💻┃code-beginner

[naive pawn]

it'll help a lot

[fervent yew]

i dont wanna be a programmer but i have to do this pathway to enroll on to an artist scholarship(mindblowing)

[livid socket]

then read ur errors correctly ?

[fervent yew]

i came here to find out how...

[next yarrow]

if they require you to know that I think you'll need it during it as well no?

[livid socket]

👁️ 👁️

[next yarrow]

so why not start with basic c#

[fervent yew]

youd think so lmao

[rich adder]

learning the basics doesn't need to make you a programmer.. at least you can then read code

[fervent yew]

agreed

okay fresh start lmao... apologies for coming in hot

by configure my ide i assume like using extensions and that right?

[rich adder]

you only need Unity extension, its all outlined in the link sent

if you did those steps and still have issues, check here as well
https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code#if-you-are-experiencing-issues

[acoustic maple]

This

[naive pawn]

i don't really have more info, i'm not familiar enough to prescribe anything

[fervent yew]

okay so the error is line 2 but thats not something iv written, that existed from the moment i created the script

also i did the configuration guide ty

[keen dew]

If only there was some way to remove it

[fervent yew]

will it not break anything? since it was there from creation

[slender nymph]

it wasn't there when you created the script

[naive pawn]

pretty sure that's not true, that's not part of unity's templates.

they were probably added by mistake from an auto-import. (which wouldve been triggered by you)

you should configure your ide, then it will be easier to see that stuff can/should be removed

[fervent yew]

i did the guide so ill remove it and hoipefully that'll sort it

[naive pawn]

you should configure your ide.

[rich adder]

funny how VSC underlines Behaviour as a spelling error 😆

[naive pawn]

because it is smh

[fervent yew]

i just did it following the link provided

[naive pawn]

it hasn't been configured

[naive pawn]

you should see MonoBehaviour, UnityEngine, GameObject, and Collider in green, and Destroy, Instantiate, and Rotate in yellow

they aren't highlighted properly, a sign that it hasn't been configured

have you installed the .net sdk via the .net install tool in vscode? (in vscode, command palette (ctrl+shift+p) > install .net sdk)

(once you've installed that you would restart vscode)

[rich adder]

if it were configured a very obvious thing would be it would underline in red the line that is erroring in unity

[frigid barn]

guyz the square is not coming upto the background i checked order in layer but still not showing...

[rich adder]

sprite renderer and canvas items dont match at all . (assuming the square is also sprite renderer since you haven't shown it)

they are not compatible

also not a coding question

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I didn't know the DDOL can be used to save actually values and preferences like we do with PlayerPrefs, JSON etc

Is it an efficient way to actually save values this way with DDOL?

[rich adder]

DDOL has nothing to do with saving values..

[sage mirage]

Or it works only when changing scenes

So I think it wont actually store values in memory

they will gone after restarting the game

[slender nymph]

DDOL does not save values. DDOL is only to prevent an object from being destroyed when the scene is unloaded

[rich adder]

technically JSON is just a way to format text its not a save method in itself, what you probably mean is saving through a File like IO operations

[sage mirage]

so it will save values only across scenes its not effective on anything else

[rich adder]

you can save a JSON formatted text into PlayerPrefs 🤯

[rich adder]

using a DDOL to store values only lasts as long as the current session cause its all in memory

[sour fulcrum]

as i mentioned

[sage mirage]

So two options JSON and PlayerPRefs

Right?

[rich adder]

again json is just format.. is not a save method

[sage mirage]

There isn't anything else

[rich adder]

you mean a File on your PC ?

[sage mirage]

I mean I have mever used this method

With JSON Utility I think

its a class right

[sour fulcrum]

theres many ways, those are two common ones though

[rich adder]

JsonUtility just de/serializes text

you can literally use it in PlayerPrefs as well

[sage mirage]

I want to try and save values using this method but right now I have to go off so probably tomorrow I will be around.

[rich adder]

the common way is
Json format into a file saved in Application.persistentDataPath

playerprefs for more "temporary" options (maybe muting a session when it starts, video settings etc.)

[slender nymph]

playerprefs should ideally never be used for gameplay save data and should just be used for preferences for the player application hence the name PlayerPrefs

it should especially never be used for gameplay on Windows because they get saved to the windows registry

[rich adder]

I use it for session cookies when user logs in and stores their tooken

[hollow cradle]

Whats a ddol

[slender nymph]

DontDestroyOnLoad

[lilac goblet]

Guys where do I show my games

[fickle plume]

#1180170818983051344

[lilac goblet]

Ty

[tender vapor]

Hello <@&502884371011731486> where can I report a scammer?

[frosty hound]

@upper tendon with screenshots/IDs

[nocturne parcel]

How to attach text to a gameobject?
A floating text in front of it

[night raptor]

If it's text alone, you can use the TextMeshPro component (not the UGUI one) which you can space anywhere you wish. If you need more UI stuff, you can use World Space Canvas/UI Toolkit Document

[undone birch]

Hello yall, is this where I can ask for some help?

[fickle plume]

!ask

[radiant void]

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[undone birch]

I'm having a bit of an issue here in Unity where I'm experincing quite a bit of frame skips. I don't really know what I'm doing since I'm a turbo beginner, so if anybody has any idea what I could do to fix this, I'd appreciate any help.

[solar hill]

Looks to be related to your camera logic more than anything

Share the code here

!code

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[undone birch]

the camera code?

[solar hill]

Yes

[undone birch]

//using UnityEngine;

public class CameraLook : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float mouseSensitivity = 100f;
    private float xRotation = 0f;
    private Transform playerBody;

    void Start()
    {
        playerBody = transform.parent;
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

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

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

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

[solar hill]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[undone birch]

you are a SAINT

[unborn trellis]

Can someone help me take a look at my code and help me figure out why my SoundControl() method (the one at the very bottom) isn't fully working?

[naive pawn]

!ask

[radiant void]

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[naive pawn]

just post code and describe the issue - how exactly isn't it working?

!code

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[unborn trellis]

sorry more used to mobile so accidentally hit enter and sent early

wasnt done typing

https://paste.ofcode.org/wvd8SyGyvtEEUxcGj7Ntb3 Can someone help me take a look at my code and help me figure out why my SoundControl() method (the one at the very bottom) isn't fully working? The jump sound effect is working but the walk run and crouch audio doesnt activate. for the record. For the record the debug output is coming out 1 if not moving, 7 if crouching and moving, and 8 when walking and sprinting

[naive pawn]

are you supposed to be able to walk-crouch/sprint-crouch/air-crouch?

like why is it a separate boolean instead of a separate state

[unborn trellis]

Followed two separate tutorials from the same guy. That's how he did it and I didn't know enough to really question it at the time

[naive pawn]

right but how do you want your game to behave now

[unborn trellis]

Yes crouching is supposed to be allowed to happen when walking/running/in air

[naive pawn]

you'll probably want to separate what happens when doing those on their own vs doing those whilst crouching then

or do you want it to play both the crouching sound at the same time as walking/sprinting

also seems like you'd be restarting the audiosource every frame?

[unborn trellis]

I'll try separating some things then

[unborn trellis]

https://paste.ofcode.org/9kyL5M8XdWSvwmrqKmXEYi Updated the code a bit but not sure if this is the right direction or not, the walking and crouching audio will actually play now but for some reason it will only play if you sprint first and it will immediately stop if you do any other movement

[ruby python]

@naive pawn Just wanted to say thanks again for the help yesterday. Got my culling system working and it's really efficient. 🙂

https://streamable.com/y5zoyp

[unborn trellis]

No need for help anymore I managed to kickflip myself into a solution

[frigid barn]

Guyz can anyone help me related the Github,
if we pushed the assets project settings already and we want to push more small files then should we require to send whle asset file again...?

[naive pawn]

when you upload stuff to github, it's the changes

this should be kinda obvious when you're staging the new changes

[frigid barn]

automatically fetches changes in that file which we uploaded alredy...

or we have to push the changes separeatly?

[teal viper]

Nothing is being pushed automatically. You have full control of what is being staged, committed and pushed.
How(what client) are you using git?

[alpine birch]

Hello everyone this might be a stupid question but how do i learn code and then how to use code in games? (c#)

[frigid barn]

Search io internet there are tonsof tutorials...

and for using/applying code you will need external coder like visual studio code is good at all...

[naive pawn]

there are c# resources pinned in this channel

[alpine birch]

Everyone is saying that starting practically is the best way but i dont know how to start and with what

[naive pawn]

most important is just to start tbh

[frigid barn]

try making small games

[alpine birch]

alright

[frigid barn]

dont ry big projects early u can make flappy bird clone

also if u stuck at any place u can take help of AI or this server anytime

[alpine birch]

sounds good

[naive pawn]

don't use AI while learning, you don't have the necessary experience to actually utilize it properly and you will end up shooting yourself in the foot

[muted grove]

Im having an issue with this script that the drag(lineardamping) does not work and and speed control text is causing my movement to break if i remove it. Im following this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f473C43s8nE

[alpine birch]

Guys im getting this error: Can't add script behaviour 'FliegeAnimation'. The script needs to derive from MonoBehaviour!

FliegeAnimation means flying animation its german

@frigid barn idk why but i cant awnser your Dm

[naive pawn]

!code

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[naive pawn]

no need to delegate to DMs, it negates the benefits of having a community server to begin with

[naive pawn]

does it derive from monobehaviour?

[muted grove]

https://pastes.dev/yGLCb75Nxi

like this?

[alpine birch]

i think so

[alpine birch]

do you mean this? : public class FliegeAnimation : MonoBehaviour

[naive pawn]

right

are there any compile errors?

[naive pawn]

check in unity console if there aren't any showing up in your ide, you may need to configure it

[alpine birch]

ill try

im using visual studio and there was some mistakes and copilot fixed it for me i think and now its saying no problems found but the same issue pops up

never mind i fixed it

[naive pawn]

the paste expired

[fickle plume]

Looks like paste site expired

[muted grove]

https://pastes.dev/PTifIgxYNc

[fickle plume]

oh actually quite a few do not load for me, might be an outage

works now...

[shy tapir]

Hello everyone

[real thunder]

can I somehow break out of if statement?

[sour fulcrum]

by avoiding needing to 😄

whats the usecase

[real thunder]

if (Physics.Raycast(start_trans.position, start_trans.forward, out RaycastHit hit, Mathf.Infinity, check_mask))
            {
                assumed_target = hit.transform.GetComponentInParent<AggressionTarget>();
                if(cached.Contains(assumed_target))... ugh skip no next condition?
            }
            else if (Physics.SphereCast(start_trans.position, spherecast_radius, start_trans.forward, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, check_mask))
            {
                assumed_target = hit.transform.GetComponentInParent<AggressionTarget>();
            }
            else
            {
                assumed_target = Accountant.instance.RequestTargetHomingClosestBlacklist(PlayerAsTarget.instance, start_trans.position, start_trans.forward, coeff, cut_coeff, cached);
            }

I figured I need to exclude repeats

...I guess I need a small method

bool one

[naive pawn]

... ugh skip no next condition?
where do you want control flow to go exactly?

[wintry quarry]

Physics.Raycast(start_trans.position, start_trans.forward, out RaycastHit hit, Mathf.Infinity, check_mask))
{
assumed_target = hit.transform.GetComponentInParent<AggressionTarget>();
if(cached.Contains(assumed_target))... ugh skip no next condition?
Pull all of this stuff out of the if structure

[naive pawn]

it already skips the "next" condition because you're already in the if

[real thunder]

it's almost like a language is designed to prevent me from building huge ugly chunks of poorly readable code

[wintry quarry]

save the raycast results to variable(s), do all the processing you need, then start the branches

[real thunder]

to spherecast from raycast and then if it fails to generic request

[naive pawn]

so you want it to check the next condition, not skip?

[real thunder]

I want to skip this one and check next one

not sure if this wording makes sense on second thought

but you got it

[naive pawn]

and you have more stuff after that if (cached...?

[real thunder]

no

[naive pawn]

then what's the point of this being a separate condition

this is just a chain of or's and and's

[real thunder]

there really is none

no wait

no abort waiting there is no point of not putting it at check

but like

seems like I either have to make a small method

or I dunno

need to transform hit into target

[naive pawn]

im so confused what this is supposed to do

you want to go into the else if? which has the same logic?

[real thunder]

yes!

but it's a spherecast now

the whole idea is to scan for several targets

this piece executed several times

[naive pawn]

so if it's cached, discard the raycast result?

[real thunder]

yeah

latest method also discards copies

[naive pawn]

you could have these be separate ifs that check assumed_target == null (and you'd do assumed_target = null in the cached check)

but it'd probably be more readable to just have this be its own method that does returns

[real thunder]

not sure I understood first one but this surely works and look bit suboptimal

private bool IsDuplicate(RaycastHit hit)
    {
        AggressionTarget assumed_target = hit.transform.GetComponentInParent<AggressionTarget>();
        if (cached.Contains(assumed_target))return true;
        else return false;
    }

[naive pawn]

this would duplicate the GetComponentInParent call wouldn't it

[real thunder]

🤔 wait this also does nullcheck

[real thunder]

yeah it is suboptimal

[naive pawn]

it doesn't

[real thunder]

right

well I can put one assumed_target there as an out parameter

and it will be godawful design to look at

[naive pawn]

you're overcomplicating it

just pull this if tree out into its own method and put in returns in place of the assumed_target

[polar acorn]

Maybe don't make the second condition an else and return early if you've found what you need in the first condition

[sharp bloom]

On some random article about UnityEvents vs. .NET Actions. I don't think I quite agree that using Lambda method is "cleaner", it just obscures stuff.

I think it's way more "consise" to do subscribe on Enable and unsubscribe on Disable

[polar acorn]

Lambdas are disposable and anonymous, so, they could make the code cleaner for things that are meant to be disposable.

[sharp bloom]

I see, any examples where I'd want something like that to be disposable?

[naive pawn]

callbacks rather than event listeners, perhaps

[polar acorn]

Example, you want to one-line destroying every game object in a list:

someList.ForEach(ob => Destroy(ob.gameObject))

The entire point of this line is to shorten a for loop into a single line, so making a bespoke function just to destroy an object to pass to that Linq function would be counter-productive

[sharp bloom]

Ah that kind of syntax exists in C# as well huh

I'm familiar with this kind of thing in JS

[naive pawn]

that's what a lambda is

many languages use this term for what js calls arrow functions/anonymous functions

(what did you think it was...?)

[sharp bloom]

Yes it's an arrow function in JS, but IIRC there is no syntax like
foreach (var item in items) {dosomethingwith item}.

It's always an arrow function in JS

[keen dew]

There is.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/for...of
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/for...in

[sharp bloom]

Okay forget my message then

[naive pawn]

most modern imperative-ish languages have both functional patterns and imperative patterns for this kind of thing

[sharp bloom]

Crazy how I didn't learn about the existence of "for of" in a JS course...the teacher only told us to use foreach =>

[naive pawn]

kinda yikes

(the course i mean)

[grand snow]

Did you mean to compare c# events with UnityEvent? Delegate types are related and used by both.

[naive pawn]

(fwiw it's for..of that's the equivalent to foreach..in in c# here, for..in is kind of a different thing, closer to reflection)

[grand snow]

and as pointed out, lambdas are also related and can be used by both

I feel like the comparison to JS is dangerous because in JS arrow functions capture this when function(){} does not. Same for the difference of what for of and for in does.

basically js fucky dont look at it

[mint imp]

Ive never done a shop menu before
Where do i even begin with that?
Can someone give me a beginner level idea of how a shop would work
code wise

[naive pawn]

Where do i even begin with that?
drawing board - design out what it needs to do, what it needs to interact with, what it'll look like, what parts it's composed from

[solar hill]

one of the massive decisions you have to make early is if you plan to use uitoolkit or ugui

[mint imp]

i know what i want it to look like visually, im not sure how to convert that to a solid idea code wise.

like i have a grid of icons (items) that populate based on what the shop is selling.
but clicking an item would... trigger an event i guess or
the player would have a list of availible equipment they could choose from, and buying from the shop would add this item to that list

[mint imp]

what are either of those?

[solar hill]

if youre planning to build UI for your game you have to start off by researching how UI works in unity to begin with

[swift crag]

UGUI is unity's older UI system. It's GameObject based, so you create a hierarchy in your scene to represent each part of the UI.

UIToolkit is a newer system that's used a fair bit for the editor's UI. It's not GameObject based; you create documents (either with the interactive editor or via code) and then render them.

[solar hill]

UIToolkit is very similliar to Razor if you have some experience with it

basically imagine it as html and css for your UI

[swift crag]

I am mostly familiar with UGUI

yeah, UITK closely mimics the flexbox layout system used in browsers

UGUI has its own auto-layout system (which is in the same ballpark as flexbox layouts)

[acoustic maple]

What does this error mean? NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Ball_hit_bumper.OnCollisionEnter (UnityEngine.Collision collision) (at Assets/Script/Ball_hit_bumper.cs:42)
UnityEngine.Physics:OnSceneContact(PhysicsScene, IntPtr, Int32) (at /Users/bokken/build/output/unity/unity/Modules/Physics/ScriptBindings/PhysicsContact.bindings.cs:45)

[naive pawn]

null is the absense of an object. you tried to use something that doesn't exist

[polar acorn]

It means something on that line is null but you're trying to do something to it anyway

[naive pawn]

check for stuff before . or [] on the line mentioned

[acoustic maple]

Score_Manager.Points=Score_Manager.Points+10; this is the line

[polar acorn]

Something on that line is null

Try using logs to find out what

[naive pawn]

it's Score_Manager

[acoustic maple]

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[acoustic maple]

my two scripts I want to comunicate. https://pastes.dev/nLzGGqyvwT https://pastes.dev/UX16qFOHyz

[polar acorn]

Drag in Score_Manager

Into the inspector on your object

[acoustic maple]

I was hoping to keep the Score_Mansger on a diffrent object to keep it from reasetting when the ball is desroyed

[polar acorn]

I didn't say to add Score Manager to this object

I said drag it in to the inspector

The public field

You have to tell it which Points_Manager you want the variable Score_Manager to hold

[acoustic maple]

so like this?

[polar acorn]

No

On the object that has the variable

Drag in the object that has the script you want to reference

[acoustic maple]

like this?

[polar acorn]

This is the object that you want to reference

[acoustic maple]

yes

[polar acorn]

You have to drag this into the object you want to reference it

[acoustic maple]

oh

it should look like this?

[polar acorn]

No

Literally just look at the inspector for your script

it will become obvious what you need to do

[acoustic maple]

it worked

[polar acorn]

!learn you should consider going through the basic courses so you know what words like "inspector" mean to save yourself a lot of time in the future

[radiant void]

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[acoustic maple]

I will. This is just a project with a due date so I don’t have the time rn.

[naive pawn]

you don't have the time to learn a basic core concept? that'll just waste more time

[polar acorn]

Actually learning will save more time than you lose to just randomly smooshing concepts together until it happens to work

[maiden totem]

should i be using IEnumerator coroutines or Awaitable (or Task?) methods

any guidelines on when which one should be used?

it feels like both are very similar but i find enumerator coroutines to be a bit clunky and unintuitive

[rich adder]

there is no exact way to answer this, there are only pros and cons in each

Coroutines just make it easier to work with specific unity apis cause only work on main thread since they are mostly not-thread safe

[acoustic maple]

I have done most of the ball movement one which would be most helpful for my pinball game project?

[rich adder]

now the Awaitable is a better solution to Tasks for Unity API , cause at least you can temporarily switch it to Main thread if a unity API is needed to be called in the thread

there is also UniTask which is a bit more mature than awaitable that some people still swear by it.
But it is third party

[maiden totem]

basically what i wanna do is just have an ability i can call with a single method and that one method to contain all the stuff like starting the cooldown, playing the animations, spawning projectiles, and ending the casts etc

[rich adder]

not sure how that relates to async

[maiden totem]

well im gonna need to wait for some seconds and whatnot, since the casts take time

[rich adder]

async is better for thread blocking operations such as IO and Network / performance boggling big operations

[maiden totem]

so should i use ienumerator coroutines instead?

[rich adder]

You can do timers with all three, but I think Task.Delay doesn't seem solid for unity frame loop

[maiden totem]

there's Awaitable.WaitForSecondsAsync and EndOfFrameAsync

[rich adder]

I'd use Update or just a while loop with a coroutine

true though personally I do not like those Wait method because you cannot mess with progress

personally I think deltaTime way is better if you're showing progress bars n such for the timing
so Update or Corouotine with a while loop (time.deltaTime)
but you can probably use Awaitable too with while loop but calling Unity api methods is still a pain inside of it

[acoustic maple]

What would be helpful for me when making a pinball game?

[maiden totem]

im a bit confused, would something like Instantiate be part of the api methods that would be painful?

[rich adder]

yes thats part of the unity api on main thread

[naive pawn]

unity essentials

!learn

[rich adder]

but...I think this works ? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.InstantiateAsync.html
@maiden totem

The operation is mainly asynchronous, but the last stage involving integration and awake calls is executed on the main thread. 🤔

[radiant void]

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[maiden totem]

seems reasonable?

im gonna try awaitable, if something seems very off ill switch to a while loop or whatnot

[verbal dome]

I'd expect that this still needs to be called from the main thread since they didnt specify that it is thread safe

Havent tested tho

[rich adder]

yeah true. I havent used it myself so you may be right 100 here

[maiden totem]

maybe fiddling around with threads isnt the best idea then

[rich adder]

I just mean while loop is alt to Wait seconds methods or Task.Delay

[verbal dome]

On the main thread I think coroutine vs. Awaitable would be very similiar

[rich adder]

I like the Time.deltaTime approach to sub/adding number timer cause like I said its easier to do progressbars

[acoustic maple]

I don’t see any called unity essentials

[verbal dome]

Nothing you said you want to do warrants using a background thread

[maiden totem]

are ienumerator coroutines background threads as well?

[verbal dome]

No

[maiden totem]

okay then i think im safe to use those for this

[rich adder]

they run in main thread, very cleverly..

"fake async"

[maiden totem]

also this is probably a stupid question but i've seen many different opinions and im not sure about it, but is encapsulation worth it? I've been doing stuff like [field: SerializeField] public int variableName { get; private set; } for a while now and is that... too much?

[naive pawn]

definitely not "too much", that's not rare

[swift crag]

it's appropriate for something that anyone should be able to read, but not change

I don't like serializing the auto-generated field though

(i guess because it makes renaming the property a bit more annoying)

obviously, you can use [FormerlySerializedAs] so that existing data doesn't break

but now you're stuck with that forever unless you ensure that all uses of the data are updated

this would be particularly bad for a package that other people depend on (it's easy to make sure your own data is uploaded, but other people's? oof)

using an explicit private field separates the name of the serialized property from the name of the...property

(name collision!)

[grim goblet]

Is it necessary to complete the entire pathway course to get started or can I learn on my own project?

(How did you guys learn to implement movement and customize it to make it your game

@swift crag @naive pawn

[solar hill]

dont ping people randomly

[solar hill]

nothing is really necessary but if you are new to unity then yeah the entire essentials pathway is recommended

[grim goblet]

no no they were on the topic thats why I pinged them

[grim goblet]

also okay

[scenic raven]

hey I'm new to coding I tried using the C# tutorial for the driving (since I'm trying to make a driving game) but I'm using my own blender model and for some reason when I use the script on the blender model it doesn't seem to work but it works on the car I got from the package. but when i go into play mode (with my blender car) it doesn't go forward when I press W and S instead it goes side to side and acts as there is a barrier Infront of it I have searched countless of times for the what the issue could be and I don't get the answer (no the car does not have wheel colliders it has Ridgidbody and a box collider but could someone please help me out on this?

[solar hill]

so the car from the package

is it just a model?

or is it a prefab

if so the car might have some other things set up on it that yours doesnt

[scenic raven]

the car from the package is a prefab. the car i made is also a prefab

[scenic raven]

maybe if so is there anyway i could check?

[solar hill]

well it almost certainly points to that being the issue

take a look at their prefab

open the prefab up and check out the object hiearchy

see how its set up

mimic that with yours

[scenic raven]

okay

to be honest i think i tried this but i was kind of stressing so it just flew over my head

the only difference is that it has a front angle at the front of the car

other from that everything seems to be the same

[solar hill]

so the object hiearchy is indentical?

the only difference is the mesh for the car?

are you 100% positive?

[scenic raven]

i opened it and it took me to a blue room with the car in the middle and im sure thats the only thing

[solar hill]

thats not really telling us much

[scenic raven]

yes

[solar hill]

thats why i specifically mentioned the object hiearchy

can you screenshot both prefabs opened up

[scenic raven]

sorry

[solar hill]

the hierarchy and the inspector

[scenic raven]

wait do you want me to click on the arrow next to the name of the package?

[solar hill]

no im telling you to open both prefabs up in the prefab view

expand the hiearchy fully and screenshot the root objects inspector

for both prefabs

[scenic raven]

im sorry but im kind of confused 😭

wait ill take a screen shot of what im seeing right now

[mint imp]

I can handle the GUI part , i know what i want my layout to look like.
My issue is how to handle the shop,
okay sure i have a button for "buying" an item but what does that... mean?
Im not sure where to start.
Id have a prefab for the ui object , referencing a scriptable object?
Then i guess i add that to a list of "owned" objects.

As for UGUI vs UItoolkit i just never called it that so not sure what you meant, ive always used UGUI. Wasnt aware there was a new system.

UI toolkit sounds really cool imma have to look into that

[scenic raven]

this is what im currently seeing

[rich adder]

you said there is a rigidbody, where ?

[solar hill]

is that yours or theirs?

the prefab

[scenic raven]

i removed it by mistake

[scenic raven]

theres

[solar hill]

what about your prefab?

[scenic raven]

hold on a second

[rich adder]

so is the movement based on rigidbody how do you think it should move without one

[solar hill]

so they are not identical....

in the slightest

even after i asked you twice if you were sure

[scenic raven]

bro.. i could of sworn i added colliders and stuff

[rich adder]

the collider is the least if the problems if its not moving..

[scenic raven]

i forgot to save thats why it didnt have colliders

hold on let me just fix this real quick

alr i inported my new go kart

ive made it look a bit more identical

the wheels fell off

[scenic raven]

it moves but it just goes side to side and acts as theres a barrier Infront of it

[solar hill]

can you clarify what that means?

it doesnt move forward?

Did you add the Front_Angle collider from the original prefab to yours?

perhaps its related

[rich adder]

what is the code that moves it

[scenic raven]

nope but i think i need to
i tried to but i just dont know how to

[scenic raven]

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

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 10.0f;
public float turnSpeed = 25.0f;
public float horizontalInput;
public float forwardInput;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    // This is where we get player input 
    horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    forwardInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

    // We move the vehicle forward 
    transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed * forwardInput);
    transform.Rotate(Vector3.up, Time.deltaTime * turnSpeed * horizontalInput);
}

}

[rich adder]

this is overriding physics, it shouldnt even be affected by colliders

[onyx ridge]

// This is where we get player input
horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
forwardInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
This is cursed

[solar hill]

the only thing cursed about it are the variable names, other than that nothing is wrong with it

[onyx ridge]

I tried code like this before and it messes with collisions

Input.GetAxis

[rich adder]

well besides unity making you use Translate instead of AddForce/Velocity on a RB

[scenic raven]

i mean i pressed play and the wheels just fell of lol

[solar hill]

can you clarify litterally anything you say please

[rich adder]

huh? do you have a rigidbody on the wheels ?

[rich adder]

input capture has 0 to do with collision

[scenic raven]

yes i do

[rich adder]

yeah thats wrong

[solar hill]

does the original prefab... probably not right.

[onyx ridge]

idk i tried it in something and it messed with colliders, could go through walls

[scenic raven]

wdym?

[solar hill]

does the original cars prefab have rigidbodies on all the wheels?

[rich adder]

the only reason it would go through walls has to do with Translate as its moving the transform directly and bypassing physics

not directly input related

[onyx ridge]

oh ok

[scenic raven]

yes i believe so

[solar hill]

can you actually check

instead of assuming things

youre about 0:2 on that front

[scenic raven]

so the red car i showed you guys?

[solar hill]

whatever prefab came with the package

yes

the car that works

[scenic raven]

okay i will check

fr this time

[rich adder]

if you have rigidbody on wheels and colliders on them too, they will act as seperate objects from the main rigidbody causing to feel as obstacles

[scenic raven]

they do not have rigidbody on the wheels

[rich adder]

but again , Translate should in practice override obstacles anyway

[solar hill]

right so what does that tell you

also true

[scenic raven]

to add it

[rich adder]

we're not getting the full picture here.. its kinda confusing

[solar hill]

if the car that works

doesnt have rigidbodies on the wheels

what does that tell you about your car that has rigidbodies on the wheels

[scenic raven]

holy shit im a idiot

[solar hill]

please use logic, reasoning and deduction

[scenic raven]

bro i am sorry

[proven atlas]

https://chenglou.me/pretext/variable-typographic-ascii/
i have a question,any idea how to recreate this filter in unity?

[solar hill]

you dont have to apologize, but youre not exactly making it easy to help you

plus as nav said we are still missing some context here

[rich adder]

shaders probably?

[solar hill]

if you want us to help you, you kinda need to actually try

[scenic raven]

the wheels still fall off

[scenic raven]

cant even say anything against this lol

[solar hill]

okay, now for the third time

what does this mean

[rich adder]

unless you have rigidbody with gravity on them, wheel shouldnt just fall off lol

[proven atlas]

how bout the font tho? i tried make it using monoscript and it takes so much

[scenic raven]

wait i forgot to turn them off in prefab

[scenic raven]

i want to reply to this but i feel if i do i would make myself look more of a fool

i turnt off the rigidbody on everything and it stays in one piece now

[onyx ridge]

that the wheels aren't attached to the car as a child?

[rich adder]

Monospace = easy but ugly. Proportional = nice but expensive

[scenic raven]

okay so now the car only goes side to side

we are back to square one

do you guys want me to send a video on what i mean with the car going side to side?

[onyx ridge]

can't you just remove the rigidbody from the wheels and attach them to the car as a child?

[scenic raven]

dude imma be so real here im new to unity so that sentence as a whole just dont make sense

[onyx ridge]

im new too

[scenic raven]

which is kinda why ive been taking long and being dumb (not because i want to be dumb buy because idk what im doing)

[scenic raven]

how long u been doing it for?

[onyx ridge]

almost 2 months

[scenic raven]

ive been doing it for a week

[rich adder]

I think you should follow the video / tutorial exactly before trying to do these customizations

understand the workflow and components a bit better

if I'm learning the last thing im gonna worry about is assets and how they look

[onyx ridge]

you should check out GameDev tv beginner course tutorials, that's what im following

[scenic raven]

i mean the only reason im so worried about the go kart being the car i drive is because my friend made it so when i show him how stuff is going with the game he can see im using it

[scenic raven]

i will check him out thanks for the suggestion

[onyx ridge]

@scenic raven

[scenic raven]

yooo

[onyx ridge]

you see the player rocket in the hiearachy, it has a "spot light" attached to it

so wherever the rocket moves, the light will be attached to it so it's always lit up

[scenic raven]

that is so cool

and smart asw

[onyx ridge]

when you make a new thing in the hieararchy you can drag and drop it onto another thing and it becomes the child of the thing you dropped it onto

[scenic raven]

ohhhhhhhhhhh

okay okay

[proven atlas]

what is expensive? is it takes performance?

[onyx ridge]

and when you adjust it's position you can adjust it relative to where the parent is, so it will remain relative to where the parent is

[scenic raven]

okay so like this
if i drag something into my hierarchy i can drag something ontop of that making it a child

[onyx ridge]

so if you attach wheels to a go cart you can prefab the wheels then attached 4 of them and called them "FL wheel" "FR wheel" (front left, front right)

rename them then adjust their position relative to the parent

so if you want to attach something to another thing, the thing you're attaching to is the parent

and the thing that you are attaching is the child

you're dragging something to the parent, it then becomes the child

[scenic raven]

ooh okay okay

it makes a bit of sense

[onyx ridge]

Here is an example

Left Laser and Right Laser is a child of Player Ship

[scenic raven]

yes i had something like this in mind but didnt wanna say

[rich adder]

not horrid but I believe only cause you need to measure different widths unlike monospaced. I'm not super versed on this topic though , I haven't done something like this yet so maybe its a more complex topic for #1390346827005431951

[onyx ridge]

so when I adjust the position of the lasers, they shoot from the same point of the ship all the time

[scenic raven]

alr i understand it now

[onyx ridge]

it doesn't go to the crosshair yet but you can see the lasers are always on the same point of the ship, it's like you're literally attaching it to the ship

[scenic raven]

yeah i see

want me to send a video on my issue

because i feel like once i fix this

then i can do a lot more stuff

[onyx ridge]

when you adjust their transform make sure these settings are "Pivot" and "Local"

[scenic raven]

yeah ik about the pivot thing

and then center

not the local tho

[rich adder]

yours was set to Center when u screenshotted it

[scenic raven]

i prefer center

[rich adder]

its not good to use center positioning things especially in code, its misleading

[proven atlas]

ight, thanks

[scenic raven]

oh really?

[rich adder]

the pivot could be 20 miles away but show you have it close. then if you do something from transform.position you wonder why its not even doing it from there

[scenic raven]

i didnt know that but thank you

i will use pivot from now

[rich adder]

center is only good for mass rotating a bunch of objects so they dont individually rotate

and a few other specific reasons, in most cases should always be on pivot so you know where origin is

[scenic raven]

yeah alr then

thank you for that

now the car dont even move

[onyx ridge]

send a video of it or screenshot

[scenic raven]

hold on

wait should i add the script to it in the prefab

no

i shouldnt

thats a dumb question

[onyx ridge]

I want to see what's going on lol

[rich adder]

if the car is meerly visual the script only goes on the main object

[rich adder]

that error is unrelated to anything in the play code

[scenic raven]

i dont think so

[rich adder]

its the editor bugging out / layout

[scenic raven]

i really dont know

[rich adder]

thats why im telling you

[scenic raven]

oh shit

i read that wrong

sorry

[rich adder]

the script should be on New Prefab 1

[scenic raven]

no the editor is fine

[scenic raven]

it is

[rich adder]

so whats the issue cause the video doesnt show any

[onyx ridge]

Did you check to see if all your scripts and [SerializeFields] are still attached / have things attached?

do you have a [SerializeField] somewhere which you need to attach an object to in the inspector?

[scenic raven]

nope

[scenic raven]

the car doesn't move

[hollow dome]

does anybody know how to code a gorilla tag fan game computer?

[rich adder]

send the current script and what other components are on New Prefab 1

[scenic raven]

sadly yes..

[hollow dome]

sadly?

[rich adder]

gtfg is brain rot

[onyx ridge]

How is it 'supposed' to be moving?

[scenic raven]

the only component is mesh collider

[scenic raven]

WASD keys

[rich adder]

you said the script was on New Prefab 1

can you make up your mind

[scenic raven]

yes it is

sorry man im super tired

[onyx ridge]

can you show the movement script

[scenic raven]

the script is only on prefab one and thats it

[rich adder]

screenshot it

[scenic raven]

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

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 10.0f;
public float turnSpeed = 25.0f;
public float horizontalInput;
public float forwardInput;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    // This is where we get player input 
    horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    forwardInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

    // We move the vehicle forward 
    transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed * forwardInput);
    transform.Rotate(Vector3.up, Time.deltaTime * turnSpeed * horizontalInput);
}

}

[rich adder]

ok so when you press buttons WASD, do you use Horizontal / Vertical input go to > 0

You marked this as Environment static, of course is not gonna move...

[scenic raven]

im a idot i swear down

[solar hill]

Pekal i think you need to actually start learning some editor basics

[scenic raven]

i lowkey got to go bed man 😭

[scenic raven]

i didnt even mean to make that static ibr with u

[rich adder]

if you're tired go to sleep, its never good to learn / do highly mental processing tired

[scenic raven]

i agree bro

i think tomorrow i will text here with a better mind set yk

[onyx ridge]

yea look into the GameDev tv beginner courses, that's what I'm following, they're well structured

[scenic raven]

yeah i will

but guys

[onyx ridge]

going straight into making a game is kind of like just doing things randomly

[scenic raven]

thank you so much for all the help ik ive been a pain in the a$$ but i really didnt want to be i haven't made this easiest thing and i apologise for that

[onyx ridge]

I like talking about it tbh xD

helps me learn too

[scenic raven]

u sure man

[scenic raven]

i wonder how this helped u learn

[onyx ridge]

Just trying to solve different problems is helpful

[scenic raven]

ooh alr

anyways im going to go bed now since im half asleep

[onyx ridge]

gn

[scenic raven]

again thank you guys for the help and goodnight

[muted sand]

I have an inventory system & need assistance with it
I have a public abstract void OnEquip and OnUnequip with the same keywords on an Item class
They have different parameters for each of the subclasses (Consumable, etc)
How would I have a script to call those methods and have it know which parameter to pass in without having:
if (class == "foo") {} etc

I tried searching it up and i didn't find anything
I considered having a big table to be passed in every single time but that would pile up on every special "custom" item and waste a ton of memory

[rich adder]

yeah breaks polymorphism hence the ugly class == use a shared ItemContext object or something

or maybe try doing this with interfaces

[muted sand]

i did the context before, but i figured that there will be so many things piled up in memory that it wouldn't be worth using

i don't want my project to be a triple A computer part requirement slop game

[rich adder]

normally a valid concern, here inconsequential tbh

depends how much in it...a few references maybe? probably would be what like 50 bytes per instance?

at least in the context of an inventory it doesnt sounds like you will hit extreme case

even at 1000 contexts per frame thats what? 50 kbs ?

if allocations are a worry at worst you can pool it / reuse the same obj

keeps it simple enough imo.. if behaviors are truly unrelated, interfaces are the option too

I'd only worry if profiling shows heavy GC pressure

[muted sand]

i'll try this after i eat thanks

[verbal dome]

The itemcontext could be a struct to avoid allocations, and pass it with ref or in modifier to avoid copying, but yeah thats a bit above beginner level

ref = read/write, in = read-only

[muted sand]

Could you demonstrate the struct

[verbal dome]

It would have the same contents if it was a struct or a class

So all possible things (references, values) that might be needed to pass into the method, like nav said

[muted sand]

Okay thanks so much

[naive pawn]

don't ping people randomly.

[acoustic sequoia]

hey everyone, I'm having an issue with data being loaded.. everything seems to work except for one file and it's the statistics script.
when i start up the game all the data is reading with "0":

savefile before loading is:

 "StatisticData": {
    "ActiveTiles": 0,
    "InactiveTiles": 81,
    "TickCount": 75,
    "AllEnergy": 215,
    "AllCurrency": 0,
    "AllPlates": 0
  },```
savefile after loading is:

"StatisticData": {
"ActiveTiles": 0,
"InactiveTiles": 81,
"TickCount": 0,
"AllEnergy": 0,
"AllCurrency": 0,
"AllPlates": 0
},```

this is where it's being called:

private void Awake(){
      #region Instance
      if(instance == null) instance = this;
      else{
        Destroy(gameObject);
        return;
      }
      #endregion
      
      #region Save/load test
        _cells = gridManagerObjects.InstantiateCellGrid(startMatrixSize);
        SaveData loadData = SaveManager.LoadGame(SaveManager.saveName); 
        if(loadData == null) {
        }
        else {
          LoadCellData(loadData); <<----- LOADING PREVIOUS SAVE WITH ADITIONAL DATA WORKS GREAT
          
          SaveManager.SaveGame(SaveManager.saveName); <<------ THIS IS FAILING TO SAVE THE NEWLY UPDATED LOADDATA
        }
      #endregion
      
    }```

[keen dew]

You'll have to show the code for LoadCellData and SaveGame

[hollow cradle]

why doesnt this work?

[teal viper]

Because unity projects don't use main as an entry point. It's not a console app.

Might want to learn the unity basics in addition to C#.

!learn

[radiant void]

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[hollow cradle]

I changed line 4 to void start() but it still doesnt appear in unity console

I alr enabled the script on my game object

[keen dew]

void start() or void Start()?

[naive pawn]

unity doesn't use Console

also what nitku said

[hollow cradle]

I akso changed it to debug log

[naive pawn]

if you're following a plain c# tutorial, run it in a plain c# environment (eg, not unity)

[keen dew]

Show the script you have now

!code no screenshots

[radiant void]

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[naive pawn]

Console.Log doesn't exist anywhere i can find either, did you follow a js tutorial or something

or are you just winging it

anyways, configure your ide as well

!vscode

[radiant void]

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please configure it using the link below:

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[stark oracle]

!ask

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[real thunder]

so I made a simple class
(AggressionTarget is an interface btw, is this the issue?)

    [System.Serializable]
    public class AssignedRocket
    {
        public AggressionTarget aggression_target;
        public Vector3 last_known_target_position;
        public GameObject pointer;
    }
    public List<AssignedRocket> rocket_setups;

and I try to do this

public int amount_of_rockets = 8;
void Awake()
    {
        rocket_setups = new(amount_of_rockets);
    }

and it just does not work, list is the same empty thingie in the inspector
despite I can see and populate this list in the inspector in the editor
what's going on?

Let me assume, if it was a struct that won't cause issues, but if I just try to make classes out of nowhere it doesn't work like that?

[naive pawn]

(AggressionTarget is an interface btw, is this the issue?)
yes

but if I just try to make classes out of nowhere it doesn't work like that?
no

the built-in inspector doesn't draw interface fields

technically it can serialize references (if you mark it serializereference) but you'll need other ways to set the reference, iirc you could make a custom inspector for example

[real thunder]

the odd issue is

as you can see from the screenshot

I can populate list from editor

but... can't through code?

is this so? is it's right, I don't understand why

like....
rocket_setups = new(amount_of_rockets);
that does not even do what setting 8 in the field of the list in inspector would do

that I can't see it in the inspector is not an issue for me

[naive pawn]

hm? i mightve misread your question

i'm confused what you're asking

[naive pawn]

yes, because that's not what it does?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.list-1.-ctor?view=net-10.0#system-collections-generic-list-1-ctor(system-int32)

the int parameter is capacity
the number you see in the inspector is length
those are different things

[real thunder]

I suspected that

if it was a struct instead of a class I would instantly see it populated in the inspector tho?

[naive pawn]

no

if it were a struct, nothing in what i just explained would change

length and capacity would still be different things

[real thunder]

so.. is there a shortcut to create a list having some default elements?

[naive pawn]

no

create them

[real thunder]

alright

[naive pawn]

don't crosspost please

certainly not a code issue

[dense basin]

,“What does cross-posting have to do with this? I posted this to figure out how to fix the issue—what are you talking about?”

[naive pawn]

crossposting means you waste your own and helpers' time because conversation is split. just post in one place.

you didn't actually provide any info, nor even a question the last time you posted

[dense basin]

“Okay, do you know this issue?”

[naive pawn]

you didn't even say what the issue was

go provide context where you asked originally

this is a code channel

[polar acorn]

It doesn't have to do with your issue but it does have to do with you. Ask your question in the channel it's relevant in and only there

[hasty tundra]

is there any doccumentation/method to have loops only go to the next iteration when the user clicks the mouse?

[polar acorn]

Don't use a loop, take the body of that loop and put it in a function, then call that function when you detect a click

[naive pawn]

you could theoretically use a coroutine for that, but it could just make the overall code flow harder to read

[hasty tundra]

tyty 🙏

[hollow cradle]

Why do some peple use should for example shouldContinue variable?

[frosty hound]

It's just a way to keep a consistent naming convention for a bool flag

isSomething and canSomething and shouldSomething, they just imply what the variable represents.

[shell sorrel]

if it was just Continue it sounds like a verb and should be a function not a bool

[frosty hound]

You can do whatever you want, as long as you're consistent with your naming conventions so you're not trying to read through randomly named variables trying to remember what they do.

[shell sorrel]

where canContinue clearly shows its some condition blocking something else

[polar acorn]

Because they want a variable named that

[scenic raven]

how do i fix it going side to side?

and it only drives forward when i turn the car

[hollow flare]

Anyone building with Xcode and finding your .app is signed but not notarized bc its not happy with Unity frameworks? seems like its beefing with GameAssembly.dylib and UnityPlayer.dylib

my apple dev account is good but im wondering if anyone has ran into a similar issue. seems like the recent PLA might've broken something

[solar hill]

so it goes side to side when you press w and s? or when you press a and d?

[scenic raven]

when i press W and S

[solar hill]

that means the cars rotation isnt correct

[scenic raven]

when i press A and D it turns

[solar hill]

check the mesh in the prefab

and check its transform rotate

[scenic raven]

also kuzmo i read back last night and i was being a pain in the ass which im sorry for i was super tired

[solar hill]

i told you you dont have to apologize to me

[scenic raven]

in the prefab its rotation is 0 0 0

[scenic raven]

alr alr

[solar hill]

try changing the Y axis rotation by flipping it -90 degrees

see if that makes it behave correcty

also check the original prefab

compare how the 2 cars are oriented

see if it really is the orientation

[scenic raven]

i have done that

[scenic raven]

ok ok

[scenic raven]

whats oriented?

[scenic raven]

okay do you mean the car that works?

[solar hill]

yes

[scenic raven]

its 0, 0, 0,

[solar hill]

so when you place it into the scene normally

how is it oriented compared to your car

[scenic raven]

its looking forward

if thats what u mean

[solar hill]

forward is entirely arbitrary

relative to your prefab

are they facing the same direction?

[scenic raven]

let me check

[solar hill]

just add it to the scene next to yours...

[scenic raven]

okay okay

so add them next to each other?

and they are both facing forwards

[solar hill]

the same direction?

[scenic raven]

wait no

when i put the go kart prefab in it faces left

[solar hill]

the original prefab is facing the correct way

yours isnt

[scenic raven]

yes pretty much

[solar hill]

offset the rotation of the mesh on your prefab

by rotating it -90 on the y axis

or +90

[scenic raven]

when i do it 90+ it faces right

[solar hill]

i feel as if ive given you all the steps here to fix your issue, and you can extrapolate from here.

[scenic raven]

yea maybe

but im WAY to dumb to fix this

[real thunder]

become smarter 🥹

[scenic raven]

that is the current plan

i cant rely on people to help me fix it tho ibr

[swift crag]

when you select an object, the handles will show you its X/Y/Z axes (as long as you've got your scene view set to Local, not Global

the blue arrow is its forward vector

the model, which is parented to the prefab, must be rotated to align with that arrow

[real thunder]

I might be getting it wrong, but hear me out

so I am instantiating a MonoBehaviour which is inheriting from an interface
then I instantiate an interface variable
then I assign that MonoBehaviour there
then I Destroy MonoBehaviour's GameObject
then interface variable is... not null, somehow?
I am confused

[naive pawn]

Destroy destroys the actual object in unity
the MonoBehaviour is not the actual object, it's a c# wrapper
you can't do something like, "make everything that points to this object null" - instead, unity makes it an invalid Object, but not actually null
unity's null check also includes that "invalid Object" state, if you're using a different null check it'll only check for actual null

[slender nymph]

you're not using the overridden == operator at that point, you're using the default == from System.Object. cast to UnityEngine.Object if you want to check for unity's fake null

here's some more info on it with examples: https://unity.huh.how/unity-null

[real thunder]

I am using ==

[naive pawn]

but what are you using it on?

[real thunder]

interface, yeah

[slender nymph]

right, but as i explained because you are using an interface type you are just using System.Object's == operator, not the one from UnityEngine.Object

[naive pawn]

if it's on a variable that isn't UnityEngine.Object then it isn't using UnityEngine.Object's definition of ==

[real thunder]

this looks like poor design on Unity's side isn't it?

anyway how do I solve that

[naive pawn]

i mean... kinda

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message
#💻┃code-beginner message
both of these tell you how

[real thunder]

alr that works but it's extremely confusing

[alpine birch]

can Console.Writeline only show the text or can it be used for other stuff?

[slender nymph]

you wouldn't be using Console.WriteLine in unity since that doesn't print to the unity console

[alpine birch]

alr ty

[patent kelp]

hi, i have a problem with deciding what order in layer an object should have. I have like 2.5D style walls, right now i tried to set the order in layer based on the center point/lowest point in the GO - the idea was the lower the point the higher the order, but it doesnt work and i have no ideas as to how to render it right

[grand snow]

This should work already with sprite renderers but I think sorting groups break this and only child order controls it

also not a code question: #🖼️┃2d-tools

[patent kelp]

i have a code that assigns the order

[grand snow]

sorting order?

[patent kelp]

sorry the order in layer

[grand snow]

that should work too, lower Y should be bigger though to draw in front

[patent kelp]

yea but if the wall is really wide then it creates something like on the right in the picture i sent

[verbal dome]

That kinda breaks with diagonal objects as can be seen in the screenshot

The rightmost object's Y is a bit below the one next to it

[patent kelp]

exactly

[verbal dome]

I think often people split objects into a couple of sprites in these cases?

[grand snow]

May be best. Its not really something you can solve well without 3 dimensions

[verbal dome]

This kinda split would probably work well enough

(The split sides would have different pivots ofc)

[patent kelp]

so then it would be 2 GO and each would have its order based on the Y cord like it is now?

[verbal dome]

Yeah

[patent kelp]

or like 2 sprite renderers

[verbal dome]

I can't think of a better way atm, but you can research online

[patent kelp]

im really not experienced with this

thanks tho

[verbal dome]

Yeah and that requires 2 gameobjects

Can't stack them

[patent kelp]

ohh

alr

[verbal dome]

1 sprite on the parent, another on the child, should do it

[patent kelp]

ok thanks

[real thunder]

ofttop but I ve been here asking questions related to steps how to make this for quite a long time now and making homing rockets finally concluded

[wicked pulsar]

Very cool!

[real thunder]

thanks people who help other people here

would take way way longer without you

[night cedar]

Hey guys I want to make a cardboard cutout of a sprite for vr anyone have a tutorial or can help?

[slim meteor]

hi can anyone help am new

[swift crag]

we can if you ask a question!

[sullen arrow]

Hey guys, I ran into a problem with UI elements. I made a timer and score meter, but every time I close unity, they move? Is there a way to glue them in place?

[broken nest]

Hey, it's been a long timesince i used scriptable objects, how do I reference them? I was thinking making a script which acts as a database for all the scriptable objects I create

[grand snow]

That works but they work like any asset!

Serialised ref or resources or addressables

[broken nest]

What do you mean by that I don't know those words 😊

[grand snow]

just use [SerializeField] or public field and drag it in
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/script-serialization-rules.html

google will explain them more

[broken nest]

Yeah ok that's what I meant to do

{
    public List<ScriptableObjectEnemy> scriptableEnemyList = new List<ScriptableObjectEnemy>();
    public List<ScriptableObjectSpell> scriptableSpellList = new List<ScriptableObjectSpell>();
}```

[grand snow]

Using resources would let you load many assets in code like this a bit easier but a top level object to ref them all isnt bad

[broken nest]

ok ty I'll stick to the basics

[open crater]

Guys im trying to build a game in which you survive in different castle rooms. Your goal is to survive 1 minute in each room but every 20 second something makes the environment harder to fight such as turrets or falling parts, and the player (a cube that can be controlled by imput) must avoid these. Now about the hturrets, if I want the bullets to reduce the player health (10, -1 for each bullet) on collision (and the reduction of health bar that is a default 2d square sprite, where should I put the script that manage the health and the bar size? Should i create a gameobject and insert the script here (as a logic script) or in a specific place such as in the bullet prefab? Considering that the bullet is a prefab cloned by the turret

[grand snow]

Health belongs to the player so should go with your player data/on the player. Some separate player UI handles showing this health

your player can tell the UI to refresh

[broken nest]

I'm instantiating a prefab like this :

Animator playerMonAnim;
    playerMonAnim = Instantiate(scriptableObjectPlayerMon.monsterAnimVerso);

How do i make sure I destroy the previous prefab before instantiating another one?

[onyx ridge]

Can't you just make some basic 3D objects, uncheck their mesh and tick the 'on trigger' collider

then write the code in there what happens when the player colldies with the box colldier, triggers an event

[grand snow]

well the answer is "logic".
If you keep a reference to this created object then you can easily check and destroy an old one before creating the new one...

if(thingy != null) Destroy(thingy.gameObject);

[broken nest]

Ty

[keen veldt]

I want to make a skill tree system but making a scriptableObject class and an instance for each upgrade feels like blowing the project window.

Is it ok or there exists a smarter approach?

Feel free to ping me.

[teal viper]

It's fine if you do it smart. It's normal to have classes and instances of them. Think of custom MonoBehaviour scripts.

[ivory bobcat]

Some things to consider: Do they need to be accessible from the inspector? Do they need to be unity objects?

[keen veldt]

Yup! they are gonna be accesible from the inspector. And what you mean by unity objects here?

[ivory bobcat]

You could just simply use plain c# objects..

[keen veldt]

OK, thanks bro. will be back if ther ewas a bproblem

[tight schooner]

hey guys i’m sorry i don’t know where to ask this, but I made a custom shader for a wiggle effect, not too complex. issue is that when I use it on an image, it ignores masks. I’ve been looking on google but everything’s a bit confusing. does anybody know a clear/easy fix?

[slender nymph]

#1390346776804069396 for shader issues, you'll also want to provide details about the shader in your post

[tight schooner]

thanks! posted!

[gaunt cipher]

I want to preserve the values of a TextMeshProUGUI for later use.. I'm doing stuff in code where I save off some values like fontSize into variables but I'm just thinking.. surely it would be far easier if I could just save the entire TextMeshProUGUI component off.. as far as I'm aware, the TextMeshProUGUI class is a reference, does anyone have any ideas? something like Clone() or EditorUtility.CopySerialized? Like what does Unity do when you copy a component / paste as new? I feel like surely I'm missing something easy instead of doing font = tmp.font; fontSize = tmp.fontSize; color = tmp.color etc... for every field

[cosmic dagger]

you save it as a prefab. look up unity prefabs . . .

[gaunt cipher]

I'm trying to do this on the fly with a script. It would be a huge hassle to prefab every text box in the game. I solved it by using Instantiate on the tmp's gameobject to make a clone and it seems to be working fine

[glass summit]

What's the difference between both of these functions

{
    if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
    {
        rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
    }
}```


```private void Update()
{
  if (Keyboard.current.spaceKey.wasPressedThisFrame)
  {
    rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
  }
}```

[ivory bobcat]

First is the old input system. Second is the new input system. Both are polling in Update for input.

[glass summit]

I was trying Unity Essentials and I had both the website and the In-Editor pop up open

and they both were telling me to write it differently

I think one is outdated

[cosmic dagger]

as they mentioned, one is the old input system, and the other is the new input system . . .

[dense burrow]

So im tryna use visual coding and i CANNOT get a player controller to do anything besides look around, please help me im going insane

Also im using visual coding because i refuse to learn c#

[sour fulcrum]

#1390346878394040320

[dense burrow]

Thank you i did not see that oml

[ionic zealot]

https://pastecode.io/s/i7x14i1t
Hi yall, can someone help me figure out why even if the reticle is perfectly on the enemy, it still says I lose?

[keen dew]

The position of a RectTransform (reticle.position) is not the same as screen position. Converting it to screen position isn't that simple. In general you shouldn't have UI elements interacting with world objects in this way. It would be better and easier to just make it a normal object

If the element is anchored top left and it's not scaled, then anchoredPosition probably matches the screen position

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! A class that derives from scriptable object class is by default a static class?

Because I dont have to create a field of this class in order to get a referencec and I was wondering

What I am doing is just do PlayerData.PlayerID.P1 in my case

instead of

yes then how I am able to get a reference through a class without even creating any fields of the class

I haven't created a static class myself so not sure

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming you're referring to an "instance" rather than "field".

[sage mirage]

Check

and yes

[undone rampart]

That is not a field that is a type

[sage mirage]

yes I cant understand

[undone rampart]

You are getting a type inside another type

not a member of that class

[sage mirage]

I dont have to create a field in order to get a reference to player id I am doing it with the instance of a class

[undone rampart]

because the player ID is an enum not a member

it's just nested type

[sage mirage]

So enum is not a member thats why right

[undone rampart]

yes

this goes for structs and classes as well

[sage mirage]

what exactly?

[ivory bobcat]

The type isn't. You can have a enum member.

[undone rampart]

you can declare any type inside another type, that's just nested types and they can be accessed trough the type directly

So yeah is similar to static members since static members belong to the type not the instance

[ebon sapphire]

Im restarting my journey on learning how to code in Unity, and ive got a working player movement script, but i can't figure out how to make it to where the player's jump doesn't get stopped when they move... im not wording it right, but here's a screenshot of the relevant code.

[ivory bobcat]

Looks like you're confused between class members and nested types.

[vague comet]

ard there any resources about the relative computational costs of putting things in Update? Or maybe some common "don't do this" type stuff for update()?

[ivory bobcat]

Likely you're not wanting to assign the y component zero if you aren't wanting to modify/override it.

[ebon sapphire]

what would i put instead?

[undone rampart]

don't modify the velocity directly for movement, this will override any applied force on the object

[cosmic dagger]

i can say, that you don't multiply by deltaTime when using force or velocity (i.e. physics) . . .

[ivory bobcat]

Cache the previous y component and assign that to it or modify only the x and z component of the velocity vector.

[sage mirage]

Yes

I want to understand

[cosmic dagger]

you're assigning the y component of the velocity to 0. that overrides the force you apply in your jump. instead, assign the current value of y from the velocity . . .

[ivory bobcat]

var velocity = rb.linearVelocity;
velocity.x = ...
velocity.z = ...
rb.linearVelocity = velocity;```

[ebon sapphire]

ok, so something like this?

[sage mirage]

I think those are good examples of that we were talking about or not?

[undone rampart]

when you declare a field, function or property without static or const, by default it will belong to the instance of that type, meaning you need to create a new instance or get a reference to an instance of that type to access those members

[sage mirage]

Is this a good example of what we were talking about

[undone rampart]

no, thats just ref types vs value types, this is irrelevant

[sage mirage]

ok

The problem was that I got a reference before

I have created a PlayerData playerData;

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/nested-types

[sage mirage]

inside my player data class I had an enum

[undone rampart]

don't confuse reference types with getting a reference

[ivory bobcat]

Are you referring to the declaration of an enum type or an enum member?

[slow roost]

Hi everyone! I faced a problem with behavior tree. I'm trying to make simple enemy AI, which see target, than move to it, that attack, but if target not in a enemy view, than return to patrolling.

I created 1 condition and patrol behavior action. And it work on way, that in start of tree enemy patrol, than when enemy see target abort is called and enemy start moving to target, but when player disappear from the target, enemy continue to chase enemy and never return to patroling state. Could anybody tell me it's expected behavior with my tree, and if it is, than how I can handle this?

[pure meteor]

mabye the enemy rotates towards the player and moves at a pace where the player is always visiblee?

[slow roost]

I don't think so, because enemy have range and angle to see player, and when I debugged code, I realized that "Self can See Target" never revaluated again..

this is node what i talking about

[pure meteor]

Oh, i wonder if the self must touch the target for it to be marked as complete?

[dense burrow]

am i allowed to put visual coding stuff here cause i can not figure out why my code isnt working and no one is responding to me post in #1390346878394040320 T~T

[pure meteor]

nah just wait until someone does ig

[dense burrow]

danm ight

does normal scripting have an issue with player controllers where it moves diagonally backwards?

cause thats the issue im having and i have zero idea why

[pure meteor]

no

[slow roost]

and this my action node

[pure meteor]

many ppl cant even see visual coding tab thats why ig

[dense burrow]

ooooh

i see

[cosmic dagger]

it's better to use paste sites for providing code . . .

!code

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[slow roost]

Thanks for knowing, next time I do it your way 🙂

[cosmic dagger]

it's not my way, just the general way everyone shares code. most people cannot see embedded code in their discord, and no one will download random files to their computer . . .

[slow roost]

yeah, I understand

[pure meteor]

yo i dont see a max chaseedistance var but mabyee it would work like this:
if (distance > context.MaxChaseDistance)
{
context.State = EnemyState.Idle;
return Status.Failure; // This lets the tree switch back to Patrol
}

[slow roost]

Yes, but my patrol behaviour will start to know about the chase behavior, I don't think it will be good in the feature

I read this documentations previously, but it isn't realy helps to understand what wrong.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.behavior@1.0/manual/observer-abort-mechanics.html

Maybe I can't using running actions with abort operations, I don't know..

but self or both abort types must check condition while child node is running if believe docs....

[midnight tree]

!collab

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[naive pawn]

<@&502884371011731486> seems like a scam to me?

[frosty hound]

?ban 548715125339586561 Scam bot

[eternal falcon]

pcsotfsmedvescak8074 was banned.

[frosty hound]

It is

[slow roost]

Does unity behaviour tree usable at all? I see abort node didn't works as I expected at all

[slow roost]

Why behavior tree always running abort operation and never fail it? it restart tree and try this node again and again and again.

[ionic zealot]

Shouldnt I use the canvas? that feels like itll make stuff easier to controll and makes more sense, also it's scaled, but i really want to use the UI

[keen dew]

Well you can google for how to get the actual screen position of recttransforms (and specifically its center point) and try to get it working that way

[grand snow]

in screen space overlay mode, position is screen position

[ionic zealot]

Thank you!

[real thunder]

what are the alternatives anyway? having alot of small canvases in the world? that's, like, bad?

or what did you mean saying "in this way"

[keen dew]

I mean comparing the positions of gameobjects and screen space UI elements is awkward at best

Usually you wouldn't use UI elements at all or use world space UI elements for that. A reticle might be a special case but usually you'd just check the mouse position directly

[real thunder]

I don't believe in most games UI markers on things are somehow unique

I ve severly upgraded someone's github solution to be able to attach UI objects to transforms and clamp it to edges and I don't understand why it's not supported by default

everything on one canvas I mean

world space UI would create canvases, right?

that's like considerably bad for performance

[keen dew]

That's not what I'm talking about. I mean very specifically having a regular gameobject and an unrelated UI element and then trying to compare their screen positions. Not the general case of just having UI elements in the world space

[real thunder]

well... yeah it's kinda pointless since one axis is missing

[keen dew]

Screen position always has two axes

[naive pawn]

screen coords technically do have a meaningful third axis, idk if it'd make sense to apply that claim to screen pos though 😓

[real thunder]

right

[ebon sapphire]

for some reason this doesn't work for me and i don't understand why

[rich adder]

start by debugging

[polar acorn]

What are you expecting to happen that isn't happening

And why are you multiplying a fixed value by deltaTime

[ebon sapphire]

I'm trying to move my camera along the X and Y axis. earlier, it was working in a limited sense, because I was able to see it moving, but it would always return back to where it started, effectively locking it in place. now, it's not moving at all

[polar acorn]

Right now, you're setting the rotation directly to a specific value. That value's gonna be very close to 0 unless lookX and lookY are huge, because you're multiplying that fixed value by deltaTime.

[ebon sapphire]

This is what i have now, but it still doesn't work. I know that the Look() method is still being called on properly thanks to using Debug.Log(), but i don't have any camera movement.

[rich adder]

You used debug.log and did you log the values ?

[ebon sapphire]

wait no i didn't i forgot to do that

[slender nymph]

+=

[ebon sapphire]

The values are a constant 0 now

i just checked

[naive pawn]

!code btw

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[ebon sapphire]

https://pastebin.com/xDJgnGfG

[naive pawn]

what is lookSense set to?

in the inspector

[ebon sapphire]

100

[naive pawn]

it's lookX and lookY that are currently logging 0 no matter what you input, right?

if that's the case, how is that input action set up?

[ebon sapphire]

okay im an idiot, i forgot to add the mouse controls after trying to troubleshoot it earlier

but now its doing the teleporting thing again

[naive pawn]

which teleporting thing

[slender nymph]

also reduce the sensitivity, 100 is way too high

[ebon sapphire]

yeah, i did after i got it to work, its currently set to 16 in the inspector

[naive pawn]

where would you use that

[slender nymph]

should be close to 1

lookX = look.y

[naive pawn]

oh this is still camera stuff 💀

i was thinking "teleporting" meant position lmao

[slender nymph]

yeah they probably worded it weirdly, but assigning to the input*100 rather than adding the input to the current rotation would make it seem like the camera is snapping to randomish positions, which is probably why they described it as teleporting

[naive pawn]

that makes sense

[ebon sapphire]

New problem: no matter which way the camera faces, my player doesn't move in that direction.

[slender nymph]

how are you rotating the player

[ebon sapphire]

 private void Rotate()
    {
        Player.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(CameraHolder.transform.rotation.x, 0, 0);
    }```

[slender nymph]

so, you know rotating around the X axis is pitch, not yaw, right?

also transform.rotation is not in degrees, it is part of a quaternion
https://unity.huh.how/quaternions/members

[red ivy]

Hello. I've set my scrollbar value of steps in unity default packages

how do I import it to my current project

[wintry quarry]

Wdym by "scrollbar value of steps"?

[red ivy]

The amount of steps the slider has

Which is 11 by default

[wintry quarry]

save it as a prefab

export the prefab

import in the new project

[broken nest]

Is there a way to get the index of an enum?

[wintry quarry]

cast it to int

[broken nest]

That's simpler than I thought thanks

[wintry quarry]

or whatever your base numeric type is for the enum (int is the default)

[wintry quarry]

enums are just ints with masks on.

[broken nest]

Alright ^^

[grand snow]

In c++ we cry because we STILL DONT HAVE GOOD ENUM TO STRING AGH

[spring badge]

As a beginner, would it be easier for me to use visual scripting, or should I just dive into coding?

[wintry quarry]

I recommend just diving into coding. It will just get you farther and it's really not that much harder. It's a lot easier and faster to work with in the long run, IMO.

[spring badge]

Alright, thank you.

[mint imp]

First time using a switch in a method with a return thats not void, what am i missing here?

[rocky wyvern]

default: return null;

wondering why you are not using an array for the abilities though

would avoid this kind of verbose switch statement where you have to hard code every case

[mint imp]

Thank you
+
Yeah great point.
I figured it wasnt need its just the 3 "slots" that i can drag and drop scriptable object abilities in to
so just checking what slot is what ability

[rocky wyvern]

yeah but what if u want to make 7 in the future then you have to go back and change a shitton

besides, if anything it's simpler and easier to code so there really isnt much benefit that I can see

[mint imp]

Ohhh like if i add more slots you mean
Youre totally right ill just do that

[wicked stratus]

Realizing that onMouseOver() is not going to work for my circumstances (if there is a collider in front of the collider I'm calling the method on, it just doesn't go through) so I'm wondering about alternatives or ways around this, without turning off layer interactions and such? It's quite annoying, it'd be nice if it like, returned a list of the colliders it's over or something rather than not logging it at all

[rich adder]

thats why things like raycastall exist

[wicked stratus]

I haven't looked into it a ton, but couldn't that get like, inefficient/take a lot of computational power very quickly? I will look more into that for sure though

[sour fulcrum]

cheap

[wicked stratus]

ah ok

I will try that, thank you

[rich adder]

versions that return array of objects is always best using the nonalloc variant, esp every frame

[keen dew]

OnMouseOver is just a raycast you have no control over

[wicked stratus]

Oh good to know, thank you!