

you could use Math.Sign or Mathf.Sign for that (depending on how you want 0 to behave)

but yeah no real need if you just need to check < 0. you lose information doing this, which would be useful if bugs arise or you want to change the behavior

[bitter pine]

its all good, like i said it doesnt really matter anyways so there should just be no point lol, thanks tho

[naive pawn]

-# it is useful knowledge to have either way

[small gyro]

@naive pawn previous issue was just me messing up but I did install it via the terminal in vscode and it still doesn't work.

[naive pawn]

yeah idk about that method

ive never used it

[small gyro]

Which method were you refering to then?

[naive pawn]

ive just installed via the .net install tool (i mean, that's what it's there for)

[naive pawn]

..this one?

the one that's actually in vscode, as a vscode command (provided by .net install tool)

as opposed to just running a command in a terminal that happens to be in vscode

[small gyro]

Oh I see now the extension. I'll try that out.

[silver quail]

hi

[small gyro]

Yeah I ended up doing it that way and still nothing. When I open the file you can see the syntax highlighting work but after a few seconds the highlighting disappears.

[naive pawn]

you're opening the project folder and not just individual files, right?

[silver quail]

some guys help me i start developing because ist personal projet for create sandbox game and buildind

[naive pawn]

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[naive pawn]

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[small gyro]

Ok intially I was using a project for testing this issue. Then after doing then installing .net with the install tool I was using a individual file. That seem to be the problem.

Thanks for the help. I was dealing with this for a couple days now.

[silver quail]

and gpt is bad

[solar hill]

yes

chatgpt is quite bad

[silver quail]

i build menu quit resume and option but not work

[solar hill]

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[silver quail]

and time for answer

[solar hill]

read the bot message

[silver quail]

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[lofty ore]

hey so im new to learning unity and im trying to get player movement i looked at a tutorial but my input get axis keeps turning red

[solar hill]

like in the ide?

are you getting an error?

[lofty ore]

wait the red is gone but im still not moving?

im using the visual graph thingy

[slender nymph]

you need to provide actual information here

[solar hill]

visual scripting?

#1390346878394040320 go here for that

[lofty ore]

ye

ok

[bitter pine]

is it possible to add to an array?

say i had an array of strings that represents the inventory, and i pick something up. how could i add to my inventory?

im trying to make an inventory similar to poppy playtimes

[verbal dome]

You can iterate the array until you find a null string and then set the string value at that index

So it would fill the first available slot

This is the simplest way I can think of it

[bitter pine]

would there be a better way for a simple inventory?

maybe a bunch of bools or?

[grand snow]

string and bool are pretty bad choices

Normally you need more information such as an item id, quantity ect

[verbal dome]

What would the bool represent? Can you have only one instance of each item type in your game? How does it work

[bitter pine]

only 1 of each item, you wont collect multiple, its only really collectables

[verbal dome]

How many total?

Approx

[bitter pine]

well i havent made them but if i wanted to guess.. like 20ish?

[verbal dome]

Yeah, many ways to do that, but sounds like a simple array of bools would actually be sufficient in your case.
I would use an enum to index into it:cs bool hasItem = boolArray[(int)MyItemEnum.Sword];

[grand snow]

Or... List<MyItemEnum> inventory

much easier to deal with right?

I highly expect you would struggle with a bool array

[verbal dome]

Sure, and then call inventory.Contains(MyItemEnum.Sword)?

[verbal dome]

How so

[grand snow]

Yea much easier to understand

[bitter pine]

hmm, is there any way you can explain to me how i would add to it, check if it contains something and how to remove. because i can script to a certain level, its just the more advanced things i struggle with, but i think if i have someone just explain it then i should be good

[bitter pine]

can it be a public var?

[verbal dome]

Probably

[bitter pine]

wait is the MyItemEnum a script or sm?

[verbal dome]

It would be an Enum type you define to basically hard-code the item types

[bitter pine]

soo, do i just create a script add some vars to it and call it a day?

i dont use enums like at all i dont think

[verbal dome]

It's basically a way to give names to integers
https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_enums.php

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/enum

[bitter pine]

can you add to an enum?

[verbal dome]

During runtime, no

What do you mean 'add'

[bitter pine]

like add to it

because its an inventory?

[verbal dome]

The enum itself would not be an inventory

[bitter pine]

public enum Items
{

}```

[verbal dome]

It's just a set of "identifiers" for each item type

[bitter pine]

thats right no?

[verbal dome]

Something like that, yes

[bitter pine]

OH

i see

so i would make the public enum have it all then use the list to add and remove?

that makes sense now thanks

[verbal dome]

Make sure to you don't add duplicates though. Check that it does not Contain before Adding

[grand snow]

^ correct

[verbal dome]

(Or you could use a HashSet but that doesn't serialize)

[grand snow]

Well this is going to change at runtime but yea a list will be easier for them to work with to save/load without extra effort

[bitter pine]

one last question, say i want something to require one of the items, whats a way to be able to make it a var

[grand snow]

This can be done many ways but depends on:

• how items are collected
• if you have "item data" defined for each item

[bitter pine]

so, it wont have like multiple of each item, i just wanna be able to select 1 thing from the entire enum to require if that makes sense

so like being able to select it like this

[grand snow]

I hardly understand so ill say what I think you want: To require the player to already have an item in their inventory to get another?

Or some game logic/event to require the player has an item in their inv?

[bitter pine]

no, so say i wanna open a locked door, and i want to check if the player has the key. but i want to be able to select what it needs from the enum, not the list that will be the inventory, the actual enum.

like this holds the items

{
    TestKey,
    TestKey2,
    TestKey3,
}```

and this holds the inventory / what out of the enum is in the inventory.
public List<Items> inventory;

[grand snow]

Your door can have an enum field to define the "required item to open"

public class Door : Monobehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    Items requiredItemToOpen;

You can then set what "item" this field has as its value

[bitter pine]

so to be sure it needs to be a public enum to be able to check in a different script

[grand snow]

Then elsewhere:

if(player.inventory.Contains(requiredItemToOpen))
{
  OpenDoor();
}

[grand snow]

Yes but your IDE and unity will produce a clear error if this is incorrect

[bitter pine]

huh

[grand snow]

unity or code editor program will go "shit brokey"

so just try it

[bitter pine]

doesnt seem to like it

[grand snow]

You defined the enum inside a class so move it out

[bitter pine]

wait what

[grand snow]

If we do this then the type name is different: ClassName.Items

Copy paste the Items enum definition to not be inside the {} of that class

[bitter pine]

i think im stupid

[grand snow]

let me demo...

[bitter pine]

yes please 🙏

[polar acorn]

Something in C# "holds" everything in between its { }s.

[grand snow]

BAD

[polar acorn]

Your class is holding this enum

It needs to not be holding it

the enum can stand on its own

[grand snow]

GOOD

[bitter pine]

like that?

[grand snow]

yes!

[bitter pine]

ah i see

[grand snow]

Due to it being inside Player before you would have had to do Player.Items but that is no longer the case

[bitter pine]

OHHH

so i can put it inside the class but i would just have to do Player.Items?

[grand snow]

It would but i think that will confuse you

so lets not 🙏

[bitter pine]

how come?

[grand snow]

see above

[bitter pine]

so is it bad practise or sm?

or does it just make it more difficult?

[grand snow]

Usually better to not do this when the enum gets used in other classes too

[bitter pine]

hmm ig

[grand snow]

and as you saw you were confused why the type name was wrong elsewhere

[bitter pine]

i think thats cuz its my first time using enums

but now it makes sense

[verbal dome]

You can also use namespaces to organize your types

[waxen adder]

So I'm trying to get Unity Version Control to work on one of my projects. Issue is, when selecting a repository, I don't see any options? I imagine I probably need to initialize one or something, but don't know how/where

[slender nymph]

!vc 👇 also this is a code channel

[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.

[solar hill]

is there any particular reason you want to use uvc? because i can recommend you try git instead

[waxen adder]

I'll take a look, but most resources haven't helped me yet.

Also version control is frequently used for code, so I think this fits, unless I'm missing the version control channel somewhere

[solar hill]

you would use #💻┃unity-talk for this

since its a general topic

not #💻┃code-beginner

[slender nymph]

unless you need help with your code, then a code channel is not the right place

[waxen adder]

More convenient honestly. Git usually requires me to go access another application. It's just nice to do the vc process within unity. If things don't work out I'll probs switch to git again

[solar hill]

i mean how often do you need to access your repo while working?

realistically youre only using it to commit and push

also git can be integrated directly into your ide which you will be using regardless

🤷‍♂️

[waxen adder]

Integrated? How so?

[solar hill]

what ide are you using?

[waxen adder]

Visual studio (not code)

[solar hill]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/version-control/git-with-visual-studio?view=visualstudio

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/github/ this is probably the better link

[waxen adder]

ooo that's kinda sweet. Maybe I won't be using uvs after all XD

[golden light]

hey guys i new to coding games and I'm working on a project and I'm getting error codes that i don't know how fix. can anyone help me out?

[timid raptor]

What's your problem?

[solar hill]

can you show us the errors please...

[rich adder]

we can't help if you don't show the errors or anything else relevant to your setup. We're not mind readers

[golden light]

sorry i had to quikly leave after i send that message to get my wife lots track of time my bad

Thats the current issue im getting

[slender nymph]

https://screenshot.help

[wintry quarry]

just obvious typos everywhere. Also an outdated TMPro namespace.

[queen vale]

Hello, I'm working with an asset I bought and am kind of stuck at the moment.
I wish to set the audiomixer channel of a source prior to the audioclip getting played. so that I can control it via the volume controls I've setup.
Since the object is instantiated during runtime and not from a prefab, I can't manually change the (audio)sources output prior to instantiation/creation.
This is where the audiosource component is added to the gameobject.

AudioSource source = go.AddComponent<AudioSource>();
            // source.outputAudioMixerGroup = _defaultAudioMixer .... how can I refer to the group? GetFloat will just return the value as far as I understand.
            source.clip = clip;

The comment is my own addition, where I figure the change needs to be made but, im not sure how to refer to the exposedVariable of that mixer channel.

[golden light]

ok so how do i fix the outdated namespace i looked all over the web and when i check the project manager to make sure it was updated i couldn't find it.

[slender nymph]

there is no "outdated" namespace. you have typos

[slender nymph]

the AudioMixerGroup has an audioMixer property that points to the mixer

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Audio.AudioMixerGroup-audioMixer.html

[wintry quarry]

Sorry you're right - TMPro is correct

yeah it's just the typos

(I was confusing TMPro with Cinemachine, whose namespace they did migrate)

[slender nymph]

i'm honestly surprised they didn't migrate its namespace to be in line with other packages yet

[waxen adder]

You mainly just need the "using UnityEngine UI" to be "using UnityEngine.UI" a space is incorrect and I don't think is ever used when setting up using statements

[queen vale]

Maybe i misunderstand..

AudioSource source = go.AddComponent<AudioSource>();
            AudioMixer mixer = source.outputAudioMixerGroup.audioMixer;
            // mixer.outputAudioMixerGroup ...
            source.clip = clip;

[golden light]

ok i fix the .UI now I'm just getting "The type or namespace name 'TextMeshProUGI' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)",

[queen vale]

I wish to route the output of that audioSource through a specific mixer channel.

[waxen adder]

Look carefully at that name. There's something wrong with it. If you correct that (and assuming the correctly named type is known), then you should be golden

[slender nymph]

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

You route the output of an Audio Source
to a group within an Audio Mixer. The effects will then be applied to that signal.
you need to just assign to the outputAudioMixerGroup property

[golden light]

thank you i just forgot a U lol thank you for help lol I'm also watching videos to learn how to code lol

[queen vale]

So is there no way to refer to the mixer channel inside of code? I can make a reference sure, but I was hoping to do it within the script without a reference. Maybe that's asking for too much without using Resources, etc.
Kinda circling back to my first message.

[slender nymph]

what mixer channel are you referring to here?

[queen vale]

Maybe channel is a bad word for it, but this 'group'.

[slender nymph]

what you have highlighted is an exposed property. which you can get by accessing the audioMixer property of the group you are using

[waxen adder]

Yeah no worries, everyone's gotta start somewhere. After a while, things will start to click more and more. It might take a while though

[queen vale]

So I need a reference to the mixer itself, I can't just find it 😅

[queen vale]

I got this audio stuff working with all existing audiosources on prefabs, but when it's an audiosource that's made via script during runtime, that's new to me.

[slender nymph]

assign the desired group to the property, then access that group's mixer. that's literally it, you're overthinking it

[waxen adder]

A little tip for the future, so something like that "TextMeshProGUI" is a feature of TMPro. So something you can do to learn more about it is type "TMPro TextMeshProGUI" into google and you can learn more about both that feature "TextMeshProGUI" and the thing that houses it "TMPro"

[golden light]

well its gonna take me a while since I'm a OTR truck driver and i only get to do this on my down time.

[waxen adder]

To put it into one way, TMPro is the house that holds the furniture object TextMeshProGUI

[queen vale]

Will work on that, thank you.

[waxen adder]

This is why, if you mess up the using statements, the things that rely on them also get messed up according to the inspector, even if they are properly typed out

[golden light]

ok well i need to make sure i proof read everything after i type out a line

[queen vale]

AudioSource source = go.AddComponent<AudioSource>();
            source.outputAudioMixerGroup = _sfxMixerGroup;
            source.clip = clip;

I take it this is what you meant

[slender nymph]

yes, then if you need to modify anything on the mixer itself you can do so via that group

[queen vale]

Gotcha, thank you. I was just hoping to do it all within the script.

[slender nymph]

it's going to be more expensive to do it without an existing reference to the mixer group because you'd need to get that reference somehow. but that's not quite what you had actually asked
if that was the goal this whole time then you were focusing too much on the fact that you wanted the mixer, when really you just wanted to learn how to reference an asset at runtime. and that would require you to either pass the reference from another object (which is the least expensive way to do it), or load the asset via addressables or resources (but a direct reference is going to be faster and more convenient than either of those options)

[queen vale]

Fair, no worries, and thanks for the help.

[waxen adder]

Yeah, you can do that, but also there's text editors out there that help you with that. I think you have one and maybe it works? One thing I know is if you are trying to reference something that the editor doesn't know about, it can't help you. This is true even if it does really exist out there in Unity land. So like, that TextMeshProGUI thing would've auto-corrected better if your using statements weren't having problems

[slender nymph]

they do have a configured VS Code, so they should be getting autocompletion suggestions

they just need to actually pay attention to them and rely on them

[rich adder]

ctrl + . you can get it to find the namespace

[golden light]

well i was using Jet brain to code everything on. then i changed it to virtual studio since they work with unity

[slender nymph]

rider also works with unity and is better than vs code. (and many also consider it better than visual studio)

[golden light]

ok ill give rider a try

[rich adder]

both work. Anyway in most cases even if namespace is missing you should still see it suggested

[slender nymph]

there's no need to bounce around IDEs, you are perfectly fine sticking with what you've already configured. but you say you will "give it a try" but didn't you also just say you switched off of it for vs code?

[rich adder]

One thing with Rider if you're on the Free license you cannot sell/make money from your game / projects as its free for non-commercial

[golden light]

i had IntelliJ installed cause i was wanting to made mode for Minecraft. so i used that to code for unity. and i switch to vs code cause back in high school i used that when i was learning with a few friends and i some what knew how to use it. i didn't know rider was the same thing I'm not really that knowledge with IDEs really

i thought rider was a different one like VS

[slender nymph]

intellij is a java ide, rider is the one for c#

jetbrains is the company that made both of them which is why i assumed you were using rider when you said you had used jetbrains because anyone familiar with jetbrains would know that for c# you would use rider

[golden light]

like i said I'm learning everything i haven't touch anything for coding for 5 to 6 years to be honest

[rich adder]

stay with VSC if its working fine

[golden light]

i will when i get home i do need to grab my book for coding that i bought back in 2020 for unity if that book is still worth using to this day

[rich adder]

nothing has changed for years, maybe UI and a few lines here and there but for the most part its all relevant even from 2017 and all that

[golden light]

awesome cause the game I'm working on is like a mix of WOW and Diablo. then i have a fps game i want to do after that. i also need to learn blender or find assets that will work for what I'm wanting to build.

[solar hill]

a mix of wow and diablo as one of your first projects?

kinda ambitious dont you think?

[rich adder]

in most cases you can get by with prototype assets

forgot what they're called lol

[solar hill]

placeholder art?

[rich adder]

placeholder yes thats the word

[waxen adder]

Ambitious yeah, but it sounds like he has an income coming in (unless I misread). Could look for people to commission

[rich adder]

if you individually learn whats needed its possible but probably not the best project to start with learning

excluding multiplayer though

[waxen adder]

But yeah, off the rip trying to learn the engine? Probably best to start with prototypes

Get something kind of like what you want going

Figure out your strengths, what you're interested in with game dev

[rich adder]

yea so like.. You need movement click to move. SO you look that up and make a learning project with that and keep it going eventually put it together like Legos

[waxen adder]

I like legos

[rich adder]

I liked k'nex better

legos always felt "too rigid"

[golden light]

well i know its way out of my way but its something i want to work to it. I've always wanted to build a MMORPG. like the necro can bring you back if you die but there will be de buffs since you would kind of be undead and the paladin can do the same but if that character bring you back you get more things and not be undead its a work in progress for that I'm thinking.

[wise cairn]

hey guys what's the issue with my fields? they show up in the inspector but without anywhere to put anything, just the label for the field's name. i was hoping to be able to drag a subclass of the class into the field
```[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "NPCStats", menuName = "Scriptable Objects/NPCStats")]
public class NPCStats : ScriptableObject
{
[SerializeReference] public NPCStateMachine stateMachine;

    [SerializeReference] public NPCState idle;
    [SerializeReference] public NPCState chase;
    [SerializeReference] public NPCState attack;
}```

[sour fulcrum]

i was hoping to be able to drag a subclass of the class
not how it works unfortunately

with [SerializeReference] it serializes a reference, which in this case would be null (eg. if you set it to something via code it would show)

with [SerializeField] it will never be null

but there's no like type selecting or anything with base classes in inspector

[wise cairn]

oh damn so what should i do instead

[wintry quarry]

What kind of things are NPCState and NPCStateMachine?

Are they POCOs? MonoBheaviours? ScriptableObjects?

[wise cairn]

just a regular class

[wintry quarry]

How and from where would you be dragging anything in the editor then?

If you want an asset you can drag and drop references in the editor for - you need ScriptableObject

[sour fulcrum]

could potentially use this https://github.com/vertxxyz/Vertx.SerializeReferenceDropdown

[wise cairn]

i was thinking the .cs files for their subclasses

[wintry quarry]

if you mean it's a POCO and you want to be able to pick which type it is then set the fields - you need to write a custom editor to have a type picker

[wintry quarry]

The CS files are just MonoScript assets

they are not instances of the classes they define

they're literally treated as text assets by the unity editor

[sour fulcrum]

(or use the thing linked above)

[prisma shard]

can someone help me know what the hell this white square bug is. i cant believe this is been the hardest thing to unbug so far. its like some kind of unity engine monobehavior or something forcing a white box over UI damage

[wintry quarry]

looks like a gizmo

wdym by "bug" and "unbug"?

[prisma shard]

bug as in not wanted in project, unbug as in debug

[wintry quarry]

turn off gizmos if you don't want to see them

[prisma shard]

tysm i could kiss u

[maiden ice]

Hi all, got a really noob question. Im building my scene and noticing some pretty poor performance on android device. Getting around 22 fps (40-50 ms frametime).

I spent hours in the profiler and frame debugger trying to figure out whats going on and in frustration i booted up a new project, made a floor and rigid body and thats it. Build it an run and im still only getting ~30fps in this very basic scene. This tells me there something more fundamental going on with my project setup, but I cant figure out what.

Using Vulkan render, vsync off. Tried tweaking a whole load quality and player settings, URP properties etc with no movement.

What am I missing? I feel like its something really basic -.-

[midnight plover]

thats something for #💻┃unity-talk you should give some more information over there, about what device you have tested on

[unkempt bear]

Hi everyone, I'm working on an Android-based Unity game. I'm trying to pick up eggs using Physics.Raycast. It works perfectly in the Unity Editor, but on the Android device the hovering/selection doesn't work correctly — it only works in some areas. I'm using a Sphere Collider on the eggs. Has anyone experienced this or knows what might cause it?

[rich adder]

what do you mean in some areas?

[wintry quarry]

Based on this vague description - no. Presumably a bug with your code and its interaction with your scene and/or the scene setup.

[slow roost]

Hi everyone! I face this strange behavior when I set up my aim using animation rigging package and multi-aim constraint. As a constraints object I'm using WeaponPose, that have Multi-Position Constraint and Multi-Parent Constraint which constrains WeaponPivot. I attached screen with my rig settings. What I do wrong?

[wild cove]

Hi, I don't know if anyone that I spoke to yesterday is still here but I did a bunch of tests and there's this problem with my code where one wont read the other's bools statically, it reads them once at the start and then just stops reading them constantly. Is there a way to make it so the other script that is viewing the other scripts bools statically/constantly knows the status of the bool?

[wintry quarry]

Don't store/duplicate another script's value typed variables. Just keep a reference to the other script instance and read the variable directly when needed

You're getting tripped up by value type vs reference types in C# here

[wild cove]

I'm not, I thought it was reading it from the other script??

[wintry quarry]

Your Update is inside your Start

So your Update isn't going to be running at all

[wild cove]

jesus what am i doing

thank you

ill see if that fixes things

[wintry quarry]

Also == true is never necessary

[burnt vapor]

Is it? Doesn't seem like it?

[sour fulcrum]

image 2

[burnt vapor]

The indenting makes it very hard to read

[wintry quarry]

And == false can be replaced by !

[wild cove]

it isnt

[burnt vapor]

But there's a second semicolon

[wild cove]

I js checked

[wintry quarry]

The indentation is correct which reveals the issue

[burnt vapor]

It's not in the method

[wild cove]

I js had a problem with indentation

[wintry quarry]

Oh you're right it's not

[wild cove]

oh wit

[sour fulcrum]

saying true and false explicitly is fine if you want though, just a preference

[wild cove]

image 2

naw both scripts have start and update in the right place, i js gotta be more organized

[wild cove]

oh i didnt know that, thanks

[wintry quarry]

anyway - no there's no way you would be getting an old/cached/outdated version of the value of the CanYouRead variable here

if it's you're not seeing it changed, it's simply not changing

[burnt vapor]

While code formatting is not something I'll correct you on it would make this a lot easier yeah

[wintry quarry]

you might be referencing a different instance of CollectAndDestroy than you think.

Or maybe there's just a logical error

either way you can figure it out with some simple debugging

[wild cove]

I harshly doubt that because I've redragged the script from the right object a few times and tested things

[wild cove]

I guess but I've been debugging a lot and I'm just stumped

[wintry quarry]

Explain what you expect to be happening here and what's happening instead

also please share the code via a paste site, it's much easier for us to work with

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

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

[wild cove]

Expectation:
The GameOverScreen script reads the CollectAndDestroys CanYouRead variable which is being actively updated, so there should be 2 messages in debug log, "Of course I can" and "I can still read" proving that the GameOverScreen is constantly reading that variable.

Reality:
The GameOverScreen script reads the CollectAndDestroy script when it starts (at least I think) and puts the first message where it only has to analyze the boolean once and then say "Of course I can", and it does that, but after waiting for a bit the "I can still read" variable should appear after a short amount of time, but it doesn't which I've theorized being due to the GameOverScreen script not constantly referencing/reading the other script and seeing the updated booleans.

[wintry quarry]

Your theory is wrong

Update runs every frame no matter what as long as the script is enabled and the GameObject it's attached to is active

Let me ask you this

What object is the GameOverScreen sscript attached to?

Is it the same one you assigned as the "Background" in the inspector?

[wild cove]

OH

Yes

[wintry quarry]

yep that'll do it

[wild cove]

ok so its not running because its not background

[wintry quarry]

it's not running because the script is deactivating the object in Start

which deactivates all scripts on that object, including itself

[wild cove]

do you know how to make it so a UI is invisible but active

is there a way to do that?

[sour fulcrum]

turn the UI off

[wintry quarry]

put the visible UI on a child

leave the parent active with the script on it

[wild cove]

oh

like an empty object?

[wintry quarry]

in other words "put it on a different GameObject"

[wild cove]

alr alr

[wintry quarry]

it's not empty if it contains UI stuff now is it?

[wild cove]

well ye

[wintry quarry]

The simple way to do this is right click your UI thing and select "Add empty parent"

then move the script to that parent

and make sure all the references are good

YOu can drag the component from the inspector onto the targt object in the hierarchy

[wild cove]

I was stuck on that for a decent 2 days and couldn't find that problem through debugging for like 5 or 6 hours

That was actually halting this whole minigame thing i was making for practice from being complete

now my game thing actually works

u r the goat Praetor

and thanks everyone else too!

[sour fulcrum]

this kinda stuff gets easier with time

[wild cove]

I hope

[sour fulcrum]

you get better at troubleshooting and figuring out how to narrow down problems

[wintry quarry]

Don't take this the wrong way but work on your debugging skills

[wild cove]

I will

[wintry quarry]

One Debug.Log inside the Update function (NOT inside the if statement) and not printing would have tipped you off that Update wasn't running

You need to act like sherlock holmes

[wild cove]

yeah but I didn't have enough brain capacity to make that connection

[wintry quarry]

test all your assumptions and rule out all possibilities

[wild cove]

yeah ill do that

[sour fulcrum]

just wanna narrow down this point to the bare bones of #1 troubleshooting step is making sure the code is running period

not just in the context of update() and stuff

easiest thing to check and honestly one of the most common

plenty of mistakes just come down to some code not running for x or y reason

[wintry quarry]

Yep it's usually:

• Ok is this code even running at all?
• if not, why not?
  ... backtrack from there
• if so, why is it not doing what I expect?
  ... log or inspect more information...

etc.

[wild cove]

alr ill make sure to do that next time im debugging

thanks

[slow roost]

Could anybody help me please? 🙂

[keen dew]

#🏃┃animation

[slow roost]

thanks, going there 🙂

[real thunder]

put their materials on

[naive pawn]

please do not crosspost. this is a code channel

[native merlin]

oh sry

[dark hatch]

hi, i was looking to have persistence with enemy objects. meaning that their positions, health etc. are all saved when switching scenes to and from main menu in a different scene. how do i do this? i have set up a basic gamedata class, but i cant cross reference gameobjects between scenes

how can i create a copy of the gameobject to store?

i was thinking if i could just copy the objects here then i would just need to call instantiate(obj) when i reload and be done with it, since position/properties/enemy script info is all contained inside the gameobject

[slender nymph]

the best thing to do is to choose what data from each object gets stored, have some way to identify each object, then just serialize that data you want as some struct or class that holds just that data and the key to identify

you won't be able to serialize entire gameobjects

[dark hatch]

i see ill just make multiple fields then

can a monobehaviour script be serialised?

[sullen grotto]

Hello y'all, I am a C++ and Python developer. I was thinking of trying Unity out with C# I think. What is the overall difficulty of learning this game engine and its language? I'm guessing there are many libraries, modules and a wide community, so that will make it a bit easier.

[dark hatch]

because since enemies have a bunch of parameters in their main enemy script

[slender nymph]

then just serialize that data you want as some struct or class that holds just that data and the key to identify

[timber tide]

You can honestly just create a basic save/load system into json if you aren't going to be using that data on the next scene

[slender nymph]

!learn 👇 "difficulty" is subjective so there isn't really an answer to that. the best thing to do is to just get started learning if that is your goal

[radiant void]

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[dark hatch]

i mean yeah this is easy enough but i dont really need it yet, ill probably drop this gamedata class into a json when im making save system while closing/reopening game. rn im looking just to keep it stored between scenes

[slender nymph]

the best way to do that would be to serialize it and write to disk, so a basic save/load system.

even just "between scenes" you'll have to store it somewhere that is persistent, which means probably not on a gameobject but on disk

[dark hatch]

i was trying to keep it on a gameobject that i call dontdestroyonload on

but yeah ill just put it into json when i will need to do it anyways lol

[slender nymph]

it's not like you'd be able to keep references to specific gameobjects or components when those scenes aren't loaded anyway so json is literally exactly the same difficulty as what you are attempting

[dark hatch]

yeah ill do that

ill make a couple classes containing a bunch of fields and store them all together in gamedata which i put into json

[slender nymph]

the hardest part of what you are attempting to do is going to be associating the stored data with objects in the scene, so those objects are also going to need unique identifiers that persist across sessions. a typical approach would be to generate a GUID for each and store that, then when you go to save the data you include that GUID along side the data for that specific object so that you can then load it back to that same object later on

[dark hatch]

i was thinking to store unique parameters only, and some reference to what prefab the enemy object is (multiple enemies use several prefabs in assets), so when reloading i can instantiate them all and set the unique params

unless there is any better way to do this

[slender nymph]

how do you determine what to instantiate if there is no data to load

[dark hatch]

im confused what you mean

if u mean that i cant store gameobjects, i have prefabs so ill just use some integer to refer to the prefabs

[slender nymph]

i mean exactly what i said. how is it that you determine where/how these objects are instantiated if you don't already have save data

because your idea does not account for that

[dark hatch]

if there is no saved data, does it not just mean its first load?

at that point no need to load anything since there is nothing to load

[slender nymph]

so then how do you determine what gets instantiated

[dark hatch]

my brain lowk fried

[slender nymph]

you said your idea for the save data was to use that data to determine what gets instantiated, right? so how do you do that if there is no data to load? what do you do for the first load

[dark hatch]

i set generated bool to false if no data

true if data has been saved

i call the savedata function when switching scenes when the current scene is the game scene (other scene is currently only start menu)

so when i call savedata i just set generated to true

and in like awake() somewhere i check whether its generated and load if it is

just a simple bool check

enemies just spew out from spawns normally in first load in that case

[woven scaffold]

im just making a utility script so i dont need to open unity hub every time i want to open a project. but im running into unity saying its running as admin. and no matter what ive tried running unity as it says its as administrator. ive tried (from powershell 7)

> & "C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\6000.0.58f2\Editor\Unity.exe" "-projectPath" "C:\Users\roock\repos\test"

> Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\6000.0.58f2\Editor\Unity.exe" -ArgumentList "-projectPath", "C:\Users\roock\repos\test" -Verb RunAsUser
# (both with and without -Verb)

> Start-UnelevatedProcess -process "C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\6000.0.58f2\Editor\Unity.exe" -arguments @("-projectPath", "C:\Users\roock\repos\test")

> runas /trustlevel:0x20000 '"c:\program files\unity\hub\editor\6000.0.52f2\editor\unity.exe" "-projectpath" "C:\Users\roock\repos\test"'

but it seems like it keeps using the permissions of the script thats starting it

[kindred temple]

Is it possible to allow a user to drag a file into the game window at runtime?

[undone pier]

can i convert this sprite animation into image animation?

[frail hawk]

what kind of file?

my guess is you mean a prefab, if so, yes you can do that by Instaniating the prefab

[kindred temple]

No I mean a file on a device, so you drag it into the window and get the path

Alternatively is there a way to open the file selection UI?

[eternal needle]

There are seemingly some tutorials online for this like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWf6D05QgYQ. Although that also just uses an existing repo that they show in the video

[kindred temple]

Seems to just be for Windows, hoping to find one that works on Mac too

Is there no syntax to just open the file UI for that operating system?

[eternal needle]

Otherwise there looks to be paid assets on the asset store that do this as well. Or you just implement some sort of file picker (also there are tutorials/existing ones)

[eternal needle]

Are you trying to do file drag and drop into unity, or a file picker? A bit of a difference there

[kindred temple]

^ The former would be ideal, but a file picker would work too

[eternal needle]

The first thing I sent is implemented on windows only. It looks like there's a mac version too from someone else
https://github.com/baobao/UniDragAndDropForMac
otherwise if you want to do a file picker then you can definitely find tutorials for that online as its a lot more common than drag and drop

[night raptor]

Yup, have to rely on third party tools afaik. Unity only provides access to the file picker tool for editor extensions, not for runtime use. Don't know if drag and drop even exists for extensions

[potent portal]

What are assetbundles? i keep seeing them in the editor and im wondering what it is.

[polar acorn]

Ways to basically package up an Asset with all of its import settings in a way that you can load at runtime without having to go through the UnityEditor

[grand snow]

Addressables is a system from unity that uses asset bundles

[potent portal]

what use cases could this be used in? 👀

[timber tide]

Just a good way to load dependencies over your typical resource load ways

Usually when you've a lot of assets tied some gameobjects it's to throw that object in and Unity will usually tie dependencies to it

[grand snow]

Dlc is a good use, it lets you not include assets for extra content in the main build.

[polar acorn]

1. Making small "launcher" downloads that then pull the games assets from a central server (example: most mobile games)
2. Releasing new content periodically without needing to force users to re-download the entire game again (example: Genshin Impact's new character releases)
3. Allowing for easier user-authored content (example: VRChat Avatars)

[grand snow]

Or maybe content you can update remotely any time (which addressables helps with greatly)

[potent portal]

ohhh okay that makes sense

[potent portal]

hm okay

thats actually really useful

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.addressables@2.10/manual/AddressableAssetsOverview.html

[potent portal]

thanks!

[timber tide]

Also compared to resource loading, there's usually a stronger typing and referencing when loading with addressables

compared to like loading via string path

Also less likely to get stripped out of builds

[eternal spindle]

hey um
i'm a game arts student
and i have a prototype due
it's so simple so simple but it doesn't want to work and i need help ;-;

[night raptor]

Just ask about the issue outright and share the code that is not working

[polar acorn]

No one can help until you ask a question

[eternal spindle]

yes yes sorry getting to it
so i'm trying to make a kind of goal, i have these moving objects and if they hit the goal, they disappear and add 1 to the counter
i'm working in unity 2D

the reject mouse is for the moving object because they're running away from the cursor

[solar hill]

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[eternal spindle]

oh sorry!

[naive pawn]

and what's the issue you're having?

[eternal spindle]

it isn't working, they just keep moving right through the goal

they don't destroy

[naive pawn]

your trigger message probably isn't firing

OnTriggerEnter is for 3d physics

for 2d physics you'd need OnTriggerEnter2D receiving Collider2D

[polar acorn]

Can you show the inspector for one of these objects with Points on it?

[eternal spindle]

sure! gimme a sec
i was in the middle of changing it up because i thought maybe the problem was that i gave it rigid body

[naive pawn]

if it was rigidbody and not rigidbody2d, that could be a problem

if for example you have collider2ds

[eternal spindle]

no no it was rigid body 2D just checked, still doesn't work
here's for the moving object and goal

[naive pawn]

it's this then

[eternal spindle]

i'll give it a try

nothing changed ;-;
they keep going

[polar acorn]

Which object has the rigidbody2D?

[naive pawn]

yeah you do also need the rb2d

[eternal spindle]

none of them anymore

oki!

good to know

[polar acorn]

Rigidbodies are the things that actually collide with things

you need to have one on the moving object, and move it using the rigidbody, not teleportation

[eternal spindle]

elaborate please?

[polar acorn]

Modifying transform.position is teleportation. Teleportation doesn't collide with things.

If you want to move an object and have it able to actually detect collisions, you'll need to use the rigidbody to move, either by using forces, modifying velocity, or using SetPosition

[naive pawn]

(MovePosition btw)

[eternal spindle]

thank you, i will try, i am still very new to this and appreciate the help

[polar acorn]

Oh, right

I have approximate knowledge of many things

[naive pawn]

fwiw Rigidbody2D.SetRotation does exists, but it's a teleport

[eternal spindle]

ok
i may be stupid
i tried just replacing transform.position to move position
and it
doesn't understand

[naive pawn]

right because that's not how code works

[polar acorn]

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

Call this function

[eternal spindle]

bless
thank you

[polar acorn]

instead of modifying the transform.position

[naive pawn]

note that it's for kinematic rbs and iirc won't have proper interpolation for dynamic rbs

for dynamic rbs you would use forces or set velocity

[eternal spindle]

ok so i need to do one of those

honestly i am starting to think
maybe i just restart in 3D
i didn't do much

[naive pawn]

you're still going to have to do very similar things

so, just changing to 3d won't fix any issues here

do whichever one you want to learn

[eternal spindle]

okiii

[kindred flame]

Hi can someone help me with an issue with unity?

I can t drag and drop an image to a script's image reference

But if I define it in the code like find it by tag it's working

So it's clearly the good type

[solar hill]

can you show what you are trying to drag and drop

[kindred flame]

Sure let me make a gif

[solar hill]

you dont have to

just a screenshot...

[grand snow]

By image do you mean a ui image component? (UGUI)

[solar hill]

also this

im assuming you meant like an actual image in your project files...

[grand snow]

Thats your script asset, that wont work

[kindred flame]

From hierarchy (HpGRN) to health bar

So like only prefabs work

[grand snow]

where is HealthBar? i do not see it?

[kindred flame]

In player parent > canvas

[grand snow]

Scene -> prefab is not possible

[kindred flame]

HpGRN

I made HpGRN fill image type

And I want to change the fill amount with the script

[grand snow]

Sorry so what gameobject in this scene has PlayerHealth on it?

[kindred flame]

The player

The same gameobj that the canvas is in

Oh wow I got it

[grand snow]

Share the script code so we can double check this is actually UnityEngine.UI.Image

[kindred flame]

I was trying to drag and drop the image to the script in scripts folder

Not on the actual script on player

The caffeine is really showing its effects lol

Like I was clicking on the script in scripts folder and drag the image on the inspector of the script in scripts folder

☝️ 🤓

Also how do I make the health bar look like it's static

I think it's a camera problem

There's that effect when the player stops like it's shaking

[solar hill]

i think its the opposite

if thats UGUI then its basically tied to your cameras movement unless you have some other script telling its not

its something on your character

[kindred flame]

I used simple cinemachine follow camera

[solar hill]

im not too well versed in cm, does it have any lerp values for that?

like an offset

[kindred flame]

Yes I'm trying something now

There are lots of properties though and I tried something called override lens

It screwed the game and couldn t even undo had to restart the project

Enemies spawn based on screen height and width in my game

So probably changed some resolution stuff

[kindred flame]

It was the damping property

[rough granite]

make a new canvas set it to world space put the health bar in that and make it follow the player (without any sort of lerping)

[dense mountain]

I keep getting an error that says "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to Instance of an object." I know its because the CatF is null but Im not sure why. It's just a double value and it works normally in the script its originally used in.
https://paste.ofcode.org/frUwqGqQQmZ54FFD9feZCy this is the code its used in, its being called by a button to save it so CatF is loaded in already

[sour fulcrum]

why do you know its because catf is null

what is Controller

[dense mountain]

Controller is another script, I use it to add to the CatF value https://paste.ofcode.org/uvCqAdYchsK7MxQRHVCqaX
Whenever I try to print catF in the debug log nothing prints so thats why I think its null

[sour fulcrum]

debug log if Controller is null

[dense mountain]

I Debuged it and controller is null
I didnt realize thats my bad

[boreal sonnet]

this error shows everytime i want to restart my game ?

the Code[using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Audio;

public class EnemyController : MonoBehaviour
{
private Rigidbody enemyRb;

public float speed = 5f; // Speed of the enemy movement
public int health = 3; // Health of the enemy
public GameObject enemyfirePrefabs; // Prefab for the enemy's projectile

public int scoreValue = 10; // Score value awarded to the player when this enemy is destroyed

public GameObject GameManager;

AudioSource audioSource;
private PlayerLIves playerLives;

// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
    enemyRb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    InvokeRepeating("Shoot", 1f, 5f); // Call the Shoot method every 2 seconds after a delay of 1 second
    audioSource = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    transform.Translate(Vector3.forward*  speed * Time.deltaTime);
    
}
private void OnDestroy()
{
 //  GameManager.AddScore(scoreValue);
  Object.FindFirstObjectByType<GameManager>().AddScore(10);
}
void Shoot()
{
    Instantiate(enemyfirePrefabs, transform.position, enemyfirePrefabs.transform.rotation);
}
public void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    if(other.gameObject.CompareTag("Player"))
    {
        Debug.Log("Enemy bullet has collided with player");
      //  Destroy(other.gameObject); // Destroy the player
        audioSource.Play();
        Destroy(gameObject); // Destroy the enemy bullet
        
    }
   
}

}

]

[sour fulcrum]

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[boreal sonnet]

Object.FindFirstObjectByType<GameManager>().AddScore(10);
}]]37 line ERROR

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[boreal sonnet]

ok

[ivory bobcat]

In any case, you ought to cache the game manager object first and see if it exists before adding score or somehow ensure the object is always present in the scene.

[boreal sonnet]

https://paste.ofcode.org/sYiE8ALPLmW52qEZXkcTeF

[ivory bobcat]

var manager = Object.FindFirstObjectByType<GameManager>();
if(manager)
    manager.AddScore(10);
else
    Debug.Log($"We couldn't find the manager when {name} was destroyed");```

It'll hide the error but score will not increase because there's an issue with the manager not being present when destroy was called.

[boreal sonnet]

then how can i fix it then i need the scoring system

[keen dew]

Don't add to the score in OnDestroy. Add in OnTriggerEnter where it destroys the enemy

[boreal sonnet]

oh oky let me try

[boreal sonnet]

bro Thank you 👍 it actually worked

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[burnt vapor]

Bot didn't work in my message but please share the code as specified here ☝️

[stark phoenix]

oh wait my bad

shall i send the whole files?

[burnt vapor]

Better to use one of the paste sites. Unfortunately they are all down and nobody seems to manage these links so you can always try another URL

[midnight plover]

I guess more important would be the script of the camera shaker. If its also changing the direction of the camera, its an issue on the script from github

[lavish maple]

Can someone help me . I want to make a bunch of Npcs for my 2d game . Do I have to draw every single one of them or is there a way to do it faster

[ivory bobcat]

You can try checking the asset store or
Quality work usually comes at some expense but if you're just prototyping or not concern about quality, there are alot of options on the net.

[lavish maple]

Ok

[polar acorn]

Someone has to, otherwise they wouldn't exist

[wicked pulsar]

My message will probably sound patronizing, but "drawing things" is something we leave to the computer to do. There's probably a way to do what you want to do that doesn't involve a whole lot of work on your part.

[naive pawn]

tf you mean, you have to draw art yourself

[wicked pulsar]

The bottom line is, we probably don't understand where you're stuck.

[wicked pulsar]

Oh, I was thinking of literal draw calls.

[naive pawn]

lmao

[wicked pulsar]

Hey, volume of work is volume of work, but I'll align myself with solving some of those issues.

If someone wants to reduce the work of spawning 100 NPCs into the work of spawning 10, I'll ask about their circumstances and help to figure out where they're losing processing time.

I won't help to figure out how to make 10 different sets of facial hair for a villager in a minute.

[naive pawn]

processing time? perf wasn't part of their question at all lmao

it's most likely just about drawing the actual npcs, considering.. that's what they asked

[fervent smelt]

private void CheckInventoryState(bool isOpen)
{
    _isOpenInventory = isOpen;

    if (!isOpen)
    {
        _isEditingMode = false;
        TurnEditingMode();
    }
}

private void CheckInventoryState(bool isOpen)
{
    _isOpenInventory = isOpen;

    if (isOpen) return;

    _isEditingMode = false;
    TurnEditingMode();
}

Guys, help me which option is better?

[severe snow]

early return is good if you know you dont need to continue, i use it

really doesnt matter though

[fervent smelt]

thx

[wicked pulsar]

You pivoted the conversation towards "drawing art", so I'm stating that the computation time behind "drawing art" is different from that of spawning objects.

[wicked pulsar]

Given how short the method is, it doesn't really matter. You would use the second case where the method has a singular goal and you want to guard the action of "checking inventory" against a whole lot of influences. At this scale, it doesn't make a practical difference what you do.

The second example could get harder to maintain if there wasn't a singular action which the method was targeting. That's where you would generally decide which style is better suited for the task.

[severe snow]

i think they mean drawing characters like... in photoshop right?

[wicked pulsar]

I'm not sure. I took them at face value in a programmatic sense.

[night raptor]

We wouldn't know really without them specifying. If it was for photoshop like drawing, this would be about the worst channel for that

[severe snow]

i dont think it was obvious at face value, just depends what you're more biased to

[wicked pulsar]

@fervent smelt In other words, suppose that "Check Inventory State" has three potential outcomes, the first case is probably best if you have to specify the control structure. Even with three end cases, you could filter all the failure cases out with repeat return early, then do the definitive, important selection somewhere, and then return true or false as appropriate and fall out to the other case.

In other words, use if (isOpen) return until you're at the heart of the problem that the method is really trying to solve, then go with the first example's style in actually resolving the issue. Use the second style to filter out cases which don't address the problem that the method was written to solve.

This advice is really designed for longer methods, though. I answered supposing that you're interested in why we would use one over the other in a generic sense.

[wicked pulsar]

Yeah exactly. It didn't cross my mind that they could have been asking about designing characters at the time.

I actually forget that asking AI to do things is a practical option in artistry nowadays.

[polar acorn]

You can't forget something that was never true

[severe snow]

practical option? maybe. in artistry? no way. that is not art.

[wicked pulsar]

I mean, to each their own. I try to stay out of it.

[naive pawn]

you say, as you state a very heavily contested opinion

[wicked pulsar]

I know. I'd rather just leave those who care to debate it.

[severe snow]

good luck when the free trials end and they actually try to monetize AI 😅 its going to happen soon

[naive pawn]

what a wonderfully deflective answer

[wicked pulsar]

I hope that I succeeded at it. I'm content with script kiddies doing their thing generally. The last thing I want to do is block up #💻┃code-beginner with laments about people doing or not doing their own work, though.

Actually, I'd happily continue the discussion somewhere else if you guys want.

[naive pawn]

tbh, the correct option would be to not suggest that as a real alternative to begin with. there's no reasonable discussion to be had here.

[wicked pulsar]

Right. I don't disagree. Let's not go down that path.

[trim quarry]

hello, did you had any experience with making a ragdoll hold a weapon, like guns or melees. if you had, please can you tell me how did you do it?

my ragdoll just flings away when it holds something with both hands

[swift crag]

You probably need to prevent collisions between the ragdoll and the prop

You can tell Unity to ignore collisions between specific pairs of colliders

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics.IgnoreCollision.html

[trim quarry]

LeftArm is a bone leaf, LeftElbow is connected to leftshoulder. do i need to make leftarm physical too?

[swift crag]

Or is the problem that putting the hands together applies weird forces?

In that case, you also may need to prevent collision between the hands

[trim quarry]

yeah

[swift crag]

As a test, turn off the hand colliders

See if it starts behaving better

[trim quarry]

ok lemme see

it still flings away

i should send the video

wait

[cerulean badger]

I made this grid based movement for 2d top-down, but when I walk next to a wall, instead of being blocked as it should be, the character just tries walking anyway and gets stuck inside the wall
https://paste.ofcode.org/9bhkrpCJMMPjyapUStnNNe

[trim quarry]

is it because of configurable joints?

[swift crag]

it's possible that you're hitting angle limits on your joints, i suppose

[wicked pulsar]

Is the character perhaps colliding with the wall anytime the wall is inside it?

This sounds pretty familiar. Maybe your movement code isn't detecting that the player should be moving away from the wall when the collision is happening.

A lot of ray-based collision systems first check whether the player might be entering the wall, so they don't impede players escaping from them.

[cerulean badger]

i mean, when you're close to a wall and you try moving to its direction, its supposed to just stay still instead

just like pokemon or smth

[wicked pulsar]

It looks like your code doesn't allow movement when the player gets close enough to something that it can collide with.

[trim quarry]

disabling the joint limits still flings the character

[cerulean badger]

yea that's the intention

but when I test it, the player dont do that

[wicked pulsar]

So under what case do you reenable movement? If the player gets within a distance of a wall and loses the ability to act, they're now stuck within that distance.

[trim quarry]

ig configurable joints pushes the character forward like infinitely

when it cant reach the target

idk how to fix it

[cerulean badger]

when you go into a different direction than the wall (like, it's on your left and you go up/down/right)

[wicked pulsar]

The new overlap circle doesn't conflict with the geometry that was stopping it? Can you check whether you're overlapping with geometry when you expect the player to move?

[cerulean badger]

hold on, I'm gonna record a video to show exactly what's wrong

you see, I went to the wall at left. I can move freely up and down, but when I go left, it's supposed to not work, instead of like penetrating the wall

[covert crown]

Hey, so I am making a mascot horror game in unity and I am having trouble with the jumpscare script, you see whenever the jumpscare script is triggered when the player touches the monster, it plays the jumpscare sound, however I can't get it to access my other jumpscare camera, most often leading to the big text in the middle saying "display 1, no cameras rendering" when I clearly have 2 cameras in my scene the script is disabling and enabling.

[wicked pulsar]

Ah, and you're stuck when the character jiggles like that?

[cerulean badger]

thats it

[slender nymph]

just FYI, you should really be moving using the rigidbody rather than the transform

[wicked pulsar]

It's hard to get a sense of scales just looking at numbers in your code. It's open to a little bit of failure the way you've written it. I'm wondering if when you try to move in other directions, the overlap circle condition is still being met.

[slender nymph]

also the reason it is getting stuck is because it can't reach within 0.05 units of the current target position because the rigidbody is causing it to depenetrate

[verbal dome]

For a purely grid based games I would not use rigidbodies and float coordinates at all

[wicked pulsar]

I don't see any mention of rigidbodies in their code, though. It just looks like straight transform movement and static use of the physics system.

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/unassignedreferenceexception

[slender nymph]

right, but it's clear they have one. depentration doesn't happen without it

[wicked pulsar]

That's a good point. @cerulean badger

[slender nymph]

and it's also more efficient to move a collider using the rigidbody as opposed to moving it via transform

[wicked pulsar]

For whatever reason, your character is getting pushed backwards in order to jiggle. This code doesn't have any reason to produce that jiggle effect.

[covert crown]

Oh yeah I just forgot to assign and object to and object field, but that isn't my problem, the problem is that its supposed to play a jumpscare but it only shows display 1 no cameras rendering

[slender nymph]

well you didn't show that in your video. but make sure you have no exceptions being thrown because usually they lead to further issues

[covert crown]

It shows, but it only shows for a split second, but noted.

[verbal dome]

If the whole game is grid-based then I really recommend not using colliders/rigidbodies and whatnot for this. You'll be fighting floating precision errors and thresholds and just generally making it more complicated than it shoudl be.
Instead, represent the map as an array/grid instead and check if the cell at the index you're moving to is free or not.
Interpolation between cells can still be done smoothly.

[sour fulcrum]

(which is probably how pokemon does it)

[wicked pulsar]

They're fighting with a collision system independent of the movement code. boxfriend called it.

[slender nymph]

sure, but what Osmal suggested would prevent the issue entirely

[sour fulcrum]

ideally they shouldn't be interacting with the collision system period

[slender nymph]

no need to fight against physics if you don't use physics at all!

[wicked pulsar]

Ah right, of course they are. Time to go to bed and get off the internet.

I was literally about to say: if walls are static, you can just make sure you can't walk into them.

Speaking to nobody, were I to have posted that.

[cerulean badger]

deleted the physics and now the player just phases through the wall instead of jiggling. The issue is that it isn't recognizing the wall as smth you should stop at

[native merlin]

does anyone know how i can fix this? i made a script to open a door and i cant really put it in

[wicked pulsar]

Can you show the code? Something's not formatted right.

That third error is basically saying that code needs to be in a method.

[cerulean badger]

found out that the wall didnt have the right layer....... (I could swear I put it)
well, thx for the advice about deleting physics

[wicked pulsar]

That was my guess when you just phased right through it. Seems your collider physics was driving your whole interaction earlier?

[cerulean badger]

probably

[native merlin]

yea one sec

[cerulean badger]

btw during all this process my vs code randomly updated and now the colors of the code are all messed up like this, how I fix that?

[native merlin]

public class Door
{

}
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class Door : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float openAngle = 90f;     // Wie weit die Tür aufgeht
    public float speed = 2f;          // Geschwindigkeit der Animation

    private bool isOpen = false;
    private bool isMoving = false;

    private Quaternion closedRotation;
    private Quaternion openRotation;

    void Start()
    {
        closedRotation = transform.rotation;
        openRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, openAngle, 0) * closedRotation;
    }

    public void ToggleDoor()
    {
        if (!isMoving)
        {
            if (isOpen)
                StartCoroutine(RotateDoor(closedRotation));
            else
                StartCoroutine(RotateDoor(openRotation));

            isOpen = !isOpen;
        }
    }

    IEnumerator RotateDoor(Quaternion targetRotation)
    {
        isMoving = true;

        while (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, targetRotation) > 0.1f)
        {
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(
                transform.rotation,
                targetRotation,
                Time.deltaTime * speed
            );

            yield return null;
        }

        transform.rotation = targetRotation;
        isMoving = false;
    }
}

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
    {
        ToggleDoor();
    }
}```

[wicked pulsar]

using System.Collections;

This line can't be under your Door class.

usings belong at the top of the file.

[native merlin]

where do i have to put it

alr ill try

[wicked pulsar]

Where using UnityEngine; is - they all have to go there.

[native merlin]

you mean like this

ah wait shi

[wicked pulsar]

All of them, but yes.

[naive pawn]

you have a stray public class Door {} at the top

just remove that

[wicked pulsar]

Then you have two many things called Door in the file, too.

[naive pawn]

your Update method is also not in a class

you might want to consider going to learn c#

[native merlin]

probably

[naive pawn]

i think vscode just changed the theme? at least that's what ive heard. try a different theme

[native merlin]

copied it from my robot friend lmao

[naive pawn]

yeah don't do that

you do not have the experience necessary to filter out the bs

you won't learn, you won't be able to make actual systems

start learning now, start at the basics

[wicked pulsar]

Just a note: "A using cause must precede all other elements" is big words telling you to put nothing before using.

I'm not actually familiar with that error. My first thought was on IDisposable.

[naive pawn]

yeah, "precede" just means "be before"

so it's saying the using clauses need to be before everything else

[sour fulcrum]

also please note this from the start if you continue using it in the future

[wicked pulsar]

An error about "top level statements" that begins at line 60 pretty much means that something has escaped a class definition, so needs to be inside the {} of something else.

[polar acorn]

Now you've got a perfect example of why you shouldn't do that. This code is pure nonsense

[swift crag]

well, other than the spurious Door class near the top, it mostly makes sense

it does rotate at an inconsistent speed thanks to using Slerp like that

and it always opens when you press E, no matter what

[solar kettle]

Is it possible to use a 2D light from URP as a mask? I'm trying to create a FoV system, and I would like to make it so anything you're not looking at is completely black, and anything you are looking at is visible. I have it working fine, but I don't want the visible things to necessarily be completely illuminated - I would like for other light sources to come into play, once an area is within vision. Is this possible?

Like this, but where the illuminated area is instead masked into existence, with other light sources affecting it, rather than it being fully illuminated

[swift crag]

I was looking into this at one point

My idea was to make a custom shader that reacts to light differently than usual

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/2d-customlit.html

You need to read the light data yourself

I never wound up finishing the effect though

[timber tide]

Why not just do a darken overlay and just mask cut it

At least from that picture seems like all you would need to do

[quaint reef]

uh rlly small thing but why isnt stuff like rigidody 2d or Getcomponent like highlighted in vsc yk where u can like hover on em for information n stuff

[slender nymph]

!ide

[radiant void]

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[solar kettle]

I need it to react with colliders as well like so

I suppose I could use an overlay but I would need to use the colliders somehow too no?

[timber tide]

Yeah I see what you mean. I guess you can probably use some flood alg to get the boundaries

but that's usually how 2D lights work anyway?

[swift crag]

you'd completely darken anything that isn't hit by the "vision light"

figuring out which light is the vision light sounds irritating

[sour fulcrum]

one thing worth mentioning in case it's not a tool in your arsenal is that you can set values in shaders globally via Shader in case you ever need to do any c# logic (eg. collider related) for shader stuff

obv. has some performance implications depending on what is happening but opens options

[swift crag]

i wouldn't even say it has performance implications!

it's the same premise as setting a property on a specific shader

you could definitely have a few shader globals that tell you which way the player is facing and where they are

[swift crag]

however, if you want occlusion to happen, as shown here, then you'd need to figure that out yourself

(and i have no idea how that would happen in a shader)

[sour fulcrum]

not as complex as Parql is looking for but in a project right now im using global setting for this little thing where materials use one "lit" and one "dark" color based on if there in the square region the player has https://i.imgur.com/NNGVH0Y.gif

handy tech

[quaint reef]

done the stuff from this but still not fixed

[slender nymph]

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

[solar kettle]

Okay so what I'm gathering is that it's not possible to use lights directly as a mask, one would have to invent that themselves?

or implement it themselves with shaders I mean

[swift crag]

Yeah, because lights normally don't work this way

one light doesn't mask the rest!

but I think you can make this happen with a custom lighting setup

[covert crown]

Hey, so I am making a mascot horror game in unity and I am having trouble with the jumpscare script, you see whenever the jumpscare script is triggered when the player touches the monster, it plays the jumpscare sound, however I can't get it to access my other jumpscare camera, most often leading to the big text in the middle saying "display 1, no cameras rendering" when I clearly have 2 cameras in my scene the script is disabling and enabling. Also don't mind the error logs i'll fix that, and the text shows for like a split second

[sour fulcrum]

lets mind the error logs

go ahead and fix that

[covert crown]

Done

[heavy moss]

hi, when I add a Text or TextMeshPro to the scene, both appear blurry, as if they have very low pixel resolution.
How can this be fixed?
Everything is completely default; I haven’t changed any settings.

[sour fulcrum]

drag this to the left

[covert crown]

Could I show you the jumpscare script?

[sour fulcrum]

absolutely

!code

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[heavy moss]

It’s already at the far left, meaning it’s at a low value

[sour fulcrum]

it should be at scale 1x

[heavy moss]

it's 3d project btw

[slender nymph]

1.3x being the minimum is usually caused by windows scaling afaik.
but also, especially when working on UI, you want your game view to be set to the resolution or aspect ratio you are targeting rather than Free Aspect

also this is a code channel

[heavy moss]

Oh, so that was the problem. Thank you 🙂

[covert crown]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Jumpscare : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject JumpscareCam;
    public GameObject FPSCONTROLLER;
    public AudioSource JumpscareAudio;
    public Animator Enemy;

    void Start()
    {
        JumpscareCam.SetActive(false);
        FPSCONTROLLER.SetActive(true);
        // Clean up the animator reference
        if (Enemy == null) Enemy = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            // FIRST: Turn on the jumpscare camera
            JumpscareCam.SetActive(true);

            // SECOND: Turn off the player (this prevents the "No Camera" error)
            FPSCONTROLLER.SetActive(false);

            // THIRD: Play effects
            if (JumpscareAudio != null) JumpscareAudio.Play();
            if (Enemy != null) Enemy.Play("Jumpscare");
        }
    }
}

It should be this

[heavy moss]

@slender nymph Is there a way to fix the 1.3x minimum scaling issue from within Unity itself, without changing Windows display scaling settings?

[slender nymph]

unlikely because it's being caused by windows scaling the window

but you can at least set your game view to an actual resolution or aspect ratio to be able to zoom it out further

[solar kettle]

I may be too dumb to use the Shader Graph.
Would it be possible to create a shader that, instead of being between #fff and #000 when light hits it, the alpha approaches 0 when illuminated?

[timber tide]

Hmm, you could calculate main light direction, but not sure you can get the amount of light of the fragment that easily

[swift crag]

the core problem is that, if you aren't doing custom lighting, you're subjected to the default behavior of 2D lights

which is to make things brighter

[timber tide]

But there was a lot of changes recently that it may be possible now, but I usually do HLSL when messing with lighting

[swift crag]

all you do in the shader graph is say "this is the base color of the object; figure out the lighting for me"

you fundamentally don't get to do anything with the lights

[timber tide]

oh if it's 2D then I wouldn't know besides uh, doing another pass and checking the screen color ;p

which can work, assuming you make another masking map to compare against

oh but you want to make it transparent, eh

[solar kettle]

Ah I figured maybe I could make a separate light object and a separate SpriteRenderer object, and just light that up around the player, and then instead of having it illuminate, it could become transparent in that area

[timber tide]

what's the use case

[solar kettle]

and then I would also copy the collision

[solar kettle]

I'm trying to make a field of view kind of thing in a 2D game with a side-view
So that you can't see what's in the next room until you open the door, for example

But I would also like to make it so the parts that you can see, can also make use of lighting

[timber tide]

Oh yeah we were talking about this earlier

[solar kettle]

Oh yes sorry I didn't realise it was you :P

[timber tide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkcCWqifT9M
Sebastian has some videos on like general stencil shaders and line of sight that's worth checking out

But same logic could also be applied to say a dissolve shader instead of a sharp stencil cut

[covert crown]

Hey, so I am making a mascot horror game in unity and I am having trouble with the jumpscare script, you see whenever the jumpscare script is triggered when the player touches the monster, it plays the jumpscare sound, however I can't get it to access my other jumpscare camera, most often leading to the big text in the middle saying "display 1, no cameras rendering" when I clearly have 2 cameras in my scene the script is disabling and enabling.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Jumpscare : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject JumpscareCam;
    public GameObject FPSCONTROLLER;
    public AudioSource JumpscareAudio;
    public Animator Enemy;

    void Start()
    {
        JumpscareCam.SetActive(false);
        FPSCONTROLLER.SetActive(true);
        // Clean up the animator reference
        if (Enemy == null) Enemy = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            // FIRST: Turn on the jumpscare camera
            JumpscareCam.SetActive(true);

            // SECOND: Turn off the player (this prevents the "No Camera" error)
            FPSCONTROLLER.SetActive(false);

            // THIRD: Play effects
            if (JumpscareAudio != null) JumpscareAudio.Play();
            if (Enemy != null) Enemy.Play("Jumpscare");
        }
    }
}

This is the script for the jumpscare

[slender nymph]

surely whatever AI generated that code solved the issue with the part that is labeled "(this prevents the "No Camera" error)", right?

[solar hill]

tbh doesnt look like ai code

the comments arent punctual enough

[sour fulcrum]

im guessing assumption is based on the null checking

[blissful stratus]

how to access vignette in code?

[balmy vortex]

is there any easy way of fetching a specific child from a gameobject?

[grand snow]

via the child index yes https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform.GetChild.html

Else consider getting components of children or using serialized fields

[balmy vortex]

how do I actually know what part of the index the child is in though?

[grand snow]

Sorry what?