💻┃code-beginner

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-matrix-2d

with isGrounded, if you're on the ground and jump is pressed, the upwards velocity gets set.
without isGrounded, if jump is pressed, the upwards velocity gets set.

[viral bobcat]

I understand why removing isGrounded allows me to air jump but not why it makes jumps higher

[naive pawn]

if you don't have the isGrounded check, you get to jump even while already in the air, and it seems like that JumpPressed checks the current state of the button, instead of whether it was just pressed down

[naive pawn]

try holding down jump

[viral bobcat]

same result

i seperated pressing down and holding in inputhandler

they're basically different inputs

[naive pawn]

could you show that

[viral bobcat]

need to get around discord message size limit rq

[naive pawn]

the embed you were linked has a section called "Large code blocks"

consider reading that

[viral bobcat]

private void OnEnable()
{
    actions.Enable();

    actions.Player.Move.performed += ctx => MoveInput = ctx.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    actions.Player.Move.canceled += ctx => MoveInput = Vector2.zero;

    actions.Player.Look.performed += ctx => LookInput = ctx.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    actions.Player.Look.canceled += ctx => LookInput = Vector2.zero;

    actions.Player.Jump.started += ctx => jumpDownRaw = true;
    actions.Player.Jump.performed += ctx => jumpHeldRaw = true;
    actions.Player.Jump.canceled += ctx => jumpUpRaw = true;

    actions.Player.Crouch.performed += ctx => crouchHeldRaw = true;
    actions.Player.Crouch.canceled += ctx => crouchHeldRaw = false;

    actions.Player.Sprint.performed += ctx => sprintHeldRaw = true;
    actions.Player.Sprint.canceled += ctx => sprintHeldRaw = false;
}

private void OnDisable()
{
    actions.Disable();
}

private void Update()
{
    // ---- JUMP SNAPSHOT ----
    JumpPressed = jumpDownRaw;
    JumpHeld = jumpHeldRaw;
    JumpReleased = jumpUpRaw;

    // clear edge triggers after snapshot
    jumpDownRaw = false;
    jumpUpRaw = false;

    // ---- CROUCH ----
    if (CrouchToggle)
    {
        if (crouchHeldRaw)
        {
            crouchToggledOn = !crouchToggledOn;
            crouchHeldRaw = false; // prevent rapid toggle spam
        }
        CrouchState = crouchToggledOn;
    }
    else
    {
        CrouchState = crouchHeldRaw;
    }

    // ---- SPRINT ----
    if (SprintToggle)
    {
        if (sprintHeldRaw)
        {
            sprintToggledOn = !sprintToggledOn;
            sprintHeldRaw = false;
        }
        SprintState = sprintToggledOn;
    }
    else
    {
        SprintState = sprintHeldRaw;
    }
}

i dont think the rest is relevant anyawy

[naive pawn]

please no.

this is a large code block.

use the section on large code blocks.

[viral bobcat]

oh mb

[naive pawn]

there's definitely something missing here.

[viral bobcat]

https://paste.ofcode.org/3bj8q6PujfdMMU69DCLY23j

dont mind the comments i use them to remind myself what some things do bc i'm new

[naive pawn]

how is Jump set up?

the action

[naive pawn]

that seems normal. have you tried debugging to see if it's getting into that if multiple times?

[viral bobcat]

the if inside jumphandler?

[naive pawn]

yes

[viral bobcat]

Only once per spacebar down and not when I press space midair

so yes it's getting into it only once

[naive pawn]

what if you don't have the grounded check

[viral bobcat]

the jump has a proper height and feels more natural

[naive pawn]

not what i asked

see if it's getting into that if more than it should

[viral bobcat]

u are right, it triggers twice without isGrounded

[naive pawn]

(btw your OnEnable and OnDisable seem like you expect this to be disabled/re-enabled, but that'll end up with stale event listeners since you never unsubscribe)

[viral bobcat]

thx for pointing that out

[naive pawn]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

not the place for this.

[delicate ferry]

When the player dies, I do

var name = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name;
SceneManager.LoadScene(name);

But I want to preserve the death count. How do I preserve state across scene loads?

[naive pawn]

you need something that persists across scene loads, that doesn't live in the scene
that could be a gamemanager that's DDOL or in a persistent scene for example, or a save file

[delicate ferry]

What is DDOL?

[naive pawn]

dontdestroyonload

[delicate ferry]

Any tutorial how do you make it?

[naive pawn]

try googling like, ddol/singleton gamemanager, i guess

[sage mirage]

@delicate ferry Just do this whenever you want to create a single global access point to your application/game, specifically you do it for managers because they are responsible in controlling things like UI, Game States etc
public static GameManager Instance;
and then you do something like

{
    Instance = this;    DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);           
}
else
{
    Destroy(gameObject);
}```
This is called Singletton Pattern. Keep in mind that each pattern has pros and cons. You dont have to make every class a singleton. This code btw will let your game objects persist across scenes, also something I didn't know before is that even if you change more than one scenes your objects will still be persistent because it actually stores your game object on a seperate scene called DontDestroyOnLoad and that's really cool.

[delicate ferry]

Where do I put the code of gamemanager?

[naive pawn]

in a gamemanager script

you would have persistent stuff there

[sage mirage]

the instance declaration goes after your game manager class and you declare it as static. The if statements go in awake because we want the instance to be created at the moment your script is loaded/created when you play the game. If that's what you mean?

[delicate ferry]

Thanks

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons just remembered this exists

[delicate ferry]

Okay thanks

But now in what scene do I put the gamemanager? Eventually my game will have multiple scenes

[sage mirage]

First scene I would say

[naive pawn]

with this approach you'd have it in every scene for ease of testing

or if you only have it in one scene it'd be simpler but you wouldn't be able to play from other scenes directly

you could also use a persistent additive scene to avoid that issue but it's a bit more complex

[delicate ferry]

So if I have a gamemanager object in every scene with the same script, the state is preserved right?

[naive pawn]

the state is preserved because the original object persists, not because it's in every scene

it being in every scene just means you can enter playmode from anywhere

[sage mirage]

It's not efficient though at all. Just keep in mind that. That's very risky making more than one of the same managers in your game. I think we had a discussion about it with another guy. You always have to think about the Single Responsibility Principle and if you have duplicates you are breaking this principle that means harder to maintain and manage etc etc because imagine you have some references on one scene and some references on other scene for the same game manager you will probably have many null references because some objects dont exist on the other scene you have the duplicated game manager thats horrible approach.

[naive pawn]

wtf are you on lmao

punctuation, man..

[sage mirage]

Bro having the same managers on more than one scene is not efficient

XD

[naive pawn]

it literally doesn't matter

it's not related to efficiency at all

if you have references to objects in the scene, that is an issue of design - the gamemanager shouldn't care about stuff in specific scenes

[delicate ferry]

YYeah

[sage mirage]

What I am saying is just do the DDOL + Singleton dont create duplicates in all of your scenes.

[naive pawn]

so you're locked into opening 1 specific scene and going from there to test anything in playmode, sure...

having duplicates doesn't matter anyway if you have the Destroy(gameObject) set up correctly

[limpid stratus]

RuntimeInitializeOnLoad can solve both at once!

[sage mirage]

What is this?

[limpid stratus]

@sage mirage https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethodAttribute.html

[naive pawn]

i guess for non-component singletons, i don't this would work for component singletons, would it?

since you'd need a component instance

[limpid stratus]

if you don't need the editor to populate fields, then there's no problem

[naive pawn]

fair

actually, i feel like having an inspector would still be very useful for debugging purposes

if it's not a component you can't directly inspect it from the editor at all

i haven't considered this approach before so having a lot of thoughts lol

[limpid stratus]

Absolutely, and if I had to lean on one side, I definitely prefer having duplicates across scenes to avoid forcing a scene on load

Sorry, I meant absolutely to the first statement you made

That being said, you can init a GO and strap your component to it and then do your typical singleton logic from a method with the attribute above.

Then the only thing you're really losing is the ability to preset variables via the inspector

[naive pawn]

That being said, you can init a GO and strap your component to it and then do your typical singleton logic from a method with the attribute above.
i feel like this mix of approaches causes kinda more problems, does it not? (kinda minor problems, but relatively, more)
you'd have to retreive the component reference from that static method

or i guess you could have the component depend on the singleton logic rather than the other way around?
eg either the method creates the singleton component, or the component is just for introspecting the singleton

[limpid stratus]

If you don't need persistent values defined via the inspector, then there's nothing stopping you from

[RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod(RuntimeInitializeLoadType.BeforeSceneLoad)]
static void Initialize()
{
  foo = new go
  staticInstance = foo.AddComponent<InstanceOfYourSingleton>
  DDOL(foo)
}

this way you can forget about it whenever you create new scenes, but you can't use the editor to populate fields. I guess you could still load the instance as a prefab if you really needed this

[naive pawn]

you wouldn't be able to grab the prefab reference

well, not easily

would need magic strings

[limpid stratus]

I don't follow. Why so?

[naive pawn]

well, how would you get the prefab reference from the static method lol

would need to go through eg Resources.Load instead of having a direct reference

[limpid stratus]

You can expose a static API that retrieves your content via whatever your preferred method is. I am not familiar with addressables so I can't speak for that but resources.load would work just fine

[naive pawn]

you'd need magic strings either way though, no?

wouldn't be able to assign a direct reference, is what i was trying to say

[limpid stratus]

Yeah, that's true I guess. I still advocate for it though. If they bother you so much, you can have a single magic string that acts as a point of entry to your data. Map it as a constant and forget about it. I understand where you're coming from though

[naive pawn]

i have a habit of wanting to rename/restructure/refactor a lot so i try to avoid magic strings like the plague lol 😅

[limpid stratus]

yeah, I hear you. You know what's good for you based on your flow, there's no arguing against that. For me, integrating singletons like this were a net positive, but I don't expect that to translate to all workflows

[pastel cave]

oh, unity can import aseprite files??

IT EVEN RESPECTS TAGS!!

[solar hill]

do you have a coding question

[pastel cave]

no, just surprised.

[solar hill]

this channel is for coding help

[pastel cave]

I guess #💻┃unity-talk would have been more appropriate

sorry, I'm so used to only using this channel lol

[solar hill]

i wouldnt even say that, because its also not really a question lol

unity-talk is for general unity questions

not a genchat

[pastel cave]

I see. I will keep my mouth shut then

[naive pawn]

(fyi, this topic would be for #🖼️┃2d-tools or maybe #🔀┃art-asset-workflow - but yeah typically discussion/questions are expected rather than chatter)

[spice burrow]

I cannot find how I would check if the scroll wheel is being scrolled down or up using the new input system

[naive pawn]

are you not finding the binding or control or something else?

actually i should ask, how are you receiving input?

so i can point you to the corresponding way to get mouse scroll

[spice burrow]

Thing is, I'm looking for something similar to the ispressed functions but for scrolling instead

[naive pawn]

on an InputValue or on an InputAction?

[spice burrow]

uhhh.... action, I think

[naive pawn]

just check the stuff you're reading isPressed/IsPressed on, see what type it is

or show the code if you can't find it

could also be InputControl, or maybe CallbackContext. i don't know the full list

[ocean frost]

for what does the .zero stand for?

Does it mean (0, 0, 0)?

[cosmic quail]

it stands for a new Vector3(0, 0, 0)

[spice burrow]

The vector only has 0 in it, so it does not move anywhere.

[ocean frost]

okkk!!! Thanks!!

[spice burrow]

Also works with Vector2

[naive pawn]

it's a prop that's just Vector3 zero => new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
it's the same as creating that yourself, just a handy shortcut that communicates a little more intent as well

[ocean frost]

So should I go for Vector3 zero => new Vector3(0, 0, 0) or with the one with .zero?

[naive pawn]

what i wrote is how .zero is defined

[ocean frost]

oooh, ok

[naive pawn]

it's not exactly that, but the same behavior

you can see the actual definition here
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Math/Vector3.cs#L424-L425

or in your own ide by using "go to definition" (ctrl+click the zero)

[ocean frost]

tyy

[ocean frost]

So what's the difference with Vector3 and Vector2?

[naive pawn]

one is 2d and the other is 3d

[ocean frost]

oooooh

tysm

makes sense

[umbral hull]

hey im unsure if this is possible but, i have 3 buttons, and i want to set a single variable based on which button is clicked. is that possible to do while only making 1 function for it? or do i need to make a separate function for each button?

[cosmic quail]

a single function with a parameter works

[grand snow]

UGUI button? even easier!

uitk? code only but easy still

[viral bobcat]

Is there a good guide to understand how ActionMaps, Input Handler and a tick based physics loop process inputs? (for FPS games)

[naive pawn]

there are input and inputsystem guides online and on unity learn, if that's what you're asking?

[spice burrow]

Since Vector3 is made for 3d, it uses three values (x, y and z). Vector2 however only has two (x and y) for 2d.

[umbral hull]

ugui?

[naive pawn]

i don't think there's gonna be anything specifically for that, because.. that's not really a different usecase

[umbral hull]

im sorry whats ugui/uitk?

[ocean frost]

ooooh, thanks man!

[naive pawn]

sooo did you find what inputsystem structure you were using

[spice burrow]

no 😭 im making a unity discussions post rn

[grand snow]

Unity ui (canvas)

[naive pawn]

why didn't you just ask me for clarifiaction lmao

im waiting for you to answer

there's multiple ways to get input in the inputsystem

i'm asking what you're using so i can tell you how to get scroll input in the same way

[ocean frost]

Does += mean take the current value and add 1?

[naive pawn]

just go to where you're using ispressed, and hover over the thing in front of the . (or show the code)

[naive pawn]

no

[ocean frost]

so what does it mean?

like here

[naive pawn]

you might just want to go do some beginner c# tutorials instead of asking everything here

it will be much faster for you and for us

there are resources pinned in this channel

[ocean frost]

okkkkk

[umbral hull]

did they change onClick in code to EventSystem.currentSelectedGameObject?

[grand snow]

No you are very very confused

[umbral hull]

srry im trying to figure out how to invoke onClick in code

[grand snow]

Ugui Button still has onClick

[grand snow]

You don't

Unless you call OnPointerClick on the button itself

[umbral hull]

rn im doing this (i solved my problem btw)

    public void ToHumanCount()
    {
        GameObject clickedButton = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject;

        if (clickedButton.name == "2 players")
        {
            PlayerAmount = 2;
        }
        else if (clickedButton.name == "3 players")
        {
            PlayerAmount = 3;
        }
        else if (clickedButton.name == "4 players")
        {
            PlayerAmount = 4;
        }

but i wanted to do it a different way originally

OnPointerClick...

[naive pawn]

why not just receive an int here and have the buttons pass on that int

[grand snow]

This is horrible wut

[naive pawn]

you can set that int in the event you set in the button

and yeah that is incredibly fragile

[grand snow]

Exactly

[umbral hull]

i was trying that originally but it wasnt actually changing

[grand snow]

Share that attempt

[umbral hull]

yeah im aware thats why im trying to figure this out

[naive pawn]

you can do exactly this

[grand snow]

Id write an example but I'm on mobile rn

[umbral hull]

public int PlayerAmount;
public enum PlayerCount
{
    players2 = 2,
    players3 = 3,
    players4 = 4
}
public void SetPlayers(int players)
{
    PlayerAmount = (int)players;
    switch (players)
    {
        case 2:
            PlayerAmount = (int)players;
            break;
        case 3:
            PlayerAmount = (int)players;
            break;
        case 4:
            PlayerAmount = (int)players;
            break;
    }
}
public void ToHumanCount()
{
    ShowState(MenuState.HumanCount);
    SetPlayers(PlayerCount);
}

The problem is that idk what to really call in SetPlayers() and maybe something else i havent thought of

holup

[grand snow]

Easiest solution for you is a new script that stores this data on each button and you read this when each is clicked.

[naive pawn]

what even

you're overcomplicating this

you have the same logic in every branch of that switch

also this isn't even valid code?

i'm so confused what's going on here

[umbral hull]

i said holup for areason lol

[naive pawn]

yeah that's fair

[ocean frost]

Oooh, it's basically just +1

[naive pawn]

ToHumanCount is the method you're using for the button's onclick, right?

[naive pawn]

it is not

[ocean frost]

It says +(Vector3 a, Vector3 b)

[umbral hull]

yes

[naive pawn]

that's an operator overload signature, that doesn't say anything

[naive pawn]

the code should just be this then```cs
public void ToHumanCount(int amount)
{
PlayerAmount = amount;
}

[delicate ferry]

If I have an object flying at Velocity, iis this the vay to make it face the way it goes?

transform.rotation = new Quaternion(0, 0, Vector2.Angle(Vector2.up, Velocity), 0);

[ocean frost]

If I have: Vector3 g_moveDirection = Vector3.zero; that means: (0, 0, 0)
then I'll do: g_moveDirection += Vector3.forward; and it gets to: (0, 0, 1)
now I'll do: g_moveDirection += Vector3.right; and that gets to: (1, 0, 1)

[naive pawn]

definitely not. you should not be modifying quaternions yourself

[delicate ferry]

It doesn't seem to be

[delicate ferry]

So how?

[naive pawn]

Velocity is the velocity vector?

[delicate ferry]

Yep

[naive pawn]

yep, and it's addition, not +1

[ocean frost]

oooh, yeah, I meant that

[naive pawn]

and you want the object's forwards direction to point in that direction, right?

[delicate ferry]

Yeah

[naive pawn]

you can do transform.forward = Velocity; then
it might be forwards, i don't remember

if you have angles, you could use something like Quaternion.Euler here, but it's an unnecessary step for this case.

[umbral hull]

the problem is still that i have 3 buttons, how would it know which one represents what number?

[naive pawn]

you can set the parameter in the onclick binding

[umbral hull]

huh?

[naive pawn]

this is what john was referring to

[grand snow]

They don't understand lambdas

I suggested a script to put on the buttons but who knows

[delicate ferry]

It makes the object fly away

[grand snow]

I'm tired 😩

[naive pawn]

go to your button and set the onclick to tohumancount (you might need to remove and re-add it)
there will be a input box that shows up. that will be the int amount

[umbral hull]

no i do not

[ocean frost]

Wrong channel, isn't it?

[naive pawn]

this just sets the rotation, it wouldn't affect anything like that

<@&502884371011731486> job post/spam

[grand snow]

Make new script to store number, put on each button, get component in the on click listener and get value bam dynamic and shit

[delicate ferry]

Weird

[naive pawn]

can you not just.. use the onclick

[umbral hull]

ohh i see

[grand snow]

I'm just telling them a method suited to their current skill

I'm very aware of better designs but it beats using names

[delicate ferry]

Apparently I am getting Look rotation viewing vector is zero

[naive pawn]

no clue what that is

[delicate ferry]

But the vector is not zero

[naive pawn]

i'm not in your project with you

[naive pawn]

yeah but wouldn't this be easier

[umbral hull]

i figure u dont want to type everything out for this... can u tell me what to look up?

[umbral hull]

yes this worked i appreciate you

[naive pawn]

it's just this

it's less work

[delicate ferry]

Unity is saying that

It's not anything in my project

[naive pawn]

ah, i see

[grand snow]

Ah you meant specifically inspector subscription to enter the arg mb

[naive pawn]

i guess make sure Velocity is valid before assigning that

[grand snow]

I presumed code sub

[naive pawn]

ah, i see.

i couldve been more specific

[delicate ferry]

It is valid

[naive pawn]

are you sure it's that frame thouhg

[delicate ferry]

Yeah

[naive pawn]

try logging Velocity before you assign it to transform.forwards

[umbral hull]

thx guys

[naive pawn]

how would you know, did you go frame by frame lol

[delicate ferry]

Apparently the issue is that it transforms x and y

It's a 2d game

I want it to only transform z

Apparently I needed transform up instead

[naive pawn]

ah yeah, in 2d you don't typically want to change the forwards direction

[delicate ferry]

Anyways now I need transform.left

But apparently there's only transform right

[ivory bobcat]

Left = -Right

[delicate ferry]

True

[grand snow]

Big brain

[prisma shard]

Does anyone know if fog of war and a chunking system (For memory management) should be implemented at the same time? Because i think chunking drastically changes how AI move and things happen inside the fog of war of a chunking system where things arent being constantly updated but they still exist and do things persay

[grand snow]

Yea if you have a shared system for splitting up your world/scene into a 3d/2d grid

[prisma shard]

It is. Nice i have no idea how to do this and i fear object geometry, environment, seed rng biomes, rng resource spawning etc is all intimately connected with the fog of war/chunking

Im so screwed

Im guessing this is the hardest part of everything maybe aside from balancing which is the real nightmare

Im likely going to hire someone for the balancing part. It will probably be expensive as well unfortunately to pay someone to do it. But if anyone is interested in a future job u can mark me in ur dms or whatever if its something any of u would be interested in working on

If I contact you please have a resume on balancing ready

[thin lotus]

Trying to reference a variable from another script in another game object like this:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;
public class Count : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] TextMeshProUGUI textObj;    
    [SerializeField] private Chris Ref;

    

    void Start()
    {
        Ref.money;
    }```
it gives me the error ```Assets\Count.cs(5,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Chris' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)```

what did I do wrong here?

[sour fulcrum]

what is Chris

[thin lotus]

a Gameobject

[sour fulcrum]

no

[thin lotus]

that contains a script with the money variable

[sour fulcrum]

what is that script called

[thin lotus]

Click

[sour fulcrum]

then you might want
private Click Ref

you need a type, not a random name

[thin lotus]

i thought i was supposed to reference the gameobject, not the script

[sour fulcrum]

no, but even if you did you would do private GameObject Ref

[thin lotus]

alright, works now, thanks

that was a pretty obvious solution, and i tried things before asking, I swear!

alright now it says money doesn't exist in the current context

[sour fulcrum]

post your Click script code

[thin lotus]

using UnityEngine;

public class Click : MonoBehaviour
{
    float sizeincrease = 0.1f;
    int iterationCount = 3;
    float delayBetweenSteps = 0.02f;
    public int money;
    void OnMouseOver()    
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            money += 1;
            StartCoroutine(ScaleOverTime());
            Debug.Log(money + " christonium");
        }
    }
    IEnumerator ScaleOverTime()
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < iterationCount; i++)
        {
            transform.localScale += new Vector3(sizeincrease,sizeincrease,0);
            sizeincrease += 0.1f;
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(delayBetweenSteps);
        }
        StopCoroutine(ScaleOverTime());
        transform.localScale = new Vector3(2,2,0);
        sizeincrease = 0.1f;

    }
}

also, the serialized field in vscode and the unity editor dont match

"Chris" is mentioned nowhere in the Count script and yet its the label for the serialized field

[sour fulcrum]

do you have errors and have you saved your script

[thin lotus]

yes I've saved it, and these are my errors:
Assets\Count.cs(17,24): error CS0103: The name 'money' does not exist in the current context
the serialized field thing was weird to me so i deleted the script and copy pasted its contents into an identical one, now there are no serialized fields

[slender nymph]

you need to fix all compile errors before your code can compile

[thin lotus]

makes sense, I still dont know how to fix the error, it seems like i did it right?

[slender nymph]

in the code you pasted above it does look correct. but have you saved that too? (assuming that's even where the error is)

[thin lotus]

yeah, everything is saved

[slender nymph]

and are you looking at the Count.cs file?

[thin lotus]

actually, the Count script changed a bit from when i pasted it,

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;
public class Count : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] TextMeshProUGUI textObj;    
    [SerializeField] Click Ref;    

    void Start()
    {
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        textObj.text = money;
    }
}```

[slender nymph]

so this is where that error is. not in the Click class you pasted above. where have you declared money here

[thin lotus]

money is declared in Click

[polar acorn]

What is money

[slender nymph]

no, i'm talking about the money variable you are trying to use as part of the Count class. that's totally separate

[polar acorn]

This isn't Click, this is Count

[thin lotus]

and (at least what i tried to do) was reference money from the Click script

[thin lotus]

an integer from click

[polar acorn]

Then you would want to actually use your reference

You're getting the text variable from your textObj

Do that

[thin lotus]

holy crap, that's so obvious

[polar acorn]

Obvious enough to show that you should definitely go through the very basics again. There are some courses linked in the pins, go through them.

[thin lotus]

this is kinda my way of going through the basics, ive never gotten anywhere from courses, as I get bored and retain nothing

[slender nymph]

stumbling along until someone else tells you how to fix things isn't exactly a good way to learn anything

[thin lotus]

thats why i've been looking at documentation and old forum posts up until I hit this wall

but yes, thats correct

[polar acorn]

So, instead of reading forum posts, you could read a document that is specifically designed to teach you this thing

[thin lotus]

sure,
what I meant by not following courses was not going through lessons one by one doing the exact same thing it tells me to, instead of making my own thing along the way

[stray anvil]

so modern games
with no loading screen after mission finish and all
technically has whole game in one scene?

and loads next batch of assets during narrow passages or other hacky ways?

[naive pawn]

can't have an entire generalization like this lol. not every game is the same

[stray anvil]

no i mean that kind of games

[naive pawn]

seamless loads are a thing, chunk loading is a thing, etc

[stray anvil]

that has no loading screen

[naive pawn]

there's so many ways to do it

[sour fulcrum]

additive scene loading

[naive pawn]

several games don't have loading screens

undertale doesn't have loading screens

[stray anvil]

do they have unique levels in unique scenes or same scene?

in unity terms

[naive pawn]

could have either

[sour fulcrum]

you can have scene a loaded, load scene b, then unload scene a

[naive pawn]

might not even have separate levels

you're asking for a generalization that doesn't exist

[stray anvil]

how can change scene without loading or something?

[sour fulcrum]

you can have multiple scenes loaded at the same time

[naive pawn]

you can have loading without a loading screen

[stray anvil]

i am newbie sorry, making myself clear

[naive pawn]

i don't think additive scene loading is the answer here tbh

the question is way too vague to actually have a proper answer

[stray anvil]

so to move from one scene to other, we need some sort of transition?

[sour fulcrum]

not neccasarily

[stray anvil]

ok so my main problem is. I am building a game and i do not want loading screen. Should i go with one scene for the whole game?

[naive pawn]

not just because of that, no

those are separate concepts

you can change scenes without a loading screen, you can have loading without changing scenes

[stray anvil]

by loading screen, i mean: finishing a level and u get to main menu or some other menu and then u start from some unique place

next level

[naive pawn]

what i said doesn't change

wasn't there that one spiderman game on ps5 where a scene change was completely seamless, for example

[stray anvil]

changing scene makes sense when the next scene start from unique place and unique environment?

[naive pawn]

think of actual scenes irl

if you have, eg, the inside of a building that's disconnected from outside, then that could be a separate scene
if it's connected to the outside, then it wouldn't be a separate scene

[stray anvil]

hmm got it

so if i make a whole gmae in one scene, is that a bad practice?

[naive pawn]

you can have a single big scene by loading/unloading stuff within the world yourself, that is an option

[naive pawn]

it's too vague to be bad or good practice

[stray anvil]

yeah that would make things complexier i believe

[stray anvil]

is it allowed to show 1 minutes video of my game if you can have a better idea seeing it wat kind of game it is?

[naive pawn]

i wouldn't care tbh

[stray anvil]

it's like this, u keep going forward without any transition or anything

[naive pawn]

it's just a question of game design

why would there be transitions there

[stray anvil]

are there pros and cons of having whole game being in one scene vs multiple scene

like listed

[naive pawn]

not listed, no

again, this is way too vague

don't worry about this

just design it in a way that makes sense

it's all continuous in the same world? sure, one scene.

there are separate disconnected areas? sure, different scenes

it's not that deep

you should not be deciding whether to use one scene or multiple scenes

you should be deciding how you want your game to flow, and then the decision over how scenes go will just pop out of that

[stray anvil]

ok this helps thanks ❤️

[chrome apex]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[chrome apex]

Why does this script not work:

 List <Vector3> MapPoints = new List<Vector3>();
    Vector3 lastPoint;
    float distanceThreshold = 5f;

    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        if (MapPoints.Count == 0)
        {
            AddPoint();
        }
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float distanceSquared = (transform.position - lastPoint).sqrMagnitude;

        if (distanceSquared > distanceThreshold )
        {
            AddPoint();
        }
    }
    void AddPoint()
    {
        Vector3 currentLocation = transform.position;
        MapPoints.Add(currentLocation);
        lastPoint = currentLocation;
        Debug.Log(MapPoints.Count);
        //Debug.Log(lastPoint);
    }

The Debug for points.count always shows 0. Furthermore, it triggers every frame, whereas it should trigger only every x distance moved

[keen dew]

You're looking at some other log output. Change it to something more descriptive: Debug.Log("MapPoints count: " + MapPoints.Count);

[chrome apex]

ah you were right

[tepid vessel]

Guys any of you build some good working publishable or semi publishable quality level multiplayer game. How do you guys learn the multiplayer concepts using fusion, theres docs and stuff but some things like optimizing data thats sent over network or some industry standard methods. Are there any good resources which teach you in depth photon fusion and multiplayer in general (Not the basic two player spawned logic)

[strong wren]

A lot of the "industry standard methods" you want are implemented by Fusion, so I would just study it until you have a good grasp of it. Use #1390346492019212368 or the Photon Discord for networking questions.

[tepid vessel]

Ohhh, No like I mean some guide to start on some things, Cuz that channel has different threads of different topics

[strong wren]

One of the threads is a general chat a lot like this one, but specifically for networking.

[tepid vessel]

ohh

but they are all unrelated topics tho? Like not completely but to some extent

[small summit]

I am really confused, I've made a reference for the Transform component countless times, but for some reason Unity thinks the namespace doesn't exist? There's literally a reference to Transform in a different script in the same project that works fine

....wait. Ohhh my god I forgot to capitalise this instance the entire time, I didn't read what column the error was on, ahg

[naive pawn]

you need to configure your ide

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[naive pawn]

it'll show you were the error is

also you shouldn't name a field transform, you won't be able to access the object's own transform lol. your ide will also warn of this if configured properly.

oh wait you're doing this.GetComponent<Transform>?

[devout otter]

why would anyone need its own custom property transform if you have it already out of the box?

[naive pawn]

why do you even have that transform field lol

you never need GetComponent<Transform>()

you can just do targetPlayer.transform @small summit

[devout otter]

i smell some shatgbt hallucinations in this approach 😄

[naive pawn]

targetPlayer doesn't seem to be assigned either lmao

[stuck parrot]

using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody rb;
    private Vector2 moveInput;

    public float speed = 5f;

    void Awake()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }

    public void OnMove(InputValue value)
    {
        moveInput = value.Get<Vector2>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 move = new Vector3(moveInput.x, 0, moveInput.y);
        rb.MovePosition(rb.position + move * speed * Time.deltaTime);
    }
}``` any idea why this is not working?

[rich adder]

what you expect to happen vs whats happening

[stuck parrot]

capsule player should move, but it doesnt

[rich adder]

put some debugs and see whats running

[naive pawn]

are you getting any errors, check if OnMove is being called

[stuck parrot]

I dont know how to check that

[rich adder]

the first thing you should've learned.. print logs..

[naive pawn]

nav just said how lol

Debug.Log

[stuck parrot]

oh thats working, I tought you can visually see what methods are called

[naive pawn]

you can with a debugger, but this is a quick and easy analog that's easier to explain for beginners

[rich adder]

so have you figured out the problem ?

[stuck parrot]

kinda, i switched from a rigidbody to character controller

[rich adder]

ehh it should work the same tho..

[stuck parrot]

I thing it was this line rb.MovePosition(rb.position + move * speed * Time.deltaTime);

I have the feeling it only moved the rb position but left the player position in place (im not sure)=

[rich adder]

that sounds more of poor setup in the hierarchy, the code itself is fine

[stuck parrot]

but I couldnt write rb.MovePosition(move * speed * Time.deltaTime); like i did with character controller. But I dont know what the additional rb.position did, VS autofilled it and it gave me an error without it

[stuck parrot]

I didnt do anything with the hierarchy and it works now

[rich adder]

there shouldn't be error without it , rb.position helps it move relative to its own current position

[naive pawn]

because they work differently

[dull phoenix]

guys what is the best method to learn unity coding
not just basic funtions like advanced movement

[dawn iron]

can anyone help me how can i make the trail renderer curve smoothly? it only moves in square (sry idk how to expain it) like i cant make an s shape

[naive pawn]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[naive pawn]

start from basics

[dull phoenix]

ty

[naive pawn]

that doesn't seem like a #💻┃code-beginner question

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.MovePosition.html
oh lord....why does the doc use transform.position instead of rb.position 🙄

[naive pawn]

was the RB not on the same object as the player? it sounds like you had it as a child
having a cc as a child wouldn't be correct either

[dawn iron]

oh where can i ask then

[naive pawn]

not sure, probably #1390346776804069396? they might redirect you again if i'm wrong

[stuck parrot]

for me both work without me knowing how so I switch stuff around, change stuff in the code until something works

[dawn iron]

okay thanks

[naive pawn]

so maybe get some understanding instead of doing trial and error

[rich adder]

why dont you just use the Splines tool.
line renderer is finicky making curves

[naive pawn]

you don't actually learn much by just doing trial and error

[dawn iron]

well im still learning so i have no clue about splines tool but i'll look into it if it works better than trial renderer

[stuck parrot]

I googled unity rigidbody and there was no anwser to it. I looked here https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.html and here https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.2/Documentation/Manual/class-Rigidbody.html

[naive pawn]

right because the issue was in the hierarchy, by the sounds of it

also isn't MovePosition just for kinematics

for a dynamic RB you'd be using velocity or AddForce instead, and those are relative

[rich adder]

actually for 2D it might be a bit more difficult to use it directly.
depends what you're doing i suppose

oh wait thats trail renderer not line renderer, nvm scratch the thing about splines. mb

[stuck parrot]

Ive read that rigidbody is more for objects and not the player so I will use character controller from now on. One thing at a time. also is that movement script good or is not good readign the input in update all the time? ```using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

[RequireComponent(typeof(CharacterController))]
public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public CharacterController controller;

private Vector2 moveValue;
[SerializeField] private float speed = 7f;

void Awake()
{
    controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
}

public void OnMove(InputValue value)
{
    moveValue = value.Get<Vector2>();
}

void Update()
{
        // directional movement
    Vector3 move = new Vector3(moveValue.x, 0, moveValue.y);
    controller.Move(move * speed * Time.deltaTime);
}

}```

[naive pawn]

Ive read that rigidbody is more for objects and not the player
where did you get that?

you can definitely use RBs for players

[dawn iron]

oh well no worries thanks for trying to help 😄

[naive pawn]

is not good readign the input in update all the time?
not reading it constantly would mean your game is laggy

[stuck parrot]

I didnt say you cant but they come with a bunch of limitations to work around. I saw it a youtube tutorial

[naive pawn]

they have some limitations, yes. everything else also has limitations

[rich adder]

pros n cons.
like everything else

[naive pawn]

some "limitations" in one context may also be benefits in others

don't just "oh i'm not using RB because some youtuber said so", figure out how you want your player to behave and go from there

[rich adder]

character controller is just easier in the sense that gives you the kinematic controller without having to do your own casts for collisions like kinematic RB

[stuck parrot]

dont know what kinematic is and how to use it

[rich adder]

kinematic = not affected by external forces but still affects other physics body. oversimplified.

[naive pawn]

is CC able to send forces?

[rich adder]

you can use OnControllerColliderHit and use AddForce otherwise you do not move bodies no

[naive pawn]

yeah ok that's about what i expected

[rich adder]

an example is using a kinematic body as a moving platform, it can push the boxes that rigidbody ontop but it cannot be pushed by other physics bodies / affect its movement. It will phase through static colliders tho

[bright hill]

hey, i got a problem when gameobject is shot, the material on slot 0 should change material. at some reason particle system works fine, but material is not

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Events;

public class ScreenShootable : MonoBehaviour, IShootable
{

    public Material brokenMat;
    public ParticleSystem brokenParticle;
    public MeshFilter currentMesh;
    public MeshRenderer currentMeshRenderer;

    [Header("Events")]
    [SerializeField] private UnityEvent onShot;
    public void Start()
    {
        currentMesh = GetComponent<MeshFilter>();
        currentMeshRenderer = this.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();


    }
    private void Reset()
    {
        
    }

    public void OnShot(RaycastHit hit, Gun source)
    {
        Material[] materials = currentMeshRenderer.materials;
        currentMeshRenderer.materials[0] = brokenMat;
        currentMeshRenderer.materials = materials;
        brokenParticle.Play(this);


        onShot?.Invoke();
    }
}```

[keen dew]

materials[0] = brokenMat;

[bright hill]

oh thanks

[light dune]

how do I apply post processing to ONLY ui in URP?

[naive pawn]

this is a code channel, try #💥┃post-processing

[upper token]

Is there a way to make a functional DPAD for all these functions? I tried making invisible buttons to perform the actions, but it didn't work

[naive pawn]

are those animator params

it's kinda unclear what you're asking exactly

[upper token]

Yes

[naive pawn]

those are not gonna be relevant then

what are you trying to achieve? https://xyproblem.info

are you asking about onscreen controls for mobile

[upper token]

Yes

[naive pawn]

pretty sure there's an entire onscreen button/joystick thing you could use, try googling about that

[upper token]

I have a joystick installed
But the game itself needs to be for DPAD

[naive pawn]

you can probably use 4 onscreen buttons then

[pale fiber]

anyone knows Why isnt my Enum isnt showing up?
Im using a class as an container
and calling it in an Array

[keen dew]

You've only defined an enum type but there's no variable that uses it

You have to add something like public Direction dir;

[pale fiber]

its working now Ty

[prisma shard]

Has anyone here actually made an impressive project out of spamming "If bools"? Whenever im done with this current game in the future id like to try it because it sounds interesting even if its super memory inefficient

My friend told me it would be possible to even make the entire Hearthstone game with If bools (aside from the visuals) which sounds nuts to me

[keen dew]

Not sure if you're trolling us or your friend is trolling you

[prisma shard]

I mean he is kind of a 'veteran' programmer and didnt sound like he was trolling

[keen dew]

Filling your code with if statements is the Yandere dev meme which people usually invoke when talking about bad code

[naive pawn]

it's possible. doesn't mean it's practical

every logic structure boils down to a branch or jump anyways

it's possible in the computer science sense, not the software engineering sense.

[prisma shard]

Whats the limitation, is it too many bytes, does it make the stack super slow?

[naive pawn]

both of those are irrelevant

the limitation is it's impossible to read and keep everything in your head

[prisma shard]

yea i guess thats a more immediate problem lol

[naive pawn]

it doesn't reflect more complex logic patterns, so you can't utilize those to make it easier to comprehend

[summer bear]

It would be AWFUL to read

readable code is super important

There's a running joke of people coming back to their project after 1-2 months and not knowing wtf their code is

[solar hill]

tbh after 2 months even with documentation its a nightmare

[daring island]

Video player plays the video looped, until i need to disable the gameobject, and when enabled again - the video doesn't play again. In a script tried to prepare and play - no effect. Why is that?

[tranquil basin]

Hey guys I have a problem.

I deleted the C++ file that allowed Unity to open my projects.

I dont remember which version to download to get it back.

[naive pawn]

can you not just reinstall the editor/hub if you corrupted it

[tranquil basin]

The hub isn't corrupted.

Its just some file is missing which prevents it opening a unity project.

[sour fulcrum]

i dont think anyone can help you with that one lol

[wintry quarry]

reinstall the unity editor

[tough cedar]

i dont understand what i did wrong on line 35 when following this tutorial 😭 its copied word for word

[sour fulcrum]

but is it copied letter for letter 🙂

[slender nymph]

you're looking at the wrong place to see where you copied wrong 😉
-# hint: look at the declaration and your other uses of that variable

[naive pawn]

that sounds like a corrupted installation to me

[wintry quarry]

That doesn't look the same as the video to me fam

[naive pawn]

where's digi to update the counter...

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 203
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2026-04-13

[tough cedar]

thats on line 29 which is what i have on line 29

[naive pawn]

they are not the same

[wintry quarry]

This is the video line 29

yours is not the same

[naive pawn]

and through context we can infer there is also another line that is not the same

[wintry quarry]

And from this error etc we can tell that there's at least one other line, higher up in the file, that is also not the same

[tough cedar]

my error is on line 35

[wintry quarry]

And we're telling you to just copy the video exactly

and it will work

not just on line 35

but in the whole file

[naive pawn]

we're not saying the issue is on line 29. we're pointing out that you haven't copied the tutorial exactly

[tough cedar]

i have

[naive pawn]

your line 29 is different, but it doesn't error, because you have another line that is also different

[wintry quarry]

you have not

[naive pawn]

casing matters.

[wintry quarry]

go back over the whole file. You copied it wrong earlier on and now you're paying for it.

[tough cedar]

OH MY GOD I SEE IT NOW.

its upper case instead of lower case 😭

sorry guys

[naive pawn]

this is like a rite of passage for beginners ngl

[pale fiber]

Is there any way I can get around needing a Return for each outcome?
Im trying to make it so the rooms can't Back to back spawn
but when trying to restart the selection proccess it still requires a return
which if I give it 'NewRoom'
its gonna do the same room anyways
if I return 'GetRandom()' then it causes a stack overflow

I tried making a Vaildator fnction but it essentially moves the problem

[ivory bobcat]

The function definition that you've set requires something to be returned of type GameObject - so yes, something has to be returned. You can try returning null if anything but it would depend on your needs

[ivory bobcat]

You've assigned it that very same value the line before so that if statement will always be true

Also, recursively attempting to select a different random room isn't favorable. Instead, maybe have some sort of secondary collection with your values that you'd simply randomize and iterate to select random rooms.

An example of what I meant, where you'd then simply iterate the collection. Note that this example would have every element selected at least once etc.
There are other approaches, if duplicates or other constraints are necessary.

The first loop simply populated the array. Second loop did the shuffling.

[wintry quarry]

Assign to a result variable in the branch.

One single return line at the end

Oh sorry I'm answering a structural question but you have a logic issue too

Shuffling a list is a much better approach

[pale fiber]

I have it like that so I I can give direction values so It knows better to not circle in on its self down the line

[pale fiber]

thanks for pointing that out
I needed to check in the if statement if the New room was like the last
but I was Checking the new with the new:')

[ivory bobcat]

var oldRoom = newRoom;
newRoom = PossibleRooms...
if (oldRoom == newRoom)
    ...```Relative to your previously shown code, fixing the if statement could be done so by caching and comparing the new vs old.

[neon sable]

is unity lighting system just buggy?

i just had my entire lighting system completely stop working until i duplicated all the objects

[sour fulcrum]

no

[neon sable]

then what just happened

[sour fulcrum]

not sure

[neon sable]

i assumed i messed with a value of them

but ctrl+d fixed them

so 1:1 of the original object

[sour fulcrum]

we'd need more details in something like #1390346776804069396

[pale fiber]

so Shuffle my possible rooms array?

[ivory bobcat]

You would normally shuffle a copy of your collection but if you've only got four rooms, it probably isn't worth it to do so.. Just copy the collection and modify the new collection to have the previous element moved to the first element or something so that you aren't able to select it again. Note that this would eliminate the first element as a possibly target on first use.

I've got to run, good day.

[pale fiber]

good day

[tough cedar]

what am i doing wrong now 💔

[swift crag]

i'm guessing you didn't misspell the word in your own script

i.e. you write int remaining; (or something similar) elsewhere

rather than int remanining;

[tough cedar]

wait i see it now

[polar acorn]

What's the error say

[swift crag]

you should certainly pay attention to the exact error you're getting

[tough cedar]

i fixed it dw

[tough cedar]

yep will do 😭

[tranquil basin]

I can't when I download the installer it won't start because its still missing the c++ file.

[teal viper]

What C++ files? There's no C++ source code included in unity editor.

[polar acorn]

What file

[swift crag]

explain what you actually did

[tranquil basin]

@polar acorn I deleted a C++ redistrutable file that was on my pc.

[polar acorn]

So, reinstall and it will be back

[tranquil basin]

Give me a moment I wanna copy and paste the error I got last time.

[tranquil basin]

This is the error I get.

Wait I think I got fix for my problem.

[polar acorn]

Have you restarted your PC

[tranquil basin]

YEah

[polar acorn]

Clear out your temp folder and then try again

[slender nymph]

also make sure you actually have space on the C: drive

[tranquil basin]

Is there anyway to check if the needed amount of space before installing?

[teal viper]

Should be written somewhere when you install an editor version.

[tranquil basin]

Guys I fixed it by switching to the latest Unity version.

[naive pawn]

so you got a new editor, literally the thing we've been telling you to do?

[tranquil basin]

Look I tried installing a new Unity but I didn't have space. What happened is I had to uninstall the old one and use the new one I already hsd.

Like I literally showed you guys the error message i got when trying to install a new unity.

I was trying to do what you guys told me the whole time it just wasn't working.

[naive pawn]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow , this is a code channel

[open crater]

Guys how to resize a sprite for a top down square tilemap? Idk why when i drag the sprite in the palette and select it, the sprite is smaller than the squares on the tilemap. I want the sprite size to be the same as the square size

[naive pawn]

#🖼️┃2d-tools, this is a code channel

[open crater]

Ok sorry

[stuck parrot]

what is your workflow when creating scripts? Since I am not good at coding I create the base with no variables and logic and write down to do's and I figure out how to make that logic happen. for example here I am trying to make a interaction with NPC, signs, objects and more ```cs using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerInteractor : MonoBehaviour // On Player, is checking if interaction is possible
{
// Variables

public void OnInteract(InputValue value)                                          // Is called by the Input System when "Interact" button is pressed
{
    if ()
    {
        
    }
}

}

/*
To Do's:

• when interaction button is pressed, check the interaction
• make the interaction possible if theres actually an interactive object in front
• if the object is interactable, check what type of interaction is needed (NPC, Sign, Object, Item, etc.)
• read the information stored on the interactable object (name, text, image, etc.) and return it to this script
• Display whatever was returned as debuglog
  */``` how would you do it? is that a beginner friendly way or am I overdoing it?

[naive pawn]

that seems about right

[stuck parrot]

great to hear that im not a complete idiot 🙂 now I know that the right way to do that is raycast, but I never worked with then and dont know how they work. My idea is to give the player a cube that has its collider set to trigger and the mesh renderer off, so i can use that as the detection zone for interactions. would that work?

[naive pawn]

why would it need a meshrenderer

you can just have a boxcollider on its own

[stuck parrot]

so I can see the trigger area if I want to. boxcollider on their own are invisible and hard to debug espacially in game view

if i have an actual box i can see whats goin on

[naive pawn]

you can draw debug and gizmos and such as well, you don't need the meshrenderer

boxcolliders have wireframes when selected as well

[stuck parrot]

how do I do that? The wireframe of the colliders are only visible if i klick the weird green edit button but in the game view theres no colliders visible

[naive pawn]

should be able to see them in scene view

[stuck parrot]

do I have to enable something because for me they are not

[naive pawn]

are gizmos disabled?

[stuck parrot]

oh... yeah 😅 😭

[open crater]

Guys what's the best way to create a 2d platformer? Tiles or just items? And if we consider tiles, how to create tiles with a collider/rigidbody/scripts and other components?

Im talking about 2d

[naive pawn]

there's no "best", there are many working ways

[distant orchid]

Where are they pinged at?

[naive pawn]

for tile collision you can use a tilemap collider+composite collider

[austere crypt]

I would use the interface for this

[open crater]

Why 2 colliders

[naive pawn]

the composite merges individual tile colliders together so there's a uniform surface

[open crater]

Oh so basically if i have 3 tiles in a row i can use composite collider to group them?

[naive pawn]

not really what i said

the tilemapcollider will already make collider shapes for each tile

the composite collider merges the shapes together

this isn't about grouping tiles

both of these colliders would be on the tilemap, not individual tiles

[open crater]

Hmm i'll go check tutorial to understand better

Ty 🙂

@naive pawn just another question, can i have separate things made of tiles that behave in a different way? For example a level with a platform composed by 4 tiles in a row and then a square with 2x2 tiles that moves up and down?

Can i use same tiles but different colliders for this?

[rich adder]

they'd have to be on a separate tilemap if you want separate colliders

or just make it a regular prefab and apply it with the prefab brush

they won't be traditional tiles though

[open crater]

Ok

[prime egret]

I have a problem with not being able to stop a moving object. I would like to post the code snippet here but i dont know how to create the little code window.

[naive pawn]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[prime egret]

if (cueBallRigidbody.linearVelocity.magnitude < 0.2 && hasBeenHit)
        {
            cueBallRigidbody.linearDamping += Time.deltaTime * 0.3f;
            if (cueBallRigidbody.linearVelocity.magnitude < 0.02f)
            {
                cueBallRigidbody.linearVelocity = Vector3.zero;
                hasBeenHit = false;
                cueBallRigidbody.linearDamping = 0;
                gameController.OnCueBallStopsMoving();

            }
        }
        velocityText.text = "Velocity: " + cueBallRigidbody.linearVelocity.magnitude.ToString() + ";Has been hit: " + hasBeenHit;

this code is in my update function. I also have this debug text, which let me know that the ball is not instantly stopped when hasBeenHit is false. It sort of jitters around for a few seconds before stopping

i also am applying some damping at this low speed to simulate how a ball rolling on cloth stops when it has lower speed

[wintry quarry]

what's the actual question here

[prime egret]

why is it not instantly stopping when reaching the threshold

[wintry quarry]

Isn't it rolling?

[prime egret]

yes but i have it so that the speed will gradually decrease

[wintry quarry]

rolling is angular velocity, not linear. So it's going to keep a bunch of energy even if you are setting the linear velocity to 0

the rolling then will give some linear velocity back due to friction (because that's how rolling works)

long story short - if you set angular velocity to 0 too it will stop faster

[prime egret]

if (cueBallRigidbody.linearVelocity.magnitude < 0.2 && hasBeenHit)
        {
            cueBallRigidbody.linearDamping += Time.deltaTime * 0.3f;
            if (cueBallRigidbody.linearVelocity.magnitude < 0.02f)
            {
                cueBallRigidbody.linearVelocity = Vector3.zero;
                cueBallRigidbody.angularVelocity = Vector3.zero;
                hasBeenHit = false;
                cueBallRigidbody.linearDamping = 0;
                gameController.OnCueBallStopsMoving();

            }
        }

it still goes backand forth between the hasBeenHit variable being true and false

even after setting the angular velocity to 0

[wintry quarry]

hasBeenHit is a totally separate thing. You haven't given the full context on that

i have no idea how it gets set to true

[prime egret]

if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Mouse0))
        {


            cueBallRigidbody.AddForce(shotPowerAndDirection, ForceMode.Impulse);
            changeCamera();
            //start decalarating
            mousePressedTime = 0f;
            hasBeenHit = true;
        }
``` It gets set to true when i apply a force "hit" the ball.

[wintry quarry]

if this is the only place you set it to true, then you must be releasing your mouse

otherwise - you probably forgot about somewhere else it's being set

[prime egret]

it gets set nowhere else. i will try to do by pressing a keyboard button instead

[wintry quarry]

but you're seeing it get set to true in your debugging?

If so you must be mistaken

I'd also recommend using Debug.Log instead of an in-game UI element, you'll get more information like the full sequence of events.

[prime egret]

i added a debug.log and you can still see its being printed twice

[naive pawn]

try adding a debug log to where you're setting hasBeenHit

[prime egret]

okay yeah now it shows it has been set to true twice

stil dotn understand how this can happen since getkey up only runs the frame that the key gets lifted

[slender nymph]

make sure you don't have more than one copy of that component in the scene

[limpid stratus]

if it's called in fixedupdate, then step can happen several times over the course of a frame

[slender nymph]

that's unlikely though, unless they are getting sub-50 fps. but it also wouldn't be as consistent

[prime egret]

i am calling it in the normal update

[limpid stratus]

right click the script in your project folder and select find references in scene

see if you get more than 1 hit

[prime egret]

is the problem that i am referencing this game object by doing:

public GameObject cueBall;
```?

[naive pawn]

this would seem to indicate that you have it set to true twice, then you set it to false twice.
the second time you set it to false shouldn't happen, if it were on the same component.

do you perhaps have multiple components of this same type?

try adding a context to your logs (eg Debug.Log("...", this);), then check if each of the logs are coming from the right object

[naive pawn]

well, you generally shouldn't use GameObject as a type, and instead use the component you care about (which seems to be Rigidbody in this case), but it shouldn't cause an active issue

[prime egret]

yeah i had the script set to two different gaem objects one being the camera and the other being the actual cueball

now it only sets it to true once and stops it moving once

i actually have no idea how i managed to do that

Thank you

however its still needs some time to completely be set to 0

from here on its zeroes

[cold slate]

i have a lot of "the referenced script (unknown) on this behaviour is missing" warnings

is there a way to fix them without messing the scripts

[naive pawn]

did you do something to cause that, like moving .meta files (or not moving them)

[cold slate]

yeah i moved my scripts and folders

[slender nymph]

did you move the .meta files as well?

[cold slate]

i believe i did

at least some of them

but they may not be in the right place

[slender nymph]

well that would be the problem then

[cold slate]

is it difficult to fix them?

[slender nymph]

if you're using version control, it's really just a matter of reverting to the last good commit. if you're not then you need to check to see if the old .meta files are still available and move them to the right place. if they aren't then you need to fix the broken objects manually

[simple hawk]

can I use unity version control instead of git? not that familiar with version control and wanna just get it set up quickly (forgot to set up git at start of project and getting a headache with lfs)

[wintry quarry]

You can use whichever one you want. That's why it's there.

[simple hawk]

awesome, thank you

I might be making progress with LFS, but ive a feeling something will go wrong lol

[solar hill]

what?

can you not spam random memes please

[idle saffron]

Hi, i am a beginner and im having a problem with calling a void which belongs in a game object, being called from a prefab as i cant make a reference. Ive tried using static but i cant get that to work either, what should i do?

[solar hill]

can you clarify what you mean by "cant make a reference" ?

what is it specifically you are trying to do

how are you trying to do it

and whats happening, vs what is supposed to be happening

[slender nymph]

sounds like you need to pass the reference to the instantiated object
https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[polar acorn]

<@&502884371011731486> spammer

[frosty hound]

?ban 1374720700363051122 Ignoring warning for off topic

[eternal falcon]

zi_danee was banned.

[idle saffron]

so i have a prefab which has already been spawned in the same scene as a gameObject. When the gameObject collides with the prefab, a script within the prefab needs to call a void subroutine in the script of the gameObject. However since it is a prefab, i cannot make a reference to the gameObject im pretty sure. I have tried making the void subroutine a static, but i cant get that to work either.

[solar hill]

of course you can make a reference with the gameobject, you just need to use that instance of it

since you are working with collisions you have a simple way of doing it

[slender nymph]

you don't need a persistent reference, the collision will give you access to the object's collider which you can call GetComponent on

[solar hill]

you can do something as simple as

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
    // make sure whatever you hit has the script you need to call
    MyGameObjectscript targetScript = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<MyGameObjectScript>();
    if (targetScript != null)
    {
       // call whatever you need to do here!
    }
}```

[slender nymph]

or use TryGetComponent which combines those two lines into one call

[idle saffron]

thx

[echo palm]

Yall to freeze the app can I js use like setspeed(0)

Or time.freeze()

[idle saffron]

the void im trying to call is push which is in Birdscript and this is written in PushScript but it isnt recognised? -ignore if the trigger stuff is incorrect

[polar acorn]

What is push in this script?

[idle saffron]

it is the void subroutine im trying to call located in Birdscript

[polar acorn]

Is this OnTriggerEnter2D in Birdscript?

[idle saffron]

no this is in PushScript

[grand snow]

You can change time scale to 0 and this will "freeze" many things but the program is still running

[echo palm]

How

[grand snow]

Time.timeScale

first thing from a quick google search

[echo palm]

Oh ok

[polar acorn]

You're trying to call a function on this script. If you want to call it on a different object, you'll need to actually call it on that object

[echo palm]

I'm just gonna follow the brackeys tutorial

[polar acorn]

Do you have a reference to the Birdscript you want to call this function on

[idle saffron]

not yet, this was what i was trying to work out

[prisma shard]

Can any Jetbrains users confirm that it has different "problems" spotted than VS code? Jetbrains brings up lines of code not being used by anything, problematic namespaces etc that i do not see in vs code

[polar acorn]

Which Birdscript do you want to call it on

[solar hill]

can you show an example?

[idle saffron]

im confused

[polar acorn]

You want to call a function on another object. Which one do you want to call it on?

[idle saffron]

oh, Bird

[polar acorn]

Is it always a specific object that exists in the scene before you start play mode

[prisma shard]

i dont see these kinds of issues in code vs

[idle saffron]

im pretty sure

[polar acorn]

So make a public or serialized variable and drag in the reference

[eternal needle]

different IDEs usually have differences in what they highlight. you could probably configure the specific warnings if you don't want to see them
these are just warnings though to help with code quality

[idle saffron]

thx

[prisma shard]

I am psychologically a perfectionist even when its objectively worse. This is bad, bad

should have stuck with vs code

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ disable the warnings and it'll be good again. its made to follow a specific standard, you dont need to follow the standard. everyone likes their own style in some way

[prisma shard]

If these are just typo errors and stuff is there a way i can just easily transfer this to an AI or something enmass

I cannot be assed to go through like 500 files like this

[eternal needle]

the "Namespace does not correspond to file location" is not something people commonly do in unity regardless

you dont need to go through 500 files lol, just hide the warnings or pretend they dont exist

usually your IDE would have some kind of autofix button though. Like at least in visual studio i remember there was a keybind that'd clean up the file and would automatically fix spacing + remove unused usings which is what most of your warnings are

Also it suggests names starting with _ which i personally hate using. You shouldn't change your whole style because an IDE has a small 20x20 yellow triangle

[winged widget]

I'm having problems with github, does someone have some free time to help?:))

[solar hill]

ask away

[teal viper]

Just ask your question. Nobody is going to dedicate their time to a problem they don't know anything about.

[winged widget]

mb

I'm merging my branch into the main branch

and my colleague is doing the same

but when we do that, some of our scenes, prefabs, sprites, etc; dissapear

and we tried to merge again, and nothing happened

we've been here for 3 hours trying to figure this out

[teal viper]

Are you editing separate scenes/prefabs/assets and they still disappear?

Are you committing the meta files properly as well?

[winged widget]

yes to assets and prefabs
no to scenes

but even when i deleted the scene on my version, the main version had the same problems

[winged widget]

Problably not
How do I make shure that it is commiting properly?

[prime jackal]

as a jetbrains user this also happens to me as it introspects the entire project including packages you import with its own opinionated warning system
you can really quickly get rid of those, though, and if you get used to it it can be extremely good. I don't know how you live with VSCode honestly, I've never had good intellisense there

[prime jackal]

is .meta in your .gitignore at all?

[winged widget]

let me check

sorry if this problem is too obvious, it's my first time using github

[prime jackal]

I'd suggest that you and your colleague watch some git tutorials for half an hour instead of trying for 3 hours to find it out yourself (i'm not the best person to know about this though, lol)

from what i've heard, merging can generally be a nightmare sometimes

[winged flame]

Hi I'm new to Unity and I've been crashing out for 30 mins because my gun rotation isn't working, I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a quick solution since ChatGPT is wasting my time with solutions that don't work.

I took this model, and my gun is following where my mouse is, which is fun but since everything is pointing right as a standard (the gun also moves up and down with my mouse), it would only make sense that when my mouse goes on the left side of my character, my character flips and looks to the left while also pointing my gun to the left. For my character it works perfectly fine but my gun also kinda mirrors but it's upside down instead of mirroring. Not sure if I can also share my code since it could make my message very long.

[winged widget]

Yeah that's smarter

[teal viper]

Well, you shouldn't try to modify the same assets/prefabs at the same time. And definitely not scenes. It's not impossible to solve merge conflicts with them, but it's hard.

Im not sure what you mean by deleting the scene and the main having the same version...

[prime jackal]

It sounds like you're rotating the gun around the player that naturally makes it flip upside down, unlike with the player where you just reflect it. Maybe try the same sort of logic with the gun, where after it goes to the left to the player it flips over the Y axis as well to appear normal

[teal viper]

In unity project every asset file has its own paired .meta file. You can see them if you open the project in file explorer. These carry important info on the asset and need to be committed.

[winged widget]

Basically we were working on different prefabs and I deleted the scene that was no my colleague's branch

[teal viper]

You intentionally deleted a scene, but it was not synced(deleted) on main?

Or you didn't explicitly delete anything, yet it was gone on your colleague side?

Which one?

[winged widget]

i wasnt remembering the exact process

I just tried to open the main again

I'm having this problem now

[teal viper]

That means that the scene asset ID has changed. What likely is happening is that you and your colleague created these scene independently OR did not sync it with each other initially, so it was basically 2 separate scenes with the same file path - the ID is different. Then each one of you kept on committing the id that is correct on their side, basically breaking the project for the other person.

[winged widget]

Oh://

[teal viper]

At least that's one plausible explanation

[winged widget]

The seconds options seems to be what happened

Is there some way to solve this?

Since we both have important things on our scenes

[prime jackal]

I'm no expert so this might be wrong, but you could both rename the scene as something else so you can merge it and have 2 versions, then manually go in and stitch things together

[winged widget]

We did that but it had problems again://

I gtg now
Its pretty late here

I’ll be working tomorrow with a fresh head (no so much since i have to publish the project tomorrow as a school project)

Thank you guys for your time and patience to be here helping us!

Have a great week bye!

[winged flame]

I appreciate the quick response but it hasn't really helped me any further. Maybe my scripts can clear up what I'm dealing with

I'm using PlayerFlip to handle the player's visual orientation left or right based on the mouse position relative to the player.

And PlayerAim rotates the weapon toward the mouse position so the gun always points at the cursor.

at this point I have absolutely no clue on how to fix this annoying issue. ChatGPT keeps telling me to seperate body flipping and weapon aiming completely by only using PlayerFlip to mirror the character visually and PlayerAim to rotate the weapon in world space without any additional flipping or scale changes but eventually leads me to an issue that's even worse or that's just messing everything up

[winged flame]

oh I didn't see the messages above, continuing this ^^^^

[prime jackal]

It looks like you're scaling the player to something like (-1, 1) when facing the opposite direction, but only rotating the gun around a circle around the player. When you're flipping the player, it's only that sprite, not the gun within it, because of localScale.

[prisma shard]

The problem is (And tbh id really like to find a redeeming factor of these kinds of jetbrains features) that this stupid ass software detected some of my unfinished planned architecture as code that should be deleted because nothing referenced it yet etc

I am sorry thats just absolutely braindead software design

[prime jackal]

You intentionally have unfinished code that isn't referenced and it's warning you of that, you can ignore it, that's why it exists. It's not saying it should be deleted, exactly, rather just notifying you that it might be unintentionally there.

[prisma shard]

Right but i thought the appeal of jetbrains was its error identification feature and code cleanup. The software just nuked half my project

[prime jackal]

If you really hate it, then you can suppress the warnings by marking the files to not be introspected: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Code_Analysis__Configuring_Warnings.html#exclude_items

[prime jackal]

It has functions built-in for code cleanup and you likely triggered one of them, CTRL+Z with git or Jetbrains' local file history (google), mark the files to not be introspected, and continue

[dire pawn]

sorry, accidentily deleted it

[prime jackal]

You can use #🔎┃find-a-channel

[prisma shard]

i guess i wont give up on jetbrains yet then, thank god i regularly archive my builds

[dire pawn]

I'm wanting to make a private VR Chat world from KH3 to make Kingdom of corona

[prime jackal]

Likely what made you get frustrated will turn around and become a great feature for you- its code cleanup and refactoring capabilities. When harnessed correctly, it's saved me a lot of time with renaming stuff and removing old code.

#notsponsored i even only have the noncommercial version right now

[dire pawn]

I looked, but those are more for advertisement questions, oor how to improve the server questions.

[prime jackal]

#📑┃channel-directory? (i'm also new here)

[dire pawn]

I looked there 😅

Is there a way to contact mods to ask without having to ping them?

[prime jackal]

Are there any VRChat-specific discord servers? Like, what exactly are you looking to ask here?

[dire pawn]

I create VR chat worlds with unity, but I need help finding assets and map rips

[modern lodge]

this server does not help with VR chat or mods, please find a VR chat specific server

[dire pawn]

not mods, assets

[prime jackal]

For assets there's http://assetstore.unity.com/ or any Unity assets you can google for, not sure what you mean by map rips

[dire pawn]

map rips are just assets/worlds taken from a game to use in things like Unity

[prime jackal]

I don't think you're going to find those here

[teal viper]

Basically steal other people's work. We don't support this topic here.

[dire pawn]

Oki, sorry for wasting your time. I'm only 16 and my mom doesn't want me spending money on assets. Sorry again/gen

[prime jackal]

https://www.kenney.nl/assets has a lot of good free assets for beginners

[winged flame]

Okay My Little Pony actually helped me out more than you think. Now it works exactly how I wanted it to. What I did was add this script WeaponFlip to my WeaponPrivot.

Thank you for your time <3

[sage summit]

Hello! I'm really struggling trying to understand the concept of event handlers, I'm currently following a 10 hr course of making a game (CodeMonkey) and I'm really confuse as to why certain codes exist and what it does. This is the current which works too.

[slender nymph]

!code it also helps to actually point out which specific code you don't understand

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
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[rough granite]

i must ask what's the point in the code websites when the .txt files work fine? especially when half the websites are broken

[slender nymph]

Also it's much easier to be able to view long blocks of code in another tab and be able to refer back to it

[rough granite]

tf your's look much different than mine

[sage summit]

Oh, I didn't realize that's how it looks like

[slender nymph]

that's a mobile screenshot and is how it always appears on mobile

[rough granite]

ahh guess that kinda makes sense but both the functional websites absolutely suck on mobile ~_~
the other point is fair though

[naive pawn]

no line numbers and it gets cut off at like 50kb

[sage summit]

Sorry ! I don't really know how to use those websites. First time here and really desperate too.

[naive pawn]

paste your code in, save, copy the link, paste the link here

[rough granite]

if someone pasted a 50kb file of pure code here i would tell them they are on there own lol, the no code lines i can see as a bother though

[naive pawn]

oh and you can't properly view multiple files together, gotta reset your scroll every time you check the other file

also you can't do other stuff in discord (asking for context, answering other questions, answering unrelated chats) in the meantime without resetting scroll

also no search

also no folding

[sage summit]

https://paste.myst.rs/j21aimz6

[rough granite]

it also helps to actually point out which specific code you don't understand
you never specified what the problem was other than "struggling trying to understand the concept of event handlers"
(prolly my fault)

[sage summit]

Sorry! I don't really know what question to ask because I don't really understand it well myself. I only understand that it's good for decoupling, but I guess i'm struggling to read and understand it?

[naive pawn]

so im noticing that use of EventHandler and i don't think ive seen people use those before.. you can typically just use simpler delegates, especially given that you aren't using any of the passed arguments

having an Action<Vector2> would probably be simpler and more direct data flow

[naive pawn]

could you be more specific as to which part you're struggling to read? if there's like, a specific line or block, we oculd explain that

otherwise it's kinda hard to help a vague question

[sage summit]

So GameInput.cs, Awake() block, how does playerInputActions.Player.Interact.performed += Interact_performed work?

[naive pawn]

the += there is a subscription
the performed is an event

when you subscribe, you're telling it to also call that function when the event fires

it's like assigning a method that should be called, but it's += to preserve any listeners that have already subscribed

[sage summit]

So, when I press interact, it performs the function Interact_performed? And what does the OnInteractAction?Invoke do?

[naive pawn]

Invoke is firing the event

[rough granite]

firing is a new one
cant tell if you mean calling it, or fire like what an employer does (ie unsubing it)

[naive pawn]

the ?. makes it not do anything if it's null, which it would be if nothing has subscribed

[sage summit]

So in player.cs, GameInput_OnInteractionAction is listening to that event?

[naive pawn]

it's listening to OnInteractionAction, yeah

[sage summit]

I see so it's like a red light green light thing? Press a button and it goes green and everythign thats looking at the light will do their own thing?

Sorry I learn from weird analogy way

[naive pawn]

you could imagine it like that, sure

[sage summit]

Okay I kinda get it now, thanks !

[naive pawn]

hmm that analogy feels maybe more like polling

could say it's like making a post or sending a message and whoever's subscribed gets a notification

[sage summit]

That's a better one 😆

[empty steppe]

Hello

Should i write the code lines that i learn?

In notes or something

[eternal needle]

You'll quickly memorize relevant code and syntax over time as youre typing it in real work. Copy pasting it from a file isnt going to help you memorize it
Though if you find it easier in terms of accessing quick notes or links to documentation, then sure.

[empty steppe]

maybe if i learn stuff like input

I should type down what getkeydown or getaxisraw etc..

[eternal needle]

Usually youd just go to the documentation anytime you need a refresher on what stuff does

It'll likely just take you longer to find your notes file compared to googling getkeydown unity

[empty steppe]

Idk tbh

Like yes the code is explained if i left click it but i don’t really know where to search in the first place without googling

[eternal needle]

Then work on googling skills. They'll come as you code more and need to find stuff in documentation

If you have no clue at what the class or methods would be called, google a high level concept of what you want to achieve + the word unity. You'll find results

[empty steppe]

Just a quick question

Is there like a place i can find the built in input names?

[silk night]

what exactly do you mean?

you mean for UI elements?

[empty steppe]

Yeah

(Horizontal, Vertical, etc..)

[silk night]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.5/manual/index.html

[naive pawn]

you mean the default axes? those aren't ui stuff
you can just check in your input manager

[night raptor]

Well, technically all inputs would be part of UI, not GUI though. I agree it isn't very clear what is asked here

[naive pawn]

by "ui" there i'm referring to ui elements like sidia asked, i couldve been clearer 😓

[rare jolt]

i want my enemy to move around the player but i don't know how to calculate the angle for the enemy to move left or right

X = Cx + (r * cosine(angle))
Y = Cy + (r * sine(angle))

[naive pawn]

could you be more specific about what you want the enemy to do exactly

[rare jolt]

oh i found the solution. nvm

i just want to set my enemy position based on an angle with the player as the radius point.

[real thunder]

So I am a little confused with the parent constraint component

I wanted to spawn a thing and attach it to the body part

anyway the point is it spawns properly, in actually behave like it's attached, however, the moment it gets attached it changes it's rotation in a way I don't expect

        ParentConstraint constraint = stickie.GetComponent<ParentConstraint>();
        constraint.rotationAtRest = stickie.transform.rotation.eulerAngles;
        constraint.translationAtRest = stickie.transform.rotation.eulerAngles;
        constraint.SetSource(0, new ConstraintSource{sourceTransform = assumed_hit_hitable_part.transform , weight = 1});
        constraint.locked = true;

piece of code I expect to work

I am probably misusing the component

[wintry quarry]

constraint.translationAtRest = stickie.transform.rotation.eulerAngles; this is definitely not right

translation is an offset in position

[wintry quarry]

what behavior are you expecting and what's actually happening?

[real thunder]

midnless happy copypasting coding failed me again

I will attach a small video in a minute

it kinda works

when arrows were children it was better

but I don't want to fiddle with them actually being children

I think I am starting to get it

ParentConstraint constraint = stickie.GetComponent<ParentConstraint>();
        constraint.SetTranslationOffset(0, assumed_hit_hitable_part.transform.InverseTransformPoint(stickie.transform.position));
        constraint.SetRotationOffset(0, (Quaternion.Inverse(assumed_hit_hitable_part.transform.rotation) * stickie.transform.rotation).eulerAngles);
        constraint.SetSource(0, new ConstraintSource{sourceTransform = assumed_hit_hitable_part.transform , weight = 1});
        constraint.locked = true;

way more inconvenient than I expected but it works

[rich adder]

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[serene seal]

return ItemCosts[itemID];

item costs is a dictionary how would i parse it using a number

[polar acorn]

Like that

[serene seal]

but

Argument 1: cannot convert from 'int' to 'string'

sorry should have sent that at the start

[polar acorn]

So your dictionary is keyed off of a string, not an int

[open crater]

Guys how to DEFINITELY delete a tile in my tilemap palette?

2d of course

Idk why a pink square appear

[serene seal]

so is c# not like python where you can sort through dictionarys using numbers you have to use the key?

[polar acorn]

Python doesn't do this either

To access a dictionary element, you have to give it a key

You choose what type that key is

You've chosen string

[serene seal]

oh ok i understand now i was thinking of lists

[wintry quarry]

C# has lists as well

[serene seal]

yeah but for what im doing a dictionary is easier

[open crater]

Guys how to DEFINITELY delete a tile in my tilemap palette? Of course im talking about 2d. Idk why I have a pink square on my palette, i tried to delete the sprite.

[rich adder]

hows this a coding question ?

#🖼️┃2d-tools

[open crater]

Umm sorry? Calm down

[polar acorn]

I mean, you're the one in all caps and reposting the same off-topic question so maybe you ought to be the one to calm down

You're not getting answered here because it's not a coding question

[open crater]

That's a better answer

[polar acorn]

It's the same answer

[open crater]

I mean less rude than the other one

[rich adder]

get over it

[open crater]

It's a matter of education. nvm

[drowsy tiger]

Has anyone used Obi Rope?
I want to extend the rope based on a rigidbody dynamic attached to the end particle via particle attachment. The ObiRopeCursor supports extending, but its just length rather than actually following the pull on the end of the rope

[stuck parrot]

whats an alternative to ckeck for grounds using rigidbody? cs // ground check isGrounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, groundCheckDistance); depending on the terrain or the players mesh i need a different distance. is there a reliable way or do I guess the value until its working?

[rough granite]

could have a second longer raycast that decides the distance for the ground check based off the type of ground beneath it

[stuck parrot]

doesnt make any sence...

[stuck parrot]

I will still need to guess

[rough granite]

were you not asking how to handle different terrains for the ground check (assuming they need different values, for whatever reason)

of course you are going to need to test values to see what feels like the best for the distance of the ground check

[verbal dome]

Why not just do one raycast and check its distance

[stuck parrot]

yes kinda, but in that case you described i have on raycast super long which is checking how far the ground is and puts that value in the raycast for the isGrounded check but that doesnt make sence sinc i have to limit it somehow and there the guess work begins again#

[verbal dome]

You can detect a raycast hit, but do nothing if it was too far.
RaycastHit.distance

So just do one raycast with the max distance

Or I'm majorly missing something here

[rough granite]

i think i misread what they were asking

[verbal dome]

It's not super clear what theyre asking

[chrome apex]

I have a mapping system that charts out my movement by making line renderer points and all that good stuff.

But I am having trouble dynamically rotating the map based on the player's rotation such that up on the map matches player's forward.

It's a world space map held on a device in hand. There is also an issue of rotation on all axes since this is about diving and I can orient the player in any way.

This is tripping me up

[rough granite]

it isnt, i read what they said as "i have multiple different terrains and each one has it's own distance for the ground check that feels the best. How can i know which value i should use for it if they are all different"
but even then yeah one raycast that's just long with a value to see if the distance is less than would work

[stuck parrot]

for now I have a capsule player so the ray distance should be somewhere between 1f and 1.2f but that changes when i add a different player

[verbal dome]

You can use OnDrawGizmos to draw the ray so you don't have to guess but use your eyes instead

(Or OnDrawGizmosSelected probably)

[stuck parrot]

never used ondrawgizmo so I dont even tnow where to begin making that happen 😄

[naive pawn]

docs, generally

[rough granite]

then have the value synced to the character chosen or do like most and keep the collider a sphere cast (think the main time this isnt done is fps games) and just adjust the visual height of the character

[verbal dome]

Most unity docs have small code examples and explanations that should get you started

[rich adder]

fun fact, unity has built in Queries/Casts gizmos built in the Physics Debugger

[verbal dome]

That's true, though I meant more for tweaking it in the scene view/prefab editing

@stuck parrot Magic has a point too, you could always just have code that calculates the ray origin from the character's collider values

I also usually prefer spherecast, not raycast

[stuck parrot]

sounds goob but I dont know how to do that

[verbal dome]

Like what if you are standing on a tiny gap and the ray goes through that?

Now it thinks you are in the air even tho youre not

[stuck parrot]

can I just add an empty as a child of the player and add a box collider set as trigger underneath the player? this way I can control it and actually see it. by the way OnGizmoDraw doesnt seem to work for me ```private void OnDrawGizmos()
{
Gizmos.color = Color.green;

Vector3 origin = transform.position;

Gizmos.DrawRay(origin, Vector3.down * groundCheckDistance);
Gizmos.DrawSphere(origin + Vector3.down * groundCheckDistance, 0.1f);

}```

[rich adder]

you have to have Gizmos enabled for OnGizmoDraw to work

[stuck parrot]

I do have that

[rich adder]

check what I suggested earlier, use the physics debugger enable the queries tab and check what it shows there. must be in playmode tho for that iirc

[stuck parrot]

how do I enable that physics debugger? whats a querries tab

[rich adder]

Window -> Analysis -> Physics Debugger

[stuck parrot]

I enabled all but I dont see anything. But back to the jumping, is raycast a good practise or should I use a small box collider underneath the player? That way tiny gaps in the terrain would not cause issues

[rich adder]

raycast is too thin, generally thats either done in multiple spots around the capsule or a thicker one like overlap or spherecast etc if normal/rayhit of surface is needed

using colliders is the worse method imo

[stuck parrot]

you can make raycasts thicker? also why are colliders a bad method? I see only benefits in them. you can see them unlike raycasts and you keep the code clean by giving the script/logic to that object and not the player

[rich adder]

You can see casts just fine, you're clearly doing something wrong

raycasts can be made thicker by using a different shape instead of "RAY"

ray is just a line

boxcast, spherecast etc

[stuck parrot]

good to know, are raycasts only "shot" when for example I press jump or are they there all the time?

[naive pawn]

they're "shot" when you tell the physics system to "shoot" them

[rich adder]

void Update() {
        Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, maxDist);
    }```

[naive pawn]

the physics system has no knowledge of you pressing jump

[stuck parrot]

but I could just theoretically make the raycast only happen in the OnJump method? that way I would safe resources? (I dont know how much computer power raycasts take)

[stuck parrot]

doesnt work for me 🙁

[stuck parrot]

I found out that if the ray I cast is negative (above capsule) it IS actually visible, but not if it is cast down

[naive pawn]

don't worry about resources at this scale

is it perhaps obscured by other objects

uh hm i guess debug stuff would be drawn on top

so hopefully that wouldn't happen

[chrome apex]

anyone know this por favor?

[naive pawn]

have you tried extending the distance a ton?

[naive pawn]

do you have a more specific question, eg an issue with a current implementation, or a question about transform methods? as it stands it's kinda vague what you're looking for and hard to answer

[stuck parrot]

I also figured out why the physics debugger didnt show anything the first time. I didnt knew it has to stay open, tought it was just settings

[verbal dome]

Is the issue that you aren't seeing the ray when casting downwards (positive value * Vector3 down)?

Is it starting from the collider's edge exactly? It might register as a hit