archived-code-general

[leaden ice]

Your life will become much easier

[kindred sparrow]

And the script also is being used for multiple cubes

[leaden ice]

So?

[buoyant crane]

change the type of owo from string to Transform. then you can set owo to collider.transform

[leaden ice]

You're getting the reference on OnTriggerEnter aren't you?

[kindred sparrow]

Transform is a data type?

[kindred sparrow]

Yes?

[buoyant crane]

it’s one of unity’s

[kindred sparrow]

So then that’d work

[leaden ice]

So why would the name help you more than directly using the reference?

[kindred sparrow]

Because I need it to happen repeatedly

[leaden ice]

Again

Same question

[buoyant crane]

you should familiarize yourself with Unity’s data types and not just C#’s. I think that’s where you got stuck on

[leaden ice]

The name is not what you want here

[kindred sparrow]

Thanks for the advice

[kindred sparrow]

It literally worked though

[leaden ice]

?

[kindred sparrow]

I need the name to be stored so then I can move that data into the update function

[leaden ice]

No

[kindred sparrow]

So then the movement of cubes can happen repeatedly

[leaden ice]

You need the reference to be stored

Not the name

[kindred sparrow]

That is my plan in my code

So I still need stuff to be stored, so same issue

[leaden ice]

The name is not useful

[kindred sparrow]

I’m going to say this as respectfully as possible. Fuck off

Please and thank you

[leaden ice]

The Transform reference is useful

[kindred sparrow]

You are being rude

I’m going to leave it at that

[leaden ice]

/shrug some people prefer ignorance

[kindred sparrow]

Ohhh noooo, how shall I code without your oh so important advice on code that already works

D,:

[void basalt]

You were speaking to one of the more skilled people in this discord, before you told him to fuck off

good luck getting help beyond that

I would've told you exactly the same thing praetor did, for your problem.

You can store the name in a string variable, if it's really that important right now.

[kindred sparrow]

When I stored it in a string Unity was giving a incorrect storage error

[void basalt]

what is an incorrect storage error

[kindred sparrow]

But pumpkin let me know that Unity has special storage type called transform

The top box on this

[void basalt]

Praetor also told you that

but alright

[void basalt]

So you weren't storing the string. You were trying to store a collider in a string

and it told you that

[kindred sparrow]

Ohh

[void basalt]

Generally this is why you listen to seniors

instead of giving up and calling them an asshole

[kindred sparrow]

I did not actually, I specifically said they were being rude

Do not exaggerate the situation

I was also trying to follow along with someone else who was giving proper explanations and not just short answers without context

Whom they were talking over

[void basalt]

There's a reason why he was telling you to do that.

You are wasting space storing individual names as strings

they are already stored in the transform

and can be directly accessed from the transform's reference. The reference is the size of a pointer.

[kindred sparrow]

Arguably he wasn’t telling me anything because he wasn’t explaining

How could it be directly accessed from the transform’s reference?

[void basalt]

transform.name

[kindred sparrow]

So I need the objects name?

[void basalt]

You need a reference to the object.

Generally you learn this stuff before you dive into unity

[kindred sparrow]

This is how I’m learning

So

:)

[kindred sparrow]

Is this what you meant for me to store?

[void basalt]

No. Just store the transform

then you can access everything attached to it.

[kindred sparrow]

That’s what I mean

Meant

So basically owo = transform.name

[void basalt]

no

First of all your owo is a string type

and that's not a transform

[kindred sparrow]

Yeah, I’d change that of course

[void basalt]

second of all .name is not a transform

[kindred sparrow]

So are you referring to something like .position?

Or a sprite

[void basalt]

I'm saying get the reference of the GameObject you want to store, get the transform from that, and set the transform to the reference

[kindred sparrow]

By reference are you referring to the name of? Or information of

[void basalt]

I'm referring to the reference of the object in memory

Since you're posting in general I assume you already know how to get a gameobject

[kindred sparrow]

The information or name

[void basalt]

the pointer

to the object

in memory

Again, this is why we learn C# instead of just trying to do random stuff inside unity

if you need help doing that, let me know

[kindred sparrow]

Boi, if I wanna practice c# in Unity I can do so, and if you don’t want to help me you can also do so

[void basalt]

I assume that you would at least read over some documentation and understand how it works

Since you don't know what a reference is

[kindred sparrow]

I did so

[void basalt]

GameObject myGameObject = GameObject.Find("ObjectName");

Transform myTransform = myGameObject.transform;

[kindred sparrow]

THAYS HOW YOU DO THAT?

Yas, thank you

Trust me, I do have the documentation open, it’s just difficult to sort through

Where do you recommend I practice C# if not Unity?

[void basalt]

I mean it doesn't matter since you already have unity open

It's good to understand what an object is, how stuff gets stored in memory, rather than "update loop go brrrr"

[kindred sparrow]

I understand how it generally gets stored

I just didn’t know how to store transformation information, because that’s a Unity thing

[void basalt]

It's just a regular class

made by unity

[kindred sparrow]

Yup

One that I didn’t know about :)

“Update loop go brrrr”

You don’t have to help people if you don’t want to

Good lord

[void basalt]

Keep in mind that there's only one object in memory, per GameObject.

If you reference "GameObject1" in one script, change the name, and then access the name in a different script with another reference to "GameObject1" you'll see the updated name

and with the transform reference, you can access literally anything gameobject related

[kindred sparrow]

Alright

Unfortunately my pc is already off so I can’t fix the thingy today 😮‍💨

[spiral geyser]

https://hastebin.com/share/mapicizoje.csharp

Essentially what is going on is that I am moving the gameObject that the script is attached to back and forth between a undefined set loop of transforms using a horizontal input,

when going forward through the transforms, it will select the next one in line as the one to go to, however when going backwards for some reason, it doesn't select the one before it as the one it should be heading towards? (When it should)
Any ideas of why this could be happening? (2D URP)

[night harness]

This is probably just something small I'm missing, I'm setting my NPC SetDestination to the selected object and due to the door in the way its setting the path to the front of the door which is the closest it can get. Is there a way I can force it to set the destination to the selected object (im aware the npc will get stuck at the door)

The door is a NavMeshObstacle right now

[wicked scroll]

there may be a way to have the agent ignore obstacles but i don't think so...you are asking for two things which are directly contradictory

the nav mesh doesn't extend into that room because there's an obstacle in the way which exactly how it should be

you could try unchecking 'carve' so that the mesh does extend past the door

oh actually it looks like you do have some nav mesh in there, maybe you just need to set up a link between those meshes?

but it sounds like you want to generate your nav mesh based on anything that could be accessible, and then block parts at runtime

[night harness]

the doors gonna open for my little buddy i just need him to believe it's going to. right now he has no faith in the orange slab and takes the half measure of waiting out front

ill try messing with carve

[wicked scroll]

right, because all he knows about is the mesh you see there, which has no way to get through the door

[night harness]

yeah just killing carve is probably exactly the right setup for me

tyty

Now that my blue boy gets stuck at the door, does NavMeshAgent have anything nice like a bool that lets me know if he's stuck?

[void basalt]

Why don't you just detect he's infront of the door

then open the door?

wouldn't that be the most logical solution?

[night harness]

Thats the goal! But he won't be infront of the door unless he goes to it and his destination isn't what I want it to be things break

[void basalt]

The pic you posted. Is that how far he currently gets?

[wicked scroll]

if you are ever going to start a question with 'why don't you just...', I recommend not asking that question (or rephrasing it significantly)

[void basalt]

dumb low effort response

[wicked scroll]

'why don't you just...?' yeah totally, which is why i would say to avoid them

[void basalt]

stop

talking

[night harness]

Nah thats Unity trying to be smart and setting the destination to what it can get to, and not what i told it to get to

[void basalt]

to

me

[night harness]

oh your being an ass

nevermind

[void basalt]

no

[wicked scroll]

yeh

[void basalt]

was talking to the other guy

prakkus

[night harness]

Yes i'm aware

thanks for your time!

[void basalt]

I mean, I'm going to help you

if thats what you're looking for

[night harness]

No thanks!

[wicked scroll]

everyone would be better off without the kind of help you are offering

[void basalt]

please shut up 🙂

and stop telling me what to do

[wicked scroll]

oh sorry i missed this, navmeshpath has a status which may be enough info https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshPath.html

[night harness]

tyty

[void basalt]

@night harnessyo sorry for hurting your feelings earlier. Gonna be the bigger person and apologize. It's now obvious that my tone of voice can scare people or hurt people's feelings. I'm sorry.

I won't be responding after this

[chilly prawn]

Hello everyone, I was just wondering what is the best way around coding 4 raycasts pointing out from all 4 directions of a enemy. Similar to this:

would really appreciate some help, thank you.

[somber nacelle]

is there a reason you prefer four separate raycasts only in the cardinal directions and not like an overlapbox or something instead?

[chilly prawn]

whould an overlap box be better?

[void basalt]

@chilly prawnDepends what you're doing

[somber nacelle]

it depends on what you are doing which is why i asked

[chilly prawn]

the map i am adding the enemy into is a very cramped location just like a maze

[void basalt]

that doesn't answer the question

are you trying to do AI?

[chilly prawn]

oh yeah ai movement

[void basalt]

DIY pathfinding?

You need to look at navmesh

shooting raycast isn't the way to do it

I mean, you could

[chilly prawn]

ok ill take a look thanks

[void basalt]

Then if you want to detect if a player is infront of the enemy, and you want the enemy to "see" him, I think the best route would be to first use dot product, and then shoot a linecast

since you don't want your player getting detected behind the AI

[chilly prawn]

@void basalt came across an issue. My project I am now trying to add ai pathfinding to is completely procedurally generated. Can navmesh be compatible with levels created at runtime or no?

[void basalt]

You may have to apply it via code

but it should be

rust does pathfinding on their procedural terrain

[thin aurora]

Maybe #🤖┃ai-navigation is a good place to ask?

[deep fable]

Is there a way to draw the Enable checkbox of a MB (like in Physics Body) from a custom inspector? (Basically I would like to make the Balancer Authoring script be disabled/enabled but without actually disabling the MonoBehaviour but writing the enabled state in another variable)

[thin aurora]

You need to add behaviour for when it's enabled/disabled, and it will show (such as adding the onEnabled/onDisabled scripts)

[uncut plank]

transform.x and transform.y properties tell you the directions

[deep fable]

Yeah but if I disable the script I don't want it to actually be disabled (I want to save the enabled state in another variable as I said.. I need the script to always run but know if it's disabled/enabled)

[void basalt]

they do not

transform.forward will tell you a direction

[thin aurora]

Then why do you want to disable it?

That's the whole point of that button

[uncut plank]

wdym, they literally do

[thin aurora]

Oh you edited the message

[void basalt]

transform.x is not a direction

[somber nacelle]

show me where the transform.x and transform.y properties are

[deep fable]

Because I still need to run some things even though the script is disabled

[uncut plank]

transform.y is the downward vector

[uncut plank]

what is it then

[thin aurora]

You can add the methods but not add any content in them?

[void basalt]

transform.position.x is a position on the X axis

@uncut plank

[uncut plank]

nope. The name is confusing.

oh wait nvm

youre right, i though this was godot discord

[void basalt]

no you're right position isn't a position

its a direction

[uncut plank]

my bad, I keep messing them up

[thin aurora]

Or do you want to disable the script, but not have any drawbacks of disabling it (like update not running)?

[chilly prawn]

bruh you guys are confusing me

[deep fable]

Yeah this

[uncut plank]

yeah, transform.forward it is

transform.left and .right and so on

[thin aurora]

Riiiight. I honestly don't know if you can add a checkbox there manually using custom scripts. You can add it as a boolean variable, though?

Probably better to ask in #↕️┃editor-extensions

[uncut plank]

disregard what I said before

[somber nacelle]

there is no transform.left either, but -transform.right would accomplish the same thing as transform.left would if it existed

[uncut plank]

wait really? I was pretty sure there was

[deep fable]

Yeah but I don't like the position it would be put in as a boolean variable (like I would prefer it to be drawn near the script's name)

[uncut plank]

alright then

[somber nacelle]

yes
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.html

[uncut plank]

then the directions would be
transform.up
transform.right
-transform.up
-transform.right

[thin aurora]

You can modify the position of it using custom editor scripts, hence #↕️┃editor-extensions , but IDK if you can overflow it outside the actual definition like that

[void basalt]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1480956/how-to-generate-nav-mesh-floor-in-a-procedural-gen.html

[chilly prawn]

So I have been using navmesh for my project including navmesh components and was able to create a navmesh at runtime for every new level created. But when I want to create a new level, I am not able to remove the previous navmesh created from the previous level:

[void basalt]

@chilly prawnDunno man, I've never used Unity's navmesh before

[chilly prawn]

oh my bad

[void basalt]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMesh.RemoveNavMeshData.html

[chilly prawn]

thanks for the help anyways think i am getting somewhere

[void basalt]

likely something like this

[chilly prawn]

thank you

[worthy tiger]

Hello. I need some help with TMP Regex. I need to validate code like "xxxx-xxxx" where can be set symbols count to 4 for left and right parts and validate that has an "-" between them. I tried to use something like this "^[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}-[a-zA-Z0-9]{4}$" but i doesn't work

[swift falcon]

So I have heard of Array.Max

But this is a little different. I have an Array of classes and each class has a value, lets call the value 'B'. I want to find the class that has the highest B value out of all other classes.

How can I do that? Its a lil confusing (Still googling but not finding anything)

[cedar egret]

Why does BoundInt size not extend from the centre?

And how would I fix it?

I set my my position to the origin and it's extending like it's at the bottom left

[swift falcon]

Im thinking separate all B values into a dif array and use Array.Max. Ill try that rn

[thin aurora]

Sounds like a common problem?
Also, there are regex testers online. Not sure if there are any Regex guru's in here.

[worthy tiger]

problem that its doesn't work in TMP can't write any symbol, but online tester works fine

[eager cliff]

I would like to ask how to achieve localization (multiple language) on some text that will change or not static (eg. a weapon description, item description). All tutorial I saw is some text that is unchanged (eg. starting button, setting button). Is there any tutorial about changing text?

[gleaming sparrow]

Cant u just save the navmesh in a variable and clear or destroy it when u create a new navmesh?

Or overwrite

[sullen loom]

hey guys super quick question, i want my character with a circle collider and rigidbody2d to somewhat "fall" off the map, by making it's layer above everything else's. i've tried setting it's order in layer to 1 on the sprite renderer, but that's only its render and it's collider still stops it from falling. how do i make it's whole layer above everything else so it falls off the map, kinda like mario when he dies

[solid heron]

you want it to collide with nothing? make the layer not collide with anything in the collision matrix Project Settings > Physics

[sullen loom]

how would i do this in c#?

[solid heron]

you dont?

you go wo where i said Project Settings > Physics

[sullen loom]

nah i mean i need it to be in c# so on my death function the layer gets set to above everything else so it falls over everything off the screen

[solid heron]

just make a new layer and set the player to that layer? when he dies

[sullen loom]

on death() layer = above all

ohhh i need to make a new layer ok

where do i make the new layer

in circle collider?

or project settings

[solid heron]

sure

[sullen loom]

ok

where about in circle collider all i see is this

[solid heron]

not here

at the top

of the entire game object

[sullen loom]

oh yeah i already have it's own layer

but its third out of 6 layers

so do i need to make it the 6th one?

[solid heron]

you can probably actually set what this collides with right there

on "Exclude Layers", change that when you die maybe

[sullen loom]

ok

oh yeah

its doing something now

the character doesnt collide but instead goes behind

does that mean if i used the include layers instead then it will go over them?

[solid heron]

that means you will collide with them probably

exclude, you wont collide with them

[sullen loom]

oh yeah

[solid heron]

you can check the docs probably and see

[sullen loom]

i already collide with them anyway

ok

oh i did it

i did the thing with exclude layers, but then i just also made the character's sprite renderer in the top layer

and now it doesnt collide and also goes above them as it falls off the map

do you know how i'd activate the exclude layers in c#

so like in my death function i'll have spriteRenderer.sortingOrder = 1; aaand also change the exclude layers to the targeted layer in the collider component?

how'd i do that

[solid heron]

look at the documentation, but you probably would just set have 2 LayerMask variables and set the Exclude Layers to those layermasks

[cedar egret]

Does BoundsInt size scale up from bottom left?

[long ibex]

what's the simplest way to access the manual for a given package? google rarely gets me there and there doesn't seem to be a list/search function for all the packages

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.physics@1.0/manual/ this manual for example

[knotty sun]

The Package Manager has a view documentation link for each package

[long ibex]

ah, that'll work, a little annoying to have to open the editor and a project just to get a link to some docs but that helps if I'm already in editor

[trim schooner]

google -> unity <package name> package manaul

[sullen loom]

hey guys how'd i access and change the value of a circle collider's exclude layers section? i've tried this but it doesn't work. i want to change the exclude layer value to the pipe layer which has an index of 6 in the layers at the top of the inspector.

the .excludeLayers is the correct definition by the way

[solid heron]

read what i said

i said use LayerMask

public LayerMask mask1; - nothing
public LayerMask mask2; - layers you want to collide with, so probably everything

set the excludeLayers to one of these variables

[sullen loom]

ohh

so what does the layermask type do

[solid heron]

its like ExcludeLayesr in the inspector

same thing

[sullen loom]

ok

so a layermask is basically just a variable for a layer inside code

is how im thinking it

[solid heron]

try it and see what it is

you will know what it is better then

[sullen loom]

oh yeah its looking good so far

so i can basically set the .excludeLayers to the layer mask variable

alright this is good

[solid heron]

yes

i think so at least

[sullen loom]

yeah

yesss dude it works

now when i die my character falls through the world aaaand it's sprite renders infront

[solid heron]

(i just realised you could disable the collider) but we will ignore that

[sullen loom]

thanks so much i wouldnt have done it without you i coudlnt find anything online

[sullen loom]

yeah i dont wanna disable it

hey guys this is hard to explain to docs so im gonna ask here but how do you find the child of a GameObject without having to like make a public gameObject for the script and then drag the gameobject from the hierachy into it? so i've heard about a FindChild() or GetChild() how does that work

so for example in this prefab i have i want to be able to select the top pipe or bottom pipe and then setactive=0 it

[solid heron]

GetChild(0); is Top Pipe

1 is Bottom Pipe

2 is Middle

[sullen loom]

oh alright

so how would i refer getChild to the gameobject

[solid heron]

wdym

[solid heron]

like this?

[sullen loom]

how would i use the getchild function

how do i actually do it

[solid heron]

like that

that is how you do it

[sullen loom]

yeah i know that

but i cant just go in update() and put GetChild(0) and then i will get the top pipe

[solid heron]

why not

[sullen loom]

oh wait

when you type GetChild() in a script, will it get the child of the gameObject that the script is in?

[solid heron]

yes

[sullen loom]

thats it?

[solid heron]

yeah?

[sullen loom]

oh ok

[solid heron]

you want to get a child

thats what that method does

[sullen loom]

so how would i get the child of a gameobject that doesnt have the script as it's component

[solid heron]

the script is supposed to be on the parent

and it can get the children

[sullen loom]

so for example i have an empty gameobject which has the current script in it, and i am using this gameobject to spawn pipes that then lead to moving from the gameobject's position

but the pipes that start spawning from the empty gameobjects position are prefabs

so they arent in the game yet until start

so i have the parent of the prefab saved as a public gameobject in the script thats in the empty gameobject that then spawns the prefabs

and im trying to get the children of the prefab that gets spawned by the script in the empty game object

so how would i do that

[solid heron]

i dont understand, just do GetChild(indexOfChild);

[sullen loom]

yes but im trying to get the child of another gameobject to the one the script is in

[solid heron]

pretty sure you can do SomeGameObject.transform.GetChild();

[sullen loom]

ohhh thats what i was looking for

finally lmao

it dont ork

work

[solid heron]

what doesnt work, how does it not work

[sullen loom]

it says the transform doesnt have a definition for getchild

pretty sure because transform is just the info about the state of a gameobject

[solid heron]

show code

[sullen loom]

ok get ready because it might be really confusing for you because you dont know what the code is intended to di

pipe is a public gameobject of the prefab i have

[solid heron]

yeah Getchild() does indeed not exist

[sullen loom]

oh shit

i need capital C

oh now its saying it dont have def for setactive

its worked before tho

[solid heron]

because thats not how you set the value of SetActive either

[solid heron]

more because it doesnt have a value, its a method

[sullen loom]

then how come this works

oh my god

yeah

[solid heron]

because its not the same...

[sullen loom]

im so dumb

i forgot it takes a parameter

my bad

ive only been doing unity for a bit

[solid heron]

also next time go to #💻┃code-beginner , that will be a better channel

[sullen loom]

i used to do it years ago and i was absolutely brilliant but then i stopped doing it and ive only been back on unity for like 3 days

im using a Game Makers Toolkit video on youtube to refresh my mind

its a 40 min tutorial on how to make flappy bird and i've finished it but now i'm adding my own stuff to the game for practice

[sullen loom]

alright thanks

oh yeah the reason i made it take the bool value instead of parameter is from when i made somethings component disabled by doing .enabled = false and i mixed it up with setactive because they are similar

[honest meteor]

Hii

[sullen loom]

hi

[honest meteor]

Hello bro how are you

@sullen loom

[sullen loom]

fine

just adding my own features to a flappy bird game i made off a yt tutorial

lol

[sleek bough]

@honest meteor !collab

[tawny elk]

📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on discord.
Please use the forums:
• Commercial Job Seeking
• Commercial Job Offering
• Non Commercial Collaboration

[coral kettle]

when I do Formatting.Indented with JsonConvert.SerializeObject, but then I later do string json = File.ReadAllText(files[randomIndex].FullName); this comes out empty var description = Serializer.DeserializeDict(json);

is there a way to make Formatting.Indented that I might not know of? I just like how it looks really, and I do want to make modding these easy

if I remove Formatting.Indented it works fine

[sullen loom]

this is still saying an error

@solid heron

[quartz folio]

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[quartz folio]

Your IDE should underline errors in red and give you proper autocomplete

[steel vortex]

How do I code PlayFab to save "public void AudioApply()"? because in the tutorial video it has "Data = new Dictionary<string, string>" and when I change the void to string in "public void AudioApply" I get errors, how do I make the PlayFab script save my public void AudioApply?

[sullen loom]

oh thats sick

[sullen loom]

how do i get it because i dont get red underlines at all in my code

and im on microsoft visual studio

[quartz folio]

!ide

[sullen loom]

does anyone know whats wrong with this code its giving an error

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[sullen loom]

this is giving an error

how transform doesnt have a definition for the setactive method

[quartz folio]

Configure Visual studio using the instructions I keep linking

[sullen loom]

how do i configure it though

[quartz folio]

So you can actually type code without guessing

Click the link associated with your IDE.

Follow the steps listed.

[sullen loom]

where is the link

[solid heron]

in the bots reply <#archived-code-general message>

[sullen loom]

oh

ohh im on it]

[coral kettle]

solved this with chatgpt.
if I did Formatting.Indented
I needed to add json = Regex.Replace(json, @"\s+", ""); (with using System.Text.RegularExpressions;)
after File.ReadAllText(files[randomIndex].FullName)
and before var description = Serializer.DeserializeDict(json);

hopefully will help someone in the future searching it

[sullen loom]

lmao how did chatgpt do that

[coral kettle]

I pretty much pasted the same thing I asked here

minus the part about modding

chatgpt is great if you know how/what to ask. it did take me telling it that I had already debugged and was sure it was blank, since the first thing it wanted me to do was confirm it

[sullen loom]

@quartz folio ive instally unity onto my visual studio now but it hasnt changed

it still looks the same in visual studio

[quartz folio]

Restart VS and click the Regenerate Project files button in Unity's preferences where you configured VS while it's closed

[sullen loom]

yeah ive done all this

i restarted everything

and just now ive clicked the regenerate button like you said and visual studio is closed

and now ive opened visual studio and nothing looks different

[quartz folio]

If it doesn't start working in a minute then you must have missed a step, it you installed VS manually then you mustn't have added the Unity module

[sullen loom]

oh wait do you mean this

is that the autocorrect thing

or is it something else

[quartz folio]

No

It will stop staying Miscellaneous files in the top left when it's functioning

[sullen loom]

then how will i switch between files

wait do i just need to use visual studio code instead of visual studio?

[quartz folio]

No, VS Code is much harder to configure

[sullen loom]

now i have this error

is this linked to the installage that im doing?

[quartz folio]

Can you screenshot the two steps you configured just to confirm they're done?

[sullen loom]

ok

i clicked modify

unity is installed

the correct visual studio is selectred

[quartz folio]

Is this 2022 VS? It looks old, but I'm not familiar with it

[sullen loom]

yeah im using 22

because its most recent

[sleek bough]

Try opening the script from inside Unity

[sullen loom]

oh yeah ok

[solid heron]

looks old because thats just the light theme i guess

[sleek bough]

Also check that plugin in Package manager is updated

[sullen loom]

no change

[sleek bough]

and open Help>About and check the version

[sullen loom]

there is no plugin package

[quartz folio]

It's the last one, no?

[sleek bough]

About of the VS

[quartz folio]

You can open the package manager window to confirm, and update it if there is any updates

[sleek bough]

And package manager is here. Find VS plugin and update.

[sullen loom]

im in package manager

there is nothing called plugin

[quartz folio]

If it's still not working, comment out that line of code and once Unity complies again that may fix it?

[sullen loom]

and the only available update is for version control

[quartz folio]

The plugin is Visual Studio Editor iirc

[sullen loom]

ill checl

[sullen loom]

yes i have that

exactly the same as that

[sleek bough]

Did you confirm in VS About that it is the 2022?

[sullen loom]

i cant find the about section in vs

[sleek bough]

open Help>About and check the version

[sullen loom]

theres no about in help

[sleek bough]

About Microsoft Visual Studio

[sullen loom]

oh crap my bad

[fresh cosmos]

why does Material.GetTexturePropertyNames() return names i dont have declared in my shader?

[sullen loom]

maybe because that method returns all names instead of just names youve specifically declared

idk

im not that good at unity

[fresh cosmos]

the documentation says "Names of all texture properties exposed on this material." and as far as i know only the ones i declare i the shader should be exposed

[quartz folio]

It's property names saved into the material asset iirc, which doesn't care about the current shader

[fresh cosmos]

so technically all materials will have those properties then?

[quartz folio]

No, materials accrue the properties of all previous shaders they have ever used with the inspector. They'll get stripped in the end so it's generally not a concern. I'd have to do some testing to confirm myself that that's what the method is returning, but I'm on my phone. You can see the data structure with debug mode in the inspector

[fresh cosmos]

hm ok ill have a look

[sullen loom]

i got this error and it wont let me do anything with it here

[sleek bough]

Close Unity and VS, reopen project and create a new script in the Assets folder inside Unity, then open it from there and see if it is properly in the project.

[sullen loom]

ok

[sullen loom]

i made a new script and opened it

but nothing changed

[quartz folio]

If there are other errors when you open a project it can't compile anything properly, so you have to fix it/comment it out

[ruby fulcrum]

how do i decrease the timescale of only certain gameobjects

[sullen loom]

commenting out the lines got rid of errors about those lines

[fresh cosmos]

you seem to be right. all the previously exposed properties are still there even if the shader does not declare them. is there an easy way i can get around it and clear it somehow? or get only the shader properties?

[sullen loom]

but now ive still got this and only this which was never here before

[quartz folio]

Not that I know of

[sleek bough]

Multiply movement with deltaTime * multiplier(scale)

[ruby fulcrum]

ok ty

but that will only slow down the movements though

[sleek bough]

It depends how you move, if it's not physics based you should be using deltaTime already and just add multiplier than

[sullen loom]

multiply it by something until it works fast enough

make a new multiplier

[quartz folio]

At this point I have no idea why it's bugged, but these things sadly happen in the world of development. You will have to close Unity, and delete the Library/ScriptAssemblies folder in your project and hope once it regenerates everything starts working. Because even if you get rid of the new error you can't go on without a functioning IDE!

[ruby fulcrum]

ok ill try

[fresh cosmos]

maybe you know what c# reference file i can check out to find a workaround with reflection?

[ruby fulcrum]

im basically trying to implement time deceleration, similar to superhot

[sleek bough]

@sullen loom Previous IDE might be conflicting with a new one, it could be cached by the project settings. You should remove it just to be save. If that fails reinstall cleanly both.

[steady moat]

I believe that AssetDatabse.ForceReserializeAssets could strip the unused properties.

https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/understanding-unitys-serialization-language-yaml#:~:text=There are several,AssetDatabase.ForceReserializeAssets API.

[sullen loom]

how do i remove

[sleek bough]

Uninstall

[sullen loom]

you mean the editor?

or visual studios?

[sleek bough]

The VS 2019 remove it

[sullen loom]

ok

[sleek bough]

And if persists remove everything and reinstall

[quartz folio]

Have you tried https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Shader.GetPropertyName.html or NameID (with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Shader.GetPropertyCount.html as the loop max)

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Shader.GetPropertyType.html to check whether it's a texture

[fresh cosmos]

i have not, that seems like it should work better

thank you

[ruby fulcrum]

just wondering is it also possible to use a coroutine to add a delay at the end of Update() to do this

[sullen loom]

its got rid of that big error message i had

[sleek bough]

Your normal (non physics) movement should look like float lengthToMovePerUpdate = speed * Time.deltaTime * desiredTimeScale;

[ruby fulcrum]

alr

[ocean river]

hey, i have a question...
how do i press a button from code?
i used "EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(buttonOpt);" to select it, can i click it in a similar way?

the button does have a onclick event, i just want to add controler support

[sleek bough]

There's an event you can send that presses a button, don't remember from the top of my head, research it.

[ocean river]

this is part of that "research" here...

[sullen loom]

maybe just used the onclick event in code

[ocean river]

well, its a gameobject, not a "button"

[sullen loom]

like maybe get the button gameobject and do button.OnClick()

[ocean river]

and i get countless errors trying to convert it

[sullen loom]

public GameObject button

button.OnClick()

try that

and set the button to the gameobject

[ocean river]

Type `UnityEngine.GameObject' does not contain a definition for `OnClick' and no extension method `OnClick' of type `UnityEngine.GameObject' could be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

here you have that detailed answer

[sleek bough]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/force-a-pointer-press-on-a-button-from-code-as-if-it-came-from-a-mouse-touch-event.280131/

[sullen loom]

yeah idk just use that doc

[normal arch]

is there a way to make certain colliders not interact with other certain colliders without using the layer system?

[vast wigeon]

I have the same question

[normal arch]

building on this, is there a way to make certain colliders not interact with certain ither colliders based on some variables

[buoyant crane]

this is your other option https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.IgnoreCollision.html

[vast wigeon]

Very good

[vast wigeon]

Is there a way to make this an If statement

[gray mural]

who knows how to fix it?

[vast wigeon]

for Example if im holding something then my hands dont collide with it

[dusk apex]

Why would you need an if statement?

[normal arch]

ok ty i think this saved me

ill try it out first

[dusk apex]

It's a regular statement to set colliders to ignore one another..

[vast wigeon]

No i need it to collide only when i want to

not a constant not collide

[dusk apex]

Look at the code example from the docs for more information

[gray mural]

how to fix it?

[normal arch]

is there a way to atop all ignore collisions from being ignored or would i have to do that manually

[dusk apex]

Third parameter + your manual state management.

[vast wigeon]

Sorry im not following

[vast wigeon]

Im very new to coding

[dusk apex]

Look at the docs and read it.

[vast wigeon]

so i dont know what a Third Paramater is

[vast wigeon]

Sure thing

[dusk apex]

Ah, that's a big problem..
Here's the docs on c# method parameters - good luck.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/method-parameters

[vast wigeon]

Thanks

If you look in code-beginner

and scroll up

I caused some problems

[thin aurora]

Good for you. !learn Unity and c# instead of constantly asking basic questions here

[tawny elk]

🧑‍🏫 Unity Learn can offer you over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience! Make sure to check it out at https://learn.unity.com/

[vast wigeon]

Yes

[buoyant crane]

manually probably if you aren’t using layers

[languid hound]

Basically my first time using the new input system properly and was wondering why this isn't working?

Actually

I never tried doing &&

Nope still nothing

[normal arch]

ok

[thin aurora]

Please verify none of those if-statements work by logging each step

[languid hound]

Alr

Those if statements should be working fine though

If I remove the requirement for 0 or the alt key it works fine

Yeah

[languid hound]

Alt if statement is triggered but not the digit0 if statement

[thin aurora]

Your code requires you to press both keys on the exact same frame.

[languid hound]

Oh right. That's a bit irritating. How should I go around doing this? Some bool trickery?

[thin aurora]

Well, a messy solution, 1 sec

What is the method for when the key is pressed in general, not just the exact frame?

Assuming it's wasPressed, what you probably want is this:

var keyboard = Keyboard.current;
var pressed = (keyboard.altKey.wasPressedThisFrame && keyboard.digit0Key.wasPressed) ||
  (keyboard.altKey.wasPressed && keyboard.digit0Key.wasPressedThisFrame);

if (pressed) {
  ...
}

The reason why it checks twice is because either one needs a check if it's pressed "this frame". If you don't add the second two for example, the code won't run if you press digit0 first, then alt.

[languid hound]

I see. Thanks. I'll give it a shot now

[gleaming sparrow]

Man you asked all this an hour ago just get some programming courses and dont start at the very highest level

[languid hound]

I tried and no luck unfortunately

[thin aurora]

As in the if-statement is not entered?

[languid hound]

Yeah it just doesn't happen

WAIT

I implemented it wrong sorry

It works fine now. Thank you!

[thin aurora]

Nice

[wise dirge]

Hello I am trying to upload my project to github using the unity desktop app, I do have a gitignore for unity, however, every time I open unity it says i have 800 changes that are made even if I never edited anything. Is this an error with the gitignore?

[gleaming sparrow]

Is your current repo empty or already has everything in it

[wise dirge]

already has everything i think?

[gleaming sparrow]

Then its likely gitignore

Just google the default one and download that, should be fine

Have u placed it in the right folder?

[wise dirge]

what folder is it supposed to be in?

this is how its setup rn

[strong cloud]

If you go to that directory and run git status are you seeing it saying things are mostly added? Or modified?

[gleaming sparrow]

Should be in the right one then iirc

Are the changes mostly deleted files?

[wise dirge]

i think so

[gleaming sparrow]

Bcs maybe u uploaded the full project without gitignore, and now that u have gitignore its removing the files? Idk

[strong cloud]

I think gitignore just ignores changes to already tracked files

[gleaming sparrow]

Ok then my last message doesnt make sense

[winged mortar]

Send an image of your git client?

gitignore doesnt delete files

[strong cloud]

Maybe the files were moved? They'd show up as missing (I forget the label git uses) and there'd be a bunch of new, untracked files

[wise dirge]

this is what it says on most files

[strong cloud]

Ahhh

I would assume binaries aren't tracked

Oh hang on

[winged mortar]

they shouldnt be

what is the name of this file?

[winged mortar]

this

[strong cloud]

Oh hang on. Try git fetch --dry-run from that folder on your local machine

[strong cloud]

Maybe the gitignore is only containing the right stuff in the pushed repo

[winged mortar]

11 changed files

thats fine right?

[wise dirge]

nothing happened

[wise dirge]

yes but i changed no code

[strong cloud]

Ah yeah, everything seems normal in the client.

Did you change anything in the editor?

[winged mortar]

probs an editor script or smth that ran

[strong cloud]

Even just clicking and dragging something?

[wise dirge]

nope

[winged mortar]

Asset rebuild can sometimes trigger a bunch of changes

[thin aurora]

The changed files are logs and the Library folder. You're not supposed to commit those anyway

So either your gitignore is wrong, or you already committed these before, meaning they're not ignored anymore

[wise dirge]

this is it

[thin aurora]

You're supposed to use this one: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore
Notice it ignores library and logs

[wise dirge]

i committed before adding the gitignore

thats what happened

[thin aurora]

I also see Library and Logs here

Manually delete and commit the delete changes

Then your gitignore should work, if you ignore them

Unity will regenerate the library folder for you

[wise dirge]

so delete "library" and "logs" folder?

[thin aurora]

Yes

[wise dirge]

alright

[thin aurora]

It is possible the changes are not tracked, because your gitignore is partially working

In that case remove the gitignore, make sure to only commit the right changes, and then make a new commit to readd it (preferably the one I linked)

[winged mortar]

ignore stops tracking from the moment that you added it

[wise dirge]

i used the github template gitignore

deleting logs and lib worked tysm

WAIT what about usersettings bc that is also being updated

i changed nothing in usersettings i dont think

[south tinsel]

Hey guys. Is it possible to support different Steering Wheels with the InputSystem? I'm finding it impossible to generalize wheels button like we do with gamepads 'Example: Button South'

[wise dirge]

@thin aurora

wait now its creating a usersettings change every time i close unity

[strong cloud]

If you look at the diff, what is it changing?

[thin aurora]

Isn't that part of a different folder?

[swift falcon]

Has someone tried Roslyn C# - Runtime C# compiler with dotnow intepreter? Do you know any more examples apart from the one in the dotnow interpreter github?

[thin aurora]

!cdisc -> #roslyn

[tawny elk]

Join the C# Discord server, a programming server aimed at coders discussing everything related to C# (CSharp) and .NET. https://discord.com/invite/csharp

[thin aurora]

This channel is for general coding questions regarding Unity. For basic questions like these:

[wise dirge]

yes it is

[thin aurora]

It's supposed to

I'm not sure, but I think later versions don't change it when you close it (then again, I'm probably wrong)

[polar marten]

what is your goal

[polar marten]

this is part of the growing pains of learning how to use git

there are lots of ways to "redo everything"

without losing a single file

[thin aurora]

You are responding to a problem that was already fixed

[polar marten]

okay

[thin aurora]

😄

[stuck forum]

Is it possible to in someway use a variable as a type? (specifically talking about casting) or is there an alternative solution to this?

I have a method that takes in a FieldInfo parameter and in the method I need to do GetValue. I know that I'm taking in an array (specifically int so therefore i could cast it as int[]) but I am unsure if I'll only use int arrays (maybe I'd use float arrays too? Basically, how do I dynamically cast a variable?

[polar marten]

why are you using digit0 key? that's the numeric keypad zero i believe

[polar marten]

trying to do that usually means you are doing something wrong

can you show the real snippet where this would be used?

[languid hound]

Nah that's numpad0key

[polar marten]

altKey is also a combination of left alt and right alt

it depends on your platform

[thin aurora]

var.GetType()?

[polar marten]

you might have to check them separately

[thin aurora]

Your use case sounds weird

Reflection like that

[polar marten]

are you trying to express, "alt+0"?

@languid hound so my suggestion is to explicitly check left and right alt

your keyboard might also not have "alt". it could be "meta". depends on the platform

you should use an input action for this

then you can press the keys on your keyboard and find out what they are

using the input map window in editor

[languid hound]

Oh this was just like a quick 5 minute thing to test AssetBundles not a fully blown thing lol

I appreciate you putting so much thought into your response though it'd be super helpful

[polar marten]

@stuck forum before you say anything more

can you show the real snippet where this would be used?

[stuck forum]

thats what i am trying to explain

[polar marten]

because you're going to write something so ambiguous

[stuck forum]

wait a sec

[polar marten]

focus on the snippet

[stuck forum]

    private void SetupUI()
    {
        FieldInfo[] fields = _gameMode.GetType().GetFields();

        foreach (FieldInfo field in fields)
        {
            if (field.FieldType == typeof(bool))
                CreateConfigFieldBool(field, "Enabled", "Disabled");

            else if (field.FieldType.IsArray || field.FieldType.IsEnum)
                CreateConfigFieldMultipleSelection(field);

            else
                Debug.LogWarning("Invalid type has been used for game stats. It has to be either of type bool, array or enum");
        }
    }

thats literally all atm

[polar marten]

okay

[stuck forum]

and in the function in the ElseIf statement im trying to do the casting thing

[polar marten]

is this a UI at runtime?

[stuck forum]

yes but it will only be called once

[polar marten]

is _gameMode the only object you will want to "inspect" at runtime?

[stuck forum]

yes

[polar marten]

how about in the future?

[stuck forum]

hmm got no plans for changing anything

[polar marten]

okay can i make a recommendation?

[stuck forum]

not use reflection?

[polar marten]

that's correct it's unnecessary

[stuck forum]

when tf does one use reflection then xD

[polar marten]

when you don't know the types ahead of time

[stuck forum]

but in my case, i used this to that if i were to change something in the class, i wouldn't have to change the UI separately, i'd let the code do it for me

[polar marten]

since you control your own code and see all the source, you know all the types ahead of time

[polar marten]

you are actually not using reflection, you are trying to write a macro, which is just as brittle

you think you are using reflection

you are calling .GetType() and touching things in the Reflection namespace

but actually, you know the types ahead of time, so you are not using reflection

you are using something, to write a macro

it's not worth it

[stuck forum]

welp...

[polar marten]

in my opinion this is a very challenging thing to wrap your mind around because the namespace literally says Reflection in it

99% of the effort will be in creating the different UI widgets. it will take you 5s to add or remove fields that you want to visaulize

[winged mortar]

For usages on reflection: you could find implementations of an interface at runtime, and then do something with that. I personally use to build a dictionary which maps enums to specific implementations, to minimize the number of places I have to change stuff when I add something

[polar marten]

don't do that stuff either

if you know the types ahead of time, you are not actually doing reflection

you might be using Reflection namespace and such

but it's not reflection

it's just macros

[stuck forum]

could you name one good situation where reflection is actually useable?

[polar marten]

yes, for serialization for example

if you are writing a serialization library

you do not know the types it will be used on ahead of time

however, many modern serialization approaches, for example Unity's JsonUtility and protobufs, do try to find out the types ahead of time

so that they do not have to use reflection

a common pattern for typed ui inspection is something like

GameMode gameMode = ...
CreateCheckbox("X", getter: (GameMode edited) => edited.x, setter: (GameMode edited, bool newValue) => edited.x = newValue);

of course all of this would be a lot more abbreviated

i am showing you the labels and type names so that you can nunderstand

in your code it would look like

CreateCheckbox(nameof(GameMode.x), edited => edited.x, (edited, newValue) => edited.x = newValue);

@stuck forum does that make sense?

UIToolkit already has this

[stuck forum]

hmm im trying to understand this

[polar marten]

the signature of createcheckbox is

[stuck forum]

so it does what i want it to do, but just more... better?

[polar marten]

GameObject CreateCheckbox<T>(string label, Func<T, bool> getter, Action<T, bool> setter) { ... }

[polar marten]

i am showing you that c# has a limited form of macros, they're called generics, which is part of a category of language features called templates

[stuck forum]

I am so confused... I'm struggling to understand what exactly your snippet is doing

sorry

[polar marten]

okay

well i think you do things the way you need to do them

your game mode object has what, like 10 fields

i think create the checkbox

it's too much new syntax for you

[stuck forum]

actually some will be checkboxes, but some will be multiple selections

[polar marten]

sure

[stuck forum]

something like this

[winged mortar]

@tropic relic just post in here instead of sendin me a DM request

[mint estuary]

Hey people, how are you doing? Let me ask you this, i'm trying to create an inventory system for my survival game, i'm trying to create with Scriptable Objects, the problem is, i'll also have a party of npcs that will have an inventory too...if i use scriptable objects i will have to create an scriptable object file for each npc, and if i want an enemy to have it too, i will have to create for each enemy, the solution that i found was to create a deep copy of a single scriptable object file into the Monobehavior property Ex: SOInventory inventory = DeepCopy(inventoryScriptableObject), but deep copy doesn't seem a good efficient solution, can someone give me a btter way to create an inventory system?

[rose fulcrum]

So, I want to make a way for my player to be able to have a "lock on" feature as part of my combat system. Something similar Bully or Assassin's Creed where you lock on by holding the left shoulder. I'm not sure what the best approach to something like that would be. I initially was going to try and use sphere collider that, whenever an NPC enters, that NPC would be "targetable and when the player presses the left shoulder, it would lock on to the nearest valid target. But then I read something about using raycasts instead.

So I guess I'm asking, are either of the solutions better than the other, or is there another solution that is better overall?

[rose fulcrum]

i was working on something similar about a week ago, but have shelved it to work on other parts of my game, but the solution I came up with was to give each item that can be part of an inventory a few key values like its name, its stack count, and other things like that. Then I gave each NPC in my game an associated inventory ID, not sure if this is the best way to do it, but its what I did

Its a bit more complex than that but I don't wanna bore you with the details lol

[mint estuary]

Got it Mayo, thanks 🙂

[tropic relic]

the object don't teleport

[leaden ice]

do you have a CharacterController?

[tropic relic]

yes

should i teleport that?

[leaden ice]

no you need to disable the CC before teleporting

[thin aurora]

There is also method you can call that updates the CC

[hard sparrow]

Is this not how you do this?

[leaden ice]

PromoteUnityTo returns void

If you're trying to pass it as a delegate you should not be providing a parameter list

It should just be ButtonBind(PromotUnitTo);

When you provide the () with parameters you're invoking the function

[hard sparrow]

So what's the syntax for passing the parameters?

[thin aurora]

Call Physics.SyncTransforms after moving your Character Controller and it will work. No need to disable it

[rose fulcrum]

Does OnTriggerEnter() work with a character controller as a colider? Cause I don't have another collider on my object and its executing anyway? If it DOES work with a character controller, how can I make it not do that, and make it so I can just have it work with a sphere controller?

Or do I just do that with the passed argument?

[thin aurora]

I thin OnCollisionEnter works

[potent sleet]

if it's calling the function then it is working lol

[tropic relic]

this doesn't work

[potent sleet]

is Debug.Log printing

[tropic relic]

yep

[rose fulcrum]

Hod do I get it to NOT work? lol, its supposed to only fire when the sphereCollider that is attached to my game object hits something not my character controller

[hard sparrow]

I guess this is how you have to do this?

[mystic ferry]

does anyone have any good resources on learning about cancellation tokens?

[potent sleet]

put a filtering by component / tag

[rose fulcrum]

a filter?

[potent sleet]

mhm

[potent sleet]

show the current code you said is being called.

[rose fulcrum]

public void OnTriggerEnter(UnityEngine.Collider other)
    {
        Debug.Log("Hit: " + other.name);
        validTargets.Add(other.gameObject);
    }

[potent sleet]

you want to execute this Only when

[tropic relic]

don't want to disturb but do u know fix for mine?

[potent sleet]

here ya go
https://unity.huh.how/programming/physics/character-controller/teleportation

[rose fulcrum]

Only if the collider calling it is a sphere collider attached to the gameObject the monobehavior the OnTriggerEnter is running from

[potent sleet]

attached to what?

[rose fulcrum]

So I have a characterController, sphereCollider, and my script on the same object. I need the OnTriggerEnter to only work if the collider is the sphereCollider and not the characterController

[stuck forum]

wait a second, is the code snippit you posted used for this?
if so, i still do UI's the old school way

[potent sleet]

put a tag or component you look for that ONLY sphere collider has

[tropic relic]

idk what am i doing wrong but it's just doesn't work

[potent sleet]

then use that filter it out in OnTriggerEnter

[potent sleet]

what do you mean "doesn't work"

did you try the first option?

[tropic relic]

won't teleport

[rose fulcrum]

right, but how to I even get the information to filter? Like how do I get reference to it?

[potent sleet]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.cancellationtoken?view=net-7.0

[tropic relic]

i mean i try yours and also that Physics.sync...

[potent sleet]

let me see what you tried

[potent sleet]

through the other parameter in the TriggerEnter

eg if(other.TryGetComponent(out MyScriptOnThisSphereCol _)) // do stuff

[tropic relic]

now i have this, i tried playerBody.transform.position = spawnPosition;, transform.position = spawnPosition;, i also tried to duplicate the vector

[potent sleet]

is this block of code running ?

[tropic relic]

since it always printed position to the console i guess yes

[potent sleet]

maybe it's hitting an error

is controller assigned ? check console for any errors

Debug.Log(spawnPosition) Debug.Log(control.transform.position)
before doing move and after move

[tropic relic]

nope, any errors

[sullen loom]

hey guys i know this is probably super easy to ressolve, but how would i set a bool in one script to whatever the bool is in the other script? cuz i want to detect whenever it's gameover, which does all of that work in my playerscript but i want that same bool to be updated in my logic script so i can detect if whenever i try to pause the game it will let me or not depending on if its game over or not, and all of that pause stuff is in my logic script which is a different script to where the bool gameover is being done

[tropic relic]

okay i think the object is moved but the game sees it as it was

[rustic ember]

Can I make an Update loop like this that I start whenever I need it?

    public IEnumerator SelectiveUpdate()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            // This is a normal Update() loop until we use return;
            yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
        }
    }```

[tropic relic]

since debug after move printed the location that i specified as a target location

[rose fulcrum]

Turns my problem was that I just shouldn't have had my script attached to the same gameobject the characterController was on and just create an empty with the script and the sphere collider by themselves.

No extra code needed 💪

[potent sleet]

sure

thats good

[potent sleet]

you mean the position of player or the target location

[rose fulcrum]

i was so confused lol. Thank you for your help tho

[rustic ember]

Thank you :D

[potent sleet]

what's confusing ? also your question belong in #💻┃code-beginner

[tropic relic]

the last debug threw the spawnPosition

[rose fulcrum]

I was confused as to why it was so complicated to get the data that I needed. And I figured this channel was more appropriate cause I was asking for help regarding a concept and not my code specifically.

[potent sleet]

well filtering out or looking by script should've been also a nobrainer so yeah def #💻┃code-beginner

[potent sleet]

so it did move it

[rose fulcrum]

Right, but that wasn't even what I was initially asking about but I'll keep that in mind

[hushed topaz]

How do i make my projectiles have no collision with eachother? Like how do i stop them from bumping each other away lmao

[rose fulcrum]

Layers would be my solution

[rustic ember]

Also, nice bio

[potent sleet]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LayerBasedCollision.html

[tropic relic]

prob yes but i stay on same position as before teleport

[potent sleet]

🤷‍♂️ check you're moving the correct object

[mystic ferry]

what is the point of UnityEvents? They just seem like regular delegates

[fading yew]

They are but they are serliazed in the inspector making for easy drag&drops

Guys I'm going nuts 🥜
I'm trying to do something so simple. I'm trying to have a "frosted background" look for behind my popups.
My setup is as followed right now:
I have a camera that renders all my UI (excluding my popup)
I have a copy of my main camera only this time it renders to a texture instead
I have a canvas set to screenspace camera (with my main UI camera linked)
I have a "blur popup" canvas with screenspace camera (with my frosted camera linked). In side this canvas is the popup and a rawimage with my RT in the backgound

With this setup the result is I simply don't see the frosted canvas at all and the RT displays the content of my frosted canvas instead of the main UI

But this isn't working at all for some reason and I've tried every combination of depth, sorting layer and settings I can think of 😢

[chilly girder]

Hey everyone! So I'm working on a game jam, and i've ran into a weird issue--Everything about my code is working pretty well for this implementation of sound from FMOD. I am getting the Debug.Log of the "Moving" and "Not Moving"

And! I am getting the debug.log for the start of the InvokeRepeating function.

The only thing is that the InvokeRepeating function isn't calling my CallFootsteps, as im not getting any ping from the debug.log to "PlayFootsteps"

Does anyone have any ideas as to why that might be?

[fading yew]

Are you sure "playerismoving" is true there?

[chilly girder]

I mean, it should be, when debug.log is spitting out "MOVING" the value should be true. Right?

[fading yew]

(also use nameof(CallFoosteps) instead of the string directly, you'll avoid hard to find typos that would lead to no errors like this)

[fading yew]

not if it's set back to false straight away

try a breakpoint at the if there and check if it ever reaches this if

[chilly girder]

Okay! thank you for the help!!

[fading yew]

from what I can see, it can only be playerismoving is reset to false imiedtly after set to true, or walkingspeed is more than the default 5 you have there (check the inspector is also saying 5)
invoke repeating is in seconds by the way, a foot step every 5 second is normal? your boy must big a really big boy haha 🙂

[chilly girder]

Hahahahah

Okay good to know haha

I didn't realize invokerepeating was in seconds XD

[potent sleet]

so you dont have to make custom delagate, nothing more nothing less

also UnityEvents can be serialized, which means that they can be exposed in the Unity editor.

[fading yew]

Any clues? 🙂

[chilly girder]

Ahh, unfortunately I don’t know much about working with the unity UI stuff 😅 I wish I could help!

[swift falcon]

Are there any downsides to making my classes sealed in unity ? Or making most of my fields static if i know im not turning them into objects.

I just dont see this alot and im wondering if there are any downsides to this approach

[eager yacht]

I make all of my classes sealed by default, as I despise class inheritance. If I end up needing it, I can remove it. I do this for myself so that I don't somehow end up creating a chain of 8 inherited things when it only needs to be none or 1 + an interface.

[swift falcon]

Ok so im not crazy

I just dont see it anywhere else and it feels like im doing something wrong

[magic harness]

Hey guys. Im working on designing a system to handle enemy spawn in my 2D game.
Im going to have a lot of enemies, so i'll be object pooling. I only want objects to appear at the edge of a collider I have on my character. But I also need to update the position of my enemies through the map. Any ideas on how i should approach it?

Right now I have a grid system that gets Points of interest and then activates the enemies on all the adjacent cells of said Points of interest

Problem is, that is highly inneficient :/

[swift falcon]

I didnt read ur whole post sorry

[eager yacht]

Common use-cases tend to be the easiest and most viewed. So take that for what you will 😄 I very much like composition and explicit data-flow, so I make the most that I can without inheritance wherever possible. And that explicitness turns into making sure there is no guesswork in the types or the data. sealed on nearly everything, no virtual, prioritize interfaces without properties or local state changes, etc. There are some exceptions, like needing to inherit for various GraphView things, or other specific APIs ofc but for the most part that's what I do.

[swift falcon]

thank u nomnom

Just needed reassurance

I am also i very big of being explicit and trying to avoid inheritance hence why i try and make everything static as much as possible. No Idea why sealed isnt the default state of all classes. Besides just the small performance boost. Interfaces are a fucking amazing tool as u mentioned. But seeing as how DOTS is becoming the standard unity is looking forward to pushing. Im thinking about dabbling with the ECS

[chilly girder]

So you're right, something about how the code is working right now it's not actually updating the bool at all.

So i think it's starting false then its not being updated too true when I move the player.

If i comment out the entire Update section then set the bool too true it does work - it just plays the audio file at the start.

I guess I'm just unsure how to make sure that the bool value is being updated when I do move.

[dusk apex]

Looks like aspect ratio issues where some pixels aren't drawn due to floating point imprecision or simply not able to draw said pixels scrunched up.

This is the coding channel, perhaps you should be asking this in #💻┃unity-talk

You'll need to provide more specific details with what you're doing or have done. Ask the folks in #💻┃unity-talk (they'll figure it out for you)

[sage latch]

When I use MovePosition on a dynamic rigidbody every frame, velocity is ignored. Is this intended?

[dusk apex]

Move position was meant for kinematic rigid bodies

[sage latch]

ah

Is there an alternative? I have top down movement but want to use velocity for things like knockback as well

[dusk apex]

To Rigidbody physics or not to Rigidbody physics (Want some "physics" functionality but overbearingly difficult to undo)

[sage latch]

So you're saying I should code it myself?

[dusk apex]

Kinematic or Character Controller with your own implementation of non real physics is the normal approach.

[potent sleet]

why dont you move with .velocity for regular movement and use AddForce for like knockback ?

[sage latch]

If I set the velocity every frame won't the knockback be overriden?

[potent sleet]

not if you make a condition for movement while knockback

like a bool

[dusk apex]

It would. You'd have to work around it with edge cases, constraints and whatnot.

[sage latch]

Yeah, but then you lose control completely while knocked back

[potent sleet]

you have to work around that like Dalphat said

[sage latch]

I think I'll go with a kinematic rigidbody

And some custom "physics"

[dusk apex]

Wouldn't be surprised if there are half-baked non-realistic but semi-realistic physics assets on the asset store. This is a pretty common issue

[west lotus]

You dont need to. Kinematic character controller is free on the asset store. There isnt a better one

[rustic ember]

I have two scripts: PlayerCharacter, and EnemyCharacter. They both derive from UniversalCharacter. I get the component using GetComponent<UniversalCharacter>(). This is then stored in a variable characterComponent. How do I check if my characterComponent is a PlayerCharacter or an EnemyCharacter?

[sage latch]

if (universalCharacter is PlayerCharacter player) {
  // use "player" to access the player
} else if (universalCharacter is EnemyCharacter enemy) {
  // use "enemy" to access the enemy
}

[potent sleet]

you can use the is keyword

if(characterComponent is PlayerCharacter) // do stuff

[simple egret]

But you shouldn't

The whole point of having a base class is to not know the "real" type behind it

You should be able to call a method or get/set a property, and C# handles the action of selecting the right method/property on the "real" type

[potent sleet]

yeah def a quick dirty way

polymorphism ftw

xD

[rustic ember]

Thank you both 🙏

That's smart

[rustic ember]

How do I make a method in UniversalCharacter that can be overridden in PlayerCharacter and EnemyCharacter?

[simple egret]

Can UniversalCharacter be used on its own?

[rustic ember]

No

It just has basic unity events

[simple egret]

So make that class abstract, and declare an abstract method in it. It'll force the deriving classes to override that method

[rustic ember]

Thank you

Exactly what I needed

        public class AStarAlgorithm
        {
            public class PathFindResult
            {
                /// <summary>
                /// Whether or not the algorithm found a path.
                /// </summary>
                public bool foundPath;
                /// <summary>
                /// The optimal path found by the algorithm (Is empty if foundPath is false).
                /// </summary>
                public List<Vector2Int> pathFound;
            }```

This is inside a namespace. I use `using MyNamespace.Pathfinding`, but how can I access `PathfindResult` without having to write `AStarAlgorithm.PathfindResult`? Like I can access `RigidBody` from the `UnityEngine` namespace

I don't know if I explained it well

Wait is it because it's a class within a class?

[simple egret]

Take the PathFindResult out of the enclosing class

[rustic ember]

Alright

Thanks

What about public PathfindResult FindPath(Vector2Int[,] _map, Vector2Int _startPos, Vector2Int _target) This has to be inside a class right?

[simple egret]

Yes, as that's a method

[rustic ember]

Okay. Thank you

[nova roost]

int temp = GetOtherValue();
if (temp < currentLowestValue) currentLowesValue = temp```

Is there a short version for this? It feels like there would be. Overwrite value if its smaller, otherwise keep current value?

[eager yacht]

currentLowestValue = Mathf.Min(currentLowestValue, temp);

[nova roost]

perfect, thanks!

[severe saddle]

I assure its advanced

[ionic path]

ah

[unreal zinc]

Is it good architecture practice in Unity to keep the Assembly-CSharp project just for thin wrappers around functionality implemented in a main class library project?

or is it more typical to basically write all the code for the game in Assembly-CSharp project?

[urban stream]

Hello! Is there a way to make 3 random bools turn true in an array?

[lavish mist]

hi everyone. Does overlapcircle2d works with triggers?

[potent sleet]

should work with any colliders

[stable rivet]

you generate a random index and use that to do whatever you want to a random element

[lavish mist]

can i make it work only with specific colliders?

[stable rivet]

then repeat X amount of times - in your case, 3

[potent sleet]

sure

specific as in trigger / nontrigger or you mean filter it by specific objects?

use layermasks

[granite mantle]

I have a text box that I am going to use to display health as a number, but when i define it as a public GameObject, it doesn't let me use getcomponent to define it as text, and when i use public text, it has an error saying cannot convert float to string. im pretty new so this is probably an easy fix. i also tried a health.ToString() method but it won't let me drag my text into the script.

im a bit lost rn ngl

[stable rivet]

you'll have to post code - this is vague enough that i'm not 100% sure what you're doing

!code

[granite mantle]

alr one sec

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
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```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[lavish mist]

i mean something like make it work only with colliders of Gameobjects with specific tags

[potent sleet]

sure check tag on collider, or filter directly through the physics function with layermask

[granite mantle]

this is just what i have atm

but this code doesn't let me drag my text object into the script

[lavish mist]

ok thanks

[stable rivet]

typically, you would have a class variable that is the actual text component of the thing you want to update, rather than a GameObject
public TextMeshProUGUI textBox
(this might not be TextMeshProUGUI depending on the type of text you're using)
then you would just textBox.text to change the text

[stable rivet]

this looks fine, so what's the error?

[stable rivet]

ah i see

it's not a Text box. show your inspector for the GO you're trying to assign

[granite mantle]

wait i just changed it to textmeshprougui

it let me drag it on

let me see if it works

ok yeah it works

[potent sleet]

 public bool[] boolArray = new bool[10];
    private void Start()
    {
        int count = 0;
        while (count < 3)
        {
            int randomIndex = Random.Range(0, boolArray.Length);
            if (!boolArray[randomIndex])
            {
                boolArray[randomIndex] = true;
                count++;
            }
        }
    }```

[granite mantle]

so what is textmeshprougui

is that like some sort of command for text boxes?

anyways thanks!

[stable rivet]

AFAIR, its the component for UI text (text on Canvas) using TMPro

[granite mantle]

oh!

that is why i have a canvas linked to all my ui

i just assumed it was a "folder"

when i made my ui

[stable rivet]

nope - a canvas is required as a root game object for any UI elements. go through this, it will help
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-ui-in-unity

[serene lake]

How do I send strings through network variables?

[potent sleet]

are you talking about ngo ?

[serene lake]

yes

[potent sleet]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/networkvariable/index.html

[somber nacelle]

pretty sure you can also add extension methods for the FastBufferReader/FastBufferWriter ReadValueSafe and WriteValueSafe methods to implement your own serialization for strings (or any custom type for that matter) for RPCs
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/advanced-topics/custom-serialization

[light jay]

Hey all i got a quick question i have this line :

{

    public AudioSource CreakSound;```

But in the inspector i cannot put my .mp3 file in it ?

What am i doing wrong here?

i can see it in the inspector

[somber nacelle]

an mp3 file is not an AudioSource, at best its an AudioClip

AudioSource is a component that plays an AudioClip

[light jay]

so you say i can better make my sound effect a .wav ?

[potent sleet]

change type to AudioClip

[somber nacelle]

no, i'm saying you are using the wrong variable type

[light jay]

ok Ty!]

Maybe i stupid question but CreakSound.Play(); does not work with a Audioclip, So how do i play the Audioclip ?

[somber nacelle]

assign the audioclip to the AudioSource's clip property